Balaraw: Blood Island (2026) s01e05 Episode Script

[Rebecca] I just can't shake this feeling.
This place isn't right. It's evil.
Crisanto has had a harder time of it
than I have.
[flesh squelching]
[Rebecca]
Are you still dreaming about the island?
-[creature growls]
-[Rebecca shrieks]
[Rebecca] We need to find Sabina
and get off this island.
[woman screaming distantly]
Sabina, run!
[Diwa] If you ever want to see your mother
again, you must go now.
-[creature snarling]
-[Ramon] What the fuck are you doing?
[Javier] You think you'll get out of here?
You'll rot on this island
like the rest of us.
-[Diwa] Señor, please.
-Your choice, then.
[gunshots]
-[gasps]
-[groans]
[panting]
-[Sabina] Ma?
-Sabina, we need to go.
[yelps, growling]
[growl echoes]
[gentle music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[woman laughs]
-Is this the man running?
-Ma.
How many times have you shown me
that picture? Who is he anyway?
Okay, Ma. That's him.
Well, then, aren't you bothered by that?
-But, Ma, how can I…
-[cell phone ringing]
You'll understand eventually.
[cell phone continues ringing]
[suspenseful music playing]
DON'T LOOK FOR ME.
I LOVE YOU, SABINA.
[footsteps depart]
[music builds]
[music grows sinister]
[whimper echoing]
[moaning]
[gasps]
[grunts]
[breathing heavily]
[shrieks]
[groans loudly]
[panting]
[old lady] So, you've come back.
Don't you remember me?
The island knew you would return.
But why have you?
For my brother.
It's been so long.
But I know in my heart he's alive.
That is true.
He's alive? Are you sure?
Although, how do you plan
on leaving the island?
The boat. There's no other way.
It's not that easy, you know?
I'm not sure how you did it before
and why the island let you leave.
If I already did it,
well, I can do it again.
[sinister music playing]
[ominous sting]
-[creature growls]
-[inhales deeply]
[exhales heavily]
[ominous music playing]
[Rebecca breathes heavily]
Vedasto.
Brother.
It's me, Becca.
We're getting out of here.
Where's Bryan?
Where's Ding?
Can you hear me?
[man] That old man's your brother?
I've never heard him speak a single word.
They say he has been here the longest,
that the brothers
refused to kill him as punishment.
I don't know
what they're planning to do to him.
[Rebecca] What have they done to you?
-[twigs snap]
-[Rebecca breathes heavily]
[dramatic music plays]
[theme music playing]
BALARAW: BLOOD ISLAND
[Elsa]
Crisanto, what are we gonna eat now?
We've lived perfectly fine
without those brothers before, right?
We'll do so again, you'll see.
[grunts softly]
This is where Mina and I
used to hang out together. [cries]
We will find your wife, Crisanto.
It's been too long.
I'll never find her.
I hope for her…
that she at least died painlessly.
[eerie music playing]
You came here with Sabina.
You think you could escape us?
Well, we outsmarted you.
[Javier] Outsmarted, huh?
Seems to me the smart one
wouldn't be locked up in a cage.
We got inside your house.
We saw the creature, you know,
the one you tied to the wall in there?
Does everybody else know
that you have that creature
hidden in there like a slave?
Do you all know that?
They have no idea, right?
Vedasto!
-[Arturo grunts]
-Sarge! Sarge! Stop! Sarge!
-[groans]
-Sarge!
Stop hitting him! Let me go!
[groans]
[Bulak grunts angrily]
Sarge!
[Bulak grunts, breathes heavily]
Sarge?
Sarge, you okay?
Sarge, let me see.
[grunts loudly]
[straining]
[Rebecca groaning]
Just hold on, Ma. I'll get us out of here.
[Crisanto] Señor.
Señor, was she telling the truth?
Huh?
That you're hiding a creature.
Everyone who turned into those creatures,
we buried them all, didn't we?
Not everyone.
Crisanto, no one knows
what actually took your wife.
Tell you what, you come by my house later,
and I'll bring you in.
You can check every corner of my house,
and let's see if you find anything.
You don't want to let yourself believe
in the crazy stories of these outsiders.
Don't be so gullible.
See for yourself anytime you want to.
Forgive me, Señor.
[grunts softly]
Andres served this island for a long time.
