Under the Bridge (2024) s01e08 Episode Script
Mercy Alone
1
[SUMAN VIRK] Previously,
on Under the Bridge
[STAN LOWE] For the death of Reena Virk,
on a scale of one to 10,
how responsible were you
and how much was Kelly?
Three and seven.
That girl Reena went across the bridge.
Let's follow her.
Want her to say she's sorry.
I'll steal her address book
and call everyone
and tell 'em how much
of a fucking bitch she is.
She's gonna be pissed.
- [RECEPTIONIST] Where are you from?
- Victoria.
Where're you really from?
I don't know. I'm adopted.
[CHARLES GODFREY] You wanna
walk out there? I'd go with you.
I never really understood
why you like to do that.
You still think Gabe would
be here if it wasn't for me?
I don't know. [SNIFFLES]
I find Glowatski
guilty of second-degree
murder as charged.
I'm gonna make sure
everybody knows your heart.
[JOSEPHINE BELL] Don't you
have to go to your trial?
So stupid that I still have to.
♪♪
["KICK IN THE DOOR"
BY THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. PLAYING]
Uh, uh-huh ♪
Uh, this goes out
to you and you and you ♪
[SONG PAUSES, ECHOES]
Your reign on the top was
short like leprechauns ♪
As I crush so-called willies,
thugs and rapper-dons ♪
[SONG PAUSES, ECHOES]
Kick in the door, wavin' the .44 ♪
All you heard was, "Papa,
don't hit me no more" ♪
[SONG PAUSES, ECHOES]
Yo! Get the fuck off my bed,
you're gonna break it!
[EJECTING, PACKING CD]
Come on. Connor Fields will sell us
some chronic if we go to his place.
Reena, you're not invited.
[DOOR OPENS]
[MUSIC BUILDING]
- [PHONE RINGING]
- [BEADS RATTLING]
- Hello?
- [HIP HOP MUSIC PLAYING]
Okay, I told you to stop calling me.
- [DOOR OPENS]
- [INDISTINCT RAPPING]
[SIGHS] What do you want?
Weed. Duh.
- Lemme hit that.
- No.
- Heard you got AIDS.
- [FRIENDS LAUGH]
- What?
- [FRIEND 1] Yeah.
- Apparently, your tits are fake, too.
- [LAUGHTER]
[FRIEND 2] Yeah, and I heard you had,
like, three abortions.
[LAUGHTER]
Shut up. Who said that?
I don't know. Name's like, uh
Tina or something.
- Reena?
- [CONNOR FIELDS] Yeah.
[RAPPING CONTINUES]
Yeah, I'll break her bones with
a bat and burn her at the stake.
[JOSEPHINE] [ON PHONE] Yeah,
poke her fucking eyes out.
And cut off her toes.
- Wait, Jo!
- [JOSEPHINE] What?
[LAUGHS]
We should go into a forest,
dig a big, deep hole in the dirt,
push her in,
and bury her alive.
Yeah. Let's fucking kill her!
[DIAL TONE]
[HANGS UP]
- [SIGHS]
- [DOOR SLAMS]
Is that what you're wearing
to the Shoreline party?
- [KNIFE CLICKS]
- [DUSTY PACE] Yeah.
[SIGHS]
[JOSEPHINE] Can you fuckin'
believe Reena?
I don't know.
You didn't know about this?
Nah.
I didn't have anything to do with it.
No, I know.
You wouldn't do that.
I guess I've been
kind of a bitch to her. Huh?
Honestly, I'm kind of impressed.
I didn't think she had the balls.
- Maybe we should make her C.M.C.
- [DUSTY] You're askin' me?
[SCOFFS]
I'm not even C.M.C.
Of course, you are.
We were just fuckin' around.
[KNIFE CLICKS]
Here.
Fuck! [WINCING]
- [SIGHS]
- [JOSEPHINE] Omertà.
We're family.
And family protects their own.
[GRUNTS] Come on.
We can initiate Reena tonight.
It'll be a little surprise.
[PHONE RINGING]
- Hey, can you let the machine get it?
- Reena! Reena, we're eating.
- Hello?
- [JOSEPHINE] [ON PHONE] Hey, Reena.
It's Josephine.
Do you wanna come party
with us at Shoreline tonight?
- [REENA VIRK] Thought I wasn't invited.
- [JOSEPHINE] [LAUGHS] No!
You should come. It's gonna be fun.
["GLORY BOX" BY PORTISHEAD PLAYING]
For this is the beginning ♪
Of forever and ever ♪
It's time to move over ♪
-
- It's all I want to be ♪
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[OPENS DOOR]
[WATER LAPPING]
[REBECCA GODFREY]
"Stay away from the bridge,"
parents said.
As if it was a place, an abyss,
holding all the savagery.
[SEAGULLS CAWING]
Dark forces who could beat
and attack your daughter,
or who could turn your daughter
into a brutal and careless thug.
Everyone at Shoreline had
been told by their parents,
"You are never going out again."
As if this darkness was
something they could hide from
rather than something
that lives within us all.
So, how then can one begin
to confront this darkness?
[SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES]
And what is right when it takes a life?
- Maybe it starts with a simple task.
- [DOOR SHUTS]
Accept the part you've played
because you don't catch a killer.
They catch themselves.
[PHONE RINGING]
[PHONE RINGING]
- [BEEPS]
- Hello?
[OPERATOR] [ON PHONE]
You have a collect call
from the Vancouver Island
Correctional Center from
[WARREN GLOWATSKI] [ON PHONE]
Warren Glowatski.
[OPERATOR] Do you wish to accept?
- Yes.
- [CLICKS, PHONE LINE RINGING]
[CLEARS THROAT]
[WARREN] [ON PHONE] Hey.
Hi.
You, um
you haven't been around much.
[REBECCA] [ON PHONE] I know,
I've been busy writing a book
and
trying to do things I meant
to do when I got here.
- [QUIET ROOM CHATTER]
- Well, you should come visit me soon.
It's been forever. [WEAK LAUGH]
Have you been sleeping better?
[WARREN] Not really. You?
No.
I started this group therapy thing here.
I've never really done
anything like that before.
It's kinda hard.
They said we need to learn
to live with what we did.
And I don't know if I
know how to do that.
Because, um
because
I haven't been
honest.
I know.
[WARREN] I-I guess everybody does.
[SOFT, SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
Why have you never asked me
about that night?
I think I've just been scared.
[WARREN] Me too.
We're having a session soon where
we can say pretty much anything,
and we're
supposed to invite somebody,
like our family,
so we won't be judged when
we say what we did, and
I was thinking,
the only person I really
want there is you.
[SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES]
May-Maybe it'd feel less scary if I,
if I tell you about it here.
[GASPS] I don't think that's
a good idea, Warren.
[WARREN] Well, why not?
Because I'm going back
to New York, and
I just don't think I'm
the right person for that.
I can hear it in court
with everybody else.
♪♪
You're really gonna leave me
alone here by myself?
[EMOTIONAL LAUGH]
[RUSTLING]
[MARTHA] Oh, thanks.
Take that out back. Thank you.
[SIGHS] What,
you come to kick us out a day early?
No.
[CAM SIGHS]
I want you to know I didn't have anything
to do with the Ministry's decision.
Seven Oaks isn't responsible
for what happened.
Good to know.
[SIGHS] I got a call.
M-Maybe I had a file here?
Some papers from when I stayed here?
Yeah, it's on the counter behind you.
[FOLDER RUSTLING]
[SOFT, SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[CLOSES FOLDER]
[INHALES]
[EXHALES] I assume that you're
gonna be stripping the girls' rooms.
Is it okay if I go grab a few things?
Okay.
[TV STATIC]
- [REPORTERS] [ON TV] Kelly! Kelly! Kelly!
- [PING-PONG BALL BOUNCING]
[ANCHOR] [ON TV] Today begins the trial of
the infamously nicknamed "Killer Kelly".
