The Birch (2019) s01e13 Episode Script
Love Is Colder Than Death
1 - [Buddy screaming.]
- [Sebastian.]
Thurston, get it done.
C'mon, here.
Pull the trigger.
Pull it.
Pull the trigger.
- I can't.
I can't do it.
I can't.
- Shoot him, Thurston.
- No! No! No, no! - Pull it! Pull it! [footsteps approaching.]
[Harmon.]
Knock, knock.
- [Harmon screaming.]
- [splattering.]
[Birch snarling.]
Dad? [TV playing.]
[Lily.]
O! Say can you see By the dawn's early light It's yours sad.
[TV continues playing.]
[Evie crying.]
No.
No, no.
Dad.
Dad, no.
Please.
No.
[mumbling.]
[girl whispering.]
I will be patient.
I will be strong.
[wind bells chiming.]
[muffled gasping.]
You lied to me, Thurston.
Please.
I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry.
I-I Seb made me do it.
I Just please trust me.
- You lied.
- [branches snapping.]
[Thurston groaning.]
He's got my brother.
He's got my brother.
[Evie.]
This is so stupid.
- This is not gonna end.
- So pointless.
Please.
As long as Seb's around, this is not gonna stop.
Please.
Let him go.
I said let him go.
I'm yours.
Just let me say goodbye.
Go.
You can help me bring him down.
Please.
You can help me end this.
- Please.
- Go.
Right now.
[dialing.]
[operator.]
911 operator.
What's your emergency? I killed them.
[operator.]
Sir? Yeah.
The guy in the woods And Buddy Grayson.
I'm at Polk Hardware.
Come find me.
[metal tinging.]
No! No! No! [Sebastian.]
I wouldn't be sneaking around, chief.
This mess you got us into wasn't enough? Gavin! It's over, Seb.
I called the cops! I own the cops.
I own this whole goddamn town, you backstabbing prick.
[Sebastian.]
Thurston! Where are you, buddy? I'm not gonna hurt you.
I just need something that belongs to your uncle.
It can be anything.
You just need to be sure that it's his.
[Sebastian.]
Thurston.
You playing a game of hide-and-seek? [whispers.]
Here.
Gavin.
[Sebastian.]
Thurston? Thurston.
I know you're here.
[chain rattling.]
- [groaning.]
- [yells.]
Found ya.
Come on! - [grunts.]
- Ah! - [screams.]
- Gavin! No! [Sebastian.]
Your turn.
[gasping.]
- [police sirens blaring.]
- Gavin, you still with me? - You with me, man? - [police cars approaching.]
Hey, Gavin.
You're gonna be all right, okay? - Just stay awake.
- [officer.]
Come on, let's go.
- Come on, Gav, come on.
- [officer.]
Go, go.
Gavin? Just stay with me here.
Tell me one of your t-shirt ideas.
Come on.
Come on.
No, no, no, no.
Suck it up and make me laugh.
I've got 99 problems, but a beach ain't one of them.
Yeah, buddy.
- Yeah, buddy.
Yeah.
- [officer.]
Go.
We're gonna make so much money, man.
- Hey, California's waiting for us.
- [officer.]
Hey! I've got some kids over here.
- They're on this side! - Hey.
Help! [Thurston.]
Help, my brother's bleeding out.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
Get over here.
Somebody help me.
My brother's bleeding out right now.
- [officer 2.]
Are you seeing this? - Yeah.
Look, everything's gonna be okay.
[police radio chatter.]
Jesus Christ.
What is that? [officer gasps.]
[officer.]
Is that a skull? [officer 2.]
Pull to the shoulder.
Hi, Mom.
[Sheriff Baker.]
Let's go.
Walk.
Gavin.
Hey, Gavin.
Hey, that's my Dude.
That's my brother.
Just keep your head down.
Listen to what they have to say.
But don't be afraid to stand up for yourself, okay? Flex on them a little bit.
Just know that I'm with you, man.
[Sheriff Baker.]
All right, that's enough.
[groans.]
You know I'm not doing so great myself.
You'll survive.
But you and I need to have a few words.
Let's go.
You don't trust me? Come on.
You've been well looked after for a long time.
And the day might come where you get tempted to say certain things that don't need saying.
Don't.
