♪[seagulls calling and ocean waves]
[door closing]
Hey, you didn't come in.
He's sick.
I have a phone. You have the number.
I was preoccupied with my son.
Can I see him
Like I said, he's sick.
Sick how?
Throwing up
Well, I'll just get close enough to see that he's alive.
Then I'll go.
Ugh.
Daphne.
You thought about going back to school?
You can't go to school and be on welfare.
No, you can.
They said that you count student loans as income.
That's not true, not anymore.
Who'd you talk to?
Are you okay?
I'll talk to them
A degree could really help you get out of the system.
What's wrong!?
I gotta go.
Hold on, I'll call an ambulance.
[breathes shakily]
[groans]
Hey, hey
Did I lose it?
Yeah
Yeah we lost it.
I'm sorry
No, no, no, no, no, no
No sorry
You're otherwise okay.
What was it?
It was too soon. It was a girl.
[groan
Out of practice.
[laugh
No, the equipment is there
Yeah.
Yeah, well, I agree.
There's a guy with guns at the school.
Don't go in there. Just don't even go in.
[gunshot]
[bellows in pain]
[gunshots]
Move away.
[windows shattering]
[ominous music plays]
[soft kissing]
[sighs]
[soft kissing]
[shower splashes]
[cleaning bottle spray]
[thud]
[dragging]
[groans of exertio
[groans of exertion]
[crash]
[shower sprays
[kissing]
[heavy breathing
[kissing]
[heavy breathing]
Not a lot of social workers in Abbott
Not enough.
They can't get any from closer by?
Not a lot of social workers have survived a mass shooting,
or dealt with its aftermath.
You were outside. I was there.
And several of my kids were placed in that shelter
And that gives you special insight.
According to the Department of Social Services,
you want to take it up with them?
[belt unlocks]
[car door ops]
[car door clos]
Drucie: I'm with child protection services.
We have, uh, fifteen shot, six dead.
Thanks for coming out.
Mona Crow.
The school's the head office for the operation.
Most of the parents kept their kids home
the last couple of days
They've been trickling back
We're seeing them individually as they return.
How can I help?
I dunno, you're not a counsellor,
but I thought you could help us make our priorities.
Help us identify which kids need attention first,
at risk.Okay
These kids, parents, they need to know
what help's available to the
Someone to steer them toward the help they need.
You have grief counselling and trauma
We've got over 100 to get to as fast as we can
You're the front line.
Well it's more than six families
that are going to need grief counselling
We've got their friends, their classmates,
their teammates.
This is as bad as it happening inside their home.
Does it really make sense for us to set up here,
where it happened?
They're not going to close the school,
so we all have to try and normalize it.
The violence happened primarily in two classroom
These families are gonna need time,
they're gonna need money.
What they need, is a reason to go on living.
Your perspective is really valuable here,
but don't try to be a therapist.
Perspective is all I'm offering
I'm not gonna do your job for you
How should we divide the list?
You take the families of the dead,
I'll take the ones with the bullets in them.
You a detective?
Yeah
This is where it happene
Most of the wounds happened in the classroom next door,
kids in here climbed out the window.
Shooter got shot her
I had a niece in here at the time
You shouldn't be in here
Don't misjudge Drucie.
I don't think we need that kinda help
After the women's shelter, she found places
and counselling for every resident
while Alex was laid up in the hospital
We're just here to help, however we can
Then get to work
I got custody from his mother cause he got shot at before.
[sighs]
He was our oldest, great basketball player
co-captain of the team
His brothers looked up to him.
They don't wanna go back to school,
I can't make them
School is making changes, to make it safer,
sense of normalcy might help
Well I can't offer them normal,
I mean, not any more
In a way your whole community is going through this,
your family isn't isolated
there are other families who understand
Do they? Cus I don't
Understand what you're going through,
not why it happened.
There's a grief counsellor, and a victim advocate,
and if your kids need a therapist, they'll see one
You keep talking about 'your' community
Are you not a part of it?
