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👮 The Rookie (2018) - Season 8 Episode 15  On the front lines of LA, every shift brings new challenges. In Episode [X], [brief hook: see episode-specific hooks below]. Officer John Nolan and the LAPD team face high-stakes cases, personal dilemmas, and the constant balance between justice and compassion.  🔹 Episode Highlights: • [E14 Hook: "A complex case forces Nolan to question protocol vs. principle"] • [E15 Hook: "When trust is broken, can the team rebuild before it's too late?"] • [E16 Hook: "Mid-season climax: a dangerous suspect tests everyone's limits"] • Action-packed sequences: tactical operations, chase scenes, and tense standoffs • Character depth: personal struggles, team dynamics, and moral choices • Signature The Rookie blend: heart, humor, and high-stakes policing  🔹 Series Info: • Format: Police Procedural / Drama Series / Crime Entertainment • Original Network: ABC (US) / Hulu / International Syndication • Series Launch: 2018 | Season: 8 | Episodes: 14-16 (Mid-Season Arc) • Created by: Alexi Hawley | Starring: Nathan Fillion, Alyssa Diaz, Richard T. Jones, etc. • Setting: Los Angeles Police Department – Modern Urban Policing • Language: English (Original Audio) + Subtitles Available • Runtime: ~42 minutes (full) | Clip/Highlight version: ~10-15 min  🎧 Prefer audio? Listen to The Rookie recaps & crime drama podcasts on Spotify, Apple Podcasts.  👉 Enjoying the series? Hit LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and comment: "What would YOU do in Nolan's position? 👮👇" Turn on notifications 🔔 so you never miss the next shift!  #TheRookie #TheRookieS8 #PoliceDrama #ABC #NathanFillion #LAPD #S8E[X] #CrimeSeries #BingeWatch #ProceduralTV #LawEnforcement #ActionDrama  ⚠️ Copyright Disclaimer: This video is shared for promotional, review, and informational purposes only. All rights to "The Rookie" belong to ABC Studios, Entertainment One, and original producers. This upload complies with Fair Use guidelines (Section 107, U.S. Copyright Act). No copyright infringement intended.

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00:16seven matter 15 we're code six at the 911 call location any further contact from the

00:21distressed individual negative do you want me to start additional unit uh no give us a minute

00:25just scope it out first you ready do i have a choice that's the spirit

00:39lapd we've received a distress call from this location we are making entry

00:51oh do you feel that feel what oh something evil's in here well sure smells like it

01:06i can't die inside of me it won't let me die it won't let me die elise show yourself

01:19i can't die it's inside of me it won't let me die don't touch that all right just call this

01:24in

01:24call it i need an ra to my location for a stabbing victim so i usually sit right next to

01:29camera to

01:29keep the eyeline tight and i'll just sit on the other side no because then you'll split his look

01:33oh hey hi thanks uh thanks again for sitting down with me us what oh right us uh why are

01:41you filming

01:41oh i just wanted to document the new partnership abigail was very excited it's not a partnership

01:46it's totally a partnership the judge was very clear the judge my name is abigail tierney i'm

01:51currently trapped inside a secret lab at westview psychiatric all attempts at escape have proven

01:56fruitless i may have inadvertently used some of abigail's footage in my last documentary without

02:00gaining the proper permissions translation he stole my intellectual property i sued and the judge gave him

02:07a choice pay me 200 000 damages or give me equal partnership in his next project he never said equal

02:12but you know what never mind let's focus on the story that we're here to tell seat

02:19perhaps the most shocking case of murder and mayhem we've ever seen would you say that's a fair

02:24assessment um no no stay stay back stay back stay back you don't understand okay relax here okay we're

02:30trying to help you who stabbed you i stabbed myself it's inside of me i've tried everything else i can't

02:37kill it i can't die see no don't pull it don't pull it out oh god

02:45oh he died instantly i mean the wound was fatal you can't stab yourself in the heart and survive but

02:52the way the knife was lodged he wasn't bleeding once he pulled it out it was blood fountain city

02:59not exactly but as shocking as that was it was far from the most shocking thing you found

03:04oh we should get him to say that to uh set up the opening credits that's not we don't put

03:09words

03:09in people's mouths it's a documentary

03:13yeah it was uh straight up crazy

03:18there's a body in there

03:24please don't kill us we will join your cult

03:27yeah oh god you arrived on scene as the sergeant's supervisor yes i got there before the ambulance

