Hysteria! (2024) s01e08 Episode Script

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[JORDY] Thank you, Happy Hollow!
You have been a fantastic audience.
[JORDY SIGHS]
So, what do you think? One more?
Uh, any requests?
Wolfman? DeVito?
You guys hungry?
[ALL LAUGHING]
All right, all right, all
right. Best debut album. Go.
Uh, Joy Division, "Unknown Pleasures."
- [SCOFFS] You would.
- What? What's yours then?
Hendrix. "Are You Experienced."
I'm think mine's "Blizzard of Oz."
That does not count.
Ozzy was in Black
Sabbath for over a decade
before that came out.
So, what? Jimi Hendrix and
the guys from Joy Division
weren't in any other
bands before those albums?
Yeah, but they weren't,
like, "band" bands,
they were, like trial runs.
[GENTLE, MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYS]
Do you think that's what we are?
Like, are we the band?
Or are we the band before the band?
Because I don't think I'd want
to do this without you guys.
[DARK, INTENSE MUSICAL TRANSITION]
[GENE] Dylan?
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
It's time.
- [ABIGAIL] Hello?
- Abigail.
Call everyone you can and tell
them to meet at the church.
[ABIGAIL] Meet at the
What's all this about?
I'm going to cast evil out
of this town for all to see.
And Abigail,
make sure the Hudsons are there.
[ABIGAIL] Why the Hudsons?
[TRACY] They're gonna wanna see this.
[GENE] Linda's ready to go.
Good.
Are you?
Tracy, she's
she's my world.
I promise
your wife, and your mother,
is in good hands.
Now let's go save this town.
[JORDY] I'm telling you, Chief,
Tracy Whitehead is fucking insane.
Yeah, I got that. Olsen, go
to her house and arrest her.
- On what charges?
- Obstruction of justice,
aiding and abetting, and
being a big pain in my ass.
And Abigail
- Where's Abigail?
- She just left.
- Said something about going to the church.
- In the middle of the night?
All right, fine. Radio me when you have
Tracy Whitehead in custody, will ya?
- Roger that.
- Does this mean we're officially off your suspect list?
- Looks like it.
- Oh! So that means
you finally gonna apologize to me.
Apologize?
You and your band caused me
nothing but hell for weeks.
I had every reason to
be suspicious of you.
I'm not even talking about that.
I'm talking about how you dismissed me
when I told you there was a
conspiracy going on out here.
- Oh, God.
- Don't get cocky, Spud.
Even a broken clock
is right twice a day.
- So you sayin' I was right?
- No, what I'm saying is
Why am I wasting time on this?
Look, the two of you stay put.
I'm gonna get Faith out of that house.
- We're coming with you.
- No, you're not.
I don't know if you watch
the news, but the two of you
are a couple of witches at
the height of a witch hunt.
The safest place for
you to be is right here.
Try and get Dylan on the phone.
Make sure he's someplace safe.
I have a funny feeling that tonight
is gonna be one hell of a night.
[HEAVY METAL THEME MUSIC PLAYS]
[INTENSE MUSIC PLAYS]
- Where is it?
- [ITEMS CLATTERING]
- Where is what?
- [REVEREND GROANS]
Spare me the act, you little shit.
The evidence wasn't planted.
Which means you still have it!
You lied your way back into my home,
to what, to implicate me?
Is that about right?
Reverend, what are you talking about?
Who knows you're here, Faith?
- No one! It's just
- Huh?
It's just It's just you and my mom.
Not your friends? Not the police?
No.
It's just us.
[OMINOUS MUSIC CONTINUES]
So you won't mind
taking a little trip
with me then, will ya?
Where to?
A hotel first. Just a few nights.
But I'll be paying close
attention to the news.
And if, for any reason,
either of our names make an appearance,
your destination's gonna change.
To where?
Bottom of Lake Erie.
I'm gonna give you one more
chance to tell me the truth, Faith.
Does anyone,
anyone at all,
know where you are right now?
[INTENSE, OMINOUS MUSIC]
No.
For your sake, and your mother's,
I hope you haven't
done something stupid.
[FAITH WHIMPERS]
[DOOR HINGES CREAK]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[SHAKY BREATHING]
Jordy, where are you?
