Sheriff Country (2025) s01e12 Episode Script

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Previously on Sheriff Country
I tried to do this, and I can't do it.
I can't be a cop's wife anymore.
I'm so sorry. Bye.
I'm defending Enoch Barlow.
- It's either me or the case.
- It's an ultimatum?
I murder someone,
and they want to throw me a party?
You didn't murder anybody.
And if that's true,
then why can't I sleep?
Whatever is going on with you,
I don't think you're ready
to be back in the field.
You're on desk duty,
answering calls, pulling files.
- Hello?
- MAN: I knew your sister Zoey.
I was with her the
night she disappeared.
I think we should talk.
(heavy metal music playing)
(music continuing through headphones)
(thudding in distance)
(crash)
(glass shattering)
(woman screams)
(cries)
(thud, crash)
- MAN: No, no.
- WOMAN: No!
Please, please don't do this!
Dad? Mom? W-What's going on?
- Get to your room and call 911!
- What about Mom?
I heard her screaming. Is she okay?
Lock the door, don't come Aah!
(knocking)
- BOONE: Sheriff's office!
- Uh-huh.
These tissues are for
you for when the Raiders
- destroy the 49ers.
- Oh.
Um, did you bring your Xbox?
'Cause that's the only
way that's gonna happen.
- Ooh!
- Hey, get a bowl for the chips.
Aw.
Gift for me? You shouldn't have.
No, it's for my friend for her birthday.
Oh, the dinner thing. Right.
At, uh, fancy place in Sonoma, right?
Mm-hmm. I'm not going.
I thought you were
looking forward to that.
It's a couples thing.
I RSVP'd during the five minutes
that Travis and I were together, so
Since when is Mickey Fox
afraid of flying solo?
I am not afraid of flying solo.
I've been flying solo
since I was divorced.
- BOONE: Huh.
- Dad, the game's on.
You going out? Wait, do you have a date?
I have plans.
(clicks tongue)
(Boone chuckles)
(door opens, closes)
Got to hand it to him.
- The old man's got game.
- Unlike the Raiders.
COMMENTATOR: Just a four-man rush.
Looking, looking.
Buying time. Throws
- No.
- Go, go, go, go!
- Oh! Oh!
- No. No!
- BOONE: Oh! Oh!
- Into the end zone
- for the touchdown!
- Oh!
- I can't listen to this.
- Oh, ho, ho, ho!
Touchdown, Raiders!
Did you see that?
Oh, my God. That was incredible.
I think this dude is
on Nora's fantasy team
and she's probably watching right now.
(chuckles) What?
- What? She's a huge Raiders fan.
- Mm-hmm.
- (scoffs)
- You're not over her.
It's okay. I get it.
It's only been a couple weeks.
Not that you see me texting Travis.
And here we go.
Look, some people are just
needier than others, buddy.
- It's all right.
- Mm-hmm.
DISPATCHER: Dispatch
to Adam One. Respond.
Fox.
211 in progress, 278 Sycamore Lane.
Home invasion robbery.
That's half a mile from here.
(groans softly)
Sheriff's office.
Come out with your hands up.
Oh, my God. Oh,
thank God you guys are here.
Are you the one who called 911?
Anyone else in the house?
My-my my parents.
- Are they okay?
- Your dad's badly injured.
- The ambulance is on the way.
- But what about my mom?
I heard her screaming.
What's your name?
- Paul. Paul Carson.
- I'm Sheriff Mickey Fox.
- Can you tell me what happened?
- We all had dinner together,
the three of us, and my parents
started watching a movie,
so I came up here, and then I started
studying for my chem final, uh, but then
I heard my mom scream.
(sirens approaching) I ran to
the stairs, and I saw my dad.
- He was fighting with them.
- Them?
- How many were there?
- I'm not sure.
I-I didn't see 'em, but then-then my
dad told me to stay in my room, but
maybe I should've helped him?
May-Maybe I sh-I should've
It's okay, Paul.
You did the right thing.
- There's nobody else here.
- PAUL: Oh, my God.
They took her.
They took my mom.
