New Eden (2020) s01e07 Episode Script
Forbidden Fruit
1
(Gentle electronic music)
♪
Woman: BNT.
Your network.
(Reel rattles)
(Low hum of laughter,
glasses clink)
- I get it, man.
I fuckin' get it.
Why they were so reluctant to
talk to us in the first place.
Like why would they trust us?
W-why would they think
that we're any different
from any of the guys
who came before,
and screwed them over?
Fuckin' male gaze.
That's what it is.
We're actually guilty of that.
We are.
We need to rethink
this whole thing.
'Cause this-this right here,
this is the hook.
This-this is the doc.
Camera Operator: Totally.
How, though?
- Fuck.
We gotta rethink
this whole thing.
Female Reporter: I'm here
on the New Eden property,
where just behind me,
the body of former cult member,
Tabitha McNurtt,
was discovered,
with Katherine Wryfield,
and Grace Lee behind bars,
and charges of evidence
tampering laid
against Staff Sergeant
Hank Neston.
The question remains,
what became of Miss McNurtt,
and who was her killer?
We-holy God!
- Hi, what's this?
- Sorry. Are-are you
Miss McNurtt?
- I might be, what's it to you?
- I- uh, Miss McNurtt,
where have you been
all this time?
- Just kinda in there.
- M-Miss McNurtt?
Miss Mc--
Uh, back to you, Jim.
- A bizarre end
to anticlimactic case.
- Lee and Wryfield's
alleged second victim
proves to be alive and well,
more or less.
- Tabitha McNurrt claims
to have wandered off
the New Eden property
- She says she simply went
on a nature walk,
and returned to find
a huge barricade
had been erected around
the property.
Reporter: Quote,
"I wasn't in any danger.
I was just sick of hearing
those stupid fucking women
talk about space aliens."
And I don't think I can say
that tonight on the broadcast.
- Uh, Sergeant Neston,
Sergeant Neston?
You accused Miss Lee
and Miss Wryfield--
- Yeah, I got no comment.
- While Lee and Wryfield were
already exonerated at trial
for McNurtt's alleged murder,
Investigating officer
Hank Neston now faces
a dishonourable discharge
on charges of evidence
tampering,
perjury,
and in an ironic twist,
indignity to human remains.
- Did you deliberately mislead
the public?
- I said I got
no fucking comment!
- What the hell, where's
all the man reporters?
It's like a slap in the face
having to talk to you!
- Oh.
Did you get that?
- Miss Mill says the outcome
of the Neston inquiry
will have no effect on Lee
and Wryfield's verdict,
both of whom remain
behind bars.
- Grace, Katherine,
is this the end of New Eden?
- How do you feel about
the amount of prison time
you've been given?
- Roughly 106 million Americans
tuned in to watch
the final episode of "M.A.S.H."
on CBS.
Significantly less people
tuned in to watch
the verdict coverage
of Katherine and Grace's case
on the same day.
The way their case ended
kind of ensured that people
lost interest,
they didn't get off,
which would've been exciting.
They didn't go down for murder,
which would've been
even more exciting.
Um, they got eight to ten
in a provincial prison,
for a couple of felonies,
which was
well, less exciting than
Haw.
- By the time the media ban
had lifted,
there was no more story
left for us to tell.
No one cared anymore.
Even here, yeah,
it's almost like the whole
country felt ashamed.
I mean, Hannah barely even
spoke to me after the trial.
You know, last I heard,
she moved to Portland,
I don't know, or something.
This was supposed to make her
career - I mean, our career.
But instead it ruined us both.
♪♪♪
- (Reads) "My great thought
in living is himself.
If all else pa"
Still listening?
Okay, okay.
"If all else perishes"
Lacey: Katherine and Grace
just kind of disappeared,
people forgot about them.
(Buzzer sounds)
Out of sight, out of mind,
I guess.
- "The universe would turn
to a mighty stranger."
Lacey: And once Tabatha McNurtt
reappeared,
well
that was the final punchline.
New Eden had come and gone.
Another cultural phenomenon,
forgotten.
Ah Heathcliff!
Ruff! Ruff!
Lacey: And two more women's
names, lost to history.
- Ah! I'm a girl one.
I love you.
- But I guess not everyone
forgot.
I mean, you two are what, 23,
just out of film school?
Too young to remember much
of the trial.
So
what brought you to their
story?
- It's time to come clean.
Camera Operator: Time to come
clean?
- Yeah.
(Sighs) I feel much better
talking about this.
Thank you.
(Door buzzes, lock clicks)
- Thank you, Gary.
Hey, fellas!
- Where do I sit?
Just kidding. I remember.
Grace: No, I know. I know.
I know, I don't do that.
I'm not gonna do that.
That's crazy.
- Thank you, Trina.
- Shit, I'm gonna miss this,
you guys.
When's this thing come out,
anyway?
Interviewer: Can you speak
to how you felt
in the wake of what you were
put through at the trial?
- Relieved.
- Forgotten.
- (Laughs)
We were under a lot
of media scrutiny.
Scrutiny?
- Scrutiny, yep.
- We were under a lot
of media scrutiny.
Uh, and then just like that,
we weren't.
We were scrutin-free.
- I-I think what Grace
means by that
is that after the trial,
our lives changed drastically.
I mean, obviously.
But our lives also became
a lot more quiet, in a way.
- Yeah, you know, it was like
.
People had to move on,
I guess,
and so did we.
- Yeah.
I mean, it's-it's not like
I expected the fanfare
to continue,
or even wanted it to.
God, no! No.
But suddenly, it did seem
like nobody cared.
- Hey, I care.
- Okay, well, I guess it seemed
like nobody else cared.
- Huh!
- Not that I care
if people care.
Who cares? I don't.
You know. No, I like to think
of myself as quite blase.
And you know, I've got bigger
things to think about.
- Oh, yeah.
Katherine's always been the big
thinker of this little outfit.
- Oh.
- Yeah well, and as for me,
well
- Oh! Uh, well
Grace has really flourished
here
in prison.
- Yeah.
Oh, you guys are already
on dessert.
Where the hell have you been?
I thought they let you out.
But you are still in jail.
I'll see you guys later.
Hey! Leslie!
What the hell,
I thought you died!
Grace: I've recently won
most enthusiastic inmate
at the Lady Jailbird Awards,
which are an awards show that
I started a few years back.
