Dante's Cove (2005) s03e05 Episode Script
Naked In The Dark
[Woman.]
Previously on I pIedge to foIIow aIways in the wiII of my avatar, Griffin.
- You know I've never-- - Are you sure you want me to? I've never been so sure of anything in my Iife.
[groans, gasps.]
The bitch is back.
A horribIe eviI has come to Dante's Cove.
[screaming.]
EIena's faIIen victim to the House of Shadows.
I broke free of Bro.
You toId me you were happy.
I Iearned the powers of Tresum.
I've been steaIing Bro's power, IittIe by IittIe.
You were right.
It's the House of Shadows.
It's MicheIIe.
I found this Tresum speII that wiII heIp reveaI the truth about the past.
Whoa.
I'm a scientist.
Go ahead.
The speII says you have to touch the book.
Britt, don't! [grunts.]
You can't take that much power from one person! You couId kiII someone! Because you decided to fooI with resurrection, we aII may have to suffer for eternity.
Grace, Iet me heIp right this.
This is it! The box that imprisoned the House of Shadows.
MicheIIe? [snarIing.]
Like a knife in my heart l'm dying Dying to be with you Burning inside me Dying, dying to be Like a moth to a flame l'm dying Dying to be with you Run but you can't hide Dying Dying to be with you l can't kill this deep desire for you l must have the rush of capturing you l can't save myself from thinking of you l won't stop until the day l have you Burning inside me Burning inside me Dying to be with you Dying to be with you With you [thunder.]
[snarIing.]
I need your power now, Grace.
[Grace.]
Are you sure that's how it's done? Yes.
You have the power and I have the knowIedge.
Together, we can defeat her.
But I need it aII! AII the power I can get! Trust me! Uhh! Yes! [groans.]
Shadow show yourseIf! Shadow rise! Leave your mortaI host! [grunting.]
You did it.
Now aII we have to do is-- [gasping.]
- Oh! Oh! - [Man.]
Grace! Grace, where are you? Griff! Griff, come quickIy.
[sighs, groans.]
[Diana.]
Oh, take me, Shadow! Oh, I'm yours! Oh! Enter me, Shadow! [moaning.]
Oh, yes.
Thank you, sister.
Oh! I thank you.
Mmm.
The Shadows thank you.
[grunts.]
Ah.
[chattering.]
[Woman.]
Got another setup over here.
You want to Ieave it out? [Man.]
Great.
You want to move 'em off the fIoor? - Yeah, but I'm gonna restock first.
- AII right.
[breathing heaviIy.]
[thunder.]
[screams.]
Aaahh! [Iaughing.]
[screaming.]
[groaning.]
Uhhh! [thundercIap.]
[Diana.]
Ambrosius! [Iaughing.]
Diana.
What's happening? We're ceIebrating the ''new me.
'' Seems my friends made a mess of your cIub.
So Grace was right aII aIong.
The House of Shadows is coming.
Oh, Ambrosius, can't you teII? We're aIready here.
[thunder.]
[grunts.]
My parents.
I kiIIed my parents.
Yes, you did.
And you aIso got us into this predicament.
I was dead! You brought me back into this heII.
No, not me.
That was Diana's doing.
Van.
Van.
I have to find Van.
She'II know what to do.
[snickers.]
Van's dead.
Don't you remember? You kiIIed her, too.
[crying.]
I can't be responsibIe for aII of this.
I am not a murderer! I know.
I have to find a way to end this.
AhpIease Don't struggIe.
The Shadow's power, is poisoning you, Diana.
Reject it before it's too Iate.
With every mind absorbed by the Shadows, my strength grows.
I'm more powerfuI than I ever was.
It's an iIIusion, Diana.
The Shadows are using you.
This isn't your power! I aIways Iiked you, Ambrosius.
I'II offer you this freedom from your mortaIity.
Your death wiII onIy take a few minutes.
Not so for Griff and Grace.
I'II stretch their screams over eons.
Good-bye, Ambrosius.
[thunder.]
[high-pitched chittering.]
Ooh, my head! Arise! I envisioned a much more eIegant death for you.
But torn apart by your own empIoyees - has a certain poetry.
- ReIease these bonds.
ReIease these bonds, ReIease these bonds, ReIease these bonds-- Drop! Go! It's no use disappearing! When I catch you, I'm gonna make you burn! MicheIIe? We shouIdn't be here.
We need to make sure she's okay.
Make sure she's okay? She took out EIena's throat.
- Ow! Unh! - [cIattering.]
MicheIIe? MicheIIe, it's Toby and Adam.
Are you okay? Oh! God, that smeII! Something's rotten in there.
Uhh! I heard something.
[thunder.]
Adam? Adam! What's wrong? It's Toby.
Adam! [grunts.]
HeIp! Adam.
I'm being puIIed in! It's got me! [screaming.]
HeIp! [gasping.]
[door sIams.]
[panting.]
Adam! Adam! Adam! [high-pitched chittering.]
No! Stay out! You can't-- You can't-- You can't have me! [expIosion.]
Ohh You pack the other one yet? Yep, I'II go get it.
Good.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Have you seen what's going on out there? This whoIe town's gone crazy.
I bareIy made it out of there aIive.
You need another Tresum master.
Oh, you know one? A reaI one? I'm reaI! Oh, pIease.
You've dipped your toes in the shaIIows, boy.
Don't pretend you're ready to swim with the sharks.
[screaming.]
[high-pitched chittering.]
PIease, get them out of me! - What's happening? - No! Don't go near him.
It's the House of Shadows.
It's trying to take him over.
WeII, Iet him try.
He needs heIp! We don't dare risk it.
Safer just to kiII him.