We'll get an inventory of stolen items,
but right off the bat,
Paul says his dad's car is missing.
So maybe they took the mom uh,
Carrie in his vehicle.
I'll put out a BOLO and ask the
neighbors to check their Ring cams.
Maybe we get a glimpse of her abductors.
This could be the same
crew as that home invasion
- in Sierra Verde last week.
- Oh, maybe.
Kidnapping would be one hell
of an escalation, though.
Poor kid.
He woke up this morning with two
parents in a beautiful home,
and he ended the day standing
in the middle of a crime scene.
(indistinct chatter)
(slow country song playing)
I got to say, I was
surprised when you called.
Uh, pleasantly surprised,
but surprised nonetheless.
Why's that?
I wasn't sure you was picking up
on all the little hints
I was dropping. Hmm.
I know it's been a minute,
but here's the way I see it.
All that uncomfortable,
getting-to-know-each-other crap,
we don't got to worry about it.
We know each other.
- We got a history.
- (weak chuckle)
So we just we relax, and we
enjoy each other's company.
But next time, I choose the joint.
'Cause, I mean, I love the Meat Up,
but not for a second date.
- You think this is a date?
- Well
I'm sorry to disappoint you,
but this is not a date.
Mm. What is it?
I have breast cancer.
You know what? They caught
it early, and they say
that I'm gonna be fine, but I start
chemo tomorrow, and I need a ride.
It's round-trip to
Eureka every three weeks.
Now, if you can't do it
- or you don't want to, then
- No, no, no, I can, yeah,
- no, no. I mean, yes, yes.
- Okay, all right.
- Thank you.
- I can. I will.
- Thank you.
- Yeah.
- But here's the thing.
- What?
I don't want anyone,
not even Mickey, to know.
I don't want
any fussing or emotional hoo-hah.
That's why I asked you,
an unsentimental, old prick.
You got me there.
You-You're gonna be all right, though,
- right?
- Yeah.
As soon as we start talking about
something else, I am gonna be fine.
When I saw you on TV, I-I thought
for a second you were Zoey.
You look like your sister.
I used to get that a lot.
But it's been 14 years since she
disappeared, so, not so much anymore.
So, you mentioned on the phone
that you think you're one of
the last people to see Zoey?
I know the night that she
vanished she went to a party.
Is that where you saw her?
We were at a party,
but then Zoey asked me
to give her a ride to
the Blood Moon Festival.
The Blood Moon Festival?
That wasn't in her missing persons file.
I know.
That's my fault.
I was still using at the time, and I had
an outstanding warrant for my arrest.
I didn't come forward to the police
because I didn't want to
go to jail. I'm sorry.
Okay.
You took her to the festival.
Then what happened?
We hung out until they
set the effigy on fire.
Then she blew me off.
That was the last time I saw her.
Then I saw you on TV the other night,
and I thought to myself,
"She deserves to know.
Call her."
I'm glad you did.
MICKEY: All right, Carrie Carson's
been missing for ten hours.
- Where are we at?
- So, what if it wasn't a home invasion?
You got a theory?
Aside from the car, it turns
out that the only thing stolen
from the Carsons' house
was Carrie Carson.
So you think it's a
straight-up kidnapping?
The husband, Charles,
is a real estate developer.
You know this new mall out
on Crandall? He built that.
- Oh. So, the family's got money?
- Mm.
But there's been no ransom demand.
Yet.
Dry cleaner dropped off your
dress, just in time for your party.
- You own a dress?
- Thanks, but I'm not going.
Why not? You were really
looking forward to that.
Okay, Gina, we're a
little busy right now.
Oh. (sighs) Fine.
Stay at home by your
lonesome every night.
It's none of my business.
But if you want me to make
you a Blue Love profile,
I helped Boone set up his
- A what?
- Blue Love.
- A dating app for cops.
- Oh.
I didn't come up with
the name of it, okay?
- Mm-hmm.
- I can set up a profile for you, too.
- No, thanks.
- Aw.
Fine. Just a reminder.
I have a dentist appointment.
I will not be back after lunch.
- BOONE: Thank you, Gina.
