Limetown (2019) s01e07 Episode Script
Acceptable Loss
Previously on "Limetown" - I've been thinking - About Warren? About how someone wants you to shut up.
I know what I'm doing.
I was actually just gonna say, - don't ever shut up.
- [CHUCKLES.]
What about your wife, Deirdre? I don't know where she is.
I don't know if she's alive or dead.
- You edited tape.
- What? You would have let the story just die? I wouldn't have lied to get to the truth.
They're all here, Lia.
They want you to know something.
Don't try to run.
[GUNSHOT ECHOES.]
911.
What is your emergency? Hi.
I'm calling about a I don't know.
A shooting? [STAMMERING.]
And send backup, because there may be other Are you saying there are multiple shooters? I I don't know.
I'm an hour away now, and he called me, and I I heard gunfire.
Can you tell me where the shooting took place? Uh, Max's address.
- 1655 Arbutus Road.
- 1655 Arbutus Road.
- Who am I speaking with? - Lia Haddock.
I'm a reporter for APR American Public Radio.
I'm doing a story on something he's involved in.
Can I reach you at this number? Yes.
Yes, you can reach me at this number.
- We'll send units right away.
- Oh, thank you so much.
- [LINE DISCONNECTS.]
- Can you call oh.
Who are they sending? Are they sending a SWA team? What's happening? - I think we should go back.
- Back? No, no.
- We should go back.
- What are we gonna do back hey, what are we gonna do back There's nothing for us to do back there.
We called the cops.
What, we get caught in the crossfire? We can't go back there.
I mean, we're not we're not superheroes.
You know? This is not okay, Lia.
I mean, at first, I thought maybe it was just an accident with Warren, but now, I mean, this is [STAMMERING.]
they're picking them off.
They're murdering them.
And we're accomplices at this point, you know? Maybe not legally, but morally, spiritually, we're accomplices at this point.
Lia, we're definitely accomplice - All right, okay.
Calm down.
- No, I'm not gonna calm down! This whole story has to stop, Lia.
The whole thing has to stop.
It cannot continue.
I know.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
I'm glad we're both in agreement.
First thing Monday, we tell Gina to pull this whole thing from the lineup this whole thing.
And then we turn everything over to the FBI to Agent Siddiqui.
We're done.
[SOFT RUMBLING.]
[SIGHS.]
Okay? Okay? Okay.
[WHISPERS.]
Okay.
Okay.
Back to the cubicles we go.
[RUMBLINGS FADE.]
[CELL PHONE BUZZES, RINGS.]
- Hey.
- I just sent you a link.
- Okay.
- You're gonna want to see it.
I mean, you're not gonna want to, but you're gonna want to.
[LINE DISCONNECTS.]
From a 911 call Haddock made an hour after she left Finlayson's home.
This is the second Limetown survivor who has ended up dead under violent and mysterious circumstances following an interview with Haddock.
We'll now hear from one of the many concerned relatives - of the Limetown missing, Jessica Reese.
- - I want to say something to Lia Haddock.
- - I don't know if my brother Kenneth, - missing male number 135, is still alive or not, and even though I miss him every single day, I respect his need for secrecy to survive.
- His safety is more important - - - than your silly little radio show.
[TENSE AMBIENT MUSIC.]
[SCOFFS.]
Sure you are.
[MUTTERING.]
[PHONE CHIRPS.]
- Hey.
Thanks for coming.
- Hey.
Hey.
These survivors, they're coming to you to speak.
Yeah, but is it possible that it's just by chance? That I could be any reporter telling this story? No.
No, I think that means something.
Can we just talk about the thing we're not talking about? [LAYS NOTEPAD, PEN DOWN.]
[SIGHS.]
Why did I come up to you at that bar? I mean, I'd like to think it's it's the same reason anyone would come up to anyone else at a bar.
Well, it's not.
You know it's not.
Because you knew you knew I lost my brother in Limetown.
And you were someone who understood that kind of loss.
So if this was Brian I'll stop if you want me to stop.
When do you head out? Soon as I can.
If you ever want anything more And even though I miss him - every single day - [DOOR OPENS, CLOSES.]
