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I feel sorry for the trick -or -treaters tonight.

Why did it stop me?

Let's hope the patients behave.

You hear that?

Water made it for me. Maybe we can get her a spare room in here, because that

thing is demented.

Blackout.

Generator will kick in.

Any time now.

Should it be on by now?

Let's follow protocol.

Check on all the patients, windows and doors.

Hope these are charged.

I'll check the breaker room.

I'll take the angle.

I'll go to the B -Wing.

Is B -Wing secure?

B -Wing secure.

B -Wing.

B -Wing secure.

I'm in the breaker room.

Just breathe.

Oh, my God.

Vianney, what's up?

Hey, I just got to the office. Oh, dang it.

Hold on.

You okay?

I'm just having a slow start to the morning. I went to a Halloween party

night dressed as a corpse bride, and I actually won the costume contest,

it or not, but I had way too many shots of tequila.

Sounds, uh, you know. What, not your scene?

Anyway, I had a pretty good time, to be fair, but I am now buried at the office

today. I thought that you were going to get someone to help you out while

Velma's away. I am.

I'm working on it. Actually, I'm interviewing some people today, in fact.

Did you ever look at what I sent you about the psych ward breakout?

I did. Heston Kuntz, gate prisoner, killed a nurse, right? Look, I know it's

your normal thing, but the parents are pretty insistent, and they're offering a

sizable reward, so I think it's worth the consult.

I'm pulling into Wyndham now. You got any other details?

Yeah. The facility administrator sent me over the case file.

Heston Kuntz, 29 years old, was convicted of burning a family alive in

home 10 years ago.

He pled insanity and then was sentenced to life at MCI Cedar Junction.

Looks like he served 10 years without incident, so they transferred him to a

-level psychiatric detainment facility in Wyndham for good behavior.

10 years, good behavior?

People usually show you who they are way before that.

Well, Anthony's parents are pretty worried about what he's going to do if

police don't find him.

Got it. Okay.

I'll poke around, see what I can find out. I'll give you a call back.

Okay.

Mr. and Mrs. Coates?

Hope you're sure.

Thank you for coming.

Yeah, looks like the police have thrown quite a bit of manpower at this.

Well, it's been 12 hours and there's still no sign of him. Well, after a big

storm like the one you just had, hard to trace a footpath. My best advice is

just let the police do their thing.

I'm sorry. I was told that for a fee that you would help find our son.

I can and I will, as long as I feel like I can get a result.

But before I agree to help you, I need to know...

Why is it that you want me to find them? Is it because you realize the police

will use maximum force if they do?

Maybe... Maybe you're fearful that he might come home?

That's not it.

Look, Heston never should have been transferred out of Max.

I know how that sounds, but it's the truth.

Heston had a normal childhood.

He played baseball, good grades.

But then something changed in high school.

He refused to come out of his room, and when he did, he would just stare and

whisper to himself.

That's when the parasomnia started.

Waking nightmares.

We'd find him outside the house with his face pushed up against the glass.

Strange wounds on his body.

Self -harm?

We didn't think so at first.

We thought the sleepwalking was from stretch at school.

The kids would make fun of him. Yeah.

There's a lot of nervous tics.

But one morning, I couldn't find Gus, our dog.

I thought maybe he was sleeping in Heston's room.

Heston?

Is Gus in there with you?

Honey? And then we heard the sound.

to the psychiatrist?

He did.

The doctor said that parasomnia could include acts of violence.

They were trying to assure us that, you know, most people with this disorder,

that they're not violent in real life, and it could be managed with medicine.

And you didn't believe that? No.

So we searched his room, and we found some of his journals and

drawings. He was fixated on this girl in the class below him,

Emily Collins.

The sole survivor of the fire?

Mm -hmm. We tried to do the right thing. We reported the journals to the police,

but they didn't take it seriously.

A month later, Hudson killed her whole family and tried to grab Emily.

If the police had listened to us, no one would have gotten hurt. We cannot make

the same mistake twice.

Did you make sure the police are aware that he might still be obsessed with

Emily? We made sure of that. And the lead investigator, Detective Dundee,

that we're hiring you.

We know what our son's capable of.

Find him.

Please.

Before somebody else gets hurt.

Yeah, okay. I'll do everything I can.

Thank you.

Detective Dundee? That's right. You must be Colter Shaw?

Yeah. Yeah, Heston's parents filled me in. So you find people who can't be

found? That's how the parents sold you? Something like that, yeah.

