A Friend of the Family (2022) s01e07 Episode Script
The Great Deceiver
1
Robert Berchtold, you're
hereby ordered to serve 15 days.
15 days?
The very first time I laid eyes on you,
I was transfixed.
Now I don't think I could live
without your special light.
He is a deeply wicked man, Jani.
You're the ones who are tormenting me.
And I'm not a child!
I'd like to invite anyone
who wishes to bear their testimony.
Even if you bring her back,
she's just gonna leave again.
I'll check with his parole officer,
but he wants to make it seem like
she left of her own volition.
You are a monster,
a heartless, vile excuse of a man,
and I will get my daughter away from you
if it is the last thing
I do on this Earth!
Where are you, B?
Is Jan with you?
No. No.
No, Mary Ann.
No, she called, said she ran away.
Oh, I've been drinking
myself sick all morning.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[PANTING]
Hey, angel, hi.
Follow my instructions?
You leave a note like I told you to?
Mm-hmm.
Okay, good, good.
Hey, hey.
It's all right.
You're okay.
All right?
Okay.
Here.
Take one of these
just for the jitters.
Now [EXHALES]
After I drop you at the airport,
you do exactly like I told you to.
Okay?
My friends are gonna meet you
to pick you up when you land.
You look beautiful.
I'll try to come out as soon as I can
so we can spend a little time
together before school starts.
All right?
All right.
Now you close your eyes, get some rest.
Got a long trip ahead of you.
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Mary Ann?
Mary Ann.
The FBI can't treat this
as a kidnapping either,
not with the note.
As far as the Bureau is concerned,
Jan is a runaway.
I've been told to stand down
unless we find incriminating evidence.
But until then, my hands are tied.
I'm sorry.
This is all my fault.
[TENSE MUSIC]
It's easy to blame yourselves right now.
No one thinks that their
best friend is a monster.
♪
I'll do my best to
keep track of Berchtold,
but the best plan is to
make him comfortable enough
to contact you and make a mistake.
If you can get him on
tape incriminating himself,
then I can help you.
You go along with the
idea that Jan ran away,
at least to him.
To anybody else, you can
tell whatever story you want.
But don't accuse him.
He is your only link to Jan right now.
You need to get him talking
and let him lead us to her.
♪
[PHONE RINGING]
Hello, Brobergs.
Hi, Mary Ann. How are you?
[TAPE CLICKS]
Well
Not good.
Oh, that, uh, husband of yours around?
He's working late at the store.
Well, I don't know if you heard,
but Gail and I are done,
really and truly over.
And, uh
and I got a place of my
own here in Salt Lake City.
It's not much, but you know me
You need to tell me
where Jan is right now.
Well, it's funny you say that.
I just got through talking to Jan.
You did? What'd she say?
B, please.
She said she met two girls,
two older girls, out hitchhiking.
And they've been doing heaven
knows what out on the road.
I said, "Jan, where are you?
You got everybody worried sick."
And she wouldn't tell me where she was.
Oh, she's just so mad at you and Bob.
She does not want to come back
and be a child in your home anymore.
She wants to be a grown adult?
Oh, Christ, she is right now.
She's 14.
It is pure hell, Mary Ann,
not knowing where she is.
Oh, and just thinking
about all the awful things
that might be happening
to her out there.
You know, I said to
her Mary Ann, I said,
"Jan, is there any way
that you'll come back?"
And she said, "I told them
I want to marry you more than
anything else in this world."
I said, "Jan, would you settle for if we
kept it very, very quiet,
and we went down to the
justice of the peace,
and nobody knew, and you
could still live at home?"
And she said, "Oh, B,
do you think there's a
chance they'd let me?"
You are an evil man!
Evil!
I'm glad you're going to jail.
[PHONE CLICKS]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Damn him!
[EXHALES]
Just couldn't listen to
that for another second.
♪
Ah pshh. Come on.
Hey, friend.
There something I can help you with?
Sure.
Where's Jan Broberg?
You know, I thought the FBI
didn't investigate runaways.
Some people might say
this is harassment.
Enjoy your vacation, Berchtold.
[CHUCKLES]
Starts today. Doesn't it?
Yeah. Yeah.
15 days in the pokey.
Might have enough time
to read a book or two.
Well, you take care, Agent Welsh.
Don't wanna be late.
♪
Pocatello will continue
to be sweltering.
Despite intermittent cloud cover,
it will again be in the 90s.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Hello, Gail.
I heard the divorce went through.
May I come in?
Yes, of course.
♪
What brings you by?
Um, I finished dropping Bob off at jail.
Oh.
And I wanted to
come express my grief
that Jan has run away again.
It must be so hard for you and Bob.
Thank you.
Of course, if you knew something,
anything that would give
us a clue where she is,
you would tell us, right?
I did ask him about it.
I looked him dead in the eye,
and he told me that he
didn't have anything to do
with Jan running off this time,
and I believe him.
Gail.
I think Jan truly felt like
she didn't have a choice.
She wants to be with him that much.
You can't really believe that.
You know
I wasn't that much older than Jan
when Bob and I first met.
If she were my daughter,
I really think I would
just let her marry him.
I guess if it brings her back,
what does it matter what
a piece of paper says?
I see what you're doing,
and I pity you.
And shame on you
for still lying to protect him.
♪
I married him.
And we have four beautiful
children together.
What's your excuse?
♪
You asked for me, sir?
Can you explain to me why this office
just received a fresh
complaint about you
harassing Robert Berchtold?
Sitting in my own car is harassment?
What were you doing?
Trying to corroborate
his claim that he wasn't
involved in the second
disappearance of Jan Broberg.
I thought she left a note.
She misspelled her own mother's name.
Hoofbeats mean horses.
