Spin the Bottle (2024) Movie Script
1
(RECORD PLAYER CRACKLES)
("THERE IS A FOUNTAIN" PLAYING)
(OWL HOOTING)
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
There is a fountain filled
with blood
Drawn from Immanuel's veins
And sinners
Plunged beneath that flood
Lose all
Their guilty stains...
(LORELAI MUMBLES)
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
(LORELAI CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Here, Carter.
I got you another.
Thanks, sugar.
I was just admiring
your family portraits.
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
(PHYLLIS AND CARLEEN LAUGH)
LORELAI: I, uh,
thought it was just
gonna you coming over.
CARLEEN: This place is so weird.
(CHUCKLES)
PHYLLIS: Oh, my God. (CHUCKLES)
ED: Check this out.
Well...
Now with the parents away,
you need a whole gang to play.
Ain't that right?
Speaking of play,
Lorelai, honey,
I have a great game
for us to play.
LORELAI: A game could be fun...
(CHUCKLES) ...I guess.
Yes, we just need the darkest,
coziest little space
to cram into together.
Let's go to your cellar.
LORELAI: Our cellar?
Yeah, your cellar!
No, no, that's--
("THERE IS A FOUNTAIN"
CONTINUES PLAYING)
CARLEEN:
I think it's over here.
Wash all my sins away
No, no.
(TENSE TONE OVERLAPS)
It's not a cellar,
it's a chapel.
We can't.
Oh, even better.
No, we're not allowed.
Come on, Lorelai.
Don't you want
to have some fun with us?
With Carter?
(SHAKILY)
I'm not allowed, none of us are.
E'er since by faith
I saw the stream...
(SOFTLY) Come on Lorelai.
It'll be so fun.
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
(DOORKNOB RATTLES)
Has been my theme
And shall be till I die
CARLEEN: Nice. Let's do this.
(SONG STOPS PLAYING)
(TENSE, MYSTERIOUS MUSIC
PLAYING)
CARTER: Oh, my God.
Holy shit. (CHUCKLES)
(CHUCKLES)
PHYLLIS:
Guys, I am getting creeped out.
ED: Gross.
CARLEEN: We hit the jackpot.
What the hell is this?
"Only with the Serpent tamed...
will Darkness be held at bay."
CARTER: What does
that even mean? (CHUCKLES)
(SNAKE HISSING)
Oh, my God.
CARLEEN: I don't think
that's who these folks
are praying to.
(SHAKILY) This ain't right.
We need to leave, now.
We should have never come
down here.
We shouldn't be down here.
(DOOR CREAKS)
We got to go upstairs.
My father would kill me.
(WHIMPERS)
No! No, don't go in there!
(CRYING)
Carleen! Carleen, don't.
Carleen, please don't.
(WHIMPERS)
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC CONTINUES)
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
LORELAI: No, no, no, Carleen.
It's perfect.
No. Put that back.
That's Daddy's most sacred.
He'll kill me.
Do not touch it.
(HYPERVENTILATES)
(SOFTLY) Lorelai, I'm here.
Everything's going to be okay.
CARLEEN:
Come on, guys. Let's play.
Okay?
Okay.
CARLEEN:
Oh, my God, let's sit here.
CARTER:
You'll be fine, trust me.
ED:
Yeah, around the pentagram.
(CARLEEN CHUCKLES)
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC
CONTINUES PLAYING)
Lorelai, are you in there?
(BOTTLE RATTLES)
(ED CHUCKLES) All right.
CARLEEN: Phyllis, you're up.
(FRIENDS CHUCKLE)
ED: Go for it.
CARLEEN: Yeah, go for it.
(ED CHUCKLES)
(BOTH SMOOCH)
(CHUCKLES)
(PHYLLIS CHUCKLES)
(KNOCKING)
Lorelai Randell!
(OWL HOOTING)
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
Hello, Lorelai? Are you home?
(BOTTLE SIZZLES)
(GRUNTS SOFTLY)
It's hot.
Come here, lover boy. (CHUCKLES)
DAVID: All right.
(ALL CHUCKLE)
PHYLLIS: Okay.
(CHUCKLES)
DAVID: Wow.
(ALL CHUCKLE)
PHYLLIS: Oh, my God.
(CHUCKLING CONTINUES)
(HEARTBEAT PULSATING)
(PHYLLIS CHUCKLING)
(HISSING)
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
(WHOOSHING)
(PHYLLIS CONTINUES CHUCKLING)
(HEARTBEAT PULSATES)
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
(INTENSE RUMBLING)
CARTER: Whoa! What is that?
Let's get out of here.
Right now.
No! No, stop!
(THUNDERING)
(PHYLLIS HYPERVENTILATES)
Lorelai! Lorelai!
Lorelai!
(OMINOUS MUSIC CONCLUDES)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
MAURA:
So keep going about eight miles
past Jennings on Route 93.
It's not going to be on GPS,
but there's
like, a little signpost
where you turn
onto Wagon Road, okay?
You take that a half mile
into the house.
Okay.
Cole, you don't have to do this.
Honey,
you can go back to Atlanta,
finish high school there.
We can figure this out.
Mom.
Mom, I've already thought
all this through.
There's nothing left
for us in Atlanta to go back to.
That property in Jennings
is our only asset,
it's all we have.
(SIGHS)
How do you know
the lights even work?
Because I called
the gas and power company.
(SIGHS)
Trust me,
it's going to be fine, mom.
What about school?
NURSE: Mrs. Nichols?
Sorry, just...
I need another minute.
We already went over all this,
remember?
I sent my transcripts
to Oak Ridge High...
and I'll only
be three hours away,
so whenever you're ready
to leave this place...
Yeah. In two weeks.
Two weeks, honey,
I just need to get some rest.
You know, I just-- I need to get
my head on straight
after everything that happened.
You take as long as you need,
mom.
I got us covered.
We're going to fix
this place up...
Mm-hmm.
...make it look good.
We get a fresh start.
Anywhere we want.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
You don't have to be
so grown up, you know.
Cole, I'm so sorry
that we're in this mess.
I mean...
The loss of your father,
the way that he went...
it destroyed the life
that I had so carefully
built for you.
Mom. Come here.
That I wanted for you.
(SNIFFLES)
It's okay. It's okay.
Are you ready to go see
your room now, Mrs. Nichols?
(SIGHS)
Your son takes real good care
of his mama, I can tell.
MAURA: He's so sweet.
(SMOOCHES)
(SIGHS)
(SNIFFLES)
There's something
that I haven't told you.
I need you to understand
how bad my childhood
was at that house.
It's been 30 years.
It's just a pile of wood
and dust.
We need this.
Fine.
Just don't go
down into that cellar.
It should still be locked.
You wait until I get down there
to clean it out.
I will come
and I will clean it out.
Okay, I promise.
If anyone asks...
you have no connection
to the Randells.
You ever going to tell me why?
Just-- It's ancient history.
(SMOOCHES) Come here.
(SIGHS) I love you.
I love you.
MAURA: Call me as soon
as you get down there, okay?
COLE: Okay.
(TENSE MUSIC BUILDS)
(CAR ENGINE WHIRS)
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)
(DOOR RATTLES, SQUEAKS)
(DOOR THUDS)
(DOOR SQUEAKS)
Hmm.
(SIGHS HEAVILY) Sweet.
Jesus, Mom you weren't kidding.
Huh?
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYS)
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLES)
(DOORKNOB RATTLES)
(DOOR THUDS)
(WALL CLOCK TICKING)
What the hell?
Yeah. I'm not going
to be hanging in this room.
(DOOR CREAKS)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(MUSIC FADES OUT)
(CELL PHONE BUZZES)
Hey, guess where I am.
MRS. NICHOLS: (ON PHONE)
Why haven't you called?
COLE: Because I was making
sure the place is even livable.
Okay, I'm sorry, I was worried.
I just... I was waiting
for your call.
So, how is it down there?
I know you said
this place would be weird...
but it's really weird.
(CHUCKLES)
That's one way to put it.
I couldn't wait to get out
of there as fast as I could.
Football tryouts are today.
I think I'm going to go.
Hey, that's great.
I'm so proud of you.
I know that it may not seem
like it now,
but, um... I'm gonna do
everything that I can
to give you a normal life.
COLE: Thanks, mom.
(LIVELY CHATTER)
(UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)
(CHEERLEADERS CHANTING,
CHEERING)
Soak up the lights, boys!
This here is the closest
you wannabes are going to get
to play on my field!
So please, enjoy yourselves!
CHEERLEADER: Go, go, go.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
PLAYER 1: You guys still suck.
KASEY: Hey, there.
Hi.
KASEY: You are?
Uh, Cole Nichols.
I'm... here to sign up.
I'm new.
That's... pretty obvious.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Mila. Mila. Fresh meat.
He's mine.
Now
that is some raw new talent.
You might just have
some competition.
(MUSIC FADES OUT)
I'm Kasey, team manager.
Welcome to Oak Ridge.
(INHALES DEEPLY) Hope you manage
to make our elite squad.
Uh, I talked
to Coach... Schomes?
Is it Schomes? On the phone?
COACH SCHOMES:
Nichols. That you?
Yes, sir.
(SCOFFS) So you ran
the spread at Gwinnett?
Went eight and two,
106.5 QB rating?
That's right.
You, son, are sticking by me.
Come on.
(CHEERLEADERS CHANTING,
CHEERING)
SCHOMES: All right. Second one,
you're gonna hit him
in the post lance.
Okay.
Stay in the Z. Coming
over the top for a second one.
Great.
What's the scrub's name, Coach?
Cole Nichols.
Good chance
this is your new backup, Westin.
My QB2? Her? (SCOFFS)
No fricking way.
See what I see Trav?
Yes, he looks
like a goddamn barista.
Yeah.
Don't mind him.
All the winds have gone
to his head and his gut.
All right, go out there.
Show us a couple of plays.
Yes, sir.
COACH SCHOMES: (WHISTLES)
First team, let's go.
Everyone out.
(UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC RESUMES)
Let's see what you got,
barista boy!
All right, let's give
those entitled sons of bitches
on the sideline reason to worry,
all right?
Forty-Six Waggle Right on One.
Ready?
PLAYERS: Okay.
Hey!
(CHEERLEADER CHEERING)
Yeah. (CHUCKLES)
Let's go!
Hey!
(CROWD CHEERING)
(CHEERLEADERS CHEERING)
Ow! (CHUCKLES)
Yeah, okay.
We gotta slow this scrub's roll.
Go blitz his ass. Bury him.
Travis, what in the goddamn
hell are you doing?
WESTIN: Yeah, Coach,
I reckon barista boy's got
about ten seconds to live.
Let's go, Trav!
...Shallow Cross on One. Ready?
(PLAYERS CLAP, GRUNT)
(UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC
CONTINUES PLAYING)
Hey!
Nichols,
who do you think you are?
(CHUCKLES)
This isn't Atlanta, son!
Blind but now I see!
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
Oh, my God!
This is a tragedy
(CHUCKLES)
He takes you down better
than I do! (GIGGLES)
(GRUNTS)
(UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC FADES)
Oh. Oh, thanks, man. Thank you.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(KEYS JANGLING)
Hell of a debut.
I'm Mila. This here's Sophie.
Okay, is that it?
SOPHIE: That's all you need.
What are you up to tonight?
No plans.
(CAR ENGINE REVVS)
(TIRES SCREECH)
Yo, ladies, what's up?
Where are we going?
Nowhere, as in nowhere with him.
Aw. Come on now, son.
If it's good for the team,
it's good for you.
Well, all right, backup.
Scored yourself
a very temporary social life.
Congrats.
Thanks. Okay.
Just let me know
where I'm going.
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)
Oh, I guess
you guys are riding with me.
Yep.
Come on, girl.
COLE:
Oh, so you roll with these two?
You didn't know,
Kasey and Mila are besties.
Someone's got to guide her
through her terrible
life choices.
(ALL CHUCKLE)
Not true. What should we do?
SOPHIE: I could eat.
MILA: Oh, I bet you could.
KASEY: Guys, let's get burgers.
SOPHIE: Let's go.
(UPBEAT MUSIC CONTINUES)
COLE: Okay, so,
uh, Mila and Travis
are constantly on and off,
but mostly on, right?
And then you and Westin,
what's going on there?
Um, nothing.
Westin don't do relationships.
MILA: And you do?
You know I'm saving
myself for Mr. Right.
(MILA AND KASEY LAUGH)
(CHUCKLES) Oh, my...
(CELL PHONE BUZZES)
TRAVIS: We're thinking the lake.
(HUFFS) On a Friday night?
It'll be crawling
with the JV squad.
Can't we find one damn place
we've never been to before?
KASEY: Doesn't exist.
God, I hate this town.
Hold up.
I forgot about the first night.
You know, when a newbie mixing
onto the team.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, newbie has to host
the first night.
(CHUCKLES) What? Is that right?
SOPHIE: Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Oakridge tradition.
It's an actual requirement.
Are your folks home?
Uh, no. Actually, my mom's
out of town on business.
Dad?
Not in the picture.
MILA: Perfect, lead the way.
Mm-hmm.
(CHUCKLES) Okay.
All right, yeah, yeah.
I guess rules are rules.
Guys, we are finally going
somewhere new for once.
Just follow us,
Fightin' Bucks.
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
KASEY: Wait, where are we?
MILA: Hold on.
I think I know this road.
SOPHIE:
This is weird. I love it.
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
(CAR LOCK TOOTS)
Wait. Isn't this the house
that all those murders
happened at?
MILA: It totally is.
A bunch of kids died here
back in the '70s, the Randells.
Folks said
this place is haunted.
Really?
COLE: Well,
I haven't seen any ghosts yet.
Yo, QB2.
Are you a goddamn Randell?
(ALL CHUCKLE)
No. No.
My mom, she bought this place.
We're going to fix it up,
and then flip it.
TRAVIS: Real estate, hmm?
I like it.
WESTIN: Travis, shut up.
SOPHIE: Um, Cole,
this might be a teardown.
COLE: The lights
have been kind of tricky.
(DOOR CREAKS)
(ELECTRICITY POWERS UP,
CRACKLES)
(CHUCKLES)
Like I said, just got here.
We're gonna fix the place up.
Oh. Whew.
(UNEASY MUSIC PLAYING)
TRAVIS: Okay.
Okay.
KASEY: Whoa.
COLE: Oh, yeah.
Lorelai. I think
she's the one who died here.
MILA: Yeah. Yeah, that's her.
That's the girl that went
ape shit and killed everybody.
She got
the shotgun and she was like,
"Bam, bam, bam!"
(ELECTRICITY BUZZING)
TRAVIS: Whoa! Weird. (CHUCKLES)
Okay, so, that just happened?
Yes, it does that.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Oh, my God. You guys.
The murders happened
in the cellar.
Where's the cellar?
It's over there, but--
MILA: We have to go down there.
It's going to be so scary.
COLE:
Uh, actually, my mom said that--
(SNIGGERS)
COLE: Never mind.
Hey, no.
Please continue.
Tell us what your mommy said.
(ALL SNIGGER, CHORTLE)
Just that it's locked.
(DOOR THUDS, RATTLES)
(MILA GRUNTS)
Uh...
(MILA GRUNTS)
(WOOD SNAPS)
I'll be damned.
So you just break the door, huh?
Awesome.
Okay.
(DOOR CREAKS OPEN)
COLE: Careful.
(LIGHT MYSTERIOUS
MUSIC PLAYS)
(LIGHT SWITCH CLICKING)
(ELECTRICITY WHISTLES)
KASEY: Holy crap.
Are those the bloodstains?
MILA: They must be.
And that's the pentagram.
That'll definitely help
the resale value.
(CHUCKLES)
God. What is all this shit?
No clue, never been down here.
KASEY: Guys,
maybe we shouldn't be here.
Yes, she's not wrong.
Ooh. What's in there?
Hey, where are you going?
Um, let's not find out.
TRAVIS:
Oh, yeah, that's a great idea.
So, what's the story again?
A bunch of kids had an orgy
down here or something.
They were playing
"spin the bottle"
with that Lorelai chick,
or girl.
Her father tormented her
her whole life.
That's why when one
of those kids fucked with her,
she got so mad,
she blew their heads off...
and then she turned
the gun around
and killed herself.
