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Your Network.

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♪ I like the way you smile at me ♪

♪ I felt the heat that enveloped me ♪

♪ And what I saw I liked to see ♪

♪ I never knew ♪

♪ Where evil grew ♪

♪ I should have steered away from you ♪

♪ My friend told me to be clear of you ♪

♪ But something drew me near to you ♪

♪ I never knew ♪

♪ Where evil grew ♪

Newsreel: More breaking news.

- The sleepy community of Halworth

has been rocked by what may be murder.

- A dead body. - Has been identified.

- As Katherine Wryfield aunt.

- The legend cult leaders, Lee and Wryfield,

were the only members charged in the recent raid.

- Lee and Wryfield are facing life in prison.

- The cult crime sensation that is shocking the nation.

- Crime just for men not anymore,

because amateur undercover footage revealed...

- Hours of undercover footage

has been leaked to news outlets.

- Shocking footage proves that women don't need a man

to become violent cultist killers.

- We're being told that one New Eden member

has been outed as an undercover journalist.

♪♪♪

- It was one thing, that Hannah lied

about why she had come to New Eden

or why she was filming us.

But to find out that all of that footage

had been leaked to the press.

I mean-I mean, why would she expose us like that?

It was unforgivable. Unforgivable.

- Even after everything that happened.

Shit, I still can't believe she do that.

- Especially to me. - Especially to Max.

- Yeah... especially to Max.

- Yeah.

Interviewer: So you had no idea who she was?

- No idea. We all thought she was one of us.

Pretty hard fuckin' pill to swallow

on top of all the other shit.

- Look, the second those two got indicted,

there was a media blackout in BC.

Meaning that we were not allowed to report

on our own story until after the trial.

So what was I supposed to do, hm?

This was about to be the biggest story of our careers.

(Sighs)

So I sent the footage

to a friend of mine who had a TV station in Seattle.

And things just kind of exploded from there.

Lacey Kwan: Within days of the raid.

It was a national story here in Canada.

But then that footage came out,

and man, once the American m,

that was it.

It wasn't just this quirky, special interest story

from up in Canada anymore.

New Eden became like this

international cultural phenomenon.

- What about this all women cult, New Eden,

you heard about this?

- Now, how do you say that? Is it... Gaion.

- Gaion? - No it's Gaion.

- He got it right. Yeah. - It's French.

Late night host: Yeah, I don't get these gals.

Are they anarchists or are they feminists

are they alien worshipers?

Seems like they could use a man around

just to make some damn decisions.

(Audience laughs, claps) Oh.

- It was pretty wild.

I mean, we've never been famous before, you know.

Except for that time, we dr.

But this was way bigger then that.

Interviewer: Right. this time you were charged with murder.

- Right.

(Protestors shout)

- A woman's B worship cult ge.

(Buzzing)

- The leaked footage reveals a disturbing fixation

on a female alien goddess called Gaion.

- Confusing because as we all know, most aliens are boys.

- Soon you couldn't turn your TV on without seeing them.

It had stopped being this Canadian cult

and was just New Eden.

It was on everyone's lips.

- Do we think this is just sensationalized hysteria?

Or could these women be dangerous?

- It's Canada, Derek.

I mean, up there a carjacking is considered a hard crime.

(Laughing)

- And then, of course, once it was out there,

no one gave a shit who we we're.

All they cared about was seeing a bunch of women

running around with their breast out,

praying to some alien in the sky.

Katherine: I think that it was a story

that people really wanted.

You know, here were these powerful women

who were also spiritualists, pioneers,

who were also victims.

- These ladies can call themselves whatever they like.

As long as they don't ask if it makes them look fat.

(Audience laughs, clapping) (Pop)

That's a bunt.

Lacey: Grace and Katherine fascinated people,

and the stories about them just kept getting

stranger and stranger.

especially when the Americans found out

who the Wryfields were.

(Wood clatters)

- Wow, Timothy, you're awfully strong.

- That's 'cause mother gives me Wryfield snack crackers.

Made with the finest Canadian wheat and rye.

- Wryfield snack crackers

because your children deserve to grow big.

