Satranic Panic (2023) Movie Script
1
(static hissing)
(signal humming)
(mellow rock music)
(mellow rock music continues)
(mellow rock music continues)
They never said I was the chosen one
Until the first thing happened
They try to put you in a
box with all your friends
And keep your windows
and your doors locked
He keeps a picture of his gun cocked
(gun cocking)
In his wallet with his plastic bag
Next to a night out
where you can't come back
(sirens wailing in distance)
He's gonna find you
Make it impossible
I get this feeling I'm
never breathing again
(mellow rock music)
We fall and fell into
an expensive spell
Keep your hands to yourselves
And break these shells
which hold us down
And keep your shutters
and your blinds closed
Perfect timing leaves you exposed
To a power you won't overcome
Before a last chance
and then you're done
He's gonna find you
Make it impossible
I get this feeling I'm
never breathing again
He's gonna tempt you
Make it impossible
I get this feeling I'll
never feel this feeling again
(mellow rock music)
He's gonna tempt you
Make it impossible
I get this feeling I'll
never feel this feeling again
(audience applauding and cheering)
- For you, Max.
(muffled upbeat music)
Hey, sexy.
- Hey, Aria.
- How you doing?
- I, you did great in
the show. I, I'm elated.
- It was great, wasn't it?
Every show I do, I'm like,
well, you've done it now.
You've hit the top, you'll
never get better than this.
- I need to tell you something.
- And then I do,
I get better and hotter
and I'm starting to worry
I might be a narcissist,
but I read somewhere that if
you think you're a narcissist,
you're probably not one,
which means I'm genuinely just brilliant.
- Yeah, you really lapped
up that applause. Pathetic.
- Huh?
- Nobody in the audience
gave a fuck about Max.
(gentle melodic music)
You're diamonds when you're alive,
you're dog shit when you're dead.
- Sounds like you're doing great.
- My boyfriend just got
murdered, didn't he?
- He did, yeah.
Sucks, that.
You look great though.
Like, grief looks hot on you.
(Jay laughs softly)
- Grief looks hot on you too.
- Oh, I haven't started grieving yet.
I figured we'd take it in turns.
You go first because he was your partner,
I go second because he was my best friend
and everyone else can go after.
- Everyone else? It's
not like he had a family.
- We were his family.
He didn't need anyone else.
(gentle melodic music)
- Maybe he did.
We didn't save him.
- We didn't,
couldn't,
certainly can't now.
But you know what we can
do? Get totally shit faced.
- Might have to wait, I
found this with his stuff.
- How'd you get Max's stuff?
- The police released it today.
(soft melancholic music)
(soft melancholic music continues)
(Jay laughs softly)
(soft melodic music)
(soft tense music)
Oh, shit.
- Yeah,
death shouldn't have done that.
- Yeah, you really think
the pigs in rural Australia
are gonna give a fuck
about a trans kid's death?
- You think this has something
to do with the demons?
- They're not demons, it's a cult.
- Demon cult, I told you, those
two things aren't exclusive.
- I really think we should check this out.
- When do we leave?
- Tomorrow.
- Next week.
- Tomorrow.
- I have skate class tomorrow.
- You don't skate?
- Not yet.
Why do you think I'm taking a class?
- This is important.
- We will discuss this at the bar,
post the dismantling of my visage
and its reconstruction into
something more domestic.
- (laughs softly) Wanker.
- You're adorable.
- Fine, but we have to drink whiskey.
- Okay, geriatric.
(muffled pop music)
(screeching tense music)
I know you.
- I just saw your show. You're brilliant.
- I knew it.
- Why are you taking
the makeup off though?
- Acne.
- I like it.
- Acne?
- Your face.
- I can teach you how to
put it on if you want.
- I don't.
(gentle tense music)
- What do you want then?
- I think you know.
- Do I?
- What kind of guys do you like?
- Who said I like guys?
- Oh, I just assume, assumed.
- When you assume, you
make an arse out of-
- You've got a great arse.
- Are you just like stupid
or like really nervous or something?
- Oh.
Nervous.
- Okay.
That's cute, I guess.
(soft ominous music)
- Is this kind of cute?
(gentle tense music)
- Okay, fine, you're hot, whatever.
- I'm seducing you.
- Oh, it's working.
I become a snarky bitch
when I'm turned on.
- Oh, right.
That's hot.
- I know you are, but what am I?
- Sexy, mysterious.
- "A once-in-a-lifetime talent,"
if you ask Trace at "The Gazette."
Two questions,
then I'm yours.
- Hit me.
- Number one.
Have you ever been with
a girl like me before?
- Oh.
You'll be my first
- Lucky me.
And number two, and really
think hard about this one.
What inspired you to,
how do I put this?
Join a demon cult.
Let me guess, they do a fabulous
spread at Sunday brunch.
- I don't know what you're talking about.
- Don't lie to me, sweetie.
I can fucking feel you.
(soft intense music)
Demon.
(sudden ominous music)
(demon laughing)
(Aria gasping)
(intense ominous music)
- Aria!
(Jay grunting)
(flesh squelching)
(skin sizzling)
(Jay groaning)
(knife thudding)
(fire whooshing)
(tortured souls wailing)
(Jay groaning)
(gentle tense music)
- Fine.
We'll go.
- Right?
(upbeat rock music)
(choir vocalizing)
- Mum, I'm going away for a
couple of days. Be back soon.
Whatever.
(door clicking)
(mellow rock music)
(door clicking)
(bell jangling)
There you are, you saucy minx.
Come on, we're going.
- No, I've gotta work.
- Quit this shit job.
- Fuck off, I've gotta eat.
- You again? Didn't I
ban you from the store?
- Me?
I've never been here in my life.
You must be thinking of a
different six-foot transsexual.
- Oh yeah.
- We need to leave now.
- No, I know, look,
let me just wait until he's
in a better mood and I can-
- Nope, not a chance, not happening.
- You're not by any chance getting
one of your demonic psychic
alarms from him, are you?
- Unfortunately, no.
How's your arm?
- It's fine, I don't know,
it just stings a little bit.
- Thank God.
I was worried it might have
laid eggs in you or something.
- Gross.
- Hey, Jay's got some work to do.
Can you please get out of the store?
- Baby, I'm your only customer.
- You're not a customer.
- Oh, new Artie.
I keep thinking about that night.
- Yeah, we're gonna need
some SteriClean after that.
- Not like that.
Well, like that too.
But what I mean is the more
I picture what happened,
the more I see.
- Me too. It's, um, it's strange.
(mellow melodic music)
(mellow melodic music continues)
(mellow melodic music continues)
(mellow melodic music continues)
(mellow melodic music continues)
(mellow melodic music continues)
- Memory is all weird.
I remember Max just disappearing.
All I could think of was that
drunk guy had grabbed him.
(mellow melodic music)
I don't know how long we searched for him.
Seemed like hours.
(bats squeaking)
(cult members chanting
incantation in Latin)
I can't get the images out of my head.
It was a woman, I think, the one that...
(cult members chanting
incantation in Latin)
(tense orchestral music)
(cult members chanting
incantation in Latin)
Do something, do something.
(cult members chanting
incantation in Latin)
(fire whooshing)
(knife thudding)
(Max screaming)
- [Both] No!
(flesh squelching)
(cult members chanting
incantation in Latin)
- Max!
(cult members chanting
incantation in Latin)
(blood pouring)
(dramatic orchestral music)
- You know, the weirdest thing?
- Demons being real isn't weird enough?
- Besides that.
It's the feeling I got
when they all first,
you know, came out.
I got it when that demon attacked me,
but also when I got my last shot.
(soft tense music)
It was the same tingling
feeling under my skin.
(tense melodic music)
(choir vocalizing)
(tense melodic music)
(choir vocalizing)
(tense melodic music)
(choir vocalizing)
(soft intense music)
- Like someone walking over your grave?
- Like someone jumping on
it, wearing high heels.
- Fuck, gonna have to change the title.
- You still wanna write
a comic about all this?
- Yeah.
- You feel it's like good for you?
- It's how I deal with shit
and there's a lot of fucking
shit to deal with here.
- Yeah, fair enough.
Well, I guess you can come
up with a better title
when we know the ending.
- Yeah.
So how are we gonna pay for this trip?
Because I don't get paid
until next week and I don't-
- I've got it covered, trust me.
- Trust you?
Last time you told me to trust you,
I ended up passed out on a
median strip dressed like a nun.
- Don't worry about it, it's all set.
Besides, we have to do this.
- Jay, can you come here for a bit?
(background melodic rock music)
- What do you want, Barry?
- Nothing.
Um...
Look, I think you should take
some time off for a while.
- Sorry?
- You know, you've been distracted
and you're making mistakes and it's not-
- Wait, are you firing me?
- No, no, no, no, no, I just...
(gentle tense music)
I read the article about your friend.
Just take some time
off, just a week or two
to, I don't know, get away.
- Time off?
- Yeah, I was actually
gonna say something,
when we finished this shipment,
but I actually think that I
can sort it by myself, so.
(gentle melodic music)
An advance on your pay.
- Are you sure?
- Yeah.
Just go do whatever you need to do.
Get out of this redneck town for a while.
- Thanks.
- Don't mention it.
Just take...
Just be careful.
- No, I will, Barry.
Thank you.
(mellow melodic music)
- Okay, so here's the plan, we go to Emu.
- Enzu.
- Whatever.
We go to Enzu
and we figure out why
the fuck we went to Enzu.
There'll have to be something
there, the-the cult base.
- Or at least some answers.
- And since the demony
things seem to be after us,
if the Demon Daddy is any indication
of their overall plans for
us, then we kill, what is it?
Eight demons.
(both laughing)
- Yeah, sure, we just go
and kill eight demons.
Sure thing, Buffy.
- Yeah, well, I'm pretty
sure that handsome hunk
of horse meat didn't know
that I could sense him,
so we have an advantage.
- Hopefully.
So,
a basic road trip.
- Plus add-ons.
- What add-ons?
- You know, how I'm covering
the trip.
- How are you covering
the trip?
- Gig money.
- Yeah, gig money that you've been saving?
- Oh, well, I was until I saw this top.
Do you like her? She's
vintage, huge markdown.
- Babe.
- I asked if you liked my top.
- You said you had the trip covered.
- We're getting road money.
- Road money?
- Gigs, I booked a couple
of drag gigs along the way.
- Seriously?
- What? It's a good cover story.
- (sighing) True.
- Plus the gigs were
booked before the note,
so like, you know it's legit.
- And you don't think that's
even a little bit suspicious?
- It's just a coincidence.
- Is it?
- Oh, look in the back.
(soft tense music)
- Do you plan on killing a bunch
of stoned camp counselors with that, or?
- Cool, isn't it? Got it
from my dad's old shed.
- You couldn't, you
couldn't bring a chainsaw?
- It was that or a leaf blower.
- Well, at least we could've
blown into the neighbors yard.
- You know, I promised
no more blowing things
in people's yards after the
incident at Jeremiah's birthday.
Flirt and squirt, yes.
- Machete, it is.
Iridescent living in the dark
I'm a monster, gotta hide away
It's so clear that I fit the part of a
Cold start to another day
Iridescent living in the dark
I'm a monster, gotta hide away
It's so clear that I fit the part of a
(soft tense music)
- Aria.
Aria.
(soft tense music)
Aria!
- I, that was my favorite bit.
- Okay, the car behind us has
been tailing us for hours.
