From (2022) s04e01 Episode Script

1
- [RINGING]
- [BOYD] Previously on From
All you fucking do
is knock on our doors,
knock on our fucking windows!
You wanna play games? Come get me!
[GRUNTS]
My blood is your blood
now, motherfucker.
[SCREECHES]
You really did it.
You killed one of them.
All this time, I thought the children
were trying to scare me, but
what if they're just asking for my help?
So Victor said his mother
wanted to rescue the children
locked in the tower.
I'm sorry. This is the only way.
[SCREAMING]
Are you deaf? I said, get the
Where did you get that?
You're Victor's father.
[HENRY] My wife, Miranda,
started seeing things.
She said it was like
she'd been chosen to free the children.
- [SCREAMING]
- [HORN HONKS]
But there's a town up ahead!
You just need to keep
going forward! Please!
- [SCREECHES]
- [GROANS]
Victor.
I didn't know how to get home.
The Boy in White was
trying to tell Christopher
that to save the children,
he would have to go through the tree.
Christopher wouldn't
go through the tree,
so I told my mother what
the Boy in White said.
It was my fault.
I was the reason that she died.
She was trying to protect you.
That's my job now.
We thought you were dead.
Your children thought you were dead.
You owe it to your kids to be here now.
This place wants us to be scared.
How we take care of each other
and how we always do our best,
that's what matters.
- You're not pregnant.
- I am pregnant!
I can feel it!
I'm not eating garbage
because I'm afraid!
It's making me!
Whatever is inside me,
it's getting stronger.
Help me, Elgin. I can save all of you.
I can help you go back home.
[FATIMA] Elgin, please!
Fatima's baby is going
to save all of us.
He's not gonna tell you where she is.
You said that you weren't
gonna let this place break you.
This place has won.
[SCREAMING]
What the fuck are you doing?
Boyd doesn't understand
how far he needs to go.
Sara
She's in the root cellar.
[BOYD] I'm not gonna be
blindsided by this place again.
I need to see it.
[FATIMA] Those things
that come out at night,
they sacrificed their children,
because It promised them
that they would live forever.
[JADE] Miranda had
visions of this place.
She's the only one who had
a connection to this place
long before she arrived.
It wasn't just Miranda.
When I was a little girl,
I saw this place, too.
[VIOLIN PLAYING MOURNFUL TUNE]
Anghkooey.
Remember.
Oh, God.
The reason I felt what Miranda felt
is because I was Miranda.
And Jade was Christopher.
We've come back
over and over again because
we failed the first time.
I need some time, honey.
[JULIE] When I walked inside the ruins,
suddenly, I was in a chamber.
[SCREAMING]
I think I was actually there.
You're a Storywalker.
Someone who can visit chapters
of the story that already happened.
What?
But you can't change them.
- Dad! I think this is when it happens!
- Slow down.
No, no, listen to me!
I need to change the story, Dad, please!
That was a hell of a song.
This didn't have to happen, you know.
Knowledge comes with a cost.
[CHOKING]
Your wife shouldn't
have dug that hole, Jim.
[CHOKING]
No!
[SCREAMING]
[SIGHS] People are such fragile things.
We have to stop meeting like this.
When did you come from this time?
[GASPING]
Didn't anyone tell ya?
There's no way to change a
story once it's been told.
[SIGHS]
Just you and me now, Jim.
I liked you.
I really did.
[WHISPERED] Fuck you.
[CHUCKLES] You always tried so hard.
You carried so much.
It's a terrible shame you won't
get to see what happens next.
Because what happens next
is my favorite part.
Would you like to know why?
