Ghost Wars (2017) s01e07 Episode Script

1 - Previously on "Ghost Wars" - Where is she?! She went outside to play with Marcus.
Honey, Marcus is dead.
Abigail! - Abby! - I know where Abigail is.
- Come on.
- Oh, Billy, be careful.
If this thing isn't paranormal I don't know what is.
They were trying to protect it.
Run! Everyone get out of the forest, now! I'm going to kill you and your entire family.
She's not my sister.
Why would you say that? Because I'm Abigail.
[glass shatters.]
What do you guys want? [buzzing.]
That's not good.
That's really not good.
There's gotta be a logical explanation for this.
Well, of course there's an explanation, the problem is we don't know what we don't know.
Gosh, how did I not know that? You wanna know why Roman Mercer repels these things? We need to figure out what they are first.
Or we need to figure out what Roman Mercer actually is.
So Karla said she saw them in the forest? During the search for the mayor's kid.
Everyone saw them.
How does she know it wasn't just another hallucination? I guess she doesn't, really.
But they sounded similar in appearance to Roman Mercer's description of them.
Okay, well we know he repels them, so I guess that's good enough for now.
We know these things are affected by electromagnetic fields, right? So what if Roman's body generates a unique signature? What if he's a slider? The series on alternate realities? No, it's a term for people who experience weird phenomenon around electrical appliances like computers shut down, watches don't work We've never seen any of that around him.
Doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Just, we haven't documented it.
You want Roman Mercer to be your grand unified theory.
As far as I can tell he's nothing more than ghost garlic.
Wow.
I'm sure he would love that description.
Can I get time off for good behaviour? Go.
Good night.
You too.
All right, Landis, do not fall asleep here, okay? Just get up, go to the residences.
Okay, Landis.
Just five minutes then I'll go, I promise.
That's not good.
Ryan! [gasps.]
You.
You are not a hallucination, are you? Ryan, please.
Ryan Ryan, please! What the hell is that thing?! My new best friend.
Yeah.
You saw them, too, right? Yeah.
I think we can confirm the lack of electricity is making them stronger.
Okay, so if the whole grid is down then nobody in town is safe.
St.
Martin's is safe.
Paolo, there is no scientific theory to support that religious belief I installed an emergency generator for Father Dan a couple of days ago.
Oh.
Great.
Okay, let's go.
- I'll drop you off.
- Where are you going? I need to pick up Karla first.
- Paolo.
- I know, it's dangerous.
No, I was just gonna ask if I could keep the gun? [thud.]
Abigail.
What are you doing out here? - Uncle Billy? - What? I saw a ghost in my room.
I got scared.
You don't have to be scared, I'm here now, okay? Okay? Come on, come on, come on! Get inside! Get inside! - Run! - No, no, no, no, no! No, no, no, no, no! No, no, no! Get inside! Get in! Dear God.
[dripping.]
Power's out.
Yeah, I noticed.
Come on, everyone's going in the church.
You're letting me out? Yeah, on one condition.
Look, it's either this or you stay here in the dark.
No way in hell are you putting me in them cuffs.
Come on, Doug.
This is for your own protection.
And a little bit everyone else's.
Norm? Oh, shit! [choking.]
[gasping.]
You all right? Hey, are you all right? You okay? What the hell was that? - I don't know.
- [continues to gasp.]
Yeah.
Anything comes at me like that again, they're gonna know better.
Okay, okay Okay.
Okay.
All right.
I owe you one.
Karla? Honey? [screaming.]
What the hell are you doing?! You coulda killed me! Wait.
How do I know you aren't one of those hallucination things? You don't need to refer to it as a hallucination thing.
You can just call it a hallucination.
Okay, you're good.
No hallucination thing would be so prissy.
Prissy? Oh, relax.
I love that you're a little priss.
We gotta get out of here.
It's crazy out there.
Abby! - Oh, thank God! - Mommy! - Where'd you find her? - Eagle Ridge Road.
She's fine now.
Where's Marilyn? I don't know.
She went to look after her patients.
She'll be fine.
- Can you help me take care of Izzy? - Oh, yeah, sure.
- Uh, there's more kids back in there.
- Thanks.
Come on, honey.
Where were you? We wanna go with the other kids, too.
Why don't you just keep me company, peanut? Come on.
