Channel Zero (2016) s03e05 Episode Script
The Red Door
1 I just wanna find my sister, take her home - Where is she? - She's at the house.
What is this place? The Summer House.
Our little plantation on top of the food chain.
If you don't eat enough protein, the body just starts to eat itself.
[GRUNTING.]
- What's in there? - Bootleggers built the house.
There's old tunnels, but they're boarded up.
What was that? It's your disease.
The evolution of your madness.
It'll heal itself and grow back.
It needs to be extracted.
If it comes down to his own son and a family of monsters, - he's got my back.
- Damn idiot.
How could you be so stupid? Whose side are you on? [BLADE SLICES.]
- [GURGLING.]
- Ohh.
Let's toast to the family.
To family.
[EERIE MUSIC.]
[OPENS BEER.]
[KNOCKING AT DOOR.]
It's time to face the music, Chief.
[INDISTINCT WHISPERS.]
I used to go sing in a choir in this church when I was very young.
Nice to meet you, Zoey.
Then my voice changed.
They kicked me out of class.
Let's take a walk.
Open wide.
[INHALES SHARPLY, GAGS.]
[GURGLING.]
[COUGHING.]
[COUGHS, INHALES.]
[DARK MUSIC.]
[INDISTINCT WHISPERS.]
[RAGGED BREATHING.]
[WIND WHISTLING.]
[TAPPING.]
[CLUNKING.]
[TAPPING.]
Joseph.
You're wasting time.
If we don't deliver the little girl by midnight tomorrow, - he won't be merciful.
- Shh.
I hear a heartbeat.
Joseph, that is not the child you should be worried about.
Will you stop nagging me? I'll find her.
And if you can't? We promised the little girl.
We marked the little girl.
We must deliver the little girl.
- It kicked me.
- [LAUGHS.]
Oh! You think you're untouchable.
But we're running out of time.
He'll be the end of us.
[MUFFLED THUMPING.]
[THUMPING CONTINUES.]
[RATTLING.]
[DARK MUSIC.]
[THUMPING, RATTLING.]
[THUMPING.]
[TAPS.]
[FLIES BUZZING.]
[WHOOSHING.]
[EERIE WHOOSHING.]
[TENSE MUSIC.]
[FLIES BUZZING.]
[WHOOSHING.]
[ROARING.]
[INTENSE SCREECHING.]
You and your father, you believe in family.
Where is he, Chief? I believe in family too.
Family and justice.
Where is my brother? My son he'd made a horrible mistake.
He killed your brother.
But he paid the price.
I did what I had to do, family for family.
So we could tie it off here.
Stop any further bloodshed.
There are two bodies in that hole.
Go, look.
[TENSE TONE.]
Did you forget how to count? What? [CHATTERING.]
No, I You you gotta believe me.
I-I I took care of it.
Children smell his blood.
They'll find him.
[CHILDREN SNARLING.]
[EERIE TONE.]
You know, my brother was only a couple years older than you when he disappeared.
Oh, yeah.
Hmm.
I built my life around him.
Oh, he did his part, you know? I mean, every once in a while, he got himself cleaned up, got a good job, went out and did it, you know? Jesus.
His two feet would never walk in the same direction.
He would backslide every time.
Decade of that, man.
So during the last time, when was living with me, oh, my God, we had a fight.
It was one of those big fights, you know? Where you, like, say all the things that you should never say to anybody that you love.
And he spat at me.
My own brother.
I got all up in his face, and I shook my finger, and I said, "Man, you need to correct your mind.
" And he bit me.
He bit top of my finger clean off and he swallowed it.
After After he disappeared, I realized I was relieved.
A person can only give so much.
And then they got nothing left to go around.
[INHALES.]
Hey! You in there? You know where you are? You know who I am? You're gonna be a little bit groggy.
Stay still.
Luckily, our girls have a nasty habit, so you're feeling a little less pain.
[CLEARING THROAT.]
[THUMPING, RATTLING.]
- Where were you? - There is something else in this house.
What? I saw something.
[WHISPERING.]
