Hard Home (2024)

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(MARY PANTING)

(PANTS)

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)

(EXHALES SHARPLY)

(PANTS)

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

(PANTS)

(PANTS)

(MAN GRUNTS)

(MARY SCREAMS, GRUNTS)

(GROANS)

(GRUNTS, YELLS)

(MAN GRUNTS)

(YELPS, GRUNTS)

(MAN GRUNTING)

(GRUNTS)

(PANTS)

(PANTS)

(GRUNTS)

(MARY GROANS)

(SCREAMS)

(GRUNTS)

(GRUNTS, YELLS)

(GROANS)

(PANTS)

(MUSIC CONCLUDES)

(PANTS)

(CAR ENGINE REVVING)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

f*ck!

JIAO: Hey! Hey!

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

(BEEPS)

(BUZZING)

SECURITY SYSTEM: System's armed.

Home secured.

Welcome home, Mary.

(MUSIC CONCLUDES)

(DOG BARKING)

(DOORBELL CHIMES)

Mary!

Jiao, what can I do for you?

One of your construction trucks

drove over my flowerbed.

Again! My hydrangeas are ruined.

It's been six months of this!

It won't happen again.

There won't be any more trucks.

I promise. They're done.

And slow down!

You drive like a crazy person.

Goodbye, Jiao!

(SCREEN BEEPS)

(JIAO SCOFFS)

(PANTS)

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

This Diablo k*ller has a type

when it comes to these murders.

Always female, always brunette,

similar heights

and facial features.

(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)

(POLICE RADIO CHATTER)

He tends to relocate

to a new state

after three victims.

Please, do not go

into the forest alone.

(MUSIC CONCLUDES)

(SIGHS)

(EXHALES DEEPLY)

(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)

MARY: I got it.

KELLY: All right.

(KELLY LAUGHS)

Keep your eyes closed.

Keep 'em closed, wait for it.

Open your eyes, Kelly.

KELLY: Whoa!

ROBERT: Amazing, huh?

The blueprints,

the floor plans,

the smart home tech,

all developed by this beautiful

young genius right here.

Wait, young? Are you young, mom?

(ROBERT CHUCKLES)

Don't you start,

you little sh*t!

(CHUCKLES) What's that?

ROBERT: That's nice!

"Welcome to the neighborhood.

Jiao". Who's Jiao?

Jiao. She lives

in the property over.

She did tell me, though,

our tree branches

were hanging into her yard,

so I think we have a complainer.

Well, I'll get her

a thank you note right away,

so she doesn't

complain about that.

Kel, would you help us

getting the door for us?

Just gotta put your hand up

to the panel there.

(BUZZING)

SECURITY SYSTEM: System unarmed.

(BEEPING)

(DOOR OPENING)

Cool!

SECURITY SYSTEM:

Welcome home, Kelly.

Are you guys seeing this?

Mm-hmm, just go in.

(SIGHS) We're home.

I used my engineering know-how

to build a one-of-a-kind,

state-of-the art smart home.

The foundation is all original,

but everything else is new.

Okay, so the app, I developed it

from the ground up, all right?

And, uh, you can work this

on your phone as well.

All right? So, uh...

All right, watch this.

(BEEPS)

SECURITY SYSTEM: Lights on.

Ta-da!

Wow!

(MARY SOFTLY) Yeah.

Watch this.

SECURITY SYSTEM: Windows opaque.

Mm-hmm. You can also start

the dishwasher, the oven,

the laundry,

I mean, you can even...

you can even see

what's inside the fridge.

Holy crap, Mom!

MARY: Right?

Oh, and there's the central air

temperature sliders,

if you're too hot,

you're too cold,

you can just make

yourself comfortable.

Yeah, but don't touch

the thermostat.

Did I say that out loud?

I'm sorry. It's a dad's reflex.

(MARY LAUGHS)

Oh, and there are no cameras

in the bathroom,

as promised.

Mm, that was gonna be

my next question.

ROBERT: Kel,

you have to see this.

You missed it on the way in.

