The Stand (2020) s01e09 Episode Script

1
Court is fucking in session!
[cheering, whooping]
Is that all he has over you is fear?
Lloyd, fucking shoot that man.
That he's nothing without your fear!
- [gasping, groaning]
- [shouting]
It doesn't feel right.
Something's not right!
[gasps]
[grunts]
No!
[crowd chanting]
Make them pay! Make them pay!
Make them pay!
[Flagg]
Let's get this party started.
[Lloyd] Any last words?
- I will fear no evil!
- Shut up!
I brought you the fire.
[people screaming, exclaiming]
[screams]
[grunts]
[grunting]
[rumbling]
[gasps]
[Joe] He's gone.
[Frannie] Who is?
The dark man.
Can you see him? Can you see
Can you see Stu, Joe?
Joe, tell me, can you see Stu? Can
Oh, shit.
[Frannie] I wish I could tell you
every story has a happy ending.
Truth is, most stories don't end at all.
Not really.
Feels like every day
we're making progress.
But the question is,
where are we headed,
and how much farther do we
have to go before we get there?
How long before we go from rebuilding
back to just living again?
And how long after that before this place
goes back to being just like before?
Sometimes it feels like Captain Trips
was like flipping a breaker switch.
Everything's new,
a chance to do it all different.
But every day I wonder,
"Will we?
Will we do anything different this time?
Can we, even? Are we capable?"
Which brings me to you.
[baby crying]
When you got here, you were perfect.
Seven pounds, six ounces of everything
I never knew I always wanted.
Everyone broke out the liquor.
Just about all the booze
we'd been hoarding,
raised in a toast to you,
to the future you promised.
It was a hell of a party.
And then
[baby coughing]
Dr. Wen and I tried telling each other
it was probably just croup or something.
Even regular flu.
Anything but that.
But then,
your neck started to swell.
As soon as it was clear you had Trips,
we all asked ourselves the question.
7.3 billion people caught Captain Trips.
7.3 billion people died.
Not one person recovered.
There was no hope.
How could we let you suffer?
I hate that the notion
ever crossed my mind,
but it feels important
to tell you that it did.
[baby coughing]
But there was no way.
I just couldn't.
I know Glen would say it was selfish
to let you keep suffering
to spare my conscience.
Maybe he'd be right.
I don't know.
No one had ever heard of someone improving
once they caught Trips.
Everyone we'd seen or heard about
just got worse and worse until they died.
Even when I knew we had you back,
I couldn't shake the image.
There you were, surrounded
by all those empty cribs.
Of course, they won't stay empty.
Jen and Tyler Curtis' baby
was just ten weeks behind you.
He came early.
But he never got Trips.
First baby born to two immune parents.
So far, so good.
Maybe there's hope for us yet.
God, I wish you could meet Stu.
People keep trying to get me
to send scouts to Vegas,
see if they can find out
what happened to our people,
to Flagg, what made
those lights in the sky.
I keep saying, "No, it's too dangerous,
we can't spare the manpower."
Is it possible
I just don't want to know the answer?
I mean, how long do I wait before I accept
that he must be dead?
And how long
until I stop dreaming about him?
Hey, look. Hi!
Oh, hey. Perfect timing.
I hate going down these stairs alone.
You guys carry on, okay?
I'll-I'll catch up.
We're, uh, just on our way
to help set up for tonight.
Oh, yeah. [sighs] Yeah, I don't feel much
like being around people right now.
Yeah.
Well, I-I hope you're planning
on coming down.
You know, it's important that people
see you out there, you know?
Both of you.
Yeah.
You're the only connection
that the rest of us still have to her.
Till the others get back.
Right.
Till they come back.
[chattering]
- [baby crying]
- [shushes]
- [Kojak barking]
- [sighs]
[gasps]
Hey, I
[chattering]
Are you real?
[Stu chuckles]
Ask me again in a little while.
Tom saved my life, Frannie.
[baby crying]
Meet Abagail.
Abagail.
Hey, Abby. Meet your daddy.
Hey, there, girl.
Hey, Abagail.
- [birds chirping]
- [rock playing in distance]
[people whooping in distance]
Shoo fly, dragon fly
Get back to your mother ♪
Pick up a flat rock
Skip it across Green River ♪
Well ♪
- [chattering]
- [laughing]
Well ♪
All right, yeah.
