All language subtitles for Cold Case S01E14 Boy in the Box Unknown TrollHD

(1950s country music plays)

Don't make me tie you up,
Red Feather.

Just come quiet and civilized.

We'll scalp you first,
White Man.

(whooping)

(imitating gunfire)

� I've flown
across the mountains �

� Crossed valleys
wide and green �

� 'Cause you're the nearest
thing to heaven that I've seen �

� You're the nearest thing
to heaven... �

GIRL:
Look!

BOY:
Sister Vivian!
Sister Grace!

He's back!

� But my search
for love is through �

� The day that I found you �

Sheriff's back, men.

� �

(gasps)

I'm sorry to hear that.

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

I know you're working on it.

Yeah, I miss you, too.

Boss has something.

Yeah, good.

Uh, I gotta jet, Elisa.

I'm gonna try to come this week.

Can't promise anything,
but best effort. Bye.

Someone left this on the steps
of St. Emilian's Church.

"Unknown boy
found in box.

April 6, 1958."

Will, take
a look at this.

JEFFRIES:
Oh, that old job.

Boy in the box.

Even I heard of that one.

City's most famous cold job.

I've seen this up
in the commissioner's office.

JEFFRIES:
Still nags the bosses.

They never so much
as I.D.'d the boy.

STILLMAN:
Everyone in Philly
knew about this kid.

JEFFRIES:
"The Unknown Boy."
But week after week,

no one reported him missing,
and no one could name him.

Where'd the body end up?

Charity Field,
with the paupers
and the prisoners.

Any tags on those?

Nah.

RUSH:
Think the Unknown Boy

could be this little cowboy?

Lil, there's something
on the back.

"His name was Arnold."

Captioning sponsored by
WARNER BROS. TELEVISION

"Unknown white male, 1958.

Dumped in Fox Chase."

Better known
as the Boy in the Box.

400,000 circulars posted in
Philadelphia and Bucks County.

Hundreds of leads,
none of them right.

Kid was found
in a Liho Punch box,
out in a field.

They tried to trace the box
to schools and restaurants.

They got nothing.
We know how he died?

Undetermined.

Look at the head wounds.

Look at the hair.

What's the deal?

STILLMAN:
One detective thought
he was killed

while getting
a haircut.

Homicidal barber?

That's a cracked theory.

Check this out.

Cops put the body in clothes,

propped him up, thinking

t would make him
more recognizable.

Creepy.

They didn't think so
in '58.

Not that I was
on the force then.

We weren't thinki''
that, pops.

STILLMAN:
The college kid

who found the box
turned into
a frequent flyer.

He came to Homicide
16 times about the case.

Got obsessed?

Or was guilty
about something.

STILLMAN:
Probably want to set up

visit number 17.

So who do we think

left the suitcase?

Someone who's been keeping
a secret a long time.

Let's see if we can
get prints off it.

We've got the name "Arnold,"
and we've got this.

Maybe someone
with younger eyes

can read the lettering
on that bus?

VALENS:
"Fernwood Home

for Orphans."

RUSH:
Sisters Vivian Dole
and Grace Ashley

ran the Fernwood
Home in 1958.

They still got orphanages
in Philly?

No, we got the
outstanding foster
care system instead.

(doorbell buzzing)

Nuns.
What about them?

Tough ladies.

At least the ones
who taught me.

Hmm.

I'm afraid Sister Grace

died recently.

RUSH:
I'm sorry.

She gave 50 years to the Church.

That's a life well-lived.

You and her ran the
Fernwood Orphanage in 1958?

From '52

to '70.

We had up to 60 boys and girls
at any given time.

You must know these boys, then.

They look like
Fernwood children.

But I couldn't tell you
the names.

VALENS:
How about a boy

named Arnold?
Remember him?

Wore a cowboy hat?

It's possible.

I saw so many children
come and go,

I just... I don't
remember them all.

Did you hear about
the Boy in the Box
case, back in '58?

I don't think so.

Kid was dumped in Fox Chase?

It was all over the city.

We lead private lives here.

We read morning prayers,
not morning papers.

We know the orphanage
is gone now,

but there must be records
from Fernwood somewhere.

