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Thank you.

Please don't run!

Randy, how we

doing?

Oh, you know, same, same.

Still office-less.

Rini 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, the file clerk outside of Salt Lake City, went missing

yesterday. The father's offering 8K.

Listen, I know that hasn't been that long, but the 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.

Call to show.

All right, 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.

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. She's five minutes late volunteering at the soup kitchen.

Mm-hmm. So when she didn't answer my calls, something didn't feel right. So

I drove straight here to see.

Did you touch anything?

No, not at all. Just, you know, when she was in here, just went out looking.

You alright? You need a minute?

Just scared, man.

It'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.

Alright.

When was the last time you spoke to your daughter?

She called me yesterday afternoon, said she was going to be a little late, and I

didn't ask why.

Yesterday afternoon, so like 16 hours ago? Yeah, give or take.

Like I said, that phone keeps going to voicemail.

I called the office, her friends, no one's heard from her. Police?

Said she's a grown woman.

Called 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.

Let's hear this, the phone.

Yeah, 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 a Couple of days ago. She seemed upset

about something 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

She didn't want to talk about whatever it was, but... But now I wish I had

pushed on it.

Someone sent her cupcakes.

This here.

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

No name.

Could be from someone she might have 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, and it's disconnected now.

And what about the bakery I sent you? Yes.

I got into the database.

A guy named Steven 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 LinkedIn.

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 claim to the trust.

Have they been vetted?

I just started. Yeah. One of the claimants runs an ANU farm and has a

whole YouTube channel about the lizard folk that live in undersea volcanoes.

The lizard folk.

Yeah. And then the one that popped up today is a trad wife influencer.

Wow. Yeah. And then there's Ned Edwards.

This guy, I have got to meet him in person because holy crap, his voice is

crazy. It's like one of those radio dude voices.

He's like... Oh, 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 Judge McGill, and then at 5 o'clock, we

have that showing at the Market Street office.

Yeah, I don't think I'd like that area.

No, you gotta 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.

Hi your mom or dad around dad someone's at the door

Then

we go help your mother out back go Can

help you Steven Jones, yeah culture Shaw I'm looking for Nicole Dunning

she's missing

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

Nicole Dunning.

You sent her cupcakes, extra sprinkles, put a little note in there.

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

No. Yeah, you must have their own person.

What's she gonna help you with?

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 can

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 Nicole found

out that you were married, and maybe you did something to her before she'd come

and tell your wife. Okay, look.

We decided to end things.

I thought it was all good.

Did you see Nicole yesterday?

She kept calling, threatening to come to my house.

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

When was that?

Around 7.30, 8. What happened?

Nothing. We talked.

She seemed pretty upset, but we agreed to end it.

And I jogged back home.

Jim called, texted, and that's the truth.

Did she mention anything to you about going somewhere, skipping town? Any idea

where she might be?

No.

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

I can't just leave right now. You're going to 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.

We talked right here on that bench.

That's where I left her.

From when I went home.

I assume she went back to her car over there.

But you gotta 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.

All right.

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

Oh, God.

No, Mom.

There's been a few assaults over on the east side of the park lately.

Okay.

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.

I 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?

Bash Fernando's head in.

Fernando is your employee?

Yeah.

Customer found this morning at 5 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 never got around to fixing it.

Police have no idea.

Sent some meth heads, hit another gas station a couple miles away last week.

It's this hospital they sent Fernando to. Do you have the name of it?

Visiting hours are almost over.

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

Fernando, right?

Colter Shaw.

You a cop?

I have been waiting to talk to someone. I am not a cop. I'm looking for this

woman here.

Nicole Dunning?

I think she came by your gas station. Is that right?

Yeah, it looks like her.

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 Look 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 it was just a kid maybe 16 Smells horrible.

Hmm The the kid was he holding her against her will hostage anything like

that? No

Come saying he was in trouble went 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 have taken both of them.

The guy, the guy from the camper, what did he look like? He got a description?

Yeah, big guy wearing a hoodie.

I mean, he came at me so fast.

Right. And 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 decal in the window.

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.

I was thinking.

I think he ran into her at the park. I think she was trying to help him, and

this guy in the camper van took them both.

Did you get any information on that tiger decal I sent you?

Yeah, this logo from Tiger Club International.

It's a charitable organization, like Elks Club or Shriners. You know, they do

fundraising. 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.

I need you to look into it for me. It's a picture of a hoodie I found at the

back of Nicole's car.

You see the sticker with the barcode?

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

Help us figure out who he is or where he is.

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

Hey, how's the search going for the missing woman?

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.

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 make a call. I might know someone.

Office? Hey.

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.

There's a sticker in the window that looks just like that.

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

Are you a cop?

A fad or something?

No.

Then I can't help you.

Had a scammer get into our database a few years back, stole member IDs.

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

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, licked oil all over the lot. We asked him to

leave or revoke his membership a long time ago.

Why is that? Why would you revoke his membership?

General creep behavior.

Bothering teenage volunteers at Easter Gala.