MARY: Oh.

This is my favorite.

Your mother's a genius.

MARY: Thank you.

It goes up from the basement

to here.

It goes up,

stops right outside your room.

You built an elevator

because of my knee?

Honey, no,

it's not like that, it--

I... I told you I didn't want

any special treatment!

Kel, we had to build the place

for accessibility.

I'm capable

of taking the stairs.

Right,

and nobody said otherwise.

ROBERT:

No, we're all gonna use it.

And if my office is upstairs

then the clients,

they won't have to traipse

through the whole house,

but come on,

it's gonna make things easier.

Yeah.

You know, we talked

about the surgery option.

Right? And you know what?

You don't have to use it

if you don't want to.

Can I call it from my phone?

(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)

Of course you can.

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

(PANTS)

(MARY EXHALES)

Okay.

(SIGHS)

(GROANS)

(DOOR OPENS AND HISSES)

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(DOOR CLOSES)

(GROANS)

(SIGHS)

(CAMERA WHIRS)

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

It was a moniker coined

by the media in 2015,

"The Diablo k*ller."

The origin of the name?

A single word carved into a tree

near what police believe

was the original crime scene,

a cabin in rural Oregon

containing the remains

of his first victim,

a still unidentified woman.

The corpse,

charred beyond recognition,

with her severed tongue

preserved in a jar.

WOMAN:

Exactly like your father!

(WOMAN SCREAMS)

(GROANS)

WOMAN: Diablo!

It took one FBI agent years

to connect the dots.

A leaked profile indicated

that he may have been working

as a laborer in the areas

of each of the killings.

This Diablo k*ller has a type

when it comes to these murders.

Always female, always brunette,

similar heights

and facial features.

He tends to relocate

to a new state

after three victims.

Oh, you f*ck!

(SIGHS)

You were using a stolen ID.

They had you

and they didn't even know it.

That's right,

it's you and me now.

You know what to do.

(THRILLING MUSIC PLAYING)

MARY: Find the key...

(SIGHING) Take the f*cking key.

Come on, take it.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(BULB WHIRS)

(LOCK CLICKS)

(WOMAN PRAYING IN SPANISH)

Exactly like your father!

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

Pray to get rid of the Devil!

(SPEAKING SPANISH, ECHOING)

Investigators believe

that he kept the victims alive

for an unknown length of time.

(WOMAN SOBS)

TV HOST: Perhaps most sickening,

forensics concluded

that their tongues were severed

while the young women

were still alive.

(WOMAN SCREAMS, SHRIEKS)

(GRUNTS)

MARY: That's right,

you son of a b*tch...

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

MARY: Where did you bury them?

WOMAN: Un pequeo diablo...

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

Diablo! (SPEAKS SPANISH)

(DIABLO PANTING)

You speak vile words, Devil!

That's who you are,

the son of the Devil,

exactly like your father!

(SOBS)

What are you doing?

Yeah, I see you.

Oh, no! You f*cking don't!

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(POWER CRANKS OUT)

(BEEPS)

I'm here at the house

of Benita Caccio,

the sister

of one of the victims. Benita,

is there anything

you'd like to say

to Diablo if you could?

BENITA: Someday,

someone will find you...

and they're going

to make you pay.

(LIGHTS ZAPPING)

(DIABLO GRUNTS)

(SIGHS)

(MUSIC CONCLUDES)

(SIGHS SOFTLY)

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)

Is this what I think it is?

If you think it's yours,

then yes, it is!

(CHUCKLES)

(CHUCKLES)

(GASPS)

Happy birthday, my darling.

KELLY: Oh, my God!

ROBERT: Like it?

KELLY: I love it.

MARY: So,

you're a candidate for surgery,

and yeah, it's experimental,

but the specialist

is the very best.

I love you guys!

I love you so much.

(FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING)

(DIABLO GROANS)

(GROANS, SIGHS)

(WOMAN SPEAKING SPANISH)

(PRAYING IN SPANISH)

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

(ECHOING) Exactly

like your father!

