Flashes of terrifying imagery.
He seems to be looking out through a screen, or a fence.
Some kind of box.
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Then he startles awake.
Your lawyer friend filed papers in district court.
See how that goes.
See, were the biggest employer in the county.
Gotta lot of friends, too.
I spent eight months in a sandbox.
We were on cleanup duty, they werent ready to see Saddam go.
There was one guy, Republican Guard, no name, just like you.
Everybody thought he was mute.
Reeves smiles: So we fed him his own teeth.
By time we got to his molars, he had a name.
And a list of other names, too.
The kid finally speaks.
He has a name…
He has a name written on him which no one knows except himself.
But wait, theres more: He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood.
And his name is called the word of God.
Reeves backs out of the cell.
The torturer has become the tormented.
Elsewhere, Henry Deaver is going to his fathers relocated grave with Alan Pangborn.
Ungrateful, Pangborn snarls.
For pulling me out of the woods?
What were you doing out there?
11 days, I was presumed dead.
I didnt see it that way.
You were out there for my mother.
How long has this been going on, 30 years?
Maybe thats why you sent him up here.
Did he know about you two?
Pangborn leaves, and Henry marks his fathers grave with a large orange X.
A visitor wants to free him because he doesnt believe the man is truly evil.
Im thinking about moving to Houston.
We could be closer to your boy.
Im good right where I am, she says.
He still doesnt want to take it.
Taking it means you have to take their version of the story.
And from there it goes from a kidnapping to a clerical error, Henry says.
You dont know what its like hearing those doors lock behind you, Zalewski says.
I didnt see it until I found that [kid in the] tank.
But Im a prisoner in there, too.
Henry asks him to hold off on all that until after the mystery mans hearing.
You cannot be a disgruntled employee.
Zalewski is plenty disgruntled, though.
They always say Castle Rock has some kind of luck.
Its not luck though, is it?
Bad things happen here because bad people know theyre safe here.
How many times can one town look the other way?
In the background, a guard is beating a prison who shrieks: Whatd I do?
As soon as I testify were both getting out, Zalewski says.
He offers his fist to the kid.
The kid looks at it, uncertain.
Zalewski shows him how to bump.
But a strange look passes his face when his fist collides with the mystery mans.
Matthew Deaver, Henrys father, was the pastor holding the memorial service for the prisoners who died.
Then he finds articles about his disappearance: Few answers after boys rescue.
And … Henry Deaver Case Still Open Local Resident Vincent Desjardin Not Charged.
Sitting with his mother Ruth, Henry asks her about Desjardin.
People used to say there were Nazis hiding out in the forest.
Satanists who slaughtered their own pigs.
His wife died in childbirth.
Then it was just him.
Henry says Vince has a felony conviction from the late 80s, but the record is sealed.
He was released from prison a month before Henry disappeared.
Where did you think I was those 11 days.
Why didnt we ever talk about it?
You want to talk, okay, lets talk you sending me off to Texas, she says.
Thats what Alan told me.
I may be old, but Im not stupid.
This is my home, and I leave it in a box.
But that, Im afraid, is not The Box that gives this episode its title.
Molly is selling Warden Lacys old home.
As she talks, the homebuyer is staring at a painting of the lake made by Lacy.
Would they consider including the art?
he says, mesmerized.
He drives down the wooded driveway to a dilapidated home that is being reclaimed by nature.
Inside, a piano has crashed through the rotted floor.
(Remember this for something that happens in Episode 5.)
Outside the home, he finds a wooden crate with a small screen cut into the door.
Inside the box is a metal dish and a spoon.
His brother Vincent did have a criminal conviction, but it was for insurance fraud.
He cut off two of his own fingers.
Why did Josef keep the files?
I wanted to know what they said about me, he says, matter-of-factly.
Making insinuations … You know, I never touched you.
This seems to confirm it.
He kept Henry in that box at one time.
All the old secrets are being unearthed, including Henrys father.
His casket arrives at the church just as Ruth, Henrys mother, happens to be walking by.
She looks stricken to see it, which is the only normal reaction.
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Back at his home, Henry confronts Alan Pangborn with this new information.
Why didnt you do your job?
This should have been investigated further.
I know, Henry, Pangborn tells him.
He told me, the day before he died, right up there in that room.
He was half dead, but still awake, with a tube down throat.
So he wrote it out on a bank slip, all capital letters: HENRY DID IT.
Next morning, the reverend was dead.
Pangborn says he protected the boy.
I kept the DA guessing.
Made sure they didnt have the balls to charge, with everyone looking at you.
Molly hears this conversation in her head.
Later, she comforts Henry: Whatever happened, it wasnt your fault.
You were just a kid.
Henry stays the night with her.
In the morning, he calls Dennis Zalewski and says the testimony is off.
He plans to accept the settlement.
Henry wants to go home.
Zalewski is just going on duty.
Most of the guards were in the process of torturing a prisoner when they died.
I want to testify, Zalewski says.
Then a flash-bang grenade lands at his feet.
Two guards appear and waste him with shotguns.
Those are the last words Zalewski will ever speak.
Remember in the previous episode when police said Warden Lacys car contained a pair of large rubber kitchen gloves?
