Marvel's Runaways (2017) s02e01 Episode Script
Gimmie Shelter
1 CHASE: Previously on Marvel's Runaways WOMAN: It's time.
ALEX: What is happening? - Please, please.
I'm afraid.
- Whatever happened I think our parents killed that girl.
LESLIE: It worked.
How do you feel? I feel fantastic.
CHASE: Maybe the bracelet is some kind of inhibitor.
KAROLINA: Which would explain why my mom never wanted me to take it off.
You are the only other person that staff will work for.
Why don't you keep it for the night.
I trust you, Nico.
MOLLY: I think there might be something wrong with me.
- Aah! - Stop! Get away from her.
Holy shit, it does what I say.
Dad, don't! [GRUNTS.]
- Please.
- [GUNSHOT.]
JONAH: I can't fully revive him without a sacrifice.
Is he gonna be OK? That's what we're all hoping for.
Hi, Graciela.
It's Dale and Stacey.
We knew Molly would be home from school by now, and we were just missing her.
- She's not here.
- We trusted you with her.
Yes, but I don't trust you.
Your parents sent me this just before they died.
GRACIELA: There's a Metrolink.
Go down there in the morning if you like.
This was left specifically for me.
Something important.
Molly, since before you were born, we've been a part of an organization called PRIDE.
They're planning on digging something up, something buried deep beneath the city.
And even if what's down there is good There's a blind fault.
and if we disturb it, it will cause a series of seismic events ALICE: Not to mention we found some really weird stuff in these rock samples.
Whatever's down there, it's alive.
You gonna tell me what's going on with that school and those crazy-ass friends of yours? The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Then I guess we tight as hell.
About time, I guess, since tonight may be our last night on Earth.
Well, if that's how it is, I'd like one last dance.
KAROLINA: I've just wanted to do that for a really long time.
We have to stop this.
No one else will.
Time to come home, son.
I'm not going anywhere with you.
- We're a family.
- We're a family.
And we'll fight you if we have to! I'm your father.
Did you know about this? No, but it's what I was afraid of.
GENE: The point is, if you're watching this, we failed to stop it.
WOMAN ON TV: She has fallen in with a group of teenagers that are persons of interest in the death of Destiny Gonzales.
Anyone with news regarding this case should contact the police immediately.
[POLICE RADIO CHATTER.]
[REPORTERS CLAMORING.]
MAN: Are you happy you have the kids back? WOMAN: Did you think you'd get them back so soon? MAN: Mrs.
Wilder! Have you talked to them yet? MAN 2: One statement! Mr.
Dean, please! We'd like to thank you and the city for your support.
As for questions regarding our children and their safety Come on, honey.
We can talk to the press after we see our daughter.
[CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICK.]
And that is why Frank will never be a member of PRIDE.
I knew they wouldn't get far for long.
They have no idea how to survive on the streets.
No wonder it took them so long to run away.
We're still waiting for your apology.
You called the cops on our kids and made 'em fugitives.
Yeah, my son's face has been plastered across every screen in the city.
Which is why they've been found 24 hours later.
Don't bother, Cat.
Haters gonna hate.
Detective Flores.
Thank you for your assistance.
Just got here myself.
Came as soon as I received the call.
They're being held back here.
ROBERT: I just can't believe you found 'em so quickly.
We launched a citywide manhunt, pulled out all the stops.
My men said they'd split up.
Really? That seems strange.
FLORES: Makes sense.
Harder to find them that way.
Wait.
What are you gonna say when you see them? Nothing.
I just wanna hug them.
FLORES: Kids, your parents are here.
FRANK: Oh, shit.
GEOFFREY: You gotta be kidding me.
DALE: Uh, those aren't our kids.
For Christ's sakes, Flores.
I'm sorry.
I don't know what to say.
My men assured me Maybe you need more than just men handling your shit.
Don't call till you actually have them.
This means our kids are still running.
[ROCK MUSIC.]
- Stop, please! - Give those back! How did he even get them? Chase was supposed to be on lookout! Yeah, I only dozed off for, like, five minutes.
Gert, hurry! Yeah, you're not the one pushing the dinosaur in the shopping cart.
[GROWLS, ROARS.]
Yah! [LAUGHING.]
- [TIRES SCREECH.]
- [HORNS HONK.]
Shit! If my dad were here, he'd kill me.
- Again? - Alex, we gotta stop him.
Guys! MOLLY: Get away from the street.
Camera.
It's not safe.
CHASE: That guy got away with military-grade gauntlets.
