Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches (2023) s02e05 Episode Script

1
What did you do to them?
I can't pull them out without Lasher.
Albrecht took Lasher.
Trying to find out where.
That blood came from
somebody in your family.
Something is happening to the house.
If this whole house falls apart,
then what happens to Daphne and Jojo?
- What is she doing?
- She's in there with Julien.
He bound himself to it
before his death.
I have to pull her out.
You can't leave on your own.
You need someone to throw you a rope.
Taltos! Taltos!
I have to go into the Victrola.
Then I'll be your rope.
[STATIC DRONING]
[OPERATIC MUSIC]
♪
[EERIE WHOOSHING]
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[RATTLING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Hello?
Julien?
[FLOOR CREAKING]
Julien?
- [RODENT SCREECHES]
- [GASPS]
[SCUTTLING]
♪
Julien Mayfair,
I've come to you because
the family is in trouble.
Two Mayfairs are trapped in a thrall.
So can you help me?
Julien, please.
♪
[GASPS]
[INHALES DEEPLY]
♪
Cold.
Yeah.
OK.
♪
Thirsty.
What?
I'm thirsty.
Tell me where Lasher is.
If I have him, then I can save them.
Julien!
Julien, where did
Albrecht take Lasher?
Tell me.
Hey, Julien!
♪
Moira, throw me the rope.
[OPERATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
- Turn off the music.
- Already?
Yep. She wants me to pull her out.
Are you sure?
I felt it in my chest, like you said.
Doses mortua terra redi.
Veni in corpus mortale tuum.
[GASPING]
- You all right?
- Yeah.
Well?
He was old and confused,
napping in front of the fireplace
like a house cat.
I mean, I couldn't
get anywhere with him.
So I just I left.
I mean, it had to be a performance.
But I, like, had no way
to get him to talk.
I had no leverage.
That's me talking.
Oh, Rowan.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
I was so looking forward
to a much longer
conversation with you.
Sadly, we will have
so little time together now.
What did you do?
I didn't do it.
You did.
You made a rash decision based on fear
and limited information.
No, you tricked me.
Not a trick.
A rule.
In this room,
you need to ask my permission
to leave the Victrola,
or you might leave something behind.
What do you mean?
♪
[GASPS]
I feel so strange.
Your first time out of the Victrola.
Coming out is hard.
That's me?
Half of you.
But which half?
Let's get you some water.
Huh?
That always helps.
Sakes alive,
that tiny hourglass is
difficult to read.
40-some minutes, I'd say.
Until what?
Until you die.
♪
Moira!
Cortland!
Dolly Jean!
Throw me a rope.
Hey!
Hey, I'm still in here!
[EERIE MUSIC]
[VOICES WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]
♪
[VOCALIZING]
♪
[CLICKING]
[SCRATCHING]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
[DOOR RATTLING]
You really think
I'd have made it that easy
for you to leave this place?
I'd be a fool not to try.
And you are not a fool.
This much I can see.
[DART THUDS]
Yeah, but how do I
how do I deal with him?
I need a better tactic
before I go back in.
You're here in one piece.
You're not going back in.
He knows where Lasher is,
and I didn't get a thing from him.
You sure?
Couldn't you tell anything
about where you were?
I mean, it was a pub.
A pub?
That's different.
From the décor, it was like
it was like a a pub
in in Scotland.
Well, that makes sense.
See, the first Mayfairs came
from there, from Donnelaith.
It's a mythic place, of course,
not on any map.
You've been there.
No.
No, I haven't.
Yeah.
Yeah, you have, when you were a kid.
Moira, cher, you are way
wide of the mark on this one.
No, your father took you.
How can you see things
in my mind that I can't see?
Memories lead to other memories,
like threads tied to each other.
But I don't know, this one is
it's, like, severed off
from the others.
Albrecht.
So he has the power to erase memories.
It's the kind of thing my father
might have asked him to do.
Your father didn't need
to use Albrecht.
He had his own method
for obliterating memories.
I sat upstairs with him
the whole time he was dying.
And as a distraction, he'd gamble
call up bookies, place bets on horses.
He'd lose.
They'd come to collect.
He'd serve them an elixir
disguised as a tea
that had them wondering
why they'd even come
to this house in the first place.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Where are you going?
My father's spells are upstairs.
I want to know what he did to me.
Wait, I'll go with you.
Ah, ah, ah.
Still feeling the effects
of the Victrola.
I'll get you something to eat.
You go and put your feet up
in the parlor.
