Absentia (2017–…): Season 1, Episode 9 - Child's Play - full transcript
Previously on "Absentia"...
Since Harlow told you
where to find Emily
we've known he had a person
working with him on the outside.
Semerov shows up dead, with Emily's DNA.
So we've been looking
for a killer who's a link
between Harlow and Semerov.
That would be Emily.
Alice!
My family has been taken from me.
Emily, I beg of you to...
bring my wife and our son home.
Please, bring them home.
Where are we?
- I believe your sister is innocent.
- So what do you want?
To tell Emily's story.
- What did you find out about Shen?
- Shen started experimenting on kids.
One of them was a boy.
His name was Charles,
he was at my orphanage.
And the other one...
was a Subject B.
What kind of experiments?
There were adverse effects.
We shut it down.
Charles.
Charles!
We remember you... Emily!
I'm Agent Nick Durand,
I need to speak with one of your
patients, Charles Avallone.
- Who is B?
- Please, the book!
Don't move!
Don't make me do this.
Nick, Nick, Nick.
Hey, man, what happened?
- OK. Go. Go get her.
- What? Who?
- Emily. Emily, she...
- Where?
There... there! Fucking go!
What the hell? Watch it!
Hey, watch where you're
going! I'm sorry.
What the hell is she doing?
Over here! Over here!
- Are you OK?
- Nuh!
Move! Move!
Fuck!
Suspect possibly
southern on the red line
between Davis and Porter.
Flynn! Flynn! No! Flynn!
Help!
Help!
Please, listen to me...
Don't hurt Flynn, please.
I'll do anything.
Don't you touch him, you
lunatic! Do you hear me?
You leave him alone!
You want to hurt someone, you hurt me!
Ladies and gentlemen,
unfortunately, we will be
making an emergency stop
at the next station. Sorry
for the inconvenience.
Hey. You're gonna want to hold on, OK?
You OK?
- You got her?
- No.
- Thanks.
- Yeah, sir.
She shot me.
I know.
Lucky you.
It's not luck...
It's mandatory for the field.
Emily knows that?
She... she knows we're onto her.
She's trying to slow us down, to...
keep us from finding Alice and Flynn.
You being dead would have
slowed us down a lot more.
No, no. You stopped...
You stopped to help.
And dead men don't need first aid.
Jesus.
She's always two steps ahead.
All right, we got it covered.
I'm gonna talk to Charles Avallone
to see why Emily came all
the way out here, all right?
No, no, no. I'm coming. I'm coming.
- What are you doing?
- I'm coming with, man.
We never wanted...
We never wanted. We...
- No, no, no! Mr. Avallone is in.
- No, we need...
- no condition to answer any questions.
- We need to speak to with Mr. Avallone.
Yeah, because clearly you sedated him.
He was extremely agitated.
That woman attacked him, and he
was far from stable to begin with.
This, royal "we" stuff,
is he completely delusional, or...?
Charles has an adaptive fantasy,
- an imaginary friend.
- Yeah, well, we aren't so sure, you know.
Charles' friend might be real after all.
Hey, look, look. The woman...
who attacked Charles
is named Emily Byrne.
She's wanted for multiple homicide,
and she's kidnapped my wife and my son.
He may know something that
could help us find them.
He and Emily grew up together
in state care, at Barrett House.
But Charles has been here at
Edgewater, for more than 10 years,
- I don't know how...
- I'm sorry, I don't have time for this.
- Hey... hey, hey!
- Why else... why else
- would Emily come all this way?
- Hey, hey.
Relax, man.
Let me handle this.
Okay?
Sorry, it's Um...
this guy,
Doctor Shen, MIT scientist,
he was, um... experimenting
on kids at Barrett House.
We've listened to his tapes,
interviews with... with the subjects.
Um, Charles was one of
them, and there was at least,
one other kid.
And you think that child,
- is Charles' imaginary friend?
- Yes.
Subject B.
Charles was, Subject A.
Okay, he needs time to recover.
- How much time?
- Well,
come back tomorrow.
We don't... we don't have a day.
We may not even have hours.
Shen ended up in a grave
with five other bodies,
eyelids cut off. That's the signature
of Conrad Harlow, a known...
serial killer.
Now, I've looked at who pays the bills
- for Charles here at Edgewater...
- That's a family trust.
It's been that way since the beginning.
Are you aware that this trust is,
linked with Conrad Harlow?
Your Subject B,
you think it's Emily Byrne
and you need Charles
to confirm that, right?
Yes. I just...
