The Hunting Party

- Previously on "The Hunting Party"...

It's called the Pit.

It's home to the most dangerous and violent

criminals in history, all of whom

the world believes are dead.

Or at least it was, until the blast hit.

This is detention specialist Shane Florence.

You're a prison guard here?

- Until the walls came down, yes, ma'am.

Speaking of your career,

there are going to be some more inmates to find.

- How many? - A lot.

- Anything you need to know about, Agent Odell,

you can read in my file.

Oliver!

You were the warden?

- I need someone that I can trust,

someone who can help me catch all the inmates

who made it out alive.

The blast that collapsed the Pit was no accident.

It was a jailbreak.

- I'm so happy you all could make it here today.

The whole family together, it really means a lot.

I feel very special.

I guess I should make a wish.

But I don't know what more I could want.

All of you here to celebrate me?

This--this really is perfect.

Mmm.

- You have some explaining to do, Johnny.

- Leave me alone. - Leave me alone.

- We just want to understand why you hurt

that boy at school today.

I don't know.

I get angry sometimes, OK? -

- I get the urge to hurt people or break things.

Feels good to let out my anger.

It might feel good to you,

but think about how your actions affect others.

- I don't care, because I'm a bad person.

You can't fix me, so why try?

Johnny.

But if we can't help you, maybe someone else can.

Talking about these things is the first step.

- Who would want to talk to me?

- We do, son, because we love you.

Even when I hurt people?

We know you don't mean it.

- The White House wants an update on the manhunt.

- I was told the president doesn't know about the Pit.

- He doesn't, but the front page story

of the "Times" this morning was about the blast in Cheyenne.

President needs deniability, which means I need

to be able to assure him that I am taking care of it.

So am I taking care of it?

- Well, five more inmates were recovered alive

from the wreckage, but dozens of bodies

are still waiting to be identified.

- So as of this moment, you don't know

how many escapees are out there?

- We won't know that until the excavation is complete.

But our team estimates that up to 25%

could have made it out alive.

Where's your team with determining

the source of the blast? - It was a gas leak.

- You know, I don't know what's harder to believe,

the ecoterrorist smokescreen you sold to CNN,

or the story you're trying to sell me now.

Bad pipes? Really?

It happens.

I'll send you the report.

- I'm looking for a deceased inmate.

Go ahead, ma'am.

- Agent Henderson, there's been a development.

Another inmate?

- Yes, ma'am. Follow me, please.

Agent Henderson, you may not remember me.

Jennifer Morales.

You took my officer candidate course

in behavioral sciences at Quantico.

I remember you aced that final exam.

That didn't happen a lot. - Yes, ma'am.

I'm an intel officer now. Best job in the military.

I've been assigned to the inmate recovery task force.

- We're a task force now? - Mm-hmm.

- Well, this came together fast.

Military moves quick.

- We've been monitoring all criminal activity

within a growing radius of the Pit site.

Early this morning,

there was a carjacking at a gas station in Rawlins.

A team just recovered a blue jumpsuit

that was stashed nearby.

We can now confirm that the jumpsuit

belonged to Clayton Jessup.

Mr. Odell, care to brief us on the inmate?

- Jessup was one of our most volatile inmates.

Even as a child he exhibited a maladaptive fantasy life,

and he would use violence to reject any reality

that did not conform.

That violence turned deadly when,

on his 16th birthday,

he poisoned his entire family with carbon monoxide.

He spent the next three days living with their corpses,

playing out the fantasy of what he felt was the ideal family,

one focused on him.

He then continued his killing spree,

targeting families he saw as perfect,

breaking into their homes,

disabling the exhaust in their boilers,

so their homes would fill with carbon monoxide.

They would die in their sleep,

and he could stick around playing house for a few days

before moving on.

- But if he wanted to be part of the perfect family,

why kill everyone?

- The killings were just a means of compliance

for the fantasies.

I mean, dead people, they'll do what you want them to, right?

They can't disappoint you.

Delusions like his are extremely dangerous.

Enacting the fantasy becomes the only way he's actually

able to relate to the world, which means

he's likely got his eyes on the next family.

- It also means there's no time to waste.

Copy that.

Uh, where are we on the stolen car?

Well, we're going to get

every LPR in the state looking for it.

I'm glad you're here.

Can we talk?

Was Eli Johnson in the Pit?

- No. - I called Sussex this morning,

and they said that they transferred Johnson,

but they wouldn't tell me where.

- I'll look into it. You don't need to worry.

- You and I both know that any list

of the world's most deranged psychopaths

is going to have his name on it.

Bex, he was never down there.

The world knows he's still alive.

- Got a hit on the stolen car in Kimball, Nebraska.

- I know what that man means to you.

I promise, he's not involved here.

- We found the car. Let's go.

Thank you, Mom.

It looks perfect.

Just like you.

- OK, Clayton, that's great. You're doing good, son.

Now, tell me about the Dwyer family.

How did you choose them? - I don't know.

I just liked them.

I saw them at the playground.

Mom was watching the kids play tag with Dad.

They were all laughing.

It was...

perfect.

- And then? - I followed them home.

- He stalked them from a playground?

- Jessup has a unique form of reactive attachment disorder.

He comes from a relatively stable family,

but he had trouble forming emotional bonds with others,

including his own family.

Psychologically, though, he still craved that connection.

- There was a big window in the back

of the house where I could watch them from the yard.

I watched them for hours.

Happy families make each other feel special.

I could see on their faces

how much they loved each other, and...

There's nothing wrong with wanting to be loved.

- When did you first enter their home?

That night.