Earth Abides (2024) s01e04 Episode Script
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[ISH] Previously, on Earth Abides.
[EMMA] Heather will finally
have someone her age to play with.
[CHEERING]
Happy birthday dear Heather ♪
Hey, Heather Bo-beather!
- Hey!
- Okay, take those out.
We always know where you
are, right? Next to Heather.
Stay right where you are.
[LUCKY BARKING]
- [ISH] You hunt?
- [EMMA] Don't you?
[ISH] Only rocks.
[FIRING]
[MOLLY] Don't
fucking
do it.
We don't want anything.
Everyone wants something.
[MOLLY] I was a resident surgeon
at UW Medicine in Seattle,
until there was no one left to treat.
[HEAVY THUDDING]
[HANDLE SNAPS]
[MOLLY] You said essential items, right?
For me, medical supplies are.
Did you at least find
one or two more bottles?
How about 200?
[RUSTLING]
Evie, get Joey!
[ROARING]
- [GRUNTING]
- [ROARING]
- [FLESH TEARING]
- Someone, help! Please!
Please! Someone help us! Please!
Help!
[PENSIVE PIANO PLAYING]
[ORCHESTRA JOINS IN]
[VOICES JOIN IN]
[SINGLE PIANO NOTE FADES OUT]
[EMMA] There's too much blood.
[MOLLY] Everyone, keep applying pressure
anywhere you see a bloom.
[JORGE] It's okay.
[EMMA] Come on. Come on.
[FABRIC TEARING]
Get this off. Get this off.
[MOLLY] Okay, let's see
what we're working with.
Jorge! Tourniquet over
here. It's on the shelf.
Tie it above the elbow here.
Tie it like you're gonna
break the bone, okay?
- [JORGE] All right.
- [EMMA] There's too much blood.
[MOLLY] It's okay. Everybody
has more than it needs.
Jean? Get me that suture kit.
We're gonna take these one by one, okay?
One by one.
Yup, that's good.
[HEATHER] He's not breathing!
[EMMA] No, no, no, no, no, Ish?
Ezra, oxygen, now!
- Ish?
- 'Kay, 'kay, 'kay. Move!
Come on, Dad.
[BEGINS RESCUE BREATHING]
Okay, it's ready.
Okay, on the nose. Turn it around.
Yup.
- Slow pressure. Go.
- Okay.
- Just like that.
- Yeah.
- Every five seconds. Okay?
- Yeah, yeah, okay.
He's breathing.
Emma, we got him.
[EMMA] Yeah, baby, come on, fight.
Yeah, you got this.
Fight, baby, come on,
fight, fight, fight, fight.
[MOLLY] He's breathing.
- Stay here. Stay.
- Don't let go.
[BIRDSONG]
[EZRA] Come on.
Dad's gonna be okay, right?
He has to.
[EMMA] I feel useless.
Please, give me something to do.
[MOLLY] After this,
the only thing left for any of us to do
is rest, and wait.
When you give so much of
yourself to your partner,
you hope it's enough,
but I realize it doesn't
matter how much I love him,
even over all these countless years.
It only matters whether or not
you save him.
[ISH BREATHING SOFTLY]
[SOBBING]
Ish, I'm so sorry.
[CRYING]
[FOOTSTEPS]
[RUSTLING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GASPING]
[QUIET GASP]
[BREATH SHAKING]
[LION ROARING]
[ROARING]
[FIRING]
[RELOADING AND FIRING]
[RELOADING AND FIRING AGAIN]
[BREATH SHAKING]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[DOOR OPENING]
[DOOR CLOSING]
Is the patient awake?
[WEAKLY] All the time.
Okay.
[ISH CRIES OUT]
- Brace yourself.
- [WINCING AND GASPING]
I know.
How long before I can walk again?
Knowing you,
it'll be about six weeks too early.
[ISH EXHALING HEAVILY]
I still cannot believe
a human being survived that attack.
All I did was lay on the table.
You did all the heavy lifting.
[HE SIGHS]
I'm a fake, Ish.
I flunked out of medical
school my first year.
I was great
everywhere but the classroom.
But I've seen you.
All those stories I told,
they were just that. They were stories.
The truth is, I-I liked believing
I was more than I really was.
While all the real doctors were dying,
I chose to live a lie.
Impossibly, it never caught up to me
until you were right in
front of me, and I knew.
Then I knew.
I knew me and my lie couldn't
sew you back together.
But you did.
Ish, I have no idea how.
[ISH] I do.
You finally caught up to the lie.
[UPLIFTING MUSIC PLAYING]
Dad's finally home!
Dad! [LAUGHING]
Wait, no, hey, hey, hey!
He'll be climbing those
library steps soon, okay?
Love you. Love you. Love you. Love you.
Dad, when will you
be able to play again?
Uh, the accordion or the piano?
You don't play piano or the accordion.
It's never too late to learn.
Bad joke. Dad's home.
[EMMA LAUGHS]
Come on.
Mm.
Ow.
Please make sure you bring 'em
to the library when I'm down.
Mm, don't you even
start with me, Isherwood.
- It's important.
- Mm, not as important
as teaching Heather how to set a trap,
or Joey how to freedive for abalone.
[UPLIFTING MUSIC PLAYING]
Did you have to catch
the whole ocean, Joey?
They were jumping out of the sea.
[ALEX] Show-off.
[JOEY] But.
I did happen to get
your favorite.
A lobster.
I'll share it with you.
Nah, that's all right. It's all yours.
Next time you dive,
do it with Alex or Raif
close by, all right?
Raif's too busy chasing
Heather into the city.
Well, people need to stretch
their legs sometimes, Jo-Jo.
Yeah, but do they need
to stretch them together?
[BOTH CHUCKLING]
[LAUGHING]
- Oh, my God!
- [KNOCKING]
- No one's home.
- Eh, I guess we can go in.
Why would you put holes in a table?
How do I look?
Kinda perfect.
[GIGGLES]
- [THUDDING]
- [CLACKING]
[HEATHER LAUGHING]
I don't think that's how you do that.
50 pairs of shoes?
Am I missing something?
You only wear one pair at a time.
Oh, no, p-people in the olden times,
they had, um,
they had 50 feet.
I'll never understand the
point of having all this stuff!
Well, I think it was
just for fun, right?
[SHE LAUGHS]
Whoa!
[HEATHER] This is Maurine's dream purse.
Heather, I've seen the past.
It's a blindfold.
[GIGGLING]
Wait, I actually,
I remember this from
the library with Ish.
You know, I wonder
who built the pyramids.
And why?
I wonder what the rest
of the world looks like.
We spend half our time
keeping nature at bay here,
but everywhere else, it must be magical.
I mean, there's gotta be
someone else, you know?
Somewhere.
What if we didn't have to wonder?
"We need to see what life is like
outside of all of Dad's routines."
She really said that?
