The Stand (2020) s01e01 Episode Script

1
[woman]
There's bitter days ahead,
death and terror,
betrayal and tears,
and not all of you will live through 'em.
The dark man grows stronger all the time.
I know you feel it too.
Soon, he'll come to destroy
all who stand against him.
His kingdom's in the West,
and it is there you must go
and make your stand.
This is what God wants of you.
[insects buzzing]
[retches]
- [man on radio, indistinct]
- [coughing]
[man on radio]
Team Two moving to second location.
[coughing loudly]
Do you copy?
Copy.
[guttural gasping]
There's no shame, son.
No, sir. I was an EMT 26 years,
and I thought
I'd seen my share of death, but this
Seven billion people dead.
You want to puke, son
you go right ahead.
I'm fine.
I just need a minute.
[insects buzzing]
How come you're always taking movies?
World that's left's
gonna need entertainment.
Once the power's back on,
I'm gonna open a drive-in
up at the amphitheater,
put up a big screen,
double features Friday night.
You ever seen Risky Business?
- No.
- Oh, it's a great one.
They fuck on a train.
Let's roll.
[man] We put away almost
a thousand units today.
It was dirty fucking work.
As far as I'm concerned,
it's the most important job in the Zone.
But if you've had enough,
if you feel like
you can't take another day,
you won't have to worry
about avoiding me in the street.
But if you can't cut it,
it's damn important you tell me now,
so I can bring somebody in
to take your spot tomorrow.
Let's see some hands. Who's coming back?
Good. Let's get a drink.
[newscaster on radio] Well,
it's shaping up to be a beautiful Fourth.
Our WFTJ Ogunquit AccuWeather forecast
is predicting clear skies
for our nation's birthday
with highs in the mid-80s.
And our good friends
at the Maine State Police
have asked us to remind you all
that fireworks are not toys.
Be safe out there, Ogunquit.
[sneezes, coughs]
[on radio]
73 men sailed up ♪
From the San Francisco Bay ♪
Hey, Daddy.
Rolled off of their ship ♪
Oh, hey.
- Caught me digging, huh, Fran?
- Hmm.
I brought you some water.
- Thank you, darling.
- How you feeling?
- A little better?
- Yeah. Yeah.
Kind of lost track of time out here.
So how did, uh, Amy's shower go?
Oh, it was a disaster.
Hardly anybody showed.
- They all have what you have.
- Oh, yeah.
- Can I talk to you about something?
- [sneezes loudly, coughs]
- Bless you.
- [sneezes]
Oh, sorry.
Daddy, you're burning up.
Yeah, well, maybe, uh
Maybe I'll have a nap, huh?
- That's a great idea.
- Yeah.
- Come on.
- Okay.
So, uh, you said you wanted
to talk to me about something?
We can talk about it later.
- [laughs softly]
- Okay.
- All right.
- [Frannie] What time did you wake up?
- Uh, about 6:00, I think?
- How'd you feel then?
[gasps]
- [grunts]
- [boy 1] Got you, you peeping pervert!
Let me go! I didn't do anything!
- We caught you in broad daylight, Lauder.
- Wait. You know this dipshit?
This is that psycho school shooter kid
I was telling you about.
Already has his own manifesto
and read it in front of the whole class.
- I'm a writer. It was fiction.
- Then why'd they suspend you?
[grunting]
You're dead, you sick fuck!
Get the little prick!
Get after him!
Shit.
[dog barking]
[panting]
Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus.
Fucking T-1000. [panting]
[cawing]
[screaming]
Aaah! [groans]
[boy 2] Holy shit! Did you see that?
- [boy 1] Is he fucking dead?
- [groans]
[boy 2] Lauder, are you dead?
- I mean, look at this sorry sack of shit.
- Karma's a bitch.
We don't even have to kick your ass now.
[boy 1] I ever catch you back
in this neighborhood,
I'm gonna shove your whole bike
up your ass, you hear me?
