New Eden (2020) s01e01 Episode Script
Who Are These Women?
(Gentle electronic music)
♪
Female voice: BNT.
Your Network.
(Reel rattles)
♪♪♪
♪♪♪
♪♪♪
- Let Gaion spirit
move through your bodies!
- (Cheering)
- This is a feeling--
(Screaming)
(Laughing)
- Let me go!
(Laughing)
Woo-hoo!
(Gunshot pops)
(Man shouts)
Grace: No one has ever gotten
our story quite right.
(Shouting)
No one's ever really
understood us.
Katherine: I mean,
that's-that's always been
part of the problem.
You know, how-
how we came to be perceived
was so far from how
we wanted to be seen.
Interviewer: And how do you
want to be seen?
Grace: Huh that depends?
Who else are gonna be talking
to for this little thing?
(Gate buzzer sounds)
(Chanting)
Sharon: The 70s were
a complicated time.
We are all looking
for the answers
to life's big questions.
Who are we?
Man: And these are the best
years of our lives.
Sharon: Why are we here?
What is this anyways?
And do I have to do it?
Amy: At first,
it felt so liberating
to be told exactly what to do
and exactly what to believe
in order to feel free.
(Reel rattles)
Max: Bull shit, for women
free love wasn't free.
We watched the new age
patriarchy
get more stoned
and less employed,
while we were told
to just stuff our mouths
with birth control and chill.
If that's enlightenment
then I'd rather slice out
my own uterus
and feed it into the waiting
jaws of systemic misogyny.
Amy: Our leaders taught us
that we could live together
without men, following
our own set of believes.
Sharon: The very concept
of New Eden
was enough to shock people.
Mainstream culture
had never seen women do
what we were doing.
It was conscious community
living.
It was spiritual enlightenment.
It was everything we wanted
from that era.
New Eden truly was like
a paradise for women.
Until it wasn't.
- What the fuck are we supposed
to do now?!
- I am sick and tired
of you pathetic freaks!
(Crying)
(Chanting)
- I'm so sorry.
(Screaming)
- Hell outta here!
(Gunshot pops)
(Screaming)
Grace: I do this all for you!
Why can't you see that?!
- You run around like some
deranged Messiah?
(Chanting)
- You're almost there!
- (Pained grunts, baby cries)
Breathe. Breathe.
- What do we--
- I'm listening---
(Overlapping panicked yelling)
Newsreel: Hours of leaked
home video footage.
- All the leaked footage.
- an undercover journalist.
- Unlike any other case
in Canadian history.
- The life in the secretive
women's cult
have now come to light.
- What I wanna know is
Both: Who are these women?
- The question remains;
who are these women?
Interviewer: What do you think
went wrong?
- What do you mean by that?
- Did you say wrong?
Oh.
♪♪♪
- Breaking news
- The leaders of a women's only
alternative living community
have been arrested
for the alleged kidnapping
and drugging of a minor.
- According to leading officer,
Staff Sergeant Hank Neston,
quote, "if people knew what
was really going on up there.
It's enough to make your
flesh crawl".
- It was awful.
All these people
calling us criminals.
- Ladies cult takes predictable
turn towards disaster.
- And in Canada,
a self-governing women's group,
self implodes.
- Does New Eden prove that
women can be dangerous?
- It really did feel like
Gaion had abandoned us.
Interviewer: Sorry.
Did you say Gai-on?
- (Smirks) Of course?
♪♪♪
(Shouting)
- (Exhales)
- I think I'm gonna sit--
- Yeah.
That makes sense to me.
- Better side.
- Yeah.
- They tried to corrupt
my innocent baby girl.
- They are sick.
- Hello. That's nice.
- They are perverts.
- Oh!
- No, I don't need anything,
thank you.
Actually, I'll take.
(Objects crash)
- What the hell is in this?
- More. More.
- Testing one, two, three,
four
19. 19. Oh sorry.
Oh, no. Don't do that?
Don't do that.
Okay. Yeah.
Don't do that.
- Thousands of dead
and dying bees
have been discovered in
the properties illegal apiary
creating more questions around
this already bizarre story.
Who are these women,
and what do these dead bees
have to do with it?
- Look okay
there's always gonna be
a visceral reaction
to a salacious story.
And so the more people
started using words like;
women, cult, sex, teen.
Well, the perceived titillation
is self-perpetuating.
Interviewer: And do you think
Grace and Katherine
had anything to do
with perpetuating that?
- Well, (chuckles) God.
That's the million dollar
question.
Wyatt: See when the story
finally broke. It-it was huge.
