* Love is a burning thing
* And it makes a fiery ring
* Bound by wild desire
* I fell into a ring of fire
* I fell into a burning ring of fire *
* I went down, down, down, and the flames went higher *
* And it burns, burns, burns, the ring of fire *
* The ring of fire...
Morning.
Hey, so we're going to be back
sometime Sunday night.
In time for dinner?
Well, it's a math conference at Stanford.
So chances are we may be a little late getting back.
We?
Amita and I, yeah, we're driving together.
Oh, a romantic weekend away, huh?
We will be driving through wine country.
Well, you know what they say?
Central California has some lovely cabernets.
See ya, kid.
* The ring of fire
* The taste of love is sweet... *
(hip-hop playing)
Hyah! Get out!
Get!
Lady? Lady?
Lady?
FBI?
Yeah, how you doing?
Rachel Willons, California Bureau of Investigation.
- Don Eppes. - Colby Granger.
Abner Stone did this.
Did what?
Kidnapped the girl and beat her.
Abner Stone from the polygamy cult?
He's one of the fugitives
on your ten most wanted list.
He assaulted her last night.
I've got roadblocks going...
Hold on, how do you know he did it?
She told me.
We were told she was dead.
No, the guy that found her was afraid to touch her,
thought she was dead.
She was just unconscious.
Okay, where is he?
Uh, local PD.
All right.
DON: This is her up here? - Yeah.
Josephine Kirtland.
Hi, Josephine.
Can you tell me who did this to you?
The Prophet.
Abner Stone.
How about where it happened?
Um, in the desert.
They fell asleep, and I ran away.
Oh, yeah?
Did you have to run for a long time?
All night.
Where? On this road over here?
No...
Through the mountain.
Where, up here?
- I don't know. - All right.
Okay, guys, thanks.
This is where they found her.
Uh-huh.
I mean, she couldn't have walked more than, what,
ten miles at most.
I don't know, it's hard to say.
She's a tough kid.
What do you got on Stone?
Apostolic Saints, fundamentalist polygamists.
Abner Stone controls the families,
properties, monies and sex lives
of his followers.
If they defy him,
they defy God.
In which case, God, through Abner, orders removals.
Removals? Exile.
Or death.
Right.
He's been hiding in Canada.
He's back for a reason.
Yeah, you know him pretty good?
Yeah, I've been tracking him
for about 12 years.
What's going on
with this little girl?
Most likely?
His 73rd wife.
Yeah, I mean, but the thing is,
how do you think Stone's getting cash?
Don't know.
DOJ's frozen his banking and business interests,
which are substantial, $15 to $20 million.
We have his church under surveillance.
Is there any chatter about him?
Nothing in my office.
The U.S. Attorneys can't get anything
out of these people-- very secretive group.
Good morning.
Morning. Hey, Meeks, welcome.
Guys, meet Abner John Stone,
aka The Prophet.
He is the leader of the ASC, the Apostolic Saints.
It's a polygamist group that was started by his grandfather.
- How many people into this guy? - Over 2,000.
They own the town of Lewisburg
in Central California, the fraud capital
of the state.
Local officials are members
so we can't touch them.
None of these women
are legally married,
they're all single mothers.
They go on welfare, they have no private income,
and the church owns all the property.
Right, they don't pay taxes or anything like that.
Oh, no, they call it bleeding the beast.
They wanna take the American government down--
ironic, since the government supports them.
In '99, Stone's father died and the mantle passed to Abner.
After his older brother expired under suspicious circumstances.
Nice. The guy kills his own brother.
Two members of his church have been murdered
since he's on the run. Here.
You know, Stone exhibits the behavior
of a Jim Jones kind of psychopathy.
He alienates all the male competition.
He steals women and children.
He publicly humiliates his dissenters.
He destabilized an intensely private community
to the degree that some of the exiled men brought suit
to get their families back,
which is how we heard what was going on.
Oh, yeah, right, rape of a child,
conspiracy to commit rape.
That would be the communal marriages.
He takes groups
of underage girls
and marries them to full-grown men,
dozens at a time.
Claims the way to heaven is marrying virgins--
as many as possible.
Yeah, well, here you go. Number 73.
He picked me up after school and took me to a motel.
