Feria: The Darkest Light (2022) s01e05 Episode Script

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A NETFLIX SERIES
[crickets chirping]
[dog barking]
[water trickling]
[girls talking softly in Spanish]
[engine idling]
[radio chatter in Spanish]
[plates clatter]
[Estrella] Sofía.
What happened?
Where have you been?
[man] Come by my office in a couple
of days. I want to check your progress.
-[Raúl] And the treatment?
-Clean and dry the injury,
and let it breathe for a couple of hours
before applying the bandage.
-The stitches have to be dry.
-[Raúl] All right.
Take one of these every eight hours.
-It will help you relax.
-Okay.
[sighs] Sofía.
-Hi.
-Estrella told me to bring you this.
Thanks.
Today, your sister decided
to start her acting career.
-Did you hear?
-[chuckles]
You should've seen her doing
Jack Nicholson in The Shining.
[Eva] Careful. It hurts a little.
What did you do?
I don't know.
In the interview, I swore something
was under my skin.
And I got the brilliant idea
of removing it.
[Raúl] She stabbed herself with scissors.
Yeah. Madness may be hereditary.
[chuckles[
Please don't even joke about that.
You've been under a lot of pressure.
Yeah.
-[Raúl] I'll show you out, Doctor.
-[doctor] Look after her.
Make sure she takes the pills
and gets rest.
-Hey.
-[Raúl] I will. Thanks.
It's fine. I'm all right.
Besides, you were right after all.
The interview was a really dumb idea.
And Ana Sánchez is a bitch.
[sighs]
[gasping]
Don't touch her, motherfuckers!
Get him out of here,
and make sure he doesn't come back!
[muffled and echoing] Sofía!
Leave him alone!
Sofía, we need to get out of here.
You are so close, Sofía.
Don't throw away your progress now.
[Chisco] You're a bunch of lunatics!
[gasps]
Sofía. [whimpers]
Don't hurt him.
[laughs]
[gasps]
Sofía! You've been drugged! This is
fucking insane! They're gonna kill you!
-[sobbing]
-[door closes]
[cult member] Yaldabaoth saw
his reflection in the light.
And the reflection came alive,
and it became the universe.
A lesser God, a blind God,
thought he could mimic
Yaldabaoth's creations
and made this world of shadows.
This prison.
He created desire.
And love.
He created guilt, pain and even death.
And the chains that bind us.
But none of that is real.
It is all a ruse.
A lie to keep us from escaping here.
So how do I stop being afraid?
You won't be alone.
Your mother will be with you.
[gasping]
-[Elena, echoing] Sofía.
-[gasps]
-[gasps]
-Sweetheart.
Perform the five veils.
Mom.
Come by my side.
-[Elena, echoing] I need you.
-[gasps]
And I need you too.
[panting]
[sobbing]
What just happened?
Was that real?
She wasn't okay.
-What happened to her?
-Sofía.
There's no pain in the kingdom.
You just have to reach the end.
[sighs]
[church bell ringing]
[murmur of conversations in Spanish]
Lord Jesus Christ,
who said to your apostles,
"Peace I leave you, my peace I give you."
Look not on our sins
but on the faith of your Church,
and graciously grant her peace and unity
in accordance with your will.
You, who live and reign for ever and ever.
-[all] Amen.
-The peace of the Lord be with you always.
[all] And also with you.
Let us offer each other the sign of peace.
Certainly, people were
very fond of Father Ezcaray,
but his Masses were
two and a half hours long.
This is much better.
[congregation exchanging
greetings in Spanish]
-Peace be with you.
-Peace be with you.
-How's the girl?
-The injury isn't serious.
The problem is up here.
Pedro. Peace be with you.
How are you doing?
Where's your son, Pedro?
You really should talk him
into coming to Mass.
Kids today won't touch church
with a ten-foot pole.
[Estrella] Christianity
wasn't a done deal.
At first, there were many trends
and people wouldn't agree.
One was Valentinus', which appeared
during the second century AD.
-Mm-hmm.
-And it is based on a very simple concept.
What kind of God
would create a world like ours,
where there's war and pain?
Didn't he consider there was no God?
-And everything's our own fault?
-Mm-hmm.
