"It was my fault." "I was the one driving when it happened." "things that couldn't be real." "But I'm not crazy." "I know." "Your father knows." "Anyone who knows you knows that." "I've seen you every day for the past two months." "Maybe you're starting to let go of your misplaced guilt." "Maybe you're ready to stop blaming yourself for what happened." "But there's no one else to blame." "It's gotten to the point where I look in the mirror and I'm not even sure what's real anymore." "Fancy mirror." "Later." "Schow." "Ladykiller." "What's goin' on?" "Hey!" "What" "No!" "Yeah." "Max." "Who's this?" "Are you still sleeping?" "What time is it?" "Dad?" "Is that you?" "Of course it's me." "Yeah." "Is everything all right?" "Yeah." "Did I wake you up?" "You don't sound good." "I'm fine." "I'm just getting some sleep." "Thank you." "Careful over there." "Just getting to the point where I can sleep through the night again." "good." "You gotta get your rest." "Keller." "Yeah?" "that's great." "That is the Mayflower signature right there." "That glass has been through so much." "You can see the care that went into making it." "Even the base came from the original store." "So that gives us theits spirit." "I think it's perfect." "for the last two months the police have been all over us" "looking for that missing girl." "we may not be able to open on time." "Dad." "And then last week our night security guard goes crazy." "He cuts himself up bad and he quits." "I've got weeks of work to do and two weeks out from opening." "The last thing I need to be doing is looking for a new night watchman." "after all that's happened this year and" "Max." "This is what you need." "Max." "I know it'll help you take your mind off things." "Yeah." "Look." "Dad." "I'll do it." "Thanks for the opportunity." "Max." "I tell you what." "Why don't you come in to work a little early and find me so that we can say hello before you clock in." "Okay?" "Yeah." "Sure." "I'll come find you." "All right." "Dad." "Bye." "Byebye." "Shoot." "I got it." "Just trying to help." "That may or may not be the case then take care of that first thing tomorrow." "Would you do that?" "will you take care of the accessories?" "That'll be great." "the thing I am most proud of in the entire store." "This is my son Max." "Hi." "son?" "Good." "Yeah?" "Get some rest?" "Yeah." "Okay." "I wanna introduce you to a few people." "This is Keller Landreaux." "He's gonna be our store manager when we open in a few weeks." "Keller told us that we could buy property down here in New Orleans for a song and a dime." "That's exactly what we did." "Smart man." "Max." "My pleasure." "Thanks for having me." "And this beautiful young lady we have right here this is Jenna McCarty." "Jenna is the head buyer for the store and she has promised to bring us a little bit of that Fifth Avenue flair yes?" "Max." "You too." "ladies love a man in uniform." "I'm sure the polyester pants really help seal the deal." "And last but not least I'd like to introduce you to Ryan P" "What was your last name?" "Parker." "our vice president in charge of operations." "Max." "Likewise." "you see something that doesn't look right fire you call Ryan." "That's after you call me." "Listen." "I'm gonna let you go." "I know you got a job to do." "And we need to continue on our rounds." "Good luck out there." "Dad." "All right." "Shall we?" "You all right?" "Sorry." "First night." "you say you've been having those visions again?" "Yeah." "Were you taking drugs or had you been drinking when you had this episode?" "No." "It was last night at my new job." "I saw a woman in one of the mirrors at my work." "You saw a woman?" "Yeah." "She was looking back at me from the other side." "Her reflection looked like a corpse." "She probably reminded you of Kayla in some way." "Your mind's way of processing the mental shock." "And the pills I prescribed?" "I took one." "That's all?" "Yeah." "Good." "but I decided not to." "Very good." "So should we put the straitjacket on me now or should we wait until my time's up?" "Max." "No?" "Not at all." "it's a good thing." "Yeah?" "hallucinations or not are a sign that you're starting to get your life back in order that maybe you're starting to let go of your misplaced guilt about her death that you're ready to stop blaming yourself for what happened." "What intrigues me is that now that you've stopped wallowing in the drugs and the alcohol now that you're sober your mind is ready to begin processing the tragedy in earnest." "You wanna come see me again next week get back to a regular appointment type thing?" "Sure." "Yeah." "I'll run the numbers tomorrow." "Okay." "And then I placed the orders for size 8 through 12." "No." "No!" "Why?" "But" "It's like I told you earlier." "I don't want to order any of the larger sizes." "Jenna?" "Why?" "Because this Mayflower has to convey the message that it's a boutique." "And boutique implies skin and