Oh, God.
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
Okay, so we're just standing
with our dicks in our hands,
can we please go drink?
I'm bored.
MILA: I've got a better idea.
Let's spin
the hell out of this old bottle.
"Spin the bottle"?
Is this 1950, Mila?
No, it's the '70s.
It's what they played
the night they all bit it.
I don't even think
we should be hanging out
down here.
Who will care? Your mom?
(CHUCKLES)
Crazy old Lorelai?
Come on.
What are you all so afraid of?
It'll be fun.
Who is down
to get old school down?
Look, all right, I'm in,
but I'll call NGK.
SOPHIE: What is that?
No Guy Kissing.
(CHUCKLES)
We all know the person
you want to bang most
is Westin, homophobe.
(ALL SNICKER)
No. (PUFFS)
Okay... (SIGHS) ...fine.
If anyone gets
a spin they don't want,
they got to drink.
Fine by me.
TRAVIS: Yeah.
Trav, you're up first.
COLE: Okay, great.
We're going to sit
around the pentagram.
MILA: Obviously.
Numb nuts.
(CHUCKLES)
You ready?
There they go again.
Spin.
(BOTTLE RATTLES)
(BOTH SMOOCH)
Boring.
Travis, honey, I know
you can do better than that.
(SMOOCHES)
(SMOOCHES)
Wow. (CHUCKLES)
Yeah.
(INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING)
MILA: Cole, that would be you.
(SMOOCHES)
(SMOOCHES)
TRAVIS: Okay.
Wow, that was an Atlanta kiss.
Hot.
(SMOOCHES)
(SMOOCHES)
Great.
(ALL LAUGH)
Unless...
(ALL LAUGH)
WESTIN: What? He's cute.
(CHUCKLES)
WESTIN: (CHUCKLES) Come on.
Here they go. Okay.
(BOTH SMOOCH)
Wow.
WESTIN: Okay.
(ALL LAUGH)
She never kisses me like that.
MILA: Trav, you just wait.
(DISTANT WHISPERING, WHOOSHING)
Maybe we should take
this upstairs.
Oh, how convenient, Stanton.
As soon as it's my turn?
(SMOOCHES)
Oh, cool. Maybe we should have
gone upstairs.
(ALL CHUCKLE)
(BOTTLE RATTLES)
Oh, you, bitch.
(DISTANT VOICE SCREAMS)
(SOBS)
WESTIN: (CHUCKLES) Okay.
(SOPHIE CHUCKLES)
TRAVIS: Damn.
WESTIN: Yeah, doggy.
Fire.
You're burning the room. Okay.
(CHUCKLES)
(TRAVIS CHUCKLES)
(RUMBLING)
(DISTANT CREAKING, RATTLING)
(RUMBLING STOPS)
What the hell?
Was that fracking nearby?
No. No.
It's a 3.0.
TRAVIS:
Bro, you literally know nothing.
(ALL LAUGH)
Ow. (CHUCKLES)
Must be static electricity.
(CHUCKLES)
(SIGHS)
Let's start the bonus round.
TRAVIS: Where are we going?
More like the boner round.
(ALL LAUGH)
I can't control her, man.
You can always count
on our little drama queen.
To make things
a little bit extra.
(BOTH SMOOCH)
I need you, Trav.
You're my man,
so you just lie back and behold.
(CHUCKLES)
Look, babe, I'm all in,
but this place is disgusting.
Why are we in here?
Because it's so sick
and twisted.
We are never
going to forget this night.
I'll make sure of it.
(BOTH SMOOCH)
(MOANS, SMOOCHES)
(MILA SMOOCHES)
TRAVIS: What the fuck?
What?
(Lorelai) You don't love him.
(SCREAMS)
Gross. Were they raised
in a barn or something?
(PANTS)
Mila, what happened?
I think I saw her and heard...
heard the dead girl.
(PANTS)
I gotta get out of here.
Okay, babe, I got you.
No, no, I need to leave now.
Okay, Mila, I got you.
(QUIVERS) Sorry, guys.
I, just, um...
Something about her story,
or something triggered me,
and I just, um...
I got to shut it down.
I got to get home and, um...
(QUIVERS)
Yeah, I'll see you all tomorrow.
(KEYS JINGLING)
(LAUGHS)
Triggered.
Shut up, Westin.
MILA: Why is this stupid Uber
taking so long?
Where is this guy?
TRAVIS: We're like a mile
from the main road.
Let me just drive you.
MILA: No,
I'm not waiting for them.
Can you talk to me, please?
Babe, what are you doing?
You're really starting
to stress me out.
MJ? Mila?
Can you just chill out?
I'm starting to get worried.
Don't. (SIGHS) I'm fine.
You know, I...
I know, Trav.
You don't have to say it.
(CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY)
(CAR ENGINE APPROACHING)
(SMOOCHES)
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
DRIVER:
This should have been extra.
MILA: Let's just go.
Can you hurry up?
I really need to get home.
(WIND HOWLING)
Hurry the hell up, please!
DRIVER:
You high, young lady?
(INDISTINCLOW-PITCHED WHISPERS)
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS)
(LORELAI SOBS)
(SCREAMS)
(SCREAMS)
DRIVER: Hell no.
Not going to drive
no drug addict.
Wait, where are you going?
You can't leave me!
Asshole!
Okay,
let's get out of here, gang.
I could've told you
that hanging with QB2
was going to be weird
and shitty,
but thanks for having us, Cole.
Listen, guys, I'm sorry.
I'm just as in the dark here
as you are.
Yes, whatever.
See you on the field, newbie.
They're just chest-thumping.
It's been a night,
but I'll be seeing you later.
(SMOOCHING)
I don't know what the hell
just happened. (CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Honestly, Mila's kinda known
for making a scene, so.
Well, I hope she's okay.
I'm sure she's fine.
Okay. (CHUCKLES) Bye.
See you. (CHUCKLES)
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
(CAR HORN BLARING
IN THE DISTANCE)
(QUIVERS)
(LORELAI CRIES)
(QUIVERS)
(CRYING CONTINUES)
(WHOOSHING)
(GASPS)
You don't deserve him.
(GASPS)
(LOW-PITCHED VOICE SPEAKS
INDISTINCTLY)
(INDISTINCT WHISPERS)
(MILA PANTS)
LOW-PITCHED VOICE: Just walk.
LORELAI: (WHISPERING)
It's your turn.
Just shut up!
(OVERLAPPING WHISPERS)
(PANTS)
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
No, no, no, no.
No, no, please don't.
LORELAI: (IN GRAVELLY VOICE)
Speak, bitch!
No, no. (SCREAMS)
(MUSIC FADES)
(TRAIN WARNING BELL DINGING)
(TRAIN HORN BLARES)
COLE: Screw this place.
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
(WHIMPERS) I can't.
I can't.
I'm sorry.
I love you, Cole. (WHIMPERS)
LORELAI: I love you. I love you.
I love you. I love you.
(BANGING AT THE DOOR)
(GASPS)
(BANGING CONTINUES)
COLE: Who is it?
(BANGING CONTINUES)
(DOOR RATTLES)
Cole Nichols?
Sheriff Stanton, Brewster County
Sheriff's Department.
You know a girl named Mila Jane?
Yes, sir.
You know
Mila got in an Uber here.
Your address,
last night around 1:00 a.m.
Driver claimed
she was talking to herself.
Said he was certain
she was under the influence
of some narcotic.
What?
Mila exited the vehicle about
a half mile down the road.
Never went home.
Nobody's seen her since,
so her parents
are obviously very upset.
Okay, if I come inside?
Um, yes, yes, of course.
Come in.
You live here?
Yes, sir.
Your parents home?
No, my mom's out of town
for a couple weeks.
How old are you, son?
Eighteen. Just turned 18.
You should go ahead
and have a seat.
You related to old man Randell?
Uh, no.
I mean I've never met him...
but yes, technically,
he's my grandfather.
Your mother's Maura?
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean,
he's your grandfather.
Yes, sir.
Now, who exactly
was here last night?
Okay,
Mila and a few of her friends.
Which friends?
All right, Westin,
Travis, Sophie, Kasey.
I don't know their last names.
I mean, I just moved here, so...
Was there drinking?
A little.
Just beer, nothing crazy.
So what were you all doing
when this underage drinking
was going on?
We were just playing
games down in the cellar.
They wanted to check it out
because that's apparently
where, you know,
where it all happened.
Yeah, I do.
Was Kasey drinking?
I don't think so.
She seemed more level-headed
than the rest of them.
That's 'cause
she's my daughter.
Now, let's talk about Mila Jane.
She was fighting
with her boyfriend.
It's Travis, right?
Right.
No, they didn't get in a fight.
Um, they actually went
into a room down in the cellar
to mess around,
and they ended up
coming out of it pretty shook.
Shook?
Yeah.
What does that mean? Scared?
Yeah, it's like, scared.
Okay,
why don't you just say scared?
Why were they shook?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Mila said she saw something.
Maybe just being
down there spooked them,
but after that,
everyone was kinda freaked out.
STANTON: Saw something?
She didn't say what she saw?
No.
Sorry, is this an inconvenience
for you, son?
No, sir.
STANTON:
Okay, that's good.
I wanna let you know
something, Cole.
Kasey never lies to me.
All right?
So if I poke any holes
in this story of yours,
you'll find
that I can be real inconvenient.
Yeah?
Yes, sir.
STANTON: All right.
I thank you for your time.
COLE: Sheriff?
Yeah?
Uh, my mom told me
not to let anyone know
that I'm related
to the Randells, so...
Do you need to include
that in your... in your report?
Well, that's the truth, right?
Can you at least tell me why?
That's something
you should ask your mama.
You take care, son.
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
(ENGINE STARTS)
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
(BIRDS SQUAWKING)
(HEARTBEAT PULSATING)
(WHOOSHING)
(LORELAI CHUCKLES, ECHOES)
(DOORKNOB RATTLES)
LORELAI: (WHISPERS)
It's just us.
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
(LORELAI CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
LOW-PITCHED VOICE:
That's right.
(CELL PHONE BUZZES)
(COLE GASPS)
(TORCH RATTLES)
Hello?
KASEY:
You should get out of there.
Kasey? How'd you get my number?
I'm the team manager, remember?
(CHUCKLES)
Right, yes.
KASEY: Listen,
my dad said that word got out
that Mila was at the ranch
before she went missing,
so things
might get a little weird.
Yeah. Yes, I met your dad.
He said
that rumors are spreading
like wildfire
that you're a Randell.
(SIGHS)
Shit.
Go to Westin's cabin, okay?
I'm sending you the address.
Westin?
That dude frickin' hates me.
No. (CHUCKLES)
He knows how this town can get.
He says
he actually feels for you.
Well, that's nice, I guess.
Are you going to be there?
KASEY: Later.
I need to go look for Mila.
This isn't right.
This time just feels different.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
WESTIN: Pull!
(GUNSHOT)
(GLASS SHATTERING)
WESTIN: Pull!
(TRAVIS GRUNTS)
(GUNSHOT)
(GLASS SHATTERS)
What's up, guys?
'Sup, hoss.
Anybody heard from Mila?
Pull!
(GUNSHOT)
(GLASS SHATTERING)
She hasn't returned
any of my calls,
but she does this.
She'll be back.
She can't stay away
from this fine-looking specimen
too long.
(BOTH CHUCKLE SOFTLY)
I know that's right.
Give me some.
You shoot, QB2?
Not my thing.
Okay, then.
(RIFLE CLICKING)
(STRESSFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
COLE:
Whoa, whoa. What are you doing?
Hey...
I think it's about time
you started answering
some questions.
Like who are you?
And why did you bring us
to your house last night?
Huh? Do you know where Mila is?
Huh? Speak up! Boy!
Westin, I don't...
I don't know a thing.
I don't know, Westin.
(IMITATES STUTTERING,
TRILLS LIPS)
(LAUGHS)
(LAUGHS)
I'm sorry. I am sorry, man.
(LAUGHS) That was cold, bro.
Hey, at least pick your ass up
off my truck, man.
You're liable
to scrub the grill.
You frickin' asshole.
That, he most definitely is.
You think that's funny?
You ever put a freaking gun
in my face again, Westin?
Then what?
Then what would you do?
TRAVIS:
All right, all right, all right.
Ladies. Ladies.
What'd you do?
Come on, both of you.
It's a joke.
Drink up, boys.
Here you go. Uh...
Nichols.
Welcome to the crew.
Oh, so I'm a part
of the crew now?
Well, I'm not sure.
I say you're in.
And I'm looking real forward
to your initiation.
Wow, girl,
you're so damn thirsty.
Yes, I am. In this town,
I'm goddamn parched.
I don't know why,
you've got this tall,
frosty beverage right here.
Please. I've sipped from
that Bud Light,
and I didn't feel a thing.
So we're just waiting
around here for Kasey, then?
Why, Sophie not your cup of tea?
(CHUCKLES)
(WESTIN CHUCKLES)
No, I mean, shouldn't we all be
out looking for Mila?
Okay, look.
I get it. You're concerned.
But I know her better
than anybody,
and I'm not freaking,
so you shouldn't be either.
Okay, but this is all going
to fall back on me, right?
You guys were there.
Mila completely lost it.
Yeah, well, she wasn't messing
around this time for once.
Anyone hear any noises?
I don't know,
like crying or whispering?
WESTIN: Not me.
No, because this is
some Stockholm syndrome shit.
Okay? (CHUCKLING)
Y'all are freaking losing it.
(CHUCKLES)
I'm going to head back.
I got to go figure out
what the hell's going on.
SOPHIE: Cole.
Yeah?
The thing is,
Sheriff Stanton
already told our folks
about our little
party last night, so we--
So we're staying put right here.
Sheriff doesn't want us
corrupting his baby girl.
I told you all that good little
Kasey was bad for our nightlife.
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
(UNEASY MUSIC PLAYS)
(BIRD SCREECHES)
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
COLE: Kasey?
KASEY: Hey.
COLE: Hey.
But I thought
you were on Mila watch.
I am.
I actually went to the cabin,
but they said
that you were here, um...
Look,
whatever Mila saw last night
or thought that she saw,
it's got to be the reason
that she's missing, right?
There's no coincidence there.
COLE:
Yeah, no, my thoughts exactly.
And that bottle from last night,
it was like, hot,
and shaking, right?
That's not normal
so I was wondering
if I could just
take a closer look at it.
To be honest, I'm glad
I don't have to do it alone.
(KASEY CHUCKLES)
I've had my own weird shit
going on here today.
Really. Like what?
COLE:
Like, when I'm in this house...
it feels like I'm not alone.
I don't know.
Be honest with me.
Are you actually a Randell?
Like, are these people
your family?
Um...
Yeah.
Yeah.
Lorelai was my mom's big sister,
and she died
when my mom was just a baby.
Wow.
Something about you,
about them...
makes my dad really nervous.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
COLE: Yeah?
And... and now?
(CLICKS TONGUE)
I'm not even allowed to see you.
(CHUCKLES) He said, and I quote,
"Over his dead body."
Jesus.
(CHUCKLES)
Which makes you officially
dangerous, Cole Nichols.
(GENTLE MUSIC PLAYS)
Or should I say Randell?
Um. Does he know
you're here right now?
He'd kill me. Literally.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
So, what do you think?
Is it worth it?
(DOOR CREAKS)
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
(ELECTRICITY BUZZES)
Where is it?
Weren't we sitting right here?
Yes, I think so.
It's really strange...
and then we all went upstairs
after Mila freaked out, right?
Shit!
(OMINOUS TONE PLAYS)
What?
I saw something.
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
COLE: Nothing.
Could it be...
her? Mila was dead serious.
So, do you think
that us coming down here,
playing "spin the bottle,"
that it could have been, like,
disrespectful to her?
To her soul?
(INDISTINCT WHISPERS)
(LOW-PITCHED WHISPERS OVERLAP)
SOPHIE: (SCREAMING)
Help! Let me in! (SCREAMS)
(BANGING ON DOOR)
COLE: Sophie!
KASEY: Sophie? Sophie! Sophie?
Sophie?
Sophie?
COLE: Sophie!
Sophie.
(SCREAMS)
(MUSIC FADES OUT)
Oh, it's you two.
