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Marsh is not swamp.

Marsh is a space of light where grass
grows in water

and water flows into the sky.

Then within the marsh, here and there.

True Swamp.

A swamp knows all about death and
doesn't necessarily define it as

Certainly not a sin.

I thought Chase Andrews would have more
common sense.

Best quarterback this town ever had.

Floyd, I think it's your footprint here.

Where's his footprint?

Yeah, some kids just get crazy ideas in
their heads and think they're

invincible. Chase Andrews is no kid.

Hey, look at this.

He opened a grate himself. Could have
been an accident, all the same.

Time of death between midnight and 2 a
.m. Cause of death, sudden impact from a

63 -foot drop.

Since you found that blood and hair on
the support beam.

I would deduce that was the cause of the
primary injury.

Layman's terms banged the back of his
head on the way down.

To hit the back of his head on the beam,
he would have needed to fall backwards.

Is that right?

I'd say yes.

So he might have been pushed.

There's no fingerprints on the railing.
The grade's nothing.

No fingerprints?

Not from Chase either?

No fingerprints, no tracks.

We do have those.

Red fibers found on the jacket.

I just got the lab report back from
Atlanta.

They did not come from any of his other
clothing.

Wool, it says.

I think it'd be a sweater, scarf.

Hell, it could be anything.

And we gotta find it.

Beautiful wife.

Good family. Can't think of anyone who'd
want to kill Chase. Come on, you're not

Chase, Wool.

Tomcat and running around like a pinned
-up bull. And I don't speak ill of the

dead, Frank.

I'm just saying, I can think of a few
guys. Let's do it. Mr. Milton.

Hi, Sandy. The usual, Brunswick stew.

God bless.

What do you make of the Chase Andrews
case, Tom?

Oh, I'm retired.

That's none of my business anymore.

Fair enough.

Could have been that woman lived out in
the marsh.

Crazy enough of a loony bin. I just bet
she'd be up to something like this.

Well, my brother's always told me that
marsh girl's been missing legs. You

poor Chase Andrews had something going
on down in that marsh.

Chase Andrews and the marsh girl? How's
that in asking for trouble?

What do you think really happened,
Frank? You think that Marsh girl could

killed Chase? Hell, I don't know.

Truth will come out.

Look at all these feathers and whatnot.

Is she a scientist or a witch?

Miss Clark?

Sheriff's Department.

Sheriff.

Look.

Could get a warrant.

Plain view.

Drop off a call, Sheriff.

But that door isn't even locked.

They're fueling.

Mr. Sheriff, shut down your engine.

Go straight, go straight.

Mr. Clark?

I'm Tom Milton.

I'm a lawyer.

May I come in?

Thank you, Mr. Prager.

You probably know that you're being held
for the murder of Chase Andrews.

I've taken the liberty of putting myself
forward to defend you.

I know you've never been in trouble
before, so I can explain the courtroom

the trial and who's who and whatnot.

Do you have family that you might want
to come be with you?

Ms.

Clark, I don't quite know how to put
this, but... Well...

I know you as Catherine Danielle Clark,
but here in Barclay Cove, they don't

call you by that name. They call you
Marsh Girl.

And when you stand trial, you will be
judged by a jury of your peers from

Barclay Cove who only know you as such.

They are going to judge you whether they
know you or not.

But I can't help you.

unless I know you, even just a little
bit.

Well, all right then.

I'll come back in a while when you've
had time to consider.

Oh, and I brought you this just in the
meantime.

Mr. Frazier.

People forget about the creatures who
live in shells.

I had a family once.

They called me Kaya.

This little piggy went to market, and
you hold still.

This little piggy stayed home.

This little piggy ate roast beets.

This little piggy had none.

And this little piggy went all the way
home.

That's my special girl.

How many times I told you not to mess in
my goddamn bunk?

Get in there!

Mom never came back.

And everybody else was quick to get out
the same way.

Murph was the first to leave.

A few months later, Mandy and Missy.

Then finally, Jody.

Kaya.

Kaya, listen.

I have to go, Kaya.

I can't live here no longer.

Kai, you be careful here.

If you're in trouble, run and hide deep
in the marsh way out where the crowd has

seen.

Like Ma always says.

I learned from the mistakes of the
others how to live with him.

Keep out of the way.

Don't let him see you.

Fend for yourself.

I'd been out in the marsh plenty of
times with Jody, but never alone.

I didn't know which way was home.

You're Johnny Clark's sister.

Used to be.

He's gone.

You know your way home?

Yeah.

It's okay.

I get lost all the time.

Tate.

There was something about that boy that
eased the tightness in my chest.

For the first time since Ma and Jody
left, I felt something other than hurt.

Felt brave.

Wait with it and see, baby.

Morning, Mr. Clark.

How you doing?

Well, jumping.

I woke up on the right side of the dirt.

Oh, this is my daughter, Miss Kaya
Clark.

Well, I'm mighty proud to know you, Miss
Kaya.

Oh, don't mind her. I tell her, stay
away from everybody.

It's a dangerous world, isn't it? It is.
But listen.

Could I get a bag of grit?

And some of that Jim Beam?

Maybe you fill it up for me. It's okay.

