All language subtitles for Cold Case S01E14 Boy in the Box

[instrumental music]

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

Just come quiet and civilized.

We'll scalp you first,
white man.

[whooping]

(together)
Pow, pow, pow!

[imitating gunfire]

[indistinct chattering]

♪ You're the nearest thing
to heaven ♪

(Gretchen)
'Look!'

(boy #1)
'Sister Vivian,
Sister Grace, he's back.'

♪ But my search
for love was through ♪

♪ The day that I found you ♪

(boy #2)
'Come on!'

Sheriff's back, men.

[instrumental music]

[music continues]

[intense music]

[gasps]

I'm sorry to hear that.

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

[sighs]
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.

(Lilly)
'"Unknown boy
found in box.'

April 6, 1958."

Will, take
a look at this.

(Will)
'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.

(Will)
'Still nags the bosses.'

They never so much
as ID'd the boy.

'Everyone in Philly
knew about this kid.'

'"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.

Think the unknown boy
could be this little cowboy?

Lil, there's something
on the back.

"His name was Arnold."

[theme music]

[music continues]

"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
in the schools and restaurants.

They got nothing.

(Scotty)
'We know how he died?'

Undetermined.
Look at the head wounds.

Look at the hair.
What's the deal?

One detective thought he was
killed while getting a haircut.

Homicidal barber?
Well, that's a cracked theory.

Hmm, check this out.

Cops put the body in clothes,
propped him up

thinking it would make him
more recognizable.

- Creepy.
- They didn't think so in '58.

Not that I was
on the force then.

We weren't thinkin'
that, pops.

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.

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.

Yeah, maybe someone
with younger eyes

can read the lettering
on that bus.

[Scotty scoffs]

"Fernwood Home for orphans."

Sister 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?'

Ah, tough ladies.

At least the ones
who taught me.

Hmm.

I'm afraid Sister Grace
died recently.

(Lilly)
'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.

Uh, they look like
Fernwood children.

But I couldn't tell you
the names.

How about a boy
named Arnold? Remember him?

Wore a cowboy hat?

(Vivian)
'Oh, 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.

Oh, I believe they're all
in the basement.

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

Actually, we love
that kind of thing.

Oh, 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.

(Lilly)
We have intake and adoption
records for him.

(Scotty)
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.

(John)
'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 the 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 ID.

We're gonna...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.

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?

(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.
They can't have me.

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 Breyer Horse Fair,
meet you at the horses.

Don't forget.

I ain't leaving you, Gretch.

But he was gone one morning..

...adopted late
the night before.

I never said goodbye 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.

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?

Yeah. Her brother Arnold,
he was your age.

Oh, sure.

[chuckles]
That's the science club gang.

[laughing]

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.

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.

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

So, of course, uh,
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?

Mm, I couldn't say yes
but...I couldn't say no.

You got kids yourself, Roger?

I got two boys.
Adopted.

[sighs]

Hey.
Anything off that suitcase?

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

Oh, only the biggest department
store in the city.

That was before credit cards,
so no records.

Hmm. No prints on it either.

(John)
'Oh, 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.

(Will)
'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.

Yeah, 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.

(Will)
'We're trying the
national database now.'

(Nick)
'Nut job. 12 o'clock.'

Must be our rabbit guy.

Good luck.

- Detective Rush and Valens.
- Uh, Walter Rafferty.

I was the one to-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.

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.

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.'

Yeah. We've got that down here.

She comes with white roses

wearing a green plaid coat.

[instrumental music]

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.

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

Just gotten messed up
by finding the body.

What do you think of
his story about the lady

in the plaid coat?

Fifty-fifty.

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.

(Lilly)
'Didn't want
to miss the show, huh?'

We finally found records
on Ruben and Lila Hanson.

(Scotty)
'And?'

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

They died in 1887.

Arnold's parents
don't exist.

[dramatic music]

(Nick)
'Ruben and 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
ID'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?

(Will)
'Sister Vivian?'

In seclusion.

Nun on the run.

- Ever staked out a convent?
- I'll go anywhere.

Gretchen's gonna take this hard.

Yeah.

And how do we tell her

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?

Uh, 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 ever
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.

(Vivian)
'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.

[horn blaring]

Fernwood. Argh!

- 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-axe.

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.

But she mixed it up.

Spoons, paddles.

Had 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 lead 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.

Hmm.

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 at 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 screw up.

She was weak-willed,
she was unreliable

and she couldn't
discipline the children

and that's why I had to.

[instrumental music]

What's your name?

He's Arnold.

Do you like
swimming, Arnold?

I like horses.

(male #1)
'I'm afraid we don't
have any of those'

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

Does that sound
like fun?

[Rick Nelson singing
"Poor Little Fool"]

♪ Uh huh oh oh ♪

♪ Poor little fool
I was a fool ♪♪

Pow, pow, pow, pow!

♪ She'd play around
and teased 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 ♪♪

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 claimed 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?

More of the same. Loved Arnold.

'Terrified of Sister Vivian.'

(Will)
'One thing struck us though.'

He said he couldn't have kids.

Yeah, first guy we found,
Roger, he adopted his kids.

Uh, Fred adopted too.

(Will)
'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

uh, 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.

(Scotty)
'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 wanna hold her ♪♪

It was fun.

Nothing scary about it.

Do you know
Dr. Thayer's first name?

Hmm. Nah, sorry.

Roger, we have to ask you
a personal question.

Okay.

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

Yeah.

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.

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.

Alright, 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?

[instrumental music]

(Scotty)
'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?
- Nope.

Sister Grace.

What kind of tests
are we talking?

That's what we
got to ask Dr. Thayer.

He's an emeritus
researcher here.

(Milton)
'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?

(Milton)
'Very low levels.'

And 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.

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.

I auto-tracked an ancient nurse,
used to work in behavior.

- Still in Philly?
- Yeah.

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.

Well, 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 grey 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.

A 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?

(Grace)
'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.

(Sally)
'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.'

Sounds like Sister Grace
and Clayton

were some kind of item.

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?

(Lilly)
'Ms. 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.

[instrumental music]

[keys jingling]

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.

(Lilly)
'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, uh, slipped him in
as Gretchen's brother.

He became our cross to bear.

Misbehaving all the time.

Couldn't hold
onto a family, and..

...he was getting older,
less adoptable.

Did he know Grace
was his mother?

We never told him.

[sighs]

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.

[knocking on door]

Vivian. Vivian!

What are you wearing?

Arnold's sick.

What in the world
has 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.

[instrumental music]

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 groaning]

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]

(Vivian)
'Shh.'

[Grace sobbing]

[sighs]

What are you doing?

- Clean the room up.
- I want to come.

Grace!

This is not one
of your little screw-ups.

This is very serious.

[Grace sobbing]

[instrumental music]

I'm coming too.

[music continues]

♪ 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 ♪

♪ 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 ♪♪

[instrumental music]

[theme music]

[music continues]