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Good morning, Ms. Collins.

We're looking for books
on American history.

Specifically, the election process.

More specifically, local elections.

More specifically, has a rookie deputy

ever pulled off a last minute election

to become sheriff in
a small American town?

So, what is it you're
looking for specifically?

I'm kidding. Let's look.

- Hi, Mom.
- Oh.

Good morning. We're
polling for the election.

May we ask who you're voting for?

Strictly off the record,

I'd like to see some
new blood around here.

I like what I'm hearing, ladies.

- I made them myself.
- Oh, how creative.

But I'm not sure l can
wear mine at school.

She has to give the appearance
of objectivity. I don't.

Nice.

Margaret Miller?

Agent Chris Adkins, FBI.

We have some questions for you.

You've made a mistake.
This is my mother, Carol Collins.

It's okay, sweetie.

Mom? Mom, wait, don't go with him.

Excuse me, what's happening?
Are you arresting her?

We just wanna ask her some questions.

It's okay.

Make sure the kids
are okay. Keep them in here.

Hilde!

I need to get my things in the office.

Matt, what the hell is going on?

I, uh... I wanted to
give you a heads-up,

but they said that I couldn't.

They who? The FBI? You
knew they were coming?

They ran a DNA from the
blood on Richie's jacket.

- You know, the one he was wearing.
- Yeah.

Well, apparently, you
did a genetic profile kit.

What does that have to do with anything?

Kim, your blood matched the profile.

Well, obviously I didn't have
anything to do with it. So...

No, but... And that's the
thing, it was a 50% match.

- And it was female.
- What are you trying to say?

Well, you don't have a sister. So...

My mom?

What's going on?

- Matt, that doesn't make any sense.
- I know.

But they ran her picture
through facial recognition

and, well, they got a hit.

Well, there must be
some sort of explanation.

I know. Look, I know these
guys. They'll clear this up.

- You did all of this?
- Look, I had to.

I couldn't bring any of
this to Sheriff Briggs.

Look, whatever happened, he...

he's been covering this up for...
for, like, decades.

Look, I'm... I'm sorry. All
right? We'll figure it out.

I got a pitch for the headline.

"Don't judge a book by its cover".

Get it? Because she's gonna
be in front of a judge soon.

Not salacious enough.

We need a catchy nickname,
like ''Mother Murder".

Guys, we can't publish.

But this story is huge.

I know, but we just gotta be careful.

This is a real person.

Just imagine how Principal
Collins must feel.

Are you saying we should
give her special treatment?

No, it's just that we
have to get it right.

There was a time when I
thought Principal Collins

murdered Penny Gillis.

We need more facts. Not just
what we think, but what we know.

All right, folks.

I know that was exciting, but
you know what else gets excited?

Atoms. Today, we're studying...

- Where is she?
- She's okay.

The FBI guys are just
asking her some questions.

Guess they own the place now.

How you holding up?

Can I see her?

Are you sure you're
gonna be okay in there?

I doubt it.

Then maybe you should wait in my office.

That's my mom in there.

All right. Come on.

As I'm sure you know,

there's been some new information
in the Richie Fife case.

Hey.

We have some questions for you.

Yes. Of course. Whatever you all need.

Does this look familiar to you?

I understand you were
the one who found it

during the initial
search for Richie on...

January 31st, 1988.

- Is that correct?
- Yes.

Can you tell me why your
blood is on this jacket?

I... I cut myself...

... in the kitchen, and I
guess I was still bleeding...

- I remember that.
- ... when I picked it up.

I remember her saying
that she cut her hand.

Yeah, but did you see it happen?

And you didn't think to tell anyone?

I never thought that would matter.

I realize how naive it sounds,

but back then I'd
never even heard of DNA.

And-and we were all just
trying to find Richie.

Don't worry, Kim. They don't
have a clean chain of custody.

There's no judge on earth that
would allow it as evidence.

Is that your former address in Portland?

Yes.

You wanna tell me about this?

In 1973...

I was arrested for auto theft.

My family...

