New Eden (2020) s01e06 Episode Script
My Lord
1
(Gentle electronic music)
♪
Female voice: BNT.
Your Network.
(Reel rattles)
Rebecca: Today is day one
of the highly anticipated
New Eden trial.
accused cult leaders,
Katherine Wryfield
and Grace Lee,
will face charges for an
extensive list of crimes.
Including criminal negligence,
assault of a teenage girl,
indignity to human remains
and what has recently
been upgraded
to a double homicide charge.
Ms. Mill given the turmoil
of the past few months,
how are you feeling going
into the courtroom today?
- Go back to hell!
- Well--
- You're murderers!
- You sick freaks!
You've got lizard skin!
You are Satans blood whore!
You and your child
will be punished!
- They tried to corrupt my
innocent baby girl?
- They are sick.
- You are in a league
with murderers
and people that worship evil.
- They are perverts.
- You know they're guilty.
You know they are.
- That's the fucken' eggman.
- Let's just say the courtroom
is where I do my best work.
- He should go to trial.
He should go to fucken' trial.
- I'm a human being unlike you!
- And are you still feeling
confident about
the trial being televised?
- Absolutely.
- Hey!
- (Laughs)
- Oh my, that man,
that man's taking a shit.
He's shitting right now.
- Ultimately,
the trial itself was
- Dramatic.
- Disgusting.
- Life destroying.
- Harrowing.
- Hit and miss.
♪♪♪
- All stand.
In the case of Lee and Wryfield
versus Her Majesty, the Queen,
court is now in session,
the honorable justice
Myler presiding.
- Okay.
Okay.
Oh, thank you.
(Taps, feedback squeals)
Oh sorry.
Nancy: It's hard to impress
on people
who weren't there at the time
just how bad things look
for Katherine and Grace.
There's nothing more integral
to a criminal case
than an impartial jury.
But before they even started,
the pendulum of public opinion
had swung.
- Here's what I think
of these women.
Hey! (Laughs)
Don't touch me, you prevert.
- Dramatically out of their
favor.
(Kiss sounds)
(Clears throat)
- Is the Crown prepared
to proceed with its case?
- We are, my Lord.
Grace: It didn't matter what
we had been to people.
You know, Grace and Katherine,
Starmother and Truthmother,
Racy Gracy
and Katherine Bathroom.
People only wanted to see us
as one thing killers.
- And Satanists.
- And drug dealers.
- And alien worshipers.
- And haters of the elderly.
- As well as children.
- Yes.
But, you know, I think that
the big one for people
was still-was still murderers.
- Do the accused understand
the charges laid against them?
- We do, your Honor,
my Lord.
- (Chuckles)
Nancy: In terms of cameras,
in terms of media attention,
in terms of how that affects
the case,
Elizabeth had an edge over
everyone in that courtroom
in theory.
But when it came to actually
trying a case here in Canada.
Well, there she was
at a disadvantage.
And all the while, Noseworthy
was driving home his case.
You know, on their own,
these women are unremarkable.
The one an heiress
with limited life experience,
the other a drifter
who found herself in the right
place at the right time.
But once they met,
the destruction
that would follow
is as disturbing as it
is impossible to ignore.
These women devastated
the community of Halworth
by introducing drugs.
- Right down the hatch.
Josiah: By separating families.
- I-I Never wanted to be a
mother in the first place.
Josiah: By engaging in fraud.
- I got hit the road.
Thank you so much. Bye.
Josiah: They also threatened
the community
that they had themselves
created.
They embezzled from their
own so-called sisters.
Ladies and gentlemen,
they murdered Agnes Wryfield
for their own gain.
- stay calm.
- And then they murdered
Tabitha McNurtt
to enshrine that power.
There are hours of footage
from inside their cult
that leave little doubt
as to the validity
of these accusations.
But the Crown wishes this court
to be certain of their guilt.
And for these women
to face those they've harmed,
to hear their stories.
And to give their victims
the opportunity to speak out.
And to seek justice.
Thank you.
♪♪♪
- The thing you don't think
about before your own trial
is how many familiar faces
are gonna turn up.
Kind of like a reunion
of people we did not want
to see.
- Do you swear to the tell,
the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth?
- Look who I found.
- Praise Jesus.
- What happened when Ms. Lee
join your community.
- Well, when she first arrived,
she was loving it -
like really loving it.
- I started to hear colors
and smells sounds.
Do my lips taste funny to you?
Then I saw God
in a price pumpkin.
- Yes, of course I thought
Katherine was jealous of me.
- Oh, what do you know,
Sharon?
You let the entire varsity
curling team
finger you for beer money.
- But in the end,
I believe it was Grace
who was even more jealous
of me.
- I was walking home
when that woman
- She loves the honey.
- She approached me and she
asked me if I wanted to party.
- And then she started hanging
out with Katherine.
And something changed.
It got--
- Violent.
- Oh, you God damn right.
Grace: Look at his fucking
dick.
(People laugh)
- It's funny.
- She was very protective of
Katherine.
- Get the hell outta here!
Sharon: And I think that's
the way Katherine wanted it.
- And that's when she kissed me.
(Shocker murmurs)
- Oh, come on.
Myler: Will the accused please
control themselves. Thank you.
- It was like a sister kiss,
you know.
the kind of kind of kiss
that you'd give a sister.
- Yeah, a sister kiss.
- It's-it's like a kiss that
you would give a sister.
- It's a thing.
- I mean, she liked it.