Eres un diablo.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

Diablo! (SPEAKING SPANISH)

(EXHALES)

(DOOR LOCK CLICKS)

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

TV HOST: He was experimenting

with paralytic agents,

but he didn't know

which ones to use

or the proper dosage.

As a result,

his first victim in Colorado,

Darlene Horan,

survived the attack.

Come on, come on.

Move, move!

f*ck!

(SIGHS)

(AIR DUCTS HISSING)

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(DIABLO EXCLAIMS)

You didn't

let them off that easy,

so neither will I.

(DOOR CLANGS OPEN)

(STEAM HISSING)

A side effect

from the paralytic agent

was blindness.

Darlene burned herself

on steam pipes

feeling her way

through the corridors

on her escape.

She survived long enough

to scribble

in a makeshift journal

and say her captor

did not speak.

The second victim,

Mickayla Mayer, was found

with her tongue cut out

and her lingual artery.

She was discovered

in an abandoned paper mill

weeks after her disappearance,

burned alive.

Unlike Darlene,

there were no clues

that were left behind

by Mickayla.

Authorities believe

she was m*rder*d there

and left for dead.

(GASPS)

REPORTER:

The third victim, Ashley Ko,

was found mutilated

and also burned alive.

(PRAYING IN SPANISH)

(DIABLO BREATHES HEAVILY,

GROANS)

REPORTER: Darlene lived

for several weeks

and scribbled

in a makeshift journal.

She lived.

And then, she died.

Why won't you speak?

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

Why won't you speak?

(WOMAN SPEAKING SPANISH)

Un diablo!

Exactly like your father!

Diablo! (SPEAKS SPANISH)

MARY: Why won't you speak?

(GROANS)

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

f*cking speak!

(MUSIC CONCLUDES)

(SPEAKER BUZZING)

(SCOFFS)

(SWOOSHING)

Fry, m*therf*cker.

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

Move!

Move!

Move!

Move!

You recognize them, as*h*le?

You tortured them all

before burning them alive.

I guess you see

how this works now.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(DIABLO GRUNTS)

(PANTS)

MARY: You paralyzed these women.

Do you know

what it's like to be frozen

while someone tortures you?

(SPEAKS SPANISH)

Exactly like your father!

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

(SPEAKS SPANISH)

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(DIABLO SIGHS)

(SIGHS)

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

Mary!

I got your mail

by mistake!

(MONITOR BEEPING)

SECURITY SYSTEM:

No time to talk.

Please, leave it in the mailbox.

Well, it looks important.

Priority!

(MONITOR BEEPING)

SECURITY SYSTEM:

Please leave, Jiao.

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

(PANTS)

(DOORBELL CHIMING)

JIAO: Mary!

Jiao, you need to leave.

You need to start

respecting my privacy.

I... I can't hear you!

Uh, the video is broken.

Uh, come out and talk!

Jiao, you need

to leave right now.

This is not okay.

You've been acting very strange.

Workers coming and going?

At all hours?

What are you doing?

(PANTS)

I should call the police.

All right, we both know

that the police

don't believe you anymore.

(GRUNTS)

MARY: All right?

And quit taking my mail!

(INTERCOM BEEPS)

(SCOFFS)

(JIAO MUMBLING INDISTINCTLY)

Don't come back.

(MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(MARY SIGHS)

(WATER SPLASHES)

Good riddance!

MARY: Kelly, what are you doing?

You saw the surgery results,

I don't need them anymore.

Kel, the pool?

But you do need rehab

and to let your body heal.

You can't protect me forever.

Uh, maybe not,

but I'm not gonna stop trying.

Mom, I'm an adult now!

You don't need to watch me

like a hawk!

Three years here

and I can't even sneak out

like a normal teenager.

Okay, Kel. First of all,

I have never spied on you.

And since when

do you want to sneak out?

Maybe we should let her

have her moment of triumph.

Look, I'm fine! See?

Okay, just...

I'm gonna drive up to the park

and walk the trails.

Don't wait up.

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

She just needs

to do this for herself.

