01x11 - Election Day

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Previously on "The Family"...

I'm gonna solve your case.

You're going to tell the whole world that I caught your monster.

What's in the bag?

♪

Willa: ‭Nina knows he's not Adam.

I am not going to hope that my son's m*rder*r isn't caught!

I know. I know.

He won't tell anyone the truth.

If he did, he'd have to admit that he had two kids down there and only one came out alive.

Did you hurt him? Did you hurt my brother?!

Yes.

♪

Bridey, I'm not gonna share a chick with my sister.

Why are you telling me this?

Because this is a big deal to her.

If you're just using her for... whatever... it's got to stop.

I think I'm having the baby.

You have to help me.

Come on. You can do it. Push.

[Baby crying]

You're gonna up and get that key.

Jane: I don't know where he went, but he took the key with him.

I'm him.

♪

Nina: Some stories you know the ending to before they're even written.

They're set in stone.

Never to change.

Hurtling towards the inevitable.

It's been two hours.

I get you for 36 before I have to charge you.

Cream?

You know, ‭I came here to help you out.

You're wasting your time. I'm not the guy you're looking for.

So I'd like this to go as quick as possible.

You and me both, Doug.

Were you at the Kensington Mall the afternoon of October 20th?

Yes.

What were you doing?

Shopping with my girlfriend.

[Sighs] Yes.

I was at the Kensington Mall in a blue jacket, like probably a hundred other people, and if the jacket you found had dog hairs on it, that makes sense, too.

Yellow labs ‭are a pretty popular breed.

Haven't been through all this?

Yes, I was at the Kensington Mall.

Yes, ‭I did drive a pick-up truck.

I probably even drove it with my dog at my side and my blue jacket on.

None of this makes me a kidnapper.

At the most, it makes me a country song.

♪

[Door opens]

I have been here for 13 hours.

14.

I've barely slept.

I can't imagine what it's like to be trapped in such a confined space for so long.

Where's Agent Clements?

I don't know.

‭What did you do with him?

I...

‭Where is Agent Clements?

What did you do with him?

Let's talk about Jane.

What do you want to know?

Do you have to take a pill to nail her, or do you just picture a little boy?

Have you heard the theory that pedophiles are groomed?

Well, I'm sure you're gonna tell me.

Your mom and dad divorced when you were 9, right?

She probably had a lot of boyfriends coming in and out.

One takes an unusual interest in you.

I'm guessing it was... Mark?

He stuck around the longest.

Went to all your basketball games.

Took you to your first concert.

He filled in some soft, gooey piece you were missing... love, support, confidence... just enough to earn your trust.

So it was confusing when he crossed the line, and before you knew it, your sexual responses were conditioned to thinking keeping an 8-year-old boy in a windowless pit for 10 years was normal.

Ordinary, even.

You certainly mastered Google.

It's a pretty common story.

Oh, so is yours.

You convinced yourself you had the right guy last time, and you didn't.

So you can't not get him this time.

You've given up your whole life to be in this room for this one moment with me.

Is it everything you hoped for?

Well, we have an hour left, detective.

How you want to spend it?

♪

[Gasps]

What are you doing?

I was gonna ask you a question.

Uh... you could have knocked.

I didn't want to wake you.

Okay.

It's about confession.

What about it?

What do you do?

You confess your sins, and the priest gives you penance so you can atone, and then you're absolved.

Does it work?

Not for everything.

♪

I didn't mean to scare you.

♪

Woman: Adam! Adam! Adam! Adam!

Adam! Adam! Adam!

Adam, how did it feel to cast your first vote?

Good.

Who'd you vote for?

I can't tell you that.

Oh, come on, now.

You really want four years of this?

I want eight. He's a natural.

He's a good actor.

He might be more like her than you.

[Cellphone rings]

Hi.

[Chatter]

Thank you, everyone.

That's all we’ll have time for right now.

Claire: What is it?

‭Nina.

Oh, for the love of God.

Okay, yeah. ‭It's election day.

Can't she just give us one minute?

So they got the guy in custody.

They want Adam to identify him.

[Chatter continues]

[Breathing heavily] Well, that one's not gonna work.

It will.

It won't.

You got a blow torch?

Just have to wait until he gets back.

That's not a good idea.

I'll try and talk some sense into him.

We both know how this is gonna end for me, and it's not in a hug.

I don't think he's a m*rder*r.

You have no idea what he is.