[JORDY] Great work, Dylan.
Really.
[HANGS UP PHONE]
I tried him, like, ten times,
and he's still not answering.
I-I don't know what's up,
but that can't be good.
Spud?
[SPUD] Huh?
Do you remember what
Dylan said about his mom?
[SPUD] I-I think she, uh,
she thought we was doing some
sort of black magic or something.
Can you come here for a second?
What's this?
A reported case of
[SPUD] "Demonic activity"?
Look, there are tons of them.
"Strange apparitions,"
"hearing voices,"
"violent and unseen forces."
What the hell?
["DEVIL CHURCH" BY GHOST PLAYING]
Dylan's mom wasn't the only one.
[SOLEMN ORGAN INTRO PLAYING]
Why do I feel like I
know where Dylan is?
["DEVIL CHURCH" BY GHOST CRESCENDOS]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[ABIGAIL] Good evening, ladies.
Thank you. Please, take a seat.
Mr. and Mrs. Hudson, so
glad you could make it.
Right this way.
[SONG FADES]
[DYLAN] Ms. Whitehead?
What can I do to help?
You have the most
important job of anyone.
What's going to happen
down there will not be easy.
Not for you, not for me.
And least of all, not for your mom.
When I finally reach her through
the thing that's taken her,
she's going to need a reminder of
what she still has to fight for.
So, w-what do I have to do?
Stay right here.
And when the time comes,
and you'll know when it does,
I need you to be right
where she can see you.
I cannot stress how critical
that is to saving her.
Okay.
I-I can do that.
[SIGHS]
[DARK, TENSE MUSIC BUILDING]
[MUSIC FADES]
Anyone know what this is about?
No, I just got a call from
Judith telling me to be here.
- No details.
- [FRUSTRATED SIGH]
Do you guys feel like
she's been doing that a lot?
Like, too much?
Right?
I'm happy to be here, but
- But we have lives, too.
- Thank you.
If we're gathering,
how about some notice,
so I don't have to scramble
for excuses to tell my parents.
Like, is that too much to ask?
I know what you mean.
My old man thinks I'm
at baseball practice.
But it's nighttime.
And it's not even baseball season.
He really wants to believe.
Yesterday, when Judith called us to meet
for a surprise in the
woods, it was my birthday.
I thought she was throwing me a party.
Nope, she just wanted me to dig a hole.
- [WHISPERS] Sorry.
- Guys
Does being in a cult suck?
[DOOR OPENS]
["DEVIL'S CHILD" BY
JUDAS PRIEST PLAYING]
- You guys ready to see some shit?
- [ALL] Yeah.
Yup.
Hypnotize me ♪
Mesmerize me ♪
Feel my willpower slip ♪
- Light my fire ♪
- Come on.
- With cold desire ♪
- Don't be shy.
Losing all my grip ♪
- Eat my diamonds ♪
- Eat my diamonds ♪
Drinking all my gin ♪
- Tonya!
- [MUFFLED] Help me!
She's fucking crazy!
Feast your eyes on ♪
- A whole lotta sin ♪
- [TONYA WHIMPERS, SHRIEKS]
Oh no, you're so damned wicked ♪
You guys ready to have some fun?
You got me by the throat ♪
- Oh no, got your claws stuck in me ♪
- [WHIMPERING FRANTICALLY]
You'll never let me go ♪
[SONG FADES INTO SOLEMN ORGAN MUSIC]
[JORDY] What the hell is this?
It's like they pod people.
Huh. Um, excuse me, miss.
Don't touch me!
I'm sorry. Can you just tell
me what's happening in there?
Tracy Whitehead is shutting the
door that your group opened up.
Ma'am, are you feeling all right?
Look, it's not safe for you to be here.
But uh
[SCOFFS] I don't get
it. I don't get this.
I don't get the reports
we just saw at the station.
People really think there's
like an evil in this town.
How is any of this possible?
What?
Thank you for joining us tonight.
For too long, the people of this town
have been living under a cloud of fear.
And battling the threat of
evil that comes from within.
There is a reason why I have gathered
you all here.
At our church.
To end our town's
battle against evil.
That reason
is the only way out of this.
