-Previously on "Sacred Lies"...
-Where's Terrence? -Gone.
He's 18. Not a foster kid anymore.
He's a man now. Men leave.
Look at your dad...
-This your room? -It's my sister's.
-What's her name? -Roan.
Uh, thanks.
For everything.
-It's just nice to help somebody that's...
-Alive? -Yeah. [ Chuckles ]
♪♪
-[ Laughs ] -Where are you from?
-A place I never want to go back to.
-You don't have to be your dad.
You don't have to be your family.
You don't have to be lost anymore...
-[ Chuckles ]
-I don't want to wait around to find out who I am.
Let me help you, please.
-Alright, close the door.
♪♪
-Hey. I think you need to see these...
-I didn't do anything to them.
Get out!
[ Crying ]
♪♪
-[ Muffled ] ♪ Are wide open ♪
♪ We can make it ♪
♪ To the other side ♪
♪♪
-[ Grunts ]
[ Choking ]
-You took my family!
You took my family from me!
♪♪
Aah!
[ Breathing heavily ]
♪♪
[ Indistinct, echoing voices ]
-[ Muffled ] ♪ We will rise up ♪
♪♪
[ Police radio chatter ]
♪♪
-Where'd you get these?
-From Luther Clausen.
He owns that land near Cherry Falls.
-We know who Luther Clausen is.
-Well, I thought I'd give you a reminder
since you guys ruled him out as a suspect.
He's saying that he doesn't remember the Jane Does,
but one of them is posing in his cabin,
so he must have known her.
-So you're telling me that you stole evidence
from an active homicide investigation?
-I don't really do protocol.
-Told you you'd regret letting her look at that file, Wally.
-Hey, I could have kept these pictures to myself,
but I'm trying to help you guys out here.
-You wanna help?
Tell girls like these to stay out of the woods
and keep their clothes on.
-You're saying it's their fault
that they were murdered?
-No.
I'm saying they put themselves in a bad situation.
-You don't know anything about them.
You don't know what they were doing.
You don't know what they're dealing with,
what their families went through.
-I know their families didn't care enough
to go looking for them.
-Hey, hey, hey, hey! Hey! Hey!
-What the hell is wrong with you, Podcast?
-Buck.
♪♪
You're under arrest. -For what?
-Obstruction of justice, impersonating an officer.
-The last thing I want to do is be a cop.
-I told you, if you come anywhere near
this investigation again, I'd arrest you.
-[ Sighs ] -And here you are.
You have the right to remain silent.
-I waive that right! -Anything you say
can and will be used against you in a court of law.
-This is bullshit! Why are you dealing with me...
-You have the right to an attorney.
-...when you should be talking to Luther Clausen?!
♪♪
-Wow. You are in so much trouble.
-[ Sighs ] I didn't want to wake everybody up.
-School called today.
Said you didn't grace them with your presence.
So where were you? Getting high?
Having unprotected sex in the back of some boy's car?
-Had therapy. -Till 10:00 at night?
-Got on the wrong bus back.
-Elsie, I'm not playing this game.
Tonight was your night to do the dishes.
I had to ask Shayna and Chanel to do it,
and they just got their nails done for prom.
-Oh, they didn't just watch their sibling servants
do everything, like usual?
-Hey, you do not get to talk to me that way!
Okay. That's it.
You are not coming out of there all weekend.
You are grounded.
[ Lock clicks ]
[ Bed creaking ]
♪♪
-Shannon.
Let me out.
I'm claustrophobic!
Let me out, you bitch!
Let me out!
♪♪
[ Breathing shakily ]
♪♪
[ Breathing heavily ]
Gracias.
♪♪
[ Rooster crows ]
♪♪
-[ Grunts ]
[ Grunts ] Come on, Hunter.
Fight back!
Stop sniveling and get up, mama's boy.
Get up!
♪♪
-[ Grunts ]
-You weak, pathetic sissy.
♪♪
Can't sleep?
Huh?
-[ Sighs ]
-Yeah.
Me neither.
I want to thank you for, uh, sticking around
and giving me a hand with the place.
Huh.
Blue Lullaby.
Your mama picked that paint color.
I never liked it much, myself. [ Chuckles ]
-That explains why you tried to put my head
through the wall so many times.
