Numb3rs (2005–2010): Season 3, Episode 12 - Nine Wives - full transcript

♪ Love is a burning thing ♪

♪ And it makes a fiery ring ♪

♪ Bound by wild desire ♪

♪ I fell into a ring of fire ♪

♪ I fell into a
burning ring of fire ♪

♪ I went down, down, down,
and the flames went higher ♪

♪ And it burns, burns,
burns, the ring of fire ♪

♪ The ring of fire... ♪

Morning.

Hey, so we're going to be back

sometime Sunday night.



In time for dinner?

Well, it's a math
conference at Stanford.

So chances are we may
be a little late getting back.

We?

Amita and I, yeah,
we're driving together.

Oh, a romantic
weekend away, huh?

We will be driving
through wine country.

Well, you know what they say?

Central California has
some lovely cabernets.

See ya, kid.

♪ The ring of fire ♪

♪ The taste of
love is sweet... ♪

(hip-hop playing)

Hyah! Get out!



Get!

Lady? Lady?

Lady?

FBI?

Yeah, how you doing?

Rachel Willons, California
Bureau of Investigation.

Don Eppes. Colby Granger.

Abner Stone did this.

Did what?

Kidnapped the girl and beat her.

Abner Stone from
the polygamy cult?

He's one of the fugitives

on your ten most wanted list.

He assaulted her last night.

I've got roadblocks going...

Hold on, how do
you know he did it?

She told me.

We were told she was dead.

No, the guy that found
her was afraid to touch her,

thought she was dead.

She was just unconscious.

Okay, where is he?

Uh, local PD.

All right.

DON: This is her up here? Yeah.

Josephine Kirtland.

Hi, Josephine.

Can you tell me
who did this to you?

The Prophet.

Abner Stone.

How about where it happened?

Um, in the desert.

They fell asleep,
and I ran away.

Oh, yeah?

Did you have to
run for a long time?

All night.

Where? On this road over here?

No...

Through the mountain.

Where, up here?

I don't know. All right.

Okay, guys, thanks.

This is where they found her.

Uh-huh.

I mean, she couldn't have
walked more than, what,

ten miles at most.

I don't know, it's hard to say.

She's a tough kid.

What do you got on Stone?

Apostolic Saints,
fundamentalist polygamists.

Abner Stone
controls the families,

properties, monies and sex lives

of his followers.

If they defy him,

they defy God.

In which case, God, through
Abner, orders removals.

Removals? Exile.

Or death.

Right.

He's been hiding in Canada.

He's back for a reason.

Yeah, you know him pretty good?

Yeah, I've been tracking him

for about 12 years.

What's going on

with this little girl?

Most likely?

His 73rd wife.

Yeah, I mean, but the thing is,

how do you think
Stone's getting cash?

Don't know.

DOJ's frozen his banking
and business interests,

which are substantial,
$15 to $20 million.

We have his church
under surveillance.

Is there any chatter about him?

Nothing in my office.

The U.S. Attorneys
can't get anything

out of these people...
Very secretive group.

Good morning.

Morning. Hey, Meeks, welcome.

Guys, meet Abner John Stone,

aka The Prophet.

He is the leader of the
ASC, the Apostolic Saints.

It's a polygamist group that
was started by his grandfather.

How many people into
this guy? Over 2,000.

They own the town of Lewisburg

in Central California,
the fraud capital

of the state.

Local officials are members

so we can't touch them.

None of these women

are legally married,

they're all single mothers.

They go on welfare, they
have no private income,

and the church
owns all the property.

Right, they don't pay
taxes or anything like that.

Oh, no, they call it
bleeding the beast.

They wanna take the
American government down...

Ironic, since the
government supports them.

In '99, Stone's father died
and the mantle passed to Abner.

After his older brother expired
under suspicious circumstances.

Nice. The guy kills
his own brother.

Two members of his
church have been murdered

since he's on the run. Here.

Thanks. You know,
Stone exhibits the behavior

of a Jim Jones
kind of psychopathy.

He alienates all the
male competition.

He steals women and children.

He publicly humiliates
his dissenters.

He destabilized an
intensely private community

to the degree that some of
the exiled men brought suit

to get their families back,

which is how we heard
what was going on.

Oh, yeah, right,
rape of a child,

conspiracy to commit rape.

That would be the
communal marriages.