(soft tense music)
- Well, we've been driving
on a straight road for ages,
like it could be anything.
- Okay, well,
are you feeling anything?
- No,
but I have an idea.
(screeching tense music)
Oh, oh, it's one of them.
- Fuck, okay, well,
um, we have to kill it.
- Obviously, but how?
- I don't know.
- I've got it, grab the fogger.
- The what?
- The smoke machine, it's
in the foot bit behind you.
- Oh yeah, I'll just
grab the smoke machine
from the foot bit.
(soft tense orchestral music)
(smoke machine hissing)
(soft tense orchestral music)
(soft tense orchestral music continues)
(Aria sighing)
(car door clunking)
- You girls in trouble?
- This is so embarrassing.
Our little car like
broke down or something.
- Well, you know it's not
safe out in the open road
for two young girls?
- You're so right,
I feel so helpless and
vulnerable right now.
But please, carry on.
This is our problem to
solve and if we can't,
we'll just die here and deserve it.
Wait, you wouldn't? No, I
couldn't ask that of you.
Such a sultry, solid cowboy.
Or perhaps Cowman
come to us in our time of need.
Oh, it's too good to be true.
The problem's just down near
the head bit of the car.
You should know what to do.
You look like a man who's
good with his hands.
Such rough hands they are too,
rugged, calloused.
These are fixing hands
as my papa used to say,
before he died, that is.
I've not known the touch of a man
since he left this mortal coil,
and a man's touch, as they
say, is the only remedy
for a broken car.
- I can have a look.
- Excellent.
(soft tense music)
(cicadas chirping)
(soft tense music)
(car doors clunking)
(car revving)
(Cowboy Demon thudding)
(soft tense music)
- You will never escape us.
We will suck the marrow from your bones!
We will cleanse the Earth!
(flesh squelching)
(fire whooshing)
- That felt so fucking good.
- Two down.
- Come on.
(car door clunking)
(door thudding)
(Aria sighing)
Charming room, interesting prospects.
- Smells like sweat and cockroaches.
- I need a shower.
- Hope you brought sandals.
(mellow upbeat music)
(shower pattering)
(mellow upbeat music)
(shower pattering)
- [Jay] (shrieks) It's cold!
- It takes a second to heat up.
- [Jay] You told me that.
- No way.
Oh, ah! Fuck a monkey.
(soft tense music)
(soft tense music continues)
I am so tired.
(both laughing)
Demon killing really takes it out of you.
- Yeah, that one was a
bit too easy to kill.
- Maybe demons are stupid.
- That one was.
- I've never got the whole
like demon possession thing.
Like in the movies,
demons are these semi-corporeal
paranormal entities
that can pop into a human
body and make it do anything.
So like, don't they have
anything better to do
than possess kids and Christians
and make them swear like sailors?
Seems stupid.
- This last one didn't
really take over any kids.
- No, most guys let them in.
Who does that?
- So what does it feel like
when you sense the demons?
- I don't know, kind of
feels like a shiver at first,
(gentle tense music)
and then,
it kind of feels like dysphoria
used to feel actually,
you know, that tension,
the wrongness.
- Maybe you're just feeling dysphoric?
- No, no, I haven't felt dysphoric
by myself in ages actually.
- Must be nice.
- [Aria] It's coming from
outside of me, the feeling.
It's, it's coming from them.
- Max never really got dysphoric.
- Really?
- No, he had his moments,
but for the most part, he was fine.
He felt great.
- I wish I knew, could've
had a damn bathing buddy.
(gentle melodic music)
- Why him?
(gentle melodic music)
- I don't know.
- There were so many people in that bar.
They took him.
What about him made him
so right for the ritual?
- Maybe we'll find out.
- It's hard to sleep alone now.
I wake up and I reach for him, I...
I wait for him to wrap his legs around me
and pull me in closer,
tell me everything's
gonna be all right, but...
Nothing is all right.
- Everything will be all right.
We're gonna kill every
one of those demons,
obliterate them and
then we're gonna go home
and we're gonna roast some marshmallows
and everything will be a
little bit closer to all right.
- Sounds nice.
(gentle melodic music)
(gentle melodic music continues)
(birds chirping)
(maid knocking)
(Aria gasping awake)
- Get the door, will you?
- You get it.
- It's your turn.
- How is it my turn?
- Come on.
- You're the demon detector.
(maid knocking)
- [Maid] Room service.
- Did you?
- No.
(gentle tense music)
(door clicking)
- Good morning.
We have bacon and eggs,
pancakes, hash browns,
baked beans, sausages,
spaghetti with little sausages,
spaghetti with little meatballs,
deviled ham sandwiches,
spam or bologna fritts,
some other sort of
processed meat situation.
Cereal, we've got grain things,
corn things, wheat things,
those little things that
look like little poops
that'll help you poop.
Apple juice, orange juice,
yucky pineapple juice.
Honestly, who even likes
pineapple juice anymore?
Coffee, tea
or water?
- Do I know you?
- Or if none of that sounds appetizing,
there is a Sleepy Joe's just down the road
and they do a fantastic
toast of the French.
- I do love egg bread.
- Seriously then, you should go.
(maid knocking)
- [Maid] Room service.
- Don't get that
(gentle tense music)
Ah
- Room service.
(screeching tense music)
(soft tense music)
Who the fuck are you?
- Get lost, bitch, this tip is mine.
(maid knocking)
- Room service.
Really?
Oh, I'll come back later.
(soft tense music)
(Aria muttering indistinctly)
(intense suspenseful music)
(blow thudding)
(flesh squelching)
(intense suspenseful music)
(choir vocalizing)
(knife thudding)
(flesh squelching)
(intense suspenseful music)
(knife thudding repeatedly)
(flesh squelching)
- Hey, you forgot to pay the extras.
- Oh, sweetie, we didn't...
Oh, fuck me.
- Oh, you stupid humans.
We know you can feel us.
- Are you fucking kidding me?
Ah!
(intense suspenseful music)
- Jay!
- Ah!
(blow thudding)
(machete whooshing)
Ah!
Eat shit and die!
(Demon Maid thudding to ground)
(fire whooshing)
(soft intense music)
(knife thudding repeatedly)
(Demon screeching)
- Damn, she's so strong.
Do you think she works out?
- Can you focus right now?
- Sorry, sorry.
Fuck, fuck, my keys!
- [Jay] Don't do this
to me right now, bitch!
- Got them!
(car door clicking)
(car door clunking)
We're not being followed.
I, I think we lost them.
- Yeah, for now.
- You're such a negative person, you know.
- I'm a realist.
- Realism is for Russian
playwrights and lonely virgins.
Anyway, yay for getting
away with our guts intact.
- Speak for yourself, mate, my
intestines are in my throat.
- Just say yay, will you?
- Yay.
(Jay exhaling heavily)
(sudden ominous music)
(Nell screeching)
- What the fuck?
- Jesus Christ!
Where did you come from?
How did you get in our car?
- Through the door.
- When?
- Before you started driving like a ninja.
No one notices me.
(seat belt clicking)
- Who are you?
- I'm Nell,
from school.
- Oh.
- Really, you don't remember me?
Wow!
Okay, no, it's so fine.
Not even a little bit
offended or anything.
No, really, it's so fine,
I was only there for
like a year or something,
because my family, um...
But I knew you two.
Or I mean like I knew of you.
I was shy, so I kind of
never really had the courage
to talk to you back then.
- Wait, you were the girl in art class
that drew all of that
scary shit, remember?
- Yeah, the hell dioramas.
- Yeah, they made me redo that one.
You know, Catholic school and whatnot.
I used to watch you two,
and Max,
although not in like a creepy
stalker way or anything.
I just, I really thought you were cool.
Um, any who, I heard
what happened with Max
and I thought I could probably help.
- How did you know where to find us?
- Oh well, I live in Cain,
it's like Manico's that way,
so I just, I saw that you had,
well, Aria had a show in Cain
and I just, you know, put
it together, figured that-
- No, no, how did you
know about the demons?
- Jesus, Jay, give her a break.
She literally just saved our lives.
- Yeah, look, I get that,
but how do we know we can trust her?
(gentle tense music)
Didn't you drive to the motel?
- No.
- [Jay] Then how did you get there?
- Bus.
- I've got a show in Cain tonight
and we are not leaving her
in the middle of nowhere
to catch a fucking bus.
You can finish interrogating
her at the bar.
- Hey, sick board you've got back here.
- Oh, that's mine. I've
been taking skate classes.
(light melodic music)
- Hm.
Well, I've been known to
grind on the half-pipe
from time to time.
- Oh, my God, you know
the lingo. (laughing)
She knows the lingo.
- I could even give you
lessons, if you like.
- Yes.
- Why are you screaming?
- I mean,
cool.
Yeah, no,
so chill.
- So chill.
(light melodic music)
- Love.
(light melodic music)
(door clicking)
- Are you fucking kidding me?
(light melodic music)
(melodic piano music)
I've a very strange feeling
I've never felt before
'Tis a kind of a grind of depression
My heart's acting strangely,
it feels rather sore
At least it gives me that impression
My pulses leap madly without any cause
Believe me, I'm telling you truly
I'm gay without pause
then sad without cause
My spirits are truly unruly
For I'm falling in love with someone
Some one girl
I'm falling in love with someone
Head-a-whirl
Yes, I'm falling in love with someone
Plain to see
I'm sure I could love someone madly
If someone would only love me
Now I don't mind confessing
that I used to scoff
At the thought of the
sport of flirtation
I used to believe that
I'd never be caught
In this foolish but fond complication
I'm losing all relish for
things that weren't here
I'm looking for trouble and know it
When someone is near,
I'm feeling quite queer
But I heartily hope I don't show it
For I'm falling in love with someone
Some one girl
I'm falling in love with someone
Head-a-whirl
Yes, I'm falling in love with someone
Plain to see
I'm sure I could love someone madly
If someone
Would only
Love
Me
(audience applauding)
(background people chattering)
Hey, where'd you go?
- Nowhere.
- We were looking for you.
- I'm sure.
- You want a drink?
- No, I actually think
we should get going,
so if you're done here.
(soft eerie music)
- Yeah, just a second.
- No, please take your time.
- It was so dead tonight, I could die.
- I know, it's just so dead.
Not another night, seriously,
I couldn't take it.
(screeching tense music)
(soft tense music)
- Hey, you there?
You were great tonight, darling.
- Oh, stop that, you.
- [Drag Queen] You've set
the bar high for tonight.
- Oh, thank you, ladies, but I should-
- Why don't you come join us?
Come on, we're big fans.
(gentle tense music)
(gentle tense music continues)
So anyway, I was just telling these ladies
about how backwards this place is.
- Oh, my God, there's a strip
club just outside of town
that was an old slaughterhouse.
It pulls a bigger crowd than this.
- With all the well-behaved
married men, of course.
- Yes, all the pillars of the community.
We're gonna have to install
the stripper pole in here
just to keep this hole afloat.
- We don't need those
church-going daddies in here.
- Speak for yourself.
- Homewrecker.
- I never did.
(gentle tense music)
- Well, I bet you've
stolen a few hearts before,
haven't you, darling?
- Oh, you have no idea. (laughing)
- Oh my goodness, your body.
- I'd kill a woman for looks like yours.
- And your skin, it's like porcelain.
(soft tense music)
Have you had work done?
- Oh no, I was born this way.
