Oh, G--
- Hello? - Eric,
I need you to confirm a girl's last name. Did you get the clip?
I got it. Tell me what I'm looking for.
Okay, so there's a little girl who shows up at about 30 seconds,
and we interviewed her.
She'd had to have signed a release form, right?
Got a name?
Yeah. Leanne Grayson.
She'd have been about eight or nine at the time.
Gotcha. Stand by.
Okay.
The talent portion of the competition.
- I'm Dorothy Turner, 8 News. - You're ruining this for me. Get up.
- Dorothy? - Yeah. Yes, I'm here.
Sorry, Dorothy.
She must not have signed a form, or maybe she used a different name.
Are you sure?
Yeah, I'm sure.
How'd you sleep?
Like a baby.
Don't you ever listen to anything else?
Dance with me.
No. I'm no good sober.
Come on.
I'll lead.
We need to talk about what happened at the party.
No, we don't.
People keep getting hurt in this house.
Relax.
You're safe when you're with me.
What does that even mean?
I need you to tell me that I'm not alone in this.
Tell me you see how fucked-up things have gotten.
Julian, shut up.
Fuck.
You bit me.
You talk too much.
The emulsion will break. I think it might be--
- Do you hear me talking to you? - Yes, Chef.
Okay. Well, here's your fucking emulsion.
Five minutes!
So, your excuse is that this is incomplete?
- Are you crying in my kitchen? - No, Chef.
There's more salt in your tears than there is in this XO sauce.
Chef, I think I forgot to--
Enough excuses, Dominic. Get the fuck outta my kitchen.
Get outta here! Sean! Sean! Sean!
Look at that.
Yeah. That's right.
- Dada's gone viral. - Get the fuck out.
- What's this? - You know what it is.
Your bedside reading. Been doing some research?
We need to talk about this. But not here.
Leanne. She's the common factor.
When she's angry, things go bad.
When she's happy, things go well, inexplicably well.
And it all remains intact as long as we stay loyal to her.
The infestation, the house falling apart, Dorothy's accident, Jericho.
I've been searching, and there's a term for something like that.
The Faustian bargain.
This is crazy. We sound insane.
You thought you found Leanne's headstone, right?
We thought that was Leanne playing a trick on us, but what if it wasn't?
What if she died?
What if she came back as something?
The cult believes they're servants of God.
Exactly.
Leanne abandoned their ways when she left.
Fallen angel.
What's happening?
Wh--
You can't talk?
What are you doing down here?
I needed a change of scenery.
Well, you should've called for me.
Taking Jericho for his walk?
Yeah.
- Wish I could come. - Soon.
Are you gonna be okay here?
Yes. I'm working on a story, actually.
Can I help?
No.
I don't have a lead yet.
It's like finding a needle in a haystack.
That's a funny expression.
Doesn't seem like it'd be a very hard thing to do.
You'll crack it, though.
Dorothy Turner always does.
Okay.
You think silver bullets could stop her? I mean, worst-case?
"Werewolf." Right.
Garlic?
No.
She loves my spaghetti aglio e olio.
Right.
Maybe water's her weakness. I've never seen her bathe. Have you?
Right.
Cheers, brother.
Hey.
Roscoe, what the hell? How long have you been standing there?
I'm sorry to show up like this.
There's someone here to see you.
Someone who can answer all your questions.
George.
Hello, Sean.
Hello, Julian.
He's asked me to wait outside.
Good luck.
How did you get in here? I lock this place.
There are far more pertinent things to discuss.
You see, today is a very important day.
Today is the day I confess.
It's time I told you the truth about Leanne Grayson.
"Devastating fire kills family of three in Oneida, Wisconsin."
"Body of the daughter,
Leanne Grayson, never recovered. Presumed dead."
Blah, blah, blah. She was eight at the time.
- Do we know how the fire started? - Nope.
I owe your family a great apology.
No, it's us who should be apologizing.
You tried to tell us what she was, and we didn't believe you.
I made the recent decision to leave the Church of the Lesser Saints.
I aim to right my wrongs.
What we have done to your family is the most egregious of those wrongs.
You have been lied to.
Fooled.
Like the rest of us.
I tried to hang myself once long ago.
I was a very sad man.
I awoke in the hospital room with a woman staring at me.
Her name was May Markham.
And she told me that I had died
and been reborn a servant of God.
I had nothing else to live for, and so I chose to adopt the faith.
From there, we began our journey as aunt and uncle
bringing others into the gospel.
We were great at it.
Leanne's family died in a fire when she was a young girl.
Her mother had been very cruel to her.
And so she felt the death had been, in great part, her fault.
She was the perfect candidate.
And I told her what I had once been told.
That she had died in that fire and come back a servant of the Lord.
But we miscalculated how broken she was.
She quickly became a most vivid believer in these extraordinary things.
And when she left us,
Leanne began to believe she was becoming something else.
But that is not the truth.
You see, the beliefs of the church have always been an illusion.
Leanne is a confused, deranged and completely ordinary girl.
- What? - Nothing more.
That's bullshit. We've seen too much.
Yesterday at Jericho's birthday, the animals went insane.
A woman nearly died.
The way her face looked, I've never seen anything like it.
How do you explain that?
I visited Beverly Alcott in the hospital this morning as part of my amends.
She'd suffered a snakebite but is well on her way to a full recovery.