Hey-hey-hey, Ann!
Woo-oooh! Whoosh!
(Laughs) Yeah, okay.
Yep. Okay, let's have a seat.
Grace: Warden said we can't
give out trophies
anymore though, 'cause uh,
on account we just stab
each other with 'em.
Uh, which is fair, 'cause uh
'cause that did happen
one year.
Okay.
Oh, I've been learning
all kinds of new skills
here in prison.
You know what they say,
idle hands are the devil's
party sticks.
Oooh! (Coughs)
Hah! She looks good.
Ooh, I've also been learning
a couple of languages.
French, uh German,
and Mandarin.
Ni hao.
- Remember, posture,
diction.
- Okay.
Hello, I am here for
the employment opportunity.
Was that good?
- Yeah. (Applause)
- Right? Yeah!
Yeah! Alright!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Yeah! Yeah!
Fuck yeah! Yeah! Unhhhh!
Interviewer: So what have you
been doing your time?
Katherine: I keep myself busy.
I uh, work in the library.
(Book thuds)
(Grace laughs)
- It had three rings!
Katherine: I exercise.
Grace: She didn't even know!
Katherine: And on Thursdays,
we do community outreach.
But you could say that
I'm always a little
preoccupied these days.
Ever since I bagged myself
a beau.
(Laughs)
Yeah, we uh, we write letters
.
And it's uh
it's very consuming.
When we first arrived,
we received all kinds of mail,
some good, um, a lot bad.
I took it upon myself to try
to respond to everything.
But as time marched on,
uh, people stopped sending
us things.
I guess they had better things
to do with their time.
- And, you know, that was
really hard on Katharine.
She really loved getting
that mail.
It let her imagine a world
outside this place.
Uh, she-we were really lost
without it.
Katherine: That's when
my Harvey started writing me.
And our romance quickly
blossomed.
Would you like to see
some of his letters?
- No, I don't think
we should do that.
- (Laughs) So these
are just a few
of our sweet B A dos.
(Laughs)
Uh, it's been a few years.
Our correspondence.
He um, he said that he saw me
on the television,
and that he just couldn't get
me out of his head.
God, his letters,
sometimes it's
it's just like he's known me
for years.
Interviewer: Has he sent you
a picture?
- Mhmm, yes.
That's my Harvey.
Interviewer: Uh,
isn't that Harvey M--
(Grace coughs loudly)
- (Clears throat)
- Ah
(Katherine giggles)
(Sighs)
Interviewer: And he's never
come to visit?
- Huh? Oh, no, no.
He's-he's very busy.
You see, ah,
he owns a hospital.
And between that and getting
his pilot's licence,
well, it's difficult for him
to get away.
Grace: Mhmm, yeah.
Yeah, 'cause um uh,
owning a hospital, psssh!
That's gotta be
a lot of work.
Right?
Katherine: Yeah
God! I mean, he has been
through so much.
His uh, his entire family
died in a yacht fire.
But we will rebuild
our lives together.
- Yeah. So how--
- You know, really, really be
there for one another.
- How are the other girls
doing?
Are they good? Do you talk
to them at all? Or
- Uh, yes. Sorry. Yes.
How is the old gang?
Amy: It hasn't always been
so easy.
But my faith always
kept me going.
After the trial, we had to put
our lives back together.
I love her.
And for me, that meant devoting
myself to my role
as Seed Mother,
and protecting my darling Adam.
He's my little angel, and--
- Can I eat these?
- Honey, honey!
That's a handful of pennies.
- (Bleep)!
- Even (Chuckles)
♪♪♪
Adam, honey?
(Plate shatters)
Interviewer: And how are you
managing as a single mother?
- By Gaion's light,
there will always be a way.
Gaaiioooonnn
And I've been doing
part-time bookkeeping
for a small textile company.
When Adam undergoes
his cosmic transformation,
I know I'll have to stop
working,
so that I may focus all
of my spiritual energies
on the impending war against
the ancient Adams.
(Ripping sounds)
But that's still a while away.
(Clattering, glass shatters)
Okay. What are you doing?!
Sharon: What has New Eden
taught me?
Uh, the same thing life
has taught me.
It's that you have to learn
from your experiences,
and then transform them
into something positive.
Let's explore an idea,
shall we?
I try to avoid bringing up
my time at New Eden.
I wouldn't want to take away
any focus from the
real victims.
When uh
I was in a cult
Yes, what I went through
was harrowing.
I had been separated
from myself.
While I was a high functioning
member of the group,
I was no longer a high
functioning member of Sharon.
But I am a survivor,
and I've moved on.
I've worked very hard to
transform my experiences
at New Eden,
and shape them into a career.
I was in one!
If people wanna call
that brave
well, I guess I can't stop
them, can I?
(Chuckles)
Max: After the trial,
yeah, I was angry.
I was really fuckin' angry.
I needed to do a lot
of healing.
And a lot of forgetting.
But at some point, I just
I couldn't keep that hate
in my heart anymore.
And I still believed in a space
r
in a supportive
and productive way.
I just realized I shouldn't
trust anybody else
to get that right.
So I moved out east,
and I started dreaming up
this place.
So this is "Sister Kisser."
Interviewer: Is the name
an homage to Katherine?
- I like to think of it
as more of a
reclamation.
♪♪♪
Don't say anything stupid.
Camera Operator: Uh, sure.
- Look at you,
you look so good!
Max: These women have been
through a lot.
And this is their time
to be around
the only other people
who have been through
what they've been through.
That's why I started these
little gatherings.
It's nice to see everyone.
We laugh a lot.
Reminisce.
And it's cool to see
what all these women
have done with their lives.
No, you didn't!
Donna: Its like a mix
of martial arts.
I call it kick-wrestling.
It',
and deal with some of that
lingering anger.
Trinity: I don't really know
why I'm here.
Well, I guess I felt nostalgic.
I guess, I just
New Eden Women: ♪ No shame! ♪
- (Laughs)
Can I have another double
Chardonnay, please?
Sharon: What was your name,
again?
- Oh, Anna.
- Hannah?
- Anna. Why does everyone keep
calling me Hannah?
- I'll be right back, okay?
Muah.
- Huh.
Max: I know. Just leave it!
- I'm just saying,
it's interesting.
