- At least the popcorn was good.
- Coach Kelly should've called a time-out
after Coolidge missed that free throw.
- Coach Kelly. Remember his last year,
when he lost his pen during gym class?
- He made us walk up and down the football field
for half an hour, trying to find it.
- And the whole time, it was behind his ear.
- [laughs] You guys wanna come over?
- I have gummies.
- I told my mom I'd help her make dinner.
- I'll drop you off.
I got a bio test first period, so.
- Cool, cool. See you tomorrow.
[eerie music]
♪
- Kai's been doing a lot of weed.
- His dad gets it for him.
- Seriously? - Yep.
Ever since the dispensary opened.
His dad thinks it's safer if he gets it at home
than from some sketch dealer.
- [scoffs]
- Hey.
We should stop and help him, right?
- Uh, yeah, I guess.
Hi, Ma? I might be a little late.
We're helping a man with car troubles.
No, don't worry.
He's, like, a minister or something.
- Ah, thank you for stopping.
- Yeah, no worries. What's going on?
- Uh, I just seem to be stuck in the ditch here.
Can't seem to get back on the road here.
- Um, okay.
Well, we can try to give you a push.
- Oh, that would be great.
- Oh, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
- Oh.
- Hey, would you mind giving us a hand?
- Sure. I'd be happy to.
- Thanks. - Oh, God bless.
- Thanks so much.
- Yeah, thank you.
On three? - Yeah.
- [laughing]
- Give us your phones.
- Oh, my God. Okay, okay. - Now.
Give me your phone! - Man, get off!
- Move! - Okay, okay!
- Go on, get in the van. - In!
- What do you want? - In!
- Okay, okay.
Okay, okay.
What do you want? Please!
- What do you want? What do you want--
- Quiet, little lambs,
or we'll slaughter you both.
- [shakily] Oh, my God.
[gasping]
- No, please! Please!
[dramatic music]
♪
- I've been diagnosed with stage III liver cancer.
Lost 20 pounds so far.
Feel so weak, I can hardly get out of bed.
And my stomach?
Well, it just hurts all the time.
I'm suffering with this,
suffering bad.
So please, I pray that you'll let me go home
so I can spend my last time on this Earth
as a free man.
- Mr. Davis, if we grant this request,
can we trust you won't resort to criminal activity again?
- I'm too damn sick to break any laws.
And just so you know,
I didn't kill that young man,
same as I told everybody 25 years ago.
- I understand we have a member of the victim's family
who wishes to speak.
Sir, please state your name for the record
and your relationship to the victim.
- I'm Remy Scott, the older brother
of Mr. Davis' victim,
Michael Scott.
- Thank you.
You may proceed.
[quiet dramatic music]
♪
- My brother was...just 18
when he was murdered in Fort Lauderdale.
Mikey was--
he was the golden child of our family:
intelligent, funny, kind,
not to mention a world-class pitcher.
His murder devastated me
and my sister, Claire.
Our parents were never the same
after he came home from spring break
in a casket.
Mikey was the reason I became an FBI agent.
I'm now the head of the Fugitive Task Force,
so I have some insight
into this man who asks for compassion
but still won't admit what he did 25 years ago,
when he stabbed my little brother.
So why should he get mercy now,
when he showed none for my brother,
when he doesn't have an ounce of compassion,
when he doesn't have an ounce of remorse
for what he did
and still has the audacity to deny it?
Keep this killer in a cage,
where he belongs.
Let justice be served.
♪
[indistinct radio chatter]
- You all right? You look exhausted.
- Took a redeye last night.
I was down in Florida, testifying at a hearing
for my brother's case.
- What kind of hearing?
- The guy who killed him has cancer,
wants to get out of prison early.
- I'm so sorry.
It's been what, 25 years?
- Yeah.
- So what did they decide?
- We should hear in the next 48 hours.
What do we got?
- Chloe LeBlanc, Luke Spottiswood,
sophomores at the local high school,
last seen leaving the school parking lot
in Luke's car after a basketball game
yesterday afternoon.
- You sure this was an abduction?
Teenagers can be pretty unpredictable sometimes.
- No, not these two.
I go birding with Luke's dad, Steven.
These are good kids.
- I found their cell phones on the ground.
They look like they were run over by a vehicle.
- And these were in the car too.
There's nothing but schoolbooks and papers.
- Dust those phones for prints. Backpacks too.
- You got it. - We'll also need photos
of these tire tracks and any other evidence
that might show up. - Okay, you got it.
