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[rock music]

(male #1)
'I understand that.'

But I'm getting paid on..

I am listening,
you're not listening.

- I'm getting paid--
- Hi, baby.

If you'd just give me
a brief moment to..

I'm not giving attitude!

Hello?

'Hello?'

Midnight, they're
gonna shut my gas.

What'd you bring?

- Chicken?
- For the concert.

I got to do
these bills.

You should go.

Honey, I can see
Nirvana anytime.

You know

you could ask Krystal
for the money. She'll help you.

I know.
I don't wanna ask.

[kettle whistling]

I'm gonna heave that
thing out the window.

Here, grandma.
Here's your tea.

Don't touch that.

This is worse
than pro wrestling.

Shush. You don't
know anything about it.

These guys'll bleed
every last cent.

Can't take it with you.

So that others might live
in the light.

[intense music]

So, it's a freezing
February night.

I'm up, get this
call about midnight.

Oh, is this the Jamaican job?
That's a good one.

Yeah, you know how Jamaican
jobs are, right?

I mean, aliases,
no papers.

Give me a bag
of bones any day.

Yeah, well,
I'm in a slump

and I need a cake job
like you wouldn't believe.

So he gets this call
out of, uh, North Central.

- You telling this or me?
- No, go ahead. It's your story.

(Jeffries)
'So, anyway,
we're riding out'

and I'm thinking, I hope

this is not a Jamaican.

Please don't let this be
a Jamaican.

Do-don't finish it.
Vera, homicide.

So anyway, I get out there.

This guy's on the front seat,
frozen through.

And he's a Jamaican.

No. He's a Burmese
Buddhist monk.

I take one look,
I say to Vera

"Why couldn't he be Jamaican?"

Hold on just a second, hold on.

Hey, you couldn't wait?

It's for you.
Another cold one.

Why do you got
to be like that?

Some of those stories
of yours I like.

Uh, Detective Rush.

(male #1 on phone)
'I wanna tell you
about a murder.'

And this happened a while ago?

'In 1989.'

What's your name?

'I don't wanna
tell you my name.'

Okay, what do you want
to tell me?

'She was elderly.'

Who was elderly, the victim?

'Her name was Krystal Hogan.'

'At her age, there was
no defending herself.'

How old was she?

'Almost 81.'

How is it you know
she was murdered?

'I did it.'

[hangs up]

[theme music]

Guy confesses to murder

and then he won't
tell you his name?

Maybe it's a hoax.

I can't find a box
on the lady.

Well, it's not
Krystal Hogan

but I-I seem to
remember a K. Dugan

when I was on the line.

Maybe an '87 job.

[Rush sighs]

Kendall Dugan.

Drug shooting.

Oh, right.

So, did you run her name
through the computer?

Waiting for something
to kick out.

Well, there's not much
else you can do, though.

(Jeffries)
'Lil?'

That fellow's back on the line.

You hung up on me.

'I was having second thoughts.'

'Now I'm not.'

Well, I don't have a box
on Krystal Hogan.

- Sorry.
- 'What does that mean?'

No box, no body, no crime.

Maybe you're just a guy
who likes talking to police.

You don't believe me?

I'll tell you
where the body is.

Okay.

'2212, Elm street.'

Germantown.

In the basement.

Wanna tell me your name now?

Guy's real up front,
or messing with me good.

- Gave you an address?
- I'll run it.

Don't have enough
for a warrant.

So, finesse
the neighborhood.

Right. Worth a door knock.

[knocking on door]

Are you Brad Meyer?

Yeah. Who are you?

Philadelphia police.

Detective Rush.

Oh, low blow.

Someone called
the cops on me?

No. Uh, can I talk
to you a minute?

What's goin' on?

This is my wife, Dana.

She's police.

I'm just looking into something

that might have happened
around here

several years back.

Thought it was about
us getting rowdy.

We only moved in
eight months ago.

'Maybe you should
try that lady, Joan'

across the street.

She brought
us a moving-in casserole

and knows the neighborhood
business pretty good.

Thank you.

Krystal Hogan.

She was an old pistol.

So, you knew her?

Lived right over there.

When was that?

