1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,000 [suspenseful string music plays] 2 00:00:28,625 --> 00:00:30,166 [sighs] 3 00:00:30,250 --> 00:00:32,208 [fire crackling] 4 00:00:38,791 --> 00:00:40,625 [man] Hard to know where to start. 5 00:00:41,833 --> 00:00:45,250 I guess to tell the story of the Good Friday murder through my eyes, 6 00:00:45,333 --> 00:00:46,958 I got to start here. 7 00:00:47,625 --> 00:00:51,750 Nine months ago, when this asshole deacon said something way out of line, 8 00:00:51,833 --> 00:00:53,041 and I did this. 9 00:00:53,125 --> 00:00:55,500 -[imperceptible] -[grunts] 10 00:00:56,041 --> 00:00:57,208 -[thuds] -[priest gasps] 11 00:00:58,333 --> 00:00:59,958 Oh, shit. 12 00:01:00,750 --> 00:01:03,083 So, you're a fighter, then? 13 00:01:03,583 --> 00:01:05,708 Uh, no, Father, absolutely not. 14 00:01:05,791 --> 00:01:09,041 Well, we have a deacon who would say otherwise if his jaw wasn't broken. 15 00:01:09,125 --> 00:01:11,750 In my previous life, yes, I was a boxer, 16 00:01:12,250 --> 00:01:14,833 and I lived on the streets. I did some other things. 17 00:01:14,916 --> 00:01:18,708 We need fighters today, but to fight the world, 18 00:01:19,458 --> 00:01:21,083 not ourselves. 19 00:01:21,166 --> 00:01:24,625 A priest is a shepherd. The world is a wolf. 20 00:01:24,708 --> 00:01:25,833 No. 21 00:01:29,250 --> 00:01:33,625 [sighs softly] I… I don't believe that, Father, respectfully. 22 00:01:33,708 --> 00:01:36,500 [hesitates] You start fighting wolves, and before you know it, 23 00:01:36,583 --> 00:01:38,291 everyone you don't understand is a wolf. 24 00:01:39,333 --> 00:01:42,333 I still got that fighting instinct, and I gave into it today, 25 00:01:42,416 --> 00:01:44,833 but Christ came to heal the world, not fight it. 26 00:01:44,916 --> 00:01:46,208 I believe that. 27 00:01:46,291 --> 00:01:49,583 It's this, not this, you know? [inhales deeply] 28 00:01:50,833 --> 00:01:52,666 I just want to be a good priest. 29 00:01:53,625 --> 00:01:56,916 Show broken people like me the forgiveness and love of Christ. 30 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,000 The world needs that so bad. 31 00:02:01,708 --> 00:02:04,583 You give me one more shot, and I promise I'll do that. 32 00:02:05,083 --> 00:02:07,333 [church bell tolling in distance] 33 00:02:11,333 --> 00:02:14,000 -[church bell continues tolling] -[vehicle horn honks] 34 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:16,875 [tolling stops] 35 00:02:16,958 --> 00:02:18,125 Your Excellency, 36 00:02:18,833 --> 00:02:21,041 you stuck your neck out for me so many times. 37 00:02:21,125 --> 00:02:23,625 -I let you down, and whatever the-- -All right. 38 00:02:23,708 --> 00:02:24,791 Listen… 39 00:02:25,291 --> 00:02:28,250 Deacon Clark is famously a dick. 40 00:02:28,333 --> 00:02:30,791 Nobody's actually that upset that you clocked him. 41 00:02:30,875 --> 00:02:32,375 In fact, kind of the opposite. 42 00:02:32,458 --> 00:02:35,041 -But we do need to do something about it. -[exhales] 43 00:02:36,041 --> 00:02:39,250 We're sending you to a small parish in Chimney Rock. 44 00:02:39,333 --> 00:02:42,375 It's just one priest there now. 45 00:02:42,458 --> 00:02:43,583 [wind chime tinkling] 46 00:02:43,666 --> 00:02:45,000 Assistant pastor? 47 00:02:45,083 --> 00:02:47,250 Yeah, well, curb your enthusiasm. 48 00:02:47,333 --> 00:02:48,166 What? 49 00:02:48,666 --> 00:02:53,416 [sighs] You're going to Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude, 50 00:02:53,500 --> 00:02:56,583 led by Monsignor Jefferson Wicks. Have you heard of Jefferson Wicks? 51 00:02:57,458 --> 00:03:00,958 Okay, look, Wicks has his supporters here. I'm not one of them. 52 00:03:01,041 --> 00:03:02,125 Between you and me, 53 00:03:02,208 --> 00:03:05,166 I think he's a few beads shy of a full rosary and a real son of a bitch. 54 00:03:05,250 --> 00:03:06,083 [chuckles] 55 00:03:06,166 --> 00:03:10,833 But what's undeniable is that his flock is shrinking and even calcifying. 56 00:03:11,791 --> 00:03:15,333 It could use some of what you said in there. You understand? 57 00:03:15,958 --> 00:03:18,291 Not at all, but yes. 58 00:03:18,375 --> 00:03:20,458 Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. 59 00:03:20,541 --> 00:03:23,416 -Spirit's got me. Let me at him. -Hey. Hey, hey. 60 00:03:23,500 --> 00:03:27,041 This, not this, right? Mm? 61 00:03:31,166 --> 00:03:32,375 Good luck, kid. 62 00:03:33,041 --> 00:03:35,250 [intriguing music plays] 63 00:03:38,166 --> 00:03:40,791 [Jud] So, that's how I came to Chimney Rock. 64 00:03:43,333 --> 00:03:45,166 Daniel in the lion's den. 65 00:03:45,250 --> 00:03:47,000 David facing off Goliath. 66 00:03:47,500 --> 00:03:49,916 Young, dumb, and full of Christ. 67 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,750 Ready for anything. 68 00:03:51,833 --> 00:03:54,208 [door creaks, closes] 69 00:03:54,291 --> 00:03:56,291 [intriguing music continues] 70 00:03:59,250 --> 00:04:00,291 [bag thuds] 71 00:04:04,083 --> 00:04:05,083 [music fades] 72 00:04:09,875 --> 00:04:12,291 [door creaking] 73 00:04:23,791 --> 00:04:24,875 Father Jefferson? 74 00:04:25,791 --> 00:04:28,083 Hello. Jud Duplenticy from Albany? 75 00:04:28,166 --> 00:04:30,875 Lord be with you, Jud Duplenticy from Albany. 76 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,125 You here to take my church away from me? 77 00:04:37,458 --> 00:04:39,250 [chuckling] Oh. No. 78 00:04:39,833 --> 00:04:40,708 Good. 79 00:04:41,583 --> 00:04:44,000 Okay, call me Monsignor Wicks. 80 00:04:44,916 --> 00:04:46,208 I see you've met Martha. 81 00:04:47,083 --> 00:04:48,333 Martha? No. 82 00:04:48,416 --> 00:04:49,916 -Monsignor Wicks. -Jesus! 83 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,500 -I woke up early to polish the silver. -[sighs] 84 00:04:52,583 --> 00:04:53,875 It was a bit blotchy. 85 00:04:53,958 --> 00:04:55,500 That'll be fine, Martha. 86 00:04:55,583 --> 00:04:57,791 Father… Jud. 87 00:04:59,083 --> 00:05:00,375 You are welcome here. 88 00:05:00,875 --> 00:05:02,500 -Thank you, Martha. -Mm. 89 00:05:02,583 --> 00:05:05,208 I was actually just saying to Father Wicks… 90 00:05:05,291 --> 00:05:06,875 Monsignor Wicks. 91 00:05:07,708 --> 00:05:09,583 Monsignor, right. Sorry. [chuckles] 92 00:05:10,083 --> 00:05:11,708 And sorry for saying "Jesus". 93 00:05:13,500 --> 00:05:15,666 Hoo. [chuckles] This is going great, I think. 94 00:05:15,750 --> 00:05:18,291 -Bishop Langstrom sent you, huh? -Mm-hmm. 95 00:05:19,166 --> 00:05:20,250 Langstrom. 96 00:05:20,750 --> 00:05:22,416 -I know him well. -[chuckles] 97 00:05:22,500 --> 00:05:24,708 He handpicked you, sent you here. 98 00:05:25,500 --> 00:05:27,000 It says something to me. 99 00:05:29,583 --> 00:05:30,791 Tells me a lot. 100 00:05:31,916 --> 00:05:34,708 Well, I… I know you're used to flying solo, but, um… 101 00:05:35,291 --> 00:05:36,916 I'm… I'm here to serve. 102 00:05:38,416 --> 00:05:39,625 Take my confession. 103 00:05:41,291 --> 00:05:43,083 [Wicks groans] All right. 104 00:05:43,791 --> 00:05:45,083 -Mm. -[chuckles] 105 00:05:47,166 --> 00:05:49,708 Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. 106 00:05:49,791 --> 00:05:51,000 It's been, uh, 107 00:05:51,875 --> 00:05:54,291 six weeks since my last confession. 108 00:05:55,041 --> 00:05:57,083 [inhales deeply, sighs] 109 00:05:58,708 --> 00:06:01,250 I've envied the material wealth of others. 110 00:06:02,125 --> 00:06:06,750 I saw this luxury car commercial. Sam had it on his TV. Lexus. 111 00:06:07,416 --> 00:06:08,625 And I thought, 112 00:06:09,125 --> 00:06:11,875 -"Ah! That is a good-looking car." -[both chuckle] 113 00:06:11,958 --> 00:06:13,458 The coupe. 114 00:06:14,583 --> 00:06:17,958 Uh… I've envied the power of great men. 115 00:06:19,375 --> 00:06:22,750 Envied my grandfather's power as a priest. I wanted that. 116 00:06:22,833 --> 00:06:24,041 Always did. 117 00:06:25,791 --> 00:06:26,791 Uh… 118 00:06:27,541 --> 00:06:28,958 I've masturbated, 119 00:06:30,166 --> 00:06:33,708 um, four times this week. 120 00:06:33,791 --> 00:06:36,625 Four or five, generally, in… What'd I say, six weeks? 121 00:06:36,708 --> 00:06:39,791 Well, let's say 30 times, masturbated. 122 00:06:40,833 --> 00:06:44,458 Uh, this week, in my bed, in the morning once. 123 00:06:44,958 --> 00:06:49,041 Once in the shower, standing up, which was convenient. 124 00:06:49,125 --> 00:06:51,250 Just use a bath gel. 125 00:06:51,333 --> 00:06:52,250 [inhales deeply] 126 00:06:52,333 --> 00:06:55,541 Oh, once in the middle of the night, after a dream about-- 127 00:06:55,625 --> 00:06:58,208 -That's all right. -About one of those Japanese cat cafés. 128 00:06:58,291 --> 00:07:00,625 -Okay. -You know, I read this article, 129 00:07:00,708 --> 00:07:05,916 but the cats were girls, and, you know, so… 130 00:07:06,583 --> 00:07:08,000 And I hadn't prepared, 131 00:07:08,083 --> 00:07:12,125 so I had to finish into a copy of Catholic Chronicle magazine, 132 00:07:12,833 --> 00:07:16,916 just what was on the end table, which is probably its own kind of sin. 133 00:07:17,416 --> 00:07:20,416 I don't know, maybe not, but… Not good. [chuckles] 134 00:07:21,541 --> 00:07:23,833 [Jud] At the time, I thought this was just weird. 135 00:07:23,916 --> 00:07:24,750 [imperceptible] 136 00:07:24,833 --> 00:07:26,916 But looking back now, I know. 137 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,333 This was Wicks' first punch. 138 00:07:29,416 --> 00:07:31,458 Five Hail Marys and one Glory Be. 139 00:07:33,166 --> 00:07:34,458 Thank you, Father. 140 00:07:40,041 --> 00:07:41,541 [Jud] It wouldn't be his last. 141 00:07:41,625 --> 00:07:42,875 [Wicks] Oh, and welcome 142 00:07:43,666 --> 00:07:45,083 to my church. 143 00:07:45,916 --> 00:07:48,666 -[door opens, closes] -[sighs] 144 00:07:48,750 --> 00:07:51,208 Over the next few weeks, I settled in 145 00:07:51,291 --> 00:07:53,500 at Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude. 146 00:07:54,333 --> 00:07:56,666 [intriguing music plays] 147 00:07:59,166 --> 00:08:03,791 The only other full-time employee was the groundskeeper, Samson. 148 00:08:04,500 --> 00:08:05,583 Sam. 149 00:08:11,125 --> 00:08:12,833 [Sam] It's Monsignor Wicks 150 00:08:12,916 --> 00:08:17,000 who gives me the strength every day to not go back to the bottle. 151 00:08:17,916 --> 00:08:19,041 He used to drink too. 152 00:08:19,125 --> 00:08:20,041 [music fades] 153 00:08:20,125 --> 00:08:24,083 But he said to me once, "If I can stave off that demon, you can." 154 00:08:25,375 --> 00:08:27,291 And every day, it is a struggle. 155 00:08:28,166 --> 00:08:29,250 But I have. 156 00:08:30,541 --> 00:08:34,041 I credit him and… my sweet Martha. 157 00:08:34,125 --> 00:08:36,625 Your… your sweet Martha? 158 00:08:36,708 --> 00:08:38,333 I'd do anything for her. 159 00:08:39,708 --> 00:08:42,083 -My angel on Earth. -[organ music playing] 160 00:08:42,166 --> 00:08:45,458 [Jud] As far as the church goes, Martha does it all. 161 00:08:45,541 --> 00:08:48,750 She keeps the books, manages donations, files everything. 162 00:08:48,833 --> 00:08:49,958 File that. 163 00:08:50,541 --> 00:08:52,958 She launders the vestments, stocks the supplies, 164 00:08:53,041 --> 00:08:55,166 feeds Wicks, plays the organ. 165 00:08:58,875 --> 00:09:00,791 She knew where the bodies were buried. 166 00:09:01,583 --> 00:09:03,666 -So this is the crypt? -[Sam] Yep. 167 00:09:03,750 --> 00:09:06,708 It's a damn shame. Gotta put up a security camera. 168 00:09:07,208 --> 00:09:09,333 -[Jud] Is there an entrance? -There is. 169 00:09:10,500 --> 00:09:11,708 This right here, 170 00:09:12,208 --> 00:09:13,333 it's a Lazarus door. 171 00:09:14,041 --> 00:09:16,916 Takes construction equipment to open from the outside. 172 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,875 But cantilevered as such that one push 173 00:09:20,458 --> 00:09:22,875 will send it tumbling to the ground from inside. 174 00:09:24,125 --> 00:09:25,458 Who's in there then? 175 00:09:25,541 --> 00:09:26,541 -Prentice. -[gasps] 176 00:09:27,166 --> 00:09:30,625 Wicks' grandfather, the founder of this church. 177 00:09:31,500 --> 00:09:33,000 Was like a father to me. 178 00:09:33,666 --> 00:09:35,666 Makes me sick. 179 00:09:35,750 --> 00:09:40,000 These kids painting rocket ships all over his sacred resting place. 180 00:09:46,708 --> 00:09:49,416 -[Wicks] What are you doing? -Oh, uh… 181 00:09:50,208 --> 00:09:52,125 Well, I do a little wood-working, 182 00:09:52,208 --> 00:09:55,708 so thought I could borrow some of Sam's tools, make a proper-- 183 00:09:55,791 --> 00:09:57,000 No, we leave that. 184 00:09:57,083 --> 00:09:59,958 A reminder of the shameful sin of the harlot whore. 185 00:10:01,500 --> 00:10:02,916 Take my confession. 186 00:10:04,875 --> 00:10:06,625 [Martha] Yes, the harlot whore. 187 00:10:08,125 --> 00:10:09,625 That was Wicks' mother. 188 00:10:09,708 --> 00:10:12,333 Okay, so what's the deal with that? 189 00:10:12,416 --> 00:10:14,625 She was a harlot and a whore. 190 00:10:15,458 --> 00:10:16,291 Okay. 191 00:10:16,375 --> 00:10:19,583 When Prentice entered the priesthood and founded this church, 192 00:10:19,666 --> 00:10:21,833 he was widowed with a daughter. 193 00:10:22,958 --> 00:10:24,541 Grace was her name. 194 00:10:25,125 --> 00:10:26,750 Always a bad seed. 195 00:10:26,833 --> 00:10:32,166 She loved revealing clothes and her fancy brands. 196 00:10:32,250 --> 00:10:33,875 Fancy brands… Oof. 197 00:10:33,958 --> 00:10:35,041 -Mm. -Yeah. 198 00:10:35,125 --> 00:10:37,958 As a teenager, she slutted around bars, 199 00:10:38,041 --> 00:10:40,250 was soon pregnant by a drifter. 200 00:10:40,333 --> 00:10:41,166 [imperceptible] 201 00:10:41,250 --> 00:10:45,291 [Martha] Prentice had a vast family fortune in the bank. 202 00:10:45,375 --> 00:10:48,416 -[intriguing music plays] -To protect his grandson, Wicks, 203 00:10:48,500 --> 00:10:53,083 he promised that if Grace stayed under his roof, 204 00:10:53,791 --> 00:10:56,916 the fortune would be willed to her. 205 00:10:57,916 --> 00:11:01,750 And so the whore waited for her father to die. 206 00:11:02,666 --> 00:11:05,083 Oh, it weighed on him heavily. 207 00:11:05,166 --> 00:11:06,666 Martha, remember this. 208 00:11:07,833 --> 00:11:10,666 Wealth and the power that comes with it, 209 00:11:11,416 --> 00:11:12,666 is Eve's Apple. 210 00:11:13,916 --> 00:11:16,041 Temptation that leads to the fall. 211 00:11:17,291 --> 00:11:21,125 I must protect our loved ones from its corrupting influence, 212 00:11:22,208 --> 00:11:23,625 at all costs. 213 00:11:24,375 --> 00:11:26,208 His day came at last. 214 00:11:26,291 --> 00:11:27,541 I was there. 215 00:11:28,625 --> 00:11:31,833 I saw Prentice take his final communion 216 00:11:31,916 --> 00:11:34,666 and die on the holy altar. 217 00:11:34,750 --> 00:11:36,166 At peace. 218 00:11:36,958 --> 00:11:40,458 The harlot whore went straight to Prentice's attorney. 219 00:11:41,041 --> 00:11:44,125 "Give me my money," she said. 220 00:11:45,375 --> 00:11:46,833 And do you know what he said? 221 00:11:47,958 --> 00:11:52,458 "Yes, you are heir to every single penny Prentice had." 222 00:11:53,250 --> 00:11:54,875 And in his accounts, 223 00:11:56,166 --> 00:11:59,166 not one hot dime. 224 00:11:59,875 --> 00:12:02,041 Mm, what did he do with the fortune? 225 00:12:02,125 --> 00:12:04,041 Gave it to the poor, say some. 226 00:12:04,666 --> 00:12:07,541 Threw it in the ocean, say others. No one knows. 227 00:12:08,416 --> 00:12:09,416 It was gone. 228 00:12:10,375 --> 00:12:14,208 That holy man's final act of grace 229 00:12:15,333 --> 00:12:19,625 was to keep the corrupting evil out of wicked hands. 230 00:12:20,666 --> 00:12:22,500 All that he left her… 231 00:12:25,541 --> 00:12:26,541 was this. 232 00:12:27,166 --> 00:12:29,208 "What is this?" she said. 233 00:12:30,291 --> 00:12:31,708 But I knew. 234 00:12:32,416 --> 00:12:34,250 Look not for Eve's Apple. 235 00:12:34,916 --> 00:12:38,333 Your inheritance is now Christ. 236 00:12:38,416 --> 00:12:40,583 [ominous music swells] 237 00:12:44,208 --> 00:12:46,833 [Martha] That night, she had her revenge. 238 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,000 In a demonic rage, 239 00:12:52,083 --> 00:12:56,166 -she defiled this holy place. -[grunts] 240 00:12:56,250 --> 00:12:58,625 [sinister music plays] 241 00:12:58,708 --> 00:13:00,083 [grunting] 242 00:13:00,166 --> 00:13:01,083 [screams] 243 00:13:01,916 --> 00:13:03,791 [grunts, yells] 244 00:13:07,041 --> 00:13:07,958 [grunts, yells] 245 00:13:11,416 --> 00:13:13,833 [Martha] Blasphemy, desecration. 246 00:13:15,416 --> 00:13:18,416 -Evil incarnate. -[yells] 247 00:13:18,500 --> 00:13:19,708 [music fades] 248 00:13:21,250 --> 00:13:23,291 [Grace breathing heavily] 249 00:13:27,458 --> 00:13:28,416 [squeals] 250 00:13:29,166 --> 00:13:30,125 [grunts] 251 00:13:34,416 --> 00:13:35,458 [breath trembling] 252 00:13:37,208 --> 00:13:39,250 [low unsettling music plays] 253 00:13:39,333 --> 00:13:41,333 [breathing heavily] 254 00:13:43,291 --> 00:13:44,250 [sniffles] 255 00:13:47,250 --> 00:13:49,250 [thunder rumbling] 256 00:13:54,083 --> 00:13:56,458 [Martha] I said, "Sister Grace, 257 00:13:56,541 --> 00:14:01,458 God, your Father, will forgive you in His love." 258 00:14:05,083 --> 00:14:06,083 [music fades] 259 00:14:07,541 --> 00:14:09,500 -[Martha screams] -[yells] 260 00:14:09,583 --> 00:14:11,333 -[grunting] -[yelping] 261 00:14:11,416 --> 00:14:13,416 [menacing music plays] 262 00:14:16,541 --> 00:14:17,958 [yelling] 263 00:14:18,041 --> 00:14:19,541 -[music stops] -She died, 264 00:14:20,083 --> 00:14:22,375 throwing herself against Prentice's tomb. 265 00:14:22,458 --> 00:14:24,125 [screams] 266 00:14:25,541 --> 00:14:27,541 [Martha] Brain aneurysm, they said. 267 00:14:28,750 --> 00:14:30,666 Struck down, I say, 268 00:14:31,541 --> 00:14:34,875 by God in His mercy. 269 00:14:35,958 --> 00:14:37,500 Holy shit. 270 00:14:39,666 --> 00:14:40,666 Sorry, sorry. 271 00:14:41,666 --> 00:14:42,916 [intriguing music plays] 272 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,333 [Jud] The darkness of that story was the bedrock of this place. 273 00:14:46,416 --> 00:14:48,666 -[Wicks speaks indistinctly] -[Jud] You could feel it. 274 00:14:48,750 --> 00:14:50,083 And he asked, "Who told you…" 275 00:14:50,166 --> 00:14:54,500 [Jud] So what would draw someone to make this their spiritual home? 276 00:14:55,083 --> 00:14:58,083 The core group of regulars all had their reasons. 277 00:14:58,166 --> 00:15:00,125 And these will be our suspects. 278 00:15:00,208 --> 00:15:01,833 So I should introduce them. 279 00:15:02,500 --> 00:15:06,208 Vera Draven, local attorney. She was loyal and devoted. 280 00:15:06,291 --> 00:15:07,666 -[lock chirps] -[whistle blows] 281 00:15:08,625 --> 00:15:11,958 [Vera] My dad was Wicks' attorney and drinking buddy. 282 00:15:12,041 --> 00:15:14,166 [chuckles] The boys. 283 00:15:14,250 --> 00:15:18,625 And so you became a lawyer so you could take over his family practice? 284 00:15:18,708 --> 00:15:21,791 I became a lawyer because I wanted to do great things in the world. 285 00:15:23,125 --> 00:15:25,958 -But this place is my dad's legacy. -[spoon clatters] 286 00:15:26,708 --> 00:15:27,750 And he wanted me to… 287 00:15:27,833 --> 00:15:30,208 -Thank you. -…keep it going after he passed. 288 00:15:30,291 --> 00:15:32,708 So here I am. 289 00:15:32,791 --> 00:15:34,625 -Yo, yo. Hey, Vera. -[door closes] 290 00:15:34,708 --> 00:15:37,041 -Hi. Oh. Thank you. -Would you fill this up? 291 00:15:37,125 --> 00:15:39,625 [Jud] Her adopted son, Cy, just moved back home 292 00:15:39,708 --> 00:15:42,416 after trying and failing to get a foothold in politics. 293 00:15:42,500 --> 00:15:43,416 Hi. 294 00:15:43,500 --> 00:15:44,458 Hey. 295 00:15:44,541 --> 00:15:45,625 Okay. 296 00:15:46,666 --> 00:15:48,208 It's nice having him back? 297 00:15:48,291 --> 00:15:50,375 [intriguing music plays] 298 00:15:51,416 --> 00:15:54,416 [Jud] When Vera was young, just out of law school, 299 00:15:54,500 --> 00:15:58,250 her dad came home with ten-year-old Cy, out of the blue, 300 00:15:58,333 --> 00:16:00,666 and told Vera she was gonna raise him. 301 00:16:00,750 --> 00:16:02,166 No questions asked. 302 00:16:03,750 --> 00:16:07,416 The whole town knew he was obviously her illegitimate brother. 303 00:16:08,083 --> 00:16:09,500 But Vera accepted it. 304 00:16:10,458 --> 00:16:11,750 She did it. 305 00:16:11,833 --> 00:16:14,416 I've given up a lot to… [inhales deeply] 306 00:16:14,500 --> 00:16:19,041 …be loyal to my dad and to Cy and to Wicks. 307 00:16:20,375 --> 00:16:21,708 So I think that 308 00:16:21,791 --> 00:16:25,208 when my dad is looking down on me from heaven, 309 00:16:25,291 --> 00:16:28,708 I think he is very… [inhales deeply] 310 00:16:28,791 --> 00:16:30,500 …pleased with me. 311 00:16:32,875 --> 00:16:34,291 So I guess that's nice. 312 00:16:34,958 --> 00:16:36,041 [Cy] I came this close. 313 00:16:36,125 --> 00:16:38,666 I was the GOP golden boy, the great hope. 314 00:16:38,750 --> 00:16:41,291 I've got connections and ins and outs. 315 00:16:41,375 --> 00:16:43,500 I was on the cusp, but I just couldn't engage voters. 316 00:16:43,583 --> 00:16:47,500 I didn't… [inhales] have that cult of personality thing, I guess. 317 00:16:47,583 --> 00:16:50,416 It's hard connecting with people in a genuine way. 318 00:16:50,500 --> 00:16:52,208 -I know. -[Jud] Mm-hmm. 319 00:16:52,291 --> 00:16:54,708 I tried everything. Believe me, I hammered the race thing. 320 00:16:54,791 --> 00:16:57,000 I hammered the gender thing, the trans thing, 321 00:16:57,083 --> 00:16:59,208 the border thing, the homeless thing, 322 00:16:59,291 --> 00:17:03,125 the war thing, the election thing, the abortion thing, the climate thing. 