Echo Valley (2025) Movie Script
1
[breathes deeply]
[exhales deeply]
[inhales deeply]
[exhales deeply]
Good morning, sweetheart.
I had to leave super early this
morning to drop off some saddles.
I hope I didn't wake you.
Could you take the horses out
if it stopped raining?
I'll be back home in about an hour.
Come on. [clicks tongue] Let's go.
[horse snorts]
[Patty] I was thinking,
let's stay home this weekend, huh?
Catch up on that to-do list
we keep putting off?
I promise I'll fix that
crack in the bedroom ceiling.
[grunts]
[grunts]
[panting]
[Patty] Hey, I just wanted to
say sorry about last night.
I was just drunk and being insensitive.
Anyway, I'm back home in half an hour
and I'm going to shower you
with kisses until you forgive me.
- [taps shoulder] Kate. I'm sorry.
- [gasps] Oh.
- I-I didn't mean to scare you.
- No. Sorry.
Let me just, uh, take out my
What's the verdict?
You wanna come and have a look with me?
I don't know. Do I?
[chuckles] Okay. Come on, Coop.
[contractor] You see the dips?
Those rafters could collapse any day now.
Then you've got a real mess on your hands.
[Kate] How much to replace it?
[contractor] Well, if you stick with the
shingles, you're looking at around $9,000.
Okay, let me think on it
and I'll get back to you.
[contractor] Ah, no rush.
[doorbell rings]
- Morning, Kate.
- [Kate] Hi.
Hannah, why are you not dressed?
[sighs] Could you be a little polite
and say hi to Kate?
Hi, Kate.
Hi, sweetheart.
Richard, honey, Kate's here again.
[Richard] I'm back in my office.
Sorry, I gotta get this little one ready.
- Do you wanna just go on in?
- Yeah, of course. Thank you.
Come on, sweetie. We got to hustle.
I'm coming, I'm coming. Geez, Mom.
- Good morning.
- Hey.
Come in.
Ah, I'm trying to find a brief.
I hired a new assistant,
and it's not working out.
I don't know where the hell anything is.
Oh.
Please, sit.
Thanks.
Yeah, this is good.
[Kate sighs]
[Richard sighs]
So, your message said you needed
to discuss the roof. Is that right?
Yeah, um
Randy came out to take a look
and unfortunately, we need a new one.
- [chuckles] Well, not surprised.
- I know. I know.
I thought that we had two years,
- you know, at least.
- How much?
How much?
9,000.
9,000. This is turning into a bad joke.
No, but it's guaranteed to last ten years.
He said at least ten years.
You know,
I ran into Kathy Dumont at the club.
She said you'd canceled her daughter's
riding lessons for the past six months.
Hilary Stafford told me the same thing.
Look, I'm sorry you lost Patty,
but I can't continue to pour money
into a failing business,
especially 'cause
we're not married anymore.
And I never wanted that farm
in the first place.
If you can't make it work,
you're gonna have to sell it.
[partner] Bye, Richard.
[Hannah] Bye, Dad.
Bye. Nice to see you guys.
- [Richard] Have fun.
- I'm late. Let's go.
[door closes]
[pen scribbling]
Thanks.
I'm guessing you
haven't heard from Claire.
She showed up here last week.
Three o'clock in the morning
and she's pounding on the front door.
What did she want? I me--
What does she always want? Money.
And it doesn't help that you
continue to give her anything she wants.
She's our daughter, Richard.
- What--
- We made promises
when we sat down with the counselor,
do you remember?
- We both made pledges not to enable--
- Yes. You know I tried.
- You know I tried--
- You never tried, Kate.
She'll show up and give you that smile and
you'll gladly pretend everything is fine.
It's not fine. Our daughter is very sick.
[horse snorts]
[car approaching]
[Cooper barking]
[panting]
He only barks when you come home.
Are you feeding him enough?
- He's about to eat my hand off.
- Stop it. Come on, he's fine.
Oh, I missed you so much.
I missed you more.
What is going on with your hair, Mom?
Oh, I could ask you the same thing.
Okay, well, I'm gonna call
and make you an appointment.
You really need to start
taking care of yourself again.
Why didn't you call me back?
It's a long story.
Speaking of, can I, um,
have your iPad so I can check my messages?
Okay. Where were you?
Uh, a couple of Ryan's friends
rented a house down in Dewey Beach.
You didn't get my messages?
No, my phone died.
W-We just bought it.
- It broke already?
- Ryan threw it into the ocean
like a Hail Mary pass. Like [whooshes]
Splash. Fish food.
Why did he do that?
'Cause he is a fuckface.
Don't worry, I got him back.
Before I left, I went into his closet,
and I gathered up all his shit
and I threw it over the 21st bridge.
He is probably freaking
the fuck out right now.
Oh, my God. He totally is.
[laughs] Mission accomplished.
[Claire laughing]
Oh, Claire, come on.
Well, that's what happens
when you send dick pics to skanks
in front of your girlfriend.
Maybe you should break up with him.
Oh, I am going. Sprinting.
But first, I need
I need a phone, so can we go to Verizon?
Um, yeah, let me put
the horses in and we can then ride over.
You hungry? You want a grilled cheese?
[Claire] I am starving.
So, uh
are you feeling good?
[chuckles]
I'm clean, Mom. I'm good.
So happy you're here.
[Claire] Are you getting jealous?
Are you getting jealous?
[chuckles]
You wanna go for a swim tomorrow
down at Marsh Lake?
It'll be good for you.
Yeah, well, we'll see.
Remember when I was little, and I was
convinced a ghost lived in the lake?
Yes, of course I remember that.
You called her Ariel, right?
- No, Aurora. [laughs]
- Aurora.
The ghost of Marsh Creek Lake.
Ooh, so scary.
[both laughing]
[pounding on door]
No, I got it.
[pounding continues]
Where's my stuff?
Oh, my God. What happened to your face?
Stop fucking around, Claire.
I know you took it.
Ryan, I don't know
what you're talking about.
Do you have any idea how much fucking
trouble I'm in right now because of you?
There was a half a fucking kilo in my bag.
Well, I told Jackie that you stole it.
- So if you don't give it back
- What?
- You told Jackie?
- he's gonna come looking for you.
[Claire] Ryan,
what the fuck is the matter with you?
Why the fuck would you do that to me?
[Ryan] Because I'm fucking scared,
that's why.
- You know what Jackie's like.
- Ryan, do not tell him where I live.
Do not tell Jackie where I fucking live!
Hey.
Hey, everything okay here?
I'm going out.
Go where?
Where are you going?
[car starts, departs]
[clattering]
- Honey? You okay?
- [knocks on door]
Claire?
- Claire? Claire?
- Mmm?
Claire.
[sighs] Stand up for me.
Come on, stand up for me.
There you go.
Okay. There you go.
[chattering]
[laughter]
[sighs]
Claire.
[sighs]
Honey, I need to talk to you
about last night.
[inhales deeply] I'm gonna go take a dip.
[Kate] You can't keep avoiding this.
[beachgoer] Okay.
Trip number 15.
I think my arms are gonna fall off.
I remember those days. [chuckles]
Tell me it gets easier.
Oh, God, no. Just you wait.
I'm just kidding.
Every day is a gift.
[child crying]
[child laughing]
Okay, do you guys want me to
do a front flip or a backflip?
[both] Backflip!
[Claire] You guys have to promise me
you're not gonna try this.
You have to pinkie promise, okay?
Let me see all of you.
- We pinkie promise.
- [Claire] That's not a pinkie!
- Yes it is.
- Now, go!
Okay!
- Three, two, one.
- [Kate laughs]
[sighs]
- Hey.
- [Kate] Hey.
You know, an ad popped up
on my computer the other day
from Chester Community College.
Mom, an ad doesn't just
pop up on your computer.
It's there 'cause you searched for it.
Well, it doesn't matter how it got there.
What matters is that they
offer creative writing classes.
Why does that matter?
Well, because you should
think about going back to school.
- [Claire sighs]
- And you're a great writer.
What have I written that makes
you think I'm such a great writer?
That short story you wrote
about the mother
who loses her child at the zoo.
What do you think it was about, huh?
I think that, for me
it was about regret.
That's not what I intended it to be about.
So I guess it was a failure,
just like the rest of my life.
You know, I hate it
when you say things like that.
[sighs, blows bubbles]
[person] Hello, sweetheart.
How you doing?
I didn't realize you grew up
all the way out here.
Man, horses and green grass
It's beautiful.
Just like you.
[chuckles]
How'd you find me out here, Jackie?
Hey.
Come on.
Man. [sighs]
You know, for the life of me
I do not understand what you see in him,
'cause I see the way you look at me.
I don't I don't look
at you any way, Jackie.
No?
No.
Where's my shit?
I, uh I-I-I don't I don't have it.
You don't have it?
I-I threw it away
by mistake and I'm sorry.
I didn't know
your shit was inside, Jackie.
- I didn't know.
- Fucking dumb bitch.
[Jackie] The fuck's wrong with you?
What'd you fucking do?
[Claire grunts]
[crying]
- Hey! Leave her alone.
- [Claire grunting, coughing]
What?
Huh? What'd you say?
- What?
- [Claire sobbing]
[Ryan grunting, screaming]
[groans] Fuck!
- [Ryan screaming]
- [Claire coughing]
[Ryan] Fuck!
- [Jackie] Where you going? Come here.
- Jackie. [grunts]
[Jackie] Come here.
- Come here. What? What?
- [Claire panting]
No, no, it's okay.
Sorry, I didn't mean to hit you that hard.
Just breathe.
You just gotta breathe nice and slow.
Breathe nice and slow. You're all right.
[Claire coughing, panting]
[barking]
[Claire continues coughing, wheezing]
[Kate] Hey! Get away from her!
Get the hell off of her.
You okay?
Come on.
[Claire coughing, wheezing]
What's going on here?
I'm really sorry, Ms. Garretson.
Hey, you must be Claire's mom.
I was just commentating on
how beautiful it is out here.
- The horses--
- Who are you?
[laughs]
I'm a close friend of your daughter's.
Unfortunately, she
Look, she betrayed my trust, and she took
something that didn't belong to her--
She didn't steal it.
- She threw it away.
- Shut up. Shut up. Shut up.
And it's put me in a very
bad spot with some people
I'd prefer not to be in a bad spot with.
[Claire]
Stay away from him, Mom! He's crazy!
Claire, why would you say that
- about a close friend?
- Hey, hey, hey!
- [Claire] He's not my friend, Mom!
- You need to leave or I'm
I'm gonna call the police.
Okay, but just so we're all clear,
your junkie daughter has two choices.
Give it back, or she can pay me my money.
Get out of here.
Come on.
You fucking
Bye, Claire!
