Friend or Faux - Recap

Banker Cornell Stamoran wakes up in the morning, goes to the bathroom, and his identical “brother” comes out. Cornell looks himself in the mirror, showers, and then dresses and goes downstairs. His brother has made breakfast already and Cornell looks at the mess that he made of the kitchen. The brother says that he thinks he’s found what they’re looking for. Cornell gets his briefcase, takes out a gun, and shoots his brother repeatedly in the head. As Cornell gets into his car, his brother rises up out of the backseat and puts a gun to the banker’s head and tells him to get out of the car because there’s someone that he needs to kill.



At the Grey Gull, Duke’s new worker Henry, a teenager, brings in some glasses and drops them. Henry finally admits that he’s in serious trouble and asks Duke not to tell the cops. Once Duke promises not to, Henry starts to explain that he saw something at the abandoned Everwood resort. Cornell comes into the bar and Henry hides behind the bar. The banker orders a whiskey and starts twirling a silver dollar on the bar. Once he drinks the whiskey, he asks for a pina colada. Duke says his blender is broken and Cornell asks if he has a kid named Henry working for him. The smuggler denies it and says that he might have a spare blender, and then reaches below the bar and grabs a gun. Cornell accuses Duke of being a coward and a liar, and Duke draws a gun on him. He lets Cornell go and the banker draws a gun and shoots at him. Duke ducks behind the bar, tells Henry to run, and shoots Cornell in the shoulder. The banker runs to his car and gets away.

Duke calls in Nathan and Audrey while Evi bandages Duke’s scratches. Duke admits that he doesn’t know who the shooter was and all he has is the license plate and the fact that the man spun a silver dollar. Nathan runs the plates and confirms that they belong to Cornell, the vice president of the Maine Associate Bank. Duke insists that he told them everything but Audrey doesn’t believe him. As they leave, Nathan apologizes that he’s been busy maintaining two sets of files: the real ones and the one without references to the Troubled. As they talk, Evi secretly listens in. Once they’re gone, Duke grabs a shotgun and goes after Henry.



As the officers drive to Cornell’s house, Audrey talks about how Chris has been sending her Vegemite from London, and she’s trying it to see if she liked it and to find out if her memories are her own. They knock and Cornell casually opens the door. He appears surprised that they are there and has no injuries. Cornell says that he was on the phone with her assistant most of the day. Audrey asks to see his car, and they see someone pull up in it. The driver takes off and Nathan and Audrey go in pursuit.

They follow the shooter to the Everwood Resort, an abandoned construction site. The shooter opens fire on them and Duke shows up to return fire. They realize the shooter is Cornell, but he has a wound on his arm corresponding to the one that Duke put there earlier. Audrey shoots and kills the duplicate. They figure that Cornell has a twin. Meanwhile, Duke searches the twin’s arm for a maze tattoo but finds nothing. He explains to Nathan that the tattoo belongs to a secret society of Troubled that want to kill him. As they talk, Cornell runs by and enters the resort. Duke goes after him, yelling that Henry is inside.



As the officers follow Duke in, Nathan explains that the resort was started 10 years ago but the developers ran out of funds. They catch up to Duke and he explains that Henry has been working for him and witnessed something there. Duke suggests that they call for backup, but Nathan doesn’t want to give Driscoll any more ammunition in his crusade against the Troubled. The trio makes their way to the upper floor where Henry has been staying. There’s no sign of him, but Duke realizes that Henry is hiding behind a wall panel. As they flush him out, Duke talks about how he was on his own at the same age.

Henry finally tells them that he saw Cornell kill someone at the resort. Cornell saw him and has been after him ever since. Cornell finds them and opens fire, and Henry tries to direct them off. Duke and Henry get cut off from Nathan and Audrey. The officers find an unarmed Cornell, who asks for their help. He explains that he is the original Cornell and his twins keep coming after him. He shows them a room with the corpses of several of his copies. Cornell explains that the copies have all of his memories but he can’t control them. They just show up and keep coming, and all want to kill Henry. Cornell says that he killed the first copy at the resort and Nathan assumes that Henry saw it. He brought them to the resort because his bank owns the account. Nathan is unable to get a signal and tells Audrey to watch the single entrance and guard Cornell while he goes upstairs to make a call.



Henry and Duke try to find the others. Henry finally tells Duke that he ran away from home because his father never notices him since the divorce. Duke admits that his own father was tough and had an entire life that he didn’t tell Duke about. He insists that leaving his family was the best decision he ever made. They find a door out but Henry runs back into the resort and Duke goes after him.

