Superstition (2017) s01e02 Episode Script
The Dredge
Previously on "Superstition" - Welcome home, son.
- [EXCLAIMS.]
[CALVIN.]
I wanna help out with the business.
You can just skip back in here.
[ISAAC.]
This is ancient.
[CALVIN.]
A coin that powerful, that doesn't just get out there.
Would it had killed you to let me know I had a daughter? 'Cause I'm the daughter you left behind.
This is the work of an infernal more powerful than we've ever seen.
- I came back to save you.
- I'm gonna be just fine.
[YELLS.]
No! No! [THUNDER RUMBLING.]
[YELLS.]
No! No, Pop! I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
[SOBBING.]
I'm sorry.
[THUNDER CRASHING.]
I have more coins.
Let me see the coins.
Hey, can you break whatever Whatever this curse is? I have victims in my holding cells right now.
They are banging their heads against the wall, and I Okay, okay.
Listen Bea is the only victim I'm concerned with at this time.
Once the hex is broken, everyone will be okay.
Where the hell are Calvin and Isaac? [SNAPS FINGERS.]
May, come on.
[SIGHS.]
Put your hands over mine.
Do it.
Okay, just focus in.
- Okay, focus in.
- [MAY.]
Right.
Oh, thank goodness.
[TILLY.]
Do you have the rest of the coins? - How is she? - She's been kind of as [STUTTERS.]
Where' Isaac? [CALVIN SIGHS.]
No.
Look.
Okay, okay, listen, Calvin.
Calvin, I'm gonna need you to go clean yourself up and go help Garvey ward the grounds.
- [TILLY.]
As the sun rises - [MAY SOFTLY.]
Calvin Ma I'm sorry.
We need your help with protecting this place right now, okay? - [MAY.]
Please.
- He was my father.
- [MAY.]
Calvin.
Calvin! - He was my father.
Tilly needs us to do this right now.
It's what Isaac would do.
- [SIGHS.]
- Please.
[SNIFFS.]
[MAY.]
Tilly, I'm so sorry about Isaac.
Okay, well [SNIFFLES.]
Um, we need to focus on Bea right now, okay, so Just just focus on Bea.
But what can you do for her? I only know the cure she's taught me.
[MUMBLES.]
Cupping.
- Cupping, yeah.
Cupping.
Cupping.
- [STUTTERS.]
What's cupping? [STUTTERS.]
I'll be in the alchemy room, I'll be right back.
[STUTTERS.]
What do you need me do? Can I Uh, just take her blouse off.
I'm sorry, Bea.
Is she gonna die? Not my mother.
I've known drill instructors who weren't half as tough as she is.
When I was a kid, part of my Sunday chores were resetting the wards.
Demon rat traps, Pops called 'em.
It's supposed to keep evil away.
Didn't think I'd take 'em literally.
I wanna help, but they always stick me so far away.
At the kids' table? With me? I know you weren't planning on meeting you father this way, but sometimes life My father woud've stayed around to raise me.
You're just a sperm donor.
[SIGHS.]
Maybe it's best for everyone if I just leave.
Is that what you want? I just want things to be the way they used to be.
[SNIFFLES.]
Goofy and weird.
Think I'd like that, too.
Here.
Take your time.
Yeah.
Good.
Uh-uh.
Tilly [TILLY.]
I'm cupping her Manipura Chakra.
Are you sure this is gonna work? Really hope so.
Now I'm going to cup her [SIGHS.]
Anahata Chakra.
[MAY GASPS.]
I have to whisper this just right.
[WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY.]
- It's working.
- [GASPING.]
- [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
- Tilly, what's happening? Tilly, Tilly, what's happening? Do something! - [TILLY.]
She has to fight to live now! - [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
She has to fight? Do something! You want me to call somebody, do something? [BEA GASPING.]
- Just tell me.
- [TILLY.]
She can tell you herself.
Hey.
Hey, sweetie.
Hey.
- What'd I say? - [CHUCKLES.]
Calvin said you were as tough as a Marine.
- [BEA AND GARVEY CHUCKLE.]
- [BEA.]
You got that right.
[CLICKS TONGUE.]
I I could really use a cup of tea.
Yeah.
Yeah, I got it.
Hi.
Let's not go doing that too many times, okay? You sound like Isaac.
[CHUCKLES.]
Where is he? Uh, Ma, you should get some rest.
I have the rest of my life to rest.
[STUTTERS.]
Where is Isaac? Bea, why don't you sit down? I want you to go home now.
- [BEA.]
What happened? - [SOFTLY.]
Now.
- Where is he? - Okay.
Where is he? [CALVIN.]
Now, I hate to be the one to tell you - No, where is he? Where's my husband? - [CALVIN.]
Mom.
- It's bad - I heard you.
Where is his body? [TILLY.]
This isn't a good idea for you to see.
No! Leave me alone! And don't come in.
[GASPS.]
[CRYING.]
Oh, God.
It's gonna be okay.
[SIGHING.]
[SQUAWKS.]
[BEA.]
Come back to me, Isaac.
[GASPS.]
[GROANING.]
[BOTH CHUCKLE SOFTLY.]
Did I miss anything? [DOOR OPENS.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
- He's finally sleeping.
- [CALVIN.]
Sleeping? - My pop was dead.
- That was a close call.
Close call? Bea, he was decapitated.
The alchemy room had a cure.
- A cure? - [MAY STAMMERS.]
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY.]
I know I'm on the outside of most of what goes on around here but since when can anything in that room bring somebody back to life? Since never.
- Okay.
- Ma, he was dead.
I was there.