I respect his need for secrecy to survive.
His safety is more important than your silly little radio show.
This is Lia Haddock.
The clip you just heard from Jessica Reese is a fair one, and there are many of you who agree with her.
Since the death of Dr.
Finlayson, I have grappled with the central question of if I should continue.
To be completely honest, I was very close to saying no and walking away.
This story has taken a toll on me and my family, but most importantly, everyone who has spoken with me.
But then, I was contacted - by Deirdre Wells oh.
- [DOOR OPENS.]
[SIGHS, CHUCKLES.]
Jesus, Mark.
[KEYBOARD CLACKS.]
What are you doing here? We had an agreement.
I actually believed you.
Yet five seconds later you turn around and agree to talk to Deirdre Wells.
Mark, I really did mean when we hold on.
[DOOR OPENS.]
I really did mean that.
[STAMMERS.]
Do you know what I do for you? Do you have any idea? You memorized 326 survivor names, right? So did I.
I manage everyone you talk to everyone who wants to strangle you to death when you're being an asshole, not excluding Gina, by the way.
And yet you have no idea just how much I've committed to this story.
I [CHUCKLES.]
I don't even know if it's to the story or to you.
I don't even know why why I thought today might be the day you change.
Why would I ever think that? You know what, Mark? You've been on this story for 15 minutes.
I've been on this story for 15 years.
I'm not gonna sacrifice Sacrifice? Sacrifice? I'll tell you what we sacrificed.
We sacrificed Warren Chambers.
We sacrificed Max Finlayson.
That's who we sacrificed.
We did that.
I would say that they were adults.
They knew what they were getting into.
How could they possibly know what they were getting into? Did you know what we were getting into? I mean, Warren was just trying to help you, and he died, and Max Max didn't even want to help you, Lia, but you tricked him, and it got him killed.
No eviscerated.
Look.
Look at this.
[MUSIC DARKENS.]
You see that? Those are real pictures real life.
How did you get these? I'm a reporter too, Lia.
But you know what I am first? A human being.
And I can't just sit here and let people die like this because of a silly little radio show.
Deirdre Wells knows the risks.
She came to me.
If I don't tell this story, it will never be told.
I'm getting on a flight.
I'm getting on that redeye tonight, Lufthansa, 8:55.
You can come if you want.
I'm a reporter too, Lia.
But you know what I am first? A human being.
And I can't just sit here and let people die like this because of a silly little radio show.
And I can't just sit here and let people die like this because of a silly little radio show.
- [GUNSHOT.]
- And I can't just sit here and let people die like this because of a silly little radio show.
Because of a silly little radio show.
Because of a silly little radio show.
Because of a silly little radio show.
Because of a silly little radio show.
[SLAMS TABLE.]
[SIGHS HEAVILY.]
What? I just can't leave like this.
Can I come in? [EXHALES DEEPLY.]
I need you on my side here.
It's not gonna happen, Lia.
I'm not gonna let you do this.
[CHUCKLES.]
Well, I want your cooperation, but I don't need your permission, Mark.
And I don't need your permission to leak Villard's original recordings, 'Cause that will kill this whole story, Lia.
- You wouldn't do that.
- No, no, no.
I will do it today.
I swear to God.
With or without you.
Or we could just go to the FBI and turn it over to them and be done with this.
What do you want to do? We did what we had to do for our story.
The story? No.
No, no, no, no.
This isn't about the story.
This isn't about the story.
This is about you.
Don't give me that bullshit that this is about the story, Lia.
This is about you.
The story makes you feel special.
Look, truth is, in the end, you really only give a shit about yourself.
[TENSE AMBIENT MUSIC.]
You're right.
You're right.
What do you mean? It's about me.
It's about me, because when Limetown disappeared, I felt like I was erased along with it.
But I'm stuck.
I'm still stuck here in between, and everyone in Limetown, they're stuck too.
They're here, stuck in between with me, and, you see, we are linked, okay? We are smaller parts of a larger chain, and we are locked together, and every one of those people that regains their lives, that makes me less stuck.
