"Nicki, you're supposed to be resting." "I can't." "And those pills Barb gave me, they don't do a thing." " Have you taken them?" " No." "Go take one." "Go back to bed." "I'll be there in a bit." "Have you talked to Ben?" "Did he promise to keep his mouth shut about Cara Lynn?" "We both agreed to wait a few more days until you are feeling calm enough to tell Bill and Barb yourself." "I don't see why they have to know anything." "I mean, this little episode is over." "I prefer if we just all moved on with our lives." "Don't you think Bill deserves to know what's going on with his daughter?" "Why?" "So he has something else to worry about?" "I'm telling you, Marge, it's over, so drop it." "Nicki, I'm done with secrets in this family." "I really am." "So whatever your problem is with your family knowing what's going on in your family," "I hope you can learn to deal with it." " What are you doing?" " I'm just packing up." "I quit Goji." "You quit?" "I can't talk about it." "I'm sorry." "I know how much you loved selling that juice." "Did you search his father's house, too?" "They have rooms within rooms." "Every one of Grant's properties, sir, attic to cellar, okay?" "And the more doors they kick in, the more it looks like he fled." "What did his mother Adaleen say?" "Said he was a coward." "Said he left without saying goodbye." "Did anyone actually see him?" "We did have a couple of witnesses that spotted his Mercedes right off this access road approximately two hours ago." "Now it could have been a decoy, but it could have been the real deal." "He's evading an arrest warrant." "I can bring in the FBI." "Sir, they have Grant's description." "They have his car make." "They have his license plate number." "I'll reach out to my polygamist contacts through Safety Net." "If any of them harbor him, the state hammer falls on them, too." "Roman Grant spent years dancing out of the law's reach." "That is not happening with Alby." "What happened?" "Did they get him?" "I want everybody to sit down." "I have some tough news." " They're gonna arrest you." " Not yet." "Alby was gone when the police got there." "He's on the run." "No one's letting this stand, Nicki." "It's just a matter of time." "He is not in his right mind." "He's a mortal danger to us." "They're casting a wide net." "We're gonna track him down." "He tried to kill me, and now he could be anywhere?" "Marge, would you please give that horrible baby back to Rhonda?" "How?" "She isn't taking care of it." "She's in shock." "Her husband's dead." "I know." "I was there, standing in a grave myself." "I barely escaped." "We need to go on lockdown while he's loose." "And no more half-measures." "I don't want the kids leaving the houses, not even for school." "And I don't want you three going out either unless it's absolutely necessary." "And then you travel in pairs, and take your guns." "Should we all move into one house?" "Might be a better idea if we do that, if we're all together." "No, there's police now in front of the houses, real police." "The same cops that let Alby go, who are investigating you and Margene, are now protecting us?" " I feel so much safer." " This is crazy." "There's a madman gunning for us, and any second the police could show up with a warrant for your arrest." "Listen to me." "Whatever it takes, I won't leave you vulnerable." "I'm using every resource I have to cut Alby off at the knees before anything happens to me." "And I swear that to each of you." " Hello." " Hi." "It's me." "Oh, my gosh." "Why haven't you called me?" "I've been so worried about you." "I couldn't." "It's crazy over here." "Nicki took my cell, and I finally got my hands on Margene's." " But you're okay?" " As okay as I can be." "How is your mom?" "She's awful." "She watches me like a hawk." "Honey, try to ease off a bit." "She's been through a big trauma." "I want to come over there and talk to everyone." "It's the only honorable thing to do." "We can't keep doing this." "We need to tell them that we want to get married." "No." "Absolutely not." "It won't help." "Trust me." "Mom's not going to say a thing about us." "She's too embarrassed and too ashamed." "And she's got Margene completely under her thumb, so she won't say anything either." "Just give me some time." "I can get her to come around." "Fifth period's starting." "I gotta go." "I love you too, Greg." "Nothing will ever change that." "Blake, please." "Give me the Senate Caucus Room for Thursday." "So close to the end of session?" "Forget it." "The calendar's packed." "Make room." "I'm draining the swamp that is Juniper Creek." "I