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[Margaret] Chris Hargensen is Carrie Red.

- Chris Hargensen is Carrie Red. - [somber music playing]

Chris Hargensen is Carrie Red.

What the fuck?

[Grayle] Your daughter has been accused of running a social media account

- which has been bullying-- - [John] Has been accused

by some lunatic parent

running around the hallways.

We can fight back.

Your mom is such a cunt.

- [sharp rumble] - [screams]

- I lost control. - You took control.

- I broke her nose. - I've got an idea.

[distorted yelling]

[Chris] I'm gonna piss on their toothbrushes.

- There's fucking cameras in here. - What?

[Billy] Hidden fucking cameras.

- Play that again. - [Tina] I mean, I knew

you were crazy, but I didn't know you were, like, crazy.

I lost control.

I broke her nose.

Emaline.

Is that your imaginary friend?

[thunder rumbling]

[♪ Samuel Kenneth Brookes sings "Take Me to the Water"]

[thunder rumbling]

[Adelaide] There have always been people

who claim to see beyond the veil of this world.

Alchemists. Mesmerists. Psychics.

Damon Nostra, aka Greg McMurray, was one of the most famous.

He was verified by the Monroe Institute,

had a popular telephone hotline, and then a TV show.

Even after his popularity waned,

- even after the show got canceled, - [entry bell jingles]

people still came from all over the country to see him.

Always desperate.

Always easy to read.

But...

he was no psychic.

[Damon Nostra] Is there someone you're trying to contact?

Or do you want to know your future?

You said in your commercials

that y-you learned how to navigate the visions

from the other side.

And you seem to be able to get through your days without screaming.

So-so, I need to know:

How do you make it stop?

I'm... not sure what you mean.

I'm like you.

I see things.

Things nobody else sees.

Things nobody should see.

[crying] And I can't...

I'm losing my mind, and I need it, I need it to stop!

- [thunder crashes] - Help me make it stop.

Please!

[Adelaide] The trouble with psychics

is that the true ones are often indistinguishable...

Ow!

...from the insane.

Look, I can't help you, lady.

You, you need a doctor.

Maybe a good psychiatrist.

No, I'm not crazy.

I'm not crazy.

You know that.

- You and I are the same! - You need to leave.

No, we're the same!

[breath trembles]

It's fake.

It's all fake?

Yeah, give me the police.

There's a woman here, she...

- She's crazy. - [screams]

[sobs]

[woman screams]

[woman screams]

♪ ♪

[pained grunt]

[Adelaide] True psychics don't prosper.

[wailing echoes]

They suffer.

♪ ♪

[students murmuring]

[Emaline] Carrie.

Carrie.

- Look, hear me out. - Not real, not real, not real.

I know it doesn't look good, but please just listen to me.

Go away!

- [glass cracks] - [car alarm blaring]

[exhales]

[dogs barking in distance]

[panting]

[breath trembling]

[whispering] Get it together.

[somber music playing]

[Carrie] What are you doing?

- Get it together. - I lost control.

I broke her nose, and...

And it was wrong.

I was wrong, okay?

[dark music playing]

[scoffs]

- [low rumbling] - [objects rattling]

[Peist in distance] You can't do that.

[stammers] Just hold on.

- [Desjardin] Hi. Oh. - Hey.

Is everything okay?

Yeah, what, uh, what-what are you doing here?

- Oh, shit. - Date night.

- You forgot? - I did. [chuckles]

Sorry. I did. I'm an idiot.

Um...

Come in. Yeah, hey.

Come in, yeah.

- [phone vibrates, clicks] - [Desjardin] She's done.

I mean, she's completely done.

Morton said that Sue Snell got her on tape,

- like a spy movie. - Mm.

Do... yeah, you... Don't count Hargensen out.

- [phone vibrating] - Her dad will set the world on fire

- before he lets any...

[phone clicks]

Did you hear about the fight?

At this point, I just expect at least five a day, so...

Not the kids. Two parents.

- At Claire's, the hair salon on Main. - [phone vibrates, clicks]

I guess their kids were on the wrong side of some Carrie Red posts,

and the moms were tearing each other's hair out

- in the middle of the salon. - [phone vibrating]

- Grown-ass adults. - [phone clicks]

Okay, what is going on?

[sighs]

Internet vigilante leaked my number.

So, it's...

[clears throat]

- [♪ Gorgeous George sings "You Need Me"] - ♪ You kinda like a new hat ♪

♪ When you walk into a room, you got 'em all like, "Who that?" ♪

♪ I'm trying to blow a few racks 'cause you that, that, that ♪

♪ Believe me...

It's all gonna come out now.

- Mm. - People are gonna know the truth.

Oh, I just keep thinking there has to be

some sort of way to reach these kids, right?

Like, I don't know, get the Kind Campaign out there,

or just any sort of anti-bullying initiative, really.