Not one of them.
It's something worse.
I mean, I I think maybe it's, uh [LOW GROWLING.]
what they pray to.
What are you talking about? There was a door.
Not like any other doors.
It was a red door.
And I could feel the air around it just trembling, like like like a boiler room.
I thought it might be a way downstairs, but when I got close, it, like, repelled me.
Come on, we have to get out of here.
We have to find a way out of here, let's go.
- Come on.
- No.
That's easy for you to say.
He hasn't told you what you'll become.
Afterwards, I mean.
[DARK TONE.]
[EXHALES.]
You will be very [WHISPERS.]
very hungry.
Anything is better than going insane.
I feel like I am catching on fire in slow motion.
Zo our entire lives, we have been on the edge of something terrible.
Don't you just, for once in your life, just wanna be taken care of? Protected? That is like saying you are so scared of being disfigured that you have decided to let someone cut your face off.
I think I am here for a reason.
I think things happen for a reason.
I am going to go find us a door that leads downstairs.
- [DOOR SLAMS.]
- [SCOFFS.]
Ugh! [SIGHS.]
[LOW RUMBLING.]
[SCRAPING, RATTLING.]
[RUMBLING INTENSIFIES.]
[TAPPING, SCRAPING.]
[EERIE MUSIC.]
[CLATTERING.]
[CLATTERING CONTINUES.]
[DARK MUSIC.]
[SCRATCHING.]
[RUSTLING.]
[THUD.]
[SCRAPING.]
[DARK MUSIC.]
[HEART BEATING.]
Oh.
Is it Huh! Who the hell are you? I'm a gardener.
Is that who I am or what I do? So you like questions? I like riddles.
Do you know what's behind that red door and why it will not let me through it? That's not a riddle.
Okay, um How how about this? Um I'm I'm not a Peach, a a fly, yet I get past the red door.
What am I? A child.
Thank you.
[RATTLING.]
[SCRAPING.]
[TEARING AND SQUISHING.]
[STRUGGLING EFFORTS.]
[STRAINING.]
[SIGHS, PANTING.]
[CRACKLING, STRETCHING.]
[RIPPING AND SQUISHING.]
[GRUNTS.]
Izzy? Can you get me home? You have to hide just a little bit longer.
Okay? And up.
Now, I'm doing the lifting.
- [GRUNTING.]
- Go Luke! Ah, not too much.
Not too much.
Okay, okay.
[SIGHS.]
[MOUTHING.]
Yeah, he did this to you.
He missed your artery, or you'd be dead.
- Nicked you real good.
- Ah [WINCES.]
No, don't try.
And, hey, look.
[THUMPING AT DOOR.]
Oh.
Sit.
Stay.
Don't move, don't move.
[DOGS BARKING.]
[DARK MUSIC.]
Okay.
Now we're gonna practice standing up.
Ready? Down.
- Go down.
- [MOANS.]
Down.
Down.
Down.
There we go.
Stay with me.
All right.
Stay with me.
There you go.
I'm gonna put you down.
- [GROANS.]
- Okay, easy.
There's a way out.
The bootleg tunnel.
Okay, just hang on for me.
[PANTING.]
[GRUNTING.]
[SQUISHING.]
[LABORED BREATHING.]
[LAUGHS.]
[CREEPY OLD TIMEY MUSIC PLAYING.]
Nice move.
- [LAUGHS.]
- [DOOR CREAKS.]
Hi, Alice.
Come join us.
What's on your mind? It's about Izzy.
She came back? I had that feeling she'd have come to you.
Will you take me to her? What will you do Alice, we don't eat children.
We'll send her home, and then I'll fix you.
Where is she? [TENSE, EERIE MUSIC.]
I'll show you.
Good girl.
Come on, sugar plum.
I can't wait for you to see where I live.
I got a couple of kids your age.
I think you're all gonna get along so swell.
You wanna feel my belly? Go on.
[GASPS.]
He kicked for you.
Aw, presh.
Come on.
[BREATHING SHARPLY.]
[OMINOUS MUSIC.]
