Wake up.
Hey, who's that?
That's what I'm trying to figure out.
Hey, yo.
Yo, Rip Van Winkle-- hey.
Hey.
Hi.
Look, I don't mean to be rude, but what are you doing?
Sleeping.
Yeah, I can see that.
But you can't do that here, all right?
Why not?
This seems as good a place as any.
Listen, there's a shelter down the street.
They've got clean beds and everything.
Um--
Thanks, but I don't belong in a shelter.
This-- this is where I belong.
Well, look, pal, this place is for cops and criminals, OK?
So, if you want to go down--
The former.
What?
The first one--
I'm a cop.
I just got assigned to this, uh, church.
Great.
Open mouth, insert foot.
Listen, we're really sorry.
We didn't know.
No apologies needed.
I like churches.
Name's Anthony McCann.
This is Judy Hoffs.
Joey Penhall--
Penhall?
No, is that really your name?
Yeah.
It's just that we have a Penhall here.
I know He's my brother.
Get-- are you joking?
No, I don't think so, unless my dad lied.
Come to think of it, Mac, he does look a little like Doug.
Yeah.
Need some help?
Hey, Captain, did you know Dough ad a brother?
Oh, yeah.
But I didn't know he was a cop until I
received his file yesterday.
Nice to have you with us, Joe.
Glad to be here, Captain.
Hey, what's everybody looking at?
Hey, big brother.
Long time no see.
[grunt]
[theme music]
OK, so I had a knuckle tattoo coming to me.
What could you possibly want?
What do you think I want?
We got a lot of catching up to do, big brother.
Who is it?
Understatement of the year--
what's your name?
Clavo.
What's next?
You got a wife or two in the other room?
Not anymore.
How you doing?
I'm Joe.
Nice to meet you.
Put her there, pup.
Clavo-- what a great name.
What does that mean?
It means nail.
You named your kid nail?
No.
But he is your son?
He's my nephew.
Who named him nail?
What the hell are you doing here, Joey?
You and me are related, Clavo.
So you're Doug's nephew.
So what does that make me?
Nothing.
Makes me your uncle-in-law.
It makes you nothing.
Clavo, why don't you go and wash up, OK?
Bye.
I'll see you, kid.
So you gonna invite me in, or what?
Like I got a choice.
You got five minutes.
Five minutes?
Five minutes to fill you in on five years?
Been through a lot, man.
Why don't you start with yesterday and work backwards.
How come all of a sudden you're a cop?
Simple, I thought it was time I did some good.
Next.
Just a coincidence you ended up in my unit?
It wasn't a coincidence.
I requested it.
Why?
You're the only family I got left.
Is there something wrong with me trying to get
my brother back into my life?
I get it.
All the bad stuff is over, all of a sudden you
want to be brothers again.
I am sorry.
You left me holding the bag.
Pop was dying, and you just left.
I was 15, man.
I was a kid.
I was 17. I was a kid, too.
But I tell you what.
Sitting there watching Pop drink himself to death
sure made me grow up fast.
Thanks a lot.
What can-- what can I say?
I made a mistake?
I blew it?
I didn't know how to handle it.
I didn't either, but I sure as hell didn't run away, did I?
You're right, man.
You were always the righteous one, and I was always trouble.
But I changed that.
I flipped that around.
Well, that makes me feel so much better.
Look at me. I'm a cop.
There are a lot of cops out there
who aren't so great at being people.
I learned a lot of hard lessons out there.
One of them is the importance of family.
I want my brother back.
You know, I've been waiting for this knock a long time.
[knocking]
I hardly left the house, because I didn't want to miss it,
that knock that meant that my brother came back.
I used to think about how long the speech would have to be,
with just the right combination of words,
before I'd let you back.
After a while, I realized that I didn't need that knock so bad,
and there wasn't any combination of words that was ever
going to make me forgive you.
It just got to the point where I didn't
want to hear that knock at all.
You should have put in a door bell.
You're a riot.
Get out.
Oh, come on!
You gotta give me a chance.
I don't gotta do nothing.
Please, I got no life except for you.
I got no one.
You got no brother.
CAPTAIN ADAM FULLER: So, what can I do for you?
This is my daughter, Stephanie.
Has something happened to her?
Yes.
She's, uh, got sucked in with a group of crazies called
Heaven's Family.
You know who they are?
Well, yes, I'm familiar with them.
They're, um, a religious group.
They're a damn cult. That's who they are.
They take people's kids away from them.
They mess with their heads.
They turn them against their parents.
I explained to Mr. Morgan that we
can't get his daughter out of a cult
if she doesn't want to come out.
I'm afraid that's true, Mr. Morgan.
You see, cults are protected under the law
as religious organizations.
I'm aware of that.
But what if these crazies are involved in illegal activities?
Such as?
Such as drug trafficking.