Kelly Ellard was only 15
[MAYA] She looks like a slut.
- I think she looks hot.
- [TV CONTINUES]
Shut up, perv. I wanna hear.
[CAM BENTLAND] Josephine Bell.
[TV CHATTER CONTINUES]
What the fuck are you wearing?
[GIGGLES]
What is this?
Seven Oaks is shutting down.
There's too much controversy
from the case, so I, um
I thought you might
want some of your stuff.
[CAM SCOFFS]
- [DROPS LIGHTER]
- [FOOTSTEPS]
Why are you really here?
[CAM] Well
I know you refused
to testify at Kelly's trial.
[SIGHS]
I just thought you deserved
to hear the truth first.
[CLICKS]
[KELLY ELLARD] [ON TAPE]
Josephine's got
some psycho problems.
She says weird and
demented things
all of the time.
She hated Reena.
[CLICKS]
What is this from?
My interview with Kelly
the night we arrested her.
She's scared.
I can hear it in her voice.
[CAM] She's not scared, Josephine.
She's tryin' to pin this on you.
[KELLY] Josephine is so twisted.
- [TAPE WHIRRING]
- She said, and I quote,
"Let's fucking kill her."
[HEAVY BREATHING]
I didn't think she'd actually do it!
I still won't testify.
I'm not a rat.
[SOFT, SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
Okay.
You know that means you get
another 90 days in here, right?
It doesn't fucking matter anymore,
does it?
It's not like I have
anywhere else to go.
Wait.
Can you just play the tape again?
I just wanna hear her voice.
[WHIRRING, CLICKS]
[STAN] Not only is Kelly Ellard guilty,
she's proud of what she did.
Let that sink in for a moment.
After committing this
ruthless act of violence,
she bragged about it
to anyone who would listen.
The Crown will prove to you
beyond a reasonable doubt
that Kelly Ellard murdered
Reena Virk in cold blood.
And that beneath this innocent veneer,
you will see the truth.
A person capable of a heinous crime.
[HUSHED CHATTER]
"Monster!"
"Killer Kelly!"
Now, I trust you have all remained
impartial to the media.
But believe me when I tell you,
you have never seen such judgment
laid upon an upstanding young lady
before she's even gone to trial.
Are newspapers and television broadcasts
desperate to shock and titillate
the arbiters of whether
someone is guilty or innocent?
No!
I know you don't believe that.
And I know you'll give her
a fair shake in this trial.
[JUDGE] Will the Crown and
the defense please present
the order of witnesses?
[HUSHED MURMURING]
[WHISPERS] Move. Hey.
We really need Glowatski. He's not here.
You need to go talk to Godfrey.
Go talk to her yourself.
[ROY SIGHS]
[MURMURING CONTINUES]
- [QUIETLY] Hey, Rebecca.
- [QUIETLY] Hi.
You haven't heard from Glowatski,
have you?
No. Why?
Well, 'cause he hasn't
answered his summons.
He got on the shuttle this morning,
then chickened out.
Come on.
You're the only one he listens to.
We don't talk about the trial.
[ROY BENTLAND] Why not?
Because I'm not his lawyer,
and it's not my place.
I don't know if you've noticed,
but Kelly Ellard has
the best lawyer in BC
and Warren is the only person
who can say what she did.
So, if Warren doesn't show up,
she's probably gonna walk.
I'm here to observe.
I'm not here to get involved.
Oh, Jesus Christ, Rebecca,
you're fucking involved.
[SOFT, SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
♪♪
- [GENTLE WATER LAPPING]
- [OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
- [KELLY AND JOSEPHINE SCREAMING, LAUGHING]
- [PANTING]
- [LAUGHING]
- [REENA SHRIEKS]
[RATTLING]
[GROUP SCREAMING]
- [SCREAMING, LAUGHING CONTINUES]
- [INDISTINCT GROUP CHATTER]
- [ECHOING LAUGHTER]
- [LIGHTER CLICKS]
[CHATTER CONTINUES]
[IMITATING DOG BARKING]
[LAUGHTER]
You scared?
- Yeah, you little pussy?
- [KELLY] You should be scared.
[LAUGHTER]
Jo, I know I said some shit.
Yeah, Reena, you said a lotta shit.
Yeah, well, I'm just saying
what everyone's thinking.
[KELLY] Yeah, and what's that?
You take whatever you want from people,
say what you want,
and we're fucking sick of it.
Who's we?
[QUIET, OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
Dusty, you got a problem?
[GRUNTS]
- No.
- Hm?
No.
I'm sorry.
- [PUNCH LANDS]
- [ECHOING GRUNT]
[MUSIC BUILDING]
[MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY]
Jo put her cigarette out
on Reena's forehead
and then the five of us jumped her.
[STAN] And what did you
think was happening?
Kelly just called me saying they
needed help beating up some girl
'cause she messed with Jo.
What do you mean by "messed with Jo"?
Reena just wanted to show that
we could be as tough as them.
It started out just, like,
jokin' around, but
then Reena took it further, and
she started spreadin'
these rumors about Jo.
And Jo got pretty angry.
Uh, I don't know.
I got scared.
[PAPER RUSTLING]
[STAN] Now, when the fight began,
what did you think was happening?
They told me it was an-an initiation.
[QUIET RUMBLE]
Like what the Crips, Crips do.
[STAN] And you believed them?
I don't know.
I shoulda had her back, but
I thought that if I did,
they'd come for me too.
How was Kelly acting that night?
[MAYA] She loved it.
She was probably the most
aggressive one there.
Did you hear rumors that
Kelly murdered Reena?
Not rumors.
- She told me herself
- [AUDIENCE GASPING]
when I found Reena's
boots in her closet.
[SHOCKED AUDIENCE CHATTER]
[STAN] No further questions, Your Honor.
[ADRIAN BROOKS] Maya.
Maya, you've had problems with
drugs in your past, have you not?
You're a regular user of marijuana?
That must leave your
judgment and memory
quite impaired.
Laila, do you find
Warren Glowatski attractive?
You ever have a crush on him?
Are you being serious?
[ADRIAN] Isn't it true that
you spoke with Warren in juvie
the morning of his trial?
Isn't that where the
two of you conspired
to pin what you did on Kelly?
We talked, but [SCOFFS] I
didn't tell him what to say.
Dusty, you have a history of
anger problems. Isn't that right?
Isn't it true that you once
threatened to kill your niece?
Put a knife to her throat?
It didn't happen like that.
[ADRIAN] Just like the
fight under the bridge
didn't happen the way
you said either, right?
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
You followed Reena Virk across
that bridge to finish the job.
You planted those boots
in Kelly's closet.
- No.
- You killed Reena, didn't ya, Dusty?
We were all a part of this.
"We were all a part of this."
You hear that?
"We were all a part of this."
No further questions, Your Honor.
- [QUIET BAR CHATTER]
- [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
♪♪
[OFFICER WHISPERS]
[BARTENDER] What you havin'?
Double whiskey neat, please.
- How 'bout a ginger ale, fish and chips.
- Thank you.
You okay?
Hey. You know, don't,
don't let the day get you down.
Thanks.
We got one guilty verdict, right?
I can't wait for this to be over,
I gotta be honest.
Mm. [SIGHS] Get back to regular life.
See my barber.
Talk about anything else but this.
Yeah, this must've been
really hard for you, huh?
What?
[PUTS DOWN GLASS]
Don't you feel sick?
Just a little bit?
What are you talkin' about?
What is this? What's wrong with you?
[PAPER RUSTLING]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[PAPER RUSTLING]
- Where'd you get this?
- [CAM] Seven Oaks. [SIGHS]
Was in my adoption file.
You told me my birth
family didn't want me.
- [SIGHS]
- Said I was abused. Covered in bruises.
That's what they told me.
- Cam.
- [SCOFFS]
[CAM SIGHS]
[CAM] "Child has several bruises
clustered at the base of her spine."
That's my fuckin' birthmarks.
