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The truth must dazzle gradually for every man be blind.

I didn't get away.

What?

Get her inside.

Nobody can know.

None of this is your fault.

Father's job is to love his daughter the way she needs to be loved.

We can't keep talking to each other and we can't meet up like this.

This all has got to stop.

It was me that loaded the gun.

I don't think it was your idea.

The gun was in my hand. Pink was shot first, not Emma.

Rusty wanted to pay Zack Jr.

two grand a month, but he didn't want Zack Jr. to know where the money came

from. This account has nearly two million bucks in it.

Why would Dad have anything to do with Zachary Culpepper?

Samantha.

What the fuck are you doing here?

I told you to leave me alone. I know. I'm sorry. I just... Samantha here.

My husband is here.

Look, I'm sorry about your dad.

My dad?

Huck?

Four days ago you turned into a total prick when I told you my last name. What

is going on?

You're not here to console me.

Look, I just need to talk to you and Samantha about something that's... It's

important.

Are you here to confess?

How well do you really know Kelly?

Kelly? You heard the question.

Did you touch her, Mason?

What the fuck is that supposed to mean? Did you rape her? Did you take advantage

of her? How else would you like me to ask?

You know she's pregnant?

What? Are you the father?

I never touched her. Did you tell her to take that gun to school? Are you crazy?

What were you arguing with Judith about? Will you just let me fucking answer?

I never touched Kelly. Do you understand?

Ever. I didn't know that she was pregnant.

Jesus Christ.

I was arguing with Judith about getting some after school time with Kelly to

help her graduate.

I had no idea about anything else. Okay?

Charlotte, you have to believe me.

I don't have to do anything.

Mason.

Why are you really here?

This was a mistake.

My father told me you're trying to rewrite your own story.

Is that why you're here?

Are you trying to rewrite your story with us?

Did you know our father?

Everybody knew him.

Did you know him personally? Did you talk to him?

How did you know we were going to be here?

I think he was hoping we wouldn't be.

I have to go.

Are you the...

who burned down our house.

Annalie testified that same week our house burned down.

What?

It was him.

He threw the Molotov cocktail.

I didn't know it burned like that.

It was meant to be a warning.

But Rusty was back in the courtroom the very next day.

We lost everything because of you.

I lost my sister.

Are you here because you're worried we're going to find something in there?

You're going to break in?

We have a lot to talk about.

Yeah.

Charlie?

You brought Zack here he murdered their mother

Why, little bit?

Mama! Come quick!

How many times have I told you not to use adjectives and place bad girls?

Who else is in the house?

My sister and mom.

Come on, man.

They weren't supposed to be here. Let's just get out.

Where's your fucking daddy?

I have $50 in my purse and another $200 in a mason jar in the barn.

Fuck that.

Get the other girl in here.

Now. God damn it.

Samantha!

I need you to quickly make your way into the kitchen.

It's okay.

You tell me what you want, I give it to you and then you leave. Oh yeah?

And what if I want that?

Come on, brother.

Stop fucking around.

Shit you called him brother

I Called

everyone brother

I found his confession upstairs.

He gave Zach Culpepper five grand.

And they were supposed to kill Rusty and then drop the bridge cap and kill the

man that raped his sister.

You didn't have the balls to do it on your own, did you?

That's why you had to get a Culpepper.

$5,000.

That's what our mother's life was worth?

What do you think Annalise's life was worth when Rusty was finished with her?

He tore her apart on the stand. He made her believe that it was all her fault.

She did.

She believed it.

Well, the case was dismissed the same day you showed up.

You were supposed to be at track practice. All of you.

Our mother kept us home.

We were upset because you burned down our fucking house.

I was just so desperate for someone to pay.

I didn't mean for any of it to happen. You brought a psychopath.

And two loaded guns into our kitchen.

Why did you think what happened?

I was just a kid.

I was terrified of Zack, too. The only reason any of us survived is because I

stopped him.

Please, Charlie.

