[Cheap Trick singing "Surrender"]
[rock music]
♪ Mother told me yes she told me.. ♪
It's snowing outside.
There is no outside. No yesterday.
Promise?
[male #1] 'Matthew!'
'Matthew Adams!'
It's my dad.
Matthew Adams!
Matthew!
Matthew doesn't know you.
I wanna see my son.
He was an orphan when I met him.
Look, you son of a bitch, I know what you do.
And I, you.
You're manipulating a screwed-up kid.
And who screwed him up?
I demand to see him.
Call to him. He has free will.
Matthew!
I want you to come home.
Beth wants you to come home.
Matthew!
♪ Father says your mother's.. ♪
Matthew!
♪ She's really up on things ♪
♪ Before we married mommy served ♪
♪ In the WACS.. ♪
He's got a new father now.
♪ Now I had heard the WACS recruited ♪
♪ Old maids for the war.. ♪
[dramatic music]
[keys clacking]
[music continues]
Matthew and I were only a year apart.
People used to think that we were twins.
So what made him join this group?
- You mean cult. - Okay.
'After Matthew's first year of college'
our mother killed herself.
Matthew kind of drifted after that.
So he joined this First Generation.
- Cut off all ties? - And this was '78.
- Jonestown had just happened. - Oh, the Kool-Aid?
We were scared that they were going to do the same thing
so we hired this deprogrammer.
Remember his name?
Yeah. Bill Crawford.
He got Matthew to a motel room
but two days later he escaped.
While you were there?
No. My dad and I left him alone with Crawford.
The next morning Matthew was on our porch
dead from cyanide.
Suicide?
Well, that's what we thought for all of these years.
I mean, there was even a note
but then I saw this.
Crawford's still in business, huh?
Last week he was working with a girl who died
of an asthma attack.
I mean, he tried to cover it up and make it look like a suicide.
[Lilly] 'How'd he do that?'
Dosed her with poison, forged a note.
- And said she escaped? - Mm-hmm.
Like your brother supposedly did.
We never should have left him alone with that man.
[instrumental music]
Anna Mayes.
Can I..
What's going on?
My lieutenant sent me.
Uh, we found a floater this morning in the Schuylkill.
You call the up desk?
No, I-I came to you 'cause, uh
it's someone we know.
It's Scotty's girl.
Elisa?
[mouthing]
[dramatic music]
[theme music]
[instrumental music]
"Father, I'm free. Goodbye, Matthew."
Standard suicide note.
Or not. The sister thinks
maybe this deprogrammer wrote it
after Matthew died in his care.
Deprogramming, sketchy business.
Hmm.
What did the boss want with Valens?
Don't know.
Got the 49 on this Matthew Adams?
Yeah. Um, 20-years-old, mainline kid
was pre-med at Penn for a year, then dropped out.
Father was a surgeon, right? He couldn't have liked that.
Uh, especially when Matthew dyed his hair black
and started hanging out at the Arsenal.
- Arsenal? - Punk spot.
- Mohawks, slam dancing. - 'Yeah.'
Moves into that cult, June of '78.
After he died, Vice stormed the place
found a vial of cyanide for every member.
They were gonna pull their own Jonestown.
Him dying might have stopped that.
[Will] 'I remember those First Generation nuts.'
The leader was named Warfield.
- What was he preaching? - 'Erase the past.'
Come start a new generation with him as their father.
Father Warfield's in prison now. Chester.
Deprogrammer's our first stop.
[dramatic music]
So what, you give Anna my job?
Bring me out here to break the news?
It's about Elisa, Scotty.
Is she in trouble?
They found her this morning in the Schuylkill.
Found her?
Yeah, looks like she jumped.
No, that can't be.
I'm sorry, Scotty.
No, 'cause she wouldn't.
I spoke to Manny Fernandez at west.
He's got Anna working the case.
Well, then I gotta talk to Anna, 'cause..
Well, she's scared of heights, and she was getting better.
Yeah, I know.
I'm gonna walk.
[instrumental music]
Still working while you're on bail?
Why shouldn't I work? I'm no threat.
Till this last time.
It was an accident.
You dosed her with strychnine accidentally?
