Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent (2024) s04e03 Episode Script
The Business of Boys
1
[NARRATOR]: In Toronto's war on crime,
the worst offenders are
pursued by the detectives
of the Specialized Criminal
Investigations Unit.
These are their stories.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
- Hi!
- I like your shirt.
Yeah, it's kind of like European.
Wanna hang out tonight?
Just the three of us?
Shawna. There you are.
Sorry, boys, we need to talk
about an overdue assignment.
- I don't need help.
- I know.
I'll see you in class.
Boss, how's your morning going?
Good.
Got a call from my recently
divorced friend Jerry.
- Eli
- [CHUCKLES]
He enjoyed meeting you.
And I am really enjoying
being retired from that game.
- [SCOFFS]
- All right.
[INTERVIEWER, ON TV]:
women are in control
of our society?
I'm saying that women have used wokeism
and the threat of cancellation
to hold their peers hostage,
and yes, for their own personal gain.
Until 1964, I couldn't have
a bank account in this country
without my husband co-signing.
And you wanna blame men for this. Right?
You want to blame men for
that, but hierarchy exists
it just exists. It's in
nature. It's natural. And
I hear enough of this in my classes.
We don't need it in here.
[LABOURED BREATHING]
[LOCK CLICKS]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
Hello?
Shawna?
[TENSE MUSIC]
Uh, what's going on?
Love. Obsessive, destructive love.
Catherine and Heathcliff
loved each other.
They were obsessed with each other.
If they loved each other,
then why did they rip
each other's hair out?
Well, that's the obsessive
and destructive part,
isn't it, Aisha?
Yeah, I mean, think about it.
An entire lifetime of wanting
each other was confined to,
like, this hot second while
Catherine's dude was at church.
He bruised her arm.
- 'Cause he loved her so much.
- [GIRLS SCOFF]
No, really. He was mourning
her at the exact moment
he was finally able to be with her.
I thought it was beautiful.
I bet you did.
Okay. Why don't we
move on to the next
- What does that mean?
- It means we all hear
what happens at your parties, Luke.
Take that back. Now!
- No, Luke!
- Hey, take it back!
- Okay, whoa! Stop
- Get off me,
you crazy out-of-control woman!
What? You want me to be
your naughty little boy?
[ALL GASP]
[WHIMPERING]
[CHATTERING]
[GIRL]: Hey, it's Ms. Ferrera!
- [BOY]: Abuser!
- I'll walk you to your car. It'll be okay.
Hey, stop that.
[JEERING CONTINUES]
[LAUGHTER]
- [PRINCIPAL]: Hey!
- Direct hit.
Who did that?
- Was that you?
- No.
Huh?
[PRINCIPAL]: Why don't
you try out for a team?
Leave her alone.
[YOUR EX-LOVER IS DEAD BY STARS]
[JEERING CONTINUES]
Hey! Knock that off.
Everyone back inside.
This scar is a fleck
on my porcelain skin ♪
Tried to reach deep
but you couldn't get in ♪
[LOUD CHATTERING]
you see all the beauty ♪
Repent all your sin ♪
It's nothing but time
and a face that you lose ♪
I chose to feel it
and you couldn't choose ♪
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[CHATTERING CONTINUES]
[SCREAMING]
[THEME MUSIC]
[MORENO]: Victim's
name is Delia Ferrera.
English teacher over at
Grace Goode Secondary.
Organ donor.
On anti-depressants.
You're sure she was pushed, Mo?
Yeah. But no one could ID the killer
since everyone is in
costume for the, uh
Anime North Festival.
Yeah, they had voice actors
from Attack on Titan, One Piece.
I hear it was pretty lit.
Uh, nephews.
What costume was the killer wearing?
One kid said it was a
Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo costume?
I think they just want
to hear me say the name.
Another witness said they were
dressed as a plague doctor.
Like, from the Plague plague?
Maybe the killer is making a statement.
Some new ill infecting society?
Conspiracy theorists
did use it during COVID
as a symbol to sow discord, but
I don't know, it does seem a bit
On the pointy nose.
Juvenile, even.
You know, I used to walk this bridge
on my way to Little League.
My eyes were right at the
rail, all four feet of me.
So how does a five-foot-five woman
get pushed over the edge?
Funny place for a scarf.
[SIRENS BLARING]
Mesh on the inside.
You'd have to lean over it to untie it.
If I'm the killer,
she was a sitting duck.
Whoever put this here
knew that it would stop her
in her tracks on a crowded bridge,
that she'd try to untie it.
I think our killer knew
that this scarf was
special to our victim.
Sounds like the kind of person
I'd talk about in therapy.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
Oh, god.
You two were close?
She's been my patient
for about two years.
Some therapists can turn it
off at the end of the day.
I I never could.
Doctor, we found a red
silk scarf on the scene.
We think it may have held
great meaning to Ms. Ferrera.
Do you know did she
have any romantic partners?
Uh, no. She was single.
And do you have any idea
where she was heading today?
Yoga in the Junction and then a
a matinee at Tarragon.
Oh, she mentioned it at her sessions.
Some Sundays she was going
to the botanical gardens.
This past couple of weeks,
she was seeing a play.
Doctor, can you tell us
anything about her life?
Any issues, conflicts,
anything that might
help our investigation?
[SIGHS]
Look, Delia was brutally murdered.
We're just trying to find her killer.
Um Delia was a high school teacher.
She was let go about five weeks ago.
Let go. What happened?
She slapped one of her students.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[SIGHS]
Delia Ferrera, English teacher.
Born Delia Ito,
she was adopted by the
Ferreras in Cache Creek, BC.
In 2016, she moves to Toronto
to study education at U of T.
A bunch of teaching awards.
Then, five weeks ago,
she was fired for slapping a student.
The student she assaulted
is Luke Papastratis.
Multi-sport athlete, good grades.
We're meeting with the principal
at Grace Goode Secondary
to get the details.
Anything in the victim's social media?
The last thing we
found was six years ago
when she was at university.
Not much in her bank
account. No debt. No travel.
Romantic relationships? Anything?
No, no signs. Never married.
Nothing raising any red flags.
I did what you asked and voila.
I found our victim on Dundas West
before she was murdered.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[DARCY]: Wait. Behind her.
Is that who I think it is?
Maybe our killer's message
was juvenile for a reason.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
Ms. Ferrera assaulted our son,
- not the other way around!
- That we understand
How can you accuse my son of murder?
We're not accusing him of
anything, we're just talking.
But if you don't want
to have this conversation
in a calm manner, we can conduct
this interview without you.
Luke, what was your relationship
with Ms. Ferrera like
before the incident?
- Fine, I guess.
- You guess?
I don't know, normal?
Okay, was it normal for you
to follow her down Dundas West?
That's from moments before
she was pushed to her death.
- This is not what you think.
- I'm calling our lawyer.
I didn't kill her!
You have to believe me!
Gee whiz, Luke.
I've been here all of 30
seconds and it looks to me
like the howler monkey doesn't
fall far from the tree here.
It is a long, long road to convincing us
that you didn't do this, so
you might as well start now.
I followed her that day to apologize.
Letting her assault you?
She only did that
because I provoked her.
I I really liked Ms. D.
I hated that she got
fired because of me.
I mean, this girl Aisha,
we got into this stupid argument,
and she said that I
What? Hmm?
This boy from Western Tech,
he started rumours that
a girl was assaulted at
our house last summer.
These are just rumours?
Yeah, he was jealous
of Luke's girlfriend.
So, what, he lied?
Yes.
I swear.
Now, every time I set
the rumour straight,
every time I think it's over,
it just comes up again online.
When-when Aisha said that,
I lost my temper.
Miss D grabbed me, and
I called her a crazy,
out-of-control woman.
Crazy, out-of-control woman?
You hear that somewhere before?
Those exact words?
In the locker room,
some of the guys listen
to these podcasts.
Some old guy was talking about how
it's impossible to
co-exist with crazy women.
It slipped out.
That's when she slapped you.
No.
After that, I
You what?
I asked if she wanted me to be
- What?
- Her naught her naughty boy.
That's when she
Yesterday, when I
apologized, we cried together.
She hugged me.
I can't believe she's dead.
[SOBBING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
[CASH REGISTER]
Principal Roberts, why do you think
Ms. Ferrera reacted to Luke's comment
the way she did?