Yeah, I can't exactly fault them for blaming us. We fumbled the ball ten

ago, but it's a different department now. So if you break protocol or get in

way of our manhunt, I got no problem pushing you out.

So we understand each other.

Did you learn that at Princeton?

The whole condescension, disguises formality thing you're doing?

What, you looked me up?

Did I look you up? No, I did not look you up. I saw your ring.

Look, I'm just here to help.

I'm sorry.

Nothing about this case is good.

It's a reason that Heston was in the secure facility.

My opinion never should have been transferred here, but here we are.

Camera's gonna do anything? No. Storm took down the power line, whole place

dark.

This is the last image we have of Heston.

That's him with an orderly.

Hmm.

You know, you'd think a facility like this, the patient rooms would be fail

-safe. That's right.

These locks operate on a separate battery.

Weren't affected by the blackout.

So how the hell did he get out of here?

That's a good question.

I mean, this whole thing is weird.

It's a crude homage to a dirt bout piece called Fall of the Damned.

Title pretty much says it all.

Where do you get the materials?

Patients are allowed our therapy.

Okay.

Any shoe prints?

Attestants. Shoes are standard issue at this place.

No sign of forced exit?

We think the door malfunctioned. Crime of opportunity.

Maybe.

Maybe he was working with someone.

Well, we looked into it. All staff were accounted for at the time of the escape

and the murder.

Heston's Bible.

He collected news clippings.

I was in college when he burned that family alive.

Changed his town.

How did Emily survive?

She wasn't home at the time of the fire.

Parents are right.

He's so obsessed with Emily. Yeah, we saw that. I got a guy stationed at her

house in Millwood. If he so much as sniffs in her direction, we'll get him.

That's good.

Can I ask you a question?

This whole thing, this thing planned to you?

Unless he can control the weather, the storm did him a lot of favors.

Maybe he waited for the storm, used it as cover.

Here's what we know.

He's managed to avoid capture up until now, right? Which leads me to believe he

knows what he's doing.

Maybe that the power outage wasn't a coincidence.

And I bet if your guys check the downed power line right now, they're going to

find that it was intentionally cut.

Back to the he -had -help theory.

Can you show me where the nurse was killed?

That's in court of the nurse in here.

So this is a crime of opportunity. Why come here? Why not just run?

Maybe he got lost in a royale, wrong place, wrong time for the nurse.

Or maybe they wanted to make sure the cameras weren't restored.

Why would he care?

People are going to know when he was gone.

He was working with someone?

Tried to protect the identity of his accomplice?

It feels like a stretch.

Okay.

How'd he kill the nurse?

He strangled her with this.

Where's the key code?

No keycard, just a lanyard.

Figured he'd just wiped an extra off a desk.

Hmm.

Crime techs have been all over this place.

So, knock yourself out.

Yeah.

This has been some Trident.

Here's your key card.

Okay.

Here's my theory.

Our guy, our suspect, broke Heston out of that key card. He comes here to make

sure the nurses don't restore the cameras. The nurse fights back.

Key card goes flying off during the struggle down this vent.

They're digging at this thing. They're trying to get it out. They ran out of

time. They took off. None of the employees reported a stolen key card.

If Heston did have an accomplice, how'd they find one?

We got help from our employee.

I'll question the staff again.

All right. Do you want me to go and find out?

Yeah.

Randy, you get an idea on the key card? Okay. So the key cards are encoded with

access permissions, but not tied to any specific employee.

So I cross -referenced the RFIDs with the employee's schedule, and I found

this card matched up with...

This orderly. Guy named Bill Prugalidad.

He working last night?

Bill Prugalidad was not on schedule.

You have a history you don't know about?

Oh,

yeah. Reckless endangerment charge. That he got expunged five years ago.

Send me an address.

And how long did you do that for? We did it for two years.

Wow. Wow. Good for you.

Oh, um, that is my next interview.

Well, that's all the information that I think I need from you, so... Thank you

for the opportunity.

So much. Yes, of course. And, uh, we will be in touch.

I like your tie.

Thanks.

Hi. Hi. Um, I'm your 11 o 'clock, Melanie Day.

But you can just call me Mel.

Okay, Mel.

You are early.

I'm happy to wait. No, come on in. Okay.

My mom was military, so, you know, on time is five minutes early.

I get it. My dad was Air Force.

Oh.

So you know. I do. What branch was your mom in?

Army. Logistics officer.