REPORTER: Agent Wall,

why did you transfer

to New York?

SELENA: There was

an attempted abduction

this year outside of Albany

that fits his MO

which led me to believe

he'd relocate to the region.

Now I've worked the Diablo case

for years in California

so I've seen things

slip through the crack

when investigations

change hands,

and I wanted

to stay close to him.

MARY: (WHIMPERS)

What happened here?

Selena?

Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!

Let go of me!

(SCREAMS) No!

Not my child!

Not my--

(POLICE SIREN BLARING)

(SOBS) My baby! My baby!

(SOBBING)

REPORTER:

And finally, can you tell us

why does he remove

their tongues?

(WOMEN SCREAMING)

ROBERT: How do you know

it's her?

SELENA: They found

her belongings nearby.

Including a specialized

knee brace.

And a partial match

for dental records

among the teeth

that were destroyed completely.

But partial?

It's enough to convict.

And enough

to convince forensics.

I'm sorry,

but we need to be realistic.

MARY: What about DNA?

You told us

there wasn't a tongue

found at the scene.

But you said

there's always a tongue.

We believe he was interrupted

and wasn't able

to complete his ritual.

(SIGHS)

Why would anyone do this?

He tore our Kelly apart.

And he burned her body.

I want you to... to find him.

And make him pay.

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

(GASPS)

(SNIFFLES)

(DIABLO PANTS)

(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(GRUNTS)

(CAMERA WHIRRING)

(PANTS)

WOMAN:

Exactly like your father!

Diablo! You did it,

because you are a monster!

I'd like to report

a suspicious activity

in my neighborhood.

OPERATOR: Is this Jiao?

Yes, it's Jiao.

How did you know?

OPERATOR:

You've been flagged

as a repeat caller.

My number is flagged?

OPERATOR: Yes.

What does that mean?

OPERATOR:

9-1-1 is for serious calls.

Yes, I know what 9-1-1 is for!

OPERATOR:

Ma'am, you need to calm down.

Never mind!

(PHONE BEEPS)

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

(PANTS)

What the f*ck?

What the f*ck is he doing?

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

MARY: He's stuck?

What the f*ck?

MARY: Thank you for doing this.

(MUSIC CONCLUDES)

SELENA: I can share

some details,

but it is

an ongoing federal case.

See, this is everything

that wasn't classified.

You mentioned

in one of your reports

something about a work van.

SELENA: Mm-hmm.

I hounded the local police

for months about it.

Then I finally proved it.

I appreciate that.

SELENA: Believe me,

I care deeply about your case.

Uh, so what is this?

It's from the same cabin.

I kept it 'cause I had a theory

that he's self-educated.

Or was made to learn.

SELENA: Mm-hmm.

And with my theory

about the work vans,

he has journeyman experience.

Construction, plumber,

electrician, carpenter.

(SIGHS)

I'm sorry.

(LIGHT TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

I really shouldn't be

putting you so close to this.

Oh...

I'm an engineer, I...

I solve puzzles for a living.

I wanna understand and, uh...

You know, I'd much rather

see him burn alive, but...

my point is...

my point is that, uh, this,

actually, it... it helps.

Burning alive would be a mercy

after all he's done.

But look, Mary,

you still have

to address the grief.

I can put you in touch

with other families,

you know, shared trauma

can be useful

at a time like this.

Uh, yeah, yeah.

Send that to Robert.

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

Um, can I keep this?

(ELEVATOR DOORS CLANKING)

(UPBEAT TECHNO MUSIC

PLAYING THROUGH SPEAKERS)

You Lucas?

And you're Kim?

Yeah.

How'd you find me?

I contacted the hospital.

Okay, good.

Just don't tell me

why you need it,

and we're good, Kim.

Yeah. Good. Yeah.

I'll-- I'll take the lot.

f*ck!

Are you taking down

an elephant or something?

If you need anything else...

Yeah.

Others who have

bought this stuff.

Anything but that.

Especially no names.

But I can tell you

that these people use numbers.

Numbers? What kind of numbers?

