01x05 - A Whole Lotta Buzz

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♪ I like the way you

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♪ I felt the heat

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♪ I never knew ♪

♪ Where evil grew ♪

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♪ My friend told me to be

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Newsreel: More breaking news.

- The sleepy community of

Halworth

has been rocked

by what may be m*rder.

- A dead body.

- Has been identified.

- As Katherine Wryfield aunt.

- The legend cult leaders,

Lee and Wryfield,

were the only members charged

in the recent raid.

- Lee and Wryfield are facing

life in prison.

- The cult crime sensation

that is shocking the nation.

- Crime just for men

not anymore,

because amateur undercover

footage revealed

- Hours of undercover footage

has been leaked to news

outlets.

- Shocking footage proves

that women don't need a man

to become violent cultist

K*llers.

- We're being told that one

New Eden member

has been outed as an undercover

journalist.

♪♪♪

- It was one thing,

that Hannah lied

about why she had come

to New Eden

or why she was filming us.

But to find out that all of

that footage

had been leaked to the press.

I mean-I mean, why would

she expose us like that?

It was unforgivable.

Unforgivable.

- Even after everything that

happened.

sh*t, I still can't believe

she do that.

- Especially to me.

- Especially to Max.

- Yeah especially to Max.

- Yeah.

Interviewer: So you had no idea

who she was?

- No idea. We all thought

she was one of us.

Pretty hard f*ck' pill

to swallow

on top of all the other sh*t.

- Look, the second those two

got indicted,

there was a media blackout

in BC.

Meaning that we were not

allowed to report

on our own story

until after the trial.

So what was I supposed to do,

hm?

This was about to be the

biggest story of our careers.

(Sighs)

So I sent the footage

to a friend of mine who had

a TV station in Seattle.

And things just kind

of exploded from there.

Lacey Kwan: Within days

of the raid.

It was a national story here

in Canada.

But then that footage came out,

and man, once the American

m,

that was it.

It wasn't just this quirky,

special interest story

from up in Canada anymore.

New Eden became like this

international cultural

phenomenon.

- What about this all women

cult, New Eden,

you heard about this?

- Now, how do you say that?

Is it Gaion.

- Gaion?

- No it's Gaion.

- He got it right. Yeah.

- It's French.

Late night host: Yeah,

I don't get these gals.

Are they anarchists

or are they feminists

are they alien worshipers?

Seems like they could use

a man around

just to make some damn

decisions.

(Audience laughs, claps)

Oh.

- It was pretty wild.

I mean, we've never been

famous before, you know.

Except for that time,

we dr.

But this was way bigger

then that.

Interviewer: Right. this time

you were charged with m*rder.

- Right.

(Protestors shout)

- A woman's B worship cult

ge.

(Buzzing)

- The leaked footage reveals

a disturbing fixation

on a female alien goddess

called Gaion.

- Confusing because as we all

know, most aliens are boys.

- Soon you couldn't turn your

TV on without seeing them.

It had stopped being this

Canadian cult

and was just New Eden.

It was on everyone's lips.

- Do we think this is just

sensationalized hysteria?

Or could these women be

dangerous?

- It's Canada, Derek.

I mean, up there a carjacking

is considered a hard crime.

(Laughing)

- And then, of course,

once it was out there,

no one gave a sh*t

who we we're.

All they cared about was seeing

a bunch of women

running around with their

breast out,

praying to some alien

in the sky.

Katherine: I think that it was

a story

that people really wanted.

You know, here were these

powerful women

who were also spiritualists,

pioneers,

who were also victims.

- These ladies can call

themselves whatever they like.

As long as they don't ask

if it makes them look fat.

(Audience laughs, clapping)

(Pop)

That's a bunt.

Lacey: Grace and Katherine

fascinated people,

and the stories about them

just kept getting

stranger and stranger.

especially when the Americans

found out

who the Wryfields were.

(Wood clatters)

- Wow, Timothy,

you're awfully strong.

- That's 'cause mother gives me

Wryfield snack crackers.

Made with the finest

Canadian wheat and rye.

- Wryfield snack crackers

because your children

deserve to grow big.

(Crunching)

(Ding)

♪♪♪

(Music sting)

- Toronto based philanthropists,

Bev and Bunny Wryfield,

owners of the beloved

Wryfi,

faced scandal today.

