- Father, can you pray for my salvation?
Father, please. Can you pray for mercy?
Father, father, wait.
He's not listening to my prayers.
He's not listening to my prayer,
- My prayer.
Oh shit. Get him right father. Pray his ass up!
- Cotton.
Your priest is here.
Why'd you order such a nice final meal?
You're not even eating it.
And it's all my favorites. I got it for you.
- Good afternoon, Mr. Cotton.
Cotton bout to take that walk.
With your permission, I'll administer Last rights
- It wasn't me.
- Todd Matthew Cotton.
You've been tried, convicted,
and sentenced to death for the murder
of Detective Richard Bennett III.
Any final words?
I hope, detective,
that this gives you some semblance of closure.
Dad was a great man and I think tonight he got his justice.
- Thanks for the kind words, warden.
Of course, if you don't mind,
- How are you Annie?
- What are you doing here? - Serving a dual purpose.
Really?
- You're here for him? - Everyone deserves their
chance at absolution
00:10:18,090 You chose to honor his request for absolution?
- There is, but one judge.
- It's fine.
It doesn't matter anymore. It all died with him.
Padre.
- Fuck
- I I understand you went to Todd Cotton's.
- Look, if it's all the same
captain, can we just get on with it?
- All right.
- You have been slipping. Detective.
Your father would roll over in his grave if he could
see the shit show you are becoming. Equal
opportunity pain in my ass is what you are
and if it wasn't for the respect I have for your old man,
- Look, I know all about my father
and his history here, captain.
- Well, he was one of the best
and the way it ended that tragedy,
we all felt it.
Ah, you and your mother, most of all, of course.
May she rest in peace.
All right Bennett, I have an easy out for you.
This just needs a set of eyes on it.
- I dunno why they sent you here.
Good morning to you too, Maria.
- Oh hey. So tell me how did it feel to watch that piece
of shit sizzle after all these years?
Had to feel good. Right?
Okay, moving on. This one's open and shut.
Great. Anything else? Eric's
- with the body
Mr. Moon,
- Detective Bennett, Raymond Williams decided
to see if the law of gravity still works.
It does. Slipped and fell while taking out the garbage.
Hit his head on the way down, right about here.
I don't know, maybe something to do
with all this construction equipment.
- Let's stick to what we do here,
Moon, leave that to the claims adjusters.
- Regardless, the fall doesn't look like it killed him.
From the looks of the blood trail,
he got up, dazed, confused, stumbled all the way over here
and finally collapsed and succumbed to his injuries.
Might have made it too, if somebody had found him, hidden
by the pallets as it were.
- Big feet. - Oh, the undone shoelaces strike again.
That's a shame. We learn at such a young age
to keep our shoes tied or else risk
this, frankly.
- The man looked back and noticed during the saddest
and lowest points in his life, there were only one set
of footprints. Questioning the Lord,
the man asked: Why in my time
of greatest need would you leave me to walk alone?
The Lord answered: My child.
I would never abandon you during your trials
and sufferings. When you see only one set of footprints,
it was then that I carried you.
- I don't want to talk you!
I'm not in
- the mood!
I don't care. God!
Oh, gimme a break. I don't care. I'm sick of it!
You know. What am I supposed to do? I don't know.
Oh, gimme a break. Gimme a break!
- What the hell are we doing here? Bennett.
Fell or struck? Moved.
Carried. Why?
One set.
It is then that I carried you.
There's something different about this one, Ronnie.
I can feel it.
- You mean he can see it. Your
father was the same way, you know?
- I know as much as you tell me about him.
Mom never really talked about him much.
There's some of the old guards still around at work,
but all they wanna do is talk about his legacy or his death.
- Murder. - I read the report.
Your reports, which read like an instruction manual,
So if you ever care to elaborate..
- Bury it with Cotton Stefi, let it rest.
What about this one? Tell me what you saw.
- I don't know. I guess the guy could have fallen,
but I've seen that before.
This was different. It was like,
it was like, somebody did this
and made it look like an accident.
- Well that's interesting,
but it could still be an accident,
you know? Guy gets pushed down the stairs by someone,
heat of the moment, in a rush of regret
and fear tries to cover it up,
make it look like a slip and fall.
