Three Pines (2022) s01e03 Episode Script

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[INDISTINCT WHISPERING]
[CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]
[WOMAN 2] Guys, this is such a bad idea.
[INDISTINCT WHISPERING]
[WOMAN 3] Let's just go along, make
sure no one does anything stupid.
- [MAN 2] We're not getting caught.
- [WOMAN 4] Keep your voices down.
[DOOR CREAKING]
[GATE SQUEAKING]
[MAN] It's been a long time coming.
- Guys.
- Clara.
Well, I don't think we should do this.
[RUTH] It's fucking late for that now.
[GLASS SHATTERING]
What was that?
There's someone inside. Go.
Gabri, open up!
[PETER] Clara, no! Wait, you
don't know who's in there.
[DOOR CREAKS]
Gabri.
[SHUSHES] I'm trying to listen.
[PEOPLE CHATTERING]
[WHISPERS] What is that?
You check that way.
- [CLARA] Did you hear that?
- [PEOPLE LAUGHING]
- I'm going upstairs.
- Okay.
Through here.
[ALL SCREAMING]
Stop, stop right there.
This is private property.
How did you get in?
Everyone all right?
- Oh, my God!
- [RUTH] Fuckers.
- [PETER] We need to make sure they're all out.
- Look what they've done.
We should search the house, make
sure there's no one left inside.
- I search this way, you take that side.
- Okay.
[PETER] Lock the door so
they can't get back in.
[GABRI] Got it.
[DOOR CLOSES]
[CREAKING]
[STAIRS CREAKING]
- [BAT SQUEAKING]
- [GASPS]
[SIGHS IN RELIEF]
[SCREAMS]
[OPENING THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
[POLICE OFFICER ON PHONE] Listen
to me, Gamache. Forget Two-Rivers.
Find the missing man from Three Pines.
When I wanted to investigate
a missing persons case,
you made it clear that it wasn't my job.
I also said stay away from that reserve.
But you went there, adding fuel to fire.
What? Three Pines is my punishment?
I actually like it there.
Great food, good people.
Close to Iotenen'ton: ni.
Do what you're paid to do, Armand.
[HANGS UP PHONE]
God damn it.
[SIGHS] He really wants to keep
us away from the Two-Rivers.
I've been calling Arisawe,
you know, to pay my respects
but she's not answering any of my calls.
Yeah, me too.
Isabelle, would you look at
the file? Put fresh eyes on it?
Yeah, sure.
We've got to get that family
answers, one way or the other.
[WIND BLOWING]
[BEAUVOIR] Anybody else have deja vu?
Who'd want to buy this place?
Especially since it's killed one person.
Houses don't kill. People do.
[BEAUVOIR] We've been assigned
the missing persons now.
He went into the house last
night, apparently never came out.
[GAMACHE] No power yet?
[BEAUVOIR] Generator will
be up and running soon.
[BIRD SQUAWKS]
- [BIRD SQUAWKS]
- [LOUD THUD]
[CHIRPS]
- [LACOSTE] Patron.
- Hmm?
- Basement's this way.
- Sure.
Jesus!
- You took your time.
- What are you doing here?
Making like the Chief.
Sensing what it was like for
the missing dude in the dark.
- And what was it like, Agent Nichol?
- Dark, sir.
Want to get us up to speed?
Some locals came to check on
the place, caught a few kids
who had broken in, heard
a scream from the basement
and noticed that Marc Fortier was
missing. No one's seen him since.
The first officer here searched
the house and grounds this morning.
I did a second search
myself. No one here.
They found one of the kids' phones.
Any signs of a struggle?
No.
It's just a dead-end, sir.
[IN FRENCH] Okay. How
many officers do we have?
[IN FRENCH] Around ten?
[NICHOL] There's old tunnels
that run under the estate.
[BEAUVOIR] Okay.
I've got something down here.
[DOOR RATTLING]
We need to get this open.
[SPEAKING FRENCH] How do we break it ?
Clear.
What are those? They're everywhere.
Kids must have made them when
this was a residential school.
Do you think they locked kids here?
I know they did.
Thousands of Indigenous kids
were tortured at these places.
Look at this.
[LACOSTE] That looks like
syllabics. Maybe Cree or Inuktitut.
What does it say?
I don't know.
- [NICHOL] You can't read it?
- Can you?
- I'm not
- Agent Nichol.