So, since when do you ask for volunteers, Captain?
This is going to be a 24 hour a day gig, guys.
Sounds good, major overtime.
Now, whoever goes into this group
will have to give up their personal life
for the entire time they're under.
That means no contact with friends, relatives, nothing.
Sounds like I'm your man, seeing
as I've got no pending engagements
with relatives or friends.
You sure?
Yeah.
All right, you're on.
The rest of you run the usual routine--
priors, ongoing, histories on both the Heaven's Family
organization and its leaders.
That's it.
You might be interested in the camp.
[interposing voices]
Oh, hi.
Hi.
I just saw the sign outside about everyone being welcome.
I--
Oh, yes.
Yeah, come in.
Uh, would you like some punch?
Yeah, that'd be great.
I'm Rachel.
Joey.
Nice to meet you, Joey.
So, you live around here?
Sort of.
Sort of?
Yeah, if you call sleeping in a doorway
down the street living around here.
Bummer.
What, don't you have a family?
No, no-- not one that wants anything to do with me.
I can relate.
I doubt it.
No, really, I--
I bet we have a lot in common.
Would you like to have dinner with me tonight?
Are you asking me for a date?
Let's just call it dinner.
I'd love to.
See, that's what Heaven's Family
is all about, making the world a better place for all people.
You know, we believe in replacing all the hate
in the world with love.
Everyone shares everything.
There's no greed and no loneliness.
There's no hate in our society, Joey.
We give our love freely.
Yeah, I'm going up to their camp for a weekend retreat.
CAPTAIN ADAM FULLER: [ON PHONE] Look,
I don't think that's a very wise move.
Why not?
Well, do you even know where this camp is?
JOEY: [ON PHONE] No, they won't tell me.
That's because they don't want anyone
coming up there after you.
Look, Captain, I'm not a sucker for this hocus pocus,
lovey-dovey crap.
There's no way they'll suck me in.
You don't have to be a sucker.
Now listen, Joe.
From what I hear, anyone can get sucked into a cult.
JOEY: Not me.
Besides, if I don't go, how else am I gonna
follow this narcotics lead?
I don't like it.
We'll be out of contact. - Come on, Joey.
The bus is leaving.
Don't worry, Annie.
I'll call you when I get back.
Don't cry on the phone.
It makes me ill.
[music playing]
Isn't the food here delicious?
Yeah, it's great.
It's great.
When's the protein coming out?
What do you mean?
Uh-- uh, protein-- meat, fish, poultry.
Oh, we don't eat meat here.
We only eat the foods that are grown organically on the farm.
That's nice.
This place is great.
Who pays for it?
Oh, we're totally self-sufficient.
We sell the things we make.
Like what?
Clothing, arts, and crafts.
Sell anything you grow?
Yeah, flowers.
We have three greenhouses here.
Flowers?
That's nice, too.
The whole thing's nice.
May I have your attention, please?
My name is Joshua.
I'm the group leader here at this camp.
On behalf of David, our spiritual leader,
welcome to Heaven's Family?
[applause]
It's hard to be a young person in this world today.
How many of our guests today can honestly
say, "I have love in my life"?
I mean real love, pure love.
Just raise your hands.
That's what I thought.
But we have to change that for any of us to survive.
We have to change that for this planet to survive.
We have to learn to accept love and reject hate.
You might want to hear this, too.
What have we got, Mac?
Computer on the Heaven's Family.
Anything?
It's clean, not one rap.
But there is a closed investigation listed in here.
I'm not gonna like this, am I?
About a week ago, Kyle Morgan went down to the 4-5
and reported that Heaven's Family
is running a prostitution ring.
Now, the CO didn't buy it, so they dropped it after a day.
Damn it.
Get Kyle Morgan in here.
I tried, but he's out of town on business.
He'll be back in a couple of days,
but he did leave a number.
Then call it.
Get him in here now.
[music playing]
Come on!
Mm, yes, It's 3:00 AM.
Don't you people ever sleep?
You're so cute.
Morning brings a new day, and a new day brings more love.
Morning brings a new day, and new day brings more love.
Morning, Joey.
Come on, get up.
It's a beautiful morning.
It's 5:00 AM!
Every hour spent sleeping is an hour wasted.
Well, if you don't mind.
I'd like to waste about eight more hours.
Come on, Joey!
We've got a busy weekend ahead of us.
[music playing]
My father only loved his work.
He never loved me.
One day, um, my best friend, she--
she ODed on crack cocaine.
Well, she died.
When I went home, all I wanted was just to cry--
cry on daddy's shoulder, but, you know, he didn't have time.
They called me nigger right before each kick.
My father beat me up a lot.
Whenever he had a bad day at the factory,
he'd come home and take it out on me.
Daddy would walk in on me when I was changing my clothes.
He'd make me pose for him--
naked.
JOSHUA: Come on, Joey.