Um, well, there was trouble
and money was always tight.

A lot of people experience
financial hardship, Ms. Miller.

My name's Carol now, please.

Most of them don't commit grand larceny.

I know that, which is why I...

When I got out of prison,

I was so ashamed of... what
I'd been, what I'd done...

and I just wanted a do-over.

Just a new name and a new life.

And I found that here in Erie Harbor.

Which broke the terms of your parole

because you weren't allowed
to leave the state, Margaret.

Even though water is
supposed to keep us clean,

H2O molecules are actually very sticky.

Can I have a bathroom pass?

To the Holmes County
Sheriff's Department?

No.

And you knew Richie Fife
through your daughter?

Yes.

They just seemed to really
care about each other.

And you've said before

that you did not see Richie
Fife the night he was abducted?

That's correct.

You know how long l've been
doing this job, Margaret?

It's Carol.

Long enough to know when
I'm hearing the truth

and when someone is lying to my face.

Why is he going after her like
that? She didn't do anything.

Don't you remember?

You said you thought your
parents were hiding stuff.

Normal parent things.

Infidelity, money problems...

not murder.

I swear to you, I did
not hurt Richie Fife.

I loved that boy.

My daughter loved that boy.

We all did.

Now, even though water

is supposed to keep us clean,

H2O molecules...

Ms. Lisko.

As I was saying, the hydrogen atoms...

... of the water molecule like to stick

to the nearby oxygen atoms,

which causes multiple water
molecules to stick together.

Oh, come on!

Oh, come on, molecular fusions.

Why are you so interesting?

I'm glad we all find this fascinating,

because water's remarkable stickiness...

If you leave, you can go straight
to the principal's office.

She's not here, but I'll
give her the message.

We don't know yet, Jack. I'm sorry.

Richie had dinner at her
house almost every night.

Why would she have
anything to do with this?

Maybe she didn't.

You know, that's exactly what
we're trying to find out.

Hilde, what are you doing
here? This isn't some story.

I know. I just... I wanted
to make sure you're okay.

Hey, uh, let 'em go, Hilde.
Come on. Let 'em go.

I meant it.

I know you did, sweetie. I know.

It's just, uh, she's going
through a lot right now.

- Hey, come on. We should get you home.
- Really?

I... I don't have to go back to school?

Well, we'll call it a mental health day.

Okay? Come on. Huh?

Dad, why would Carol change her name?

Just because she got arrested?

Yeah, maybe.

You know, maybe she
didn't like who she was.

And maybe she wanted to start over.

Press the reset button on her life.

Yeah, look, some people,

well, if they don't like
something that they did

or they don't like something
that happened to 'em,

well, they try and move on, right?

Pretend it never happened.

Kinda like you did when
you left Erie Harbor?

Yeah, yeah. Kinda like that.

Did it work out for you?

It kind of did. For a while.

What ends up happening is you
try so hard to convince yourself

that you can leave that
person behind, right?

And, uh, you end up
just lying to everyone.

Just so you can be someone else.

And then one day you end
up kinda believing it.

Maybe that's what
happened to Ms. Collins.

Yeah, but you know what?

Always catches up with
you in the end. Always.

Trust me. It caught up with me.

When we came back to town?

I think it was more around
the time when I had you.

Yeah. Yeah, you were so annoying

that you wouldn't let me get
away with anything at all.

And you would drive me crazy
all the time, asking questions.

Let's do this.

Okay. So, these are all the eyewitness
accounts from the kidnapping

in the hours leading
up to it in the news.

Okay.

And this is a rundown of Sylvester's

research organized chronologically.

And this is probably the worst
moo shu pork I've ever eaten. Ever.

Can you be helpful?

I am being helpful. Don't
eat the moo shu pork.

I don't get it. Not one
thing in all of this research

points to a woman being involved.

You're sure it was a male's
voice you heard that night?

Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure. I
wish I could forget it.

There's something that's
always bothered me.

Come on. We've watched that
video like a hundred times.

Count until the van drives away.

No! No!

Hey! Richie!

Maybe two seconds.