[SIGHS]
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
[INHALES]
The only way out is through faith.
Because faith and fear
are opposite sides of the same coin.
Both demand you to believe
in something you cannot see.
It is time we point our
belief in the right direction.
[CROWD MURMURS IN AGREEMENT]
[APPLAUSE]
Tonight, we send a message
to the evil and fear
that has plagued us.
You are not welcome here.
- [MURMURS, APPLAUSE]
- [WOMAN] Yes!
Tonight, we choose faith.
We will shine the light of God
and it will save us.
Tonight, we perform an exorcism
[SHOCKED GASPS]
on Linda Campbell.
[CROWD GASPS, MURMURING]
[CROWD MURMURING]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[OMINOUS MUSIC CONTINUES]
[PANTING]
[WHIMPERING]
This is insane! Let her go!
Fred? Back off.
You heard her.
Come on, man.
What is this?
You wanna tell 'em yourself?
[MUFFLED] I have duct
tape over my mouth!
Hm?
What was that?
[GASPS]
Fuck, Cliff! That hurt!
- Tell them why you're here.
- Please.
- I can explain.
- She's the one who ratted us out.
I didn't want anyone to get in trouble.
The Satanic Bible
says we should hate our enemies,
because if we love them,
then we are at their mercy.
Should we be at the mercy of a rat?
Or should she be at our mercy?
[GASPS]
No, no, no. This isn't funny.
- Oh, my God.
- Oh, Jesus.
"Someone hits your right
cheek, slap their left."
Tonya slapped us in the face.
She left a mark on us
that we're going to bear
for the rest of our lives.
I say it's about time
we return the favor.
So? Who wants to go first?
Please, you don't have to do this.
Any volunteers?
[TONYA WHIMPERING]
No?
Fine. Ingrid?
You're up.
Um, I don't I don't know, Judith.
[TONYA SNIFFLES]
Just one cut.
Wherever you want it.
That was pretty clear.
[TONYA SOBS, WHIMPERING]
[WHISPERS] Please.
[TONYA CONTINUES CRYING SOFTLY]
I'm sorry, Judith. I'm out.
Oh, my God! Thank you, thank you!
- Thank you.
- What?
So am I.
[BOTH] So am I.
So am I.
This has gone way too far!
[JUDITH LAUGHS]
Wow.
- [OMINOUS MUSIC]
- I was wrong about all of you.
But
I can count on you,
right?
You want people around here to
start taking you seriously
right?
Well
Yeah.
That's never going to happen.
Not until you give them
a good reason.
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[FRED] Cliff
Come on, man.
You don't need to do this, Cliff.
[MALLORY] We all like you.
[PHIL] Yeah, you're a cool guy.
You don't have to prove anything.
Don't listen to them.
[WHISPERS] They're phonies.
Not like you.
Show them
who you really are.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
I will.
[DARK, OMINOUS MUSIC]
I'm out too.
[INTENSE MUSIC BUILDING]
Fine! I'll do it myself then.
[CLIFF] Judith, stop!
- [SCREAMS]
- [WOMAN] Judith?
Why are your brothers still
Mommy.
You're home early.
[SHRIEKING] Help!
She's going to kill me!
Judith! What is wrong with you?
No, Mom, I can explain Ow!
Mom, stop it! You're embarrassing me!
- [JUDITH CRYING]
- [FOOTSTEPS RECEDE]
- [TONYA SOBS]
- [DOOR CLOSES]
I guess the cult's over then.
Can someone please cut me loose?
This tape is super uncomfortable.
[INTENSE, SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[KNOCKING AT DOOR]
[DANDRIDGE] Happy
Hollow Police Department.
[DRAMATIC, INTENSE MUSIC]
Faith?
[FOOTSTEPS THUDDING NEARBY]
- [FAITH WHIMPERING]
- [WHISPERS] Quiet.
- [LINDA PANTING]
- [CROWD MURMURING INDISTINCTLY]
[SHAKY BREATHS]
[GASPING]
[ECHOING] Hello? Can you hear me?
[BABY WAILING]
Dylan?
A successful exorcism
is done in three stages.
The first stage is connection.