I know where Seb's stashes are.
There's a teacher who wants to put Gavin in a school.
Boarding school.
Wants to help him out.
It costs some money.
But you know, sometimes people get lucky.
Like, if someone were to happen upon a certain storage unit a few counties over.
For instance.
And then, everybody's happy.
And happy people don't talk.
I hated you for your sickness before you died.
I'd like to forget I'd forget that I hated you, but I totally did.
I hated you.
I could never invite anybody over.
I was so worried that they'd finally see how much of a wreck you actually were.
I remember that one time when you forgot to pick me up from Charlie's.
Her mom was gonna call, but I didn't want her to because I knew she would just hear you slurring on the phone.
So I walked home in the rain.
When I got home, I was so furious with you.
I told you you were a bad mom, and you were a loser, and you just laughed at me.
And you said, "Family's like a chronic illness.
It sucks, and you can't get rid of it.
" So Then your needle was still on the table.
I was just a kid.
I was I was 11.
And I was so mad at myself after it had happened.
It was so gross.
I just took all those feelings and I-I shoved them away.
I put them towards everything, everyone else.
[Evie.]
I don't know what it's like to not feel that-that constant pounding anger.
Thurston.
Come back.
[Evie.]
It's like an awful headache that won't go away.
And here we are, worse than they are.
[police siren blaring.]
It's all my fault.
[branches snapping.]
But it ends now.
You can't have me.
I am not a monster.
[roars.]
[yells.]
Let me die! What have you done? - Stop resisting.
Easy.
- I don't want her to take me.
- Please, let go.
- Just calm down.
- She'll never stop.
- Just relax.
- Give me your hand.
- [Birch snarling.]
- [girl whispering.]
I will be patient.
- [officer.]
Atta girl.
- Just take some breaths.
- [girl whispering.]
I will be strong.
[officer gasps.]
[gasps.]
No, please.
Please.
No, no, no! Stop! No! Help! No! No! No! Stop! [girl whispering.]
I will be kind.
I will be calm.
I will be patient.
I will be strong.
They will come and they will kill us.
They'll kill us both.
They have to die.
Laura is just a little girl.
I am her mother and I will make you suffer.
- [Sebastian.]
Thurston, get it done.
C'mon, here.
Pull the trigger.
Pull it.
Pull the trigger.
- I can't.
I can't do it.
I can't.
- Shoot him, Thurston.
- No! No! No, no! - Pull it! Pull it! [footsteps approaching.]
[Harmon.]
Knock, knock.
- [Harmon screaming.]
- [splattering.]
[Birch snarling.]
Dad? [TV playing.]
[Lily.]
O! Say can you see By the dawn's early light It's yours sad.
[TV continues playing.]
[Evie crying.]
No.
No, no.
Dad.
Dad, no.
Please.
No.
[mumbling.]
[girl whispering.]
I will be patient.
I will be strong.
[wind bells chiming.]
[muffled gasping.]
You lied to me, Thurston.
Please.
I'm so sorry.
I'm so sorry.
I-I Seb made me do it.
I Just please trust me.
- You lied.
- [branches snapping.]
[Thurston groaning.]
He's got my brother.
He's got my brother.
[Evie.]
This is so stupid.
- This is not gonna end.
- So pointless.
Please.
As long as Seb's around, this is not gonna stop.
Please.
Let him go.
I said let him go.
I'm yours.
Just let me say goodbye.
Go.
You can help me bring him down.
Please.
You can help me end this.
- Please.
- Go.
Right now.
[dialing.]
[operator.]
911 operator.
What's your emergency? I killed them.
[operator.]
Sir? Yeah.
The guy in the woods And Buddy Grayson.
I'm at Polk Hardware.
Come find me.
[metal tinging.]
No! No! No! [Sebastian.]
I wouldn't be sneaking around, chief.
This mess you got us into wasn't enough? Gavin! It's over, Seb.
I called the cops! I own the cops.
I own this whole goddamn town, you backstabbing prick.
[Sebastian.]
Thurston! Where are you, buddy? I'm not gonna hurt you.
I just need something that belongs to your uncle.
It can be anything.
You just need to be sure that it's his.
[Sebastian.]
Thurston.
You playing a game of hide-and-seek? [whispers.]
