WEBVTT - Chapter 8: Selective Memory 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:11.280 You were listening to Strawberry Spring, based on a short 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:20.200 story by Stephen King. See Edwards. You asked to see us. 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:25.640 Come back later if you're busy, Take a seat, make 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:28.040 yourself comfortable. I was just about to read the latest 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:30.280 copy of the New Sharon Times. I thought you might 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:36.920 care to join me. New Sharon Times, March Night. Henry, 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:40.280 you you're right here that five girls have all been murdered. 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:50.440 Gail Kerman, Charlotte Foster, Adele Perkins, Chelsea Spencer, and most recently, 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:56.280 Hannah Gray. Ages range from eighteen to twenty years old, 0:00:56.480 --> 0:01:00.080 victims of New Sharon's very own Spring Heeled Jack. We 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:02.800 still have no leads, and the campus of New Sharon 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:06.880 remains open, a virtual hunting ground for a killer that 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:11.240 has a blood lust that can't or won't be satiated. 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:16.160 That last line, it might be my favorite. It's very poetic, Henry. 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.319 I don't know who's doing more damage at this point. 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:23.039 The two of you were Spring Heeled Jack. Either way, 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:26.039 it's left me no choice. I'm going to announce that 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.760 spring break will be moved up a week. I just 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:31.039 don't see any other way but to clear out the campus. 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:35.040 I need you to put that in tomorrow's paper, and 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:39.120 do me a favor, try to keep the editorializing to 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:42.640 a minimum. All I care about is making sure everyone 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.319 gets home safely. Can I quote you on that? Do 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:51.920 you want to graduate? Not what I was thinking. When 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:56.880 we are called in, some conversations come to an inevitable conclusion. 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:01.200 We scattered out at the office like frightened sheep before 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:04.760 a storm. We were going to be abandoning the campus, 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:08.840 handing over an empty and haunted legacy to police looking 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.960 for clues, and one dark specter leaving a trail of 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:15.359 death and sorrow in his wake. I can't believe it's 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:17.520 only been a few weeks since this all started. It 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:19.400 does seem like it's been forever since we were in 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:23.600 the name Spring Neo Jack. I walked with Anne, but 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:26.760 I felt very much alone. It was hard to believe 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.840 how much could change in such a short period of time. 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.640 Five women were dead, countless lives had been shattered, and 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:37.640 there was an exponential amount of damage that I wouldn't 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:42.080 begin to understand for years to come. The word inevitable 0:02:42.280 --> 0:03:06.520 kept echoing in my head. Captain, It's it's me, Yeah, 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:08.760 I know what can I do for you? You're not 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:14.880 gonna want to hear this. But with the latest victim, yes, 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:18.480 that's her. This puts me in a terrible predicament. I 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:20.840 can close the campus and and hope that's the end 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.080 of the murders, or I or you can give me 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:25.840 and my man a chance to see this through. I 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:29.720 don't know if these kids. They have a hard enough 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:33.320 time getting to classes now worrying about a killer. I 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:37.360 think we all need a break. I need a break. 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:39.839 Listen to me. If you let them go home now, 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.360 we may never catch and bring hill Jack. You have 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:47.360 to give me a little more time. He's one of them. 