323 00:17:03,916 --> 00:17:07,916 Thing about induction stoves, Israel, library books, vaccines, 324 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,083 pronouns, AK-47s, socialism, BLM, 325 00:17:11,166 --> 00:17:15,000 CRT, the CDC, DEI, 5G, everything. 326 00:17:15,708 --> 00:17:19,708 All of it I did. Nobody, just nothing. [sighs] 327 00:17:20,458 --> 00:17:22,666 People are just numb these days. I don't know why. 328 00:17:22,750 --> 00:17:25,625 [hesitates] Maybe we need to get back to fundamentals, you know, 329 00:17:25,708 --> 00:17:29,166 basic building blocks on how to genuinely inspire people. 330 00:17:29,250 --> 00:17:31,291 The basics, like, show them something they hate 331 00:17:31,375 --> 00:17:34,041 and then make them afraid it's gonna take away something they love? 332 00:17:34,125 --> 00:17:35,750 [soft intriguing music plays] 333 00:17:35,833 --> 00:17:37,125 [hesitates] Well, no. 334 00:17:37,208 --> 00:17:38,541 -[indistinct chatter] -Vera. 335 00:17:38,625 --> 00:17:41,333 -[Jud] Nat Sharp, the town's local doctor. -[imperceptible] 336 00:17:41,416 --> 00:17:43,625 His life revolved around his wife, Darla. 337 00:17:44,291 --> 00:17:45,958 She was his everything. 338 00:17:46,041 --> 00:17:47,875 -[music stops] -Darla left me last week. 339 00:17:47,958 --> 00:17:49,625 [tuts] Oh, I'm sorry. 340 00:17:50,125 --> 00:17:53,000 Took the kids, moved to Tucson 341 00:17:54,166 --> 00:17:56,791 with some guy that she met on a Phish message board. 342 00:17:58,791 --> 00:17:59,750 [smacks lips] 343 00:18:00,416 --> 00:18:01,625 Phish the band? 344 00:18:01,708 --> 00:18:03,125 I had no idea. 345 00:18:03,958 --> 00:18:06,875 -[somber music plays] -[Jud] Dr. Nat was spinning out. 346 00:18:06,958 --> 00:18:10,791 He wasn't successful enough, rich enough, good enough for her. 347 00:18:10,875 --> 00:18:13,000 He would do anything to get her back. 348 00:18:15,875 --> 00:18:17,125 [intriguing music plays] 349 00:18:17,208 --> 00:18:19,833 The closest thing we have to a local celebrity, 350 00:18:19,916 --> 00:18:22,041 the sci-fi writer Lee Ross. 351 00:18:23,125 --> 00:18:25,041 You probably know at least some of his books. 352 00:18:25,666 --> 00:18:28,083 The Crescent Limbo series, Ice Pick of Time, 353 00:18:28,166 --> 00:18:29,500 The Crystaline Juncture. 354 00:18:30,291 --> 00:18:32,791 Ten years ago, Lee moved here from New York, 355 00:18:32,875 --> 00:18:35,875 connected with Wicks and the church, and as he puts it… 356 00:18:35,958 --> 00:18:37,458 Unplugged my brain, you know, 357 00:18:37,541 --> 00:18:41,958 from the… [inhales] liberal hive mind and… [exhales] come here and… 358 00:18:42,875 --> 00:18:46,833 [Jud] His book sales and popular standing have been in slow decline ever since. 359 00:18:47,958 --> 00:18:51,375 But he'd spent the last year writing a massive book about Wicks. 360 00:18:51,458 --> 00:18:52,958 His teachings, my reflections, 361 00:18:53,041 --> 00:18:56,458 essays and recollections of an acolyte at the feet of a prophet. 362 00:18:56,541 --> 00:18:58,708 [Jud] The Holy Man and the Troubadour. 363 00:18:58,791 --> 00:19:02,416 I found it a tough read, but he pinned all of his hopes on it. 364 00:19:02,500 --> 00:19:05,875 This is my last chance ticket out of Substack hell. 365 00:19:05,958 --> 00:19:08,625 I can't take it anymore. My readers these days… 366 00:19:09,125 --> 00:19:11,541 I mean, they are survivalist freaks. 367 00:19:11,625 --> 00:19:14,250 They all look like John Goodman in The Big Lebowski. 368 00:19:14,333 --> 00:19:15,583 [chuckles] 369 00:19:16,458 --> 00:19:18,125 [church bell tolling] 370 00:19:18,208 --> 00:19:21,291 This little shitwick, Cy. 371 00:19:22,041 --> 00:19:25,250 He's got his little influencer fangs in the Monsignor lately. 372 00:19:25,333 --> 00:19:28,000 We don't like him. We're all like, "Wicks. Be careful, 373 00:19:28,083 --> 00:19:32,166 you gotta shake him off. He's bad news. Opportunistic poetaster." 374 00:19:33,166 --> 00:19:36,791 We're gonna have to protect Wicks from these leeching millennials. 375 00:19:36,875 --> 00:19:39,666 [Jud] Simone was new to town, and new to the church. 376 00:19:39,750 --> 00:19:43,291 -She'd been a world-class cellist. -[playing dramatic, somber tune] 377 00:19:46,500 --> 00:19:49,583 Forced to retire five years ago for health reasons. 378 00:19:49,666 --> 00:19:52,500 Chronic pain. Some mysterious nerve thing 379 00:19:52,583 --> 00:19:54,833 -that doctors cannot diagnose. -Sorry. [panting] 380 00:19:54,916 --> 00:19:57,083 I believed they could heal me. 381 00:19:57,166 --> 00:19:58,791 [clicks tongue] Suckered. 382 00:19:59,291 --> 00:20:00,708 Dipshit moi. 383 00:20:00,791 --> 00:20:02,166 [breathes deeply] 384 00:20:02,250 --> 00:20:04,500 I mean, to take someone's faith 385 00:20:04,583 --> 00:20:06,208 and exploit it for money 386 00:20:08,083 --> 00:20:09,500 is the ultimate evil. 387 00:20:11,750 --> 00:20:13,166 Don't you think it is? 388 00:20:13,250 --> 00:20:15,375 Yeah. Yeah, it's bad. 389 00:20:16,791 --> 00:20:18,916 But I understand wanting to believe. 390 00:20:20,958 --> 00:20:22,583 This feels different, though. 391 00:20:22,666 --> 00:20:24,333 [intriguing music plays] 392 00:20:24,416 --> 00:20:26,833 Faith in God to heal me. 393 00:20:29,041 --> 00:20:30,250 This is different. 394 00:20:33,625 --> 00:20:36,250 I feel hopeful now. 395 00:20:38,125 --> 00:20:40,416 Like a miracle could happen. 396 00:20:43,500 --> 00:20:45,916 That's how Monsignor Wicks makes me feel. 397 00:20:49,750 --> 00:20:52,125 -[intriguing music continues] -[wind gusting] 398 00:20:55,041 --> 00:20:56,708 [indistinct chatter] 399 00:20:56,791 --> 00:20:59,708 -The Spirit really moved him today, huh? -[gasps] 400 00:21:00,958 --> 00:21:02,166 Monsignor! 401 00:21:03,083 --> 00:21:04,333 Ah, my warrior. 402 00:21:04,916 --> 00:21:08,000 -[Jud] Wicks kept his core group tight. -[laughs] 403 00:21:08,083 --> 00:21:11,583 [Jud] And the seductive power of his charisma was undeniable. 404 00:21:13,666 --> 00:21:14,875 But his method… 405 00:21:15,875 --> 00:21:17,916 Every week, he would pick someone out, 406 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:20,958 a newcomer usually, and he would attack. 407 00:21:21,041 --> 00:21:24,125 The world wants us all to be okay. 408 00:21:25,958 --> 00:21:29,791 Any of your choices. Make your choices. They're your choices. 409 00:21:30,291 --> 00:21:31,500 Don't feel bad. 410 00:21:32,208 --> 00:21:33,500 Have that affair. 411 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:35,208 Tell that lie. 412 00:21:35,291 --> 00:21:37,625 Have that child out of wedlock. 413 00:21:37,708 --> 00:21:40,500 Satisfy your selfish heart. 414 00:21:41,125 --> 00:21:42,541 Selfish. 415 00:21:42,625 --> 00:21:43,666 Yes. 416 00:21:44,208 --> 00:21:47,333 Depriving that child of a family. 417 00:21:48,250 --> 00:21:49,583 Of a father. 418 00:21:50,083 --> 00:21:52,291 An assault on our castle. 419 00:21:52,375 --> 00:21:54,375 The institution of manhood. 420 00:21:54,458 --> 00:21:56,916 My own mother made that selfish choice with me. 421 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,125 And I curse her selfish heart for it. 422 00:21:59,208 --> 00:22:01,625 Every day of my life. 423 00:22:01,708 --> 00:22:05,875 Putting her needs and wants before the family God intended. 424 00:22:05,958 --> 00:22:07,166 I am enough! 425 00:22:07,750 --> 00:22:10,416 -Me! -[tense music plays] 426 00:22:10,500 --> 00:22:14,416 Selfish, harlot heart, you are not. 427 00:22:15,208 --> 00:22:16,708 Might as well beat that child. 428 00:22:16,791 --> 00:22:19,458 Yes, might as well starve that child. 429 00:22:19,541 --> 00:22:22,375 Defy the family that the Lord intended. 430 00:22:22,458 --> 00:22:26,291 And watch your child burn beneath that burden. 431 00:22:27,208 --> 00:22:29,125 -[music subsides] -[imperceptible] 432 00:22:29,208 --> 00:22:31,333 [Jud] This is not the true church. 433 00:22:32,291 --> 00:22:35,375 You ask even the most hardcore of those in the pews, 434 00:22:35,458 --> 00:22:38,125 they'll say, no, of course this is not what they believe. 435 00:22:38,208 --> 00:22:40,958 It's Wicks being Wicks, pushing it too far. 436 00:22:41,041 --> 00:22:44,958 And what he's pushing for every time is a walkout. 437 00:22:45,041 --> 00:22:46,375 [intriguing music plays] 438 00:22:46,458 --> 00:22:47,875 Why does he do this? 439 00:22:48,458 --> 00:22:51,458 Because when that person walks out, everyone watches. 440 00:22:52,041 --> 00:22:54,791 And even if in the light of day it's indefensible, 441 00:22:54,875 --> 00:22:58,041 deep down in the dark, it scratches an itch. 442 00:22:58,125 --> 00:22:59,916 [imperceptible] 443 00:23:02,250 --> 00:23:05,666 [Jud] And by staying put in that pew, a side is taken. 444 00:23:06,916 --> 00:23:08,625 Wicks' side. 445 00:23:08,708 --> 00:23:11,708 Testing tolerances, tapping deep poisoned wells, 446 00:23:11,791 --> 00:23:13,791 hardening, binding with complicity. 447 00:23:13,875 --> 00:23:17,333 [man over radio] …for a two-run homer and that brings the Cubs… 448 00:23:17,416 --> 00:23:18,916 [grunts] Mm. 449 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,583 -[Jud] So I try to offer a counterbalance. -[music fades] 450 00:23:22,666 --> 00:23:26,041 Okay, welcome to our first Father Jud prayer group. 451 00:23:26,125 --> 00:23:28,583 Um, thank you all for being here. 452 00:23:29,250 --> 00:23:32,041 And this is all about breaking down walls 453 00:23:32,125 --> 00:23:34,541 between us and Christ, 454 00:23:35,250 --> 00:23:38,083 us and each other, us and the world. 455 00:23:39,333 --> 00:23:40,958 When I was 17, 456 00:23:41,458 --> 00:23:43,000 I was a boxer 457 00:23:43,083 --> 00:23:45,583 and I… I… killed a man in the ring. 458 00:23:47,458 --> 00:23:49,375 I built up so many walls of… 459 00:23:50,041 --> 00:23:52,833 of anger, addiction, violence. 460 00:23:54,333 --> 00:23:56,541 It was only when I felt safe enough to… 461 00:23:57,125 --> 00:24:00,958 to put my dukes down, open my arms, 462 00:24:01,041 --> 00:24:03,125 um, confess my deepest sin. 463 00:24:03,791 --> 00:24:06,208 That was the day that Christ saved my life. 464 00:24:06,958 --> 00:24:09,583 It… He didn't… He didn't transform me. 465 00:24:09,666 --> 00:24:12,375 He sustains me every day. 466 00:24:12,458 --> 00:24:13,875 [clock ticking] 467 00:24:13,958 --> 00:24:15,458 That's daily bread, right? 468 00:24:16,958 --> 00:24:19,083 I think that's what the church should be. 469 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,416 That's what I want this church to be, for me 470 00:24:23,083 --> 00:24:24,500 and for all of you. 471 00:24:29,166 --> 00:24:30,458 -[Vera chuckles softly] -So… 472 00:24:33,625 --> 00:24:36,041 Monsignor Wicks isn't coming? 473 00:24:38,041 --> 00:24:39,666 [hesitates] No, but… 474 00:24:40,458 --> 00:24:41,458 No. 475 00:24:41,541 --> 00:24:44,625 So, I thought we could just talk and start sharing and-- 476 00:24:44,708 --> 00:24:46,333 But he knows that we're doing these? 477 00:24:46,416 --> 00:24:48,583 Sure, of course. Of course, I'll tell him. 478 00:24:48,666 --> 00:24:50,833 I just… I wanted us to connect and, uh… 479 00:24:50,916 --> 00:24:53,125 You'll tell him? You'll… You'll tell him? 480 00:24:53,208 --> 00:24:56,625 Contraction of the simple future tense meaning you haven't yet 481 00:24:57,250 --> 00:24:58,458 told him? 482 00:24:59,416 --> 00:25:00,833 Why wouldn't you tell him? 483 00:25:00,916 --> 00:25:02,875 -This feels kind of weird. -[Jud] Okay, guys. 484 00:25:03,458 --> 00:25:06,541 [chuckles] This is a prayer meeting. It's… it's not a secret or anything. 485 00:25:06,625 --> 00:25:08,791 -Well, it's a secret prayer meeting. -No. 486 00:25:08,875 --> 00:25:10,583 That's literally what it is. 487 00:25:10,666 --> 00:25:11,833 I just texted the Monsignor. 488 00:25:11,916 --> 00:25:14,333 Great, so… [chuckles] it isn't a secret anymore. 489 00:25:14,416 --> 00:25:17,625 Now, if we could get back to breaking down those walls through Christ's love-- 490 00:25:17,708 --> 00:25:18,666 [cell phone chimes] 491 00:25:18,750 --> 00:25:21,166 -He says, "What the holy heck?" -Oh. 492 00:25:21,250 --> 00:25:23,458 -Jeez. -[Vera] I'm… I'm sorry. Father, 493 00:25:23,541 --> 00:25:27,541 I came because I thought this was an official church function. 494 00:25:27,625 --> 00:25:29,833 Only he didn't use the word "heck". 495 00:25:29,916 --> 00:25:31,458 -[laughs] -Okay, thank you, Martha. 496 00:25:31,541 --> 00:25:32,875 This is a church function, Vera. 497 00:25:32,958 --> 00:25:34,791 It's at a church. It's with me. It's official. 498 00:25:34,875 --> 00:25:36,166 -Um… -Or "holy". 499 00:25:36,250 --> 00:25:38,458 -Show… Can I see that? -I think I should go. 500 00:25:38,541 --> 00:25:39,541 -[Nat] Okay. -[Lee] Bye. 501 00:25:39,625 --> 00:25:41,500 -[Vera] Thank you. Uh, Cyrus? -Yeah. 502 00:25:41,583 --> 00:25:42,458 [Nat] Oh, wow. 503 00:25:42,541 --> 00:25:44,875 Yeah, sorry, Father. I don't want to piss him off. 504 00:25:45,583 --> 00:25:47,083 Nice try, guy. 505 00:25:47,166 --> 00:25:48,125 Thanks, Doc. 506 00:25:48,208 --> 00:25:50,625 I'm probably gonna post this tomorrow. Can I tag you? 507 00:25:50,708 --> 00:25:51,875 I'd prefer you didn't. 508 00:25:51,958 --> 00:25:53,041 I probably will anyway. 509 00:25:53,125 --> 00:25:54,166 -I know. -[door opens] 510 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:55,916 [door closes] 511 00:25:56,625 --> 00:26:00,375 I'm so sorry your little coup failed this afternoon, Father. 512 00:26:00,458 --> 00:26:02,041 My coup? Martha, really? 513 00:26:02,125 --> 00:26:05,541 If we want to pray or need to confess something, 514 00:26:05,625 --> 00:26:08,000 we can do it with Monsignor Wicks. 515 00:26:08,083 --> 00:26:10,916 Can you? 'Cause you all seem scared to death of the guy. 516 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,000 Could you walk into that church of your own free will 517 00:26:14,083 --> 00:26:17,291 and confess your deepest sin to Wicks, Martha, without fear? 518 00:26:17,375 --> 00:26:20,750 'Cause… 'cause if not, this whole place is a whitewashed tomb. 519 00:26:20,833 --> 00:26:23,250 Yes, I could. 520 00:26:23,333 --> 00:26:24,416 Well, 521 00:26:25,625 --> 00:26:27,041 good! 522 00:26:30,041 --> 00:26:32,041 [church bell tolling] 523 00:26:40,666 --> 00:26:41,500 [scoffs] 524 00:26:48,458 --> 00:26:49,708 [groans] 525 00:26:49,791 --> 00:26:52,250 [panting] 526 00:26:56,916 --> 00:26:58,416 [exhales sharply] 527 00:26:59,583 --> 00:27:03,416 [Jud] Holy Week, the week of special services leading up to Easter. 528 00:27:04,375 --> 00:27:07,208 It was on Palm Sunday that I finally broke. 529 00:27:07,291 --> 00:27:10,500 [Wicks] And then, uh… twice in the shower this week 530 00:27:11,333 --> 00:27:14,791 doing that thing I told you about where I hold my hand upside down? 531 00:27:16,041 --> 00:27:18,458 Five Our Fathers, five Hail Marys. 532 00:27:19,791 --> 00:27:22,250 Well, we're at nine months now, Jud. 533 00:27:23,791 --> 00:27:28,583 How are you enjoying it here? Are you breaking down some… walls? 534 00:27:32,250 --> 00:27:36,125 Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It's been a week since my last confession. 535 00:27:38,916 --> 00:27:40,125 [inhales sharply] 536 00:27:40,208 --> 00:27:42,833 I betrayed a fellow priest's privacy. 537 00:27:44,041 --> 00:27:47,458 I know that Martha keeps her medical bills filed in the office, so… 538 00:27:48,416 --> 00:27:49,625 I went through them. 539 00:27:50,666 --> 00:27:53,375 And I learned you had a radical prostatectomy five years ago, 540 00:27:53,458 --> 00:27:56,708 making you physically incapable of an erection. 541 00:27:59,166 --> 00:28:01,583 I can handle whatever this is. 542 00:28:02,125 --> 00:28:05,708 For the past nine months, I've seen the way you tend this flock, 543 00:28:05,791 --> 00:28:07,125 and I don't like it. 544 00:28:07,208 --> 00:28:08,291 You don't like it? 545 00:28:08,375 --> 00:28:10,208 No, Monsignor, I don't. 546 00:28:10,291 --> 00:28:11,500 Nat Sharp. 547 00:28:11,583 --> 00:28:14,791 Man needs to forgive and start living his life. 548 00:28:14,875 --> 00:28:17,791 And Christ's love should be a launching pad for that, and instead, 549 00:28:17,875 --> 00:28:19,583 he's just, every day, 550 00:28:19,666 --> 00:28:22,875 getting more and more angry and bitter against his ex-wife, 551 00:28:22,958 --> 00:28:23,958 -against women. -[grunts] 552 00:28:24,916 --> 00:28:28,250 It's bad. And Lee, he's a storyteller. 553 00:28:28,333 --> 00:28:31,833 And it's like his superpower has been turned against him. 554 00:28:31,916 --> 00:28:34,791 The only story he tells is, "The world is out to get me." 555 00:28:34,875 --> 00:28:38,125 He was brilliant funny, and smart and respected, 556 00:28:38,208 --> 00:28:43,791 and now he's just spinning out and angry all the time, paranoid. 557 00:28:43,875 --> 00:28:46,916 Did you know he literally built a moat around his house? 558 00:28:47,500 --> 00:28:48,333 Really? 559 00:28:49,500 --> 00:28:52,333 [Jud] I mean, it's mostly symbolic, but yeah. 560 00:28:53,125 --> 00:28:55,125 And Simone, I'm sorry, Monsignor, 561 00:28:55,208 --> 00:28:57,416 but I'm afraid you've taken advantage of her. 562 00:28:57,500 --> 00:28:59,333 I've seen the donation numbers. 563 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,125 I know how much she's giving, and the past few months, 564 00:29:02,208 --> 00:29:03,916 she's basically supporting this place. 565 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,708 And yes, I believe in the possibility of miracles through Christ, 566 00:29:07,791 --> 00:29:09,791 but what you're giving her is not that. 567 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,208 It's transactional, through you, 568 00:29:13,291 --> 00:29:15,625 and God help you, it makes her feel betrayed again. 569 00:29:16,208 --> 00:29:17,875 God help me. Anything else? 570 00:29:17,958 --> 00:29:20,208 Yeah, why not? Cy Draven. 571 00:29:20,291 --> 00:29:23,666 Doesn't this new YouTube stuff he's doing worry you? 572 00:29:23,750 --> 00:29:26,166 Every week now, he takes clips from what you say in Mass 573 00:29:26,250 --> 00:29:30,750 and plugs them into his political rants. He's co-opting, and honestly, 574 00:29:30,833 --> 00:29:33,416 I think misrepresenting the church in a dangerous way. 575 00:29:33,500 --> 00:29:34,583 [sighs] 576 00:29:34,666 --> 00:29:38,333 When was the last time a new person lasted more than one Sunday? 577 00:29:38,958 --> 00:29:40,333 Word's gotten out. 578 00:29:40,916 --> 00:29:42,916 Every week now, it's just this… 579 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,000 this hardened cyst of regulars, 580 00:29:45,083 --> 00:29:49,375 and it seems like you're intentionally keeping them angry and afraid. 581 00:29:50,333 --> 00:29:52,041 Is that how Christ led his flock? 582 00:29:52,125 --> 00:29:54,250 Is that what we're supposed to do? 583 00:29:59,250 --> 00:30:00,666 -[grunts] -[groans] 584 00:30:00,750 --> 00:30:02,708 -[crows cawing, fluttering] -[coughing] 585 00:30:02,791 --> 00:30:06,458 Right now, you're angry. You should be. 586 00:30:06,541 --> 00:30:08,875 It'd be dangerous if you weren't. I'd see you're helpless, 587 00:30:08,958 --> 00:30:11,000 and I'd do it again and again. 588 00:30:11,791 --> 00:30:14,166 I'm the world. You're the church. 589 00:30:14,250 --> 00:30:17,125 -Stay there. Stay there. Stay. -[groaning] 590 00:30:18,500 --> 00:30:21,958 -Aha. Good. Right. Yes. -[pants, grunts] 591 00:30:22,541 --> 00:30:26,625 Anger. Anger lets us fight back, take back the ground we've lost. 592 00:30:27,208 --> 00:30:29,375 And we've lost so much ground. 593 00:30:29,958 --> 00:30:31,083 And now you're afraid. 594 00:30:31,166 --> 00:30:34,041 Look at those bare-knuckle instincts coming back. Good! 595 00:30:34,875 --> 00:30:37,333 You're afraid I'm gonna come at you again. 596 00:30:37,416 --> 00:30:40,750 -But you're protecting yourself. -[pants, exhales] 597 00:30:43,125 --> 00:30:46,541 Because the world wants to destroy us. 598 00:30:47,500 --> 00:30:51,333 Your version of love and forgiveness is a sop. 599 00:30:51,416 --> 00:30:54,416 It's going along to get along with modernity, 600 00:30:54,500 --> 00:30:56,708 not wanting to offend this garbage world. 601 00:30:56,791 --> 00:31:00,041 Meanwhile, they destroy us. 602 00:31:00,708 --> 00:31:05,125 Feminist Marxist whores. Bit by bit, they do. 603 00:31:07,208 --> 00:31:10,416 But I carry my burden. I hold the line. 604 00:31:12,458 --> 00:31:13,541 And you? 605 00:31:14,750 --> 00:31:17,166 You simpering child from Albany? 606 00:31:19,666 --> 00:31:21,291 Are you gonna get angry 607 00:31:22,375 --> 00:31:23,750 and fight? 608 00:31:32,083 --> 00:31:34,083 You're poisoning this church. 609 00:31:35,250 --> 00:31:37,666 And I'll do whatever it takes to save it. 610 00:31:39,458 --> 00:31:41,291 To cut you out like a cancer. 611 00:31:44,500 --> 00:31:46,916 Five Our Fathers, five Hail Marys. 612 00:32:02,666 --> 00:32:03,666 [door opens] 613 00:32:07,583 --> 00:32:09,583 [Jud] Christ, you didn't give up on me. 614 00:32:10,166 --> 00:32:12,416 I'm not giving up on this church. 615 00:32:12,500 --> 00:32:14,833 [thunder rumbling] 616 00:32:14,916 --> 00:32:16,833 But he was one step ahead of me. 617 00:32:17,666 --> 00:32:20,083 [Wicks] Father Jud's prayer meeting? 618 00:32:20,791 --> 00:32:22,291 I have kept this church. 619 00:32:22,375 --> 00:32:24,083 I have fortified it with the truth of God. 620 00:32:24,166 --> 00:32:27,458 And now the betrayal to find my authority 621 00:32:27,541 --> 00:32:30,666 and faith and life itself challenged, 622 00:32:30,750 --> 00:32:32,833 and from inside my own sanctuary. 