Episode
Under the Banner of Heaven: Rightful Place
Overview
With a lead suspect in custody, the investigation uncovers more ominous questions than answers as the hidden history of the once admired Lafferty family is exposed.
Details
- Series
- Under the Banner of Heaven
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 2022-04-28
- Runtime
- 61 min
Episode context
Rightful Place is Episode 2 in Miniseries of Under the Banner of Heaven. It aired on 2022-04-28. The runtime is 61 min.
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Episode 1: When God Was Love
Detectives Jeb Pyre and Bill Taba investigate the brutal, sinister murders of an LDS woman, Brenda Wright Lafferty and her baby daughter in Utah’s typically serene Salt Lake Valley in 1984.
Episode 3: Surrender
The ongoing investigation leads Pyre and Taba into untrod woods where they unearth information that challenges Pyre's own faith, and draw more Laffertys into suspicion and custody.
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Episode 4: Church and State
The investigation intensifies after Pyre uncovers details of the Lafferty family's fundamentalist beliefs, sparking a search for missing Lafferty brothers, Ron and Dan, and putting Pyre at odds with his own church leaders.
Episode 5: One Mighty and Strong
With evidence now pointing squarely toward fundamentalist Mormonism, Pyre turns to LDS Church leaders for guidance but is met with roadblocks. Undeterred, he discovers a list of names Brenda's killers plan to murder next.
Episode 6: Revelation
New details emerge about Brenda's attempt to reckon with some of the Lafferty family's most extreme members and beliefs, as Pyre and Taba hunt for those who killed Brenda before they can kill again.
Episode 7: Blood Atonement
As the details of the murders become clear, Pyre and Taba embark on an interstate manhunt, hoping to catch the killers before they complete their list of those to be "blood atoned."