What's this?
[LACOSTE] If it is what I think it is,
the priests and nuns used
to build torture cells
in the crawl space of places like this.
They put kids down there as punishment.
[GAMACHE] God Almighty.
[GROANS]
[SIGHS]
Well, he put up a fight. Someone
smashed his skull in with that rock.
He was alive when the
killer locked him in.
Yeah, he definitely bled out.
[IN FRENCH] We've found
his body in the basement.
Is it true? You found Marc?
He's dead?
I can't believe it.
Were you here last night?
Uh
- All of you? What were you doing here?
- Gabri and I are looking after the place.
We went to check and a
few friends tagged along.
We heard noises inside,
we guessed there were kids.
Marc was with us. But
then he just disappeared.
We searched the whole
house. Where'd you find him?
I should talk to the family first.
- But he had no one.
- Hayden was all he had.
Were they related?
Best friends. It's gonna break
him, his daughter Sophie, too.
I need to talk to everyone
who was here last night.
They were all here last night.
- We need to take statements.
- I'll get on it.
What did you think when
you saw that little door?
That it was a storage room.
The surprise was that it was
a room and with a cell inside.
The killer must have known about it.
We're looking for someone
connected to St. Anthony's.
What do we know so far?
Well, it was a residential
school from 1896, run by nuns.
Closed in the '80s, fell into
private ownership, but stayed empty.
Until CC de Poitier bought it last year.
Yeah.
You smell that?
That's gasoline.
It's okay, we're okay.
- We need to speak to the others.
- Let's go.
[BEAUVOIR SPEAKING FRENCH]
There is gas everywhere.
[PIANO PLAYING]
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and
my colleague, Jean-Guy Beauvoir.
We're sorry for your loss.
May we speak to your father?
Um, Dad's teaching but he won't be long.
- Come in.
- Thank you.
- You can wait here until he's done.
- [GAMACHE] Thank you.
[HAYDEN] Okay, great job today.
Just keep working on those
arpeggios, but great job, okay?
There's your mom. Okay.
[SIGHS] Hello.
We just had a few questions,
if you have the time.
Sure. Yeah, of course.
Marc was a close friend?
Since college. We always looked
after each other. Best buddies.
He's Sophie's godfather.
Sophie's mom passed when
she was three years old.
Marc helped me get back on my feet
and this was my turn to help him.
It couldn't have been easy,
three of you under one roof.
He helped with Sophie.
Driving her while I was
working, making dinner.
I was glad he's gonna be here
when she starts McGill in the Fall.
It's a difficult section.
She has a scholarship.
[HAYDEN] Schulich. Yeah.
She's going to be a composer.
- [GAMACHE] It's a great school.
- [HAYDEN] Yeah.
The nest will feel empty for a while,
but you get used to it eventually.
She's not moving out. She'll commute.
I'll drive her there and back.
Sophie needs a lot of support. Her
vision is too low to drive herself.
Has Sophie always had low vision?
[HAYDEN] She was born
with ocular albinism.
Hers is quite bad. Her
vision's too low to read
but it's never held her back.
Was Marc in a relationship?
His wife died last year. Lymphoma.
He came to stay with us for a few weeks
and ended up staying for
good, which was great.
It's what you do for your best buddy.
Hmm.
Did Marc have any enemies?
No. It was impossible not to like Marc.
He was the kindest guy.
Why did you go to St. Anthony's?
I got swept along with the others.
We should've never gone up there.
Did Sophie go there too?
With other kids, maybe?
No, of course not. Sophie
spends her spare time practicing.
- You ever go inside before?
- No.
Do you know why there was gasoline
on the ground at the school?
I've no idea.
Uh, may we see Marc's room?
Sure, yeah, it's upstairs.
Now, why is a squeaky clean,
straight-A student hitting the bottle?
Stress. Pressure.
Solitude.
I'm sure Hayden doesn't know about
his daughter's secret drinking.
Or what is driving her to it.
Perhaps things here aren't as easy
- as they seem.
- Yeah.
[PIANO STOPS PLAYING]
A team will come by and
conduct a full search.
Oh, okay, no problem. Uh
- I'll show them out, Dad.
- Thanks, honey.
What were you doing in my room?
When you can't see
perfectly with your eyes,
you learn to see with your ears.
I wasn't sure which room was Marc's.
I apologize for the intrusion.
