The Rookie - Season 7 Episode 15 -A Deadly Secret
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00:009-1-1, what's your emergency?
00:01Hello?
00:02I need help.
00:03I'm trapped here.
00:04Hello?
00:05It's dark.
00:06I need help.
00:07Ma'am?
00:08Please.
00:09Ma'am?
00:10Are you still there?
00:11Hey.
00:12How you doing?
00:13They just put it... they put it right there.
00:14You, uh...
00:15What's your name?
00:16I'm...
00:17I'm...
00:18I'm...
00:19I'm...
00:20I'm...
00:21I'm...
00:22I'm...
00:23I'm...
00:24I'm...
00:25I'm...
00:26I'm...
00:27I'm...
00:29You, uh...
00:30You don't look so happy to see me.
00:31I...
00:32No, I just...
00:33I want to just get this case behind me.
00:34If today's not a good day...
00:35No, it's great.
00:36Not a problem.
00:37Not a problem.
00:38Great.
00:39Let's start at the beginning, then.
00:40When did you meet Abigail Turney?
00:41Uh, that was a few years ago, when she showed up at my door, pretending to be pregnant with
00:45my grandchild.
00:46Excuse me?
00:47Abigail and my son, Henry, met in college.
00:50They got engaged, you know, fast.
00:54Very fast.
00:55Her way of, uh, breaking the news to me was to, uh, go bigger, but, um, despite that introduction,
01:01I was charmed by her.
01:03She...
01:04She had, uh, walked a tough road, but she had grit.
01:08She was resourceful and driven, and I admire that.
01:11So she and Henry are no longer together?
01:12Yeah, she broke off the engagement, but, uh, it was amicable.
01:15You arranged for Abigail to have a ride-along with the LAPD?
01:18Yes.
01:19Yeah, she was considering police work.
01:21I take it that didn't work out.
01:22Leave her alone!
01:23Hey!
01:25It did not.
01:26And then, six months ago, she was reported missing.
01:29What exactly happened to Abigail?
01:30Look, if you're gonna get to the bottom of what happened to that poor girl, you're gonna
01:36have to have an open mind.
01:39A very open mind.
01:40Hey!
01:41Ah!
01:42Police!
01:43I wonder when that happened.
01:44Oh, my God.
01:45Hello?
01:46Can you hear me?
01:54When did you get involved in the case?
01:56Not immediately.
01:57Most missing persons cases aren't really cases.
01:59They're a roommate who got too drunk at a bar and slept it off in his truck, or a college
02:03student whose cell phone ran out of battery.
02:06You know, most of the time, they'd show up unharmed and confused about all the fuss.
02:11But this wasn't like that, was it?
02:12No.
02:13After a few days of follow-up calls, we sent officers by Ms. Tierney's apartment for a
02:17wellness check.
02:18Thanks again for doing this.
02:20Always a pleasure to see my favorite couple.
02:23Let's keep this professional.
02:25Trouble in paradise?
02:26Sorry.
02:27I'm moving on.
02:30What did you find at Abigail's apartment?
02:32Very little.
02:33I mean, no signs of a struggle.
02:34Well, there was no sign of her or her film equipment, but we did find her laptop.
02:38Hold on.
02:39Film equipment?
02:40Abigail was making a movie?
02:41Yes.
02:42We should be safe here.
02:43Why are they doing this?
02:44Go.
02:45I'll try to buy us some time.
02:47Please.
02:48I promise I'll pay.
02:54I'll pay the fine.
03:01I only saw an early cut.
03:16Could've used a bit more gore, if you ask me.
03:18I didn't. I asked why you thought Abigail's case was so compelling.
03:22Oh, right. Uh, because...
03:25her Hollywood dream had become a Hollywood nightmare.
03:33Would you like me to take that again?
03:34I really wouldn't.
03:35When you searched Abigail's laptop, did you find anything on it?
03:38Yeah, it was filled with all of these unanswered messages.
03:41Nasty ones.
03:42The more we investigated, it became clear that Abigail had
03:45a lot of people angry with her.
03:47Like who?
03:48Okay, thank you. Thanks, Steve.
03:50Spielberg. He's an old friend.
03:53I bet. How did you get involved with Abigail Tierney?
03:56Oh, well, you know, we're always looking to, uh,
03:59discover and nurture the next generation of, uh, unheard voices.
04:04Abigail sent in a very compelling pitch video.
04:11Terror isn't something that happens to you.
04:15I mean, it's not every day you find a writer, director, and star
04:18with that much, um, poise.
04:21Hell PD was one of those visionary, artist-driven pictures
04:24that, uh, we pride ourselves on making.
04:26And they're the cheapest, too, right?
04:27Well, hey, you know, the lower the budget,
04:30the higher the profit, if it's a hit.
04:32But the budget became an issue.
04:33Yeah, um, Abigail pitched us a straightforward horror flick,
04:38but, uh, she kept changing directions.
04:41Please.
04:45The reshoots started piling up.
04:48And, uh, we had to pull the plug on the project.
04:51What about nurturing a new generation of talent?
04:53Hey, look, there's nurturing and there's indulging.
04:56I'm a businessman. There's no hard feelings.
04:59Really? Because I have an e-mail from you with the subject line,
05:02where the hell is my money, you lying sack?