For the record, she also
blamed you for her wanderlust.
- Me?
- Something about you
teaching her about the Vikings,
world geography,
pointing her towards a world
outside the bounds of San Lupo.
Fucking Vikings.
And she capped it off by saying
if we don't let her leave,
she's gonna die here.
We're all gonna die here.
And that they'd be back before winter.
She promised?
I've never known that child to lie.
She did.
I'm not ready for her to go.
When you found me,
all those years ago,
I went with you, not
knowing what was ahead.
And what have you
always told our children?
All of life is learning.
Then let her learn.
Out there.
[SIGHING HEAVILY]
Heather Bo-beather.
[EMMA LAUGHS]
Light as a feather.
Hey, after food and water,
these are your best friends out there.
Okay. Okay?
Okay, the gas
is treated with biocide.
- Yeah.
- Right?
- Mm-hmm.
- So keep it out of the sun.
- Okay, yeah. Yeah.
- Yeah? All right.
Oh, how much range do we have on it?
[ISH] Plenty.
Okay. All right, well, thanks, everyone,
but, you know, you can
stop hovering now, okay?
Okay, no hovering.
Here's some bear spray.
Don't confuse it with hairspray.
Hopefully it works.
Maybe we try it on you to see?
Thank you. Thank you.
- Be safe.
- Yeah, we will.
Okay, good.
Bye, sis.
Who kidnapped Alex
and replaced him with a real boy?
Remember how I taught you.
Dominant stance and dominant eye.
- And squeeze, don't pull.
- All right.
I'm kind of in denial of
the whole leaving thing.
- Well, we're gonna be back.
- Okay.
Mom, you taught me how to clean a fish,
and how to bait a trap, how
to use tree bark as soap,
and how to practice kissing on my wrist.
I've been paying attention,
and I remember it all.
[EMMA] Well, take care of each other.
Okay.
[ISH] Whatever you do, you stay north.
With, uh, winds blowing from
the west, expect wildfires.
- Hey!
- Hi.
Gonna hold down the fort while I'm gone?
- Yeah.
- I love you.
I love you, Heather Bo-beather.
[HONKING]
- Okay, you guys.
- Have fun.
Love you guys.
You're the best thing I ever did.
Wait! You can't go yet.
- Why not?
- Gotta do our secret handshake.
We don't have a secret handshake.
That's how secret it is.
- [BOTH LAUGHING]
- Come back, okay?
Okay. Bye.
[ENGINE IDLING]
[REVERSING]
- Love you!
- Bye!
- All right, goodbye!
- Love you!
[CAR HORN HONKING]
- Love you!
- Be safe!
- Bye! -Bye!
- [HORN HONKING]
[WIND BLOWING]
[BREEZE BLOWING]
[EZRA] You see the soil in here?
- Yeah.
- What do you think about it?
[OLIVIA] It's dry.
That's right, it is pretty dry.
Usually we get more
rain this time of year.
Yeah.
And our friends here
are a little bit thirsty,
just like people.
[THEY LAUGH]
Hmm.
[FAUCET TURNS]
[WATER DRIBBLES]
[HANDLE BREAKING]
[EVIE GASPING]
[WHEEZING ANXIOUSLY]
[ISH] Are you okay, Evie?
What's wrong with the sink?
[JOEY] Why have we
never been here before?
[ISH] When something always works,
sometimes you take it for granted.
[JOEY] That's a terrible idea.
[ISH] Exactly.
[EZRA] How fucked are we?
[ISH] Rome before the aqueduct.
[EZRA] Well, Jorge can fix anything.
Anything but the past.
See this patch up the
rusted section of pipe?
This was the fix.
A Band-Aid on top of a bigger problem
that the water company
probably never got around to.
But we're still getting some water.
Yes, Joey, but
we're at the mercy of city pipes.
How long?
Well, without rain, and
the way it's been going,
a week?
If we ration.
[RUMBLING IN DISTANCE]
Dad!
Hope you have a brilliant idea, son.
No.
But they might!
[ENGINES RUMBLING]
[OTHERS CALLING] Hey!
[JOEY] Those are other
people, just like us.
We don't know if it's safe.
What if they're stranded and need help?
How many do you think there are?
More than there are of
us. Get in the car, Joey.
I've never met anyone new.
Joey's right. It's
been at least 10 years
since we've seen another person.
- [RADIO STATIC]
- Emma? Alex?
Can anyone hear me?
Shit. Joey! In the car. Now!
[ENGINE STARTING]
[DOORS OPENING AND CLOSING]
What did they look like?
Did you talk to any of them?
Uh, no, we were too far
for any details like that.
- Were you scared?
- No, I was ready.
For what?
Just in case. We don't
know if we were followed.
Let's get the kids inside. We just
saw trucks and then they drove away.
How many were there?
[JORGE] Fresh tire tracks
will be easy to follow
if they heard you driving away.
If they want to find us, they will.
- Where's Alex?
- On watch.
Ish, what if this is a good thing?
- It has been in the past.
- Alex? Come down.
Whatever it is, we have to be prepared.
The odds of you all being
there at the same time,
- maybe it's a sign.
- [MOLLY] Well, of course
we should talk to them.
We have to talk to them.
We could go back out with everybody.
There's plenty of daylight.
Let's just get everyone
safe first, okay?
[VEHICLE APPROACHING]
Joey, in the house!
[ENGINE RUMBLING]
[BRAKES HISSING]
You left before we could
talk at the reservoir.
[WATER SLOSHING]
It's not much, but it's
part of our last supply.
We still have enough.
Consider it a peace offering.
Can help quench the thirst
we all know is comin'.
My partner, Perry.
The canteen was her idea.
I'm not that poetic.
Hello, all.
Don't break two hearts.
[SNIFFING]
Now you're stuck with us.
Friends for life.
At least in certain Balkan countries.
We thought we'd have enough water,
till the reservoir decided
to empty itself out.
This mini drought.
"The Earth cries in a drought,
but it laughs in flowers."
Emerson.
A well-read man.
A good book never hurt anybody.
Unless it fell off a shelf
and hit 'em in the head.
You have a young man in a watchtower.
[LAUGHING]
What'd you think was coming to get ya?
We've had enough troubles
to earn that watchtower.
Alex, come on down!
Is that your son?
He's as handsome as his dad.
[ISH] You have kids?
Never been that lucky.
But I have friends.
They look out for me.
It's amazing.
Stunning, really, to see so
many new people all at once.
We didn't mean to scare you.
In fact,
I was just about to go down for
a chat at the reservoir when.
Ish isn't one to run to strangers.
[CHARLIE] It's okay.
Happy to run to you.
We learned how to dig wells in Nevada
when we found this
abandoned outside of Reno.
[ISH] I wasn't expecting that.
We were very lucky in the finding,
and we're happy to share that luck.
I'm Ish.