Charlie, listen to me. As soon as I tell you to, you need to run.

Charlie, I can't see.

Guns are going to be too loud.

You're going to need to slit her throat.

She's just a kid. She's a fucking witness.

I need to see you get your hands dirty, brother. I need you to run, okay?

Charlie, go. Now. I want you to run. Charlie,

go! Fuck!

Come back here!

Get rid of her.

I'll grab the little one.

Come here, girl!

Shit, kid!

Piece of shit!

I ran six miles to find a payphone in town.

Told my parents everything. I wanted to turn myself in, but they wouldn't let

me. You could have walked to the sheriff's station, turned yourself in.

Cops had already beat the shit out of Zach and killed Daniel in cold blood.

What do you think they would have done to me?

Were you scared?

I don't want to change things by ruining my life, too.

Yeah? That's what matters?

Ruining your life?

He chased me down like an animal.

He was the weapon that you loaded.

Everything that Zack did that night happened because you pointed him in our

direction. I didn't have to go back.

I risked my life to save you.

From what?

His fingernails ripping my skin open?

He damaged me.

I can't give my husband children because of you.

Rusty damaged Annalie.

She killed herself because of him.

I was a stupid 17-year-old, but I found my sister's dead body.

What was I supposed to do?

You should have hanged yourself in the barn right alongside her.

You left me in that crate to die.

I thought you were dead.

I went to war.

I came back here to help kids like me. I've spent every second of my life

trying to make up for that night.

Including bribing Zack Culpepper?

Whispered you're weak, but you were wrong. Like you could rip the roots from

me, and I'd just crawl silently.

From this land, by your hand.

I'ma come and put a lighter in my chest.

Thought I wouldn't do it, I meant every word I said.

We know about the deal, Mason.

$2,000 a month to Zack Jr., so Zack Sr.

keeps his mouth shut.

My parents made the deal.

I only found out 10 years ago. My dad was already gone. My mom was dying of

cancer. It's the only reason she told me.

Look.

Daniel Culpepper was dead.

Zack was going to death row. Old Sheriff Coyne negotiated the terms.

Keith built his whole career off that night. It's his origin story.

Whole town treats him like a fucking hero because you framed Daniel for your

crimes. How did Rusty get roped into your parents' deal with Zack Sr.? After

my mom died, I came here to confess.

Rusty said he wouldn't blow up your lives, that...

You would have had to go through new trials and appeals and lawsuits.

Around the same time as New York.

He made me turn over the money to him.

Then he made me sit down at the kitchen table and write out my confession.

Did Rusty forgive you?

No. Said I was one of two men on earth that he would never forgive.

Why did Rusty want to control the money?

She said eventually you guys would have to make a decision.

Whether to keep paying or show my confession to the cops.

She said the truth couldn't be too...

bright or burn brighter.

It has to dazzle gradually.

So it's up to you now.

Both of you.

You sure about this?

It's a temporary fix.

Mason will go to prison for stealing the murder weapon.

And we'll have some time to figure out what we want to do.

He thinks he wants to be punished, but after he spent a few nights in jail,

he's going to fight it.

Let him try.

Dive team's coming up from Atlanta to drag the lake.

I don't need to tell you we need that gun to make our case.

What if I had a recording of Mason Huckabee admitting he stole the revolver

from the school?

Holy shit.

How long will he get for the gun?

Ten years, if we push for the max.

You need to push hard.

I need to speak to your wife.

No, you don't.

My statement will provide you with all the details you need.

Mason's confession doesn't say what happened to me in the woods.

How did you know?

Rusty told me.

Yesterday morning.

He said that agreeing not to tell was the hardest decision he ever made.

It wasn't a decision, it was a promise.

It was my secret.

You only keep secrets when you're ashamed.

And he was never ashamed of you.

Not about anything.

And especially not about that.

It weighed on him.

I was pregnant in New York.

It wasn't UTI.

It was a miscarriage.

I lied to you.