(all laughing)
(soft tense music)
(all laughing)
(soft tense music)
(fingers snapping)
(gentle tense music)
- And your tuck, it's
higher than heavens too.
- I don't have to tuck anymore.
- Testicular cancer
- I never had to tuck.
- Sure, why, Ellie?
- They call her Ellie the Elephant.
- Well, if you really wanna see.
(soft ominous music)
(Ellie laughing)
(gentle tense music)
- How about you though,
what's your situation?
- I don't know.
- Oh, come on, you can tell us.
- You're among sisters.
- Yeah, we'll tell you our
secret if you share yours.
- Hey, you wanna see a trick?
- I can top that.
- That'll be a first.
- Pick a card.
(gentle tense music)
(soft intense music)
- Behind you!
(intense suspenseful music)
(Nell grunting)
(machete whooshing)
(fire whooshing)
(intense suspenseful music)
(Drag Queen Demon growling)
(disco ball thudding)
(Drag Queen Demon thudding to floor)
(Drag Queen Demon groaning)
- Look at this!
You people! (growling)
(disco ball thudding)
(Aria grunting)
(Drag Queen Demon gurgling and muttering)
(disco ball thudding)
(Aria grunting)
Look at you!
(disco ball thudding repeatedly)
(mellow melodic music)
(mellow melodic music continues)
- Ah,
what the fuck?
- Got another one.
- What happened?
- Well, there was this demon.
Although first, it was a drag queen,
then it was a demon.
Then it spat fire.
- It spat fire? They're spitting fire now?
- Yeah, it was nuts, Aria
was the most roasted.
- Let's wrap it up.
(mellow melodic music)
(soft eerie music)
(Aria gasping)
(car brakes screeching)
- What the fuck?
- Mum?
(car door clicking)
(soft eerie music)
(soft eerie music continues)
(car door clunking)
- You saw your mum?
- No (laughs).
I mean, I thought I did.
Must've been a trick of the light.
- Yes, could be.
Um, one time, I thought I
saw a Bigfoot on the highway,
(Jay sighing)
which is actually, it's kind of stupid,
'cause we don't even have
Bigfoot in Australia.
Bigfeet, is that the plural?
Anyway, it was probably just
like a really hairy naked guy.
Although, what would a
really hairy naked guy
even be doing on the
highway in the first place?
(gentle tense music)
(Jay sighing)
(gentle melodic music)
(gentle melodic music continues)
(gentle melodic music continues)
(gentle melodic music continues)
(objects clattering)
(gentle melodic music)
(gentle tense music)
(gentle tense music continues)
- [Jay] Dr. Benway.
(soft intense music)
(cicadas chirping)
- Can you stop off at the
next servo? I need to pee.
- Seriously?
- Yes.
- You have the bladder of a five year old.
- You know, it's really
bad to hold onto a pee,
it can lead to all sorts of problems,
like cystitis,
kidney stones
or a swollen bladder
or even herdyburny wings.
- Okay, fine.
Could use a disgusting
servo coffee anyway.
- I like servo coffee.
It tastes like cigarettes.
(traffic rumbling quietly)
(Aria sighing)
- I really think you need to pee too.
- Nope.
- No, I really think you do.
- Okay, sure.
Could use a quick precautionary.
Meet you in the cafe.
(car door clicking)
(door thudding)
How cute's Nell?
- She's great.
- She's smart too.
She was reciting this old Italian book
to me from memory last night.
Like imagine remembering things.
- [Jay] That's weird.
- And her eyes are so dreamy.
- We need to talk about Nell.
- Isn't that what we're doing?
- I don't think she's being
completely honest with us.
- She's saved my life twice now.
- But why?
- 'Cause she likes me,
like, like likes me. (laughing)
- If you could turn your
puppy love brain off
for just a moment, you'd figure it out.
- Figure out what? Nell's great.
- Yeah?
(paper rustling)
(gentle tense music)
- What the fuck is this?
- I, um, I found it in her bag.
- You snooped through her...
Is that...
Dr. Benway?
- Tell me that isn't some fishy shit!
- That's my endo, so what?
- Her dad is your endo that gave you
your superpower demon sensor shot.
- If she had anything
to do with that, great.
She helped us again.
- Maybe,
but maybe this is part of
her murderous master plan.
- How can you say that?
- The cult leader, the
one in the fancy cloak,
that was a woman or a girl.
- No way, that woman was...
Tall.
- Was she?
It was dark, how the fuck do
you know how tall she was?
Maybe it was her. She obviously
doesn't have a demon in her.
But what if they need us
for the next sacrifice?
We could be driving into
some creepy arse town.
- No way!
What if...
What if she was the reason
we were sent out here?
Maybe Max used something we didn't know
that she could help us and maybe-
- Jesus Christ!
- You're just jealous.
(soft tense music)
- Fuck you.
(soft tense music)
- This is stupid.
Let's go get a coffee and get going.
- I'm not doing this with her.
- We don't have time for this.
- I'm not getting in that
car with that lunatic!
- Have it your way then.
- Fine!
Enjoy your demon C-section!
- Whatever, cunt!
- Fuck you!
(soft tense music)
- That was harsh.
- It's a 20-minute walk away. (sighing)
They have their phone.
- Still, it's kind of mean.
- The walk will cool them off.
- So what were you guys
fighting about anyway?
- Nothing,
old argument.
- Okay.
Was it about me?
(screeching tense music)
- That was one of them! Come on.
- Should we go back for Jay?
- No time.
(car door clicking)
(tense upbeat music)
(door clanking)
(gun cocking)
What are you doing?
No, Nell, help!
- [Nell] I'm trying,
they're just too strong.
And too terribly sexy.
- [Aria] What?
(intense suspenseful music)
- Hi, Aria.
- Dr. Benway?
- In the flesh.
Where is your friend?
- Safe.
- That doesn't sound like him.
- Them.
- Yes. (laughs)
Cagnazzo, find the other one.
- [Cagnazzo] Yes.
(gentle tense music)
- What the hell is this?
- Hell, indeed. I doubt you're
capable of understanding.
- Try me, shithead.
- Oh dear, this does feel like a breach
of patient-doctor confidentiality.
But after everything you've been through,
I suppose you deserve an explanation.
I had a perfect family, well-bred, ideal,
a respectable wife from
a well-bred family.
We had two perfect
girls, meek and dutiful.
But all was not as it seems.
Our youngest was good and perfect,
but the twin was bad, rebellious,
refused to do as she was told,
had a rot inside her, it made her weak.
And my wife, well, she had
that rot inside her too.
It came from the same weakness,
that affected my dear daughter,
that weakness that
makes us abuse our body,
that blessed gift.
And because of that weakness,
the guilt she carried
for having passed the rot
onto her poor daughter,
she just couldn't cope,
couldn't see her little girl
who was so certain in
her denial of the truth.
Now, I don't want you to think
I don't understand you, Aria,
I have spent years studying the disease
that afflicts you and your friends.
So when the so-called
science began to change,
to co-opt the lies, well, I
knew I alone had to be strong.
I alone had to defend
the truth of my beliefs.
You see, Aria, I specialize in this field,
because I too experience
what is now called dysphoria.
(gentle tense music)
I know what it feels like to
feel strange in your body,
to crave the sensations of being
the other, the gentler sex.
But I am not trans, there
is no trans, you see,
the science, it's wrong,
for it goes against the
very laws of God's creation.
I am man.
You cannot change what you are.
My dear wife, so weak, so
rotten at her very core.
The guilt, you see, the
very thought that her rot
might pass onto her little
Nell too, it was too much.
(rhythmic tense music)
(gentle piano music)
To keep that rot away
from my beloved Nell,
I sent her sister away.
(gentle piano music)
I never heard from Maxine after that.
She never called and I was too
brokenhearted to reach out.
These things happen.
- Your daughter,
son was-
- I'm afraid so.
She ran away from the boarding
house and transitioned
and then fell in with you and your lot.
- You murdered your own son?
- I had to, she was inherited by the rot.
There really was no other way.
I gave her a chance to
de-transition, to escape her fate,
but she couldn't, wouldn't.
I could've found another broken person,
had she been saveable, but
a sacrifice had to be made,
and demons don't come cheap, you know.
- You crazy piece of shit!
- I'm not crazy,
the world is crazy,
this world and I am trying to fix it!
Sure, I could've found
some angry young men
to join my cause,
but the righteous isn't
what it used to be.
Whining, video game addicted simps, weak!
So I used my more, shall
we say, esoteric expertise
to call forth allies from another place,
creatures better and older than man.
- Demons, you think
demons are better than us?
- Oh my, yes.
Demons are pure.
No delusions, no dishonesty.
When indentured by the ritual,
they do exactly as told.
(gentle tense music)
Finding eight sick suffering souls
was easier than I imagined. (laughs)
Weakness, weakness everywhere.
You see, I didn't get
into endocrinology to help
young, sick, weak, little
rotten things like you,
change what you are.
I got into it so I could discover
the nature of the rot, the disease.
But after years of research,
observation, testing,
I failed.
- Of course you did
because it's not some rot,
it's not a disease.
- It is, I know it is.
It's hiding, it's alive!
It's more insidious than
these dull-witted demons
that I've conjured up.
- Wait, I don't understand,
what did you inject me with?
Because ever since then,
I have felt your demons.
- Hm. (laughing)
That, I'm afraid, is
another failure of mine.
You were my test subject,
my Guinea pig, if you will,
for a formula that I created
to help cure the rot, the disease.
I don't quite understand why it failed,
perhaps because you're so
riddled with the disease
that there's no way to cure you from it,
to go back from it, to purge you from it.
- That's a really fucking gross way
of saying it didn't work,
because I don't feel sick,
because I'm comfortable in my own skin.
- Hm.
You sick fool.
(gentle tense music)
Soon, my dear boy, I will
perform one final ritual
that will unleash an army
of demons onto this world
and hunt down all those
not overcome with the rot,
those who hate their flesh.
My army of demons will hunt
out every last one of you,
every last trans person out there
and destroy you! (laughing)
And I have the perfect person
for the final sacrifice.
Come, my dear.
(gentle tense music)
- Mum?
What the fuck?
- I'm in love, sweetheart.
(soft tense music)
I never knew I could love again.
The three of us
will be a perfect family.
- Every step has been taken,
every pre-ceremony set.
The stage is complete.
You, Malacoda,
watch the prisoner,
while I complete the circle. (chuckling)
(gentle piano music)
(Dr. Benway humming)
(demons growling)
Ah, my first attendees, welcome.
It won't be long now, night is near.
Help yourselves to a
drink in the back room.
I'll be along shortly.
- So you come here often?
(soft orchestral music)
(choir vocalizing)
I'm curious,
what exactly is your deal
with doolally Dr. Benway?
(soft orchestral music)
(choir vocalizing)
You know he's crazy, right?
Isn't there some kind of rule in hell
about not letting yourself
get enslaved by crazy humans?
That's what you are, aren't you, a slave?
You hate it in there, don't you?
Being wrapped in a human meat suit,
blended with it, dirtying you,
so disgusting,
so demeaning.
Being as old and powerful as you,
violated and enslaved.
I feel sorry for you, Melacoda.
(Aria's mum grunting)
(blow thudding)
(Melacoda thudding to floor)
Mum, what the fuck?
- Ssh! I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, Aria.
We can go home.
- Oh, fuck off, wet.
- I'm sorry, Aria.