[SIGHS]
[SNIFFLES]
[SIGHS] You know about this program?
AIM?
I read about it. "Adopt Indian Métis."
You know what they did?
They took native kids
away from their families.
They had the fuckin' cops
- take me to Seven Oaks.
- Okay.
- [DEEP BREATHING]
- Cam, listen to me.
I never tried to hide anything from you.
[LAUGHS]
They told your mom and I
that you needed a family.
[SIGHS]
So, we gave you a family. That's it.
- You fuckin' told me I was from Alberta.
- Okay
- Okay. I said, I said
- My family, my family
- is a ferry ride away.
- [SHUSHING] Cam.
I'm wearin' the fuckin' uniform!
[SNIFFLES] I look like the
people that took me away.
[ROY] Look,
I-I-I don't know what this is,
but I'm your dad.
I'm always gonna be your dad.
Yeah.
Yeah, I know.
But maybe I was supposed to be
somethin' else.
[KIDS CHATTERING]
Sajal? Aman?
- [AMAN VIRK] I won.
- [SAJAL VIRK] Good job. Come on.
- Go get some food. Okay.
- Okay.
[SAJAL] Take these. Put them over there.
Which one's for him, Dad?
[MANJIT VIRK] This one.
[AMAN] How do I open this?
- [WRAPPERS CRINKLE]
- [SAJAL] How you do
- Oh, sure, I'll open it for you. Which
- Um
[MANJIT LAUGHS]
I'm just going to check on Mum, okay?
How do you open this one?
- [SAJAL] This one? I'll open it for you.
- [AMAN] But you do it like this?
- [FOOTSTEPS APPROACH]
- [KIDS CHATTERING]
[SOFT, SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
Suman?
Suman, come have dinner.
Suman.
You have to eat sometime, yeah?
The children miss you.
Suman?
My mother just called.
[SOFT LAUGH] She keeps saying this
wouldn't have happened
back home in India.
Hey.
Perhaps she's right, yeah?
Perhaps we can try for a few months.
The children would love it.
Uh, we can find a place
with good schools.
The weather's so nice.
We can't stay here.
We can't.
There is something
wrong with this place.
[SOMBER MUSIC BUILDS]
It's it's not this place.
[SIGHS] Manjit, we c
[SIGHS] we can't run away from this.
- [SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES]
- [BIRDS SQUAWKING]
[DOOR CLICKS]
- Rebecca?
- [DOOR SHUTS]
What is this?
Um, these are my chapters on Reena.
I found out as much as I could and
tried to be as respectful as possible.
I'm-I'm sure I could've done more.
I know I could've done more.
I have-haven't done enough
with my part in all this.
And I will encourage Warren to testify.
I know what you're facing is unbearable.
It's excruciating.
I would like to believe that
when something tragic happens,
it can make you
more able to see the beauty
that's still left in the world.
That didn't happen for me,
but I hope that happens for you.
[INDISTINCT PRISON CHATTER]
[BALL DRIBBLING]
- [BUZZER BLARES]
- [DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR SHUTS]
[GUARD] Glowatski!
What's up?
- It's good to see you.
- [FENCE RATTLING]
You almost done with your book?
Yeah, I am.
And it's mostly about you.
I don't know how that happened.
People keep asking me why,
but I-I don't really have an answer.
I don't know.
We just, um,
we have a bond.
[SOFT, SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
Can I talk to you inside?
I know why you're here.
You do?
You're goin' back to New York,
aren't you?
You're saying goodbye.
No.
Actually, somebody told me they
wanted me to bring you to them.
[SOFT, SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
It's totally up to you.
- [BUZZER BLARES]
- [DOOR CREAKS]
[DOOR CREAKS SHUT]
I wanted to see you. Well
you and Kelly, but
her lawyer won't allow it.
[SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES]
Okay.
You have done
the worst thing imaginable to my family.
[EMOTIONAL BREATHING]
I've started losing sleep, thinking
I'm thinking about ways to hurt you.
I'm not able to be a
mother to my children
because I'm-I'm too afraid to love
them in case I lose them, too.
You took away my chance
to fix things with my daughter.
You poisoned our life.
You poisoned our life!
And I-I need it to stop.
[SOMBER VOCALIZING]
In my faith, we believe in mercy.
So, I came for that.
To say
♪♪
[GASPS]
I forgive you.
Really?
It's the only way
out of all of this, Warren.
[SOBS]
♪♪
[SOBS]
[SUMAN SNIFFLES]
I don't know why I did it.
[SIGHS]
I don't know, Warren. Maybe if someone
had shown you kindness earlier, then
my daughter would have lived.
[SIGHS]
♪♪
[DOOR CREAKS]
[CREAKS, SHUTS]
[HUSHED COURTROOM CHATTER]
[SIGHS]
[GAVEL BANGS]
[CLEARS THROAT]
[STAN] Warren.
It's time to choose.
This opportunity won't come again.
Would you like to tell us what
happened once you and Kelly
got to the other side of the bridge?
[WARREN] [SIGHS] Um
[CLEARS THROAT]
the first thing I remember
was Kelly telling her
to take off her shoes.
I didn't know why at first.
I thought maybe she was robbing her.
And what happened after that?
Kelly started hitting her.
I jumped in
until she was on the ground.
[HUSHED MURMURING]
We were kicking her
all over her body, her head.
Jumping in the air with two feet.
[STAN] Why?
♪♪
It was a rush.
Like a release.
[SIGHS]
I just
I had a lot of negative shit
goin' on in my life.
There was somethin' about it
that felt good,
to get out all that anger.
[STAN] What happened after that?
We started dragging her.
That's when her pants came off.
Me and
Kelly grabbed her by the legs.
She was almost unconscious.
Then, Kelly started drowning her.
She was puking blood.
[STAN] Where were you?
♪♪
I was right there.
And when Kelly held
her head under the water,
I didn't tell her to stop.
That was a lie when I said that.
I didn't say anything at all.
[STAN] And what were you thinking?
That we were killing her.
♪♪
We didn't show her any mercy,
and I really wish we did.
I know what I did to her family
and to her.
And I'm sorry.
And I'll be sorry
for the rest of my life.
♪♪
Excuse me.
[SNIFFLES]
[SNIFFLES]
[GASPS]
[GASPS]
[MIC THUDDING]
[STAN] Kelly.
All these people who've
come forward and told us
that you said you killed Reena.
Why would they do that?
Are they conspiring against you?
[KELLY] I don't know.
Everyone was always mean to me.
[STAN] Seems like everyone
else has the same story,
but yours is different somehow.
[BRITISH ACCENT] I'm not a liar,
Mr. Lowe.
[AUDIENCE MURMURING]
Kelly, have you ever bragged about
holding Reena's head underwater?
No!
No, I wasn't even there to know
if she was dead or drowned.
[HUSHED MURMURING CONTINUES]
Okay, let's talk about
your friend Josephine Bell.
If Reena were to try and hurt Josephine,
you'd wanna try and protect her,
wouldn't you?
- [NORMAL] Of course. Jo's my best friend.
- [STAN] Makes sense.
You're a, you're a sensitive person,
aren't you?
Um
yeah.
I am a sensitive person.
So, you would punch Reena
out of love for your friend Josephine.
Could you show us how
you would punch her?
[QUIET MURMURING]
You said that while
the fight was going on,
you just stood there, watching Reena.
Why were you watching Reena?
Did ya like seeing her get beat up?
No.
[STAN] You seem a little distressed,
Kelly.
Is it the recollection
of Reena getting beat up
that's causing you distress?
No It's you.
[STAN] Okay, so, the recollection
of Reena getting beat up
does not cause you distress.
I thought you were a sensitive person?
[AUDIENCE MURMURING]
[CLINKS]
[PLASTIC CRINKLING]
[CLATTERING]
These are 18 pebbles, which were once
at the bottom of the Gorge waterway.
These were retrieved from Reena's lungs.
