The Terror (2018) s02e06 Episode Script
Taizo
1 We will let Chester know what happened.
He'll want to know where to find you.
I left him a letter.
Huh! [FLESH RIPPING.]
[SQUISH!.]
[GUNFIRE.]
Yurei be anywhere you go.
It follow you.
[PHONOGRAPH PLAYS, A WOMAN SINGING IN JAPANESE.]
[.]
[MAN SINGING ALONG.]
[SPEAKING IN JAPANESE.]
[INHALING SHARPLY.]
[GLASS SMASHING.]
[HUMMING AND PLAYING RATTLE.]
[BABY COOING.]
[DOOR OPENING.]
[BABY COOING AND FUSSING.]
[BABY FUSSING.]
[BABY FUSSING.]
[BABY FUSSING.]
[BABY CRYING.]
[GASPING.]
[BABY CRYING.]
[BABY CRYING.]
You did the right thing, dear.
Children can't be raised on the streets.
[BABY CRYING.]
[STONES RATTLING.]
[WOODEN PERCUSSION BLOCKS KNOCKING.]
[WOOD BLOCK KNOCKING.]
[.]
[STONES RATTLING.]
[DRUM BEATING.]
[.]
[.]
The Terror: Infamy 2x06 Taizo [.]
[FLY BUZZING.]
[BIRDS CHIRPING.]
[.]
[TRAY RATTLING.]
[SPEAKING IN JAPANESE.]
[POURING TEA.]
[WHISKING.]
[FLIES BUZZING.]
[.]
[TRAY RATTLING.]
[DOOR SLIDING OPEN.]
[FLY BUZZING.]
[SWATTING.]
[WATER RUNNING.]
[PUTTING FEET INTO SLIPPERS.]
[BIRDS CHIRPING.]
[FAINT SNIP OF PRUNING SHEARS.]
[.]
[GASPING.]
[BONES CRACKING.]
[.]
[RUMBLING.]
[SAND SHIFTING.]
[GASPING.]
[MUFFLED CRIES.]
[GASPING.]
[FLIES BUZZING.]
[TRAY RATTLING.]
[GASPING.]
[STRUCTURE RUMBLING.]
[SOBS, BREATH RAGGED.]
[SHOUTING.]
[PANTING IN FEAR.]
[FLIES BUZZING.]
[GASPING.]
[SCREAMING.]
[SCREAMING.]
[THUNDER RUMBLING.]
[GRUNTING WITH EFFORT.]
[WHEEZING GASP.]
[BONES CRACKING.]
[CAR ENGINE PASSING.]
Wake up, buddy.
You're home.
Chester? Nakayama, Chester.
Medical discharge.
Chester.
Where's Luz? She's okay.
But her father came, and She left? I'm sorry.
She asked me to send it.
You needed happy thoughts, not this.
[.]
[.]
The spirit follows you.
It killed your sons.
It drove Luz mad.
It's your fault my husband died.
Now you put everyone in danger! [GASPING.]
You should rest.
Let's go home.
She's right.
A spirit does follow me.
It followed me across the Pacific.
That jeep crash, it was no accident.
It tried to kill me.
Did it do this too? Chester, please.
Don't listen to this nonsense.
What was she talking about? What did she mean, you brought this on? Son [.]
Ma? Ma, let me go.
Let me go! Yurei [CHOKING.]
[GASPING.]
Taizo [GASPING FOR BREATH.]
[COUGHING.]
Ma! - Asako! - Ma! What happened? Asako! Ma! Chester? Ma! [ASAKO.]
: She was inside me.
But I was there too.
I had to watch my hands my own hands I tried I tried to control my body.
I fought so hard, but I I couldn't do it.
I felt the spirit.
So much pain.
So much desire.
Like a tremendous hunger.
Onnen.
What is it? What does it want? [WOOD BLOCK KNOCKING.]
You.
Then it was her.
Who? I had a sister, died many years ago.
Her name was Yuko.
Your sister is the yurei? She was Hideo's picture bride.
But he shunned her.
Sent her away.
[ASAKO.]
: She went to the Badger Avenue bridge.
She jumped.
Jesus.
But then what does she want with me? When she came to Hideo, she was with child already.
It called me her child.
Taizo.
- Is that - Taizo is the name she gave you.
I'm sorry.
[FIREWORKS EXPLODE, ONLOOKERS CHEER.]
["THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER" PLAYING ON RADIO.]
[BABY CRYING.]
[BABY CRYING AND FUSSING.]
Taizo [CROWD LAUGHS AND CELEBRATES.]
[ASAKO.]
: I was still in Japan when I found out my sister had taken her life.
