The Terror (2018) s03e04 Episode Script

1
Previously on "Devil in Silver"
A malevolent presence resides
in this hospital.
It is the devil.
Patients were making
some thinly veiled accusations.
Dr. Walter makes him do it.
I can't really even see it,
but I can feel it watching me.
- He got a jump on me.
- Who?
My roommate thinks it's the devil.
As in develle?
Or do you mean Ahriman?
Did he show you?
He showed me.
He showed me it's either him or us.
[Breathing heavily]
♪
[Loud bang]
[Gasps]
Dr. Walter: Come in, Dory.
♪
♪
I'm glad you came by
rather than me having to send for you.
I figured you heard
what happened at Sal's.
I hear everything.
Sit.
[Sighs]
♪
The patients were
non-compliant for days.
Completely unmedicated.
Well, lots of people
don't take their
meds every day and they're fine.
Throwing away years of regimen
for a moment of pleasure.
Who convinced you to do that, Dory?
Nobody made me do anything.
I make my own choices.
[Chuckling]
Since when?
I know what's best for you, Dory.
I have for a long time.
Tell me, who was it?
Who inspired you?
I have to say, he intrigues me.
Why don't you send him over here?
I need to see him in my office for a
for a session.
He won't come.
I don't like your tone, Dory.
What else is new?
Perhaps the situation is
worse than I thought.
He's a bad influence, Dory.
He's causing you to regress.
Refusing care, off your meds.
Ohh.
Contradicting me.
[Crying] Oh, no.
I need you compliant, Dory.
I rely on your cooperation.
So now let's get
your mind right again.
[Crying] No, no, no.
No, no, no.
[Crying continues]
No.
No, no.
No.
[Crying continues]
Esther: Mummy, sit
so I can look at that eye before work.
It's superficial.
You should be able to see that,
Nurse Esther.
Well, at my hospital, a real hospital,
we would examine the thing anyway,
make sure you're okay,
and not send you home with ice.
Sit. [Sucks teeth]
Put your shoes on now.
We're leaving in 10 minutes.
Girl: Yes, Mummy.
- Oh!
- Ohh.
You see?
It's not superficial. It's painful.
This girl thinks she knows
nursing better than me.
You know what I think?
- You should retire.
- Mm-hmm.
You worry about your job,
not about what I do with mine.
[Sighs]
My patients are all sicker
than anyone
in this family will ever be.
Hope you pray.
They don't pay you enough
to risk what you do.
It's not about the pay.
It's the people.
Those families, they drop them off.
Some never to return.
Not even a visit.
There's one man, a very old man.
No one in his life.
He has been at New Hyde
since before I started.
Never had a visitor.
Doesn't matter,
because every hour of every day,
he is locked up alone
delusional.
At times, he gets violent.
Mummy, you sound scared.
This is what you all don't understand.
That man, depraved as he is,
has never laid a hand on me.
He senses the Lord in me.
He attacks others, not me.
He will die in that forsaken place.
How can I leave a man like this?
On Judgment day,
how can I say to the Lord,
"I left your people"?
Nah. They need me.
Yes, but we need you, too, Mummy.
What if something happens
to you in there?
Need me for what?
To nanny and babysit,
pack lunches and clean up?
Uh
I am getting my coat.
I am taking the long bus ride to work.
A job I will continue
until I decide otherwise.
♪
Pepper: So the guy
recognized me, right,
from my old band, Rhino.
We were kind of thrash.
I was a drummer. I was pretty good.
A lot of people said
I was as fast as Dave Lombardo.
And, like, he put a hand
on Loochie and I'm like,
"He can't do that.
I got to protect the kid."
Yeah, you're a real American hero.
Yeah. So
So I tapped him on the shoulder
and, like, took him down.
And then he came back at me
and I, like, threw a hit in and then
Whoa. Josephine: It's lumpia.
My mother and I made them
for all of you.
What's the occasion?
I just thought it might
raise everyone's spirits.
Has she been like this for a while?
All morning.
You okay, Dory?
Dory!
♪
Maybe she shouldn't be
part of the plan.
We don't even have a plan.