- I said, do you fucking hear me?
- I hear you!
Good.
Fucking better.
That's our mom, you twisted little troll.
You're gonna die a virgin, Lauder.
That's for sure, especially
after I post these on Instagram.
[sneezes]
[whimpering]
[crowd chatter]
- [sneezes]
- [woman] Bad news, Ogunquit.
The governor is now considering a ban
on all public gatherings
following the CDC's announcement
that flu season's come early this year.
Well, I don't know about you,
folks,
but I'd never let fear
of the sniffles keep me from
- [laughter]
- [boy] Aw
[man coughing]
[bike rattling on pavement]
[panting]
[woman coughing]
[woman wheezes]
[woman coughs]
Hey, Mom.
How you feeling?
[mother] Oh, horrible.
[coughs]
Your father's on his way home.
He's not feeling well, either.
[coughs]
How do you feel?
- Fine.
- Good.
You can clean up out there.
[coughs]
And don't make me remind you again
about mowing the lawn.
[coughs, wheezes]
[Amy] Harold?
What the hell happened to you?
I fell off my bike.
You're such a fucking liar.
Some fucking bridal shower.
[cries]
[music playing faintly]
[screaming]
Shut the fuck up, Harold!
[radio host]
Tonight's show will be focused
on the news coming out
or not coming out
- of Arnette, Texas.
- [panting]
The CDC has quarantined the area.
Men in US Army uniforms are refusing
to let anyone in,
including credentialed media.
Cell phone service inside the perimeter
has apparently been jammed,
as has all phone and Internet service.
That's right, folks.
The good people of Arnette
- [moaning]
- are completely cut off
from the rest of the world.
Just let that sink in.
[animal squeaking]
[lock buzzes]
Thank you, sir. I have got it from here.
Thank You can go.
Get a haircut, goddamn hippie.
- [guard grunts]
- [laughs]
Uh, Mr. Redman. May I call you Stu?
Well, you kept me prisoner here
for three days.
No lawyer, no phone calls.
I figure you can call me
whatever you want.
Okay. I'm Jim. Jim Ellis.
Uh, my understanding
is you've told the nursing staff
that you're done cooperating
with our work here
until they bring in someone
who can answer your questions.
Yeah, I think it's time someone tells me
what the fuck's going on.
Okay. What do you want to know?
Well, for starters, how come
you're not wearing one of those masks?
I'm, uh, too good-looking.
Sorry. Uh, my psych profile says
I use humor to cope with stress.
No, the reason I'm not wearing a mask is
because it appears
that you're not contagious.
How do you know that?
Um, turns out that guinea pigs are
at least as susceptible as we are.
They start showing symptoms
almost immediately.
You guys have been breathing the same air.
It's been almost 70 hours,
and there's not one sniffle.
- [guinea pigs squeaking]
- So it's a virus, what I got?
Actually, as far as we can tell,
you haven't got anything at all.
As to what Mr. Campion had,
yeah, it's a virus, some kind of superflu.
People are calling it Captain Trips.
Campion was the guy in the car, right?
[chattering]
[man 1] Let's get some chips going,
so I can get some steak.
- [man 2] Oh, you ready?
- [man 3] Yeah, I'm ready.
- Let's go, boys. I'm in.
- [train whistle blowing]
Hap needs a retirement fund.
Okay, flip the next card.
I want to see what it is.
- Get 'em, Hap.
- Okay.
[men chattering, laughing]
- [tires squealing]
- Two. Four.
Turn off your pumps, Hap.
What?
Fuck, shit.
Boy must be drunker
than a fiddler's bitch.
[tires screeching]
He was military, yeah?
- Afraid that's classified.
- [scoffs]
So he was military.
You fucking guys.
You were in, yourself.
Barely a year, it says here.
Medically retired
following a "catastrophically ruptured
right knee meniscus, all tendons." Ouch.