Served us all.
He put his soul
into the work that he did every day
to make sure we could live
a peaceful life here.
[ominous music playing]
[breath trembling] Gather close.
[sniffles]
It's been so long since I lost…
a relative.
A family member, a loved one.
[sobs softly]
I've forgotten the pain of the sorrow.
[sobs]
The pain of grief and loss.
It's almost too much to bear.
Now I find
the thing that hurts most of all
is my anger.
Andres was taken from us far too soon.
Those responsible…
They will be found,
and they will pay.
[sniffles]
[music builds]
-[grunts]
-[flesh squelches]
[sobs softly]
[flesh squelching]
[breath trembling]
[Ramon] Seems like
you were getting all soft on us.
We shouldn't have done that to Andres.
We should have buried him.
Are we no different to them?
If you had just been more careful,
we could have avoided
this whole situation.
Are you blaming me?
When I think that you were there…
And you should have done more.
It was your responsibility
to make sure that nothing--
[Rafael] Stop! This is pointless.
The most important thing right now is that
we find those who are truly responsible.
We cannot let our life on this island
be damaged by those outsiders.
This mother and daughter.
I'll take care of that.
You have one last chance.
You bring Diwa, Sabina,
and Rebecca back home alive!
Why?
Are you sure that woman is your daughter?
And you still believe
Rebecca would come back?
Diwa is a traitor.
We should just kill them all!
Javier, think about it.
If we kill them, our people will lose
even more trust in us.
They think we'll kill
everyone we disagree with.
No! Too many have already died.
That's enough!
[exhales shakily]
[strains, panting]
[creature screeches distantly]
[continues panting]
[sinister music playing]
[man] All of us, we want to be free.
But you two.
You insisted on coming here willingly.
What is the matter with you?
What is it that they did to him?
[man] I heard they drove him mad.
He only listens to the Cardomas now,
as far as I know.
Sarge?
I'm a good friend of Rebecca's.
She came a long way to get here.
To save you.
And me…
I came here to save her.
That's the whole tale.
It was hell getting here.
She went through hell
just to get back here to see you.
She told me so many stories about you.
She said
that you were a big reason
as to why she wanted to study
all the islands in the Philippines,
especially all the unexplored ones.
She also said
that you're the one who would protect her,
that you beat up a guy once
for harassing her.
[chuckles] That you beat him real good.
And once,
back when you were just kids,
your parents just up and left you guys.
And it was you who took care of her.
You were always there for her.
That's how she remembers it.
She thought it was only right
to come back for you.
[pensive music playing]
[foreboding music playing]
[breathes deeply]
[foreboding music continues]
[music builds]
[creaking]
[gasps]
[breathing heavily]
[Arturo] Don't come near me!
Don't you dare come near me!
Uncle Art?
-[Bulak] Sabina? Sabina!
-Bulak?
Hey! Hey! Where are they?
[breathing heavily]
Where are you?
Bulak!
Uncle! [breathing heavily]
[winces]
[groans]
[breathing heavily]
Where's Crisanto?
Señor, I can't find Crisanto at all.
Where is that bastard?
[guard] Somebody might have found
Señor Ramon's daughter.
-You stay and guard the camp.
-Yes, Señor.
You two follow me.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Rafael snoring]
[snoring continues]
[clears throat]
[wood creaking]
[metal rattling]
[creature snarls]
[gulps]
Mina, is that you?
Mina.
[Crisanto breathing shakily]
[Crisanto whimpers]
[breathing heavily, gulps]
-[Crisanto grunts]
-[Mina howls]
[melancholy music playing]
[Crisanto sobbing softly]
[Crisanto grunts]
[Crisanto sobbing]
[sinister music playing]
[male voice] Sabina.
Wake up.
Get up, Sabina.
[foreboding music playing]
Sabina.
My daughter.
The waves have brought you here
for a reason.
This is where you belong.
[creaking]
My blood…
and yours…
are one.
Now that you're home…
the time has come
for this blood to be shared by all.
We will multiply
and conquer.
One must remain. Another must sacrifice.
Are you prepared?
-[gasps]
-[creature snarls]
[breathing heavily]
Where are we?
Who are you?
Don't worry yourself.
The Cardomas don't come into this area.
They don't come in here
because they know I don't answer to them.
They know it.
