I don't know what you're doing with that phone, rog.
You're wasting your time. Yeah, well,
sometimes a signal sneaks through.
Not this deep.
Doesn't make sense,
what they were doing this far back. Yeah.
I don't know.
Been gone for over 30 hours, we're still on their tracks.
They ditch their snowboards.
Not exactly prime back country snowboarding territory.
You remember that, that retired smoke jumper
that we helped rescue outside of klamath a few years back?
Yeah.
I remember.
Said he was searching for d.B. Cooper's bones.
Who does that? Yeah, point is,
we don't know what the hell they were doing out here.
We don't know why.
Thought it was gonna be an easy one.
You know. So much for having some beers and ice fishing.
Maybe next time. Look at this, though.
These tracks are split up.
I don't like the gait here, it's pretty random.
Both of 'em could be in bad shape.
Got a jacket.
Looks like the one that Shelly was wearing.
You thinking what I'm thinking?
Hypothermia?
All right, we got about an hour till the sun sets.
We got one set of tracks going this way,
the other one up this spine here.
You think something spooked 'em?
I think that's the best-case scenario.
What's this?
It's damaged. Someone took a big hit.
Not good.
No. All right, man.
You go that way.
I'll go this way. Radio me if you hear anything.
Shelly.
Shelly. Shelly!
You're okay now. I got you.
Who are you?
I'm colter Shaw.
Your parents called search and rescue.
You have to put this on, okay? No, I'm warm.
No, you're not warm. You have hypothermia.
Come on, put this on.
Here you go.
Very good.
Saw your helmet back there.
How'd you hit your head?
I, I slipped and fell.
I-I hit it on a rock, I think.
Yeah? Looking for a trail.
Well, you're pretty far off the trail.
Where's your sister Brianna, do you know?
She went to go get help.
I just really want to sleep. No, no, no, whoa, whoa, whoa,
hey, hey, hey, you can't go to sleep yet, okay? Listen, hey,
look at me. Look at me. You got to stay with me, okay?
Come on. Come on.
Hey, look at me. Right now your brain's
telling you that you're warm, but you're not.
That's a defense mechanism. You understand?
You're gonna stay with me.
Where is my sister?
That's a good question.
McClaren, you copy?
Colter, can you hear me?
I got you.
I found Shelly. She's in pretty bad shape.
I'm not gonna be able to move her.
I just found Brianna. She's shook up,
but okay, a little hypothermic.
You call for that rescue chopper?
Yeah, about that, look...
The sat phone got smashed in the rescue.
We'll have to deal with that later.
Right now we just have to stabilize the girls.
I'm gonna see about building a fire,
maybe some shelter.
Listen, most important thing is we stabilize these girls.
Copy that. We'll come to you.
Okay, hang in.
Okay. I'm here.
You're okay. You're gonna be all right.
We're gonna get you warm. Come on.
Okay.
This'll help. Let's keep you warm.
Okay. You're gonna be all right.
You're okay. Stay with me.
Colter. Coming in.
Shell. Shell!
Your sister's here.
She's in shock. Okay.
Took a pretty hard blow to the head.
It's okay. It's okay.
Why'd you two split up?
I thought I saw someone, so I went to get help.
I told her to stay put.
I didn't see any other tracks.
Can you describe this person you saw?
It was a man, I think.
But he was dressed weird.
And-and he had antlers.
Think she was just hallucinating.
All right, listen, I need you to hike back out there.
Back where the snow machines are, we have cell service.
Make a call. I'll stabilize the girls here.
Shelly's in no condition to move.
I better get a move on. Yeah, hey, be careful,
all right? Don't take any chances.
My sister's not doing so good.
You got to stay positive. All right?
I'm gonna get more firewood. I'll be right back.
Just keep talking to her, keep her engaged.
Hey.
Rufus, dash?
We got a visitor.
Halt! Who goes there?
Knock it off, dash.
Hey, there. Hey.
Thought we were the only ones this far out.
What can we help you with?
Well, I got two girls.
One's pretty badly injured, she's in shock.
Wow. Okay.
You got a sat phone or a radio I could use to call for help?
Come here to get off the grid.
Digital detox kind of thing.
Well, listen, it's pretty cold out there.
They're gonna need some shelter for the evening.
We got you there. Just show us where they're at.
I'm not gonna be able to move one of them.
She's pretty badly injured. I noticed you had
the, snowmobile.
Yeah. Yeah.
Hey, get the keys, dummy, and the sled.
I'm Rufus.
That's dash. Colter Shaw.
All right, well, I appreciate the help. Thank you, Rufus.
Yeah. We'll be a sec.
Are they gonna be okay?
Yeah. We got 'em just in time. Thank god.
We got a bed and there's extra blankets over there.
Something warm to drink? I have hot chocolate and there's
some stew. Thanks, perfect.
