Slasher (TV Series)

An Eye for an Eye (2016)

Patrick Garrow: Tom Winston

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• Sarah Bennett : You're probably wondering why I'm here. I know your reasons, or what you think your reasons were, for killing my parents.

  Tom Winston : Okay.

  Sarah Bennett : Now I want you to know what my life's been like without them. There's been a void, filled with grief and guilt and sadness. I grew up without parents because of you. I don't know who I am because of you.

  Tom Winston : Why do you feel the need to tell me about your life?

  Sarah Bennett : Excuse me?

  Tom Winston : Not that I'm not interested. I've kept tabs on you over the years, best I could.

  Sarah Bennett : What do you think you're doing?

  Tom Winston : I'm trying to understand what you hope to achieve by visiting me. Catharsis? Is that it?

  Sarah Bennett : I shouldn't have come here.

  Tom Winston : I get it, confront your demons. Dime-store pop psychology. But I'm afraid it's not that cut and dry. You wanna put the past behind you, Sarah? I can help you with that. It's not an intellectual exercise. Can't fix yourself with your mind. You have to immerse yourself in the past, Sarah. All of it. Find out what was going on in your parents' lives 30 years ago. Find what was buried in that house. No one, after lighting a lamp, puts it in a cellar so that those who enter may see the light.

  Sarah Bennett : We're done here.

• Tom Winston : McBride died for a reason. Why?

  Sarah Bennett : I don't know.

  Tom Winston : How did she die? Newspaper said blood loss, but how, exactly?

  Sarah Bennett : He cut off her hands. And her feet.

  Tom Winston : Now, why would he do that?

  Sarah Bennett : 'Cause he's crazy.

  Tom Winston : [laughing again]  That's right, Sarah. Get it all out of you. All the judgment, all the righteousness. Shake it out! Now put your emotions aside and get into the mind of this killer. Cutting off limbs: why?

  Sarah Bennett : Is it a punishment? Like in Saudi Arabia, when... when you steal, they...

  Tom Winston : They just cut off hands, nothing else. Still, what did she take? Sarah?

  Sarah Bennett : Video tapes. Her husband, he was in some of them.

  Tom Winston : So you found them.

  Sarah Bennett : You knew what they were doing.

  Tom Winston : But Verna McBride's sin wasn't greed or envy. The punishment does not match the crime.

  Sarah Bennett : What are you talking about?

  Tom Winston : I'm talking about the punishment for the sin of anger. To be dismembered, alive.

  Sarah Bennett : This all goes back to the Bible?

  Tom Winston : Hmm. The Bible, Dante, Pope Gregory the Great, St. Thomas Aquinas. Verna McBride paid the price of her sin with her life. So if I were you, I'd start looking there.

  Sarah Bennett : This person's following in your footsteps, finishing what you started. Why would you want to help stop it?

• Tom Winston : Back already. Something happen?

  Sarah Bennett : You know what happened. Are you behind this? Is it the work of one of your protégés?

  Tom Winston : No.

  Sarah Bennett : Really? 'Cause he was dressed exactly the same way that you were dressed the night you murdered my parents. Don't tell me you didn't plan this.

  Tom Winston : I don't receive visitors here, except for you and the occasional cop or lawyer, and of course, my religious counsel.

  Sarah Bennett : What about e-mail? Regular mail?

  Tom Winston : I don't send mail. Most of the mail I do get, I don't read. Never had an e-mail account. Warden can verify all this if you don't believe me.

  Sarah Bennett : Then who's behind this?

  Tom Winston : Who? I have no idea. But I might be able to help you figure out why. First question I'd ask is why did Verna McBride deserve to die?

  Sarah Bennett : She didn't.

  Tom Winston : [laughing]  Sarah, Sarah. If you're gonna catch him, or her...

  Sarah Bennett : Who said anything about catching?

  Tom Winston : ..then you're gonna have to start thinking like him.