The Stand (2020) s01e04 Episode Script

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[Tom] Holy geez, mister!
What happened to your eye?
- [grunts]
- [people gasping]
[Stu] This painting.
Tell me about it.
Just the most vivid dream
I ever had.
[Stu]
Are we having the same dream?
My name is Abagail Freemantle.
God wants you to be my voice.
You come see me
at Hemingford Home, Colorado.
- [Stu] This is Fran.
- [Glen] You didn't say she was pregnant.
Well, she wasn't pregnant.
At least, I couldn't tell she was.
Either you stay with the guy who's helped
you stay alive these last couple weeks
[grunts]
- saved your life in Ogunquit
- [shower running]
Jesus.
or you can throw in with this
happy asshole and his fucking dimples.
Whoa! [grunts] Whoa, whoa!
You just saved my fucking life, man.
[girls screaming]
[Flagg] Nadine, I need you to kill
the witch and the five puppets
- she put in charge there.
- [Nadine] Kill?
How?
[Flagg] I've already found the weapon.
I just need you to pull his trigger.
[Stu] Jesus Christ.
Someone crucified this man, Larry.
[groans]
[man] I couldn't be forgiven
until I delivered the message.
- What message?
- He's coming.
[Frannie] If you're reading this,
that means you're alive.
I wish I could reach out to you,
ask if you care how you got there,
what kind of lines had to be crossed.
Doing our best to rebuild.
Start humanity again,
like rebooting a computer.
That's the plan, anyway.
A young cowboy named Billy Joe ♪
Grew restless on the farm ♪
- Come here.
- [sighs]
- How you feeling?
- Uh, I've felt better.
Are you sure you don't want
to do this for me?
And his mother cried as he walked out ♪
Don't take your guns to town, son ♪
Leave your guns at home, Bill ♪
Don't take your guns to town ♪
He laughed and kissed his mom ♪
And said, "Your Billy Joe's a man" ♪
I can shoot as quick and straight ♪
As anybody can ♪
But I wouldn't shoot ♪
Without a cause
I'd gun nobody down ♪
But she cried again as he rode away ♪
Don't take your guns to town, son ♪
Leave your guns at home, Bill ♪
Don't take your guns to town ♪
He sang a song as on he rode ♪
[Glen] All right, Kojak.
I'll see you a little later, okay?
He rode into a cattle town ♪
A smile upon his lips ♪
He stopped and walked into a bar ♪
And laid his money down ♪
But his mother's words echoed again ♪
Don't take your guns to town, son ♪
Leave your guns at home, Bill ♪
Don't take your guns to town ♪
- [chattering]
- [generator whirring]
[man] Michelle, honey,
they're starting soon. Grab a seat.
[softly] Uh, welcome.
So, for those of you who don't know me
- Speak up!
- Yeah.
- [man] You gotta speak up.
- [woman] Speak up!
Sorry. Uh
For anyone who doesn't know me, uh
How about you start by telling us
about that poor fella
you brought into the infirmary yesterday.
- [woman] Who was that guy?
- Supposed to have had wounds on him
like we might've learned about
in Sunday school.
[audience clamoring]
I still don't think I should be the one
doing the talking.
Yes, you should.
Yeah, I mean,
you have the most charisma, so
You guys just don't want to do it.
It should be Glen.
He's way smarter than I'll ever be.
- [Frannie] No.
- Anything I say
is just gonna be a warmed-over version
of what he told me.
Hey, hey, hey. I appreciate the vote
of confidence, East Texas, but no, no, no.
These people want to know things
are gonna be okay.
- The messenger
- Thank you.
The messenger, way more important
than what comes out of his mouth.
[Frannie] People are really scared, baby.
They need to be reassured.
What's so reassuring about me?
Plus, people love an accent. Hmm?
- [Glen] It's true.
- I don't have an accent.
Just a little bit.
- [clamoring]
- I understand that I I understand.
They can't even tell us when the goddamn
electricity's gonna be back on!
Remind me, who has more experience
working a crowd?
[clamoring continues]
- We're look We're gonna address
- Wow. Wow.