Maybe. Mm -hmm.

You wait for our change, yeah?

Helping out your power wave mom's going,
huh?

I ain't seen her in a while.

She's doing chores at home.

Mm -hmm.

Great thing much to go on.

Let's see here.

Paul left $2 here, and the bill is $1

.50.

How much does that leave for guys?

Don't worry about that.

I got another question for you.

You go to school?

Do you know that they publish the school
lunch menu in the paper?

Today's is Salisbury steak.

You could get a nice hot meal, make some
friends.

Plenty of kids go to school without
shoes.

But you will need a skirt.

That's number four.

There you go.

And the change is 50 cents.

Boy, Chase Andrews, what you got to say
for yourself?

Sorry, Miss Pansy.

We didn't see because that girl got in
the way.

Hello there.

I think you've got yourself turned
around the wrong way, little lady.

Isn't school that way?

You've just as much of a right to be
there.

Go along now.

It's all right.

Miss Catherine Danielle Clark, are you
reading and writing already?

Can you spell dog, honey?

G -O -D.

Well, we can all use practice, can't we?
You can go ahead and sit down, Miss

Catherine Danielle Clark.

Where you been, Martian?

Where's your hat, swamp rat?

Now, boys and girls, settle down. Just
an hour until lunch. Please, try to pay

attention to our lesson.

Who can tell me a word that has a long
mouth? She probably lives in the mud.

She's got candy.

Think in the room.

That was the only day I ever spent in
school.

Reckon I was better off learning from
the wild Did you

be

careful out here hear me you can't trust
nobody

You protect yourself.

Greyhound owl, probably.

For a while, Paul was good to me.

I thought you could use this for your
feathers, bird nests, other stuff you

collect.

Oh, thank you.

Yeah.

This is my old army nap set.

Give it to me.

Give it to me.

Now, listen to me.

She ain't never coming back.

You hear me?

Pa took to burning any trace of Ma.

Get your shit out of my house.

And then one day, he was gone.

It wasn't like the pain when Ma left,
but being completely alone was a feeling

so vast, it echoed.

And there was the small matter of
surviving.

I didn't know how to do life without
grits.

Wantin' some?

Mr. Jumpin', I hear tell y 'all about
muscles.

I got some here.

They fresh?

Done for a don.

Just now.

Your pa sent you out with these?

I tell you what, I'll give you 50 cents
for the one bag and a full tank of gas

for the other. How many bags y 'all need
a week?

We striking up a business deal.

I buy about 40 pounds every two or three
days.

Mind you, others bring them too.

So if you bring them, and I already got
some, why you just be out?

It's first come, first serve.

Ain't no other way of doing it.

That's fine.

Thank you.

Can I, uh... Oh, yeah.

growing up fast.

Why don't you come by next week? I'll
measure your feet.

I got some shoes in the church donation
bin just collecting dust.

Thank you, ma 'am. Sure.

Poor child.

Ma's gone.

Pa's gone, too, I bet.

What? You ought to be careful.

Messing folk business.

We don't say that in the Bible.

Be careful.

And the king shall answer and say unto
them, Verily I say unto thee, Inasmuch

ye hath done it unto the least of these
my brethren, ye hath done it unto me.

All right, Mabel.

Be careful.

They promised me.

Catherine Danielle Clark of Barclay
County, North Carolina is charged with

murder in the first degree of Chase
Lawrence Andrews, formerly of Barclay

In such cases, the state is allowed to
seek the death penalty.

Prosecution has announced it will do so
if the defendant is found guilty.

We will now begin jury selection.

There is an option.

It's what's called a plea bargain.

And it means that if you are willing to
say that you did go to the tower that

night and met Chase Andrews there, and
you had a disagreement, and in

a horrible accident he stepped backwards
through the grate, you'd get ten years.

But you'd be out in six.

No. If we lose, we lose big.

It's life in prison.

Or the other. Mr. Milton, I won't say
anything.

That implies guilt.

I will not go to prison.

Please call me Tom and promise me that
you will think about it. I have to get

out of here.

One way or the other. Between midnight
and 2 a .m. on October 30th,

the defendant lured Chase Andrews to the
tower and pushed him to his death.

She then covered up her tracks and
fingerprints.

Now, you're going to hear she had the
time, she had the motivation, but most

importantly, she has the weakness of
character to murder Chase

Andrews.

Ladies and gentlemen, the state is going
to throw a lot of words at you about

Miss Catherine Danielle Clark, but I am
asking you, To look at the

evidence that the state will be offering
to back up those words.

You'll find that there is none.

Furthermore, you are going to hear that
there's a good chance no one murdered

Chase Andrews.

And that the defendant, Ms. Clark, finds
herself here because it is easier to

lay blame on an outsider than it is to
rely on facts.

And although she was born and...

Grew up not five miles from this
courtroom.

Ms. Clark is an outsider.

Oh.

Hi.

It's me.

Tate.

Tundra swan.

How do you know birds?

My ma likes birds.

I can't read your notes.

Oh, all I said was I'd seen you a couple
times when I was out fishing, and it

got me thinking that maybe you could use
some seeds and spark plug. I had extra.

Thought it might save you a trip to
town.

