BENEDICTE BISGAARD BRIAN CATHERINE DARSET DONNA JACK JOHN JOSIE LARA MARIE MIA MOLBECK MOLLY PAUL REC RODNEY RUTH SARAH SNIPER SWAT_OFFICER THOMAS UNIFORM_COP WILKIE WOMAN YOUNG_NATHAN YOUNG_THOMAS BENEDICTE How was picking John up from school? We have to talk. THOMAS I was called in this morning to consult on a wife and two children who had been murdered in their beds. How does anyone do such a thing? CATHERINE Maggie Warner who was raped not by her husband. It wasn't a suicide. THOMAS What if the killer was already in the house? CATHERINE And he's been watching up there. THOMAS He was watching her from under the house. Fantasizing, building a relationship with her in his mind. RODNEY Well, you've done it again, dear. Would you like to say grace? Sleep tight, sweetie. Good night, buddy. Don't let the bedbugs bite. Both kids are out like a light. Oh, what a day, huh? You know, no matter how crazy things get at work... I always make it through because I know I have you to come home to. I know a lot of guys don't have what I have. I am so... lucky. So... so lucky. I love you so much. YOUNG NATHAN Go set them up, Thomas. Why do I always have to do it? Because I'll put a bb up your butt if you don't. YOUNG THOMAS One's gone. YOUNG NATHAN It's probably back there. YOUNG THOMAS Cut it out! Dad said we can only shoot cans! YOUNG NATHAN I'm not scared of Dad. He's not here. How's he gonna know? It's in that tree. Crap! Lucky shot. Check this. YOUNG THOMAS What are you doing?! YOUNG NATHAN You killed their mom. They were gonna die anyway. MOLBECK He's copped to nine robberies all clients of Bugger-Out Exterminators, including Robert Warner. He, uh, denies any involvement in the murder though. BISGAARD Who'd have thought? MOLBECK Well, bartender at The Slag Bar confirms he worked both Friday and Saturday night as a bouncer. He's all over the security camera. He's, uh... he's not our guy. BISGAARD Jensen on the same page? MOLBECK Haven't, uh, really talked to her about it yet. BISGAARD She seems wound a bit tight lately. Anything I should know about? MOLBECK Look, Commander, you... you know I love Jensen. She's a freakin' sister to me, but... yeah, lately there's been a... a disconnect. I'm sensing... I don't know. She seems distracted, so, yeah... I'm worried about her. BISGAARD Well, thanks, Jerry. We'll keep an eye on her then. LARA Hey. I made coffee. PAUL Are there pacifiers in the freezer? LARA Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got her, I got her. PAUL She is cranky. Yeah? Hi, ladies. LARA You get ready. PAUL I don't think I remember the last time I actually slept through a night. SARAH Can I have some coffee? PAUL Do you have a driver's license? SARAH No. My soccer game is this Saturday. PAUL Saturday? Panthers are on TV, baby. SARAH You can DVR that game. My game is not on TV. PAUL I wouldn't miss your game if I was playing for Pitt, honey. LARA The bus is gonna be here any minute. Oh. Never mind. Here, here. Okay. Ready. Bus will be here in... two minutes. PAUL And I can't take you. You guys got to make it today. I cannot get you there today. SARAH Okay. LARA Sorry, what time tonight? PAUL Well, it could be lunchtime, but I don't know if I'm gonna be back... UNIFORM COP Hey, Jensen. Your mother, line one. CATHERINE Call back. Heard you had a big night. MOLBECK Thought we had a lead on the killer, but turned out to be a bust. CATHERINE The bust was a bust? MOLBECK Funny. CATHERINE Maggie Warner's autopsy report. Alumina. MOLBECK Get out here. Alumina? CATHERINE Found under her fingernails, along with the killer's skin. She must have scratched him, so... while you finish up your paperwork on the Bugger-out Burglar, I'm gonna see if my lead can help us find our killer. MIA Al203, or alumina, is the primary element used in the clay in the masonry work. We also found paint residue on Maggie's body and in the bed. CATHERINE So he's a carpenter or a manual laborer? MIA Strong bastard, too, judging from the beating