He takes groups

of underage girls

and marries them
to full-grown men,

dozens at a time.

Claims the way to
heaven is marrying virgins...

As many as possible.

Yeah, well, here
you go. Number 73.

He picked me up after
school and took me to a motel.

COLBY: Was there
anyone else there?

Um... three men
I... I didn't know.

Did you see any guns?

(monitor beeping)

After he made me get married,
he told me to change clothes,

so I climbed out the window.

I didn't want to go home
because he knows where we live,

so I went to a friend's house.

But he found me anyway,

and took me to...

a trailer in... in the desert.

Who is your friend?

Lee Brady.

Okay.

We're going to
want to talk to Lee,

and do you remember
about how long the drive was

to the trailer?

Like, um... an hour, maybe.

Okay. (phone ringing)

Excuse me.

This is Granger.

Josephine?

Did Prophet Stone force you

to have sex with him?

AMITA: I, uh... burnt a mix

for us to listen to on the way.

Oh, yeah? What kind...

what kind of music
are we listening to?

Cake, Coldplay, Travis,

a couple indie bands.

I put some Kinks on there...
My mom's a huge Kinks fan

so I know all the words.

Oh, cool. Nice.

(acoustic rock music playing)

What? No. Nothing.

(turns off music)

It's not nothing.
What? I'm sorry.

Can we just put
on something else?

Just... or maybe
let's drive quietly.

Quiet for five hours?

Yeah.

We don't have to.

No. No, we don't have to.

Just put the Kinks back on.

That wasn't the Kinks.

(phone ringing)

Hello.

DON: Hey, where are you?

Uh... I'm in the car

with Amita.

We're on our way to a
math conference at Stanford.

Yeah? Look, I need
some help here.

Okay. What's up?

Well, we got these
satellite photos.

We're trying to find a
trailer home in the desert.

We got some
coordinates, but I think

the problem is the
area is too large.

Okay, so you are linked to JPL?

Yeah, yeah. Hold on.

I'm going to put you on
speakerphone, all right?

All right, go ahead.

All right, tell us
what you know.

All right, well,

I mean, this guy grabbed a girl

from a home in Bakersfield.

All right, you know what?

Give me GPS
readings for the house

and as well as for where
the victim was found.

Okay. 35.334 latitude.

I got it.

Negative 119.020 longitude.

He drove for about an hour

to a trailer in the
desert where he

attacked the victim,
who then escaped.

She walked all
night to Highway 14,

35.133, negative

118.955. You see? I
mean, that's the thing.

We're dealing with, you know,

2,200 square miles
of mountain desert.

How rough was the terrain?

I mean, did she cross a road?

Did she follow a road?

Did she have gear?

She didn't have any gear.
She had a sprained ankle.

Um... what? It was
at night. It was a...

a mountain, not a road.

Yeah, because the rougher
the terrain, the more likely

she was forced into
levi-flight type movement.

Yeah, see, I can create
a viable search pattern,

but we're going to need bounds

so that certain areas have

higher values than others.

You know, for example,
we're looking for a trailer.

Well, that's probably
going to be near a road.

Now, how was the weather?

The weather was clear. I
still don't see what we're doing.

It's like when you
lose your keys.

You don't methodically
search every inch of your house

from front to back.

You look like crazy in one area,

and then jump to the
next-most-likely area

and look there.

All right, Donny, I've got...

I've got a really good
bounding set for you here.

All right, go ahead. Give me it.

Search sectors 78, 79,

86, 87,

91 and 92, and then

rapidly scan the areas between.

Okay, got it. Hey,
thanks, buddy.

I'll call you later, all right?

Roger that, Don.

10-4.

Yeah.

Do you... do you
want to turn around?

No, no. You sure?

They're gonna find this guy.

I hear there's some really
nice Central Coast wines.

Maybe we should try
one with dinner tonight.

Mm. Sounds good.

MEGAN: No sign
of Stone's trailer

in Sector 87.

All right, so next?

Leaping over to Sector 91.

Okay, what is Stone
looking for down here

that he can't get in Canada?

Something to do with
the community here, right?

Maybe.

Hey, wait a minute,
actually, go back.

Here, can you bring
this 91 to full screen?

(beeping)

All right, go tighter.

Yeah, tighter.

Closer.

Oh, yeah, that's
got to be it, right?

All right, great, I'm on my way.