This is my wife, Emma.
Jorge, Molly, Jean, Ezra. My son, Alex.
Charlie.
These two gentlemen are Silas and Kori.
Arabella, Penny.
I call them Perry's bodyguards.
Backup singers.
And the rest,
I'd love to be able to
introduce you over a meal,
if that's not being too presumptuous?
Welcome to San Lupo.
Our home.
[CHARLIE] Ice cream.
Ice cream and pizza.
[LAUGHTER]
We must feel like such
an intrusion on your Eden,
but to us, we feel
rescued from the road.
Well, we are happy to have visitors.
[ISH] I bet digging wells isn't easy,
even with the best equipment.
- Oh, thank you very much.
- [MAURINE] You're good? Okay.
I learned that the hard way.
So, uh, how long do you
suppose this will take?
What's your rock like around here?
Volcanic rhyolite, sandstone, shale,
and a thin layer of Moraga basalts.
Ish!
Coming through with
the big-boy knowledge.
Well, Berkeley wasn't
totally wasted on me.
[CHARLIE] Okay, well,
with our drill hammer and
our 185-cfm air compressor.
Running 24 hours a day.
[CHARLIE] That's right.
We're probably tasting fresh water
in 72 hours.
"Hours"?
We forgot that was a thing.
[CHUCKLING]
Time forgets everything, ma'am,
except itself.
I thought you said Perry was the poet.
Ah. Well.
Every once in a while, a
blind squirrel goes nuts.
[LAUGHTER]
[ISH] So, what can we
offer you in exchange?
Our people are hungry and tired.
We would certainly welcome
all the fuel you could spare.
So that we can travel on
when water's flowing here.
Yeah, we can provide that.
Sounds like we have a deal.
Sounds like we do.
Cheers.
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
[DRILL WINCHING]
[ENGINE TURNING OFF]
Excuse me, sir.
[GRUNTING] There we go.
Wanna give it a fling, Ish?
Whoa.
You made that look easy.
Yeah, it's heavier than it looks.
[ISH] My arm's still damaged
from the cougar attack.
Sorry.
There's a, uh hammer there.
Where? Oh, there.
Yeah, give him a hand.
It's okay. Every man
has what he's good at.
How are you with a rifle?
Better than I am with a drill.
Beautiful. Let's leave this to the boys
and go kill us some dinner.
Shut up.
[ISH] Where were you before the desert?
That's a big question.
I'm curious what you found out there.
Were there other communities like ours?
You know what I found?
Me.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
There you are.
- [CHARLIE FIRES]
- Fuck!
Clean shot.
And now we finish.
Doesn't take much to kill from far away.
The challenge is to do
it when you're up close,
eye to eye.
Field dressing's never been my forte.
I've had lots of practice,
not just on deer.
Bison, cattle.
[CHUCKLING]
Ish, you should've seen your face.
Ha ha.
Thank you.
[EVERYONE TALKING]
[LAUGHING]
Where'd you get those scars?
What, these? It's a few long stories.
[CLEARING HIS THROAT]
You see, scars are God's math.
It's his way of keeping track
of how much more
punishment a man deserves.
How much more mercy.
My dad survived a mountain lion.
And a rattlesnake.
Is that right? Look at you, Ish.
God's keeping really close track of you.
Here's to hoping he's done with me,
and I say that not believing.
Believing enough to
hedge your bets, though.
I like that.
Cover every angle,
and they'll never catch you unawares.
[KISSING]
[CHARLIE] You ever
feel that you're so much
in the right place, the right time,
that your heart could just
tear right in half?
Let's hope the drill and the water table
feel that way about each other.
Yes.
The sooner a thirst is
quenched, right, Ish?
[EMMA] Well, that's it for me.
Me too, but we can't thank you enough
for your help with the wells, Charlie.
Oh, hard work never hurt a man, ma'am,
unless he didn't want to do it.
Good night.
[KISSING]
[CHARLIE] You are one
hell of a host, Ish.
You really know how to make
a man feel like he's at home.
"Home."
When all you've known is the desert,
a taste of home like this.
Almost feels like a mirage.
You ever wrestle with
why we're the only ones that made it?
There are two kinds of people,
the weak and the strong.
Those who found a way,
those who didn't.
What they left behind is ours,
so thank you
and next. [CHUCKLING]
"Next."
That's the key.
Building on the knowledge from the past,
making room for whatever's,
whatever's next.
That's how we'll win in the end.
That is how we make it all the way back.
[CHUCKLING]
I like you, Ish.
That
I didn't see coming.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
[DRILL ROARING]
[ISH] I was thinking maybe
you can work with me today.
I wanna work on the well.
I think we're close.
[ISH] I know you do,
but why don't you put
that determination into
helping around San Lupo?
The well isn't the only thing.
[ALEX] If Charlie doesn't
find water, it might be.
[ISH] Like your brother said,
it doesn't mean we stop
trying something else.
"Like my brother said."
[ISH] Whoa! Alex. Hold on.
I don't get it. I've always been here,
but I can't remember the last time
that you've wanted me
to do anything with you.
It's always Joey.
I wanna do something
with you now, both of you!
Why?
Alex? Alex!
I don't want you around him.
Wow, so you don't really
want to work with me,
you just don't want me
working with someone else.
Before we all die of thirst,
I'm gonna go make myself useful.
[DOOR OPENING AND CLOSING]
[EMMA] What was that about?
I just want him to make smart choices.
Smart choices, or your choices?
Emma, I don't think
we can trust Charlie.
I knew "new Ish" was
too good to be true.
[ISH] What's that mean?
Your constant antipathy
towards visitors.
You did the same thing
with Jorge, Ezra, Jean,
and Molly, who wound
up saving your life!
You saw warning signs in all of them.
Okay, I was wrong.
Dead wrong, but I don't think
I'm wrong about this, Em.
I get this feeling that while
he's digging into our ground,
it's to plant his own
root and stay here.
- Can you hear yourself?
- You saw the way
he looked at Evie last
night. I know you did.
Okay, yes, and it was skeezy,
but he's a man.
Evie's beautiful.
Perry reined him in.
It's not the first time
a man looked at beauty and got caught.
He also said something
when everyone went to bed.
What did he say?
It wasn't just what he said,
it was it was how he.
The words.
[SIGHING] He told me he liked me.
[LAUGHING]
- You are impossible.
- Just because you don't want me to be right
- doesn't mean I'm wrong.
- [EMMA] You mean wrong again.
[DRILL ROARING]
You just gotta wait for
the drill to do the work.
It takes time.
Come on.
It's not working.
I'm telling you, it's not going in.
You think we should
have hit water by now?
[DRILL RUMBLING]
[REVERSING DRILL]
[DRILL ENGINE STOPS]
Ish,
you're either gonna
have water or you're not.
Not every hole is a well.
[MALLET TAPPING BIT]
We're down to only one now.
