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00:00In Toronto's war on crime, the worst offenders are pursued by the detectives of the Specialized
00:11Criminal Investigations Unit.
00:41Go to hell, Mick.
00:45Mick, what are you doing? Bitch owes me money, man.
00:48Roger, she is not a bitch, so stop calling her that.
00:52Why?
00:53Because you're screwing her? A little meth head on her sugar daddy? What a joke.
00:58Okay, you know what? One more strike and you are out on your ass.
01:02All you gotta do is just keep the peace. Keep your side of the street clean or you're out of here.
01:12Got you a sandwich, Ruthie.
01:14Thanks, Mick.
01:18Find a friend or foe?
01:20They're all hands, Dad.
01:22Yeah, okay. Well, if this one's been hanging out my lease, I'm pretty sure it's a weed.
01:26What are you doing here, bud?
01:31Where'd you get this from?
01:33The park.
01:35Okay, Nate, go inside right now.
01:42Hey!
01:43Hey!
01:44Do you know anything about this?
01:46Because my seven-year-old just found it here, right across the street from my house.
01:49All right, I'm sorry about that.
01:51Look, there were never needles in this park before you guys showed up.
01:54I'm sorry about that.
01:55My son used to play here all day long.
01:57Nobody was frightened, nobody was tripping over garbage, nobody was getting hassled for money.
02:01Hey, hey, Ward, take a beat. We're all citizens.
02:04Hey, hey, Ward, take a beat. We're all citizens.
02:07Hey, hey, Ward, take a beat. We're all citizens.
02:10Hey, hey, Ward, take a beat. We're all citizens.
02:11We're all neighbors here.
02:12This guy's not my neighbor.
02:13He's a squatter and a pervert, and I want him the hell out of my park!
02:18Get that camera out of my face.
02:20Five, six, seven, eight.
02:32Going again, babe.
02:34No, come on, it's fine.
02:36No, Ava, it's not fine, okay?
02:38Look, I'm gonna stop working nights on set.
02:40We need paid endorsements, okay?
02:41We have to crack 10,000 followers, which means we gotta be tight.
02:45My God, hashtag mother-daughter BFFs, hashtag moves like Jagger.
02:49Oh, my God, Mom, it's so phony.
02:52Okay, then. That's fine.
02:55Mom.
02:56No, Ava, I...
02:58We have been through hell together.
03:00You and me, against the world.
03:03You know, I just want to show them what we're made of.
03:06Whatever, it's fine.
03:08Mom, stop.
03:09It's okay. Let's go again.
03:13Phony!
03:15Okay, then. That's fine.
03:18Mom.
03:19No, Ava, I...
03:21We have been through hell together.
03:23You and me, against the world.
03:25You know, I just want to show them what we're made of.
03:29Whatever, it's fine.
03:31Mom, stop.
03:32It's okay. Let's go again.
03:36Okay, then. That's fine.
03:49Leila, I need a hand.
03:51You can't just sit there all day.
04:07Hey.
04:08What are you drinking?
04:10My own damn business. Why?
04:13Can I have some?
04:14No.
04:15But I'm happy to draw your picture, if you like.
04:19I already know what I look like.
04:22It's on the house.
04:23Hey, don't touch my stuff.
04:25Leave it alone.
04:27Come on.
04:28You need a drink?
04:29No, thanks.
04:31You need a drink.
04:32Let's go.
04:33Go on.
04:34You're not getting any.
04:35Come on.
04:37I need a drink.
04:38You need a drink.
04:40You're not getting any.
04:43You're not getting any.
04:46I'm not getting any.
04:48I'm not getting any.
04:50Oh, what are you...
05:03Stop!
05:04Stop!
05:05Oh, please!
05:15Oh!
05:20Oh!
05:25Ah!
05:30Ah!
05:38Ah!
05:46Ah!
05:54Man, it's hot as hell out here, but I guess that's Toronto and June for you.
06:04So yeah, it was just another Monday morning, I was riding through the park, and I thought
06:08it was going to be a good day.
06:11Sorry for your loss.
06:12We get a name?
06:15Mick McCarthy.
06:16Lives out here in the park.
06:17I'm guessing he's homeless.
06:18It's, uh, unhoused.
06:20That's the word we're using these days.
06:22It's a basic combat knife.
06:2530 bucks, standard issue.
06:28Every army surplus store in town is going to have a few of those lying around.
06:32Who found the body?
06:34Another unhoused person, Ruth Pearson.
06:36She was over near what's left of his tent.
06:38I'm guessing it burned down.
06:40I can smell the gasoline from here.
06:42Yeah.
06:43And like this, it smells like iced tea.
06:48Which one's Ruth?
06:53She's right over there.
06:57Ruth Pearson.
06:58I understand you found the deceased's body this morning?
07:02Yes.
07:03I take it he was your friend.
07:04He was everyone's friend.
07:05He was the mayor.
