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From the very first moment I felt...

danger there.

Who's out there?

My family was in danger, and all I could do was watch.

When you see something like this,

a lot of crazy thoughts go through your head.

Humans respond to fear in two simple ways,

fight or flight.

Our friends used to tease us

that they didn't like socializing with Matt and I

because we were too perfect.

They'd get into fights in the car on the way home from dinner with us

because we made them feel

like they weren't as in love as Matt and I were.

I won a free yoga class at a work raffle.

I'm a pharmaceuticals salesman.

Shelby was a teacher, I...

pulled a hamstring and never took a yoga class again,

but it was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Things were going really well.

We settled in Los Angeles,

the yoga capital of the world

and decided to start a family.

Yeah, we found out that Shelby was pregnant

on the same day that I got promoted to West Coast sales manager,

so we decided to go out and celebrate both.

No!

That was the worst night of our lives.

No!

It was a gang initiation. Game of knock-out.

They had to pick a random person on the street, sneak up on them and...

knock 'em out.

Help!

Yeah!

Somebody help us!

I was in a trance in the waiting room.

If I lost Matt...

Mrs. Miller?

Is he okay?

His orbital socket is broken.

He will need surgery once the swelling goes down.

Our bigger concern is he hasn't regained consciousness.

I need to see him.

If I'm with him, he'll wake up.

I know it.

I was right.

As soon as we touched, he started waking up.

That's just...

That's just the kind of connection that we have.

He was gonna be okay.

But she wasn't.

She lost the baby.

They don't know if it was the stress or being pushed, but...

But she... she lost the baby.

The city just didn't feel safe anymore.

We needed to get out.

I wanted to go east, to where I grew up.

My sister lived there, my mom.

It was home.

It's North Carolina, right near the ocean,

but also full of the most gorgeous native forests.

It was so quiet and wonderful.

And calm.

I think we both just realized that at the end of the day,

we weren't city folks.

We were in the woods having fun.

It was a perfect day,

and we found ourselves in front of the most beautiful old farmhouse.

It was three bedrooms,

and two stories and a basement.

They told us that it had been built in 1792.

It was in great shape.

Felt like it was meant to be.

The universe just wanted us to be there at that moment.

I also thought, "There is no way we can afford that house."

Opening bid is 21,000.

What is your bid?

Well, now that includes the 10 acres of forest around the house.

But you can't build on it. It's protected.

That seems inexpensive.

- What's wrong with the property? - Hurricanes.

You don't want this house.

We bid 25,000.

Twenty-six thousand.

Do I hear 27?

We bid $40,000.

That was almost all of our savings.

It totally turned me on when he did that.

Going one, going twice, sold. Forty thousand dollars.

What did we just do?

Baby, we just started over.

I loved it

and I loved him,

but from the very first moment I felt danger there.

From the moment I walked into the house,

I was home.

I mean, I love the country life.

Fresh air, waking up to the sound of the birds singing.

If Shelby felt any different, she didn't say anything out loud,

but I sensed a reluctance.

Maybe she missed the city, maybe my wounds healed quicker.

They were nothing compared to what she lost.

A life inside of her.

I love you.

What the hell was that?

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

Matt, please don't go.

Matt, please don't go down there.

Just stay here. Stay here.

At first I thought it was a raccoon or a bear.

But a bear didn't do this.

Who's there?

Who's out there?

Hey!

When you see something like that,

lot of crazy thoughts go through your head.

You think today prejudice is not gonna rear its ugly head,

but... this is the south.

They just got rid of the Confederate flag

and with Shelby and I being an interracial couple...

Matt!

...this kind of hate is something that's always on the back of my mind.

Then I thought of those hillbillies who lost the auction,

wouldn't surprise me a bit

if they were trying to scare us away with this kind of vandalism.

We ran away once, and we weren't going to be victims again.

I had just finished 90 minutes of my practice

and I had fallen asleep during my shavasana, so...

I wasn't quite right with the world.

Hey.

Shelby was literally shaking...

You okay?

...when I got back from running errands

in the little town a few miles away.

Honey, it's just a hailstorm.

I drove through it on the way home.

I know what I saw.

It wasn't ice, there were human teeth falling everywhere.

Weather around here does take some getting used to.

That's it.

I felt pretty foolish.

I mean, teeth don't fall from the sky.

Raleigh is only two hours away.

WakeMed is one of the busiest hospitals in the state.

If I land these accounts,

I won't have to be gone so much.

Babe, I know what I signed up for.

Traveling salesman travel.

It's how we pay the bills,

all these renovations,

even that ugly tie that you're wearing.

It's my lucky tie.

Hey, are you sure you're gonna be okay?

I can always cancel my trip.

I'm a big girl.

I'm gonna be fine.

I'm gonna be fine!

Okay.

Okay.

- Okay. Well... - It's good.

- Go. - Okay. Love you.

To tell you the truth,

I was looking forward to some alone time.