Besides, Dory knows
the entire unit cold.
We need her.
What the hell's wrong with her anyway?
From time to time,
she returns to this state.
We can't rely on her.
Shh, shh, shh. Okay. Alright.
The nurses are on us
like flies on shit.
Alright? We'll talk about this later.
Dory knows the hospital,
but does she know
how to kill the beast? What is that?
[Clears throat]
The "Number of the Beast."
The The Iron Maiden song.
You know, it's like, uh
What did I see? Can I believe? ♪
That what I saw last night was real ♪
And not just fantasy ♪
You know that song?
I prefer Celine Dion.
Hmm.
[Whispers] Dory.
Josephine: Just gonna set this here.
[Door buzzes, opens]
♪
♪
♪
[Indistinct conversations, laughter]
[Applause]
♪
♪
Are you crazy?
Look at this place. This is chaos.
Completely out of compliance.
I didn't know Josephine
was gonna bring outside food.
They're already eating.
Just let them eat.
And no phones on the unit.
You can't be grabbing my ear
[Clears throat]
I thought I made myself clear
when I told you all
that we were eyes on,
all protocols in full effect.
- I just wa
- That means
no cellphones on the unit.
[Silverware clangs softly]
I'm sorry.
When did New Hyde start
serving egg rolls for lunch?
- It's lumpia.
- Lumpia.
♪
Metal forks?
Metal forks?!
Jesus! My mom packed it.
- Excuse me.
- Sorry.
Excuse me. Can I
It's nowhere near enough.
It's a start.
[Running footsteps]
♪
Director Cleave is on his way.
Josephine: Who?
He's from the review board.
Seems that our favorite pizza place
officially lodged a complaint
with the hospital.
And I have a feeling that Dr. Badger
might have been sending word
up the channel.
Uh, w-why do you say that?
'Cause he's gone.
He hasn't scheduled another book club.
Hasn't invoiced us for the last one,
won't answer his phone.
And when I visited the session,
he looked at me with daggers.
But his book cart is still there.
How could he just vanish
without a word?
Well, what do you think?
You think he's hiding
in my fucking shoe?
When is he coming? Director Cleave?
They don't tell you when
the hammer is coming down.
No, you only know when it hits you.
Look, the board
hardly needs an excuse
to close us down.
What does that mean?
It means the man could come,
turn off the lights,
put a lock on the front door,
and our jobs vanish.
We need to be careful.
We need to be perfect.
Otherwise New Hyde is done.
♪
[P.A. system beeps]
Pepper: Here we go.
[Loochie whispers]
They're watching us real close.
I know.
Alright. We wait for night hours.
We bum rush that silver door,
we get it open.
I drag it out, stab it
till it don't move no more.
It's pretty straightforward.
That's dumb. Your plan is dumb.
Coffee: Loochie is right.
Also, the last time you met it,
it almost killed you.
Dory: Secure door.
Couldn't bash it open
with a sledgehammer.
[Door buzzes, opens]
We have to be more thoughtful.
It comes from the shadows.
What if we could do the same?
The hospital is bigger
than just our unit.
We could try to gain access
to the abandoned wings.
There are shafts, alcoves to climb up.
Dory: You'll fall.
You'll die.
They'll call it a suicide.
The end.
[Siren wailing in distance]
Booty juice then.
- The what now?
- Booty juice.
The stuff they put in your butt cheek
when you're really cut up.
The proper medical terminology
for booty juice is haloperidol.
Let's just call it that then.
Nah, we call it booty juice.
Alright, focus. Focus.
Operation booty juice.
You're suggesting we tranquilize it
with haloperidol.
You'll get yourselves killed.
You'll get us all killed.
Yeah, well, like I said
it's either him or us.
I'll take you to him.
He can be amenable.
He'll work with you.
He can even be your friend
if you do what he tells you.
Pepper: Dory, what are you saying?
She's saying
she she walks with the devil.
No. I didn't say that.
I said You said he can be a friend.
He knows what's best.
Whose side are you on here?
The side that wants
no more hurting, no more death.
That guy almost stomps my brains out,
but now he's your buddy? Is that it?