- Just, I see it,
and I'm working on it.
- Okay, fair enough.
What does she do?
- She's a photographer.
- What kind of photography?
- Photojournalism.
- (Laughter, women chatter)
(Music plays)
Sharon: Having everyone
here like this,
it's a fascinating
opportunity to examine
the individualization
that occurs
after the forced sense of group
has been disbanded,
due to the subversion
and ultimate removal
of the leader-leader type.
We're allowed to truly flourish
as to who we truly are.
You know what I mean?
Hello?
Interviewer: Actually,
are you aware
that some of your former
members still get together?
- Uh, what are you
talking about?
What do you mean?
Interviewer: Well, earlier
this summer,
they had a gathering
at Max's bar.
They've done it a couple
times since the trial.
- So what? They just,
they-they get together,
and they-and they what?
They talk?
What do they talk about?
What do
what do they
what do they get up to?
- I'm Katherine, and we're
gonna take our power back.
I'm Katherine bathroom.
Pay attention to me instead!
(Grunting)
- Well, isn't that just another
reason to be excited
to-to be getting out soon?
Won't they be happy when,
when we show up
to one of their gatherings.
- Yeah
- Everybody loves
the Seed Sowers.
- Seed Sisters.
- The Seed Sisters.
Right, yes.
- I think most of us would be
happy to see Grace again,
to be honest. I know some bad
things happened,
but there's still a lot of love
for her here.
Interviewer: And what about
Katherine?
- (Coughs) God, no.
- You know what?
I bet that they already did
invite me to the next one.
Probably my invitation
got lost in the mail.
- That's it. That's it.
And I-you know what?
I bet I can-
I bet I can find an invitation
in the mail.
- Yes. Thank you.
- Yeah, you see, mail
is another thing
that I excel at here in prison.
- What? How is that a skill?
- It isn't.
Stupid, silly Grace.
- Aww. Hey?
No.
Be proud of yourself.
- Thank you.
- The story of New Eden,
it doesn't end with Grace
and Katherine.
It doesn't end
with their trial.
That's why we do this.
After everything we've endured,
we still have each other
to turn to,
to bear witness to one another.
Now, more than ever.
We're all different people now.
- Oh God, yes.
I mean, look at us.
We have very little in common.
- But what we do have
in common is New Eden.
The bond we created there
was real.
Our sisterhood
is real,
and that's something that
can never be taken from us.
(Women cheer raucously)
Women: Donna! Donna! Donna!
(Cheering)
- Never, ever.
Max: Donna! Donna!
Sharon: Okay, I've gotta go,
I gotta-I'm comin!
I'm comin'!
(Women cheer)
♪ I am woman, hear me roar ♪
♪ In numbers too big to ignore ♪
- When it's all said and done,
yeah.
It's made me the Donna Henderson
I am today.
(Blows out forcefully)
♪ And I've been down there
on the floor ♪
♪ No one's ever gonna
keep me down again ♪
- Yeah, it was totally
fucked up,
but it was ours to fuck up,
and that's power.
And I guess in a way,
we kind of took our power back.
♪ I can do anything ♪
♪ I am strong ♪
(Strong)
- Initially, New Eden
was an escape from my life,
and then eventually,
escaping with New Eden
had become
really allowed me
to return to my life.
♪ You can bend but never break ♪
♪ Cause it only serves
to make me ♪
♪ More determined to achieve
my final goal ♪
(All laugh)
- So you get what you need,
or what?
♪ 'Cause you deepen
the conviction ♪
♪ In my soul ♪
- Only Gaion knows what's
to come for all of us, but
it'll be nice for someone
to know where we've been.
♪ If I pay the price ♪
♪ But look how much
I've gained ♪
♪ If I have to ♪
♪ I can do anything ♪
♪ I am strong ♪
(Strong)
♪ I am invincible ♪
(Invincible)
♪ I am woman ♪
- Sweet, sweet Amy.
- Ohhh!
- Beautiful, beautiful Sharon.
- I know.
♪ See me standing toe-to-toe ♪
♪ I as spread my love
and arms across the land ♪
- You know, after all
that's happened,
I'm glad those girls still
get together,
remember their sisterhood,
reminisce
even after all they've been
through.
It means New Eden meant
something to 'em.
You know, it means it
won't just be forgotten.
- I want to thank you all
for being here,
for making the journey.
Women: Thank you!
- For better or for worse,
we are are the women
of New Eden.
(All cheering)
Here's to all
we've been through,
and all we will be.
And um
yeah, fuck it.
Praise Gaion!
All: Praise Gaion!
- I guess that counts
for something.
I mean, look how quickly
the world forgot about us.
Forgot what our story
represented
to women everywhere.
At least our devoted followers
are still commemorating
what we built.
- I mean, yeah.
Before you two showed up,
it's not like anybody else
was doing it, right?
Interviewer: Yeah.
Uh yeah.
- What?
- Yeah, what?
- Wait, before we wrap up,
there's just a couple others
that I wanna mention.
The proverbial cocks
in our henhouse.
Uh, I was not totally sold
on these guys at first.
Believe it or not.
But these days, I'm trying
to be more trusting
to see the good in people.
So to Travis and Jake,
I'd like to thank you.
Thank you for wanting
to tell our story.
And we trust you to honour
the truths that come with it.
Cheers.
(Women cheer and applaud)
- (Sighs) If I've known
what am I doing?
What am I doing?
I don't know.
I don't know, man,
I just like
it hit me.
I-I-I was there,
and I saw all their faces,
and it was like
all their stories
just flooded at me at once,
and they all hit me,
and I fuck-fuck off with that.
Camera Operator: No, it's good,
it's good, just keep going.
- This isn't just a story
about women, right?
It's not.
It is, but it's also
like, they're not just
those women, right?
They're flawed, yeah,
and we're gonna show that.
But they're strong.
They're so strong,
and they're resilient,
and-and they're funny.
And what happened to them
was just humiliating.
Humiliating,
and-and demeaning,
and belittling, and wrong.
And that's-that's what
the doc's gotta be about.
It's gotta be about us,
you know,
as men, realizing that.
For them.
Huh.
Grace and Katherine.
We gotta tell Grace
and Katherine
about why we started this
whole thing to begin with.
♪♪♪
Grace: Huh! What is all this,
guys?
Why all the mystery?