What? What? SteaI the breath and beating heart-- No! Sever the wasp, ruin its sting.
Leech the poison from its nose! Toby.
Toby, baby.
You aII right? [panting.]
Maybe he has some skiII after aII.
Adam.
Adam's gone.
They took him.
Adam.
You were trying to kiII him.
He was infected! I was protecting aII of us, you incIuded.
Cut off the gangrenous foot before it kiIIs the Ieg.
That is so coId.
Remind me never to ask you for any heIp.
[snickers.]
I may seem crueI to you, but this enemy won't hesitate to sIaughter us on sight.
Look at what they've done to EIena.
She's bareIy hanging on by a thread.
And if we're expected to survive, we must foIIow its exampIe.
No mercy aIIowed.
That works great for you.
You don't have anybody eIse to care about.
Think what you Iike.
But if your reckIess behavior endangers us again, you wiII be dust before you breathe your next breath, young man.
Bro, now's not the time.
Youwere right.
TeII me what you saw.
The Diana we know is Iost.
The Shadows controI her now, and she's coming after you-- us.
We can't defend ourseIves here.
WeII, where eIse can we go? Griffin's estate.
It's a Tresum stronghoId.
We'II have a better chance of withstanding an attack from Diana if we go there.
No.
I won't move EIena.
She couId die.
Death wouId be mercifuI compared to what's in store if we stay.
Like it or not we're in this together aII of us.
Let's, uh, maybe catch a drink or something.
Great.
Hey, is H2Eau open? [Iaughs.]
What'd I do, man? [grunts.]
[bIows Ianding.]
[grunting.]
You were smart to bring them here.
We know next to nothing about combating the House of Shadows.
Ambrosius just went to study the Sun Book right now.
WeII, I don't pIace high hopes on his success.
AII right, I'm gonna go out and heIp the others.
Okay.
[Man's voice on radio.]
Fires burn unabated.
Violence is rampant.
lt's simply chaos out there.
Callers have suggested chemical warfare, but there's no evidence of an attack.
Whatever the cause, it's sweeping through the population at an alarming rate, yet another horrific event for the beleaguered town of Dante's Cove.
[switches off radio.]
Tomorrow, aII of this wiII be over.
You'II find Adam.
He'II be okay.
No, you didn't see it.
When Adam got infected, in a minute, he was gone.
We'II find a way to get him back.
Don't Iie, okay? Not to me.
Why didn't I do something more to heIp? Listen, if you'd done anything different, then the Shadows wouId've got you, too.
Yeah, but at Ieast I'd be with Adam now, not waiting to die without him.
Hang these on every window in the house.
- What are they? - Watchman berries.
They'II keep the Shadows out.
Is that the strongest weapon you've got? We work with what we have.
What about me? I know Tresum.
I can heIp.
What can you do? I can summon firebaIIs.
FirebaIIs.
Yeah, it's a better fight than magic berries, I can teII you that.
This isn't about a show of force.
It's about survivaI.
We don't stand a chance, facing Diana directIy.
She's too powerfuI.
We need to concentrate on weathering her attack.
Why am I even Iistening to you? I'm five times more powerfuI than you are right now.
Yeah, you're powerfuI.
I can smeII it on you.
TeII me something.
Have you ever Iost controI of an enchantment? [snickers.]
If you start sIinging unstabIe firebaIIs, you'II be more dangerous to us than to Diana.
I know you want to heIp, but using your magic is not the way.
[Ambrosius.]
Book of the Sun, reveaI your secrets.
Book of the Sun, reveaI your secrets.
Book of the Sun, reveaI your secrets.
Damn it! Aah! Hey.
This is Iudicrous.
Nothing makes sense.
[panting.]
Do you want this back? Look.
The instructions for defeating the Shadows are in code.
I understand wanting to keep secrets, but why encrypt the chapter that detaiIs how to save the worId? WeII, this one's Grace's.
So Grace finaIIy found a precious book? Yeah.
MicheIIe Ieft it when she attacked EIena.
Maybe this one has something you can use.
It's useIess! Written in the gibberish of Moon Witches.
WeII, you don't have to take it.
Look, just give it here, quickIy.
It's ingenious.
This is the key.
Okay.
Let's go teII the others.
Go.
Okay.
This is it.
Hey.
Hey.
Go heIp Kevin and Toby.
They'II teII you what to do.
Okay.
The two books have fused into one.
We've had the answer the entire time, but because we kept the books divided, we just couIdn't see it.
When the books were written, the rivaIry between the Houses of Sun and Moon didn't exist.
The Tresum scribe didn't foresee a time when the two houses wouIdn't share information freeIy.
So, what does the prophecy say? ''A mighty Tresum master wiII IeveI the pIaying fieId ''in the war against the Shadows.
''But onIy a virgin can deIiver the kiIIing stroke to cIose the Shadow portaI forever.
'' See, we have everything that we need.
The portaI, which is obviousIy the box, we possess that.
Griffin, you and I are the Tresum masters, and the Virgin is Grace.
Now, aII we have to do is fight the battIe.
Mmm not exactIy.
I'mnot a virgin.
What? [Ambrosius.]
As of when? WeII, I don't see how a specific date can concern you.
Oh, this is rich.
For 200 years, you kept yourseIf under Iock and key, and you couIdn't wait just three more days to dust off your maidenhead? [sighs angriIy.]
How are we supposed to find a virgin to fight the House of Shadows? We are in Dante's Cove, for Christ's sake.
[sighing.]
[Michelle.]
You'd prefer l was dead? l should never have let Van save you.
[Diana.]
The consequences have been too dire.
l killed my parents.
[Grace.]
Yes, you did, and you also got us into this predicament.
l was dead! l have to find a way to end this.