You remember Matthew Adams?
Yeah, I remember every job.
You have an accident with him too?
Use cyanide to cover your tracks?
- Off by a mile, lady. - 'Things go wrong.'
'78, deprogramming was just being invented.
Look, that kid, he crawled outta bathroom window of the motel.
I never saw him again.
You're obviously not above
breaking a few laws to get your work done.
If somebody you loved was hold up with David Koresh in Waco
wouldn't you want me to get him out before
the feds lit that place up?
- Tell us about Matthew. - 'It was like every job.'
Started with a rescue.
You mean a kidnapping.
Look, man, I was the good guys.
[instrumental music]
[gasps]
Matthew Adams?
Matthew Adams!
Get him!
There's no Matthew Adams here.
[gun cocks]
Now!
Or Charlie Manson here gets it.
[instrumental music]
Door!
- Matty! - What's going on?
- We're here to help. - 'Son, listen to me--'
[Matthew] 'I'm not your son.'
Tell him.
Your name is Matthew.
You live at 1020--
In three days, it's zero hour.
And everything will be wiped away.
More. More!
You love the Sixers but you cheer for the Knicks
just to piss off dad.
Matt, please look at me.
Your sister's talking to you!
Three days till zero hour.
No more talking. Shh.
What was zero hour?
It was the cult's plan for mass suicide.
But Matthew died two days later.
Why kill himself a day early?
Maybe so we wouldn't stop him.
Look, I got a 90% success rate.
That Warfield character
he really messed up that kid's head.
[buzzing]
Maurice Warfield, Detectives Rush and Jeffries, Homicide.
Ah, the faces of the law.
So serious.
Desperate to hide that you're the same scared
children you always were.
We're here about Matthew Adams.
Lived with you, 1978?
He was an artist.
His father tried to fill his head with science.
And you tried to convince him you were his father.
All I ever did to Matthew was suggest he had a choice.
There's nothing criminal about that.
Tax fraud and statutory rape are another story.
Well, now, those are your laws.
Not yours?
I don't accept your authority.
I consider myself wrongly detained.
Just a misunderstood man spreading a good word.
- Amen. - And the good word was?
That you can erase your past, choose your family.
Take you as a father.
I love children.
Probably sounded good to Matthew.
How'd you find him?
Like you found any lost soul in 1978.
In a lost place.
[Ramones singing "I Wanna Be Sedated"]
♪ Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go ♪
♪ I wanna be sedated ♪
♪ Nothing to do nowhere to go ♪
♪ I wanna be sedated ♪
♪ Just get me to the airport put me on a plane ♪
♪ Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane ♪
♪ I can't control my fingers I can't control my brain ♪
♪ Oh no no no no no ♪
♪ Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go ♪
♪ I wanna be sedated ♪
♪ Nothin' to do and nowhere to go ♪
♪ I wanna be sedated.. ♪
Hey.
♪ Hurry hurry hurry before I go insane ♪
♪ I can't control my fingers I can't control my brain ♪
♪ No-o-o oh oh ♪
♪ Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go.. ♪
Do I know you?
No. But I know you.
Really?
A rebel boy in combat boots and Gucci socks.
Poor little rich kid.
You don't know anything about me.
I stole your thunder, not letting them finish.
Youwantedto get your ass kicked.
- Why would I want that? - World's full of pain.
You want to control how you get hurt.
But you can't.
Screw you, man.
Okay.
Maurice sees things in people.
Right.
Like what?
♪ I wanna be sedated ♪
And he needed a place to crash, so he came home with us.
How does he end up dead?
Ask the commando who came in and held a gun on me.
He took Matthew away.
I never saw him again.
But you know he died from cyanide.
I heard that.
Which you had stashed at the cult
prepping for your mass suicide.
Don't believe the ghost stories.
There was no suicide plan.
- No? - There wasn't even a cult.
Just an ideal.
And now?
The First Generation is a..
...thing of the past.
[instrumental music]
Frannie looked over the autopsy.
Says Matthew had abrasions on his back
might've come from being dragged.
If someone moved him, it goes from a suicide to homicide.
Maybe the deprogrammer?
Uh, Crawford hopped a plane to Miami that night.
Records back it up.