- [laughs]
- Oh!
[applause, cheering]
Let's slow it down, people.
Oh.
["I Fall to Pieces" playing]
I love this song.
I fall ♪
To pieces ♪
Each time I see you ♪
Again ♪
I'll be back.
I fall ♪
To pieces ♪
How can I be ♪
- Something wrong, honey?
- No.
Nothing. [chuckles] I don't know.
I'll bet you do.
I think you'll think I'm crazy.
Well, I don't know about that.
Why don't you try me?
I want to go back to Maine, see the ocean.
I mean, Boulder's wonderful,
a-and it's safe.
Well, no.
Safer than out there. I know that.
I mean, there's civilization
and our friends are here,
but it just feels like it's so
I don't in the middle of things.
You know, back in February,
I knew everyone by their first name.
Then all the snow went,
and we've got 500 more.
At least 500.
Three in jail.
Only drunk and disorderly
and vandalism right now,
but sooner or later
it's gonna be something worse.
- Stealing and
- Murder.
I mean, I don't wanna think that way,
but yeah.
Mother would have called it the old Adam.
It always comes out.
Are you saying what I think you are?
Will you risk the baby?
Everything's a risk.
Even now with Flagg gone.
We don't have to stay. We could come back.
Yeah. We could do that.
Come back and just if only
to see how folks are making out.
Will you think about it?
Yeah, I'll think about it.
In the meantime,
may I have this dance?
You walk by ♪
And I fall to pieces ♪
[chattering]
[panting]
So, when do you want to go?
Hmm?
Do you really mean it?
Mmm, brought all those, didn't I?
[firecrackers popping in distance]
Yeah, it's getting
a little loud here, isn't it?
I mean, it ain't New York City yet, but
When do you want to take off?
- Soon.
- Yeah?
As soon as possible.
Close the circle.
That's right, East Texas.
Close the circle.
[Abby crying]
- [grunts]
- [moans]
- I got it.
- Uh-uh-uh.
My turn.
Definitely my turn.
[door opens, closes]
[sighs]
- [chattering]
- [laughing]
[fussing]
You come back, now, Stu.
[chuckles]
You come back, Frannie.
Oh.
M-O-O-N.
[crying]
- And that that spells
- We'll come back.
- [Tom] Promise?
- [Frannie] Promise.
Hey, Joe. Come here, buddy.
Need you take care
of Lucy-mom for me, all right?
- Yeah.
- Take care of all your moms.
I will.
Be a good boy. Give me a hug.
All right, you're the man now.
Okay.
- See you, Joe-man.
- Bye.
- You be good.
- Okay.
- Steve.
- [sighs]
- Laws, yes. Laws, yes.
- Bye, Frannie.
Okay, now, remember, secondary
roads, or even tertiary.
Unless you want to be
winching cars out of your way
- every 15 minutes.
- Hey, I grew up backroading.
Frannie's got about a thousand road maps
and this baby's a tank.
She is. We'll be just fine.
- We'll be all right.
- [Frannie] Yeah. She is a tank.
[Stu grunts, chuckles]
- Tom.
- [laughing]
- [Tom] I'll miss you.
- All right.
I'll miss you too, pal.
- Love you, buddy.
- I love you.
Be good.
It's the craziest thing I've ever heard.
- You guys could die.
- [Frannie] Hey, man,
all of us still here, still alive,
after the super flu and after Flagg
I mean, that's the real long shot.
It's a piece of cake.
[laughs]
Love you guys.
- We love you.
- [Joe] Love you.
- [engine starts]
- Love you.
- [Stu] All right, we're off.
- [whooping]
See you guys!
- Bye!
- Bye!
- [Joe] Don't have too much fun without us.
- Love you!
- Bye, you guys.
- Bye!
Weightlessness, no gravity ♪
Were we somewhere in-between ♪
All right, take it up!
I'm a ghost of you
You're a ghost of me ♪
A bird's-eye view ♪
[Frannie] Say when.
Yep, there you go.
- [Frannie] Is it working?
- Yep.
All right. Pull.
All right, little more, little more.
All right, hold.
What do we got tonight?
We got [sighs]dealer's choice.
Oh, highway boys ♪
Are all sleeping in ♪
Thanks, honey.
