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- ♪ Can you kiss me more? ♪ - ♪ We're so young, boy ♪

♪ We ain't got nothing to lose ♪

- ♪ Oh, oh ♪ - ♪ It's just principle ♪

♪ Baby, hold me, 'cause I like the way you groove ♪

♪ Oh, oh... ♪

♪ All on my tongue, I want it ♪

♪ Boy, you write your name... ♪

Here, Jake.

Thanks.

♪ La-la-la-la ♪

♪ All on my tongue, I want it ♪

♪ I feel like fuckin' somethin'... ♪

What's that?

I, um...

I went to the library and found this old topo map.

Topo map?

Topographical.

It shows all the towns that were here

before the dam went up and the lake was formed.

That's the last resting place of Reedsville,

population 103.

So there really is a town under the lake.

I thought it was just BS.

No, it's not.

And with the drought, we can totally get to it.

A few years ago, it would've been too deep to reach.

You are such a geek.

But a cute geek.

I think your brother's got the jones for some Hayley.

Mm, really? How could you tell?

He's, uh, so good at hiding it.

Some of us play it cool and, well, some of us can't.

Tell me about it.

Hmm?

- What? - Guys, if my map is right,

Reedsville should be right over there.

So, who's joining me on the first dive?

Should be one sober person down there, huh?

Okay.

I guess family comes first.

You two have fun.

Bring me something cool.

What are you doing to me?

You're my sister. Give me a little help.

I am. She's a skank.

She fucks over every guy she's been with.

I like her.

I want her to fuck me over as much as she can.

I don't need you to save me, okay?

Uh, I kind of think you do.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Sure.

Suit up.

Whoo!

Help! He's drowning! Help!

Help me!

I can walk, Mom.

Okay, sweetie.

Can I make you something to eat?

No. I'm...

I just want to lie down and take a nap.

Okay, sweetie.

Whatever you want.

We're just so glad that you're home.

I'm worried.

Maybe we brought her home too soon.

The doctor said she was ready.

Couple more weeks at a mental health clinic

wasn't gonna help her.

Well, it wasn't just a mental health clinic.

It was the best in the city.

She looks like a zombie.

She's getting used to being home.

It's going to be a process, Jeffrey.

She needs to find her life again

and start getting back to normal.

We all do.

Meaning me.

You don't talk to me anymore.

You come home from the office,

and you lock yourself in your study.

Well, I'm swamped.

You know? I've-I've...

I've got all this work to catch up with after...

Uh...

I think it would be good for Finn if you were...

If I were stronger.

Like you?

Around more.

Present.

I know you're hurting.

We're all just taking it one day at a time.

And as hard as it is, we're gonna have to try...

and move forward.

We lost our son, Erin.

I'm just doing the best I can.

Sure I can't get you anything?

No?

Okay. Whatever you want, sweetie.

Mm.

Mom?

Yeah, sweetie?

What did you put in the casket?

The casket?

Jake wasn't in there, so what did you bury?

Some mementos.

That essay Jake wrote in middle school

about his trip to Disneyland.

His Pokémon cards.

Those brown Crocs that he wore to school every day.

Glad to get rid of those.

Kind of turned it into a time capsule.

That's nice.

I wish I was there.

Baby, you were getting healthy.

You were doing what you needed to do.

But am I healthy, Mom?

I still believe what I saw.

It just takes time.

Time will put it all into perspective.

Come here.

Whoa, hey. It's just me.

Could you say something when you walk into the room?

I did, and you didn't hear me.

What's so interesting?

I was, um, just...

checking if there were any teaching jobs available.

But it's pretty dry out there right now.

Probably best, it's a good time for me to be home.

Actually, I think you should keep looking.

You do?

You were right.

We should be trying to move forward.

For Finn and... and for you.

You were also right about me.

I let myself fall apart.

Instead of being there for you and for Finn, I...

I sealed myself off.

I'm gonna change, Erin.