If she left a note saying
she ran away, she ran away.
Stop wasting Bureau resources.
Thank you, sir.
[GENE AUTRY'S "BACK
IN THE SADDLE AGAIN"]
-
- I'm back in the saddle again ♪
Out where a friend is a friend ♪
Berchtold, up and at 'em.
It's time to go home.
I'm back in the saddle again ♪
Dang it, Phil, I was just
getting to the good part.
And the only law is right ♪
Back in the saddle again ♪
Mary Ann, I heard from Jan again,
and even though the last time we spoke,
we had some words, I knew
that I had to call you.
I'm glad you did now that you're out.
Last time we spoke,
I was really upset about Jan leaving.
Yeah, well, I figured
that's what it was.
Lord knows I've been upset myself.
I'd probably still be
passed out at some
some bar if I didn't have
to pay my debt to society.
So how did she sound?
Well, she's still hitchhiking
with those two older girls.
It kills me to tell you this, Mary Ann,
but she's using heavy drugs.
Heroin, Mary Ann.
Oh.
- Oh, dear.
- [MOUTHING]
And where was she calling from?
She didn't say,
but she said, "The only
way that I'll come home
is if I know that you
and I can be man and wife.
So ask them again, please,
to sign the papers,
so we can get married."
[MOUTHING WORDS]
So that means she'll be calling back
at some point then, right?
Yes, I suppose so,
to hear your response.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Is it cold where she is?
She didn't bring much with her.
You know, I think she just
really wants to come home.
We'll buy her a plane ticket.
Just tell us what airport.
Or could she take a bus?
Mary Ann, she's barely got
enough change to call me.
I say, "Jan, how are
you getting your money?"
And she says, "Hard."
♪
Are you saying that you'll send her back
if we let her marry you?
It's not so much that I want to.
It's that if I had to, for her sake.
♪
You know I love Jan.
So of course I'd marry her
if that was the only way
to get her to come home
and to know she's safe.
But I guess I'll find her myself
since you don't give a damn.
Okay, the good news is
that we have him on tape
saying that he would marry her, right?
I mean, that's gotta be something
that Pete can work with, right?
- It's worth a shot.
- Yeah.
You did great.
Well?
I wish it was enough.
He said he would marry her.
Not as a demand.
[PHONE RINGING]
Brobergs.
Mary Ann, Bishop Paulson here.
Is Bob with you?
Yes, Bishop. He's right here.
Bishop, how are you?
Bob, Nicole and I were
coming back from BYU today,
and we were passing through Ogden.
And I happened to
notice a car going past.
And I am quite sure that it
was Bob Berchtold at the wheel.
And I believe that it was Jan
riding in the car with him.
You saw Jan in the car?
Yeah, I think so.
And you had said she was
staying with her grandmother,
so I thought that was to put some space
between her and the Berchtold situation.
So I figured if they were
spending time together,
you'd want to know about that.
Do you know where they were headed?
Could you tell?
Headed South on I-15.
They're near Ogden, like I said.
South on I-15. Thank you, Bishop.
Sure thing.
He's with her. He's with her.
She's in Ogden. Our
Bishop saw her in his car.
Is she under duress?
Probably, I mean, I don't
Surely that's enough for
the FBI to get involved?
Yeah.
We need to disprove she's a runaway.
Contributing in the delinquency
of a minor is a misdemeanor.
To open a federal case,
we need proof of interstate transport,
travel receipts, or a ransom demand,
or a confession on tape.
Couldn't you at least call
the police department in Ogden?
You can't open a case,
but maybe they could
if they thought he was in
the company of a runaway.
I can't.
I'm sorry.
It's not enough for the Bureau.
If I press too hard,
they will cut me loose,
and you'll have no one
there who cares about Jan.
But if the Bishop saw her,
at least we know she's close.
Thanks a lot, Pete. [SNIFFLES]
I'll see myself out.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
Sorry I'm late.
Don't worry about fixing me a plate.
I don't have much of an appetite,
to be honest with you.
Yeah, I just don't know what to do.
Well, if you hear anything,
please let us know right away.
Where are the girls? Are they okay?
- Jenny hasn't come home.
- What?
- Where is she?
- I thought she was at Sally's.
I've called everywhere.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Hi.
How was the sleepover?
It was good.
Sally's mother called your mother
to thank her for
letting Sally sleep here.
Where have you been?
It's not a big deal. We
just went out to see a show.
I've been looking for you in ditches.
Dad, we're in Idaho.
Go to your room.
♪
[PHONE LINE TRILLING]
Ogden Police Department,
how can I help you?
Peter Welsh, Pocatello FBI.
I'd like to speak with the
ranking officer on duty please.
Just one moment.
[CLEARS THROAT]
This is Captain Collins.
Hey, Terry, Pete Welsh here.
Listen, you didn't hear this from me,
but there's a guy down in Ogden
that I think you boys should know about.
[SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
We've been here all day.
Shouldn't we just go in or something?
I mean, if there's even a
chance that she's in there.
At his known address where a
parole officer could stop by?
No, we stick with the plan.
We wait, then we'll follow.
It's just wearing me down.
The waiting and the guilt.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
Mary Ann
I've forgiven you
for everything.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
That's him. That's him.
Get down.
♪
There's somebody else
in the car with him.
Is it Jan?
I can't tell.
♪
Come on.
I think it's her. I think it's her.
So the girl that Bishop
Paulson saw wasn't
It was someone else's daughter.
♪
[TV PLAYS IN BACKGROUND]
With a mass spectrometer
and other sensors,
NASA hopes to detect signs of life
from our sister planet.
Following up on the economy,
there is no easing up on
the recession and inflation.