- [GASPS, MURMURING]
- [CLINKS]
You all heard the testimony
of Warren Glowatski.
Is it true that you drowned
Reena Virk so violently
that she sucked those up instead of air?
Obviously not!
I told you already, I wasn't there.
- I did not kill Reena Virk.
- W-We'll get to that part
You keep wasting my time!
How many times do I have to say it?
I did not kill Reena Virk!
- When it comes to the bridge
- I did not
- cross the bridge!
- [SOFT GASPS]
I am not the killer.
I did not kill Reena Virk!
I did not kill Reena Virk!
I did not cross the bridge!
- I did not cross the bridge!
- [BANGING DESK]
I did not kill Reena Virk!
I did not kill Reena Virk!
I did not kill Reena Virk!
And I will repeat it and repeat it,
and repeat it until the day I die!
I do not care how much jail time I do!
I do not care!
I did not kill Reena Virk!
- [PANTING]
- [AUDIENCE WHISPERING]
[SOBS]
♪♪
No more questions, Your Honor.
♪♪
[RAJ MASIHAJJAR] Hey.
Okay, are you ready to go?
Yeah. Can I have some help with the tie?
- [RAJ] With your tie? Of course, you can.
- [SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
Wow, you look so grown up in your suit.
- There we go. There we go.
- [SAJAL] I'm ready.
- You look very nice.
- Thank you, you too.
- Just relax for a second, okay?
- [REPORTER] [ON TV] Today's the day.
We are mere hours away
from learning the verdict
in the Kelly Ellard trial.
Ellard, nicknamed
"Killer Kelly" by the press,
has been accused of the
murder of Reena Virk,
for which Warren Glowatski
has already been charged.
Outside the courtroom,
crowds have gathered,
anxious to hear the outcome.
Will the Virks finally get justice
or will Kelly Ellard walk?
Very nice.
[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]
Okay. Um, just g-go
sit down over there, okay?
[SIGHS] Okay.
[COURTROOM AUDIENCE WHISPERING]
- [JUDGE] Quiet please.
- [WHISPERING DIES DOWN]
[JUROR] After five days
of deliberations,
we find the defendant, Kelly Ellard,
guilty of second-degree murder.
[EXCITED HUSHED CHATTER]
[JUDGE] Quiet, please.
As for sentencing.
We must view the accused
as an individual.
Kelly Ellard has a,
an extraordinary and diverse
network of family and friends.
She's achieved good marks in school.
On account of all these reasons,
it is incumbent on me
that a 15-year-old receive
the minimum sentence
of five years in prison.
[MURMURING]
Quiet, please!
Kelly.
You are young and intelligent.
You have a wonderful family
that believes in you,
and I can only say you
must never let them down.
More importantly,
you must never let yourself down again.
I think you owe it to Reena Virk
to live a life that's exemplary.
Court dismissed.
- [SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
- [COURTROOM AUDIENCE MURMURING]
[CAM] Some justice, eh?
[REBECCA] My publishers
will be thrilled.
Yeah, bad for the world's
good for you, I guess, huh?
[SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
Sorry I didn't mean it like that.
[REBECCA] No, you're right.
You were right about Warren.
I thought that the reason
that I felt close to Warren
was because he reminded me
of my brother.
But I think he just
reminded me of myself
'cause we're both the reason
that someone died.
Becca, Gabe fell.
I don't know that Gabe fell.
[CAM] Even if he didn't
it's not on you.
And I never should've said it was.
You and Warren are not the same.
Yeah.
[DOOR OPENS]
[ROY] I'm buying, Stan.
You need to go sit with them?
Not officially. [SCOFFS]
[REBECCA] What do you mean?
I'm, uh, [SIGHS]
I'm actually resigning.
Really?
I'm sick of people being scared
when I walk into a room.
You know? [SIGHS]
[SIGHS]
So, are you gonna
get out of Victoria now?
Yeah, maybe.
I, um
I found out my birth family is, uh,
Tsleil-Waututh.
[SIGHS]
It's north of Vancouver.
Just on the mainland.
Are you gonna meet 'em?
Yeah, I think so.
["I LOVE YOU ALWAYS FOREVER"
BY DONNA LEWIS PLAYING]
What about you?
Finally get Victoria outta your system?
Love me forever ♪
Never stop, never whatever ♪
Yeah.
And always everywhere
and everything ♪
Say you'll love
and love me forever ♪
It's good to see you again
after all these years, Becca.
It's been good seeing you, too, Cam.
Never stop, never whatever,
near and far ♪
Take care of yourself, okay?
Can't make any promises.
Just try, punk.
["I WON'T HURT YOU" BY THE WES
COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND PLAYING]
I have lost all of my pride ♪
- I have been to paradise ♪
- [SEAGULLS CAWING]
- And out the other side ♪
- [WAVES SPLASHING]
With no one to guide me ♪
- Torn apart by a fiery wheel inside me ♪
- [SNIFFLES]
I won't hurt you,
I won't hurt you ♪
I won't hurt you,
I won't hurt you ♪
An untouched diamond ♪
[REBECCA] The nights with your
friends held certain promises.
A girl would have her first kiss.
A boy would get high for the first time,
and with his red eyes,
he would laugh at the sky
and say it looked like a lake.
The stars are in your eyes ♪
But after that night,
in the dark waters of a saltwater
inlet known as the Gorge,
they found the body of a girl.
- [SQUAWKS]
- I won't hurt you, I won't hurt you ♪
I won't hurt you,
I won't hurt you ♪
[SONG CONTINUES]
It was a strange occupation
for the police of Victoria.
Looking for something they
didn't really wanna find.
My pale blue star ♪
My rainbow, how good it is ♪
To know you're like me ♪
Strike me with your lightning ♪
Bring me down and
bury me with ashes ♪
- [PING-PONG BALL BOUNCING, BUZZER BLARING]
- I won't hurt you, I won't hurt you ♪
Under the bridge, there might've been
discovered some malevolent spirit.
[DOOR SHUTS]
The force seemed unreal
to the youth of View Royal
as if the night continued to linger,
to hold them in some
kind of fierce embrace.
But this darkness, this evil spirit,
was revealed in the end to be
something oddly human.
A misspoken word. A broken heart.
Pain, buried deep.
I won't hurt you ♪
After the events of this night,
there would never truly be closure.
Stories never really end.
There can be only the promise,
the hope for reconciliation.
As though being at a sleepover,
and a girl is dared,
"Tell me your secrets."
So, she shares all the
worst things about herself.
And from the pillow next to her,
she hears a whisper.
"That's okay. We can still be friends."
All there can be is a call for mercy.
I won't hurt you,
I won't hurt you ♪
It's mercy, and mercy alone,
that transforms the human heart.
- I won't hurt you ♪
-
[PLANE RUMBLING, RATTLING]
- [SONG FADES OUT]
- [DRILL WHIRRING]
[DRILL WHIRRING]
[DRILL WHIRRING]
[DRILL WHIRRING]
[SMOOCH CHIRPING]
[MANJIT] Smoochy?
[SPEAKS PUNJABI]
["KICK IN THE DOOR"
BY THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. PLAYING]
Uh, uh-huh ♪
Uh, this goes out to you ♪
This goes out to you and you ♪
And you, Biggie, and you ♪
This goes out to you ♪
This goes out, Biggie, to you ♪
This goes out to you
and you and you, uh ♪
Your reign on the top was
short like leprechauns ♪
As I crush so-called willies,
thugs and rapper-dons ♪
Get in that ass,
quick-fast, like Ramadan ♪
- It's that rap phenomenon, Don-Dadda ♪
- [LAUGHING]
You gotta call me
Francis M.H. White ♪
- [SONG WARBLING]
- [CD PLAYER GLITCHING]
[SONG STOPS ABRUPTLY]
[SOFT, SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[CLOCK TICKING]
[SOFT, SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES]
[SOFT, SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES]
[CHILD] Best day ever!
