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[helicopter whirring]

[siren wailing]

[police radio chatter]

[tires screech]

Is that my daughter?

- Is that Lana? - Please stand back, sir.

Let him through.

[breathing heavily]

Is that Lana, Mr. Russo?

Tha... that's not her.

That's... that's her friend, Jamie.

Have you found Lana?

No. No, not yet.

But we're dredging the river. We'll keep searching.

[♪ tense music playing]

- [Gavin] Colter Shaw? - Yeah.

Gavin Russo.

- Please come on in. - Thanks.

- Can I get you something? - No, thank you.

That's my daughter, Lana.

Three years ago,

her and her best friend, Jamie, left school.

They were supposed to walk home,

but instead, they disappeared.

They found Jamie, right?

Yeah.

Her body washed up from the river three days later.

Drowning was the cause of death,

but they never found Lana.

The police said that they would never stop looking,

but eventually, they did.

[sighs] What'd they tell you?

That my daughter was at the bottom of the river.

That she probably died alongside her friend,

that they hurt themselves,

but they never found a trace.

You said "hurt themselves," like some kind of pact?

Yeah. They... they found the girls' backpacks with a... a note.

And what did the note say?

"So much pain" and "I want to die."

But Lana would never kill herself.

I know her.

After her mother passed,

it was just the two of us, and we were very close.

If she was upset

or had an emotional crisis,

I believe she would have come to me.

And what about Jamie's parents?

Well, they just seemed to accept it.

What do you think happened to your daughter?

Not what the police said.

I mean, I... I could never believe that...

Jamie, I don't know, but not Lana.

And I just can't, as a... as a father...

I could just never get over the feeling

that she was out there somewhere.

You're offering a $30,000 reward that you just posted online.

I don't wanna give you false hope. It's been three years.

The odds are not great.

You're asking someone to find your daughter's body...

What if I told you that I have proof that she's still alive?

What kind of proof?

That's her. That's my daughter.

This was taken two weeks ago at the county fair.

See? All the way in the back.

You sure that's her?

Her hair is different, and she's a little thinner,

but I know my daughter's eyes.

I know her face.

That's her.

Did you run facial recognition on the photo?

Doing it as we speak.

The photo is too grainy.

I need a higher resolution photo or a better app.

You could track down the photographer.

Already did that.

Called and left a message. Waiting to hear back.

[Velma] If Lana's alive,

why hasn't she come home or checked in?

[Colter] Her father thinks maybe someone's after her.

She's staying away to protect him.

He got the idea from a documentary

- he saw about another missing kid. - Oh!

I think he's just trying to make sense of it.

This is why I don't like the cold cases.

You didn't see his face when he was talking about her.

I think, at the very least, maybe I can give him some closure.

I'll let you know.

You think that could be Lana Russo?

Mr. Shaw, I would love to say that this was her,

but I think you're chasing ghosts.

I understand she's been presumed dead and her case is closed.

Not officially,

but with budget cuts, we just can't put resources into it.

Look,

Gavin kept coming in here with half-baked ideas and possible sightings,

and we checked out every lead,

but none of them ever panned out.

[knock on door]

Yeah, thanks. Just put it on the table.

Thank you.

Gavin's convinced she didn't commit suicide.

Maybe it was an accident or something impulsive,

but Gavin is in denial.

Look, I have kids. I would be, too.

What he's been through is unimaginable.

Don't... Don't get me wrong, okay?

I am not opposed to you investigating this.

This is one of those cases that has haunted me.

And there are days when I'm having my coffee,

and, I don't know, her... her face comes to me.

And then, before you know it, I'm out driving by the river

where we found the other girl as if it happened yesterday.

I'm not here to cast blame.

I know. I know.

And the truth is is that I am happy to share the burden.

And if you find anything,

well, hell, there's no reward big enough for that.

I wouldn't mind taking a look at that note they left.

Yeah.