I'll try to be stronger.

We don't need you to be stronger.

We just need you to be here.

Mom!

Jake: Find me.

Mom, find me.

Find me.

Find me.

You want to relive all this trauma

because of some nightmares?

Nightmares come when you're asleep, Jeffrey.

I was awake both times.

I think these were something else.

Jake was...

begging me to find him.

Jesus.

I can't ignore what I saw and what I heard.

I just want to...

go back there and look for him.

The police divers were in the water for weeks.

Okay? Parts of that lake are hundreds of feet deep.

Not the area where he disappeared.

Jake is dead, Erin.

He did not appear to you. Okay?

You are seeing what you want to see.

That's crazy, Jeffrey.

I didn't want to see what I saw.

You were the one saying how important it was to move on.

Right? What... What's this gonna do to Finn,

dredging all of this back up?

She doesn't have to know.

Jeffrey, it's our son.

He's gone, Erin.

I know that!

You didn't see what I saw.

He wants to come home.

He needs me.

He needs us.

If you want to do this, you're on your own.

I'm sorry, I...

I have to get ready.

I believe you.

I believe you saw Jake,

and I believe he wants you to bring him home.

- How did you... - Mom,

I've heard almost every argument you and Dad have ever had.

Oh. That's a scary thought.

I want to go with you and look for him.

Come with me?

No, sweetie.

You're gonna need me to show you exactly where it happened.

You just got back from the clinic.

You're healing.

I can't take you back there.

I still have nightmares, Mom.

They haven't gone away.

Okay? So, I'll heal a lot faster when Jake's back home.

I can do this.

I need to do this.

Let me come with you.

We can't tell your father.

So we take off now.

Leave him a note telling him where we are,

and by the time he gets it, we'll be on the lake.

I don't remember you being this devious.

That's because most of the time I was being devious with you.

Are you sure you want to do this?

You don't have to come.

No, I... I don't want you to be alone.

Finn.

I'm fine.

Once we get there, um, I'll be okay.

Let's go.

Mom, let's go on a hike later.

- Ooh. - Hey!

- What... That's mine. - Mmm, that is good.

- What? Dad! - What?

Mom!

Guys, I can make more.

Yeah, but hers taste so much better.

Okay. Run. Go.

My waffle. Mine. Mine!

Go. Go.

- That's my waffle! Mine! - Come and get me.

- You okay? - Yes, sweetie.

I can't believe I'm back here.

I swore I'd never come near this place again.

It's just so wrong.

All of it. I mean, I should've been...

I should've been able to help him. I...

He was my little brother.

I was supposed to look out for him.

Stop it. Don't do that.

It's not your fault, you know that.

I just need to keep hearing it.

Come on.

Let's get out there and do what we came here to do.

It was right over there.

Last time I saw him.

He was so scared.

We're gonna find him. I know we will.

Be careful. Okay, Mom?

I'm gonna be more than careful.

I got this down at the marina.

It's eight feet down, right?

Yeah.

I'm gonna tie this around my waist.

If I don't surface in a couple of minutes,

just pull me up best you can.

Okay.

Are you sure this is the spot?

I'm positive. Just keep going that way.

Is there a tricycle down there?

A tricycle? No.

Maybe we should just call it a day. Okay?

- You're tired, Mom. - No.

I can do a few more.

Mom?

Mom. Mom!

Mom!

Mom!

We searched that area for weeks

and came up with nothing.

It just seems incredible, you come out here

and in a few hours find what my men couldn't.

I know, Sheriff. It's just as incredible to me.

Guess I have something inside me that can't accept incredible.

Like these bodies you say you saw.

We can't find any sign of them.

I don't know what to say. I saw them. They're there.

People chained to a concrete block?

Like they were left there to drown.

I found... these on one of the dead bodies.

"Boone"?

You recognize the name?

Belongs to a family that farmed the area before it was a lake.

I think there's a descendant still alive, Millie Boone.