With their dirty mouths ♪
And broken strings ♪
I'm a ghost of you
You're a ghost of me ♪
A bird's-eye view of San Luis ♪
I'm a ghost of you
You're a ghost of me ♪
A bird's-eye view of San Luis ♪
[Frannie] What do you say we,
um, stop there for the night?
- Someone needs a change.
- [Stu] Yep. Sounds like a plan.
[Stu] Made 400 miles today. Believe that?
- [Frannie] My back believes it.
- [Stu] Keep on like this,
we'll be looking at that Atlantic Ocean
by the end of the week.
Sitting on your folks' porch
and sipping lemonade.
I think I can settle for this tonight.
Would you mind if the kiddo
and I stayed out here
- while you
- You got it.
- I know the drill.
- Good man.
- [Abby crying]
- All right, little one.
Time to get you out.
- [Stu] Come on, boy.
- [barking]
- [crying]
- Hi. [shushes]
[panting]
[whimpers]
Place is clean.
Bunch of canned goods in the pantry,
but they're all swole up. It's no good.
There was a supermarket
that we passed in the last town.
- Didn't look looted.
- Yeah, that's ten miles back though.
We got plenty of supplies, don't we?
Yeah, we got to conserve 'em.
Add to them, if we can.
And there was a drugstore.
We can get some Numzit
for this little one.
Yeah, but she's sleeping now, isn't she?
- Hmm. That won't last.
- [chuckles]
[panting]
- You hear that?
- What's that?
It's quiet.
[Stu] Yeah.
Look at that moon.
[imitates Jimmy Stewart]
You want that moon, Frannie?
Well, uh, I'll throw a lasso
around that moon for you.
[normal voice] What's that from?
Buffalo girls
Won't you come out tonight? ♪
[chuckles]
[wind whistling]
I will fear no evil.
I'm gonna take her inside.
- It's getting a little cold.
- Yeah.
Kojak, let's go!
Hey.
[whines]
- [whistles]
- [barks]
[panting, barking]
[Kojak whimpering]
[creatures chittering]
Oh, Jesus ♪
Won't you come by here? ♪
Oh, Jesus ♪
Won't you come by here? ♪
Now is the needed time ♪
Oh, now ♪
Is the needed time ♪
Now is the needed time ♪
[Abby crying in distance]
Baby teething.
You sure you two don't
want to keep me company?
I don't want to wake her.
That tooth kept her up half the night.
[Stu] Oh, right.
- So, more baby Tylenol?
- [Frannie] Yeah, or Motrin.
- Motrin.
- Can you get some water too?
There's nothing here that works.
Yes, ma'am.
Here.
I'm gonna need you to keep an eye out.
All right?
[imitates gunshot]
[laughs] Frannie Oakley.
[exhales sharply]
[Stu chuckles]
- Be careful.
- Yep.
[engine starts]
[whistling "Buffalo Gals"]
Buffalo girls
Won't you come out tonight ♪
Won't you come out tonight ♪
Ow.
[gasps] Oh.
Watch the new teeth, little hero.
Buffalo gals
Won't you come out tonight ♪
And we'll dance
By the light of the moon ♪
- All right.
- [basket thuds]
The mother lode.
[humming "Buffalo Gals"]
[humming stops]
Think that old pump still works?
Wanna find out?
'Cause your kisses lift me higher ♪
Like the sweet song of a choir ♪
And you light my morning sky ♪
With burning love ♪
- Oh.
- [tire blows out]
Shit. [groans]
[sighs]
Terrific.
[creaking]
[whines]
[chuckles]
I'll be careful. Don't worry.
[whines]
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love ♪
A hunk, a hunk of burning love ♪
Hey, Fran,
Ran into a little trouble over here.
Nothing serious, just a flat tire.
You hear me?
Oh, Frannie?
Frannie, you there? Come back.
Can you hear me? Fran?
I told you to keep the walkie next to you.
Goddamn it.
All right. All right.
Here we go. [grunts]
[grunting]
It's good. And cold.
Okay.
[mutters]
Hello, Fran.
- Hello, bitch.
- [gasps]
[grunts, cries]
[screaming]
[Kojak barking]
[Abby cooing]
- [grunts]
- [clattering]
Hold, baby.
Hold.