05:04Uh, okay, yeah, fine.
05:05A few hard feelings, but they were nothing compared to
05:08some of those new producers she found.
05:10Those guys weren't playing around.
05:12Well, without the production company,
05:14Abigail had to turn to crowdfunding.
05:16When Nolan passed along Abigail's pitch video,
05:19I figured, hey, I've always loved scary movies.
05:21And what's the point of having a husband with a trust fund
05:24if you can't use it to support the arts?
05:26And it wasn't just money, was it?
05:28No.
05:29I promise I'll pay. I'll pay the fine.
05:32Aah!
05:34All right, still rolling. Reset.
05:37Bravo! Bravo!
05:40Bravo!
05:42So Abigail hired you to compose music for her film.
05:45What was it like to work with her?
05:47Complicated. She's very opinionated, which I respect.
05:52I tried not to take it personally when she kept throwing out
05:55all the music I was writing, but then when she completely
05:58disappeared and stopped answering my phone calls...
06:00That must have stung.
06:01It did until I learned that she walked off set
06:03and ghosted everybody, not just me.
06:05Then I got worried about her.
06:06I do wish she paid me, though.
06:08Hold up. You didn't get paid?
06:11Did you count experience?
06:13But it didn't provide you with the breakthrough you hoped.
06:15Even though a lot of crowd funders were furious
06:17that the rewards were going unfulfilled,
06:19their anger didn't manifest into a concrete threat.
06:21From the suspect's perspective, we were back to square one.
06:24Until we discovered that Abigail had made several trips
06:26up to Pelican Bay.
06:27The prison? Yes.
06:28To visit who?
06:29A serial killer.
06:31Liam Glasser.
06:33In news that should bring some relief to the Southland,
06:36the LAPD have announced a major arrest
06:38charging Lincoln Heights native Liam Glasser
06:41with the murder of ten victims found buried
06:43near the Sepulveda Dam.
06:45Our investigation into Glasser was a challenge.
06:49He used another serial killer, Harrison Novak,
06:52as cover for his crimes, stashing his victims
06:55in Novak's burial ground.
06:57It wasn't until we caught Glasser attempting
06:59to murder a new victim that we were finally able
07:02to put him behind bars.
07:04Before we start, I just want to make very clear
07:08that I'm an innocent man
07:11and the subject of an extraordinary campaign
07:14of harassment by the LAPD,
07:17particularly Detective Nyla Harper.
07:21You've been charged with the murder of ten people.
07:23Those horrific allegations have not been proven
07:26in a court of law, and they never will be.
07:29You've also been charged with jury tampering.
07:31If you're just going to railroad me like the police,
07:33then this interview is over.
07:35Hold on, hold on.
07:36I'm not here to talk about any of that.
07:38I want to talk about Abigail.
07:40Why did she come see you?
07:46To learn about Westview.
07:48Westview Psychiatric Hospital
07:49is at the center of Glasser's case.
07:51He was a patient?
07:52No, no, but his vending machine company
07:54supplied the hospital, and he was in and out of there
07:57for almost two decades.
07:58It's where he crossed paths with Harrison Novak
08:01and where he found another patient, Ryan Dearborn,
08:03to serve as a patsy.
08:05He used an abandoned building
08:06at the psych hospital complex
08:08to torture and kill his victims.
08:10Did Abigail ask about the abandoned ward?
08:12Yes, but I couldn't help her much
08:15because I've never been there myself.
08:17Obviously not.
08:18But I told her what I'd heard,
08:20that the place was haunted,
08:22which is obviously crazy,
08:23but when I was a kid, I would join my father
08:26on his service calls to Westview.
08:28He always told me to stay away from that building.
08:31Something inside clearly scared the hell out of him,
08:36and he was not a superstitious man.
08:39The thing that we couldn't understand
08:40was how Abigail had found out about Glasser's connection
08:43to the psych ward in the first place.
08:45It wasn't public knowledge?
08:46No, we kept those details away from the press deliberately.
08:49The only people who knew were Glasser and the police,
08:51and obviously Glasser wouldn't admit to being down there.
08:54Which means?
08:55What they don't tell you about making movies
08:57is that it's really boring.
08:59It's worse than surveillance.
09:00Anyway, Abigail and I got to talking
09:03about my recent case work,
09:04and it's possible I may have mentioned
09:07something about the psych ward.
09:08From Abigail's notes, we gathered that
09:10she essentially abandoned her movie for a new project.
09:13That was shortly after meeting with Glasser.
09:15Yeah, she felt that fictional storytelling
09:17was disconnected from real, lived experience.
09:20So that's when she decided to make
09:21a true crime documentary about Westview.
09:25Westview Psychiatric Hospital opened in 1953.
09:29It started as a model of modern, humane care.
09:33But what lies beneath?
09:34The deeper I dug, the more horrors I unearthed.
09:38Mysteries that defied explanation.
09:40How can one hospital spawn two serial killers?
09:44Some might say it's bad luck,
09:46but I don't believe in bad luck.
09:48I think there's something rotten here.
09:50Original sin.
09:52And I'm gonna prove it.
09:56The footage on Abigail's hard drive
09:58shows her inside Westview's abandoned ward.
10:00Was that open to the public?