- GINA: Sorry.
- (scoffs)
- You let Gina set up
a Blue Love dating profile for you, huh?
You know the woman's
been married four times.
I figured she was an expert.
Mm.
Did you accept any dates yet?
No one good so far.
(phone dings, vibrates)
Charles Carson just
regained consciousness.
Let's go find out why somebody
would want to kidnap his wife.
Mr. Carson, I'm glad to
see you're doing better.
How's Carrie? Is she okay?
We don't know. Um,
we're still trying to find her.
Oh, God. And Paul?
He's good. Uh, he's worried
about his mom, but good,
- all things considered.
- Thank God.
It's just-just so awful.
Please, when you find my wife,
Carrie
can you go easy on her?
I know she didn't mean to do it.
Didn't mean to do what?
Attack me.
Isn't that why you're here?
- Why would your wife attack you?
- CHARLES: That's just it.
I have no idea.
We were watching a movie.
C-Carrie said that she
wasn't feeling well, that
She seemed I don't-I
don't know, agitated.
So I went to go get her a glass of
water, and as soon as I came back,
she screamed, like she didn't know me,
and then, she just went off.
She-she started hitting me, and
and-and throwing stuff at me.
And then and then, the fire grate
that thing weighs as much as she does.
Have you two been
having marital problems?
No.
It wasn't an argument.
It was as if
my wife was a different person,
like like she was possessed.
Mr. Carson, uh, certain drugs,
like methamphetamine,
can cause unprovoked aggression.
I mean, we see people do
all kinds of really
No, no. No way.
Not Carrie.
A glass of wine, a puff of weed
before she goes to sleep, sure, but
(scoffs) hard drugs?
No, that's not her.
Has she ever been treated
for mental illness?
No.
She's usually just
calm and sweet.
So you're telling me
that no one has seen her?
Our working theory was that her
abductors took off with her in the car.
But now it sounds like
she drove off herself.
Oh, God.
Was it the station wagon?
I keep a gun in the glove compartment.
BOONE: It's like
she had a psychotic break or something.
Yeah. I like your theory.
Meth, coke, some kind of stimulant.
Yeah, but he said she doesn't do drugs.
Well, that he knows of.
Spouses keep things from
each other all the time.
You think you know somebody
until you realize you don't.
Anyway, Carrie is violent and armed.
We have to find her before she
hurts herself or somebody else.
You're still riding the pine, Campbell?
Benched. Sucks for you.
Mickey's got me on this abduction case.
Thing's a beast.
Well, I'm working the tip line,
so, do you mind?
That's your sister's file.
You're looking into her disappearance?
I'm supposed to be on desk duty,
so keep it down.
Got any leads?
I met with a witness last night.
He was with Zoey the
night that she vanished.
He drove her to the Blood Moon Festival.
- Creepy.
- Actually, he seemed nice.
No, I mean that festival.
We used to go when I was a kid.
Corn maze scarred me for life.
I'm going through the festival's
old social media posts.
Hoping I can find a photo of Zoey.
Maybe it'll give me a clue.
HANK: What about the guy
who gave her the ride?
- You look into him?
- He's got some juvenile priors.
Nothing the last ten years.
He said he turned his life around.
I believe him.
Well, if you need an extra pair of eyes.
I thought you were working
the abduction case.
I am.
All right, fine. Mickey's got
me working the tip line, too.
(laughs)
Look, I appreciate your offer, I do.
But she's my sister.
I got to do this on my own.
All right.
But if you do change your mind,
you know where to find me.
("Tore Up" by John Andrew
Barrow and Pete Masitti playing)
- You mind country?
- Yeah, it's fine.
Save all your seething curves,
blow your ♪
I said country's fine.
All that auto-tune crap is not country.
No, them prissy pretty boys
wouldn't know country music
if it come up and bit 'em in the behind.
Like Doc Watson's
two-fingered picking style
nobody can play like that anymore.
I mean, even if they knew what it was,
they couldn't do it.
'Cause he adapted it from Earl
Scruggs' three-finger banjo roll,
and Earl took it from Snuffy Jenkins.