want to hold public hearings for the decertification of their state municipal status, and I want to kill any distribution of state funds to Albert Grant." "What is it about you that always makes you wander into snake pits?" "Alby's a wanted criminal now, Blake." "I am never gonna have a better shot to call witnesses to testify and publicly expose him for the pariah he is." "With the glare of the public spotlight that's about to come down on you worse than ever?" "He tried to kill my wife." "I understand." "I do." "But think carefully about this, Bill." "It may not be the time to fulfill a personal vendetta." "Cutting this cancer out of Juniper Creek benefits the state, but yes, it's personal," "for my family's sake, for their long-term protection." "And my daughter's very gifted." "She'd be accepted anywhere I wanted to send her." "But there have been behavioral problems." "She's been precocious with a boy, an older boy." "We restore our students' relationship with Heavenly Father in a way no public school can." "We're not officially connected to the Mormon Church, but many of its more prominent members are on our board." "So she wouldn't be allowed to see or talk to anyone else" " who might try to influence her?" " No." "In fact, we have an initial four-week no-visitation policy where she wouldn't even be allowed to see you." "I completely understand." "She'll call you during that period, desperate to come home." "You can expect pleading, begging." "She'll try to make deals with you, promising anything." "It's important you not listen." "No, we certainly won't." "They often exaggerate the physical aspects of our curriculum." "They'd have you believe that they're doing manual labor on a chain gang." "I grew up with manual labor." "It shapes character." "And too many of today's children are spoiled rotten." "So how soon?" "We could take her tomorrow." "Mrs. Henrickson, the sooner you break dependencies the better." "Someone dinged my car door with a shopping can't at the grocery, so I'm going to take it in." "Margie, you should have had an oil change 2,000 miles ago." "And, Nicki, I don't like how the treads on your tires look." "My treads are fine, Barb." "And car maintenance falls under Bill's jurisdiction." "Bill always changes our oil." "He puts those stickers with the mileage on our windshields." "That's true." "But, honey, Bill's facing very real charges." " Lf he goes away..." " Bill's not going away." "He's not even gonna be indicted." "So we need to focus on the kids right now." "I'm teaching them a song." "And I'm having them help me make care packages for families in Honduras." "Are you out of your gourd?" "There was a flood, Nicki." "Thousands of homes were destroyed." "Someone needs to do something to help." "Our situation ought not be taken as an opportunity to service our personal agendas, Barbara." "You just can't wait for Bill to be out the door so you can become our priesthood holder." "I can rotate my own tires, thank you very much." "Nicki, Bill could be going to jail for 20 years, and we need to start thinking seriously about what will happen to us if he does." "Bill changes my oil." "Margie, please." "This isn't helping." "If Home Plus dries up and we're completely without income, we'll only have enough to make it five or six months." "What happens then?" "I don't know." "We may have to sell one or two of the houses, that's what." "That's okay, Barb." "That's okay." "We can all live together like we used to." "I liked that more." "I did, kind of." "Margie, toughen up." "We have a long road ahead of us." "You see, this is exactly what we should be talking about, not hiding our heads in the sand." "But I still think, Barb, it's pretty lousy to be thinking about taking over the priesthood authority given the circumstances." "That is a separate issue that I've got covered." "I'm going to another church that's fulfilling my spiritual needs." "This is about us." "What are you doing home?" "I just got a call from Nicki." "How long have you been going to another church?" "This is why you rushed here?" "Five weeks, six." "I'm not sure." "What is the name of this church, if I might ask?" "The Reformed Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints." "They follow essentially the same teachings and doctrines as the LDS Church does, the same ones we do." "I know what they teach, Barb." "To be clear, so there is no confusion about why I'm pursuing this, they're a church that allows women to hold the priesthood." "The Reformed Church also repudiates plural marriage, do they not, like the LDS Church?" "No, it's an