Listen.

I've seen that look before.

If you're on some kind

of a revenge kick,

learn how to take

someone down first.

Yeah, well,

12 years

of Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

I think I'll...

I'll be fine, thanks.

If I can be

of any further assistance...

(TENSE PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)

You got any hacking equipment?

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(SMART WATCH CHIMES)

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

(SIGHS)

(SIGHS)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(GRUNTS)

(MARY SCREAMS)

(GRUNTS)

(GRUNTS, YELLS)

(BOTH GRUNT)

(SHRIEKS)

No!

(GASPS, YELLS)

(YELLS)

(SHRIEKS)

(WHIMPERS)

(PANTS)

(PANTS)

WOMAN: Diablo!

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

(GRUNTS)

(GAGS)

(FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING)

(YELLS)

WOMAN: Eres un diablo.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

You did it!

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

Because you are a monster!

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

Devil!

...el hijo del diablo!

You k*lled your own dog!

(PRAYING IN SPANISH)

(WOMAN'S VOICE OVERLAPPING)

(MARY GRUNTS)

(MONITOR BEEPING)

(BOTH BREATHE HEAVILY)

(BREATHES UNEVENLY)

(DIABLO GROANS)

(MARY WHIMPERS)

(SMART WATCH CHIMES)

(MUSIC CONCLUDES)

ROBERT: Canceled my meeting.

I thought maybe

we could take a drive.

Mary? Mary, what have you done?

What have you done?

I'm calling an ambulance--

No!

ROBERT: No? What?

No? Mary, what is this sh*t?

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

This was in Kelly's

toxicology report!

(GRUNTS)

How did you even get this?

(CLEARS THROAT) I thought...

if I could just build up...

tolerance, just a few times...

Why?

Did you think

he was coming for you next?

Mary, this stuff

lasts 60 to 80 minutes,

and your watch was at 41

before you could move!

It's been far more than a few.

Let me see your arms.

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(PANTS)

I've been obsessed

with this case for years

that I let it cloud my judgment.

(SIGHS)

I can't force you

to see anyone...

but you need therapy.

This is my therapy.

SELENA: Well, find a new outlet.

Pour yourself

into another project.

Look...

I have trauma too, Mary.

That top number?

That's someone I see for PTSD.

And look,

if it all gets too much...

get away for a while.

You have money! Travel!

Yeah.

I was thinking about

going to the West Coast.

(CHUCKLES)

I suggest another continent.

Can I ask you just...

just one more question?

I'm not entertaining

any more theories

with you, Mary. Come on!

All right, then give me

the official FBI statement.

Why these states?

Why California,

Colorado, New York?

All states with large forests?

I don't know, Mary!

Maybe he was...

following something

or hunting someone.

That's all I can give you.

No. We're missing something.

There were two murders

in different states

at the same time,

how'd he do that?

SELENA:

Maybe he had an accomplice.

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

Excuse me.

Agent Wall, may I speak

with you for a second?

Mary, I'll be back

with you soon.

What is it, Agent Quiller?

(THRILLING MUSIC PLAYING)

(LAPTOP BEEPING)

(SIGHS)

But I can tell you

that these people use numbers.

Especially no names.

Oh, f*ck!

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

(SIGHS)

ROBERT: Mary!

Uh...

Can you come back?

Mary, you've been holed up

down here for almost three days.

You need to get out!

(SIGHS) Okay.

Yeah, um...

I thought we agreed

that this is my work space.

I don't go into yours,

you don't come into mine.

Yeah,

but I don't shut you out of it.

I don't f*cking

sleep up there either.

MARY: No, hey!

Just leave me.

(PAPER RUSTLING)

Jesus, Mary!

What is all this?

What is this?

(MARY SIGHS)

I am... I'm just trying

to cope right now.

This is how I'm healing.

Mary, we're together in this.

I'm the one who insisted

Kelly take that trail

alone that day. (SPLUTTERS)

You think I don't

punish myself for that?

Now look.

I'm seeing a trauma therapist

to help me cope.

You can do the same.