(Crunching)

(Ding)

♪♪♪

(Music sting)

- Toronto based philanthropists,

Bev and Bunny Wryfield,

owners of the beloved Wryfi,

faced scandal today.

They're estranged daughter, Katherine,

has been charged with the murder of her eccentric aunt.

- They were like the Kennedy's of Canada of crackers.

- My parents were concerned

about the negative attention

affecting the company.

Of course they were.

- Now I think first and foremost,

they were concerned about their only daughter

being carted off to jail.

Hell, I was concerned about their only daughter

being carted off to jail.

Interviewer: Let's go back to the night you were arrest.

- They split us up,

and I just remember thinking,

don't say a fuckin' word.

- Agh. Me, too.

(Handcuffs clink)

- If you talked to us,

we can help you.

(Hard thump)

- Katherine told you to murder Agnes Wryfield

and you did it.

- Did Katherine put you up to it, Grace?

- Why? Maybe Katherine was your girlfriend. Hm?

- When I was a kid,

I thought I was gonna be a pilot when I grew up.

Am I boring you?

- Think you're gonna be laughing like that

when you're in fucking jail

for the rest of your fucking life?!

(Chair clatters) - Fuck!

- Sticking together is always what we've been best at.

We knew it was never more important than that night.

- I was a pawn, a pawn.

She manipulated me.

I mean, Grace is basically a hill person.

Did you know that?

I mean, who knows what she's up to?

Can I get another coffee?

(Crying) Thank you.

Do you even know who my family is?

They're rich.

Please don't tell mother and daddy.

They will be so mad.

(Sobbing)

Officer: Is there anything... - Where did you go?

- you want to say Miss Lee? - Where did you go?

Are you coming back?

(Crying)

I'll tell you anything. Please.

- Where's our fucking lawyer?

♪♪♪

Nancy: Legal Aid B.C. in the early 80s,

was famously under-funded.

And suddenly you had this huge case

and these two lawyers who had barely any trial experience,

let alone a murder trial.

I mean, it was...

yeah, embarrassing.

- Do you believe your clients are innocent?

- Are you pushing for a trial b?

- Will they be tried together or separately?

- Will this case be going to trial next year?

- Well, we certainly hope not. Yeah.

But yeah. Yes, it is.

- Yeah, I mean, judge just said it is.

So I guess we have to now.

- Have to, but it's not the worst since I get to litigate

with the best guy in town.

- (Chuckles) Hey, I feel like I'm the lucky one.

Buckley: Two lucky guys. Yeah.

Colby: You're great, dude. Bu.

Interviewer: So what happened next?

- Well, we fell in love.

Interviewer: With the trial.

- Oh, yeah.

We were not at all prepared to take a case to trial.

- Yeah. We actually bonded over the fact

that we were both very bad lawyers.

- Very bad lawyers.

We own a grocery store now.

- Yeah, actually, you know what?

I got disbarred on our anniversary.

- Oh, yeah. That's right. - Yeah.

- Oh.

- I actually met Buckley once

back when I was still practicing.

He told me he got his law degree by fax.

- The New Mexico Institute for Mail Order Lawyers.

- That case would have been over before it started

if those boys had been the ones to take it to trial.

- You know, if I hadn't leaked that footage,

Elizabeth Mill would've never got wind of it.

See but with how big it got,

you know, a shark like that

is bound to smell blood in the water.

Even all the way from New York.

- Elizabeth Mill wasn't even licensed

to practice in Canada at the time,

but the Wryfields were a very powerful and connected family.

So if this is who they wanted to defend their daughter,

this was who they were gonna get.

- Mother and daddy always wanted what was best for me.

For us.

So naturally they felt that Elizabeth Mill

should be the one to represent me.

- Yep.

I guess can't argue with mother and daddy.

- Elizabeth Mill was infamous.

She epitomized everything you think of

when you imagine the flashy American lawyer

you see on TV.

She was ruthless, stylish,

well-connected,

and had made a career of winning un-winnable cases,

usually by using these very theatrical stunts.

- I object. Or do I? - (Shocked gasps)

If I can sneak a body double into open court.