The whole thing was overblown
and sensationalized,
just like everybody lost sight
of the truth.
Interviewer: And what truth
is that?
- (Small chuckle)
Tell me,
are you gonna sit down
with them;
Grace and Katherine?
Well, you just remember?
(In unison) AHHHHHHHH!
- They had eight whole years
to get their facts straight.
Interviewer: Okay. Um
are you ready?
- Yes.
Sorry. I won't. I
I won't do that again.
Interviewer: Why don't
you start
by introducing yourselves?
- I'm Katherine Wryfield,
and I am the founder,
uh, the co-founder of New Eden.
- And I am Grace Lee Hardware.
- No, your name is Grace Lee.
Your family owned a hardware
store called Lee Hardware.
- See, I have no memory
of that.
- You told me that.
- Well, she got a mind like
a steel trap, this one.
Interviewer: Tell me where
we are now?
- We are in Kelowna,
British Columbia
at the Red Cedar Woman's
Correctional Center.
Interviewer: Why?
- Jesus, man.
Why don't you buy us a drink
before you fuck us, huh?
You know, what I'm saying.
- (Chuckles)
I-I-I mean, I wouldn't put it
like that
because it's rude.
I think for a lot of people
our real crime
was daring to empower women
in a male dominated space.
- Exactly. That's it. Exactly.
Not technically or legally,
but in a theoretical sense
that is our only crime.
Well, we're getting out soon.
So uh, we figured
from the mouth of babes.
here's a straight chip, baby.
- Well, I think what Grace
means by that
is that we have spent so long
listening to other people's
version of our story
and now it is time to tell
the real truth -
our truth.
- Straight from the whores
mouth, baby.
- Stop saying baby.
- Okay, did I say it again.
-Yep, but that kind of that.
Grace: Slips out.
Interviewer: Okay.
Well, why don't you start
with how your journey together
began?
- Oh, it's hard to imagine
that I was once
a bright eyed young thing,
knew so little of the world.
All that international media
attention
was a real eye opener,
especially after such humble
beginnings.
And of course, my childhood
was very complicated.
My mother could be very
nurturing
to my brothers.
But, you know, I always sensed
that I didn't quite fit in
with my family's values
and I, you know,
wasn't gonna just do
what everyone expected of me.
You know, be married off
to some handsome society boy.
No.
I wanted to write.
I wanted to open myself up
to new ideas.
So I went out west
to the University of Calgary,
and it was there that I had my
mind expanded.
- And then she met me.
- That I did.
Interviewer: And how did you
end up in western Canada?
- Me? Well, you know,
there is a saying
where I'm from.
"You can't get where
you're going,
if you don't have a map
because that means you
ain't been nowhere yet." So.
- G-Grace-Grace has just oh,
such a-a way with words,
doesn't she?
But-but not really a mind
for detail.
I would-I would move on.
- Ah-huh.
Interviewer: Okay, so then
where did you two actually
meet?
- Oh, boy.
Both: Valhalla ranch.
♪♪♪
- Sure there's a million guys
out there on the heist,
that'll tell you that they're
the second coming of Christ.
There's only one second coming
of Odin.
And I've got the ruins
to prove it.
(Blowing)
Katherine: In retrospect,
it wasn't the healthiest place.
- It was fucking dumb.
Katherine: But we all had
reasons to fall
under Odin's spell.
And for me, I had just had
this ah,
very dramatic affair
with my poetry professor.
It was incredibly complicated
and erotic,
and I was heartbroken,
vulnerable.
You know, easy to prey on.
- Exactly.
And that's when you wake up one
morning buck nude,
the taste, a leader's toe
still in your mouth
and you go, oh, shit.
Yeah, this is definitely
a cult.
Might be I joined a cult.
- It happens all the time.
- It happens all the time.
- There were plenty of them
at the time.
Before New Eden I was with
the Aquarian People's Temple
of Third eye clairvoyance.
I thought I was getting
my masseuse certification.
- Brotherhood of yesterday's
tomorrow now.
- The Roshman's right.
Yeah. Sort of a soft doomsday
sort of thing.
- The utopian fist.
- The Father Daddy's children
of milk
and its offshoot,
the Milk Me Mother
Traveling Band.
We didn't travel
we were on foot,
but we still moved.
Interviewer: And Grace,
how did you end up
at Valhalla ranch?
- Pretty much the same
as most people, I guess.
I, too, had a heavy heart.
I'd come out west with
a girlfriend of mine
and oof, thought we were gonna
be best friends forever.