-You know, when you were a baby...
...you always cried when I held you.
Wanted your mama instead.
And that never changed.
The two of you in your own world,
listening to those old records.
Even after she was gone...
...you never had any interest in anything I could offer.
-Well, that's 'cause you hated me.
♪♪
-I just...
wanted a son.
-I was your son.
♪♪
After all the years and everything I did
to get away from you...
♪♪
...I'm still your Goddamn son.
♪♪
[ Paintbrush thuds ]
[ Ringing ]
♪♪
[ Cellphone buzzing ]
[ Cellphone beeps ]
-Hello? -Hey, Elsie.
I'm sorry I left like that.
-You're sorry you left? Are you sorry you're not my dad?
Are you sorry you kidnapped me?
-It wasn't like that.
I promised I'd tell you the whole story,
and that's exactly what I'm gonna do.
-Just tell me who my parents are.
Tell me about my mom. Who was she?
-It's all connected.
But you need to hear the whole story from the beginning,
or you won't understand.
♪♪
-I'm listening.
♪♪
-I fell in love...
with one of the sisters,
the one who reminded me of the sun.
♪♪
[ Laughs ]
-[ Chuckles ]
So, what'd you think was gonna happen,
banging like rabbits all over the damn woods?
-Shut up, okay?
-We're gonna have a baby. -"We"?
Oh, so you're gonna do, like, the pushing
and the breathing and all that?
-I'll be by her side every step of the way.
How is this any of your business, anyway?
-Other than the fact that I sprang for the pee stick?
She's my sister, idiot.
And we have plans --
plans that don't involve you or a baby.
-I said shut up.
I mean, you're talking about me
like I'm not even standing right here.
I-It's my life. It's my choice.
-Okay. -It's my body.
-Okay. But it's my life, too.
Everything we've ever talked about --
making music, playing shows all over the world?
-Those are your plans. You're the talented one.
I'm just your shadow and your punching bag.
-How could you say that?
♪♪
I couldn't do any of this without you.
-Do I have a say here?
I mean, do you even care what I think?
-No. -Of course we do.
-Listen, I know we don't have much.
I know we don't have, uh, careers or whatever yet.
-We live in a van, Hunter.
-So?
My dad has a house and money.
What the hell did that do for anyone?
♪♪
Baby, we love each other.
We're gonna be a family. [ Laughs ]
If I have to work every minute of every hour of every day,
I'll make sure you have everything you need
to make this music thing happen.
And someday, when you're up there playing
in front of thousands of people...
we're gonna be front row, cheering you on.
She'll be on my shoulders.
She'll know all the words.
-"She"?
-Or him, maybe. [ Chuckles ]
But I have a feeling she's gonna be a beautiful girl
just like her mama.
♪♪
[ Laughs ]
-[ Laughs ] Okay.
♪♪
-So you killed the mother of your child?
Lovely story.
-Listen, listen.
I didn't kill her. Is that what you think?
-Just like you killed her sister
and kidnapped me from my real parents
because you wanted a family so bad?
Is that why?
-I wanted a chance.
I wanted a -- -I don't care what you wanted.
I want answers.
And I'm working with this investigator,
and she's gonna find you.
[ Knock on door ] -Who are you talking to?
-No one. Leave me alone.
Hello?
Damn.
-Were you calling Child Protective Services?
-None of your damn business.
-Okay, look,
I-I know I shouldn't have locked you in here.
I overreacted.
But if you were calling CPS, I hope you thought about Nita
and what will happen to her when they take her away.
-Chill. You're scaring her.
I didn't call CPS, okay?
They would just put me in a group home,
and, honestly, I'd rather deal with your crazy.
-Okay.
Well, then let's just start over, huh?
-Yeah, sure. -Okay.
You know what today is?
It's prom today -- your prom. -Yay?
-And I'm willing to pay for you to go.
It's an important rite of passage for a young woman.
-Not this one. -Oh.
You don't have anything to wear, do you?
No, guess what.
I saved my prom dress, and I was prom queen.
I always thought one of my daughters would wear it,
but they say it's hideous.
-Oh, Shannon, thanks, but I have chores to catch up on.
-Hon, hon. Honey.
I can make you the belle of the ball.
Do you know how pretty you are?
My mom never told me I was pretty.