[CHUCKLES]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[SIGHS]
["QUE SERA, SERA (WHATEVER
WILL BE, WILL BE)" PLAYS]
When I was just a little boy ♪
I asked my father ♪
"What will I be?" ♪
"Will I be handsome?" ♪
"Will I be rich?" ♪
Here's what he said to me ♪
Que sera sera ♪
Whatever will be will be ♪
The future's not ours to see ♪
Que sera sera ♪
What will be will be ♪
Now I have children of my own ♪
They ask their father ♪
"What will I be?" ♪
"Will I be pretty?" ♪
"Will I be rich?" ♪
I tell them tenderly ♪
Que sera sera ♪
Whatever will be will be ♪
The future's not ours to see ♪
Que sera sera ♪
What will be will be ♪
Que sera sera ♪
What do you mean, they
sacrificed their children?
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Those things in the woods.
They were people once.
They made a
a bargain with something horrible.
But I didn't see
I-I couldn't see it. I
[ELLIS] It's okay. It's okay. Hey.
- [SCREAMS]
- [ELLIS] Hey. Hey, hey, hey.
You're okay. You're okay.
We gotta get her out of here.
Baby, we gotta go, all right?
No. Boyd was here. Where's Boyd?
- I'll find him. Go! Come on.
- We can't leave without him.
Fatima, we have to go! Come on.
- Ellis!
- Please.
- No. I'm okay. I can
- Hey.
- [SHOUTS IN PAIN]
- Hey! Help me. Hey! Hey!
- [SHOUTS IN PAIN]
- I know, I know.
Hey, you're okay. Come on. Kenny.
But we can't
He's gonna be okay. He's gonna be okay.
- Come on, baby.
- All right?
We gotta go. We gotta go.
We're gonna be okay. Come on.
It's okay. Come on. I got you.
[FATIMA BREATHING SHAKILY]
[ELLIS] I got you.
You good?
- Yeah.
- Okay, come on. Let's go.
[WOOD CREAKING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Boyd?
Boyd!
[WHISPERING] Boyd?
Shh-shh-shh-shh-shh.
Hey. Hey. Shh.
We gotta get outta here. Okay?
Okay.
We gotta go that way.
Hello, Kenny.
It's nice to see you again.
- No.
- [BOYD] Move, move!
Now! Move! Go, go!
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Keep going! Keep going! Move it!
We got it! Keep going!
Come on! Hurry up.
Watch out!
What the fuck?!
How?! He didn't
- I know.
- We We burned him!
- I know.
- We fucking burned him!
I know! I know!
My God. How did
how did he even get
The baby.
- What?
- The baby.
I watched it grow.
I watched it stand up
and smile.
You're you're telling me that
Fatima gave birth to that thing?
Is that what you're saying?
Yeah.
- [DONNA] You good?
- Yeah, I'm fine. Can you just
Can you just please
tell me what's going on?
- I will.
- Donna!
Any word from Boyd yet?
[VOICES CHATTERING]
People are starting to come back.
[FOOTSTEPS THUDDING]
- I should go.
- Yeah.
That's probably best.
Donna, what the fuck is going on?
In here.
[WHIMPERING]
[DOOR OPENS]
Jesus.
Hey. Put that down.
She's here to help.
Oh, come For fuck's sake,
we all know it's not
loaded! Just put it away.
Now go. You got nothing else to do here.
Fine. Then stay.
[SIGHS]
Elgin.
Elgin?
Kristi's here to help you.
Can you hear me?
I need you to roll over. Okay?
Come on. Come on.
- Just careful. Okay.
- There. Come on.
Okay, now's the part where
you tell me what happened.
Sara took his eye out
with a screwdriver.
She had reasons.
- Can you get me a chair?
- Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Thank you.
Okay, Elgin, can you
take your hand away?
It's okay.
[EXHALES]
[DONNA] Can you stitch him up?
Yeah, I can do my best.
Donna, why
- Let's talk later.
- [CLARA] Donna?
- Yes! Just hold on, Clara!
- Fatima's back.
She and Ellis are coming up the hill.
- Okay, okay.
- What happened?
No, nothing! Nothing! Back out!
- Can I get some ice?
- Yeah. Go!