03:34um not that there was any aid they could have rendered is there a reason you didn't want us to

03:39interview you with tim what no we're just i'm just shaking it up let's let's stay focused um

03:46were you the first to recognize the victim uh sort of um i i thought i knew his face but

03:52it wasn't

03:52until we ran his prints that we got a name rich riley was retired lapd he had been with the

03:58department for 30 years and was a little bit of a legend mostly because he made a series of training

04:03videos from the mid 90s till his retirement in 2015 which by modern standards are a little cringe

04:11hey everybody rich rowley here with another installment of

04:15uh now today we're gonna be talking about proper cuffing technique excuse me officer

04:23i hurt my shoulder at the gym would you mind cuffing me in front

04:29pretty lady like you

04:32what's the worst that could happen

04:36thank you

04:37you're welcome

04:41rich was a trip the life of the party at least early

04:45in his career then as the years went on he became a little uh crazy crazy how he was deep

04:53into conspiracy theories he uh had a real thing for cults and cabals to be fair los angeles does

05:00have a pretty dark history but rich took it to the next level and his training videos got more and

05:05more intense because of it we finally got around to updating the videos this last year but that

05:09caused quite a controversy with some of the older officers they said we were being insensitive

05:14why would updating training videos be insensitive even three years on a lot of his friends were

05:20still mourning his death and saw the videos as a way to keep his memory alive i'm sorry i thought

05:25rich

05:25died six months ago yeah he did i'm talking about the first time divers are searching for any

05:31signs of retired los angeles police officer richard rowley after a sailing trip gone wrong

05:37kosca responded to a distress call this morning from raleigh's wife who says the 55 year old fell

05:44overboard after the sailboat he was captaining was struck by a rogue wave anytime someone disappears from

05:51a boating trip it automatically sets off alarm bells why is that it's just an ideal place to cover

05:55up crime throw a body overboard weigh it down the likelihood of us recovering it before it becomes fish

06:01food is low and the circumstances were suspicious by all accounts rich was a skilled sailor it was a

06:07calm day and the only witness to his demise was darla phillips his on again off again girlfriend who

06:13he married five days prior so you suspected foul play not necessarily but we couldn't rule it out

06:21why wasn't rich wearing a light vest he never did he was a strong swimmer he must have hit his

06:27head

06:28when he fell why didn't you jump in after him i'm scared of dark water dark water water you can't

06:34see

06:34the bottom of just blackness with condoms what lurking below you stand to inherit rich's entire police

06:42pension that's quite a bit of money how dare you i just watched the love of my life die in

06:49front of

06:50me we don't know that for sure yet they haven't found his body unless you know more that you're not

06:58telling us go to hell this interview was over did it ever occur to you that rich might still be

07:04alive

07:04as we said we couldn't rule anything out but there was no evidence that he'd faked his death until he

07:10turned up dead again needless to say we had a few more questions for darla helping someone fake

07:15their death isn't a crime i checked you're right but profiting off of that death collecting rich's

07:20pension and his life insurance that's fraud not to mention the resources that were wasted trying to

07:26recover his body he could be facing some serious charges so tell us why did rich want to fake his

07:33death

07:35after rich retired he kind of fell apart his drinking got worse and his paranoia

07:42he was always a little intense but it started to get scary he covered all his windows with newspapers

07:51started writing down the license plates of passing cars what was he so afraid of he said there was this

07:58group like a secret society of dangerous and powerful people he'd been on to them for years

08:06and he said that they found out about him that he was in danger because of it it was too

08:11much for me

08:12so i broke up with him and then a year later he showed up on my doorstep and asked me

08:18to help him fake

08:19his death in return for his pension i needed the money so we got married and we did the deed

08:27and i never

08:28saw him again so you have no idea why there was a coffin in his garage we'll probably hold this

08:35piece of the puzzle until the end of the first act you know hit the audience with a twist when

08:38it's

08:38dramatically expedient yeah seems manipulative all good storytelling is but just tell us about finding

08:44the coffin uh so once i arrived and we secured the crime scene we cleared the rest of the house

08:50and then we moved on to the garage oh oh you don't think there's a body in there i absolutely

09:01do

09:02okay are we gonna open it because i don't want to open it what do you think i mean it's

09:09clearly been

09:09dug up given the state of the coffin it's clearly been underground for a few years if there is

09:14a body in there it's likely long dead unless unless what unless he put a fresh victim in an old

