Cracked (2013–…): Season 1, Episode 3 - What We Can't See - full transcript
Psych Crimes and Crises is sent to an elementary school where eleven year old Blessing Byers, constantly bullied by her classmates, has just beaten several of them with a baseball bat in a manic rage after their latest torment. On this day, she has scrawled several words on herself, most with religious overtones, the most prominent being the word "truth" on her forehead. As she seems to have a fear of the police, Aidan and Daniella try to portray themselves as anything but. They want to do a psychological assessment as something is obviously troubling her, but her single mother, Marcy Byers, also seems suspicious of authority in general and does not allow it. The team finds that the Byers, which also includes a younger daughter Eve (Marcy's older daughter Shauna, apparently died a few years earlier) have led a nomadic life the past five years, moving from motel to motel after selling their house. An incident that evening leads the team to believe that Marcy has passed onto Blessing whatever emotional issue she herself is facing, as that incident on the surface is a shared psychotic delusion between mother and daughter. One person may be able to assist in uncovering what Marcy and Blessing are facing, which in turn they hope will lead to salvation most specifically for Blessing. Meanwhile, Aidan speaks to an in-house psychologist about his own emotional issues. And Daniella reconsiders her agreement with Diane regarding reporting to her about Aidan.
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- Is he hurt?
Tell me. What the hell?
You drew your weapon
unprovoked on a man with a mental illness.
You chicken?
Who better to catch
criminals that are bananas
than a cop up high in a banana tree?
Symptoms of post-traumatic stress.
I work with the police.
- Aiden, stop!
- Officer down. Send an ambulance.
- You called me "officer".
- You're my partner.
(school bell)
(bicycle bell)
(kids talking excitedly)
Ian?
You dropped this.
Hey, uh, Blessing,
we're kinda short; we
need someone on third.
Do you want to come?
Come on, it'll be fun.
Come on, follow me.
- Hey, Blessing, come here.
- Oh, no, not her. She's useless.
Come on, you can be up. Blessing's
gonna play with us, guys.
It'll be fine.
You ever play baseball before?
This is pointless.
Game on. You got it.
(kids laughing)
Stop.
(kids laughing)
Stop!
What's that writing on your head, freak?
- Loooser!
- Stop!
- Come on.
- You bat like a wimp!
(kids teasing and laughing)
What's the matter, Blessing?
You don't want to play anymore?
(Blessing screaming) Ah!
(Blessing screaming) Ah! Ah! Ah!
♪
♪ I got out of bed today ♪
♪ Swear to God I couldn't see my face ♪
♪ I got out of bed today ♪
♪ Staring at a ghost ♪
♪ Oh, have you seen my ghost? ♪
♪ Seen my ghost? Seen my ghost? ♪
♪ Oh, have you seen my ghost ♪
♪ Staring at the ground? ♪
♪ Na na na na na na na ♪
(door opening and closing)
So, I hear you're in a new unit.
Psych Crimes and Crisis.
How's that going?
Psych Crimes is like an experiment.
It's cops partnered with
touchy-feely people like you.
And we just go out and
look for those places where
curious behaviour meets crime.
Hm.
I'm kind of out of my element.
Or... maybe I'm in it.
I'm not sure anymore.
You have a new partner?
Yeah.
And?
What?
A good partnership requires
trust above all else.
Do you trust your partner?
Well, she's not a cop, doesn't carry a gun,
and she's probably not
strong enough to drag me
out of the line of fire if I was hurt.
But... the word "trust" implies a lack
of factual evidence to support itself...
no facts to back it up.
Do you trust your partner, Aiden?
Do you trust her with your life?
Hi. Daniella Ridley, Psychiatrist.
- Detective Black.
- I'm McCarthy, Youth Bureau.
You got briefed? You've got a female youth,
attacked her classmates
with a baseball bat?
Seventeen broken bones in five kids.
One boy has a concussion.
- What prompted the attack?
- Well, see for yourselves.
Girl's in there.
She took one look at me and pissed herself.
OK, take off your vest.
I'll run 'em to the car.
Some kids are scared of cops. So,
she's sitting in there with wet pants?
- Yeah.
- Could you, I don't know,
run to the Lost and Found
and grab some gym shorts
or something that looks like her size?
What are you smiling at? I mean, really,
who wants to wear damp pants?
(door opening)
Are you Blessing?
Cops?
I'm not a cop.
I'm Daniella, and this is Aidan.
Hey, Blessing.
I, uh, I see you've got
some words written on you...
"Truth", "Choose me", "Come for me".
Did you write those by yourself?
Can you tell us what that
means? Hey, Blessing, it's ok.
We're not going to hurt you.
We just want to know what happened today
and why things got so out
of control playing baseball.
Blessing, those words on you,
they sound like things that
people talk about at church.
Do you go to church? Are
those words meant for God?
Can you tell us what the words mean?
Ow!
Oh! I have some dust
or something in my eye.
- Ow!
- Oh, here, let me get it.
Uh, I think I need to find a mirror.
Blessing, can you show me
where the girls' washroom is?
Ow! Ow, ow, ow.
Ow.
See anything?
- No.
- Now?
Wait.
Actually... I think it's gone. Yay!
These should be your size.
So, Blessing,
what happened today on
the baseball diamond?
The kids at this school...
I just hate them.
What do they do that makes you hate them?
They tease me, make me mad.
Today you decided to come to school
with words on your skin.
Does that have anything to
do with them teasing you?
Blessing, tell me why you decided
to write words on your skin.
I wish to refrain from
speaking now, thank you.
Thank you very much, but no.
Mrs. Byers, it wouldn't take much
time at all to assess Blessing.