You took the keys.
Lead us not into temptation.
You do what he tells you.
- But deliver us from evil!
- What did he tell you to do?
- What did you say, Dory? What did you say?
- You. You.
Are you working with the thing?
What did he tell you to do?
- What did you do?
- He's killed people!
Miss Chris: Inside!
Dory, what did you do?!
Nurse: Let's go.
You tell your friend
I'm coming for him!
- Oh!
- Get inside.
♪
Go to your room. Cool down.
Nurse: "Go," she said. Go to your room.
[Sighs]
You look tired.
Go lay down, Dory.
[Door buzzes, opens]
[Door closes]
[Door closes]
You bullying the elderly now?
That old lady's
not as innocent as she seems.
Right.
Innocent like you.
I saw you at Sal's,
walked out the front door,
went to the bus stop,
and then your goofy ass came back.
Well, then, you saw me save the day.
Big hero.
And that was with a messed-up back.
If I'd been 100%, you know
Hmm.
Your back was blown
before you got here.
I peeped it the first day
you walked in.
What? No. It wasn't.
You have a foot drop on your left side.
My guess is sciatic damage.
Probably years old from overuse.
Pepper, I can adjust it
if you're down.
Okay. Uh, stand up for me.
Come on, stand up.
Turn around.
Alright.
You want to put your shoulders
back over your hips like this.
[Spine cracking] [Moans softly]
Try to carry more forward.
[Spine cracking] Aw, f
Oh, God.
- You alright?
- Yeah.
Okay.
[Sighs] Oh.
It won't fix it,
but it will offer some relief.
Thanks.
So why'd you come back, man?
Well, since we're asking questions,
what the hell attacked me?
Hmm? What's behind that silver door?
He's just a sad, old man.
Wasn't no old man.
You asked, I told you.
Why don't you open it up?
Let me see. Hmm?
[Scoffs] I won't tell nobody.
I'll tell you this
as soon as I finish my residency,
finally walk out that door
I'm never coming back.
Stay off your heels.
[Door opens]
[Door closes]
[Coffee breathing heavily]
♪
[Crying softly]
[Speaking indistinctly]
[Telephone rings]
♪
[Ringing continues]
♪
Fuck you!
- Fuck you!
- Miss Chris: Coffee?
- Fuck you!
- Coffee!
Fuck you!
Coffee, it's okay. Come on.
Alright, it's okay. Come, come.
It's me.
It's me. Okay?
Come on.
Come on.
Tell me what's going on.
How can you not know?
Know what?
The evil in here.
You see what it does.
You demand honesty,
but you are not honest.
None of you are.
The devil lives there,
behind that silver door.
He hurts us
preys upon us.
Our pain sustains him.
Don't you see that?
The man there
is troubled.
He's violent.
But he's not the devil.
Prove me wrong.
Open that door.
Show me.
♪
[Scoffs]
Fine.
Follow me.
♪
Come on.
♪
He's not going to allow this.
Somehow he will stop us.
[Keys jingling softly]
♪
♪
What are you doing?
Miss Chris
in my office. Now!
I told you.
♪
[Dory humming]
[Singing indistinctly]
Loochie: So what?
You made a deal with it?
It tells you what to do or something?
I like you.
You remind me of me a little.
How I used to be.
We are not alike.
[Laughs] Right, right.
You're a rebel.
That's what you think.
No meds, no rules.
You know why he doesn't fuck with you?
He knows he doesn't have to.
He knows you're not going anywhere.
No one can say boo to you.
But the days go by.
You stay.
Months, years.
You gave up a long time ago.
That's your pain.
He don't have to touch you to hurt you.
Your grandma will die.
Your brother doesn't like you.
All you really have in the end
are the people in here.
They're the closest thing
you'll ever have to a real family.
And once you realize that
you'll do
anything
to keep them safe.
So you think you're protecting us.
More than you know.
More than I care to explain.
You make compromises.
That's growing up. [Sniffles]
And in here
there's only one way
to keep the peace.
Now, go draw something.
Miss Chris: The patients are scared.
We don't have a handle on this unit.