09:21coffin

09:25oh okay got it oh oh god

09:34the body belonged to a 54 year old truck driver named marcus ford who was the victim of an unsolved

09:41homicide back in 2020. how was he killed uh he was stabbed in the heart just like rich

09:48wait rich murdered marcus ford did i just solve the case no we were able to alibi rich out he

09:56was

09:56hospitalized with double pneumonia the day marcus died medical records say he was so weak that uh he

10:01could barely get out of bed or that's what he wanted you to think moving on digging up a body

10:06is no easy

10:06task why would rich guard all that trouble initially we thought it was simply the demented act of a

10:12clearly disturbed mind and in some ways it was but then we found the tattoo at first it was a

10:19little

10:19bit difficult to make out exactly what it was a half a decade of decomp does a number on the

10:25skin but when

10:26we look back at the case file there was a photo of it taken during the original autopsy that's actually

10:31kind of sick i wonder if there's a way to track down the artist i've been meaning to start the

10:35sleeve

10:35on my other arm like uh to my collaborators point lots of people have tattoos what was it about this

10:42one that jumped out at you well something about it was familiar to both of us but we couldn't place

10:47it so we started asking around and the answer couldn't come from a more unlikely place i watched the

10:55rich rally training videos more than any person alive so i recognize the symbol immediately

11:02sometimes citizens panic and they can't get in touch with their friends or loved ones that is why

11:07we always advise the public to wait 24 hours before reporting someone missing well most missing

11:14person reports stem from a lapse in communication every once in a while you'll encounter a true workable case

11:21officer help my sister is missing when's the last time you saw her last night at the bar her boyfriend

11:27said she never made it home you always want to take a report like this one seriously so rich did

11:34the

11:34same symbol in his training videos that was tattooed on the body of a murder victim what did you think

11:38that meant uh i don't know i can't believe i'm saying this but smitty was right in lesson 187 the

11:46tattoo

11:46symbol was hidden in the background although the instructions to wait 24 hours before reporting a missing

11:52person are wildly outdated uh anyways it got me thinking what if rich put messages in other videos

11:59what kind of messages i'm not totally sure yet i binged every single rich training video i could get

12:04my hands on yeah it's been a fun few nights and i did find a few other possible leads but

12:09there's

12:09a problem the department's archive is incomplete and without all of the videos i i can't be sure that

12:13i'm not missing a vital piece of information so what happened to the missing videos so when the

12:17training topics and the videos become outdated because of new laws or protocols the department

12:23has to make new ones and obsolete videos are supposed to be digitized and archived for historical record

12:30but riches were just gone gone and destroyed like a cover-up no one's saying that most likely it was

12:37a

12:37human error you know someone got lazy didn't archive them i tried reaching out to the production company

12:43that uh made the videos to see if they had any copies left bad news is they went out of

12:48business

12:48a few years back and auctioned off all their equipment what's the good news well i managed to

12:55track down the auction logs and i actually know the person who purchased these studios old hard drives

13:01careful i'm very ticklish like the pillsbury doughboy same i hear it's um a sign of intelligence is that

13:08a fact then i am smart as the dickens so you purchased hard drives from speak now studios yeah a

13:15dropout

13:16was still in its infancy i was building the company from the ground up we had to be smart about

13:20how we

13:21were spending our money we bought a huge amount of equipment secondhand hard drives cameras wigs

13:26but what wait you bought secondhand wigs give them a little shake before we put them on that's awesome

13:31do you still have that wig connect because i'd love a referral my guy is

13:36back on track uh the hard drives you bought contain police training videos did you happen to watch any

13:41of them of course rich rowley right we were obsessed with those videos we probably watched them like a

13:47dozen times i'm rich rally and this is survive the streets that's great vick can do the best

13:53impression do you think you'd be able to make copies for us i totally would but i can't because

13:59we wiped all of those hard drives to use as servers months ago sorry i couldn't be more help you'll

14:05still feature this interview right yeah probably not wait you said you and the dropout crew watched

14:12the video like dozens of times right yes sometimes on an edible mostly sober i have an idea okay so

14:19then

14:19be like don't forget to check the closet you'll die so i don't know i think it's a little bit

14:23more

14:23like like if you forget to check the closet freddie jason and chucky will rip off your scrum okay i

14:28think there's less foot stuff i feel like he's like and then your crazy met the ex-girlfriend who's been

14:34hiding in the hallway closet will chainsaw your face when you get home because you forgot to clear