It's okay, Wes.
We don't need the radio.
In fact, we don't even need to talk.
(phone dings)
- Oh, no.
- What?
Mickey wants to know if I can come back
after my dentist appointment.
I should have come up
with a better excuse.
How about cancer?
That a pretty good one.
Look, you don't need the work worry.
You need to focus on your health.
I don't know why you're
keeping this from Mickey,
because, for a woman, well,
she's pretty unemotional.
That's a laugh.
- Remember when you had your heart thing?
- Yeah.
She kept it together
when you were around,
but let me tell you, she was a mess.
I'll park when we get there and come up.
What-what floor?
Oh, no, not necessary.
Just drop me off.
Well, that's silly.
Drop you off, go back to town,
only to turn around and come back?
I'm not gonna
Wes, I just asked for a ride.
If you can't handle that,
I'll just Uber back.
- Cassidy, what's up?
- We just got a call about
a woman playing bumper cars
at the Meat Up parking lot.
- Deputies are en route.
- Fine. Let them handle.
Boone and I are on the Carson case.
That's just it, Mickey.
The plates match the Carsons' car.
- Get back. Get back. Stay back.
- Hey!
- My car.
- BOONE: Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Hey, get back!
(crowd clamoring)
(people laughing)
- Hey.
- Carrie?
Ms. Carson, are you okay?
MICKEY: Carrie? You okay?
(knocking)
- Carrie? She's unresponsive.
- Carrie?
- You try the doors?
- Yeah.
- Carrie, are you okay?
- BOONE: No sign of the gun.
- Mr. Carson said it's in the glove box.
- Carrie?
- Aah! No.
- No, no.
Stay away from me!
It's okay She's going for the gun.
- Clear! Clear!
- (Carrie screaming)
I got her. Carrie? Carrie,
it's okay. Hey, hey.
- (whimpering)
- It's okay. You're okay.
I'm here to help you. You're okay.
- No, no
- MICKEY: Come with me.
It's okay.
- Can you help her?
- Careful. Careful.
(door opens)
AMBER: Mickey! Boone!
We've got a situation in here.
JOE: What the hell did
you put in the pancakes?!
COOK: Flour? Butter?
It's the same recipe
- we always use.
- That's a damn lie!
Joe, Joe, what's going on?
- They're trying to poison me!
- Poison you? Are you out
of your damn mind?
(grunting) - Joe!
- What's in the pancakes?!
- Hey.
Joe, stop!
- You okay?
- Yeah.
Boone! Gun!
Boone! Boone!
(Joe grunting)
Boone, clear.
(electricity continues crackling)
You got to be kidding me.
Joe, this is your warning. Stay back.
I will shoot you.
Joe!
(shouts) No, get off me!
Tim, Carl, hold him! Come on!
Hold his legs. Help hold him down.
Stop struggling!
BOONE: We're good.
(yelling, grunting)
First Carrie Carson, and then him.
What is going on in this town?
(yelling, grunting)
You okay, Amber?
Joe was just sitting there,
his normal self, and then he lost it.
Chemical.
You sure?
Weed is the smell of my childhood.
Charles Carson said that Carrie would
smoke a little weed to help her sleep.
No, that can't be true.
I'd never hurt Charles.
BOONE: You put him in
the hospital, Carrie.
He will be okay, but he'll be in there
for a few more days.
- How is that even possible?
- MICKEY: We're waiting
for the tox screen on some drugs
that were seized in a similar incident.
We suspect it has to do with
the marijuana you smoked.
You did smoke marijuana
that night, right?
I'm not sure I can remember.
But even if I did, it's just weed.
BOONE: In this case, we think what
you smoked was synthetic cannabis.
It's man-made. They take marijuana,
or some other herb,
like mint, and then they
spray it with chemicals
that you can buy online from China.
It's a very intense high.
But if you get a bad batch,
the users can experience paranoia,
hyper-aggression, abnormal strength.
Oh, God.
My son. I didn't hurt him, did I?
No, Paul is fine.
He's staying at your neighbors'.
Listen, Carrie, we know that
you didn't mean to do this,
that you're the victim here.
