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(soft music)
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(door opens)
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- What number am I thinking of?
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- It doesn't work like that.
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Seven. It's always seven.
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- It's time.
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(exhales deeply)
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(tense music)
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- I'm so sorry. I really tried.
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Well, three different
spot treatments didn't work.
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I wanted to get your okay.
before trying hydrogen peroxide.
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Red wine is an acid,
and silks hate acid.
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(woman): Red wine? No,
it's a, it's a ketchup stain.
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- No, ketchup's redder.
When it's purple, it's wine.
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- No, no, no. My husband
was at a Cardinals game
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and someone walked into him
holding a hot dog.
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- You know what?
You're so right.
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It's ketchup.
Um, I will let you know.
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- Thank you.
- Okay, bye.
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(TV newscast playing)
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(bell on door ringing)
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We're closed!
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- Special delivery.
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- Oh.
- Hey, Lorraine.
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- Now Ray, you're not here
to get your tux cleaned.
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- I saw your car outside.
I'm still getting your mail.
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- Oh. Thanks.
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- You figure if you wait
long enough,
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they'll stop asking
for their money?
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- I'm working late, aren't I?
You stopped drinking.
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- How in the world
can you know that?
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Have you been going
through my trash?
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- Oh, your pants are too loose.
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You're down to the last loop
on your belt.
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- Going on four months now.
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Two meetings a week.
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I dunno,
maybe this time I'll stick.
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- That's great.
Good for you, Ray.
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- How's things around here?
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- Well, I just got yelled at
by Jeanie Franco,
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whose husband's having an affair
with a clumsy red wine drinker.
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- Tell me you did not put
yourself in the middle of that.
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- I didn't say a word.
You'd have been proud of me.
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- Hey, can I at least
pay your cable bill?
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I'm the reason you signed up
for it in the first place,
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and I'm saving
a fortune on my bar tab.
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- You're not paying
my damn bills.
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- I could pay off all of 'em
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and we still wouldn't be even,
Lorraine.
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- Take off your pants.
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- What?
- I'll take 'em in.
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- You want me to walk out
of here in my underpants?
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- I got something in your size.
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- He's not gonna
come in looking for it?
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- If he hasn't needed a set
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of work clothes in a month,
he got fired.
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(newscaster): ...in Charlotte
North Carolina this morning...
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- All right.
- Melissa and Frank Conley
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made an impassioned plea
to the public
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for the safe return
of their son Rory Conley.
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- Rory is six.
He's tall for his age,
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with brown hair
and gaps in his teeth.
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He was dressed as a fox.
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(newscaster): It's been a year
since their five-year-old son
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was abducted from
Charlotte Comic Expo.
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- The good news is,
I can always look for work
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as a security guard.
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- The family now
offering a reward...
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- What?
- ...of up to $50,000
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for information that could lead
to his safe return.
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- Is it happening again?
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(soft music)
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- Why are you being so dramatic?
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You have the best view
in the house.
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(sniffs)
You'll be okay.
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Yeah.
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(microwave beeping)
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(police sirens in the distance)
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(reporter): Are you frustrated
with the police?
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Do you know
if they're following leads?
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- They say they're
doing their best,
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and I guess we have
to believe them. Thank you.
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(Frank): Thank you
for being here.
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(line ringing)
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(woman): You have reached
the Charlotte Mecklenburg
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Police Missing Persons Unit.
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Please leave your message
and phone number after the ton.
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(beep)
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- Hello.
My name is Lorraine Howell.
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I live in Branson, Missouri,
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and I am calling
about Rory Conley.
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- I kept thinking
the worst had passed.
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But new lows would
sneak up on us.
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Each day that passed meant
it was that much less likely.
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The police said they'd call
when they knew something.
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But the phone never rang.
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And then it did.
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The detective on the case
said someone had come forward
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with information.
It was unsubstantiated,
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borderline insane, but...
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when you're in pitch darkness,
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no light is too small.
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- This will sound strange,
but I can see things sometimes.
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Images, strong, clear images,
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not hallucinations,
they're real.
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I, I can see Rory.
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He's is alive.
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He... he's...
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There's an older woman
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with a Southern accent
talking to him.
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She's telling him to eat
graham crackers,
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but he's not listening.
He has a,
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he has a toy car in his hand,
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a little purple toy race car.
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He's driving it along a seam
in the sofa upholstery,
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making sounds
like tires squealing.
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- She was so sure. She told us
exactly what we needed to hear.
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- He has crumbs on his shirt.
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He's, he's uh lost one
of his bottom teeth.
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(exhales)
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He is being cared for.
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Please don't give up.
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- Who wouldn't want to believe
their missing son
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is still alive?
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Even if it was a lie?
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(theme music)
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(soft music)
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- Hey. Hey.
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- Hey.
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- I got your pants.
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- Oh, thanks, Lorraine. Really.
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And you're throwing in
a free fern?
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- I'm going out of town.
Do me a favor,
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look after it when I'm gone?
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- I don't have the best
track record for keeping
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things alive. I can remember
one marriage in particular.
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- You'll do fine.
Indirect light,
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somewhere nice and humid.
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It'll drink as much
as you give it.
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- My kinda plant.
(chuckles)
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So, how long am I
taking care of Mr. Fern?
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- I don't know.
Couple weeks, maybe.
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- It's the kid, isn't it?
The one on TV?
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Why, Lorraine?
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It's never worth it,
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putting yourself
in the middle of all that pain.
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You're always worse off
on the other side.
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- I have to do this.
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- No, you don't. Stay.
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Let me take you
out to dinner. We--
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- I have to go. I have to go.
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Don't over-water it.
You'll rot the roots.
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- The purple toy car,
that's what did it.
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He had it in his pocket
the day that he...
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It's people like her
who claim to be psychics,
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they do research.
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Maybe she saw him
holding it in pictures.
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- So given that skepticism,
why bring her to North Carolina?
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- She said she needed to be
in Rory's room.
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Establish a connection.
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I wasn't sure. Frank was.
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And he knew the magic words.
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He said the same thing
I tell all my buyers
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when they're looking at a house:
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All the research in the world
doesn't compare to the feeling
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you get when it's right
in front of you.
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(city hubbub)
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- You must be Frank.
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- Thank you for coming.
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- Oh.
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(woman on speakers):
... outcomes to yourself.
- Oh, sorry.
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- ...through the power of
manifestation, by focusing on
positive thoughts--
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- My wife doesn't believe
in any of this stuff.
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She'd rather listen to nails
on a chalkboard.
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I guess even that beats
the quiet.
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Unless, do you need quiet to...
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get the energies
in alignment, or... ?
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If you'd rather,
I can turn it off.
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- No, it's fine. I'm a...
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normal person, I promise.
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- Okay.
(chuckling)
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(soft music)
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I'll go get Melissa. Melissa!
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- Hi. Nice to meet you.
I'm Melissa Conley.
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- Uh...
(clears throat)
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Lorraine.
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I'm so sorry
for what you've been through.
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- Thanks. Thanks for coming.
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- Oh. You smell that? Cookies.
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She's been out of
the real estate game for a year,
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but she still pulls
the open house trick.
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Don't fall for it, Lorraine.
Place is a dump.
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- I'll bet Rory
loved oatmeal raisin.
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- I, I thought it might help.
I don't know.
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- Yeah.
- Set the mood.
(laughs)
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Anyway. Shall we...
shall we begin?
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It's this way.
- Oh, okay.
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- Please.
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- Anything you need
to get started,
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you just let us know.
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Or, if you'd rather,
we could go over what we know.