Hell, I would pay for it myself at this point--

♪ You the only thing I see ♪

[crickets chirping]

Oh.

Oh, God, did we have another break-in?

What are these?

Those are security cameras.

After the incident the other day, I knew that we would be safer

- if I-- - They were here before that.

You were spying on me.

[stammers]

[scoffs] Don't be ridiculous.

- It's just a precaution. - Against what?

Why did I find one in my room?

Ever since you started at that school, you have been moody,

you've been erratic, you're locking yourself in your room.

I was worried that you might...

hurt yourself.

Hurt myself?

Wh-What have I ever done, ever, to make you think that I would...

You know what? I...

I don't believe you.

Enough. [stammers] Listen--

Tell me the truth.

- Please, Momma. - Listen.

Don't make me hate you.

Don't.

I'll have no one left.

You see, this is what I'm talking about.

You're acting like a lunatic.

I am not crazy.

Don't...

I... [scoffs]

[cries softly]

[Emaline] Love what you've done with the place.

- No. No, no, no... - Carrie, please.

- ...no, no, no, no. - Carrie.

- You're not here. - Don't say that.

You make a girl feel like she's not welcome.

- You're not real. You're not real. - I am real.

I am, just not in a strictly physical sense.

Get out!

I just want to talk.

[Carrie] No. You're not real.

Get out!

Get out!

[laughs softly]

Rude.

Okay.

You're obviously not ready to have a conversation.

Out!

[Desjardin] Are you sure you're feeling okay?

You hardly ate anything.

- Eh, just tired. - Okay.

You sure you don't want me to stay?

[laughs softly]

I need to rest, uh, and if you stay...

sleep will be the last thing on my mind.

[laughs softly] Okay.

- Tomorrow, then. - Mm-hmm.

[gentle pop music playing quietly]

Tomorrow.

- [indistinct chatter] - [P.A. chimes]

[man over P.A.] Mr. Peist, please report to the main office.

Mr. Peist, please contact the front office.

All right, everybody, take your seats, please.

- [P.A. chimes] - [door opens]

Hi. Sorry for the interruption.

Can I please borrow Miss Hargensen?

Sure?

What for?

You might want to bring your stuff.

Do I need to call my dad?

I already did.

[mysterious music playing]

So sorry about the interruption.

Thank you.

What do you think that's about?

[door closes]

Are you just gonna pretend that I'm not here?

- I thought we were friends. - Yeah, we are not friends.

Talking to me?

What?

- No. - [Emaline] Listen.

Just listen, okay?

I am not trying to freak you out.

I just figured that you wouldn't make a scene

with everybody watching, and I really just want to make my case.

Miss D, can I go to the bathroom?

[Desjardin] Yeah, of course.

[Chris over phone] I'm glad I made that fucking account.

And no, I am never taking it down.

It's called freedom of fucking speech.

As long as I got shit to say, Carrie Red is staying up.

That's not me.

[sighs]

There are, as of this morning,

1,655 posts on @CarrieRed

attacking 522 students and teachers.

[John] She says it wasn't her.

Come on, you guys. That's clearly her voice on the recording.

Yeah, and voices can be spoofed.

Have you not heard of, uh, deepfake? A.I.?

Th-This is harassment, okay? This is slander.

This is more harassment.

I don't know if you're aware of this, Madison,

but she was publicly targeted by, uh, a gym teacher.

Physically punished for no reason whatsoever.

- Miss Desjardin was reprimanded for that-- - Excuse me, publicly accosted

by an unstable parent on school grounds.

Hell, she was intimidated by you

in this very office so you could illegally search her phone.

[Grayle] Chris was excused without prejudice.

- We had no evidence. - [John] Let me tell you something.

If I decided I could take this school, take you, to court,

I'd be walking out of here with your job.

And a hefty settlement to boot, so let's just,

- you know-- - So, your response to that audio

was to th... threaten to take me to court?

- For starters. - For the, what,

the-the, the physical and verbal abuse

- of Christine Hargensen? - Now you're getting it. Yeah.

Uh, Mr. Hargensen, are you aware that your daughter

and about ten of her peers attacked a girl who was having her first period?

That they-they pelted her with sanitary napkins

while the girl thought she was bleeding to death?

So, by your own argument, this school could countersue you

on behalf of Carrie White.

- You're full of shit. - Am I?

I took the liberty of pulling Chris's file.

There are 24 assigned detentions in four years,

six of them for bullying.

Those are hall of fame numbers.

Chamberlain Middle School, one suspension

for putting a firecracker in a girl's shoe.

It turns out, that little prank almost cost the girl two toes.

I had to go digging for that one 'cause it was expunged from her record.

You must have pulled some pretty serious strings to cover that up.

Hats off.

And I'm guessing, by the look on your face,

you had no idea about any of this.