I'm from Halifax
Arite, so we don't have social workers here
Not enough
Okay, so you're gonna to go in there,
you're gonna talk to my kid
you're gonna get them to trust you
they're gonna confide in you
and then when they need you
you're going to be gone?
[sighs]
[violent video game noises]
I'm gonna move some of my afternoon home visits
to tonight.
What kind of impression is that gonna make?
I have some errands to run.
[chair screeches]
[clears throat]
You don't look so good.
[laughs]
You need to be moved to a new prison
Yeah, they've already moved me twice across the province
inmates always find out I'm a cop
[pff]
It was worse in the city, trust me
You need to be separated.
I, uh, I, I think I'd rather get beaten,
than be left alone
I've been in solitary, and fuck
the crazy shit that goes on in my head
is far worse than anything
these BITCHES could do to my body
Did you do it?
Hm
What were you thinking when you shot him
For fucks sake
Were you thinking clearly?
Were you traumatized by the other shootings?
No.
The other bodies, the mother and child?
I don't wanna talk about Walter.
I'm only trying to help you
You can't help me
Why do you write to me, we're not friends
I thought we were.
I'm grateful to you
You saved a lot of lives I was responsible for
maybe mine
I owe you
Somebody's killing men
Gay men
Making it look like suicides
But they're not suicides, they're unsolved murders
I was at a couple of the crime scenes
coroner said accidental suicide
but there was a pattern
Strangulations, gay men
Detectives in Halifax don't believe me and let's face it
now nobody believes anything I say, so--
Why don't they believe you
[scoffs]
Okay when they moved me down here,
I started seeing it in the paper
Accidental suicides, accidental asphyxiatio
so I started to track it
Strangler stopped, y'know, left the city
Maybe even the province, I dunno.
But he's here.
He's here in the valley, for at least the last seven weeks
There's been two more.
We could hear it.
In the next classroom, in the hall
[gunshot]
Everyone knew what it was.
[gunshots]
Move away.
Get out the window, now!
[shattering glass]
[screaming
[screaming] [gunshot
[screaming
[gunshot]
[screaming]
[gunshots]
[Don't hurt me]
Most of us got out.
How many of you knew the shooter?
Hey.
I need you to talk to someone
You have information for me already, you're fast.
Unrelated.
[exhales]
Do you really think I have time for unrelated right now
Maria Roach
Maria Roach, what is this a joke?
You know her.
Yeah, wish I didn't.
She has information on a killer.
You know, there's nothing I hate more than a dirty cop
trying to clear their name with information they sat on,
when they could have done something.
You don't have a choice, there are lives at stake.
The RCMP tracks murders along the highway,
they look for patterns.
Yeah, well they weren't logged down as murders,
they were put down as accidental suicides.
But they were staged.
All of them used a black belt.
All the belts were brand new.
You think he's moved down here?
Just follow the bodies. All men. Gay men.
Y'know, maybe not completely out of the closet,
but uh, they were all into some pretty gay stuff
Like, anal stuff
[clears throat]
And this is what you wanted to tell me
Yeah
Look, I would have more for you, but they won't let
hold onto any newspaper clippings, or, or, anything
So I wrote down the URLs on the paper
What's in it for you?
What are you looking for?
I'm looking for a killer.
[grunts]
Hey
Hey.
Want a program
You've got a lot of them
I'm the usher.
So what are you doing over here?
I'm ushering you out.
Oh. [laughs]
Were you there?
Yeah.
You saw the shooter.
Two feet away
You escaped death, how's that feel?
I'm not sure I did.
Feels a little dead inside.
You're missing the show.
You're the show.
[door opens]
Ms. Mackay
Hey
Hey.
What're you doing here
Just wanna help, like everybody else I guess.
It's hard to do nothing
No, I mean here in Abbott
Oh, I didn't wanna be in the city anymore
Not all good memories
No
Came down here looking for work
Find any?
Not really. [laughter]
But, that's left me some time to volunteer here
It's a helpless feeling, this kinda...
It doesn't seem like it should happen here
I wish I could really help, like you do.