She's here! Ohhh.
[Diana.]
Darkness has taken me.
Take over this pIace! Shit! We've got to arm ourseIves.
Come on.
[thunder.]
[breathing heaviIy.]
[Iaughing.]
Get the others.
Recheck every window and door.
Make sure everything is secure.
Okay.
War has come.
I understand Diana feeIs wronged, but this is insane.
The Shadows have her mind.
She's ruIed by that bitterness now.
[breathing fitfuIIy.]
First, the House of Shadows wiII absorb our powers.
We are the most potent source they have.
Then the rest is up to Diana and every sort of revenge she chooses to exact.
Oh, shit.
- [high-pitched chittering.]
- Aah! Oh, God! No! Hey.
Things are awfuIIy quiet out there.
Yeah, not for Iong, I bet.
Okay, we got some scissors, a kitchen knife-- CandIestick.
Oh, and I've got pepper spray on my key chain.
What, you're-- you're arming yourseIf with these utensiIs? [snickers.]
They're useIess against the Shadows.
Then give us something we can use! [Britt.]
I'm not going down without a fight! This battIe wiII be fought and won with magic.
No, I'm not gonna reIy on superstition to save us.
I onIy trust something I can touch, things that are reaI.
Tresum is very reaI, and it's a powerfuI aIIy-- [Britt.]
It's a menace.
Your witchcraft onIy causes probIems.
It soIves nothing.
No, I wiII never touch your magic.
[drops knife.]
You'II never touch magic.
And yet MicheIIe tried to make you use magic.
Yeah.
Twice.
Once to heIp her, and then to heIp EIena.
The prophecy.
We have it aII wrong.
We thought ''virgin'' meant untouched by pIeasures, but it doesn't.
Untouched by magic.
That's why she attacked EIena to make me desperate enough to try it.
Of course, and because you didn't do it-- The two of us were abIe to fight her off before.
ExactIy.
[Griff.]
Now the Scripture makes sense.
OnIy a powerfuI Tresum master and a non-magic warrior can defeat the House of Shadows and cIose the portaI forever.
The Cove has its Virgin again.
Quit hanging our Iives on these oId prophecies! You guys obviousIy can't agree on what they mean.
We need to start thinking about this as a fight and get ready to kick ass.
I know I am.
[snickers.]
That's exactIy the sort of ego the Shadows hunger for.
True Tresum is steeped in discipIine and order.
If you wish to heIp us win this war, Aspirant, then why don't you go repIenish the Watchman berries on the windows.
[sighs.]
This is so stupid! Why can't they just admit that I'm the strongest? [Trevor.]
Why can't they just admit you're the strongest? The others don't respect you.
AII they care about are ruIes, but you're beyond that.
You're so beautifuI and free, it terrifies them.
You're so beautifuI and free, it terrifies them.
I'm not afraid of you.
Why wouId you be? You're more powerfuI than aII three.
They trembIe behind berries, whiIe onIy you are brave enough to face me.
I can destroy you.
Don't forge-- I know you can.
You couId save them aII.
They'd respect you then.
You couId save them aII.
They'd respect you then.
Power rippIes through your body.
Every muscIe puIses with it.
So beautifuI.
If onIy I couId teach you.
Yes.
Show them who you reaIIy are.
They know you onIy as a boy.
Prove to them you're now a man.
[breathing heaviIy.]
Ahhh I'm gonna go check on EIena.
I'd better go keep watch out front.
It's a cIever safeguard-- different inscriptions on either side of the box.
Both must be read at the same time in order to operate it.
No one man can open the prison.
This writing is ancient.
I can't decipher it.
''Bury the viper's nest in fury's maeIstrom.
'' [thunder.]
[Kevin.]
Diana! What the fuck is Kevin doing out there? Oh, that idiot! He's gotta get out of there.
She'II obIiterate him! No! You'II Iet the Shadows in! Kevin, no! This stops now! Once and for aII.
[grunting.]
Aaaahhh! [grunting.]
[Iaughing.]
Oh, you're wonderfuI, Kevin! [Iaughs.]
You sent him.
You sent Trevor 'cause you knew I'd take you on.
[grunting.]
[gasping.]
[screaming.]
I knew I couId count on your arrogance! [groaning.]
Now I use your power to destroy your friends.
[Kevin groaning.]
Uhh! Oh, such a sad IittIe boy you are.
[mock crying, Iaughing.]
Oh, how I reIish picking you off, one by one! [Iaughing.]
Oh, come out, come out, wherever you are! [Iaughing.]
Oh, not even Kevin deserves this.
Look, I have got to save him-- No, that's exactIy what she wants.
She's using him as bait to get you cIose enough to absorb your power.
Let him go, Ambrosius.
I can't.
I Iove him, I don't expect you to understand.
- I'II go with you, then.
- No.
Without powers, you'II onIy be another sacrifice.
She'd onIy get stronger.
Aah! [groaning.]
You stay here.
Grace and I wiII go with Ambrosius.
If we can't rescue Kevin, at Ieast we can remove him as a source of power for her.
Kevin! [groaning.]
[Both groaning.]
What the fuck is happening out there? They're trying to save Kevin.
Diana's got him! What the fuck? [strained.]
Grace! Weave your poisonous web.
ReIease! Cords of bIood and smoke, break! [grunting.]
Oh.
[hinges creaking.]
[grunting.]
Toby! Toby, heIp! They're getting in, the Shadows! HeIp! They're getting in! Toby! [Britt grunting.]
I'm sorry, Bro.
I'm sorry, too, Kevin.
[Both grunting.]
[whimpering.]
Wait.
Wait.
What are you doing here? PIease! I know how to end aII this.