Oh, Mr. Impening. Mr. Impening.
Everybody, please!
Mr. Impening,
that is some incredible passion
you have there.
But, as you know,
there's a bunch of folks in here
who have been working
in that power station all day, every day.
And I imagine they could
always use another set of hands.
You know, put that passion to work. Right?
Matter of fact, let's have
all those people stand up.
Come on, really. Everybody who's
been on the power station crew.
- Right, yeah.
- Yeah!
[Larry] Please, yes.
And while we're showing our gratitude,
where are the guys from the body crew?
Body crew guys, stand up, please.
[cheering, applause]
And our teachers,
Miss Nadine Cross and Sofia Jacobs.
- Please, ladies, take a bow.
- Yes!
[cheers, applause]
Now, as far as Mr. Impening's
last question about the power,
our hardworking
power station crew has invited
all of us to join them
right back here this Friday night.
The power is coming back on!
[cheering, whooping]
[Larry] Which brings us
Which brings us back to Mr. Impening's
first question.
And for that, I'm going to hand things
back over to my friend Stu.
And I hope that you show him
the respect he deserves.
[applause]
[clears throat]
"What exactly do we tell them?"
Well, you know where I stand.
We tell them the truth.
"What's the truth?"
It's too early in the day for me to get
all metaphysical. I don't really know.
But, Glen, actually, we don't know
what happened to this guy.
All we know is what he told us.
Well, we know he didn't put spikes
through his own goddamn hands and feet.
I'm not saying he's lying.
I mean, we actually
can't rule that out, for one.
All we've got is the deluded ravings
of a brutalized and dying man.
And, okay, let's say
that we panic everybody.
We tell them that the "bogeyman"
from their nightmares is real,
and he's on the other side
of those mountains,
and then it turns out that this kid
just had schizophrenia,
- or or he was driven to hallucinations.
- [Larry scoffs]
I'm sorry, am I the only person here
that saw this guy's
goddamn eyes turn black?
- [Stu] I saw it. Yeah.
- [Larry] Yeah?
But this is what
I'm talking about. We don't
We don't actually know what we saw.
[Glen] No, no, she's right.
We risk a lot by inferring
more than we know.
All right. So, what do you want me to do?
You want me to lie?
That's not fair.
What? What'd he say?
Frannie.
He's asking if you care more
about your personal sense of honor
than protecting this place.
Okay, that's No.
What? No. That Nick.
That is not true at all.
Protecting this place
is all that I care about.
But I do think there's some room
in there for the truth.
- Stu.
- [Stu] Yeah.
You wouldn't have to lie.
Just just You just don't say
more than you know.
Never pegged you for a politician.
[Glen sighs]
Desperate times.
Uh, yeah. I guess most of you know by now
that, uh, we found a fella out on the road
yesterday who's in pretty bad shape.
Simplest explanation is,
well, he ran into the wrong guy out there.
And as awful as that is,
it highlights what we've got here.
Why Mother A brought us all together.
Keep us safe in these uncertain times.
That's why we're asking for volunteers
to start a city watch
to patrol our streets.
Seeing as the body crew's
just about finished with their work, yeah
we, uh we hope we can count
on those selfless souls
who took on that task
to now take on this one.
Officer Teddy Weizak.
[Stu] Which brings us to our
This really is the end of the world.
- last order of business.
- [both laugh]
Mother Abagail asked these five people
up here on this stage
to help us take the lead in getting
this place running, up on its feet.
Well, as I look around this room
seems to me we're on our feet now.
[cheering, applause]
What happened?
And that means it's time
for you all to take a vote
on who you want in charge.
[Harold] Mr. Chairman?
- Yes, Harold?
- [Harold] Hi.
I think since you're all doing
such a fantastic job,
I'd like to put a motion on the floor
to accept the slate
of ad hoc committee members in toto
as the permanent committee.
If they'll serve, that is.
[man] Aye!
- [woman] Aye! Let's do it!
- [others] Aye!
[woman] Good idea!
[whistles]
[engine shuts off]
Hello, Harold.
Oh, fuck!
[panting]
I didn't mean to scare.