Share your pain with us.
That's the only way to make it go away.
No-- no, I got a lot of baggage.
I'm-- I'm not sure I want to unpack it yet.
We want to help you, Joey.
Oh, please share with us.
Please?
I guess it couldn't hurt.
Um, my old lady died when I was four.
Actually, she killed herself.
JOSHUA: Don't stop, Joey.
Share.
Yeah, um, st-- starting when I was about six, my pop--
he was a minister.
He started drinking, boozing a lot.
And, by the time I was 15, he was really sick.
The doctor said he--
he, uh-- it was too late.
His liver was almost--
almost gone.
Me my brother-- we didn't know what to do.
I just couldn't sit there and watch my--
my father die.
I couldn't do it, so I took off.
JOSHUA: And that's when you came to us?
Uh, no.
No, no.
Actually, I was--
I was living in hotels and on the streets
for about five years, jumping from job to job, city to city.
Uh, then I decided to come home, and I got a job as a--
I got a job.
I, uh, cleaned myself up.
Then I tried to get back into my brother's life.
I figured we were the only family each of us had left.
We had to be together, right?
But he didn't see it that way.
He didn't want anything to do with me.
He shut me out.
JOSHUA: How did that make you feel, Joey?
Pretty dumb.
Uh, somehow I convinced myself that my brother would--
would welcome me with open arms instead of a--
a clenched fist.
When I was a kid, I thought the only thing family
was for was to share pain.
That was-- that was--
that was the only thing I knew when I was growing up.
But five years on the street changed my mind about that.
Five minutes with my brother changed it back.
You have a new family now, Joey.
Mr. Morgan, did you file a complaint
with another precinct accusing this group of prostitution?
Why?
Is this your signature?
Look, I did what I had to do.
Please try to understand.
We understand that you lied about the drug connection
to get us to investigate that group.
Well, I was only trying to get you to see how--
how awful these crazies are!
They took my little girl away.
Look, I can sympathize with you, Mr. Morgan.
But, according to the law, there's
nothing we can do about that.
It's all my fault, you know?
All I was giving her were material things.
I wasn't giving her love.
No one was.
How does that make it your fault?
Well, that's the way these cults work.
They find some kid who isn't getting any love
from her own family, and then they
take the place of the family.
CAPTAIN ADAM FULLER: Pull Joey out of there.
Right.
I'm going, too.
Repeat after me.
I now symbolize--
--my acceptance of love--
--and my rejection of hate.
--and my rejection of hate--
--by accepting my new name--
--and rejecting my old one.
Welcome.
[clapping]
Welcome to Heaven's Family, Abel.
DOUG: How did you find this place?
JUDY: Land deed showed up on the computer.
DOUG: A welcome party--
JUDY: I guess the guy at the gate mentioned we were cops.
Hello, officers.
Welcome to Heaven's Family.
We're looking for Joey Penhall.
I'm sorry, no one here goes by that name.
Is that right?
Am I going to have to tear apart the whole 20 acres
until I find him?
Do you have a warrant to do so?
I got your warrant right here.
Doug-- we don't want any trouble.
OK, officers.
Tell me, what do you want?
All we want is Joey Penhall.
If you let us have him, we'll close our investigation
that we're doing on you guys, and you
zombies can go back to doing whatever
it is that you guys do.
What we do here is perfectly legal.
And, furthermore, as I told you, no one here is named Joey.
I'm sorry you wasted so much time in coming up here.
Have a peaceful trip back.
I'm only going to say this once.
It's OK. It's OK.
We're not leaving without my brother.
What if I don't want to leave?
Joey--
That's not my name anymore.
My name is Abel.
You can drop the act now.
Mr. Morgan was lying about the drugs.
I knew that the first day I got here.
If you knew that, why didn't you report it?
Because I like it here.
These are good, honest people, and I'm loved here.
Oh, OK.
You're going to do this?
It's your little way of getting back at me, right?
OK.
You know, you and me can still be brothers.
We can still patch things up.
All you got to do is come home with me.
I live here.
This is my home.
This is not your home.
Come on!
Doug-- Doug!
What you're attempting is kidnapping.
Now that is a felony, officer.
- Is that what it is? - He's right, Doug.
Let's go.
Now get off our property, or I'll be forced to file charges.
Go ahead and file charges.
Does anybody have an idea how to get Joey out of there?
What about those deprogrammers that parents hire.
How do they work?
They kidnap the kid, take them,
lock them in a room for as long as it
takes to get through to them.
Does that work?
Last time I looked, kidnapping was still a felony, Penhall.
Yeah, somebody else just told me that.
Hey, we're cops, pal.
We stop kidnappings.
We don't do them.
Do you have an alternative?
What if it were your son?
Whatever you do, I don't want to know about it.
Captain, I'm going to need the interrogation room this weekend
to interrogate a suspect.
