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I'm such an idiot.

-Please, don't run. Don't run. -No, stop!

No! No!

Randy, how we doing?

Oh, you know, same, same, still office-less.

Reenie still hasn't found her spot yet, huh?

Nope. Thought we had one a few days ago,

but then Mel found a toxic mold report

that the owner didn't disclose.

-I did. -Mm-hmm. So, yeah, no.

Ah. Well, what's up? You got anything for me?

Uh, yes. Nicole Dunning,

a file clerk outside of Salt Lake City.

Went missing yesterday. The father's offering 8K.

Listen, I know that it hasn't been that long, but

father seemed pretty worried.

And I tried to get more detail out of him, but

he said he'd only talk to you.

Okay, yeah, send me what you have, I'll take a look.

You got it.

Uh, Colter Shaw?

Hi. Roy Dunning. I appreciate you making your way so fast.

I'm not sure where to start with this, I'm just real worried

-about my daughter. -I understand.

Uh, start with her apartment?

Uh, Nicole, she lives alone,

so when she didn't show up last night

for my birthday dinner, I got concerned.

It's not like her.

No, no, not at all.

She's reliable and thoughtful.

She's an angel.

She feels guilty if she's

five minutes late volunteering at the soup kitchen.

-Mm. -So, when she didn't answer my...

my calls, something...

something didn't feel right, so

-I drove straight here to see... -Mm-hmm. Did you touch anything?

No, not at all. Just, you know, when she wasn't here,

-just went out looking. -Yeah.

You all right? You need a minute?

I'm just scared, man.

That's my only kid.

Yeah.

Well, I'm here to help.

I'm gonna take a look around the apartment.

Maybe I notice something. If you see

anything out of the ordinary, let me know?

-Yeah. -All right.

When was the last time you spoke to your daughter?

Uh, she called me yesterday afternoon,

said she was gonna be a little late, and I didn't ask why.

Yesterday afternoon, so like... 16 hours ago?

Yeah, give or take.

Like I said, her phone keeps going to voicemail.

I called her office, her friends.

No one's heard from her.

-Police? -Said she's a grown woman.

Call back when it's been 48 hours, so that's

-when I found you. -She seeing anybody?

No one worth telling me about, so I don't know.

-This here, this her phone? -Uh...

Uh, yeah, that's-that's her phone.

She ever do anything like this before?

Never.

And is there anything else you can think of, anything at all,

that might help me figure out where she went?

Where she might be?

Maybe. Um...

Couple of days ago, she seemed upset about something.

Now, most of the times, I don't ask,

but this time I did.

She said it was just work.

-You didn't believe her? -No. No.

She didn't want to talk about whatever it was, but...

but now, I wish I had pushed her on it.

Someone sent her cupcakes.

In here.

There's a note. "It doesn't have to end."

No name.

Could be from someone she might've been seeing?

I knew this wasn't about work.

Please find my baby.

Yeah.

I'm gonna start right away.

I'll be in touch with you.

Any information on Nicole's car?

Uh, negative.

She's in a blue '88 Honda Civic,

so no GPS,

but I did get into her phone.

She made three calls to the same number yesterday.

It's a burner that's disconnected now.

And what about the bakery I sent you?

Yes, I got into the database.

A guy named Stephen Jones sent an order to her home address.

You look into the guy?

He's a finance bro,

Downtown Salt Lake,

who posts way too much on Linkedln.

Does he have a record?

Oh, yeah.

It's looking like he chased some guy down

in his Tesla and punched out the window.

-He was charged with battery. -You send me his address?

-On the way. -Thanks, Randy.

More family members came out of the woodwork?

Three more. All are making a claim to the trust.

-Have they been vetted? -I just started, yeah.

One of the claimants runs an emu farm

and has a whole YouTube channel

about the, uh, the lizard folk that live in undersea volcanoes.

The lizard folk.

Yeah. And then, the one that popped up today

-is a tradwife influencer. -Wow.

Yeah. And then, there is Ned Edwards.

-Mm-hmm. -This guy...

I have got to meet him in person 'cause... holy crap...

his voice... it's crazy.

It's like one of those radio dude voices.

He was like, "Uh, hey, babe,"

on the phone, like, three times.

At least you know he's not gonna be boring.

This is true. This is true.

Okay, what else do I have on today?

Um, you are confirmed for lunch with, uh, Judge Magill,

and then, at 5:00, we have that showing

-at the Market Street office. -Uh, yeah.