One is all we need.
[MALLET TAPPING BIT]
Good?
All right. Let's go.
Come on, baby. Come on, baby!
Come on, baby. Come on, baby.
Open the fuck up.
[DRILL BITING]
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
[LAUGHING]
No way. No way.
We did it!
- Whoo!
- What'd I tell you, huh?
- There we go!
- [CHUCKLING]
Tomorrow, we're all getting wet.
Whoo! Told you!
Shale.
It's very porous, so
water can move through it.
If it's a crack through
there, you're in business.
Yeah, he's right. You
know, you could take a bath.
[DRILLING RESUMES]
Now we're smooth.
[EMMA] You going to the well, babe?
[ISH] It's a well site,
not a well yet, Em.
Well, if you're not, there's
about a hundred things
I could use your help with around here.
It's nice not doing all the
heavy lifting for once, isn't it?
The mountain lion decided
to take care of that
a while back.
You are still my strong-shouldered man.
I mean, wouldn't you
rather be here with me
than out in that cruel bit of sun?
[WORK PARTY SINGING]
I remember when that invitation
would take us down the hall awful quick.
Sorry, Em. I just.
Have a good day, then.
Men! Thank God I'm not one.
[WORK PARTY SINGING]
You ready? It's the
big moment, everybody.
Let's go!
[ALL TOGETHER] And so ♪
Sally can wait ♪
She knows it's too late ♪
As she's walking on by ♪
Her soul slides away ♪
But "Don't look back in anger" ♪
I heard you say ♪
[CHARLIE CHUCKLES]
Ishmael! Is that your full name?
[ISH] Isherwood.
I've never heard that.
It's my mom's favorite poet.
Books were kind of her map and compass.
Well, books can't save us now.
Just blood, sweat, and beers.
Aw.
I'd kill for a cold
Modelo right now, huh?
Uh, Jorge usually keeps
a pack or two chilled.
I don't know if he has Modelo.
Hey!
[CLAPS SHOULDERS]
- I heard you got beer?
- [JORGE] Oh.
For a well-digger like you? Yes, we do.
[LAUGHING]
[CHARLIE] Now you're stuck with us.
[EMMA] It's amazing.
So many new people all at once.
[BIRDSONG]
[PENSIVE PIANO PLAYING]
[ISH WHEEZING]
Charlie, that fucker, is here.
[PANTING]
I can't believe I'm lost.
[GRUNTING]
[SIGHING]
Great idea, Ish.
Take a walk in the
woods. Clear your head.
Get eaten by wolves.
[JEAN] When are you
coming home, sweet Raif?
[TRAILER CREAKING]
[CLEARING HIS THROAT]
[LIGHTER CLICKS]
[CHUCKLING]
I haven't had a cigarette
in a thousand years.
These are terrible.
[CHUCKLING]
You should be glad you quit.
I smoked Viceroy.
Impossible to find.
Tastes like dark chocolate.
Yes, almost.
Dark chocolate that
fell in a pile of ash.
That one, I quit.
You sure?
Oh. I have missed cigarettes
every day since I quit.
I have hated booze exactly as much.
Can I tell you a story instead?
Mm-hmm.
Salt Lake, June 15th,
the summer your second album came out.
We hadn't had rain all year,
and then, during your last encore,
the sky just opened up.
I mean, it poured.
You took out a shot glass,
you filled it with rainwater.
Mm-hmm.
Put out a toast to the entire crowd.
Wow. Don't even think
I remember that one.
That sounds cool.
Oh, it was. It was cool as hell.
One won't kill ya.
It might.
Dying ain't that bad.
Sometimes the hangover can
feel like a resurrection.
Thank you for the cigarette
and the memories, Charlie,
but it's time for me to lay down
next to my husband and wife,
and go to sleep.
[DOOR OPENING]
Well, if you change your mind,
you know where to find us.
[THROWING CIGARETTE]
¿Todo bien?
You okay?
Solid as lava.
You know, once we get water
everything will go back to normal.
Will it?
[JOEY] Mom?
Where are you going?
[EMMA] Nowhere.
It's just your dad. He's, um,
went out for a walk,
and it's getting late.
Can I come? I'm old enough to help.
I know you are,
but it's the middle of the night,
and you are rockin' Pjs instead
of search and rescue gear.
Search and rescue?
I'm joking.
Mwah. Come here! Mwah! Mwah!
[CHUCKLING]
Dad!
[ISH] Ah, Jo-Jo.
- You okay?
- Yeah.
Embarrassed. Cold.
Happy to see you guys.
Time for bed, Jo-Jo.
What? I want to hear the story.
Tomorrow. I promise.
Dad, you smell like a tree.
You're a tree.
What in the hell were
you possibly thinking?
I'm really sorry, Em.
The fact that you're alive
means there's a small
chance of forgiveness.
I got lost.
I tried to make it back before dark.
That's the first proper
scare you've given me
since you didn't know
how to deliver a baby.
[HE CHUCKLES]
I was 28.
I couldn't deliver a pizza.
[ISH EXHALING DEEPLY]
I'm really pissed off,
in case you didn't know.
You're the one that set up
the "always in teams" rule.
I know! I know.
[HE SIGHS]
What were you looking for out that far?
[ISH LAUGHS]
Uh.
Myself, I think.
[BOTH LAUGHING]
[EMMA] Classic Ish.
Had to get lost to find himself.
Ish, what happens if
we don't find water?
I'm more worried about
what happens if we do.
[DRILL RUMBLING]
[CHARLIE] Cut it. Cut it!
[DRILL FALLS SILENT]
[RUMBLING AND GURGLING]
[BUBBLING]
[OASIS' "DON'T LOOK BACK" PLAYING]
Slip and slide ♪
The eye of your mind ♪
Don't you know you might find ♪
A better place to play? ♪
You said that you'd never been ♪
But all the things that you've seen ♪
Slowly fade away ♪
So I start a revolution from my bed ♪
Oh!
[ALL LAUGHING]
[CHARLIE] Hey! Might have taken
a little longer than we expected,
and we're down to our last mason bit,
but Daddy struck gold.
Stand up beside the fireplace ♪
Take that look from off your face ♪
Yeah!
[ISH] Hey.
Grateful for your help, okay?
Grab whatever you need.
We had a deal, water for gasoline.
You earned it. We shook on it.
I don't remember shaking on it.
Maybe I like this place a
little more than I admitted.
So Sally can wait ♪
She knows it's too late ♪
As we're walking on by ♪
[ISH] I could see
everything slipping away.
Even all the love is
now under the guillotine
of Charlie's charm and charisma.
It feels primal now.
[OASIS] So Sally can wait ♪
She knows it's too late ♪
As she's walking on by ♪
My soul slides away ♪
But "Don't look back in anger" ♪
I heard you say ♪
[CLOSING THEME PLAYING]
[ISH] Previously, on Earth Abides.
