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Previously on "The Hunting Party"...

Dr. Dulles, you have a visitor.

Hi, Dad.

Who was that speaking with Dr. Dulles just now?

That was his son.

He doesn't have a son.

The Pit's located in the middle of a nuclear array--

28 silos, 6 of which have been decommissioned.

This one is the Pit, and this one is Silo 12.

What's so special about Silo 12?

Just before the blast, I received a phone call.

There was a breach at Silo 12.

A breach, OK. By who?

An armed security force.

We need to see Silo 12.

- Almost. Almost. - OK, OK.

I'm gonna be tripping on my dress soon.

I won't let you.

OK, ready? Ready? Ready? - OK, OK.

You can look now.

- ♪ At last - Mark.

It's--it's perfect.

♪ My love has come along

Hey. You're perfect.

♪ My lonely days are over

Mm, hang on.

Hang on. Hang on.

♪ And life is like a song

Here, champagne.

- Mm. - To us.

To us.

♪ The skies above are blue

You know, you didn't have to do all of this.

This is the most important day of our lives.

I want to remember this forever.

Well, I--

Excuse me.

I--

I--yeah.

Yeah--

You OK?

♪ I found a dream

Honey?

I'm sorry.

I can't breathe.

♪ And here we are

♪ In heaven

♪ For you are mine

♪ At last

- This is the last of it. - Oh, great.

All right, I'm taking off. Thanks again, Carol.

Carol, you're still at it?

We can't have our best volunteer

burning herself out on her first day back.

Oh, I'm practically done, Pastor.

And I'm just thankful to be able to help.

Not as thankful as I am having you lead the food drive.

Good night.

Good night.

Good morning, Patty.

Shane.

You've had a complaint filed against you.

What for?

For lying about being Dr. Dulles' son.

I don't know what you're up to.

You've always been very nice.

But his real family is quite upset.

You need to leave the premises immediately.

Look, Patty, I can--

it's complicated.

I'm sure it is.

But you need to go, now,

or we will call the police.

♪ Running from my shadow

OK.

It's all good, Simon. I'm--I'm leaving.

♪ Trying to leave the past behind ♪

♪ Let them go

♪ Mm

♪ Mm

♪ Running from a shadow

♪ Find a way into the light

♪ Let me go

♪ Running from a shadow

♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh

♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

♪ Running from a shadow

The six decommissioned silos, they all connect underground.

Makes sense there would be more than one way into the Pit.

And more than one way out.

So what about Silo 12?

All Oliver said was that it was breached

by armed security forces.

He didn't say why or what's going on.

But he's working on securing an access code.

How?

I didn't ask.

Do you really believe

Odell is telling you everything he knows?

Exactly.

Oliver's not lying about this.

There is something going on in Silo 12

that we are not supposed to see,

and it has to do with the blast.

Which is why we have to see for ourselves.

Yeah, great. All three of us.

Funny.

What do we got?

A dog walker spotted a woman being abducted

outside of a church shelter.

We got a ping from the 911 call,

and we pulled CCTV from security cameras

in the parking lot.

And how do we know he's one of ours?

Check out his left hand. It's inmate K31.

The three ring tattoos are for the three wives that he killed.

Mark Marsden.

- Yes, ma'am. - Nice catch.

Thank you.

I'm sorry, I've never heard of this guy.

Well, you might better know him from his nickname:

The Widower.

Oh, you actually don't know who he is?

Yeah, no, I'm not caught up on my podcasts.

Just give it to me straight.

What's the flavor of psychopath we're dealing with here?

Marsden's psychopathy is rooted

in his fear of abandonment.

He had a relatively normal childhood until age 15,

when his girlfriend dumped him and then, two weeks later,

she drowned during a kegger in the woods.

Let me guess. He was at that party.

And witnesses saw them arguing.

But because his parents were so well connected,

he didn't go to jail.

So instead he was hospitalized

with a severe case of narcissistic

and borderline personality disorder,

which, in his case, was characterized

by extreme mood swings and violent impulsivity.