- It would just be a conversation.
- Thank you, and no.
For instance, Dr. Ridley, she would just
ask her what happened today at school,
- why she wrote those words on her skin.
- What words?
I don't know anything about
those words. Thank you.
Hey, little one. What's
your name? My name's Leo.
Here she comes.
How was your first ride
in a cop car, Blessing?
- Fast and loud.
- Is that your mom?
Thank you very much. We'll go home now.
We brought her here so
that I could assess her.
I tried talking to her mom
about it, but she would not
have... she just wouldn't consent.
Wait! We can give you a ride home.
- Thank you, we'll take the bus.
- We're going your way anyway.
You the motel manager?
- Yeah.
- We're with the police.
The people in room five,
what do you know about 'em?
Woman and kids?
Short term emergency housing thing.
How long's the emergency been going on?
Five... five months?
Well, look, uh,
if you see or hear
anything weirder than usual,
give me a call.
(cartoon playing on TV)
Hello, Eve.
Truth. Come for me.
Choose me.
Please come. Please, please come now.
Please.
(gasping and laughing)
(cell phone vibrating)
Yeah.
Mom, it was supposed to be me!
(knocking on door)
(Daniella): Marci?
We got a call from the motel manager.
- What's going on?
- Marci, what happened here?
- Truth came.
- Blessing.
Blessing, who's Truth?
Did someone come in here?
Ok, uh, you got another
kid, the five-year-old.
Where is she?
(Blessing whimpering)
(Blessing crying)
Marci, the door's been
kicked open, it's four
in the morning, your
little girl's not here.
Now you tell me where she is right now!
Or tell me to start worrying!
They received my message.
- Don't listen to her.
- Who received your message?
They came from... out there.
Out there?
You don't mean the parking lot, do you?
Did someone come in here
and grab your sister?
Blessing.
Truth came.
It chose Eve instead of me.
She was taken up to the sky tonight.
By the Greys.
Aliens.
The girls' father?
- Passed.
- Husband?
- Never wanted one.
- Ever have one?
He walked out six years ago.
Any other kids?
My oldest daughter, Shauna,
was hit by a car when it was... Halloween.
She's dead.
I'm sorry.
You must miss her.
Yes.
Marci, uh, someone broke
into your motel room
and took your youngest daughter,
and this doesn't appear to bother you.
Does it bother you?
Were you even there?
Yes.
And you didn't try to stop it.
I wish to refrain from
speaking now, thank you.
When your sister was taken,
when the Greys came,
could you feel the bed underneath you?
No.
I was sort of floating
really slowly, like an astronaut.
Did they communicate?
Did they make any sounds?
Blessing,
I'd like to know a little
bit more about the Greys.
Do they look like us?
The Greys have no hair,
like, at all, on themselves.
And their skin is sort
of a mix, whitish-grey.
Can you see them in your imagination?
So, Marci and hubby divorced six years ago.
She works cash at Food Cadet,
but then quits when Eve's born.
And then there's this...
gaping hole. She sells
the house, sells the car,
they live in rentals, change schools,
and for the last year and a half it's been
motel to motel.
There's lots of family
pictures, but no recent ones.
Something happened to this family
about five years ago, changed their lives.
If that's Blessing
when she was a kid and Eve as a baby,
that the dead one?
I see the Greys... all the time.
Do you see them now?
(Aiden): She's psychotic?
How does that even
happen to an 11-year-old?
Could be the start to schizophrenia,
seizures... drugs...
impaired developmental process.
Yeah, I call developmental.
Who wouldn't wanna live in a
fantasy land of little grey men
if Marci was her mom?
(cell phone vibrating)
One dead.
One missing.
And now you're willing
to lose Blessing too.
- Why would I lose Blessing?
- She's sick.
She needs to be committed
to a psychiatric hospital.
She sees little creatures running around
that aren't there. It's imagination.
At age three it's imagination; at
age 11, doctors got a name for it.
She's psychotic.
And you haven't noticed?
You slacking off, Mom?
She's not psy...
She sees things.
She took a baseball bat
to five of her classmates,
and you don't think she needs help?!
I mean, tell me, Marci,
why shouldn't we commit her
to a psychiatric hospital right now?
Because... she's not sick.
She has...
she has faith.
And her faith has transcended
unto Truth unknown.
The aliens she sees...
you don't see them, but that
doesn't mean that they're not there.
The Greys are real.
They took Eve with them back to their home.
Blessing and me were wrapped
in the light of the Greys,
and... when we could see again...
Eve was gone.
You see aliens too.
Parents are a kid's whole world, right?
So if Mom starts seeing aliens...
Yeah, it's possible.
You know, there's a
type of shared psychosis
called folie en famille...
madness within the family.
Is that like if one person
is experiencing delusions,
the other people start
experiencing delusions vicariously?
And the Byers family,
they live close quarters,
move around a lot, so it makes
sense that they would have
very close relationships within the family
and few or none outside.
It's possible Blessing could have
absorbed her mother's psychosis.
And they both described the
abduction in exactly the same way...
they were bathed in the light of the Greys.
And when they could
see again, Eve was gone.
Same hallucination, same time,
two different people's heads.
Something external must
have triggered them.
Child Protection's on their
way for Blessing. Foster care.
Eve's kidnapping'll be hitting
the media right about now,
and Amber Alerts across the country.
- Thank you.
- Well, I don't think
we're going to find her
with flyers and milk cartons.
This is a different kind
of family. It's going
to require a different
investigative approach.
Poppy, you religious?
Religious abstainer. You?
Church every Sunday from foetus to 17.