Their lives define mine.
[VOICE BREAKING.]
I need this, Mark.
You're ill, Lia.
- No.
- You're ill.
You can investigate this until it kills you, but it's never gonna fix what's inside you.
You have to stop.
[STAMMERS.]
I can't live with this.
I understand.
It'll get easier.
Yeah, maybe for you, but I'm not gonna sit around and watch more people die for a story, Lia.
Who are you calling, Mark? - [LINE TRILLING.]
- Who are you calling, Mark? Mark, stop calling.
- What? - Stop stop calling! What are you doing? [BOTH PANTING.]
Lia, I'm sorry.
[GRUNTS.]
You've reached Gina Purri, American Public Radio.
I'm unable to get to the [SOFT WHIMPERING.]
Lia.
[GURGLES, GRUNTS.]
Lia.
[GRUNTS.]
Lia.
Lia.
Lia.
[DIALING.]
[SPORADIC BREATHING.]
[BREATHING THROUGH NOSE.]
[EXHALES, STOPS BREATHING.]
[SNIFFLES.]
[HOARSE INHALE.]
[SOBBING QUIETLY.]
[TENSE, PULSATING MUSIC.]
[OBJECTS CLATTER.]
[UNSETTLING MUSIC.]
[DISTANT SIRENS WAILING.]
[BREATHES HEAVILY.]
Hey, Mark, it's me.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
You know, that was fun tonight.
Uh, unexpected.
[LAUGHS.]
But I hope this doesn't make things weird at work.
Attention all passengers on flight 23.
We will begin the boarding process in five minutes.
606 nonstop to Chicago O'Hare is now boarding at gate 12.
Lia Haddock.
[MUSIC STOPS.]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
Hello, Agent Siddiqui.
Mark called.
He told me about Deirdre Wells.
So I'm here.
And you have the full support of the FBI behind you.
[CHATTER CONTINUES.]
This is the final call for [WOMAN OVER PA CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY, FADES.]
There's only one way to free yourself of guilt.
And that's by telling your truth.
[THUDDING.]
All of it.
[TENSE MUSIC BUILDING.]
Deirdre Wells?
I know what I'm doing.
I was actually just gonna say, - don't ever shut up.
- [CHUCKLES.]
What about your wife, Deirdre? I don't know where she is.
I don't know if she's alive or dead.
- You edited tape.
- What? You would have let the story just die? I wouldn't have lied to get to the truth.
They're all here, Lia.
They want you to know something.
Don't try to run.
[GUNSHOT ECHOES.]
911.
What is your emergency? Hi.
I'm calling about a I don't know.
A shooting? [STAMMERING.]
And send backup, because there may be other Are you saying there are multiple shooters? I I don't know.
I'm an hour away now, and he called me, and I I heard gunfire.
Can you tell me where the shooting took place? Uh, Max's address.
- 1655 Arbutus Road.
- 1655 Arbutus Road.
- Who am I speaking with? - Lia Haddock.
I'm a reporter for APR American Public Radio.
I'm doing a story on something he's involved in.
Can I reach you at this number? Yes.
Yes, you can reach me at this number.
- We'll send units right away.
- Oh, thank you so much.
- [LINE DISCONNECTS.]
- Can you call oh.
Who are they sending? Are they sending a SWA team? What's happening? - I think we should go back.
- Back? No, no.
- We should go back.
- What are we gonna do back hey, what are we gonna do back There's nothing for us to do back there.
We called the cops.
What, we get caught in the crossfire? We can't go back there.
I mean, we're not we're not superheroes.
You know? This is not okay, Lia.
I mean, at first, I thought maybe it was just an accident with Warren, but now, I mean, this is [STAMMERING.]
they're picking them off.
They're murdering them.
And we're accomplices at this point, you know? Maybe not legally, but morally, spiritually, we're accomplices at this point.
Lia, we're definitely accomplice - All right, okay.
Calm down.
- No, I'm not gonna calm down! This whole story has to stop, Lia.
The whole thing has to stop.
It cannot continue.
I know.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
I'm glad we're both in agreement.