Every teacher has a breaking point.
Now, when we were in school,
teachers were allowed to discipline us.
Uh, detention, lines on a blackboard.
Now, we just want to
make it through the day
without getting cancelled or sued.
You almost make it sound like
Luke deserved to get slapped.
No. No one was more shocked
or concerned than I was
when Delia slapped him.
And Delia showed no signs
of violent tendencies before?
She lived for this job.
She genuinely liked her
students, they liked her.
- Even the boys?
- What do you mean?
Luke's comment, it sounds a lot
like the sort of thing you hear
coming from the so-called manosphere,
this idea that there are crazy,
out-of-control women in society.
Are you hearing a lot of that stuff?
I'm not gonna lie, those clowns, um
haven't made my job easier.
A gender war is being
litigated by these kids,
and honestly, we are not trained
to shepherd them through it.
[STUDENT 1]: Oh! [STUDEN
2]: What the hell? No!
[CHATTERING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
Excuse me? Excuse me!
Hi, I'm Detective
Sergeant Frankie Bateman.
May I see your phone, please? Thank you.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[STUDENT 3]: This is messed up!
[PHONE RINGS]
- I was just about to call you.
- You get the video?
Yeah, the alert I set
up when I was looking
for CCTV of Delia went off
about three minutes ago.
Doing a reverse trace on the IP now.
[CHIME]
Darcy?
What?
The video was uploaded
from inside the school.
[MARK]: The videographer follows Delia
from the minute she
arrives on the bridge.
So whoever filmed this
video was there to film her.
Do we think the killer
is also a student?
The principal doesn't think so, but
I don't know, there's something
about this woman's murder
that feels confused.
I've got the search history
from the school library.
The only thing watched more
than Taylor Swift videos
are these manosphere prophets.
You've got academics
like Peterson claiming
the natural existence of the patriarchy.
You got that Tate twerp,
spewing whatever toxic bile
is coming out of his worm brain,
and they you've got Bill Diamond,
attacking the woke mind virus.
It's almost enough to make
you rethink free speech, hmm?
Anything on the computer
the video was uploaded from?
Communal desktops in the library.
No student ID necessary.
Why upload it at school?
Well, we think maybe the
killer either wanted us
to know it came from within
the school or maybe
He's an idiot. I mean,
he's just a dumb kid.
Why film it? Why post it?
'Cause views, 'cause likes.
'Cause these kids were
raised on social media.
So, whoever the poster is,
probably linked it to their own page.
And who posted it in the first hour?
I've got
20 personal social media pages.
Play the video again.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[BATEMAN]: Wait.
Our killer bumps into that cosplayer
with the green hair
as he makes his escape.
Looks like he took some
glitter and make-up with him.
- Yeah, I saw that.
- Keep going.
[KEY CLICKS]
Stop. That. There.
The reflection.
Looks like we found our cameraman.
It wasn't me.
You were one of the first people
to post the video of
Ms. Ferrera's murder.
How did you find it? It wasn't trending.
It certainly wasn't searchable.
Look, Detective Darby, was it?
I appreciate that you guys
are trying to trip me up,
but it won't work.
It's just one of the many perks
of having a father
who also happens to be
a kick-ass defence lawyer.
Shut up, Jaxxon.
So what exactly are you
charging my son with?
Conspiracy to commit murder.
- What?
- You know the Crown is
going to want to try him as an adult.
All you have alleged is
that he posted a video.
A video of a teacher from
his school getting murdered,
a murder that he watched
and did nothing to stop.
Well, he wasn't the
only one who posted it.
No, he wasn't. But we have
our own tech genius on staff,
and he's no edgelord like you, Jaxxon,
but he was able to isolate
the reflection of our videographer
in the shield of this
cosplayer, right here.
You see the big purple ears?
The large, vacant eyes?
That's Jax from the
Amazing Digital Circus.
He's got nephews.
And you've got selfie
after selfie after selfie
of you dressed as Jax
all over your socials
from the day Ms. Ferrera was killed.
You couldn't choose a costume
closer to your own
actual given name, Jaxxon.
Well, see, the best part
is when you shove a
cosplayer out of the way
to get a clear shot of Ms. Ferrera.
It's almost like you knew
something bad was gonna happen.
Can I have a moment alone
with my idiot son, please?
[FOOTSTEPS RECEDING]
Jaxxon says he was paid to be
at the Wallace Avenue Pedestrian Bridge
for noon to film something.
Claims he didn't know what.
- How much was he paid?
- 22,000
- 22,000 dollars?
- Robux.
What the hell is a Robuck?
Ro-bucks. It's a gaming currency
you use to trick out
your avatar, buy weapons.
I need to retire. Does
he know our killer?
All contact was anonymous.
Well, how did the
killer know to hire him?
Jaxxon said, and I quote, "E'rbody knows
I film all the sus shiz at school."
Then he said something even weirder.
Weirder than Robux?
You can't see it in the video, but
Jaxxon swears that when
the killer ran away,
they had a spider web on their sneaker.
That's not weirder than Robux.
It could be a shoe leveller.
It's, uh, lifts that you
attach to your sneaker
to compensate for different
bone lengths in the legs.
I've asked Principal Roberts
for a list of all the students
with physical accommodations.
Well, he gave us a lead,
but Jaxxon Font doesn't
leave here until he is scared
within an inch of his life.
Charge him as an accomplice.
That punk kid's got to learn.
That punk kid did give us something.
Should we throw his father a bone?
Okay. Tell him we'll
ask Forrester to set bail
at a 100,000 Robux.
[SCHOOL BELL RINGS]
After what happened, I just feel like
I don't even want to be
in big crowds anymore.
I know, but we can't
stay inside forever.
[AISHA]: [GASPS] What the hell?
Principal Roberts?
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
As soon as you grab your
things, go straight home.
We will email your parents
with an official message
later this evening.
We got here as fast as we could.
So, uh, the costume was posed
in Delia's old classroom?
In her chair. You tell
me this was just a prank?
Kids can come back.
Until that time, I am operating
as if a murderer is
enrolled in this school.
You have that list of
students with accommodations?
Sorry. With all this, I almost forgot.
- Is that
- [PRINCIPAL]: Yeah.
Aisha. Hi.
I'm Detective Sergeant Frankie Bateman.
[CHATTERING]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
You haven't found Ms.
Ferrera's killer yet?
- No.
- That's too bad.
Ms. Ferrera made me feel like
good things were possible.
[DARCY]: Hey.
There's glitter and
make-up on the nose.
Looks right.
Hi, I'm Detective John Darcy.
Just so you know,
those remote learning webcams in there?
They turn on a few
minutes before class begins
and turn off when it ends.
So, whoever put that costume in there
had to know when they're switched on,
or else they'd be seen.
Good tip. Thank you.
And no, I didn't see who put it there.
Can I go to catch my bus now?
Of course.
Principal Roberts.
Did any of these kids start
remote learning recently?
Uh, yeah, Colin Hobarth.
Left school right around the
time that Delia was let go.
Horrible bullying incident
with this girl Shawna.
What did he do?
Actually, it was the other way around.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
[BATEMAN]: Colin,
Principal Roberts says you,
uh you made the
switch to remote learning
due to a bullying incident?
Something was always happening
to him at that school.
It was nothing. [CHUCKLES]
You'll have to forgive my mother.
I was born with anisomelia.
- One leg shorter than the other.
- Ah.
It's made her very protective of me.
The bullying was a month ago,
but that mark on your
face looks pretty fresh.
Did you reinjure it?
[CATHERINE]: Well, it
wasn't actually bullying.
He was meeting a girl named Shawna.
And she was insulted by this older boy,
and Colin stood up for her.
The older boy beat him up,
but I think he was brave that night.
The strongest, fastest lobsters
in the ocean rule our society.
When a weak, albeit
intellectually superior lobster
like myself catches the eye
of one of the prize females,
the alpha will pounce.
Take his share and mine.
That's just biology.
That's Peterson, right?
"12 Rules for Life."
Hmm. You've been initiated.
No, I just love clickbait.
But, hey, 1% of the
world's population holds
90% of its wealth, so
it's hard data to ignore.
"The bullies have always benefitted
by forcing the exceptional
into the shadows."
Bill Diamond.
Got me through some dark times.