- But if this was a homicide,
it was way too well put together to be spur of the moment.
- Even so, I guess pushing someone down the stairs is a lot
further from an accident than it is murder.
- Especially if you use a metal pipe.
- A pipe? - Or something like that.
Sure. just part of my theory.
- What does Torrance say? - Same shit. Open and shut.
Leave it be.
- I remember when he was a rook. Your dad
and I used to pile it on that pissant.
Probably why he gives you so much shit.
- He's like that with everyone.
- I miss him, your father.
- Yeah. You and everyone else at the office.
Pissant included.
- Yes. Ah, Miss Doncaster.
To what do I owe the pleasure?
- Now father, how many times have I told you?
- How may I help you today? Angela.
- Well me, I'm right as rain.
But you, I know you have been very busy,
so I can't imagine you've had any time to cook for yourself,
so I just thought well..
- Well thank you very much.
It looks very good. So
how is young Xavier? We have missed him at mass.
- Well he is just a little under the weather is all,
- Is that right?
Well, I will say a prayer for him,
or we could say one for him now.
- Oh, I, I don't know.
I should let you get back to your work.
- Well, I'll be sure to say that prayer for him in private.
- Thank you. We'd appreciate
that more than you know, father.
Well, heat that at 365 for 45 minutes
and sprinkle a little cheese on top.
- Will do. And thanks again Miss Doncaster.
Welcome to King Saver, where your daily savings is
our specialty
- Cooking for once night. Miss Doncaster?
- I'm sorry. - Oh, just making conversation.
- Oh, how nice. - So where's your son at by the way?
- Oh well you know, shopping with mom's never any fun.
- Here's one for the boy and a sugar free one for you.
- Well thank you very much young man.
- Have a great day.
- Noxious little shit.
- 9 1 1. What's your emergency? Hello?
Do you have an emergency?
- Alright, even for me, this one's weird.
Angela Doncaster, she's a type one diabetic
insulin pump is on and working
and completely drained of insulin.
Drove her into hypoglycemic shock
and face first right into the vegetables.
- Accidental overdose.
- It happens, but typically it happens in kids.
She had to be aware.
- Go on. - Well these insulin pumps,
they beep incessantly the whole time
they're delivering insulin. I don't know,
maybe a faulty mechanism.
- Could have been intentional. Suicide?
- Oh God, be an awful way to go.
My money's on some sort of equipment malfunction.
- What's with the ...
Finish the sweep?
- That would be a no.
- Hey. Hi. Hey, you're okay now.
It's gonna be okay. Moon! Get down here!
- Patience
- Drugged
Restrained
Conviction
Focus
Punishment.
- You know your mother used to sit
there with that same look.
- You mean my father? - No, Rich was much less brooding.
Although I'm sure you're probably thinking
of the same things he would.
- Such as? - The job.
His demons and you
- I miss her.
I miss them both
- As do I.
You know one of the last times your mother was well enough
to attend mass just before last Christmas
I believe, she was concerned, not for herself
or her well being, but she was worried that no one would look
after you after she'd passed.
- Give her any words of comfort?
- That I would try to take up the mantle,
be the vigilant watcher, in so much
as an old man of the cloth
can.
- Yeah, you got your hands full with your flock here,
Good shepherd. Speaking of which,
the young man who fell down the stairs a few days ago?
- Raymond Williams.
A tragedy on two fronts.
- That answers my question.
- He attended services years back. He was troubled.
I do wish he would've gotten help at a younger age.
- Sounds like he's someone else's problem
now
The only question now is, who's?
- You're asking me?
- You're the authority on this subject, aren't you Padre? So..
- Have you heard Father? you must have heard.
Angela Doncaster died last night.
- Did you know of this? - I was called
to the scene last night.
Yeah
- We'll be sure and say a prayer for her at mass today.
- You most certainly will not. I'm sorry father.
It's just what she did to that poor boy.
He's the one that needs the prayers.
After all she put him through
- I I must greet the congregation, ladies.
It is here that I recalled Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit
and the repercussions of indulgence
and what is natural in fruit?
The sugar. Ill advise consumption
of sugar wreaks havoc on the blood
and only God's forgiveness
is the cure. A divine insulin.
