[dramatic music]
♪♪ ♪♪
[laughter]
REBECCA: I can't remember--
whose birthday is it today? - It's ours!
- Oh, my gosh, how old are they?
- It's ours. We're eight. - They're eight?
- Is it your birthday? - Oh, my gosh.
You trying to pick her up? - [laughs] Yeah.
- Oh, gosh. Oh, gosh.
You really are eight. You're so strong.
Hey, honey, do you think
you can still make your you-know-what?
CAROLINE: Pineapple upside down cake!
- I wanna flip it! - You wanna flip it?
[laughs] I don't know, Annie, it's a science.
- Arms up. - Hey.
- Arms down.
Can you do the chicken?
Can you-- - [clucking]
ANNIE: Dad? JEB: Yeah, honey?
ANNIE: Will I keep wearing this?
JEB: Your CTR ring?
[Billy Ocean's "I Can Dream About You" playing on radio]
Choose the right.
See, baptism is your first covenant to heavenly Father,
and it's gonna wash away all those little baby sins.
But then after that, any new sin is yours to repent.
And this ring is gonna remind you
to obey heavenly Father's commandment.
- Choose the right.
- Look at me.
[sentimental music]
♪♪ ♪♪
BRIGHAM: Come to America,
where the Prophet Joseph Smith has unearthed a New Testament
of the everlasting Gospel of Christ,
which vanquishes the lie of original sin
that our children are inherently evil,
for mankind is inherently good.
Come to America and hear a true prophet
share how the Lord God Almighty speaks directly to us all.
Come to America
for the gathering of Israel to build a new Zion.
Come to America.
[Jeb clears throat]
BILL: Mornin'. - Good morning.
Couldn't you rest?
- It was a very exciting night.
JEB: Yeah, two males in custody,
and you've kept them separate, right?
BILL: Allen didn't see Robin being brought in,
I made sure of that.
JEB: Any updates? BILL: Nothing yet.
JEB: You share any details with Robin about this case?
BILL: Zippo. JEB: So if he knows anything
about what happened here...
BILL: Think it's as good as a confession.
[knocking]
- Morning. [door creaking]
Sister Seacat? - Yeah.
- Hi, how are you? I'm Detective Pyre.
Is it all right if we ask you a few questions
about what you may have seen last night?
- Um, yeah, of course. JEB: All right.
So spare no details, whatever you remember.
- Okay. Um, four men.
Two in the backseat of a car parked, uh, there.
[tense music]
And a third one went in the front door.
When I came out for more groceries,
the fourth one was gone.
JEB: And, uh, can you describe the car?
- Maybe it was blue or green.
I--I didn't look closely.
♪♪ ♪♪
- [speaking Paiute]
- Do you think you can recall what these--
these men looked like?
- Um, th--they had beards, like, um, pioneer men,
the kind you come across down South or--
or up the mountains here.
BILL: Like all Mormon prophets.
Do you know if that neighbor's right,
hiding in those hills would be good cover
for bearded mountain men.
Heaven knows they'd stick out down here in the valley.
JEB: Mm. - Might wanna check
with Forest Services. - Maybe she's right.
We have no motive to speak of.
We have no idea who the other three men could be
or if they could be after anyone else.
BILL: We could call in the press, get the public's eye out.
- I don't know, Chief will wanna make
that call when he gets back.
But update the APB to include three bearded men,
armed and dangerous, and see if anything unusual
is coming from Forest Services, and maybe I'll--
and I'll head back, see if I can get Robin talking...
before we need more body bags.
[eerie music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- Crime lab just called. - Mm.
- Allen's prints weren't at Robin's place,
but they're all over his own house.
- Well, it is his home. What about the--
the handprint on the nursery door?
- It wasn't Allen's.
It wasn't his in the blood by the front door, either.
JEB: They're looking for Robin's prints now?
DESK COP: Yes, sir.
[line trills]
- Sister Dorren, it is Brother Pyre.
DORREN: It is always a joy to hear from you, brother.
Hm, how can I help?
- Oh, well, I'm in a bind. I'm on a case,
and I can't get home to help with my--
my daughters' birthday party.
DORREN: Oh, I know how important
those little girls are to you.
I will call my sisters into service.
JEB: Oh, Sister, you're a lifesaver.
I appreciate it so much. Thank you.
DORREN: But since I have you, I heard a rumor.
Was a Lafferty hurt?
[tense music]
♪♪ ♪♪
JEB: Mind if I put some music on, brother?
It's been a long day already.
I find our tabernacle choir real comforting.
["Battle Hymn of the Republic" playing]
Oh, that's good.
CHOIR: ♪♪ Mine eyes have seen the glory of ♪♪
JEB: You know this model?
CHOIR: ♪♪ The coming of the Lord ♪♪
- It's top of the line, I hear, but if you could show me
around her bells and whistles,
I'd be real appreciative, Brother.
CHOIR: ♪♪ He hath loosed the fateful lightning ♪♪
JEB: No? Never seen this one?
CHOIR: ♪♪ His terrible swift sword ♪♪
- I'll leave the choir on for you.
CHOIR: ♪♪ His truth is marching on ♪♪
ROBIN: Brother?
- Yeah.
- Why am I here?
- Well, I--I don't wanna keep you here
any longer than I have to.