Once he turned 18, he was released from the institution

with no record.

Managed to stay off law enforcement's radar

for, what, couple years... - Mm-hmm.

Until he fell in love--again.

And his fear of abandonment made him act out--again.

His first wife fell off a balcony during their honeymoon.

His second wife had an aneurysm, died in her sleep.

And the third one drowned on her wedding night.

How did he get away with this?

Oh, he didn't for long.

He framed the first two murders as accidents.

But by the third kill, police saw through his lies.

Marsden would prefer to watch the women he loved

die than ever risk getting rejected by them.

They made him look like a rock star.

And he loved the attention.

He got the wedding ring tattoos in prison

after he was convicted.

Where's this?

It's here, Cheyenne.

Wait, what? The blast was 13 days ago.

He had the chance to get thousands of miles away.

And instead he stayed here, abducted someone in Cheyenne?

Maybe he was recovering in the shelter.

No, his prior victims were wives.

I mean, he's not abducting random women in parking lots.

What do we know about this vic?

I'm still working to ID her.

From the looks of it, she works at the shelter.

But I haven't been able to get a name--yet.

Her name's Carol.

Excuse me?

How the hell do you know that?

Because I-I-I know her.

She worked at the Pit.

Carol Miller. She worked in admin at the Pit.

- How well did you know her? - Not well.

I know we pulled her out of the rubble early.

Last I saw her, she was on the way to the hospital.

How long did Carol work at the Pit?

- Five years. - OK, well, that's long enough

for Marsden to fixate on her.

How?

I don't know when they would've even crossed paths.

If Marsden risked waiting around this long

to target Carol, then he must have had

one hell of a compelling reason.

OK, so let's keep digging.

Shovel in hand, boss.

Because he said to dig.

- Oh. - Come on, he said to dig.

Yeah.

Do you, Mark, take Dorothy

to be your lawfully wedded wife?

I do.

May I say a few words? - Please.

Dorothy, I will love you...

for all eternity...

to the moon and back...

and then all the way to Saturn.

♪ One heart to break for you ♪

I do.

Marsden said the exact same vows to all three wives.

Why change what's working, huh?

And from the looks of it,

he sprung for a high-end videographer.

Well, Marsden is motivated by his fear of abandonment.

But like most serials, he actually enjoys the process--

getting these women to trust him,

giving themselves to him freely.

These tapes are his trophies.

Just when I thought this guy couldn't get any worse.

We're about there.

I'll tell you what I already told those other cops.

I didn't see anything.

But Carol was a godsend.

She and her son became regulars when her husband passed

from cancer two years ago.

I always worry when one of my congregants suffers a loss.

But Carol refused to let herself be lonely.

She threw herself into volunteering.

Never missed a single week.

Until she got injured at that factory where she worked.

Poor thing just got discharged yesterday.

Now this?

One second.

Hey, Oliver.

So Carol was abducted

the day she got discharged from the hospital.

Which confirms that Marsden was targeting her.

Right, but we still don't know why.

That's why I'm calling.

We found some footage.

OK, send it over.

It's more complicated than that.

You need to get back here.

♪ Doo-doo-wop, doo-doo-wop

♪ Doo-doo-wop, doo-wop

♪ Alone at a party, I met you, Julianne ♪

♪ We danced together

What the hell are we watching?

Exposure therapy.

You normalize triggering events

in a safe environment until they're...

no longer triggering.

Apparently, Pit researchers keyed in on weddings

as the trigger for Marsden's abandonment anxiety.

So he gets married a thousand times

and suddenly stops wanting to kill his wives?

Something like that.

But watch this.

Recognize her?

That's Carol.

Some of these employees took these

re-enactment gigs because it was an easy way

to make some extra cash.

How many times did Mark Marsden

and Carol get fake married?

Not sure, but I've got over a hundred videos here.

They start about 18 months ago.