- It's not crazy. I just don't know if
what you told me adds up and if I'm not convinced
- It's the sermons Ronnie first he's talking about
footprints and then he is going on about Adam
and Eve and fucking fruit sugar!
- Alright? Alright. Don't get revved up.
Did you ever consider that
maybe it's nothing more than coincidence?
- You know me better than that.
I just, I would know, right?
I, I mean I grew up in that church.
He's like a .. well he is like you to me
- If memory serves, I don't know.
He's always seemed a little overly
committed. A little too perfect.
- Yeah, but that doesn't make him a murderer.
- Fair. Conviction like that though?
It's like a germ that spreads.
Just depends on the capabilities of the host I guess.
- I don't know Ronnie, - I'm
old. From what I know,
your gut is pretty good. You're like your father that way.
Rich's gut was his true north.
- So? - Go with your gut
I guess, just don't let your relationship affect whatever it
is that you find, and if nothing else,
it'll piss Torrance off.
- Yeah, I don't know how many good
graces I have left with him
- Then go it alone.
Hell, we did it all the time.
Run it that way till you have something solid
or till you convince he's clean.
And if you know he is not, take it
to Torrance and make him listen.
- The file you requested.
Angela Doncaster. Thanks Maria.
Do you need something? Don't you think you're
wasting your time with this one?
God meted this one out. Bitch got what she deserved.
Should be left at that. Thanks for your insight Maria
- Whiskey
Neat
- So, want another one?
- Walking the boulevard of dreams
smiling like cats with all the cream
Defying gravity
is my enjoyment
and getting there is all that I'm
hell bent on, I gotta have it all.
- I feel like I'm dancing in
I'm dancing in stars,
I'm in stars.
I feel like I'm dancing in
I'm dancing in stars. I'm in stars.
- I'm in stars.
In nomine Patris
- The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself
and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
- What can I get started for you? I'm not ready yet.
- Afternoon Annie. - Arland.
- Arland? All these years
and I have failed to acknowledge that
well you grew up
- Inescapable - As God intended.
I suppose it was the loss of parentage at such a young age
that I've always seen a bit of myself in you,
that conviction that you cling to so willingly, your pursuit
to right the wrongs of the world.
- Pretty heavy stuff. Padre. - Have a seat Detective.
- Ready Now Miss? - Apple pie with a fresh slice of cheddar
and black coffee.
- Grownups typically make their own decisions about things
like what's for lunch
- And choose poorly
more often than not, at least in my experience
Oh come on, you weren't going to order anything
and I can tell you're hardly
eating. Out with it.
- Excuse me? - You've known me since you were a child.
You know that I eat lunch here nearly every day.
You know almost everything about me
- Thought I did.
- Meaning? - Did you
realize that in the last 10 years you've had murderers,
abusers, and rapists amongst your congregation?
- I can not. I will not turn away those that seek redemption.
- And what about those who fail to find it?
- Divine intervention perhaps.
- Well, they're all dead if that's what you're saying.
And they were all convicted of these crimes
after they died, which is strange enough
till you add on the fact that they all died of accidental,
while seemingly accidental causes
and they were all members of your church at some point.
So what do you make of that father?
- Now that is your department detective.
- Next time Padre.
- It's early Monday
morning, I can't even
- open my eyes.
Had to pull her out of the pool.
- She just never struck me as a user.
Sorry? Maria. Hmm.
Don't get me wrong, she could be a royal pain in the ass,
but she always read like such a straight shooter,
no pun intended.
Hmm. Overdose?
Oh I'm sure that's what the tox report is gonna say.
But as to immediate cause of death, water in the lungs.
- How's that? - She drowned in her own pool?
- Is it just me or is this place a little..
- Way above her pay grade?
Yeah, I had the same thought. Maybe she's got family money..
or maybe it has something to do with the
- smack.
Anybody check this?
- For what?
- All this hair? - Well, she had long hair. It happens.
- Moon, that's a lot of hair.
- You got me, huh? Hair? Not my area of expertise.
- Sudden. Strong.
Unforgiving
- Inhuman
- Did you know?
Answer my question, Bennett.
- Sorry Captain. I was.. - Did you know about Maria?
