Mom lauras bothering me mom sent me. Personally, i could care less if you stay a friendless goober your whole life. Hello . Earth to danny. Wow, hes leaving the house hold on, let me get a picture. door slams hope youve got your things together hope you are quite prepared to die. Detective mcavoy, lilly rush. Uh, retired detective. Just mack, now. Well, you said you got something for me to look at . Yeah. Couple days ago, guy comes into the fairmount station. Drops this off. Some kind of model rocket . Yeah, he found it up near the bluffs over the wissahickon. Some, uh, civilian desk jockey processed it and didnt even bother iding the guy who brought it in. Yeah, civilian humps doing cops work. Take a look here. The Chestnut Hill rocket boys launched this vehicle july 20, 1969 ad in peace for all mankind. Signed danny finch. Day after we landed on the moon, danny finchs body turns up in the schuylkill. He was 12 years old. That was my first year in homicide. Any suspects . Scumbag reggie blunt. He got popped r a laundry list of murders around the city that year. And the da lumped my kids case in with them. Never got a conviction, but everybody was sure he did it. Except me. Talk to dannys friends back in the day . No, he didnt have any. Boy was a loner, you know, science nerd type. I interviewed all the kids in the neighborhood. I got nothing. But this makes me think that maybe he did have some friends after all. These rocket boys. I dont know, mack. A toy rockets a tough sell with the bosses. Ive been 39 years turning over in my sleep what could have happened to this kid. You have any idea what that does to you, detective . No one else around here will give me t time of day. And i hear you take cases nobody else will. You find this kids murderer, maybe i can get to sleep again. Rocket boys, huh . Yeah, you think im crazy, huh . I dont think youre crazy, mack. Captioning sponsored by warner bros. 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You sure your boyfriend did all his homework . Blunt gets credit for the murder, suddenly macks strongarmed to move on. Blunt gets shanked in graterford in 78. He knew anything about it, he took it to his grave. Old crackpot mack. Oh, you knew him, boss . He was in homicide when i was still walking a beat in fishtown. Hes a good cop. Bosses thought he cared a little too much. Autopsy reports got danny with abrasions on the face and body, a cracked skull, bluntforce trauma. Kid got banged up pretty bad. Aw, Chestnut Hill chemistry award, 1968. I didnt even know they had chemistry in 6th grade. Dannys sister laura is in with jeffries now. See if she knows anything about this rocket. Or the Chestnut Hill rocket boys. Can i smoke in here . chuckling uh, no. Sorry. I thought police station, you know, maybe. Not unless youre planning on confessing. I lost my baby brother the day they put a man on the moon. I still cant look at it without thinking about him. You two were close . I was pretty awful to him, actually. It breaks my heart now. At that age, you just dont think. Danny say where he was going that day . He never told me anything. He sort of holed up into science. Skipped a grade when he was eight, ended up in my class. Drove me crazy. We found this up in the park. Dannys name on it. Know anything about it . Math, science, chemistry. He was more about equations than this sort of thing. What about a Chestnut Hill rocket boys club . Danny in a club . No way. But. The week before he died, i saw him with some boys from the neighborhood. thank the lord for the night time playing right. Right here. All right, perfect. Okay. Perfect. Neil armstrong readies the launch vehicle for ignition. giggles how come you always get to be neil . Huh, chuck . cause im the commander. You can be buzz aldrin, the mission specialist. Okay, shes set to fly, captain. Saved every cherry bomb i could find from 4th of july. Rockets loaded and ready for liftoff loaded and ready. This babys going to the moon i hope you know its not going to work. Go play with your bunsen burner, poindexter. Busy here. Look, you cant just pack it full of explosives. You have to cut the powder with sulfur, otherwise. Kid, we need your help, well ask for it. Got it . All right, men. Lets light this candle. Let me do it, chuck. Here we go all ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four. loud boom, glass shatters laughing danny told you so. That stunt caused a lot of