[Robin scoffs] It's the truth.
So is there anything other than the bonfire in your backyard
that I should be concerned about?
- [sighs]
I'm a good LDS man.
I've been a bishop and a seminary teacher.
- Oh, no, I appreciate that.
I--when I was a boy, I got up sunrise
five days a week for seminary, so.
Let's just see if we can resolve this quickly.
Your wife said there was an electrical issue in your house.
- Yes. - But that doesn't explain
why you ran from my officers.
- Well, from 1795 on,
the government began discarding God's wisdom,
restricting the very thing that our founding fathers
held dearest-- our God-given freedom,
so I ran from wrongful persecution
for failing to follow wayward laws
that harm our LDS families.
CHOIR: ♪♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪♪
- No?
Do we not risk more eternal consequence than prison bars
if we follow unjust, unholy laws, Brother?
[eerie music]
♪♪ ♪♪
[door opens]
- Morning.
Get any sleep last night?
- If--if I sleep, then I'll wake up.
And if I'm still here,
then it isn't just a nightmare.
- I'd like your help, Allen.
But first, I gotta clear something up.
Why did you have Brenda's blood on your knees
and on your hands?
- I knelt down in it
to pray for her
and for our baby girl.
- Thought you'd lost your faith.
- It was, uh...
My last unanswered prayer.
- Say I believe you--
that bearded men did invade your family
and your home--
I would need names.
I would need descriptions if--if I have any chance
of finding out who did this to Brenda and Erica.
- I only saw them once.
I was on a tiling job.
Dan was with me.
This would have been about a year ago.
He--he kept asking me to go to this--
go to this meeting with him that night.
I--I can't, um, remember the name of the group.
- There was a group?
ALLEN: Yeah, something patriotic.
It was about fighting taxes.
Anyway, um, when our work was done,
this car pulled up with two men in it.
Uh, one was old.
Uh, he had white hair and, um, this long, braided beard.
He--he looked at me, right at me,
and smiled, like--like he knew everything about me.
- And then the other man? - Uh, yeah, he was round.
He had dark hair--brown.
Anyway, Dan got in the car, and--and they drove off.
- All right, so three men, two with beards.
Like, hippie beards? - No, no, no, no.
Like old Mormon beards. I told you.
And--and there were four in the car, not--not three.
My--my brother Robin was in the back.
[country music playing on radio]
♪♪ ♪♪
- Hi. Detective Taba from down in East Rockwell.
I hear there's been reports of gunfire up this way lately.
Must have been extraordinary
for it to raise concern way up here.
No? - Uh-huh.
- Anything, anyone unusual up here recently?
- There's a bounty of unusual up here,
particularly unusual to the eyes of a Lamanite.
- Yeah, my daddy was Paiute, actually.
- Okay.
How about we take a little drive up this mountain, huh?
If you're so curious.
JEB: Allen, just to be clear, your own brother, Dan Lafferty,
was in an organized anti-tax group?
And your brother, Robin, was in this anti-tax group too?
- Well, sure. I mean, he was always with Dan.
That was his job.
Our dad named him Dan's right hand
right before he left us here alone.
- And how was Robin as Dan's right hand?
- Uh, you seem real curious about Robin for some reason.
- That just sounds like a challenging job he had.
[tense music]
- [scoffs] Challenging?
I--I'd say an impossible job.
- Robin, my mirror's in there. ROBIN: Sorry.
DOREEN: I'm so sorry.
Trust you plan on helping my boys
move their things into their father's clinic today.
- Uh, yes.
- We're leaving you with so many new responsibilities.
This is my husband's appointment book
and his bill book for his patients.
This has always been my responsibility.
We can't expect our husbands to care for their patients,
mind the schedule, and sort all the bills, can we?
- [chuckles] You mean me?
DOREEN: Yes.
Our husbands are Latter-day Saints.
Our duty is to help them stand that tall
without them knowing we're holding them up.
Dan needs holdin'.
Understood?
- Yes.
AMMON: Dan?
Out there in the Louisiana hinterlands,
we won't find many a phone.
This is the number of the nearest LDS ward.
DAN: Okay. - For emergencies only.
- Absolutely.
AMMON: You mustn't waste money now.
- Mm-hmm. Yes, sir.
No, sir.
- No, sir.
- I won't let you down.
AMMON: No, you won't.
[indistinct chatter]
BRENDA: I'm--I'm gonna go check on Jacob.
Hey.
REPORTER ON RADIO: Consolidating military bases
on Okinawa.
But a Pentagon spokesman won't say
whether that means the U.S. would move troops
to other parts of Okinawa.
BRENDA: Um...
gosh, we won't be having that squirrel
for lunch now, will we?
Huh?
I know.
Your folks are leaving. It's hard.
- Oh. [clears throat]
BRENDA: I'm sure they'd love to see your face as they wave goodbye.
It's okay.
I'll help take care of you.
- As I set out on the second mission of my life,
Mother's first,
we pray to bring more souls unto thee
and thy one true church.
And we ask--we ask that thou bless Dan's stewardship
over our temporal affairs.
It's not simply to maintain what is ours, but to--
to continue building upon it.
No matter what in this life, that it may grow in eternity.
These things we pray in Thy holy name.