The person you thought you knew stopped existing when he kept an 8-year-old child in a hole, and if you don't get that by now, you're a bigger idiot than I thought!

That came out wrong.

You're gonna get me out of here, Jane.

How?

You're gonna go back to the house and give the baby a bottle so he's nice and tired and ready to sleep through anything, and then you're gonna get a bucket of ice, some rubbing alcohol, tight rubber bands, a bunch of clean towels, and a lot more whiskey.

Why?

Because you're gonna cut off my thumbs.

♪

[Door closes]

Can they see me?

Nina: It's one-way glass.

Can you think of a word or phrase he would say to you?

Something familiar?

Bracelet.

Bracelet. Key.

What's that mean?

He called the shackle my bracelet, and then he made me toss him the key.

Woman: Number one, please step forward.

Repeat the words "bracelet, key".

Bracelet, key.

Number two, please step forward.

And the phrase.

Bracelet, key.

♪

Step back.

Number three.

Bracelet, key.

Step back.

‭Ben: Wait.

Do you want to make an ID?

Is that him?

♪

No.

What?

That's not him.

♪

Why don't we take a break?

I don't need a break. Let's do the next one.

I think you should take another look.

That's not him. He's not in there.

Woman: Meyer, I'm calling it.

Let him take another look. We know that he's been wrong before.

I don't need to.

Look again.

That's enough.

I'd like to go home now.

♪

Just look at him... total focus, like Mosley hammering De La Hoya in the 12th round.

He devours those 1098s with such precision and grace.

Very funny, guys.

Morning, everyone.

Heck of a job on that corporate return, Hank.

Really nice work.

‭Thanks, Ted.

Might start throwing you more of the heavy lifting come March.

That'd be great.

Hey, we're hitting up Taco Dan's for lunch. You in?

I've got stuff to do.

Waitress with the stocked dairy section totally wants you.

Oh, well, [Chuckles] rain check.

Mike: Impressive restraint.

This is why we'll all end up working for him.

[Children yelling indistinctly]

♪

Coming up at noon, a hot new exercise trend.

See how belly dancing can help you say goodbye to your belly roll.

More information on this afternoon's three-car pileup on 295... what happened and how it will affect your evening commute.

And now let's go to weather with local meteorologist David Brown.

♪

[Dialing]

[Ringing]

Woman: News Channel Five.

Hi, I'm calling from the police station.

I understand there's been a break in the Adam Warren kidnapping case.

A suspect has been identified, and he may even be in custody by now.

And the tip came from Hank Asher... A-s-h-e-r.

Thank you.

[Telephone beeps]

So you gonna want to order, or...

Oh, sorry. Do you have a menu?

We're more of a ‭"you tell me what you want, I tell you what you get" type place.

Well, first, ‭I'm gonna be here awhile, so I'm gonna need this to always be full, and do you have Wi-Fi?

We don't get too many people with computers in here.

I'm guessing you're not a trucker.

Mm, reporter.

I'm about to break a very big story.

I don't really read the papers too much.

Well, you'll read this one.

What's it about?

Sex, lies, politics, family.

I better keep ‭the coffee coming, then.

I'm Sally if you need me.

♪

Thanks for coming in.

Happy to help.

Mr. Anderson, your jacket.

You know, ‭I hope you find the guy.

I really do.

And relax, too.

You got to find some joy in the job.

That's what my partner says.

Don't know him.

[Indistinct conversations]

[Sighs]

When do they start counting all the votes?

Not till the poles close.

Oh.

I never knew how it all worked.

Did he make you wear them a lot?

What?

The bracelets.

Not at first.

When did it start?

When we were older.

When we started fighting back.

And he did that to Adam, too?

He fought back the most.

[Sighs] ‭Are you sure?

That he wasn't in that lineup?

I'm sure.

Because she was so convinced that she had him.

She's been wrong before.

[Siren wails in distance]

[Indistinct conversation]

You hiding?

There's press all over. I'm not commenting.

What the hell was that back there?

That was the guy, John.

You're losing your mind.

Just trust me, okay?

Trust you?

You just made him relive the worst moment of his life, and then you called him a liar.

That was the guy who took your son!

Well... he says it's not, so who ‭am I supposed to believe?

Him.

You believe him.

What's going on?

Nothing.

[Sighs]

Don't come near my family again.

♪

[Car alarm chirps]

♪

[Cellphone beeping]

Mr. Anderson, your jacket.