[panting]
[Flagg] Frannie.
Thought you might drop by.
You're dead.
Yet here I am.
I'm dreaming this.
- Well, maybe you're dead.
- [Frannie chuckles]
An afterlife with you in it?
I don't think so.
[Flagg laughs]
Ah.
Well, let's table the issue for now,
shall we?
I want to show you something.
One of the last tribes on Earth
never polluted by contact with modern man.
[chattering]
Once upon a time,
entire tribes like this
were wiped out by missionaries
who gave them blankets with smallpox.
[speaking native language]
These fine folks
they weren't even touched by the superflu.
It's ironic, don't you think?
Anyway, to business.
You're not dead, honeybunch.
But you will be soon.
I don't know if your skull is fractured,
or if it's only a concussion.
I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV.
I do know that you suffered
multiple fractures on your right leg.
Your knee is blown out,
your hip shattered.
Three broken ribs.
And do you see that blood
coming out of your mouth?
One of those ribs
has punctured your lung. Nasty.
I don't believe you. You lie.
Yes. One of my many talents.
I'm not lying about this, and you know it.
[Abby crying]
Baby Abagail's getting hungry.
So helpless. So fragile.
Now, will your redneck knight
make it back in time to save her?
Let's see.
[truck creaking]
That truck looks mighty unsteady,
don't you think?
I don't believe that either.
[both gasp]
But I'm in a forgiving mood.
A healing mood.
Stu might change that tire
without getting squashed.
And you might have suffered nothing worse
than a little bump on the noggin.
Would you like that?
Free?
Well, of course it's free.
What kind of a Philistine
do you take me for?
[Flagg scoffs]
There's just one little thing.
I would like a kiss.
[laughs]
Huh?
And I might want to take a little peek
through your eyes from time to time,
just to see how things are going.
You want to possess me?
Is that it?
Like you did Harold and Nadine?
That is what my old friend
Dr. Freud would call
"an hysterical exaggeration."
No, no, no, no.
Do you really want to die in that well?
Wouldn't you rather live
with your handsome hubby
and raise your bouncing baby girl?
Of course I want that.
Then kiss me.
Not if you were God Himself.
I don't believe any of this.
This is all a lie.
[Flagg] Perhaps it is.
But you know that your little baby
is out on that porch.
[Abby crying]
And she is all alone.
She is crying.
She's hungry.
She wants her mama, but her mama is dying!
One kiss
and you will live to see her grow up
to be a strong and kind woman.
[whispers] We'll discuss the rest later.
[Flagg grunting]
[Frannie] Not for my husband!
Not for my baby! Not for the world itself!
Get thee behind me, you fucking bastard!
[low, deep growl]
[gasps]
[grunts]
- [panting]
- [wind whistling]
Jesus, won't you come by here ♪
Jesus, won't you come by here ♪
Jesus, won't you come by here ♪
[guitar playing]
For now is the needed time ♪
Now is the needed time ♪
Now is the needed time ♪
Frannie?
- Mother?
- Frannie Goldsmith,
what are you doing here?
I'm not here.
I'm not here. I'm in a well.
And I think I'm dying,
- and my baby
- Frannie.
He simply showed you what he thought
would scare you into doing his will.
He's his father's son,
and he tempted you.
But you resisted that temptation,
and God will bless you.
Come on. Come here.
Come on here, girl. Come here.
[Mother Abagail sighs]
[crying] I can die.
I can die, but not my baby.
No, Frannie, not your baby.
Frannie, baby, come on, pick up.
Aw, damn it.
[tires screeching]
What you doing out here in the road, boy?
Come on
- [barks]
- [Mother Abagail] You know,
all seems well
and then here comes God and says, "No,
there's more to do,
more pain to bear."
[Frannie] God is cruel, then.
[chuckles softly] Job said the same.
And God spoke to him out
of the whirlwind, and He said,
"Were you here when I made the world?"
God said, "The wheel keeps turning,
the struggle continues.
But the command is always the same.
Be true.
Stand."
- [Kojak barking]
- [Stu] Frannie?
- [panting]
- Fran?
[gasps]
[Kojak whining]
- [whimpering]
- Oh, Jesus.
- Frannie!
- [Kojak barks]
Fran! Frannie!