We must postpone the visit
from the board.
And how do you suggest
that we might do that?
Well, we're doing everything we can
to get them back
on a proper medication regimen.
But it could take days, weeks.
And there's a lingering question
of patient safety.
Everything that could go wrong has,
as it always does in here.
Can I show you something?
The board of New Hyde
sent me an award.
In recognition of my tireless work
with at-risk communities.
They misspelled
my fucking name.
This is who we're dealing with.
Those who will never
face the consequences
for their neglect.
And those consequences
trickle down to us.
The money comes, they sleep fine.
The money stops, they press a button.
We all go away. And you know what?
They still sleep fine.
You ever think there's something
wrong with this place?
Mm-hmm.
Every day.
Every damn day.
Instead of keeping secrets,
we should speak the truth
so things can change.
Hmm.
Speak up. Hmm?
Speak out.
Go against this place.
Try it.
See what happens.
♪
♪
[Door opens]
[Door closes]
♪
♪
Woman: My mom said we
should come back to her in Orlando.
For For how long?
I love you
but I can't keep doing this on my own.
Stay.
Stay.
I'll call you from Orlando.
Goodbye, Pepper.
[Call ends, dial tone]
Are you still mad?
[Door opens]
♪
♪
Tell me what you know.
For real.
No more games.
This
has been a bad place
for a long time.
Dr. Walter's procedure's
destroyed a lot of people,
including yours truly.
[Laughs]
But like Coffee says,
did the devil come here
because of what Dr. Walter did?
Or did Dr. Walter do it
because the devil told him to?
Are you really telling me
the devil lives in this place?
Devil? It's
just
a word meant
to describe an idea
that's almost impossible to grasp.
[Sighs]
Oh, the spirit of the Lord
moved over the face
of the waters.
That's It's like that.
♪
You should have seen this place
back in the day,
racking them in,
so many patients tossed inside.
It was standing room only for decades.
The devil
Let's just call it that.
fed on our suffering,
ate real well.
How can it look like
all these different people?
Like doctors and policemen?
It looks like what it needs
to look like in here
to gain your trust
or hurt you the most.
Can it die?
♪
♪
Would you like to meet him?
♪
Yeah.
I would.
♪
♪
♪
♪
[Wind whistling]
♪
♪
♪
What is happening? I need my meds.
I need my meds.
Come on. She needs her meds.
I talked to Dory.
What did she say?
Josephine: Okay, great. You're all set.
♪
She was just talking crazy.
Don't be mad at her.
It's the devil.
He has his hooks in deep.
♪
♪
♪
Why are you giving me these?
I am done calling for help.
I used to think this system was broken
and people out there just didn't know.
But now I realize nothing is broken.
The system is working perfectly.
That's why they never fix it.
Coffee, it's time for meds.
You need your dose.
What should I do with these?
Call your Nana.
Say you love her.
♪
♪
Coffee.
Coffee! That's the women's hallway!
You can't go down there!
Miss Chris!
♪
No.
Nope. They're on their own.
Are you crazy?
She brought Pepper in there.
I know this.
I won't leave him
to face the devil alone.
[Loud bang]
It hurts most the first time,
but you'll get used to it.
Man: Come on.
♪
♪
[Indistinct conversations]
♪
Anthony.
♪
This forsaken place.
♪
♪
♪
♪
[Indistinct conversations]
I got a phone call about you.
A phone call?
About your mom.
[Speaks indistinctly]
Yeah.
They said I had to come get you.
'Cause she
She was in
She was in a
I don't want to do this.
I don't want to do this again.
I don't want to do this again.
[Sniffles]
Dr. Walter: Are you in distress?
I can help you.
Where is he?
Shh!
[Loochie growls] Oh!
No, please. You're so beautiful.
We're here to help our friend.
That's what I'm doing.
I'm helping all of us.
No. You can't get in.
You can't get in. You can't get in.
He's in a session with the doctor.
When he comes out, he'll comply.
Then we'll all be safe.
Ah!
[Grunts, panting]
♪
♪
Does that lead back to our unit?
Dr. Walter: You remember this.