I don't think I like that area.

No, you got to just go look.

You never know until you see.

Plus, there is a really cool escape room nearby.

Oh, wow, you're selling this really hard.

It's working. Thank you.

Of course.

Oh, hi. Uh, your mom or dad around?

-Huh? -Dad! Someone's at the door.

Hey. Who is it? Uh, Henry, go help your mother out back.

Go.

Can I help you?

-Stephen Jones? -Yeah.

-Who are you? -I'm Colter Shaw.

I'm looking for Nicole Dunning.

She's missing.

Uh, sorry, I don't know who you're talking about.

Nicole Dunning.

You sent her cupcakes, extra sprinkles.

You put a little note in there.

Do you do that to women that you don't know?

No. Yeah, you must have the wrong person.

-Wish I could help you. -You know what it is, I bet?

I bet your wife sent the cupcakes to her. Right?

That's probably what happened. Let's get your wife out here.

She could probably sort this whole thing out.

She's out back, right?

Man, I'm looking for Nicole. I'm hoping you can help me out.

Okay.

Nicole and I had something, but it's over.

Well, that's not what the note said.

In fact, that's not at all what the note said.

I'm thinking maybe, uh,

Nicole found out that you were married,

and maybe you did something to her

before she could come and tell your wife?

Okay, look. We decided to end things.

-I thought it was all good. -Did you see Nicole yesterday?

Yeah. She kept calling, threatening to come to my house.

So, I agreed to meet her at the park so we could talk.

When was that?

Uh, it was around 7:30, 8:00.

-Okay. What happened? -Nothing.

We talked.

And she seemed pretty upset, but we agreed to end it.

And I jogged back home.

She didn't call, text,

and that's the truth.

Did she mention anything to you about, uh, going somewhere?

Skipping town? Any idea where she might be?

No.

Mm...

I need you to show me where you had that conversation.

Uh, I can't just leave right now, my wife...

You're gonna have to. I need you to show me

where you had that conversation.

Just go lie to your wife or something.

You're good at that.

Figure it out.

Well...

We talked right here on that bench. That's where I left her.

Then I went home.

I assumed she went back to her car over there.

Look, you got to believe me, man.

Okay? I didn't do anything to her.

I really liked her.

You recognize that?

Yeah, I gave it to her.

Okay, you're gonna show me

exactly where she parked her car.

Okay, okay.

She was parked right here.

What do you think happened to her?

I don't know.

Her dad hasn't seen her since yesterday. Car's missing.

Maybe she was carjacked. You see anybody else out here?

Oh, God. Uh...

No, um, but there's been a-a few assaults

over on the east side of the park lately.

Okay.

Now, I'm... I'm sure you can find your own way back, huh?

Thanks, man.

Hey, man, what are you doing there?

I, uh, was hired to find a woman.

Think this might be her car.

Looks like the plates are stripped, huh?

Yeah. Whoever did this left a damn mess.

Nearly killed my employee last night.

What happened?

Bashed Fernando's head in.

-Fernando is your employee? -Yeah.

Customer found him this morning at 5:00 a.m.

Called 911. They rushed him to the hospital.

These security cameras here, they catch anything?

Damn thing's been out for a month.

Been hammering the owner about it, but he never got around

to fixing it. Police have no idea.

Said some meth heads hit another gas station

couple miles away last week.

This, uh, this hospital

they sent Fernando to, you have the name of it?

Uh, visiting hours are almost over.

Understood. I won't take up too much of his time. Thank you.

-Fernando. -Hi.

Colter Shaw.

You a cop?

I have been waiting to talk to someone.

I am not a cop. I'm looking for, uh,

this woman here. Nicole Dunning.

I think she came by your gas station, is that right?

Yeah, looks like her.

All right. You want to tell me what happened?

Pretty normal night.

But then she drove in, fast.

Then this guy gets out of the car, runs inside,

looked kind of like a... some kind of junkie.

You know, burn marks all over his hands, that kind of thing.

When he got close, I realized

he was just a kid, maybe 16.

-Smelled horrible. -Hmm.

The-the kid, was he holding her against her will?

-Hostage? Anything like that? -No.

He needs help. Call the police.

Kept saying he was in trouble,

when, out of nowhere...

Hey, man.

Are you okay?

He knocked me out.

I guess, when they found me, they said the place was empty.

So, the guy from the camper

must've taken both of them.

