The Disappearance (2017) s01e05 Episode Script

Burial Grounds

1 The famous treasure hunt! Yeah I didn't make it easy this year.
And your grandma Maggie was the top student in the Physics Department of the university.
It was around the time I started calling her Marie Curie.
The rapist, Jason Dodd? She's pregnant with his child.
- The guy who raped his wife.
- I-I'm sorry.
Whose wife? - Sullivan's wife.
- When did this happen? Early '70s.
Even got her pregnant.
It's my child.
It's my responsibility.
Then it's mine too.
Congratulations.
It's a beautiful boy.
This baby is a gift.
I promise I'm gonna take really good care of him.
Listen to me! You were born 20 months later.
It can't be you.
We just have a few questions about the child you adopted.
I have nothing to say to you.
I heard her once talking to him about your family once when she was all messed up.
She knew that you were in the area.
- Stephen Price? - Go away now, okay? How does a guy who was on the streets a couple of years ago end up with a house like that? We both went to St.
James.
- What exactly is St.
James? - It's an orphanage.
We took excellent care of our children here.
I don't doubt it.
Why this new cat after two years? - It doesn't make sense.
- Yeah The cat is driving the message! Schedule an autopsy! - How far long is she? - Eight.
Looks more like 12.
What is it, Henry? It's a treasure hunt.
- I was worried that - [GUNSHOT.]
[PHONE RINGING.]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
[TRUNK DOOR CREAKING.]
Help me [SOMBRE MUSIC.]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
[BACKGROUND CHATTER.]
[PHONE CHIMING.]
We've expanded the search area.
- Nothing.
- Keep looking.
Capolla? Charles had something urgent come up.
So until he gets back, you're my lead.
Got it.
[SOFTLY.]
: Stephen [SOFT THEME MUSIC.]
Leave a light on In the wild 'Cause I'm coming in A little blind Stephen Price is copying the treasure hunt that I made for Anthony's birthday.
How can you be so sure it's Stephen Price? - Trust me, it's Stephen Price.
- Price has got nothing to do with this.
I was right about the tree.
I was right about the cat.
It's him! - This 88 clue has got to do with Mom.
- Exactly! 88, Marie Curie, leads us to Margaret's grave.
That's where I put the second clue.
That led us to the church, the next clue led us to Saïd's dep, and the last clue led us to the garage.
He's copying the treasure hunt.
This is insane.
What he did with that photo's insane.
Why would Price have a photograph of Mom? Do I have to tell you again? Why are the 88 crossed? What's his connection to her? There is no connection with her or any of the rest of us! He's a psychopath.
He put a photograph in a cat to prove to us that he had Anthony.
A psychopath acts on impulse.
- You said so yourself.
- So? What the abductor did was not impulsive.
He put a clue on the front of a photograph, he put a clue on the back of the photograph, which he then tore up into tiny little pieces and stuffed in a cat.
I mean it was organized, meticulous.
Luke, the picture was in Anthony's bag.
He used it.
End of story.
[PHONE RINGING.]
Are you okay, Charles? Susan, um, no, it's Erin.
Do you know where he is? Erin, don't worry, he's he's probably He usually calls when he works nights, but he's not answering his phone.
Maybe his cellphone died.
I'll ask him to phone you as soon as I see him.
Thank you.
Okay, watch your fingers, guys.
Buckle your seatbelts.
You guys ready for a good day?! Put out an APB on Charles's car.
- Did you find the second clue? - No.
We spent the whole night combing through the cemetery.
We've exhausted all the other stations of your treasure hunt.
Nothing Which actually makes sense.
- What do you mean? - Anthony couldn't have known about the last two stations; he never made it there.
So his kidnapper couldn't have known about it either.
Countless people knew about my treasure hunt over the last two years.
It would've been easy for Stephen Price to know about it.
We don't know that it's him, Henry.
It is a treasure hunt.
We agree on that.
And, yes, the first clue matches yours.
But like I said, we found nothing.
[SCOFFING.]
You didn't look hard enough.
What we have to focus on right now is that 88 on the back of Margaret's picture.
It's Anthony's handwriting, isn't it? The handwriting expert says it's not conclusive.
Why is there a line cutting across the eights? That is what the kidnapper wants us to ask ourselves, and that is the clue.
We're not dealing with a rational mind, Susan.
The line through the eight could mean anything.
The clue leads to Margaret's grave.
That's as clear as day light.
You need to tell your people to go through the stations again! - They did that.