trouble. Chucks dad about skinned him alive. Remember their names . Just chuck pierce, the cute one. But those three, they were always together, though. Ever see them with your brother again . Chuck came by the next day. Asked to see danny. I remember being disappointed. I thought he was there to see me. Civvie who took in the rockets a real paperweight. Oh, let me guess less than helpful. Like pulling teeth. I finally got him to remember what time the guy brought it in. I went back and dug through the catch desk signin sheets. Came up with a name mike collins. Great, got to be what, 800 of them in the philly phone book . Yeah. Go, irish. Your boyfriend called again. Yeah. Go, irish. Mack asked if we want him in on interviews. Told him, thanks. Were good. Im still sweating cases after i get my gold watch, do me a favor, put me out of my misery. Count on it. Crackpot mack said chuck pierce used to run with some boys seth rundgren and bobby kent. All three of them interviewed in 69. Said they were watching the moon landing together. Doesnt look like chuck let go of the rocket thing. Naval aviator, applied for nasa in the 90s. Private air captain now. Lear jets of the rich and famous. Yeah, it was a real shock when danny turned up dead. Block was never the same again. Yeah . How so . Predator on the streets. Parents wouldnt let kids play outside after dark anymore. Only now, thinking danny might have been with friends the night he died. You friends with danny back then, chuck . Friends . Not really. No, danny was kind of a. Kind of an odd duck. On the night of the moon landing, did you see him around . No, i was at home watching it on tv. Pinnacle of human achievement. You with anyone . Yeah, i was, i was with, uh, seth rundgren and bobby kent. Havent seen those guys in years. They lived on my block. The Chestnut Hill rocket boys, right . Ye, well, rockets were a phase, i mean, probably because of the moon landing and all. I think we were into sharks the next week. chuckles then, uh, whyd you stop by dannys the day after you and your posse blew the neighborhood to china trying to launch a rocket . Well, we wanted to see what he knew. I mean, a rocket without a brain to guide it is pretty much just a pipe bomb. He help you out . Oh, ah, sure, hed do anything, anything to be our friend. We, we were just out to have a good time, but this kid. chuckles this kid was obsessed. Once were in, we got to move fast. The foreman, mr. Wallace, hates kids. Heard he killed a guy on his site once. They say he buried the body in the yard. Never found it. We have to make the nozzle out of something thatll hold up to the heat from takeoff, launch the vehicle all the way to the mesosphere. Geek you dont shut it, im gonna launch you in the mesosphere. Were supposed to be sneaking in, nimrods. Wallace going to hear us a mile away. Shh. This is it. Up and over, men. Uh, guys . Im really not so great at climbing fences. Ah, gee, theres a surprise. There, we need that piece. The one thats shaped like a cone right on top its perfect. dogs barking hey, hey hey come here hey, you little bastards go, go, go get the hef this property. You think youre going to steal from me, huh . Aw. Bite it, dirtbag. You, runt, show your face in here again, youll see what happens, man. Come on come on that guy was a damn menace. Everybody knew it, but like i said, that kid danny he was obsessed. You saying he went back . He told us that everything we needed to launch a rocket was inside that fence. When was this . Oh, i dont know, maybe a week before the moon landing. beeping rmstrong over computer thats one small step for man, one. Giant leap for mankind. Night, lil. You find anything on the rest of chucks crew . Well, seth rundgren has a colorful history. A courtordered lockup, 86 to 90. Schizoaffective disorder. Bobby kents a floor manager at zanes Sporting Goods in germantown. What about this wallace character . Picked up an assault and battery in 68 for slapping around a junkie trying to steal copper from his site. Put the guy in icu for three weeks. You get something off that rocket, nick . Rocket science, people. Well, the factory that machinetooled the metal cone danny used as a nozzle was located right here in philly. Dwc custom manufacturing. Place was knocked down, the summer of 68, and guess whos on the books as site foreman for the demolition company. Dick wallace. 