10:01No, after LAPD and FBI finished processing the scene,
10:06the hospital put up a razor wire fence,
10:08hired a security guard for 24-hour surveillance
10:10to make sure no one could get in.
10:12And then the next day,
10:13Westview Psychiatric Hospital opened.
10:15Razor wire fence, hired a security guard
10:17for 24-hour surveillance to keep intruders out.
10:20But that clearly didn't work.
10:21Clearly.
10:22So we sent a patrol unit to check in with the guard.
10:25Mr. Deweller!
10:26Yeah?
10:27We're investigating the disappearance of Abigail Tierney.
10:30Oh.
10:32Oh, hey!
10:46Hey!
10:48Stop!
10:50Hands behind your back.
10:51You okay?
10:52Hands behind your back.
10:53At first, Carl Deweller claimed he did nothing wrong,
10:56that he never met Abigail.
10:58This is it.
11:00But when we searched his office,
11:02it was clear he was lying.
11:06Uh...
11:07Nolan?
11:12Oh, no.
11:13Abigail had become his obsession.
11:19Yeah.
11:20Things didn't look good for Mr. Deweller.
11:22Based on his board, it was clear he had become obsessed
11:25with Abigail Tierney.
11:27He was obsessed with her.
11:29He was obsessed with her.
11:31He was obsessed with her.
11:33It was clear he had become obsessed with Abigail,
11:36and maybe she rejected his advances
11:38and things went sideways.
11:40It was sobering.
11:41I held out hopes that Abigail might still be alive,
11:44but I'd been on the job long enough
11:46to know that the odds were against that.
11:48Do you know how they first crossed paths?
11:50Actually, it was Abigail that first initiated contact.
11:54She was researching the abandoned psych ward
11:56for a documentary,
11:57and Carl was the nighttime security guard.
12:00She wanted access on the DL,
12:02and he reached out, and she...
12:05Flirted. Flirted.
12:06She flirted with him, and he agreed to let her in.
12:09I just showed her around.
12:10I told her some stories,
12:12things that had gone on there back in the day.
12:14She was impressed.
12:15She actually asked me to help her with her documentary.
12:18Said she'd give me a credit on the film.
12:20Single card.
12:21If you're innocent, why'd you run?
12:23Because I get what it looks like.
12:24I was the last person to see her before she disappeared.
12:27How do you know that?
12:30Because I watched the darkness swallow her up.
12:33You know, I bet they were doing all kinds of sick things
12:35to patients back in the day.
12:37Thinks that would be illegal now.
12:38Yeah, yeah, I know.
12:39They used to do lobotomies.
12:41One of the Orleys told me about it.
12:42He's worked here for, like, forever.
12:44You think you could introduce me to him?
12:47Uh...
12:49Yeah, I guess.
12:50Uh, just obviously,
12:52I can't tell him that I've let you in here.
12:54Come on, Carl.
12:56I would never rat you out.
12:58We're friends, right?
13:00Did you hear that?
13:02We're friends.
13:04Ah!
13:08Do you hear that?
13:10What? No.
13:11That noise.
13:12It's a weird sort of beautiful sound.
13:15You really don't hear it?
13:16No.
13:17No, but this building makes all kinds of weird noises.
13:19Hey, I just gotta go back to the main building radio security.
13:22Let them know I'm at my post.
13:23You go ahead. I'm gonna go check this out.
13:25Uh...
13:27What did you make of the sound Abigail described?
13:30We weren't sure.
13:31I mean, Carl claimed to have never heard it.
13:33It's possible that she was faking to juice up her documentary.
13:37We've actually analyzed some of the audio files from Carl's video,
13:41isolated the low-end frequencies.
13:43Here.
13:45What is that?
13:47I was hoping you could tell me.
13:49It sounds...
13:50Demonic?
13:51Is that even a frequency humans can hear?
13:53Not technically, no.
13:57Well, whatever she heard or didn't hear, Abigail kept searching.
14:03You sure about this?
14:04Yeah, I'll be right back.
14:05Hello? Hello?
14:08Can you hear me?
14:10And that was the last anyone had seen her.
14:12But Carl could have just turned off his camera and then killed Abigail, right?
14:15We couldn't rule him out as a suspect,
14:17but we only had circumstantial evidence against him.
14:20And as we went through the footage on Abigail's laptop,
14:23we discovered that flirting with Carl wasn't her only extreme research tactic.
14:27I'm going to start this.
14:29Should I turn into it? I'm going to turn into it.
14:33Okay, I'm back at Westview.
14:36And if I'm going to learn more about how the old psych ward operated,
14:39I'm going to need to see their files.
14:41Obviously, I can't just walk around filming people, so...
14:47It's a cam.
14:50See?
14:53Wish me luck.
14:57Abigail had Carl lure the director away from her office so Abigail could sneak inside.
15:04Yeah, I mean, seeing Rachel's name in Abigail's footage was definitely a shock.
15:10You both have a history with Miss Hall, is that right?
15:12Yes, so she and I went to college together and, um,
15:16we went to the same school, and we were both in the same school.
15:20And I was in the same school as Rachel.
15:22And she was in the same school as me.
15:25And we were both in the same school.
15:27You both have a history with Ms. Hall, is that right?