[suspenseful music]
- All right, let's split up and get these kids home safe.
Hana, Ray, head over to the high school
for eyewitness and video leads.
Barnes and I will cover the parents.
♪
- What are you talking about?
How can our son just disappear like that?
- Somebody must have seen something.
- And if they did, we'll find them.
- Were either of your kids involved in anything
that might have precipitated this?
- Like what?
- You're blaming Chloe for this?
- No. - No, but we need to know
everything you can tell us.
The important thing is to remain calm.
- Pfft, sure. How do we do that?
- What do they want from us, money?
- Well, no one contacted you, right?
- We'll post agents on each of your houses,
just in case.
When's the last time you spoke with your daughter?
- Chloe called me after the game was over
and said they had stopped to help a minister
with car trouble.
- A minister? Okay, that's good.
Did she say anything else?
- Just that she was with Luke
and she'd be late.
- When do you think we'll hear something?
- If there are any developments,
we'll let you know, I promise.
- I can't just sit here and wait.
I'm gonna drive around and look for them myself.
- We prefer that you didn't do that.
I understand what you're going through.
I've been on the other side of this myself.
A situation in my own family.
- Oh. How did that turn out?
- With a happy ending.
- [sighs]
[tense music]
♪
- [panting]
[whispering] Do yours.
- We interviewed dozens of parents and students
that were leaving the basketball game
at the same time as Chloe and Luke.
None of them noticed anything out of the ordinary.
- But one of Luke's friends remembered
that after the last home game,
he saw a panel van following Luke's car
out of the school parking lot.
- There were no vans in the parking lot yesterday
on the security video. I'm gonna start grinding
through the other 90 vehicles now.
- Do we have any security footage
from the last game, the one where Luke's friend
said he was followed?
- Uh, we should.
Okay, yeah.
This is from a week before the Coolidge game.
There's a maroon van.
- There's an emblem on the door.
Looks like a religious symbol.
- The minister they stopped to help.
- Mm.
The van is registered
to the Sacred Church of the Revelations,
Dorchester, New Hampshire.
A Jacob Varitek, pastor.
- Dorchester's 40 miles across the state line.
- Get a BOLO out on that vehicle.
See what we can find on the pastor.
Gaines and I will cover Varitek's residence.
Barnes and Ray, I think you'd be best at the church.
♪
- Pastor Jacob's not here today.
- Where is he?
- He'll be back from a funeral tomorrow.
- Who died?
- Little girl in Franconia,
mauled by two pit bulls.
Heard those dogs made a right good meal of the child.
- You mind if we take a look inside the church?
- Make it quick. I'm about to clean up in there.
- Thank you.
Doesn't exactly fill you
with the Holy Spirit in here, does it?
- You ever been in a church with an image
of the devil on its walls?
- I guess it makes sense.
Good in the front of the church,
evil in the back?
- It's giving me the same vibe
like in one of those voodoo places
in the French Quarter.
It's creepy.
[banging on door]
- Pastor Jacob? FBI.
How'd the hell you get in?
- Back window was open.
- Two missing kids?
I'd call that exigent circumstances.
- I checked the house. Nobody's here.
♪
Breakfast dishes in the sink.
Business as usual.
Varitek's got a landline.
Could be why we can't link him to a cell number.
- He's got more books on the Antichrist
than he does on Jesus.
Looks like Pastor Jacob has a little brother.
- Yeah.
No mom in the picture.
Let's see.
Yeah, Rudolph Varitek.
He lives in Newbury, Vermont,
a few miles from the high school.
Looks like he's got a criminal record...
in New Hampshire for practicing medicine
without a license.
- Body and soul-- whatever your affliction,
the Varitek brothers got it covered.
- Time to go. We've reached our destination.
- Where are you taking us?
- Be patient. Let's go.
Let's go. - [roars]
- Chloe! - [screams]
- Run!
- Go get her!
♪
- Let's go. Calm down, dear.
- No, no, please! - Please, just calm down.
Just calm down.
- Please... - Easy.
- Please. [sobbing]
- All right, think of something nice
while the medicine takes effect, huh?
99,
98, 97,
96, 95...
♪
[siren wailing]
- What the hell am I supposed to tell her mother?
We know how Chloe died?
- EMT said there was no sign of any violence
or sexual assault.
- Eh, they found ligature marks around the wrist.
- They also said there's a pinhole tear
in the shoulder of her jacket
and a drop of liquid residue.
- There's some dry blood around the injection site.
Could've been a hot shot.
- Oh, with fake doctor brothers involved,
that would make sense.