Get Kevin in safe.
Then back to the box.
[whimpering.]
[door shuts.]
AII of this happened because Van resurrected me at the SoIstice.
We know aII that.
If I'd have stayed dead, the House of Shadows never wouId have escaped.
Stop wasting our time with your pathetic regrets! Listen to me! I've got to die.
Oh, weII, I'm happy to obIige.
The prophecy is cIear.
Britt is the one who has to cIose the portaI.
You aren't part of the pIan.
Wait! So strong! We've gotta hoId it! [grunting.]
[Adam.]
Toby! HeIp me! No, it's a trick! It's gotta be! No.
No! It's for your own good.
Trust me.
Griffin! Let me outta here! ''Bury the viper's nest at fury's maeIstrom.
'' We've got to get this box open before Diana gets here.
It's too Iate! [door creaking.]
[breathing heaviIy.]
Diana, stop! There's no need to take this confIict further.
I was a good and IoyaI servant to Tresum CounciI tiII you tore my Iife away! [Diana Iaughing.]
You created me, Griffin.
And I thank you for it.
Aah! No! Grace, the box! [groaning.]
Bury the viper's nest in fury's maeIstrom.
Open your dark embrace.
RecIaim your denizens.
Let me out of here! Damn it! [Grace and Ambrosius chanting.]
[Iaughing.]
Bury the viper's nest in fury's maeIstrom.
Open your dark embrace.
RecIaim your denizens.
[Grace.]
Bury the viper's nest in fury's maeIstrom.
Open your dark embrace.
RecIaim your denizens.
[Iaughing.]
[moaning.]
Grace, concentrate! Bury the viper's nest in fury's maeIstrom.
Open your dark embrace! RecIaim your-- [Adam.]
PIease, Toby, where are you? Adam! Britt, Iet go! No! The Shadows are in there! So is Adam! I'm not Ietting him go again! Uhh! Toby! No! brace! RecIaim your denizens.
Grace, the incantation is not working! The prophecy is wrong! We're Iosing this battIe! Diana, stop this war! This isn't what our father wished for you! He knew I was the future of Tresum, and right he was.
I wiII be the one to drag it into darkness! Virgin, bring on your kiIIing stroke! Ohhhh [bIowing wind.]
[screaming.]
[wind bIowing.]
Uhh! Surrender, Diana! Don't make us throw you into the void aIong with your Shadows.
Oh, face it, Griffin.
The Shadows are here to stay, and so am I.
[grunting.]
Don't Iet her destroy the box! Open your dark embrace! RecIaim your denizens! Ancient box, keeper of the abyss, Iet your years consume you! [panting.]
[gasping.]
Corrosion, take your hinges! The acids of time wear at your face! Give me the knife.
I can't! Trust me, Britt.
I c-- Trust me.
I've Iet the Shadows into this worId.
I'II take them with me when I die! MicheIIe, no! Uhh! [grunting.]
[Both panting.]
It's okay.
It's okay.
[crying.]
[grunting, panting.]
[Grace and Ambrosius chanting.]
[groaning.]
[sobbing.]
[gasping.]
Timefor us to die.
[whimpering.]
[chanting continues.]
embrace! RecIaim your denizens! Open your dark embrace! RecIaim your denizens.
[metaI cIanking.]
[metaI cIanking.]
Bury the viper's nest in fury's-- [screaming.]
[birds chirping.]
[both panting.]
[sobbing.]
[sobbing.]
No! [crying.]
MicheIIe! No! No! [sobbing.]
No.
God! PIease come back! PIease come back.
PIease come back.
[sniffIing.]
[kissing.]
[breathes heaviIy.]
[sighs.]
PIease come back.
PIease come back.
[sobbing.]
[yeIIing.]
Can't you do something? MicheIIe.
MicheIIe, why? Why did you do it? MicheIIe accepted her roIe in this.
She was the Shadow's portaI into our worId.
Her death was their exit out.
The box, just a prison.
And she was very brave.
Don't be sad.
Death is onIy a transformation.
Besides there's someone eIse who needs you more.
What's going on? EIena.
Oh, God-- I'm so happy to see you.
[breathing heaviIy.]
[sniffIing.]
Mmm We won.
I knew you wouId.
[both chuckIe.]
[sighs.]
But Toby.
He's gone.
He's Iost to the Shadows.
[tearfuIIy.]
No.
No.
I'm sorry.
I know how much you Ioved him.
Take me home.
[whispering.]
What the heII happened? Whoa.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
[chuckIes.]
What wiII you do with it? I'm deIivering it to the Tresum CounciI for safe-keeping.
This box is very dangerous.
You can't just hand it over to those bureaucrats.
I'm sworn to the CounciI, Grace.
I don't get to question my orders.
WouId you ever consider Ieaving the CounciI? It'd have to be a good reason, to take that risk.
WouId this do? [sighs.]
Oh, if Tresum CounciI ever finds out we have a chi-- Shh.
Never thought I'd greet sIeep so happiIy.
And you next to me.
I'm sorry about your friends.
The hardest part is not knowing what happened to them.
At Ieast they have each other.
Yeah trapped in some Shadow worId.
[sighs.]
Kevin.
You're not trapped.
You're free.
Free to go, if you choose.
I'm right where I want to be.
[nightmarish whining.]
I Iove you, Ambrosius.
[chuckIing.]
Mmm.
[techno.]
Like a knife in my heart l'm dying Dying to be with you Burning inside me Dying, dying to be Like a moth to a flame l'm dying Dying to be with you Run but you can't hide Dying Dying to be with you When l first saw you A feeling crept over me You'd be my savior With one kiss, you'd set me free Your flesh and your blood lt's just a small sacrifice Do not resist me Eternal life has its price Careful what you wish for.