People I came in here with,
you want to tell me about them?
That's not a subject
that I'm at liberty to discuss.
I woke up three days ago to men
wearing MOPP suits holding M4s,
saying, "Come with us.
No need to be alarmed, sir."
- Look, I
- Want to tell me about that?
Hey, I advised against those MOPP suits,
but it was kind of a tough sell
with your dog on the porch,
kind of shape he was in.
It was my wife's dog.
Your wife, car accident, right?
I I read about her in your file.
I'm very sorry for your
Sorry for my loss? Yeah.
[sighs] The people I came in here with,
people I worked on rigs with,
people I've known my whole life,
my friends, my family
tell me about them.
- Well
- What the fuck did you guys do?
- Okay.
- How many of them had what Campion had?
All of them.
What do you mean, all of 'em? What
And how are they?
Ralph Hodges's, uh, youngest daughter,
the four-year-old.
- Eva?
- Uh-huh.
She's alive.
She was when I came in here.
What do you mean? What's that
supposed to mean, "She's alive"?
Mr. Redman, I am so sorry.
This situation, it exists.
We're working to contain it,
and right now, that is all that matters.
We've got the town of Arnette
under quarantine.
We're trying to recreate Campion's route,
figure out how many people
he may have exposed
before he ended up
at Mr. Hapscomb's gas station.
So, you spoke to him, right? Campion?
Uh, before the ambulance came?
[panting]
[coughing]
I got you.
Easy, easy, easy.
- Grab his legs.
- [groaning]
[coughing]
You're gonna be all right. You hear me?
How's my How's my wife?
How's Sally? How's my kid?
[coughs]
[Campion wheezing]
[Ellis]
Ralph Hodges and you.
You were the only ones who made
physical contact with Campion.
You're telling me they're all dead?
I am.
[sighs]
What about Campion's family?
Anyone touch them?
[Stu] Just hang in there, all right?
[gags]
[Stu] Car just smashed into our pumps.
[Campion breathing heavily]
Clock was red.
- The clock?
- [coughing]
Red clock means lockdown.
Whole place is supposed to seal.
[coughs]
Hap! How are we doing
on that ambulance?
Ten minutes out.
[Campion coughs]
I thought if I just
I thought if I moved fast enough
[Stu] Campion came from California,
right?
Some bioweapons facility
out in the middle of the desert?
- You know I can't say.
- My point is,
he traveled 1,700 miles
before he hit Arnette?
How many stops is that?
Got to gas up, pee, eat.
You think you can find every person
he crossed paths with?
Well, as far as we can tell,
everyone who comes
in contact with this thing
becomes infected.
Everyone but you,
and we need to find out why.
We need to take as much blood
from you as you can tolerate.
Couple of vials every couple hours.
Run it through every test we can think of.
Run the rest of you
through every scan we have.
Hope that one of these tracks
helps us identify
what's protecting you from this infection.
[chuckles] Come up with some way
to protect the rest of us.
Keep any more four-year-olds
from ending up like Eva Hodges.
Hey, your wife was a nurse, right?
What do you think she'd tell you to do?
All right.
All right?
Do what you got to do.
Hey, we're back on. Bring in the tech.
Prep contrast fluid for an MRI.
[lock buzzes, latch clicks]
[sneezes]
Excuse me. Allergies.
Hello?
Can anybody hear me?
Hello?
[grunting]
Hello?
Anyone alive out there?
This is Harold Lauder.
I live on Ocean Street.
Hello?
Anyone?
[whispers] I'm here, Harold.
- I'm here, Harold.
- [Harold] Frannie?
Holy shit, it's good to see you.
Um, obviously, I wish
the circumstances were better.
Can I come in?
[exhales]
Thanks.
What happened to you?
You're all banged up.
Fell off my bike. [chuckles softly]
Is that
- I'm burying my dad.
- [whispers] Yeah.
I guess you've had
some experience with loss.