I put his body in a bag, put in on the prep table.
After four tours, I know what dead looks like.
Enough.
Isaac needs his rest.
You guys, get.
He's not sleeping.
- Ma - Get Go.
Go.
[BEA.]
He's talking about having a splitting headache.
So that tells me he's on the mend.
[SIGHS.]
"On the mend" is an understatement.
He told me what happened.
That the thing overpowered you both and beheaded him.
He told you that? He felt I should know.
[EXHALES.]
There's some things you're not telling me.
So much more.
[CLICKS TONGUE.]
You know, with any family With this family especially better to not know some things to keep you safe.
- To keep things as close to normal - You know I want answers.
[CLICKS TONGUE.]
Then let them come from him.
In his own time.
In the meantime meet with Tilly.
She'll walk you through some of our defenses.
[SIGHS DEEPLY.]
I thought I lost you both today.
No.
No, you'll never lose us, son.
[SIGHS SHARPLY.]
You'll never gonna lose us.
[MUSIC PLAYING.]
[CHARLES.]
Come on, baby, let's talk about it.
No.
And I don't wanna smoke about it, either.
[STAMMERS.]
You do not understand.
I'm offering you an ear and comfort.
Come on Please.
This is your sanctuary.
It's a place just for you.
[RUSS.]
What up, Charles? [HIP-HOP SONG PLAYING.]
All right.
Okay.
Uh, let's see.
Well, my grandma was very, very sick.
She's better now, but my grandpa Oh, my God.
My grandpa was [CHUCKLES SOFTLY.]
Now he's I get it, baby.
And my so-called father just wants to so-called bond with me.
Which at this point could only end in a murder-suicide.
I know, baby.
I know.
What? I'm offering you comfort.
Yeah, well, your comfort's making me uncomfortable.
Okay.
We said we'd wait.
I'm down with that, baby.
Just You know I love your dirty drawers.
You know I hate that expression.
My drawers aren't dirty.
[SIGHS.]
What I'm trying to say is if you like waiting, I like waiting.
Like if, uh, you wanna smoke some cigarettes, I'd smoke 'em too.
I mean it's silly for both of us to die of cancer, and, uh e-cigarettes aren't even better.
They have a lot of metal in them, and I just - [SIGHS.]
- I gotta go.
No! Hold on.
Hold on.
I can make all this up to you.
Uh I got this lavender skin therapy massage oil off eBay.
- Want a massage? - Lavender, huh? Mmm-hmm.
Okay.
Okay, but first I have a mission for you.
Yeah, anything.
Can you do a deep dive on the dark web for anything on Calvin Hastings? Marines.
Enlisted 16 years ago.
Yeah.
You got it.
Now, focus back to me.
Let's deep dive into here, I can get those sore muscles out Work first, play later.
[CHUCKLES.]
[CALVIN.]
And I'm supposed to just act like he just came down with a case of the flu.
I don't know if I can get my head around that.
Uh, poor choice of words.
Well, you're gonna have to.
In the meantime, we do have a lot of things to do.
A lot of the instruments have been upgraded since you were 18.
Amulets, swords, crystals, potions.
Those things never change.
Well, see, Isaac has traveled the world in search of the most rare and powerful weapons.
Like Oh.
Check it out.
Oh! It's heavy.
Looks ancient.
Yeah.
Deadly.
Not bad.
Let me introduce you to a friend of mine.
This is a KA-BAR.
Next to an M16, this has been every Marine's best friend since World War II.
Hmm.
It's heavy.
Wouldn't an M16 be faster? Guns are noisy.
This is for those close encounters where silence is golden.
Mmm-hmm.
Well we'll see how useful they are against chupacabras, jinns, - infernals - Doppelgangers, Girgashites.
I've not forgotten everything about the family business.
Hey, do you have any mystical way you could weaponize this quickly? Isaac's taught me a thing or two.
Yeah, I'll get it back to you.
But first you ever shot one of these bad boys? [IMITATES GUNSHOT.]
[CHUCKLES.]
Maybe I'll just leave you in here by yourself.
[CALVIN.]
Everything back to normal now? [MAY.]
What is normal in La Rochelle? You know there's always been a bit of crazy in the town.
- It just makes it quirky.
- Yeah.
- How's Isaac? - Still alive.
Still can't believe it, Chief.
Welcome back.
Hey.
He's with me.
You know, Pop and I got a pretty good strike at what attacked us.
Seen any new faces around town? Not many.
Who? Creepy looking white guy.
Cowboy hat.
Kinda look like Johnny Cash and Undertaker made a baby.
[CHUCKLES.]
You're gonna have to give me more than that to go on.
Maybe I can sit down with one of your sketch artists.
Who or whatever he is should be on your watchlist.
I'll make that happen.
[CLICKS TONGUE.]
Um Listen.
About Garvey - What'd she do now? - Nothing.
She's got a tough shell.
I don't know how to talk to her.
Calvin, you're still a stranger to her.
Maybe try not talking at all, just listen.
Give it time.
[CHARLES.]
All right, well, first I hit Google and there's nothing interesting.
You know, basic high school photos and junk, but then, my boy got me access to the dark web.
Staff Sergeant Calvin Earl Hastings served four tours overseas.
Iraq and Afghanistan.
How he's not a PTSD basket case is a miracle.
Yeah, and that door is not closed.
Well, most of his records are classified, but check it.
Calvin was at the bloodiest battles of both wars.
- And got the bronze star.
- Yeah.
That's three years ago.
Where's the rest? That's it.
The trail goes dead.
It's like he disappeared off Earth.
