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Yeah, I got it, Mom.

Your sugar-free jam.

I know what it looks like.

No, that wasn't on the list.

I'm already checked out. I'm not going back in.

What the-- [grunting]

Stop.

[grunts]

How did you find Silva's name?

It never came up in all the years I've been looking.

Silva's name popped on a sealed juvenile crime database,

something you don't have access to.

Hmm.

I called in a favor and had them search it.

Look, there's the case file here.

I got a couple questions.

So...

I wasn't there.

I want to hear you tell it to me

the way you remember it a decade ago.

[sighs] October 15th, 2014.

Gina Picket, age 19,

she's working at Hot Topic at the Welltown Mall.

Shift ended at 6:00 p.m.

She leaves the building at 6:10 p.m.

Now mall surveillance

sees her in the mall parking lot, headed to her car,

except she never made it there.

She disappeared into a blind spot,

never to be seen again.

The next day, the car was found

when her sister goes looking for her.

The police were called to the scene.

And nobody around Gina

or following her in the surveillance video?

Nope. I went through hours of footage

from those mall cameras, all of them,

and I got nothing. Nothing.

But her manager told the cops

that Gina mentioned seeing a guy hanging around

outside the store a week before she disappeared.

Yes, and the police pulled that store footage.

They ID'd the guy as Frank Whales.

Now, Frank had a prior in Kentucky

for sexually assaulting his teenage neighbor.

The police looked into Whales, checked his whereabouts,

he wasn't at the mall the day Gina vanished.

I'm not buying that. There's no coincidence.

He was there every day

except that one and then not after.

Oh, I'm with you. He's definitely involved.

Next question.

That store is right next to the loading dock.

She clocked out at 6:00.

Why'd it take her 10 minutes to make it to the parking lot?

I don't know. I had the same question.

I asked the store manager and she said sometimes

the employees would go back to the stock room,

grab their personal stuff, I thought she got delayed,

got hung up there. I don't know.

Hmm.

My high school job at Sam's Feed and Supply.

The minute my shift ended, I was out of there like a bat out of hell.

-Yeah. -[cell phone vibrating]

It's Camille. I'm gonna take this.

-Give me a minute? -Mmm-hmm.

-Camille. -[Camille] I got your message.

What's going on?

I think I got something.

-About Gina? - [Colter] Maybe.

-How? -Doesn't matter.

Come on, Colter. Don't give me that.

All I need to know is did Gina ever mention

the name Alex Silva?

-No. -[Colter] Are you sure?

He was buddies with Frank Whales,

he knew about Gina.

-What do you mean? -Well, I don't know yet, but he knew things.

[sighs in frustration]

Colter, I can't.

I just can't do this anymore.

Did you not hear anything I said before?

I did. I did.

It's gonna be another dead end.

What if it's not a dead end?

Until you find something solid about Gina,

some real evidence,

I don't want to hear about it.

[phone beeps]

Okay.

How did that go?

-Did she know anything about Silva? -No. No.

[exhales]

This is bothering me.

Silva said that Frank Whales lured her in.

So what if...

What if Gina wasn't taken from the mall parking lot?

What if she went somewhere willingly?

She was kidnapped from there.

That would explain the delay in her leaving.

Maybe she needed time to get dolled up,

heading out to go somewhere and meet someone.

But... "He lured her in."

What did he use for bait?

I think it's time to go pay Frank Whales another visit.

-Frank... -[gasping]

You and I need to talk.

Don't worry about your dog. The dog will wake up in a couple of hours.

Who's that?

Don't worry about him. Tell me about Alex Silva.

I don't know what you're talking about.

He says you lured Gina away from the mall.

-No, I didn't. -Boy, you are gonna tell us about the Teacher.

That's right. We know you were working with him.

[♪ opening theme music playing]

[Teacher sighs softly]

[gasps]

[distorted voice] Hello, Brandon.

How do you know my name?

[Teacher] I know everything about you.

Do you know you're very special?