Your brother and all.
Well, what about your family? A Amy?
Managed to get them to the funeral home
before it closed its doors,
and there they sit.
Doubt they'll ever be buried.
No, someone will come back and bury them
when this disease has burned itself out.
Who?
I don't know, someone in authority.
Frannie. [chuckles]
Five will get you ten, it was
the people in authority who did this.
Some government scientist said,
"Look what I made.
Kills almost everybody. Isn't it great?"
[chuckles]
Probably got a medal and a raise.
And then somebody spilled it.
What are you talking about?
What planet have you been living on?
It was all over the Internet
before they shut it down.
I've been kind of busy.
I'm sorry.
- Let me help you.
- No, I got it.
Look at your hands.
- You can't do this
- Go home, Harold!
I'm not your fucking babysitter anymore!
No one's coming, Fran.
[quietly] Fuck.
I love you, Daddy.
[gurgling]
[panting]
[entry bell jingles]
[gags]
[coughs]
[coughs]
[president]
My fellow Americans,
we cannot afford to jump at shadows
like children in the dark,
but neither can we afford
to take this serious outbreak lightly.
There is no truth to the rumor
that this strain of influenza
is universally fatal.
Furthermore, there is absolutely no truth
to the vicious rumors,
started and spread via social media,
that it was engineered by this government.
Let me be clear.
We have never
[coughs]
never engaged
in the clandestine manufacture
of substances
outlawed by the Geneva Conventions
or the Biological Weapons Convention.
My fellow Americans,
I ask you to do your part
[coughing]
by re by re
by remaining calm
and following the instructions
of your emergency response personnel.
To maintain order
and alleviate mass hysteria,
I have author
- [child giggling]
- [gasps]
- [running footsteps]
- [child giggles]
[child giggles]
- [child giggles]
- Hello, Frannie.
My name is Abagail Freemantle.
You come see me
at Hemingford Home, Colorado.
Can you remember that for me?
[wind whistling]
- [typing]
- [typewriter dinging]
[typing continues]
- [lock buzzes]
- [alarm blaring]
Hey!
Oh, good. You're awake.
- Am now.
- Uh, we're moving you.
There's a car waiting for you downstairs.
- Moving me? Where to?
- Stovington, Vermont.
A secure CDC facility there.
It's where this effort
is being coordinated.
Why are we leaving
in the middle of the night?
Stu, please, I could go to prison already
for what I've
You You know what? No. Fuck it.
Place is compromised.
Nurse's kid tested positive
about a half hour ago.
You're telling me the Arnette quarantine
extends all the way out here?
The nurse's kid testing positive
means we get our very own exclusion zone.
We're the last living souls in or out.
- For how long?
- Long as it takes.
CDC's still based in Atlanta, right?
- Yeah, last I checked.
- Why the hell aren't we going there?
Trust me, you should be happy
we're not telling you more than we are.
Dr. Cobb here
is gonna be joining our team.
All right. That's funny, I wouldn't
have taken you for a doctor.
Yeah. I get that a lot.
He seems fun.
[man] Come on. Let's go.
[engine starts]
[tires squealing]
Redman.
[scoffs]
You know, if I didn't know any better,
I'd say this is one
of those blackout hoods
they put on Gitmo prisoners.
You know, keep 'em disoriented.
[Cobb] We're headed
to a classified facility.
You expect me to wear this thing
the whole time we're there?
[Cobb] Just on the way.
Can take it off once we're inside.
And how long's the trip?
You know, it seems to me, Mr. Redman,
you might be under the misimpression
that our only option as far
as securing your cooperation,
is to fucking ask for it.
Now, it's gonna be a lot easier
on everybody
if you just let us do our jobs.
And what is that, exactly? Your job?
Well, my job, Mr. Redman,
is to keep you safe.
And to keep you cooperating.
Now, it's totally up to you
how comfortable you want to be
while both of those things happen.