He was being so sweet and so patient, but...

he was hovering.

Extra protective,

and I felt like I was suffocating a little.

So I wanted him to go.

I felt like I needed the alone time.

In a way, it felt normal.

That's how things had always been for us.

He'd go away on business, and I'd miss him like crazy.

And then, we'd have the best sex when he came back.

I'd feel like...

like nothing could tear us apart.

And I knew that I was probably being silly.

I just...

It takes time to settle into a new home,

and I just needed to relax, and...

Luckily, that's what I do for a living.

Is anyone there?

Hello?

Hello?

Well, Shelby called me, panicked, crying,

saying she had been attacked.

I was in Raleigh, two hours away,

but I made it home in half the time.

- Where's Shelby? She all right? - She's inside.

You her husband?

Your wife reported that she was assaulted

and held underwater in the hot tub.

She claimed to have struggled against her attackers.

What do you mean, "claimed"?

I found no evidence of footprints or marks on the deck

or in the grounds around the hot tub.

She also said her attackers were dressed in old costumes

holding pitchforks and torches.

Does she imbibe?

I know exactly who did this.

It's those ZZ Top wannabes.

They've been trying to scare us off since we bought this place.

I'll bet it's the Polks.

Let me, uh, go have a talk with them.

Those guys keep to themselves, and they're not so easy to find.

- We need protection! - Get a gun.

What?

That cop, he wasn't gonna do a damn thing for us.

I could tell by his manner, and his condescending attitude.

He said he'd file a report, but I knew

it would just end up in the bottom of a drawer somewhere.

Was it those guys from the auction?

No.

I don't know.

It's just what you told the cops

didn't make a whole lot of sense there, Shelby.

I saw what I saw.

They held you down... until they let you up?

I was really scared.

I was choking on water.

When I could finally see clearly, they were gone.

I ran inside to call the police, then I called you.

What?

The cops said that

they didn't find anything by the hot tub.

No fingerprints, no torches.

They must have come back for them.

I wasn't imagining things, Matt.

I wasn't.

Do you think I'm lying to you?

Shelby, absolutely not.

No. I believe you 100%.

Shelby, no. I'm sorry. I believe you.

I believe you. I'm sorry.

I believe you.

I felt so guilty,

because I couldn't tell Matt the truth.

I didn't want to live there.

I decided not to tell Shelby about what happened,

but it was proof to me that that white trash gang

was trying to scare us away.

I had to be back in Raleigh the next day, so,

I set up security cameras all around the perimeter

that were synced to my cell phone,

so I could keep an eye on the place from wherever I was.

Not bad for an amateur.

But I was not going to leave Shelby there alone.

So I called my sister.

Shelby never liked me.

Which is fine, because I was never a huge fan of hers.

Yoga is not a job.

I used to play volleyball in high school.

Back then, yoga was called "stretching,"

and it was something you did before, not as exercise.

Lee judged my yoga

and my gluten allergy

and my two years of college.

She thought I was too much of a phony for her brother to marry.

I got my degree in criminal psychology from UNC.

I was on track to make detective.

Didn't work out though.

I didn't start taking pills because of some fault in my character.

I got hurt. On the job.

I have an opening! I have an opening!

Put it down.

On the ground.

Do you know prescription painkillers can be more addictive than heroin?

I went from two pills a day to two an hour.

I don't remember how many I took that day.

I don't remember very much of anything at all that day, really.

He was a serial rapist.

A real asshole.

I hate assholes.

Hey, stop. Stop.

Put down the gun!

Put it down!

You heard me. Put down the--

It would have been his third strike.

Damn pen.

You ask me, it's the one time

the law worked exactly the way it should.

Hey!

What you nee...

They fired her.

Come on, Mason.

Divorce? Now?

When I'm at rock bottom?

How many times have you forgotten

to pick up your daughter at school this month?

Three times.

Which is three more the amount of times

than you've touched me in the past month.

I'm done with this.

The judge awarded him full custody of Flora.

I got her three days every 14,

21% of her life.

That's all they gave me.

Can we stop for a moment, please?

- Smelling good. - Oh, Jesus!

Oh, Jesus, Lee!

Don't sneak up on me like that. You scared the shit out of me.

My brother married one jumpy bitch.

She knew why we called her there.

And she knew that someone was messing with us.

Why would she move the knife like that.

So, when did you become a cook?

What is that supposed to mean?

Recently.

It relaxes me.

- Cooking? - Yes, cooking.

Look, can I be real with you?

While I'm here, could you please not drink inside the house?

I know it's your home,

but I'm hanging on to my sobriety by my teeth here.

But don't worry, I'll stay sober.

Somebody's got to protect you from the wild men in the woods.

Well, I appreciate that.

Although, I wish you still had your badge and your gun.

Well, I may not have my badge,

but mama's still packing.

I'll be honest with you,

I never put much stock in the stories

my sister-in-law was telling my brother.

She never wanted to move to the country.