Then I moved out of the
house. Nursing school,
Doctors Without Borders in the Philippines,
street children, and cue my shaken faith.
(dog barking outside)
Poppy.
This Bible... isn't.
Let's just hope it's not country.
Who's credited?
"Joy to the World Initiative.
A vision of a better place
"in which the cherished
are free to love and thrive,
free from the binds of
those who do not see."
(man): You cannot see
Truth until you are broken.
(people): Save us, Joy!
(Man): Confess to Joy the
dark and shapeless life
you have led. Joy will
take you from the lies.
Joy will take you to see Truth!
- Joy will save you!
- (People): Save us, Joy!
The Byers family... belongs to a cult.
(Caligra): Daniella, how's Aiden doing?
Inspector...
OK, you know, I'm not gonna
do this anymore for you.
I'm not gonna keep tabs
on Aiden's behaviour
or report his every move
for you, and I don't care
why you're asking or that you're worried.
He's my partner. He just saved my life,
and I'm not gonna live behind his back.
You're uncomfortable
with that, and I get it.
No, no, you don't, because
if you did, you wouldn't have
asked me in the first place.
Please don't ask me again.
Ok, uh, let's see...
you killed two people in
the line of duty last year.
And then you were transferred
out of Tactical because
you clucked like a chicken in public,
in uniform, for five minutes?
Ten.
Ok. And...
all of these psych assessments
were a special request of your boss,
Diane Caligra... Inspector Caligra.
Why would she do that?
Cause she's not gonna be
content until some shrink gives
her a name for whatever it is
that makes me different from her.
Well... they failed.
- They weren't able to name it, so...
- So you can give them
a slip of paper that tells
them that I'm fit for duty.
I know that you are
still fit for duty, Aiden.
But the question you
need to ask yourself is:
Are you still doing your job well?
(Daniella): The name of your church,
does it have another name?
(Blessing): The Four Suns Church.
(Daniella): Do you know where Joy lives?
(Blessing): When we go
there, they drive us in a van
- and we wear blindfolds.
- (Daniella): Oh.
Why do you have to be blindfolded?
I mean, why is Joy's place a secret?
If something amazing is
going to happen there, then...
And what if the other
people see the spaceship?
- How does it fly?
- I don't ask questions...
they open the door to discontent.
We ask questions to
understand things better.
If you want to know the truth,
I would think questions would be cherished.
When I was your age, and I felt confused
or like I didn't know what to believe
or what to think,
I would just go like this.
And it always made me feel like...
everything's going to be ok.
Joy to the World Initiative.
Found thousands of Joy to
the World organizations,
not one with a guy named Joy or
with a guy with the initials J-O-Y.
What do you got?
The Four Suns Church has
flown totally under the radar.
Yeah, but you've profiled guys before.
What's your sense of this Joy guy?
Well, imagine you're Marci.
Husband's left you with three kids.
You're feeling lonely and abandoned.
Along comes this Joy, and he's
probably all charm and confidence,
just the type of person
she wants to be like
or... or be with.
Yeah, it's like a seduction. The truth is,
he's a narcissist and a manipulator.
(phone ringing)
Detective Black.
(He clears his throat.)
It's a 911 call; they're
patching it through.
Hello.
You have Eve Byers? Where are you?
She's safe?
Can I speak with her?
Ok, yeah, we can do that.
But first, let me just ask you:
What was the pattern on
the t-shirt and shorts
she was wearing when you took her?
Ok, my partner and I will
meet you there in an hour.
But she wasn't wearing
t-shirts and shorts.
Yeah, and she knew that.
She was wearing pyjamas
with little pink flowers.
She's late, 10 minutes already.
Well, if she has Eve and
she has any connection
to the cult, I can imagine
why she would stand us up.
We're the enemy.
(dog barking)
(Man whistles.) (Man): Taxi! Taxi! Yo!
There.
Hi. I'm...
The girl from the picture,
the one who called us?
I'm Shauna Byers.
The dead sister.
Not so dead.
I was ex-communicated a
year ago because I started
to question the Truth.
They told everyone I was
dead, and they told me
that they would kill Blessing and
Eve if I ever contacted them again.
- Where is Eve?
- She's with my boyfriend,
and she's going to stay
with him until I'm sure
- that she's safe.
- Shauna, we're the police.
Eve is safest with us.
Please tell us where she is.
You don't want kidnapping and forcible
confinement charges against you.
Eve is fine,
but a lot of people won't be
if you don't listen to me now.
(Shauna sighs.)
I saw on TV that Blessing hurt those kids,
and Eve is so young.
My boyfriend and I had to
get her away from the family.
But not Blessing?
I think... maybe Blessing
is too far gone now.
With a good therapist and some time,
she could come back to our reality.
If you wanted to save Eve,
why didn't you just come
- to the police?
- Because
involving the police would
trigger the ascension.
My mom hates the police so much,
I thought if I just took her
she would have never called you,
But now with this Amber Alert it's
just made everything very public.
Ok, so this, uh, journey to the Four Suns,
is it supposed to happen soon?
Joy won't let the chosen be taken by
the enemy; He'll take them himself.
Where?
He'll take them to heaven.
So, Blessing left the foster
home where she was staying.
A neighbourhood kid said
she just got into a van.
I got the same from the shelter
where Marci was staying...
- she got into a van too.
- Does Shauna remember where the compound was?
She's been there a few times,
but she was blindfolded.
Well, memory doesn't
necessarily depend on sight.
Going somewhere kinda does.
I can try getting her to
recall the details of the route
going to the compound by
using every one of her senses
except for sight.
- You're a wizard, Leo?