[EMMA] Heather will finally
have someone her age to play with.
[CHEERING]
Happy birthday dear Heather ♪
Hey, Heather Bo-beather!
- Hey!
- Okay, take those out.
We always know where you
are, right? Next to Heather.
Stay right where you are.
[LUCKY BARKING]
- [ISH] You hunt?
- [EMMA] Don't you?
[ISH] Only rocks.
[FIRING]
[MOLLY] Don't
fucking
do it.
We don't want anything.
Everyone wants something.
[MOLLY] I was a resident surgeon
at UW Medicine in Seattle,
until there was no one left to treat.
[HEAVY THUDDING]
[HANDLE SNAPS]
[MOLLY] You said essential items, right?
For me, medical supplies are.
Did you at least find
one or two more bottles?
How about 200?
[RUSTLING]
Evie, get Joey!
[ROARING]
- [GRUNTING]
- [ROARING]
- [FLESH TEARING]
- Someone, help! Please!
Please! Someone help us! Please!
Help!
[PENSIVE PIANO PLAYING]
[ORCHESTRA JOINS IN]
[VOICES JOIN IN]
[SINGLE PIANO NOTE FADES OUT]
[EMMA] There's too much blood.
[MOLLY] Everyone, keep applying pressure
anywhere you see a bloom.
[JORGE] It's okay.
[EMMA] Come on. Come on.
[FABRIC TEARING]
Get this off. Get this off.
[MOLLY] Okay, let's see
what we're working with.
Jorge! Tourniquet over
here. It's on the shelf.
Tie it above the elbow here.
Tie it like you're gonna
break the bone, okay?
- [JORGE] All right.
- [EMMA] There's too much blood.
[MOLLY] It's okay. Everybody
has more than it needs.
Jean? Get me that suture kit.
We're gonna take these one by one, okay?
One by one.
Yup, that's good.
[HEATHER] He's not breathing!
[EMMA] No, no, no, no, no, Ish?
Ezra, oxygen, now!
- Ish?
- 'Kay, 'kay, 'kay. Move!
Come on, Dad.
[BEGINS RESCUE BREATHING]
Okay, it's ready.
Okay, on the nose. Turn it around.
Yup.
- Slow pressure. Go.
- Okay.
- Just like that.
- Yeah.
- Every five seconds. Okay?
- Yeah, yeah, okay.
He's breathing.
Emma, we got him.
[EMMA] Yeah, baby, come on, fight.
Yeah, you got this.
Fight, baby, come on,
fight, fight, fight, fight.
[MOLLY] He's breathing.
- Stay here. Stay.
- Don't let go.
[BIRDSONG]
[EZRA] Come on.
Dad's gonna be okay, right?
He has to.
[EMMA] I feel useless.
Please, give me something to do.
[MOLLY] After this,
the only thing left for any of us to do
is rest, and wait.
When you give so much of
yourself to your partner,
you hope it's enough,
but I realize it doesn't
matter how much I love him,
even over all these countless years.
It only matters whether or not
you save him.
[ISH BREATHING SOFTLY]
[SOBBING]
Ish, I'm so sorry.
[CRYING]
[FOOTSTEPS]
[RUSTLING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GASPING]
[QUIET GASP]
[BREATH SHAKING]
[LION ROARING]
[ROARING]
[FIRING]
[RELOADING AND FIRING]
[RELOADING AND FIRING AGAIN]
[BREATH SHAKING]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[DOOR OPENING]
[DOOR CLOSING]
Is the patient awake?
[WEAKLY] All the time.
Okay.
[ISH CRIES OUT]
- Brace yourself.
- [WINCING AND GASPING]
I know.
How long before I can walk again?
Knowing you,
it'll be about six weeks too early.
[ISH EXHALING HEAVILY]
I still cannot believe
a human being survived that attack.
All I did was lay on the table.
You did all the heavy lifting.
[HE SIGHS]
I'm a fake, Ish.
I flunked out of medical
school my first year.
I was great
everywhere but the classroom.
But I've seen you.
All those stories I told,
they were just that. They were stories.
The truth is, I-I liked believing
I was more than I really was.
While all the real doctors were dying,
I chose to live a lie.
Impossibly, it never caught up to me
until you were right in
front of me, and I knew.
Then I knew.
I knew me and my lie couldn't
sew you back together.
But you did.
Ish, I have no idea how.
[ISH] I do.
You finally caught up to the lie.
[UPLIFTING MUSIC PLAYING]
Dad's finally home!
Dad! [LAUGHING]
Wait, no, hey, hey, hey!
He'll be climbing those
library steps soon, okay?
Love you. Love you. Love you. Love you.
Dad, when will you
be able to play again?
Uh, the accordion or the piano?
You don't play piano or the accordion.
It's never too late to learn.
Bad joke. Dad's home.
[EMMA LAUGHS]
Come on.
Mm.
Ow.
Please make sure you bring 'em
to the library when I'm down.
Mm, don't you even
start with me, Isherwood.
- It's important.
- Mm, not as important
as teaching Heather how to set a trap,
or Joey how to freedive for abalone.
[UPLIFTING MUSIC PLAYING]
Did you have to catch
the whole ocean, Joey?
They were jumping out of the sea.
[ALEX] Show-off.
[JOEY] But.
I did happen to get
your favorite.
A lobster.
I'll share it with you.
Nah, that's all right. It's all yours.
Next time you dive,
do it with Alex or Raif
close by, all right?
Raif's too busy chasing
Heather into the city.
Well, people need to stretch
their legs sometimes, Jo-Jo.
Yeah, but do they need
to stretch them together?
[BOTH CHUCKLING]
[LAUGHING]
- Oh, my God!
- [KNOCKING]
- No one's home.
- Eh, I guess we can go in.
Why would you put holes in a table?
How do I look?
Kinda perfect.
[GIGGLES]
- [THUDDING]
- [CLACKING]
[HEATHER LAUGHING]
I don't think that's how you do that.
50 pairs of shoes?
Am I missing something?
You only wear one pair at a time.
Oh, no, p-people in the olden times,
they had, um,
they had 50 feet.
I'll never understand the
point of having all this stuff!
Well, I think it was
just for fun, right?
[SHE LAUGHS]
Whoa!
[HEATHER] This is Maurine's dream purse.
Heather, I've seen the past.
It's a blindfold.
[GIGGLING]
Wait, I actually,
I remember this from
the library with Ish.
You know, I wonder
who built the pyramids.
And why?
I wonder what the rest
of the world looks like.
We spend half our time
keeping nature at bay here,
but everywhere else, it must be magical.
I mean, there's gotta be
someone else, you know?
Somewhere.
What if we didn't have to wonder?
"We need to see what life is like
outside of all of Dad's routines."
She really said that?
For the record, she also
blamed you for her wanderlust.