I bet that she can tell
something's wrong.
[CHUCKLES] We shall see.
[DART THUDS]
Hey, we're gonna find Lasher, OK?
It's not hopeless.
You can't think like that.
You can read my mind now?
Huh.
Do you think that's weird?
Yeah, maybe your walls are
coming down,
sort of like this house is
coming down.
It's gonna be OK.
If Julien erased Cortland's memories
of Scotland,
there's gotta be a reason why.
Yeah.
My grandmother had early onset.
And my mom missed her so much that
she used to take me
to the nursing home
and have me go through her past.
That's so sad.
Meemaw's memory threads were frayed,
sort of like Cortland's.
So you want to do that for Cortland?
Yeah.
The doctor put her on a lot of drugs.
Maybe that helps?
There's a bottle
of Deirdre's pills upstairs.
Yeah, let's try it.
Let me grab 'em.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[SIGHS]
♪
That's right.
You're not yourself.
Trust what you're feeling.
You can get me out.
Can you hear me?
Throw me a rope.
Throw me a rope!
♪
Fuck.
[DART THUDS]
[TENSE MUSIC]
Are they right?
Did you really wipe Cortland's memory?
♪
[DART THUDS]
Wouldn't you have?
I mean, maybe, but he's not my son.
Is this really the conversation
you want to have before you die?
A chat about my child-rearing?
No.
I want to talk about my son, Lasher.
Oh, little mama,
you only knew him briefly.
Maybe.
But he loved me best.
I was 12 the first time he came to me.
I was his lover and then his mother.
I gave him a body.
I did too.
Mine.
I could tell you about
the many times he used it.
[LAUGHS]
Actually, I couldn't.
I don't remember a thing.
I'd wake up in the Quarter
with bloody knuckles
and a pocket full of portrait strips.
He loved getting our portrait taken.
He was practicing, of course, for now,
for having a physical body.
Do you know what he's done
with that body?
Tell me.
You don't have a guess?
How many are dead thus far?
I I can't keep track of everything
from my little hidey hole.
He must have some sort
of goal in mind.
Otherwise, he wouldn't be
behaving this way.
But maybe you're right.
Maybe I never really knew him at all.
How naive do you think I am?
Who is Albrecht
delivering him to in Scotland?
- Ooh.
- Come on.
You might as well tell me.
I mean, I'm gonna be dead soon anyway.
You have put together far too much
of this than I like already.
Now I know there's a way out.
Otherwise, you'd have no
problem telling me everything.
Perhaps there is.
But you will never discover it.
I've got a half hour.
Not you.
You.
So it's up to her to get me out?
A few herbs brewed
into a tea, a slip of paper.
How did that do so much damage?
What's that?
It's Thorazine.
Thorazine?
Well, now, surely, there
there must be another way.
I'm only giving you a half dose.
Hello? Jojo, where is everyone?
It's gonna be OK.
[SIGHS]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
[GATE CREAKING]
Ooh, who's this?
I mean, if you've been
watching over the house
for this long,
you should already know.
I bet you'd like to talk to him.
[BLOWS]
♪
Why did you do that?
Because I can.
[SIGHS]
♪
Rowan!
Rowan?
You expecting somebody?
Get started without me.
OK. Get rid of him.
Look, this is a nightmare
for me too, OK?
But whatever it takes
to get Jojo and Daphne back.
Just
[CREAKING]
Rowan?
[SHATTERING]
[GASPS]
- Hey.
- Hey.
I didn't hear you knock.
I didn't knock.
The the door just
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it does that.
Oh.
Did I mention the house
is in terrible shape?
[CHUCKLES]
I thought you were
headed back to New York.
Wasn't that the plan?
Uh, it was.
But can I can I show you something?
It's still not a great time.
It's actually worse.
I have family upstairs.
This is about your family
I I mean, kind of.
Uh
it's about you.
[SOFT MUSIC]
OK.
Uh
let's talk in here.
♪
[RECORD SCRATCHING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[SIGHS]
So what is it?
Uh
when you left the hotel,
I was worried.
Uh
I, uh, ran your DNA.
How?
Lipstick on the coffee cup.
That's illegal
and unethical.
I know, I know. Just just look.
Look.
[SOFT MUSIC]
You you have
four extra chromosomes,
each entirely distinct.
And those are the same
extra chromosomes
that were
that were in the blood sample,
though though that
wasn't your blood.
♪
No, it wasn't.
You asked me to to compare
that sample to to primate DNA.