Oh, and listen, Don,

the girl said the bodyguards
are armed, all right.

They found Abner
Stone's hideout.

I'll ride with you.

I'm looking for my
daughter, Josephine Kirtland.

Excuse me, Emmanueline Kirtland?

I'm Rachel Willons, California
Bureau of Investigation.

I'll take you to your daughter.

Thank you. I'll
catch up with you.

Is she all right?

She's a little beat
up, but she'll be okay.

This way.

You live in Lewisburg,
Emmanueline?

No, my husband moved
us out three years ago.

We live in Bakersfield now.

Well, but you're still
Apostolic Saints?

You still believe
in Prophet Stone?

Where is your husband?

He was killed last year.

I see.

Did you know Prophet Stone
wanted Josephine for a wife?

That's why we were
exiled from Lewisburg.

My husband didn't want
Josephine to marry Abner.

The Prophet's had his eye

on her for a while.

But now your husband's gone,

and Abner came to talk
to you about Josephine?

Did you send her to that motel?

JOSEPHINE: Mom.

I didn't know he would beat her.

But you were willing
to let her marry him.

Oh, my God.

You told him where to find me?

It's an honor to be
the Prophet's wife.

He raped me.

(over radio): you're
clear to move in.

MAN: Roger that.

We're aproximately ten
meters from the trailer.

No visual, yet.

Containment three,
you in position?

Roger that, we're in position.

All right, let's do this.

Copy that, Agent Granger.

Containment three,
you see anything?

We got nothing.

No movement in the
containment zone.

All right, stand
down, it's a trap.

We got to sweep
this place, guys.

They left in a hurry.

Probably raced out
of here as soon as

they realized
Josephine was gone.

They had her tied
up in the bedroom.

That must have been
where the beating took place.

Wait, what's this?

Some kind of diagram?

A map, maybe?

What is this guy planning?

CHARLIE: Uh, we're really
not that far from the crime scene.

No, it's okay.

I'm curious about the
chart that Don mentioned.

Yeah, me, too, and
you know, it's okay

if we miss that cocktail
reception tonight,

'cause that's just a
lot of schmoozing.

The conference doesn't
start till the morning.

The only thing is, we're
gonna have to drive all night.

You can sleep, I'll drive.

And listen to The
Kinks the whole time?

Maybe.

(both laughing)

(elevator dings)

Emmanueline, does this
mean anything to you?

Why did you tell Abner Stone

how to find Josephine
after she ran away?

Since we've been in Bakersfield,
she's too much of the world.

She's 14,

and you gave her
to a man in his 40s.

I was trying to save
her eternal soul.

How did he get
in touch with you?

Came to the house.

He knows where all his
believers are. With three men?

What were they driving?

It was a big, silver...

It was big.

An SUV? I don't know

what you call it...
It was like a truck

but closed up. Okay,
where were they headed?

The new city, I guess.

He needs her 'cause
she's pure breed.

And what does that mean?

Well, the Kirtlands

go back to Indiana,

before Abner's
grandfather came out West.

We're from the original
line of Apostolic Saints.

No!

Stop it. You can't control me.

You will not talk to that boy.

Hey, hey, wait a minute.

I can talk to whoever I
want. I'm not like you.

Do you want to go to
hell? Is that what you want?

Listen, you have to calm
down or I can take her

from your custody.
Do you understand me?

Who were you
talking to, Josephine?

That boy, Lee Brady.

I forbid you. I don't
have to listen to you.

You handed me over to get raped.

Josephine, it's a spiritual
marriage. He's God's chosen.

You're insane.

Emmanueline, listen to me.

Please let me take you to
talk to someone to help you...

Women who have been plural
wives who have gotten out of it.

God has given me signs.

What signs?

The Prophet is taking us back.

We're coming home from exile.

And the price of
admission is Josephine?

Listen, I know

that you are scared
because this is the only life

that you have known,
but there is another way,

a better way to
lead a spiritual life.

Temptation comes in many guises.

I'll be back in the
morning for my child.

(sighing)

AMITA: The characters are odd.

Like letters of an
archaic language.

It looks a little like
Hebrew, but not quite.

These people are
fundamentalists?

Yeah, Old Testament
style. Could this chart

have something to do with
the Bible? Did you see this?

Pennies for the Prophet?

Yeah, this guy wants to found

a new city where the
saints can live in purity.