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We've got that folder
from the police
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around here somewhere--
- Frank. Remember...
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what we talked about?
- Yeah. Right. Sorry.
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- My husband's a talker,
but maybe there are things
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you could tell us instead?
(Frank): Mm-hmm.
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- Um...
(clicks tongue)
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You don't have
to tell me anything. I just...
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I get a feeling.
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- But only sometimes.
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(exhales)
- Yeah.
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It comes or it doesn't.
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(soft piano music)
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May I?
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- Yeah.
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(sighs)
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- Was Rory allergic to peanuts?
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(exhaling)
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- No. He didn't
have any allergies.
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- Then why did he sort
his Halloween candy
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one pile with peanuts,
and one without?
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- I'm allergic.
- Frank...
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- I, I, I told Rory not to bring
peanuts into the house
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or he couldn't
kiss me goodnight.
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And so he would trade
the ones with peanuts
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for sour gummy worms.
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- But that doesn't mean
that he's alive.
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Or that we're gonna find him.
- Yeah. But, yeah, but--
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- No, no, no. You're right,
you're right. This is scary
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letting a stranger
into your house.
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Your heart's already broken,
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you don't wanna
have it broken again.
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I promise I wouldn't
put you through this
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unless I knew there was
reason to hope. Just hope.
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- She could have seen
Frank's EpiPen in the car,
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she could have noticed
we had no nuts in our kitchen,
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or a million other clues
I might have missed.
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But still. That night,
I slept a full eight hours
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for the first time in a year.
So, I guess in some way,
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I did believe it.
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- You put the defendant up
in your guest room, correct?
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- Yes. It was impossible
to know when, or if,
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she'd see anything
that we could have used.
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So she stayed.
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- And did she ask
for anything besides the room?
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Some sort of payment?
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- We offered, she refused.
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Then she got a call
from her landlord.
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She was behind on rent,
so she'd have to go back
250
00:14:05,210 --> 00:14:08,450
and move her things out.
So we paid it off for her.
251
00:14:08,450 --> 00:14:09,753
We could afford it.
252
00:14:09,753 --> 00:14:11,924
Little by little,
other things came up.
253
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Loans. Car payments.
So she stayed.
254
00:14:15,364 --> 00:14:19,406
And a week turned into a month,
which turned into two months.
255
00:14:19,406 --> 00:14:21,911
- Why welcome her in?
Why pay off her debts?
256
00:14:21,911 --> 00:14:24,115
What made you think
she was legitimate?
257
00:14:24,115 --> 00:14:26,085
- She'd done it before.
258
00:14:26,854 --> 00:14:29,526
She found that girl.
The one in Nevada.
259
00:14:30,194 --> 00:14:32,131
Lorraine led the police
right to her,
260
00:14:32,131 --> 00:14:34,001
and now she's in college.
261
00:14:34,971 --> 00:14:36,640
She'd done it once.
262
00:14:37,609 --> 00:14:39,512
I thought she could do it again.
263
00:14:40,982 --> 00:14:42,952
(music swells up)
264
00:14:50,768 --> 00:14:52,605
(chuckles): Hi.
- Hi.
265
00:14:52,605 --> 00:14:55,410
Still keep the freezer
stocked with mint chip.
266
00:14:56,379 --> 00:14:57,415
- Good.
267
00:14:57,415 --> 00:15:00,487
Never know when he might
come back and want some.
268
00:15:02,457 --> 00:15:03,861
- Nothing new?
269
00:15:04,663 --> 00:15:07,301
- It's only been four days
since I last saw him.
270
00:15:07,301 --> 00:15:09,606
- Yeah. Yeah.
- Don't read into it.
271
00:15:10,141 --> 00:15:11,777
- Thanks.
- Hm.
272
00:15:12,746 --> 00:15:15,351
- You're all right to stay,
yeah?
- Of course.
273
00:15:15,351 --> 00:15:17,355
There's no one
missing me in Missouri.
274
00:15:17,355 --> 00:15:21,597
- No one? No, no family?
- Mm-hmm. Not really.
275
00:15:21,597 --> 00:15:23,132
You and Melissa are...
276
00:15:23,834 --> 00:15:26,940
It's good you have each other.
277
00:15:26,940 --> 00:15:29,747
- Yeah, it's a great balance.
278
00:15:29,747 --> 00:15:33,888
She's vegetables,
and I'm ice cream.
279
00:15:33,888 --> 00:15:36,426
- Mm.
- I was always the one
280
00:15:36,426 --> 00:15:37,829
who indulged Rory.
281
00:15:37,829 --> 00:15:41,035
Like the stuffed koala
on his bed.
282
00:15:41,035 --> 00:15:42,640
When he saw that
at the convention,
283
00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:44,075
he begged me for it.
284
00:15:44,075 --> 00:15:46,145
He'd look at me
with those big eyes.
285
00:15:46,145 --> 00:15:48,918
I swear to god, the kid
knew exactly what he was doing.
286
00:15:49,519 --> 00:15:53,059
Yeah. There were so many
people there.
287
00:15:55,063 --> 00:15:57,234
I turned away for a second.
288
00:15:58,169 --> 00:16:00,174
Maybe if I didn't,
289
00:16:00,174 --> 00:16:01,443
he wouldn't have...
290
00:16:01,443 --> 00:16:05,852
- Hey. It's not your fault.
It's not.
291
00:16:05,852 --> 00:16:07,154
- Yeah...
292
00:16:08,223 --> 00:16:09,491
- Nothing made him happier
than mornings his dad
293
00:16:09,491 --> 00:16:13,166
woke him up to play hooky.
Nothing.
294
00:16:14,670 --> 00:16:17,776
- I bet. Good night.
295
00:16:18,210 --> 00:16:20,146
- Have you seen anything else?
296
00:16:22,284 --> 00:16:24,656
- Not yet.
- How, how long did it
297
00:16:24,656 --> 00:16:28,530
take the last time?
That girl you found in 2007.
298
00:16:28,530 --> 00:16:30,067
- Amelia Price.
299
00:16:30,067 --> 00:16:32,071
- How long until
you saw the thing
300
00:16:32,071 --> 00:16:33,841
that led the police to her?
301
00:16:33,841 --> 00:16:36,045
- I couldn't piece it together.
302
00:16:36,045 --> 00:16:38,349
I just saw fleeting images.
303
00:16:40,421 --> 00:16:41,623
I kept...
304
00:16:41,623 --> 00:16:45,965
I kept seeing this row
of little jars
305
00:16:45,965 --> 00:16:48,270
with peeling labels
on a windowsill.
306
00:16:48,270 --> 00:16:51,309
Then I could see
past the grimy windowpane,
307
00:16:51,309 --> 00:16:54,983
out to a water tower
with faded lettering.
308
00:16:54,983 --> 00:16:58,256
I-T-E space S-T.
309
00:16:58,256 --> 00:16:59,960
Then someone found
a manufacturer
310
00:16:59,960 --> 00:17:01,429
named Granite State Steel,
311
00:17:01,429 --> 00:17:06,439
and next to one of their, um,
water towers was...
312
00:17:07,207 --> 00:17:08,878
a trailer park.
313
00:17:08,878 --> 00:17:11,082
They knocked on doors,
314
00:17:11,082 --> 00:17:14,288
the guy ran,
and they found Amelia.
315
00:17:15,758 --> 00:17:19,198
Her family sends me
Christmas cards every year.
316
00:17:21,703 --> 00:17:25,310
- It's been 17 years since
you've seen a missing child?