14:39the room clear the room check the room i think he was so close to pulling that a gun what

14:44are you guys

14:44doing that's a great question they're uh they're reenacting the police training videos since you

14:47guys wiped them off your hard drive oh the rich rally ones those are so funny i actually stole one

14:53of the hard drives so i could watch it when i'm in the tub a little self-care you know

14:57trying to relax

14:58a little more it's not working can we have it if you want to borrow it i could you know

15:02no i think this is

15:03actually working you could okay i'll keep this up the riffing clearing the room help us okay i finally

15:09finished watching all of the rich training videos and there is a lot um take lesson 277

15:19my azaleas a cold case where victim azalea robinson was found stabbed near a ski resort you're kidding

15:26no and in lesson 290 rich is holding a folder with a post-it note on the back with a

15:32brown star

15:32drawn on it i'm lost right so i looked up the cold cases to see if there were any victims

15:37with names like

15:39star or stella and there was one hit stella brown also found stabbed in the chest in all lucy found

15:47clues pointing to seven different quote cases but why was rich hiding the names of murder victims in

15:52police training videos based on what we could piece together he believed he had stumbled upon a

15:56conspiracy a series of connected murders committed by person or persons unknown if that were the case why not

16:02just report his suspicion he was a cop for 30 years well rich had a bit of a reputation within

16:08the department for shall we say magical thinking so unfortunately his theory was dismissed out of hand

16:16but why did he think the murders were connected well for starters they were all stabbed in the chest

16:20but more importantly each victim was found with a penny either in or on their person what do you mean

16:26in

16:26one had a penny in her stomach another had one shoved up his nose stella brown lucked out hers was

16:32just clasped in her hand and when we re-examined marcus ford's corpse the emmy found one inserted into

16:38the heel of his left foot why did we mention that they're all minted in 1930 okay well i just

16:45got goosebumps

16:45rich's autopsy also revealed that he had swallowed close to 50 pennies before he died gross so at this

16:52point was your theory i actually have no idea what the theory would have been yeah well i would tell

16:56you but we were way off the mark which we were about to discover when we got access to his

17:01cloud account

17:04okay i may have finally found it i'm so close to getting some real answers

17:12see that

17:25oh my god

17:30oh my god

17:35no no for a guy pretending to be dead breaking into a secure military facility doesn't seem like

17:44the best idea no he wasn't just breaking into any military facility it was area 67. what does that

17:51mean that's where the government keeps the aliens so rich broke into a secret government base on the hunt

18:02for a massive conspiracy then stabbed himself in the chest i mean at that point it's obvious what

18:07happened is it come on remember what rich said right before he died i can't die it's inside it won't

18:14let

18:15me die yeah i'm not following rich was exposed to an alien parasite it was inside him were you familiar

18:23with area 67 i'd heard of it yeah there's this am radio station i used to listen to back in

18:30foxburg kept

18:30awake when i was working late the host was obsessed with ufos val's velvet bunker that's the one yeah

18:37i he was a little bit out there but uh always entertaining area 51 is theater do you believe

18:45do you really believe the most secretive military installation of the world would let itself become

18:52a tourist attraction no no no no area 51 is the distraction area 67 is the real deal

19:00you know why california has all those earthquakes it's not san andreas fault my friends it's the sonic

19:07resonance from area 67 underground testing chambers did you believe in his theories no no uh like i said

19:15just entertainment let's hear from a caller hi name's john long time listener fourth time caller hey john

19:20from foxburg welcome back what have you got for us tonight i swear to god i just saw a ufo

19:28john is such a common name i'm open to the possibility of extra trust your life you are

19:35yeah there's a big universe anything could be out there i don't know people who claim to have seen

19:40aliens tend to be a little off you're friends with the corpse right well yeah we were more than friends

19:45but fair enough okay legally is it necrophilia if she only did over the clothes stuff that's a great

19:51question oh i definitely believe in fact i've been abducted by aliens really multiple times apparently

20:01i'm a fascinating subject i remember the last time smitty was abducted turns out he partied too

20:07hard in vegas and woke up in wisconsin missing time one of the hallmarks of alien abductions

20:14had been strictly point is the government had little gray men in their secret labs for decades what

20:22are they doing with them they're implanting the aliens and unsuspecting hosts and taking over their

20:27bodies you just never know who might be one of them some people in the station believed rich dabbed

20:35himself to kill an alien parasite but i wouldn't say that was a dominant theory it wasn't long before we

