1.14: BOY IN THE BOX- Avaliable!

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PART 1
Recap provided by Tatiana

("You're the Nearest Thing to Heaven", by Johnny Cash, plays in the back)
Flashback to April 2, 1958

A group of boys and girls are playing in a field. There are two nuns taking care of them. Suddenly, a young boy appears, dressed as a cowboy. The kids greet him happily.
Cut to another flashback on the field - a young man chases a rabbit. As he walks he finds a box. Curious, he decides to open hit. What he sees inside is the body of a dead boy.

Cut to 2004
Stillman shows the detectives a suitcase that someone left in the stairs of St. Emilian's Church. Inside, there are several things related to the "Boy in the Box" murder, that happened in 1958.
A picture of a group of boys calls Lilly's attention. She picks it up and reads in the back "His name was Arnold".

Roll Credits

Stillman, Lilly and Scotty look for the records of this murder. The boy was dumped inside a box in Fox Chase. No one ever claimed his body and the cause of death is undetermined. Also, the man who found the box comes all the time to Homicide to check if there are any news.
Stillman notices that, on that picture of the boys, there's something written on the bus behind them. Scotty reads "Fernwood Home for Orphans".

Scotty and Lilly now go visit the nuns who were responsible for Fernwood at that time - Sisters Vivian and Grace. They talk to Sister Vivian and learn that Sister Grace died recently.
Lilly asks Sister Vivian if she recognizes the boys in the picture or remembers a boy named Arnold. She says no. She also says she never heard about the Boy in the Box case.
They now ask about records from Fernwood. Sister Vivian says they're in the basement and that they can look if they want.

Cut to the office
The detectives are now looking at everything they found on Fernwood records. They learn that on 1958, there was a 6-year-old boy named Arnold Curville on Fernwood. It's also in the records that Arnold was adopted by a couple named Ruben and Lila Hanson two days before he was found on the box. Jeffries and Vera are going to track them down, while Lilly and Scotty go visit Arnold's sister Gretchen.

Gretchen looks at the picture from the boy in the box and says that can't be her brother, because Arnold had blonde curls - the boy in the box had his hair shaved. She says that the picture from the group of boys is from the "Science Club". She says Arnold can't be the murdered boy because he was adopted in 1958.

Flashback to 1958
("All I Have to Do is Dream", by the Everly Brothers, plays in the back)
Gretchen and Arnold are in Fernwood. Gretchen says that Sister Vivian said that there's a family looking for a young boy, but not for a girl. Arnold says he won't go, but Gretchen says he has to. They make a pact to meet at the Bryer's Horse Fair on Arnold's 18th birthday. Arnold promises Gretchen he's not going to leave her.


Cut to 2004
Gretchen remembers that Arnold was adopted one morning and she never had the chance to say goodbye. Also, he never went to meet her at the Horse Fair. She remembers that before being adopted, two other families had taken him and brought him back to Fernwood, because he acted up a lot. They ask her for a DNA sample to compare to the boy's, and she agrees.

Now, Jeffries and Vera go visit Roger, one of the boys from Fernwood that is in the picture with Arnold. Roger remembers that Arnold drove the sisters mad.

Flashback to 1958
("Walkin' After Midnight", by Patsy Cline, plays in the back)
Arnold and another 2 boys, try to leave Fernwood to go play in the woods. Sister Vivian sees them. Arnold acts up to her and she takes him back upstairs.

Cut to 2004
Roger remembers that Arnold was the terror of Fernwood, and that everyone loved him. Jeffries and Vera tell Roger that they think Arnold might have been murdered. Roger looks at the picture from the boy in the box and is shocked. He says he's not sure the boy is Arnold, but that he can't say that it isn't Arnold either. Jeffries asks Roger if he has kids. He tells that he has two adopted boys.

At the office, Stillman says they can't track down who ever bought the suitcase. Also, there are no prints on it.
They're going to exumate the boy's body and compare to Gretchen's DNA.

Lilly wonders what may have happened to Arnold - he was adopted, acted up to his new parents, who got angry and beat him too hard. And they weren't able to trace them until now.