COLBY: Was there anyone else there?
Um... three men I... I didn't know.
Did you see any guns?
(monitor beeping)
After he made me get married, he told me to change clothes,
so I climbed out the window.
I didn't want to go home because he knows where we live,
so I went to a friend's house.
But he found me anyway,
and took me to...
a trailer in... in the desert.
Who is your friend?
Lee Brady.
Okay.
We're going to want to talk to Lee,
and do you remember about how long the drive was
to the trailer?
Like, um... an hour, maybe.
Okay. (phone ringing)
Excuse me.
This is Granger.
Josephine?
Did Prophet Stone force you
to have sex with him?
AMITA: I, uh... burnt a mix
for us to listen to on the way.
Oh, yeah? What kind...
what kind of music are we listening to?
Cake, Coldplay, Travis,
a couple indie bands.
I put some Kinks on there-- my mom's a huge Kinks fan
so I know all the words.
Oh, cool. Nice.
(acoustic rock music playing)
What? No. Nothing.
(turns off music)
- It's not nothing. What? - I'm sorry.
Can we just put on something else?
Just... or maybe let's drive quietly.
Quiet for five hours?
Yeah.
We don't have to.
- No. - No, we don't have to.
Just put the Kinks back on.
That wasn't the Kinks.
(phone ringing)
Hello.
DON: Hey, where are you?
Uh... I'm in the car
with Amita.
We're on our way to a math conference at Stanford.
Yeah? Look, I need some help here.
Okay. What's up?
Well, we got these satellite photos.
We're trying to find a trailer home in the desert.
We got some coordinates, but I think
the problem is the area is too large.
Okay, so you are linked to JPL?
Yeah, yeah. Hold on.
I'm going to put you on speakerphone, all right?
All right, go ahead.
All right, tell us what you know.
All right, well,
I mean, this guy grabbed a girl
from a home in Bakersfield.
All right, you know what?
Give me GPS readings for the house
and as well as for where the victim was found.
Okay. 35.334 latitude.
I got it.
Negative 119.020 longitude.
He drove for about an hour
to a trailer in the desert where he
attacked the victim, who then escaped.
She walked all night to Highway 14,
35.133, negative
- 118.955.
You see? I mean, that's the thing.
We're dealing with, you know,
2,200 square miles of mountain desert.
How rough was the terrain?
I mean, did she cross a road?
Did she follow a road?
Did she have gear?
She didn't have any gear. She had a sprained ankle.
Um... what? It was at night. It was a...
a mountain, not a road.
Yeah, because the rougher the terrain, the more likely
she was forced into levi-flight type movement.
Yeah, see, I can create a viable search pattern,
but we're going to need bounds
so that certain areas have
higher values than others.
You know, for example, we're looking for a trailer.
Well, that's probably going to be near a road.
Now, how was the weather?
The weather was clear. I still don't see what we're doing.
It's like when you lose your keys.
You don't methodically search every inch of your house
from front to back.
You look like crazy in one area,
and then jump to the next-most-likely area
and look there.
All right, Donny, I've got...
I've got a really good bounding set for you here.
All right, go ahead. Give me it.
Search sectors 78, 79,
86, 87,
91 and 92, and then
rapidly scan the areas between.
Okay, got it. Hey, thanks, buddy.
I'll call you later, all right?
Roger that, Don.
10-4.
Yeah.
Do you... do you want to turn around?
No, no. You sure?
They're gonna find this guy.
I hear there's some really nice Central Coast wines.
Maybe we should try one with dinner tonight.
Mm. Sounds good.
MEGAN: No sign of Stone's trailer
in Sector 87.
All right, so next?
Leaping over to Sector 91.
Okay, what is Stone looking for down here
that he can't get in Canada?
Something to do with the community here, right?
Maybe.
Hey, wait a minute, actually, go back.
Here, can you bring this 91 to full screen?
(beeping)
All right, go tighter.
Yeah, tighter.
Closer.
Oh, yeah, that's got to be it, right?
All right, great, I'm on my way.
Oh, and listen, Don,
the girl said the bodyguards are armed, all right.
They found Abner Stone's hideout.
I'll ride with you.
I'm looking for my daughter, Josephine Kirtland.