20:42figured out rich believed something darker and it was connected to the seven murders then why did

20:48rich break into the army base yes i remembered the incident rich rowley cut through a fence he

20:53trespassed on government property he was promptly apprehended and sent on his way do you have any

20:59idea what rich was looking for uh as it turns out he was looking for me but not because of

21:05any alleged

21:05aliens so why did he come uh this part is uh is a little bit embarrassing um before i found

21:16my calling in the military i

21:17thought that i wanted to be an actor and uh i was in a few dtv movies what's dtv you're

21:24so young

21:25uh direct-to-video they made all these super cheap movies back in the 80s and 90s you make them

21:31as cheaply as possible and then hope that someone was drawn in

21:34enough by the cover art to rent them a guy can't have a side gig totally how did you get

21:39into acting

21:40some director scouted me when i pulled him over he said i had a ditch and bod but it wasn't

21:47wrong

21:47but i gave it up because the people of this city needed a savior yeah you are the model of

21:54public service

21:56right anyway rich became interested in this terrible b movie uh that i was in i played a monk it's

22:03called

22:04300 days of hell

22:09terrible b movie that's what you called it 300 days of hell is the scariest film of the 1990s really

22:15the ring screen blair witch project which one of us executive produced a horror movie trust me t-h-d

22:21-o-h

22:22is true nightmare fuel it's not that scary she may be watching the beginning of our relationship

22:27when he was still trying to impress me you want to watch it again tonight i would totally i do

22:37have

22:37plans though yeah i'm not watching that crap even if it is for a case i i see enough horror

22:44on the job

22:45that being said 300 days of hell was our first real window into the rabbit hole that rich had gone

22:51down

22:51a rabbit hole filled with demons or rather a demon so rich believed a demon had killed all those people

22:57no the killers were definitely human killers plural yeah there was different trace dna on all the

23:03bodies all from different subjects and none of them were in the system meaning the murders were committed

23:08by a group of people with shared beliefs a murder cult the cult believed a demon named malifus had

23:15been possessing people all across the city jumping from host to host and it was up to them to stop

23:20it

23:26the legend of malifus is centuries old the first mention we see of him is 1433's lesser grimoire of

23:34solomon by slovenian inquisitor terentius bruma a reference text of demons and their attributes

23:43gnarly right he's also known as the deceiver the infestor and demon of 300 days why

23:50once summoned to earth malifus won't rest until he finds a human host after possession begins

23:56he incubates 300 days what happens after 300 days he reaches full strength and his power becomes

24:05uncontainable uh-oh um if malifus was summoned to earth how would one stop him bruma suggests killing

24:14the host might slow malifus down forcing him to regenerate before he can find a new host

24:19a process that also can be slowed by the use of copper it was the pennies the pennies it all

24:27came

24:28back to the pennies before 1984 u.s pennies were 95 copper so the copper in the pennies was meant

24:34to

24:34bind the demon but what about the 1930 part are you familiar with numerology some ancient peoples and

24:43taylor swift believed there was a mystical connection between letters and numbers using

24:50the chaldean method the name malifus becomes a digit 1930 so you're saying we had a theory whoever

24:57killed those people believed the victims were possessed by malifus they had to reach malifus's

25:04host before he reached his true form a 1930 penny was the perfect tool yeah rich's talk of it's inside

25:10me it won't let me die he thought he was infested by this demon too and that's why he killed

25:16himself

25:16what wait i thought rich didn't believe in malifus isn't that why he was trying to stop the cult yes

25:21but i mean years of obsession and paranoia can do a number on a person's psyche i mean it seems

25:26as though

25:26in the end rich could no longer distinguish fantasy from reality and you got this theory from rich's

25:31files well i mean we actually got it from opus and they say watching old horror movies isn't a good

25:37use

25:38of time i never said that are we safe brother is malifus banished his sigil is drawn the right

25:55is spoken we have sealed his last human vessel with copper

26:06heaven forgive us indeed for hell will not midnight the 300th day our task will start none too soon

26:47yeah that was me

26:51do you guys want a glass oh you got anything stronger

26:56fine i'll just take the glass okay i'll just i'll have nothing actually no fun for me yeah that was

27:04my first big movie role well my only one really rich was so excited when i told him i booked

27:12it

27:13he helped me run lines did rich buy into the malifus mythology no weirdly given all the

27:19conspiracies that rich believed in he was a total atheist but i wouldn't have blamed him after