How's that possible? Did he quit? Was he booted out? If so, there'd be records.
Yeah, so now you're just back here.
Why? - Can you email me this? - Sure.
[GARVEY.]
This is good.
Keep digging.
You know you're my hero.
[SIGHS.]
Mi reina.
You should be resting.
With that thing still out there? I need to find out what it is.
Look, I know it hurts more each time.
You'd think after dying hundreds of times feeling the blade touch your vocal cords, sever your spinal column I felt like my entire system was shutting down.
Forever.
And you're going to remember every second of it if we don't use the memory crystals.
In time, baby.
[CHUCKLING.]
Honey.
You have to rest to fully heal.
Hmm? Come on.
- Calvin can fight the fight.
- [CHUCKLES.]
Calvin is a kid.
He's got his own things to work through.
Okay.
Our kid is a Marine vet.
And we all have our own things to work through or we wouldn't be incarnate.
Isn't that what you always told me? This infernal is a bigger evil than we've ever faced, Bea.
Mmm.
I don't know how to banish it.
- I don't even know if I can.
- Mmm.
Look, it won't be just you.
You've got a family of warriors behind you.
- Family? - Mmm-hmm.
- Come here, family.
- [CHUCKLES.]
Usually when I come back from death, I'm freezing and I'm alone.
Like a newborn.
In a way.
[STUTTERS.]
And for a moment I don't know even who I am or where I am.
It's like this flash of confusion.
But this time, Bea, I opened my eyes and You were the first thing I saw.
And I was warm.
- You healed me.
- [CHUCKLES.]
Like, like the Goddess Isis, you You just put me back together.
- It would've happened without me.
- Not as fast.
You ease my pain.
You save me every day.
You know every little thing about me.
And all the crazy shit that comes with that - I do.
- Woman, and - Still you stay.
- Mmm.
Because immortal men are so hot.
Mmm.
[BOTH LAUGH.]
Okay, okay.
- Come here.
Come here.
- [LAUGHING.]
What are you doing? Come here.
[BEA.]
Mmm.
Mmm.
Yup.
Here? Can you even handle this now? - Trust me, I'm good.
- [LAUGHING.]
He didn't cut off everything.
[BEA HUMMING.]
Hello.
You thirsty? Can I give one of my, uh, famous mint juleps? Uh, yeah, sure, that'd be great.
[CONTINUES HUMMING.]
- What? - Nothing.
Nothing? [SNIFFING.]
It's never nothing.
What? It's just the middle of the day.
You've got bed head.
Old house, thin walls.
Just saying.
Calvin [CHUCKLING.]
I'm just glad you two are feeling better.
Good as new.
Thank you.
You know, your father Is literally indestructible.
[CHUCKLES.]
- Yeah.
So I heard.
- Okay.
So, you can calm down now about that whole seeing your father's death foolishness.
Uh, yeah, I wish I could.
But what I saw had nothing to do with the beheading.
We were at his funeral.
That was a bad dream.
- Or anxiety.
- Well, that was before I came home.
And if that's the case, why would I see Tilly? And I've never met her before.
We were all the same age we are right now.
Whatever's out there, Mom, it knows Dad's weak spot.
It's not gonna stop until he's dead.
For real.
[PANTING.]
[THE DREDGE.]
Young man.
[PANTS.]
Hey.
So sorry.
I know the field's closed after dark.
I just wanted to [PANTING.]
Your heart.
It's racing.
Trying to get my heart rate down to like, 40 beats a minute.
It's defective.
Atrial septum.
ASD.
Since I was a baby.
[STUTTERS.]
How did you know? I can help.
You're like a doctor or something? If you will allow me to take your pulse.
[CONTINUES PANTING.]
- Perfect.
- [PANTING.]
Oh! Oh, God.
What's wrong with me? I need your strength, I need your eyes.
[COUGHING.]
You will find this for me.
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[GRUNTS.]
Perfect.
[TILLY.]
All right.
Wheel it closer to the corner.
On the waiting list, already got four bodies in the morgue.
- Say he's a heart attack.
- Oh, thank goodness.
- What? Why? - Oh.
Easy prep.
See, young guys these days, they die from suicides, gunshots, car crashes Falling off cliffs while taking selfies.
[CHUCKLES.]
So prepping him is like a day off work.
But first Yup.
Just a normal dead body.
How old was he? Twenty-eight.
Ancient, huh? No, I just I don't know.
Sometimes I wonder when it will be my time.
Oh, girl, please.
Hey.
You have so much life left in you.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY.]
Yeah.
Okay, well, I have another pickup.
He had this condition when he was tiny.
His heart But all his doctors said that he'd beaten it.
Miracle boy.
He ran track in high school and he wrestled in college.
Total sports nut.
Artist and sports nut.
That's why he looked up to Arlo.
[CRYING.]
We're so sorry.
No, that's, that's It's all right.
It's [STAMMERS.]
It's been 16 years, but still not a day goes by when he's not in my thoughts and, uh in my heart.
Nothing can hurt us after this.
We've suffered the worst pain.
But this we know.
We would rather have had Francisco for 28 years [CRYING.]
and all of the heartache that comes with losing him than to - never had had him at all.
- [CRYING.]
[SOBBING.]
[THUNDER CRASHING.]
These ladies are kicking our ass, son.
- [CALVIN.]
Beginner's luck.
- [ISAAC.]
Hmm.
How many spades you got under that dress, Mama? Okay.
Just quiet down.
Mmm? It's the last game before I have you all come help me set the table.
I bid three tricks.
Calvin, your bid.
- One.
- [ISAAC.]
One? But what kinda boy did I raise? Four.