- What about her? - About the drugs.
Forensics tells me the stuff was all over her kitchen.
- That explains a lot. - How's that? I
- mean, you saw the house.
- Maria was with us for over 12 years,
fresh out of the academy.
- Sorry Captain. I don't have much to offer.
Didn't know her very well.
I do have something though,
- about Maria?
- In a way
I think that Maria, along with all these other people
who died under mysterious circumstances were all homicides.
- Homicides? - Made to look like accidents
A, a slip and fall.
A medical device malfunction, A prolonged illness. Oh Lord.
A car accident.
- Here we go. A - Drug overdose.
- Alright. Alright.
Let's say for the sake of argument
and my ulcer that you're right.
You got any proof? Anything at all
that says any one of these people were killed?
- Just read through the notes, the photos,
all the theories, check out
- The theories?
That's all you've got? Theories?
Anything else like, oh, I, I don't know,
maybe some evidence?
- Well, they all have two things in common.
One, they all committed terrible crimes,
which was found out after they died.
Two, they all attended Saint Mary's at
some point in their past.
- Well, that's something, but it's not a lot there.
Did you identify a person of interest in your inquiries?
- Arland Anthony,
- The priest?
All right. And what's the motive?
- To punish them?
- Punish them? - As God would for their sins.
I can't say for certain just yet.
- Well that's for damn sure.
Pretty ballsy Bennett, even for you.
Spotlighting a priest for serial murder.
Now what is this
- Prayer bead found stuck in a knot
of hair in Maria's pool filter.
- Well, what the hell do you think we're
gonna pull off of this?
It's been sitting in chlorinated water for
who knows how long.
- Just bring him in. Captain. Get me in a room with him.
I'm right.
- Yes. Detective, what do you got for me?
- The drugs we found on scene are
the same one the kid's been overdosing on.
Oh, and Maria's tox screen came back.
There were no drugs in her system
- Meaning, she didn't die of a drug overdose.
- Thank you Detective. That will be all.
All right, I will take a look at what you have
and if, if there is anything there, I will reach out
to Father Anthony, myself
and I will ask him if he will come in willingly
- Captain, I don't think that willingly
- They would drive clown cars
around this place if I booked a priest
for serial murder on the basis
of nothing more than theories.
This is the only way.
And Bennett, you stay the hell away from
Father Anthony in the meantime.
Okay?
- Let us not focus on shadows.
Angela serves as a reminder that even in the face
of darkness there is an opportunity for transformation.
Lest we forget, only he knows the sins of man
and only he provides the path of judgment and redemption.
May the Lord bless and keep you all
Arland Anthony. Ronald James,
paying respects to his fallen brother in arms.
Rich was a good man. The best.
Do you visit often? Often as I can.
And do you find it to be enough? Who's to say?
That is a good question Mr. James.
One that has a complicated answer.
Detective James. Retired, unless of course I'm mistaken.
How long after he died did you stay on? Not long
if memory serves
- How long after you found out about what happened
to Doncaster, did you decide to reside over a funeral?
- Did you know Angela? Knew of her.
Then you would know she was a member of my congregation
for many years and no matter what she was accused of..
- Yeah, yeah.
Let God handle it. Right?
- He is both judge and jury
- Who then father is the executioner?
- He deems what measures are necessary
and when they come to pass.
- Right. There are many eyes on you Father
- Only one set the counts..
Detective James.
Romans 6:20
Paul speaks for the wages
of sin is death.
Death is something that through sin must be earned
Should death and hell be
- the unequivocal payment for sin and evil?
The very nature of our God, his holiness
and righteousness is to punish both the sin and the sinner.
- Our God expects holiness from us.
He has blessed us with consciousness
and with his written law
- The commandments.
Sin is an invoice and God's vengeance is payment.
Simply look to Eden, Noah's flood, Sodom
and Gomorrah, acknowledge sin
and ask yourself, are you on a collision course
with his vengeance?
Are you prepared to pay the ultimate price
- Better move,
Better move out of sight,
I'm coming through, it's a damage that I really can not do.
I'm exploring going up I make it Boom.
So better move.
Better move, move aside, out of sight. I'm coming through.