623 00:32:35,333 --> 00:32:36,416 Get out! 624 00:32:37,875 --> 00:32:38,708 [door slams] 625 00:32:38,791 --> 00:32:40,083 [breathing heavily] 626 00:32:40,166 --> 00:32:41,791 [Jud] Wicks' final move. 627 00:32:41,875 --> 00:32:43,708 Open war against me. 628 00:32:43,791 --> 00:32:46,416 -[rock music plays over speakers] -[lively chatter] 629 00:32:46,500 --> 00:32:48,166 [Jud] I got pretty toasty. 630 00:32:48,750 --> 00:32:51,583 The world's a wolf. You devil. 631 00:32:51,666 --> 00:32:53,291 You devil wolf. 632 00:32:53,791 --> 00:32:55,208 You're a devil wolf. 633 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:57,208 Shit. 634 00:32:57,708 --> 00:33:01,250 -Oh! Nikolai, I'm sorry. I broke that… -No, no, no. Don't worry about it. 635 00:33:01,333 --> 00:33:03,750 -…with my hand. -They're junk lamps. They're junk lamps. 636 00:33:03,833 --> 00:33:05,583 -Come on. Hey, are you good to drive? -Yeah. 637 00:33:05,666 --> 00:33:06,500 Are you sure? 638 00:33:06,583 --> 00:33:08,583 [suspenseful music plays] 639 00:33:20,958 --> 00:33:22,625 -[grunts] -[glass shatters] 640 00:33:22,708 --> 00:33:23,833 -[Sam] Hey! -[gasps] 641 00:33:26,625 --> 00:33:27,833 Who's there? 642 00:33:27,916 --> 00:33:28,875 Oh, shit. 643 00:33:30,333 --> 00:33:32,458 [Jud] And that brings us to Good Friday. 644 00:33:34,625 --> 00:33:36,000 Here we go. 645 00:33:36,083 --> 00:33:38,208 It was a 3:00 p.m. service. 646 00:33:39,125 --> 00:33:40,375 Just the regulars. 647 00:33:41,208 --> 00:33:43,000 There was a strange tension in the air. 648 00:33:43,708 --> 00:33:46,000 I can't recall the homily, but it felt different. 649 00:33:47,500 --> 00:33:49,875 The anger felt less calculated. 650 00:33:50,875 --> 00:33:51,791 More unhinged. 651 00:33:51,875 --> 00:33:54,833 -[imperceptible] -[suspenseful music continues] 652 00:33:57,708 --> 00:34:01,375 [Jud] As always, after the homily, Wicks was spent, 653 00:34:01,458 --> 00:34:04,666 emotionally and physically, and needed some time to recover. 654 00:34:06,708 --> 00:34:09,041 He would duck into the small storage closet 655 00:34:09,125 --> 00:34:12,000 just to the side of the sanctuary so he'd be out of sight. 656 00:34:13,208 --> 00:34:16,291 He'd fortify himself, and I would continue the service 657 00:34:16,375 --> 00:34:19,541 until he felt strong enough to rejoin and take over. 658 00:34:19,625 --> 00:34:22,458 ♪ Behold the wood of the cross ♪ 659 00:34:22,541 --> 00:34:25,625 ♪ On which hung The salvation of the world ♪ 660 00:34:25,708 --> 00:34:27,125 -[thudding] -[object clangs] 661 00:34:34,458 --> 00:34:35,708 [Jud] Monsignor? 662 00:34:35,791 --> 00:34:38,208 [low suspenseful music plays] 663 00:34:50,166 --> 00:34:51,250 What's wrong? 664 00:34:53,083 --> 00:34:54,125 Jefferson? 665 00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,000 [suspenseful music rises] 666 00:35:16,583 --> 00:35:17,500 Jud. 667 00:35:20,625 --> 00:35:21,833 There's something in his back. 668 00:35:22,416 --> 00:35:23,583 [Nat] Wait. Don't touch it. 669 00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:25,916 Don't… don't touch anything. 670 00:35:36,875 --> 00:35:38,708 [music intensifies] 671 00:35:38,791 --> 00:35:39,958 [screaming] 672 00:35:44,458 --> 00:35:46,583 Satan! Satan struck him down! 673 00:35:46,666 --> 00:35:48,166 -The devil… Satan… -[Vera] Martha. 674 00:35:48,250 --> 00:35:49,833 -…struck him down! -Oh, no. 675 00:35:49,916 --> 00:35:52,708 -[Martha screaming] -[Vera] Martha! Please. 676 00:35:57,208 --> 00:35:59,208 [sinister dramatic music plays] 677 00:36:12,458 --> 00:36:13,416 [music stops] 678 00:36:16,250 --> 00:36:18,291 [fire crackling] 679 00:36:19,791 --> 00:36:21,416 [thunder rumbles in distance] 680 00:36:29,500 --> 00:36:32,083 [Jud] The ambulance took just five minutes to arrive. 681 00:36:32,166 --> 00:36:34,375 -[sirens chirp] -[sirens wailing] 682 00:36:34,458 --> 00:36:36,583 [Jud] Wicks was pronounced dead on the scene. 683 00:36:37,291 --> 00:36:40,916 When I joined the others outside, the police were just arriving. 684 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,833 [Martha] The devil will not take that man. [sniffles] 685 00:36:43,916 --> 00:36:46,750 He will rise again in the glory of the Lord. 686 00:36:47,750 --> 00:36:50,583 [Jud] This was an insane event for a tiny town, 687 00:36:50,666 --> 00:36:54,666 and poor Geraldine, the local chief, was thrown in headlong. 688 00:36:54,750 --> 00:36:56,166 Christ. 689 00:36:57,375 --> 00:37:00,583 Hours of questioning all through the day Saturday 690 00:37:01,250 --> 00:37:03,958 -until finally… -[Geraldine] You're the only one on stage 691 00:37:04,041 --> 00:37:06,291 with the Monsignor at the time of his killing. 692 00:37:07,041 --> 00:37:09,166 And you had prior possession of the wolf-head figurine 693 00:37:09,250 --> 00:37:10,666 attached to the murder weapon. 694 00:37:12,500 --> 00:37:14,958 And you're the only one at that church who hated his guts. 695 00:37:15,041 --> 00:37:16,875 I… I don't hate any guts. 696 00:37:16,958 --> 00:37:22,166 But it's literally impossible for anyone to have done this, so I don't… 697 00:37:23,750 --> 00:37:26,833 [sighing] Oh, I don't know what this is. 698 00:37:31,250 --> 00:37:34,250 All right. Father, why don't you go get some rest? 699 00:37:34,333 --> 00:37:37,208 But I should warn you before you walk out of here, the town is talking. 700 00:37:37,833 --> 00:37:40,333 Cy Draven put this up on his YouTube this morning. 701 00:37:40,416 --> 00:37:42,541 [Jud on recording] …poisoning this church. 702 00:37:42,625 --> 00:37:44,750 And I'll do whatever it takes to save it. 703 00:37:45,291 --> 00:37:49,125 To cut you out like a cancer. 704 00:37:50,958 --> 00:37:53,333 -[exhales] -[Geraldine] It's been reposted. 705 00:37:54,833 --> 00:37:56,041 Quite a bit. 706 00:37:56,125 --> 00:37:58,125 [intriguing music plays] 707 00:37:59,083 --> 00:38:00,958 [indistinct police radio chatter] 708 00:38:03,166 --> 00:38:04,666 [object crunches] 709 00:38:09,416 --> 00:38:11,416 [music turns suspenseful] 710 00:38:31,208 --> 00:38:35,625 [Jud] I turned on my phone for two minutes, and that was a mistake. 711 00:38:36,166 --> 00:38:39,666 A flood of messages to the killer priest. 712 00:38:41,875 --> 00:38:45,541 But I wasn't thinking about getting arrested or defrocked. 713 00:38:46,083 --> 00:38:49,916 I was thinking Wicks had won. 714 00:38:51,125 --> 00:38:54,041 Because in the part of my soul that cannot lie to Christ, 715 00:38:54,125 --> 00:38:56,958 or myself, or you… 716 00:38:57,041 --> 00:38:58,333 [door creaking] 717 00:38:58,416 --> 00:38:59,625 [door thuds] 718 00:39:00,333 --> 00:39:03,416 …I was happy the old man was dead. 719 00:39:03,500 --> 00:39:05,333 [solemn music plays] 720 00:39:07,625 --> 00:39:08,708 [exhales] 721 00:39:11,791 --> 00:39:12,875 Jesus. 722 00:39:13,708 --> 00:39:16,291 Help me. [sniffles] 723 00:39:17,333 --> 00:39:19,750 Show me the way through this, please. 724 00:39:23,208 --> 00:39:24,083 [music fades] 725 00:39:24,166 --> 00:39:25,666 [man] Hello? 726 00:39:29,416 --> 00:39:31,041 Oh, I'm sorry. Um… 727 00:39:32,500 --> 00:39:33,916 Are you open? 728 00:39:35,041 --> 00:39:36,125 Always. 729 00:39:36,708 --> 00:39:37,916 You all right? 730 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:41,500 Yeah. Uh-huh. Sorry. [sniffles] 731 00:39:42,875 --> 00:39:47,791 -Uh, there's no Easter Mass. I'm sorry. -Oh, I'm… 732 00:39:47,875 --> 00:39:51,541 -You're welcome. Come in. Come in. -Thank you. Thank you. 733 00:39:51,625 --> 00:39:56,041 I don't want to take you away from your priestly duties now, do I? 734 00:39:56,833 --> 00:39:57,750 [Benoit clicks tongue] 735 00:39:58,416 --> 00:40:01,166 Well… [chuckles] Isn't this something? 736 00:40:01,250 --> 00:40:02,083 [Jud] Right? 737 00:40:02,166 --> 00:40:06,375 It's… hard to be in here and not feel His presence. 738 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:08,083 Whose? 739 00:40:09,041 --> 00:40:12,083 Oh. God… Oh. Yeah. [laughs] 740 00:40:12,166 --> 00:40:13,750 -Yeah. -You're not a Catholic. 741 00:40:13,833 --> 00:40:16,000 No, very much not, no. [chuckles] 742 00:40:16,875 --> 00:40:18,291 Proud heretic. 743 00:40:19,250 --> 00:40:21,458 I kneel at the altar of the rational. 744 00:40:21,541 --> 00:40:24,500 Uh-huh. You weren't raised in the faith? 745 00:40:25,250 --> 00:40:27,958 My mother is… was, uh, 746 00:40:28,041 --> 00:40:30,875 very, very religious, you know. 747 00:40:32,583 --> 00:40:34,416 -Were you close with her? -No. 748 00:40:35,250 --> 00:40:39,125 When I was a boy, we, um… But it's… 749 00:40:39,208 --> 00:40:41,208 -Complicated. Family. -[chuckles] It's complicated. 750 00:40:41,291 --> 00:40:42,708 Yeah. That's right. 751 00:40:47,791 --> 00:40:49,500 How does all this make you feel? 752 00:40:52,791 --> 00:40:54,625 How does it make me feel? 753 00:40:59,208 --> 00:41:00,041 Truthfully? 754 00:41:00,125 --> 00:41:01,208 Sure. 755 00:41:03,541 --> 00:41:05,375 Well, the architecture, that interests me. 756 00:41:06,375 --> 00:41:09,583 I feel the grandeur, the… the mystery, 757 00:41:09,666 --> 00:41:13,375 the intended emotional effect. It's… [exhales] 758 00:41:15,750 --> 00:41:20,958 And it's like someone has shone a story at me that I do not believe. 759 00:41:21,833 --> 00:41:25,500 It's built upon the empty promise of a child's fairy tale 760 00:41:25,583 --> 00:41:30,250 filled with malevolence and misogyny and homophobia 761 00:41:30,333 --> 00:41:34,500 and its justified untold acts of violence and cruelty 762 00:41:34,583 --> 00:41:36,583 while all the while, and still, 763 00:41:36,666 --> 00:41:39,500 hiding its own shameful acts. 764 00:41:39,583 --> 00:41:41,708 So like an ornery mule kicking back, 765 00:41:41,791 --> 00:41:45,000 I want to pick it apart and pop its perfidious bubble of belief 766 00:41:45,083 --> 00:41:50,291 and get to a truth I can swallow without choking. 767 00:41:57,708 --> 00:42:02,833 [spluttering] The rafter details are very fine, though. It's… 768 00:42:04,500 --> 00:42:07,333 Listen… you want to kick me out, you go right ahead. 769 00:42:07,416 --> 00:42:08,500 No, no. 770 00:42:09,958 --> 00:42:11,625 You're being honest, it's good. 771 00:42:11,708 --> 00:42:15,166 -Telling the truth can be a belly rub. -[chuckles softly] 772 00:42:15,250 --> 00:42:19,000 Now, I suspect you can't always be honest with your parishioners. 773 00:42:19,083 --> 00:42:22,250 You can always be honest by not saying the unhonest part. 774 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:24,875 Yeah. [laughs] 775 00:42:26,125 --> 00:42:28,125 You're right. It's storytelling. 776 00:42:29,416 --> 00:42:32,958 And this church, it's… it's not medieval. We're in New York. 777 00:42:33,708 --> 00:42:35,833 It's neo-Gothic 19th century. 778 00:42:35,916 --> 00:42:38,458 It has more in common with Disneyland than Notre-Dame… 779 00:42:38,541 --> 00:42:40,750 -[chuckles] -…and the rites and rituals 780 00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:43,625 and costumes, all of it. 781 00:42:44,458 --> 00:42:45,875 It's storytelling. 782 00:42:47,333 --> 00:42:48,416 You're right. 783 00:42:51,291 --> 00:42:52,916 I guess the question is 784 00:42:54,625 --> 00:42:56,750 do these stories convince us of a lie? 785 00:42:58,625 --> 00:43:02,708 Or do they resonate with something deep inside us that's profoundly true? 786 00:43:05,458 --> 00:43:08,125 [clicks tongue] That we can't express any other way… 787 00:43:10,416 --> 00:43:11,833 except storytelling. 788 00:43:15,125 --> 00:43:17,333 Touché. Padre. 789 00:43:19,208 --> 00:43:22,833 [laughs, sobs] 790 00:43:25,833 --> 00:43:27,250 -Son. -I'm sorry. 791 00:43:28,416 --> 00:43:29,625 I just… 792 00:43:30,875 --> 00:43:33,291 I just felt like a priest again, 793 00:43:33,916 --> 00:43:36,041 and now I'm gonna lose that and… 794 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,541 and lose my purpose and I'm frightened, I… 795 00:43:39,625 --> 00:43:42,125 -I don't know how I'll live. -[door opens] 796 00:43:42,208 --> 00:43:43,291 [Geraldine] Blanc! 797 00:43:44,041 --> 00:43:46,666 Hey! You found him! Is he… 798 00:43:46,750 --> 00:43:49,291 [indistinct police radio chatter] 799 00:43:52,708 --> 00:43:54,458 -[door closes] -[chuckles] 800 00:43:55,208 --> 00:43:56,208 Who are you? 801 00:43:56,291 --> 00:43:57,916 I probably should have led with this. 802 00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,083 My name is Benoit Blanc. I'm a detective. 803 00:44:00,166 --> 00:44:03,583 I've taken an interest in the murder of Jefferson Wicks. 804 00:44:04,958 --> 00:44:06,791 You're a detective, so you're with the police? 805 00:44:06,875 --> 00:44:09,083 No, no. I work in a private capacity. 806 00:44:09,166 --> 00:44:12,250 Everyone thinks I did it. I didn't do it. 807 00:44:12,833 --> 00:44:14,875 But in my heart maybe I did, 808 00:44:14,958 --> 00:44:17,458 and the way it happened was some kind of miracle. 809 00:44:17,541 --> 00:44:18,541 And… 810 00:44:19,041 --> 00:44:21,541 I don't know. I'm lost. I don't know. 811 00:44:22,708 --> 00:44:24,708 Would you allow me to help you? 812 00:44:27,041 --> 00:44:28,125 What? 813 00:44:28,208 --> 00:44:30,958 Your lips are cracked with dehydration. 814 00:44:31,041 --> 00:44:32,458 You haven't slept all night. 815 00:44:33,041 --> 00:44:34,416 You spent it out of doors, 816 00:44:34,500 --> 00:44:37,333 by the state of your pant legs, on your knees in prayer. 817 00:44:38,083 --> 00:44:41,500 What I see is not a guilty man in torment, 818 00:44:42,250 --> 00:44:45,458 but an innocent man tormented by guilt. 819 00:44:47,083 --> 00:44:48,291 Let me help you. 820 00:44:48,833 --> 00:44:49,708 How? 821 00:44:49,791 --> 00:44:51,708 This was dressed as a miracle. 822 00:44:52,208 --> 00:44:55,625 It's just a murder and I solve murders. 823 00:44:56,125 --> 00:44:57,416 [inhales] 824 00:44:57,500 --> 00:44:59,666 Wait… [hesitates] Were you 825 00:45:00,500 --> 00:45:03,666 the Kentucky Derby thing with the murder and the guy that they caught 826 00:45:03,750 --> 00:45:05,250 -with the photo-finish camera? -Yeah. 827 00:45:05,333 --> 00:45:06,416 So you're… 828 00:45:07,250 --> 00:45:08,458 You were on The View. 829 00:45:08,541 --> 00:45:10,166 -Yeah. -What are you doing here? 830 00:45:10,250 --> 00:45:14,000 I need to come up to speed rapidly on the events of that Good Friday service 831 00:45:14,083 --> 00:45:17,041 and the goings-on here at Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude. 832 00:45:17,708 --> 00:45:20,583 Geraldine has graciously allowed me access. 833 00:45:20,666 --> 00:45:24,750 If you can spare the day and accompany me on my investigation, 834 00:45:25,375 --> 00:45:28,541 view the body, trace the murder weapon, inspect the crime scene, 835 00:45:28,625 --> 00:45:32,125 you are in a unique position to assist me. 836 00:45:33,791 --> 00:45:35,000 The body? 837 00:45:35,583 --> 00:45:37,583 [unsettling string music plays] 838 00:45:38,250 --> 00:45:39,375 [music fades] 839 00:45:40,916 --> 00:45:43,625 Yeah, I've changed my mind. I don't think I should be here. 840 00:45:44,708 --> 00:45:47,333 Blanc, I'm trusting your process, but I agree with him. 841 00:45:47,416 --> 00:45:51,500 No, no, no. I want you to get a clear clinical picture of what happened here. 842 00:45:51,583 --> 00:45:55,666 To see Wicks as he is, a corpse. Just an empty vessel. 843 00:45:55,750 --> 00:45:59,208 Not the mythologized monster in your mind, but merely flesh and blood. 844 00:45:59,291 --> 00:46:01,708 Dead from a knife wound we can analyze. 845 00:46:01,791 --> 00:46:04,541 Just… flesh and blood. 846 00:46:05,208 --> 00:46:06,500 Flesh and blood, yeah. 847 00:46:06,583 --> 00:46:09,250 Yes, that's our wiggly wiggly. [chuckles] 848 00:46:09,833 --> 00:46:12,041 -Yeah. Look at that. -Please stop doing that. 849 00:46:13,125 --> 00:46:15,791 -Tammy. Would you mind flipping the meat? -[Tammy] Mm. 850 00:46:15,875 --> 00:46:17,416 -Pancake him. Yeah. -[Benoit] Mm-hmm. 851 00:46:17,500 --> 00:46:18,541 [Geraldine clears throat] 852 00:46:21,958 --> 00:46:23,583 [Tammy, muffled] One, two, three. 853 00:46:23,666 --> 00:46:24,625 [body thuds] 854 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,458 [panting] 855 00:46:29,500 --> 00:46:32,625 -Hey! Hey. -No, no, no. I don't belong here. 856 00:46:32,708 --> 00:46:35,083 I can't be in here, I don't know why you brought me. 857 00:46:35,166 --> 00:46:36,208 -I can't-- -Hey! 858 00:46:37,416 --> 00:46:38,833 If you want absolution, 859 00:46:38,916 --> 00:46:42,375 you want ever to be a priest again, then you need to go through this with me. 860 00:46:42,458 --> 00:46:46,125 The real killer is out there. We've got to find him, nail him, I… 861 00:46:46,208 --> 00:46:47,041 I'm sorry. 862 00:46:47,125 --> 00:46:50,041 -I mean, catch him and get your life back. -[door opens, closes] 863 00:46:50,125 --> 00:46:51,333 Father. 864 00:46:52,083 --> 00:46:54,416 I need to know you understand the situation. 865 00:46:54,500 --> 00:46:57,833 We are not all buddies running around trying to solve a case. 866 00:46:57,916 --> 00:46:59,541 You are still a suspect. 867 00:46:59,625 --> 00:47:03,708 The point is, you do not need to be here without a lawyer, do you understand that? 868 00:47:03,791 --> 00:47:05,500 [intriguing music plays] 869 00:47:05,583 --> 00:47:08,333 [breathing heavily] I didn't do this. 870 00:47:09,583 --> 00:47:11,250 If I can help find out who did, 871 00:47:11,916 --> 00:47:14,458 then I'm in, yeah, let's do it, yeah. 872 00:47:14,541 --> 00:47:15,750 Okay. 873 00:47:16,625 --> 00:47:17,833 The body. 874 00:47:17,916 --> 00:47:19,500 Next the murder weapon. 875 00:47:19,583 --> 00:47:20,666 Then the crime scene. 876 00:47:21,958 --> 00:47:23,375 Stick with me. 877 00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:26,166 [intriguing string music plays] 878 00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:30,041 [music stops] 879 00:47:30,125 --> 00:47:32,750 I'll tell you something, I don't even like the devil. 880 00:47:32,833 --> 00:47:36,916 You know, Il Diavolo, it sounds classy, Italian, that's fine, you know, 881 00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:39,125 then my wife, she buys a devil sign, 882 00:47:39,208 --> 00:47:41,125 then she buys the devil lamps 883 00:47:41,208 --> 00:47:44,791 and then people start, "Oh, hey, get him a devil thing for the bar, he loves it." 884 00:47:44,875 --> 00:47:48,500 And then, you know, uh, devil, devil, devil, bang, I don't know. 885 00:47:48,583 --> 00:47:50,958 -[Benoit] But that… But that's it, right? -[Nikolai] Yeah. 886 00:47:51,041 --> 00:47:52,166 [Benoit] Oh, yeah. 887 00:47:52,250 --> 00:47:55,125 -[rock music plays faintly over speakers] -[Nikolai] But, uh… 888 00:47:55,208 --> 00:47:58,708 But you know, it wasn't red though, it's red now, it's paint. 889 00:47:58,791 --> 00:48:01,166 -Yes, yes, freshly painted. -I hope. Hmm. 890 00:48:01,750 --> 00:48:05,375 They filled it with some kind of plaster and stuck the blade in that way. 891 00:48:05,458 --> 00:48:07,833 [Jud on recording] I'll do whatever it takes to save it. 892 00:48:07,916 --> 00:48:11,125 To cut you out like a cancer. 893 00:48:11,208 --> 00:48:14,458 [Nikolai] Hey, hey, hey. Come on, ixnay. That's not cool. Come on. 894 00:48:14,541 --> 00:48:16,833 The red devil head thing, that ended up where? 895 00:48:16,916 --> 00:48:21,500 In the church, I threw it at the church and it broke a window, I don't know why. 896 00:48:21,583 --> 00:48:23,000 -[church bell tolling] -[gasps] 897 00:48:23,083 --> 00:48:25,291 [Jud] And then after the Chrism Mass on Monday, 898 00:48:25,375 --> 00:48:27,708 Martha said she found a small broken window. 899 00:48:27,791 --> 00:48:28,791 Kids. 900 00:48:28,875 --> 00:48:30,291 But nothing else. 901 00:48:30,375 --> 00:48:33,166 [over speakers] ♪ I know what's wrong I don't confuse it ♪ 902 00:48:34,541 --> 00:48:36,750 ♪ All I'm really trying to say is ♪ 903 00:48:36,833 --> 00:48:39,250 ♪ Why should the devil have All the good music? ♪ 904 00:48:39,916 --> 00:48:42,333 ♪ I feel good every day ♪ 905 00:48:44,166 --> 00:48:47,583 ♪ Because Jesus is the rock And he rolled my blues away ♪ 906 00:48:48,666 --> 00:48:49,958 [Benoit] Do you see that? 907 00:48:50,041 --> 00:48:52,708 ♪ They say to cut my hair They're driving me insane… ♪ 908 00:48:53,583 --> 00:48:54,500 [Benoit] Hmm. 909 00:48:56,083 --> 00:48:56,958 Yeah. 910 00:48:58,625 --> 00:48:59,708 Yeah. 911 00:49:03,375 --> 00:49:05,375 Oh. That is, uh… 912 00:49:07,708 --> 00:49:08,916 Dr. Nat. 913 00:49:10,291 --> 00:49:11,500 Oh, f… 914 00:49:13,791 --> 00:49:15,875 [clears throat] Hey. 915 00:49:17,791 --> 00:49:19,208 Just having some lunch. 916 00:49:20,958 --> 00:49:21,791 [clears throat] 917 00:49:25,750 --> 00:49:29,375 Nat, I… I can come over later if… if you want to talk. 918 00:49:29,458 --> 00:49:31,583 I don't think… Yeah, I… Yeah. 919 00:49:31,666 --> 00:49:33,583 I don't think I'd prefer that. 920 00:49:33,666 --> 00:49:35,083 I'd prefer not that. 921 00:49:35,833 --> 00:49:39,083 Ah, there it is. Here's what you did it with. Huh? 922 00:49:39,625 --> 00:49:41,791 -Come on, Nat. -"Cut him out like a cancer." 923 00:49:41,875 --> 00:49:43,666 You son of a bitch. 924 00:49:43,750 --> 00:49:45,375 -[man] You tell him, Nat. -Yeah. 925 00:49:46,583 --> 00:49:49,708 -Son of a bitch! Killer priest! -[door slams] 926 00:49:50,958 --> 00:49:53,583 [intriguing suspenseful music plays] 927 00:50:07,041 --> 00:50:08,458 -[thudding] -[TV plays indistinctly] 928 00:50:22,166 --> 00:50:23,083 First off, 929 00:50:23,166 --> 00:50:26,125 I owe Detective Elliott a fruit basket for giving me your number. 930 00:50:26,208 --> 00:50:28,041 I'm just glad to be of service. 931 00:50:28,125 --> 00:50:29,958 Geraldine, you had the foresight 932 00:50:30,041 --> 00:50:32,625 to see that this goes way beyond normal police work, 933 00:50:32,708 --> 00:50:36,958 this is something even I have not experienced. 