[EERIE MUSIC]
[EXHALES]
Yeah.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
Boyd! What
What
Boyd, what are we doing?
Shouldn't we
[KENNY] What the fuck is that?
What
What is it? What Boyd!
Wh
Okay.
Boyd.
Boyd, what the fuck are you doing?!
[EXHALES HEAVILY]
This is every bullet that we have,
taken from every gun that's
ever come through here.
I just need to make sure
I just need to make sure
that if push comes to
shove, we have enough.
Enough for what?
Between Colony House and town,
how many people we got here right now?
I'm gonna need a headcount. Thanks.
'Kay, whatever it is that
you're doing right now,
you need to stop.
Boyd, you need you need to stop!
Hey! We had one win, Kenny!
One goddamn victory,
and even that, we couldn't
get one motherfuckin'
Okay.
What we just saw down there
that means there is no way to
fight back against those things.
There is no way, none, to win.
The day may come when the
only thing we get to decide
is how we choose to leave.
We can either let those things
down there rip us to fuckin' pieces
or
Or
Right.
I just
need to make sure there's enough,
just in case.
Kenny, please.
All right.
- Please.
- Yep.
Forty-seven.
What?
I did a count when we were
doing interviews about Tillie.
We have 47 people.
Forty-seven.
Okay. Let's take the ice away.
You must think I'm a
pretty awful person.
I might have at one point, yeah.
And now?
Now I think this place does
bad things to good people.
Okay. I'm just gonna numb
your eye with the spray, okay?
It's gonna feel a bit wet.
It's okay.
[WINCES]
Uh, hey.
Can I get your help?
Yeah.
- I just need you to hold his head still.
- I'm here.
Okay. Put these on.
Can you feel this?
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
Okay. Give it a little bit longer.
Okay. So, just hold
his neck really still.
- Like this? Right there?
- Yeah, like that.
- Then tilt it back.
- I got you.
Once the baby was born, we
were supposed to go home.
If Fatima's back, maybe
that means it's done.
Maybe it's maybe it's
still gonna work out.
Look, Elgin, something here lied to you.
You're not the first
person it's happened to,
and you probably won't be the last.
There's no version of
any of this working out.
All right. You ready to go?
I'm gonna go as fast
as I can, all right?
Deep breath, deep
breath. Here, hold this.
I got you. I got you.
Hold this, Elgin. Here.
Squeeze it nice and
tight, okay? Here we go.
Okay.
[GASPING]
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
[WHIMPERING]
[WHIMPERING]
Ah [WHIMPERING]
[WHIMPERING]
Okay. You're doing great.
Okay, one more. You're
doing great. Just breathe.
- Okay.
- It's okay.
Okay. Steady again, okay?
- [ACOSTA] Okay, got it.
- Good.
It's okay. We got you.
I got you. I got you.
- You're doing great. You're doing great.
- [CRYING OUT]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[DOOR OPENS]
Mom!
Hey, buddy.
Hey.
Where's your father?
He's not back yet.
Wasn't he with you?
Yeah, yeah, no, he was. Uh,
we just got separated. I
What's wrong?
Nothing.
Nothing, honey. Let's Let's go home.
[TIRES SCREECHING]
[TIRES SCREECHING]
Whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
- [ENGINE REVVING]
- [INDISTINCT YELLING]
- The fuck?
- [MAN] Watch out!
[ENGINE REVVING]
Hey!
[CRIES OUT]
Okay, stay with your sister.
- Why?
- Just stay here.
Fuck.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[MAN] Stay back, buddy. Stay back.
[BOYD] Shit. Goddamn.
What the
Okay. Uh
What do we got here?
- All right.
- Careful. Watch the glass.
Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, sir?
- Hey. Okay.
- [TABITHA] Oh, Jesus.
- Can you hear me? Can you
- [WOMAN CRYING]
[TABITHA] Shh, shh, shh.
You're gonna be okay.
You're gonna be okay.