Yeah, sorry about that.
[DOOR CLOSES]
I got your text.
Yeah, I think I have something.
Look at this.
[LACOSTE] These kids, they have
the flash reflected in their eyes.
Mm-hmm.
Right here. It's coming
from the same direction.
Now look at our missing couple,
Tommy Kis and Blue
Two-Rivers. No flash.
This is a composite of two photographs.
It's like somebody photoshopped them in.
Blue and Tommy weren't at this party.
Good work, Isabelle. Good work.
I'll talk to Arnot about the photo.
You go to Iotenen'ton: ni,
talk to Arisawe and Kara.
Find out what you can.
Can't believe my team
missed that. Who's behind it?
Maybe they did it themselves to
They want to hide where they really
are from cops and their family
We need to find Kevin.
We only know he crossed the border.
I sent Lacoste back to Iotenen'ton: ni,
see if she can dig up something.
Don't be surprised if they
don't roll out the red carpet.
[SCOFFS]
Yeah. Could you look at it too?
Yeah, sure. Armand, this could
be grounds to reopen the case.
Thank you. Thank you.
We hold the keys. We have
to keep an eye on the place.
How did you know that
kids had broken in?
We didn't. It was a routine
check but we saw lights inside.
Did the kids do any damage?
Graffiti, broken glass.
Uh-huh. Fires?
Fires?
Someone poured gasoline on the ground.
One match, the place could have gone up.
Must have been those kids.
[IN FRENCH] Though it
wouldn't be the worst thing
if it burned to the ground
The realtor said something
about a sale about to go through.
Buyer wanted to turn
the place into a hotel.
Would have been competition, I guess?
- It's not what I meant.
- Pastries?
It's a horror show. The
stuff that's happened there,
- and still going on
- Nothing. Just ghost stories.
People have heard crying, seen
things. There's a dark presence.
- They call it The Caretaker.
- "The Caretaker"?
Yeah. Came up in the inquiry.
Some survivors mentioned him.
Legend is he's still walking the halls,
looking for new victims to torture.
That's crazy.
Jean-Guy, I found these in Marc's
room. I think that's his father.
And look here.
There he is again.
That looks a lot like
a janitor's uniform.
Wait, and that's St.
Anthony's. The Caretaker.
- Pull the short straw again, Chief?
- I was missing Gabri's cooking.
[CHUCKLES]
New exhibit?
For the anniversary. Forty years
since they shut St. Anthony's down.
I know people want us to
just shove it under the rug,
but folks need reminding
about what happened up there.
That's powerful.
Yeah. The whole installation is
going to be done in a couple of days.
Were you at St.
Anthony's last night, Bea?
No, I was here, working late.
That's an interesting tattoo
you have. Syllabics, isn't it?
Does it have a special meaning?
It's personal.
I apologize.
I'll be seeing you, Bea.
Any news from the pathologist?
Yes, she confirmed the dirt
and debris inside Marc's head
are consistent with being
pushed down the stairs
and dragged into that cell
Where his head was
bashed in with that rock.
I think whoever killed him poured
the gasoline to burn the place down,
cover their tracks.
Perhaps the plan was to torch the
place, and the murder was unplanned.
Most murders happen in
the heat of the moment.
Yeah.
Yeah, but that place was too hard
to find for it not to be planned.
No sign of Marc's cell
phone but I got his laptop.
And you two got an invite.
To what?
Dinner at the Morrows', eight
o'clock, so I guess I'll get takeout.
Yeah, well, I'm not interested.
[KNOCK ON DOOR]
Hi.
I am so sorry about Missy, about Blue.
Just all of it.
I know you are.
Come on inside.
Tommy and Blue went to
Kevin's to bum a ride.
Tommy's crazy about Blue,
he wouldn't hurt her.
What about Kevin?
No. Kevin's not a bad kid.
He went off the rails when his
mom passed a few years back.
He had Tommy to support,
he had to make a living.
Moving cigarettes?
What's the big deal?
What's the difference from
what big tobacco companies do?
Know what the real crime
is? Tobacco is sacred.
The government turned it
into a natural resource.
If the government can profit
off it, why can't Kevin?
Could you give me
directions to his place?
Sure, but I don't think
you'll find anything.
We went there when we knew she
was missing. Nothing out of place.
[DOOR RATTLES]
[GAMACHE] Isabelle.