I don't know. I figured you'd like the
feathers.

All right, then.

All right, then.

Well, I better be going, so...

I

could teach you to read.

I thought you may as well learn to write
at the same time. Oh, yeah.

Good. Okay, so we start with A.

Let's go ahead and draw that shape right
there.

Don't tell me.

I'm getting there.

Don't help me.

Sure. I got all day.

There are...

Some who can live without wild things,
comma,

and some who cannot.

That's what I'm talking about, Kaya.

There will never be a time again where
you can't read, ever.

I didn't know words could hold so much.

Not all words hold that much.

We could read at my house sometime.

We went through the whole library, three
times a week,

summer into fall.

Read how plants and animals change over
time to adjust to the ever -shifting

earth.

How birds sing mostly at dawn because
the cool, moist air of morning carries

their songs and their meanings much
farther.

How some cells divide.

and specialize into lungs or hearts,
while others remain uncommitted to stem

cells in case they're needed later.

Within all the worlds of biology, I
searched for an explanation of why a

would leave her offspring.

Mr. Jackson Henry Clark married Miss
Julianne Maria Jax.

June 12, 1933.

That means these are my parents.

Master Jeremy Andrew Clark, January 2.

That's Jody.

Master Napier Murphy Clark.

Miss Mary Helen Clark.

Miss Catherine Danielle Clark.

I miss them.

I forgot how much

I feel I'm not here.

I feel I'm not here right now.

Sometimes I feel so invisible.

I wonder if I'm here at all.

You want one?

Sorry I'm late.

Come on, give me a hand.

Son, you know I don't listen. I don't
talk.

But there is a regular riptide of gossip
all around you. You got something going

on with that marshal?

You know you can tell me anything.

Is she your girlfriend? She's my friend.

I bring her books because people in town
are so nasty to her, she can't go to

school.

She doesn't have any family.

Hey.

Come on.

There's no need to be huffy.

It's my job to say all the things we
don't like to talk about.

And I can't give you a lot of things
those other dads can give their sons.

That's what I'm asking you.

Just be careful.

Everything you've worked so hard for,
your dreams of going to Chapel Hill,

Life can change in a second.

You understand that?

Yeah.

Now turn up my music, would you? Come
on.

It's Puccini, in case you're wondering.

A young girl living on her own like that
looks immoral, don't you think?

No, sir, I don't think that is.

At least not enough.

Just ask my wife.

There are some fine group homes that
would help keep a young woman out of

trouble.

They say she comes in here from time to
time? I do see her from time to time.

She's not alone. She's got a father with
her.

Well, I've never seen anybody home.

all the times I've been by.

When does she usually come around?

I never know, just when she'll boat in
here.

Have her call me next time she comes in.

You don't have any reason to lie to me,
do you, boy?

No reason at all, sir.

We've got to meet somewhere outside to
hear.

A hot cognitive to see you too. Social
services are looking for me again.

They're going to pull me in like a
trout, put me in some group home.

You know, it's polite to greet people
when you see them.

You know, group home might not be the
worst thing.

What? I don't know. You'd have someone
cooking you warm meals?

Real bed?

I got a real bed.

Guys, I'd never leave the marsh to go
live with a bunch of strangers.

It's besides, not sides.

And you can't live alone in the marsh
forever. Watch me.

I appreciate you teaching me to read and
all the things you gave me, but why

do you do it?

Don't you have a girlfriend or
something?

Sometimes I do.

Sometimes?

I mean, I've had one, but not now.

I don't.

I saw you on your pa's boat the other
day.

Seems real nice, your dad.

Yeah. Yeah, he is.

You never talk about your ma.

What's she like?

You don't have to say nothing.

My mother and little sister died in a
car wreck over in Asheville.

My little sister's name was Carrie Ann.

There was, uh...

What, David?

You can say anything to me.

I think they went to Asheville to buy me
my birthday present.

There was this, uh... This bike I
wanted, and Western Auto didn't carry

I... I think they went to Asheville to
get that bike for me.

I don't even remember what kind of bike
it was.

Am I your girlfriend now?

Do you want to be?

I know feathers.

But the other girls don't know feathers.

All right, then.

All right, then.

I've never been out this way.

It's worth the trip.

We'll see.

Happy birthday, Kyle.

How'd you know it was my birthday?

I read it in your Bible.

Did you know it was your birthday?

I don't have a calendar.

Oh, um, not my name.

Don't cut my name.

Yes, ma 'am.

Pretty good, huh?

Here they come.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

No,

Tate, I want you.

Why not?

Because I... I care about you too much.

Look, I want you more than anything, but
I can't be damaged as easily.

It's more dangerous for you. You
understand?

Fall gave way to winter.

Winter to spring.

The only constant in nature is change.

Why are you quiet?

You know I'm going away soon.

To college.

We talked about it.

When?

Not right away.

Soon.

I got a job at the biology lab.

Starts next week, so...

Stay here.

And do what?

Look, I just mean there's no work for me
here.

What am I going to do? I don't want to
be a shrimper like my dad.

I'm going to get a degree and be
something, Kai. So could you.

What do you want me to be?

That's not what I meant.

You're never going to come back.

Yes, I will.