These kids deserve all they can get
And I know what it's like to need help.
Boy: We shoulda talked to somebody about Zane.
Girl: We didn't know
Boy: We knew things
You knew he had guns
No
This isn't my fault, and, it's not yours
This happened to everybody, don't make it about you
I'm gonna take my regular way home.
You okay to get back by yourself?
Hey.
Thanks for helping out today.
That was a really nice thing to do.
It'll take some time, maybe a long time.
But it'll get better
Wanna go get a coffee or something?
What, together?
Yeah. No, two coffees.
I am eighteen.
You ever get up to the city?
No, um, parents won't let me.
Well you never know, maybe I'll be back.
You walked home by yourself?
Safe as it ever was, isn't it?
Oh, Aria called
[sighs]
Long night.
Yup.
I thought it would be good for you to be home,
to pay some attention to Paget after such a traumatic incident.
Well this traumatic incident
has made law enforcement especially busy
I took you in when you needed it
Be here now
[knocks]
I wanted to apologize for being out so much.
It's okay.
Everybody's looking for answers and closure
and I need to be the one to find the answers y'know?
I get it.
Really.
You're the most important thing in my life
And your mother
C'mon.
I know what you do.
I get that you have to do it.
It's just mom, she's driving me crazy.
She's so tense.
She's afraid.
Well I'm afraid, and I'm not batshit.
Maybe we all need to cut each other some slack.
Tell her
There was a note from the school.
They want all the kids to see a therapis
Zach
Maybe we should get him his own therapist.
Right, with what?
Where are we gonna get a therapis
Honey, how ya doin?
Ya know we could cancel tonight if ya like.
Zach: No, no, I'm fine
It's fine. Let's go.Okay.
We probably should've gotten him a therapist
before all this happened
Now why would you say that? Why?
[racy rap music plays]
[sighs]
[water splashes]
[doorbell chimes]
[chips crunch]
We're all supposed to go back to school tomorrow.
Mandatory.
[sighs]
I never wanna go back there
I just want things to go back to normal.
Normal was fucked.
Thanks for looking out for me.
[sink sprays]
[window thuds shut]
[sighs]
Long day.
We gotta follow up on all this.
If she's right
What do you want me to do?
I need your help.
She's up for murder, there's no wiggle room.
Reduce the charge.
I think she did it.
She killed the scum of the earth
Who killed and maimed four people.
Who you couldn't keep in prison.
Look at these guys, Jasper.
I don't want to.Look at them.
I knew that one
Met him once.
It'll happen again.
[paper crumples]
Jasper!
I'm spending the afternoon with my new step-kids.
Did you get my package?
Oh yes
You might just as well have sent me anthrax
[laughs]
She's quite a political hot potato, Maria Roach
You know you could convict her.
You could use a major conviction at this point in your career.
I'm aware
I'm fine with it
Society's no safer with Maria Roach behind bars.
But she stays in police custody.
And you told detectives previously?
Yeah. Other detectives. They just blew me off.
You think you can catch this guy?
I dunno, I mean nobody's tried.
Alright, the judge agreed.
She's your responsibility, twenty four seven.
This is my partner, Crawford.
Welcome out.
Must've climbed the ladder fast.
Yeah, well his daddy was a detectiv
Fuck off.
Where am I taking you?
My stuff's in storage, so I dunno
She has to stay with me.
[sighs]
Here you go.
Does it pull out
Nope
Are you sure this is a good idea?
Not really.
Narrator: Next time on Sex and Violence.
There's something called survivors guilt.
Wondering why you survived and your friends didn't.
What were you in prison for?
Uh, murder
Body was found in the tub
belt around his neck and the shower rod
Talk to that coroner and order a rape kit
on the dead guy
Who raped him?
The same guy who killed him, detective.
How do you know he was killed?
So he snuck up behind you
and put his belt around your neck?
He didn't sneak up behind me,
he was behind me.
He had his dick up my ass.
Uh, were, were you sexually assaulted
No. He tried to fuckin kill me