There's still someone out there. What?
Search and rescue guide. Was supposed to be getting help.
It's all right.
We're gonna be okay. It's okay.
Food's getting cold.
My girl here makes the best elk stew in the county.
In the state.
Go on, eat up.
I'll go watch the girls for you if you want.
Yeah? Yeah.
Appreciate it, thank you. Yeah.
That's delicious.
I didn't get your name. I'm colter.
Amelia. Amelia.
- Come out here often? - Yeah.
As often as we can.
Yeah, the place has been in the family for years.
My grandfather built it.
It's hard to find, but...
That just makes it special. Yeah.
Yeah, I get that.
McLaren, you copy?
Sorry.
McLaren, you copy?
I'm worried about him.
I should go look for him.
Temperature's dropping.
You'd be putting yourself at risk.
I'll be all right. I've been in worse conditions.
You don't mind watching the girls?
No. Yeah? Yeah.
Thanks.
Hey, I noticed a, old snowmobile out back.
You mind if I use that? That's been broken
for a year, we've been stripping it for parts.
I'm sorry. I'd give you
the gtx, but it's kind of our lifeline out here.
No, I get that. Yeah.
You need it in case the girls get worse.
All right, listen, if I'm not back by morning, you mind using
that thing to go to a ranger station, call for a chopper?
Yeah, course.
Thank you.
Roger.
Colter, over here!
Hey. McLaren.
Watch out! Look out!
There's a trip wire. Didn't see it.
Cut my leg real bad.
Hey.
Tell me what happened.
Tried to stop the bleeding.
How's it look?
I've seen worse.
You did a good job with the tourniquet. Listen,
I'm gonna need to bind this before I move you
to stop the bleeding, all right?
I still can't move on my own, though.
There's a cabin
not too far from here, there's people there helping
with the girls, we'll get you there.
We'll figure it out, okay?
Who the hell's shooting at us?
Stay down.
Stay there.
What are you thinking?
I'll be right back. Stay awake, all right?
Stay down.
Wait, seriously? It's an
extra fee to go through his trash? Okay. I cannot believe
I'm saying this. Yeah, do it.
Bye.
Law offices of Greene and associates.
My, my, my.
I did not know I was calling the fancy phone.
I thought this was velma's direct line.
What's going on, reenie-reene?
Hey, Randy.
No, velma is out for the morning.
She has an appointment.
But I heard that Bobby was back.
Yeah, he is.
It's reenie. Hey, there.
Hey, Bobby. It's so good to hear your voice.
Ooh. How are you?
Taking it one day at a time.
I had to come back and fix this mess.
Okay. This man
got chip dust all over my keyboard.
Gummi worms all over the place. What? What...
No. Randy has done enough damage to my vibe.
Your vibe? That's what you call this place, a vibe?
You're the one that got...
And you just disrespected my gummi worms like that.
Not cool, dude.
You know I hooked this place up.
You would've gave me two more months,
I would've had you operating at pro-level.
Hey. Hey. Could you not touch that?
Please, could you-could you not disconnect...
Don't disconnect that.
Bobb...
See that, right there.
Just mean.
Sorry, reenie.
My bad. You talk to colter today?
No. No. He's out helping a search and rescue buddy
look for some lost snowboarders.
He had me tracking some phones, but no luck.
Telling you, he's off the grid. It's his favorite thing to do.
Yeah, I know, but where he's off the grid
is not a place he needs to be.
Go on, tell her.
Tell me what?
Place colter is, some folks are calling it
the dead zone wilderness.
- Okay, what's that? - I was on
the snowboarders' socials.
They were active on
an Internet sleuth board about the dead zone.
Deadzone? You know, it sounds like an urban legend.
Yeah, well, a lot of weird stuff was found out there
by a bunch of hikers in the area.
And a lot of people have gone missing over the years.
Just last year this nature photographer just...
Goes in there, goes missing,
and we still can't find her body.
All the cases were chalked up
to "death by misadventure" by the authorities.
Yes, but I think that these snowboarders
the-the ones that are lost... I think they were going in there
just to figure out what happened to this photographer.
I mean, they had this go fund me,
they were gonna do a documentary.
E-Everything was set up. Now they're gone?
I don't know, man.
But these girls
they were looking for trouble in the dead zone.
I think colter might get caught up in it.
Okay, have you thought that maybe
you're overreacting just a little bit?
What do you mean, overreacting?
I just haven't heard from the dude.
Okay. Well, look,
I have got to get to the records office,
but when he checks in, I'll let you know.
Okay, bye.
Bro, what did you do to my setup?
Man, I hooked your setup up, okay?
I gave you a upgrade.
And a customization.
From your cousin. That's a cousin customization.
That's a "cousimization."
Easy. I got you.
Come on.
Let's get that leg up.
You all right? Yeah.
Where is everyone?