Dark times? Like your father leaving?
Excuse me?
There's no men's shoes
or jackets in the closet.
There's no big-screen
TV in the living room.
You're not here to talk about
remote learning, are you?
Uh, Catherine [CLEARS THROAT]
Catherine, I'm sure
you've heard, but, um
a teacher who works at Colin's school,
Delia Ferrera, was murdered on Sunday.
Could you tell me where Colin was
between 1 and 3 PM that day?
Oh, at his physio
appointment at St. Joe's.
[BATEMAN]: You're sure
he was at the hospital?
[CATHERINE]: Yes, we rode
our bikes there together.
And you were with him for
the entire appointment?
Well, no, I went for a coffee at Reunion
and read my book. Why?
I only ask because Colin
seems to have a thing
for bending the truth.
What are you talking about?
Principal Roberts told
us what really happened
the night Colin got bullied.
He wasn't beaten up for
defending Shawna's honour,
Ms. Hobarth. Colin was beaten
by Shawna and her friends
for being, in their words, "creepy."
Making them feel unsafe.
They lured your son.
Shawna told him she liked
him. Asked him to meet up,
and when he arrived, well,
you saw his face, so
I'll ask you again.
Are you sure Colin was at
the hospital the entire time?
[COLIN CLEARS THROAT]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[BATEMAN]: Ms. Hobarth, um
this likely just a big misunderstanding.
Yes.
If you want us to confirm Colin's alibi,
we need is his phone.
Of course.
Colin wears shoes
levellers and St. Joe's is
only a nine-minute bike ride
to the Wallace Avenue Bridge.
Yeah, he's our killer.
That's one confused kid.
Hey, how do you know so much
about these manosphere guys?
You've never asked why
I know things before.
Yeah, well, the other things you know
don't walk into Polytechnique
and shoot 14 women.
[KIDS YELLING IN THE DISTANCE]
My sister's kids,
the oldest one in
particular, he's been
struggling, listening to all this stuff.
I'm trying to understand it
so I can, I don't know, help.
Like I said, nephews.
[DARCY]: Location data
from Colin's phone puts him
at St. Joe's for a 56-minute window,
including the moment Delia was killed.
Physical therapist confirm he was there?
Yes and no.
She gives Colin her exercises, but then,
she goes to do her rounds.
So you think this little kid
snuck out, killed a woman,
and just biked back to therapy?
I do. Colin was bullied
by a group of girls
around the time Delia was fired.
They beat him, humiliated him.
So much so, he lied
to his mother about it.
We're thinking he was
radicalized around this time.
Colin's phone suggests he's
consumed thousands of hours
of manosphere podcasts.
That may make him a disciple.
That does not make him a murderer.
No, but Colin's been to see Bill Diamond
at seven different live
tapings of the Diamond Exchange.
Oh. They look chummy.
Yeah, the first two selfies were taken
almost three months
ago, but the next five?
All taken after Colin
was bullied at school.
Including this one,
which was taken six days before
Delia Ferrera was pushed off a bridge
by someone with orthotic shoes.
We know who our killer is, Inspector.
We just don't know why.
We're hoping Colin's
obsession with Bill Diamond
will shed some light on why
an historically nonviolent kid
would suddenly kill a
teacher he never even had.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
Unfortunately, this, this celebration
of female uniqueness has become comorbid
in the demonization of
all uniquely male traits,
labelling them toxic.
We've all heard that word, right? Toxic.
That's right. And by doing
that, what did it get us?
It got us more of the
same kinds of violent men
that society claims they
want to rehabilitate.
But if you govern by shame,
it leads to rage, and it's gotta stop.
[MAN IN AUDIENCE]: Whoa.
It's gotta stop right here in this room.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
I'll take applause.
There, that's right.
"What brings you to
the Diamond Exchange?
How has your life changed
between the outset of #MeToo and now?"
Well, at least the
questions aren't leading.
And then there's 20 multiple choice
that look like they've been pulled
from a mental health screening.
There it is. Spread the word, okay?
Uh, hi.
Ma'am, there's a line.
Yeah, there is.
And you crossed it about eight times
in your little speech in there.
Ah.
What can I do for you, Detectives?
We're investigating
the murder of a teacher
named Delia Ferrera. Did you know her?
Doesn't ring a bell.
What about, uh
Colin Hobarth? You must
remember this guy, yeah?
I take a lot of pictures
with a lot of people.
Mr. Diamond, uh
all of the young men we questioned
during this murder
investigation have a connection
or devotion to you and your messaging.
- Any idea why?
- Yeah. I do.
Chapter eight. "A Utopia of Eunuchs."
My gift to you.
You know, I find this
questionnaire illuminating.
Um "Trauma is meant to
be confronted, not concealed.
Tell us yours." That's
a little invasive, isn't it?
I'm a psychotherapist.
That's data I use as
a tool to help people
who need my guidance.
Do you ever think your messaging
is guiding people to some bad places?
My message does not promote violence.
And-and I'll tell you, this-this fear
of young men that
everyone is taught today,
that's the new Satanic Panic.
It would be irresponsible
of me to promote such
such nonsense. Okay? We clear?
Yeah. Yeah, our boys are in crisis
and you are getting
rich off that crisis.
This chapter he referenced?
The illustration, it's an anthurium.
[BATEMAN]: It's a phallic nightmare.
So much so that flower
enthusiasts call it
the Naughty Boy.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Hey!
I've been waiting for you to call.
I-I worried you were
leaving me all alone.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES]
Yeah, thanks. Thanks.
You can't just come up to me,
not with the cops snooping around.
[BAG ZIPS]
Listen, I know you had
people walking out on you
your whole life, but I
am not one of those men.
[ENGINE STARTS]
All you have to do is
stay quiet. Okay, Son?
[CAR DOOR SLAMS SHUT]
The TDSB sent over the
archive of Delia's work email.
Nothing from Bill
Diamond or Naughty Boy.
No, no, they have to be connected.
Diamond is a podcaster.
He makes a living speaking, so
I did a search for his voice.
This was in the deleted messages.
Buckle up, kids.
I'm sorry I've been such a bad girl.
[BILL, ON VIDEO]: Cover your eyes.
The red scarf. It was hers.
[BILL, ON VIDEO]: I know
how you can make it up to me.
Kiss the naughty boy.
[BEEP]
Yeah, they were connected.
The sex tape, metadata says
it was filmed in June 2019.
He was still a professor.
She was an undergrad.
They did everything they
could to keep it buried.
Diamond was forced out of the university
after he publicly drifted
into the intellectual dark web
about a year later.
That's when we think that Delia tried
to break it off, and Diamond started
holding the revenge porn over her head.
At least we know why Delia slapped Luke.
The kid had no idea the
nerve he was stepping on.
And it's not even just that.
So after we found the tape,
we did a full search on
the address it came from.
160 emails in the last three months
where the sender harasses Delia.
Things she wore to school,
things she said in the hallway.
Colin was spying on her for him?
Everyone who goes to
the Diamond Exchange
has to fill out this questionnaire.
Colin likely wrote that
he went to Grace Goode
and Diamond pounced.
Can we prove that these
emails came from Diamond?
He was very careful.
Used a fake account.
Never signed his name, or Naughty Boy.
"Naughty Boy." Man is so vile,
he's making me hate flowers.
And I love flowers.
- Flowers.
- What?
The last three weeks of Delia's life,
she went to matinees every Sunday,
but every Sunday before that
She went to the Botanical Gardens.
So what changed? Why did she stop going?
Let's find out.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[ECHOING GAVEL]
Yeah, I remember this character.
He always used to come
by with a real nice lady.
Hmm, is, uh
is this her?
Yeah.
She brought the staff treats
and remembered
everybody's name, you know?
Do you remember anything strange?
Anything that sticks out?
Strange is a long list with that guy.
He was always forcing, um
- Delia.
- Delia to hold his hand.
And one time, he got so
angry she started crying.
- What happened?
- Well, when I got there,
she started explaining everything away,
what a big misunderstanding
it was, you know.
Do you have footage?
I'm sorry.
They erase the tapes at
the end of each month.
What about four Sundays ago?
Sure, yeah. I wasn't working,
but I can pull it up for you.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[KEYS CLACKING]
There they are.
I don't suppose you have sound
of this lovers' quarrel, huh, Stanley?
