Chosen (2013) s01e02 Episode Script

The Hunters

No one knows why they're chosen.
The box just shows up, and it starts.
He's a dentist.
Can I help you? This was placed at my doorstep this morning.
I just want to talk! What's happening? It's a game.
Hey, wait! Stop! No! - Can I talk to her? - She's asleep.
I swear to God, I would've been there if I could've.
Yeah.
How'd she do? Yeah, she did great.
She scored a goal by herself.
That's great.
Yeah, it is.
Yeah.
I'm sorry I wasn't there.
Yeah.
And I Laura, I I think I got caught up in something, and I just I need to tell Ian, I'm tired.
I'm gonna go to sleep.
Okay? Yeah, okay.
Good night.
Hi, I'm Ryan.
Today, we're gonna learn how to load a 9-millimeter Beretta.
This is a 9-millimeter Beretta.
You're gonna take your shoot thumb over here.
You're gonna press this button, so you eject and release the magazine.
Load the cartridges in.
Place it back in the gun.
You're gonna pull back the slide like this.
So you are cocked and ready.
It's just a thing of beauty.
All you gotta do is point at what you're shooting at and just pull the trigger.
Remember, when you are firing your weapon, if you're in, like, a situation, always, uh, always have your hands, remaining fingers, underneath this trigger, so you got your index of your shooting hand on the trigger, and everything else is just underneath.
When a schoolteacher fell from the roof of a downtown parking structure early this morning, friends and family say that she had been wrestling with depression.
That's bullshit.
In other news, legislation to allow on-leash pets to be admitted into California Shit.
State parks has been denied yet again.
Left one man dead, another injured.
The target appeared to have no relation to the shooter.
The police are now saying that the two had a prior altercation the previous morning.
The Trojans, who are still I think I've got it all set up.
All you have to do is plug it into your laptop so you can sync it with your calendar and all of your files and stuff.
Okay.
I also put a couple of extra apps on here for you, too.
I hope you don't mind.
Nope.
This one here, you can use voice memos, text, PDFs, and then send them all in one e-mail.
Cool.
And, oh, a phone-finding app so you don't lose your phone again.
You can just go onto the website and find your phone using GPS.
It's so helpful, because I lose my phone all the time.
Does that really work? Yeah, it's crazy.
Hmm.
Oh, also, your wife, uh Sorry, ex.
Laura.
Uh, Laura called last night at 6:30.
I already spoke to her.
Good.
Everything okay? I mean, with you guys.
It's fine.
Everything's fine.
Um, do we have any coffee this morning? Yeah, I can go make some.
Thank you.
Um, are we good? I mean, me and you, are we good? You know, because last Thursday, I was a little forward, and I don't normally drink that much.
I'm flattered.
Really, it's, uh, it's okay.
Okay, uh, I just want to let you know, I really like my job so I know.
You're doing a great job.
I appreciate it.
You're doing okay.
Okay.
It's okay.
Coffee.
Thanks.
Amber? Yeah? Was anybody in my office today? Did anybody come in here? Uh, not that I know of.
Oh, God, is something missing? Is something wrong? No, no, it's fine.
I want to make sure that nobody's in here, okay? Ever.
Okay, will do.
All right.
Dr.
Easton's office.
Yes, Dr.
Easton, please? He's with a patient right now.
May I ask who's calling? It's urgent.
Can you tell him it's one of his hunting buddies? Hunting buddies? He'll know what I mean.
This is Dr.
Easton.
Daniel? Who is this? It's Ian Mitchell.
I came by your office yesterday.
I showed you a photo.
Please, don't hang up.
I don't want you to hang up.
Just hear me out, please.
What do you want? You know what the photo meant, don't you? Please, I have a family.
So do I.
That's why I'm calling.
I want to meet.
Do you think I'm stupid? No, no, look, I don't want to hurt you, okay? I don't want to hurt anyone.
I've never hurt anyone.
I-I just I want to talk about this, okay? I want to work this out for both of us.
We can meet somewhere public? Somewhere crowded, how's that? Look.