317
00:17:29,385 --> 00:17:30,621
- Yes.
318
00:17:33,426 --> 00:17:35,798
Good night.
- Good night.
319
00:17:35,798 --> 00:17:37,434
(man): That's it? A blue sedan?
320
00:17:37,935 --> 00:17:40,841
- From the '90s, right?
- It could be the early aughts.
321
00:17:40,841 --> 00:17:43,814
Definitely an older model.
With a pull-down armrest
322
00:17:43,814 --> 00:17:47,388
in the backseat.
Rory was using to draw on it.
323
00:17:47,388 --> 00:17:49,425
- And, and there was a burger
wrapper in the cup holder.
324
00:17:49,425 --> 00:17:51,563
Didn't you say that?
- Yeah.
325
00:17:53,834 --> 00:17:55,503
Are, are you gonna
write it down?
326
00:17:55,503 --> 00:17:57,441
- Okay. Uh, I'll write it down,
327
00:17:57,441 --> 00:17:59,947
along with your other tips.
Yeah.
328
00:17:59,947 --> 00:18:01,984
An older woman with
a Southern accent,
329
00:18:01,984 --> 00:18:03,453
a backyard with a tire swing,
330
00:18:03,453 --> 00:18:06,092
and the sounds of jack-hammering
from a construction site.
331
00:18:06,927 --> 00:18:10,000
You didn't also happen
to see like a license plate?
332
00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,939
Or um, a street sign?
Or a state flag?
333
00:18:14,041 --> 00:18:17,481
- Lorraine has seen things that
can't otherwise be explained.
334
00:18:17,481 --> 00:18:19,218
She knew Rory
had that purple car
335
00:18:19,218 --> 00:18:21,757
the day he disappeared.
- It's not much to go on.
336
00:18:21,757 --> 00:18:23,761
- Yeah, but it's something.
337
00:18:23,761 --> 00:18:25,832
- I didn't peg you as much
of a believer, Ms. Conley.
338
00:18:25,832 --> 00:18:28,503
- Well, at least it's better
than the nothing your office
339
00:18:28,503 --> 00:18:30,173
has to show for the past year.
340
00:18:30,173 --> 00:18:31,577
- Okay. Just because
we don't have answers,
341
00:18:31,577 --> 00:18:33,146
doesn't mean we're not
still looking.
342
00:18:33,513 --> 00:18:36,754
We're tracking half a dozen
child-abduction cases.
343
00:18:36,754 --> 00:18:37,856
Three in particular.
344
00:18:37,856 --> 00:18:40,060
If we solve one of those,
it could lead us to him.
345
00:18:40,060 --> 00:18:42,733
So, I apologize
346
00:18:42,733 --> 00:18:45,237
if I'm not keen
on wasting our resources
347
00:18:45,237 --> 00:18:46,673
tracking down
a palm reader's tip.
348
00:18:46,673 --> 00:18:48,443
- She found that girl,
Amelia Price.
349
00:18:48,443 --> 00:18:50,213
- A broken clock's right
twice a day.
350
00:18:50,213 --> 00:18:52,117
- But it's not just
random guesses,
351
00:18:52,117 --> 00:18:53,520
I gave concrete details.
352
00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:55,992
- Yeah, that's great,
fine, great,
353
00:18:55,992 --> 00:18:57,629
but you're not exactly
one for one,
354
00:18:57,629 --> 00:18:59,131
are you, Ms. Howell?
355
00:18:59,131 --> 00:19:01,403
I looked you up
on the NCIC database
356
00:19:01,403 --> 00:19:02,972
and there were six cases,
six I could find,
357
00:19:02,972 --> 00:19:05,277
I'm sure there were more
where you offered information.
358
00:19:05,277 --> 00:19:07,414
For someone who can't
force a vision,
359
00:19:07,414 --> 00:19:09,185
you've got a lot to say.
360
00:19:09,185 --> 00:19:11,022
And not enough of a track record
to back it up.
361
00:19:11,022 --> 00:19:13,226
- I wonder if you're more
worried about your track record
362
00:19:13,226 --> 00:19:16,065
than mine.
Those are a lot of case files.
363
00:19:16,065 --> 00:19:18,337
Maybe you've bitten off
too much?
364
00:19:18,337 --> 00:19:20,341
A man your age has to be
looking at the clock,
365
00:19:20,341 --> 00:19:22,211
hoping for that promotion
to Captain.
366
00:19:22,211 --> 00:19:25,016
Maybe it's easier to brush
these pesky,
367
00:19:25,016 --> 00:19:28,489
unsolvable cases out of sight.
368
00:19:30,327 --> 00:19:31,797
- I think we're done here.
369
00:19:31,797 --> 00:19:32,965
(sighs)
370
00:19:35,971 --> 00:19:41,382
- Do yourself a favor?
Start ironing your shirts.
371
00:19:44,556 --> 00:19:46,593
- You're so right,
I mean, look at his case load.
372
00:19:46,593 --> 00:19:48,363
He can't afford to have
someone else show him up.
373
00:19:48,363 --> 00:19:50,400
- There were other cases?
374
00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:52,404
- Sorry?
- You said the last case
375
00:19:52,404 --> 00:19:54,710
you took was the Nevada girl.
But there were others.
376
00:19:54,710 --> 00:19:58,884
- Yeah six.
Six, since Amelia Price.
377
00:19:58,884 --> 00:20:02,792
- Why didn't you tell us?
- In some cases, my...
378
00:20:03,259 --> 00:20:05,263
connection was severed.
379
00:20:05,263 --> 00:20:06,833
- So you lied.
380
00:20:07,100 --> 00:20:08,369
(sighs)
381
00:20:09,004 --> 00:20:11,075
- Yes, I lied.
382
00:20:11,075 --> 00:20:12,545
Did you really want to know
383
00:20:12,545 --> 00:20:14,583
that I stopped being able to see
384
00:20:14,583 --> 00:20:16,587
four of the six children,
385
00:20:16,587 --> 00:20:18,524
and that they were
later found dead?
386
00:20:18,524 --> 00:20:22,665
Did you really want to know
how often this doesn't work out?
387
00:20:22,665 --> 00:20:25,871
I'm sorry,
but I was protecting you.
388
00:20:25,871 --> 00:20:27,642
Rory is alive.
389
00:20:28,076 --> 00:20:29,946
That much I know.
390
00:20:29,946 --> 00:20:33,052
Just like I knew about Amelia.
391
00:20:34,890 --> 00:20:36,025
Ugh!
392
00:20:40,434 --> 00:20:43,372
- The day we found Amelia Price
was a great day.
393
00:20:43,372 --> 00:20:46,279
A great day.
I was on Dan Rather,
394
00:20:46,279 --> 00:20:48,650
and I remember,
he called me a hero, and I said,
395
00:20:48,650 --> 00:20:51,155
look, the world had given up.
396
00:20:51,155 --> 00:20:54,027
But not me. Not the family.
397
00:20:54,863 --> 00:20:56,299
And not Lorraine.
398
00:20:56,299 --> 00:20:58,537
We had no leads, you know.
399
00:20:58,537 --> 00:21:00,406
Most of the team
had been reassigned.
400
00:21:00,406 --> 00:21:02,344
It was just me and the tip desk.
401
00:21:02,344 --> 00:21:04,750
Lorraine was a godsend.
402
00:21:04,750 --> 00:21:08,323
Deserved every bit
of that reward.
403
00:21:08,323 --> 00:21:10,294
- And how much of the reward
did you receive
404
00:21:10,294 --> 00:21:11,830
for solving the case?
- None.