I didn't know.
I was so in love and he was so charming.
It's just been hard since your dad's-
- Oh, fuck off!
- I didn't know he was
gonna sacrifice, I swear.
I just, I just wanted...
- Wanted me what, Mum?
- Just wanted-
- Wanted me what?
- Sorry. (sobbing)
I, I'm so sorry.
- Go, Mum,
go home.
- Aria.
- Go home.
- I just...
(soft tense music)
(blade thudding)
Go home!
(soft tense music)
(birds chirping)
(mellow melodic music)
- You look like shit.
- You look hot.
- What the fuck happened
to you? Where's Nell?
- Short story, you were right.
Grab your knife and shit,
we need to get to the bar.
- [Jay] What happened?
- I will tell you the
long version on the way.
- [Jay] I knew it, I knew it.
- Ssh! Quiet!
- I told you.
- Did you? I don't remember.
- But if that's what happened,
then why the fuck are we both
going to the place where
he plans to sacrifice you?
- [Aria] To stop him.
- Aria, you've escaped, it's done.
Go find somewhere to hide,
I'll go, I'll go kill him.
- [Aria] Oh, don't be stupid.
- I'm not being stupid.
- I loved Max too.
Not like you did, but I loved him.
He was my family, more
so than my mum ever was.
And you're my family too
and I am not letting you get killed too.
If we die, we die together.
(gentle melodic music)
- Okay, fuck, yeah.
So what's the plan?
- Well, first, I let that
idiot demon catch me.
- What?
- Then, honey,
I plan to perform
and I need a DJ.
- Caganazzo, I sent you
to find the other one.
- Oh, this one.
- Where is Malacoda?
- I feel her gone.
- Aria, dear, did you kill poor Malacoda?
Oh, goodness gracious, good
help is hard to find these days,
even from a hell dimension.
Where is your friend?
- I don't know.
Probably on a bus home.
- Hm.
Well, there's some makeup in the ladies.
Why don't you go clean yourself up?
You need to look your very best.
Caganazzo, take him to the bathroom.
(gentle tense music)
(muffled entity whispering)
(gentle tense music)
(intense suspenseful music)
- Oh, Jesus!
Take it easy, perch!
(door thudding)
Hm, not bad.
- What? I gotta pee.
I'm not going in the
men's room, it's stinky.
(Caganazzo growling)
(door clicking)
(light melodic music)
(light melodic music continues)
(blow thudding)
- Uh!
(upbeat rock music)
Bitch!
(knee thudding)
- Uh!
(Nell thudding)
- Uh!
(blow thudding)
- Uh!
(upbeat rock music)
(both grunting)
(objects thudding)
(Caganazzo growling)
I want you to know
that everything between us was real, okay?
- Why the fuck would I believe a word
out of your very pretty mouth?
- I mean, you don't have to.
I just thought it should be said.
- So what was the plan, huh?
You get to know me, seduce me
and then deliver me to Daddy,
so he can gut me like a fish?
- Okay, you don't know what it's like
to be a part of this family, okay.
- And you, obviously,
don't know what it means
to love someone.
- Yeah, maybe I don't, Aria,
but I do know that I care about you
and I know that I didn't
mean to fall for you,
and I know that I've
never ever felt like this
for anyone else.
And I mean, sometimes
people in love fight, right?
- I think conspiracy to murder
is a little more than a lover's tiff.
- Okay, well.
- Look,
I get that you've had
your fair share of trauma,
but so have I,
but I haven't tried to
kill anyone because of it.
All trauma gave me was biting wit
an incredible voice and killer tits.
- They are incredible.
- Eyes up.
Unless you're about to help
me kill a bunch of demons
and then probably your dad,
this conversation is over.
- Aria.
- Over.
(gentle tense music)
- I am sorry.
- Me too.
(gentle tense music)
(melodic upbeat music)
(demon growling)
- Thank you, thank you,
everyone, thank you.
Stop it. (laughing)
Tonight,
my fellow guardians of gender,
warriors of tradition!
We will unleash a storm of righteous fury
from the soul of one who is lost.
We will bring birth a new world,
a purer world.
Caganazzo,
bring forth the sacrifice.
(soft orchestral music)
(demons growling)
Quiet, quiet.
Let our guest utter her,
his final words.
Drip, drip, drip falls
the blood from my fists
Don't wanna hurt anyone but
you just couldn't resist
But when you've been betrayed by all
And you're starting to
ask what is it all for
You feel the tear, feel the scratch
Crawl through your throat to your ear
A warning so deafening
that it is all you can hear
Wake up, bitch, don't you understand
Gotta get out, get out, get out
While you still can
From the shit house town,
they say it's what I deserve
Being on stage and a clown,
I'm a freak, I'm a perv
Like I'm a demon in disguise
Can you imagine my surprise
But I don't wanna die, so stay alive
I open my eyes, don't hate me
'Cause you ain't me
And most importantly,
don't underestimate me
I'm just like you, I
see you right through
I feel your pain inside, don't
need to hide in me confide
We all have flaws, so raise your claws
Gorgeous skin, gorgeous contradiction
No affliction, doctor
Anything to say
I know nothing, play with my prey
But it's a special day
I don't dismay your display
but you are going to pay
'Cause I go toe to toe to
show my foe that all is lost
You're no hero, you know you
won't forgo the mortal cast
You have no self-control,
so sinning's all that you
Sold Satan your soul
No, baby, that was you
You need psychiatric help
Booked in for therapy next week
You're selfish, narcissistic
That's a valid critique
But I won't fuck up again
Put myself above my friend
'Cause I can change and grow
But you can't though and
that's why you're a dread
I'm just like you, I
see you right through
Your shoddy lipstick, sick intentions
No more sneaky circumventions
We all have flaws, so raise your claws
Can't persecute a cutie that's cutie
'Cause I see through
these games and lies
Maybe I sympathize,
but I am saving lives
An angel in their eyes
No demon in disguise
No demon, no demon,
no demon in disguise
No demon in disguise
(demons growling)
- Silence!
(soft melodic music)
Lies, deceiver!
You and I are no different.
You're in drag.
I take mine off, you keep
it on, you're a pretender!
Can't you see?
She lies, he lies!
- There is a difference
between drag and trans,
and sweetie, I think you know that.
You wanna wipe out all trans people,
wipe out me because you're jealous of me,
of how happy I am,
of how hot I am.
I'm so hot, even your own
daughter wants to fuck me.
How about that, bitch?
You like the idea of me
fucking your daughter?
- [Nell] Hey, get back on track.
- Sorry, hun.
You want to be me.
I wish you could be me, but you can't be,
not because of your age or how you look
or any of that superficial shit,
but because you hate yourself so much
that you would rather tear
everyone else down to your level
than even think about doing
the work to grow yourself.
- Enough!
(Aria thudding to floor)
(demons growling)
Caganazzo, Rubicanto, do not let them go.
One thing,
I command you to
to not allow anyone or
anything stop the ritual.
(soft tense music)
- You deluded cunt!
- Silence the degenerate!
(soft tense music)
(demons growling)
(Dr. Benway reciting incantation in Latin)
What?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
This is not right.
(soft tense music)
This isn't the ritual.
Someone's changed the ritual.
- The book is infallible.
It cannot be wrong.
You, do ritual.
- No, no, no, no, this is
not the ritual, it's not...
- (growls) You dare
question the sacred word?
- We must finish ritual.
We swear.
- From the depths of hell, eat your flesh.
And so.
- Finish the words!
(soft tense music)
(demons growling)
(flesh squelching)
(Dr. Benway groaning)
(tense orchestral music)
(fire whooshing)
(tortured souls wailing)
- What's happened to me?
- It's her true self.
All the self hatred.
- Oh, I command you to
restore me back to my form.
I command you!
- [Demon] You will command no more!
(Dr. Benway screaming)
(fire whooshing)
(tortured souls wailing)
- You stupid...
(fire whooshing)
(tortured souls wailing)
- How did you do it?
(soft melodic music)
- [Jay] I changed the ending.
- Oh, you brilliant fucking artist, you.
(mellow upbeat music)
(soft melodic music)
(soft melodic music continues)
I know it was real.
- Yeah?
Um, anyway, I'm really sorry about my dad.
- I'm not.
- Fair enough.
- Come on, everyone,
let's get out of here.
- Yeah, no, I, I think
I'll be taking that one.
(light melodic music)
Thanks.
- Okey dokey.
(light melodic music)
(mellow upbeat music)
(mellow rock music)
- Um, Barry.
My ride's here, do you mind if,
do you mind if you close up?
- Yeah, sure. I'll catch you tomorrow.
(mellow rock music)
(mellow rock music continues)
(mellow rock music continues)
(gentle melodic music)
- [Aria] Nell, you, you go first.
- Max.
I wish I could've grown up with you, um,
and I wish that our abusive
dad wasn't an evil sorcerer.
But seriously, I'm sorry that
our family really sucked.
Love you, bro.
- My turn.
Max.
When Nell lost a brother,
I got one of my own.
I don't know what to say.
I miss you, that's all.
I wish all that would've been through
somehow made it easier, but it hasn't.
You're still gone
and I am so fucking
pissed off at the world
for taking you away.
I wish knowing your killer was burning
in some kind of hell
dimension made it easier too.
It does a bit,
but not enough.
I just want you back.
I really just want you back.
(gentle melodic music)
(birds chirping)
- I remember the night you
told me you first loved me.
It was Halloween and you
were dressed like a vampire
and you had those plastic
fangs in your mouth,
and what you really said was,
"I love you, Jay."
I didn't realize how much I
needed to hear you say that,
until you said it.
(sirens wailing in distance)
It was the way you said it so casually,
didn't force it, didn't think
whether or not to say it.
You just felt it and you said it.
(gentle melodic music)
(birds chirping)
I didn't know...
I didn't know anyone could love me,
but you showed me I was loved.
I am loved.
Completely in the way that I am.
Thank you, Max.
(gentle melodic music)
(sirens wailing in distance)
(gentle melodic music)
I've been talking to the walls again
I've got a lot of thoughts
that I should hate
I can keep myself steady
if my brain's upstairs
But it's about to dissipate
So I put it on lockdown now
The feeling of an itch
that I can't scratch
I can pause myself,
disconnect the gray matter
I'd look but not get too attached
But I'm still cynical through it all
Destroyed my own bones, it's typical
I'll be outdone, I'll be outnumbered
Take another fucking shot,
yeah, I know you wanna
A cold start to another day
Iridescent living in the dark
I'm a monster, gotta hide away
It's so clear that I fit the part of a
Cold start to another day
Iridescent living in the dark
I'm a monster, gotta hide away
It's so clear that I fit the part of a
I've had enough of my face
I need to trade places with the people
That I left unhinged while
they wipe out my last name
And keep me under the floor
I'm alive, but I don't wanna get out
Thorns digging in deep
and slowing me down
The reason that I don't
sleep, that was never allowed
I hate the way that they
live in perfect poetry
Am I who I'm supposed to be
'Cause I'm still
cynical through it all
Destroyed my own bones, it's typical
I'll be outdone, I'll be outnumbered
Take another fucking
shot, I know you wanna
A cold start to another day
Iridescent living in the dark
I'm a monster, gotta hide away
It's so clear that I fit the part of a
Cold start to another day
Iridescent living in the dark
I'm a monster, gotta hide away
It's so clear that I fit the part of a
(upbeat rock music)
But I'm still cynical through it all
(static hissing)
(signal humming)
(mellow rock music)
(mellow rock music continues)
(mellow rock music continues)
They never said I was the chosen one
Until the first thing happened
They try to put you in a
box with all your friends
And keep your windows
and your doors locked
He keeps a picture of his gun cocked
(gun cocking)
In his wallet with his plastic bag
Next to a night out
where you can't come back
(sirens wailing in distance)
He's gonna find you
Make it impossible
I get this feeling I'm
never breathing again
(mellow rock music)
We fall and fell into
an expensive spell
Keep your hands to yourselves
And break these shells
which hold us down
And keep your shutters
and your blinds closed
Perfect timing leaves you exposed
To a power you won't overcome
Before a last chance
and then you're done
He's gonna find you
Make it impossible
I get this feeling I'm
never breathing again
He's gonna tempt you
Make it impossible
I get this feeling I'll
never feel this feeling again
(mellow rock music)
He's gonna tempt you
Make it impossible
I get this feeling I'll
never feel this feeling again
(audience applauding and cheering)
- For you, Max.