I'm Nadine.
I I know.
I've seen you.
I mean, um
I was I was at your school last week.
- I was on the body crew.
- I know who you are
Harold.
Are you gonna shoot me?
Oh. [laughs]
Uh [sniffs]
No. No, of course not.
Good.
Because we have a lot to talk about.
We do?
Can I get you a drink?
I didn't come here to drink, Harold.
The man who gave me this?
He sent me here to find you.
He believes
we can do great things together.
What man?
We don't have time for this.
You know him.
He certainly knows you.
What do you want from me?
I want to make your dreams come true.
You're a virgin, aren't you?
That's okay.
So am I.
And I'm gonna stay that way.
For him.
But other than that one little thing
between now and when we leave this place,
we can do whatever you want.
Wait.
We're leaving Boulder?
Well, eventually.
But first, we need to complete our task.
What's our task?
You want to kill Stu Redman.
What?
Don't you?
Yes.
- What about the others?
- The others?
The old witch and her five little chosen.
And then we go to him.
I am his queen, Harold.
And you
You can be his prince.
[Harold panting]
[kissing]
[whispering] All of your dreams
[Harold grunting]
[breathing heavily]
[Nadine sighs]
I'm sorry.
Hey.
Don't be.
[chuckles softly]
Just figure out how we're gonna kill them.
I guess that's why he chose you.
[gasps]
[panting]
- Another nightmare?
- Yeah.
You slept at all?
[chuckles softly]
Can't. Hmm.
Why?
Too much to think about.
I'm thinking about you, Frannie.
It's all I ever think about.
- Oh, no, no. No, no, no.
- Yes. Yes.
- Stop. Stop it. Stop, Harold. Stop.
- Please. Please. Please, Frannie.
- No.
- Frannie
I love you.
- You don't. You don't.
- I lo I do.
- No, you don't. Stop it.
- I love you, Frannie.
- I've loved you since the day we met.
- Stop it.
And now look at
look at what's happened to the world.
Everything that's happened, it's
This is how it's supposed to be.
No, it's not!
- For us.
- No, it's not!
I don't I don't feel
these things for you.
I will never feel these things for you.
This is about Stu Redman, isn't it?
No.
Okay.
Are we good, Harold?
We're fine, Frannie.
Go back to sleep.
- Glen.
- Hmm?
- Well, look at that.
- Okay.
- I was getting kind of worried.
- [chuckles]
Worried that Harold was gonna give up
on that whole sign business,
in case you decided to follow him.
Eh, we keep going like we're going,
surprised we won't catch 'em
before sundown tomorrow.
Unless they get off the 81.
- And they won't.
- Because?
Well, because Harold
will be taking the optimal path.
Let's just say we, uh
He made an impression.
I'd say they both did.
[Glen chuckling]
[engines shut off]
[Frannie] This'll be fun to get around.
[Harold sniffs]
[Harold grunts]
[Frannie sighs]
Nice of the guy,
just leave his trailer exactly
in the center of the road.
Screw us up from beyond the grave.
"He died as he lived,
a fucking douchebag."
[Harold chuckles, sniffs]
[gun cocks]
[chuckles] Hey!
Man, we're glad to see you.
We were starting to worry
we were the last two people left on Earth.
Wh What do you think,
we're some kind of threat?
Not to me.
Put those on.
[creaking]
Oh, rise and shine!
[chuckles]
Something I want to show you.
Kind of a demonstration.
- [thumps]
- Vamoose!
- Come on!
- [gun clicks]
[handcuffs click]
Way I figure [exhales]
[handcuffs clank]
- [grunts]
- [Frannie] Oh, my God!
[groaning]
[Frannie gasping]
things all started to go south
soon as people decided
we all had to be equal.
[panting]
Made a whole bunch of rules
so beta male snowflakes like this one here
wouldn't have to compete on an even field.
- We're back to nature now.
- [whimpering]
[sniffs]
Alphas on top.
[grunting]
[panting]
I'm gonna give you a chance, kid.
[panting, wheezing]
Shot at the title.
You win,
you get to take over the pride.
Please don't hurt him.