[SUMAN VIRK] Previously,
on Under the Bridge
[STAN LOWE] For the death of Reena Virk,
on a scale of one to 10,
how responsible were you
and how much was Kelly?
Three and seven.
That girl Reena went across the bridge.
Let's follow her.
Want her to say she's sorry.
I'll steal her address book
and call everyone
and tell 'em how much
of a fucking bitch she is.
She's gonna be pissed.
- [RECEPTIONIST] Where are you from?
- Victoria.
Where're you really from?
I don't know. I'm adopted.
[CHARLES GODFREY] You wanna
walk out there? I'd go with you.
I never really understood
why you like to do that.
You still think Gabe would
be here if it wasn't for me?
I don't know. [SNIFFLES]
I find Glowatski
guilty of second-degree
murder as charged.
I'm gonna make sure
everybody knows your heart.
[JOSEPHINE BELL] Don't you
have to go to your trial?
So stupid that I still have to.
♪♪
["KICK IN THE DOOR"
BY THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. PLAYING]
Uh, uh-huh ♪
Uh, this goes out
to you and you and you ♪
[SONG PAUSES, ECHOES]
Your reign on the top was
short like leprechauns ♪
As I crush so-called willies,
thugs and rapper-dons ♪
[SONG PAUSES, ECHOES]
Kick in the door, wavin' the .44 ♪
All you heard was, "Papa,
don't hit me no more" ♪
[SONG PAUSES, ECHOES]
Yo! Get the fuck off my bed,
you're gonna break it!
[EJECTING, PACKING CD]
Come on. Connor Fields will sell us
some chronic if we go to his place.
Reena, you're not invited.
[DOOR OPENS]
[MUSIC BUILDING]
- [PHONE RINGING]
- [BEADS RATTLING]
- Hello?
- [HIP HOP MUSIC PLAYING]
Okay, I told you to stop calling me.
- [DOOR OPENS]
- [INDISTINCT RAPPING]
[SIGHS] What do you want?
Weed. Duh.
- Lemme hit that.
- No.
- Heard you got AIDS.
- [FRIENDS LAUGH]
- What?
- [FRIEND 1] Yeah.
- Apparently, your tits are fake, too.
- [LAUGHTER]
[FRIEND 2] Yeah, and I heard you had,
like, three abortions.
[LAUGHTER]
Shut up. Who said that?
I don't know. Name's like, uh
Tina or something.
- Reena?
- [CONNOR FIELDS] Yeah.
[RAPPING CONTINUES]
Yeah, I'll break her bones with
a bat and burn her at the stake.
[JOSEPHINE] [ON PHONE] Yeah,
poke her fucking eyes out.
And cut off her toes.
- Wait, Jo!
- [JOSEPHINE] What?
[LAUGHS]
We should go into a forest,
dig a big, deep hole in the dirt,
push her in,
and bury her alive.
Yeah. Let's fucking kill her!
[DIAL TONE]
[HANGS UP]
- [SIGHS]
- [DOOR SLAMS]
Is that what you're wearing
to the Shoreline party?
- [KNIFE CLICKS]
- [DUSTY PACE] Yeah.
[SIGHS]
[JOSEPHINE] Can you fuckin'
believe Reena?
I don't know.
You didn't know about this?
Nah.
I didn't have anything to do with it.
No, I know.
You wouldn't do that.
I guess I've been
kind of a bitch to her. Huh?
Honestly, I'm kind of impressed.
I didn't think she had the balls.
- Maybe we should make her C.M.C.
- [DUSTY] You're askin' me?
[SCOFFS]
I'm not even C.M.C.
Of course, you are.
We were just fuckin' around.
[KNIFE CLICKS]
Here.
Fuck! [WINCING]
- [SIGHS]
- [JOSEPHINE] Omertà.
We're family.
And family protects their own.
[GRUNTS] Come on.
We can initiate Reena tonight.
It'll be a little surprise.
[PHONE RINGING]
- Hey, can you let the machine get it?
- Reena! Reena, we're eating.
- Hello?
- [JOSEPHINE] [ON PHONE] Hey, Reena.
It's Josephine.
Do you wanna come party
with us at Shoreline tonight?
- [REENA VIRK] Thought I wasn't invited.
- [JOSEPHINE] [LAUGHS] No!
You should come. It's gonna be fun.
["GLORY BOX" BY PORTISHEAD PLAYING]
For this is the beginning ♪
Of forever and ever ♪
It's time to move over ♪
-
- It's all I want to be ♪
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[OPENS DOOR]
[WATER LAPPING]
[REBECCA GODFREY]
"Stay away from the bridge,"
parents said.
As if it was a place, an abyss,
holding all the savagery.
[SEAGULLS CAWING]
Dark forces who could beat
and attack your daughter,
or who could turn your daughter
into a brutal and careless thug.
Everyone at Shoreline had
been told by their parents,
"You are never going out again."
As if this darkness was
something they could hide from
rather than something
that lives within us all.
So, how then can one begin
to confront this darkness?
[SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES]
And what is right when it takes a life?
- Maybe it starts with a simple task.
- [DOOR SHUTS]
Accept the part you've played
because you don't catch a killer.
They catch themselves.
[PHONE RINGING]
[PHONE RINGING]
- [BEEPS]
- Hello?
[OPERATOR] [ON PHONE]
You have a collect call
from the Vancouver Island
Correctional Center from
[WARREN GLOWATSKI] [ON PHONE]
Warren Glowatski.
[OPERATOR] Do you wish to accept?
- Yes.
- [CLICKS, PHONE LINE RINGING]
[CLEARS THROAT]
[WARREN] [ON PHONE] Hey.
Hi.
You, um
you haven't been around much.
[REBECCA] [ON PHONE] I know,
I've been busy writing a book
and
trying to do things I meant
to do when I got here.
- [QUIET ROOM CHATTER]
- Well, you should come visit me soon.
It's been forever. [WEAK LAUGH]
Have you been sleeping better?
[WARREN] Not really. You?
No.
I started this group therapy thing here.
I've never really done
anything like that before.
It's kinda hard.
They said we need to learn
to live with what we did.
And I don't know if I
know how to do that.
Because, um
because
I haven't been
honest.
I know.
[WARREN] I-I guess everybody does.
[SOFT, SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
Why have you never asked me
about that night?
I think I've just been scared.
[WARREN] Me too.
We're having a session soon where
we can say pretty much anything,
and we're
supposed to invite somebody,
like our family,
so we won't be judged when
we say what we did, and
I was thinking,
the only person I really
want there is you.
[SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES]
May-Maybe it'd feel less scary if I,
if I tell you about it here.
[GASPS] I don't think that's
a good idea, Warren.
[WARREN] Well, why not?
Because I'm going back
to New York, and
I just don't think I'm
the right person for that.
I can hear it in court
with everybody else.
♪♪
You're really gonna leave me
alone here by myself?
[EMOTIONAL LAUGH]
[RUSTLING]
[MARTHA] Oh, thanks.
Take that out back. Thank you.
[SIGHS] What,
you come to kick us out a day early?
No.
[CAM SIGHS]
I want you to know I didn't have anything
to do with the Ministry's decision.
Seven Oaks isn't responsible
for what happened.
Good to know.
[SIGHS] I got a call.
M-Maybe I had a file here?
Some papers from when I stayed here?
Yeah, it's on the counter behind you.
[FOLDER RUSTLING]
[SOFT, SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[CLOSES FOLDER]
[INHALES]
[EXHALES] I assume that you're
gonna be stripping the girls' rooms.
Is it okay if I go grab a few things?
Okay.
[TV STATIC]
- [REPORTERS] [ON TV] Kelly! Kelly! Kelly!
- [PING-PONG BALL BOUNCING]
[ANCHOR] [ON TV] Today begins the trial of
the infamously nicknamed "Killer Kelly".
Kelly Ellard was only 15
[MAYA] She looks like a slut.
