04x04 - Neil

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Previously on Cardinal-

DELORME: Same winter
clothes as Robert Quillen

so there should be another video.

ADELE: I love you, Barry.

I'm so sorry, Barry.

You know why this is happening.

- Detective John Cardinal.
- Taj Roy.

If the cops start asking
you about your past,

I'm not part of it.

But it's possible they
weren't the real targets.

You and Barry were.

COMMANDA: You think
these are contract killings?

SCOTT: I need to be closer.

I need to be a part of it.

I need to them to see me.

I need them to know.

NEIL: Do you want me to finish this,
Scott?

Yes.

I'm on my way to you.

I want you to pack a bag
and get Julie and Alex

ready to move.

(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)

- (GRUNTING)
- (CRASHING)

(HAUNTING ORCHESTRAL MUSIC)

("FAMILIAR" BY AGNES OBEL)

♪ Took a walk to the summit at night

♪ You and I

♪ To burn a hole in the
old grip of the familiar

♪ You and I

♪ And the dark was opening wide

♪ Do or die

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It's another abduction.

Victim's wife says he was making dinner

when she thinks someone
entered the house.

Lise, it's Josh McNider.

- What about his family?
- No, no, they're okay.

How long since he's been taken?

MCLEOD: Just over an hour.

His wife was in the shower.
She didn't hear anything.

Also, um-

Josh's minivan is missing and,

there was blood in the garage.

His wife, Julie, where is she now?

She's in the bedroom.

You should be the one to interview her.

(HEAVY EXHALING)

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Mrs. McNider,

uh, I'm Detective Cardinal.

This is,

you know of course, Detective Delorme.

Can you help us to understand

what might have happened here tonight?

It's like those other people, isn't it?

No, no, we do not know that.

But you'll find Josh?

I promise we'll do
everything we can, Julie.

Thank you.

CARDINAL: Has anyone visited the house?

Have you noticed anyone new

hanging around the neighbourhood?

No. I don't think so.

Did you and Josh ever discuss the-

the murders of Robert Quillen
or Adele LeBlanc?

Just when we saw it on the news.

CARDINAL: Did he know anyone involved?

JULIE: He didn't say.

I think he would've mentioned that.

CARDINAL: Julie,
do you know if he spoke with anyone

this evening before all of this happened?

No.

His father, Ken.

When I looked at Josh's phone I saw

he had missed four of Ken's calls.

Do you mind if we have
a look at that phone?

(CAMERA CLICKING)

Spatter stains.

Somebody got hit hard.

The drag mark would indicate

the victim was put in a vehicle here.

So he must've subdued
Josh to get him this far.

He's used a stun g*n on other victims.

So why hit him here?

I think we have a third party.

It was sitting there when we arrived.

Airport tag with today's date.

Iqaluit to Algonquin Bay.

Name tag says Kenneth McNider.

That's Josh's father.

Josh's phone.

Missed calls and a
voicemail from his father

sounding like he knew
something was coming.

Well the k*ller took Ken too.

And I found another feather.

The feathers are a message.

But for the victims or us?

Kular hasn't found
anything on these falcons,

apart from them coming
back into the area.

Ken wasn't supposed to be here.

It wasn't ever part of the plan.

It's like he just
stumbled on the abduction.

How did Ken know someone was coming?

He could've heard about Adele and Robert

while he was out of town.

I mean they've become national news.

Yeah, or maybe Sheila tipped him off.

We should check phone records.

She'll fight us on the warrant.

She knows all the judges.

Okay, well,

whatever this is all about,

it looks like Ken is mixed up in it.

Then Josh is supposed
to be the next victim,

the next video.

Twice now we've been too late.

(DOOR SLAMS)

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(ENGINE ROARS)

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(EERIE INSTRUMENTAL)

(ZIPPER UNZIPPING)

(GRUNTING)

Hey, you say hi to daddy.

Say something!

Say hi to your dad!

Say something!

(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL)

(GRUNTS)

(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL ECHOES)

Hey.

It's getting late.

Maybe we should call it a night?

We're gonna need

better language here on harm reduction.

Okay, but we've still got weeks.

Five dead last month, Paige.

We need this statement to be undeniable.