Nathan gets high enough for a clear signal, but Cornell runs up and explains that he just got there. They realize that Audrey is with a copy.

In the basement, Cornell starts twirling a silver dollar. Audrey notices and remembers what Duke said about the copy at the bar. When she starts to go after Nathan, the copy trips her, realizing that he gave himself away.

Nathan and Cornell soon become lost in the maze of corridors.

The copy boasts of how he was able to imitate his original. Audrey responds by saying that she also has someone else’s memories. She wonders what makes either one of them themselves and talks about her best friend in school, that is actually a friend of the real Audrey Parker. The copy says that his best friend accused Cornell of stealing his silver dollar, and that the friend was right. Audrey talks about how she has to relearn who she is every day, and then gets close enough to the copy to disarm him and handcuff him to a point. When the copy asks if she was trying to distract him, Audrey says that it only started that way. The copy warns her that he won’t be happy when he has to kill her, but he will eventually dispose of her.



At the station, Selectman Gerst comes to Nathan. Once he confirms that he’s gone, he sneaks into Nathan’s office, searches for some files, and leaves with them.

Duke catches up to Henry as he goes to his room. The boy takes out a case with a medal that his father got in Iraq, and admits that he lied about his father’s disinterest. Audrey finds them and calls Nathan, and they all head for the atrium.

In the basement, the copy is unable to escape and kills himself on an exposed pipe so that he’ll be reborn to go after the others.



As they head for the atrium, Nathan smells something rotting and notices a puddle of blood against a freshly bricked-up wall. He ignores Cornell’s suggestion that they move on and starts prying apart the bricks. Entombed within the wall is a corpse of a man he’s never seen. Cornell claims he has no idea who it is. When Nathan tries to call Audrey, Cornell clubs him over the head with a concrete brick. The new copy arrives and Cornell insists that he had no choice but to knock Nathan out, and that he had to kill the dead man, Neal, because he found out he was embezzling from the bank. The copy points out that Cornell created a copy to dispose of the only witness, and that the banker has to accept that he’s a thief, a coward, and a killer. He gives Cornell a brick and offers to help him kill Nathan.

Before Cornell can deliver the killing blow, Nathan’s discarded cell phone rings. The banker figures that someone is trying to lure them away from Nathan. Audrey and Duke open fire and the two Cornells duck for cover. The copy assures Cornell that they’ll have fun together. Duke and Audrey quickly run out of bullets, and Audrey offers them the chance to escape in return for Nathan. Audrey tells Duke to get Henry out and then drops her gun and approaches the two Cornells. She addresses the copy, which wants to hear what Audrey has to say. Audrey tells the copy that Henry saw Cornell kill Neal, not the copy. She insists that neither one of them are the sum total of their memories, and all the copy will remember is having to clean up after his creator. Audrey offers him the chance to have the memory of saving a boy’s life, the chance to make his own life. Cornell figures that the copy is testing him and he prepares to shoot Audrey himself. He aims... and the copy shoots him. With Cornell’s death, the copy starts to fade. He gives Audrey the silver dollar and tells her to return it to its owner without saying where it came from.



Later, Gerst invites Nathan to his home. After making small talk, he asks Nathan if he forged anything on the Everwood report. When Nathan says that he didn’t, Gerst shows him the original files. Nathan insists that he’s kept the Troubles out of the reports, same as always, and realizes that someone wants him out. Gerst informs him that they’ll be looking for a new Chief effectively immediately. He denies that Driscoll is controlling him and advises Nathan to leave Haven because things will be getting rough for the Troubled. Nathan warns that he’ll be staying and walks away.

At the Grey Gull, Duke asks Henry if he likes living on his own. Henry says that it’s the best way he knows to find himself. His father arrives and Duke admits he’s surprised that he called him. He tells Henry that sometimes it’s tricky knowing who the bad guy is and leaves the father and son to work things out.

Nathan is inside at the bar, drinking heavily. A woman comes over and invites Nathan to dance, and Nathan agrees, much to Audrey’s surprise. She and Duke watch and Duke asks her if she was playing the copy or expressing her true feelings. Audrey says that it was both, and that the copy needed to move beyond his creator. Duke grabs Evi’s phone to take a photo of Nathan dancing. As Audrey leaves, a text message comes in on the phone from Driscoll, thanking Evi for the file info. Duke looks up at her as he realizes that she’s betrayed his friend.



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