1 00:00:18,260 --> 00:00:23,110 [Bret] In late May of 1980, May 23rd to be exact, The Shining opened, 2 00:00:23,370 --> 00:00:25,610 and I wanted to see it as soon as possible. 3 00:00:25,610 --> 00:00:27,920 [♪ "Moving in Stereo" playing] 4 00:00:37,870 --> 00:00:41,070 I was obsessed with Stephen King's seminal book. 5 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:44,880 And it remains one of the key novels that made me wanna be a writer. 6 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:47,790 ♪♪ Life's the same I'm moving in stereo ♪ 7 00:00:47,790 --> 00:00:51,390 In fact, as soon as I was done reading The Shining for a third time, 8 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:55,840 I began writing my own novel, which would ultimately become Less Than Zero. 9 00:00:55,970 --> 00:00:58,440 ♪♪ You're shakin' like tremolo ♪ 10 00:00:58,540 --> 00:01:02,080 This would be the first time I drove to Westwood to see a movie without the gang, 11 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:05,290 and I felt incredibly adult as I raced across Mulholland 12 00:01:05,490 --> 00:01:09,670 on that Saturday morning in my father's black Mercedes 450 SL, 13 00:01:10,530 --> 00:01:14,910 a two-door tank that was hardly the sporty vehicle I longed for 14 00:01:14,910 --> 00:01:16,410 as a teenager. 15 00:01:23,090 --> 00:01:27,640 ♪♪ It's so easy To blow up your problems ♪ 16 00:01:27,730 --> 00:01:30,170 I remember, and I don't know why, 17 00:01:30,170 --> 00:01:33,310 that I was wearing a fashionable new Ralph Lauren shirt, 18 00:01:33,580 --> 00:01:35,550 brown with a touch of white-gray stripes 19 00:01:35,650 --> 00:01:38,360 and Calvin Klein jeans with Gucci loafers. 20 00:01:43,070 --> 00:01:44,570 One ticket, please. 21 00:01:45,900 --> 00:01:47,040 Three dollars. 22 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:03,940 Thank you. 23 00:02:06,650 --> 00:02:08,550 [♪ upbeat music playing] 24 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:14,130 I sat in reverent silence and stared at the 70-millimeter screen. 25 00:02:15,030 --> 00:02:19,200 Writing this now, I can't believe I was left to my own devices for 20 minutes, 26 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:21,110 just idly sitting there, 27 00:02:21,110 --> 00:02:23,980 thinking about things, about my friends Thom and Susan, 28 00:02:23,980 --> 00:02:26,490 waiting without wanting something to distract me 29 00:02:26,620 --> 00:02:28,760 like smartphones or social media. 30 00:02:31,530 --> 00:02:36,440 The lights in the theater slowly darken, and that's when I saw the boy. 31 00:02:36,870 --> 00:02:39,750 This is the reason why I've never forgotten seeing The Shining 32 00:02:39,950 --> 00:02:44,320 on May 24th, 1980, at the theater in Westwood at 10:00 a.m. 33 00:02:45,020 --> 00:02:48,530 I was off to the side near the aisle when I saw him. 34 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:50,000 [door opens] 35 00:02:51,570 --> 00:02:53,040 [door closes] 36 00:02:54,910 --> 00:02:58,950 A guy so stunningly handsome I thought at first he was a movie star 37 00:02:58,950 --> 00:03:01,050 or a model from GQ magazine. 38 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:03,960 He was tall. 39 00:03:04,090 --> 00:03:06,770 He was undoubtedly tan everywhere. 40 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:13,150 This boy aroused something primal in me that I'd never felt before. 41 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:18,120 I needed to be his friend. I had to own him. 42 00:03:19,830 --> 00:03:23,100 ♪♪ Life's the same, I'm moving in stereo ♪ 43 00:03:23,100 --> 00:03:26,570 The Warner Brothers logo headed toward us as the opening credits began 44 00:03:26,710 --> 00:03:30,980 over aerial shots of the family's Volkswagen heading toward the Overlook. 45 00:03:41,940 --> 00:03:45,580 He had to be older than me. A UCLA student, maybe. 46 00:03:45,740 --> 00:03:47,950 [♪ suspenseful music playing] 47 00:03:58,670 --> 00:04:05,320 I watched, mesmerized, as this boy, this god, disappeared from my sight line. 48 00:04:05,890 --> 00:04:08,460 He noticed me staring and glanced away, 49 00:04:08,790 --> 00:04:11,090 but not before a lingering gaze took me in, 50 00:04:11,100 --> 00:04:14,170 and I fantasized that he was interested in me too. 51 00:04:22,820 --> 00:04:25,190 After the movie was over, I was underwhelmed. 52 00:04:25,190 --> 00:04:27,430 It was nothing like the book. I felt cheated. 53 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:31,540 I walked into the lobby hoping to find the boy, but he wasn't anywhere. 54 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:36,880 I waited outside the theater, but he wasn't there either. 55 00:04:37,410 --> 00:04:40,920 What I didn't know then is that I would actually meet this boy again, 56 00:04:41,020 --> 00:04:43,220 and his name was Robert Mallory, 57 00:04:43,230 --> 00:04:46,830 and that his arrival at my high school and into my life would coincide 58 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,240 with a season of horror and murder that would destroy us all. 59 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:53,310 "Redrum" over and over? That's gonna haunt me for the rest of my life. 60 00:04:53,310 --> 00:04:55,550 Like, "redrum"? But... 61 00:05:07,110 --> 00:05:11,620 [Bret] It has occurred to me when talking about what happened to us in 1981 62 00:05:11,620 --> 00:05:17,130 that one thing is evident: Kids today have it fucking easy. 63 00:05:17,860 --> 00:05:21,030 Sure, being a teenager is hard now because you have to deal 64 00:05:21,030 --> 00:05:23,870 with puberty and sexuality and online bullying, 65 00:05:24,010 --> 00:05:28,480 but our generation had it tougher because we had to deal with serial killers. 66 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:29,820 Shadow. 67 00:05:33,630 --> 00:05:34,700 Shadow. 68 00:05:39,770 --> 00:05:41,340 Shadow. 69 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:44,480 [Bret] The early '80s was the golden era for serial killers. 70 00:05:44,950 --> 00:05:47,290 All the legends were on hunting sprees. 71 00:05:47,290 --> 00:05:49,690 The Night Stalker, the Hillside Strangler. 72 00:05:49,930 --> 00:05:51,460 Shadow. 73 00:05:51,460 --> 00:05:53,360 [Bret] As I prepared to enter senior year... 74 00:05:53,370 --> 00:05:55,270 Shadow. 75 00:05:55,270 --> 00:05:57,370 ...I had no idea that my friends and I would be hunted too 76 00:05:57,370 --> 00:06:00,750 by perhaps the most sadistic serial killer of them all. 77 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:05,290 [phone ringing] 78 00:06:18,620 --> 00:06:19,420 Hello. 79 00:06:19,650 --> 00:06:21,250 [static buzzing] 80 00:06:24,630 --> 00:06:25,500 Hello. 81 00:06:25,500 --> 00:06:26,900 [bubbling] 82 00:06:28,470 --> 00:06:29,770 Hello. 83 00:06:33,650 --> 00:06:34,950 [hangs up] 84 00:06:53,220 --> 00:06:54,920 [Bret] This is our story. 85 00:06:55,020 --> 00:06:57,130 Some of us survived high school. 