Margaret: Merry christmas.
♪
- agh. (hard slap)
(melancholy "jingle bells" plays)
- (remorseful exhale)
- we lived every day in fear...
With this little bomb next to us, that...
- (maniacal laughter) - we loved so much,
was gonna go off and destroy everything.
- Oh, my god. (cookies clatter, tray clangs)
♪
♪ whoa-ohhh! Yeaahh! ♪
♪ we've hung the ornaments with care ♪
♪ it's christmastime, my dear ♪
(echoey shaky breathing)
♪ the snow has fallin' now ♪
♪ and it's finally time to tuck-in the kids ♪
♪ it's time to celebrate ♪
♪ all the blessings of this day ♪
- oh! (bucket clatters)
♪ singing songs and spreading christmas cheer ♪
♪ ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
♪ kissing under mistletoe ♪
(ornaments smash) - oh!
♪ at least one thing is clear ♪
ahhhhh!
(christmas music turns eerie)
(shrill screaming)
(sobbing) (water sloshes)
(door slams shut)
(heavy breathing)
(approaching footsteps thud)
what, what are you doing here?
(heavy breathing)
donovan: Caleb. Caleb. Officer: Last one is clear.
- Caleb, this is the police.
If you're in here, identify yourself.
Officer: Caleb! This is the police!
(melancholy "jingle bells" plays)
officer: That is clear!
(police radio chatter)
♪
(drawer rumbles)
♪
(police radio chatter)
donovan: Caleb?
(footsteps thud)
this is the police.
♪
(slithering sound)
(eerie "jingle bells" continues)
(slithering)
♪
(steps thud)
♪
(slithering sounds)
- sheesh!
♪
(fire crackles) - (shaky breathing)
(door opens and shuts)
(footsteps crunch)
- oh, god.
- I never thought this through.
- Don't. Don't. Don't.
- You haven't seen me in such a long time.
- Yeah, I haven't seen you since katie died.
- I didn't leave because of you.
- Well, I killed katie, and then you left,
so yeah, yeah, I think you did.
- I never blamed you for katie's death.
- Really? Really? Then, why did you leave?
Hmm?
Why did you leave?
- Because I couldn't stay.
- Oh you... You couldn't stay.
Well, there's that.
- Jenny.
Jenny. Okay.
- Don't.
(shaky breathing)
- do you know that when you were a baby,
you had colic.
For the first six months of your life,
you never slept for more than 45 minutes.
I rocked you and I held you,
but the only thing that would ever soothe you
was when gord would take you in the car and...
And drive up and down the highway.
He always had this magic with you.
He could always make (sniffs)
sunshine out of the darkest day.
But after katie died, I couldn't get out of bed,
I couldn't look after myself.
Let alone, you.
I thought that you were better off with your father.
(engine roars)
can you forgive me?
(sniffles) - it's cold outside. Go in.
- (sighs)
- please, go in.
(engine shuts off)
(truck door opens, closes)
- hey! - Hey.
- Oh, gordon didn't tell you I was coming.
- No, but um...
- I'm so sorry, I thought you knew it.
He uh, he invited me for the day.
- Yeah, it's fine.
Um, actually I'm uh, (sniffs)
I'm kinda glad you're here.
It's a, it's a bit of gong show right now.
- Oh. - Sorry.
Gordon: Hey, liam! - Hey!
- You made it. That's great!
Oh, I gotta introduce you to somebody.
I want you to meet peggy. - Hi.
- It's jenny's mom. It's a little awkward, okay,
I know, but it's fine. We're all here,
we're gonna have a fantastic feast.
Just wanna know one thing, do you like gravy?
- I love gravy.
- Okay, plenty of gravy, I guess.
(approaching engine rumbles)
liam: Who's that?
- It's just, it's work. I think.
(door shuts)
- hey, clark. What are you doin' here?
- Here, uh, my mama never let me come empty-handed, so,
happy holidays.
- So, did my um,
did my dad invite you?
- No, no, no, I have some news.
- Oh. - Donovan didn't wanna call you,
but I thought you'd like to know,
caleb browning escaped from the hospital.
- What? When? - This morning.
- Wow, okay. Um...