But you never actually told me
what animal it was from.
And so I I guess the question I
I want to ask is, uh [LAUGHS]
Wh what are you?
[LAUGHS]
You stay here.
Hey, Dolly Jean,
can you make Julien's elixir?
Excuse me?
I have a colleague here, a geneticist.
A few days ago,
I sent him Lasher's blood.
Why would you do that?
I was looking for answers.
From science?
Yeah.
And I got them.
And now I just I really need him
to forget all about it.
Why, yes.
Yes, you do.
[GRUNTS]
Thank you.
You're not going
to go through with it.
Of course I am.
I mean, it's the right thing to do.
Yes, protect the Mayfair
secrets at all costs.
You're learning, my dear.
Dolly Jean says you like to gamble.
I miss it more than breathing.
Oh, good.
'Cause I have a wager for you.
If I erase him,
you let me out of this Victrola.
And if not, then I will
stay here with you.
[TENSE MUSIC]
And what could I possibly
have to gain from such a wager?
♪
Hey.
I know how you like your whiskey.
Rowan, I'm sorry.
It was unethical,
and I violated your privacy.
And then I I charged over here
demanding an explanation
like it was owed to me.
- It's OK.
- Here.
These this is the only copy.
And I will delete everything, I swear.
Just stop.
Stop.
You remember that ER rotation
we had in our third year?
And it'd be midnight,
and the two of us
would show up for a shift.
And before we'd look at the charts,
you'd point to a patient on a gurney,
and I'd look him up and down,
and I'd say
diverticulitis
or renal artery stenosis
or a blood clot in the lung.
You were always right.
And you always paid up
20 bucks.
And at the time, you know, I
I thought it was just
intuition.
What else would it be?
[GLASSES CLINK]
♪
I can see inside people.
I have the power of biological sight.
What are you
Lark
I'm a witch.
♪
It's true.
I really am.
♪
What are you doing?
You've lost your mind.
Hey. Hello?
Throw me a rope.
Get me out of here.
Even if you could touch it,
what good would it do?
I'm trying to distract her from him.
I don't think that's possible.
You want to tell him
all about yourself,
about who you truly are.
You love him.
Hairline fracture on the clavicle.
I got body-checked into the boards
at a Bantam hockey game.
Um left forearm.
What's up there?
A souvenir from
a distracted driver in Rio.
OK, yeah, I'm I'm convinced.
Wow.
I need to prove it to you.
And I like showing off.
Let's see.
♪
I know what you're looking for,
and it's lower than that.
♪
Ruptured disk at L3.
Unbelievable.
[CHUCKLES]
Are you OK?
Yeah. It's weird.
I don't normally
get tired like this
usually only when I use his powers.
Whose?
It's a pity.
He's attractive, your Lark.
He's a good person.
Perhaps you'll die
in his arms, at least.
That would be a romantic end.
[GLASSES CLINK]
[TENSE MUSIC]
You talk a lot about love.
So what's it like for you?
Do you give yourself away entirely?
Or do you hold part of yourself back?
Are you trying to appeal
to my sympathies,
hoping I'll succumb
to my sense of nostalgia,
free you and rescue your little Lark
from his imminent heartache?
If so, it won't work.
Were you and Albrecht lovers?
You will never know what it's like
to forget yourself completely.
So was it Albrecht
who took you to Donnelaith
on a romantic getaway?
Donnelaith is not some
charming tourist village.
Donnelaith is an ancient stronghold
with a castle built on land
blessed by pagan spirits.
No lover took me there.
Who did then?
Your great-grandmother.
♪
Voila.
♪
Marguerite.
She was a student of the old magic.
She taught me about astrology,
about runes, pendulums,
and how to absorb power
from the cycles of the planets.
She taught me how,
at the altar of divinity,
to honor the original deities.
♪
The Taltos?
Right?
Yes.
♪
So you were the one
who ripped the pages
about the Taltos
out of Marguerite's journal
because you didn't want
anyone to know what she knew,
except, of course, for Albrecht.
You really are quite clever.
But cleverness without
conviction is worth nothing.
You hardly would have
impressed Marguerite.
Now you're just insulting me.
Marguerite chose me.
For what?
She wouldn't have chosen you!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
I don't know.
I don't think it
should feel like this.
Flu symptoms could be a side effect,
as well as excessive sweating.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But but should my heart
be racing like this?
Oh, God.
I would be worried
if you weren't immortal.
Now sit down.
Yeah, but I don't
remember anything yet.
Yeah, you do, OK?