Our donors don't come in here
and neither does their money.
Is this the only video of them you have?
Yeah, I worked the next two Sundays
and she wasn't here.
Uh, but the man came back
a couple of weeks later
with some other gentleman.
Another gentleman?
What did he look like?
Uh, tall, bald, nice face.
- Is that him?
- [STANLEY]: Yeah, that's him.
We're gonna need that footage too.
No, you never asked
me about Bill Diamond.
You asked me if Delia had ever
Stop.
She spoke about Diamond
in her sessions, right?
[SIGHS]
Did she mention that he was
holding a sex tape over her head?
You know I can't answer that.
Right. Because that would
be a breach of ethics.
You don't take the Hippocratic
oath just to be a hypocrite.
You know, we talked to
everyone who knew Delia
and you're the only one who knew
she'd be crossing the bridge
at the time of her murder.
- Isn't that funny?
- It's not what it looks like.
No? Because it looks like
conspiracy to commit murder to me.
Bill Diamond wrote to me, okay?
He knew I was treating
Delia and he wanted to see
if I could help find
closure for both of them.
He wanted to chat.
Man to man.
Therapist to therapist.
What kind of therapist
invites a patient's stalker
into her life? She trusted you.
Look, there was a time
before the
multi-million-dollar book deals
and the lucrative podcasts
when Bill Diamond was
very respected in our field.
I-I watched all his seminars.
I cited his studies. I
You told him that
Delia would be crossing
- the Wallace Avenue Bridge
- No!
At least I didn't intend to.
What does that mean? Exactly.
All I said is I would talk to Delia,
find if she had any
interest in finding closure.
I made no promises.
And he said, "What about next Sunday?"
- and stupidly, I
- Jesus. Why didn't you say anything?
I-I hoped I was wrong.
Okay, well, she's dead, so you weren't.
Okay. Sunday, May 3rd.
What'd they fight about?
- [SIGHS]
- Gee whiz, Bateman,
it's almost like he's
gonna cite confidentiality.
But that couldn't be true, could it?
So my client lied about
knowing Ms. Ferrera.
In the current climate,
the way he is demonized
by feminist groups in the media,
he didn't feel safe telling the truth.
Especially to the female
officer you came with.
Yeah, she scares me too, that's why
she isn't here today. I
wanted us to feel safe.
Now, and Colin Hobarth?
You lied about knowing him too, right?
Like I said, he's just a fan.
Who happened to go to the same school
that your ex-girlfriend
was teaching at.
I'm sure I have a lot
of fans at that school.
Oh, I'm sure you do.
But the, uh the email address
you used to send revenge
porn to Delia Ferrera
Oh, that's enough, Detective.
Sorry. Sometimes it's hard to control
the naughty boy in me.
Huh.
Anthuriums, right? Like the, um
illustration in your book.
They don't bloom here
until, what, midsummer?
If you say so.
If I say so. I wish.
Can you imagine being
able to grow things?
Shape them.
Warp them just by saying
so. That's a lot of power.
Like I said, I don't know the boy.
- He says you're friends.
- Does he?
[SCOFFS]
He's obviously delusional.
Parasocial relationships
are very complicated,
very powerful things.
I've obviously imprinted
on the boy in some way,
I don't know. I mean,
a lot of people have
this with celebrities.
So would you say in your
professional estimation
that this child who killed a teacher,
your ex-girlfriend, is sick? Demented?
I mean, I wouldn't use
those exact words, but yes,
if the boy, as you said, killed someone,
well, that would be an exhibition
of very anti-social behaviour
Whoa, this conversation is so boring.
You guys wanna watch a movie?
Let's watch a movie.
[DARCY]: That's you in disguise.
- I'm losing my patience here, Detective
- Shhh. This is the good part.
[GRUNTS]
Six years of Sundays.
Six years of not dating anyone
because you wouldn't let
her. Six years of trying
to hold her hand, kiss
her, make love to her.
Trying to wear her down,
begging her to love you again.
And then one day she just
told you off. What happened?
[INHALES SHARPLY]
You'd have [CLEARS THROAT]
You'd have to ask her.
Well, we can't, because
she was murdered by a child.
Then I suggest you go talk to him.
- [DARCY]: Talk to him?
- [BILL]: Yeah.
[DARCY]: Good idea.
Still think he has your back?
Does that sound like a friend to you?
[DARCY]: Come on.
Not one little guess as to what changed
the day Delia Ferrera told you off
and made you look like a complete fool
- at the Botanical Gardens?
- [LAWYER]: Detective Darcy
Oh, you have a guess?
No? Okay, I'll go. The
time stamp on the video,
it's May 3rd, but I-I think
this was Delia's 4th of July.
Her Independence Day.
- Stay calm.
- You blackmailed her
for six years with a sex
tape you made in private.
Hold hold hold why would I
do that? Eh? Why? To what end?
Hers, obviously. You
couldn't let her go,
so you threatened to release the video
and ruin the one thing in this life
she truly loved. Teaching.
I mean, what parent is
gonna want their child taught
by a woman who's acting out
student-teacher sex fantasies online?
Today's climate would have ruined her.
You forced her into
your life on your terms.
But when she lost her job,
that sex tape held no power
over her anymore and it drove you crazy.
"How dare she live her own life
without me telling her what to do?"
So you turned to this.
The psychological profile
of a hurt little boy
and you gave him Delia's scarf
and turned him into a
weapon of your design.
What did you write on it?
That your dad left?
That your father
didn't love you anymore?
You hear him?
He saw that hole in your
heart and he used you.
Delia was innocent.
Anything he told you
about her was a lie.
She didn't do anything wrong.
She was just a person.
She didn't deserve to die.
You didn't deserve to be put
in that position. He used you.
Did Colin tell you that
those girls lured him
to the gym? How they beat him up?
Did he tell you how angry,
how scared, how alone he felt?
You must have thought
you hit the jackpot.
That's enough! I told
you I never met that boy!
[LAWYER]: Bill, let's go.
[BILL]: He's ridiculous!
It's ridiculous!
What am I? Responsible
for every delusional freak
that comes to see me talk?
Not another word. Not
another word. Let's go.
What the hell is this?
Was he watching the interview?
Oh, I am going to have
a field day with this.
None of it, not one
word, is usable in court.
Yeah, well, you know what, counsellor?
We don't need your client's words.
Is that right, Colin?
He told you when Ms.
Ferrera would be crossing
the Wallace Avenue Bridge, didn't he?
- This is absurd.
- Right.
Because a man of your intellect,
your academic standing,
would never commit
such a ludicrous crime.
Colin, he told you that she
would be on the bridge, right?
No, no, no. Hey, Colin? Colin? Listen.
You need to talk to my lawyer, okay?
You need to talk him
alone right now, son.
Wait, you two are friends?
No. Uh no.
Colin, he does not care about
you. He does not love you.
[DARCY]: You know what
I still can't figure out?
The plague doctor costume,
the posting it online.
I mean, pushing Ms. Ferrera
off the bridge I get,
because you're a coward and
you needed a kid to do it,
- but the other two details
- Charge him now
- or we're walking.
- What was the message?
Independent women are the
new disease in society?
You know, for such a smart
guy, not smart, y'know?
- Yeah, that should tell you something.
- Let's go.
You said she was gonna
destroy you. Right?
You you said you
said she had a video of you
and that if it came out, you'd be gone,
- just like my father.
- Colin, please.
You said all I had to do was push.
- Colin, shut up
- Like a game
- Shut up!
- You told me to kill her!
I didn't tell you to film it!
I didn't tell you
I didn't tell you to put
a costume in her classroom.
What is the matter with you?
I wanted them to be scared like I was!
I wanted them to feel
how they've made me feel
my entire life.
Ex-expendable.
"You can't push an
entire generation of boys
into the shadows and expect
us to feel last century's sun
on our faces."
You told me that.
Aren't we worthy of love?
[HANDCUFFS CLICK]
[CATHERINE]: Wait. Wait, why
why are they putting
handcuffs on my son?
He's cooperated, right?
Colin's helped. Please?
He helped the wrong man, Ms. Hobarth.
[STAMMERING]
[SOBBING]
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC]
[ELEVATOR CHIMES]
You couldn't pay me enough
to go back, be a boy again.
Not in this mess.