- I'm a hypnotist.
I'm awesome.
If it doesn't work, we're no worse
off. Look, we have to do something fast.
(Aiden); Ok, Poppy, we're
ready at the Byers' old house.
[Good.]
She's just going under right now.
And when I snap, you're gonna fall asleep.
There's superglue trickling
in between your fingers.
Your hands are covered in it.
It's drying fast, and you can't
pull your hands apart, can you?
And now the glue is washed away.
Put your hands down.
Ok, guys,
looks like she's ready for driving.
You're blindfolded.
You're in the van.
Where are you seated?
In the back seat on the left.
Bucket seat.
Shauna,
I want you to tell me every
tiny detail of your experience...
everything you hear, smell, and feel. Ok?
Here we go.
Guys,
- we're driving.
- (Aiden): So are we.
Which way are you turning out the driveway?
Left.
Left out the driveway.
- (Aiden): Gotcha. What's next?
- (Leo): And now?
Slowing down at the corner.
I can hear the turn
signal going "click click".
We're turning right.
(Daniella): We're making a right,
Poppy, onto Billingston Road.
Brothers and sisters, welcome, welcome.
Please enjoy the food and the drink.
We have a long journey ahead of us.
I want us all to have our strength.
Blessing, Blessing, before you sit, come,
come to me baby, come to me.
Blessing.
Blessing.
You brought the police down upon us.
- We don't do that, Blessing.
- (Crying): Sorry.
Joy, just...
Joy, please don't... don't leave me behind.
We do not show our
tears. You call them back.
(Both take a deep breath.)
That's good.
That's good. You can go to your mother now.
Now, brothers and sisters,
can we join our hands together,
please, for... a final blessing?
Although many are not coming with us today,
we are going to another
plane, another place.
I hear... trees, like wind in the trees.
Some birds. You guys
got trees on either side?
Got 'em. Got trees.
[Ok, now what, Poppy?]
I don't know, she's just
driving straight I think.
Blessing, come, come,
come, come, come, come.
Blessing, I'm gonna ask you
to take a very important
part of the ceremony today.
Aren't you happy?
Thank you.
Aren't you grateful for my forgiveness?
Yes. Thank you.
Good.
It's time.
It's time, people. (Man):
It's time! It's time!
It is time for the cherished to fly!
(men and women): It's time!
(Joy): This meek, tremulous
flame is power, is light,
is heat. What else is it?
- (Blessing): It is Truth.
- (Joy): It is Truth.
(Aiden): What's next,
Poppy? Where do we turn?
It's echoey in here,
and... I can hear water, like a stream.
Echoey. It'll have to be mostly enclosed,
like at the mouth of a canyon or something.
Under a bridge?
Yeah, there it is.
Yep, little babbling brook in here.
What's happening, Shauna?
We're stopping.
I can hear... squeaking.
What kind of squeaking?
A gate. It's an iron gate and it's opening.
Poppy: [Do you guys see an iron gate?]
There. Daniella, look. A gate.
[We got it!]
This is Papa Charlie One.
Use GPS to determine location.
Send every available paramedic
and cop in the area here now.
Tell Leo [thanks, Poppy.]
(group): Take us, Joy.
Take us, Joy.
Take us, Joy.
You think you have seen
the Truth with your eyes,
you think you have seen
Truth with your eyes
and touched it with your hands, but
we remain in ignorance until we have
passed through this journey.
And we don't belong in
this world of... the enemy.
Brothers and sisters... today...
we will fly together!
(group): Take us, Joy!
We are ready...
to come into your embrace.
It's locked.
Here we go.
(whispering): Stay here.
(group): Take us, Joy.
Take us, Truth.
Ahhh. Oh... light, oh... Truth.
We offer ourselves to your embrace.
(woman): Save us.
- What is this?
- The Greys move through me.
You do not have to question me.
Just obey.
I heard questions help us get to Truth.
No, questions open the door to discontent.
This world hurts, Blessing.
Come with us, away... to Truth.
You deserve a better world.
Open.
Propanol.
It's a general anaesthetic vets use.
It induces a deep sleep.
So they don't panic
when they realize they're
not going to outer space.
That's good.
Good.
Good.
Where are they?
Where are they?
Silo.
Wait a minute.
Let's go.
I can't see anything.
Whatever your name really is, Joy,
put your hands behind your back.
Truth, come for me now.
Come for me now, Truth,
for me now. Come for me,
choose me now, come for me.
You're under arrest
for the attempted murder
- of 20 people.
- I'm ready now, Truth,
I'm ready now. I'm ready now, Truth,
come for me now. Come for me, Truth.
Just so you know, nobody's coming for you.
I've got a pulse.
If you knew the enemy was coming,
why didn't you set them free?
Because they wouldn't
have survived without me.
They need me too much.
(siren approaching)
I cannot find Truth until I am broken.
I must confess the dark and
shapeless life that I have led.
Joy, Joy, take me from my lies.
♪ Calling it quits ♪
♪ You think this is easy ♪
♪ I swear I hurt ♪
♪ You call in the jury ♪
♪ Call it a catch ♪
♪ Without any strings attached ♪
♪ Well, I'm looking for ♪
♪ A soft place to land ♪
- Hey.
- * The forest floor *
♪ The palms of your hands ♪
♪ I'm looking for ♪
♪ A soft place to land ♪
(Aiden): Blind faith in an
idea or a person or a partner,
it's foolish.
But it just shows how people
have this deep, desperate need
to connect, to belong, to
be accepted into a community.
♪ You've got to believe me ♪
♪ But you're calling me names ♪
♪ And not to my face ♪
(Aiden): They'd rather believe in
something untrue than not have answers.