Five.
Hmm.
[ISAAC.]
Apparently, I am playing for two.
[SOFTLY.]
Calvin.
What's wrong now, son? What's wrong? Three days ago, you were dead.
And I don't mean some David Blaine magic-dead.
I mean, you were decapitated.
And now we're just sitting around here playing cards like nothing happened.
- Yeah, I'm gonna see about dinner.
- No, Mom.
What's going on around here? - Pop, who are you? - [ISAAC SIGHS.]
What are you? - Now is not the time, son.
- [CALVIN.]
Yeah, well, past the time.
You can't die, can you? So what does that make us? Are we expendable? Are we Are we cannon fodder? Pop, what are you? [OBJECTS CLATTERING.]
What was that? Oh, it's probably that crazy cat in my lab again.
I'm gonna go check on that.
There was once a group of warriors.
Known as the Warriors of Saladin.
And they were tasked with protecting the Holy Land.
And our great, great, great, great grandfather, Rezan the Moor, was a knight who helped save hundreds of people during the crusades.
Pop, I know this story.
You told it to me almost every night before bed.
It's more than a bedtime story, son.
It's our personal history.
And I should know.
- I am Rizan.
- [THUNDER RUMBLING.]
I am that Moor.
I am that warrior.
I am that knight.
Doesn't make any sense.
You would have to be 778 years old, to be exact.
[WINDOW RATTLING.]
[SCREAMS.]
No! No! [SCREAMING.]
Oh, my God.
Tilly.
[BANGING ON LOCKER.]
Tilly? Tilly.
[PANTING.]
[BOTH GRUNTING.]
Her hand! Her hand! I need a weapon.
[GRUNTING.]
What are they? I don't know.
These runes must have been the source of their power.
'Cause cutting his hand off killed this one.
Then we should call the cops.
Yeah, you wanna explain that 911 call? We've been invaded.
What are they looking for? What do they want? [WOOD CREAKING.]
Yeah, come here now.
Okay, everybody grab something they can kill with.
- Okay - Son, listen.
We know this house better than anyone.
Calvin, you take the main floor.
Mom and I will be on the top.
- Tilly, you stay here.
- Uh-uh.
[GRUNTING.]
[GROANING.]
Keep your eye on the ball.
[GROANS.]
What'd you think it is? Reanimation? Demonic possession? Never seen a reanimated corpse before.
Until you, that is.
Stay focused, son.
Madagascar Cortez, you're not going anywhere.
CORPSE: I know you.
I made you a headless wanderer.
Who are you? I've gone by many names.
The Romans called me the Inferne.
The Chinese called me Shang Wen.
I have become death, the destroyer of worlds.
I am the walrus.
Coo coo ca-choo.
What do we call you? The name the Ching Maru tribe bestowed upon me, as I vanquished them nearly to extinction.
The Dredge.
What What do I call you? I've never met one of your kind.
I've heard rumors of you mortals, but none looking quite like you.
Headless one, you have the ring of Solomon.
Are you all immortal? That's what I thought.
Oh, God.
No! - [GRUNTING.]
- No! Stay dead this time.
- See our boy tonight? - Mm.
- Huh? - Mm-hmm.
- He did good, didn't he? - Mm-hmm.
What about you? You okay? Hey, I am the kind of brother that's built to last.
- [SIGHS.]
- Let me see.
Bea, I'm good.
I'm good, sweetie.
Good.
But not a good liar.
Open your shirt.
Come on.
[THUNDER RUMBLING.]
Dear God! - It looks worse than it is.
- It looks pretty bad.
- What is it? How do you feel? - I don't know.
I haven't felt like this since before I became immortal.
Just think a lifetime of battles is catching up on me.
I've seen it once before on another one like me.
It spread pretty fast.
Well then, you need to go and take care of it.
I can't do that here, Bea.
And I can't leave the family in jeopardy.
[SCOFFS.]
Do you hear yourself? Honey, you're immortal.
Not invincible.
Come here.
[SIGHS.]
Oh, gosh.
[EXHALES.]
You said the, um The dredge would need some time to lick its wounds.
How much How much time do you have? Days, hours, I don't know.
I know someone who can help.
And he can help me find a weapon to defeat this Dredge.
Okay, I'm not asking you.
I'm telling you.
Go.
We have raised a decorated Marine.
You just saw him fight.
We will be okay.
Go.
The upside is, this thing is after me.
So, Bea, If I If I left tonight, it would follow me.
And you'd be safe for a while.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY.]
That's not exactly an upside.
[SIGHS.]
[TILLY GROANS.]
[CALVIN.]
Where are you headed? [ISAAC.]
Can't tell you.
Yeah.
If you don't know.
Nothing can force it out of you.
Looks like you're gonna be the man of the house, son.
You don't mind sticking around a while? Wanna think about it? It's all I've been thinking about.
Everything that's gone down since I Only got 30 days leave.
That's not nearly enough.
I'm gonna resign my commission.
I'm leaving the Corps.
Calvin, you sure? Sixteen years.
My first mission has been to protect the country, now I need to protect my family.
[ISAAC.]
I want you to take this.
It's always kept me safe.
You wear it.
And don't ever take it off.
Pop, you've had it since forever.
I can't take this.
You can and you will.
- Pop.
- That's an order.
What do these inscriptions mean? More than I got time to teach you.
Everything you need to know is in the alchemy book.
The rest, you'll learn for yourself.
I gotta get.
You come back soon, Pop.
I promise.
[CALVIN SNIFFLING.]
[INDISTINCT WHISPERS.]
[INDISTINCT SPEECH.]
