Seconds Apart

I need a drink.

Here you go.

Okay, all right.

Katie Cumming?

Shaved.

-Very bad. -Nice.

What about Molly Simmons?

Trimmed neatly.

I like it. I like that.

Holly fucking Dwyer?

Full bush, with a little treasure trail.

Fucking treasure turn pike.

Fucking treasure freeway with a car pool lane.

-Here we go. -Yes.

Who invited you freaks?

So he walks up to her, he goes, "Open the vagina."

Come on. I never said that.

No, no wait.

She slaps the shit out of him,

and so he says, "Open the vagina, please."

Sarah Voizon?

Shaved.

Timmerman's sister?

Dude, she's seven.

Timmerman's mom?

Buckwheat in a scissor lock.

Janie Smith?

Trimmed.

You study for that history exam?

No.

Dude, that scared the shit out of me.

SECONDS APART

I can't see.

I can't see.

Popular kids, from what we're getting upstairs.

Jocks.

Football or basketball?

Football.

They had a game tomorrow.

Nobody heard the gun shots?

They had music cranked up pretty good.

-Who found them? -Pizza guy.

Pizza guy? They ordered pizza?

Two.

Pizza guy strolled in at 11 :05.

So they commit suicide en masse, the night before the big game

and they ordered pizza.

-En masse? -My vocabulary is expanding.

Must be the literature.

Here's what I think happened. Junior got a hold of papa's gun,

started to have a friendly game of Russian roulette.

Things just got out of hand.

First kid commits suicide, blows his brains out.

That'd bring the game to a screeching halt, don't you think?

Can you feel it?

-But all the elements are there. -Trimmed.

Then why can't we feel it?

The project takes time.

But everyone else feels it.

I feel it.

-Liar. -Seriously.

There, the way he tilts his head.

No. It's in his eyes.

Bedtime, boys.

Five more minutes.

You heard your mother.

That scared the shit out of me.

Well, maybe next time.

I didn't feel it.

I know.

Trial and error, that's the nature of the project.

It's the genius of the project.

Exactly.

-Goodnight. -Goodnight.

Now I got to run. Booked all morning.

You'll be home in time for dinner?

Word of honor.

Do you know how much I love you?

This much?

Not even close.

This much?

It is with great regret that I've summoned you here today.

The loss of these four fine young men

has come as an abrupt and unexpected shock.

They were friends, scholars, athletes.

But above all, they were the embodiment of the phrase, "Men for others."

Let us pray.

"Our father, who art in heaven. Hallowed be thy name.

"Thy kingdom come, thy will be done."

Detective Lampkin. Sorry to have kept you waiting.

Good book?

Yes, well, it does have its moments.

Poetics?

You mind if I...

Of course, for as long as you like.

Please.

Well, so far,

most of the guests at the party don't remember a goddamn thing.

I was wondering if I could open it up a little bit.

Interview some friends, girlfriends, that sort of thing.

They were very popular boys.

I always wondered what that was like.

You heard anything?

Just a lot of teenage gossip.

That they were in a suicide club.

Some sort of satanic ritual, drugs.

Were they on drugs?

One of them tested positive for weed and that's about it.

Who?

Yes, well, I just hope that you can help us understand

why they would kill themselves.

If, in fact, they did kill themselves.

What are you saying? That someone...

Suicide and homicide.

One can be made to resemble the other.

My uncle has diabetes.

He never takes care of it, though. He's always losing toes.

-I'm new. What's your excuse? -Reactive hypoglycemia.

-I'm Eve. -Jonah.

Jonah, I'm looking for room 408A.

I had no trouble finding 401 through 407.

It's in the Dorsey Annex.

And where might that be?

Far from here.

You know, you strike me as a New Testament kind of guy.

Are you familiar with The Parable of the Good Samaritan?

Luke 10, verses 30 to 37.

Great.

Let's pretend that you are the Good Samaritan

and I'm on the side of the road.

Show me a little mercy, it's my first day.

All right, follow me.

Pencils down.

They didn't even ask about the Great Western Schism.

So, should we focus on the next project?

Who?

The one who made you late.

No.

We should stick to the program. Lay low for a while and then...

Feed the birds?

Yeah. Feed the birds.

All right, Vargo. Back to class.

Ms. Dunn.

Ms. Dunn, I know this must be real difficult for you.

Lots of people.

Lots of people what?

You're gonna ask me the same thing that you've asked everybody else.

Do I know anybody who would wanna hurt those boys?

I know lots of people. They're jerks.

-Including Derek? -Especially Derek.

How long did you two date?

I saw them kill a dog once.

Derek and his friends?

A chow chow.

They look like lions, don't they?

They do that to your arm, too?

No, I was in a movie once.

They like making movies.

Who likes making movies?

Were they at the party?

Even if they were, nobody would remember them.

Twins with the camera. How do you forget something like that?

Jonah Trimble?

Seth.

Good enough. Let's say we talk for a little while?

Is this seat taken?

-Gum? -It's not allowed.

That's a keeper.

It's a shame what happened to them boys, ain't it?

Friends of yours?

We don't have any friends.

You know Elvis had a twin?

I didn't.

Brother was stillborn.

Elvis was the first, then came the dead one.

You imagine that? Two Elvises.

Wow.

What do you want?

So my real name is Kristen,

but if you ever call me that, I'll have to kill you.

-I'm from Salem. -Massachusetts?

Oregon. Vancouver before that.

British Columbia?

Washington.

Before that, Hollywood.

California?

Florida.

-My mom relocates a lot. -For work?

For love.

I mean she thinks it's love.

It looks like love on paper, but it never really works out.

I'm just trying to make sense of this tragedy.

Maybe you should see one of the grief counselors.

Maybe you should.

I'm not experiencing any grief.

Really?

Not even...

What's it called when you question God and what not?

-Existential. -Right.

Not even that. That a crime?