I won't leave you, Kai. I promise. I'm
going to come back to you.

Kai! Kai, stop!

Kai!

You can't run away from every whip
stitch.

One more night.

It's a list of publishers for all your
drawings and notes.

There's nothing like them out there,
Kai.

There's enough for a book.

Lots of books.

And, you know, you wouldn't have to
leave home.

You could just mail your samples into a
publisher.

You know, bring some money in.

You know, probably not a huge amount,
but, you know, maybe you wouldn't have

dig muscle for the rest of your life.

Just give it a try, Kaya.

Come on, what can I hurt?

You're going to forget about me.

When you get busy with all that college
stuff.

All those pretty girls.

I could never forget you, Kaya.

Ever.

I'll be home in a month, I promise.

Before the 4th of July, okay?

I'll be back before you know it.

We'll meet on your beach and watch
fireworks together.

Just write those publishers, all right?

Goodbye, Cara.

The birds of the eastern seaboard.

The new big red.

Yeah.

Tate and life and love had been the same
thing.

They were all gone.

And then?

Whenever I fumbled, the marsh caught me.

At some unclaimed moment, at last, the
heart pain seeped away, like water into

sand, still there, but deep.

There were no footprints around the body
or on the fire tower, and no fresh

fingerprints either.

Not even on the grate, which somebody
had to open.

All this indicated that someone had
destroyed evidence.

No more questions.

Your witness.

Sheriff, I'm handing you the tide table
for the night of October 29 and the

morning of October 30.

Now, this shows here that low tide...

was around midnight.

So at the time Chase Andrews arrived at
the tower and walked to the steps, he

would have made tracks in the wet mud.

And then as the groundwater rose, those
tracks would have been wiped out.

Do you agree that this is possible?

Well, and then you'd agree that if he
had any friends with him, their

would be washed away as well.

Under these circumstances, the absence
of footprints in and of itself does

not suggest a crime.

Correct?

Sheriff?

The absence of footprints does not by
itself prove there was a crime.

You also testified that there were no
fingerprints found anywhere in the fire

tower, including on the open grate.

So this led you to conclude that...

Someone must have opened the grate and
wiped away their fingerprints

Correct.

Now, in fact, isn't it true that these
grates were left open so often and

considered so dangerous that your office
submitted a written request to the U

.S. Forest Service to remedy the
situation on July 18 of last year?

This is a copy of that request.

Who wrote this, Sheriff?

I did it myself.

Would you read to the court the last
sentence of this document that you sent

the Forest Service?

Just the last sentence.

I must repeat, these grapes are very
dangerous, and if action is not taken,

action is not taken, a serious injury or
death will occur.

Thank you, sir

I've been taking pictures around my
house.

What do you think they want?

Developers.

They've been hauling them down the marsh
the last few weeks, wanting to drain

the murky swamp, build hotels.

I saw them last year, cutting oak and
digging channels down the way.

They want my house?

Well, maybe not the house, but I bet you
they offer you a heap of money for that

land. Jump it.

There ain't nothing wrong with some
money going to Kai, is there?

You do own that land, don't you?

You own that house?

That's all.

You're going to need some proof.

Deed? Title?

Hey.

Sorry to startle you. Can I carry that
for you?

I got it.

Please.

Oh,

I'm Chase Andrews.

Your name's Kaya, right?

Yeah, it's a nice name. I like it. It's
different, but nice.

There we go.

You want to go for a picnic in my boat
this Sunday?

Okay. I'll pick you up at noon from
Point Beach.

Does that work?

I'll see you, Kai.

Here we are.

Mr. Napier Clark.

Looks like bought it in 1897.

That's my grandpa.

Yes, ma 'am.

It's never been sold, so... Yes, sir,
yeah, I reckon it belongs to you.

Looks like you got to pay some back
taxes if you want to keep it, Miss

fact, ma 'am, the way the law reads,
whoever comes along and pays those back

taxes owns the land, even if they don't
got no deed.

How much?

Looks like about... $800

total.

Five years.

It had been five years since Tate showed
me this path.

Dear sir or madam, I am sending you the
following pages on the shells of the

Carolina Marsh for your consideration.

Five years for my heart to open its
shell again.

I have to fail to bask in the presence
of musical genius.

Hey, Luke.

Oh,

that's an ornate scallop.

It's an ornatus.

All right.

It's unusual to find one here.

Really?

Yeah, it's a particular species.

You can have it choose and stop it here.

What? Oh, no, it's just the marsh goat
knows a Latin name for shells and where

they inhabit and why, for Christ's sake.

Here, you keep it.

There's something else, ain't there?

I know you think I'm trash, but I'm
worth more than a picnic.

Oh, no, Kaya, come on. I'm sorry. No,
hey, come on. I've never thought you

trash.

Please, I'm sorry. I understand if you
want to go, but you can't walk from

It's too far.

Can I make it up to you?

Please, can I make it up to you?

I can't believe you've never been up the
fire tower.

Come here with my family, it's all in my
business, you know?

It's a great way to see the whole marsh
from above.

You can tell me. I won't laugh at you.

It's like having a friend your whole
life, but you never saw their full face.

Now I see it.

Your house is over there, ain't it?

Take me there.