- State M.E. will sort it out for us.
- Why grab these two kids just to kill one of them?
There's gotta be something else going on here.
- You're right.
Deep dive, Rudolph Varitek.
I'm gonna run a game on Pastor Jacob
and make sure we're going down the right track.
- What's the play? - Win his trust, size him up.
If he's good for this, something will slip.
- You don't need to go undercover for that.
We can just reach out to the congregation.
- We don't have time for all that.
It's a close-knit community up here.
Not a lot of love for federal agents.
I'll need a crappy car, a Bible,
and a change of clothes.
[tense music]
- Ah. - Okay.
- Ah. - This'll be fine for now.
I may have to suture it later.
- Are you sure no one saw you dump her?
- Give me some credit.
- You killed her with that injection.
- All I can get my hands on right now
are horse tranquilizers.
If I had my DEA license,
I would have access to proper medication--
[banging] - Hey!
Where's Chloe? - Quiet!
Quiet in there!
- Where'd she go?
- Quiet!
♪
No more miscalculations, Rudolph.
We have a lot to accomplish.
Good Friday is just around the corner.
- I'll have the crosses painted and delivered to the sanctuary.
- Fine.
We'll have to acquire another she-devil.
- Maybe I could just focus on the boy.
Do we really need another female?
- Eve did the serpent's bidding
and tempted Adam in the garden,
so evil must be vanquished
in all its incarnations.
- Yes.
- Maybe I can find another girl
after the funeral.
We'll take him to the OR.
Wait for me there.
♪
- Rudolph Varitek.
One of the most macabre cases I've ever prosecuted.
- Because he was holding himself out
as a medical doctor?
- A doctor who'd perform the kind of elective procedures
you can't get at your corner urgent care.
You ever heard of extreme body modification?
- I'm vaguely familiar, yeah.
- It's more than just stretched earlobes.
Eye tattoos, tunneled cheeks subdermal implants:
Varitek did it all.
- But if you wanna disfigure yourself,
isn't that legal?
- He didn't stop at cosmetics.
Varitek sees himself as an actual physician.
After he flunked out of medical school,
he took up do-it-yourself surgery
on his shingle on the dark web.
- He must be resentful
the medical establishment wouldn't have him.
- Definitely.
He wasn't even on our radar
until he performed an amateur version
of gender reassignment surgery.
The victim ended up in the ER and almost died.
Varitek did six months for practicing medicine
without a medical license
and moved out of New Hampshire.
- How do we, as a community of believers,
make peace
with a senseless tragedy
like the brutal death
of this sweet, innocent child?
I, too, have recently lost a loved one
to sinister machinations.
Be assured, my good friends,
these are no random misfortunes,
for the Lamb would never allow
such heinous brutality to befall the righteous,
like the family that sits here in mourning today.
No, this can only be understood
as the demonic work of the Antichrist,
who took this poor soul
as a demonstration of his dark, malevolent power!
God bless you.
- Very moving eulogy, Pastor.
- Thank you.
Have you also come at the family's calling?
- When I heard what happened, I...
thought I'd come and pay my respects.
- Where do you minister?
- My last posting was in Ohio, but...
things didn't go so well for me there.
- How so?
- I'd rather not talk about it, if it's all the same to you.
- I see.
These are trying times we live in,
when men of God are themselves treated with suspicion.
- God bless you for understanding.
- Of course.
- People can be so vindictive.
Your church in Dorchester-- I was hoping
there might be an opportunity there for me.
- Unfortunately, there's not.
We're a small and aging congregation.
As I'm sure you're aware,
our youth have drifted away from the church.
- Jesus said, "Suffer the little children,
and forbid them not to come unto me."
- Easier said than done.
They worship technology now.
- Very true.
How do we bring them back?
- Show them that the work of the devil is everywhere.
Satan's cleverest trick is to convince us
he doesn't exist.
We need to make evil tangible
to all the doubters among us,
simplify it in a way their narrow minds
can understand.
- So true.
Evil is everywhere.
Like those two high school students
who were kidnapped
across the state line.
- I'm not aware of such an incident,
but I'm not one to follow current events.
You must excuse me now.
I pray that you find peace
and a beneficent situation.
[eerie music]
♪
- I just spent some quality time
with Pastor Jacob.
He's obsessed with this dude named Satan.
My gut tells me he's in this up to his clerical collar.
- Security footage puts Rudolph's Chevy
at the high school parking lot
ten minutes before the abduction.
- Where's Rudolph now?