We had a lot of good times,
but you know, when we
inevitably did part ways,
I was feeling lost,
literally,
just in a field high as sin
covered in what I think
was some kind of toxic sap.
And then suddenly I'm being
told I've made it to Valhalla.
(Scoffs)
Which I was later told
was just in Canada.
But that's when I met Katherine.
And that-that was really the
moment that changed my life.
You know, it was like, wow,
this is the kind of friendship,
the kind of closeness
that I had been waiting for
for my whole life.
This was someone that could
teach a backwoods bumpkin
like me about the world,
you know.
I knew right away that
Katherine was someone
who could really care about me
and who I could really
care about, you know?
I knew then I'd follow her
just about anywhere.
- Yeah, we bonded very quickly.
I mean, Grace was one
of the first people
to ever really listen to me,
you know,
to-to my ideas
and to my dreams.
- Man, are we gonna talk
about her dreams.
They are some juicy stuff.
- No.
- She had one the other night
where she was like this famous
shampoo model, right.
But get this -
she was completely bald.
- I didn't mean
that kind of dream.
- It's crap. Where does she
come up with this stuff?
- Well, not how dreams work.
But anyway, once we had made
that, that connection,
I really felt that I had
to protect Grace
because she seemed so
- Just a complete--
not a hair on her head.
(Laughs)
- Ah well, you know.
And as it became more clear
that Odin's doctrine
was just to satisfy
his male needs,
I knew that I had to save her.
Interviewer: So, Katherine,
you didn't participate
in any of the sexual
activities?
- Uh, yeah no.
I-I really found myself
drawn to more
of the administrative tasks,
all of which were being grossly
overlooked.
Interviewer: Is that why
you decided to leave?
- Yeah, I think it was I think
was just that. So.
- No, no, no-no-no-no-no.
That's when Katherine
decided to give Odin
a piece of her mind.
- Well
- She came and told me
what happened.
She had taken him aside
to give him what for?
Tell him no more touchy-touchy.
Mhmm. That's when he tried
to kiss her
on the breast.
Obviously, she said no.
That's when he got aggressive,
pointed to his penis
and said,
bow down to my ancient thunder,
you bitch.
Interviewer: Is that what
happened, Katherine?
- Ahm oh um, yes.
That that sounds like
what I told Grace. Yes.
- He was intimidated by her
um
(snaps fingers)
what did you call it?
- Mature sexuality.
- Mature sexuality.
That's right.
He was intimidated
by her mature sexuality.
And ah, you know,
when she told me this
well, you know me
I did saw red.
(Laughing)
Bring that over here.
Look at his--
- No, no, no.
Get that camera out of here.
(Overlapping chatter, laughing)
Katherine: Ultimately, it
really wasn't about just me.
It was a symbolic act.
It was a rallying call
to our sisters.
- (Snorts, laughs)
I forget that he also pissed
himself.
- Yeah, people-people may think
that what we did
was ah petty
or, or, or um,
or, or mildly cruel,
but there was no malice in us.
We simply wanted
to live our lives
free of oppression and fear.
So we left men like Odin
behind us.
All men, so that we could
create a space
where women could be
in control.
We wanted to create a New Eden,
one that the proverbial Adam
couldn't destroy.
Right?
- Yep.
- Yes.
- We realized all we needed
to create paradise
was to eliminate Adam
and his snake.
That was pretty good.
- Penis.
- Penis.
Interviewer: What did New Eden
represent to you at first?
- A "fuck you"
to the patriarchy.
Sharon: It was the synthesis
of what we had been
collectively striving for
throughout the late 60s.
Amy: An earthly conduit
through which Gaion's message
of the true seed
could be realized.
Also, just a great group
of women.
(Cheering, wild calls)
- First New Eden
was a real oasis for me.
I mean, it definitely evolved
into a full on shit storm.
But at the outset,
I really believed
I'd found a home.
- Raz, I'm gonna have you on
firewood duty, okay?
Max, you can help her out.
Chop, chop.
Ah, Amber.
- It's Amy.
- Okay. You're gonna be
sweeping.
All right? Good.
Muscle-y girl and tall one.
You're on laundry so.
♪ We open our hearts
and minds ♪
♪ To the spirit of sisterhood ♪
♪ That welcome all without
judgment or shame ♪
♪ No shame ♪
♪ New Eden is our space
of learning ♪
♪ That every empowers
every woman ♪
♪ Because our time is now ♪
♪ And we should rise ♪
Really good,
that sounds great.
Interviewer: How did you first
acquire the New Eden property?
- Oh, well,
I remembered that I had this
Aunt Agnes,
and that she had a beautiful
farmhouse
right here in British Columbia.