Not even. I don't think
the person who took him

could've gotten from the back of the van

to the driver's seat that quickly.

So, what now? The person
who took Richie is...

is not the driver?

Maybe there were two people in the van.

So, Principal Collins's mom
could've been the getaway driver.

Oh, come on. Why would Carol do it?

I... I can't think of
anyone with less of a motive.

Well, the first night out of
prison I got as far away from

Portland as I could.

I hopped this bus to this cheap motel

and, um, Carol Burnett was on the TV.

And she was funny, and she was smart.

And I just wanted to be
all those things too, so...

That was it. I decided to become Carol.

You say that like it was a fun
nickname you chose for yourself.

Look, you wanted to know what
happened, and I'm telling you.

But my biggest fear was that

my old life would
somehow touch this one.

Touch you.

That didn't work out so well, did it?

Come on. Nothing's changed.

I'm still your mom.

And you are the best thing that
I've ever done with my life.

I'm the one who's watched
you... become this smart...

and amazing tough lady boss.

I'm just in awe of the woman
that I somehow created.

Because I can see that little
girl... underneath all that,

who has such a good heart.

And I don't wanna
lose that, any of that.

You were the one that made me feel
like the world could be safe again.

And now I can't believe
that I listened to you.

Because... I don't know who you are.

- This. This is me. I...
- Ah.

You have got to believe me, honey.

Please.

I did not kill Richie Fife.

Honey.

I thought of something.

Oh, my God. You just... You
just gave me a heart attack.

- What's happening?
- Uh, Hilde just thought of something.

Oh, good.

You wanted to start over, but
you didn't change your name.

Uh, can we... can we
talk about this tomorrow?

You were basically the same person.

Ms. Collins became someone else.

I was trying to figure out
why she would want to do that,

why she would kill Richie.

And then I realized,

what if Carol didn't kill Richie,

but maybe Margaret Miller did?

It's like you said,
you lie to other people

and then you actually
start to believe it.

What if Carol doesn't have a motive,

but Margaret Miller does?

Hey, you know what? That's, uh...

That's really something, Hilde.

Are you just saying that
so you can go back to sleep?

No. No, no, no. No,
that's... that's really smart.

Thanks.

We need to find Margaret
Miller. Find out who she was.

Hey, you know what?

I've, uh...

I've got an address in Portland.

- Really?
- Uh-huh.

- Road trip?
- Tomorrow.

Tomorrow.

- All right, come on. Go back to bed.
- Okay.

All right. There we go.

It's fake.

Yeah. Well, technically, yeah.

But since I didn't include
the date and the state seal,

I think we'll be all right.

Hey, no one's gonna know.

But I know it's fake.

Yeah. Well, it's not for you.

See, this... this is for the
people who don't believe in you.

You have had this thing the whole
time as far as I'm concerned.

What? It's beautiful.

Mom.

Aw. I'm so proud of you.

You look like a soldier for truth.

Remember, it's fake.

Yeah, for now. All
right. Come on. Let's go.

- Come on.
- Let's do it.

- You got it?
- Yeah, I got it.

Uh, Matty?

Please don't go.

New York is too far.

I'll never see you.

I'll come back and visit, Pop.

Hey, come here.

Hey. Hey, it's just a day trip.

All right? I won't leave you again.

- Okay.
- Okay.

Yeah. All good.

Hey, Scout. What are you thinking about?

Pop-Pop. How sick is he?

Is he gonna die like Grandma?

Well, that's... that's how it works.

You know, people...
people get old and...

yeah, you know, they... they die.

I was really sad when Grandma died.

Yeah, me too.

It snuck up on me sometimes.

I remember.

That's kinda the order of things.

Losing your grandparents
and then losing your parents.

You know, it's kinda... kinda
the way that's supposed to go.

That's why the Richie
Fife thing was so hard.

Yeah, parents aren't
supposed to lose their child.

And a kid isn't supposed to
lose a friend either, Dad.

Yeah.

Is Matt okay?

Is this Carol thing helping
him or messing him up?

