Devil's Gate

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Sh*t!

Sh*t!

Oh, f***ing Christ

on a stick!

Sh*t.

Hello?

Is anybody there?

Is anybody home?

My car broke down.

I could use some help.

Hello?

Hello?

So you're just

gonna suffer!

Or I will end this

right now!

Do you hear me?

Special agent Francis,

I presume?

Pleased to meet you,

deputy salter.

Uh, you can call me Colt.

Everybody does.

Did you want to grab a bite

before we hit the station?

Marnie's serves up the best

chicken fried steak you

ever tasted.

- I'm vegan.

- Okay.

Uh, great. Well, I'll just grab

somethin' later.

- I'll take that for ya.

- Shall we go then?

Yeah. I'll get that

for you, ma'am.

Hey, Colt.

What's crackalackin'?

Jenna, this is

special agent Francis.

- The sheriff around?

- Oh, how you doing?

No, he's still out. Should be

back soon though.

We had an appointment

for 1:
00.

You just take a seat,

sweetie

and I'm sure

he won't be long.

Okay. I'm gonna get some

coffee. Anybody want anything?

Two splendas,

no cream, please.

- Sheriff.

- Yeah, hang on, hon.

Jenna, you got any of those

wet naps back there?

- You betcha!

- Colt!

A little friend for you

out there in the trunk.

Okay. Right on it,

sheriff.

You better get

the hand truck for Colt.

That idiot's

gonna realize

it's gonna be

too much weight

for him

to shift himself.

Special agent Francis.

How you doing?

We've been expecting you.

Pleasure to meet you,

sheriff.

I'm sorry, you seem

to have caught us

right in the middle of our

local crime spree.

Hit-and-run white tail.

Yeah.

Step on into the back

see what we can

do you for.

There you go.

Have a seat.

Here it is.

Not much to it.

Pretty much a waste

of yours

and the bureau's time,

if you ask me.

I'd like to speak

to him first thing.

- Who? Pritchard?

- Mm.

Colt and I were just out

there three days ago

to see him

have a look around.

His wife's car

is missing.

Other than that, nothing

out of the ordinary.

It's all right there.

In the report.

I see that.

But I'd still like to get my

own sense of the man.

It's odd, he didn't file

the report.

- Her sister did, right?

- That's right.

Maria and the boy were

on the way to her house

so Theresa would've been

the first one to notice

that they'd gone

missing.

Mm-hm.

I've known

Jackson pritchard

his whole life.

Colt there went to

high school with the man.

Yeah, I know,

he's got a temper

but he is not a murderer

by any stretch.

Who said anything

about murder?

Although now that you

mention it, 45 percent

of all murdered women

are killed by their

domestic partner.

You wanna know

the most likely scenario?

Maria finally got a bellyful

of his bullshit

and she lit off with

the kid for Minneapolis

or winnipeg or --

without telling her

sister? Or anyone?

That doesn't seem right.

Why don't you go out

and question

the sister then?

I'm pretty sure

she'll agree with me.

But leave pritchard

out of it.

There's a valid line

of inquiry

that needs

to be followed up on.

We have done

the follow-up, agent.

Look, I know

my department's under

scrutiny right now

but give us a shred

of credit

for understanding

our community

and how to do our

goddamn jobs.

So, how about we trust

my instinct on this one,

special agent Francis?

Yours didn't seem

to do that breeland girl

any favors.

Sheriff, Rudolph

is in the ice box.

Colt, take our

distinguished guest

out to see Theresa Locke

and then get her set up

at the Kelly inn.

Right on it.

Ma'am? Ready to go?

Despite what happened

to the breeland girl,

sheriff, I found her.

And I wouldn't

change that.

Apparently, some people

are just better off

not being found.

Stop it!

You stop!

You stop!

Huh? This is your fault!

Your fault

you're in here!

You understand?

So you're just gonna

suffer in silence!

Or I will end this

right now!

- Uh, you can't

smoke in here.

- I don't.

What're the smokes for,

then?

I quit three years ago.

I keep that around

to remind me.

Mm. Okay.

He's a caribou,

you know, not a deer.

- Who?

- Rudolph.

Reindeer is what they

call them in Europe.

The caribou

and deer are both

from the cervidae family.

That's Latin for deer.

Heck, the moose,

also known as

the eurasian elk

is technically a deer,

too.

It's more than just

cow chips and inbreeding

out here, you know.

Well played,

deputy salter.

You know, that's got

to be pretty exciting

to compete with this

thrill-a-minute

landscape.

Hm?

Oh, sorry,

i was just surfing.

I was just yankin'

your chain.

No, you're right.

It's a rude habit.

So, what did you want

to talk about?

Okay. You asked.

What was all that

talk back there about

the breeland girl?

Should I be concerned?

Wow.

You're right.

I did ask.

If you don't wanna

talk about it,

it's okay.

Seventeen-year-old

Tanya breeland

went missing

about a year ago.

It was the first real case

i was lead on.

Took all kinds of

unpaid overtime, weekends.

I was little obsessed,

i guess you could say.

Four months later,

i tracked her down

to a homeless shelter

run by an islamist group

in St. Paul.

The kicker was, the girl

didn't wanna go home.

She wouldn't say why.

Psych eval was

perfectly normal.

Clean drug screen too.

So I just took her home.

She showed up

at my office.

Said I ruined her life.

Call 9-1-1!

It all happened so fast.

I couldn't stop her.

I couldn't save her.

Good lord.

I was more focused on

solving the case

than making sure

she was safe.

To protect and serve.

It's a pretty basic

concept to follow.

It sounds like

you went by the book.

Well, then the book needed

to be rewritten

and I should have

seen that.

Is that what brings you

out here?

Administrative

reassignment

or whatever

they call it?

No. Actually,

i requested this case

when it came in.

You know, you can't

beat yourself up.

If you were perfect,

you wouldn't be human.

No! You..

You are not allowed!

I will not be made

a fool of!

I have seen

your true face now.

I know

what you really are.

Sorry. The, uh,

the milk's gone sour.

Oh, no, that's fine.

Thanks, Theresa.

So, this is

a regular thing?

E -- e -- excuse me?

Your sister and her son

staying here.

You expected them

five days ago, right?

Yeah, uh, thereabouts.

Jon -- Jonah had the flu,

so we..

They were gonna come by

a -- as soon as

he got better, um..

Oh, I wouldn't call it

a -- a regular thing.

They, they, they just

come by when they need

to get away for a spell.

Get away? How so?

Life can get pretty dreary

out there at that place

of theirs, you know?

Could you be

more specific?

The farm hasn't turned

to profit for years.

The old house

is falling apart.

Times are tough.

It...Gets stressful.

And Mr. pritchard,

is he a source

of that stress

in your opinion?

I know he's

a friend of yours, Colt.

That was 15 years ago.

We have more of

a smile and nod kind

of a relationship now.

It's okay.

Well, him and me never

really got along well

and, um, he's been

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