Now, you ready to cut the shit?
- Yeah, just about.
- [Cobb] Good.
Then put the fucking hood on.
[radio host] Major roads blocked
by armored vehicles.
Hospitals overflowing.
Our Internet shut down.
[coughing]
It certainly does look like the end.
Humanity blinking out with a whimper.
[coughing]
Well, folks, not me.
The method ofmy demise
[coughing]
will not be Captain Trips.
So this will be me signing off.
[gunshot]
[gargles]
Frannie
I know you're in pain.
We both are.
[chuckles softly]
Frannie, I want you to come with me.
We're the last living souls
left in Ogunquit.
We can't stay here.
It's a coffin.
Fran I have a plan.
Fuck, that rhymes.
[sighs]
Fran, tell me why,
out of the entire town of Ogunquit
we're the only ones spared.
Tell me why,
out of the entire town of Ogunquit,
we're the only ones spared.
You and me.
[Ellis] What I heard, this is supposed
to be the vice president's room.
It's a real step up
from the last place, though, huh?
Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'd love to retire here.
How deep are we?
Oh, pretty fucking deep.
This place is a fortress.
I've never seen anything like it.
It's all controlled from a central hub.
Even the elevators.
Really?
By who? Who's the CO?
Army general, four-star.
Guy named Starkey, apparently.
I haven't actually seen him.
Wow. Four-star. Fuck.
And how's our good friend Cobb doing?
[Ellis] He's always around.
You should not antagonize him.
He's dangerous.
[Stu] Yeah, no shit.
I think we could take him though.
- [laughs] Can you imagine?
- [chuckles]
Yeah, I could.
Yeah, I'm stuck down here,
the same as you.
It's better than up there though.
Trust me.
Really? That bad, huh?
Yeah, I got to get on the phone
with the World Health Organization
in five minutes
to get estimates that would
make the Spanish flu look like a sham.
I'll come back and check on you
as soon as I can.
- [door chimes]
- All right, you know where to find me.
- [door opens]
- [coughs]
[door closes]
[engine shuts off]
Frannie?
Frannie?
[flies buzzing]
Fran.
Fran?
[water running]
Fran?
Fran, I'm worried about you.
I'm coming in.
[grunts]
Jesus.
[grunting]
[weakly] I was in the corn, Harold.
I'm not gonna let you die, Frannie.
[gags]
[coughing]
It's okay.
["Changes" by Black Sabbath playing]
I feel unhappy ♪
Hey.
I feel so sad ♪
I've lost the best friend ♪
How you feeling?
That I ever had ♪
She was my woman ♪
How did you know?
Were you spying on me?
No, of course not. I I
I've let her go ♪
I came here
Came here [sniffs]
to show you my plan.
See if you want to come with.
And and just in the nick of time,
I might add.
I wish you hadn't, Harold.
I don't want to be here anymore.
Well, neither did I.
Think of it like I'm returning the favor.
What favor?
Remember that nail you stuck in my wall,
like, five years ago?
How do you not remember?
That was like the biggest moment
of my childhood.
Harold, I don't remember.
I was Amy's friend,
and you were her weird little brother.
I'd just gotten my first rejection letter.
You came over to babysit.
- You wouldn't even come out of your room.
- See?
You do remember.
[sighs] Yeah.
I nailed the letter to your wall,
and I told you to never give up.
To this day,
I've put every one on that nail.
And I haven't given up.
Frannie, we're the only ones
left alive in this whole town.
And, assuming there's nothing
special about this place, which
I think we both know
is a pretty safe assumption,
that means the fatality rate
for this virus is well over 99%.
Means we can't afford to lose
a single person.
- It means
- We're the future.
Through changes ♪
Yes.
Us.
I'm going through changes ♪
Okay. Let's hear your plan.
Atlanta.
The CDC.
If there are still people there working
on the flu, maybe we can help them.
How? Like
- let them run tests on us?
