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In season five, David Rogen travels north to Thompson, Manitoba to investigate the 1986 murder of Kerry Brown.

This is episode eight, other, brother.

You know what I, it's in my genes, it's in my family, Dave.

Alcoholism, I'm kind of cursed.

I think we're all cursed in ways genetically.

Like my mom's side, Dave, it's all mental illness.

We have Alzheimer's, we have schizophrenia, we have bipolar and we have autism, autism, yeah, in our family.

It's all in my mom's side, all of it.

And then my dad's side, well, we have alcoholism and dysfunctionalism.

What's that disease?

I don't know.

My dad's dysfunctional.

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