Zero Day

As Cole and Puller are driving back through Drake, they encounter Roger Trent. Puller tells Trent he thinks that Molly Bitner’s death had to do with her working for Trent Exploration and that it has something to do with soil samples. Trent claims to know nothing about that, but Puller notices his hand shaking.

Their next move is to locate Dickie Strauss. They find him hanging out with his motorcycle club at an abandoned firehouse near the concrete dome. Dickie tries to flee on a dirt bike, but Puller shoots out the rear tire. Puller tells Dickie someone saw him running away from the Reynolds house. Dickie tells Puller he liked the Army and was proud of serving his country, but he was discharged for being gay when someone ratted him out. Puller acknowledges that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was an unjust policy. He says that he served with many gay people and all that mattered was that they did their jobs well.

Returning to the subject of the crime scene, Dickie explains that he was friends with Larry Wellman. He had wanted to see the murder scene, and Wellman agreed to let him inside, but when Dickie arrived, Wellman was already dead.