Who's to say that my client's doppelganger

didn't stab all those teachers.

Hm?

I had just gotten off the Yonkers Snake Strangler

and I was at the top of my game.

Interviewer: So how did you end up getting involved?

- I'd known the Wryfields socially for years,

Bev and Bunny where really desperate

for any legitimate representation.

And at the time I had developed a reputation

for being upsetting...

to women.

I was looking to rebrand.

Oh, sure, I'm for women's lib.

Best thing to happen to ugly women since the girdle.

I get bad guys off.

That's what gets me off.

Like I told Ruth Bader Ginsburg

at Clarence Thomas's Halloween party.

You are a bitch.

Suddenly everyone was talking about these two feminists

who had started a cult and .

And I thought...

I need this case.

I thought this could be a career making opportunity.

Actually, I thought,

wait 'til that troll Ruth Bader Ginsburg hears about this,

but mostly I did it for... women.

- Will they be tried together or separately?

- Who'll be acting as lead counsel

when this does go to trial?

- Us?

- Wrong. - (Gasps)

- It's Elizabeth Mill. - Thanks Tony.

- I am named Tony. - Eliz?

- Elizabeth Mill...

for the defense.

- I mean, that was literally

the first time we ever met her.

- My clients are going to fight these charges.

But this fight isn't merely

about these two courageous women.

This is about justice for all women.

And I will not rest until we get the rights

and freedoms that we all deserve.

- Yeah!

It was pretty cool.

- Wasn't that cool.

- Right? - Yes. Yes.

Because we are women and we have voices--

- No further comments at this time. Thank you.

- (Reporter shout) - Great tie by the way.

- Totally.

- I may have leaked the footage,

but the frenzy that followed

that was pure magic lawyer bullshit and that,

that that woman,

was queen of magic lawyer bullshit.

- They used to call her the sorceress of spin,

or to quote Ruth Bader Ginsburg,

an unhinged charlatan who for some reason hates me.

- When I take on a case,

I start defending it months before we go to trial

because like it or not,

the media's perception is an integral part of that.

- So here was this woman who had no morals at all,

a woman who would bend the rules

to suit her every purpose.

Going up against a man who lived and died by the book.

Josiah Noseworthy was the prosecutor assigned

to the New Eden case, and he was a real hard-ass.

- Well, the victims of Mr. Tordano

will never truly get justice,

even though we got the maximum sentence possible.

It still isn't enough.

Do we want to live in a world

where we have to lock our doors at night

because Charles Manson and his lunatic followers

will walk in and stab us in our sleep?

We cannot allow this depravity to threaten our citizens.

We must fight back with the power of the law

and bring swift justice to all who defy it.

- Josiah Noseworthy's whole thing was

that he had the highest conve

and he had no time for media fluff.

- The good people of British Columbia have been shaken

to their foundations.

This is a hard working salt of the earth community

and they want swift and honest justice.

I promise you this whole circus will soon be behind us.

- And what do you say to the rumors that

New Eden is a lesbian, sex cult--

- Yeah, I don't see how that's at all relevant.

Now, I find this sort of speculation

to be incredibly dangerous.

You know, personally,

I approach my work with a high degree of integrity

and respect. Do you?

- Ah. Sorry. Yes.

- Uh-uh.

No further questions.

- They couldn't have been more opposite.

(Music plays, audience cheers)

- Hello, hello, hello,

and welcome to Diane.

I'm Diane.

- Let me ask you this, Diane,

why are my clients being persecuted?

Because they're guilty? No!

Because they're women.

(Audience applauds) - Yeah!

- She knew how to put on a show

and all the media, which she more or less brought with her,

they ate it all up.

- Sure. Maybe their philosophy was a bit out there.

I mean, we all said crazy things in the 70s, right?

- I know I did. (Chuckles)

- But their only crime was trying to create a space

where women could take their power back.

And the outcry that they're facing is well...

tantamount to a modern day witch hunt.

An Josiah Noseworthy is leading it.

- After Elizabeth Mill got involved.

Grace and Katherine took on

these whole new cultural identities.

- To be honest with you, I think I'm more of a Grace

unless I haven't had my morning coffee.