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Drive in to jiffy lube and support best demo company on the eastern seaboard. Aint a building they put up i cant pull down on a dime. 69, though, you were just starting to make a name for yourself. Paid my dues. Took any job thatd have me. Demo, drywall, construction. Site watchdog. Yeah, i was the ogre. Somebody had to be. Rob you blind, otherwise. Like that junkie you busted open back in 68. Freak pulled a knife on me. What am i supposed to do . Bleed on him . Sure, i get it. Sometimes you got to crack a few skulls, get things done. Yeah, you said it. What about danny finch . Kids tried to sneak on your lot, you make a few threats. Week later, this boy turns up beaten to death. Danny thought he could outsmart you, sneak back in. Its not like you didnt warn him. Yeah, i warned him, all right, not that it did any good. clattering you got to be some kind of special nitwit, right . Its almost 14. Its all i got. Wwe just need maybe 200 grams of potassium nitrate. Forget it. Seriously, kid, amscray. Look, im sorry we broke in, but my friends theyre counting on me. Im like wernher von braun to them. Wernher von braun. The scientist who created the space program. Without him. Without me, that rocket will never fly. Ive been up all night working out the mix, trying to get it right. And if i do, maybe theyll see that im. That youre what . Nothing. Probably hopeless anyway. The calculations never come out right. Its going to explode or fly off course. S. Should be about the right mix. Need an emulsifier to bind the powder. The right nozzle, it should burn clean instead of a. Fast explosion. Know what i mean . Hey, kid. Calculationsll only get you so far in life. Right . At some point, you got to get outside, you got to make it work. Wow. Wow, this is perfect. Yeah, the scrap metals. Yeah, i know. Saw the perfect part for the nozzle when we were here before. Well, take what you need, all right . Just dont be bringing your little hood pals back. Hey, kid. You blow yourself up, you leave my name the hell out of it. You dig . All right, now beat it. You gave a 12yearold kid dynamite . It was a different time. No lawsuits, no helmets, no safety seats. We let kids be kids. So. Danny, he. Managed to launch that rocket, huh . Looks like it. chuckling thats good. Good for him. Seth rundgren . Detectives rush, vera. Need a hand . , thanks. Few questions about danny finch. Danny finch. Mind if we come inside, talk about it . The last time i saw danny, he wanted us to break into a construction site. Rush we heard. We climbed a fence and, and a man came out with a baseball bat and chased us away. Right. What about after that . The day of the moon landing. You see danny that day . clattering please dont touch that. Oops. Seth. The day of the moon landing. Thethere was no moon landing. Come again . Its the pinnacle of human achievement, and it was a hoax. Ththey shot the whole thing on a, on a soundstage. Whos they . Nasa, the cia, lbj. Lyndon johnson faked the moon landing . Ive talkede cia, lbj. To agents who were there. They tell me things, thththe tr the truth about what happened that day. Danny think the same way . He said it was the scientists who made it happen. Without them, the eagle ver would have landed. Seth, the broadcast about the Eagle Landing happened the day danny died. If he said that, it means you saw him that day. Three of you were with him when hlaunched the rocket. The Chestnut Hill rocket boys. I know what youre trying to do. Yyoure trying to get me to say that i, i see danny. But hes gone. Ii know that. But you still see him sometimes . They say its the disease. It, it, it makes me believe things that arent true. Vera whos they . Chuck and bobby . Seth, you talk to them lately . Your friends when you were 12. How many of them do you still talk to . Vera guy gives new meaning to the word certifiable. Keep pushing, well never get a straight story out of him. Just lock up under pressure. Stick a tail on him, see what he does, where he goes. Believe his rap about not talking to bobby and chuck . Not for a second. I did steal his phone bill off his desk. Oh. Lot of calls to one number. Bet it aint the cia. I got a few minutes before im back on the floor. Say youre looking for some contact info for seth rundgren . Yeah, know any way we can get ahold of him . I wish i could help, but. I havent talked to him in, gosh, ages. phone ringing go ahead. Pick it up. Well wait. Hello. What