01x06 - My Lord

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Female voice: bnt.

Your network.

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Rebecca: today is day one

Of the highly anticipated

New eden trial.

Accused cult leaders,

Katherine wryfield

And grace lee,

Will face charges for an

Extensive list of crimes.

Including criminal negligence,

as*ault of a teenage girl,

Indignity to human remains

And what has recently

Been upgraded

To a double homicide charge.

Ms. Mill given the turmoil

Of the past few months,

How are you feeling going

Into the courtroom today?

- Go back to hell!

- Well--

- You're murderers!

- You sick freaks!

You've got lizard skin!

You are satans blood wh*re!

You and your child

Will be punished!

- They tried to corrupt my

Innocent baby girl?

- They are sick.

- You are in a league

With murderers

And people that worship evil.

- They are perverts.

- You know they're guilty.

You know they are.

- That's the f*ck' eggman.

- Let's just say the courtroom

Is where I do my best work.

- He should go to trial.

He should go to f*ck' trial.

- I'm a human being unlike you!

- And are you still feeling

Confident about

The trial being televised?

- Absolutely.

- Hey!

- (Laughs)

- Oh my, that man,

That man's taking a sh*t.

He's sh1tting right now.

- Ultimately,

The trial itself was

- Dramatic.

- Disgusting.

- Life destroying.

- Harrowing.

- Hit and miss.

♪♪♪

- All stand.

In the case of lee and wryfield

Versus her majesty, the queen,

Court is now in session,

The honorable justice

Myler presiding.

- Okay.

Okay.

Oh, thank you.

(Taps, feedback squeals)

Oh sorry.

Nancy: it's hard to impress

On people

Who weren't there at the time

Just how bad things look

For katherine and grace.

There's nothing more integral

To a criminal case

Than an impartial jury.

But before they even started,

The pendulum of public opinion

Had swung.

- Here's what I think

Of these women.

Hey! (Laughs)

Don't touch me, you prevert.

- Dramatically out of their

Favor.

(Kiss sounds)

(Clears throat)

- Is the crown prepared

To proceed with its case?

- We are, my lord.

Grace: it didn't matter what

We had been to people.

You know, grace and katherine,

Starmother and truthmother,

Racy gracy

And katherine bathroom.

People only wanted to see us

As one thing K*llers.

- And satanists.

- And drug dealers.

- And alien worshipers.

- And haters of the elderly.

- As well as children.

- Yes.

But, you know, I think that

The big one for people

Was still-was still murderers.

- Do the accused understand

The charges laid against them?

- We do, your honor,

My lord.

- (Chuckles)

Nancy: in terms of cameras,

In terms of media attention,

In terms of how that affects

The case,

Elizabeth had an edge over

Everyone in that courtroom

In theory.

But when it came to actually

Trying a case here in canada.

Well, there she was

At a disadvantage.

And all the while, noseworthy

Was driving home his case.

You know, on their own,

These women are unremarkable.

The one an heiress

With limited life experience,

The other a dr*fter

Who found herself in the right

Place at the right time.

But once they met,

The destruction

That would follow

Is as disturbing as it

Is impossible to ignore.

These women devastated

The community of halworth

By introducing drugs.

- Right down the hatch.

Josiah: by separating families.

- I-i never wanted to be a

Mother in the first place.

Josiah: by engaging in fraud.

- I got hit the road.

Thank you so much. Bye.

Josiah: they also threatened

The community

That they had themselves

Created.

They embezzled from their

Own so-called sisters.

Ladies and gentlemen,

They m*rder*d agnes wryfield

For their own gain.

- Stay calm.

- And then they m*rder*d

Tabitha mcnurtt

To enshrine that power.

There are hours of footage

From inside their cult

That leave little doubt

As to the validity

Of these accusations.

But the crown wishes this court

To be certain of their guilt.

And for these women

To face those they've harmed,

To hear their stories.

And to give their victims

The opportunity to speak out.

And to seek justice.

Thank you.

♪♪♪

- The thing you don't think

About before your own trial

Is how many familiar faces

Are gonna turn up.

Kind of like a reunion

Of people we did not want

To see.

- Do you swear to the tell,

The whole truth,

And nothing but the truth?

- Look who I found.

- Praise jesus.

- What happened when ms. Lee

Join your community.

- Well, when she first arrived,

She was loving it -

Like really loving it.

- I started to hear colors

And smells sounds.

Do my lips taste funny to you?