- I just wanted to make sure you're okay, you know,
after what happened to you yesterday.
- Oh, right. Um...
Yeah, no, I'm-I'm-I'm-I'm okay.
I'm okay.
- I got your voicemail. - Right. Um...
Yeah, uh sorry, I just, I just--
- uh, it's okay, it's okay.
I'm not asking for anything from you now.
- (shaky inhale) - okay.
If you ever need me,
you know where to find me.
- Thanks. Thanks.
(footsteps crunch)
(box rattles)
(door opens and shuts, engine starts)
(ornament jingles)
♪
(jenny's phone buzzes)
(slithering sound)
jenny: Well,
this is the longest tapeworm I've ever seen.
Donovan: This is the first tapeworm I've ever seen,
and it's more than enough for me.
- So, have any idea where caleb is?
- No. Still trying to piece together
how he got out of the psych ward.
Hey, so the tapeworm wriggled out of her wound?
- Yeah, looks like she was stabbed.
The wound cut her intestine,
which is where tapeworms attach to their hosts.
(snips) - makes sense.
The knife drawer was raided and--
- yeah.
- She was here cleaning.
- I mean, why did she come back to the house,
let alone to clean it?
None of this makes any sense.
(traffic whooshes)
jenny: Look, um,
caleb escaped from the hospital.
- I know. The police called me.
Did they find him?
- No. Uh,
and his surrogate sister was just found dead.
- (exhales)
that's awful.
- (sighs) just, I don't think, I don't think that he would--
- you're having trouble reconciling
your instincts about caleb. - Yeah.
Look, I just... I really believed that,
that he had lost his memory, but if he,
if he killed flora--
- someone can be both a victim of trauma and an abuser.
Maybe we saw one side of him and this family sees the other.
- Okay, but why cover for him, if you're flora?
You know, why clean up after him if he just killed
two people that you love?
- Because they love him.
They're protecting him.
(traffic whooshes)
jenny: They were trauma bonded, donovan.
I mean, it's when an,
an abused person forms a strong emotional attachment
to their uh, to their abuser.
Donovan: Flora and caleb? - Yeah, think about it.
I mean, flora had been abused by caleb, for years.
She even took the family's hush money.
- So, she goes to clean up after the murders?
- Well, maybe in her mind, she was cleaning up after him,
you know, protecting him, like she has all these years.
- She might not be the only one.
- What?
- We can't get hold of aaron browning,
and the address he gave us is fake.
- Okay, um, I'll call you if I find anything.
♪
(snipping sounds)
♪
river: (tired exhale)
the tapeworm head is still attached to her intestine.
- I'd place her time of death as early this morning.
- I just wish we had more to go on.
- There's this.
Jenny: Flora had liver cancer?
- I found the same masses on john browning's liver.
I thought cancer too, at first, but--
- then we got the results back from the lab.
They're cysts from the tapeworm larvae.
Jenny: They both had tapeworm?
- We'll send these out for biopsy.
- Or we could just do this.
(cyst oozes)
dennis: (disgusted) ugh!
Jenny: Okay, yeah, looks like anchovy paste.
Oh, it's a classic descriptor for tapeworm cysts.
- Even I find that disgusting.
- Did she have any cysts in her brain?
- No.
- Um, look, you guys,
you guys go home after this, okay?
River: We will.
Happy holidays, jenny! Dennis: Happy holidays, jenny.
Jenny: Happy holidays, guys.
Donovan: Sorry, what?
Jenny: John browning and flora both have cysts
from old tapeworm infections. - And?
- What if the whole family had tapeworm at some point?
Tapeworm larvae can travel to your-your organs
and your muscles, and they can cause cysts.
So, I'm thinking that caleb browning has tapeworm cysts
in his brain. And if it's in his frontal lobe,
then that would explain why he can't control his emotions.
- All right, then, why wouldn't the rest of the family
be violent? Why wouldn't aaron be?
- Because it's incredibly rare
for the cysts to travel to your brain.
- Hold on for a sec, jenny.
- We got a list of properties the brownings own.
Places where caleb could be hiding out.
Closest is some land north of pickering.
- All right, thanks, man. Hey, jenny?
I think I might have a lead on where caleb might be hiding.