I vowed that I would never let my sister's child be an orphan.
I made the crossing.
We took you.
And my father? A soldier.
He died at war.
All these years All my life Those meals at the table when you looked me in the eye and never said a word How? We feared the truth would hurt.
You mean it would hurt you.
Son Don't you call me that.
She's my blood.
You are nothing.
[HUMMING LULLABY.]
[HUMMING GENTLY.]
[WIND GUSTING.]
Taizo [FIREWORKS CRACKLING OVERHEAD.]
[BABY FUSSING AND CRYING NEARBY.]
[BABY CRYING.]
[BABY CRYING.]
[.]
Yuko [BABY SCREAMING.]
Yurei.
.
How can this be? I don't know.
You know the traditions.
You need to help us.
I am not onmyoji.
I only know pieces of old kaidan.
That's more than most.
[.]
Her spirit somewhere else.
Kaidan tell us unfulfilled soul need body to occupy.
If we destroy body, soul cannot exist.
Destroy the body? Destroy her body.
No It is not her.
Not anymore.
Her spirit must be set free.
Please.
This must be done.
[.]
She looks just like I remember.
A girl preparing to meet her husband.
Yes.
It must be done.
[YAMATO-SAN CHANTING.]
: Namu Amida Butsu Namu Amida Butsu, Namu Amida Butsu.
[MUTTERED CHANTING.]
Namu Amida Butsu.
Namu Amida Butsu, Namu Amida Butsu, Namu Amida Butsu [CONTINUES CHANTING.]
[CHANTING PHRASE.]
[.]
[ASAKO.]
: Chester Leave me.
Please.
[.]
[GASPING.]
[CRYING OUT.]
[SCREAMING.]
[.]
[SCREAMING.]
[.]
[FIREWORKS CRACKLING.]
[.]
[WIND WHISTLING.]
[ECHO OF YUKO'S VOICE SINGING LULLABY.]
Taizo [YUKO'S VOICE SINGING LULLABY.]
If I'd known who I really was, I could've protected Luz, and our boys.
[GASPING, COUGHING.]
People are gonna die.
That's why you have to do something.
I'm trying.
Why don't you do something? Or maybe you're just all talk.
[GRUNTING IN PAIN.]
- [GASPING.]
- Now until somebody tells me, what kind of evil spirit little magic tricks are taking over this place, nobody's leaving.
He'll want to know where to find you.
I left him a letter.
Huh! [FLESH RIPPING.]
[SQUISH!.]
[GUNFIRE.]
Yurei be anywhere you go.
It follow you.
[PHONOGRAPH PLAYS, A WOMAN SINGING IN JAPANESE.]
[.]
[MAN SINGING ALONG.]
[SPEAKING IN JAPANESE.]
[INHALING SHARPLY.]
[GLASS SMASHING.]
[HUMMING AND PLAYING RATTLE.]
[BABY COOING.]
[DOOR OPENING.]
[BABY COOING AND FUSSING.]
[BABY FUSSING.]
[BABY FUSSING.]
[BABY FUSSING.]
[BABY CRYING.]
[GASPING.]
[BABY CRYING.]
[BABY CRYING.]
You did the right thing, dear.
Children can't be raised on the streets.
[BABY CRYING.]
[STONES RATTLING.]
[WOODEN PERCUSSION BLOCKS KNOCKING.]
[WOOD BLOCK KNOCKING.]
[.]
[STONES RATTLING.]
[DRUM BEATING.]
[.]
[.]
The Terror: Infamy 2x06 Taizo [.]
[FLY BUZZING.]
[BIRDS CHIRPING.]
[.]
[TRAY RATTLING.]
[SPEAKING IN JAPANESE.]
[POURING TEA.]
[WHISKING.]
[FLIES BUZZING.]
[.]
[TRAY RATTLING.]
[DOOR SLIDING OPEN.]
[FLY BUZZING.]
[SWATTING.]
[WATER RUNNING.]
[PUTTING FEET INTO SLIPPERS.]
[BIRDS CHIRPING.]
[FAINT SNIP OF PRUNING SHEARS.]
[.]
[GASPING.]
[BONES CRACKING.]
[.]
[RUMBLING.]
[SAND SHIFTING.]
[GASPING.]
[MUFFLED CRIES.]
[GASPING.]
[FLIES BUZZING.]
[TRAY RATTLING.]
[GASPING.]
[STRUCTURE RUMBLING.]
[SOBS, BREATH RAGGED.]
[SHOUTING.]
[PANTING IN FEAR.]
[FLIES BUZZING.]
[GASPING.]
[SCREAMING.]