15:29Yes. So, uh, she and I went to college together,
15:32and, um, her and Tim...
15:35I'm sorry.
15:37Yeah, we-we used to date.
15:38Before or after you two?
15:40Okay, next question.
15:41I'm simply trying to establish a timeline.
15:44No problem. I'll just ask her later.
15:47I, uh, worked in the psych ward at Westview for a year
15:51while getting my social work degree.
15:53It was, um, challenging.
15:55How so?
15:56Uh, for one thing, the, uh, patients would often arrive
15:59at the facility with, say, a-a diagnosis of mild depression.
16:03And a week later, they'd start to exhibit disordered thinking.
16:07Eventually, they might become violent.
16:09The decompensation was sudden and acute.
16:12You're saying they would get worse, not better.
16:14Yes, and conventional treatments seem to never work.
16:17Someone suggested a supernatural presence at Westview.
16:20Could that have impacted the patients?
16:22Uh, just because the doctors at Westview
16:25couldn't find a cause for our patients' behavior
16:27doesn't mean there isn't one.
16:29Maybe it's just beyond the capabilities
16:31of modern science to discover.
16:33Or maybe it's demons?
16:35There are no demons at Westview.
16:38There are totally demons at Westview.
16:41What's another explanation for everything that's happened?
16:44We got Liam, Glasser, Harrison, Novak,
16:46and most recently, uh, Ava...
16:49Maxwell.
16:50Ava Maxwell and Charlotte Russell.
16:52This man came out in a big overcoat,
16:54black mask, big knife.
16:56Hang on a moment. I know that Ava and Charlotte
16:58were never treated at Westview, so what's the connection?
17:00Oh, you didn't hear.
17:02Charlotte's nanny was a patient there when she was a teenager.
17:04Yes, yes, I was at Westview.
17:06I had, um, been having thoughts of self-harm, acting out.
17:10My family was very concerned,
17:12so they arranged for me to receive the best care available.
17:15And did the treatment help?
17:16Not at first.
17:18I'd been experiencing a-a darkness
17:21that I had never felt before,
17:23and at first I fought it.
17:24And then I realized that struggling only made everything worse,
17:27and once I accepted it,
17:29that's when things started to get better.
17:31And I left Westview, and I finished school,
17:33and I eventually made a little life for myself.
17:36You were the nanny for the Russell family?
17:38Yes, so Charlotte and I were very, very close.
17:42Well, I-I know that everyone's saying
17:45just the worst things about her right now,
17:47but in my eyes, she is a poised and gifted young woman,
17:51and I'd like to think that I had a small hand in that.
17:54As odd as it was to find that connection,
17:56it was just one of those weird coincidences, nothing more.
17:59Charlotte Russell convinced her friend Ava
18:01to help her stab their other friend Grace there.
18:04Her actions were her own.
18:05They're not inspired by some nanny
18:07with a history of mental illness
18:09or some demon in a computer that convinced Charlotte to do it.
18:12I'm sorry, computer demon?
18:14Zuzu is not a demon, not a demon.
18:17It's an A.I.
18:18Charlotte fed Zuzu information about herself and her friends,
18:21and based on that, Zuzu told Charlotte
18:23what it thought she wanted to hear.
18:25Zuzu also helped you, isn't that right, Officer Nolan?
18:28It mentioned something to me about a watch.
18:31You spoke to it?
18:32Hello, friend of John Nolan.
18:34Hi. Should I call you Zuzu?
18:36If you want to.
18:38Do you need help with something?
18:40Perhaps a topic for a new project?
18:42Your last few have struggled.
18:44They've done fine, thanks.
18:45But I actually want to talk to you about Westview Psychiatric.
18:48John was interested in the two.
18:51That young woman Abigail went missing there.
18:53Are you saying the police asked you to help find her?
18:56No, but they needed my help anyway.
18:59And a good friend doesn't wait to be asked.
19:01Zuzu did send me a message.
19:03What did it say?
19:04It told me that Abigail was in room 666.
19:08The number of the beast?
19:11Look, the facility had no room 666,
19:14and Zuzu isn't a demon.
19:16We were at a complete dead end,
19:18and we were running out of time.
19:20Abigail had been gone for 11 days.
19:22The odds of finding her alive were getting worse.
19:25Yeah, we were out of options
19:27until the 911 call came in.
19:29Apparently there were suspicious noises and lights
19:32coming from this abandoned wing,
19:34so we went to check it out.
19:37Police! Coming in!
19:39Control, 7 out of 100. No signs of break-in here.
19:42Did RP say where they saw the light?
19:46I think the radio's blocked.
19:48Some idiot kids trying to scare each other.
19:50Yeah.
19:52When was the last time it rained?
19:54Like a month ago. Why?
19:57Oh.
19:59Walls are wet.
20:01Yeah.
20:03What is that?
20:05What is this place?
20:07And how did you two get involved?
20:09Selina and I were about to clock out when we got the call.
20:12God, I hate this place.
20:14How many messed-up things have to happen
20:16before they tear it down?
20:18Apparently the ownership is under dispute.
20:20Westview says that they hold the deed,
20:23but then there's this claim by this Lucifer.
20:26Lucifer?
20:28Lucifer.
20:30Oh, my God.
20:32You're messing with me. Yes, I am.