This guy's asking
for people's pennies,

meanwhile, he's
a multimillionaire.

Talk of purity
always disturbs me.

Genocides in Rwanda,

Bosnia, the ethnic cleansing...

Why do evil people

always seem to be hell-bent

on purity?

This pattern seems to be
very important to these people.

It seems mathematical.

It's rudimentary, but, uh,

I think maybe...

Yeah, let's blow off the
conference and work on this.

Emmanueline Kirtland said
he was traveling in a silver SUV,

at least she thought
it was an SUV.

She's been so sheltered,
she doesn't know what to call it.

Well, we'll put
the description out.

And Stone's picture to law
enforcement agencies and all media.

We're even faxing it to gas
stations from Mexico to Canada.

He got through the roadblocks?

Well, anything is possible,
but we don't think they realized

the girl was missing till
they woke up in the morning,

and we already had the
area closed in by then.

So why can't we find them?

Well, he knows where all the
believers live, they revere him,

and they're all practiced liars.
They call it lying for the Lord.

But he's aware we're
after him... isn't he too smart

to roll up to the house
of one of his followers?

Yeah, but he's driven by
a malignant narcissism.

He needs to be around
people that treat him like a god.

He's also a sex predator,
searching for prey.

Well, we need to track
down and interview

every Apostolic Saint
member in L.A. County.

How many is that?

Uh, 50-60, maybe.

All right, let's get to it.
You want to take there?

Yeah, thanks.

It grew on me, it grew on me.

Ow! Uh...

Hi, I didn't expect you back.

Yeah, well, we got
diverted by Don's case.

Hello, there.

Hi, Dr. Finch.

Mildred.

Please, call me Millie.

I don't know what my
mother was thinking

when she named me
Mildred. It's horrible.

I don't look like a Mildred.

It's my grandmother,
who's great, but I just...

I know that I'm your boss.

But if we could all

just be friends,
wouldn't that be great?

I was just about to open
another bottle of cabernet.

You want to join us?

No, thanks, thank you. We
have work to do on the case.

AMITA: Calabi-Yau manifold.

Yes, I was explaining
string theory to Alan.

He's very smart.

Wouldn't that make
a beautiful sculpture

in front of a building?
How cool is this?

MILLIE: Indeed.

Where's the ladies' room?

Oh, right this way.

You know, your father

wants to understand what we do.

Did you know that?

Well.

I just said that
to get her going.

She's really rather amusing.

Dad, are you dating Mildred?

No, I don't do that.

We were having dinner.

You know, got to eat.

Hey, uh, about this
string theory stuff.

I think it's bogus.

Oh, come on.

It took you all 40 years

to get back to what
we were talking about

in the '60s... You
know, vibrations.

Well, Dad, what's important
is what actually vibrates...

Straight pieces, closed
rings, little surfaces.

Oh, come on, face it.

We're talking about vibes.

Oh, boy.

Oh, come on,
he's just having fun.

Yeah.

Okay, we have seven men
and 23 women and 30 children,

who are members or ex-members
of Stone's church in L.A.

WILLONS: Seven men...
that means basically

we have seven
families to interview.

Let's get agents to sit on each
location until we can get there.

(phone ringing) Rachel Willons.

Whoa, whoa, slow
down, Josephine.

I thought you
were at the hospital.

Okay, okay, listen, stay put.

Don't move. I am coming.

What happened?

Josephine skipped out of
the hospital with her boyfriend.

She went home to get her
clothes and found blood.

Her mother's missing.

She thinks Abner took her.

All right, let's go.

MEGAN: Why do you say

that Abner Stone
took your mother?

Who else?

She doesn't know anybody here.

She barely even
leaves the house.

MEGAN: But why
would he take her?

He's crazy.

And so is she.

She might have
just gone with him.

Well, we have all that
blood. Remember?

Um...

In the kitchen?

Why did you leave the hospital?

What?

You and your boyfriend
left the hospital,

and now your mother's missing.

Josephine, did you do something

to hurt your mother?

No.

No. I want my mom

off my back; I
want her to get help.

I don't... I don't
want her dead.

But why did you
sneak away, then?

(exhales): You don't understand.

Ever since my dad died,
my mom's like a zombie.

I pick up our food stamps
and welfare checks.

I do the shopping,
I pay the bills.

All she does is tell
me I'm going to hell

and then hands
me over to a pervert.