[SCREAMING.]
[THUNDER RUMBLING.]
[GRUNTING WITH EFFORT.]
[WHEEZING GASP.]
[BONES CRACKING.]
[CAR ENGINE PASSING.]
Wake up, buddy.
You're home.
Chester? Nakayama, Chester.
Medical discharge.
Chester.
Where's Luz? She's okay.
But her father came, and She left? I'm sorry.
She asked me to send it.
You needed happy thoughts, not this.
[.]
[.]
The spirit follows you.
It killed your sons.
It drove Luz mad.
It's your fault my husband died.
Now you put everyone in danger! [GASPING.]
You should rest.
Let's go home.
She's right.
A spirit does follow me.
It followed me across the Pacific.
That jeep crash, it was no accident.
It tried to kill me.
Did it do this too? Chester, please.
Don't listen to this nonsense.
What was she talking about? What did she mean, you brought this on? Son [.]
Ma? Ma, let me go.
Let me go! Yurei [CHOKING.]
[GASPING.]
Taizo [GASPING FOR BREATH.]
[COUGHING.]
Ma! - Asako! - Ma! What happened? Asako! Ma! Chester? Ma! [ASAKO.]
: She was inside me.
But I was there too.
I had to watch my hands my own hands I tried I tried to control my body.
I fought so hard, but I I couldn't do it.
I felt the spirit.
So much pain.
So much desire.
Like a tremendous hunger.
Onnen.
What is it? What does it want? [WOOD BLOCK KNOCKING.]
You.
Then it was her.
Who? I had a sister, died many years ago.
Her name was Yuko.
Your sister is the yurei? She was Hideo's picture bride.
But he shunned her.
Sent her away.
[ASAKO.]
: She went to the Badger Avenue bridge.
She jumped.
Jesus.
But then what does she want with me? When she came to Hideo, she was with child already.
It called me her child.
Taizo.
- Is that - Taizo is the name she gave you.
I'm sorry.
[FIREWORKS EXPLODE, ONLOOKERS CHEER.]
["THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER" PLAYING ON RADIO.]
[BABY CRYING.]
[BABY CRYING AND FUSSING.]
Taizo [CROWD LAUGHS AND CELEBRATES.]
[ASAKO.]
: I was still in Japan when I found out my sister had taken her life.
I vowed that I would never let my sister's child be an orphan.
I made the crossing.
We took you.
And my father? A soldier.
He died at war.
All these years All my life Those meals at the table when you looked me in the eye and never said a word How? We feared the truth would hurt.
You mean it would hurt you.
Son Don't you call me that.
She's my blood.
You are nothing.
[HUMMING LULLABY.]
[HUMMING GENTLY.]
[WIND GUSTING.]
Taizo [FIREWORKS CRACKLING OVERHEAD.]
[BABY FUSSING AND CRYING NEARBY.]
[BABY CRYING.]
[BABY CRYING.]
[.]
Yuko [BABY SCREAMING.]
Yurei.
.
How can this be? I don't know.
You know the traditions.
You need to help us.
I am not onmyoji.
I only know pieces of old kaidan.
That's more than most.
[.]
Her spirit somewhere else.
Kaidan tell us unfulfilled soul need body to occupy.
If we destroy body, soul cannot exist.
Destroy the body? Destroy her body.
No It is not her.
Not anymore.
Her spirit must be set free.
Please.
This must be done.
[.]
She looks just like I remember.
A girl preparing to meet her husband.
Yes.
It must be done.
[YAMATO-SAN CHANTING.]
: Namu Amida Butsu Namu Amida Butsu, Namu Amida Butsu.
[MUTTERED CHANTING.]
Namu Amida Butsu.
Namu Amida Butsu, Namu Amida Butsu, Namu Amida Butsu [CONTINUES CHANTING.]
[CHANTING PHRASE.]
[.]
[ASAKO.]
: Chester Leave me.
Please.
[.]
[GASPING.]
[CRYING OUT.]
[SCREAMING.]
[.]
[SCREAMING.]
[.]
[FIREWORKS CRACKLING.]
[.]
[WIND WHISTLING.]
[ECHO OF YUKO'S VOICE SINGING LULLABY.]
Taizo [YUKO'S VOICE SINGING LULLABY.]
If I'd known who I really was, I could've protected Luz, and our boys.
[GASPING, COUGHING.]
People are gonna die.
That's why you have to do something.
I'm trying.
Why don't you do something? Or maybe you're just all talk.
[GRUNTING IN PAIN.]
- [GASPING.]
- Now until somebody tells me, what kind of evil spirit little magic tricks are taking over this place, nobody's leaving.