[car engine starts]
Who the hell was that?
Remember when I said I threw
Ryan's stuff off the bridge?
- Well, there was something inside.
- Oh, you mean there were drugs inside.
I-I didn't know it then, Mom.
Honestly, I didn't know
when I threw it over.
That man knows where we live now, Claire.
What if he comes back?
- He won't.
- No, you don't know that.
Okay, I won't let him, Mom.
[door opens, closes]
[music playing on radio]
- [car engine turns off]
- [music stops]
[Kate sighs]
Goddamn it, Claire.
[sighs]
Really?
[Claire] Mom.
Mom, let me explain.
Mom.
Mom.
Mom!
What's he doing here?
I thought you were running.
Ryan's in trouble because of me,
and he wanted me to come here
and apologize to you
- for bringing Jackie here earlier.
- I don't give a shit.
I just want him gone.
Well, that's why we're leaving.
We're gonna camp out for a few days.
Oh, you mean you're gonna use
for a few days?
No, Mom, we're gonna camp out
for a few days.
Okay.
Here, take this.
Narcan. Oh, you know what?
Take all of 'em
in case you OD again.
[Claire sighs]
Mom, I need some money.
Claire, just just leave.
Mom, I am leaving. I just need
some money for food and supplies.
Food and supplies?
Do you think I'm that stupid?
Ryan is in trouble because of me, Mom.
- I'm not giving you money.
- It's serious this time.
- I made a pledge to your father--
- Oh, my God. The pledge!
The fucking pledge!
You and Dad and your fucking pledge!
I pledge allegiance
to neglect my daughter,
- not give a flying fuck about her!
- Oh, not give a fuck, really?
- Mom, I need some money. Mom!
- I don't have any money!
It's all gone towards getting you better
and clearly it hasn't worked.
Mom, where are you going?
[screaming] Mom, I am in trouble.
I need money, Mom.
[panting] Mom, I need help.
Mom, give me some money.
Mom, open the door!
[banging]
Mom, open the door. I need a check.
[banging continues]
Are we really doing this again?
I'm just gonna cancel it anyway.
No, you won't. You won't cancel the check.
[Kate]
Of course I'm gonna cancel the check.
- No, you won't cancel it this time, Mom.
- There's nothing in there.
You've taken it all.
I have to beg your father
for money just to keep the farm.
[screams]
[footsteps moving]
[Claire grunts, screams]
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Honey, are you hurt?
Ryan!
[Ryan] What?
Ryan, get the dog and put him
in the back of my car!
[Kate] What are you doing?
I'm gonna take Cooper.
I'm gonna drive him so far away that
he will not be able to find his way home,
and he's gonna starve or worse.
Give me a check, Mom.
Ryan!
Ryan, did you get Cooper?
I'm trying!
Just find him and put him
in the back of the fucking car!
[Ryan] Cooper!
I don't know where the hell he is!
[screaming] Ryan, well, hurry up!
- [Kate] Cooper!
- [Cooper barks]
What the fuck is the matter with you, Mom?
- Give me the fucking dog.
- No! No!
- Give me the fucking dog, Mom.
- [barks]
- No!
- Give me the
- [Claire straining]
- [Kate screaming]
Do you want me to pull all your
fucking disgusting hair out?
- [panting]
- Huh?
Hey, hey, hey, hey!
- Let's go.
- Get the fuck off of me, Ryan!
[screams] Get the fuck off of me!
You got no friends, Dad fucking hates you,
do you know everybody
fucking hates you except for me?
Fuck.
[Ryan] Claire, let's go.
- [shouts]
- [Ryan] Come on. We gotta go.
[Claire sobbing]
[car engine starts]
[Kate crying]
[inhales deeply]
[exhales deeply]
[car horn honking]
Les?
Well,
hello.
Hey.
[Les] There you are.
You look great.
- You're a sight for sore eyes.
- [chuckles]
- [Les] It's been too long.
- Hi.
[Kate]
So what brings you down here anyway?
I had to drop a trailer off at
Nelly Godschalk's at Derby Ranch.
Oh, how is Nelly these days?
- Oh, God, she's still an awful old cunt.
- [laughs]
Every time I leave, I just wanna
punch her straight in the face.
I haven't seen her in so long.
I mean,
haven't seen anybody really.
Well, you're not missing much. Trust me.
So who's helping you
take care of the place?
Mmm, no one.
No one?
God, Kate, are you out of your mind?
It was always just me and Patty, you know.
How you holding up?
Um, I mean [chuckles]
Thank God I have
the horses to take care of,
otherwise I wouldn't get
out of bed in the morning.
It's only been nine months
and it was so sudden.
Yeah, it was. Yeah.
It was just, um
I can't really talk about her
with anybody, you know?
- You can always call me, you know that.
- I don't wanna bother you.
- I I don't wanna--
- You are never a bother.
Thanks.
Why don't I just stay and help out on the
farm today, and then I can stay the night?
You've got your own stuff to take care of.
Oh, shut up.
Joan's mother's staying.
God knows I could use a vacation from her.
We can make dinner,
I don't know, get drunk as skunks
and laugh our tits off
just like old times.
Okay. [laughs]
- [Kate] Okay.
- [Les grunts]
[Kate] All right.
[Les] So you're teaching
riding lessons again?
Trying to.
I've been calling my old clients.
Yes, as good as new.
I broke up our family.
I'm the one who fell in love
with the "lesbo ranch hand,"
as Richard liked to tell people.
- [Les] Yeah.
- All right, I'll order some takeout soon.
[strained]
Order me anything, except vegan turkey.
[laughs] Oh Oh, my God.
Do you remember the time Patty
served it on a silver platter?
She was so proud of that.
Christ. I mean,
it tasted like a thousand assholes.
Yeah.
And what about Claire?
The last time we talked,
she was back in rehab.
Yeah, she skipped out again.
[sighs] Jesus. [chuckles]
[chuckles] I always thought I was too
boring for my life to be this messed up.
Your life is not a mess.
You're grieving, you lost Patty.
I mean, there's no road map for that shit.
- Fuck me.
- [chuckles]
That's the Hallmark card.
"Grief.
There is no road map for that shit."
[laughing]
Fuck. Yeah.
[both laughing, speaking indistinctly]
["Dancing on My Own" playing]
[both vocalizing]
[both vocalizing]
[music continues]
[music fades out, stops]
[no audible dialogue]
[both laughing]
[Les]
Now Okay, let's get a little rest here.
- [Kate] Okay, I wanna rest. Mm-hmm.
- [Les] Now, okay
One foot in front of the other.
[Kate] Easy.
- [Les grunts]
- [Kate] You see? We can still dance.
- [Les grunts] Dance floor is closed.
- [Kate groans]
[Les grunts] Fuck.
My God.
- [Kate] That's my sock.
- Yeah, yeah.
- [Kate] I gotta go to bed.
- [Les] Here you go.
[Kate] I gotta go.
- [Les grunts]
- Okay. Thank you.
[Les] There you are.
[sighs]
[bird chirping]
[Kate] Les?
[Patty] Hey, sweetheart.
I found Claire and calmed her down.
She feels terrible about what happened.
We're gonna grab a quick bite,
and I'll bring her home.
This snowstorm is crazy.
There is so much snow on the road,
so it's going to take us a while.
Get some rest.
A little more outside connection.
[horse blusters]
- Good.
- Straighten up, Mal.
For fuck's sake,
you look like Quasimodo out there.
[Kate] Emma, do you mind?
Mom, she literally just said
I was doing good.
Use any of the bone structure you have
- [Mal] God, can you stop for one minute?
- to keep yourself upright.
[Mal groans]
[Kate] Nice and easy.
[wind blowing]
- [rain pattering on roof]
- [TV playing in background]
[Cooper barks]
[barks]
- [TV turns off]
- [rain continues]
[car door closes]
[Cooper barks]
- [door opens]
- [heavy breathing]
[door closes]
[Claire breathing heavily]
What are you doing here?
I I need I need help.
[breathing heavily]
Okay.
- Okay. Okay. Let's get this off of you.
- [breathes shakily]
Are you bleeding?
[faintly] I'm not. I'm sorry, Mom.
[whispers] It's Ryan's.
[sobbing]
[Kate whispers] Okay.
Okay.
- Okay, calm down. Breathe.
- [sobbing]
[Claire] We went camping,
and we started arguing again.
And I promise I didn't know
what was in the bag, Mom.
- I didn't know what was inside.
- I know. I-I believe you.
I pushed him.
I didn't mean to do it so hard, Mom.
[sniffles]
And then he fell over the slope,
and he hit his head and it just
Just opened up.
What opened up, honey? What--
His head, it just [sobs]
There was just blood everywhere, Mom.
Just
[sobbing]
Is he okay?
Did you call the police?
- No.
- Why?
It was It was an accident. It was
He You were arguing
and he fell, and he hit his head.
That's not a crime.
- There's no reason to not call the--
- No. No. He didn't fall, Mom. No.
I hit him with a rock.
[sobs] He was getting so angry,
and I got scared
and he was coming at me and I just
I Mom.
- Uh
- [sobs]
Mom, what do we do? What do we
- What do we
- Uh
[Claire continues crying]
[Kate groans]
Where is Ryan now?
[thunder rumbling]
[groans]
[sniffles, sighs]
[sighs] I'm gonna ask you some questions,
and you need to be
completely honest with me, okay?
Where did you go?
Uh, Valley Forge.
We just, um
We just parked and picked a spot.
Did you check in?
I mean, was there a check-in station?
No, no, it wasn't anything like that.
We just parked on the side of the
the-the street and then we
We just walked deep into the woods.
Did anyone see you?
No.
No one saw you park,
and no one saw you in the woods?
Um, yeah, we just
- We just parked and--
- Claire, it's important.
No, Mom. I mean
God, I don't think they did, Mom.
We got there so late the first night
and then the next day,
we went for a walk,
so maybe people could have seen us
- Um, yeah. Okay. Um
- down by the water, I guess.
[Kate breathes shakily]
Yeah. Uh [sniffles]
Do you have Ryan's cell phone?
[sighs]
Does anyone know
where the two of you were?
No.
Okay, go upstairs, take off
all your clothes, and put them in a bag
and don't leave your bedroom
till I come back.
Come back from where?
Just do what I say.
[car door opens]
[Kate grunts]
[grunts]
[grunts]
[breathing heavily]
[grunting]
[grunting]
[water bubbling]
[grunts]
[people shouting]
- [Kate shouts]
- [splash]
- [fireworks squealing]
- [people cheering]
[coughing]
[laughter]
[person] Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
- [coughs]
- [car engine starts]
[car engine revving]
[grunting, groaning]
[hose spraying]
[groans]
[shivering]
[horse snorts, blows]
[breathing shakily]
[crying, gasping]
[door opens]
What'd you do?
