The Disappearance (2017) s01e06 Episode Script

Redemption

1 The rapist, Jason Dodd, she's pregnant with his child.
Congratulations.
It's a beautiful boy.
- You don't break up a family.
- It's about Mom's kid.
He was adopted.
Adopted.
Adopted by who? This baby is a gift.
I promise I'm gonna take really good care of him.
Do you know who Jason Dodd is, Susan? He died a gruesome death He was castrated.
Happy birthday, Anthony.
It's a treasure hunt.
It's 33! It's the atomic number of arsenic.
A.
S.
! Andrea Smith! - It isn't where's Mom! - What? The clue.
We should be digging up Andrea Smith's grave.
Dear Mrs.
Sullivan, my name is David Smith.
I'm 10 years old.
I'm writing this letter to ask if I can come and live with you.
I told him never to contact us again.
So this kid sat in a house with a dead woman for two days.
Oh, my God! Somebody does not want us to find that kid.
I've ruined everything.
Could Stephen Price and David Smith be the same person? Stephen Price was, uh, limited whereas David Smith was exceptionally intelligent.
[SOFT MUSIC.]
You were the son of a monster! But I was Margaret's son also.
- Anthony?! Where is he? - I took him.
Amber Alert.
This is an official Amber Alert! Be at home tomorrow morning at 8:00.
[EERIE MUSIC.]
[SOMBER MUSIC.]
[PANTING SOFTLY.]
[BIRDS CAWING.]
[SOFT MUSIC.]
Leave a light on In the wild 'Cause I'm coming in A little blind Excuse me! Hi.
My name's Mark Taylor.
Detective Sergeant Mark Taylor.
I just saw you leave a house not far from here.
You know what you just did is illegal? I didn't do anything wrong.
It's for school.
I'm doing a project on people from the neighbourhood.
Okay, you don't need to be scared.
I just want to ask you a few questions.
What's your name? - Anthony.
- Anthony? - Anthony what? - Sullivan.
Okay, Anthony Sullivan.
The guy whose house you just illegally snuck into, well, we've been watching him for quite a while, but we haven't been able to get inside.
It's complicated, but in order to enter someone's house, you need A warrant.
I know.
- Exactly.
You got it.
- My grandpa was a judge.
Uh-huh.
Tell me, Anthony do you think it's worthwhile for us to get a warrant to get into that guy's house? Your grandpa organizes a treasure hunt every year? Yeah.
He's told me he's already made up the clues.
- Really? - It's gonna be a lot harder this year, - 'cause I'm turning 10! - Ten! It's here.
Well done, kid.
Great work.
Listen, I gotta ask you not to tell anyone.
I don't want this guy finding out we're building a case against him.
This has to stay between you and me, okay? - Okay.
- And if you don't tell anyone, I'll keep quiet about your breaking-and-entering.
- Top secret.
Agreed? - I won't tell.
- You promise? - Promise.
Thanks, partner.
This is for my grandpa.
He loves plants and trees.
[OMINOUS MUSIC.]
- [VIDEO GAME SHOOTING SOUND.]
- [CLATTERING.]
Fred.
Hi.
Are are you okay? You ruined everything.
Wha Ah! Fred! Uh! [EXCLAIMING AND GRUNTING.]
A year's worth of planning and you destroy it in a heartbeat.
For cats! [GASPING.]
[SIGHING.]
Come here.
Hey [SIGHING.]
I'm sorry, buddy.
I know you didn't mean to do anything wrong.
The tree where you buried your cat, it had big leaves that looked just like this.
You remember? Yeah.
You're gonna get rid of it.
All of it.
You're gonna cut it right down to the ground.
Make it disappear.
Okay, Stephen? - Okay.
- Okay.
That's a good boy.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
[TICKING.]
[DISTANT BARKING.]
- Are you still spying? - I heard Cookie barking.
She's a dog.
That's what they do.
No.
I think someone was there.
[BARKING.]
[TICKING.]
[CLICKING.]
[BEEPING.]
Okay.
Let's do a tox screen, blood sugar and electrolyte readings.
And, uh, get me some Naloxone just in case.