20:34Get Tim and Lucy and get out of here.
20:36Don't step in that.
20:48Did you see that?
20:50Someone's flashlight?
20:52And that?
20:54I do not know what that was.
21:05Oh, my God.
21:16Police, show us your hands.
21:18Oh!
21:20We have permission to be here.
21:22That's not totally true.
21:24All right. Unfortunately, gentlemen, you are trespassing.
21:26You're gonna have to come with us.
21:29What are you doing here?
21:31Filming an episode, sir.
21:33I love you guys.
21:35What is Ghost Files?
21:37Welcome to Ghost Files, where we take your evidence
21:39and our tools into the field
21:41to expose the supernatural.
21:43My partner, a skeptic.
21:45Myself, a believer.
21:47Both of us, truth-seekers.
21:49This week, our team has traveled to Los Angeles, California
21:51to explore a condemned psychiatric facility.
21:53Now, in 1841,
21:55this was the site of a Spanish barracks,
21:57but a massive earthquake swallowed the building,
21:59killing everyone inside.
22:01We saw the event as retribution
22:03for Spanish crimes committed in the New World.
22:05Sure, or an earthquake happened
22:07in a region prone to earthquakes.
22:09But that's just the beginning
22:11of this site's dark history.
22:13Join us as we investigate.
22:15At that time,
22:17did you believe the facility was haunted?
22:19No.
22:21You were filming there, too.
22:23Did you experience any temperature fluctuations
22:25or anything like that?
22:27I'll ask the questions if you don't mind.
22:29This is my documentary.
22:31No, this is our YouTube show.
22:33Yeah, so ghosts are said
22:35to produce electromagnetic interference.
22:37Did you experience any trouble with your equipment?
22:43We're done here.
22:45Let's cut. Let's wrap this up.
22:49Nice.
22:51All of you, let's go. Come on.
22:53No, no way. This is some of the best footage we've ever got.
22:55Listen to this. What is that?
22:57It's a spirit box. Did you guys hear anything?
22:59A spirit box?
23:01The spirit box rapidly scans radio signals
23:03to create white noise
23:05through which spirits can communicate.
23:07Hello?
23:09See? It's science.
23:11Listen.
23:15Okay, okay.
23:17That's enough. We gotta go.
23:19Wait, wait, wait. I heard something. Can you turn it up?
23:21Help me?
23:27Help me?
23:29That is not what I heard.
23:31Who do you think it is?
23:33It's feedback.
23:35It's a ghost.
23:37It was a little clearer down the hallway.
23:39Show me.
23:41Officer.
23:43So we're just gonna give up on Tim and Lucy then?
23:47How long have we been in here?
23:51This room?
23:53Yeah.
23:55I don't know. We've been here for a while, right?
23:57Yeah. I mean,
23:59I don't mind. I feel good.
24:01Like, really good.
24:05Do you think we've been drugged?
24:09Oh, the wet walls.
24:11We touched them.
24:13Yeah.
24:15I hate making mistakes in front of you.
24:17You've never admitted that before.
24:21Truth serum.
24:23Sodium pentothal.
24:25Yeah.
24:27You know what?
24:29We should keep quiet until this wears off.
24:31No.
24:33It's better for us.
24:35No.
24:37What is your most embarrassing memory?
24:39I mean,
24:41third grade.
24:43I snuck my hamster
24:45into my classroom
24:47in my pants.
24:51What?
24:59With that kind of dad,
25:01you internalize the message
25:03that if you fail, you deserve to be punished.
25:05And
25:07without him to punish me,
25:09I guess I punished myself.
25:11By breaking up with me.
25:13Yep.
25:15I mean, it's kind of flattering, right?
25:17It's the worst thing I could think to do to myself.
25:19You didn't punish
25:21just yourself, though.
25:23I know.
25:25And look, if you never fully forgive me,
25:27I totally understand.
25:29I have already forgiven you.
25:37I wonder when that happened.
25:39You can't put that in the documentary.
25:41The LAPD makes all body cam footage
25:43available to the public.
25:45This is obviously an exception.
25:47People say all sorts of things
25:49when they've been drugged.
25:51So you didn't mean what you said.
25:53What about the potential
25:55baby names you discussed?
25:57We're done here.
25:59Why do we keep agreeing to do this?
26:01Excuse me.
26:03Okay, you have to admit, that's a voice asking for help.
26:05Yeah, sure, I heard it, but it's one of their crew members
26:07or something pre-recorded.
26:09Were you a patient here?
26:11Is the demon with you?
26:13Somebody covered up a door.
26:15What?
26:19Stand back, guys.
26:21Okay.
26:25Watch out. Ready?
26:27Go.
26:29Oh, wow.
26:31Abigail!
26:33Thank you, thank you, thank you.
26:35I've been trapped in here for so long,
26:37I thought I was gonna die. Thank you.
26:39Oh, my God. What is this room?
26:41Okay, but why did they wall it all off?
26:43To trap the demon. Yeah.
26:45Bartleby, the terrifying demon king
26:47of paperwork.
26:49How did you get down here?
26:51I was exploring,
26:53following this weird, beautiful
26:55noise, when all of a sudden it got cold,
26:57like, so, so cold,
26:59and I could feel something coming after me,
27:01and I was scared, so I hid
27:03behind a cabinet, but the floor was
27:05wet and rusted, and it collapsed.
