The Birch (2019) s01e07 Episode Script
Jailbreak
[police radio chattering.]
[helicopter whirring.]
[man chattering.]
[officer.]
Hey, Miller.
[officer 2.]
Mayor Bouchard? Sir.
[hammering continues.]
[hammering continues.]
[Don.]
See, it's worse, Rachel.
It's worse.
You don't understand.
If you could see what she did to that boy [sighs.]
- But they're our daughters.
- They're not.
Look, every time this happens, we're the ones responsible, Rachel.
It's us.
Maybe you can live with that, but I can't.
I c I can't do it.
- I just can't.
- Well, then we'll find another way.
And Laura? What about Laura? There's still hope for her, Rachel, but they can't live under the same roof.
We have to send Lanie off.
We can't wait on this.
[Mitch chattering.]
Uh, no, you know, she's sick.
She doesn't need anything.
You can go to the school without her.
[Darren.]
Thanks.
[knocking.]
[Rachel.]
Gregarious.
[screams.]
- Outgoing.
- Good.
Sociable.
Polysyndeton.
Words strung along without a comma.
Example? The moth lived and withered and died.
Just in a row like that.
Retrospection.
[power saw cutting.]
Don't you think that boards are a bit much? Well, we can't have you over stimulated right now.
You're turning this place into a dungeon.
Do you know the word "hyperbole"? [sighs.]
I'm just a little thirsty.
- Well, I can get you some juice.
- I need to stretch.
Are you trying to avoid study time? Retrospection.
To growing older.
It's poison.
Don't drink it.
[chuckles.]
Well, let's get back to it.
Yeah.
[Mitch.]
Lanie? Rachel? Lanie! [Lanie.]
Okay, okay.
What did you do? Lanie! - [Laura coos.]
- Lanie, what did you do? Lanie, stop! Open the door! Stop! Open the door, Lanie! Lanie, stop! Stop! [Laura cries.]
[Laura coos.]
- [Laura coos.]
- [Lanie sighs.]
Hey.
Hey.
I cannot even begin to tell you how grateful I am.
Thank you so much.
An enemy of my enemy is a friend.
Or whatever.
- You hear what happened last night? - No.
Um Thad's dead.
- What? - Yeah.
My stepdad said it was pretty brutal.
How? No one knows.
Some freak thing.
[grunting.]
[Darren.]
I hate to say it, but I'm actually pretty - [Laura cooing.]
- [Lanie.]
Hey It's okay.
Hey, we made it.
We made it.
We made it.
Whoa.
Hi.
This stays between us? [sighs.]
My mom lets me crash on the weekends.
This is more my dad's place, but he's not really around much, so, you know.
Um, it'll just be a minute.
What's your plan anyways? Headed north.
Going somewhere safe.
Cool.
Well, I have a little half brother.
If she needs anything I'll be there for dinner, so Yeah.
Was, uh Was Thad the, - you know - [Laura cries.]
Hey.
Hey.
Little bug, little bug, what's wrong? She poop? Um I think she might be hungry.
Okay.
Okay, we are going to do something.
It's just like your bottle.
Okay? Just Okay.
No, it's just like your bottle.
It's just like your bot [plants rustling.]
[Laura cooing.]
Sorry.
The lotion makes it harder for me to take it out.
I've got trichotillomania.
I'm a "trichster.
" It's like I have magnets in my hair and my fingers.
Just one more hair, just one more eyelash.
How long has it been a thing? I don't know.
Since my dad left.
Anxiety.
All the dumb stuff.
We're the Island of Misfit Toys.
H-How about the The burns? Electrical fire when I was a baby.
That's how both my birth parents died.
- I was the lucky one.
- Sorry.
Growing up I had these, like, episodes? Blacking out and just seeing these awful, terrible things.
My doctor said it was trauma from the fire, but they felt so real to me.
So I made these dolls out of tree scraps.
My guardian angels.
This one is my favorite.
It's made of birchwood.
The druids called the birchwood the "Ladies of the Forest.
" They thought of them as symbols of hope and rebirth.
I like that.
A gift.
A wood action figure.
I like it.
They had this thing they did when they needed to call on nature for protection.