I'm a separate person.
I refuse to live out my days as a slave
like the rest of them.
Why haven't you left the island, then?
Nobody leaves this island, my girl.
But your mother seemed able to.
Is she still alive?
She's on the beach.
She's badly hurt,
but we can still make it.
I should be getting back to her.
You can rest a while.
She'll be safe if she's there.
You and your mother are the same.
Yeah. So I've heard.
You're both close to this island.
Not just close to it
but connected to it.
Tell me, does the island talk to you too?
[sinister music playing]
[man groans]
[man] Diwa.
Diwa.
[water dripping]
[man breathes shakily]
[creature growls]
[whimpers]
-[creature snorts]
-[man breathing shakily]
-[wings flutter]
-[whimpers]
[screeches]
[screams]
[scream echoes]
One must remain.
Another must sacrifice.
You still don't seem to understand.
Why do you think
your mother lasted on this island
for so long?
[scoffs] I don't know.
It's the island.
The island itself
is protecting your mother.
She has a connection to this place
that none of us have,
stronger even than mine.
A connection?
My grandmother told me
that the first person who set foot here
was a woman.
[ominous music playing]
She was shipwrecked too,
like you and your mother.
The first people she gave birth to
became the first people of the island.
They were our ancestors.
You already know
there is something different about us,
the people of this island.
Different. Not wrong.
But to outsiders like the Cardomas,
they may see our differences
as dangerous or unnatural.
But whose job is it to decide who's wrong?
And who can decide who is right?
You tell me who.
Transformations have been rare
ever since Don Ramon and his brothers
have arrived.
They seek to cleanse
our contaminated blood.
Using the holy meat.
All of those who end up here,
all those who die or are dying,
we eat them instead.
It's the only way
to stop us from transforming…
What does all this
have to do with me and my mother?
Sabina.
Have you been listening, child?
Your mother is only the second woman
to come to this island.
-She became one with the--
-I think I've heard enough. I'm…
Did your mother ever tell you
who your father was?
Didn't you feel it in your blood
when you first met Ramon?
-Or when you first landed on this island?
-No, no.
The island, it called to your mother.
The island has brought you to this world.
And now the daughter has returned.
Don't you see?
Don't you understand now?
[Rebecca breathing heavily]
[winces]
Ma.
Wait a second. Let's treat this first.
-Tela gave this to you, didn't she?
-Yeah.
[groans]
[Arturo] That looks like my knife.
Yeah, it is.
You didn't tell me you had a knife.
If I hadn't seen it fall out of your shoe,
I never would have known.
I can't stand not doing anything
to get us out of here.
Help me out here.
Can you see any guards?
No, it's clear. Let's go.
-Try kicking it. Come on.
-Okay.
[grunts]
It's working. Come on, help me.
-[grunts]
-[Arturo] No, wait. Let's do it together.
-One, two, three.
-Two, three.
-[Arturo grunts]
-[Bulak gasps]
Okay, now I'm promoting you to captain.
Good job, Cap.
-[Arturo] Come on. Come on, let's go.
-[Bulak] Okay.
Let's go, Cap. Come on, hurry.
-Hey, come on.
-No, Cap, don't worry about him.
[guard 1] Hey!
What are you doing?
-[Arturo] Just wait.
-Get back in there!
Wait a second, son.
-Get back in there now!
-Just wait.
Right away!
Kid, calm down.
We're not here to hurt you, okay?
Don't come any closer, okay?
-I told you to get back! [yelps]
-Stop!
-[Arturo grunts]
-[guard 1 yelps]
Calm down, okay? Yeah.
[suspenseful music playing]
[footsteps approaching]
-[guard 2] No, wait!
-[guard 1 groans]
[Arturo] Back up now, motherfuckers!
[whimpering]
-[splutters] Please help me.
-Back.
[guard 1 groaning]
-[gunshot]
-[guard 1 shrieks]
-[Bulak] Cap?
-[weapon clatters]
[shrieks]
Cap?
[melancholy music playing]
Cap!
Cap, no.
Cap! Cap! Cap! Cap!
Cap, don't close your eyes.
Don't close them.
[Bulak crying]
[whimpers] Come on. [cries]
Cap.
[crying loudly]
Cap!
[music builds]
Come on. Cap! Cap!
[music fades]
[theme music playing]