I hope I didn't ruin
your little courtship.
(LAUGHS) And we are live, QB2!
(TRAVIS LAUGHS)
You should see
your freaking face.
COLE: You son of a bitch!
(BOTH GRUNT)
(GRUNTS)
KASEY: Guys, stop.
(COLE GRUNTS)
Hey. Hey. Hey.
Whoo! Come on, Cole.
TRAVIS: It was a joke!
He's sure upset!
But I'm not losing
both of my QBs over it.
So, everyone in school
just saw that.
It was a freaking joke.
I'm sick and tired
of your goddamn stupid jokes,
Westin.
(CELL PHONE BUZZES)
Guys, guys, shut up, shut up.
My dad. My dad.
Dad. Dad, I'm sitting down.
I'm so sorry, honey.
(WHIMPERS)
Oh, God. (SOBS)
(SIGHS)
(CELL PHONE BEEPS OFF)
(POLICE RADIO CHATTER)
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
There's no way
it was a suicide, right?
They're saying it is.
(EXHALES SHARPLY)
No fucking way.
Mila would never.
How do you explain it, then?
What, you think she was playing
chicken with a freight train?
Seriously, Westin?
Ow.
COLE: Hey.
SOPHIE: Jerk.
How you doing?
Not good.
Any updates?
Well, yeah.
New guy shows up
and our friend dies.
Was I freaking talking to you,
Westin?
Was I freaking talking to you?
Stop. Stop. Stop.
Seriously.
SOPHIE: Come on.
Would you cut it out, girls?
Get over yourselves!
Like, shake hands or something.
Yes, okay, I get it. We're cool.
Come on.
Yeah, cool.
Bottom line is,
my dad is saying
that Mila killed herself,
and there's no way.
I agree.
Yes, I guess, me too.
Where's Travis?
I don't know.
Maybe he's code-red
drunk somewhere.
(SIGHS) Goddamn.
Well, I've been thinking
about the funeral,
and I'm going to go.
Sure about that, hoss?
I mean, no offense,
but you're, like,
Jenning's most wanted right now.
Yeah, I know,
but it's a hell of a lot better
than hiding out, right?
How would that look?
KASEY: You're right.
You can sit with us.
We got you.
Thanks, Soph.
(WOMAN SINGING
"THERE IS A FOUNTAIN")
(ACOUSTIC GUITAR PLAYS)
Thy flowing wounds supply
Redeeming love
Has been my theme
And shall until I die
And shall be till I die
And shall until I die
Redeeming love
Has been my theme
And shall until I die
(ACOUSTIC GUITAR CONCLUDES)
(INHALES DEEPLY)
When I was 13, my...
(CHUCKLING) ...parents
got divorced.
Um, so my dad sent me
to cheer camp,
and I was not... (CHUCKLING)
...a good cheerleader.
So the girls were really mean
to me.
Borderline cruel.
Until... (SIGHS, CLICKS TONGUE)
Until the prettiest girl
in camp
took me underneath her wing
and told everyone
that cheerleading
wasn't for her either...
and that I was her best friend
even though we had just met.
Father.
I didn't know
this was your church.
Look, I'm here to mourn.
That was Mila.
Mila could wrap
the world around her finger...
and Mila loved life.
She loved her friends.
She loved her family.
(CRYING IN THE AUDIENCE)
Mila did love trouble.
(CHUCKLES)
(SCATTERED CHUCKLES)
Trouble with a capital T.
(CHUCKLES)
(ALL CHUCKLE SOFTLY)
PRIEST: I heard
the night Miss Jane died,
she was out there
at the Randell house.
(SIGHS)
PRIEST: Can you tell me
anything else
about that night?
I can tell you this because
it's not an active crime scene,
but, um...
they were down in the cellar.
But Mila did not commit suicide.
Mila would never do that.
Someone or something chased her
onto those tracks,
and it's still out there!
She's right!
She's right, and that someone's
that Randell boy, right there.
(GUESTS CLAMORING)
Oh, boy.
He arrived about the same day.
STANTON: Father.
GUEST: It is no coincidence.
(SOBS)
STANTON: Hey. Let's go.
COLE: What? Hey!
TOM: Sheriff,
you better be putting this boy
in handcuffs.
I'm very sorry for--
Sheriff.
I'm sorry for your loss,
but let's let the law do
its work now. All right, Tom?
You do your work.
Tom, sit down.
Cole, meet us at the cabin.
COLE: What are you doing?
STANTON: Let's go.
COLE: What are you doing?
(HUFFS)
Hey.
All right, let go of me.
I'm trying to get you
out of here
before they string you up.
You should have laid low. Cole.
(GRUNTS)
I didn't do anything.
Yeah, well, a lot of people
in this town
could give a shit
whether you did or not.
Everyone wants
your blood anyway.
Get in there.
Now get out of here.
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
That was some eulogy.
It almost caused a riot.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
It was beautiful though.
It was really nice.
Honey, um...
Look, I know it can be hard
to accept certain truths--
Dad, she didn't kill herself.
You didn't know her dad,
I did, better than anyone else.
I know. I know she...
I know
she was your best friend., and..
but honey... (SIGHS)
...there were no prints on her,
no fibers...
nobody touched her.
There was... no one else there.
Stop. Stop. I know it in my gut.
STANTON:
Where are you going?
I don't want you going anywhere.
I'm going to her wake.
It's at Westin's cabin.
You want to stop me, arrest me.
(KEYS SCRAPE)
("FLAVOR" PLAYING)
My life is like a vacation
My money stay in rotation
Baby got bank
And I got the flavor
Whoo! Got flavor, got flavor
Got flavor
Got flavor, whoo!
My life is like a vacation...
Kasey.
This here poor,
sweet little girl
was Mila's best friend.
I am so sorry.
We all loved Mila so much.
Yes, sure, whatever, JP.
Mila was just so full of life,
you know.
She had so much love to give.
It truly is heartbreaking.
Actually, JP,
Mila hated your guts.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Oh, sugar. You're in mourning.
You don't know
what you're saying.
I can't stand her.
Look, Mila loved you, Stanton.
Sophie too. Me, she liked.
You were always her number one.
Thanks, Trav,
but she really did love you too.
No. No, she didn't.
Not really, but that's okay.
Because I loved her enough
for the both of us.
Come on, let's go inside.
(SONG CONTINUES PLAYING)
(CROWD LAUGHING, CHEERING)
("SKULLS" PLAYING)
Are you the one
I'm looking for?
In the shadows
The sun on your face
A painted eye...
Hi.
Hey, girl. You okay?
No. No, I'm not.
Me neither...
but it helps being held.
All right, guys,
we're here for Mila, right?
Let's do it
how she would have wanted to.
Yeah. Let's honor Mila.
Let's shoot out the lights.
To Mila.
CROWD: To Mila.
I know what to do.
(OBJECTS RATTLE)
Let's play "spin the bottle."
Oh. Wait a second.
Wait, you took that?
I thought
Mila would want a souvenir.
Guys, this is the last thing
that we did with her.
She would want us to play.
You're right.
That's exactly
what she would want.
You okay, hoss?
I'm very far
from being freaking okay, bro.
I think I read about this game
in a book, once.
Oh, you know how to read?
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Come on, stud, let's play.
Hell, I'm in. (CHUCKLES)
This can't be a good idea.
No, it's not, but it might be
the only way
to be getting answers.
("SKULL" FADES OUT)
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)
Oh, I like the way
You make me feel
Until you drag me...
Come here, QB2.
This time I cannot see...
(BOTH SMOOCH)
...Is fight or flight
If your lips are moving
Then I know you're lying
Sick and tired
Of feeling like dying
All these tears
You're crying...
(BOTH SMOOCH)
Ugh.
I'm gonna give that
two and a half stars.
Makes sense,
considering two and a half
is about all you got.
(CROWD BOOING)
I don't have a small penis.
(SCATTERED LAUGHING)
Like I do. I know.
I'm disappointed, Sophie.
I heard you had game
back in your day.
Oh, I'm just
getting started, JB.
Oh, sorry, I meant JP.
(SCOFFS) Oh, shit.
Mila would have loved this.
Come on.
Teach me something, Grandma.
(UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)
(CROWD GASPING, CHEERING)
(SMOOCHES)
(WOLF-WHISTLING IN THE CROWD)
Whoa.
(CHUCKLES)
Well, here endeth the lesson.
(FEMALE GUEST SCREAMING)
(MUSIC FADES)
(LORELAI SOBBING)
(VOICES WHISPERING)
MALE GUEST:
Something's going on.
All right, maybe we should stop.
Maybe stopping would be bad.
Oh, come on, QB2.
What are you, afraid
of some freaking wind now?
Saddle up, cowboy.
(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
(MENACING MUSIC PLAYING)
Hey, who... who did that?
(WIND HOWLING)
(LORELAI SOBBING)
I think maybe we're supposed to.
Aw, that's so sweet, you guys.
It's their destiny.
(UNEASY TONE PLAYS)
(SOBBING CONTINUES)
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
(BOTH SMOOCH)
(SOBBING CONTINUES)
(UNEASY MUSIC BUILDS)
LORELAI: It's your turn.
(SCREAMS, GASPS)
(MUSIC STOPS)
(CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY)
Uh, um. (GULPS) I'm gonna go see
if Travis... is okay.
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
Trav? (PANTS)
(WIND HOWLING)
(CRICKET CHIRPING STOPS)
Travis! (BREATHES HEAVILY)
(MENACING MUSIC PLAYING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(CAR HORN TOOTS IN DISTANCE)
(CAR ENGINE STARTS)
Sophie!
Bro, it's Hill Country.
It gets windy. Just relax.
(PANTS)
Hey, you guys
skedaddle on out of here, okay?
All right, just be careful.
Hey, you be careful, man.
Careful of her daddy. (CHUCKLES)
Hey, sayonara, y'all.
Watch out for the ghosts.
(VOICES WHISPERING)
(PANTING INTENSIFIES)
Travis!
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(LORELAI CONTINUES SOBBING)
SOPHIE: Travis!
(WHIMPERS, PANTS)
Travis! (PANTS)
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(SCREAMS, PANTS)
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Calm down, what is it?
(SOBS) I swear, I swear,
I swear, I swear.
(MUSIC FADES OUT)
(SHUSHES)
(SOBS)
Look, look,
it's been a long night,
I understand. I...
No, Lorelai, she's real.
(BREATHES SHAKILY)
Travis, she killed Mila. (SOBS)
We should have never gone down
to that house.
I saw her, Travis, I felt her.
Look, it's on me.
I, uh, I allowed her
to leave that night alone.
(BREATHES HEAVILY, CRIES)
You were the best thing
that ever happened to her.
(SCOFFS)
(LORELAI'S SCREAM ECHOING
IN THE DISTANCE)
(MENACING MUSIC PLAYING)
She was there with us, right?
That house, I'm not crazy?
No. No, and I mean,
she could be with us right now.
It's like she's connected
to this thing.
She died playing that game.
So, when we play it,
that must be
what brings her back.
Do we destroy it?
Would that even help,
or would that make it worse?
All I know is if we never
would have went down there,
none of this
would have happened.
(ZIPPER ZIPS)
(SIGHS) Tomorrow,
I'm gonna bury it...
far from here.
("IMPATIENTLY" PLAYING)
'Cause all I had
To say, my lady
Is I couldn't read
Your mind...
Yeah.
I dream about this, about us.
You should just keep following
your dreams, girl.
(BOTH SMOOCH)
The signs you gave
I couldn't see, no
(CAR ALARM BLARING IN DISTANCE)
Goddamn, that truck.
And I let you slip away...
(CHUCKLES)
Hey. Don't you go get ugly
on me now.
(CHUCKLES)
(CHUCKLES)
Forever in a day
(BOTH SMOOCH)
(SONG FADES OUT)
We should
probably call it a night.
My dad is,
like, 50 feet from here.
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
(CHUCKLES) Good point, yeah.
I like all your tattoos.
Is that a ghost?
Yeah, Slaughterhouse-Five,
Kurt Vonnegut.
My dad's favorite book.
Tell me about him.
He was a really good guy...
but he had problems.
And he started falling apart.
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
And then one day...
he was just gone.
And my mom...
she's not on a work trip.
She's...
in a mental health facility.
It's really hard for her.
And you?
I mean, I'm sure
it's been really hard
for you too.
Yes, it has.
I just wanted to do
the right thing
for my mom, by coming here...
but now,
this whole town hates me.
I'm a total pariah.
Maybe your dad was right.
I'm not good for this town.
I'm not good for you.
Stop, stop.
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
I'm really sorry
about what happened to you.
You are good for me.
Believe it.
(TRUCK ALARM BLARING)
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
(ALARM CHIRPS)
(WIND BLOWING)
(CRICKET CHIRPING STOPS)
(VOICES WHISPERING)
LORELAI: You don't play nice.
Yo, who's there?
JP?
Hey, stop messing with me!
LORELAI: (ECHOING) Let's play.
(WHOOSHING)
(WHISPERING CONTINUES)
Yo, seriously,
I've got a freaking shotgun.
I will shoot your face off.
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
(FLESH RIPPING)
(GURGLES)
Westin? You okay?
(TRUCK ALARM BLARING)
Westin?
(SCREAMS)
(SCREAMS)
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)
STANTON: Open the door!
Open the goddamn door, Cole.
Hey!
Sorry, sir.
Sophie and Travis found
Westin and JP Cross dead.
They were murdered.
What?
Yeah.
I was just with them.
Uh-huh.
You and Westin
had a big fight Saturday?
Isn't that right?
Spread around online?
Uh. Yeah. Yes, we did.
STANTON: Over what?
I don't know. Uh.
He pulled a prank on me.
Pulled a stupid prank.
So, you hit him?
Once.
He hit you back?
Come on. You play ball, sir.
That's the kind of shit
that goes on.
Did he hit you back?
COLE: Yes, he did.
Am I a suspect?
(SIGHS)
You tell me.
I was here. All night, sheriff.
How do I know that?
KASEY: Because I was here...
with him.
Dad, Westin saw us off.
We've been here together
all night.
Wait in the car.
Dad, I'm really sorry.
Go wait in the goddamn car.
(CAR DOOR OPENING, CLOSING)
(SIGHS) I like you, Cole.
I do, but I want you
to stay far away
from my daughter.
I'm gonna tell you why.
Sit down.
There are things
about your family
that you need to know.
I know already. I looked it up.
No, you don't.
Most of it was never reported.
Your grandfather,
Fred Randell, he was...
he was a genuine monster.
A man with pure evil.
People around him, he...
They'd drop like flies.
It wasn't just your grandma,
and those kids, your relatives.
People who used
to work out here
back when I was a kid...
they all disappeared.
Field workers, and kitchen help.
Kasey's grandma was one of them,
her mom's mom.
She died out here. They all did.
I'll tell you something.
Your mom was lucky
to get out of here
when she was still young
because there were, um...
there were rumors
about your family.
This is gonna be hard to hear,
but you deserve
to know the truth.
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
(INAUDIBLE)
(ENGINE REVVING)
(MUSIC TURNS MENACING)
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(TELEPHONE RINGING)
(MUSIC TURNS SOMBER)
(PATIENT COUGHING
IN THE DISTANCE)
Mom! Hey.
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
Something's wrong.
I can feel it.
You were right about that place.
Ever since I got there,
terrible things
have been happening.
You... you have
to get away from there.
Here. Here, sit down.
I need you to tell me
what happened in that cellar.
I can't do that.
COLE: Mom. Mom, look at me.
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
People are dead.
Do you understand?
Oh, my God.
I need you to tell me
everything that you know.
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
COLE: Please.
(BREATHES DEEPLY) Okay.
(BREATHES SHAKILY)
(UNEASY PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
Okay. My family was always
extremely religious.
My great-grandfather started
the first Pentecostal church
in Jennings.
But my father was expelled
from that church.
His beliefs weren't like theirs.
He... he believed
that his life's calling
was to gain mastery of a demon.
A demon?
He put a chapel down
in the cellar
where him and his sect
would practice.
He was obsessed. He...
He believed that
that he could rid the world
of all of its evil...
but it corrupted him.
He wanted its power.
He called him...
Ahriman.