[LAUGHS MANIACALLY.]
- [EXCLAIMS.]
[CALVIN.]
I wanna help out with the business.
You can just skip back in here.
[ISAAC.]
This is ancient.
[CALVIN.]
A coin that powerful, that doesn't just get out there.
Would it had killed you to let me know I had a daughter? 'Cause I'm the daughter you left behind.
This is the work of an infernal more powerful than we've ever seen.
- I came back to save you.
- I'm gonna be just fine.
[YELLS.]
No! No! [THUNDER RUMBLING.]
[YELLS.]
No! No, Pop! I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
[SOBBING.]
I'm sorry.
[THUNDER CRASHING.]
I have more coins.
Let me see the coins.
Hey, can you break whatever Whatever this curse is? I have victims in my holding cells right now.
They are banging their heads against the wall, and I Okay, okay.
Listen Bea is the only victim I'm concerned with at this time.
Once the hex is broken, everyone will be okay.
Where the hell are Calvin and Isaac? [SNAPS FINGERS.]
May, come on.
[SIGHS.]
Put your hands over mine.
Do it.
Okay, just focus in.
- Okay, focus in.
- [MAY.]
Right.
Oh, thank goodness.
[TILLY.]
Do you have the rest of the coins? - How is she? - She's been kind of as [STUTTERS.]
Where' Isaac? [CALVIN SIGHS.]
No.
Look.
Okay, okay, listen, Calvin.
Calvin, I'm gonna need you to go clean yourself up and go help Garvey ward the grounds.
- [TILLY.]
As the sun rises - [MAY SOFTLY.]
Calvin Ma I'm sorry.
We need your help with protecting this place right now, okay? - [MAY.]
Please.
- He was my father.
- [MAY.]
Calvin.
Calvin! - He was my father.
Tilly needs us to do this right now.
It's what Isaac would do.
- [SIGHS.]
- Please.
[SNIFFS.]
[MAY.]
Tilly, I'm so sorry about Isaac.
Okay, well [SNIFFLES.]
Um, we need to focus on Bea right now, okay, so Just just focus on Bea.
But what can you do for her? I only know the cure she's taught me.
[MUMBLES.]
Cupping.
- Cupping, yeah.
Cupping.
Cupping.
- [STUTTERS.]
What's cupping? [STUTTERS.]
I'll be in the alchemy room, I'll be right back.
[STUTTERS.]
What do you need me do? Can I Uh, just take her blouse off.
I'm sorry, Bea.
Is she gonna die? Not my mother.
I've known drill instructors who weren't half as tough as she is.
When I was a kid, part of my Sunday chores were resetting the wards.
Demon rat traps, Pops called 'em.
It's supposed to keep evil away.
Didn't think I'd take 'em literally.
I wanna help, but they always stick me so far away.
At the kids' table? With me? I know you weren't planning on meeting you father this way, but sometimes life My father woud've stayed around to raise me.
You're just a sperm donor.
[SIGHS.]
Maybe it's best for everyone if I just leave.
Is that what you want? I just want things to be the way they used to be.
[SNIFFLES.]
Goofy and weird.
Think I'd like that, too.
Here.
Take your time.
Yeah.
Good.
Uh-uh.
Tilly [TILLY.]
I'm cupping her Manipura Chakra.
Are you sure this is gonna work? Really hope so.
Now I'm going to cup her [SIGHS.]
Anahata Chakra.
[MAY GASPS.]
I have to whisper this just right.
[WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY.]
- It's working.
- [GASPING.]
- [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
- Tilly, what's happening? Tilly, Tilly, what's happening? Do something! - [TILLY.]
She has to fight to live now! - [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
She has to fight? Do something! You want me to call somebody, do something? [BEA GASPING.]
- Just tell me.
- [TILLY.]
She can tell you herself.
Hey.
Hey, sweetie.
Hey.
- What'd I say? - [CHUCKLES.]
Calvin said you were as tough as a Marine.
- [BEA AND GARVEY CHUCKLE.]
- [BEA.]
You got that right.
[CLICKS TONGUE.]
I I could really use a cup of tea.
Yeah.
Yeah, I got it.
Hi.
Let's not go doing that too many times, okay? You sound like Isaac.
[CHUCKLES.]
Where is he? Uh, Ma, you should get some rest.
I have the rest of my life to rest.
[STUTTERS.]
Where is Isaac? Bea, why don't you sit down? I want you to go home now.
- [BEA.]
What happened? - [SOFTLY.]
Now.
- Where is he? - Okay.
Where is he? [CALVIN.]
Now, I hate to be the one to tell you - No, where is he? Where's my husband? - [CALVIN.]
Mom.
- It's bad - I heard you.
Where is his body? [TILLY.]
This isn't a good idea for you to see.
No! Leave me alone! And don't come in.
[GASPS.]
[CRYING.]
Oh, God.
It's gonna be okay.
[SIGHING.]
[SQUAWKS.]
[BEA.]
Come back to me, Isaac.
[GASPS.]
[GROANING.]
[BOTH CHUCKLE SOFTLY.]
Did I miss anything? [DOOR OPENS.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
- He's finally sleeping.
- [CALVIN.]
Sleeping? - My pop was dead.
- That was a close call.
Close call? Bea, he was decapitated.
The alchemy room had a cure.
- A cure? - [MAY STAMMERS.]
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY.]
I know I'm on the outside of most of what goes on around here but since when can anything in that room bring somebody back to life? Since never.
- Okay.
- Ma, he was dead.
I was there.
I put his body in a bag, put in on the prep table.