- Helping him, actually.
- Oh.

For the first time in a long
time we're not not okay.

Or at least Matt's not not okay.

So, I guess we're pretty good.

- Happy husband. What's that like?
- Yeah.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Is there anyone new
you're interested in?

It's gotta be slim pickings around here.

You are the nicest, most
well-meaning snob.

No, I just mean, you know, numbers-wise,

like, statistically speaking
because the town is small.

Do you hate this place that much?

No. No, I...

It... It's amazing in a lot of ways.

The air is clean. The rent is cheap.

Yeah, everything I get here

would cost me $8 billion in New York.

I'm actually wrapping my
mind around staying a while.

Maybe even opening an office.

With everything that's
been going on with Sam

since he went AWOL, it's...

They're transferring
him to maximum security

right while I'm trying
to prove he's innocent.

Go get 'em, snob.

All these neat little house son
all these nice little streets.

It's hard to believe that
something's wrong with

some of those little houses.

Yeah. Well, you need
to watch a movie for once

that's not All the President's Men.

I know, but it's so good.

All right. Listen up.

Okay, remember, silence is your friend.

Each new question is the
end of the last answer.

So, you gotta be patient.

Let the silence go on
till it gets awkward,

'cause that person's gonna
wanna fill the empty space, okay?

Okay?

All right. Okay, I get it. You're, uh...

Enjoying the silence.

Very good. All right.
Save it for in there.

Come on, give it a knock.

Hi, sorry to bother you.

We're here from The
Magic Hour Chronicle.

Yeah, we just wanna ask
some questions about a woman

who used to live here a long time ago.

Uh, a woman called Margaret Miller.

Uh, thank you.

So was she the one that
sold you this house?

No, Margaret is...

I guess you could say
she's my fairy godmother.

She gave me this house. I've
always wanted to thank her.

Well, any idea where she lives now?

No. I was hoping you knew.

Oh. Yeah, well, we're...
we're looking into it.

My mom and I, we, uh...

we could not have survived
without Aunt Margaret.

Aunt Margaret?

So, Margaret and your dad
were brother and sister?

Yeah. My biological dad
is Margaret's brother.

Why do you say, "biological dad"?

I guess because I never met him.

He ran off before I was born.

My mom said it was right after
he found out she was pregnant.

She didn't like to talk about him much.

There's some photos of him
and Margaret at the diner

my grandparents used to own.

I still go look at them sometimes.

I could take you guys.

There they are. That's my
dad, Zeke, and Aunt Margaret.

Margaret and Ezekiel
were inseparable as kids,

but then Ezekiel started
getting into trouble.

Some more photos over here.

Uh, so when did he disappear?

Little before I was born.

And if I could ask, uh,
w... when was your birthday?

March 14th, 1988.

Hey. That's right around
the time when Richie...

Yeah.

Um...

He left town.

What's your story about anyway?

Oh, well, we're not
exactly sure yet, right?

But we're definitely getting closer.

- Let me know if you need anything.
- Thank you.

Thank you.

That's the tattoo.

What tattoo?

That "sinner" tattoo.

The one in Pop-Pop's notes.

Sam saw it too.

Yeah. Well, maybe.

Oh, that tattoo says "saint".

Sound it out, honey.

I learned how to read upside down.

When Mom was teaching Izzy.

If he held his arms down by his sides...

people would see "sinner".

It's an ambigram.

Yeah, I got it.

Yeah, thanks, Joe. I appreciate it.

Thanks.

Do you have a source at every
police department in the country?

Twenty years at the New York Sentinel.

That didn't pay much, but yeah,
I got some pretty good contacts.

Here, look, check this out.

Ezekiel Miller's record, right?

Guy had a rap sheet like a mile long,

and they both spent time in prison.

Lead with that.

No, you lead with it.

I'm grounded, remember?

On a case-by-case
basis, you're ungrounded.

You write the article.

Dad, it's your story.

Anyway, look.

We gotta head out. You know,
your mom's gonna get worried.

Take that in the kitchen
and wash up for dinner, okay?

