Chapelwaite (2021) s01e08 Episode Script

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Behold! This fraud!
The madness
suffered by every Boone
is connected to this book.
I had a vision
when I opened it.
Eternal night.
The undead rule,
and man is meat.
It's all death in this book.
It's the end of everything.
You said the only way
to be rid of your curse
was to return it to the undead.
What?
It's with Mary Dennison.
She's restrained in the cellar.
She's one of them now.
Phillip and Stephen
will come for this book
tonight.
We have to keep them
out of the house.
We need planks.
And paint.
Give us the book!
Heave!
Father!
No!
We will go to Chapelwaite
and take what is ours.
Jakub is out there.
With how many,
I can't say.
But we have our plan
to defend the house.
And everyone knows
their positions.
We have enough wood
to cover any windows or doors
that get breached.
Constable,
how are you feeling?
Well enough
to see daylight.
Good. It's on you
to keep them off the barn.
We cannot allow them to find
the tunnel into the walls.
If they do, we'll start
to lose the house.
In that event,
we'll seal the last barricade
and constrict our perimeter
to the dining room and kitchen.
If we can't hold there, then
then we retreat
to the cellar as one,
make our final stand.
Better we go there now.
That would give us
no chance to confront our enemy,
nowhere to go.
They'd breach
the cellar door,
burn us out.
We wouldn't last the hour.
I have experience
defending ships
against marauders.
With proper fortification,
five can hold 50.
We have that.
Tonight will reveal
much about ourselves.
There will be times
when you lose heart,
and you want to quit.
Do not.
Minister, would you
say a prayer?
I think it might
do us all some good.
Better say one for yourselves.
I'll say one.
The Lord is my refuge
and fortress;
My God in Him I will trust.
No evil shall befall you,
nor shall any plague
come near your dwelling;
For He shall give His angels
charge upon you,
to keep you in your ways.
- Amen.
- Amen.
Anything?
Nothing yet.
What do you think
they're waiting for?
Well, I imagine they're trying
to formulate their own plan.
If they are,
we'll be ready for them.
I'm proud of you.
Both of you.
You've come far
from the little deck rats
I ferried around the world.
You're a good boy.
I'll see us through this.
George
You need to get back upstairs.
I want to check on Mary.
Not too long now.
George, I'm your wife.
How can you keep me bound
like a wild animal?
Phillip Boone
stole my wife from me.
That's not true.
I'm different
only because I know death.
I've been there
and returned.
But we all die one day.
So
am I really so different?
The dead should not
walk the earth.
But we do.
We were to spend
eternity together
in Heaven.
There is no Heaven.
You have faith,
but I've been there.
There is life,
and there is nothing.
We've been told lies.
That wound
in your stomach is deep.
I can smell it.
Soon you'll be nothing, George.
Not alone.
Not a spirit.
Just mud and bone.
But I'll be alive.
No, no.
I have to go upstairs.
I'm hungry.
It's more than hunger.
It burns, George.
If you love me,
you'll feed me.
Come close.
No need to cut again.
No, I need my strength.
They don't care about you.
You're dying, George.
I can save you.
We can be together.
Drink from me.
How well
do you know Dennison?
I've known him my whole life.
Would you vouch
for his character?
In what regard?
I saw him feeding Mary.
Was he feeding on her?
No. But when faced
with one's own mortality
who knows what
desperate men may do?
We can't risk him
becoming like Mary.
We won't.
I'll handle it.
Your prayer was
much needed for morale.
- Thank you.
- It's funny.
God is most of what
I think about now.
All religions claim
that their god
to be the one and only.
And now these vampires
return from the grave
and tell us their god
is the one true God.
So who are we to believe?
Whose version of God is real?
Whichever god has the
strongest army at the moment
is the most real.
So the winner tonight
chooses the next God?
The winner in all wars
decides the truth
God included.
And that's it?
I always thought of God
as love.
Simple.
I prefer your interpretation
to others.
Once this is over,
my mother and I will be
moving to New York.
I made a promise to myself
that I would get her
out of this town.
That's the plan, at least.
Might you build ships there?
We shouldn't get ahead
of ourselves.
Why not?
Well, I'll still
have the book.
- The curse will follow.
- Charles, please.
Just for one moment
All clear, Martin?
Nothing here.
Mind the front as well.
The fires before us
come for me.
Don't fool yourself,
Minister.
They're here for all of us.
I understand all you've lost,
but isn't that when
we lean on God the most?
For some.
But when Phillip Boone's hand
was around my throat,
his grip was infinite
and bottomless.
It was the death
of everything.
I realized that that
"nothing" is what I deserve.