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:49.560 I can feel any in my bones. I'm a cop 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:53.760 and sometimes cases get salt on a hunch, and I 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.640 have that hunch. I will catch him. Come hell or 0:03:56.680 --> 0:04:01.440 I water Earl. You may be right. I can't imagine 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:05.480 what you're going through. I feel for you, I really 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:12.640 really do, not for me, But can I be frank 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:17.880 I I think you can use a break too. We 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:21.360 need a reset, all of us. If they all go home, 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.240 there will be no one left for him to kill. 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:33.240 For to catch. My mind is made up. I have 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:44.560 to go. Look. I am sorry for your loss. Closing 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.440 the campus down. What do you think I think it 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:50.719 all goes away. It doesn't. It's not possible. What would 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.919 you have them do? Keep everyone on campus? He'll kill again, 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:57.040 he asked. What makes you so sure he'll kill until 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:00.200 he gets caught. Isn't that what you would do. That's 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:05.320 a strange question. I wouldn't kill. We should talk about 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:10.440 what us. And there is no us. There never was 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:13.640 and there never will be except there was. Okay, I 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:15.640 have to go. Let me know if you need help 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:20.000 with the paper. I turned and walked away. I wanted 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.520 to look back and see if Anne was still there. 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:27.840 In my mind's eye, she's still standing there, and and 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:31.120 I split up. She could handle getting the paper together, 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.880 announcing an early spring break. Not much to do there, 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:37.320 that will take about ten minutes. Right in the headline, 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:42.000 it's what wasn't being said that made everything so uneasy. 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:45.600 The wind really picked up that day. The snow flurries 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:49.760 hit hard. I bundled myself up and decided to stop 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.400 by my apartment to grab some things. It was a 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:54.800 safe bed that I'd be spending the night at Rachel's. 0:05:56.120 --> 0:06:00.279 New Sharon was old, full of tradition, and in the 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:02.960 middle of winter, at the beginning of spring. It was 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:07.680 also full of old power transformers and shifting knob into wiring, 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:10.640 the kind that had a habit of failing when winter 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:15.080 went on a bit too long. I remember entering my 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:19.000 place to a power outage. For a brief moment, I 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.719 wondered if spring heeled Jack had something to do with 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:27.040 this too. First, the fog now blackout. I tried the 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.880 light switch a couple of times, but no luck. I 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.760 had a flashlight somewhere in the kitchen and a transistor 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:36.919 radio nearby. I stumbled over a chair trying to find 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:40.719 the bold. Fortunately for me, the radio took batteries, so 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.239 at least I had something to do to pass the time. 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.440 I turned on the radio, hoping to get a weather update, 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.880 but all I got was static. Maybe the color station 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:53.320 lost power too. I grabbed the radio, change of clothes, 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:55.760 a cheap bottle of wine, and headed over to see Rachel. 0:06:56.400 --> 0:07:00.320 It was called out Chris, the kind of air that 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.840 stung your lungs every time you took a breath. I 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.640 thought about each breath I took on the way over. 