II just wanna find my family.
Housekeeping.
Housekeeping.
Hey!
Get out of the way! Get out of the way!
Hey! Stop that woman! Grab her!
Stop her!
Hey, stop! Ma'am!
She locked the door! Shit!
- There she is!
- Hey! Stop!
- Dios mío.
- Stop!
Don't move! Don't move! Get up!
Open the door! Now, come here!
Get over there! Come on, let's go!
Go, go, go! Hurry up!
In! Now, now, move,
move. You too, honey.
Goddammit, get over here. Don't move.
Don't move.
- Em, talk to me.
- Hey.
I found a company called "TriKing".
They make, tanks and aquariums.
I need you to track 'em down.
What do they have to
do with whoever has Flynn?
I think they made the tank that held me.
I need to find out who ordered
it and where it was sent.
Okay. TriKing. I'm on it.
Okay.
There's a switch! Switch!
Let's go.
Mom! No! Mom!
Mom!
Maybe we should call it a night?
You saw Captain Spaceman over there.
I don't think we're gonna get
anything out of him.
- That's Crown.
- Yeah.
- Yeah?
- We got results on the bodies.
Two names you know:
Belson and Drummond, two
of Harlow's first victims.
The others are in advanced decomp,
Whitman says fifteen years.
Wait, wait, wait, where
was Harlow back then?
That's the problem.
Conrad Harlow was in
Zurich from 2000 to 2005,
at least according to his passport.
We need to see if he had any
known associates back then.
Way ahead of you.
Ericson tracked down an old girlfriend
of Harlow's from grad school.
She filed a sexual assault
charge with campus police.
- It mentions two attackers.
- Any names?
The file was buried by the DA.
I'm gonna interview the girlfriend now.
All good. And we're waiting on Charles.
- This is gonna be fun.
- Actually, we're about to visit with him.
Call you later.
We wanted to talk
to you about the woman who,
came visit you, today.
- No.
- Wait, wait, wait.
It's okay. It's okay, Charles.
Okay, no... no problem, no problem.
Hey, buddy, buddy. Hey. Hey, hey, hey.
- Hey. Sorry, buddy. Sorry.
- It's okay.
How about we talk about
your, your friend?
Charles,
sounds like you two were close.
Yeah, we take care of each other.
Did you, um...
It's okay. It's okay.
You keep each other's secrets?
Sometimes.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
I have a friend like that.
A friend who I keep secrets for.
What kind of secrets?
Sometimes...
my friend isn't very nice.
Sometimes, she's...
she's kind of mean.
Yeah, my friend is kind of mean too.
- Yeah.
- To other people?
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
To you?
Hey, it's okay.
That's hard.
It's hard when you care
about someone who's mean.
Yeah.
Did your friend ever get
angry with Dr. Shen?
We don't wanna talk about that.
- Did Dr. Shen hurt you?
- Yeah.
Your friend?
Did your friend hurt Dr. Shen back?
I'm not supposed to say.
I'm not supposed to say.
Maybe we should... we could
check on him, make sure he's okay.
I don't care if he's
hurt. He hurt us first.
Well, then, we... we should
find him and lock him up.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, make sure he
never hurts anyone else again.
He hurt so many...
so many children.
Wwas... was there candy in
the air when they got hurt?
- And I said something about that.
- Yeah, yeah.
That's how Dr. Shen tricks you.
"Thethethe air is fullfull of candy.'"
And I tried to eat it.
And... and he lies.
He always says you can
have the candy later, but,
there wasn't any candy.
- There was never any candy.
- It's okay, Charles.
- It's okay. That's enough.
- Wait, wait, wait, wait.
- No, no, no, it's okay.
- No, that's enough.
It's okay. It's okay.
Thank you. Thank you. Come on.
It's okay.
It's okay.
What are you doing, man?
He was starting to talk.
I know. I know. I know. But I
think we got what we needed.
- Do you remember the molasses flood?
- That urban legend?
Well, it's not an urban legend.
100 years ago...
a storage tank exploded
and flooded the North End
with 2 million gallons of molasses.
The North End doesn't
smell like molasses.
No, not so much anymore.
But back in the 1990's...
when they ripped everything
up from the big dig, it did.
After the explosion, the factory
turned into a warehouse.
- Perfect for torturing kids.
- Yeah. Or holding my family.
Hey. What did you find?
Do you know I could go to jail
for helping her like this?
Yeah, don't worry,
you'll get your exclusive.
What I found is better than that.