Let's see.

Oh, here it is.

And then there's the journal we found in Lana's backpack

and the entry made on the day they went missing.

Lot of that kind of stuff in there.

Gavin said she was into horror and the supernatural.

Teen angst, right? Not depression.

No, this wasn't teenage angst.

At least not the way I remember it.

Big emotions, listening to the Smiths.

I mean, these girls were "troubled,"

I guess, is what you could call it.

What do you mean?

We interviewed all her classmates and the teachers,

and Lana and her friends were considered, you know, kind of weird.

You remember how it is.

The social outcasts of the school.

I was, uh, homeschooled, actually.

You're... one of those snowflakes.

No, not that kind of homesch... um...

If you wanna know how to build an off-the-grid power generator,

or say, calculate the drop

on 165-grain seven mm round at 500 yards,

I'm your guy.

It sounds like useful knowledge.

It can be.

Now, these girls were different.

They dressed mainly in black.

They were into dark things.

There were a lot of rumors about them and some of the other students.

That's why nobody was really shocked when this went down.

Dark things? Like what?

Paranormal activity,

murder podcasts, the spirit world.

They were obsessed with Harkwood.

It's an old abandoned mental hospital.

They posted a couple of videos online.

Creepy stuff.

Like I said, these girls were kind of messed up.

How far is the hospital away from the river where the body was found?

Less than a mile.

You still have those videos they made?

Yeah.

I'm kind of freaking out right now.

A couple weeks ago, I read about the Harkwood Witch.

She's the ghost of a lady named Ada Bram,

who was in and out of the mental hospital.

[breath trembling]

They say once you know about the Harkwood Witch...

...she finds you.

So, what do you think?

I think I missed out

on meeting a lot of interesting people being home schooled.

[chuckles] Maybe you did.

You say they were obsessed with Harkwood.

Mind if we go by and check it out?

[♪ ominous music playing]

Welcome to Harkwood. Shall we?

I don't know why we bother with the lock and key for this place.

The property is so big, it's hard to keep it locked down.

What exactly are you looking for?

Trying to get a picture of Lana's state of mind before she disappeared.

You say there are no videos of her ever being here,

like the ones you found in her bedroom?

Not that I ever saw.

Right.

Ready, Homeschool?

There's something about this place that draws people,

a dark energy.

You afraid of ghosts?

Nah. Too much of a cynic.

Besides, with all the bad people in the world,

who has time for ghosts?

I hear you.

There's no shortage of sketchy types here.

We have drug addicts, vagabonds,

and all sorts of scum.

Have to run them off every so often.

So then, if Lana did come here on the day of her disappearance,

there's a chance she ran into someone.

Mmm, possible, but I wouldn't bet on it.

We interviewed all the people

we picked up around here at the time.

[phone buzzing]

Yeah.

All right, I'm coming. I gotta go deal with this.

If you find any ghosts, you know where to find me.

[chuckles] Yeah, okay.

[door closes]

[phone vibrates]

[clears throat]

- Hello? - [man] Colter Shaw?

I'm the photographer with The Bugle.

You left me a message?

Thanks for calling me back.

Of course. I may have what you're looking for.

The photographer said these three photos were taken seconds apart.

The middle one was the one that was published.

Resolution's much better.

Isolate her.

Now pull up her old photo.

You can go ahead and run it.

[program beeping]

[affirmative beep]

[♪ ominous music playing]

She's alive.

All right, Detective Brock is putting a BOLO

and canvassing all the vendors from the county fair.

I knew that was her.

Look right here. She's looking right at the camera.

It's like she wants to be seen.

Maybe she needs help.

[Colter] She went to the blood drive booth.

It's a good place to go for assistance.

None of this makes any sense.

What is she even doing at the county fair?

I don't know.

Doesn't look like she's being held against her will.

And then in this one right here, she looks scared.

She might be in a fugue state.