405
00:21:11,830 --> 00:21:14,268
- And how were your financial
circumstances at the time?
406
00:21:14,268 --> 00:21:15,638
- I was doing all right.
407
00:21:15,638 --> 00:21:17,441
I picked the Steelers
over the Seahawks
408
00:21:17,441 --> 00:21:20,180
in the Super Bowl, so--
- So you weren't experiencing
409
00:21:20,180 --> 00:21:22,852
any financial hardship in 2006,
correct?
410
00:21:22,852 --> 00:21:24,823
- Not particularly.
- Your Honor,
411
00:21:24,823 --> 00:21:28,396
I'd like to offer into evidence
the following document.
412
00:21:29,732 --> 00:21:30,901
(tense music)
413
00:21:30,901 --> 00:21:33,439
Detective, do you recognize
what this is?
414
00:21:34,909 --> 00:21:38,751
- Yeah, it's a letter
from the court from March 2006.
415
00:21:38,751 --> 00:21:40,989
- You're eight months behind
on your child support.
416
00:21:40,989 --> 00:21:43,594
- Well yeah, but--
- Explain the highlighted
417
00:21:43,594 --> 00:21:46,165
portion on the list of assets
from your divorce settlement?
418
00:21:46,165 --> 00:21:49,404
- Uh, this has nothing
to do with it.
419
00:21:49,404 --> 00:21:51,543
I'd just bought
a new Ford F-150.
420
00:21:51,543 --> 00:21:53,714
I was paying it off.
Look, I saved up,
421
00:21:53,714 --> 00:21:56,987
I got a promotion.
I could pull in more overtime
422
00:21:56,987 --> 00:21:58,991
once the Price case
was off my desk, all right?
423
00:21:58,991 --> 00:22:01,797
- You said you were the only one
monitoring the tip line,
424
00:22:01,797 --> 00:22:04,703
and had a tip come in,
you would have received
425
00:22:04,703 --> 00:22:07,942
none of the reward money,
correct?
426
00:22:07,942 --> 00:22:09,011
- That's what I said.
427
00:22:09,011 --> 00:22:12,084
- So, just at time
that you were short on funds,
428
00:22:12,084 --> 00:22:16,192
an outside party who claimed
to have a supernatural gift,
429
00:22:16,192 --> 00:22:18,229
happened to offer up information
430
00:22:18,229 --> 00:22:19,699
that would reinforce her claim
431
00:22:19,699 --> 00:22:21,469
and secure her the reward money?
- Hold on...
432
00:22:21,469 --> 00:22:23,172
- Wouldn't you both
have benefited
433
00:22:23,172 --> 00:22:24,441
from splitting the reward money?
434
00:22:24,441 --> 00:22:26,412
- That's not at all
what happened, all right?
435
00:22:26,412 --> 00:22:29,251
I did my job,
I brought Amelia home,
436
00:22:29,251 --> 00:22:31,155
and I'm not
the one on trial here.
437
00:22:31,155 --> 00:22:32,725
- No further questions,
Your Honor.
438
00:22:37,167 --> 00:22:38,771
- I...
439
00:22:38,771 --> 00:22:41,309
I-I can't get my statements.
440
00:22:41,309 --> 00:22:43,647
The bank's records
don't go back that far.
441
00:22:43,647 --> 00:22:46,554
But I used the reward
to pay off my credit card debt.
442
00:22:46,554 --> 00:22:48,524
I didn't know that man before.
- Okay. Okay.
443
00:22:48,524 --> 00:22:52,898
- I didn't speak to him after.
You have to trust me.
444
00:22:54,235 --> 00:22:55,905
(little girl babbling)
445
00:22:56,339 --> 00:22:58,577
(soft piano music)
446
00:23:04,556 --> 00:23:06,760
- Detective Serrano,
you have stated
447
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:10,099
that the defendant
fed the Conleys false hope,
448
00:23:10,099 --> 00:23:12,037
that her so-called visions
had nothing to do
449
00:23:12,037 --> 00:23:13,874
with the disappearance
of Rory Conley.
450
00:23:13,874 --> 00:23:16,747
Can you state that conclusively?
- Yes, I can.
451
00:23:16,747 --> 00:23:18,550
- And how do you know
that for a fact?
452
00:23:18,550 --> 00:23:20,019
(door bell rings)
453
00:23:22,224 --> 00:23:23,426
- Frank?
454
00:23:23,426 --> 00:23:24,863
- Maybe it's better if we sit.
455
00:23:24,863 --> 00:23:26,766
- No, I don't want to sit down.
- Ms. Conley--
456
00:23:26,766 --> 00:23:28,671
- Just say it.
(man sighs)
457
00:23:28,671 --> 00:23:30,039
- I have some news.
458
00:23:30,541 --> 00:23:31,911
It's not good news,
459
00:23:32,244 --> 00:23:33,581
but maybe, I hope,
it'll bring you
460
00:23:33,581 --> 00:23:35,116
some amount of peace.
461
00:23:36,185 --> 00:23:39,526
Last night, we charged a man
with the murder of your son.
462
00:23:39,860 --> 00:23:41,796
(ominous music)
463
00:23:42,699 --> 00:23:43,967
- No.
464
00:23:44,434 --> 00:23:46,338
- How do... how do you know?
465
00:23:46,338 --> 00:23:47,474
- He confessed.
466
00:23:47,474 --> 00:23:50,179
- Oh! Oh no!
467
00:23:52,517 --> 00:23:54,154
(crying)
468
00:23:57,361 --> 00:23:59,999
- Four days ago,
a retired contractor
469
00:23:59,999 --> 00:24:02,672
named Matthew Lee Boyd
was stopped at a D.U.I.
470
00:24:02,672 --> 00:24:04,742
checkpoint in Virginia.
471
00:24:04,742 --> 00:24:06,279
His fingerprints matched those
472
00:24:06,279 --> 00:24:09,586
of a case of a missing
Pittsburgh boy, Noah Jackson.
473
00:24:09,586 --> 00:24:12,290
In the trunk of his car,
we found children's toys
474
00:24:12,290 --> 00:24:13,560
and zip ties.
475
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:15,664
Now, while under interrogation,
476
00:24:15,664 --> 00:24:18,102
he admitted to two more murders.
477
00:24:18,102 --> 00:24:21,776
One boy had gone missing
in Richmond, that's Caden Greer,
478
00:24:21,776 --> 00:24:25,751
and the second was... was Rory.
479
00:24:27,555 --> 00:24:28,590
(exhales)
480
00:24:28,590 --> 00:24:30,059
- Did he...
481
00:24:30,059 --> 00:24:32,699
Did he tell you
where he took Rory?
482
00:24:32,699 --> 00:24:35,838
- Well, he was on a bender,
so he doesn't remember much,
483
00:24:35,838 --> 00:24:38,611
but he is cooperating.
It'll take some time
484
00:24:38,611 --> 00:24:41,081
to track down the bodies.
But for now,
485
00:24:41,081 --> 00:24:43,820
we have his license plate
charged with a highway toll
486
00:24:43,820 --> 00:24:46,627
on I-85 around the time
that Rory disappeared.
487
00:24:46,627 --> 00:24:48,864
- Are you sure that's--
- No! You don't talk!
488
00:24:48,864 --> 00:24:51,268
You don't say
one single damn thing.
489
00:24:53,072 --> 00:24:55,711
(tense music)
490
00:25:01,890 --> 00:25:04,862
What are you doing?
Why aren't you packing?
491
00:25:04,862 --> 00:25:08,202
Do you need some help?