"Ahriman"?
My father thought
that he could raise him
from the spirit world.
He thought that
he could... could control him...
but the spirit was too powerful.
And I was just a... a baby
when she--
COLE: Mom, I know what happened.
I know about the murders.
I know about Lorelai.
(SIGHS)
There was this bottle.
It was passed down...
through our family
for generations.
My father said that
it had these special properties,
that... that it was aligned
with our own blood.
That we can attract evil,
powerful spirits
and contain them.
He said it was that bottle
that those kids
were playing with
in the cellar that night.
It was that bottle
that he kept him trapped in.
(BREATHES SHAKILY)
He used Lorelai, his daughter...
to entice him...
to tame him.
Do you understand?
My father did horrible things.
He did horrible things to her.
(SOBS) Oh, my God.
(SIGHS) Oh, God.
Was Lorelai your mother?
NURSE: Mrs. Nichols,
it is time to say goodbye.
Just a minute, please.
Thanks.
Oh, I'm so sorry.
(SNIFFLES, BREATHES SHAKILY)
I'm so sorry.
(SIGHS HEAVILY)
I was in that cellar...
a few nights ago
with some friends.
We found that bottle.
And I think
we brought Lorelai back.
(GASPS)
I can feel her.
Cole, is she here?
Is she here?
The bottle's in the truck.
Cole, you have to destroy it.
(MUSIC TURNS MENACING)
You have to take it back.
(MAURA TAPS ON TABLE)
No, you don't understand.
You need to end this.
You have to destroy it.
Cole, please,
you have to take it back.
(MUSIC BUILDS UP)
(MUSIC STOPS)
(PERSISTENT WHIRRING)
(INAUDIBLE)
(WHIRRING FADES OUT)
(CELLPHONE BUZZES)
(SIGHS)
Hey.
COLE: (OVER CELLPHONE)
I just wanna say I'm sorry...
for everything.
Cole, none of this
is your fault.
COLE: (OVER CELLPHONE)
No, it is. It is.
Everything that's happened
is because of me.
KASEY: Where are you?
Where are you going?
COLE: (OVER CELLPHONE)
I'm headed to this old church.
Apparently,
it used to be my family's.
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
I need answers.
I need to make this all stop.
Cole, please, let me help you.
You don't have to do this alone.
Tell him goodbye.
Hang up the phone, now.
He's right. You can't see me.
Tell him I get it now.
Kasey, hang it up.
I gotta go.
Maybe it's time for you
to go to your mama's.
No, Dad!
I'm not going to New Mexico.
She doesn't want me there.
I need to be here!
Enough! Enough.
I know it's been hard,
just the two of us
all these years.
I'm not a perfect father,
I know.
You're on your own too much.
I'm sure it's... (SIGHS)
...I'm sure it's not easy...
(SIGHS) ...in this town,
being my daughter.
But you are way too young
to know how dangerous
it really is out there.
You trust me on that, all right?
Now, I'm going to the station.
I don't want you to see him.
No, Dad, he didn't do anything.
Hey, honey!
That kid and his family
have brought nothing
but death to our town.
Now, you are not to leave
this house.
You understand me?
Kasey?
Yeah.
(INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING)
(DIAL TONE RINGING)
COLE: Father Harris?
I'm Cole Nichols.
I'm Fred Randell's grandson.
(BREATHES DEEPLY) Yeah.
I know who you are.
(CAR ENGINE APPROACHING)
Thanks for coming.
SOPHIE: Of course, Kasey.
TOGETHER: I'm so sorry.
(SOPHIE INHALES DEEPLY)
This was all so stupid.
After everyone we've lost...
I can't believe
Westin's gone too.
Look,
now that we have this...
let's make a move.
(ENGINE REVVING)
Your great-grandfather,
Jefferson Randell...
was a pillar
of our small community.
He was a good
and righteous man...
fighting the forces of evil
at a time
when darkness ran rampant
through these parts.
But it was your, uh...
your grandfather, Frederick,
that turned. Yes, sir.
The fruit has spoiled.
He became twisted, corrupted.
And he took poor Lorelai
down that path with him.
You see...
Fred Randell forsook the Lord...
Communicated with a dark spirit.
Randell was a sick man.
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
And he used Lorelai like music
to lure the demon spirit.
To tame him
as you would a snake.
Did you know her?
Yeah.
(INHALES DEEPLY)
For years, I had my suspicion
that Randell was conducting
this unholy work,
and I became very concerned
for Lorelai.
She still had a chance,
a path in front of her
to remain good.
But I knew that path
would not remain open
to her for long.
I went out there
to check on her.
(OWL HOOTING)
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
I needed to see for myself
that she was all right.
(KNOCKING)
FATHER HARRIS:
But it was that... very night.
(FRIENDS LAUGHING)
LORELAI:
I just wanna take my turn.
(LAUGHING CONTINUES)
CARLEEN:
It's not true. That's not true.
I just wanna take my turn!
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
I'm... I'm gonna skip this turn.
But... (VOICE BREAKING)
But it's my turn to play.
(SNAKES RATTLING, HISSING)
Just kiss her,
and we'll get out of here.
Yeah, just do it, damn it.
No.
I am not gonna kiss
this goddamn crazy-ass twist.
I'm sorry, Lorelai.
It's not your fault.
It's your sicko daddy
that messed you up good.
We just came here
because we needed
to see it all for ourselves.
FATHER HARRIS:
That night...
(SOBS)
...in her grief,
and heartbreak, and anger...
it was all finally
too much to bear.
(SNAKES RATTLING, HISSING)
FATHER HARRIS: And that was
exactly what Ahriman needed.
He found his way in...
possessed her.
She was, from that moment,
lost to the demon in life
as she is now in death.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
Let's get out of here right now.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC BUILDING)
(MUSIC FADES OUT)
I was too late.
(PENSIVE MUSIC OVERLAPPING)
(HESITATES) I... I thought
you just went crazy,
and shot them all.
I worked out that explanation
with the police.
It was the only way
our community could handle
the information and survive it.
What happened
was far, far worse.
(DOOR SLAMMING)
(MENACING MUSIC PLAYING)
They were there with me
the first night at the house.
Father, please continue.
(SHAKILY) Lorelai,
it was just a joke. (PANTS)
No. No, no, no, no! Stop!
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(GRUNTS)
(PHYLLIS SCREAMS)
(WHOOSHING)
(BONES CRACKING)
(GROANS, THUDS)
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
(RIFLE COCKS)
(SNATCHES RIFLE)
(RIFLE FIRES)
(CARTER GROANS)
(GASPS)
(RIFLE COCKS)
(GASPS)
(GROANS)
(MUSIC TENSES)
(SCREECHING, WHOOSHING)
Lorelai!
(MUSIC FADES)
Lorelai, it's me...
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
Father Harris, your pastor.
You are Lorelai Eloise Randell.
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
I know what happened to you.
(CRACKLING STOPS)
(EXHALING)
It's not your fault.
(RUMBLING)
You're a good person.
Lorelai, I see you!
(TENSE MUSIC RESUMES)
I know who you are.
You're a good person.
You're loved.
I know you, and I love you.
Lorelai, I love you.
(MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY)
LORELAI: Carter!
(SCREAMS) No! (SOBS)
YOUNG FATHER HARRIS: Lorelai...
please come. Come to me.
(CONTINUES SOBBING)
(SOFT MUSIC STARTS)
YOUNG FATHER HARRIS:
Please come to me.
Lorelai, please.
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
Please come to me.
I can help you.
We can stop this.
(LORELAI BREATHES HEAVILY)
(MUSIC TENSES UP)
No.
(SOBS)
YOUNG FATHER HARRIS: Please.
Please, please don't do this.
No. Don't!
(CRIES, HYPERVENTILATES)
No, no, don't! (SCREAMS)
(GUNSHOT)
(MUSIC FADES OUT)
So, what's the deal, padre?
Are we fighting a ghost
or are we fighting a demon?
Both.
Most certainly
it is the ghost of Lorelai.
With her pain,
her thwarted desires
have been co-opted by the demon,
like they are intertwined.
She's serving a master unaware.
Your grandfather was devastated,
of course.
And then he became terrified
of Lorelai's spirit. (CHUCKLES)
She went on a rampage,
wreaking vengeance
on her family, everyone.
He cast her back.
He confined her to the...
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
...the vessel he used,
that bottle, but now...
The bottle that Mila found...
That we used and that I...
that I brought to the cabin.
It was the same one.
(SCOFFS) Even dormant,
these forces have a way
moving things into place.
The moment you all stepped
into that cellar,
you were in the bottle's brim.
But you, you're her blood.
(UNEASY MUSIC PLAYS)
She is attached to you now
just like she was attached
to your mamma all these years.
Well, then what if we bury it,
never play it again?
This isn't a game.
That won't end this.
As long as her spirit's free,
she'll keep focusing her energy
on everyone she believed
caused her pain.
So, that's it then?
There's nothing we can do?
Maybe there is.
Fred Randell...
control these spirits
much like a... a snake charmer.
He found what bewitched it.
Love is what tamed her...
and that is how her father
tricked her spirit back
into that bottle.
Now, if you can give her peace,
if you could return her
to her true self,
the demon will be left
without a host.
He'll have no choice,
but return to the bottle.
(SIGHS)
(SIGHS)
I've been a coward.
I knew only a Randell
can entrap the demon,
and it's only a Randell
that can defeat him.
Thank you, Father.
Thank you, Father.
Cole...
if you were able
to isolate the demon from her,
to trap it...
fire is what they are born of...
and it's fire
that can send them back.
You hear?
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
Hey, where are you going?
You heard him,
this is my battle to fight.
I'm doing it alone.
And if you can't,
she comes after us. No.
I'm the only one
who should be risking anything.
Cole, I saw her,
she's coming after me.
I'm already marked.
Look, she already took
the two most important people
in my life.
I'm not letting her take
anyone else.
Guys, trust me,
there's a lot you don't know.
Cole, you heard
what Father Harris said,
we can't defeat the demon
until we put Lorelai to rest,
all four of us.
We need to remind her
what love is,
and you can't do that
on your own.
So, it's settled, let's go.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
(GUN COCKS)
COLE: We're not gonna need that.
TRAVIS: I ain't taking on
some demon from hell
without backup.
Let's go.
(SOMBER MUSIC OVERLAPPING)
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
(FLOORBOARDS CREAKING)
(DOOR HINGES CREAKING)
Hey, Kasey, you hungry?
I got some food.
Kase? Got your favorite.
(GROUP BREATHES DEEPLY)
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
Lorelai killed those kids
when it seemed like
they were being cruel,
careless...
like their actions
meant nothing.
It hurts her.
It's the night
she first played over
and over and over again.
This is for Mila and Westin.
And JP.
And JP.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYS)
Can you spin again?
She wants us
to play the game for real.
We all love each other,
so just do what feels right.
It's okay.
(BOTH SMOOCH)
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
Your turn, Trav.
I won't do it.
I just... I just won't.
That's my love.
(SOFTLY)
It's okay, it's okay, it's okay.
I'm here.
She's with me too, okay?
(TRAVIS SNIFFLES)
(MUSIC TURNS DRAMATIC)
She's here. (GASPS)
(BOTH SMOOCH)
(FIRE ROARING)
Keep going.
(FIRE ROARING STOPS)
(MUSIC FADES OUT)
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
I think she wants us
to keep going.
Here, Soph,
you haven't gone yet.
(SIZZLES)
(SCREAMS, PANTS)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC OVERLAPPING)
What do I do?
What does she want?
Guys, it's a freaking trap.
She wants to kill me.
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
What do you want?
(LORELAI SOBBING)
(VOICES WHISPERING)
LORELAI: (IN GRAVELLY VOICE)
You did this.
(GASPS, WHIMPERS,
BREATHES HEAVILY)
(DOOR LATCH RATTLING)
(DOOR SLAMMING SHUT)
COLE: Sophie! What's going on?
KASEY: Sophie!
COLE: Sophie!
Hey, open the door.
KASEY: Sophie, get out of there!
KASEY: Sophie! Sophie!
COLE: Open the door, Sophie!
Sophie, come out!
(POUNDING)
(GROWLS)
(SCREAMS)
COLE: Sophie! (GRUNTS) Damn it!
Sophie!
(DOOR LATCH RATTLING)
(BANGING DOOR)
(KASEY GRUNTS)
(GASPS, SCREAMS)
(SOPHIE PANTS)
KASEY: (PANTS) Sophie!
Sophie!
Goddamn.
Sophie, Sophie.
(PANTS)
Sophie.
(VOICES WHISPERING)
(GUN COCKS)
LORELAI: (IN GRAVELLY VOICE)
It's your turn.
(GAS HISSING)
COLE: Travis! Travis!
(POLICE SIREN BLARING)
(PANTS)
(GUN COCKS, FIRES)
(PANTING CONTINUES)
(GRUNTS, BREATHES HEAVILY)
(BOTH PANT)
SOPHIE: (SOBBING) Travis!
TRAVIS: Soph?
SOPHIE: Travis!
TRAVIS: Soph?
(SOPHIE SOBBING)
Travis, help me! Help me!
MILA: Trav!
TRAVIS: Mila?
MILA: Help!
TRAVIS: (PANTS) Mila?
(MUSIC BUILDS UP)
MILA: (WHIMPERING)
Help me, Travis. (PANTS)
(WHIMPERS) Help, help.
Help.
(SOBBING) Help me.
Mila?
(MUSIC FADES OUT)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
Mila?
(PANTS) Help.
(WHIMPERS) Help.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC OVERLAPPING)
(GASPS) Oh, shit.
(GROWLS)
Oh, oh, oh, shit. (SCREAMS)
Guys...
Travis!
(SCREAMS)
Travis!
Lorelai!
(GROWLS)
(POLICE SIREN BLARING)
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
(DOOR HINGES CREAKING)
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(VOICES WHISPERING)
(SCREAMS, PANTS)
Have the bottle ready.
Hmm. (PANTS)
I love you, Kasey Stanton.
I love you, Cole Randell...
since the moment I met you.
(BOTH PANT)
(HEART BEAT THUMPING)
Lorelai...
it's me...
your grandson.
(SOMBER PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYS)
Maura is my mother.
Your baby girl who you loved...
who was taken away from you...
stolen.
We're your kin.
You made us...
you're a part of us.
We love you.
We love you, Lorelai.
(MUSIC FADES OUT)
(INDISTINCT POLICE
RADIO CHATTER)
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYS)
Kasey? (PANTS)
(WHOOSHING)
Now!
Now!
(KASEY GRUNTS, PANTS)
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
(GRUNTS)
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)
(BOTH BREATHE HEAVILY)
Kasey?
Hey? Kasey?
Go to him.
I'm gonna take care
of this, okay?
I'll be right behind you.
Go. Go.
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
KASEY: Dad.
I'm okay.
I'm okay. I'm okay.
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(FIRE ROARING)
(INTENSE RUMBLING)
(GRUNTS)
(MUSIC FADES OUT)
Hi.
Hey.
Is this okay?
Is your dad gonna--
KASEY: It's okay.
(CHUCKLES, GROANS SOFTLY)
(KASEY CHUCKLES) Um.
It's okay. (CHUCKLES)
Sorry. (CHUCKLES)
("PAUSE" PLAYING)
You're waiting for me
To come home
Yet here I am sat across
From you
I am a house
With the lights out
Knock at the door
Bang on the door
Stay awake, stay awake
Struggling to relate
Because I've fallen down
A rabbit hole
And now
I can't give you anything
Give you anything
Do you think
I will make it out alive
Hold tight
For a while
And I'll turn on the lights
(RUMBLING)
(DEMON GROWLS)
You're getting sick
Of the silence
'Cause I forgot
How to talk to you
You're right
For losing your patience
I'm like a photo
I am a photo
Stay awake, stay awake
Struggling to relate
Because I've fallen down
A rabbit hole
And now
I can't give you anything
Give you anything
Do you think
I will make it out alive
Hold tight
For a while
And I'll turn on the lights
Do you think
I will make it out alive
Hold tight
For a while
And I'll turn on the lights
All I can give you
Is cause for concern
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
(MUSIC CONCLUDING)
(RECORD PLAYER CRACKLES)
("THERE IS A FOUNTAIN" PLAYING)
(OWL HOOTING)
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
There is a fountain filled
with blood
Drawn from Immanuel's veins
And sinners
Plunged beneath that flood
Lose all
Their guilty stains...