07:06What do you mean, mayor?
07:07Mayor of White Squirrel City.
07:09That's what everyone called him.
07:13White Squirrel City.
07:14Is that some kind of inside joke?
07:17No.
07:18It's just stupid.
07:20There's a bunch of albino squirrels who live in the park.
07:24So what?
07:25Mick's the boss of a bunch of freak show rodents?
07:27Roger's just pissed because Mick wanted him out.
07:30Told him to clean up his garbage or get out.
07:32Fake news.
07:34Mick's a perv.
07:35He was hitting on Shauna.
07:37I was just looking out for her.
07:39Shauna?
07:40Do you know where Shauna is now?
07:42I don't know.
07:43I haven't seen her.
07:45Where are you going?
07:46Everyone wants me to leave, so I'm leaving.
07:48I don't want you to leave, Roger.
07:50Because I'm pretty sure you set fire to Mick's tent.
07:53You wiped the gasoline off your fingers.
07:55And that's too bad because it never really comes out of leather.
08:00But Mick wasn't in his tent.
08:02So now I'm thinking that you found him elsewhere in the park,
08:05beat the crap out of him and stabbed him with a combat knife.
08:08I didn't stab anyone.
08:10Okay.
08:11So why'd you torch his tent?
08:14Maybe somebody paid me.
08:20They're living right across the street from me.
08:22They're doing drugs.
08:23They're defecating everywhere.
08:24Scaring the kids, scaring the homeowners.
08:26I get it.
08:27I do.
08:28I mean, you must have paid, what, $2.8 million to live on this park?
08:33$2.84, but yeah, exactly.
08:35And what's the city doing about it?
08:36Agreed.
08:37I mean, you should feel safe in your own backyard.
08:40I don't blame you for taking matters into your own hands
08:43and cut off the head of the snake, right?
08:46Sir, a kid from the park told us that you gave him $100
08:49to burn down Mick McCarthy's tent.
08:51No.
08:52No, I gave that kid $100 out of the goodness of my heart.
08:55Yeah, I know you seem very sympathetic to the plight of the unhoused.
08:59I hope you got a receipt.
09:01Mr. Condis, six people saw you fighting with Mr. McCarthy yesterday.
09:06Yeah, we had words.
09:08Right after I found my seven-year-old playing with a needle.
09:11Was it Mick's needle?
09:13I don't know whose needle it was,
09:15but I do know Mick's the guy who brought the tents here three months ago,
09:18and I'm pretty sure he's a pervert.
09:19He's always sitting down there, drinking from a flask,
09:22sketching young women as they walk by.
09:24He got what he deserved.
09:26What are you talking about?
09:28Turns out Mick was found dead in the park this morning, stabbed to death.
09:32That's pretty clear you had strong feelings about the man.
09:35That's absurd. I didn't kill anyone.
09:37I'm an investment banker, for God's sake.
09:40Well, Ward's story checks out.
09:42He and his kid were at his parents' horse farm in Calgary last night.
09:45Oh, I pity the horses.
09:47Yeah, well, at least we got him and Roger for arson.
09:49Maybe they can be cellmates.
09:54Poor guy. Hard life, hard death.
09:57Lots of old injuries, but I guess that's life on the street for you.
10:02What?
10:04What?
10:05It's just, it's not like you.
10:07My brother's unhoused. Lives under the gardener.
10:10Won't take his meds, won't take my help.
10:12Breaks my heart.
10:14Mick McCarthy, 44.
10:16Multiple contusions and abrasions on the head and torso, indicating...
10:20Multiple assailants.
10:21Correct. The victim was attacked, beaten, rendered senseless,
10:24but cause of death was internal exsanguination
10:27as a result of a deep penetrating wound to his liver.
10:30Wound matches the knife? No surprise there.
10:32What is a surprise, I dent got prints off the knife.
10:36Obviously, prints aren't on file or I would have bled with that.
10:39Any drugs or alcohol in his system?
10:41No, I'm calling time of death around midnight, give or take.
10:44Well, it's a little early for decomposition.
10:49Compressed charcoal?
10:51Yes, actually. Artist grade. How did you know that?
10:53Oh, there's a sketchbook found on the scene.
10:55Clearly our man liked to draw.
10:57Clearly our man liked to draw.
11:19Nice fit, loser. You look like a bucket.
11:27You're welcome.
11:38Inventory from the park. You want flask or sketchbook?
11:40Dealer's choice.
11:43Your forensics came back. You were right. Nothing but iced tea in there.
11:47Happy Father's Day, XOJ.
11:51Maybe he was holding onto this for sentimental reasons.
11:54Yeah, but there's no next of kin listed.
11:57No siblings, no wife, no kids.
11:59Could have just picked it up somewhere.
12:01He'd been on the street for 12 years.
12:03That's not half bad.
12:05All young women walk.
12:07That's not this kind of predator.