It was her idea.
- Of course she did.
Who wouldn't want a sister
kiss you?
- Thank you. No.
- It's a thing.
- In my opinion
it wasn't always healthy.
- I was really scared.
- Those two together are
evil.
- Evil
- Any more questions?
- Uh no.
- Oh.
Nancy: By that time, you could
practically smell
how confident Noseworthy was
he was out lowering
the defense.
He had hours of video evidence
to support his case.
He'd gain the jury sympathy
from character testimony.
All he needed to close this out
were two expert credible
witnesses
to banish any remaining doubts
cast by one victim's missing
murder weapon
and the other victims
missing head.
- Please state your full name
for the record.
- Hannah Glen Cafwell.
- And what name were you using
when you lived at New Eden.
- Hannah Weir.
- And why was that?
- I was there undercover
as a journalist.
I wanted to learn the truth
about what they were planning.
- Seeking the truth.
That's what a journalist does,
isn't it?
Merely seeks the truth.
- Yes. That's exactly what
a journalist does.
(Panicked screaming, crying)
Josiah: Can you describe to me
what we're seeing?
- What do we do? We just
can't leave her there.
- That's the night of
Agnes Wryfields death.
- And who discovered the body?
- Well, we heard Amy scream
and we entered to find Grace
already covering the body.
- By the time we found
Agnes Wryfield,
it was impossible to determine
the cause of death
due to the level of decay.
So we cross-referenced
witness testimony
from the night of her death
with her medical records.
Josiah: What was Ms. Wryfields
relationship to the deceased?
- Agnes was Katherine's aunt
on her father's side.
- So presumably Katherine would
have had intimate knowledge
of Agnes Wryfields life,
her history,
her medical conditions.
- Presumably.
- Can you please tell the court
what you discovered in her
medical records.
- Ms. Wryfield had a severe
allergy
to bees.
- (Shocked outcries)
(Low murmuring)
- Yeah that, that was a twist.
- I mean, I didn't know that
she was allergic to bees.
Who's allergic to bees?
Please.
- Please.
- That should have been it.
He established motive,
opportunity and finally,
a murder weapon.
That would have been enough
to put them away for life.
But he wasn't done.
- You discovered Agnes
Wryfields body
buried on the property.
What else did you find
buried with her?
- Certain religious
paraphernalia.
Animal feathers.
Dead bees. Urine.
- And when you uncovered
human remains,
you believed to be
Tabitha McNurtt
in the summer of 1982.
What else did you find
buried with her?
- We found evidence of
feathers, bee pollen
and traces of what later
tested positive as urine.
- He's lying! You planted those
.
Katherine: Grace stop!
- Your highness,
your highness he's lyin'.
He's lyin',
'cause that is not true.
- Ms. Mill, f you don't mid
control your clients, please!
- Stop!
- My Lord,
if I may request a recess
to deal with my clients.
- Okay. I think that's
a great idea.
Court is adjourned and
we will return tomorrow
to here the rest
of Mr. Nestons testimony.
I think a recess
is a good idea!
- No, no, no.
- We willw
and we will resume tomorrow--
You got her?
Watch it, watch it.
- I'm not goin'!
- After the explosive events
of yesterday's testimony,
it's safe to say Ms. Mill has
been fighting a losing battle.
The so-called sorceress of spin
will need to pull a proverbial
rabbit out of the hat
if she wants to regain some
of the ground she's lost.
(Reporters shout questions)
- Ms. Mill, Ms. Mill
does the defense have any hope
of turning the case around.
Ms--
Bitch.
- First of all, let me say
thank you for your service.
- Just doing my duty
for my country, ma'am.
- Oh, don't sell yourself
short.
And don't call ma'am.
- Well, I care very much
about my community
and it is my sworn duty to
se.
- Of course. Protecting
is in your blood.
Which is why it must have been
so painful
when you couldn't protect
your own daughter,
when she wanted to live
with those criminals
rather than spend another
night under your roof.
- Well, I was suspicious of
them
long before Amy is involvement.
- Oh, it is no wonder you
snapped.
Any emotional person
would have.
- There was no emotion
involved in my--
- June 10th, 1980,
you arrive at the New Eden
property.
- Where is Amy?!
- Intoxicated. And upon finding
out that Amy is pregnant.
- You try and arrest Ms. Lee,
- You fuckin' bitch!
- without cause. And another
officer has to restrain you.
- Shut your fuckin' mouth!
- Was that true?
- It is not true. She attacked
me. That is cause.
- I mean, I'll give her this.
It was it was smart
to use Amy to get to him.
It was really smart.
- Ah, kick him where it hurts.
- Yeah.
- POW! Right in the penis.
- October 22nd, 1981,
a group of your officers
went and raided
the New Eden property,
and they could not find
the body of Tabitha McNurtt.
They failed to even see
that she was missing.
- That's because we had--
that's because our hands
were full.
We were there on suspicion
of a kidnapping,
perhaps you didn't know that.
- Isn't it true that there was
?
When my clients were arrested
for the murder
of Agnes Wryfield.
Didn't Mr. Noseworthy
caution you
that you may not
get a conviction
if the public is
too sympathetic.
- My Lord.
- Yeah ah--
- You wanted revenge
on these women
because they took
your daughter,
your property?
- I am an officer of the law,
ma'am.
Amy
A man in my position does not
have the luxury of revenge.
(Panicked screaming)
- A man in your position has
access to the local morgue.