(LORELAI MUMBLES)
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
(LORELAI CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Here, Carter.
I got you another.
Thanks, sugar.
I was just admiring
your family portraits.
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
(PHYLLIS AND CARLEEN LAUGH)
LORELAI: I, uh,
thought it was just
gonna you coming over.
CARLEEN: This place is so weird.
(CHUCKLES)
PHYLLIS: Oh, my God. (CHUCKLES)
ED: Check this out.
Well...
Now with the parents away,
you need a whole gang to play.
Ain't that right?
Speaking of play,
Lorelai, honey,
I have a great game
for us to play.
LORELAI: A game could be fun...
(CHUCKLES) ...I guess.
Yes, we just need the darkest,
coziest little space
to cram into together.
Let's go to your cellar.
LORELAI: Our cellar?
Yeah, your cellar!
No, no, that's--
("THERE IS A FOUNTAIN"
CONTINUES PLAYING)
CARLEEN:
I think it's over here.
Wash all my sins away
No, no.
(TENSE TONE OVERLAPS)
It's not a cellar,
it's a chapel.
We can't.
Oh, even better.
No, we're not allowed.
Come on, Lorelai.
Don't you want
to have some fun with us?
With Carter?
(SHAKILY)
I'm not allowed, none of us are.
E'er since by faith
I saw the stream...
(SOFTLY) Come on Lorelai.
It'll be so fun.
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
(DOORKNOB RATTLES)
Has been my theme
And shall be till I die
CARLEEN: Nice. Let's do this.
(SONG STOPS PLAYING)
(TENSE, MYSTERIOUS MUSIC
PLAYING)
CARTER: Oh, my God.
Holy shit. (CHUCKLES)
(CHUCKLES)
PHYLLIS:
Guys, I am getting creeped out.
ED: Gross.
CARLEEN: We hit the jackpot.
What the hell is this?
"Only with the Serpent tamed...
will Darkness be held at bay."
CARTER: What does
that even mean? (CHUCKLES)
(SNAKE HISSING)
Oh, my God.
CARLEEN: I don't think
that's who these folks
are praying to.
(SHAKILY) This ain't right.
We need to leave, now.
We should have never come
down here.
We shouldn't be down here.
(DOOR CREAKS)
We got to go upstairs.
My father would kill me.
(WHIMPERS)
No! No, don't go in there!
(CRYING)
Carleen! Carleen, don't.
Carleen, please don't.
(WHIMPERS)
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC CONTINUES)
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
LORELAI: No, no, no, Carleen.
It's perfect.
No. Put that back.
That's Daddy's most sacred.
He'll kill me.
Do not touch it.
(HYPERVENTILATES)
(SOFTLY) Lorelai, I'm here.
Everything's going to be okay.
CARLEEN:
Come on, guys. Let's play.
Okay?
Okay.
CARLEEN:
Oh, my God, let's sit here.
CARTER:
You'll be fine, trust me.
ED:
Yeah, around the pentagram.
(CARLEEN CHUCKLES)
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC
CONTINUES PLAYING)
Lorelai, are you in there?
(BOTTLE RATTLES)
(ED CHUCKLES) All right.
CARLEEN: Phyllis, you're up.
(FRIENDS CHUCKLE)
ED: Go for it.
CARLEEN: Yeah, go for it.
(ED CHUCKLES)
(BOTH SMOOCH)
(CHUCKLES)
(PHYLLIS CHUCKLES)
(KNOCKING)
Lorelai Randell!
(OWL HOOTING)
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
Hello, Lorelai? Are you home?
(BOTTLE SIZZLES)
(GRUNTS SOFTLY)
It's hot.
Come here, lover boy. (CHUCKLES)
DAVID: All right.
(ALL CHUCKLE)
PHYLLIS: Okay.
(CHUCKLES)
DAVID: Wow.
(ALL CHUCKLE)
PHYLLIS: Oh, my God.
(CHUCKLING CONTINUES)
(HEARTBEAT PULSATING)
(PHYLLIS CHUCKLING)
(HISSING)
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
(WHOOSHING)
(PHYLLIS CONTINUES CHUCKLING)
(HEARTBEAT PULSATES)
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
(INTENSE RUMBLING)
CARTER: Whoa! What is that?
Let's get out of here.
Right now.
No! No, stop!
(THUNDERING)
(PHYLLIS HYPERVENTILATES)
Lorelai! Lorelai!
Lorelai!
(OMINOUS MUSIC CONCLUDES)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
MAURA:
So keep going about eight miles
past Jennings on Route 93.
It's not going to be on GPS,
but there's
like, a little signpost
where you turn
onto Wagon Road, okay?
You take that a half mile
into the house.
Okay.
Cole, you don't have to do this.
Honey,
you can go back to Atlanta,
finish high school there.
We can figure this out.
Mom.
Mom, I've already thought
all this through.
There's nothing left
for us in Atlanta to go back to.
That property in Jennings
is our only asset,
it's all we have.
(SIGHS)
How do you know
the lights even work?
Because I called
the gas and power company.
(SIGHS)
Trust me,
it's going to be fine, mom.
What about school?
NURSE: Mrs. Nichols?
Sorry, just...
I need another minute.
We already went over all this,
remember?
I sent my transcripts
to Oak Ridge High...
and I'll only
be three hours away,
so whenever you're ready
to leave this place...
Yeah. In two weeks.
Two weeks, honey,
I just need to get some rest.
You know, I just-- I need to get
my head on straight
after everything that happened.
You take as long as you need,
mom.
I got us covered.
We're going to fix
this place up...
Mm-hmm.
...make it look good.
We get a fresh start.
Anywhere we want.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
You don't have to be
so grown up, you know.
Cole, I'm so sorry
that we're in this mess.
I mean...
The loss of your father,
the way that he went...
it destroyed the life
that I had so carefully
built for you.
Mom. Come here.
That I wanted for you.
(SNIFFLES)
It's okay. It's okay.
Are you ready to go see
your room now, Mrs. Nichols?
(SIGHS)
Your son takes real good care
of his mama, I can tell.
MAURA: He's so sweet.
(SMOOCHES)
(SIGHS)
(SNIFFLES)
There's something
that I haven't told you.
I need you to understand
how bad my childhood
was at that house.
It's been 30 years.
It's just a pile of wood
and dust.
We need this.
Fine.
Just don't go
down into that cellar.
It should still be locked.
You wait until I get down there
to clean it out.
I will come
and I will clean it out.
Okay, I promise.
If anyone asks...
you have no connection
to the Randells.
You ever going to tell me why?
Just-- It's ancient history.
(SMOOCHES) Come here.
(SIGHS) I love you.
I love you.
MAURA: Call me as soon
as you get down there, okay?
COLE: Okay.
(TENSE MUSIC BUILDS)
(CAR ENGINE WHIRS)
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)
(DOOR RATTLES, SQUEAKS)
(DOOR THUDS)
(DOOR SQUEAKS)
Hmm.
(SIGHS HEAVILY) Sweet.
Jesus, Mom you weren't kidding.
Huh?
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYS)
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLES)
(DOORKNOB RATTLES)
(DOOR THUDS)
(WALL CLOCK TICKING)
What the hell?
Yeah. I'm not going
to be hanging in this room.
(DOOR CREAKS)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(MUSIC FADES OUT)
(CELL PHONE BUZZES)
Hey, guess where I am.
MRS. NICHOLS: (ON PHONE)
Why haven't you called?
COLE: Because I was making
sure the place is even livable.
Okay, I'm sorry, I was worried.
I just... I was waiting
for your call.
So, how is it down there?
I know you said
this place would be weird...
but it's really weird.
(CHUCKLES)
That's one way to put it.
I couldn't wait to get out
of there as fast as I could.
Football tryouts are today.
I think I'm going to go.
Hey, that's great.
I'm so proud of you.
I know that it may not seem
like it now,
but, um... I'm gonna do
everything that I can
to give you a normal life.
COLE: Thanks, mom.
(LIVELY CHATTER)
(UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)
(CHEERLEADERS CHANTING,
CHEERING)
Soak up the lights, boys!
This here is the closest
you wannabes are going to get
to play on my field!
So please, enjoy yourselves!
CHEERLEADER: Go, go, go.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
PLAYER 1: You guys still suck.
KASEY: Hey, there.
Hi.
KASEY: You are?
Uh, Cole Nichols.
I'm... here to sign up.
I'm new.
That's... pretty obvious.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Mila. Mila. Fresh meat.
He's mine.
Now
that is some raw new talent.
You might just have
some competition.
(MUSIC FADES OUT)
I'm Kasey, team manager.
Welcome to Oak Ridge.
(INHALES DEEPLY) Hope you manage
to make our elite squad.
Uh, I talked
to Coach... Schomes?
Is it Schomes? On the phone?
COACH SCHOMES:
Nichols. That you?
Yes, sir.
(SCOFFS) So you ran
the spread at Gwinnett?
Went eight and two,
106.5 QB rating?
That's right.
You, son, are sticking by me.
Come on.
(CHEERLEADERS CHANTING,
CHEERING)
SCHOMES: All right. Second one,
you're gonna hit him
in the post lance.
Okay.
Stay in the Z. Coming
over the top for a second one.
Great.
What's the scrub's name, Coach?
Cole Nichols.
Good chance
this is your new backup, Westin.
My QB2? Her? (SCOFFS)
No fricking way.
See what I see Trav?
Yes, he looks
like a goddamn barista.
Yeah.
Don't mind him.
All the winds have gone
to his head and his gut.
All right, go out there.
Show us a couple of plays.
Yes, sir.
COACH SCHOMES: (WHISTLES)
First team, let's go.
Everyone out.
(UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC RESUMES)
Let's see what you got,
barista boy!
All right, let's give
those entitled sons of bitches
on the sideline reason to worry,
all right?
Forty-Six Waggle Right on One.
Ready?
PLAYERS: Okay.
Hey!
(CHEERLEADER CHEERING)
Yeah. (CHUCKLES)
Let's go!
Hey!
(CROWD CHEERING)
(CHEERLEADERS CHEERING)
Ow! (CHUCKLES)
Yeah, okay.
We gotta slow this scrub's roll.
Go blitz his ass. Bury him.
Travis, what in the goddamn
hell are you doing?
WESTIN: Yeah, Coach,
I reckon barista boy's got
about ten seconds to live.
Let's go, Trav!
...Shallow Cross on One. Ready?
(PLAYERS CLAP, GRUNT)
(UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC
CONTINUES PLAYING)
Hey!
Nichols,
who do you think you are?
(CHUCKLES)
This isn't Atlanta, son!
Blind but now I see!
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
Oh, my God!
This is a tragedy
(CHUCKLES)
He takes you down better
than I do! (GIGGLES)
(GRUNTS)
(UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC FADES)
Oh. Oh, thanks, man. Thank you.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(KEYS JANGLING)
Hell of a debut.
I'm Mila. This here's Sophie.
Okay, is that it?
SOPHIE: That's all you need.
What are you up to tonight?
No plans.
(CAR ENGINE REVVS)
(TIRES SCREECH)
Yo, ladies, what's up?
Where are we going?
Nowhere, as in nowhere with him.
Aw. Come on now, son.
If it's good for the team,
it's good for you.
Well, all right, backup.
Scored yourself
a very temporary social life.
Congrats.
Thanks. Okay.
Just let me know
where I'm going.
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)
Oh, I guess
you guys are riding with me.
Yep.
Come on, girl.
COLE:
Oh, so you roll with these two?
You didn't know,
Kasey and Mila are besties.
Someone's got to guide her
through her terrible
life choices.
(ALL CHUCKLE)
Not true. What should we do?
SOPHIE: I could eat.
MILA: Oh, I bet you could.
KASEY: Guys, let's get burgers.
SOPHIE: Let's go.
(UPBEAT MUSIC CONTINUES)
COLE: Okay, so,
uh, Mila and Travis
are constantly on and off,
but mostly on, right?
And then you and Westin,
what's going on there?
Um, nothing.
Westin don't do relationships.
MILA: And you do?
You know I'm saving
myself for Mr. Right.
(MILA AND KASEY LAUGH)
(CHUCKLES) Oh, my...
(CELL PHONE BUZZES)
TRAVIS: We're thinking the lake.
(HUFFS) On a Friday night?
It'll be crawling
with the JV squad.
Can't we find one damn place
we've never been to before?
KASEY: Doesn't exist.
God, I hate this town.
Hold up.
I forgot about the first night.
You know, when a newbie mixing
onto the team.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, newbie has to host
the first night.
(CHUCKLES) What? Is that right?
SOPHIE: Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Oakridge tradition.
It's an actual requirement.
Are your folks home?
Uh, no. Actually, my mom's
out of town on business.
Dad?
Not in the picture.
MILA: Perfect, lead the way.
Mm-hmm.
(CHUCKLES) Okay.
All right, yeah, yeah.
I guess rules are rules.
Guys, we are finally going
somewhere new for once.
Just follow us,
Fightin' Bucks.
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
KASEY: Wait, where are we?
MILA: Hold on.
I think I know this road.
SOPHIE:
This is weird. I love it.
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
(CAR LOCK TOOTS)
Wait. Isn't this the house
that all those murders
happened at?
MILA: It totally is.
A bunch of kids died here
back in the '70s, the Randells.
Folks said
this place is haunted.
Really?
COLE: Well,
I haven't seen any ghosts yet.
Yo, QB2.
Are you a goddamn Randell?
(ALL CHUCKLE)
No. No.
My mom, she bought this place.
We're going to fix it up,
and then flip it.
TRAVIS: Real estate, hmm?
I like it.
WESTIN: Travis, shut up.
SOPHIE: Um, Cole,
this might be a teardown.
COLE: The lights
have been kind of tricky.
(DOOR CREAKS)
(ELECTRICITY POWERS UP,
CRACKLES)
(CHUCKLES)
Like I said, just got here.
We're gonna fix the place up.
Oh. Whew.
(UNEASY MUSIC PLAYING)
TRAVIS: Okay.
Okay.
KASEY: Whoa.
COLE: Oh, yeah.
Lorelai. I think
she's the one who died here.
MILA: Yeah. Yeah, that's her.
That's the girl that went
ape shit and killed everybody.
She got
the shotgun and she was like,
"Bam, bam, bam!"
(ELECTRICITY BUZZING)
TRAVIS: Whoa! Weird. (CHUCKLES)
Okay, so, that just happened?
Yes, it does that.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Oh, my God. You guys.
The murders happened
in the cellar.
Where's the cellar?
It's over there, but--
MILA: We have to go down there.
It's going to be so scary.
COLE:
Uh, actually, my mom said that--
(SNIGGERS)
COLE: Never mind.
Hey, no.
Please continue.
Tell us what your mommy said.
(ALL SNIGGER, CHORTLE)
Just that it's locked.
(DOOR THUDS, RATTLES)
(MILA GRUNTS)
Uh...
(MILA GRUNTS)
(WOOD SNAPS)
I'll be damned.
So you just break the door, huh?
Awesome.
Okay.
(DOOR CREAKS OPEN)
COLE: Careful.
(LIGHT MYSTERIOUS
MUSIC PLAYS)
(LIGHT SWITCH CLICKING)
(ELECTRICITY WHISTLES)
KASEY: Holy crap.
Are those the bloodstains?
MILA: They must be.
And that's the pentagram.
That'll definitely help
the resale value.
(CHUCKLES)
God. What is all this shit?
No clue, never been down here.
KASEY: Guys,
maybe we shouldn't be here.
Yes, she's not wrong.
Ooh. What's in there?
Hey, where are you going?
Um, let's not find out.
TRAVIS:
Oh, yeah, that's a great idea.
So, what's the story again?
A bunch of kids had an orgy
down here or something.
They were playing
"spin the bottle"
with that Lorelai chick,
or girl.
Her father tormented her
her whole life.
That's why when one
of those kids fucked with her,
she got so mad,
she blew their heads off...
and then she turned
the gun around
and killed herself.
Oh, God.
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
Okay, so we're just standing
with our dicks in our hands,
can we please go drink?