"For thee who makest me, I shall come.
Thee who breaks me shall come undone.
" Whenever I was afraid or lonely, I would say those words, and I felt a little less scared, a little less alone.
[Laura cooing.]
She likes it.
Hey, this is mine.
Get your own, baby.
I'll be back tomorrow with supplies.
Thanks.
You're a pretty cool dude, Darren.
Yeah.
Don't act so surprised.
Bye.
[coos.]
This has been the best day of my entire life.
- [cooing.]
- My whole life.
I love you.
I love you.
I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you.
[Mitch.]
Yeah, I told you I'd find her, didn't I? [Don.]
We're gonna have to be quick.
[Mitch.]
What is that? I'm not holding that.
[Don.]
Take it.
Take it [floorboards creaking.]
[door creaks.]
- It's okay.
Lanie - No.
- [Mitch.]
Calm.
- [Don.]
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Calm down, Lanie.
We are - We're here to take you home - [Lanie.]
Don't touch us.
- where it's safe.
- Don't come close to us, please.
- Listen to me, listen to me.
- [Mitch.]
Put the knife down.
- [Lanie.]
No.
Just please back off.
- Laura is not well.
She's been with me all day, and she's been fine.
She's been great.
You're the one who's making her sick.
That's not true.
That's not true.
You are.
You are the one who's making her sick.
It's in your head, Lanie.
It's not true.
- We're here to help her.
- [Mitch.]
Yeah.
We're here to help, so just just put her down.
No.
- [Laura crying.]
- [Don.]
We're here to help you.
- Just put her down.
- Lanie, please.
Mitchel.
Lanie.
[grunts.]
No, Mitchel! Oh, my God.
Uncle Mitch? What did I do? No.
No [sobbing.]
No-no-no-no-no [Laura crying.]
I heard about what happened to those poor boys at your school.
That's a shame.
[Evie.]
I think they got what they had coming.
Beast just stalled out on me, and I'm good and honest lost.
Let me, uh, grab my tools.
I'll take a look.
I don't know how you're doing this to us, but when I'm done with you, you're gonna think Ryan and Wes had it easy.
[helicopter whirring.]
[man chattering.]
[officer.]
Hey, Miller.
[officer 2.]
Mayor Bouchard? Sir.
[hammering continues.]
[hammering continues.]
[Don.]
See, it's worse, Rachel.
It's worse.
You don't understand.
If you could see what she did to that boy [sighs.]
- But they're our daughters.
- They're not.
Look, every time this happens, we're the ones responsible, Rachel.
It's us.
Maybe you can live with that, but I can't.
I c I can't do it.
- I just can't.
- Well, then we'll find another way.
And Laura? What about Laura? There's still hope for her, Rachel, but they can't live under the same roof.
We have to send Lanie off.
We can't wait on this.
[Mitch chattering.]
Uh, no, you know, she's sick.
She doesn't need anything.
You can go to the school without her.
[Darren.]
Thanks.
[knocking.]
[Rachel.]
Gregarious.
[screams.]
- Outgoing.
- Good.
Sociable.
Polysyndeton.
Words strung along without a comma.
Example? The moth lived and withered and died.
Just in a row like that.
Retrospection.
[power saw cutting.]
Don't you think that boards are a bit much? Well, we can't have you over stimulated right now.
You're turning this place into a dungeon.
Do you know the word "hyperbole"? [sighs.]
I'm just a little thirsty.
- Well, I can get you some juice.
- I need to stretch.
Are you trying to avoid study time? Retrospection.
To growing older.
It's poison.
Don't drink it.
[chuckles.]
Well, let's get back to it.
Yeah.
[Mitch.]
Lanie? Rachel? Lanie! [Lanie.]
Okay, okay.
What did you do? Lanie! - [Laura coos.]
- Lanie, what did you do? Lanie, stop! Open the door! Stop! Open the door, Lanie! Lanie, stop! Stop! [Laura cries.]
[Laura coos.]
- [Laura coos.]
- [Lanie sighs.]
Hey.
Hey.
I cannot even begin to tell you how grateful I am.
Thank you so much.
An enemy of my enemy is a friend.