[engine revving]
- The house is ours now, boys. New generals in town, ladies.
Make me my breakfast, woman. Get!
- Hoo! - Go!
- Stop! - Yee-haw!
- That's it! Go! - Pow, pow, pow, pow!
- Hey, hey. - [screams]
- Guys! Hey! - Come on.
- Hey! Hey!
ALLEN: Dad only made Dan head of house
to get back at Ron for going his own way.
I mean, Dan wasn't ready.
And neither was his wife, Matilda.
- Yes, well, it'll be-- it's actually Dan
who'll be popping your neck now, isn't that great?
Oh, well, maybe we could offer you
a little discount or something.
If you're running low, we can--
- Matilda, you-- you're not changing prices
without asking our new man of the house, are you?
- No.
ALLEN: They were in over their heads.
And that's why I thought it best to--to lay low.
But Brenda, I mean, she'd go into a pound
and come out with every cat, dog,
and baby skunk under her arm.
- Hmm. - Oh. [chuckles]
- Hey, look, just trust your gut.
- [sighs] My gut's all in knots.
I can't do this.
- Do you wanna know a trick?
Um, when I get stage fright,
I just listen for the promptings
of the Holy Spirit.
Like, once I was in a Shakespeare play,
and, poof, I forgot everything.
But I heard him say, "Cross downstage,"
so I did.
And when I got there, every word came back.
Some say, um, men can hear the Holy Spirit better.
[whispers] That's not true. We can.
'Cause, you know, we don't get at all mixed up
with the promptings of our you-know-whats.
[both laugh]
- Can I tell you a secret?
- Sure. I'm good with secrets.
- So you, uh, got yourself a Marlin, huh?
- Yeah? You like her?
- I mean, she's gorgeous.
But--
Well, look, uh, before I popped the question to Lynn,
Dad, he gave me a little advice.
All right? He said that, um--
that the exciting stuff wears off,
you know, and that what's really important
is that you find a woman who will help you
build a family for eternity.
I mean, that's-- that's why we're here, right?
- Right. - Yeah.
Not--not for worldly ambitions.
We're not here to meddle.
- She says she wants a family, so.
- Right, but so then why is she going to BYU?
Look, all I know is that Dan--
Dan's not gonna like her stepping on his toes,
and he's the man of the house now,
so just mind your property.
[chuckles] - Got it.
JEB: So Robin didn't like having Brenda around.
ALLEN: Brenda just wanted to help, you know,
but in ways that some more traditional,
old-fashioned LDS men might see as interference.
MATILDA: I can't hear the Holy Spirit anymore.
- Oh.
It's not, like, an actual voice.
- No? But I--I used to hear it
'cause it was the Holy Spirit who told me to come to Utah.
- Really?
- I mean, I had visions as well...
Telling me to marry Dan, so I--I flew out here,
and I made him cheese sandwiches for a picnic,
and I told him all about my visions.
And do you know what he said?
Heavenly Father had already told him to marry me too.
- Holy cow.
- But what if it wasn't God that said it to him?
Like, what if it was his father who told him that I was broken,
like, broken enough to say yes to a never-married
27-year-old Mormon who smoked and drank
and fancied my sister.
You know, people used to say that God bent us both up
so that we'd we fit right.
Then after we got married,
he got so perfect.
It's like a miracle.
And I'm still all bent up.
And if I fail him now-- BRENDA: No, no.
- I don't want to. - You're not gonna fail him.
You know what I think?
I think that the Holy Spirit is so close to you,
you don't even realize it's his voice you're hearing.
Come on, let's try one together.
Yeah?
Okay.
- Will you please stay close to me?
I think God sent you to me.
BRENDA: Sure.
ALLEN: So the more she tried to get involved,
the more I thought best to just get--
get her away. JEB: To get her away
from your more old-fashioned LDS brothers?
- Yeah, well, except Ron.
Ron was an island, you know, more modern.
He wanted little to do with the brothers.
- Good day. How are you?
- I think he and Diana really hoped that--
that I'd go their way, and I thought it might be safer
or a better fit for Brenda.
- All I'm saying is that the kids won't miss
what they never knew was coming.
If we don't have the cash disbursements,
then we'll have it next. - This isn't about the money.
It's an investment.
Hey, you wanna give that to her?
Come on.
Look, an addition like this will increase
the house value, all right?
- What's the addition?
- It's top secret.
If I tell you, I'm gonna have to kill you.
It's a swimming pool.
- Ta-da! For you.
- How am I supposed to eat that?
- Well, if you don't want it, I'll give it to Allen.
- No, no, no, no, look at it.
Look.
It's like a Picasso. - [laughs]
- Belongs here in the Guggenheim of whipped cheese.
You better make ugly ones, or we're gonna starve.
See? She can't even eat it.
- [laughs]
- Um, you know, we've actually been discussing
the construction downtrend in my journalism class.
Experts agree we haven't seen the worst of it yet.
RON: Yeah, sure, but if I win another term
in the city council, folks would be less inclined
to be sticklers about due dates,
and I can give 'em wiggle room on things like zoning.
- Hold on, so if you win, you're above the law?
- I didn't say that.
DIANNA: Well, you have my vote, of course,
but if you don't win again, I'd be happy
because that would mean you'd spend more time at home.