I'm bored.
MILA: I've got a better idea.
Let's spin
the hell out of this old bottle.
"Spin the bottle"?
Is this 1950, Mila?
No, it's the '70s.
It's what they played
the night they all bit it.
I don't even think
we should be hanging out
down here.
Who will care? Your mom?
(CHUCKLES)
Crazy old Lorelai?
Come on.
What are you all so afraid of?
It'll be fun.
Who is down
to get old school down?
Look, all right, I'm in,
but I'll call NGK.
SOPHIE: What is that?
No Guy Kissing.
(CHUCKLES)
We all know the person
you want to bang most
is Westin, homophobe.
(ALL SNICKER)
No. (PUFFS)
Okay... (SIGHS) ...fine.
If anyone gets
a spin they don't want,
they got to drink.
Fine by me.
TRAVIS: Yeah.
Trav, you're up first.
COLE: Okay, great.
We're going to sit
around the pentagram.
MILA: Obviously.
Numb nuts.
(CHUCKLES)
You ready?
There they go again.
Spin.
(BOTTLE RATTLES)
(BOTH SMOOCH)
Boring.
Travis, honey, I know
you can do better than that.
(SMOOCHES)
(SMOOCHES)
Wow. (CHUCKLES)
Yeah.
(INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING)
MILA: Cole, that would be you.
(SMOOCHES)
(SMOOCHES)
TRAVIS: Okay.
Wow, that was an Atlanta kiss.
Hot.
(SMOOCHES)
(SMOOCHES)
Great.
(ALL LAUGH)
Unless...
(ALL LAUGH)
WESTIN: What? He's cute.
(CHUCKLES)
WESTIN: (CHUCKLES) Come on.
Here they go. Okay.
(BOTH SMOOCH)
Wow.
WESTIN: Okay.
(ALL LAUGH)
She never kisses me like that.
MILA: Trav, you just wait.
(DISTANT WHISPERING, WHOOSHING)
Maybe we should take
this upstairs.
Oh, how convenient, Stanton.
As soon as it's my turn?
(SMOOCHES)
Oh, cool. Maybe we should have
gone upstairs.
(ALL CHUCKLE)
(BOTTLE RATTLES)
Oh, you, bitch.
(DISTANT VOICE SCREAMS)
(SOBS)
WESTIN: (CHUCKLES) Okay.
(SOPHIE CHUCKLES)
TRAVIS: Damn.
WESTIN: Yeah, doggy.
Fire.
You're burning the room. Okay.
(CHUCKLES)
(TRAVIS CHUCKLES)
(RUMBLING)
(DISTANT CREAKING, RATTLING)
(RUMBLING STOPS)
What the hell?
Was that fracking nearby?
No. No.
It's a 3.0.
TRAVIS:
Bro, you literally know nothing.
(ALL LAUGH)
Ow. (CHUCKLES)
Must be static electricity.
(CHUCKLES)
(SIGHS)
Let's start the bonus round.
TRAVIS: Where are we going?
More like the boner round.
(ALL LAUGH)
I can't control her, man.
You can always count
on our little drama queen.
To make things
a little bit extra.
(BOTH SMOOCH)
I need you, Trav.
You're my man,
so you just lie back and behold.
(CHUCKLES)
Look, babe, I'm all in,
but this place is disgusting.
Why are we in here?
Because it's so sick
and twisted.
We are never
going to forget this night.
I'll make sure of it.
(BOTH SMOOCH)
(MOANS, SMOOCHES)
(MILA SMOOCHES)
TRAVIS: What the fuck?
What?
(Lorelai) You don't love him.
(SCREAMS)
Gross. Were they raised
in a barn or something?
(PANTS)
Mila, what happened?
I think I saw her and heard...
heard the dead girl.
(PANTS)
I gotta get out of here.
Okay, babe, I got you.
No, no, I need to leave now.
Okay, Mila, I got you.
(QUIVERS) Sorry, guys.
I, just, um...
Something about her story,
or something triggered me,
and I just, um...
I got to shut it down.
I got to get home and, um...
(QUIVERS)
Yeah, I'll see you all tomorrow.
(KEYS JINGLING)
(LAUGHS)
Triggered.
Shut up, Westin.
MILA: Why is this stupid Uber
taking so long?
Where is this guy?
TRAVIS: We're like a mile
from the main road.
Let me just drive you.
MILA: No,
I'm not waiting for them.
Can you talk to me, please?
Babe, what are you doing?
You're really starting
to stress me out.
MJ? Mila?
Can you just chill out?
I'm starting to get worried.
Don't. (SIGHS) I'm fine.
You know, I...
I know, Trav.
You don't have to say it.
(CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY)
(CAR ENGINE APPROACHING)
(SMOOCHES)
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
DRIVER:
This should have been extra.
MILA: Let's just go.
Can you hurry up?
I really need to get home.
(WIND HOWLING)
Hurry the hell up, please!
DRIVER:
You high, young lady?
(INDISTINCLOW-PITCHED WHISPERS)
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS)
(LORELAI SOBS)
(SCREAMS)
(SCREAMS)
DRIVER: Hell no.
Not going to drive
no drug addict.
Wait, where are you going?
You can't leave me!
Asshole!
Okay,
let's get out of here, gang.
I could've told you
that hanging with QB2
was going to be weird
and shitty,
but thanks for having us, Cole.
Listen, guys, I'm sorry.
I'm just as in the dark here
as you are.
Yes, whatever.
See you on the field, newbie.
They're just chest-thumping.
It's been a night,
but I'll be seeing you later.
(SMOOCHING)
I don't know what the hell
just happened. (CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Honestly, Mila's kinda known
for making a scene, so.
Well, I hope she's okay.
I'm sure she's fine.
Okay. (CHUCKLES) Bye.
See you. (CHUCKLES)
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
(CAR HORN BLARING
IN THE DISTANCE)
(QUIVERS)
(LORELAI CRIES)
(QUIVERS)
(CRYING CONTINUES)
(WHOOSHING)
(GASPS)
You don't deserve him.
(GASPS)
(LOW-PITCHED VOICE SPEAKS
INDISTINCTLY)
(INDISTINCT WHISPERS)
(MILA PANTS)
LOW-PITCHED VOICE: Just walk.
LORELAI: (WHISPERING)
It's your turn.
Just shut up!
(OVERLAPPING WHISPERS)
(PANTS)
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
No, no, no, no.
No, no, please don't.
LORELAI: (IN GRAVELLY VOICE)
Speak, bitch!
No, no. (SCREAMS)
(MUSIC FADES)
(TRAIN WARNING BELL DINGING)
(TRAIN HORN BLARES)
COLE: Screw this place.
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
(WHIMPERS) I can't.
I can't.
I'm sorry.
I love you, Cole. (WHIMPERS)
LORELAI: I love you. I love you.
I love you. I love you.
(BANGING AT THE DOOR)
(GASPS)
(BANGING CONTINUES)
COLE: Who is it?
(BANGING CONTINUES)
(DOOR RATTLES)
Cole Nichols?
Sheriff Stanton, Brewster County
Sheriff's Department.
You know a girl named Mila Jane?
Yes, sir.
You know
Mila got in an Uber here.
Your address,
last night around 1:00 a.m.
Driver claimed
she was talking to herself.
Said he was certain
she was under the influence
of some narcotic.
What?
Mila exited the vehicle about
a half mile down the road.
Never went home.
Nobody's seen her since,
so her parents
are obviously very upset.
Okay, if I come inside?
Um, yes, yes, of course.
Come in.
You live here?
Yes, sir.
Your parents home?
No, my mom's out of town
for a couple weeks.
How old are you, son?
Eighteen. Just turned 18.
You should go ahead
and have a seat.
You related to old man Randell?
Uh, no.
I mean I've never met him...
but yes, technically,
he's my grandfather.
Your mother's Maura?
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean,
he's your grandfather.
Yes, sir.
Now, who exactly
was here last night?
Okay,
Mila and a few of her friends.
Which friends?
All right, Westin,
Travis, Sophie, Kasey.
I don't know their last names.
I mean, I just moved here, so...
Was there drinking?
A little.
Just beer, nothing crazy.
So what were you all doing
when this underage drinking
was going on?
We were just playing
games down in the cellar.
They wanted to check it out
because that's apparently
where, you know,
where it all happened.
Yeah, I do.
Was Kasey drinking?
I don't think so.
She seemed more level-headed
than the rest of them.
That's 'cause
she's my daughter.
Now, let's talk about Mila Jane.
She was fighting
with her boyfriend.
It's Travis, right?
Right.
No, they didn't get in a fight.
Um, they actually went
into a room down in the cellar
to mess around,
and they ended up
coming out of it pretty shook.
Shook?
Yeah.
What does that mean? Scared?
Yeah, it's like, scared.
Okay,
why don't you just say scared?
Why were they shook?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Mila said she saw something.
Maybe just being
down there spooked them,
but after that,
everyone was kinda freaked out.
STANTON: Saw something?
She didn't say what she saw?
No.
Sorry, is this an inconvenience
for you, son?
No, sir.
STANTON:
Okay, that's good.
I wanna let you know
something, Cole.
Kasey never lies to me.
All right?
So if I poke any holes
in this story of yours,
you'll find
that I can be real inconvenient.
Yeah?
Yes, sir.
STANTON: All right.
I thank you for your time.
COLE: Sheriff?
Yeah?
Uh, my mom told me
not to let anyone know
that I'm related
to the Randells, so...
Do you need to include
that in your... in your report?
Well, that's the truth, right?
Can you at least tell me why?
That's something
you should ask your mama.
You take care, son.
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
(ENGINE STARTS)
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
(BIRDS SQUAWKING)
(HEARTBEAT PULSATING)
(WHOOSHING)
(LORELAI CHUCKLES, ECHOES)
(DOORKNOB RATTLES)
LORELAI: (WHISPERS)
It's just us.
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
(LORELAI CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
LOW-PITCHED VOICE:
That's right.
(CELL PHONE BUZZES)
(COLE GASPS)
(TORCH RATTLES)
Hello?
KASEY:
You should get out of there.
Kasey? How'd you get my number?
I'm the team manager, remember?
(CHUCKLES)
Right, yes.
KASEY: Listen,
my dad said that word got out
that Mila was at the ranch
before she went missing,
so things
might get a little weird.
Yeah. Yes, I met your dad.
He said
that rumors are spreading
like wildfire
that you're a Randell.
(SIGHS)
Shit.
Go to Westin's cabin, okay?
I'm sending you the address.
Westin?
That dude frickin' hates me.
No. (CHUCKLES)
He knows how this town can get.
He says
he actually feels for you.
Well, that's nice, I guess.
Are you going to be there?
KASEY: Later.
I need to go look for Mila.
This isn't right.
This time just feels different.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
WESTIN: Pull!
(GUNSHOT)
(GLASS SHATTERING)
WESTIN: Pull!
(TRAVIS GRUNTS)
(GUNSHOT)
(GLASS SHATTERS)
What's up, guys?
'Sup, hoss.
Anybody heard from Mila?
Pull!
(GUNSHOT)
(GLASS SHATTERING)
She hasn't returned
any of my calls,
but she does this.
She'll be back.
She can't stay away
from this fine-looking specimen
too long.
(BOTH CHUCKLE SOFTLY)
I know that's right.
Give me some.
You shoot, QB2?
Not my thing.
Okay, then.
(RIFLE CLICKING)
(STRESSFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
COLE:
Whoa, whoa. What are you doing?
Hey...
I think it's about time
you started answering
some questions.
Like who are you?
And why did you bring us
to your house last night?
Huh? Do you know where Mila is?
Huh? Speak up! Boy!
Westin, I don't...
I don't know a thing.
I don't know, Westin.
(IMITATES STUTTERING,
TRILLS LIPS)
(LAUGHS)
(LAUGHS)
I'm sorry. I am sorry, man.
(LAUGHS) That was cold, bro.
Hey, at least pick your ass up
off my truck, man.
You're liable
to scrub the grill.
You frickin' asshole.
That, he most definitely is.
You think that's funny?
You ever put a freaking gun
in my face again, Westin?
Then what?
Then what would you do?
TRAVIS:
All right, all right, all right.
Ladies. Ladies.
What'd you do?
Come on, both of you.
It's a joke.
Drink up, boys.
Here you go. Uh...
Nichols.
Welcome to the crew.
Oh, so I'm a part
of the crew now?
Well, I'm not sure.
I say you're in.
And I'm looking real forward
to your initiation.
Wow, girl,
you're so damn thirsty.
Yes, I am. In this town,
I'm goddamn parched.
I don't know why,
you've got this tall,
frosty beverage right here.
Please. I've sipped from
that Bud Light,
and I didn't feel a thing.
So we're just waiting
around here for Kasey, then?
Why, Sophie not your cup of tea?
(CHUCKLES)
(WESTIN CHUCKLES)
No, I mean, shouldn't we all be
out looking for Mila?
Okay, look.
I get it. You're concerned.
But I know her better
than anybody,
and I'm not freaking,
so you shouldn't be either.
Okay, but this is all going
to fall back on me, right?
You guys were there.
Mila completely lost it.
Yeah, well, she wasn't messing
around this time for once.
Anyone hear any noises?
I don't know,
like crying or whispering?
WESTIN: Not me.
No, because this is
some Stockholm syndrome shit.
Okay? (CHUCKLING)
Y'all are freaking losing it.
(CHUCKLES)
I'm going to head back.
I got to go figure out
what the hell's going on.
SOPHIE: Cole.
Yeah?
The thing is,
Sheriff Stanton
already told our folks
about our little
party last night, so we--
So we're staying put right here.
Sheriff doesn't want us
corrupting his baby girl.
I told you all that good little
Kasey was bad for our nightlife.
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
(UNEASY MUSIC PLAYS)
(BIRD SCREECHES)
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
COLE: Kasey?
KASEY: Hey.
COLE: Hey.
But I thought
you were on Mila watch.
I am.
I actually went to the cabin,
but they said
that you were here, um...
Look,
whatever Mila saw last night
or thought that she saw,
it's got to be the reason
that she's missing, right?
There's no coincidence there.
COLE:
Yeah, no, my thoughts exactly.
And that bottle from last night,
it was like, hot,
and shaking, right?
That's not normal
so I was wondering
if I could just
take a closer look at it.
To be honest, I'm glad
I don't have to do it alone.
(KASEY CHUCKLES)
I've had my own weird shit
going on here today.
Really. Like what?
COLE:
Like, when I'm in this house...
it feels like I'm not alone.
I don't know.
Be honest with me.
Are you actually a Randell?
Like, are these people
your family?
Um...
Yeah.
Yeah.
Lorelai was my mom's big sister,
and she died
when my mom was just a baby.
Wow.
Something about you,
about them...
makes my dad really nervous.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
COLE: Yeah?
And... and now?
(CLICKS TONGUE)
I'm not even allowed to see you.
(CHUCKLES) He said, and I quote,
"Over his dead body."
Jesus.
(CHUCKLES)
Which makes you officially
dangerous, Cole Nichols.
(GENTLE MUSIC PLAYS)
Or should I say Randell?
Um. Does he know
you're here right now?
He'd kill me. Literally.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
So, what do you think?
Is it worth it?
(DOOR CREAKS)
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
(ELECTRICITY BUZZES)
Where is it?
Weren't we sitting right here?
Yes, I think so.
It's really strange...
and then we all went upstairs
after Mila freaked out, right?
Shit!
(OMINOUS TONE PLAYS)
What?
I saw something.
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
COLE: Nothing.
Could it be...
her? Mila was dead serious.
So, do you think
that us coming down here,
playing "spin the bottle,"
that it could have been, like,
disrespectful to her?
To her soul?
(INDISTINCT WHISPERS)
(LOW-PITCHED WHISPERS OVERLAP)
SOPHIE: (SCREAMING)
Help! Let me in! (SCREAMS)
(BANGING ON DOOR)
COLE: Sophie!
KASEY: Sophie? Sophie! Sophie?
Sophie?
Sophie?
COLE: Sophie!
Sophie.
(SCREAMS)
(MUSIC FADES OUT)
Oh, it's you two.
I hope I didn't ruin
your little courtship.