(muffled upbeat music)
Hey, sexy.
- Hey, Aria.
- How you doing?
- I, you did great in
the show. I, I'm elated.
- It was great, wasn't it?
Every show I do, I'm like,
well, you've done it now.
You've hit the top, you'll
never get better than this.
- I need to tell you something.
- And then I do,
I get better and hotter
and I'm starting to worry
I might be a narcissist,
but I read somewhere that if
you think you're a narcissist,
you're probably not one,
which means I'm genuinely just brilliant.
- Yeah, you really lapped
up that applause. Pathetic.
- Huh?
- Nobody in the audience
gave a fuck about Max.
(gentle melodic music)
You're diamonds when you're alive,
you're dog shit when you're dead.
- Sounds like you're doing great.
- My boyfriend just got
murdered, didn't he?
- He did, yeah.
Sucks, that.
You look great though.
Like, grief looks hot on you.
(Jay laughs softly)
- Grief looks hot on you too.
- Oh, I haven't started grieving yet.
I figured we'd take it in turns.
You go first because he was your partner,
I go second because he was my best friend
and everyone else can go after.
- Everyone else? It's
not like he had a family.
- We were his family.
He didn't need anyone else.
(gentle melodic music)
- Maybe he did.
We didn't save him.
- We didn't,
couldn't,
certainly can't now.
But you know what we can
do? Get totally shit faced.
- Might have to wait, I
found this with his stuff.
- How'd you get Max's stuff?
- The police released it today.
(soft melancholic music)
(soft melancholic music continues)
(Jay laughs softly)
(soft melodic music)
(soft tense music)
Oh, shit.
- Yeah,
death shouldn't have done that.
- Yeah, you really think
the pigs in rural Australia
are gonna give a fuck
about a trans kid's death?
- You think this has something
to do with the demons?
- They're not demons, it's a cult.
- Demon cult, I told you, those
two things aren't exclusive.
- I really think we should check this out.
- When do we leave?
- Tomorrow.
- Next week.
- Tomorrow.
- I have skate class tomorrow.
- You don't skate?
- Not yet.
Why do you think I'm taking a class?
- This is important.
- We will discuss this at the bar,
post the dismantling of my visage
and its reconstruction into
something more domestic.
- (laughs softly) Wanker.
- You're adorable.
- Fine, but we have to drink whiskey.
- Okay, geriatric.
(muffled pop music)
(screeching tense music)
I know you.
- I just saw your show. You're brilliant.
- I knew it.
- Why are you taking
the makeup off though?
- Acne.
- I like it.
- Acne?
- Your face.
- I can teach you how to
put it on if you want.
- I don't.
(gentle tense music)
- What do you want then?
- I think you know.
- Do I?
- What kind of guys do you like?
- Who said I like guys?
- Oh, I just assume, assumed.
- When you assume, you
make an arse out of-
- You've got a great arse.
- Are you just like stupid
or like really nervous or something?
- Oh.
Nervous.
- Okay.
That's cute, I guess.
(soft ominous music)
- Is this kind of cute?
(gentle tense music)
- Okay, fine, you're hot, whatever.
- I'm seducing you.
- Oh, it's working.
I become a snarky bitch
when I'm turned on.
- Oh, right.
That's hot.
- I know you are, but what am I?
- Sexy, mysterious.
- "A once-in-a-lifetime talent,"
if you ask Trace at "The Gazette."
Two questions,
then I'm yours.
- Hit me.
- Number one.
Have you ever been with
a girl like me before?
- Oh.
You'll be my first
- Lucky me.
And number two, and really
think hard about this one.
What inspired you to,
how do I put this?
Join a demon cult.
Let me guess, they do a fabulous
spread at Sunday brunch.
- I don't know what you're talking about.
- Don't lie to me, sweetie.
I can fucking feel you.
(soft intense music)
Demon.
(sudden ominous music)
(demon laughing)
(Aria gasping)
(intense ominous music)
- Aria!
(Jay grunting)
(flesh squelching)
(skin sizzling)
(Jay groaning)
(knife thudding)
(fire whooshing)
(tortured souls wailing)
(Jay groaning)
(gentle tense music)
- Fine.
We'll go.
- Right?
(upbeat rock music)
(choir vocalizing)
- Mum, I'm going away for a
couple of days. Be back soon.
Whatever.
(door clicking)
(mellow rock music)
(door clicking)
(bell jangling)
There you are, you saucy minx.
Come on, we're going.
- No, I've gotta work.
- Quit this shit job.
- Fuck off, I've gotta eat.
- You again? Didn't I
ban you from the store?
- Me?
I've never been here in my life.
You must be thinking of a
different six-foot transsexual.
- Oh yeah.
- We need to leave now.
- No, I know, look,
let me just wait until he's
in a better mood and I can-
- Nope, not a chance, not happening.
- You're not by any chance getting
one of your demonic psychic
alarms from him, are you?
- Unfortunately, no.
How's your arm?
- It's fine, I don't know,
it just stings a little bit.
- Thank God.
I was worried it might have
laid eggs in you or something.
- Gross.
- Hey, Jay's got some work to do.
Can you please get out of the store?
- Baby, I'm your only customer.
- You're not a customer.
- Oh, new Artie.
I keep thinking about that night.
- Yeah, we're gonna need
some SteriClean after that.
- Not like that.
Well, like that too.
But what I mean is the more
I picture what happened,
the more I see.
- Me too. It's, um, it's strange.
(mellow melodic music)
(mellow melodic music continues)
(mellow melodic music continues)
(mellow melodic music continues)
(mellow melodic music continues)
(mellow melodic music continues)
- Memory is all weird.
I remember Max just disappearing.
All I could think of was that
drunk guy had grabbed him.
(mellow melodic music)
I don't know how long we searched for him.
Seemed like hours.
(bats squeaking)
(cult members chanting
incantation in Latin)
I can't get the images out of my head.
It was a woman, I think, the one that...
(cult members chanting
incantation in Latin)
(tense orchestral music)
(cult members chanting
incantation in Latin)
Do something, do something.
(cult members chanting
incantation in Latin)
(fire whooshing)
(knife thudding)
(Max screaming)
- [Both] No!
(flesh squelching)
(cult members chanting
incantation in Latin)
- Max!
(cult members chanting
incantation in Latin)
(blood pouring)
(dramatic orchestral music)
- You know, the weirdest thing?
- Demons being real isn't weird enough?
- Besides that.
It's the feeling I got
when they all first,
you know, came out.
I got it when that demon attacked me,
but also when I got my last shot.
(soft tense music)
It was the same tingling
feeling under my skin.
(tense melodic music)
(choir vocalizing)
(tense melodic music)
(choir vocalizing)
(tense melodic music)
(choir vocalizing)
(soft intense music)
- Like someone walking over your grave?
- Like someone jumping on
it, wearing high heels.
- Fuck, gonna have to change the title.
- You still wanna write
a comic about all this?
- Yeah.
- You feel it's like good for you?
- It's how I deal with shit
and there's a lot of fucking
shit to deal with here.
- Yeah, fair enough.
Well, I guess you can come
up with a better title
when we know the ending.
- Yeah.
So how are we gonna pay for this trip?
Because I don't get paid
until next week and I don't-
- I've got it covered, trust me.
- Trust you?
Last time you told me to trust you,
I ended up passed out on a
median strip dressed like a nun.
- Don't worry about it, it's all set.
Besides, we have to do this.
- Jay, can you come here for a bit?
(background melodic rock music)
- What do you want, Barry?
- Nothing.
Um...
Look, I think you should take
some time off for a while.
- Sorry?
- You know, you've been distracted
and you're making mistakes and it's not-
- Wait, are you firing me?
- No, no, no, no, no, I just...
(gentle tense music)
I read the article about your friend.
Just take some time
off, just a week or two
to, I don't know, get away.
- Time off?
- Yeah, I was actually
gonna say something,
when we finished this shipment,
but I actually think that I
can sort it by myself, so.
(gentle melodic music)
An advance on your pay.
- Are you sure?
- Yeah.
Just go do whatever you need to do.
Get out of this redneck town for a while.
- Thanks.
- Don't mention it.
Just take...
Just be careful.
- No, I will, Barry.
Thank you.
(mellow melodic music)
- Okay, so here's the plan, we go to Emu.
- Enzu.
- Whatever.
We go to Enzu
and we figure out why
the fuck we went to Enzu.
There'll have to be something
there, the-the cult base.
- Or at least some answers.
- And since the demony
things seem to be after us,
if the Demon Daddy is any indication
of their overall plans for
us, then we kill, what is it?
Eight demons.
(both laughing)
- Yeah, sure, we just go
and kill eight demons.
Sure thing, Buffy.
- Yeah, well, I'm pretty
sure that handsome hunk
of horse meat didn't know
that I could sense him,
so we have an advantage.
- Hopefully.
So,
a basic road trip.
- Plus add-ons.
- What add-ons?
- You know, how I'm covering
the trip.
- How are you covering
the trip?
- Gig money.
- Yeah, gig money that you've been saving?
- Oh, well, I was until I saw this top.
Do you like her? She's
vintage, huge markdown.
- Babe.
- I asked if you liked my top.
- You said you had the trip covered.
- We're getting road money.
- Road money?
- Gigs, I booked a couple
of drag gigs along the way.
- Seriously?
- What? It's a good cover story.
- (sighing) True.
- Plus the gigs were
booked before the note,
so like, you know it's legit.
- And you don't think that's
even a little bit suspicious?
- It's just a coincidence.
- Is it?
- Oh, look in the back.
(soft tense music)
- Do you plan on killing a bunch
of stoned camp counselors with that, or?
- Cool, isn't it? Got it
from my dad's old shed.
- You couldn't, you
couldn't bring a chainsaw?
- It was that or a leaf blower.
- Well, at least we could've
blown into the neighbors yard.
- You know, I promised
no more blowing things
in people's yards after the
incident at Jeremiah's birthday.
Flirt and squirt, yes.
- Machete, it is.
Iridescent living in the dark
I'm a monster, gotta hide away
It's so clear that I fit the part of a
Cold start to another day
Iridescent living in the dark
I'm a monster, gotta hide away
It's so clear that I fit the part of a
(soft tense music)
- Aria.
Aria.
(soft tense music)
Aria!
- I, that was my favorite bit.
- Okay, the car behind us has
been tailing us for hours.