Meanwhile, here's an update
on President Ford's
I'll put you to bed.
Come on. I got ya.
From the National Crime desk tonight
comes news of another child abduction.
12-year-old Becky Williams
of Orlando, Florida,
has been missing since
she got off her bus,
which was only a half a mile
and ten minute walk from her home.
Friends of Becky reported noticing a man
talking to her after the
bus had already pulled away.
[NANCY SINATRA'S "HOW ARE
THINGS IN CALIFORNIA?"]
♪
How are things in California? ♪
Oh, your letter didn't say ♪
Now that you're in California ♪
Are you gonna stay? ♪
So much of what people call
truth isn't even reality.
I mean, it's just their perception
of what reality and the truth is.
Hmm.
Well, all right, I sure am glad
that I get to go to boarding
school while we're out here,
while we finish the mission.
I wonder if it'll be weird,
though, being Catholic.
Oh, you're gonna do just fine.
You're the best actress I know.
You're gonna win an Oscar one day.
Just hope I can make
friends at Sacred Heart.
I almost miss Karen,
and Susan, and Caroline.
Well, I hate to disappoint you, Dolly,
but I don't think Zada
and Zethra would want you
making friends, not with
those Catholic girls.
Sacred Heart's just temporary
until Mary Ann and Bob
sign the marriage papers.
To do the mission, we need to spend
as much time as possible together
over the next two years
before you turn 16.
The only way that happens
is if they sign those papers.
Everything depends on those papers.
What's that got to do with
making friends while I'm there?
We don't want to slip up
and compromise the mission.
You know, Zada told me something
that I think might cheer you up.
One of the nuns there
is from their planet,
just like you.
I don't know which one,
but she'll be watching over you.
Can I talk to her?
Oh, I think it's probably best not to.
You might talk to the
wrong one, say too much.
And I don't think Zada
and Zethra would like that.
[LAUGHS]
Oh, I almost forgot.
I got one more surprise for you.
♪
[SOFT MUSIC]
♪
[WHISTLES]
It's a portable TV.
I saw one just like this in a magazine.
Well, now you can watch "Bionic Woman"
and "Charlie's Angels" and all that.
But you got to keep it a secret.
No TVs allowed at school.
Thank you.
Watch it when you're
lonely and think of me,
the Six Million Dollar Man.
You know, I met Lee
Majors about two years
before that show came out.
And I told him I had
an idea for a program
about an astronaut who gets injured.
And then I turn on the
TV, and I see that show,
and I think, gosh darn it.
That's my idea.
I wouldn't want to be
out here in Hollywood
with all those "pinkos" anyways.
[EERIE MUSIC]
♪
[BELL TOLLING]
Her mother passed tragically
when we were escaping the PLO.
I find it best not to
speak to her about it.
You know, luckily, Jerry has
[LAUGHS] Sorry.
It's a force of habit.
President Ford has been so supportive.
We're proud to support the work you do
for the White House in
any way we can, Mr. Tobler.
Well, thank you, sisters.
I'm sure she'll be just fine here.
You know, the CIA
investigated your school.
So I know just about
everything there is to know
about Flintridge Sacred Heart.
[CHUCKLES]
Would you excuse me?
Remember what I told you, Dolly.
One of them will be watching over you.
Got it?
Okay.
Come here.
[SOFT MUSIC]
♪
You take care of my Janis now.
Of course.
[JIMMY BUFFETT'S "IN THE SHELTER"]
In the shelter ♪
♪
In the morning ♪
As the sun was brightly beaming ♪
♪
I heard her crying out ♪
What is it all about?
I just don't know ♪
But I can't go back home ♪
Lonely princess ♪
All the days out on your own ♪
Are growing empty ♪
♪
Nothing is going well ♪
If you could only tell them ♪
This is your roommate, Sophia.
They're too real to understand ♪
♪
Too many trite expressions ♪
Ended in forced rejections ♪
Long ago ♪
♪
Too many innocent faces ♪
Too many far-out places ♪
Something's wrong ♪
Let me tell you that
something's wrong ♪
It's been that way so long ♪
[POLICE SIREN ON TV]
I can't believe what I've been hearing,
Martians, flying saucers.
I know this is gonna sound crazy,
but there was something out there.
- I saw it.
- You saw it?
Come on, Oscar. What'd you see?
A flying saucer.
Everything that these
people are saying is true.
- A great big flying saucer.
- Really?
Wait, wait, what about Bill Robinson?
He's a UFO expert. Did he see it too?
He hasn't got the
faintest idea about it,
but it was there.
It flew over them and then disappeared.
Disappeared?
Yes, it was a beam, a light.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
And they just ride horses all day.
♪
- So jealous.
- I don't even understand.
Well, hey, new girl.
You don't need to look so nervous.
We don't bite. What's your name?
Janis. Janis Tobler.
Well, where are you from, Janis Tobler?
Um, well, before here, my
dad and I were in Lebanon.
Are there any cute guys there?
[LAUGHTER]
I don't really like to talk about it.
Okay. Suit yourself.
Did you know Melissa Sue Anderson
from "Little House on
the Prairie" goes here?
Anyway, next weekend,
there's going to be a pool.
So that means bring your bathing suits.
♪
Oh, Janis, come in.
Have a seat.
What can I help you with?
I just wanted to ask about something.
What is it?
Ask anything you like.
♪
Are you
Are you
like me?
I'm not sure what you mean, Janis.
Are you sure you're all right?
Yeah. No, I'm sorry.
I just don't think
that I'm feeling very
Janis.
I know what this is about.
You miss your mother, don't you?
Losing a parent is hard.
There's nothing wrong
with being sad about it.
But you can always turn
to the Lord for comfort.
And don't forget. You
still have your father.