- Me?
- Something about you
teaching her about the Vikings,
world geography,
pointing her towards a world
outside the bounds of San Lupo.
Fucking Vikings.
And she capped it off by saying
if we don't let her leave,
she's gonna die here.
We're all gonna die here.
And that they'd be back before winter.
She promised?
I've never known that child to lie.
She did.
I'm not ready for her to go.
When you found me,
all those years ago,
I went with you, not
knowing what was ahead.
And what have you
always told our children?
All of life is learning.
Then let her learn.
Out there.
[SIGHING HEAVILY]
Heather Bo-beather.
[EMMA LAUGHS]
Light as a feather.
Hey, after food and water,
these are your best friends out there.
Okay. Okay?
Okay, the gas
is treated with biocide.
- Yeah.
- Right?
- Mm-hmm.
- So keep it out of the sun.
- Okay, yeah. Yeah.
- Yeah? All right.
Oh, how much range do we have on it?
[ISH] Plenty.
Okay. All right, well, thanks, everyone,
but, you know, you can
stop hovering now, okay?
Okay, no hovering.
Here's some bear spray.
Don't confuse it with hairspray.
Hopefully it works.
Maybe we try it on you to see?
Thank you. Thank you.
- Be safe.
- Yeah, we will.
Okay, good.
Bye, sis.
Who kidnapped Alex
and replaced him with a real boy?
Remember how I taught you.
Dominant stance and dominant eye.
- And squeeze, don't pull.
- All right.
I'm kind of in denial of
the whole leaving thing.
- Well, we're gonna be back.
- Okay.
Mom, you taught me how to clean a fish,
and how to bait a trap, how
to use tree bark as soap,
and how to practice kissing on my wrist.
I've been paying attention,
and I remember it all.
[EMMA] Well, take care of each other.
Okay.
[ISH] Whatever you do, you stay north.
With, uh, winds blowing from
the west, expect wildfires.
- Hey!
- Hi.
Gonna hold down the fort while I'm gone?
- Yeah.
- I love you.
I love you, Heather Bo-beather.
[HONKING]
- Okay, you guys.
- Have fun.
Love you guys.
You're the best thing I ever did.
Wait! You can't go yet.
- Why not?
- Gotta do our secret handshake.
We don't have a secret handshake.
That's how secret it is.
- [BOTH LAUGHING]
- Come back, okay?
Okay. Bye.
[ENGINE IDLING]
[REVERSING]
- Love you!
- Bye!
- All right, goodbye!
- Love you!
[CAR HORN HONKING]
- Love you!
- Be safe!
- Bye! -Bye!
- [HORN HONKING]
[WIND BLOWING]
[BREEZE BLOWING]
[EZRA] You see the soil in here?
- Yeah.
- What do you think about it?
[OLIVIA] It's dry.
That's right, it is pretty dry.
Usually we get more
rain this time of year.
Yeah.
And our friends here
are a little bit thirsty,
just like people.
[THEY LAUGH]
Hmm.
[FAUCET TURNS]
[WATER DRIBBLES]
[HANDLE BREAKING]
[EVIE GASPING]
[WHEEZING ANXIOUSLY]
[ISH] Are you okay, Evie?
What's wrong with the sink?
[JOEY] Why have we
never been here before?
[ISH] When something always works,
sometimes you take it for granted.
[JOEY] That's a terrible idea.
[ISH] Exactly.
[EZRA] How fucked are we?
[ISH] Rome before the aqueduct.
[EZRA] Well, Jorge can fix anything.
Anything but the past.
See this patch up the
rusted section of pipe?
This was the fix.
A Band-Aid on top of a bigger problem
that the water company
probably never got around to.
But we're still getting some water.
Yes, Joey, but
we're at the mercy of city pipes.
How long?
Well, without rain, and
the way it's been going,
a week?
If we ration.
[RUMBLING IN DISTANCE]
Dad!
Hope you have a brilliant idea, son.
No.
But they might!
[ENGINES RUMBLING]
[OTHERS CALLING] Hey!
[JOEY] Those are other
people, just like us.
We don't know if it's safe.
What if they're stranded and need help?
How many do you think there are?
More than there are of
us. Get in the car, Joey.
I've never met anyone new.
Joey's right. It's
been at least 10 years
since we've seen another person.
- [RADIO STATIC]
- Emma? Alex?
Can anyone hear me?
Shit. Joey! In the car. Now!
[ENGINE STARTING]
[DOORS OPENING AND CLOSING]
What did they look like?
Did you talk to any of them?
Uh, no, we were too far
for any details like that.
- Were you scared?
- No, I was ready.
For what?
Just in case. We don't
know if we were followed.
Let's get the kids inside. We just
saw trucks and then they drove away.
How many were there?
[JORGE] Fresh tire tracks
will be easy to follow
if they heard you driving away.
If they want to find us, they will.
- Where's Alex?
- On watch.
Ish, what if this is a good thing?
- It has been in the past.
- Alex? Come down.
Whatever it is, we have to be prepared.
The odds of you all being
there at the same time,
- maybe it's a sign.
- [MOLLY] Well, of course
we should talk to them.
We have to talk to them.
We could go back out with everybody.
There's plenty of daylight.
Let's just get everyone
safe first, okay?
[VEHICLE APPROACHING]
Joey, in the house!
[ENGINE RUMBLING]
[BRAKES HISSING]
You left before we could
talk at the reservoir.
[WATER SLOSHING]
It's not much, but it's
part of our last supply.
We still have enough.
Consider it a peace offering.
Can help quench the thirst
we all know is comin'.
My partner, Perry.
The canteen was her idea.
I'm not that poetic.
Hello, all.
Don't break two hearts.
[SNIFFING]
Now you're stuck with us.
Friends for life.
At least in certain Balkan countries.
We thought we'd have enough water,
till the reservoir decided
to empty itself out.
This mini drought.
"The Earth cries in a drought,
but it laughs in flowers."
Emerson.
A well-read man.
A good book never hurt anybody.
Unless it fell off a shelf
and hit 'em in the head.
You have a young man in a watchtower.
[LAUGHING]
What'd you think was coming to get ya?
We've had enough troubles
to earn that watchtower.
Alex, come on down!
Is that your son?
He's as handsome as his dad.
[ISH] You have kids?
Never been that lucky.
But I have friends.
They look out for me.
It's amazing.
Stunning, really, to see so
many new people all at once.
We didn't mean to scare you.
In fact,
I was just about to go down for
a chat at the reservoir when.
Ish isn't one to run to strangers.
[CHARLIE] It's okay.
Happy to run to you.
We learned how to dig wells in Nevada
when we found this
abandoned outside of Reno.
[ISH] I wasn't expecting that.
We were very lucky in the finding,
and we're happy to share that luck.
I'm Ish.
This is my wife, Emma.