12:12Well, that is refreshingly low-fi.
12:17That's Alice. She walks her pug here every night.
12:20And that's Shauna. She lives in one of the tents.
12:23And that V-shape on her forehead, is she indigenous?
12:26Hmm.
12:27I wondered if those were cacanate markings.
12:30Cacanate?
12:31Inuit tattoos.
12:32They put the V-shape on their forehead to celebrate entering womanhood.
12:35And yeah, she's from Iqaluit, originally.
12:38Have you seen Shauna today?
12:40No, but I've been at my girlfriend's house since yesterday morning.
12:43And you own this property, right?
12:45But you're pro-encampment.
12:48Seeing these folks set up camp,
12:50getting to know them, hearing their stories,
12:52I don't know, it got me fired up.
12:54The NIMBY narrative around the unhoused is so scary.
12:57What do you mean?
12:58Well, it's just fabricated truths.
13:00They're going to drain the system, harass the normals, steal your packages.
13:03It's just not true.
13:05So why was Mick McCarthy calling you?
13:07I'm an independent filmmaker.
13:09We were talking, working on something together.
13:11Working on what exactly?
13:13A documentary about the encampment.
13:15The stories of the residents,
13:17intercut with reactions from people around the park,
13:19cinema verite style, you know?
13:21So you know the community.
13:23Did you notice anything strange yesterday?
13:25Well, I caught Ward Condis having a fight with Mick,
13:28but otherwise, no.
13:30Caught it, like, what, on your phone?
13:32We're going to need to see that.
13:34Sure.
13:35And you said you were going to call the police.
13:37We're going to need to see that.
13:38Sure.
13:39And you said verite, right?
13:41You find the stories and the footage, fly-on-the-wall stuff.
13:44So where's the rest of the cameras?
13:46You can't be out in the park all of the time.
13:48You must have a few cameras planted.
13:55It's not a great angle, but here he is.
14:03You slow it down.
14:07Well, up the exposure a bit.
14:13Mick sees something there.
14:18Zoom in.
14:26Oh, my God, it's a swimming.
14:37So, Navy Hoodie approaches our victim,
14:40who's just sitting sketching in the park.
14:42He draws her, and he hands the sketch over and walks away.
14:48And now, that's when the two other assailants show up.
14:53Boom.
14:54So now we got Navy Hoodie, black balaclava and red bandana, all disguised.
14:59Anyone holding a knife?
15:01Nothing we can see.
15:02God, they look like kids.
15:04Yeah, we think they are kids.
15:06Body language, tracks, fast, awkward, and look at what they're wearing.
15:10Balaclava's wearing Bluebird Veloce sneakers,
15:12but aside from that, it's a basic teenage uniform.
15:14So what are we doing?
15:15I'm working with the Video Forensics team going through CCTV footage in the area.
15:19We've also got the C3 unit putting a net over the area of the crime,
15:22pulling all the social media from that time frame.
15:24Okay, we'll leave you to it.
15:28Street mask, teenage girls killing on-house men in Montrose Park.
15:32Well, this is going to be a riot.
15:34Okay, was it random? Was it premeditated? What are your instincts?
15:38I don't know. Youth violence is up higher than it's been in five decades.
15:41At least once a week, my kid comes home,
15:43shows me a video of a fight that took place in her schoolyard.
15:46So what? Lord of the Flies? Gang initiation? Adolescent hysteria? What?
15:51Well, maybe it was motivated. Fear? Revenge?
15:54At least two people have suggested that Mick is a predator.
15:59Who's this? She looks about the same age as the girls in the video.
16:02That's Shauna. We don't know her last name.
16:05Inuk. She lived in the tents, and she hasn't been seen since the night of.
16:10Well, if Mick was harassing her or abusing her, she'd definitely have motive,
16:15and it sure as hell might explain why she made herself scarce.
16:21So you work with the unhoused in the area?
16:23I always feel like a tool handing out cocktail party sandwiches to these folks,
16:28but we take what we can get.
16:30I was, uh...
16:33Sorry to hear about Mick. Thanks.
16:36He was a great guy. I've known him for a while now.
16:39What about this woman here?
16:41Yeah. Yeah, sure. That's Shauna Canuck.
16:43My partner and I drove her to Ellie's the same night Mick died.
16:46It's a woman's shelter on Dundas.
16:48What time did you drop her off?
16:50Almost 2 a.m. There'd been a fire in one of the tents.
16:52She said she was just too scared to go back.
16:54I was just glad they had a bed for her.
17:01I knew Mick wasn't in his tent, so I thought that he'd be okay.
17:07Was it Roger that did this to him?
17:09Roger lit the fire, but he didn't kill Mick. That's why we're here.
17:13Shauna, what was your relationship with Mick McCarthy?
17:16What do you mean?
17:17Were you friends? Were you lovers?
17:19Is there any way in which he was taking advantage of you?
17:22No, Mick was more like my dad than anything else.