Wow. Good for her. I'm good. I've got one.

Um, okay, Melody.

So you've got a B .A. in criminal justice, internship with the district

attorney's office.

Okay.

How was that?

It was an education.

Yeah, definitely an education.

That was Abe Kimber, right? Honest Abe, yes.

Yeah, he's a prick.

You don't have to sugarcoat things with me, okay?

Well, you know, he taught me to hold my ground and not take things personally.

But, yeah, enough said.

Good spin.

I did learn from him, so, you know, it's bad with the good, I guess.

Well, you went to a great school, Mel, and you had a highly coveted post -grad

internship.

You could work for any of the big firms, so why me?

I've followed your career.

I know that you got a lot of flack for leaving Lorburn McDean right before

making partner, but I totally get it.

I'm pretty averse to the bureaucratic machine, too.

And what you did with Luterna Corp, I mean, exposing all of that corruption,

uncovering Grimes' abuse, it was legit heroic.

That's the sort of lawyer that I want to work for.

Well, she's good with praise, Jack.

And to be honest, I'm curious about the rewardist that you work with.

Um, Colter Shaw?

I know that the job description is for your legal work, but I just think that's

really cool.

Well, there is definitely some overlap.

Okay, well, I can handle whatever you throw at me.

Okay.

Tell me something about you.

Something that isn't on this very perfect resume.

I don't know. I'm into typical girl stuff, I guess.

Murder podcasts.

Um...

Romantic novels.

Fourth wing, especially.

Oh, my gosh.

So good.

TikTok witches are kind of my new thing right now.

Okay.

And why are you so averse to bureaucracy, as you put it?

You want the truth.

Oh, I always want the truth.

Okay.

My mom died when I was 16.

In the line of duty?

No.

She was found in her car, shot in the parking lot of a rest stop.

But they never found out who did it.

So there were no answers, no justice.

I'm so sorry, Mel.

Yeah, me too.

But I'm good. I'm sorry. I don't usually dump this on people, especially people

that I want to work for. No, no, no. I asked.

I guess... It just felt like the systems that were supposed to be there to

support her were more interested in protecting themselves, you know?

I do know.

I think...

We are going to get along just fine.

Wait.

Does that mean I got the job?

It does.

Wow. Oh, my gosh. Thank you so much.

This is awesome. You won't regret it, I promise. I know I won't.

Take a look at this.

Same logo as the one I found on the Bible in Heston's room.

I ran the Bible study at the facility.

Maybe Heston manipulated him and then killed him.

Heston didn't kill this guy. This guy's been dead for days. Someone else killed

him.

He took his key card, broke Heston out. It doesn't make sense.

I mean, Heston's not the sort of guy who has friends on the outside.

Randy, talk to me.

Okay. I hacked the sensor camera on the electric vehicle that you spotted next

door. A blue minivan left Pagaladat's property two days ago, triggered the car

cam, no vehicles from that direction since.

Got a plate?

Yep. And it was reported stolen.

Any idea where it is now?

Let me see.

Just went through a toll station in East Millwood like half an hour ago. Emily

lives in Millwood. He's after her.

Unit 4, this is Dundee. You have eyes on Emily.

Over.

Unit 4, respond.

Nope.

This is Dundee requesting backup to 20606 Moseley Road in Millwood.

Emily's not here.

They had to ditch the van. They knew the vehicle was hot.

The car's reported stolen in the area?

No, not today. Someone picked them up?

That kid was just a third person.

I don't get it. What's in it for them?

Got an owner?

Uh, woman in her 40s, runs a daycare, reported her minivan stolen from a

parking lot during service. What church?

Churches with sacred fire.

It's a local convent.

Take a look at this.

It's the same symbol that I found on that Bible in Heston's cell in Fregala

Dad's garage.

Let's check it out.

That would be a connection, right?

Did you get Heston's visitation records?

Sure did.

Heston.

had monthly visitations with a spiritual counselor, a nun named Sister Carlotta.

It looks like their relationship started before he was transferred to Wyndham.

Yeah, about a year ago at MCI Cedar Junction.

She lived near there?

Nope. Her only address is at Sisters of the Sacred Fire Convent.

That's quite a trip, right? Yeah, and it seems that she got tired of the

commute. She sent several letters petitioning for Heston to be

So maybe she developed feelings for him.

He took advantage of that, manipulated her to help him move to Wyndham so he

could escape.

Yeah, or maybe she was just trying to help. I mean, she's a nun after all.