Here.
Gavin.
[Sebastian.]
Thurston? Thurston.
I know you're here.
[chain rattling.]
- [groaning.]
- [yells.]
Found ya.
Come on! - [grunts.]
- Ah! - [screams.]
- Gavin! No! [Sebastian.]
Your turn.
[gasping.]
- [police sirens blaring.]
- Gavin, you still with me? - You with me, man? - [police cars approaching.]
Hey, Gavin.
You're gonna be all right, okay? - Just stay awake.
- [officer.]
Come on, let's go.
- Come on, Gav, come on.
- [officer.]
Go, go.
Gavin? Just stay with me here.
Tell me one of your t-shirt ideas.
Come on.
Come on.
No, no, no, no.
Suck it up and make me laugh.
I've got 99 problems, but a beach ain't one of them.
Yeah, buddy.
- Yeah, buddy.
Yeah.
- [officer.]
Go.
We're gonna make so much money, man.
- Hey, California's waiting for us.
- [officer.]
Hey! I've got some kids over here.
- They're on this side! - Hey.
Help! [Thurston.]
Help, my brother's bleeding out.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
Get over here.
Somebody help me.
My brother's bleeding out right now.
- [officer 2.]
Are you seeing this? - Yeah.
Look, everything's gonna be okay.
[police radio chatter.]
Jesus Christ.
What is that? [officer gasps.]
[officer.]
Is that a skull? [officer 2.]
Pull to the shoulder.
Hi, Mom.
[Sheriff Baker.]
Let's go.
Walk.
Gavin.
Hey, Gavin.
Hey, that's my Dude.
That's my brother.
Just keep your head down.
Listen to what they have to say.
But don't be afraid to stand up for yourself, okay? Flex on them a little bit.
Just know that I'm with you, man.
[Sheriff Baker.]
All right, that's enough.
[groans.]
You know I'm not doing so great myself.
You'll survive.
But you and I need to have a few words.
Let's go.
You don't trust me? Come on.
You've been well looked after for a long time.
And the day might come where you get tempted to say certain things that don't need saying.
Don't.
I know where Seb's stashes are.
There's a teacher who wants to put Gavin in a school.
Boarding school.
Wants to help him out.
It costs some money.
But you know, sometimes people get lucky.
Like, if someone were to happen upon a certain storage unit a few counties over.
For instance.
And then, everybody's happy.
And happy people don't talk.
I hated you for your sickness before you died.
I'd like to forget I'd forget that I hated you, but I totally did.
I hated you.
I could never invite anybody over.
I was so worried that they'd finally see how much of a wreck you actually were.
I remember that one time when you forgot to pick me up from Charlie's.
Her mom was gonna call, but I didn't want her to because I knew she would just hear you slurring on the phone.
So I walked home in the rain.
When I got home, I was so furious with you.
I told you you were a bad mom, and you were a loser, and you just laughed at me.
And you said, "Family's like a chronic illness.
It sucks, and you can't get rid of it.
" So Then your needle was still on the table.
I was just a kid.
I was I was 11.
And I was so mad at myself after it had happened.
It was so gross.
I just took all those feelings and I-I shoved them away.
I put them towards everything, everyone else.
[Evie.]
I don't know what it's like to not feel that-that constant pounding anger.
Thurston.
Come back.
[Evie.]
It's like an awful headache that won't go away.
And here we are, worse than they are.
[police siren blaring.]
It's all my fault.
[branches snapping.]
But it ends now.
You can't have me.
I am not a monster.
[roars.]
[yells.]
Let me die! What have you done? - Stop resisting.
Easy.
- I don't want her to take me.
- Please, let go.
- Just calm down.
- She'll never stop.
- Just relax.
- Give me your hand.
- [Birch snarling.]
- [girl whispering.]
I will be patient.
- [officer.]
Atta girl.
- Just take some breaths.
- [girl whispering.]
I will be strong.
[officer gasps.]
[gasps.]
No, please.
Please.
No, no, no! Stop! No! Help! No! No! No! Stop! [girl whispering.]
I will be kind.
I will be calm.
I will be patient.
I will be strong.
They will come and they will kill us.
They'll kill us both.
They have to die.
Laura is just a little girl.
I am her mother and I will make you suffer.