ongoing discussion." "Meaning I'm right." "How are you squaring that with our beliefs?" "And how are they?" "Nicki." "What else could I do, Barb?" "I'm exploring this as Barbara Dutton." "You think that makes a difference?" "You think people don't know you're my wife?" "I am trying to wade through this as carefully, as discreetly as possible, believe me." "Would you prefer I tell them we're divorced, which we are?" "You are not blaming this on my marriage to Bill." "I'm not blaming it on anyone, Nicki." "And thank you for inflaming this when it just doesn't need to be." "Nicki's done nothing wrong." "She, like all of us, is concerned you are willfully separating from our faith and our family." "I had a near-death experience, Barb." "When you get as close to the veil as I did, you know which secrets to keep and which to share." "Would you excuse us, Nicki?" "I was hoping we could talk about Cara Lynn." "We've been looking at schools and she found one she really liked." "We'll discuss it later." "Also, the Safety Net shelters..." "Alby or no Alby, they're depending on me." "Later, Nicki." "I need to know." " Are you a member of this church?" " No, not yet." "Do you plan to become one?" "I don't know." "I'm thinking about joining, yes." "Why?" "And why now?" "Hello?" "What is it?" "I'm sorry, Senator." "One of your neighbors called about a suspicious car on the street." "She sounded like an anxious type, but we wanted to double-check." "Turns out it was nobody." "Thank you." "She's in his house?" "Yeah, she's right here." "I'm looking at her." "What's she doing?" "Typing." "Evie, you're the only person I can trust up there." "Is she plotting with Alby?" "I don't know." "I think she's in a state of shock." "I don't believe it." "It's an act, a cover." "She has thrown in with him." "She's gone over to the dark side." "Why don't you talk to her?" "I could put her on." "No, I can't." "I don't trust her." "She had to have known what his plans were for me." "And believe me, Alby's not finished yet." "It's nothing but bloodlust with him now." "What's she doing now?" "Still typing." " Evie, you have to help me." " Nicki, please calm down." "Please, just keep watching her." "If she hears from him, then call me." "You're my very last hope." "Hey." "Thanks for coming." "All these policemen on our street, everyone's saying our block is under siege." "I couldn't sleep last night." "I was afraid your brother-in-law was gonna show up at my house accidentally." "Pam," "I needed to tell you something." "I quit Goji." "Margie, why?" "My family needed me more than ever." "So you just quit and left me holding the bag?" "No." "Here, take this." "It's money." "It's the start of me paying you back for your Goji investment." "I learned so much through this experience, Pam, but I don't want those lessons to have cost you a thing." "I know it's hard." "We invested our hearts in it." "We believed in it." "But also, we learned that the world is wide and complex and fascinating, and it's all just there right beyond our fingertips, waiting for us to go out into it and do something, something positive." "Carl and I are separating." "What?" "We don't even have enough money to tithe." "Carl is so proud, he's refusing to go to services, so now the church is threatening to take away our temple recommend." "After his last won'thiness meeting he came home and cried like a baby." "He totaled our car." "And then he borrowed his brother's car, and then he totaled it." "And I'm not sure that either accident was an accident." "We're failures." "No, Pam." "No, that's not true." "That's not true at all." "Like the walls of Jericho tumbling down, like any walls that separate people, today begins a new chapter in the history of Juniper Creek." "Too long the UEB has been a puppet organization controlled first by Roman Grant and then his son Alby." "Nicki, it's on." "The UEB was founded to safeguard the interests of the faithful." "But it became debased and corrupted and therefore must be razed so that we can rebuild." "What the heck are you doing?" "Integrating these grounds with the outside world, tearing down the boundaries that have promoted ignorance and abuse." "Roman Grant built that." "The age of false prophets is over." "Albert Grant has fled." "He won't bring fear and pain to anyone anymore." "And I swear to our creator, he will soon be brought to justice." "You believe that Verlan loved me, don't you?" "The only reason we had sex was because I missed Verlan." "I was hurt and angry." "I know, Rhonda." "Now he's gone." "I don't know how I'm getting back to Las Vegas." "Anything