Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent (2024) s04e05 Episode Script
Bad Campers
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]
And so there we were, in
the middle of the lake.
Just two kids and a leaky canoe
and about a million mosquitoes.
And that's where my fever dream started.
I'm still convinced it was malaria.
- [LAUGHTER]
- Yeah, maybe.
But while Jeremy here
was checking the canoe
for leaks, I was looking at the stars.
And I was thinking we
should make a sweater
that feels like this moment right here.
[GENTLE MUSIC]
Anyway, 20 years later,
he's still the one
keeping Good North upright.
Well, someone had to
figure out how to pay for
all that fabric, right, Wes? [LAUGHTER]
But the truth is
without your vision,
there is no Good North.
Or without your support,
which is why we've
invited you here tonight
to our company's camp
for at-risk youth.
It's a little, um
It's a little nod to
where it all started.
In nature.
My brother and I, we
are very proud to present
Good North's 20th anniversary capsule.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
Come on, you guys!
From the Ellsworth family
to the Good North family,
thank you. [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
[SHUTTERS CLICKING]
[STRAINED MUSIC]
Yeah, I'm right back
into it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
He's good.
[WHISPERING]
[BOBCAYGEON BY THE TRAGICALLY HIP]
Whoa, hey, hey, hey. Ella, hey.
Let me, okay?
Pardon me, hi.
I just need to borrow my
brother for a quick second. Okay?
Come on. Relax. It's not what you think.
Hey, I love you, but that is a bad look.
Love you too, pal. There's
nothing to worry about.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[BLADE SQUEAKS]
Mmm.
Hey.
Sorry to keep you waiting.
After last time, I didn't
think you had an appetite
for what I was selling.
No, believe me, the
appetite was always there.
I just, um
- Everything okay?
- Yeah.
No, just had a little car trouble.
Don't tell me not to worry,
Wes. You look like a wreck.
Even the guys in accounting are talking.
Oh, God, not accounting!
God forbid the great
visionary looks a little
worse for wear during a
national marketing rollout.
I know you better than anyone.
Is that really all this is?
Hey! Look at me.
You are losing the thread, brother.
20 years, Wes!
20 years.
We didn't just turn your
vision into a clothing brand.
We turned it into a fortress.
Do you think that I
don't know that, Jeremy?
I think you're
forgetting that our family
lives in that fortress.
Don't so anything to weaken it now. Hm?
[OMINOUS MUSIC CONTINUES]
[CAR UNLOCKS]
[WHIRRING]
[WHIRRING FADES TO A STOP]
What's going on? Whoa!
- Not today, Satan.
- [WHIRRING]
[SQUEEGEE SQUEAKS]
[OMINOUS MUSIC CONTINUES]
What is that?
[THEME MUSIC]
[SHUTTERS CLICKING]
Victim looks familiar.
Looks like every other guy I dated
when I was still trying
to convince my mom
I was straight.
Heard you're with Bateman.
She drop you already?
No, she's got some crown
business to attend to.
Wes Ellsworth.
As in the Ellsworth brothers?
- Who?
- The founders of Good North.
It's a clothing monopoly
built on national identity.
They took the whole
"Canadian heritage" thing
and polished it for the suburbs.
Their stuff is a bit obvious,
but they did master
the merino-blend sock,
I'll give them that.
Did you talk to the neighbours?
As above, so below.
Nobody heard a thing.
That's because the killer
slit the victim's throat first.
Right through the jugular.
He went down right away.
No chance to scream
for the people in 4B.
Looks like he put up a fight, though.
Mr. Canoehead.
A portage tattoo.
Kinda goes along with the whole
"Canadian heritage" brand thing.
[SQUELCHING]
Look at these stab wounds.
They're vertical. Parallel.
The killer was above him,
likely straddling him.
And then they drove
the knife in repeatedly
until his heart had
nothing left to pump.
What about the murder weapon?
We're searching the premises now.
Any idea what the victim was doing
- in Liberty Village?
- He owns the unit.
But his license placed him in High Park.
Maybe it's, uh investment property
or a second rental unit?
No. Lookit.
There's no dust on these bulbs.
That's a professional
cleaner on a contract.
These plants?
This feature wall?
All fake.
The sparkling water,
it's lined up like a product display.
Wes didn't live here. He escaped here.
Question is
who was he escaping with?
Da Silva placed time of death
between 08:00 and 11:00 last night.
Any chance we caught
the killer on camera?
Lobby footage is a bust.
As for the back door,
no camera coverage.
Makes sense for someone maintaining
a secondary residence as a
Oh! Love nest. Well, that's polite.
That's what Wes'
cleaning lady called it.
She said he hadn't been
using it in recent months
but before that, the
signs were always the same.
Empty wine bottles, unmade
bed, used condoms in the trash.
Same thing every time except this one.
What does our crime scene
tell us about our killer?
There was no usable physical
evidence left behind,
- but that level of violence
- You think that there's
history between the
killer and the victim.
I think it's worth considering.
I've got something else
you'll wanna consider.
Footage from the block outside the loft.
This is Wes, 07:55 last night.
Who's the tail?
That would be Wes'
fiancé, Ella Mitchell.
Same address as Wes in High Park.
So Wes' bride-to-be
followed him back to the loft
he's been using as personal
no-tell motel for years.
That's not just history. That is motive.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
I can't believe Wes is just gone.
You know about the affairs?
Uh
He said the affairs were over
and I believed him for a while.
- Until when?
- Two weeks ago.
That's when the behaviour
started up again.
What behaviour?
Sudden defensiveness. Guilt flowers.
Late nights, no answers.
- So I got myself an answer.
- You followed him back to his
loft and you had it out with him.
No, that is not what happened.
You tailed him last night.
He's found dead this morning.
This afternoon, I find
you with a packed bag.
You really expect me to
believe you didn't confront him?
I don't kick down doors
to watch my fiancé
fumbling around with some
young thing whose frontal lobe
just finished developing.
I'm not a masochist, Detective.
Can anyone attest to your
whereabouts last night?
Yes. My best friend Rene.
The second Wes pulled into that loft,
I called her and I drove
straight to her house.
I was there all night
until I came home and
grabbed a few things.
You were gonna leave him.
You know, the pathetic part is
if Wes showed up instead of you,
I would probably be unpacking already.
Ms. Mitchell, do you have any idea
who Wes might have been seeing?
Like I said, I'm an
idiot, not a masochist.
He shows up to the loft around 08:00.
Where was he coming from?
He scratched his car
at the Good North lot two weeks ago.
He went to the auto body shop
and then he went straight to the loft.
Did anyone else know about the loft?
I don't think so.
If anyone did, it
it would be his brother, Jeremy.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
My brother and me, we were
always happiest outdoors.
Making sure other people
get to experience that,
it's not just how Good North started.
It's it's the whole point.
It's why we started our
camp for at-risk youth.
You do seem close.
Did Wes ever mention his loft?
Apparently he used it to entertain.
No, but
I'm not surprised that he didn't,
Wes knew that I wouldn't approve.
Uh
He, um he had a charm that
often got ahead of his judgment.
I knew it would catch
up with him one day.
Did that create friction
in your partnership?
No, no, no.
No, our differences, that's
what made our partnership work.
I mean, I've always
been the suit. But Wes
Wes was the heart and soul
of Good North, the visionary.
This anniversary collection.
It's a bit of a pivot
from your usual staples.
The paint, the patches.
Was that Wes' direction?
Yes, and designs.
From conception to completion
in under half a year.
I don't know how I'm
gonna do it without him.
Mr. Ellsworth,
in the last two weeks,
did you have any idea
where Wes was spending his evenings
or who he might've
been spending them with?
No, but I knew that something
was off. He looked
unravelled.
But he said it was just stress
from the marketing rollout.
[CELL PHONE RINGS]
[SIGHS] I gotta take this, Detective,
um please, take as
much time as you need.
I wanna help as much as I can.
- Thank you.
- Yeah.
Hello? Yeah
[INTENSE MUSIC]
Kiera Vega.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
I've never stepped foot in Wes' loft.
Where were you last night
between 08:00 and 11:00?
Songbird. It's a restaurant
with low lighting and discreet tables.
It's where I take all my
clients who value privacy,
- including Wes.