I think you and I,

we are gonna be very good friends.

You already searched my house.

You know there's nothing to find.

Unless you kept it on your person.

Sparkly hairpin?

You wear a lot of those, Frank?

It belonged to Gina.

She was wearing it when she left the mall.

Why do you have it?

It's a trophy. [scoffs]

[grunts]

Sick freaks like him always keep trophies.

It's not a trophy.

-It's a reminder. -[Keaton] Of what?

All the depraved stuff you did to that girl?

No, of something I regret.

This links you to Gina the day she disappeared.

Now, we can walk this straight to the police station

or you can start talking.

There's two ways out of this, Frank.

Bullet or the truth, hmm?

[sighs]

Okay. I was with Gina,

but I wasn't the one who hurt her.

Keep talking.

[Whales] It was this older guy.

I met him 11 years ago

when he snatched me up from a rest stop bathroom.

Silva told us about a...

A guy named the Teacher.

Yeah, that's all I knew.

You expect us to believe you didn't know the name of your partner?

[Whales] He wasn't my partner.

I wasn't working with him. I was working for him.

Finding girls.

You're gonna start by telling us what happened to Gina.

[sighs wearily]

The first time I saw Gina,

I knew right away she was his type.

I showed him a picture of her.

He was pleased.

He had me follow her,

learn what she liked, where she lived.

I did.

Then he told me

it was time for me to prove my loyalty.

I parked in a blind spot near the loading dock that day

so the security cameras

-didn't catch me. -Hey.

-How are you? -Good.

There's no way she would have gotten into your car willingly.

She told the store manager you were weird.

Like I said, he had me look into what she liked.

I told her I was working for a local band she loved.

Said they were planning a secret show.

Where was it again?

A small venue out in the country,

Hardcore fans only to try new material.

Okay.

[Whales] It worked.

She believed me.

-Seat belt. -Yeah.

Silva told us this place called the Farm.

Is that where you took her?

Yeah.

She took her coat off.

She wanted to get noticed by the band

and asked me...

Do I look okay?

-Yeah. You look good. -Yeah?

Okay.

[Whales] She asked...

Are you coming?

[Whales] I told her we were the first to arrive,

and I had to stay out here and wait on the other guests.

-Okay, I'll see you later. -See you in there.

[Whales] I thought about telling her

she dropped her hairpin.

Maybe if she'd gotten back in the car,

I would have just driven her away.

But I didn't.

I don't know what happened to her after that.

Yeah, you do.

No, I don't.

You sent her in there alone.

Into the arms of a monster, Frank.

I didn't have a choice. He made me do it.

You have a gun to your head?

He might as well have.

Look, maybe I kept that hairpin out of guilt.

You're a real piece of garbage, you know that?

I ought to put an end to you right here right now.

Wait.

We need you, Frank.

I don't know what else you guys want from me, man.

-I told you everything I know. -We ain't done with you, pal.

Not by a long shot.

You're gonna show us where this Teacher is.

I told you, I ain't seen him in years.

[car door opens]

[car door closes]

We'd be doing society a favor taking him deep into the woods

and putting him out of his misery.

No, we're gonna use him to find the Teacher.

[cell phone vibrating]

-Bobby, any luck? -Maybe.

I found a crime chat forum.

-About the Teacher? - [Bobby] Yeah.

Some guy was posting about being a victim of the Teacher.

Says he helped him lure young girls.

You get a name?

Screen name only. He's been dormant for years.

His last post was pretty dark, though.

He talked about killing himself.

Other than that, I just have a few threads.

Amateur crime junkies talking about the Teacher.

One of them thinks that this missing girl near St. Louis

three days ago, Hannah Olson,

fits the MO.

So he's still out there hunting.

[Bobby] Most likely.

You got an idea where this guy's operating from?

Not yet. The boards are all encrypted

and they use tracker blockers and VPNs.

It's hard to get a trail, but I'll keep digging.

Yeah. Keep me posted. Thanks, Bobby.

Let's go.