Shelly and Brianna are gone, too.
Their working snowmobile with the sled is gone.
I told dash if I wasn't back early morning to go get help.
Maybe, maybe he left already,
took everyone with him?
Stove's been off for a while.
You think whoever was shooting at us out there
he got to them?
I hope not.
Let me get this thing lit for you.
Yeah, just matches, somewhere.
Find something?
Maybe.
All right, just hang tight here. I'm gonna check out back.
So, the people you met here... what were their names?
Rufus and dash, his girlfriend Amelia.
So this cabin... it doesn't belong to them?
No. I think they killed the owners
and took it over. You said they helped you.
I mean, they-they brought the snowboarders back here,
they-they took care of you. It do-does...
Doesn't make sense.
The owners have been dead for at least a couple of days.
They lied about not having a sat phone.
It could have been anything.
It could have been a, a robbery gone wrong.
Why would they help you?
To cover it up. I just showed up here.
Right? They-they don't know who I'm with.
They don't know if I got help.
You think one of them was out there shooting at us?
I don't think so.
Would have been hard for them
to get to your location before I did.
I think they're working with someone.
I got to get to them and find the girls.
Oof.
- The woman is at work. - Okay?
Hey. Hey a courier just dropped this off for you.
Yes. Thank you.
Is that the thing that sharf wanted you to look into?
What is it?
You don't want to know.
Reenie, what?
Trust me. It's better this way.
I was just about to call you.
Hey. I think I found what you might be looking for
on Sheldon grimes.
Good.
You want me to fed ex it over?
No, no, I'd rather get it in person.
Let's have dinner.
I can be in Denver at 6:30.
I may need to move a few things around.
Then move them. We got a lot to talk about.
I will see you then.
I take it reenie delivered.
Yeah, so far. Good.
I had a good feeling about her.
Your friend Elliott came through with that recommendation.
Why don't you send him a nice bottle of wine.
Come on, francie.
If you want to know something, you've got to ask.
Open book, remember?
You are so not an open book.
So, does she know?
Not yet.
But she will.
I'll make sure your plane is fueled and ready.
You fixed that old snowmobile, didn't you?
Of course I did.
All right, you should have enough firewood here,
last until morning if I'm not back by then.
Water.
Mres in here, some pain meds
in case you need more.
I got to go look for those girls now
or we may never see 'em again.
Be safe out there.
Yeah.
Colter.
These freaks know this country.
You could be walking into a trap.
They could be expecting you.
I already thought of that.
I just hope I'm not too late.
Shh, shh, shh. Hey, I'm not gonna hurt you.
Don't scream. I just want to talk, okay?
Okay?
Okay. Not gonna hurt you.
Where are Brianna and Shelly?
They're fine.
They're being taken care of.
What the hell does that mean?
It means Rufus and dash are taking care of them.
You should go while you can.
I'm not leaving without the girls.
Now tell me, what are Rufus and dash doing with them?
It's not for me to say.
They'll know I've been bad and then we'll all have to pay.
Listen to me, whatever's going on here, whatever this is,
you can help me stop it.
I know what you really want.
Go on.
Hurt me.
Do whatever you want.
I won't tell them. I promise.
I'm not gonna hurt you.
No, it's okay. They'll do worse
when they find out I've been talking to you.
I'm not gonna hurt you.
Who did this to you? What are these?
These are reminders of what'll happen
if I try to leave them.
They took you?
They did things to me.
How long have they had you here?
Eight, nine years?
Father a on killed my dad and took me.
I fought back. Begged.
And for some reason, they let me live.
But I'm one of the lucky ones.
The girl who lived.
Now I'm part of them and they trust me.
I want to keep it that way. So please, just go.
I don't want anything bad to happen.
I'm not gonna let anything bad happen to you.
Just tell me what Rufus and dash are doing to girls.
It's father a on you need to worry about.
They brought the girls to him.
As a present.
What's father a on gonna do to them?
Whatever he wants.
Games.
Things you don't ever want to happen.
You will rue the day, son!
Your mama taught you better than that.
Sorry, father.
Guests eat first.
Apologize, Rufus.
Sorry.
Please. We didn't mean to come here.
Yeah, but you did.
It's funny, isn't it?
How the land provides what we need.
Now please, I need to get back to them or they're gonna...
No. I'm not gonna let anybody punish you.
Let me help you. Hey, let me help you.
I've done bad things.
You did... You did what you had to do to survive.
You don't understand.
If I behave, they don't hurt me.
They're never gonna hurt you again.
I'm gonna get you the hell out of here.
I need you to trust me.
Okay?
Can you trust me?
Okay.
Is there, a sat phone or a-a radio on the property?
In the gear room downstairs.
I need you to keep them busy.
Can you do that?
I'll try.
Okay.
Please, just let us go.
People will be looking for us.
No help is coming.