- Clients.
Is that why Wes sent you the flowers?
Because he was one of your clients?
- Excuse me?
- Four days ago,
Wes sent his fiancé
a bouquet of flowers.
Veronicas, they're
the flower of fidelity.
But he also sent a second arrangement,
of white roses, to you.
Do you know what white roses
symbolize in Greek mythology, Ms. Vega?
[SIGHS]
[FOOTSTEPS]
That's right. Silence.
Which makes me wonder
what services were
you providing for Wes?
The professional kind.
I'm a crisis consultant with Apex.
Apex! You guys are big time.
You're the ones white collars
call when the board of directors
start to smell blood in the water.
Which is why my clients prefer
to keep our relationships off the books.
Being seen with a fixer
usually implies there's
something that needs fixing.
So what was the leak in Wes' boat?
If I told you that, I wouldn't
be very good at my job.
If I left here without an
answer, neither would I.
Wes wanted me to find
dirt on someone named
Javi Day.
Why would Wes need a
fixer to handle a kid?
Your guess is as good as mine.
How do you manage a
client's crisis without
knowing the variables?
I asked Wes the exact same question.
That's when he reminded
me that Good North
wasn't officially an Apex client yet.
He said if I could be trusted
to handle this quietly,
then we could talk about a contract.
And landing Good North would
have been career-changing
for me, so I agreed.
Wes' flowers indicate
that you delivered.
So
what'd you find?
Javi Day is on a full ride
at TMU for fashion design.
Private scholarship.
I started to pull threads
on his application,
dug into his references,
and it turns out
no one has ever heard of him.
And what did Wes do
with this information?
Didn't say.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[DOOR SLAMS]
[TRASH CLATTERS]
Please tell me you hit
up that sandwich truck
- outside City Hall.
- Lots of mayo.
Crown held me hostage for three days
just to turn around
and offer a plea deal
right before it was my turn to testify.
The grand theatre of the
Ontario judicial system,
a bureaucratic masterpiece
designed to age us all prematurely.
Well, it's working. I got your
notes on the Ellsworth file.
Scorned fiancé with an airtight alibi,
brother who says the
victim was unravelling
like a cheap sweater. What's the latest?
Turns out Wes went
entirely off the books.
Hired an Apex consultant
to find something
to use against a
20-year-old fashion student.
Javi Day.
Lives near TMU with a roommate.
Why would a retail titan
hire a high-priced fixer
to go after some kid?
Unless the kid already had dirt on him.
Not just dirt. You hire Apex,
you're looking at an
extinction-level event.
What?
Come on. I ate mine in the elevator.
You can eat yours in the car.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
Yeah, that's the guy who showed up
in Javi's design class six
months ago. Wes Ellsworth.
Javi called him his visionary mentor.
Said he was the first
person in the industry
to make him feel like
he wasn't invisible.
Ironically, he ghosted
Javi pretty quickly.
Eliza, did Javi happen to mention where
he was going when he left this morning?
Nah. He's been in a "don't
talk to me or I'll bite"
phase for weeks.
He's the worst roommate sometimes.
But he did throw a bunch of
his stuff into a garbage bag
- before he left.
- What stuff?
Everything he's been
working on for the past year.
What'd he do with it?
Guess it's in there.
So Javi fakes his references
to get into the design
program of his dreams just
to throw all his work
out with the trash?
What if he was left with no choice?
Let's walk it back.
Both Wes and Javi start
spiralling two weeks ago.
It's right around the time that
Wes starts meeting with Kiera.
A week before that, Good North
launches its anniversary line,
which went from concept to completion
in just under six
months? It was right after
Javi meets and is ghosted by Wes.
Wes stole Javi's designs.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
A whole year's worth.
I didn't kill that knockoff savant.
Oh, now he's a knockoff savant.
Gee whiz, what happened
to "visionary mentor."
Wes Ellsworth, co-CEO
of one of the most recognizable
brands in the country,
comes into your class like a god.
But he doesn't give
attention to the others.
No, he sets his sights on you.
Offers to take you under his wing,
tells you that you have the eye.
- I do.
- Of course you do.
Why else would Wes steal
your designs only to have you
find out by seeing him model
them on the side of a bus?
Can't imagine what you said
when you confronted him.
I haven't seen him in months.
Are you sure about that?
Because this is you
outside of Good North
two weeks ago sticking
your knife into his car.
Javi, if you really
have nothing to hide,
now is the time to talk.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[SIGHS HEAVILY]
I tried Wes a few weeks ago.
After I saw the ads.
- What did he say?
- He didn't even blink.
Just pulled out a check
for ten grand and an NDA.
Like he was waiting for me.
But I said no to the money.
I told him I'd go public.
The media department
at TMU or something.
But then he hired someone to
dig up your fake references
and told you that if you ever talked,
he would not only get
you kicked out of school,
he would discredit you
before you even had the chance
- to expose him.
- I had to fake
those references! I was working
two jobs to help my family.
I didn't have a chance to network.
I didn't know anybody in the industry.
How does that give Wes Ellsworth
the right to steal my designs?
And threaten to steal my
future too? How is that fair?
Javi, Wes cornered you so
you turned your knife on him.
No, no, no, no
that's not what happened.
Then what happened?
When I learned I could
lose the scholarship
I took the payout.
I wouldn't have killed
him before I got the money.
And did you get the money?
Hit my account yesterday morning.
That's when I threw these out.
Javi was telling the truth.
The money didn't get to his
account until the morning
after the murder. Wes must've
sent it the night he died.
How do we know that the
kid wasn't holding a knife
to Wes' throat as he did it?
A group of students at a TMU studio
confirmed seeing Javi there all night.
Fair. Can we at least
tie the money back to Wes?
Took some digging, but yes.
The money came from a fund
registered to a numbered
company owned by Wes.
I'm gonna assume that Wes
didn't go to the trouble
of building a whole
corporate veil just to pay off
one design student.
Then you'd be right.
Javi wasn't a one-off.
The company's ten years old
and there's a pattern
of one-time payments
to young designers since its inception.
No similar transactions recently,
but there is an anomaly.
A recurring payment of $5,000 a month
to a Lad and Ladle Catering.
Like clockwork.
Trail goes back three years.
So Wes had a secret
with a longer shelf life.
Follow the money.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
I was here the night Wes died,
cooking for a school retreat.
Wes was the one who hired
me as Camp Good North's cook
back when it opened 15 years ago,
then brought me on as the
company's corporate caterer
a few years back. I owe him a lot.
Can you tell me why Wes
was your catering company
Lad and Ladle $5,000 a month
for the last three years?
It was a retainer. I'm on call 24/7.
Whenever Good North needs a spread
But the money wasn't
coming from Good North.
It was coming from a
numbered company Wes set up.
- Because it was hush money.
- I don't know what you're talking about.
That's a shame, because
my partner's at your bank
right now digging through
your financial records
with a fine-tooth comb.
So either you can
cooperate, talk to me now
while this is still
considered cooperation
or we can wait until we find out exactly
what Wes was paying you for.
But remember, Ernie,
Wes isn't here anymore to take the fall.
That leaves you.
[SIGHS]
A few years back, we had a
camper with low blood sugar.
Every night, she'd take hot
cocoa to level things out.
But one day, her father came
storming in here saying that
the cocoa was making her pass out.
Demanded to know what I was giving her.
What was the problem?
Well, that's the thing, I didn't know.
I used the same cocoa
for the kids all summer.
But her dad didn't wanna hear it.
- And that's when Wes stepped in.
- What was Wes doing here?
The Ellsworth family
volunteers at the camp
the last week of every summer.
They're great with the kids.
And with the parents too, apparently.
Wes was able to talk the guy down.
And I thought that was it.
Until I took the trash
out from the kitchen
a couple of days later.
The bag ripped.
What did you find?
An empty pill bottle for
prescription sedatives.
The name was ripped off the label.
What did you do with it?
I brought it to Wes and asked
him if he thought someone
could have been drugging
that girl's cocoa.
And he said it was probably
just some kids pranking her
and told me that if I
made a fuss about it,
the camp would close and
all these at-risk kids
would lose this experience.
I didn't know what to think.
What did you think when
the money started coming in?