86 00:06:57,130 --> 00:06:58,830 Some of us died. 87 00:06:58,830 --> 00:07:01,130 But none of us made it out alive. 88 00:07:16,130 --> 00:07:17,370 [pills rattling] 89 00:07:42,950 --> 00:07:45,390 - [man on TV] Darling. - [screams] 90 00:07:46,090 --> 00:07:47,690 [panting] 91 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:50,430 [phone ringing] 92 00:07:54,780 --> 00:07:55,610 Hello. 93 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:57,210 [static buzzing] 94 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:00,390 [raspy breathing] 95 00:08:03,390 --> 00:08:05,100 - Who is this? - [line clicks] 96 00:08:33,290 --> 00:08:36,160 - [wind blowing] - [wind chime tinkles] 97 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:37,890 [dog barking] 98 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:43,410 [latch clicks] 99 00:08:45,940 --> 00:08:49,250 [light bulb buzzing] 100 00:08:58,770 --> 00:09:00,040 [dog barking] 101 00:09:32,970 --> 00:09:35,140 [♪ eerie music plays] 102 00:09:57,520 --> 00:09:59,260 [keys jingling] 103 00:10:02,530 --> 00:10:04,100 [screaming] 104 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:17,090 [thudding] 105 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:39,070 [♪ "Vienna" ♪] 106 00:10:39,070 --> 00:10:42,640 [Bret] I remember it was a Sunday afternoon before Labor Day, 107 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:46,050 and our senior year was about to begin on that Tuesday morning 108 00:10:46,250 --> 00:10:47,960 of September 8th, 1981. 109 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:50,460 And I remember that the Westridge Stables 110 00:10:50,560 --> 00:10:53,000 were located on a bluff above Malibu 111 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:56,370 where my girlfriend, Deborah Schaffer, was boarding her new horse, Spirit. 112 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:00,980 I was driving solo following Susan Reynolds and Thom Wright 113 00:11:01,150 --> 00:11:02,620 along Pacific Coast Highway. 114 00:11:02,620 --> 00:11:05,190 ♪♪ The feeling has gone Only you and I ♪ 115 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:08,900 ♪♪ It means nothing to me ♪ 116 00:11:09,330 --> 00:11:11,740 Everything sped up when you got your car 117 00:11:11,970 --> 00:11:13,510 - at 16 in Los Angeles. - ♪♪ Nothing to me ♪ 118 00:11:13,610 --> 00:11:16,080 You are now autonomous in ways you hadn't been. 119 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:20,020 - You could take care of yourself. - ♪♪ Oh, Vienna ♪ 120 00:11:20,220 --> 00:11:21,720 You had become an adult. 121 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:24,290 - [whooping] - [laughs] 122 00:11:25,930 --> 00:11:28,470 [Bret] This encouraged our parents to work longer hours 123 00:11:28,570 --> 00:11:30,540 or travel with less restrictions, 124 00:11:30,540 --> 00:11:33,510 leaving all of us behind in beautiful empty houses 125 00:11:33,510 --> 00:11:36,580 in Bel-Air and Beverly Hills or Benedict Canyon, 126 00:11:36,590 --> 00:11:38,560 and that was okay with my friends and I. 127 00:11:38,560 --> 00:11:41,290 We were the family. We raised each other. 128 00:11:41,290 --> 00:11:43,470 [laughing, chattering] 129 00:11:43,570 --> 00:11:46,540 [Bret] We would usually start our day by meeting for lunch at Hamburger Hamlet, 130 00:11:46,540 --> 00:11:48,980 where we'd crowd into the red booths for patty melts 131 00:11:49,180 --> 00:11:52,250 after buying our tickets for the next movie at The Bruin. 132 00:11:52,250 --> 00:11:54,450 Dinner was usually at the food court 133 00:11:54,450 --> 00:11:57,330 with breaks at the arcade playing Space Invaders and PAC-MAN. 134 00:11:59,260 --> 00:12:03,010 Or look for new music at Tower Records, leafing through the paperbacks 135 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:06,380 at any number of the large bookstores that dotted the streets. 136 00:12:07,050 --> 00:12:09,120 There were five or six in 1981. 137 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:10,150 That's the one. 138 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:12,050 [Bret] There are none now. 139 00:12:12,060 --> 00:12:13,690 [laughing, chattering] 140 00:12:19,470 --> 00:12:23,010 [Bret] I kept behind Thom's car up the winding road of the stables 141 00:12:23,010 --> 00:12:26,690 where we parked next to Deborah's gleaming brand-new BMW. 142 00:12:35,100 --> 00:12:38,340 We located Debbie trotting Spirit by his reins. 143 00:12:38,340 --> 00:12:39,840 [whoops] Rock it, Debbie. 144 00:12:39,850 --> 00:12:40,810 [Bret] She was wearing her riding attire. 145 00:12:41,050 --> 00:12:41,780 There you are. 146 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:47,190 [Thom whooping] 147 00:12:47,190 --> 00:12:49,160 [whinnies] 148 00:12:49,500 --> 00:12:52,370 [Bret] I was aware of Spirit being yet another example 149 00:12:52,470 --> 00:12:54,510 of Debbie's carelessness and privilege. 150 00:12:54,510 --> 00:12:57,950 The cost of maintaining and housing the animal was astronomical, 151 00:12:57,950 --> 00:12:59,890 but I don't think she even cared. 152 00:13:00,990 --> 00:13:03,160 In a way, Debbie was an experiment. 153 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:05,830 I wasn't determined to have a girlfriend my senior year, 154 00:13:05,830 --> 00:13:07,940 except if it had been Susan Reynolds, 155 00:13:08,130 --> 00:13:12,510 and yet Debbie had become somewhat inexplicably just that. 156 00:13:14,980 --> 00:13:17,220 [♪ pop music playing] 157 00:13:22,100 --> 00:13:26,240 ♪♪ I, I, I wanna give you a kiss I wanna... ♪ 158 00:13:29,340 --> 00:13:31,510 [Bret] We were at a party at Anthony Matthews' house, 159 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:34,890 and she just started making out with me on a chaise lit by the pool. 160 00:13:34,890 --> 00:13:38,760 I was stoned on a Quaalude. She did a bump of coke. It was midnight. 161 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:42,170 - [panting] Put it in. I'm so wet. - What? 162 00:13:42,270 --> 00:13:45,810 And I was at a point where I still tried to be attracted to girls. 163 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:49,550 - There's people around. - I want it. I want you, Bret. 164 00:13:49,550 --> 00:13:51,790 [Bret] I surprised myself and went with it. 165 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:55,460 Debbie always broke the rules. 166 00:13:55,460 --> 00:13:58,900 By senior year, her hair was a shade of platinum inspired by Blondie. 167 00:13:59,070 --> 00:14:02,810 If you were in 11th or 12th grade, makeup was minimally allowed, 168 00:14:02,810 --> 00:14:05,420 but because Debbie was so rich, she got away with murder 169 00:14:05,550 --> 00:14:07,090 and wore her lipstick hot pink 170 00:14:07,090 --> 00:14:09,460 - or blood red, always defiant. - [school bell rings] 171 00:14:17,270 --> 00:14:21,450 [laughing, whooping] Look, Debbie, I'm you. 172 00:14:21,450 --> 00:14:23,590 You guys, cut it out. You're gonna spook the horses. 