The Night Shift

Keller learns that the custodian that Mr. Steadman fired for “lewd conduct with a minor” (68) had gotten his 16-year-old girlfriend pregnant when he was 18. The man now shares custody of their child, who is now 17 and has autism. Local police tell Keller that when they approached the man at home, he barricaded himself inside. The SWAT team is now searching the house. Keller realizes that it is not the custodian barricaded inside, but his son. She intervenes to explain that the young man is disabled and might not understand what is happening. She makes the police uncuff him.

Chris attends a party with his girlfriend, Clare, who is a lawyer at a prestigious firm in Manhattan. He observes nothing but hypocrisy and condescension from her corporate lawyer colleagues, but he does bond with the bartender at the party, who also follows Mr. Nirvana’s vlog.

Ella meets with Agent Keller to talk about the case. (Ella has told the lead detective, Joe Arpeggio, that the killer said, “Good night, pretty girl” [77] to Jesse—the exact phrase that the Blockbuster killer said to her years ago.) Now, Keller says that Arpeggio never relayed this information to her, despite the fact that it connects the two cases.