You're lucky to have
him watching over you.
Yeah.
I am.
♪
- Hi.
- Hey.
I sure am glad you came to visit,
even if it's just for the weekend.
You're the only person
I can really talk to.
You been doing like we talked about,
staying focused on the mission?
Yeah, of course.
That's my girl.
Oh.
Here.
There's something I've been
itching to share with you.
It's a little something I wrote.
And then I want you to write something.
Write what?
Just a few words from the heart.
We'll get there.
First
this is from a little something I call
"A Season in the Sun."
It's sort of a memoir.
What's that?
Oh, that's where you write down
your memories from the best
parts of your life in a book.
So this one's all about you, Dolly.
There's quite a few
publishers interested,
and even talk of $1/4 million advance.
- We'll see.
- Wow.
"Even as Mary Ann and Bob
try to keep us apart out
of jealousy and spite,
the only thing I can hang on to
through this whole mess is Jan's love.
I know with all my soul
that I would die for her.
More important than that "
He's willing to live
and endure everything
you can throw upon him.
He'd go through it all
for me and so much more,
more than you can ever imagine,
with all your hang-ups
and old-fashioned ways.
We have a special
connection, the two of us.
I left home because I was sick to death
of putting on the little girl act
just because it's what
everyone expected of me.
I've had all I could take of the battle
between you and me over B.
He had been mine from the beginning,
and you had no right to him.
Most of all, on this Earth,
I want to be B's wife.
And I know our love
will go on into eternity,
no matter what you, or Bob, or
anyone else on this Earth does to us.
"I would like very much
to start a new relationship
with you on a woman-to-woman basis.
Maybe then we'd learn
to enjoy each other."
"Please do whatever needs to be done
so that I can return and marry B."
"Love, Jan."
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
Morning.
Hey, Greg.
Did you have a chance to
track down that psychologist
from the Broberg case,
the one that came by
the first time he
took her, Dr. Milstein?
Yeah, that clinic
closed over a year ago.
And the last former
employee I spoke with said
that Dr. Milstein's on a
sabbatical somewhere in Argentina.
If we could locate him,
that would help establish
a pattern of behavior.
Berchtold is going to
do this with other kids.
He's not gonna stop.
You know, listen, I think
this LDS Social Services
in the Mormon church
they had access to Berchtold's files,
since they're the
ones that referred him.
So we should talk to them too.
Pete, Pete, Pete, what
are you talking about?
I'm not gonna do any of this.
I know you've gotten
close to these people.
But I'd like to go out in
the Bureau's good graces.
So I'm gonna follow Flynn's direct order
not to work on the Broberg case.
And you should too.
♪
He's right in there.
Thank you.
Bishop Paulson, Agent Peter Welsh, FBI.
Is this a good time?
Agent Welsh, come in.
Really appreciate you
taking the time to see me.
Not at all.
Have a seat.
Oh, honey, you want to wait downstairs?
We shouldn't be too long.
Ever since she's in
college, I gotta steal
whatever father-daughter time I can get.
Well, I'm just checking to see
if we missed anything from
our initial investigation.
The LDS Social Services
is mentioned several times.
Can you explain to me what that is?
Mm-hmm, that's a nonprofit
operated by the LDS church
that provides counseling
for members in need.
Mm-hmm, and why was
Berchtold seeking counseling?
No, he was referred by me, his Bishop.
Oh, that must have been summer of '74.
But Jan wasn't taken
until October that year.
So why refer him?
Well, Bob Berchtold actually
He had made inappropriate overtures
toward my daughter, Nicole.
To your daughter?
How old was she at the time?
At that time, she was 14.
And he was a member of the High Council.
The High Council?
The High Council
it sounds high and mighty,
but we're a lay clergy.
So members of the church
were called on to volunteer.
I've been a Sunday school teacher,
scout leader, high
councilman, and now, Bishop.
So, yes, Bob
Bob Berchtold was on the High Council.
But then when we learned
that his condition
had gotten worse, he was excommunicated
and referred to LDS Social Services.
What do you mean, his
condition had gotten worse?
Disciplinary matters
before the Council
they're supposed to be
confidential, Agent Welsh.
Mm.
How about first I tell you
what I know about Robert Berchtold?
I know he doesn't feel
emotions the way that we do.
I know that he will lie,
manipulate, intimidate,
and blackmail to get the
only thing that he wants,
which is access to young girls.
And I know that he is doing
it right now as we speak.
So, Bishop, if you know anything
that might help us stop him,
it is incumbent on your conscience
and on your soul to share
that with me right now.
Well [CLEARS THROAT]
Excuse me.
The reason that he was excommunicated
was because he told us
that he had drugged Jan Broberg
on multiple occasions
and acted out
sexual fantasies,
masturbation and
limited, uh, intercourse
while she slept.
Before the first kidnapping?
Did anyone tell law enforcement?
Did anyone tell the Brobergs?
Agent, our religion,
it is built upon the pillars
of faith and repentance.
Okay.
We believe that Jesus
Christ is our Savior,
and he died and paid for our sins.
If we repent
He forgives us.
Our main teaching is to try
to become like him.
He's been doing this for years.
You could have stopped it.
He had repented, and
I thought I was doing the right thing.
The part of me that can't let go ♪
And I would give anything I own ♪
Give up my life, my heart, my home ♪
I would give everything ♪
I own ♪
Just to have you back again ♪
Is there someone you
know, you're loving them so ♪
But taking them all for granted? ♪
You may lose them one day ♪
Someone takes them away ♪
And they don't hear the
words you long to say ♪
I would give anything I own ♪
Give up my life, my heart, my home ♪
I would give everything ♪
I own ♪
Just to have you ♪
Back again ♪
Just to touch you ♪
Once again ♪
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Robert Berchtold, you're
hereby ordered to serve 15 days.