And I kept lying.

I didn't tell you what happened to me in the woods.

And the worst part is that I punished you for not figuring it out.

I got angrier and angrier, like it was your fault.

But it wasn't It was me every time every

every fucking time Did the

doctor tell you that But then you can't be certain that's the reason

Kaylee could give you children

Kaylee gave me gonorrhea

Skanky twat. I only slept with her twice.

Twice in a row or two different times?

Two different times. Two different sessions or... Chuck,

there was never going to be anything more than what it was.

She's too... Dry.

Loose.

Scratchy.

Boring.

She thought that Buffy should have ended up with Angel.

Wow.

How does she make it through law school? You were right, too.

About being on top.

It's a lot of work.

Thanks for that image.

Try never being able to sneeze again.

When I was nine years old, my cousin Patrice, she kicked me in the nuts so

hard, I peed blood for a week.

And when I was 13...

I masturbated so much, I got a blister, and my mom had to take me to the

pediatrician. Oh, my God. I played triangle in the band.

I was the only member of the Starfleet Club.

I was a late bloomer.

I obviously wasn't meant to procreate.

And I don't know if we can't have kids because of something that happened to me

or something that happened to you, but...

That's just a fact of life.

It doesn't fucking matter. Of course it matters.

Not to me.

Do you not understand what a fantastic father you would be?

Your walking dad joke.

You love kids.

I love you.

I think Rusty knew he was gonna die.

That's why he sent us on this scavenger hunt.

I had given up on you.

And I was gonna go home.

And that's when he told me the photograph of Gamma was here.

And he said that you'd know where to find it.

Roped you back in.

He wanted us to find Mason's confession together.

He wanted you to decide whether to use this or not.

He knew it wouldn't just hurt Mason, but it could hurt you too.

Cryptic motherfucker.

Fucking Culpeppers.

They were right all along. Daniel was innocent.

I'm the reason he's dead.

Mason's the reason he's dead.

Keith's the one who shot him.

Old Sheriff Coyne must have planted the revolver on Daniel and put Mason's high

tops in the burn barrel. The original coin trick.

Sam says I have to decide what to do about the confession.

But I don't want to do anything.

Then we don't do anything.

Zach Jr.

stops getting paid.

Zach Sr.

talks.

He testifies that Mason paid him to kill Rusty.

The prosecutors can't force us to help make their case.

They... have to subpoena us if they want us to testify.

We'll deal with it and we'll go on with our lives.

Is that easy?

It will be if you're not in Pikeville anymore.

Mason could end up on death row.

I doubt he'd get the death penalty.

We both saw Zack shoot Mama.

And there's no way to prove that Mason fired that revolver at me.

Legally speaking, it doesn't matter.

The gun was in his hand.

What?

It's called transferred intent.

You're a prosecutor.

You know how it works.

If you're with somebody who commits felony murder, you can both be charged

with murder. Yes, Charlotte, I know the law.

It's what Ben said about the gun being in Mason's hand.

Transferred intent.

We don't know whose finger actually pulled the trigger.

Ben, can you get your laptop?

What are you looking for?

Not sure.

Play that again.

Judas didn't even look at Pink.

Cue it up to the moment right before Pink was shot.

Make that bigger.

Lower. On the gun.

I can make it bigger, but it's not gonna be sharper.

How about, um, color? Contrast?

What's this line?

Ben, was Pink's body released?

No. Medical examiner said it's gonna be a couple of weeks.

Then what was Judas doing picking up drag leaning two days after the

shooting?

I saw the shirt.

She was wearing during the shooting in the bag with one of Pink's suits.

Her clothes weren't taken into evidence?

Oh, it was chaos.

Judith wouldn't let go of Emma. The paramedics had to sedate her.

It would have been easy for her to hold on to the shirt.

Nobody would have noticed. And she got a dry clean less than 24 hours after Pink

was murdered.

Are we saying what I think we're saying? No, we're not. We're not.