I took care of it.
All of it.
Will you stay with me for a little bit?
[Kate] We need to go through a few things
so that we're on the same page,
in case anyone asks.
So, the two of you
came back here after camping,
you got into an argument,
I witnessed it, and then Ryan left.
[Claire] Wait. Why would we say
Ryan was here? Would we not--
[Kate] Because you brought
his cell phone back here,
and if the police check phone records,
they'll know that he was here.
So So that's our story.
The two of you came back here after
camping, you got into an argument,
I witnessed it, and then Ryan left, and
then you stayed here with me all night.
Where is he?
Marsh Creek Lake.
The lake? Why the lake?
Because it was late, Claire,
and I didn't think
- that I would have time to bury him--
- Oh, my God.
- Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Mom.
- It's
Claire, you have to be strong for me.
- Can you do that?
- Oh, my God.
- Stop. Stop saying that, Mom.
- You have to. You--
I didn't ask you to do anything.
I didn't tell you to go
You didn't have to tell me.
I did it because I love you.
I love you, Claire,
and I won't let anything happen to you.
[horse blusters]
[door closes]
What's wrong?
Jackie.
Jackie who?
The-The guy who was here before.
The one Ryan owes money to.
He followed me to the store,
and he said he was gonna fucking kill me.
What did he say?
He came up to me
and he jammed a gun right under my chin.
- He said he's going to fucking kill me.
- Okay. Calm down.
I-I'm freaking out right now
because he's asking about Ryan,
and the more people he asks about Ryan,
they're gonna start questioning
where he is and
How much money does Ryan owe?
Ten thousand. [panting]
- Bodies float.
- What?
I read that bodies float,
especially when it's
When it's hot out like it is right now.
Th-Th-This bacteria grows in the gut
and the chest fills with gas
and then they float to the surface.
Finally came to your senses.
This is what my daughter owes,
so it's the end of it.
[Jackie] You're making the rules now?
Huh, Mom?
Nice. Hmm.
You give lessons out here?
Horse lessons?
I always wanted to ride a horse, and I
just recently came into some money, so
I never wanna see you
on this property ever again.
You understand me?
Hmm.
It must be fucking awful.
What?
Having a kid like that.
Always having to clean up their shit.
- [button clicks]
- [radio starts]
[car engine revs]
[Claire breathes shakily]
[door opens, closes]
[sighs] It's over.
He won't bother us anymore.
Let's get up. Time for breakfast.
[line ringing]
[Claire] Hey. This is Claire's phone.
Just text me instead.
Hey. It's me.
I'm just checking to see where you are.
Call me.
Change your diagonal.
Good job.
Excellent.
Keep breathing.
[inhales, exhales deeply]
[barks]
- [barks]
- [breathing heavily]
[moaning]
- [gasping]
- [barks]
[hyperventilating]
[shouting]
- [barks]
- [gasping]
[shouts]
[panting]
[Claire] Can I have your iPad so I can
log in and check my messages?
[car engine turns off]
[person inside] Hey, I don't understand
how you can sit there
and fucking watch TV all day.
I wanna fucking watch TV all day.
[Kate sighs]
- Your fucking mom is outside.
- [TV blaring]
What?
Claire.
Claire, open the door.
Let's go. Get off the fucking couch.
Let's go.
- [Kate] Claire. Open the door.
- [Ryan] She fucking knows.
- What's going on?
- [Ryan] Let's fucking go.
- Get your fucking shit.
- Come on.
- [Claire] Ryan!
- Out the back. Come on.
Open it!
- Claire.
- [Ryan] Let's go.
[Claire] Fuck!
- [Kate] Come on.
- [car engine starts]
[grunts] Claire, get out of the car.
- [Claire grunts]
- Get out of the car and talk to me.
Whose body was that?
- Close the door!
- I can't!
Tell me what you did to me.
Claire. Come on. Get out.
- [Claire] Ryan! No!
- Fuck off!
For fuck's sake.
Claire, please open the door.
Please.
[grunts]
Just so you know,
if you end up going over the two hours,
we're gonna have to charge you
for the whole day.
- Um, yeah. Two hours will be fine.
- Okay.
- Is this one good?
- Yeah. Thank you.
[children squealing]
[grunting]
[panting]
[panting]
- Afternoon.
- [Kate] Oh, hey. Hi.
- What are you doing out here?
- Oh, I'm not doing much of anything.
Just swimming. Why?
Oh. Girl on the beach there said
you'd gone over your time.
- She was worried about you.
- Oh, no.
I mean, I, um
[chuckles] I lost my wedding ring,
and I thought I would try to find it.
It seems pretty stupid.
Thought I could find it in this big lake.
You wanna hear something funny?
Okay.
I lost my ring on our honeymoon.
Down in the Keys.
My wife was ready to strangle me.
Look, here's the good, or bad news.
You're still married, right?
Yeah.
- Maybe call it a day, huh?
- [motor starts]
["Hold Me, Squeeze Me" playing on video]
[Kate, on video] Everything I thought
about love was just an imitation.
But now that I've stood in its light,
I never wanna be without it.
[officiant] Okay, Patty. Your turn.
Here goes nothing.
Kate, my love.
I've spent my whole life
searching for home.
Home is a place of comfort, refuge.
You are my home.
And the best part of today is
that it's just the beginning for us.
[officiant]
And now you can kiss the bride.
[crying]
[phone vibrating]
[Les] Jesus Christ.
It's two o'clock in the morning.
Is everything all right?
[Kate] Not really.
What's wrong?
Everything.
[curtains opening]
Hi.
What are you doing here?
Is everything you told me last night true?
Uh
[whispers] yeah.
Jesus Christ.
Yeah, you're coming with me to Wildvale.
- I can't leave the horses, so
- [Les groans]
I've taken care of everything.
Two friends from Denise Denman's
ranch are driving down.
They're gonna be here in 30 minutes.
You need to rest for a few days
and then we'll figure this out.
Kate, get packed.
Anything interesting
[speaks indistinctly]
We're here.
Hi.
[clicks tongue] Aw, sweetie.
Les told me that you're going through it.
[Kate sighs] Yeah, a little bit. Yeah.
[Joan] Mm-hmm.
- I made you some tea. Hmm?
- [chuckles]
[Kate] Thank you.
Here.
- You know the way.
- Okay.
No, I got it. I got it. Yeah.
- All right.
- Mm-hmm.
[groans]
She called your mother?
- Oh, God. What did she say?
- [Les groans] Damn right.
"We found Les
and another female in the barn.
They were doing things to each other."
"W-W-W-What kind of things?"
my mother said.
"Well, we heard moaning
of a sexual nature."
"Oh," it's my mother.
"Wonderful. Sounds like
they were doing the right kind of things."
- [Joan chuckling]
- I love that. [chuckles]
[Les] Cheers to Mrs. Granderson
and her long-suffering husband.
Mmm.
How is, um How is old Mr. Granderson?
Does he still have that beautiful farm?
The old man burned the place down.
He burned it down? Why?
[Les] He got diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
He didn't want his kids to be on the hook
for long-term care,
so he set fire to the hayloft one night,
trying to make it look like an accident
- so he'd collect the insurance payout.
- [Kate] Tsk.
- [sighs]
- [Les] But the police caught him.
- [breathes deeply]
- Oh.
Oh, who's for a top-up?
- Kate?
- Oh. Yep. Yeah, I'll have a little.
No. No, no. Not Not you.
- [sucks teeth]
- [Joan] Looks like I'll be doing
- the chores myself tomorrow morning.
- [Les exclaims, sighs]
- Thank you.
- [Les breathes deeply]
- [Joan] Ready?
- [Les] Yeah, God.
[Joan] Cheers.
- [Les] Cheers.
- [glasses clink]
[doorbell chimes]
[doorbell chimes]
Hello.
What are you doing at my house?
Come on out.
I'm not home right now.
I'm hours away.
Well, you should get home.
We need to talk.
About what?
About the body you dumped
at Marsh Creek Lake.
You still there?
Yeah.
You think it's important
that we talk now, right?
I'll be home tomorrow.
Noon.
[doorbell chimes]
Come in.
[door opens]
Hey.
[sniffles]
[sighs]
Who was it?
Someone's cousin.
Someone's brother.
Someone's child.
- Stop fucking around. I want a name.
- Someone's kid.
- I wanna know who it was.
- Forget who it was.
What's important right now
is that you understand
just how utterly fucked you are.
[no audible dialogue]
Good.
[inhales sharply] All right.
So, Ryan owed me ten grand
for the drugs your daughter tossed,
and he starts dealing,
trying to earn it back.
But he gets impatient and he cuts
the drugs with fentanyl to stretch it,
and that's fine but he pushes it
too far 'cause he's dumb.
And this kid OD's
on the drugs that Ryan sold him.
[chuckles] And Ryan and Claire come to me
and they're freaking the fuck out,
and so I calm them both down,
and I come up with a plan.
And I gotta be honest. I did not think
that you were gonna fucking
actually do it [chuckling]
but Claire said that you would
on account of your unconditional love.
And she was right.
You dumped the body,
you got my money, and here we are.
Does Claire know you're doing this?
She does.
No. [chuckling] No, no, no.
She doesn't. She doesn't.
I'm seizing an opportunity.
You've gone this far. I figure
you'll go a little farther, right?
So what do you want?
Some things have come up, and I need to
leave town for a while, and I would like
- to get paid out before I go.
- I already paid you.
You paid me ten fucking grand.
I want more.
Do you not see what's going on here?
I'm light-years ahead of you, lady.
Right now, no one's searching for
some fucking missing dope addict
and no one ever will,
but I make one anonymous call,
and all of a sudden,
they're dragging the bottom of that lake,
and then there's an investigation
and all roads lead back
to Ryan and Claire and to you.
You're fucked.
I don't have any money.
- I-I am having a hard time
- Don't fucking say that to me. Don't say
- you don't have any fucking money.
- I'm having trouble just making
- [scoffs] Fucking shut up. Shut up.
- the bills.
You have acres and acres of land
in Chester fucking County.
You have horses and barns
and a fucking house,
so don't fucking sit there and tell me
that you have nothing
'cause you have a lot, and I want it.
I can't do this.
Come here. Come here.
- No. Get off! [grunting]
- [grunting]
- Get off me!
- [grunting] No!
[both grunting]
[Kate gasps, screaming]
[both grunting]
Get off! [screams]
- Get off! Get off!
- [shushing] Stop.
- Stop, stop, stop. [shushing]
- [grunting]
[Jackie panting]
No, no.
No, no.
No. [grunts]
- No, no. No.
- Look at me. Look at me.
- [panting]
- Okay.