15 days?
The very first time I laid eyes on you,
I was transfixed.
Now I don't think I could live
without your special light.
He is a deeply wicked man, Jani.
You're the ones who are tormenting me.
And I'm not a child!
I'd like to invite anyone
who wishes to bear their testimony.
Even if you bring her back,
she's just gonna leave again.
I'll check with his parole officer,
but he wants to make it seem like
she left of her own volition.
You are a monster,
a heartless, vile excuse of a man,
and I will get my daughter away from you
if it is the last thing
I do on this Earth!
Where are you, B?
Is Jan with you?
No. No.
No, Mary Ann.
No, she called, said she ran away.
Oh, I've been drinking
myself sick all morning.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[PANTING]
Hey, angel, hi.
Follow my instructions?
You leave a note like I told you to?
Mm-hmm.
Okay, good, good.
Hey, hey.
It's all right.
You're okay.
All right?
Okay.
Here.
Take one of these
just for the jitters.
Now [EXHALES]
After I drop you at the airport,
you do exactly like I told you to.
Okay?
My friends are gonna meet you
to pick you up when you land.
You look beautiful.
I'll try to come out as soon as I can
so we can spend a little time
together before school starts.
All right?
All right.
Now you close your eyes, get some rest.
Got a long trip ahead of you.
[ENGINE TURNING OVER]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Mary Ann?
Mary Ann.
The FBI can't treat this
as a kidnapping either,
not with the note.
As far as the Bureau is concerned,
Jan is a runaway.
I've been told to stand down
unless we find incriminating evidence.
But until then, my hands are tied.
I'm sorry.
This is all my fault.
[TENSE MUSIC]
It's easy to blame yourselves right now.
No one thinks that their
best friend is a monster.
♪
I'll do my best to
keep track of Berchtold,
but the best plan is to
make him comfortable enough
to contact you and make a mistake.
If you can get him on
tape incriminating himself,
then I can help you.
You go along with the
idea that Jan ran away,
at least to him.
To anybody else, you can
tell whatever story you want.
But don't accuse him.
He is your only link to Jan right now.
You need to get him talking
and let him lead us to her.
♪
[PHONE RINGING]
Hello, Brobergs.
Hi, Mary Ann. How are you?
[TAPE CLICKS]
Well
Not good.
Oh, that, uh, husband of yours around?
He's working late at the store.
Well, I don't know if you heard,
but Gail and I are done,
really and truly over.
And, uh
and I got a place of my
own here in Salt Lake City.
It's not much, but you know me
You need to tell me
where Jan is right now.
Well, it's funny you say that.
I just got through talking to Jan.
You did? What'd she say?
B, please.
She said she met two girls,
two older girls, out hitchhiking.
And they've been doing heaven
knows what out on the road.
I said, "Jan, where are you?
You got everybody worried sick."
And she wouldn't tell me where she was.
Oh, she's just so mad at you and Bob.
She does not want to come back
and be a child in your home anymore.
She wants to be a grown adult?
Oh, Christ, she is right now.
She's 14.
It is pure hell, Mary Ann,
not knowing where she is.
Oh, and just thinking
about all the awful things
that might be happening
to her out there.
You know, I said to
her Mary Ann, I said,
"Jan, is there any way
that you'll come back?"
And she said, "I told them
I want to marry you more than
anything else in this world."
I said, "Jan, would you settle for if we
kept it very, very quiet,
and we went down to the
justice of the peace,
and nobody knew, and you
could still live at home?"
And she said, "Oh, B,
do you think there's a
chance they'd let me?"
You are an evil man!
Evil!
I'm glad you're going to jail.
[PHONE CLICKS]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Damn him!
[EXHALES]
Just couldn't listen to
that for another second.
♪
Ah pshh. Come on.
Hey, friend.
There something I can help you with?
Sure.
Where's Jan Broberg?
You know, I thought the FBI
didn't investigate runaways.
Some people might say
this is harassment.
Enjoy your vacation, Berchtold.
[CHUCKLES]
Starts today. Doesn't it?
Yeah. Yeah.
15 days in the pokey.
Might have enough time
to read a book or two.
Well, you take care, Agent Welsh.
Don't wanna be late.
♪
Pocatello will continue
to be sweltering.
Despite intermittent cloud cover,
it will again be in the 90s.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Hello, Gail.
I heard the divorce went through.
May I come in?
Yes, of course.
♪
What brings you by?
Um, I finished dropping Bob off at jail.
Oh.
And I wanted to
come express my grief
that Jan has run away again.
It must be so hard for you and Bob.
Thank you.
Of course, if you knew something,
anything that would give
us a clue where she is,
you would tell us, right?
I did ask him about it.
I looked him dead in the eye,
and he told me that he
didn't have anything to do
with Jan running off this time,
and I believe him.
Gail.
I think Jan truly felt like
she didn't have a choice.
She wants to be with him that much.
You can't really believe that.
You know
I wasn't that much older than Jan
when Bob and I first met.
If she were my daughter,
I really think I would
just let her marry him.
I guess if it brings her back,
what does it matter what
a piece of paper says?
I see what you're doing,
and I pity you.
And shame on you
for still lying to protect him.
♪
I married him.
And we have four beautiful
children together.
What's your excuse?
♪
You asked for me, sir?
Can you explain to me why this office
just received a fresh
complaint about you
harassing Robert Berchtold?
Sitting in my own car is harassment?
What were you doing?
Trying to corroborate
his claim that he wasn't
involved in the second
disappearance of Jan Broberg.
I thought she left a note.
She misspelled her own mother's name.
Hoofbeats mean horses.