You stick around these parts long enough,

you'll hear a lot of rumors about this area.

Secrets, some of them pretty unsavory.

I didn't come here to uncover any secrets, Sheriff.

I came here to find my son.

I'm glad for you, ma'am.

Thank you.

Excuse me.

What are you thinking?

Taking our daughter back to the lake?

After everything she's been through?

- Jeffrey, just listen to me. - No, no, no, no, no.

I'm coming out there, and I'm bringing her home.

Jeffrey, we found Jake.

We're bringing our son home.

He was right there,

where he disappeared.

The local coroner needs to do what they do with him.

He's coming home.

I-I can't even believe it. What...

I want to have another service.

A real one this time, with our son.

Erin, I should've been there with you.

I know I've been saying that a lot, what I...

what I should've done, but...

it's true.

We can talk about that when I get home.

We'll be leaving here in an hour or so.

How's Finn handling it?

She's glad her brother's coming home.

She's so strong.

- I got to go. - Okay.

Was that Dad?

- Yeah. - How was he?

Just like us and everyone,

he can't believe it.

- How's your hand? - Oh.

Gonna have to grow some skin back, but okay.

The paramedic was cute.

Oh, my God. Don't start.

I'm so proud of you, baby.

I'm proud of you, too, Mom.

I'm just really glad it's over.

What is it, Mom?

There's something going on here.

So you believe me.

I do.

We found your brother,

but now we need to find out why he died.

Know why I chose this shithole

to wait for old Scratch?

'Cause it's just across the Prescott town line.

Won't live in that fake-ass made-up place.

Ms. Boone, I just want to talk about Lake Prescott

and why so many people are dying there.

People die there 'cause they're stupid.

They get drunk and they fall in.

Or they horse around near the edge,

and they can't swim.

My brother died in the lake.

And he wasn't stupid and he could swim.

Something got hold of his leg, and...

he drowned.

We found his body just today.

Heard the sirens.

We didn't just find my son.

I saw three dead people at the bottom of the lake,

chained to concrete.

And one of them was wearing this.

That can only belong to one Boone.

Maynard Nathaniel Boone, my great-grandfather.

Why was he killed? Who killed him?

That would be the state's own favorite son,

Mr. Wrede Prescott.

In Georgia, they were putting up dams like ticks on a hound,

and he wanted to make sure

the Tar Heel State didn't get left behind.

Plus, he'd get a cut of all the power the dam generated,

so he stood to make a fortune.

But there were a lot of people out there

that didn't like that dam.

And out of pure spite,

he rounded up three of the men

that had caused him the most trouble.

Something to say, soldier boy?

If you let us go, I won't say nothing. I swear.

- Please, sir. - Oh, so now I'm "sir."

Before I was "that greedy sumbitch."

If I were you, I'd start practicing.

Practicing?

Holding my breath.

No. No!

No! Don't leave us here!

You can't leave us! Please!

Must've been horrible,

the water creeping up inch by inch.

Can't even fathom it.

Even after what they did to those men,

the fight to kill the dam goes on to this day.

But how is it still going on?

The dam's been up for almost 90 years.

Who's leading this fight?

Every year we file a formal petition,

scrape up the signatures to have the dam taken down,

in the name of the lives lost in the building

and all the lives lost over the decades.

And every year that petition sinks

no matter how many people sign.

Why?

Wrede Prescott left an endowment to protect the dam.

Not that he was so interested in the damned thing himself,

but because he knew when they drained the lake

it would reveal his crime

and destroy his precious family name.

His money's held in trust

at a law firm that fights tooth and nail

to keep that dam up,

beats off any attempt to decommission the dam.

Spengler and Webber. That's the firm.

Are you sure that's the name of the firm?

Tangled with 'em enough over the years,

I should know.

What are we gonna do?

Right now, we're going to pack up our things

and go home.

I mean after.

Are you and Dad...