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:11.560 I thought about the victims when they walked, when they 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:15.120 took their glass breath and then before I knew it, 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:19.480 I found myself standing on Rachel's store step. I had 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.280 no idea how long I've been walking or how I 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:29.120 got there. That's it, forever did it. It's harder to 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:32.520 find this place in the dark than you think. Candles 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:37.360 how romantic. Where's the power out here too? Yes, there 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:40.440 is nothing more romantic than writing my mid turn paper 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:44.840 by candle light only one glass. I really have to 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:49.240 get my side paper done before spar break. Early Trauma 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:54.040 and Childhood Development a study in coping mechanisms. That's a 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:57.680 lofty title, it is. But I need you to get 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.040 back to me now and forth from my peaches to 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:03.200 get out of order. Okay, but only if we finish 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.560 our wine and forget about school for one night. Deal 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:16.200 One night. Oh h that night that her moment had 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:20.880 dropped fifteen degrees, I woke up next to Rachel. It 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:24.400 was cold in her apartment. The old radiator and pipes 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.840 must have frozen. I shivered as I watched the warm 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:31.520 vapor of my breath dissipated into the moonlight bedroom. I 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:34.640 couldn't sleep. I don't know what it was, but something 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:38.400 was in the air. I don't know the thing about Vietnam. 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:42.240 Why aren't we bringing our boys home? It's not our war. 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:47.680 Old men are dying. Rachel slept soundly. There was some 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:51.920 sound coming from the radio. Kevin Hartigan was coming in 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.760 loud and clear, so loud, in fact, I couldn't understand 0:08:55.800 --> 0:09:00.040 how it didn't wake Rachel. I jumped out of it. 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:02.959 I realized I must have left the goddamn thing on 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:05.679 when I took it from my apartment. I grabbed it 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.280 off the nightstand. I tried to turn it off. I 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:11.040 turned it so hard I broke the knob. I didn't 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:15.600 want to wake Rachel, so I rushed into her living room. 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:19.640 Kevin was relentless, angry. From what I could make out, 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:23.120 he was yelling the entire time about everything and anything. 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:28.319 Five women from murder in Cold Blood, no subspects, a 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:33.000 sniveling chiller tiding behind his damn in sight the murders 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:37.200 and spring heeled Jack. He'll catch him sooner or later. 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:41.800 He'll mess up, won't Henry? What are you talking to me? 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.280 I couldn't tell if I was asleep, awake, or somewhere 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:50.520 in between, a dream, sleep walking through, just visiting someone 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.959 else's dream. And then when I couldn't take it any longer. 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:57.360 I turned the radio over and opened the compartment. I 0:09:57.440 --> 0:09:59.520 was about to take out the batteries when I saw, 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:03.440 under a shaft of moonlight there weren't any batteries in 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:09.199 the radio. But how I must have been training. I 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:14.079 had to have been training. There wasn't much else to do, 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.520 and now I was quite away. That's when I saw 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.439 Rachel's folder in the warm red glow of the firelight. 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:26.480 I opened it. It was like opening Pandora's box. What 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:32.600 I read couldn't be put back. Subject Henry Denton, aged 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:37.000 twenty two. He has managed to overcome many struggles, the 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:41.800 loss of both parents and a sibling. For most subjects, 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.480 one or two personal setbacks would be enough to break 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:48.839 an ordinary person, but Henry din has created his own 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:53.160 coping mechanisms to help him continue on a productive path. 