Prime Suspect Episode 1.08 Underwater

Jane and Duffy hang out in a one-star hotel room with 10-year-old Amanda Patterson, who silently watches the TV. A knock on the door startles Amanda, and Duffy introduces Dr. Sarah Adler, child psychologist, who'll sit with Amanda while the detectives do their job. On the way out, Jane hands Amanda the remote, telling her she can make the TV as loud as she wants. Apparently, Amanda hasn't said a word since she discovered her parents, Rick and Molly, murdered in their hotel room. Her father was stabbed in the chest, and her mother's throat was cut. Crime techs say the murder weapon was probably a big knife. Calderon has learned the family was visiting from an upstate town called Pellum Lake, and when they checked in this morning, they mentioned taking Amanda to a Broadway show. Strangely, their luggage is in the bathtub, and their credit cards and IDs are still in the room, but no cash.

Sweeney pulls Jane and Duffy into the hallway. The lobby is filled with media, so they've got to get Amanda out of there. What if the guy who killed her parents and thought he got away with it sees her on TV? Since all roads lead to the lobby, it's not long before Jane and Amanda, still clutching her remote, are stashed in a laundry cart, pushed by Duffy. He continues through the back of the lobby as Sweeney conducts a press conference, keeping the cameras on him. Back in the room, Augie, Evrard and Calderon play a game of Maybe, which means sitting around swapping theories about what might have happened to the Pattersons. Afterwards, they have a plan - check for prints and/or bloody gloves in the stairwell.

Back at the precinct, Dr. Adler explains that Amanda is most likely suffering from single-blow trauma, and there's no timeline on when she'll talk again. Sweeney steps in. He just got off the phone with Amanda's aunt up in Pellum Lake - when will Amanda be safe to travel? With Dr. Adler's okay, Sweeney dispatches Duffy and Jane to drive Amanda home - tonight. Both Jane and Duffy do their utmost to dissuade Sweeney from this very bad idea, but he insists that since both of them were initial points of contact for Amanda, she's more likely to talk to them than anyone else. And while they're up north, they can do victimology on her parents. It's not long before Jane is packing Amanda in the back seat of a car with Evrard's iPod for company. Sweeney has refused to pack any clothes, and he's brought along a cigar for the ride. And he's driving. It's not long before Jane and Duffy are bickering about everything under the sun.

Amanda utters her first words during lunch at a roadside diner, saying grace over a cheeseburger. Her aunt, Peggy Duncan, says Amanda was really excited for her trip to New York to see "Wicked"; she was also really hoping their hotel would have a pool. Peggy has no idea how her sister and husband came up with the money for the trip. Rick's been out of work for 18 months, and Molly's a cashier at the local pharmacy. They're just regular people, and no, there have been no big changes in their lives lately. Molly gets annoyed with Jane's line of questioning, but she does grant permission for her and Duffy to go through the Pattersons' home. While Duffy goes to call the local cops, Jane asks Amanda if she wants anything from her house, but Amanda remains silent.

Jane and Duffy poke around the Pattersons' house, attended by Sheriff Hank Lawson and his deputy, Roy Green. Hank's been wondering how the Pattersons had money for their New York trip, since he just served them foreclosure papers two weeks ago. While the guys discuss Deputy Green's enormous shotgun, Jane discovers that someone broke in the back door. Back in New York City, Evrard discovers a partial print with a little blood smear in the hotel hallway. Rick's cell phone log contained seven calls from the same number but no messages. So Augie calls the number, and asks the guy who answers, "Do you have the stuff?" When Augie answers yes, the guy promises to call him back to set up a meet. Luckily, the phone rings, and a meeting is set for 3:00.