♪ A bluff without calling it off... ♪
(Aiden): So, no hard facts,
no reason, no evidence...
they fall on trust.
Your partner.
What was the question?
Your partner, does she trust you?
I don't know.
I guess I...
I get the feeling from her that, yeah, I...
I think she does.
One more time, Aiden:
Do you reciprocate that trust,
even though you feel like
you don't know her very well?
Do you trust her?
Do you trust her?
Daniella, this is for his own good.
Come on, you get that.
Yeah, I do.
Ok, so...
you'll keep me in the loop
about Aiden's behaviour.
Do you trust her?
- Is he hurt?
Tell me. What the hell?
You drew your weapon
unprovoked on a man with a mental illness.
You chicken?
Who better to catch
criminals that are bananas
than a cop up high in a banana tree?
Symptoms of post-traumatic stress.
I work with the police.
- Aiden, stop!
- Officer down. Send an ambulance.
- You called me "officer".
- You're my partner.
(school bell)
(bicycle bell)
(kids talking excitedly)
Ian?
You dropped this.
Hey, uh, Blessing,
we're kinda short; we
need someone on third.
Do you want to come?
Come on, it'll be fun.
Come on, follow me.
- Hey, Blessing, come here.
- Oh, no, not her. She's useless.
Come on, you can be up. Blessing's
gonna play with us, guys.
It'll be fine.
You ever play baseball before?
This is pointless.
Game on. You got it.
(kids laughing)
Stop.
(kids laughing)
Stop!
What's that writing on your head, freak?
- Loooser!
- Stop!
- Come on.
- You bat like a wimp!
(kids teasing and laughing)
What's the matter, Blessing?
You don't want to play anymore?
(Blessing screaming) Ah!
(Blessing screaming) Ah! Ah! Ah!
♪
♪ I got out of bed today ♪
♪ Swear to God I couldn't see my face ♪
♪ I got out of bed today ♪
♪ Staring at a ghost ♪
♪ Oh, have you seen my ghost? ♪
♪ Seen my ghost? Seen my ghost? ♪
♪ Oh, have you seen my ghost ♪
♪ Staring at the ground? ♪
♪ Na na na na na na na ♪
(door opening and closing)
So, I hear you're in a new unit.
Psych Crimes and Crisis.
How's that going?
Psych Crimes is like an experiment.
It's cops partnered with
touchy-feely people like you.
And we just go out and
look for those places where
curious behaviour meets crime.
Hm.
I'm kind of out of my element.
Or... maybe I'm in it.
I'm not sure anymore.
You have a new partner?
Yeah.
And?
What?
A good partnership requires
trust above all else.
Do you trust your partner?
Well, she's not a cop, doesn't carry a gun,
and she's probably not
strong enough to drag me
out of the line of fire if I was hurt.
But... the word "trust" implies a lack
of factual evidence to support itself...
no facts to back it up.
Do you trust your partner, Aiden?
Do you trust her with your life?
Hi. Daniella Ridley, Psychiatrist.
- Detective Black.
- I'm McCarthy, Youth Bureau.
You got briefed? You've got a female youth,
attacked her classmates
with a baseball bat?
Seventeen broken bones in five kids.
One boy has a concussion.
- What prompted the attack?
- Well, see for yourselves.
Girl's in there.
She took one look at me and pissed herself.
OK, take off your vest.
I'll run 'em to the car.
Some kids are scared of cops. So,
she's sitting in there with wet pants?
- Yeah.
- Could you, I don't know,
run to the Lost and Found
and grab some gym shorts
or something that looks like her size?
What are you smiling at? I mean, really,
who wants to wear damp pants?
(door opening)
Are you Blessing?
Cops?
I'm not a cop.
I'm Daniella, and this is Aidan.
Hey, Blessing.
I, uh, I see you've got
some words written on you...
"Truth", "Choose me", "Come for me".
Did you write those by yourself?
Can you tell us what that
means? Hey, Blessing, it's ok.
We're not going to hurt you.
We just want to know what happened today
and why things got so out
of control playing baseball.
Blessing, those words on you,
they sound like things that
people talk about at church.
Do you go to church? Are
those words meant for God?
Can you tell us what the words mean?
Ow!
Oh! I have some dust
or something in my eye.
- Ow!
- Oh, here, let me get it.
Uh, I think I need to find a mirror.
Blessing, can you show me
where the girls' washroom is?
Ow! Ow, ow, ow.
Ow.
See anything?
- No.
- Now?
Wait.
Actually... I think it's gone. Yay!
These should be your size.
So, Blessing,
what happened today on
the baseball diamond?
The kids at this school...
I just hate them.
What do they do that makes you hate them?
They tease me, make me mad.
Today you decided to come to school
with words on your skin.
Does that have anything to
do with them teasing you?
Blessing, tell me why you decided
to write words on your skin.
I wish to refrain from
speaking now, thank you.
Thank you very much, but no.
Mrs. Byers, it wouldn't take much
time at all to assess Blessing.
- It would just be a conversation.
- Thank you, and no.
For instance, Dr. Ridley, she would just
ask her what happened today at school,
- why she wrote those words on her skin.
- What words?
I don't know anything about
those words. Thank you.
Hey, little one. What's
your name? My name's Leo.
Here she comes.
How was your first ride
in a cop car, Blessing?
- Fast and loud.
- Is that your mom?
Thank you very much. We'll go home now.
We brought her here so
that I could assess her.
I tried talking to her mom
about it, but she would not
have... she just wouldn't consent.
Wait! We can give you a ride home.
- Thank you, we'll take the bus.
