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Poor wayfaring stranger, walking in through this world

of woe. But there's no sickness, toil, nor danger

in that bright land to which I fall.

Hello, you?

What's out there?

Something's coming, isn't it?

Something bad.

Velma, what do you got?

Emmeline Trace, 16 years old. Went missing yesterday from Pryor, Kentucky.

Her brother Jasper put up the reward.

Now it's only 5K.

And before you even say it, I know we would barely break even.

Brother?

No parents?

Died in a house fire 10 years ago.

Brother got parental custody, so it kept her out of the system.

How'd you find this one?

I was on the message board and it popped up. Something about it just reminds me

of where I came from.

Seems like you're pretty near the area, but you don't have to take this if you

don't want to. No.

I understand.

Coulter, is there something about her picture and the post from her brother?

I'm guessing nobody's going to be chasing this reward.

Send me what you have.

I'm a few hours away. I'll leave as fast as I can.

He's going to take the job?

Yeah.

I felt kind of bad asking him, but I just got a feeling about this one.

You know, you don't talk much about your family.

Coulter telling you? No.

I just picked up on some clues along the way.

I don't mean to pry.

I just... It's fine. It's not something I really advertise, but I never knew my

dad, and my mom was institutionalized when I was 12.

Prison? No, the other one.

Oh, that's tough.

My sister had to step up and raise me, and she was basically a kid herself.

I'm sure she was happy to do it. I know Coulter wishes he could have done more

for his sister.

I don't know. I just think that there are some people that are raised and some

people that are forged.

And in my experience, those kinds are way more interesting.

You think this has something to do with your sister's disappearance?

It was dropped on her porch the day before she was taken.

There have been others.

Rabbits, raccoons, even a cat once.

Someone's sending a message.

Yeah, people around here didn't exactly take kindly to outsiders coming in.

Came from Tennessee, right? Yes, sir.

Six months ago.

The outfit I work for does mine safety and inspection.

Not the most popular job out here.

Locals think you're threatening their livelihood.

No doubt.

Mining ain't what it used to be, but it's good work.

Union work.

People kill to protect these jobs.

Something happened to her because of what I'm doing.

When was the last time you saw your sister?

Yesterday morning.

I was leaving for my shift. She was sitting on the couch facing a book.

When did you notice she was missing?

School called.

Said she wasn't there.

She ain't the type to just skip class, so I raced home.

Her backpack was sitting there with her phone, and I just drove around all night

looking for her.

Call the police?

Yeah. Yeah, they said she must have ran off.

Mr. Shaw, the police, they got sons, and they got cousins in the mind. They

ain't any different.

Did Emmeline like it here in this town?

You know, she never really had many friends.

Kind of keeps to herself.

Yeah, I mean, moving was tough, but she wouldn't leave me.

Not after everything that we've been through.

I bet my life on that.

I really think something bad happened to her.

Something here.

You see that?

It's like plastic from a car turn signal light, doesn't it?

I think this animal was hit and was moved here.

You notice anything when these animals were dropped off? Anything at all? The

truck? No, they were always just waiting here when I came home.

You remember which days?

Yeah, I would always try reporting it, but like I said, the police weren't too

sympathetic.

Look, I know the reward isn't much, but... Hey, I'm going to help you.

I'm going to do whatever I can to bring your sister home.

Bobby? What up, C?

Check your inbox, will you? And I don't have good self -service here, so we

gotta be quick. You know me.

Quick's my middle name.

All right, you want me to find and collect roadkill for the Department of

Transportation in Fernland County, Kentucky?

That's a new one. Run it against the dates I gave you, will you?

Government website?

Not that easy.

That's why you get paid the big bucks.

You said it, not me.

Okay, got it.

Guy's name is Jim Wheeler.

Looks like he's working for all three of those days.

What do you have on him?

Turns out the higher standards for county roadkill collection are pretty

Will has got a couple of DUIs, domestic violence charge, but he never did time.

Can you get his location from his phone?

Got questions, but sure.

All right, sending you the coordinates.

Looks like he's on his route now.

Thank you.

Jim Wheeler.

Looking for Emmeline Trace.

Happen to know where she is?

Why would I?

Well, her collection of dead animals dropped off at her place all while you

on shift. I'm guessing not a coincidence.

Must have fallen off my truck.

She's gone missing.

Now, I know you ain't police.

Ain't county neither.

And if you're fed, I got nothing to say.

I'm just trying to find a girl.

Her brother thinks she might be in danger.

It might be that, uh... It might be the trouble found her for a reason.

What reason would that be?

I got a cousin who works with her at the Isacon.

Says she's seen the devil acting through her.

I don't need none of her kind around here, that's for damn sure.

Is that why you've been dropping roadkill off at her place?

Maybe.

Lucky that's all.

There you go.

Enjoy.

Hi there.

Can I help you? I hope so. I'm looking for Emmeline Trace.

Been hired to find her. She's gone missing.

You work with her, right?

Yes, sir.

Well, I mean, I did for a bit.

Emmeline don't work here no more.

Fired her last month.

Why's that?