17:26Actually, he was a lot better than my dad. My dad's a fool.
17:31Mick took care of me.
17:33He brought me food, he set up my tent, he bought me a phone.
17:38Mick was like my dad and my brother and my bodyguard.
17:45So yeah, we were friends.
17:48Just in his sketchbook that we found at the scene,
17:52there's a lot of drawings of you.
17:57My God.
18:00I told him to get rid of half of these. I look awful.
18:04Shauna, they're all drawings of young women.
18:08Yeah, that's because that's what was missing for him.
18:12That was the hole in his heart.
18:15Mick had a girlfriend.
18:18They had a little girl together, but he lost both of them years ago.
18:25That's why he got so messed up.
18:28It's like that for half the people in these tents.
18:32You know, people think that it's laziness or lifestyle,
18:36but sometimes it's just plain old grief.
18:40We've got a hit on Navy Hoodie through social media.
18:4312.20 a.m., two wasted dudes on the streetcar live streaming.
18:47Who knows why? It doesn't matter.
18:49But Navy Hoodie was there, college streetcar, eastbound.
18:52We pulled transit security footage. She's next to the two guys.
18:56Okay, where'd she get off?
18:58Not sure yet. Two guys got off at Young.
19:01This is from their live stream.
19:04How come we didn't see that logo on the other footage?
19:07That was her disguise. She's reversed it to hide the logo.
19:11T-S-N? What's that?
19:13Taylor Swift Nation?
19:16What can I say? The woman's a poet.
19:19Or it's TSN Collegiate in Scarborough.
19:21I played basketball against them a few times.
19:23That is a far better guess. Good name.
19:29This is absurd. My daughter is a good kid.
19:32Works here every night.
19:34Was she working on Sunday?
19:36Because a teacher at TSN Collegiate identified Leila
19:39as the same kid we saw headed eastbound on a college streetcar at 12.20 a.m.
19:43No. She was at home in her room.
19:46Leila.
19:49Leila.
19:51It was the first time we were meeting up in real life.
19:54Who were you meeting?
19:55These two girls.
19:57We became friends online a few months ago.
19:59We just thought it'd be funny, you know?
20:01Funny? What would be funny?
20:04Meeting up without seeing each other's faces.
20:07So, like, no judgment about how we look or where we're from.
20:12So you met up in disguise?
20:15We met in an alley.
20:17We were going to go into a corner store to boo some Red Bull or something.
20:22Smoke some weed.
20:26But then, afterwards, we started walking into a park.
20:30And the girl in the black mask thing, she told me to go up to the homeless guy.
20:35Get his alcohol.
20:37I did, but he said no.
20:39And then, after that, it was a blur.
20:43Do you know who brought the knife?
20:45I got there late.
20:47They were already talking, and I didn't even see a knife.
20:51I don't even know who these girls are.
20:54And the chat room that we've been using has been shut down.
20:56So you don't even know their names?
20:58The girl in the black mask was Aiko.
21:01She was the one who started the chat.
21:04But I never saw her face.
21:06And what about the girl in the red bandana?
21:08She had an accent.
21:10Really strong.
21:12Her screen name was Dosukara.
21:14But I figured her real name must be Kara Dost.
21:20So my gun arm comes up and around.
21:22Block my arm.
21:24Disarm the gun.
21:25It goes down.
21:26Nice. Do the throw.
21:27I go down.
21:28Okay?
21:29Go on again.
21:30Alright.
21:33Ready?
21:36I'm so sorry.
21:37No, no.
21:38No, you're not going to hurt me. I promise, okay?
21:40You just gotta lean into it, you know?
21:42Ava, can you come help me?
21:44Katie, why don't you just step off for a sec?
21:46Just watch, okay?
21:47Okay.
21:49Okay, babe.
21:50So gun arm's going to come up and around.
21:51You're going to block my arm.
21:52Yeah, I got it.
21:53I was watching.
22:04That's my girl.
22:06Okay, Katie, you see what we're doing here?
22:08You want to fight back a little bit, you know?
22:13Mark's working on Layla's phone right now, but she's right.
22:15The chat room is gone.
22:17It was on Ghostgram.
22:18It's made for this kind of anonymous stuff.
22:20It's going to be hard to track.
22:21You find anything on Cara Dost?
22:22Maybe.
22:23I think I have a lead, right?
22:24Dost means friend in Hindi.
22:26Dost also means friend or ally in Persian and Turkish.
22:29Dost Cara.
22:30Dost Cara.
22:31Got me thinking.
22:32I knew I'd heard it before.
22:33Right, there was this political dissident in Turkey last year,
22:37Altan Balik.
22:39He was getting out of prison, and he turns to the cameras,
22:42and he says, um,
22:43Dost Cara Gunde BeleliÅŸ.
22:46I made a meal of that.
22:47But the gist of it is,
22:48a real friend is known in times of trouble.