Oh, um...

Yeah, I like far.

I don't care what it's like if that's
what you're worried about.

Living right here?

How long you lived out here by yourself?

About ten years, I think.

Neat.

Living out here with no parents telling
you what to do?

Look, there's really nothing to see
inside.

Ah, what you got in the porch?

What?

Oh, um, nothing.

What is all this?

Nothing.

What, you writing a book or something?

Sort of.

Well, these look straight out of an
encyclopedia.

You're the real deal, ain't you?

Ah, Swanee, you got a water pump.

I wasn't ready for Gap.

Hey, don't worry.

Hey, there's nobody I know who could
live out here alone like this.

I mean, most guys would be too scared.

What do you want with me?

Okay, look, I'm real sorry I came on
like that.

I want to get to know you better, all
right? I think you're gorgeous.

I do. I think you're free as a dangale
and smart as a whip.

But I won't do anything unless you want
me to.

How's that?

That's fine.

All right.

I

didn't

know exactly how I felt about Chase.

But I was no longer lonely.

That seemed enough.

Is that for your book?

Yeah.

Who knows if anyone will read it.

I will.

The marsh was our secret.

Tell me about your friends.

Oh, I don't really have any friends.

Well, you always seem to be having a
good time when you're with them.

Are you spying on them?

It's funny, my dad told me once he'd had
something to drink and I'd fight with

my mom.

He told me that if my friends really
knew me, they wouldn't be my friends.

Yeah, I don't know if anyone really
knows me is what I'm saying, I guess.

What makes the sky blue?

Blue and violet wavelengths from
sunlight.

They, uh, they bounce off the gas
particles in the atmosphere and scatter.

Is it okay if I... kiss you now?

Let's turn to the red wool fibers found
on Chase Andrews' denim jacket the night

he died.

Did you compare those samples to this
red ski cap, Exhibit C?

Yes, the fibers from the cap and the
jacket matched exactly.

And where was that cap found?

It was found in Ms. Clark's residence.

Now, about these red fibers, is there
any way, Doctor, to determine how long

fibers have been on the jacket?

No, we can tell where they came from,
not when.

And if someone wore this hat often, is
it possible the fibers would be in their

hair, on their clothes?

Yes, I would suppose they could.

So would you agree that at any time
during the years that the defendant, Ms.

Clark, knew Chase Andrews, the fibers of
the hat could have been transferred

onto Chase's jacket? From what I've
seen, yes.

At any time they met?

Yes.

We were fascinated by our manuscript.

If, as you say, your materials are
already complete, we hope to edit and

in record time.

Hey, you're looking at the new manager
of Western Auto.

Oh, Jason.

That's great news.

Yeah, come on. Let's celebrate.

So they're gonna, uh, they're gonna pay
you for those drawings?

Yeah.

Just don't get too full of yourself, I
guess.

I wouldn't.

I know people have disappointed you.

I'm sorry for that.

Getting left by your own family, I
mean...

God, my family's a pain in the ass, but
I don't think I could take that.

But I want you to know that I'm going to
take care of you.

You know, now I've been promoted, I can
get you a nice house when we're married.

Great. Yeah.

Nice two -story on the beach with a
wraparound veranda.

Yeah.

What about your parents?

Have you told them about them?

What you've got to understand about my
folks is that if... If I say you're my

choice, that'll be that.

I'll just fall in love with you when I
get to know you.

Oh, by the way, I have to drive over to
Asheville in a few days to buy goods for

my dad's store.

I was thinking you could come.

Celebrate your book and all.

There'd be lots of people. Well, it
doesn't matter. You'd be with me. I know

everything.

Hell, you don't have to talk to one soul
if you don't want to.

Come on, if we're going to get married,
you need to get out in the world a bit.

Spread those long wings of yours.

Come on, it'll be fun.

It's a two -day job, so we'll...

And we'll stay the night.

Incredible, huh?

It's an adventure.

Come on.

It'll feel better for you later.

The more you do it.

Hey,

I never want to lose you.

Yeah. Yeah.

I think about it a lot.

Sneaking out at night to come see you.

My most girl.

Nobody knows.

Nobody sees.

Nobody knows.

Hey,

you don't have to prove yourself to
anyone, you understand?

You have me and I love you.

It was a single shell hung on a piece of
rawhide tied in a tight knot, and it

was missing. So to be clear, what you're
saying is that the shell necklace that

Chase wore every day was missing from
these items that law enforcement

from his body the day that he was found.

Is that correct?

I think it's important.

Yes.

He had that necklace on when he had
dinner with us that night, and it was

From his body.

And what I'm saying is he never took it
off.

Whoever killed him took it.

Objection, Your Honor.

It's speculation.

Sustained.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you
will disregard that last remark by Mrs.

Andrews. Mrs.

Andrews, where did Chase get this
necklace?

It's from that Marsh girl, Miss Clark.

I didn't even know her name or if she
even had one.

I can't see why, Chase.

But what I'm saying is, she's the only
one who'd have any interest in taking

thing.

Mrs. Andrews, were Chase and Mrs. Clark
romantically involved?

You could say.

I saw him sneaking out at night. When I
finally asked him where he was going, he

told me the truth.

