The Path (2016) s01e09 Episode Script

1 EDDIE: Previously on "The Path" I don't even know what's real anymore, and what is We'll just figure it out, because you're real to me.
You know, if there's anything I can do to help - Cal came and got me.
- You're here.
He said this is where I'm supposed to be.
They are trying to kill me, and they will kill you.
[panting.]
Come on, Alison.
Come back with me.
[grunts.]
Go! - I want you to take the walk.
- Steve's walk? If you don't do the walk, I will tell Sarah everything.
I'll tell her you don't believe.
HAWK: When did you know about you always hear the elders talking about the moment when they felt it, The Light.
Closest thing to it, when I met your mom.
- Stop.
- You know, she can just What's going on? - Lift all my doubts.
- And he's lying to you.
[church bells ring.]
CAL: We can never allow fear to limit the work of our spirits.
Your words [sighs.]
And you said to me often when I was growing up you said it again the day of your your diagnosis.
[church bell rings.]
"Don't let The Movement die.
You're the only one I can trust to keep it alive.
" I've tried to fulfill your wishes.
I'm trying to be your son.
[bell rings.]
I wrote the rungs.
I tried to channel you.
But if if you're unhappy with me, please tell me, 'cause there won't be another chance.
[church bell ringing.]
I'm sorry for everything [sniffles.]
I have done that is wrong and everything wrong [sighs.]
I do next.
[exhales deeply.]
But you weren't supposed to die.
["Hello Walls".]
Hello, Hello Hello Walls Hello, Hello How'd things go for you today Don't you miss her [exhales sharply.]
I don't know what you're thinking, but we're not having an affair.
Why did he call you 22 times in the last three months? It's not my place to say.
Your husband left a journal.
- What? - I took his file, and the journal was in it.
Where is it? They found it in the room that he was staying at in Peru.
Why wasn't it given to the police? I think you'll understand when you read it.
Aren't you lonely Since our darling disappeared Your husband was having doubts.
Doubts? About the Movement.
He realized it was bullshit and didn't know what to do.
At least he's alive, and he loves you, enough to walk that fucking walk, enough to drink the fucking juice.
So what? He doesn't believe there's a ladder in the sky.
Get over yourself.
Or else I'll lose my mind I've got a feeling She'll be gone A long, long time [door opens, closes.]
[sighs.]
What's Mom gonna make for dinner? I hope it's veggie chili.
Oh, and with cornbread? Oh.
Oh, my God.
- With butter? - Yes.
I am going to eat a stick of butter.
Look.
[dark music.]
Wow.
Hey.
It's gonna be okay.
What if she kicks me out? I will not let that happen.
All right? Come on.
Ah.
If she ends up not making veggie chili, can you make veggie chili? [laughs.]
What's going on? I need your help.
I started taking this when you were gone.
Luckily it hasn't been very long, so withdrawal should only take a couple of days and I've gotten off worse stuff.
- Where did you get this? - I can't tell you.
- Mary.
- Are you gonna help me or not? Let's just go to the nurse.
We'll do this the right way.
It has to be this way.
[sighs.]
[toilet flushes.]
- Hey, they're back.
- I see them.
[approving chatter outside.]
[excited chatter.]
- Hey.
- Check it out, Hawk, man.
What's up? Tell us everything.
[laughs.]
Look at this guy, with a beard.
[laughs.]
I do not have a beard.
Oh, I see it.
It's right there.
Oh, Grandpa is gonna kick himself.
He's doing outreach in Vermont.
Good to see you, my friend.
[chatter continues.]
I don't have a beard.
[sighs.]
Mm.
I know about Alison.
[dark music.]
[sighs.]
[exhales sharply.]
So how did you find out? I found your phone.
[inhales sharply.]
Then you spoke with Alison? So what happens now? Now? I don't know, Eddie.
I mean, now that you've been lying to me for months, now that I called Miranda Frank a fucking whore, now that I thought that I was going crazy because I knew because I knew something was wrong.
But I trusted you.
I know.