It's a damage that I really can not do. I'm a savage
Don't you make me lose my cool. So, Better move.
- May I help you?
- Oh uh, you don't mind if I..
actually captain, I would prefer
that you didn't, if that's all right.
- Oh sure.
By all means father, my apologies, now then,
well I, I want to start by
thanking you once again for coming in to talk to us
and I promise that we will not take up any more
of your valuable time than is absolutely necessary.
- Well, anything I can do to help captain.
- Well I, I'm, I'm glad
to hear it. Now about these deaths, accidents,
suicides, what have you, these members
of your congregation past and present.
I'm sorry, could I
- trouble you for a cup of coffee?
- A coffee? Sure.
By all means, father.
Well you sure as shit ain't gonna clear your caseload sitting
on my benches Bennett.
- Captain I have to talk to.. I've
- said my peace Detective.
- Listen captain, if you would just..
- I do hope the good Captain doesn't forget the sugar.
- What are you..
- What are you doing here?
- Well, I'm here to help, to assist in any way that I can,
voluntarily of course.
- Help?
You wanna help? What you're doing is sacrilege.
- Could I trouble you for a cigarette?
- A cig?
No, I don't have any.
Those aren't mine. And you don't smoke.
- Let's each have one.
- It'll calm the nerves.
You sure you won't have one?
- I quit. I'm trying
to quit, and that,
that's stealing what you just did, what you want me to do.
And isn't that a cardinal sin Padre?
- Is that what sin means to you? Theft? I
- think the real question is, what does sin mean to you?
Vengeance? Punishment? I've sat
through your sermons, heard your message.
- My sermons
My message
- No. It is his message.
I'm but a servant. We are both servants.
You and I.
- I know you did it.
I've known for a while, but now I have your notebooks
- And why haven't you given them to the Captain?
Because you know, the retribution they were dealt was just
- Your possession of those books was purposeful
so easily found that night in the top drawer.
They are a tool to help you understand that you
and I are the same.
- No, I would
- never.
Your visions a gift from on high. A gift of discernment.
Surely you recognize that.
- So you mean to tell me that you actually truly believe
that God is working through you?
- He works through all of us and it is not the place of you
nor I or of any man to question the will of God.
And you have been chosen Annie.
- Yeah, you keep saying that,
but what the fuck are you talking about?
- Your abilities, your resources will save innocents
and deliver his vengeance.
This is a cycle. One that does not end but evolves
and only does when a means to do so
presents itself. And you,
- You are that means.
- Bennett!
What the hell are you doing? Captain.
I have.. You have what? Well, spit it
- out!
I have, I'll tell you what you better have,
you better have a good goddamn reason for being in here.
My office. Now!
- Captain, - Don't, you're off the case
Bennett. Captain, you can count yourself
very lucky that Father Anthony has a soft spot for you.
Do you have any idea of the position you put me in here?
- How you make me look? It's a goddamn clown show! Captain.
What if I have evidence proving he's involved? What is it?
Where is it?
- You know what? I am going to go ahead
and give you the favor
I think you need most, some time off.
Captain. The badge Bennett.
A few weeks,
we'll see where we are.
And as of right now, you are a civilian.
If you go near Father Anthony again, it's stalking,
and I will make sure it sticks,
even if he refuses to press charges.
Throw in petty theft while I'm at it for lifting one
of my goddamn cigarettes.
- He killed them all.
Sinners
All of them.
- It was just
Was it just?
What right
does he have?
A divine right
- So this is the proof. - It's all there.
- So what do you wanna do? - What do you mean?
- You didn't take it straight to Torrance?
- No. - So what do you want to do?
- I want him to pay for what he's done.
- Okay. How?
- He's a monster. Handing these over,
it's, it's all circumstantial.
He could get away with it. And? And,
and if, if it worked, if he was convicted,
the punishment wouldn't fit the crime.
- Find - anything you
like? Sir?
- You're more like your father than you know.
- What do you mean? - He had the same opinion,
about the monsters.. began to rub off on me even.
- I only ever heard how by the book he was
- For the most part
Sure. Suffice
to say sometimes justice prevailed off the books.
- I had no idea. - When we were sure of it,
we acted accordingly.