You were worried that the death
of Agnes Wryfield
would look like an accident
without enough evidence.
So planted an unidentified
body
Josiah: My Lord.
- at the New Eden property.
- My Lord.
- Which you could conveniently
claim was a woman
you failed to track down
and whose head you simply
couldn't locate.
Josiah: She's obviously--
- And that's why her remains
were not discovered
until a year after the initial
raid of the property.
- Are you going to do anything
about this?
- And since you yet again
couldn't make the connection
between this body
and the body of Ms. Wryfield.
You planted feathers at the dig
site to make it look like
my client had anything
to do with this clumsy
fabrication of yours.
- I may have scattered a few
feathers in the grave,
but I did not put that body
there. They did.
They're fucken' killers.
(Shocked gasps, murmuring)
- No more questions, my Lord.
(Footsteps thud)
- I remember sitting
in our little box
and-and turning to Grace
and going like
- And I-I looked back at her
and I was like
- Yeah. And then the man
behind us said,
- You're not allowed.
- stop doing that.
- Quiet.
- Yeah.
Nothing really necessarily
got better
for anyone else after that.
- Well, that's true.
That is very true.
- Would you consider yourself
a?
- I care deeply about my work.
If that's what you mean.
- Say what you will
about Hannah Cafwell.
I mean, God knows
everyone else did.
But she was a good journalist.
She was credible
and she knew the truth.
Unfortunately, it didn't fit
with Elizabeth Mills narrative.
- You admit to having a sexual
relationship with Mr. Hudley,
who was your boss during
the investigation at New Eden?
Is that correct?
- Yes. We had a relationship,
but it ended before
I went undercover.
- Where you then started
a sexual relationship
with Ms. Solomin.
- Yes.
- So before you were allowed
to go undercover
as a junior reporter with zero
investigative experience,
you have a relationship
with your boss.
- It wasn't like that.
- And then when he allowed you
to go undercover,
you abandoned that relationship
so you can focus your energy
on gaining intimate access
to the goings at New Eden.
- Our relationship had already
ended.
It had nothing to do
with my career.
- And this is before
you went undercover?
- Yes.
- Hmm.
- Things hadn't been good
with me an Viv for some time,
and then and then she found out
about Hannah
and I thought we had worked
through it.
But I guess I didn't realize
that she was still so upset.
- Do you know what this is,
Ms. Cafwell?
- It's a tape.
- But do you know
what's on this tape?
- How could I possibly know
what's on that tape?
- Well, you should
because you filmed it
on September 14th, 1977.
Wyatt: Apparently,
Elizabeth had been talking
to my now ex-wife
for a few weeks.
Should've never kept
that damn tape.
- My Lord, the following footage
is from Mr. Wyatt Hudleys
personal residence.
Ms. Cafwell claims that her
relationship with Mr. Hudley
was over before she started
her investigation at New Eden,
that she never use their
relationship
to curry professional favor.
Who's that holding
to the camera?
- It's me.
Hello.
- And tell the jury who
is that kissing your neck?
- Oh. Oh.
- Wyatt Hudley.
- Oh, look at that dress.
- You like my dress?
- (Shocked murmuring)
- Yeah, I think it looks
really good too.
- You're gonna miss me
with all those women
are you gonna this?
- So badly.
- This right here?
- Yes.
- This?
- (Long exhale)
(Stomping footsteps)
- Max?
- This tape was recorded
the night before
you arrived at New Eden,
is that correct?
- Yes.
- So to say that your
relationship with Mr. Hudley
was over before the
investigation at New Eden
would be, for lack
of a better word,
a lie.
- It wasn't--
We didn't--
- If Ms. Cafwell is willing
to lie to the court
about her relationship
with Mr. Hudley,
to lie to Max Solomin,
who she seduced to further
her own career.
What's to say she's not lying
about anything else?
- Counsel is testifying.
- That's fine.
I don't have any more questions
for this witness.
- Ms. Cafwell you may step
down.
Katherine: Yeah, that was bad.
But Hannah had lied
to everyone.
So I guess there was
some justice to it.
- Sure.
But then Elizabeth,
she just kept going
and going,
and going.
- This is a yearbook belonging
to a friend of yours,
Natalie Gibbner.
Can you read what you wrote
to her?
- I knew Katherine
from university.
She had a terrible time,
let me tell you.
At the time she'd only
kissed her cousin,
first cousin.
- Now, isn't it true that
after your little stint
running a sex commune
and calling yourself Odin,
you funded in self produced
several adult films
after which you were arrested
for your involvement
with a puppy mill?
♪ Open our hearts and minds
to a spirit of sisterhood ♪
♪ That welcomes all
without judgment or shame ♪
♪ No shame ♪
- And do you are currently
suing your own grandmother
for damages following a car
accident that you caused?
Is that correct?
- Yeah.
- I don't think they heard you.
- Yes!
- I got one of the curling boys
to ask a foreign exchange
student to take her out,
I just thought that
the language barrier
was gonna help make her
less um undesirable.
It actually made it worse.
(Laughs) I know, I know.
I've made love to many
international men
and it's always been a delight.
So I don't know
what she did wrong.
- (Reads) "Can't wait to lay
in the grass with Lucy,
wink, wink.
Jerry Garcia is my God.
I love drugs".
(Shocked murmuring)
Fuck
- Thank you.
- The way she went after
everyone was very painful.
- Very painful.
- My Lord, if I could present
to you the files
that would indicate our--
Buckley: For us, literally.
- But that was nothing compared
.