Okay.

We'll dig back in.

(EERIE INSTRUMENTAL)

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(ECHOING SCREAMING)

YOUNG SCOTT: (MUTED) Help!

Grandpa!

(PULSING TENSE MUSIC)

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(BUZZING)

(PULSING TENSE MUSIC)

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Josh, pickup the phone.

I'm on my way to you.

I want you to pack a bag

and get Julie and Alex ready to move.

Just do it.

And don't go anywhere 'til I arrive.

McNider's assistant said he cut
a business trip to Nunavut short

and flew home yesterday.

Wasn't scheduled back for another week.

Well we think someone
must've tipped Ken off

that Josh was at risk.

Where are we on phone records?

Waiting for call back.

You said there was a baby cam?

Low resolution, but it got the guy.

Face is a bit pixellated

but I'm looking for a database match now.

Keep at it.

I'm gonna ask for a
surveillance team on Sheila.

What changed your mind?

Ken McNider,

I think there's a history there.

Why?

Well a few years ago there
were some sawmill workers

up by Moose Lake making
some trouble in town.

I asked Sheila to talk to the owner,

make sure some of the worst
offenders were sent home.

It was Ken McNider?

Yeah, she refused.

It was weird.

Never known her to back
down from a fight,

but she flat out said no.

We tried to make the
connection on our end.

You do the same.

Yeah.

All right.

Thanks, Jerry.

COMMANDA: Okay, John.

How well did you know Ken?

He's hard to get to know.

Successful.

Big in the resource industry here,

logging, mining.

Busy.

Big ego.

He and Josh close?

Josh is surveying for his company

so they see each other all the time.

You know,

they were all close.

Sheila has no kids, just Robert.

Barry only had his mom.

If the k*ller took Ken,

what happens to the Josh video?

If he wants the loved ones to see it,

(PULSING SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

Maybe there won't be a video.

He can make Ken watch in person.

(CRESCENDOING PULSING SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

If he wanted to hurt him,
what better way?

(SWELLING PULSING SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

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(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL)

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This is for you.

(PHONE RINGS)

Answer it.

(PHONE RINGS)

TAJ: They're gonna be
listening to your phones

if they're not already.

I just needed to talk to you.

I heard the cops were
all over Ken's place.

Do you know what happened?

I can imagine.

Did you call them, Sheila?

No.

You're lying.

SHEILA: He's coming after us now.

Are you not worried about your daughter?

Yeah, of course I am.

SHEILA: And you really think
you can protect her from this?

The minute we go to the
cops I lose my daughter.

I'm not gonna let that happen.

We never should've been
in the woods that day.

Yeah, well,

nobody forced us, Sheila.

Any of us.

Look, let me protect
you until this is over.

I think I'm fine where I am.

Hey.

Here's the image from the baby cam.

I checked this image against cases

with the Wade Kleiss knifing MO.

- Okay.
- This is Neil Cuthbert.

That's him.

Released six years ago,
attempted m*rder charge,

pled down to as*ault.

He was in the same prison
at the same time as Kleiss.

Detained in Quebec three years ago

after a suspected contract k*lling.

A professional, like we thought.

Let's release his photo.

If we think he's from out of town

let's look into rental properties,

anything with snowmobile access.

Yeah.

Let's get uniforms knocking on doors.

(WIND HOWLING)

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(WIND HOWLING)

(GRUNTING)

(WIND HOWLING)

(STRAINING)

(STRAINING)

(SCREAMING)

Help!

(SCREAMING)

(PANTING)

(STRAINING)

Help!

Help!

(PULSING SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

(JOSH SCREAMS)

(PULSING SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

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(JOSH SCREAMS)

- (EERIE INSTRUMENTAL)
- (JOSH SCREAMING)

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Aha, yep.

Thanks.

What is it?

They found Josh's minivan.

CARDINAL: Anything?

From the snowfall looks like
it's been here a few hours,

probably dumped soon after the abduction.

The contents match

what Julie McNider said
was in the vehicle.

He left in another car.

Yeah, or he had someone waiting.

I'm about to measure those
treads for track search.

Well it's a straight sh*t out of town,

they could be anywhere by now.