A stunning property.
- It was a bit of a shit heap
when we found it,
but a it was nothing compared
to Agnes herself.
- Agnes was a different
from the other women
in my family.
I had never met her,
but she was another rebel
in our clan.
So I always felt that we had
a bond
and the connection was instant.
I mean, she welcomed us
with open arms.
- Agnes was a difficult woman,
okay?
She was, to some old ideas,
ancient ideas.
- Yes. And I will be needing
a volunteer
for Agnes bath time.
No one?
- You're a fucking cunt.
Agnes: You're a cunt.
- I think it's very clear here
that I am not the cunt.
- She was a cunt.
- She was our first mother,
Eve,
and we all understood that
she was the sacred carrier
for all the pain the ancient
Adams had inflicted upon us.
She spat in my mouth once.
Interviewer: So what exactly
did happened to Agnes?
- Hm?
- Um, define happened to?
Newscasters: Breaking news
- a disturbing development
in the ongoing--
- A dead body discovered
on the property--
- Human remains.
- The body has been identified--
- as the leaders aunt.
Sergeant Neston: Evidence
of feathers, candle wax and
multiple samples of urine
found in the gravesite
would suggest that the body
of Agnes Wryfield
was disposed of in a manner
which was deliberately
ritualistic.
- There is a lot of factors.
- A-a, you know what?
We are not going to talk
about those charges
in this interview.
- Huh?
Hm. Hm.
I can't talk about it.
Because I--
- I hate when you mime.
- Today is day one of
the highly anticipated
New Eden trials.
Accused cult leaders,
Katherine Wryfield
and Grace Lee,
will face charges for an
extensive list of crimes.
- This fight isn't merely about
these two courageous women.
This is about justice
for all women.
And I will not rest until
we get the rights
and freedoms
that we all deserve.
- Yeah!
- The key to this case
was to always look
at the biggest picture
possible.
How were those two
causing this much chaos?
This much of a stir?
In other words, who the hell
are these women?
It was the question
everyone was asking.
And it turns out simply
answering it
was the best defense.
Society had rejected them.
So they said, I don't know.
Maybe there is some ancient
space goddess
who wants us all
to live together.
I mean, really?
Can we blame them?
- I know I wouldn't.
Would you?
(Audience applauds)
- Katherine Wryfield
and Grace Lee
are cold,
calculated criminals.
But it wasn't long until
their story was reduced
to just a bad punchline
about hysterical women
feeling generally.
Which was a lot easier
for the public to understand.
- The question remains
- Are these women killers,
serial killers?
- Or just plain stupid?
(Playing notes
on the harmonica)
♪♪♪
Woman: You shut the hell up!
Max: People fear dangerous
women,
so they try to make them seem
less threatening
by making them seem more
pathetic.
And then they turn around
and they say,
ah, stop showing me
these pathetic women.
- Mmm. Those are good beans.
Those are some of the best
beans we've ever had.
Sharon: In retrospect,
I think the hard part
about it was that
we all really thought
we believed in something.
And then you hear the details
out loud and you go "oh".
This sounds like an obvious
joke.
- This guy-he tried on
but the hat is too big
because she a cat
so it covers her-
just covers her literally.
- I mean, the way our story got
twisted doesn't surprise me.
That's just what happens
when a female narrative
is portrayed through
the phallic lens
of the toxic male gaze.
And you know what I'm doing,
right?
I'm talking about you.
Interviewer: Yeah.
I-I've picked up on it.
- Just checking.
Interviewer: Have you visited
them since the trial?
- Oh, fuck, no.
Fuck no.
- Before they went away,
Star mother, Eve, told me
my task was to prepare
the seed redeemer
for the Gaionic ascension
that would save Eve kind
through binary transformation.
Interviewer: So?
- They told me to stop coming.
- At least we still have each
other, you know.
We always will,
ain't that right, Katherine?
- Yeah.
Interviewer: And you're getting
out soon?
- That's right.
Hard to believe.
Interviewer: Do you think
Grace and Katherine
got what they deserved?
- No.
If we were up to me,
they'd never be getting out.
(Phone rings)
- Noseworthy.
- Yeah. It's Sergeant Neston
and we uh, found another body
in the New Eden property.
- My God. Another one?
What the hell is going on
up there?
Can you have an I.D.?
Neston: Um, it's hard to tell
the way it's been disposed
of
it's clear whoever did this,
knew what they were doing.
♪♪♪
♪ I like the way
you smile at me ♪
♪ I felt the heat
that enveloped me ♪
♪ I never knew ♪
♪ Where evil grew ♪
♪
Female voice: BNT.