He's got a good strong
pulse, so that's good.
- [TABITHA] You're gonna be okay.
- Okay.
Okay, don't move,
don't move! Don't move!
Please help me. Help me, please.
[TABITHA] We're gonna get you out.
- Tabitha?
- [GIRL] Is he okay?
It's okay.
- Is my dad okay? Is my daddy okay?
- Oh, my God.
- Is he is my dad okay?
- [TABITHA] Don't move!
You'll be fine. Don't move your neck!
- Okay. Okay.
- Don't move your neck!
[HYPERVENTILATING]
Okay. All right, sir, um
Hey, you know hey,
you go to the clinic and tell them
that we need the
ambulance here right now!
- Yeah, okay.
- Okay?
[GRUNTING WITH EFFORT]
Okay, do me a favor.
Got a shed on the other side
of the bar. Grab some tools.
We might have to take this apart, okay?
- You got it.
- [TABITHA] Don't move your neck!
Don't move your neck!
Okay. Relax, breathe.
- What's your name?
- Sophia.
Hey, Sophia, hi.
I'm gonna put this book in between
your face and this piece
of metal right there, okay?
Okay. Okay.
[TABITHA] Wait. It's okay.
I just wanna make
sure it doesn't cut you
while we get you out, honey.
Okay. Okay.
[GASPING]
Okay. It's gonna be okay.
Just relax. It's gonna be okay.
- [SOPHIA] Is he gonna okay?
- Yes, he is. Don't move.
Don't move your face, please, honey.
- All right. Is she okay?
- [TABITHA] We need to cut the seatbelt.
Ah, Sophia.
- Did I hear that right?
- [SOPHIA] Yes!
- [BOYD] Is that your name?
- Yes.
Okay. Sophia, Sophia,
does anything else hurt?
My neck hurts.
Your neck? Okay. Shh, shh, shh, shh!
Hey, don't don't move your neck.
Hey, what about your
legs? What about your legs?
Can you move your toes?
- Yeah. Yeah.
- Move your toes.
- You can? Okay. Okay.
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- [BOYD] Don't worry.
- Dad!
- You're gonna be okay.
- You're gonna be fine.
- Your dad's okay.
Dad! Dad!
- [BOYD] Okay. Okay.
- Dad!
Please, wake up!
- [BOYD] Shh
- [SOPHIA] Dad, wake up!
Don't move! Don't move
your face, please, honey!
I want my mom! I want my
mom! I don't wanna be here!
- [BOYD] Okay.
- I want my mom!
- [BOYD] Sophia? Sophia?
- Uh-huh! Yeah?
- Yeah?
- We're gonna get you, okay?
- Okay.
- We just need you to stay calm, okay?
Okay, but please just
take care of my Dad.
We're gonna take care of both of you.
- [TABITHA] It's okay.
- It's okay.
Your dad is gonna be fine.
[BOYD] We're gonna
help both of you, okay?
- It's okay. Stay still.
- Okay? Here we go.
[TABITHA] Stay still. Please don't move.
Just breathe. We're gonna be out.
[BOYD] Real easy.
It's gonna be okay. It's gonna be okay.
Just don't move. It's okay. It's okay.
We're almost there. Almost done.
- Okay?
- [BOYD] It's okay.
- What happened?
- Car crash. We can't get the door open.
There's a driver stuck inside. Come on.
Pull.
- Okay.
- Dad?!
Okay, no, no, just let
me put my arms around you.
It's gonna be fine. It's gonna be fine.
You're gonna be fine.
You're gonna be totally fine.
You're okay. You're okay.
I'm gonna put my arm around you.
Is that okay? Come on, kiddo.
- Dad!
- [BOYD] He's okay.
Dad! Please!
We'll get him. We'll get him. Here.
- [TABITHA] You're okay. It's okay, honey.
- [BOYD] Stay right there. You got her?
- Yeah, I've got her.
- Okay, here.
- [TABITHA] It's okay.