I can do to help, Rhonda, you know I'm there for you." "Thanks, Ben." "I think you should marry me." "You'd make a great father." "And I can't do it all alone." "You don't want to see me dancing in those places anymore." "You just said the only reason you slept with me was because you were mad at Verlan." "But you had genuine feelings for me, didn't you?" "I guess I did, but..." "Then marry me." "I can learn to love you." "Rhonda, I can't." "Why not?" "I don't have a testimony." "This has to do with Heather, doesn't it?" "Maybe." "A little." "Then I'll just tell her what happened." "I'm sure she'll understand." "She's that kind of a person." "Don't you think?" "Rhonda, I can't." "I just want you all involved in case something does happen to me." "You're my insurance policy to keep the stores running smoothly." "A lot of things might be changing, but I think we can still all agree on this." "We built these stores together." "They've literally given us our homes and the clothes on our backs." "What do you need us to do?" "Basics, Nicki." "Be my eyes and my ears, touching base with the floor managers each morning, staying on top of problems if they become problems." "They need to get me, you get me." "So you're still running things even from prison?" "Where I am doesn't change who I am." "It's just not that simple, Bill." "Things are going to change." "Everything's gonna change." "Not between the four of us." "Bill, please." "There are..." "For starters, there are women in this room who have needs they may not be comfortable expressing, needs you won't be able to fulfill" "for 20 or 30 years." "Some things we can discuss in private." "Plenty of women in my family have had to contend with husbands in jail." "It's a burden we're used to carrying." "It's easy for you to say, Nicki." "You're the legal wife now, so you can get conjugal visits." " But..." " But not just physical needs, spiritual needs, emotional needs, our day-to-day lives." "How can they be fulfilled when we're not even gonna see you?" "Newsflash, everyone." "Marriage is about change." "There are sacrifices we all have to make." "This is one of them." "Nicki's right." "I mean, we survive through..." "Through sacrifice and endurance." "Look how pretty you are." "Oh, my." "Look, just like a little doll." "Our son has purged Juniper Creek of the last, hated Grant heir." "Billy did that?" "Yes, ma'am." "Tore down all the fences." "Nobody's there minding the store." "There's a way you and me can be together." " Any new word on where he is?" " No." "He's gone to ground out there somewhere." "Cara Lynn, come on." "Everybody's learning a song." "I want you boys to have breakfast here tomorrow morning." " Why?" " No questions." "Just mind your mother." "Nicki, come on." "Let's have some fun for a change." "We're playing Scrabble, Margene." "I don't want to fight, Barb, especially given how little time we might have, but is having the priesthood more important to you than following the Principle?" "I believe I can answer both callings." "The Reformed Church is evolving." "Why don't you come with me and see for yourself?" "There's a committee looking at the church's laws, and I wouldn't be the only polygamist member on it, like blacks who joined the Mormon Church before 1978, working to change that policy from within." "Point-blank, Barb, do you continue to have a testimony for the Principle or not?" "Absolutely." "Of course I do." "Then how can you join a church that doesn't?" "Because I have no other options and because I can change it." "When people join churches, they change, not the churches." "I can be a teacher there, Bill, a priest." "I don't have to choose." "You will." "That's just the way it is." "Are you crazy?" "Get back in that house." "I'm perfectly safe hidden among my faithful." "This is deadly serious this time." "There are roadblocks out on the highway." "They are looking in trunks of cars." "The world thinks you're on your way to Mexico, which you should be." "And so it will be very soon." "I've arranged it all." "Selma." "Adaleen." "I hope you got my letter of condolence." "I did." "Thank you for your sympathy." "Selma has offered us refuge until we can resolve our problems here." "Ciudad Greene welcomes you gladly." "That's very generous, I'm sure." "We'll see you in Mexico in a few days." "Good luck." "Travel safely." "Don't trust her for a second, that was your father's advice." "We need a place to go." "After we take care of one unfinished item of business." "And what is that?" "Bill Henrickson." "Albert, don't." "This obsession is how we got in