- Exactly.
They must be looking for people
who are immune.
That's actually
That's a really smart idea.
I'm not a little kid anymore,
Frannie.
Her last goodbyes ♪
Now all my days ♪
Are filled with tears ♪
Wish I could go back ♪
And change these years ♪
I'm going through changes ♪
[baby crying]
[crying continues]
[crying continues]
[wolf growls]
[gasps]
[door chimes]
[coughing]
No.
That pretty much sums it up.
See, the first rule of epidemiology is,
you don't end up on the wrong
end of the stethoscope.
[coughing]
Goddamn it.
The bright side is, it looks like
you won't have Dr. Cobb
to worry about anymore.
Cobb has it, too?
[chuckling] Yeah.
Pretty much everyone has it.
There's reports of immunes
like you out there,
but there's nothing confirmed.
Oh, God.
Can you imagine
that just, like, a month ago,
we were all worried about Ebola?
[hacking laughter]
[coughing]
[wheezing]
What can I do for you, huh?
[hawks]
[spits]
[sighs] Jesus. What happens now?
[sniffles] Now, uh, it's game over.
I was gonna use this. You know, just
Oh
Painful, all right, but,
you know, seems smarter
than choking to death on my own snot.
And then I had a similar attractive idea.
I was gonna, uh, raid
the pharmacy down the hall
to see if I can't shuffle off this
mortal coil with a little bit of style.
- [chuckles]
- Yeah.
Forgive me, what are they gonna
What are they gonna do with me?
Unknown.
Well, no one has heard or seen
of General Starkey in 19 hours.
He sealed off the command center
and shut down all movement between floors.
[sniffles] Sometimes he opens
the door for me. Sometimes he doesn't.
He's un-fucking-predictable, that one.
- [groans]
- How many floors?
[Ellis]
There's one way to find out.
Yeah.
Come on, Doc. You got to tell me
how to get the fuck out of here.
[stammers]
I wish I could offer you something better.
[chuckles, sniffles]
[coughing]
God.
[inhales deeply] I really thought
I thought I was gonna be the one
that was gonna stop this thing.
You know, the most important vaccine
in the history of man
and get the magazine covers
and the Nobel [sniffles]Prize.
[door chimes]
[Cobb coughs]
How you doing, Doc?
I wondered where you got to.
I thought maybe you opted for the, uh,
the early checkout, you know?
Beat the traffic.
[exhales] So, what's this?
A tearful goodbye, huh? [laughs]
[coughing]
[coughs loudly]
[pants] Now let's take a walk.
What are you doing here, Cobb?
Get the fuck out.
- I'm not gonna tell you again.
- Come on, Cobb.
[gagging]
[panting]
[door chimes]
[man on PA]
Right this way, soldier.
[beeping]
[panting]
Follow the lights, Mr. Redman.
Climb aboard.
Leave the gun.
[Puccini's "Vissi d'arte"
playing on speakers]
Looks like we're the last men
standing here.
["Vissi d'arte" continues]
Tell you the truth,
I'm halfway surprised you didn't blast me
when I came through the door.
Finish what your man couldn't.
Sergeant Cobb was not one of mine.
[exhales]
You're a fucking four-star.
Whose command was he under?
Would you believe I don't know?
No.
[Starkey chuckles, coughs]
Well, that's fair. I guess,
in your position, I wouldn't either.
So, are you telling me that
Cobb's orders came from outside?
Our last contact with the outside
was two days ago.
Somebody cut your comm lines.
This place was built
to withstand a 50-megaton blast.
Our comms are fine.
Two days ago was just
the last time we heard anybody talk back.
My guess, Cobb was following a checklist.
Contingencies. If "X," then "Y."
You're telling me he was ready to kill me
to keep a secret?
- Nah
- [coughing]
There ain't no one left for me to tell.
Men like Cobb
[sighs]don't stop following orders
just because the orders stop making sense.