I obviously know where you work, and I can very easily get your home address if I wanted to do something to you.
Don't you think I might've already done it already? 11:30.
There's a diner at the corner of 4th and Main.
I'll see you there.
Whatever you want.
So do we shake hands? I don't know.
Thank you for meeting me.
I figured it could only help.
Yeah, me, too.
Did you get the Something to drink, fellas? Coffee.
Black, please.
Tea.
Do you have hot tea? Black or green? Green.
Thank you.
So you got the package? Yeah.
When? Yesterday morning.
So 48 hours? Something like that, yeah.
Coffee.
Thank you.
Green tea.
Thank you.
Uh You got one as well.
Yeah, I got this picture.
Karen Glass.
I looked her up.
She lives in Pasadena.
She's got a big town house, three kids, a husband.
She's the head chef at some restaurant up there.
Christ.
She's got three kids.
Who Why would anyone want me to do that? I don't know.
Look at the time.
It's 11:30 p.
m.
, the 15th.
That's tomorrow night.
That's tomorrow night.
Who would want me to do that? That's what I'm trying to figure out.
At first, I thought it was a joke, like a prank or something.
Right.
And then I started getting the phone calls and the letters and threatening threatening my wife, threatening her.
Did you go to the cops? Yeah, of course.
And they did nothing.
No, I went into the big one, you know, on Flower.
On Flower, yeah.
I brought the gun and everything.
And they tried to well, they did.
They arrested me.
And they put me in holding, you know, for bringing an unregistered gun into a police station.
It wasn't the smartest thing you could've done.
I didn't know what I was thinking.
I wanted their help.
Then after a couple of hours down there in the holding cell, they just let me go with no charges.
No nothing.
What's that? Here's the messed-up thing.
They gave me the gun back.
Just "here you go.
Have a nice day.
" It feels You know, I'm glad to be telling someone about this.
I feel like I've been going crazy.
I wish you were.
I wish we both were.
Are you hungry? It's on me.
No, no, that's okay.
Food's good here though.
It is.
You work around here? Yeah, I do, just up on Bunker Hill there.
What do you do? I'm a lawyer.
What kind? Defense attorney.
So like, criminals and stuff? Yeah, uh, criminals and stuff.
So maybe you'll defend me when I'm You got family? I do have a wife, but we're separated.
I'm sorry.
That's tough.
It's, uh, it's better this way.
Kids? Thank you.
You Do you have kids? Would it make a difference? No.
I already made up my mind.
I'm not hurting anyone.
You know, you say that.
You say that now.
But when someone you love is threatened, when they're threatened, your thinking, it's gonna change.
Daniel, that's why Yeah, so I wanted to figure this out, okay, for both of us, together.
I mean, there's no one else you can trust, right? Except the person assigned to kill me? Look, I'm not hurting anyone.
I'm not.
I wouldn't even know how to.
The first time I held a gun was yesterday morning.
So what now? What now? We find out who's involved.
Everyone's involved.
- Come on.
- It can't be everyone.
We can't go to the police.
So what about finding the people like us? You and I can't be the only ones.
They're gonna find out.
They know.
They always know.
It's like It's like they're watching.
It's like they're listening all the time.
So have you contacted your target and confronted her? I went to see her up there at her work when she was getting off work, she was walking out.
I sat in the alley behind her.
Watched her leave.
I didn't say anything to her.
I didn't even get out of the car.
I thought about what it would take if I could do it.
Does that make me evil? I want you to look at this.
Okay.
God damn it.
Look at it.
Look at it.
Look at this.
Look at this.
Look.
This is Patrick.
He's 7 years old.
This is Emma.
She just turned 3.
This is my wife Sara.
We're happy.
Look at this.
Because when you're standing outside my door with a gun, I don't care what your reason is, this is who you're hurting.
Not me, this.
Look.
I'm gonna leave you alone.
You're not gonna see me ever again.
I promise.
I promise.

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