The... the guy, the guy from the camper,

what'd he look like? You got a description?

Yeah. Big guy, wearing a hoodie.

I mean, he came at me so fast.

Right. And the-the camper,

-you get a license plate or...? -Nah, man.

It was old.

Green and white.

Green and white camper. Okay.

Is there anything else at all, anything that might help me

figure out who this guy is, anything you can think of?

There was a-a decal in the window.

It-it looked almost like a two-headed tiger or something.

Okay. Okay, that's very helpful.

Thank you very much, Fernando.

I appreciate it. Try to get some rest, all right?

Thank you for your help.

So, this teenager's running from someone.

That's what I was thinking. Think he ran into her

at the park. I think she was trying to help him,

and then this guy in the camper van took 'em both.

Did you get any information on that, uh,

that tiger decal I sent you?

Yeah, this logo from a Tiger Club International.

It's a charitable organization, like...

Elks Club or-or Shriners. You know, they do fundraising

-and... -Any locations nearby?

Yes. There's a local branch

not far from you at all, a few miles.

Okay. I'll go check it out. Oh, hey.

Sending you a photo right now.

Need you to look into it for me. It's a picture of a hoodie

I found in the back of Nicole's car.

You see the sticker with the barcode?

You think it belongs to the guy she was taken with?

Might help us figure out who he is or where he is.

-All right. I'm on it. -Thanks, Randy.

Uh, hey. How's the search going for the missing woman?

Uh, complicated.

It looks like she was taken with another guy.

Here, come on, take a look at this.

He left his hoodie

in the backseat, and I'm trying to figure out who he is.

Have you ever seen this before?

I don't know.

Come look.

Oh, that's from a hospital.

I had to take my friend to the ER

last month, and they stuck one of those on her shirt

-to track her treatment. -Let me, uh,

make a call.

I might know someone.

-Office? -Straight ahead.

Thank you.

-Hi. -Sign says no solicitors.

Oh, no, I'm not selling anything.

Off you go.

Six.

Third one over, fourth down.

Right?

There it is.

Okay, smarty-pants,

you got 60 seconds.

-What? -Okay, I'm looking for an old camper van.

It's green and white.

Uh, there's a, um, there's a sticker

in the window, looked just like that.

I'm thinking maybe it's a parking pass for your club?

Are you a cop?

-A Fed or something? -No.

Then I can't help you.

Had a scammer get into our database a few years back,

-stole member IDs. -Oh, that's terrible.

I'm... I'm not a scammer, I can assure you that.

I, um...

I'm looking for a woman.

She's missing. The person who's in the camper van took her.

I think it's one of your members.

One of our members took a woman?

I think so.

I don't like to hear that sort of thing.

I think I know who you're talking about.

He drove a camper van like that,

leaked oil all over the lot.

We ask him to leave, revoke his membership a long time ago.

Why is that? Why would you revoke his membership?

General creep behavior.

Bothering teenage volunteers at our Easter Gala.

Standing too close.

Offering rides no one asked for.

-You got a name for this creep? -Hmm.

I think it was Montgomery.

Might be...

Hmm...

Think it's this one.

Let me see.

Hmm... It might be an old address.

-Right here. -You got it?

Tate Montgomery.

-That's the one? -Mm-hmm.

That could help. Thank you very, very much.

When you find out about your missing woman,

-you come back and tell me. -I will do that. Thanks again.

Colter?

Randy, I'm at Montgomery's house.

-Police on the way. -But-but why? What'd you find?

Tate Montgomery's body. He's been dead for a while.

So, somebody else took the dude's van,

even though it's still registered in his name?

Yeah, whoever was using the camper van

was living in his house and took over his life.

So, a squatter.

That's wild, man.

Someone was being kept here.

I got shackles, I got...

restraints bolted to the wall.

All right, predatory freak that likes holding people. Sheesh.

All right, well, don't open the fridge,

a-and if there's a basement, damn sure don't go down there.

I'm in the basement.

Hell no.

Anyway, looks like there was some kind of a fire here.

Guy at the gas station said

the kid who was with Nicole had burn marks on his hands.

This house is pretty close to the park.

Maybe the teenager ran off to the park, tried to get help.

Well, if Montgomery wasn't holding him, who was?

My best guess is whoever was squatting here killed him or

let him die so that he could use his house.

All right, well, get the hell out of that basement.

Yeah, I'm way ahead of you.

Well, whoever was living here bolted out of here in a hurry,

that's for sure.