When someone doesn't know who they are,

usually triggered by a traumatic event.

Maybe if she saw Jamie go in the water and she couldn't help her?

That might do it.

People react all sorts of ways to traumatic events.

Did you know all of her friends?

To be honest, there was really only Jamie.

The rest were just acquaintances in the film club.

You have any names? I'm thinking maybe she reached out to someone.

All right. Where is it?

Here it is. There's the film club.

[Colter] Mmm-hmm.

Did she like anybody?

Not that she mentioned.

But then again, that's not the sort of thing

a 16-year-old discusses with her dad.

Hmm.

Who's Tobias Calhoun?

She looked at these two pages quite a bit.

He's the only student on both pages,

and he also happens to be in the film club.

That's Toby.

He was her ninth grade biology partner,

but, uh, I think she found him annoying.

Did you hear from him after she disappeared?

No, I heard that he dropped out of school six months after she...

Any idea where he might be now?

I saw he's working at a bakery in the next town over.

Lana? No. She hasn't called me.

- You sure that's really her? - Yep.

Were you guys friends?

Uh, yeah, we were in film club,

liked the same horror movies.

- You guys ever hang out? - Define "hang out."

Well, when you were together, what would you do?

Look, I already talked to the cops.

I wasn't even in school the week they disappeared.

Hey, you're not in trouble or anything like that.

I'm just trying to get a sense of who Lana is.

She made these paranormal activity videos.

- You ever work on them together? - A few times, yeah.

I told the cops what I thought.

Which was?

So the girls didn't kill themselves just 'cause they were, like, depressed.

I tried explaining that the note could have just been EVP.

That's, uh, electronic voice phenomena.

The page was from Lana's notebook,

where she would record messages from the spirits

when we were filming, so...

What exactly do you think happened?

Nah, you're gonna laugh at me.

No, come on. Try me.

Um, I got this when we were trying to film at Harkwood.

- That old mental hospital? - Yeah.

One minute we're filming,

the next, I feel a sharp pain, and I'm bleeding.

Without a doubt, no one's going to believe me,

but, um, we encountered a presence there.

A presence? Like, a person?

No.

When was the last time you were at Harkwood with Lana?

Uh, maybe a week before Lana and Jamie disappeared.

And then I stopped, never went back.

Why?

Because of the Harkwood Witch.

I think she got Lana and Jamie.

She got into their heads somehow, made them kill themselves.

And you think she was trying to do the same thing to you?

I told the cops everything.

They just looked at me like I was crazy.

But I'm not.

No, I... I think when someone believes in something strongly,

it can be very powerful.

- I'm not making this up, man. - I didn't say that you were.

Lana was there when you sensed this presence?

Yeah.

You still have those videos that you made from Harkwood?

I don't know how relevant Toby's last video is

if it was from the week before the girls disappeared.

Just trying to start at the beginning of the timeline

from when things started to get strange.

And that something is a presence?

A witch.

Okie-dokie.

How are you in canvassing the vendors from the county fair?

I just got the full list.

Trying to figure out who was nearby.

But neither the blood donor booth

or the crystal jewelry vendor in the photo remember seeing Lana.

Maybe there's something in the video.

You wanna play it?

[Toby] Okay, uh, we're in a patient wing now,

and I can say it feels really cold in here.

[Lana] EMF meter's picking something up.

We are definitely in the presence of spirits.

Oh, my God, look.

Ada Bram, the Harkwood Witch,

always wore a piece of red string around her wrist

when she was a patient here.

[Toby] Don't touch it. Are you crazy?

The meter's off the chart.

[Toby] This is getting so sketch. We should just get out of here.

Come on, Toby. Thought you were here for this.

[Toby] Holy crap. Did you guys see that?

Something's definitely here.

No! No! No! God!

- Hey, you okay? - I don't know.

I think something bit me. Oh, I'm bleeding.

What happened?

Can yo do me a favor?