His mother, locked away,
tried to kill herself.
He was left in the
care of the state, but
they didn't care about him.
Just another Black boy
with no one to protect him.
He should have gone home
with you that day.
His father, his daddy
a daddy he didn't know.
Still, it's better than nothing, but
you refused.
After this breakfast, you
brought him back to the agency.
You put him back into the system.
You did that.
And you think about it every day.
You close your eyes and you see this.
His mother recovered briefly.
In and out. In and out.
He had so many times
like this in his life.
Abandoned. Discarded.
Forgotten.
Even when he felt some kind of love,
he couldn't accept it. He still can't.
He doubts it.
He thinks it's going to go away
because of what you did.
You could have saved him.
But you didn't.
♪
No, no, no.
Coffee: There's another way
to our unit.
The silver door.
We're on the other side of it.
Pepper!
Rowr!
No, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no.
[Roars]
No, no.
[Roars]
[Screams]
[Door unlatches]
[Door opens]
[Soft growling]
You see, you didn't listen.
And now it's
too late.
[Creature growling]
[Heavy footsteps]
♪
♪
I can open it. I can open it.
[Growling continues]
Hey. Hey. Hey, we have to go.
We have to go.
Dory: He can't hear you. Be careful.
The session is not over.
Come on, my friend. Come on.
We will not leave you.
We will not leave you.
Come on.
Anthony: Do you want to stay, Daddy?
[Sobbing]
- Do you want this to stop?
- Yes.
Would you like to be
relieved of this burden?
Yes.
Then I have good news.
This is treatable.
I can make this pain go away forever.
It can't be that easy.
But it can.
You forget about him.
Forget about his mother.
Think of all the good
you do for others,
all the people you've helped.
Let's focus on the triumphs.
I can make it so that's all
you'll ever see.
No one wants to remember
their worst moments.
But I can't treat you without consent.
You have to say yes.
♪
What do you get if I do?
I want the same thing you do, Pepper.
New Hyde
Oh, it's become a real shithole.
And I want out.
[Gasps]
[Creature growling]
He told me what he wants.
He wants me to help him
get out of New Hyde.
Dory: What? Oh. No.
No, no, no, that can't happen.
[Growling continues]
[Indistinct yelling]
Dory: That can't happen.
[Creature screeches]
Loochie. Get the chair!
[Whispering indistinctly]
Please, please. Please, please.
You brought me here.
I thought he just wanted
you to comply, not escape.
If I say no, he'll kill everyone here.
He will do so much worse
if he gets out.
[Growling continues]
Loochie: Come on!
♪
[Growling continues]
You said that we should, uh,
look out for one another.
Huh?
And so I called because I found this.
I wanted to return it.
- Where is he?
- No idea.
Couldn't cut it, I guess.
He just split.
He left here,
and we never saw him again.
Ah. Listen, um
I thought this might be a chance
for you to do us a favor.
[Creature yelling indistinctly]
There!
It leads to our unit.
I saw Dr. Anand. We have to go through.
It fucking lives in there.
Come on! Aah!
[Groaning]
♪
[Panting]
♪
Aah!
There's a patient on this floor.
He's become an issue.
Pepper again?
No, no, no, no, no, no,
it's another one.
He's been here a long time.
Even before me.
Coffee: Dr. Badger.
[Panting]
[Gasping]
[Screaming]
Lately, his agitations have, uh,
become more frequent
more severe. He's become violent.
He's attacked others.
He's become extremely unpredictable.
[Panting]
♪
♪
[Screaming]
So I was wondering if, uh,
you know, there's any way that
How do I put it? you know,
transfer him.
We We just can't control him
anymore.
[Door opens]
The devil is here!
Coffee, no! He's got a knife.
Man: Hey, put it down!
The devil is here!
Stop right there! Put it down!
The devil is here!
Get down! [Gunfire]
Coffey is dead
because of you and your friend.
I'm gonna stop him even if he kills me.
This place was never meant
to care for us.
It was meant to serve him.
I'm not letting you out of here.
We'll see about that.
Beg for mercy.
[Screaming]
I know who you are.
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