♪

Clements: One snip. Quick and easy, below the joint.

The cleaner it is, the easier it'll be to sew back on ‭when we get to a hospital.

Put that down and look at me, Jane.

You hit me on the head with the business end of a frying pan.

You got this.

Come on. Get me out of here.

I can't.

I have a husband.

Yeah, his name's Jonah.

The last thing I said to him was "I'll pick up the smoker fuel."

What's that? ‭It's a bee thing.

You have to smoke the hive to harvest the honey.

Very important to a beekeeper, but it's not the last thing I wanted to have said to the love of my life... the man who wakes up singing in falsetto.

I kid you not.

"It's gonna be a bright, bright sunshiny day."

The idiot who asked me to marry him three days after we met, and the sap who makes the same disgusting molasses Christmas cookies every year because his grandmother made them, and I eat them.

Jane, I eat those cookies because it makes him happy.

I'm coming home with that smoker fuel, so cut off my damn thumbs.

♪

Do it, Jane.

♪

[Whispers] Just do it.

[Screams]

Hi, am I speaking to Angela Scott?

Oh, it's... it's Mayor Claire Warren.

Yes, [Chuckles] yes, it really is. I'm fine.

Listen, I was wondering if you voted yet today.

The polls are open till 7:00, so...

No, I need 12 meat-lover pizzas, 13 pepperoni pizzas.

I'm Adam Warren.

Yes, that one.

Have you voted yet?

Hi, there. I'm Adam Warren.

Have you voted yet?

Hi. I'm Adam Warren.

Have you voted yet?

[Echoing] Have you voted yet?

Pick it up, slacker. We're working here.

Would you grab more call sheets?

[Cellphone beeps]

Sure. Adam.

Come help me.

You want to make up for what you did?

Yes.

Then here's what's gonna happen.

You're gonna tell them this whole governor thing is too much for you.

You're gonna say ‭that you've been reading about a boarding school in California that specializes in trauma recovery.

What?

You'll come back for Christmas the first year, but not after that.

Then, when she runs again, you'll say you need ‭to stay out of the spotlight.

What about Dad and Danny?

They'll visit at first.

Mom won't let you do it.

She will when I tell her.

I'll give you the money back... the $10,000.

I still have it.

Is that ‭what my brother's life is worth?

Mine was.

♪

[Sighs]

You stopped typing.

I know.

You stopped typing hours ago.

What if I'm just grabbing a headline, Sally?

Isn't that the point?

That guy over there... he's gonna take my front-page story and he's gonna wipe his ass with it, and then he's gonna flush it down the toilet, and what for?

So I can see my name in print this big for about five minutes before everyone forgets about it?

I'm cutting you off.

Why?

This is what a coffee crash looks like after 11 cups.

You need to eat something.

You know that I had sex with both a brother and sister for this?

BLT?

I think ‭I'm a horrible human being... and a slut.

White or wheat?

You're not one of those folksy advice-giving waitresses, are you?

If you're gonna regret it, don't do it.

That stuff can stay with you.

♪

This looks like a pie place.

You got pie?

[Chuckles] That's my girl.

[Indistinct conversation]

♪ If you're ready ♪
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ If you're ready, steady ♪
♪ If you're ready ♪
♪ Oh, oh, yeah ♪
♪ If you're ready ♪
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ If you're ready, steady ♪
♪ If you're ready ♪
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ Let's go, go ♪
♪ Jump up, get ready, let's go ♪
♪ Doo-doo-doo-doo, now ♪
♪ Doo-doo-doo-doo ♪
♪ Doo-doo-doo-doo, now ♪
♪ Doo-doo-doo-doo ♪
♪ Doo-doo-doo-doo, now ♪
♪ Doo-doo-doo-doo ♪
♪ Doo-doo-doo-doo, now ♪
♪ Doo-doo-doo-doo ♪

[Cellphone beeping]

♪ If you're ready ♪
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ If you're ready, steady ♪
♪ If you're ready ♪
♪ Oh, oh, yeah ♪
♪ If you're ready ♪
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ If you're ready, steady ♪
♪ If you're ready ♪ e you gonna play?

Sorry.

[Cellphone beeping rapidly]

Damn it!

Where'd you get that jacket?

Hey.

Some guy gave me 40 bucks to wear it.

♪

They got you on indecent exposure and public lewdness.

I was in my car.