I can already feel
your mind letting go.
Sit.
We need to figure out
where Donnelaith is.
Close your eyes.
I'm going to say a word.
And I want you to just say
the first thing
that comes to your mind, OK?
OK.
Scotland.
Shoes.
Shoes?
Yeah, I can see them
a single long strap,
chestnut brown.
How old were you?
10, 11.
And what were they for?
For my trip with Father to
to Donnelaith.
There it is.
Do you remember a church?
Maybe a post office or, like, a pub?
No.
The only thing I can remember
are the shoes.
So just picture the shoes.
[CLANGING]
[PLANE ENGINE ROARING]
Now, what airport were you at?
Do you remember?
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
No.
OK, where did you see the shoes next?
On a on a road.
They're dirty.
I wiped them on the grass.
[CHUCKLES]
What?
I'm in manure
wet, warm manure.
Why would you be smiling about that?
And then beyond it, there's a girl.
She's holding something.
It's a sheep.
So I reach out.
I touch it.
She smiled at me.
- Ugh
- What? What's wrong?
Who is that boy?
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
Why am I so afraid of the boy?
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
So this being, your son, Lasher,
- you have his
- His powers, yeah.
And I can heal because of him.
Like at Mayfair Medical,
there was a girl,
and she was terminal with a tumor.
And you were able to shrink it?
Yes. I destroyed it.
Like, gone completely gone,
with no surgery.
But my power is bound to him,
so I can only use it
when he's close by.
How far away is he?
In Scotland, maybe?
I mean, we're really not sure.
Once I find him,
then I can free Daphne
and and, um
and my sister.
Uh, my sister.
Jojo.
My sister's name is Jojo.
[SOFT MUSIC]
I'm really glad you're here.
♪
That's not me in there, is it?
As I've said, it's part of you.
Which part?
Let me ask you a question.
Does all of this make you feel angry?
No.
No, I'm not angry.
I don't feel anything.
I'm all intellect,
and she's just
a big jumble of feelings.
[LAUGHS]
Head and heart.
It's intriguing how people split
along well-worn fault lines.
I wish there was some kind
of way that I could help you.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Actually, do you do you have
any more of his blood?
No. Why?
Some hair, fingernails,
or like, an, old Band-Aid?
Doesn't she get it?
He's gonna make a concentrate.
What what is that?
He can take Lasher's blood,
and he can make the cells multiply.
Well, that's fascinating.
It's genius.
It might give me enough power
to save Jojo and Daphne.
So do you really think that this could
work as if he's close by?
We can try.
There's some things
I would need first.
Let's go look.
Wow.
Yeah.
Ah, OK.
Well, this this tracks
with the Rowan Fielding that I know.
Yeah, it was my grandmother's.
And these, these were his.
How old?
Last week.
How do we get to Mayfair Medical?
Walk, drive, streetcar?
Why would we go there?
I have to crack open
the teeth, scrape out the pulp,
the dentin.
Ah!
She's never gonna get me out of here.
She's not thinking straight.
[LAUGHS] No, she's not.
You're treating me like I'm an enemy.
But we should be allies.
I know that you care about
what happens to the family.
You're right.
Family is all I care about.
So then let me out.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[SAW WHIRRING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
[SCRAPING]
There you go.
Thanks.
Ah! Ah!
Shit.
Damn it. Ah.
Here, use this.
Oh, my God.
Is it bad?
It's gonna need stitches.
Ah.
- Oh, shit.
- Mm.
Or maybe not.
If this concentrate works,
shouldn't you be able to heal me?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Your mind will not move off this boy.
- Who is he?
- We have to stop.
No!
We don't have anything.
We have Scotland and shoes.
And we have Jojo and Daphne stuck
in a house that's gonna collapse.
So I need you to pull it
together for me, all right?
I don't know.
The airport. Is he at the airport?
The airport, Cortland!
Well, yes, I
I can see the parking lot.
And there's two women in a Jeep.
They're kissing my father.
He tells me to ride
in the back with
with Ian.
The boy's name is Ian.
OK, Ian.
Where do you see him next?
There's a rock,
and it's shaped like a table.
There's sheep everywhere.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
[SHEEP BLEATING]
How about a little wager?
[BLADES SCRAPING]
♪
Who killed the sheep?
[FLIES BUZZING]
♪
Why are you ashamed?
You were a kid from the city
who couldn't kill sheep.
But Ian didn't stop there.
♪
She was just a kid.
Not to Ian.
He wanted to win.