I thought, what would people say?

I was a silly woman to be worried about.

But he told me he broke it

off with her.

She knew she couldn't have him anymore,
so she killed him and took back...

Objection!

Sustained. No further questions, Your
Honor.

Ms. Andrews, you have my deepest
sympathy for your loss.

With all due respect, you are aware that
Ms. Clark's house was thoroughly

searched and that the police did not
find the necklace there, did they?

No.

What's that marsh girl like in bed, man?
Is she an animal?

Well, the bobcat marked every bit of the
gas money.

Tell me her eyes glow.

Only for me and only when I make them.
Hey, don't talk about her like that.

What's that?

I said don't talk about her like that.

Oh, the college boy.

He taught the marsh girl her ABCs. Oh.

You're a waste of her time.

Go ahead, college boy. What you gonna
do? What you gonna do?

Come on, you're tough, right?

Come on, let's do something. Hey, hey,
hey, y 'all settle down now. It's

Settle down before someone gets hurt.

There's better ways than this.

Hey, Kaya.

Hey, what the hell, Kaya?

Wait! Kaya, wait! Please!

Look, I just want to talk. Get out of my
lagoon, you low -down dirty... Kaya,

please! I just need to talk to you. I
don't care what you want.

I never want to see you again.

Ever. Kaya, I need to talk to you about
Chase, okay?

About Chase?

He's not good enough for you.

You're the one who left me.

Who didn't... come back when you
promised.

Who never came back.

You didn't even write to explain her.

Or even to say if you were alive or
dead. You just disappeared.

I know.

And I'm so sorry, Kaya. You have no
idea.

You weren't man enough to face me.

You're right, Kaya.

Everything you say is true.

Leaving you like that was the worst
thing that I've ever done. The worst

I'll ever do in my life.

I knew how badly I'd hurt you, and I
couldn't face you like you said.

I thought you wouldn't be able to leave
the marsh and live in any other world.

You know, I thought I had to choose
between you and everything else.

But the truth is, Kai, everything else
that I thought mattered, the

scholarships, the grants, the jobs, it
means nothing without you.

I was so wrong.

I've been sorry for years.

And I'll be sorry for the rest of my
life.

You look... I

brought

you something.

You know, I'm working at the new lab
near town.

You'd love it, Kaya. I get to study all
this under a microscope.

So I'm here now.

I'm back for good.

Kaya, I would do anything to...

I would have done so many things
differently.

What do you want now, Dave?

Is there any way that you could possibly
forgive me, Kyle?

Please.

Kai, I trust you would tell me if you
knew anyone else who had reason to harm

Chase Andrews.

Well, all right, then.

Try and get some rest.

Hi.

Hey.

What you doing in town?

I had some good news from the publisher,
so...

I thought we could celebrate.

There he is.

Kai, you know Brian, Tina, Carl?

You guys know Kai? Sure, yeah, the Marsh
girl.

Pleased to meet you, Kai.

I'm Chase's fiance.

All right, well, I'll see you around,
Kai.

Hey, Kai, I can explain.

Are you in there?

Hey, I just wanna talk.

I had to do life alone.

But I knew that.

I'd known for a long time.

People don't stay.

Dear Miss Clark, Enclosed is the final
copy of your beautiful book.

along with the initial check for
delivery.

There's royalties to follow, I'm sure.

I'm attending a conference in Greenville
next month, and would love for you to

join us and celebrate this great
accomplishment.

A full deed for Catherine Daniel Clark
for 310 acres of lagoons, marsh, oak

forests, and beach.

Wasteland category, Murky Swamp.

Jody? There I am in Asheville, and I see
your book in a shop.

Catherine Danielle Clark, and my heart
just broke and leapt for joy all at

I knew I had to find you.

I just didn't think you'd still be here.

What about the others?

I don't know a thing about Murph, Mandy,
or Missy.

I wouldn't know them if I passed them in
the street.

And, um... What about Ma?

Ma passed, Kaya.

Ma had a sister, Rosemary.

She found me in the army and told me
what happened.

Showed up at Rosemary's door in her
alligator shoes.

Rosemary said she didn't talk for
months.

And then about a year later, she
remembered she had children.

Rosemary helped her write a letter to Pa
asking if she could come get us.

He told her if she ever so much as
contacted us again, he'd beat us

unrecognizable.

Sounds like Paul.

She saved up for lawyers and everything,
but...

Then she got sick.

Leukemia.

She tried, but... She never had a
chance.

I've been waiting.

Years for her to walk down the line.

You didn't have a family your whole
life.

And there's nothing I can do to give you
that back.

But I'd like to come see you as much as
I can get up here.

Maybe it's going to be so proud.

One more thing.

I'll be sure he gets it.

Thank you, Jonathan.

How y 'all doing?

A pack of your finest, please, sir.

Give me some matches.

So good.

Kaya Clark.

Miss Catherine Danielle Clark. You wrote
a damn book. Come here.

Wait, wait, wait. I want to talk to you.

Don't act like that. Come on.

Leave me alone.

Damn. The Mars girl thinks she's too
good for you now.

Shut up!

It's all right.

Thought I might find you here.