Afraid that's confidential.

Since you ain't a paying customer, gonna have to ask you to leave.

Right. Um, in that case, I'll have a black coffee.

Go do the restock, Barbara.

Delivery just came in.

I take it you're not a big fan of Emmeline's.

It's been enough to know I don't want no part of what she's into.

What's that?

Witchcraft.

You believe in that? I foolish not to.

Now you have a nice day.

Yeah.

Enjoy.

Hello, how can I help you?

Your boss doesn't seem to like Emmeline very much, huh?

Says she's, uh, you know, weird stuff.

I've heard the rumors.

And, yeah, I mean, she's strange, but she was nice to me.

Covered my shift when my mom got sick.

How is she strange?

Well, like most people when they're on a break, they'll go up back and just go

on their phones. She just walked around in those little trees out there.

What was she doing?

Nothing, just looking at plants, talking to herself.

But Tess didn't like that too much.

I probably should go back. Tess might start wondering. If there's anything

you can tell me that would help me find her, it'll just stay between the two of

us.

Well, it could be because of what happened with Shirley.

Shirley McAnus?

She kept missing work, so they gave her a job to Emmeline.

But a month or two back, Shirley's husband, Travis, came in. Was cursing

hell at Emmeline.

Upset that Emmeline replaced his wife?

Maybe. I don't know. I was doing inventory in the freezer.

after Imhant was crying and carrying on.

Tess fired her after that, said she couldn't have no more trouble.

You know where the McCaniffies live?

Down by the old lumber mill, but you don't want to mess with Travis.

Got a temper.

What the hell's going on?

Oh, nothing.

Thanks for the coffee.

Get the hell off my land. Where's the Emmeline Trace?

I don't know what the hell you're talking about.

I saw your truck, the rope, the blood.

I shot a buck yesterday.

What's wrong with Emmeline?

She got missing.

Now I know you went to her work and had word.

Maybe more? I would never hurt that girl. I owe everything to Emmeline.

Yeah? Well, explain that to me, because it doesn't look that way.

Talk.

Me and my wife Shirley have been trying to have a baby for years.

A few months ago, the doctors told us she had ovarian cancer.

Almost wrecked me.

Emeline heard about it, came around talking about how she could cure her.

When I heard, I went off the handle. I went to where she worked, told her to

stay away from my wife.

Last thing I needed was some damn witch girl giving Shirley false hope.

Emeline tried to heal your wife.

Tried?

No, she did.

I was wrong.

Shirley, she's pregnant.

And the doctors can't find any sign of cancer.

That girl, she's a miracle worker.

This is what Emmaline gave your wife? Say she forged for her right

here on the mountain.

Who else knew Emmaline was a healer? Not a soul. She hadn't even told her

brother yet.

Really?

But I'll say this.

Small town like ours, secrets have a tendency to get out.

Did she say where she was foraging from?

No. Like I said, she was just real cagey about the whole thing. Just wanted to

help. Chicken of the woods mushroom in here.

Grows on deadfall oak.

Used to mushroom hunt along the creek behind Emmeline's place.

Lots of dead oak.

Only no one goes there now.

No one goes there now why? That's drill clan land.

People know to stay off of there.

Drills.

They like their privacy, if you know what I mean.

Ah, yeah. Well, Emmaline's not from around here, so I don't think she'd know

that. Do me a favor. Can you show me where that is?

Around there.

Yeah? Mm -hmm.

Thank you.

Jasper, it's Coulter.

I need you to come look at something.

Any idea why Emmeline would want to hide this from you?

Yeah, because she knew I wouldn't like it. Why is that?

Her mom was a healer.

Some folks thought she worked miracles. Others thought she had the devil in her.

Wanted her dead.

You think the house fire killed your parents?

Maybe someone was targeting your mother because of what she was doing? Yeah, I

do.

Never told Emma I meant that, but it's the truth.

People do horrible things for the superstition.

There's no dust.

Those jars were removed recently.

This handwriting on this letter doesn't match what's on the walls of the desk.

It's from our mother's journal.

I didn't even know Emmeline kept it.

I think Emmeline's hurt.

Blood. Yeah.

Yeah, it looks like someone took her out by quad.

This property backs up to drug clan land, right? Tell me what you know about

them. Um, just rumors. They, um, they live off -grid.

They can jerry -rig guns.

Survivalist? No, no, they used to supply weed for the whole region, but with

medical marijuana going legal, they got, you know, darker stuff.

Cops won't even touch them.

Your sister might have seen something she wasn't supposed to.

Well... Don't move.

Bangstick.

It's a shotgun shell. It's rigged to blow. You step on this thing, it'll ruin

your whole day.

The whole trail's probably lined with them all the way out.

This trail lead to a road?

Afternoon. Heard there's good hiking up here.

You're in the wrong place.

Road's out.

No other way in there? No, sir.

Best to just turn around and head back.

Might try Copper Valley.

Some nice views there, I'm told.

Well, thanks for the tip.

Have a good day.

Come on, we don't have all day.

Callie, come on.

Get

back

to the house. Stay here.

Come on.