They're estranged daughter,

Katherine,

has been charged with the

m*rder of her eccentric aunt.

- They were like the Kennedy's

of Canada of crackers.

- My parents were concerned

about the negative attention

affecting the company.

Of course they were.

- Now I think first

and foremost,

they were concerned

about their only daughter

being carted off to jail.

Hell, I was concerned about

their only daughter

being carted off to jail.

Interviewer: Let's go back

to the night you were arrest.

- They split us up,

and I just remember thinking,

don't say a f*ck' word.

- Agh. Me, too.

(Handcuffs clink)

- If you talked to us,

we can help you.

(Hard thump)

- Katherine told you to m*rder

Agnes Wryfield

and you did it.

- Did Katherine put you up

to it, Grace?

- Why? Maybe Katherine

was your girlfriend. Hm?

- When I was a kid,

I thought I was gonna be

a pilot when I grew up.

Am I boring you?

- Think you're gonna be

laughing like that

when you're in f*cking jail

for the rest of your f*cking

life?!

(Chair clatters)

- f*ck!

- Sticking together is always

what we've been best at.

We knew it was never more

important than that night.

- I was a pawn, a pawn.

She manipulated me.

I mean, Grace is basically

a hill person.

Did you know that?

I mean,

who knows what she's up to?

Can I get another coffee?

(Crying)

Thank you.

Do you even know

who my family is?

They're rich.

Please don't tell mother

and daddy.

They will be so mad.

(Sobbing)

Officer: Is there anything

- Where did you go?

- you want to say Miss Lee?

- Where did you go?

Are you coming back?

(Crying)

I'll tell you anything.

Please.

- Where's our f*cking lawyer?

♪♪♪

Nancy: Legal Aid B.C.

in the early 80s,

was famously under-funded.

And suddenly you

had this huge case

and these two lawyers who had

barely any trial experience,

let alone a m*rder trial.

I mean, it was

yeah, embarrassing.

- Do you believe your clients

are innocent?

- Are you pushing for a trial

b?

- Will they be tried

together or separately?

- Will this case be going

to trial next year?

- Well, we certainly hope not.

Yeah.

But yeah. Yes, it is.

- Yeah, I mean,

judge just said it is.

So I guess we have to now.

- Have to, but it's not the

worst since I get to litigate

with the best guy in town.

- (Chuckles) Hey, I feel like

I'm the lucky one.

Buckley: Two lucky guys. Yeah.

Colby: You're great, dude.

Bu.

Interviewer: So what happened

next?

- Well, we fell in love.

Interviewer: With the trial.

- Oh, yeah.

We were not at all prepared

to take a case to trial.

- Yeah. We actually bonded over

the fact

that we were both

very bad lawyers.

- Very bad lawyers.

We own a grocery store now.

- Yeah, actually, you know

what?

I got disbarred

on our anniversary.

- Oh, yeah. That's right.

- Yeah.

- Oh.

- I actually met Buckley once

back when I was still

practicing.

He told me he got his law

degree by fax.

- The New Mexico Institute

for Mail Order Lawyers.

- That case would have been

over before it started

if those boys had been the ones

to take it to trial.

- You know, if I hadn't leaked

that footage,

Elizabeth Mill would've never

got wind of it.

See but with how big it got,

you know, a shark like that

is bound to smell blood

in the water.

Even all the way from New York.

- Elizabeth Mill wasn't even

licensed

to practice in Canada

at the time,

but the Wryfields were a very

powerful and connected family.

So if this is who they wanted

to defend their daughter,

this was who they were

gonna get.

- Mother and daddy always

wanted what was best for me.

For us.

So naturally they felt

that Elizabeth Mill

should be the one

to represent me.

- Yep.

I guess can't argue

with mother and daddy.

- Elizabeth Mill was infamous.

She epitomized everything

you think of

when you imagine the flashy

American lawyer

you see on TV.

She was ruthless, stylish,

well-connected,

and had made a career of

winning un-winnable cases,

usually by using these very

theatrical stunts.

- I object. Or do I?

- (Shocked gasps)

If I can sneak a body double

into open court.

Who's to say that my client's

doppelganger

didn't stab all those teachers.

Hm?

I had just gotten off the

Yonkers Snake Strangler

and I was at the top

of my game.