bones." "right." "Okay." "if we do the research and it shows that the demographic is full of heifers then we'll order accordingly." "four is the new eight." "Do you understand me?" "I got it." "Thank you." "Talk to you later." "Camera in the bathroom?" "you dirty dog." "Just want to check in on my new favorite employee." "Mr. Landreaux." "Max." "Your dad entrusted me with the opening of the new Mayflower as my top priority." "being here so late." "Yeah." "I can't let anything interfere with our grand opening." "Yeah." "I should do my rounds." "will you do me a favor?" "Call me Keller." "We're all family here at the Mayflower." "Okay." "Jenna?" "What are you" "No!" "Fuck." "rookie." "how did that last night go?" "Everything all right?" "Dr. Beaumont's office." "This is Max Matheson." "I need to see Dr. Beaumont as soon as possible." "let me see what I have." "How do you think this happened?" "I don't know." "Looks more like a just a terrible accident but maybe someone killed her." "Homicide by handmade guillotine?" "That would impress even yours truly." "Pete." "Me too." "Dr. Beaumont?" "Yes?" "your explanation for what's happening to me?" "of course." "There's really no other explanation." "And the fact that it's all related to the mirrors that that's how I'm seeing these visions?" "Méconnaissance." "What's that?" "It's a French term from Jacques Lacan's mirror stage of psychoanalytic theory." "The ego is a product of false reflections." "Méconnaissance when the subject is alienated from his or her self." "In English?" "Nobody sees anything in a mirror that isn't simply a part of them not even things they think they're seeing." "Every culture has its own particular myth set regarding mirrors." "for example it's believed that a person's soul can be trapped inside of a mirror as it leaves the body." "a cracked mirror brings seven years bad luck." "And even here in the South's recent past it was not uncommon to cover all of the mirrors in a house where the wake of a deceased person was being held." "There's even a clinical diagnosis for an intense fear of mirrors called spectrophobia." "Lots of psychic baggage in them there mirrors." "then?" "In light of all you've been through combined with all the superstitions we hold regarding mirrors" "I'd say you're doing pretty good indeed." "How are ya holdin' up?" "Fine." "Your father didn't tell you." "Tell me what?" "the woman you met the other day she died last night." "They found her in her apartment." "How did she die?" "The police said she fell through glass." "It ripped her head off." "It was a horrible accident." "Such a tragedy." "Are you all right?" "Yeah." "I'm just surprised." "You sure?" "Yeah." "Will you call me if you need anything?" "Yeah." "Thanks." "I still can't believe it." "Hello?" "Are you here?" "It's me." "Hello?" "God." "I'm really starting to lose it again." ""P." "P." Parker." "Where's the number?" "God!" "God!" "Hi." "You've reached Ryan's answering machine." "I'm unable to get up and get the phone right now so leave me a message with your name and your phone number goddamn it." "and I will get back to you shortly." "Take care." "You ever seen a 1056 like that?" "I'm not sure." "One thing I know" "This is the second death of an employee who worked at the Mayflower." "if you count the girl who went missing two months ago." "sir." "The witnesses." "Where'd you put 'em?" "Pic." "Check out the badge." "He's definitely a person of interest." "Hello?" "Dad." "What time is it?" "I don't know." "It's late." "Max?" "I'm justI'm calling to let you know that I'm" "I'm gonna be quitting my job." "Are you all right?" "not really." "I can't keep working there." "It's too much." "Too much?" "Yeah." "I think I'm seeing things again." "I'm really sorry." "I don't care about the job." "Just" "I need to know that you're okay." "Yeah." "I'm okay." "you know." "Dad." "I'm your father and I do support you." "You know that." "I do." "Okay." "Get some rest." "Okay." "What's wrong with you?" "Dad!" "Dad!" "what are you doing here?" "I know what I need to do." "I came by" "I changed my mind." "Good for you." "I wanna stay at the Mayflower." "Come here." "Give me one." "Thank you." "It's gonna be okay." "I know." "We don't know why things happen the way that they do but they have a tendency to work themselves out." "Max." "Yeah." "Right." "Are you hungry?" "Want a slice?" "I'm good." "Can you hold up a sec?" "Just need a minute." "May I help you?" "Homicide." "Detective Piccirilli." "What he said." "Homicide?" "We just come by to ask you a few questions about some fellow employees at the Mayflower see if you might know anything about 'em that might be of interest to us." "We went by your house." "You weren't there." "Okay." "And?" "And why don't you tell us." "Tell you what?" "correct?" "Yes." "And you were also at the home weren't you?" "Yeah." "But right?" "Right." "as a matter of fact." "homicide." "Pic." "with an S." "man." "There've