[shushing]
[Kate breathing heavily]
[distorted] There we go. [sighs]
You're okay.
You're all right.
You're okay.
[whistles]
[whistles]
[Jackie] Wakey-wakey.
Jesus Christ. Get up.
Fuck. I gave you 200 milligrams,
and you're acting like Sleeping Beauty.
Let's go. [clapping]
Come on.
All right, so I took your phone, computer,
car keys, house keys.
You don't leave this property
without my permission. You understand?
[normal] You got two days to pay me.
Where am I sleeping?
Someone live here?
[Kate] My wife did before we got together.
[Jackie] What happened to her?
She died.
Tractor backfired, her horse threw her,
and she broke her neck.
That sucks.
Hey. I don't want anyone
hanging around here except me and you.
Make a list of your clients.
I'll send out a text saying
you're not available for lessons.
You're not gonna eat?
I don't have much of an appetite.
[breathes deeply]
Hey.
[Kate] Please don't feed him that.
He likes it.
Look at him.
You'll make him sick.
- [announcers speaking indistinctly]
- [crowd cheering]
- [phone chimes]
- Shit.
[announcers speak indistinctly]
[phone chiming]
[typing]
[clicks tongue]
Oh, God.
[gasps, sniffles]
[breathes heavily]
- [sniffs, sighs]
- [faucet running]
[phone ringing]
[Les] Jesus Christ.
I must have called you 50 fucking times.
Are you trying to give me a heart attack?
Hey. Old Granderson's barn fire,
how did he get caught?
- [chuckling] What?
- [stammers] He was arrested. Why?
Ooh. I-I don't like
where your head's at right now.
Les, come on. Just tell me, please.
[sighs] He used a flare.
He'd researched it,
and I guess he found out
that starting a fire with a flare
would be virtually undetectable.
But he was arrested.
Because he left something behind.
A part of the flare.
I don't remember exactly what,
but when the fire marshal found it,
he knew it was set intentionally.
Why do you wanna know all this anyway?
Kate, are you sure you're okay?
I'll call you back soon, okay?
That's $100,000 of insurance on the barn.
If you burn it.
Right.
How exactly do you do that
without these guys knowing you did it?
Hay spontaneously combusts at 130 degrees.
It happens all the time, but if you use
a flare, then it's it's undetectable.
How long after you burn it
will it take for me to get my money?
I don't know. I mean, um
[stammers] a couple weeks or a month.
No. No.
Figure out a different plan.
This is what I have.
I-I've thought about this.
I-I've thought about it really carefully,
and I promise you
- that you can get your money this way.
- How?
I will be clear across the country
by the time that payout arrives.
I could make you an employee of the farm,
and then send it in installments,
and then I don't think
it'll get flagged that way.
What about the horses?
What about them?
Are they insured too?
Yeah, but, um,
this is a boarding facility,
so not-not all of the horses, um,
belong to me.
How many do?
Two.
How much are those two insured for?
25,000 each.
So we burn them too.
And that brings the payout to 150,000.
- But if we--
- That's good.
- But if we just burn my horses--
- What, are you fucking stupid?
We're not just gonna burn your horses.
We burn all the horses.
- Use your head.
- [sighs]
- Who's that?
- [sighs] That's Emma.
She's a client.
What's she doing here?
I-I thought we canceled her lesson.
We did. I-I'll get it.
No, no. You stay here.
[sighs]
- [Jackie] Afternoon.
- [gasps, sighs]
It's Emma, right?
[sighs] Where's Kate?
She woke up with a fever.
Don't worry.
I'm taking real good care of her.
[chuckles] I'm sorry. Who are you exactly?
I'm the new fucking farmhand.
Just started a few days ago.
Okay. I'm just gonna grab some of
these saddle pads for the New Haven show.
- Let me help.
- No, no. I'm fine. I don't need any help.
- [grunts]
- I got it.
I said I don't need your help.
All right.
That means you can go.
- Can you get out of my space?
- [chuckles]
[car engine starts]
[car departs]
[sighs] Emma's a fucking bitch.
Okay. We'll burn it.
But it's on you.
All of it.
'Cause if shit goes sideways,
I'm nowhere near any of this.
[exhaling deeply]
Hey, Dale. Appreciate you
fitting me in on such short notice.
Yeah, you got it.
[Kate inhaling deeply]
[exhaling deeply]
[breathes shakily]
[Jackie] Is it ready?
Yeah. We'll do it
between 2:00 and 3:00 a.m.
Let it burn for a while.
By the time anybody notices and calls
the fire department, it'll be too late.
Cool.
[Kate] Hey, handsome.
I know.
Everything's gonna be okay.
- I know.
- [door creaks open]
You should probably go now.
[smacks lips] You know,
I think I'm gonna stick around.
Make sure you go through with it.
[sighs]
[car engine stalling]
[grunting, squealing]
[door closes]
- How you doing? You doing okay?
- Uh, not really. No.
The fire marshal just informed me
that the blaze was set intentionally,
Ms. Garretson.
It's a wire stand.
They're commonly used in road flares.
He found that at the point of ignition.
What are you saying? You think that I did
You mentioned there was someone
living in the apartment above the barn.
Uh, an employee. Jackie Lawson.
Was Jackie home last night?
Was he in the apartment?
Uh, his car was there
- when I went to bed.
- What time was that?
- When you went to bed.
- Um, like 10 p.m. probably.
So when you noticed the fire outside,
do you remember
if Jackie's car was still there?
Um. Mmm. It wasn't.
Um, and I-I called him this morning
to let him know what was going on,
but I haven't heard anything
from him. [sniffles]
Ms. Garretson,
we found a dead body inside the apartment.
[gasps]
[Kate] Do you think it was Jackie?
[detective] We don't know.
As you could imagine,
it was very badly burned.
I need you to come down
to the station with me.
Okay. Sorry for the wait.
Good news is
we were able to locate Jackie.
- Oh, thank God.
- [button clicks]
How'd you two meet, Ms. Garretson?
Jackie and I? [stammers]
Um, through my daughter, Claire.
He's a friend of hers.
He was looking for a job, and I needed
somebody to help me out in the stables.
It's odd 'cause Jackie claims
he never worked for you.
Never lived in the apartment. In fact,
he says he doesn't even know who you are.
He doesn't know who I am?
But he's
[chuckles] He's been living
on the farm and working there.
Why would he Why would he say
that he doesn't know who I am?
What about clients?
I'd imagine they'd have seen him
hanging around the place.
I canceled all my lessons.
My wife passed away recently.
I've had a really hard time
getting back on my feet.
I'm sorry.
- Emma Hanway.
- What's that?
Um, Emma Hanway is a client.
I texted her to-to pick up, um,
a saddle pad.
I mean, you I could give her your contact
- if you think that would be helpful.
- Mmm. Please.
Um
Was there anyone with Jackie
that you noticed?
Anyone hanging around?
Going inside the apartment?
I mean, I didn't keep a really, uh,
a close watch on him. Um
There was one person though.
Um, he introduced himself to me once.
- Greg. Um
- G
Kamiski. Kaminski. Something like that.
[detective] You recognize him?
Nope.
His name is Greg Kaminski.
Medical examiner just confirmed it
through dental records.
Okay.
His body was found out
at Echo Valley this morning.
Inside that apartment above the barn.
All right. Well, I already told you
I wasn't staying at that farm.
- I don't know this fucking--
- Jackie, I know you been working
on the farm.
I got the bank statement to prove it.
Bank statement?
$2,500 wired to your bank account
from Ms. Garretson's.
In addition, a client of Ms. Garretson's
confirmed that she saw you
at the property.
[inhales sharply]
All right.
Let's just fucking rewind, okay?
Let's rewind and just go from the top.
I'm gonna tell you exactly what happened,
all right?
I'm going to tell you
what actually happened.
[Les] Jesus Christ.
I must have called you 50 fucking times.
Are you trying to give me a heart attack?
Hey. Old Granderson's barn fire,
how did he get caught?
[Les] 'Cause he left something behind.
A part of the flare.
Why do you want to know all this anyway?
[Kate] I'll call you back soon, okay?
[pants]
- [sighs]
- [door closes]
[sighing] Okay.
[Kate] There it is. Stop.
[screams]
[Les gasps]
[Kate, Les grunting]
[Kate] He's gone.
[horses squealing]
[Kate, Les grunting]
[both grunting]
- We gotta leave.
- [sniffles, sighs]
[both coughing]
[squealing]
It's okay.
Come on.
[coughs]
Good boy. Go, go!
[panting]
You guys are being played.
We're all being fucking played
right now by her.
You know, just so I'm clear
Your story is that Kate's daughter,
uh, and her daughter's boyfriend
killed Greg Kaminski
and had Kate dump the body
at Marsh Creek Lake.
- I-I know how it sounds.
- I wasn't finished.
Then she set the fire using flares
that you purchased
from the Quick Star gas station
one mile from her farm.
Oh.
Do you wanna know what I think?
I think Greg Kaminski's
a known drug abuser.
I think you were his dealer.
I think something happened
inside the apartment.
- No. No! Fucking no.
- I think something happened inside--
- Don't fucking pin this shit on me!
- Relax, Jackie.
- Don't fucking
- Put your arm down. Sit down.
You don't understand.
Don't fucking touch me.
- Get back there.
- Don't you fucking
- Sit down!
- Don't fucking touch me.
Don't
[no audible dialogue]
[inhales sharply]
[crying]
[Les] It's all right.
- It's all over now.
- [sniffs, sighs]
[horn honks]
- [cries]
- [honking continues]
Yeah, yeah. I hear you, jerk off.
Ah. [sniffles]
- Thank you.
- Yeah.
- Hey, Randy.
- Hey, Kate.
- How's it going?
- Uh, so far so good.
I'll have this cleanup done
by the end of the week.
Then with a little bit of luck,
we'll be under roof before winter hits.
- That's great. Thanks.
- Yeah.
[construction worker] Hey, Randy.
Generator's backed in.
[sighs] I gotta go play "Mom."
[chuckles]
Okay, go to your working trot.
Stay in two-point and ask him to walk.
Little slower.
There you go.
[grunts]
[pants]
[grunts]
[sighs]
[grunts]
Hey, it's me.
We're on our way home now.
I let Claire know that as a punishment,
she'll be mucking horse shit
for the next two months.
- [Claire] Stop, Patty.
- [Patty] She wants to tell you something.
Hi, Mom. I'm sorry for being
such a constant fuckup.
- [Patty] Hey. We're past that now.
- [Claire] And
[Claire] And I just love you, you know.
[Patty] Did you hear that?
She loves you like crazy and I do too.
The snow's eased up
and we'll be home soon.