What?
The venom of a Peruvian Bothrops can cause spontaneous swelling,
discoloration of the face and limbs.
The simplest solution is almost always the right one.
What do we know about the mother?
Laura Grayson.
Looks like she had trouble with liquor. There's a DUI in 2005.
A pretty bad crash.
Okay.
Maybe there's something there.
What are some dates? Birthday, date of incarceration,
date of death, anything?
There's gonna be something with her mother.
When Leanne first arrived,
I lost my ability to feel and taste when she was angry with me.
Taste and feeling can be lost temporarily during a common cold
or in the presence of certain drugs.
It is possible she was putting something in your food
to make you believe you were being punished.
I kept finding splinters everywhere. Like the house was attacking me.
It's one of Leanne's favorite tricks.
It was not uncommon, when I'd discipline her as a child,
to find a shard of wood or a sliver of glass
in my chair the next day.
Whenever Leanne leaves the house, Jericho turns back into a doll.
We've searched every inch of this place.
There is nowhere she could be hiding him. That I'm sure of.
These old houses always have secrets.
Yours has more than most.
Baby!
Baby! Wake up, little baby!
There is a network of tunnels beneath this neighborhood.
They were built in the 19th century by opulent families
to transport mentally ill relatives for treatment.
It was a way of hiding the issues they'd rather not display to high society.
Leanne has known about these tunnels since the beginning.
We make it our mission to know about the secrets of a place before we enter it.
This is how Leanne brought the child into your life.
How she made him disappear and reappear at will.
An illusion.
Dorothy, you're a genius.
The mother, Laura, died two days after that fire.
The date was April 17th, 2011.
Check out April 17th the following year.
Take a good look at the reflection at the end of your tagline.
What do you see?
Ever hear the expression, "So cute I could eat you up"?
Philly's Bakeshop on 20th has introduced a radical new concept.
Cupcakes with faces.
So tell us, what inspired this delicious idea?
Well, it was supposed to be a Valentine's Day special,
but it really took off. I guess people like to eat people.
Especially ones they don't like.
This is my third-grade teacher.
She's gone.
Well, this has certainly been a sweet addition
to Bakeshop on 20th's popular lineup of cookies, cakes and pies.
And the crowds are eating it up. I'm Dorothy Turner, 8 News.
Do you see them?
Oh, my God.
Now take a look at the next year's tape, same day.
No. I've seen her manipulate life and death.
There was the dog and--
and Dorothy's colleague on live television.
We all search for meaning in dark things.
What about my boy?
I know he died. But that child up there, he feels like my son.
We searched for missing persons cases. There was nothing. I know that's my son.
The Philadelphia Inquirer published an obituary in September of 2019.
A woman overdosed near Fitler Square Park.
An addict.
Some say she was traveling with an infant.
A little boy with blue eyes.
But if he was never reported missing, how could you know?
We have people on the streets who hear these things.
...neighborhood is out of this world.
Just this morning,
three residents claimed to have spotted a large floating disk hovering in the sky.
Skeptics argue aliens aren't real
and that this morning's excitement is just a product of delusion or even a hoax.
All I can say is,
if our extraterrestrial friends really are out there, beam me up.
...can say is, if our e-
This girl's visited you on the anniversary of her mother's death.
That's some freaky shit.
Why would she do this to us?
Why would she do this to Dorothy?
Leanne saw Dorothy once when she was very young.
Soon after she lost her mother, it became an obsession.
I allowed her one day each year to visit Dorothy's work
in hopes that it would help her grieve.
She'd plan her outfits weeks in advance.
But it wasn't enough to observe.
She needed to be a part of Dorothy's life.
She watched Dorothy for weeks.
Your son's death was the turning point.
It was her way in.
I believe she saw the abandoned infant
as an act of God. An opportunity to get the mother she wanted.
So she took it.
Hello, Jericho.
I hope you know I take no pleasure in telling you all this.
My apologies.
And my condolences.
Healing is born from truth.
I hope now you can begin.
What I have to ask of you now won't be easy...
but it is the most important part of my reform.
I need your help getting Leanne back.
That's all we want, George. That and the baby.
Everything you told me was a lie?
I left my family for your faith.
You've played your role.
I believe it's time to return to your family.
The story here is nearly over.
Did you cook all this by yourself?
Do you mind setting the table? Dinner's almost ready.
Where have you two been?
Brother bonding.
Your voice.
I feel much better now.
Could you take this out for me?
What did you do today, Leanne?
I went to the market with Jericho.
Julian, what happened to your voice?
Allergies.
- You sure about that? - Dottie, please pass the salt?
This doesn't need salt.
This is exactly the way Mom used to make it.
Do you remember all those amazing dinners she would make us?
My God, she loved us so much.
Sean, how was your day?
I went viral today.
Really? That's amazing.
You must be so grateful.
Happens to a lot of people. It's not that special.
That's not true.
Actually, I'm thinking of canceling my contract.
- You can't do that. - He can do whatever he wants.
What?
You should all be very careful.
Isn't this nice?
All of us dining together again?
Forgive your humble servant for his blasphemy.
I have sinned with my lies.
Through my deceit,
I have put this family in grave danger.
But we are all in danger. It was our last hope.
Please,
give them the strength to bring the Fallen one back to us.
Forgive me.