10-15 years ago.

She moved in with her
son's family.

Then, this
was awful..

The son and
his wife died

in a crash on
the turnpike.

That left Krystal
alone over there

with her grandson.

Do you remember
the grandson's name?

James.
Just a teenager.

Acted like
one, too.

Always ridin'
around in his car.

[upbeat music]

[car horn honking]

[tires squealing]

[car horn honking]

James, was that you
honking that horn?

- Yeah.
- Honk, honk, honk.

- I'm sorry.
- Show some courtesy.

I told you to be
waiting outside.

You don't tell your grandmother
to wait outside--

I have a date.

- And if we don't--
- Oh, hold your horses.

I forgot my keys.

I got keys.
Let's keep moving.

James, will you
stop rushing me?

You know what?
I'm screwed now anyway.

(Joan)
Taking care of his grandma
put a real strain on James.

Anyway, poor old Krystal
eventually went missing.

- When was this?
- '89, '90.

Wandered off.

The kid went
to the police.

Put flyers all around,
including one on my door.

Used some kind of tape
that took off the paint.

A body in our basement?

It's a possibility.

Outrageous.

I told you that was weird.

What was weird?

This cat
from the moving company.

What company?

The other day they were moving
a family in down the block.

One of the workers stops over,
says he grew up in this house.

And he wants
to have a look around?

You'd think he'd want to see
his old bedroom or something

but this dude, he only
wants to see the basement.

(Brad)
I basically live down here.

Got my bar, my video games..

...stereo..

...various...whatnots.

That's odd.

What are these bricks about?

(Brad)
'That's the old
coal chute.'

You do this?

No.

[intense music]

Coroner says from the pelvis,
it's a female.

And she has her teeth,
so we'll get an ID.

What about her age?

Sutures on the skull
are closed up.

She was elderly.

So your guy
was for real.

I just hopes
he calls back.

Get that file
from missing persons?

Krystal Hogan.
October '89.

Yeah, the grandson,
James, filed the report.

Did the investigators
do the job right?

They put out an APB

checked the morgues,
hospitals, jail system.

Took statements,
from this James.

Some others didn't
tell you much.

Says there were
no other relatives.

They got dementia
written down question mark

case was filed
pending more info.

'But then, in '94'

James petitioned the court
to declare grandma dead.

That allowed him to collect

on a $50,000 life
insurance policy.

Well, it won't buy you
the 76ers

but it does
give you motive.

What about
the moving company?

Does James work for one?

Haven't made
that connect yet.

But we're thinking
he's the caller?

Rush.

Line two. It's him.

- 'Anyway to trace this boss?'
- We wish.

Detective Rush.

I don't like that you said that.

Said what?

That I just like
talking to police.

I wouldn't be doing this
if I didn't have to.

So, why are you doing this?

Listen, James, I'm just
trying to do my job here.

(Rush)
'You still there?'

I'm here.

Are you surprised
I know your name?

Uh...I guess not.

Look, did you find the body?

'James, the best thing for you'

is to come
into police headquarters.

Just tell me, yes or no.

[whispers]
DMV photo.

'I know you found her.'

'I mean, you had to have.'

'Hello?'

Uh, uh, I'm here.

Um, uh..

...I was thinking.

Thinking what?

'I understand
what you're doing.'

I do that. I'll, uh..

I'll be in a dark mood
and I'll..

...turn to people
who I don't really know.

'Seems safer.'

I don't wanna talk.

Well, hey,
it doesn't have to be me.

Are you religious? I can
get you anybody you want.

- 'James?'
- I'm here.

Why'd you kill her?
She wasn't a good grandma?

No, she was.

You wanna tell me
how you did it?

You're making my head hurt.

James, how about we hang up?

You wanna hang up?

'Yeah, I'll give you
my cellphone number.'

That way you can take a bunch of
breaths, collect your thoughts

and then we'll figure this out.

James?

'Yeah.'

5-5-5..

...0-1-9-8.

Risky play.

I was losing him.

Give him my number,
maybe build a trust.

What's our take on this guy?

(Rush)
'Well, we know
he was orphaned.'

Lost both parents
on the same night.