No, Valentinus believed the world
we live in
was created by a cruel God.
And slightly stupid.
A God that will send you plagues, or
require sacrifices, or destroys Babylon.
He wasn't wrong about that.
The bastard had a mean temper.
Humans can escape this world
and return to the real one.
The kingdom.
And for that,
you needed to achieve the gnosis.
GNOSTIC GOSPELS
Which could be described
as true knowledge.
That's what they did at the mine.
Killed themselves
to go to the other world.
But not everyone can do it.
According to Gnosticism,
there are three types of human beings.
The perfect ones.
Their spirit rules over the flesh,
and they are the ones summoned
to open the gates to the kingdom.
The psychics.
They are not aware of the deception,
but they can learn
by following a perfect one.
And then there are the somatics,
for whom salvation is impossible.
The material world dominates them, and so…
They're doomed.
I guess that's you and me.
[both chuckle]
But who would believe all this crap?
[sighs]
[ringing tone]
[telephone ringing]
[grunts]
Don't you understand it?
She wants to be here.
You're a bunch of pigs.
You've drugged her so you could rape her.
[coughing]
You don't utter a word.
You weren't here.
You don't know who we are.
Say it. You don't know who we are.
I don't know who you are.
[chuckles] That's good.
[laughs] Didn't he do a good job?
Sofía wants you to leave.
And that is what you'll do.
But if you talk to anyone,
we'll have to come after you.
Do I make myself clear?
[shivering]
Do I make myself clear?
[yelps]
[sobbing]
When did you come back?
You had me worried.
I went out to shoot
some footage for Blood Fest.
-And you're leaving again?
-I forgot something.
[water trickling]
[rings doorbell]
[rings bell persistently]
[bell rings]
Sofía isn't home.
I think she left with Estrella.
Yeah, I saw her leave a while back.
But I came here to talk to you,
not to Sofía.
I just took a pill,
and I'm feeling kind of sleepy, so…
-Well, what happened to you?
-Drink coffee.
I need you to be alert.
I need you to go over all the missing
person reports from the past two years.
This woman can't have come out of nowhere.
We still have to identify three victims.
Fine. I'll tell them to get on it.
Thanks.
Uh, excuse me, Lieutenant.
Regarding what I told you
about the corporal, what will happen?
-Hasn't he arrived yet?
No, no. He called in sick
a couple of hours ago.
Marcos is a good officer.
He had reasons for searching the sacristy.
Talking with him
will certainly clear things up.
All to preserve Ezcaray's reputation.
So nobody would know
he was into young boys.
Our town is already notorious enough.
[sighs]
Leave it to me, all right?
I'll see what I can do.
-And get started on the photo.
-Okay.
Who's gonna carry the detectors
for me now?
Mani? Ah, Mani's nowhere to be found.
Ah, he's a good kid. [chuckles]
Bit of a drug addict, but a good kid.
Who do I recruit now? [chuckles]
People are a bunch of scoundrels.
I'm sure, as soon as
they find out where the orichalcum is,
they'll crack my head open
and steal it from me. [laughs]
Are you smoking again?
With those useless lungs of yours?
Hmm.
I can't stay here forever, Serafín.
I have to leave.
[crickets chirping]
Estrella's been asking me about Dad.
I think she thinks I know where he is.
Are you okay?
Have you gone mad?
Thought I was the only one
doing dumb things.
Do you want me to leave you alone?
After what happened to Mom and Dad?
Are you also going to kill yourself?
Is that what you want?
Don't you give a shit about me?
[sighs] What are you talking about?
Stop treating me like I'm an idiot, Sofía.
Chisco was here.
He told me what you did.
-I don't know what he told you--
-Don't even try.
I know you've been seeing cult members.
Chisco's freaked out.
Did you see what your friends did to him?
They kicked his ass.
You wouldn't understand.
You're right. I wouldn't. Why the fuck
are you involved with those lunatics?
-They're not lunatics!
-Come on!
What did they make you believe?
We're going to the cops
so you can tell them who they are.
I'm not going anywhere.
And neither are you.
Or what?
You're okay with what they did to Chisco?
You want them to do that to me too?
[sighs] Eva.
[sighs]
I've been an idiot.
