Narrator: Previously on Sex and Violence.
Were you sexually assaulted?
No, he tried to fuckin' kill me
They want me to give a witness statement.
About the school shooting.
[hitting]
[music]
Hey, man.
Um, you got any smoke?
So who invited you?
No one.
Well, I'm glad you came.
Maybe I stalked your facebook to see where you'd be tonight.
Huh. We could go upstairs.
No, you're too out of it.
You think I'm going to up to a bedroom with you if I'm sober?
Hello!
Open up! Hello!
[cheerin
You're... you're a fuckin' homo?
Ah, no, we're smoking weed.
With your clothes off?
I didn't want my mother to smell it on me.
Put her on the bed
You go first.
If you're not a homo
What's the matter?
I don't want to
GROUP: I don't want to?
I don't like her.
GROUP: Oh, you don't like her?
I'll do it.
Really? Fuckin' do it
Fuckin' do it, man
Hop right up, buddy. It's all yours, man.
Fuck, yeah.
Get it!
Get it in!
Ya, ‘atta boy.
Shit.
No, don't go in there.
Just don't even go in
Move away.
It won't open!
[gunshots, breaking glas
Get out
[screams, gunshot]
[screams]
[gunshots]
Please
I love you.
[gunshot]
I don't remember anything else.
Miss McKay?
Is there any way to help my son?
Was there any sign
In retrospect, was there anything that might have let you
know what he was going to do, if you'd understood it?
Not acute signs.
Not that things would escalate to murder
What didn't escalate
Zayne was always a loner
Outsider
Different
Hurt.
What'd you do?
I hoped he would grow out of it.
Don't kids like him grow out of it?
[music]
Won't she miss you
I'll never see her again.
Where we goin'?
I don't have a place to go to
I don't either.
Well...
I'm not into getting caught, man. Sorry.
Come on, man
Have some class.
You're a real asshole
You have no idea
I just wanted you to know that I won't be coming back here.
Think you'll be okay?
Will you?
Nothing happed to me.
I don't know what to do
I never imagined this.
Maybe that's the difference between men and women.
I've gone through my whole life expecting to be assaulted.
You've gone through yours assuming you never would be
Be in pain.
I am.
Don't get addicted to the pain killer
You want relief now, but it is better to feel
the pain than let it dull your senses
I won't.
Don't hide in here.
Go out
Go back to work.
Not now, but as soon as you can.
There are people who will exploit your weakness.
Some of them will want your money,
some will just want your love
Don't give them either.
Not ‘til you're completely off the pain killers.
The best situation is for Zach to stay on course.
Keep moving, finish his classes, graduate
Have you applied for university, Zach
Not yet
Is there anything about the shooting you want to talk about?
The shooting sucked.
My friends died
What else is there?
DAD: Zach. ZACH: What?
Don't take that tone
Look, why do we have to talk about this?
I don't want to think about it.
Why should I have to think about it?
Okay Zach, we can cut it short
Can I go?
For now
He can't not talk about it forever.
And if he only talks about it with the other kids
that might not help him gain perspective.
Give him a little time, but he needs therapy
I need God damn therapy.
What's goin' on, fellas?
Just hangin' out.
Hmm. That's not what hangin' out looks like.
We're not doing anything.
Zach, go home immediately and I won't tell your parents you've
been kissing a twenty-five... Twenty-six year old man
There's nothing wrong with it.
Not with what you're doing
Just who you're doing it with.
And not his gender, his age
Look, how is this any of this your business?
Do we have a deal?
Trolling the high school, Finn? Really?
He's eighteen
He's in high school.
Seven years difference.
That's about the same as you and your husband.
How do you know that?
I saw it when you got married
Saw it where?
Online. Don't remember.
Well, we met later in life.
He was working on his third degree
not his high school diplom
And not living with his parents without any adult life skill
And not traumatized by watching his friends die
Why am I explaining this to you
So maybe we're lucky.
We have more time
Yeah. You have plenty of time
So you can wait
End your relationship with Zach immediately
or I'll call his parents, the school and the police
It's not against the law.
Maybe not
Fine.
So how long is long enough?
When he graduates high school he's on his own.
Yeah. Right
That's when I was alone
Never heard from you again
Don't take advantage of a vulnerable child
‘Cause you know what it feels like and what it does to you.
I'm helping him
He needs someone to talk to
He won't talk to you
Found by his wife when she got back from a business trip.
That's not the M.O
He was strangled first. Probably a belt
And penetrated anally
He fought back.
The victims do have something in common.
They're either in the closet or they're cheating on someone.
Yeah but we don't have proof of that in all of them.
Well, maybe not proof but it is a pattern
Right?
Hey, Crawford!
Yeah?
We're going to need to change your online profile.
Forget the S&M and the breath play. He's not into that.
He's not looking for guys who like to be strangled.
He's looking for guys in the closet, or married, or whatever.
On the D.L.What?
On the down low.
So what should it say?
Uh, married straight jock.
On the D period L period
Bottom. Um, no, scratch that
First, top.
Um, discretion important
That it?
Do you have it set to right now?
Yes
How do you know all this?
Well, never you mind
[phone pings]
Is that the app?
[pings]
Yeah
What the hell?
Now everybody wants to fuck me
Hi.Hi.
Detective MacIntyre. You sent me to talk to Maria Roach
Yeah. How'd that go?
Well, I wanted to let you know your effort was worthwhile
We're opening an investigation.
She was right?
We think she was right
There's a killer?
That's what we're investigating
Got any leads?