[INTENSE MUSIC]
[SIGHS]
Do you remember the girl's name?
I never forgot it.
Santana Carter.
[INTENSE MUSIC]
Good North doesn't need Apex's services.
Your brother saw things differently.
He considered my fee a small price
to ensure this didn't
become Good North's legacy.
[INTENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]
[ECHOING GAVEL]
Normally, the cocoa
would make me feel better,
but during the last week of camp,
it just made me feel more tired.
So I'd leave the campfire early
and go back to the cabin alone.
Santana, how often did this happen?
Three times too many.
I should've taken her home.
Santana, do you want a
minute before we continue?
Actually
I'd like my dad to leave.
What? Santana
Mr. Carter. Why don't
we give them the room?
Santana'll let us know
when it's okay to come back.
Sorry. He's such a crash out.
[CHUCKLES]
Well, to be fair, my daughter
calls me that all the time.
Santana, you said the cocoa
made you feel even more tired
than a regular sugar drop?
Was there anything else
that felt different?
Yeah. It felt like my body was heavy
but my brain was light.
And kind of fuzzy, it
that makes any sense?
It makes perfect sense.
And do you remember how you
felt in the morning, after?
Hey. You don't have to tell
me anything you're not ready
to talk about.
[EXHALES]
The next morning,
my head hurt.
It hurt really bad every time.
But, um
not as bad as
down there.
I didn't really know any better
or else I would have told my dad.
But he kept trying to
make me leave my friends
and I just
I didn't really understand.
Do you remember who did this to you?
No.
I don't remember anything
after falling asleep.
Okay.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
What happened is not your fault.
Now if it's something
you feel ready to do,
I can have my partner bring your dad in.
We could tell him about this together.
It's up to you.
Okay.
Santana can't even remember the attacks,
let alone put a face to them.
As for the father,
that was genuine shock.
He had no idea what happened
until a few minutes ago.
Wes didn't just build
a camp for at-risk kids.
He built an ideal hunting
ground for a child predator.
Odds are Santana wasn't his only victim.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
You think Santana Carter was
just the tip of the iceberg?
According to the camp cook,
the Ellsworth family spent the last week
of every summer there since it opened.
It means that Wes had
access to girls like Santana
for 15 years.
If she wasn't his only victim,
and maybe one of the others
tracked Wes down, decided a slit throat
was the only way to settle the score.
Any formal complaints against the camp?
According to our database, nothing.
What about online?
I've checked every social
media, blogging platform,
and chat forum I could find for anyone
airing Good North's
dirty laundry. Nothing.
So I stopped looking for
what people were posting
and started looking for
what they got taken down.
- And?
- Just found a legal request made to Reddit
to remove a comment about Good North
from a subreddit called
Camper Confessions.
Can we see that comment?
Reddit hasn't sent over the content yet.
Yeah, but someone wanted
it gone badly enough
to get lawyers involved.
Does it say who?
Apex Crisis consulting.
[SCOFFS]
[ECHOING GAVEL]
Ms. Vega, did you know
that sexual assault
is the most underreported
violent crime in this country?
Now factor in at-risk youth,
with parents who already
don't trust the system.
What do you think the result is?
It goes even more underreported.
I'm a crisis consultant,
Detective, I know the math.
I'm just not sure why we're
doing it in my boardroom.
Okay, I can help you with that.
"Camp Good North is lowkey sketchy.
I went there like six years
ago and a girl in my cabin
said her stepsister was assaulted there.
Drugged too, because she
couldn't remember anything.
Anyone hear about this?"
This was a comment in a
subreddit one month ago.
It was deleted one week after.
Now we couldn't trace the
poster, but we did manage
to trace the person who had
it scrubbed, right back to you.
You care to explain to us why
you withheld that information?
At the time, I didn't
think it had anything
to do with your investigation.
Well, we're telling you
now we think it does.
So unless you want to be
dragged out of Apex in cuffs
for obstruction, tell us what
you were really doing for Wes.
Apex has been circling
Good North for years.
So I crashed their
anniversary party last month
and I offered to but the brothers dinner
on Apex's dime. They accepted.
And I wanted to impress them.
So I had my tech team do a digital sweep
for any threats to
Good North's reputation
and eliminate them before we sat down.
Including that Reddit comment.
What was Wes' reaction
when you showed him
the scrubbed comment?
Oh, non-existent. They
declined my services.
But Wes reached out again.
For an off-the-books meeting,
but this time he was different.
Paranoid, dishevelled.
Something big was eating at him.
That's how I knew Javi was just a test.
A test for something bigger?
Like the Reddit comment?
You can't manage sexual assault
allegations without details.
So what were they?
Wes spoke hypothetically
about pills in girls' food at the camp.
Did he name any of the
girls? Did he say how many?
No. He just gave me
enough to strategize.
What about his brother?
Did he say anything?
No, he was adamant, no
one else gets involved.
I gave him my word and I kept it.
Until Wes was killed.
I brought back Apex's
contract to Jeremy yesterday.
I figured I would tell him what Wes did
and I would get his
signature on the dotted line.
What did you get instead?
Nothing.
He heard me out and escorted me out.
I couldn't get a read on him at all.
If Kiera is to be
trusted, and that is an if,
it's strange that Jeremy had no reaction
to hearing what Wes did to those girls.
Unless it wasn't his
first time hearing it.
Now, protecting Good
North is Jeremy's job.
If he knew what Wes was doing
all along and the Reddit comment
wasn't news to him, it
was a risk assessment.
And since Kiera has already
it scrubbed, maybe he figured
the smartest move for Good North
was no move at all.
But then Wes got spooked,
went rogue, met with Kiera,
and spilled the kind of tea
that could sink the company.
If Jeremy found out,
he might've thought that
the only way to protect
20 years of Good North
is to kill its visionary.
I had no idea what Wes was
doing at Camp Good North.
Oh, let me guess, you also had no idea
that he was paying off the cook
to stay quiet about him slipping
drugs into the kids' cocoa.
No, I didn't.
If Wes was paying off Ernie,
he was not doing it
through Good North's books.
I would've known.
If you told me a month ago that
Wes was capable of any of this,
I would not have believed you.
- What changed?
- Wes did.
After that initial meeting with Kiera,
he pushed and pushed for
Good North to sign with Apex.
- What was his reason?
- Well, that's the thing,
he didn't really have one.
Which is why I shut down
the conversation.
When exactly did you
learn that your brother
was a child predator?
[STRAINED MUSIC]
Um yesterday.
- When Kiera came by.
- Are you sure?
Because according to Kiera,
you didn't so much as
flinch when she told you.
Is there a correct way
to respond to information
like that, Detective?
There's a human way.
You expect us to believe
you just accepted what Kiera told you
about your business
partner, your brother,
without asking questions
or pushback? Why?
- [SLAM]
- Cos I believed her!
The minute that she said it,
everything that Wes did after
that Reddit comment made sense.
Pushing for Apex, the sudden spiralling.
And I started second-guessing
how he insisted
our families, they
they spend the final week
volunteering at the camp
every single year.
All that time was spent with my kids.
I didn't kill my brother, Detectives.
But I've spent the last
24 hours thinking if
I had known the truth while
he was still breathing
I might have.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Yeah. I appreciate your time.
Thanks.
Well, Jeremy's alibi checks out.
He and his wife were
at dinner with friends.
Which means we have a
whole lot of nothing.
- Speak for yourself.
- What do you have?
I've been combing
through Camp Good North's
digital archives. Every
summer for 15 years,
20 boys and 20 girls attended the camp.
Except for its opening year.
Summer 2011.
There are only 19 girls registered.
One slot stayed empty the entire summer.
Late cancellation, maybe?
Or low enrollment first year?
These things can take
a while to catch on.
This camp was a prestige
project. At-risk youth,
high demand, full subsidized.
You don't leave a bed empty.
You yell, "next in line."
Okay, so one girl's missing.
We need to go back to Camp Good North.
No, I don't care how long
Ernie's been at the camp.
- He's done.
- Quiet, please! Dustin, Leah,
- finish your sandwiches!
- [CHILDREN LAUGHING]
I just talked to the kids.
They both said Uncle
Wes never did anything
like that to either of them.
Oh, thank Christ.