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:58.480 His survival instincts are primeval. Over the last three months, 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.880 the subject has been pretty herring to graduate through college 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:05.800 with a degree in journalism, he has also been thrust 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:10.040 into a police investigation by association of his involvement with 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:13.760 the college newspaper. He chooses to bury himself in his 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.920 work rather than face real world consequences and overcompensates for 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:24.400 personal relationships with avoidance, sleep deprivation, and mild behavioral issues 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:27.920 culminating an O c D. Maybe the result of a 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:33.520 debilitating the head injury suffered during adolescence. Subject is in 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.640 a long term relationship that shows second thoughts regarding the 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:40.120 future of that relationship, and maybe to hit it by 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:44.760 a colleague. She thinks I'm having an affair with Anne. 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:47.400 But you do think of Anne is more than a friend, 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:51.120 don't you. I don't know, wrong answer, Henry, I said, 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.760 I don't know, But would you be willing to leave Rachel? 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:59.840 I know, away a clean break? You might say cut time, 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:03.360 if you know what I mean. No, not Rachel than Anne. 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:09.680 Perhaps No. Well, you can't have your cake and eat 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:13.800 it too. That's not how life works. Someone will have 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:21.520 to suffer. If not Rachel and Anne, then who then who? Henry? 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:28.120 You You've been suffering your entire life. I didn't have 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:33.040 the answer. I stared at the bedroom door, closed tight. 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:36.839 I knew Rachel was fast asleep behind, and I didn't 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:38.800 know what to make of what I was reading. But 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:42.800 I decided I couldn't stay and read anymore about me. 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.880 Rachel's breathing was so loud I could hear it from 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:50.600 the other room, pounding in my skull, aching in my brain. 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:55.360 The migraine hurt, my vision blurred. I wanted to make 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:58.720 it stopped, but how could I make the pain? The 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:05.080 noise I make haven't go away. Henry, who are you 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:14.200 talking to? Huh? No one? I was reading. Oh my god, Henry, 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:18.800 you've been analyzing me this entire time. I haven't been 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:24.760 analyzing you. I've I've been studying you everything. You've overcome, 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:29.440 the accident, losing your family, the orphanage, all of it. 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.720 And now look at you. You've put yourself through college 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:36.440 and you're about to start in life. Life is me? 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:41.000 Are you mad? I don't know what I am. Maybe 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:44.560 I should read your paper and find out, Henry. I 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:49.000 need some mayor. But it's freezing out. It's colder in here. 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:54.320 I stepped outside, hoping some fresh air would help. I 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.560 expected the fog to hit me in the face. Like 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.719 so many other nights in Strawberry spring first began but 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:03.240 stead the whole northern New England area was belted by 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.679 a shrieking norther that began in sleep and ended in 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:10.560 the foot of snow. I trudged through the streets, holding 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.200 my arms close to my sides, moving them up and 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:16.320 down to keep warm. I was under dress, but at 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.640 two in the morning, Couis m'm I didn't want to 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:22.240 go back to Rachel's fird coat. I'd rather suffer in silence. 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.400 I was so busy to generate the body heat that 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:27.960 I failed to realize I was walking past all of 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:31.800 the murders. Dean Edward's voice kept ringing in my ears. 