Excuse me, Emmanueline Kirtland?
I'm Rachel Willons, California Bureau of Investigation.
I'll take you to your daughter.
Thank you. I'll catch up with you.
Is she all right?
She's a little beat up, but she'll be okay.
This way.
You live in Lewisburg, Emmanueline?
No, my husband moved us out three years ago.
We live in Bakersfield now.
Well, but you're still Apostolic Saints?
You still believe in Prophet Stone?
Where is your husband?
He was killed last year.
I see.
Did you know Prophet Stone wanted Josephine for a wife?
That's why we were exiled from Lewisburg.
My husband didn't want Josephine to marry Abner.
The Prophet's had his eye
on her for a while.
But now your husband's gone,
and Abner came to talk to you about Josephine?
Did you send her to that motel?
JOSEPHINE: Mom.
I didn't know he would beat her.
But you were willing to let her marry him.
Oh, my God.
You told him where to find me?
It's an honor to be the Prophet's wife.
He raped me.
(over radio): ...you're clear to move in.
MAN: Roger that.
We're aproximately ten meters from the trailer.
No visual, yet.
Containment three, you in position?
Roger that, we're in position.
All right, let's do this.
Copy that, Agent Granger.
Containment three, you see anything?
We got nothing.
No movement in the containment zone.
All right, stand down, it's a trap.
We got to sweep this place, guys.
They left in a hurry.
Probably raced out of here as soon as
they realized Josephine was gone.
They had her tied up in the bedroom.
That must have been where the beating took place.
Wait, what's this?
Some kind of diagram?
A map, maybe?
What is this guy planning?
CHARLIE: Uh, we're really not that far from the crime scene.
No, it's okay.
I'm curious about the chart that Don mentioned.
Yeah, me, too, and you know, it's okay
if we miss that cocktail reception tonight,
'cause that's just a lot of schmoozing.
The conference doesn't start till the morning.
The only thing is, we're gonna have to drive all night.
You can sleep, I'll drive.
And listen to The Kinks the whole time?
Maybe.
(both laughing)
(elevator dings)
Emmanueline, does this mean anything to you?
Why did you tell Abner Stone
how to find Josephine after she ran away?
Since we've been in Bakersfield, she's too much of the world.
She's 14,
and you gave her to a man in his 40s.
I was trying to save her eternal soul.
How did he get in touch with you?
Came to the house.
He knows where all his believers are.
With three men? What were they driving?
It was a big, silver...
It was big.
- An SUV? - I don't know
what you call it, it was like a truck, but closed up.
Okay, where were they headed?
The new city, I guess.
He needs her 'cause she's pure breed.
And what does that mean?
Well, the Kirtlands
go back to Indiana,
before Abner's grandfather came out West.
We're from the original line of Apostolic Saints.
No!
Stop it. You can't control me.
You will not talk to that boy.
Hey, hey, wait a minute.
I can talk to whoever I want. I'm not like you.
Do you want to go to hell? Is that what you want?
Listen, you have to calm down or I can take her
from your custody. Do you understand me?
Who were you talking to, Josephine?
That boy, Lee Brady.
- I forbid you. - I don't have to listen to you.
You handed me over to get raped.
Josephine, it's a spiritual marriage. He's God's chosen.
You're insane.
Emmanueline, listen to me.
Please let me take you to talk to someone to help you--
women who have been plural wives who have gotten out of it.
God has given me signs.
What signs?
The Prophet is taking us back.
We're coming home from exile.
And the price of admission is Josephine?
Listen, I know
that you are scared because this is the only life
that you have known, but there is another way,
a better way to lead a spiritual life.
Temptation comes in many guises.
I'll be back in the morning for my child.
(sighing)
AMITA: The characters are odd.
Like letters of an archaic language.
It looks a little like Hebrew, but not quite.
These people are fundamentalists?
Oh yeah, Old Testament style.
Could this chart have something to do with the Bible?
Did you see this?
Pennies for the Prophet?
Yeah, this guy wants to found
a new city where the saints can live in purity.
This guy's asking for people's pennies,
meanwhile, he's a multimillionaire.
Talk of purity always disturbs me.
Genocides in Rwanda,
Bosnia, the ethnic cleansing...