Jane and Duffy can agree on one thing: they hate the country. Calderon calls to inform that the reason the Pattersons took their New York trip was a suitcase full of Oxycodone they were looking to sell. It wasn't in the hotel room, and they never hooked up with the guy they were planning to sell it to. Calderon believes they brought the suitcase with them from upstate and wants Jane and Duffy to figure out where they got it. Jane tells Duffy to get a ride to the pharmacy with the sheriff; she needs the car to get them a couple of motel rooms, since they're obviously staying the night. Jane's delighted to hear the motel has a pool and doesn't waste much time getting Amanda into it for a swim and a breath-holding contest. Afterwards, Amanda breaks her silence. Why did this happen to her mom and dad? Their murderer, a man, left the hotel room door open, and Amanda reflexively hid so he wouldn't see her.

Later, Amanda watches TV in Jane's motel room, while she sits outside, talking to the guys in New York. When they ask her to press Amanda, Jane claims she doesn't want to jinx her talking, which has literally just begun. Meanwhile, Duffy and Sheriff Lawson question pharmacist Andy Whittaker. He has no idea how Molly got Oxycodone. She'd only been working for him for four months, and she wasn't a talker. Duffy lays his cards on the table: either Andy was dealing along with Rick and Molly, or Molly stole the drugs from him, in which case, why didn't he call the cops? Andy confesses that he couldn't report the drugs stolen because he's not supposed to have them. He's only allowed a certain amount of Oxycodone per month, and he needed more for regular customers; so he bought extra, off the books. A guy named Mark Morgan brings them down from Canada, and Andy just leaves money, makes a pickup and never sees anyone - and he didn't kill Rick and Molly either.

Duffy insults the sheriff, saying he can't believe he didn't mention Mark Morgan before. Advising Andy to get a lawyer, the guys head back to the motel, Duffy riding the sheriff for his incompetence the whole way. The sheriff explains that it's only him, his deputy and three part-timers. It takes the Staties over an hour to get to them if they feel like it, and he's doing the best he can. He hands a file full of phone records to Jane, who asks the men if they can get along well enough to go check out Mark Morgan. They proceed to a cabin deep in the woods, where Mark is in the process of butchering some sort of animal, notably with a knife that could be the murder weapon. Mark doesn't want to talk, and furthermore, he wants the cops to get the hell off his land immediately. Duffy tries again, indicating that his gun is not a knife, but his phone is also a camera. He takes a photo of Mark and sends it off to Jane.

Jane shows Mark's photo to Amanda, but she shakes her head no; she's never seen Mark before. Jane texts Duffy, so he thanks Mark for his time. Mark gets in his truck and drives off, as the sheriff asks Duffy, "Shouldn't we stop him?" Duffy explains that Mark isn't their murderer, but he is Pellum Lake's drug trafficker, which means that whatever needs to be done, has to be done by the sheriff. It's night by the time they get back to the motel with bubble gum ice cream for Amanda. The sheriff goes inside with Amanda, while Jane updates Duffy in the parking lot. She had no luck with the call logs. Suddenly, a shot rings out. Someone's shooting into the motel room. Everyone ducks, and Jane and Duffy run inside to find that Amanda's been shot. Jane applies pressure and tries to keep Amanda talking as Duffy hits the lights, and reaches for Jane's gun.

Amanda's bleeding out, so Jane tells Duffy to apply pressure to her wound. She's going out the bathroom window, so she can flank the shooter, who's somewhere in the woods and keeping them pinned down. Duffy covers Jane out the window, as she maneuvers through the parking lot and into the woods. That's when she hears footsteps getting closer, shooting at her from behind a couple of cars. Jane returns fire, but it's Duffy who makes the kill. It's Mark Morgan. It's not long before the sheriff is speeding Amanda, Duffy and Jane to the hospital. Jane holds Amanda, keeping pressure on her wound and reciting a prayer her dad used to tell her. By the time they hand off Amanda, both Jane and Duffy are shaking from the adrenaline. Duffy badgers an orderly, asking him for whatever secret stash of booze there is.