I told you to leave me alone. No, I
know, but I just, listen, I wanted to

I'm sorry, really. I feel bad about how
things turned out.

How things turned out?

You mean how it turned out you were
engaged the whole time we were together?

How it turned out that you lie to
everybody?

I have to do things I don't want to do.
You know that.

No, I had to get married to someone like
Pearl, but no, I had to. But you're the

one I really want.

You know, any other man would have tried
to change you, to fix you.

I never did.

No, no, please, please, wait, wait. I
need you. I really need you.

I don't want you all alone in that
place.

You know, nobody else knows me.

I feel sorry for you.

But I want nothing to do with any of
that.

Wilder than ever.

I know you want to.

I want to.

You'll match how you belong to me. I'm
not letting you go this time.

She shouted it real loud, sir. I heard a
commotion and I come closer.

See if anybody was in trouble.

And there she was.

Do you recognize the woman?

Is she in the courtroom today?

It's that and there, the defendant.

One of the folks is called Marsh Girl.

I finally understood why Ma had to
leave.

One thing I learned from Pa, these men
have to have the last punch.

Being isolated was one thing.

Living in fear, quite another.

I will never live like that.

A life wondering when the next fist will
fall.

Tate, you can't be here.

I just wanted to check on you. Jump said
he hadn't seen you since I... Not now.

Kaya, what happened to your face?

Was it Chase?

Tell me, Kaya, did he do this?

I need you to stay out of it.

That son of a bitch.

That son of a bitch. Tate, I need you to
go.

Kaya.

You know, I'm gonna go to Greenville
next week.

Finally meet my publishers.

Look, I found that next book.

Feeling brave enough.

No, you can still go.

Don't go like this.

Don't let them ruin this for you.

Go to Greenville.

Okay, there's a bus.

It's easy. Jumpin's got the schedule.

They'll have to put you up in a nice
hotel, eat some hot restaurant food you

didn't have to make.

Stay a week, if you can.

And I'll come see you when you're back.

Okay?

Hear how it all went with the
publishers.

Hey, you cold?

I'm fine.

I don't need you to take care of me. I
know, but just take my hat.

I said I don't need your help. Just take
it.

You want to tell me what happened to
your eye?

I need to write down the bus schedule.

You have a copyright?

It was that chase, wasn't it?

Kyle, look at me.

Will you tell me what he did?

It's over now.

I just want him out of my life.

And how do you know he ain't coming
after you again?

You're by your lonesome out there.
German, please.

You can't tell anybody.

You know how it is.

They drag me into the sheriff's office
and make me describe it to a bunch of

men.

And then write me up in the papers
accusing me of whoring.

For trying to get money out of his
parents.

Okay, they'd do nothing about it. You're
right, guys.

I ain't gonna do anything to make this
thing worse.

But you let me know when you're coming
and going.

Here.

Now, I gotta know if you're out of time.

Because I don't see you for a while.

I'm leaving in a few days.

I'll come see you as soon as I'm back.

Okay, that's good.

That's good.

Miss Price, would you tell us what you
saw on the morning of October 29th?

I saw the Marsh girl.

Miss Clark, that is. Pardon me.

Get on the 9 o 'clock bus.

Well, you've got quite a good memory.

We all talked about it. We'd never seen
her all cleaned up like that.

Hair combed, makeup.

Just to be clear, on the morning of
October 29, you and several others

saw Miss Clark board the 9 a .m. bus and
leave Barkley Cove.

Yes, that's right. Thank you, Miss
Price.

No further questions, Your Honor? Miss
Price, is the Piggly Wiggly open at 1

in the morning?

No, sir.

Well, the reason I ask is...

You couldn't have seen who got off the
night bus from Greenville, nor could you

have seen who got on the 2 .30 a .m. bus
from Barkley Cove back to Greenville,

could you?

Well, no, of course not.

So after you saw Ms. Clark board that
morning bus to Greenville,

she could have returned to Barkley Cove
that night and been back in Greenville

for breakfast all without you taking
notice.

My name is Robert Foster.

I'm a senior editor at Harrison Morris
Publishing Company in Boston,

Massachusetts. Mr. Foster, you sat down
for dinner with Ms. Clark at 7 p .m. on

the night of October 29, correct?

Yes. What was your first impression of
her?

My first impression was that she was
very shy, very gentle, very smart.

I knew that she was something of a
recluse, but I also knew that she was a

gifted naturalist. How long did that
dinner go on? At least a few hours.

Some female insects do eat their mate.

Fireflies, in fact, have two different
light signals, one for mating and one to

attract a male in order to make him our
next meal. So she eats him? How

gruesome. Dear, I must spend less time
with insects.

It's quite amoral.

Amoral indeed.

I don't know if there is a dark side to
nature.

And when you met with Miss Clark the
following morning, October 30th, was

anything unusual about her appearance or
her demeanor?

Not at all.

Mr.

Foster, did Miss Clark stay at the same
hotel as you and your colleague?

No. She preferred a smaller hotel, the
Mountain.

Something. Could you look at this map of
Greenville for me, please?

I think you'll see the Piedmont, where
you and your colleague stayed, and then

the Three Mountains Hotel, where Ms.
Clark stayed.

Could you tell me which one is closest
to the bus station?