Hey, you ain't got nothing to be scared of.
Okay? Hey, let's go home.
Yeah.
Right through that pretty, red door.
[CHUCKLES.]
- Uh! - [BANGING AND RATTLING.]
[GASPS.]
[BANGING AND RATTLING CONTINUES.]
[GUNSHOT.]
[THUD, GUNSHOTS.]
[DOOR OPENS.]
[STEPS CREAKING.]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
Luke? Are you here to finish what you started? He came to you - for help.
- I found him where you left him for dead.
You brought back the head.
Evidence.
I came to set right what I did.
- I'll take it from here.
- Like hell you will.
I I wanted to make it quick.
I was afraid of what they'd do to you.
Father of the year.
This ain't the mob, son.
You can't just go to the The Feds for help.
I panicked.
[EXHALES.]
[PANTING.]
Now? Now we're both marked.
Now we get the hell out of here and figure out our next move.
I took care of them.
He means they're not dead.
They'll get back up.
He means we have to cut off their heads.
Are you with us or them? Let's get started.
[SIGHS.]
[DOOR OPENS.]
They're looking for a kid.
They need her for something.
Yeah, but it's not what you think.
[CHUCKLES.]
Izzy was lost up here, but I found her.
And they let her go.
A are you sure about that? Zoey It's like I'm in this burning building, and I could either be burned alive or jump.
And I don't know what's gonna happen when I jump, but I know that there's someone down there to catch me.
[DOOR OPENS, SQUISHING.]
[OLD TIMEY MUSIC PLAYING.]
It's time to go.
Go put on your dress.
[LABORED BREATHING.]
[ORGAN MUSIC.]
[PRAYING INDISTINCTLY.]
[SQUISHING.]
[MURMURS INDISTINCTLY.]
Okay.
[CHORUS SINGING IN LATIN.]
Open.
[INHALES SHARPLY.]
Uh! [GAGGING.]
[COUGHING, GAGGING.]
Got you.
- There.
- [COUGHS.]
[SIGHS.]
Yeah.
[METALLIC CLINK.]
[CHORUS SINGING IN LATIN.]
[LAUGHS.]
Oh, yeah.
Oh, great, sweetie.
[LIGHT CLAPPING.]
It's great, Grandma.
It's great.
- Oh.
- [LAUGHS.]
[EERIE MUSIC.]
[GRUNTS.]
[SAWING CONTINUES.]
[GRUNTS.]
[TENSE MUSIC.]
[FLIES BUZZING.]
[SHRIEKING.]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
[EERIE PIANO MUSIC.]
[GURGLING.]
[GURGLING.]
[GASPS.]
[FOOTSTEPS CLICKING.]
[GURGLING.]
[PANTING.]
[FOREBODING MUSIC.]
[GURGLING.]
It's all right.
Okay.
Stay with me.
It's all right, right? Right.
It's okay.
Run.
[GASPS.]
[DOOR CREAKS.]
Aren't you coming? I have to go back for my sister.
Go to your hiding place and wait there, okay? If I don't get there before the sun comes up, go to 421 Dulap Street.
421 Dulap Street.
- Say it.
- 421 Dulap Street.
Right.
Okay, good.
Okay.
[WHISPERS.]
Go.
Alice.
[DOOR RATTLES CLOSED.]
Alice.
They didn't send her home.
They were going to feed her to something.
Did you hear me? [SIGHS.]
[WHISPERS.]
I remember that feeling.
I felt the exact same thing you're feeling.
Mm.
It's like you don't have a care in the world.
You don't care about anyone or anything.
They lied about Izzy.
I know.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
- [SIGHS.]
- Let's go.
Alice? Alice.
Alice please, just wake up, Alice.
[SOBBING.]
What are you doing? I want to go back to the way I was.
[SQUISHING.]
[INDISTINCT WHISPERS.]
[COUGHS, GULPS.]
[MOANS.]
[GRUNTING.]
[MOANS.]
Now we get the hell out of here.
[MARKER SCRATCHING.]
Anywhere but here.