been two homicides involving employees of the Mayflower this week." "Since you were at the scene of the crime tonight" "And in charge of security it stands to reason that you might have an opinion or two about these matters." "Am I a suspect?" "No." "Not yet." "Not yet?" "Not officially." "not officially?" "At this point the only thing you're suspected of is being a lousy security guard." "why were you out front of the deceased's home earlier tonight?" "don't you think?" "No." "I don't think it was a creepy coincidence." "Not at all." "but it seems to me that the two of you are not too much better at the detective stuff." "you would've seen that" "Mr. Parker is the vice president of operations here at this particular branch of the Mayflower Department Store." "it is my duty to contact Mr. Parker immediately." "Why not just call him?" "As soon as you stop badgering me and you get back to your work in fact try to call Mr. Parker." "as you say brutally murdered." "Might be kind of hard for me to have been the one killing him too." "So you ran over to the deceased's home to let him know you were having a problem with" "With the mirrors." "I'd really like to get back to my work." "No more questions." "For now." "We just wanted to stop by." "Say hi." "And let you know that we got our eye out on you." "I feel so much safer knowing that." "Detectives." "I don't understand." "Who are you?" "What do you want?" "She worked here." "Hello?" "Hi." "Is this Elizabeth Reigns?" "Hi." "Elizabeth." "Hi." "I'm Max." "Hi." "You wanna talk about my sister?" "You said you might have some information." "Yeah." "I think maybe I've seen her recently." "Where?" "At the Mayflower." "Where at the Mayflower?" "In the mirrors." "in the mirrors?" "I know it sounds crazy but I see her reflection in the mirrors." "And I Then I turn around and she's gone." "She's not there anymore." "I don't know who put you up to this." "my little sister Eleanor has been missing for almost two months now." "And you just turn this into some kind of joke." "it's not a joke." "Listen to me." "I'm serious." "Don't touch me!" "Just don't touch me." "it sounds crazy." "It's the truth." "So this started happening the first night that you were working there?" "How can that be?" "How is it that out of everyone that works there you're the only one that can see my sister?" "I was driving with my fiancée." "What?" "Nothin'." "Okay." "grab my phone for me?" "Yeah." "I need to call my dad." "hang on." "Drive safe." "Max?" "Yeah." "I got it." "Please." "Thank you." "I can see." "Perfectly?" "I'm a great driver." "Yeah." "Okay." "Where did you say it was?" "In the front there." "Front." "Front." "it's right there." "Any luck?" "my God." "is this what I think it is?" "what do you think it is?" "I don't know." "A drunk driver." "He hit you?" "I swerved to avoid him." "I wrapped my car around a telephone pole." "it was my fault." "she she died in the accident?" "We both did." "Start an IV." "sir." "They brought you back." "Maybe I brought back something with me some ability to see the other side or something." "I just got pretty screwed up for a while alcohol whatever I could put into me." "Like I was trying to get closer to her or something." "Wasn't your fault." "I was the one driving." "You were trying to swerve to get out of the way." "You were trying to save her." "but I couldn't." "I couldn't save her." "You wanted to see her again." "Yeah." "More than you could ever know." "How long's your sister been missing?" "About two months." "And you still think she's" "Dead?" "the cops say that young women up and leave all the time to start new lives." "But Eleanor and I we were soul mates." "And the night that she disappeared screaming for no reason." "I thought it was gonna explode." "I knew right then and there." "What was your sister doing the day she disappeared?" "Working at the Mayflower." "There was some sort of party that night and she was she'd just been hired on." "They were having a ground breaking celebration." "I gotta get to work." "I gotta get some sleep." "I gotta work again tonight." "Call me if anything else comes up." "Absolutely." "Max." "anyway." "But you're trying." "That's more than anyone else has been willing to do around here." "Eleanor." "I'm trying my best." "I'm trying my best." "Really." "Please." "Stop doing this." "Wait." "What are you doing?" "don't don't do this." "Please." "No." "tell me." "Just" "What is it?" "What?" "Hello." "What night did she disappear?" "It was a Wednesday night." "What was the specific date?" "How come?" "but I thought maybe if something happened to Eleanor while she was working here at the Mayflower maybe the security cameras caught something." "September 22." "The 22nd." "It's not here." "What?" "It's missing." "Missing?" "Yeah." "Somebody erased it." "give me a minute." "last viewed September 24." "Two days after she disappeared." "Who was the last person to view those