[SOFT MURMURS]
[TRACY] For this to
work, I must make contact
with Linda.
Not the Devil who has taken over,
but the soul still fighting to survive.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC INTENSIFYING]
[BABY WAILING]
[CRIES OUT]
- [BABY CONTINUES WAILING]
- [WHIMPERS] I'm
Dylan, I'm here.
[LOUD CRYING]
[PANICKED BREATHING]
[TRACY] In the second stage,
I will loosen the
Devil's grasp on her mind,
body, and soul
by speaking the evil out of her
and calling it out by name.
This stage is called confession.
Only after she has
spoken her truth before
our entire congregation,
and the one and only God,
can we use his light to
cast that evil out of her.
This final stage is a cleansing.
Of Linda
Of our congregation.
Of our town.
It is the expulsion of evil of all of us
by the grace of God.
- [APPLAUSE]
- [MURMURS OF APPROVAL]
Before we begin, I must warn you,
what you will see
tonight may horrify you.
But it is the only way.
If you feel you do not
have the heart for it,
now is the time to leave.
[SOFT WHISPERS]
[EXHALES]
Good.
Then we may begin.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
By the power of God,
I demand you,
let me speak to Linda Campbell!
[GRUNTS]
[GRUNTS SOFTLY]
Linda Campbell,
mother of Dylan,
wife of Gene, I am speaking to you!
[MUFFLED] Not him!
Are you with me, Linda?
Yes!
Yes, I'm here!
Please, help me!
[DEEP VOICE] Fuck you.
- Oh!
- [PEOPLE GASPING]
[EXHALES]
[PANTING]
[GRUNTS]
- [LINDA GRUNTS]
- I give you the strength of the Lord
to speak through the Devil, Linda!
[INTENSE MUSIC]
[MUFFLED] Are you still in there?
Yes, please!
[WEAKLY] I'm here.
Help me.
[SHOCKED GASPS, APPLAUSE]
[LAUGHS]
- [CROWD CLAPPING]
- Mom
We gotta go right now.
What? No, I-I can't do that.
Trust us, you're not safe here.
It's time for stage two.
[OMINOUS MUSIC BUILDING]
Confession.
Now I will ask Linda
a series of questions.
And if the Devil begins
speaking through her again,
I will use this holy
water to loosen his grip.
Do you understand, Linda?
I have to stay. My mom needs
me. And Tracy's helping.
Your mom is in the hands of the
least trustworthy person in town.
You know, exorcisms only work
on people who are actually
possessed.
Linda, when was the first time
you sensed evil within
the walls of your home?
I don't know.
Yes, you do, Linda!
Say it!
- Get me out of here, you bitch!
- [CROWD MURMURS]
- [WATER SPLASHES]
- [TRACY GRUNTS]
See? How do you explain that?
Same as the Halifax Slasher,
the-the Mad Gasser, the
damn June Bug Epidemic.
What does that even mean?
People will believe anything
if they're scared enough.
Dylan, Ryan Hudson wasn't
killed by Satanists.
- It was a cover-up.
- What?
I'll ask you one more time: When
did you first feel this evil?
- Ah!
- That's enough.
- Gene Gene!
- That's my wife up there, Rex.
And that's our son in the ground.
[TRACY] Say it!
[PANTING]
When Ryan Hudson disappeared.
[PEOPLE GASPING]
Do you all remember the day the
ground shook beneath our feet?
[MURMURS OF AGREEMENT]
Make no mistake, though the ground
shook, that was no earthquake.
Do you wanna know what I believe it was?
- [MAN] Please! Tell us!
- [WOMAN] We must know.
I believe that was punishment from God,
punishment for an act so vile
it exposed our entire town to evil!
He died in the hands of criminals
hired by that asshole, who's
been framing us for weeks.
Murder!
The ceremonial killing of an innocent
in cold blood!
[SHOCKED MURMURS]
Wait, so if
Tracy can't help my
mom, then why am I here?
I believe you're
harboring a secret, Linda!
I believe you know
who committed that act.
That's why.
Tracy's trying to get a false
confession out of your mom.
If she confesses in
front of the angry mob,
the truth won't matter.
You believe us now?
- It is time to free yourself, Linda!