27:25everything that happened on that shoot like what

27:30before production wrapped the dp was paralyzed driving to set a stunt person had his leg amputated

27:36there were divorces bankruptcies careers ended one of the actors even died in his hotel room people

27:44say the production was cursed what about you what do you believe i believe the real curse was the director

27:52he was a reckless maniac that didn't know how to run a set

27:55whoops cuts cuts

27:58Arthur Arthur Arthur your strangulation it has to be

28:03real i want to feel a life draining from him and you you you cannot move from your position not

28:10even an inch

28:11guys this ritual is extremely specific okay let's go again okay i thought i was choking you pretty well i'm

28:20sorry okay i'm gonna choke you a little harder ready

28:22Douglas was real touchy about the religious stuff.

28:26I guess he had grown up in some sort of commune.

28:28And this was all based on stories he was told growing up.

28:31Okay, but what I heard is that they accidentally summoned Malifus for real.

28:35The director found some ancient tome and inserted the incantation and rituals verbatim.

28:41Ooh, I love that.

28:42And that's what got me thinking about the penny killings.

28:45We found the first victim just a little under 300 days after the summoning ritual was filmed.

28:50We knew Rich was aware of the Malifus legends.

28:52It was only natural to link them.

28:54So Rich thought that penny victims were killed by people trying to stop Malifus.

28:58Was he able to identify any of these killers?

29:00We know he tried.

29:03Hi.

29:03Hey, how are you?

29:04Jared.

29:05Hello.

29:06Wow.

29:08It's a pleasure to meet you, gentlemen.

29:09Pleasure to meet you, too.

29:11Why don't you tell us about yourselves?

29:12Yeah, we co-starred on a TV show together for 15 seasons called Supernatural.

29:21Yeah, we played Sam and Dean Winchester, brothers that, uh, you know, tracked and fought supernatural

29:28beings.

29:29Like K-pop demon hunters?

29:30No.

29:31No.

29:31Not like that.

29:32I mean, kind of like that.

29:35Okay.

29:36Can you tell us about your encounter with Rich Rowley?

29:38Yeah, yeah, yeah.

29:40Rich Rowley.

29:40He came to a fan event we did last year, um, at MonsterCon.

29:46Yeah, you know, those people show up and they just want, uh, the autograph for a photo.

29:50Uh, but Rich was a different beast altogether.

29:55Yeah, yeah.

29:56He was, he was super fixated on this one particular episode where we fought a demon.

30:01Malathus.

30:02Yeah.

30:03Uh, that one.

30:04Anyway, he seemed to think we, like, knew more about it than we were saying.

30:10More about what?

30:11Demon hunting.

30:12Uh, he kept, like, asking these super pointed questions like, like he was, uh, testing us

30:19or something.

30:19Did you have an answer?

30:20No.

30:22No, I mean, we didn't, we didn't come up with these stories, you know, we just did what

30:25the writers wrote.

30:26It's called acting.

30:27There's no actual demon hunters in real life.

30:30Exactly.

30:31Uh, that's not exactly true.

30:33There is at least one.

30:35And it actually connected to the movie.

30:39We heard the director brought a priest named Father Simon McCabe to bless the set every

30:43day before filming?

30:44Well, it was either that or the whole crew was going to walk.

30:47Does that name mean anything to you?

30:51About 15 years ago, Lopez and I had just finished our rookie years.

30:55We responded to a, call it a house, of a priest doing an exorcism with a 16-year-old girl.

30:59Had been going on for three days.

31:04Police!

31:07Help her!

31:08Please!

31:12Excuse me.

31:14Speak to yourself.

31:15I mean...

31:16Get away from her!

31:19Mother, forgive me.

31:27Did you feel like you'd seen the devil?

31:29The only thing in that room that belonged in hell was Father Simon.

31:32He kept saying he had to.

31:34The whole way to the station.

31:35I'm sorry, I had to.

31:37I'm sorry I had to.

31:38Because he believed she was possessed.

31:40She had a brain tumor.

31:42That's what they found after the autopsy.

31:44She needed a doctor, not an exorcism, and he wasn't a man of God.

31:48He was a killer.

31:48The courts agreed.

31:50The courts agreed.

31:50So Father Simon was convicted of first-degree murder.

31:53When we processed him, we found a penny in his pocket.

31:56Nothing else, just a penny.

31:57It didn't mean anything at the time, but after Rich connected those seven murders, it seemed

32:01likely he was involved.

