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>> just waking up every morning was just amazing because it was just the two of us. every single time you ever discussed the topic of his past, of karen, of his childhood, there was anger in there that i had never seen before. he just boiled. >> the couple married, rick found a job as a shipping clerk. and for a time it seemed they had escaped their past. but ex-cult members began contacting rick, pressurizing him to take a stand against their abusers. raised to be leader, it was a role he found difficult to refuse. >> people would ask him why aren't you doing something about it if you know th...

>> shoot [ muted ] my brains. he used us as slaves. because that's we were, every last [ muted ] one of us. no matter how we were treated we were [ muted ] slaves. just there for their sick [ muted ] pleasure. that's all it was. that's the way it was at grandpa and mama's house. >> rick showed little appetite for the mantle of leadership forced upon him by david berg. as he grew older, he became increasingly angry with his mother. rejecting everything she stood for. in 2000, with little education and no money, rick and elixcia left portugal and the family for america. they went northwest to ta...

Never received. now, back to the show. by the early '80s, david berg was on the run from interpol on suspicion of pimping. moving with rick and davidito from one secret compound to the next, he never met ordinary members. now he commanded his female acolytes to send him strip videos. when his message extended to young girls, english sisters, celeste and kristina also had to perform for his cameras.

That. ♪ after you're gone ♪ oh, dad it's gonna break my heart ♪ ♪ the love you've shown to me >> with the spread of aids and international authorities hot on his heels, david berg was finally forced to act. in 1986 he banned sex with children. eight years later, a new band of altogether more wholesome disciples were saying good-bye. in 1994, he was dead. ♪ oh, dad we're gonna carry it on ♪ >> god bless you. it's hard for me to quit. when i say good-bye, just start fading me out because i can't quit. >> rick's mother, karen zerby, took over as leader. at the time, zerby, rick and el...

>> now aged 12 and sequestered in the family's secret hq, rick's degradation reached new extremes. in his father's eyes, incest was virtuous and he encouraged rick's mother, karen zerby to join in their sexual games. >> i specifically remember a couple of accounts where we were all in the same bed. i was required to be having sexual interaction with the guru at the time, david berg, and i would be on his right side, masturbating him while rick would be having full sexual intercourse with his mother on the other side of the bed. but it would be like a big happy family time in bed between the fo...