First thing Monday, we tell Gina to pull this whole thing from the lineup this whole thing.
And then we turn everything over to the FBI to Agent Siddiqui.
We're done.
[SOFT RUMBLING.]
[SIGHS.]
Okay? Okay? Okay.
[WHISPERS.]
Okay.
Okay.
Back to the cubicles we go.
[RUMBLINGS FADE.]
[CELL PHONE BUZZES, RINGS.]
- Hey.
- I just sent you a link.
- Okay.
- You're gonna want to see it.
I mean, you're not gonna want to, but you're gonna want to.
[LINE DISCONNECTS.]
From a 911 call Haddock made an hour after she left Finlayson's home.
This is the second Limetown survivor who has ended up dead under violent and mysterious circumstances following an interview with Haddock.
We'll now hear from one of the many concerned relatives - of the Limetown missing, Jessica Reese.
- - I want to say something to Lia Haddock.
- - I don't know if my brother Kenneth, - missing male number 135, is still alive or not, and even though I miss him every single day, I respect his need for secrecy to survive.
- His safety is more important - - - than your silly little radio show.
[TENSE AMBIENT MUSIC.]
[SCOFFS.]
Sure you are.
[MUTTERING.]
[PHONE CHIRPS.]
- Hey.
Thanks for coming.
- Hey.
Hey.
These survivors, they're coming to you to speak.
Yeah, but is it possible that it's just by chance? That I could be any reporter telling this story? No.
No, I think that means something.
Can we just talk about the thing we're not talking about? [LAYS NOTEPAD, PEN DOWN.]
[SIGHS.]
Why did I come up to you at that bar? I mean, I'd like to think it's it's the same reason anyone would come up to anyone else at a bar.
Well, it's not.
You know it's not.
Because you knew you knew I lost my brother in Limetown.
And you were someone who understood that kind of loss.
So if this was Brian I'll stop if you want me to stop.
When do you head out? Soon as I can.
If you ever want anything more And even though I miss him - every single day - [DOOR OPENS, CLOSES.]
I respect his need for secrecy to survive.
His safety is more important than your silly little radio show.
This is Lia Haddock.
The clip you just heard from Jessica Reese is a fair one, and there are many of you who agree with her.
Since the death of Dr.
Finlayson, I have grappled with the central question of if I should continue.
To be completely honest, I was very close to saying no and walking away.
This story has taken a toll on me and my family, but most importantly, everyone who has spoken with me.
But then, I was contacted - by Deirdre Wells oh.
- [DOOR OPENS.]
[SIGHS, CHUCKLES.]
Jesus, Mark.
[KEYBOARD CLACKS.]
What are you doing here? We had an agreement.
I actually believed you.
Yet five seconds later you turn around and agree to talk to Deirdre Wells.
Mark, I really did mean when we hold on.
[DOOR OPENS.]
I really did mean that.
[STAMMERS.]
Do you know what I do for you? Do you have any idea? You memorized 326 survivor names, right? So did I.
I manage everyone you talk to everyone who wants to strangle you to death when you're being an asshole, not excluding Gina, by the way.
And yet you have no idea just how much I've committed to this story.
I [CHUCKLES.]
I don't even know if it's to the story or to you.
I don't even know why why I thought today might be the day you change.
Why would I ever think that? You know what, Mark? You've been on this story for 15 minutes.
I've been on this story for 15 years.
I'm not gonna sacrifice Sacrifice? Sacrifice? I'll tell you what we sacrificed.
We sacrificed Warren Chambers.
We sacrificed Max Finlayson.
That's who we sacrificed.
We did that.
I would say that they were adults.
They knew what they were getting into.
How could they possibly know what they were getting into? Did you know what we were getting into? I mean, Warren was just trying to help you, and he died, and Max Max didn't even want to help you, Lia, but you tricked him, and it got him killed.
No eviscerated.
Look.
Look at this.
[MUSIC DARKENS.]
You see that? Those are real pictures real life.
How did you get these? I'm a reporter too, Lia.
But you know what I am first? A human being.
And I can't just sit here and let people die like this because of a silly little radio show.