Look, Jack, I do want that
interview, but I can't sit on this.
I mean, I can give you...
half a day maybe, but then I publish.
What do you mean? Sit on what, Laurie?
What the hell did you find?
Hey. You find anything?
- I did. But, Em...
- What?
Just say it, Jack.
TriKing made the tank 7 years ago,
- they had it delivered to the North End.
- Okay, where?
978 Commercial Street. Suite 209.
And who ordered it?
Jack?
You did, Em.
It was you.
No, that's not possible.
I saw the invoice myself.
You signed it.
It's forged.
I'm going there.
And I'm gonna find Flynn.
Thank you.
Some things are better left in the past.
There are lives at stake
in the present, Ms. Wheelock.
You never know what might help.
We were young people experimenting.
Things got out of hand.
That's not what you put
in the record you filed.
- The Harlows were a powerful family.
- Not anymore.
You can talk to me.
Conrad and I had broken
up a year before.
It was amicable.
Then we bumped into each
other, made plans for a drink.
We were back at his place,
he had a friend join us.
Then...
I blacked out.
It's only images.
This friend...
I need a name.
Harlow may have had
an accomplice in his murders.
He wasn't always some monster.
Conrad I knew, before that night...
he was sensitive.
He was in pain.
Something hurt him.
What?
He'd never say.
Something in his family.
I still need the name of the
other man who assaulted you.
Who said it was a man?
Survive.
There's nothing here.
What?
What is it?
Nick?
Durand!
That's the mask Emily drew.
No eyelids.
The children Shen held in those rooms
would have seen this.
It's not Harlow.
The children who saw these masks
had the idea way before
Harlow ever got involved.
Jesus!
I've had it wrong since the beginning.
Since he called me that night.
Emily's not Harlow's accomplice...
but she could be his mentor.
Durand.
Nick, I'm over from the cabin. I
was sent here by whoever has them.
They're underground.
- Emily, stay there.
- No, Nick. Listen.
Whoever planned this has eyes.
If they see an army coming
Flynn will die, Alice will die...
I need you to come alone.
You can cuff me after, I don't care.
You have my word.
Okay.
I'll come alone.
Okay, I'm about 200 meters
north of the cabin.
There's an open tunnel.
I'll leave you my scarf as a sign.
Transcribed & synced
by kinglouisxx & chamallow.
Since Harlow told you
where to find Emily
we've known he had a person
working with him on the outside.
Semerov shows up dead, with Emily's DNA.
So we've been looking
for a killer who's a link
between Harlow and Semerov.
That would be Emily.
Alice!
My family has been taken from me.
Emily, I beg of you to...
bring my wife and our son home.
Please, bring them home.
Where are we?
- I believe your sister is innocent.
- So what do you want?
To tell Emily's story.
- What did you find out about Shen?
- Shen started experimenting on kids.
One of them was a boy.
His name was Charles,
he was at my orphanage.
And the other one...
was a Subject B.
What kind of experiments?
There were adverse effects.
We shut it down.
Charles.
Charles!
We remember you... Emily!
I'm Agent Nick Durand,
I need to speak with one of your
patients, Charles Avallone.
- Who is B?
- Please, the book!
Don't move!
Don't make me do this.
Nick, Nick, Nick.
Hey, man, what happened?
- OK. Go. Go get her.
- What? Who?
- Emily. Emily, she...
- Where?
There... there! Fucking go!
What the hell? Watch it!
Hey, watch where you're
going! I'm sorry.
What the hell is she doing?
Over here! Over here!
- Are you OK?
- Nuh!
Move! Move!
Fuck!
Suspect possibly
southern on the red line
between Davis and Porter.
Flynn! Flynn! No! Flynn!
Help!
Help!
Please, listen to me...
Don't hurt Flynn, please.
I'll do anything.
Don't you touch him, you
lunatic! Do you hear me?
You leave him alone!
You want to hurt someone, you hurt me!
Ladies and gentlemen,
unfortunately, we will be
making an emergency stop
at the next station. Sorry
for the inconvenience.
Hey. You're gonna want to hold on, OK?
You OK?
- You got her?
- No.
- Thanks.
- Yeah, sir.
She shot me.
I know.
Lucky you.
It's not luck...
It's mandatory for the field.
Emily knows that?
She... she knows we're onto her.
She's trying to slow us down, to...
keep us from finding Alice and Flynn.
You being dead would have
slowed us down a lot more.
No, no. You stopped...
You stopped to help.
And dead men don't need first aid.
Jesus.