- That's not true.
- It is, Rebecca.
You of all people know
that I am a fraud.
You and your mother.
We never thought of you
as a fraud.
Just another flawed man.
The kind that God favors
now and then.
The kind who needs Him most.
Isn't that what you always
used to preach?
Empty words.
You don't need faith
to fight, Minister,
but you do need to fight.
If not for yourself,
then for something else.
May I remind you that there are
children in this house,
and they deserve more
than the next few hours to live.
How's the wound?
I'll make the night,
if that's what
you're worried about.
I am.
I want you to live.
But there are conditions
worse than death.
Mary was 12 years old
when we first met.
And the prettiest thing
I have ever seen.
I'm sure she was.
We married
four years later.
I never wanted to be
a day without her.
For me there was never
any other,
nor will there ever be.
Must be
must be tempting to want
to love someone forever.
I love my daughter Loa.
I always will.
But
I don't believe
these vampires love.
I've seen where their life
leads, Jerusalem's Lot.
No love remains.
Our Loa and Mary are gone.
Mr. Boone.
I will fight for you
and for that book.
But don't tell me
how to handle my wife.
I won't mention it again.
But if I see you down there
alone with her
I guess we'll be keeping
an eye on each other, then.
You know,
I saved Phillip Boone.
I was 17 years old,
and I saved his life.
And your father's.
What are you talking about?
The town knew
that your grandmother
Silence had gone mad.
She hadn't been
seen in weeks.
There was concern
for the children.
So
I rode up here,
found Silence
hanging herself
and the two boys
from that elm tree down there.
I cut Phillip
and your father down,
but Silence, she
she fought me off.
Imagine if I hadn't saved
those two boys?
No Boone curse.
I'd still have Mary,
and Phillip Boone
would be dead.
Really dead.
And you
you would have
never been born.
Consider that
the next time you walk up
behind me with a gun.
Keep watch here.
Protect the barn at all costs.
What are you up to?
What is that?
The end of the road.
Back to your post.
Sweet Jesus.
He's moving!
Stay vigilant!
My God.
He means to intimidate.
Charles, I never want
to become like him.
Then cry out
if you see anything.
What is it?
It's the man
Father told us about.
Shoot him.
It won't work.
We have to wait.
It's okay.
He can't get in.
That thing is out there.
Is it the devil?
You give him
too much credit, son.
He was a man;
Now he's less.
He's moving to the front.
The crosses held.
Doesn't matter
if you or I believe
in the cross, Martin,
as long as they do.
Jakub will send
his acolytes now.
They'll try to find ways in.
They're mortal.
Make them pay.
We'll be all right.
With the wind in our sails.
We'll be all right.
With the wind in our sails.
And we all hang on behind.
We'll be all right.
Here they come!
Charles!
Two ran around back.
When you see them, shoot!
Even if just to ward them off.
If they get in,
the undead are next.
- Did you get 'em?
- I don't think so.
It's hard to see.
Reload.
There's one
coming to the front!
I can see you.
You're the minister.
I knew Faith.
She was our sister.
Go away.
Don't make me shoot you.
I was there
when she died.
It was terrible.
She begged for her life.
We just kept stabbing her.
She wouldn't stop crying.
Don't you mock her.
- Who are you talking to?
- Faith's minister.
Oh, be gone, you sonofabitch.
Minister, you don't have
to end up like Faith.
Give Jakub the book.
Our god doesn't care
that you're an adulterer.
Lies mean nothing to him.
He makes no judgment.
He welcomes the sinner.
You can fornicate
with as many women
as you want.
You're all going to die
in there if you don't.
Why fight for a god
who doesn't care about you?
The Worm is so much
stronger and wiser.
Give Jakub the book.
Save them all.
What did you do to my child?
Your child?
My son.
Where is he?
It's back
with its father,
where it belongs.
What do you mean?
Faith never told you
the truth about her child.
It wasn't yours.
The baby was Jakub's.
She was his favorite.
Every scar you kissed
was Jakub's bite.
You threw your life away
for Jakub's whore.
Give us the book,
Minister.
Rebecca?
- Are you all right?
- The window.
Did I shoot one?
You did.
Reload. Reload now.
- We can stop this.
- What are you doing here?
Give 'em the damn book.
If our god is a falsehood,
then so is theirs.
- Get back to your post!
- They cannot raise a god
- if none exist!
- Do not test me!
Now go back
to the living room!
Charles, what if he
I'll kill him myself.
Shit. You stay here.
What was it?
I think they're
trying to breach this floor.
Back upstairs!
I have this.
Shit.
Rebecca!
Honor told me
you might need some help.