Interviewer: So how did you end

up getting involved?

- I'd known the Wryfields

socially for years,

Bev and Bunny where really

desperate

for any legitimate

representation.

And at the time I had developed

a reputation

for being upsetting

to women.

I was looking to rebrand.

Oh, sure, I'm for women's lib.

Best thing to happen to ugly

women since the girdle.

I get bad guys off.

That's what gets me off.

Like I told Ruth Bader Ginsburg

at Clarence Thomas's Halloween

party.

You are a b*tch.

Suddenly everyone was talking

about these two feminists

who had started a cult

and .

And I thought

I need this case.

I thought this could be a

career making opportunity.

Actually, I thought,

wait 'til that troll Ruth Bader

Ginsburg hears about this,

but mostly I did it for

women.

- Will they be tried together

or separately?

- Who'll be acting as lead

counsel

when this does go to trial?

- Us?

- Wrong.

- (Gasps)

- It's Elizabeth Mill.

- Thanks Tony.

- I am named Tony.

- Eliz?

- Elizabeth Mill

for the defense.

- I mean, that was literally

the first time we ever met her.

- My clients are going

to fight these charges.

But this fight isn't merely

about these two courageous

women.

This is about justice

for all women.

And I will not rest

until we get the rights

and freedoms

that we all deserve.

- Yeah!

It was pretty cool.

- Wasn't that cool.

- Right?

- Yes. Yes.

Because we are women

and we have voices--

- No further comments

at this time. Thank you.

- (Reporter shout)

- Great tie by the way.

- Totally.

- I may have leaked

the footage,

but the frenzy that followed

that was pure magic lawyer

bullshit and that,

that that woman,

was queen of magic lawyer

bullshit.

- They used to call her

the sorceress of spin,

or to quote Ruth Bader

Ginsburg,

an unhinged charlatan who

for some reason hates me.

- When I take on a case,

I start defending it months

before we go to trial

because like it or not,

the media's perception is

an integral part of that.

- So here was this woman

who had no morals at all,

a woman who would bend

the rules

to suit her every purpose.

Going up against a man who

lived and died by the book.

Josiah Noseworthy was

the prosecutor assigned

to the New Eden case,

and he was a real hard-a*s.

- Well, the victims

of Mr. Tordano

will never truly get justice,

even though we got the maximum

sentence possible.

It still isn't enough.

Do we want to live in a world

where we have to lock

our doors at night

because Charles Manson

and his lunatic followers

will walk in and stab us

in our sleep?

We cannot allow this depravity

to threaten our citizens.

We must fight back

with the power of the law

and bring swift justice

to all who defy it.

- Josiah Noseworthy's

whole thing was

that he had the highest

conve

and he had no time

for media fluff.

- The good people of British

Columbia have been shaken

to their foundations.

This is a hard working salt

of the earth community

and they want swift

and honest justice.

I promise you this whole circus

will soon be behind us.

- And what do you say

to the rumors that

New Eden is a l*sbian,

sex cult--

- Yeah, I don't see how

that's at all relevant.

Now, I find this sort

of speculation

to be incredibly dangerous.

You know, personally,

I approach my work with

a high degree of integrity

and respect. Do you?

- Ah. Sorry. Yes.

- Uh-uh.

No further questions.

- They couldn't have been

more opposite.

(Music plays, audience cheers)

- Hello, hello, hello,

and welcome to Diane.

I'm Diane.

- Let me ask you this, Diane,

why are my clients being

persecuted?

Because they're guilty? No!

Because they're women.

(Audience applauds)

- Yeah!

- She knew how to put on a show

and all the media, which she

more or less brought with her,

they ate it all up.

- Sure. Maybe their philosophy

was a bit out there.

I mean, we all said crazy

things in the 70s, right?

- I know I did.

(Chuckles)

- But their only crime was

trying to create a space

where women could take their

power back.

And the outcry that

they're facing is well

tantamount to a modern day

witch hunt.

An Josiah Noseworthy

is leading it.

- After Elizabeth Mill

got involved.

Grace and Katherine took on

these whole new cultural

identities.

- To be honest with you,

I think I'm more of a Grace

unless I haven't had

my morning coffee.

Then it's Katherinetown, USA,

and I'm the mayor.

Lacey: Grace was the rebel.