- Yeah, just uh,
just tell us what this is.
Interviewer: What can you tell
us about "Forbidden Fruit?"
- Is that actually what
all this has been about?
- We have to show you
something.
Something that we should've
shown you the first time
we interviewed you.
(Sighs)
Lacey: If you've read my book,
you'll know it's not something
that I focussed on.
At all.
It's a footnote
in the overall context
of their history.
Yeah.
But clearly,
it's significant to you.
(Audience cheers and applauds)
Lacey: Two cine freaks
like you?
Of course that's how you found
out about Katherine and Grace.
- Are you ready to taste
the "Forbidden Fruit?"
Hey, whoa! Easy!
Get outta here!
Alright!
(Audience cheers and applauds)
- Katherine? Grace?
Katherine?
(Katherine and Grace giggle)
- (Screams)
- Join us, Aunt Agnes!
Movie Grace: Thought you could
spy on us?
- You're a bad little
journalist, aren't you?
(Cackling laughter)
Movie Hannah: Oh, the honey
tastes so funny!
Film Narrator: It was a
fri.
(Women giggle)
- Groovy dress.
- Thanks, Grace.
Wanna try it on?
- Yes!
(Women in movie giggle, moan)
- Let's be friends.
- Best friends.
Film Narrator: But everything
changed when their innocence
was taken from them.
- I'll teach you to like men.
- Ohh! No!
- (Laughs manically)
- (Screams)
(Glass shatters)
Film Narrator The crime
that would make them
innocencents no more.
Not once they've tasted
"Forbidden Fruit."
- So, in 1988,
Elizabeth Mill sold Katherine
and Grace's life rights
without their knowledge
to a low-budget production
company,
who made a straight-to-video
movie,
loosely based on their story.
- You've got to get out
of here!
They're not what they seem!
- (Giggling maniacally)
Oops!
Film Narrator: From writer/
producer Mario Santalini,
comes a true story
of carnal desire,
and supernatural sin.
Get ready for the most chilling
cinematic event of the decade.
- (Screams)
- We're joining!
We're joining!
We're joining!
We're joining!
(Movie characters moan, squeal)
Movie Katherine: Take a chill
pill, Auntie Agnes!
(Gunshot booms)
Film Narrator: Once you've had
a taste,
there's no escape.
♪♪♪
"Forbidden Fruit."
- So
what the fuck is this?
- We wanted you to know
how much we wrestled
with the idea of showing
this to you.
- Why?
Did you guys make
this skin flick?
Are you writer/producer
Mario Santalini?
- No. No, no.
No, but we knew how hard
it would be for you
to see what your story
had been reduced to.
- Reduced to?
I mean, is this what you think
that our story is about?
I mean, after everything
that we've shared with you?
- Of course not.
What you shared with us
has been inspiring,
and humbling.
It's why we felt we owed it
to you to come clean.
We needed you to know that
this was the reason why
we came to interview you
in the first place.
But what we've realized
is that
the male perspective
on your story
has always been what's robbed
it of its truth.
I mean, case in point.
But we want to overcome that.
We want to show your truth
the way that you see it.
And we want to show what
your truth has taught us,
as men.
- So
you guys gotta forgive me,
'cause I'm a little slow.
You came and interviewed us
for months and months
about our pain,
our friendship,
all our dirty fuckin' laundry,
and at the end of that-huh!
You thought you'd reward us
by showing us a porno about us
that you used to jerk off to
in college.
Is that about it?
Am I following the bouncing
ball here, fellas?!
Interviewer: No, that's-
I mean, well (Chuckles)
the-the point is that
you've shown us our mistakes.
You've taught us.
Does that makes sense?
- Um, um, um
are we supposed to be grateful?!
Honoured that you realized that
we are more than just a joke?
Because maybe we do not want
t.
- (Scoffs) Frankly, Katherine,
I mean
we were the only ones who came
knocking for your story,
and you did sign your releases
a couple months ago,
so you might want
to reconsider
how we want to tell your story.
(Laughs) Maybe.
That's not what I meant.
I um
what-what I mean to say
is that
our idea--
- No. Okay, you know what?!
You have done nothing for us.
Nothing!
This interview is is over.
- Please, if you'd just
give me a second?
(Door buzzes)
(Sighs)
Uh ahem.
I'm so sorry.
Things got heated.
I-I get that.
I get that they got heated.
It's just
we know how powerful
your truth can be.
We're-we're living proof
of that.
And, you know, Katherine
can be sensitive.
She- she can be, but she'll
come around, and--
- We're done.
- But you can talk to her,
right?
I mean, you can-you can,
you can go talk to her,
maybe talk her back into coming
and meeting with us?
O-kay!
- Don't fucking touch me.
You don't come near me.
- Ah!
- You don't come near
Katherine!
You don't fuckin' come near us,
do you understand me?!
- Okay, Jesus!
- Nod like you fuckin'
understand me!
- Okay, Jesus! Guard! Guard!
- No touching.
- Aah!
(Whimpers)
- Grace.
- What the fuck?
what the fuck?
(Loud crash)
- You two need to leave.
- Okay!
(Door creaks)
- Aaaah!
Camera Operator: Fuck, you okay?
- No!
That was scary!
That was so scary.
- Why didn't you help me?
- I was scared, too!
Interviewer: Right there!
There! There they are.
(Fence creaks)
(Car rumbles)
(Brakes squeak, car shuts off)
(Door slams)
- Yeahprobably,
I'll call you, I'll call you.
I'll call you when
you get there.
(Door slams)
Drive safe, okay?
(Door slams, car starts)
- Bye bye.
Bye.
Bye bye, Katherine.
Bye.
(Birds chirp)
♪♪♪
♪ Love has gone forever ♪
♪ My has been forever ♪
♪ We make own jokes ♪
♪ That make us laugh ♪
♪ When she has candy
she gives me half ♪
♪ Sometimes when I start
to cry ♪
♪ She's the only one ♪
Narrator: And now,
stay tuned for
"Helen Lafayette,
a killer among us."
Grace: You've always thought
you were so clever.
But you don't know shit!
- Well, if Hannah Cafwell
hadn't gone digging,
Helen Lafayette would've
gotten away with murder.
Hannah: I had no idea how close
to death I really was.
♪♪♪
Narrator: Coming up next
on BNT.
