The Rookie

7-Adam-15, we're code 6 at the 911 call location.

Any further contact from the distressed individual?

Negative.

Do you want me to start additional units?

Uh, no. Give us a minute to scope it out first.

- You ready? - Do I have a choice?

That's the spirit.

LAPD.

We've received a distress call from this location.

We are making entry.

Ooh.

Oh. Do you feel that?

Feel what?

Ah, something evil's in here.

Well, sure smells like it.

I can't die.

Won't let me die.

Police. Show yourself.

I can't die. It's inside of me.

- It won't let me die. - Don't touch that, all right?

Just... call this in. Call it in.

I need an RA to my location for a stabbing victim.

So I usually sit right next to camera

to keep the eyeline tight.

Then I'll just sit on the other side.

No, because then you'll split his look.

- I don't think it matters. - Oh, hey. Hi.

Thanks... thanks again for sitting down with me.

- Us. - What? Oh, right, us.

Uh, why are you filming?

Oh, I just wanted to document the new partnership.

Abigail was very excited.

- It's not a partnership. - It's totally a partnership.

- The judge was very clear. - The judge?

My name is Abigail Tierney.

I'm currently trapped inside a secret lab

at Westview Psychiatric.

All attempts at escape have proven fruitless.

I may have inadvertently used some of Abigail's footage

in my last documentary without gaining the proper permissions.

Translation, he stole my intellectual property,

I sued, and the judge gave him a choice...

pay me 200 thou in damages or give me equal partnership

in his next project.

He never said equal, but you know what?

Never mind.

Let's focus on the story that we're here to tell.

Have a seat.

Perhaps the most shocking case of murder

and mayhem we've ever seen.

Would you say that's a fair assessment?

Um...

No, no, stay... stay back. Stay back. Stay back.

- You don't understand. - OK, relax.

OK, we're trying to help you. Who stabbed you?

I stabbed myself.

It's inside of me. I've tried everything else.

I can't kill it.

I can't die. See?

No, don't pull that... don't pull it out!

Oh, God.

Oh, he died instantly.

I mean, the wound was fatal.

You can't stab yourself in the heart and survive.

But the way the knife was lodged,

he wasn't bleeding.

Once he pulled it out...

- It was blood fountain city. - Not exactly, but...

As shocking as that was, it was far from

the most shocking thing you found.

Oh, we should get him to say that

to set up the opening credits.

That's not... we... we don't put words

in people's mouths. It's a documentary.

Yeah, it was, uh, straight-up crazy.

- You don't think... - There's a body in there.

May have finally found it.

Please don't kill us.

We will join your cult.

- Oh. - Oh, God.

You arrived on scene as the sergeant's supervisor?

Yes.

I got there before the ambulance,

not that there was any aid they could have rendered.

Is there a reason you didn't want us

to interview you with Tim?

What?

No. We're just...

just shaking it up.

Let's... let's... let's stay focused.

Were you the first to recognize the victim?

Uh, sort of.

I thought I knew his face, but it wasn't until

we ran his prints that we got a name.

Rich Rowley was retired LAPD.

He had been with the department for 30 years

and was a little bit of a legend,

mostly because he made a series of training videos

from the mid-'90s till his retirement in 2015,

which by modern standards, are a little cringe.

Hey, everybody. Rich Rowley here

with another installment of...

Now, today, we're gonna be talking about

proper cuffing technique.

Excuse me, officer?

I hurt my shoulder at the gym.

Would you mind cuffing me in front?

Pretty lady like you,

what's the worst that could happen?

- Thank you. - You're welcome.

Rich was a trip.

The life of the party, at least early in his career.

Then as the years went on,

he became a little, uh, crazy.

Crazy how?

He was deep into conspiracy theories.

He had a real thing for cults and cabals.

To be fair, Los Angeles does have a pretty dark history.

But Rich took it to the next level,

and his training videos got more

and more intense because of it.

We finally got around to updating the videos

this last year, but that caused quite a controversy

with some of the older officers.

They said we were being insensitive.

Why would updating training videos be insensitive?

Even three years on, a lot of his friends

were still mourning his death and saw the videos as a way

- to keep his memory alive. - I'm sorry.

I thought Rich died six months ago.

- Yeah. - He did.

I'm talking about the first time.

Divers are searching for

any signs of retired

Los Angeles police officer Richard Rowley

after a sailing trip gone wrong.

Coast Guard responded to a distress call

this morning from Rowley's wife,

who says the 55-year-old fell overboard

after the sailboat he was captaining

was struck by a rogue wave.

Any time someone disappears from a boating trip,

it automatically sets off alarm bells.

Why is that?

It's just an ideal place to cover up a crime.

Throw a body overboard, weigh it down,

the likelihood of us recovering it before

it becomes fish food is low.

And circumstances were suspicious.

By all accounts, Rich was a skilled sailor,

it was a calm day, and the only witness to his demise

was Darla Phillips, his on again, off again

girlfriend, who he married five days prior.

So you suspected foul play?

Not necessarily, but we couldn't rule it out.

Why wasn't Rich wearing a life vest?

He never did. He was a strong swimmer.

He must have hit his head when he fell.

Why didn't you jump in after him?

- I'm scared of dark water. - Dark water?

Water you can't see the bottom of.

Just blackness

with God knows what lurking below.

You stand to inherit Rich's entire police pension.

That's quite a bit of money.

How dare you?

I just watched the love of my life die in front of me.

We don't know that for sure yet.

They haven't found his body.

Unless you know more that you're not telling us.

Go to hell!

This interview is over.

Did it ever occur to you that Rich might still be alive?

As we said, we couldn't rule anything out,

but there was no evidence that he'd faked his death.

Until he turned up dead again.

Needless to say, we had a few more questions for Darla.

Helping someone fake their death isn't a crime.

- I checked. - You're right,

but profiting off of that death,

collecting Rich's pension and his life insurance,

that's fraud.

Not to mention the resources that were wasted

trying to recover his body.

You could be facing some serious charges.

So tell us.

Why did Rich want to fake his death?

After Rich retired, he kind of fell apart.

His drinking got worse, and his paranoia.

He was always a little intense,

but it started to get scary.

He covered all his windows with newspapers,

started writing down the license plates of passing cars.

What was he so afraid of?

He said there was this group, like,

a secret society of dangerous and powerful people.

He'd been on to them for years.

He said that they found out about him,

that he was in danger because of it.

It was too much for me, so I broke up with him.