Deirdre Wells knows the risks.
She came to me.
If I don't tell this story, it will never be told.
I'm getting on a flight.
I'm getting on that redeye tonight, Lufthansa, 8:55.
You can come if you want.
I'm a reporter too, Lia.
But you know what I am first? A human being.
And I can't just sit here and let people die like this because of a silly little radio show.
And I can't just sit here and let people die like this because of a silly little radio show.
- [GUNSHOT.]
- And I can't just sit here and let people die like this because of a silly little radio show.
Because of a silly little radio show.
Because of a silly little radio show.
Because of a silly little radio show.
Because of a silly little radio show.
[SLAMS TABLE.]
[SIGHS HEAVILY.]
What? I just can't leave like this.
Can I come in? [EXHALES DEEPLY.]
I need you on my side here.
It's not gonna happen, Lia.
I'm not gonna let you do this.
[CHUCKLES.]
Well, I want your cooperation, but I don't need your permission, Mark.
And I don't need your permission to leak Villard's original recordings, 'Cause that will kill this whole story, Lia.
- You wouldn't do that.
- No, no, no.
I will do it today.
I swear to God.
With or without you.
Or we could just go to the FBI and turn it over to them and be done with this.
What do you want to do? We did what we had to do for our story.
The story? No.
No, no, no, no.
This isn't about the story.
This isn't about the story.
This is about you.
Don't give me that bullshit that this is about the story, Lia.
This is about you.
The story makes you feel special.
Look, truth is, in the end, you really only give a shit about yourself.
[TENSE AMBIENT MUSIC.]
You're right.
You're right.
What do you mean? It's about me.
It's about me, because when Limetown disappeared, I felt like I was erased along with it.
But I'm stuck.
I'm still stuck here in between, and everyone in Limetown, they're stuck too.
They're here, stuck in between with me, and, you see, we are linked, okay? We are smaller parts of a larger chain, and we are locked together, and every one of those people that regains their lives, that makes me less stuck.
Their lives define mine.
[VOICE BREAKING.]
I need this, Mark.
You're ill, Lia.
- No.
- You're ill.
You can investigate this until it kills you, but it's never gonna fix what's inside you.
You have to stop.
[STAMMERS.]
I can't live with this.
I understand.
It'll get easier.
Yeah, maybe for you, but I'm not gonna sit around and watch more people die for a story, Lia.
Who are you calling, Mark? - [LINE TRILLING.]
- Who are you calling, Mark? Mark, stop calling.
- What? - Stop stop calling! What are you doing? [BOTH PANTING.]
Lia, I'm sorry.
[GRUNTS.]
You've reached Gina Purri, American Public Radio.
I'm unable to get to the [SOFT WHIMPERING.]
Lia.
[GURGLES, GRUNTS.]
Lia.
[GRUNTS.]
Lia.
Lia.
Lia.
[DIALING.]
[SPORADIC BREATHING.]
[BREATHING THROUGH NOSE.]
[EXHALES, STOPS BREATHING.]
[SNIFFLES.]
[HOARSE INHALE.]
[SOBBING QUIETLY.]
[TENSE, PULSATING MUSIC.]
[OBJECTS CLATTER.]
[UNSETTLING MUSIC.]
[DISTANT SIRENS WAILING.]
[BREATHES HEAVILY.]
Hey, Mark, it's me.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
You know, that was fun tonight.
Uh, unexpected.
[LAUGHS.]
But I hope this doesn't make things weird at work.
Attention all passengers on flight 23.
We will begin the boarding process in five minutes.
606 nonstop to Chicago O'Hare is now boarding at gate 12.
Lia Haddock.
[MUSIC STOPS.]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
Hello, Agent Siddiqui.
Mark called.
He told me about Deirdre Wells.
So I'm here.
And you have the full support of the FBI behind you.
[CHATTER CONTINUES.]
This is the final call for [WOMAN OVER PA CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY, FADES.]
There's only one way to free yourself of guilt.
And that's by telling your truth.
[THUDDING.]
All of it.
[TENSE MUSIC BUILDING.]
Deirdre Wells?