[car door opens]

[car door shuts]

[Colter sighs]

What are you gonna do to me?

You're gonna show us where this farm is, Frank.

I want to know exactly where you took Gina.

When was the last time he contacted you?

When he sent me that bag of dirt you found.

Six months ago.

It was dirt from the field where he buried his victims.

To remind me that I'd done bad things.

And I better keep my mouth shut.

Smart using guys like you and Silva to do the hard part.

I didn't have a choice.

Everybody has a choice.

Yeah, you think that until you don't.

One time, this guy saw us take a girl.

The Teacher followed him home

and slit his throat in the shower.

And you didn't try to stop him?

Stop him?

He made me watch.

Even the worst I saw in juvie didn't compare.

It's here.

This is where you took Gina? You sure?

Yeah.

Ready when you are.

[Keaton exhales]

Oh, I don't like this.

No.

[♪ ominous music playing]

-There's no one here. -Yeah.

No one's been here for a while.

Did you find anything?

Maybe.

This wood here, right?

It looks newer than this stuff up here, doesn't it?

Yeah. Shoddy work too.

Like somebody was in a hurry.

Here we go.

[grunts]

Oh, what the hell?

Oh, God.

[Colter] Camcorder tapes.

Names on 'em.

[sighs]

[siren blaring]

So, prelim forensics shows

the body in there is not Gina.

It's a young male.

Whales' replacement maybe.

Sheriff's found an ID in the barn for a guy

reported missing in Arkansas five years ago.

Matches the age of the corpse.

I need to see what's on those tapes.

[whimpering] I swear, if you let me go,

I won't tell anyone.

I'll say I got lost.

[Teacher] You didn't answer my question.

Who was the most important person in your life?

It's my sister.

Camille.

[Teacher] I believe you.

[scoffs] Maybe you can save yourself.

Please, please, please. I'll do anything you want.

[Teacher scoffs]

Someone was taken from me when I was young.

And I want you to feel that pain.

Tell me about Camille...

and you can go free.

You stay away from her, you freak!

Don't touch her, you sick--

Oh, God.

I'm sorry you had to see that.

No, I'm glad you showed me.

[Keaton] I appreciate you helping us, Sheriff.

You got it. I hope it works out.

[Keaton] Thank you.

Excuse me, Shaw, got a minute?

-One second. -Mmm-hmm.

-Yeah. -So Whales is in custody,

but he clammed up real quick.

Good news is,

Sheriff Yates is old school like me.

He understands the situation.

So he's gonna give us some leash.

Six hours before he has to call in FBI.

Okay, I've got my people

figuring out who owns that barn.

In the meantime, you think we can get somebody here

to run Silva, Whales, that dead guy

through a criminal database? See if there's any crossover.

Sure thing. Meanwhile, I'm gonna go back

and talk to the neighbors at that barn.

I'll meet up with you as soon as I can. Thanks.

Listen, it's just a video. We don't know what happened after.

I told you I wanted you to stop looking for her.

I know you did. I know you did.

-I-- -[Camille] No.

I want you to do whatever it takes...

to find her and put that monster away.

I promise.

[door shuts]

[Teacher] You don't need to be afraid.

Everything I've done has been for you.

Do you understand that?

Yes, Teacher.

[Teacher] Good.

We have work to do.

Are you ready?

-Hey. -Thanks for coming.

-I know this is a weird one. -Yeah, Bobby filled me in.

What do you want me to get from Whales?

You said help him. But after what he did...

-I need information. -I thought you said he talked.

He did. I think he knows more than he's saying.

He's terrified of this Teacher.

I think he might be more forthcoming

with a lawyer that's on his side.

Hold on.

You want me to pretend to represent him,

to get him to give up info?

I want you to do whatever it takes.

Colter, that would be highly unethical.

Come here.

This man lured a 19-year-old girl

into the clutches of a predator.

Okay, look,

if I'm gonna do this, it's gonna be aboveboard.

He will be my actual client.