32:02Not involved, like he killed them?

32:04No, Simon was already in prison when five of the murders took place, and his DNA didn't

32:09match any that was found on the corpses.

32:11But he could have been part of whatever group Rich was so afraid of.

32:15Which means he knew more than he had told us, so we had to go back.

32:21Officers, I remember you.

32:22You were the ones who tried to stop the ritual.

32:25I wish we would have gotten here sooner.

32:26Becca Scott might still be alive.

32:28Oh, she was long gone before you arrived.

32:30The demon saw to bat.

32:32Malifus?

32:34Do not say its name in my presence.

32:36Boy, are you afraid we might accidentally summon it?

32:39You may scorn me and my beliefs, but I have fought this evil.

32:44I know enough to fear its power.

32:46What's more evil than murdering a child?

32:49I took no pleasure in the act.

32:51I'm grateful I had the courage to do what was necessary.

32:54Courage?

32:54Tell us about the penny that was in your pocket.

32:58In the movie, 300 Days of Hell, Malifus is sealed inside his host with copper before he can be killed.

33:03Banished, not killed.

33:05What's the difference?

33:07The demon is a parasite.

33:10He needs a host.

33:11Once you kill the body that inhabits it, find a new one.

33:15Becca Scott was just a single battle in a larger war.

33:19If you're in here, who's doing the fighting now?

33:23The Knights of Avila.

33:25Los Angeles has a long history of spiritualism, esoteric religions that go back over 100 years.

33:31So think Aleister Crowley, Jack Parsons, L. Ron Hubbard.

33:35He freaking loves this stuff.

33:37I do.

33:38Anyway, a lot of these groups started out as fraternal orders, similar to the Freemasons, where people would gather and

33:45share.

33:45Well, yeah, yes, and some women, and they would share new ideas, explore philosophies.

33:52They also liked partying, doing drugs, and performing weird sex rituals.

33:57Sign me up.

34:00For the intellectual exchanging of ideas, obviously.

34:03So the Knights of Avila is one of these groups?

34:05It was.

34:06Like a lot of the similar organizations at the time, it fell apart when the founder died.

34:10It hasn't been active in 60 years?

34:13Then what was Father Simon talking about?

34:14Based on Tim and Lopez's conversation with Father Simon, we began to believe that the group, or at least the

34:21name,

34:22had been revived sometime in the late 90s to the early 2000s, and rebranded as some kind of demon hunting

34:30cult.

34:30So Rich was actually right.

34:32There was a murderous cabal after him.

34:34It seemed that way, and we were getting close to discovering who their ringleader was.

34:42I found him.

34:43You found who?

34:44Doug Roberts.

34:45I want to fill a life, training for him!

34:47Oh, you mean the director of the sad little demon porn?

34:50Where?

34:50I was going through some old industry trades from around the time THDOH was slated to come out.

34:55One of the articles mentioned that Roberts was a client of Stuart Wynecliffe at the Golden Talent Agency.

35:00If the guy hasn't made a movie in 26 years, I doubt they still read him.

35:02Not actively, no, but I called their offices, and I bribed or, like, I talked one of the assistants into

35:09giving me the address where his residual checks are sent.

35:11It's downtown.

35:11Let's go!

35:12Uh, hold on.

35:13You just want to go doorstep the guy?

35:15If that means go knock on a door while also filming, then yes.

35:18Yeah, I'm not in the business of gotcha journalism.

35:19What about the business of making that paper?

35:24The guap?

35:25Money, guy.

35:27Come on, the doc business is oversaturated these days.

35:29We need footage that P.O.P.s.

35:31And what pops more than blindsiding a potential cult leader?

35:35Come on.

35:36What's the worst that could happen?

35:39This is it.

35:41Okay.

35:42Um, uh, here.

35:43Here's your camera.

35:44Um, I don't operate.

35:46Oh.

35:47Okay.

35:50Now, you do.

35:53Let's go.

35:56What floor is it on?

35:58Eight, but, uh, there's an elevator.

35:59Don't worry.

36:06Are you sure it's that way?

36:08Yep.

36:10Nope.

36:11You know, at the risk of being called a scaredy cat,

36:14you do understand that this is inherently neither a wise nor safe activity?

36:19You're asking a woman if she understands that it's inherently dangerous to go anywhere or do anything?

36:25When you put it that way, I sound like an ass.

36:29Well, that's a new one.

36:31Do you tell me?

36:32Maybe we should come back?