934 00:50:37,041 --> 00:50:41,125 A textbook example of a perfectly impossible crime. 935 00:50:41,958 --> 00:50:43,583 The stuff of detective fiction. 936 00:50:43,666 --> 00:50:47,000 This should not exist in our real world. 937 00:50:48,041 --> 00:50:49,458 And yet here it is. 938 00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:51,416 The holy grail. 939 00:50:52,500 --> 00:50:53,750 [Geraldine] I love the passion. 940 00:50:53,833 --> 00:50:56,333 I just need to feel confident you know this case is solvable. 941 00:50:56,416 --> 00:50:58,708 [Benoit] I'm incapable of not solving a crime. 942 00:50:59,458 --> 00:51:01,083 That moment of checkmate 943 00:51:01,958 --> 00:51:05,375 when I take the stage and unravel my opponent's web… 944 00:51:07,125 --> 00:51:08,416 Oh, you'll see. It's fun! 945 00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,166 -Great, how do we get there? -[Benoit] The source, 946 00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:14,583 John Dickson Carr's The Hollow Man. 947 00:51:15,375 --> 00:51:17,625 A Golden Age detective novel 948 00:51:17,708 --> 00:51:19,833 and a veritable primer on the locked-door mystery, 949 00:51:19,916 --> 00:51:21,208 the impossible crime. 950 00:51:22,958 --> 00:51:24,041 Hold up. 951 00:51:24,125 --> 00:51:26,125 [intriguing music plays] 952 00:51:32,375 --> 00:51:35,875 Father Jud, once again, earning your keep. [chuckles] 953 00:51:37,541 --> 00:51:40,166 Whose Body? The Murders in the Rue Morgue. 954 00:51:40,250 --> 00:51:42,666 Roger Ackroyd. The Murder at the Vicarage. 955 00:51:42,750 --> 00:51:47,958 My God, this is practically a syllabus for how to commit this crime. 956 00:51:48,458 --> 00:51:50,375 And the whole flock is in this group? 957 00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:55,625 Who chose these books? 958 00:51:56,291 --> 00:51:57,125 Oprah. 959 00:51:58,333 --> 00:51:59,333 Oprah. 960 00:51:59,833 --> 00:52:01,916 Martha pulls a theme list from Oprah's site. 961 00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:03,833 Well, this confirms my theory. 962 00:52:04,416 --> 00:52:06,333 The killer certainly imitated 963 00:52:06,416 --> 00:52:09,166 the traditional methods of a locked-door mystery story. 964 00:52:09,708 --> 00:52:11,916 Which makes things simple. 965 00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:13,208 Book club time. 966 00:52:13,750 --> 00:52:15,166 Come on, kids. 967 00:52:20,666 --> 00:52:21,750 [music fades] 968 00:52:21,833 --> 00:52:24,166 In The Hollow Man, the detective Gideon Fell 969 00:52:24,250 --> 00:52:29,166 gives a rundown of all possible methods of a locked-door killing. [chuckles smugly] 970 00:52:29,250 --> 00:52:31,375 So let's line them up and knock them down. 971 00:52:31,458 --> 00:52:33,583 Possibility number one, 972 00:52:33,666 --> 00:52:37,083 Wicks was stabbed with the knife 973 00:52:37,708 --> 00:52:40,041 before entering the closet. 974 00:52:40,625 --> 00:52:44,041 Father Jud, would you take your place right where you were? 975 00:52:47,208 --> 00:52:49,333 Wicks completes his sermon. 976 00:52:51,083 --> 00:52:52,750 Any device behind him 977 00:52:52,833 --> 00:52:57,833 capable of propelling a heavy unbalanced dagger into his back… 978 00:53:00,791 --> 00:53:04,875 would have been hidden from the camera and the witnesses in the nave, 979 00:53:05,500 --> 00:53:09,000 but certainly would have been witnessed by Father Jud. 980 00:53:10,625 --> 00:53:13,666 No, I didn't see a knife-shooting robot behind him. 981 00:53:13,750 --> 00:53:16,291 [Benoit] No. Possibility one, nixed. 982 00:53:16,375 --> 00:53:18,208 Possibility two… 983 00:53:20,083 --> 00:53:21,500 He was killed 984 00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:23,833 while inside the closet 985 00:53:23,916 --> 00:53:27,541 by someone or something that was 986 00:53:28,291 --> 00:53:30,125 outside the closet. 987 00:53:30,833 --> 00:53:34,416 Like, something shot the knife into the closet from out here? 988 00:53:34,500 --> 00:53:35,916 No, that's nuts. 989 00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:38,000 Nuts and impossible on several fronts. 990 00:53:38,083 --> 00:53:41,083 Possibility two, nixed. Progress! 991 00:53:41,166 --> 00:53:43,250 [sighs] How many more possibilities are there? 992 00:53:43,333 --> 00:53:45,333 Not many. Three… 993 00:53:46,166 --> 00:53:49,041 He was killed while inside the closet 994 00:53:49,125 --> 00:53:51,750 by a device that was also 995 00:53:53,041 --> 00:53:54,541 inside the closet. 996 00:53:54,625 --> 00:53:56,833 So something was placed beforehand and, 997 00:53:56,916 --> 00:53:58,541 what, triggered with a remote? 998 00:53:58,625 --> 00:54:00,625 Well, these walls are thick, 999 00:54:00,708 --> 00:54:04,125 but a very strong RF signal could blast through 'em. 1000 00:54:04,875 --> 00:54:07,083 -So where would one hide… -[lightbulb clinks] 1001 00:54:07,625 --> 00:54:12,041 …a fully functional remote-controlled knife-propelling device 1002 00:54:12,583 --> 00:54:14,333 in an empty box, mm? 1003 00:54:15,125 --> 00:54:16,875 Wicks fell on his stomach. 1004 00:54:16,958 --> 00:54:19,666 -[intriguing music plays] -I remember that clangy thud. 1005 00:54:19,750 --> 00:54:20,833 -[thudding] -[object clangs] 1006 00:54:21,583 --> 00:54:24,083 [Jud] And his face was towards the door, 1007 00:54:24,166 --> 00:54:26,125 so he was standing at the back facing out, 1008 00:54:27,166 --> 00:54:30,583 so the knife must have somehow come through the back wall. 1009 00:54:31,083 --> 00:54:33,500 Clangy thud. Very good. 1010 00:54:34,041 --> 00:54:35,250 However, 1011 00:54:36,250 --> 00:54:38,125 Rock of Gibraltar. 1012 00:54:38,958 --> 00:54:40,041 What about… 1013 00:54:40,541 --> 00:54:43,125 What about a false wall that was removed later? 1014 00:54:43,208 --> 00:54:45,166 Go to town, Father Brown. 1015 00:54:45,250 --> 00:54:46,708 [Geraldine] What? No, no. 1016 00:54:46,791 --> 00:54:48,875 My boys would have noticed a fake wall. 1017 00:54:48,958 --> 00:54:51,541 [switch clicking] 1018 00:54:52,750 --> 00:54:56,583 Yeah. And removing it later would have been no small task. 1019 00:54:58,416 --> 00:55:01,166 Nothing else was found on the floor of this space, yes? 1020 00:55:01,833 --> 00:55:04,458 Nope. No, just the red thread. 1021 00:55:06,500 --> 00:55:07,916 Wait, what? The… 1022 00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:09,708 The red thread? 1023 00:55:09,791 --> 00:55:11,583 [music rises, fades] 1024 00:55:11,666 --> 00:55:15,291 Two strings of thick red thread about three inches long, found there 1025 00:55:15,375 --> 00:55:17,375 over by the body next to the hip. 1026 00:55:19,333 --> 00:55:20,916 So, what's possibility four? 1027 00:55:22,375 --> 00:55:25,333 [Martha sobbing] 1028 00:55:26,125 --> 00:55:27,208 Martha? 1029 00:55:28,166 --> 00:55:30,375 -[Martha] Throw them out. -[Jud] Martha? 1030 00:55:30,458 --> 00:55:31,750 [Martha] Throw them out! 1031 00:55:31,833 --> 00:55:35,083 [sobbing] To walk this holy place 1032 00:55:35,166 --> 00:55:38,500 like some crime scene. Like some 1033 00:55:38,583 --> 00:55:42,208 tawdry police show talking of robots! 1034 00:55:42,791 --> 00:55:46,291 It's not right, Father, it isn't, it's not right! 1035 00:55:46,375 --> 00:55:47,708 [door opens] 1036 00:55:47,791 --> 00:55:48,833 [door closes] 1037 00:55:48,916 --> 00:55:51,541 Martha, you should go home, get some rest. 1038 00:55:52,083 --> 00:55:53,208 Can I do anything for you? 1039 00:55:54,041 --> 00:55:55,083 Leave. 1040 00:55:55,791 --> 00:55:57,625 No one wants you here anymore. 1041 00:55:58,125 --> 00:56:03,000 You've always hated the Monsignor and you have nothing but contempt for us. 1042 00:56:03,083 --> 00:56:05,500 -That's not true. -Murder in your heart… 1043 00:56:05,583 --> 00:56:07,208 -No. -…blood on your hands 1044 00:56:07,291 --> 00:56:09,291 just like the harlot whore. 1045 00:56:09,375 --> 00:56:12,583 Your original sin has stained this place. 1046 00:56:13,333 --> 00:56:15,083 False priest! 1047 00:56:17,958 --> 00:56:19,541 -Sorry. -[gasps softly] 1048 00:56:20,375 --> 00:56:22,541 But, yeah, if finding the facts with that detective 1049 00:56:22,625 --> 00:56:24,791 puts me against you and this flock then so be it. 1050 00:56:27,583 --> 00:56:28,666 Sorry. 1051 00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:32,958 [music turns melancholic] 1052 00:56:36,541 --> 00:56:38,250 [grunting] 1053 00:56:38,333 --> 00:56:39,458 [music fades] 1054 00:56:39,541 --> 00:56:41,291 Can I use your bag? [grunting] 1055 00:56:42,791 --> 00:56:44,416 Sure. Go ahead. 1056 00:56:44,500 --> 00:56:47,250 -[continues grunting] -[TV plays indistinctly] 1057 00:56:47,958 --> 00:56:49,375 Are you okay? 1058 00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:53,375 [Jud] A fog was clearing. This was a puzzle that was solvable. 1059 00:56:53,458 --> 00:56:56,083 The body, the weapon, the crime scene, robot-knife guns, 1060 00:56:56,166 --> 00:56:59,208 and angles of view and stone walls and remote controls. 1061 00:56:59,291 --> 00:57:01,583 -[panting] -[organ music plays on TV] 1062 00:57:01,666 --> 00:57:02,958 And remote controls. 1063 00:57:03,041 --> 00:57:06,500 [commentary on TV] But it's a new day… The Cubs… 1064 00:57:06,583 --> 00:57:09,333 who would have been the hero in that game… 1065 00:57:09,416 --> 00:57:11,708 But we saw how that went… 1066 00:57:11,791 --> 00:57:14,208 You didn't listen to the game during Friday's service. 1067 00:57:14,875 --> 00:57:16,416 On your radio. 1068 00:57:16,500 --> 00:57:20,083 -I would not. Martha doesn't approve. -[commentary continues] 1069 00:57:21,875 --> 00:57:23,291 So you taped it. 1070 00:57:23,958 --> 00:57:25,041 Yep. 1071 00:57:26,708 --> 00:57:30,791 Okay. I've overlaid a time stamp taking into account the broadcast delay. 1072 00:57:30,875 --> 00:57:35,125 Dr. Sharp's call to the hospital happened at 3:47 p.m. 1073 00:57:35,208 --> 00:57:37,625 and 90 seconds before that… 1074 00:57:37,708 --> 00:57:39,000 [keyboard clacking] 1075 00:57:43,625 --> 00:57:46,166 So, several things could have caused that glitch, 1076 00:57:46,250 --> 00:57:47,625 but to answer your question, yes, 1077 00:57:47,708 --> 00:57:51,208 it is consistent with a strong burst of RF interference 1078 00:57:51,291 --> 00:57:53,833 that you might get from a souped-up remote control. 1079 00:57:53,916 --> 00:57:55,500 -[chuckles in relief] -Damn. 1080 00:57:55,583 --> 00:57:56,500 This is it, right? 1081 00:57:56,583 --> 00:57:58,458 -This triggered the knife robot. -[sucks teeth] 1082 00:57:58,541 --> 00:58:01,333 This has got to be it. You can… You can solve it now, right? 1083 00:58:01,416 --> 00:58:03,833 Did you, um… Did you sync this up with Cy's footage? 1084 00:58:03,916 --> 00:58:07,666 I did, yeah. The iPhone video has a time stamp. It's very precise. 1085 00:58:07,750 --> 00:58:09,750 -Okay. Can you show us please? -Yeah. 1086 00:58:09,833 --> 00:58:10,875 Show us what? 1087 00:58:10,958 --> 00:58:13,833 [Jud] ♪ On which hung The salvation of the world ♪ 1088 00:58:13,916 --> 00:58:15,791 -[thudding] -[object clangs] 1089 00:58:16,875 --> 00:58:17,958 [Jud] Monsignor? 1090 00:58:23,916 --> 00:58:24,875 [keyboard clacks] 1091 00:58:29,333 --> 00:58:30,791 -Oh. -[Benoit groans] 1092 00:58:30,875 --> 00:58:33,000 So when the RF burst happened, 1093 00:58:33,083 --> 00:58:35,916 he was already on the ground with a knife in his back 1094 00:58:36,541 --> 00:58:38,875 and Father Jud was staring right at him. 1095 00:58:39,375 --> 00:58:41,166 How does that work? 1096 00:58:41,250 --> 00:58:43,958 Well, for the knife robot, it doesn't. 1097 00:58:44,041 --> 00:58:46,625 So… this was nothing? 1098 00:58:46,708 --> 00:58:47,625 [Benoit] No, no. 1099 00:58:47,708 --> 00:58:51,041 This was very much something. [inhales deeply] 1100 00:58:51,125 --> 00:58:53,958 We have all the pieces laid out before us now. 1101 00:58:54,041 --> 00:58:55,166 -We do? -Yeah. 1102 00:58:55,250 --> 00:58:58,458 Consider the origin of the devil's head, the red thread, 1103 00:58:58,541 --> 00:59:01,958 the clangy clunk, the timing of the RF remote. 1104 00:59:02,958 --> 00:59:04,375 It all lines up. 1105 00:59:05,500 --> 00:59:07,708 [chuckles uncertainly] So give us the answer. 1106 00:59:08,916 --> 00:59:10,208 I can't. 1107 00:59:11,666 --> 00:59:15,208 You said if you had all the pieces, you would have an answer. 1108 00:59:15,291 --> 00:59:16,541 [Benoit] I know. And yet, 1109 00:59:16,625 --> 00:59:18,708 with all the pieces on the table, 1110 00:59:18,791 --> 00:59:21,958 this crime still truly appears 1111 00:59:22,750 --> 00:59:23,958 impossible. 1112 00:59:24,791 --> 00:59:26,500 You told me you could solve this. 1113 00:59:26,583 --> 00:59:28,458 [solemn music plays] 1114 00:59:28,541 --> 00:59:30,041 That's what you do. 1115 00:59:31,083 --> 00:59:33,666 [sighs] I put my faith in you. 1116 00:59:33,750 --> 00:59:37,250 Oh, God. Oh, God. [sighs] 1117 00:59:37,333 --> 00:59:41,375 [Benoit] You haven't slept in 36 hours. I think it's bedtime. [clears throat] 1118 00:59:41,458 --> 00:59:42,541 Yeah. 1119 00:59:43,166 --> 00:59:45,875 It's been a hell of a day. Good night, Father Jud. 1120 00:59:45,958 --> 00:59:47,500 Come on. I'll drive you back. 1121 00:59:48,375 --> 00:59:50,375 [intriguing music plays] 1122 00:59:56,833 --> 00:59:59,375 -[music fades] -You know, you're right. 1123 00:59:59,458 --> 01:00:02,083 This can't be impossible. 1124 01:00:03,333 --> 01:00:05,166 There must be a piece missing. 1125 01:00:06,458 --> 01:00:08,458 And I think I know where to find it. 1126 01:00:09,041 --> 01:00:11,791 See, I think there's something in there, in your head, 1127 01:00:11,875 --> 01:00:14,291 that I need to solve this case. 1128 01:00:14,958 --> 01:00:17,791 And if I can't shake it loose, I'm sorry, 1129 01:00:18,333 --> 01:00:20,750 but I'm gonna have to go in there and get it. 1130 01:00:23,250 --> 01:00:25,166 Okay, you're freaking me out now. 1131 01:00:27,250 --> 01:00:29,500 -I don't… I don't understand. -[door closes] 1132 01:00:29,583 --> 01:00:32,541 I don't get how this will help. You want me to write the story? 1133 01:00:32,625 --> 01:00:34,833 Yes, the story. 1134 01:00:34,916 --> 01:00:37,625 The story of the Reverend Wicks' murder. 1135 01:00:37,708 --> 01:00:38,791 Monsignor Wicks. 1136 01:00:38,875 --> 01:00:40,708 Monsignor Jalapeño. I don't care. 1137 01:00:40,791 --> 01:00:44,208 I need to see his murder and the events leading up to it through your eyes. 1138 01:00:44,291 --> 01:00:45,166 Starting where? 1139 01:00:45,250 --> 01:00:46,333 Oh, wherever you like. 1140 01:00:46,416 --> 01:00:49,625 Just keep it interesting, keep it moving and spare no detail. 1141 01:00:49,708 --> 01:00:51,000 Blanc, I'm not a writer. 1142 01:00:51,083 --> 01:00:53,083 Take your time. Oh. 1143 01:00:53,625 --> 01:00:56,375 -[chuckles] I'll be quite comfortable. -[cork squeaks] 1144 01:00:56,458 --> 01:00:57,666 -[glass clinks] -[liquid pours] 1145 01:00:57,750 --> 01:00:59,250 [Benoit humming] 1146 01:00:59,333 --> 01:01:01,333 [intriguing suspenseful music plays] 1147 01:01:04,041 --> 01:01:07,041 [Jud] So I've spent the past hour doing exactly that 1148 01:01:07,541 --> 01:01:10,750 and now I'll put down this pen and hand it to you 1149 01:01:11,250 --> 01:01:12,458 and I guess, wait 1150 01:01:12,541 --> 01:01:14,458 while you read my story 1151 01:01:14,541 --> 01:01:17,500 of the murder of Monsignor Jefferson Wicks. 1152 01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:20,000 [intriguing suspenseful music continues] 1153 01:01:25,208 --> 01:01:26,250 [sighs softly] 1154 01:01:31,791 --> 01:01:32,708 [sighs] 1155 01:01:34,291 --> 01:01:35,291 [music fades] 1156 01:01:44,083 --> 01:01:45,291 Why'd you do it? 1157 01:01:48,625 --> 01:01:50,125 Better question is, 1158 01:01:50,708 --> 01:01:53,416 why'd I think I could lie to you and get away with it? 1159 01:01:53,500 --> 01:01:56,125 Oh, no, you didn't lie. I knew you wouldn't. 1160 01:01:57,000 --> 01:01:59,375 You just didn't say the dishonest part out loud. 1161 01:01:59,458 --> 01:02:01,166 [suspenseful music plays] 1162 01:02:03,125 --> 01:02:07,625 "When I joined the others outside, the police were just arriving." 1163 01:02:07,708 --> 01:02:09,916 -[distant sirens wailing] -[suspenseful music continues] 1164 01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:11,625 "Joined the others outside." 1165 01:02:12,125 --> 01:02:14,125 So you stayed inside. 1166 01:02:14,208 --> 01:02:17,041 So you were the only person with unobserved access 1167 01:02:17,125 --> 01:02:21,500 to the utility closet after the murder, but before the police searched it. 1168 01:02:23,541 --> 01:02:25,041 Why? I mean… [scoffs] 1169 01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:29,291 Why protect him? 1170 01:02:29,375 --> 01:02:31,375 I didn't do it to protect Wicks. 1171 01:02:33,041 --> 01:02:35,375 I did it to save the people who believe in him 1172 01:02:35,458 --> 01:02:36,875 just a little disillusionment. 1173 01:02:36,958 --> 01:02:39,791 Well, surely everyone knew. 1174 01:02:39,875 --> 01:02:43,375 I mean, it would have been on his breath after every Mass. 1175 01:02:43,458 --> 01:02:46,416 "Fortified himself." Oh, clever wording there. 1176 01:02:46,500 --> 01:02:48,666 But everyone must have known. 1177 01:02:48,750 --> 01:02:50,875 The spirit really moved him today, huh? 1178 01:02:51,541 --> 01:02:52,958 No, not everyone. 1179 01:02:53,458 --> 01:02:54,541 Sam. 1180 01:02:55,333 --> 01:02:57,541 The one good person in this whole place. 1181 01:02:57,625 --> 01:02:59,625 Getting sober saved his life. 1182 01:03:01,041 --> 01:03:04,875 I knew the press and police were there. Why let that be part of the story? 1183 01:03:06,458 --> 01:03:07,291 [clangs] 1184 01:03:07,375 --> 01:03:09,791 [Jud] Wicks had been stabbed. 1185 01:03:09,875 --> 01:03:13,625 I don't know how or by who, but I… but I knew he'd been stabbed. 1186 01:03:13,708 --> 01:03:15,708 So this had nothing to do with it. 1187 01:03:15,791 --> 01:03:17,916 It was an impulse. 1188 01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:20,541 A little storytelling to protect my flock. 1189 01:03:20,625 --> 01:03:22,250 Oh, bullshit! 1190 01:03:22,333 --> 01:03:26,416 And in protecting their bubble of belief, you have shielded a killer! 1191 01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:30,625 Where is that flask? 1192 01:03:31,916 --> 01:03:34,833 -[objects clattering] -[Jud] Shit! 1193 01:03:37,458 --> 01:03:39,666 Shit. It's not here. [panting] 1194 01:03:39,750 --> 01:03:40,750 [music fades] 1195 01:03:40,833 --> 01:03:41,916 Blanc. 1196 01:03:42,875 --> 01:03:44,083 I'm sorry. 1197 01:03:44,708 --> 01:03:46,708 He was stabbed, so I didn't think-- 1198 01:03:46,791 --> 01:03:48,916 No. You did not think. 1199 01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:51,291 But we're into the woods now, so you better start. 1200 01:03:51,375 --> 01:03:52,625 [panting] 1201 01:03:53,291 --> 01:03:55,125 Someone broke into my room. 1202 01:03:56,125 --> 01:03:57,416 It's just hitting me. 1203 01:03:57,958 --> 01:04:00,791 This is devious, it's calculated against me. 1204 01:04:00,875 --> 01:04:03,208 And now you see the enemy we're up against. 1205 01:04:05,125 --> 01:04:08,000 You have listened to this flock's stories with empathy and grace, 1206 01:04:08,083 --> 01:04:09,833 but we're done with that now. 1207 01:04:09,916 --> 01:04:11,541 We've wasted enough time. 1208 01:04:11,625 --> 01:04:14,041 Tomorrow we use the gathering at the burial 1209 01:04:14,125 --> 01:04:15,750 to question them all together. 1210 01:04:15,833 --> 01:04:18,666 We must discover what happened that night. 1211 01:04:19,750 --> 01:04:23,833 And what this flock of wicked wolves is hiding. 1212 01:04:24,875 --> 01:04:28,958 [snoring] 1213 01:04:29,041 --> 01:04:29,916 [Benoit] Mm. 1214 01:04:31,291 --> 01:04:33,041 [sighs] 1215 01:04:40,916 --> 01:04:42,333 Betrayed. 1216 01:04:43,333 --> 01:04:44,541 Beaten. 1217 01:04:46,666 --> 01:04:47,875 Mocked. 1218 01:04:48,916 --> 01:04:50,125 Pierced. 1219 01:04:50,208 --> 01:04:52,208 [tense music plays] 1220 01:04:52,291 --> 01:04:53,375 Murdered. 1221 01:04:53,458 --> 01:04:54,583 [thudding] 1222 01:04:55,375 --> 01:04:56,583 [machine whirs] 1223 01:04:57,375 --> 01:05:00,000 And left in a hole to rot. 1224 01:05:00,916 --> 01:05:02,000 To be forgotten. 1225 01:05:03,208 --> 01:05:06,041 As with our Savior, so with the church. 1226 01:05:06,708 --> 01:05:10,208 Our church is assailed by wicked modernity, 1227 01:05:10,291 --> 01:05:12,500 by the enemies of God. 1228 01:05:12,583 --> 01:05:14,583 The harlot whores, 1229 01:05:14,666 --> 01:05:18,000 the vermin who would oppress and silence 1230 01:05:18,083 --> 01:05:20,500 and bar us from our rightful place 1231 01:05:20,583 --> 01:05:23,208 as the rulers of a Christian nation of faith. 1232 01:05:23,708 --> 01:05:26,791 And even as I stand before you as a warrior of Christ, 1233 01:05:26,875 --> 01:05:30,708 in the armor of God ready to fight the world to my last breath, 1234 01:05:30,791 --> 01:05:33,333 you shall not pass! 1235 01:05:36,041 --> 01:05:39,125 As our Lord was, I am betrayed by Judas. 1236 01:05:39,666 --> 01:05:41,500 Gentlemen, may I have a moment? 1237 01:05:42,250 --> 01:05:44,250 [Wicks] Judas in many forms. 1238 01:05:44,333 --> 01:05:45,916 [melancholic music plays] 1239 01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:48,833 Always the true threat comes from within. 1240 01:05:50,291 --> 01:05:52,125 Remember my words. 1241 01:05:53,583 --> 01:05:56,958 On this Good Friday, remember what's to come. 1242 01:05:57,041 --> 01:05:59,041 Remember, all of you. 1243 01:06:00,666 --> 01:06:02,958 [Martha crying] You will rise again. 