If she left a note saying
she ran away, she ran away.
Stop wasting Bureau resources.
Thank you, sir.
[GENE AUTRY'S "BACK
IN THE SADDLE AGAIN"]
-
- I'm back in the saddle again ♪
Out where a friend is a friend ♪
Berchtold, up and at 'em.
It's time to go home.
I'm back in the saddle again ♪
Dang it, Phil, I was just
getting to the good part.
And the only law is right ♪
Back in the saddle again ♪
Mary Ann, I heard from Jan again,
and even though the last time we spoke,
we had some words, I knew
that I had to call you.
I'm glad you did now that you're out.
Last time we spoke,
I was really upset about Jan leaving.
Yeah, well, I figured
that's what it was.
Lord knows I've been upset myself.
I'd probably still be
passed out at some
some bar if I didn't have
to pay my debt to society.
So how did she sound?
Well, she's still hitchhiking
with those two older girls.
It kills me to tell you this, Mary Ann,
but she's using heavy drugs.
Heroin, Mary Ann.
Oh.
- Oh, dear.
- [MOUTHING]
And where was she calling from?
She didn't say,
but she said, "The only
way that I'll come home
is if I know that you
and I can be man and wife.
So ask them again, please,
to sign the papers,
so we can get married."
[MOUTHING WORDS]
So that means she'll be calling back
at some point then, right?
Yes, I suppose so,
to hear your response.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Is it cold where she is?
She didn't bring much with her.
You know, I think she just
really wants to come home.
We'll buy her a plane ticket.
Just tell us what airport.
Or could she take a bus?
Mary Ann, she's barely got
enough change to call me.
I say, "Jan, how are
you getting your money?"
And she says, "Hard."
♪
Are you saying that you'll send her back
if we let her marry you?
It's not so much that I want to.
It's that if I had to, for her sake.
♪
You know I love Jan.
So of course I'd marry her
if that was the only way
to get her to come home
and to know she's safe.
But I guess I'll find her myself
since you don't give a damn.
Okay, the good news is
that we have him on tape
saying that he would marry her, right?
I mean, that's gotta be something
that Pete can work with, right?
- It's worth a shot.
- Yeah.
You did great.
Well?
I wish it was enough.
He said he would marry her.
Not as a demand.
[PHONE RINGING]
Brobergs.
Mary Ann, Bishop Paulson here.
Is Bob with you?
Yes, Bishop. He's right here.
Bishop, how are you?
Bob, Nicole and I were
coming back from BYU today,
and we were passing through Ogden.
And I happened to
notice a car going past.
And I am quite sure that it
was Bob Berchtold at the wheel.
And I believe that it was Jan
riding in the car with him.
You saw Jan in the car?
Yeah, I think so.
And you had said she was
staying with her grandmother,
so I thought that was to put some space
between her and the Berchtold situation.
So I figured if they were
spending time together,
you'd want to know about that.
Do you know where they were headed?
Could you tell?
Headed South on I-15.
They're near Ogden, like I said.
South on I-15. Thank you, Bishop.
Sure thing.
He's with her. He's with her.
She's in Ogden. Our
Bishop saw her in his car.
Is she under duress?
Probably, I mean, I don't
Surely that's enough for
the FBI to get involved?
Yeah.
We need to disprove she's a runaway.
Contributing in the delinquency
of a minor is a misdemeanor.
To open a federal case,
we need proof of interstate transport,
travel receipts, or a ransom demand,
or a confession on tape.
Couldn't you at least call
the police department in Ogden?
You can't open a case,
but maybe they could
if they thought he was in
the company of a runaway.
I can't.
I'm sorry.
It's not enough for the Bureau.
If I press too hard,
they will cut me loose,
and you'll have no one
there who cares about Jan.
But if the Bishop saw her,
at least we know she's close.
Thanks a lot, Pete. [SNIFFLES]
I'll see myself out.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
Sorry I'm late.
Don't worry about fixing me a plate.
I don't have much of an appetite,
to be honest with you.
Yeah, I just don't know what to do.
Well, if you hear anything,
please let us know right away.
Where are the girls? Are they okay?
- Jenny hasn't come home.
- What?
- Where is she?
- I thought she was at Sally's.
I've called everywhere.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Hi.
How was the sleepover?
It was good.
Sally's mother called your mother
to thank her for
letting Sally sleep here.
Where have you been?
It's not a big deal. We
just went out to see a show.
I've been looking for you in ditches.
Dad, we're in Idaho.
Go to your room.
♪
[PHONE LINE TRILLING]
Ogden Police Department,
how can I help you?
Peter Welsh, Pocatello FBI.
I'd like to speak with the
ranking officer on duty please.
Just one moment.
[CLEARS THROAT]
This is Captain Collins.
Hey, Terry, Pete Welsh here.
Listen, you didn't hear this from me,
but there's a guy down in Ogden
that I think you boys should know about.
[SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
We've been here all day.
Shouldn't we just go in or something?
I mean, if there's even a
chance that she's in there.
At his known address where a
parole officer could stop by?
No, we stick with the plan.
We wait, then we'll follow.
It's just wearing me down.
The waiting and the guilt.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
Mary Ann
I've forgiven you
for everything.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
That's him. That's him.
Get down.
♪
There's somebody else
in the car with him.
Is it Jan?
I can't tell.
♪
Come on.
I think it's her. I think it's her.
So the girl that Bishop
Paulson saw wasn't
It was someone else's daughter.
♪
[TV PLAYS IN BACKGROUND]
With a mass spectrometer
and other sensors,
NASA hopes to detect signs of life
from our sister planet.
Following up on the economy,
there is no easing up on
the recession and inflation.
Meanwhile, here's an update
on President Ford's
I'll put you to bed.