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:37.440 Con Lung Charlotte Foster two, I didn't Perkins three, Chelsea 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.880 Spencer four in a grave. I passed the first murder 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:45.360 scene where it all began, the Animal Sciences parking lot. 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:48.600 I ran through the quad, past the dorms, through the 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:51.800 narrow pathways of the buildings, until I finally stood and 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:56.120 stared at Dean Edward's window, where Hannah gras dismembered head 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:59.720 was found. I saw my reflection staring back at the 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:03.120 It was like an out of body experience, the kind 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:05.760 of Ragent talks about. I felt like I was watching 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:09.360 someone else run across the grounds. I could see, I 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.240 could see what they saw, hear what they heard, but 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.200 it wasn't And then how the body experience, and I 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:18.560 wasn't sleep walking, It wasn't a dream. It was real. 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:23.120 The clues added up. The killer had been staring everyone 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:26.280 in the face the entire time. It wasn't some monster 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.200 from a movie that goes from a book or some 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:33.400 agent had cursed Spring heel Jack was a man. He 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:37.240 looked just like you. He lived among us, He killed 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:40.320 at will. He was no one, and he was everyone 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:43.440 all at once. And when I found myself standing in 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.760 the middle of campus staring at my reflection in the 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:51.560 glass of Dean Edward's office window, it was overwhelming. Awoke 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:55.000 from a never ending Nightmary and eerie glow surrounded me. 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:58.560 Is snow gathered on my shoulders. The vintage glass panes 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:02.680 were distorted, and I did recognize the person staring back 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.440 at the I panic. I picked up a rock and 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:09.320 did what I could to make him disappear. As the 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:12.640 window shattered into a thousand pieces, the sound woke me. 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:16.600 My subconscious took over, and as soon as the image 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:20.280 staring back at me vanished, it put Spring heeled Jack 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:25.760 to sleep for another eight years until another Strawberry Spring 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:33.840 came to pass. Who is it, Who's there? I could 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:37.040 see a shape through the fog. But I can't believe 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:41.280 my eyes. It can't be not after all this time, 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:53.600 I missed you, Henry, Dad, you're alive. But that's impossible. Henry, Hey, 0:16:53.720 --> 0:17:05.080 can you hear me? My god, hang out, Henry. We 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:09.760 don't have time for this. Henry. There is a killer 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:18.840 on the loose. Get off the past whole. You're running 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:25.280 out of time where Henry, wake up? Oh my god, 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:29.800 I remember it was you. You're the reason they died. 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:32.760 You were chasing us. It's all your fault. You tried 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:36.520 to kill Mom. You killed them. It's all coming back 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:39.280 to me now, like a bad dream. Only it wasn't 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:44.160 a dream. He's here, pure evil, standing right in front 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:48.720 of me. It's cooled out. Let's not attract attention. Come on, 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:51.400 let's get in the car. Words warm, and let's talk 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:55.320 about it. It's been almost fifteen years. For all that time. 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:59.280 I blamed myself. I thought it was my fault we crashed. 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.879 I didn't see the dear, I didn't warn mom and time. 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:06.040 I thought it was my fault. But they didn't die 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:09.040 because of me, did they. They died because of you. 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:14.560 They died because of you. Are What's what's wrong? Oh? 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:20.119 My head. It hurts. You've been alive all this time. 