Okay, I understand
that you're angry,

but you're not
answering my question.

Why did you and
your boyfriend...

Me and Lee were
gonna run away together.

WILLONS: Lee, your story
doesn't make any sense to me.

What were you two doing
there? We were just going back

to her house to
get some clothes.

Where are your parents, Lee?

LEE: I got no parents.

What does that mean?

They live in
Lewisburg; I live here.

So the Prophet kicked you out?

He kicks out a lot of boys.

And where do you live now?

One of the older guys

has a studio apartment
in Bakersfield.

He lets me stay sometime.

And what happens when
he doesn't let you stay?

You on the streets, Lee?

So you killed
Josephine's mother,

and the two of you stay in
their place. No way, no, after we

left the hospital... We have you
on a hospital security tape, Lee.

We see you leaving at 8:35,

and you didn't call us
till 45 minutes later...

Enough time for you to go...

No! We stopped for a burger!

We can check that, too, Lee.

No! I got the receipt.

Look, it's even
got the time on it.

(sighs)

We didn't hurt anybody.

None of this is random...
There must be...

there must be some
sort of system here.

Yeah, but there are
discrepancies between your paper

and my quilt... see,
these lines are missing.

Well, I think he's
reconstructing it, you know?

He's adjusting it.

(knocking) Sorry, just wanted

to say good night.

Leaving? Yeah.

Why are you working
on cattle breeding?

Cattle breeding?

Oh, right,

I'm not supposed to know.

Very classified FBI dairy
farm information, right?

Shh. Never mind.

Millie, what are you talking
about? No, believe me,

mum's the word, I didn't see
a thing, okay? Mildred, Mil...

Millie.

What does this...

network mean to you?

It's an inbreeding chart.

Genealogy. I can decode that.

It's a reticulated tree.

You know, breeders select

for certain traits... you know,

if it's, uh,

better milkers, more offspring.

Well, it doesn't look
like a normal family tree

because of inbreeding.

So if Abner Stone

was a descendant of the
man who founded this religion,

then this is his family tree.

MILLIE: Religion? I thought
we're talking farm animals.

CHARLIE: See, his
hand-drawn genealogy

differs from the
one on the quilt.

AMITA: Yeah. The Aramaic letters

represent important males,
and the cross stitching is females.

MILLIE: Okay, for example,

this guy married
his brother's...

third wife's...

second daughter. Ugh!

Well...

this must be Stone
here. Well, this man

has dozens of wives

but very few children...
Which means...?

A genetic problem, maybe.
Inbreeding works great in cows,

not so good in people.

You know, we can determine
his inbreeding coefficient.

Inbreeding coefficient?
Yeah, how inbred

one person is compared
to the general population.

Wright's equation.

Wright's equation?
CHARLIE: Yeah, Sewell Wright,

the-the University of
Chicago mathematician.

The evolutionary geneticist.

MILLIE: That's
right... worked for

the Department of Agriculture.

(laughs): Yeah, this
bull's got problems.

CHARLIE: So Abner Stone

has a 42%
inbreeding coefficient.

Well, I assume
that that's fairly high.

MILLIE: Yeah, I mean,
regular population has,

like, .1 or .2 percent.

CHARLIE: Well, then
it's no wonder he's had

no viable offspring,
because so many of his genes

carry recessive alleles.
Well, let's put it this way...

If Stone were a stud on a farm,

we'd be having steak
for dinner. Unless...

he crosses with a
non-inbred female.

Well, that's why he
needed Josephine.

Because even though
she's a pureblood...

she doesn't carry the
recessive genes. Right,

but she's out of
reach now, so...

Josephine has a sister,

and that's who he wants next.

JOSEPHINE: I
have lots of sisters.

Not full sisters.

JOSEPHINE: When we
were exiled, my mom was

the only wife my dad took.

The rest stayed in Lewisburg.

So you have half sisters there.

Lots.

Are you

gonna find my mom?

He took her,

I know he did.

Why would he take
her, Josephine?

'Cause he takes everything.

(knocking at door)

Excuse me.

MEGAN: These kids
didn't do anything, except try

and run away together.
Josephine could have a sister here

that she doesn't know anything
about. Outside of Lewisburg?

These women are expected
to produce one child a year.

Emmanueline has no
will... She would breed with

whomever they told her to.
COLBY: Stone's fingerprints,

all over Emmanueline's kitchen.