And Katherine was the disgraced

heiress.

I think it was Rolling Stone

who dubbed Grace

- Racy Gracy.

- Racy Gracy.

- Racy Gracy.

- Fondly known as Racy Gracy.

- Racy Gracy.

- People loved that.

But media on both sides

of the border

struggled for a long time

to come up with a nickname

for Katherine

that would stick.

Kathy Canadian,

Queen Katherine,

cr*cker Black Sheep.

Nothing quite took

until

Tony: Grace, Katherine,

do you regret starting

New Eden?

- Absolutely not, Tony.

Elizabeth: No.

- No, that's not to say that

there weren't problems.

I mean, that many women

and only one bathroom.

(All laugh)

Tony: Pretty good.

That's very funny.

- One bathroom.

How many women

are we talking about?

- These women are spiritual

leaders

being punished for their

beliefs.

- Hey, how about you try

sharing one bathroom

with that many women.

Imagine all those women

and only one bath--

- Ha! Almost forgot

about these

Racy Gracy, pretty good.

Interviewer: How did you feel

about being dubbed

Katherine bathroom?

- I embraced it.

I do have a sense of humor,

you know.

- The whole media circus

that Elizabeth had built

was part of the distraction.

Without it she never

would've been allowed

to try a case here.

And the reality was,

she dg

about trying a case

in British Columbia.

But she certainly wasn't

gonna let that stop her.

- She made us quit our Legal

Aid office

and start are own law firm.

- Technically,

she was articling for us

during the entire trial.

- Yeah. Didn't feel like it,

though.

- No. Not at all.

- Not at all.

But judge said it was okay.

So she just kind of took over.

- We let her.

- After that,

they just had to hope

that the presiding judge

would sign off on her

as lead counsel.

And let's just say

that Justice Myler

was susceptible to the

influence of a woman

like Elizabeth Mill.

- (Laughs)

Oh.

This guy was

not what you think of

when you picture

a Supreme Court justice

or any kind of justice

or even a lawyer.

I actually think he wanted

to be an actor at one point.

It was his first m*rder trial.

That's insane.

I think if any other judge

had been on the bench

for that case,

Elizabeth Mill would not have

been able to do what she did.

But he was the perfect mark.

- Justice Myler you've just

been assigned

to the highly infamous case

against the women of New Eden.

How do you feel about taking on

such a heavily publicized

trial?

- Um huh.

- I felt that it was very

important to this case

that the trial itself

be televised,

which apparently wasn't

a thing in Canada.

- Technically, there

isn't a written law

prohibiting news cameras from

filming a criminal court case.

Everyone just understood it

wa.

Almost everyone.

- Elizabeth Mill intimated

you're considering

allowing cameras in the

courtroom during the trial,

is that correct?

- Well, I, you know,

that's not something that

was typically we-- you know.

- She suggested it would be

a great opportunity

to demonstrate the intricacies

of the Canadian judicial

system.

- Right. Again, typically

tha-

- She also mentioned

that you are very brave

and have a face for TV.

- Do you agree

with that statement?

- She said that? Seriously?

- She did.

- (Clears throat)

Yes. Well um,

due to the nature of the case

and the attention

that it's already garnered,

we feel, I feel that um,

it is appropriate

to allow cameras to film

absolutely everything.

- Are you authorized to make

this choice?

Is this legal under the current

judicial system?

- This is a good look. Is this

your typical court look?

- Oh, this is just me

living life. (Chuckles)

- You do look good.

- Order on the porch.

(Laughing)

- This is gonna be great.

- I had a plan

and I wasn't gonna let

another country's

judicial process stand

in the way of it.

A modern lawyer needs

to understand

that part of the job is shaping

that public opinion

before anyone sets foot

in a courtroom.

Why? Because like it or not,

the jury is going to be part

of that public.

People are flawed.

Ergo, the system is flawed.

Ergo,

I do what I have to to win.

And I do flawlessly

usually.

- We interrupt this program

with breaking news

and the ongoing Lee,

Wryfield case.

Two local teens made

a disturbing discovery

after sneaking onto the New

Eden property late last night.

A warning to viewers,

the material

you're about to see

contains shocking images.

- Dude, come on.

Where are you?

You okay?

- Ahhh!

- (Startled) Ahh!

- (Laughing) Dude.