(soft tense music)
- Well, we've been driving
on a straight road for ages,
like it could be anything.
- Okay, well,
are you feeling anything?
- No,
but I have an idea.
(screeching tense music)
Oh, oh, it's one of them.
- Fuck, okay, well,
um, we have to kill it.
- Obviously, but how?
- I don't know.
- I've got it, grab the fogger.
- The what?
- The smoke machine, it's
in the foot bit behind you.
- Oh yeah, I'll just
grab the smoke machine
from the foot bit.
(soft tense orchestral music)
(smoke machine hissing)
(soft tense orchestral music)
(soft tense orchestral music continues)
(Aria sighing)
(car door clunking)
- You girls in trouble?
- This is so embarrassing.
Our little car like
broke down or something.
- Well, you know it's not
safe out in the open road
for two young girls?
- You're so right,
I feel so helpless and
vulnerable right now.
But please, carry on.
This is our problem to
solve and if we can't,
we'll just die here and deserve it.
Wait, you wouldn't? No, I
couldn't ask that of you.
Such a sultry, solid cowboy.
Or perhaps Cowman
come to us in our time of need.
Oh, it's too good to be true.
The problem's just down near
the head bit of the car.
You should know what to do.
You look like a man who's
good with his hands.
Such rough hands they are too,
rugged, calloused.
These are fixing hands
as my papa used to say,
before he died, that is.
I've not known the touch of a man
since he left this mortal coil,
and a man's touch, as they
say, is the only remedy
for a broken car.
- I can have a look.
- Excellent.
(soft tense music)
(cicadas chirping)
(soft tense music)
(car doors clunking)
(car revving)
(Cowboy Demon thudding)
(soft tense music)
- You will never escape us.
We will suck the marrow from your bones!
We will cleanse the Earth!
(flesh squelching)
(fire whooshing)
- That felt so fucking good.
- Two down.
- Come on.
(car door clunking)
(door thudding)
(Aria sighing)
Charming room, interesting prospects.
- Smells like sweat and cockroaches.
- I need a shower.
- Hope you brought sandals.
(mellow upbeat music)
(shower pattering)
(mellow upbeat music)
(shower pattering)
- [Jay] (shrieks) It's cold!
- It takes a second to heat up.
- [Jay] You told me that.
- No way.
Oh, ah! Fuck a monkey.
(soft tense music)
(soft tense music continues)
I am so tired.
(both laughing)
Demon killing really takes it out of you.
- Yeah, that one was a
bit too easy to kill.
- Maybe demons are stupid.
- That one was.
- I've never got the whole
like demon possession thing.
Like in the movies,
demons are these semi-corporeal
paranormal entities
that can pop into a human
body and make it do anything.
So like, don't they have
anything better to do
than possess kids and Christians
and make them swear like sailors?
Seems stupid.
- This last one didn't
really take over any kids.
- No, most guys let them in.
Who does that?
- So what does it feel like
when you sense the demons?
- I don't know, kind of
feels like a shiver at first,
(gentle tense music)
and then,
it kind of feels like dysphoria
used to feel actually,
you know, that tension,
the wrongness.
- Maybe you're just feeling dysphoric?
- No, no, I haven't felt dysphoric
by myself in ages actually.
- Must be nice.
- [Aria] It's coming from
outside of me, the feeling.
It's, it's coming from them.
- Max never really got dysphoric.
- Really?
- No, he had his moments,
but for the most part, he was fine.
He felt great.
- I wish I knew, could've
had a damn bathing buddy.
(gentle melodic music)
- Why him?
(gentle melodic music)
- I don't know.
- There were so many people in that bar.
They took him.
What about him made him
so right for the ritual?
- Maybe we'll find out.
- It's hard to sleep alone now.
I wake up and I reach for him, I...
I wait for him to wrap his legs around me
and pull me in closer,
tell me everything's
gonna be all right, but...
Nothing is all right.
- Everything will be all right.
We're gonna kill every
one of those demons,
obliterate them and
then we're gonna go home
and we're gonna roast some marshmallows
and everything will be a
little bit closer to all right.
- Sounds nice.
(gentle melodic music)
(gentle melodic music continues)
(birds chirping)
(maid knocking)
(Aria gasping awake)
- Get the door, will you?
- You get it.
- It's your turn.
- How is it my turn?
- Come on.
- You're the demon detector.
(maid knocking)
- [Maid] Room service.
- Did you?
- No.
(gentle tense music)
(door clicking)
- Good morning.
We have bacon and eggs,
pancakes, hash browns,
baked beans, sausages,
spaghetti with little sausages,
spaghetti with little meatballs,
deviled ham sandwiches,
spam or bologna fritts,
some other sort of
processed meat situation.
Cereal, we've got grain things,
corn things, wheat things,
those little things that
look like little poops
that'll help you poop.
Apple juice, orange juice,
yucky pineapple juice.
Honestly, who even likes
pineapple juice anymore?
Coffee, tea
or water?
- Do I know you?
- Or if none of that sounds appetizing,
there is a Sleepy Joe's just down the road
and they do a fantastic
toast of the French.
- I do love egg bread.
- Seriously then, you should go.
(maid knocking)
- [Maid] Room service.
- Don't get that
(gentle tense music)
Ah
- Room service.
(screeching tense music)
(soft tense music)
Who the fuck are you?
- Get lost, bitch, this tip is mine.
(maid knocking)
- Room service.
Really?
Oh, I'll come back later.
(soft tense music)
(Aria muttering indistinctly)
(intense suspenseful music)
(blow thudding)
(flesh squelching)
(intense suspenseful music)
(choir vocalizing)
(knife thudding)
(flesh squelching)
(intense suspenseful music)
(knife thudding repeatedly)
(flesh squelching)
- Hey, you forgot to pay the extras.
- Oh, sweetie, we didn't...
Oh, fuck me.
- Oh, you stupid humans.
We know you can feel us.
- Are you fucking kidding me?
Ah!
(intense suspenseful music)
- Jay!
- Ah!
(blow thudding)
(machete whooshing)
Ah!
Eat shit and die!
(Demon Maid thudding to ground)
(fire whooshing)
(soft intense music)
(knife thudding repeatedly)
(Demon screeching)
- Damn, she's so strong.
Do you think she works out?
- Can you focus right now?
- Sorry, sorry.
Fuck, fuck, my keys!
- [Jay] Don't do this
to me right now, bitch!
- Got them!
(car door clicking)
(car door clunking)
We're not being followed.
I, I think we lost them.
- Yeah, for now.
- You're such a negative person, you know.
- I'm a realist.
- Realism is for Russian
playwrights and lonely virgins.
Anyway, yay for getting
away with our guts intact.
- Speak for yourself, mate, my
intestines are in my throat.
- Just say yay, will you?
- Yay.
(Jay exhaling heavily)
(sudden ominous music)
(Nell screeching)
- What the fuck?
- Jesus Christ!
Where did you come from?
How did you get in our car?
- Through the door.
- When?
- Before you started driving like a ninja.
No one notices me.
(seat belt clicking)
- Who are you?
- I'm Nell,
from school.
- Oh.
- Really, you don't remember me?
Wow!
Okay, no, it's so fine.
Not even a little bit
offended or anything.
No, really, it's so fine,
I was only there for
like a year or something,
because my family, um...
But I knew you two.
Or I mean like I knew of you.
I was shy, so I kind of
never really had the courage
to talk to you back then.
- Wait, you were the girl in art class
that drew all of that
scary shit, remember?
- Yeah, the hell dioramas.
- Yeah, they made me redo that one.
You know, Catholic school and whatnot.
I used to watch you two,
and Max,
although not in like a creepy
stalker way or anything.
I just, I really thought you were cool.
Um, any who, I heard
what happened with Max
and I thought I could probably help.
- How did you know where to find us?
- Oh well, I live in Cain,
it's like Manico's that way,
so I just, I saw that you had,
well, Aria had a show in Cain
and I just, you know, put
it together, figured that-
- No, no, how did you
know about the demons?
- Jesus, Jay, give her a break.
She literally just saved our lives.
- Yeah, look, I get that,
but how do we know we can trust her?
(gentle tense music)
Didn't you drive to the motel?
- No.
- [Jay] Then how did you get there?
- Bus.
- I've got a show in Cain tonight
and we are not leaving her
in the middle of nowhere
to catch a fucking bus.
You can finish interrogating
her at the bar.
- Hey, sick board you've got back here.
- Oh, that's mine. I've
been taking skate classes.
(light melodic music)
- Hm.
Well, I've been known to
grind on the half-pipe
from time to time.
- Oh, my God, you know
the lingo. (laughing)
She knows the lingo.
- I could even give you
lessons, if you like.
- Yes.
- Why are you screaming?
- I mean,
cool.
Yeah, no,
so chill.
- So chill.
(light melodic music)
- Love.
(light melodic music)
(door clicking)
- Are you fucking kidding me?
(light melodic music)
(melodic piano music)
I've a very strange feeling
I've never felt before
'Tis a kind of a grind of depression
My heart's acting strangely,
it feels rather sore
At least it gives me that impression
My pulses leap madly without any cause
Believe me, I'm telling you truly
I'm gay without pause
then sad without cause
My spirits are truly unruly
For I'm falling in love with someone
Some one girl
I'm falling in love with someone
Head-a-whirl
Yes, I'm falling in love with someone
Plain to see
I'm sure I could love someone madly
If someone would only love me
Now I don't mind confessing
that I used to scoff
At the thought of the
sport of flirtation
I used to believe that
I'd never be caught
In this foolish but fond complication
I'm losing all relish for
things that weren't here
I'm looking for trouble and know it
When someone is near,
I'm feeling quite queer
But I heartily hope I don't show it
For I'm falling in love with someone
Some one girl
I'm falling in love with someone
Head-a-whirl
Yes, I'm falling in love with someone
Plain to see
I'm sure I could love someone madly
If someone
Would only
Love
Me
(audience applauding)
(background people chattering)
Hey, where'd you go?
- Nowhere.
- We were looking for you.
- I'm sure.
- You want a drink?
- No, I actually think
we should get going,
so if you're done here.
(soft eerie music)
- Yeah, just a second.
- No, please take your time.
- It was so dead tonight, I could die.
- I know, it's just so dead.
Not another night, seriously,
I couldn't take it.
(screeching tense music)
(soft tense music)
- Hey, you there?
You were great tonight, darling.
- Oh, stop that, you.
- [Drag Queen] You've set
the bar high for tonight.
- Oh, thank you, ladies, but I should-
- Why don't you come join us?
Come on, we're big fans.
(gentle tense music)
(gentle tense music continues)
So anyway, I was just telling these ladies
about how backwards this place is.
- Oh, my God, there's a strip
club just outside of town
that was an old slaughterhouse.
It pulls a bigger crowd than this.
- With all the well-behaved
married men, of course.
- Yes, all the pillars of the community.
We're gonna have to install
the stripper pole in here
just to keep this hole afloat.
- We don't need those
church-going daddies in here.
- Speak for yourself.
- Homewrecker.
- I never did.
(gentle tense music)
- Well, I bet you've
stolen a few hearts before,
haven't you, darling?
- Oh, you have no idea. (laughing)
- Oh my goodness, your body.
- I'd kill a woman for looks like yours.
- And your skin, it's like porcelain.
(soft tense music)
Have you had work done?
- Oh no, I was born this way.