- Okay, I need to come with you.
- Okay, jenny-- - yeah, donovan,
I know he's dangerous, but he's also sick,
and if I can explain that to him,
I think he will accept help. - All right, fine.
I'll text you the address.
- Okay, thank you. I'll meet you there.
- What if I had never left? Hmm?
What if I had been there for jenny
when she got her period,
she went on her first date...
When she got married.
All those things,
all those milestones that I missed.
And she doesn't want me here.
- What? Okay, you can't give up.
I mean, you've gotta just... You know,
keep on trying with her.
Keep on knocking on that door.
She's tough because she's fragile.
- Huh, well, that daughter of yours
never got that right hook from me.
She has your temper.
- Oh, no. Not mine.
- Oh, definitely runs in your side of the family.
- Hm. - You did a good job, gord.
- I really tried, but I just,
I felt like I didn't know what I was doing half the time.
- This isn't what I pictured, you know.
When we used to... Lie out on your old ford mustang,
imagining what our life was gonna look like.
We were so young.
- Oh, sweetheart. - (crying)
- there's absolutely never been anyone for me, but you.
Not anywhere.
- (sighs, sniffles)
- just...
It's just always been you.
You know, I've imagined you every single day?
- Oh, well. - You look so good.
- I'm here.
♪
- do you wanna go upstairs?
- Oh, gord...
- You can say no, if you want to.
Come on.
(footsteps shuffle)
gimme your hand. Okay.
- (chuckles)
malik: The brownings own 100 acres up here.
Doesn't look inhabited at all.
Donovan: Yeah, no sign of camping or squatting.
- What would you even do up here?
- Swim?
- Ha. You see a lake? - (laughs)
smell that?
- Oh, man, that is the smell of death.
(low hum of police chatter)
(disgusted groans and exhales)
(footsteps crunch)
(sighs)
- it's a feral hog, judging by the tusks.
(debris rustles)
it was snared.
Okay. Aaron said that their dad took caleb hunting.
- Well, that's what you do up here, you kill things.
♪
(dialling numbers beep)
- hey, jenny, no, there's no sign of caleb.
We found the carcass of an old pig.
Nah, there's no point.
Might as well turn around and head back home.
Go be with your family. All right?
(pop, air hisses)
(engine shuts off, door opens)
(sighs)
damn it! (sighs)
♪ o christmas tree ♪
- so, um...
Hey, massage is cool, huh? - Yeah.
Yeah. - Hmm.
- Yeah, no, I don't know.
It just um... It really appealed to me.
- Mm-hmm.
- Um, this is kind of meh.
Do you wanna get some rum?
- Oh, no, no, no, don't. Please, I-I um...
I don't drink anymore, so. - Oh!
- Yeah.
- Okay, well that's, that's good. Right?
- Yeah.
(liam's phone rings) - oh, wait.
Hey! - Hey. I am uh...
I'm kind of in the middle of nowhere and I just uh,
I just got a flat tire. - (laughs)
okay, I'll come get you. Just um...
Just send me a pin of where you are, all right?
- I'll send you one right now, okay?
I'll uh... I'll see you soon. Thanks.
- It's uh, it's your mom.
She uh, she has a flat tire.
- Oh! I guess...
That's good news that she called you...
Romantically speaking.
- (laughs) yeah.
Hey, it was good talking to you.
- Yeah, you too.
- See ya soon.
(wind gusts)
(footsteps crunch in the snow)
oh, hey, donovan?
I um, I was actually, I was heading home and I,
I got a flat tire, but I'm...
I'm standing in front of the strangest thing.
Donovan: What is it?
- I'm looking at a sign that says, "holiday cheer factory"
and on it is a picture of the angel
that we pulled out of mr. Browning's ear.
- Are you sure it's the same one?
- Yeah, 100%.
Hey, still nothing on caleb?
- No, provincial police did a flyover with infrared.
They didn't find any sign of life either.
Hey, are you gonna go check it out?
- I mean the browning's did have a lot of ornaments.
Maybe had something to do with the factory.
I'll meet you up there.
I'm uh, I'm going up concession road 7.