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:26.320 You're alive. You're alive, and they're dead. You were beating her, 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:30.280 hurting her, causing her pain. I saw it all growing up. 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:34.960 I learned from you. I saw it all. It was 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:39.359 a long time ago. I've changed, okay. I've come to 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:44.160 make peace with you, with my past. I'm not violent anymore. 0:18:44.440 --> 0:19:06.760 Don't call me shun. We can get past that. I shouldki. Yeah, Henry, 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:11.520 holy shit, Oh my god, can you hear me? What's 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:21.600 your name? John? I need nay the parking lot immediately. 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:37.959 A man has been stabbed. He what have you done? Rachel? 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:44.200 Where are you in here? I'm upstairs. I'm on my way. 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:51.000 Are you okay? Thank e? There? Here? Are you okay? 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:54.199 Just bloat on your arms. I cut myself on a 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:58.920 card door. I'll be fine. Hey, where's your bay? Never mind? 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:01.920 I see it. Come on, let me help you get downstairs. 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:06.960 We need hurry. My water broke. Put your arm around me. 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:11.119 I got you. She looks scared. Why is she looking 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:14.600 at me like that? Rachel? I set I've got you. 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:30.800 Stay focused. Just breathe, honey. We're only a few minutes 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:42.760 from the hospital. Come on, come on, please him to 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:58.640 be careful. You don't want to come to Henry, Henry 0:20:58.840 --> 0:21:04.439 and wake up. Henry. It's me, Kevin, get up. You 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:09.800 still have time, my head. What happened? We happened. What 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:13.880 happened is you and me. I've been trying so hard 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:18.000 to get to you. Look at her, Rachel doesn't look 0:21:18.040 --> 0:21:20.760 so good. You should just put her out of her misery, 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:23.560 just like you did with mom. Mom. What are you 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:28.200 talking about? Who are you? You still don't remember? Don't 0:21:28.240 --> 0:21:32.919 worry about it. It'll come back to you. It's me, Henry, 0:21:32.960 --> 0:21:40.440 It's Kevin. Don't you remember I'm your brother and you 0:21:40.560 --> 0:21:51.560 need to hurry up. We're running out of time. Spencer, 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:55.760 we g got all your person of interest, Henry Gain 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:58.520 was in a car accident on Silver Road, white and 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:04.479 hand roaming aar in general. Got it? Thanks? Are you okay? 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:08.000 We've got a second victim from the accident of Pilgrim Road. 0:22:08.760 --> 0:22:13.760 Male late twenties to early thirties, head trump, no external bleeding. 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:19.879 Spousal female has my wife the baby? She's gonna be okay? 0:22:20.000 --> 0:22:25.960 Justin who likes my wife? She's pregnant. We've already got around. 0:22:26.320 --> 0:22:30.080 She's on her way to the hospital. Thank god, can 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:39.600 you stand up? HENRYA you're okay? Yes, Chief Spencer, Please, 0:22:39.760 --> 0:22:42.720 I need to get to the hospital. Okay, I'll take 0:22:42.760 --> 0:22:45.240 it from here. I went in my car. Would you 0:22:45.240 --> 0:22:52.640 get you to the hospital. Yeah? What happened back there? 0:22:52.800 --> 0:22:56.960 We got in the nexcident. No, Henry, not there at 0:22:57.000 --> 0:23:00.200 the police station. That man, he said he was your mother. 0:23:02.119 --> 0:23:04.800 We have to get to Rachel. How far are we? 0:23:04.800 --> 0:23:09.359 We'll be there soon. Tell me about your father. There's 0:23:09.359 --> 0:23:11.439 nothing to tell. He abandoned us when I was just 0:23:11.520 --> 0:23:14.399 a kid. I thought he died in Korea, but that 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:17.359 was just lying. This doesn't look like the way to 0:23:17.400 --> 0:23:22.399 the hospital. Henry. Where are we going? Why did you 0:23:22.440 --> 0:23:27.480 have a knife? What a knife? I did? You stabbed 0:23:27.480 --> 0:23:30.880 your father? I don't like this, Henry. We should make 0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:35.880 him stuck and growing up? Were you too close? This 0:23:36.200 --> 0:23:40.680 isn't the way to the hospital. We are not going 0:23:40.840 --> 0:23:50.720 anywhere until you answer some questions today. That man at 0:23:50.720 --> 0:23:55.320 the police station, your father. You didn't just stab him, Henry. 0:23:56.200 --> 0:24:00.000 He sliced his throat from year to year, the only 0:24:00.000 --> 0:24:03.520 anything holding his head in place. Where some tendons you 0:24:03.600 --> 0:24:07.159 look just like a murder victim. A murder victim of 0:24:07.200 --> 0:24:11.359 spring Heeled Jack. What are you saying? What am I saying? 0:24:12.240 --> 0:24:14.760 These are all the files from the spring Hill Jack murders. 