he gave her. But she put up a fight. CATHERINE Well, she was trying to protect her children. MIA Something happens to you when you become a mother. It's like somebody cut your heart out and it's walking around outside your body. I don't know what I would do if something happened to Hailey, but I know I would die for her. CATHERINE That's what a mother's supposed to do, isn't it? MARIE Catherine, it's Mom. I-I got your message. I've been calling and calling you. Please... Please call me, Catherine. Please. BENEDICTE Hey, John, come on, let's go. THOMAS Hey, hey, uh, I'll take him to school today. BENEDICTE Don't you have class? THOMAS No, it's... it's okay. BENEDICTE Thanks. JOHN Hey, you can drop me off at Mike's house if you want, and I can go with him. His mom's always late. THOMAS Well, we're both gonna be late for school today, buddy. RODNEY Hmm? Hey. There she is. Yeah. Smile for me, Ruthie. Huh? Come on. Smile. There you go. There you go. That's it. That's so much better. CATHERINE Schaeffer thinks the killer has a thing for Maggie Warner. MOLBECK Right. CATHERINE We've gone through every connection-- school, work, gym, friends. What if the answer's right in front of us? MOLBECK In what way? CATHERINE Al0203, or alumina. It's used in building materials. There were paint chips on Maggie's body. Stuff you'd find at a construction site. MOLBECK Yeah, but the, uh, Warner house wasn't under construction. CATHERINE No, but the neighbor's was. THOMAS Look, I know you think you're a man now, and despite my desire to slow down the clock... you are growing up in front of my eyes. We're gonna have a... man-to-man talk, okay? You have an uncle. My brother. My older brother. His name is Nathan. And he's behind those walls. JOHN Oh, is he a guard? THOMAS No. He killed someone, John. His wife. Your aunt. And he's serving a 15-year sentence for manslaughter. JOHN Why are you telling me this now? I was gonna put them back, I swear. THOMAS John, all kinds of people are gonna lie to you in your life. Almost everybody. Let's not do it to each other. Let's have a safe place for the truth. You and me, okay? Do you look at the crime scene photos at the same time as you look at the photos of the girls? Do you mix them? Do you feel excited when you look at them at the same time? JOHN No, I don't look at them at the same time. That would be... gross. But I just... I have a hiding place, and that's where I hide stuff. THOMAS There's only ever two reasons to hide stuff because it's private or because it's wrong. The photos of the girls I understand. I used to do the same thing. But we told you not to take the other photos. JOHN I know. THOMAS You have to trust that when your parents say to stay away from something, it's for your own good. Your uncle didn't. And look where he ended up. Look, John, I want us to make a pact between you and me that we'll always have this safe place where we can talk about things that other people might not understand. Okay? I just... I love you so much. And I want you to know that I'm your safe place. JOHN Can I meet him someday? DARSET You're not seriously suggesting that one of my guys did this? MOLBECK You had a crew working near the crime scene. Maybe somebody saw something that could help us out. DARSET I'll be happy to put you in touch, but... I check people out pretty good before I hire them. CATHERINE Well, you don't have to be Mother Teresa to swing a hammer. DARSET No, but I work in people's homes, and I don't need the liability that comes with the screw-offs. If a guy gets douchey on the job, I toss him. CATHERINE Has there been any douchiness in the past month or so? DARSET Well, there was one guy. His contracting business went belly-up during the recession. Thought he was God's gift, but... he couldn't set a plumb line. He didn't even have his own wheels. He hitchhiked to and from Home Depot every day. Yeah. Rodney Bosch. I canned his ass when a... husband at a remodeling site caught him peeping on his