Let's just get the hell out of this fucking place.

Dad?

- What? - Hey, sweetie.

- What are you doing here? - Oh.

You said over the phone you were coming home.

That was four hours ago.

Can you go into the bedroom and get our stuff together

- so I can talk to your dad? - Mom.

Wait, wait, wait. What is it? Something with Jake?

Your firm...

it's been keeping the Prescott Dam

from being torn down.

What?

You were involved in that, weren't you?

I don't understand.

You were involved in the effort

to keep the Prescott Dam up and running. Yes or no?

Yes, I'm in charge of the entire case.

What does this got to do with anything?

The man you work for,

the man who built this dam...

Wrede Prescott... he's a monster.

What are you talking about?

He's been dead for years.

I'm sure he was accused of a lot of bad things,

but so is every successful businessman.

Do all businessmen chain people to concrete so they can drown?

- Where did you hear something like that? - I didn't just hear I.

I saw it.

Like you saw Jake in your bathroom

and out by the pool.

I really think you need some help.

What, are you gonna put Mom in a mental hospital, too?

Dad, hundreds of people have died in this lake.

People die in lakes all the time.

The busier the lake, the more people die.

Lake Prescott is one of the busiest lakes in the state.

Prescott murdered people to get what he wanted,

which means that you've been taking money from a murderer.

- Yeah, well, so have you. - Me?

You didn't know, and you didn't want to know.

You never cared where our money comes from.

Every now and again you say you want to go back to teaching,

but none of that pays for the kids' private schools,

your country club membership, your BMW

with all the bells and whistles, our house...

Dad, that's not fair.

You always said that

the house has been in your family for years.

Yeah, that's right. My family.

Our house, our money, this cottage,

this lake, this town, is all because of my family.

This town.

Dad...

You're a Prescott.

I am, and so are you.

Your nana was proud to come from such an illustrious family.

Wrede Prescott was a great man.

He built this whole place up from nothing.

It was just dirt, patches of manure,

and he turned this into a thriving destination.

People come here from all over to see what he made.

This is his legacy.

And one day, Finn,

this will all be yours.

Oh, God.

This all makes sense now.

Why they took Jake, everything.

What happened to Jake was a terrible accident.

No. It's the lake.

It wants revenge.

Jake died because of what you've done,

because of what your family's done.

You can't be serious.

You're saying that-that-that I'm somehow responsible

for what happened to our son?

Is that, is that what I'm hearing from you?

Of course you didn't want any of this to happen,

but it all makes sense now.

Wrede Prescott hurt a lot of people,

and now they're angry at us.

They took Jake because he's got Prescott blood in his veins.

Which means they could come after me, too.

I swear, Erin, I almost understand

why you'd fall for something like this,

but making our daughter believe it?

I mean, come on. What the hell is wrong with you?

No, she didn't make me believe anything, Dad.

All right? This is the only thing

that explains what happened.

Enough! Fucking enough!

Okay, look.

We obviously have a lot of things to work out.

The first and most important thing we need to do is go home.

The crickets.

Guys, let's get out of here.

How can the fucking phone be dead, too?

What the hell is this?

We keep trying to tell you.

This is real.

It can't be real.

Oh!

Run!

- Whoa. - Dad! Dad! No!

Come on, come on, come on.

Dad?

It's gonna be okay.

- Dad! Dad! - Oh, my God.

Don't! Dad!

- Dad! No! Dad! Dad! - Ah! Run!

- Dad! - No!

Dad! Dad!

Dad.

Dad! Dad!

Dad! Dad!

- Dad. - Baby.

We have to do something.

We have to help. We have to call for help.

We can't.

He's gone.

This must've been what they wanted all along.

All of it.

Jake's death.

My visions.

All for one reason: to get Jeffrey here

so they could take him.

What are we gonna tell everyone?

The truth.

They won't believe this.

Even if they won't,

the drought's getting worse.

The water level's falling.

The truth will come out.

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