'Oh, my heck,' CTR rings and other details are accurate in the first two episodes of the 'Under the Banner of Heaven' miniseries.
Andrew Garfield as Jeb Pyre in "Under the Banner of Heaven."Hulu’s seven-part miniseries “Under the Banner of Heaven” is all about Utah and Latter-day Saints, and it gets most things right. Not everything, of course.
It’s July 24, 1984, and the Pyre daughters are disappointed they’ll miss the fireworks that night. “They do fireworks every year on Pioneer Day, so we’ll just see them next year,” says their mom, Rebecca . Pyre tells Taba that Allen is the suspect and that he’s from “a big LDS family. As in — highly regarded.” It’s the first of multiple references to the Laffertys being more prominent than they actually were. Pyre knows the Laffertys because he was once in the same LDS ward as they were.Pyre takes the lead in the interview with Allen, “Mormon to Mormon.” Allen says he didn’t kill his wife and daughter, adding that he’s worried there’s “someone out there hunting my family.
Pyre slams into the room quoting LDS scripture from the Doctrine and Covenants and asks if Allen was married in the temple and if he still has a temple recommend. Pyre’s attitude toward Allen turns severe when he learns he’s no longer Mormon.“the perfect Mormon girl” — and there’s a flashback to Brenda competing in the Miss Twin Falls, Idaho, pageant.
Pyre tells Taba that if Allen did it, “We charge him, we get him to Draper and in front of a firing squad.” Allen tells Brenda that his brother, Ron , “started the best construction company in Utah,” is on the Highland city council and is the first counselor in a bishopric. He tells Ron that Brenda’s father is a bishop.
Ammon tells the family that he and his wife have been called on a senior mission to Louisiana. He names Dan, his No. 2 son, to be the head of the family in his absence, which does not go over well with his No. 1 son, Ron. Allen says that church leaders “have hidden our truth with their secret combinations. If you really still believer your god is love, then you really don’t know who you are, brother. This faith — our faith — breeds dangerous men.”“didn’t see the rules” the same way his father did. As “unbending. He judged her for that.”
In the miniseries, the crime takes place in the fictional town of East Rockwell. Creator/writer/director/executive producer/showrunner Dustin Lance Black agreed not to name the real-life investigators he interviewed during his research, and did not use the real name of the town where the murders took place: American Fork.
Pyre suggests those killings were related to “devil worship.” Police discounted that theory in the still-unsolved Rachel Runyon case, and there was no indication that was true of Bishop’s murders.Pyre also theorizes that Allen leaving the church would have “created a lot of grief for his family” and could be a motive for murder. “And the Laffertys — they’re kind of like Utah Kennedys.
And the detectives learn that the partial bloody hand prints found at Brenda’s home do not belong to Allen. Allen says he only saw the men with “old Mormon beards” once, about a year earlier. They were in a car with Robin, and Dan asked Allen to go to a meeting “about fighting taxes” with the bearded men.
Allen tells Robin that Brenda wants to have a family. “Then why’s she going to BYU?” Robin asks. And, in reference to Brenda, Robin tells Allen, “Mind your property.”that his father liked to tell to motivate his children. In a flashback, we see Kirtland, Ohio, in the 1830s, when it was the headquarters of the LDS Church.
Robin also rails against “Jimmy Carter, socialism, haughty women who don’t know their rightful place, gentile tax collectors who invade our lives, our homes.”so Dan tells Matilda to pay the water and power bills and ignore a tax bill and licensing fees. Dan says their troubles are a test from God. In the present , Robin tells Pyre, “The world seduces women to abandon their virtue and then their ambition grows and spreads like a disease, distracting them and those around them from their responsibilities.”Brenda confronts a BYU professor about why she’s not allowed to be a news anchor at the university’s TV station, KBYU.
Allen disputes that. “It’s all over our history. And our scriptures,” he says. “God told Nephi that’s it’s better for one man to perish than for a whole nation to dwindle in unbelief.” Allen goes outside with Brenda’s younger sisters to shoot off fireworks. Back in the house, Brenda argues with her parents, who don’t support her relationship with Allen.
“So he got us all to stand in a circle, then he called the dog into the center. And he picked up Ron’s own baseball bat … and he beat the dog to death to teach us boys a lesson about responsibility. About our rightful place.”
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