Why do evil people
always seem to be hell-bent
on purity?
This pattern seems to be very important to these people.
It seems mathematical.
It's rudimentary, but, uh,
I think maybe...
Yeah, let's blow off the conference and work on this.
Emmanueline Kirtland said he was traveling in a silver SUV,
at least she thought it was an SUV.
She's been so sheltered, she doesn't know what to call it.
Well, we'll put the description out.
And Stone's picture to law enforcement agencies
and all media.
We're even faxing it to gas stations from Mexico to Canada.
He got through the roadblocks?
Well, anything is possible, but we don't think they realized
the girl was missing till they woke up in the morning,
and we already had the area closed in by then.
So why can't we find them?
Well, he knows where all the believers live, they revere him,
and they're all practiced liars. They call it lying for the Lord.
But he's aware we're after him-- isn't he too smart
to roll up to the house of one of his followers?
Yeah, but he's driven by a malignant narcissism.
He needs to be around people that treat him like a god.
He's also a sex predator, searching for prey.
Well, we need to track down and interview
every Apostolic Saint member in L.A. County.
How many is that?
Uh, 50-60, maybe.
All right, let's get to it. You want to take there?
Yeah, thanks.
It grew on me, it grew on me.
Ow! Uh...
Hi, I didn't expect you back.
Yeah, well, we got diverted by Don's case.
Hello, there.
Hi, Dr. Finch.
Mildred.
Please, call me Millie.
I don't know what my mother was thinking
when she named me Mildred. It's horrible.
I don't look like a Mildred.
It's my grandmother, who's great, but I just...
I know that I'm your boss.
But if we could all
just be friends, wouldn't that be great?
I was just about to open another bottle of cabernet.
You want to join us?
No, thanks, thank you. We have work to do on the case.
AMITA: Calabi-Yau manifold.
Yes, I was explaining string theory to Alan.
He's very smart.
Wouldn't that make a beautiful sculpture
- in front of a building? - How cool is this?
MILLIE: Indeed.
Where's the ladies' room?
Oh, right this way.
You know, your father
wants to understand what we do.
Did you know that?
Well.
I just said that to get her going.
She's really rather amusing.
Dad, are you dating Mildred?
No, I don't do that.
We were having dinner.
You know, got to eat.
Hey, uh, about this string theory stuff.
I think it's bogus.
Oh, come on.
It took you all 40 years
to get back to what we were talking about
in the '60s-- you know, vibrations.
Well, Dad, what's important is what actually vibrates--
straight pieces, closed rings, little surfaces.
Oh, come on, face it.
We're talking about vibes.
Oh, boy.
Oh, come on, he's just having fun.
Yeah.
Okay, we have seven men and 23 women and 30 children,
who are members or ex-members of Stone's church in L.A.
WILLONS: Seven men-- that means basically
we have seven families to interview.
Let's get agents to sit on each location until we can get there.
(phone ringing) Rachel Willons.
Whoa, whoa, slow down, Josephine.
I thought you were at the hospital.
Okay, okay, listen, stay put.
Don't move. I am coming.
What happened?
Josephine skipped out of the hospital with her boyfriend.
She went home to get her clothes and found blood.
Her mother's missing.
She thinks Abner took her.
All right, let's go.
MEGAN: Why do you say
that Abner Stone took your mother?
Who else?
She doesn't know anybody here.
She barely even leaves the house.
MEGAN: But why would he take her?
He's crazy.
And so is she.
She might have just gone with him.
Well, we have all that blood. Remember?
Um...
In the kitchen?
Why did you leave the hospital?
What?
You and your boyfriend left the hospital,
and now your mother's missing.
Josephine, did you do something
to hurt your mother?
No.
No. I want my mom
off my back; I want her to get help.
I don't... I don't want her dead.
But why did you sneak away, then?
(exhales): You don't understand.
Ever since my dad died, my mom's like a zombie.
I pick up our food stamps and welfare checks.
I do the shopping, I pay the bills.
All she does is tell me I'm going to hell
and then hands me over to a pervert.
Okay, I understand that you're angry,
but you're not answering my question.
Why did you and your boyfriend...
Me and Lee were gonna run away together.