(Chuckles)
- Oh.
Oh.
- At that point,
Elizabeth had as good as won.
There was no reason to stay
on the attack,
which made her actual defense
strategy feel personal.
- The defense calls Katherine
Wryfield to the stand.
- Grace Lee, my Lord.
- Yes.
No.
(Taps)
Let's do this.
Interviewer: Did Elizabeth
ever warn you
about the new strategy she
was taking for your defense?
- She did not.
- Nope.
- My friend, Mr. Noseworthy
would have you believe
that my clients are criminal
masterminds.
They've been described as
manipulative, cunning, evil.
But here's the thing, folks.
The more I've gotten to know
my clients,
one thing has become
powerfully clear.
State your full name.
- Grace Lee Hardware.
- Do you recognize this?
- Oh, no.
I mean, yes.
Yes, that is mine.
- Perhaps you could read some
out loud.
- Um. Yes, okay. Sure.
- Mr. Noseworthy would have you
believe
that once my clients
got together,
they had a greater capacity
to commit crime?
I would argue that
the opposite is true.
- I mean, her whole strategy
w.
(Reads) "Sharon thinks
she's skinny, but really,
I think she's getting
quite fat."
"Yesterday she told a joke
and everyone laughed.
But actually, it was stupid,
stupid, fat Sharon."
Grace: I guess she figured
the stupider we looked,
the less capable of murder
we'd seem.
You got wrestle them-you gotta
wrestle your arm around them.
And then you shh, shh, shh.
Okay. Now it's quiet
and you are ready
to start pulling some teeth,
okay?
Because like I said,
a toothless possum
makes a lovely pet.
- When were my clients meant to
be expertly butchering a body?
When they were harvesting
menstrual moss?
- It's for your period.
- Or putting on a stage
production
about a giant bee woman
they follow.
- Fuck. Shit.
- You all right?
- Okay, back to ones.
- One of my clients is
a fourth grade education
and the other has literally
adopted the nickname bathroom.
- All those women
and only one bathroom.
- Katherine. Katherine.
Katherine an me.
A dog.
Me and Katherine and a dog.
Katherine walkin' me
like a dog.
Feels like a nailed that.
- There is nothing guiding
these women.
- You know who that's--
- Not Satan.
Not Steinem.
Nothing at all.
- Grace. Grace, you can talk
about that more.
- And what exactly did you
expect would happen
after this joining ceremony?
- Um, well
(Shatters)
it was symbolic.
- Of what?
- Uh of--
- Our earthly spirit's uniting
into a super being,
the likes of which this
planet has never seen.
Oh shit.
- Symbolically?
- No, through good old
fashioned electricity.
All: "Two are one
Gaions will be done."
- Science.
- Mr. Noseworthy was right
about one thing.
We have all been duped
by these women.
We have all been duped
into thinking that these women
are capable not of murder,
but of anything.
At all.
- After what can only be
described as an unusual
and at times cruel defense
of her clients,
Elizabeth Mill rested
her case last Wednesday
and the jury has been
sequestered ever since.
We are now getting word
that.
More inside.
Okay, give me a smoke.
I need a smoke.
Does anyone even care anymore?
God, I'm going back to
the weather after this.
Guess what?
It's raining
Well, shit on my face.
(Beethoven's "Symphony 5" plays)
♪♪♪
- (Exhales)
Okay. (Clears throat)
Has the jury reached a verdict?
- We have, my Lord.
- Wonderful.
♪♪♪
Phew. What a trial.
What a trial.
Thank you to the crown
and to the defense
and to the camera crews.
You guys have done
a hell of a job.
It's been a lot of fun.
Okay.
Would the accused, please stand.
Yep.
- On the charge of murder
in the first degree
we find the defendants
not guilty.
(Relieved exhales)
(Laughter)
- Order. Order there's more.
She's not-she's not done.
Just wait for it.
Juror: On the charge of elder
abuse
and indignity to human remains.
We find the defendants
guilty.
(Shocked gasps)
On the charge of kidnapping
and the endangerment
of a minor.
We find the defendants
guilty.
- Okay.
- Ah, Derek will escort you
to your holdings.
- I don't wanna go with Derek.
- Derek, will escort these
ladies to the holding.
- I don't-I don't-we don't
wanna go with Derek.
- Yeah, Derek is-Derek is
a lovely gentleman. Derek.
- Oh my life!
- No-no. No!
Derek you wanna get the
soft restrains, please.
- She doesn't like Derek.
- I can't breathe.
- We can't go with Derek.
Where's our lawyer?
Interviewer: Well, you did
mention wanting to improve
your reputation concerning
women, so I have to ask,
how do you justify
what you did?
- I'm gonna stop you right
there.
I went into that courtroom
as a female litigator
practicing law in a country I
had never so much set foot in.
And I delivered.
I ran circles around the men
that came after me
and my clients.
I beat their system.
I got Grace and Katherine
as much justice
as they deserved.
All without breaking a nail.
If you want to be the kind
of man to shame me
for being a powerful woman
who beat the man
that I was up against, well,
I guess you decide how
you wanna be perceived.
Interviewer: Uh
- Looks like your time is up.
Sophie: I trust you gentleman
can find your way out.
- Yeah. Thank you.
Sophie: Who was that?
- I don't know
♪♪♪
♪ I like the way
you smiled at me ♪
♪ I felt the heat
that enveloped me ♪
♪ And what I saw
I like to see ♪
♪ I never knew ♪
♪ Where evil grew ♪
(Gentle electronic music)
♪
Female voice: BNT.