[THEME MUSIC]
[NARRATOR]: In Toronto's war on crime,
the worst offenders are
pursued by the detectives
of the Specialized Criminal
Investigations Unit.
These are their stories.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
- Hi!
- I like your shirt.
Yeah, it's kind of like European.
Wanna hang out tonight?
Just the three of us?
Shawna. There you are.
Sorry, boys, we need to talk
about an overdue assignment.
- I don't need help.
- I know.
I'll see you in class.
Boss, how's your morning going?
Good.
Got a call from my recently
divorced friend Jerry.
- Eli
- [CHUCKLES]
He enjoyed meeting you.
And I am really enjoying
being retired from that game.
- [SCOFFS]
- All right.
[INTERVIEWER, ON TV]:
women are in control
of our society?
I'm saying that women have used wokeism
and the threat of cancellation
to hold their peers hostage,
and yes, for their own personal gain.
Until 1964, I couldn't have
a bank account in this country
without my husband co-signing.
And you wanna blame men for this. Right?
You want to blame men for
that, but hierarchy exists
it just exists. It's in
nature. It's natural. And
I hear enough of this in my classes.
We don't need it in here.
[LABOURED BREATHING]
[LOCK CLICKS]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
Hello?
Shawna?
[TENSE MUSIC]
Uh, what's going on?
Love. Obsessive, destructive love.
Catherine and Heathcliff
loved each other.
They were obsessed with each other.
If they loved each other,
then why did they rip
each other's hair out?
Well, that's the obsessive
and destructive part,
isn't it, Aisha?
Yeah, I mean, think about it.
An entire lifetime of wanting
each other was confined to,
like, this hot second while
Catherine's dude was at church.
He bruised her arm.
- 'Cause he loved her so much.
- [GIRLS SCOFF]
No, really. He was mourning
her at the exact moment
he was finally able to be with her.
I thought it was beautiful.
I bet you did.
Okay. Why don't we
move on to the next
- What does that mean?
- It means we all hear
what happens at your parties, Luke.
Take that back. Now!
- No, Luke!
- Hey, take it back!
- Okay, whoa! Stop
- Get off me,
you crazy out-of-control woman!
What? You want me to be
your naughty little boy?
[ALL GASP]
[WHIMPERING]
[CHATTERING]
[GIRL]: Hey, it's Ms. Ferrera!
- [BOY]: Abuser!
- I'll walk you to your car. It'll be okay.
Hey, stop that.
[JEERING CONTINUES]
[LAUGHTER]
- [PRINCIPAL]: Hey!
- Direct hit.
Who did that?
- Was that you?
- No.
Huh?
[PRINCIPAL]: Why don't
you try out for a team?
Leave her alone.
[YOUR EX-LOVER IS DEAD BY STARS]
[JEERING CONTINUES]
Hey! Knock that off.
Everyone back inside.
This scar is a fleck
on my porcelain skin ♪
Tried to reach deep
but you couldn't get in ♪
[LOUD CHATTERING]
you see all the beauty ♪
Repent all your sin ♪
It's nothing but time
and a face that you lose ♪
I chose to feel it
and you couldn't choose ♪
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[CHATTERING CONTINUES]
[SCREAMING]
[THEME MUSIC]
[MORENO]: Victim's
name is Delia Ferrera.
English teacher over at
Grace Goode Secondary.
Organ donor.
On anti-depressants.
You're sure she was pushed, Mo?
Yeah. But no one could ID the killer
since everyone is in
costume for the, uh
Anime North Festival.
Yeah, they had voice actors
from Attack on Titan, One Piece.
I hear it was pretty lit.
Uh, nephews.
What costume was the killer wearing?
One kid said it was a
Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo costume?
I think they just want
to hear me say the name.
Another witness said they were
dressed as a plague doctor.
Like, from the Plague plague?
Maybe the killer is making a statement.
Some new ill infecting society?
Conspiracy theorists
did use it during COVID
as a symbol to sow discord, but
I don't know, it does seem a bit
On the pointy nose.
Juvenile, even.
You know, I used to walk this bridge
on my way to Little League.
My eyes were right at the
rail, all four feet of me.
So how does a five-foot-five woman
get pushed over the edge?
Funny place for a scarf.
[SIRENS BLARING]
Mesh on the inside.
You'd have to lean over it to untie it.
If I'm the killer,
she was a sitting duck.
Whoever put this here
knew that it would stop her
in her tracks on a crowded bridge,
that she'd try to untie it.
I think our killer knew
that this scarf was
special to our victim.
Sounds like the kind of person
I'd talk about in therapy.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
Oh, god.
You two were close?
She's been my patient
for about two years.
Some therapists can turn it
off at the end of the day.
I I never could.
Doctor, we found a red
silk scarf on the scene.
We think it may have held
great meaning to Ms. Ferrera.
Do you know did she
have any romantic partners?
Uh, no. She was single.
And do you have any idea
where she was heading today?
Yoga in the Junction and then a
a matinee at Tarragon.
Oh, she mentioned it at her sessions.
Some Sundays she was going
to the botanical gardens.
This past couple of weeks,
she was seeing a play.
Doctor, can you tell us
anything about her life?
Any issues, conflicts,
anything that might
help our investigation?
[SIGHS]
Look, Delia was brutally murdered.
We're just trying to find her killer.
Um Delia was a high school teacher.
She was let go about five weeks ago.
Let go. What happened?
She slapped one of her students.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[SIGHS]
Delia Ferrera, English teacher.
Born Delia Ito,
she was adopted by the
Ferreras in Cache Creek, BC.
In 2016, she moves to Toronto
to study education at U of T.
A bunch of teaching awards.
Then, five weeks ago,
she was fired for slapping a student.
The student she assaulted
is Luke Papastratis.
Multi-sport athlete, good grades.
We're meeting with the principal
at Grace Goode Secondary
to get the details.
Anything in the victim's social media?
The last thing we
found was six years ago
when she was at university.
Not much in her bank
account. No debt. No travel.
Romantic relationships? Anything?
No, no signs. Never married.
Nothing raising any red flags.
I did what you asked and voila.
I found our victim on Dundas West
before she was murdered.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[DARCY]: Wait. Behind her.
Is that who I think it is?
Maybe our killer's message
was juvenile for a reason.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
Ms. Ferrera assaulted our son,
- not the other way around!
- That we understand
How can you accuse my son of murder?
We're not accusing him of
anything, we're just talking.
But if you don't want
to have this conversation
in a calm manner, we can conduct
this interview without you.
Luke, what was your relationship
with Ms. Ferrera like
before the incident?
- Fine, I guess.
- You guess?
I don't know, normal?
Okay, was it normal for you
to follow her down Dundas West?
That's from moments before
she was pushed to her death.
- This is not what you think.
- I'm calling our lawyer.
I didn't kill her!
You have to believe me!
Gee whiz, Luke.
I've been here all of 30
seconds and it looks to me
like the howler monkey doesn't
fall far from the tree here.
It is a long, long road to convincing us
that you didn't do this, so
you might as well start now.
I followed her that day to apologize.
Letting her assault you?
She only did that
because I provoked her.
I I really liked Ms. D.
I hated that she got
fired because of me.
I mean, this girl Aisha,
we got into this stupid argument,
and she said that I
What? Hmm?
This boy from Western Tech,
he started rumours that
a girl was assaulted at
our house last summer.
These are just rumours?
Yeah, he was jealous
of Luke's girlfriend.
So, what, he lied?
Yes.
I swear.
Now, every time I set
the rumour straight,
every time I think it's over,
it just comes up again online.
When-when Aisha said that,
I lost my temper.
Miss D grabbed me, and
I called her a crazy,
out-of-control woman.
Crazy, out-of-control woman?
You hear that somewhere before?
Those exact words?
In the locker room,
some of the guys listen
to these podcasts.
Some old guy was talking about how
it's impossible to
co-exist with crazy women.
It slipped out.
That's when she slapped you.
No.
After that, I
You what?
I asked if she wanted me to be
- What?
- Her naught her naughty boy.
That's when she
Yesterday, when I
apologized, we cried together.
She hugged me.
I can't believe she's dead.
[SOBBING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
[CASH REGISTER]
Principal Roberts, why do you think
Ms. Ferrera reacted to Luke's comment
the way she did?