I figured she was just trying to scare him

so they'd pack up and move back to L.A.

Shelby...

I was pissed off. I thought Shelby was messing with me.

Why, Shelby?

Why would you do something like that, huh?

- Do something like what? - This. Why would you do this?

I didn't do anything.

And I certainly didn't finish off that wine,

so maybe you're the one seeing things.

Wait a minute. Hold up. I'm seeing things?

The reason I'm out here is because of what you been seeing.

My phone buzzed around 11:30.

I thought it was Shelby texting to say good night,

but it wasn't her.

It was an automated alert from the security system

I'd installed.

The sensors had been triggered by...

something.

Well, bottles just don't roll across the floor by themselves.

- For the last time, I didn't do it! - Why you messing with me?

God, everything is a five-alarm emergency with you, isn't it?

I was in a complete panic. My family was in danger,

and all I could do was watch.

When a mob shows up at your house

in the middle of the night with torches,

they are not there to welcome you to the neighborhood.

Do you know how many hours Matt spends worrying about you?

And no one would pick up the damn phone.

Every time you have a problem, you call Matt.

Your husband's mean to you, you call Matt.

You fall off the wagon, you call Matt.

Well, that's what families do!

- We look out for each other! - Yeah, except for you take.

You take and you take. Where were you

when Matt was lying in that hospital room, unconscious,

fighting for his life? Where were you...

Someone's in the house.

Hey, Lee, I'm not staying up here by myself.

Where's your gun?

Where it should be, locked,

in a drawer upstairs.

Do we need to go back up and get it?

I knew it... it came back.

I knew it was real.

Why would someone break into my house

just to play a home movie?

I've heard those noises.

It's close.

I can smell it.

I finally got you, you son of a bitch.

What the hell was that?

I have no idea.

- We have to get out of here. - Yeah.

Come on.

I was freaking out.

I called the cops, they said they would look into it.

Freaking useless!

Shit! Shit!

I knew, even 100 miles away, I'd get there before they would.

I just kept saying, "Please, God, just get me home.

Please just don't let me be too late."

Someone's up there.

A lot of someones.

We were down there

20, maybe... 30 minutes,

but it felt like forever.

Come on.

- Come on! Come on! Come on! - Keep it down.

- What are you doing? - Shh.

- Come on. - No, no, no.

Come on!

Oh, my God.

I finally arrived.

The cops had come and gone by the time I got there.

Lee said they took a report and chalked it up to vandalism.

This was not vandalism.

This was terrorism.

- How did they do this so quickly? - That's not the point, Matt.

They broke into our home.

They locked your sister and me in the basement.

They were here.

They lured us down there, made us watch this creepy video.

What video?

I didn't want to see it again, but I went down with him anyway

because I wasn't going to be alone in that house.

Matt hadn't been there when it happened, so,

of course he didn't take it seriously.

I took it seriously.

I mean, I thought the video was fake.

Had to be those rednecks going all out,

trying to get us to leave.

I finally got you, you son of a bitch.

Pissed me off even more.

People do this all the time.

Neighbors or locals do crazy things

to try to drive out the new homeowners,

so they can come in and buy the property cheap.

They're just trying to freak us out, so that we'll leave.

Well, it's working.

I want to leave, Matt.

Now.

If they want the house that badly, let them have it.

Did the cops see these tapes?

- Yeah. - They don't care.

They just think it's some good ol' boys being good ol' boys.

You know they're not gonna lift a goddamn finger to help us.

Shelby, Shelby, come on.

You got to let the cops do their job.

Oh, don't take this personally.

Matt.

We have to leave.

It's our home, Shel.

Our life savings. Where are we gonna go?

- And with what? - You cannot let these people

run you out of your home.

You're not even listening to me.

Wow.

You know what?

Just... Just do what you want.

- Shelby... - Oh, let her go.

Give her a little time to calm down.

Who is this guy?

Another member of that redneck family?

Shelby!

Shelby!

I couldn't believe it.

Shelby just... left.

At the time, it made all the sense in the world.

Humans respond to fear in two simple ways,

fight or flight.

There's no shame in getting the hell out of the way.

Hello?

Shelby, come home.

Shelby?

Can you hear me? Are you there?

Shelby!

- Shelby! - Oh, my God.

Are you all right? Can you hear me? Shelby!

Oh, come on.

Come on, come on.

Hello?

Hello!

Hello?

Hello!

Hello.

Hello?

Ma'am?

Are you all right?

Are you hurt?

No, no, no!

Please, stop! Stop!

I have to get you to a hospital!

I didn't understand what happened. I still don't.

Ma'am!

Hello?

I followed this woman straight into the forest, maybe 50 feet.

Hello?

And the road was directly behind me, I swear.

There's no way that she could've gotten very far,

but I couldn't find any sign of her.

Hello?

And I couldn't find my way out.

Hello?

Come on, Shelby.

Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, oh...

Okay.

I was lost.

Hello?

No! No!

No.