And at 19,
he was solely responsible

for an 81-year-old woman.

- No other family?
- All alone in the world.

Auto-track just spit out
his current address.

We got him.

Philadelphia police.

(Vera)
'Police! Anyone here?'

Clear.

Guy didn't finish
his chicken potpie.

We know he's in a hurry.

He knew we were on to him.

(Vera)
'You find something?'

Something.

"Listen, darling,
I don't mean to make you tense.

"I'm sorry.

"I just want us
to move up in the world.

Love you, Sherry."

Sherry, who?

"Fox."

Postmark, February, 1989.

You still reading your love
letters from 14 years ago?

[grunts]

This guy's reliving
a better time

'cause brotherly luv movers
is paying a slave wage.

Guy's living alone,
got a bad job gettin' older.

Self-esteem's shot, so he's
breakin' out old love letters?

Guilt over grandma's
gaining on him.

But still, why does he crack
after 14 years?

Why not 12 or 19?

I'm gotta
call Jeffries.

Get him on the hunt
for this foxy lady.

In the meantime, let's see if
brotherly luv has any for James.

Yeah, I had a job
over in Germantown

three days ago.

James Hogan was
on that crew?

Yeah.

Listen, that guy's
a hell of a worker.

Shows up on time

doesn't clown around,
dependable.

So he's full-time?

Yeah, and then some.

Been with us
close to three years now.

Why isn't he here today?

This ain't union

but a guy puts out,
I give him the days he wants.

This was the first time
James asked

'so I told him
to take the week.'

He ever talk about
a girl named Sherry?

- Beats me.
- Any girls at all?

'Look, I don't know.'

Some of the humps
around here

give him a hard time
about that, but..

...let's face it,
he's not George Clooney.

[phone rings]

Excuse me.

Lilly Rush.

I saw you at the apartment.

'So you stuck around, huh?'

You were watching?

'Now there's a cop out front.'

I can't get back in.

'It's not just
your house, James.'

There's an APB out on you.

What'll happen to her body?

What do you want to happen?

I thought maybe

a service of some kind

and then bury her
at the county cemetery.

- 'Don't think so.'
- Why not?

I'm not trying
to upset you, but, uh..

if next of kin
doesn't claim the body

the coroner has procedures.

Like what?

Oh, he'll
cremate her then, uh..

put her remains
in a plastic bag.

Probably stamp on
a ticket number

or some ID,
then box it up

and stuff it away
in a warehouse somewhere.

You wanna come in, James?

Talk face to face?

We can see about a real funeral

for grandma that way.

Do you really get dark moods

or were you just conning me?

Wish I was conning you.

Look, you can talk to me.

Don't you feel that?

Yes.

'So come in. We'll talk.'

About what?

How about...Sherry?

Sore subject?

Off-limits.

Maybe because
she's no longer a fox.

She goes
by Mrs. Stephens now.

Lives on the main line.

Nice digs.

Marry an Ob-Gyn,
and you can have this, too.

(Sherry)
This is a mistake.

There was no homicide.

James's grandma went missing.

Well, it
ain't a mistake.

Have you seen
James recently?

Talked to him?

Not in three years.

Still, this doesn't make sense.

But you two were
involved, right?

Well, he was my boyfriend.

We lived together forever.

You break up with him?

We met at a bowling alley.

And at the time that kind of
life was really fun to me.

Ten years later, it wasn't.

How long till you got married?

- A year.
- That's pretty quick.

Doesn't seem so quick
when you're over 30.

Sherry, going back,
were you around

when Krystal
supposedly went missing?

Not the exact day.

But I was staying over a lot.

What was that like?

- How do you mean?
- Before Krystal's gone.

Sleeping over with
grandma in the house?

Mostly okay.

But sometimes not.

[upbeat music]

Let's go upstairs.

No, it'll be better here.

What if Krystal comes in?

Let her.

No, come on.

What?

Times change, grandma.

'Gotta accept
that things ain't like'

when you were a kid.

I just came to give you
a check for groceries.

You don't like
it here, grandma?

I can make
other arrangements for you.

But James threatened to put her
in a home, not murder her.