- You think we're so dangerous.
- No, no.
- We're not.
- I know.
It was Jed Tucker.
He was standing over us just staring at us.
Father Dan? What's causing this? I don't know.
But we're safe here.
No.
No, we're we're not.
As long as the power's out nowhere is safe.
Dr.
Barker.
People are relying on us.
Your nihilistic attitude is not helping.
This isn't nihilism.
These entities, these are some kind of energy-based life form.
The town's power grid was acting as a force field.
It was suppressing their power.
As long as we stay in places with electricity we'll be safe.
Uh, Father, no offense.
I don't wanna live in the church.
Well, we could if need be.
We could live here.
Paolo and Roman, they could they could help make this place a safe space.
A place for all of us to be.
Until your generator runs out of gas.
We need to restore the power.
Well, who the hell would be dumb enough to go to the dam now with all this bullshit going on? I'm gonna need your truck.
Drive up to the gate.
But you gotta walk in from there.
If you're lucky it's just a breaker problem.
That's an easy.
But if the turbines are screwed, so are you.
We're talking hours.
Maybe days.
You're gonna need me to go with you.
Eh, you might be right.
Not happening.
Norm, you know.
Val would skin me alive if I let you out of here.
No.
Kiss ass.
I'll go.
I think you're needed here It's not a debate! I guess it's decided.
Here, you'll need this.
- And this.
- Oh, yeah, Tesla coil gun, nice.
- No, you keep it.
- We have the generator.
You have the generator.
We'll be fine.
Come on.
We'll be fine.
Here.
A physicist, a priest, and a pirate all went up to a dam.
It does have the makings of a pretty dark joke.
All we need is a medium.
My mother has a flair for the dramatic.
You shouldn't be out right now, Dr.
Barker.
Roman, please.
Call me Landis.
That's why we're here.
We're going to the dam, restart the power.
And you guys need some ghost repellant.
Paolo called you "ghost garlic".
Yeah, well, I've been called worse.
I know.
I'm sorry.
- It's just ignorance.
- Yeah.
I'll get my stuff.
[clears throat.]
Who is that? Oh, uh, that is that is my mother.
A client of hers painted it for her.
It's beautiful.
Huh.
Do you talk to her? No, not not since she bailed on me.
Bailed? She ran away? Well, I I came home one afternoon and uh, Father Dan was here and she wasn't.
Where'd she go? She went to Seattle.
Met a man online.
Yeah, well, he wanted her but not necessarily her teenaged son.
I I get it.
Forgiveness, right, Father? Yeah.
You can't stop someone for doing what they think will make them happy.
Um I just just assumed she'd passed away.
What made you assume that? It does uh it does feel like that sometimes.
Things happen for a reason.
[honks horn.]
We should get going.
Yeah.
It's basically a self-contained portable lightening machine.
Jessie is dead because of you! - Oh, come on, how is this our fault? - You caused the earthquake, didn't you? No, that was an unfortunate coincidence.
You have no evidence to support that theory.
Listen to yourselves! Jesus Christ, we've got more important things to worry about.
Val language.
He's over eight feet tall, skin as white as snow.
He doesn't have a nose, eyes, or ears.
Just a large gaping mouth filled with the sharpest teeth you've ever seen.
If you're out in the dark, all alone in the forest, that's when he calls to you.
[whistles.]
[faint singing.]
That is not funny.
You hear anyone laughing, Carol? [distant laughter.]
Whoever's doing that needs to stop.
[faint giggling.]
It's coming from outside.
You'll try to fight it but you just can't.
You'll be drawn to the sound of the call.
When you get close enough, that's when he - Grabs you! - [gasps.]
Paolo, what do you see? Don't worry, this is a sanctuary.
After everything we've seen I wouldn't be so sure.
Shut up, Norm.
As long as the power's on, we're safe.
Well, how do you know that? Will you idiots be quiet? [screaming.]
Oh, my God You just said it was safe! They tried to pull the same shit on me in the woods.
The power outage has made them stronger.
More physical.
So they can beat the shit out of us on top of scaring us to death? That's that's just great.
The closer we are to a power source the safer we'll be.
We need to build a perimeter.
You're gonna need these.
And there's enough in that basement to cover the entire sanctuary.