Now, the man who found Arnold in the box, Walter Rafferty, comes in. Lilly and Scotty talk to him. Walter tells again how everything happened. He says that the body was wrapped in a blue blanket. Scotty asks Walter if he wasn't involved with the death, and Walter says no. He also tells that he goes back to that place every year, and there's a woman who does the same, she always brings a rose and wears a green coat.

Flashback
We see Walter go back to the place where he found the box. There's a blond woman leaving a white rose. Walter tries to talk to her, but she runs away.

Cut to 2004
Scotty asks Walter why this murder is so important in his life. Walter says that for him, it isn't normal to see a dead body and that this event affected his whole life.

Now, they're exumating the boy's body. Jeffries and Vera tell that they found out why they couldn't trace Ruben and Lila Hanson - they died in 1887. Arnold's parents don't exist.

At the office, they wonder it Arnold died in the orphanage and someone covered it up. Scotty arrives with more news - it's confirmed that they boy is Arnold, but Arnold isn't Gretchen's brother. So, all records about Arnold are fake.

Scotty and Lilly break the news to Gretchen. She's really upset. They ask her to think about who could have hurt Arnold in Fernwood. Gretchen says that once Arnold got beat up by another boy, Freddy Baker; and also, that Arnold got disciplined a lot by Sister Vivian.
Flashback to 1958
It's a sequence to the first scene of the episode. They boy who came back was Arnold. Gretchen asks him why he came back, he tells he ran away because he had no one to play with. Sister Vivian gets angry at Arnold and takes him to her office, to discipline him.

Cut to 2004
Gretchen tells that on that day, Arnold left Sister's Vivian with a lot of bruises. Also, it was always Sister Vivian who punish the kids. She tells them to talk to Freddy Baker, who was always at Sister's Vivian office too.

Scotty goes to talk to Freddy Baker. Freddy says that Arnold was the only kid who always wanted to go back to Fernwood. Scotty asks about Sister Vivian, and Freddy says she was really cruel, but he doubts she could be capable of murder. However, he admits he still has scars on his back from that time.

Lilly goes to the convent to talk to Sister Vivian, who doesn't feel like talking. Lilly brings up Arnold's fake records and the fact that he and other boys got beat up all the time. Sister Vivian says that Arnold had a serious behavior problem. Lilly insinuates that Sister Vivian did something to Arnold. She denies it. She says that Sister Grace was the one responsible for the paperwork, and that she only signed them. Lilly asks why Sister Grace would do that, and Sister Vivian says that she was unreliable and unable to discipline the children. And that's why she had to do it.

Flashback to 1958
There's an adoption party happening at Fernwood. A couple tries to talk to Arnold. Arnold shoves the woman and runs away. Sister Vivian sees it and tells Sister Grace to pay attention to him. Sister Grace says she told Arnold to behave properly. Sister Vivian says they have to control Arnold, otherwise he'll never have a home.

Cut to 2004
Lilly asks Sister Vivian if Sister Grace could have hurt Arnold. Sister Vivian answers that some stories should not be told.

At the office, Lilly tells how Sister Vivian was misterious about Sister Grace. Jeffries and Vera arrive after talking to the last of Arnold's friends, Paul Evans. They say that one thing called their attention. Paul can't have kids, and the other two man - Roger and Freddy Baker - also adopted their children. Stillman says that can't be a coincidence. Lilly says they have to find out what the boys did at the Science Club.

Gretchen is now at the office talking to Lilly and Scotty. She says the boys went to Science Club on Fridays, and it was outside Fernwood. Sister Grace was the one who took them there. Gretchen also believes that the picture they have was taken were the Science Club was held.

Jeffries and Vera talk to Roger. He says the Science Club was a weekly field trip, to a place that looked like a hospital. He says that every time they did something different, and once they had breakfast in the middle of the afternoon.

Flashback to 1958
("Catch a Falling Star", by Perry Como, plays in the back)
The boys arrive at the Science Club. A man, Dr. Thayer, greets them and says that on that day, they're just going to eat cornflakes. The boys are surprised, since they just had lunch.

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PART 2

Cut to 2004
Roger says that the Science Club was fun, never scary. They ask Roger if he adopted kids because he couldn't have them. Roger says yes.

Stillman and Lilly talk about the fact that all three of Arnold's friends confirmed to be sterile. Lilly says they have to find out what else happened at the science club. Scotty has an enlarged version of that boys pictures. The place they went to is the Hoover Institute.