She's always two steps ahead.
All right, we got it covered.
I'm gonna talk to Charles Avallone
to see why Emily came all
the way out here, all right?
No, no, no. I'm coming. I'm coming.
- What are you doing?
- I'm coming with, man.
We never wanted...
We never wanted. We...
- No, no, no! Mr. Avallone is in.
- No, we need...
- no condition to answer any questions.
- We need to speak to with Mr. Avallone.
Yeah, because clearly you sedated him.
He was extremely agitated.
That woman attacked him, and he
was far from stable to begin with.
This, royal "we" stuff,
is he completely delusional, or...?
Charles has an adaptive fantasy,
- an imaginary friend.
- Yeah, well, we aren't so sure, you know.
Charles' friend might be real after all.
Hey, look, look. The woman...
who attacked Charles
is named Emily Byrne.
She's wanted for multiple homicide,
and she's kidnapped my wife and my son.
He may know something that
could help us find them.
He and Emily grew up together
in state care, at Barrett House.
But Charles has been here at
Edgewater, for more than 10 years,
- I don't know how...
- I'm sorry, I don't have time for this.
- Hey... hey, hey!
- Why else... why else
- would Emily come all this way?
- Hey, hey.
Relax, man.
Let me handle this.
Okay?
Sorry, it's Um...
this guy,
Doctor Shen, MIT scientist,
he was, um... experimenting
on kids at Barrett House.
We've listened to his tapes,
interviews with... with the subjects.
Um, Charles was one of
them, and there was at least,
one other kid.
And you think that child,
- is Charles' imaginary friend?
- Yes.
Subject B.
Charles was, Subject A.
Okay, he needs time to recover.
- How much time?
- Well,
come back tomorrow.
We don't... we don't have a day.
We may not even have hours.
Shen ended up in a grave
with five other bodies,
eyelids cut off. That's the signature
of Conrad Harlow, a known...
serial killer.
Now, I've looked at who pays the bills
- for Charles here at Edgewater...
- That's a family trust.
It's been that way since the beginning.
Are you aware that this trust is,
linked with Conrad Harlow?
Your Subject B,
you think it's Emily Byrne
and you need Charles
to confirm that, right?
Yes. I just...
II just wanna find my family.
Housekeeping.
Housekeeping.
Hey!
Get out of the way! Get out of the way!
Hey! Stop that woman! Grab her!
Stop her!
Hey, stop! Ma'am!
She locked the door! Shit!
- There she is!
- Hey! Stop!
- Dios mío.
- Stop!
Don't move! Don't move! Get up!
Open the door! Now, come here!
Get over there! Come on, let's go!
Go, go, go! Hurry up!
In! Now, now, move,
move. You too, honey.
Goddammit, get over here. Don't move.
Don't move.
- Em, talk to me.
- Hey.
I found a company called "TriKing".
They make, tanks and aquariums.
I need you to track 'em down.
What do they have to
do with whoever has Flynn?
I think they made the tank that held me.
I need to find out who ordered
it and where it was sent.
Okay. TriKing. I'm on it.
Okay.
There's a switch! Switch!
Let's go.
Mom! No! Mom!
Mom!
Maybe we should call it a night?
You saw Captain Spaceman over there.
I don't think we're gonna get
anything out of him.
- That's Crown.
- Yeah.
- Yeah?
- We got results on the bodies.
Two names you know:
Belson and Drummond, two
of Harlow's first victims.
The others are in advanced decomp,
Whitman says fifteen years.
Wait, wait, wait, where
was Harlow back then?
That's the problem.
Conrad Harlow was in
Zurich from 2000 to 2005,
at least according to his passport.
We need to see if he had any
known associates back then.
Way ahead of you.
Ericson tracked down an old girlfriend
of Harlow's from grad school.
She filed a sexual assault
charge with campus police.
- It mentions two attackers.
- Any names?
The file was buried by the DA.
I'm gonna interview the girlfriend now.
All good. And we're waiting on Charles.
- This is gonna be fun.
- Actually, we're about to visit with him.
Call you later.
We wanted to talk
to you about the woman who,
came visit you, today.
- No.
- Wait, wait, wait.
It's okay. It's okay, Charles.
Okay, no... no problem, no problem.
Hey, buddy, buddy. Hey. Hey, hey, hey.
- Hey. Sorry, buddy. Sorry.
- It's okay.
How about we talk about
your, your friend?
Charles,
sounds like you two were close.
Yeah, we take care of each other.
Did you, um...