Then it's Katherinetown, USA,

and I'm the mayor.

Lacey: Grace was the rebel.

And Katherine was the disgraced heiress.

I think it was Rolling Stone who dubbed Grace...

- Racy Gracy. - Racy Gracy.

- Racy Gracy.

- Fondly known as Racy Gracy.

- Racy Gracy.

- People loved that.

But media on both sides of the border

struggled for a long time

to come up with a nickname for Katherine

that would stick.

Kathy Canadian, Queen Katherine,

Cracker Black Sheep.

Nothing quite took...

until...

Tony: Grace, Katherine,

do you regret starting New Eden?

- Absolutely not, Tony. Elizabeth: No.

- No, that's not to say that there weren't problems.

I mean, that many women and only one bathroom.

(All laugh)

Tony: Pretty good. That's very funny.

- One bathroom.

How many women are we talking about?

- These women are spiritual leaders

being punished for their beliefs.

- Hey, how about you try sharing one bathroom

with that many women.

Imagine all those women and only one bath--

- Ha! Almost forgot about these...

Racy Gracy, pretty good.

Interviewer: How did you feel about being dubbed

Katherine bathroom?

- I embraced it.

I do have a sense of humor, you know.

- The whole media circus that Elizabeth had built

was part of the distraction.

Without it she never would've been allowed

to try a case here.

And the reality was, she dg

about trying a case in British Columbia.

But she certainly wasn't gonna let that stop her.

- She made us quit our Legal Aid office

and start are own law firm.

- Technically, she was articling for us

during the entire trial.

- Yeah. Didn't feel like it, though.

- No. Not at all. - Not at all.

But judge said it was okay.

So she just kind of took over.

- We let her.

- After that, they just had to hope

that the presiding judge would sign off on her

as lead counsel.

And let's just say that Justice Myler

was susceptible to the influence of a woman

like Elizabeth Mill.

- (Laughs)

Oh.

This guy was...

not what you think of

when you picture a Supreme Court justice

or any kind of justice

or even a lawyer.

I actually think he wanted to be an actor at one point.

It was his first murder trial.

That's insane.

I think if any other judge had been on the bench

for that case,

Elizabeth Mill would not have been able to do what she did.

But he was the perfect mark.

- Justice Myler you've just been assigned

to the highly infamous case against the women of New Eden.

How do you feel about taking on

such a heavily publicized trial?

- Um... huh.

- I felt that it was very important to this case

that the trial itself be televised,

which apparently wasn't a thing in Canada.

- Technically, there isn't a written law

prohibiting news cameras from filming a criminal court case.

Everyone just understood it wa.

Almost everyone.

- Elizabeth Mill intimated you're considering

allowing cameras in the courtroom during the trial,

is that correct? - Well, I, you know,

that's not something that was typically we--you know.

- She suggested it would be a great opportunity

to demonstrate the intricacies

of the Canadian judicial system.

- Right. Again, typically tha-

- She also mentioned that you are very brave

and have a face for TV.

- Do you agree with that statement?

- She said that? Seriously? - She did.

- (Clears throat)

Yes. Well um,

due to the nature of the case and the attention

that it's already garnered,

we feel, I feel that um,

it is appropriate to allow cameras to film

absolutely everything.

- Are you authorized to make this choice?

Is this legal under the current judicial system?

- This is a good look. Is this your typical court look?

- Oh, this is just me living life. (Chuckles)

- You do look good. - Order on the porch.

(Laughing) - This is gonna be great.

- I had a plan

and I wasn't gonna let another country's

judicial process stand in the way of it.

A modern lawyer needs to understand

that part of the job is shaping that public opinion

before anyone sets foot in a courtroom.

Why? Because like it or not,

the jury is going to be part of that public.

People are flawed.

Ergo, the system is flawed.

Ergo,

I do what I have to to win.

And I do flawlessly...

usually.

- We interrupt this program with breaking news

and the ongoing Lee, Wryfield case.

Two local teens made a disturbing discovery

after sneaking onto the New Eden property late last night.

A warning to viewers,

the material you're about to see

contains shocking images.