173 00:14:23,590 --> 00:14:25,790 - Susan, please, get off his back. - [Susan] Okay. 174 00:14:25,790 --> 00:14:28,930 This is a $1 million horse from Arabia, and you're gonna spook him 175 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:31,230 because you can't get off Thom's back for five minutes. 176 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:32,670 You just scared all of them... 177 00:14:32,670 --> 00:14:34,370 [Bret] Thom Wright and Susan Reynolds 178 00:14:34,370 --> 00:14:36,280 had been dating since they were sophomores 179 00:14:36,380 --> 00:14:38,310 and were now the most popular people, 180 00:14:38,310 --> 00:14:41,350 not only in our class, but in the overall student body. 181 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:43,390 It was obvious why. 182 00:14:43,490 --> 00:14:45,460 Thom and Susan were casually beautiful, 183 00:14:45,460 --> 00:14:48,570 all-American, and they both came from wealthy families. 184 00:14:49,070 --> 00:14:50,840 For about two years, they were in love 185 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:54,280 until that fall of 1981, when one of them wasn't. 186 00:14:55,420 --> 00:14:57,550 Thom was always the ideal of teen boy handsome, 187 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:01,090 and what was so alluring about him was that he didn't seem to care. 188 00:15:01,260 --> 00:15:05,000 He had an intriguing blankness that was attractive and soothing. 189 00:15:05,170 --> 00:15:07,070 He was the opposite of Susan, 190 00:15:07,070 --> 00:15:10,180 school class president, effortlessly a straight-A student. 191 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:14,950 She kind of knew I was secretly in love with her, 192 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:17,090 and I knew everything about her. 193 00:15:17,590 --> 00:15:20,360 When she got her period, the problem with her mother, 194 00:15:20,370 --> 00:15:24,110 every imaginary slight and deprivation she thought she was enduring... 195 00:15:24,340 --> 00:15:27,880 - I love you. - ... her crushes on classmates before Thom. 196 00:15:34,060 --> 00:15:38,270 She was to me the most beautiful girl ever, 197 00:15:39,300 --> 00:15:43,810 and to this very day, the person I think I've loved the most in my entire life. 198 00:15:43,950 --> 00:15:45,920 Have you heard from your parents? 199 00:15:47,020 --> 00:15:51,090 This morning, still in France, headed to Venice next week. 200 00:15:51,700 --> 00:15:53,670 They're staying in Europe indefinitely. 201 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:56,470 My mom said that she still thinks she wants to divorce him. 202 00:15:56,670 --> 00:16:00,340 My dad said that the trip has been good, and they weren't coming home 203 00:16:00,350 --> 00:16:03,420 until their marriage was on solid ground again. 204 00:16:03,420 --> 00:16:05,190 I hope it works out for them. 205 00:16:05,690 --> 00:16:07,760 Sucks having divorced parents. 206 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:09,730 I miss my dad a lot. 207 00:16:10,330 --> 00:16:12,900 My God, it's my dream, all that freedom. 208 00:16:12,900 --> 00:16:15,310 Who's cooking your food? You don't cook. 209 00:16:25,500 --> 00:16:26,760 [Bret] Rosa makes all my meals. 210 00:16:26,770 --> 00:16:28,170 Gracias. 211 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:31,840 I just write all night after she goes home and do whatever I want. 212 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:40,660 Are you coming to Debbie's house tonight? 213 00:16:40,660 --> 00:16:42,300 It's the last party of the summer. 214 00:16:42,530 --> 00:16:45,500 Labor Day always makes me blue. It's the end of something. 215 00:16:45,500 --> 00:16:48,910 Oh, but this year is the beginning of our senior year. 216 00:16:48,910 --> 00:16:52,720 We're coming. Although, God, Debbie's dad makes me super uncomfortable. 217 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:55,260 - So goddamn gay. - Thom! 218 00:16:55,390 --> 00:16:57,560 Sorry, he is. Last time I was there, 219 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:01,200 he asked me if I wanted to take a Jacuzzi with him in his bathroom, 220 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:02,870 not the one by the pool. 221 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:05,410 Pretended I got food poisoning and left. 222 00:17:05,540 --> 00:17:07,750 Yeah, I get gay vibes from him too. 223 00:17:07,750 --> 00:17:10,450 I don't think Debbie's mom knows, if you could believe it. 224 00:17:10,690 --> 00:17:14,730 She likes the house, the trips, going to the Oscars every year. 225 00:17:14,860 --> 00:17:17,800 How many does he have again? Oscars. 226 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:18,770 Two. 227 00:17:18,770 --> 00:17:20,500 You know that book I'm writing? 228 00:17:20,510 --> 00:17:22,610 I want him to buy it and let me write the movie. 229 00:17:22,740 --> 00:17:25,550 God, I hate coming here every weekend just to watch her ride this dumb horse. 230 00:17:25,550 --> 00:17:30,660 - Why do we do this to ourselves? - Because we are nice people. 231 00:17:31,130 --> 00:17:33,460 And this year, we're gonna rule the school. 232 00:17:33,700 --> 00:17:34,970 [all laughing] 233 00:17:34,970 --> 00:17:36,740 - [Bret] Don't we already? - [Susan] Help. [squeals] 234 00:17:36,910 --> 00:17:38,510 [Bret] There's no helping you. 235 00:18:02,420 --> 00:18:04,560 [♪ "Planet Earth" playing] 236 00:18:17,350 --> 00:18:23,200 ♪♪ Only came outside To watch the night fall With the rain ♪ 237 00:18:24,300 --> 00:18:29,080 ♪♪ I heard you Making patterns rhyme ♪ 238 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:30,450 I don't understand. 239 00:18:30,910 --> 00:18:33,380 I just think we need to cool it for a while. 240 00:18:33,550 --> 00:18:35,520 It's maybe gotten out of hand. 241 00:18:37,730 --> 00:18:38,860 I agree. 242 00:18:40,900 --> 00:18:42,870 Just remember, we're good friends. 243 00:18:44,670 --> 00:18:45,940 Always will be. 244 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:49,820 ♪♪ Look now, look all around ♪ 245 00:18:51,860 --> 00:18:53,730 ♪♪ There's no sign of life ♪ 246 00:18:53,730 --> 00:18:58,870 ♪♪ Voices, another sound ♪ 247 00:18:58,870 --> 00:19:04,180 ♪♪ Can you hear me now? ♪ 248 00:19:04,180 --> 00:19:07,950 ♪♪ This is Planet Earth ♪ 249 00:19:07,950 --> 00:19:12,090 ♪♪ You're looking at Planet Earth ♪ 250 00:19:12,100 --> 00:19:15,300 ♪♪ Bop, bop, bop, bop, Bop, bop, bop, bop ♪ 251 00:19:15,470 --> 00:19:17,970 ♪♪ This is Planet Earth ♪ 252 00:19:24,820 --> 00:19:29,360 ♪♪ My head is stuck On something precious ♪ 253 00:19:29,360 --> 00:19:31,070 ♪♪ Let me know ♪ 254 00:19:31,970 --> 00:19:36,980 ♪♪ If you're coming down To land ♪ 255 00:19:37,910 --> 00:19:41,050 ♪♪ Is there anybody... ♪ 256 00:19:41,190 --> 00:19:43,490 So, what was that about with Ryan? 257 00:19:44,430 --> 00:19:45,760 [groans] 258 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:47,260 Nothing. 