- I think she looks hot.
- [TV CONTINUES]
Shut up, perv. I wanna hear.
[CAM BENTLAND] Josephine Bell.
[TV CHATTER CONTINUES]
What the fuck are you wearing?
[GIGGLES]
What is this?
Seven Oaks is shutting down.
There's too much controversy
from the case, so I, um
I thought you might
want some of your stuff.
[CAM SCOFFS]
- [DROPS LIGHTER]
- [FOOTSTEPS]
Why are you really here?
[CAM] Well
I know you refused
to testify at Kelly's trial.
[SIGHS]
I just thought you deserved
to hear the truth first.
[CLICKS]
[KELLY ELLARD] [ON TAPE]
Josephine's got
some psycho problems.
She says weird and
demented things
all of the time.
She hated Reena.
[CLICKS]
What is this from?
My interview with Kelly
the night we arrested her.
She's scared.
I can hear it in her voice.
[CAM] She's not scared, Josephine.
She's tryin' to pin this on you.
[KELLY] Josephine is so twisted.
- [TAPE WHIRRING]
- She said, and I quote,
"Let's fucking kill her."
[HEAVY BREATHING]
I didn't think she'd actually do it!
I still won't testify.
I'm not a rat.
[SOFT, SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
Okay.
You know that means you get
another 90 days in here, right?
It doesn't fucking matter anymore,
does it?
It's not like I have
anywhere else to go.
Wait.
Can you just play the tape again?
I just wanna hear her voice.
[WHIRRING, CLICKS]
[STAN] Not only is Kelly Ellard guilty,
she's proud of what she did.
Let that sink in for a moment.
After committing this
ruthless act of violence,
she bragged about it
to anyone who would listen.
The Crown will prove to you
beyond a reasonable doubt
that Kelly Ellard murdered
Reena Virk in cold blood.
And that beneath this innocent veneer,
you will see the truth.
A person capable of a heinous crime.
[HUSHED CHATTER]
"Monster!"
"Killer Kelly!"
Now, I trust you have all remained
impartial to the media.
But believe me when I tell you,
you have never seen such judgment
laid upon an upstanding young lady
before she's even gone to trial.
Are newspapers and television broadcasts
desperate to shock and titillate
the arbiters of whether
someone is guilty or innocent?
No!
I know you don't believe that.
And I know you'll give her
a fair shake in this trial.
[JUDGE] Will the Crown and
the defense please present
the order of witnesses?
[HUSHED MURMURING]
[WHISPERS] Move. Hey.
We really need Glowatski. He's not here.
You need to go talk to Godfrey.
Go talk to her yourself.
[ROY SIGHS]
[MURMURING CONTINUES]
- [QUIETLY] Hey, Rebecca.
- [QUIETLY] Hi.
You haven't heard from Glowatski,
have you?
No. Why?
Well, 'cause he hasn't
answered his summons.
He got on the shuttle this morning,
then chickened out.
Come on.
You're the only one he listens to.
We don't talk about the trial.
[ROY BENTLAND] Why not?
Because I'm not his lawyer,
and it's not my place.
I don't know if you've noticed,
but Kelly Ellard has
the best lawyer in BC
and Warren is the only person
who can say what she did.
So, if Warren doesn't show up,
she's probably gonna walk.
I'm here to observe.
I'm not here to get involved.
Oh, Jesus Christ, Rebecca,
you're fucking involved.
[SOFT, SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
♪♪
- [GENTLE WATER LAPPING]
- [OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
- [KELLY AND JOSEPHINE SCREAMING, LAUGHING]
- [PANTING]
- [LAUGHING]
- [REENA SHRIEKS]
[RATTLING]
[GROUP SCREAMING]
- [SCREAMING, LAUGHING CONTINUES]
- [INDISTINCT GROUP CHATTER]
- [ECHOING LAUGHTER]
- [LIGHTER CLICKS]
[CHATTER CONTINUES]
[IMITATING DOG BARKING]
[LAUGHTER]
You scared?
- Yeah, you little pussy?
- [KELLY] You should be scared.
[LAUGHTER]
Jo, I know I said some shit.
Yeah, Reena, you said a lotta shit.
Yeah, well, I'm just saying
what everyone's thinking.
[KELLY] Yeah, and what's that?
You take whatever you want from people,
say what you want,
and we're fucking sick of it.
Who's we?
[QUIET, OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
Dusty, you got a problem?
[GRUNTS]
- No.
- Hm?
No.
I'm sorry.
- [PUNCH LANDS]
- [ECHOING GRUNT]
[MUSIC BUILDING]
[MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY]
Jo put her cigarette out
on Reena's forehead
and then the five of us jumped her.
[STAN] And what did you
think was happening?
Kelly just called me saying they
needed help beating up some girl
'cause she messed with Jo.
What do you mean by "messed with Jo"?
Reena just wanted to show that
we could be as tough as them.
It started out just, like,
jokin' around, but
then Reena took it further, and
she started spreadin'
these rumors about Jo.
And Jo got pretty angry.
Uh, I don't know.
I got scared.
[PAPER RUSTLING]
[STAN] Now, when the fight began,
what did you think was happening?
They told me it was an-an initiation.
[QUIET RUMBLE]
Like what the Crips, Crips do.
[STAN] And you believed them?
I don't know.
I shoulda had her back, but
I thought that if I did,
they'd come for me too.
How was Kelly acting that night?
[MAYA] She loved it.
She was probably the most
aggressive one there.
Did you hear rumors that
Kelly murdered Reena?
Not rumors.
- She told me herself
- [AUDIENCE GASPING]
when I found Reena's
boots in her closet.
[SHOCKED AUDIENCE CHATTER]
[STAN] No further questions, Your Honor.
[ADRIAN BROOKS] Maya.
Maya, you've had problems with
drugs in your past, have you not?
You're a regular user of marijuana?
That must leave your
judgment and memory
quite impaired.
Laila, do you find
Warren Glowatski attractive?
You ever have a crush on him?
Are you being serious?
[ADRIAN] Isn't it true that
you spoke with Warren in juvie
the morning of his trial?
Isn't that where the
two of you conspired
to pin what you did on Kelly?
We talked, but [SCOFFS] I
didn't tell him what to say.
Dusty, you have a history of
anger problems. Isn't that right?
Isn't it true that you once
threatened to kill your niece?
Put a knife to her throat?
It didn't happen like that.
[ADRIAN] Just like the
fight under the bridge
didn't happen the way
you said either, right?
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
You followed Reena Virk across
that bridge to finish the job.
You planted those boots
in Kelly's closet.
- No.
- You killed Reena, didn't ya, Dusty?
We were all a part of this.
"We were all a part of this."
You hear that?
"We were all a part of this."
No further questions, Your Honor.
- [QUIET BAR CHATTER]
- [SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
♪♪
[OFFICER WHISPERS]
[BARTENDER] What you havin'?
Double whiskey neat, please.
- How 'bout a ginger ale, fish and chips.
- Thank you.
You okay?
Hey. You know, don't,
don't let the day get you down.
Thanks.
We got one guilty verdict, right?
I can't wait for this to be over,
I gotta be honest.
Mm. [SIGHS] Get back to regular life.
See my barber.
Talk about anything else but this.
Yeah, this must've been
really hard for you, huh?
What?
[PUTS DOWN GLASS]
Don't you feel sick?
Just a little bit?
What are you talkin' about?
What is this? What's wrong with you?
[PAPER RUSTLING]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[PAPER RUSTLING]
- Where'd you get this?
- [CAM] Seven Oaks. [SIGHS]
Was in my adoption file.
You told me my birth
family didn't want me.
- [SIGHS]
- Said I was abused. Covered in bruises.
That's what they told me.
- Cam.
- [SCOFFS]
[CAM SIGHS]
[CAM] "Child has several bruises
clustered at the base of her spine."
That's my fuckin' birthmarks.