So obviously Marsden got obsessed with Carol.

The Pit didn't treat his compulsion to kill.

It gave him his next victim.

Wait here.

Don't move.

Do you take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband?

I do.

I've always dreamed of falling in love with someone like you.

And today I get to marry the man of my dreams--

OK, Carol is out there somewhere

right now with this creep,

and we're stuck here watching wedding videos from hell.

Are these really our best leads?

If Marsden created a romance fantasy with Carol

from these moments, then yes,

watching these videos is our best shot

at making sure we know where he's taking her next.

Ah.

Keep watching. We'll find her.

You find something?

Traffic cams haven't given us anything.

Neither has facial rec.

Morales is working overtime to close the gap.

But I was able to get you the Silo 12 access code.

Sure it's still good?

A lot's changed in the last two weeks.

Positive.

Bex?

I've always dreamed of falling in love with...

- Just wait a sec. - How happy I am...

Hey, back it up. Go back.

And I promise--

Words can't express how happy I am

that you've chosen to spend the rest of your life with me.

And I promise to keep you--

always.

It's just the same thing over and over.

No, it's not.

OK, so the video on the left is from 18 months ago

when Mark started his exposure therapy.

The one on the right is from three weeks ago.

So 18 months ago, these two people did not know each other.

I mean, look at Carol.

No touching, no eye contact.

Her body language basically says she's just doing her job.

The more recent one, her body language

has completely changed.

I got you a surprise.

Now...

we can get married for real.

You're not saying that she's--

Yep, the obsession goes both ways.

She's in love with him too.

Now this is perfect.

Why would anyone fall for a guy who's killed

all three of his wives?

It's called hybristophilia.

It's a psychological disorder presenting

as an intense attraction to criminals.

Especially serial killers.

Some theorize it's linked to a savior complex.

Others believe it's evolutionary psychology.

They delude themselves into believing

that a mate who's willing to kill

is the best kind of protector.

Most people who develop this disorder are often

smart or, well, confident enough

to believe that they can actually change

the person that they're obsessed with

but dysfunctional enough

not to recognize their own delusions.

Like those women who sent love letters to Ted Bundy.

I think one of them even married him.

- Did she? - The problem is,

Carol doesn't fit the profile.

Because as far as we know, she was happily married

for decades to a very non-dangerous accountant.

Except for the fact that her husband actually

suddenly passed six months before

she started working with Marsden.

With that kind of tragedy, who knows

how her psychology has shifted?

So we should talk to someone that knows her,

preferably a family member.

- She's got a son. - She's got a son.

Did you guys plan that?

What are we really hoping to get

out of Carol's kid anyway?

Well, he lived with her up until

he left for college last year.

He'll be able to tell us something.

That's him.

Grady Miller.

Hey.

Why do they always have to run?

Hey!

Grady! Hey! Hey!

We just want to talk about your mom.

- What? - Not like that.

I didn't even do anything!

Why'd you run?

Nice of you to show up.

Let me get the door for you.

♪ You're just too good to be true ♪

♪ Can't take my eyes off of you ♪

♪ You'd be like heaven to touch ♪

♪ I want to hold you so much

What do you think?

You look so beautiful.

♪ You're just too good to be true ♪

♪ Can't take my eyes off of you ♪

That dress is perfect.

You're sure it's not too much for a second wedding?

True love is worth celebrating

every single time you find it.

You two are just adorable.

You have to tell us how you met.

Workplace romance.

Aww.

Call me crazy, but I know you from somewhere, don't I?

No.

No, my first time in Salt Lake.

Just have... one of those faces.

I think we're all set.

Mm-hmm.

Are you ready?

Just about.

Why don't you go wait for me at that little café out there?

Why?

Well, if I tell you, it will ruin the surprise.

Can we show you some bouquets?

Bet you keep these pretty sharp, don't you?

Hey, did you get much from Carol's kid,

or did he demand a lawyer?

He was actually cooperative

once he realized we weren't there for him.