Oh, Crawford's in the clear, boss.
Bad news.
Scotty's girlfriend.
They found her body in the river this morning.
Where is he?
Home.
We got to go there.
He needs time, Lill.
Alone.
Yeah, it's what he wants.
[melancholic music]
[dramatic music]
[indistinct radio chatter]
Anything?
Uh..
One lift, from the window.
Run it through AFIS tonight.
Yeah.
For a thing of the past the First Generation
sure is organized.
Warfield got word to the outside nice and quick.
Must be still running the cult from prison.
So who's his man on the outside?
We'll check visitor logs tomorrow
see who he had contact with after we left.
You got nice neighbors but they didn't see squat.
Warfield told us about two other members, Nick and Alison.
[Lilly] 'We got a date with them in the morning.'
What's wrong with these cats?
Nothing.
[indistinct radio chatter]
You okay?
Scotty.
Yeah.
[instrumental music]
Hey, Scotty.
I'm real sorry.
I told Elisa's mom I'd pick up her stuff.
Oh, yeah. 'Course.
You got the scene photos?
Not yet.
'Cause, uh, I want to see 'em.
No reason for that.
I want to see 'em, Anna.
There was a note, addressed to you.
I'm supposed to hang on to it but I got a copy.
Where was it?
On her bed.
Hey, if you want to talk..
I got to jet.
I wanna help you, Scotty.
I'm good.
[instrumental music]
So, Nick, you were Maurice's muscle back in the day.
I washed myself clean of Maurice Warfield 25 years ago.
Well, Someone'skeeping the cult alive.
- Any ideas? - Sorry.
I've baptized myself in the name of the Lord.
Thought you two were as thick as thieves.
For a time.
Anyone in the cult have a reason to hurt Matthew?
No one but Warfield himself.
[Nick] 'Why's that?'
False Gods can be wrathful.
We don't speak cult.
Matthew crossed him.
After his three days.
- Three days? - 'Initiation rite.'
Spend three days in total darkness.
Sounds fun.
Matthew came out knowing just what he wanted.
[The Cars singing "Moving In Stereo"]
♪ Life's the same I'm moving in stereo ♪
♪ Life's the same except for.. ♪
- Son? - I was..
I was so alone in the dark.
You don't have to be. Not anymore.
I-I remember, all of it.
No memories, no past, no pain.
You can let all that go now.
I can?
Come on.
Matthew..
...we want you to stay here with us.
If you want.
[Matthew] 'Really?'
Will you stay?
Let us show you what a family is.
What love is.
I want that.
Choose someone.
'Anyone.'
To love.
Uh..
Alison.
Alison, come on.
Is it okay?
Matthew's chosen you.
I love you.
And she loves you.
You'll be together one month.
No more.
You understand?
I understand.
[Nick] 'So, this Alison was Warfield's squeeze?'
But Matthew wanted that.
- They obey the one month rule? - 'No.'
They fell in love.
So you're saying Warfield offed Matthew
because he was banging her past the cult expiration date?
I'm saying he defied Maurice.
And Maurice did not like to be defied.
Nice shop. You own it?
All the designs are mine.
I work for myself.
You still think about Matthew?
The love of your life gets snatched at gunpoint
and you never lay eyes on him again.
What doyouthink?
We heard you were Maurice's girl.
He had a lot of girls.
Any chance you were special?
He didn't like Matthew choosing you?
No. It was more important to Maurice
to be a father figure than anything else.
So when your month with Matthew was up?
Maurice said we could stay together.
Any idea who's keeping the cult going for Maurice now?
No, he had a lot of sway over a lot of people.
Guy could make you follow him into a burning house.
How'd he get you?
I was at the end of a bad marriage.
He made me feel special.
Alison, how do you get out
from underneath someone like him?
For me, it was when Matthew died.
Biggest loss of my life.
You think Matthew killed himself?
Oh, we were all pretty messed up.
What if we told you now it was a homicide?
I..
I guess I'd ask if you've looked at his dad.
Why?
♪ Oh I just don't know where to begin.. ♪
I spent two summers here as a lab tech, built character.
♪ It's now or never ♪
Ah!
Methyl iodide, thallium, cyanide.