Then I saw god

In a price pumpkin.

- Yes, of course I thought

Katherine was jealous of me.

- Oh, what do you know,

Sharon?

You let the entire varsity

Curling team

Finger you for beer money.

- But in the end,

I believe it was grace

Who was even more jealous

Of me.

- I was walking home

When that woman

- She loves the honey.

- She approached me and she

Asked me if I wanted to party.

- And then she started hanging

Out with katherine.

And something changed.

It got--

- Violent.

- Oh, you god damn right.

Grace: look at his f*cking

d*ck.

(People laugh)

- It's funny.

- She was very protective of

Katherine.

- Get the hell outta here!

Sharon: and I think that's

The way katherine wanted it.

- And that's when she kissed me.

(Shocker murmurs)

- Oh, come on.

Myler: will the accused please

Control themselves. Thank you.

- It was like a sister kiss,

You know.

The kind of kind of kiss

That you'd give a sister.

- Yeah, a sister kiss.

- It's-it's like a kiss that

You would give a sister.

- It's a thing.

- I mean, she liked it.

It was her idea.

- Of course she did.

Who wouldn't want a sister

Kiss you?

- Thank you. No.

- It's a thing.

- In my opinion

It wasn't always healthy.

- I was really scared.

- Those two together are

Evil.

- Evil

- Any more questions?

- Uh no.

- Oh.

Nancy: by that time, you could

Practically smell

How confident noseworthy was

He was out lowering

The defense.

He had hours of video evidence

To support his case.

He'd gain the jury sympathy

From character testimony.

All he needed to close this out

Were two expert credible

Witnesses

To banish any remaining doubts

Cast by one victim's missing

m*rder weapon

And the other victims

Missing head.

- Please state your full name

For the record.

- Hannah glen cafwell.

- And what name were you using

When you lived at new eden.

- Hannah weir.

- And why was that?

- I was there undercover

As a journalist.

I wanted to learn the truth

About what they were planning.

- Seeking the truth.

That's what a journalist does,

Isn't it?

Merely seeks the truth.

- Yes. That's exactly what

A journalist does.

(Panicked screaming, crying)

Josiah: can you describe to me

What we're seeing?

- What do we do? We just

Can't leave her there.

- That's the night of

Agnes wryfields death.

- And who discovered the body?

- Well, we heard amy scream

And we entered to find grace

Already covering the body.

- By the time we found

Agnes wryfield,

It was impossible to determine

The cause of death

Due to the level of decay.

So we cross-referenced

Witness testimony

From the night of her death

With her medical records.

Josiah: what was ms. Wryfields

Relationship to the deceased?

- Agnes was katherine's aunt

On her father's side.

- So presumably katherine would

Have had intimate knowledge

Of agnes wryfields life,

Her history,

Her medical conditions.

- Presumably.

- Can you please tell the court

What you discovered in her

Medical records.

- Ms. Wryfield had a severe

Allergy

To bees.

- (Shocked outcries)

(Low murmuring)

- Yeah that, that was a twist.

- I mean, I didn't know that

She was allergic to bees.

Who's allergic to bees?

Please.

- Please.

- That should have been it.

He established motive,

Opportunity and finally,

A m*rder weapon.

That would have been enough

To put them away for life.

But he wasn't done.

- You discovered agnes

Wryfields body

Buried on the property.

What else did you find

Buried with her?

- Certain religious

Paraphernalia.

Animal feathers.

Dead bees. Urine.

- And when you uncovered

Human remains,

You believed to be

Tabitha mcnurtt

In the summer of 1982.

What else did you find

Buried with her?

- We found evidence of

Feathers, bee pollen

And traces of what later

Tested positive as urine.

- He's lying! You planted those

.

Katherine: grace stop!

- Your highness,

Your highness he's lyin'.

He's lyin',

'Cause that is not true.

- Ms. Mill, f you don't mid

Control your clients, please!

- Stop!

- My lord,

If I may request a recess

To deal with my clients.

- Okay. I think that's

A great idea.

Court is adjourned and

We will return tomorrow

To here the rest

Of mr. Nestons testimony.

I think a recess

Is a good idea!

- No, no, no.

- We willw

And we will resume tomorrow--

You got her?

Watch it, watch it.

- I'm not goin'!

- After the expl*sive events

Of yesterday's testimony,

It's safe to say ms. Mill has

Been fighting a losing battle.

The so-called sorceress of spin

Will need to pull a proverbial

Rabbit out of the hat

If she wants to regain some

Of the ground she's lost.