But this whole thing, Harper,
it's gonna go public.
The company, the camp, everything.
And we need to be prepared to
present a united front, okay?
Not just for the brand
for us.
For our family.
We cannot let this break us.
It won't.
[BOTH SIGHING]
There's already a new
cook in the camp's kitchen.
[BATEMAN OVER PHONE]: Jeremy moves fast.
Okay. I'm holding the
2011 folder in my hand.
- You find anything?
- I'm in the dining hall
looking at a bunch of memorabilia.
You find the registry?
Uh, um
Yes.
There are only 19 girls'
names on the digital copy,
but the hard copy does have 20.
There's a collage of all the kids
who were here that summer.
Any of them look like a Mabel Perez?
Not a Mabel,
more like a crisis consultant
who knows how to make
digital files disappear.
Kiera?
- Kiera.
- [INTENSE MUSIC]
So our crisis consultant
hasn't always gone by Kiera Vega.
Not until she was adopted at 14.
Before that, she was Mabel Perez.
Born into the foster system.
She was went to Camp Good
North the summer of 2011.
In fact, it was conveniently scrubbed
from the camp's digital records.
It's the same story we saw
with the Reddit comment.
Why go through all the trouble
to bury a childhood identity?
Because Mabel Perez
may have been the one
with motive to kill Wes.
Kiera is a consultant on the rise.
One marquee client away
from a corner office.
Wes was that client.
She had no reason to kill him.
Mabel, on the other hand,
she was a 10-year-old ward of the crown
when she attended a camp we
now know as Wes' hunting ground.
We believe Wes assaulted Mabel
the summer she was at camp
and that she reintroduced
herself as Kiera to get revenge.
It's a strong theory, but
why wait fifteen years.
Why spend weeks building
a professional relationship
with Wes only to end it
with personal retribution?
Maybe because Kiera
spins the narrative best
when she inserts herself
in it as the fixer.
All right. If it was revenge,
let's start by proving that she
actually had reason to get it.
Find out what really happened
to Mabel Perez that summer.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
Mabel was always making up stories,
could never tell her
lies from the truth.
Did any of her stories
involve Camp Good North?
Oh! Well, don't get me started.
Sent her to a free camp,
she came home claiming
that the boogeyman
attacked her during the last week.
Did it ever, uh
occur to you that she
might be telling the truth?
Of course it did.
But when I sat Mabel down to
try to get it all straight,
it just sounded like
one of her stories again.
- How?
- She barely remembered a thing.
Just, um smell of the grass,
sound of the crickets, you know,
- small things like that?
- Were there any visuals?
There was one thing.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I keep all of the drawings
from the kids that left.
Oh God
Where is it?
Mabel must've drawn this 100 times.
Is it the boogeyman?
No, it was a symbol on his body.
She thought if she drew it enough
that she might remember his
face or nightmares might stop.
She kept saying that she had to fix it.
Said that it was on the boogeyman's arm.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES]
It's the same as Wes' tattoo.
Wes was Kiera's boogeyman.
He drugged her, just like
Santana. That's why Kiera
couldn't remember his
face all these years.
Until the anniversary
party, she spots Wes' tattoo
and suddenly her attacker
isn't a bad dream anymore.
It's a bad man she needs to put down.
Which answers one of Holness' questions,
the "why now," but still not the other.
Why help with Javi
instead of killing Wes
at the first private meeting?
Fear, maybe? I'm not sure. But
if we can prove that Wes was at the camp
during the timeframe of Kiera's assault,
we might have enough for an arrest.
Yeah.
How are you doing?
Remind me to arrest whoever organized
the camp's filing system.
I've spent hours going
through this stuff.
I've scoured scavenger hunts,
popsicle stick crafts.
I know who won every three-legged race,
- every potato sack race
- And?
I can't find a single image
of Wes in the summer of 2011.
Not giving a speech,
not hiding behind a tree,
not with a canoe on his head, nothing.
Yeah, same. Mark pulled
every image of Wes
online with the word "camp" attached.
I mean, every image.
Childhood photos, canoe
trips, corporate retreats.
I'm down to the last 200.
Lucky you.
Darcy.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Why did you
I'll call you back.
- What is it this time?
- A new client.
Looks like congratulations are in order.
No one's better poised to fix this mess
for Good North than me.
We spoke with your
foster mother, Ms. Pryor.
That must've been enlightening.
She's a piece of work. Would lie
to a priest in a confessional.
Yeah, she said something
similar about, uh, Mabel Perez.
Kiera.
We know about the boogeyman
with the portage tattoo.
That was just a nightmare.
No, it wasn't.
Listen.
What you went through as
a child is unimaginable.
But this isn't about that horrible thing
that happened that summer.
This is about what happened
when you saw that tattoo again.
You didn't know who hurt you.
It could have been a camper,
a counsellor. For all
you know, it was isolated.
So you approached the Ellsworths
planning to leverage your
past as an at-risk youth
at their camp for a contract.
Then, you saw the tattoo.
And you realized that the boogeyman
was never a camper, never a counsellor.
He was the owner.
And after 15 years of nightmares,
he was standing right in front of you.
That's when the plan changed.
You buried your past because
you wanted to bury your attacker.
[KIERA SCOFFS]
I know, it's quite the story. I know.
The one thing we couldn't
figure out was the timing.
Why did you wait so long
after the party to kill Wes?
If you're expecting me to fix the holes
in your narratives, Detectives,
we should discuss my consultant rates.
Otherwise, I have work to do.
Wes and Jeremy both had portage tattoos.
That's why. Right?
That's why you posted
that comment on Reddit.
To bait the guilty brother.
And you know what? It worked!
Wes bit! All you needed
was to hear him say it,
so you gained his trust
by helping with Javi,
and then you got him to open
up about what was happening
at that camp. That's when you knew.
The thing is we tried
to place Wes at the camp
with you the last week of that
summer, but we couldn't do it.
Because he wasn't there.
He was sick with food
poisoning after a hiking trip.
The only brother that was
there that summer was Jeremy.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
You killed the wrong brother, Kiera.
Wes confessed.
To the girls, to the drugs in the food.
You said it yourself. Wes
spoke in hypotheticals.
That's because he was
talking about Jeremy.
Now Wes' crime wasn't assault.
It was silence for
the sake of the brand.
That's why he paid off the camp cook,
why he was spiralling
over the Reddit comment.
Jeremy wanted to play it cool
but Wes couldn't take that chance,
- so he went to you.
- Then Wes was complicit.
Then he is guilty too.
Yes. But that doesn't change the fact
that you gave the real child predator,
your attacker, a fall guy
and a contract stating
that you'll protect him.
You're no avenging
angel. You're a murderer.
Would the big job and success
mean anything to Mabel now?
Would she be proud?
Hey, Kiera
The boogeyman is still out there.
Men like Jeremy don't stop, they adapt.
And as long as no one stops him,
there will always be another Mabel.
But if you confess, not just
that you killed Wes but why,
that statement becomes
evidence against Jeremy
and we will use it to make
sure that he never hides behind
Good North's good name ever again.
[INHALING SHAKILY]
When you grow up like me,
a ward of a broken system,
in foster homes with people telling you
that you're the problem when
something bad happens to you,
you learn very quickly that
the truth doesn't matter.
Just the version that
people want to believe.
So I learned to manage it.
To spin it, to fix it.
- You learned to survive.
- Not just to survive.
I was thriving. New life,
nice condo, dream job.
And I walked into that
party ready to do business
with the Ellsworths. And then
[EXHALES]
And then I saw the tattoos.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
And it was like
It was like I was 10 years old again.
So when Wes asked me
to come up to his loft
and he finally admitted what
happened to those girls
what happened to me
I did what I had to do.
I fixed it.
I fixed it.
I fixed it.
This has been an incredibly
difficult time for our company
and our family.
The allegations
surrounding my late brother
at Camp Good North are
deeply disturbing.
But we are cooperating
fully with the authorities
Should we wait till he's finished?
No.
who have trusted us over
the years. And our focus now
is earning that trust
back. Because for 20 years,
- Good North
- Jeremy Ellsworth?
[CROWD MURMURING]
What's going on?
- What's happening?
- Sir, put your hands behind your back.