It's okay. It's okay.
You keep each other's secrets?
Sometimes.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
I have a friend like that.
A friend who I keep secrets for.
What kind of secrets?
Sometimes...
my friend isn't very nice.
Sometimes, she's...
she's kind of mean.
Yeah, my friend is kind of mean too.
- Yeah.
- To other people?
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
To you?
Hey, it's okay.
That's hard.
It's hard when you care
about someone who's mean.
Yeah.
Did your friend ever get
angry with Dr. Shen?
We don't wanna talk about that.
- Did Dr. Shen hurt you?
- Yeah.
Your friend?
Did your friend hurt Dr. Shen back?
I'm not supposed to say.
I'm not supposed to say.
Maybe we should... we could
check on him, make sure he's okay.
I don't care if he's
hurt. He hurt us first.
Well, then, we... we should
find him and lock him up.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, make sure he
never hurts anyone else again.
He hurt so many...
so many children.
Wwas... was there candy in
the air when they got hurt?
- And I said something about that.
- Yeah, yeah.
That's how Dr. Shen tricks you.
"Thethethe air is fullfull of candy.'"
And I tried to eat it.
And... and he lies.
He always says you can
have the candy later, but,
there wasn't any candy.
- There was never any candy.
- It's okay, Charles.
- It's okay. That's enough.
- Wait, wait, wait, wait.
- No, no, no, it's okay.
- No, that's enough.
It's okay. It's okay.
Thank you. Thank you. Come on.
It's okay.
It's okay.
What are you doing, man?
He was starting to talk.
I know. I know. I know. But I
think we got what we needed.
- Do you remember the molasses flood?
- That urban legend?
Well, it's not an urban legend.
100 years ago...
a storage tank exploded
and flooded the North End
with 2 million gallons of molasses.
The North End doesn't
smell like molasses.
No, not so much anymore.
But back in the 1990's...
when they ripped everything
up from the big dig, it did.
After the explosion, the factory
turned into a warehouse.
- Perfect for torturing kids.
- Yeah. Or holding my family.
Hey. What did you find?
Do you know I could go to jail
for helping her like this?
Yeah, don't worry,
you'll get your exclusive.
What I found is better than that.
Look, Jack, I do want that
interview, but I can't sit on this.
I mean, I can give you...
half a day maybe, but then I publish.
What do you mean? Sit on what, Laurie?
What the hell did you find?
Hey. You find anything?
- I did. But, Em...
- What?
Just say it, Jack.
TriKing made the tank 7 years ago,
- they had it delivered to the North End.
- Okay, where?
978 Commercial Street. Suite 209.
And who ordered it?
Jack?
You did, Em.
It was you.
No, that's not possible.
I saw the invoice myself.
You signed it.
It's forged.
I'm going there.
And I'm gonna find Flynn.
Thank you.
Some things are better left in the past.
There are lives at stake
in the present, Ms. Wheelock.
You never know what might help.
We were young people experimenting.
Things got out of hand.
That's not what you put
in the record you filed.
- The Harlows were a powerful family.
- Not anymore.
You can talk to me.
Conrad and I had broken
up a year before.
It was amicable.
Then we bumped into each
other, made plans for a drink.
We were back at his place,
he had a friend join us.
Then...
I blacked out.
It's only images.
This friend...
I need a name.
Harlow may have had
an accomplice in his murders.
He wasn't always some monster.
Conrad I knew, before that night...
he was sensitive.
He was in pain.
Something hurt him.
What?
He'd never say.
Something in his family.
I still need the name of the
other man who assaulted you.
Who said it was a man?
Survive.
There's nothing here.
What?
What is it?
Nick?
Durand!
That's the mask Emily drew.
No eyelids.
The children Shen held in those rooms
would have seen this.
It's not Harlow.
The children who saw these masks
had the idea way before
Harlow ever got involved.
Jesus!
I've had it wrong since the beginning.
Since he called me that night.
Emily's not Harlow's accomplice...
but she could be his mentor.
Durand.
Nick, I'm over from the cabin. I
was sent here by whoever has them.
They're underground.
- Emily, stay there.
- No, Nick. Listen.
Whoever planned this has eyes.
If they see an army coming
Flynn will die, Alice will die...
I need you to come alone.
You can cuff me after, I don't care.
You have my word.
Okay.
I'll come alone.
Okay, I'm about 200 meters
north of the cabin.
There's an open tunnel.
I'll leave you my scarf as a sign.
Transcribed & synced
by kinglouisxx & chamallow.