this mess in the first place." "You are not going to kill Bill Henrickson." "No." "No, I'm not." "You are." "Me?" "You can get close without drawing suspicion." "No, I'm not doing it." "I will not do it." "You have to." "You have to." "You have to." "He's destroying the Principle." "He's a pied piper, tearing down fences and walls, leading our flock off a cliff." "Think what this will do to the family." "He's singling me out and denouncing me to the world." "No one has sacrificed more than me." "I've struggled to remain true." "I'm not a monster on the run, hiding in safe houses." "My Heavenly Father did not intend this for me." "Are you with me or not?" "We're gonna need new cars." "They'll be on the lookout for yours, and my new van is worse than my last one and half the size." "Our truck here at the house is unreliable, but we've got two good cars at the store, whatever gas and provisions you'd need." "Tomorrow, after the reporters and police summoned by my dear Bill have thinned out and gone." "We should go away, Bill." "All of us." "Honey, don't be scared." "I'm not." "I'm being practical." "If the whole family went on a mission to Honduras, say, or Zimbabwe, we'd all be together and they couldn't get you." "Margie, we're not running away." "No, it's..." "Think of all the good work you could do." "You could start a new church, convert new members." "Whole families go on missions all the time." "It brings them together." "I've researched a bunch of places." "Honey, what's this about?" "I love you so much." "I can't bear the idea of not being with you for 20 years." " Margene." " I love our intimacy, and it's not just the sex." "That's only a part of it." "It's our connection that needs to stay strong, no matter where you go or where I go." "And so I was thinking..." "Would I be allowed to visit you in prison if I was carrying your baby?" "I don't know if that would make a difference." "But maybe?" "Sure, maybe." "But, hon, you said you didn't want to have another baby." "I know." "That was before, when I felt a bit trapped." "And I don't anymore." "And I want to." "So can we at least try," "please?" "Margie, Margie." " Let me get you some more juice." " I'm fine, thanks." "How about a fresh waffle?" "I have another one in the oven." "Yeah." "She's just in there." " You must be Cara Lynn." " Yeah." "Cara Lynn, I'm Monica Swanson from the Fernridge Academy." "Okay." "Why are you here?" " It's for a school." " I am in a school." " Where are her bags?" " In the hall closet." "Why do I need bags?" "It's a boarding school." "What are you doing to me?" "Nothing." "Darling, I visited it." "They'll take good care of you there." " Cara Lynn." " Don't you come near me!" "Faye, Ruth." " Help!" "Help!" " Stay put." "Help me!" "Help, help, help!" "She's sending me away." " What, honey?" " What?" "It's for her own good." "I am trying to save your soul." "Please, please, don't let her send me away." "You're gonna send her away?" "That your solution, exiling your daughter?" "I don't want to hear another word from you, Margene." "You don't know her the way that I do." "I wish you had never come back into my life." "I wish you'd just left me alone." "Cara Lynn, settle down." "Nicki, what's going on?" "You have to tell them, Nicki." "You have to tell them now." "Her tutor seduced her." "That is so not true." "If Greg seduced me, then Bill seduced Marge." "Is this true?" "Cara Lynn was having a secret relationship with her math teacher." "As soon as I found out, I ended it." "Please do not let her send me away." "All right, you're not going anywhere no matter what happened." "Nicki, you thought we wouldn't notice she was gone?" " When were you planning on telling us?" " I tried." " Of course I wanted to tell..." " Nicki, how could you?" "Because she's ashamed of where she comes from, ashamed of who she is." "I am not." "How could you say such a thing?" "She's afraid that you will all leave her once you see her for what she really is, a terrible mother and a terrible wife." "Nicki, why didn't you come to us?" "Because I didn't think this household could handle another statutory rape." "Bill." "Are you comparing me to a predator, to what happened between her and her teacher on any level?" "No, I didn't mean..." "Once and for all let's be done with this." "If I had known Margene's true age, it wouldn't have happened, period." "If anyone here thinks otherwise, they can come at me along with the DA." "I'm not running from this." "And I'm not apologizing for this." "And if I have to rot in jail for the rest of my life because I won't disavow one of the