I was so self-centered,
I couldn't see what was happening to you.
But that's gonna change,
because I'm gonna take care of you.
If you wanna take care of me,
don't tell a soul.
They will split us up.
They'll put me in an institution,
or an insane asylum.
-They won't do that to you.
-Yes, they will.
[gasps]
They promised
they would take me to Mother.
And I fell for it, like a sucker.
-But, Sofía…
-[sniffles]
How could you fall for it?
[sobbing] I miss her so much, Eva.
I can't go on without Mom.
Sofía, I'm here.
I love you.
And I promise
we're going to get through this.
How?
How are you gonna get
Mom and Dad to come back?
Maybe it's the pills they gave me,
because
I'm about to do something stupid.
But you have to promise me
something first.
You'll never see those people again. Ever.
-I only saw them once.
-Sofía!
I promise.
Okay, I'll tell Estrella that
we're going to Seville
to rest for some time.
[sniffles]
Once there, we'll tell them everything.
Okay.
[sobbing]
[man on radio] We just heard
the Nocturne from the year 1896
by Manuel de Falla,
performed by our guest today,
from his new album,
Manuel de Falla - Complete Piano Works.
His name is Juan Carlos Rodriguez.
We'll take a break, and when we come back,
Juan will tell us more about the reasons
he chose Manuel de Falla…
SEE EACH OTHER SOON
[Estrella] It's the symbol for Saturn.
It looks a lot like
a letter from the Coptic alphabet.
-Right. That's the tattoo they had.
-Who?
The victims at the mine.
It is associated with a Gnostic god,
Yaldabaoth.
Here.
Don't give me that look.
I didn't choose the name.
Where does this lead us, Estrella?
We already know they were all crazy.
I wouldn't be surprised if they believed
in a snake with a lion head
floating in space.
-[Estrella] Can you get the tarp down?
-All right.
It's been a while since I asked Ezcaray
to show me the altarpiece.
Ever since I came to work here, I'd always
seen it covered. and I was curious.
Candela's father, who was mayor
of Feria, paid for the restoration.
But when he died,
no one would give any money.
[clattering]
See?
Huh? Pretty insane, isn't it?
But how long has the Cult of Light
been in this town?
[birds calling]
[music playing on television]
[tape winding]
[door opens]
-Does it hurt?
-[tape clicks]
A little.
Did you tell everything to Eva?
I have this noise stuck in my head.
Like a screeching that won't let me think.
Chisco, please. Come on.
I really need to know.
Did I tell her they raped you?
No, I didn't.
Don't ask me why.
I don't even know myself.
[sighs] Maybe I thought
that was something you should tell her.
Because if I had,
Eva would have had a stroke.
It all happened because I wanted it to.
Those people will hurt you.
Look what they did to me.
I could see her, Chisco.
I saw my mother.
Sofía, those things they put over our
heads before we went there were wet.
They put something in them. I'm sure.
-It's why my head hurts, why we saw stuff.
-You are in total denial.
[sighs]
Eva wants us to leave.
But I can't do that, I can't go.
I have to stay here.
Is this what you want?
What-- what are you doing?
Do you want my body?
-Just take it.
-I want you!
BLOOD FES
You just don't understand, do you?
I've loved you ever since
they sat us together in first grade.
Sofía, I don't wanna be
just your friend anymore.
I don't want you
to think of me as the clown,
or to laugh at my shitty movies.
No.
I want you to love me for real.
I can't do that.
I'm a fool, right?
How could you love me
with this dumb face?
-No. It's not like that, Chisco.
-[scoffs]
It isn't.
Please leave my store.
Get out.
Don't worry. I won't talk to anybody.
That's what they told me,
and what you came for, right?
Don't touch me!
You've got what you wanted.
[snorts] Leave, Sofía.
[sighs]
[door slams]
[sobbing]
[cult member] It won't be easy.
But you must free yourself, Sofía.
Your mother's waiting for you.
[church bell ringing]
[crickets chirping]
[radio playing softly]
[laughter on radio]
[chiming]
[Sofía] Are you hiring me
to be in your movie?
-[Chisco] You're quite an artist.
-[both laugh]
[chiming]
-[Sofía] I'll have to think about it.