I believe they're all

in the basement.

But I'm sure you don't want
to sift through all that.

VALENS:
Actually, we love

that kind of thing.

SISTER:
Well, you're welcome

to look.

There was one Arnold at Fernwood
that year, Arnold Culliver.

Six years old.

So the Boy in the Box
has a name.

RUSH:
We have intake and adoption
records for him.

Who adopted him?

Ruben and Lila Hanson,
April 4.

Two days before
he was found
in that field.

He was better off
at the orphanage.

STILLMAN:
Those parents got a lot
to explain.

We'll track them down.

I want to meet these people.

Arnold came to Fernwood in '53
with a sister, Gretchen.

Can we find her?

There's a Gretchen Culliver
listed in, uh,

Roxborough-- working
in the city library.

You get names of those
other kids at Fernwood,

we can figure out who
the rest of these boys are.

Maybe if the sister
gives her DNA,

we exhume the boy's body,
make a positive I.D.

We're going to need an ADA's
help on this one, huh?

You know anyone?

Want to go talk to Gretchen?

Sure thing.

Arnold Culliver
was my brother,

but this isn't him.

RUSH:
I know it's hard

to look at.

Well, that's not my brother.

Arnold had curls; blond curls.

Is he one of these boys,
Gretchen?

Yes, that's him
with his Science Club friends.

Where'd you get that?

Someone left it, along
with this circular.

Well, that dead boy
can't be Arnold.

He was adopted in 1958.

Sister Vivian said
there's a family coming

that wants a little boy.

ARNOLD:
They can't have me.

GRETCHEN:
I wish they wanted a girl, too.

I won't go, Gretch.

You have to.

Even if we get separated.

You know our plan, right?

Meet at the horses.

When?

My 18th birthday.

Go to the Bryer Horse Fair,
meet you at the horses.

Don't forget.

I ain't leaving you, Gretch.

� When I feel blue... �

But he was gone one morning,
adopted late the night before.

I never said good-bye to him.

Did, uh, you go looking
for him at the horse fair?

I did, actually.

He didn't show.

It was lucky Arnold
found a home.

He acted up a lot.

There were two families

before this one who had taken
him and brought him back.

Because of
his behavior?

And if you got too old,

you didn't get adopted at all.

You were stuck at Fernwood.

That what happened to you?

Yeah,
I grew up there.

Any idea where Arnold
went to live?

Oh, they never
told us things like that.

I always imagined him
with a nice family

on a horse farm somewhere.

So nice,
he forgot Fernwood.

He was very young
when he left.

VALENS:
Gretchen,

would you be willing
to give us a DNA sample

so we can compare it
to this boy's?

Well, I'd be glad to,

but I know
that's not my brother.

I'd offer a refreshment,

but we don't got much
in the house.

No problem.

So, what's it all about?

We got your name
from Gretchen Culliver,

Roger.

From the Fernwood Home?

Gretchen...

Was she one
of the older girls?

VERA:
Yeah. Her brother Arnold,

he was your age.

(laughs):
Oh, sure.

That's the Science Club gang.

(chuckling)

That Arnold was a cut-up.

Yeah?

Leader of the pack,
you know?

Drove the sisters
barking mad.

� I go out walking
after midnight �

ARNOLD:
We'll make a posse.

Find that old girl
and bring her on in.

I got the rope.

Freddy, got your spurs on?

Got 'em, Sheriff.

� After midnight, searching... �

What do you think you're doing?

We're going to the woods.

Bedtime was an hour ago.

We're gonna lasso a cow,
Sister Vivian.

There are no cows in the woods.

That's what you think.

� Well, that's just my way �

� Of saying I love you... �

Yeah, he was kind of
the holy terror of Fernwood.

So, of course, uh,
well, we all loved him.

Hmm.

Why are you asking about him?

We're working a homicide
from 1958.

We think the victim
was probably Arnold.

Oh, no.

Could you look at
a picture for us?

Do you think
that might be Arnold?

(sighs)

Arnold had blond hair... curls.

And if his hair was cut off?

(voice breaking):
I couldn't say yes
but... I couldn't say no.

You got kids yourself, Roger?

I got two boys.
Adopted.