I mean, it doesn't make any sense. Why would Judith not throw the shirt away?

She wanted it clean in case they tested for gunshot residue.

Mason told me he argued with Judith about getting more time after school

with Kelly.

Ava told me Kelly was at school too much. In her witness statement, Judith

said she was tutoring Kelly after school three days a week.

Why did she need that much time with Kelly?

Whose classroom is on the left?

Kelly wasn't sucking herself up. She was talking to Judith. Judith was talking to

Kelly.

Two arms.

One dark.

One light.

What if Pink was the target?

Emma wasn't even supposed to be there.

Maybe Kelly didn't pull the trigger.

The gun was in her hand.

I'm never gonna be okay with this.

She won't believe it's true unless she hears it from Tuketh.

If it is true, then Charlie's putting herself alone in a room with a double

murderer.

Charlotte? Sorry I didn't call first.

You're always welcome here. Come in.

I was just having some tea. Would you like some?

Uh, sure.

Thanks.

Please sit down.

My baby.

Here you go.

This belonged to my grandmother.

I'm so clumsy lately.

I don't know where my mind is.

I'm just trying to fix it.

What brings you here, Charlotte?

I never thanked you.

everything you did for me back then.

Keeping my secret.

Thank you.

People say that God doesn't give us more than we can handle, but I don't think

that's true to you.

I realized something tonight.

When you keep a secret,

It can turn you into a person you don't want to be.

Can it?

Why is it you, Charlotte?

Why didn't the police come?

Do you want it to be the police?

You help me fix this?

I cannot bear the thought of leaving this in pieces.

It's pretty clean if you just hold the edges. I'm gonna... try and...

Thank you.

Pushed together.

Here we go.

That's right.

The girl.

I walked in on Douglas fucking Kelly Wilson.

I'm sorry for the coarse language, but...

When you forget your keys and you walk back to your classroom and you... see

your husband having sex with a, uh... a teenager.

That's the word that springs to mind.

You could call it what it is.

Statutory rape.

She was a student under his care.

Just keep holding that, please. I'll,

um...

See,

well... I knew that Kelly was pregnant long before she did.

The morning sickness, the listlessness, the exhaustion.

I confronted Douglas about it finally, but he already knew.

He didn't notice the residue from my hormone patches, but he knew Kelly was

pregnant.

So he instructed me to meet him in the car after school.

He told me that it was God's will that we raise the child together.

Tell me that we would be converting my office into a nursery.

And he said that I would have to quit teaching.

He told you?

Yes, that's how it worked in my marriage.

A wife follows a husband's lead.

It wasn't going to be him getting up in the middle of the night changing

diapers. It was going to be me. He assumed that I would do it. He assumed I

would do everything.

I usually did.

You have no idea what it's like not to matter, to live in the same house with a

man who makes you feel like you're nothing.

I came into that marriage a full person.

My own ideas and little by little, he just erased me.

Do you know what that feels like?

To watch yourself slowly disappear?

Two people died because your husband was a controlling asshole.

Don't you believe in monsters anymore, Charlotte?

Am I looking at one right now?

I think you know the answer to that.

know that you were going to be there. I would have done it another day.

Are you sure it's still recording?

When you teach children with intellectual disabilities, you realize

that there is the disability and then there is the underlying personality.

And some of them can be insufferable jerks. But not Kelly. Not Kelly.

No.

No.

No, she was sweet.

She'd do almost anything you ask her to do.

She's like this plate.

Fragile.

You know you could destroy it if you wanted to.

How did you destroy Kelly?

I trickled poison into her ear.

Slowly at first.

Then it was easy.

She was terrified that she was going to be forced to have another abortion.

I told her that Douglas was lying to her.

Told her that he had no intention of raising the baby with me.

Said that he was going to force her to...

to kill it and she believed you she believed every word out of my mouth

kelly didn't want to shoot anyone

no she didn't want to shoot anyone

and when it came down to it she froze

and then douglas came around the corner he saw the gun

it was all too late and

I stood behind her.