Like a moth to a flame l'm dying Dying to be with you Run but you can't hide Dying Dying to be with you l can't kill this deep desire for you l must have the rush of capturing you l can't save myself from thinking of you l won't stop until the day l do Burning inside me Burning inside me Dying to be with you Dying to be with you With you CIosed-Captioned By J.
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Previously on I pIedge to foIIow aIways in the wiII of my avatar, Griffin.
- You know I've never-- - Are you sure you want me to? I've never been so sure of anything in my Iife.
[groans, gasps.]
The bitch is back.
A horribIe eviI has come to Dante's Cove.
[screaming.]
EIena's faIIen victim to the House of Shadows.
I broke free of Bro.
You toId me you were happy.
I Iearned the powers of Tresum.
I've been steaIing Bro's power, IittIe by IittIe.
You were right.
It's the House of Shadows.
It's MicheIIe.
I found this Tresum speII that wiII heIp reveaI the truth about the past.
Whoa.
I'm a scientist.
Go ahead.
The speII says you have to touch the book.
Britt, don't! [grunts.]
You can't take that much power from one person! You couId kiII someone! Because you decided to fooI with resurrection, we aII may have to suffer for eternity.
Grace, Iet me heIp right this.
This is it! The box that imprisoned the House of Shadows.
MicheIIe? [snarIing.]
Like a knife in my heart l'm dying Dying to be with you Burning inside me Dying, dying to be Like a moth to a flame l'm dying Dying to be with you Run but you can't hide Dying Dying to be with you l can't kill this deep desire for you l must have the rush of capturing you l can't save myself from thinking of you l won't stop until the day l have you Burning inside me Burning inside me Dying to be with you Dying to be with you With you [thunder.]
[snarIing.]
I need your power now, Grace.
[Grace.]
Are you sure that's how it's done? Yes.
You have the power and I have the knowIedge.
Together, we can defeat her.
But I need it aII! AII the power I can get! Trust me! Uhh! Yes! [groans.]
Shadow show yourseIf! Shadow rise! Leave your mortaI host! [grunting.]
You did it.
Now aII we have to do is-- [gasping.]
- Oh! Oh! - [Man.]
Grace! Grace, where are you? Griff! Griff, come quickIy.
[sighs, groans.]
[Diana.]
Oh, take me, Shadow! Oh, I'm yours! Oh! Enter me, Shadow! [moaning.]
Oh, yes.
Thank you, sister.
Oh! I thank you.
Mmm.
The Shadows thank you.
[grunts.]
Ah.
[chattering.]
[Woman.]
Got another setup over here.
You want to Ieave it out? [Man.]
Great.
You want to move 'em off the fIoor? - Yeah, but I'm gonna restock first.
- AII right.
[breathing heaviIy.]
[thunder.]
[screams.]
Aaahh! [Iaughing.]
[screaming.]
[groaning.]
Uhhh! [thundercIap.]
[Diana.]
Ambrosius! [Iaughing.]
Diana.
What's happening? We're ceIebrating the ''new me.
'' Seems my friends made a mess of your cIub.
So Grace was right aII aIong.
The House of Shadows is coming.
Oh, Ambrosius, can't you teII? We're aIready here.
[thunder.]
[grunts.]
My parents.
I kiIIed my parents.
Yes, you did.
And you aIso got us into this predicament.
I was dead! You brought me back into this heII.
No, not me.
That was Diana's doing.
Van.
Van.
I have to find Van.
She'II know what to do.
[snickers.]
Van's dead.
Don't you remember? You kiIIed her, too.
[crying.]
I can't be responsibIe for aII of this.
I am not a murderer! I know.
I have to find a way to end this.
AhpIease Don't struggIe.
The Shadow's power, is poisoning you, Diana.
Reject it before it's too Iate.
With every mind absorbed by the Shadows, my strength grows.
I'm more powerfuI than I ever was.
It's an iIIusion, Diana.
The Shadows are using you.
This isn't your power! I aIways Iiked you, Ambrosius.
I'II offer you this freedom from your mortaIity.
Your death wiII onIy take a few minutes.
Not so for Griff and Grace.
I'II stretch their screams over eons.
Good-bye, Ambrosius.
[thunder.]
[high-pitched chittering.]
Ooh, my head! Arise! I envisioned a much more eIegant death for you.
But torn apart by your own empIoyees - has a certain poetry.
- ReIease these bonds.
ReIease these bonds, ReIease these bonds, ReIease these bonds-- Drop! Go! It's no use disappearing! When I catch you, I'm gonna make you burn! MicheIIe? We shouIdn't be here.
We need to make sure she's okay.
Make sure she's okay? She took out EIena's throat.
- Ow! Unh! - [cIattering.]
MicheIIe? MicheIIe, it's Toby and Adam.
Are you okay? Oh! God, that smeII! Something's rotten in there.
Uhh! I heard something.
[thunder.]
Adam? Adam! What's wrong? It's Toby.
Adam! [grunts.]
HeIp! Adam.
I'm being puIIed in! It's got me! [screaming.]
HeIp! [gasping.]
[door sIams.]
[panting.]
Adam! Adam! Adam! [high-pitched chittering.]
No! Stay out! You can't-- You can't-- You can't have me! [expIosion.]
Ohh You pack the other one yet? Yep, I'II go get it.
Good.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Have you seen what's going on out there? This whoIe town's gone crazy.
I bareIy made it out of there aIive.
You need another Tresum master.
Oh, you know one? A reaI one? I'm reaI! Oh, pIease.
You've dipped your toes in the shaIIows, boy.
Don't pretend you're ready to swim with the sharks.