Hey, Izzy.

Izzy, I'm gonna need you for
some extra babysitting duties.

I'm really going back to work.
Before you roll your eyes at me,

I am prepared to pay you
because I will have money

because I will be working.

What, no snarky comments?

You all right, Iz?

You can have me full-time.

It's not like I have any friends anyway.

Iz.

Oh, man.

Izzy!

These comments on your profile...

they're really mean.

Especially the ones from Jessica.

Look, I'm gonna be real honest, I'm...

a little out of my depth here.

We didn't have all this...

open cruelty when I was growing up.

It was more of a behind your
back, quiet kind of cruelty.

So, I'm not exactly sure what the
right thing is to say. I mean...

Girls were mean and
shitty to each other,

but it wasn't amplified around the world

and immortalized until the end of time.

What'd you do?

I ignored them.

And avoided them.

And sometimes I just cried
quietly in my car like a loser.

Mom, what are you doing?

I don't cry in my car
anymore, sweetheart.

I am a lawyer, I take screen shots.

- No, Mom, please don't. I mean, it's...
- Look, I know

you don't want me to do...

You don't want me to get involved.

So, I'm not gonna do
anything with these.

But I want you to know
that I have your back.

So, if it gets worse

or you need help or you start
feeling bad about yourself,

which is insane because
you are the most amazing,

funny, smart, sarcastic,
awesome girl on the planet.

I... forgot where I was going with that.

I just...

I love you.

Oh, Ginny!

Mom, Mom! It wasn't me.

Oh, of course not.

No, it really wasn't.

Pop-Pop.

Come on.

Ezekiel seemed like a guy
that was up for a buck, right?

Like he's not a killer.

He wasn't even arrested
for anything violent.

W... What if his plan
was to hold Richie ransom,

and then something went wrong?

- Something went awry.
- Dad.

No, what... what if Ezekiel thought

that Richie was someone else? I mean...

- Dad!
- What?

Why did you quit?

You do like this.

You love it. We love it.

You, uh... You remember that
girl that disappeared in Montauk?

You know, when I wasn't home a lot?

I didn't realize until
now that all of that

was just because I never let
goof what happened to Richie.

And that's why Mom got mad at you.

When you get married,
you... you make a deal.

And that deal is that
that person is your person.

You know, you go to them
with all of your feelings.

Good and bad.

And I... I didn't do that.

No, I talked to one of my sources
instead of talking to your mom.

Hey, but not anymore.

No, no, no.

No, your mom and I...
yeah, we share everything.

No more secrets. Yeah,
that's thanks to you.

"Secrets are like
monsters under the bed".

That's what Sam said.

But I think that once
you shine a light on them,

they're actually not that scary anymore.

You're pretty much a
superhero monster slayer, kid.

Bridge! What the hell happened?

He fell. They... They
think it's a stroke.

Go with him. I'll follow
in the car with the girls.

Easy.

See you there.

Hey, guys.

Hey.

- Here.
- Hey, what did you get?

Egg salad with one bite missing.

'Cause I didn't like it.

Oh, well, thank you.
Thank you very much.

How's Pop-Pop?

It's okay. You can tell us.

Well, listen, guys. Um...

Look, your Pop-Pop's had something
called a mild ischemic stroke.

All right, and he's lost some blood flow

to a part of his brain for a little bit.

It couldn't have been too long.

We heard him fall and we
called 911, like, almost...

Hey, Iz. Iz, no, no, no, no, no.

Look, you... you saved his life.

Yeah, 'cause, uh, you know, the doctors,

they think he's going to be okay.

Will he remember us now?

I don't know, sweetie.

Are you sure you don't want us to stay?

No, no, no. You guys, uh... You
guys head off. Get some sleep.

- I'll grab some stuff for you.
- All right. Thanks.

Come on.

All right, see you later, guys.

See you later.

Bye-bye.

I'll write the article for us.

I'll take care of you, so
you can take care of him.

I love you, Pop-Pop.

Night.

- Good night.
- Good night, Mom.

How long are you going to be typing?