- [BOYD] Take her.
- It's okay.
- [SOPHIA GASPING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[ENGINE REVVING]
Get back. Get back.
Hey! Stop.
Great. Hey, did you grab the gurney?
Look, we just pulled the daughter out.
The dad is still inside.
He's breathing, got a good pulse.
- Is he talking?
- No, no.
Perfect.
[WOMAN] Out of the way. Let us through!
[TABITHA] Here we go. Here we go.
You're okay.
Hey, you're okay. We're gonna
take care of your father, okay?
- Hey.
- It's gonna be okay. Hey.
Hi.
- It's Sophia, right?
- Yes, ma'am.
Okay. My name's Marielle.
- Are you a doctor?
- I'm a nurse.
Okay.
- She has it right here too.
- Mm-hmm.
Got it.
Okay, perfect. Yeah.
[GRUNTS]
Okay, can you tell me
anything about the accident?
Was your dad acting strange at all?
Did he say anything?
He he was. Um
There was, um there
was a tree on the road
and we were trying to
find a way around it
to get back on the highway,
and then he he just
he made a sound, and then
he just started shaking,
and then we started
going faster, and then
You're doing good. You're doing good.
It's okay. It's okay.
I, um I-I tried to steer the car,
but he was just moving
so much and thrashing
that I I couldn't and
then we just and then we
Okay. You're good. It's okay. It's okay.
Please, please don't let my daddy die.
No, no, no. It's okay.
I'm gonna give you a second.
Please don't let my daddy
die. I don't want him to die.
It's okay. You need
to breathe. It's okay.
We're gonna take care of him.
We're gonna take care of him.
[GRUNTS]
[STRAINING]
You guys should use a winch.
Ethan, stay with Victor.
- Huh?
- What?
- A winch.
- [JULIE] Can I help?
- [BOYD] Bring it.
- Grab that shit.
Here.
Watch your hands.
[JADE] Okay, uh, tie this up.
[BOYD] Make sure it's
tight. Get the ra rachet.
[KENNY] Okay, I'm gonna grab the gurney.
Let's go! Let's go!
Yep. We'll take it. We'll take it.
Wait Wait for me.
All right. Right.
Just get the seatbelt.
Yeah, I got it.
[BOYD] Okay. You got him?
Okay, get that on him.
[KENNY] Yup.
[GRUNTING]
- Right here.
- [KENNY] Careful.
- You got him?
- [JADE] Yeah.
[KENNY] We good?
[BOYD] One, two, three.
[GRUNTS]
[BOYD] All right.
- Good?
- [KENNY] Yeah.
- [BOYD] Let's get it.
- [KENNY] I got it.
- [RANDALL] Okay.
- [BOYD] Yeah. You got it?
All right.
Hey.
- From what his daughter says
- Right.
I think he had a seizure.
I'm not sure what's wrong
with him is actually medical.
What are you talking about?
The day I got here, I watched Elgin
have an unprovoked
seizure right over there.
But, based on what I've been told,
that's not entirely uncommon?
Oh, right, yeah.
Ethan had one the
first night he was here
and Sara had one in the diner.
- [MARIELLE] Right.
- Wasn't like this.
So, what do we do?
[MARIELLE] I mean, at this point,
bring him back up to the
clinic and hope he wakes up.
- Okay.
- Hey.
I'm gonna stay up at the clinic tonight.
- Wha Are you sure?
- Yeah. It's gonna be a tough night,
and one of us should
be up there with them,
and you need to go see Fatima and Ellis.
- Right. Okay.
- Yeah.
Okay, yeah.
- All right.
- All right. I got the door.
- Okay.
- [BOYD] You okay?
[ENGINE STARTS]
Where do you think they're gonna live?
We'll have to wait and see.
Let's go home. It's gonna be dark soon.
Where's Dad?
I don't know, but he'll
be here before dark.
Let's go. Let's go. Come on.