Lieutenant Detective Bowden.
We have to talk to him.
Detective, we don't even know what he's injected himself with.
We're just trying to keep him alive at this point.
That man has crucial information on a kidnapped child whose life is in danger.
- Convulsions! - Ativan! Four milligrams IV, stat! You have to wake him up! You need to leave! Okay.
Okay.
It's okay.
It's okay.
[INDISTINCT PA ANNOUNCEMENT.]
So why were you spending so much time with Fred? He insisted that I be his nurse.
I agreed because he had the same kind of cancer that my mom had.
He said that his his mother had the the gene, too.
She passed it on to him.
- That makes sense.
- How is this real? He had everything figured out, Catherine.
- You couldn't have known.
- Excuse me.
They're done going through the whole room.
Nothing.
When Fred Cameron ran away from the hospital a couple of days ago, where did he go? He had a cottage on Mercy Lake.
I, uh I went there looking for him.
Take Catherine to the cottage.
See if she can remember anything more.
I want Douglas there, too.
Search it from top to bottom.
The whole property.
Go.
Don't let her out of your sight.
My father had to have known about this letter.
- I understand Mr.
Sullivan - Capolla.
Why can't we just wake Fred Cameron up? They're doing everything they can, Helen.
- It's not enough, Susan! - Susan, he knows where Anthony is.
Just just wake him up.
What's the next clue? - That's it.
- This? There's nothing here, no address, nothing! - So, what, we just we wait? - The police We just sit here waiting while my son is with his accomplice? - And the U.
S - While my son is with a psychopath? They're going to find him! My father was the last person who spoke to Fred and he's not in a coma, so give him something, some adrenalin, and wake him up! If it were up to me, that's exactly what I would do.
But they're worried about his heart.
I was told this could kill him.
I've got an officer by his door, and, trust me, the second Henry wakes up - This is bullshit! - Susan.
- Excuse me.
- Why would Fred Cameron take Anthony? He has nothing to do with him.
Because he knows it's the worst thing he could do to my father.
Where are you going? To make him talk.
[DOOR CLOSING.]
- Mr.
Sullivan.
- Morning.
Shit.
Where is he? He's not here.
Boy, he's out like a light.
With what they gave him, I'm not surprised We have to talk to him before the police do.
What the hell's going on, Henry? Fred Cameron is David Smith.
We know that! What did he tell you?! He took Anthony.
I think he's still alive.
Okay.
[STAMMERING.]
Tell me exactly, what did what did he say exactly? He told me to be here at 8:00 for another clue.
- What do you mean? What kind of clue? - I don't know.
He just said 8:00 and no police.
- Well, it's almost 8:00 now! - Tell me exactly, word for word, why is he doing this? What difference does it make Luke? He's a psychopath.
- We have to wait.
- Wait for what?! We have to shut up and wait till 8:00! He gave you the letter, didn't he? What letter? The letter that we found in Andrea Smith's coffin.
The letter that David Smith's wrote Mom, begging her to take him in.
You didn't give it to her, did you? Luke, I was protecting you.
Did he actually tell you if Anthony was alive? Protect me from what? A a child? Don't you know this was what I was always afraid of? He's a monster! Look what he's done to us.
He's a monster that you made.
He was a boy! A boy! - It could've been me! - No, it could've been you! You're my blood! He never got a fraction of what I gave you.
Wh-what you gave me? Yeah, I gave you everything.
Everything! You have judged me my entire life! And all you have given me is your disdain! I wanted you to be strong.
I wanted you to be a man! To have a future! I had a future in my son and you took it from me!!! [PHONE RINGING.]
- Hello?! - Mom.
- Anthony! - What? Anthony? Anthony, where are you, my love? Put him on speaker phone.
Anthony, can you hear us? - It's Mommy.
Are you alright? - Mom? - Anthony, are you alright? - Dad.
- Anthony! Grandpa, you're there.
I'm here, my boy.
I'm always here.
[HELEN.]
: Tell us where you are, my love.
Mom, are you with the police? No, there are no police here.
Go on.
Where you abandoned David Smith.