Looks like Tommy and
Kevin just vanished.
There's plates in the sink, Tommy's
meds are still in the bathroom.
Nothing to indicate where
they went or what happened.
- Thank you.
- Okay.
[BEAUVOIR] Everything okay? Right.
I'll take Peter, you
take Clara. She likes you.
No interrogating, keep it
polite. We're here for dinner.
[BEAUVOIR] Okay, Dad. I'll behave.
[GAMACHE CHUCKLES]
[KNOCK ON DOOR]
I'm so glad you could come. Come in.
[GAMACHE] Thank you for inviting us.
Just through here.
- We've been ambushed.
- Behave.
- Sit.
- Thank you.
- Now we can eat.
- Would you like red or white?
- Red would be lovely.
- Inspector.
Good evening.
Thank you.
- Sante?
- Sante.
I hope you don't think the only thing
that ever happens in Three Pines,
is murder, Chief Inspector.
No, I know there's eating.
[ALL CHUCKLE]
So how did Marc kick it, then?
Jesus, Ruth, could you
be any less sensitive?
It's what we're all thinking.
Perhaps all of you could tell
us a little more about Marc.
You were all friends, if you don't mind.
He started painting recently.
Abstracts. Had a lot of talent.
Peter, can I help you in there?
Excuse us.
- "Had a lot of talent"? Seriously?
- Awkward.
If I may ask, did Marc upset
anyone? Recently or in the past?
No.
Did he have any money or assets?
No, and he'd just started
to build up his practice.
- Practice?
- Marc trained as a psychotherapist.
Were any of you his clients?
[CHUCKLES] Now he thinks
we're all fucking crazy.
Not all of you.
You cops, you're such a cliché.
Always looking in the same places.
- What if you look somewhere new for once?
- Might actually find the truth.
What I am saying is there's other
reasons people kill, aren't there?
Enlighten me.
- I'd start with vengeful ghost.
- Gabri! Come on, seriously?
There was something there that night.
Old buildings make sounds at night.
Creaking floorboards, old pipes.
One thing I know is there's
no such thing as ghosts.
I wouldn't be so sure about that.
Whose ghost did the evil deed then?
Was it CC de Poitier?
Some deranged nuns, maybe?
Or was it the Caretaker? [CHUCKLES]
Find that amusing, Peter?
Grown man torturing little kids?
If there's ghosts in there,
they're the souls of those children
that were ripped away from
everything that they knew,
desperate to get home.
I'm sorry, Bea.
It's a bad joke.
Marc was not killed by a ghost.
He was killed by someone
in that house that night.
All of you didn't go up there
to check up on the place
or because you were curious.
You all went there with a
plan to burn the place down.
But someone had another
plan too. Marc did something.
It made his killer so mad,
they couldn't stand to look
at him for another second.
All I've got to do is
find out what that was.
Thank you for inviting us.
[DOOR THUDS]
[LIGHT SPARKING]
[GASPING]
[SCREAMING]
[GASPS]
[REINE-MARIE] Armand?
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
What What are you doing here?
I thought you had that conference
in Burlington first thing.
I thought I'd break the
journey. Stay the night with you.
- You're checking up on me, aren't you?
- Never.
Well, I'm fine. Really.
- You don't need me to stay then.
- No, no, no. I didn't say that.
[CHUCKLES]
- I certainly didn't say that.
- You didn't?
- I'd never say that.
- I think I'm gonna stay.
I think you'll stay.
- You drive safe now.
- Now you take care. And I mean it.
- [IN FRENCH] I love you.
- [IN FRENCH] Me too.
[ENGINE STARTS]
[BIRD CAWING]
Did you sleep here?
Uh
Yeah, I was here late, working.
Didn't make sense
driving back to the city.
Morning!
Salut, Beauvy.
- Your breakfast? Trans fats and additives?
- Yeah, and Cheez Doodles for lunch.
Please.
So, all we know for sure is the killer
is either one of the seven villagers
that was up there that night
or some kind of zombie nun.
Don't make jokes, Agent Nichol.
We should all be ashamed
of what happened up there.
Okay. Uh
Marc was born in 1973 to Ida Martel
and Martin Fortier. Both deceased.
Martin Fortier worked at
St Anthony's as a janitor.
Statements from the inquiry
into residential schools
showed many allegations
of abuse. Thank you.
Seventeen survivors reported abuse
from a man they knew as the Caretaker.