And if you'd have taken the damn handcuffs off of me before - I coulda brought them all up.
- I'll see what we've got.
Thanks, Carol.
Let's go, Norm.
Get these off.
Now! [doors slam.]
Boys are waiting.
Come on, baby.
Wait.
What do you know about Roman's mother? - Nadine? - Yeah.
What do you want to know about her for? I saw her presence up at Lambda.
Her presence? Like her ghost? Yeah.
I don't know.
She left over six years ago.
How can you be so sure that's what happened? Because I made sure she left.
We kicked her out of town.
- Wait, you what? - Yeah, we kicked her out of town.
Nadine Mercer, she was a con artist.
She convinced us all she was psychic.
She played on our emotions.
Even I got sucked in.
- She was his mother.
- No, is.
She's still very much alive.
So who's wandering around Lambda? I don't know.
It's probably one of your hallucinations you're always going on about, could be.
Come on, come on.
Every single one of those hallucinations has been personal to me.
Either past memories, personal incidents, Roman's mother means nothing to me.
Good.
We should keep it that way.
I'm going.
Somebody should tell him.
Is someone down here? [gasps.]
Abigail! What are you doing down here? I was trying to find more lights.
I just wanted to help.
Well, this area is off limits.
Come on.
Let's go up to your mom.
Jesus Christ.
How come there are lights on in here? Because they're back-up lights which means they're on a battery which means we gotta hustle.
Don't touch that.
How's it going up there? The uh, the turbines are full of animal carcasses.
Billy and Roman are clearing them out.
Dan's resetting the breakers but, um it's gonna take a while.
How long's a while? Depends on how many volunteers we can get up here.
Yeah.
Good luck, man.
I don't think you're gonna get many more volunteers tonight.
Okay.
We're not getting any more help tonight.
Yeah, why am I not surprised? Hey, Landis, can can we get a light? - A flashlight.
- Right here.
Right here.
Right here in the corner.
Jammed as a as a mother.
- Holy shit.
- Ugh.
Jesus Christ.
Hey, Roman.
- Yeah? - I um I was just wondering, you know, all the years that your mom's been gone You ever hear from her? Uh, I get the odd card every once in a while.
I love an odd card once in a while.
[banging.]
You ever think to go and look for her? Nah, she left for a reason.
It's sad.
No, I mean, look.
I get cash when I need it and I've always had Father Dan, so That's nice.
It means it's all good.
Everybody needs their mother.
You know what, Roman? Uh, it's warm, right? Roman, let us plug away here.
Why don't you go see how uh, how Dan's making out? - You sure? You guys - Yeah.
Okay.
See if he knows what he's doing.
Okay.
What're you doing? Baby, what're you doing? What're you bringing up his mom for? I mean, we got shit to do.
Keep your eye on the prize.
Yeah, that'll do.
That'll do? What? You did the best you could with the material you had available.
"You did the best you could"? I'm not judging you.
Look, I may not have a PhD in physics but at least I'm contributing.
Are you accusing me of sitting on my ass? Not you, but I haven't seen any of your colleagues lift a finger to help since they got here.
You're kidding, right? Your people literally bullied them into that corner.
You know what? I'm so tired of this Port Moore strong bullshit.
We earned that title.
This town has survived every fire, flood, and blizzard that mother nature could throw at us.
Industries shutting down and every company that's barged in here trying to take us over.
Don't think for one second that you're the first.
This town is full of survivors.
We stick together.
You understand? (Marcus's voice): Mommy? Marcus? Mommy? I'm here.
I'm here, Marcus! I'm here! - Woah, woah, Sophia.
- No.
Let me go! - Sophia.
- Please! - Marcus, I'm coming! - Sophia, dammit! - Stay inside! - Randeen? - Jesse? - Randeen.
No - Okay.
No.
- Mommy? - Hang on, sweetie, hang on! - Randeen! Hey.
There you are.
You uh, you need a hand? - I'm done.
- Oh.
I'm I'm surprised that you're here.
Who are you hiding from? It's that obvious, huh? Well, it's just that your church is full of terrified people and yet you're here.
Well, I could say that there are many ways for a shepherd to protect a flock, you know.
I won't.
I'll just tell you the truth.
I just thought I'd be more help here.
Father, about Marcus.
You didn't you did your best.
Oh, no.
You can't take back what happened.