I wrapped my finger around hers.

And I pulled the trigger.

He pulled the trigger more than once.

I had to make it look like she was serious.

How else was I going to be the hero who saved her?

The grieving widow?

The beneficiary of Douglas' life insurance policy?

I was going to live my life on my terms.

What about Emma's life?

But that was a mistake.

It was a horrible, unforgivable mistake.

Kelly wouldn't let go of the gun. We struggled.

And it went off.

Were

you really

going to gamble your freedom on Kelly Wilson's ability to keep her mouth shut?

No, I was going to shoot her in the head.

But I ran out of bullets!

I think you've gotten enough, Charlotte.

You need a lawyer.

I think you need to leave.

I'm just gonna rinse these glasses.

I have a Bible verse for you, Charlotte.

This one might be familiar.

It's from Exodus.

Thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, hand for

hand, foot for foot, burn for burning, wound for

wound.

Give me the phone.

Give it to me.

I, Judith Heller, murdered Douglas and Emma.

I pulled the trigger six times.

Kelly is innocent.

Hey, talk to me.

Talk to me.

Charlotte, listen to me.

This is...

My decision.

Come on.

I can help you.

I can help you.

Okay, listen to me.

No. Oh, Jesus Christ, Judith.

Get out of my house.

What are you doing? I don't want to hurt you.

Please don't do this.

Judith, no.

Get out of my house. You don't have to do this.

Please don't do this, Judith.

Judith. Get the fuck out of my house. Now!

Get the fuck out! Please, go!

Judith!

Let's be reasonable here, Samantha.

The girls walking away from death row, anything less than that is gravy.

Kelly Wilson murdered two people.

Judith Pinkman murdered two people.

You didn't process her hands for gunshot residue. You didn't take her shirt into

evidence. You broke the chain of custody on the murder weapon when you allowed a

witness to steal it.

All of this while your deputy chief brutally attacked my sister.

And your school resource officer failed to notice that Kelly Wilson, an

intellectually disabled teenager, was being sexually assaulted by her

principal. She was coerced into bringing the gun to school by a bitter,

manipulative teacher.

That's how you want to play it? This isn't a game, Sheriff.

Kelly was a student under Douglas Pinkman's care.

There were many vulnerable young...

girls under Douglas Pinkman's care. Let's keep the focus narrow. Maybe I

should expand my focus.

How would you fellas like Rusty Quinn's daughter investigating past mistakes

made by the Pikeville Sheriff's Department?

I'm sure the Culpepers would love to know more about the circumstances

surrounding Daniel's death.

Among other things that happened that night. Whoa, now.

He holds to your pistols there, lady. This is bullshit!

Now, let's just roll the dice.

She ain't holding all the cards. Listen, honey, let's bring things down a notch.

We got to think about what's good for the town.

Now, all this that's happened, well, it's just a tragedy, ain't it?

There's folks here who love Pink who still love Pink, and Judith, for all her

faults, well, she just snapped, didn't she?

All this legal rigmarole, that can be worked out.

We need to focus on healing.

My only focus is on Kelly Wilson.

Samantha, I'm going to tell you something maybe you forgot while you

were away.

Your daddy loved Pikeville.

What would he say if he saw you talking like this?

My daddy would tell you fellas that you've got two choices.

You can sign off on five years for Kelly Wilson.

Or you can shit in both hands and start clapping.

With good behavior, you can get out before your baby starts school.

We can't think about it.

We don't want to give Kenny coin time to change his mind.

It has to be Kelly's decision. We can't make it for her.

I done swore I'll take care of the baby till you're out.

And your daddy won't have a say in it.

Them coins will lock him up now that he ain't no use to them.

Ain't that right?

Yes. The GBI recovered Eli's revolver from the lake.

As a convicted felon, he wasn't allowed to own a weapon, let alone leave it

unsecured where Kelly found it. But I'm the one what took the gun to school.