[whines]
- [barks]
- [inhales sharply]
[barks]
[breathes deeply]
[exhales deeply]
[inhales deeply]
[exhales deeply]
Good morning, sweetheart.
I had to leave super early this
morning to drop off some saddles.
I hope I didn't wake you.
Could you take the horses out
if it stopped raining?
I'll be back home in about an hour.
Come on. [clicks tongue] Let's go.
[horse snorts]
[Patty] I was thinking,
let's stay home this weekend, huh?
Catch up on that to-do list
we keep putting off?
I promise I'll fix that
crack in the bedroom ceiling.
[grunts]
[grunts]
[panting]
[Patty] Hey, I just wanted to
say sorry about last night.
I was just drunk and being insensitive.
Anyway, I'm back home in half an hour
and I'm going to shower you
with kisses until you forgive me.
- [taps shoulder] Kate. I'm sorry.
- [gasps] Oh.
- I-I didn't mean to scare you.
- No. Sorry.
Let me just, uh, take out my
What's the verdict?
You wanna come and have a look with me?
I don't know. Do I?
[chuckles] Okay. Come on, Coop.
[contractor] You see the dips?
Those rafters could collapse any day now.
Then you've got a real mess on your hands.
[Kate] How much to replace it?
[contractor] Well, if you stick with the
shingles, you're looking at around $9,000.
Okay, let me think on it
and I'll get back to you.
[contractor] Ah, no rush.
[doorbell rings]
- Morning, Kate.
- [Kate] Hi.
Hannah, why are you not dressed?
[sighs] Could you be a little polite
and say hi to Kate?
Hi, Kate.
Hi, sweetheart.
Richard, honey, Kate's here again.
[Richard] I'm back in my office.
Sorry, I gotta get this little one ready.
- Do you wanna just go on in?
- Yeah, of course. Thank you.
Come on, sweetie. We got to hustle.
I'm coming, I'm coming. Geez, Mom.
- Good morning.
- Hey.
Come in.
Ah, I'm trying to find a brief.
I hired a new assistant,
and it's not working out.
I don't know where the hell anything is.
Oh.
Please, sit.
Thanks.
Yeah, this is good.
[Kate sighs]
[Richard sighs]
So, your message said you needed
to discuss the roof. Is that right?
Yeah, um
Randy came out to take a look
and unfortunately, we need a new one.
- [chuckles] Well, not surprised.
- I know. I know.
I thought that we had two years,
- you know, at least.
- How much?
How much?
9,000.
9,000. This is turning into a bad joke.
No, but it's guaranteed to last ten years.
He said at least ten years.
You know,
I ran into Kathy Dumont at the club.
She said you'd canceled her daughter's
riding lessons for the past six months.
Hilary Stafford told me the same thing.
Look, I'm sorry you lost Patty,
but I can't continue to pour money
into a failing business,
especially 'cause
we're not married anymore.
And I never wanted that farm
in the first place.
If you can't make it work,
you're gonna have to sell it.
[partner] Bye, Richard.
[Hannah] Bye, Dad.
Bye. Nice to see you guys.
- [Richard] Have fun.
- I'm late. Let's go.
[door closes]
[pen scribbling]
Thanks.
I'm guessing you
haven't heard from Claire.
She showed up here last week.
Three o'clock in the morning
and she's pounding on the front door.
What did she want? I me--
What does she always want? Money.
And it doesn't help that you
continue to give her anything she wants.
She's our daughter, Richard.
- What--
- We made promises
when we sat down with the counselor,
do you remember?
- We both made pledges not to enable--
- Yes. You know I tried.
- You know I tried--
- You never tried, Kate.
She'll show up and give you that smile and
you'll gladly pretend everything is fine.
It's not fine. Our daughter is very sick.
[horse snorts]
[car approaching]
[Cooper barking]
[panting]
He only barks when you come home.
Are you feeding him enough?
- He's about to eat my hand off.
- Stop it. Come on, he's fine.
Oh, I missed you so much.
I missed you more.
What is going on with your hair, Mom?
Oh, I could ask you the same thing.
Okay, well, I'm gonna call
and make you an appointment.
You really need to start
taking care of yourself again.
Why didn't you call me back?
It's a long story.
Speaking of, can I, um,
have your iPad so I can check my messages?
Okay. Where were you?
Uh, a couple of Ryan's friends
rented a house down in Dewey Beach.
You didn't get my messages?
No, my phone died.
W-We just bought it.
- It broke already?
- Ryan threw it into the ocean
like a Hail Mary pass. Like [whooshes]
Splash. Fish food.
Why did he do that?
'Cause he is a fuckface.
Don't worry, I got him back.
Before I left, I went into his closet,
and I gathered up all his shit
and I threw it over the 21st bridge.
He is probably freaking
the fuck out right now.
Oh, my God. He totally is.
[laughs] Mission accomplished.
[Claire laughing]
Oh, Claire, come on.
Well, that's what happens
when you send dick pics to skanks
in front of your girlfriend.
Maybe you should break up with him.
Oh, I am going. Sprinting.
But first, I need
I need a phone, so can we go to Verizon?
Um, yeah, let me put
the horses in and we can then ride over.
You hungry? You want a grilled cheese?
[Claire] I am starving.
So, uh
are you feeling good?
[chuckles]
I'm clean, Mom. I'm good.
So happy you're here.
[Claire] Are you getting jealous?
Are you getting jealous?
[chuckles]
You wanna go for a swim tomorrow
down at Marsh Lake?
It'll be good for you.
Yeah, well, we'll see.
Remember when I was little, and I was
convinced a ghost lived in the lake?
Yes, of course I remember that.
You called her Ariel, right?
- No, Aurora. [laughs]
- Aurora.
The ghost of Marsh Creek Lake.
Ooh, so scary.
[both laughing]
[pounding on door]
No, I got it.
[pounding continues]
Where's my stuff?
Oh, my God. What happened to your face?
Stop fucking around, Claire.
I know you took it.
Ryan, I don't know
what you're talking about.
Do you have any idea how much fucking
trouble I'm in right now because of you?
There was a half a fucking kilo in my bag.
Well, I told Jackie that you stole it.
- So if you don't give it back
- What?
- You told Jackie?
- he's gonna come looking for you.
[Claire] Ryan,
what the fuck is the matter with you?
Why the fuck would you do that to me?
[Ryan] Because I'm fucking scared,
that's why.
- You know what Jackie's like.
- Ryan, do not tell him where I live.
Do not tell Jackie where I fucking live!
Hey.
Hey, everything okay here?
I'm going out.
Go where?
Where are you going?
[car starts, departs]
[clattering]
- Honey? You okay?
- [knocks on door]
Claire?
- Claire? Claire?
- Mmm?
Claire.
[sighs] Stand up for me.
Come on, stand up for me.
There you go.
Okay. There you go.
[chattering]
[laughter]
[sighs]
Claire.
[sighs]
Honey, I need to talk to you
about last night.
[inhales deeply] I'm gonna go take a dip.
[Kate] You can't keep avoiding this.
[beachgoer] Okay.
Trip number 15.
I think my arms are gonna fall off.
I remember those days. [chuckles]
Tell me it gets easier.
Oh, God, no. Just you wait.
I'm just kidding.
Every day is a gift.
[child crying]
[child laughing]
Okay, do you guys want me to
do a front flip or a backflip?
[both] Backflip!
[Claire] You guys have to promise me
you're not gonna try this.
You have to pinkie promise, okay?
Let me see all of you.
- We pinkie promise.
- [Claire] That's not a pinkie!
- Yes it is.
- Now, go!
Okay!
- Three, two, one.
- [Kate laughs]
[sighs]
- Hey.
- [Kate] Hey.
You know, an ad popped up
on my computer the other day
from Chester Community College.
Mom, an ad doesn't just
pop up on your computer.
It's there 'cause you searched for it.
Well, it doesn't matter how it got there.
What matters is that they
offer creative writing classes.
Why does that matter?
Well, because you should
think about going back to school.
- [Claire sighs]
- And you're a great writer.
What have I written that makes
you think I'm such a great writer?
That short story you wrote
about the mother
who loses her child at the zoo.
What do you think it was about, huh?
I think that, for me
it was about regret.
That's not what I intended it to be about.
So I guess it was a failure,
just like the rest of my life.
You know, I hate it
when you say things like that.
[sighs, blows bubbles]
[person] Hello, sweetheart.
How you doing?
I didn't realize you grew up
all the way out here.
Man, horses and green grass
It's beautiful.
Just like you.
[chuckles]
How'd you find me out here, Jackie?
Hey.
Come on.
Man. [sighs]
You know, for the life of me
I do not understand what you see in him,
'cause I see the way you look at me.
I don't I don't look
at you any way, Jackie.
No?
No.
Where's my shit?
I, uh I-I-I don't I don't have it.
You don't have it?
I-I threw it away
by mistake and I'm sorry.
I didn't know
your shit was inside, Jackie.
- I didn't know.
- Fucking dumb bitch.
[Jackie] The fuck's wrong with you?
What'd you fucking do?
[Claire grunts]
[crying]
- Hey! Leave her alone.
- [Claire grunting, coughing]
What?
Huh? What'd you say?
- What?
- [Claire sobbing]
[Ryan grunting, screaming]
[groans] Fuck!
- [Ryan screaming]
- [Claire coughing]
[Ryan] Fuck!
- [Jackie] Where you going? Come here.
- Jackie. [grunts]
[Jackie] Come here.
- Come here. What? What?
- [Claire panting]
No, no, it's okay.
Sorry, I didn't mean to hit you that hard.
Just breathe.
You just gotta breathe nice and slow.
Breathe nice and slow. You're all right.
[Claire coughing, panting]
[barking]
[Claire continues coughing, wheezing]
[Kate] Hey! Get away from her!
Get the hell off of her.
You okay?
Come on.
[Claire coughing, wheezing]
What's going on here?
I'm really sorry, Ms. Garretson.
Hey, you must be Claire's mom.
I was just commentating on
how beautiful it is out here.
- The horses--
- Who are you?
[laughs]
I'm a close friend of your daughter's.
Unfortunately, she
Look, she betrayed my trust, and she took
something that didn't belong to her--
She didn't steal it.
- She threw it away.
- Shut up. Shut up. Shut up.
And it's put me in a very
bad spot with some people
I'd prefer not to be in a bad spot with.
[Claire]
Stay away from him, Mom! He's crazy!
Claire, why would you say that
- about a close friend?
- Hey, hey, hey!
- [Claire] He's not my friend, Mom!
- You need to leave or I'm
I'm gonna call the police.
Okay, but just so we're all clear,
your junkie daughter has two choices.
Give it back, or she can pay me my money.
Get out of here.
Come on.
You fucking
Bye, Claire!