Your Network.
(Reel rattles)
♪♪♪
♪♪♪
♪♪♪
- Let Gaion spirit
move through your bodies!
- (Cheering)
- This is a feeling--
(Screaming)
(Laughing)
- Let me go!
(Laughing)
Woo-hoo!
(Gunshot pops)
(Man shouts)
Grace: No one has ever gotten
our story quite right.
(Shouting)
No one's ever really
understood us.
Katherine: I mean,
that's-that's always been
part of the problem.
You know, how-
how we came to be perceived
was so far from how
we wanted to be seen.
Interviewer: And how do you
want to be seen?
Grace: Huh that depends?
Who else are gonna be talking
to for this little thing?
(Gate buzzer sounds)
(Chanting)
Sharon: The 70s were
a complicated time.
We are all looking
for the answers
to life's big questions.
Who are we?
Man: And these are the best
years of our lives.
Sharon: Why are we here?
What is this anyways?
And do I have to do it?
Amy: At first,
it felt so liberating
to be told exactly what to do
and exactly what to believe
in order to feel free.
(Reel rattles)
Max: Bull shit, for women
free love wasn't free.
We watched the new age
patriarchy
get more stoned
and less employed,
while we were told
to just stuff our mouths
with birth control and chill.
If that's enlightenment
then I'd rather slice out
my own uterus
and feed it into the waiting
jaws of systemic misogyny.
Amy: Our leaders taught us
that we could live together
without men, following
our own set of believes.
Sharon: The very concept
of New Eden
was enough to shock people.
Mainstream culture
had never seen women do
what we were doing.
It was conscious community
living.
It was spiritual enlightenment.
It was everything we wanted
from that era.
New Eden truly was like
a paradise for women.
Until it wasn't.
- What the fuck are we supposed
to do now?!
- I am sick and tired
of you pathetic freaks!
(Crying)
(Chanting)
- I'm so sorry.
(Screaming)
- Hell outta here!
(Gunshot pops)
(Screaming)
Grace: I do this all for you!
Why can't you see that?!
- You run around like some
deranged Messiah?
(Chanting)
- You're almost there!
- (Pained grunts, baby cries)
Breathe. Breathe.
- What do we--
- I'm listening---
(Overlapping panicked yelling)
Newsreel: Hours of leaked
home video footage.
- All the leaked footage.
- an undercover journalist.
- Unlike any other case
in Canadian history.
- The life in the secretive
women's cult
have now come to light.
- What I wanna know is
Both: Who are these women?
- The question remains;
who are these women?
Interviewer: What do you think
went wrong?
- What do you mean by that?
- Did you say wrong?
Oh.
♪♪♪
- Breaking news
- The leaders of a women's only
alternative living community
have been arrested
for the alleged kidnapping
and drugging of a minor.
- According to leading officer,
Staff Sergeant Hank Neston,
quote, "if people knew what
was really going on up there.
It's enough to make your
flesh crawl".
- It was awful.
All these people
calling us criminals.
- Ladies cult takes predictable
turn towards disaster.
- And in Canada,
a self-governing women's group,
self implodes.
- Does New Eden prove that
women can be dangerous?
- It really did feel like
Gaion had abandoned us.
Interviewer: Sorry.
Did you say Gai-on?
- (Smirks) Of course?
♪♪♪
(Shouting)
- (Exhales)
- I think I'm gonna sit--
- Yeah.
That makes sense to me.
- Better side.
- Yeah.
- They tried to corrupt
my innocent baby girl.
- They are sick.
- Hello. That's nice.
- They are perverts.
- Oh!
- No, I don't need anything,
thank you.
Actually, I'll take.
(Objects crash)
- What the hell is in this?
- More. More.
- Testing one, two, three,
four
19. 19. Oh sorry.
Oh, no. Don't do that?
Don't do that.
Okay. Yeah.
Don't do that.
- Thousands of dead
and dying bees
have been discovered in
the properties illegal apiary
creating more questions around
this already bizarre story.
Who are these women,
and what do these dead bees
have to do with it?
- Look okay
there's always gonna be
a visceral reaction
to a salacious story.
And so the more people
started using words like;
women, cult, sex, teen.
Well, the perceived titillation
is self-perpetuating.
Interviewer: And do you think
Grace and Katherine
had anything to do
with perpetuating that?
- Well, (chuckles) God.
That's the million dollar
question.
Wyatt: See when the story
finally broke. It-it was huge.
The whole thing was overblown
and sensationalized,
just like everybody lost sight
of the truth.