Dude, you should have seen

your f*ck' face.

- Suck my ba*ls, man.

- p*ssy.

What the hell is that?

- Come on, man.

Don't-don't f*ck with me.

- I'm not f*cking with you.

Come over here.

- Holy f*ck, dude.

That's a f*cking foot.

Dude, that's a foot.

- Yeeeaahhhhhh.

- The first rule

to any good defense

is be prepared for anything.

Nobody was prepared for that.

- Shocking news.

- The body of another women

has been has been uncovered

on the New Eden property.

- The arms, legs and torso

of the victim

have all been found

in separate burial sites.

- An unidentified torso

of a second victim.

- with the canine unit

continued to search

for the victim's missing head.

- The head remains at large.

- Where is the head?

- The finger prints are too

eroded to get a positive I.D.

- Maybe a double homicide.

(Helicopter rotors beat)

- And so the question remains,

who was this woman?

What was her connection

to New Eden?

And why did its leaders

want her dead?

♪♪♪

♪♪♪

- Yeah, we may have lost sight

of her at one point.

- I mean, keep in mind

there were a lot of women

to keep track of.

- Yeah. And we were pretty

high for a lot of that time.

(Reporters shout out questions)

Pete: Sergeant Nelson do

the lab reports confirm

that the remains found match

that of an elderly woman.

- Have you determined a motive

for Ms. McNurtt's alleged

m*rder?

- Here's what I can tell you.

We have determined that

Ms. McNurtt was at New Eden

for several years.

She was not accounted for

in the night that we raided

the property.

And she was not one of the

women who left the community

in the summer of 1981.

- Are you not concerned that

evidence will be ruled

too circumstantial?

- Can you explain

the discrepancies

between the Agnes Wryfield

gravesite

and that of the alleged

Ms. McNurtt?

- Well, clearly, we cannot

reveal all of the evidence

that we have gathered

at this time.

But I can assure you that

the woman we found

is Tabitha McNurtt,

and that Grace Lee

and Katherine Wryfield

are the reasons that

she is no longer with us.

No more questions.

- Okay. Well, I know

what he's saying.

(Overlapping conversations)

- You can keep taking pictures.

♪♪♪

- I've made a career on

anticipating variables

and demolishing any that are

not favorable to my narrative.

Okay?

- Elizabeth Mill couldn't have

anticipated that second body.

No one could have.

But what she also failed

to anticipate

was the fallout

among the media throng

that she herself had built.

- But even when you do

everything right.

Well, there are always

going to be factors

that you just can't control.

And when all those factors

stack up

well, the tide turns.

- Now we've been taught

to believe

that women all the fairer sex.

But the devil is always

had other plans for them.

- The fact is there

are not enough facts

for a second m*rder charge.

- It was woman who destroyed

paradise.

- My clients are victims

of a corrupt system.

- Now she, Satan, want

the chance to do it again!

- Elizabeth Mill is a woman

so unscrupulous

she would make a mockery

of our judicial system.

- A good defense attorney

doesn't care

whether her clients

are innocent or guilty.

- By attention seeking stunts

that seek to undermine

the sanctity of our legal

process.

- This is just like

we talked about.

- By choosing to defend these

women in the first place.

- More of the same witch hunt.

- And by her efforts to cloak

their true intentions

under a false veneer

of feminist sentiment.

- Orchestrated by a frustrated

prosecutor who is--

- Elizabeth, please.

How can you expect people

to just ignore

what they're seeing?

- The truth always comes

to light.

And I am confident

that people will see

what many of us

have known all along.

- These women are clearly

serial K*llers.

- And until the authorities

can produce the missing head.

- They did something to it.

One of their rituals?

- I can assure you

that my clients--

- (Screams)

- (Laughing)

- These women are dangerous.

- These women are sick.

- These women are K*llers.

- And they're dumb too.

- I'm gonna f*ck' k*ll you!

- They're answering

to a power far darker

than the good people of this

community can understand.

- Cast out these women.

You cast out the evil

that is inside

each and every one of us.

Cast out these women!

- So to answer your question,

no,

we were not feeling confident

going into our trial.

♪♪♪

♪ If I could build a wall

around you ♪

♪ I could control

the thing that you do ♪

♪ And it never shows ♪

♪ The place where evil grows ♪