♪
(footsteps crunch)
♪
(bell dings)
♪
(camera shutter snaps)
♪
(light footsteps thud)
♪
(engine rumbles)
(door opens, door shuts)
(loud crash in distance) (birds caw)
- jenny?
(footsteps crunch)
(object clanks, footsteps crunch)
- hey, donovan, uh... I am inside.
I'm finding what looks like um,
like a bunch of offices.
Just meet me in here.
(door creaks, slams in distance)
(exhales)
(feet shuffle and stop)
hello?
(boxes rustle)
(light thud) - agh! (gasps)
caleb.
Jenny: Caleb, I think I can help you.
Look, I think you have a condition.
Caleb: Yeah, I'm a murderer. That's my condition.
- Caleb, I think you have a tapeworm
that may have caused cysts in your brain.
- What?
- It would make sense on why you're violent.
We found cysts in your father's body, in flora's.
I mean, this runs in your family.
- No, that doesn't make sense, that doesn't make sense.
You're not making sense. - Yes, it could,
because it could be from the wild pigs that you ate,
or it could be in the sausage. - I'm a vegetarian!
I don't eat sausage, I don't eat meat. At all.
- But you hunt. - (shouts) I don't hunt!
Aaron hunts! My dad hunts!
My dad started taking aaron when he was 13 years old!
Started shooting pigs! - He took aaron here.
- Please, just go. Go, please. Please.
- Okay.
- Flora's gonna come now and she's gonna get us,
just like she's always done, ever since we were little kids.
We were like "the lost boys" and she was like wendy,
so it's all fine now, so just please, go.
- Caleb, flora's dead.
(ominous music)
- no, she's not dead.
- She's dead.
Do you not--
♪
it's aar--, it's aaron that had the fits.
It's him. It-- he--
he did this and he let you believe that it was... You.
(knife clanks on table)
- that doesn't make sense, at all!
You're not making sense because, because,
because I'm his brother, he wouldn't hurt me.
- He was the one who took advantage of you, okay?
What you're, what you're going through, caleb, this amnesia,
this is a real thing.
Okay, what you witnessed, I mean, y-your brain,
it just couldn't compute it, so it made you forget,
but it did that because of what you saw,
caleb, not because of what you did; he did this.
- (shouting) shut up! Shut up! Shut up!
Shut up, okay?!
Okay, help me remember. You know...
You know memory stuff.
All right, just help me remember, please!
- Okay.
It's okay.
- Please help me! Yeah?
(wings flutter, birds caw)
(footsteps crunch)
(branches crunch)
donovan: This is the police, identify yourself.
(birds caw)
(footsteps crunch)
(whoosh)
(footsteps crunches)
(bird caws)
(ominous music)
(wings flutter, branch snaps)
♪
(footsteps crunch)
(tree groans in the distance)
(footsteps crunch)
(buttons click)
♪
(thudding blow) - wah! Ah!
(falls heavily to ground)
♪
(gun thuds)
(running footsteps recede)
(engine roars)
(shuts engine off, door opens)
(door shuts)
(footsteps crunch)
(paper crinkles)
- (reads) "checking out the holiday cheer factory.
Be back soon."
(eerie music)
♪
(donovan grunts)
ow!
(breathes heavily)
(grunts loudly in pain) ah!
I have a hole in my spine?
Oh!
(grunts loudly)
I don't understand,
I-I thought the radiation was supposed to help.
(grunts)
dr. Cheng: There's a small chance, however, if we operate,
that it could affect your ability to walk.
- Ugh.
(animals howl in the distance)
(rhythmic deep breathing)
(deep inhale)
(slow exhale)
- how'd you get your memory back?
- Someone tried to kill me.
And it uh, it triggered my memory.
(deep exhale)
- of what?
- I accidentally killed my sister.
I pushed her down the stairs
when I was little.
And that's what my brain was hiding from me.
Look, I feel like if you, um...
If you can use this panic,
you know, if you can, if you can,
if you can take the panic that you felt on that day
when you, when you saw what you saw, right.
Right? And don't, don't run from it,
just, just, I mean that is--
because that's what I did. Um...
But if you can sit in it right now,
if you can sit in that panic and you can use it,
maybe it will help you remember what actually happened.