Hey.
Anything off that suitcase?

Just that it was bought
at Wannamaker's in '54.

Only the biggest department
store in the city.

That was before credit cards,
so no records.

No prints on it either.

STILLMAN:
We got the okay

from the orphan's court
to exhume the boy.

Is his sister
gonna give us a swab?

She's pretty committed to this
boy not being Arnold, boss.

She better get uncommitted.

Blond curls or not,
that's the same kid.

Find any of the other boys
in the photo?

Two others are dead
besides Arnold.

One we just talked to.

Yeah.
Says Arnold was

a problem child.

If two different
families took him in,

then changed their mind,
he must have been.

So Lila and Ruben

bring him home,

he throws a fit right off.

Ruben gives
him a paddling

or shakes him too hard,
he ends up dead.

Well, what else do you
do with a dead kid

besides dump him
in a field?

Maybe there's a reason
they're hard to trace.

You can't find them?

No record of them
anywhere in Pennsylvania.

We're trying the
national database now.

Nut job.

12 o'clock.

Must be our rabbit guy.

Good luck.

Detective Rush

and Valens.
Walter Rafferty.

I was the one to find
that boy in the box.

Thanks for coming in.

You have something new
on the case?

Possibly.

He was about six years old.

Wrapped in a blue blanket.

It was 12:00 noon on Sunday,

and I followed
a jackrabbit into the brush

and I came upon a box,

a-a-a Liho Punch box,

and there was the boy.

Inside.

You didn't recognize him?

No. Absolutely not.

You weren't involved
with him dying?

Absolutely not.

I took a polygraph test in 1958.

We know you did.

I'll take one
right now.

I gave the cops
a straight story.

RUSH:
You do any
investigating yourself?

As a matter of
fact, I go back

to the site every year
on April 6--

and I'm not the only one.

There's a woman who
goes out there, too. I...

I seen her there
for years.

RUSH:
Yeah.

We've got that down here.

She comes

with white roses,

wearing a green plaid coat.

You ever talk
to this woman?

I tried a few times.

She didn't want to engage.

Why is this whole

Boy in the Box thing

so big in your life, Walter?

I guess you've seen
lots of dead bodies.

Doesn't bother you?

Well, I'm not

built that way.

This... this derailed me.

I wish I never saw that rabbit.

I think this Walter guy's
on the level, boss.

Just got messed up
by finding the body.

What do you think
of his story

about the lady
in the plaid coat?

50-50.

Even if it's true,
what's it mean?

She could just be an
obsessive like him.

How long you
think this'll take?

One of your girls
waiting for you?

What I wouldn't give to take
a look at Scotty's black book.

You know what? Forget it.

I can go tomorrow.

RUSH:
Didn't want
to miss the show, huh?

We finally
found records

on Ruben and
Lila Hanson.

VALENS:
And?

Well, there's a reason
they were so hard to find.

They died in 1887.

Arnold's parents
don't exist.

d Lila Hanson died

before the turn
of the century.

Buried at the cemetery
at St. Emilian's.

The same church where
the suitcase turned up.

So the adoption
papers are phony.

So what
happened to Arnold

the night he was
supposedly adopted?

Maybe he died
in the orphanage.

Someone on the inside covered
it up with adoption records.

Here's another layer.

Autopsy of our boy positively
I.D.'d him as Arnold Culliver

from dental records, but, uh...

Arnold's DNA...

doesn't match
Gretchen's.

So they're not
brother and sister?

Then Arnold's intake papers
were doctored, too.

So this kid came
from nowhere and went nowhere.

Who signed these records?

Sister Vivian.

And guess who's not talking now?

JEFFRIES:
Sister Vivian.

In seclusion.

Nun on the run.

Ever staked out a convent?

I'll go anywhere.

Gretchen's gonna

take this hard.

Yeah.
How do we tell her

that not only did her brother
die 46 years ago,

but on top of that, he wasn't
actually her brother.

This must be a mistake.

No. No, I'm sorry.

Arnold and I came
to Fernwood together.

Our parents were killed
in a train wreck.

You didn't have

the same parents, Gretchen.

Sisters Vivian
and Grace knew about this?

