Sadie(72)
WEST McCRAY: Tags?
ELLIS JACOBS:
Tags like … they were cut out of shirts … and they had names—girl names—he’d written girls’ names on them. When I asked her what that meant … she said they were his trophies … his trophies from kids.
Sadie was one of the names.
WEST McCRAY:
Okay.
ELLIS JACOBS:
She didn’t say she was Sadie, though, and I didn’t even really think about it until you told me her name and then I remembered.
WEST McCRAY:
Okay, what happened after that?
ELLIS JACOBS:
Are you all right?
WEST McCRAY:
Yeah, just—what …
What happened after that?
ELLIS JACOBS:
She said Darren “did something” to her little sister, and he hurt kids, and that was the reason she was looking for him.
WEST McCRAY:
What did she mean by that?
ELLIS JACOBS:
She never said. I told her she should just call the police, get them to take care of it, if he was so bad … we fought about that.
WEST McCRAY:
She didn’t want to?
ELLIS JACOBS:
She didn’t want to. She made it out like she wanted to be sure he was there first, then she’d call the cops … but she had to be there because after everything he’d put her through, she needed to see it happen.
WEST McCRAY:
What did you do?
ELLIS JACOBS:
I bandaged up her arm … I mean, I bandaged it up as best as I could, which wasn’t very good, and then I sent her on her way.
WEST McCRAY:
You sent her to him.
You knew where he was.
ELLIS JACOBS:
Yeah.
WEST McCRAY:
Please tell me you called the police as soon as she left.
ELLIS JACOBS:
I didn’t.
WEST McCRAY:
Why wouldn’t you call them? Why talk to me and not the police?
ELLIS JACOBS:
Because I was—because I don’t know! Because if I sent them to Darren, and she was wrong, I betrayed a guy who was good to me! I can’t walk back from that! But if she was going there to call ’em herself, and if he really was guilty, then it was all going to work out anyway. I didn’t—I don’t know, man! It didn’t feel real, you know what I mean? I just wanted to forget about it. And then when Joe told me you were looking for a missing girl named Sadie, and I remembered that tag …
I don’t know.
WEST McCRAY:
My God, Ellis.
WEST McCRAY [STUDIO]: Farfield, Colorado is five days from Langford. When I’m done talking to Ellis, I prepare to drive there, but I’m stopped by the thought of Sadie, relentlessly moving from one place to the next, grief-stricken, guilty, exhausted and hurt. It’s hard to think of someone so vulnerable and alone.
It’s hard to think of her, so vulnerable and so alone.
WEST McCRAY [PHONE]: I don’t think I can do this.
DANNY GILCHRIST [PHONE]: Yes, you can.
WEST McCRAY [PHONE]: When Keith was in their lives, Mattie was about the same age as my—as my daughter. And Sadie was only eleven. He preyed on them and they’re just—they’re just kids, you know?
Who does that to a kid?
DANNY GILCHRIST [PHONE]: You slept any?
WEST McCRAY [PHONE]: Yeah.
DANNY GILCHRIST [PHONE]: Liar.
WEST McCRAY:
When I arrive in Farfield, it’s seven in the morning. Ellis told me the last place he knew Keith to be, the same address he gave Sadie, and when I pull up in front of that house, I don’t wait for nine o’clock before I knock on its front door.
[FOOTSTEPS, SOUNDS OF KNOCKING]
[SOUND OF DOOR OPENING]
FEMALE VOICE:
Can I help you?
WEST McCRAY:
Hi, there. I’m West McCray. I’m a journalist with WNRK and I’m looking for a missing girl. I have reason to believe she was in this area, at your house, actually, and I would really appreciate if you could give me your time and let me ask you a few questions about that.
FEMALE VOICE:
I don’t know anything about a missing girl.
WEST McCRAY:
It would’ve been a few months ago—
FEMALE VOICE:
Uh, look, I just got off work and I’m very tired and it’s very early … but maybe you could— WEST McCRAY:
Wait, I just need—just a—do you know this man?
WEST McCRAY [STUDIO]: I show her the picture of Keith. Darren.
FEMALE VOICE:
Oh my God.
WEST McCRAY: So you do know him? Is he here now? Was he?
FEMALE VOICE:
No. Yes—I mean … he was. But—
WEST McCRAY:
Where is he now?
FEMALE VOICE:
Well, he’s—
He’s dead.
LITTLE GIRL:
Mom?
THE GIRLS
EPISODE 8
[THE GIRLS THEME]
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