- We still don't have a 20 on him.
- Get a drone with thermal imaging capability
over the Variteks' property. That church too.
- Okay, copy that.
- And someone was recently killed
in Jacob's family-- a crime victim, maybe.
Suss that out. In the meantime,
I'm gonna stay on Jacob.
- Okay.
You want some company?
- You think I need a babysitter?
- Well, I saw your eyes
when you lied to those families.
I know this one's hitting close to home.
- I'm good.
Jacob's gonna screw up and lead us straight to Luke.
I gotta go. - [sighs]
[tense music]
♪
- [breathing shakily]
- Hey.
- What did you do with Chloe?
- Don't worry, son.
She's fine.
- I don't believe you.
- Why would I wanna hurt her?
I made you a sandwich.
Enjoy it.
It's the last solid food you'll have for some time.
- [whimpers]
♪
- Be a good boy for Dr. Rudolph.
Stick out your tongue.
- No, please.
- This is going to happen one way or another.
If you don't cooperate, it's just going to make things
a lot more unpleasant
for both of us.
Come closer.
Good boy.
Lovely.
I think this'll work out nicely.
We'll begin when Jacob returns.
- [sobbing]
♪
- Jacob's still on the road.
Driving south.
- Air ops did infrared scans of the Variteks'.
Results are negative.
- What about the church? - Same deal.
But I did find an obituary
on the Variteks' father, Douglas.
Now, he died five months ago
after a lengthy battle with Behcet's disease.
- Never heard of it.
- We'll I'll spare you all the gory details,
but it's a long and painful way to go,
something that I'm sure would've been difficult
to watch their father go through.
- Interesting.
Hana, hang on a second. Claire, what's up?
- I'm sorry to bother you while you're working,
but I thought you would wanna hear this.
The Florida commission turned down Davis' request
for compassionate medical release.
- That's great news.
- I don't know what you said to them down there, Remy,
but I guess they made the right decision.
[car horn blares]
- Sorry. Do you need a lift?
- Claire, I gotta go. I'll hit you later.
Hana, tell Kristin to write a haul-ass order
to my location. - What's going on?
- Looks like Jacob just kidnapped another girl.
[tense music]
[honks horn]
♪
Pastor Jacob.
I was just driving by, and I noticed your van.
- Hello again.
- Is that your daughter?
- [laughs]
- Oh. Oh, no.
This is Amanda.
She's the granddaughter of one of our congregants.
- Nice to meet you, Father.
- Nice to meet you as well.
How's your day going, Amanda?
- Great.
Pastor Jacob just saw me leaving the diner,
and he was nice enough to offer me a ride home.
- So nice. - Hmm.
You know what, Amanda?
My stomach is starting to growl.
I'm craving one of Gus' meatloaf sandwiches.
I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to send you on your way.
- Oh, okay.
Yeah. [laughs]
- Sorry about that. - It's okay.
- Bye, Amanda! - Bye!
Nice to see you, Pastor Jacob.
- Nice to see you too.
Get home safe, huh?
- Thank you. I will.
- Okay.
Bye-bye. - Bye.
- Such a beautiful day, huh?
- You know, I didn't catch your name.
- Remy,
like the cognac.
Dark and smooth.
[laughs]
- Well, good day to you, Remy.
- And the Lord be with you.
- Safe travels.
♪
- Thank you. - Sure.
- Mind if I join?
- I was hoping to have a few moments to myself.
- You said the meatloaf's good here.
I'm a sucker for chopped meat.
- I'm sure you'll enjoy it,
but at another table, please.
- You know, I can't help thinking
maybe Amanda shouldn't be walking home alone today.
- I'm sure she'll be fine. - I'm not.
I heard on the radio that the girl who was kidnapped
in Vermont was found dead
not too far from here.
- That's a shame.
- But the boy she was with?
Still missing. - Mm.
- Why do you think they'd keep him alive
but kill her?
- There are some evils we can't begin to understand.
- [laughs]
It's so funny you should say that,
because I always wrestle with that question.
Do sinners believe they're evil,
or do they have rationalizations
that excuse their damage?
- Only God knows what's inside a person.
- But what do you think, Jacob?
Could there be some heartbreaking event
that set these crimes in motion?
- [laughs nervously] Excuse me.
♪
- I believe the Lord brought us together
for a divine purpose, Jacob:
to help this boy
who's trapped somewhere.
- I'd like some privacy, please.
- If you'd rather not talk,
let's at least invoke the power
of our joint prayer.
Let's kneel
and pray together.