Come on. Let's go. It's okay.
Hope they're okay.
[JADE] Tabitha.
Jade.
We need to talk.
It's okay. Go. Get inside.
We need to tell people.
Tell them what?
We have no idea what happened out there.
- We don't even know if it's true.
- You're gonna stand there and you're gonna
- tell me that didn't feel real to you?
- I don't know what I feel.
Sara tried to kill my son
because something out here convinced her
that if she did that,
we could all go home.
I'm sure that felt very real to her.
No, no, no. Hey, wait, wait.
Listen, that was different.
How?
- Uh
- What's easier to believe
that whatever is keeping us here
put those thoughts in
our heads to torture us,
or
that you and I have
been coming back here
over and over again, for centuries,
trying to save children that
are already dead? I mean
Listen. We can We
can go inside, okay?
You, me, Jim, we can pull this
Jim's not here. Jim's not home.
What are you talking
about? It's almost dark.
I know. I know.
When he's back, I'll talk to him.
Okay.
Okay.
Hey, we need to talk about
what happened earlier.
- Give me a minute
- Get your fucking hands off me!
Look
it is getting dark. You can't
just be walking around out here.
Yeah, I'm not going back in
there with you, that's for goddamn
I know, I know, I know.
You don't know shit.
You think you're some kind of hero?
You're some martyr who
did what you had to do?
What you did to that kid up there
You're a fucking monster.
I don't know what you were before,
but that is what you are now.
All you people are fucking monsters.
[DOOR OPENS]
Sun's about to go down.
You spending the night?
If that's okay.
Yeah. Uh, Kristi's
upstairs with Fatima now.
She just finished
stitching up Elgin's eye.
Right.
Um
We need to talk about
what we're doing with him.
Boyd?
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. I, uh
You should come upstairs with me.
There's something you need to hear.
[EXHALING SHARPLY]
["SEND IN THE CLOWNS"
BY FRANK SINATRA PLAYS]
Isn't it rich? ♪
Are we a pair? ♪
Me here at last ♪
- [METALLIC SLAMMING]
- On the ground ♪
You in mid-air ♪
Send in the clowns ♪
[BREATHING RAPIDLY]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Isn't it bliss? ♪
Don't you ♪
[KRISTI] Okay.
We're all done. You did great.
Am I okay?
Physically,
everything looks fine.
Is there anything you can
tell me about the um
the
The birth?
Yeah.
What would you like to know?
About the terrifying woman in
the kimono that held me down
or the thing she pulled out of me
that you told me wasn't there?
[KNOCKING]
[BOYD] Boyd.
Come in.
Hey.
How you doing?
[FATIMA] What did you
see in the tunnels?
Did you find the woman in the kimono?
I did.
- I'm gonna head out.
- No, stay. Stay.
You should, um
You, uh
You should hear this.
- Okay.
- Okay.
- Dad?
- Yeah.
What's going on?
What happened down there?
So, uh
by the time I caught up to her, the, uh,
uh the woman with the kimono, uh,
she was in a chamber with those
those things from the woods, and they
they were all standing
around in a circle.
Um, and she, um
she was holding the
She put it in the center
of the of the room,
and, um
it started to move.
And then it started to grow.
And it it kept growing
until it got big enough
to stand.
And then, it smiled.
I gave birth to one of them.
[ELLIS] No. That's not what he's saying.
Dad, tell her that's that's
that's not what you're saying.
[GASPING]
This is not just one of them.
It's the one I killed
that night at the clinic.
Jesus.
[RUMBLING]
[VICTOR STRAINING]
Victor? Victor!
- [BREATHING HEAVILY]
- What are you doing?
I'm dragging this bed into my room.
I can see that. You wanna tell me why?
It's well, it's for my dad.
Uh, we're gonna be roommates now.
Um, here, let me help with
that. Sorry about the noise.
It's okay.
It's been a while since
I've had a roommate.
- I'm sure you'll figure it out.