- Like I said, they didn't try hard enough! I saw them in my garage like rank amateurs.
Henry, back off.
We need to find David Smith.
- Who? - We're on the verge of finding Anthony and you want to run around after a rapist's son? He's the child my mother had after she was raped by Jason Dodd.
You are even more stupid than I thought.
I didn't think that was possible.
Oh, my God, here we go again.
- Can you please just relax?! - If I ever find out that Anthony was taken because of you We're being toyed with, Luke! Don't you see? He wants us at each other's throats.
Both of you, you can kill each other when we have some facts.
Keep thinking about that 88 clue.
If anything occurs to you, let me know.
I'll call you if I have something new.
Somebody threatened Debbie Smith after Catherine and I went to see her.
- What? - Yeah, somebody who wants to prevent us from finding David.
You think I would do that? Can we please just try to figure out this 88? Why would I do that, Luke? Because you're hiding something.
- You're right.
- About what? It would explain a lot if you actually weren't my son.
We don't have time for this.
Dr.
Bertrand left you a note.
[CATHERINE SNIFFLING.]
Ahem.
Catherine? What is it? Fred? His pain's increased, uh significantly.
Dr.
Bertrand's started him on a new protocol.
I just thought he had more time.
Mr.
Sullivan? There's got to be a clue somewhere.
Maybe Price didn't have time to get to the garage.
Maybe he was afraid of getting caught.
They're following the wrong lead, Saïd.
Mr.
Sullivan, I'm sorry.
I haven't seen anything.
[BRAKES SQUEALING.]
[GRUNTING.]
- [HITTING.]
- Where is it? [INDISTINCT PA ANNOUNCEMENT.]
- Dad, are you okay? - I have to talk to Mr.
Cameron.
Why? Dad, what are you talking about? Mr.
Cameron, I really need to talk to you.
Fred, I am so sorry.
Dad, please! - It's alright, Catherine.
- No, it's not! It's really not! Fred needs to rest! It's okay.
Really.
- Ruthenium! - What? 88 divided by two is 44.
That's ruthenium on the periodic table.
Look it up.
Ruthenium.
Ruthenium.
It it's a rare, uh, transition metal No, no.
Who discovered it? 88 was for Marie Curie; 44 is for? Uh, Claus.
Karl Erst Claus.
He was Baltic, uh chemist naturalist, - member of the Russian - Ah, shit.
4 on its own is beryllium.
Look that up.
Beryllium.
Um Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin Maybe it's meant to be double eights.
- Like 16? - That's sulphur.
Sulphur just exists.
Nobody discovered it.
Yeah, I know that! All I can think is that it's some kind of twist, a spin on the original clue.
No, that's what Susan thinks.
She's wrong.
He's obviously playing some kind of game.
Okay, you know what? I-I think that's enough.
Fred's tired.
[FRED SIGHING.]
We are gonna figure this out, - Mr.
Sullivan.
- Thank you.
So this, uh, this guy - Stephen Price.
- Price, yeah.
Would he have any reason to wanna get back at you? No.
He never appeared before me in court.
An old neighbour? Someone with a fixation on the family? - What do you mean? - I don't know.
Uh Someone from your past secretly in love with your wife.
[HENRY LAUGHING.]
Half the city was in love with my wife.
We're obviously missing something.
If there is a clue there, why aren't we seeing it? We didn't see it the first time either.
The clue was in the cat's stomach.
What? Oh, my God.
Dad, what? Alright, I'm ready.
Let's get go Luke? My father and Catherine are going to have my mother exhumed.
What? They think the next clue is in her coffin.
I don't get it.
What is what is your father thinking? He thinks that Stephen Price went to the funeral home and and put something in her coffin.
He's already authorized the exhumation.
- But that was three years ago.
- It doesn't make any sense.
If-if Stephen Price Uh, no the only person with a reason to do something like that is David Smith.
Debbie Smith has gotta know something about him.
I'll go talk to her.
I can talk to her.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
Thank you.
[SIRENS WAILING.]
[SOFT MUSIC.]
A patrol car was sent to Stephen Price's house and the side door was kicked in.
He went in anyway.
I'm so sorry, Susan.
I want to speak to Judge Oliver.
I don't know where Margaret Sullivan's son is.
I don't even know if he's still alive.
I understand that, Mrs.
Smith.
He's not the one I'm looking for.
I'm looking for my son.
I'm sending someone to pick it up.
We have a warrant.