She told me I'd end up fat and alone.
But, look.
Look.
Look at how pretty you are.
Look at those cheekbones.
♪♪
See?
♪♪
-My pretty baby.
♪♪
-How did Luther get you into his cabin?
He paid you.
Maybe you blackmailed him and he couldn't take
being outed as a pervert, so then he bashes your head in.
And then he has to kill your sister, too?
But what about Peter?
You were pregnant with Peter's child,
so he has to be involved...
somehow.
♪♪
Oh, that's it.
That's gotta be it.
-Hey. You doing okay in there?
-Maybe there was two killers.
-What are you talking about?
♪♪
-Pregnant girl, she dies from a gunshot
that goes up through her ribcage,
puncturing an artery near her heart.
Who shoots someone like that?
I mean at that angle.
The other killing is brutal and intentional.
He bashes her head in over and over and over again
with a blunt instrument.
He has to look at her right in the eyes to do that.
He has to really want her dead.
So maybe it was Luther and Peter
or -- or Peter and somebody?
-We're talking to Luther.
He said he paid the girl to pose for him.
-Right.
-But he doesn't remember either of their names.
And he said you had a teenage girl with you yesterday.
What's that about?
What does Peter's daughter have to do with this, hmm?
What aren't you telling me?
-That's just a
Big Brother/Big Sister type of thing.
I'm trying to give back.
-[ Sighs ]
I know why you're doing this --
what set you off back there.
I know about your sister.
I found her file.
♪♪
[ Sighs ]
Look, I know you think you're helping,
but hurting yourself does not bring you closer to her.
♪♪
I mean, if this isn't rock bottom for you, what is?
Hmm?
Is there anyone I can call for you?
-No.
♪♪
-Okay.
♪♪
[ Door opens, closes ]
-[ Sobs ]
♪♪
-Okay, girls. Get closer together.
Elsie, can you put down the guitar
just for one picture, please?
Okay. Good, yes.
Alright, and say "poo."
It's what the supermodels do to get a perfect pout.
Poo.
-Poo. -Poo.
[ Camera shutter clicks ]
-Oh, my gosh.
That dress fits you so well, hon.
You're like a model in a magazine.
Okay, girls. Your chariot awaits.
Have the time of your lives.
It doesn't get any better than this!
Oh!
♪♪
-Oh, my God. Did you really think you're coming with us?
-Seriously? In that hideous dress,
with your weird, old-ass guitar as a date?
-No.
Whatever.
I don't want to go, anyway.
♪♪
[ Engine starts ]
♪♪
-Harper. Leave a message.
-Yo, I called you like six times.
-Hey, do you see that?
-So that's it, huh?
I help you solve your case, and you don't need me anymore?
Awesome. Have a nice life.
What are you looking at?
♪♪
[ Coins jingle ]
♪♪
-My -- My friend with the -- the apartment bailed on me.
So I-I tried to file for low-income housing.
The landlord said he needed a parent to cosign.
Couldn't do that -- I couldn't tell him that,
last I heard, my mom skipped out on rehab.
I don't know where she is.
So I'm here now.
You sure you want to see it?
♪♪
[ Indistinct conversations ]
You know what?
It's like this whole system was set up for us to fail.
You know, I-I-I worked my ass off in school, man.
Like, I did everything everyone tells me, man.
I never had a parent to teach me how to drive a car,
open a bank account, right thing to say to a landlord.
[ Dog barks in distance ]
Social workers and foster parents
and strangers making decisions for me my whole life,
and the next day -- bam -- just out here on my own,
you know, just left.
I feel lost!
I feel so damn stupid.
What?
-You just seem...
I don't know -- intense? -Yeah.
Yeah, they -- they -- they -- they had me on Adderall
when I was in there.
And the second I aged out, they cut me off, cold turkey,
and then I turned into a zombie and I-I slept for days.
Now I can't sleep.
Maybe it's because I live here.
-Hey, it's not that bad.
No evil step-bitches.
No one making you clean the commode.
Get ready for a new roommate.
I'm aging out next month.
-Don't even think about it.
You don't belong here.
-And you do?
-You know...
...I promised my brother I'd get him out of the Center,
so, yeah, I'm failing at everything, okay?
-[ Sighs ]
-Every single thing.
-You're not failing.