He's been covering up for her for a long, long time.

So, court? Is that what you want to do? Fine.

All of this-- this-- all comes into that,

I promise you.

In fact, let's cut to the chase. Chris?

- I'm sorry, you are suspended. - [John] Jesus.

- [Madison] For how long? - [Grayle] That totally depends on her.

The year's almost over.

It's gonna be graduation and then prom, and if you think I'm missing prom--

If you want to graduate with the rest of your classmates...

...first, you have to admit that that's your voice on the recording.

Number two, you have to take accountability for your actions.

And then, three, you have to do some kind of community outreach

to try to make amends.

Look, I think that everyone-- faculty, students, parents--

are going to be relieved to know that there is a path

through this situation for you, for all of us.

[Madison sighs]

- No way. - [Madison] Christine.

[John] I think we're done here. I'll be in touch. Let's go.

This doesn't have to be how you end things here.

I said I'll be in touch, you smug little fuck.

- John. - Let's go. Not now, Madison.

Come on.

[sighs]

[♪ Kroy sings "Stay"]

[door opens]

[Grayle] It's okay.

- Wherever does she get it? - [John] I can handle this.

- How the hell could you not tell me... - I can handle this mess!

- ...she was suspended in middle school? - Oh, that's such bullshit. Don't listen

- to that. You need to calm down. - No, you are an unfit father,

- you piece of shit. - Would you just fucking calm--

- We could've done something. - I'm sorry.

- We could've sent her to therapy. - Did you just call me an unfit father?

- Oh, yes, yes, yes, and... - Oh, that's rich, my God.

[argument continues indistinctly]

♪ ♪

[Emaline] Oh, come on, Carrie, talk to me.

I can do this all day.

What do you want?

Better question: What do you want?

Do you want to keep pretending to be one of them

or do you want to be something better?

Because you and me, we could go rogue.

[student] Yo, Crazy Carrie.

Who you talking to?

[laughter]

[Grayle] Hey.

You seen Peist?

Uh, not since last night. Why?

He didn't show up and didn't call.

I had to have Morton cover his class.

Okay.

♪ And leave nothing behind...

[Morton] Miss Snell. Welcome.

I think you mean "congratulations."

[laughter]

[Morton] All right, everybody.

It's my understanding that study hall is for studying,

so hit the books.

You're late, Mr. Ross.

I need to talk to you.

In private.

[Morton] Is everything okay?

[students oohing, whistling]

[Morton] All right. All right.

Oh, my God.

- Oh, my God. - So, are you?

I-I'm not pregnant.

[stammers] But you thought you were?

I was a couple days late after the party, but it was negative.

You didn't think you should, like, mention this?

Well, it was negative. It didn't matter.

It matters to me.

- I could've-- - What?

What? What-what... what, Tommy? What could you have done?

I could have been there.

I had a lot of other shit on my mind.

We've all got other shit on our minds.

I'm working two jobs, my dad's in bad shape,

my girlfriend's ignoring me, and I'm still here

because we're supposed to be a fucking team.

[sighs]

[knocking on door]

Seth?

Seth?

Seth--

[knocking on door]

Ma'am, sorry to bother.

We were hoping to have a word with, we believe, your daughter?

- [Madison] What did she do now? - Nothing, nothing.

We were just hoping to ask a few questions of Brooklyn.

[footsteps approaching]

[Kent] I-I'm her father. What's this about?

[Brooklyn] What's going on?

Can we speak in private?

[Madison] Sure. Come in.

[wailing]

[intriguing music playing]

No, what did you do?!

- You killed him! You fucking killed him! - Ow!

- Ow... Fuck... - [Brooklyn] No!

[newscaster] The suicide of a high school teacher

has rocked the town of Chamberlain.

[newscaster 2] ...Seth Peist, a teacher at Ewen High School,

-was found dead in his home. - [newscaster 3] ...the incident came

after a student-run gossip account

accused Peist of having sexual relations

- with his students... - ...accusations proven to be accurate

when a subsequent investigation has revealed Peist had, in fact,

been engaged in a relationship with a 15-year-old girl.

...the student allegedly behind the account was recently suspended.

...we will be filing several lawsuits on my daughter's behalf.

The administration at Ewen are using my daughter as a scapegoat

when they should be treating her like a hero.

She exposed a predator among their own ranks.

[Margaret] This is yet another example of how the schools are failing our children.

We demand a safe environment for our kids.

- I stand with Margaret White. - [parent] She's an inspiration.

And frankly, no one else is advocating for the rights of us parents.

Who knows who this guy would have gone after next?

I hate to say it, but that account did some good.

Maybe people need to stop being so sensitive.

Two weeks since the shocking death of Seth Peist,

the town of Chamberlain remains divided.

Of course she didn't know. Don't be stupid.

How could she not?