Ah, I'm all right now.
Is anyone out there?
- Not right now.
- Rebecca.
Tane.
I think one of them's
in the house.
There's a broken window
upstairs.
I searched all the bedrooms,
found nothing.
Just move with caution.
I'm gonna search
the rest of the house.
Tane, come with me.
- If anyone is in here
- I know what to do.
You let them have it.
It's quiet outside.
Do you think they've given up?
No. One may be inside.
- I've told the others.
- A vampire?
Whatever it is, I'll find it.
Tane, you listen to me now.
You be your sister's eyes
while her back is turned.
- All right?
- We'll be careful.
Why is this door open?
Minister Burroughs
is down there.
He said he needed
to check on Mary.
What are you doing here?
I don't understand
this world anymore.
Did you intend
to take the book?
Everything I thought
I was is gone.
Did you mean to take
the book?
I did.
What stopped you?
That thing
in the tub.
Put the gun down.
Put it down.
I know your kind.
Your whole life,
you run to God
for every hardship
because "God provides."
You credit God
with every victory,
even if you've done
the work and sweat yourself.
You blame every defeat
on God's will,
especially when the failure
is from your own
ignorance or weakness.
Believe or don't believe,
I don't care.
But stand up and be a man.
Or remain still
and I will end it now,
so I can defend my family.
Do it.
Do it.
Damn you,
what's it going to be?
I wanna go back upstairs.
Whatever they are
wherever they're from,
we can't let them win.
Minister!
Stop!
Don't! Don't! Stop!
- What happened?
- She's in the tunnels!
One of them!
She took the boards off!
Dammit! Tell Dennison
to watch the barn!
Shit!
- Constable!
- What is it?
One of them got
into the tunnels.
She's headed
for the barn.
Oh no.
- Aw, shit.
- They'll find the tunnel.
They're in the barn!
We couldn't stop them.
George, start barricading
the dining room with Burroughs.
We'll pull back
and fight them there.
Rebecca, get back to
the parlor, keep watch.
I'll come for you there.
George, rest.
I'll do this.
Tell Father.
I can hear them.
They're in.
Fall back to the dining room.
It's to create confusion.
Go, go, go!
Close it!
Close the barrier!
They're everywhere!
You can't leave the kitchen!
- Honor!
- I'll go with her.
Where's Tane?
He's not with you?
I sent him to get you when
I heard people in the walls.
They're on the stairs.
I'll find him! Go!
Tane.
Come with me.
Tane? Now.
Are you gonna hurt me?
No.
But they will.
I'm gonna have
to find my boy!
- Close the barricade behind me.
- Okay.
Don't do it.
I need to find my son.
No, they're trying
to draw you out.
Stick with the plan.
Oh, no.
No.
I'm coming for you, demon.
I'll have your head.
Oh, no!
They're in the cellar!
They've got the book!
Father!
Stay back!
Don't move!
It can't be.
Is it really you?
Step aside!
Father!
Honor, Honor, Honor.
It's all right.
Rebecca,
take this downstairs.
Go! Help Dennison.
Honor,
are you all right?
- I am.
- Come, help me with this.
Help me with this.
Block the door.
Tane?
I don't know.
Secure this.
You're all going
to die here.
There's no escape.
Tane?
Tane?
Tane?
Is Tane down here?
I don't think so.
I'm coming.
Charles.
What are we doing?
Fire at will.
Charles.
You need to see this.
No.
You son of a bitch.
You son of a bitch.
Father! Father!
Honor?
Father!
Son!
Ah! I can't hold it! Ah!
They're coming
over the barricade!
Into the cellar!
Everyone! Now!
Come say your prayers.
Say your prayers.
Christ in quiet,
Christ in danger,
Christ in mouth of friend
and stranger.
Christ beneath me,
Christ above me,
Christ in hearts of
all that love me.
Christ behind me,
Christ before me,
Christ to comfort
and restore me.
Christ in quiet,
Christ in danger,
Christ in mouth of friend
They're comin' through!
Christ behind me,
Christ to comfort
and restore me.
Hold back, Minister!
Christ behind me,
Christ before me,
Christ to comfort
and restore me.
Christ in quiet,
Christ in danger,
Christ in mouth
of friend and stranger.
- They're coming through!
- Get ready!
Charles!
What's happening?
They're leaving.
Why?
Why would they do that?
I had to do it, Father.
She said it would
make them stop.
What?
Tane, who said that?
Make what stop?
Loa.
I gave her the book.
Son No!
No! No!
It was the only way
to stop them!
She wanted to save us!
I'm sorry!
Loa!
Loa!
Loa!