most cherished relationships in my life, then so be it!" "And I will be damned if I'm turning a blind eye on this, Nicki, not when one of my children is involved." "If I knew you wanted to sit outside to drink it," "I would have brought hot chocolates, not milkshakes." "Heather, you are so the best thing that has ever happened to me." "Thanks, Ben." "More and more I feel like we're meant to be together." "Totally." "But I have to tell you something, and I don't want you to freak out." "Don't worry." "I'm moving my stuff back to Crystal's." "Congratulations, lesbo." "You won." "What are you talking about?" "Rhonda." "Ben and I had relations." "But don't worry." "He doesn't want to marry me." "Once." "Really?" "Wow." "That's it?" "Heather, wait." "I want to be with you." "He does." "And if he and you ever do it, he'll be comparing you to me for the rest of your life." "Please, I know." "I know I sinned." "I know I lapsed." "God, Heather, all I do is think about you." "I think about the life I want to have with you, the family I want to have with you, how lucky I am to have you in my life." "How could you have done this to me, with her?" "You said we were over." "And I promised I would take care of her." "I can take care of both of you." "I can be with both of you." "Both of us?" "Lois's residence called." "Frank signed her out and didn't bring her home last night." "An aide heard them discussing Juniper Creek." "Damn him." "Why can't he leave her alone?" "I've tried their cells." "Neither one answers." "Bill, where are you going?" "The compound's evolved into a free-for-all zone, and Mom's too far gone to know what's happening." "Okay then." "I'll drive." "When I was a little girl, my mother used to wash me in a galvanized tin tub" "right here." "We had no indoor plumbing till I was fourteen." "We used to bring it up from the crick." "There's a pair of pipe cutters in there." "Can you grab 'em?" "We didn't even have a privy in my folks' first house." "We had to go in the woods." "Thank you." "Then Papa finally put in the waterworks." "Oh, God." "You remember that?" "How we all brought shovels and were digging and laying pipe for the entire year?" "Didn't even have a backhoe." "We were building our new Zion." "We got two, three thou in copper here alone." "It's getting near dark." "We'd better move on to the old meeting house." "Come on, peaches." "It's getting worse for me, Frank." " Lois." " No, listen to me." "I've had three bad days in a row now." "Come on." "Come on." "I made up the flyers to put up around the compound." "We've looked everywhere." "Someone will call us, if not tonight, tomorrow." "Bill, what are you doing?" "Attaching a tow bar to Mom's car, so we can tow it down to the city." "Honey, she's not gonna be driving." "We'll put it in storage for Wayne someday." "I'm not just gonna let it sit here and rust." "All right, Bill." "We can get it later." "I know we can get it later." "What's wrong?" "I don't trust you, Barb." "I had believed through all our troubles that if something were to happen to me," "I'd be able to commend the spiritual guardianship of my family to the person I trusted most in the world, you." "You doubt my love for this family?" "Not your love." "Your commitment." "This path you're on, with a church that disavows the Principle, where will it take you?" "Where will you be in a month, in a year?" "Still with us?" "I will be, no matter where I am, but will you?" "I am fighting for us as much as you are." "But if I'm so important to you, why did you seal yourself to Nicki and Margene without me?" "I sealed us for the benefit of the family." "What was I supposed to do, drag you by the hair?" "I don't know." "But we haven't talked about it much, have we?" "It's like you've already written me off." "That's not true." "If we're not together, Bill, it won't be by my hand." "You're pushing us until we break." "You are." "Boxing us into a corner, holding on to doctrine, refusing to bend to the point where I can't say with certainty that I believe we'll hold together." "I want to, desperately, but I can't." "That's the difference between us, Barb." "I won't accept anything but our family holding together, now and in eternity." "It's finished with your Mr. Ivey." "Bill and I called him, then your school." "It doesn't matter." " We will be together soon." " You think so?" "When we confronted him, he was relieved." "He was happy to be rid of you." "And why not?" "He got what he wanted from you." "If he lies and says otherwise, it's only because he wants to get it again." "No." "Greg loves me." "You're acting like