I think they must have.

And they kept it a secret
from me all this time?

You were young.

Maybe they were
protecting you.

Gretchen, we
know now

that Arnold was
never adopted.

There was no family
that came and took him away.

And right around
that time,

someone hurt him, bad
enough it killed him.

The best explanation
right now

is that he died at Fernwood.

We need your help
thinking about

who could
have hurt him.

I don't know.

Was anyone er
violent with Arnold?

Freddy Baker.

He's in that picture you have.

He beat Arnold up
pretty bad once.

Who else?

Arnold got disciplined a lot.

By who?

Sister Vivian.

Why are you back?

I didn't like that family
and they didn't like me.

They kick you out?

I ran. There was
no one to play with.

Well, Arnold, what do you
have to say for yourself?

Good to be home.

You're pleased with
yourself, are you?

Didn't hurt.

Arnold's coming to my office.

Don't, Sister Vivian.

I never knew
what she did to him

in her office,
but he came out

with a lot of bruises.

Would Sister Grace
punish him, too?

It was always Sister Vivian.

You ask Freddy Baker.

He ended up in
her office a lot, too.

Fernwood, aw...

Bad memories?

The worst.

Sorry to bring it up,

but it's a homicide
investigation.

Who died?

Boy named
Arnold Culliver.

Arnold?

Crap.

That's one of the few
kids I liked.

The way I hear it,
Fred, you were

kind of a bully
at Fernwood.

Yeah, I'd run around
dropping guys

for looking
at me funny.

Real nice kid,
you know?

You ever drop Arnold?

One time.

But mostly I just left him alone
'cause he had spirit, you know?

Gave the nuns hell.

He was popular, huh?

With the kids, yeah.

Funny thing about him,
he loved it at Fernwood.

Everyone else wanted

to get out-- he
kept coming back.

What are your memories
of Sister Vivian?

Mean old battle-ax.

She's the reason I kept my
kids out of Catholic school.

She ever whale on you
enough to do damage?

Sure.

She was sadistic.

So you think she could

have hurt Arnold
bad enough to kill him?

Are you saying Arnold
died at Fernwood?

We don't know yet.

I thought he
got adopted.

No.

Well, Sister Vivian
was pretty cruel.

But murder?

It might have
been accidental.

I'll tell you
it got pretty bad.

I still got scars on my back

from where she took
the belt to me.

She used a belt, huh?

With me.

She mixed it up.

Spoons, paddles.

A lot of tricks
in her bag.

I'm sorry as hell
that kid died.

Sister Vivian.

You're a hard lady to get to.

I'm in seclusion.

It'll only take
a few minutes.

Well, I'm not
comfortable
with this.

You know,
I'm not comfortable

with a few things myself.

Like Arnold's phony
intake papers

and his phony
adoption records.

I don't know
anything about that.

And the fact that
his supposed parents

died in the 1800s.

I'm also uncomfortable
with what I'm hearing

about the
corporal punishment

you gave out
at Fernwood.

Raising children
calls for discipline.

Oh, you were extra rough
with Arnold Culliver.

He had a serious
behavior problem.

Oh, now you
remember him?

Because before, you
couldn't place him at all.

Yes. I remember Arnold.

He was a troubled boy.

And you just didn't
feel like telling

me and my partner
that before?

We live private lives here,

and I believe in discretion.

I don't like prying eyes.

Because they might
discover what you did.

I didn't
do anything

out of the ordinary
to those children.

You left kids with
lifelong scars.

Maybe it sounds

scandalous today,
but it was routine in 1958.

Mm. So maybe in a
routine pummeling

of Arnold one night,
he fell unconscious

from one of your blows.

Died, in fact.

You'd want to be discreet

about that event, so maybe you
cut off those blond curls

so no one recognized him, put
him in a box, and privately

took him to a field

and dumped him.

That's a remarkable thing
to say to a woman of God.

Is it true?

No.

Why did you fake Arnold's
intake and adoption records?

I didn't.

Your signature's on
both sets of papers.

Sister Grace
did the paperwork

and I, as the senior
sister at Fernwood,

signed the documents.

Was Sister Grace as fond of
corporal punishment as you are?