files?" "Henry David Schow." "Who's that?" "He's the security guard I replaced." "The guy cut himself up and then quit." "They say he's gone totally crazy." "All after my sister went missing." "Can you pick me up?" "Henry Schow?" "you in there?" "is that you?" "Stay away from me." "open the door." "I said stay away." "we're not here to hurt you." "We just wanna ask a couple questions." "Don't shut Henry!" "Who are you?" "I'm your replacement at the Mayflower." "I'm the new night security guard." "You've seen her then?" "Seen who?" "Her." "Eleanor." "What do you know about Eleanor?" "Nothin'." "I don't know nothin'." "you don't have to lie to us." "you are!" "What are you hiding?" "She wants to kill me." "Why does my sister want to kill you?" "Your sister?" "did you kill my sister?" "No." "I don't know what happened to her." "But why do you think she wants to kill you?" "I don't know." "What about the files?" "What files?" "The digitized security camera files." "The one from the night she went missing." "Henry." "I was just following orders!" "who told you to erase those files?" "Keller Landreaux said it was important." "Keller." "That's when your sister first showed up." "That night." "That's when she started haunting all my mirrors." "there's something you're not telling us." "I told you everything." "my sister went missing the next day." "And somebody asked you to erase those security files from the cameras and you didn't think that was a little bit suspicious?" "I didn't." "I didn't think that." "L" "I just didn't wanna know." "you need to tell us everything that happened that night." "Everything." "I just want her to leave me alone." "She's not gonna stop this until she gets what she wants." "Henry!" "I don't know the truth." "so I just I went along with him." "We were in the basement." "He said we had to erase the files." "I'm sorry!" "The basement." "We have to go back to the Mayflower." "We have to check the basement." "Basement." "I'm sorry!" "What is it?" "There's rust on the ground." "I think it came from that." "It's been moved." "Give me a hand?" "It's a crawl space." "You okay in there?" "I'm okay." "Don't say a word or you're both dead." "I'm gonna be right back." "we need to talk." "Just come out." "he's got a gun!" "Shit!" "Fuck!" "Really need to loosen that one up." "world." "Jenna McCarty's up to her old tricks." "now." "The only way to keep the new hires under your thumb is to make sure you have dirt on them." "And nothing commands more respect than knowing that you have made a complete and total asshole of yourself in front of the higherups." "You're bad." "So where you from originally?" "So anyway miss." "You know that girl right there?" "She's in accounting?" "so" "And what about you?" "pretty much the daytoday stuff." "I think she's got something for you." "Thank you." "You're welcome." "You're drinking water?" "Yes." "I've been so thirsty." "Driving." "Elizabeth!" "Help!" "I didn't wanna hurt your sister!" "I don't wanna hurt you!" "Why are you making me do this?" "Why won't you listen to me!" "Get off me!" "What the fuck?" "What the fuck?" "are you okay?" "I just What happened?" "boss." "been drinking." "no." "Looks like somebody had a little too much to drink." "sweetie." "baby." "Here." "Just get her arm." "There we go." "You'll be fine." "There we go." "You'll be fine." "Just drink a lot of water." "Have fun." "Want a shot?" "please." "Two." "we'll go back." "No problem." "My keys." "Wait." "Where are we going?" "There you go." "I'm gonna get you home safe and sound." "I have to go home?" "And here we are." "Let's get your keys and get you home." "I just feel so" "no." "Get off me!" "Get off me!" "Get off me!" "Stop it!" "we need to talk about this!" "Eleanor!" "Where are you going?" "Come here!" "I just wanna talk to you!" "I just wanna talk to you!" "What?" "Help!" "Max!" "Stop!" "bitch." "Why are you doing this?" "Shut up!" "I can't let this happen." "Walk!" "I just wanna talk to you!" "I'm not gonna hurt you!" "I just wanna talk." "that's all." "Eleanor!" "Eleanor?" "I just want to talk." "You're gonna ruin everything!" "Get off of me!" "Eleanor!" "All you had to do was talk to me!" "Fuck." "I'm so stupid!" "I'm so stupid!" "Help!" "Get off me!" "Get off me!" "Elizabeth!" "Keller." "Keller." "my God!" "It's over." "Max." "So let me get this straight." "So even after you helped Keller Landreaux cover up the crawl space hole with a furnace and erase all the digital files from the security cameras" "I don't know fishy?" "I didn't." "But you'd heard the girl went missing." "I did." "And you're willing to sign a confession admitting everything you've told us?" "Yeah." "Which you understand will be admitting to your role in the conspiracy to cover up the murder of Eleanor Reigns." "What say we get this man a pen." "Pic." "Pete?" "That was the easiest interrogation ever." "Pic." "good cop though." "Must be some catch." "Always a catch." "Eleanor."