you were his only one." "You were easy pickings for him, Cara Lynn." "Once a victim, always a victim." "And stop talking about love." "People like you don't deserve love." "They don't deserve to get it and they're incapable of giving it." "Why are you saying these things?" "Because I know what you really are, a little manipulator and a liar." "For all we know, you're probably on birth control pills." "Stop crying." "You have them fooled, but not me." "I owe for gas." "Where is anyone?" "You want to get something for the road?" "I'm not hungry." "Alby." "Adaleen." "Run, Albert, run!" "Don't let her escape." "It's over, Alby." "Give it up." "Canada, Mexico, wherever you hide, we'll find you." "Until my dying breath." "The second you trained a gun on Nicki, you signed..." "Barb!" " Are you all right?" " Yeah, I'm fine." " Did you get him?" " You're bleeding." "Bill." "Bill, why didn't you get him?" "I thought..." "Bill." "I'll call the police." " Here." "Easy." " All right." "I'm fine." "She bit me, but I got her gun." "Get me out of here, Nicolette." "This is extremely embarrassing." "This is your last chance." "Either you help us, or they're gonna put you away forever." "Where is he?" "All my life I have sacrificed for you." "You don't know." "When you wanted to marry Bill against your father's deepest wishes," "I withheld my favors until he relented." "Now please get me out of here." "How could you have sided with him?" "It wasn't easy." "Mama, I am begging you." "No one else has to die." "No one's gonna die." "Albert's a coward." "He's never been able to stomach doing any of the real dirty work on his own." "You know that's true." "He held a gun to my head." "He's on his way to Mexico." "This could mean Bill's life." "He's headed to your Aunt Selma's." "You don't believe me, have whoever's taping this thing check my cell phone." "They'll find the calls." "There's a chance Alby's on the road to Mexico, but I'm not assuming anything." "Your mother saw one of the flyers and called." " Is she all right?" " She's fine." "Frank's fine." " She's back at the home." " Good." "Bill, the kids have just learned a new song they're really proud of." "Ready?" "Cara Lynn!" "What are you doing?" "I'm won'thless, a won'thless, awful liar, a manipulator, Mama." "No one has ever loved me and no one ever will." "No, no, you don't understand." "Please stop." "I mean nothing to anyone." "Bill, get out here." "I am sorry that I am awful." "I'm sorry that I'm messed up." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "Nicki." "Please, Nicki." "Go away!" " Please just go away!" " Nicki." "Nicki." "Everything I wanted for her, everything I tried to do for her," " I failed her." " No, you didn't." "No, you didn't." "You risked everything for your daughter." "You didn't cause this." "I did." "She's right." "I am horrible." "I'm worse than them." "I'm worse than any of them." "They didn't put the shame into her." "JJ didn't." "Alby didn't." "My father didn't." "I did." "Why would Heavenly Father have allowed that?" "He's forsaken us." "No." "No, he hasn't." " He's taken his love from us." " Listen to me." "No." "Nicki, do you believe I love you?" "Because my love is Heavenly Father's love." "Do you believe Barb loves you?" "Her love is Heavenly Father's love." "Look at me." "Margie's love is Heavenly Father's love." "Do not let what that man did to Cara Lynn, what JJ did to you, what your father and brother have done, do not let any of that shake your faith, Nicki." "We're almost free." "We're almost free." "How can you say that when you're going to jail?" "Our faith is our strength." "Our faith is what saves us." "It saves us, Nicki." "We have all been singled out by Heavenly Father to live in His embrace." "If I lose you, if I lose any of you," "I lose everything." "Evening, Salty." " Working late tonight, Senator?" " Catching up." " How've you been?" " Good, thanks." "Quiet as a church." "What are you doing here?" "Guys?" " You left without dinner." " So we settled the kids and picked up subs from Mario's." "Just like the old days." " Yeah." " Sit." "Make yourselves comfortable." "I've got Stuart helping me prepare for the hearing on Friday." "You're going ahead with it?" "Even if Alby is long gone, there must be a reckoning, a final accounting to make sure it never ever happens again." "I have to go to the ladies' room." "Bill, Margene." "I'll get her and come right back." "Call the police and stay put." "Were those shots?" "Get back in your office, Dan." "Now." "Drop it!" "You first." "Margie!" " Margie!" " I'm okay!" "Please do it." "It's over."