The Row Page #4

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from their kid?

- Who does that?

- [Cole] She's your mother!

How am I supposed

to tell you that?

[cell phone ringing]

Answer your phone, Dad.

It's what you f***ing do best.

- [ringing continues]

- Riley! Riley!

Riley!

Grey.

Uh-huh.

All right. I'm on my way.

[camera clicks]

First the arms and now the legs.

[Cole] What's he doing

with the body parts?

I'm sure you'll enlighten us,

Cole.

- How did you get here so fast?

- I was in the neighborhood.

Returning to the crime scene,

huh?

Check her phone.

The Row will be on there.

Call me when you're done here.

- Okay.

- He's making his own doll.

[reporter] It's a somber night

here at Vanternin State

University,

where earlier today,

21-year-old Laura Townsend

was found murdered.

Detective Cole, do you believe

this could be the work

of a cannibal?

- Detective! One question.

- One question.

Detective Cole!

[indistinct chatter]

Nina.

What did you say to my daughter?

She told me who she was

and I panicked.

Why didn't you just say

something to her yourself?

It's not that simple.

No. No, it isn't.

Nothing's ever simple, is it?

- Hi.

- Hey.

- Thank you for coming.

- Of course.

You... feel like

getting something to eat?

Uh...

Sorry. [laughs]

It's probably not the best time

for a first date.

No. No, I just...

I need to go back

to the sorority

for a little bit and then...

we can go.

You sure that's safe?

Celeste hired an armed guard.

So I'm sure it's

the safest place right now.

[chuckles] Yeah.

I don't know.

Wanna grab a drink?

Maybe talk about it?

No. Thank you.

Uh, then just text me,

and I'll pick you up.

All right,

I'll see you in a little bit.

All right.

[Cole] Why are you staring

at my daughter?

Uh, you're Riley's father?

Nice to meet you, Mr. Cole.

- I'm Miller.

- It's Detective Cole.

Which means I'm armed.

Glad to hear it, sir.

Makes me feel better to know

that somebody

is looking after Riley.

Are you even a student here?

School of Hard Knocks.

[scoffs] Boo-f***ing-hoo.

[laughs]

[laughs]

I see where Riley

gets her sense of humor from.

Easy, kid. We're not friends.

[footsteps]

[light rock music]

[Miller] Wow. Riley, I'm sorry.

That's a lot to find out

about your mom.

Yeah.

Maybe... I don't know.

Maybe we can't really

judge her, you know?

We've all done mean and petty

things to other people.

I guess the hope

is that we learn

from our mistakes

and we move on.

Thank you.

Do you remember that night

at the bar

that I was sh*t-faced?

Yeah. [laughs]

Yeah.

I know that I was hammered.

But I think Laura

went home with Carter.

Carter?

Did you tell your dad?

No, because if I tell my dad

it's Carter and it's not,

I could ruin his whole life.

I don't know.

I-I think it's better safe

than sorry on this one.

You look so good tonight.

Thank you.

I got it from here, kid.

[laughs]

Dad!

[laughs]

I had a really good time

tonight.

Me too.

- I'll see you later, okay?

- No, you won't.

No sleepovers tonight.

That's... that's not

what I meant, sir.

Two girls turn up at Phi Lambda,

and you're walking around

like everything's normal,

going out on dates

with strangers.

Miller is not a stranger

and I happen

to really like him, so...

Really? What do you know

about him?

I know that he's a hard worker.

I know that he works

a valet job.

He moves students into dorms.

I know that he's saving up

to get a college degree.

And I know that he's nice to me.

Plus, his sister

was Phi Lambda, Dad.

Enough with the Phi Lambda.

I'm just saying,

you should be happy

that I'm finally

getting some female influence

in my life.

Hey.

Where are you going?

Don't worry. I'll be safe.

Are you sure?

Yeah.

[car drives by]

- Thanks for the ride.

- Riley, wait.

[exhales]

I'm sorry.

I should have told you about...

well, more about your mother.

I thought I was protecting you.

I was wrong.

There's something else.

The fire that your mother

died in...

I don't think

it was an accident.

I think she set it herself.

I didn't tell you this before...

but the girl from the sorority

that died,

she set herself on fire.

Your mother... [sighs]

...was still struggling...

with the guilt and depression

all those years.

I think it finally

just got the better of her.

Why did you hide that from me?

I... I thought...

What else are you hiding

from me?

Nothing.

I swear.

[car door opens]

[car door thuds shut]

Riley.

- [cell phone rings]

- [exhales]

Tell me we caught him.

Laura Townsend had the Row too.

[Cole] Of course she did.

[Grey] I had a couple

of our eggheads try to hack it.

They said they'd never seen

anything like it.

The app completely wipes itself.

Well, I'm waiting

for the silver lining, Grey.

Well, I figured we go

straight to the source.

We go to the app

distribution server,

we find the distributor ID.

So the a**holes that created it?

[Grey] Right.

- [Cole] Let's get on it.

- [cell phone beeps]

[police sirens wailing]

[suspenseful music]

[police sirens wailing]

[indistinct chatter on computer]

[door slams open]

[suspenseful music]

Hey, Zach.

Don't you f***ing move.

- What the f*** is this?

- What do you know about the Row?

I'll get you...

Come on, man.

I'm just the developer.

I'll give you whatever you want.

It wasn't me. I didn't do this.

I didn't kill anyone. Come on.

[knocks on door]

Can I talk to you for a sec?

[Nina] Oh, yeah. Actually,

I wanted to talk to you.

Look, um, I want to apologize

for the other day.

What I said was

really insensitive.

I think I just got

caught off-guard.

I'm really tired of people

not being honest with me.

This page is torn out.

Do you know what was on it?

[exhales]

Nina, I am begging you.

If you know something,

please just tell me.

Okay. All right.

You deserve to know the truth.

[sighs]

What I'm about to tell you...

you can't say anything

to the other girls

or I'll deny it.

I won't say anything.

After the incident...

the university forced us

to whitewash history.

They wanted to bury this story.

The Doll House?

Yeah, it's what we called

Phi Lambda.

The Doll House

was way more than a nickname.

Hazing back then,

it was a whole other level.

Before the Internet

and cell phone cameras.

It makes what you girls do today

look like kindergarten.

Because in order to earn

one of those jackets...

you had to do

the Doll House ritual.

Pledges had to drink

until they dropped.

Angie was the first to pass out,

so that made her a target.

We took her over

to the Zeta house,

where they took photos of her.

I mean, it's not like they were

gonna do anything to her.

They propped her up

like a rag doll

and put her in positions.

It was all innocent.

Until Angie woke up midway,

terrified.

She was screaming and thrashing

around, ran out of there.

She thought the absolute worst

had happened to her.

She thought she had been raped.

The point was to scare her

and have a little bit

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