He means, what about the people who live here? Remember that babysitter you had? You were six.
Carly or Christie or something like that.
One day, she tells you, you gotta eat all your food 'cause there's a million starving kids in other countries.
And about a week later, the mailman comes knocking on the door.
Says he keeps finding leaky packages in the mailbox addressed to "The Starving Kids.
" I had to sit you down.
And tell you, kid, you can't save everyone.
Know what I'm saying? I'm saying that compartmentalization is a psychological survival skill.
You gotta take care of those you know, those you love.
Those you don't, they're less of a priority.
You get me? [GUNSHOT.]
[GASPS.]
- [PANTING.]
- [GUN CLATTERS ON FLOOR.]
[DARK TONE.]
[LIGHT MUSIC.]
What did you make tonight, Mama? I was thinking of making a big casserole.
You poor thing.
You must be exhausted after today.
And hungry.
[SILVERWARE DINGS ON GLASS.]
In this place, away from craziness and cruelty, where family is precious, we grow stronger welcoming our adopted daughter Alice.
- To Alice.
- To Alice.
BOTH: To Alice.
Mmm.
[GASPS.]
Mmm.
My, oh, my.
Come on, Alice.
Take a bite.
Mmm.
Oh! [CLAPPING.]
Mmm.
Where's Zoey? [DARK, TENSE MUSIC.]
[PANTING.]
I think she left.
She did? And she's all worked up about Izzy.
[LIGHT MUSIC.]
[GUTTURAL RUMBLING.]
[TENSE MUSIC.]
[FLIES BUZZING.]
You coming? [MUSIC STOPS.]
[FLIES BUZZING.]
[WHISPERS.]
Wait.
[LOUD CREAKING.]
God I am your servant.
- [GROWLING.]
- Don't be angry with us.
Please.
[INTENSE RUMBLING.]
[GROWLING.]
- [SHRIEKING.]
- [SCREAMING.]
Wait! [WET CRUNCHING.]
[LIQUID SPILLING.]
- [GROWLING.]
- I'll bring her back to you.
Your child we marked.
I promise you.
[INTENSE MUSIC.]
What is this place? The Summer House.
Our little plantation on top of the food chain.
If you don't eat enough protein, the body just starts to eat itself.
[GRUNTING.]
- What's in there? - Bootleggers built the house.
There's old tunnels, but they're boarded up.
What was that? It's your disease.
The evolution of your madness.
It'll heal itself and grow back.
It needs to be extracted.
If it comes down to his own son and a family of monsters, - he's got my back.
- Damn idiot.
How could you be so stupid? Whose side are you on? [BLADE SLICES.]
- [GURGLING.]
- Ohh.
Let's toast to the family.
To family.
[EERIE MUSIC.]
[OPENS BEER.]
[KNOCKING AT DOOR.]
It's time to face the music, Chief.
[INDISTINCT WHISPERS.]
I used to go sing in a choir in this church when I was very young.
Nice to meet you, Zoey.
Then my voice changed.
They kicked me out of class.
Let's take a walk.
Open wide.
[INHALES SHARPLY, GAGS.]
[GURGLING.]
[COUGHING.]
[COUGHS, INHALES.]
[DARK MUSIC.]
[INDISTINCT WHISPERS.]
[RAGGED BREATHING.]
[WIND WHISTLING.]
[TAPPING.]
[CLUNKING.]
[TAPPING.]
Joseph.
You're wasting time.
If we don't deliver the little girl by midnight tomorrow, - he won't be merciful.
- Shh.
I hear a heartbeat.
Joseph, that is not the child you should be worried about.
Will you stop nagging me? I'll find her.
And if you can't? We promised the little girl.
We marked the little girl.
We must deliver the little girl.
- It kicked me.
- [LAUGHS.]
Oh! You think you're untouchable.
But we're running out of time.
He'll be the end of us.
[MUFFLED THUMPING.]
[THUMPING CONTINUES.]
[RATTLING.]
[DARK MUSIC.]
[THUMPING, RATTLING.]
[THUMPING.]
[TAPS.]