-I will not violate attorney client privilege. -Okay.

Cooperating with the investigation

would be to his benefit.

I might be able to convince him.

[exhales] Thank you.

Let's see how it goes.

[cell phone vibrating]

-Velma, you find anything? -[Velma] Yes.

The title of the barn where Frank Whales took Gina

was in an old trust that hadn't been updated online.

So nothing yet?

[Velma] I had somebody from the county dig up the original paperwork.

The owner of the property

is a guy named Patrick Campbell.

And get this.

-He has a record. -Yeah? What for?

Indecent exposure, voyeurism.

The guy's a Peeping Tom.

But no jail time.

-You got a current address? -[Velma] Yeah, I do.

-It's not too far from you. -Okay, great. Thank you.

[line ringing]

[Keaton] Colter, you on your way?

Yeah. I got the name of the owner of the barn.

Could be the Teacher. I'm sending you the address.

Meet me there.

[Whales] Why would Colter Shaw send you here?

Because I'm the best.

Believe me. You want me on your side.

You care what happens to me?

As far as I'm concerned, you deserve to rot in prison.

But I do believe you have the right to a fair trial.

The sheriffs are looking

for the guy you call the Teacher.

Okay. You flip on him,

I'll make sure they cut you a deal.

You can get me off?

No, but I can keep you out of max,

drastically reduce your sentence.

-[exhales] -Look,

I'm sure it's been a while since you've had

someone in your corner,

but I can help you.

They think he's taken another girl.

Hannah Olson.

[sighs]

What do I gotta do?

Just tell me about this Teacher.

He took me when I was young.

Forced me to do things for him.

You didn't try to get away?

I thought about it, but...

he had this power over me, I can't explain it.

Even now?

-Can I help you? -Yeah, maybe.

I'm looking for Patrick Campbell.

-Does he live here? -He sure does.

He's got a lot of visitors today.

-Come on in. -Thank you.

Patrick's daughter and her family are already here.

So this is a private nursing home?

-Sally Anne's Place? -It sure is. I'm Sally Anne.

Patrick's out back.

Thank you.

Excuse me.

Patrick, you've got another visitor.

I'll let you all catch up.

I'm sorry. Who are you?

I'm Colter Shaw.

-Are you Patrick's daughter? -Yeah. I'm Kayla.

This is my husband, Noah.

-Hi. -[Colter] Hi.

I understand Patrick owns a barn

off Highway 39 in Emeryville.

Yeah. What's this about?

There was a body,

a dead body of a young man found on the property.

Oh, my God.

It's... It's unbelievable.

[Noah] Are you a cop?

No, no, I'm working with them though.

Obviously, my father has nothing to do with it.

He has dementia and Alzheimer's.

[Colter] I'm sorry to hear that.

The crime happened five years ago.

And he's been living here for the last 15.

Do you mind answering me who takes care of the property?

We live in Chicago.

We don't get out here too often.

Sort of let the property fall into disrepair...

Yeah, it's been hard to keep it up

other than paying the taxes.

We tried to get him to sell years ago.

-But he refused. -Hmm.

[Kayla] It's been in the family a really long time.

Oh!

You guys.

-I'm sorry about that. -It's all right.

[Noah] Come on. Mom and Dad are talking here. Okay?

Please, can you just take it back a bit?

Thank you.

Go!

[chuckles softly] I'm sorry about that.

-It's okay. -[Kayla sighs]

Is there anyone living at the property now?

No. It should be empty.

Maybe squatters?

We've been worried about that for a long time.

-[Kayla] Yeah. -[Patrick mumbles]

[Kayla] Wait. What is it, Dad?

[Patrick mumbles]

Was there someone living in the barn?

[Patrick mumbles]

Dad, did you let someone live in the barn?

Yeah.

Who was it?

Um...

[Patrick mumbles]

It was you.

It's all your fault.

[sighs]

-You already talked to the guy? -Yeah. Nothing.

He's got dementia.

He's been living in this nursing home for the past 15 years.