[CUFFS TIGHTEN]
[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]
And so there we were, in
the middle of the lake.
Just two kids and a leaky canoe
and about a million mosquitoes.
And that's where my fever dream started.
I'm still convinced it was malaria.
- [LAUGHTER]
- Yeah, maybe.
But while Jeremy here
was checking the canoe
for leaks, I was looking at the stars.
And I was thinking we
should make a sweater
that feels like this moment right here.
[GENTLE MUSIC]
Anyway, 20 years later,
he's still the one
keeping Good North upright.
Well, someone had to
figure out how to pay for
all that fabric, right, Wes? [LAUGHTER]
But the truth is
without your vision,
there is no Good North.
Or without your support,
which is why we've
invited you here tonight
to our company's camp
for at-risk youth.
It's a little, um
It's a little nod to
where it all started.
In nature.
My brother and I, we
are very proud to present
Good North's 20th anniversary capsule.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
Come on, you guys!
From the Ellsworth family
to the Good North family,
thank you. [CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
[SHUTTERS CLICKING]
[STRAINED MUSIC]
Yeah, I'm right back
into it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
He's good.
[WHISPERING]
[BOBCAYGEON BY THE TRAGICALLY HIP]
Whoa, hey, hey, hey. Ella, hey.
Let me, okay?
Pardon me, hi.
I just need to borrow my
brother for a quick second. Okay?
Come on. Relax. It's not what you think.
Hey, I love you, but that is a bad look.
Love you too, pal. There's
nothing to worry about.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[BLADE SQUEAKS]
Mmm.
Hey.
Sorry to keep you waiting.
After last time, I didn't
think you had an appetite
for what I was selling.
No, believe me, the
appetite was always there.
I just, um
- Everything okay?
- Yeah.
No, just had a little car trouble.
Don't tell me not to worry,
Wes. You look like a wreck.
Even the guys in accounting are talking.
Oh, God, not accounting!
God forbid the great
visionary looks a little
worse for wear during a
national marketing rollout.
I know you better than anyone.
Is that really all this is?
Hey! Look at me.
You are losing the thread, brother.
20 years, Wes!
20 years.
We didn't just turn your
vision into a clothing brand.
We turned it into a fortress.
Do you think that I
don't know that, Jeremy?
I think you're
forgetting that our family
lives in that fortress.
Don't so anything to weaken it now. Hm?
[OMINOUS MUSIC CONTINUES]
[CAR UNLOCKS]
[WHIRRING]
[WHIRRING FADES TO A STOP]
What's going on? Whoa!
- Not today, Satan.
- [WHIRRING]
[SQUEEGEE SQUEAKS]
[OMINOUS MUSIC CONTINUES]
What is that?
[THEME MUSIC]
[SHUTTERS CLICKING]
Victim looks familiar.
Looks like every other guy I dated
when I was still trying
to convince my mom
I was straight.
Heard you're with Bateman.
She drop you already?
No, she's got some crown
business to attend to.
Wes Ellsworth.
As in the Ellsworth brothers?
- Who?
- The founders of Good North.
It's a clothing monopoly
built on national identity.
They took the whole
"Canadian heritage" thing
and polished it for the suburbs.
Their stuff is a bit obvious,
but they did master
the merino-blend sock,
I'll give them that.
Did you talk to the neighbours?
As above, so below.
Nobody heard a thing.
That's because the killer
slit the victim's throat first.
Right through the jugular.
He went down right away.
No chance to scream
for the people in 4B.
Looks like he put up a fight, though.
Mr. Canoehead.
A portage tattoo.
Kinda goes along with the whole
"Canadian heritage" brand thing.
[SQUELCHING]
Look at these stab wounds.
They're vertical. Parallel.
The killer was above him,
likely straddling him.
And then they drove
the knife in repeatedly
until his heart had
nothing left to pump.
What about the murder weapon?
We're searching the premises now.
Any idea what the victim was doing
- in Liberty Village?
- He owns the unit.
But his license placed him in High Park.
Maybe it's, uh investment property
or a second rental unit?
No. Lookit.
There's no dust on these bulbs.
That's a professional
cleaner on a contract.
These plants?
This feature wall?
All fake.
The sparkling water,
it's lined up like a product display.
Wes didn't live here. He escaped here.
Question is
who was he escaping with?
Da Silva placed time of death
between 08:00 and 11:00 last night.
Any chance we caught
the killer on camera?
Lobby footage is a bust.
As for the back door,
no camera coverage.
Makes sense for someone maintaining
a secondary residence as a
Oh! Love nest. Well, that's polite.
That's what Wes'
cleaning lady called it.
She said he hadn't been
using it in recent months
but before that, the
signs were always the same.
Empty wine bottles, unmade
bed, used condoms in the trash.
Same thing every time except this one.
What does our crime scene
tell us about our killer?
There was no usable physical
evidence left behind,
- but that level of violence
- You think that there's
history between the
killer and the victim.
I think it's worth considering.
I've got something else
you'll wanna consider.
Footage from the block outside the loft.
This is Wes, 07:55 last night.
Who's the tail?
That would be Wes'
fiancé, Ella Mitchell.
Same address as Wes in High Park.
So Wes' bride-to-be
followed him back to the loft
he's been using as personal
no-tell motel for years.
That's not just history. That is motive.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
I can't believe Wes is just gone.
You know about the affairs?
Uh
He said the affairs were over
and I believed him for a while.
- Until when?
- Two weeks ago.
That's when the behaviour
started up again.
What behaviour?
Sudden defensiveness. Guilt flowers.
Late nights, no answers.
- So I got myself an answer.
- You followed him back to his
loft and you had it out with him.
No, that is not what happened.
You tailed him last night.
He's found dead this morning.
This afternoon, I find
you with a packed bag.
You really expect me to
believe you didn't confront him?
I don't kick down doors
to watch my fiancé
fumbling around with some
young thing whose frontal lobe
just finished developing.
I'm not a masochist, Detective.
Can anyone attest to your
whereabouts last night?
Yes. My best friend Rene.
The second Wes pulled into that loft,
I called her and I drove
straight to her house.
I was there all night
until I came home and
grabbed a few things.
You were gonna leave him.
You know, the pathetic part is
if Wes showed up instead of you,
I would probably be unpacking already.
Ms. Mitchell, do you have any idea
who Wes might have been seeing?
Like I said, I'm an
idiot, not a masochist.
He shows up to the loft around 08:00.
Where was he coming from?
He scratched his car
at the Good North lot two weeks ago.
He went to the auto body shop
and then he went straight to the loft.
Did anyone else know about the loft?
I don't think so.
If anyone did, it
it would be his brother, Jeremy.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
My brother and me, we were
always happiest outdoors.
Making sure other people
get to experience that,
it's not just how Good North started.
It's it's the whole point.
It's why we started our
camp for at-risk youth.
You do seem close.
Did Wes ever mention his loft?
Apparently he used it to entertain.
No, but
I'm not surprised that he didn't,
Wes knew that I wouldn't approve.
Uh
He, um he had a charm that
often got ahead of his judgment.
I knew it would catch
up with him one day.
Did that create friction
in your partnership?
No, no, no.
No, our differences, that's
what made our partnership work.
I mean, I've always
been the suit. But Wes
Wes was the heart and soul
of Good North, the visionary.
This anniversary collection.
It's a bit of a pivot
from your usual staples.
The paint, the patches.
Was that Wes' direction?
Yes, and designs.
From conception to completion
in under half a year.
I don't know how I'm
gonna do it without him.
Mr. Ellsworth,
in the last two weeks,
did you have any idea
where Wes was spending his evenings
or who he might've
been spending them with?
No, but I knew that something
was off. He looked
unravelled.
But he said it was just stress
from the marketing rollout.
[CELL PHONE RINGS]
[SIGHS] I gotta take this, Detective,
um please, take as
much time as you need.
I wanna help as much as I can.
- Thank you.
- Yeah.
Hello? Yeah
[INTENSE MUSIC]
Kiera Vega.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
I've never stepped foot in Wes' loft.
Where were you last night
between 08:00 and 11:00?
Songbird. It's a restaurant
with low lighting and discreet tables.
It's where I take all my
clients who value privacy,
- including Wes.
- Clients.
Is that why Wes sent you the flowers?