But if there is a batch
of this stuff circulating,
it's very dangerous for Edgewater.
The weed that you smoked
we need you to tell us where you got it.
Uh, I
usually go to the dispensary, but
Oh, no.
Mom?
Paul.
(gasps)
(exhales)
- I don't even smoke pot.
- CARRIE: Paul's a great kid.
Straight A's, started his own lawn
care business to pay for college.
It's my fault.
I'm the one who found the
joint in his laundry.
It was so stupid of me to take it.
Where'd you get the joint, Paul?
At a party. It was
getting passed around.
You saw how this stuff
affected your mom.
- We need you to tell us the truth.
- That is the truth.
It was getting passed around
and I didn't want to smoke it,
so I put it in my pocket
and I forgot about it.
Believe me, if I knew my mom
would find it, I wouldn't have taken it.
All right, Paul.
If you remember any more details
about where it came from
or who at that party gave it to you,
call us. You've seen what this can do.
We don't want anybody
else to get hurt, do we?
(sighs) They passed a joint
around at a party.
If that's the case,
how come we didn't get any
more calls about teenagers
turning into rampaging Hulks?
People react differently to this stuff.
It doesn't make everyone crazy.
And joints do get passed
around at parties.
And I raised a kid who was abusing drugs
and looked me right in the eye
and told me she wasn't.
Teenagers lie. They just do.
That must be so hard.
Going through life not trusting people?
I trust people.
- I do.
- Okay.
(phone dings)
Do not text and drive, please.
From Beth. "Can't wait
to see you tonight."
Three exclamation points,
one heart emoji, one flamenco dancer.
I thought you weren't going
to the birthday dinner.
I'm not. Just haven't
let my friends know.
Because you still want to go.
Because I haven't had
time to call my friends.
- Uh-huh.
- Fine.
- I still want to go.
- So, why don't you?
So maybe you go, maybe you feel
a little awkward. Big deal.
Post-breakup,
that's just where we're at.
We're just, we got to fly solo.
You talk a big game about flying solo,
but anytime there's a
touchdown or a special moment
in your life, you reach for
your phone to call or text Nora.
You haven't let her go yet.
That's why you haven't
accepted any dates from weird,
cop-obsessed women.
- Admit it.
- Can we
just go back to talking about the case?
Yes, please.
(indistinct chatter)
What are you doing?
I told you to wait
"Wait in the truck." Yeah, I know.
But you also know that I
have an adverse reaction
- to being told what to do.
- (sighs)
Stopped by the newsstand 'cause, I'm
not sure about you, but I am very curious
as to how Harry and Meghan
are settling into life in Santa Barbara.
Wesley Taylor Fox.
Yep, that's my name, don't wear it out.
I was WTF before WTF was cool.
Oh, my God.
(chuckles) They're just like us.
(indistinct chatter)
(phones ringing)
(gasps) Oh, my God. It's Zoey.
Wait, no.
It's another girl.
"Molly, we haven't seen
you since Blood Moon.
Call and let us know you're okay. Emma."
This girl also went
missing from the festival,
two years after Zoey disappeared.
- What are the odds?
- In Edgewater?
Between the trimmigrants,
seasonal workers and runaways
pretty decent.
CASSIDY: I don't know, Hank.
I mean, look at them.
They could be twins.
I bought the stuff online,
th-through a site called The Apothecary.
Y-You place an order, you get a DM
and then, the next day, a couple joints
show up at your door.
Look, I-I tried the stuff before,
it-it was strong,
but it was nothing like this.
This Apothecary, did you ever get a name
or meet the person you bought it from?
Like I said, it was-it
was all done through DMs.
Look, I feel so stupid
for trying something unregulated, but
I have horrible back pain
from being on my feet all day.
With all the taxes they charge
at the dispensary, it
it was too expensive.
I am so sorry, Mickey.
The deputy told me that
you had to Tase me?
I guess I'm in big trouble, huh?
Go home, Joe. Hug your family.
Next time, take aspirin
for that back pain.
CASSIDY: I'll call if I learn
anything. Thanks so much.