Okay, so Stone
kidnapped Emmanueline

so she'd take him
to another daughter?

Someone... younger
than Josephine?

I don't know, I mean,
would she do that?

When he rewrites his genealogy,

he's saying who goes to Heaven.

That's pretty powerful
incentive for Emmanueline.

So we could be
talking about a little girl

who he's gonna
take and then groom

to be his wife? These men have

married girls as young as nine.

COLBY: And he's running
out of options, because

we have his followers tied
up and we're closing in on him.

If he has to get a
Kirtland girl, that means

he's definitely
still in the area.

Let's wake up
the seven families.

AMITA: This can't be right.

Well, you're decoding
the Kirtland line, right?

(sighs): Charlie.

What?

Emmanueline Kirtland.

Yeah, Josephine's mother?

She's also Josephine's sister.

They have the same father.

(siren wailing)

(garbled radio transmission)

(switches off siren)

This is 1932 requesting
unit backup for a felony stop.

DISPATCHER: Roger
that, 1932. Backup en route.

Sorry, Officer.

What's the problem? Was I going
too fast? Get back in the vehicle, sir.

My wife kicked me out... I
shouldn't have been going

so fast. Stop right there.

Get back in the vehicle.
Be a sport, all right?

Put your hands on the truck.

I wasn't doing anything.

Don't move.

Is there a problem?

Hey, get back in the vehicle.

William, apologize
to the police officer.

(gunshots) (screaming)

(gasping, screaming)

(panting)

His megalomania is increasing.

He's becoming more dangerous.

But he's gonna make mistakes,
he's gonna make mistakes.

He never attacked anyone
outside the cult? No, he's definitely

becoming disinhibited...
But let me tell you,

(laughs): Abner's
always been on this path.

How do you know him?

I grew up with him.

I was married to an ASC elder

when I was 13 and the
old man was in his 60s.

I got out when
he died... I was 19.

I'm sorry.

Oh, I'm not.

I'm sorry for Emmanueline.

You know, the
cult is bad enough.

They raise girls for
breeding... that's it.

There's no skills, no education,

and the threat of eternal
damnation if they rebel.

But Emmanueline, she's in
the hands of a psychopath.

Hold on a second,
let me ask you this...

What do you think
he's gonna do next?

I mean, try to get through
roadblocks into Canada or...

Well, that would be rational,
but I think he wants a showdown.

And that we have to be
afraid of. Yeah? Why's that?

Abner came to get a
Kirtland girl... okay, maybe.

But you know what I think?

I think that he's afraid of
losing control of Lewisburg,

being on the fringes. You
think he'd really go back there?

I mean, he's got to know
we're all over the place.

(sighs)

I don't know.

COLBY: All right, thanks a lot.

Okay, guys, as of 6:15 a.m.,

Stone was headed
north on State Road 216.

216. Okay, so let's
look at sector 167.

Hey, did you get anything

from the families
you interviewed?

No proof that Stone's
been to their homes,

but I feel like they
know something.

Like where he's
going? No. More like...

what he plans to do for
their future... but I don't know.

CHARLIE: Look, I
can use any details

you have to create more bounds.

Well, I brought in
the de facto leader.

Meeks is with him now. Let
me know what you find out.

Hey, has... has anyone talked
to Josephine about her mother?

I'm going now.

Charlie, I think he's
gonna have to steal

another car, so he's probably
headed toward a town.

All right, uh, let's leap over

to Sector 173, please.

(indistinct conversation)

Hey, guys. I brought
you some breakfast.

Thanks.

Did you find my mom?

Um, not yet.

How are you guys doing in here?

Is she okay?

Uh, I have people...

looking for her
all over the state.

I, uh...

What?

What happened? Is she okay?

I-I don't know

anything new about your mom.

I... I need to talk to you
about something else, though.

We think that, um...

That what?

Just tell me.

We think that your mom
is also your half sister.

You didn't know that,

did you?

LEE: Jo, this is not our fault.

We didn't pick our parents.

They're weird... We
are not like them.

My dad is her dad, too?

I'm sorry.

Since we've been in Bakersfield,

I've been going
to public school,

and, um... Being normal.

JOSEPHINE: My
mom can barely read.

She's more of a child than me.

Well, does this
tell you anything

about where he might

have taken her?

The new city.

Where is this "new city"?

Nobody knows but him.