Look, I know.
I just I didn't know what to do.
How about tell me the fucking truth? Yeah, but then you would put me in a cell to be reprogrammed.
Maybe that would have helped.
No, it wouldn't have.
Well, things are pretty fucked up now.
Yeah, maybe, but at least you're here talking to me, your husband, and not some pod person.
Oh, I'm a pod person? Is that what you're saying? No, I'm not saying that.
I'm saying I would have been if you sent me in a room to be brainwashed.
What are you talking about? Don't touch me.
I don't even know who you are.
Hey.
Hey.
I am the same person.
Okay? I love you.
I love our family.
I believe in the work that we do.
Okay? But the rest is just fucking fairy tales.
You're talking about everything everything in my soul.
Oh, Jesus, Sarah.
Who gives a shit? I mean, how many people eat a fucking cracker and really believe that it's the body of Christ? I don't give a shit what other people do.
I am not other people, and we are not other people.
All right.
I realized on the walk we are what matters.
We're all that matters.
We're a part of something that matters, and we matter because we are a part of it.
You don't actually believe that.
You don't know me.
[sighs.]
[siren wailing in the distance.]
ABE: I am very sorry about my outburst last week.
I'm gonna be completely calm and ask you, please, don't take me off this case.
MCCLUSKY: It has nothing to do with me.
I can't make that call and you know it.
ABE: You and I both know that the IRS is gonna sit on this for years.
These people killed a doctor.
- It was a suicide.
- I don't think so.
They take innocent people broken people they lure them in and they don't let them leave.
[sighs.]
When's your daughter's surgery? It's, uh, next week.
Take a couple of weeks off.
Spend time with your family.
[thumps table.]
You know what? This movement is gonna get more powerful.
They have a new leader, and he's very charismatic, very ambitious.
You let this sit for months Rindge, Hondurans that'll be small potatoes.
The other choice is you're suspended.
I'll see you in two weeks, Abe.
[crashes.]
Hey.
[ominous music.]
You wanted to see me? Uh, yeah.
First I want to apologize.
For letting me believe my husband fucked Miranda Frank? Yes.
Why didn't you tell me what you knew? [sighs.]
- I don't know exactly - I do.
Made you feel powerful knowing everything while I walked around like a deer in headlights.
No.
No, that's not true, Sarah.
I-I didn't know everything at first, and I was torn.
You know, I wanted to wait until I did, and it killed me not to tell you.
You know I Is there something else? Yeah.
Steve finished the rungs.
- That means - That means he's leaving us.
- When? - Soon.
Well, is he gonna come here? Is he gonna say good-bye? I don't know.
I I'm gonna tell everyone Steve's plan at Friday's meeting of the Upper Rungs.
Uh, there's something else.
Um he wants you to help shape the next phase of The Movement with me.
He wants us to be Guardians of The Light together.
[door closes.]
[stirring music.]
I missed you.
I missed you too.
Let's go somewhere.
Okay.
What's wrong? Nothing.
Tell me.
Um We're living in my mom's car.
I mean, Zak isn't he's staying at a friend's house but me and my mom I can help.
I can How? I can drop out of school, get a job.
- I mean, I can always go back.
- That's crazy.
You can't do that for me.
I mean, what about your parents? I'm leaving The Movement.
I decided while I was on the walk.
No, this is your entire life.
Not anymore.
You're my life now.
[exhales sharply.]
I want to give a warm welcome back to Eddie Lane, who completed the walk yesterday after ten days on the road.
[applause.]
Um You know, um, the first thing I found on the walk is that you do not do the walk in the middle of winter.
[laughter.]
Um You know, everyone says that they have these big moments on the walk.
They, uh, they see truth.
Um Truth is, um, I didn't.
You know, I saw a lot of a lot of highway, broken bottles, broken people, um, kind people, fast food wrappers, and, uh, and road kill.
You know, the whole time, I was thinking, "How fast can I get home?" So I guess that's what I I found.
No matter where I am, I just want to be just want to be home with my my wife and my kids.