wife. MOLBECK That site wouldn't be in Squirrel Hill, would it? CATHERINE Rodney Bosch? Pittsburgh Police! Show yourself. MOLBECK Jesus. RUTH First, this little... Sorry, that's my fault. JOSIE Yeah, these are mine. Come on, Daddy. RODNEY No, I'm… I'm filming. RUTH Roddie, come on, please? RODNEY Mm… mm. RUTH Please? MOLBECK Wife and two kids, just like the Warners. CATHERINE He killed his family, then sat here and watched them. RUTH All right. JOSIE Well, so... RODNEY Get on the couch. Where are we, Ruthie? RUTH We're in Heaven. RODNEY Where are we? We're in Heaven. We're in Heaven. We're in Heaven. REC RODNEY Where are we, Ruthie? DONNA I don't know. RODNEY Ruthie, where are we? Look in the camera. Where are we? DONNA I’d... I don't kn... RODNEY Look in the camera. Where are we, Ruthie? We're in Heaven. DONNA Heaven. RODNEY We're in Heaven. Ruthie, we're in Heaven. DONNA Heaven. RODNEY You and me in Heaven. DONNA Heaven. RODNEY This is Heaven, Ruthie. DONNA Heaven. RODNEY This is Heaven. This is Heaven. It's... Heaven. So pretty. I'm never gonna let you down. Jack. JACK What? RODNEY Get that camera off me. JACK Just wait. RODNEY What... What is this? JACK Happy birthday, Dad. RODNEY Oh, God. You shouldn't have. This is too much. JOSIE Make a wish, make a wish. RODNEY Okay. RUTH It's marble. It's your favorite. RODNEY You're the best, Ruthie... kids. I look around this table and I think I must be the luckiest man in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. JOSIE I'm sorry. I'm really sorry. RUTH Josie, um, go get Mommy some-some towels. RODNEY No, no, no, she made the mess. She can clean it up. RUTH Roddie, please. RODNEY You can't even keep this from me for five minutes! Not one second... RUTH There now, Roddie. Roddie? RODNEY Mm. RUTH Is this Heaven? RODNEY No. It's Pennsylvania. RUTH That's right. It's Pennsylvania. RODNEY It's Pennsylvania. RUTH It's Pennsylvania. MOLBECK It's Iowa. Field of Dreams? Kevin Costner says "It's Iowa" when his dead dad asks if the cornfield is Heaven. Oh, come on. I know The Notebook. You should know Field of Dreams. CATHERINE I don't know The Notebook. RUTH It's Pennsylvania. RODNEY Mmm. RUTH Here, come eat your cake. RODNEY It's my favorite. RUTH It is... THOMAS This is Rodney? CATHERINE And his wife, Ruth; kids, Jack and Josie. We found them in their beds. They'd been dead about a month or so. RODNEY Josie, I love you guys. RUTH We love you, too. RODNEY Yeah. THOMAS It's not just a fixation on the wife. It's the whole family. CATHERINE Rodney Bosch took over the family's construction business after his father's death. Ran it into bankruptcy. MOLBECK Yeah, eight months back mortgage, 120 grand in the hole. He was already cracking under pressure when his wife Ruth filed for a divorce last month. THOMAS This guy is trying to reconstruct his version of the perfect family. CATHERINE And since no such thing exists... THOMAS He's doomed to fail. And so the pattern cycles. BISGAARD How soon? THOMAS He's already cycled twice in a matter of weeks, and as his psychosis deepens, he'll become less tolerant of deviations to his ideal, giving the next targets an even smaller margin for error. We do, at least, know that he has a type. He looks for a wife, 30, 35, blonde, petite, two kids, upward mobility, nice homes, all the trappings of success. MOLBECK He's on foot. No car, no money. Last known address was the Warner basement. So we've identified a search radius around that location, with special focus on the other Darset Construction sites in the area. BISGAARD Okay. Let's go door to door undercover. Mail carriers, gas readers. Let's roll. RODNEY You know, breakfast is the day's most important meal. You know what, Josie? I think... pancakes sound really important. Right? Pancakes would hit the spot this morning. Sound good, Josie? DONNA Yeah. Yes, pancakes sound important. Maybe you two could help Mom cook for Daddy. RODNEY Yes. Always be good to your mother. Always. Jack. RUTH