Yeah. Yeah, I will do that.

(ROBERT SCOFFS)

You know, I can tell

when you're bullshitting me.

What did you buy? An RFID chip?

Look, just don't touch my sh*t.

Fire jets?

I don't know

what the f*ck you're doing,

but I can't support

this obsession.

I can't live like this!

Are you gonna stop?

Are you gonna stop?

No.

All right.

(MUSIC CONCLUDES)

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

(DINGS)

I'm here

to investigate a property.

CLERK: Our records

are in the basement,

but I'm afraid access

is restricted unless you, um--

Yeah.

MARY: Agent Wall.

I'm sure you're familiar

with the Diablo k*ller case.

Oh, yes. Right this way.

Oh, Wall, you said?

Were you here

with your colleagues

a few years ago?

Good memory.

Oh, nothing much happens

around here. We, uh,

tend to remember big stuff.

Your people took

the most recent records

and, uh, well,

I don't know what's left.

I have copies of those.

Right. Well, if you, uh,

have any questions...

Oh, thank you.

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

Oh.

Oh, yes.

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

CLERK: Those are full of--

Excuse me, excuse me.

Hold on one sec.

Um,

so why...

why did this little area,

why did it keep changing hands

all through the forties?

Oh, there's an old creek bed

that runs along that lot.

It got rerouted

a couple of times and, uh...

dried up and they built

a new spillway up river.

Looks like a surveying dispute.

So there's an additional piece

of land that nobody knows exists

and no one has ever

questioned it before?

No, just never came up.

Actually, hey, uh, Sheriff,

let me bring you in on this

while I got an agent here.

Uh, what did you say

your name was?

Huh.

After staying out

of the public eye for months,

Kelly's grieving mother, Mary,

finally broke her silence

with righteous anger.

He took everything from me.

And he will strike again

and again, and again.

The feds aren't doing sh*t.

You think you're safe?

You're not f*cking safe.

We need to get out there,

and we need

to find that sick f*ck.

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

MARY:

That's a cabin back there?

(SIGHS) No one saw it?

What?

We have no records

of family at all.

We currently have

a media release

inviting anyone

with any relevant information

to work with us, so any insights

to relatives alive,

dead, or even grave sites

are appreciated.

(CROWS CAWING)

(MUSIC CONCLUDES)

(FOREBODING MUSIC PLAYING)

(GASPS)

TV HOST:

Kelly had been just accepted

into the University

of New York City

and overcame

a lifelong disability

with experimental surgery.

She was eager to test out

her repaired knee...

(COUGHS)

...on the trails

at her favorite park

until the Diablo k*ller

resurfaced.

(RETCHES)

(COUGHS)

(PANTS)

(BREATHING SHAKILY)

(GRUNTS)

(GROANS)

(GROANS)

(THRILLING MUSIC PLAYING)

(DIABLO GRUNTS)

(KNIFE CLANGS)

(GRUNTS)

(PANTS)

(WHIMPERS, BREATHES HEAVILY)

(PANTS)

(DIABLO GRUNTS)

(PANTS)

(DIABLO GROANS)

(MARY PANTS, GROANS)

(WHIMPERS)

(GRUNTS)

(GRUNTS)

(PANTS)

(MARY GRUNTS)

(MUSIC FADES)

(GROANS)

(SHRIEKS)

(TENSE DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(SIGHS, INHALES SHARPLY)

(PANTS)

(MARY SCREAMS)

(MUSIC CONCLUDES)

SECURITY SYSTEM:

System armed.

(BANGING ON DOOR)

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

(PANTS)

(PANTS)

(PANTS)

(PANTS)

(BANGING ON DOOR)

(WOMAN SPEAKING SPANISH)

(PANTS)

(INTERCOM BEEPS, CHIMES)

(PANTS)

(MONITOR CHIMES)

(BUZZING)

(CHUCKLES)

SECURITY SYSTEM: Access denied.

(EXHALES)

Oh, you f*ck!

(DIABLO ROARS)

SECURITY SYSTEM:

System malfunction.