Yeah, well, there's more to it than that. All right, I'm headed to Sacred

Okay.

Excuse me.

This is private property. We need to speak to Sister Carlotta. It's urgent.

It's okay, Jared. I'll take care of this. You can go back to your work.

Let me know if you need anything.

How may I help you?

I'm the Mother Superior here, Sister Barbara.

We're looking for an escaped patient from Wyndham Psychiatric, Heston Koontz.

Come inside, won't you?

What does this escaped patient have to do with Sister Carlotta, may I ask?

She was counseling him. We counsel all sorts through our outreach program.

We believe she may have facilitated or had knowledge of his escape.

That's quite the accusation.

We know that she visited him on several occasions and that she petitioned to

have him moved to Wyndham. And I'm sure that's the extent to which she's

involved with him.

Were you aware of her relationship with him at all?

I teach my sisters to help where help is needed.

I don't peer over their shoulders.

If we could just talk to her, perhaps we could clear this up.

I'm sure you will.

I haven't seen her this afternoon. She might be off the ground.

Does she have a room here we could see?

Which floor?

You're protecting your sister, and I understand that.

But this prisoner...

has murdered two people since he escaped.

He's recently kidnapped a young lady. Now, if there's anything in that room

might help us find her, we might be able to save her life.

Mr. Shaw, Detective, is this really necessary?

It feels entirely inappropriate to rifle through Sister Kalana's personal items

without her presence.

Wait a minute.

Something.

It's a journal from her time working with Heston.

In my heart, I am sure of the path. God help us for what we are about to do, for

I am but a servant.

That's definitely more than outreach.

I don't understand.

What's that?

Let's see what we got.

Those are plans for where Heston was being held.

My word.

She definitely helped him escape.

Sister Carlotta is a devoted member of this church.

Yeah, well, things changed. Maybe he convinced her.

Maybe he threatened her.

I can't believe she's capable of this.

She does have a point.

Pergalida was a big guy, and there's evidence of a brutal fight. No way she

overpowered him.

She's not working alone.

Let me throw her here.

Recognize those people?

That's the community outreach group Sister Carlotta worked with.

That guy.

From outside.

Jared, our custodian.

She close with Jared?

Yeah. He experienced a great deal of trauma in the military.

Sister Carlotta helped him through it, got him the job here. He lives in the

basement of the convent. He lives in the basement?

Yeah. You take it there?

Yeah.

Wait right here.

Two people are being held here.

Who'd they take besides Emily?

I don't know.

They were drugged.

Take a look at this.

Same shoe print pattern we found in Heston's cell, right?

He's being held here.

He didn't escape from Wyndham. He was abducted.

He's a victim.

Mr. Carlotta and Jared were holding Emily and Heston hostage in here. They

drugged, kept unconscious.

Not in line with the vow she took.

No, not at all.

So my guess is Jared killed the nurse at the facility and the cop at Emily's.

The question is why.

We found this.

It's an altar.

Fidelis.

It means faithful in Latin.

It mean anything to you?

I haven't seen one of these in a long time.

Is that not part of your doctrine?

No, it's not.

It's from a splinter sect that was stamped out long ago.

They called themselves Fidelis.

What do they believe?

They operated under the guise of serving God, hunting down dark things.

Dark things?

Witch hunts? Among other horrors.

Go on.

They believed that people could be inhabited by demons, made to do evil.

They took it upon themselves to hunt down the hosts who eradicate the bad

spirits, no matter the means.

And how would they do that exactly?

What are we talking about, some sort of exorcism, right?

I got to call this in.

Can you tell me what you know?

Jared's gone.

He knows we're onto him. I put a bolo on his truck. We just saw him. He can't

have gotten far. I got my guys setting up roadblocks, too.

How are they justifying all this murder?

They think they're doing something righteous.

Makes it even more dangerous. I've heard stories about the Fidelis. I thought it

was just local mythology.

Why are they targeting Heston specifically?

His parents said that the violence came on suddenly when he was in a sleep

state. Right, that he didn't sound like himself.

So maybe Sister Carlotta thought that those symptoms pointed to demonic

possession. What's that got to do with Emily?

Mother Superior said they would need her for the ritual. Why?

She's the emotional tether.

This sect, they believe that a demon can only enter a host if it's unlocked by

an emotional tether.

Unlocked?

Meaning the plan is to kill both Hudson and Emily.

The sect was associated with the original site of the Sacred Fire Church.