Your Network.
(Reel rattles)
Rebecca: Today is day one
of the highly anticipated
New Eden trial.
accused cult leaders,
Katherine Wryfield
and Grace Lee,
will face charges for an
extensive list of crimes.
Including criminal negligence,
assault of a teenage girl,
indignity to human remains
and what has recently
been upgraded
to a double homicide charge.
Ms. Mill given the turmoil
of the past few months,
how are you feeling going
into the courtroom today?
- Go back to hell!
- Well--
- You're murderers!
- You sick freaks!
You've got lizard skin!
You are Satans blood whore!
You and your child
will be punished!
- They tried to corrupt my
innocent baby girl?
- They are sick.
- You are in a league
with murderers
and people that worship evil.
- They are perverts.
- You know they're guilty.
You know they are.
- That's the fucken' eggman.
- Let's just say the courtroom
is where I do my best work.
- He should go to trial.
He should go to fucken' trial.
- I'm a human being unlike you!
- And are you still feeling
confident about
the trial being televised?
- Absolutely.
- Hey!
- (Laughs)
- Oh my, that man,
that man's taking a shit.
He's shitting right now.
- Ultimately,
the trial itself was
- Dramatic.
- Disgusting.
- Life destroying.
- Harrowing.
- Hit and miss.
♪♪♪
- All stand.
In the case of Lee and Wryfield
versus Her Majesty, the Queen,
court is now in session,
the honorable justice
Myler presiding.
- Okay.
Okay.
Oh, thank you.
(Taps, feedback squeals)
Oh sorry.
Nancy: It's hard to impress
on people
who weren't there at the time
just how bad things look
for Katherine and Grace.
There's nothing more integral
to a criminal case
than an impartial jury.
But before they even started,
the pendulum of public opinion
had swung.
- Here's what I think
of these women.
Hey! (Laughs)
Don't touch me, you prevert.
- Dramatically out of their
favor.
(Kiss sounds)
(Clears throat)
- Is the Crown prepared
to proceed with its case?
- We are, my Lord.
Grace: It didn't matter what
we had been to people.
You know, Grace and Katherine,
Starmother and Truthmother,
Racy Gracy
and Katherine Bathroom.
People only wanted to see us
as one thing killers.
- And Satanists.
- And drug dealers.
- And alien worshipers.
- And haters of the elderly.
- As well as children.
- Yes.
But, you know, I think that
the big one for people
was still-was still murderers.
- Do the accused understand
the charges laid against them?
- We do, your Honor,
my Lord.
- (Chuckles)
Nancy: In terms of cameras,
in terms of media attention,
in terms of how that affects
the case,
Elizabeth had an edge over
everyone in that courtroom
in theory.
But when it came to actually
trying a case here in Canada.
Well, there she was
at a disadvantage.
And all the while, Noseworthy
was driving home his case.
You know, on their own,
these women are unremarkable.
The one an heiress
with limited life experience,
the other a drifter
who found herself in the right
place at the right time.
But once they met,
the destruction
that would follow
is as disturbing as it
is impossible to ignore.
These women devastated
the community of Halworth
by introducing drugs.
- Right down the hatch.
Josiah: By separating families.
- I-I Never wanted to be a
mother in the first place.
Josiah: By engaging in fraud.
- I got hit the road.
Thank you so much. Bye.
Josiah: They also threatened
the community
that they had themselves
created.
They embezzled from their
own so-called sisters.
Ladies and gentlemen,
they murdered Agnes Wryfield
for their own gain.
- stay calm.
- And then they murdered
Tabitha McNurtt
to enshrine that power.
There are hours of footage
from inside their cult
that leave little doubt
as to the validity
of these accusations.
But the Crown wishes this court
to be certain of their guilt.
And for these women
to face those they've harmed,
to hear their stories.
And to give their victims
the opportunity to speak out.
And to seek justice.
Thank you.
♪♪♪
- The thing you don't think
about before your own trial
is how many familiar faces
are gonna turn up.
Kind of like a reunion
of people we did not want
to see.
- Do you swear to the tell,
the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth?
- Look who I found.
- Praise Jesus.
- What happened when Ms. Lee
join your community.
- Well, when she first arrived,
she was loving it -
like really loving it.
- I started to hear colors
and smells sounds.
Do my lips taste funny to you?
Then I saw God
in a price pumpkin.
- Yes, of course I thought
Katherine was jealous of me.
- Oh, what do you know,
Sharon?
You let the entire varsity
curling team
finger you for beer money.
- But in the end,
I believe it was Grace
who was even more jealous
of me.
- I was walking home
when that woman
- She loves the honey.
- She approached me and she
asked me if I wanted to party.
- And then she started hanging
out with Katherine.
And something changed.
It got--
- Violent.
- Oh, you God damn right.
Grace: Look at his fucking
dick.
(People laugh)
- It's funny.
- She was very protective of
Katherine.
- Get the hell outta here!
Sharon: And I think that's
the way Katherine wanted it.
- And that's when she kissed me.
(Shocker murmurs)
- Oh, come on.
Myler: Will the accused please
control themselves. Thank you.
- It was like a sister kiss,
you know.
the kind of kind of kiss
that you'd give a sister.
- Yeah, a sister kiss.
- It's-it's like a kiss that
you would give a sister.
- It's a thing.
- I mean, she liked it.
It was her idea.
- Of course she did.