259 00:19:47,270 --> 00:19:49,470 We were just talking about how excited we were to graduate 260 00:19:49,470 --> 00:19:51,740 and get the hell out of Los Angeles, 261 00:19:51,740 --> 00:19:53,650 finally start our lives. 262 00:19:53,850 --> 00:19:57,790 For sure, I'm going to school on the East Coast, not even a question. 263 00:19:59,090 --> 00:20:01,430 ♪♪ There's no sign of life ♪ 264 00:20:01,590 --> 00:20:04,030 ♪♪ Voices, another sound ♪ 265 00:20:04,030 --> 00:20:05,640 Oh, my God. 266 00:20:05,870 --> 00:20:08,040 Senior year hasn't even started, and I'm already exhausted. 267 00:20:08,140 --> 00:20:10,680 - It's gonna take so much planning. - Like what? 268 00:20:10,850 --> 00:20:12,850 Well, homecoming is in October, 269 00:20:12,850 --> 00:20:15,420 and I have some rad ideas for the class float. 270 00:20:15,420 --> 00:20:19,130 And then of course, Susan and Thom will be crowned homecoming king and queen. 271 00:20:19,130 --> 00:20:23,040 I don't wanna be a homecoming queen and wear some weird tiara. 272 00:20:24,740 --> 00:20:27,240 Susan, I'll throw you a party at the Beverly Hills Hotel, 273 00:20:27,250 --> 00:20:29,320 and then we're doing an after-party thing 274 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:31,590 on Dominic Thompson's father's yacht, okay? 275 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:33,160 - [laughs] - How much coke have you done? 276 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:34,330 A lot. 277 00:20:34,330 --> 00:20:35,660 - Do you want some? - Duh. 278 00:20:42,980 --> 00:20:45,380 Oh, and I just booked Tommy Tutone 279 00:20:45,580 --> 00:20:48,120 for a private party I'm throwing at the Blue Bayou at Disneyland. 280 00:20:48,120 --> 00:20:50,830 You know, like a cool grad night thing? 281 00:20:52,100 --> 00:20:53,670 We've all worked so hard. 282 00:20:53,870 --> 00:20:55,670 We deserve a nice time. 283 00:20:55,670 --> 00:20:57,240 We deserve nice things. 284 00:20:58,170 --> 00:20:59,680 Blue Bayou, the restaurant 285 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:01,880 inside the Pirates of the Caribbean ride? 286 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:03,080 Yeah. 287 00:21:03,750 --> 00:21:06,090 - That's awesome. - [all laughing] 288 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:10,100 [♪ "This Town" playing] 289 00:21:10,100 --> 00:21:11,670 [ice clinking] 290 00:21:11,900 --> 00:21:13,540 [shaker rattling] 291 00:21:14,170 --> 00:21:15,810 Four vodka sodas, please. 292 00:21:20,350 --> 00:21:23,220 Oh, don't forget to invite the new guy to Disney. 293 00:21:23,220 --> 00:21:24,490 What? 294 00:21:24,630 --> 00:21:26,200 There's a new guy coming in on Tuesday. 295 00:21:26,530 --> 00:21:28,200 A new addition to our senior class. 296 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:31,210 That's strange. You never get a new kid senior year. 297 00:21:31,610 --> 00:21:34,710 - What's his name? - Um, Robert something. 298 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:36,750 Oh, Robert Mallory. 299 00:21:37,950 --> 00:21:39,290 How do you know this? 300 00:21:39,590 --> 00:21:41,730 Well, I was having a meeting with Principal Croft 301 00:21:41,730 --> 00:21:45,230 about my student body presidential duties this year, and he told me. 302 00:21:45,230 --> 00:21:48,840 He lives in Century City with his aunt or stepmother or something. 303 00:21:49,380 --> 00:21:51,950 - Well, that's weird. - What's weird about it? 304 00:21:52,050 --> 00:21:53,680 [chuckles] If he lives in Century City, 305 00:21:53,690 --> 00:21:56,190 he would have been eligible to attend Beverly Hills High. 306 00:21:56,190 --> 00:21:59,800 Why opt for our school? Why drive all the way to our school? 307 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,230 Well, he better be cute. 308 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:04,040 [all laughing] 309 00:22:05,710 --> 00:22:06,910 Like you. 310 00:22:08,050 --> 00:22:10,280 Meet me in my bedroom in ten? 311 00:22:11,190 --> 00:22:12,660 I'm so horny. 312 00:22:18,230 --> 00:22:19,940 [Thom] What did you mean when you said 313 00:22:19,940 --> 00:22:21,470 you didn't want to be homecoming king and queen? 314 00:22:21,740 --> 00:22:24,080 - Oh, God, Thom, it's so corny. - Yeah, but, Susan, honey, 315 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:26,750 this is what we've been waiting for for four fucking years. 316 00:22:26,850 --> 00:22:29,090 This is the coronation. Everybody wants this. 317 00:22:32,230 --> 00:22:35,400 Okay. For you, I'll think about it. 318 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:38,370 ♪♪ This town is our town ♪ 319 00:22:38,370 --> 00:22:40,710 ♪♪ This town It is so glamorous ♪ 320 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:42,350 [Bret] That night in September 321 00:22:42,620 --> 00:22:45,490 was one of the last nights where there was no fear. 322 00:22:45,690 --> 00:22:47,830 [indistinct chatter] 323 00:22:56,810 --> 00:22:59,780 [♪ "Golden Brown" playing] 324 00:23:13,410 --> 00:23:18,090 [Terry] You have to watch The Godfather, Chinatown, and The Story of O. 325 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:21,290 - You ever heard of The Story of O? - [boy] I have... 326 00:23:21,660 --> 00:23:23,030 Bret. 327 00:23:23,670 --> 00:23:27,170 - Oh. Hi, Mr. Schaffer. - Call me Terry, buddy. 328 00:23:27,170 --> 00:23:30,010 Sit down. There's something I wanted to talk to you about. 329 00:23:30,010 --> 00:23:32,980 You guys go off, watch your movies, tell me the details. 330 00:23:33,150 --> 00:23:34,650 I wanna know your favorite. 331 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:36,090 Okay. 332 00:23:44,570 --> 00:23:49,680 So... Debbie tells me you're a writer, or you want to be one? 333 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:53,460 Yes. Yeah, I'm-I'm writing a novel. 334 00:23:53,460 --> 00:23:54,660 Amazing. 335 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,970 Maybe you and I should go talk about that at lunch or something. 336 00:23:59,100 --> 00:24:01,570 I'm always looking for new young voices. 337 00:24:01,770 --> 00:24:02,880 Our business needs that. 338 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:04,850 The movies need that. 339 00:24:07,350 --> 00:24:09,160 I've always had my eye on you, Bret. 340 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:10,460 [clicking] 341 00:24:12,100 --> 00:24:13,230 Steven! 342 00:24:14,130 --> 00:24:17,040 Steven, what the... What in the fuck are you doing? 343 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,510 Debbie asked me to take pictures of her guests. 344 00:24:19,510 --> 00:24:21,850 She wants to make a scrapbook. 345 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:24,150 You know Debbie. 346 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:32,470 Bret and I are going to go to lunch, talk about his future. 347 00:24:32,740 --> 00:24:35,340 Will you put it down on the schedule, okay? Le Dome. 348 00:24:35,340 --> 00:24:36,580 Sure thing. 