Yeah, it's been hours
now and we have nothing.

You can't blame yourself.

Why not?

You do.

We should get back.

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(WIND HOWLING)

(WHIMPERS)

(GROANS)

(GRUNTS)

(GROANS)

(PANTING)

(LOUD STRAINING)

There.

You've seen him.

He hasn't seen me yet.

Or what I'm doing to his son.

(PANICKED GROANING)

(OMINOUS INSTRUMENTAL)

Hello, Ken.

NEIL: He's seen my face.

My photograph's out there.

So now he dies and then we leave.

It's not finished yet.

One of them could still
do the right thing.

Oh, it's finished, Scott.

(OMINOUS INSTRUMENTAL)

It's my money.

It's my rules.

(PULSING TENSE MUSIC)

SCOTT: We're gonna take Ken to the quarry

so that he can see his
child die in the cold.

And then there's just one left.

That's never gonna happen.

I won't pay you the rest
if you don't do what I say.

You're gonna pay me my money.

And then I'm going.

I won't let you.

This g*n

is to make sure that you
do what you need to do.

You wanted me to save
him for you so I did.

Look at him.

He's right there, Scott,

and you're gonna k*ll him.

It's the easiest thing
in the world to do.

Use your hands.

Use a hammer.

I don't really care.

But you're gonna get it done.

(PULSING SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

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(PANICKED WHIMPERING)

- (SWELLING SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
- (PANICKED WHIMPERING)

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(GROAN)

- (g*n sh*t)
- (GROAN)

(ECHOING g*n sh*ts)

(CRASHING)

(GROANING)

(GRUNTING)

(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL)

(GROANING)

(GAGGING)

(OMINOUS INSTRUMENTAL)

(GASPING AND SPUTTERING)

- (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
- (GASPING AND SPUTTERING)

(GAGGING AND VOMITING)

(RUNNING FOOTSTEPS)

(OMINOUS INSTRUMENTAL)

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(PANICKED BREATHING)

(WIND HOWLING)

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Any news?

No.

Coffee?

Sure.

Who's that out there?

No need to worry about that.

Those detectives put him there?

No, I did.

To protect me or watch me?

Do you know Ken McNider, Sheila?

Like you knew Barry LeBlanc?

Whatever this is we can fix it.

There's no fixing this.

Why did you quit Watershed Forestry?

What?

Simple question.

I had a better opportunity.

That's it?

Yeah, Jerry, that's it.

Okay then.

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Jerry.

John.

So I tracked down the surveyor

that worked at Watershed Forestry

with Sheila and Barry.

Okay.

He remembers that Barry
had a thing for Sheila,

unrequited I guess.

But he also remembered that

they both quit out of the blue
a week apart from each other.

And he thought that was strange?

Job pays well, benefits and all that.

Wasn't much good work around
here at the time, so yeah.

He remember when that was?

'98, '99, somewhere in there.

Thanks, Jerry.

Um-

I'm not protecting her anymore.

DELORME: Hey, we got a 911 call.

A fight at a cabin, possible g*nsh*t.

It's a rental property,
snowmobile access.

(PULSING SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

Where?

Ridgeline Road.

(PULSING SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

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(SWELLING PULSING SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

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We have a body in the shed.

DISPATCH: Roger that, sending support.

That's our suspect.

Neil Cuthbert.

He's dead.

FEMALE OFFICER: Clear.

MALE OFFICER: Clear.

MALE OFFICER: Clear.

MALE OFFICER: Clear here.

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Okay, blood from multiple sources,

someone fled or was
taken out of here hurt.

The call said two men fighting.

One of the men fighting was him.

So who was the other?

His employer?

Has to be.

Josh or Ken would've come straight to us.

And if there was a third person

he's now the only one
who knows where they are.

Yep.

(SCREAMS)

(FOOTSTEPS CRUNCHING IN SNOW)

(WIND HOWLING)

(STRAINING)

(SCREAMS)

(PANTING)

(SCREAMING)

- (SCREAMING)
- (SKIN RIPPING)

(PANTING)

- (PANTING)
- (TENSE INSTRUMENTAL)

(WIND HOWLING)

- (GRUNTING)
- (TENSE MUSIC)

- (GRUNTING)
- (TENSE MUSIC)

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(OMINOUS INSTRUMENTAL)

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(GROANING)

(STRAINING)

SCOTT: Do you know where we are now?