Who wouldn't want a sister
kiss you?
- Thank you. No.
- It's a thing.
- In my opinion
it wasn't always healthy.
- I was really scared.
- Those two together are
evil.
- Evil
- Any more questions?
- Uh no.
- Oh.
Nancy: By that time, you could
practically smell
how confident Noseworthy was
he was out lowering
the defense.
He had hours of video evidence
to support his case.
He'd gain the jury sympathy
from character testimony.
All he needed to close this out
were two expert credible
witnesses
to banish any remaining doubts
cast by one victim's missing
murder weapon
and the other victims
missing head.
- Please state your full name
for the record.
- Hannah Glen Cafwell.
- And what name were you using
when you lived at New Eden.
- Hannah Weir.
- And why was that?
- I was there undercover
as a journalist.
I wanted to learn the truth
about what they were planning.
- Seeking the truth.
That's what a journalist does,
isn't it?
Merely seeks the truth.
- Yes. That's exactly what
a journalist does.
(Panicked screaming, crying)
Josiah: Can you describe to me
what we're seeing?
- What do we do? We just
can't leave her there.
- That's the night of
Agnes Wryfields death.
- And who discovered the body?
- Well, we heard Amy scream
and we entered to find Grace
already covering the body.
- By the time we found
Agnes Wryfield,
it was impossible to determine
the cause of death
due to the level of decay.
So we cross-referenced
witness testimony
from the night of her death
with her medical records.
Josiah: What was Ms. Wryfields
relationship to the deceased?
- Agnes was Katherine's aunt
on her father's side.
- So presumably Katherine would
have had intimate knowledge
of Agnes Wryfields life,
her history,
her medical conditions.
- Presumably.
- Can you please tell the court
what you discovered in her
medical records.
- Ms. Wryfield had a severe
allergy
to bees.
- (Shocked outcries)
(Low murmuring)
- Yeah that, that was a twist.
- I mean, I didn't know that
she was allergic to bees.
Who's allergic to bees?
Please.
- Please.
- That should have been it.
He established motive,
opportunity and finally,
a murder weapon.
That would have been enough
to put them away for life.
But he wasn't done.
- You discovered Agnes
Wryfields body
buried on the property.
What else did you find
buried with her?
- Certain religious
paraphernalia.
Animal feathers.
Dead bees. Urine.
- And when you uncovered
human remains,
you believed to be
Tabitha McNurtt
in the summer of 1982.
What else did you find
buried with her?
- We found evidence of
feathers, bee pollen
and traces of what later
tested positive as urine.
- He's lying! You planted those
.
Katherine: Grace stop!
- Your highness,
your highness he's lyin'.
He's lyin',
'cause that is not true.
- Ms. Mill, f you don't mid
control your clients, please!
- Stop!
- My Lord,
if I may request a recess
to deal with my clients.
- Okay. I think that's
a great idea.
Court is adjourned and
we will return tomorrow
to here the rest
of Mr. Nestons testimony.
I think a recess
is a good idea!
- No, no, no.
- We willw
and we will resume tomorrow--
You got her?
Watch it, watch it.
- I'm not goin'!
- After the explosive events
of yesterday's testimony,
it's safe to say Ms. Mill has
been fighting a losing battle.
The so-called sorceress of spin
will need to pull a proverbial
rabbit out of the hat
if she wants to regain some
of the ground she's lost.
(Reporters shout questions)
- Ms. Mill, Ms. Mill
does the defense have any hope
of turning the case around.
Ms--
Bitch.
- First of all, let me say
thank you for your service.
- Just doing my duty
for my country, ma'am.
- Oh, don't sell yourself
short.
And don't call ma'am.
- Well, I care very much
about my community
and it is my sworn duty to
se.
- Of course. Protecting
is in your blood.
Which is why it must have been
so painful
when you couldn't protect
your own daughter,
when she wanted to live
with those criminals
rather than spend another
night under your roof.
- Well, I was suspicious of
them
long before Amy is involvement.
- Oh, it is no wonder you
snapped.
Any emotional person
would have.
- There was no emotion
involved in my--
- June 10th, 1980,
you arrive at the New Eden
property.
- Where is Amy?!
- Intoxicated. And upon finding
out that Amy is pregnant.
- You try and arrest Ms. Lee,
- You fuckin' bitch!
- without cause. And another
officer has to restrain you.
- Shut your fuckin' mouth!
- Was that true?
- It is not true. She attacked
me. That is cause.
- I mean, I'll give her this.
It was it was smart
to use Amy to get to him.
It was really smart.
- Ah, kick him where it hurts.
- Yeah.
- POW! Right in the penis.
- October 22nd, 1981,
a group of your officers
went and raided
the New Eden property,
and they could not find
the body of Tabitha McNurtt.
They failed to even see
that she was missing.
- That's because we had--
that's because our hands
were full.
We were there on suspicion
of a kidnapping,
perhaps you didn't know that.
- Isn't it true that there was
?
When my clients were arrested
for the murder
of Agnes Wryfield.
Didn't Mr. Noseworthy
caution you
that you may not
get a conviction
if the public is
too sympathetic.
- My Lord.
- Yeah ah--
- You wanted revenge
on these women
because they took
your daughter,
your property?
- I am an officer of the law,
ma'am.
Amy
A man in my position does not
have the luxury of revenge.
(Panicked screaming)
- A man in your position has
access to the local morgue.
You were worried that the death
of Agnes Wryfield
would look like an accident
without enough evidence.