[cackles]
You hear that, snowflake?
That's all the faith she has in you.
Might as well go around
with your balls in her pocket.
Please. Please.
No, come on. [gasps]
[panting]
Don't tell me that's all you got.
[chuckles]
[sighs] Come on.
[grunts]
[groaning]
[chuckles]
[clapping]
[grunting]
[panting]
- Come on. Here.
- [shouts]
- [grunts]
- [groans]
[chuckling]
[Harold groans]
- [snorts]
- [Harold panting]
Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Well, that's a start. Huh?
Come on. Come here.
- It's okay.
- [Harold panting]
- Come here.
- [Harold, weakly] N No.
- [man chuckles]
- [Harold panting]
I bet there's more
where that came from, huh?
[groans, wheezes]
[coughs]
- [man laughing]
- [Harold wheezing]
- [Harold gasping]
- [man laughing]
[Harold coughing]
- [Harold wheezing]
- [man laughing]
[Harold coughing]
[wheezes]
What you looking at her for, huh?
She can't help you.
[Harold panting]
This here's your situation.
- [gasping]
- [chuckling]
Yeah. Daddy's not coming.
[gasping]
Mommy's not coming.
The cavalry's not fucking coming.
[gasping]
- You got two choices, Romeo.
- [grunts]
[shouts, groans]
You can man up and do something
[gasps, groans]
[panting]
or lay there
and watch.
[whimpering]
- [Harold panting]
- [man] Come on.
- [zipper opens]
- [man snickering]
[vehicle approaching in distance]
- [glass shatters]
- [tires screeching]
[both grunting]
- [gunshot]
- [gasping]
[both grunting]
[groans]
[bullet ricochets]
- [shouts]
- [grunts]
- [shouts]
- [whimpering]
- [grunts]
- [screaming]
[grunts]
- [pipe clanging]
- [woman gasping]
[panting]
[Frannie] Oh, my God.
[shouts]
[panting]
[panting]
Whoa. Easy. You're all right.
[woman crying]
[screams, echoing]
So that's why we came after y'all.
Want to see if you want to join
our little caravan to Boulder.
What do you think about that?
See if there's any meaning
behind all this.
[Kojak whimpers]
That's, um
That's a lot to take in. [chuckles]
[Stu] I understand.
[breathing heavily]
How come we never figured out
we were having the same dreams?
Well, I suppose we had one or two
other things to think about.
Look, Mr. Redman,
all this stuff
you're asking us to believe
I ain't asking you to do anything, Harold.
I'm just
I'm telling you what I know.
And what do you know?
A bunch of people having similar dreams?
Doesn't mean we should all go looking
for the magic lady in the cornfield.
She's not in the cornfield, Harold.
She's in Colorado.
Didn't she tell you that?
Y Yes. Yes.
No, I
- [unzipping]
- Okay. I was making a point.
I bet we've all dreamt about falling too.
Didn't mean we actually were.
I think I know what Harold's problem is.
- Glen.
- [Glen] No, no, no.
You are a man of science.
Am I right, Harold?
I thought I recognized a fellow traveler.
See, because I can see the mistake
you're making, Harold,
'cause I made the same one myself.
The mistake I'm making?
[Glen] The reason we have spent
our entire lifetimes
not believing in what so many
of our species were so
determined to believe in
God and magic and
Not because it wasn't true, Harold.
It's because there was no proof
that it was true.
See?
Think about the first man
to look into the microscope.
[exhales]
What's it all mean?
Could be that psychic
is nothing more than just a germ.
Or maybe it'll turn out that every word
of the Bible was true.
Right?
The point is, as a man of science,
don't you kind of want to know?
Come with us.
Let's see how far down
the rabbit hole goes.
[soft snoring]
[gasps, panting]
[exhales]
[sighs]
[Frannie] Can't sleep either, huh?
Yeah, I'm surprised anyone can.
Yeah.
Are you having other dreams?
One with a man in them?
Yeah.
Calls himself the dark man.
Mostly, I just see his wolf.
You didn't mention that earlier.
[sniffles]
Well, you didn't mention it either.
[chuckles]
I know.