Here, I'll help you.
492
00:25:09,773 --> 00:25:11,576
- Melissa, hey, whoa--
- I told you to get out.
493
00:25:11,576 --> 00:25:13,379
What is wrong with you?
Why won't you go?
494
00:25:13,379 --> 00:25:15,149
- The police have it wrong.
495
00:25:20,962 --> 00:25:23,600
The police have it wrong.
- How do you know?
496
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:25,604
- Oh Frank, please don't
keep falling for it.
497
00:25:25,604 --> 00:25:27,708
- How can they say
anything conclusively
498
00:25:27,708 --> 00:25:30,548
if there's no physical evidence?
- Evidence?
499
00:25:30,548 --> 00:25:32,383
You read tea leaves!
500
00:25:32,383 --> 00:25:34,689
Don't talk to us about evidence!
501
00:25:35,591 --> 00:25:37,695
- I swear, I can still feel him.
502
00:25:37,695 --> 00:25:39,699
- Yeah, and so can I.
503
00:25:39,699 --> 00:25:43,640
But he was my son,
and I knew him and you didn't.
504
00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:46,646
And you watched this news clip
and hallucinated a boy
505
00:25:46,646 --> 00:25:49,586
that was already dead,
you leech!
506
00:25:49,586 --> 00:25:52,858
Just get her out of here.
507
00:25:57,635 --> 00:26:00,874
(dramatic music swells)
508
00:26:14,401 --> 00:26:16,071
- Wait, Lorraine.
509
00:26:16,973 --> 00:26:19,779
Maybe I'm stupid
for still believing you.
510
00:26:19,779 --> 00:26:21,282
Maybe it's just
wishful thinking.
511
00:26:21,282 --> 00:26:22,985
But I don't want you to go.
512
00:26:24,221 --> 00:26:27,862
' Cause once you go, it's over.
I'm never finding him.
513
00:26:31,970 --> 00:26:33,740
- So Frank kept her around.
514
00:26:33,740 --> 00:26:35,777
And that's when
all hell broke loose.
515
00:26:35,777 --> 00:26:38,583
- Inside, a man is being charged
for three murders,
516
00:26:38,583 --> 00:26:40,721
but there are only two bodies.
517
00:26:40,721 --> 00:26:43,894
I feel for the parents
of Noah Jackson and Caden Greer,
518
00:26:43,894 --> 00:26:46,098
who are experiencing
the unimaginable,
519
00:26:46,098 --> 00:26:49,105
but at least they know
what happened to their child.
520
00:26:49,105 --> 00:26:51,810
I don't. Matthew Lee Boyd
has not been able
521
00:26:51,810 --> 00:26:54,849
to point to Rory's body.
He doesn't know.
522
00:26:54,849 --> 00:26:57,922
- The true crime podcasts.
The social media sleuths.
523
00:26:57,922 --> 00:27:00,962
Someone found CCTV footage
of a blue '98 sedan
524
00:27:00,962 --> 00:27:02,898
near the convention center
that day,
525
00:27:02,898 --> 00:27:04,736
so that meant
Lorraine must be right.
526
00:27:04,736 --> 00:27:06,471
Right now, I'm focused
on convicting
527
00:27:06,471 --> 00:27:09,144
a confessed criminal, okay?
So please, out of my way.
528
00:27:09,144 --> 00:27:11,115
- I understand why
Detective Serrano
529
00:27:11,115 --> 00:27:12,685
wants this case closed,
but he hasn't
530
00:27:12,685 --> 00:27:14,388
produced sufficient proof.
531
00:27:14,388 --> 00:27:15,925
- You don't always get
the physical evidence,
532
00:27:15,925 --> 00:27:17,662
but I'm pretty damn close.
533
00:27:17,662 --> 00:27:19,632
- If the police are asking me
to abandon hope
534
00:27:19,632 --> 00:27:23,439
that my son is alive,
I need certainty.
535
00:27:23,439 --> 00:27:25,544
Not "pretty damn close."
536
00:27:25,544 --> 00:27:27,548
- You can't blame
a grieving father.
537
00:27:27,548 --> 00:27:29,351
He wanted to keep his boy alive.
538
00:27:29,351 --> 00:27:30,855
But what did she want?
539
00:27:30,855 --> 00:27:32,825
Why couldn't she let it go?
540
00:27:32,825 --> 00:27:35,698
Maybe she needed to keep
her resume clean for next time.
541
00:27:35,698 --> 00:27:37,902
(knocking)
542
00:27:41,241 --> 00:27:42,778
- Can I come in?
543
00:27:42,778 --> 00:27:44,982
- Yes. Of course.
544
00:27:49,024 --> 00:27:51,896
- I found this place
on our credit card statements.
545
00:27:53,734 --> 00:27:55,403
Sixty bucks a night?
546
00:27:55,403 --> 00:27:56,606
That's highway robbery.
547
00:27:56,606 --> 00:27:57,875
- Well, Frank said
he wanted to--
548
00:27:57,875 --> 00:27:59,679
- Frank doesn't have it in him
to tell you no.
549
00:27:59,679 --> 00:28:01,448
Same as with Rory.
550
00:28:02,618 --> 00:28:04,589
He lets you
take advantage of him.
551
00:28:05,090 --> 00:28:08,363
- Rory couldn't take
advantage of you, could he?
552
00:28:08,697 --> 00:28:11,436
- No. I was the strict one.
553
00:28:11,436 --> 00:28:12,805
- Someone had to be.
554
00:28:12,805 --> 00:28:14,307
(chuckles)
- Yeah.
555
00:28:14,307 --> 00:28:16,479
Otherwise, he'd be up
till midnight every night
556
00:28:16,479 --> 00:28:17,948
eating Froot Loops.
557
00:28:18,984 --> 00:28:20,855
- And you thought,
when he was older,
558
00:28:20,855 --> 00:28:22,457
he would understand.
559
00:28:23,927 --> 00:28:25,831
- I figured he'd have
self-control,
560
00:28:25,831 --> 00:28:28,737
and teeth with no cavities,
and he'd thank me.
561
00:28:29,605 --> 00:28:31,174
But now he's gone.
562
00:28:33,112 --> 00:28:36,586
And he knew me as the lady
who only said no.
563
00:28:37,287 --> 00:28:39,091
- I'm sure he didn't--
- The district attorney
564
00:28:39,091 --> 00:28:40,928
reached out to me.
They want to prosecute you
565
00:28:40,928 --> 00:28:43,399
for exploiting our situation
and standing in the way
566
00:28:43,399 --> 00:28:44,602
of an investigation.
567
00:28:45,203 --> 00:28:47,642
These things carry prison time.
568
00:28:47,642 --> 00:28:49,344
Forfeiture of assets.
569
00:28:52,885 --> 00:28:55,357
- Wh... Why are you
telling me this?
570
00:28:55,357 --> 00:28:57,595
- They won't have a case
without my testimony.
571
00:28:57,595 --> 00:29:00,133
So I won't cooperate.
- Oh.
572
00:29:00,535 --> 00:29:02,036
On one condition.
573
00:29:02,939 --> 00:29:05,142
Tell Frank you got it wrong.
574
00:29:06,011 --> 00:29:08,082
Tell him Rory's gone.
575
00:29:08,750 --> 00:29:10,119
- Melissa--
- As long as you keep
576
00:29:10,119 --> 00:29:12,057
his hope alive,
the wound will never heal.
577
00:29:12,057 --> 00:29:15,296
And-and we have to move on.
578
00:29:15,296 --> 00:29:19,171
And it is not too late,
and we could start over, and...