Hank. The other missing girl
Molly Simpson
that was her friend, Emma.
The one who posted.
She and Molly grew up in Ohio,
moved out together to work on a grow.
Emma hasn't seen or
heard from her in years.
Did Molly's family report her missing?
She didn't have much family.
Her dad is in jail,
her mom has substance issues.
When Molly went missing,
Emma called our station,
spoke to a deputy and never heard back.
It was like Molly just
fell through the cracks.
I want to pull every file.
Anyone who was reported missing
around the Blood Moon Festival for,
like, the last 20 years.
Well, those'll be at
the off-site archives.
- I'll go.
- No. I'll do it.
You are on desk duty, remember?
Hank, don't fight me on this.
- Zoey was my
- Your sister. I know.
So, why won't you let me help you?
Why are you so dead set
on doing this alone?
Because for the last 14 years,
I did nothing.
And as soon as I start
digging, I get a lead.
I get another missing girl.
The clues were there, Hank.
Right there.
You were a kid when your
sister went missing.
There was nothing you could have done.
But you're doing something now.
And nobody solves a case by themselves.
Let me help you, Cassidy.
Okay.
Okay, well, if anybody asks,
I'm on my lunch break.
GINA: You know, I feel well enough
- to go back to work.
- No, no, no, no, no.
- You stay right here in the truck.
- Oh, like you did.
Do as I say, not as I do.
- (scoffs)
- The only reason I'm not
taking you directly home
is that Mickey texted.
She needs to talk to me.
It's some emergency.
- What emergency?
- Stay.
(shouting, moaning, clamoring)
I went to the Apothecary website.
- It's been taken down.
- They're probably lying low.
They realized that their
stuff is making people sick.
(door buzzes)
(lock clicks)
(cackling)
(door buzzes)
(lock clicks)
What in the living hell
is going on around here?
We've got a bad batch of
synthetic weed on the street.
Ha! Government wants to
regulate every seed and stem
of the natural stuff I grow,
but they let that poison
be sold in convenience stores.
BOONE: This is not 7-Eleven stuff.
This is way more dangerous.
Dad, you know what's
moving through town.
Have you heard of an online
store called The Apothecary?
Mm-mmm.
Oh, the Apothecary there was a dealer
I knew back in the day
who went by that name.
Word was he was a legit chemist
who got fired by Big Pharma.
But I'm pretty sure he's not
in the business anymore.
Well, maybe he changed
his business model.
Do you remember his name?
Uh, Kifner. Lewis Kifner.
But he's got to be, like, 80
- by now.
- Eh, doesn't sound like a guy
who'd be selling
synthetic weed on social.
That's the only lead we've got.
Let's check it out. Thanks, Dad.
- Yeah.
- Of all days for Gina to be gone.
(grunts softly)
Oh, you look worse than when I left.
Hmm. You always knew how
to sweet-talk a girl.
I don't know why you
don't tell Mickey, Gina.
(sighs) Wes,
I picked you to drive
because I didn't think you'd fuss,
and here you are, fussing.
Yeah, but if you'd just give me a reason
- as to why you're being so
- Fine.
You want a reason? Here's a reason.
I'm 60 years old, I'm not married,
I don't have kids,
I'm not speaking to my sister,
and after my best friend Carole
up and died on me last year,
I don't have anyone that I'm close
enough to go through this with.
So I had to call you,
whose sorry ass I dumped years ago.
And now you're annoying the hell out
of me with your worries and your fears,
two things I didn't think
you were capable of.
Wow. Uh
I am scared.
I'm scared for you.
(sighs)
I'm scared for myself. I got
this heart trouble and-and
I'm scared of growing old
'cause I never thought I would.
Age does all sorts of things
to worry and (stammers)
Look, I know that that's nothing compared
to what you're going through, but
When you asked me to
to be there for you, to help, I
I realized you were
c-counting on me.
I've never been someone
that anyone could count on.
I want to be there for you, um,
if you'll let me.
I can try.
All right.
(engine starts)
(retches)
(groans)
- Sorry.
- No, no, no, no, it's okay.