Can you rewind that to when the camera fell?

- [Lana] You okay? - [Toby] I don't know. Oh, I think...

- Pause right there. - [Lana] What happened?

Go back a few frames. Right there.

Zoom in. That right there.

That's a thermal heat signature.

A witch has a thermal signature?

A witch is a human.

Someone was watching them.

All the patients' rooms were either in the east or west wings.

[sighs] I'll take the west.

Okay, let's do this.

[♪ tense music playing]

[water dripping]

[♪ tense music playing]

[lock clicking]

Hey!

[♪ tense music intensifies]

Stop!

Hey, stop right there.

[grunting]

Get over here. Come on.

Who the hell are you?

Have you seen these kids before?

We have your record.

Richard McBroom.

Picked you up for shoplifting a couple times.

You lived over at the hospital off and on for five years.

We kick you out, you move back in.

Did you do something to these two girls?

Go buy me a sandwich and a soda, please.

Sometimes, when someone's stonewalling, a little food helps.

Hmm.

Maybe I should talk to him.

Not exactly legal.

And you really think he's gonna open up

to the guy who just took him down?

[scoffs]

All right. Look,

I'll take you in there with me,

but just to keep it above board,

you are now a consultant for the Aurora PD.

Whatever it takes.

Thought you might be hungry. Hmm?

This is Colter Shaw. He's helping us.

Hi.

You can go ahead and eat. It's okay.

You live at the hospital?

Sometimes.

It's peaceful there.

Most people are scared of the ghosts. I'm not.

But people do go there to see ghosts, right?

Like these kids here?

I saw them with their camera and stuff,

but I didn't do nothing.

- Just watched them. - I believe you.

I don't think you did anything bad.

But maybe you saw something?

Take a good look at these two girls right here, okay?

Now, remember back to March 10th, three years ago.

The weather was really bad that day.

One of these girls is dead, and the other one is still missing.

I didn't see her. But I saw this girl.

I remember 'cause my sleeping area was flooding,

and I had to pack up and go.

And where'd you see her?

In the woods outside the hospital.

Near the river.

She was kind of far, so I'm not 100%.

But I'm pretty sure it was her.

She had on a yellow raincoat,

but it was way too big for her.

- Was she alone? - No.

Someone was with her.

In a black raincoat with a hood.

No way.

I couldn't see his face.

He was taking her away.

Wanna tell me what's going on?

Just... just give me a minute, okay? It might be nothing.

It doesn't seem like nothing.

An old case about ten years back.

It wasn't mine, but a teenage boy was kidnapped, murdered.

They found him buried in a shallow grave.

His body was wrapped in a yellow raincoat.

It's just got to be a coincidence.

The killer, Errol Price, was caught, he confessed.

He's been in the state pen for the last five years.

What if it's not a coincidence?

[♪ ominous music playing]

To the family of Anthony Farley,

I want to sincerely apologize

for the pain and suffering I have caused you.

I succumbed to an evil inside of me.

But the good Lord

has shown me the error of my ways.

I will now dedicate the rest of my life to repenting.

I would gladly trade my life for Anthony's.

That... That's all I have to say.

You did well, Errol.

He says he's repentant, but he's refused to meet with any cops.

And he hasn't explained the significance of the yellow raincoat

he buried the little boy in.

I put in a request to visit.

Said I was also remorseful about a crime.

That maybe he could help me.

- See if I can get him to talk. - You may be wasting your time.

You don't believe that, do you?

Wanna grab a cup of coffee?

So he was pretty upset the fourth time I missed

our son's baseball game, and rightly so.

Lana had been missing a year,

but I felt compelled

to follow up on some clue Gavin had.

And ended up right back here where we found Jamie's body.

Next day, my husband filed for divorce.

- I'm sorry. - No.

It's part of the job, I guess.

Every detective I know is either single

or on their third or fourth marriage.