[screaming.]
[high-pitched chittering.]
PIease, get them out of me! - What's happening? - No! Don't go near him.
It's the House of Shadows.
It's trying to take him over.
WeII, Iet him try.
He needs heIp! We don't dare risk it.
Safer just to kiII him.
What? What? SteaI the breath and beating heart-- No! Sever the wasp, ruin its sting.
Leech the poison from its nose! Toby.
Toby, baby.
You aII right? [panting.]
Maybe he has some skiII after aII.
Adam.
Adam's gone.
They took him.
Adam.
You were trying to kiII him.
He was infected! I was protecting aII of us, you incIuded.
Cut off the gangrenous foot before it kiIIs the Ieg.
That is so coId.
Remind me never to ask you for any heIp.
[snickers.]
I may seem crueI to you, but this enemy won't hesitate to sIaughter us on sight.
Look at what they've done to EIena.
She's bareIy hanging on by a thread.
And if we're expected to survive, we must foIIow its exampIe.
No mercy aIIowed.
That works great for you.
You don't have anybody eIse to care about.
Think what you Iike.
But if your reckIess behavior endangers us again, you wiII be dust before you breathe your next breath, young man.
Bro, now's not the time.
Youwere right.
TeII me what you saw.
The Diana we know is Iost.
The Shadows controI her now, and she's coming after you-- us.
We can't defend ourseIves here.
WeII, where eIse can we go? Griffin's estate.
It's a Tresum stronghoId.
We'II have a better chance of withstanding an attack from Diana if we go there.
No.
I won't move EIena.
She couId die.
Death wouId be mercifuI compared to what's in store if we stay.
Like it or not we're in this together aII of us.
Let's, uh, maybe catch a drink or something.
Great.
Hey, is H2Eau open? [Iaughs.]
What'd I do, man? [grunts.]
[bIows Ianding.]
[grunting.]
You were smart to bring them here.
We know next to nothing about combating the House of Shadows.
Ambrosius just went to study the Sun Book right now.
WeII, I don't pIace high hopes on his success.
AII right, I'm gonna go out and heIp the others.
Okay.
[Man's voice on radio.]
Fires burn unabated.
Violence is rampant.
lt's simply chaos out there.
Callers have suggested chemical warfare, but there's no evidence of an attack.
Whatever the cause, it's sweeping through the population at an alarming rate, yet another horrific event for the beleaguered town of Dante's Cove.
[switches off radio.]
Tomorrow, aII of this wiII be over.
You'II find Adam.
He'II be okay.
No, you didn't see it.
When Adam got infected, in a minute, he was gone.
We'II find a way to get him back.
Don't Iie, okay? Not to me.
Why didn't I do something more to heIp? Listen, if you'd done anything different, then the Shadows wouId've got you, too.
Yeah, but at Ieast I'd be with Adam now, not waiting to die without him.
Hang these on every window in the house.
- What are they? - Watchman berries.
They'II keep the Shadows out.
Is that the strongest weapon you've got? We work with what we have.
What about me? I know Tresum.
I can heIp.
What can you do? I can summon firebaIIs.
FirebaIIs.
Yeah, it's a better fight than magic berries, I can teII you that.
This isn't about a show of force.
It's about survivaI.
We don't stand a chance, facing Diana directIy.
She's too powerfuI.
We need to concentrate on weathering her attack.
Why am I even Iistening to you? I'm five times more powerfuI than you are right now.
Yeah, you're powerfuI.
I can smeII it on you.
TeII me something.
Have you ever Iost controI of an enchantment? [snickers.]
If you start sIinging unstabIe firebaIIs, you'II be more dangerous to us than to Diana.
I know you want to heIp, but using your magic is not the way.
[Ambrosius.]
Book of the Sun, reveaI your secrets.
Book of the Sun, reveaI your secrets.
Book of the Sun, reveaI your secrets.
Damn it! Aah! Hey.
This is Iudicrous.
Nothing makes sense.
[panting.]
Do you want this back? Look.
The instructions for defeating the Shadows are in code.
I understand wanting to keep secrets, but why encrypt the chapter that detaiIs how to save the worId? WeII, this one's Grace's.
So Grace finaIIy found a precious book? Yeah.
MicheIIe Ieft it when she attacked EIena.
Maybe this one has something you can use.
It's useIess! Written in the gibberish of Moon Witches.
WeII, you don't have to take it.
Look, just give it here, quickIy.
It's ingenious.
This is the key.
Okay.
Let's go teII the others.
Go.
Okay.
This is it.
Hey.
Hey.
Go heIp Kevin and Toby.
They'II teII you what to do.
Okay.
The two books have fused into one.
We've had the answer the entire time, but because we kept the books divided, we just couIdn't see it.
When the books were written, the rivaIry between the Houses of Sun and Moon didn't exist.
The Tresum scribe didn't foresee a time when the two houses wouIdn't share information freeIy.
So, what does the prophecy say? ''A mighty Tresum master wiII IeveI the pIaying fieId ''in the war against the Shadows.
''But onIy a virgin can deIiver the kiIIing stroke to cIose the Shadow portaI forever.
'' See, we have everything that we need.
The portaI, which is obviousIy the box, we possess that.
Griffin, you and I are the Tresum masters, and the Virgin is Grace.
Now, aII we have to do is fight the battIe.
Mmm not exactIy.
I'mnot a virgin.
What? [Ambrosius.]
As of when? WeII, I don't see how a specific date can concern you.
Oh, this is rich.
For 200 years, you kept yourseIf under Iock and key, and you couIdn't wait just three more days to dust off your maidenhead? [sighs angriIy.]