It's a little easier to admit
that you're seeing a nice old lady
instead of a leering psycho
with a coat hanger.
[sighs]
I'm pregnant.
Well, I guess that figures.
Glen's painting?
The one we told you about,
the reason we came after you?
You're pregnant in it.
Like, more pregnant.
Hmm.
You didn't mention that before either.
Well, we didn't want to say anything
in front of the group because we didn't
We didn't know if you wanted
to keep that a secret.
No, I'm not keeping it a secret.
It's just
haven't told anybody.
Just my dad.
And now me?
Yeah.
Now you.
[sniffling]
I'm so fucking scared.
[Frannie cries]
It's okay.
You're okay.
Telling us you couldn't get cop uniforms?
We didn't look.
- Because?
- 'Cause we ain't cops.
Look, I told you all this before.
It bears repeating.
We got no laws to enforce.
Most of you were on the body crew.
That was about maintaining
public safety, same as this.
- Do we at least get guns?
- [Stu] Oh, boy.
Look, you want to carry a gun,
God knows there's plenty
of 'em laying around,
but, Teddy, you want to shoot
your dick off, that's on you.
- [laughter]
- I ain't taking you to the doctor.
- [Weizak chuckles]
- You shoot somebody else,
better be because you had no choice.
Is everybody clear about the, uh,
duty schedule and radio channels
and all that stuff?
- Yep.
- Sweet.
Oh, and when they do
turn the juice back on,
all right, remember
to keep your eyes peeled.
You see any light, we need it turned off.
No undue stress on the grid, right?
- [Stu] Everybody got that? All right.
- [others voicing assent]
We thank you all again.
Appreciate your efforts. Means a lot.
Don't forget your walkies
and your headlamps. Flashlights over here.
- Come on up.
- [Larry] Headlamps.
Thank you.
Check it out, Hawk.
Boulder Baywatch.
[laughs]
If you say so.
Oh, hey, Greizman came across
a bunch of Blu-rays last night
at the Gas 'n Sip.
She's giving me first crack.
Be right back.
- That's for you.
- Thank you.
Pardon me. Excuse me. Greizman, hey!
[chattering]
- Hey, looks good on you.
- Thanks, Stu.
[chattering continues]
[panting]
[bird screeching]
[Weizak exhales]
[Stu] All right, we're all set.
Looking good.
- Oh, what's wrong?
- Nothing.
You think he's still alive?
- Who?
- The Rock.
I mean, he could be, right?
Yeah, he could be.
No way to know for sure.
Wouldn't that be great, Hawk?
I mean, you think it's possible?
These days, anything's possible.
[chuckles]
[Glen] Trouble is, we still
don't know what we're up against
with regard to this "darkest man"
or whatever the hell we're gonna call him.
Nick says Mother Abagail
only see bits and pieces.
Right? Seems to me we need
to send somebody, or bodies,
out to Vegas and just see
what the hell's going on.
Spies.
Well, I'm just gonna call 'em "scouts."
Okay, well, whatever you call 'em,
they're not gonna learn anything
just by watching.
They're gonna have to get in there,
inside, secretly.
Fair enough. Spies it is.
Well, that's gonna be dangerous.
Yeah.
How many people will we send?
Seems right. Just got to make sure the
three of 'em don't know about each other.
We couldn't ask for volunteers?
I'll do it.
- No.
- [Stu] Why?
- It's out of the question.
- Why? Why not?
- It can't be any of the five of us.
- [Larry] Oh, thank God.
Why? 'Cause we're all
so irreplaceable? [scoffs]
[Glen] Well, now
that you bring it up, yeah.
Five of us are kind of crucial
to the running of this place.
But even if we weren't, I mean,
given the visibility of the committee,
it's bound to be noticed,
anybody disappears.
Word's liable to get to Vegas
before we did.
I don't like it. I don't like the idea
of hanging back in the weeds
and sending some other poor souls
to maybe get crucified
on a telephone pole.
I'm not a politician,
but don't you feel, Stu,
like we should do something?
Now, look,
if we're gonna go down this road,
I think it's important to acknowledge
this is a direct violation
of Mother Abagail's instructions.