[SIGHS]
[SNIFFLES]
[SIGHS] You know about this program?
AIM?
I read about it. "Adopt Indian Métis."
You know what they did?
They took native kids
away from their families.
They had the fuckin' cops
- take me to Seven Oaks.
- Okay.
- [DEEP BREATHING]
- Cam, listen to me.
I never tried to hide anything from you.
[LAUGHS]
They told your mom and I
that you needed a family.
[SIGHS]
So, we gave you a family. That's it.
- You fuckin' told me I was from Alberta.
- Okay
- Okay. I said, I said
- My family, my family
- is a ferry ride away.
- [SHUSHING] Cam.
I'm wearin' the fuckin' uniform!
[SNIFFLES] I look like the
people that took me away.
[ROY] Look,
I-I-I don't know what this is,
but I'm your dad.
I'm always gonna be your dad.
Yeah.
Yeah, I know.
But maybe I was supposed to be
somethin' else.
[KIDS CHATTERING]
Sajal? Aman?
- [AMAN VIRK] I won.
- [SAJAL VIRK] Good job. Come on.
- Go get some food. Okay.
- Okay.
[SAJAL] Take these. Put them over there.
Which one's for him, Dad?
[MANJIT VIRK] This one.
[AMAN] How do I open this?
- [WRAPPERS CRINKLE]
- [SAJAL] How you do
- Oh, sure, I'll open it for you. Which
- Um
[MANJIT LAUGHS]
I'm just going to check on Mum, okay?
How do you open this one?
- [SAJAL] This one? I'll open it for you.
- [AMAN] But you do it like this?
- [FOOTSTEPS APPROACH]
- [KIDS CHATTERING]
[SOFT, SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
Suman?
Suman, come have dinner.
Suman.
You have to eat sometime, yeah?
The children miss you.
Suman?
My mother just called.
[SOFT LAUGH] She keeps saying this
wouldn't have happened
back home in India.
Hey.
Perhaps she's right, yeah?
Perhaps we can try for a few months.
The children would love it.
Uh, we can find a place
with good schools.
The weather's so nice.
We can't stay here.
We can't.
There is something
wrong with this place.
[SOMBER MUSIC BUILDS]
It's it's not this place.
[SIGHS] Manjit, we c
[SIGHS] we can't run away from this.
- [SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES]
- [BIRDS SQUAWKING]
[DOOR CLICKS]
- Rebecca?
- [DOOR SHUTS]
What is this?
Um, these are my chapters on Reena.
I found out as much as I could and
tried to be as respectful as possible.
I'm-I'm sure I could've done more.
I know I could've done more.
I have-haven't done enough
with my part in all this.
And I will encourage Warren to testify.
I know what you're facing is unbearable.
It's excruciating.
I would like to believe that
when something tragic happens,
it can make you
more able to see the beauty
that's still left in the world.
That didn't happen for me,
but I hope that happens for you.
[INDISTINCT PRISON CHATTER]
[BALL DRIBBLING]
- [BUZZER BLARES]
- [DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR SHUTS]
[GUARD] Glowatski!
What's up?
- It's good to see you.
- [FENCE RATTLING]
You almost done with your book?
Yeah, I am.
And it's mostly about you.
I don't know how that happened.
People keep asking me why,
but I-I don't really have an answer.
I don't know.
We just, um,
we have a bond.
[SOFT, SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
Can I talk to you inside?
I know why you're here.
You do?
You're goin' back to New York,
aren't you?
You're saying goodbye.
No.
Actually, somebody told me they
wanted me to bring you to them.
[SOFT, SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
It's totally up to you.
- [BUZZER BLARES]
- [DOOR CREAKS]
[DOOR CREAKS SHUT]
I wanted to see you. Well
you and Kelly, but
her lawyer won't allow it.
[SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES]
Okay.
You have done
the worst thing imaginable to my family.
[EMOTIONAL BREATHING]
I've started losing sleep, thinking
I'm thinking about ways to hurt you.
I'm not able to be a
mother to my children
because I'm-I'm too afraid to love
them in case I lose them, too.
You took away my chance
to fix things with my daughter.
You poisoned our life.
You poisoned our life!
And I-I need it to stop.
[SOMBER VOCALIZING]
In my faith, we believe in mercy.
So, I came for that.
To say
♪♪
[GASPS]
I forgive you.
Really?
It's the only way
out of all of this, Warren.
[SOBS]
♪♪
[SOBS]
[SUMAN SNIFFLES]
I don't know why I did it.
[SIGHS]
I don't know, Warren. Maybe if someone
had shown you kindness earlier, then
my daughter would have lived.
[SIGHS]
♪♪
[DOOR CREAKS]
[CREAKS, SHUTS]
[HUSHED COURTROOM CHATTER]
[SIGHS]
[GAVEL BANGS]
[CLEARS THROAT]
[STAN] Warren.
It's time to choose.
This opportunity won't come again.
Would you like to tell us what
happened once you and Kelly
got to the other side of the bridge?
[WARREN] [SIGHS] Um
[CLEARS THROAT]
the first thing I remember
was Kelly telling her
to take off her shoes.
I didn't know why at first.
I thought maybe she was robbing her.
And what happened after that?
Kelly started hitting her.
I jumped in
until she was on the ground.
[HUSHED MURMURING]
We were kicking her
all over her body, her head.
Jumping in the air with two feet.
[STAN] Why?
♪♪
It was a rush.
Like a release.
[SIGHS]
I just
I had a lot of negative shit
goin' on in my life.
There was somethin' about it
that felt good,
to get out all that anger.
[STAN] What happened after that?
We started dragging her.
That's when her pants came off.
Me and
Kelly grabbed her by the legs.
She was almost unconscious.
Then, Kelly started drowning her.
She was puking blood.
[STAN] Where were you?
♪♪
I was right there.
And when Kelly held
her head under the water,
I didn't tell her to stop.
That was a lie when I said that.
I didn't say anything at all.
[STAN] And what were you thinking?
That we were killing her.
♪♪
We didn't show her any mercy,
and I really wish we did.
I know what I did to her family
and to her.
And I'm sorry.
And I'll be sorry
for the rest of my life.
♪♪
Excuse me.
[SNIFFLES]
[SNIFFLES]
[GASPS]
[GASPS]
[MIC THUDDING]
[STAN] Kelly.
All these people who've
come forward and told us
that you said you killed Reena.
Why would they do that?
Are they conspiring against you?
[KELLY] I don't know.
Everyone was always mean to me.
[STAN] Seems like everyone
else has the same story,
but yours is different somehow.
[BRITISH ACCENT] I'm not a liar,
Mr. Lowe.
[AUDIENCE MURMURING]
Kelly, have you ever bragged about
holding Reena's head underwater?
No!
No, I wasn't even there to know
if she was dead or drowned.
[HUSHED MURMURING CONTINUES]
Okay, let's talk about
your friend Josephine Bell.
If Reena were to try and hurt Josephine,
you'd wanna try and protect her,
wouldn't you?
- [NORMAL] Of course. Jo's my best friend.
- [STAN] Makes sense.
You're a, you're a sensitive person,
aren't you?
Um
yeah.
I am a sensitive person.
So, you would punch Reena
out of love for your friend Josephine.
Could you show us how
you would punch her?
[QUIET MURMURING]
You said that while
the fight was going on,
you just stood there, watching Reena.
Why were you watching Reena?
Did ya like seeing her get beat up?
No.
[STAN] You seem a little distressed,
Kelly.
Is it the recollection
of Reena getting beat up
that's causing you distress?
No It's you.
[STAN] Okay, so, the recollection
of Reena getting beat up
does not cause you distress.
I thought you were a sensitive person?
[AUDIENCE MURMURING]
[CLINKS]
[PLASTIC CRINKLING]
[CLATTERING]
These are 18 pebbles, which were once
at the bottom of the Gorge waterway.
These were retrieved from Reena's lungs.