- [SCREAMS]
It is time to confess!
No! It wasn't him, it
wasn't Dylan. [ECHOING]
[DEMONIC VOICE] Are you sure?
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[TRACY] Until you
finally speak that evil,
it will continue its grasp on your soul!
And our entire town!
Until we've all become
the Devil's playthings!
Speak your evil! Confess!
- Admit it!
- Just say it!
[CROWD SHOUTING]
Find the strength
within yourself, Linda!
[MUFFLED] To lift the
burden of your family's sins.
For yourself and for your fellow man.
Speak your evil, Linda!
- Confess!
- What happened to you?
[DEMONIC VOICE] You did!
As soon as your miracle baby grew up
to be someone you didn't understand,
you left me to rot in the dark.
No. No.
You brought evil into this world!
No!
No! You are not my son!
This is not my fault!
[TRACY'S VOICE ECHOING] Confess!
Confess! Confess! Confess!
[ECHOING FADES]
It's not my fault. It's not my fault.
Confess that your Devil-worshiping son
killed Ryan Hudson!
- No!
- Confess!
That Dylan Campbell is the reason
that evil and fear
have taken over your body and soul!
- [CROWD CLAMORING]
- Not my fault!
Confess that the murderer
who let Satan into our town
is right here in our presence!
[CROWD QUIETENS]
[TRACY PANTING]
[HUSHED CHATTER]
[LINDA BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GASPS SOFTLY]
[DYLAN] Like, are we the band?
Or are we the band before the band?
'Cause I don't
I don't think I'd wanna
do this without you guys.
You won't have to.
Not anytime soon, bro.
So what do you guys think?
One more?
[RHYTHMIC DRUMBEAT]
Yeah, that's a bunch of bullshit.
You guys know the
story of Chicken Little?
A kingdom torn apart by one person
who said the sky was falling.
- She's right onstage.
- [CROWD GASPS]
That's actually not quite right, either.
At the heart of the
city there is a building ♪
That looks out over all there is ♪
It's more like Chicken
Little's friend killed someone,
and then used the whole "sky is
falling thing" to help him cover it up.
It's like they gathered up the city ♪
They sold it to the Devil, and now ♪
It's gone to Hell,
and they wonder how ♪
To turn it off ♪
Do not believe these Satanists!
We are not Satanists!
Light up the night ♪
- There is a city that this darkness can't hide ♪
- [PEOPLE GASPING]
There are the embers of
a fire that's gone out ♪
We're a band, and that's it.
And we had nothing to
do with Ryan's death.
- But you did!
- [CROWD GASPING]
No, no, no.
Can't you see what they're doing?
They're trying to stop me!
[DRAMATIC GUITAR RIFF]
Light up the night ♪
They want the Devil to win!
Do not let him!
Embers of the
fire that's gone out ♪
And I can still feel
the heat on my skin ♪
And this mess we're
in, well, you and I ♪
Maybe you and I ♪
We'll bring back the light ♪
[SIZZLING]
- Whoa! Shit, shit, shit!
- What the fuck?
- What happened?
- [OMINOUS MUSIC BUILDS]
Who do you trust, huh?
These Satanists?
Or the one person in this town
who can save you all from the darkness?
[SHUDDERING BREATH]
[CROWD MURMURING]
She's right. This is all their fault.
[CROWD MEMBERS] Yeah!
[WOMAN] She's right.
[MURMURS OF AGREEMENT]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- [OMINOUS MUSIC]
[WOMAN] We stand with you, Tracy!
[ANGRY CHATTER]
- [DARK, OMINOUS MUSIC]
- [CROWD CHATTER CONTINUES]
I-I don't I don't think this worked.
- [DANDRIDGE] Hello?
- [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[PANTING BREATHS]
Keep your mouth shut.
- You'll end up just like your boyfriend.
- [WHIMPERING]
[RATTLING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC CONTINUES]
What the hell kind of place is this?
- [PANTING BREATHS]
- [OMINOUS MUSIC BUILDS]
[SINISTER MUSIC]
Both of you guys need to leave now!
No, Dylan, we can't just leave you.
No, go! This is on me.
That boy is a murderer!
- Get him! Get him!