WILLONS: Lee, your story doesn't make any sense to me.
- What were you two doing there? - We were just going back
to her house to get some clothes.
Where are your parents, Lee?
LEE: I got no parents.
What does that mean?
They live in Lewisburg; I live here.
So the Prophet kicked you out?
He kicks out a lot of boys.
And where do you live now?
One of the older guys
has a studio apartment in Bakersfield.
He lets me stay sometime.
And what happens when he doesn't let you stay?
You on the streets, Lee?
So you killed Josephine's mother,
and the two of you stay in their place.
No way, no, after we left the hospital...
We have you on a hospital security tape, Lee.
We see you leaving at 8:35,
and you didn't call us till 45 minutes later--
enough time for you to go...
No! We stopped for a burger!
We can check that, too, Lee.
No! I got the receipt.
Look, it's even got the time on it.
(sighs)
We didn't hurt anybody.
None of this is random-- there must be...
there must be some sort of system here.
Yeah, but there are discrepancies between your paper
and my quilt-- see, these lines are missing.
Well, I think he's reconstructing it, you know?
He's adjusting it.
(knocking) Sorry, just wanted
to say good night.
Leaving? Yeah.
Why are you working on cattle breeding?
Cattle breeding?
Oh, right,
I'm not supposed to know.
Very classified FBI dairy farm information, right?
Shh. Never mind.
Millie, what are you talking about?
No, believe me, mum's the word, I didn't see a thing, okay?
Mildred, Mil...
Millie.
What does this...
network mean to you?
It's an inbreeding chart.
Genealogy.
I can decode that.
It's a reticulated tree.
You know, breeders select
for certain traits-- you know,
if it's, uh,
better milkers, more offspring.
Well, it doesn't look like a normal family tree
because of inbreeding.
So if Abner Stone
was a descendant of the man who founded this religion,
then this is his family tree.
MILLIE: Religion? I thought we're talking farm animals.
CHARLIE: See, his hand-drawn genealogy
differs from the one on the quilt.
AMITA: Yeah. The Aramaic letters
represent important males, and the cross stitching is females.
MILLIE: Okay, for example,
this guy married his brother's...
third wife's...
second daughter. Ugh!
Well...
this must be Stone here.
Well, this man has dozens of wives
but very few children-- which means...?
A genetic problem, maybe.
Inbreeding works great in cows,
not so good in people.
You know, we can determine his inbreeding coefficient.
- Inbreeding coefficient? - Yeah, how inbred
one person is compared to the general population.
Wright's equation.
- Wright's equation? CHARLIE: Yeah, Sewell Wright,
the-the University of Chicago mathematician.
The evolutionary geneticist.
MILLIE: That's right-- worked for
the Department of Agriculture.
(laughs): Yeah, this bull's got problems.
CHARLIE: So Abner Stone
has a 42% inbreeding coefficient.
Well, I assume that that's fairly high.
MILLIE: Yeah, I mean, regular population has,
like, .1 or .2 percent.
CHARLIE: Well, then it's no wonder he's had
no viable offspring, because so many of his genes
- carry recessive alleles. - Well, let's put it this way--
if Stone were a stud on a farm,
we'd be having steak for dinner.
Unless... he crosses with a non-inbred female.
Well, that's why he needed Josephine.
Because even though she's a pureblood...
she doesn't carry the recessive genes.
Right, but she's out of reach now, so...
Josephine has a sister,
and that's who he wants next.
JOSEPHINE: I have lots of sisters.
Not full sisters.
JOSEPHINE: When we were exiled, my mom was
the only wife my dad took.
The rest stayed in Lewisburg.
So you have half sisters there.
Lots.
Are you gonna find my mom?
He took her,
I know he did.
Why would he take her, Josephine?
'Cause he takes everything.
(knocking at door)
Excuse me.
MEGAN: These kids didn't do anything, except try
and run away together.
Josephine could have a sister here
that she doesn't know anything about.
Outside of Lewisburg?
These women are expected to produce one child a year.
Emmanueline has no will-- she would breed with
whomever they told her to.
COLBY: Stone's fingerprints,
all over Emmanueline's kitchen.
Okay, so Stone kidnapped Emmanueline
so she'd take him to another daughter?