How are we supposed to find a virgin to fight the House of Shadows? We are in Dante's Cove, for Christ's sake.
[sighing.]
[Michelle.]
You'd prefer l was dead? l should never have let Van save you.
[Diana.]
The consequences have been too dire.
l killed my parents.
[Grace.]
Yes, you did, and you also got us into this predicament.
l was dead! l have to find a way to end this.
She's here! Ohhh.
[Diana.]
Darkness has taken me.
Take over this pIace! Shit! We've got to arm ourseIves.
Come on.
[thunder.]
[breathing heaviIy.]
[Iaughing.]
Get the others.
Recheck every window and door.
Make sure everything is secure.
Okay.
War has come.
I understand Diana feeIs wronged, but this is insane.
The Shadows have her mind.
She's ruIed by that bitterness now.
[breathing fitfuIIy.]
First, the House of Shadows wiII absorb our powers.
We are the most potent source they have.
Then the rest is up to Diana and every sort of revenge she chooses to exact.
Oh, shit.
- [high-pitched chittering.]
- Aah! Oh, God! No! Hey.
Things are awfuIIy quiet out there.
Yeah, not for Iong, I bet.
Okay, we got some scissors, a kitchen knife-- CandIestick.
Oh, and I've got pepper spray on my key chain.
What, you're-- you're arming yourseIf with these utensiIs? [snickers.]
They're useIess against the Shadows.
Then give us something we can use! [Britt.]
I'm not going down without a fight! This battIe wiII be fought and won with magic.
No, I'm not gonna reIy on superstition to save us.
I onIy trust something I can touch, things that are reaI.
Tresum is very reaI, and it's a powerfuI aIIy-- [Britt.]
It's a menace.
Your witchcraft onIy causes probIems.
It soIves nothing.
No, I wiII never touch your magic.
[drops knife.]
You'II never touch magic.
And yet MicheIIe tried to make you use magic.
Yeah.
Twice.
Once to heIp her, and then to heIp EIena.
The prophecy.
We have it aII wrong.
We thought ''virgin'' meant untouched by pIeasures, but it doesn't.
Untouched by magic.
That's why she attacked EIena to make me desperate enough to try it.
Of course, and because you didn't do it-- The two of us were abIe to fight her off before.
ExactIy.
[Griff.]
Now the Scripture makes sense.
OnIy a powerfuI Tresum master and a non-magic warrior can defeat the House of Shadows and cIose the portaI forever.
The Cove has its Virgin again.
Quit hanging our Iives on these oId prophecies! You guys obviousIy can't agree on what they mean.
We need to start thinking about this as a fight and get ready to kick ass.
I know I am.
[snickers.]
That's exactIy the sort of ego the Shadows hunger for.
True Tresum is steeped in discipIine and order.
If you wish to heIp us win this war, Aspirant, then why don't you go repIenish the Watchman berries on the windows.
[sighs.]
This is so stupid! Why can't they just admit that I'm the strongest? [Trevor.]
Why can't they just admit you're the strongest? The others don't respect you.
AII they care about are ruIes, but you're beyond that.
You're so beautifuI and free, it terrifies them.
You're so beautifuI and free, it terrifies them.
I'm not afraid of you.
Why wouId you be? You're more powerfuI than aII three.
They trembIe behind berries, whiIe onIy you are brave enough to face me.
I can destroy you.
Don't forge-- I know you can.
You couId save them aII.
They'd respect you then.
You couId save them aII.
They'd respect you then.
Power rippIes through your body.
Every muscIe puIses with it.
So beautifuI.
If onIy I couId teach you.
Yes.
Show them who you reaIIy are.
They know you onIy as a boy.
Prove to them you're now a man.
[breathing heaviIy.]
Ahhh I'm gonna go check on EIena.
I'd better go keep watch out front.
It's a cIever safeguard-- different inscriptions on either side of the box.
Both must be read at the same time in order to operate it.
No one man can open the prison.
This writing is ancient.
I can't decipher it.
''Bury the viper's nest in fury's maeIstrom.
'' [thunder.]
[Kevin.]
Diana! What the fuck is Kevin doing out there? Oh, that idiot! He's gotta get out of there.
She'II obIiterate him! No! You'II Iet the Shadows in! Kevin, no! This stops now! Once and for aII.
[grunting.]
Aaaahhh! [grunting.]
[Iaughing.]
Oh, you're wonderfuI, Kevin! [Iaughs.]
You sent him.
You sent Trevor 'cause you knew I'd take you on.
[grunting.]
[gasping.]
[screaming.]
I knew I couId count on your arrogance! [groaning.]
Now I use your power to destroy your friends.
[Kevin groaning.]
Uhh! Oh, such a sad IittIe boy you are.
[mock crying, Iaughing.]
Oh, how I reIish picking you off, one by one! [Iaughing.]
Oh, come out, come out, wherever you are! [Iaughing.]
Oh, not even Kevin deserves this.
Look, I have got to save him-- No, that's exactIy what she wants.
She's using him as bait to get you cIose enough to absorb your power.
Let him go, Ambrosius.
I can't.
I Iove him, I don't expect you to understand.
- I'II go with you, then.
- No.
Without powers, you'II onIy be another sacrifice.
She'd onIy get stronger.
Aah! [groaning.]
You stay here.
Grace and I wiII go with Ambrosius.
If we can't rescue Kevin, at Ieast we can remove him as a source of power for her.
Kevin! [groaning.]
[Both groaning.]
What the fuck is happening out there? They're trying to save Kevin.
Diana's got him! What the fuck? [strained.]
Grace! Weave your poisonous web.
ReIease! Cords of bIood and smoke, break! [grunting.]
Oh.
[hinges creaking.]
[grunting.]