[car engine starts]
Who the hell was that?
Remember when I said I threw
Ryan's stuff off the bridge?
- Well, there was something inside.
- Oh, you mean there were drugs inside.
I-I didn't know it then, Mom.
Honestly, I didn't know
when I threw it over.
That man knows where we live now, Claire.
What if he comes back?
- He won't.
- No, you don't know that.
Okay, I won't let him, Mom.
[door opens, closes]
[music playing on radio]
- [car engine turns off]
- [music stops]
[Kate sighs]
Goddamn it, Claire.
[sighs]
Really?
[Claire] Mom.
Mom, let me explain.
Mom.
Mom.
Mom!
What's he doing here?
I thought you were running.
Ryan's in trouble because of me,
and he wanted me to come here
and apologize to you
- for bringing Jackie here earlier.
- I don't give a shit.
I just want him gone.
Well, that's why we're leaving.
We're gonna camp out for a few days.
Oh, you mean you're gonna use
for a few days?
No, Mom, we're gonna camp out
for a few days.
Okay.
Here, take this.
Narcan. Oh, you know what?
Take all of 'em
in case you OD again.
[Claire sighs]
Mom, I need some money.
Claire, just just leave.
Mom, I am leaving. I just need
some money for food and supplies.
Food and supplies?
Do you think I'm that stupid?
Ryan is in trouble because of me, Mom.
- I'm not giving you money.
- It's serious this time.
- I made a pledge to your father--
- Oh, my God. The pledge!
The fucking pledge!
You and Dad and your fucking pledge!
I pledge allegiance
to neglect my daughter,
- not give a flying fuck about her!
- Oh, not give a fuck, really?
- Mom, I need some money. Mom!
- I don't have any money!
It's all gone towards getting you better
and clearly it hasn't worked.
Mom, where are you going?
[screaming] Mom, I am in trouble.
I need money, Mom.
[panting] Mom, I need help.
Mom, give me some money.
Mom, open the door!
[banging]
Mom, open the door. I need a check.
[banging continues]
Are we really doing this again?
I'm just gonna cancel it anyway.
No, you won't. You won't cancel the check.
[Kate]
Of course I'm gonna cancel the check.
- No, you won't cancel it this time, Mom.
- There's nothing in there.
You've taken it all.
I have to beg your father
for money just to keep the farm.
[screams]
[footsteps moving]
[Claire grunts, screams]
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Honey, are you hurt?
Ryan!
[Ryan] What?
Ryan, get the dog and put him
in the back of my car!
[Kate] What are you doing?
I'm gonna take Cooper.
I'm gonna drive him so far away that
he will not be able to find his way home,
and he's gonna starve or worse.
Give me a check, Mom.
Ryan!
Ryan, did you get Cooper?
I'm trying!
Just find him and put him
in the back of the fucking car!
[Ryan] Cooper!
I don't know where the hell he is!
[screaming] Ryan, well, hurry up!
- [Kate] Cooper!
- [Cooper barks]
What the fuck is the matter with you, Mom?
- Give me the fucking dog.
- No! No!
- Give me the fucking dog, Mom.
- [barks]
- No!
- Give me the
- [Claire straining]
- [Kate screaming]
Do you want me to pull all your
fucking disgusting hair out?
- [panting]
- Huh?
Hey, hey, hey, hey!
- Let's go.
- Get the fuck off of me, Ryan!
[screams] Get the fuck off of me!
You got no friends, Dad fucking hates you,
do you know everybody
fucking hates you except for me?
Fuck.
[Ryan] Claire, let's go.
- [shouts]
- [Ryan] Come on. We gotta go.
[Claire sobbing]
[car engine starts]
[Kate crying]
[inhales deeply]
[exhales deeply]
[car horn honking]
Les?
Well,
hello.
Hey.
[Les] There you are.
You look great.
- You're a sight for sore eyes.
- [chuckles]
- [Les] It's been too long.
- Hi.
[Kate]
So what brings you down here anyway?
I had to drop a trailer off at
Nelly Godschalk's at Derby Ranch.
Oh, how is Nelly these days?
- Oh, God, she's still an awful old cunt.
- [laughs]
Every time I leave, I just wanna
punch her straight in the face.
I haven't seen her in so long.
I mean,
haven't seen anybody really.
Well, you're not missing much. Trust me.
So who's helping you
take care of the place?
Mmm, no one.
No one?
God, Kate, are you out of your mind?
It was always just me and Patty, you know.
How you holding up?
Um, I mean [chuckles]
Thank God I have
the horses to take care of,
otherwise I wouldn't get
out of bed in the morning.
It's only been nine months
and it was so sudden.
Yeah, it was. Yeah.
It was just, um
I can't really talk about her
with anybody, you know?
- You can always call me, you know that.
- I don't wanna bother you.
- I I don't wanna--
- You are never a bother.
Thanks.
Why don't I just stay and help out on the
farm today, and then I can stay the night?
You've got your own stuff to take care of.
Oh, shut up.
Joan's mother's staying.
God knows I could use a vacation from her.
We can make dinner,
I don't know, get drunk as skunks
and laugh our tits off
just like old times.
Okay. [laughs]
- [Kate] Okay.
- [Les grunts]
[Kate] All right.
[Les] So you're teaching
riding lessons again?
Trying to.
I've been calling my old clients.
Yes, as good as new.
I broke up our family.
I'm the one who fell in love
with the "lesbo ranch hand,"
as Richard liked to tell people.
- [Les] Yeah.
- All right, I'll order some takeout soon.
[strained]
Order me anything, except vegan turkey.
[laughs] Oh Oh, my God.
Do you remember the time Patty
served it on a silver platter?
She was so proud of that.
Christ. I mean,
it tasted like a thousand assholes.
Yeah.
And what about Claire?
The last time we talked,
she was back in rehab.
Yeah, she skipped out again.
[sighs] Jesus. [chuckles]
[chuckles] I always thought I was too
boring for my life to be this messed up.
Your life is not a mess.
You're grieving, you lost Patty.
I mean, there's no road map for that shit.
- Fuck me.
- [chuckles]
That's the Hallmark card.
"Grief.
There is no road map for that shit."
[laughing]
Fuck. Yeah.
[both laughing, speaking indistinctly]
["Dancing on My Own" playing]
[both vocalizing]
[both vocalizing]
[music continues]
[music fades out, stops]
[no audible dialogue]
[both laughing]
[Les]
Now Okay, let's get a little rest here.
- [Kate] Okay, I wanna rest. Mm-hmm.
- [Les] Now, okay
One foot in front of the other.
[Kate] Easy.
- [Les grunts]
- [Kate] You see? We can still dance.
- [Les grunts] Dance floor is closed.
- [Kate groans]
[Les grunts] Fuck.
My God.
- [Kate] That's my sock.
- Yeah, yeah.
- [Kate] I gotta go to bed.
- [Les] Here you go.
[Kate] I gotta go.
- [Les grunts]
- Okay. Thank you.
[Les] There you are.
[sighs]
[bird chirping]
[Kate] Les?
[Patty] Hey, sweetheart.
I found Claire and calmed her down.
She feels terrible about what happened.
We're gonna grab a quick bite,
and I'll bring her home.
This snowstorm is crazy.
There is so much snow on the road,
so it's going to take us a while.
Get some rest.
A little more outside connection.
[horse blusters]
- Good.
- Straighten up, Mal.
For fuck's sake,
you look like Quasimodo out there.
[Kate] Emma, do you mind?
Mom, she literally just said
I was doing good.
Use any of the bone structure you have
- [Mal] God, can you stop for one minute?
- to keep yourself upright.
[Mal groans]
[Kate] Nice and easy.
[wind blowing]
- [rain pattering on roof]
- [TV playing in background]
[Cooper barks]
[barks]
- [TV turns off]
- [rain continues]
[car door closes]
[Cooper barks]
- [door opens]
- [heavy breathing]
[door closes]
[Claire breathing heavily]
What are you doing here?
I I need I need help.
[breathing heavily]
Okay.
- Okay. Okay. Let's get this off of you.
- [breathes shakily]
Are you bleeding?
[faintly] I'm not. I'm sorry, Mom.
[whispers] It's Ryan's.
[sobbing]
[Kate whispers] Okay.
Okay.
- Okay, calm down. Breathe.
- [sobbing]
[Claire] We went camping,
and we started arguing again.
And I promise I didn't know
what was in the bag, Mom.
- I didn't know what was inside.
- I know. I-I believe you.
I pushed him.
I didn't mean to do it so hard, Mom.
[sniffles]
And then he fell over the slope,
and he hit his head and it just
Just opened up.
What opened up, honey? What--
His head, it just [sobs]
There was just blood everywhere, Mom.
Just
[sobbing]
Is he okay?
Did you call the police?
- No.
- Why?
It was It was an accident. It was
He You were arguing
and he fell, and he hit his head.
That's not a crime.
- There's no reason to not call the--
- No. No. He didn't fall, Mom. No.
I hit him with a rock.
[sobs] He was getting so angry,
and I got scared
and he was coming at me and I just
I Mom.
- Uh
- [sobs]
Mom, what do we do? What do we
- What do we
- Uh
[Claire continues crying]
[Kate groans]
Where is Ryan now?
[thunder rumbling]
[groans]
[sniffles, sighs]
[sighs] I'm gonna ask you some questions,
and you need to be
completely honest with me, okay?
Where did you go?
Uh, Valley Forge.
We just, um
We just parked and picked a spot.
Did you check in?
I mean, was there a check-in station?
No, no, it wasn't anything like that.
We just parked on the side of the
the-the street and then we
We just walked deep into the woods.
Did anyone see you?
No.
No one saw you park,
and no one saw you in the woods?
Um, yeah, we just
- We just parked and--
- Claire, it's important.
No, Mom. I mean
God, I don't think they did, Mom.
We got there so late the first night
and then the next day,
we went for a walk,
so maybe people could have seen us
- Um, yeah. Okay. Um
- down by the water, I guess.
[Kate breathes shakily]
Yeah. Uh [sniffles]
Do you have Ryan's cell phone?
[sighs]
Does anyone know
where the two of you were?
No.
Okay, go upstairs, take off
all your clothes, and put them in a bag
and don't leave your bedroom
till I come back.
Come back from where?
Just do what I say.
[car door opens]
[Kate grunts]
[grunts]
[grunts]
[breathing heavily]
[grunting]
[grunting]
[water bubbling]
[grunts]
[people shouting]
- [Kate shouts]
- [splash]
- [fireworks squealing]
- [people cheering]
[coughing]
[laughter]
[person] Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
- [coughs]
- [car engine starts]
[car engine revving]
[grunting, groaning]
[hose spraying]
[groans]
[shivering]
[horse snorts, blows]
[breathing shakily]
[crying, gasping]
[door opens]
What'd you do?