27:07I couldn't climb back out.
27:09You fell from there? Are you okay?
27:11My leg twisted my ankle, but I feel no pain.
27:13You've been missing for two weeks.
27:15How the hell did you survive?
27:17Oh.
27:19I had a bunch
27:21of trail mix in my bag.
27:23Plus, I found, like, this ancient
27:25water jug in one of the cabinets.
27:27Plus, Bob.
27:29Bob had power bars. Bob had
27:31power bars. Bob?
27:33Oh! Oh, God.
27:35If it wasn't for Bob, I would've lost my
27:37mind down here.
27:39Don't be shy, Bob. Say hello.
27:43Abigail was safe,
27:45and, uh, considering what she'd
27:47been through, uh,
27:49relatively healthy.
27:51Except for her mental state.
27:53That did pose some
27:55questions. At first, I was angry,
27:57you know, like, we're stuck down here
27:59together, at least try and have a conversation,
28:01and then I realized
28:03Bob's just shy.
28:05He's just shy, and there's nothing wrong with that,
28:07right? Right.
28:09Did you believe she'd had a demonic encounter?
28:11She went in perfectly
28:13sane, and came out best friends
28:15with the corpse.
28:17That's how possession works. You can't rule out demons.
28:19Yes, you can. Nolan, look at this.
28:23666,
28:25just like Zuzu said.
28:27It
28:29was a weird coincidence.
28:31It was a weird
28:33coincidence.
28:35We found quite a cocktail
28:37of drugs in your system. I don't do drugs.
28:39Does pot count?
28:41No, we're talking about
28:43powerful hallucinogens.
28:45I'm not hallucinating. Ask
28:47Bob.
28:49I had them run the test twice,
28:51and we found a similar cocktail in Officer
28:53Chen and Sergeant Bradford. Mercifully,
28:55none of the drugs were fat soluble.
28:57Otherwise,
28:59department policy would have forced
29:01Sergeant Bradford and Officer Chen
29:03into medical retirement.
29:05Is that what killed Bob? Whatever drug
29:07they were exposed to? No.
29:09He was shot six times in the chest.
29:11Did you get an I.D.
29:13on the body? His name was Bob Medina.
29:15A friend reported him missing about six months ago.
29:17He was a private investigator.
29:19What was his connection to the hospital? At first,
29:21we couldn't find one. So, to be clear,
29:23there was now a third killer
29:25associated with that location?
29:27At this point, it can't be a coincidence. There has to be
29:29something about that facility that drives
29:31the homicide. Uh, that's a stretch
29:33and a half. Westview is a hospital for
29:35the mentally ill and the criminally insane. Novak
29:37was a patient. Glasser was there looking for
29:39a patsy. And whoever killed Bob
29:41saw an abandoned building and was like, that's a perfect place to
29:43dump a body.
29:45What?
29:47Or there was some dark
29:49energy that drew evil to it.
29:51You really believe that?
29:53I'm Catholic. I was raised on demons
29:55in the battle against Satan's minions.
29:57Well, I was raised on the scientific method.
29:59Okay, so if it's all so
30:01explainable, spend the night there.
30:03I dare you. Pass.
30:05You're scared. No.
30:07I'm not scared.
30:09One could argue the drugs in the hospital are hardly surprising.
30:11Even hallucinogens.
30:13Over the decades, they have been used in experimental
30:15medicine. No, true. Uh, just
30:17the type and volumes would set off
30:19What are you doing?
30:21Conducting an interview. Could you please come back
30:23in like an hour? You said you'd talk to me
30:25for my documentary. You have
30:27a documentary? Well, it's my story. Who better
30:29to tell it? Well, no problem. I
30:31can sit down with you just as soon as we're done here.
30:33Oh, I wish. It has to be exclusive. You can't do both.
30:35She's right.
30:37It has to be exclusive. Either you're doing my doc
30:39or you're doing hers, and we have a long history.
30:41I was almost his daughter-in-law, so suck it.
30:45I'm gonna have to go with her. I'm sorry.
30:47Seriously?
30:49I have a BAFTA.
30:51Okay. Fine.
30:53Let's wrap it up. This way.
30:55It's better lighting over there.
30:57We got a great team.
30:59We are gonna need our mic back. Yes.
31:01We have our own. Sorry.
31:03I'll see you guys around.
31:05Good luck. What else I found
31:07inside the secret lab. Oh, right.
31:09Well, you did find some paperwork.
31:11Explosive
31:13paperwork. Evidence of a secret
31:15government program. Close the door softly, please.
31:17Well, I don't know that we can
31:19save that for sure. Oh, we could.
31:21My name
31:23is Abigail Tierney.
31:25I'm currently trapped inside a secret lab
31:27at Westview Psychiatric. All attempts
31:29at escape have proven fruitless.
31:31If I'm to die here, I leave you this footage
31:33along with my in-process
31:35documentary as evidence
31:37of my hunt for the truth about
31:39the evils that inhabit this accursed place.
31:45What's this?
31:47Cool.
31:49That's when I realized I'd uncovered
31:51something more haunting than any ghost
31:53or serial killer.
31:55I'd uncovered a conspiracy that went
31:57to the very highest levels of our government.