After four tours, I know what dead looks like.
Enough.
Isaac needs his rest.
You guys, get.
He's not sleeping.
- Ma - Get Go.
Go.
[BEA.]
He's talking about having a splitting headache.
So that tells me he's on the mend.
[SIGHS.]
"On the mend" is an understatement.
He told me what happened.
That the thing overpowered you both and beheaded him.
He told you that? He felt I should know.
[EXHALES.]
There's some things you're not telling me.
So much more.
[CLICKS TONGUE.]
You know, with any family With this family especially better to not know some things to keep you safe.
- To keep things as close to normal - You know I want answers.
[CLICKS TONGUE.]
Then let them come from him.
In his own time.
In the meantime meet with Tilly.
She'll walk you through some of our defenses.
[SIGHS DEEPLY.]
I thought I lost you both today.
No.
No, you'll never lose us, son.
[SIGHS SHARPLY.]
You'll never gonna lose us.
[MUSIC PLAYING.]
[CHARLES.]
Come on, baby, let's talk about it.
No.
And I don't wanna smoke about it, either.
[STAMMERS.]
You do not understand.
I'm offering you an ear and comfort.
Come on Please.
This is your sanctuary.
It's a place just for you.
[RUSS.]
What up, Charles? [HIP-HOP SONG PLAYING.]
All right.
Okay.
Uh, let's see.
Well, my grandma was very, very sick.
She's better now, but my grandpa Oh, my God.
My grandpa was [CHUCKLES SOFTLY.]
Now he's I get it, baby.
And my so-called father just wants to so-called bond with me.
Which at this point could only end in a murder-suicide.
I know, baby.
I know.
What? I'm offering you comfort.
Yeah, well, your comfort's making me uncomfortable.
Okay.
We said we'd wait.
I'm down with that, baby.
Just You know I love your dirty drawers.
You know I hate that expression.
My drawers aren't dirty.
[SIGHS.]
What I'm trying to say is if you like waiting, I like waiting.
Like if, uh, you wanna smoke some cigarettes, I'd smoke 'em too.
I mean it's silly for both of us to die of cancer, and, uh e-cigarettes aren't even better.
They have a lot of metal in them, and I just - [SIGHS.]
- I gotta go.
No! Hold on.
Hold on.
I can make all this up to you.
Uh I got this lavender skin therapy massage oil off eBay.
- Want a massage? - Lavender, huh? Mmm-hmm.
Okay.
Okay, but first I have a mission for you.
Yeah, anything.
Can you do a deep dive on the dark web for anything on Calvin Hastings? Marines.
Enlisted 16 years ago.
Yeah.
You got it.
Now, focus back to me.
Let's deep dive into here, I can get those sore muscles out Work first, play later.
[CHUCKLES.]
[CALVIN.]
And I'm supposed to just act like he just came down with a case of the flu.
I don't know if I can get my head around that.
Uh, poor choice of words.
Well, you're gonna have to.
In the meantime, we do have a lot of things to do.
A lot of the instruments have been upgraded since you were 18.
Amulets, swords, crystals, potions.
Those things never change.
Well, see, Isaac has traveled the world in search of the most rare and powerful weapons.
Like Oh.
Check it out.
Oh! It's heavy.
Looks ancient.
Yeah.
Deadly.
Not bad.
Let me introduce you to a friend of mine.
This is a KA-BAR.
Next to an M16, this has been every Marine's best friend since World War II.
Hmm.
It's heavy.
Wouldn't an M16 be faster? Guns are noisy.
This is for those close encounters where silence is golden.
Mmm-hmm.
Well we'll see how useful they are against chupacabras, jinns, - infernals - Doppelgangers, Girgashites.
I've not forgotten everything about the family business.
Hey, do you have any mystical way you could weaponize this quickly? Isaac's taught me a thing or two.
Yeah, I'll get it back to you.
But first you ever shot one of these bad boys? [IMITATES GUNSHOT.]
[CHUCKLES.]
Maybe I'll just leave you in here by yourself.
[CALVIN.]
Everything back to normal now? [MAY.]
What is normal in La Rochelle? You know there's always been a bit of crazy in the town.
- It just makes it quirky.
- Yeah.
- How's Isaac? - Still alive.
Still can't believe it, Chief.
Welcome back.
Hey.
He's with me.
You know, Pop and I got a pretty good strike at what attacked us.
Seen any new faces around town? Not many.
Who? Creepy looking white guy.
Cowboy hat.
Kinda look like Johnny Cash and Undertaker made a baby.
[CHUCKLES.]
You're gonna have to give me more than that to go on.
Maybe I can sit down with one of your sketch artists.
Who or whatever he is should be on your watchlist.
I'll make that happen.
[CLICKS TONGUE.]
Um Listen.
About Garvey - What'd she do now? - Nothing.
She's got a tough shell.
I don't know how to talk to her.
Calvin, you're still a stranger to her.
Maybe try not talking at all, just listen.
Give it time.
[CHARLES.]
All right, well, first I hit Google and there's nothing interesting.
You know, basic high school photos and junk, but then, my boy got me access to the dark web.
Staff Sergeant Calvin Earl Hastings served four tours overseas.
Iraq and Afghanistan.
How he's not a PTSD basket case is a miracle.
Yeah, and that door is not closed.
Well, most of his records are classified, but check it.
Calvin was at the bloodiest battles of both wars.
- And got the bronze star.
- Yeah.
That's three years ago.
Where's the rest? That's it.
The trail goes dead.
It's like he disappeared off Earth.
How's that possible? Did he quit? Was he booted out? If so, there'd be records.