Now, Krystal was chippin'
in on the bills, right?

(Sherry)
'I think she didn't
mind helping out'

when James got in a pinch.

Well, please tell me
he's not in trouble.

Wish I could.

'Thanks for your time.'

(Vera)
'So, she outgrew the guy.'

He's still pining for her
all these years later.

Most people get
over this stuff.

She left him
three years ago

grandma died 14 years ago

but I still don't get
why he's reaching out today.

- Where you headed?
- Due in court.

Drop by social
security for me?

Uh, not my favorite joint.

What do you need?

Well, it took five years

before the court declared
Krystal Hogan dead

and six years before James
collected the life insurance.

So, in the meantime

you think he was picking up

her benefit checks?

Easy scam to pull off.

Sherry said grandma had
some cash floating around.

So, what about Krystal's
bank records?

Already put out a subpoena.

Alright.

- Rush.
- Yeah?

Remember when I ran James
through NCIC, PCIC?

Yeah, he was clean.

Yeah, well, I got his
social, I ran him again.

He got an assault charge.

Why didn't it
show up earlier?

He wasn't charged under
the name James Hogan.

He was charged under
the name James Gable.

- Gable?
- Half-brother to the victim.

Lonnie Gable.

So he has some family
after all.

I don't know if Lonnie's
gonna see it that way.

What did James do to him?

Beat on him...with a brick.

(Rush)
'James was using
your last name?'

'Cause I bought him
his first car.

I told him not to do that.

Sounds like
you looked out for him.

He's my little brother.

So, how did he
end up alone with Krystal?

I was in Baltimore

working for a mortgage company.

When mom died in that wreck,
I came back.

I didn't wanna move in.

I've got a life. But I told him
to get live-in help for her.

- He didn't wanna do that?
- I couldn't force him.

She was his grandma, not mine.

Actually, he
and the old girl

got along pretty good.

He always said how much
he liked his talks with her.

I lived nearby,
I figured

I could look
over his shoulder.

But then you two
had that falling out.

He was begging for me
to meet Sherry.

You weren't too high on her?

I had 'em over
for a barbecue.

She's nice, whatever.

Then suddenly
she says that she wants

this certain wine cooler

so James goes on a run.

For the next 20 minutes

this girl goes on parade.

Flirting, prancing,
bendin' over

real intentional,
showing me the world.

'I just look away,
whatever.'

And then she says

will I take her away
to New York?

It was such a sideways
thing to say, I just laugh.

And she follows it up with

"Whatever you want

wherever you want,
for the rest of your life."

So, then what happened?

I got her the hell
out of my yard.

'James comes back
I figure I better tell him'

'before she
starts lying.'

So we sit on this back
stoop that I'm fixin' up.

You can guess the rest.

(Vera)
'Oh, he opened you up
pretty good.'

So, why did you pull back
on pressing charges?

What, am I gonna
send him to jail?

I figure it's best just
to walk away and not look back.

The shocking thing was

he was really fond of Krystal.

Krystal's benefit checks
were $812 dollars a month.

Good bank for a 19-year-old.

And they flowed in
long after her death.

These here are dated
before the murder.

That's Krystal's signature.

The rest are dated
after she died.

I know that writing.

See the little tails
on both S's?

Mm-hmm.

Did Sherry endorse these checks?

Well, let me send it
over to Questioned Documents.

- Thanks.
- Alright.

What if Sherry
orchestrated this?

The fraud or the murder?

Or both.

So, you're saying

Lonnie's story
is starting to ring true?

Well, these checks
showed she was no angel

and if James got on so well with
grandma the way Lonnie says..

Hmm, plus your crush on him.

[cellphone ringing]

James just got sloppy.

See if you can ID this.

Two-four-two-seven,
Two-four-two-seven.

- Hello.
- What did Sherry say to you?

You're gonna follow me, James,
you might as well just come in.

Tell me.

Cops get information,
they don't give it.

'I wasn't following you.'

You asked about Sherry,
so I knew you'd go see her.

But you were there.

I was around.

You around Sherry's house a lot?

Do not accuse me of that.

I know what you're
accusing me of.

Then help me understand, James.

'I'm not a stalker.'