Standing to close.

Offering rides no one asked for.

You got a name for this creep?

I think it was Montgomery.

Maybe...

It's just this one.

Let me see.

It might be an old address.

Right here.

You got it?

Tate Montgomery.

That's the one?

Mm-hmm. I like it. 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.

Coulter. Randy, I'm at Montgomery's house.

Police on the way.

What? Why? What you find?

Tape 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.

She's living in his house. It took over his life.

So, a squatter.

That's wild, man.

Someone's being cuffed here.

I got shackles. I got...

Restraints bolted to the wall.

All right.

Predatory freak that likes holding people.

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

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

I'm in the basement.

Hell.

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

hand. This house is pretty close to the park. Maybe the teenager ran off to the

park to try to get help. Well, if Montgomery wasn't holding him, who was?

Well, my best guess is whoever was squatting here killed him or let him die

so they could use his house. All right.

Well, get the hell out of that basement.

Yeah, I'm way out of here.

Whoever was living here bolted out of here in a hurry, that's for sure.

One second, I saw something.

Yeah, yeah, it 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 gonna take a look into this Elias Williams.

I'll get back to you.

Thanks, Randy.

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 in the financial records, and Elias Williams has been

sponging off of Tate Montgomery for years.

Cole, you there?

Yeah, I'm here. I came across some footage of what's been going on here.

It'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.

Essentially 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!

I don't know. He's after Jason and that stupid girl, isn't he?

Is he a cop? Told you I don't know. And I told you we should have cleared the

house up properly.

If you didn't question my judgment... Your judgment? Is that what you called

taking that girl? You saw Jason. I'm not the one who let him escape. You remember

that. We let him have a candle and he stirs a fire.

My house, my walls.

Are you forgetting 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've crashed 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 going to be okay.

I'm going to work on it. Don't you worry.

How?

Start over.

We'll go to that old cabin by Lake Franco. Lay low for a while.

I'm talking about the girl. What the hell are we going to do with the girl?

The keeper.

I think she's a gift.

Sent to serve us.

Well, they're not going to stop looking for her.

If they come looking, we'll put her in a hole.

Cover her up.

Hey, bro. You got 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 him. 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 Coulter? Hold on, I got Renie.

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.

They notified CPS, but the family disappeared.

Nicole was trying to help Jason escape.

But now she's a loose end.

Well, we'd 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.

We have to guard it.

Keep it pure.

These are our responsibility till the end.

I know that.

There's still good inside it.

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.

It can be cleansed at first.

Must attend the matter at hand.

9-1-1, what is your emergency?

Jason!

Come back to your father, now!

Jason?

Jason!

Jason, you stop running right now!

Jason!

Son!

You know the price of disobedience! Now you come to me!

Please, please, I have to stop. I can't run anymore. Get up. We gotta keep

going. It's my leg.

You can make it.

Look at me.

You can do this, okay? Roy!

Roy!

Where are you?

Roy!

Come on.

Come on, we gotta keep going. Show yourself!

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.

It's the only way.

Nathan!

Come back to your father now!

Please, Father, I'm sorry I ran. Shh.

Where's the wallet?

She left me.

Which way?

Show me.

Then you'll be forgiven.

Okay?

There you go.

That wasn't so hard, was it?

I thought you were a gift. But you're a curse.

Sent to test us.

Drop the

knife.

Drop it.

Of course.

You all right?

Jason, he needs help.

Yeah.

Hey. You all right? Is she okay? She's okay. She's safe.

I'll get you to the hospital.

You're all right.

You're all right.

You okay?

You need anything?

Mrs. Shaw, is she okay? She's okay.

Just don't worry.

Dad. You sure?

Yeah, I'll get her pumped.

She saved me.

And he saved the both of us.

Looks like I hired the right guy.

Thank you. Yeah.

Your daughter, she's very strong.

She got that from her dad.

Rini, any update on Jason's situation?

Yeah, I talked to my contact at CPS.

It's such a sad case, Coulter.

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.

It's probably going to go away for a very long time.

And you have a 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.

I mean, it'll take some time, but he should be okay. That's good.

Okay.

Thanks, Verena. I appreciate it.

Okay.

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.

16? 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's just so much character and history and layers.

Well, 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, wait, 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.

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, 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.

Oh.

The drive wasn't that bad, and we always do deliveries.

Really?

No, we never did deliveries.

So I did this as a special favor.

And the drive looks terrible.

Thank you very much. Wow.

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

It's perfect.

Yeah. Yeah. Just like the original.

Well, this brings back some memories.

Good ones, I hope.

Mostly. Yeah.

So, where are you off to next?

Next?

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

Just finished a job. I guess I could go anywhere.

Well, that sounds nice. Yeah.

Do you feel lonely out here by yourself?

You know, I... I'm not always alone, you know.

Oh, got it. No, no, that's not what I... Oh, come on. No, I meant, like, you

know, on the job, police officers. Yeah, I'm just asking.

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. Yeah. Yeah, I've never been there Foods

probably 5050 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

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