579
00:29:19,171 --> 00:29:20,373
Please.
580
00:29:21,075 --> 00:29:21,976
Please?
581
00:29:22,712 --> 00:29:24,849
I've already lost my son.
582
00:29:25,483 --> 00:29:27,420
I can't lose my husband, too.
583
00:29:27,922 --> 00:29:30,059
(soft music)
584
00:29:30,059 --> 00:29:33,867
- I didn't ask for this.
I saw something.
585
00:29:34,334 --> 00:29:37,140
You said it had enough truth
to it that I should
586
00:29:37,140 --> 00:29:40,547
uproot my life. And yes,
I didn't leave much behind.
587
00:29:40,547 --> 00:29:42,818
And yes, I accepted your money,
588
00:29:42,818 --> 00:29:46,025
but that doesn't mean
I am a fraud.
589
00:29:46,025 --> 00:29:48,530
- Please, just tell me
how much. Please.
590
00:29:48,530 --> 00:29:51,001
(laughing)
591
00:29:51,736 --> 00:29:53,840
- Look at where I am.
592
00:29:54,341 --> 00:29:56,546
If I could be bought,
don't you think
593
00:29:56,546 --> 00:30:00,554
I would have been bought?
If, if I were a fraud,
594
00:30:00,554 --> 00:30:01,923
I would cut my losses
595
00:30:01,923 --> 00:30:03,827
and take
the get-out-of-jail-free card.
596
00:30:03,827 --> 00:30:05,664
If, if I were a fraud,
597
00:30:05,664 --> 00:30:07,234
I would be able
to sleep at night
598
00:30:07,234 --> 00:30:10,106
without seeing a missing child
I never knew.
599
00:30:10,106 --> 00:30:15,083
Do you have any idea
what this gift has cost me?
600
00:30:15,083 --> 00:30:17,855
A marriage. A family.
601
00:30:17,855 --> 00:30:20,259
Everyone wants me
to see something!
602
00:30:20,259 --> 00:30:22,732
But if I can't, or if I do,
but it's not the right thing,
603
00:30:22,732 --> 00:30:26,505
then I am a con artist
and a liar!
604
00:30:26,505 --> 00:30:29,912
I don't see lottery numbers!
605
00:30:29,912 --> 00:30:31,916
I see pain.
606
00:30:32,751 --> 00:30:34,555
I...
(sighs)
607
00:30:35,791 --> 00:30:38,228
I turn toward it...
608
00:30:39,298 --> 00:30:42,136
'cause I am the only one
who can.
609
00:30:51,690 --> 00:30:54,227
(door opens and slams shut)
610
00:30:54,227 --> 00:30:57,000
(man): Why didn't Matthew Lee
Boyd's case go to trial?
611
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,304
- He took a plea.
Three life sentences.
612
00:30:59,304 --> 00:31:02,143
- Was that your recommendation?
- Absolutely not.
613
00:31:02,143 --> 00:31:05,751
I said forget the death penalty,
I'll strangle him myself.
614
00:31:05,751 --> 00:31:07,153
But when it came down to it,
615
00:31:07,153 --> 00:31:08,657
I could forego the punishment
616
00:31:08,657 --> 00:31:10,895
to save the families
from sitting through a trial.
617
00:31:10,895 --> 00:31:12,665
- So other words,
he was so guilty
618
00:31:12,665 --> 00:31:14,000
beyond all reasonable doubt,
619
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:15,972
a trial would only
serve to prolong
620
00:31:15,972 --> 00:31:18,141
the victims' families' pain?
- Correct.
621
00:31:18,141 --> 00:31:20,412
- Your Honor, I would like
to offer the following video
622
00:31:20,412 --> 00:31:21,515
into evidence.
623
00:31:21,515 --> 00:31:24,121
Detective, what do you recognize
this video to be?
624
00:31:24,488 --> 00:31:27,628
- That is my interrogation
of Matthew Lee Boyd.
625
00:31:27,628 --> 00:31:29,364
(intriguing music)
626
00:31:29,364 --> 00:31:31,201
There's another one,
isn't there?
627
00:31:31,201 --> 00:31:34,542
- There was a third.
- A third kid? A boy?
628
00:31:35,476 --> 00:31:37,413
(Matthew): A boy, yeah.
- Where?
629
00:31:37,413 --> 00:31:39,785
(Matthew): I don't remember.
- Yeah, you do.
630
00:31:39,785 --> 00:31:42,959
What do you remember?
(Matthew): Are they gonna
kill me?
631
00:31:42,959 --> 00:31:45,798
- Maybe.
These are capital crimes.
632
00:31:45,798 --> 00:31:47,067
But if you cooperate,
633
00:31:47,067 --> 00:31:48,904
we may not pursue
the death penalty.
634
00:31:48,904 --> 00:31:50,541
Where was the third boy?
635
00:31:50,541 --> 00:31:52,778
(Matthew): Near the water.
Big crowd.
636
00:31:52,778 --> 00:31:55,082
- A convention?
637
00:31:57,053 --> 00:31:59,357
- Yeah. A convention.
638
00:31:59,357 --> 00:32:01,194
(ominous music)
639
00:32:01,194 --> 00:32:03,299
- So Boyd had no lawyer
during a confession
640
00:32:03,299 --> 00:32:05,102
that led to a guilty plea,
641
00:32:05,102 --> 00:32:06,873
and no trial during
which that confession
642
00:32:06,873 --> 00:32:08,276
could be properly examined?
643
00:32:08,276 --> 00:32:09,545
- He waived his right
to a lawyer.
644
00:32:09,545 --> 00:32:11,281
- If he pointed you
to the other two bodies
645
00:32:11,281 --> 00:32:13,352
within hours, why not make
the location of the third body
646
00:32:13,352 --> 00:32:14,955
a condition
of the plea agreement?
647
00:32:14,955 --> 00:32:16,926
- It wasn't up to me.
- Did you recommend
648
00:32:16,926 --> 00:32:18,362
not pursuing the death penalty
649
00:32:18,362 --> 00:32:21,034
in order to elicit a confession
for Rory Conley's murder?
650
00:32:21,034 --> 00:32:23,305
- Yes. That's how
confessions happen.
651
00:32:23,305 --> 00:32:24,642
- Even knowing his confession
652
00:32:24,642 --> 00:32:27,714
rested upon information
you yourself gave him?
653
00:32:27,714 --> 00:32:29,652
(tense music)
(audience chatter)
654
00:32:36,666 --> 00:32:38,937
- Do you swear that the evidence
you give to the court
655
00:32:38,937 --> 00:32:40,473
shall be the truth,
the whole truth,
656
00:32:40,473 --> 00:32:42,878
and nothing but the truth,
so help you God?
657
00:32:42,878 --> 00:32:44,548
- I do.
658
00:32:47,153 --> 00:32:49,391
- When did you first
become aware
659
00:32:49,391 --> 00:32:53,065
you possessed such
an extraordinary gift?
660
00:32:53,065 --> 00:32:55,302
- I was too young to remember
661
00:32:55,302 --> 00:32:57,741
when my brother was shipped off
to Vietnam.
662
00:32:57,741 --> 00:33:00,981
But I remember when my family
663
00:33:00,981 --> 00:33:03,085
got the call saying his unit
664
00:33:03,085 --> 00:33:06,424
had gone out on night patrol
and never come back.
665
00:33:06,424 --> 00:33:08,663
Four confirmed dead,
two Missing in Action.
666
00:33:08,663 --> 00:33:11,368
We knew what that meant.