♪ Without a chaperone ♪
♪ Accidents will happen we only hit and run.. ♪
Dr. Boyle said she saw you.
I thought maybe you came to talk.
We ran out of things to talk about a long time ago.
Then what are you doing here?
You'll find out.
Looking for narcotics?
Why, 'cause I must be a dope fiend, right?
Baby, let's go.
- Is she one of them? - She loves me.
Those zombies are controlling your mind, Matthew.
No.
That's your specialty.
You're just like your mother. A total headcase.
Don't talk about her.
You take after her in all the worst ways.
I will never forget the secret.
♪ Accidents will happen ♪
♪ We only hit and run ♪
♪ He used to be your victim.. ♪
The secret?
I don't know what it was.
But Matthew hated his dad for it.
And with everything going down..
What was going down?
Maurice had a plan.
Zero hour.
The suicide?
- That's not what it was. - Then what?
It was gonna be the ultimate loyalty to Maurice.
We were all gonna kill our fathers.
[Will] So, zero hour wasn't mass suicide?
Mass patricide.
30 vials of cyanide for 30 dads.
So then our boy Matthew was going to kill the surgeon?
Maybe the dad knew what was going down
beat him to the punch.
[John] 'The timing's suspicious.'
The day before he's targeted to die.
Or maybe it has to do with the secret Matthew mentioned.
Prints are back on your window.
Whoever broke in ain't in the system.
We get a list of the visitors
authorized to see Maurice?
Yeah. It's long.
He's got that many blood relatives?
Turns out he fathered a fair amount of kids in his day.
[Nick] 'Every cult you ever read about'
the leader's doing all the ladies.
- It's good to be king. - Hmm.
Talk to the dad. See if he had advance word on zero hour.
The sister's here.
[Beth] 'Matthew wouldn't do that.'
It's what they were planning. I'm sorry.
I mean, he and my dad had their problems but--
Matthew wasn't himself.
Why couldn't I reach him?
His girlfriend said something about the secret.
He told her that?
No details.
My father wanted things the way he wanted them.
When Matthew was pre-med, everything was great.
Hmm. And when he dropped out?
Dad blamed mom.
They fought.
It was ugly.
So was the secret about her?
[upbeat music]
When you work at the lab this summer
all that garbage has to come off.
Well, maybe I'm not working at the lab this summer.
What's that?
My friend Sonnet needs an apprentice
to stretch canvases and mix paint.
Your friend, the pot head?
Med schools aren't really impressed
with mixing paint all summer.
I dropped out of Penn.
And I'm applying for art school.
Did you know about this?
- It's what he wants. - It's what you want.
I want him to be happy.
Maybehecan end up a pill popper.
Dad, Matthew is a great artist.
You know what? Just, uh, forget it.
I'll go to med school.
You know, if I'm so awful, why don't I just kill myself?
You're drunk again.
- This time, I'll do it. I will. - You're embarrassing yourself.
- I will. I will kill myself! - Then do it already!
Otherwise, shut up.
[sighs]
♪ I wanna know why ♪
♪ I pick myself up off the ground.. ♪
Forget them. You're going to art school.
I'll find a quiet place in the middle of nowhere.
That's where I'll go.
♪ You gotta be cruel to be kind.. ♪
Can I come?
[gunfire]
♪ Cruel to be kind.. ♪
When the police came..
...he made us say that we all saw it.
Hmm. But only he did.
That's why Matthew hated him so much.
But not you?
I was the good girl.
I went to medical school.
Tried to forget.
But I never did.
Do you think your dad killed her?
I don't think so.
I don't know.
[siren wailing]
I didn't want my family's ugliness exposed.
Maybe you didn't want anyone checking the prints on the gun.
My wife's death was ruled a suicide.
So was Matthew's.
Lucky man, aren't I?
Two of my three family members checked out on me.
Did you know your son was planning to kill you?
- No. - Kinda suspicious.
Matthew dying saved your life.
I tried to save my son, not kill him.
How about your wife? Did you kill her?
[scoffs]
I watched my wife shoot herself in the face.
That almost killedme.
Okay.
'As for Matthew..'
...have you ever looked into the eyes of someone you loved
and realized the person you know is gone?