Interviewer: And what truth
is that?
- (Small chuckle)
Tell me,
are you gonna sit down
with them;
Grace and Katherine?
Well, you just remember?
(In unison) AHHHHHHHH!
- They had eight whole years
to get their facts straight.
Interviewer: Okay. Um
are you ready?
- Yes.
Sorry. I won't. I
I won't do that again.
Interviewer: Why don't
you start
by introducing yourselves?
- I'm Katherine Wryfield,
and I am the founder,
uh, the co-founder of New Eden.
- And I am Grace Lee Hardware.
- No, your name is Grace Lee.
Your family owned a hardware
store called Lee Hardware.
- See, I have no memory
of that.
- You told me that.
- Well, she got a mind like
a steel trap, this one.
Interviewer: Tell me where
we are now?
- We are in Kelowna,
British Columbia
at the Red Cedar Woman's
Correctional Center.
Interviewer: Why?
- Jesus, man.
Why don't you buy us a drink
before you fuck us, huh?
You know, what I'm saying.
- (Chuckles)
I-I-I mean, I wouldn't put it
like that
because it's rude.
I think for a lot of people
our real crime
was daring to empower women
in a male dominated space.
- Exactly. That's it. Exactly.
Not technically or legally,
but in a theoretical sense
that is our only crime.
Well, we're getting out soon.
So uh, we figured
from the mouth of babes.
here's a straight chip, baby.
- Well, I think what Grace
means by that
is that we have spent so long
listening to other people's
version of our story
and now it is time to tell
the real truth -
our truth.
- Straight from the whores
mouth, baby.
- Stop saying baby.
- Okay, did I say it again.
-Yep, but that kind of that.
Grace: Slips out.
Interviewer: Okay.
Well, why don't you start
with how your journey together
began?
- Oh, it's hard to imagine
that I was once
a bright eyed young thing,
knew so little of the world.
All that international media
attention
was a real eye opener,
especially after such humble
beginnings.
And of course, my childhood
was very complicated.
My mother could be very
nurturing
to my brothers.
But, you know, I always sensed
that I didn't quite fit in
with my family's values
and I, you know,
wasn't gonna just do
what everyone expected of me.
You know, be married off
to some handsome society boy.
No.
I wanted to write.
I wanted to open myself up
to new ideas.
So I went out west
to the University of Calgary,
and it was there that I had my
mind expanded.
- And then she met me.
- That I did.
Interviewer: And how did you
end up in western Canada?
- Me? Well, you know,
there is a saying
where I'm from.
"You can't get where
you're going,
if you don't have a map
because that means you
ain't been nowhere yet." So.
- G-Grace-Grace has just oh,
such a-a way with words,
doesn't she?
But-but not really a mind
for detail.
I would-I would move on.
- Ah-huh.
Interviewer: Okay, so then
where did you two actually
meet?
- Oh, boy.
Both: Valhalla ranch.
♪♪♪
- Sure there's a million guys
out there on the heist,
that'll tell you that they're
the second coming of Christ.
There's only one second coming
of Odin.
And I've got the ruins
to prove it.
(Blowing)
Katherine: In retrospect,
it wasn't the healthiest place.
- It was fucking dumb.
Katherine: But we all had
reasons to fall
under Odin's spell.
And for me, I had just had
this ah,
very dramatic affair
with my poetry professor.
It was incredibly complicated
and erotic,
and I was heartbroken,
vulnerable.
You know, easy to prey on.
- Exactly.
And that's when you wake up one
morning buck nude,
the taste, a leader's toe
still in your mouth
and you go, oh, shit.
Yeah, this is definitely
a cult.
Might be I joined a cult.
- It happens all the time.
- It happens all the time.
- There were plenty of them
at the time.
Before New Eden I was with
the Aquarian People's Temple
of Third eye clairvoyance.
I thought I was getting
my masseuse certification.
- Brotherhood of yesterday's
tomorrow now.
- The Roshman's right.
Yeah. Sort of a soft doomsday
sort of thing.
- The utopian fist.
- The Father Daddy's children
of milk
and its offshoot,
the Milk Me Mother
Traveling Band.
We didn't travel
we were on foot,
but we still moved.
Interviewer: And Grace,
how did you end up
at Valhalla ranch?
- Pretty much the same
as most people, I guess.
I, too, had a heavy heart.
I'd come out west with
a girlfriend of mine
and oof, thought we were gonna
be best friends forever.
We had a lot of good times,
but you know, when we
inevitably did part ways,
I was feeling lost,
literally,
just in a field high as sin
covered in what I think
was some kind of toxic sap.