♪
- (deep inhale)
- if you can just like...
I'm right here. - Yeah. Okay.
♪
(exhales)
♪
(deep, troubled exhales)
(distorted music)
(sniffles) oh!
(deep exhale)
(toy whirs eerily)
(sobbing)
♪ we've hung the ornaments with care ♪
(music turns eerie)
ahhh!
(sobbing)
wah! I can't do it!
(deep inhale and exhale)
I didn't do it!
(shaky breathing)
I don't believe it. God you--
(sniffles) oh god!
♪
I don't believe it.
Oh my god.
♪
(aaron screams wildly)
(footsteps thud)
(whoosh)
(exhales) I don't... I can't... I don't...
(sobbing)
(light footsteps)
jenny: You'll be okay, caleb.
It's okay.
- (sobbing)
liam: Jenny?
Jenny: Whoa, hey, hey. Liam! Liam, hey--
- whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Jenny: It's okay. It's okay.
- Who's this? - This is caleb, okay?
Caleb is a, is a friend. - Where's aaron?
I wanna talk to aaron right now?
- Li-liam doesn't know your brother.
- Just drop the knife and we'll sort it out.
- Look, I don't wanna hurt you, man. I don't wanna hurt you.
Come on, stop.
Jenny: No, hey! No! Caleb!
(thudding blow) jenny: Okay, stop. Liam, hey!
(landing thud) - agh!
Jenny: Okay, it's okay. It's okay. It's okay.
- You all right?
- I'm okay, it's just--
hey, hey! No! No! Stop it! Stop it! Stop!
(both thud, fighting grunts)
- (shouts) back up! Back up! Get in there!
- Okay. Calm down! Calm down!
- Put your phones on the ground right now. Right now!
- Caleb! Okay. - Right now!
- Okay, back up! Back up!
- Okay. - Back up!
(door slams, lock clicks)
jenny: Are you okay? - Ah...
- You okay? - Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Yeah? - Yeah, I'm okay.
Hey, jenny... - Yeah.
I know. Hey. Hey.
(rapid nervous breathing)
(effort grunts)
jenny: Caleb! Caleb!
(pounding on door)
(door rattles) - you keep trying the door,
like it's gonna change. - Yeah, I know.
Are you hurt? - No, no, I'm okay.
- No. He really hurt you. Let me take a look.
- No, no, no, that's nothing.
- I'm just gonna look, okay.
- (sighs) okay, doctor.
- Oh, your skin's weak where the stitches were.
It's weeping a little.
- Maybe it's sad.
That's a joke.
- Yeah, I don't love the way it looks.
Can you just keep pressure on it?
- Yep. (exhales)
- I mean, I'm bad for you.
(exhales) - I'm bad for myself.
I mean,
I was out of that rehab for an hour when,
took a drink, crashed my truck, and lost a horse.
I got it all back but uh,
but then...
I came straight to you.
♪
- (sighs)
I mean, I...
Always thought that, you know,
we needed to heal and then...
We could be together, but maybe it's just...
Maybe we be together and then...
And then we can heal.
♪
- hey, I'd like that.
♪
(small laugh)
ow! (winces)
sorry. - You okay?
- Yeah, I am.
- Okay, donovan should've been here by now.
- Yeah. - Hey, caleb?
(pounding on door)
(rock plays in headphones)
♪
aaron: Hey, come on. Let's go!
(music stops) - (sharp exhale)
(items clatter)
(taps bottle nervously) - huh?
- (sniffles) - what's wrong?
What is it?
- The coroner said that you were the one
who hurt mom and dad.
Aaron, she said it was you! - Oh.
(clicks tongue) whoa, whoa, whoa.
Come here. Come here. Come here.
Hey. Come on. - (sobbing)
- it's okay. Hey, it's you and me.
Forever.
Just like always. - Okay.
And flora, right?
- She said she didn't wanna come.
Guess she doesn't love us anymore.
- (sobs)
(bags rustle)
(items clatter)
(sniffles) you killed her, right... Aaron?
You killed flora?
- It's just you and me now.
"lost boys" for life.
- I remember, aaron! I remember!
I saw it! I saw you hurt mom and dad!
I know!
- Do you know what he did to me?