- What if I can't help but win? - [laughs]
BRENDA: Yeah, but there's no shame in slowing down
if, you know, things slow down.
- If things slow down, projects get foreclosed on.
And that's sad, but it's like a half-off sale for property
if you're paying attention.
You know, I got less distractions now than ever,
so this could prove beneficial to us.
ALLEN: Yeah, Brenda, she was smart, you know.
She often saw what I couldn't--
the trouble, the recession.
- Well, I've been thinking that if--if times get tough,
the first things folks might scratch off their list
are mini golf, movies, and the chiropractor,
you know, so-- - Brenda.
- It's just from what I can see,
Dan and Matilda could use all the help they can get.
DIANNA: Here.
- Hold on.
I shall go and do the things the Lord hath commanded.
And the Lord told Dad to go one way,
drag poor Dan with him,
and leads me another way, away from that energy
that isn't right for me and my family,
and I have to put my family first.
It's been like that for a long time now.
Right, Allen?
ALLEN: But Ron, I'm afraid he didn't appreciate
her sharing her doubts.
Whether Ron admitted it or not, he was--
he was Ammon Lafferty's eldest.
He obeyed our father's commandment
just in the same way that Dan and Robin did,
you know, to keep building no matter what.
- You mean heavenly Father's commandment
or your own father's commandment?
ALLEN: Well, both, I guess.
After Joseph finished the Book of Mormon
and converts started flooding in,
he moved them all to Kirtland, Ohio, didn't he,
to build a new Zion.
In that history, my father found
a gruesome, violent story.
It was a story he used to motivate us,
you know, that fueled us.
PERSON: Help! EMMA SMITH: Do you hear that?
PERSON: Help!
- Emma, stay here. EMMA: Wait!
- Stay here. PERSON: Help!
They got my dog!
[dog whining]
JOSEPH SMITH: What's going on here?
PERSON: I need help. - Come here.
- For the prophet, another lamb.
- Stop this madness now!
Cut it down. I'll pay for the lamb.
OHIOAN: You people owe us for more than just one lamb.
My people's land you built upon without permission.
The wood, stone, brick, you guaranteed payment for.
ALLEN: But the Ohioans we met there, their governors,
their militiamen, didn't welcome our peculiar people
with open arms, did they?
JOSEPH: I wanna give you something--
something that means a great deal to me.
Here, take this as a deposit.
A promise.
End this now.
[dog whining]
[gunshot] PERSON: No! No! No!
- Dog gets the taste of lamb, it never loses it.
Only trespasses more-- eats more of what ain't his.
- Charles, Charles. It's all right.
It's all right. It's all right. It's fine.
OHIOAN: I'm within my rights to end such thievery.
- Beware...
that you don't find yourself in conflict
with God's law,
for man's will soon align with heaven's here.
[tense music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- Mind the laws we got here,
or face prosecution like the dog you are.
ALLEN: It was the story of how the more challenges we faced,
the more tests we endured, you know,
the more we could be sure that we were on the righteous path.
- I know.
I'll help you bury him after sunset,
for he cannot rest while the sun is above.
♪♪ ♪♪
If we wish for our rightful place on Earth,
the safety of Zion,
we must build it.
- We must build it, no matter what.
♪♪ ♪♪
[tense music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- The shooting went on and on, so I hiked up here.
Saw two men with a whole lot of guns, big guns,
making all this mess.
♪♪ ♪♪
A lot like the ones I found
nailed on my front door this morning.
- What did these men look like?
FOREST RANGER: 20s, 30s. Sturdy old clothes.
- LDS pioneer types? Beards?
- Yeah, got plenty of that up here.
What was unusual was the girls with 'em.
Looked like they'd just stepped off a covered wagon.
Saw me coming and ran for their lives.
BILL: Did you follow 'em?
FOREST RANGER: These boys, they weren't afraid of raising eyebrows.
They wanted my attention.
But I'll tell you what, Chief,
I didn't get to this age putting my nose
where it don't belong.
I suggest you do the same.
JEB: We're still waiting on crime lab,
but Allen's feeling chatty.
He said that Robin was involved
in some kind of anti-tax group.
- You can sign me up for that.
- [chuckles]
Uh, he also gave us descriptions of two other men
in that group, both bearded.
We're following those leads now.
BILL: Okay, then I'm gonna take a quick walk
in these woods, see if I can find
those furry sons of guns who ripped this place to shit--
uh, bits.
- Thank you.
BILL: Listen, if you don't, uh, hear from me
by 12:30, send somebody my way, would you?
- Copy that. Be careful, please.
[door opens]
Brother Lafferty, I could really use your wisdom.
[choir singing on tape recorder]
[music stops]
Did you ever attend, uh, any meetings of a group
that was focused on tax issues?
- You mean Patriots for Freedom?
[inquisitive music]
- Those papers you were burning in your, uh,
in your backyard, they were related to that group?
Things you wanted to make disappear?
- My brothers and I, we were building something,
something modern and holy.
But I worried that others may not understand.
- How's dodging the federal tax man modern or holy?
- No, you see, you got it all mixed up.
The taxes were the hurdle, not the mission.
Have you ever had an adjustment?
A chiropractic adjustment?
It's our family business.
Dan and I, we traveled to Los Angeles
to learn new methods, new techniques.