1244 01:06:04,125 --> 01:06:05,541 It will be okay. 1245 01:06:06,041 --> 01:06:07,666 You will rise again. 1246 01:06:08,291 --> 01:06:09,500 You will rise. 1247 01:06:09,583 --> 01:06:12,958 [Wicks] The hour approaches. The hour I have warned you about. 1248 01:06:14,541 --> 01:06:17,541 Remember what I have promised you all, come Easter Sunday. 1249 01:06:17,625 --> 01:06:21,458 For I will make good on that promise, yes, I will. 1250 01:06:21,541 --> 01:06:23,416 [dramatic music plays] 1251 01:06:23,500 --> 01:06:25,708 [Wicks] For behold, though He is struck down, 1252 01:06:25,791 --> 01:06:29,125 the righteous Son of God will rise again. 1253 01:06:29,666 --> 01:06:32,083 Eve's Apple restored to the tree 1254 01:06:32,166 --> 01:06:35,833 and the wealth of His kingdom and His rising reign. 1255 01:06:36,458 --> 01:06:39,291 And as you gnash your teeth in the darkness, 1256 01:06:39,375 --> 01:06:41,000 you unfaithful devils, 1257 01:06:41,083 --> 01:06:45,500 as you lie cold and forgotten and alone, 1258 01:06:45,583 --> 01:06:50,000 He will rise again to reclaim what is His. 1259 01:06:50,666 --> 01:06:52,291 And strike down the wicked 1260 01:06:53,041 --> 01:06:56,083 and raise His true Son to the throne of this nation! 1261 01:06:56,166 --> 01:06:59,375 Yes, He will rise! Yes, He will rise! 1262 01:06:59,458 --> 01:07:02,083 Yes, tremble in fear, 1263 01:07:02,166 --> 01:07:07,666 for He will rise again in glory and vengeance and power! 1264 01:07:07,750 --> 01:07:09,666 -[music fades] -[machine whirs, hisses] 1265 01:07:14,208 --> 01:07:15,958 [forklift beeping] 1266 01:07:17,541 --> 01:07:20,791 Sorry about your loss, Father. Here, sign on the bottom. [clears throat] 1267 01:07:21,666 --> 01:07:23,041 Listen, between you and me, 1268 01:07:23,125 --> 01:07:26,458 I don't care what the Internet says. I think there's a chance you didn't do it. 1269 01:07:26,541 --> 01:07:27,375 [pats back] 1270 01:07:29,666 --> 01:07:31,875 All right, everyone. Listen up. 1271 01:07:31,958 --> 01:07:34,208 Oh, would you look who it is. It's Judas Jud. 1272 01:07:34,291 --> 01:07:37,166 -[scoffs] -Father, you are not welcome here. 1273 01:07:37,250 --> 01:07:38,458 All right, stop! 1274 01:07:38,541 --> 01:07:39,750 Here's what's gonna happen. 1275 01:07:39,833 --> 01:07:42,416 Benoit fricken' Blanc and I are gonna ask you all some questions, 1276 01:07:42,500 --> 01:07:45,666 you'll answer them and we'll get to the bottom of who killed Monsignor Wicks 1277 01:07:45,750 --> 01:07:48,000 and why and then… 1278 01:07:48,791 --> 01:07:50,208 That's it! 1279 01:07:50,291 --> 01:07:53,125 Okay? Okay, so… 1280 01:07:54,916 --> 01:07:57,041 Thank you, Father Jud, that was 1281 01:07:57,125 --> 01:07:58,291 very good. Um, 1282 01:07:58,375 --> 01:08:00,000 and we're gonna start… [sighs] 1283 01:08:00,083 --> 01:08:04,166 …with what happened that night right here in this very room. 1284 01:08:04,250 --> 01:08:07,291 You mean the time Jud admitted to all of us that he killed a man. 1285 01:08:07,375 --> 01:08:10,416 Okay, no, that was… That was the boxing thing, I was-- 1286 01:08:10,500 --> 01:08:13,458 And now he's covering his ass by attacking us. He's a PINO. 1287 01:08:13,541 --> 01:08:14,500 A… a PINO? 1288 01:08:14,583 --> 01:08:16,166 Priest in name only. 1289 01:08:16,250 --> 01:08:20,375 Helping Benoit Blanc crack the mystery of the evil, evil church 1290 01:08:20,458 --> 01:08:23,708 and then some libtard will make a podcast about all of this 1291 01:08:23,791 --> 01:08:27,708 and before you know it, the idiot versions of all of us will end up on Netflix. 1292 01:08:27,791 --> 01:08:30,500 Oh, the idiot versions. God forbid. 1293 01:08:30,583 --> 01:08:31,833 [screams] 1294 01:08:31,916 --> 01:08:33,291 -[shrieks] -[Nat] Jesus! 1295 01:08:33,375 --> 01:08:34,791 It's a miracle! 1296 01:08:36,041 --> 01:08:38,916 -I can walk, Martha. It just hurts. -[exhaling] Oh. 1297 01:08:39,958 --> 01:08:41,875 -[sighs] Oh. -And I say, good. 1298 01:08:42,541 --> 01:08:43,750 Expose it all. 1299 01:08:44,291 --> 01:08:46,041 Wicks was a con man. 1300 01:08:46,791 --> 01:08:50,208 Miracles and supernatural power of God bullshit. 1301 01:08:50,791 --> 01:08:53,000 [scoffs] I really believed. 1302 01:08:54,875 --> 01:08:56,500 I still wanna believe. 1303 01:08:56,583 --> 01:08:58,291 [scoffs] How sick is that? 1304 01:08:58,791 --> 01:09:03,041 Well, actually, I was inquiring not about Jud's prayer group, 1305 01:09:03,125 --> 01:09:05,541 but about the shadowy meeting with Wicks 1306 01:09:05,625 --> 01:09:08,625 that took place in this room on Palm Sunday. 1307 01:09:09,833 --> 01:09:10,833 [imperceptible] 1308 01:09:10,916 --> 01:09:12,875 [suspenseful sting plays] 1309 01:09:12,958 --> 01:09:16,416 [Benoit] What was that meeting actually about? 1310 01:09:18,458 --> 01:09:20,291 Who wants to go first? 1311 01:09:21,625 --> 01:09:22,833 I'll tell you. 1312 01:09:26,041 --> 01:09:29,083 -[Nat] Cy. Hey. Wait, hold on, buddy. Hey! -[Lee] No, no, no. 1313 01:09:29,166 --> 01:09:30,916 You shut your mouth, you little shit weasel. 1314 01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:32,708 -It isn't your decision! -Tell him nothing! 1315 01:09:32,791 --> 01:09:34,541 Hey, look… Whoa. Easy, Father Jud. 1316 01:09:34,625 --> 01:09:36,625 I promise you that what we talked about that night 1317 01:09:36,708 --> 01:09:39,208 has nothing to do with Wicks' killing, okay? 1318 01:09:39,291 --> 01:09:42,083 But it does have to do with things that, if made public, 1319 01:09:42,166 --> 01:09:43,625 could ruin people in this room. 1320 01:09:43,708 --> 01:09:46,333 I recorded the whole thing. Just hit play. 1321 01:09:48,875 --> 01:09:50,875 -[Martha] No! This is not-- -[Lee] You scoundrel! 1322 01:09:50,958 --> 01:09:54,416 -Open this door, you bastard! -You are defiling my files! 1323 01:09:54,500 --> 01:09:56,250 -Play it. -[Lee] Open it-- 1324 01:09:56,333 --> 01:09:58,125 [clock ticking] 1325 01:10:03,916 --> 01:10:05,125 [footsteps approaching] 1326 01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:09,416 [Wicks] All right. Very dramatic, Vera. 1327 01:10:10,416 --> 01:10:12,500 You've got your audience. What's this about? 1328 01:10:16,208 --> 01:10:18,416 I've been thinking about your mom. 1329 01:10:19,875 --> 01:10:24,791 I never knew her, but growing up in this church, 1330 01:10:24,875 --> 01:10:28,083 I knew the story of the harlot whore 1331 01:10:28,166 --> 01:10:31,583 and I've been thinking about what her life must have been like 1332 01:10:31,666 --> 01:10:35,625 to be trapped in a house, with her father and her son. 1333 01:10:36,458 --> 01:10:39,625 Closing rank, shaming her 1334 01:10:39,708 --> 01:10:42,125 and teaching us all to shame her. 1335 01:10:44,000 --> 01:10:45,416 That poor girl. 1336 01:10:49,791 --> 01:10:51,708 [clicks tongue, inhales] 1337 01:10:51,791 --> 01:10:56,625 Yesterday, I got a call from a family law colleague in Brooklyn. 1338 01:10:57,375 --> 01:11:00,583 [smacks lips] He wanted to double-check contact details 1339 01:11:00,666 --> 01:11:04,375 for Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, my client, 1340 01:11:04,458 --> 01:11:08,541 because my client had filed an AOP with him. 1341 01:11:09,500 --> 01:11:10,708 In Brooklyn. 1342 01:11:11,458 --> 01:11:13,666 So I would not know. 1343 01:11:14,708 --> 01:11:16,250 What's an AOP? 1344 01:11:19,625 --> 01:11:22,041 "Acknowledgement of parentage"? 1345 01:11:25,375 --> 01:11:28,166 "Affirmation that I, Jefferson Wicks, 1346 01:11:28,250 --> 01:11:31,625 am the biological father of Cyrus Draven." 1347 01:11:36,666 --> 01:11:39,083 [Vera] No shame for you. 1348 01:11:40,125 --> 01:11:42,041 Right? [scoffs] 1349 01:11:42,125 --> 01:11:43,666 Who was the mother? 1350 01:11:45,208 --> 01:11:46,833 Does it even matter? 1351 01:11:47,458 --> 01:11:53,291 No. No! [scoffs] No, she came back and dropped this poor kid in your lap. 1352 01:11:53,916 --> 01:11:56,250 And then she went and had a life. 1353 01:11:56,333 --> 01:11:59,833 And my faithful father came to the rescue. 1354 01:11:59,916 --> 01:12:04,250 Once again, the boys club closed ranks and there I was, the loyal little idiot. 1355 01:12:04,333 --> 01:12:05,541 Trapped. 1356 01:12:05,625 --> 01:12:10,875 And I obeyed and I honored and raised your son 1357 01:12:10,958 --> 01:12:14,041 while you sat on your pulpit, shameless. 1358 01:12:14,125 --> 01:12:17,916 You… hypocritical son of a bitch! 1359 01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:20,291 [breathing heavily] 1360 01:12:21,583 --> 01:12:22,916 [Wicks exhales softly] 1361 01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:24,083 [Nat] Cy? 1362 01:12:24,708 --> 01:12:25,708 Did you know? 1363 01:12:25,791 --> 01:12:27,791 Not until Vera told me this morning. 1364 01:12:28,458 --> 01:12:29,375 [Wicks] Yes. 1365 01:12:30,291 --> 01:12:31,916 Cy is my son. 1366 01:12:34,625 --> 01:12:36,458 From a loose woman of no importance 1367 01:12:36,541 --> 01:12:39,333 who I knew for one night and haven't seen in 30 years. 1368 01:12:39,416 --> 01:12:42,416 Vera's father and I kept this secret. But no longer. 1369 01:12:42,958 --> 01:12:44,625 He is my heir. 1370 01:12:46,041 --> 01:12:47,125 My son. 1371 01:12:49,625 --> 01:12:51,750 Now the world is going to know it. 1372 01:12:53,208 --> 01:12:55,416 So, rats, 1373 01:12:56,500 --> 01:12:57,791 flee the sinking ship. 1374 01:13:00,250 --> 01:13:01,083 [Nat clears throat] 1375 01:13:01,166 --> 01:13:02,625 Oh, cut the shit. 1376 01:13:02,708 --> 01:13:04,500 You're all standing by your man. 1377 01:13:04,583 --> 01:13:07,875 [scoffs] I just wanted to see it. I wanted to see for myself. 1378 01:13:07,958 --> 01:13:10,875 You eat his shit with a spoon and come back for seconds. 1379 01:13:10,958 --> 01:13:12,750 [Lee] That's kind of condescending, Vera. 1380 01:13:12,833 --> 01:13:14,791 -You don't know what we're feeling. -[scoffs] Oh. 1381 01:13:14,875 --> 01:13:18,916 I think we're all, as Christians, very shaken up by what you just said. 1382 01:13:20,916 --> 01:13:23,625 But we're fighting an existential war here 1383 01:13:23,708 --> 01:13:25,750 where the end justifies the means. 1384 01:13:25,833 --> 01:13:27,666 The church doesn't need some pussy who's gonna 1385 01:13:27,750 --> 01:13:29,791 lie down and take it, we need a warrior. 1386 01:13:29,875 --> 01:13:31,500 We need a warrior 1387 01:13:31,583 --> 01:13:35,666 and I believe that God chose Monsignor Wicks to be His warrior. 1388 01:13:36,416 --> 01:13:39,250 So, you and your son have my sword. 1389 01:13:39,958 --> 01:13:41,000 And… 1390 01:13:42,083 --> 01:13:43,708 we don't know this woman. 1391 01:13:44,708 --> 01:13:46,333 We do not know her. 1392 01:13:46,916 --> 01:13:49,541 We do not know, right, how she… 1393 01:13:51,541 --> 01:13:54,166 What is truth? Right? With various sources. 1394 01:13:54,250 --> 01:13:56,708 We don't know that… We don't… [hesitates] What exists? 1395 01:13:56,791 --> 01:13:58,416 Does any of this exist? 1396 01:13:58,500 --> 01:14:01,125 So… 1397 01:14:01,208 --> 01:14:02,500 Well said, Doc. 1398 01:14:02,583 --> 01:14:03,750 Thank you. 1399 01:14:04,458 --> 01:14:07,083 [Simone] You promised if I stuck with you, you could heal me. 1400 01:14:08,291 --> 01:14:09,500 If that's true, 1401 01:14:10,041 --> 01:14:11,666 I don't need you to be a saint. 1402 01:14:12,166 --> 01:14:13,708 [Lee] We're with you, Monsignor Wicks. 1403 01:14:14,375 --> 01:14:18,833 And literally nothing that you say or do is gonna change that. 1404 01:14:24,416 --> 01:14:25,833 [inhales deeply] 1405 01:14:25,916 --> 01:14:28,666 I will give my final service 1406 01:14:30,083 --> 01:14:32,500 a week from today on Easter Sunday. 1407 01:14:33,791 --> 01:14:35,208 And then 1408 01:14:35,958 --> 01:14:39,875 I will close the doors of this sad little church for good. 1409 01:14:39,958 --> 01:14:42,541 [Wicks breathes deeply] 1410 01:14:43,250 --> 01:14:47,500 But not before I have destroyed each and every one of you. 1411 01:14:48,083 --> 01:14:50,666 [tense music plays] 1412 01:14:50,750 --> 01:14:51,958 Sorry. Wait, what? 1413 01:14:52,041 --> 01:14:53,458 Your drinking, Nat? 1414 01:14:53,541 --> 01:14:54,750 Yeah. What? 1415 01:14:54,833 --> 01:14:56,583 Oh, you're a dangerous man. 1416 01:14:57,333 --> 01:14:58,750 Going to work drunk. 1417 01:14:58,833 --> 01:15:01,916 Treating patients, children, while drunk. 1418 01:15:02,708 --> 01:15:04,541 This community should know. 1419 01:15:04,625 --> 01:15:06,708 The medical board should know. 1420 01:15:06,791 --> 01:15:11,166 No one must ever trust or hire you again. 1421 01:15:11,791 --> 01:15:12,875 And, Lee. 1422 01:15:13,500 --> 01:15:16,500 This, uh, Troubadour book you've been writing. 1423 01:15:16,583 --> 01:15:21,291 Its bootlicking idiocy is an affront to my ministry. 1424 01:15:21,375 --> 01:15:25,208 It… It's my duty to warn not only the public but… [inhales] 1425 01:15:25,291 --> 01:15:27,291 …my friends in the publishing world. 1426 01:15:27,375 --> 01:15:30,250 It must be buried. You must be buried. 1427 01:15:30,833 --> 01:15:34,458 Exposed as the irrelevant clown that you are. 1428 01:15:34,541 --> 01:15:36,958 What the hell? What is even happening right now? 1429 01:15:37,041 --> 01:15:38,125 [Wicks] And, Vera. 1430 01:15:38,666 --> 01:15:41,000 You are your father's nightmare. 1431 01:15:41,791 --> 01:15:43,416 He would be so ashamed. 1432 01:15:45,333 --> 01:15:48,416 Simone. I cannot heal a faithless woman. 1433 01:15:49,125 --> 01:15:50,541 I cannot help you. 1434 01:15:50,625 --> 01:15:53,125 You said you could cast it out of me. 1435 01:15:53,208 --> 01:15:55,000 Mm, I promised you nothing. 1436 01:15:56,166 --> 01:15:58,791 I've given you all of my savings. 1437 01:15:58,875 --> 01:16:00,958 You cannot buy God's healing. 1438 01:16:01,750 --> 01:16:03,583 You will never be healed. 1439 01:16:03,666 --> 01:16:06,500 You will die in pain in the prison of that chair. 1440 01:16:07,125 --> 01:16:10,166 Why are you doing this? I don't understand. 1441 01:16:10,250 --> 01:16:13,416 -[Lee] This is a joke. Right? A joke. -[Nat] I am so confused. 1442 01:16:13,500 --> 01:16:16,750 Is this payback for the Father Jud prayer meeting because he ambushed us. 1443 01:16:16,833 --> 01:16:18,416 Father Jud's prayer meeting? 1444 01:16:19,875 --> 01:16:21,791 I have kept this church. 1445 01:16:21,875 --> 01:16:24,000 I have fortified it with the truth of God. 1446 01:16:24,083 --> 01:16:27,916 And now the betrayal to find my authority 1447 01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:31,291 -and faith and life itself challenged… -[door opens] 1448 01:16:31,375 --> 01:16:33,791 …and from inside my own sanctuary! 1449 01:16:36,333 --> 01:16:37,541 Get out! 1450 01:16:39,500 --> 01:16:41,750 -[door slams] -Weak. 1451 01:16:42,583 --> 01:16:44,000 All of you. 1452 01:16:44,083 --> 01:16:46,291 You can't follow my path. 1453 01:16:46,375 --> 01:16:48,583 Yes, we are at war 1454 01:16:48,666 --> 01:16:51,125 and I cast you out of my fortress. 1455 01:16:51,708 --> 01:16:52,916 You son of a bitch. 1456 01:16:53,000 --> 01:16:55,875 On Easter Sunday, when the pews fill with townspeople, 1457 01:16:55,958 --> 01:16:58,375 I will lay bare the sins of this flock. 1458 01:16:58,458 --> 01:17:02,875 Cut you loose and shake the dust of this place off of my sandals. 1459 01:17:04,083 --> 01:17:05,291 And to hell 1460 01:17:06,625 --> 01:17:07,708 with you all. 1461 01:17:07,791 --> 01:17:09,791 [sinister music rises] 1462 01:17:16,958 --> 01:17:18,166 [music stops] 1463 01:17:21,416 --> 01:17:25,583 [inhales sharply] Well, glory be. That cleared the room. [scoffs] 1464 01:17:25,666 --> 01:17:26,750 Cy. 1465 01:17:28,041 --> 01:17:30,125 -Why'd he do that? -[sighs] 1466 01:17:30,208 --> 01:17:32,458 [Jud] Cy. Tell me. What was happening? 1467 01:17:32,541 --> 01:17:34,916 Why'd he torch them all? Why would he do that? 1468 01:17:35,000 --> 01:17:36,333 Because I told him to. 1469 01:17:37,291 --> 01:17:39,916 When Vera told me the truth, I went and found him. 1470 01:17:40,791 --> 01:17:44,000 And he embraced me as a son for the first time in my life. 1471 01:17:44,750 --> 01:17:46,666 He unburdened himself. 1472 01:17:47,375 --> 01:17:49,375 [Wicks] I hate this place. 1473 01:17:50,541 --> 01:17:52,958 I hate this sad flock of losers. 1474 01:17:53,791 --> 01:17:55,416 I want to get out. 1475 01:17:56,208 --> 01:17:57,833 And now, finally… 1476 01:17:58,958 --> 01:18:00,166 I can. 1477 01:18:01,958 --> 01:18:03,166 He told me, 1478 01:18:03,958 --> 01:18:06,791 his grandfather's family fortune, lost all these years, 1479 01:18:06,875 --> 01:18:09,083 he told me he found it. Just this week. 1480 01:18:09,166 --> 01:18:11,000 No. No, that money is gone. 1481 01:18:11,083 --> 01:18:14,791 Nobody knows where Prentice put it, but it's gone without a trace. 1482 01:18:14,875 --> 01:18:17,500 -He told me he found it. -[chuckles derisively] 1483 01:18:17,583 --> 01:18:20,625 [Cy] He was gonna shutter this dump and retire in filthy wealth. 1484 01:18:21,291 --> 01:18:24,416 And I told him, "Are you nuts?" 1485 01:18:24,500 --> 01:18:27,291 Retire? Do you know the power of what you do on that stage? 1486 01:18:27,375 --> 01:18:28,625 I've shrunk the flock. 1487 01:18:28,708 --> 01:18:30,375 [Cy] No. You've radicalized them. 1488 01:18:31,041 --> 01:18:32,083 That is power. 1489 01:18:32,875 --> 01:18:36,875 In a small town, there are only so many witches to burn and zealots to activate. 1490 01:18:36,958 --> 01:18:39,375 Your flame lacks fuel. 1491 01:18:39,458 --> 01:18:40,875 But on the Internet, 1492 01:18:41,375 --> 01:18:42,583 wildfire. 1493 01:18:43,875 --> 01:18:45,083 This money. 1494 01:18:45,875 --> 01:18:48,708 Your cult of personality. Are you kidding me? 1495 01:18:48,791 --> 01:18:50,333 Give me four years. 1496 01:18:50,416 --> 01:18:51,833 You could be president. 1497 01:18:52,916 --> 01:18:55,041 Together we can build a real empire. 1498 01:18:56,250 --> 01:18:59,250 As father and son. 1499 01:19:01,666 --> 01:19:03,083 Like in Star Wars? 1500 01:19:03,166 --> 01:19:05,958 -Yeah. Exactly, like the Rebels. -Oh. 1501 01:19:06,041 --> 01:19:09,458 His ministry and my political instincts fueled by enough money. 1502 01:19:09,541 --> 01:19:11,833 Can you imagine what we could do in Christ's name? 1503 01:19:12,500 --> 01:19:14,125 Yeah. Yeah, I think I can. 1504 01:19:14,208 --> 01:19:17,541 First, I told him, and I'll admit this is a little personal, 1505 01:19:17,625 --> 01:19:20,375 first I told him we need to burn this flock. 1506 01:19:20,458 --> 01:19:21,833 They're a liability. 1507 01:19:21,916 --> 01:19:24,041 If they associate themselves with us, 1508 01:19:24,125 --> 01:19:27,000 show up on cable news, even want a place in this thing… 1509 01:19:27,083 --> 01:19:29,333 We need to burn them off like leeches. 1510 01:19:30,250 --> 01:19:31,875 [Jud] That's why he torched them all. 1511 01:19:32,541 --> 01:19:34,375 'Cause of your petty vindictiveness. 1512 01:19:34,958 --> 01:19:37,500 One of them might have killed him for it. You know that, right? 1513 01:19:38,083 --> 01:19:40,916 Getting back to this vast fortune. 1514 01:19:41,500 --> 01:19:42,791 So it's yours now? 1515 01:19:42,875 --> 01:19:44,625 -Technically, yes. -Technically? 1516 01:19:45,208 --> 01:19:47,416 -He didn't tell you where it was. -[Cy] No. 1517 01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:50,208 His accounts are empty. There's nothing. 1518 01:19:51,083 --> 01:19:51,958 So where is it? 1519 01:19:52,708 --> 01:19:55,291 And then, I realized, 50 years ago, 1520 01:19:55,375 --> 01:19:59,125 what was the safest way for Prentice to hide $80 million? 1521 01:19:59,708 --> 01:20:02,500 -A Swiss bank account. -[Benoit] Aha! 1522 01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:06,416 And so all you need to do is find that account number. 1523 01:20:07,333 --> 01:20:08,750 No luck there? 1524 01:20:08,833 --> 01:20:11,583 [sighs in exasperation] It has to be written down somewhere. 1525 01:20:11,666 --> 01:20:13,916 Martha files everything and it isn't here. 1526 01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:15,208 I don't know. 1527 01:20:15,791 --> 01:20:18,666 Here. I thought it might be a code because he kept saying, 1528 01:20:18,750 --> 01:20:20,541 "Eve's Apple would be restored to the tree." 1529 01:20:20,625 --> 01:20:24,208 That was a thing. As if Eve's Apple is the fortune. 1530 01:20:24,291 --> 01:20:26,750 But a Swiss account, we're looking for 19 numbers, 1531 01:20:26,833 --> 01:20:28,041 so it doesn't work. 1532 01:20:28,583 --> 01:20:30,708 Vera, did he ever tell you anything? 1533 01:20:31,583 --> 01:20:34,708 Even if he did, I would go to my grave before giving it to you. 1534 01:20:35,500 --> 01:20:36,583 Yeah. 1535 01:20:37,666 --> 01:20:40,916 You'd have done anything to keep the prodigal son from getting the fortune. 1536 01:20:41,000 --> 01:20:42,208 It burns you up. 1537 01:20:42,916 --> 01:20:44,333 You bitter hag. 1538 01:20:45,375 --> 01:20:46,791 That money 1539 01:20:47,375 --> 01:20:52,791 is one psalm in the Bible of my bitterness, you fucking child. 1540 01:20:53,458 --> 01:20:57,541 You should come and get your shit, it'll be out on the street. [scoffs] 1541 01:21:01,000 --> 01:21:03,125 [door opens, closes] 1542 01:21:03,208 --> 01:21:06,625 You. You're a detective. I'll pay you. I don't care, this is very important, 1543 01:21:06,708 --> 01:21:09,541 my inheritance and future political career depends on it. 1544 01:21:09,625 --> 01:21:11,750 Can you think of anything 1545 01:21:11,833 --> 01:21:15,250 related to Eve's Apple that might contain that number? 1546 01:21:17,208 --> 01:21:20,291 Oh, um… Mm-mm. [sniffles] 1547 01:21:20,916 --> 01:21:22,750 But if you think of anything, you'll call me? 1548 01:21:22,833 --> 01:21:24,833 -Oh, yeah. You bet. -All right. 