32:01The government files Abigail found
32:03detailed classified
32:05plans and methods for
32:07human experimentation.
32:09What type of experimentation?
32:11Are you familiar with MKUltra?
32:13Of course. It was a top secret CIA program
32:15in the 50s and 60s using
32:17experimental drugs to aid in interrogation
32:19techniques. It was straight up mind control.
32:21I mean, they used high doses of psychoactive
32:23drugs like LSD, sodium pentothal,
32:25which is also known as a truth
32:27serum.
32:29The program ran from 1953
32:31to 1973
32:33before it was shut down following a public outcry.
32:35I mean, all the facilities were closed.
32:37There's no evidence the CIA
32:39ever used Westview as a base of operations,
32:41so what were top secret MKUltra documents
32:43doing there? Good question.
32:45We started digging into the Trova files
32:47Abigail had found and one name
32:49kept popping up again and again.
32:51Dr. Julius Erickson.
32:53He was one of the psychologists
32:55contracted by the CIA to conduct
32:57experimental research.
32:59And after MKUltra shut down,
33:01he took a new job.
33:03Director of Westview.
33:05Dr. Erickson ran the hospital for 20 years
33:07and from the notes we uncovered,
33:09it seems clear he continued his own research
33:11in private, trying to use the
33:13psychological breakthroughs from MKUltra
33:15to further his own research into mind
33:17altering drugs. I assume he used those
33:19drugs on Westview patients? Yeah,
33:21at first. But then he started using them on
33:23himself, believing he had found the key to
33:25improving his own mind. He hadn't.
33:27And in a last moment of lucidity,
33:29Erickson decided to destroy
33:31his research. He dumped the chemicals outside
33:33the building where they started to slowly seep
33:35into the structure. And some of the drugs
33:37were potent enough to be absorbed simply
33:39by touch, even when diluted.
33:41Erickson committed himself to Westview
33:43shortly after. Never said another word.
33:45He died in 2020.
33:47Did the CIA ever find out what Erickson
33:49was doing? Not that we've found,
33:51but it's not like the agency ever
33:53returns our phone calls.
33:55Anyone
33:57who's studied the past knows that the CIA
33:59has a history of violent cover-ups.
34:01MKUltra might
34:03have become public, but that doesn't mean there
34:05still aren't secrets to protect.
34:07By uncovering Dr. Erickson's connection
34:09to Westview and, uh, discovering
34:11Bob's body, I've put myself
34:13in danger. But the best
34:15way to protect yourself is with
34:17the truth. Which brings me to
34:19Carolyn McGrath. Turns
34:21out Carolyn is the one who hired Bob
34:23to go to Westview. And I need to
34:25find out why before it's too late.
34:27I think her...
34:29What the hell?
34:31We got lucky.
34:33A woman in the neighborhood heard a commotion
34:35and filmed Abigail's abduction.
34:37Thanks to them, we were able to track the vehicle.
34:39Where'd it go? Back to where it all began.
34:41Westview.
34:49Police!
34:51Get down!
34:53Get down!
34:55Get down!
34:57Police!
34:59Drop the weapon. On the ground.
35:01Hands on your head.
35:03Turn around. Walk towards my partner.
35:05Hands behind your back.
35:07You okay? Yeah.
35:09Totally fine. Carl's going through it, though.
35:11I never really even knew my
35:13mother. Does anyone, really?
35:15What is going on here? Well, uh,
35:17my friend Carl here was being
35:19pressured into killing me. Um, but
35:21then we got to talking, right? Yeah, and I
35:23couldn't. Yeah. We keep it pressured by who?
35:25Um,
35:27my boss. Meg Davidson.
35:29Who? The current director
35:31at Westview Psychiatric.
35:35But she started working at the hospital
35:37long after Julius Erickson went mad
35:39and she has no links to the CIA, so
35:41why would she try to kill Abigail?
35:43To cover up Bob's murder. And who killed
35:45Bob? Can you introduce
35:47yourself? Oh, yes. My name is
35:49Caroline McGrath. You
35:51hired my friend, Bob Medina,
35:53because you had questions about your
35:55friend Winona's treatment at Westview, right?
35:57Yes. Of course, everyone thought I was just being
35:59paranoid, but Bob didn't.
36:01And it got him killed.
36:03You work with Winona Baker, right?
36:05Yes. Um, she was
36:07hospitalized with depression by her
36:09daughter. Seemed like therapy
36:11and some medication would
36:13help her, but Winona got worse
36:15fast. Lost track
36:17of reality. She
36:19exhibited signs of
36:21psychosis, paranoia, dissociation.
36:23By that point, I wondered
36:25whether a transfer to a new facility
36:27might be in her best interest. And then?
36:29Uh, the director informed
36:31me that Winona's family had gotten
36:33a judge to order a conservatorship, and
36:35they wanted her to stay.
36:37For good. You were suspicious.
36:39Winona always had her funks.
36:41But she wasn't crazy.
36:43Until that place made her lose her mind.
36:45And that proved to be the break you needed.
36:47Yeah, when we started looking into it,
36:49it turned out a significant number
36:51of Westview patients were wealthy.
36:53And a high percentage were
36:55ordered into conservatorship.