- Yeah.
[BOYD] Look. Listen. Look at me. Now
Boyd, are you sure it was the same one?
Yeah.
Look, if Kenny hadn't been there,
if he hadn't seen it as well,
I'd have thought I'd lost my mind.
But he said you said something after,
something important.
- I-I sa
- About something promising
- them that they'd live forever.
- It was just a glimpse, but
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
I saw what they did.
Okay.
Those things in the woods,
I think I saw how they
became what they are.
They made a bargain
because something promised
them that they would live
forever.
A bargain. With With what?
I don't I don't know.
Fatima
I don't what I don't
know! I-I couldn't see it.
Look, look. Listen,
listen, listen to me.
I know that you have been through a lot,
but this is important.
[GASPS]
You think I don't know that?
- I'm not
- I'm the one that
[BREATHING UNSTEADILY]
- I need a shower.
- Hey, whoa. Hey, easy.
- I need a fucking shower.
- Baby, no. You need rest.
- Fatima, hold on.
- Fatima, don't.
- You just need to rest
- [FATIMA] No! I need a shower!
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
I told you!
I told all of you
that there was something inside me,
something that
I begged you to listen!
I don't I don't
understand what I saw.
I don't know why I saw it. I didn't
There's nothing else I can tell you.
Okay.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Hey, it's
Be honest, what do you
think the chances are he wakes up?
Uh, given how long he's been out for?
It's not even so much if he wakes up,
but what kind of shape
he'll be in if he does.
Yeah.
- Kenny?
- Yeah.
Do you have a phone? I, um
I left mine in the car, and I
I-I need to call my mom.
She's probably worried sick.
Yeah, um, there's, uh
There's no There's
no cell service here.
I could just go down
the hill. It's okay.
I-I don't mean
I don't mean here in the clinic.
[MARIELLE] I'm gonna go.
I, uh
What's going on?
I-I need to call my mom.
I know. I understand. I do.
I I wish I could, um
We need to have a
talk about this place
and about that tree
that you saw in the road.
[JULIE] Mom.
Where is he?
Why isn't he back yet?
Honey, your father's fine.
It's not like he's late
coming home from work.
Mom, what happened today?
Why won't you talk to me?
No, Julie, no. I-I don't
wanna talk right now.
- Please!
- I can't.
- Please!
- I can't talk to you.
- I can't talk to you now.
- Stop saying that! Please!
Mom, it's almost dark. He's not home.
Please, why won't you talk
[ETHAN] Stop it. Stop
yelling at each other.
No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
- [DOOR CLOSES]
- Is Dad dead?
No!
No, honey. No, he's not.
Maybe he didn't realize how late it was.
I don't know. Maybe he's at
the Colony House or the RV.
We'll see him tomorrow.
Well, what if we don't?
- Well
- Do you remember what Dad said to us,
the night that Mom went to the
Bottle Tree and didn't come home?
He said all we have in this
place is what we believe.
So, we have to believe good things.
Right?
Mom came home.
Dad will, too.
So, um, the monsters,
they they come every night?
Yeah.
These These rocks,
they they protect you?
Uh, we call them talismans.
- How do they work?
- Don't!
Don't, um
Don't take it off the window.
Sorry.
It's okay. It's just, um
they have to be hanging for it to work.
Why?
[EXHALING SHARPLY] Uh
We We don't know.
We don't know.
I know how this must all sound.
"The light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness shall not overcome it."
What is that?
John 1:5.
It means that, um, God is with us,
even here.
I mean, um, how else can you
explain such a magical thing
to keep the darkness at bay?
Right.
Will you pray with me, Kenny?
Oh, I'm not
I'm not really, uh
- I'm not really religious.
- That's okay.
God still listens.
Please?
Yeah. Yeah, sure.
[EXHALING SHARPLY]
Lord, please protect
us in this dark place,
where evil roams so freely.