I think we can all agree there's no point
in asking her permission
to send a bunch of spies out to Vegas,
'cause she's not gonna give it.
No.
So the question is, we gonna do it anyway?
He says, "If we're not prepared to lead,
then why are we here?"
[Frannie]
If we're ready to start choosing,
I have a name I'd like
to put in for nomination.
Dayna Jurgens.
So you want me to drive myself
across the Rocky fucking Mountains
with no ability to call for help.
So pretty much any significant
car trouble's probably a death sentence?
And then you want me to talk my way
through whatever trigger-happy sadists
that this dark man has installed
as his border guards
on the remains of Las Vegas,
and then slip back past the border guards,
haul my ass through the desert
and the mountains again
to show up here
and then tell you what I saw?
All right.
I'm in.
[Glen] Who else? Larry, you got one?
Judge Farris.
True, she's on the older side,
but maybe that'll make the dark man
less primed to suspect her.
You know he's got to be looking
for a move like this.
Also, I'm certain she'll say yes.
- Is everything okay?
- [Larry] At the risk of being blunt,
if we lose her, we won't have lost someone
with 50 good years in front of them.
Yeah. Objections?
[Farris] Of course I understand the risks.
And
of course I accept.
Honored to, in fact.
[sighs]
Wouldn't I have to be
an awful coward to say no?
So, does anyone have a third?
- [chuckles softly]
- What?
I was hoping somebody else would have
a name on the tip of their tongue,
so I wouldn't have
to say this one out loud, but
Hey, I really think
we ought to consider Tom Cullen.
Oh, God.
I know what you're gonna say.
No, you don't.
I think you might be right.
He's the last person
that Flagg would ever expect.
Yeah, but do you think he can pull it off?
I think he'd say yes.
You know, he he loves this place,
loves Mother Abagail,
maybe more than the rest of us.
Is he capable of making the decision?
Look, he survived for a long time
before he met any of us.
Even Nick told us that he was doing fine
even after Captain Trips.
And
who are we to say what he's capable of?
"Tom will surprise you."
[Tom] M-O-O-N, and that spells
"Hemingford Home."
Shame we can't just ask Mother Abagail
for directions, but
guess it doesn't work that way.
You dangerous?
I guess you'd probably say no either way.
Did you follow me in here?
What?
You deaf?
No fooling?
Still, it's
It's not like you're not hot, anyway.
What happened to your eye?
Never made it with a deaf guy before.
Oh, my God. I've been so lonely.
[giggles]
Hey, mister, look what I found.
Oh. Hey, hey.
Guns aren't toys.
Yeah, you bet your ass!
- Who the hell are you?
- [Tom sputters]
My name is Tom Cullen. I'm 42 years old
- and developmentally disabled.
- What are you, some kind of feeb?
Miss Sykes says, "Labels are limitations."
What, is he some kind of feeb too?
Is that why he don't talk?
No, ma'am. He can't talk.
Can't hear, either.
He can write, though.
Problem is, I can't read. [sighs]
Did I tell you that already?
Sometimes I forget.
It's a lot to remember.
[laughing]
Jesus H. Christ!
[laughs] A deaf-o and a feeb.
Oh, these really are the end of times.
All we need now is a leper. [laughs]
Read that.
Oh, shit. He really can't read, can he?
Ah. You see, your friend here
wants me to tell you his name.
It's "Amari Tard."
Come on now. Say it with me.
[both] A ma ri Tard.
Wait. Are you sure that's what he wrote?
Oh, I'm sure.
[sighs]
His name's Nick Andros.
Nick.
Nick. My friend Nick.
Hmm. The Nickster.
Well, her her name is "Mother"?
No. Mother Abagail.
That's who we're gonna see.
Why don't you just head over
to the plumbing section
and chug a little drain cleaner,
all right?
[giggles] Hey.
Don't you think that it's time
for you to ditch that 'tard?
[inhales, exhales loudly]
I mean, don't tell me you like
dragging his sorry ass around.
- Hmm?
- [Tom groans]
What?
'Tard?
Well, I'm just being honest.