You, too, honey. RODNEY No. Jack stays with me. I see you have a lot of video games. Come on, let's go play some. Come on. Oh, and don't forget the syrup. DONNA Mm-hmm. RODNEY Lots of butter. Butter's very important for you. DONNA Mm hmm. RODNEY Come on, Jack. MOLBECK Nobody home. CATHERINE Mark it. We'll try back later. CATHERINE Hey, Wilkie, you buy this wireless crap at RadioShack and pocket the change? WILKIE Hey, you try doing this on a city budget. THOMAS You have a real knack for this. CATHERINE Surveillance? THOMAS Motherhood. CATHERINE I will shoot you. RODNEY Come on, Jack. You can try harder than that. DONNA We've got to do what he says, honey. I'll think of something, I promise. RODNEY What are you doing? What do you take me for a jag off? You think that the only way I can win is if you throw the game? Am I a loser to you? You-you... you think I'm a loser, Jack? BRIAN My name is Brian, and you're not my dad! RODNEY You ungrateful little shit. You're an ungrateful little... No! You turned them against me. You wanted them to love you more, so you turned them against me. DONNA Please. Please just don't hurt my children. RODNEY They're my children. Oh, no, no. You... you say they're my children. Come on. Say they're my...! Say they're my children. Babe... MOLBECK Hi. Uh, I got a package for a Kevin and Donna Russell? DONNA I'm... Donna. MOLBECK I'm also, uh, tracking down a missing package. Uh, it wouldn't have, uh, landed on your doorstep, would it? No. MOLBECK Are you sure? 'Cause I can grab it and take it off your hands. DONNA I told you, you have the wrong house. MOLBECK Okay, there's something definitely wrong here. BISGAARD What the hell are you doing, Jensen? CATHERINE He'll know if the delivery guy goes back again. Donna? Donna, it's Cathy from next door. I have a question about my Lucy. It'll just take a second. See that rash on her leg? I was wondering if your kids ever had anything like it. There, Jerry. DONNA Oh, please. He has my children. BISGAARD Jensen, get out of there! CATHERINE Hey, Roddie. Cathy is such a pest. I didn't think I'd ever get rid of her. Tell me, Roddie. Is this Heaven? RODNEY No. It's Pennsylvania. BISGAARD Tactical, clear the neighborhood houses and set up a perimeter. THOMAS Catherine, what's his state of mind? CATHERINE You look tired, Roddie. What a creep Darset is. I mean, he works you so hard 'cause he knows he's a fraud. You protect him. And he'd be nothing without you. Someday, you'll show him. You'll be running that business in no time. THOMAS Yeah, that's good. Feed his fantasy. CATHERINE I mean... ...I am so lucky to have such a handsome husband like you. Loves his family so much, and works so hard to make us all feel safe and happy in our beautiful home. You know, there's a lot of deadbeat dads out there who don't care about their families. Your dad gets up every day and goes to work to make sure we have a roof over our head and food on the table. I mean, you should have anything you want. Any way you want it. RODNEY I'm hungry... and I've been waiting. CATHERINE Well, we should get some breakfast going then, shouldn't we? Josie, I know you're Daddy's girl, but sometimes Mommy needs her little helper in the kitchen. Roddie... you think Josie could help me in the kitchen? RODNEY Sure. CATHERINE I know it's hard to peel away from your favorite parent, but... BISGAARD Catherine, what's going on? CATHERINE She's in the kitchen with me. He has the boy in the living room, but he's got a knife. BISGAARD We're positioning a sniper. You need to clear both kids and isolate him in the back of the house. CATHERINE Look, you stay close to me, okay? When I say run, you run. Jack? You're gonna be late for school. Go and get ready. THOMAS No, no, no. Rodney's kids were homeschooled. CATHERINE Just because they learn at home doesn't mean they should go running around looking like orphans. Right? Go and wash up. RODNEY No! Breakfast. CATHERINE What does everybody want? RODNEY Does it not get old