I won't speak ill of the dead.

Why did she
fake the records?

Why did she do any of the
stupid things that she did?

Sister Grace was a screwup.

She was weak-willed,
she was unreliable,

and she couldn't

discipline the children,

and that's why I had to.

('50s pop song plays)

What's your name?

He's Arnold.

Do you like
swimming, Arnold?

I like horses.

MAN:
Afraid we don't
have any of those,

but we do have a membership
at the Haverford swimming pool.

Does that sound
like fun?

� Uh, huh �

� Poor little fool,
I was a fool... �

Pow, pow, pow, pow!

� She'd played around
and tease me �

� With her carefree devil eyes �

Don't socialize
with the parents so much.

I'm sorry.

Arnold just shoved a woman.

I told him, best behavior.

� I was a fool, uh-huh �

We have to control him, Grace.

He'll never get a home
if we don't.

� She told me
how she cared for me... �

Could Grace have hurt Arnold?

Grace...

Some stories
shouldn't be told.

Vivian claims Grace
was the one to doctor
the records.

Is she offering
a reason why?

She was mysterious
about her.

And conveniently, Grace is dead.

How'd it go with Fred the bully?

He's a decent guy.

Adopted twins from Romania.

Did he do in Arnold?
Nah, but he
confirmed

Sister Vivian was
good and vicious.

Found the last kid
in the photo-- it's Paul Evans.

He add anything to the picture?

VERA:
More of the same.

Loved Arnold,

terrified of
Sister Vivian.

JEFFRIES:
One thing struck
us, though.

He said he couldn't have kids.

Yeah. First guy we found,
Roger...

he adopted his kids.

Fred adopted, too.

JEFFRIES:
That's what
we mean.

Three out of the six boys

on that photo don't
or can't have kids.

Maybe orphans are more likely
to adopt when they grow up.

Three out of six, Lil?

That's a cluster,

not a coincidence.

Gretchen said this is a picture

of the Science Club boys, right?

Right.
Maybe we need to find out
what they did

at this club.

Uh, the boys went
to Science Club on Fridays,

while the rest of us
had music class.

Science Club wasn't
at Fernwood?

No, they went someplace else,
uh, took that bus.

By themselves?

Sister Grace
went with them.

You know what they did there?

No. It was only for boys.

And you don't know
where it was.

No, but I think
that picture you have

was taken
wherever the club was held.

Was it?

That building's not Fernwood.

Maybe we blow this up?

Science Club was, um,
just a weekly field trip.

To where?

A hospital-
type building.

What kind of things

did you do there?

It was different every time.

Could you give us
a for-instance?

One time we had breakfast
in the afternoon.

� Catch a falling star
and put it in your pocket �

� Never let it fade away �

Hello, Doctor.

Sister Grace.

� Catch a falling star
and put it in your pocket �

� Save it for a rainy day... �

Hello, boys.

Do we have to give
blood today, Dr. Thayer?
No.

Today all you have to do
is eat cornflakes.

We just had lunch!

I hope you're hungry.

� Just in case �

� You feel you want
to hold her... �

It was fun.

Nothing scary about it.

Do you know
Dr. Thayer's first name?

Nah, sorry.

Roger, we have to ask you

a personal question.
Okay.

Did you adopt kids because
you couldn't have your own?

Yeah.

VERA:
That was your side,

not your wife's.

How'd you know that?

All three men still
alive from Science Club

confirmed as sterile.

How you gonna blame that
on cornflakes?

I don't know--
and I don't know

what it's got to do
with Arnold's head
wounds, either.

We got to find out
what else was going on
in this place, Lil.

Got a partial name
on the building.

Uh, H-O-something-
I-N-something.

Something... Institute?

Hoover Institute, in Fairmount.

RUSH:
So let's look
for anyone

who worked there in '58--
starting with Dr. Thayer.

Uh...

I got something, Lil.

Okay.

You know what,
I can go tomorrow.

You've been saying that

all week, Scotty,
but you never go.

Yeah.

I'll meet you in
the morning, Scotty.

First thing?

First thing.

STILLMAN:
All right, you want me

to auto-track Thayer?