[FLIES BUZZING.]
[WHOOSHING.]
[EERIE WHOOSHING.]
[TENSE MUSIC.]
[FLIES BUZZING.]
[WHOOSHING.]
[ROARING.]
[INTENSE SCREECHING.]
You and your father, you believe in family.
Where is he, Chief? I believe in family too.
Family and justice.
Where is my brother? My son he'd made a horrible mistake.
He killed your brother.
But he paid the price.
I did what I had to do, family for family.
So we could tie it off here.
Stop any further bloodshed.
There are two bodies in that hole.
Go, look.
[TENSE TONE.]
Did you forget how to count? What? [CHATTERING.]
No, I You you gotta believe me.
I-I I took care of it.
Children smell his blood.
They'll find him.
[CHILDREN SNARLING.]
[EERIE TONE.]
You know, my brother was only a couple years older than you when he disappeared.
Oh, yeah.
Hmm.
I built my life around him.
Oh, he did his part, you know? I mean, every once in a while, he got himself cleaned up, got a good job, went out and did it, you know? Jesus.
His two feet would never walk in the same direction.
He would backslide every time.
Decade of that, man.
So during the last time, when was living with me, oh, my God, we had a fight.
It was one of those big fights, you know? Where you, like, say all the things that you should never say to anybody that you love.
And he spat at me.
My own brother.
I got all up in his face, and I shook my finger, and I said, "Man, you need to correct your mind.
" And he bit me.
He bit top of my finger clean off and he swallowed it.
After After he disappeared, I realized I was relieved.
A person can only give so much.
And then they got nothing left to go around.
[INHALES.]
Hey! You in there? You know where you are? You know who I am? You're gonna be a little bit groggy.
Stay still.
Luckily, our girls have a nasty habit, so you're feeling a little less pain.
[CLEARING THROAT.]
[THUMPING, RATTLING.]
- Where were you? - There is something else in this house.
What? I saw something.
[WHISPERING.]
Not one of them.
It's something worse.
I mean, I I think maybe it's, uh [LOW GROWLING.]
what they pray to.
What are you talking about? There was a door.
Not like any other doors.
It was a red door.
And I could feel the air around it just trembling, like like like a boiler room.
I thought it might be a way downstairs, but when I got close, it, like, repelled me.
Come on, we have to get out of here.
We have to find a way out of here, let's go.
- Come on.
- No.
That's easy for you to say.
He hasn't told you what you'll become.
Afterwards, I mean.
[DARK TONE.]
[EXHALES.]
You will be very [WHISPERS.]
very hungry.
Anything is better than going insane.
I feel like I am catching on fire in slow motion.
Zo our entire lives, we have been on the edge of something terrible.
Don't you just, for once in your life, just wanna be taken care of? Protected? That is like saying you are so scared of being disfigured that you have decided to let someone cut your face off.
I think I am here for a reason.
I think things happen for a reason.
I am going to go find us a door that leads downstairs.
- [DOOR SLAMS.]
- [SCOFFS.]
Ugh! [SIGHS.]
[LOW RUMBLING.]
[SCRAPING, RATTLING.]
[RUMBLING INTENSIFIES.]
[TAPPING, SCRAPING.]
[EERIE MUSIC.]
[CLATTERING.]
[CLATTERING CONTINUES.]
[DARK MUSIC.]
[SCRATCHING.]
[RUSTLING.]
[THUD.]
[SCRAPING.]
[DARK MUSIC.]
[HEART BEATING.]
Oh.
Is it Huh! Who the hell are you? I'm a gardener.
Is that who I am or what I do? So you like questions? I like riddles.
Do you know what's behind that red door and why it will not let me through it? That's not a riddle.
Okay, um How how about this? Um I'm I'm not a Peach, a a fly, yet I get past the red door.
What am I? A child.
Thank you.
[RATTLING.]
[SCRAPING.]
[TEARING AND SQUISHING.]
[STRUGGLING EFFORTS.]
[STRAINING.]
[SIGHS, PANTING.]
[CRACKLING, STRETCHING.]