-So an absentee owner. -Yeah.

Which means anybody could have been using that barn.

Dead end.

Remember you asked to look for any crossovers

between Whales, Silva and the dead guy?

It turns out all of them are on the sex offender registry.

They all met the Teacher about the same age.

All looked approachable enough, right?

-What are you thinking? -That registry is public.

Names, addresses.

What if the Teacher's using it as a hunting ground?

That would be a good place to find your next disciple, wouldn't it?

Kidnap them, brainwash them.

So they could lure in girls for the sick bastard?

The Sheriff's detective sent me this.

Brandon Stokes, 21,

also on the sex offender registry

for online solicitation.

A week ago, his mother reported

that he stole her car and vanished.

Maybe he was grabbed.

Hmm. We find him, we find the Teacher.

We find Hannah Olson.

Well, that detective subpoenaed

the cell phone company. We're just waiting

for a location on Brandon's phone.

You send that to me? I gotta show Reenie.

[Keaton] Yep.

[phone chimes]

[Reenie] Looks like the Teacher has a new disciple.

Brandon Stokes.

Kind of reminds me of you.

I had a rough childhood, too.

You got any idea where the Teacher would have taken him?

[exhales sharply]

You can save Brandon

from what you went through, Frank.

Frank, I am trying to help you help yourself here.

You do not owe this Teacher any loyalty.

Think about what he did to you.

Think about it.

Don't you want him to pay for it?

[inhales and exhales]

If you want to plead the Fifth,

that's your right, okay?

Let me just tell you what's gonna happen.

They're gonna say that the Teacher

is a figment of your imagination.

And then you're gonna go down for the murder of Gina Picket

all by yourself based on circumstantial evidence.

Is that what you want?

[sighs]

Okay, I'll talk.

-Good. -But only to Colter Shaw.

We just got Brandon Stokes' cell phone location.

-You want to head out? -Let's go.

Colter, Whales knows something and he won't tell me.

He says he'll only talk to you.

You go ahead. I got this. Ma'am.

[Reenie] Yeah.

Here we go.

Wait. Something just doesn't feel right.

I think Whales is still under the Teacher's spell.

Was he in contact with him?

No. But what if he wants to be?

What if he's still trying to protect him?

You know, you can just let the sheriffs handle this.

No.

No, I'll do it.

Okay, Frank, I'm here.

Talk.

Don't you waste my time, Frank.

Tell me something about the Teacher.

I know where he was keeping Gina.

Where did he take Gina?

I don't know the address,

but I could show you in person.

[Colter] You better not be messing with me, Frank,

because I'm the only one stopping Keaton

from marching you straight into the woods and shooting you.

I just want this to be over with.

Okay.

I doubt the Sheriff's gonna let you go,

but it's worth a shot.

I always knew this day would come.

-[cell phone chimes] -My reckoning.

You could have stopped it, Frank.

[scoffs] But I didn't.

Maybe this is my second chance.

What the hell did he do to you?

He saw me

for who I really am.

Every shameful secret.

And I didn't have to say a word.

He could see right into me.

He told me I was special.

He knows the worst things I've done,

and he still said I was perfect.

You can't imagine what that felt like.

At one point, he was like the father I never had.

Why did he say you were no longer useful to him?

He couldn't rely on me.

I got too old.

I'd seen too much.

He let you go.

Physically, yeah.

[cell phone vibrating]

It's your lucky day.

Let's go.

This is where he took Gina?

It's an old hospital.

There's a nurse's station upstairs.

I can show you.

Let me help you.

There's another way to get inside.

Please.

You stay here.

-Come on, man. Let me help you. -[car door closes]

Come on! I can help you!

Come on, man. You need me.

[♪ suspenseful music playing]

[distant muffled whimpering]

[muffled yelling]

It's okay. You're okay. You're okay. You're okay.

You're okay. I'm not gonna hurt you.

I'm not gonna hurt you.

You Hannah Olson?

Yeah.