Uh, maybe let me, boss.
No, I got to learn

how to run this
computer sometime, Lil.

Is it on?

VALENS:
Sorry I'm late.

The bus was parked

right over there.

We know what was
going on here in the '50s?

Government research.

Dr. Milton Thayer

was using volunteers--

including the boys
from Fernwood--

as test groups.

What was Fernwood
getting in return?

They were paid a fee

for every boy
they brought over.

I got the contracts.

Sister Vivian set this up?

No.

Sister Grace.

What kind of tests
are we talking?

That's what we got to ask

Dr. Thayer.

He's an emeritus
researcher here.

Yeah, I remember
the Fernwood boys.

They were subjects in
a series of radiation
tests for us.

Radiation.

Right.

We heard something
about cornflakes.

That was one of the methods.

How'd that work?

The milk was irradiated.

You gave radioactive milk
to six-year-old boys?

Very low levels.

We also put it
in the toothpaste
and had them brush

their teeth with it.

This was government-
sponsored?

You're what, 30 years old?

Yeah.

So you don't remember
the Cold War.

What about it?

We lived in fear
of the bomb.

Radiation research was
considered necessary.

It was even patriotic.

Did you know your tests
left three men sterile?

We didn't intend to harm anyone,

but at the time,
we were working for a cause.

So you don't regret
the tests?

We worked within the boundaries
of what we knew.

Back in the '50s,
we thought those tests
would do us good.

We also performed

lobotomies,
which we now think are barbaric,

but at the time,
it was considered

cutting-edge
medicine.

Uh-huh.

Can't help the times
you live in.

So Sister Grace
arranged the visits
to the Institute.

Think she knew what
she was doing to these kids?

She was a nun,
not a doctor.

And back in '58,

the culture was,
doctors could do no wrong.

You didn't question them.

You didn't question
the government, either.

They funded the tests.

VERA:
Been looking into
what else was going on

at the Hoover Institute in '58.

A lot of behavioral research.

What's that mean?
Trying to
straighten out

psychotics by way
of insulin treatments,

isolation tanks, electroshock.

Oh, God.

Tell me they didn't test that
on the orphans.

That would explain
Arnold's head wounds.

VERA:
I auto-tracked

an ancient nurse,

used to work
in Behavior.
Still in Philly?

Sally Thurber--
old lady now, kicking it

in a retirement community.

I remember that
Boy in the Box case.

I never put it together
with Fernwood.

No one did.

Those boys were darlings.

Did you know
any of them?

Maybe they were
research subjects?

(chuckles):
Oh, not for us.

No. I just saw them
around the Institute

in their...

little gray uniforms.

I'd talk to the nun

who brought them sometimes.

Sister Grace?

She'd come down to
Behavior once in a while.

Yeah? Why would she do that?

Well...

I suppose everyone's dead now,

so I can speak
out of school.

Please.

She'd come visit Clayton...

an assistant in our lab,

medical student,

and they were friendly.

Friendly how?

Well, more friendly
than a nun should be

with a young man,

in my opinion.

GRACE:
He's a good boy at heart,
but he acts up.

You look beautiful, Grace.

Shh.

I can't tell you that?

Clay, he needs
a family.

I'm worried he won't get
one if he doesn't change.

He'll outgrow it.

No. It's getting worse.

Please help him.

I don't know what
you want me to do.

The treatment you give
the patients here...

That's not for children.
Does it work?

It's very effective.

Calms them down, right?

Right.

I know it could help him.

Grace...
There's an
adoption party

tomorrow.

Please. For me, Clay.

Did you ever see the boy
they were talking about?

That same night--
I was leaving,

I saw Grace again
with that little boy in tow.

Where were they going?

I assumed to see Clayton,
to get that treatment

she asked for.

What was that treatment?

ECT.

Shock treatment.

I remember that night,
because that's the only time

I ever saw Grace
out of her habit.

I never even knew
she had blonde hair.

What was she wearing
that night?

A plaid coat.

A green plaid coat.

ster Grace
and Clayton

were some kind of item.

And he knew how
to administer ECT,

which was supposed
to control wild behavior.

And she wanted
a boy controlled

for an adoption party.

There was a party
at Fernwood on April 5.