-[Chisco] Why?
[Sofía ] I don't think
you're a good director. Mm-hmm.
-You're too demanding.
-[Chisco] I take it very seriously.
I work a lot.
[bleep]
[click]
[door closes]
[purrs]
[hisses]
[Guillén] They were looking
for something in the sacristy.
And just this morning,
we uncovered the unfinished altarpiece.
What?
-[clock chiming]
-What's going on?
[Juanjo] Mar.
Not now. Go to your room.
I know your father started
the restoration work on the painting.
I've been digging through church records,
but I didn't find any documents
regarding the altarpiece.
-Perhaps you--
-No, no, I don't know anything.
Do you think Ezcaray
might've kept something?
Candela.
There's a connection
between that altarpiece
and the cult that caused all those deaths.
What if what happened at the mine
happens again?
I'm sure you don't want that to happen.
You were a very close friend of Ezcaray.
Look in his notebooks.
-What notebooks?
-[footsteps]
Father Ezcaray wrote everything down
in notebooks since he came to Feria.
If there's anything, it'll be there.
[sighs]
Thank you very much, Candela.
[sighs]
Dad, I have to leave.
-Would you take Mom to the cemetery?
-No, you do it. Period.
I have things to do. And it's not
a good day for your mother to be alone.
Come on. What does it matter
whether we go today or tomorrow?
Dad, there's nobody in that grave.
Can't you ever think of anyone
except yourself, Raúl?
That's what I do. Okay?
-Eva isn't well.
-Oh, Eva isn't well?
-No.
-And what about your mother?
Uncle Elías has been missing
for 20 years now, Dad.
Nothing's gonna happen if,
on his birthday,
we don't put flowers on a tomb
that doesn't even contain his bones.
Look, Raúl.
[breathing heavily] Hmm.
If you don't know what
you're talking about, at least shut up.
We clear?
Later.
-Hey, didn't you have the day off?
-I have to go to the station. I'm sorry.
[starts engine]
Fuckin' goddamn motherfucker.
[sighs]
[Serafín] We're standing
on top of a palace.
Up here, the earth is dry and hard,
-but underneath, it shines.
-[door closes]
[chuckles]
Since the girls are having
such a rough time,
I thought I'd bring them a small gift.
[chuckles]
Orichalcum!
I found this nugget in 1975,
the year they closed the mine.
But there's more. A lot more.
[laughs] And I'm about to find
the mother lode. I'm so close.
This is for Sofía and you.
Hmm. Thank you. It's really lovely.
But you must promise me
you're gonna take care of it.
[chuckles] That no one else will have it.
No one at all.
[Sofía] "I need to see you soon."
"Tonight. I'm at Serafín's."
"I have much to explain. I love you both."
When did he give it to you?
[Eva] Ten minutes ago.
He brought the stone and left that note.
He's an old friend of Dad's.
He sometimes asked him to open the mine
to look for that ori--
-Orichalcum. I don't know, Sofía.
-[laughs]
Serafín is not all right in the head.
Eva, it's amazing Dad is alive.
We can go without anyone noticing.
We'll go tonight.
We'll climb out the kitchen window
and it's done.
Eva, what's the matter? Are you not glad?
-[sighs]
-Dad is okay!
[laughs]
Yeah.
Yes, I'm glad. of course.
I just didn't expect it.
He'll explain everything. Just wait.
[laughs]
Perla, give me a pack of alginate
and a can of talcum powder.
What is it? Chafing again? You need
to exercise more, Chisco.
Yeah, sure, Perla. Whatever you say.
[man] Hey, I saw your mother on TV.
With Lozano and all that jazz, yeah.
[chuckles]
She looked fatter.
[child's laughter echoes]
[echoing] Watch it.
You don't wanna get that fat.
Leave me alone.
[child laughing]
Perla, you gonna be long?
Is that how you're going to get
Sofía to fall in love with you?
[giggling]
[woman] Have you seen your face?
[child's laughter echoing]
-Quit laughing, for fuck's sake!
-[echoes stop]
Don't listen to them, son.
[Olga exhaling loudly]
[church bell ringing]
-[dog barking in distance]
-[clock chiming]
[footsteps]
How long will that doctor take?