Please, Lord,
save this boy.
Save him. Say it with me, Jacob.
Save him.
- Save him.
- Let's also pray for his captors,
that they see the error of their ways,
that they repent and find grace in the Lord.
♪
[crying] I can't imagine
what this boy is going through,
his hands bound together.
His family feels the same pain
that you must have felt
when you lost your father, Jacob.
So much sorrow, I'm sure.
Oh.
There's still time for you to renounce this evil
and reach out for His forgiveness.
- Get your hands off me.
♪
- Let's cleanse ourselves, you and I both.
- [groans] - It's time for us
to atone for our sins. - You're hurting me.
[knock on door] - Get off!
- Is everything all right in there?
♪
- We can't run from the evil we do, Jacob.
The Lord is commanding you to renounce Satan
and be saved.
Save yourself, Jacob. Save your soul.
Save your soul, Jacob. Save your soul!
♪
We're just gonna let him drive away?
- We don't have enough to hold him on right now, Remy.
There are rules-- - Throw the rules!
He's got Luke, he and his psycho brother.
- What the hell were you trying to do in there?
- Conducting an inquisition,
trying to get him to confess.
- We did that, like, 600 years ago.
- If they kill Luke now, it's on us.
- You wanna live with his blood on your hands?
- Hey, listen to me. I know this is what happened
to your brother.
Okay?
- Just give me ten more minutes alone with him,
and this can all be over.
- This feels personal. I've been there.
I get it, okay? But we gotta take a step back,
take a deep breath.
We'll send Ray to follow him.
He's not gonna do anything to Luke
with a tail on him.
All right?
- Take my car.
I just wanna nail this son of a bitch to the cross.
- I hear you, and we will, okay?
♪
We will.
[tense music]
- Where is Jacob now?
- He's on his way back to the church.
Doesn't seem like he's in a hurry, though.
- All right, keep us posted.
Mr. Spottiswood.
- You said you'd be in touch.
- Yeah, um, come over here for a second.
Things are moving very quickly.
- So you know where Luke is.
- We're doing everything in our power
to bring him home safely.
- He's gonna end up in a ditch like Chloe, isn't he?
- Listen to me-- - [cries]
- I know these have been
the worst two days of your life,
but there's nothing you can do about it
but go home, take care of yourself and your wife.
I have a team with some of the best agents
in the bureau with me, and we have some very strong leads.
- What kind of person would do this to them?
- Go home.
As soon as something breaks, I'll let you know.
Will you do that for me?
♪
- I'm sorry for barging in here like a crazy person.
I just--I feel so helpless.
- No need to apologize.
It's your son. I get it.
Go home.
♪
Okay, so we have Jacob pinned.
Why can't we find his brother?
- No friends, no family, no social media.
- We have to think outside the box.
We're running out of time.
- What about the caretaker at the church?
- Well, Ray and I didn't get much.
He's a man of few words.
- I'll have Hana take another crack at him.
- I already told your two Black friends
where to find the pastor.
- Right.
Have you seen his brother, Rudolph?
- Lives in Vermont. - I'm aware.
But when was the last time Rudolph was here?
- Hard to say.
- What's M-I-C?
- McKerry Industrial Chemicals.
Worked there for 39 years.
- Hazardous chemicals.
Must've been a tough job.
- Damn right, it was.
That's how I know the Variteks.
Jacob gave me some work around the church
after I retired.
- He worked with you?
- His father did, Douglas,
till he got sick and went on disability
a few years before the plant closed.
- Ah, he had, uh, Behcet's disease.
- All I know is, the doctors up here
couldn't do much for him.
Took its toll on the brothers,
seeing their father suffer and waste away like that.
It drove Jacob to a dark place with his ministry.
He could only understand his father's torture
as something that was evil.
- So there's an abandoned chemical plant
'round here?
- They turned the place inside out.
Nothing but rusty pipes and empty storage tanks.
- They have to be hiding somewhere in there.
- Pull everybody out and search it all over again.
- It's a lot of manpower to tie up.
- They have something better to do?
Or maybe tunnels we don't know about,
underground tanks? Who the hell knows?
- Okay, I'll let them know.
- What is that thing?
- I don't know. - Let's check it.
♪
- The lock and chain looks new.
- Stand back.
- Boot must've been here.
- Somebody must've tipped him off.
What's back here?
♪
- Oh, God.
- Horns?
Clawed hands.
These twisted bastards.
They're turning Luke into the devil.
♪
- This is terrifying.