Getting off in a park filled with kids... it's a class-one petty offense.

It's a fine and completion of the sex-offender treatment program.

I'll pay it now.

You'll pay when you register.

Register?

‭As a sex offender.

It's a national database.

Got to do it yearly.

For how long?

Forever.

I never hurt anyone.

The world doesn't see it that way.

What do you want now, Hank?

It's not on TV yet.

It's not gonna be.

Why not?

'Cause I let him go.

What?

The kid said it wasn't him.

The kid's wrong.

It's out of my hands. The evidence is circumstantial.

Like what you had on me?

You cracked like an egg.

He wouldn't.

You're a fraud.

Excuse me?

You only protect and serve child rapists.

What do you want from me?

I want you to punish the right man for the crime.

And then what happens?

We get a parade, you and me?

A big statue named after us?

What do you expect?

The skies to part and the sun to shine down?

You could cure cancer tomorrow and the sun wouldn't shine, Hank.

Not for you.

You screwed yourself the second you pulled up to that park.

You set it in stone, and nothing you do for the rest of your life will make it go away.

Everyone makes mistakes.

We just made bigger ones than most people.

♪

Ryan: Only 4% counted, but we're up in Kennebec.

What about Oxford?

‭Down.

Watch Franklin County, and Portland, obviously.

My friend over there says Lang broke out the good scotch.

Yeah, after he saw his exit polling.

Ben: ‭There's a chef there, too?

John: Yeah.

Cordon Bleu trained.

Governor doesn't mess around. So I get to retire.

Is my room gonna be bigger?

For sure.

There's a pool, tennis court...

Can't wait.

Where's Mom?

She's busy.

Where is she?

She's writing her speech.

Acceptance or concession is the question.

Is she upstairs?

She went to get some air.

I'll talk to her later, then.

[Chatter]

You want to get out of here?

Yes.

[Chatter continues]

[Breathing heavily]

Did you do it?

Good girl.

[Grunts]

[Breathing heavily]

Jane.

There's so much blood.

And the sound of the bone.

You got to be kidding me.

What was I supposed to do?

You were supposed to keep cutting.

You passed out.

Even better.

[Sighs]

You got to finish the job.

One thumb doesn't do it. It doesn't get me home.

Okay.

Double or nothing.

Let's go.

Okay.

[Vehicle approaches]

[Brakes squeal]

Did you hear that?

He's home.

Do it now, Jane. ‭It's too late.

Just do it.

I'm so sorry.

Don't go!

Do it now!

No, no, no, no. Don't go, Jane!

Do it now!

[Indistinct conversations]

[Knock on door]

You wanted to see me, Ted?

Take a seat.

You get those 1120s I left in your inbox?

They notify your employer.

Oh.

I don't know what to say here.

I'm not a bad person.

Well, what are you, Hank?

I don't know.

Legally, ‭I'm not allowed to fire you.

I quit.

Thank you.

[Door opens]

I made a terrible mistake.

My nephew's the same age.

[Knock on door]

Uh, may I come in?

All right.

Your mother ‭always used to host bridge club before you moved back home.

I came once.

Would you like something to drink?

Uh, iced tea?

I have water.

Perfect.

[Faucet turns on]

[Faucet turns off]

Why are you here?

I'd like to know why you think that man took my son.

He did take your son.

How can you be sure?

He was here 10 years ago, doing the kitchen cabinets.

That doesn't mean anything.

He was at the rally the night Adam was taken.

Yes, but that still doesn't make someone a kidnapper.

Every morning, he got here at 7:45.

First thing he did was unpack his truck, which kept him out there till 8:00.

At 8:00, Adam ran right past the front of my house.

So this man was watching my son.

Yes.

And he watched him like that every day?

It was easy enough to do.

[Scoffs] How would you know?

Because I watched your son, too.

♪

[Glass thumps]

[Door opens]

[Crickets chirping]

So, what'd you go with?

Blue raspberry.

Blech.

Rookie mistake.

[Clears throat]

[Laughs]

I never knew this ‭is what you did on weekends.

Ah, you were in church.

I really regret missing out.

[Chuckles]

Um...

I know why you've been weird or depressed or... whatever.

She's not worth it.

What?

Bridey.

How do you know?

That you two are banging?

That I... that I'm gay.

[Chuckles]

I mean, you're not into dudes.

You used to rock those corduroy overalls like every single day.

[Sighs]

She's just super shady, all right?