Every teacher has a breaking point.
Now, when we were in school,
teachers were allowed to discipline us.
Uh, detention, lines on a blackboard.
Now, we just want to
make it through the day
without getting cancelled or sued.
You almost make it sound like
Luke deserved to get slapped.
No. No one was more shocked
or concerned than I was
when Delia slapped him.
And Delia showed no signs
of violent tendencies before?
She lived for this job.
She genuinely liked her
students, they liked her.
- Even the boys?
- What do you mean?
Luke's comment, it sounds a lot
like the sort of thing you hear
coming from the so-called manosphere,
this idea that there are crazy,
out-of-control women in society.
Are you hearing a lot of that stuff?
I'm not gonna lie, those clowns, um
haven't made my job easier.
A gender war is being
litigated by these kids,
and honestly, we are not trained
to shepherd them through it.
[STUDENT 1]: Oh! [STUDEN
2]: What the hell? No!
[CHATTERING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
Excuse me? Excuse me!
Hi, I'm Detective
Sergeant Frankie Bateman.
May I see your phone, please? Thank you.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[STUDENT 3]: This is messed up!
[PHONE RINGS]
- I was just about to call you.
- You get the video?
Yeah, the alert I set
up when I was looking
for CCTV of Delia went off
about three minutes ago.
Doing a reverse trace on the IP now.
[CHIME]
Darcy?
What?
The video was uploaded
from inside the school.
[MARK]: The videographer follows Delia
from the minute she
arrives on the bridge.
So whoever filmed this
video was there to film her.
Do we think the killer
is also a student?
The principal doesn't think so, but
I don't know, there's something
about this woman's murder
that feels confused.
I've got the search history
from the school library.
The only thing watched more
than Taylor Swift videos
are these manosphere prophets.
You've got academics
like Peterson claiming
the natural existence of the patriarchy.
You got that Tate twerp,
spewing whatever toxic bile
is coming out of his worm brain,
and they you've got Bill Diamond,
attacking the woke mind virus.
It's almost enough to make
you rethink free speech, hmm?
Anything on the computer
the video was uploaded from?
Communal desktops in the library.
No student ID necessary.
Why upload it at school?
Well, we think maybe the
killer either wanted us
to know it came from within
the school or maybe
He's an idiot. I mean,
he's just a dumb kid.
Why film it? Why post it?
'Cause views, 'cause likes.
'Cause these kids were
raised on social media.
So, whoever the poster is,
probably linked it to their own page.
And who posted it in the first hour?
I've got
20 personal social media pages.
Play the video again.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[BATEMAN]: Wait.
Our killer bumps into that cosplayer
with the green hair
as he makes his escape.
Looks like he took some
glitter and make-up with him.
- Yeah, I saw that.
- Keep going.
[KEY CLICKS]
Stop. That. There.
The reflection.
Looks like we found our cameraman.
It wasn't me.
You were one of the first people
to post the video of
Ms. Ferrera's murder.
How did you find it? It wasn't trending.
It certainly wasn't searchable.
Look, Detective Darby, was it?
I appreciate that you guys
are trying to trip me up,
but it won't work.
It's just one of the many perks
of having a father
who also happens to be
a kick-ass defence lawyer.
Shut up, Jaxxon.
So what exactly are you
charging my son with?
Conspiracy to commit murder.
- What?
- You know the Crown is
going to want to try him as an adult.
All you have alleged is
that he posted a video.
A video of a teacher from
his school getting murdered,
a murder that he watched
and did nothing to stop.
Well, he wasn't the
only one who posted it.
No, he wasn't. But we have
our own tech genius on staff,
and he's no edgelord like you, Jaxxon,
but he was able to isolate
the reflection of our videographer
in the shield of this
cosplayer, right here.
You see the big purple ears?
The large, vacant eyes?
That's Jax from the
Amazing Digital Circus.
He's got nephews.
And you've got selfie
after selfie after selfie
of you dressed as Jax
all over your socials
from the day Ms. Ferrera was killed.
You couldn't choose a costume
closer to your own
actual given name, Jaxxon.
Well, see, the best part
is when you shove a
cosplayer out of the way
to get a clear shot of Ms. Ferrera.
It's almost like you knew
something bad was gonna happen.
Can I have a moment alone
with my idiot son, please?
[FOOTSTEPS RECEDING]
Jaxxon says he was paid to be
at the Wallace Avenue Pedestrian Bridge
for noon to film something.
Claims he didn't know what.
- How much was he paid?
- 22,000
- 22,000 dollars?
- Robux.
What the hell is a Robuck?
Ro-bucks. It's a gaming currency
you use to trick out
your avatar, buy weapons.
I need to retire. Does
he know our killer?
All contact was anonymous.
Well, how did the
killer know to hire him?
Jaxxon said, and I quote, "E'rbody knows
I film all the sus shiz at school."
Then he said something even weirder.
Weirder than Robux?
You can't see it in the video, but
Jaxxon swears that when
the killer ran away,
they had a spider web on their sneaker.
That's not weirder than Robux.
It could be a shoe leveller.
It's, uh, lifts that you
attach to your sneaker
to compensate for different
bone lengths in the legs.
I've asked Principal Roberts
for a list of all the students
with physical accommodations.
Well, he gave us a lead,
but Jaxxon Font doesn't
leave here until he is scared
within an inch of his life.
Charge him as an accomplice.
That punk kid's got to learn.
That punk kid did give us something.
Should we throw his father a bone?
Okay. Tell him we'll
ask Forrester to set bail
at a 100,000 Robux.
[SCHOOL BELL RINGS]
After what happened, I just feel like
I don't even want to be
in big crowds anymore.
I know, but we can't
stay inside forever.
[AISHA]: [GASPS] What the hell?
Principal Roberts?
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
As soon as you grab your
things, go straight home.
We will email your parents
with an official message
later this evening.
We got here as fast as we could.
So, uh, the costume was posed
in Delia's old classroom?
In her chair. You tell
me this was just a prank?
Kids can come back.
Until that time, I am operating
as if a murderer is
enrolled in this school.
You have that list of
students with accommodations?
Sorry. With all this, I almost forgot.
- Is that
- [PRINCIPAL]: Yeah.
Aisha. Hi.
I'm Detective Sergeant Frankie Bateman.
[CHATTERING]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
You haven't found Ms.
Ferrera's killer yet?
- No.
- That's too bad.
Ms. Ferrera made me feel like
good things were possible.
[DARCY]: Hey.
There's glitter and
make-up on the nose.
Looks right.
Hi, I'm Detective John Darcy.
Just so you know,
those remote learning webcams in there?
They turn on a few
minutes before class begins
and turn off when it ends.
So, whoever put that costume in there
had to know when they're switched on,
or else they'd be seen.
Good tip. Thank you.
And no, I didn't see who put it there.
Can I go to catch my bus now?
Of course.
Principal Roberts.
Did any of these kids start
remote learning recently?
Uh, yeah, Colin Hobarth.
Left school right around the
time that Delia was let go.
Horrible bullying incident
with this girl Shawna.
What did he do?
Actually, it was the other way around.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
[BATEMAN]: Colin,
Principal Roberts says you,
uh you made the
switch to remote learning
due to a bullying incident?
Something was always happening
to him at that school.
It was nothing. [CHUCKLES]
You'll have to forgive my mother.
I was born with anisomelia.
- One leg shorter than the other.
- Ah.
It's made her very protective of me.
The bullying was a month ago,
but that mark on your
face looks pretty fresh.
Did you reinjure it?
[CATHERINE]: Well, it
wasn't actually bullying.
He was meeting a girl named Shawna.
And she was insulted by this older boy,
and Colin stood up for her.
The older boy beat him up,
but I think he was brave that night.
The strongest, fastest lobsters
in the ocean rule our society.
When a weak, albeit
intellectually superior lobster
like myself catches the eye
of one of the prize females,
the alpha will pounce.
Take his share and mine.
That's just biology.
That's Peterson, right?
"12 Rules for Life."
Hmm. You've been initiated.
No, I just love clickbait.
But, hey, 1% of the
world's population holds
90% of its wealth, so
it's hard data to ignore.
"The bullies have always benefitted
by forcing the exceptional
into the shadows."
Bill Diamond.
Got me through some dark times.
Dark times? Like your father leaving?