Yeah.
At what point do you give up?
I know you're there, Matty. That you hear me.
You've been at this for 40 hours.
Why don't you let me take over?
My father will rescue me.
You won't win.
That man, Matty, he's just like dad!
'They both want to control you, tell you how to live!'
You promised me you wouldn't let that happen.
Remember?
That quiet place?
In the middle of nowhere?
E-enough, Beth.
I know you remember.
[dramatic music]
Hey, hey, where do you think you're going?
Home, to my father.
Oh, Matthew.
Why wasn't I ever good enough?
You hated me because I was like mom.
No.
You killed her.
Matthew, what do you want from me?
I want to forget you.
I don't want to feel bad anymore.
Okay.
You win.
It's your life.
Get in.
I'll take you wherever you wanna go.
I'm a surgeon.
I know when I've lost a patient.
Where'd you take him?
'Back to that place.'
He got out of the car, never looked back.
So, you saw him walk back into the cult the night he died?
And I saw that man Warfield welcome him back.
You never told your daughter about this?
She'd hate me.
And I couldn't afford to lose anyone else.
[indistinct chatter]
Scotty.
[sighs]
I got your message.
Couldn't get back. Sorry.
I've been worried about you.
I been with her family.
What can I do to help?
Well, tell me where we are on this job.
Maybe you shouldn't be here right now.
Then you tell me. where Ishouldbe.
[buzzing]
Thought you could break into my house?
- Chase me away, Maurice? - I didn't break in anywhere.
Oh, we know you're still running a game on the outside.
We also know about the patricide.
Patricide? Now, last time you said
I was planning a mass suicide. Which one is it?
Well, you said you never saw Matthew after the kidnapping.
But he came back, two days later.
- Says who? - His dad.
That doesn't mean I killed him.
Add to that, your deputy Nick fingered you.
Nick did?
Oh, I see what he's doing.
Nick is the keeper of my congregation.
Thought the cult was dead.
He's supposed to lead until I get out
but I guess he sees a chance to keep me locked up forever.
So Matthew came back..
And we were all thrilled.
Except Nick.
How come?
Because with Matthew gone
he could try to get his wife back.
His wife?
Alison.
Alison and Nick were married?
And Nick did not like sharing her.
You saying he killed Matthew?
I know they said it was a suicide, but nah.
Suicide's for cowards.
Matthew was brave.
Talk more about that.
What? The suicide?
- Hmm. -'Well..'
Uh, "It's a screw you to the world.
"I never really loved any of you."
Is that right?
- Forget it, Scotty. - No, no, no.
What else does it prove?
Defective thinking. Narcissism.
Keep going.
And that your so-called loved ones have failed.
Scotty!
Talk to me!
Keep talking!
[groaning]
So it was Valens in the woodshed?
Boss said he'd keep it in-house.
Keep it out of IA's hands.
It's true about Nick Logan's congregation.
Check it out. This is a list
of family allowed to visit Maurice.
These are the members of Logan's church.
Same list.
So Logan's the number two in charge till Maurice gets out.
[Nick] 'But he figures if Maurice stays in for murder'
he'll be number one.
Classic power struggle.
Whatever happened to old-fashioned cult loyalty?
[chuckles]
I'll talk to Alison, see how possessive hubby was.
Let's go back to the preacher.
[knock on door]
[John] 'Hey Scotty.'
Hey.
I, uh, snapped out, I know. Sorry.
Well, most people wouldn't try to come back
two days after something like this.
I ain't most people.
Yeah.
It won't happen again.
I need your gun, Scotty.
Just for a little while.
You want my badge too?
No, the badge is yours.
Elisa was in a lot of pain, Scotty.
It wasn't suicide what happened.
Wasn't there a note?
But it wasn't like that.
I mean, if she...jumped or something
it'd be more apologizing that she couldn't make it.
Well, what did she say?
It was about the good stuff when we were kids.
Scotty, sometimes that's how people say goodbye.
No, no.
She wrote about this, uh, this birthday party
her friend turning 14, and how we're both there
sneaking looks, and talking about how the river smells
and how in her head
she's waiting for the light to fade
so that I could hold her hand..