Because he was one of your clients?
- Excuse me?
- Four days ago,
Wes sent his fiancé
a bouquet of flowers.
Veronicas, they're
the flower of fidelity.
But he also sent a second arrangement,
of white roses, to you.
Do you know what white roses
symbolize in Greek mythology, Ms. Vega?
[SIGHS]
[FOOTSTEPS]
That's right. Silence.
Which makes me wonder
what services were
you providing for Wes?
The professional kind.
I'm a crisis consultant with Apex.
Apex! You guys are big time.
You're the ones white collars
call when the board of directors
start to smell blood in the water.
Which is why my clients prefer
to keep our relationships off the books.
Being seen with a fixer
usually implies there's
something that needs fixing.
So what was the leak in Wes' boat?
If I told you that, I wouldn't
be very good at my job.
If I left here without an
answer, neither would I.
Wes wanted me to find
dirt on someone named
Javi Day.
Why would Wes need a
fixer to handle a kid?
Your guess is as good as mine.
How do you manage a
client's crisis without
knowing the variables?
I asked Wes the exact same question.
That's when he reminded
me that Good North
wasn't officially an Apex client yet.
He said if I could be trusted
to handle this quietly,
then we could talk about a contract.
And landing Good North would
have been career-changing
for me, so I agreed.
Wes' flowers indicate
that you delivered.
So
what'd you find?
Javi Day is on a full ride
at TMU for fashion design.
Private scholarship.
I started to pull threads
on his application,
dug into his references,
and it turns out
no one has ever heard of him.
And what did Wes do
with this information?
Didn't say.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[DOOR SLAMS]
[TRASH CLATTERS]
Please tell me you hit
up that sandwich truck
- outside City Hall.
- Lots of mayo.
Crown held me hostage for three days
just to turn around
and offer a plea deal
right before it was my turn to testify.
The grand theatre of the
Ontario judicial system,
a bureaucratic masterpiece
designed to age us all prematurely.
Well, it's working. I got your
notes on the Ellsworth file.
Scorned fiancé with an airtight alibi,
brother who says the
victim was unravelling
like a cheap sweater. What's the latest?
Turns out Wes went
entirely off the books.
Hired an Apex consultant
to find something
to use against a
20-year-old fashion student.
Javi Day.
Lives near TMU with a roommate.
Why would a retail titan
hire a high-priced fixer
to go after some kid?
Unless the kid already had dirt on him.
Not just dirt. You hire Apex,
you're looking at an
extinction-level event.
What?
Come on. I ate mine in the elevator.
You can eat yours in the car.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
Yeah, that's the guy who showed up
in Javi's design class six
months ago. Wes Ellsworth.
Javi called him his visionary mentor.
Said he was the first
person in the industry
to make him feel like
he wasn't invisible.
Ironically, he ghosted
Javi pretty quickly.
Eliza, did Javi happen to mention where
he was going when he left this morning?
Nah. He's been in a "don't
talk to me or I'll bite"
phase for weeks.
He's the worst roommate sometimes.
But he did throw a bunch of
his stuff into a garbage bag
- before he left.
- What stuff?
Everything he's been
working on for the past year.
What'd he do with it?
Guess it's in there.
So Javi fakes his references
to get into the design
program of his dreams just
to throw all his work
out with the trash?
What if he was left with no choice?
Let's walk it back.
Both Wes and Javi start
spiralling two weeks ago.
It's right around the time that
Wes starts meeting with Kiera.
A week before that, Good North
launches its anniversary line,
which went from concept to completion
in just under six
months? It was right after
Javi meets and is ghosted by Wes.
Wes stole Javi's designs.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
A whole year's worth.
I didn't kill that knockoff savant.
Oh, now he's a knockoff savant.
Gee whiz, what happened
to "visionary mentor."
Wes Ellsworth, co-CEO
of one of the most recognizable
brands in the country,
comes into your class like a god.
But he doesn't give
attention to the others.
No, he sets his sights on you.
Offers to take you under his wing,
tells you that you have the eye.
- I do.
- Of course you do.
Why else would Wes steal
your designs only to have you
find out by seeing him model
them on the side of a bus?
Can't imagine what you said
when you confronted him.
I haven't seen him in months.
Are you sure about that?
Because this is you
outside of Good North
two weeks ago sticking
your knife into his car.
Javi, if you really
have nothing to hide,
now is the time to talk.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[SIGHS HEAVILY]
I tried Wes a few weeks ago.
After I saw the ads.
- What did he say?
- He didn't even blink.
Just pulled out a check
for ten grand and an NDA.
Like he was waiting for me.
But I said no to the money.
I told him I'd go public.
The media department
at TMU or something.
But then he hired someone to
dig up your fake references
and told you that if you ever talked,
he would not only get
you kicked out of school,
he would discredit you
before you even had the chance
- to expose him.
- I had to fake
those references! I was working
two jobs to help my family.
I didn't have a chance to network.
I didn't know anybody in the industry.
How does that give Wes Ellsworth
the right to steal my designs?
And threaten to steal my
future too? How is that fair?
Javi, Wes cornered you so
you turned your knife on him.
No, no, no, no
that's not what happened.
Then what happened?
When I learned I could
lose the scholarship
I took the payout.
I wouldn't have killed
him before I got the money.
And did you get the money?
Hit my account yesterday morning.
That's when I threw these out.
Javi was telling the truth.
The money didn't get to his
account until the morning
after the murder. Wes must've
sent it the night he died.
How do we know that the
kid wasn't holding a knife
to Wes' throat as he did it?
A group of students at a TMU studio
confirmed seeing Javi there all night.
Fair. Can we at least
tie the money back to Wes?
Took some digging, but yes.
The money came from a fund
registered to a numbered
company owned by Wes.
I'm gonna assume that Wes
didn't go to the trouble
of building a whole
corporate veil just to pay off
one design student.
Then you'd be right.
Javi wasn't a one-off.
The company's ten years old
and there's a pattern
of one-time payments
to young designers since its inception.
No similar transactions recently,
but there is an anomaly.
A recurring payment of $5,000 a month
to a Lad and Ladle Catering.
Like clockwork.
Trail goes back three years.
So Wes had a secret
with a longer shelf life.
Follow the money.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
I was here the night Wes died,
cooking for a school retreat.
Wes was the one who hired
me as Camp Good North's cook
back when it opened 15 years ago,
then brought me on as the
company's corporate caterer
a few years back. I owe him a lot.
Can you tell me why Wes
was your catering company
Lad and Ladle $5,000 a month
for the last three years?
It was a retainer. I'm on call 24/7.
Whenever Good North needs a spread
But the money wasn't
coming from Good North.
It was coming from a
numbered company Wes set up.
- Because it was hush money.
- I don't know what you're talking about.
That's a shame, because
my partner's at your bank
right now digging through
your financial records
with a fine-tooth comb.
So either you can
cooperate, talk to me now
while this is still
considered cooperation
or we can wait until we find out exactly
what Wes was paying you for.
But remember, Ernie,
Wes isn't here anymore to take the fall.
That leaves you.
[SIGHS]
A few years back, we had a
camper with low blood sugar.
Every night, she'd take hot
cocoa to level things out.
But one day, her father came
storming in here saying that
the cocoa was making her pass out.
Demanded to know what I was giving her.
What was the problem?
Well, that's the thing, I didn't know.
I used the same cocoa
for the kids all summer.
But her dad didn't wanna hear it.
- And that's when Wes stepped in.
- What was Wes doing here?
The Ellsworth family
volunteers at the camp
the last week of every summer.
They're great with the kids.
And with the parents too, apparently.
Wes was able to talk the guy down.
And I thought that was it.
Until I took the trash
out from the kitchen
a couple of days later.
The bag ripped.
What did you find?
An empty pill bottle for
prescription sedatives.
The name was ripped off the label.
What did you do with it?
I brought it to Wes and asked
him if he thought someone
could have been drugging
that girl's cocoa.
And he said it was probably
just some kids pranking her
and told me that if I
made a fuss about it,
the camp would close and
all these at-risk kids
would lose this experience.
I didn't know what to think.
What did you think when
the money started coming in?
[INTENSE MUSIC]
[SIGHS]
Do you remember the girl's name?