You just can't do it alone.
Nobody can.
♪♪
You know...I actually thought this crazy lady
was gonna help me find my parents,
like they were just out there...
waiting for me.
♪♪
-What happened?
-She ditched me, first chance she got,
just like everybody else does.
What is it about me?
-What are you talking about?
-My mom, my dad...
every decent foster parent I've ever had -- and even you.
♪♪
You left, and you didn't even say goodbye.
♪♪
-I didn't think you cared.
That's why I didn't say goodbye.
-I care.
♪♪
-What's with the dress?
♪♪
-Shannon dressed me up like her black Barbie doll
and sent me to prom. [ Chuckles ]
-[ Chuckles ]
You went to prom?
-No.
Not in a million years would I go to prom.
♪♪
-Yeah, me neither.
♪♪
Would you not go to prom with me?
Please?
♪♪
[ Chuckles ]
-Yes. -Yeah?
-I would not go to prom with you.
♪♪
-You look beautiful in Shannon's ugly dress.
♪♪
[ Siren wailing in distance ]
-It's your lucky day.
Someone's here to bail you out.
-Who?
♪♪
[ Police radio chatter ]
♪♪
-Ready to go?
♪♪
-[ Scoffs ]
This your little pink pad?
Your doodles of suns and moons [chuckles] and fairies?
-Give it to me. -[ Laughs ]
"Our love is a rollin' --"
What are you, some sort of a faggot poet now?
♪♪
-You touch this again, I swear to God I'll kill you.
♪♪
Babe?
Babe?!
♪♪
Hey! Wait! Where are you taking her?
-I'm not taking her anywhere.
She's chosen to come with me.
-I'm so sorry. I just -- I didn't know what to tell you.
-Tell me what? What?
-We're gonna take care of the mess that you got her into,
and then we're gonna go to LA like we always planned.
Let's go.
-Take care of it? I thought we talked about this.
-No, you talked about it.
-Oh, this is crazy. Where'd you get the money?
-From Luther. I've been letting him
take pictures of me for cash. Let's go.
-You been taking pictures with that frickin' pervert?!
-He's a creepy old man, but he's harmless.
You're the dangerous one. We've seen it.
-That's what this is. She's turned you against me.
-She hasn't turned me against anybody.
I can think for myself.
-Well, then let's talk this through -- without her.
-No. No, you're not talking about --
-Shut up!
Tell her.
You don't have to live your life for her.
You said it yourself --
she destroys every relationship you have.
She depends on you too much.
Tell her!
-I'm just trying to protect you.
♪♪
He doesn't know us, okay?
Look. Look at me.
This is all we've ever wanted.
Since we were little kids, this is all we've ever talked about,
okay?
This is not what you want. You don't want children.
That's what he wants.
♪♪
-I'm not ready to have a baby with you, Hunter.
That's not what I want, not right now.
I want to go to LA.
-[ Grunts ]
Listen, listen, listen.
We're gonna be a family.
I'm gonna make such a good dad, I promise you.
-You have to let me go.
Come on. Hunter.
-Listen, we g-- -Let me go!
-Let go of her now!
-Where did you get that?
-I saw him stash it there the first day.
I told you he's dangerous.
-Okay. Why don't you give that to me, okay?
-You should listen to your sister.
-You should go back to whatever hell you came from!
-You're not gonna shoot him.
-Oh, yeah? Watch me.
[ Gun cocks ]
-See? She's crazy.
-Shut up!
♪♪
-Give it to me! -No!
-Give it!
[ Grunts ] -Stop!
[ Grunts ]
[ Gunshot ]
♪♪
-No. No.
[ Crying ] No.
Help me.
-[ Choking ]
-No. -Stay with me, please.
-I'm sorry.
-Baby.
-I'm sorry.
-No.
[ Crying ]
-[ Sobs ] No!
[ Indistinct voices ]
I'm so sorry.
♪♪
-Next time on "Sacred Lies"...
-You know your way around here pretty well.
-Yeah, it's one of the places I came looking for my sister.
♪♪
-[ Crying ] -How could you do that to me?!
-I told you...
-All I ever wanted
was for you to be proud of your name.
Hunter?! Get back here!
-Why are you doing this?
-I was worried about you.
-Who are you? Who are you really?