They are my Truth.
Um That's all I got.
Thanks.
[applause.]
[tense music.]
[exhales deeply.]
[grunts.]
[groans.]
Hey.
Oh, shit.
I'm sorry.
Here.
[sighs.]
- Ow, shit! - Hey, hey.
- I'm sorry.
- Just Come here.
Let me see it.
It's fine.
Come here.
[both breathing passionately.]
[both moaning.]
[moaning.]
You okay? It's hard to eat.
Stomach's not so great.
[tense music.]
What is up with her? You know what? I'm gonna say something.
Please don't.
Hey, what's your problem? Why don't you ask your girlfriend? It's nothing.
Please, forget it.
No, look, I'm tired of all these dirty looks.
- What did she ever do to you? - Why don't you ask her? - What is she talking about? - Nothing.
I didn't do anything.
Just forget it.
Come on.
She fucked me.
That's what she did.
- What? - Sean, please Is she using you for drugs too? - Is that true? - That's all she wants, and we're the idiots who think we're saving her.
She's a junkie and a liar, and [all gasping.]
Hey, no, Mary! No, Mary! Hey.
Hey.
What is going on here? That is not cool.
No way.
- [door opens.]
- [sighs.]
[bar music playing.]
My man.
[phone ringing.]
[sighs.]
Yeah? Hey, Sam, it's, uh, Eddie Lane.
Yeah, what? Um hey, I noticed that you haven't been to gathering in the past few weeks and I just wanted to check in, see if everything was okay.
No.
Everything's not okay.
What's going on? You know, well, my daughter's about to check into St.
Michael's and get her chest cut open.
That's one thing, and I might have lost my job.
Oh.
Um, I am so sorry, Sam.
Yeah, I bet you are.
And I'm the perfect recruit right now, right? On my last leg? That's how you guys like 'em.
You know, we we really do help a lot of people.
Man, you know why I didn't go to gathering? Because it's bullshit.
You people are bullshit.
Your Light is not going to help my kid get better, so please just stop fucking calling me, okay? Okay.
- Okay? - Yeah.
Okay.
I, uh, I won't call you again.
But listen, I truly believe that your kid is going to be fine, but you need to believe that too, all right? Forget The Light.
Okay? Fuck The Light.
Just do not give up on your kid, all right? Sam.
[all talking at once.]
[intense music.]
So you, uh I was lonely.
I really liked her, and I thought she really liked me.
I'm sure.
Steve understood the challenges of bringing together a community of people with deep wounds.
That's why we have to forgive.
That's the only way to heal.
Why don't you take a week in rehab, Betsy? It'll do you good.
I'll talk to Richard.
[sighs.]
I know how hard this must be for you.
I know you came to us full of heartbreak.
But perhaps this is what The Light is giving in return.
Steve believes that committing to another human being's wounds, past, present, and future, is a great challenge but also the most rewarding experience one can have in this life.
That's why marriage is a cornerstone of The Movement.
If you forgive me, I want that that challenge.
With you.
I kept thinking when I was walking, we know nothing.
Nothing of suffering.
You know, we may walk 250 miles with no money and, yeah, our feet hurt and we see poverty and pain, but nothing compared to how people in other countries live.
We're in our own backyard.
I mean, for us, it'll end.
We will finish the walk and end up in our comfy beds.
What about you, Hawk? - Um - [clears throat.]
I-I don't know.
You don't know? What did you miss? Probably my comfy bed.
Uncle Cal kept it warm for you.
What? He was sick body sick, so he slept in Hawk's bed.
- Really? - Yes.
- What was he sick with? - Uh, guys And he's not your uncle.
Eddie.
I just want to make that clear.
He is not your family.
This is your family.
- Stop it.
- I'm leaving.
[solemn music.]
[exhales.]
While I was on the walk, I decided, and I gave this a lot of thought, and I'm not gonna take my vows when I'm 16.
I'm gonna stay in high school.
Well, then you won't talk to me or your sister or anyone in your family again.
- Mom.