How does he communicate
with you? He doesn't.

How can he be your leader
if he doesn't talk to you?

He's being falsely accused

by your corrupt,
ungodly government.

Your prophet just shot
and killed a police officer.

It's not a sin to
destroy the enemy

that's set on destroying you.

We have a duty to defend
our families and our beliefs.

Which is what?

Raping little girls
gets you to heaven?

How many wives

do you have, Mr. Jackson?

How many of them were underage

the first time you
had sex with them?

(knocking) DON: Howard?

DON: All right, so,

we found the SUV. It was
abandoned at a used car lot.

Three cars were stolen.

Got APBs on them, but what
we found was an MP3 player.

So we know what kind
of music Stone likes.

No, we know what kind
of podcasts the guy makes.

Podcasting? That's
how he communicates

with his followers.

Charlie, let's hear it.

Okay, so Stone records a
message on his computer,

then uploads it to a
podcasting web site,

and his followers use

a unique identifier
to find it... the name.

(typing)

And this... is the name

of Abner Stone's podcasts.

Okay, and no one can
find it without this code?

Right, and from this,
we can not only hear

what he's been saying...

STONE: For what you do in secret

I will punish you openly.

But we can backtrack to find out

where he uploaded his rants.

What, you mean through an ISP?

No, to his physical address
in real time and space.

Also get into the ISP records.

What good is that
gonna do us if he's gone?

We can monitor
for his next podcast.

No, no, no. We need
something faster.

STONE: As they tear up the kingdom
of heaven, so shall they be torn.

Well, look. I mean,

if he's hidden there once,

maybe he'll hide there again.

Hey, all right, we'll

check it out, but the
guy stole three cars,

all right? I mean, he's trying

to get through roadblocks.

STONE: doesn't fight
back, they shall be put

to death on this earth.

COLBY: Aw, man.

FBI sedans are
not made for this.

Stone podcast from somewhere
back here last August.

Well, looks like we're
about to run out of road.

Here we go, here we go.

STONE: I have blessed
you and blessed this place.

The Lord has blessed
you and blessed this place.

You shall gather with your
wives at 10578 Coyote Road,

there to be blessed
and be saved...

Don!

On his latest podcast,

Stone asked for his
followers to meet him.

Where, in Canada?

No, at the address
where he uploaded.

Rachel, you see any vehicles?

Nothing back here.

Richardson?

Granger, we got
tire tracks back here.

(rapid gunfire) (groaning)

We got gunfire at
10578 Coyote Road.

Who's got a visual
on the shooter.

Damn it! We got an
agent down! Agent down!

(rapid gunfire)

Rachel, are you okay?

Go back!

We got an agent down,
multiple gunshots fired.

We need backup and a medic ASAP.

(gunfire continues)

(sirens wailing)

All right, Colby, we're here.

Where is she? She's
right between me

and the house, in the
middle of the kill zone.

DON: How many? Don't know.

There's multiple
shooters. They have

automatic weapons. All right.

We're coming to
get you. Hang tight.

Let's go guys. Come on.
Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.

STONE: What has happened

to religious freedom
in this country?

We are a private,
peace-loving group of Christians,

attacked again
by an overreaching

and paranoid government.

We're forced to defend
ourselves and our beliefs.

STONE: We live
according to the laws

of God's Word...
Deuteronomy 21:15:

"To the nation of the unclean...

Is my mom in there?

I defy you." Uh, I don't know.

You guys are supposed to be

waiting inside for
the social worker.

Listen, I have Abner
Stone on his cell phone

from inside the farmhouse,
talking to the media.

I need that line cut off.

"I will demolish
your high places."

If I hadn't run away, none
of this would've happened.

Hey.

Listen to me: this
is not your fault.

That man is sick,

and you are not
responsible for any of this.

STONE: "I will lay waste to
your cities, so your very enemies

"who come to live there

will stand aghast
at the sight of it."

All right, PD, we're
about to move. Bring it on.

(over radio): Copy that, Don. We'll
lay down covering fire on your motion.

All right, let's go,
boys... move! Straight!

Prophet, here they come.

(rapid gunfire)

(bullets ricocheting)

Tight! Tight, keep it tight!

Go left! Go left! Left!

Let's go! Let's go.

You all right? Yeah.

Forward! Go!

Left! Left!

All right, hold!

How you doing, Rachel?