You have any cases you can't quit?

One.

From when I first started this job.

And...

the death of my father.

He died in a fall and it was ruled an accident.

I'm not so sure about that.

I've had questions about my family for years.

Just like me and Lana.

You should look at this. It's Errol Price's file.

There are similarities to Lana's case that just... bother me.

I don't believe in the supernatural,

but if ever there were a case to make me reconsider, this is it.

There's a dark energy at Harkwood.

Maybe it touches people that have a connection.

Or it's just an ordinary building

and people who are prone to dark thoughts are delusional about it.

[phone chimes]

Errol's agreed to see me.

[indistinct radio chatter]

[♪ tense music playing]

Mr. Shaw, pleasure to meet you.

I appreciate you seeing me.

You said you're also remorseful about a crime?

I let my father's killer go free,

which sort of led me to my work in a way.

I'm here because I need information.

[scoffs]

About?

Something you've refused to talk about in the past.

You buried your victim in a yellow raincoat.

Why?

That's a very personal question.

There's a missing girl I'm looking for.

She was last seen wearing a yellow raincoat

while she was being taken away.

It's not a rare item.

It's a bit like saying she was taken away

wearing brown boots or a pink hat.

I don't think my reason will help you.

Humor me.

I'm sparing you the quotidian.

This girl needs all the help she can get.

We're all in need, Mr. Shaw.

Including you.

You co-operate,

preferential treatment around here.

Some advantages.

What do you think?

[sighs]

All right, then.

[clears throat]

When I was a child and the weather was bad,

my father would have me wear a yellow raincoat

to go out with him to chop wood.

Or so he told my mother.

What he really did was take me out to the shed,

where he did unspeakable things to me.

And you did the same to your victim?

I did as I was taught.

I read your police report.

When you were arrested, you said,

"We will be avenged."

What did you mean by "we"?

Well, obviously, myself.

And Astaroth.

A demon

that was living inside of me for a while,

but I've since banished him.

When the police searched your home, they found a box.

- Hmm. - Inside the box,

was a teddy bear and some toys.

It was labeled, "Mr. Vic Perema." Who is that?

One of the previous tenants, I think.

He didn't leave a forwarding address,

and I didn't want to throw his things out in case he came back.

Not your partner in crime?

No.

I worked alone, Mr. Shaw.

With Astaroth,

the demon thing?

Yes, the demon.

I can see you don't believe in such things.

It's a pity

because it's the ignorance that you pay for in the end.

Now, if you'll excuse me,

I need to prepare for my Bible study class.

[door opens and closes]

Hey, I just got off the phone with Errol Price's old landlord.

There was never a tenant named Vic Perema.

He's lying. He knows who it is.

So you think there was an accomplice?

There's good chance.

I thought Errol Price was repentant.

I'm not buying it. He's protecting his partner.

I mean, do you think the accomplice grabbed Lana?

He didn't ask me any questions about her.

He wasn't curious at all, which is very suspicious.

Then he ended the conversation really quickly

once I brought up a partner.

All right, well, we'll run Vic Perema's name

through NCIC and see if we get a hit.

Could you check his mail and phone records from the prison?

- See if they've been in contact? - Already on it.

Let me go talk to the sister, see if she knows anything.

- Can I help you? - Are you Mave Price?

I am. What can I help you with?

I have a couple questions I wanna ask you

about your brother, Errol.

I don't do interviews and I don't want to be in a documentary,

- so if you'll excuse me... - It's nothing like that.

I just... I have a couple of questions.

I'm looking for a missing girl.

I won't take up too much of your time. I promise.

Okay. Come on in.

Thank you.

- Please. - Thanks.

I'm sorry if I was curt when I answered the door.

That's okay. I'm sure you get a lot of requests.

[chuckles] You have no idea.

Crime shows, podcasts, journalists,

you name it, they've come to my door.

I had one strange man ask me

if he could take dirt from the flowerbed.