up, liar . Got your number off of seths phone records. Hes been calling you 20 times a week for the past month. The three of you were with danny the night he died. Seth already told us. Question is why is he calling you so much . And why are you both lying about it . Look, seth has a pretty weird imagination. And why are you both lyinthats one way of putting it. Something go down with seth and danny that night . No. Oh, come on, bobby. Unstable guy. Maybe not even his fault, right . Out in the woods, a dare gone bad. Guess we got to take you downtown, sort this all out. Okay, okay, all right. It isnt about seth. Seth and chuck are lying to protect me. Im going up the country. Announcer over radio waiting on the astronauts. This is outstanding. To make their first step onto the moons surface. Nice job, danny. Yeah. Nice job. Bobby, why do you say everything chuck says right after he says it . I dont. Actually, you kind of do. Shut up, dork. What do you know . Hey, ease off. Hes the reason were out here. Ought to be at home watching this on tv. You kidding . This is way better. Were living it, man. Right, danny . Yeah, this is the best. Never really been in the woods before. Were explorers. Conquerors. Im Neil Armstrong, commander of the. Ow what was that . Theres something in the woods. shouting screaming die, wusses got to get away im gonna leave the city, got to get away. My halfbrother, malcolm, and his dirtbag buddy, griff. They used to beat our ass every chance they got. You left danny behind with them . Nothing we could have done. And when danny turns up dead . They killed danny what do you think they would have done to me . Where are your parents in all this . Dad split, and mom was working all the time. She left malcolm in charge of me. Best thing that ever happened was the two of them shipping off to vietnam the second they turned 18. Griff died over there, and. Malcolm came back even worse. And where is he now . Up at graterford, doing ten to 20 for armed robbery. And this sorry to interrupt, your premium right here. I just want to say, i combined home and auto with state farm, saved 760 bucks. Love this guy. Okay, does it bother anybody else that the mime is talking . Frrreeeeaky [ male announcer ] bundle home and auto and you could save 760 bucks. Alright, mama, lets get going. [ yawns ] naptime is calling my name. [ male announcer ] get to a better state. State farm. 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Better he learned that early on. Nice record you got, malcolm armed robbery, assault, killing animals. Not a big leap to doing in a kid. You made your minds up. Pull the trigger already. Rush says here you got a shot at parole in seven months. Number might come down or go up, depending how interesting you make our time here. This is a simple question. See danny that day or not . We saw him. Kid was about to wet his shorts. You like that sound, maggot . Let me go. Should have learned to run faster, professor. Might have lived a little longer. Hey, what have we got here . Man, that is one bigass firecracker. Fuse and everything. What are you gonna do with this, dork . Lets light it under his twerp ass, see how many pieces it makes of him. Leave it alone. Its ours leave it alone or what, wuss . Light it up, griff. yelling angrily broke my nose kill him. screaming what . The rockets mine, numbnuts. Wait up. Deviated my septum, little bastard. whistling you hear that . Still whistles when i breathe. Got your asses kicked by a couple 12yearolds . Seth wanted that rocket real bad. He was crazy enough to take us on for it. Hey, i was honest with you. Thats got to be worth something, right . Rush right. Well get back to you, malcolm. No, you wont. I been in here long enough. I aint stupid, but hey. Tell bobby his big brother says hello, would you . Mack uh, took you long enough. Thank you. both chuckling never much into housekeeping. Those interviews that you took from the boys in the neighborhood. Those interviews still got them . That you took i got everything. So, where do you want to start . Seth rdgren, bobby kent, and chuck pierce. You ever have a case like this . You know, one that sticks with you, doesnt let you rest . Yeah, i. I do. Names cooper. And the kicker is hes still out there. Unsolicited advice . Dont let it sit for 30 years. Starts eating away at you. Trust me on that. And their stories are exactly the same, across the board pinnacle of human