being you? I mean, how many times does a person have to ask for something around here? MOLLY He wants pancakes. CATHERINE I'm sorry, honey. Right. My mind was elsewhere. MOLBECK The mother says the windows in the kitchen overlook the backyard. BISGAARD If Catherine can get him to the table, we can put a sniper in those woods behind the house. BISGAARD Do it. Catherine, we need you to get Rodney into the kitchen-- table in front of the windows. Repeat, the table in front of the windows. Do you copy? RODNEY You're so pretty. Anything I want? BISGAARD Catherine? Catherine, do you copy? RODNEY What is that? In your ear. What is that? CATHERINE Oh, uh... I was listening to NPR. RODNEY You don't like the ones I bought you? CATHERINE I wear those to the gym. The ones you got me are so much better. BISGAARD Catherine, do you copy? THOMAS What happened? BISGAARD She's not responding. CATHERINE Now, where'd I put that flour? MOLBECK I think we should go in. BISGAARD If we crash in, it'll set him off. He's using the boy as a shield. RODNEY Damn it, Jack. Come on. CATHERINE Breakfast is almost ready. BENEDICTE Oh. Oh. Oh. BENEDICTE John. Call your dad. WILKIE Chief. It was in the buggy. She's unarmed. JOHN He's not answering. BENEDICTE Call 911. Oh! WOMAN 911. State your emergency. JOHN Help me. My mom she's hurt. No, she's still breathing, but she's hurt bad. Hurry. RODNEY Josie. Come to Daddy. CATHERINE Here we are. RODNEY I know what you're doing. Playing all sweet and happy. But you're laughing at me behind my back. You're gonna leave me. Take the kids, humiliate me. CATHERINE You hurt me when you say things like that. Do you want to hurt us? I'm the mother of your children. My job is to protect them. To protect you. Why are we even talking about this? BISGAARD Position six, you've got a green light. CATHERINE It's such a nice day out. SNIPER She's opened the curtains. BISGAARD Tactical, await my command. CATHERINE Let's start our day together, as a family. RODNEY See, I did... I did everything I was supposed to do. My dad said, "Work hard," you know? "Good things happen." But... ...they don't, really. I mean, it was never... never good enough for him. "You're a loser, Rod. "You're an idiot. You're never gonna be anything." CATHERINE He's gone, Roddie. Your dad is gone. You don't have to worry about him anymore. It's just you and me and our kids. RODNEY I know, but he lied to me, Ruthie. I mean, my own parent lied. CATHERINE One day very soon, no one will lie to you ever again. Have I let you down? CATHERINE No. You could never let me down. RODNEY You believe in me? CATHERINE You know I do. Let's just sit down together at the table. And tell me what's on your mind. I'm here to listen. Someone who listens. RODNEY Hey, kids. Jack, Josie. Come sit. Most important meal of the day. CATHERINE Roddie, why don't you sit there. Since you're the head of the family. That's your seat. SNIPER I've got him, but the kids... BISGAARD Take the shot. SNIPER Roger that. RODNEY Is this Heaven? BISGAARD Okay, let's go. CATHERINE Come on. It's okay, I got you. Come here, come here, come here. Oh, you're safe. It's over, okay? You're safe. SWAT OFFICER Go, go, go! Back room, clear! THOMAS Are you okay? BENEDICTE Placental abruption. Caught it in time, thanks to John. He found me and called 911. Might have saved us both. THOMAS I'm so proud of you, buddy. b... ...I swear I'm never gonna let anything take me away from you or this family ever again. PAUL Catherine, what are you doing here? CATHERINE Your wife has a beautiful singing voice. PAUL What? What, uh... CATHERINE Don't forget Sarah's soccer game. PAUL How did you find me? Catherine, you're freaking me out, Don't make me call the police. CATHERINE Look, it was fun. You're a good guy and you have a nice family. So don't screw it up. Bye, Cheese Dad. MARIE Hi, this is Marie Burgess. Please leave a message and I'll call you back. CATHERINE Hey, Mom, it's me. Call me, okay? We need to talk about Howard.