I can't believe she's coming back.

If it was me, I'd be out for the rest of the year.

[Desjardin] The relationship started last fall.

According to Brooklyn.

Or...

According to the police talking to Brooklyn.

Apparently, he was careful not to use hotels or even his own house,

because his neighbors have Ring cameras.

So, they mostly met in parking lots.

And the first night that he and I...

Um...

He said that he'd been stood up.

That was her.

He'd done this before, they think.

At least three times, at his old school.

So, Hargensen knew--

No, that's the thing. Nobody...

Nobody knew. It was just a lucky fucking guess.

I guess, that last night that I interrupted him on the phone with her,

she was telling him that she was gonna tell her dad...

...and I guess he just didn't see a way out of it this time.

God, I feel so fucking stupid.

Y-You couldn't have known.

None of us did.

Jesus fucking Christ.

No, I mean, not what he was, but...

Getting involved with a coworker, being a new teacher at a new school,

trying to keep it a secret like we did, I mean, I knew that that wasn't me.

I knew, I knew that.

I promise,

you haven't lost one ounce of respect.

He can't take that from you.

Not from us, not from the kids.

My credibility.

He stole my credibility, and that's...

nothing compared to what he stole from Brooklyn.

I mean, Jesus.

Jesus.

[wheels clattering]

[zipping]

[tape unspooling]

[line ringing]

[phone vibrating]

Look, let her graduate, and I will drop the lawsuits today.

She's worked hard, Henry. She deserves to graduate.

Oh. It's "Henry" now.

[Morton] We have to consider the needs

- of all our students. - Think I don't recognize

the Margaret White talking points?

I hope you're not capitulating to that nutjob.

That nutjob has a lot of support.

And there are a lot of very angry parents out there

who have every right to be.

So, what, the school's on her side now?

The only side I am on is that of the students. All of them.

Because the last thing I want to do is kick a kid out,

- because-- - Because it'll mean more headlines?

Because it means I failed her.

[Morton] We need to de-escalate the situation.

What about...

some kind of mediation between the affected students?

[sighs] Affected students?

You have any idea how many complaints I have fielded?

That's hundreds of kids and their parents who all want their day in court.

Just Chris and Carrie. They're the figureheads.

They're considered the heart of the thing, right or wrong.

And the parents.

If there's gonna be a mediation, I demand to be there.

[Grayle] Of course you do.

As the two primary parties in this situation,

I feel like if they could talk to each other,

- find some common ground-- - [Grayle] Yeah.

Maybe that's not a bad idea.

Show the cameras and the parents and the students

Chris and Carrie making peace.

That way, maybe we can make a case for Chris's reintegration.

[sighs] Yeah, uh, yeah. I guess that could work.

Great.

Mr. Morton will facilitate.

- We'll do it next weekend. - Mm-mm. Tomorrow.

Tomorrow morning.

If there is a path, I don't want her missing another day.

If we do this, if I bring her in, she goes back to class, right away.

And she gets her prom.

And she graduates.

Whites still have to agree.

- I'll call them. - [John] Great.

Tomorrow morning, then, yeah?

[sighs]

- [door opens] - This school year cannot end soon enough.

- [door closes] - Fucking amen.

[rock music playing quietly]

Do you have to do that right now?

Well, he's on a schedule.

[phone vibrates]

Great. I have to be at Ewen tomorrow for mediation.

Oh, that's a fucking waste of time.

- Whatever gets me to graduation. - [mutters]

Chris, if you think that this is ending

any way other than expulsion, you're dreaming.

Believe me, I would know.

Maybe for you.

Can't help that our situations are different.

Oh, yeah? What fucking situation is that, exactly?

Don't be pissed.

It's not attractive.

Yeah, you want to bet?

[Margaret] Tomorrow, you let me do the talking.

Do not speak unless they ask you a-a direct question.

Do not agree to any of their compromises.

They're gonna try to confuse you.

But at this point, they just want this to go away,

and that's good, that's useful to us.

I wonder what channel four would make of this,

'cause they've been giving us the most favorable coverage.

I'm gonna give them a heads-up.

If there's a chance to make this stop, can't we just make it stop?

We have to shape the narrative.

If we don't, they will, and they will put that girl back in school.

Is that what you want?

I just want it to be over.

Honey, we have a lot of people looking to us right now.

We can't just stop.

I'm doing this for you.

- Are you? - You asked for this.

You begged me, in fact, to take care of this.

And, honey, frankly...

...you're a little too fragile right now

to be making any decisions, so please just...

- "Fragile." - It's understandable.

This has put an enormous pressure on you,

and you need me to make this go away.

Is there any history of weird stuff in our family?

Like mental illness?

No.

- Don't be-- - 'Cause I've read that people

- need help sometimes and... - No.

I might have some mental illness, and I need a doctor.