Please stand by my daddy's bedside
and let him wake renewed in Your love.
And please rest Your hand upon
the shoulders of these people,
trapped here in this
place, who have taken us in
and shown us such kindness.
Be with them tonight, O Lord,
and let Your love give them rest.
This we ask in Your name. Amen.
Uh, Amen.
Um, I'm gonna go sit with
my daddy now, if that's okay.
Yeah. Of course.
There are a lot of
people wanting to know
what happened down there.
Boyd?
You hear what I said?
We had another car today.
A girl and her dad.
Looked like a like a pastor, maybe.
He had a he had a stroke
or a seizure or something.
They crashed into the Sheriff's Station.
The girl can't be more
than I don't know, 15,
16 years old. She's, uh
She's up at the clinic right now,
waiting to see if her dad
lives through the night,
while Kenny explains to her that
whatever life she had before
is over,
that, now, she lives in a place
where monsters smile.
That girl's probably gonna die here.
- Boyd!
- You know,
the only thing that gets
me out of bed in the morning
is the idea that
maybe, just just maybe,
we can beat this place,
that maybe we can get everybody home,
that, someday, maybe
the good guys actually win!
And then I saw that fucking
thing in the tunnels!
The same goddamn smile that same
And I realized
I mean, this place has
been three steps ahead of us
from the beginning!
Just like you said, the game's rigged.
Doesn't matter what we do.
Doesn't matter what we sacrifice.
None of it means a goddamn
thing if we can't
Hey, where you going?
I am not going anywhere.
None of us are.
Okay, no, fuck this.
Get out of my way, Kristi!
No, no. You don't get to do this.
It's a pretty shit time for you
to start feeling sorry for yourself.
Oh, is that what I'm doing?
Yeah, you are!
And you have plenty of reasons to.
So does everybody else here.
But none of those people
are asking me to stitch
up people's eye sockets,
so I'm gonna need a little more from you
than "These monsters live forever,
so we're all gonna die."
Because it doesn't
matter how many people
I stitch back up together,
if they see you lose faith,
then that's when people start
hanging themselves in the bathroom.
Can you guys give us a second?
Yeah.
[DONNA] Let's go.
[CLEARS THROAT]
Let's go.
Kristi's right, Dad.
Look, no matter what happens,
you are the one person
that nobody here can see
- Dad!
- I can't do it anymore.
Ellis, I can't!
I'm falling apart!
Everything I've done,
every sacrifice we've made,
and if if I can't get you home,
then none of it matters! Your mom?!
Your mom?!
It's
Fuck, it can't be for nothing!
I just I
[VOICE BREAKING] I can't fucking
I cannot
any
God.
[SOBBING]
[ELLIS] I know.
I know.
[SOBBING]
[METALLIC CLATTERING]
What was that?
I don't know.
Mom?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
What's happening?
[BREATHING DEEPLY]
Wake up.
That's better.
Blink twice if you can hear me.
I know this must be
very confusing for you.
But it's important you understand
that you played a very special
role in a very important story.
You see, um
I couldn't've come to them as I was.
[EXHALES, LAUGHS]
[SOPHIA] Not with
everything they learned.
[GROANING]
[GROANING CONTINUES]
- [GROANING]
- [CRACKING]
[GROANING]
[BONES CRACKING]
[GROANING]
[BONES CRACKING]
[GROANING]
[FEMININE GROANING]
[BONES CRACKING]
What's happening to you isn't fair.
Are you all right?
I'm lost.
Me too.
Would you like a ride?
When you stopped for me,
I know you did so with
kindness in your heart.
[GASPS]
[ENGINE REVVING]
[ENGINE REVVING]
[TIRES SCREECHING]
You must be so afraid.
I'm sorry you won't be
here to see what comes next.
It's always my favorite part.
It's the part I wish could last forever.
Would you like to know why?
This is when they tear themselves apart.
[MUFFLED GRUNTING]
[GRUNTING CONTINUES]
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