Yeah, so now you're just back here.
Why? - Can you email me this? - Sure.
[GARVEY.]
This is good.
Keep digging.
You know you're my hero.
[SIGHS.]
Mi reina.
You should be resting.
With that thing still out there? I need to find out what it is.
Look, I know it hurts more each time.
You'd think after dying hundreds of times feeling the blade touch your vocal cords, sever your spinal column I felt like my entire system was shutting down.
Forever.
And you're going to remember every second of it if we don't use the memory crystals.
In time, baby.
[CHUCKLING.]
Honey.
You have to rest to fully heal.
Hmm? Come on.
- Calvin can fight the fight.
- [CHUCKLES.]
Calvin is a kid.
He's got his own things to work through.
Okay.
Our kid is a Marine vet.
And we all have our own things to work through or we wouldn't be incarnate.
Isn't that what you always told me? This infernal is a bigger evil than we've ever faced, Bea.
Mmm.
I don't know how to banish it.
- I don't even know if I can.
- Mmm.
Look, it won't be just you.
You've got a family of warriors behind you.
- Family? - Mmm-hmm.
- Come here, family.
- [CHUCKLES.]
Usually when I come back from death, I'm freezing and I'm alone.
Like a newborn.
In a way.
[STUTTERS.]
And for a moment I don't know even who I am or where I am.
It's like this flash of confusion.
But this time, Bea, I opened my eyes and You were the first thing I saw.
And I was warm.
- You healed me.
- [CHUCKLES.]
Like, like the Goddess Isis, you You just put me back together.
- It would've happened without me.
- Not as fast.
You ease my pain.
You save me every day.
You know every little thing about me.
And all the crazy shit that comes with that - I do.
- Woman, and - Still you stay.
- Mmm.
Because immortal men are so hot.
Mmm.
[BOTH LAUGH.]
Okay, okay.
- Come here.
Come here.
- [LAUGHING.]
What are you doing? Come here.
[BEA.]
Mmm.
Mmm.
Yup.
Here? Can you even handle this now? - Trust me, I'm good.
- [LAUGHING.]
He didn't cut off everything.
[BEA HUMMING.]
Hello.
You thirsty? Can I give one of my, uh, famous mint juleps? Uh, yeah, sure, that'd be great.
[CONTINUES HUMMING.]
- What? - Nothing.
Nothing? [SNIFFING.]
It's never nothing.
What? It's just the middle of the day.
You've got bed head.
Old house, thin walls.
Just saying.
Calvin [CHUCKLING.]
I'm just glad you two are feeling better.
Good as new.
Thank you.
You know, your father Is literally indestructible.
[CHUCKLES.]
- Yeah.
So I heard.
- Okay.
So, you can calm down now about that whole seeing your father's death foolishness.
Uh, yeah, I wish I could.
But what I saw had nothing to do with the beheading.
We were at his funeral.
That was a bad dream.
- Or anxiety.
- Well, that was before I came home.
And if that's the case, why would I see Tilly? And I've never met her before.
We were all the same age we are right now.
Whatever's out there, Mom, it knows Dad's weak spot.
It's not gonna stop until he's dead.
For real.
[PANTING.]
[THE DREDGE.]
Young man.
[PANTS.]
Hey.
So sorry.
I know the field's closed after dark.
I just wanted to [PANTING.]
Your heart.
It's racing.
Trying to get my heart rate down to like, 40 beats a minute.
It's defective.
Atrial septum.
ASD.
Since I was a baby.
[STUTTERS.]
How did you know? I can help.
You're like a doctor or something? If you will allow me to take your pulse.
[CONTINUES PANTING.]
- Perfect.
- [PANTING.]
Oh! Oh, God.
What's wrong with me? I need your strength, I need your eyes.
[COUGHING.]
You will find this for me.
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[GRUNTS.]
Perfect.
[TILLY.]
All right.
Wheel it closer to the corner.
On the waiting list, already got four bodies in the morgue.
- Say he's a heart attack.
- Oh, thank goodness.
- What? Why? - Oh.
Easy prep.
See, young guys these days, they die from suicides, gunshots, car crashes Falling off cliffs while taking selfies.
[CHUCKLES.]
So prepping him is like a day off work.
But first Yup.
Just a normal dead body.
How old was he? Twenty-eight.
Ancient, huh? No, I just I don't know.
Sometimes I wonder when it will be my time.
Oh, girl, please.
Hey.
You have so much life left in you.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY.]
Yeah.
Okay, well, I have another pickup.
He had this condition when he was tiny.
His heart But all his doctors said that he'd beaten it.
Miracle boy.
He ran track in high school and he wrestled in college.
Total sports nut.
Artist and sports nut.
That's why he looked up to Arlo.
[CRYING.]
We're so sorry.
No, that's, that's It's all right.
It's [STAMMERS.]
It's been 16 years, but still not a day goes by when he's not in my thoughts and, uh in my heart.
Nothing can hurt us after this.
We've suffered the worst pain.
But this we know.
We would rather have had Francisco for 28 years [CRYING.]
and all of the heartache that comes with losing him than to - never had had him at all.
- [CRYING.]
[SOBBING.]
[THUNDER CRASHING.]
These ladies are kicking our ass, son.
- [CALVIN.]
Beginner's luck.
- [ISAAC.]
Hmm.
How many spades you got under that dress, Mama? Okay.
Just quiet down.
Mmm? It's the last game before I have you all come help me set the table.
I bid three tricks.
Calvin, your bid.
- One.
- [ISAAC.]
One? But what kinda boy did I raise? Four.
Five.
Hmm.
[ISAAC.]
