Coroner

(wind whistling, rain patters heavily)

Woman: I almost died. My life imploded.

Until I found surmount.

For people who have faced death and survived.

And now, I'm ceo of a tech start-up.

The surmount instructors picked me up

And put me back together.

They pushed me to evolve.

Evolve! Evolve!

evolve! Evolve! Evolve!

(all chanting "evolve" repeatedly)

evolve! Evolve!

evolve!

Evolve! Evolve!

Evolve!

Jenny: So, our autopsies found nothing

To refute the findings of suicide.

This is our last body.

It's our last chance.

We need evidence to prove this is murder.

(feet tap in place, bag rattles)

(deep inhale and exhale)

Ljnd: Cassidy james.

Are you ready to evolve?

Alphonse: Here are the files of the surmount members.

- It looks like each one of them died of an accident

Or an injury that they had previously survived.

Can you pull them up for me?

- Angelo was bitten by a deadly banana spider in 2005.

- Yeah. - He survived but was killed

By banana spider venom

In... 15 years later...?

Vishaya was in a brutal ski accident in the alps at 16

And she died in a ski accident at 29.

- Mm-hmm, right, and the case...

The case that I worked up north,

The decedent's bullies carved an "l" in his leg

And nicked his artery. Almost killed him.

But a year later,

He carved letters into the exact same leg,

Only this time, he died.

Rameen shirazi shot himself in the exact same spot

He was shot years prior.

And blake zelek was pushed off the same bridge

A serial killer tired to push him off years before.

What is going on, jc?

I don't know.

I don't know, but that's what I have to figure out.

hey, malik,

Have you heard from donovan yet?

Malik: No, but I'm not panicking yet.

I went down the rabbit hole of surmount's website archives

To read up more on the group's founder... Ljnd.

Ljnd?

- Yeah, his real name is tim whitman.

- What do we know about this tim?

- Well, surmount started as tim's personal blog

About five years ago,

After he almost died cliff diving in jamaica.

He was freaked out over his disfigurement.

Tim was posting inspirational blog entries

About recovering from his catastrophic fall.

Well, then he started hiding behind this mask get up.

His message board has all these people posting

About their traumas and their own brushes with death.

Well, and three years later,

It got flashier,

And he started making money off of it,

And he's certainly... He's certainly come a long way.

'cause now, you can book one-on-one sessions with him.

(deep inhale and exhale)

- Take self-improvement courses,

Sign up for member-led exercise classes.

They-they even have merch.

Cassidy: Oh. (chuckles)

Jenny: Does this uh, tim, have a record?

Malik: No! (huffs) on paper...

The guy looks like a saint.

okay.

Well, let's see what fred wozniak can tell us.

- Yeah, well I ran all the names

Of the deceased surmount members you exhumed,

And fred wozniak was basically a con artist

And petty criminal.

Busted for fraud, mostly.

His body can't lie, so...

...Let's see what it can tell us.

(jenny grunts, lid cracks loudly)

Ljnd: I have heard good things from our instructors

About your progress.

- I have turned my life around since joining surmount.

But there's a block.

I'm sober, work's good.

I have a relationship with my family.

Hmm...

No. Something deeper.

From the time you almost died.

Your trauma.

What is it?

What's blocking you?

you won't evolve unless you admit the truth.

Is it shame?

Guilt?

Blame?

Hmm.

What is it?

What has you blocked?

ljnd: What is it?

(birds chirps, footsteps thud)

River: Fred wozniak drove his car off a cliff

Three years ago.

Coroner ruled it a suicide.

- Okay, previous accidents? Near-death experience?

- Not according to his medical records.

- But he is another dead surmount member so...

There's gotta be a link back to tim, aka ljnd.

What are you doing here?

- Y-you said you weren't coming here, and then...

You just send me a message?

- I worked really hard for this! Of course I came!

I had to slip away.

I remember being married to you.

- What, you don't think you can talk to me?

- I never got to make my own mistakes.

You were all like, "wear a bike helmet,

'cause I just came from an accident

Where I was picking brains up off the road."

- Well, that's actually pretty good advice. (laughs)

Cass...

I need this as much as you do.

- (sighs) - I wanna do this with you.

I feel like you're the only one who gets me anymore.

- Really? - Yeah.

I uh, completed the course

And qualified to be here with you this weekend.

Ha, impossible.

Ljnd: Nothing here is impossible, cassidy.

No, donovan's test results came in.

Very impressive.

- You did a whole course just to be here with me?

(chuckles lightly)

Jenny: Well, that's weird. River: What?

- You said that he had no prior accidents,

But his body's telling me a different story.

I swear I can feel calcium build up right...

Feel?

dennis: Yeah.

Okay.

All right, I'm gonna need a better look.

Donovan: Hi, uh...

Mira. Hi.

Just getting settled.

Hmm.

Thank you.

Dennis: Ugh! There goes chicken soup.

Jenny: This is the best way to remove decomposing skin.

Dennis: Wait a minute.

Something strange at the bottom of the pot.

River: Hold on, I can grab it.

Dennis: What is it?

Jenny: It's another moonstone.

River: So, that's the fourth surmount member

To have a moonstone on them, when they died.

- Hmm. And now that we found one in blake,