What about you?
I have no orders regarding you,
Mr. Redman.
All right. So
Free to go, then?
My daughter gave me this book
years ago for my birthday.
I put it on a shelf
and never even opened it.
Until four days ago, when
I learned that she was dead.
Now I can't put it down.
Poetry.
And I do believe
Mr. Yeats was on to something
about how it looks
when the shit hits the fan.
I was proud of our soldiers.
[coughs]
All the units maintained discipline
much longer than the
predictive models told us we could expect.
The predictive models?
Jesus Christ. You fucking
[scoffs softly]
gamed the apocalypse?
Of course.
"In the event of a global-level
extinction event,
every effort will be made
to maintain continuity
of national government."
And if you think that everybody else
were not planning along the same lines,
you are very much mistaken.
Okay, after we're finished here,
that key card gets you out that exit door.
Take the emergency stairs
up to the surface level.
[coughs]
[sighs]
If anyone asks,
if there's anyone left to ask
please tell them I stood my post
to the end.
I will.
Thank you, General.
If you'll indulge me?
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre,
the falcon cannot hear the falconer.
Things fall apart.
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed,
and everywhere the ceremony
of innocence is drowned.
The best lack all conviction,
while the worst
are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand.
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
Somewhere in sands of the desert
a shape with lion body
and the head of a man,
a gaze blank
and pitiless as the sun
is moving its slow thighs.
And what rough beast,
its hour come round at last,
slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
[breathes deeply]
Good luck to you, Mr. Redman.
Thank you, General.
["Vissi d'arte" continues]
[woman singing opera]
[gunshot]
[spray can hissing]
["Furr" by Blitzen Trapper playing]
Yeah, when I was only 17 ♪
I didn't know your middle name.
I could hear the angels whispering ♪
So I droned into the woods
And wandered aimlessly about ♪
[sighs]
Until I heard my mother
Shouting through the fog ♪
It turned out to be
The howling of a dog ♪
Or a wolf to be exact ♪
The sound sent shivers down my back ♪
But I was drawn into the pack ♪
- And before long ♪
- [engines start]
They allowed me to join in
And sing their song ♪
So from the cliffs and highest hill ♪
Yeah, we would gladly get our fill ♪
Howling endlessly
And shrilly at the dawn ♪
[man] Come on. Cover it up!
[rapid typing]
[Harold] It's said that the two
great human sins are pride and hate.
Are they?
I choose to think of them
as the two great virtues.
To give away pride and hate is to say
you will change for the good of the world.
To embrace them,
to vent them, is more noble.
The world must change for the good of you.
I am on a great adventure.
- [rhythmic beeping]
- That's it!
Straight back. Straight back.
Whoa!
- [grunts]
- Whoa, whoa.
[grunts]
You just saved my fucking life, man.
[gasps] Whew!
[chuckles]
I owe you so many beers.
[Harold] There was a time, an hour,
maybe just an instant,
when he contemplated jettisoning
the hate.
In that hour or instant, he was aware
that he could simply accept what was.
[whistles] Good eye today, Hawk.
[Harold] And that knowledge exhilarated
and terrified him.
For that space of time,
he knew he could become
a new Harold Lauder.
[engine starts]
- Pretty fucking great, right?
- Yeah.
There's your screen.
The projectionist throws from there.
That's about 150 feet
[Harold] He could let go of all
the old grudges, hurts, unpaid debts
We have a ticket booth and
worthless as the paper money
choking the cash registers
of this new America.
I always saw a partner in this.
[laughs]
[typewriter bell chimes]
But to seize it would have been
to murder himself.
The ghosts of every humiliation
he had ever suffered cried out against it.
- [wolf howling]
- His murdered dreams and ambitions
came back to eldritch life
and asked if he could
forget them so easily.
[wolf panting]
[whooshing]
["The Stranger" by Billy Joel playing]
[melodic whistling]
In Boulder,
he could only ever be Harold Lauder.