(all laughing)
(soft tense music)
(all laughing)
(soft tense music)
(fingers snapping)
(gentle tense music)
- And your tuck, it's
higher than heavens too.
- I don't have to tuck anymore.
- Testicular cancer
- I never had to tuck.
- Sure, why, Ellie?
- They call her Ellie the Elephant.
- Well, if you really wanna see.
(soft ominous music)
(Ellie laughing)
(gentle tense music)
- How about you though,
what's your situation?
- I don't know.
- Oh, come on, you can tell us.
- You're among sisters.
- Yeah, we'll tell you our
secret if you share yours.
- Hey, you wanna see a trick?
- I can top that.
- That'll be a first.
- Pick a card.
(gentle tense music)
(soft intense music)
- Behind you!
(intense suspenseful music)
(Nell grunting)
(machete whooshing)
(fire whooshing)
(intense suspenseful music)
(Drag Queen Demon growling)
(disco ball thudding)
(Drag Queen Demon thudding to floor)
(Drag Queen Demon groaning)
- Look at this!
You people! (growling)
(disco ball thudding)
(Aria grunting)
(Drag Queen Demon gurgling and muttering)
(disco ball thudding)
(Aria grunting)
Look at you!
(disco ball thudding repeatedly)
(mellow melodic music)
(mellow melodic music continues)
- Ah,
what the fuck?
- Got another one.
- What happened?
- Well, there was this demon.
Although first, it was a drag queen,
then it was a demon.
Then it spat fire.
- It spat fire? They're spitting fire now?
- Yeah, it was nuts, Aria
was the most roasted.
- Let's wrap it up.
(mellow melodic music)
(soft eerie music)
(Aria gasping)
(car brakes screeching)
- What the fuck?
- Mum?
(car door clicking)
(soft eerie music)
(soft eerie music continues)
(car door clunking)
- You saw your mum?
- No (laughs).
I mean, I thought I did.
Must've been a trick of the light.
- Yes, could be.
Um, one time, I thought I
saw a Bigfoot on the highway,
(Jay sighing)
which is actually, it's kind of stupid,
'cause we don't even have
Bigfoot in Australia.
Bigfeet, is that the plural?
Anyway, it was probably just
like a really hairy naked guy.
Although, what would a
really hairy naked guy
even be doing on the
highway in the first place?
(gentle tense music)
(Jay sighing)
(gentle melodic music)
(gentle melodic music continues)
(gentle melodic music continues)
(gentle melodic music continues)
(objects clattering)
(gentle melodic music)
(gentle tense music)
(gentle tense music continues)
- [Jay] Dr. Benway.
(soft intense music)
(cicadas chirping)
- Can you stop off at the
next servo? I need to pee.
- Seriously?
- Yes.
- You have the bladder of a five year old.
- You know, it's really
bad to hold onto a pee,
it can lead to all sorts of problems,
like cystitis,
kidney stones
or a swollen bladder
or even herdyburny wings.
- Okay, fine.
Could use a disgusting
servo coffee anyway.
- I like servo coffee.
It tastes like cigarettes.
(traffic rumbling quietly)
(Aria sighing)
- I really think you need to pee too.
- Nope.
- No, I really think you do.
- Okay, sure.
Could use a quick precautionary.
Meet you in the cafe.
(car door clicking)
(door thudding)
How cute's Nell?
- She's great.
- She's smart too.
She was reciting this old Italian book
to me from memory last night.
Like imagine remembering things.
- [Jay] That's weird.
- And her eyes are so dreamy.
- We need to talk about Nell.
- Isn't that what we're doing?
- I don't think she's being
completely honest with us.
- She's saved my life twice now.
- But why?
- 'Cause she likes me,
like, like likes me. (laughing)
- If you could turn your
puppy love brain off
for just a moment, you'd figure it out.
- Figure out what? Nell's great.
- Yeah?
(paper rustling)
(gentle tense music)
- What the fuck is this?
- I, um, I found it in her bag.
- You snooped through her...
Is that...
Dr. Benway?
- Tell me that isn't some fishy shit!
- That's my endo, so what?
- Her dad is your endo that gave you
your superpower demon sensor shot.
- If she had anything
to do with that, great.
She helped us again.
- Maybe,
but maybe this is part of
her murderous master plan.
- How can you say that?
- The cult leader, the
one in the fancy cloak,
that was a woman or a girl.
- No way, that woman was...
Tall.
- Was she?
It was dark, how the fuck do
you know how tall she was?
Maybe it was her. She obviously
doesn't have a demon in her.
But what if they need us
for the next sacrifice?
We could be driving into
some creepy arse town.
- No way!
What if...
What if she was the reason
we were sent out here?
Maybe Max used something we didn't know
that she could help us and maybe-
- Jesus Christ!
- You're just jealous.
(soft tense music)
- Fuck you.
(soft tense music)
- This is stupid.
Let's go get a coffee and get going.
- I'm not doing this with her.
- We don't have time for this.
- I'm not getting in that
car with that lunatic!
- Have it your way then.
- Fine!
Enjoy your demon C-section!
- Whatever, cunt!
- Fuck you!
(soft tense music)
- That was harsh.
- It's a 20-minute walk away. (sighing)
They have their phone.
- Still, it's kind of mean.
- The walk will cool them off.
- So what were you guys
fighting about anyway?
- Nothing,
old argument.
- Okay.
Was it about me?
(screeching tense music)
- That was one of them! Come on.
- Should we go back for Jay?
- No time.
(car door clicking)
(tense upbeat music)
(door clanking)
(gun cocking)
What are you doing?
No, Nell, help!
- [Nell] I'm trying,
they're just too strong.
And too terribly sexy.
- [Aria] What?
(intense suspenseful music)
- Hi, Aria.
- Dr. Benway?
- In the flesh.
Where is your friend?
- Safe.
- That doesn't sound like him.
- Them.
- Yes. (laughs)
Cagnazzo, find the other one.
- [Cagnazzo] Yes.
(gentle tense music)
- What the hell is this?
- Hell, indeed. I doubt you're
capable of understanding.
- Try me, shithead.
- Oh dear, this does feel like a breach
of patient-doctor confidentiality.
But after everything you've been through,
I suppose you deserve an explanation.
I had a perfect family, well-bred, ideal,
a respectable wife from
a well-bred family.
We had two perfect
girls, meek and dutiful.
But all was not as it seems.
Our youngest was good and perfect,
but the twin was bad, rebellious,
refused to do as she was told,
had a rot inside her, it made her weak.
And my wife, well, she had
that rot inside her too.
It came from the same weakness,
that affected my dear daughter,
that weakness that
makes us abuse our body,
that blessed gift.
And because of that weakness,
the guilt she carried
for having passed the rot
onto her poor daughter,
she just couldn't cope,
couldn't see her little girl
who was so certain in
her denial of the truth.
Now, I don't want you to think
I don't understand you, Aria,
I have spent years studying the disease
that afflicts you and your friends.
So when the so-called
science began to change,
to co-opt the lies, well, I
knew I alone had to be strong.
I alone had to defend
the truth of my beliefs.
You see, Aria, I specialize in this field,
because I too experience
what is now called dysphoria.
(gentle tense music)
I know what it feels like to
feel strange in your body,
to crave the sensations of being
the other, the gentler sex.
But I am not trans, there
is no trans, you see,
the science, it's wrong,
for it goes against the
very laws of God's creation.
I am man.
You cannot change what you are.
My dear wife, so weak, so
rotten at her very core.
The guilt, you see, the
very thought that her rot
might pass onto her little
Nell too, it was too much.
(rhythmic tense music)
(gentle piano music)
To keep that rot away
from my beloved Nell,
I sent her sister away.
(gentle piano music)
I never heard from Maxine after that.
She never called and I was too
brokenhearted to reach out.
These things happen.
- Your daughter,
son was-
- I'm afraid so.
She ran away from the boarding
house and transitioned
and then fell in with you and your lot.
- You murdered your own son?
- I had to, she was inherited by the rot.
There really was no other way.
I gave her a chance to
de-transition, to escape her fate,
but she couldn't, wouldn't.
I could've found another broken person,
had she been saveable, but
a sacrifice had to be made,
and demons don't come cheap, you know.
- You crazy piece of shit!
- I'm not crazy,
the world is crazy,
this world and I am trying to fix it!
Sure, I could've found
some angry young men
to join my cause,
but the righteous isn't
what it used to be.
Whining, video game addicted simps, weak!
So I used my more, shall
we say, esoteric expertise
to call forth allies from another place,
creatures better and older than man.
- Demons, you think
demons are better than us?
- Oh my, yes.
Demons are pure.
No delusions, no dishonesty.
When indentured by the ritual,
they do exactly as told.
(gentle tense music)
Finding eight sick suffering souls
was easier than I imagined. (laughs)
Weakness, weakness everywhere.
You see, I didn't get
into endocrinology to help
young, sick, weak, little
rotten things like you,
change what you are.
I got into it so I could discover
the nature of the rot, the disease.
But after years of research,
observation, testing,
I failed.
- Of course you did
because it's not some rot,
it's not a disease.
- It is, I know it is.
It's hiding, it's alive!
It's more insidious than
these dull-witted demons
that I've conjured up.
- Wait, I don't understand,
what did you inject me with?
Because ever since then,
I have felt your demons.
- Hm. (laughing)
That, I'm afraid, is
another failure of mine.
You were my test subject,
my Guinea pig, if you will,
for a formula that I created
to help cure the rot, the disease.
I don't quite understand why it failed,
perhaps because you're so
riddled with the disease
that there's no way to cure you from it,
to go back from it, to purge you from it.
- That's a really fucking gross way
of saying it didn't work,
because I don't feel sick,
because I'm comfortable in my own skin.
- Hm.
You sick fool.
(gentle tense music)
Soon, my dear boy, I will
perform one final ritual
that will unleash an army
of demons onto this world
and hunt down all those
not overcome with the rot,
those who hate their flesh.
My army of demons will hunt
out every last one of you,
every last trans person out there
and destroy you! (laughing)
And I have the perfect person
for the final sacrifice.
Come, my dear.
(gentle tense music)
- Mum?
What the fuck?
- I'm in love, sweetheart.
(soft tense music)
I never knew I could love again.
The three of us
will be a perfect family.
- Every step has been taken,
every pre-ceremony set.
The stage is complete.
You, Malacoda,
watch the prisoner,
while I complete the circle. (chuckling)
(gentle piano music)
(Dr. Benway humming)
(demons growling)
Ah, my first attendees, welcome.
It won't be long now, night is near.
Help yourselves to a
drink in the back room.
I'll be along shortly.
- So you come here often?
(soft orchestral music)
(choir vocalizing)
I'm curious,
what exactly is your deal
with doolally Dr. Benway?
(soft orchestral music)
(choir vocalizing)
You know he's crazy, right?
Isn't there some kind of rule in hell
about not letting yourself
get enslaved by crazy humans?
That's what you are, aren't you, a slave?
You hate it in there, don't you?
Being wrapped in a human meat suit,
blended with it, dirtying you,
so disgusting,
so demeaning.
Being as old and powerful as you,
violated and enslaved.
I feel sorry for you, Melacoda.
(Aria's mum grunting)
(blow thudding)
(Melacoda thudding to floor)
Mum, what the fuck?
- Ssh! I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, Aria.
We can go home.
- Oh, fuck off, wet.
- I'm sorry, Aria.
I didn't know.