Excuse me?
There's no men's shoes
or jackets in the closet.
There's no big-screen
TV in the living room.
You're not here to talk about
remote learning, are you?
Uh, Catherine [CLEARS THROAT]
Catherine, I'm sure
you've heard, but, um
a teacher who works at Colin's school,
Delia Ferrera, was murdered on Sunday.
Could you tell me where Colin was
between 1 and 3 PM that day?
Oh, at his physio
appointment at St. Joe's.
[BATEMAN]: You're sure
he was at the hospital?
[CATHERINE]: Yes, we rode
our bikes there together.
And you were with him for
the entire appointment?
Well, no, I went for a coffee at Reunion
and read my book. Why?
I only ask because Colin
seems to have a thing
for bending the truth.
What are you talking about?
Principal Roberts told
us what really happened
the night Colin got bullied.
He wasn't beaten up for
defending Shawna's honour,
Ms. Hobarth. Colin was beaten
by Shawna and her friends
for being, in their words, "creepy."
Making them feel unsafe.
They lured your son.
Shawna told him she liked
him. Asked him to meet up,
and when he arrived, well,
you saw his face, so
I'll ask you again.
Are you sure Colin was at
the hospital the entire time?
[COLIN CLEARS THROAT]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[BATEMAN]: Ms. Hobarth, um
this likely just a big misunderstanding.
Yes.
If you want us to confirm Colin's alibi,
we need is his phone.
Of course.
Colin wears shoes
levellers and St. Joe's is
only a nine-minute bike ride
to the Wallace Avenue Bridge.
Yeah, he's our killer.
That's one confused kid.
Hey, how do you know so much
about these manosphere guys?
You've never asked why
I know things before.
Yeah, well, the other things you know
don't walk into Polytechnique
and shoot 14 women.
[KIDS YELLING IN THE DISTANCE]
My sister's kids,
the oldest one in
particular, he's been
struggling, listening to all this stuff.
I'm trying to understand it
so I can, I don't know, help.
Like I said, nephews.
[DARCY]: Location data
from Colin's phone puts him
at St. Joe's for a 56-minute window,
including the moment Delia was killed.
Physical therapist confirm he was there?
Yes and no.
She gives Colin her exercises, but then,
she goes to do her rounds.
So you think this little kid
snuck out, killed a woman,
and just biked back to therapy?
I do. Colin was bullied
by a group of girls
around the time Delia was fired.
They beat him, humiliated him.
So much so, he lied
to his mother about it.
We're thinking he was
radicalized around this time.
Colin's phone suggests he's
consumed thousands of hours
of manosphere podcasts.
That may make him a disciple.
That does not make him a murderer.
No, but Colin's been to see Bill Diamond
at seven different live
tapings of the Diamond Exchange.
Oh. They look chummy.
Yeah, the first two selfies were taken
almost three months
ago, but the next five?
All taken after Colin
was bullied at school.
Including this one,
which was taken six days before
Delia Ferrera was pushed off a bridge
by someone with orthotic shoes.
We know who our killer is, Inspector.
We just don't know why.
We're hoping Colin's
obsession with Bill Diamond
will shed some light on why
an historically nonviolent kid
would suddenly kill a
teacher he never even had.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
Unfortunately, this, this celebration
of female uniqueness has become comorbid
in the demonization of
all uniquely male traits,
labelling them toxic.
We've all heard that word, right? Toxic.
That's right. And by doing
that, what did it get us?
It got us more of the
same kinds of violent men
that society claims they
want to rehabilitate.
But if you govern by shame,
it leads to rage, and it's gotta stop.
[MAN IN AUDIENCE]: Whoa.
It's gotta stop right here in this room.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
I'll take applause.
There, that's right.
"What brings you to
the Diamond Exchange?
How has your life changed
between the outset of #MeToo and now?"
Well, at least the
questions aren't leading.
And then there's 20 multiple choice
that look like they've been pulled
from a mental health screening.
There it is. Spread the word, okay?
Uh, hi.
Ma'am, there's a line.
Yeah, there is.
And you crossed it about eight times
in your little speech in there.
Ah.
What can I do for you, Detectives?
We're investigating
the murder of a teacher
named Delia Ferrera. Did you know her?
Doesn't ring a bell.
What about, uh
Colin Hobarth? You must
remember this guy, yeah?
I take a lot of pictures
with a lot of people.
Mr. Diamond, uh
all of the young men we questioned
during this murder
investigation have a connection
or devotion to you and your messaging.
- Any idea why?
- Yeah. I do.
Chapter eight. "A Utopia of Eunuchs."
My gift to you.
You know, I find this
questionnaire illuminating.
Um "Trauma is meant to
be confronted, not concealed.
Tell us yours." That's
a little invasive, isn't it?
I'm a psychotherapist.
That's data I use as
a tool to help people
who need my guidance.
Do you ever think your messaging
is guiding people to some bad places?
My message does not promote violence.
And-and I'll tell you, this-this fear
of young men that
everyone is taught today,
that's the new Satanic Panic.
It would be irresponsible
of me to promote such
such nonsense. Okay? We clear?
Yeah. Yeah, our boys are in crisis
and you are getting
rich off that crisis.
This chapter he referenced?
The illustration, it's an anthurium.
[BATEMAN]: It's a phallic nightmare.
So much so that flower
enthusiasts call it
the Naughty Boy.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Hey!
I've been waiting for you to call.
I-I worried you were
leaving me all alone.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES]
Yeah, thanks. Thanks.
You can't just come up to me,
not with the cops snooping around.
[BAG ZIPS]
Listen, I know you had
people walking out on you
your whole life, but I
am not one of those men.
[ENGINE STARTS]
All you have to do is
stay quiet. Okay, Son?
[CAR DOOR SLAMS SHUT]
The TDSB sent over the
archive of Delia's work email.
Nothing from Bill
Diamond or Naughty Boy.
No, no, they have to be connected.
Diamond is a podcaster.
He makes a living speaking, so
I did a search for his voice.
This was in the deleted messages.
Buckle up, kids.
I'm sorry I've been such a bad girl.
[BILL, ON VIDEO]: Cover your eyes.
The red scarf. It was hers.
[BILL, ON VIDEO]: I know
how you can make it up to me.
Kiss the naughty boy.
[BEEP]
Yeah, they were connected.
The sex tape, metadata says
it was filmed in June 2019.
He was still a professor.
She was an undergrad.
They did everything they
could to keep it buried.
Diamond was forced out of the university
after he publicly drifted
into the intellectual dark web
about a year later.
That's when we think that Delia tried
to break it off, and Diamond started
holding the revenge porn over her head.
At least we know why Delia slapped Luke.
The kid had no idea the
nerve he was stepping on.
And it's not even just that.
So after we found the tape,
we did a full search on
the address it came from.
160 emails in the last three months
where the sender harasses Delia.
Things she wore to school,
things she said in the hallway.
Colin was spying on her for him?
Everyone who goes to
the Diamond Exchange
has to fill out this questionnaire.
Colin likely wrote that
he went to Grace Goode
and Diamond pounced.
Can we prove that these
emails came from Diamond?
He was very careful.
Used a fake account.
Never signed his name, or Naughty Boy.
"Naughty Boy." Man is so vile,
he's making me hate flowers.
And I love flowers.
- Flowers.
- What?
The last three weeks of Delia's life,
she went to matinees every Sunday,
but every Sunday before that
She went to the Botanical Gardens.
So what changed? Why did she stop going?
Let's find out.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[ECHOING GAVEL]
Yeah, I remember this character.
He always used to come
by with a real nice lady.
Hmm, is, uh
is this her?
Yeah.
She brought the staff treats
and remembered
everybody's name, you know?
Do you remember anything strange?
Anything that sticks out?
Strange is a long list with that guy.
He was always forcing, um
- Delia.
- Delia to hold his hand.
And one time, he got so
angry she started crying.
- What happened?
- Well, when I got there,
she started explaining everything away,
what a big misunderstanding
it was, you know.
Do you have footage?
I'm sorry.
They erase the tapes at
the end of each month.
What about four Sundays ago?
Sure, yeah. I wasn't working,
but I can pull it up for you.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[KEYS CLACKING]
There they are.
I don't suppose you have sound
of this lovers' quarrel, huh, Stanley?
