Slasher (TV Series)

As Water Is Corrupted Unless It Moves (2016)

Dean McDermott: Chief Iain Vaughn

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• Chief Iain Vaughn : All right, so here's the update. We traced the truck back to Trent McBride. But when my guys got there to question him... they found him dead.

  Sarah Bennett : That's a pit of snakes.

  Chief Iain Vaughn : Brought in a herpetologist; she identified a bunch of difference species. Four of them venomous, the others just common snakes like garter snakes. There's a nasty little thing called a blue racer. Then there's this guy.

  Sarah Bennett : The eastern brown snake.

  Chief Iain Vaughn : All the way from Australia. Second-deadliest snake in the world, right behind the inland taipan. My expert believes that it's the snake responsible for the bite that killed Trent McBride.

• Dylan Bennett : I don't get it. Why snakes?

  Chief Iain Vaughn : [simultaneously with Sarah]  It was sloth. You're thrown into a...

  Sarah Bennett : Because of biblical interest.

  Chief Iain Vaughn : Goes back to the seven deadly sins. Punishment for sloth is being thrown into a pit of vipers. Did I get that right, Sarah?

  Sarah Bennett : So, Trent's not the Executioner. He's a victim.

  Chief Iain Vaughn : Looks that way.

  Sgt. Cam Henry : Sloth? It does make sense. Trent McBride is the last person I'd call lazy. I mean, he was June's partner for years. He was a paramedic. He... he competed in a bunch of Ironmans.

  Chief Iain Vaughn : That's why we've got to look into this guy's past, see if he's got any skeletons hanging in his closet.

  Sarah Bennett : So you're back to square one. How many times is that now?

  Chief Iain Vaughn : Look, I get it, Sarah. You don't like me. You think I suck at my job. Well, lucky for me... I don't give a shit. You have yourself a nice day now.

• Chief Iain Vaughn : I told you, I went through all this footage. I didn't find anything.

  Sgt. Cam Henry : Look, top left-hand corner.

  [they see a pair of legs walking on the sidewalk] 

  Sgt. Cam Henry : There. That's Trent's ambulance. Now watch closely. She's still there.

  Chief Iain Vaughn : [as the ambulance leaves, another car pulls up]  Can you zoom in on this? Blow it up?

  Sgt. Cam Henry : No. Not on this. But that's the intersection.

  Chief Iain Vaughn : [watching Ariel get in]  Shit.

  Sgt. Cam Henry : Yeah. She got in the car. Now, I don't have plates, but... it's a start.

• Chief Iain Vaughn : Did Trent say where he saw Ariel last? What street was she on?

  June Henry : Sheridan, I think. Just outside of downtown. Sheridan and Market.

  Chief Iain Vaughn : All right, I'm gonna go to the vault, and I'm gonna pull all the closed-circuit TV footage that I filed from that night. Anything on Sheridan Street, I'll go through with a fine-tooth comb again.

  June Henry : I'm sorry.

  Sgt. Cam Henry : You're sorry?

  Sarah Bennett : Cam! Cam, you're not helping.

  Sgt. Cam Henry : June, you're sorry?

  Sarah Bennett : Cam.

  Sgt. Cam Henry : A 15-year-old girl went missing that night, June, and you protected the piece of shit who did that. *You* did!

• June Henry : It was five years ago. The night Ariel Peterson went missing. Me and Trent, we had worked an 18-hour shift. It was a long, brutal day. I was wiped, so... Trent dropped me off at home. He said he'd take the ambulance back and sign us both out. He told me he drove past Ariel on the way to the hospital. She was drunk. She'd been sick, and... and he knew if he picked her up, his 18-hour shift would turn into 22 by the time they processed her in the hospital. So he made sure she was okay... and left her to walk home. Ask any paramedic. When you come across a kid who's been drinking but who can still make it home, you... you turn a blind eye. Trent never imagined that...

  Chief Iain Vaughn : What? Ariel wouldn't make it home? That she'd just disappear?

  June Henry : No.

  Sgt. Cam Henry : You've known this for five years, June. You never thought to tell us?

  June Henry : I wanted to, but I... I promised Trent. This town would have never forgiven him if I told you what happened.

  Sgt. Cam Henry : So that's it, hmm? That's what you were worried about?