♪ She's my best friend ♪
♪ Forever ♪
(Gentle electronic music)
♪
Woman: BNT.
Your network.
(Reel rattles)
(Low hum of laughter,
glasses clink)
- I get it, man.
I fuckin' get it.
Why they were so reluctant to
talk to us in the first place.
Like why would they trust us?
W-why would they think
that we're any different
from any of the guys
who came before,
and screwed them over?
Fuckin' male gaze.
That's what it is.
We're actually guilty of that.
We are.
We need to rethink
this whole thing.
'Cause this-this right here,
this is the hook.
This-this is the doc.
Camera Operator: Totally.
How, though?
- Fuck.
We gotta rethink
this whole thing.
Female Reporter: I'm here
on the New Eden property,
where just behind me,
the body of former cult member,
Tabitha McNurtt,
was discovered,
with Katherine Wryfield,
and Grace Lee behind bars,
and charges of evidence
tampering laid
against Staff Sergeant
Hank Neston.
The question remains,
what became of Miss McNurtt,
and who was her killer?
We-holy God!
- Hi, what's this?
- Sorry. Are-are you
Miss McNurtt?
- I might be, what's it to you?
- I- uh, Miss McNurtt,
where have you been
all this time?
- Just kinda in there.
- M-Miss McNurtt?
Miss Mc--
Uh, back to you, Jim.
- A bizarre end
to anticlimactic case.
- Lee and Wryfield's
alleged second victim
proves to be alive and well,
more or less.
- Tabitha McNurrt claims
to have wandered off
the New Eden property
- She says she simply went
on a nature walk,
and returned to find
a huge barricade
had been erected around
the property.
Reporter: Quote,
"I wasn't in any danger.
I was just sick of hearing
those stupid fucking women
talk about space aliens."
And I don't think I can say
that tonight on the broadcast.
- Uh, Sergeant Neston,
Sergeant Neston?
You accused Miss Lee
and Miss Wryfield--
- Yeah, I got no comment.
- While Lee and Wryfield were
already exonerated at trial
for McNurtt's alleged murder,
Investigating officer
Hank Neston now faces
a dishonourable discharge
on charges of evidence
tampering,
perjury,
and in an ironic twist,
indignity to human remains.
- Did you deliberately mislead
the public?
- I said I got
no fucking comment!
- What the hell, where's
all the man reporters?
It's like a slap in the face
having to talk to you!
- Oh.
Did you get that?
- Miss Mill says the outcome
of the Neston inquiry
will have no effect on Lee
and Wryfield's verdict,
both of whom remain
behind bars.
- Grace, Katherine,
is this the end of New Eden?
- How do you feel about
the amount of prison time
you've been given?
- Roughly 106 million Americans
tuned in to watch
the final episode of "M.A.S.H."
on CBS.
Significantly less people
tuned in to watch
the verdict coverage
of Katherine and Grace's case
on the same day.
The way their case ended
kind of ensured that people
lost interest,
they didn't get off,
which would've been exciting.
They didn't go down for murder,
which would've been
even more exciting.
Um, they got eight to ten
in a provincial prison,
for a couple of felonies,
which was
well, less exciting than
Haw.
- By the time the media ban
had lifted,
there was no more story
left for us to tell.
No one cared anymore.
Even here, yeah,
it's almost like the whole
country felt ashamed.
I mean, Hannah barely even
spoke to me after the trial.
You know, last I heard,
she moved to Portland,
I don't know, or something.
This was supposed to make her
career - I mean, our career.
But instead it ruined us both.
♪♪♪
- (Reads) "My great thought
in living is himself.
If all else pa"
Still listening?
Okay, okay.
"If all else perishes"
Lacey: Katherine and Grace
just kind of disappeared,
people forgot about them.
(Buzzer sounds)
Out of sight, out of mind,
I guess.
- "The universe would turn
to a mighty stranger."
Lacey: And once Tabatha McNurtt
reappeared,
well
that was the final punchline.
New Eden had come and gone.
Another cultural phenomenon,
forgotten.
Ah Heathcliff!
Ruff! Ruff!
Lacey: And two more women's
names, lost to history.
- Ah! I'm a girl one.
I love you.
- But I guess not everyone
forgot.
I mean, you two are what, 23,
just out of film school?
Too young to remember much
of the trial.
So
what brought you to their
story?
- It's time to come clean.
Camera Operator: Time to come
clean?
- Yeah.
(Sighs) I feel much better
talking about this.
Thank you.
(Door buzzes, lock clicks)
- Thank you, Gary.
Hey, fellas!
- Where do I sit?
Just kidding. I remember.
Grace: No, I know. I know.
I know, I don't do that.
I'm not gonna do that.
That's crazy.
- Thank you, Trina.
- Shit, I'm gonna miss this,
you guys.
When's this thing come out,
anyway?
Interviewer: Can you speak
to how you felt
in the wake of what you were
put through at the trial?
- Relieved.
- Forgotten.
- (Laughs)
We were under a lot
of media scrutiny.
Scrutiny?
- Scrutiny, yep.
- We were under a lot
of media scrutiny.
Uh, and then just like that,
we weren't.
We were scrutin-free.
- I-I think what Grace
means by that
is that after the trial,
our lives changed drastically.
I mean, obviously.
But our lives also became
a lot more quiet, in a way.
- Yeah, you know, it was like
.
People had to move on,
I guess,
and so did we.
- Yeah.
I mean, it's-it's not like
I expected the fanfare
to continue,
or even wanted it to.
God, no! No.
But suddenly, it did seem
like nobody cared.
- Hey, I care.
- Okay, well, I guess it seemed
like nobody else cared.
- Huh!
- Not that I care
if people care.
Who cares? I don't.
You know. No, I like to think
of myself as quite blase.
And you know, I've got bigger
things to think about.
- Oh, yeah.
Katherine's always been the big
thinker of this little outfit.
- Oh.
- Yeah well, and as for me,
well
- Oh! Uh, well
Grace has really flourished
here
in prison.
- Yeah.
Oh, you guys are already
on dessert.
Where the hell have you been?
I thought they let you out.
But you are still in jail.
I'll see you guys later.
Hey! Leslie!
What the hell,
I thought you died!
Grace: I've recently won
most enthusiastic inmate
at the Lady Jailbird Awards,
which are an awards show that
I started a few years back.