There is no such thing as mental illness.

There's just a weakness of spirit.

We have light selves, and we have dark selves.

And sometimes, if we give the dark selves too mu--

These-- Ugh!

These demonic academics and these doctors,

they just... they make up all of these words,

- and these fake diagnoses. - Mom, I know...

- But then they poison-- - ...about mental illness.

They feed us all this poison,

- and then they poison... - And it's...

- ...the drinking water, and then... - There's nothing wrong with admitting.

- And then... - It's very rea--

It's the mainstream medical establishment...

- It's something a lot of people... - ...are the ill ones...

- ...get help with every day. - ...frankly. You don't need a doctor!

You need to shut up and listen to your mother!

- [table rattles] - [Margaret gasps, mutters]

You're not helping me.

You're helping you.

And-and... and when I ask you for real help, you...

[clock ticking]

...you won't even...

[utensils clink]

[Carrie sighs]

[Young Margaret] Carrie, you get back here right now!

[Young Carrie] I'm sorry, Momma. Sorry.

- [Young Margaret] Inside. - [Young Carrie] No!

- Don't defy me, Carietta. - No!

[Carrie] Oh, no, please not

the closet!

Don't scare me like that, running off.

Who knows what that immoral girl put in your head?

- She was nice! - Nice?

I've seen the boys come and go from that house, and her flaunting herself

- in her bathing suit. - No!

- Momma, you're hurting me! I just-- - You are not to go near her!

- I'll be good! - You know that that's a rule,

and you broke the rule, and now you have to repent!

- No! - Quit fighting me, girl!

This is for your own good!

- No! - [rocks clattering onto roof]

- [eerie music playing] - [rocks continue thudding]

[glass breaking]

[rocks continue thudding onto roof]

I'm telling you, it was her.

- I don't know how it's possible, but-- - Maggie.

No, I'm not crazy.

I saw it. I felt it.

She was... she was angry,

and I could... I could feel something coming from her.

Come on. Don't be ridiculous.

She's a five-year-old girl. She can't even tie her shoes.

- [sighs] - Do your research.

There are a dozen things more likely to--

A freak weather event.

Cloud seeding. Drone tests. Satellite weaponry.

We know the U.S. government tests weapons on their own citizens.

They tried to hush it up, but there are reports

of the same thing a few years ago near a base in New Mexico.

But no.

No.

You think I'm crazy, and I'm-I'm not.

I know you're not, because that word's not real.

They make up all these words, these fake diagnoses.

[muffled] They poison the drinking water, they make us get these vaccines.

Those are the real poison.

[melancholy music playing]

[indistinct chatter]

[Desjardin] Padden-- present, Parker-- present.

Good morning, Dani.

Ms. Snell and Mr. Ross, both present.

And Ms. White is...

excused.

You know where Carrie White is this morning?

She's excused.

She's at that mediation.

Yeah. Chris told me.

They're holding them in some empty classroom and making them

- do some kind of kumbaya-- - [Desjardin] Hey,

- Tina, that's enough. Thank you. - [girl] What do you mean?

I guess it's to, like, smooth it over so that Chris can come back to school.

That stupid account outed my brother to my parents.

They're all in therapy now.

And I heard that Ellie Barber tried to kill herself.

Yeah, well, Ellie's always trying to kill herself.

- [Desjardin] Tina. - What?

Chris has been suspended for weeks.

Like, what, you don't think she should graduate?

She caught a fucking pedophile.

Okay, that is enough.

So...

the purpose of this meeting is open communication

and, hopefully, reconciliation.

Our goal is to find a way for both girls to finish out the school year

and reintegrate with their respective classes.

Is everyone agreed?

- [John] Yeah. - [Madison and Kent] Yes.

So, Carrie, I want you to tell Chris

how you felt when you first found out about Carrie Red.

[Margaret] Is there really

any ambiguity to how such a thing might feel?

Well, I think if, for Chris,

if she can hear it in Carrie's own words,

- I think it'll be enlightening. - [Margaret] I don't see

why Carrie should be forced to relive her humiliation for Miss Hargensen's benefit.

[John] And what about Christine, hmm?

Is she gonna get an opportunity to describe her own humiliation?

What it felt like to have a grown adult--

a-a-a supposed adult-- smearing her name

up and down these hallways?

- This is supposed to be about the girls. - [Margaret] No.

I want to hear what Mr. Hargensen has to say.

I'm sure that he has some valuable insight into raising a thief and a liar.

Have you all heard the rumors?

I don't engage in gossip myself,

but I do read comments on my posts,

and there are some pretty fascinating accusations about you, Mr. Hargensen.

- [John] Mm-hmm. - Embezzlement, I believe.

- [chuckles] Oh, yeah? - [door opens]

- Mm-hmm. - You want to talk--?

[loud, overlapping shouting]

Hey! What is going on?