You can't outrun your problems.
They always come back.
Look at me.
Look at Mom.
I mean I'm living proof.
Roman, you know that that had nothing to do with her not loving you.
You know that.
Thank you.
You're here and she's not.
So thanks.
We should go.
Yeah.
What's up? No, I uh you go you go on ahead.
Don't worry about me.
- Are you sure? - Yeah.
Yeah, go go on ahead.
Billy needs you.
Maggie? You're not a hallucination.
I can see through their hallucinations.
And yet here I am.
Are you trapped? - Are you trapped like them? - I'm not like them.
Even with all of your gifts you're still unable to comprehend what's going on here.
I know what's happening here, Maggie.
People are dying.
How can you of all people talk about life and death like it's something finite? I was so wrapped up in my own drama that I couldn't appreciate what I am.
I'm not alone anymore, Roman.
I'm connected.
We're all connected.
Don't restart the power.
It makes it harder to communicate.
We're talking now.
Not talk.
Communicate.
Let me show you.
It's actually pretty cool.
You put that back! - You have no right to do this! - Back off! After everything you've done to this town, to our father? We have every right.
I gave him peace of mind! You call that robbing him blind.
From what Trevor's told me, your father's an expert at that.
No, no.
You don't get to use our brother anymore.
Why do you think he told me those things? He wanted your father to change his ways.
To atone for his crimes here so he wouldn't have to answer to them in the next life! - Bitch! - [slap.]
- You think you're being heroes.
- Take it easy.
You're hypocrites.
- Thieves, the lot of you! - You can leave now! What about Roman? What about my son? Roman will be better off without you.
You're not fit to be his mother.
Is that was that real? How do you know that that happened? - I was there.
- And you didn't tell me? Like I was gonna tell you that my father helped run your mother out of town.
Because I'm the only person you can talk to.
My mother, Maggie, where is she? Where is she? She's dead.
What happened to her next, Maggie? - I don't know.
- What happens next? I don't know.
I wasn't there.
- Mommy, I'm cold? - Hang on, Marcus! Hang on! - Randeen? Where are you? - I'm coming, baby! - Winston, please - Honey? Come on, baby! - I'm I'm coming baby.
- I want to be with him! - Randeen! Randeen! - Hey! It's not the Jesse you know.
Stay with me.
That's it.
Stay with me.
I keep thinking I hear a voice.
Marilyn? Trust me.
The fact that you can't is a good thing.
Psalm 51.
It hasn't gotten that bad yet.
Mother Mary.
Atta boy, pull it, pull it.
Hard.
- What did you do to her? - Fuck! Roman What happened to her? What did you do to my mother? What did you do to her, Father? What did you do to my mother?! What're you doing? What're you doing? - Get off.
- Stop! Listen to me.
She's dead, isn't she? She's dead.
Isn't she?! Yes.
Yes.
She is.
You were there.
- I saw you.
- I'm sorry.
Roman, I'm sorry.
Liar! Wait wait a second, Roman.
Wait.
Hang on.
This is not the way it went down, all right? Nadine, she just left.
We We packed her up and moved her on her way but she was very much alive last time we saw her.
- He's telling the truth.
- Damn.
I saw her ghost.
At Lambda.
The portrait.
Yeah.
And and that's and that's why you didn't say anything 'cause you needed your ghost garlic, right? All of you needed me! I'm sorry, Roman.
- God.
- Please don't leave.
- Please, Roman, don't go.
- Fuck you! Fuck all of you.
I hope hell comes for you.
All of you.
- Come on.
- Leave him.
He's had enough done to him.
Okay, Dan.
What the hell happened to Nadine? There's not much left.
We should've moved everyone downstairs - when we had the chance.
- That's like a trap waiting to happen.
- Come on, be rational, like - What? Okay, we're in eco mode now.
- If we're lucky we got a few more minutes.
- Wait.
There's an eco mode? - Yeah.
There's an eco mode.
- Way to go.
- Seriously? - Yes, seriously.
- This is insane! - Hey! Enough! Both of you! Mother.
Shit.
- What happened? - He did it.
I saw him cut the power cord.
I did not.
- You endangered my daughters, you idiot! - I didn't do it! I was talking to Death.
She wouldn't hurt me.
Blast her! We gotta pick it up.