Hey-hey-hey, Ann!
Woo-oooh! Whoosh!
(Laughs) Yeah, okay.
Yep. Okay, let's have a seat.
Grace: Warden said we can't
give out trophies
anymore though, 'cause uh,
on account we just stab
each other with 'em.
Uh, which is fair, 'cause uh
'cause that did happen
one year.
Okay.
Oh, I've been learning
all kinds of new skills
here in prison.
You know what they say,
idle hands are the devil's
party sticks.
Oooh! (Coughs)
Hah! She looks good.
Ooh, I've also been learning
a couple of languages.
French, uh German,
and Mandarin.
Ni hao.
- Remember, posture,
diction.
- Okay.
Hello, I am here for
the employment opportunity.
Was that good?
- Yeah. (Applause)
- Right? Yeah!
Yeah! Alright!
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Yeah! Yeah!
Fuck yeah! Yeah! Unhhhh!
Interviewer: So what have you
been doing your time?
Katherine: I keep myself busy.
I uh, work in the library.
(Book thuds)
(Grace laughs)
- It had three rings!
Katherine: I exercise.
Grace: She didn't even know!
Katherine: And on Thursdays,
we do community outreach.
But you could say that
I'm always a little
preoccupied these days.
Ever since I bagged myself
a beau.
(Laughs)
Yeah, we uh, we write letters
.
And it's uh
it's very consuming.
When we first arrived,
we received all kinds of mail,
some good, um, a lot bad.
I took it upon myself to try
to respond to everything.
But as time marched on,
uh, people stopped sending
us things.
I guess they had better things
to do with their time.
- And, you know, that was
really hard on Katharine.
She really loved getting
that mail.
It let her imagine a world
outside this place.
Uh, she-we were really lost
without it.
Katherine: That's when
my Harvey started writing me.
And our romance quickly
blossomed.
Would you like to see
some of his letters?
- No, I don't think
we should do that.
- (Laughs) So these
are just a few
of our sweet B A dos.
(Laughs)
Uh, it's been a few years.
Our correspondence.
He um, he said that he saw me
on the television,
and that he just couldn't get
me out of his head.
God, his letters,
sometimes it's
it's just like he's known me
for years.
Interviewer: Has he sent you
a picture?
- Mhmm, yes.
That's my Harvey.
Interviewer: Uh,
isn't that Harvey M--
(Grace coughs loudly)
- (Clears throat)
- Ah
(Katherine giggles)
(Sighs)
Interviewer: And he's never
come to visit?
- Huh? Oh, no, no.
He's-he's very busy.
You see, ah,
he owns a hospital.
And between that and getting
his pilot's licence,
well, it's difficult for him
to get away.
Grace: Mhmm, yeah.
Yeah, 'cause um uh,
owning a hospital, psssh!
That's gotta be
a lot of work.
Right?
Katherine: Yeah
God! I mean, he has been
through so much.
His uh, his entire family
died in a yacht fire.
But we will rebuild
our lives together.
- Yeah. So how--
- You know, really, really be
there for one another.
- How are the other girls
doing?
Are they good? Do you talk
to them at all? Or
- Uh, yes. Sorry. Yes.
How is the old gang?
Amy: It hasn't always been
so easy.
But my faith always
kept me going.
After the trial, we had to put
our lives back together.
I love her.
And for me, that meant devoting
myself to my role
as Seed Mother,
and protecting my darling Adam.
He's my little angel, and--
- Can I eat these?
- Honey, honey!
That's a handful of pennies.
- (Bleep)!
- Even (Chuckles)
♪♪♪
Adam, honey?
(Plate shatters)
Interviewer: And how are you
managing as a single mother?
- By Gaion's light,
there will always be a way.
Gaaiioooonnn
And I've been doing
part-time bookkeeping
for a small textile company.
When Adam undergoes
his cosmic transformation,
I know I'll have to stop
working,
so that I may focus all
of my spiritual energies
on the impending war against
the ancient Adams.
(Ripping sounds)
But that's still a while away.
(Clattering, glass shatters)
Okay. What are you doing?!
Sharon: What has New Eden
taught me?
Uh, the same thing life
has taught me.
It's that you have to learn
from your experiences,
and then transform them
into something positive.
Let's explore an idea,
shall we?
I try to avoid bringing up
my time at New Eden.
I wouldn't want to take away
any focus from the
real victims.
When uh
I was in a cult
Yes, what I went through
was harrowing.
I had been separated
from myself.
While I was a high functioning
member of the group,
I was no longer a high
functioning member of Sharon.
But I am a survivor,
and I've moved on.
I've worked very hard to
transform my experiences
at New Eden,
and shape them into a career.
I was in one!
If people wanna call
that brave
well, I guess I can't stop
them, can I?
(Chuckles)
Max: After the trial,
yeah, I was angry.
I was really fuckin' angry.
I needed to do a lot
of healing.
And a lot of forgetting.
But at some point, I just
I couldn't keep that hate
in my heart anymore.
And I still believed in a space
r
in a supportive
and productive way.
I just realized I shouldn't
trust anybody else
to get that right.
So I moved out east,
and I started dreaming up
this place.
So this is "Sister Kisser."
Interviewer: Is the name
an homage to Katherine?
- I like to think of it
as more of a
reclamation.
♪♪♪
Don't say anything stupid.
Camera Operator: Uh, sure.
- Look at you,
you look so good!
Max: These women have been
through a lot.
And this is their time
to be around
the only other people
who have been through
what they've been through.
That's why I started these
little gatherings.
It's nice to see everyone.
We laugh a lot.
Reminisce.
And it's cool to see
what all these women
have done with their lives.
No, you didn't!
Donna: Its like a mix
of martial arts.
I call it kick-wrestling.
It',
and deal with some of that
lingering anger.
Trinity: I don't really know
why I'm here.
Well, I guess I felt nostalgic.
I guess, I just
New Eden Women: ♪ No shame! ♪
- (Laughs)
Can I have another double
Chardonnay, please?
Sharon: What was your name,
again?
- Oh, Anna.
- Hannah?
- Anna. Why does everyone keep
calling me Hannah?
- I'll be right back, okay?
Muah.
- Huh.
Max: I know. Just leave it!
- I'm just saying,
it's interesting.
- Just, I see it,
and I'm working on it.