Turns out, Grady Miller is quite an accomplished hacker.

He ransomed his school district's computer system

for about 50 grand.

Well, more importantly, a year ago,

Grady created an untraceable VPN for his mom.

Carol used the VPN to log in to a serial killer fan site.

"Reaper's Digest." Is that real?

Unfortunately.

Carol got so into it, she became the moderator

of a very lively Mark Marsden forum.

It looks like she spent several hours a day

posting on the site, talking about her husband's death,

loneliness, even trying to date again.

These online communities can really suck you in.

Not--not me.

Others. - He's right.

Carol's likely to log in again.

She's on the forum right now.

Using public Wi-Fi at a mall in Salt Lake City.

All right, let's go.

Hey, hey!

I told you it's for emergencies only.

I put the SIM card in. It's OK.

But listen, I really think we should call Grady.

He's gonna love you, I promise.

It's just, he doesn't know anything about all this,

so he's gonna worry if he doesn't hear from me.

We can't, not yet.

I promise he can come meet us in Mexico.

But right now, it's just-- it's too risky, OK?

You understand. - Yeah. Yeah.

What the hell is this?

Oh, it's totally anonymous.

It's safe. I just logged in for a second.

What were you thinking?

All it takes is one little mistake.

Please don't be angry.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I-I-I just don't want anything to ruin our perfect wedding.

OK?

Come here.

No, I'm sorry. I--you're right.

I shouldn't have done that.

I love you so much.

Just be more careful.

Come on, we gotta find a new car.

OK?

Bonnie and Clyde syndrome.

Ah, is someone reading up on hybristophilia?

I'm just looking for something easier to pronounce.

Carol is the Bonnie to Marsden's Clyde.

She's not just the victim here.

She's getting some kind of sick thrill out of all this.

OK, he fills a hole in her heart, no doubt.

But Carol is the real victim here.

This is what men like Mark do. They prey on women like her.

They convince them that they're reformed or misunderstood.

But, guys, if we don't find them soon enough,

we know how this romance ends.

This is the spot. - A bridal shop.

Well, this can't be a coincidence.

Oh, hey.

There's blood.

Marsden killed him for a wedding dress?

His kills never used to be like this.

He's losing control.

Hey!

She's breathing! Call 911!

Can you hear me?

He paid for the dress

and told his fiancée

to wait across the street at the café.

And then he--

Take your time.

Ron thought that he recognized him,

and the man went crazy.

I tried to run, but he caught me.

He strangled me until I played dead.

Hey. It's OK. You're safe.

We've called your sister. She's on her way.

Thank you for everything.

This is an exposure nightmare.

Just try to stay off camera.

Learn anything useful?

Bex was right.

Carol wasn't there when Mark attacked them.

She may not even know.

Not yet.

No, no.

Absolutely not. Are you out of your mind?

Mark hid this from Carol because he wants her

to think he's a changed man.

She needs to know he's not.

- Whoa. - Hassani, she's right.

I mean, either we show her who he really is, or he does.

OK, and then what?

We blow the lid off this whole thing.

She gets spooked, runs, and he still kills her.

No, then she reaches out.

Reaches out?

To who?

Her friends online.

♪ See you every morning, baby ♪

♪ Something down deep inside me cries ♪

I'll just be a sec, babe.

♪ Can't sit still when you're not with me ♪

We're really sorry about this, Kip.

We didn't see anyone sleeping in the back,

and we were in a hurry.

We're getting married.

Congratulations?

You'll get your van back, I promise.

We bring you a developing story.

Law enforcement are on... - Let's go.

The hunt for a man who killed one clerk...

- Whoa, whoa, whoa. - And wounded another

at the House of Vienna bridal shop on East Avenue.

Police are saying that this man is extremely dangerous

and will resort to violence. - Turn that off.

The police should be called immediately...

- I said turn it off. - If the suspect is--

Hold up.

Whoa!

Mark.

- Hey, I-- - What did you do?