(LAUGHS) And we are live, QB2!
(TRAVIS LAUGHS)
You should see
your freaking face.
COLE: You son of a bitch!
(BOTH GRUNT)
(GRUNTS)
KASEY: Guys, stop.
(COLE GRUNTS)
Hey. Hey. Hey.
Whoo! Come on, Cole.
TRAVIS: It was a joke!
He's sure upset!
But I'm not losing
both of my QBs over it.
So, everyone in school
just saw that.
It was a freaking joke.
I'm sick and tired
of your goddamn stupid jokes,
Westin.
(CELL PHONE BUZZES)
Guys, guys, shut up, shut up.
My dad. My dad.
Dad. Dad, I'm sitting down.
I'm so sorry, honey.
(WHIMPERS)
Oh, God. (SOBS)
(SIGHS)
(CELL PHONE BEEPS OFF)
(POLICE RADIO CHATTER)
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
There's no way
it was a suicide, right?
They're saying it is.
(EXHALES SHARPLY)
No fucking way.
Mila would never.
How do you explain it, then?
What, you think she was playing
chicken with a freight train?
Seriously, Westin?
Ow.
COLE: Hey.
SOPHIE: Jerk.
How you doing?
Not good.
Any updates?
Well, yeah.
New guy shows up
and our friend dies.
Was I freaking talking to you,
Westin?
Was I freaking talking to you?
Stop. Stop. Stop.
Seriously.
SOPHIE: Come on.
Would you cut it out, girls?
Get over yourselves!
Like, shake hands or something.
Yes, okay, I get it. We're cool.
Come on.
Yeah, cool.
Bottom line is,
my dad is saying
that Mila killed herself,
and there's no way.
I agree.
Yes, I guess, me too.
Where's Travis?
I don't know.
Maybe he's code-red
drunk somewhere.
(SIGHS) Goddamn.
Well, I've been thinking
about the funeral,
and I'm going to go.
Sure about that, hoss?
I mean, no offense,
but you're, like,
Jenning's most wanted right now.
Yeah, I know,
but it's a hell of a lot better
than hiding out, right?
How would that look?
KASEY: You're right.
You can sit with us.
We got you.
Thanks, Soph.
(WOMAN SINGING
"THERE IS A FOUNTAIN")
(ACOUSTIC GUITAR PLAYS)
Thy flowing wounds supply
Redeeming love
Has been my theme
And shall until I die
And shall be till I die
And shall until I die
Redeeming love
Has been my theme
And shall until I die
(ACOUSTIC GUITAR CONCLUDES)
(INHALES DEEPLY)
When I was 13, my...
(CHUCKLING) ...parents
got divorced.
Um, so my dad sent me
to cheer camp,
and I was not... (CHUCKLING)
...a good cheerleader.
So the girls were really mean
to me.
Borderline cruel.
Until... (SIGHS, CLICKS TONGUE)
Until the prettiest girl
in camp
took me underneath her wing
and told everyone
that cheerleading
wasn't for her either...
and that I was her best friend
even though we had just met.
Father.
I didn't know
this was your church.
Look, I'm here to mourn.
That was Mila.
Mila could wrap
the world around her finger...
and Mila loved life.
She loved her friends.
She loved her family.
(CRYING IN THE AUDIENCE)
Mila did love trouble.
(CHUCKLES)
(SCATTERED CHUCKLES)
Trouble with a capital T.
(CHUCKLES)
(ALL CHUCKLE SOFTLY)
PRIEST: I heard
the night Miss Jane died,
she was out there
at the Randell house.
(SIGHS)
PRIEST: Can you tell me
anything else
about that night?
I can tell you this because
it's not an active crime scene,
but, um...
they were down in the cellar.
But Mila did not commit suicide.
Mila would never do that.
Someone or something chased her
onto those tracks,
and it's still out there!
She's right!
She's right, and that someone's
that Randell boy, right there.
(GUESTS CLAMORING)
Oh, boy.
He arrived about the same day.
STANTON: Father.
GUEST: It is no coincidence.
(SOBS)
STANTON: Hey. Let's go.
COLE: What? Hey!
TOM: Sheriff,
you better be putting this boy
in handcuffs.
I'm very sorry for--
Sheriff.
I'm sorry for your loss,
but let's let the law do
its work now. All right, Tom?
You do your work.
Tom, sit down.
Cole, meet us at the cabin.
COLE: What are you doing?
STANTON: Let's go.
COLE: What are you doing?
(HUFFS)
Hey.
All right, let go of me.
I'm trying to get you
out of here
before they string you up.
You should have laid low. Cole.
(GRUNTS)
I didn't do anything.
Yeah, well, a lot of people
in this town
could give a shit
whether you did or not.
Everyone wants
your blood anyway.
Get in there.
Now get out of here.
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
That was some eulogy.
It almost caused a riot.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
It was beautiful though.
It was really nice.
Honey, um...
Look, I know it can be hard
to accept certain truths--
Dad, she didn't kill herself.
You didn't know her dad,
I did, better than anyone else.
I know. I know she...
I know
she was your best friend., and..
but honey... (SIGHS)
...there were no prints on her,
no fibers...
nobody touched her.
There was... no one else there.
Stop. Stop. I know it in my gut.
STANTON:
Where are you going?
I don't want you going anywhere.
I'm going to her wake.
It's at Westin's cabin.
You want to stop me, arrest me.
(KEYS SCRAPE)
("FLAVOR" PLAYING)
My life is like a vacation
My money stay in rotation
Baby got bank
And I got the flavor
Whoo! Got flavor, got flavor
Got flavor
Got flavor, whoo!
My life is like a vacation...
Kasey.
This here poor,
sweet little girl
was Mila's best friend.
I am so sorry.
We all loved Mila so much.
Yes, sure, whatever, JP.
Mila was just so full of life,
you know.
She had so much love to give.
It truly is heartbreaking.
Actually, JP,
Mila hated your guts.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Oh, sugar. You're in mourning.
You don't know
what you're saying.
I can't stand her.
Look, Mila loved you, Stanton.
Sophie too. Me, she liked.
You were always her number one.
Thanks, Trav,
but she really did love you too.
No. No, she didn't.
Not really, but that's okay.
Because I loved her enough
for the both of us.
Come on, let's go inside.
(SONG CONTINUES PLAYING)
(CROWD LAUGHING, CHEERING)
("SKULLS" PLAYING)
Are you the one
I'm looking for?
In the shadows
The sun on your face
A painted eye...
Hi.
Hey, girl. You okay?
No. No, I'm not.
Me neither...
but it helps being held.
All right, guys,
we're here for Mila, right?
Let's do it
how she would have wanted to.
Yeah. Let's honor Mila.
Let's shoot out the lights.
To Mila.
CROWD: To Mila.
I know what to do.
(OBJECTS RATTLE)
Let's play "spin the bottle."
Oh. Wait a second.
Wait, you took that?
I thought
Mila would want a souvenir.
Guys, this is the last thing
that we did with her.
She would want us to play.
You're right.
That's exactly
what she would want.
You okay, hoss?
I'm very far
from being freaking okay, bro.
I think I read about this game
in a book, once.
Oh, you know how to read?
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
Come on, stud, let's play.
Hell, I'm in. (CHUCKLES)
This can't be a good idea.
No, it's not, but it might be
the only way
to be getting answers.
("SKULL" FADES OUT)
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING)
Oh, I like the way
You make me feel
Until you drag me...
Come here, QB2.
This time I cannot see...
(BOTH SMOOCH)
...Is fight or flight
If your lips are moving
Then I know you're lying
Sick and tired
Of feeling like dying
All these tears
You're crying...
(BOTH SMOOCH)
Ugh.
I'm gonna give that
two and a half stars.
Makes sense,
considering two and a half
is about all you got.
(CROWD BOOING)
I don't have a small penis.
(SCATTERED LAUGHING)
Like I do. I know.
I'm disappointed, Sophie.
I heard you had game
back in your day.
Oh, I'm just
getting started, JB.
Oh, sorry, I meant JP.
(SCOFFS) Oh, shit.
Mila would have loved this.
Come on.
Teach me something, Grandma.
(UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)
(CROWD GASPING, CHEERING)
(SMOOCHES)
(WOLF-WHISTLING IN THE CROWD)
Whoa.
(CHUCKLES)
Well, here endeth the lesson.
(FEMALE GUEST SCREAMING)
(MUSIC FADES)
(LORELAI SOBBING)
(VOICES WHISPERING)
MALE GUEST:
Something's going on.
All right, maybe we should stop.
Maybe stopping would be bad.
Oh, come on, QB2.
What are you, afraid
of some freaking wind now?
Saddle up, cowboy.
(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)
(MENACING MUSIC PLAYING)
Hey, who... who did that?
(WIND HOWLING)
(LORELAI SOBBING)
I think maybe we're supposed to.
Aw, that's so sweet, you guys.
It's their destiny.
(UNEASY TONE PLAYS)
(SOBBING CONTINUES)
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
(BOTH SMOOCH)
(SOBBING CONTINUES)
(UNEASY MUSIC BUILDS)
LORELAI: It's your turn.
(SCREAMS, GASPS)
(MUSIC STOPS)
(CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY)
Uh, um. (GULPS) I'm gonna go see
if Travis... is okay.
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
Trav? (PANTS)
(WIND HOWLING)
(CRICKET CHIRPING STOPS)
Travis! (BREATHES HEAVILY)
(MENACING MUSIC PLAYING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(CAR HORN TOOTS IN DISTANCE)
(CAR ENGINE STARTS)
Sophie!
Bro, it's Hill Country.
It gets windy. Just relax.
(PANTS)
Hey, you guys
skedaddle on out of here, okay?
All right, just be careful.
Hey, you be careful, man.
Careful of her daddy. (CHUCKLES)
Hey, sayonara, y'all.
Watch out for the ghosts.
(VOICES WHISPERING)
(PANTING INTENSIFIES)
Travis!
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(LORELAI CONTINUES SOBBING)
SOPHIE: Travis!
(WHIMPERS, PANTS)
Travis! (PANTS)
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(SCREAMS, PANTS)
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Calm down, what is it?
(SOBS) I swear, I swear,
I swear, I swear.
(MUSIC FADES OUT)
(SHUSHES)
(SOBS)
Look, look,
it's been a long night,
I understand. I...
No, Lorelai, she's real.
(BREATHES SHAKILY)
Travis, she killed Mila. (SOBS)
We should have never gone down
to that house.
I saw her, Travis, I felt her.
Look, it's on me.
I, uh, I allowed her
to leave that night alone.
(BREATHES HEAVILY, CRIES)
You were the best thing
that ever happened to her.
(SCOFFS)
(LORELAI'S SCREAM ECHOING
IN THE DISTANCE)
(MENACING MUSIC PLAYING)
She was there with us, right?
That house, I'm not crazy?
No. No, and I mean,
she could be with us right now.
It's like she's connected
to this thing.
She died playing that game.
So, when we play it,
that must be
what brings her back.
Do we destroy it?
Would that even help,
or would that make it worse?
All I know is if we never
would have went down there,
none of this
would have happened.
(ZIPPER ZIPS)
(SIGHS) Tomorrow,
I'm gonna bury it...
far from here.
("IMPATIENTLY" PLAYING)
'Cause all I had
To say, my lady
Is I couldn't read
Your mind...
Yeah.
I dream about this, about us.
You should just keep following
your dreams, girl.
(BOTH SMOOCH)
The signs you gave
I couldn't see, no
(CAR ALARM BLARING IN DISTANCE)
Goddamn, that truck.
And I let you slip away...
(CHUCKLES)
Hey. Don't you go get ugly
on me now.
(CHUCKLES)
(CHUCKLES)
Forever in a day
(BOTH SMOOCH)
(SONG FADES OUT)
We should
probably call it a night.
My dad is,
like, 50 feet from here.
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
(CHUCKLES) Good point, yeah.
I like all your tattoos.
Is that a ghost?
Yeah, Slaughterhouse-Five,
Kurt Vonnegut.
My dad's favorite book.
Tell me about him.
He was a really good guy...
but he had problems.
And he started falling apart.
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
And then one day...
he was just gone.
And my mom...
she's not on a work trip.
She's...
in a mental health facility.
It's really hard for her.
And you?
I mean, I'm sure
it's been really hard
for you too.
Yes, it has.
I just wanted to do
the right thing
for my mom, by coming here...
but now,
this whole town hates me.
I'm a total pariah.
Maybe your dad was right.
I'm not good for this town.
I'm not good for you.
Stop, stop.
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
I'm really sorry
about what happened to you.
You are good for me.
Believe it.
(TRUCK ALARM BLARING)
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
(ALARM CHIRPS)
(WIND BLOWING)
(CRICKET CHIRPING STOPS)
(VOICES WHISPERING)
LORELAI: You don't play nice.
Yo, who's there?
JP?
Hey, stop messing with me!
LORELAI: (ECHOING) Let's play.
(WHOOSHING)
(WHISPERING CONTINUES)
Yo, seriously,
I've got a freaking shotgun.
I will shoot your face off.
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
(FLESH RIPPING)
(GURGLES)
Westin? You okay?
(TRUCK ALARM BLARING)
Westin?
(SCREAMS)
(SCREAMS)
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)
STANTON: Open the door!
Open the goddamn door, Cole.
Hey!
Sorry, sir.
Sophie and Travis found
Westin and JP Cross dead.
They were murdered.
What?
Yeah.
I was just with them.
Uh-huh.
You and Westin
had a big fight Saturday?
Isn't that right?
Spread around online?
Uh. Yeah. Yes, we did.
STANTON: Over what?
I don't know. Uh.
He pulled a prank on me.
Pulled a stupid prank.
So, you hit him?
Once.
He hit you back?
Come on. You play ball, sir.
That's the kind of shit
that goes on.
Did he hit you back?
COLE: Yes, he did.
Am I a suspect?
(SIGHS)
You tell me.
I was here. All night, sheriff.
How do I know that?
KASEY: Because I was here...
with him.
Dad, Westin saw us off.
We've been here together
all night.
Wait in the car.
Dad, I'm really sorry.
Go wait in the goddamn car.
(CAR DOOR OPENING, CLOSING)
(SIGHS) I like you, Cole.
I do, but I want you
to stay far away
from my daughter.
I'm gonna tell you why.
Sit down.
There are things
about your family
that you need to know.
I know already. I looked it up.
No, you don't.
Most of it was never reported.
Your grandfather,
Fred Randell, he was...
he was a genuine monster.
A man with pure evil.
People around him, he...
They'd drop like flies.
It wasn't just your grandma,
and those kids, your relatives.
People who used
to work out here
back when I was a kid...
they all disappeared.
Field workers, and kitchen help.
Kasey's grandma was one of them,
her mom's mom.
She died out here. They all did.
I'll tell you something.
Your mom was lucky
to get out of here
when she was still young
because there were, um...
there were rumors
about your family.
This is gonna be hard to hear,
but you deserve
to know the truth.
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
(INAUDIBLE)
(ENGINE REVVING)
(MUSIC TURNS MENACING)
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(TELEPHONE RINGING)
(MUSIC TURNS SOMBER)
(PATIENT COUGHING
IN THE DISTANCE)
Mom! Hey.
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
Something's wrong.
I can feel it.
You were right about that place.
Ever since I got there,
terrible things
have been happening.
You... you have
to get away from there.
Here. Here, sit down.
I need you to tell me
what happened in that cellar.
I can't do that.
COLE: Mom. Mom, look at me.
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
People are dead.
Do you understand?
Oh, my God.
I need you to tell me
everything that you know.
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
COLE: Please.
(BREATHES DEEPLY) Okay.
(BREATHES SHAKILY)
(UNEASY PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
Okay. My family was always
extremely religious.
My great-grandfather started
the first Pentecostal church
in Jennings.
But my father was expelled
from that church.
His beliefs weren't like theirs.
He... he believed
that his life's calling
was to gain mastery of a demon.
A demon?
He put a chapel down
in the cellar
where him and his sect
would practice.
He was obsessed. He...
He believed that
that he could rid the world
of all of its evil...
but it corrupted him.
He wanted its power.
He called him...
Ahriman.
"Ahriman"?
My father thought
that he could raise him
from the spirit world.