- Dude, come on. Where are you?

You okay? - Ahhh!

- (Startled) Ahh! - (Laughing) Dude.

Dude, you should have seen your fuckin' face.

- Suck my balls, man. - Pussy.

What the hell is that?

- Come on, man. Don't-don't fuck with me.

- I'm not fucking with you. Come over here.

- Holy fuck, dude. That's a fucking foot.

Dude, that's a foot.

- Yeeeaahhhhhh.

- The first rule to any good defense

is be prepared for anything.

Nobody was prepared for that.

- Shocking news.

- The body of another women has been has been uncovered

on the New Eden property.

- The arms, legs and torso of the victim

have all been found in separate burial sites.

- An unidentified torso of a second victim.

- ...with the canine unit continued to search

for the victim's missing head.

- The head remains at large. - Where is the head?

- The finger prints are too eroded to get a positive I.D.

- Maybe a double homicide.

(Helicopter rotors beat)

- And so the question remains,

who was this woman?

What was her connection to New Eden?

And why did its leaders want her dead?

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

- Yeah, we may have lost sight of her at one point.

- I mean, keep in mind there were a lot of women

to keep track of.

- Yeah. And we were pretty high for a lot of that time.

(Reporters shout out questions)

Pete: Sergeant Nelson do the lab reports confirm

that the remains found match that of an elderly woman.

- Have you determined a motive for Ms. McNurtt's alleged murder?

- Here's what I can tell you.

We have determined that Ms. McNurtt was at New Eden

for several years. She was not accounted for

in the night that we raided the property.

And she was not one of the women who left the community

in the summer of 1981.

- Are you not concerned that evidence will be ruled

too circumstantial?

- Can you explain the discrepancies

between the Agnes Wryfield gravesite

and that of the alleged Ms. McNurtt?

- Well, clearly, we cannot reveal all of the evidence

that we have gathered at this time.

But I can assure you that the woman we found

is Tabitha McNurtt,

and that Grace Lee and Katherine Wryfield

are the reasons that she is no longer with us.

No more questions.

- Okay. Well, I know what he's saying.

(Overlapping conversations)

- You can keep taking pictures.

♪♪♪

- I've made a career on anticipating variables

and demolishing any that are not favorable to my narrative.

Okay?

- Elizabeth Mill couldn't have anticipated that second body.

No one could have.

But what she also failed to anticipate

was the fallout among the media throng

that she herself had built.

- But even when you do everything right.

Well, there are always going to be factors

that you just can't control.

And when all those factors stack up...

well, the tide turns.

- Now we've been taught to believe

that women all the fairer sex.

But the devil is always had other plans for them.

- The fact is there are not enough facts

for a second murder charge.

- It was woman who destroyed paradise.

- My clients are victims of a corrupt system.

- Now she, Satan, want the chance to do it again!

- Elizabeth Mill is a woman so unscrupulous

she would make a mockery of our judicial system.

- A good defense attorney doesn't care

whether her clients are innocent or guilty.

- By attention seeking stunts that seek to undermine

the sanctity of our legal process.

- This is just like we talked about.

- By choosing to defend these women in the first place.

- More of the same witch hunt.

- And by her efforts to cloak their true intentions

under a false veneer of feminist sentiment.

- Orchestrated by a frustrated prosecutor who is--

- Elizabeth, please. How can you expect people

to just ignore what they're seeing?

- The truth always comes to light.

And I am confident that people will see

what many of us have known all along.

- These women are clearly serial killers.

- And until the authorities can produce the missing head.

- They did something to it. One of their rituals?

- I can assure you that my clients--

- (Screams) - (Laughing)

- These women are dangerous. - These women are sick.

- These women are killers. - And they're dumb too.

- I'm gonna fuckin' kill you!

- They're answering to a power far darker

than the good people of this community can understand.

- Cast out these women.

You cast out the evil that is inside

each and every one of us.

Cast out these women!

- So to answer your question, no,

we were not feeling confident going into our trial.

♪♪♪

♪ If I could build a wall around you ♪

♪ I could control the thing that you do ♪

♪ And it never shows ♪

♪ The place where evil grows ♪