All right.

(gunfire continues)

Ready?

Got it.

All right, straight
back. Straight back!

Nice and easy now.

(over radio): The agents are
clear. The agents are clear.

(over radio): Repeat:
The agents are clear.

OFFICER (distant): Agents clear!

Hold your fire!

DON (over P.A.): Abner Stone!

This is Agent Don
Eppes with the FBI!

You are completely surrounded.

We'd like to resolve
this peacefully.

I'm going to send a
phone line out to you.

Come on. Shields up.

OFFICER (over radio): All teams
look alive. Two agents moving in.

Stand by, cover.

William...

The Devil is running
us a phone line.

DON: We're taking rounds
here, we're taking rounds.

Back up, guys! Back up!

Let's go. Get 'em on back.

Get in position.

Copy that.

Move back!

Don, we've got tear gas set.

They got a clear shot
through a side window.

No, no, no. I don't
want tear gas.

We're not gonna have
another Waco here.

You have no idea what he's
gonna do to those people.

Rachel, hold on a second. You gotta go to
the hospital. No, I'm not going anywhere.

Listen, I understand...
My shoulder is fine.

I've been waiting to get
this guy my whole life!

WILLIAM: Prophet.

Look like they're
ready to move in.

What do you want us to do?

They're talking about peace.

They're lying.

What I want you to do is
stand there and cut them down

one by one, as they come.

Abner... You will
speak when spoken to.

Just talk to them.

(screams)

God has proclaimed that today...

today is the day.

We will show the world

our conviction
against their impurities.

Against their,
their godlessness.

He has said that after
today people will flock here.

Here is the beginning
of the new city.

Go! Go! Go! Go get 'em!

Wives, go stand
behind your husbands.

Abner, there's a
lot more of them

than us.

(gunshot)

Shots fired, shots
fired. Who's got eyes?

He's shooting people
who want to leave.

DON: All right, let's
go. We're gonna go.

Guys, come on,
let's go, let's go.

Everybody, we're moving in.

(agents shouting in distance)

He was half-hearted.

You saw it.

He was half-hearted.

Go stand your positions and
cut them down one by one.

Women, go to your husbands!

Now is the time we make
our stand and you are saints.

Go.

(agents shouting in distance)

All right, nobody shoots unless
you have a good side picture.

OFFICER (on radio):
Copy that. All teams re-align.

OFFICER 2 (over
radio): Affirmative.

(gas hissing)

OFFICER (over radio):
Team two has a visual.

No.

Don, wait.
Somebody's coming out.

STONE: You are saints!

All right, hold, hold, hold.

What do you got? You see it?

I see a flame inside.

Oh, propane tank.
Back up, back up.

All right, get back, get back.

I surrender. Hold, hold.

Get your hands up. Get them up.

I surrender to the will of God.

Let her go!

Let go of her!

Put your hands behind your back.

Come here, come here,
come here. You okay?

God bless the martyrs.
God bless the martyrs.

The martyrs that this government
has killed. Shut your mouth!

I'm sorry.

I know.

You know, map blankets

were part of the
Underground Railroad.

Really? Yeah.

They stitched escape
routes, so the escaping slaves

could find the safe houses.

Wow, I didn't know that.

Yeah, well, it worked
well in those cases,

but, um, why in the
world would this, uh...

Hard to call him
a man, isn't it?

Yeah, it's hard
to call him a man.

Why would this jerk put his
genealogy on the blanket?

Trying to rewrite
history, I guess.

Cover up his genetic inadequacy.

Those poor people.

They were looking for God

and all they did was
find this... monster.

What are you doing?

Just chatting with
Professor Pivito here.

You know, he's still at
that math conference,

and he said it really
isn't all that exciting.

Oh, really?

(chuckling) You mock
me, but you know,

occasionally these
things can be...

Hey, Donny.

Hey.

Come, sit with us.

All right, let me grab a beer.

Hey, what's up?

He looks beat.

A lot of people died today, Dad.

Yeah.

But you, you saved this
woman and this child.

That's something, isn't it?

I don't think... I don't think
it ever feels like enough.

Well, you can't save
the world, Charlie.

What's the score of the game?

I don't know. You've
got to put it on.

Where's the
remote? Don't ask me.

Where's the remote?

Where's the remote, Charlie?

I have no clue.

Well... That's not it.

Charlie, where's
the other remote?