22:50So Red Bandana could be Turkish?
22:52Yeah.
22:53And she could be his daughter.
22:55Turns out, Altan Balik came to Toronto six months ago,
22:59and according to that,
23:00he's living in North York with his wife and two teenage daughters.
23:08Nothing to see here, detectives.
23:10Just two rooms, four people,
23:12a thousand mice in the walls.
23:14Well, it was very brave of you to leave your country.
23:17Could have been braver of me to stay.
23:21So what do you want with my daughter?
23:23You see, we have reason to believe that a young woman
23:26operating under the name of Dost Cara
23:28was involved in a violent incident on Sunday night.
23:33Now, Felice, you are under no obligation to speak with us.
23:36And if you want a lawyer, we'll get you one, no charge.
23:40But, sir, we will need your daughter to accompany us to the station.
23:45And if her prints match those on the weapon,
23:48then we have a problem.
23:52If I say no?
23:54Then I'm sorry we'll have to pull her prints from immigration.
23:57Don't bother.
23:59Because you're right.
24:02I did it.
24:04I stabbed a man in the park on Sunday night.
24:12So, Felice, turns out your fingerprints
24:15match the prints we found on the knife that killed Mick McCarthy.
24:18The evidence lines up. You stabbed him, then he died.
24:21Whatever you say.
24:23No, it's not whatever we say. It's whatever you say right now that counts.
24:27So, how about we start with the truth?
24:33Does anyone know the truth?
24:34Here it is.
24:35Felice came from Istanbul to Toronto six months ago
24:38after being persecuted for her father's so-called crimes.
24:41After being beaten at a student protest when she questioned the government.
24:44Yeah, no, we understand that.
24:45Felice Balik is 15 years old.
24:48She's a minor.
24:49She's being bullied.
24:50That doesn't give her the right to stab a man to death.
24:53Nothing justifies murder.
24:55I have file upon file about trauma.
24:58PTSD.
24:59Dissociation in minors.
25:01I don't have your file.
25:11I didn't mean to do it, all right?
25:14They were supposed to scare him, not kill him.
25:16A prank. Kick the bucket. Move on. That's what she said.
25:19Kick the bucket? What does that mean?
25:21That's what she called them.
25:23Homeless people.
25:24They pee in a bucket. They collect change in a bucket.
25:28So why did you stab him if you were just trying to scare him?
25:32Because it wasn't real.
25:33The knife, it was fake.
25:35Well, I'm sure Mr. McCarthy would beg to differ.
25:37She stabbed it into her own leg. Nothing happened.
25:39The blade disappeared into the handle.
25:42And then she gave it to me to use.
25:44It was supposed to be like a joke.
25:47We'd do this thing together, she said.
25:49We'd be bonded. Friends for life.
25:52You keep talking about she.
25:54Who is she?
25:55Her screen name was Aiko.
25:57I never saw her face. She had the best disguise out of all of us.
26:00A black mask. It covered her whole face.
26:03I have no idea what she looks like.
26:08So we've got our killer.
26:10Felice Dalek. 15 years old. Recent immigrant from Turkey.
26:14She's confessed. Admits to killing Mick McCarthy.
26:17The knife we found at the scene.
26:19But?
26:21Kid says she didn't know what she was doing.
26:24She's saying she thought it was a fake knife. She thought it was a joke.
26:27Well, that's a hell of a joke.
26:29Do you believe her?
26:31I think we do.
26:32Doesn't change the fact that we have a confession.
26:34I mean, Theo, we can pull the trigger on this right now.
26:39Bump Felice up to adult court, charge her with second degree, possibly first.
26:47I came here from Jamaica when I was seven years old.
26:51Moved in with my grandmother.
26:53My mom was stuck in Kingston, but that's a whole other story.
26:58First and only time I got suspended from school, I threw a snowball at a teacher.
27:04Kid handed me a snowball, told me it'd be fun, funny.
27:08That by acting like a jackass, I'd finally fit in.
27:12Snowball had a rock in it.
27:15I remember that teacher staring at me, confused, blood coming down his face.
27:22I'm not feeling this story just yet.
27:25I'm not going to prosecute this young woman until I have some idea of what really happened or what she did.
27:33Since Felice threw the snowball, who planted the rock?
27:35All we know is her name is Iko.
27:37Black balaclava, the best disguise.
27:39She really didn't want those other girls seeing her face.
27:42What was she wearing again?
27:44Uh, gray sweats. Those fancy sneakers with the bluebird on them.
27:47She was the one who started the chat room.
27:49And the one who dissolved it.
27:51She made some vulnerable friends online and then weaponized them into killing an unhoused man.
27:55Why?
27:56Well, maybe he insulted her on the street.
27:58Maybe he drew a picture one day and she didn't like it.
28:01Maybe she lives in the area and doesn't like having all those tents in her park.
28:04I mean, a teenage NIMBY? I'm sure they exist.