Come on. I got ya.
From the National Crime desk tonight
comes news of another child abduction.
12-year-old Becky Williams
of Orlando, Florida,
has been missing since
she got off her bus,
which was only a half a mile
and ten minute walk from her home.
Friends of Becky reported noticing a man
talking to her after the
bus had already pulled away.
[NANCY SINATRA'S "HOW ARE
THINGS IN CALIFORNIA?"]
♪
How are things in California? ♪
Oh, your letter didn't say ♪
Now that you're in California ♪
Are you gonna stay? ♪
So much of what people call
truth isn't even reality.
I mean, it's just their perception
of what reality and the truth is.
Hmm.
Well, all right, I sure am glad
that I get to go to boarding
school while we're out here,
while we finish the mission.
I wonder if it'll be weird,
though, being Catholic.
Oh, you're gonna do just fine.
You're the best actress I know.
You're gonna win an Oscar one day.
Just hope I can make
friends at Sacred Heart.
I almost miss Karen,
and Susan, and Caroline.
Well, I hate to disappoint you, Dolly,
but I don't think Zada
and Zethra would want you
making friends, not with
those Catholic girls.
Sacred Heart's just temporary
until Mary Ann and Bob
sign the marriage papers.
To do the mission, we need to spend
as much time as possible together
over the next two years
before you turn 16.
The only way that happens
is if they sign those papers.
Everything depends on those papers.
What's that got to do with
making friends while I'm there?
We don't want to slip up
and compromise the mission.
You know, Zada told me something
that I think might cheer you up.
One of the nuns there
is from their planet,
just like you.
I don't know which one,
but she'll be watching over you.
Can I talk to her?
Oh, I think it's probably best not to.
You might talk to the
wrong one, say too much.
And I don't think Zada
and Zethra would like that.
[LAUGHS]
Oh, I almost forgot.
I got one more surprise for you.
♪
[SOFT MUSIC]
♪
[WHISTLES]
It's a portable TV.
I saw one just like this in a magazine.
Well, now you can watch "Bionic Woman"
and "Charlie's Angels" and all that.
But you got to keep it a secret.
No TVs allowed at school.
Thank you.
Watch it when you're
lonely and think of me,
the Six Million Dollar Man.
You know, I met Lee
Majors about two years
before that show came out.
And I told him I had
an idea for a program
about an astronaut who gets injured.
And then I turn on the
TV, and I see that show,
and I think, gosh darn it.
That's my idea.
I wouldn't want to be
out here in Hollywood
with all those "pinkos" anyways.
[EERIE MUSIC]
♪
[BELL TOLLING]
Her mother passed tragically
when we were escaping the PLO.
I find it best not to
speak to her about it.
You know, luckily, Jerry has
[LAUGHS] Sorry.
It's a force of habit.
President Ford has been so supportive.
We're proud to support the work you do
for the White House in
any way we can, Mr. Tobler.
Well, thank you, sisters.
I'm sure she'll be just fine here.
You know, the CIA
investigated your school.
So I know just about
everything there is to know
about Flintridge Sacred Heart.
[CHUCKLES]
Would you excuse me?
Remember what I told you, Dolly.
One of them will be watching over you.
Got it?
Okay.
Come here.
[SOFT MUSIC]
♪
You take care of my Janis now.
Of course.
[JIMMY BUFFETT'S "IN THE SHELTER"]
In the shelter ♪
♪
In the morning ♪
As the sun was brightly beaming ♪
♪
I heard her crying out ♪
What is it all about?
I just don't know ♪
But I can't go back home ♪
Lonely princess ♪
All the days out on your own ♪
Are growing empty ♪
♪
Nothing is going well ♪
If you could only tell them ♪
This is your roommate, Sophia.
They're too real to understand ♪
♪
Too many trite expressions ♪
Ended in forced rejections ♪
Long ago ♪
♪
Too many innocent faces ♪
Too many far-out places ♪
Something's wrong ♪
Let me tell you that
something's wrong ♪
It's been that way so long ♪
[POLICE SIREN ON TV]
I can't believe what I've been hearing,
Martians, flying saucers.
I know this is gonna sound crazy,
but there was something out there.
- I saw it.
- You saw it?
Come on, Oscar. What'd you see?
A flying saucer.
Everything that these
people are saying is true.
- A great big flying saucer.
- Really?
Wait, wait, what about Bill Robinson?
He's a UFO expert. Did he see it too?
He hasn't got the
faintest idea about it,
but it was there.
It flew over them and then disappeared.
Disappeared?
Yes, it was a beam, a light.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
And they just ride horses all day.
♪
- So jealous.
- I don't even understand.
Well, hey, new girl.
You don't need to look so nervous.
We don't bite. What's your name?
Janis. Janis Tobler.
Well, where are you from, Janis Tobler?
Um, well, before here, my
dad and I were in Lebanon.
Are there any cute guys there?
[LAUGHTER]
I don't really like to talk about it.
Okay. Suit yourself.
Did you know Melissa Sue Anderson
from "Little House on
the Prairie" goes here?
Anyway, next weekend,
there's going to be a pool.
So that means bring your bathing suits.
♪
Oh, Janis, come in.
Have a seat.
What can I help you with?
I just wanted to ask about something.
What is it?
Ask anything you like.
♪
Are you
Are you
like me?
I'm not sure what you mean, Janis.
Are you sure you're all right?
Yeah. No, I'm sorry.
I just don't think
that I'm feeling very
Janis.
I know what this is about.
You miss your mother, don't you?
Losing a parent is hard.
There's nothing wrong
with being sad about it.
But you can always turn
to the Lord for comfort.
And don't forget. You
still have your father.
You're lucky to have
him watching over you.