[RIPPING AND SQUISHING.]
[GRUNTS.]
Izzy? Can you get me home? You have to hide just a little bit longer.
Okay? And up.
Now, I'm doing the lifting.
- [GRUNTING.]
- Go Luke! Ah, not too much.
Not too much.
Okay, okay.
[SIGHS.]
[MOUTHING.]
Yeah, he did this to you.
He missed your artery, or you'd be dead.
- Nicked you real good.
- Ah [WINCES.]
No, don't try.
And, hey, look.
[THUMPING AT DOOR.]
Oh.
Sit.
Stay.
Don't move, don't move.
[DOGS BARKING.]
[DARK MUSIC.]
Okay.
Now we're gonna practice standing up.
Ready? Down.
- Go down.
- [MOANS.]
Down.
Down.
Down.
There we go.
Stay with me.
All right.
Stay with me.
There you go.
I'm gonna put you down.
- [GROANS.]
- Okay, easy.
There's a way out.
The bootleg tunnel.
Okay, just hang on for me.
[PANTING.]
[GRUNTING.]
[SQUISHING.]
[LABORED BREATHING.]
[LAUGHS.]
[CREEPY OLD TIMEY MUSIC PLAYING.]
Nice move.
- [LAUGHS.]
- [DOOR CREAKS.]
Hi, Alice.
Come join us.
What's on your mind? It's about Izzy.
She came back? I had that feeling she'd have come to you.
Will you take me to her? What will you do Alice, we don't eat children.
We'll send her home, and then I'll fix you.
Where is she? [TENSE, EERIE MUSIC.]
I'll show you.
Good girl.
Come on, sugar plum.
I can't wait for you to see where I live.
I got a couple of kids your age.
I think you're all gonna get along so swell.
You wanna feel my belly? Go on.
[GASPS.]
He kicked for you.
Aw, presh.
Come on.
[BREATHING SHARPLY.]
[OMINOUS MUSIC.]
Hey, you ain't got nothing to be scared of.
Okay? Hey, let's go home.
Yeah.
Right through that pretty, red door.
[CHUCKLES.]
- Uh! - [BANGING AND RATTLING.]
[GASPS.]
[BANGING AND RATTLING CONTINUES.]
[GUNSHOT.]
[THUD, GUNSHOTS.]
[DOOR OPENS.]
[STEPS CREAKING.]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
Luke? Are you here to finish what you started? He came to you - for help.
- I found him where you left him for dead.
You brought back the head.
Evidence.
I came to set right what I did.
- I'll take it from here.
- Like hell you will.
I I wanted to make it quick.
I was afraid of what they'd do to you.
Father of the year.
This ain't the mob, son.
You can't just go to the The Feds for help.
I panicked.
[EXHALES.]
[PANTING.]
Now? Now we're both marked.
Now we get the hell out of here and figure out our next move.
I took care of them.
He means they're not dead.
They'll get back up.
He means we have to cut off their heads.
Are you with us or them? Let's get started.
[SIGHS.]
[DOOR OPENS.]
They're looking for a kid.
They need her for something.
Yeah, but it's not what you think.
[CHUCKLES.]
Izzy was lost up here, but I found her.
And they let her go.
A are you sure about that? Zoey It's like I'm in this burning building, and I could either be burned alive or jump.
And I don't know what's gonna happen when I jump, but I know that there's someone down there to catch me.
[DOOR OPENS, SQUISHING.]
[OLD TIMEY MUSIC PLAYING.]
It's time to go.
Go put on your dress.
[LABORED BREATHING.]
[ORGAN MUSIC.]
[PRAYING INDISTINCTLY.]
[SQUISHING.]
[MURMURS INDISTINCTLY.]
Okay.
[CHORUS SINGING IN LATIN.]
Open.
[INHALES SHARPLY.]
Uh! [GAGGING.]
[COUGHING, GAGGING.]
Got you.
- There.
- [COUGHS.]
[SIGHS.]
Yeah.
[METALLIC CLINK.]
[CHORUS SINGING IN LATIN.]