Go back to class right now. I will write every

single one of you up. Do not think I won't.

Give her hell, Carrie!

[Grayle] Young lady, go back to class now.

- [door closes] - Sorry about that. I have no idea

how they knew about this.

Boy, you really don't understand how phones work, do you?

Um... [clears throat]

How about this? Chris, I am willing to lift your suspension right now

if you simply apologize to Carrie.

All right, you made an account

based on her name, with her face, without her consent.

So if you can just acknowledge that,

- then we all-- - [John] No. No, no, no, no, no.

That'll expose her to a whole avalanche of-of civil suits.

- Get real, Henry. No. - [Madison] As I understand,

the account was generated by submission,

and a lot of people made submissions.

So I don't understand why Chris has to answer for all of it on her own?

I'm sure we can all agree, that doesn't sound fair, does it?

- No, it doesn't. - [John] It's pretty fucking

rhetorical, Kent, but thank you for stating the obvious.

[Kent] I mean,

while we're stating the obvious and talking about fairness,

my daughter is already out of school for the rest of the year.

My daughter has a long, long road ahead of her.

[John] Yeah, your daughter was targeted

by a predator, who would probably still be terrorizing these children

if he hadn't been outed by that account, so...

[Kent] That's true. What's also true is

that Christine bullied and harassed my daughter relentlessly...

since her mother and I got together.

They're both true.

And I'm fucking mad at her for that.

Furious, in fact.

And if I can sit here on her side of the table,

if I can sit here and tell all of you that, no, it isn't fair

for Chris to take the full blame for the actions of so, so many people

and the failures of this administration,

if I can say it isn't fair, well, damn... it must not be.

Does it sound fair to you?

[Grayle] If Chris would be willing to identify other...

...participants.

I mean, y-your position is that you're a conduit.

Well, we need to know who made the posts.

So, if you could share.

Everybody.

And the kids in the hall acting like I'm the devil?

Yeah, they all sent posts.

For weeks.

Hell, I think some of the teachers did.

Nobody gave a shit when they said it out loud,

but then, when it was typed out...

How is that any different?

Everyone in this building has someone they hate.

At least I was honest about it.

[loud shouting in hallway]

[Margaret] That was an admission.

[John] It was not, and you know it.

[students chanting] Expel Hargensen!

- [Grayle] What the fuck is going on? - [Morton] Uh,

Rita says the students are walking out of class.

Wait, wait, they're what?

[students] Expel Hargensen! Expel Hargensen!

- Expel Hargensen! - All right. All right, hey, hey, hey!

- Enough! That is enough. - [students quiet]

Starting now, if you are not in your classroom,

I'm going to write your name down and you will be assigned a detention.

- [students booing, shouting indistinctly] - Go back.

Go back to your class now. Thank you.

- [booing] - Thank you, everyone.

- Expel Hargensen! - Expel Hargensen!

[Grayle] Ladies and gentlemen...

[loud, overlapping shouting]

Hey, everybody, return to your classrooms!

Everyone, return to your classrooms!

- Expel Hargensen! Expel Hargensen! - [loud, overlapping shouting]

- Everybody, get back-- - They won't go back,

but I think we can get them outside.

Expel Hargensen! Expel Hargensen!

Then do it. Yeah, do it.

- Walk out! Walk out! - Expel Hargensen!

- Expel Hargensen! - Walk out!

- [students] Walk out! Walk out! - Follow Sue!

Walk out! Walk out! Walk out! Walk out!

Walk out! Walk out! Walk out! Walk out!

Go. It's okay. It's okay. It's under control.

- They are, they are expressing themselves. - [John speaking indistinctly]

This is a farce... and I want to know

- how they knew where we were. - Kids have had peaceful protests before.

- And they're allowed-- - Why would you have this

- during school hours? - Can we just sit down?

- [overlapping chatter] - [John] I'm sorry. Okay, hold on a second.

You need to fuck off, Kent.

- 'Cause this doesn't involve you. - [overlapping shouting]

Are the halls empty? 'Cause I need to use the bathroom.

- [John] Kent, stop. - [Grayle] It does involve... I need you

- to stay locked in here-- - [John] No, no, listen to me.

I agreed to bring my daughter to this mediation

in-in the event that she could go back to school, and this is completely...

You could settle this right now, you know.

- You can break her fucking nose again. - [door closes]

Or this time, hell, you could crush her skull.

[John] Now what I need to do is get my daughter back...

I bet she'd apologize then.

She'd beg you to accept her apology.

[turns faucet off]

[gasps softly]

Well, what do you want?

What?!

I want...

[whispering] To break your skull.

[inhales deeply]

I want to know why.

Why me?

I-I never did anything to you.

All I ever wanted was to go to school.

And you. I-I mean... why?

Look, I know things aren't easy for you either.