- Okay, fair enough.
What does she do?
- She's a photographer.
- What kind of photography?
- Photojournalism.
- (Laughter, women chatter)
(Music plays)
Sharon: Having everyone
here like this,
it's a fascinating
opportunity to examine
the individualization
that occurs
after the forced sense of group
has been disbanded,
due to the subversion
and ultimate removal
of the leader-leader type.
We're allowed to truly flourish
as to who we truly are.
You know what I mean?
Hello?
Interviewer: Actually,
are you aware
that some of your former
members still get together?
- Uh, what are you
talking about?
What do you mean?
Interviewer: Well, earlier
this summer,
they had a gathering
at Max's bar.
They've done it a couple
times since the trial.
- So what? They just,
they-they get together,
and they-and they what?
They talk?
What do they talk about?
What do
what do they
what do they get up to?
- I'm Katherine, and we're
gonna take our power back.
I'm Katherine bathroom.
Pay attention to me instead!
(Grunting)
- Well, isn't that just another
reason to be excited
to-to be getting out soon?
Won't they be happy when,
when we show up
to one of their gatherings.
- Yeah
- Everybody loves
the Seed Sowers.
- Seed Sisters.
- The Seed Sisters.
Right, yes.
- I think most of us would be
happy to see Grace again,
to be honest. I know some bad
things happened,
but there's still a lot of love
for her here.
Interviewer: And what about
Katherine?
- (Coughs) God, no.
- You know what?
I bet that they already did
invite me to the next one.
Probably my invitation
got lost in the mail.
- That's it. That's it.
And I-you know what?
I bet I can-
I bet I can find an invitation
in the mail.
- Yes. Thank you.
- Yeah, you see, mail
is another thing
that I excel at here in prison.
- What? How is that a skill?
- It isn't.
Stupid, silly Grace.
- Aww. Hey?
No.
Be proud of yourself.
- Thank you.
- The story of New Eden,
it doesn't end with Grace
and Katherine.
It doesn't end
with their trial.
That's why we do this.
After everything we've endured,
we still have each other
to turn to,
to bear witness to one another.
Now, more than ever.
We're all different people now.
- Oh God, yes.
I mean, look at us.
We have very little in common.
- But what we do have
in common is New Eden.
The bond we created there
was real.
Our sisterhood
is real,
and that's something that
can never be taken from us.
(Women cheer raucously)
Women: Donna! Donna! Donna!
(Cheering)
- Never, ever.
Max: Donna! Donna!
Sharon: Okay, I've gotta go,
I gotta-I'm comin!
I'm comin'!
(Women cheer)
♪ I am woman, hear me roar ♪
♪ In numbers too big to ignore ♪
- When it's all said and done,
yeah.
It's made me the Donna Henderson
I am today.
(Blows out forcefully)
♪ And I've been down there
on the floor ♪
♪ No one's ever gonna
keep me down again ♪
- Yeah, it was totally
fucked up,
but it was ours to fuck up,
and that's power.
And I guess in a way,
we kind of took our power back.
♪ I can do anything ♪
♪ I am strong ♪
(Strong)
- Initially, New Eden
was an escape from my life,
and then eventually,
escaping with New Eden
had become
really allowed me
to return to my life.
♪ You can bend but never break ♪
♪ Cause it only serves
to make me ♪
♪ More determined to achieve
my final goal ♪
(All laugh)
- So you get what you need,
or what?
♪ 'Cause you deepen
the conviction ♪
♪ In my soul ♪
- Only Gaion knows what's
to come for all of us, but
it'll be nice for someone
to know where we've been.
♪ If I pay the price ♪
♪ But look how much
I've gained ♪
♪ If I have to ♪
♪ I can do anything ♪
♪ I am strong ♪
(Strong)
♪ I am invincible ♪
(Invincible)
♪ I am woman ♪
- Sweet, sweet Amy.
- Ohhh!
- Beautiful, beautiful Sharon.
- I know.
♪ See me standing toe-to-toe ♪
♪ I as spread my love
and arms across the land ♪
- You know, after all
that's happened,
I'm glad those girls still
get together,
remember their sisterhood,
reminisce
even after all they've been
through.
It means New Eden meant
something to 'em.
You know, it means it
won't just be forgotten.
- I want to thank you all
for being here,
for making the journey.
Women: Thank you!
- For better or for worse,
we are are the women
of New Eden.
(All cheering)
Here's to all
we've been through,
and all we will be.
And um
yeah, fuck it.
Praise Gaion!
All: Praise Gaion!
- I guess that counts
for something.
I mean, look how quickly
the world forgot about us.
Forgot what our story
represented
to women everywhere.
At least our devoted followers
are still commemorating
what we built.
- I mean, yeah.
Before you two showed up,
it's not like anybody else
was doing it, right?
Interviewer: Yeah.
Uh yeah.
- What?
- Yeah, what?
- Wait, before we wrap up,
there's just a couple others
that I wanna mention.
The proverbial cocks
in our henhouse.
Uh, I was not totally sold
on these guys at first.
Believe it or not.
But these days, I'm trying
to be more trusting
to see the good in people.
So to Travis and Jake,
I'd like to thank you.
Thank you for wanting
to tell our story.
And we trust you to honour
the truths that come with it.
Cheers.
(Women cheer and applaud)
- (Sighs) If I've known
what am I doing?
What am I doing?
I don't know.
I don't know, man,
I just like
it hit me.
I-I-I was there,
and I saw all their faces,
and it was like
all their stories
just flooded at me at once,
and they all hit me,
and I fuck-fuck off with that.
Camera Operator: No, it's good,
it's good, just keep going.
- This isn't just a story
about women, right?
It's not.
It is, but it's also
like, they're not just
those women, right?
They're flawed, yeah,
and we're gonna show that.
But they're strong.
They're so strong,
and they're resilient,
and-and they're funny.
And what happened to them
was just humiliating.
Humiliating,
and-and demeaning,
and belittling, and wrong.
And that's-that's what
the doc's gotta be about.
It's gotta be about us,
you know,
as men, realizing that.
For them.
Huh.
Grace and Katherine.
We gotta tell Grace
and Katherine
about why we started this
whole thing to begin with.
♪♪♪
Grace: Huh! What is all this,
guys?
Why all the mystery?
- Yeah, just uh,
just tell us what this is.