It It's what he is.
Handicapable.
Even he knows it.
What, are you leaving?
You really choosing a 'tard over me?
All right, fine.
Just go then, you deaf faggot!
You're not even that hot anyway.
Probably got a tiny little dick.
Hey, wait.
Please don't leave me.
I'm I'm sorry.
Oh, you can't hear me, can you?
You know what?
How about I try something a little louder?
[cocks shotgun]
- [cocks shotgun]
- [Tom] Come on. Come on. Come on.
Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on.
- [gunshot]
- [glass breaking]
[gunshot]
[cocks shotgun]
[panting]
[gunshot]
Yeah, you better run, feeb motherfuckers!
[huffs]
[Tom panting]
[laughing]
Nick. [laughs]
Oh, Nick.
I'm sorry she turned out
to be a bad person.
I know it'd be nice for you
to have a girl along with us.
I guess we'll have a girl along with us
once we find Mother Abagail,
but that's not really the same,
is it, slugger? [laughs]
What are we looking at?
[Tom whooping]
[Mother Abagail]
I guess you're right, Gloria.
I don't think anyone's coming.
I don't think there's much water left.
And the pills
I'll be lucky if I see tomorrow morning.
I'm just not sure I will.
[door opens]
[Tom] Mother Abagail? Hello!
Is anybody here?
What if there's nobody here?
[gasps]
Oh.
Hello, Nick.
I'm Tom. From my head.
- Tom Cullen.
- [Tom gasps loudly]
You know my whole name?
I know your whole name.
You're Mother Abagail.
I am.
We found you.
Yes, you did.
M-O-O-N.
- [Tom] Spells "Mother Abagail."
- That's right.
[Glen] Tom, can you say that back to us?
"Go and watch. Then come back and tell."
Tell what?
How many people, how many guns.
Did I see the bad man from your dreams?
That's really good, Tom.
You come across their people in Las Vegas
when you first arrive,
and they ask you how you got there,
what do you tell them?
Rode my bike from my hometown,
May, Oklahoma.
Boomer Sooner!
[laughing] After everyone died.
And, Tom, how do you know
when it's time to come back?
I'll see the the full moon.
[imitates howling]
M-O-O-N, and that spells "full."
Then what?
Then I'll start walking back
in the direction the sun comes up.
When it comes up,
I'll find a shady spot to rest
while I wait for it to go back down again.
Sleep in the light, walk in the night.
And if the dark man
sends people after you?
Hide.
[Stu] And if they find you?
If it's more than one person, run.
If it's one person, kill 'em.
Yeah.
[Glen] They have no reason to doubt him.
There's no way to check out that story.
Can you remember any
of the towns you passed through?
Hell, he can't even read the signs.
How the hell does he know
where he's been? No, I
I vote "yes."
I'm with you.
I think he can do it.
Gonna need a lot to break for him,
but, yeah, "yes" for me.
I got to say this whole thing
makes me feel like a pay toilet,
but yes.
Well, vote's already 3-0,
so I could vote "no"
and save my conscience,
and he'd still be sent into the lion's den
'cause we have a feeling
that it might save us all.
But I think if we're gonna do this,
we should do it together.
Hmm?
So I vote "yes."
[chattering]
[Ray] Sorry, folks.
That'll be all for today.
Come back bright and early
tomorrow morning.
[chattering continues]
I know it must be very frustrating
to have to wait
for his will to tell us what to do,
especially since I can't tell you
what his will is,
which is why I insist
that we take no action.
There are just too many unknowns
out there.
Do you understand?
[Frannie] I know I haven't written to you
for a couple of days.
Trying to keep a record of our debates,
part of the history
of our new civilization.
Your history.
[Larry] Thank you.
[Frannie] 75,000 years ago,
the entire human population dropped
to a few thousand individuals,
not enough to fill
the UMaine rink in Orono.
Few thousand people
ancestors to every single human since,
however many billions there have been.
My loop-de-loop.
Oh, my ambulance.
[Frannie] Wouldn't have taken much time
to wipe them out once and for all,
but they survived.
And here we are.
Do I care how they did it?