That was the first time
I've ever gone by.

Only once in three years?

I've been doing
what you're supposed to.

I'm working.

I haven't been in trouble.
You can check.

I did.

- It's true.
- Okay, then.

So, why are you flipping out
today, James?

What happened
to make it today?

I don't wanna tell you that.

Everything she used to give me

I don't have anymore.

But that's not new.

That's a three-year-old problem.

Tell me what she said. Please.

[dramatic music]

She was trying to protect you.

She was?

She said
she didn't think you did it.

Really?

I'm wondering if she was trying
to fake me out.

If maybe she was...part of it.

No. No.

I've been finding out
a lot of things.

What things?

I know
she signed Krystal's checks.

- 'That's forgery.'
- No, that was me.

Looked like her handwriting.

And according to your brother

Sherry isn't as reputable

as she plays up to be.

Son of a bitch!

He's a liar.

'You're saying she never knew?'

Never talked about how great

it would be to collect
grandma's money?

'Just got cash from you'

'never asked
where it came from?'

She'd say things.

Okay.

But Sherry says things
she doesn't mean.

[man singing]

- Don't move.
- Why?

The way the light's hitting.

You're my handsome man.

Don't say that.

No one's better
on the inside, hear me?

I see the way
you take care of your grandma.

Sometimes I'm not sure
I'm living up, you know?

You see how she watches
the preachers all day?

All she wants is peace.

I do sort of feel that.

It's no accident she waits
for you to open her mail.

Always letting you
know that money's come.

The same joke every time.

"What good's money
to a worn-out bag of bones?"

She's not gonna come
right out and say it.

You got to read
between the lines, darlin'.

[singing continues]

I don't think
I could ever do that.

Of course you couldn't.

See, with her it was just talk.

She manipulated you, James.

You need to see that.

He's at the bus station.

[cellphone ringing]

- Hello?
- 'You've been conning me.'

What?

- 'Yeah, I can tell.'
- No.

I can see it on your face.

Police! Don't move!

'Rush!'

It's not him.

James kills grandma for Sherry

so he can afford to take her
nicer places than bowling.

And make her
the new lady of the house.

Or Sherry put him up to it.

Or does the deed herself.

Those are the scenarios.

Do we know how grandma died?

Autopsy made a positive ID.

No cause of death determined.

Heard from James lately?

No. He's pissed at me

'cause I bad-mouthed Sherry.

Hope I didn't take it too far.

It's been hours.

You're gonna love this.

Sherry had four sets of parents

all before she was
11 years old.

- Foster homes.
- 'Yeah, then a runaway.'

On the streets
and who knows what

till she meets James.

- 'Any record?'
- Shoplifting.

Well, she's a survivor.

She finds James,
a 19-year-old with a house.

Moves up to a doctor

on the Main Line.

(Jeffries)
'Aw, sooki-sooki.'

Where you going?

Pharmacy run.

Thought your sister
was taking care of your mother.

AWOL since last week.

Detective.

Lonnie. What happened?

I was going to my car,
and James jumps me.

Keeps going on and on
about Sherry and her pure heart

what a lout I am,
all the old stuff.

I'm sorry.
You can press charges.

No, that's not what I want.

But I didn't lay down.

Me and him, we had it out.

And we talked, too.

- You talked?
- About him coming in.

I'm not gonna walk away again.

But I want him brought in safe.

I'm working hard to do that.

No. I mean I've set it up.

He's agreed to meet.

But only with you.

[instrumental music]

(James)
'Lonnie okay?'

Fair.

I'm such a jerk.

I shouldn't have hurt him.

You got
to control yourself, James.

I don't know why he keeps
telling that lie about Sherry.

What's the plan now, James?

I wanna turn myself in.

- Good.
- One condition.

I'm listening.

You guarantee me
you'll leave Sherry alone.

She's not part of this.

If that's true,
you have your guarantee.

No! Certain things
will look bad for her.

You're already thinking
that way.

James, every cop in Philly
has an eye out.

Some are inexperienced.

Don't let this end badly.

Right now, we go in safe.

This was a bad idea.

You ever ask her to marry you?

- What?
- You were together a long time.