349 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:38,950 Yep, yep. 350 00:24:40,020 --> 00:24:41,820 Thanks, Mr. Schaffer... 351 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:46,900 Terry. 352 00:25:25,410 --> 00:25:27,150 Where is my husband? 353 00:25:28,650 --> 00:25:29,680 Oh. 354 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:31,190 Hi, Mrs. Schaffer. 355 00:25:32,020 --> 00:25:33,690 I asked you a question. 356 00:25:34,460 --> 00:25:37,070 Where is my husband? Have you seen him? 357 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,470 Yes, he's-he's down by the pool. 358 00:25:40,540 --> 00:25:42,410 Who was my husband with? 359 00:25:45,180 --> 00:25:46,120 Uh... 360 00:25:46,250 --> 00:25:48,320 - I don't know. - You don't know? 361 00:25:49,790 --> 00:25:53,970 Was he in the bushes, sucking some young guy's dick? 362 00:25:57,940 --> 00:25:59,610 Or did he proposition you? 363 00:26:00,340 --> 00:26:03,520 [Steven] Liz, have you been hitting the wine coolers again? 364 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,900 You seem very tired. Let's put you to bed. 365 00:26:09,860 --> 00:26:11,330 You can go, Bret. 366 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:13,100 Okay. 367 00:26:14,010 --> 00:26:15,470 Good night, Mrs. Schaffer. 368 00:26:15,470 --> 00:26:18,820 Wait. Why? You're not staying for the movie? 369 00:26:20,120 --> 00:26:21,660 I've already seen it. 370 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,530 Don't you walk away from me, you little asshole. 371 00:26:24,830 --> 00:26:27,230 Where are you going? You gonna meet him upstairs? 372 00:26:27,230 --> 00:26:29,170 I've known you since you were ten years old. 373 00:26:29,170 --> 00:26:31,510 - Don't you dare walk away from me! - Liz, enough. 374 00:26:31,510 --> 00:26:34,850 I'm putting you to bed now. You can take your night-night pills. 375 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:37,250 [sobbing] 376 00:26:41,590 --> 00:26:43,200 [clicks] 377 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,100 [♪ "Crimson and Clover" playing] 378 00:26:46,970 --> 00:26:51,150 ♪♪ Now I don't hardly know her ♪ 379 00:26:54,390 --> 00:26:56,260 [phone ringing] 380 00:27:05,470 --> 00:27:06,840 Hello? 381 00:27:07,380 --> 00:27:09,450 [heavy breathing on phone] 382 00:27:27,450 --> 00:27:28,750 Your mom is a psycho. 383 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:29,820 [Debbie chuckles] 384 00:27:30,060 --> 00:27:31,990 Ignore her. I do. 385 00:27:34,230 --> 00:27:35,900 Are you staying for the movie? 386 00:27:36,370 --> 00:27:39,340 No, I've already seen Continental Divide. 387 00:27:39,340 --> 00:27:46,190 I wanna get home, do some writing. Unless you had another idea. 388 00:27:49,830 --> 00:27:51,930 I thought you'd never ask. 389 00:27:52,900 --> 00:27:54,210 ♪♪ Yeah ♪ 390 00:27:56,580 --> 00:28:00,450 ♪♪ My, my, such a sweet thing ♪ 391 00:28:03,590 --> 00:28:05,490 Wow. Babe. 392 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:09,340 You got muscular this summer. 393 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:13,480 Oh, you know, push-ups, swimming. 394 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:14,750 [Debbie chuckles] 395 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:17,120 Oh, I get a full striptease. 396 00:28:17,120 --> 00:28:19,390 Mm-hmm. Mmm. 397 00:28:24,530 --> 00:28:26,100 [Bret] Debbie always came fast. 398 00:28:26,100 --> 00:28:28,110 Within minutes, she could thrash out an orgasm. 399 00:28:28,310 --> 00:28:29,840 [Debbie] Don't tease me. 400 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:31,180 [Bret] It took barely anything to make her come, 401 00:28:31,180 --> 00:28:32,420 and this was happening now. 402 00:28:32,550 --> 00:28:34,790 - [Debbie squeals] - [both laugh] 403 00:28:34,790 --> 00:28:37,260 [Bret] You have to remember, being gender fluid was not something 404 00:28:37,430 --> 00:28:39,130 that was allowed back then. 405 00:28:39,130 --> 00:28:41,470 You had to be two people, which was fucking exhausting, 406 00:28:41,570 --> 00:28:43,500 and you had to compartmentalize. 407 00:28:43,500 --> 00:28:45,940 My relationship with Debbie was my public persona, 408 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:50,280 and my relationship with Matt Kellner was my secret, forbidden one. 409 00:28:58,130 --> 00:29:01,940 Did you hear there's a new kid starting school? Isn't that weird? 410 00:29:01,940 --> 00:29:05,280 Uh, why is that weird? Who cares? 411 00:29:05,580 --> 00:29:09,090 It's just weird if someone enrolls in senior year. 412 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:13,030 [Matt sighs] 413 00:29:13,630 --> 00:29:14,700 Whatever. 414 00:29:19,780 --> 00:29:23,150 That's all you ever say, about anything. 415 00:29:23,790 --> 00:29:25,190 "Whatever." 416 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:28,030 You smoke too much pot, Matt. 417 00:29:28,290 --> 00:29:31,230 You're officially the class stoner. Did you know that? 418 00:29:33,170 --> 00:29:34,640 Whatever. [chuckles] 419 00:29:37,250 --> 00:29:39,150 Why don't you socialize, Mattie? 420 00:29:40,050 --> 00:29:42,560 Why didn't you come to Debbie's party tonight? 421 00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:47,170 Well, I told you. I just wanted to, you know, 422 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:50,610 hang here and listen to the new Elvis Costello album. 423 00:29:51,410 --> 00:29:55,180 And get high, Matt. So tedious. 424 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,490 You're so smart, but you don't let anybody in. 425 00:30:00,090 --> 00:30:02,830 Well, we're friends, right? 426 00:30:04,670 --> 00:30:07,740 Only when I drive over and we fool around in the shadows. 427 00:30:09,340 --> 00:30:12,280 You have lost potential, Matt. 428 00:30:13,220 --> 00:30:15,220 I'm worried about you. 429 00:30:18,190 --> 00:30:19,830 [chuckles] 430 00:30:20,700 --> 00:30:24,470 - I'm the most real person in that school. - [both laugh] 431 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:27,450 And you know it. 432 00:30:36,330 --> 00:30:38,100 I think we should stop this. 433 00:30:40,710 --> 00:30:42,310 Stop what? 434 00:30:43,850 --> 00:30:45,180 This. 435 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:49,190 You don't need to say that. 436 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,540 Well, I wouldn't want you to think that I don't care. 437 00:30:56,770 --> 00:30:58,740 No, I don't think anything. 438 00:31:03,050 --> 00:31:04,490 I don't think anything. 439 00:31:13,870 --> 00:31:15,840 What happened to the aquarium? 440 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:16,980 Uh... 441 00:31:17,210 --> 00:31:18,550 I don't know. 442 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:26,100 You don't know why your aquarium is empty? 