You can do better.

Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Are you crying?

I don't know.

Okay, 'cause I can't tell... if you're laughing or if you're crying.

I can't, either.

I think I just came out to you.

Doesn't count ‭if you can smell it a mile away.

[Laughing, crying]

Oh, it's good 'cause you can't taste the alcohol.

Ah, you'll taste it on the way back up.

[Chuckles]

‭[Chuckles]

[Chuckles]

Uh, just got a few things... some milk and stuff.

We'll leave soon.

Where have you been?

I was at the market.

For two days?

[Sighs]

I was trying to get us out of this.

What happened?

What?

Why is there blood on the counter?

I don't know.

You don't know.

It's on your face, too.

And all over your hands.

Were you trying to help him?

Just with his wound.

That's fresh blood, Jane.

I wasn't helping him.

[Breathing shakily]

Were you trying to get him out?

No.

Then what did you do?

I had the baby.

♪

[Chatter]

Willa: Where are we?

We're up in Cumberland County.

It's still close, but we're up.

Let's keep it that way.

I'll do my best.

Portland's going your way.

Once that happens, it's over.

Mom.

He makes cabinets.

What?

He's just this very average-looking person.

Just the ki... ‭type that holds elevators and helps old ladies across the street.

You'd never look twice.

I mean, you picture a monster, but... he's just a person.

I thought he wasn't in the lineup.

He was. ‭Ben said he wasn't.

He lied.

H-How do you know?

He does this thing with his hands when he gets nervous.

He curls his fingers up.

It's a tell. He'll never play poker.

[Scoffs]

Can you believe I know my fake child so well?

Ben looked at the man who took my son, and he let him go.

Why did he do that?

I don't know.

I think you do.

I know you, too.

Why did he lie?

To protect himself.

What?

There's a reason Adam didn't come back.

It's not because he got sick.

The man who took your son... he's not a person.

He's a monster... but he didn't k*ll Adam.

Ben did.

[Cheers and applause]

You won.

♪

Need some help?

I'm all right.

Is this the Wyoming?

Yes.

It's the biggest schooner ever built.

Yes.

How's it get in there?

It's complicated.

I'm Adam.

I'm Hank.

[Sighs]

[Telephone beeps]

Woman: You have one new message.

[Beep]

Dr. Kleiner: Good evening, Mr. Asher, it's Dr. Kleiner down at the Ashland Clinic.

Just wanted to let you know that you missed your hormone injection today.

You don't want to let it go too long... once the drug's out of your system, the urges will resurface.

So call anytime to make an appointment.

We're at 20...

[Beep]

Woman: Message deleted.

Well, we did it.

[Cheering]

On behalf of my mother and my entire family, I want to thank you all for the kindness, generosity, and support you've blessed us with these past few months.

[Cheering]

It has been a long, hard journey to get here, but we never would've made it without you.

[Chuckles]

Now, Governor Elect Warren... [Applause] ...uh, w-wanted to come out here and thank each and every one of you personally. Unfortunately, in all the excitement, she completely lost her voice tonight.

[Camera shutters clicking]

My mother is honored and thrilled to be elected governor of this great state of Maine... [Applause] ...and she will give her acceptance speech as soon as she's well.

[Camera shutters clicking]

Thank you.

♪

If he's got a r*fle, tell him to aim for the light switch.

I'm sorry?

The back of the head, top of the neck... that'll do it the quickest.

He's not gonna hurt you.

Yet.

But you have to do something.

What?

Make them stop looking for you.

♪

Sally: Both a brother and a sister, huh?

Not at the same time.

[Laughs]

Good for you, drawing the line.

Yeah.

Moral code of steel right here.

[Both laugh]

I better close up.

We open ‭at the butt cr*ck of dawn.

Can I ask you something personal?

Sure.

You were talking about regrets before.

Yeah.

What's yours?

I was 17 and stupid and found a boyfriend even more stupid.

As we do.

And landed myself in jail, and by the time I got out, um, I couldn't find my kid.

He was gone.

I had a 2-year-old.

They took him and put him in the foster system... and that was it.

♪

Anyway.

You eat like a bird, so food's on me.

It was nice to meet you.

What was his name?

What?

Your little boy.

Ben.

Boss I'll be there in four hours.

Yeah, worked I got the mom.

Some stories you know there are been into before, there are even written.

Mom.

You ok?

Mom.

This is one of them.