It's okay. Hey, hey, hey, hey.
- No, it's-it's okay.
- (exhales)
Always hated this hat.
Look, I'm gonna get you home,
'cause I have just the
thing for that nausea.
(door buzzes) - (lock clicks)
(indistinct chatter)
Every person reported
missing around the time
of the Blood Moon Festival
going back 20 years.
This synthetic weed thing is crazy.
I have to stay on task,
but maybe tonight I can
start going through them.
I could stick around after
my shift. Split it up.
Okay.
And thanks.
BOONE: So, this was Lewis
Kifner's last known address.
Sheriff's office.
Huh.
Look at this.
Huh.
Hey.
- How's your Mandarin?
- My Cantonese is better.
See, that was a trick question,
because written Chinese
is characters, not an alphabet,
so it doesn't matter.
(gunshot)
(gunshot)
- I'm gonna say we found our guy.
- Mm.
(gunshot)
Get out of my barn!
Wait, wait.
(whispers): I don't think he can see.
He's half blind.
You go around.
(gasps) Don't-don't shoot!
BOONE: Edgewater Sheriff's Office.
- No one is gonna shoot you.
- MICKEY: The way you came out
blasting that shotgun, you're lucky
you didn't get shot.
You got any other weapons on you?
No.
We need to ask you about
the chemicals in your barn.
Chemicals? What are you talking about?
MICKEY: You don't sell drugs
under the name The Apothecary?
Oh, sure. During the
Reagan administration.
Hell, with my eyes,
I can barely take care of my own yard.
You have somebody that
helps you, don't you?
Yeah. Local boy. Good kid.
He tolerates my stories about my,
uh, outlaw days.
Sometimes I help him with
his chemistry homework.
As far as I can tell, he
he does good work. You tell me.
Yeah, he does a good job, all right.
BOONE: We met one of your clients today.
Mr. Kifner. Retired chemist?
He said he helps you with your
homework from time to time?
He also told us he shared
with you his stories
from when he used to sell cannabis
under the name The Apothecary.
MICKEY: You want to share
anything with us, Paul,
or should we just get a search warrant
to check your bank accounts
and your online order history?
- I'm sorry, what's this about?
- BOONE: If we do,
we're gonna find that you
ordered chemicals from China
that are currently in Lewis
Kifner's barn, aren't we?
Wait, are you saying? Paul?
Please tell me you had
nothing to do with this.
I
I was only messing around.
It's really just a chemistry problem.
Only, this chemistry problem
got me invited to parties.
Like ones I never got invited to before.
You started selling the stuff online,
under the name that you heard
from Kifner's old stories.
Last few weeks, totally picked up.
I started making a lot of money.
But people wanted to get even higher
so I pushed the envelope.
I never meant to hurt anyone.
- Especially you and Dad.
- Paul
your father could have died.
I could've killed someone.
You did this all so you could
get invited to parties?
Don't you get it?
All the pressure that you
and Dad put me under,
to take all APs, be
valedictorian, get into an Ivy.
I had no friends, Mom.
- Zero.
- Hey. Paul?
You're facing some serious charges here.
But you can start to make it right
by giving me your client list
so I can get this stuff off the streets
before more people get hurt.
(knocking at door)
Oh.
Hey, contacted everybody on Paul's list.
Edgewater should be a
lot quieter tonight.
Thank God. I'm exhausted.
I'm gonna head home.
All right.
(sighs)
Don't forget your dress.
(sighs heavily)
These friends you know,
we were a tight-knit group.
Our kids grew up together,
and with me being such a young mom,
I felt so isolated.
These women were my lifeline.
We did everything together,
including the husbands.
And then, um, Travis and I got divorced.
It changed the whole dynamic.
I mean, I still hung out with the moms,
and when they did things as a group,
you know, they still invited me, but
it just made me feel like a failure.
You know, their marriages had
all worked out, somehow
and mine didn't.
Over time, I just stopped
hanging out with them.
I didn't realize how much I miss them.
And then they invited you to this
this birthday party.
Yeah, I told them that Travis
and I were back together.
They were so excited.