443 00:31:26,460 --> 00:31:30,440 No, I came back the other day and noticed all the fish were gone. 444 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,510 - What are you looking for? - My bong. 445 00:31:36,550 --> 00:31:38,890 And here it is. 446 00:31:38,890 --> 00:31:40,260 All right. 447 00:31:43,300 --> 00:31:44,570 What happened to the water? 448 00:31:44,930 --> 00:31:47,840 I don't know. My mom usually takes care of it. 449 00:31:51,780 --> 00:31:53,590 Do you think maybe the cat got them? 450 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:57,690 [laughs] You think Alex ate all my fish? 451 00:31:58,060 --> 00:31:59,460 [Bret] I don't know. 452 00:31:59,660 --> 00:32:01,600 Maybe we'll never know. 453 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:03,470 [Bret] Why? 454 00:32:05,540 --> 00:32:08,680 Well, the cat's missing too. 455 00:32:19,970 --> 00:32:21,610 - Not this time. Yeah. What about last week? What about last week? 456 00:32:21,710 --> 00:32:23,310 Last week... Last week, I wasn't feeling okay. 457 00:32:23,310 --> 00:32:25,480 [laughs] Okay. It's always an excuse, dude. 458 00:32:26,820 --> 00:32:28,650 - Okay. - Hey, check it out. 459 00:33:15,550 --> 00:33:16,680 Gracias. 460 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,300 [weatherman] It's gonna be a warm one for the next week, I'm betting two. 461 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:28,470 You'll see here we have a high of 82, 462 00:33:28,470 --> 00:33:32,480 and the Santa Anas are at least letting us cool down to 71 at night. 463 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:34,320 Now, back to Jessica for the morning report. 464 00:33:34,550 --> 00:33:36,860 [Jessica] Some disturbing news this morning in the Southland. 465 00:33:36,860 --> 00:33:40,030 The body of a teenage girl was found yesterday morning 466 00:33:40,330 --> 00:33:42,030 on a tennis court in Woodland Hills. 467 00:33:42,500 --> 00:33:45,270 The body and identity of the young woman have not been released, 468 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:49,950 and police refused to comment pending an investigation into the homicide. 469 00:33:49,950 --> 00:33:52,020 Viewers will remember that, last summer, 470 00:33:52,020 --> 00:33:54,590 the body of a missing girl, Katherine Latchford, 471 00:33:54,590 --> 00:33:56,530 was found in a dumpster in Redlands. 472 00:33:56,930 --> 00:34:01,570 That case remains unsolved, and police decline to comment at this time 473 00:34:01,570 --> 00:34:05,280 whether the abductions and murders are related. 474 00:34:13,970 --> 00:34:16,340 [siren wailing] 475 00:34:54,110 --> 00:34:55,310 What's wrong? 476 00:34:55,980 --> 00:34:58,120 Did you see the mascot statue, what someone did to it? 477 00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:00,160 [Susan] Yes, I talked to the principal about it. 478 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:02,860 It's just some stupid prank by a kid at Harvard or something. 479 00:35:02,860 --> 00:35:03,860 Klonopin? 480 00:35:03,870 --> 00:35:05,000 Sure. 481 00:35:05,700 --> 00:35:07,470 [bell rings] 482 00:35:08,810 --> 00:35:11,010 [laughter] 483 00:35:12,510 --> 00:35:14,120 - Babe, what'd you get? - Croissant and ham. 484 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,520 - I just wanna smell it, honestly. - [Bret chuckles] 485 00:35:16,890 --> 00:35:18,360 You can have one. 486 00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,330 Why does my stupid mother always pack me pâté for lunch? 487 00:35:20,330 --> 00:35:21,900 I just call it "pad thai." 488 00:35:21,900 --> 00:35:24,240 She knows I'm dieting. She's trying to sabotage me. 489 00:35:25,210 --> 00:35:27,340 Pâté is not on the Beverly Hills Diet. 490 00:35:27,550 --> 00:35:28,680 - Want it? - I do. 491 00:35:28,810 --> 00:35:30,380 - Sure. - Oh, Thom, you don't want that. 492 00:35:30,650 --> 00:35:32,250 - You look great. - [Thom] We can't always get what we want. 493 00:35:32,250 --> 00:35:36,830 I am not eating any more fat for six weeks straight. 494 00:35:36,830 --> 00:35:39,200 It just gets more round if you continue to eat fat. 495 00:35:39,370 --> 00:35:40,640 [Susan] You're gonna pass out. 496 00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:43,710 To try and more angularize the side profile. 497 00:35:43,710 --> 00:35:45,310 [Susan] Of your boobs? 498 00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:46,620 [Debbie] Can I smell a chip? 499 00:35:46,820 --> 00:35:48,120 [Thom] You can take one. 500 00:35:48,550 --> 00:35:49,790 [Debbie] I just wanna smell it. 501 00:35:49,790 --> 00:35:51,130 [Susan] She thinks that this works. 502 00:35:58,570 --> 00:36:00,080 [Debbie] Have you noticed that ever since I cut fat, 503 00:36:00,410 --> 00:36:02,450 my tits from the side are more angular? 504 00:36:02,450 --> 00:36:03,720 - Look. - Yes. 505 00:36:04,190 --> 00:36:07,120 [Bret] You should know I smelled him before I saw him. 506 00:36:07,660 --> 00:36:09,500 It was cedar and sandalwood, 507 00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:12,670 as if he had just walked through a forest of citrus. 508 00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:15,710 [Debbie] Did you get a designer capsule? 509 00:36:18,510 --> 00:36:23,420 - Oh, hi. You must be Robert Mallory. - You must be Susan. 510 00:36:25,060 --> 00:36:27,800 - Principal Croft showed me your picture. - The one on his desk... 511 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:29,700 [Robert] From the yearbook. 512 00:36:29,700 --> 00:36:30,910 I was just in Principal Croft's office. 513 00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:32,580 He told me I should come say hi. 514 00:36:32,580 --> 00:36:33,880 So, hi. 515 00:36:34,010 --> 00:36:35,780 [Bret] He wore black leather pants 516 00:36:35,780 --> 00:36:37,550 like a second skin with his school blazer. 517 00:36:37,990 --> 00:36:41,590 I was rendered speechless. I couldn't believe it. It was him. 518 00:36:41,790 --> 00:36:45,740 The magical, mystical boy I saw at The Shining a year ago. 519 00:36:45,940 --> 00:36:47,170 [Susan clears throat] 520 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:49,440 Hi. Bret. 521 00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:51,850 Nice to meet you, Bret. 522 00:36:54,950 --> 00:36:56,360 - You wanna join us? - I'd love to. 523 00:36:56,590 --> 00:36:57,760 [Debbie] Come on. 524 00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:03,200 So, Robert, where do you come from? 525 00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:05,410 - So, I'm-I'm from Chicago originally. - Okay. 526 00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:07,380 [Bret] Robert laid out his background for us 527 00:37:07,380 --> 00:37:09,750 as if it were a job interview he needed to pass. 528 00:37:09,750 --> 00:37:12,860 The last time he'd been in LA for any sustained length of time was 529 00:37:13,020 --> 00:37:16,860 ten months ago when he came out for the holidays and stayed with his aunt. 530 00:37:16,860 --> 00:37:18,570 Wait. So, why are you living with your aunt now? 531 00:37:18,700 --> 00:37:20,470 [Robert] Okay. It's a funny story, 532 00:37:20,470 --> 00:37:22,710 but I got kicked out of my previous school that I was at. 533 00:37:22,710 --> 00:37:25,010 [Bret] Funny and smooth. 