And then suddenly I'm being
told I've made it to Valhalla.
(Scoffs)
Which I was later told
was just in Canada.
But that's when I met Katherine.
And that-that was really the
moment that changed my life.
You know, it was like, wow,
this is the kind of friendship,
the kind of closeness
that I had been waiting for
for my whole life.
This was someone that could
teach a backwoods bumpkin
like me about the world,
you know.
I knew right away that
Katherine was someone
who could really care about me
and who I could really
care about, you know?
I knew then I'd follow her
just about anywhere.
- Yeah, we bonded very quickly.
I mean, Grace was one
of the first people
to ever really listen to me,
you know,
to-to my ideas
and to my dreams.
- Man, are we gonna talk
about her dreams.
They are some juicy stuff.
- No.
- She had one the other night
where she was like this famous
shampoo model, right.
But get this -
she was completely bald.
- I didn't mean
that kind of dream.
- It's crap. Where does she
come up with this stuff?
- Well, not how dreams work.
But anyway, once we had made
that, that connection,
I really felt that I had
to protect Grace
because she seemed so
- Just a complete--
not a hair on her head.
(Laughs)
- Ah well, you know.
And as it became more clear
that Odin's doctrine
was just to satisfy
his male needs,
I knew that I had to save her.
Interviewer: So, Katherine,
you didn't participate
in any of the sexual
activities?
- Uh, yeah no.
I-I really found myself
drawn to more
of the administrative tasks,
all of which were being grossly
overlooked.
Interviewer: Is that why
you decided to leave?
- Yeah, I think it was I think
was just that. So.
- No, no, no-no-no-no-no.
That's when Katherine
decided to give Odin
a piece of her mind.
- Well
- She came and told me
what happened.
She had taken him aside
to give him what for?
Tell him no more touchy-touchy.
Mhmm. That's when he tried
to kiss her
on the breast.
Obviously, she said no.
That's when he got aggressive,
pointed to his penis
and said,
bow down to my ancient thunder,
you bitch.
Interviewer: Is that what
happened, Katherine?
- Ahm oh um, yes.
That that sounds like
what I told Grace. Yes.
- He was intimidated by her
um
(snaps fingers)
what did you call it?
- Mature sexuality.
- Mature sexuality.
That's right.
He was intimidated
by her mature sexuality.
And ah, you know,
when she told me this
well, you know me
I did saw red.
(Laughing)
Bring that over here.
Look at his--
- No, no, no.
Get that camera out of here.
(Overlapping chatter, laughing)
Katherine: Ultimately, it
really wasn't about just me.
It was a symbolic act.
It was a rallying call
to our sisters.
- (Snorts, laughs)
I forget that he also pissed
himself.
- Yeah, people-people may think
that what we did
was ah petty
or, or, or um,
or, or mildly cruel,
but there was no malice in us.
We simply wanted
to live our lives
free of oppression and fear.
So we left men like Odin
behind us.
All men, so that we could
create a space
where women could be
in control.
We wanted to create a New Eden,
one that the proverbial Adam
couldn't destroy.
Right?
- Yep.
- Yes.
- We realized all we needed
to create paradise
was to eliminate Adam
and his snake.
That was pretty good.
- Penis.
- Penis.
Interviewer: What did New Eden
represent to you at first?
- A "fuck you"
to the patriarchy.
Sharon: It was the synthesis
of what we had been
collectively striving for
throughout the late 60s.
Amy: An earthly conduit
through which Gaion's message
of the true seed
could be realized.
Also, just a great group
of women.
(Cheering, wild calls)
- First New Eden
was a real oasis for me.
I mean, it definitely evolved
into a full on shit storm.
But at the outset,
I really believed
I'd found a home.
- Raz, I'm gonna have you on
firewood duty, okay?
Max, you can help her out.
Chop, chop.
Ah, Amber.
- It's Amy.
- Okay. You're gonna be
sweeping.
All right? Good.
Muscle-y girl and tall one.
You're on laundry so.
♪ We open our hearts
and minds ♪
♪ To the spirit of sisterhood ♪
♪ That welcome all without
judgment or shame ♪
♪ No shame ♪
♪ New Eden is our space
of learning ♪
♪ That every empowers
every woman ♪
♪ Because our time is now ♪
♪ And we should rise ♪
Really good,
that sounds great.
Interviewer: How did you first
acquire the New Eden property?
- Oh, well,
I remembered that I had this
Aunt Agnes,
and that she had a beautiful
farmhouse
right here in British Columbia.