I took care of it.
All of it.
Will you stay with me for a little bit?
[Kate] We need to go through a few things
so that we're on the same page,
in case anyone asks.
So, the two of you
came back here after camping,
you got into an argument,
I witnessed it, and then Ryan left.
[Claire] Wait. Why would we say
Ryan was here? Would we not--
[Kate] Because you brought
his cell phone back here,
and if the police check phone records,
they'll know that he was here.
So So that's our story.
The two of you came back here after
camping, you got into an argument,
I witnessed it, and then Ryan left, and
then you stayed here with me all night.
Where is he?
Marsh Creek Lake.
The lake? Why the lake?
Because it was late, Claire,
and I didn't think
- that I would have time to bury him--
- Oh, my God.
- Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Mom.
- It's
Claire, you have to be strong for me.
- Can you do that?
- Oh, my God.
- Stop. Stop saying that, Mom.
- You have to. You--
I didn't ask you to do anything.
I didn't tell you to go
You didn't have to tell me.
I did it because I love you.
I love you, Claire,
and I won't let anything happen to you.
[horse blusters]
[door closes]
What's wrong?
Jackie.
Jackie who?
The-The guy who was here before.
The one Ryan owes money to.
He followed me to the store,
and he said he was gonna fucking kill me.
What did he say?
He came up to me
and he jammed a gun right under my chin.
- He said he's going to fucking kill me.
- Okay. Calm down.
I-I'm freaking out right now
because he's asking about Ryan,
and the more people he asks about Ryan,
they're gonna start questioning
where he is and
How much money does Ryan owe?
Ten thousand. [panting]
- Bodies float.
- What?
I read that bodies float,
especially when it's
When it's hot out like it is right now.
Th-Th-This bacteria grows in the gut
and the chest fills with gas
and then they float to the surface.
Finally came to your senses.
This is what my daughter owes,
so it's the end of it.
[Jackie] You're making the rules now?
Huh, Mom?
Nice. Hmm.
You give lessons out here?
Horse lessons?
I always wanted to ride a horse, and I
just recently came into some money, so
I never wanna see you
on this property ever again.
You understand me?
Hmm.
It must be fucking awful.
What?
Having a kid like that.
Always having to clean up their shit.
- [button clicks]
- [radio starts]
[car engine revs]
[Claire breathes shakily]
[door opens, closes]
[sighs] It's over.
He won't bother us anymore.
Let's get up. Time for breakfast.
[line ringing]
[Claire] Hey. This is Claire's phone.
Just text me instead.
Hey. It's me.
I'm just checking to see where you are.
Call me.
Change your diagonal.
Good job.
Excellent.
Keep breathing.
[inhales, exhales deeply]
[barks]
- [barks]
- [breathing heavily]
[moaning]
- [gasping]
- [barks]
[hyperventilating]
[shouting]
- [barks]
- [gasping]
[shouts]
[panting]
[Claire] Can I have your iPad so I can
log in and check my messages?
[car engine turns off]
[person inside] Hey, I don't understand
how you can sit there
and fucking watch TV all day.
I wanna fucking watch TV all day.
[Kate sighs]
- Your fucking mom is outside.
- [TV blaring]
What?
Claire.
Claire, open the door.
Let's go. Get off the fucking couch.
Let's go.
- [Kate] Claire. Open the door.
- [Ryan] She fucking knows.
- What's going on?
- [Ryan] Let's fucking go.
- Get your fucking shit.
- Come on.
- [Claire] Ryan!
- Out the back. Come on.
Open it!
- Claire.
- [Ryan] Let's go.
[Claire] Fuck!
- [Kate] Come on.
- [car engine starts]
[grunts] Claire, get out of the car.
- [Claire grunts]
- Get out of the car and talk to me.
Whose body was that?
- Close the door!
- I can't!
Tell me what you did to me.
Claire. Come on. Get out.
- [Claire] Ryan! No!
- Fuck off!
For fuck's sake.
Claire, please open the door.
Please.
[grunts]
Just so you know,
if you end up going over the two hours,
we're gonna have to charge you
for the whole day.
- Um, yeah. Two hours will be fine.
- Okay.
- Is this one good?
- Yeah. Thank you.
[children squealing]
[grunting]
[panting]
[panting]
- Afternoon.
- [Kate] Oh, hey. Hi.
- What are you doing out here?
- Oh, I'm not doing much of anything.
Just swimming. Why?
Oh. Girl on the beach there said
you'd gone over your time.
- She was worried about you.
- Oh, no.
I mean, I, um
[chuckles] I lost my wedding ring,
and I thought I would try to find it.
It seems pretty stupid.
Thought I could find it in this big lake.
You wanna hear something funny?
Okay.
I lost my ring on our honeymoon.
Down in the Keys.
My wife was ready to strangle me.
Look, here's the good, or bad news.
You're still married, right?
Yeah.
- Maybe call it a day, huh?
- [motor starts]
["Hold Me, Squeeze Me" playing on video]
[Kate, on video] Everything I thought
about love was just an imitation.
But now that I've stood in its light,
I never wanna be without it.
[officiant] Okay, Patty. Your turn.
Here goes nothing.
Kate, my love.
I've spent my whole life
searching for home.
Home is a place of comfort, refuge.
You are my home.
And the best part of today is
that it's just the beginning for us.
[officiant]
And now you can kiss the bride.
[crying]
[phone vibrating]
[Les] Jesus Christ.
It's two o'clock in the morning.
Is everything all right?
[Kate] Not really.
What's wrong?
Everything.
[curtains opening]
Hi.
What are you doing here?
Is everything you told me last night true?
Uh
[whispers] yeah.
Jesus Christ.
Yeah, you're coming with me to Wildvale.
- I can't leave the horses, so
- [Les groans]
I've taken care of everything.
Two friends from Denise Denman's
ranch are driving down.
They're gonna be here in 30 minutes.
You need to rest for a few days
and then we'll figure this out.
Kate, get packed.
Anything interesting
[speaks indistinctly]
We're here.
Hi.
[clicks tongue] Aw, sweetie.
Les told me that you're going through it.
[Kate sighs] Yeah, a little bit. Yeah.
[Joan] Mm-hmm.
- I made you some tea. Hmm?
- [chuckles]
[Kate] Thank you.
Here.
- You know the way.
- Okay.
No, I got it. I got it. Yeah.
- All right.
- Mm-hmm.
[groans]
She called your mother?
- Oh, God. What did she say?
- [Les groans] Damn right.
"We found Les
and another female in the barn.
They were doing things to each other."
"W-W-W-What kind of things?"
my mother said.
"Well, we heard moaning
of a sexual nature."
"Oh," it's my mother.
"Wonderful. Sounds like
they were doing the right kind of things."
- [Joan chuckling]
- I love that. [chuckles]
[Les] Cheers to Mrs. Granderson
and her long-suffering husband.
Mmm.
How is, um How is old Mr. Granderson?
Does he still have that beautiful farm?
The old man burned the place down.
He burned it down? Why?
[Les] He got diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
He didn't want his kids to be on the hook
for long-term care,
so he set fire to the hayloft one night,
trying to make it look like an accident
- so he'd collect the insurance payout.
- [Kate] Tsk.
- [sighs]
- [Les] But the police caught him.
- [breathes deeply]
- Oh.
Oh, who's for a top-up?
- Kate?
- Oh. Yep. Yeah, I'll have a little.
No. No, no. Not Not you.
- [sucks teeth]
- [Joan] Looks like I'll be doing
- the chores myself tomorrow morning.
- [Les exclaims, sighs]
- Thank you.
- [Les breathes deeply]
- [Joan] Ready?
- [Les] Yeah, God.
[Joan] Cheers.
- [Les] Cheers.
- [glasses clink]
[doorbell chimes]
[doorbell chimes]
Hello.
What are you doing at my house?
Come on out.
I'm not home right now.
I'm hours away.
Well, you should get home.
We need to talk.
About what?
About the body you dumped
at Marsh Creek Lake.
You still there?
Yeah.
You think it's important
that we talk now, right?
I'll be home tomorrow.
Noon.
[doorbell chimes]
Come in.
[door opens]
Hey.
[sniffles]
[sighs]
Who was it?
Someone's cousin.
Someone's brother.
Someone's child.
- Stop fucking around. I want a name.
- Someone's kid.
- I wanna know who it was.
- Forget who it was.
What's important right now
is that you understand
just how utterly fucked you are.
[no audible dialogue]
Good.
[inhales sharply] All right.
So, Ryan owed me ten grand
for the drugs your daughter tossed,
and he starts dealing,
trying to earn it back.
But he gets impatient and he cuts
the drugs with fentanyl to stretch it,
and that's fine but he pushes it
too far 'cause he's dumb.
And this kid OD's
on the drugs that Ryan sold him.
[chuckles] And Ryan and Claire come to me
and they're freaking the fuck out,
and so I calm them both down,
and I come up with a plan.
And I gotta be honest. I did not think
that you were gonna fucking
actually do it [chuckling]
but Claire said that you would
on account of your unconditional love.
And she was right.
You dumped the body,
you got my money, and here we are.
Does Claire know you're doing this?
She does.
No. [chuckling] No, no, no.
She doesn't. She doesn't.
I'm seizing an opportunity.
You've gone this far. I figure
you'll go a little farther, right?
So what do you want?
Some things have come up, and I need to
leave town for a while, and I would like
- to get paid out before I go.
- I already paid you.
You paid me ten fucking grand.
I want more.
Do you not see what's going on here?
I'm light-years ahead of you, lady.
Right now, no one's searching for
some fucking missing dope addict
and no one ever will,
but I make one anonymous call,
and all of a sudden,
they're dragging the bottom of that lake,
and then there's an investigation
and all roads lead back
to Ryan and Claire and to you.
You're fucked.
I don't have any money.
- I-I am having a hard time
- Don't fucking say that to me. Don't say
- you don't have any fucking money.
- I'm having trouble just making
- [scoffs] Fucking shut up. Shut up.
- the bills.
You have acres and acres of land
in Chester fucking County.
You have horses and barns
and a fucking house,
so don't fucking sit there and tell me
that you have nothing
'cause you have a lot, and I want it.
I can't do this.
Come here. Come here.
- No. Get off! [grunting]
- [grunting]
- Get off me!
- [grunting] No!
[both grunting]
[Kate gasps, screaming]
[both grunting]
Get off! [screams]
- Get off! Get off!
- [shushing] Stop.
- Stop, stop, stop. [shushing]
- [grunting]
[Jackie panting]
No, no.
No, no.
No. [grunts]
- No, no. No.
- Look at me. Look at me.
- [panting]
- Okay.
