A Week Away (2025) s01e06 Episode Script

[musical swirl ♪]
[triumphant music]
[“Jesus Freak” by Sacha Carlson,
originally by DC Talk]
What will people think
when they hear that I'm a Jesus freak?
What will people do
when they find that it's true?
I don't really care
if they label me a Jesus freak
There ain't no disguisin' the truth
[electric guitar solo]
One two
one, two, three, four
Ho, ho
Ho, ho, ho-oh
Ho, ho
Separated, I cut myself clean
From a past that comes back
in my darkest of dreams
Been apprehended by a spiritual force
And a grace that replaced
all the me I've divorced
I saw a man with a tat
on his big fat belly
It wiggled around like marmalade jelly
It took me a while to catch what it said
'Cause I had to match the rhythm
of his belly with my head
"Jesus Saves" is what it raved
In a typical tattoo green
He stood on a box
in the middle of the city
And he claimed he had a dream
What will people think
when they hear that I'm a Jesus freak?
What will people do
when they find that it's true?
I don't really care
if they label me a Jesus freak
There ain't no disguisin' the truth
No, I ain't into hidin'
I ain't into hidin'
the truth
Kamikaze--
No, no, no, no, no,
no, no, there's no Tuba.
How many times do I have to say it?
What is in my head is what's gonna win.
There's no Tuba in my head.
It's just a camp
competition, bro, calm down.
No, it's not just a competition.
It's everything.
And you guys are
all doing it your own way,
but you have to do it my
way in order for this to work.
I'm sorry, Jake, I'm trying to be good.
You're not.
Try harder.
Back to one.
And no Tuba.
Let's go!
I've been on mountain tops ♪
I've been in valley lows ♪
I've been in the between,
nowhere to go ♪
I've felt You all around me ♪
And I felt all alone, but I ♪
I always come home ♪
'Cause I know we were made for this ♪
To jump and fly and fall and then ♪
To lift each other up again ♪
I know we were made for this ♪
To jump and fly and fall ♪
And most of all ♪
To love ♪
To love and to be loved ♪
To love, to love ♪
We were made for this ♪
To love, to love ♪
And to be loved ♪
To love, to love ♪
We were made
for this ♪
[BEEP]
[SIGH]
[gentle music]
I guess you're
probably wondering why I'm here.
Well, when I first got
to camp, I was pretty cynical.
Closed off.
I was just here to
protect the Sunshine Kids and Charlie
from the same pain that I went through.
The pain of finding
out that none of this is real.
Having hope dangled in
front of you just to have it,
yanked away over and over again.
But then I met Lennie,
and she drew me back in.
I believed her.
[sigh] I even started to
believe in God again, too.
That maybe he was out there.
Maybe
Maybe He's got me.
[gentle music continues]
But it was all a lie.
All of it.
I mean, I knew it
from the very beginning.
But I fell for someone,
and she made me forget.
And I'm never gonna forget again.
So I guess I have
you to thank for that, Lennie.
[foreboding music]
He has saved us and
called us to a holy life,
not because of anything we have done,
but because of His own purpose.
And
Grace.
I keep forgetting about Grace.
Hey, listen.
You don't have to be so hard on yourself.
This is a long passage.
If we don't win this challenge,
then we have to win the talent show
to win the whole thing.
And I'd rather not
be in that close of a race.
I mean, even if we lose,
at least we still had an awesome week.
Again!
[upbeat music]
You remember this whole thing.
You totally got this.
Yeah, man.
It's only ten verses. I got this.
Man, how are you?
You doing okay, bro?
Don't want to ruin your vibe, bro.
So am I.
I'm excited to see you
on the stage for the first time.
I think it's going to be so fun.
Hey.
Hey.
Can we talk?
You have my interview.
Isn't that all you need from me?
Can we see you guys inside? Is that cool?
- Yeah.
- Okay. Thank you.
Hey, you're being weird.
[Charlie] Yeah, he's just
been weird today.
Hey.
Okay. What happened?
Project Max.
I know about it.
Yeah, I know about everything.
Okay.
Project Max--
Great, so you know about it.
That's actually all I needed.
Max, listen to me.
I wasn't ever a part of it.
Don't lie to me.
I'm not lying.
You know what, do, do lie to me because
you've been doing it all week.
You may as well just stay consistent.
I've never lied to you.
Okay, you know what's so funny?
Before I came to this camp,
I thought the whole thing was a joke.
I wasn't going to drink
the Kool-Aid. You know that.
And then I met you, and I thought maybe,
just maybe I was wrong.
Maybe I was throwing the baby out
with the bathwater because you had hope.
Your faith, it was real and pure.
But it's also naive.
And I've been holding back because I know
that if I told you all of this,
that your whole
world would fall apart, right?
You don't have to hold back.
I can take it.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
Okay.
[Lennie] Say what you want to say.
I feel sorry for you.
Every day you pray to a God
that could have changed your mom.
Could have saved you from the abuse.
And He didn't.
[Max] And you thank God for that?
I mean, you sound crazy.
[Max] Because it's
really just one of two things.
Either God is a fraud
and He can't change anything.
Or two, and worse, He
can change it and He just won't.
And what's really sad to me is that you
believe He could come in and do something,
but He chooses not to.
Where is He?
Where is God?
The truth is, Lennie, that all you do is
wait for calls that
are never going to come,
trying to convince yourself that there is
some sort of grand plan in it all.
And man, that is just pathetic.
Tell me I'm wrong.
That's what I thought.
Excuse me, I have to go do
the Bible memorization challenge.