- We're going your way anyway.
You the motel manager?
- Yeah.
- We're with the police.
The people in room five,
what do you know about 'em?
Woman and kids?
Short term emergency housing thing.
How long's the emergency been going on?
Five... five months?
Well, look, uh,
if you see or hear
anything weirder than usual,
give me a call.
(cartoon playing on TV)
Hello, Eve.
Truth. Come for me.
Choose me.
Please come. Please, please come now.
Please.
(gasping and laughing)
(cell phone vibrating)
Yeah.
Mom, it was supposed to be me!
(knocking on door)
(Daniella): Marci?
We got a call from the motel manager.
- What's going on?
- Marci, what happened here?
- Truth came.
- Blessing.
Blessing, who's Truth?
Did someone come in here?
Ok, uh, you got another
kid, the five-year-old.
Where is she?
(Blessing whimpering)
(Blessing crying)
Marci, the door's been
kicked open, it's four
in the morning, your
little girl's not here.
Now you tell me where she is right now!
Or tell me to start worrying!
They received my message.
- Don't listen to her.
- Who received your message?
They came from... out there.
Out there?
You don't mean the parking lot, do you?
Did someone come in here
and grab your sister?
Blessing.
Truth came.
It chose Eve instead of me.
She was taken up to the sky tonight.
By the Greys.
Aliens.
The girls' father?
- Passed.
- Husband?
- Never wanted one.
- Ever have one?
He walked out six years ago.
Any other kids?
My oldest daughter, Shauna,
was hit by a car when it was... Halloween.
She's dead.
I'm sorry.
You must miss her.
Yes.
Marci, uh, someone broke
into your motel room
and took your youngest daughter,
and this doesn't appear to bother you.
Does it bother you?
Were you even there?
Yes.
And you didn't try to stop it.
I wish to refrain from
speaking now, thank you.
When your sister was taken,
when the Greys came,
could you feel the bed underneath you?
No.
I was sort of floating
really slowly, like an astronaut.
Did they communicate?
Did they make any sounds?
Blessing,
I'd like to know a little
bit more about the Greys.
Do they look like us?
The Greys have no hair,
like, at all, on themselves.
And their skin is sort
of a mix, whitish-grey.
Can you see them in your imagination?
So, Marci and hubby divorced six years ago.
She works cash at Food Cadet,
but then quits when Eve's born.
And then there's this...
gaping hole. She sells
the house, sells the car,
they live in rentals, change schools,
and for the last year and a half it's been
motel to motel.
There's lots of family
pictures, but no recent ones.
Something happened to this family
about five years ago, changed their lives.
If that's Blessing
when she was a kid and Eve as a baby,
that the dead one?
I see the Greys... all the time.
Do you see them now?
(Aiden): She's psychotic?
How does that even
happen to an 11-year-old?
Could be the start to schizophrenia,
seizures... drugs...
impaired developmental process.
Yeah, I call developmental.
Who wouldn't wanna live in a
fantasy land of little grey men
if Marci was her mom?
(cell phone vibrating)
One dead.
One missing.
And now you're willing
to lose Blessing too.
- Why would I lose Blessing?
- She's sick.
She needs to be committed
to a psychiatric hospital.
She sees little creatures running around
that aren't there. It's imagination.
At age three it's imagination; at
age 11, doctors got a name for it.
She's psychotic.
And you haven't noticed?
You slacking off, Mom?
She's not psy...
She sees things.
She took a baseball bat
to five of her classmates,
and you don't think she needs help?!
I mean, tell me, Marci,
why shouldn't we commit her
to a psychiatric hospital right now?
Because... she's not sick.
She has...
she has faith.
And her faith has transcended
unto Truth unknown.
The aliens she sees...
you don't see them, but that
doesn't mean that they're not there.
The Greys are real.
They took Eve with them back to their home.
Blessing and me were wrapped
in the light of the Greys,
and... when we could see again...
Eve was gone.
You see aliens too.
Parents are a kid's whole world, right?
So if Mom starts seeing aliens...
Yeah, it's possible.
You know, there's a
type of shared psychosis
called folie en famille...
madness within the family.
Is that like if one person
is experiencing delusions,
the other people start
experiencing delusions vicariously?
And the Byers family,
they live close quarters,
move around a lot, so it makes
sense that they would have
very close relationships within the family
and few or none outside.
It's possible Blessing could have
absorbed her mother's psychosis.
And they both described the
abduction in exactly the same way...
they were bathed in the light of the Greys.
And when they could
see again, Eve was gone.
Same hallucination, same time,
two different people's heads.
Something external must
have triggered them.
Child Protection's on their
way for Blessing. Foster care.
Eve's kidnapping'll be hitting
the media right about now,
and Amber Alerts across the country.
- Thank you.
- Well, I don't think
we're going to find her
with flyers and milk cartons.
This is a different kind
of family. It's going
to require a different
investigative approach.
Poppy, you religious?
Religious abstainer. You?
Church every Sunday from foetus to 17.
Then I moved out of the
house. Nursing school,
Doctors Without Borders in the Philippines,
street children, and cue my shaken faith.
(dog barking outside)
Poppy.
This Bible... isn't.
Let's just hope it's not country.
Who's credited?
"Joy to the World Initiative.
A vision of a better place
"in which the cherished
are free to love and thrive,
free from the binds of
those who do not see."
(man): You cannot see
Truth until you are broken.
(people): Save us, Joy!
(Man): Confess to Joy the
dark and shapeless life
you have led. Joy will
take you from the lies.
Joy will take you to see Truth!
- Joy will save you!
- (People): Save us, Joy!