And now he's gone, and if
I walk in there alone,
I have to admit to being
a failure all over again.
And it's a reminder
of everything I lost
again.
You may feel like a failure,
but nobody thinks of you that way.
And your friends clearly want to see
you, or they wouldn't keep asking you.
Think about it.
Good night, Boone.
("Juanita" by The Flying
Burrito Brothers playing)
(Gina laughing)
(Gina and Wes laughing)
WES: Mm.
GINA: Hmm.
Are you guys high?
Dave's not here, man.
(both laughing loudly)
I don't know what I've done ♪
We're not high.
- We're baked.
- Mm-hmm.
So, you not only thought it was okay
to eat all of my ice cream,
you had Gina fake a dentist appointment
so you guys can smoke pot in my house.
Oh.
(laughing): Oh.
You are gonna feel so bad when you hear
that I have breast cancer.
(giggles)
Sweet mama ♪
Gina, I'm so sorry.
- Are you okay?
- GINA: See?
What did I say?
I don't want your sympathy.
The only reason I told you
is because I don't want you
- to give your dad a hard time.
- WES: Yeah.
Because he was my ride or die
for my first treatment today.
And after I barfed in his hat,
he knew just how to treat my noh-jah.
Nausea. Naw-sah.
- Sick.
- Blah.
Are you nauseous, too?
I have a rumbly in my tumbly.
(both laughing)
- Ah. Ah.
- (Gina laughs)
You're gonna focus on your health.
Take as much time as you
need off work, okay?
Oh, hell no, Mickey.
I am gonna be fine.
Oh, beautiful dress.
It's such a shame it has to
go back into your closet.
Actually, I'm gonna go put
it on so that I'm not late.
I thought you decided not to go.
What made you change your mind?
A friend talked me into it.
Mm.
That I once threw away. ♪
Mickey, you look amazing.
Dad, are you crying?
No. No, it's weed.
Makes my eyes red.
(laughs airily)
(doorbell rings)
MICKEY: Boone.
Hi.
What are you doing here?
Um
I-I thought,
if you didn't want to go to the party
alone, that I'd be your your plus-one.
But I see that you're
uh, you're good to go, so
Well Good for That's
Wait.
The food at this place is
supposed to be really good.
And I'd love for you to meet my friends.
Yeah, sure. Okay.
Oh!
WES: Let me, uh
Let me get a picture.
You didn't get one for your prom.
I didn't go to my prom, Dad.
I was eight months pregnant.
Okay. That's enough. We're good.
Hey, you have her home
by 10:00, all right?
- Oh.
- Don't make me come looking for you.
Thanks. Good night.
(Mickey scoffs)
Let's do it. (exhales)
CASSIDY: Nine girls.
Trimmigrants.
Homeless.
Sex worker.
Juvenile delinquent.
All marginalized,
all went missing around the
time of the Blood Moon Festival.
And this year's
festival's two weeks away.
You going to Mickey with this?
Not until I have more than just a hunch.
But you do have more than a hunch.
I think this guy targeted
girls who he knew
no one would notice
if they went missing.
This guy?
(sighs)
I think Edgewater has a
serial killer on its hands.
MICKEY: Mmm. Mmm.
BOONE: Mmm.
This might be the best
thing I've ever tasted.
Oh, my God. Amazing.
(music plays on truck radio)
Look, don't get me wrong.
It was so nice to meet your friends.
It was super fun, but
what was up with the food?
- The portions were, like
- Oh, yeah, stop it. Yeah.
Yes. And do not ever let me eat anything
with the word "foam" in the title again.
(Mickey laughs)
(phone chimes, buzzes)
Oh.
Is that the sound of Blue Love?
Yes.
(Mickey laughs)
- Yeah, I finally accepted a date.
- Oh.
- Mm-hmm.
- Come on. I want to see.
No, no, no. With your greasy fingers.
Come on.
Oh. Oh. She's pretty.
- Why do you sound surprised?
- (laughs)
MICKEY: What does the handcuff icon do?
(phone bloops)
BOONE: No, no, no!
- Oh, my God.
- (Mickey laughs)
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