We brought them back to share with our wider LDS family here.
This was our holy mission.
- [whispering] Heavenly Father,
please guide my hands.
- Okay, uh, stop it.
Who are you talking to?
- I'm talking to the Lord.
The Lord guides my hands.
PATIENT: You don't know what you're doing yourself?
- [laughs] No, no, brother.
Brother, it's all right-- our--our methods
are just a little different from our father's.
His are more old fashioned,
and see, we, using the Spirit as our guide--
- Old fashioned works fine for me.
- Well, if old fashioned works fine for you,
then why do you have to keep coming back here
year after year?
I mean, we want you to get better.
You understand? Here, let me--
let me show you something, I think I might have
helped you a little bit with that.
See, you're through adjustment now.
Now--and slowly take a walk around.
How does that feel?
It feels better, doesn't it? I can feel it. It looks better.
- Yeah, I'm just more comfortable with old fashioned.
It's time to go, sweetheart.
- Wha--what do you mean time to go?
No, there's still plenty of time in--in our session left.
We--um-- DAN: If you could just
give us ten minutes, then I think
I could change your mind.
- Okay, look, Matilda, she's gonna
give you a call in a few days, see if you're feeling better.
I think you're gonna be feeling a lot better,
and then maybe you wanna book it again, hey?
How about that? PATIENT: Okay.
Yeah, sounds good. DAN: Okay, well,
if that's how you feel, I hope you have
a great rest of your day.
PATIENT: You too. DAN: Mm-hmm.
[door shuts]
Did I say something to offend him?
ROBIN: Did you? No, no, no. He's just--come on.
This guy, he's an old grump.
But when he feels better, which he will,
he's gonna wanna come back. DAN: Absolutely.
ROBIN: It's all right. DAN: Wouldn't call him
a very prayerful man, would you?
- No, I wouldn't, either. - Yeah, you can say that twice.
Wouldn't call him a very prayerful man.
Connect with that and help him out.
You're swamped in the bills here, huh?
- Um, yes. DAN: We get the water
and electricity paid? - Uh, not yet.
But there's a past due tax bill,
and there's a license fee as well.
- Mm, well, I think that we need water and power
more than the government needs more of our money,
don't you think? [laughs]
It's unbelievable.
It really is.
License fees.
What--why do we have to pay license fees anyway, Robin?
What is that? ROBIN: I--
- Didn't--didn't-- heavenly Father
give us our license for free?
Didn't he do that? Not the Feds?
- Absolutely - Absolutely. Not the Feds.
Unbelievable.
And we are not calling Father. We're not doing that.
No, no.
[sighs]
[eerie music]
[laughs] Of course.
♪♪ ♪♪
That's what this is.
That--this is a test!
That was a test!
Heavenly Father is challenging us to--
to create a better and bigger newer practice together.
It's just--that's all it is. It's a test.
That's what we're doing. ROBIN: You're right, brother.
I couldn't see it, but you could.
DAN: It's a challenge from heavenly Father,
and we're gonna meet it.
- I'm surprised to hear that your good family
was in any kind of trouble.
Did the brethren know?
- No.
We're Laffertys. We circled our own wagons,
shouldered the wheel.
We just needed a little more time
to get around the hurdles-- namely, the U.S. government.
DAN: So you go.
- Something that starts with R.
- R. Something that starts with R.
The radio.
- Yep. - All right.
Okay, I spy with my little eye
something that starts with T.
- Uh--
A tree.
- Patriots for Freedom was just helping us to navigate
around our unjust tax burdens.
- Trying to get an extension or--
ROBIN: No--by filing lawsuits to relieve all citizens
of these unconstitutional federal taxes
that must make our founding fathers
roll in their graves, Brother.
- Were you expecting somebody? - No.
- No?
Okay. Let's take a look.
So why don't you stay out here with the girls, huh?
MATILDA: Yeah. - Okay.
- And we were making progress, but the adversary
was hard at work too.
- Adversary as in Satan's forces?
ROBIN: Indeed. - Mm-hmm.
ROBIN: So Jimmy Carter, socialism, haughty women
who don't know their rightful place,
Gentile tax collectors who invade our lives, our homes.
♪♪ ♪♪
- Hello!
Hi.
SUITED MAN: Hello.
Are you Ammon Lafferty? DAN: No.
Who are you?
SUITED MAN: We sent four notices, including a notice to appear.
It was signed for, but we received no response.
- I mean, they're bills or what?
SUITED MAN: Past due tax notices.
- Tax notices?
SUITED MAN: The ones I found neatly arranged
in your bill book there. DAN: Mm-hmm.
SUITED MAN: I've been ordered to seize assets.
So I need you to step outside till I'm finished.
- Seize assets? [chuckles]
Hey.
Okay, well, how about we make a deal?
How about I pay half now, okay, and half later?
How would that work? SUITED MAN: Sorry, Charlie.
That's not how this works.
I need you to step outside.
- Who said my name was Charlie?
You didn't even ask my name.
- Well, if your name isn't Ammon,
doesn't much matter to me who you are.
I got three of these today. It's not personal.
- [laughs] It's not personal?
I am standing here
looking at you in the eye, man-to-man,
and that ain't personal to you?
Are you even from here? - Connecticut.