He was dead, but no bodies.
667
00:33:11,368 --> 00:33:14,776
My mother was out of her mind.
668
00:33:15,076 --> 00:33:17,079
Joe was the oldest,
669
00:33:17,079 --> 00:33:19,484
her golden boy.
670
00:33:19,484 --> 00:33:22,524
I didn't understand what
was happening. I couldn't...
671
00:33:23,626 --> 00:33:25,698
(sighs)
console her.
672
00:33:26,065 --> 00:33:28,670
One day, I was in Joe's room.
673
00:33:28,670 --> 00:33:32,310
Um, and I saw him.
674
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:37,520
Somewhere far away,
wrapped in a checkerboard quilt.
675
00:33:39,658 --> 00:33:40,995
Green and white.
676
00:33:40,995 --> 00:33:42,598
- What did you make of it?
677
00:33:43,366 --> 00:33:45,270
- I knew it wasn't
a hallucination.
678
00:33:45,270 --> 00:33:47,073
I tried to imagine
where he was before,
679
00:33:47,073 --> 00:33:48,677
but this was different.
680
00:33:48,677 --> 00:33:50,279
I knew...
681
00:33:51,248 --> 00:33:54,856
this was happening.
682
00:33:55,156 --> 00:33:58,095
I knew he was alive.
683
00:33:58,095 --> 00:34:00,534
- Did your family believe you?
684
00:34:00,534 --> 00:34:03,071
- My mother didn't
need any convincing.
685
00:34:03,071 --> 00:34:05,711
We'd sit... together at night
686
00:34:05,711 --> 00:34:09,985
and I'd tell her what I saw.
687
00:34:09,985 --> 00:34:14,094
How Joe needed a haircut and...
688
00:34:14,094 --> 00:34:16,498
(sighs)
689
00:34:16,498 --> 00:34:17,735
...a shower.
690
00:34:17,735 --> 00:34:20,106
- And then you got the call.
691
00:34:20,106 --> 00:34:23,512
- Yes. They had negotiated
his release...
692
00:34:24,447 --> 00:34:29,090
from a prison camp, and he was
alive and coming home.
693
00:34:31,094 --> 00:34:32,330
It...
694
00:34:33,566 --> 00:34:37,808
And it was, it was like our
lives were starting up again.
695
00:34:37,808 --> 00:34:39,745
Um...
(sniffling)
696
00:34:39,745 --> 00:34:43,386
The day after he came back,
he said that the one thing
697
00:34:43,386 --> 00:34:47,527
that kept him going
was playing chess.
698
00:34:49,398 --> 00:34:51,569
And it turned out that...
699
00:34:52,137 --> 00:34:56,579
that chessboard
was green and white.
700
00:34:58,282 --> 00:35:00,353
- We have some clippings
from the local paper
701
00:35:00,353 --> 00:35:01,856
to offer into evidence.
702
00:35:04,227 --> 00:35:06,599
(crowd whispering)
703
00:35:08,803 --> 00:35:11,274
(ominous music)
704
00:35:12,109 --> 00:35:15,917
So, if you are a fraud,
is it fair to say
705
00:35:15,917 --> 00:35:18,790
you began your grift
quite early?
706
00:35:19,692 --> 00:35:21,494
And for no money at all?
707
00:35:25,870 --> 00:35:28,676
- Ms. Howell, did it feel good,
708
00:35:28,676 --> 00:35:31,248
seeing how grateful
the Conleys were?
709
00:35:31,248 --> 00:35:32,818
How much your information
meant to them?
710
00:35:32,818 --> 00:35:35,857
- I was happy to be able
to provide that hope.
711
00:35:35,857 --> 00:35:38,095
- Hmm, just as I'm sure
you were happy to provide
712
00:35:38,095 --> 00:35:39,999
hope that to your own mother?
- Yes.
713
00:35:39,999 --> 00:35:42,738
- Now you said that your brother
was the golden child.
714
00:35:42,738 --> 00:35:43,840
What did that make you?
715
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,746
- I was shy. Quiet.
The youngest of five.
716
00:35:46,746 --> 00:35:50,687
Uh, my mother was sure
I would ruin my eyesight
717
00:35:50,687 --> 00:35:52,157
with how much time
I spent reading.
718
00:35:52,157 --> 00:35:54,695
But she was much more focused
on my brothers.
719
00:35:54,695 --> 00:35:56,666
- And when you were the only one
that knew your brother
720
00:35:56,666 --> 00:35:58,970
was alive,
did it bring you together?
721
00:35:58,970 --> 00:36:01,441
- Yes. We leaned on each other.
722
00:36:01,441 --> 00:36:05,684
- Gosh, that feeling,
that feeling of being a hero,
723
00:36:05,684 --> 00:36:07,020
being important...
724
00:36:07,020 --> 00:36:09,490
must have been intoxicating?
725
00:36:10,860 --> 00:36:13,132
- I suppose. I was very young.
726
00:36:13,132 --> 00:36:14,768
- Well, fast-forward to now.
727
00:36:14,768 --> 00:36:17,775
You've had some very
high-profile successes,
728
00:36:17,775 --> 00:36:19,344
some quiet failures.
729
00:36:19,344 --> 00:36:22,017
Tell me, why do you keep
going back to it?
730
00:36:22,017 --> 00:36:25,389
- Because I... I...
731
00:36:26,358 --> 00:36:29,264
I have to.
- You "have to".
732
00:36:29,264 --> 00:36:31,434
You have to what?
Make up for your first,
733
00:36:31,434 --> 00:36:33,071
greatest failure?
734
00:36:34,007 --> 00:36:36,278
Please tell us about
the passing of your brother.
735
00:36:36,278 --> 00:36:38,415
(crowd chattering)
736
00:36:39,284 --> 00:36:41,823
- Uh, four years after
he came home,
737
00:36:41,823 --> 00:36:44,896
he was killed in a head-on
collision with a drunk driver
738
00:36:44,896 --> 00:36:47,835
on Route 108. He was on his way
to pick me up from school.
739
00:36:47,835 --> 00:36:49,739
- And when you failed
to foresee the accident,
740
00:36:49,739 --> 00:36:52,410
did you blame yourself?
(whispering): He was on...
741
00:36:52,410 --> 00:36:54,615
(louder): He was on his way to
pick me up, how could I not?
742
00:36:54,615 --> 00:36:59,323
But I, I never claimed
to be able to see the future.
743
00:36:59,323 --> 00:37:00,727
I wish I could.
744
00:37:00,727 --> 00:37:02,798
- But your mother believed
wholeheartedly in your gift,
745
00:37:02,798 --> 00:37:05,971
didn't she? And did that
belief lead her to place
746
00:37:05,971 --> 00:37:08,275
all the responsibility
for keeping your brother safe
747
00:37:08,275 --> 00:37:10,947
onto you?
- She didn't blame me, no.
748
00:37:12,383 --> 00:37:14,889
But she never quite
trusted me again.
749
00:37:14,889 --> 00:37:16,425
- And what about the rest
of your family,
750
00:37:16,425 --> 00:37:18,462
would you consider
yourselves estranged?
751
00:37:19,999 --> 00:37:21,101
- No.
752
00:37:21,101 --> 00:37:22,904
- When was the last time
you saw them?
753
00:37:23,305 --> 00:37:25,777
- 2002 at my mother's funeral.
754
00:37:25,777 --> 00:37:28,482
- Is that why you seek out
new families?
755
00:37:28,482 --> 00:37:31,454
Desperate, broken ones
like the Conleys,
756
00:37:31,454 --> 00:37:33,693
who welcomed you with open arms?