1549 01:21:25,625 --> 01:21:26,791 [engine starts] 1550 01:21:26,875 --> 01:21:28,916 [intriguing music plays] 1551 01:21:32,208 --> 01:21:33,541 We should look everywhere. 1552 01:21:38,458 --> 01:21:41,541 It might be, uh, sewn in the lining. 1553 01:21:42,166 --> 01:21:44,458 -Etched in the metal. -[ripping] 1554 01:21:53,958 --> 01:21:55,083 [Benoit sighs] 1555 01:22:00,166 --> 01:22:01,125 [hollow thudding] 1556 01:22:04,875 --> 01:22:06,166 This is hollow. 1557 01:22:06,750 --> 01:22:08,166 Yeah. Do it. 1558 01:22:16,083 --> 01:22:17,291 [sighs] 1559 01:22:24,125 --> 01:22:25,125 [sighs] 1560 01:22:25,791 --> 01:22:26,750 [clatters] 1561 01:22:29,625 --> 01:22:31,250 Remind me to file this. 1562 01:22:31,333 --> 01:22:32,541 File that. 1563 01:22:33,791 --> 01:22:35,750 -It doesn't make sense. -I know. 1564 01:22:35,833 --> 01:22:37,875 An 80-million-dollar fortune. 1565 01:22:37,958 --> 01:22:39,708 But if Eve's Apple is the fortune 1566 01:22:39,791 --> 01:22:42,875 and it's not a pile of cash in a Swiss account somewhere, what is it? 1567 01:22:47,000 --> 01:22:47,833 What? 1568 01:22:47,916 --> 01:22:50,000 They must have misprinted the date on this. 1569 01:22:51,083 --> 01:22:54,583 It says the crypt opening thing was ordered last Wednesday. 1570 01:22:55,250 --> 01:22:56,666 That can't be right. 1571 01:22:58,541 --> 01:23:01,750 Who would preorder burial equipment for a man who isn't dead? 1572 01:23:03,125 --> 01:23:06,250 Someone who knew with great certainty when their day and hour would come. 1573 01:23:06,333 --> 01:23:07,541 Give me that. 1574 01:23:08,583 --> 01:23:11,375 Oh, that's computer printed. That's not a misprint. That's it. 1575 01:23:11,458 --> 01:23:13,916 Whoever called in that order, that's the key. 1576 01:23:14,000 --> 01:23:15,583 -Okay. Yeah. Yeah. -[line ringing] 1577 01:23:15,666 --> 01:23:18,083 -[telephone ringing] -[pop music playing faintly] 1578 01:23:19,333 --> 01:23:21,458 Steel Wheels Construction. This is Louise. 1579 01:23:21,541 --> 01:23:24,083 Hello, Louise. It's Father Jud from Perpetual Fortitude. 1580 01:23:25,250 --> 01:23:27,416 -Oh. Hello. -Hi, Louise. 1581 01:23:27,500 --> 01:23:29,916 We had a piece of your construction equipment here today. 1582 01:23:30,000 --> 01:23:32,583 -Uh, a forklift to open a, um… a crypt. -Oh, yeah. I know. 1583 01:23:32,666 --> 01:23:35,041 It's not too often we get a crypt opening order. 1584 01:23:35,125 --> 01:23:36,458 Great. So I need to know-- 1585 01:23:36,541 --> 01:23:38,875 I actually processed that order. I do all the processing. 1586 01:23:38,958 --> 01:23:40,625 Yeah. What I need to know, Louise, is-- 1587 01:23:40,708 --> 01:23:42,708 -I run this place with my brother James. -Right. 1588 01:23:42,791 --> 01:23:44,916 -He takes orders but I process them. -Yeah. Right. 1589 01:23:45,000 --> 01:23:47,000 So the reason I'm calling, Louise, is to-- 1590 01:23:47,083 --> 01:23:49,833 I've been to that church of yours, but I don't think you were there. 1591 01:23:49,916 --> 01:23:52,916 -No, I… I'm new, relatively new here. -Congratulations. 1592 01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:55,750 -Louise, I… I have to ask… -No, it was an older guy. 1593 01:23:55,833 --> 01:23:58,208 -Father… Is he… -Monsignor, Monsignor. 1594 01:23:58,291 --> 01:24:00,041 -Father Monsignor, okay, well… -Louise-- 1595 01:24:00,125 --> 01:24:03,625 He was preaching when I went and I gotta tell you, that is not a nice man. 1596 01:24:03,708 --> 01:24:06,500 -But I am sorry that he… -Okay. 1597 01:24:06,583 --> 01:24:09,000 …yikes, died and, you know, for all y'all's loss… 1598 01:24:09,083 --> 01:24:11,500 Yeah, it's a terrible tragedy for everyone, Louise. 1599 01:24:11,583 --> 01:24:14,000 Can I… I have to, uh, interrupt. 1600 01:24:14,083 --> 01:24:16,083 -I have a question. -Yeah. 1601 01:24:16,166 --> 01:24:19,541 Uh, the order for the forklift. I need to know who placed the order. 1602 01:24:19,625 --> 01:24:22,041 -James takes the orders and… -James takes the orders. 1603 01:24:22,125 --> 01:24:24,708 -…he's left for the day. -Can I have James' number? 1604 01:24:24,791 --> 01:24:27,416 This is very important. We need to find out who placed that order. 1605 01:24:27,500 --> 01:24:30,875 -No, no. I don't think I can do that… -No, it's very important. 1606 01:24:30,958 --> 01:24:33,083 -Excuse me, Father. -It's very-- 1607 01:24:33,166 --> 01:24:35,166 What I can do, as I was saying, 1608 01:24:35,250 --> 01:24:38,125 is I can get that information for you and then I will give you 1609 01:24:38,208 --> 01:24:39,833 -a buzz back. -That's it. That's great. 1610 01:24:39,916 --> 01:24:42,541 And if you could call James now, I would appreciate it so much. 1611 01:24:42,625 --> 01:24:44,541 -Thank you, Louise. -And she'll call you back. 1612 01:24:44,625 --> 01:24:46,708 I will. Hey, Father, could I ask you something? 1613 01:24:46,791 --> 01:24:49,000 Yeah, it's… Though, I mean… 1614 01:24:49,583 --> 01:24:51,083 Well, if you can make it quick. 1615 01:24:51,166 --> 01:24:54,125 -This is a priority for us right now. -Maybe she could call you back and-- 1616 01:24:54,208 --> 01:24:56,208 Father Jud would you… Could you… 1617 01:24:57,708 --> 01:24:58,791 Louise? 1618 01:24:58,875 --> 01:25:00,583 -[scoffs] -[Louise] Oh, God. 1619 01:25:02,250 --> 01:25:03,333 Louise? 1620 01:25:03,958 --> 01:25:05,958 [sighs] Will you pray for me? 1621 01:25:09,500 --> 01:25:10,416 Uh… 1622 01:25:11,375 --> 01:25:13,000 Yeah, of course. 1623 01:25:14,416 --> 01:25:17,250 -Can I ask what for? -[Louise sniffles] Uh… 1624 01:25:18,708 --> 01:25:20,333 It's, uh, my mother. 1625 01:25:22,666 --> 01:25:23,875 She's sick? 1626 01:25:24,625 --> 01:25:25,708 Yeah. 1627 01:25:25,791 --> 01:25:28,333 Um, she's in hospice. 1628 01:25:29,708 --> 01:25:31,333 I'm so sorry, Louise. 1629 01:25:31,416 --> 01:25:33,416 Uh, she won't talk to me. 1630 01:25:33,500 --> 01:25:35,583 We fought last time we talked. 1631 01:25:35,666 --> 01:25:41,458 Uh, she has a tumor in her brain that's affecting her, 1632 01:25:41,541 --> 01:25:45,083 and it's making her say really terrible things, 1633 01:25:45,166 --> 01:25:47,291 and so I said bad things back 1634 01:25:47,375 --> 01:25:50,083 and now I'm afraid that that's gonna be the last thing 1635 01:25:50,166 --> 01:25:52,166 that we ever say to each other. 1636 01:25:54,833 --> 01:25:56,916 [tearfully] Father, I, um… 1637 01:25:58,833 --> 01:26:02,250 I'm feeling pretty alone, um, right now. 1638 01:26:05,541 --> 01:26:08,750 -[crying softly] -I'm so sorry, Louise. 1639 01:26:10,083 --> 01:26:11,291 You're not alone. 1640 01:26:12,750 --> 01:26:14,166 I'm right here. 1641 01:26:14,958 --> 01:26:16,166 I'm here. 1642 01:26:17,041 --> 01:26:18,541 Can you tell me your mother's name? 1643 01:26:23,625 --> 01:26:24,916 [clicks tongue softly] 1644 01:26:26,166 --> 01:26:27,333 [sighs softly] 1645 01:26:27,416 --> 01:26:30,416 -[thunder rumbling] -[wind gusting] 1646 01:26:32,875 --> 01:26:33,833 [inhales] 1647 01:26:34,875 --> 01:26:36,208 [exhales sharply] 1648 01:26:47,458 --> 01:26:50,083 I pray that Barbara may feel her daughter's love. 1649 01:26:51,166 --> 01:26:55,000 That it will comfort her in this time, and, Lord, I pray for Louise. 1650 01:26:56,416 --> 01:26:58,625 Be with her and give her wisdom and guidance. 1651 01:26:58,708 --> 01:27:02,125 Hold her in your healing arms and let her know she is loved. 1652 01:27:02,666 --> 01:27:04,291 She is not alone. 1653 01:27:04,916 --> 01:27:08,333 This we pray through Christ our Lord. Amen. 1654 01:27:09,166 --> 01:27:10,125 Okay, Louise. 1655 01:27:10,750 --> 01:27:13,416 You have my number. Any time, day or night, 1656 01:27:13,500 --> 01:27:14,791 I'm here for you. 1657 01:27:15,291 --> 01:27:17,250 -This church is here for you. -[door opens] 1658 01:27:17,333 --> 01:27:18,500 Bless you. Okay. 1659 01:27:19,041 --> 01:27:22,041 [panting] Storm. I came to close up. 1660 01:27:23,791 --> 01:27:26,416 [Jud] I'll get the church. You take care of the rectory. 1661 01:27:30,375 --> 01:27:32,625 -[wind gusting] -Don't follow me, Blanc. I'm done. 1662 01:27:32,708 --> 01:27:34,541 And, uh, why exactly? 1663 01:27:34,625 --> 01:27:37,083 I've had a "road to Damascus" thing. 1664 01:27:37,166 --> 01:27:39,750 Paul had a holy revelation on the road to Damascus. 1665 01:27:39,833 --> 01:27:42,708 Yes, I know. He was struck blind and all that hogwash. 1666 01:27:42,791 --> 01:27:44,791 Probably just a case of pink eye. 1667 01:27:44,875 --> 01:27:48,375 But he was not on the verge of solving a murder when it happened. 1668 01:27:48,458 --> 01:27:50,875 I mean, what do you think we're doing here? 1669 01:27:51,541 --> 01:27:54,958 Why do you think I became a priest? No bullshit. Really. Why? 1670 01:27:55,041 --> 01:27:58,125 -[wind howling] -[thunder rumbling] 1671 01:27:58,208 --> 01:27:59,416 You felt guilt. 1672 01:28:00,000 --> 01:28:02,000 For taking a life. And the church, 1673 01:28:02,083 --> 01:28:04,916 it offered you a place to hide and a clear method 1674 01:28:05,000 --> 01:28:07,000 to give you a sense of absolution. 1675 01:28:07,625 --> 01:28:10,500 The guy I killed in the ring, I hated him. 1676 01:28:11,000 --> 01:28:12,833 I remember, I knew he was in trouble 1677 01:28:12,916 --> 01:28:15,125 and I kept going and going until I felt him break. 1678 01:28:15,208 --> 01:28:17,833 It wasn't an accident. I killed him with hate in my heart. 1679 01:28:17,916 --> 01:28:20,250 There's no hiding from that, there's no solving it. 1680 01:28:20,333 --> 01:28:24,166 God didn't hide me or fix me. He loves me when I'm guilty. 1681 01:28:24,250 --> 01:28:26,375 That's what I should be doing for these people. 1682 01:28:26,458 --> 01:28:27,750 Not this whodunit game. 1683 01:28:27,833 --> 01:28:29,083 No, now wait a minute. 1684 01:28:29,166 --> 01:28:30,541 [wind gusting] 1685 01:28:35,375 --> 01:28:37,583 Excuse me. Excuse me, I-- 1686 01:28:38,333 --> 01:28:40,166 Would you look at me when I'm talking to you? 1687 01:28:40,250 --> 01:28:42,250 We're looking for a murderer. This is not a game. 1688 01:28:42,333 --> 01:28:43,708 It is a game! 1689 01:28:43,791 --> 01:28:45,416 Solving it, winning it. 1690 01:28:45,500 --> 01:28:47,541 Getting your big checkmate moment. 1691 01:28:47,625 --> 01:28:51,458 And by using me in it, you're setting me against my real and only purpose in life. 1692 01:28:51,541 --> 01:28:54,166 Which is not to fight the wicked and bring them to justice, 1693 01:28:54,250 --> 01:28:57,458 but to serve them and bring them to Christ. 1694 01:28:57,541 --> 01:28:59,375 Otherwise, I'm just as bad as Wicks. 1695 01:28:59,458 --> 01:29:01,458 Making it about me and not Jesus. 1696 01:29:02,500 --> 01:29:04,916 Listen, you don't have to understand, Blanc. 1697 01:29:05,000 --> 01:29:06,541 But just please, 1698 01:29:06,625 --> 01:29:08,916 please, please, please let me be. 1699 01:29:09,000 --> 01:29:12,625 -[intriguing music plays] -[thunder rumbling] 1700 01:29:15,625 --> 01:29:17,458 -Can you say that again? -No. 1701 01:29:17,541 --> 01:29:20,416 About making it about you, not Jesus. Like Wicks, you said. 1702 01:29:20,500 --> 01:29:22,708 Father, this is important. 1703 01:29:22,791 --> 01:29:24,291 Help me understand! 1704 01:29:24,375 --> 01:29:27,375 We are here to serve the world, not beat it. 1705 01:29:28,125 --> 01:29:30,333 -That's what Christ did. -So? 1706 01:29:30,416 --> 01:29:33,250 So when Wicks was talking about fighting the world for Christ's sake, 1707 01:29:33,333 --> 01:29:36,791 he wasn't talking about Christ, he was talking about his own ego. 1708 01:29:36,875 --> 01:29:39,708 And power. He was never talking about Christ. 1709 01:29:41,833 --> 01:29:45,041 Yes, over and over he talked about Christ rising in power. 1710 01:29:45,125 --> 01:29:47,041 Getting his revenge on the unfaithful. 1711 01:29:47,125 --> 01:29:48,958 Eve's Apple is the treasure. 1712 01:29:49,041 --> 01:29:51,458 "Eve's Apple restored to the tree." 1713 01:29:51,541 --> 01:29:52,875 Now, what does that mean? 1714 01:29:52,958 --> 01:29:55,375 Blanc. I don't know. 1715 01:29:56,291 --> 01:29:57,916 And I don't care. 1716 01:29:58,541 --> 01:30:01,291 [sirens approaching] 1717 01:30:01,375 --> 01:30:02,875 [thunder rumbling] 1718 01:30:03,875 --> 01:30:06,625 That'll be Geraldine coming for her update on the case. 1719 01:30:06,708 --> 01:30:09,333 Now, Father, you're right. 1720 01:30:09,416 --> 01:30:11,416 This is my game, not yours. 1721 01:30:11,500 --> 01:30:14,708 Why don't you head back to the rectory? I'll handle her. 1722 01:30:16,291 --> 01:30:17,500 Thank you. 1723 01:30:18,208 --> 01:30:20,333 Make sure the door's shut when you leave. 1724 01:30:23,750 --> 01:30:25,583 Hope you catch your killer, Blanc. 1725 01:30:26,458 --> 01:30:27,833 Thank you. I… I will. 1726 01:30:27,916 --> 01:30:29,333 [sirens wailing] 1727 01:30:35,958 --> 01:30:37,958 [indistinct police radio chatter] 1728 01:30:45,250 --> 01:30:46,666 Father Jud? 1729 01:30:47,333 --> 01:30:49,083 -Father Jud. -He's not here. 1730 01:30:49,166 --> 01:30:50,166 Come. 1731 01:30:50,666 --> 01:30:53,875 I want you to search those back rooms and that closet thing too. 1732 01:30:53,958 --> 01:30:55,833 [thunder rumbling distantly] 1733 01:30:57,250 --> 01:30:58,083 Oh. 1734 01:30:59,166 --> 01:31:00,583 It's good, right? 1735 01:31:00,666 --> 01:31:01,958 [Geraldine] Great, actually. 1736 01:31:02,041 --> 01:31:04,375 Especially the part where Gideon Fell walks you through 1737 01:31:04,458 --> 01:31:06,375 the possible solutions of a locked-door crime. 1738 01:31:06,458 --> 01:31:07,416 -Mm. -Yeah. 1739 01:31:07,500 --> 01:31:09,666 You covered three of them, then you stopped. 1740 01:31:10,291 --> 01:31:12,500 Now, having read the fourth, I know why. 1741 01:31:13,125 --> 01:31:15,208 See, I rewatched the video and I realized something. 1742 01:31:15,291 --> 01:31:16,333 [suspenseful music plays] 1743 01:31:16,416 --> 01:31:18,625 From the moment Jud enters the closet, 1744 01:31:19,125 --> 01:31:23,291 until the first of the flock has a line of sight into that closet 1745 01:31:24,000 --> 01:31:25,416 is nine seconds. 1746 01:31:25,916 --> 01:31:28,750 Nine seconds alone and unseen. 1747 01:31:29,666 --> 01:31:33,500 Plenty of time to do the deed with a concealed knife. 1748 01:31:37,166 --> 01:31:39,000 That's how it was done, right? 1749 01:31:39,083 --> 01:31:40,291 No games. 1750 01:31:40,791 --> 01:31:43,416 No bullshit. That's how it was done. 1751 01:31:43,500 --> 01:31:45,291 [thunder rumbling distantly] 1752 01:31:45,375 --> 01:31:47,041 -Yes. -[scoffs] 1753 01:31:48,250 --> 01:31:50,875 And you knew. You knew all along and you toyed with that poor kid 1754 01:31:50,958 --> 01:31:52,583 -like a cat with a mouse. -No. 1755 01:31:52,666 --> 01:31:55,166 I don't have the whole picture just yet. 1756 01:31:55,250 --> 01:31:57,500 -If you could give me a little more time… -No. 1757 01:31:57,583 --> 01:31:59,875 -I'm gonna be able to get-- -No! 1758 01:31:59,958 --> 01:32:02,375 I found my killer and I'm bringing him in. 1759 01:32:03,208 --> 01:32:04,416 Where is he? 1760 01:32:04,958 --> 01:32:07,916 -[thunder crashing] -[wind gusting] 1761 01:32:12,750 --> 01:32:14,958 [slow suspenseful music plays] 1762 01:32:24,416 --> 01:32:26,500 [breathing heavily] 1763 01:32:27,875 --> 01:32:29,666 [muffled thudding] 1764 01:32:38,166 --> 01:32:40,333 [thudding continues] 1765 01:32:52,625 --> 01:32:55,333 [muffled thudding] 1766 01:33:02,625 --> 01:33:03,958 [deep rumbling] 1767 01:33:15,333 --> 01:33:16,875 [breathing heavily] 1768 01:33:40,583 --> 01:33:41,500 [Jud] Sam! 1769 01:33:42,000 --> 01:33:43,958 [panting] 1770 01:33:48,291 --> 01:33:49,541 [yelps, groans] 1771 01:33:53,625 --> 01:33:56,333 [panting] 1772 01:34:00,041 --> 01:34:03,041 -[ominous music plays] -[high-pitched distortion] 1773 01:34:08,583 --> 01:34:10,583 [panting echoing] 1774 01:34:20,666 --> 01:34:22,333 [breathing heavily] 1775 01:34:26,125 --> 01:34:28,166 [rhythmic thumping] 1776 01:34:31,250 --> 01:34:33,083 [thumping accelerates] 1777 01:34:36,625 --> 01:34:38,666 [distorted yelling] 1778 01:34:49,541 --> 01:34:51,958 -[suspenseful music plays] -[gasps] 1779 01:34:53,541 --> 01:34:56,250 [gasps, groans] 1780 01:34:56,333 --> 01:34:58,208 [panting] 1781 01:34:58,291 --> 01:34:59,500 [Benoit] Who's there? 1782 01:35:02,708 --> 01:35:04,250 [gasps, grunts] 1783 01:35:04,833 --> 01:35:06,041 Wait! 1784 01:35:13,625 --> 01:35:14,708 [Geraldine] Blanc? 1785 01:35:14,791 --> 01:35:15,875 Here. 1786 01:35:16,541 --> 01:35:19,458 [gasps] Oh, shit. Who's that? 1787 01:35:19,541 --> 01:35:21,375 The groundskeeper, Samson. 1788 01:35:22,875 --> 01:35:24,708 What the hell happened? 1789 01:35:39,125 --> 01:35:40,250 Oh… 1790 01:35:41,208 --> 01:35:43,708 [Benoit] Mm. [mutters, clears throat] 1791 01:35:44,958 --> 01:35:45,791 [Geraldine] Uh… 1792 01:35:49,625 --> 01:35:51,583 Mm. [clicks tongue] Yeah. 1793 01:35:51,666 --> 01:35:52,666 Okay. 1794 01:35:53,208 --> 01:35:56,625 Okay, Wicks was 100% medically dead dead. 1795 01:35:56,708 --> 01:35:59,125 I mean, we know this, I'm just… 1796 01:35:59,625 --> 01:36:01,041 just saying, right? 1797 01:36:02,333 --> 01:36:03,416 Right. 1798 01:36:05,666 --> 01:36:08,875 [Geraldine] Okay, then I can also say out loud, 1799 01:36:09,458 --> 01:36:11,875 a man can't just rise from the dead. 1800 01:36:11,958 --> 01:36:14,791 I mean, there's obviously some Scooby-Doo shit going on here. 1801 01:36:15,291 --> 01:36:16,708 "Scooby-Dooby-Doo." 1802 01:36:16,791 --> 01:36:20,625 Praise to God! Praise and glory to the Almighty! 1803 01:36:20,708 --> 01:36:22,125 -Praise Him! -[siren wails] 1804 01:36:22,208 --> 01:36:26,125 Praise God! Praise and glory to the Almighty. 1805 01:36:26,208 --> 01:36:29,000 -He hath raised His Son. -Hey, Ritz. 1806 01:36:29,083 --> 01:36:30,500 Set a perimeter on the road. 1807 01:36:30,583 --> 01:36:33,000 News is gonna spread fast and I don't want any lookie-loos. 1808 01:36:33,083 --> 01:36:34,500 -You got it. -Chief! 1809 01:36:34,583 --> 01:36:35,416 What? 1810 01:36:35,500 --> 01:36:37,625 That motion-detector light there, it's also a camera. 1811 01:36:37,708 --> 01:36:39,958 But it's not hooked up to anything. 1812 01:36:40,041 --> 01:36:41,166 [Geraldine] A camera, huh? 1813 01:36:41,250 --> 01:36:43,750 I don't know. Maybe it's recording something on a chip inside. 1814 01:36:43,833 --> 01:36:45,958 Why don't you bring it into the media lab? 1815 01:36:46,625 --> 01:36:48,208 Hallelujah, praise God. 1816 01:36:48,291 --> 01:36:50,708 He has raised up His servant from the dead. 1817 01:36:50,791 --> 01:36:53,416 Hey, do me a favor? Tape off this entire area, down to the grove. 1818 01:36:53,500 --> 01:36:54,916 -Got it. -It's a homicide scene. 1819 01:36:55,000 --> 01:36:56,791 The groundskeeper is dead. 1820 01:36:56,875 --> 01:36:58,875 [somber music plays] 1821 01:37:04,833 --> 01:37:07,791 [screams, cries] 1822 01:37:08,958 --> 01:37:10,750 [sobbing] No! Please! 1823 01:37:11,791 --> 01:37:14,208 -Oh, shit. -[Martha] No! No, no, no! 1824 01:37:14,291 --> 01:37:15,708 [Geraldine] Can I get some help? 1825 01:37:15,791 --> 01:37:17,791 -Get help! Martha. -No! Oh, no, no! 1826 01:37:17,875 --> 01:37:20,083 -Martha, you need to back up. -Oh, no! 1827 01:37:20,166 --> 01:37:22,541 -Martha… -[sobbing] 1828 01:37:22,625 --> 01:37:25,666 Flee into the dark, you murderer! 1829 01:37:25,750 --> 01:37:27,625 -[panting] -[dramatic music plays] 1830 01:37:27,708 --> 01:37:29,333 But he has returned! 1831 01:37:29,833 --> 01:37:33,541 And he brings vengeance! He brings death! 1832 01:37:34,291 --> 01:37:35,333 [grunts] 1833 01:37:35,416 --> 01:37:36,250 [sniffles] 1834 01:37:36,333 --> 01:37:37,750 -[panting] -[music fades] 1835 01:37:39,708 --> 01:37:41,375 -[cell phone buzzing] -[gasps] 1836 01:37:41,458 --> 01:37:42,791 [wind howling] 1837 01:37:46,916 --> 01:37:47,875 [cell phone clacks] 1838 01:37:50,750 --> 01:37:52,166 This is Father Jud. 1839 01:37:52,250 --> 01:37:54,666 Oh, Father Jud, it's Louise. How you doing? 1840 01:37:56,000 --> 01:37:57,291 Uh… 1841 01:37:58,666 --> 01:38:00,291 Yeah… [hesitates] Hi, Louise. 1842 01:38:00,791 --> 01:38:03,208 I… I hope it's not too late, but you said it was urgent, 1843 01:38:03,291 --> 01:38:04,916 so I just wanted to tell you… 1844 01:38:05,000 --> 01:38:07,625 I spoke to James and the order for the forklift 1845 01:38:07,708 --> 01:38:10,333 was actually placed by Monsignor Wicks. 1846 01:38:11,208 --> 01:38:15,291 He spoke to James directly about it, so I do hope that this clears things up. 1847 01:38:15,916 --> 01:38:19,333 Hey, God bless you, Father, and you have yourself a good night, okay? 1848 01:38:19,416 --> 01:38:22,000 Uh… Yeah. 1849 01:38:22,666 --> 01:38:25,416 Yeah, you too, Louise. [pants] 1850 01:38:26,916 --> 01:38:27,833 [cell phone beeps] 1851 01:38:33,500 --> 01:38:35,166 -[sinister music plays] -[yells] 1852 01:38:37,708 --> 01:38:38,916 [thunderclap] 1853 01:38:40,875 --> 01:38:42,333 [pants] 1854 01:38:48,250 --> 01:38:50,833 -[grunts] -[cell phone ringing] 1855 01:38:50,916 --> 01:38:52,125 Jeez. 1856 01:38:53,916 --> 01:38:55,000 Yes? 1857 01:38:56,125 --> 01:38:57,958 Slow down, Martha. What? 1858 01:39:00,750 --> 01:39:02,666 -What? -[thuds] 1859 01:39:02,750 --> 01:39:04,583 -[Lee] It's a miracle. -Bullshit. 1860 01:39:04,666 --> 01:39:07,083 No, it happened. Martha said the tomb is empty. 1861 01:39:07,166 --> 01:39:09,375 I'm calling everyone. I'm on my way now. 1862 01:39:15,291 --> 01:39:16,500 Did you, uh… 1863 01:39:17,041 --> 01:39:19,041 What are you doing? You don't smoke. 1864 01:39:19,125 --> 01:39:20,333 I did. 1865 01:39:21,166 --> 01:39:23,000 I smoked for 15 years. 