(Reporters shout questions)

- Ms. Mill, ms. Mill

Does the defense have any hope

Of turning the case around.

Ms--

b*tch.

- First of all, let me say

Thank you for your service.

- Just doing my duty

For my country, ma'am.

- Oh, don't sell yourself

Short.

And don't call ma'am.

- Well, I care very much

About my community

And it is my sworn duty to

Se.

- Of course. Protecting

Is in your blood.

Which is why it must have been

So painful

When you couldn't protect

Your own daughter,

When she wanted to live

With those criminals

Rather than spend another

Night under your roof.

- Well, I was suspicious of

Them

Long before amy is involvement.

- Oh, it is no wonder you

Snapped.

Any emotional person

Would have.

- There was no emotion

Involved in my--

- June 10th, 1980,

You arrive at the new eden

Property.

- Where is amy?!

- Intoxicated. And upon finding

Out that amy is pregnant.

- You try and arrest ms. Lee,

- You f*ck' b*tch!

- Without cause. And another

Officer has to restrain you.

- Shut your f*ck' mouth!

- Was that true?

- It is not true. She attacked

Me. That is cause.

- I mean, I'll give her this.

It was it was smart

To use amy to get to him.

It was really smart.

- Ah, kick him where it hurts.

- Yeah.

- Pow! Right in the p*nis.

- October 22nd, 1981,

A group of your officers

Went and raided

The new eden property,

And they could not find

The body of tabitha mcnurtt.

They failed to even see

That she was missing.

- That's because we had--

That's because our hands

Were full.

We were there on suspicion

Of a kidnapping,

Perhaps you didn't know that.

- Isn't it true that there was

?

When my clients were arrested

For the m*rder

Of agnes wryfield.

Didn't mr. Noseworthy

Caution you

That you may not

Get a conviction

If the public is

Too sympathetic.

- My lord.

- Yeah ah--

- You wanted revenge

On these women

Because they took

Your daughter,

Your property?

- I am an officer of the law,

Ma'am.

Amy

A man in my position does not

Have the luxury of revenge.

(Panicked screaming)

- A man in your position has

Access to the local morgue.

You were worried that the death

Of agnes wryfield

Would look like an accident

Without enough evidence.

So planted an unidentified

Body

Josiah: my lord.

- At the new eden property.

- My lord.

- Which you could conveniently

Claim was a woman

You failed to track down

And whose head you simply

Couldn't locate.

Josiah: she's obviously--

- And that's why her remains

Were not discovered

Until a year after the initial

Raid of the property.

- Are you going to do anything

About this?

- And since you yet again

Couldn't make the connection

Between this body

And the body of ms. Wryfield.

You planted feathers at the dig

Site to make it look like

My client had anything

To do with this clumsy

Fabrication of yours.

- I may have scattered a few

Feathers in the grave,

But I did not put that body

There. They did.

They're f*ck' K*llers.

(Shocked gasps, murmuring)

- No more questions, my lord.

(Footsteps thud)

- I remember sitting

In our little box

And-and turning to grace

And going like

- And i-i looked back at her

And I was like

- Yeah. And then the man

Behind us said,

- You're not allowed.

- Stop doing that.

- Quiet.

- Yeah.

Nothing really necessarily

Got better

For anyone else after that.

- Well, that's true.

That is very true.

- Would you consider yourself

A?

- I care deeply about my work.

If that's what you mean.

- Say what you will

About hannah cafwell.

I mean, god knows

Everyone else did.

But she was a good journalist.

She was credible

And she knew the truth.

Unfortunately, it didn't fit

With elizabeth mills narrative.

- You admit to having a sexual

Relationship with mr. Hudley,

Who was your boss during

The investigation at new eden?

Is that correct?

- Yes. We had a relationship,

But it ended before

I went undercover.

- Where you then started

A sexual relationship

With ms. Solomin.

- Yes.

- So before you were allowed

To go undercover

As a junior reporter with zero

Investigative experience,

You have a relationship

With your boss.

- It wasn't like that.

- And then when he allowed you

To go undercover,

You abandoned that relationship

So you can focus your energy

On gaining intimate access

To the goings at new eden.

- Our relationship had already

Ended.

It had nothing to do

With my career.

- And this is before

You went undercover?

- Yes.

- Hmm.

- Things hadn't been good

With me an viv for some time,

And then and then she found out

About hannah

And I thought we had worked

Through it.