Jorge, Molly, Jean, Ezra. My son, Alex.
Charlie.
These two gentlemen are Silas and Kori.
Arabella, Penny.
I call them Perry's bodyguards.
Backup singers.
And the rest,
I'd love to be able to
introduce you over a meal,
if that's not being too presumptuous?
Welcome to San Lupo.
Our home.
[CHARLIE] Ice cream.
Ice cream and pizza.
[LAUGHTER]
We must feel like such
an intrusion on your Eden,
but to us, we feel
rescued from the road.
Well, we are happy to have visitors.
[ISH] I bet digging wells isn't easy,
even with the best equipment.
- Oh, thank you very much.
- [MAURINE] You're good? Okay.
I learned that the hard way.
So, uh, how long do you
suppose this will take?
What's your rock like around here?
Volcanic rhyolite, sandstone, shale,
and a thin layer of Moraga basalts.
Ish!
Coming through with
the big-boy knowledge.
Well, Berkeley wasn't
totally wasted on me.
[CHARLIE] Okay, well,
with our drill hammer and
our 185-cfm air compressor.
Running 24 hours a day.
[CHARLIE] That's right.
We're probably tasting fresh water
in 72 hours.
"Hours"?
We forgot that was a thing.
[CHUCKLING]
Time forgets everything, ma'am,
except itself.
I thought you said Perry was the poet.
Ah. Well.
Every once in a while, a
blind squirrel goes nuts.
[LAUGHTER]
[ISH] So, what can we
offer you in exchange?
Our people are hungry and tired.
We would certainly welcome
all the fuel you could spare.
So that we can travel on
when water's flowing here.
Yeah, we can provide that.
Sounds like we have a deal.
Sounds like we do.
Cheers.
- Cheers.
- Cheers.
[DRILL WINCHING]
[ENGINE TURNING OFF]
Excuse me, sir.
[GRUNTING] There we go.
Wanna give it a fling, Ish?
Whoa.
You made that look easy.
Yeah, it's heavier than it looks.
[ISH] My arm's still damaged
from the cougar attack.
Sorry.
There's a, uh hammer there.
Where? Oh, there.
Yeah, give him a hand.
It's okay. Every man
has what he's good at.
How are you with a rifle?
Better than I am with a drill.
Beautiful. Let's leave this to the boys
and go kill us some dinner.
Shut up.
[ISH] Where were you before the desert?
That's a big question.
I'm curious what you found out there.
Were there other communities like ours?
You know what I found?
Me.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
There you are.
- [CHARLIE FIRES]
- Fuck!
Clean shot.
And now we finish.
Doesn't take much to kill from far away.
The challenge is to do
it when you're up close,
eye to eye.
Field dressing's never been my forte.
I've had lots of practice,
not just on deer.
Bison, cattle.
[CHUCKLING]
Ish, you should've seen your face.
Ha ha.
Thank you.
[EVERYONE TALKING]
[LAUGHING]
Where'd you get those scars?
What, these? It's a few long stories.
[CLEARING HIS THROAT]
You see, scars are God's math.
It's his way of keeping track
of how much more
punishment a man deserves.
How much more mercy.
My dad survived a mountain lion.
And a rattlesnake.
Is that right? Look at you, Ish.
God's keeping really close track of you.
Here's to hoping he's done with me,
and I say that not believing.
Believing enough to
hedge your bets, though.
I like that.
Cover every angle,
and they'll never catch you unawares.
[KISSING]
[CHARLIE] You ever
feel that you're so much
in the right place, the right time,
that your heart could just
tear right in half?
Let's hope the drill and the water table
feel that way about each other.
Yes.
The sooner a thirst is
quenched, right, Ish?
[EMMA] Well, that's it for me.
Me too, but we can't thank you enough
for your help with the wells, Charlie.
Oh, hard work never hurt a man, ma'am,
unless he didn't want to do it.
Good night.
[KISSING]
[CHARLIE] You are one
hell of a host, Ish.
You really know how to make
a man feel like he's at home.
"Home."
When all you've known is the desert,
a taste of home like this.
Almost feels like a mirage.
You ever wrestle with
why we're the only ones that made it?
There are two kinds of people,
the weak and the strong.
Those who found a way,
those who didn't.
What they left behind is ours,
so thank you
and next. [CHUCKLING]
"Next."
That's the key.
Building on the knowledge from the past,
making room for whatever's,
whatever's next.
That's how we'll win in the end.
That is how we make it all the way back.
[CHUCKLING]
I like you, Ish.
That
I didn't see coming.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
[DRILL ROARING]
[ISH] I was thinking maybe
you can work with me today.
I wanna work on the well.
I think we're close.
[ISH] I know you do,
but why don't you put
that determination into
helping around San Lupo?
The well isn't the only thing.
[ALEX] If Charlie doesn't
find water, it might be.
[ISH] Like your brother said,
it doesn't mean we stop
trying something else.
"Like my brother said."
[ISH] Whoa! Alex. Hold on.
I don't get it. I've always been here,
but I can't remember the last time
that you've wanted me
to do anything with you.
It's always Joey.
I wanna do something
with you now, both of you!
Why?
Alex? Alex!
I don't want you around him.
Wow, so you don't really
want to work with me,
you just don't want me
working with someone else.
Before we all die of thirst,
I'm gonna go make myself useful.
[DOOR OPENING AND CLOSING]
[EMMA] What was that about?
I just want him to make smart choices.
Smart choices, or your choices?
Emma, I don't think
we can trust Charlie.
I knew "new Ish" was
too good to be true.
[ISH] What's that mean?
Your constant antipathy
towards visitors.
You did the same thing
with Jorge, Ezra, Jean,
and Molly, who wound
up saving your life!
You saw warning signs in all of them.
Okay, I was wrong.
Dead wrong, but I don't think
I'm wrong about this, Em.
I get this feeling that while
he's digging into our ground,
it's to plant his own
root and stay here.
- Can you hear yourself?
- You saw the way
he looked at Evie last
night. I know you did.
Okay, yes, and it was skeezy,
but he's a man.
Evie's beautiful.
Perry reined him in.
It's not the first time
a man looked at beauty and got caught.
He also said something
when everyone went to bed.
What did he say?
It wasn't just what he said,
it was it was how he.
The words.
[SIGHING] He told me he liked me.
[LAUGHING]
- You are impossible.
- Just because you don't want me to be right
- doesn't mean I'm wrong.
- [EMMA] You mean wrong again.
[DRILL ROARING]
You just gotta wait for
the drill to do the work.
It takes time.
Come on.
It's not working.
I'm telling you, it's not going in.
You think we should
have hit water by now?
[DRILL RUMBLING]
[REVERSING DRILL]
[DRILL ENGINE STOPS]
Ish,
you're either gonna
have water or you're not.
Not every hole is a well.
[MALLET TAPPING BIT]
We're down to only one now.