Apparently, I am playing for two.
[SOFTLY.]
Calvin.
What's wrong now, son? What's wrong? Three days ago, you were dead.
And I don't mean some David Blaine magic-dead.
I mean, you were decapitated.
And now we're just sitting around here playing cards like nothing happened.
- Yeah, I'm gonna see about dinner.
- No, Mom.
What's going on around here? - Pop, who are you? - [ISAAC SIGHS.]
What are you? - Now is not the time, son.
- [CALVIN.]
Yeah, well, past the time.
You can't die, can you? So what does that make us? Are we expendable? Are we Are we cannon fodder? Pop, what are you? [OBJECTS CLATTERING.]
What was that? Oh, it's probably that crazy cat in my lab again.
I'm gonna go check on that.
There was once a group of warriors.
Known as the Warriors of Saladin.
And they were tasked with protecting the Holy Land.
And our great, great, great, great grandfather, Rezan the Moor, was a knight who helped save hundreds of people during the crusades.
Pop, I know this story.
You told it to me almost every night before bed.
It's more than a bedtime story, son.
It's our personal history.
And I should know.
- I am Rizan.
- [THUNDER RUMBLING.]
I am that Moor.
I am that warrior.
I am that knight.
Doesn't make any sense.
You would have to be 778 years old, to be exact.
[WINDOW RATTLING.]
[SCREAMS.]
No! No! [SCREAMING.]
Oh, my God.
Tilly.
[BANGING ON LOCKER.]
Tilly? Tilly.
[PANTING.]
[BOTH GRUNTING.]
Her hand! Her hand! I need a weapon.
[GRUNTING.]
What are they? I don't know.
These runes must have been the source of their power.
'Cause cutting his hand off killed this one.
Then we should call the cops.
Yeah, you wanna explain that 911 call? We've been invaded.
What are they looking for? What do they want? [WOOD CREAKING.]
Yeah, come here now.
Okay, everybody grab something they can kill with.
- Okay - Son, listen.
We know this house better than anyone.
Calvin, you take the main floor.
Mom and I will be on the top.
- Tilly, you stay here.
- Uh-uh.
[GRUNTING.]
[GROANING.]
Keep your eye on the ball.
[GROANS.]
What'd you think it is? Reanimation? Demonic possession? Never seen a reanimated corpse before.
Until you, that is.
Stay focused, son.
Madagascar Cortez, you're not going anywhere.
CORPSE: I know you.
I made you a headless wanderer.
Who are you? I've gone by many names.
The Romans called me the Inferne.
The Chinese called me Shang Wen.
I have become death, the destroyer of worlds.
I am the walrus.
Coo coo ca-choo.
What do we call you? The name the Ching Maru tribe bestowed upon me, as I vanquished them nearly to extinction.
The Dredge.
What What do I call you? I've never met one of your kind.
I've heard rumors of you mortals, but none looking quite like you.
Headless one, you have the ring of Solomon.
Are you all immortal? That's what I thought.
Oh, God.
No! - [GRUNTING.]
- No! Stay dead this time.
- See our boy tonight? - Mm.
- Huh? - Mm-hmm.
- He did good, didn't he? - Mm-hmm.
What about you? You okay? Hey, I am the kind of brother that's built to last.
- [SIGHS.]
- Let me see.
Bea, I'm good.
I'm good, sweetie.
Good.
But not a good liar.
Open your shirt.
Come on.
[THUNDER RUMBLING.]
Dear God! - It looks worse than it is.
- It looks pretty bad.
- What is it? How do you feel? - I don't know.
I haven't felt like this since before I became immortal.
Just think a lifetime of battles is catching up on me.
I've seen it once before on another one like me.
It spread pretty fast.
Well then, you need to go and take care of it.
I can't do that here, Bea.
And I can't leave the family in jeopardy.
[SCOFFS.]
Do you hear yourself? Honey, you're immortal.
Not invincible.
Come here.
[SIGHS.]
Oh, gosh.
[EXHALES.]
You said the, um The dredge would need some time to lick its wounds.
How much How much time do you have? Days, hours, I don't know.
I know someone who can help.
And he can help me find a weapon to defeat this Dredge.
Okay, I'm not asking you.
I'm telling you.
Go.
We have raised a decorated Marine.
You just saw him fight.
We will be okay.
Go.
The upside is, this thing is after me.
So, Bea, If I If I left tonight, it would follow me.
And you'd be safe for a while.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY.]
That's not exactly an upside.
[SIGHS.]
[TILLY GROANS.]
[CALVIN.]
Where are you headed? [ISAAC.]
Can't tell you.
Yeah.
If you don't know.
Nothing can force it out of you.
Looks like you're gonna be the man of the house, son.
You don't mind sticking around a while? Wanna think about it? It's all I've been thinking about.
Everything that's gone down since I Only got 30 days leave.
That's not nearly enough.
I'm gonna resign my commission.
I'm leaving the Corps.
Calvin, you sure? Sixteen years.
My first mission has been to protect the country, now I need to protect my family.
[ISAAC.]
I want you to take this.
It's always kept me safe.
You wear it.
And don't ever take it off.
Pop, you've had it since forever.
I can't take this.
You can and you will.
- Pop.
- That's an order.
What do these inscriptions mean? More than I got time to teach you.
Everything you need to know is in the alchemy book.
The rest, you'll learn for yourself.
I gotta get.
You come back soon, Pop.
I promise.
[CALVIN SNIFFLING.]
[INDISTINCT WHISPERS.]
[INDISTINCT SPEECH.]
[LAUGHS MANIACALLY.]