I never forgot it.
Santana Carter.
[INTENSE MUSIC]
Good North doesn't need Apex's services.
Your brother saw things differently.
He considered my fee a small price
to ensure this didn't
become Good North's legacy.
[INTENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]
[ECHOING GAVEL]
Normally, the cocoa
would make me feel better,
but during the last week of camp,
it just made me feel more tired.
So I'd leave the campfire early
and go back to the cabin alone.
Santana, how often did this happen?
Three times too many.
I should've taken her home.
Santana, do you want a
minute before we continue?
Actually
I'd like my dad to leave.
What? Santana
Mr. Carter. Why don't
we give them the room?
Santana'll let us know
when it's okay to come back.
Sorry. He's such a crash out.
[CHUCKLES]
Well, to be fair, my daughter
calls me that all the time.
Santana, you said the cocoa
made you feel even more tired
than a regular sugar drop?
Was there anything else
that felt different?
Yeah. It felt like my body was heavy
but my brain was light.
And kind of fuzzy, it
that makes any sense?
It makes perfect sense.
And do you remember how you
felt in the morning, after?
Hey. You don't have to tell
me anything you're not ready
to talk about.
[EXHALES]
The next morning,
my head hurt.
It hurt really bad every time.
But, um
not as bad as
down there.
I didn't really know any better
or else I would have told my dad.
But he kept trying to
make me leave my friends
and I just
I didn't really understand.
Do you remember who did this to you?
No.
I don't remember anything
after falling asleep.
Okay.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
What happened is not your fault.
Now if it's something
you feel ready to do,
I can have my partner bring your dad in.
We could tell him about this together.
It's up to you.
Okay.
Santana can't even remember the attacks,
let alone put a face to them.
As for the father,
that was genuine shock.
He had no idea what happened
until a few minutes ago.
Wes didn't just build
a camp for at-risk kids.
He built an ideal hunting
ground for a child predator.
Odds are Santana wasn't his only victim.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
You think Santana Carter was
just the tip of the iceberg?
According to the camp cook,
the Ellsworth family spent the last week
of every summer there since it opened.
It means that Wes had
access to girls like Santana
for 15 years.
If she wasn't his only victim,
and maybe one of the others
tracked Wes down, decided a slit throat
was the only way to settle the score.
Any formal complaints against the camp?
According to our database, nothing.
What about online?
I've checked every social
media, blogging platform,
and chat forum I could find for anyone
airing Good North's
dirty laundry. Nothing.
So I stopped looking for
what people were posting
and started looking for
what they got taken down.
- And?
- Just found a legal request made to Reddit
to remove a comment about Good North
from a subreddit called
Camper Confessions.
Can we see that comment?
Reddit hasn't sent over the content yet.
Yeah, but someone wanted
it gone badly enough
to get lawyers involved.
Does it say who?
Apex Crisis consulting.
[SCOFFS]
[ECHOING GAVEL]
Ms. Vega, did you know
that sexual assault
is the most underreported
violent crime in this country?
Now factor in at-risk youth,
with parents who already
don't trust the system.
What do you think the result is?
It goes even more underreported.
I'm a crisis consultant,
Detective, I know the math.
I'm just not sure why we're
doing it in my boardroom.
Okay, I can help you with that.
"Camp Good North is lowkey sketchy.
I went there like six years
ago and a girl in my cabin
said her stepsister was assaulted there.
Drugged too, because she
couldn't remember anything.
Anyone hear about this?"
This was a comment in a
subreddit one month ago.
It was deleted one week after.
Now we couldn't trace the
poster, but we did manage
to trace the person who had
it scrubbed, right back to you.
You care to explain to us why
you withheld that information?
At the time, I didn't
think it had anything
to do with your investigation.
Well, we're telling you
now we think it does.
So unless you want to be
dragged out of Apex in cuffs
for obstruction, tell us what
you were really doing for Wes.
Apex has been circling
Good North for years.
So I crashed their
anniversary party last month
and I offered to but the brothers dinner
on Apex's dime. They accepted.
And I wanted to impress them.
So I had my tech team do a digital sweep
for any threats to
Good North's reputation
and eliminate them before we sat down.
Including that Reddit comment.
What was Wes' reaction
when you showed him
the scrubbed comment?
Oh, non-existent. They
declined my services.
But Wes reached out again.
For an off-the-books meeting,
but this time he was different.
Paranoid, dishevelled.
Something big was eating at him.
That's how I knew Javi was just a test.
A test for something bigger?
Like the Reddit comment?
You can't manage sexual assault
allegations without details.
So what were they?
Wes spoke hypothetically
about pills in girls' food at the camp.
Did he name any of the
girls? Did he say how many?
No. He just gave me
enough to strategize.
What about his brother?
Did he say anything?
No, he was adamant, no
one else gets involved.
I gave him my word and I kept it.
Until Wes was killed.
I brought back Apex's
contract to Jeremy yesterday.
I figured I would tell him what Wes did
and I would get his
signature on the dotted line.
What did you get instead?
Nothing.
He heard me out and escorted me out.
I couldn't get a read on him at all.
If Kiera is to be
trusted, and that is an if,
it's strange that Jeremy had no reaction
to hearing what Wes did to those girls.
Unless it wasn't his
first time hearing it.
Now, protecting Good
North is Jeremy's job.
If he knew what Wes was doing
all along and the Reddit comment
wasn't news to him, it
was a risk assessment.
And since Kiera has already
it scrubbed, maybe he figured
the smartest move for Good North
was no move at all.
But then Wes got spooked,
went rogue, met with Kiera,
and spilled the kind of tea
that could sink the company.
If Jeremy found out,
he might've thought that
the only way to protect
20 years of Good North
is to kill its visionary.
I had no idea what Wes was
doing at Camp Good North.
Oh, let me guess, you also had no idea
that he was paying off the cook
to stay quiet about him slipping
drugs into the kids' cocoa.
No, I didn't.
If Wes was paying off Ernie,
he was not doing it
through Good North's books.
I would've known.
If you told me a month ago that
Wes was capable of any of this,
I would not have believed you.
- What changed?
- Wes did.
After that initial meeting with Kiera,
he pushed and pushed for
Good North to sign with Apex.
- What was his reason?
- Well, that's the thing,
he didn't really have one.
Which is why I shut down
the conversation.
When exactly did you
learn that your brother
was a child predator?
[STRAINED MUSIC]
Um yesterday.
- When Kiera came by.
- Are you sure?
Because according to Kiera,
you didn't so much as
flinch when she told you.
Is there a correct way
to respond to information
like that, Detective?
There's a human way.
You expect us to believe
you just accepted what Kiera told you
about your business
partner, your brother,
without asking questions
or pushback? Why?
- [SLAM]
- Cos I believed her!
The minute that she said it,
everything that Wes did after
that Reddit comment made sense.
Pushing for Apex, the sudden spiralling.
And I started second-guessing
how he insisted
our families, they
they spend the final week
volunteering at the camp
every single year.
All that time was spent with my kids.
I didn't kill my brother, Detectives.
But I've spent the last
24 hours thinking if
I had known the truth while
he was still breathing
I might have.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Yeah. I appreciate your time.
Thanks.
Well, Jeremy's alibi checks out.
He and his wife were
at dinner with friends.
Which means we have a
whole lot of nothing.
- Speak for yourself.
- What do you have?
I've been combing
through Camp Good North's
digital archives. Every
summer for 15 years,
20 boys and 20 girls attended the camp.
Except for its opening year.
Summer 2011.
There are only 19 girls registered.
One slot stayed empty the entire summer.
Late cancellation, maybe?
Or low enrollment first year?
These things can take
a while to catch on.
This camp was a prestige
project. At-risk youth,
high demand, full subsidized.
You don't leave a bed empty.
You yell, "next in line."
Okay, so one girl's missing.
We need to go back to Camp Good North.
No, I don't care how long
Ernie's been at the camp.
- He's done.
- Quiet, please! Dustin, Leah,
- finish your sandwiches!
- [CHILDREN LAUGHING]
I just talked to the kids.
They both said Uncle
Wes never did anything
like that to either of them.
Oh, thank Christ.
But this whole thing, Harper,
it's gonna go public.
The company, the camp, everything.