So planted an unidentified
body
Josiah: My Lord.
- at the New Eden property.
- My Lord.
- Which you could conveniently
claim was a woman
you failed to track down
and whose head you simply
couldn't locate.
Josiah: She's obviously--
- And that's why her remains
were not discovered
until a year after the initial
raid of the property.
- Are you going to do anything
about this?
- And since you yet again
couldn't make the connection
between this body
and the body of Ms. Wryfield.
You planted feathers at the dig
site to make it look like
my client had anything
to do with this clumsy
fabrication of yours.
- I may have scattered a few
feathers in the grave,
but I did not put that body
there. They did.
They're fucken' killers.
(Shocked gasps, murmuring)
- No more questions, my Lord.
(Footsteps thud)
- I remember sitting
in our little box
and-and turning to Grace
and going like
- And I-I looked back at her
and I was like
- Yeah. And then the man
behind us said,
- You're not allowed.
- stop doing that.
- Quiet.
- Yeah.
Nothing really necessarily
got better
for anyone else after that.
- Well, that's true.
That is very true.
- Would you consider yourself
a?
- I care deeply about my work.
If that's what you mean.
- Say what you will
about Hannah Cafwell.
I mean, God knows
everyone else did.
But she was a good journalist.
She was credible
and she knew the truth.
Unfortunately, it didn't fit
with Elizabeth Mills narrative.
- You admit to having a sexual
relationship with Mr. Hudley,
who was your boss during
the investigation at New Eden?
Is that correct?
- Yes. We had a relationship,
but it ended before
I went undercover.
- Where you then started
a sexual relationship
with Ms. Solomin.
- Yes.
- So before you were allowed
to go undercover
as a junior reporter with zero
investigative experience,
you have a relationship
with your boss.
- It wasn't like that.
- And then when he allowed you
to go undercover,
you abandoned that relationship
so you can focus your energy
on gaining intimate access
to the goings at New Eden.
- Our relationship had already
ended.
It had nothing to do
with my career.
- And this is before
you went undercover?
- Yes.
- Hmm.
- Things hadn't been good
with me an Viv for some time,
and then and then she found out
about Hannah
and I thought we had worked
through it.
But I guess I didn't realize
that she was still so upset.
- Do you know what this is,
Ms. Cafwell?
- It's a tape.
- But do you know
what's on this tape?
- How could I possibly know
what's on that tape?
- Well, you should
because you filmed it
on September 14th, 1977.
Wyatt: Apparently,
Elizabeth had been talking
to my now ex-wife
for a few weeks.
Should've never kept
that damn tape.
- My Lord, the following footage
is from Mr. Wyatt Hudleys
personal residence.
Ms. Cafwell claims that her
relationship with Mr. Hudley
was over before she started
her investigation at New Eden,
that she never use their
relationship
to curry professional favor.
Who's that holding
to the camera?
- It's me.
Hello.
- And tell the jury who
is that kissing your neck?
- Oh. Oh.
- Wyatt Hudley.
- Oh, look at that dress.
- You like my dress?
- (Shocked murmuring)
- Yeah, I think it looks
really good too.
- You're gonna miss me
with all those women
are you gonna this?
- So badly.
- This right here?
- Yes.
- This?
- (Long exhale)
(Stomping footsteps)
- Max?
- This tape was recorded
the night before
you arrived at New Eden,
is that correct?
- Yes.
- So to say that your
relationship with Mr. Hudley
was over before the
investigation at New Eden
would be, for lack
of a better word,
a lie.
- It wasn't--
We didn't--
- If Ms. Cafwell is willing
to lie to the court
about her relationship
with Mr. Hudley,
to lie to Max Solomin,
who she seduced to further
her own career.
What's to say she's not lying
about anything else?
- Counsel is testifying.
- That's fine.
I don't have any more questions
for this witness.
- Ms. Cafwell you may step
down.
Katherine: Yeah, that was bad.
But Hannah had lied
to everyone.
So I guess there was
some justice to it.
- Sure.
But then Elizabeth,
she just kept going
and going,
and going.
- This is a yearbook belonging
to a friend of yours,
Natalie Gibbner.
Can you read what you wrote
to her?
- I knew Katherine
from university.
She had a terrible time,
let me tell you.
At the time she'd only
kissed her cousin,
first cousin.
- Now, isn't it true that
after your little stint
running a sex commune
and calling yourself Odin,
you funded in self produced
several adult films
after which you were arrested
for your involvement
with a puppy mill?
♪ Open our hearts and minds
to a spirit of sisterhood ♪
♪ That welcomes all
without judgment or shame ♪
♪ No shame ♪
- And do you are currently
suing your own grandmother
for damages following a car
accident that you caused?
Is that correct?
- Yeah.
- I don't think they heard you.
- Yes!
- I got one of the curling boys
to ask a foreign exchange
student to take her out,
I just thought that
the language barrier
was gonna help make her
less um undesirable.
It actually made it worse.
(Laughs) I know, I know.
I've made love to many
international men
and it's always been a delight.
So I don't know
what she did wrong.
- (Reads) "Can't wait to lay
in the grass with Lucy,
wink, wink.
Jerry Garcia is my God.
I love drugs".
(Shocked murmuring)
Fuck
- Thank you.
- The way she went after
everyone was very painful.
- Very painful.
- My Lord, if I could present
to you the files
that would indicate our--
Buckley: For us, literally.
- But that was nothing compared
.
(Chuckles)
- Oh.