[LAUGHS.]
Oh, yeah.
Oh, great, sweetie.
[LIGHT CLAPPING.]
It's great, Grandma.
It's great.
- Oh.
- [LAUGHS.]
[EERIE MUSIC.]
[GRUNTS.]
[SAWING CONTINUES.]
[GRUNTS.]
[TENSE MUSIC.]
[FLIES BUZZING.]
[SHRIEKING.]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC.]
[EERIE PIANO MUSIC.]
[GURGLING.]
[GURGLING.]
[GASPS.]
[FOOTSTEPS CLICKING.]
[GURGLING.]
[PANTING.]
[FOREBODING MUSIC.]
[GURGLING.]
It's all right.
Okay.
Stay with me.
It's all right, right? Right.
It's okay.
Run.
[GASPS.]
[DOOR CREAKS.]
Aren't you coming? I have to go back for my sister.
Go to your hiding place and wait there, okay? If I don't get there before the sun comes up, go to 421 Dulap Street.
421 Dulap Street.
- Say it.
- 421 Dulap Street.
Right.
Okay, good.
Okay.
[WHISPERS.]
Go.
Alice.
[DOOR RATTLES CLOSED.]
Alice.
They didn't send her home.
They were going to feed her to something.
Did you hear me? [SIGHS.]
[WHISPERS.]
I remember that feeling.
I felt the exact same thing you're feeling.
Mm.
It's like you don't have a care in the world.
You don't care about anyone or anything.
They lied about Izzy.
I know.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
- [SIGHS.]
- Let's go.
Alice? Alice.
Alice please, just wake up, Alice.
[SOBBING.]
What are you doing? I want to go back to the way I was.
[SQUISHING.]
[INDISTINCT WHISPERS.]
[COUGHS, GULPS.]
[MOANS.]
[GRUNTING.]
[MOANS.]
Now we get the hell out of here.
[MARKER SCRATCHING.]
Anywhere but here.
He means, what about the people who live here? Remember that babysitter you had? You were six.
Carly or Christie or something like that.
One day, she tells you, you gotta eat all your food 'cause there's a million starving kids in other countries.
And about a week later, the mailman comes knocking on the door.
Says he keeps finding leaky packages in the mailbox addressed to "The Starving Kids.
" I had to sit you down.
And tell you, kid, you can't save everyone.
Know what I'm saying? I'm saying that compartmentalization is a psychological survival skill.
You gotta take care of those you know, those you love.
Those you don't, they're less of a priority.
You get me? [GUNSHOT.]
[GASPS.]
- [PANTING.]
- [GUN CLATTERS ON FLOOR.]
[DARK TONE.]
[LIGHT MUSIC.]
What did you make tonight, Mama? I was thinking of making a big casserole.
You poor thing.
You must be exhausted after today.
And hungry.
[SILVERWARE DINGS ON GLASS.]
In this place, away from craziness and cruelty, where family is precious, we grow stronger welcoming our adopted daughter Alice.
- To Alice.
- To Alice.
BOTH: To Alice.
Mmm.
[GASPS.]
Mmm.
My, oh, my.
Come on, Alice.
Take a bite.
Mmm.
Oh! [CLAPPING.]
Mmm.
Where's Zoey? [DARK, TENSE MUSIC.]
[PANTING.]
I think she left.
She did? And she's all worked up about Izzy.
[LIGHT MUSIC.]
[GUTTURAL RUMBLING.]
[TENSE MUSIC.]
[FLIES BUZZING.]
You coming? [MUSIC STOPS.]
[FLIES BUZZING.]
[WHISPERS.]
Wait.
[LOUD CREAKING.]
God I am your servant.
- [GROWLING.]
- Don't be angry with us.
Please.
[INTENSE RUMBLING.]
[GROWLING.]
- [SHRIEKING.]
- [SCREAMING.]
Wait! [WET CRUNCHING.]
[LIQUID SPILLING.]
- [GROWLING.]
- I'll bring her back to you.
Your child we marked.
I promise you.
[INTENSE MUSIC.]