0:24:14.800 --> 0:24:16.880 I want you to look at these pictures, Henry. Look 0:24:16.920 --> 0:24:20.520 at them. Do you see anything familiar? Do you? Do you? Henry? 0:24:21.600 --> 0:24:25.520 Make it stop, Henry. It looks like spring Healed Jack 0:24:25.560 --> 0:24:27.439 had his way with him, doesn't it. I want you 0:24:27.480 --> 0:24:30.439 to take a closer look. What do you see? I 0:24:30.520 --> 0:24:33.000 don't have to come closer. I don't have to take 0:24:33.040 --> 0:24:36.000 a book. I already know. But he wants me to 0:24:36.040 --> 0:24:39.600 play a game, so I'll play on your mark. It 0:24:39.640 --> 0:24:43.439 looks like murder scenes. Henry, it looks like murder scenes. 0:24:43.640 --> 0:24:51.560 To get set, actually, Chief Gods, this looks like a 0:24:51.640 --> 0:25:12.600 murder scene. Yeah, m maternity ward, how can I help? 0:25:13.080 --> 0:25:17.359 Excuse me? My wife was brought in earlier. She was 0:25:17.400 --> 0:25:20.960 in labor. What's her name, Rachel Denton. She's in three 0:25:21.040 --> 0:25:27.680 fifteen down the hall to your left. Thank you, she 0:25:27.800 --> 0:25:30.760 made it here in time. I couldn't forgive myself as 0:25:30.800 --> 0:25:34.199 something to happen to No. Oh, thank god, honey, you're okay. 0:25:35.000 --> 0:25:39.760 I was so worried. What do you want to meet 0:25:39.800 --> 0:25:44.560 your daughter? A daughter? I didn't realize we're going to 0:25:44.640 --> 0:25:51.120 have a girl. Yes, yes, I don't. Oh my gosh, 0:25:52.560 --> 0:25:59.520 I can't believe we would be daddy's daddy's little girl. 0:26:00.920 --> 0:26:05.320 The sound of that terrifies me. Everything I hear it 0:26:05.400 --> 0:26:09.119 rings in my ears. The elevator down the hall, the 0:26:09.160 --> 0:26:13.080 wheelchairs rolling across the linoleum floor, the phones at the 0:26:13.160 --> 0:26:20.240 nurses station, the babies crying out for their mothers, the screams. 0:26:20.840 --> 0:26:25.119 I recognize that look, the look of a helpless girl, 0:26:25.840 --> 0:26:29.679 her life in my hands, staring back at me. The 0:26:29.760 --> 0:26:31.680 last thing I want to do is heard our little 0:26:31.720 --> 0:26:38.520 girl and might hope her te tape. She's fine, she's mine. 0:26:39.040 --> 0:26:44.320 You can't have her, She'll always be mine. Do we 0:26:44.400 --> 0:26:48.399 have to do this now? I can see out the window, 0:26:48.840 --> 0:26:53.280 the snow melt running down the gutters. Strawberry spring is back. 0:26:53.760 --> 0:26:55.760 Out of the corner of my eye. I can see 0:26:55.760 --> 0:26:59.480 the headline on rachel side table. This morning's paper says 0:26:59.480 --> 0:27:02.360 a girl was killed on the New Sharon campus near 0:27:02.400 --> 0:27:06.560 the Civil War cannons. She was killed family melting snowbag. 0:27:06.960 --> 0:27:09.360 She was not old. There. I've been thinking about these 0:27:09.359 --> 0:27:12.240 foggy nights and those years ago. My head with an egg, 0:27:12.320 --> 0:27:14.760 and I walked from here and passed all the shadows 0:27:14.760 --> 0:27:22.480 without shape or substance. We have her, Henry. She's hysterical here. 0:27:23.040 --> 0:27:26.800 By the way. Anne was here earlier, Oh she was. 0:27:28.000 --> 0:27:30.760 She said she had to move town. She's going to 0:27:30.880 --> 0:27:34.120 call you later, something about an inevitable conversation too had 0:27:34.160 --> 0:27:39.280 to have and did she lead because she was worried 0:27:39.359 --> 0:27:44.800 something would happened to her? Wonder that events. I have 0:27:44.920 --> 0:27:49.679 no idea. An inevitable conversation sounds like it could mean anything, 0:27:51.040 --> 0:27:54.359 except I don't think it does. It could mean and 0:27:54.600 --> 0:27:57.560 it's going to come from me. It could mean she's 0:27:57.560 --> 0:28:01.000 going to write a story about spring Neo Jack. You 0:28:01.040 --> 0:28:04.399 could mean anything. You couldn't mean. I'm going to have 0:28:04.480 --> 0:28:06.959 to find her and ask her myself. Now it's not 0:28:07.040 --> 0:28:12.480 the time, but last night, where were you? You can't 0:28:12.480 --> 0:28:16.520 disappear on me anymore. I don't want any part of it. 0:28:17.760 --> 0:28:22.280 Rachel is upset. It's not that I don't want to 0:28:22.280 --> 0:28:25.640 tell her. It's that I can't be sure. I would 0:28:25.640 --> 0:28:28.840 never start a go from work. I remember putting my 0:28:28.880 --> 0:28:31.080 headlights on to search my way through the fog, but 0:28:31.200 --> 0:28:35.080 that's all I remen She would call it a blackout 0:28:35.840 --> 0:28:41.880 selective memory. Everything is fine. We don't have to worry 0:28:41.920 --> 0:28:44.840 about anything. Nothing is going to change that. I'm not 0:28:44.920 --> 0:28:49.840 planning on going anywhere ever. You have no idea how 0:28:49.880 --> 0:28:54.600 happy I am to hear you say that. It's just you, 0:28:55.080 --> 0:29:01.360 me and our baby and me, Henry. Don't forget about me. 0:29:02.960 --> 0:29:31.280 I'm not planning on going anywhere. YEH did it? Strawberry 0:29:31.280 --> 0:29:35.880 Spring Executive produced by Lee Metzger, Jared Goodstadt and Philip Alberstadt. 0:29:36.240 --> 0:29:39.680 Written and directed by Lee Metzger, starring Garrett Headland, My 0:29:39.760 --> 0:29:43.960 Love and Amilia Horizon, Gardiola, Sydney Sweeney, Ken Marino, Al 0:29:44.040 --> 0:29:47.959 Madrigal and Breck Bessenger. Audio up in house production by 0:29:48.000 --> 0:29:52.320 Georgiana Lck Franzheim and Laura Ramada, Edited by Carry Caulfield, 0:29:52.440 --> 0:29:56.760 Eric and Jeremiah's Immerman. Sound design and mix by Jeremiah's Immerman. 0:29:57.040 --> 0:30:00.920 Score by Jeff Peters. Original songs in music by Jared Goodstad, 0:30:01.040 --> 0:30:05.160 Kubert and Jesse Siebenberg. 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