What? It's the third clue: the place where Grandpa abandoned David Smith.
I'm here Anthony.
Talk to me.
- We love you! - Are they hurting you? - Anthony, can you talk? - Hurry up, Anthony.
- Go there.
Mom! - Go where, Anthony? Where Anthony? Anthony? My baby's alive! Anthony is alive! That's it, he's alive.
We're gonna find him.
We're gonna find him.
Why did you run? Why didn't you tell us about the clue? It was 7:03.
I needed to be here, I didn't know what I was gonna find.
It c I wanted to spare you.
[PHONE DIALLING IN THE BACKGROUND.]
Helen! No! Helen! - I'm calling Susan! - No, no, no! No, no, no.
No.
Fred Cameron was very clear.
No police.
- We need - And you - We need Susan.
I swear to you we will find Anthony.
I swear to you! Tell me where you abandoned David Smith.
I want to find my son alive.
- We have to go to the cottage.
- The cottage? That's where I refused his letter.
We should borrow Mr.
Cheng's car.
When Susan realizes you're not in the hospital, they're gonna go looking for us.
Thank you.
Price left Charles's car in an underground parking lot.
We also have him taking a van from C Electrique the night before.
The licence plate was sent to every police department here and in the States.
Search everywhere: I want to know where that van is.
Are my parents coming? They they're gonna find me, right? I don't have all the answers, Anthony.
You're not gonna hurt them, are you? Time to be quiet now.
Everything's gonna be just fine.
[SOFT MUSIC.]
So Price was driving north on Highway 15 yesterday at 7:33 a.
m.
And then we checked all of the traffic cameras, and next time we saw him was at 8:12 a.
m.
, just around Bradford.
And then, after that, he just disappears.
We checked the camera 15 kilometres further down the road AND NOTHING: no van.
Where do the exits around there lead to? Coleman, St.
Thomas, Andrew's Cliff - Just farm towns.
- Focus all efforts on that area.
[PHONE RINGING.]
Bowden.
What?! Dammit! Go to his house! Find him! Okay, Dad, just focus now.
Tell me where you turned him down.
I don't, uh Come on! The letter! Where did you turn him down? I don't I don't know.
Helen, is there anything there?! - There's nothing! - Was it inside? - No.
- But where? Where? Where? Where? Was it here? [PANTING.]
Here? Was it in here?! I don't Was it in here? Dad, you have to help me.
I don't even know what I'm looking for! Henry, did he leave the letter somewhere?! - You have to try to remember! - I am! I am trying!! There's nothing here! No, it's not here.
It's not here! He took it! He took it! None of this makes any sense! Why would Fred not contact Mom after you sold this place? A letter to the house.
And why did he wait 35 years to find her when he wanted more than anything in his world to be taken back in by her? Margaret found him right? Yeah.
How is it that Mom found him? Where did he go after you turned him away? I drove him back You took him to a house where he just spent two days with a corpse? I told him that I would help.
He thought he was coming back to live with us.
And I called the police.
He wound up in an orphanage.
Mom would've taken him back in.
You told him she was dead.
Where are you? He came here after his operation? He was only supposed to be in the hospital for five days, but, uh during the operation, the doctors realized that he hadn't responded to treatment at all, so Why did he leave the hospital? He, uh [SIGHING.]
He wanted to be outside one last time before he died.
Do you know what he did that night before he came here? What did you talk about? Our mothers.
Our mother.
What else? I got something.
[SOFT MUSIC.]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
They found the C Electrique van in Bradford.
It was empty except for a few sleeping bags.
- The dogs find anything? - No.
But they did find another set of tire tracks leading out of there.
Damn! He's one step ahead of us.
I want those tracks analyzed! [LUKE.]
: Thank you for meeting us, Brother John.
I'm surprised you found me.
I never pick up the phone after 8:00.
You must've thought we were crazy.
There's an old saying: The past is never where you think you left it.
This case reminds me that.
- Where's David's room? - In here.
We had some overcrowding back then, so the boys had to sleep in the auditorium.
Look.
Luke! - Four.
- That's it! It's there! Over here.
What is that? - Oh.