1866 01:39:23,083 --> 01:39:25,000 Did Lee call you? Did he tell you? 1867 01:39:25,500 --> 01:39:26,708 Yep. 1868 01:39:27,958 --> 01:39:30,250 Okay. Well, I'm gonna go witness a miracle. 1869 01:39:30,333 --> 01:39:33,416 -You enjoy your cigarette indoors. -[door opens] 1870 01:39:35,083 --> 01:39:36,208 [door closes] 1871 01:39:36,291 --> 01:39:38,333 [vibrates] 1872 01:39:40,875 --> 01:39:43,708 -[heavy knocking on door] -[slow suspenseful music plays] 1873 01:39:43,791 --> 01:39:45,291 [footsteps approaching] 1874 01:39:55,083 --> 01:39:57,083 [heavy knocking on door] 1875 01:40:05,083 --> 01:40:06,291 Praise be. 1876 01:40:07,416 --> 01:40:08,833 It's accomplished. 1877 01:40:08,916 --> 01:40:10,750 [vibrates] 1878 01:40:10,833 --> 01:40:13,875 -[line ringing] -Come on. 1879 01:40:15,791 --> 01:40:17,500 -Come on, it's… -[cell phone beeps] 1880 01:40:18,333 --> 01:40:19,541 He's got it. 1881 01:40:23,041 --> 01:40:26,125 All right, so… it's not great quality… 1882 01:40:26,208 --> 01:40:27,625 -It's fine. -…but, uh… 1883 01:40:38,458 --> 01:40:39,875 What am I looking at here? 1884 01:40:46,833 --> 01:40:47,833 Okay. 1885 01:40:47,916 --> 01:40:51,375 Um, yeah, so, it records anytime there's motion 1886 01:40:51,458 --> 01:40:54,875 -and this clip is four seconds later. -[mouse and keyboard clacking] 1887 01:41:07,041 --> 01:41:09,000 -Okay? -[knock on door] 1888 01:41:09,083 --> 01:41:11,000 Prints from the gardening tool. 1889 01:41:12,291 --> 01:41:15,958 We didn't run the full database check, just the suspects you questioned. 1890 01:41:16,666 --> 01:41:17,875 It's Father Jud. 1891 01:41:22,750 --> 01:41:23,958 Where is he? 1892 01:41:24,583 --> 01:41:26,416 I sincerely wish I knew. 1893 01:41:31,208 --> 01:41:33,750 [music intensifies, fades] 1894 01:41:33,833 --> 01:41:35,416 [chiming] 1895 01:41:36,375 --> 01:41:38,083 [thunder rumbling] 1896 01:41:38,166 --> 01:41:39,916 [indistinct police radio chatter] 1897 01:41:46,041 --> 01:41:47,875 Blanc. Blanc! 1898 01:41:48,500 --> 01:41:51,125 -I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna… turn myself-- -[shushes] 1899 01:41:51,208 --> 01:41:53,208 -[officer 1] …388. -[officer 2] 388, en route. 1900 01:41:53,791 --> 01:41:54,791 [officer 1] 433. 1901 01:41:55,625 --> 01:41:57,625 -I'm turning myself in. -No you are not. 1902 01:41:57,708 --> 01:42:02,000 [on radio, loudly] ♪ Skimbleshanks, the railway cat! ♪ 1903 01:42:02,083 --> 01:42:03,083 [Benoit clears throat] 1904 01:42:03,166 --> 01:42:05,916 I did it. I killed Samson. I'm guilty. I have to confess. 1905 01:42:06,000 --> 01:42:07,083 -Let me out. -Listen. 1906 01:42:07,166 --> 01:42:09,583 You're gonna tell me exactly what happened, but right now, 1907 01:42:09,666 --> 01:42:11,291 how do I get to Dr. Nat's house? 1908 01:42:11,375 --> 01:42:12,875 -Dr. Nat? -Yes, quickly. 1909 01:42:13,375 --> 01:42:14,583 I regret my stalling. 1910 01:42:14,666 --> 01:42:17,000 I only hope we're not too late. Now, just get down! 1911 01:42:17,083 --> 01:42:19,250 [tires screeching] 1912 01:42:20,000 --> 01:42:21,333 [thunder rumbling] 1913 01:42:21,416 --> 01:42:23,541 Hail Mary, full of grace the Lord is with you. 1914 01:42:23,625 --> 01:42:25,041 Blessed art thou amongst women… 1915 01:42:25,125 --> 01:42:27,291 …sir, that I respect you. I respect the badge. 1916 01:42:27,375 --> 01:42:30,583 But this is our church and I'm not telling you that I'm gonna resort to violence, 1917 01:42:30,666 --> 01:42:34,416 but we're gonna stay here all night if we have to. We are seeing that crypt! 1918 01:42:34,500 --> 01:42:36,500 -Is it real? -[Lee] They won't let us in. 1919 01:42:36,583 --> 01:42:39,166 [breath trembling] I need to see. 1920 01:42:39,875 --> 01:42:41,791 Please, I need to see. 1921 01:42:41,875 --> 01:42:43,333 [brakes screech] 1922 01:42:44,458 --> 01:42:46,333 [wind chime tinkling softly] 1923 01:42:48,833 --> 01:42:51,833 [slow suspenseful music plays] 1924 01:42:53,333 --> 01:42:54,875 [door creaking] 1925 01:42:59,541 --> 01:43:00,750 Dr. Nat? 1926 01:43:12,500 --> 01:43:14,083 [glass crunching underfoot] 1927 01:43:30,000 --> 01:43:31,166 [sighs heavily] 1928 01:43:35,625 --> 01:43:37,833 [sniffs, gags] Oh, God. 1929 01:43:38,583 --> 01:43:40,000 What's that smell? 1930 01:43:40,083 --> 01:43:41,791 [Jud breathing heavily] 1931 01:43:45,375 --> 01:43:47,000 Just wait here. 1932 01:43:49,041 --> 01:43:50,125 Blanc. 1933 01:43:50,666 --> 01:43:51,750 [Benoit] Yep. 1934 01:43:53,583 --> 01:43:54,416 [switch clicks] 1935 01:43:55,166 --> 01:43:56,625 [grim music plays] 1936 01:43:56,708 --> 01:43:58,125 Oh, God. 1937 01:44:11,333 --> 01:44:12,416 Right. 1938 01:44:14,083 --> 01:44:18,750 [inhales sharply] Oh, Lord, that is… [coughs] 1939 01:44:20,958 --> 01:44:23,291 [groaning] 1940 01:44:30,166 --> 01:44:31,250 [Jud] Wicks. 1941 01:44:31,333 --> 01:44:33,500 [Benoit] Yeah, that's… It's him. 1942 01:44:34,375 --> 01:44:35,791 -[Jud] Is he… -Yeah. 1943 01:44:36,500 --> 01:44:39,958 I mean, for what it's worth these days. [clears throat] 1944 01:44:42,583 --> 01:44:44,708 Let's see now. Let's… 1945 01:44:45,875 --> 01:44:46,708 [groans] 1946 01:44:48,000 --> 01:44:49,250 Okay. 1947 01:44:50,750 --> 01:44:53,083 This might get unpleasant. 1948 01:44:53,166 --> 01:44:54,791 I mean, more unpleasant. 1949 01:44:55,333 --> 01:44:57,291 -[squeaks] -[liquid draining] 1950 01:45:04,208 --> 01:45:06,208 [dramatic sinister music plays] 1951 01:45:30,333 --> 01:45:31,416 Dr. Nat. 1952 01:45:32,666 --> 01:45:35,500 In the flesh. Yeah… Or, what's left of it. 1953 01:45:38,291 --> 01:45:39,291 [clears throat] 1954 01:45:40,250 --> 01:45:41,375 [Benoit exhales] 1955 01:46:06,458 --> 01:46:08,416 [line ringing] 1956 01:46:08,500 --> 01:46:10,500 Geraldine, it's… it's Blanc. Um… 1957 01:46:11,625 --> 01:46:13,791 Yeah, he's standing right here. 1958 01:46:13,875 --> 01:46:15,375 [hesitates] Listen to me. 1959 01:46:15,458 --> 01:46:17,625 You're gonna wanna come to Dr. Nat's house. 1960 01:46:17,708 --> 01:46:21,125 [breathing heavily] There's a body. Or two. 1961 01:46:22,250 --> 01:46:23,666 It's all here. 1962 01:46:24,166 --> 01:46:27,041 -Yes, yeah. It's… it's finished, yeah. -[stair creaks] 1963 01:46:28,166 --> 01:46:29,666 [sighs] I'll call you back. 1964 01:46:30,958 --> 01:46:32,791 Father Jud. Wait, wait. 1965 01:46:32,875 --> 01:46:35,000 I killed Samson. I have to do this. 1966 01:46:35,625 --> 01:46:38,250 I have to do it of my own free will or it won't mean anything. 1967 01:46:53,791 --> 01:46:57,916 [female officer over radio] Plate check. Copy that. Any available units to respond… 1968 01:46:58,000 --> 01:47:00,125 Would you call Geraldine for me, please? 1969 01:47:00,625 --> 01:47:03,458 Say Father Jud's returned to his church and he's ready to confess. 1970 01:47:04,750 --> 01:47:06,250 [door creaking] 1971 01:47:06,333 --> 01:47:07,458 [door thuds] 1972 01:47:20,041 --> 01:47:22,750 Father Jud. I'm here to arrest you for the murder 1973 01:47:22,833 --> 01:47:25,083 of Monsignor Jefferson Wicks and Samson Holt. 1974 01:47:25,166 --> 01:47:29,333 And you're a person of interest in the death of Dr. Nathaniel Sharp. 1975 01:47:29,416 --> 01:47:30,833 [splutters] Nat is dead? 1976 01:47:32,041 --> 01:47:33,333 Murdered in his home. 1977 01:47:34,333 --> 01:47:36,833 We also recovered Wicks' body. It's over. 1978 01:47:37,333 --> 01:47:40,458 Anything you say can be used against you in a court of law. 1979 01:47:40,541 --> 01:47:43,166 But if you'd like to confess to anything, 1980 01:47:43,250 --> 01:47:46,083 this seems like a pretty great place to do it. 1981 01:47:48,250 --> 01:47:49,333 Yeah. 1982 01:47:52,375 --> 01:47:54,125 Years ago, 1983 01:47:54,208 --> 01:47:56,625 I murdered a man in a boxing ring. 1984 01:47:58,333 --> 01:48:00,375 I killed him with hate in my heart. 1985 01:48:02,500 --> 01:48:05,916 Last night, that same sin rose in me and in a moment of 1986 01:48:06,875 --> 01:48:09,041 fear and rage, I-- 1987 01:48:09,125 --> 01:48:11,416 ["Overture" from The Phantom Of The Opera playing] 1988 01:48:13,500 --> 01:48:17,541 I'm sorry, that was dramatic, but I needed you to stop talking. 1989 01:48:17,625 --> 01:48:19,875 -No. Father Jud-- -I was about to explain to everyone… 1990 01:48:19,958 --> 01:48:21,708 -Sit down and listen. -Stop talking. 1991 01:48:21,791 --> 01:48:24,750 Please, let him. You were continuing… Continue, you said last night… 1992 01:48:24,833 --> 01:48:27,166 -In a moment of fear and rage… -I was about to do it… 1993 01:48:27,250 --> 01:48:30,333 [dramatically] You shall not silence the voice of the Lord! 1994 01:48:30,416 --> 01:48:35,333 But sit now and behold the wickedness and shame of the guilty 1995 01:48:35,416 --> 01:48:38,250 laid bare before you all! 1996 01:48:51,000 --> 01:48:54,125 -[whispering] What are you doing? -[clears throat] 1997 01:48:55,833 --> 01:48:57,125 [smacks lips] 1998 01:48:57,208 --> 01:49:00,416 Let us begin with Wicks' murder. 1999 01:49:00,500 --> 01:49:03,333 Right here on Good Friday. 2000 01:49:04,041 --> 01:49:05,875 The impossible crime. 2001 01:49:07,250 --> 01:49:09,875 And, Geraldine, you were correct in your deduction. 2002 01:49:09,958 --> 01:49:14,125 When Monsignor Wicks collapsed in that closet space, he wasn't dead. 2003 01:49:14,208 --> 01:49:16,333 He wasn't even stabbed, not yet. 2004 01:49:17,333 --> 01:49:20,750 The flask he kept stashed in the breaker box 2005 01:49:20,833 --> 01:49:24,541 was spiked with a very powerful tranquilizer. 2006 01:49:24,625 --> 01:49:26,416 -[suspenseful music plays] -He drank from it. 2007 01:49:26,500 --> 01:49:28,375 Fortified himself. 2008 01:49:28,458 --> 01:49:31,666 And within minutes, fell to the floor, unconscious. 2009 01:49:31,750 --> 01:49:34,708 -[flask clangs] -[Benoit] The clanky clunk. 2010 01:49:34,791 --> 01:49:36,625 Leaving him defenseless 2011 01:49:36,708 --> 01:49:40,125 and giving the killer their chance to enter the closet 2012 01:49:40,708 --> 01:49:42,375 and deliver the deadly blow. 2013 01:49:43,000 --> 01:49:44,208 I… I said that already. 2014 01:49:44,791 --> 01:49:45,625 Father Jud. 2015 01:49:45,708 --> 01:49:48,541 No. The knife was in his back when I found him. 2016 01:49:48,625 --> 01:49:50,208 There's something in his back. 2017 01:49:50,291 --> 01:49:53,333 So how? When? It's impossible. I saw. 2018 01:49:53,416 --> 01:49:54,875 What did you see? 2019 01:49:56,083 --> 01:49:57,500 The red devil head. 2020 01:49:57,583 --> 01:50:00,791 Blood you assumed was Wicks'. 2021 01:50:00,875 --> 01:50:03,125 Now, I showed you the answer to this, did you see? 2022 01:50:04,375 --> 01:50:05,666 Il Diavolo. 2023 01:50:05,750 --> 01:50:07,333 The pizza bar. The photograph. 2024 01:50:08,666 --> 01:50:10,666 You thought you saw, 2025 01:50:11,208 --> 01:50:13,125 but that wasn't it, no. 2026 01:50:13,208 --> 01:50:15,416 It was a second identical lamp. 2027 01:50:15,500 --> 01:50:18,375 A second identical devil head. 2028 01:50:19,708 --> 01:50:20,791 Yeah. 2029 01:50:23,791 --> 01:50:25,416 And it was also missing. 2030 01:50:26,041 --> 01:50:27,458 Two devils. 2031 01:50:27,541 --> 01:50:28,875 [Benoit] Yes. 2032 01:50:28,958 --> 01:50:30,166 Why two? 2033 01:50:31,041 --> 01:50:32,666 And why painted red? 2034 01:50:32,750 --> 01:50:34,166 It wasn't red though. It's red now. 2035 01:50:34,250 --> 01:50:37,000 [Benoit] The same red as the Good Friday vestments. 2036 01:50:37,083 --> 01:50:38,916 The same exact red 2037 01:50:39,000 --> 01:50:42,083 as the mysterious thread found in the closet. 2038 01:50:42,791 --> 01:50:46,583 Because the second devil head was there all the time. 2039 01:50:46,666 --> 01:50:49,000 Sewn to the back of his vestments. 2040 01:50:49,083 --> 01:50:50,375 Hollow, light, 2041 01:50:50,458 --> 01:50:52,541 and filled with a small squib of blood 2042 01:50:53,125 --> 01:50:56,041 -triggered by an RF remote. -[static crackles] 2043 01:50:57,000 --> 01:51:00,208 [Benoit] Set off at the exact right moment. 2044 01:51:00,291 --> 01:51:01,125 [Jud] Monsignor? 2045 01:51:02,500 --> 01:51:03,375 The doctor. 2046 01:51:05,125 --> 01:51:06,416 A voice of authority 2047 01:51:06,500 --> 01:51:10,041 who can wait for the discovery he needs before taking charge. 2048 01:51:10,125 --> 01:51:11,333 There's something in his back. 2049 01:51:11,416 --> 01:51:13,041 Wait. Don't touch it. 2050 01:51:15,333 --> 01:51:17,750 A moment of distraction presents itself. 2051 01:51:17,833 --> 01:51:19,166 [imperceptible] 2052 01:51:20,333 --> 01:51:22,333 And the deed is quickly done. 2053 01:51:23,833 --> 01:51:25,083 His final task, 2054 01:51:25,166 --> 01:51:29,500 to remove the incriminating drug-laced flask. 2055 01:51:29,583 --> 01:51:32,416 But where was it? It was gone. 2056 01:51:33,541 --> 01:51:35,750 The one hiccup in his plan. 2057 01:51:35,833 --> 01:51:39,708 The result of a moment of foolish grace by Father Jud 2058 01:51:40,291 --> 01:51:44,833 who concealed the flask to hide Wicks' drinking 2059 01:51:44,916 --> 01:51:47,750 and returned later to retrieve it. 2060 01:51:50,083 --> 01:51:51,291 My God. 2061 01:51:51,791 --> 01:51:52,958 Nat. 2062 01:51:53,041 --> 01:51:54,250 Why? 2063 01:51:54,750 --> 01:51:57,000 [Vera] Wicks was going to scorch the earth. 2064 01:51:57,083 --> 01:51:58,708 He was going to ruin him. 2065 01:51:58,791 --> 01:52:01,625 No. The bigger why. The why that brought you here. 2066 01:52:01,708 --> 01:52:04,125 Why do all this insane, elaborate stuff? 2067 01:52:04,208 --> 01:52:07,083 The theatricality? The impossible crime. 2068 01:52:07,166 --> 01:52:08,375 Why? 2069 01:52:09,041 --> 01:52:10,250 Indeed. 2070 01:52:10,333 --> 01:52:12,833 Okay, so… if Dr. Nat killed Wicks, 2071 01:52:13,375 --> 01:52:14,375 who killed Nat? 2072 01:52:14,458 --> 01:52:16,291 Well, now we get to it. 2073 01:52:17,000 --> 01:52:19,750 Not some fiddly locked-door mystery 2074 01:52:19,833 --> 01:52:23,208 with devices and clues, 2075 01:52:23,291 --> 01:52:26,708 but a much, much larger scheme. 2076 01:52:26,791 --> 01:52:31,875 One whose roots run to the bedrock of this church. 2077 01:52:31,958 --> 01:52:33,708 And one which draws me, 2078 01:52:33,791 --> 01:52:37,041 an unbeliever in every sense of the word, 2079 01:52:37,125 --> 01:52:40,041 into the realm of belief. 2080 01:52:41,666 --> 01:52:43,500 To understand this case, 2081 01:52:44,541 --> 01:52:48,625 I had to look at the myth that was being constructed. 2082 01:52:48,708 --> 01:52:51,541 Not to solve whether it was real or not, 2083 01:52:51,625 --> 01:52:54,041 but to feel in my soul 2084 01:52:54,125 --> 01:52:57,250 the essence of that which it strove to convey. 2085 01:53:00,541 --> 01:53:01,958 A holy priest. 2086 01:53:02,708 --> 01:53:08,125 Struck down by no man, but by the hand of Satan himself. 2087 01:53:08,208 --> 01:53:11,625 Laid to rest in the sealed tomb of his father, 2088 01:53:12,208 --> 01:53:13,625 but then risen 2089 01:53:14,333 --> 01:53:15,958 by the will of God. 2090 01:53:16,041 --> 01:53:18,041 Risen as something new. 2091 01:53:18,125 --> 01:53:20,125 No longer a fallible man, 2092 01:53:20,208 --> 01:53:24,041 but now a symbol of the Lord's power over death. 2093 01:53:26,000 --> 01:53:27,625 His justice for the holy. 2094 01:53:28,125 --> 01:53:30,375 His vengeance for the wicked. 2095 01:53:33,166 --> 01:53:37,000 Okay. And now, what really happened? 2096 01:53:37,083 --> 01:53:39,083 -Yes. Yes. -[intriguing music plays] 2097 01:53:39,166 --> 01:53:43,000 It is time to break this tawdry facade 2098 01:53:43,083 --> 01:53:47,083 of miracles and resurrections and reveal what really happened. 2099 01:53:47,166 --> 01:53:49,583 It is time for Benoit Blanc's 2100 01:53:49,666 --> 01:53:52,750 final checkmate over the mysteries of faith! 2101 01:54:06,208 --> 01:54:07,333 [exhales heavily] 2102 01:54:07,416 --> 01:54:09,583 [solemn string music plays] 2103 01:54:18,750 --> 01:54:19,583 [sighs softly] 2104 01:54:21,291 --> 01:54:23,291 Blanc, are you… Are you okay? 2105 01:54:25,416 --> 01:54:26,625 Damascus. 2106 01:54:27,666 --> 01:54:28,875 Damascus? 2107 01:54:30,250 --> 01:54:33,291 Like… a road to Damascus thing? 2108 01:54:33,375 --> 01:54:35,250 Yes, yes, Damascus. 2109 01:54:38,791 --> 01:54:40,416 Shit. [sighs] 2110 01:54:41,291 --> 01:54:42,375 Blanc? 2111 01:54:43,000 --> 01:54:44,083 [inhales, clicks tongue] 2112 01:54:44,166 --> 01:54:45,083 [exhales] 2113 01:54:58,916 --> 01:55:00,541 I cannot solve this case. 2114 01:55:04,500 --> 01:55:05,500 What? 2115 01:55:06,583 --> 01:55:09,375 Are you saying that your conclusion, Benoit Blanc, 2116 01:55:09,458 --> 01:55:12,416 is that Monsignor Wicks rose from the dead? 2117 01:55:12,500 --> 01:55:13,916 That it was a miracle? 2118 01:55:14,000 --> 01:55:18,125 I'm saying I cannot solve this case. 2119 01:55:18,208 --> 01:55:19,583 [cell phone clicks] 2120 01:55:19,666 --> 01:55:20,750 That works. 2121 01:55:21,250 --> 01:55:22,083 Thank you. 2122 01:55:24,458 --> 01:55:25,541 [Jud] Blanc? 2123 01:55:26,250 --> 01:55:28,666 If you know what really happened, you should tell everyone. 2124 01:55:28,750 --> 01:55:32,458 Is this you sparing our faith or being respectful or something? 2125 01:55:32,541 --> 01:55:34,750 Because we deserve the truth. 2126 01:55:34,833 --> 01:55:36,250 It is not. 2127 01:55:36,333 --> 01:55:37,541 [breath shaking] 2128 01:55:37,625 --> 01:55:39,250 I need the truth. 2129 01:55:40,541 --> 01:55:42,833 [scoffs] Can't you just 2130 01:55:42,916 --> 01:55:45,791 give us the answer? Isn't that what all this is for? 2131 01:55:48,583 --> 01:55:51,541 And would you consider blurbing my book? 2132 01:55:51,625 --> 01:55:53,333 [hesitates] No. 2133 01:55:53,958 --> 01:55:56,500 [Geraldine] Okay. All right. Show's over. Everyone out. 2134 01:55:57,333 --> 01:55:59,750 Out. Out. 2135 01:56:00,458 --> 01:56:02,166 [officer 1] Yeah, can you stand back, sir? 2136 01:56:02,250 --> 01:56:03,375 [indistinct chatter] 2137 01:56:03,458 --> 01:56:05,083 [officer 2] Okay, can we keep them back… 2138 01:56:05,166 --> 01:56:06,666 [mellow intriguing music plays] 2139 01:56:06,750 --> 01:56:09,583 I add another chapter and then we're… we're ready. 2140 01:56:09,666 --> 01:56:12,000 We're ready to publish. Trust me, Alan. 2141 01:56:12,083 --> 01:56:14,708 Call Random House, everybody. It's gonna be huge! 2142 01:56:17,833 --> 01:56:21,708 What we've witnessed is a miracle confirmed by Benoit Blanc himself. 2143 01:56:21,791 --> 01:56:25,125 The world will know what happened today here at Chimney Rock. 2144 01:56:25,208 --> 01:56:29,208 You can find out yourself. Follow my YouTube channel @CyDraven… 2145 01:56:29,291 --> 01:56:30,500 What a mess. 2146 01:56:32,000 --> 01:56:34,416 I assume they'll arrest Father Jud now. 2147 01:56:35,000 --> 01:56:36,083 Yes. 2148 01:56:37,041 --> 01:56:38,666 I suppose they will. 2149 01:56:44,833 --> 01:56:46,333 What the hell was that? 2150 01:56:46,875 --> 01:56:48,875 Road to Damascus. 2151 01:56:49,583 --> 01:56:52,000 Scales fell from my eyes. 2152 01:56:52,083 --> 01:56:53,916 So what? Facts, schmacks? 2153 01:56:54,000 --> 01:56:56,541 You believe in God and all this mishegoss is real? 2154 01:56:56,625 --> 01:56:58,458 No, no. God is a fiction. 2155 01:56:58,541 --> 01:57:00,541 My revelation came from… 2156 01:57:01,625 --> 01:57:03,041 from Father Jud. 2157 01:57:04,500 --> 01:57:06,916 -His example to have grace. -[door opens] 2158 01:57:09,583 --> 01:57:11,416 Grace for my enemy. 2159 01:57:15,166 --> 01:57:16,541 Grace for the broken. 2160 01:57:19,000 --> 01:57:20,625 Grace for those who 2161 01:57:21,416 --> 01:57:22,541 deserve it the least. 2162 01:57:24,625 --> 01:57:26,041 But who need it the most. 2163 01:57:28,541 --> 01:57:30,458 [breathing shakily] 2164 01:57:31,291 --> 01:57:32,500 For the guilty. 2165 01:57:33,083 --> 01:57:34,166 [Martha] Mr. Blanc. 2166 01:57:34,833 --> 01:57:36,458 You know the truth. 2167 01:57:37,041 --> 01:57:39,041 I do, yes. 2168 01:57:40,583 --> 01:57:43,916 And you made yourself the fool just now. 2169 01:57:44,000 --> 01:57:46,625 So that you could do this of your own free will. 2170 01:57:47,916 --> 01:57:50,416 And now you better do it. Quickly. 2171 01:57:50,500 --> 01:57:51,708 Thank you. 2172 01:57:55,583 --> 01:57:57,000 Father Jud. 2173 01:57:57,500 --> 01:57:59,500 [breathing shakily] 2174 01:58:04,000 --> 01:58:05,125 [softly] What do I do? 2175 01:58:05,208 --> 01:58:07,041 What you were born to do. 2176 01:58:07,125 --> 01:58:08,541 Be her priest. 2177 01:58:09,041 --> 01:58:10,458 Take her confession. 2178 01:58:19,125 --> 01:58:21,125 Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. 2179 01:58:21,208 --> 01:58:23,416 It is a week since my last confession. 2180 01:58:27,916 --> 01:58:32,750 I told myself it started with pure intent. 2181 01:58:34,125 --> 01:58:35,541 But the truth is 2182 01:58:36,375 --> 01:58:39,458 it started with a lie. 2183 01:58:40,416 --> 01:58:41,500 Prentice. 2184 01:58:41,583 --> 01:58:42,958 [intriguing string music plays] 2185 01:58:43,041 --> 01:58:43,958 [Martha] Prentice. 2186 01:58:45,625 --> 01:58:48,625 I saw him take his final communion. 2187 01:58:52,500 --> 01:58:54,625 This is Eve's Apple, Martha. 2188 01:58:55,208 --> 01:58:57,416 My entire cursed fortune. 2189 01:58:57,916 --> 01:59:00,333 All the sin in the world. 2190 01:59:00,416 --> 01:59:02,333 All that Eve hungers for. 2191 01:59:03,000 --> 01:59:04,625 I have trapped it. 2192 01:59:05,208 --> 01:59:08,625 It shall never again be plucked by evil hands. 2193 01:59:09,416 --> 01:59:11,333 The body of Christ. 2194 01:59:12,708 --> 01:59:14,125 [music turns ominous] 2195 01:59:14,208 --> 01:59:15,250 [groaning] 2196 01:59:16,375 --> 01:59:17,833 [Prentice gulps, groans] 2197 01:59:19,916 --> 01:59:21,458 [exhales] 2198 01:59:24,458 --> 01:59:27,875 [Martha] He took the jewel to his grave. 