Not far from where we
first met, actually.

In what's left of the Aagimaak Forest.

The old sawmill.

Your old sawmill.

Yeah,

you did well off this land, didn't you?

Do you remember my name?

It's Scott.

Riley.

I know all your names now too.

Sheila Gagne.

Barry LeBlanc.

Taj Roy.

And you,

Ken.

What happened was an accident.

Was it an accident to leave
me in jail for 20 years, Ken?

How did you find us?

I had time.

See, where I served my sentence,

some of the inmates had this.

The dot in the centre, that's them.

And the other four dots make
up the walls of their cell.

But for me it's different,
you see, because all four dots

are you four.

The four of you who changed
my life and ended hers.

Scott,

where's my son?

He's where you put him.

Listen, you tell me what you need.

You just tell me what you-

You just don't offer me money, okay?

I have enough.

What I don't have you
can't give back to me.

Nobody wanted that to happen!

That?

Say her name, Ken.

(STAMMERING) I-I-I-

I don't re-

I don't remember it.

I don't remember it,
it was a long time ago.

Rebecca!

All right!

After this you'll never forget that.

Please, let-let Josh go. Please.

What?

Let Josh go, please.

Listen, he was just a boy.
He was a boy when it happened.

It's too late now. You had your chance.

KEN: No, he was a boy.

He's out there now.

Oh god.

There isn't anything you can do.

I need you to see that.

Please, please don't, okay?

Look at it!

KEN: Please don't, okay?

Please don't. Just don't, please.

I'm sorry, okay?

Please.

Please.

I-

You're getting there.

No, listen, no, please.

Come on, come on, don't!

Please!

(WIND HOWLING)

(GASPS)

(COUGHING)

(WIND HOWLING)

(GRUNTING)

(GROANS)

(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL)

(GRUNTING)

(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL)

Hey.

Everyone's ready.

It's all right.

He's rattled.

His plan's falling apart.
We'll find Josh.

We thought Josh McNider and
possibly his father, Ken,

were out on a large body of water

somewhere in the area.

But an infrared equipped
helicopter and search parties

have been all over the lakes.

No sign of them.

Where then?

Well, Robert was found near a clear cut,

Adele in a salvage yard so, uh-

So you're thinking something man-made,

a tailings pond, a reservoir?

Yeah.

DELORME: It is also possible

that all of these sites
were chosen at random.

There's no pattern.

DYSON: We'll check with
industry and resource.

See what you can find.

We got the Sheila Gagne search warrant.

The Watershed Forestry connection did it.

We found these in Neil Cuthbert's cabin.

The parka's a youth size medium.

His next victim.

With Neil Cuthbert dead

do we think the killings will stop?

No.

No, they won't stop.

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I just got a call.

I have a friend,

a clerk who works for Judge Bradford.

Ah, what is it?

The police have secured
a search warrant on you.

They're probably on their way.

(SIGHS)

Sheila, what's going on?

The police are looking
for something in my past.

Is there something in your past?

- (PHONE RINGING)
- (PULSING SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

You said you could keep me safe.

You know that truck stop off 17?

SHEILA: The Bay Truck Stop?

Yeah.

Be there in an hour.

SHEILA: The police are following
me. I'll meet you out back.

Okay.

(PULSING SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

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(GRUNTING)

(WIND HOWLING)

(CRASHING)

(GROANING)

(PANTING)

(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL)

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(PULSING SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

NEWS REPORTER: Quillen,
husband of Minister of Northern Affairs,

Sheila Gagne, was abducted and
later found frozen to death

at a remote logging site.

(PULSING SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

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Get in.

(GROANING)

(INTENSE BOOMING)

(TENSE INSTRUMENTAL)

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DISPATCH: All units reporting
structure fire at Mead Lake Quarry.

Individual on scene signalling distress.

- (SIRENS BLARE)
- (PULSING SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

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Josh!

Come on.

He's alive!

Josh!

(FIRE CRACKLES)

(PULSING SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

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