- [CROWD CLAMORING]
[MAN] Don't let them go!
[SHOCKED GASP]
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
Shit, shit, shit!
[SHOUTING AND SCREAMING]
No! Wait! Wait, wait!
We're not finished!
I cast you out, Devil!
[OVERLAPPING SHOUTS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[SHOUTING AND SCREAMING]
Dylan! Linda!
Mom!
[TRACY] I'm begging you, please!
From one mother to another.
[MUFFLED SCREECHING]
[CROWD SHOUTING]
Come on, people! Move, move!
Someone call the fire department!
This way, guys!
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
[GASPING]
[SOBBING] Confess!
- [GENE] Linda!
- [GASPS]
Get the hell away from her! Go!
[GASPING, SHOUTS]
[DYLAN] Mom?
Please come back to us, Mom.
Please? Mom, I love you so much.
Please.
Mom?
- Oh.
- [GENTLE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
Dylan.
It's you.
[CRYING] Mom
- [GENTLE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
- [SOFT MOANING]
Mom?
Linda?
Oh, thank God you're back.
Come on. Come on.
[PANTING BREATHS]
[DOORKNOB RATTLES]
[PANTING BREATHS]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Let's see if you're right, Jordy.
Shh.
[QUIETLY] Oh, my God
Shh.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[DANDRIDGE GRUNTS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[TELEPHONE RINGS]
Behind you!
[GRUNTS]
Ahh!
Holy shit.
[TELEPHONE CONTINUES RINGING]
Beaumont Hicks?
You're under arrest.
For the murder of Ryan Hudson.
[TELEPHONE CONTINUES RINGING]
[RINGING]
[TRACY] Reverend! I tried, I tried
[TEARFULLY] I'm begging you, please,
please, please, don't hurt her!
He can't hurt me anymore, Mom.
[TRACY] Faith!
And neither can you.
[SIGHS]
[DIAL TONE HUMS]
[SOMBER MUSIC]
[LINDA COUGHING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
What are all these people doing here?
They're, uh, here to see you, honey.
[MAN] Look. She's She's saved!
[MAN 2] It worked! The evil is gone!
- The Devil is no longer with us!
- Praise his holy name!
- We're saved!
- Amen!
[SHUDDERING]
[GENTLE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
Where's Tracy?
[COUGHING]
Forgive me, Father, for I
I have sinned.
[CHOKING COUGHS]
[SOBBING]
[CHOKING COUGHS]
[SOBBING, COUGHS]
[THUD]
[HEAVY METAL MUSIC]
[JORDY] Oh, fuck this.
You're not Jesus, Tracy.
You don't get to die
a martyr. [COUGHING]
- [HEAVY METAL MUSIC CONTINUES]
- [DYLAN COUGHS]
[GASPS SOFTLY]
[LOW, MALEVOLENT SNARLING]
[DYLAN COUGHING]
[PANTING HEAVILY]
Don't mention it.
[LAUGHS]
[GENTLE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
[TEARFULLY] I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry.
She saved us.
[WOMAN] She's a hero!
- You saved our town.
- Thank you, Tracy.
- Thank you, Tracy.
- [CLAPPING]
[EXCITED CHATTER]
Tracy Whitehead,
you're under arrest for
aiding and abetting a murder.
- You're coming with me.
- Uh, you can't do that.
Sir, I'm gonna need you to step back.
- You have the wrong person.
- She saved us.
Ma'am, Sir, you both need to step back.
It's okay.
I'll go.
Because I know,
with your support,
the truth will prevail.
And until that day,
I need you
to take the light that
I found in each of you,
and let it burn bright.
Because all it takes is
the flicker of a firefly
to lead a lost soul
out of the darkness.
And that's what you are.
In all of this cold,
and all of this dark
you are my fireflies.
- [MAN] Yes!
- [CROWD CLAPPING]
[CROWD MURMURING]
[CUFFS CLINK]
[MAN 1] Take 'em down, Tracy!
[WOMAN] You're a hero, Tracy.
[MAN 2] God bless you.
[INDISTINCT POLICE RADIO CHATTER]
Help me understand one more thing.
If your whole operation is
about bringing kids back to God,
why the hell do you have to
use such a creepy mask to do it?