We thought that place was haunted as kids.

Rumors of all kinds of unexplained phenomena.

I bet that's where they're doing the ritual.

Get in. I'll drive.

We blocked the road to the original church. No sightings of Jared's truck

Randy, did you locate Jared's phone?

He was headed east, but then he got wise and moved to Sim like 15 minutes ago.

You said he was moving east, not west?

The original church is west.

You know, the last text he got from Sister Carlotta reads, go to the first

That mean anything to you?

Church is called Sisters of the Sacred Fire. First fire has to be the original

church. Why would he be moving away from the church?

All right, Randy, thanks.

All right, I got you, ma 'am.

Hey, Randy.

I want to introduce you to my new assistant, Mel.

Hey. Hi. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you.

Please, don't get too used to me. This face, okay? Don't even do it, all right?

I'm just here on a temporary basis.

You know, freelance tech support.

Gotcha. I don't know why you keep saying that. He's staying.

I am? Yes, you are.

Oh, okay. Good to know.

Just trying to keep my options open.

What is this?

Oh, um, this is, uh... Sorry.

She's good, Randy.

She's done quite a bit of homework on what we do.

Oh, yeah?

Yeah, Coulter's running down a patient from a psychiatric prison.

Escaped? Abducted, actually, alongside a young woman.

Oh, my God.

Yeah. Can I ask why?

We're not sure.

Well, Coulter's not sure, but it's not good.

Yeah.

I need a lot of sage for this office after this case.

I'm not even into all the woo -woo stuff. It's just...

I don't know. Stuff like this makes you wonder. Yeah.

You know, I recommend Palo Santo.

It translates to Holywood in Spanish. It's really good for warding off the bad

energy, I think.

Yeah, that. I'll take a truckload of that. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, well, you know,

can run to the store right now if you want. Good.

I am?

Yeah. I will send you an email with all the information that you're going to

need for your first day, okay?

Sounds good. Thank you so much.

It was nice to meet you, Randy. You too.

Thank you again for the opportunity. Of course.

Bye. I'm excited. Bye.

Good choice. Right?

I mean, she checks out. I mean, everybody has sent you checks out, but I

you two would especially get along.

Okay, I just needed to do my process.

Yes, process is fine as long as it includes good digital hygiene.

Well, you can lecture Mel all about it on her first day. I will.

Just keep me posted on Coulter.

I will.

What is it?

I think we're missing something.

Why would Jared be driving away from the church?

He could have tossed his phone and thrown us off.

Your roadblocks would have caught him by now.

Mother Superior said it's important that the ritual be personal, right?

We're going to the wrong place.

First fire. It's the first fire that Heston set.

The one that killed the Collins family. That would be personal to Emily Ann

Heston, right?

That easy to hear? Sure is.

We're not far. I mean, that place has been vacant since the tragedy. Pull a U

-Wing.

All units, suspect is headed to the Collins property on Lombard Drive.

Copy. En route.

Stop this!

It's okay.

Today you have the opportunity to give your life for a greater purpose.

You'll be free soon.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

I won't do this.

Please.

Somebody help me.

You should wait for backup.

We don't have time for that. My experience every second counts.

Okay, let's... Fill it up. I'll clear the camper. I'll meet you in the house.

safe.

How you doing?

You'll be all right?

Yeah, I imagine I'll be down for a bit, but yeah, I'll be okay. Good. Glad to

hear that.

What about her? You think she'll be all right?

Yeah.

Yeah, she's strong. I think she'll be all right.

I'm behind her now.

Sister Carlotta got her beliefs mixed up.

Thought she was fighting a holy war.

Yeah, but it didn't start out that way. Something touched her and it wasn't

good.

I don't know. There's so much darkness out there.

I'm not saying demons, but things that are capable of bringing true evil into

the world.

Heston.

Yeah.

I don't know what I'm going to tell his parents.

They lost him a long time ago.

It'll make it easier, though.

Irony is, Heston breaking out of his restraints ended up saving Emily's life.

But what adjusts?

The universe slipped up and accidentally did something fair.

Yeah.

The longer I'm on this job, the more...

Rare, that seems.

You do a lot of good for this town, you know that?

We're very lucky to have you.

I'll see you around, Coulter.

Not if I see you first.

Mr. Shaw.

Here.

I collect only in success.

I wasn't able to bring your son back.

Why don't you, um... Just give that money to Emily.

She'll do something good with it.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

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