Oh.
- At that point,
Elizabeth had as good as won.
There was no reason to stay
on the attack,
which made her actual defense
strategy feel personal.
- The defense calls Katherine
Wryfield to the stand.
- Grace Lee, my Lord.
- Yes.
No.
(Taps)
Let's do this.
Interviewer: Did Elizabeth
ever warn you
about the new strategy she
was taking for your defense?
- She did not.
- Nope.
- My friend, Mr. Noseworthy
would have you believe
that my clients are criminal
masterminds.
They've been described as
manipulative, cunning, evil.
But here's the thing, folks.
The more I've gotten to know
my clients,
one thing has become
powerfully clear.
State your full name.
- Grace Lee Hardware.
- Do you recognize this?
- Oh, no.
I mean, yes.
Yes, that is mine.
- Perhaps you could read some
out loud.
- Um. Yes, okay. Sure.
- Mr. Noseworthy would have you
believe
that once my clients
got together,
they had a greater capacity
to commit crime?
I would argue that
the opposite is true.
- I mean, her whole strategy
w.
(Reads) "Sharon thinks
she's skinny, but really,
I think she's getting
quite fat."
"Yesterday she told a joke
and everyone laughed.
But actually, it was stupid,
stupid, fat Sharon."
Grace: I guess she figured
the stupider we looked,
the less capable of murder
we'd seem.
You got wrestle them-you gotta
wrestle your arm around them.
And then you shh, shh, shh.
Okay. Now it's quiet
and you are ready
to start pulling some teeth,
okay?
Because like I said,
a toothless possum
makes a lovely pet.
- When were my clients meant to
be expertly butchering a body?
When they were harvesting
menstrual moss?
- It's for your period.
- Or putting on a stage
production
about a giant bee woman
they follow.
- Fuck. Shit.
- You all right?
- Okay, back to ones.
- One of my clients is
a fourth grade education
and the other has literally
adopted the nickname bathroom.
- All those women
and only one bathroom.
- Katherine. Katherine.
Katherine an me.
A dog.
Me and Katherine and a dog.
Katherine walkin' me
like a dog.
Feels like a nailed that.
- There is nothing guiding
these women.
- You know who that's--
- Not Satan.
Not Steinem.
Nothing at all.
- Grace. Grace, you can talk
about that more.
- And what exactly did you
expect would happen
after this joining ceremony?
- Um, well
(Shatters)
it was symbolic.
- Of what?
- Uh of--
- Our earthly spirit's uniting
into a super being,
the likes of which this
planet has never seen.
Oh shit.
- Symbolically?
- No, through good old
fashioned electricity.
All: "Two are one
Gaions will be done."
- Science.
- Mr. Noseworthy was right
about one thing.
We have all been duped
by these women.
We have all been duped
into thinking that these women
are capable not of murder,
but of anything.
At all.
- After what can only be
described as an unusual
and at times cruel defense
of her clients,
Elizabeth Mill rested
her case last Wednesday
and the jury has been
sequestered ever since.
We are now getting word
that.
More inside.
Okay, give me a smoke.
I need a smoke.
Does anyone even care anymore?
God, I'm going back to
the weather after this.
Guess what?
It's raining
Well, shit on my face.
(Beethoven's "Symphony 5" plays)
♪♪♪
- (Exhales)
Okay. (Clears throat)
Has the jury reached a verdict?
- We have, my Lord.
- Wonderful.
♪♪♪
Phew. What a trial.
What a trial.
Thank you to the crown
and to the defense
and to the camera crews.
You guys have done
a hell of a job.
It's been a lot of fun.
Okay.
Would the accused, please stand.
Yep.
- On the charge of murder
in the first degree
we find the defendants
not guilty.
(Relieved exhales)
(Laughter)
- Order. Order there's more.
She's not-she's not done.
Just wait for it.
Juror: On the charge of elder
abuse
and indignity to human remains.
We find the defendants
guilty.
(Shocked gasps)
On the charge of kidnapping
and the endangerment
of a minor.
We find the defendants
guilty.
- Okay.
- Ah, Derek will escort you
to your holdings.
- I don't wanna go with Derek.
- Derek, will escort these
ladies to the holding.
- I don't-I don't-we don't
wanna go with Derek.
- Yeah, Derek is-Derek is
a lovely gentleman. Derek.
- Oh my life!
- No-no. No!
Derek you wanna get the
soft restrains, please.
- She doesn't like Derek.
- I can't breathe.
- We can't go with Derek.
Where's our lawyer?
Interviewer: Well, you did
mention wanting to improve
your reputation concerning
women, so I have to ask,
how do you justify
what you did?
- I'm gonna stop you right
there.
I went into that courtroom
as a female litigator
practicing law in a country I
had never so much set foot in.
And I delivered.
I ran circles around the men
that came after me
and my clients.
I beat their system.
I got Grace and Katherine
as much justice
as they deserved.
All without breaking a nail.
If you want to be the kind
of man to shame me
for being a powerful woman
who beat the man
that I was up against, well,
I guess you decide how
you wanna be perceived.
Interviewer: Uh
- Looks like your time is up.
Sophie: I trust you gentleman
can find your way out.
- Yeah. Thank you.
Sophie: Who was that?
- I don't know
♪♪♪
♪ I like the way
you smiled at me ♪
♪ I felt the heat
that enveloped me ♪
♪ And what I saw
I like to see ♪
♪ I never knew ♪
♪ Where evil grew ♪