♪
[SOBBING]
And my father was betting
on which of us
could better please the old
gods, me or my brother.
♪
Ian's your brother.
Ian's my brother.
Yeah, my brother.
You won't let me go
because you don't care
about the family in New Orleans
because you have a family in Scotland,
and that's where Lasher's going.
Ian would love you.
Too bad you'll never meet him.
♪
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
OK, show me the wound.
Oh, shit.
Oh, my God.
Uh, here goes.
[PANTING]
♪
It should work, right?
Your cells responding to his?
♪
Oh, shit.
It's not enough.
It's not gonna work.
I'm sorry.
I can't do it.
Here.
There's a sewing kit upstairs.
♪
I thought he'd run for the door
or think I was nuts,
but he didn't do either.
How much did you tell this man?
Nothing I can't erase.
And it was worth it,
because now I know
how he feels about me
for the next time I see him.
Sweetheart, this elixir
he won't just forget today.
He's going to forget every moment
you've ever spent together.
He won't remember you.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
It's the right thing to do
for the family.
♪
Use that blueberry ink
and write your name
on that slip of paper.
You're not complete.
You need me.
Can't you feel that?
♪
So have you been to Scotland?
Scotland?
I haven't, no.
I'm owed vacation days.
I could fly out
and help you find Lasher.
Right.
You OK?
Yeah.
I just really, really
don't want to hurt you.
It's never stopped you before.
It's it's fragrant.
Yeah, it's my aunt's brew.
Is is everyone
in your family witchy?
- Whoa! Oh!
- [GLASS SHATTERS]
What the hell was that?
Nothing.
Rowan, what's what is happening?
You have to go.
My family is gonna
Uh, Rowan.
Um, hi.
We need to talk to you right now.
- OK.
- OK.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- Oh, my God.
- Ugh.
Hey!
- What's come over you?
- Jesus.
I don't know.
Finding it hard to find
a word to form a sentence?
I'm I'm
I'm
Your intellect is dissolving.
It won't be long now.
♪
What next?
It won't hurt.
You'll simply cease to be.
I don't know!
I don't know!
I don't feel right.
Do I seem like I've been different?
Yeah, yeah,
from the moment I walked in.
Hey, you have been wide open to me
since you came out of the Victrola.
♪
I am going to miss you.
I have enjoyed our time together
far more than I had expected.
This will help.
It's an old family recipe.
I need to help her.
I'm not having a drink with you.
Well, you all said that
he would do something to me in there.
What if he did?
Of course he did something to you,
because that's what he does.
He steals a part of you.
There's just part of me missing,
like I don't feel right.
♪
The hourglass whatever's happened,
you have to stop it now.
I have to get myself back.
I have to be my own rope.
♪
Dulcis soror, mortua terra redi.
♪
[CHANTING]
I will have that drink.
Family recipe.
OK.
[CHANTING]
♪
Kilbride.
[CHANTING]
♪
Kilbride.
[CHANTING]
Bon voyage, ma cher.
♪
Rowan?
You OK?
[SIGHS]
Will you come with us to Kilbride?
Wait, that's it.
Kilbride.
♪
You said it would
feel like home, but I
I don't feel anything.
Mm.
Well, give it some time.
It was your home once.
Maybe it'll start coming back to you.
[KNOCKING]
That'll be our host.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Ian, old man.
Ashlar.
♪
I always knew this day would come.
But I can't tell you
how glorious it is
to see it arrive,
to see you before me.
What did you call me?
Ashlar.
Welcome home. [LAUGHS]
May I?
He's taller than
I thought he would be.
Why have you brought me here?
To nurture you.
To venerate you.
You have what you need.
I see the clothes we got you fit.
Are you comfortable?
Have you eaten?
Please, eat.
Anything you need,
you just tell my boys outside.
[CHUCKLES]
Albrecht, a word, my good man.
No. No, don't go.
Don't worry.
Ask for anything you need.
Everyone is here to serve you.
♪
You'll have to gain his trust.
He'll be difficult to contain until
he has some confidence in you.
So how long until the ceremony?
[BLADE SWISHES]
[GURGLING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
ROWAN: There it is.
Let's go meet them.
Welcome home. I'm your Uncle Ian.
I don't understand why I'm here.
MAN: You're Saint Ashlar.
He who comes again.
- We have to leave now.
- What?
This is a trap.
Hello, Ciprien. Welcome to Amsterdam.
I really don't want you to leave me.
He keeps us safe from Satan.
Join us!
♪