Or whatever.
- You hear what happened last night? - No.
Um Thad's dead.
- What? - Yeah.
My stepdad said it was pretty brutal.
How? No one knows.
Some freak thing.
[grunting.]
[Darren.]
I hate to say it, but I'm actually pretty - [Laura cooing.]
- [Lanie.]
Hey It's okay.
Hey, we made it.
We made it.
We made it.
Whoa.
Hi.
This stays between us? [sighs.]
My mom lets me crash on the weekends.
This is more my dad's place, but he's not really around much, so, you know.
Um, it'll just be a minute.
What's your plan anyways? Headed north.
Going somewhere safe.
Cool.
Well, I have a little half brother.
If she needs anything I'll be there for dinner, so Yeah.
Was, uh Was Thad the, - you know - [Laura cries.]
Hey.
Hey.
Little bug, little bug, what's wrong? She poop? Um I think she might be hungry.
Okay.
Okay, we are going to do something.
It's just like your bottle.
Okay? Just Okay.
No, it's just like your bottle.
It's just like your bot [plants rustling.]
[Laura cooing.]
Sorry.
The lotion makes it harder for me to take it out.
I've got trichotillomania.
I'm a "trichster.
" It's like I have magnets in my hair and my fingers.
Just one more hair, just one more eyelash.
How long has it been a thing? I don't know.
Since my dad left.
Anxiety.
All the dumb stuff.
We're the Island of Misfit Toys.
H-How about the The burns? Electrical fire when I was a baby.
That's how both my birth parents died.
- I was the lucky one.
- Sorry.
Growing up I had these, like, episodes? Blacking out and just seeing these awful, terrible things.
My doctor said it was trauma from the fire, but they felt so real to me.
So I made these dolls out of tree scraps.
My guardian angels.
This one is my favorite.
It's made of birchwood.
The druids called the birchwood the "Ladies of the Forest.
" They thought of them as symbols of hope and rebirth.
I like that.
A gift.
A wood action figure.
I like it.
They had this thing they did when they needed to call on nature for protection.
"For thee who makest me, I shall come.
Thee who breaks me shall come undone.
" Whenever I was afraid or lonely, I would say those words, and I felt a little less scared, a little less alone.
[Laura cooing.]
She likes it.
Hey, this is mine.
Get your own, baby.
I'll be back tomorrow with supplies.
Thanks.
You're a pretty cool dude, Darren.
Yeah.
Don't act so surprised.
Bye.
[coos.]
This has been the best day of my entire life.
- [cooing.]
- My whole life.
I love you.
I love you.
I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you.
[Mitch.]
Yeah, I told you I'd find her, didn't I? [Don.]
We're gonna have to be quick.
[Mitch.]
What is that? I'm not holding that.
[Don.]
Take it.
Take it [floorboards creaking.]
[door creaks.]
- It's okay.
Lanie - No.
- [Mitch.]
Calm.
- [Don.]
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Calm down, Lanie.
We are - We're here to take you home - [Lanie.]
Don't touch us.
- where it's safe.
- Don't come close to us, please.
- Listen to me, listen to me.
- [Mitch.]
Put the knife down.
- [Lanie.]
No.
Just please back off.
- Laura is not well.
She's been with me all day, and she's been fine.
She's been great.
You're the one who's making her sick.
That's not true.
That's not true.
You are.
You are the one who's making her sick.
It's in your head, Lanie.
It's not true.
- We're here to help her.
- [Mitch.]
Yeah.
We're here to help, so just just put her down.
No.
- [Laura crying.]
- [Don.]
We're here to help you.
- Just put her down.
- Lanie, please.
Mitchel.
Lanie.
[grunts.]
No, Mitchel! Oh, my God.
Uncle Mitch? What did I do? No.
No [sobbing.]
No-no-no-no-no [Laura crying.]
I heard about what happened to those poor boys at your school.
That's a shame.
[Evie.]
I think they got what they had coming.
Beast just stalled out on me, and I'm good and honest lost.
Let me, uh, grab my tools.
I'll take a look.
I don't know how you're doing this to us, but when I'm done with you, you're gonna think Ryan and Wes had it easy.