Well, what's that look like to you?
I don't know. A bird, maybe?
A dove.
You know what the dove
signifies in the Bible, Chief?
It's what comes before the light.
Huh.
Feels like overkill to me.
It's all just part of the show.
So you're the anonymous tipper.
Why didn't you come forward?
- Couple of reasons.
- Shoot.
Well
At first, I didn't want to believe
that my mom would be capable of
doing something like this. You know?
And then
because I didn't want
to go to jail myself.
Why would you go to jail?
[SIGHS DEEPLY]
Because I killed a man.
His name was Gilbert.
And I did it to protect
my mom, but then
I lied about it to
protect myself. But
I can't just keep running
from what I've done.
I'm a murderer.
Faith, he's not dead.
You're not a murderer.
Come on, let's get you home.
[CAR DOOR CLOSES]
[GENTLE, MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]
[MUSIC FADES]
What?
Drop the attitude, Charlotte Manson.
I just got off the phone
with Tonya's parents.
You really lucked out.
They're not going to press charges.
As long as I agree to one request.
They want you to stay with your dad
for the rest of the school year.
I'm going to Los Angeles?
I don't wanna hear any arguing about it.
Because it is either that or
Okay, I'll do it.
And you'll be on your best behavior?
[INTRO TO LITA FORD'S
"KISS ME DEADLY" PLAYING]
I promise.
Kiss me once ♪
Kiss me twice ♪
Come on, pretty baby, kiss me deadly ♪
[SONG FADES INTO OMINOUS
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC]
I hope she gets 30 years.
And I'd hoped we'd open for Slayer,
but that ain't happening either.
A nice, young, single mother?
Church Lady getting no more than
20 hours of community service.
- [JORDY] For murder?
- [SPUD] Dylan, what d'you think?
- Dylan?
- Oh.
Sorry.
- Hey, Spud?
- Yo.
At the church, you said
something about some slasher?
Yeah, yeah, the Halifax Slasher.
Yeah. What was that about?
Well, uh, about 50
years ago, in England,
someone went up to the
police saying they got cut up
by this knife-wielding psycho.
So, the police put out a
bulletin to warn everyone.
Next thing you know, lots
and lots of other people
are getting cut up.
And they're all describing
it as the same person.
Town of Halifax tore itself inside out
looking for the slasher, and
some mobs nearly killed
a few of the suspects.
Jesus.
Well, did they ever catch the guy?
No, he he didn't exist.
That first attack, that really happened,
but it wasn't some serial slasher.
It was this one-off, isolated event.
[DYLAN SIGHS]
And everything after
the bulletin went up
was either all imagined or made up.
But like, the fear
the fear was real.
You get enough people
scared of the same thing
all at once, and it
changes their reality.
H-hey, guys.
I just wanted to tell you that, um
well
you two were right.
- [SCOFFS] We know.
- We know.
Oh.
Cool.
So
does this mean that the band
is getting back together again?
Dylan, just because people find out
we didn't have anything to do with Ryan
doesn't mean this won't follow us.
For the rest of our lives,
we are gonna be known as the band
that started a cult, killed someone,
and burned down a church.
So you're saying it's over?
I'm saying
that sounds like a pretty
great band mythology to me.
Something labels might be interested in.
I mean, I would see that band.
- [BASS GUITAR INTRO PLAYS]
- Spud?
I'd most definitely
go see that band.
[UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC]
Get up.
On the count of three?
Dethkrunch for life.
One, two, three.
[GROANS] I've never been
so tired in my entire life.
How are you still standing?
[GROANS] I'm not far behind you.
Hey, look at that.
Your arm.
It's back to normal.
It's been a while.
It has.
But we're through that now.
Let's go to bed.
- [LOW, MALEVOLENT SNARLING]
- [OMINOUS MUSIC CRESCENDOS]
I've got a simple explanation ♪
It's all the fault,
the fault of Satan ♪
Let's crucify him ♪
For all of our sins ♪
The Devil ♪
Didn't make me do it ♪
Beelzebub ♪
The Devil ♪
Didn't make me do it ♪
Why stay clean ♪
When the world loves ♪
A beautiful ♪
Junkie ♪