Keep moving.

inside

okay

what's the temperature

Let's stop right now.

Great job, Axel.

See, too much.

What if it's true, Gideon? It's a hell of a thing to gamble on, little brother.

I had to do something.

And it don't work?

Kill her for all I care.

All right, then. Let's take her to Big Pop.

Shepard's ready.

That's why we got a tron.

We won't make it worse, will we?

you

I'm all right.

I'm cold to shop. It's okay.

It's okay.

I'm here to help you. How did you get in here?

Your brother hired me to find you.

We need to go.

No, I can't leave. Their father's sick.

Is that why they took you? Yeah, they found me in the woods and they made me

bring all my things.

But he's going to die if I don't do something. It's not safe for you here. I

said if I help him, then... It's not your responsibility.

Yes, it is.

We gotta get you out of here.

No. They'll kill you if they find you. Talk like that.

It'll work.

Even better.

It's time.

Come on.

Let the spirit of the mountain come forward.

Make me your vessel.

Wait, what's that?

Careful!

It's choking!

Now we just need to wait and be patient.

Are you here, Spirit?

Pass through me.

Pop?

Come, Spirit, and relieve Roy of his pain.

What the hell's going on?

Pop?

We don't... Pop?

I'm gonna kill you!

What happened? I stepped on something, and it exploded.

A bangstick?

Hey, let me see.

All right, listen. The quads can't get over here because of the fallen trees.

They've got to go around.

It's not going to take them that long.

They've got no service.

The main road's not too far away.

I don't know what happened.

I tried to help him. You're lucky this didn't take your leg off.

Listen, I've got to get you someplace safe where we can hide and address this

properly.

I remember we passed some kind of abandoned store, but I don't know if I

make it that far. You can.

I'm going to help you. We're going to do it together, okay?

Put your arm around me. You ready?

Let's go.

There you go. You got it.

You got to get inside.

She's over here.

Okay.

Come on.

Here we go.

Want a service?

How you doing?

Never better. Yeah?

Yeah. Good.

Right here.

Right here. Let's take a look at your leg.

Yeah.

It's going to hurt a little bit.

I'm not going to lie.

I'm okay.

You're okay.

You know, when we were young,

My sister used to make potions. Things like that all the time. Said she was

cursing us.

Deep breath.

There you go.

Did it work?

Well, the jury's still out, I would say. But she was very convincing and

stubborn.

I should have gone with you when you told me to.

You did what you thought was best.

Sometimes that's all we have.

We're gonna have to make the town on foot. You think you can do that?

Yeah. Okay.

The back door is where we're headed, okay?

You and me. Okay. Come on.

Here we go.

Ready?

Yeah. All right.

We have to make it towards the front door. It's the only way we're out of

What do we do?

Hide.

We don't know where we are.

How do we get past them?

The important thing is to not panic.

Never let panic take over.

Trust me.

I'll be right back.

I can do it. I know you can.

right here.

No, no, no, no, no.

He ain't earning no easy death.

Move.

He'll bleed out.

No!

Let go of me! Shut up!

You're hard now.

Now, this is the point where I watch you bleed out, and then I take her.

It's just him. We can take him.

I'm not going to make it.

I'm not going to make it.

Axel!

You in there?

Gideon. Gideon, where are you? Big Pop.

He's alive.

No more than that. He's awake, moving around.

Girl, she healed me. It's a miracle.

You were right to bring her to us.

You guys are miracle -pleasers.

Let her go.

No.

She belongs to us now.

We paid in blood for her.

I wouldn't do that if I were you.

Why the hell shouldn't we?

Because as easily as I healed your father, I can curse him too.

And your entire family for generations.

No, that's a damn lie.

I got the blood of your family lying right here.

All I gotta do is mix it with mine and call on the spirit.

I'll do it.

He'll die.

You'll be fine.

Hey,

slow your roll, buddy. We gotta get you to the hospital.

I'm stable, aren't I?

By some miracle, yes.

I'm on!

Jasper, hey!

I was so worried.

I thought I'd lost you.

No, we should check on him, though.

Yeah. Yeah.

Take it easy. Hold on.

Thank you.

Uh, mind giving us a second?

Make it quick.

Yeah.

Hey. I can't thank you enough.

The police, they're raiding the drill place now.

Good. Good.

How's your leg?

Yeah, I'll survive.

How about you? Oh, uh, you know.

Name? I owe you.

Something tells me we're even.

Say it's a miracle I'm stable.

Wouldn't know anything about that, would you?

Uh -huh.

Were you really gonna curse their entire family?

Oh, that?

No, I just made that up.

It's like what you said about your sister.

Sometimes all you gotta be is convincing.

Gotta get this moving.

Good.

Let's get going.

I love you.

Thanks.

discharge yourself from a hospital. I'm fine.

I'm on my way to pick up the reward money now.

Coulter.

I'm fine.

Sid, I am really sorry I brought you into this mess.

It's okay.

You were right.

It's personal.

Hey, little sister.

Thinking about you?

Wanted to, uh... Just give me a call.

Stay tuned for scenes from our next episode.