I just scared him, that's all.

The--the clerk recognized me.

He--he said he was gonna call the cops.

- But they just said-- - They're lying.

Can't you see that?

I didn't hurt anybody, I swear.

When I walked out of there, they were--

they were both completely fine.

They're just trying to get to us.

And hey, I'm not gonna let that happen.

It's you and me forever.

You'll never have to be alone again.

What we have is pure love.

Mark, don't hurt him.

Of course not.

Baby.

Come on.

Don't move.

They're not driving aimlessly.

They're eloping.

Sounds like Vegas.

But they're not headed towards Vegas.

Then where are they going?

It's been 30 minutes

since you leaked it to the press.

Morales, what you got?

Carol just logged in to her forum.

You're tracing the signal?

Somewhere near Carlin, Nevada.

- Reno. - Reno.

Perfect place for a quickie wedding

with no questions asked.

Looks like Carol just posted.

"My fiancé and I got into a fight

"over a promise he didn't keep.

"He said he would never be violent again, but he was.

"I'm giving him another chance.

Am I making a mistake?"

Sounds like Carol saw the news.

Time to make contact.

"Mark would never hurt me."

Morales, can you reply,

"You are no different than the brides he killed"?

"I am different.

"You can't understand, but I am.

I know I am." - She is really not getting it.

Can you pull the videos from Mark's three weddings

and then send them to her?

I will love you for all eternity,

to the moon and back,

and then all the way to Saturn.

Words can't express how happy I am that you're

choosing to spend the rest of your life with me.

And I promise to keep you--

Moon and back and then all the way to Saturn.

Words--

"These aren't real."

Yeah, we can--you don't have to read them out loud.

I'm an auditory processor.

Morales, can you reply, "You know they are"?

You ready to get back on the road?

Hey, hey.

Don't worry.

I-I said I wasn't gonna hurt him, right?

I-I just--I just tied him up further back in there.

OK.

I'm a changed man.

And it's because of you.

Now she's not responding.

Morales, I need to get Carol on the phone.

We should probably get rid of his phone.

Attagirl. Toss it.

We got a bigger problem.

Signal from the phone just disappeared.

She dumped it.

Or he did. How long till we touch down?

You should be wheels down by the time they reach Reno.

OK, but we still don't know what church they're going to.

By the time we get there-- - Could be too late.

I'll tell them to speed it up.

Hey.

Morales just sent us a list

of all the quickie wedding joints in Reno.

All two dozen of them.

Touching down in five.

Gotta be ready to move. - Thanks.

Dorothy, I will love you for all eternity,

to the moon and back and then all the way to Saturn.

Words can't express how happy--

Hey.

Married-Go-Round Wedding Chapel.

That's gotta be her.

Carol, it's Agent Bex Henderson.

Listen, Mark and I are in love.

What we have is real.

That's what the women in the video thought.

And then he killed them.

I'm not crazy.

I know what kind of person he used to be.

But that's not Mark anymore. He's a changed man.

Look, when my husband died, I felt so alone.

And I knew that I would never meet anyone again.

But then I met Mark, and--and he saw me.

He saw something in me, like that we'd been

through the same kind of pain.

Yeah, it was manipulation, Carol, by Mark,

by the people at the Pit.

You were at your most vulnerable,

and then along comes this handsome, charming man,

and he says all of the right things.

Look, after you lost your husband,

you were probably in shock, maybe even angry

that you had to spend the rest of your life

without your partner by your side.

I was terrified.

And Mark saw me the way I wanted to be seen.

Honey, what's taking so long?

Just a second.

Carol, you can't do this. Think about your son.

Think about Grady.

He has already lost a father.

He cannot lose you too.

If you go through with this,

it ends with you under arrest or dead.

What do you want me to do, call it off?

No, don't--don't do that.

If you walk away now, his abandonment issues

will be triggered and he will hurt you

just like the other wives.

So what should I do?

Stay calm.

Play along as best you can.