- Oh, my God.
What does it say? Father.
Jason Dodd.
He was castrated.
This is the gruesome death Susan was talking about.
"Father.
" That's how this all started.
Jason Dodd is Fred Cameron's father.
That's it, that's the clue.
They must be at Jason Dodd's house.
- But where is that? - His files are still in my car.
Mr.
Cheng? I need a favor.
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
Yep, got it.
Okay, Dodd's last-known address was 62 Concession Road 4.
- That's not far! - Yep! It's getting tested as we speak.
- [PHONE RINGING.]
- Brother John? Send in a tactical team right away to 62 Concession Road 4.
And I want some eyes in the sky! [STEADY BEEP.]
Code! - Starting compressions.
- Two-hundred joules! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
Thank you.
Okay, clear! [SOFT MUSIC.]
Checkmate.
Hmm.
[CLAPPING.]
Good job.
That's the first time I've won.
Yeah.
I never wanted to hurt you, Anthony.
I hope you know that.
And I've really enjoyed getting to know you.
I'm dying, Anthony.
My time is almost up.
You don't need to be scared.
Everything's taken care of.
What about my parents? Are they gonna come and get me? This will all be over soon.
[SOFT MUSIC.]
I couldn't have done this without your help.
You know that? Originally, I planned to take your grandfather and keep him here for the rest of his life.
Why? I wanted him to never see his family again.
Particularly you.
To deprive him of love like he did to me.
But then you snuck in here and I had to change my plan.
I was angry at first, but it turned out so much better than I could've imagined.
Thank you, Anthony.
You'll see it through? Yes.
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
[STEADY BEEP.]
[SIGHING.]
No, I'm calling it.
Calling it.
[SIGHING.]
[STEADY BEEP.]
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
[HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING OVERHEAD.]
What is that? Stephen? The end.
[HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING OVERHEAD.]
[COCKING GUN.]
Anthony?! Anthony! Anthony! Dad! - Anthony! - Mom! - Anthony! - Careful! He's got a gun! He's got a gun! [HELEN.]
: Ah! Stephen! Don't! Don't hurt them! Stay calm, Anthony, and everything will be fine.
Mom! Dad! [HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING.]
[STEPHEN.]
: The boat! Look in the boat! [HAUNTING MUSIC.]
Come on, come on, come on.
[ANTHONY.]
: Stephen! - This way! Quick! Quick! - Don't hurt my son!! - Helen, get down! Mom! Get away! - Please don't hurt him!! - Don't come any closer! I'll shoot him! Stephen, you don't have to do this! Just just let Anthony go and everything'll be alright! Don't hurt them! Please don't hurt them! Stephen! [SHOUTING IN DISTANCE.]
Anthony! Anthony! [FRED.]
: My dearest Henry, Anthony is alive.
But you will never see him alive again.
Anthony will not be let go unless you are dead.
And if you refuse to kill yourself, Stephen Price will kill Anthony.
I am dead now Henry, but you killed me the day I was born when you deprived me of my mother's love.
And you killed me again when I was 10 by telling me she was dead.
Try to forgive, Luke.
What? Take care of Anthony.
I love you, my boy!! No! No! [FRED.]
: I might have been a different person.
Margaret's son.
A son who loved her.
A son she could be proud of.
Instead you waved your hand and made that person disappear.
It's your turn to disappear now, Henry.
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
[GUN CLICKING EMPTY.]
Give me my son!!! Give me my - No!! - [SHOUTING.]
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
Take your position.
Go.
[HIGH-PITCHED HUM.]
[MUFFLED BATTERING.]
Police! Drop the gun! [HIGH-PITCHED HUM.]
Anthony, we're the police.
Just look at me, okay? Look at me.
It's all over.
You're safe now.
You're safe.
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
[SOFT MUSIC.]
[HAUNTING MUSIC.]
[SOFT, DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
[MUSIC FADING.]
[SOFT MUSIC.]
[HAUNTING MUSIC.]
[HAUNTING MUSIC.]
[SOFT MUSIC.]
[SOFT MUSIC.]
Anthony.
[SOFT MUSIC.]

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