Are you sure this is what you want to do?
- I'm sure
- If you're gonna do this, you can't use yours.
It was your father's. I made sure to get to it
before anyone else stumbled across it.
After he,
- Yeah.
- So cop to cop. What's your take?
Is Anthony psychotic?
Is he what he claims he is? a man of the cloth charged
with delivering God's wrath?
Is there even a difference?
- Cop to cop? You've been around long enough to know
that God certainly has a lot on his plate
and more than enough to be pissed off about.
- This is my first time here.
I,
My name is Herman but my friends call me He-man on
account of my size.
Do people normally introduce themselves?
Doesn't really matter now, does it Herm?
The reason why I'm here today
father is 'cause I have thoughts.
Impulses. Normally I could cut 'em off.
You know, squash 'em.
These are really tight quarters here
Father, stay on track Herm.
And with the shit storms in the media
and this ever-growing plague, overpopulation!
Too many people!
Somebody has to do something,
which means no more suppression for Herm.
I bought a gun, I bought a lot of guns and I picked a place.
So as long as it's public
and as long as it makes a mess so big,
only God could clean it up!
- Stefi. I need to see you. I'm
- in the middle of it.
- It can't wait.
- What is this? Why him?
- I told you we are alike.
He reveals to us those that must pay for their atrocities.
But now it is you that must choose.
- You are truly insane. - Hear him out. Trust your gift.
- Hear him out? Can he even speak with that?
- He - Can. And he has something to confess.
- I don't wanna hear another fucking word from your mouth.
- It concerns your father!
- How do I know you're not lying through your teeth?
- Tell her!
- Ronnie?
Ronnie, what is he talking about?
- I shouldn't have. More. He was good to me,
your father. More.
- What did you do Ronnie? Tell me what happened.
- I did it. I did it and I covered it up.
- Say it. You must confess!
- I shot him Stefi
Rich was like a brother and I killed him.
Then I put it all on Cotton.
- Why? - What cotton did,
it wasn't worthy of condemnation. Your father knew that.
- Show me your hands!
- He told me not to go.
But I didn't listen and I went anyway.
Your father had no business Being there.
Shooting Rich was an accident.
But I did it and I
let Cotton pay for it.
I killed your father. Rich? Rich?
- No! Rich!
- I'm responsible. I can't do this.
Forgive me. Stefi.
- Ronnie?
- I deserve this.
Ronnie!
Choose.
- Hey. Just came from inside.
You wanna talk about it?
- Suicide. - Suicide?
- Ronnie James hung himself, called me to tell me
so, I didn't make it in time.
- Okay, suicide it is.
- Here you go ma'am.
- Through the eyes of a killer I'm born again.
Believe in a sinner that will never mend
love is always grimmer through the eyes of a killer,
through the eyes of a killer
I'm born again. Sharp
as weapon laying in your hand
The Devil laid down his deeds
till you understand that death is a lesson
and it's sharp as a weapon through the eyes of a killer
I'm born again.
Through the eyes of a killer. Now fate is a
blessing to the ones who
roam from the Garden of Eden, what have we become?
We've all been with it by the eyes of a killer.
Through the eyes of a killer, We're born again.
Through the eyes of a killer.
- Better move. Better move out of sight
I'm coming through, coming through. It's a damage that I really can not do
I'm exploring going up. Make it boom. So better move.
Better move. Move aside out of sight. I'm coming through.
01:35:16,910 Don't you make me lose my cool. Don't you make me lose my cool, yeah.
So Better Move
- Better move
- Walking the Boulevard of dreams
Straight up from holding all the Queens, Oh.
Follow the light and we can find our odyssey.
Just wanna lose myself so I can find me, watch now
and I can have it all. I feel like
- I'm dancing in
I'm dancing in stars. I'm in stars.
I feel like I'm dancing in
I'm dancing in stars,
I'm in stars. I'm
- in stars.
Traveling so fast that I scream,
smiling, like cats with all the cream.
Defying gravity is
my enjoyment and getting there is all that I am hell bent on
I gotta have it all.
- I feel like I'm dancing in
I'm dancing in stars, I'm in stars.
I feel like I'm dancing in,
I'm dancing in stars, I'm in stars.