[soft music]
[Jack] This grace was given us in
Christ Jesus before the beginning of time,
who has destroyed
death and has brought life
and immortality to
light through the gospel.
Woo!
Wow, that is ten verses.
Very impressive. If I do say so myself.
Okay, Azure Apostles Lennie.
Lennie, you're up.
Lennie?
Um, I'm actually gonna do it.
Oh, Rowe from Sunshine.
Wonderful, go ahead.
Um,
“Jesus wept."
Yeah, Rowe, yeah.
That He did.
Well, okay, that is one verse,
singular for Azure Apostles.
Guys, can I just remind you all that this
is the stuff that really matters?
I promise you, the more verses
you know, the closer you will feel to God.
Okay?
So, with that in mind,
Crimson Angels, you're up.
You may wanna record this.
Luke 15, 11-32.
Wow, that is 21 verses.
That would definitely be
a camp record, Max.
So, um, take it away.
Jesus continued:
“There was a man who had two sons.
The younger one said to his father,
‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’
So he divided his property between them.
“Not long after that, the younger son
got together all he had,
set off for a distant country and there
squandered his wealth in wild living.
After he had spent everything, there was a
severe famine in that whole country,
and he began to be in need.
So he went and hired himself out
to a citizen of that country,
who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.
He longed to fill his stomach
with the pods that the pigs were eating,
but no one gave him anything.
“When he came to his senses, he said,
‘How many of my father’s hired
servants have food to spare,
and here I am starving to death!
I will set out and go back to
my father and say to him:
Father, I have sinned
against heaven and against you.
I am no longer worthy
to be called your son;
make me like one of your hired servants.’
So he got up and went to his father.
“But while he was still a long way off,
his father saw him and was
filled with compassion for him;
he ran to his son,
threw his arms around him
and kissed him.
Um,
He said to His father, um,
He said to Him,
Father, I have sinned
against Heaven and against You.
I'm no longer worthy
to be called Your son.
But the Father said,
to His servants,
Quick, go get the
best robe and put it on him.
Put a ring on his finger
and sandals on his feet.
Get the fattened calf and
kill it for let's feast and celebrate.
For this son of mine
was dead and is alive again.
He was lost and is found.
New record.
[gentle music]
I don't know what happened.
I was just saying the words out loud like
I've done God knows how many times.
I don't know, it just
got me.
The Bible got you?
It does that?
It's a powerful passage, too.
It's false advertising is what it is.
Oof.
I was nine.
I can remember that
because I can still hear her saying,
How can you do this
to him on his ninth birthday?
My dad was leaving.
For real this time.
Mom was falling apart, so
She grabbed the Bible,
put it in my hands,
said to open to that passage and read it.
So I did made her feel better.
But now I'm thinking
that was just the booze
because it made
me feel a whole lot worse.
Just reading over
and over again that God loved
some people so much
that He would run and save them.
Just not me.
Look Max, I really believe that God was--
No, don't do that. What? That
He was right there the whole time?
Yeah, yeah.
Like He made it happen that way?
I was nine, dude.
If He was actually there, I would have
really appreciated His almighty power
to at least help me and Charlie
pick up our black-out
mom off the couch and
put her to bed every night.
He could have stopped that sick,
twisted kid from finding me.
Could He not hear me hiding in the closet
calling for His help, or did He
just not care? Like
Are you seriously
saying that He meant for
all of that to happen,
that it was good for me?
Please tell me something, man.
I'm begging you for real.
Like, I just I
want to walk around with
what you guys got going on, but I just
I don't really think
that I can get there from here.
And whose fault is that?
Mine was an uncle.
Yours was a sick, twisted kid, right?
Mine, uh
Mine was an uncle.
I said those I said those prayers
over and over again. I don't
I don't know why God didn't help me.
I really don't.
I still get angry when I
think about it from time to time.
I'll tell you this.
When I'm face to face with the big man,
that's gonna be one of the first
questions that I ask Him.
Know what I do believe, though?
I believe that if
something happens, whatever
whatever that may be
He will redeem it.
- Yeah?
- Yes.
Max, you do know that
there's nothing I can say that will
just magically convince you
or explain what you've gone through.
That's not how it works.
And I get it. I get it. I get
I get why you would want to,
you know, stick with what you know.
You just gotta ask yourself,
how far has that gotten you?
See, for me, despite
everything I've been through,
I decided to just trust God
and try something new.
And it was the best
decision I've ever made in my life.
I really do think
it could be for you, too.
Before I forget, He had to come back.
the prodical son.
Yes, His Father was there
and ran to Him, but the Son
He had to come back first.
And He was worth saving and celebrating.
So are you.
[“You Say” by Antonio Cipriano & Cozi
Zuehlsdorff, originally by Lauren Daigle]
I keep fighting voices in my mind
that say I'm not enough
Every single lie that tells me
I will never measure up
Am I more than just the sum
of every high and every low?
Remind me once again just who I am
because I need to know
Ooh-oh
You say I am loved
when I can't feel a thing
You say I am strong
and I think I am weak
And you say I am held
and I am falling short
And when I don't belong,
Oh, You say I am Yours
And I believe
I,
oh, I believe
I,
What You say of me
I,
Oh, I believe
Taking all I have,
and now I'm laying it at Your feet
Oh, You have every failure, God,
You have every victory
Ooh-oh
You say I am loved
when I can't feel a thing
You say I am strong
when I think I am weak
You say I am held
when I am falling short
When I don't belong,
oh, You say I am Yours
And I believe
Oh, I believe
What You say of me
I believe
Oh, I believe
[gentle piano music]