[Mother Abagail] I'm in the way
of knowing things, Frannie Goldsmith.
I know that you'll be the mother of five.
These five will bring forth 20
and the 20 will bring forth 70,
and some of those 70 you will live to see.
Behold
your children will replenish the Earth.
[Kojak barking]
Hang tight, all right?
I'm gonna get you out of there.
Could get the line down to her,
but she's not gonna be able to hang on.
I'll pay out the cable.
You ride it down and bring her up.
What? What?
Dog. Baby.
[Kojak barks]
All right, let it out.
[whirring]
[Kojak barks]
Hang on, baby.
- Hope you know what you're doing.
- I do. You just get her.
All right, go. Go, go, go.
[whirring]
[grunts]
More!
[grunts] All right, whoa!
[clicks]
- [screams]
- I know, I know.
- [coughs]
- I know it hurts.
Pay out!
I got you, I got you, honey.
All right, ready? On three.
One, two, three.
[grunts]
Okay, pull us up!
[whirring]
- [Frannie whimpers]
- Come on, baby.
[grunting]
Easy, easy.
[wails, coughs]
She's barely breathing.
- Give me some space, Stuart.
- What?
How do you know my name?
- [bones cracking]
- [grunts]
[panting]
Oh, my God.
[panting continues]
Looks good.
Sit up, Frannie.
I don't think I can. [pants]
Come on.
Now stand.
[grunts]
You okay?
Like, really okay?
Nothing hurts.
Nothing hurts, Stu.
[Abby crying]
Abby.
[laughs, sniffles]
I know. I was scared too.
Yes, cute thing.
[Abby cooing]
Never seen the Atlantic,
have you, East Texas?
[Stu] I mean, I've seen it in pictures
and movies, but not like this.
That's That is
something else, isn't it?
[Frannie] Mm-hmm.
Now you understand why I wanted to come.
Yes, I do.
You like the look of that, don't you?
Hey, tell me something, Stu.
How would you feel about having
four more of these little rascals?
[Abby cooing]
Well, I was thinking more like two.
We'll see.
I'm easily persuaded.
[both chuckle]
Hey, uh, back in Nebraska
what what happened?
What happened is that I
I found out that there
are two sides to the world.
There's this.
And then there's
a deep well of darkness.
A pit.
And when I was dying in that well,
I saw both of them.
And I was tempted.
The wheel turns.
The struggle continues.
And the command is always the same.
And what command is that?
Be true.
Stand.
- [animals chittering]
- [chattering]
Hey! How's it hanging?
[speaking native language]
Come on.
Why can't we be friends? ♪
[shouts]
Why can't we be friends? ♪
[tribe gasping]
[chattering]
My name is Russell Faraday.
Worship me!
It's the end
Of the world as we know it ♪
It's the end of the world
As we know it ♪
It's the end
Of the world as we know it ♪
And I feel fine ♪
6:00, TV hour
Don't get caught in foreign tower ♪
Slash and burn, return
Listen to yourself churn ♪
Lock him in uniform
Book burning, bloodletting ♪
Every motive escalate
Automotive incinerate ♪
Light a candle, light a motive
Step down, step down ♪
Watch your heel crush, crush, uh-oh ♪
This means no fear, cavalier
Renegade and steering clear ♪
A tournament, a tournament
A tournament of lies ♪
Offer me solutions
Offer me alternatives and I decline ♪
It's the end of the world
As we know it ♪
It's the end of the world
As we know it ♪
It's the end of the world
As we know it ♪
Time I had some time alone ♪
And I feel fine ♪
I feel fine ♪
It's the end of the world
As we know it ♪
It's the end of the world
As we know it ♪
It's the end of the world
As we know it ♪
And I feel fine ♪
The other night I dreamt of knives ♪
Continental drift divide
Mountains sit in a line ♪
Leonard Bernstein ♪
Leonid Brezhnev
Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs ♪
Birthday party, cheesecake
Jelly bean, boom ♪
You symbiotic, patriotic, slam but neck
Right? Right ♪
It's the end of the world
As we know it ♪
It's the end of the world
As we know it ♪
It's the end of the world
As we know it ♪
And I feel fine ♪
It's the end of the world
As we know it ♪
It's the end of the world
As we know it ♪
It's the end of the world
As we know it ♪
And I feel fine ♪