But I guess I didn't realize

That she was still so upset.

- Do you know what this is,

Ms. Cafwell?

- It's a tape.

- But do you know

What's on this tape?

- How could I possibly know

What's on that tape?

- Well, you should

Because you filmed it

On september 14th, 1977.

Wyatt: apparently,

Elizabeth had been talking

To my now ex-wife

For a few weeks.

Should've never kept

That damn tape.

- My lord, the following footage

Is from mr. Wyatt hudleys

Personal residence.

Ms. Cafwell claims that her

Relationship with mr. Hudley

Was over before she started

Her investigation at new eden,

That she never use their

Relationship

To curry professional favor.

Who's that holding

To the camera?

- It's me.

Hello.

- And tell the jury who

Is that kissing your neck?

- Oh. Oh.

- Wyatt hudley.

- Oh, look at that dress.

- You like my dress?

- (Shocked murmuring)

- Yeah, I think it looks

Really good too.

- You're gonna miss me

With all those women

Are you gonna this?

- So badly.

- This right here?

- Yes.

- This?

- (Long exhale)

(Stomping footsteps)

- Max?

- This tape was recorded

The night before

You arrived at new eden,

Is that correct?

- Yes.

- So to say that your

Relationship with mr. Hudley

Was over before the

Investigation at new eden

Would be, for lack

Of a better word,

A lie.

- It wasn't--

We didn't--

- If ms. Cafwell is willing

To lie to the court

About her relationship

With mr. Hudley,

To lie to max solomin,

Who she seduced to further

Her own career.

What's to say she's not lying

About anything else?

- Counsel is testifying.

- That's fine.

I don't have any more questions

For this witness.

- Ms. Cafwell you may step

Down.

Katherine: yeah, that was bad.

But hannah had lied

To everyone.

So I guess there was

Some justice to it.

- Sure.

But then elizabeth,

She just kept going

And going,

And going.

- This is a yearbook belonging

To a friend of yours,

Natalie gibbner.

Can you read what you wrote

To her?

- I knew katherine

From university.

She had a terrible time,

Let me tell you.

At the time she'd only

Kissed her cousin,

First cousin.

- Now, isn't it true that

After your little stint

Running a sex commune

And calling yourself odin,

You funded in self produced

Several adult films

After which you were arrested

For your involvement

With a puppy mill?

♪ Open our hearts and minds

To a spirit of sisterhood ♪

♪ That welcomes all

Without judgment or shame ♪

♪ No shame ♪

- And do you are currently

Suing your own grandmother

For damages following a car

Accident that you caused?

Is that correct?

- Yeah.

- I don't think they heard you.

- Yes!

- I got one of the curling boys

To ask a foreign exchange

Student to take her out,

I just thought that

The language barrier

Was gonna help make her

Less um undesirable.

It actually made it worse.

(Laughs) I know, I know.

I've made love to many

International men

And it's always been a delight.

So I don't know

What she did wrong.

- (Reads) "can't wait to lay

In the grass with lucy,

Wink, wink.

Jerry garcia is my god.

I love drugs".

(Shocked murmuring)

f*ck

- Thank you.

- The way she went after

Everyone was very painful.

- Very painful.

- My lord, if I could present

To you the files

That would indicate our--

Buckley: for us, literally.

- But that was nothing compared

.

(Chuckles)

- Oh.

Oh.

- At that point,

Elizabeth had as good as won.

There was no reason to stay

On the attack,

Which made her actual defense

Strategy feel personal.

- The defense calls katherine

Wryfield to the stand.

- Grace lee, my lord.

- Yes.

No.

(Taps)

Let's do this.

Interviewer: did elizabeth

Ever warn you

About the new strategy she

Was taking for your defense?

- She did not.

- Nope.

- My friend, mr. Noseworthy

Would have you believe

That my clients are criminal

Masterminds.

They've been described as

Manipulative, cunning, evil.

But here's the thing, folks.

The more I've gotten to know

My clients,

One thing has become

Powerfully clear.

State your full name.

- Grace lee hardware.

- Do you recognize this?

- Oh, no.

I mean, yes.

Yes, that is mine.

- Perhaps you could read some

Out loud.

- Um. Yes, okay. Sure.

- Mr. Noseworthy would have you

Believe

That once my clients

Got together,

They had a greater capacity

To commit crime?

I would argue that

The opposite is true.

- I mean, her whole strategy

W.