Do I judge them for it?
All right, Tommy, you got to
you got to ride the rest of the way.
I wish my main man Nick could come.
I wish I didn't have to go all alone.
Watch the moon,
and you'll be watching the moon?
Hey, Tommy, do you understand
why Nick can't go with you?
Laws, yes. "Go and watch.
Come back and tell."
You have an earring. [laughs]
- Bye, guys!
- [Larry] Yup.
[Tom whoops]
[Frannie] Hope you'll forgive us
for what we've done.
[Harold] Soon as I could ditch Weizak,
I headed to the library and started
reading up on avalanche management.
Turns out the charges
they use are thermobaric
because those produce
the biggest shock wave.
They also sometimes call 'em
"fuel-air explosives"
because they pretty much
set the air on fire.
[Nadine] We should keep our voices down.
[Harold] What are you worried about?
I told you, the watch is bullshit,
'cause Stu Redman is bullshit.
[chuckles]
This is our situation, Nadine.
[doors squeak]
[chattering]
[Stu] All right, here we go.
- Headlamps off. Flashlights off, please.
- [whooping]
- How do I do this? Okay.
- Yeah, you got it. Here.
- Yeah, you're good.
- Uh, five, four,
three, two, one!
- [man] Oh
- [laughter]
- [electrical whirring]
- [cheering]
[lights buzzing]
[cheering, whistling]
- [cheering, applause]
- [rock riff playing on guitar]
[laughing]
- [cheering, whooping]
- Yeah, Larry!
[playing "America the Beautiful"]
[cheering, applause]
- Come on! Do it, man!
- [whooping]
Like you mean it!
[laughs]
Yeah!
Whoo! Shred it, Larry!
All right, Larry!
[both laughing]
[Weizak] Miss Cross?
[laughs softly]
It's Teddy Weizak.
From the body crew.
Of course.
Of course. [chuckles]
Uh, hi.
Well, I
I guess you heard at the meeting,
we all transferred over to the watch.
[chuckles] Yeah. Anyway
You know, we're all out
looking for extraneous lights
that might overtax the grid when the, uh
What what do you got there,
school supplies?
- [Nadine stammers]
- Here, I'll help you out with them.
Actually, you know what
Holy shit. Hawk.
[chuckles]
I thought that was your truck out there.
Yeah.
Well, you, uh, you remember Miss Cross.
Hawk. Run.
[groans]
[panting]
["America the Beautiful" continues]
If you do want me ♪
Gimme little sugar ♪
If you don't want me ♪
Don't lead me on, girl ♪
But if you need me ♪
Show me that you love me ♪
And when I'm feeling blue ♪
And I want you ♪
There's just one thing
That you should do ♪
Just gimme some kind of sign, girl ♪
Oh, my baby ♪
To show me that you're mine, girl ♪
Oh, yeah ♪
Just gimme some kind of sign, girl ♪
Oh, my darling ♪
To show me that you're mine, girl ♪
All right ♪
If you do want me ♪
Gimme little sweet talk ♪
If you don't want me ♪
Don't lead me on, girl ♪
But if you need me ♪
Show me that you love me ♪
And when I'm feeling down ♪
Wearing a frown ♪
You be there when I look around ♪
Just gimme some kind of sign, girl ♪
Oh, my baby ♪
To show me that you're mine, girl ♪
All right ♪
Just gimme some kind of sign, girl ♪
Oh, my baby ♪
To show me that you're mine, girl ♪
All right ♪
Just gimme some kind of sign, girl ♪
Oh, my baby ♪
To show me that you're mine, girl ♪
Oh, yeah ♪
Just gimme some kind of sign, girl ♪
Oh, my darling ♪
To show me that you're mine, girl ♪
All right ♪
Just gimme some kind of sign ♪
Ooh, sign ♪
Just gimme some kind of sign, girl ♪
Oh, my baby ♪
To show me that you're mine, girl ♪
Oh, yeah ♪
Just gimme some kind of sign, girl ♪
Oh, my darling ♪
To show me that you're mine, girl ♪
All right ♪
Just gimme some kind of sign ♪