(DIABLO GRUNTS)

SECURITY SYSTEM: Door unlocked.

(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

No, no, no, no, no!

SECURITY SYSTEM: Door locked.

Oh! (SIGHS)

(MUSIC CONCLUDES)

(MARY SOBS)

(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)

WOMAN:

Tongue of the devil!

You have the tongue

of the devil, you have.

Monstruo!

(MUSIC CONCLUDES)

JIAO: Hey!

Hey!

Hey!

Hey!

Hi, Jiao.

What took you so long?

I called you hours ago!

Something's not right

with your wife.

We're separated right now,

but thanks for the concern.

(SCOFFS)

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

(PRAYING IN SPANISH)

No, no, no.

You don't get to see that.

No!

You f*ck!

(INHALES SHARPLY)

No!

No! No!

f*ck you!

(MUSIC CONCLUDES)

(THRILLING MUSIC PLAYING)

(MARY YELLS)

(MARY SCREAMS)

(DIABLO GROANS)

(MARY GRUNTS)

(DIABLO GRUNTS)

(MARY YELPS)

(WHIMPERS)

(GRUNTS)

(DIABLO GRUNTS)

(GRUNTS)

(MARY WHIMPERS)

(DIABLO YELPS)

(MARY SCREAMS)

(PANTS)

SECURITY SYSTEM: System armed.

(DIABLO SIGHS SHARPLY)

(GRUNTS)

(INTERCOM CHIMES)

(MUSIC CONCLUDES)

SECURITY SYSTEM: System locked.

She locked me out of the system!

(DOORBELL CHIMES)

(PANTS)

ROBERT: Mary, it's Robert!

Let me in?

(PANTS)

(DOORBELL CHIMES)

(SCOFFS)

I just-- (SIGHS)

I want to see you're okay.

I'm not leaving

until I see you, Mary.

(SCOFFS) She did the same to me!

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

(BREATHES DEEPLY)

(INTERCOM BEEPS)

SECURITY SYSTEM: Door unlocked.

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

(PANTS)

(GRUNTS)

(MUSIC CONCLUDES)

(TENSE DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(MARY GRUNTS)

(SCREAMS)

(MARY GRUNTS)

(DIABLO GRUNTS)

(MARY GRUNTS)

Jiao, what are you doing here?

Robert, what's going on?

Look, I don't know.

I'm worried about Mary.

She's locked me out,

she won't come to the door,

I just wanna know she's okay.

I thought maybe

she'd respond to you,

I know you two

have gotten close.

(SIGHS)

(DOORBELL CHIMES)

Mary, it's Selena!

(MARY GRUNTS)

(DIABLO GRUNTS)

Robert called me,

we're both concerned about you.

(GRUNTS, GROANS)

(MARY SCREAMS)

Mary, answer the door!

(SIGHS SHARPLY)

(SCREAMS)

(DIABLO GRUNTS)

SECURITY SYSTEM: System unarmed.

(MARY GRUNTS)

(DOOR OPENING)

Okay. Robert, wait out here.

Jiao, go home.

FBI! On the ground!

On the ground!

Hands behind your head, now!

(DIABLO SCREAMS)

(SELENA GRUNTS)

(SELENA SHRIEKS)

(GROANS)

(g*nsh*t)

(MARY SCREAMS)

(GRUNTS)

f*ck you!

f*ck!

(MUSIC CONCLUDES)

(PANTS)

(SELENA YELPS)

(SOBS)

Mary.

(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)

She's bleeding out!

Get the med-kit.

Get the med-kit, now!

(ROBERT GROANS)

(SELENA GRUNTS)

All right, look at me,

look at me, look at me,

look at me.

You're okay, you're okay.

(BREATHES SHAKILY)

All right, all right.

Come on!

All right, all right,

all right.

(GRUNTS)

(ROBERT GROANS)

Come on, babe!

(SELENA BREATHES HEAVILY)

ROBERT: Hurry!

(PANTS)

ROBERT: Put your hand here,

that's it.