Someone... younger than Josephine?
I don't know, I mean, would she do that?
When he rewrites his genealogy,
he's saying who goes to Heaven.
That's pretty powerful incentive for Emmanueline.
So we could be talking about a little girl
who he's gonna take and then groom to be his wife?
These men have married girls as young as nine.
COLBY: And he's running out of options, because
we have his followers tied up and we're closing in on him.
If he has to get a Kirtland girl, that means
he's definitely still in the area.
Let's wake up the seven families.
AMITA: This can't be right.
Well, you're decoding the Kirtland line, right?
(sighs): Charlie.
What?
Emmanueline Kirtland.
Yeah, Josephine's mother?
She's also Josephine's sister.
They have the same father.
(siren wailing)
(garbled radio transmission)
(switches off siren)
This is 1932 requesting unit backup for a felony stop.
DISPATCHER: Roger that, 1932. Backup en route.
Sorry, Officer.
What's the problem? Was I going too fast?
Get back in the vehicle, sir.
My wife kicked me out-- I shouldn't have been
going so fast.
Stop right there. Get back in the vehicle.
Be a sport, all right?
Put your hands on the truck.
I wasn't doing anything.
Don't move.
Is there a problem?
Hey, get back in the vehicle.
William, apologize to the police officer.
(gunshots) (screaming)
(gasping, screaming)
(gasp)
His megalomania is increasing.
He's becoming more dangerous.
But he's gonna make mistakes, he's gonna make mistakes.
He never attacked anyone outside the cult?
No, he's definitely
becoming disinhibited-- but let me tell you,
Abner's always been on this path.
How do you know him?
I grew up with him.
I was married to an ASC elder
when I was 13 and the old man was in his 60s.
I got out when he died-- I was 19.
I'm sorry.
Oh, I'm not.
I'm sorry for Emmanueline.
You know, the cult is bad enough.
They raise girls for breeding-- that's it.
There's no skills, no education,
and the threat of eternal damnation if they rebel.
But Emmanueline, she's in the hands of a psychopath.
Hold on a second, let me ask you this--
what do you think he's gonna do next?
I mean, try to get through roadblocks into Canada or...
Well, that would be rational, but I think he wants a showdown.
And that we have to be afraid of.
Yeah? Why's that?
Abner came to get a Kirtland girl-- okay, maybe.
But you know what I think?
I think that he's afraid of losing control of Lewisburg,
being on the fringes.
You think he'd really go back there?
I mean, he's got to know we're all over the place.
(sighs)
I don't know.
COLBY: All right, thanks a lot.
Okay, guys, as of 6:15 a.m.,
Stone was headed north on State Road 216.
216. Okay, so let's look at sector 167.
Hey, did you get anything
from the families you interviewed?
No proof that Stone's been to their homes,
but I feel like they know something.
- Like where he's going? - No. More like...
what he plans to do for their future-- but I don't know.
CHARLIE: Look, I can use any details
you have to create more bounds.
Well, I brought in the de facto leader.
- Meeks is with him now. - Let me know what you find out.
Hey, has... has anyone talked to Josephine about her mother?
I'm going now.
Charlie, I think he's gonna have to steal
another car, so he's probably headed toward a town.
All right, uh, let's leap over
to Sector 173, please.
(indistinct conversation)
Hey, guys. I brought you some breakfast.
Thanks.
Did you find my mom?
Um, not yet.
How are you guys doing in here?
Is she okay?
Uh, I have people...
looking for her all over the state.
I, uh...
What?
What happened? Is she okay?
I-I don't know
anything new about your mom.
I... I need to talk to you about something else, though.
We think that, um...
That what?
Just tell me.
We think that your mom is also your half sister.
You didn't know that,
did you?
LEE: Jo, this is not our fault.
We didn't pick our parents.
They're weird-- we are not like them.
My dad is her dad, too?
I'm sorry.
Since we've been in Bakersfield,
I've been going to public school, and, um...
Being normal.
JOSEPHINE: My mom can barely read.
She's more of a child than me.
Well, does this tell you anything
about where he might
have taken her?
The new city.
Where is this "new city"?
Nobody knows but him.
you?does he communicate with
He doesn't.