We'll be there soon.

Welcome, one and all.

Into this union, the bride and groom come to be joined.

And with these rings and witnesses before us,

do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife?

Yes, I do.

And if I may, I'd just like to say a few words.

Carol Miller, I will love you for all eternity,

to the moon and back and then all the way to Saturn.

Words can't express how happy I am that you're choosing

to spend the rest of your life with me.

What's the matter?

I--

I--

"I" what?

I'm sorry, Mark, I can't.

They warned me.

I'm such a fool.

Who warned you, Carol?

Carol, what...

Did you do?

Hands! Hands! Let me see your hands!

OK, get up. Get out. Move, move, move, move, move.

He's locked them in.

This wasn't supposed to happen!

I didn't want to hurt anyone!

I wanted us to be soul mates, but you betrayed me!

Because that's what you all do!

You take everything, and then you leave!

Carol's not moving.

We gotta get in there.

If we break open the door,

he's gonna open fire.

Can't see through the stained glass.

We'll never get a shot off from outside.

OK, I'm gonna try talking him down.

Mark!

This is the FBI.

Nobody needs to get hurt, OK?

This can end peacefully.

Come on. Come on.

I said come on!

If you open that door, I'm killing everyone in here!

You come through that door, I start killing people.

Why don't you let go of the hostages so we can talk?

Carol!

- She's alive. - We gotta get in there.

- Come on, baby. - Mark, stop.

Come on. Hey, it's not too late.

OK, there's gotta be another door to the sanctuary.

I'll recheck. - Come on, get up.

Bex.

- Come on. - What are you doing?

Carol is blocking Mark.

We don't have a shot.

Hey, hey, it's not too late.

Mark, please, I thought I was special.

- Bex, we're wasting time here. - Come on.

Don't you see?

I'm gonna make you special.

Come on.

Carol, it's Bex. Keep walking back.

Don't listen to them.

Come on. Keep walking back.

Carol, it's me and you forever.

Door!

He's down!

Everyone out. Get out!

Out! Quickly, calmly, get out!

You're OK.

Hell of a plan, Bex.

Hey.

How you holding up?

I wanted to believe that he had changed for me.

Am I going to prison for this?

Well, you're a victim here too, Carol,

not just of Mark

but a victim of the Pit.

The only place you're going after the hospital is home.

We'll make sure of that.

Just rest up. Thanks, pal.

♪ I'm on my way to Lonely Town ♪

♪ I've found me a new place called Lonely Hideaway ♪

Oh, I didn't order a drink.

It's from the gentleman at the end of the bar.

Over there.

♪ And the tears that you've cried all alone ♪

♪ Misery loves company

♪ And you can find it here

♪ I know 'cause I've made it my home ♪

This is the third time I've caught you watching me.

I wasn't watching you.

First time, you followed me out of Sunny Dale.

Then again tonight, when I got home,

you were parked down the street.

And now here you are.

It's all right.

I'm pretty sure most Boston lawyers are just as bad at it.

If you know who I am, then you know

why I've been watching you.

Care to tell me why you've been pretending to be my brother?

Depends how much time you got.

This is it.

The entrance to Silo 12 is somewhere inside.

Doesn't look like much.

I think that's the point.

We're all after the same answers,

and we're gonna find them faster working together.

You don't have to trust him. But trust me.

♪ It's hard to bear

♪ There's a darkness hanging over us ♪

Over here.

♪ Black cloud of dust

♪ In the air

♪ Keep looking up

♪ We will rise up

♪ Rise up and reign

♪ Living in a world that's gone crazy ♪

This wasn't a breach.

It was a massacre.

That's a lot of blood for no bodies.

Someone came and collected them.

Hey, over here.

There's a door around back.

When you said the inmates were being moved

in and out of the Pit, this is where they were taken--

so that people could watch.

Watch what, exactly?

Experiments.

♪ They won't stop us

♪ We will rise up

I know this drug.

It's the same one they gave Richard Harris.