The next morning, Lilly and Scotty meet in front of the Hoover Institute. In the 1950s, governmental researches took place there. Volunteers were used in test groups, and Fernwood was paid a fee for every boy they brought in. They go inside to talk to Dr. Thayer, who still works there.
Dr. Thayer says the the Fernwood boys did radiation tests on the Hoover Institute. Dr. Thayer explains that on that time, they lived on the fear of the Cold War, and they thought those tests would be good for them.

At the office, Vera says that he found out that on the Hoover Institute there were also behavior researches - they tried to cure psychotics with insulin, isolation tanks, and electroshocks. Stillman says that would explain the wounds on Arnold's head.

Lilly and Scotty go talk to a nurse that worked at the Hoover Institute at that time - Sally Thurber, who's now at a retirement home. She says she remembers about the boy in the box, but never put it together with Fernwood. She says that the Fernwood boys were really cute, but they never were a part of the behavior researches.
Sally also remembers that Sister Grace sometimes went to Behavior, to visit Clayton, a young man who worked as an assistant on the lab. Sally says Sister Grace and Clayton were really "friendly".

Flashback to 1958
("Lonesome Town", by Rick Nelson, plays in the back)
Sister Grace talks to Clayton. She says Arnold has a serious behavior problem and that he needs help, or he'll never have a family. She asks Clayton to help Arnold and give him one of the treatments they do there. Clayton says the treatments aren't for kids. Sister Grace says there's going to be an adoption party the next day and begs Clayton to give Arnold the treatment. He reluctantly agrees.

Cut to 2004
Sally says that on that night she saw Sister Grace with the boy on the town; and she assumed that she was taking the boy to get the treatment, which was shock treatment. She remembers that Sister Grace was out of her habit. She was wearing a green coat, and she had blonde hair.

At the office, Lilly, Scotty and Stillman talk about what Sally told them. Lilly notices that Grace was wearing a green coat, just like the woman that went every year to the place Arnold was found. She also points that they still don't know who Arnold's parents where.

Lilly and Scotty go visit Sister Vivian at the convent one more time. Sister Vivian tells that Sister Grace had good intentions, but didn't have self-control. She says Clayton was Grace's ruin, and that Grace loved him till the day she died. Sister Vivian recalls that when Sister Grace was 18, she got pregnant. Sister Vivian helped her to go away for some time, with the promise that Sister Grace would leave her child in a orphanage in Pittsburgh. However, Sister Grace couldn't do that and brought the boy to Fernwood. Sister Vivian says that they never told Arnold that Sister Grace was his mother, but that somehow he new that his home was in Fernwood with Grace. They ask what happened on April 4th. Sister Vivian says that before she tells them, they should know that Grace did all she did because she loved Arnold.

Flashback to 1958
In Fernwood, Sister Grace comes looking for Sister Vivian. She says he's sick. They go to the bedroom where Arnold is, and Sister Grace tells that she took Arnold to get a behavior treatment and now he has a very high fever. They boy looks really ill. Sister Grace says she only did this because she wanted Arnold to have a family.

Cut to 2004
Sister Vivian says that Sister Grace never dreamt the treatment would be harmful to Arnold, and that Arnold never made it to the adoption party.

Flashback to 1958
The adoption party is taking place, and Sister Vivian is very nervous. She glances at her watch and goes to see Arnold. Sister Grace, who is with Arnold, says Arnold is going. Arnold dies. Sister Grace is desperate. Sister Vivian wraps the boy's body in a blanket and takes him to a car. Sister Grace follows her. Sister Vivian picks up a cardboard box and they drive off Fernwood.

Cut to 2004
("Sweeter Than You", by Rick Nelson, plays in the back)
Sister Vivian consoles Gretchen. (1958 and 2004)
We see the 1958's and the 2004's Walter leave a white rose where he found Arnold.
Next thing, Arnold is being buried next to Grace. Sister Vivian, Gretchen and all the detectives attend the funeral.
We see the 1958's Gretchen waiting for Arnold at the Bryer Horse Fair. And this time, he appears.
At the funeral, Lilly "sees" Arnold, who finally found his truth.
The episode ends as Grace watches Arnold ride a horse at the Horse Fair.