[shushing]
[Kate breathing heavily]
[distorted] There we go. [sighs]
You're okay.
You're all right.
You're okay.
[whistles]
[whistles]
[Jackie] Wakey-wakey.
Jesus Christ. Get up.
Fuck. I gave you 200 milligrams,
and you're acting like Sleeping Beauty.
Let's go. [clapping]
Come on.
All right, so I took your phone, computer,
car keys, house keys.
You don't leave this property
without my permission. You understand?
[normal] You got two days to pay me.
Where am I sleeping?
Someone live here?
[Kate] My wife did before we got together.
[Jackie] What happened to her?
She died.
Tractor backfired, her horse threw her,
and she broke her neck.
That sucks.
Hey. I don't want anyone
hanging around here except me and you.
Make a list of your clients.
I'll send out a text saying
you're not available for lessons.
You're not gonna eat?
I don't have much of an appetite.
[breathes deeply]
Hey.
[Kate] Please don't feed him that.
He likes it.
Look at him.
You'll make him sick.
- [announcers speaking indistinctly]
- [crowd cheering]
- [phone chimes]
- Shit.
[announcers speak indistinctly]
[phone chiming]
[typing]
[clicks tongue]
Oh, God.
[gasps, sniffles]
[breathes heavily]
- [sniffs, sighs]
- [faucet running]
[phone ringing]
[Les] Jesus Christ.
I must have called you 50 fucking times.
Are you trying to give me a heart attack?
Hey. Old Granderson's barn fire,
how did he get caught?
- [chuckling] What?
- [stammers] He was arrested. Why?
Ooh. I-I don't like
where your head's at right now.
Les, come on. Just tell me, please.
[sighs] He used a flare.
He'd researched it,
and I guess he found out
that starting a fire with a flare
would be virtually undetectable.
But he was arrested.
Because he left something behind.
A part of the flare.
I don't remember exactly what,
but when the fire marshal found it,
he knew it was set intentionally.
Why do you wanna know all this anyway?
Kate, are you sure you're okay?
I'll call you back soon, okay?
That's $100,000 of insurance on the barn.
If you burn it.
Right.
How exactly do you do that
without these guys knowing you did it?
Hay spontaneously combusts at 130 degrees.
It happens all the time, but if you use
a flare, then it's it's undetectable.
How long after you burn it
will it take for me to get my money?
I don't know. I mean, um
[stammers] a couple weeks or a month.
No. No.
Figure out a different plan.
This is what I have.
I-I've thought about this.
I-I've thought about it really carefully,
and I promise you
- that you can get your money this way.
- How?
I will be clear across the country
by the time that payout arrives.
I could make you an employee of the farm,
and then send it in installments,
and then I don't think
it'll get flagged that way.
What about the horses?
What about them?
Are they insured too?
Yeah, but, um,
this is a boarding facility,
so not-not all of the horses, um,
belong to me.
How many do?
Two.
How much are those two insured for?
25,000 each.
So we burn them too.
And that brings the payout to 150,000.
- But if we--
- That's good.
- But if we just burn my horses--
- What, are you fucking stupid?
We're not just gonna burn your horses.
We burn all the horses.
- Use your head.
- [sighs]
- Who's that?
- [sighs] That's Emma.
She's a client.
What's she doing here?
I-I thought we canceled her lesson.
We did. I-I'll get it.
No, no. You stay here.
[sighs]
- [Jackie] Afternoon.
- [gasps, sighs]
It's Emma, right?
[sighs] Where's Kate?
She woke up with a fever.
Don't worry.
I'm taking real good care of her.
[chuckles] I'm sorry. Who are you exactly?
I'm the new fucking farmhand.
Just started a few days ago.
Okay. I'm just gonna grab some of
these saddle pads for the New Haven show.
- Let me help.
- No, no. I'm fine. I don't need any help.
- [grunts]
- I got it.
I said I don't need your help.
All right.
That means you can go.
- Can you get out of my space?
- [chuckles]
[car engine starts]
[car departs]
[sighs] Emma's a fucking bitch.
Okay. We'll burn it.
But it's on you.
All of it.
'Cause if shit goes sideways,
I'm nowhere near any of this.
[exhaling deeply]
Hey, Dale. Appreciate you
fitting me in on such short notice.
Yeah, you got it.
[Kate inhaling deeply]
[exhaling deeply]
[breathes shakily]
[Jackie] Is it ready?
Yeah. We'll do it
between 2:00 and 3:00 a.m.
Let it burn for a while.
By the time anybody notices and calls
the fire department, it'll be too late.
Cool.
[Kate] Hey, handsome.
I know.
Everything's gonna be okay.
- I know.
- [door creaks open]
You should probably go now.
[smacks lips] You know,
I think I'm gonna stick around.
Make sure you go through with it.
[sighs]
[car engine stalling]
[grunting, squealing]
[door closes]
- How you doing? You doing okay?
- Uh, not really. No.
The fire marshal just informed me
that the blaze was set intentionally,
Ms. Garretson.
It's a wire stand.
They're commonly used in road flares.
He found that at the point of ignition.
What are you saying? You think that I did
You mentioned there was someone
living in the apartment above the barn.
Uh, an employee. Jackie Lawson.
Was Jackie home last night?
Was he in the apartment?
Uh, his car was there
- when I went to bed.
- What time was that?
- When you went to bed.
- Um, like 10 p.m. probably.
So when you noticed the fire outside,
do you remember
if Jackie's car was still there?
Um. Mmm. It wasn't.
Um, and I-I called him this morning
to let him know what was going on,
but I haven't heard anything
from him. [sniffles]
Ms. Garretson,
we found a dead body inside the apartment.
[gasps]
[Kate] Do you think it was Jackie?
[detective] We don't know.
As you could imagine,
it was very badly burned.
I need you to come down
to the station with me.
Okay. Sorry for the wait.
Good news is
we were able to locate Jackie.
- Oh, thank God.
- [button clicks]
How'd you two meet, Ms. Garretson?
Jackie and I? [stammers]
Um, through my daughter, Claire.
He's a friend of hers.
He was looking for a job, and I needed
somebody to help me out in the stables.
It's odd 'cause Jackie claims
he never worked for you.
Never lived in the apartment. In fact,
he says he doesn't even know who you are.
He doesn't know who I am?
But he's
[chuckles] He's been living
on the farm and working there.
Why would he Why would he say
that he doesn't know who I am?
What about clients?
I'd imagine they'd have seen him
hanging around the place.
I canceled all my lessons.
My wife passed away recently.
I've had a really hard time
getting back on my feet.
I'm sorry.
- Emma Hanway.
- What's that?
Um, Emma Hanway is a client.
I texted her to-to pick up, um,
a saddle pad.
I mean, you I could give her your contact
- if you think that would be helpful.
- Mmm. Please.
Um
Was there anyone with Jackie
that you noticed?
Anyone hanging around?
Going inside the apartment?
I mean, I didn't keep a really, uh,
a close watch on him. Um
There was one person though.
Um, he introduced himself to me once.
- Greg. Um
- G
Kamiski. Kaminski. Something like that.
[detective] You recognize him?
Nope.
His name is Greg Kaminski.
Medical examiner just confirmed it
through dental records.
Okay.
His body was found out
at Echo Valley this morning.
Inside that apartment above the barn.
All right. Well, I already told you
I wasn't staying at that farm.
- I don't know this fucking--
- Jackie, I know you been working
on the farm.
I got the bank statement to prove it.
Bank statement?
$2,500 wired to your bank account
from Ms. Garretson's.
In addition, a client of Ms. Garretson's
confirmed that she saw you
at the property.
[inhales sharply]
All right.
Let's just fucking rewind, okay?
Let's rewind and just go from the top.
I'm gonna tell you exactly what happened,
all right?
I'm going to tell you
what actually happened.
[Les] Jesus Christ.
I must have called you 50 fucking times.
Are you trying to give me a heart attack?
Hey. Old Granderson's barn fire,
how did he get caught?
[Les] 'Cause he left something behind.
A part of the flare.
Why do you want to know all this anyway?
[Kate] I'll call you back soon, okay?
[pants]
- [sighs]
- [door closes]
[sighing] Okay.
[Kate] There it is. Stop.
[screams]
[Les gasps]
[Kate, Les grunting]
[Kate] He's gone.
[horses squealing]
[Kate, Les grunting]
[both grunting]
- We gotta leave.
- [sniffles, sighs]
[both coughing]
[squealing]
It's okay.
Come on.
[coughs]
Good boy. Go, go!
[panting]
You guys are being played.
We're all being fucking played
right now by her.
You know, just so I'm clear
Your story is that Kate's daughter,
uh, and her daughter's boyfriend
killed Greg Kaminski
and had Kate dump the body
at Marsh Creek Lake.
- I-I know how it sounds.
- I wasn't finished.
Then she set the fire using flares
that you purchased
from the Quick Star gas station
one mile from her farm.
Oh.
Do you wanna know what I think?
I think Greg Kaminski's
a known drug abuser.
I think you were his dealer.
I think something happened
inside the apartment.
- No. No! Fucking no.
- I think something happened inside--
- Don't fucking pin this shit on me!
- Relax, Jackie.
- Don't fucking
- Put your arm down. Sit down.
You don't understand.
Don't fucking touch me.
- Get back there.
- Don't you fucking
- Sit down!
- Don't fucking touch me.
Don't
[no audible dialogue]
[inhales sharply]
[crying]
[Les] It's all right.
- It's all over now.
- [sniffs, sighs]
[horn honks]
- [cries]
- [honking continues]
Yeah, yeah. I hear you, jerk off.
Ah. [sniffles]
- Thank you.
- Yeah.
- Hey, Randy.
- Hey, Kate.
- How's it going?
- Uh, so far so good.
I'll have this cleanup done
by the end of the week.
Then with a little bit of luck,
we'll be under roof before winter hits.
- That's great. Thanks.
- Yeah.
[construction worker] Hey, Randy.
Generator's backed in.
[sighs] I gotta go play "Mom."
[chuckles]
Okay, go to your working trot.
Stay in two-point and ask him to walk.
Little slower.
There you go.
[grunts]
[pants]
[grunts]
[sighs]
[grunts]
Hey, it's me.
We're on our way home now.
I let Claire know that as a punishment,
she'll be mucking horse shit
for the next two months.
- [Claire] Stop, Patty.
- [Patty] She wants to tell you something.
Hi, Mom. I'm sorry for being
such a constant fuckup.
- [Patty] Hey. We're past that now.
- [Claire] And
[Claire] And I just love you, you know.
[Patty] Did you hear that?
She loves you like crazy and I do too.
The snow's eased up
and we'll be home soon.
[whines]
- [barks]
- [inhales sharply]
[barks]