Hmm.

I'm sure it's not easy being the sister of Errol Price.

No, it's not.

Most people stopped talking to me.

The ones that didn't, well,

it wasn't very Christian, what they had to say.

I finally had to move. I couldn't take it anymore.

You have no idea what it's like

to have to answer for the sins of your family.

Actually, I do.

The Lord tests all of us

in ways we'll never understand.

You said a girl is missing.

Lana Russo disappeared three years ago when she was 16.

Her father hired me to help find her.

My brother couldn't have been involved.

He's been locked up for five years now.

I understand. Um...

Does the name Vic Perema mean anything to you?

Can't say it rings a bell. Why do you ask?

Well, I think your brother might have had an accomplice or a friend.

[chuckles] Friends.

Errol didn't have any.

He's always been a loner.

[steam hissing]

I forgot I put the kettle on.

I was gonna make some tea. Do you mind?

No.

Chamomile or Earl Grey?

Earl Grey is fine.

[♪ tense music playing]

[♪ ominous music playing]

[Mave] I put a little honey in mine. You?

Honey's great. Thanks.

Mind if I use your restroom?

It's down the hall on the right.

I hope you like lemon cookies.

It's all I have.

How do you know about Vic Perema?

Vic Perema is an anagram for Mave Price.

Hey!

[♪ dramatic music playing]

[♪ ominous music playing]

[♪ ominous music continues]

- [electricity crackling] - [grunting]

- [coughing] - [Mave screaming]

I'm gonna kill you!

- [thud] - [grunting]

Lana Russo?

[sniffles]

Who are you?

I'm Colter Shaw.

Your dad hired me to find you.

I'm here to take you home.

[sobbing]

[siren chirps]

[♪ indie song playing, Beck, "Turn Away"]

♪ Turn ♪

♪ Turn away ♪

Dad! [sobbing]

♪ From the sound of your own voice ♪

♪ Calling no one ♪

♪ Just a silence ♪

♪ Run to see you at the edge... ♪

[Gavin] I still don't know how to thank you.

The reward just doesn't seem like it's enough.

It's plenty.

I still don't know how you found me.

You can thank your father.

He never stopped believing you were alive.

- [door opens] - [Toby] Lana.

♪ Hold the light... ♪

Toby?

♪ That fixes you in time... ♪

It's good to see you.

[Toby] Oh, my God. [chuckles]

[Gavin] I think she's gonna be okay.

It's gonna take some time, though.

She's lucky to have you.

♪ Takes you over ♪

♪ The wall that love divides ♪

♪ Between waking and slumber ♪

Well, Mave Price was talking until her lawyer showed up.

She and Errol both liked to visit Harkwood.

Felt a kinship to the place.

That's where she first saw the girls. So she stalked them.

Used their interest in the Harkwood Witch

to lure them with the red string bracelet.

And a week later, she's got them both at gunpoint down by the bridge.

She pushed Jamie in the river.

And she grabbed Lana.

Then kept her for three years.

And then, couple weeks ago, the city needed to inspect her house.

She was afraid they were gonna see Lana.

So she tied her up, put her in the back of the van,

and took her to work that day.

Which just so happened to be the blood drive tent at the county fair.

Yeah, Lana managed to escape the van,

and that's when the photo was taken.

She was too weak.

She couldn't get very far before Mave grabbed her again.

So did Mave do this for herself, or for her brother?

It's hard to say.

They're both so twisted from their childhood.

They both wanted a proxy to hold on to and torture,

just like their father abused them.

And it explains why Lana is still alive.

Yeah, I think I owe Gavin an apology.

I think you came to a logical conclusion

based on the evidence you had.

Well, I am grateful to have this case behind me.

And I hope you find some answers about your family.

Me too.

I'm gonna head in. You coming?

No, I'm gonna hit the road.

Safe travels, Homeschool.

[♪ song continues playing]