One second. I saw something.

Yeah. Yeah, looks like, whoever it was,

was cashing Montgomery's Social Security checks.

A guy named Elias Williams.

I'm sending you a picture right now.

Got it.

All right, I'm-a take a look into this Elias Williams.

I'll get back to you.

Yeah, thanks, Randy.

Let it be known to you,

O King, that we will not serve your gods...

This...

Drink it.

Drink it now.

You think this is punishment, boy?

I'll put you on the meat hooks instead.

Randy, what do you got?

Okay, I've been looking into financial records,

and Elias Williams has been sponging off of Tate Montgomery

for years.

-Colt? You there? -Yeah.

I'm here. I j... I came across some footage

of what's been going on here.

There's a teenager being tortured.

Could it be the kid that was with Nicole?

I don't know. Maybe.

Can you check and see if Elias Williams

has any connection

to Montgomery?

Let's find out.

Oh, my God. Yeah.

He's Montgomery's stepson.

Elias Williams is a former preacher.

His last place of employment was

State of Eternal Grace Church four years ago.

All right. I'd like to find out where he is now.

Maybe you can trace him.

He's got a phone maybe, something like that?

Already doing it.

All right, his phone's pinging at a storage unit.

Sent you the address.

Got it. Thanks, Randy. On my way.

Elias.

Where's Nicole?

Where's the kid?

Not sure who you're talking about, friend.

-Go, go. -Who the hell was that guy?

-I don't know. -He's after Jason and that stupid girl,

isn't he? Is he a cop?!

-I told you I don't know. -And I told you

we should've cleared the house out properly.

I would appreciate it if you didn't question my judgment.

Oh, your judgment? Is that what you call taking that girl?

-She saw Jason. -I'm not the one who let him escape. You remember that.

Let him have a candle, and he starts a fire.

My house, my rules.

Or have you forgotten your place?

Besides, I'm not the one who gave him special privileges.

We will agree to disagree, Elias.

You hit me again, and I will crash this van.

Sorry, baby.

You know how I get.

I know, but we still got

a big problem that ain't going away.

Everything's gonna be okay.

I'm gonna work on it. Don't you worry.

How?

We'll start over.

We'll go up to that old cabin by Lake Franco,

lay low for a while.

I'm talking about the girl.

What the hell are we gonna do with the girl?

We keep her.

I think she's a gift.

Sent to serve us.

Yeah, well, they're not gonna stop looking for her.

Well...

if they come looking,

we'll put her in a hole.

Cover her up.

Hey, bro, you at the storage facility?

I was. I just left. Had a little run-in with Elias.

Listen, he's with a woman. She tried to run me over

in her van. Can you get his location?

I got 'em. Going west on Route 150.

They're moving fast. Just sent you a pin.

All right. I'm on my way there now.

-Is that Colter? -Hold on, I got Reenie.

Hey, so the sticker on the teenager's hoodie

is from an ER visit one year ago.

I got the medical records.

Name's Jason Williams. He's 16 years old.

What was he doing there?

His parents brought him in. Elias and Cheryl.

He had severe stomach pain.

They forced him to drink bleach.

-They did that to their own son? -They said they were purifying

Jason of his sins, some out-there fringe stuff

that modern society corrupts the child.

But either way, the hospital, they think it's ongoing abuse,

and they notified CPS, but the family disappeared.

Nicole was trying to help Jason escape.

But now, she's a loose end.

Well, we better find them before they decide to cut their losses.

The seed was passed into me and then into Jason.

Now you know how precious that is.

How we have to guard it, keep it pure.

He's our responsibility till the end.

I know that.

There's still good inside him.

The light, you've seen it.

It's as the scripture says,

"The seed of the Perfect cannot be extinguished."

I see a blackness.

-Don't say that. -It's true.

We have to get out of here.

How?

It can be cleansed, but first,

we must attend to the matter at hand.

Hey! No! No!

No!

911. What is your emergency?

Jason!

-Come back to your father now! -Okay, go this way.

This way.

Jason!

Jason!

Jason, you stop running right now!

Jason.

Son?

You know the price of disobedience!

Now, you come to me!

Please, please. I-I... I have to stop. I can't run anymore.

Get up. We got to keep going.

I can't. It's my leg.

You-you can make it. Look at me.

You can do this. Okay?

Boy!

Boy! Where are you?!

-Boy! -Come on.