- Sarah.
But Dad said I could.
He said it would be okay.
Well, Dad lied.
Eat.
There are people suffering tonight.
[ominous music.]
[ice creaking.]
[ice cracking.]
[cracking intensifies.]
[somber music.]
What are you doing? I'm leaving.
Where are you gonna sleep? I was just homeless.
I can keep doing it.
You are not gonna be homeless.
- Let him go.
- What? - Let him go.
- Sarah.
Hawk.
Hawk! [door closes.]
This is crazy.
He's a 15-year-old kid.
Where is Hawk going? He's fine, honey, I promise you.
Sarah.
You were supposed to talk sense into him.
Why do you think I let him go on the walk? But you couldn't do that, could you? 'Cause you were too busy deciding whether or not you wanted to stay yourself.
Come on, honey, I don't want to be late.
[door opens.]
[door closes.]
[engine idles.]
[engine shuts off.]
[train passing.]
So, that is what is going on.
Oh.
Sarah didn't tell you any of this? What do you want, Eddie? Look, I just I want I want some help.
Okay, I need you to talk some sense into her.
Oh.
I mean, you lost a kid.
You know what this is like.
You need to get into a program.
I can take you there right now.
Gaby, call Richard.
Tell him I'll bring Eddie in.
No, hey, hey.
I'm not doing a program.
Program won't work for him.
- It has to.
- He's gone.
I am not gone.
I'm right here.
We have to try.
He's our son-in-law.
Not anymore.
There's got to be some fucking room for doubt.
That's what's caused the world to be in such shit shape.
You'll lose everyone.
People who lack conviction.
Cowards.
[sighs.]
[intense music.]
[dance music playing.]
[door closes.]
["The Buzz" by Hermitude.]
[clears throat.]
- Can I take your coat for you? - Thank you.
Something in the air just above me Something like a dream state You call it a clean break Can I get you a drink? Amelia.
Gibson.
- Cal Roberts.
- Well? I-I don't drink.
What do you do, Cal Roberts? Cal.
I'm glad you called.
John.
Um Uh Good to meet you, Amelia.
Next time.
[laughs.]
I love this place.
Do you feel it in the air So, I called you a dozen times.
What made you finally decide to forgive me for having the shit beat out of you? Um, how's Freddie? Totally new kid.
Back in school.
Art school, but you can't have everything.
Want a drink? No, just water.
Just something in the air John, I'd like you to help me with something.
I see.
The answer to my question.
You're forgiving because you found a way for me to make it up to you.
That's right.
I want to do for hundreds of people no, thousands of people what we did for your son.
We've got the manpower, we've got dozens of young people that want to get out there, get on the ground, make a difference.
- How much you looking for? - No, I'm not here to ask for money.
I've got money.
I've got money pouring in.
People believe in us, they want to contribute, but we're still in the Dark Ages.
We might as well have our money under a mattress.
We need stability.
You want me to handle your investments.
I want expansion.
I want real estate, and all over the world, and offshore accounts, tax shelters.
I see.
We can set up a meeting, talk with some of your higher-ranking members.
Well, I don't see why we need to involve anyone else.
Our leadership structure is evolving.
I'll be taking the more active role.
All right.
Let's see what we're looking at here.
Feel it in the air Air air Is it just me Can you feel the buzz Silas, it's Sarah.
Are you there? I've been calling you for days.
I imagine you're on one of your journeys.
I hope you come back soon.
I [vehicle approaching.]
[tense music.]
[vehicle departs.]
[exhales sharply.]
I need your counsel.
Sarah.
What are you doing out here? It's freezing.
Come on.
Why are you wearing a tie? [laughs.]
Oh, no, no, no.
Shh.
[sobs.]
Hawk.
He's leaving us.
That's unacceptable.
[kettle whistling.]
Help me.
Help me.
Please, help me.
[kettle whistling intensifies.]
[kettle whistling.]
Hey, Ashley.
I'm a friend of Hawk's family.
Yeah, I remember you from, like, the church or whatever you call it.