When we were hunting.
He'd hunt me.
Send bullets whizzing by my ears to toughen me up.
Mom knew.
We're better off now.
We're free.
(pounding on door) jenny: Caleb, let me out!
- What, she's in there?
(night animal sounds)
(donovan grunts)
(short, sharp breaths)
♪
(grunts)
- (sighs)
come on.
(phone buzzes) hmm.
Mac! Mac, you read my lonely mind.
- Malik! - Mac, you okay?
- Ha, trace my phone.
Trace my phone. I can't move.
- Mac? - I'm not far. (exhales)
- mac, are you there?
(keys clack)
- it was me.
I wrote it.
"justice for dean breyer."
my first week on the job, dean wouldn't shut up.
They took him in the back.
(pained grunt) - mac, stay with me...
(sharp exhale)
- uh... I had a bad feeling. (keys clack rapidly)
he died in his cell.
What, what if I haven't lived right?
What if I... Stepped off the path?
- Hey, hey, mac! Mac, you're cutting out.
Wait! Hey mac! You're cutting out, you--
(grunts in pain)
oh...
(grunts in pain)
(short, sharp breaths)
(grunts in pain)
(cries out in pain)
oh...
(short, sharp breaths)
(sharp exhale)
(readying grunt) okay.
All right.
(grunts in pain)
okay.
(footsteps crunch)
(short, sharp breaths)
hang on. I'm coming.
(grunts in pain)
oh, god!
(short, sharp breaths)
(heavy breathing)
(pained grunt, footsteps crunch)
- (effort grunts)
(grunts, winces in pain)
- hey, hey, hey, hey.
You okay? - Yeah. Ah!
(winces in pain)
those bars, they're pretty rusty.
I think we can pull a few off.
- Liam, you're burning up. - No, no.
- You're burning up.
Oh, god.
- (short, sharp breaths)
- I think your rib pierced your intercostal vein.
- Yeah. Don't worry about me.
- No, no, you're in shock.
Here.
It's not clean and it won't last long,
but I need you... I need you to apply pressure, okay?
I need you to hold this right here.
- Yeah. - Okay.
- Yeah.
Hey, jenny... - Yeah?
- I love you. (small laugh)
- I love you, too. - Mm-hmm.
- Hey, liam? Liam.
- Hey. - Hi.
- I'm not going anywhere.
- Keep the pressure on, okay?
(grunting with effort)
(grunts) ah!
Hey, caleb! (pounding on door)
caleb, let me out!
(seething breathing) caleb! Caleb, let us out!
(pounding on door) caleb!
Aaron: (shouting) you want out... Dr. Cooper?
Caleb: There's someone else in there, you know.
There's a guy in there, too. - Does he have a gun?
- No. - I'm not afraid of you. Huh.
I'm not afraid of you. Come on out. Open the door.
Open the door, huh? Jenny: Caleb, open the door!
Caleb, I need you to open the door!
Caleb, open the door!
(lock clicks) call an ambulance.
(yells) call an ambulance!
- No, we're not calling an ambulance.
- Seriously, aaron, call an ambulance.
- Nobody's going anywhere. We're not calling anyone.
- Come on, just call an ambulance for her.
Seriously, man! - What a trio we are, huh?
I won't hurt you, you won't hurt me, you won't hurt her.
- (shouts) call an ambulance, you psycho!
Come on! (fighting grunts)
(thudding blows)
(blows echo)
♪
(falling thud)
(repeated thudding blows) - agh!
(moaning, struggling to breathe)
- come here. Call 911.
- What's happening to him? - He's having a seizure.
Donovan, it's him! It's aaron!
Caleb: Aaron, what are you doing?
Donovan: All right, back up. Back up!
Call the ambulance! Now!
(ominous music)
♪
(approaching sirens wail)
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kirima: I'll see you soon. - Definitely. All right.
(wheel locks click) - take care of my boy.
- (chuckles) thanks.
♪
(deep inhale and exhale)
♪
(door opens)
(keys jingle)
(door shuts)
(footsteps thud)
(coat drops to floor)
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(light footsteps)
♪
(hopeful inhale)
(mournful exhale)
♪
- (sniffling)
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