28:07Ketchup?
28:08I'm sorry, have we met?
28:12Okay, so maybe we go back to the rock and the snowball.
28:16Maybe we go back to the rock and the snowball.
28:19Felice said the knife was a joke knife, a prank knife.
28:23But she said that it felt real.
28:25Maybe we figure out why.
28:32We're the only real game in town.
28:34Couple of clown operations up in North York, but their props are garbage.
28:37What kind of knife are you looking for?
28:42Not the real knife the bad guy used?
28:44No, but it's the same make and model.
28:46Can I ask what the crime was?
28:48No, Brando, you cannot.
28:50I'm merely curious to know if you have a prop knife in stock that matches this one.
29:01It's a very common model.
29:03We rent out a lot of these.
29:05Dull retractable blade, but otherwise pretty much identical.
29:08Who do you rent to?
29:09Mostly props people.
29:11Sometimes stunts, prosthetics.
29:13We try not to rent to the general public.
29:15You don't want normals running around with those things, am I right?
29:18Right.
29:19Brando, we're going to need a list of everyone who rented that model in the last six months.
29:23Okay, happy to help.
29:27Anna Wilson, props shooting feature in Sudbury.
29:31No kids.
29:34Ron Head, props master on the girls.
29:37This says here he's already returned it. You got anything?
29:40Jade Lancaster, she's a stunt coordinator.
29:43Hasn't returned the knife.
29:45She lives on Grace, just near Montrose Park.
29:51Looks like she's pretty big on social media, for whatever that's worth.
29:55These days that can actually be worth quite a lot.
29:58That looks like a teenage girl to me.
30:01Hashtag mother-daughter BFFs.
30:04Hashtag Quincy's.
30:05Hashtag single mom life.
30:07You mind?
30:08No.
30:11I'd like to burn.
30:17Ralph, those are shoes.
30:20No.
30:21Echo was wearing those shoes.
30:22No.
30:23My kid is obsessed with them. They're limited edition Veloces.
30:25They go for 800 bucks, at least, if you can even get your hands on them.
30:29I'm more excited about the rabbit.
30:33Look.
30:36He was making fun of us.
30:38Our videos, saying horrible things right to my face, okay?
30:41You always told me to fight back.
30:43Okay, Ava, can you just give us a minute, please?
30:47Mrs. Lee, I'm so sorry about what happened at lunch today.
30:50And I know Ava is, too. It's just...
30:53Ava reacts strongly to aggressive men.
30:56I don't understand.
30:58Ava's dad.
31:00He was extremely abusive.
31:02Oh.
31:03Verbally, physically.
31:05I'm so sorry.
31:06We have her in therapy, but...
31:09once in a while, she overreacts.
31:11Of course, Ryan should never have made fun of her. I'll talk to him.
31:15Ava's a good kid.
31:17But I'll keep a closer eye on her.
31:19She won't hurt anyone else.
31:20Thanks, Jade.
31:28Ava Lancaster, 15 years old, lives with her stunt coordinator mother near the park.
31:33Very expensive taste in shoes.
31:35Ava makes some impressionable friends online.
31:37She takes one of her mother's prop knives.
31:39Ava's grown up around props her whole life. She's got to know how they work.
31:42So she buys a real knife that matches the prop
31:45and tricks one of her new friends into stabbing Mick McCarthy.
31:48Okay, but why?
31:49He drew her.
31:51He knew her.
31:52And according to his friend, Shawna, Mick had a girlfriend.
31:56They had a little girl together, but he lost them both.
31:58And as you can see in the photo there,
32:00that patty old rabbit pried a place on her bed,
32:03we got to thinking that maybe she's had it since she was a little girl.
32:06Maybe Mick gave it to her as a child.
32:08Are you suggesting that Mick McCarthy was Ava's father?
32:11We're not suggesting it. We know it.
32:15Ava's birth certificate.
32:17Why would Ava kill her father? He's never even been in her life.
32:21Maybe that's exactly why.
32:23Resentment, abandonment.
32:25Maybe she found out who he was and wanted to make him pay for leaving her.
32:28Maybe it's the exact opposite.
32:30Maybe she was embarrassed to learn that this unhoused man was her long-lost father.
32:34Felice Ballack wielded the knife, but we all know she wasn't a mastermind.
32:38She was tricked.
32:39And it's about to ruin her life.
32:41Okay, it's not a slam dunk, but it's definitely worth a conversation.
32:53Miss Lancaster?
32:56Hi. Can I help you?
32:58I'm Detective Graff. This is Detective Bate. I'm Toronto Police.
33:02We're here about a man who was killed the other night.
33:05He was living in a tent just down the hill.
33:07Yes, I heard about that.
33:10I didn't want to get into it with Ava because I didn't want her to be afraid of the park.
33:15How can we help exactly?
33:18The deceased was identified as your ex-partner, Mick McCarthy, Ava's father.