2199 01:59:27,958 --> 01:59:29,958 [suspenseful music plays] 2200 01:59:30,625 --> 01:59:35,291 I swore that I would protect this great secret. 2201 01:59:36,708 --> 01:59:40,625 But Grace, she discovered that he had bought the diamond. 2202 01:59:40,708 --> 01:59:42,000 I don't know how. 2203 01:59:42,083 --> 01:59:43,916 She knew her fancy brands. 2204 01:59:45,166 --> 01:59:48,500 What would come in a custom-made Fabergé box, 2205 01:59:48,583 --> 01:59:50,750 itself worth maybe $20,000? 2206 01:59:50,833 --> 01:59:54,916 Not a trinket or a plastic Jesus, no. 2207 01:59:55,000 --> 01:59:57,166 Something facet-cut, worth a fortune. 2208 01:59:58,250 --> 01:59:59,333 A jewel. 2209 01:59:59,416 --> 02:00:02,125 But she didn't know where he hid it. 2210 02:00:02,208 --> 02:00:03,708 So that night… 2211 02:00:06,166 --> 02:00:08,291 She didn't desecrate the church in anger. 2212 02:00:08,875 --> 02:00:11,916 [Benoit] No, she was looking for the hidden jewel. 2213 02:00:12,000 --> 02:00:15,500 -[Grace sobbing] -[Benoit] A dark life of desperation. 2214 02:00:16,041 --> 02:00:19,125 A prisoner to shame and judgment. 2215 02:00:19,625 --> 02:00:21,625 It was her one way out. 2216 02:00:22,625 --> 02:00:24,041 That poor girl. 2217 02:00:25,583 --> 02:00:27,416 Martha, what did you say to her? 2218 02:00:29,541 --> 02:00:31,375 I know where he hid it. 2219 02:00:31,458 --> 02:00:33,500 And you'll never find it. 2220 02:00:33,583 --> 02:00:35,000 You harlot whore. 2221 02:00:40,208 --> 02:00:42,125 -[yells] Where is it? -[screams] 2222 02:00:42,208 --> 02:00:44,750 -[yelling] -[giggling] 2223 02:00:44,833 --> 02:00:47,208 Where is it, you little shit? 2224 02:00:48,208 --> 02:00:51,291 I kept the secret of Eve's Apple 2225 02:00:51,375 --> 02:00:55,958 locked in my heart for 60 years. 2226 02:00:57,125 --> 02:00:59,750 My terrible burden. 2227 02:01:00,958 --> 02:01:01,833 Until… 2228 02:01:01,916 --> 02:01:03,166 Until… 2229 02:01:03,250 --> 02:01:05,083 [melancholic music plays] 2230 02:01:05,166 --> 02:01:07,250 I challenged you to confess it. 2231 02:01:07,333 --> 02:01:10,708 -[imperceptible] -[Martha] With defiant pride, 2232 02:01:11,750 --> 02:01:13,166 I confessed. 2233 02:01:14,000 --> 02:01:16,166 [panting] 2234 02:01:16,750 --> 02:01:18,375 To the wrong priest. 2235 02:01:19,916 --> 02:01:21,250 [breath trembles] 2236 02:01:22,583 --> 02:01:24,625 Time is of the essence now. 2237 02:01:24,708 --> 02:01:26,708 Last Sunday, in the rectory, 2238 02:01:26,791 --> 02:01:29,958 Vera confronted Wicks and you learned about Cy. 2239 02:01:30,041 --> 02:01:33,000 I could accept that he had strayed. 2240 02:01:33,083 --> 02:01:36,791 -[imperceptible] -But as he spoke, something became clear. 2241 02:01:37,708 --> 02:01:39,916 This was something much bigger. 2242 02:01:40,416 --> 02:01:44,833 He was embracing that terrible boy. 2243 02:01:46,541 --> 02:01:48,666 That's when I suspected. 2244 02:01:48,750 --> 02:01:51,125 So you call the construction company. 2245 02:01:51,208 --> 02:01:52,625 Thank you, James. 2246 02:01:54,875 --> 02:01:56,083 [Martha] And I was certain. 2247 02:01:57,000 --> 02:02:00,416 He had ordered the equipment to open the crypt 2248 02:02:00,500 --> 02:02:06,333 to steal the diamond for his own greed and lust for power. 2249 02:02:06,416 --> 02:02:10,875 The corrupting sin of Eve's Apple would be unearthed 2250 02:02:11,541 --> 02:02:13,958 and this church would fall 2251 02:02:14,041 --> 02:02:18,666 because of everything Prentice had warned me about. 2252 02:02:18,750 --> 02:02:20,166 I had failed him. 2253 02:02:22,750 --> 02:02:23,958 All my life, 2254 02:02:24,583 --> 02:02:27,916 I was not the bad one. I was the good one. 2255 02:02:28,500 --> 02:02:30,083 The faithful one. 2256 02:02:30,166 --> 02:02:32,791 Serving and protecting the church. 2257 02:02:33,416 --> 02:02:36,500 If I failed in that, what is my life? 2258 02:02:36,583 --> 02:02:37,666 I understand. 2259 02:02:37,750 --> 02:02:40,375 My sole purpose 2260 02:02:40,458 --> 02:02:41,875 and I failed. 2261 02:02:42,958 --> 02:02:44,166 Unless… 2262 02:02:45,375 --> 02:02:46,750 [breath trembles] 2263 02:02:48,166 --> 02:02:49,125 Unless… 2264 02:02:51,833 --> 02:02:55,583 Unless I could… I could steal the jewel first 2265 02:02:55,666 --> 02:02:57,416 and get rid of it forever. 2266 02:02:58,416 --> 02:02:59,833 And with the same stroke, 2267 02:02:59,916 --> 02:03:04,166 raise Wicks up as a miraculous risen saint. 2268 02:03:04,250 --> 02:03:07,666 Not a fallible man, but a symbol 2269 02:03:08,500 --> 02:03:10,500 that would save my church. 2270 02:03:11,666 --> 02:03:14,208 All it would take is a miracle. 2271 02:03:15,583 --> 02:03:17,416 So I formed my plan. 2272 02:03:18,416 --> 02:03:22,500 Wicks' death must be a holy mystery. 2273 02:03:23,291 --> 02:03:26,375 Unsolvable and divine. 2274 02:03:27,375 --> 02:03:29,125 But you couldn't do it alone. 2275 02:03:29,833 --> 02:03:30,916 No. 2276 02:03:32,458 --> 02:03:34,083 A weak man, I thought. 2277 02:03:34,666 --> 02:03:35,875 Desperate. 2278 02:03:35,958 --> 02:03:38,708 Someone who would fall in line to save the church 2279 02:03:38,791 --> 02:03:41,375 and stay in line to cover his shame. 2280 02:03:41,958 --> 02:03:45,916 And who had access to medical-grade tranquilizers. 2281 02:03:46,000 --> 02:03:48,041 Yes. And that. 2282 02:03:51,458 --> 02:03:54,416 It all went according to plan. 2283 02:03:56,000 --> 02:03:58,083 Oh, God. [breathing heavily] 2284 02:03:58,166 --> 02:03:59,250 My vanity. 2285 02:03:59,333 --> 02:04:00,750 So wicked. 2286 02:04:01,291 --> 02:04:02,416 [Jud] Martha. 2287 02:04:03,041 --> 02:04:05,500 I understand, I promise, I do. 2288 02:04:06,083 --> 02:04:07,916 Keep going. I'm here. 2289 02:04:08,000 --> 02:04:10,375 [Martha] I didn't reckon the cost. 2290 02:04:11,458 --> 02:04:13,291 Forgive me, Samson. 2291 02:04:13,833 --> 02:04:16,250 Strong Samson, faithful Samson. 2292 02:04:16,333 --> 02:04:18,875 Samson. Who made the coffins. 2293 02:04:21,541 --> 02:04:23,833 [grunts] Shit. 2294 02:04:24,625 --> 02:04:26,041 [Martha] You will rise again. 2295 02:04:27,000 --> 02:04:28,833 It will be okay. 2296 02:04:28,916 --> 02:04:30,541 You will rise again. 2297 02:04:31,125 --> 02:04:33,375 It will be okay. [exhales] 2298 02:04:33,458 --> 02:04:35,333 [melancholic music plays] 2299 02:04:35,416 --> 02:04:36,625 I promise. 2300 02:04:37,333 --> 02:04:40,541 He didn't understand why we were doing it. 2301 02:04:40,625 --> 02:04:43,458 Anything for you, my angel. 2302 02:04:44,208 --> 02:04:45,375 [Martha] But he trusted me. 2303 02:04:45,875 --> 02:04:47,708 Because he loved me. 2304 02:04:48,375 --> 02:04:50,500 Oh, Lord. [sobs] 2305 02:04:55,250 --> 02:04:57,083 How did it go so wrong? 2306 02:04:57,666 --> 02:04:59,666 [thunder crashing] 2307 02:04:59,750 --> 02:05:01,750 [Martha] It was supposed to be so simple. 2308 02:05:01,833 --> 02:05:03,791 The doctor gives the signal. 2309 02:05:03,875 --> 02:05:05,000 [cell phone chimes] 2310 02:05:16,208 --> 02:05:18,625 [Martha] Samson retrieves the jewel. 2311 02:05:19,875 --> 02:05:22,708 The Lazarus door serves its purpose. 2312 02:05:25,541 --> 02:05:26,791 [beeps] 2313 02:05:26,875 --> 02:05:30,166 All caught on camera the way we planned. 2314 02:05:30,791 --> 02:05:33,583 Dr. Nat would drive off with Wicks' body in his truck 2315 02:05:34,500 --> 02:05:37,833 and dispose of it in that nasty gook in his cellar. 2316 02:05:37,916 --> 02:05:42,000 And the next day, Samson would tell the tale of the risen saint 2317 02:05:42,083 --> 02:05:46,083 and his word of blessing to his faithful groundskeeper 2318 02:05:46,166 --> 02:05:49,000 before ascending back into heaven. 2319 02:05:49,666 --> 02:05:51,083 A miracle. 2320 02:05:51,666 --> 02:05:53,500 It would have been perfect. 2321 02:05:55,416 --> 02:05:57,541 I wasn't supposed to be there. 2322 02:05:57,625 --> 02:05:59,666 You most certainly were not. 2323 02:06:00,458 --> 02:06:01,541 [Benoit] Did you know 2324 02:06:01,625 --> 02:06:04,708 what had happened when you found Samson's body? 2325 02:06:04,791 --> 02:06:06,500 I had an idea. 2326 02:06:06,583 --> 02:06:08,583 [sobbing] No, no! 2327 02:06:09,250 --> 02:06:11,083 But I had to be sure. 2328 02:06:14,541 --> 02:06:15,750 [Nat] Praise be. 2329 02:06:16,250 --> 02:06:17,458 It's accomplished. 2330 02:06:35,958 --> 02:06:39,291 -[clatters] -Oh. Oh. Oh. 2331 02:06:42,208 --> 02:06:44,208 [Martha] Then he told me the fairy tale 2332 02:06:44,291 --> 02:06:47,291 of how everything had gone according to plan. 2333 02:06:48,750 --> 02:06:52,208 It was only then that I told him I'd been to the crypt. 2334 02:06:54,000 --> 02:06:56,666 -And I knew he was lying. -[gulps] 2335 02:06:58,416 --> 02:07:00,541 [Martha] And then he told me the truth. 2336 02:07:01,500 --> 02:07:03,250 -[thunder rumbling] -[yelps, groans] 2337 02:07:05,333 --> 02:07:07,750 Shit. We can't let him see us. 2338 02:07:08,791 --> 02:07:10,375 [Jud pants, groans] 2339 02:07:12,250 --> 02:07:13,458 [gasps softly] 2340 02:07:16,333 --> 02:07:17,541 [Nat] Jesus. 2341 02:07:20,541 --> 02:07:22,166 [Martha] My second mistake. 2342 02:07:22,666 --> 02:07:27,291 Underestimating the temptation of Eve's Apple. 2343 02:07:28,541 --> 02:07:33,000 Our agreed mission was to destroy it or throw it in the sea. 2344 02:07:33,083 --> 02:07:37,500 But all this power will I give thee. 2345 02:07:38,416 --> 02:07:41,541 Christ himself could resist temptation, 2346 02:07:41,625 --> 02:07:44,833 but this desperate little man, 2347 02:07:45,333 --> 02:07:48,541 all that stood in his way was Samson and I. 2348 02:07:49,375 --> 02:07:51,375 Now, here was his opportunity. 2349 02:07:52,250 --> 02:07:55,500 To remove his obstacles. 2350 02:07:55,583 --> 02:07:56,500 [thunder crashes] 2351 02:07:56,583 --> 02:08:00,583 Frame a young priest with a violent past 2352 02:08:00,666 --> 02:08:02,500 and keep the jewel. 2353 02:08:04,458 --> 02:08:05,291 He took it. 2354 02:08:05,375 --> 02:08:06,708 [yells] 2355 02:08:09,833 --> 02:08:13,791 Then all that remained in his way was me. 2356 02:08:13,875 --> 02:08:14,708 [imperceptible] 2357 02:08:14,791 --> 02:08:19,291 He had poisoned my coffee with a lethal dose of pentobarbital. 2358 02:08:20,208 --> 02:08:22,833 No remedy once ingested. 2359 02:08:23,583 --> 02:08:24,916 Mm, painless. 2360 02:08:25,000 --> 02:08:27,833 A little numbness in the lips. 2361 02:08:28,500 --> 02:08:31,583 Then in ten minutes, time for your final prayer. 2362 02:08:32,416 --> 02:08:35,666 Then he begged me to understand why he was doing all this. 2363 02:08:35,750 --> 02:08:39,208 That the money would lure back his harpy wife, 2364 02:08:39,291 --> 02:08:41,125 blah, blah, blah. 2365 02:08:41,833 --> 02:08:44,083 I told him I understood. 2366 02:08:45,416 --> 02:08:47,416 I understood why he did it. 2367 02:08:48,708 --> 02:08:49,791 -[clatters] -Oh. 2368 02:08:51,875 --> 02:08:54,500 [Martha] I had understood it all. 2369 02:09:14,708 --> 02:09:16,708 [Martha] These things I did with 2370 02:09:17,458 --> 02:09:20,083 hatred in my heart. 2371 02:09:25,166 --> 02:09:27,583 [Martha] Vengeance is mine, said the Lord. 2372 02:09:33,125 --> 02:09:36,625 And that is the story the crime scene will tell the world, but… 2373 02:09:37,208 --> 02:09:39,500 -[squeaks] -[liquid sloshing] 2374 02:09:39,583 --> 02:09:41,416 [Martha] …inside my heart, 2375 02:09:42,166 --> 02:09:43,375 I know. 2376 02:09:44,375 --> 02:09:45,333 [switch clicks] 2377 02:09:47,458 --> 02:09:49,083 Vengeance is mine. 2378 02:09:52,916 --> 02:09:56,500 These sins I confess to you, Father. 2379 02:09:56,583 --> 02:09:59,791 [breathing heavily] I have lied, I have killed, 2380 02:10:00,500 --> 02:10:01,708 and now 2381 02:10:02,708 --> 02:10:05,333 I have topped it all off with a real doozy. 2382 02:10:05,416 --> 02:10:07,541 [breathing heavily] 2383 02:10:09,958 --> 02:10:11,208 [gasps] 2384 02:10:13,000 --> 02:10:14,625 Father. Quickly now, quickly. 2385 02:10:14,708 --> 02:10:16,000 [hesitates] What's happening? 2386 02:10:16,083 --> 02:10:18,125 I knew when I saw her lips… 2387 02:10:20,166 --> 02:10:21,875 it was already too late. 2388 02:10:21,958 --> 02:10:22,875 [sighs] 2389 02:10:23,708 --> 02:10:25,708 She's taken the pentobarbital. 2390 02:10:25,791 --> 02:10:28,708 -Oh. Oh, God. Call the ambulance now! -On it! 2391 02:10:28,791 --> 02:10:31,208 There might be a poison kit in the prowler! 2392 02:10:38,750 --> 02:10:40,916 [labored breathing] 2393 02:10:42,708 --> 02:10:44,333 Forgive me, Father, 2394 02:10:45,541 --> 02:10:46,958 for all you have endured. 2395 02:10:48,625 --> 02:10:53,458 Forgive me, Lord, for… for Wicks and Nat and… 2396 02:10:55,666 --> 02:10:56,875 Samson. 2397 02:10:57,500 --> 02:10:59,125 [sobs] My sweet Samson. 2398 02:11:00,208 --> 02:11:01,416 And Grace. 2399 02:11:06,000 --> 02:11:08,083 -[huffs] -[Jud] Martha. 2400 02:11:08,833 --> 02:11:10,041 Grace. 2401 02:11:12,625 --> 02:11:13,833 You're safe now. 2402 02:11:16,666 --> 02:11:17,875 Let it go. 2403 02:11:19,458 --> 02:11:21,083 Let the hatred go. 2404 02:11:26,458 --> 02:11:27,541 Grace. 2405 02:11:31,208 --> 02:11:32,333 Yes. 2406 02:11:33,208 --> 02:11:34,625 I see it now. 2407 02:11:36,541 --> 02:11:38,166 That poor girl. 2408 02:11:41,333 --> 02:11:43,166 Forgive me, Grace. 2409 02:11:47,375 --> 02:11:48,583 Father… 2410 02:11:51,583 --> 02:11:53,208 you're really good at this. 2411 02:11:53,291 --> 02:11:54,291 [chuckles] 2412 02:11:58,708 --> 02:12:00,875 God, the father of mercies, 2413 02:12:01,625 --> 02:12:04,125 through the death and resurrection of His Son 2414 02:12:04,208 --> 02:12:06,833 has reconciled the world to Himself 2415 02:12:07,583 --> 02:12:11,750 and poured out the Holy Spirit for the forgiveness of sins, 2416 02:12:12,583 --> 02:12:14,500 and through the ministry of the Church, 2417 02:12:14,583 --> 02:12:17,000 may God grant you pardon and peace, 2418 02:12:18,000 --> 02:12:20,208 and I absolve you of your sins. 2419 02:12:28,000 --> 02:12:31,208 In the name of the Father and of the Son 2420 02:12:32,291 --> 02:12:33,708 and the Holy Spirit. 2421 02:12:46,166 --> 02:12:47,666 [clangs] 2422 02:12:49,416 --> 02:12:50,500 Shit. 2423 02:13:11,333 --> 02:13:13,125 [Jud breathing heavily] 2424 02:13:15,875 --> 02:13:17,875 [mellow cello music plays] 2425 02:13:20,041 --> 02:13:21,875 [Jud] The jewel was never found. 2426 02:13:26,125 --> 02:13:27,625 The church closed for a while. 2427 02:13:28,541 --> 02:13:31,708 The flock, what was left of them, scattered. 2428 02:13:32,291 --> 02:13:37,833 Some got what they wanted only to discover the one thing every holy man knows… 2429 02:13:42,208 --> 02:13:43,833 God has a sense of humor. 2430 02:13:49,375 --> 02:13:51,791 And some got a fresh start. 2431 02:13:52,458 --> 02:13:55,291 Maybe to find a path that's theirs, I hope so. 2432 02:13:59,041 --> 02:14:00,666 And some got their miracle. 2433 02:14:01,958 --> 02:14:04,375 Not being cured or fixed, 2434 02:14:05,041 --> 02:14:08,125 but finding the sustaining power to wake up every day 2435 02:14:08,208 --> 02:14:10,333 and do what we're here to do 2436 02:14:11,208 --> 02:14:12,833 in spite of the pain. 2437 02:14:14,000 --> 02:14:15,208 Daily bread. 2438 02:14:18,250 --> 02:14:19,291 [music ends] 2439 02:14:20,458 --> 02:14:21,875 [exhales softly] 2440 02:14:22,541 --> 02:14:24,541 And that's what I pray for with you. 2441 02:14:25,416 --> 02:14:27,416 That you find what you're looking for. 2442 02:14:27,500 --> 02:14:29,291 [clock ticking] 2443 02:14:30,708 --> 02:14:33,333 -Where is it? You know. -No! Cy, Cy! 2444 02:14:33,416 --> 02:14:35,166 Goddamn it, I know you both know. 2445 02:14:35,250 --> 02:14:37,666 This is your last chance or we're gonna drag you into court. 2446 02:14:37,750 --> 02:14:39,500 [Langstrom] Mr. Wicks, control yourself. 2447 02:14:39,583 --> 02:14:42,208 We'd hoped this mediation would resolve this matter. 2448 02:14:42,291 --> 02:14:44,291 She gave it to them and they're hiding it. I know. 2449 02:14:44,375 --> 02:14:47,541 We've allowed your representatives to search the church and rectory thoroughly. 2450 02:14:47,625 --> 02:14:49,250 -They found nothing. -[Cy sighs] 2451 02:14:49,333 --> 02:14:51,750 Also, Mr. Blanc was there when Martha passed 2452 02:14:51,833 --> 02:14:53,833 and he denies anything untoward. 2453 02:14:55,416 --> 02:14:58,250 -[church bell tolling] -[Cy] Hey. 2454 02:14:58,750 --> 02:14:59,833 Hey! 2455 02:15:00,416 --> 02:15:03,291 Any hint you've sold it, any big charity donations, you fix the roof, 2456 02:15:03,375 --> 02:15:06,375 you upgrade your shitty communion wine, I will watch, 2457 02:15:06,458 --> 02:15:08,708 I will audit, I will find out. 2458 02:15:09,541 --> 02:15:11,958 I hope you come back to the church someday, Cy. 2459 02:15:12,500 --> 02:15:14,625 Your real inheritance is in Christ. 2460 02:15:15,125 --> 02:15:16,166 [scoffs softly] 2461 02:15:24,458 --> 02:15:25,500 [car doors close] 2462 02:15:25,583 --> 02:15:28,208 -[engine starts] -Little punk bitch. 2463 02:15:29,458 --> 02:15:30,666 [tires screech] 2464 02:15:32,375 --> 02:15:34,500 His video with you is still trending. 2465 02:15:34,583 --> 02:15:35,666 Yes. 2466 02:15:35,750 --> 02:15:37,958 "Benoit Blanc 'pwned'." 2467 02:15:38,041 --> 02:15:40,875 Owned with a "P". Whatever that means. 2468 02:15:41,500 --> 02:15:43,416 We keep pushing the facts out there. 2469 02:15:43,500 --> 02:15:46,875 Martha, what really happened. But it doesn't seem to matter. 2470 02:15:47,458 --> 02:15:51,291 Wicks truthers keep flooding our Facebook. It's an outhouse fire. 2471 02:15:52,625 --> 02:15:54,458 Such a time to be alive. 2472 02:15:55,416 --> 02:15:58,041 You're gonna be very popular once you open. 2473 02:15:58,750 --> 02:16:00,333 Maybe not in a good way. 2474 02:16:00,416 --> 02:16:01,916 Are you ready to take that on? 2475 02:16:03,708 --> 02:16:04,791 Let 'em come. 2476 02:16:07,375 --> 02:16:08,458 Good luck, kid. 2477 02:16:11,791 --> 02:16:13,958 [Benoit] Listen, uh… Um… 2478 02:16:14,458 --> 02:16:16,833 [clicks tongue] I'm… I'm… I'm gonna go. 2479 02:16:22,250 --> 02:16:23,875 -[sighs] Hmm. -[Jud chuckles] 2480 02:16:26,750 --> 02:16:31,000 Uh, my first Mass is coming up if… if you wanna stick around. 2481 02:16:31,083 --> 02:16:33,000 Um… That's so nice of you. 2482 02:16:33,083 --> 02:16:37,250 There is, uh… nothing I would rather not do. 2483 02:16:37,333 --> 02:16:38,541 Toodle-oo. 2484 02:16:39,416 --> 02:16:42,750 ["Come On Up To The House" by Tom Waits playing] 2485 02:16:42,833 --> 02:16:44,083 [lighter clicks, flicks] 2486 02:16:49,458 --> 02:16:54,208 ♪ Well, the moon is broken And the sky is cracked ♪ 2487 02:16:55,583 --> 02:16:58,958 ♪ Come on up to the house ♪ 2488 02:17:00,041 --> 02:17:04,916 ♪ The only things that you can see Is all that you lack ♪ 2489 02:17:05,500 --> 02:17:06,708 Welcome! 2490 02:17:06,791 --> 02:17:09,750 ♪ Come on up to the house ♪ 2491 02:17:11,500 --> 02:17:16,041 ♪ All your crying don't do no good ♪ 2492 02:17:17,041 --> 02:17:20,375 ♪ Come on up to the house ♪ 2493 02:17:21,458 --> 02:17:26,875 ♪ Come down off the cross We can use the wood ♪ 2494 02:17:26,958 --> 02:17:30,958 ♪ You gotta come on up to the house ♪ 2495 02:17:33,000 --> 02:17:36,625 ♪ Come on up to the house ♪ 2496 02:17:38,250 --> 02:17:41,625 ♪ Come on up to the house ♪ 2497 02:17:42,500 --> 02:17:47,833 ♪ The world is not my home I'm just a-passing through ♪ 2498 02:17:47,916 --> 02:17:52,958 ♪ You got to come on up to the house ♪ 2499 02:17:58,750 --> 02:18:04,416 ♪ There's no light in the tunnel No irons in the fire ♪ 2500 02:18:05,125 --> 02:18:08,875 ♪ Come on up to the house ♪ 2501 02:18:09,541 --> 02:18:14,833 ♪ And you're singing lead soprano In a junkman's choir ♪ 2502 02:18:14,916 --> 02:18:19,583 ♪ You got to come on up to the house ♪ 2503 02:18:20,500 --> 02:18:25,625 ♪ Does life seem nasty Brutish and short ♪ 2504 02:18:26,416 --> 02:18:30,125 ♪ Come on up to the house ♪ 2505 02:18:30,791 --> 02:18:35,833 ♪ The seas are stormy And you can't find no port ♪ 2506 02:18:35,916 --> 02:18:41,375 ♪ Got to come on up to the house, yeah ♪ 2507 02:18:41,458 --> 02:18:45,833 ♪ You gotta come on up to the house ♪ 2508 02:18:47,708 --> 02:18:51,250 ♪ Come on up to the house ♪ 2509 02:18:52,166 --> 02:18:57,333 ♪ The world is not my home I'm just a-passing through ♪ 2510 02:18:57,416 --> 02:19:02,500 ♪ You got to come on up To the house, yeah ♪ 2511 02:19:24,416 --> 02:19:28,833 ♪ You gotta come on up to the house ♪ 2512 02:19:30,750 --> 02:19:34,125 ♪ Come on up to the house ♪ 2513 02:19:35,125 --> 02:19:40,333 ♪ The world is not my home I'm just a-passing through ♪ 2514 02:19:40,416 --> 02:19:44,750 ♪ You got to come on up to the house ♪ 2515 02:19:46,000 --> 02:19:50,916 ♪ There's nothing in the world That you can do ♪ 2516 02:19:51,000 --> 02:19:55,333 ♪ You gotta come on up to the house ♪ 2517 02:19:56,375 --> 02:20:01,875 ♪ And you been whipped by the forces That are inside you ♪ 2518 02:20:01,958 --> 02:20:06,125 ♪ Gotta come on up to the house ♪ 2519 02:20:07,208 --> 02:20:12,500 ♪ Well, you're high on top Of your mountain of woe ♪ 2520 02:20:12,583 --> 02:20:16,666 ♪ Gotta come on up to the house ♪ 2521 02:20:17,666 --> 02:20:23,041 ♪ Well, you know you should surrender But you can't let it go ♪ 2522 02:20:23,125 --> 02:20:27,875 ♪ You gotta come on up To the house, yeah ♪ 2523 02:20:28,583 --> 02:20:32,791 ♪ Gotta come on up to the house ♪ 2524 02:20:33,875 --> 02:20:38,208 ♪ Gotta come on up to the house ♪ 2525 02:20:38,958 --> 02:20:44,333 ♪ The world is not my home I'm just a-passing through ♪ 2526 02:20:44,416 --> 02:20:49,000 ♪ You gotta come on up to the house ♪ 2527 02:20:50,000 --> 02:20:54,500 ♪ Gotta come on up to the house ♪ 2528 02:20:55,083 --> 02:21:01,708 ♪ You gotta come on up to the house ♪ 2529 02:21:02,333 --> 02:21:08,750 ♪ Oh, yeah ♪ 2530 02:21:14,041 --> 02:21:17,041 [string music plays]