Toby! Toby, heIp! They're getting in, the Shadows! HeIp! They're getting in! Toby! [Britt grunting.]
I'm sorry, Bro.
I'm sorry, too, Kevin.
[Both grunting.]
[whimpering.]
Wait.
Wait.
What are you doing here? PIease! I know how to end aII this.
Get Kevin in safe.
Then back to the box.
[whimpering.]
[door shuts.]
AII of this happened because Van resurrected me at the SoIstice.
We know aII that.
If I'd have stayed dead, the House of Shadows never wouId have escaped.
Stop wasting our time with your pathetic regrets! Listen to me! I've got to die.
Oh, weII, I'm happy to obIige.
The prophecy is cIear.
Britt is the one who has to cIose the portaI.
You aren't part of the pIan.
Wait! So strong! We've gotta hoId it! [grunting.]
[Adam.]
Toby! HeIp me! No, it's a trick! It's gotta be! No.
No! It's for your own good.
Trust me.
Griffin! Let me outta here! ''Bury the viper's nest at fury's maeIstrom.
'' We've got to get this box open before Diana gets here.
It's too Iate! [door creaking.]
[breathing heaviIy.]
Diana, stop! There's no need to take this confIict further.
I was a good and IoyaI servant to Tresum CounciI tiII you tore my Iife away! [Diana Iaughing.]
You created me, Griffin.
And I thank you for it.
Aah! No! Grace, the box! [groaning.]
Bury the viper's nest in fury's maeIstrom.
Open your dark embrace.
RecIaim your denizens.
Let me out of here! Damn it! [Grace and Ambrosius chanting.]
[Iaughing.]
Bury the viper's nest in fury's maeIstrom.
Open your dark embrace.
RecIaim your denizens.
[Grace.]
Bury the viper's nest in fury's maeIstrom.
Open your dark embrace.
RecIaim your denizens.
[Iaughing.]
[moaning.]
Grace, concentrate! Bury the viper's nest in fury's maeIstrom.
Open your dark embrace! RecIaim your-- [Adam.]
PIease, Toby, where are you? Adam! Britt, Iet go! No! The Shadows are in there! So is Adam! I'm not Ietting him go again! Uhh! Toby! No! brace! RecIaim your denizens.
Grace, the incantation is not working! The prophecy is wrong! We're Iosing this battIe! Diana, stop this war! This isn't what our father wished for you! He knew I was the future of Tresum, and right he was.
I wiII be the one to drag it into darkness! Virgin, bring on your kiIIing stroke! Ohhhh [bIowing wind.]
[screaming.]
[wind bIowing.]
Uhh! Surrender, Diana! Don't make us throw you into the void aIong with your Shadows.
Oh, face it, Griffin.
The Shadows are here to stay, and so am I.
[grunting.]
Don't Iet her destroy the box! Open your dark embrace! RecIaim your denizens! Ancient box, keeper of the abyss, Iet your years consume you! [panting.]
[gasping.]
Corrosion, take your hinges! The acids of time wear at your face! Give me the knife.
I can't! Trust me, Britt.
I c-- Trust me.
I've Iet the Shadows into this worId.
I'II take them with me when I die! MicheIIe, no! Uhh! [grunting.]
[Both panting.]
It's okay.
It's okay.
[crying.]
[grunting, panting.]
[Grace and Ambrosius chanting.]
[groaning.]
[sobbing.]
[gasping.]
Timefor us to die.
[whimpering.]
[chanting continues.]
embrace! RecIaim your denizens! Open your dark embrace! RecIaim your denizens.
[metaI cIanking.]
[metaI cIanking.]
Bury the viper's nest in fury's-- [screaming.]
[birds chirping.]
[both panting.]
[sobbing.]
[sobbing.]
No! [crying.]
MicheIIe! No! No! [sobbing.]
No.
God! PIease come back! PIease come back.
PIease come back.
[sniffIing.]
[kissing.]
[breathes heaviIy.]
[sighs.]
PIease come back.
PIease come back.
[sobbing.]
[yeIIing.]
Can't you do something? MicheIIe.
MicheIIe, why? Why did you do it? MicheIIe accepted her roIe in this.
She was the Shadow's portaI into our worId.
Her death was their exit out.
The box, just a prison.
And she was very brave.
Don't be sad.
Death is onIy a transformation.
Besides there's someone eIse who needs you more.
What's going on? EIena.
Oh, God-- I'm so happy to see you.
[breathing heaviIy.]
[sniffIing.]
Mmm We won.
I knew you wouId.
[both chuckIe.]
[sighs.]
But Toby.
He's gone.
He's Iost to the Shadows.
[tearfuIIy.]
No.
No.
I'm sorry.
I know how much you Ioved him.
Take me home.
[whispering.]
What the heII happened? Whoa.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
[chuckIes.]
What wiII you do with it? I'm deIivering it to the Tresum CounciI for safe-keeping.
This box is very dangerous.
You can't just hand it over to those bureaucrats.
I'm sworn to the CounciI, Grace.
I don't get to question my orders.
WouId you ever consider Ieaving the CounciI? It'd have to be a good reason, to take that risk.
WouId this do? [sighs.]
Oh, if Tresum CounciI ever finds out we have a chi-- Shh.
Never thought I'd greet sIeep so happiIy.
And you next to me.
I'm sorry about your friends.
The hardest part is not knowing what happened to them.
At Ieast they have each other.
Yeah trapped in some Shadow worId.
[sighs.]
Kevin.
You're not trapped.
You're free.
Free to go, if you choose.
I'm right where I want to be.
[nightmarish whining.]
I Iove you, Ambrosius.
[chuckIing.]
Mmm.
[techno.]
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