He thought that
he could... could control him...
but the spirit was too powerful.
And I was just a... a baby
when she--
COLE: Mom, I know what happened.
I know about the murders.
I know about Lorelai.
(SIGHS)
There was this bottle.
It was passed down...
through our family
for generations.
My father said that
it had these special properties,
that... that it was aligned
with our own blood.
That we can attract evil,
powerful spirits
and contain them.
He said it was that bottle
that those kids
were playing with
in the cellar that night.
It was that bottle
that he kept him trapped in.
(BREATHES SHAKILY)
He used Lorelai, his daughter...
to entice him...
to tame him.
Do you understand?
My father did horrible things.
He did horrible things to her.
(SOBS) Oh, my God.
(SIGHS) Oh, God.
Was Lorelai your mother?
NURSE: Mrs. Nichols,
it is time to say goodbye.
Just a minute, please.
Thanks.
Oh, I'm so sorry.
(SNIFFLES, BREATHES SHAKILY)
I'm so sorry.
(SIGHS HEAVILY)
I was in that cellar...
a few nights ago
with some friends.
We found that bottle.
And I think
we brought Lorelai back.
(GASPS)
I can feel her.
Cole, is she here?
Is she here?
The bottle's in the truck.
Cole, you have to destroy it.
(MUSIC TURNS MENACING)
You have to take it back.
(MAURA TAPS ON TABLE)
No, you don't understand.
You need to end this.
You have to destroy it.
Cole, please,
you have to take it back.
(MUSIC BUILDS UP)
(MUSIC STOPS)
(PERSISTENT WHIRRING)
(INAUDIBLE)
(WHIRRING FADES OUT)
(CELLPHONE BUZZES)
(SIGHS)
Hey.
COLE: (OVER CELLPHONE)
I just wanna say I'm sorry...
for everything.
Cole, none of this
is your fault.
COLE: (OVER CELLPHONE)
No, it is. It is.
Everything that's happened
is because of me.
KASEY: Where are you?
Where are you going?
COLE: (OVER CELLPHONE)
I'm headed to this old church.
Apparently,
it used to be my family's.
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
I need answers.
I need to make this all stop.
Cole, please, let me help you.
You don't have to do this alone.
Tell him goodbye.
Hang up the phone, now.
He's right. You can't see me.
Tell him I get it now.
Kasey, hang it up.
I gotta go.
Maybe it's time for you
to go to your mama's.
No, Dad!
I'm not going to New Mexico.
She doesn't want me there.
I need to be here!
Enough! Enough.
I know it's been hard,
just the two of us
all these years.
I'm not a perfect father,
I know.
You're on your own too much.
I'm sure it's... (SIGHS)
...I'm sure it's not easy...
(SIGHS) ...in this town,
being my daughter.
But you are way too young
to know how dangerous
it really is out there.
You trust me on that, all right?
Now, I'm going to the station.
I don't want you to see him.
No, Dad, he didn't do anything.
Hey, honey!
That kid and his family
have brought nothing
but death to our town.
Now, you are not to leave
this house.
You understand me?
Kasey?
Yeah.
(INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING)
(DIAL TONE RINGING)
COLE: Father Harris?
I'm Cole Nichols.
I'm Fred Randell's grandson.
(BREATHES DEEPLY) Yeah.
I know who you are.
(CAR ENGINE APPROACHING)
Thanks for coming.
SOPHIE: Of course, Kasey.
TOGETHER: I'm so sorry.
(SOPHIE INHALES DEEPLY)
This was all so stupid.
After everyone we've lost...
I can't believe
Westin's gone too.
Look,
now that we have this...
let's make a move.
(ENGINE REVVING)
Your great-grandfather,
Jefferson Randell...
was a pillar
of our small community.
He was a good
and righteous man...
fighting the forces of evil
at a time
when darkness ran rampant
through these parts.
But it was your, uh...
your grandfather, Frederick,
that turned. Yes, sir.
The fruit has spoiled.
He became twisted, corrupted.
And he took poor Lorelai
down that path with him.
You see...
Fred Randell forsook the Lord...
Communicated with a dark spirit.
Randell was a sick man.
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
And he used Lorelai like music
to lure the demon spirit.
To tame him
as you would a snake.
Did you know her?
Yeah.
(INHALES DEEPLY)
For years, I had my suspicion
that Randell was conducting
this unholy work,
and I became very concerned
for Lorelai.
She still had a chance,
a path in front of her
to remain good.
But I knew that path
would not remain open
to her for long.
I went out there
to check on her.
(OWL HOOTING)
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
I needed to see for myself
that she was all right.
(KNOCKING)
FATHER HARRIS:
But it was that... very night.
(FRIENDS LAUGHING)
LORELAI:
I just wanna take my turn.
(LAUGHING CONTINUES)
CARLEEN:
It's not true. That's not true.
I just wanna take my turn!
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
I'm... I'm gonna skip this turn.
But... (VOICE BREAKING)
But it's my turn to play.
(SNAKES RATTLING, HISSING)
Just kiss her,
and we'll get out of here.
Yeah, just do it, damn it.
No.
I am not gonna kiss
this goddamn crazy-ass twist.
I'm sorry, Lorelai.
It's not your fault.
It's your sicko daddy
that messed you up good.
We just came here
because we needed
to see it all for ourselves.
FATHER HARRIS:
That night...
(SOBS)
...in her grief,
and heartbreak, and anger...
it was all finally
too much to bear.
(SNAKES RATTLING, HISSING)
FATHER HARRIS: And that was
exactly what Ahriman needed.
He found his way in...
possessed her.
She was, from that moment,
lost to the demon in life
as she is now in death.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
Let's get out of here right now.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC BUILDING)
(MUSIC FADES OUT)
I was too late.
(PENSIVE MUSIC OVERLAPPING)
(HESITATES) I... I thought
you just went crazy,
and shot them all.
I worked out that explanation
with the police.
It was the only way
our community could handle
the information and survive it.
What happened
was far, far worse.
(DOOR SLAMMING)
(MENACING MUSIC PLAYING)
They were there with me
the first night at the house.
Father, please continue.
(SHAKILY) Lorelai,
it was just a joke. (PANTS)
No. No, no, no, no! Stop!
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(GRUNTS)
(PHYLLIS SCREAMS)
(WHOOSHING)
(BONES CRACKING)
(GROANS, THUDS)
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
(RIFLE COCKS)
(SNATCHES RIFLE)
(RIFLE FIRES)
(CARTER GROANS)
(GASPS)
(RIFLE COCKS)
(GASPS)
(GROANS)
(MUSIC TENSES)
(SCREECHING, WHOOSHING)
Lorelai!
(MUSIC FADES)
Lorelai, it's me...
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
Father Harris, your pastor.
You are Lorelai Eloise Randell.
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
I know what happened to you.
(CRACKLING STOPS)
(EXHALING)
It's not your fault.
(RUMBLING)
You're a good person.
Lorelai, I see you!
(TENSE MUSIC RESUMES)
I know who you are.
You're a good person.
You're loved.
I know you, and I love you.
Lorelai, I love you.
(MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY)
LORELAI: Carter!
(SCREAMS) No! (SOBS)
YOUNG FATHER HARRIS: Lorelai...
please come. Come to me.
(CONTINUES SOBBING)
(SOFT MUSIC STARTS)
YOUNG FATHER HARRIS:
Please come to me.
Lorelai, please.
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
Please come to me.
I can help you.
We can stop this.
(LORELAI BREATHES HEAVILY)
(MUSIC TENSES UP)
No.
(SOBS)
YOUNG FATHER HARRIS: Please.
Please, please don't do this.
No. Don't!
(CRIES, HYPERVENTILATES)
No, no, don't! (SCREAMS)
(GUNSHOT)
(MUSIC FADES OUT)
So, what's the deal, padre?
Are we fighting a ghost
or are we fighting a demon?
Both.
Most certainly
it is the ghost of Lorelai.
With her pain,
her thwarted desires
have been co-opted by the demon,
like they are intertwined.
She's serving a master unaware.
Your grandfather was devastated,
of course.
And then he became terrified
of Lorelai's spirit. (CHUCKLES)
She went on a rampage,
wreaking vengeance
on her family, everyone.
He cast her back.
He confined her to the...
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
...the vessel he used,
that bottle, but now...
The bottle that Mila found...
That we used and that I...
that I brought to the cabin.
It was the same one.
(SCOFFS) Even dormant,
these forces have a way
moving things into place.
The moment you all stepped
into that cellar,
you were in the bottle's brim.
But you, you're her blood.
(UNEASY MUSIC PLAYS)
She is attached to you now
just like she was attached
to your mamma all these years.
Well, then what if we bury it,
never play it again?
This isn't a game.
That won't end this.
As long as her spirit's free,
she'll keep focusing her energy
on everyone she believed
caused her pain.
So, that's it then?
There's nothing we can do?
Maybe there is.
Fred Randell...
control these spirits
much like a... a snake charmer.
He found what bewitched it.
Love is what tamed her...
and that is how her father
tricked her spirit back
into that bottle.
Now, if you can give her peace,
if you could return her
to her true self,
the demon will be left
without a host.
He'll have no choice,
but return to the bottle.
(SIGHS)
(SIGHS)
I've been a coward.
I knew only a Randell
can entrap the demon,
and it's only a Randell
that can defeat him.
Thank you, Father.
Thank you, Father.
Cole...
if you were able
to isolate the demon from her,
to trap it...
fire is what they are born of...
and it's fire
that can send them back.
You hear?
(CRICKETS CHIRPING)
Hey, where are you going?
You heard him,
this is my battle to fight.
I'm doing it alone.
And if you can't,
she comes after us. No.
I'm the only one
who should be risking anything.
Cole, I saw her,
she's coming after me.
I'm already marked.
Look, she already took
the two most important people
in my life.
I'm not letting her take
anyone else.
Guys, trust me,
there's a lot you don't know.
Cole, you heard
what Father Harris said,
we can't defeat the demon
until we put Lorelai to rest,
all four of us.
We need to remind her
what love is,
and you can't do that
on your own.
So, it's settled, let's go.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
(GUN COCKS)
COLE: We're not gonna need that.
TRAVIS: I ain't taking on
some demon from hell
without backup.
Let's go.
(SOMBER MUSIC OVERLAPPING)
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
(FLOORBOARDS CREAKING)
(DOOR HINGES CREAKING)
Hey, Kasey, you hungry?
I got some food.
Kase? Got your favorite.
(GROUP BREATHES DEEPLY)
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
Lorelai killed those kids
when it seemed like
they were being cruel,
careless...
like their actions
meant nothing.
It hurts her.
It's the night
she first played over
and over and over again.
This is for Mila and Westin.
And JP.
And JP.
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYS)
Can you spin again?
She wants us
to play the game for real.
We all love each other,
so just do what feels right.
It's okay.
(BOTH SMOOCH)
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
Your turn, Trav.
I won't do it.
I just... I just won't.
That's my love.
(SOFTLY)
It's okay, it's okay, it's okay.
I'm here.
She's with me too, okay?
(TRAVIS SNIFFLES)
(MUSIC TURNS DRAMATIC)
She's here. (GASPS)
(BOTH SMOOCH)
(FIRE ROARING)
Keep going.
(FIRE ROARING STOPS)
(MUSIC FADES OUT)
(EERIE MUSIC PLAYING)
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
I think she wants us
to keep going.
Here, Soph,
you haven't gone yet.
(SIZZLES)
(SCREAMS, PANTS)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC OVERLAPPING)
What do I do?
What does she want?
Guys, it's a freaking trap.
She wants to kill me.
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
What do you want?
(LORELAI SOBBING)
(VOICES WHISPERING)
LORELAI: (IN GRAVELLY VOICE)
You did this.
(GASPS, WHIMPERS,
BREATHES HEAVILY)
(DOOR LATCH RATTLING)
(DOOR SLAMMING SHUT)
COLE: Sophie! What's going on?
KASEY: Sophie!
COLE: Sophie!
Hey, open the door.
KASEY: Sophie, get out of there!
KASEY: Sophie! Sophie!
COLE: Open the door, Sophie!
Sophie, come out!
(POUNDING)
(GROWLS)
(SCREAMS)
COLE: Sophie! (GRUNTS) Damn it!
Sophie!
(DOOR LATCH RATTLING)
(BANGING DOOR)
(KASEY GRUNTS)
(GASPS, SCREAMS)
(SOPHIE PANTS)
KASEY: (PANTS) Sophie!
Sophie!
Goddamn.
Sophie, Sophie.
(PANTS)
Sophie.
(VOICES WHISPERING)
(GUN COCKS)
LORELAI: (IN GRAVELLY VOICE)
It's your turn.
(GAS HISSING)
COLE: Travis! Travis!
(POLICE SIREN BLARING)
(PANTS)
(GUN COCKS, FIRES)
(PANTING CONTINUES)
(GRUNTS, BREATHES HEAVILY)
(BOTH PANT)
SOPHIE: (SOBBING) Travis!
TRAVIS: Soph?
SOPHIE: Travis!
TRAVIS: Soph?
(SOPHIE SOBBING)
Travis, help me! Help me!
MILA: Trav!
TRAVIS: Mila?
MILA: Help!
TRAVIS: (PANTS) Mila?
(MUSIC BUILDS UP)
MILA: (WHIMPERING)
Help me, Travis. (PANTS)
(WHIMPERS) Help, help.
Help.
(SOBBING) Help me.
Mila?
(MUSIC FADES OUT)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
Mila?
(PANTS) Help.
(WHIMPERS) Help.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC OVERLAPPING)
(GASPS) Oh, shit.
(GROWLS)
Oh, oh, oh, shit. (SCREAMS)
Guys...
Travis!
(SCREAMS)
Travis!
Lorelai!
(GROWLS)
(POLICE SIREN BLARING)
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
(DOOR HINGES CREAKING)
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(VOICES WHISPERING)
(SCREAMS, PANTS)
Have the bottle ready.
Hmm. (PANTS)
I love you, Kasey Stanton.
I love you, Cole Randell...
since the moment I met you.
(BOTH PANT)
(HEART BEAT THUMPING)
Lorelai...
it's me...
your grandson.
(SOMBER PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYS)
Maura is my mother.
Your baby girl who you loved...
who was taken away from you...
stolen.
We're your kin.
You made us...
you're a part of us.
We love you.
We love you, Lorelai.
(MUSIC FADES OUT)
(INDISTINCT POLICE
RADIO CHATTER)
(TENSE MUSIC PLAYS)
Kasey? (PANTS)
(WHOOSHING)
Now!
Now!
(KASEY GRUNTS, PANTS)
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
(GRUNTS)
(MUSIC CONCLUDES)
(BOTH BREATHE HEAVILY)
Kasey?
Hey? Kasey?
Go to him.
I'm gonna take care
of this, okay?
I'll be right behind you.
Go. Go.
(SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING)
KASEY: Dad.
I'm okay.
I'm okay. I'm okay.
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(FIRE ROARING)
(INTENSE RUMBLING)
(GRUNTS)
(MUSIC FADES OUT)
Hi.
Hey.
Is this okay?
Is your dad gonna--
KASEY: It's okay.
(CHUCKLES, GROANS SOFTLY)
(KASEY CHUCKLES) Um.
It's okay. (CHUCKLES)
Sorry. (CHUCKLES)
("PAUSE" PLAYING)
You're waiting for me
To come home
Yet here I am sat across
From you
I am a house
With the lights out
Knock at the door
Bang on the door
Stay awake, stay awake
Struggling to relate
Because I've fallen down
A rabbit hole
And now
I can't give you anything
Give you anything
Do you think
I will make it out alive
Hold tight
For a while
And I'll turn on the lights
(RUMBLING)
(DEMON GROWLS)
You're getting sick
Of the silence
'Cause I forgot
How to talk to you
You're right
For losing your patience
I'm like a photo
I am a photo
Stay awake, stay awake
Struggling to relate
Because I've fallen down
A rabbit hole
And now
I can't give you anything
Give you anything
Do you think
I will make it out alive
Hold tight
For a while
And I'll turn on the lights
Do you think
I will make it out alive
Hold tight
For a while
And I'll turn on the lights
All I can give you
Is cause for concern
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)
(MUSIC CONCLUDING)