Yeah.
I am.
♪
- Hi.
- Hey.
I sure am glad you came to visit,
even if it's just for the weekend.
You're the only person
I can really talk to.
You been doing like we talked about,
staying focused on the mission?
Yeah, of course.
That's my girl.
Oh.
Here.
There's something I've been
itching to share with you.
It's a little something I wrote.
And then I want you to write something.
Write what?
Just a few words from the heart.
We'll get there.
First
this is from a little something I call
"A Season in the Sun."
It's sort of a memoir.
What's that?
Oh, that's where you write down
your memories from the best
parts of your life in a book.
So this one's all about you, Dolly.
There's quite a few
publishers interested,
and even talk of $1/4 million advance.
- We'll see.
- Wow.
"Even as Mary Ann and Bob
try to keep us apart out
of jealousy and spite,
the only thing I can hang on to
through this whole mess is Jan's love.
I know with all my soul
that I would die for her.
More important than that "
He's willing to live
and endure everything
you can throw upon him.
He'd go through it all
for me and so much more,
more than you can ever imagine,
with all your hang-ups
and old-fashioned ways.
We have a special
connection, the two of us.
I left home because I was sick to death
of putting on the little girl act
just because it's what
everyone expected of me.
I've had all I could take of the battle
between you and me over B.
He had been mine from the beginning,
and you had no right to him.
Most of all, on this Earth,
I want to be B's wife.
And I know our love
will go on into eternity,
no matter what you, or Bob, or
anyone else on this Earth does to us.
"I would like very much
to start a new relationship
with you on a woman-to-woman basis.
Maybe then we'd learn
to enjoy each other."
"Please do whatever needs to be done
so that I can return and marry B."
"Love, Jan."
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
Morning.
Hey, Greg.
Did you have a chance to
track down that psychologist
from the Broberg case,
the one that came by
the first time he
took her, Dr. Milstein?
Yeah, that clinic
closed over a year ago.
And the last former
employee I spoke with said
that Dr. Milstein's on a
sabbatical somewhere in Argentina.
If we could locate him,
that would help establish
a pattern of behavior.
Berchtold is going to
do this with other kids.
He's not gonna stop.
You know, listen, I think
this LDS Social Services
in the Mormon church
they had access to Berchtold's files,
since they're the
ones that referred him.
So we should talk to them too.
Pete, Pete, Pete, what
are you talking about?
I'm not gonna do any of this.
I know you've gotten
close to these people.
But I'd like to go out in
the Bureau's good graces.
So I'm gonna follow Flynn's direct order
not to work on the Broberg case.
And you should too.
♪
He's right in there.
Thank you.
Bishop Paulson, Agent Peter Welsh, FBI.
Is this a good time?
Agent Welsh, come in.
Really appreciate you
taking the time to see me.
Not at all.
Have a seat.
Oh, honey, you want to wait downstairs?
We shouldn't be too long.
Ever since she's in
college, I gotta steal
whatever father-daughter time I can get.
Well, I'm just checking to see
if we missed anything from
our initial investigation.
The LDS Social Services
is mentioned several times.
Can you explain to me what that is?
Mm-hmm, that's a nonprofit
operated by the LDS church
that provides counseling
for members in need.
Mm-hmm, and why was
Berchtold seeking counseling?
No, he was referred by me, his Bishop.
Oh, that must have been summer of '74.
But Jan wasn't taken
until October that year.
So why refer him?
Well, Bob Berchtold actually
He had made inappropriate overtures
toward my daughter, Nicole.
To your daughter?
How old was she at the time?
At that time, she was 14.
And he was a member of the High Council.
The High Council?
The High Council
it sounds high and mighty,
but we're a lay clergy.
So members of the church
were called on to volunteer.
I've been a Sunday school teacher,
scout leader, high
councilman, and now, Bishop.
So, yes, Bob
Bob Berchtold was on the High Council.
But then when we learned
that his condition
had gotten worse, he was excommunicated
and referred to LDS Social Services.
What do you mean, his
condition had gotten worse?
Disciplinary matters
before the Council
they're supposed to be
confidential, Agent Welsh.
Mm.
How about first I tell you
what I know about Robert Berchtold?
I know he doesn't feel
emotions the way that we do.
I know that he will lie,
manipulate, intimidate,
and blackmail to get the
only thing that he wants,
which is access to young girls.
And I know that he is doing
it right now as we speak.
So, Bishop, if you know anything
that might help us stop him,
it is incumbent on your conscience
and on your soul to share
that with me right now.
Well [CLEARS THROAT]
Excuse me.
The reason that he was excommunicated
was because he told us
that he had drugged Jan Broberg
on multiple occasions
and acted out
sexual fantasies,
masturbation and
limited, uh, intercourse
while she slept.
Before the first kidnapping?
Did anyone tell law enforcement?
Did anyone tell the Brobergs?
Agent, our religion,
it is built upon the pillars
of faith and repentance.
Okay.
We believe that Jesus
Christ is our Savior,
and he died and paid for our sins.
If we repent
He forgives us.
Our main teaching is to try
to become like him.
He's been doing this for years.
You could have stopped it.
He had repented, and
I thought I was doing the right thing.
The part of me that can't let go ♪
And I would give anything I own ♪
Give up my life, my heart, my home ♪
I would give everything ♪
I own ♪
Just to have you back again ♪
Is there someone you
know, you're loving them so ♪
But taking them all for granted? ♪
You may lose them one day ♪
Someone takes them away ♪
And they don't hear the
words you long to say ♪
I would give anything I own ♪
Give up my life, my heart, my home ♪
I would give everything ♪
I own ♪
Just to have you ♪
Back again ♪
Just to touch you ♪
Once again ♪
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