757
00:37:34,327 --> 00:37:37,100
(crowd chatters)
758
00:37:37,100 --> 00:37:39,738
- I just wanna help.
759
00:37:39,738 --> 00:37:40,841
- Maybe.
760
00:37:40,841 --> 00:37:43,045
Maybe by offering them
what you couldn't provide
761
00:37:43,045 --> 00:37:45,482
for your own family gives you
meaning in your life?
762
00:37:45,482 --> 00:37:47,386
- If I did it only for myself,
763
00:37:47,386 --> 00:37:51,161
I'd have learned by now
to stay far, far away.
764
00:37:51,161 --> 00:37:54,333
- And yet you've spent your life
seeking to be indispensable
765
00:37:54,333 --> 00:37:56,304
to people in pain, haven't you?
766
00:37:56,304 --> 00:37:58,508
Would you say, Ms. Howell,
that the trouble
767
00:37:58,508 --> 00:38:00,814
with an unpredictable gift,
felt only by the one
768
00:38:00,814 --> 00:38:03,953
who possesses it, is that
it bears a striking resemblance
769
00:38:03,953 --> 00:38:05,990
to somebody just making guesses?
770
00:38:06,826 --> 00:38:11,067
- But I'm not just
making guesses.
771
00:38:12,103 --> 00:38:14,040
I'm, I'm not lying.
772
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:16,846
- But how can you be sure
you're telling the truth?
773
00:38:16,846 --> 00:38:20,319
I mean, after all, isn't
a truly successful fraudster's
774
00:38:20,319 --> 00:38:22,456
first victim herself?
775
00:38:23,158 --> 00:38:24,561
(dramatic music swells)
776
00:38:24,561 --> 00:38:26,464
No further questions Your Honor.
777
00:38:28,937 --> 00:38:30,773
- In a trial for fraud,
the State is required
778
00:38:30,773 --> 00:38:33,478
to prove three things
beyond a reasonable doubt.
779
00:38:33,478 --> 00:38:37,955
One: that the defendant
knowingly misrepresented facts.
780
00:38:37,955 --> 00:38:41,461
Two, the defendant
had an intent to deceive
781
00:38:41,461 --> 00:38:43,231
and succeeded in that deceit.
782
00:38:43,231 --> 00:38:47,506
And three, the deception
was done for financial benefit.
783
00:38:47,506 --> 00:38:49,076
It's not a question
of whether the defendant
784
00:38:49,076 --> 00:38:51,615
was right or wrong.
That much we may never know.
785
00:38:51,615 --> 00:38:53,753
It's not a question of whether
she profited financially
786
00:38:53,753 --> 00:38:56,659
when all is said and done.
It doesn't even matter
787
00:38:56,659 --> 00:38:59,363
whether you believe
she's entirely delusional.
788
00:38:59,363 --> 00:39:01,335
What it comes down to is this:
789
00:39:01,335 --> 00:39:03,606
Did Lorraine Howell
790
00:39:03,606 --> 00:39:06,211
believe what she was telling
the Conleys?
791
00:39:06,846 --> 00:39:10,219
The girl who kept
her family's hope alive,
792
00:39:10,219 --> 00:39:13,492
the woman who knowingly
exposes herself
793
00:39:13,492 --> 00:39:15,630
to some of the worst pain
in the world...
794
00:39:15,630 --> 00:39:19,571
Does that woman have faith
in her own gift?
795
00:39:36,972 --> 00:39:38,643
(exhales deeply)
796
00:39:40,981 --> 00:39:42,651
(chuckling)
797
00:39:46,157 --> 00:39:47,861
- I don't want the money back.
798
00:39:49,999 --> 00:39:52,638
I don't want her to go to jail.
I didn't do it to punish her,
799
00:39:52,638 --> 00:39:54,440
I did it to convince you.
800
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:56,311
Maybe seeing it all laid out,
in court--
801
00:39:56,311 --> 00:39:58,315
- You saw the same tape I saw.
802
00:39:58,315 --> 00:39:59,918
It wasn't a real confession--
- Stop.
803
00:39:59,918 --> 00:40:01,922
(soft music)
804
00:40:03,693 --> 00:40:05,964
I can't keep going
around and around.
805
00:40:05,964 --> 00:40:09,070
There will always be
reasons to doubt.
806
00:40:11,743 --> 00:40:14,715
- What kind of father
would I be if I gave up?
807
00:40:18,088 --> 00:40:20,560
- You were a wonderful father.
808
00:40:22,129 --> 00:40:24,233
And you could be, again.
809
00:40:27,874 --> 00:40:30,613
But I'm tired of hoping, Frank.
810
00:40:32,283 --> 00:40:34,520
I can't do it anymore.
811
00:40:37,493 --> 00:40:39,532
(judge): Has the jury
reached a verdict?
812
00:40:39,532 --> 00:40:41,535
- We have, Your Honor.
813
00:40:41,535 --> 00:40:44,674
We the jury, in the case
of the State of North Carolina
814
00:40:44,674 --> 00:40:48,950
versus Lorraine Howell,
find the defendant not guilty.
815
00:40:49,317 --> 00:40:51,220
(dramatic music)
816
00:40:51,220 --> 00:40:52,423
(crowd chatters)
817
00:40:52,423 --> 00:40:54,360
(judge): Jurors,
thank you for your service.
818
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:56,465
This court is adjourned.
819
00:40:56,465 --> 00:40:59,036
(gavel bangs)
(bailiff): All rise.
820
00:41:06,418 --> 00:41:08,656
- Congratulations.
- Thank you.
821
00:41:08,656 --> 00:41:10,526
- Lorraine. Lorraine.
822
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:15,704
You'll call me, right?
823
00:41:15,704 --> 00:41:18,241
Even if you think something's
too small, I wanna,
824
00:41:18,241 --> 00:41:19,645
I wanna hear it.
825
00:41:19,645 --> 00:41:24,621
Yeah. Yeah, this isn't over.
It isn't over.
826
00:41:24,621 --> 00:41:27,092
(grave music)
827
00:41:29,230 --> 00:41:30,733
Thank you.
828
00:41:32,904 --> 00:41:34,106
(sighs)
829
00:41:47,467 --> 00:41:49,070
(soft hopeful music)
830
00:41:49,070 --> 00:41:51,241
- I figured since you weren't
calling me back,
831
00:41:51,241 --> 00:41:53,913
you probably didn't want me
sitting in the back of the court
832
00:41:53,913 --> 00:41:57,152
for the trial. But I wanted
to be here when it was over.
833
00:42:01,027 --> 00:42:04,266
(sobbing): It's good....
It's good to see you, Ray.
834
00:42:10,947 --> 00:42:12,818
(sighs)
835
00:42:12,818 --> 00:42:15,222
- You ready to go home?
836
00:42:19,030 --> 00:42:20,700
Car's fixed.
837
00:42:22,604 --> 00:42:24,875
Um, more or less.
838
00:42:24,875 --> 00:42:27,046
(chuckles)
839
00:42:27,046 --> 00:42:29,316
(indistinct arguing)
840
00:42:35,162 --> 00:42:36,799
(sighs)
841
00:42:39,170 --> 00:42:40,239
You did all you could.
842
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:42,844
What else was there to do
but tell the truth?
843
00:42:46,150 --> 00:42:47,754
(muffled sob)
844
00:43:02,316 --> 00:43:03,886
You okay?
(sniffles)
845
00:43:22,356 --> 00:43:25,663
(intriguing music)
846
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:57,025
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