Johnson! Go with the family! Head to the cemetery for the exhumation.
I'll call you if we find something at Price's.
- You got it.
- Okay, we're on our way.
The tactical team is already there.
The street is blocked off and Price's car was up front.
- Okay, let's go! - [INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
Let's go guys, come on.
Move, move, move, move! Police! Everybody get down! - [INDISTINCT ORDERS.]
- Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! - Over there! Here! - Move it, move it, move it! So we're doing this? Yeah, we're just waiting for the go-ahead.
Okay! Let's get started! [BACKGROUND CHATTER.]
[POLICE-RADIO CHATTER.]
Brief me, Eric.
Well, there's no one inside.
We did find something in the basement.
[SUSAN SIGHING.]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
O-positive.
And both Charles and Anthony are O-positive.
Why keep Anthony all this time just to harm him now? An unexpected visit from a cop, on the other hand Ah, run the DNA.
Ah Margaret called me once when David was a baby.
She wanted to have news of her son.
So it was Henry's idea to put the child up for adoption? Well, it was a mutual decision.
It was so difficult for Margaret.
He loved his wife so much, he just wanted to protect her, you know.
How do you mean? He told me that Margaret would die if the child ever tried to contact her.
That he was the product of a rape, and that she was too emotionally fragile.
He said she was emotionally fragile? Because of the trauma from what that monster did to her.
Jason Dodd.
He made her go crazy.
And Henry told you that? But she didn't seem like that when when she was here.
Even though she was sick Wait.
I'm sorry.
So Margaret was here? When? Must've been four years ago.
What did she want? She wanted to find her son before she died.
I told her all I knew.
What could I do? I told her that David ended up in an orphanage after what happened to Andrea.
Margaret was crushed.
She was so convinced that she'd done the right thing by David.
She was sure he'd had a happy childhood.
Andrea had problems.
But she had the kindest heart of anyone I ever knew.
This this is me.
That's Andrea.
And the baby is our brother Michael.
She treated him like he was her own baby, you know? She was a natural mother.
Did you know the man who came here and threatened you? Oh, he's a nutcase! He came after Margaret died, and I thought he was going to kill me! Why do you think he wanted to, um keep you from talking about David the other day? I don't know.
But he didn't even ask about David Smith.
He he was more worried about what I had told your ex-husband and your sister-in-law.
[PHONE RINGING.]
- We're in the middle of digging - Tell them to stop! - There's nothing there! - What? I solved the clue.
It's not two eights divided by two.
It's two eights cut in two.
- Cut in two? - Thirty-three.
It's 33! It's the atomic number of arsenic.
- A-a-arsenic? What - A.
S.
! Andrea Smith! - Wait! Whoa, whoa, whoa! Stop! - Luke! - Stop what you're doing! - What?! - Stop! - Mr.
Sullivan! - Luke, what?! - It isn't with Mom! - What?! - The clue.
We should be digging up Andrea Smith's grave.
- The clue is with Margaret! - No, Helen solved it.
It's two eights cut in half lengthwise.
It's 33! The periodic number for arsenic.
Arsenic? A.
S.
Andrea Smith.
Oh, uh Luke, - I don't, I-I don't - Dad? - I don't think - Dad! Dad! - Mr.
Sullivan! Are you okay? - Dad? Okay! Alright, hold on, just let me get this - [HENRY.]
: Not - Luke?! Okay Just call an ambulance, okay?! - Alright.
Just look at me, - We need an ambulance, - Sunnyside Cemetery.
- Dad.
Susan? The blood's a match for Charles.
I want every car on Stephen Price's case.
Every policeman in the country.
I want full alert on this bloody killer.
Charles came across something in this house that got him killed.
What if this is the same house that Anthony broke into two years ago? So do you think Anthony may have been taken for what he saw here? - Taken or killed.
- Susan, come with me.
You're gonna want to see this.
I'm done here.
You want to go upstairs? Yeah.
Right here.
Jesus! [SIGHING.]
Amber Alert.
This is an official Amber Alert.
Pull up a photo of Stephen Price.
Sûreté Du Québec, are asking for the public's help.
An Amber Alert has They could've been on the road for 15 hours already.
They could be anywhere at this point.
Price will slip up one way or another.
Count on it.
How recently was Anthony in Stephen Price's house? The evidence indicates that someone was living in the bunker up until a few days ago.
- Was there a night light? - We haven't finished [CRYING.]
Was there a night light?! Yes.