Out west
he could be a prince.
[panting quietly]
[chattering]
- [woman] There you go.
- [Frannie] Thank you very much.
Have a good day.
- [Frannie] Oh, hey, Harold.
- Hey, guys.
Oh, look at you.
- Yeah.
- Getting bigger every day.
- [Frannie] Yeah. Okay.
- Is it kicking yet?
- [Frannie] Sometimes.
- No, that's just breakfast.
- [laughter]
- Okay.
- You off to work?
- Yes, sir.
- Another day on the body crew.
- I can't tell you how much
we appreciate what y'all
are doing out there.
- Out on the front lines.
- Ah, well
- [Frannie] Yeah.
- We're all in this together.
Yes, we are.
You should come over for dinner sometime.
We can, you know, heat you up
some canned beans or something.
- Yeah, sure. I'd love that.
- [Frannie] Yeah, me, too.
- All right.
- Hey. Great to see you guys.
- Yeah, you, too.
- Have a good one.
- Have a good one.
- Have a good day. Bye.
- Hi.
- Hi.
[screaming]
[Harold] My great pleasure
this delightful post-apocalypse season
will be to kill
Mr. Stuart "Dog Cock" Redman.
And just maybe
I'll kill her too.
[phone ringing]
Blazer One Actual. This is
- This is General Fitzpatrick.
- Yes, sir.
- Identify yourself.
- Private First Class Charles Campion, sir.
I'm getting alerts.
Are the readings elevated on your end?
Yes, sir. I see the readings,
but there's no
- [alarm sounding]
- I just got a secondary alert.
- What are you seeing?
- Sir.
Go ahead.
Is this an exercise?
- [glass banging]
- No, Private, this is not an exercise.
Hold a moment, please, sir.
- [alarm continues]
- Campion?
Campion!
[screaming]
[alarm blaring]
[electronic voice]
Attention, all personnel,
initiate containment protocol.
This is not a drill.
- [buzzing]
- [door rattling]
Attention, all personnel,
initiate containment protocol.
This is not a drill.
Attention, all personnel,
initiate containment protocol.
This is not a drill.
- [alarm blaring]
- [panting]
Sally. Get up, get up. You got to wake up.
- Charlie?
- Wake up. Get up, get up. We got to go.
- We got to go now. Get LaVon.
- What's happening? What's going on?
- Come on, hurry up!
- Wait, where are we going?
We have to go. Come on, come on, baby.
[baby crying]
[engine starts]
["The Stranger" by Billy Joel playing]
[melodic whistling]
[baby fussing]
Well, we all have a face
That we hide away forever ♪
And we take them out
And show ourselves ♪
When everyone has gone ♪
Some are satin, some are steel ♪
Some are silk and some are leather ♪
They're the faces of a stranger ♪
But we'd love to try them on ♪
Well, we all fall in love ♪
But we disregard the danger ♪
Though we share so many secrets ♪
There are some we never tell ♪
Why were you so surprised ♪
That you never saw the stranger? ♪
Did you ever let your lover ♪
See the stranger in yourself? ♪
Don't be afraid to try again ♪
Everyone goes south
Every now and then ♪
Ooh, ooh ♪
You've done it
Why can't someone else? ♪
You should know by now ♪
You've been there yourself ♪
Once I used to believe ♪
I was such a great romancer ♪
Then I came home to a woman ♪
That I could not recognize ♪
When I pressed her for a reason ♪
She refused to even answer ♪
It was then I felt the stranger ♪
Kick me right between the eyes ♪
Well, we all fall in love ♪
But we disregard the danger ♪
Though we share so many secrets ♪
There are some we never tell ♪
Why were you so surprised ♪
That you never saw the stranger? ♪
It was then I felt the stranger ♪
Kick me right between the eyes ♪
Ooh, ooh ♪
Ooh, ooh ♪