Interviewer: What can you tell
us about "Forbidden Fruit?"
- Is that actually what
all this has been about?
- We have to show you
something.
Something that we should've
shown you the first time
we interviewed you.
(Sighs)
Lacey: If you've read my book,
you'll know it's not something
that I focussed on.
At all.
It's a footnote
in the overall context
of their history.
Yeah.
But clearly,
it's significant to you.
(Audience cheers and applauds)
Lacey: Two cine freaks
like you?
Of course that's how you found
out about Katherine and Grace.
- Are you ready to taste
the "Forbidden Fruit?"
Hey, whoa! Easy!
Get outta here!
Alright!
(Audience cheers and applauds)
- Katherine? Grace?
Katherine?
(Katherine and Grace giggle)
- (Screams)
- Join us, Aunt Agnes!
Movie Grace: Thought you could
spy on us?
- You're a bad little
journalist, aren't you?
(Cackling laughter)
Movie Hannah: Oh, the honey
tastes so funny!
Film Narrator: It was a
fri.
(Women giggle)
- Groovy dress.
- Thanks, Grace.
Wanna try it on?
- Yes!
(Women in movie giggle, moan)
- Let's be friends.
- Best friends.
Film Narrator: But everything
changed when their innocence
was taken from them.
- I'll teach you to like men.
- Ohh! No!
- (Laughs manically)
- (Screams)
(Glass shatters)
Film Narrator The crime
that would make them
innocencents no more.
Not once they've tasted
"Forbidden Fruit."
- So, in 1988,
Elizabeth Mill sold Katherine
and Grace's life rights
without their knowledge
to a low-budget production
company,
who made a straight-to-video
movie,
loosely based on their story.
- You've got to get out
of here!
They're not what they seem!
- (Giggling maniacally)
Oops!
Film Narrator: From writer/
producer Mario Santalini,
comes a true story
of carnal desire,
and supernatural sin.
Get ready for the most chilling
cinematic event of the decade.
- (Screams)
- We're joining!
We're joining!
We're joining!
We're joining!
(Movie characters moan, squeal)
Movie Katherine: Take a chill
pill, Auntie Agnes!
(Gunshot booms)
Film Narrator: Once you've had
a taste,
there's no escape.
♪♪♪
"Forbidden Fruit."
- So
what the fuck is this?
- We wanted you to know
how much we wrestled
with the idea of showing
this to you.
- Why?
Did you guys make
this skin flick?
Are you writer/producer
Mario Santalini?
- No. No, no.
No, but we knew how hard
it would be for you
to see what your story
had been reduced to.
- Reduced to?
I mean, is this what you think
that our story is about?
I mean, after everything
that we've shared with you?
- Of course not.
What you shared with us
has been inspiring,
and humbling.
It's why we felt we owed it
to you to come clean.
We needed you to know that
this was the reason why
we came to interview you
in the first place.
But what we've realized
is that
the male perspective
on your story
has always been what's robbed
it of its truth.
I mean, case in point.
But we want to overcome that.
We want to show your truth
the way that you see it.
And we want to show what
your truth has taught us,
as men.
- So
you guys gotta forgive me,
'cause I'm a little slow.
You came and interviewed us
for months and months
about our pain,
our friendship,
all our dirty fuckin' laundry,
and at the end of that-huh!
You thought you'd reward us
by showing us a porno about us
that you used to jerk off to
in college.
Is that about it?
Am I following the bouncing
ball here, fellas?!
Interviewer: No, that's-
I mean, well (Chuckles)
the-the point is that
you've shown us our mistakes.
You've taught us.
Does that makes sense?
- Um, um, um
are we supposed to be grateful?!
Honoured that you realized that
we are more than just a joke?
Because maybe we do not want
t.
- (Scoffs) Frankly, Katherine,
I mean
we were the only ones who came
knocking for your story,
and you did sign your releases
a couple months ago,
so you might want
to reconsider
how we want to tell your story.
(Laughs) Maybe.
That's not what I meant.
I um
what-what I mean to say
is that
our idea--
- No. Okay, you know what?!
You have done nothing for us.
Nothing!
This interview is is over.
- Please, if you'd just
give me a second?
(Door buzzes)
(Sighs)
Uh ahem.
I'm so sorry.
Things got heated.
I-I get that.
I get that they got heated.
It's just
we know how powerful
your truth can be.
We're-we're living proof
of that.
And, you know, Katherine
can be sensitive.
She- she can be, but she'll
come around, and--
- We're done.
- But you can talk to her,
right?
I mean, you can-you can,
you can go talk to her,
maybe talk her back into coming
and meeting with us?
O-kay!
- Don't fucking touch me.
You don't come near me.
- Ah!
- You don't come near
Katherine!
You don't fuckin' come near us,
do you understand me?!
- Okay, Jesus!
- Nod like you fuckin'
understand me!
- Okay, Jesus! Guard! Guard!
- No touching.
- Aah!
(Whimpers)
- Grace.
- What the fuck?
what the fuck?
(Loud crash)
- You two need to leave.
- Okay!
(Door creaks)
- Aaaah!
Camera Operator: Fuck, you okay?
- No!
That was scary!
That was so scary.
- Why didn't you help me?
- I was scared, too!
Interviewer: Right there!
There! There they are.
(Fence creaks)
(Car rumbles)
(Brakes squeak, car shuts off)
(Door slams)
- Yeahprobably,
I'll call you, I'll call you.
I'll call you when
you get there.
(Door slams)
Drive safe, okay?
(Door slams, car starts)
- Bye bye.
Bye.
Bye bye, Katherine.
Bye.
(Birds chirp)
♪♪♪
♪ Love has gone forever ♪
♪ My has been forever ♪
♪ We make own jokes ♪
♪ That make us laugh ♪
♪ When she has candy
she gives me half ♪
♪ Sometimes when I start
to cry ♪
♪ She's the only one ♪
Narrator: And now,
stay tuned for
"Helen Lafayette,
a killer among us."
Grace: You've always thought
you were so clever.
But you don't know shit!
- Well, if Hannah Cafwell
hadn't gone digging,
Helen Lafayette would've
gotten away with murder.
Hannah: I had no idea how close
to death I really was.
♪♪♪
Narrator: Coming up next
on BNT.
♪ She's my best friend ♪
♪ Forever ♪