Pick it up.
Roman's gone.
We're in danger now.
- Look.
- Come here.
- Jesus.
Look.
- Danny.
Danny! I don't know what happened, okay? But right now we have to concentrate on getting out of here alive.
Paolo? - [screaming on radio.]
- And the Lord was sorry he had made man on Earth and it grieved him to his heart.
Danny, we need more than prayers.
Those screams are from the church.
They need our help.
They need our help, Danny.
Come on.
Come on.
It's gotta be almost empty now.
Yeah, that's it.
That's it.
Somebody fix that power cord! - [screaming.]
- Oh, God! Over there! Oh, my God! [screaming.]
[screaming.]
Oh, my God! - No! - What's happening? [bashing.]
[screaming.]
Mommy? - I'm here Mommy! - Marcus? Mommy! Marcus? Sweetheart? Come back to me.
Hide and seek, Mommy.
Come and find me.
Touch it, Mommy.
Then we can be together.
And play hide and seek.
Tag! You're it! - Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
- Ready? Now, go! [grunting.]
- Come on.
Come on.
- Back it up.
[grunting.]
- Christ, it's cold.
- Ah, shit! Nah, it's still stuck.
Why won't this thing turn? There's an antler.
What do we do? We clean out the other turbine? No, we can't.
We don't have time to start over.
Hey, Father.
Anything you'd like to confess? Shit.
You stay here.
It's me he wants.
- You keep going.
- No, Danny.
Come on.
- I'll take care of it.
- Danny, come on.
Oh, shit.
Shine it down deep.
Really deep.
[whispers.]
Are you ready to face what you've done, Father? Are you ready to face what you've done, Father? We do not fight against flesh and blood, but against the powers that control this present darkness.
Against the spiritual forces of evil.
[laughing.]
Are you ready to face what you've done, Father? Marcus.
Stay with me.
Stay.
[laughing evilly.]
[groaning.]
- Come on, baby.
- [groaning.]
[antler clatters.]
Yes! [turbine powers up.]
Yes! Nothing's happening.
It's it's just building up pressure, baby.
Oh, boy.
Okay, Billy.
You gotta run.
You're faster than me, okay? Just save yourself.
That's what they want.
Baby, we're gonna die, aren't we? Probably.
[laughs.]
God, you you couldn't sugar coat it just a little? What's the point? But I'll be damned if I'm gonna waste my last few seconds thinking about them assholes.
I'm so cold, baby.
- Awe.
- I'm so cold.
Close your eyes, baby.
Don't look.
Close your eyes.
Billy.
Billy I - I love you, too.
- I love you.
Baby.
- Baby, it's working.
- Yeah, we did that.
Oh, my God, it's working.
It's working.
The dam is on, baby.
- It's on.
We did it.
- We did it.
We did it.
For fuck sakes.
- Ah! - Yeah! Yeah! [laughing.]
Everyone, listen.
We don't have much time.
Let's uh, let's gather all the cables and move down to the cellar.
We can protect more people in a smaller space.
We've lost too many already.
We? How many of your people have been taken tonight? Yeah, what about Jesse? Wait.
You guys are actually keeping score now? You Lambda folk sure act like your lives are more important than ours.
Val, you need to do something about this.
No, you need to do something about this.
I'm taking care of my girls.
People died here tonight.
It doesn't matter who.
As long as you keep counting and don't come up with a game plan, we're gonna lose a hell of a lot more.
Okay, fine.
Move everybody to the front, beef up the wiring on all the windows, grab everything electric that's not nailed down.
What the hell are you people waitin' on? Benediction? Yes.
Isaiah 41:10 says - Fear not - [loud snap.]
- [glass shatters.]
- [screaming.]
Billy, about what you said before? Yeah? Yeah? - What's happening? - Oh, wow, you know what? You know what, baby? The town the town's drawing too much power for one generator.
- No, no, no.
We can't override the system.
- This is major demand.
- This is gonna burn out the turbine.
- It's okay, it's okay.
I got this.
I got this.
I'm gonna shut off two of the smaller grids.
Paolo? Paolo, you got to tell me when [explosion.]
Billy! Billy! I know you're weary baby I know you're Come on, Billy stay with me, stay with me.
Trappings of this life Have your heart turn it on There must be a better way Is there a chance?