But they're not easy for any of us.

And the worst part...

...is that I really could have been your friend.

And you, y-you put in all this effort

to make it look like you were mine.

So why? Why not just do that...

for real?

I don't know.

I... don't know. I...

I'm sorry if that's not good enough for you...

...but why?

I mean, you were weird, and you pissed me off, and I'm...

[sighs]

It was a joke.

But what you're doing to me right now...

Carrie, this is real.

If I get expelled... that's it.

My whole future goes out the window.

You will destroy my life.

I will destroy your life?

- [scoffs] - Chris.

[Carrie] What...

[sighs]

- [indistinct shouting outside] - I know that, but I-I... No, no. Listen...

[stammers] Listen. You're not listening to me.

I told you... [continues indistinctly]

[indistinct chatter]

[John] Hey, listen, how-how would you know?

Why would you even ask that?

Yeah, he's fucking sitting here with my wife.

She gets it from John.

She started to mimic him when she was six.

And the older she got, the more she took after him.

It's one of the reasons why I moved out.

[sighs] I tried to bring her with me and show her another way,

but it's a fight with John, and John's a bully.

- [Grayle] Okay... - John's a bully.

No, we've planned for this, though.

- We have a plan. - [Madison] Grayle's a bureaucrat

and Morton's a marshmallow.

And these men trying to steer this thing will only drive it into a wall.

I'm, I'm certain you know that.

I wonder if you want that.

John might think you'll bend for him

if he's loud enough, but he is so, so wrong.

[John] The guidance counselor...

[Madison] I know. I-I know there is nothing you wouldn't do for your daughter.

- Go to hell and back. - That's right.

- Me, too. - [Morton] Well, I mean,

it's becoming bigger than what we can handle.

I-I think we might need outside help.

[Madison sniffles]

This is Chris.

They're born gold.

God trusts them to us, and we do our best,

but... we can't always stop the world from... distorting them.

You know that. That's why you kept the world out.

You did better than I did.

You did better than me.

I'm not ashamed to say it.

But look at this girl.

I mean, that's who's sitting across from you in here.

That's whose future is on the line, and...

[crying] ...I beg you.

Mother to mother.

Please.

[shouting outside]

[students chanting] Death to Hargensen! Death to Hargensen!

Death to Hargensen! Death to Hargensen!

Death to Hargensen! Death to Hargensen!

Death to Hargensen! Death to Hargensen!

Death to Hargensen! Death to Hargensen!

Death to Hargensen! Death to Hargensen!

Death to Hargensen! Death to Hargensen!

Death to Hargensen! Death to Hargensen!

Death to Hargensen! Death to...

[chanting continues]

It's getting out of hand, Henry.

Oh, yeah, John?

You think?

Who the hell invited the press?

[John] I think that's pretty obvious.

They need to be here. It was what we agreed on.

[John] You called them last night. Come on.

- Wait. "Agreed on"? - [Morton] Chris,

while you were out, and while you were on the phone, John,

Carrie's mom agreed to reenrollment if you're willing to apologize.

[Margaret] Publicly.

- [Morton] Publicly. - [Madison] And Mrs. White will use

her platform, the Maggie Red account, to publicly

accept the apology and encourage de-escalation.

[John] Bullshit. No way, uh-uh. If she admits guilt

on camera, that is opening the floodgates

- to civil suits. No. - For fuck's sake, John, so what?

It's just money.

You'll settle the suits one at a time, and she'll graduate,

and she'll go to college far, far away from here,

and she can put this all behind her.

What is it worth to you?

You spent six figures on a fucking car.

Yes, Mr. Hargensen, it's only money.

Unless you have any mitigating financial circumstances

- you'd like us to be aware of? - [Kent] I mean,

- that is a good question. - [John] Fucking

- shut the fuck up, Kirby. - [Carrie] If she'll

apologize here, with just us, that's enough for me.

Carietta.

A public apology means an apology to the public,

and at this point the public is the whole country.

[Grayle] That is the deal.

We all agreed.

Chris.

Two words.

Put it to bed.

Two words.

- [Morton] Yup. - [Grayle] We got a news crew.

Keep the whole thing simple.

Two words.

[Margaret] Go on, dear.

It's not your fault that you are the way that you are.

Your mother even said so.

Two words.

Here you go.

Fuck off.

Freak.

That's three words.

Bitch.

[students chanting] Death to Hargensen!

Death to Hargensen! Death to Hargensen!

Death to Hargensen!

[reporter] A student protest

has erupted in response to a mediation

that will decide the future of Ewen High School senior

- Christine Hargensen. - Protests are not limited to students,

as several parental rights advocates and other political groups

have descended upon the school

as the students await the outcome

of that mediation happening right now inside.

Death to Hargensen!

Hey, quiet!

Yeah, shut up!

There's an update.