33:23We thought you both should know.
33:29So, you're saying that the man at the park, the homeless man who died, that was Mick?
33:39I haven't seen that man in 12 years.
33:42I have. I don't know him, if that makes any difference.
33:47I don't remember him. I know he was awful to my mom, but I don't really remember.
33:52But you knew he was your father.
33:54He came up to me at a cafe by the park a few months ago.
33:58He introduced himself, called me Ava Marie, started crying, and told me he was my father.
34:06I said, I'm sorry, I don't have a dad.
34:10But he knew my middle name. He knew my birthday down to the minute.
34:15He knew about Bunny, said he gave her to me when I was two.
34:19He said I have his eyes.
34:21Okay, Ava, you need to stop talking.
34:23That must have been incredibly strange for you, Ava.
34:26It was, and it wasn't.
34:28When you don't know your dad, you're kind of always waiting for him to appear.
34:33I mean, I never pictured that, but I don't know.
34:38I guess I always knew he'd come back.
34:40You were embarrassed?
34:42No, not embarrassed. Maybe mad.
34:46He was a terrible father.
34:49He beat my mother up, shoved her head into a toilet, left me alone in my crib for four days,
34:56forgot to feed me, and went on a bender.
34:58Four days?
35:00But looking at him then, I was actually happy.
35:03Just to know who he was.
35:05Ava, where were you on Sunday night?
35:07Watching a movie on my own.
35:09My mom was working, so I just stayed home.
35:11Okay, that's enough.
35:12Um, I have to work tonight, and I think we're done here, so...
35:20Ava, we actually have one more question.
35:22I said we're done.
35:24No more questions.
35:26Not without a lawyer.
35:30While she's protecting her daughter, you do the same.
35:32Well, maybe if she's protecting herself.
35:34See, this mother, Jane Lancaster, look at her.
35:38I mean, she looks almost as young as her daughter.
35:40Hashtag twinsies.
35:42Now, she's good online, she knows how kids work.
35:44Easiest thing in the world is for her to pose as a teenager,
35:47because basically, she is a teenager,
35:50and she's a stunt coordinator.
35:52She knows how to imitate the way that people move.
35:56Jade's current alibi is iffy at best.
35:59She said she was working a night shoot Sunday night,
36:01but the producer said that she felt sick,
36:03she left for a few hours,
36:05he didn't see her back on set until after 1 a.m.
36:07Okay, but the daughter doesn't even have an alibi.
36:10So why are we discounting her?
36:12She said she was happy to finally meet her dad, and it seemed real.
36:16Okay, so if it's the mom, what's the motive?
36:18Well, apparently Mick was abusive.
36:20Now, the stories sound exaggerated,
36:22but even if they're half-true, revenge would fit the bill.
36:24Any past complaints? Any charges against him?
36:26Nothing. I'm still waiting on Jade's medical records.
36:29She never pressed charges against Mick McCarthy,
36:31but that doesn't mean it didn't happen.
36:33And we're looking into Mick's medical records as well, you know,
36:35trying to see if anything lines up time-wise,
36:37broken hand or last name.
36:39Trying to see if anything lines up time-wise,
36:41broken hand or lacerations from punching someone,
36:43that kind of thing.
36:45Okay, well, if it's the mom, it's going to be tricky.
36:47Lavely defense.
36:49Battered woman syndrome, maybe Jade thought Mick was coming for her.
36:53He moves into the park near her house,
36:55announces himself to her daughter,
36:57and Jade must have been terrified.
36:59Sure, but even if Jade was operating out of self-defense
37:01or revenge or fear,
37:03it was premeditated, it was planned.
37:05And it ruined the lives of the two teenage girls
37:07she coerced into helping her.
37:09Well, we've... we've got enough for a warrant.
37:11Okay.
37:13What do you want to do?
37:15I think we take a run at her.
37:17What do they call this again?
37:19They call it the circus.
37:21Yeah.
37:23Ava.
37:25What are you guys doing here?
37:27I'm not supposed to talk to you.
37:29My mom said that...
37:31It's okay. We're actually here to see her.
37:33She's inside. She's working.
37:35Can you do us a favor and text her, get her to come up?
37:39Hey, dumb question
37:41while we're waiting.
37:43You have the shoes my daughter dreams about.
37:45Can I ask where you got them?
37:47What shoes?
37:49The Veloce Bluebirds. Limited edition.
37:51Is something on your social?
37:53Oh, yeah. Um, those aren't mine.
37:55Those are my mom's.
37:57She got them at a set sale or something.
37:59She only lets me wear them for photos
38:01because they're crazy expensive.
38:03This is my workplace.
38:05Oh, we can take it downtown if you like.
38:07You can call in your lawyer. We just wanted to avoid all that.
38:09It's a bit of a rigmarole.
38:11We just have a few more questions.
38:13Ava, stay here, baby, okay?