And we need to be prepared to
present a united front, okay?
Not just for the brand
for us.
For our family.
We cannot let this break us.
It won't.
[BOTH SIGHING]
There's already a new
cook in the camp's kitchen.
[BATEMAN OVER PHONE]: Jeremy moves fast.
Okay. I'm holding the
2011 folder in my hand.
- You find anything?
- I'm in the dining hall
looking at a bunch of memorabilia.
You find the registry?
Uh, um
Yes.
There are only 19 girls'
names on the digital copy,
but the hard copy does have 20.
There's a collage of all the kids
who were here that summer.
Any of them look like a Mabel Perez?
Not a Mabel,
more like a crisis consultant
who knows how to make
digital files disappear.
Kiera?
- Kiera.
- [INTENSE MUSIC]
So our crisis consultant
hasn't always gone by Kiera Vega.
Not until she was adopted at 14.
Before that, she was Mabel Perez.
Born into the foster system.
She was went to Camp Good
North the summer of 2011.
In fact, it was conveniently scrubbed
from the camp's digital records.
It's the same story we saw
with the Reddit comment.
Why go through all the trouble
to bury a childhood identity?
Because Mabel Perez
may have been the one
with motive to kill Wes.
Kiera is a consultant on the rise.
One marquee client away
from a corner office.
Wes was that client.
She had no reason to kill him.
Mabel, on the other hand,
she was a 10-year-old ward of the crown
when she attended a camp we
now know as Wes' hunting ground.
We believe Wes assaulted Mabel
the summer she was at camp
and that she reintroduced
herself as Kiera to get revenge.
It's a strong theory, but
why wait fifteen years.
Why spend weeks building
a professional relationship
with Wes only to end it
with personal retribution?
Maybe because Kiera
spins the narrative best
when she inserts herself
in it as the fixer.
All right. If it was revenge,
let's start by proving that she
actually had reason to get it.
Find out what really happened
to Mabel Perez that summer.
[ECHOING GAVEL]
Mabel was always making up stories,
could never tell her
lies from the truth.
Did any of her stories
involve Camp Good North?
Oh! Well, don't get me started.
Sent her to a free camp,
she came home claiming
that the boogeyman
attacked her during the last week.
Did it ever, uh
occur to you that she
might be telling the truth?
Of course it did.
But when I sat Mabel down to
try to get it all straight,
it just sounded like
one of her stories again.
- How?
- She barely remembered a thing.
Just, um smell of the grass,
sound of the crickets, you know,
- small things like that?
- Were there any visuals?
There was one thing.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
I keep all of the drawings
from the kids that left.
Oh God
Where is it?
Mabel must've drawn this 100 times.
Is it the boogeyman?
No, it was a symbol on his body.
She thought if she drew it enough
that she might remember his
face or nightmares might stop.
She kept saying that she had to fix it.
Said that it was on the boogeyman's arm.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES]
It's the same as Wes' tattoo.
Wes was Kiera's boogeyman.
He drugged her, just like
Santana. That's why Kiera
couldn't remember his
face all these years.
Until the anniversary
party, she spots Wes' tattoo
and suddenly her attacker
isn't a bad dream anymore.
It's a bad man she needs to put down.
Which answers one of Holness' questions,
the "why now," but still not the other.
Why help with Javi
instead of killing Wes
at the first private meeting?
Fear, maybe? I'm not sure. But
if we can prove that Wes was at the camp
during the timeframe of Kiera's assault,
we might have enough for an arrest.
Yeah.
How are you doing?
Remind me to arrest whoever organized
the camp's filing system.
I've spent hours going
through this stuff.
I've scoured scavenger hunts,
popsicle stick crafts.
I know who won every three-legged race,
- every potato sack race
- And?
I can't find a single image
of Wes in the summer of 2011.
Not giving a speech,
not hiding behind a tree,
not with a canoe on his head, nothing.
Yeah, same. Mark pulled
every image of Wes
online with the word "camp" attached.
I mean, every image.
Childhood photos, canoe
trips, corporate retreats.
I'm down to the last 200.
Lucky you.
Darcy.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Why did you
I'll call you back.
- What is it this time?
- A new client.
Looks like congratulations are in order.
No one's better poised to fix this mess
for Good North than me.
We spoke with your
foster mother, Ms. Pryor.
That must've been enlightening.
She's a piece of work. Would lie
to a priest in a confessional.
Yeah, she said something
similar about, uh, Mabel Perez.
Kiera.
We know about the boogeyman
with the portage tattoo.
That was just a nightmare.
No, it wasn't.
Listen.
What you went through as
a child is unimaginable.
But this isn't about that horrible thing
that happened that summer.
This is about what happened
when you saw that tattoo again.
You didn't know who hurt you.
It could have been a camper,
a counsellor. For all
you know, it was isolated.
So you approached the Ellsworths
planning to leverage your
past as an at-risk youth
at their camp for a contract.
Then, you saw the tattoo.
And you realized that the boogeyman
was never a camper, never a counsellor.
He was the owner.
And after 15 years of nightmares,
he was standing right in front of you.
That's when the plan changed.
You buried your past because
you wanted to bury your attacker.
[KIERA SCOFFS]
I know, it's quite the story. I know.
The one thing we couldn't
figure out was the timing.
Why did you wait so long
after the party to kill Wes?
If you're expecting me to fix the holes
in your narratives, Detectives,
we should discuss my consultant rates.
Otherwise, I have work to do.
Wes and Jeremy both had portage tattoos.
That's why. Right?
That's why you posted
that comment on Reddit.
To bait the guilty brother.
And you know what? It worked!
Wes bit! All you needed
was to hear him say it,
so you gained his trust
by helping with Javi,
and then you got him to open
up about what was happening
at that camp. That's when you knew.
The thing is we tried
to place Wes at the camp
with you the last week of that
summer, but we couldn't do it.
Because he wasn't there.
He was sick with food
poisoning after a hiking trip.
The only brother that was
there that summer was Jeremy.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
You killed the wrong brother, Kiera.
Wes confessed.
To the girls, to the drugs in the food.
You said it yourself. Wes
spoke in hypotheticals.
That's because he was
talking about Jeremy.
Now Wes' crime wasn't assault.
It was silence for
the sake of the brand.
That's why he paid off the camp cook,
why he was spiralling
over the Reddit comment.
Jeremy wanted to play it cool
but Wes couldn't take that chance,
- so he went to you.
- Then Wes was complicit.
Then he is guilty too.
Yes. But that doesn't change the fact
that you gave the real child predator,
your attacker, a fall guy
and a contract stating
that you'll protect him.
You're no avenging
angel. You're a murderer.
Would the big job and success
mean anything to Mabel now?
Would she be proud?
Hey, Kiera
The boogeyman is still out there.
Men like Jeremy don't stop, they adapt.
And as long as no one stops him,
there will always be another Mabel.
But if you confess, not just
that you killed Wes but why,
that statement becomes
evidence against Jeremy
and we will use it to make
sure that he never hides behind
Good North's good name ever again.
[INHALING SHAKILY]
When you grow up like me,
a ward of a broken system,
in foster homes with people telling you
that you're the problem when
something bad happens to you,
you learn very quickly that
the truth doesn't matter.
Just the version that
people want to believe.
So I learned to manage it.
To spin it, to fix it.
- You learned to survive.
- Not just to survive.
I was thriving. New life,
nice condo, dream job.
And I walked into that
party ready to do business
with the Ellsworths. And then
[EXHALES]
And then I saw the tattoos.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
And it was like
It was like I was 10 years old again.
So when Wes asked me
to come up to his loft
and he finally admitted what
happened to those girls
what happened to me
I did what I had to do.
I fixed it.
I fixed it.
I fixed it.
This has been an incredibly
difficult time for our company
and our family.
The allegations
surrounding my late brother
at Camp Good North are
deeply disturbing.
But we are cooperating
fully with the authorities
Should we wait till he's finished?
No.
who have trusted us over
the years. And our focus now
is earning that trust
back. Because for 20 years,
- Good North
- Jeremy Ellsworth?
[CROWD MURMURING]
What's going on?
- What's happening?
- Sir, put your hands behind your back.
[CUFFS TIGHTEN]
[THEME MUSIC]