...in the dark..
...and no one would see.
Don't tell me that note is the end.
It's the beginning.
[melancholic music]
I should get back.
Yeah.
[music continues]
[Will] 'Turns out you're just watching over'
Maurice's flock until he's released, Nick.
I'm a minister to 100 people.
You're a stand-in for a psychopath.
It's my congregation.
They look to me, not Maurice.
He told us about Alison.
Must've hurt.
Some guy slipping it to the wife
in front of your face.
Maurice let them be together.
That why you killed Matthew, over her?
I didn't kill anyone.
Guy gets kidnapped
you figure, this is my chance
to slide back in with the missus.
But the kid's back two days later.
Ruins everything.
It made me angry.
But I didn't kill him.
Then who did?
The real psychopath.
[rock music]
Who's that man?
♪ Well it seems so real I can see it.. ♪
No one.
♪ And it seems so real.. ♪
Welcome home, son.
Baby, you came back.
They took him away to brainwash him.
We have to know if they got to him.
He came back. He's pure.
I-I'm ready for tomorrow. Zero hour.
I've never been more ready.
We have to be sure.
Go upstairs and wait for her.
Nick's right.
If he's tainted, he could ruin the plan.
I'm in charge of zero hour.
Let me decide if he's okay.
And if he's not?
It'll be the biggest loss of my life.
♪ So why can't I touch it ♪
[Will] 'Alison was in charge of zero hour?'
Maurice gives her all the important assignments.
Gives? Present tense?
She's diehard, like him.
[Alison] Nick and I got married when I was 18.
'Smart, right?'
[Lilly] 'How long did it last?'
[Alison] 'Oh, less than a year.'
I was all too glad to forget our past
when we met Maurice.
Was Nick the jealous type?
Why do you ask?
It takes a lot of rage
to dump a kid's body on his father's doorstep.
Unthinkable.
We know Matthew made it back to the cult that night.
No.
I would have seen him.
His father drove him there.
Is it too hot?
No, but I could use some honey.
Sure.
Hands behind your head.
This is a mistake.
On your knees.
All your own designs, right?
You got it, Rush?
She's the one who broke into my apartment.
More than that.
She killed Matthew.
- You can't prove that. - You had the cyanide.
'Promised to kill him if the outside got into his head.'
Poor Matthew.
His sister ruined him.
She got through.
I had no choice.
I thought I'd lost you.
You'll never lose me.
So you're ready for zero hour?
That's why I came back. We have to get outta here.
What?
What Maurice wants us to do, it's crazy.
They got to you.
Baby, he wants us to kill people.
We're wiping out the past.
We can't do that.
But we can move on.
To a quiet place in the middle of nowhere.
Just me, you, my sister.
So we'll go to the police. We'll tell them about zero hour.
And then, uh, we're free.
Does your family know you're doing this?
My dad drove me here, we didn't say a word the whole drive.
- Baby, we gotta hurry. - Okay. Okay, but..
We can't just run away.
We have to leave Maurice a note.
Okay, yeah, fine. Whatever.
Just write.
"Father, I'm free.
"Goodbye."
Sign it.
I don't need a father anymore.
Just you.
Do you feel it yet?
It'll just be a minute now.
Alison..
[groans]
I'll leave you on his doorstep.
I came back to save you.
And I'm savingyou.
[Elvis Costello singing "Peace, Love And Understanding"]
♪ As I walk through ♪
♪ This wicked world ♪
♪ Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity ♪
♪ I ask myself ♪
♪ Is all hope lost ♪
♪ Is there only pain and hatred and misery ♪
♪ And each time I feel like this inside ♪
♪ There's one thing I wanna know ♪
♪ What's so funny about peace love and understanding ♪
♪ And as I walked on ♪
♪ Through troubled times ♪
♪ My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes ♪
♪ So where are the strong ♪
♪ And who are the trusted ♪
♪ And where is the harmony ♪
♪ Sweet harmony ♪
♪ 'Cause each time I feel it slippin' away ♪
♪ Just makes me wanna cry ♪
♪ What's so funny 'bout peace love and understanding ♪
[Lilly] Stay tuned for scenes from our next episode.
[theme music]