The Caretaker was
Was Martin Fortier.
Hell of a coincidence the son
is killed in the same place
where the dad committed his crimes.
- You think it's revenge?
- Why now?
Marc designed a memorial for
the survivors, the victims.
He raised the money to have it cast,
and his plan was to put it on the green,
- in front of the pines.
- Anyone oppose it?
Yeah, Bea Mayer.
Really? You'd think she'd
appreciate it, right?
I had the syllabics translated.
It's a Cree girl's name.
Piyatapinuhkau.
- Bea?
- Mm-hmm.
Her Cree name, before they
changed it at St. Anthony's.
- Good work, Jean-Guy.
- Yeah.
Did you carve your name
down in that basement?
Means Sunrise Woman. My
grandmother gave me that name.
They left me there for two days.
I was lucky.
Kids got thrown in the trap.
It must be hard for you, being here.
I live with that place.
I see it every day.
Why put yourself through that?
That's how trauma works.
Leaves its mark. And the
more you try to push it away,
the greater control it has over
us. I remember, so I am free.
Confronting your demons
makes you stronger.
What happened to you, Bea?
The day before my fifth birthday,
a priest came. Took me away.
I cried all night for my mother.
In the morning, there
was no birthday cake.
Just whipped, for the
first time in my life.
You want to know the rest,
Chief? Read the report.
Enough of us stood up and told the
world what that place did to us.
The suffering that went on in that
place left its mark on the building.
Real bad energy, man.
Bea, can I ask you
You remember this man?
I try not to.
- Did you know it was Marc's father?
- Yeah.
And, you know, Marc wanted to
build a memorial for the survivors.
Yeah, I know he wanted, to make
it all about him and his guilt.
Make amends for what his daddy did.
Get himself some closure, neat and tidy.
Some good publicity is a bonus.
User, white saviour bullshit.
It was not his place
to speak on our behalf.
It wasn't his place to speak
for us. He's the last one.
[DOOR CLOSES]
Let's assume Marc's cry came when
he was pushed down the basement.
Olivier, Gabri, Ruth, Myrna,
all say they were upstairs
when they heard it.
That leaves us with
Clara, Peter, Hayden.
Time how long it'd take to get
from their spot to the others.
- Anyone connected with the school?
- Not that I could find, sir.
Hayden was sure Sophie wasn't
there, but what if she was?
[GAMACHE] Motive?
Sophie was drinking for a reason.
She's very close to her father.
Maybe Marc moving in messed that up.
- The blind kid?
- She's not blind. She has low vision.
She can find her way in the dark.
There's Clara and Peter.
Things seemed tense between
them at dinner last night.
Clara is the only one we spoke to
who isn't singing Marc's praises.
Looks like Marc had a secret.
We know who that belongs to.
I'm going to stay here.
[DUCK QUACKS]
[CHUCKLES]
Okay, okay.
Ooh.
[CHUCKLES]
I have a cabin in the woods.
I go there to write sometimes.
Why did Marc have the key?
He wanted somewhere private to paint.
It was for the best. He was terrible.
Kind of you to help him.
Paid a good price.
I thought he was broke.
How long did he rent it for?
Couple of months.
[GROANS] Are you cooking that?
She almost didn't make it.
I had to crack the shell
just enough to let her out.
Okay. Aren't they supposed
to fight their own way out?
Build the strength they need to survive?
I'm sure if she couldn't manage
it, you've saved her life.
Okay.
You'll find the cabin there. Break
anything and I'll fucking sue.
Oh.
[GAMACHE] Thank you, Ruth.
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
Wasn't Marc supposed to be painting?
I don't see any paint or canvases.
Somebody's been here.
Recently.
- [CREAKING]
- [SHUSHING]
[GAMACHE] Something's out there.
[BEAUVOIR] Someone's there.
Police! Stop!
[GAMACHE] We're gonna need backup.
[BEAUVOIR] Stop! Police!
[BEAUVOIR] Where is he?
[BEAUVOIR] I see him.
Stop!
[SPEAKING FRENCH] Montre-moi tes mains !
Show me your hands!
Hands above your head!
Okay, put your hands over
your head. Show me your hands!
Over your head. Put your
hands over your head!
Turn around.
[GAMACHE] Peter Morrow.
[PANTING]
[CLOSING THEME MUSIC PLAYING]