Just so you know, my partner will be here any minute.
Or I'm happy to call the police back
who lawfully let me in. - No--no--let me finish!
SUITED MAN: I'll have them remove you, sir.
- Let me talk!
Connecticut can walk into my home
and they can steal my private property!
You can just do that! Huh?
Who the hell do you think you are?
- I'm empowered by the United States government.
That is who I am.
Out!
- [grunts]
[screaming]
Get him outta here! ROBIN: Where are you going?
Who are you? Who are you? DAN: Get out!
ROBIN: Dan, come here, come here!
[Dan yells] Come on, Dan, sit down.
DAN: Get him out of my house! ROBIN: Sit down, sit down.
It's all right. He's gone. Take care of him! Now!
[Dan whimpering]
- Matilda! Matilda! MATILDA: Yes?
DAN: Did a notice to appear come in the mail?
- You told me not to pay it. - [groans]
- So--so I listened to the Holy Spirit for guidance
and I asked him, and he said, "Matilda,
"you have to do as you're told
"because Dan's plate is filled
with a new and holy mission," just like you said, yes.
- Oh, did you hear him say that?
- I did what he told me to. - You hear the Spirit say that?
He said--uh--
I believe you. I believe you.
[laughs] I believe you.
He always speaks to you so clearly.
He's showing us a more righteous path.
Heavenly Father is showing us a more righteous path.
- And this means that Brenda was right.
She was right.
[Dan groans] I can hear him.
JEB: So this--this Brenda woman, she interfered?
- The world seduces women to abandon their virtue,
and then their ambition grows and spreads like a disease,
distracting them and those around them
from their responsibilities.
[knock at door]
JEB: Yeah?
- It's 12:00, sir.
No radio response.
- Wh--what's wrong?
- It's fine.
- No, no, we should pray together for guidance.
Don't you think?
[eerie music]
♪♪ ♪♪
[wings rustling, birds cawing]
[metallic rattling]
[distant wailing]
♪♪ ♪♪
[metallic rattling]
- Come on out.
I'm a policeman.
I won't harm you.
♪♪ ♪♪
[metallic rattling]
[wailing]
Stop! Freeze!
♪♪ ♪♪
Stop where you are!
Ahh!
JEB: Allen, I need to know, did anyone in your family,
anyone at all, object to you marrying Brenda?
- I mean, I--I don't have to tell you what it'd be like
to have a wife who's seen
as interfering in men's affairs in this valley.
But my father's old Mormon tales
just fired her up more.
You know, it's like she wanted to be a Lafferty boy.
PROFESSOR: All right, you crazy kids.
That is all the time we have for today.
See you all on Tuesday.
- Sir? PROFESSOR: Hmm?
- Why do you think people in Salt Lake County
wanna see men read our news reports more than women?
- The news is being written by men and women these days,
but the choice of host is about finding
an authority they'll trust.
Wouldn't want your hard work to be read by someone
an audience isn't apt to believe, now, would we?
- Oh, my. Heck no. PROFESSOR: No. [laughs]
- But I'm curious. PROFESSOR: Hm?
- You don't mind my curiosity, do you, sir?
- It is a critical part of the job.
- Who do you trust more: men or women?
- Oh, uh, people far higher up make that decision here.
But if you're asking me personally and off the record,
I see no difference.
- Will you ask the higher-ups why I can't be trusted?
I mean, Jane Polly hosts "The Today Show,"
and people all over find her trustworthy as heck.
- All right. Let's give it a try, shall we?
- Now? - Yeah, get on up there.
- Yeah? PROFESSOR: Yeah.
- Okay. Okay.
PROFESSOR: Let's push you right in the deep end.
- [whispering indistinctly]
[tense music]
♪♪ ♪♪
PROFESSOR: Okay. - [clears throat]
PROFESSOR: Just grab the house lights.
And camera.
Ready? In three. [mouthing]
- The once red-hot housing market has begun to cool
amid fears of looming interest rate hikes
by the federal government.
Home sales have dropped nearly 15% in the first quarter,
causing jitters among local developers.
- Nice.
Good, good.
Now...
smile real big for me, Brenda.
Hmm.
Ah, you have such beautiful teeth.
- Oh, was my, uh-- my reading that bad?
PROFESSOR: No. No. [chuckles]
It was fine. It was fine.
- Well, is that good enough for you to ask
if I can't at least fill in if one of the boys gets sick?
- One step at a time.
Can't just jump into the deep end.
Can we, Brenda?
- Can I ask you another question?
Do you lock yourself in here with the boys, too,
or just with the girls?
- [chuckles] Sister Wright, uh--
I don't think you understand--
BRENDA: It was just a question.
But one that gives me renewed confidence
you'll ask why only boys do the news here.
And if the higher-ups don't give you a fair answer,
you'll press them for one, like good journalists do.
- [chuckles] - Because I'm also confident
they'll find my question about being locked in here
alone with you thought provoking.
[whispers] But I bet we both hope
that can stay off the record.
[chuckles]
ALLEN: She wanted to build her own kingdom and fight for it.
Hey, sweetheart. - Oh, hey.
- How'd it go?
BRENDA: See you next Tuesday for the 5:00 news.
PROFESSOR: Right. ALLEN: But, you know,
our daddy never meant for girls to keep building.