It's yours.
I already canceled my weekend plans.
Never had any.
OK, so I'll be on the next corner if you need me.
I'll be OK.
Remember, Abel, I love you.
Yeah, I love you, too.
Listen, Rachel-- Rachel, uh, I think you're special.
You mean a lot to me, if you know what I mean.
Yeah.
Yeah, I know what you mean.
Excuse me, sir.
I'm selling flowers for the Heaven's Family Foundation.
It's a non-profit-- I would--
uh-- hi, I'm selling flowers for the Heaven's Family Foundation,
and I was wondering if--
it's a non-profit organization.
[tires squealing]
Rachel!
I got him!
Let me go!
Rachel!
Abel!
DOUG: Take it easy.
Let me go!
Call the police.
They're kidnapping him!
Abel!
[groaning]
Let me go.
The radiator--
All right, put him down.
Watch his head.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- Take him. - OK, OK.
Ready?
1, 2, 3--
Let me go.
Hey, uh, could you guys go next door
and get him a hamburger?
You want cheese on that?
Cheese has protein, right?
You better make that a cheeseburger.
You got it.
[door shuts]
You OK?
I mean, we didn't hurt you, did we?
Joshua warned me about you.
He said you'd try to do this.
Who's Joshua?
Oh, that zucchini head at the nature camp?
He said you'd try to get me to reject David's teachings.
He's right.
Joey, you're my brother.
I'm not just gonna let you sit there
and vegetate at that camp.
You're Joey's brother.
I'm not Joey.
My name is Abel.
No, you're Joey.
What are you doing?
What-- are you ignoring me?
Oh, that's so intelligent.
I say something you don't want to hear,
you just clam up and don't listen.
Well, you are gonna listen to me.
You are gonna talk to me.
Hello!
Joey!
Hey, hey-- what are you doing, man?
Come on, hey. - Well, look at him.
How am I supposed to talk to him?
It's like talking to a brick wall?
I don't know, OK?
Here, look.
See if he-- if he's hungry.
Give him something to eat.
Fat chance.
Look, do you want me to stay in here?
No.
Hey, thanks.
Yeah.
Here, you gotta eat.
We gotta get some protein in you.
Come on, I read about this stuff.
That's how they weaken your mind.
They deprive you of protein.
OK, it's here if you want it.
Hm, got any eights?
Go fish.
[groan]
Ha, fish what I wish.
An APB just came over the wire, guys.
Heaven's Family reported a boy missing.
The description matches Joey.
I haven't seen Joey in about a week.
Me neither.
Um, yeah.
Um, neither have I--
I guess.
You know what you're doing?
You're running away again.
You get sucked into that BS cult,
that's just like running away.
You run away from mom's suicide, Pop's drinking, from me,
from life.
You're a coward.
I didn't run from anything.
I ran to something.
I ran to a better way of life.
I ran to people who were capable of loving me.
Where do you think all the money goes from the stuff
you guys sell on the streets?
It goes to support the Heaven's Family Foundation.
There's over 5,000 of us in the world.
5,000?
How many flowers do you sell a day?
Most sell about five.
Charging $5 each?
There's 5,000 kids bringing in $25 a day.
That's-- that's $125,000, $125,000 a day, tax free.
I don't have to listen to this.
[sigh]
Not again.
[sirens]
[door opening]
Well, now that you've got some sleep,
you feel like eating something?
Here, I, uh--
I nuked it in the microwave.
It's better than fresh.
Just-- just have a little.
Come on.
Come on, please.
I don't believe I'm doing this.
You know, Ma used to do this when you were a little punk
just out of diapers.
If it weren't for that woman force feeding you,
you'd have died of self-starvation
by the age of three.
Just have one bite.
Eat it!
Damn.
I don't know why I bother.
I don't give a crap what you do.
[sigh]
One morning, just before Pop died,
hey, uh-- he calls me over to the bed, tells me he loves me,
scared the hell out of me, Pop using the L word.
Then he calls me over closer.
He says, "where's Joey?"
"I don't know, Pop."
There's a long silence, just sitting there, just him and me.
"You tell Joey, no matter where he is, I love him."
Those were his last words.
It's kind of weird.
I mean, I've been avoiding it all these years,
but deep down I kind of feel the same way.
I mean, I lost my brother once.
I don't want to lose him again.
I need my brother.
What was Ma like?
She was the best.
I can hardly remember.
That's OK.
You were only four when she died.
Did you bury Pop next to her?
Yeah.
Can we go see them sometime?
Whenever you like, Joey.
- Hi. - Hi.
You OK?
Fine.
I miss you.
You want to come up to the camp with me, just for the weekend?
I mean, wouldn't it be nice to be together again?
Yeah, it would.
Why don't you stay here with me?
I can't.
Yes, you can.
Bye.
[music playing]