The day before
Arnold was found.

So maybe on April 4,
Grace and Arnold secretly
come to the Institute.

She's wearing lay clothes,
so no one recognizes her...

Except for Sally the busybody.

She's in a green
plaid coat,

just like the woman
our rabbit guy saw

in that field
over the years.
Probably Grace.

And before you give
shock treatment,

you cut off
the patient's hair.

Grace has the same coat,
all those years?

How many coats does a nun have?

Why does she go to such lengths
for this kid

when she's got 60 kids
who need help?

Yeah. Why Arnold?

Sally makes
it sound

like Grace and Clayton
had a relationship.

Yeah?

We still don't know
who Arnold's parents were.

And why Grace doctored
those intake records.

That's sacrilegious.

Lil, she was a nun.

She was also human.

We can talk here.

You probably
don't want

the sisters overhearing
this conversation.

What is it now?

We think we know
who Arnold's mother was.

I didn't want to tell
the story of Grace.

I know you didn't.

But a little boy
died, Vivian.

Her little boy.

Grace was... not a good nun.

No kidding.

She was dreamy. Weak.

She had good intentions,

she just didn't have
self-control.

Do you know Clayton Waters?

He was Grace's ruin.

She was in love with him?

Till the day she died.

When she was 18,
she came to me

and told me
she was pregnant.

I probably should have
just told Mother Superior,

but instead, I helped her
go away for a few months.

RUSH:
You and Grace
were close?

Like blood sisters.

She promised
to leave the baby

at a Pittsburgh orphanage.

But she just couldn't,

and so she brought him
back to Fernwood.

And slipped him in
as Gretchen's brother.

He became our cross to bear.

Misbehaving all the time.

Couldn't hold on to a family.

And he was getting older,
less adoptable.

Did he know Grace
was his mother?

We never told him.

But I think a part of him knew
that he was home with Grace.

That's why he kept
coming back.

So what happened
to Arnold on April 4?

Oh, April 4. Well...

On April 4, Grace was
desperate to find him a home.

Right.

Before I tell you the rest,

I want you to know
that everything Grace did,

she did because she loved him.

Vivian. Vivian!

What are you wearing?

Arnold's sick.

What in the world
happened?

Clayton treated him.

To help him behave.

You're not supposed
to see Clayton.

We had to cut his hair off,

his beautiful hair...

Did Clayton say
he'd be sick like this?

He said he might feel tired,
but...

Vivian, he's got such a fever.

We have to pray for him.

I thought it would help.

He'd behave,
and then some couple

would want him
and keep him.

Say a prayer, Grace.

It was supposed to calm him,
to control him.

Grace never dreamt

it would be harmful.

Did Arnold make it
to the adoption party?

No.

No, his fever got worse.

We're out of punch,
Sister Vivian.

Mm... th-there's a new box
in the kitchen.

Where's Arnold?

He'll be down soon.

Go talk to people.

(Arnold moaning)

He's going, Vivian.

ARNOLD:
I'll... meet you...

Oh, Arnold.

I hope you know I loved you.

I'll... meet you

at the horses.

(Grace sobbing)

No...

(sobbing):
No...

(continues sobbing)

(sighing)

What are you doing?

Clean the room up.

I want to come.

Grace!

This is not one
of your little screwups.

This is very serious.

I'm coming, too.

('50s rock ballad playing)

� I could never be loved �

� By anyone �

� Sweeter than you �

� Sweeter than you �

� And I �

� Could never belong �

� To anyone �

� Sweeter than you �

� Sweeter than you �

� With you to stand beside me �

� I'll never be �

� Alone �

� And what more
could I long for �

� Than to have you �

� For my own? �

� My only desire �

� Is loving you �

� Eternally �

� For no �

� No other love �

� Could ever mean �

� So much to me �

� So much to me �

� So if you say you love me �

� Forever I'll be true �

� And what more �

� Could I long for �

� Than to live my life �

� With you? �

� I could never be loved �

� By anyone �

� Sweeter than you �

� Sweeter than you �

� And I �

� Could never be loved �

� By anyone �

� Sweeter than you �

� Sweeter than you �

� Ooh, ooh, ooh... �

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