I was so in love and he was so charming.
It's just been hard since your dad's-
- Oh, fuck off!
- I didn't know he was
gonna sacrifice, I swear.
I just, I just wanted...
- Wanted me what, Mum?
- Just wanted-
- Wanted me what?
- Sorry. (sobbing)
I, I'm so sorry.
- Go, Mum,
go home.
- Aria.
- Go home.
- I just...
(soft tense music)
(blade thudding)
Go home!
(soft tense music)
(birds chirping)
(mellow melodic music)
- You look like shit.
- You look hot.
- What the fuck happened
to you? Where's Nell?
- Short story, you were right.
Grab your knife and shit,
we need to get to the bar.
- [Jay] What happened?
- I will tell you the
long version on the way.
- [Jay] I knew it, I knew it.
- Ssh! Quiet!
- I told you.
- Did you? I don't remember.
- But if that's what happened,
then why the fuck are we both
going to the place where
he plans to sacrifice you?
- [Aria] To stop him.
- Aria, you've escaped, it's done.
Go find somewhere to hide,
I'll go, I'll go kill him.
- [Aria] Oh, don't be stupid.
- I'm not being stupid.
- I loved Max too.
Not like you did, but I loved him.
He was my family, more
so than my mum ever was.
And you're my family too
and I am not letting you get killed too.
If we die, we die together.
(gentle melodic music)
- Okay, fuck, yeah.
So what's the plan?
- Well, first, I let that
idiot demon catch me.
- What?
- Then, honey,
I plan to perform
and I need a DJ.
- Caganazzo, I sent you
to find the other one.
- Oh, this one.
- Where is Malacoda?
- I feel her gone.
- Aria, dear, did you kill poor Malacoda?
Oh, goodness gracious, good
help is hard to find these days,
even from a hell dimension.
Where is your friend?
- I don't know.
Probably on a bus home.
- Hm.
Well, there's some makeup in the ladies.
Why don't you go clean yourself up?
You need to look your very best.
Caganazzo, take him to the bathroom.
(gentle tense music)
(muffled entity whispering)
(gentle tense music)
(intense suspenseful music)
- Oh, Jesus!
Take it easy, perch!
(door thudding)
Hm, not bad.
- What? I gotta pee.
I'm not going in the
men's room, it's stinky.
(Caganazzo growling)
(door clicking)
(light melodic music)
(light melodic music continues)
(blow thudding)
- Uh!
(upbeat rock music)
Bitch!
(knee thudding)
- Uh!
(Nell thudding)
- Uh!
(blow thudding)
- Uh!
(upbeat rock music)
(both grunting)
(objects thudding)
(Caganazzo growling)
I want you to know
that everything between us was real, okay?
- Why the fuck would I believe a word
out of your very pretty mouth?
- I mean, you don't have to.
I just thought it should be said.
- So what was the plan, huh?
You get to know me, seduce me
and then deliver me to Daddy,
so he can gut me like a fish?
- Okay, you don't know what it's like
to be a part of this family, okay.
- And you, obviously,
don't know what it means
to love someone.
- Yeah, maybe I don't, Aria,
but I do know that I care about you
and I know that I didn't
mean to fall for you,
and I know that I've
never ever felt like this
for anyone else.
And I mean, sometimes
people in love fight, right?
- I think conspiracy to murder
is a little more than a lover's tiff.
- Okay, well.
- Look,
I get that you've had
your fair share of trauma,
but so have I,
but I haven't tried to
kill anyone because of it.
All trauma gave me was biting wit
an incredible voice and killer tits.
- They are incredible.
- Eyes up.
Unless you're about to help
me kill a bunch of demons
and then probably your dad,
this conversation is over.
- Aria.
- Over.
(gentle tense music)
- I am sorry.
- Me too.
(gentle tense music)
(melodic upbeat music)
(demon growling)
- Thank you, thank you,
everyone, thank you.
Stop it. (laughing)
Tonight,
my fellow guardians of gender,
warriors of tradition!
We will unleash a storm of righteous fury
from the soul of one who is lost.
We will bring birth a new world,
a purer world.
Caganazzo,
bring forth the sacrifice.
(soft orchestral music)
(demons growling)
Quiet, quiet.
Let our guest utter her,
his final words.
Drip, drip, drip falls
the blood from my fists
Don't wanna hurt anyone but
you just couldn't resist
But when you've been betrayed by all
And you're starting to
ask what is it all for
You feel the tear, feel the scratch
Crawl through your throat to your ear
A warning so deafening
that it is all you can hear
Wake up, bitch, don't you understand
Gotta get out, get out, get out
While you still can
From the shit house town,
they say it's what I deserve
Being on stage and a clown,
I'm a freak, I'm a perv
Like I'm a demon in disguise
Can you imagine my surprise
But I don't wanna die, so stay alive
I open my eyes, don't hate me
'Cause you ain't me
And most importantly,
don't underestimate me
I'm just like you, I
see you right through
I feel your pain inside, don't
need to hide in me confide
We all have flaws, so raise your claws
Gorgeous skin, gorgeous contradiction
No affliction, doctor
Anything to say
I know nothing, play with my prey
But it's a special day
I don't dismay your display
but you are going to pay
'Cause I go toe to toe to
show my foe that all is lost
You're no hero, you know you
won't forgo the mortal cast
You have no self-control,
so sinning's all that you
Sold Satan your soul
No, baby, that was you
You need psychiatric help
Booked in for therapy next week
You're selfish, narcissistic
That's a valid critique
But I won't fuck up again
Put myself above my friend
'Cause I can change and grow
But you can't though and
that's why you're a dread
I'm just like you, I
see you right through
Your shoddy lipstick, sick intentions
No more sneaky circumventions
We all have flaws, so raise your claws
Can't persecute a cutie that's cutie
'Cause I see through
these games and lies
Maybe I sympathize,
but I am saving lives
An angel in their eyes
No demon in disguise
No demon, no demon,
no demon in disguise
No demon in disguise
(demons growling)
- Silence!
(soft melodic music)
Lies, deceiver!
You and I are no different.
You're in drag.
I take mine off, you keep
it on, you're a pretender!
Can't you see?
She lies, he lies!
- There is a difference
between drag and trans,
and sweetie, I think you know that.
You wanna wipe out all trans people,
wipe out me because you're jealous of me,
of how happy I am,
of how hot I am.
I'm so hot, even your own
daughter wants to fuck me.
How about that, bitch?
You like the idea of me
fucking your daughter?
- [Nell] Hey, get back on track.
- Sorry, hun.
You want to be me.
I wish you could be me, but you can't be,
not because of your age or how you look
or any of that superficial shit,
but because you hate yourself so much
that you would rather tear
everyone else down to your level
than even think about doing
the work to grow yourself.
- Enough!
(Aria thudding to floor)
(demons growling)
Caganazzo, Rubicanto, do not let them go.
One thing,
I command you to
to not allow anyone or
anything stop the ritual.
(soft tense music)
- You deluded cunt!
- Silence the degenerate!
(soft tense music)
(demons growling)
(Dr. Benway reciting incantation in Latin)
What?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
This is not right.
(soft tense music)
This isn't the ritual.
Someone's changed the ritual.
- The book is infallible.
It cannot be wrong.
You, do ritual.
- No, no, no, no, this is
not the ritual, it's not...
- (growls) You dare
question the sacred word?
- We must finish ritual.
We swear.
- From the depths of hell, eat your flesh.
And so.
- Finish the words!
(soft tense music)
(demons growling)
(flesh squelching)
(Dr. Benway groaning)
(tense orchestral music)
(fire whooshing)
(tortured souls wailing)
- What's happened to me?
- It's her true self.
All the self hatred.
- Oh, I command you to
restore me back to my form.
I command you!
- [Demon] You will command no more!
(Dr. Benway screaming)
(fire whooshing)
(tortured souls wailing)
- You stupid...
(fire whooshing)
(tortured souls wailing)
- How did you do it?
(soft melodic music)
- [Jay] I changed the ending.
- Oh, you brilliant fucking artist, you.
(mellow upbeat music)
(soft melodic music)
(soft melodic music continues)
I know it was real.
- Yeah?
Um, anyway, I'm really sorry about my dad.
- I'm not.
- Fair enough.
- Come on, everyone,
let's get out of here.
- Yeah, no, I, I think
I'll be taking that one.
(light melodic music)
Thanks.
- Okey dokey.
(light melodic music)
(mellow upbeat music)
(mellow rock music)
- Um, Barry.
My ride's here, do you mind if,
do you mind if you close up?
- Yeah, sure. I'll catch you tomorrow.
(mellow rock music)
(mellow rock music continues)
(mellow rock music continues)
(gentle melodic music)
- [Aria] Nell, you, you go first.
- Max.
I wish I could've grown up with you, um,
and I wish that our abusive
dad wasn't an evil sorcerer.
But seriously, I'm sorry that
our family really sucked.
Love you, bro.
- My turn.
Max.
When Nell lost a brother,
I got one of my own.
I don't know what to say.
I miss you, that's all.
I wish all that would've been through
somehow made it easier, but it hasn't.
You're still gone
and I am so fucking
pissed off at the world
for taking you away.
I wish knowing your killer was burning
in some kind of hell
dimension made it easier too.
It does a bit,
but not enough.
I just want you back.
I really just want you back.
(gentle melodic music)
(birds chirping)
- I remember the night you
told me you first loved me.
It was Halloween and you
were dressed like a vampire
and you had those plastic
fangs in your mouth,
and what you really said was,
"I love you, Jay."
I didn't realize how much I
needed to hear you say that,
until you said it.
(sirens wailing in distance)
It was the way you said it so casually,
didn't force it, didn't think
whether or not to say it.
You just felt it and you said it.
(gentle melodic music)
(birds chirping)
I didn't know...
I didn't know anyone could love me,
but you showed me I was loved.
I am loved.
Completely in the way that I am.
Thank you, Max.
(gentle melodic music)
(sirens wailing in distance)
(gentle melodic music)
I've been talking to the walls again
I've got a lot of thoughts
that I should hate
I can keep myself steady
if my brain's upstairs
But it's about to dissipate
So I put it on lockdown now
The feeling of an itch
that I can't scratch
I can pause myself,
disconnect the gray matter
I'd look but not get too attached
But I'm still cynical through it all
Destroyed my own bones, it's typical
I'll be outdone, I'll be outnumbered
Take another fucking shot,
yeah, I know you wanna
A cold start to another day
Iridescent living in the dark
I'm a monster, gotta hide away
It's so clear that I fit the part of a
Cold start to another day
Iridescent living in the dark
I'm a monster, gotta hide away
It's so clear that I fit the part of a
I've had enough of my face
I need to trade places with the people
That I left unhinged while
they wipe out my last name
And keep me under the floor
I'm alive, but I don't wanna get out
Thorns digging in deep
and slowing me down
The reason that I don't
sleep, that was never allowed
I hate the way that they
live in perfect poetry
Am I who I'm supposed to be
'Cause I'm still
cynical through it all
Destroyed my own bones, it's typical
I'll be outdone, I'll be outnumbered
Take another fucking
shot, I know you wanna
A cold start to another day
Iridescent living in the dark
I'm a monster, gotta hide away
It's so clear that I fit the part of a
Cold start to another day
Iridescent living in the dark
I'm a monster, gotta hide away
It's so clear that I fit the part of a
(upbeat rock music)
But I'm still cynical through it all