"Expelled"!

- What? - What?

[overlapping chatter]

Free speech! Free speech!

[others] Free speech! Free speech!

- Free speech! Free speech! - Death to Hargensen! Death to Hargensen!

Death to Hargensen! Death to Hargensen!

Death to Hargensen!

[applause and cheering]

[booing]

Back to class.

[John muttering]

[students booing]

Fuck, this is bad.

Back up.

Get back to class.

[overlapping shouting]

[booing]

Hey. Back up. Back up. Back up.

Back up! Back up!

[booing]

- Back off. - Go, just get to the car...

- Let 'em through. - Coming through.

Give us some room...

Chris, Chris!

[overlapping shouting]

Go back to class! Hey, hey! Hey!

[overlapping shouting]

[car alarm blaring]

[overlapping shouting]

[Carrie shrieks]

Carrie! Get away from her!

- Come on. What the fuck? - Get away from her.

Carrie!

[overlapping shouting]

- [grunting] - [car alarm blaring]

Knock it... knock it fucking off!

[groans]

Back up. Get the fuck out of here. Back up.

Go, go, go, go, go, go, go!

- Go! - [muffled shouting]

Fucking animals.

Jesus Christ. Let me see. You okay?

- [siren wailing] - Yeah.

[tires screech]

[overlapping chatter]

There we go. Keep your head back.

[siren toots]

[Tommy grunts]

[siren wailing]

[Tommy] Jesus.

[Sue] Yeah.

[back-up beeper beeping]

So, I mean... what happens now?

I'm really sorry I didn't tell you about the test.

I think I saw everything I had worked so hard for.

College and soccer and...

getting out of this town, disappearing.

That future you saw...

...was I in it?

Yeah.

Okay.

So we're... breaking up?

You're still my best friend.

[Margaret] The war is not over,

but today was a battle won.

We stood up.

We stood up for our kids, for our rights as parents.

We set an example for our children.

Carrie, come here. Join me.

- I don't want to-- - Just come... come over here.

Carrie fought a difficult battle today,

and it was not without wounds, was it?

- Show them, sh-sh... - Mom.

This is the state of education.

Our schools are out of control.

They can't protect our kids, so we have to do it ourselves.

We made a stand today at Ewen, but I...

I'm leading the charge for national reform

because I have... I've heard your stories.

I feel your pain.

And this is not about one town.

This is about America.

As Maggie Red grows, I want it to be a platform for you.

I want it to be a place to give voice to parents everywhere

who have had it

with institutionalized endangerment,

with corrupt practices,

with terrorists, with bullies.

- Carietta! - You want to talk about bullies?

You are my bully.

You.

She was ready to apologize, and you pushed her.

And you did it on purpose.

Don't lie to me anymore, just tell me.

Why did you say that?

'Cause it doesn't matter how hard mothers try.

Little girls just resent us,

idolize their daddies.

You are such a small-minded,

mean, petty, manipulative bitch.

My whole life...

- How dare you speak-- - ...ever since I was little,

y-you have scared me and hurt me...

- You ungrateful little monster. - ...just like you scared and hurt

- everyone else. - What is wrong with you?

And I wish you died instead of him.

[eerie music playing]

[Margaret gasping softly]

- That's what I'm talking about-- - Shut up!

[whispering] Carrie, honey.

You need to repent.

Get right with God.

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Because things are gonna change.

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♪ Now I'm a new bloody person ♪

♪ I won't obey for a dollar dollar bill ♪

♪ Typical girl, bow down to me ♪

♪ I'm trying to be on the top, top of the hill ♪

♪ Oh, no, no, you don't know me, baby ♪

♪ I won't obey for a dollar dollar bill ♪

♪ Typical girl, bow down to me ♪

♪ I'm trying to be on the top, top of the hill ♪

♪ You don't know me, baby ♪

♪ Don't try to push me, boy, they call me Tyson Fury ♪

♪ Row, row, row, row, life is but a dream ♪

♪ Pow, boom, crash, bang ♪

♪ I'm unpredictable ♪

♪ Don't try to push me, boy, boy, boy, boy ♪

♪ Nothing can stop me ♪

♪ My conquest is overall, baby ♪

♪ Now you know what I am ♪

♪ Now you know what I am, it's my bad after all ♪

♪ I won't obey for a dollar dollar bill ♪

♪ Typical girl, bow down to me ♪

♪ I'm trying to be on the top, top of the hill ♪

♪ Oh, no, no, you don't know me, baby ♪

♪ I won't obey for a dollar dollar bill ♪

♪ Typical girl, bow down to me ♪

♪ I'm trying to be on the top, top of the hill ♪

♪ You don't know me, baby ♪

♪ Don't try to push me, boy ♪

♪ Row, row your boat gently down the stream ♪

♪ Don't try to push me, boy ♪

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