The Byers family... belongs to a cult.
(Caligra): Daniella, how's Aiden doing?
Inspector...
OK, you know, I'm not gonna
do this anymore for you.
I'm not gonna keep tabs
on Aiden's behaviour
or report his every move
for you, and I don't care
why you're asking or that you're worried.
He's my partner. He just saved my life,
and I'm not gonna live behind his back.
You're uncomfortable
with that, and I get it.
No, no, you don't, because
if you did, you wouldn't have
asked me in the first place.
Please don't ask me again.
Ok, uh, let's see...
you killed two people in
the line of duty last year.
And then you were transferred
out of Tactical because
you clucked like a chicken in public,
in uniform, for five minutes?
Ten.
Ok. And...
all of these psych assessments
were a special request of your boss,
Diane Caligra... Inspector Caligra.
Why would she do that?
Cause she's not gonna be
content until some shrink gives
her a name for whatever it is
that makes me different from her.
Well... they failed.
- They weren't able to name it, so...
- So you can give them
a slip of paper that tells
them that I'm fit for duty.
I know that you are
still fit for duty, Aiden.
But the question you
need to ask yourself is:
Are you still doing your job well?
(Daniella): The name of your church,
does it have another name?
(Blessing): The Four Suns Church.
(Daniella): Do you know where Joy lives?
(Blessing): When we go
there, they drive us in a van
- and we wear blindfolds.
- (Daniella): Oh.
Why do you have to be blindfolded?
I mean, why is Joy's place a secret?
If something amazing is
going to happen there, then...
And what if the other
people see the spaceship?
- How does it fly?
- I don't ask questions...
they open the door to discontent.
We ask questions to
understand things better.
If you want to know the truth,
I would think questions would be cherished.
When I was your age, and I felt confused
or like I didn't know what to believe
or what to think,
I would just go like this.
And it always made me feel like...
everything's going to be ok.
Joy to the World Initiative.
Found thousands of Joy to
the World organizations,
not one with a guy named Joy or
with a guy with the initials J-O-Y.
What do you got?
The Four Suns Church has
flown totally under the radar.
Yeah, but you've profiled guys before.
What's your sense of this Joy guy?
Well, imagine you're Marci.
Husband's left you with three kids.
You're feeling lonely and abandoned.
Along comes this Joy, and he's
probably all charm and confidence,
just the type of person
she wants to be like
or... or be with.
Yeah, it's like a seduction. The truth is,
he's a narcissist and a manipulator.
(phone ringing)
Detective Black.
(He clears his throat.)
It's a 911 call; they're
patching it through.
Hello.
You have Eve Byers? Where are you?
She's safe?
Can I speak with her?
Ok, yeah, we can do that.
But first, let me just ask you:
What was the pattern on
the t-shirt and shorts
she was wearing when you took her?
Ok, my partner and I will
meet you there in an hour.
But she wasn't wearing
t-shirts and shorts.
Yeah, and she knew that.
She was wearing pyjamas
with little pink flowers.
She's late, 10 minutes already.
Well, if she has Eve and
she has any connection
to the cult, I can imagine
why she would stand us up.
We're the enemy.
(dog barking)
(Man whistles.) (Man): Taxi! Taxi! Yo!
There.
Hi. I'm...
The girl from the picture,
the one who called us?
I'm Shauna Byers.
The dead sister.
Not so dead.
I was ex-communicated a
year ago because I started
to question the Truth.
They told everyone I was
dead, and they told me
that they would kill Blessing and
Eve if I ever contacted them again.
- Where is Eve?
- She's with my boyfriend,
and she's going to stay
with him until I'm sure
- that she's safe.
- Shauna, we're the police.
Eve is safest with us.
Please tell us where she is.
You don't want kidnapping and forcible
confinement charges against you.
Eve is fine,
but a lot of people won't be
if you don't listen to me now.
(Shauna sighs.)
I saw on TV that Blessing hurt those kids,
and Eve is so young.
My boyfriend and I had to
get her away from the family.
But not Blessing?
I think... maybe Blessing
is too far gone now.
With a good therapist and some time,
she could come back to our reality.
If you wanted to save Eve,
why didn't you just come
- to the police?
- Because
involving the police would
trigger the ascension.
My mom hates the police so much,
I thought if I just took her
she would have never called you,
But now with this Amber Alert it's
just made everything very public.
Ok, so this, uh, journey to the Four Suns,
is it supposed to happen soon?
Joy won't let the chosen be taken by
the enemy; He'll take them himself.
Where?
He'll take them to heaven.
So, Blessing left the foster
home where she was staying.
A neighbourhood kid said
she just got into a van.
I got the same from the shelter
where Marci was staying...
- she got into a van too.
- Does Shauna remember where the compound was?
She's been there a few times,
but she was blindfolded.
Well, memory doesn't
necessarily depend on sight.
Going somewhere kinda does.
I can try getting her to
recall the details of the route
going to the compound by
using every one of her senses
except for sight.
- You're a wizard, Leo?
- I'm a hypnotist.
I'm awesome.
If it doesn't work, we're no worse
off. Look, we have to do something fast.
(Aiden); Ok, Poppy, we're
ready at the Byers' old house.
[Good.]
She's just going under right now.
And when I snap, you're gonna fall asleep.
There's superglue trickling
in between your fingers.
Your hands are covered in it.
It's drying fast, and you can't
pull your hands apart, can you?
And now the glue is washed away.
Put your hands down.
Ok, guys,
looks like she's ready for driving.
You're blindfolded.
You're in the van.
Where are you seated?
In the back seat on the left.
Bucket seat.