How can he be your leader if he doesn't talk to you?
He's being falsely accused
by your corrupt, ungodly government.
Your prophet just shot and killed a police officer.
It's not a sin to destroy the enemy
that's set on destroying you.
We have a duty to defend our families and our beliefs.
Which is what?
Raping little girls gets you to heaven?
How many wives
do you have, Mr. Jackson?
How many of them were underage
the first time you had sex with them?
(knocking) DON: Howard?
DON: All right, so,
we found the SUV. It was abandoned at a used car lot.
Three cars were stolen.
Got APBs on them, but what we found was an MP3 player.
So we know what kind of music Stone likes.
No, we know what kind of podcasts the guy makes.
Podcasting? That's how he communicates
with his followers.
Charlie, let's hear it.
Okay, so Stone records a message on his computer,
then uploads it to a podcasting web site,
and his followers use
a unique identifier to find it-- the name.
(typing)
And this. is the name
of Abner Stone's podcasts.
Okay, and no one can find it without this code?
Right, and from this, we can not only hear
what he's been saying...
STONE: For what you do in secret
I will punish you openly.
...but we can backtrack to find out
where he uploaded his rants.
What, you mean through an ISP?
No, to his physical address in real time and space.
Also get into the ISP records.
What good is that gonna do us if he's gone?
We can monitor for his next podcast.
No, no, no. We need something faster.
STONE: As they tear up the kingdom of heaven,
so shall they be torn.
Well, look. I mean,
if he's hidden there once, maybe he'll hide there again.
Hey, all right, we'll
check it out, but the guy stole three cars,
all right? I mean, he's trying
to get through roadblocks.
STONE: ...doesn't fight back, they shall be put
to death on this earth.
COLBY: Aw, man.
FBI sedans are not made for this.
Stone podcast from somewhere back here last August.
Well, looks like we're about to run out of road.
Here we go, here we go.
STONE: I have blessed you and blessed this place.
The Lo has blessed you and blessed this place.
You shall gather with your wives at 10578 Coyote Road,
there to be blessed and be saved...
Don!
On his latest podcast,
Stone asked for his followers to meet him.
Where, in Canada?
No, at the address where he uploaded.
Rachel, you see any vehicles?
Nothing back here.
Richardson?
Granger, we got tire tracks back here.
(rapid gunfire) (groaning)
We got gunfire at 10578 Coyote Road.
Who's got a visual on the shooter.
Damn it! We got an agent down! Agent down!
(rapid gunfire)
Rachel, are you okay?
I'm good!
We got an agent down, multiple gunshots fired.
We need backup and a medic ASAP.
(gunfire continues)
(sirens wailing)
All right, Colby, we're here.
- Where is she? - She's right between me
and the house, in the middle of the kill zone.
DON: How many? - Don't know.
There's multiple shooters. They have automatic weapons.
All right, we're coming to get you. Hang tight.
Let's go guys. Come on. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
STONE: What has happened
to religious freedom in this country?
We are a private, peace-loving group of Christians,
attacked again by an overreaching
and paranoid government.
We're forced to defend ourselves and our beliefs.
STONE: We live according to the laws
of God's Word-- Deuteronomy 21:15:
"To the nation of the unclean...
Is my mom in there?
Uh, I don't know.
You guys are supposed to be
waiting inside for the social worker.
Listen, I have Abner Stone on his cell phone
from inside the farmhouse, talking to the media.
I need that line cut off.
"I will demolish your high places."
If I hadn't run away, none of this would've happened.
Hey.
Listen to me: this is not your fault.
That man is sick,
and you are not responsible for any of this.
STONE: "I will lay waste to your cities, so your very enemies
"who come to live there
will stand aghast at the sight of it."
All right, PD, we're about to move. Bring it on.
(over radio): Copy that, Don.
We'll lay down covering fire on your motion.
All right, let's go, boys-- move! Straight!
Prophet, here they come.
(rapid gunfire)
(bullets ricocheting)
Tight! Tight, keep it tight!
Go left! Go left! Left!
Let's go! Let's go.
You all right? Yeah.
Forward! Go!
Left! Left!
All right, hold!
How you doing, Rachel?
All right.
(gunfire continues)
Ready?