-Come on, we got to keep going. -Show yourself.

Just leave me. I-I'm the one he wants.

You're so close to being free, okay? You can't give up.

-I'll help you. -They're never gonna let me go!

Just...

Just leave. It's-it's the only way.

Jason!

Come back to your father now!

Please, Father. I'm sorry I ran.

Shh.

Where's the woman?

She left me.

Which way?

Show me.

And you'll be forgiven, okay?

There you go.

That wasn't so hard, was it?

-Come on. Come on. -No.

I thought you were a gift.

-Please... -But you're a curse.

Sent to test us.

Drop the knife.

Drop it.

Of course.

You all right?

Jason, he needs help.

Yeah, okay. Hey.

You all right?

-Is she okay? -She's okay. She's safe.

We're gonna get you to the hospital.

Okay. You're all right.

You're all right.

You okay? You need anything?

-Mr. Shaw, is she okay? -She's okay.

-You had me so worried. -I'm okay.

-You sure? -Yeah, yeah. Dad, I promise.

She saved me.

And he saved the both of us.

Looks like I hired the right guy.

-Thank you. -Yeah.

Your daughter, she's, uh... very strong.

And she got that from her dad.

Thank you.

-Hey. -Reenie,

any update on Jason's situation?

Yeah, I talked to my contact at CPS.

It's such a sad case, Colter.

Jason's parents pulled him out of school

when he was six years old,

and then twisted their own beliefs, and then

used them to justify locking Jason away

from the entire world. It seems like

generational trauma, starting with the grandfather.

-What's next? -Parents are in custody.

Probably gonna go away for a very long time.

Any other family?

Actually, I found an aunt in Texas,

and she didn't even know what happened to Jason,

but she's been estranged from her sister for years.

They haven't talked, and she's ready to take him in.

So, he gets a fresh start.

It'll take some time, but he should be okay.

That's good. Okay.

Thanks, Reenie. I appreciate it.

Okay.

Hi. Why are we here?

You were right.

The area is growing on me,

and so, I saw the place,

had a glass of wine with the landlord.

He told me everything that's happened here.

Turns out, it used to be an old bank, and they stopped,

like, 16 bank robberies.

Sixteen.

Figuring that that means this has pretty good juju,

so I, uh...

signed a lease on the spot.

What?

-Are we serious? -We're serious.

I know, I know. It just has so much character and history and

-layers. -Wh-What do you mean "layers"?

Oh, you'll see.

I knew it. I knew you'd like it.

I just knew it. It had that vibe.

-Mm-hmm. -So, we... This is it?

It just needs a little bit of TLC, you know? Add some texture,

-clean up the vines... -You like the vines?

-I love the vines. -We love the vines.

What about the vault?

Oh, we're definitely keeping the vault.

Can't wait for you to see the vault.

We love the vault.

So you want to come inside, make a list?

Yes.

I may already have some contractors on speed dial.

-Of course you do. -I mean, I...

As long as I got my space, I guess...

You will always have your space, Randy.

You know, I was just messing with you.

I didn't expect you to drive all the way out here

to deliver that thing.

Well... drive wasn't that bad,

-and we always do deliveries. -Really?

No, we never do deliveries.

-Ah. -So, I did this as a special favor.

And the drive was terrible.

Thank you very much. Wow.

Not bad, huh?

Not bad? No, it's, uh...

it's perfect.

-Yeah. -Yeah.

It's just like the original.

Well, this brings back some memories.

Good ones, I hope.

Mostly. Yeah.

Yeah, so where are you off to next?

Next? I...

I don't have anywhere to be, for once.

Mm.

Just finished a job. I...

guess I could go anywhere.

-Well, that sounds nice. -Yeah.

Do you get lonely out here by yourself?

Mm...

You know, I-I...

I'm not always alone.

-You know. -Oh.

-Got it. -No, no, that's not what I...

Oh, come on. No, I was... I meant, like, you know,

on the job, police officers, I...

I'm just messing with you.

Good one.

So do you want to accept delivery?

Yeah. Yeah, I think I will.

That dinner,

we never got a chance to go.

There's a... really run-down diner

-up the street. -Ooh.

Yeah, yeah. I've never been there.

Food's probably 50-50.

Oh, that sounds right up my alley.

-Yeah? You want to try it? -I'll take those odds.

-Let's do it. -Let's go. I'll drive.

-Thank you. -Perfect.

-Really does look good, huh? -Yeah, it does.

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