The Three Mountains Hotel is closer.

In fact, the Three Mountains is the
closest hotel to the Greenville bus

Is that correct?

Looks that way.

No further questions.

I don't think a good lawyer ever puts
their client on the stand, but this

help you.

For the jury to be able to hear from you
directly, for them to be able to

see you as the kind and thoughtful
person you truly are. They're never

see me like that.

Listen, I know you have a world of
reasons to hate these people. No, I

hated them.

They hated me.

I mean, they laughed at me.

They left me.

They harassed me. They attacked me.

You want me to beg for my life?

I don't have it in me.

I won't.

I will not offer myself up so he can
make their decision.

But they're not deciding anything about
me.

It's them.

They're judging themselves.

All right, then.

Mr.

Milton, you have always been kind to me,
even as a child.

His life was cut short by a jilted lover
who could not accept that he had

returned to the fold.

A witness saw Ms. Clark and Chase in the
marsh, heard her say the words, I'll

kill you.

And what's more is there's physical
evidence from that night connecting

Fibers from her red wool cap left on his
denim jacket.

Who else would have motive to take that
shell necklace?

You can and you must find that the
defendant is guilty of first -degree

murder.

Mr. Milton?

I have lived in Barkley Cove my whole
life.

And like you, I heard the tall tales
told about the Marsh Girl,

that she was part wolf, a missing link
between ape and man,

that her eyes glowed in the dark.

Well, here she is.

The reality is that she was an abandoned
child.

A little girl surviving out there in the
marsh on her own, reviled and

shunned.

Mr. James Madison and his wife, Mabel,
they are sitting here in the courtroom

today. They're about the only people in
this town who showed her any care.

The rest of us.

Well, I'm ashamed to say that we labeled
her and rejected her because we thought

she was different.

And now, the job of judging this shy and
rejected young

woman has fallen on your shoulders.

But you must base your judgment on the
facts presented in this courtroom and

on the rumors and feelings.

from the past 25 years.

Ms. Clark has a solid alibi.

She was in Greenville the night Chase
Andrews died.

And what facts exactly stand against
her?

The state has not proven that this
incident was indeed a murder and not

some tragic accident.

The state wants you to believe.

that at 11 .30 at night, without a
single witness seeing her, she caught

last bus from Greenville to Barclay Cove
and rode that bus disguised, since

neither of the bus drivers that night
could identify her as a passenger all

way back to Barclay Cove. And then, in
less than an hour,

She tracks down Chase Andrews in the
middle of the night, lures him to the

tower, murders him, wipes away all
physical evidence, and somehow catches

.30 a .m. bus back to Greenville again
without a single witness seeing her. And

after doing all that, she meets with her
publishers the next morning,

unruffled. Now, these are not facts.

These are just more of the rumors.

and tall tales that we have been
spreading about Miss Clark for her

I believe you will come to a judgment
based on the facts and not the gossip

that you have heard for years.

It's time, at last, for all of us to be
fair to the Marsh

Girl.

Maybe you should go home and do your
weight in there. Six hours already.

How long do you think they'll take?

Well, let's hope they take a good long
while.

If a few jurors have doubts, we've got a
chance.

Mr. Foreman, is it correct that the jury
has reached a verdict?

We have, Your Honor.

The defendant will please rise for the
reading of the verdict.

We,

the

jury, find the defendant, Catherine
Danielle Clark, not guilty of

first -degree murder.

Mr. Chase Andrews.

Miss Clark, you are free to go.

And I apologize on behalf of the state
for the time that you have served.

This court is dismissed.

Just forget about this nonsense.

We're looking forward to the next book.

Now I can finally admit, all the months
in isolation, yearning to be back in

the marsh, it was knowing how much was
left to explore, how much life to

in the wild that kept me going.

And the hope, always that hope, that one
day I could share it.

with the only person I had ever truly
loved.

You know I love you, right?

What? Will you, uh... Sorry.

I'm sorry.

Will you marry me?

I mean, do you want to?

Well, aren't we already?

Like this?

I can live with that, I guess.

We loved you so much.

Look at that.

See that up there?

I hope when it is time for me to leave,
I will go quick and easy without making

too much noise.

Kaya? Kaya!

It has always been enough to be part of
the natural sequence of things.

Sure as the tides.

Nature my guide.

The marsh knows all about death.

And doesn't necessarily define it as
tragedy.

Certainly not a sin.

It understands that every creature does.

what it must to survive.

And that sometimes, for prey to live,
its predator must die.

I am the marsh now.

I am the feather of an egret.

I am every shell washed upon the shore.

I am a firefly.

You'll see hundreds beckoning far into
the dark reaches of the marsh.

And that's where you will always find
me.

Way out yonder, where the crawdads sing.

Thought I was born, lonesome I came,
lonesome I'll always

stay.

Carolina knows why for years I'm

wrong. Free as these birds, light as
whispers.

Never did see me here And see then my

dreams Into the mist, into the clouds

Don't leave, I'll make a fist I'll

make it count

On the dress she lived In pellicle
scars,

pivotal marks Blue as the light she fled

Don't leave.

I'll make a fix.

I'll make it count.

And there are places I will never, ever
go.

No.