Shauna,
I want you to tell me every
tiny detail of your experience...
everything you hear, smell, and feel. Ok?
Here we go.
Guys,
- we're driving.
- (Aiden): So are we.
Which way are you turning out the driveway?
Left.
Left out the driveway.
- (Aiden): Gotcha. What's next?
- (Leo): And now?
Slowing down at the corner.
I can hear the turn
signal going "click click".
We're turning right.
(Daniella): We're making a right,
Poppy, onto Billingston Road.
Brothers and sisters, welcome, welcome.
Please enjoy the food and the drink.
We have a long journey ahead of us.
I want us all to have our strength.
Blessing, Blessing, before you sit, come,
come to me baby, come to me.
Blessing.
Blessing.
You brought the police down upon us.
- We don't do that, Blessing.
- (Crying): Sorry.
Joy, just...
Joy, please don't... don't leave me behind.
We do not show our
tears. You call them back.
(Both take a deep breath.)
That's good.
That's good. You can go to your mother now.
Now, brothers and sisters,
can we join our hands together,
please, for... a final blessing?
Although many are not coming with us today,
we are going to another
plane, another place.
I hear... trees, like wind in the trees.
Some birds. You guys
got trees on either side?
Got 'em. Got trees.
[Ok, now what, Poppy?]
I don't know, she's just
driving straight I think.
Blessing, come, come,
come, come, come, come.
Blessing, I'm gonna ask you
to take a very important
part of the ceremony today.
Aren't you happy?
Thank you.
Aren't you grateful for my forgiveness?
Yes. Thank you.
Good.
It's time.
It's time, people. (Man):
It's time! It's time!
It is time for the cherished to fly!
(men and women): It's time!
(Joy): This meek, tremulous
flame is power, is light,
is heat. What else is it?
- (Blessing): It is Truth.
- (Joy): It is Truth.
(Aiden): What's next,
Poppy? Where do we turn?
It's echoey in here,
and... I can hear water, like a stream.
Echoey. It'll have to be mostly enclosed,
like at the mouth of a canyon or something.
Under a bridge?
Yeah, there it is.
Yep, little babbling brook in here.
What's happening, Shauna?
We're stopping.
I can hear... squeaking.
What kind of squeaking?
A gate. It's an iron gate and it's opening.
Poppy: [Do you guys see an iron gate?]
There. Daniella, look. A gate.
[We got it!]
This is Papa Charlie One.
Use GPS to determine location.
Send every available paramedic
and cop in the area here now.
Tell Leo [thanks, Poppy.]
(group): Take us, Joy.
Take us, Joy.
Take us, Joy.
You think you have seen
the Truth with your eyes,
you think you have seen
Truth with your eyes
and touched it with your hands, but
we remain in ignorance until we have
passed through this journey.
And we don't belong in
this world of... the enemy.
Brothers and sisters... today...
we will fly together!
(group): Take us, Joy!
We are ready...
to come into your embrace.
It's locked.
Here we go.
(whispering): Stay here.
(group): Take us, Joy.
Take us, Truth.
Ahhh. Oh... light, oh... Truth.
We offer ourselves to your embrace.
(woman): Save us.
- What is this?
- The Greys move through me.
You do not have to question me.
Just obey.
I heard questions help us get to Truth.
No, questions open the door to discontent.
This world hurts, Blessing.
Come with us, away... to Truth.
You deserve a better world.
Open.
Propanol.
It's a general anaesthetic vets use.
It induces a deep sleep.
So they don't panic
when they realize they're
not going to outer space.
That's good.
Good.
Good.
Where are they?
Where are they?
Silo.
Wait a minute.
Let's go.
I can't see anything.
Whatever your name really is, Joy,
put your hands behind your back.
Truth, come for me now.
Come for me now, Truth,
for me now. Come for me,
choose me now, come for me.
You're under arrest
for the attempted murder
- of 20 people.
- I'm ready now, Truth,
I'm ready now. I'm ready now, Truth,
come for me now. Come for me, Truth.
Just so you know, nobody's coming for you.
I've got a pulse.
If you knew the enemy was coming,
why didn't you set them free?
Because they wouldn't
have survived without me.
They need me too much.
(siren approaching)
I cannot find Truth until I am broken.
I must confess the dark and
shapeless life that I have led.
Joy, Joy, take me from my lies.
♪ Calling it quits ♪
♪ You think this is easy ♪
♪ I swear I hurt ♪
♪ You call in the jury ♪
♪ Call it a catch ♪
♪ Without any strings attached ♪
♪ Well, I'm looking for ♪
♪ A soft place to land ♪
- Hey.
- * The forest floor *
♪ The palms of your hands ♪
♪ I'm looking for ♪
♪ A soft place to land ♪
(Aiden): Blind faith in an
idea or a person or a partner,
it's foolish.
But it just shows how people
have this deep, desperate need
to connect, to belong, to
be accepted into a community.
♪ You've got to believe me ♪
♪ But you're calling me names ♪
♪ And not to my face ♪
(Aiden): They'd rather believe in
something untrue than not have answers.
♪ A bluff without calling it off... ♪
(Aiden): So, no hard facts,
no reason, no evidence...
they fall on trust.
Your partner.
What was the question?
Your partner, does she trust you?
I don't know.
I guess I...
I get the feeling from her that, yeah, I...
I think she does.
One more time, Aiden:
Do you reciprocate that trust,
even though you feel like
you don't know her very well?
Do you trust her?
Do you trust her?
Daniella, this is for his own good.
Come on, you get that.
Yeah, I do.
Ok, so...
you'll keep me in the loop
about Aiden's behaviour.
Do you trust her?