You ask her to wear your ring?

Yes.

She said no, huh?

She had her reasons.

Whatever they were

she quit you.

So, why protect her now?

I know what you're doing.

You're trying to tear her down.

I just don't think Lonnie
was lying about her, James.

She was my girl.

She believed in me.

'And that may not be big to you'

but it is to me. And not
just when we were together.

More so since we've been apart.

How's that work?

She told me that
for the rest of her life

she would never find someone
who took care of her like I did.

That that's the man I am.

Even now,
I know she believes in me.

So why do you believe in her?

- She's gone.
- What do you know about it?

I know Lonnie wasn't lying
that day you hit him

with the brick.

And so do you.

She didn't love you, James.

[dramatic music]

And I'm your girl now.

[train hooting]

So, Sherry's coming in?

She's one powerful girl.

James is still hanging on to
what she said at the kiss-off.

While she's kicking
back on the Main Line

with Dr. Stephens.

Oh, I have some new,
interesting information

about Sherry and doctors.

Care for a coke, coffee?

I'm good, thanks.

Husband bring you in?

Yeah, he doesn't like
me driving in the city.

How'd you meet your husband?

He was my doctor.

Hmm.

- 'Out in Merion?'
- Yeah.

Forty-five minutes away
from where you and James lived.

So?

I noticed your dentist,
dermatologist

all your health care
takes place out in the suburbs.

I live in the suburbs.

Well, now you do.

But you started
with all these doctors

while you
were still in Germantown.

All your doctors are male,
aren't they?

I don't get your meaning.

Nothing, no meaning.

(Vera)
'Here's what bugs me.'

You and Jimmy together,
I ain't seeing it.

I mean...you're a head turner.

Him...he's a shlub.

And that's not a shot.

I mean, you're out
of my league, too. But..

How a man looks
has never mattered to me.

Lonnie's pretty good-looking.

Not with that scar, he isn't.

No remorse for
having caused that scar?

- "Caused?"
- We've been talking to Lonnie.

He gave us
the whole shooting match, babe.

Well, the next time
you see Lonnie

tell him to
have another drink.

Recognize this?

I guess, it looks
like a letter I wrote.

You talk about being tense.

- Over what?
- Who knows?

That was 14 years ago.

"Let's move up in the world."

- Anything on that?
- I have goals.

Let's try and...do well.

A driven person,
aren't you, Sherry?

'Sure, no question.'

Coming up hard the way you did

you'd have to be, right?

What would you know about it?

Nothing. I came up
in a real sound situation.

(Vera)
'Not like you.'

You had it hardscrabble.

You had to fight your way
to the Main Line.

Did you ask James to get rid
of his grandma in this letter?

No.

What did you mean by asking him

to read between the lines?

That all grandma
wanted was peace?

N-nothing. I-I don't even
remember saying that.

You must have loved sharing
a bathroom with an 81-year-old.

I-I liked Krystal.

But she was old.

Already lived a full life.

(Vera)
'She'd had her time.'

Now it was your time, right?

Before I was a cop, Sherry

I worked
in Questioned Documents.

Handwriting Specialist.

Board certified.

So?

So, this isn't
Krystal's signature.

This is you
signing Krystal's name.

You-you're wrong.

Board certified, Sherry.

Did you get her to go?

- For the fraud.
- Won't go for the murder.

[cellphone ringing]

Rush.

(James)
'I'm calling to say goodbye.'

[dramatic music]

It was messed up,
I open the door

and it's that James dude
from the other day.

And he was armed?

Had the double-barrel
all busted out.

Told us to leave.

Guy took the place.
That was it.

[police chatter]

- I've gotta get inside.
- Well, SWAT wants to wait, Lil.

We can't wait.

You gotta go to bat for me.

(Lilly)
'James.'

Can you hear me?

(James)
'I hear you.'

'Hey..'

I wanna come around
this corner..

...but I know you have a gun.

I'm not gonna hurt you.

I believe you.

But you need
to put the gun down.

I'm gonna show
you my gun, okay?

Then you show yours.

James?

Just don't ask me
to give it to you.

Deal.

[intense music]

Say it again, will you?