You... Are you with him?

No. I'm here to help you.

[gasping]

-Is anyone else with you? -I don't think so.

I didn't think anyone would find me.

-You're safe now. Okay? -[cell phone vibrating]

Give me a sec. One second.

-Keaton. -Found Brandon's phone

ditched by the side of the road.

No sign of him, though.

I heard you drove off with Whales.

Yeah, I found the Teacher's latest victim.

She's alive.

Oh, thank God.

-Where the hell are you? -Old abandoned hospital off of Route 19.

I think it's his lair.

Listen, I'm gonna need some backup and, uh,

-send me an ambulance. -[Keaton] On my way.

-[door slams] -[exclaiming in horror]

-Wait here. -[gas hissing]

[Colter] Okay. Cover your mouth.

-[whimpering] -[Colter] Cover your mouth now.

[coughs]

Come on. [coughs]

Let's go.

[coughing]

Help's on the way. Stay put.

[coughing]

[grunts]

[groans]

[gunshot]

[Colter] Frank?

Wait.

Frank. [groans]

Stop.

[Colter coughs]

[grunts]

[panting]

Frank, what are you doing?

[Whales] You monster!

What does it look like I'm doing?

I came here to kill you.

To redeem myself.

Or I'll never be free.

No.

Frank...

put the gun down.

Put it down.

Go ahead.

Don't be afraid.

Yes, Teacher.

[sighs]

Frank, where have you been?

I was so hoping you'd come back.

I thought about you. I thought about you every day.

Let me look at you.

You okay?

Still so perfect.

[gunshot]

[panting]

No, no, no, no, no, no.

No way! No way! Get your ass down.

What'd you do to Gina?

[sirens approaching]

[Reenie] Noah Darvio.

He's an anesthesiologist.

He worked as a traveling doctor

for a locum tenens company.

Found his victims in several states,

which made it hard to link them.

When he was younger, he first started doing this,

he would get his own victims.

As he got older,

he would recruit disciples,

young men, to do his bidding for him.

He would also use them as cover.

Noah was never at any of the crime scenes

that the girls disappeared from,

so he was never even a suspect.

And the Sheriff said he confessed to killing Gina?

He did.

He also admitted where he buried the bodies.

In a field behind the old hospital.

It's good that you were there,

so you were able to find the girl that he did have.

What was her name? Hannah?

-Hannah. -[Camille] Yeah.

His latest disciple picked her up from a bus stop.

The police didn't have any leads.

Without Gina, we never would have found Hannah.

So in a way, Gina helped save her.

Yeah.

[Camille] Gina was younger than me.

But she was fiercely protective,

like she was the big sister.

I remember one time I brought a guy home,

a guy that I really liked,

and she made me leave the room

while she grilled him. [chuckles softly]

They were there forever.

And neither of them would ever spill what she asked him.

But afterwards, she said he passed the test.

Um, I'll be right back.

-She asked me if I had a criminal record. -[laughs]

-And? -And that's why the conversation took so long.

I gave her every infraction, mostly breaking and entering.

I got a better lawyer now, so my record is pretty clean.

Thanks for not giving up on her.

On me.

So what's next?

You know, I think I'm gonna travel.

-Really? -Yeah.

-Oh. -Mmm-hmm.

I got free accommodations

anywhere inside the continental US if you like.

Thanks, but I'm thinking

more Europe, Asia, South America.

Yeah.

I never wanted to stray far from home before

in case she came back.

This isn't goodbye forever, you know.

I think you're gonna miss it here.

[chuckles]

-Apple pie. Hot dogs. -I know.

And when I do, I will call you.

Okay.

Keaton...

Thank you. I couldn't have done it without you.

They never end the way you want them to.

-Happy? -[laughs]

Gave up on that a long time ago.

Well... Now I know.

Better than the alternative, though.

It was good working with you.

Look, if I ever find myself in a bind again,

-you'll be my first call. -You know my number.

[engine revs]

[♪ closing theme music playing]