We're stretched a little thin right now
I bet
But a strangler, made them look like accidents
The guy was in Halifax and now he's down here
Halifax and now here
What?
I think maybe I should talk to someone.
Yeah, that's Finn. Close enough.
ROACH: What can you tell us about him?
A lot
Not sure I should though.
He's under investigation for multiple murders
Can't you just get a warrant to see his files?
What are you hiding?
We don't have enough information or cause for a warrant.
But if you're right, and I suspect you are
then the likelihood of other people dying because you aren't
telling us what you know is very high.
I can't tell you where he lives, or how to contact him,
or anything about him now
He was my client more than ten years ago
in the child welfare system
Why?
His parents surrendered him when he was very young.
I don't know why.
He wouldn't remember his parents.
He was an orphan, but difficult to place.
People didn't take to him, didn't want to keep him.
Why was that?
Nothing criminal or violent?
DRUCIE: Nothing criminal.
He's not very warm
Doesn't trust people.
Didn't bond with other kids, or pets, or parents
ROACH: What about mental illness?
Or trauma?
I placed him in a foster home where the foster father sexually
abused him, without the foster mother knowing
He was ten, twelve.
But that wouldn't explain violence.
There's nothing about him being abused
that would make him violent
No, of course not
ROACH: The foster father who abused him,
he had a wife.
Could he have been on the down low?
On the what?
In the closet.
CRAWFORD: He's meeting them in secret.
People close to them don't know what they're into
or who they're hooking up with.
So it's less likely they're going to tell anyone where
they're going or who with.
It's a good cover
He wasn't gay. He abused kids
ROACH: Could Finn have been conflating the two?
It appears that he was meeting his victims on the down low
My son is not in the closet.
What matters is Finn's perception.
DAD: Myrna...
Look, he's in high school.
If he's in the closet he can just stay there, right?
Well, not if it gets him hurt.
Yeah, this is a lot worse than hurt.
Thank you for letting us know.
Zach, we need you to tell us anything about his whereabouts,
or about him.
He just shows up.
I don't know his digits and I don't know where he lives.
Zach, help the police
Where does he show up?
Where?
Here.
What the hell, Zach!
ROACH: He didn't do anything wrong, Mrs. Arbour
He could just be a random target.
Can I see your phone?
No.Here
Hey! What the fuck!? This is seriou
That's mine!It's mine. I pay for it.
Mom? I don't even know you anymore
Zach, all your numbers here are named except for one.
Who's this?
I don't know
Zach!This is bullsh!
That's not how you talk to the police
Zayne.
DAD: The shooter?
So?
You're friends with him?
No. Well, I know him, okay? I know everybody at school.
CRAWFORD: The night before the shooting.
Look, I didn't know, okay?
I didn't know anything.
[sighs, cries]
Stop!
Hi Myrna, it's Drucie McKay.
Can I stop by there and talk about Zach?
Well, Zach's been outed to his parents against his wishes
so I think it's wise to talk about how parents and child
can support each other at this delicate venture.
Okay, I'll drop by tonight.
I was on the phone with the periodontist.
I saw the shooter, the boy with the guns.
Zayne.
He walked by the car.
He's really not that good in bed but he's getting better.
I shouldn't blame him
I'm out of practice since Casper died.
No, the equipment is still there.
There's a guy with a gun.
Don't go in there.
Just don't even go i
[gunshots]
He's a kid. He's a student.
He's shooting people
Paget's inside.
[screams, gunshots
What happened next?
I waited an interminable amount of time for you
to get to the crime scene
Move away.
[gunshot, screams]
[screams]
[gunshot, screams]
[screams]
[glass breaking, screams]
[gunshots]
I love you.
[gunshot]
Why didn't you call 911?
I called you
Because the witness called me instead of 911 I took the time
to alert the authorities before responding myself
You had to shoot?
The boy was disarmed. You had his gun.
I wish I hadn't.
I wasn't sure
She had to shoot.
Or fuck, all three boys might be dead
ROACH: Who knows how many other kids.
She still needs to be charged.
Myrna?
Lloyd?
Zach?
Ms. McKay.
Why?
I feel like I should hide my trail.
You've got to stop. You're not a monster.
Yes I am
You made me one.
I only tried to help you
And I only did that because it was my job
You people are terrible at your jobs
Ah, fuck!
Zach?!
Zach?
Yeah, I got him.
I'm sorry.
Aria?
You're not in trouble.
Who are you?
I'm a cop.
Kind of.
I saw the video.
Everyone saw it.
There's no need to be ashamed.
I'm not
Have you talked to anyone about it?
No.
Do you remember anything from that night?
The party
I don't know if what I see in my mind is my memory or that video.
It's pretty damning evidence.
They'll say I wanted it.
There's no evidence to say I didn't want it.
You can't consent when you're passed out.
I wanted to be there.
You didn't want to be rape
I wanted to have sex.
Are you saying you did consent?
I'm saying what they'll say if I press charges,
or whatever
I wanted to be at the party. I wanted to have sex, with Zach.
I've loved him for forever
Their version will have just enough truth to it.
It's pointless.
They'll win.
They always win
You didn't have to cooperate with the police.
They can decide all on their own whether to press charges.
You know when Zayne pointed his gun at me
I was less afraid to get shot
than to go to school day after day.
I feel safer since the shooting.
You'll learn to live with this.
You're a strong girl.
You'll fight through.
The question is whether you' fight with them or yourself.
And I can tell you this, that... I can tell you
that keeping the fight inside is no good
It's not the way to go.
‘Cause even when you win, you lose.
You ready?
Yeah.