achievement still doing it today. Chuck says it. Seths got the same lines, word for word. Like the manchurian candidate. Danny gets killed here in the park and dumped in the wissahickon. Then floats all the way down to the river. Some of the injuries could have come from the beating he took, but the marks on his legs and arms. Maybe postmortem, bumping off the rocks as he drifted . Well, it was a rainy summer. Crick was swollen. Would have only taken a few hours. Now, that spot could be right where our Michael Collins found the rocket. Michael collins . The guy who brought in the rocket. Probably a fake name. Michael collins was the third astronaut on the apollo 11 mission. Third astronaut . Armstrong and aldrin landed on the moon, put their footsteps down, became heroes, and Michael Collins. He stayed in orbit aroun the moon and never landed. The boys were playing astronauts. If chuck was armstrong, and bobby was aldrin. Seth was Michael Collins. water rushing gently Michael Collins. stammering you. You followed me. You found the rocket here . No, not, not. Not here. Up the path by the ravine. You brought it in cause you wanted us to reopen dannys case. Why . I dont want to. To see it anymore. I. I want it to stop. What do you want to stop, seth . What i remember. It cant be real. What wasnt real . The moon landing, the launch . No, our. Our launch was. Was real. green river playing you chickens through running away . Oh, you made it back. You got away. Holy crap. How did you do it . Danny punched malcolm right in the honker. Pow nah, it was all seth. Id beead if he didnt come back. Bobby were all dead anyways. Malcolm will never let this go. Danny forget it. He can kill us tomorrow. Right now. We got a rocket to launch. All yeah. Lets do it. Walking along the river road at night barefoot girls dancing in the moonlight. This is it right here. Great. 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Guy was a mess i shouldnt have left him alone. Stillman yeah, well, nothing you could have done, nick. Something happened at that crick. And seth would rather die than tell us what it is. door opens your friends on the slab, bobby. Seth . Your friends killed himself on the sright over the table youre leaning on. Died keeping your secret. Almost like you killed him yourself. Poor guy. Never really had a chance. Frnds like you. I guess not. Rush dont seem very surprised, chuck. We did everything we could to help him. Why is that . Goodness of your heart . We were practically brothers, the three of us. We couldnt let him down. Thats what everybody did his whole life. Jeffries you tried to help him. Thats right. Just little things. Making sure he was okay. Little things. Like the 14,000 bucks for his Mental Hospital . Ten years worth of antipsychotic meds . That wasnt me. What happened at the crickbobby . Seth said danny made the jump; chuck said he didnt. Whats chuck paying all that money to hide . All right, so i. I paid a few of seths bills. Its only because he couldnt afford to do it. Bobby, either. You were keeping him quiet. No, i was helping him cope. With your secret. Tearing him up inside for the pa 39 years. Valens the jump, chuck. Tell us what happened at the jump. Chuck bent over backwards to help seth. Thats the kind of guy he is. End of story. I got nothing else to say. Little memento for you. Sit here with your dead friends and think about how they got that way. Valens chucks not gonna break unless we got him cold. Bobbys so deep in his thrall, its like getting him to rat out jesus. Hero worship. Stillman chucks throwing money at the problem, but bobbys doing all the work. cause bobby actually cares. I got this. Get up. I gotta cuff you before i take you to your cell. Wait. What . Vera chuck tossed you under the bus. Youre locked up for murder. Chuck wouldnt. He wouldnt do that. Well, he did. And hes gonna get away with it because youre too spineless to do the right thing. Get up loud banging bobby i didnt do anything. I didnt do anything save it bedtime story for your cellmate. Wait, chuck said i did something . Why would he do that . I dont get it. You follow the guy around like a sheep. Im not a sheep. Baaa, baaa, baaa. Thats all i hear when you open your mouth. Guy thinks hes the king of the world, jetting around, and youre stuck her cleaning up the mess. With seth . I was glado do it. Chuck said we were a team. Hes my best friend. Sit down. chair clatters last