(SELENA GROANS)

Mary!

Whatever you're about to do,

please, don't do it!

Please!

I can't just turn a blind eye!

Make the call. Make the call!

(WHIMPERS)

(GROANS)

Agent down, a civilian is shot.

Send backup

to the Flint residence!

This is the m*therf*cker

that k*lled our daughter!

(SELENA WHIMPERS)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(GROANS)

(MARY SIGHS)

(PANTS)

(GRUNTS)

(GRUNTS)

(PANTS)

(GROANS)

MARY: Remember her?

Her name was Kelly!

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(GRUNTS, PANTS)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(GRUNTS)

(GRUNTS)

(SNIFFS)

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

Diablo, the nameless man.

I've spent months sifting

through the ashes of your life.

FBI, police, they didn't know

what to look for, but...

I did.

Sarah.

SARAH: Devil, a monster!

Son of your father!

Exactly like your father,

you are.

You k*lled your own mother.

And maybe this is your father.

Maybe he's Sarah's father too.

You're an inbred f*ck.

The one thing

I don't understand is...

did your mother resent you?

Tienes la lengua del diablo!

Did she silence you?

SARAH: Devil!

Eres un diablo.

You k*lled your own dog!

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

(PRAYING IN SPANISH)

Did she call you Diablo?

Diablo!

MARY: She punished you.

(SPEAKS SPANISH)

So you punished her.

(SARAH SCREAMS)

MARY:

The pain wasn't enough, was it?

It never really is.

And it never, ever stops.

I know, I know.

Because that's all

you've made me feel...

and that's how I found you.

(BREATHES HEAVILY)

MARY: I found what they missed.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

Each of your kills...

is by a family's private

cemetery plot...

(PANTS)

...just like

where Sarah is buried.

I searched every public record

for every private family plot

near a forested trail

within 100 miles.

I narrowed them down one by one.

I studied your psych profiles.

Huh? See that?

MARY: (THROUGH VIDEO) See this?

Go ahead.

Open your f*cking mouth,

just like you did

to those girls.

Yes...

See this?

MARY: (THROUGH VIDEO) My name...

is Mary Flint.

You m*rder*d my daughter,

Kelly Flint.

I will find you...

and I will k*ll you.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

Scream for me, f*ck!

(SHRIEKS, YELPS)

(GARGLES)

(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

Del Diablo! (SPEAKS SPANISH)

The son of the devil,

exactly like your father! Devil!

(LAUGHS HYSTERICALLY)

(SCREAMS)

(SCREAMING CONTINUES)

(PANTS)

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

(WHIMPERS SOFTLY)

(POLICE SIREN WAILING)

He's dead.

QUILLER: FBI! FBI, Agent Wall!

Agent Wall,

what the hell happened?

The Diablo k*ller.

He came into the house,

he came after my wife.

He's dead.

It was... it was self-defense.

We have an agent down!

I need medics immediately!

Keep pressure, keep pressure,

keep pressure.

(SELENA GROANS)

It's okay.

(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)

Keep pressure!

Stay with me, stay with me!

(SELENA GROANS)

QUILLER: She needs

medical assistance right here.

Stay with us, stay with us,

you're good. You're all right.

SELENA: This Diablo k*ller

has a type when it comes

to these murders.

Always female, always brunette,

similar heights

and facial features.

He appears to relocate to

a new state after three victims.

REPORTER:

We're hear at the cabin,

which was built

on repossessed land.

While there were

no official records

of past residents,

some have speculated

that the k*ller lived

inside this abandoned homestead

at some point.

It took one FBI agent years

to connect the dots.

A leaked profile indicated

that he may have been working

as a laborer in the areas

of each of the killings.

REPORTER: In more recent news,

the man once dubbed

the Diablo k*ller

finally met his match

when the mother

of one of the deceased victims

took matters into her own hands.

However, authorities are baffled

as a series of new murders

have emerged,

all with missing tongues,

raising the question,

"Was Diablo working alone

or was there an accomplice?"

(DARK DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(MUSIC CONCLUDES)