To inflict this level of deformity
on another human being-- it's a long way from religion.
- Their father's death must've really screwed them up.
Maybe the only thing they could blame for his death
was the Antichrist.
- So what's their endgame?
Just turn Luke into a freak?
[cell phone rings] Parade him around on Sundays
like some sort of proof of concept?
- Ray.
- Jacob's leaving the church.
He just got in his van.
Looks like he's heading north on Route 117.
- Okay, he might be on his way to Rudolph and Luke.
We found their hideout.
Looks like they left in a hurry.
- Hana, is there any chance
that Rudolph and Luke could've slipped in the church
while Jacob led us all over New Hampshire?
- Uh, there's a road that goes around the back of the ridge.
It'd be about a ten-minute hike through the woods.
- Ray, get in that church.
- What about Jacob? - We'll intercept him.
Just get in that church and tear it apart.
- But the church is probably locked.
- Then kick the damn door down!
[tense music]
[engine turns over]
♪
- [panting]
- Jacob was going to be here with a female companion for you
and to bless your transformation
with a prayer, but that doesn't seem to be happening,
so we're going to begin without him.
- No! - Try to relax, Luke.
All right? I promise to be gentle,
and it's better if you don't resist.
- [crying out indistinctly]
- This'll all be over very soon,
and you can focus on healing.
- No. - Let's begin.
- [crying] No! No!
♪
[distant clatter]
- If you make a sound,
I will slice your throat from ear to ear.
♪
- Damn.
- Are you seeing this? - Yes.
- They've erected two crosses in the back of the church.
Black ones.
- Yeah, with nails at the ready.
- Pfft. - So that was their plan:
to crucify the Antichrist they conjured
by mutilating those kids.
[distant clatter]
♪
[siren wailing]
- I'll get local PD to put down a spike strip
and road block up ahead.
- Kristin? - Yeah.
- I want this bitch alive
so I can look him in the eye again.
♪
- [yells]
- You're safe, all right?
I'm with the FBI.
- [crying]
- You're safe. I got you.
All right? Come on, come on, come on.
All right? All right?
You good?
I got you. I got you, man. I got you, okay?
♪
- [groaning]
- Don't move!
On the ground.
Show me your hands.
- You.
You deceived me.
- Don't move. - Impostor.
♪
Agent of Satan!
Gah!
- He's dead.
Good riddance.
- Ray confirmed.
Rudolph's dead too.
- Luke?
- He's okay. Not a mark on him.
- [sighs] I'll call his father.
We saved one kid today.
Wish it could've been two.
♪
[cell phone ringing]
Hey, Georgie.
Who?
Yeah, send her up.
- Agent Scott.
I'm Serena Wade.
I saw you at the Larry Davis hearing
in Florida. - I remember.
Are you his family?
- No, I'm a documentary filmmaker.
I actually live here in New York.
Do you mind if we talk for a minute?
Won't take long.
I wanted to give you a heads-up.
Did you hear about the rule 3.850 filing?
- The what? - It's a motion
for post-conviction relief.
It was filed in Broward County yesterday
on Larry Davis' behalf.
- They're asking for a new trial?
- Yes.
- Based on what?
- Actual innocence.
He claimed the prosecutor withheld exculpatory evidence
among other things.
- Are his lawyers getting paid by the word?
- They're not getting paid at all.
They're from the Florida Innocence Project.
- Well, they're wasting their time.
The case against Davis was airtight.
- You remember the state attorney
who prosecuted the case?
Brody Birch? - What about him?
- I started looking into him
after several complaints were filed
to the state bar last year.
A white prosecutor who targeted
mostly African American defendants.
At first, I thought this was a story about race,
but the deeper that I dug,
the more I realized this is pure corruption.
Brady violations, witness tampering--
I mean, who knows how many innocent people
this guy has put behind bars?
- What does this have to do with me?
- I wanna make Davis' appeal the center of my film,
follow it from beginning to end,
and I'd like for you to get involved.
I need someone who can humanize the victim
and speak on his behalf.
- I don't give a damn about your film
or what you need.
- Well, I'm not taking sides here.
I don't know how this is gonna end
or where this is gonna go.
I just think that this is a compelling story.
- How nice for you.
- You said at the hearing,
"Let justice be served."
What if he didn't do it? - But he did do it.
And he's not getting out.
That's your story.
And you should leave.
- I didn't mean to offend you.
I just...
- Good night. - Well... [sighs]
In case you change your mind-- - I won't.
♪
[dramatic music]
♪
[wolf howls]