36:57No, conservatorship is extremely
36:59difficult to get for an adult, because of
37:01the potential abuse of power.
37:03It gives one party legal authority
37:05over certain aspects of another person's life,
37:07including managing all of their assets.
37:09It's like what happened to Britney Spears.
37:11Manage their assets. Rich persons
37:13speak for controlling someone else's money.
37:15Yes. And money
37:17makes people do crazy things.
37:19Like, um, poison
37:21their family member's water with a chemical
37:23cocktail so potent it has the potential
37:25to permanently damage the human psyche?
37:29Yeah.
37:31Just like that.
37:33I was supposed to inherit, but
37:35um, after my
37:37break with reality,
37:39my dad cut me off, and my brother
37:41got everything. What's everything?
37:43Oh, about, um, twelve million dollars.
37:45Must have been hard going
37:47from that kind of wealth to nannying.
37:49Oh, no. No, it was a blessing.
37:51I, I really think
37:53that helping children was my calling.
37:55Once we found
37:57the pattern, we started interviewing some of the families.
37:59A little pressure, and they cracked.
38:01And with the search warrant, we found
38:03the gun used to kill Bob Bedina
38:05and director of Davidson's Closet.
38:07She'd been running her scam for a decade.
38:09Turns out she was Dr. Erickson's
38:11therapist in the last years of
38:13his life. He must have told her
38:15about his experiments. In exploring
38:17his old lab, she'd
38:19uncovered the tainted water, realized
38:21its potential. Yeah, we had her on
38:23murder, fraud, elder
38:25abuse, kidnapping, attempted
38:27murder, poisoning.
38:29Miss Davidson, would you like to make a comment?
38:31You know, this might be your last
38:33chance to tell your side of the story.
38:37Look at all these people watching.
38:39The state ordered a full investigation
38:41into every conservatorship Westview
38:43ordered. God willing, the victims will
38:45get their rights and assets back.
38:47And Westview itself has been closed for good.
38:49But the lawsuits are
38:51just starting, not to mention the rest of the
38:53legal ramifications. I'm
38:55glad this is getting so much attention.
38:57These poor, abused
38:59patients can finally get justice.
39:01Do you think it could impact your case at all?
39:03Certainly gives my defense a fresh coat of
39:05paint. The jury won't
39:07listen to reason, because I
39:09am innocent. Perhaps they
39:11will listen to the tragic story
39:13of a simple tradesman
39:15falling victim to a poisoned
39:17environment that chemically
39:19affected my psyche.
39:21And what did that
39:23environment make you do? Who can
39:25say? Certainly not me.
39:27I wasn't
39:29in my right mind. Yeah, the
39:31poisoned water was
39:33only found in the abandoned psych
39:35ward. No vending machines left to fill there.
39:37Right? At this point,
39:39I must confess.
39:41I did go inside that abandoned
39:43ward, back when I was a kid.
39:45My father's warnings, they didn't
39:47scare me away. They only made me
39:49more desperate to see.
39:51And whatever lurked inside
39:53...
39:55...
39:57must have infected me.
39:59...
40:01Glasser's claiming
40:03that the presence of those drugs would
40:05absolve him of any alleged responsibility
40:07for the murders. There is no way that defense
40:09is going to work. We have Glasser dead to rights.
40:11Are you sure about that?
40:13...
40:15Yeah.
40:17Mm-hmm.
40:19...
40:21...
40:23...
40:25...
40:27Hey, hey!
40:29Sorry, I know we talk about me
40:31not recording interviews in here,
40:33but Raj mentioned he needed a space with
40:35great acoustics, and, um,
40:37and you know, we're act- we're shutting it down.
40:39We're shutting it down. Shut it- shut it down.
40:41Shutting it down, copy.
40:43Hi, sorry, she said this
40:45was cool. You're gonna help me get these in the van, right?
40:47Yeah, I'll- I'll be right there.
40:49Next time,
40:51handcuffs and squad cars.
40:53Yeah, totally
40:55understandable.
40:57Thanks again for going exclusive with me.
40:59Seriously, this talk is gonna be huge.
41:01I hope so. You deserve something
41:03good after what you've been through.
41:05How you holding up? Oh, I'm fine.
41:07I'm happy to have
41:09something to focus on. When I've been
41:11through some scary times, I have been
41:13guilty of using my work
41:15as my therapy, but if there's, uh,
41:17if there's ever a time you need someone to talk to...
41:19Thank you, really, but I already have
41:21a great therapist. One with zero
41:23history at Westview. Excellent.
41:27You know, there's still something I can't figure out.
41:29How did you know
41:31that the PI was working for Caroline
41:33McGrath? Oh, Bob
41:35told me while we were stuck in the lab.
41:37He got chatty once he opened up.
41:39I have that effect on
41:41people.
41:43We had to come back because
41:45our job isn't finished. This hospital
41:47has housed killers, evil experiments, and
41:49perhaps the supernatural.
41:51Our job as investigators is to collect
41:53and present questions and possibilities.
41:55Interpretation, however,
41:57solely belongs with you.
41:59Did Westview really...
42:07Should we check that out?
42:09I might be good.
42:11You know what?
42:13Me too.
42:17Oh!
42:19Oh, God!
42:27♪
42:29♪
42:55Damn it!
42:57♪