She was just a bit upset.
Doctor Belda knows
how to deal with your mother.
It's not the first time it happened.
So quit pestering.
Remember when pain didn't exist?
When everything was pleasure?
Whoever has known this world
has found a corpse.
But this world is not worthy
of those who found that corpse.
Whoever has known won't forget, Candela.
[high-pitched squealing]
[grunts and gasps]
[squealing fades]
[squelching]
[frogs chirping]
What are we waiting for, Eva?
I'm not sure it's a good idea.
-Maybe…
-Maybe what?
Aren't you dying to see Dad?
-[clang]
-What are you doing, Sofía? Wait!
What if they followed us?
-We'd better leave.
-What are you so afraid of, Eva?
They didn't even notice that we were gone.
[door opens]
[laughs]
-[Pablo] Sofía!
-[Sofía! laughs]
Dad!
[both laughing]
Oh, I missed you two so much.
[laughs] Oh!
Eva!
-Come here!
-[Sofía] Daddy! Dad!
Eva!
I'm so sorry, Dad. [gasps]
[officer] Freeze! Police!
Don't move! Police!
-[siren blaring]
-Put your hands up!
Stay where you are!
-Hands where I can see them!
-No! No!
-No! Dad! Dad!
-Let me see your hands!
-No!
-It's okay. It's okay.
-Nobody move!
-[Sofía sobs] No!
-It's okay. Sofía. Sofía, calm down.
-Don't come any closer!
-[Guillén] Listen to me.
-I said don't!
-Pablo.
-[Guillén sobs]
-No, Dad! No! No! No!
-[officer] Get down!
[Guillén] On your knees! Now!
Now! On the ground!
Let go of me! Daddy, come on!
-[Guillén] It's okay, Sofía.
-[Sofía] No!
No, no! Eva!
-[radio chatter in Spanish]
-[Sofía] Eva!
Eva!
Eva.
Eva!
-Eva.
-Sofía, calm down. We're going home.
[Eva sobs]
Sorry, Dad.
Please don't worry.
Come on. Watch your head.
Son of a bitch! Let go of me! [yells]
[Eva] Sofía!
Sofía! [sobbing]
Go after the girl!
Eva. Eva.
[Eva crying]
Sofía…
[panting]
-Sofía!
-Sofía!
[gasping] No!
[screams]
Sofía! Come on, let's go!
[sobbing]
[yelps]
[crying]
Is there anyone there?
Please!
Please, somebody help me.
Sofía.
[sobbing]
[gasping]
Take me to see Blanca.
[pop music playing softly]
CALIFORNIA VIDEO
Don't wanna be free of hope ♪
And I'm at the end of my rope ♪
Feels tough just to be alive… ♪
Leave that for tomorrow
and go to bed. It's late.
-When I feel like the living dead… ♪
-Chisco.
-Take that off. You'll suffocate.
-I'm givin' it up so clean ♪
-I'm livin' my life for me… ♪
-That wouldn't be so bad.
Chisco, son…
Where am I going to… ♪
[echoing] Do you think
you're more handsome like that?
When are you going to realize
you're a ridiculous baby, like me?
-We're the two clowns in town.
-[Chisco] Shut up, Dad!
[Pedro] Why did your mother leave?
She'd rather be dead
than be with you, like Sofía!
Are you going to shut up?
Are you gonna shoot me
with your toy pistol?
-Do you wanna try it?
-Why don't you try it on yourself first?
[high-pitched squeaking]
[men chatting in Spanish]
…did not expect that bun to be
past its use-by date.
-[laughter]
-For real.
-Whoa!
-Check him out.
Where are you goin', loser?
Psst. Chisco!
[laughter]
What are you wearing, Chisco?
-Is that your Sunday best face?
-See this?
You should go straight home.
You'll scare someone with that mug.
-Oh shit!
-I'm outta here!
What are you doing, Chisco?
Are you insane?
I'm not Chisco.
I'm the god of fire.
Yeah, of course. [gasps]
Say it.
-I'm the god of fire.
-Uh, you're the god of fire.
[laughs]
Well said.
[fires gun]
[dogs barking]
[gasps]
[dog barking]