Our donors don't come in here
and neither does their money.
Is this the only video of them you have?
Yeah, I worked the next two Sundays
and she wasn't here.
Uh, but the man came back
a couple of weeks later
with some other gentleman.
Another gentleman?
What did he look like?
Uh, tall, bald, nice face.
- Is that him?
- [STANLEY]: Yeah, that's him.
We're gonna need that footage too.
No, you never asked
me about Bill Diamond.
You asked me if Delia had ever
Stop.
She spoke about Diamond
in her sessions, right?
[SIGHS]
Did she mention that he was
holding a sex tape over her head?
You know I can't answer that.
Right. Because that would
be a breach of ethics.
You don't take the Hippocratic
oath just to be a hypocrite.
You know, we talked to
everyone who knew Delia
and you're the only one who knew
she'd be crossing the bridge
at the time of her murder.
- Isn't that funny?
- It's not what it looks like.
No? Because it looks like
conspiracy to commit murder to me.
Bill Diamond wrote to me, okay?
He knew I was treating
Delia and he wanted to see
if I could help find
closure for both of them.
He wanted to chat.
Man to man.
Therapist to therapist.
What kind of therapist
invites a patient's stalker
into her life? She trusted you.
Look, there was a time
before the
multi-million-dollar book deals
and the lucrative podcasts
when Bill Diamond was
very respected in our field.
I-I watched all his seminars.
I cited his studies. I
You told him that
Delia would be crossing
- the Wallace Avenue Bridge
- No!
At least I didn't intend to.
What does that mean? Exactly.
All I said is I would talk to Delia,
find if she had any
interest in finding closure.
I made no promises.
And he said, "What about next Sunday?"
- and stupidly, I
- Jesus. Why didn't you say anything?
I-I hoped I was wrong.
Okay, well, she's dead, so you weren't.
Okay. Sunday, May 3rd.
What'd they fight about?
- [SIGHS]
- Gee whiz, Bateman,
it's almost like he's
gonna cite confidentiality.
But that couldn't be true, could it?
So my client lied about
knowing Ms. Ferrera.
In the current climate,
the way he is demonized
by feminist groups in the media,
he didn't feel safe telling the truth.
Especially to the female
officer you came with.
Yeah, she scares me too, that's why
she isn't here today. I
wanted us to feel safe.
Now, and Colin Hobarth?
You lied about knowing him too, right?
Like I said, he's just a fan.
Who happened to go to the same school
that your ex-girlfriend
was teaching at.
I'm sure I have a lot
of fans at that school.
Oh, I'm sure you do.
But the, uh the email address
you used to send revenge
porn to Delia Ferrera
Oh, that's enough, Detective.
Sorry. Sometimes it's hard to control
the naughty boy in me.
Huh.
Anthuriums, right? Like the, um
illustration in your book.
They don't bloom here
until, what, midsummer?
If you say so.
If I say so. I wish.
Can you imagine being
able to grow things?
Shape them.
Warp them just by saying
so. That's a lot of power.
Like I said, I don't know the boy.
- He says you're friends.
- Does he?
[SCOFFS]
He's obviously delusional.
Parasocial relationships
are very complicated,
very powerful things.
I've obviously imprinted
on the boy in some way,
I don't know. I mean,
a lot of people have
this with celebrities.
So would you say in your
professional estimation
that this child who killed a teacher,
your ex-girlfriend, is sick? Demented?
I mean, I wouldn't use
those exact words, but yes,
if the boy, as you said, killed someone,
well, that would be an exhibition
of very anti-social behaviour
Whoa, this conversation is so boring.
You guys wanna watch a movie?
Let's watch a movie.
[DARCY]: That's you in disguise.
- I'm losing my patience here, Detective
- Shhh. This is the good part.
[GRUNTS]
Six years of Sundays.
Six years of not dating anyone
because you wouldn't let
her. Six years of trying
to hold her hand, kiss
her, make love to her.
Trying to wear her down,
begging her to love you again.
And then one day she just
told you off. What happened?
[INHALES SHARPLY]
You'd have [CLEARS THROAT]
You'd have to ask her.
Well, we can't, because
she was murdered by a child.
Then I suggest you go talk to him.
- [DARCY]: Talk to him?
- [BILL]: Yeah.
[DARCY]: Good idea.
Still think he has your back?
Does that sound like a friend to you?
[DARCY]: Come on.
Not one little guess as to what changed
the day Delia Ferrera told you off
and made you look like a complete fool
- at the Botanical Gardens?
- [LAWYER]: Detective Darcy
Oh, you have a guess?
No? Okay, I'll go. The
time stamp on the video,
it's May 3rd, but I-I think
this was Delia's 4th of July.
Her Independence Day.
- Stay calm.
- You blackmailed her
for six years with a sex
tape you made in private.
Hold hold hold why would I
do that? Eh? Why? To what end?
Hers, obviously. You
couldn't let her go,
so you threatened to release the video
and ruin the one thing in this life
she truly loved. Teaching.
I mean, what parent is
gonna want their child taught
by a woman who's acting out
student-teacher sex fantasies online?
Today's climate would have ruined her.
You forced her into
your life on your terms.
But when she lost her job,
that sex tape held no power
over her anymore and it drove you crazy.
"How dare she live her own life
without me telling her what to do?"
So you turned to this.
The psychological profile
of a hurt little boy
and you gave him Delia's scarf
and turned him into a
weapon of your design.
What did you write on it?
That your dad left?
That your father
didn't love you anymore?
You hear him?
He saw that hole in your
heart and he used you.
Delia was innocent.
Anything he told you
about her was a lie.
She didn't do anything wrong.
She was just a person.
She didn't deserve to die.
You didn't deserve to be put
in that position. He used you.
Did Colin tell you that
those girls lured him
to the gym? How they beat him up?
Did he tell you how angry,
how scared, how alone he felt?
You must have thought
you hit the jackpot.
That's enough! I told
you I never met that boy!
[LAWYER]: Bill, let's go.
[BILL]: He's ridiculous!
It's ridiculous!
What am I? Responsible
for every delusional freak
that comes to see me talk?
Not another word. Not
another word. Let's go.
What the hell is this?
Was he watching the interview?
Oh, I am going to have
a field day with this.
None of it, not one
word, is usable in court.
Yeah, well, you know what, counsellor?
We don't need your client's words.
Is that right, Colin?
He told you when Ms.
Ferrera would be crossing
the Wallace Avenue Bridge, didn't he?
- This is absurd.
- Right.
Because a man of your intellect,
your academic standing,
would never commit
such a ludicrous crime.
Colin, he told you that she
would be on the bridge, right?
No, no, no. Hey, Colin? Colin? Listen.
You need to talk to my lawyer, okay?
You need to talk him
alone right now, son.
Wait, you two are friends?
No. Uh no.
Colin, he does not care about
you. He does not love you.
[DARCY]: You know what
I still can't figure out?
The plague doctor costume,
the posting it online.
I mean, pushing Ms. Ferrera
off the bridge I get,
because you're a coward and
you needed a kid to do it,
- but the other two details
- Charge him now
- or we're walking.
- What was the message?
Independent women are the
new disease in society?
You know, for such a smart
guy, not smart, y'know?
- Yeah, that should tell you something.
- Let's go.
You said she was gonna
destroy you. Right?
You you said you
said she had a video of you
and that if it came out, you'd be gone,
- just like my father.
- Colin, please.
You said all I had to do was push.
- Colin, shut up
- Like a game
- Shut up!
- You told me to kill her!
I didn't tell you to film it!
I didn't tell you
I didn't tell you to put
a costume in her classroom.
What is the matter with you?
I wanted them to be scared like I was!
I wanted them to feel
how they've made me feel
my entire life.
Ex-expendable.
"You can't push an
entire generation of boys
into the shadows and expect
us to feel last century's sun
on our faces."
You told me that.
Aren't we worthy of love?
[HANDCUFFS CLICK]
[CATHERINE]: Wait. Wait, why
why are they putting
handcuffs on my son?
He's cooperated, right?
Colin's helped. Please?
He helped the wrong man, Ms. Hobarth.
[STAMMERING]
[SOBBING]
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC]
[ELEVATOR CHIMES]
You couldn't pay me enough
to go back, be a boy again.
Not in this mess.
[THEME MUSIC]