Got it.
All right, straight back. Straight back!
Nice and easy now.
(over radio): The agents are clear. The agents are clear.
(over radio): Repeat: The agents are clear.
OFFICER (distant): Agents clear!
Hold your fire!
DON (over P.A.): Abner Stone!
This is Agent Don Eppes with the FBI!
You are completely surrounded.
We'd like to resolve this peacefully.
I'm going to send a phone line out to you.
- Come on. - Shields up.
OFFICER (over radio): All teams look alive.
Two agents moving in. Stand by to cover.
William...
The Devil is running us a phone line.
DON: We're taking rounds here, we're taking rounds.
Back up, guys! Back up!
Let's go. Get 'em on back.
Get in position.
Copy that.
Move back!
Don, we've got tear gas set.
They got a clear shot through a side window.
No, no, no. I don't want tear gas.
We're not gonna have another Waco here.
You have no idea what he's gonna do to those people.
Rachel, hold on a second. You gotta go to the hospital.
No, I'm not going anywhere.
- Listen, I understand... - My shoulder is fine.
I've been waiting to get this guy my whole life!
WILLIAM: Prophet.
Look like they're ready to move in.
What do you want us to do?
They're talking about peace.
They're lying.
What I want you to do is stand there and cut them down
one by one, as they come.
- Abner... - You will speak when spoken to.
Just talk to them.
(screams)
God has proclaimed that today...
today is the day.
We will show the world
our conviction against their impurities.
Against their, their godlessness.
He has said that after today people will flock here.
Here is the beginning of the new city.
Go! Go! Go! Go get 'em!
Wives, go stand behind your husbands.
Abner, there's a lot more of them
than us.
(gunshot)
Shots fired, shots fired. Who's got eyes?
He's shooting people who want to leave.
DON: All right, let's go. We're gonna go.
Guys, come on, let's go, let's go.
Everybody, we're moving in.
(agents shouting in distance)
He was half-hearted.
You saw it.
He was half-hearted.
Go stand your positions and cut them down one by one.
Women, go to your husbands!
Now is the time we make our stand and you are saints.
Go.
(agents shouting in distance)
All right, nobody shoots unless you have a good side picture.
OFFICER (on radio): Copy that. All teams re-align.
OFFICER 2 (over radio): Affirmative.
(gas hissing)
OFFICER (over radio): Team two has a visual.
No.
Don, wait. Somebody's coming out.
STONE: You are saints!
All right, hold, hold, hold.
What do you got? You see it?
I see a flame inside.
Oh, propane tank. Back up, back up.
All right, get back, get back.
I surrender. Hold, hold.
Get your hands up. Get them up.
I surrender to the will of God.
Let her go!
Let go of her!
Put your hands behind your back.
Come here, come here, come here. You okay?
God bless the martyrs! God bless the martyrs!
The martyrs that this government has killed.
Shut your mouth!
I'm sorry.
I know.
You know, map blankets
were part of the Underground Railroad.
Really? Yeah.
They stitched escape routes, so the escaping slaves
could find the safe houses.
Wow, I didn't know that.
Yeah, well, it worked well in those cases,
but, um, why in the world would this, uh...
Hard to call him a man, isn't it?
Yeah, it's hard to call him a man.
Why would this jerk put his genealogy on the blanket?
Trying to rewrite history, I guess.
Cover up his genetic inadequacy.
Those poor people.
They were looking for God
and all they did was find this... monster.
What are you doing?
Just chatting with Professor Pivito here.
You know, he's still at that math conference,
and he said it really isn't all that exciting.
Oh, really?
(chuckling) You mock me, but you know,
occasionally these things can be...
Hey, Donny.
Hey.
Come, sit with us.
All right, let me grab a beer.
Hey, what's up?
He looks beat.
A lot of people died today, Dad.
Yeah.
But you, you saved this woman and this child.
That's something, isn't it?
I don't think... I don't think it ever feels like enough.
Well, you can't save the world, Charlie.
What's the score of the game?
I don't know. You've got to put it on.
- Where's the remote? - Don't ask me.
Where's the remote?
Where's the remote, Charlie?
I have no clue.
- Well... - That's not it.
Charlie, where's the other remote?