chance. Or youre gonna spend the rest of your life in a cell half the size of this room. We tried to get back home after we launched the rocket. Chuck said he knew the way, but he was wrong. water running not this place again. Weve been out here all night. We gotta get home. Too far to jump. We gotta go around. Thats what you said last time. How we got lost in the first place. Were never gonna make it back before our parents wake up. What about your dad . I said its too far. Standing around talking about it is just gonna take longer. We can do it. You . Not a chance. Forget it. We can do anything. Were the rocket boys. Will you shut up about that . Its stupid. Its not stupid. Its the best thing ever. You dont get it. Im not even supposed to be out here. My dad finds out, im dead, okay . We go around. Whats this . Lets go. Im with danny. Youll never make it, seth. Yeah . Watch me. laughs hes right. See you at home, suckers. Almost didnt make it over, fatass. Lay an egg, psycho. Cleared it by a mile. Yeah. Race you to the bend. I never saw a kid so proud of himsf. Chuck said he was too weak, he didnt make it. But he did. So howd he end up in the water . I dont know. We ran ahead. Look, chuck was the leader. If he said it, it had to be true. After a while, i started believing it myself. But seth never did. It just chewed him up on the inside. Ive been checking into your family, chuck. Who knew the pierces were such an american dynasty . Yeah, dads a war hero. Built a textile company from scratch, turned it into an empire. You got a point . Rush its hard to live up to. Only son. A lot of pressure on a kid. I thrived on it. Some people do. Right. Right, cause you were following in his footsteps. And 12 years old or not, you were a leader. Thats why, when danny fell in the crick, you tried to save him. He was so out of shape. He couldnt hold himself above the water. He mustve panicked. Thats what happens, situations like that. He was going to pull me down with him. I. I had to save myself. I. I mean. So help me, god, i let him drown. Then covered it up. And papa pierce found out, worse than being punished, hed have been disappointed in you. It was an accident. And i spent the rest of my life trying to make up for it. sighs you know, theres just this one little detail that doesnt fit. Danny didnt drown, chuck. There was no water in his lungs. Thats got to be a mistake. Rush no mistake. Someone cracked him in the skull with a blunt object. Oud thud whack. Rush we didnt just check into your family, chuck. We checked into you. Being an astronaut now that wouldve gotten your old man off your back for once. No, but nasa rejected you. Three times. It was a good thing hes not around anymore to see you. Bus driver in the sky for rich people. Now, danny, he was a real leader. Danny was weak; he was no leader. Your buddies thought he was. Launched the rocket, made the leap. Danny said jump and they jumped. But you. You were scared. Papa pierce finds out about that, might as well not go home at all. You go to hell, all right . I was no coward. And dannys death was no accident. I want a lawyer. Youre dying to shut us up. Can see it on your face. Know what we did to piss you off what did danny do . Danny shouldnt even have been there. Danny was no rocket boy. Maybe not at the beginning, but he made the jump. He made it across. He wasnt the hero. I was water running its okay, chuck. You can do it. Youre Neil Armstrong, remember . Just shut up im not scared, all right . Then jump. Come on. Its no big deal. Help me chuck chuck chuck chuck, i lost my glasses i cant see chuck help me chuck chuck, help coughing chuck chuck, help me chuck bobby hey, whats going on . I wont tell them you were scared, chuck. You think i was scared . chuck yelling a whiter shade of pale playing we skipped the light fandango turned cartwheels cross the floor i was feeling kind of seasick the crowd called out for more the room was humming harder as the ceiling flew away when we called out for another drink the waiter brought a tray and so it was that later as the miller told his tale that her face, at first just ghostly turned a whiter shade of pale she said there is no reason and the truth is plain to see but i wandered through my playing cards and would not let her be one of 16 vestal virgins who were leaving for the coast and although my eyes were open they might just as well. Captioning sponsored by warner bros. Television