After a drink, Jane and Duffy call the precinct to explain what just happened. There must be a third guy, Morgan's accomplice, the person Amanda saw leaving the hotel room after her parents' murder. The sheriff stops in to inform that the state troopers are on their way. He really wants to do something to help - why not return to Morgan's shack, see if they can find anything? Duffy agrees to go with him. Sweeney's infuriated to hear that a match on the hotel hallway print isn't back yet. He's going to go bang heads and confirms that Jane's going to stay at the hospital to see Amanda through whatever's next. When Sweeney asks Jane if she's okay, she downs the rest of her whiskey, then reports back in the affirmative.

It's pouring rain by the time Duffy and the sheriff reach Mark's shack, which is filled with various dead animals. Meanwhile, Deputy Green approaches Jane in the hospital corridor, carrying an enormous shotgun, which he claims is because of the sheriff's orders. Annoyed, Jane complains that the sheriff is the king of too little too late. A doctor appears with good news: it looks like the bullet went right through Amanda, but she'll need an X-ray to be sure. Jane insists on accompanying nurse Nancy Pollard to radiology, in the basement of the south wing of the hospital, which is a haul. It's a small town, so Nancy knows the deputy real well, and he decides to escort the ladies to radiology. That's when Duffy's phone rings. Calderon informs that the bloody print found in the hallway at the murder scene belongs to one Deputy Roy Green...

Duffy hangs up the phone, panicking. But Jane doesn't receive his call because she's in the bowels of the hospital, out of cell phone range and trying to keep Amanda's spirits up. Deputy Green has been walking in front of them, so when he turns to board the elevator so Amanda can finally see his face, she silently lets Jane know - he's the murderer. He boards the elevator and when Jane doesn't get on, he begins to raise his weapon - as does Jane - just as the elevator doors close. Hurrying down the hallway with Amanda's gurney, Jane explains the situation to Nancy, then asks her to remove Amanda's IV. She instructs Nancy to pick up Amanda and run through the darkened hallways of a section of the hospital that's no longer in use.

Nancy tries to keep Amanda quiet while Jane waits for Deputy Green to get closer. He's kicking open doors all down the hall. The women make a run for an emergency exit down the hall, but it's chained shut. Nancy's freaking out, but she does know the only way out is the way they came. Jane practically has to push her down the hallway. Finally, Jane asks Nancy if she knows how to shoot a gun. Luckily, Nancy's from Newark, so yes. Jane hands off one of her two guns, picks up Amanda and runs to an empty patient room, then asks Nancy for her phone and goes out hunting for Deputy Green. Hearing his footsteps, she sets up Nancy's phone in one room, then calls it from a position where she knows she has a shot. When the phone finally rings, Deputy Green shoots at it then whirls in her direction, so Jane takes him out.

The next morning, Duffy and Jane accompany the sheriff to the pharmacy to arrest Andy, who insists Deputy Green blackmailed him into helping with the Oxycodone caper. The sheriff tries to apologize for everything, but Jane and Duffy really don't want to hear it, knowing full well what's in store for them: mountains of paperwork, firearms discharge review and psych evaluations, since they both killed a man. Sorry won't cut it. Grumbling, "Any time you want to leave is fine with me," the sheriff heads out.

Jane stops off at Amanda's hospital bed to say goodbye, and Amanda clearly doesn't want her to go. Jane explains that her mom died when she was a kid too. It was hard because she got mad, then felt awful, then got mad again. There's no right way to feel when something like this happens; the right way is however you feel. Jane cries, admitting she doesn't like many little people, and she really likes Amanda. She hands Amanda her card, wipes her tears and tells her to call anytime - she'll always answer. On the way out, Duffy admits that after 20 years on the job, he's never killed anyone. Now he leaves the city for one day, and there are two bodies. He wants to shoot every leaf-crapping tree in this town. Jane couldn't agree more - it's time to leave Pellum Lake before they make more corpses.