38:23What do you guys want?
38:25Look, Jade, just like you, we want this to go away.
38:27And you know what?
38:29It probably will.
38:31The video footage tells us that Nick was stabbed
38:33by three teenage girls.
38:35Two of those girls are already in custody.
38:37One of them has already confessed to the murder.
38:39Well, yes and no.
38:41Felice Ballack wielded the knife,
38:43but she didn't know it was real.
38:45That doesn't make any sense.
38:47I agree. It's, um...
38:49What's the expression?
38:51A fabricated truth.
38:53Like so many things these days.
38:55Pizza gate, birther theory,
38:57social media,
38:59social effects, stunts,
39:01props.
39:03In short, someone coerced two vulnerable teenage girls
39:05into committing murder.
39:07And for what?
39:09To prove themselves?
39:11To bond?
39:13See, that's fabricated truth writ large.
39:17Look.
39:19Jade.
39:21Nick McCarthy forced himself back into your life.
39:25He approached Ava at a coffee shop,
39:27ambushed her out of nowhere,
39:29full of lies, wanting time with her,
39:31wanting money,
39:33no doubt.
39:35What kind of father does that?
39:37I mean,
39:39Nick McCarthy was a monster.
39:41My God, you had it hard.
39:43June 2009,
39:45the patient was hit in the head
39:47with a baseball bat,
39:49treated for severe concussion.
39:51October 2010,
39:53the patient admitted to Sinai
39:55with defensive wounds.
39:57January 2011,
39:59the patient treated for a broken shoulder
40:01after a suspected
40:03domestic dispute.
40:05The thing is, Jade,
40:07you weren't the patient in any of these
40:09medical reports.
40:11These are Mick's records.
40:13You were the perpetrator.
40:15Mick was abusive.
40:17To me and my daughter.
40:19I don't care what you say. That's the truth.
40:21Well, maybe it is.
40:23Maybe it isn't. Maybe that's your truth.
40:25The story that you've been polishing
40:27for the last 12 years doesn't change
40:29the fact what you did.
40:31The thing that I'm pondering is the
40:33why now?
40:35I mean, Mick wasn't a threat,
40:37except maybe to your relationship
40:39with your best friend and daughter,
40:41your online image,
40:43your perfect persona, your abuse survivor
40:45narrative, hashtag single mom.
40:47You know, actually, now I'm saying it,
40:49maybe Mick wasn't a threat.
40:51You and Ava,
40:53you're a team.
40:55In life and on social.
40:57You didn't need some
40:59bum coming around looking for money,
41:01looking to spend time with your child,
41:03some homeless guy disrupting everything
41:05you've fought for with his, no doubt,
41:07very different version of the truth.
41:09Mick is a drunk.
41:11He left when Ava was three.
41:13Disappeared for 12 years.
41:15And then all of a sudden,
41:17he just shows up, smelling like garbage,
41:19wanting to spend time with my child.
41:21Mick McCarthy was clean.
41:23He was sober for four years.
41:25And by all accounts, he was kind.
41:27Maybe he just wanted to get to know her.
41:29It's too late.
41:31I killed myself for this life.
41:33Me and Ava, that's my everything.
41:35She doesn't need a dad.
41:37And I sure as hell am not sharing
41:39my life or my kid with that man.
41:41Go home, detectives.
41:43You have nothing.
41:45Okay, but was it your plan
41:47to have all the evidence point to Ava?
41:49Because if so,
41:51I mean, we have more than enough
41:53to arrest her.
41:55Including those very specific shoes
41:57she was wearing on the video evidence.
41:59Yeah, yeah.
42:01I mean, she just told me that they were yours,
42:03but we can't prove that, right, Grace?
42:05Agreed.
42:07Should I call her over? Look, I'll just go get her.
42:09No, she didn't do this.
42:11You know she didn't do this.
42:13What I do know, Jade, is that when Ava
42:15realizes who she's protecting,
42:17she's probably gonna confess.
42:19Best friends forever, right?
42:23Mom?
42:25Hey, baby.
42:27It's okay. Everything's okay.
42:29I want you...
42:31I want you to...
42:33I want you to text Kira.
42:35You'll stay at her place tonight, okay?
42:37You'll have a sleepover with your cousins.
42:39Where are you going?
42:41I'm just gonna...
42:43talk to these guys
42:45a little bit more downtown.
42:47Okay?
42:49Okay.
42:51Okay.
42:53Okay.
42:55Okay.
42:57I'm gonna talk to these guys a little bit more downtown.
42:59I'm gonna come with you guys, okay?
43:01I just need a moment with my daughter.
43:03I don't understand.
43:05What's going on?
43:07I did what I taught you to do, okay?
43:09I fought back.
43:13I protected us.
43:17It's gonna be okay.
43:19We got this.
43:21I love you.
43:27Imagine having her as a mother.
43:29Imagine not having her.
43:31That'd feel so good.