You might want to put in earplugs.

The Chronicle has uncovered that

our very own school
librarian, Carol Collins,

has an unlikely criminal past.

Her real name is Margaret Miller,

and she was part of a
car-theft ring in Portland

with her younger brother, Ezekiel
Miller, back in the 1970s.

She got an early release
for good behavior

and changed her name to Carol
when she moved to Erie Harbor.

That's where she married Roger
Collins and had her daughter,

Erie Harbor's school
principal, Kim Collins.

Margaret Miller's brother, Ezekiel,

was released from
prison about six months

before Richie Fife was abducted.

Ezekiel has a distinguishing tattoo

on his arm that reads "sinner".

And multiple sources confirmed
seeing a man with that tattoo

around the time Richie went missing.

DNA tests on Richie Fife's jacket

revealed Margaret Miller's blood.

The jacket remains
inadmissible in court.

As of the time of publication,

there is still no conclusive evidence

tying Margaret or her brother, Ezekiel,

to Richie Fife's disappearance.

You read it yet?

Why don't you want to know the truth?

Thirty-one years ago, we
buried an empty coffin,

and I've been wondering
about your brother's

final moments every day since.

What if we find out
what happened to him,

and it's worse than we thought?

I'm sorry.

Shit.

Yeah, uh, hello?

It's about the article.

About this picture.

The day Richie Fife was taken...

for me...

it was different.

I woke up after a few
days in the hospital,

and I didn't remember anything.

Until I saw Hilde's article today.

Well, you think he could be a witness?

That would officially place
Ezekiel Miller in Erie Harbor

on the day Richie was taken.

- Yeah.
- Yeah? Okay. That's good.

Look, uh, I-I gotta
make some calls, but...

Thank you. Appreciate it.

She went home sick.

All right, thank you.

Hey, Chris. Yeah, it's Matt.

Listen, I... I think
I got something for you.

Can I see it?

He got one too.

I wonder if he still has his.

- Hey.
- Hey.

I'm, uh, glad you came.

Yeah, me too.

Hey. Will, uh... Will you sit down?

Please, Kim.

All right, look, um...

Sipple is saying that

he saw your uncle here in Erie Harbor.

He is also saying that he
ran him off the road too.

God.

Look, it's only a matter of time

before we connect him to
what happened to Richie.

And your mother too.

Look, I ju... I just wanted you to know.

So you could be prepared.

Sipple, he's, uh... he's
saying he's gonna testify.

Jesus, Matt. What am I
supposed to do with all of this?

Well, maybe you could help.

Talk your mother into confessing.

Get her to tell all of
us what really happened.

So choose between you and my mother?

No, just... just tell the truth.

You know, the way
things are going this...

this isn't gonna end well for her.

Agent Adkins is already trying to

figure out what to charge her on. So...

So, no choice really.

I wish you'd never come back.

You got this.

Perfect. Now watch me one more
time. That's the intro. Ready?

♪ I'll never be the same ♪

♪ Stars have lost their meaning to me ♪

♪ Never be the same ♪

♪ Nothing's what it once used to be ♪

♪ And every songbird that sings ♪

♪ Tells me it's spring ♪

♪ And I don't believe their song ♪

♪ Once love was king ♪

♪ Kings can be wrong ♪

Kim.

Where are you going? Kimmy!

Kimmy, I get why you're upset.

There was one thing that always

bothered me about that night.

For 31 years my brain hasn't
been able to let it go.

The night Richie disappeared,

Matt came banging on our door,

and I followed him back to the overpass.

So, I'd been, you know, over
the same section of road twice

before the search party even started.

But when I circled back with you...

suddenly it was there.

As if you knew it was there.

Or you put it there.

- Richie!
- Richie!

Oh, honey.

- Hello!
- Richie!

- Richie!
- Richie!

What I can't figure out is why.

The only thing I can come up with is

maybe you thought if you were
the one to give them the evidence,

that they'd never suspect you.

Let's run away.

I know how to start over.

That's not gonna happen.

Kim.

Kim!

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