It was Stephen Price who threatened Debbie Smith.
Why would he do that? What's his connection with her? Johnson.
Could Stephen Price and David Smith be the same person? What, that he changed his name? Price entered the orphanage at the age of nine.
His name was Stephen Price, not David Smith.
So if it's the same person, it means he went from David Smith to Stephen Price before entering the orphanage.
We found Andrea Smith's grave.
The earth was recently turned over.
I told him there was a connection with David Smith.
I told him.
I want to see Brother John.
Tell him I need access to his records.
[EERIE MUSIC.]
[PHONE RINGING.]
Johnson.
Yeah.
You're sure.
They found a photograph of Mom in the bunker.
It was taken just before she died.
- She's with a man.
- Who? They want us to identify him.
Okay.
Um Luke, Dad's not doing well.
He's exhausted.
He had a panic attack.
They're worried about his heart.
Yeah, why the hell should I care? Brother John is here.
[SUSAN.]
: Open it.
[WOOD CRACKING.]
[SUSAN SNIFFING.]
[GASPING SOFTLY.]
They arrived in the same year.
1982.
But they weren't equipped in the same way.
Stephen Price was limited, whereas David Smith was exceptionally intelligent.
And he took Stephen under his wing.
And provided him with an alibi for Tommy Adams's death.
You don't believe it was a suicide.
No.
I think Stephen Price and David Smith hung that boy.
And I suspect you believe so, too, Brother John.
Stephen followed David around like a puppy after Tommy's death.
I didn't want to believe it.
He was such a smart boy! [STAMMERING.]
David, I mean.
Well-behaved.
But you couldn't get close to the boy.
Something about him repelled it.
No one bullied Stephen after Tommy's death.
No one even went near him.
What else can you tell me about David Smith? A a few years ago, a woman came by, looking for him.
She said she was his biological mother.
Margaret Sullivan? Could be.
I couldn't help her.
We often lost touch with the boys after they left.
Ahem.
Susan? Excuse me.
This was in the box.
- Hey.
- Hey.
What's wrong? They found a photo in the bunker at Stephen Price's house.
They, uh think Anthony hid it for the police to find.
It's recent.
It's taken not long before my mom passed away.
There's a man in the picture, and he's not Stephen Price.
You'll find him Catherine.
You will.
I hope so.
I hope so.
[SOFT MUSIC.]
[SNIFFLING.]
I don't know what I'd do without you [ETHEREAL MUSIC.]
You mean a lot to me, Fred.
You have no idea how much good you've done me, Catherine.
You know you could lose your job for that [CATHERINE CHUCKLING.]
[SNIFFLING.]
I don't care.
I have to go.
I'll be back, okay? Okay.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
[MACHINE BEEPING.]
[INDISTINCT PA MESSAGE.]
Luke? It's me, Henry.
It's Fred.
Oh, Fred Fred I've ruined everything.
I have ruined my family.
Margaret stayed at the house when I went to clean the cabin.
I sold it as soon as I saw that they were in the area.
[BOY'S VOICE.]
: Dear Mrs.
Sullivan, My name is David Smith.
I'm 10 years old.
I'm a good student.
I'm writing this letter to ask if I can come and live with you.
I'm your son David.
[HENRY.]
: I did an unforgivable thing.
[TEARFULLY.]
: Margaret Margaret would've taken him back in a minute.
I told him never to contact us again.
Oh He was in such a pitiful state, that little boy He was riding his bike in tears.
He could've got killed, really.
I said to him: "Where you going?" He said I have no mother.
Pardon me? "I have no mother.
" That's what I said to you.
No.
- You drove me back to Michael's - No.
the brother of my adoptive mother, and the woman you pawned me off on when I was born.
You saw her lying there dead.
You said you'd help me.
I thought you were gonna take me home.
That I was gonna live with my my brother and sister.
Instead, you left.
In one single moment I lost everyone.
You called the police, and I ended up in an orphanage.
Why did you do that to me? I was afraid.
You were the son of a monster.
[STAMMERING.]
But I was Margaret's son also.
[ORGAN MUSIC.]
- Anthony? - Why did you lie to me? - Anthony.
- You could've given me a real life.
Anthony! I took him.
Where is he? Fred, where is he? What have you done with him?! Oh, my God! Is he alive?! Be at home tomorrow morning at 8:00.
No police.
Fred Cameron's room? Um, he's in room 40.
Hey, wait! So where is he? [TICKING.]
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