Can I talk to you about something? Uh, yeah, I guess.
Well, actually, there's something I'd like to show you, and then I'll drop you wherever you want to go afterwards.
Come on.
[dog barking in the distance.]
What are we doing here? I left the heat on.
Warm it up for you.
Whose house is this? Yours.
It belongs to a member.
They're working in San Diego for the next 18 months, so it's empty.
Your mother won't know it's ours.
I could see you at that desk, studying, college applications.
Where do you want to go? Uh, NYU.
Oh, yeah, I'll bet you'll get in.
Scholarship.
[chuckles.]
You just need a room of your own, right? Everyone does.
Why are you doing this? Um, I need to ask you a favor.
I need you ask you to really put some thought into what's going on with you and Hawk.
I knew it.
Because he he loves you, enough to give up everything.
He wants to leave.
Because he met you.
Come on.
[dark music.]
That's why I really I really want you to understand what leaving will mean for him.
Hawk he grew up a Meyerist, and if he leaves, he will lose his faith.
And there's, uh there's something worse.
Um And this you'll understand all too well.
If Hawk walks away, he doesn't just lose his faith, he loses his family.
His mother.
His father.
His sister.
His grandparents.
His cousins.
Now, you know what it is to lose a parent, Ashley.
It is boundless fucking grief.
Imagine losing your whole family.
And, yes, Hawk may come to this decision anyway, someday, but Is he ready to come to it now? Steve has finished writing the last three rungs [excited gasping.]
And you have my word, they are revolutionary.
Now, the Movement is about to undergo tremendous change, and this is the place where it'll happen.
[knocking at door.]
[door opens.]
- Babe.
- Yeah? Hello.
Hey, Fredericks.
So, hey.
What brings you to this ends of the earth, huh? That coroner report from Peru, Jason Kemp.
- I'm off the case.
- Yeah, I know.
You want some coffee? Or a beer? No, my lady's in the car.
Date night.
- Mm.
- [chuckles.]
It's that good, huh? I don't know about "good.
" "Weird.
" It's weird.
You tell me how a guy burns his hands like this falling off a mountain.
Anyway, I thought you'd want to see it.
- My man.
- My man.
[sighs.]
[door closes.]
[dark music.]
[door opens, closes.]
Hawk's back.
- Hey.
- Ah.
Hey.
What's going on, kid? Hey, hey.
Talk to me.
Could you just give us a second, Summer? Hey.
Ashley broke up with me.
Come here.
Come here, come here.
[sobs.]
I'm sorry.
[sniffles.]
Hey.
It's like one moment, I'm the most important thing in the world, and the next time too much responsibility.
What's too much responsibility? Me.
Giving up my life for her.
Look, she's just going through a lot with her family right now, all right? Yeah.
And she kept going on and on about how I was special because Meyerism is special.
She doesn't even like Meyerism.
It made no sense.
She - What? - She said Meyerism was the part of me that mattered and that she didn't want to take that away.
Watch your sister.
[engine turns over.]
CAL: We will present it all at our next gathering.
Then then we will celebrate, because Steve will be here.
Steve is Steve's coming? Eddie, thank you for coming.
What did you do to get Ashley to break up with Hawk? - You had him do it? - Eddie Fuck you, Cal.
[chattering.]
You broke your son's heart.
It was for the best.
It was for the best? What, so he can end up like you? All of you? Just a prisoner.
A bunch of fucking prisoners.
Okay, Eddie, let's go.
[grunts.]
[all gasping.]
Come on.
You're okay.
Come on.
Cal, are you all right? ["Quiet Lies" by Matthew Mayfield.]
You somehow see Inside me When I lay down Evening.
You steal my dreams Can I help you? Easily Yeah.
When you're around Quiet lies Whisper Whispered all the time No more silent treatment I am screaming in your ear I'm starving Stop at nothing Till I am inside you for good For good Lines blurred with time And that gray Became a light You see nothing clearly So headstrong Deny the feeling Quiet lies Whisper Whisper all the time