One is all we need.
[MALLET TAPPING BIT]
Good?
All right. Let's go.
Come on, baby. Come on, baby!
Come on, baby. Come on, baby.
Open the fuck up.
[DRILL BITING]
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
[LAUGHING]
No way. No way.
We did it!
- Whoo!
- What'd I tell you, huh?
- There we go!
- [CHUCKLING]
Tomorrow, we're all getting wet.
Whoo! Told you!
Shale.
It's very porous, so
water can move through it.
If it's a crack through
there, you're in business.
Yeah, he's right. You
know, you could take a bath.
[DRILLING RESUMES]
Now we're smooth.
[EMMA] You going to the well, babe?
[ISH] It's a well site,
not a well yet, Em.
Well, if you're not, there's
about a hundred things
I could use your help with around here.
It's nice not doing all the
heavy lifting for once, isn't it?
The mountain lion decided
to take care of that
a while back.
You are still my strong-shouldered man.
I mean, wouldn't you
rather be here with me
than out in that cruel bit of sun?
[WORK PARTY SINGING]
I remember when that invitation
would take us down the hall awful quick.
Sorry, Em. I just.
Have a good day, then.
Men! Thank God I'm not one.
[WORK PARTY SINGING]
You ready? It's the
big moment, everybody.
Let's go!
[ALL TOGETHER] And so ♪
Sally can wait ♪
She knows it's too late ♪
As she's walking on by ♪
Her soul slides away ♪
But "Don't look back in anger" ♪
I heard you say ♪
[CHARLIE CHUCKLES]
Ishmael! Is that your full name?
[ISH] Isherwood.
I've never heard that.
It's my mom's favorite poet.
Books were kind of her map and compass.
Well, books can't save us now.
Just blood, sweat, and beers.
Aw.
I'd kill for a cold
Modelo right now, huh?
Uh, Jorge usually keeps
a pack or two chilled.
I don't know if he has Modelo.
Hey!
[CLAPS SHOULDERS]
- I heard you got beer?
- [JORGE] Oh.
For a well-digger like you? Yes, we do.
[LAUGHING]
[CHARLIE] Now you're stuck with us.
[EMMA] It's amazing.
So many new people all at once.
[BIRDSONG]
[PENSIVE PIANO PLAYING]
[ISH WHEEZING]
Charlie, that fucker, is here.
[PANTING]
I can't believe I'm lost.
[GRUNTING]
[SIGHING]
Great idea, Ish.
Take a walk in the
woods. Clear your head.
Get eaten by wolves.
[JEAN] When are you
coming home, sweet Raif?
[TRAILER CREAKING]
[CLEARING HIS THROAT]
[LIGHTER CLICKS]
[CHUCKLING]
I haven't had a cigarette
in a thousand years.
These are terrible.
[CHUCKLING]
You should be glad you quit.
I smoked Viceroy.
Impossible to find.
Tastes like dark chocolate.
Yes, almost.
Dark chocolate that
fell in a pile of ash.
That one, I quit.
You sure?
Oh. I have missed cigarettes
every day since I quit.
I have hated booze exactly as much.
Can I tell you a story instead?
Mm-hmm.
Salt Lake, June 15th,
the summer your second album came out.
We hadn't had rain all year,
and then, during your last encore,
the sky just opened up.
I mean, it poured.
You took out a shot glass,
you filled it with rainwater.
Mm-hmm.
Put out a toast to the entire crowd.
Wow. Don't even think
I remember that one.
That sounds cool.
Oh, it was. It was cool as hell.
One won't kill ya.
It might.
Dying ain't that bad.
Sometimes the hangover can
feel like a resurrection.
Thank you for the cigarette
and the memories, Charlie,
but it's time for me to lay down
next to my husband and wife,
and go to sleep.
[DOOR OPENING]
Well, if you change your mind,
you know where to find us.
[THROWING CIGARETTE]
¿Todo bien?
You okay?
Solid as lava.
You know, once we get water
everything will go back to normal.
Will it?
[JOEY] Mom?
Where are you going?
[EMMA] Nowhere.
It's just your dad. He's, um,
went out for a walk,
and it's getting late.
Can I come? I'm old enough to help.
I know you are,
but it's the middle of the night,
and you are rockin' Pjs instead
of search and rescue gear.
Search and rescue?
I'm joking.
Mwah. Come here! Mwah! Mwah!
[CHUCKLING]
Dad!
[ISH] Ah, Jo-Jo.
- You okay?
- Yeah.
Embarrassed. Cold.
Happy to see you guys.
Time for bed, Jo-Jo.
What? I want to hear the story.
Tomorrow. I promise.
Dad, you smell like a tree.
You're a tree.
What in the hell were
you possibly thinking?
I'm really sorry, Em.
The fact that you're alive
means there's a small
chance of forgiveness.
I got lost.
I tried to make it back before dark.
That's the first proper
scare you've given me
since you didn't know
how to deliver a baby.
[HE CHUCKLES]
I was 28.
I couldn't deliver a pizza.
[ISH EXHALING DEEPLY]
I'm really pissed off,
in case you didn't know.
You're the one that set up
the "always in teams" rule.
I know! I know.
[HE SIGHS]
What were you looking for out that far?
[ISH LAUGHS]
Uh.
Myself, I think.
[BOTH LAUGHING]
[EMMA] Classic Ish.
Had to get lost to find himself.
Ish, what happens if
we don't find water?
I'm more worried about
what happens if we do.
[DRILL RUMBLING]
[CHARLIE] Cut it. Cut it!
[DRILL FALLS SILENT]
[RUMBLING AND GURGLING]
[BUBBLING]
[OASIS' "DON'T LOOK BACK" PLAYING]
Slip and slide ♪
The eye of your mind ♪
Don't you know you might find ♪
A better place to play? ♪
You said that you'd never been ♪
But all the things that you've seen ♪
Slowly fade away ♪
So I start a revolution from my bed ♪
Oh!
[ALL LAUGHING]
[CHARLIE] Hey! Might have taken
a little longer than we expected,
and we're down to our last mason bit,
but Daddy struck gold.
Stand up beside the fireplace ♪
Take that look from off your face ♪
Yeah!
[ISH] Hey.
Grateful for your help, okay?
Grab whatever you need.
We had a deal, water for gasoline.
You earned it. We shook on it.
I don't remember shaking on it.
Maybe I like this place a
little more than I admitted.
So Sally can wait ♪
She knows it's too late ♪
As we're walking on by ♪
[ISH] I could see
everything slipping away.
Even all the love is
now under the guillotine
of Charlie's charm and charisma.
It feels primal now.
[OASIS] So Sally can wait ♪
She knows it's too late ♪
As she's walking on by ♪
My soul slides away ♪
But "Don't look back in anger" ♪
I heard you say ♪
[CLOSING THEME PLAYING]