Say what again?

My name.
You always say my name.

James.

Sherry would never call me that.

No?

'What, then?'

Hon...or baby..

Or darlin', mostly.
Darlin'.

That's nice.

No, but, sometimes you
wanna hear your name

you know, and she
would never say it.

I'd ask, but she said
it made her feel awkward.

Who I am made her feel awkward..

Should've known
back then, right?

No. She's..

...good, James.

Clever.

I feel like I can
really talk to you.

Keep that gun down.

Do you like talking to me?

Yeah.

I do.

I did a bad thing.

[dramatic music]

- Do you want more?
- Hmm.

[laughing]

There's no shame
in scrubbing floors.

- If only my knees knew it.
- Lemme help.

Oh, thank you.

You know, I used to run
like the wind.

Did you know that?

Look at me now.

Are you sad, Grandma?

Of course I'm sad.

But this is the way
it's supposed to be.

We're meant
to wear ourselves out, James.

That's what the Lord expects.

Here, lift your head.

Lay back.

Oh.

Close your eyes.

Finish.

Huh?

You have to finish telling.

You have to face it.

[dramatic music]

Here, lift your head.

[intense music]

It's for the best.

[groaning]

You didn't kill her.

Sherry did.

No, it's still the same.

I put her in the basement.

'I dumped her here..'

...like potatoes.

It's the same.

Worse..

...for you.

In your mind, it's worse.

Because you let it happen.

That's what's eaten you

what you didn't do.

My God. Oh, God.
Oh, God. Oh, God.

- Don't!
- This is it.

Suicide's not the way, James.

I'm executing myself.

I deserve to die for what I did.

Look at me.

'James.'

'Why'd you start this?'

Sherry left you,
and for three years

no trouble, so why'd you call?

I wasn't getting over things

the way you're supposed to.

You couldn't move on.

And it was just...the
final straw last week.

What was?

James..

...give me an answer.

Give me an answer!

'I was working down the road..'

With the movers.

...and I-I was,
like, three doors down

so I figured,
lemme come pay my respects.

And the kid you know..

he lets me come down
here and-and look.

- Look?
- Look at this place.

It's a party place.

And, the kid was telling
me all the things

they do down here

and my grandma's
underneath them the whole time.

Under this cheesy bar.

And I put her there!

And I looked
in this beer mirror..

and I thought, I am a disgrace.

[dramatic music]

I'm a disgrace.

James..

You're not a disgrace.

You have regret.

You're facing that night.

Who says that counts
for anything?

That's up to you..

...but it counts for me.

[serene music]

♪ Remember when
the days were long ♪

♪ And rolled beneath
a deep blue sky ♪

♪ Didn't have a care
in the world ♪

♪ With mommy
and daddy standing by ♪

♪ When happily ever
after fails ♪

♪ And we've been poisoned
by these fairy tales ♪

♪ The lawyers dwell
on small details ♪

♪ Since daddy had to fly ♪

♪ But I know a place
where we can go ♪

♪ That's still
untouched by man ♪

♪ We'll sit and watch
the clouds roll by ♪

♪ And the tall grass
wave in the wind ♪

♪ You can lay your
head back on the ground ♪

♪ And let your hair fall
all around me ♪

♪ Offer up your best defense ♪

♪ But this is the end ♪

♪ This is the end ♪

♪ Of the innocence ♪

♪ Oh beautiful
for spacious skies ♪

♪ But now those skies
are threatening ♪

♪ They're beating
plowshares into swords ♪

♪ For this tired old man
that we elected king ♪

♪ Armchair warriors often fail ♪

♪ And we've been poisoned
by these fairy tales ♪

♪ The lawyers clean up
all details ♪

♪ Since daddy had to lie ♪

♪ But I know a place
where we can go ♪

♪ And wash away this sin ♪

♪ We'll sit
and watch the clouds roll by ♪

♪ And the tall grass wave
in the wind ♪

♪ Just lay your head back
on the ground ♪

♪ And let your hair
spill all around me ♪

♪ Offer up your best defense ♪

♪ But this is the end ♪

♪ This is the end
of the innocence ♪♪

[theme music]