36:34Hey, hello, Douglas Roberts.

36:36We're here to question you about murders and demons.

36:40That should get his attention.

36:42Oh.

36:44I am just an intern.

36:48So, clearly we're not deceased, which means...

36:51We saved you from certain deaths?

36:53I'm not sure how certain it was, babe.

36:55Oh, it felt pretty certain to me.

36:57Please don't kill us.

36:57We will join your cult.

36:59Is there a membership fee or a secret handshake?

37:01I love a secret handshake.

37:02Ignore her.

37:03She's not right in the head.

37:04In fact, she has short-term memory issues, so if you let her go now, she won't remember any of

37:07this.

37:07Just shut up.

37:08No one's going anywhere.

37:09I mean, technically, we're all going somewhere.

37:16All right, let her go.

37:17Get your hands up.

37:18Up against the jeep now.

37:20Let's go.

37:28Thanks for trying to save me, even though I'm the one who put us in danger.

37:32No problem.

37:34I was about to do the same thing, but you just beat me to it.

37:38I can be noble, too.

37:39No doubt.

37:40Yeah.

37:40Oh.

37:41I get very claustrophobic.

37:42Can I just point out how claustrophobic I get, please?

37:44So, when did you and Douglas meet?

37:47The movie.

37:48He was, you know, so commanding and driven and everything I wasn't.

37:53When did he start talking about killing the demon?

37:56It was at least a year after that.

37:58He would call me late at night and talk about the demon and how scared he was for the world.

38:04And eventually, it started to make sense.

38:07And he told you that someone was possessed?

38:10Correct.

38:11Her name was Cynthia.

38:14She cried when I tied her up, and she kept saying that she was not a demon.

38:19She begged me to believe her, and at that point, he was very deep in my head.

38:29And then tonight, you know, all the lies he was spewing at the end, it was like somebody turned on

38:34the light switch.

38:35I could just see him for who he was.

38:38So pathetic.

38:42We'll need you to write up a detailed confession.

38:49I would like to make a deal.

38:53We have already located your co-conspirators.

38:55You don't really have anything to offer.

38:59You don't want to know what an alien spaceship looks like?

39:03I am all that stands between the world and damnation.

39:09So all of the people that you had targeted, they had to die for the greater good?

39:14Yes, and my heart breaks for each of them.

39:18But I will not let innocence fall to perdition.

39:21Okay.

39:22Have you had your fill of BS?

39:24God, yes.

39:25Okay, me too.

39:25So, uh, first victim.

39:29Cynthia Green.

39:30You dated for two years before she cheated on you.

39:32Marcus Ford.

39:33He worked as a teamster on your movie, then later sued you for non-payment.

39:38Pamela Jones wrote a scathing review of your movie.

39:42I had no idea.

39:45All seven victims were people who wronged you in some way.

39:48You don't even believe in the demon.

39:50You just used it as a tool to get people with weak minds to do your dirty work for you.

39:57Exactly.

39:58I was the director.

39:59I think you'll find I never laid a finger on any of the victims.

40:04And I think he will find that Manson died in prison.

40:10All right, uh, anything else?

40:13No, I think we got everything.

40:15Okay.

40:17That was a crazy one, huh?

40:18Tell me about it.

40:19And look, thanks so much for all of your time and for saving our lives.

40:23Anything from my favorite documentarian?

40:25Actually, the only documentarian I know.

40:26Not true.

40:27I'm a documentarian, too.

40:28Of course, yes.

40:29Oh, speaking of, how did this whole working together thing go?

40:34Is this the start of a beautiful friendship?

40:36I don't know.

40:38I mean, we have very different styles and instincts and, well, basically everything.

40:42But I'd be able to do another collaboration.

40:47Oh, um, it's just I, uh, I kind of signed an exclusive three-film deal with Hulu.

40:54What?

40:54Yeah, I, um, I sent them a sizzle reel of this project.

40:57Just the me parts.

40:58And, uh, they freaked.

40:59Said I'm going to be the new face of true crime.

41:02Their words.

41:02Wow, I mean, you'd probably be able to bring him along, though, right?

41:07Oh, totally.

41:09Totally.

41:11I gotta go.

41:12But, uh, thanks again.

41:14Hello?

41:15No, I said Toronto and then camp.

41:19She'll probably call you.

41:20Bye.

41:22Bye.

41:23Bye.

41:26Bye.

41:28Bye.

41:30Let's go.

42:00Let's go.

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