Not out here.
Not in the winter.
'Cause that's when the gods come up
from the earth to watch us play on the post
and drink from the cup!
Eat up, girls.
You're gonna need your strength
if you're gonna play for the gods.
Eat.
My...
Ta-da.
Thank you. You're welcome.
You know, when you said, "let's have dinner,"
I wasn't expecting Mexican takeout
from the truck down the street.
I like what I like.
It's good, right?
Actually, it is pretty fire.
And this office is starting to grow on me.
No, no, no, no. You said
you wanted to replace my chairs.
Yeah, still do. But I guess you come with bad chairs.
What I come with are questions.
About your relationship with grimes.
He made you a ton of money
and now you just want to take him out?
Well, there's this.
Yeah, and I'm betting there's a lot more than that.
But I gave you enough to get to the point.
Should be what you need to do what you got to do.
Doesn't excuse what he did to those women.
Look at what we're doing here as a little payback.
Well, then I'd like to be there when you show him those.
I'm not sure that's a good idea.
And luturna corp.
Which you didn't mention.
We're still in stealth mode.
But I figured you'd find out anyway.
And grimes is a part of that?
Look, all I can say is that we were approached
to set up a data mining company with a sensitive set of targets.
You mean, grimes was approached and then he asked you in?
Right.
He'd found this programmer who had a novel algorithm
and no way to apply it.
But I saw the promise.
Okay, so you
and grimes... you have differing opinions
on the trajectory of the company?
That's par for the course.
Look... Removing grimes is gonna get ugly.
Everything he touched is gonna get looked at.
He's a potential liability.
Well, hopefully you'll make sure it doesn't become an issue.
Hey, where were you?
Rats got into the pantry.
You set traps?
Just like you showed me.
Peanut butter and blood.
Maybe I should check.
Make sure you did it right.
Please. I'm just trying to be helpful.
Two of you leave her be.
Now, something's off about her.
Sit down, boys.
Sit down, both of you.
That there... is a true,
loyal girl. Can count on her
more than I can you two.
Come here.
Give father a kiss.
Later.
I'm gonna have you show our guests how we do
lesser things.
As you please.
We need to get out of here.
Leave her be, dash.
I was just gonna get the cup and the horn.
No. Not yet.
No. We need us some music.
Rufus.
Put on my song.
Dash.
Get the mercy seat.
Ooh.
- There we go. - Here he comes.
Come on, girls! Get that music in you.
She needs a doctor. Please.
Well, lots of things close their eyes in the winter
they close them and never open 'em.
Not in this life.
They go on into the next one.
Maybe that's what she wants to do.
No. No, she's hurt.
No, she just wants to see you dance. No. No!
Yeah! Let me go!
Let go of me!
Why are you doing this to us?
Because you're here.
You came looking for trouble.
Well, sometimes you get more trouble.
That's right, that's right.
Now, if you're a lucky girl, you get the abyss.
Put her on the horns!
Fill the cup, feed the snow. Yeah.
All in good time, boys.
Let go!
Let go. Come on!
The girls are in the dining room right now.
I'll keep father and the boys busy.
You're coming with us.
Just get them first.
Once father starts, you can't stop him.
Now go.
No.
Please. Please, stop. Please.
Fetch the cup.
There you are, sweetheart.
Brought you your coffee.
I don't remember asking for that, dear.
I just thought you'd like some.
Well...
Maybe it's time for a break.
Okay, well, if you have more for me to do,
I would like to take it one step at a time. Of course.
I feel like I underpaid you for this.
I have to take this. Just give me a sec.
Hey, Randy.
What's up, girl? Sorry to bother you,
but it's about colter.
Yeah, what's going on?
I got this weird text.
It was a digital message from a ham radio handle
on an aprs system.
What did the text say?
Sos. That's it.
It's weird, right?
- Are you sure it was colter? - Not exactly.
But I did trace the location of the signal.
I double-checked it. Yes, he did. And it came from a radio
not too far from where he went off the grid.
Did you contact emergency responders?
Yeah, but they can't
send a chopper till they have more information.
Actually, I have an idea.
Send me the coordinates.
Okay.
Question.
Do you have access to a helicopter
in sun valley? I do.
Why?
I need a favor. Of course.
If there's anything you want, just ask.
Where's Amelia? Hey, in the kitchen.
Come here, come here.
Take a breath, come on. One more thing.
Come on, hey. Wake up.
Amelia, look at me.
Look at me. It's okay. It's okay.
It's okay. It's okay.
You're okay. You're all right. Come here.
Thank you.
Careful.
There's a search and rescue guide, Roger McLaren
he's at a cabin southwest of here, he's injured.
Colter?
Thanks for the chopper.
You're welcome. You okay?
Yeah. Yeah, we're good.
I'll call you tomorrow, reenie. Okay.
It's time to go home.
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