- Did you tried to stop her?
- [chuckles] No, no.
Oh, I loved that about her.
Why, do you not approve of women like that?
- We're not here to talk about me.
ALLEN: It was just-- - Did your brothers
try to stop her? ALLEN: You know, it's not
that extraordinary for Mormons to,
you know, make sure folks were in their rightful place.
Mormons, non-Mormons, Blacks, whites,
and men and women.
Truly, they--you know, they all have their rightful place
in your kingdom of heaven, don't they?
JEB: Well, even if that were true, Allen,
a Latter-day Saint does not kill someone
for stepping out of their rightful place.
ALLEN: No?
It's all over our history and our scriptures.
♪♪ ♪♪
- [grunts]
ALLEN: God told Nephi
that it's better for one man to perish
than for a whole nation to dwindle into unbelief.
And if God commands it, an obedient saint
will exile, will steal...
will kill.
JEB: So she was too assertive for your dad,
she was too invasive for Robin,
and she was too ambitious for most of your family,
and yet, you still thought it wise to subject them
to her invasions, eternally?
- Well, Brenda wasn't too anything for me.
BRENDA: Utah is now facing a double dip recession.
As far away as Washington D.C. may seem to some,
the Capitol is breathing down local shop owners'
and builders' necks.
And some say the Federal Reserve
is to blame for the double-digit interest rates
that have caused the freefall in new construction.
- She's so good, right?
[Brenda continuing indistinctly]
- Yeah, she gets what she's after.
- I wanted to marry her from the very first moment
I set eyes on her.
My dad wanted that too.
Can't get into the celestial kingdom
if you're single, right?
JEB: You didn't--you didn't marry her on day one, though.
You--you waited.
Something worried you?
- Her bishop dad. - Mm.
ALLEN: And she wanted me to meet him
before I popped the question.
CHILDREN: ♪♪ When we come ♪♪
LAREA: Whoo! JIM: Bravo! Bravo!
Larea, did you hear that?
LAREA: Beautiful. - Wonderful. Wonderful.
Oh. Did you like that? - Yeah.
- Yeah, that was great, huh?
Ugh, stock market, huh?
- I'm sorry?
- Making investments, huh?
- Oh, uh, no, it's not that kind of bears.
A, uh, a brother gave it to me.
It's a Christmas present.
It's about how to beat traffic tickets in court.
[clattering]
- Sorry.
- Get a--get a lot of traffic tickets?
- Well, uh, there are a lot of speed traps in Utah nowadays.
- Mm-hmm.
- It just feels like the government trying to make money
more than public safety, right?
- Yeah. Sure.
I'm curious, Allen.
Tell me, who would you say runs things in your household?
- Well, uh, my father's the patriarch,
and he--he keeps things in line.
- Yeah? How does that work for you?
The--the man of the house running it all?
- Well, you can't get far in a leaky ship,
and, uh, it's the man of the house
who keeps things shipshape, right?
- Well, I don't know about that.
I mean, girls seem to have us boys outnumbered
in this old house.
Right, pal? CHILD: Can I go now?
- You wanna go? Go ahead.
- Ca--can I be excused, too, sir?
I promised your girls I'd, uh, help 'em build their gliders.
- Oh, they'll be fine.
I taught my girls how to build things.
But I do admire a man of his word, so go head up.
[chuckles]
- You know, after my folks left, things got tougher.
I started to see a new door, you know,
that maybe we could keep closer to her roots than mine
and stay away from my family's pressures.
BRENDA: I mean, ask anybody in Salt Lake
what it means to be a Lafferty.
They all went on missions and--
and started their own businesses.
And their family tree goes way back to the pioneers.
I mean, it's like marrying into royalty.
- Marry--he's asked you to marry him?
- Well, if that's what you're so bent out of shape about, no.
Not yet.
- He does seem a bit insubstantial for his age.
- He's starting his own tiling business.
I mean, there's no end in sight for tile, Dad.
- [laughs] - Well, that's a whole lot more
substantial than the boys here in Idaho.
- Hey, come here.
[soft music]
You see there? First star of the night.
You reckon I can shoot it out of the sky?
- Yeah. - Maybe, yeah.
- Maybe?
- Well, you heard him say how he thought
men ought to run things.
Honey, he sounds a little dusty to me, all right?
It's the '80s now.
I want you to use your education.
There's no reason you shouldn't have a life too.
- Get down.
[fireworks crackle]
- I thought Betty would get serious first.
- Who the heck is gonna marry Betty?
In Argentina?
I mean, she doesn't even speak Spanish.
I love him, and you're in here making him say stupid things.
- There's just something inside me that says,
"Just--just--just calm down.
You know, wait and see."
[fireworks exploding]
LAREA: Jim?
- For the love of Pete.
ALLEN: I'm--I'm sorry!
JIM: I got it. ALLEN: I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
- I got the--Allen, step back.
♪♪ ♪♪
ALLEN: I--I'm sorry, sir. JIM: It's out.
JEB: Allen.
Allen, why are you afraid of...
Brenda going near your own family?
[somber music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- You know, once, Ron got this mutt for his birthday.
Oh, gosh, he-- he loved that dog.
And one day, my dad came home from giving
a blessing to a sick neighbor,
and my brothers hadn't done their chores.