And Mrs. Pinkman, she was so torn up about... Mr. Pinkman and what we was

doing.

Them ladies over at the jail, they said it was me drove her crazy.

She ought not killed herself like that.

She was a good Christian woman.

Kelly, we need to think about you right now and your baby.

That's true enough, ma'am, but it seems like I ought to be punished.

Five years is a long time.

Does it seem fair to you?

Yes, Kelly.

This is fair.

He couldn't quit me. More throuples, more problems.

So what's up?

I need you to take Barky tomorrow.

Your sister got me some interviews in Atlanta.

I think I'm gonna join big law, have some loans, learn to play golf.

Roughly 600 people die in golf cart accidents every year. Out of how many

golfers, though?

Well, the golfer-to-death rate is very high. So that's all I can really tell

you. That sounds legitimate.

Mm-hmm.

How's it going with Sam?

I'm meeting her at the farmhouse later.

She still thinks we can find that photograph of Gamma.

Your dad was a freakishly good liar.

No shit.

I'm sorry that I never... That I

blamed you for not knowing something that I never told you about.

I know.

Your dad told me that the hardest thing to do in a marriage is to stop talking

and start listening.

Should we take marriage advice from Rusty?

I really... really love your mom.

Are you still my wife?

Yes.

Are you still my husband?

I want you to do that with your mouth.

Ugh, gross.

Dad was a total poonhound.

What do you expect? They're love letters.

I can't believe all this stuff was just sitting in a box in his office the whole

time.

Stuff was sitting everywhere the whole time.

I remember when this happened.

I had to bail him out of jail.

He never paid me back.

Shocking.

It's like being inside her head.

Trust me, you do not want to be in Dad's.

Let's see what else he was hoarding.

Oh, my God. My first place ribbon from the debate club.

Oh, thanks, Dad.

My eighth grade report card. He was supposed to sign it.

I got detention.

Straight A's.

Talks too much.

Ben's moving to Atlanta.

He asked me to go with him.

That's good, baby.

I like Atlanta.

Enough to come with us?

Enough to come visit.

I'm gonna go back in.

Don't hear from me in half an hour.

Call the fire department.

Happy things are going so well between you and Ben.

And I'm happy he finger banged me on the couch this morning.

What?

He has gonorrhea.

Ew!

When you're ready, I want you to tell me more about

Anton.

Who did this calculus? An intoxicated toddler? That should say the partial of

u squared plus v squared over two. We're never going to find this photograph of

Gamma.

Sammy, I'm thinking Dad played you.

I mean, you said it before. He wanted us to find all that Zack Culpepper shit

together. But he went out of his way to describe this photograph.

How beautiful Gamma was.

Perfect day.

Ben reminded me that Rusty was a highly accomplished liar.

Tell me again exactly what he said to you at the hospital.

He said that there was a photo of Gamma.

Different from this one that he took on their first date. He asked Gamma on a

picnic because he didn't have money to pay for a restaurant.

Foreshadowing. He said it was a beautiful day. They talked and laughed

and danced to music on the car radio.

He said he felt like his heart was a kite and she was reeling it in with a

string.

It's called a spindle.

I know what it's called, you walnut.

Well, if another photo exists, he left it out in the open, just like everything

else.

We need to stop thinking like he was Sherlock Holmes when he was barely

Inspector Gadget.

Why was this in your purse?

He asked me to bring it to the hospital

You're

the walnut

Turned you into his mule.

I had forgotten how beautiful she was.

They were beautiful together.

What year was this?

Are you fucking kidding? Oh, my God.

He did it. He finally figured out how to use last word.

I wanna

feel the shiver

Your fingers writing poetry on my skin

Seeking out new paths in the valleys and edges.

Where do I end and where do you begin?

I know most things just come down to chance.

You gotta throw yourself against the wind.

through these ever-changing times

whatever storms will come my way

i wanna face them all with you

beside me through these ever changing times