(Reads) "sharon thinks

She's skinny, but really,

I think she's getting

Quite fat."

"Yesterday she told a joke

And everyone laughed.

But actually, it was stupid,

Stupid, fat sharon."

Grace: I guess she figured

The stupider we looked,

The less capable of m*rder

We'd seem.

You got wrestle them-you gotta

Wrestle your arm around them.

And then you shh, shh, shh.

Okay. Now it's quiet

And you are ready

To start pulling some teeth,

Okay?

Because like I said,

A toothless possum

Makes a lovely pet.

- When were my clients meant to

Be expertly butchering a body?

When they were harvesting

Menstrual moss?

- It's for your period.

- Or putting on a stage

Production

About a giant bee woman

They follow.

- f*ck. sh*t.

- You all right?

- Okay, back to ones.

- One of my clients is

A fourth grade education

And the other has literally

Adopted the nickname bathroom.

- All those women

And only one bathroom.

- Katherine. Katherine.

Katherine an me.

A dog.

Me and katherine and a dog.

Katherine walkin' me

Like a dog.

Feels like a nailed that.

- There is nothing guiding

These women.

- You know who that's--

- Not satan.

Not steinem.

Nothing at all.

- Grace. Grace, you can talk

About that more.

- And what exactly did you

Expect would happen

After this joining ceremony?

- Um, well

(Shatters)

It was symbolic.

- Of what?

- Uh of--

- Our earthly spirit's uniting

Into a super being,

The likes of which this

Planet has never seen.

Oh sh*t.

- Symbolically?

- No, through good old

Fashioned electricity.

All: "two are one

Gaions will be done."

- Science.

- Mr. Noseworthy was right

About one thing.

We have all been duped

By these women.

We have all been duped

Into thinking that these women

Are capable not of m*rder,

But of anything.

At all.

- After what can only be

Described as an unusual

And at times cruel defense

Of her clients,

Elizabeth mill rested

Her case last wednesday

And the jury has been

Sequestered ever since.

We are now getting word

That.

More inside.

Okay, give me a smoke.

I need a smoke.

Does anyone even care anymore?

God, I'm going back to

The weather after this.

Guess what?

It's raining

Well, sh*t on my face.

(Beethoven's "symphony 5" plays)

♪♪♪

- (Exhales)

Okay. (Clears throat)

Has the jury reached a verdict?

- We have, my lord.

- Wonderful.

♪♪♪

Phew. What a trial.

What a trial.

Thank you to the crown

And to the defense

And to the camera crews.

You guys have done

A hell of a job.

It's been a lot of fun.

Okay.

Would the accused, please stand.

Yep.

- On the charge of m*rder

In the first degree

We find the defendants

Not guilty.

(Relieved exhales)

(Laughter)

- Order. Order there's more.

She's not-she's not done.

Just wait for it.

Juror: on the charge of elder

Abuse

And indignity to human remains.

We find the defendants

Guilty.

(Shocked gasps)

On the charge of kidnapping

And the endangerment

Of a minor.

We find the defendants

Guilty.

- Okay.

- Ah, derek will escort you

To your holdings.

- I don't wanna go with derek.

- Derek, will escort these

Ladies to the holding.

- I don't-i don't-we don't

Wanna go with derek.

- Yeah, derek is-derek is

A lovely gentleman. Derek.

- Oh my life!

- No-no. No!

Derek you wanna get the

Soft restrains, please.

- She doesn't like derek.

- I can't breathe.

- We can't go with derek.

Where's our lawyer?

Interviewer: well, you did

Mention wanting to improve

Your reputation concerning

Women, so I have to ask,

How do you justify

What you did?

- I'm gonna stop you right

There.

I went into that courtroom

As a female litigator

Practicing law in a country I

Had never so much set foot in.

And I delivered.

I ran circles around the men

That came after me

And my clients.

I beat their system.

I got grace and katherine

As much justice

As they deserved.

All without breaking a nail.

If you want to be the kind

Of man to shame me

For being a powerful woman

Who beat the man

That I was up against, well,

I guess you decide how

You wanna be perceived.

Interviewer: uh

- Looks like your time is up.

Sophie: I trust you gentleman

Can find your way out.

- Yeah. Thank you.

Sophie: who was that?

- I don't know

♪♪♪

♪ I like the way

You smiled at me ♪

♪ I felt the heat

That enveloped me ♪

♪ And what I saw

I like to see ♪

♪ I never knew ♪

♪ Where evil grew ♪