So he got us all to stand in a circle.
Then he called the dog into the center.
[dog whining]
And he picked up Ron's own baseball bat,
the metal kind.
And he beat that dog to death...
To teach us boys a lesson about responsibility,
about our rightful place.
So what if this time, you know, he comes home from his mission
and decided that Brenda needed to be taught a lesson
about her rightful place?
No.
- Did any of your other brothers' testimonies falter?
Robin's or--
- What is--what is with this?
Why--why do you keep asking about Robin?
- I'm trying to find out the kind of man
that I'm--I'm looking for, Allen, what his beliefs were,
or what his interests are.
- Robin was--is the most loyal to the church.
I mean, he-- he's a true believer.
All right? That's Robin.
- Are you certain that the men who did this
were all strangers?
Is it possible that any could have been family?
- Certain?
No.
I can't ever be certain about anything again.
But I have learned to live with doubt.
Do you ever feel doubt?
- I told you we're not here to talk about me.
- Now, things change when you have kids.
You know, and the things you used to ignore,
they get under your skin.
Especially if you have girls.
You want the best for 'em.
And I could not see how the best for my little girl
was being caught up in a church that would force her
to make covenants to obey all men
for the rest of her life.
Do you have daughters? - Stop it. Stop it.
Allen, stop! I ask the questions.
If you keep wasting precious time,
you're gonna find yourself with an accessory charge.
Understood?
[tense music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- Sorry.
Really, I--I am. I am.
JEB: I need you to try to get some sleep.
I'll be here for you when you wake up.
I promise.
♪♪ ♪♪
[eerie music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- [grunting]
REBECCA: You called in the Church Relief Society
for a birthday party?
[laughs] You are in real trouble.
JEB: Ugh. REBECCA: But you're also
the sweetest husband in the world.
I tell you what, we'll never get through all this cake.
[both laugh]
- How's Mom handling the racket?
REBECCA: She's not awake yet.
- We've got it all in hand, Brother.
- [laughs]
Are, uh, are you still okay
to meet with the bishop tonight?
- Oh, the girls' baptism interview, of course.
You know, I sure wish
it was the only thing on my mind, Becca,
so I can be fully there for it.
DESK COP: It's 12:30, sir. - Um, honey, I'm so sorry.
I've--I've really gotta go right now.
I love you so much, okay?
Kiss the girls.
- Okay. I'll see you tonight. - Bye.
Call Forest Services.
If they don't have eyes on Taba, call County
and get them to his last known, pronto.
[tense music]
Robin, I have men out there
looking for your brothers right now, so I need to know,
are my officers in any danger?
- Well, that depends, Officer Pyre,
on what they intend to do to my brothers.
- Officer, not "brother" anymore.
- Look, if your officers are in any danger,
then they only have themselves to blame.
The government came after us, not the other way around.
And when aggrieved and attacked
time and again by the unjust laws of Gentile lawmen...
[crashing] [shouting]
To the point where our religion,
our families, our freedom is threatened...
- Joseph! JOSEPH: Emma!
Please, my child!
ROBIN: Do we, the Lord's covenant people,
do we surrender our values?
No!
[people clamoring]
TOWN OFFICIAL: The "Prophet" Joseph Smith.
EMMA: Please, no!
TOWN OFFICIAL: Leader of God's chosen people.
Except now, we have a witness to your crimes and whoredoms
committed over and again with an unmarried woman.
Defiling your holy marriage vows, Mr. Prophet.
Now you face our law, man's law, Ohio law.
ROBIN: I'll grant you your concern.
It cuts to the very heart of the matter
to what may soon be the culmination
of a centuries-old conflict between His righteous people
and a wicked state.
TOWN OFFICIAL: Doctor, he may take your tongue to stop your lies
or clip your manhood so you don't get the itch
to commit such acts again.
You choose, Prophet.
- No! No, you ungodly wretches!
Do not touch him!
- Once you've cut from me,
I'll be made whole in heaven again.
But God will choose the same portion of your flesh
and burn it from you for eternity.
♪♪ ♪♪
- If you wish to live, gather your things and leave.
[dramatic music]
♪♪ ♪♪
Bring the tar and feathers, then.
- No! Joseph! God will strike you down!
- God's inspired laws versus man's broken ones,
for behold, the time is coming.
And the original laws of God,
revealed to our founding fathers,
must be delivered from Babylon.
OHIOAN: Get out of Ohio! You're not welcome!
[people shouting]
♪♪ ♪♪
ROBIN: And nothing--
Nothing can stop the political kingdom of God
from rising in glory.
♪♪ ♪♪
BILL: Hello?
Is anyone home?
ROBIN: So yes, your good officers,
before they press any further, I would urge them
to consider the words of our prophet:
JOSEPH: For if they resist us again,
we will tread upon the ashes of the wicked
after they are destroyed from the face of this earth.
- So you killed her, then...
For daring to resist you.
[tense music]
♪♪ ♪♪
- What do you mean?
[Allen shouting]
Who--who is that?
Who--who else do you have in here?
[shouting continues] Who is that?
Hey! Answer me!
- He--he woke up screaming, sir.
ROBIN: Allen!
♪♪ ♪♪
[soft guitar music]
♪♪ ♪♪