534 00:37:25,010 --> 00:37:28,390 His parents were divorced. His mother had then died in a tragic accident. 535 00:37:28,620 --> 00:37:31,020 His father wanted to send him to a military academy, 536 00:37:31,030 --> 00:37:35,530 but his aunt intervened, suggesting Robert relocate to Los Angeles and live with her, 537 00:37:35,540 --> 00:37:38,670 and she would enroll him somewhere for his last year of high school. 538 00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:43,550 Have we met before? At The Whiskey or The Odyssey or something? 539 00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:46,090 I'm not much of a club guy. 540 00:37:46,090 --> 00:37:47,290 I never forget a face. 541 00:37:47,290 --> 00:37:49,060 [chuckles] 542 00:37:49,060 --> 00:37:51,400 I don't really know anyone in LA. I don't go out much. 543 00:37:51,930 --> 00:37:53,700 Did you not bring lunch? 544 00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,690 I forgot. I guess first day jitters, right? 545 00:38:01,690 --> 00:38:02,720 [all chuckle] 546 00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:04,760 Do you... Do you want half? 547 00:38:04,930 --> 00:38:07,030 On one level, Robert was intriguing enough to make me forget 548 00:38:07,030 --> 00:38:09,000 - about the griffin streaked with gore. - Sure, thank you. 549 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,610 He was one of the most charming people I'd ever met. 550 00:38:11,610 --> 00:38:14,910 The other thing I gleaned was that he was a complete and utter liar. 551 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:16,950 Oh, I know where I saw you. 552 00:38:16,950 --> 00:38:18,390 Last summer, did you see The Shining 553 00:38:18,690 --> 00:38:21,560 at the Village Theatre when it first came out? 554 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:23,830 No. 555 00:38:25,030 --> 00:38:27,440 Are you sure? I'm positive I saw you there. 556 00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:29,540 - Really? - Positive. 557 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:32,480 [chuckles] 558 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:34,120 Really? You're positive? 559 00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:36,660 Why would you remember me there? 560 00:38:36,660 --> 00:38:38,060 Did I say something to you or... 561 00:38:38,190 --> 00:38:42,270 No, no, you just left an impression. 562 00:38:46,210 --> 00:38:47,680 I haven't seen that movie. 563 00:38:47,810 --> 00:38:49,780 Well, I'm almost positive I saw you. 564 00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:53,760 In the theater. On a Saturday. 565 00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:57,700 It wasn't me. [laughs] 566 00:38:57,900 --> 00:39:00,100 [chuckles] Weird. 567 00:39:00,940 --> 00:39:02,110 Very weird. 568 00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:04,210 [bell rings] 569 00:39:04,210 --> 00:39:07,590 - That was wacky. - Hmm, saved by the bell. 570 00:39:07,820 --> 00:39:10,260 - [Debbie] Nice to meet you. - [Robert] Nice to meet you all. 571 00:39:10,260 --> 00:39:12,030 [Susan laughs] Oh. 572 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:14,070 Bye, babe. 573 00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,770 [Susan] Have you guys heard of the water ride? 574 00:39:23,950 --> 00:39:25,320 It was nice to meet you, Bret. 575 00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:27,220 You too. 576 00:39:36,140 --> 00:39:39,750 - Good afternoon. - [students] Good afternoon! 577 00:39:39,750 --> 00:39:41,490 Let's start the first assembly of the year 578 00:39:41,490 --> 00:39:45,260 by welcoming Senior President Susan Reynolds. 579 00:39:45,260 --> 00:39:46,290 Susan. 580 00:39:46,300 --> 00:39:48,230 [cheering] 581 00:39:52,710 --> 00:39:55,010 Stop, stop. Thank you. 582 00:39:55,010 --> 00:39:56,150 Whoo! 583 00:39:56,150 --> 00:39:59,090 - Hello, Griffins! - [cheering] 584 00:39:59,090 --> 00:40:01,060 I'm so proud of this girl. 585 00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:05,500 [Susan] And hello to my fellow senior class. 586 00:40:05,770 --> 00:40:09,370 First of all, I just want to say thank you to everyone 587 00:40:09,380 --> 00:40:12,580 who voted for me as your student body class president. 588 00:40:13,180 --> 00:40:16,220 We have a very exciting year ahead of us. 589 00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:19,290 Don't forget our Thanksgiving fundraiser 590 00:40:19,300 --> 00:40:22,630 following the last football game before the holiday. 591 00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:24,540 Let's support our varsity team. 592 00:40:24,540 --> 00:40:26,380 [cheering] 593 00:40:48,990 --> 00:40:50,990 [indistinct chatter] 594 00:41:01,750 --> 00:41:02,880 Yeah. I know. 595 00:41:04,990 --> 00:41:07,560 [Bret] It became clear to me after our second introduction 596 00:41:07,830 --> 00:41:10,200 that Robert Mallory was like a virus. 597 00:41:10,770 --> 00:41:13,400 A new kind of insidious, invading agent 598 00:41:13,700 --> 00:41:20,080 who was here to destroy the very cellular structure of my friends, my school and me. 599 00:41:22,350 --> 00:41:28,300 He was up to something. And it was up to me to find out exactly what that was. 600 00:41:29,500 --> 00:41:31,140 [engine starts] 601 00:41:31,670 --> 00:41:34,310 [♪ "Bad Boys Get Spanked" playing] 602 00:41:48,370 --> 00:41:50,180 [tires screech] 603 00:42:07,780 --> 00:42:09,280 [increases volume] 604 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:39,280 [tires screech] 605 00:42:40,410 --> 00:42:43,320 ♪♪ Don't you ever think about The consequence? ♪ 606 00:42:43,950 --> 00:42:45,590 ♪♪ Guys like you never do ♪ 607 00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:51,000 ♪♪ That's the kind of stuff That whores are made out of ♪ 608 00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:54,140 ♪♪ That's the kind of stuff That floors are made out of ♪ 609 00:42:54,340 --> 00:42:55,640 ♪♪ You know ♪ 610 00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:58,550 ♪♪ Bad boys get spanked ♪ 611 00:43:03,190 --> 00:43:06,000 ♪♪ Bad boys get spanked ♪ 612 00:43:08,500 --> 00:43:10,570 [tires screeching] 613 00:43:22,860 --> 00:43:24,600 [revving] 614 00:43:26,500 --> 00:43:29,310 ♪♪ You don't listen, Do you, asshole? ♪ 615 00:43:30,950 --> 00:43:32,880 ♪♪ Don't be a punk All your life ♪ 616 00:43:34,250 --> 00:43:36,360 ♪♪ Someone's gonna Sort you out ♪ 617 00:43:37,490 --> 00:43:40,160 ♪♪ They'll try to make a man Out of you ♪ 618 00:43:41,070 --> 00:43:43,570 ♪♪ Now say, "Yes, sir," Say, "No, sir" ♪ 619 00:43:45,110 --> 00:43:47,380 ♪♪ Say, "Yes, ma'am," Say, "No, ma'am" ♪ 620 00:43:47,510 --> 00:43:48,950 ♪♪ You know, don't ya? ♪ 621 00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:52,490 ♪♪ Bad boys get spanked ♪ 622 00:43:52,490 --> 00:43:53,490 Shit. 623 00:43:53,490 --> 00:43:55,390 [tires screeching] 624 00:43:55,390 --> 00:43:57,000 [horn blaring] 625 00:43:57,130 --> 00:43:59,570 ♪♪ Bad boys get spanked ♪ 626 00:44:16,340 --> 00:44:17,610 Shit. 627 00:44:18,140 --> 00:44:20,210 ♪♪ Ooh, ooh ♪ 628 00:44:20,740 --> 00:44:22,980 ♪♪ Get spanked ♪ 629 00:44:26,460 --> 00:44:27,960 ♪♪ Get spanked ♪ 630 00:44:31,930 --> 00:44:33,140 ♪♪ Ooh ♪ 631 00:44:33,140 --> 00:44:35,210 ♪♪ Come here, get spanked ♪ 632 00:44:38,910 --> 00:44:40,220 Fuck you. 633 00:44:41,690 --> 00:44:43,220 ♪♪ Get spanked ♪ 634 00:44:44,630 --> 00:44:45,800 [thud] 635 00:44:46,030 --> 00:44:47,000 Fuck you! 636 00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:48,430 ♪♪ Come here ♪ 637 00:44:49,370 --> 00:44:51,240 ♪♪ Get spanked ♪ 638 00:44:53,210 --> 00:44:54,580 [tires screeching] 639 00:44:55,610 --> 00:44:59,690 Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you! 640 00:45:22,130 --> 00:45:23,740 [♪ music stops] 641 00:45:28,150 --> 00:45:30,350 [tires screeching in distance] 642 00:46:34,750 --> 00:46:36,280 Oh, hey. 643 00:46:37,050 --> 00:46:38,290 Hey. 644 00:46:40,020 --> 00:46:42,760 That was you, right? Following me? 645 00:46:43,830 --> 00:46:45,600 I wasn't following you. 646 00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:49,480 I was heading to the Galleria, and I happened to be behind you, I guess. 647 00:46:49,840 --> 00:46:51,340 You were in the Porsche? 648 00:46:51,350 --> 00:46:53,780 Yeah, that was me. I was just fucking with you. 649 00:46:54,450 --> 00:46:55,790 Hmm. 650 00:46:58,390 --> 00:47:00,060 I don't like being followed. 651 00:47:00,060 --> 00:47:01,830 Yeah? You don't like being followed? 652 00:47:01,830 --> 00:47:04,370 Yeah. Freaks me out. 653 00:47:05,610 --> 00:47:07,580 What are you doing here at the mall today? 654 00:47:07,580 --> 00:47:09,720 Shopping for some school clothes. 655 00:47:10,950 --> 00:47:13,390 What brings you to the Galleria on this Tuesday afternoon? 656 00:47:13,390 --> 00:47:15,260 There's a lot of hot girls. 657 00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:19,570 I was gonna see a movie, but I realized I've seen them all. 658 00:47:20,370 --> 00:47:23,210 Which one? The Shining? 659 00:47:23,210 --> 00:47:25,610 You sure you weren't there? I know I saw you. 660 00:47:25,710 --> 00:47:28,450 Dude, you gotta let it go. It wasn't me. 661 00:47:28,450 --> 00:47:32,130 Pretty sure I saw you, dude. 662 00:47:33,460 --> 00:47:35,170 I haven't seen that movie. 663 00:47:49,830 --> 00:47:52,370 What were you talking to Matt Kellner about today? 664 00:47:52,500 --> 00:47:55,670 Oh, yeah? You saw that? You guys friends? 665 00:47:56,740 --> 00:47:58,150 Is that innuendo? 666 00:47:58,750 --> 00:48:00,520 He seems like a very confused guy. 667 00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:03,020 You know, the kind of guy who could use a friend. 668 00:48:03,660 --> 00:48:08,270 What? He's just very laid-back, very easygoing. He's a pothead. 669 00:48:08,270 --> 00:48:09,670 Interesting. 670 00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:11,870 Is Thom Susan Reynolds's boyfriend? 671 00:48:12,610 --> 00:48:13,780 Um... 672 00:48:13,780 --> 00:48:15,610 Yeah. 673 00:48:15,780 --> 00:48:17,480 How long have they been seeing each other? How long have they been dating? 674 00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:19,450 [Bret] About two years. 675 00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:23,660 - So, it's serious. - Very. Why are you asking me this? 676 00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:27,340 Because she's hot. She's quite the little honey, don't you think? 677 00:48:27,340 --> 00:48:28,880 [Bret] At that point, I couldn't breathe. 678 00:48:29,140 --> 00:48:31,110 At that point, I needed to get away from him. 679 00:48:31,350 --> 00:48:32,920 Hey, Bret. 680 00:48:33,650 --> 00:48:34,820 Yeah? 681 00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:36,820 I've just figured something out about you. 682 00:48:40,260 --> 00:48:41,930 What have you figured out about me? 683 00:48:43,340 --> 00:48:46,380 When you talk to me, you're really talking to yourself, dude. 684 00:48:50,650 --> 00:48:52,850 [Bret] After the upsetting car chase 685 00:48:52,860 --> 00:48:56,060 with Robert Mallory on that sweltering and fateful September afternoon, 686 00:48:56,300 --> 00:48:58,900 I remember I went home and popped on the local news. 687 00:48:58,900 --> 00:49:00,470 ...investigation of a Valley Village girl 688 00:49:00,570 --> 00:49:02,270 found brutally murdered earlier today. 689 00:49:02,270 --> 00:49:05,250 [Bret] What I learned that day made my blood run cold. 690 00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:08,420 The city had become paralyzed with fear. 691 00:49:08,420 --> 00:49:11,330 ...might link to the murders of at least two other young women. 692 00:49:11,330 --> 00:49:14,260 Questioned about the suspect's identity, investigators-- 693 00:49:14,270 --> 00:49:17,670 [Bret] Margo Tyler had been missing since June of that year 694 00:49:17,670 --> 00:49:20,780 and her body was found behind a local Tower Records. 695 00:49:21,350 --> 00:49:24,950 She was his third victim. There would be countless more. 696 00:49:27,790 --> 00:49:30,300 The serial killer hunting young people 697 00:49:30,300 --> 00:49:34,370 was nicknamed by investigating officers as The Trawler. 698 00:49:34,670 --> 00:49:37,480 Suddenly, the epidemic of missing pets made sense. 699 00:49:37,580 --> 00:49:39,880 He would use them in a satanic way. 700 00:49:39,980 --> 00:49:44,290 He trawled for victims effortlessly, like a fisherman casting a wide net. 701 00:49:45,060 --> 00:49:46,730 Thus, the catchy nickname. 702 00:49:46,730 --> 00:49:48,830 We'll continue to bring you more as it comes in. 703 00:49:48,830 --> 00:49:51,370 [newscaster] Thanks, Jeff. At the moment, things continue... 704 00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:56,620 [TV turns off] 705 00:49:57,990 --> 00:50:00,420 [phone ringing] 706 00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:19,730 [man groaning] Oh, my God. Oh, no. 707 00:50:19,730 --> 00:50:20,760 Hello? 708 00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:21,970 [groaning] 709 00:50:21,970 --> 00:50:24,570 Oh, God. [screaming] 710 00:50:29,050 --> 00:50:30,050 Hello? 711 00:50:30,050 --> 00:50:31,290 [screaming continues] 712 00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:32,720 Help me. 713 00:50:32,720 --> 00:50:33,960 [sobbing] 714 00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:37,030 [whispering] Help me. Please, help me. 715 00:50:37,030 --> 00:50:38,230 Hello? 716 00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:40,300 [whimpering] Please, help me. 717 00:50:40,300 --> 00:50:44,110 Oh, my God. No, no. 718 00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:47,250 - Hello? - Help! Help! 719 00:50:47,250 --> 00:50:49,450 [♪ rock music playing]