- [GASPS, MURMURING]
- [CLINKS]
You all heard the testimony
of Warren Glowatski.
Is it true that you drowned
Reena Virk so violently
that she sucked those up instead of air?
Obviously not!
I told you already, I wasn't there.
- I did not kill Reena Virk.
- W-We'll get to that part
You keep wasting my time!
How many times do I have to say it?
I did not kill Reena Virk!
- When it comes to the bridge
- I did not
- cross the bridge!
- [SOFT GASPS]
I am not the killer.
I did not kill Reena Virk!
I did not kill Reena Virk!
I did not cross the bridge!
- I did not cross the bridge!
- [BANGING DESK]
I did not kill Reena Virk!
I did not kill Reena Virk!
I did not kill Reena Virk!
And I will repeat it and repeat it,
and repeat it until the day I die!
I do not care how much jail time I do!
I do not care!
I did not kill Reena Virk!
- [PANTING]
- [AUDIENCE WHISPERING]
[SOBS]
♪♪
No more questions, Your Honor.
♪♪
[RAJ MASIHAJJAR] Hey.
Okay, are you ready to go?
Yeah. Can I have some help with the tie?
- [RAJ] With your tie? Of course, you can.
- [SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
Wow, you look so grown up in your suit.
- There we go. There we go.
- [SAJAL] I'm ready.
- You look very nice.
- Thank you, you too.
- Just relax for a second, okay?
- [REPORTER] [ON TV] Today's the day.
We are mere hours away
from learning the verdict
in the Kelly Ellard trial.
Ellard, nicknamed
"Killer Kelly" by the press,
has been accused of the
murder of Reena Virk,
for which Warren Glowatski
has already been charged.
Outside the courtroom,
crowds have gathered,
anxious to hear the outcome.
Will the Virks finally get justice
or will Kelly Ellard walk?
Very nice.
[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]
Okay. Um, just g-go
sit down over there, okay?
[SIGHS] Okay.
[COURTROOM AUDIENCE WHISPERING]
- [JUDGE] Quiet please.
- [WHISPERING DIES DOWN]
[JUROR] After five days
of deliberations,
we find the defendant, Kelly Ellard,
guilty of second-degree murder.
[EXCITED HUSHED CHATTER]
[JUDGE] Quiet, please.
As for sentencing.
We must view the accused
as an individual.
Kelly Ellard has a,
an extraordinary and diverse
network of family and friends.
She's achieved good marks in school.
On account of all these reasons,
it is incumbent on me
that a 15-year-old receive
the minimum sentence
of five years in prison.
[MURMURING]
Quiet, please!
Kelly.
You are young and intelligent.
You have a wonderful family
that believes in you,
and I can only say you
must never let them down.
More importantly,
you must never let yourself down again.
I think you owe it to Reena Virk
to live a life that's exemplary.
Court dismissed.
- [SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
- [COURTROOM AUDIENCE MURMURING]
[CAM] Some justice, eh?
[REBECCA] My publishers
will be thrilled.
Yeah, bad for the world's
good for you, I guess, huh?
[SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
Sorry I didn't mean it like that.
[REBECCA] No, you're right.
You were right about Warren.
I thought that the reason
that I felt close to Warren
was because he reminded me
of my brother.
But I think he just
reminded me of myself
'cause we're both the reason
that someone died.
Becca, Gabe fell.
I don't know that Gabe fell.
[CAM] Even if he didn't
it's not on you.
And I never should've said it was.
You and Warren are not the same.
Yeah.
[DOOR OPENS]
[ROY] I'm buying, Stan.
You need to go sit with them?
Not officially. [SCOFFS]
[REBECCA] What do you mean?
I'm, uh, [SIGHS]
I'm actually resigning.
Really?
I'm sick of people being scared
when I walk into a room.
You know? [SIGHS]
[SIGHS]
So, are you gonna
get out of Victoria now?
Yeah, maybe.
I, um
I found out my birth family is, uh,
Tsleil-Waututh.
[SIGHS]
It's north of Vancouver.
Just on the mainland.
Are you gonna meet 'em?
Yeah, I think so.
["I LOVE YOU ALWAYS FOREVER"
BY DONNA LEWIS PLAYING]
What about you?
Finally get Victoria outta your system?
Love me forever ♪
Never stop, never whatever ♪
Yeah.
And always everywhere
and everything ♪
Say you'll love
and love me forever ♪
It's good to see you again
after all these years, Becca.
It's been good seeing you, too, Cam.
Never stop, never whatever,
near and far ♪
Take care of yourself, okay?
Can't make any promises.
Just try, punk.
["I WON'T HURT YOU" BY THE WES
COAST POP ART EXPERIMENTAL BAND PLAYING]
I have lost all of my pride ♪
- I have been to paradise ♪
- [SEAGULLS CAWING]
- And out the other side ♪
- [WAVES SPLASHING]
With no one to guide me ♪
- Torn apart by a fiery wheel inside me ♪
- [SNIFFLES]
I won't hurt you,
I won't hurt you ♪
I won't hurt you,
I won't hurt you ♪
An untouched diamond ♪
[REBECCA] The nights with your
friends held certain promises.
A girl would have her first kiss.
A boy would get high for the first time,
and with his red eyes,
he would laugh at the sky
and say it looked like a lake.
The stars are in your eyes ♪
But after that night,
in the dark waters of a saltwater
inlet known as the Gorge,
they found the body of a girl.
- [SQUAWKS]
- I won't hurt you, I won't hurt you ♪
I won't hurt you,
I won't hurt you ♪
[SONG CONTINUES]
It was a strange occupation
for the police of Victoria.
Looking for something they
didn't really wanna find.
My pale blue star ♪
My rainbow, how good it is ♪
To know you're like me ♪
Strike me with your lightning ♪
Bring me down and
bury me with ashes ♪
- [PING-PONG BALL BOUNCING, BUZZER BLARING]
- I won't hurt you, I won't hurt you ♪
Under the bridge, there might've been
discovered some malevolent spirit.
[DOOR SHUTS]
The force seemed unreal
to the youth of View Royal
as if the night continued to linger,
to hold them in some
kind of fierce embrace.
But this darkness, this evil spirit,
was revealed in the end to be
something oddly human.
A misspoken word. A broken heart.
Pain, buried deep.
I won't hurt you ♪
After the events of this night,
there would never truly be closure.
Stories never really end.
There can be only the promise,
the hope for reconciliation.
As though being at a sleepover,
and a girl is dared,
"Tell me your secrets."
So, she shares all the
worst things about herself.
And from the pillow next to her,
she hears a whisper.
"That's okay. We can still be friends."
All there can be is a call for mercy.
I won't hurt you,
I won't hurt you ♪
It's mercy, and mercy alone,
that transforms the human heart.
- I won't hurt you ♪
-
[PLANE RUMBLING, RATTLING]
- [SONG FADES OUT]
- [DRILL WHIRRING]
[DRILL WHIRRING]
[DRILL WHIRRING]
[DRILL WHIRRING]
[SMOOCH CHIRPING]
[MANJIT] Smoochy?
[SPEAKS PUNJABI]
["KICK IN THE DOOR"
BY THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G. PLAYING]
Uh, uh-huh ♪
Uh, this goes out to you ♪
This goes out to you and you ♪
And you, Biggie, and you ♪
This goes out to you ♪
This goes out, Biggie, to you ♪
This goes out to you
and you and you, uh ♪
Your reign on the top was
short like leprechauns ♪
As I crush so-called willies,
thugs and rapper-dons ♪
Get in that ass,
quick-fast, like Ramadan ♪
- It's that rap phenomenon, Don-Dadda ♪
- [LAUGHING]
You gotta call me
Francis M.H. White ♪
- [SONG WARBLING]
- [CD PLAYER GLITCHING]
[SONG STOPS ABRUPTLY]
[SOFT, SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[CLOCK TICKING]
[SOFT, SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES]
[SOFT, SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES]
[CHILD] Best day ever!