The Sinner

‐ Do you know anything about night swimming?

‐ Well, we do have our share of tree huggers out here.

‐ Last night, somebody broke into the house

where I'm staying.

‐ Did you see them?

‐ No, I wasn't there, but they looked through my stuff.

‐ This brings up a lot for me.

An intruder in the house? A lot.

‐ I can't walk away from this.

‐ I don't think that I can keep going on like this.

‐ Where was that? ‐ In your jacket pocket.

‐ Percy worked on Don's crew.

‐ Well, they used to go up together a lot on their own.

‐ What is this shit? You're telling me

someone didn't poison her mind with that shit?

‐ That wasn't Percy. Somebody had control over her.

‐ The ancient lunar goddess is represented

by the ouroboros...

a snake swallowing its own tail.

‐ Meg?

‐ You didn't see this, unless you want one.

‐ No, I don't smoke.

‐ Well, neither do I. I quit 30 years ago.

I leave Sean in charge for a week.

Turns everything to shit.

‐ Your boys, it doesn't bother them,

me being around here?

‐ I don't care what they think.

Please tell me you found something.

‐ Yeah.

Now, this family crest,

that's, like, from a boat, right?

You know whose it was?

‐ I don't know it, but they do have

retired boat logs down at the harbor master's office.

‐ Okay, great. Thanks.

‐ Where'd you find it?

‐ Oh, I just‐‐ I've been curious

about these off in the woods areas

that have these ritualized arrangements and things,

and it was around one of those.

‐ Yeah, we get those new age hippie types up here.

‐

‐ You think this has something to do with Percy?

‐ Can't tell.

I'm gonna track this boat thing down.

It's probably nothing.

‐ I'll come with you.

‐ I don't think you need to.

‐ I know everybody at the office.

‐ My unloading time is at 2:00 every day.

And that Brandon Keyser is always blocking me.

‐ We've been here before. You can file a report online.

‐ I filed three. Nothing happens.

‐ They're backlogs. They'll get to it.

‐ Yeah, right.

‐ Hey, Mike.

‐ Hi, Mrs. Muldoon.

‐ Hi, Patrick. How you doing?

‐ Good, good. ‐ Good.

We have a question.

We're trying to find the boat this is from.

Does it match anything in your records?

‐ We log boats by registration numbers, not insignia.

‐ Right, but you might recognize it from somewhere.

‐ Uh‐‐

‐ To me, it reminds me of the Henderson boat.

The one Dick used to captain.

‐ Yeah, yeah. But that's not quite it.

‐ Hey, the other harbor master who's usually here,

what's her name again?

‐ Em Castillo? She's off today.

I could dig through some files, see what I come up with.

‐ Yeah, that'd be great.

‐ She's weird about people touching her stuff.

‐ No problem, no problem, mate. Thanks for looking into this.

Meg, we'll be in touch.

‐ Oh, all right.

‐ Is that for me?

‐ Was it you that broke into the house the other day?

‐ No.

Guess you're making enemies around here.

These weren't yours to take.

‐ Well, they're evidence now.

‐ Of what? ‐ They were out on the cliffs.

‐ Percy had these with her when she jumped?

‐ They were set out by her or someone else.

Maybe it was you?

‐ Is that why you're investigating me?

‐ Your relationship to Percy.

Why are you hiding it?

‐ I'm not hiding anything.

‐ Well, then,

maybe you could tell me what you're doing here?

‐ I thought we were playing a game

where we break into each other's houses,

see what we can find.

‐ I see.

Your hut by the water, I found it.

‐ And?

‐ I saw your notes on Percy.

What was that? Some kind of conversion?

‐ I'd call it growth.

‐ At the hut, I found blood on the rocks.

‐ I'm not the person you're looking for.

And if you come by my house again, I'm gonna shoot first.

‐ About that blood,

Chief Raskin is gonna run forensics on it

and see if it's a match for Percy.

It's gonna take four or five days.

But somehow, this case leaks,

and people are gonna find out sooner.

‐ Are you threatening me? ‐ No.

I'm just being honest with you.

Look, you're an outsider here. Same as me.

And any sign that you might have hurt her,

people are gonna assume the worst about you.

‐ Just like you are.

‐ Well, maybe.

This is your chance to set me straight.

‐ I always saw her from afar down by the dock.

She was 25 and loving being in charge.

At least that's how I saw her.

‐ And then something in her changed,

like, around two years ago?

‐ Yeah.

It's like she became a totally different person.

Started drinking. Drugs too, probably.

She became completely withdrawn.

And then she was gone.

She left the island.

Probably a few months went by.

And when she got back, she was worse.

It's like she was a shell of who she'd been before.

‐ That's where you'd see her, by that dock?

‐ Yeah. I was working nights,

so I'd always see her there alone.

‐ Why that spot, do you think?

‐ Something happened to her down there?

I don't know what.

‐ At some point, you started to talk to her

and thinking you could help her, right?

‐ She's the one who started it.

‐ Hey.

What are you doing?

‐ Nothing. Just, uh, taking a moment.

‐ What's that in your hand?

It's embarrassing I don't know this

after seeing you around all these years,

but where are you from?

‐ Baltimore.

‐ Why'd you leave?

‐ I needed to do my own thing away from my family.

‐ Yeah, I tried that. Didn't work out so well.

What are they like?

‐ My family? Uh, like most.

You know, they try.

But they damage even when they don't mean to.

‐ Damage how?

‐ You know, they're so caught up in their own pain,

they end up hurting everyone around them.

‐ Maybe they don't know another way.

‐ That's the whole point though, isn't it?

You gotta try.

My aunt was different.

She, uh, introduced me to just other ways of being.

‐ Is that what you do here?

Is it like Wiccan or something?

‐ ‐ Sorry.

I don't know anything.

I just‐‐I've seen some things around the island.

Women doing things.

It's only women, isn't it?

‐ I just pull from things that inspire me.

It's mostly just about embracing nature.

But not a lot of people are open to it

because it means accepting destruction.

‐ Destruction?

‐ Yeah. It's nature's cycle.