A stunning property.
- It was a bit of a shit heap
when we found it,
but a it was nothing compared
to Agnes herself.
- Agnes was a different
from the other women
in my family.
I had never met her,
but she was another rebel
in our clan.
So I always felt that we had
a bond
and the connection was instant.
I mean, she welcomed us
with open arms.
- Agnes was a difficult woman,
okay?
She was, to some old ideas,
ancient ideas.
- Yes. And I will be needing
a volunteer
for Agnes bath time.
No one?
- You're a fucking cunt.
Agnes: You're a cunt.
- I think it's very clear here
that I am not the cunt.
- She was a cunt.
- She was our first mother,
Eve,
and we all understood that
she was the sacred carrier
for all the pain the ancient
Adams had inflicted upon us.
She spat in my mouth once.
Interviewer: So what exactly
did happened to Agnes?
- Hm?
- Um, define happened to?
Newscasters: Breaking news
- a disturbing development
in the ongoing--
- A dead body discovered
on the property--
- Human remains.
- The body has been identified--
- as the leaders aunt.
Sergeant Neston: Evidence
of feathers, candle wax and
multiple samples of urine
found in the gravesite
would suggest that the body
of Agnes Wryfield
was disposed of in a manner
which was deliberately
ritualistic.
- There is a lot of factors.
- A-a, you know what?
We are not going to talk
about those charges
in this interview.
- Huh?
Hm. Hm.
I can't talk about it.
Because I--
- I hate when you mime.
- Today is day one of
the highly anticipated
New Eden trials.
Accused cult leaders,
Katherine Wryfield
and Grace Lee,
will face charges for an
extensive list of crimes.
- This fight isn't merely about
these two courageous women.
This is about justice
for all women.
And I will not rest until
we get the rights
and freedoms
that we all deserve.
- Yeah!
- The key to this case
was to always look
at the biggest picture
possible.
How were those two
causing this much chaos?
This much of a stir?
In other words, who the hell
are these women?
It was the question
everyone was asking.
And it turns out simply
answering it
was the best defense.
Society had rejected them.
So they said, I don't know.
Maybe there is some ancient
space goddess
who wants us all
to live together.
I mean, really?
Can we blame them?
- I know I wouldn't.
Would you?
(Audience applauds)
- Katherine Wryfield
and Grace Lee
are cold,
calculated criminals.
But it wasn't long until
their story was reduced
to just a bad punchline
about hysterical women
feeling generally.
Which was a lot easier
for the public to understand.
- The question remains
- Are these women killers,
serial killers?
- Or just plain stupid?
(Playing notes
on the harmonica)
♪♪♪
Woman: You shut the hell up!
Max: People fear dangerous
women,
so they try to make them seem
less threatening
by making them seem more
pathetic.
And then they turn around
and they say,
ah, stop showing me
these pathetic women.
- Mmm. Those are good beans.
Those are some of the best
beans we've ever had.
Sharon: In retrospect,
I think the hard part
about it was that
we all really thought
we believed in something.
And then you hear the details
out loud and you go "oh".
This sounds like an obvious
joke.
- This guy-he tried on
but the hat is too big
because she a cat
so it covers her-
just covers her literally.
- I mean, the way our story got
twisted doesn't surprise me.
That's just what happens
when a female narrative
is portrayed through
the phallic lens
of the toxic male gaze.
And you know what I'm doing,
right?
I'm talking about you.
Interviewer: Yeah.
I-I've picked up on it.
- Just checking.
Interviewer: Have you visited
them since the trial?
- Oh, fuck, no.
Fuck no.
- Before they went away,
Star mother, Eve, told me
my task was to prepare
the seed redeemer
for the Gaionic ascension
that would save Eve kind
through binary transformation.
Interviewer: So?
- They told me to stop coming.
- At least we still have each
other, you know.
We always will,
ain't that right, Katherine?
- Yeah.
Interviewer: And you're getting
out soon?
- That's right.
Hard to believe.
Interviewer: Do you think
Grace and Katherine
got what they deserved?
- No.
If we were up to me,
they'd never be getting out.
(Phone rings)
- Noseworthy.
- Yeah. It's Sergeant Neston
and we uh, found another body
in the New Eden property.
- My God. Another one?
What the hell is going on
up there?
Can you have an I.D.?
Neston: Um, it's hard to tell
the way it's been disposed
of
it's clear whoever did this,
knew what they were doing.
♪♪♪
♪ I like the way
you smile at me ♪
♪ I felt the heat
that enveloped me ♪
♪ I never knew ♪
♪ Where evil grew ♪