MOLLY: I thought you said they don't work.
CHASE: With tinkering.
Wait, did he take anything else? Alex, you still have the money? Please.
Think I'd allow myself to get robbed blind like Chase? Oh, no, no, no, no.
[PATTING POCKETS.]
- It's gone.
- Way to go, Wilder.
You were supposed to be on lookout.
Well, what are we supposed to do now? Someone might have seen us.
- I'm so hungry I can't think.
- Except we have no money.
Then we find somewhere that we can eat for free.
Whatever we do, we gotta do it quick, guys.
We gotta go.
We're not going anywhere.
This wheel's busted.
I got it.
Man, we suck at being runaways.
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING.]
[DOG BARKING.]
[DISTANT SIREN WAILS.]
[LOW CHATTER.]
ALEX: OK, I don't see any cameras or cops.
MOLLY: Just lots and lots of food.
GERT: Hey, Old Lace is chilling in a Dumpster, though girlfriend's starting to get an attitude.
I can relate.
CHASE: Come on, let's go.
CHASE: You gotta be kidding me.
KAROLINA: This place is paid for by our parents? We can't eat that soup.
Nico's right.
It's PRIDE soup.
Soup is soup, and I'm starving.
Soup in and of itself has no inherent morality.
Neither do our parents.
Whether it's good soup or bad soup, it is hot soup, and we are starving.
Can everyone stop saying "soup"? Look, it's not like our parents are gonna be popping by.
They just write checks.
They don't give a shit about the homeless.
OK, grab your food and sit at different tables.
We might not be as noticeable if we split up.
No way.
Strength in numbers.
Everyone just eat as fast as they can.
Won't be a problem.
CHASE: You OK? Oh.
So many with so little.
CHASE: You seem surprised.
I mean, you were Brentwood's fiercest social justice warrior.
Yeah.
Guess I just never really seen social injustice in person before.
Come on.
This is so good.
Finish up.
We should move.
Where? Between PRIDE and the Church, the streets aren't safe.
- We have to stay hidden.
- We need a tent.
Which we can't buy since Alex lost the money.
ALEX: OK, forgetting for a moment that you were supposed to be on lookout, how about the fact that I got us the money to begin with? OK? Maybe you all could show a little gratitude.
Maybe if you told us where you got the money.
I can't, OK? It's for your protection.
NICO: Or yours.
How do we know your parents didn't give it to you? You think I'm a mole? CHASE: Nobody knows what to think, other than when Karolina was taken by Jonah you voted to leave her behind.
You are never gonna let that go, are you? Karolina, I was always gonna come back for you.
I'm sure you had your reasons.
I'm sure they had nothing to do with the fact that Karolina and Nico developed a certain chemistry.
I wasn't aware of that at the time, OK? And I'm still trying to process that information, actually.
But thanks for bringing it up, though.
So, if you weren't motivated by jealousy, then what? You're just a terrible leader who makes bad decisions under pressure? ALEX: Welcome to lead anytime, Chase.
But since you're incapable of coming up with an idea that doesn't suck, I'll handle it.
Again.
[SIGHS.]
There's an encampment off the river east of the underpass that we stayed at last night.
- I'll meet you guys there.
- Alex, where are you going? I told you, you have to trust me.
Thanks.
WOMAN ON TV: I'm here at the home of Graciela Aguirre, a distant relative of Molly Hernandez, who was allegedly abducted from her home.
Ms.
Aguirre, any comment on the fact that Molly Hernandez was taken from your home by children of PRIDE? GRACIELA: Not sure where the idea that Molly was abducted came from.
I never reported it.
And it's not the children of PRIDE the media should be looking into.
It's their parents.
The leaders of PRIDE are highly accomplished professionals, not to mention what their philanthropy has done for the city.
Trust me I've seen proof.
What what proof is she talking about? I may have sent Graciela the VHS tape my parents made me, the one with warning about California breaking off into the ocean.
If something happened to us, someone should know the truth.
Yeah, and now she does, but she's in danger.
She said it on TV.
Yeah.
She knows all about a conspiracy to cause an earthquake, but she has no idea about Jonah.
And that our parents are killers.
We have to warn her.
Did you see [CHATTER.]
- What are they doing here? - I figured they forgot about this place.
[CHATTER STOPS.]
On behalf of all of us, we're so sorry to hear about your kids.
And we appreciate that, but what you've heard is nothing but a big misunderstanding.
Our children may be runaways, but they're not criminals.
JANET: This will all be cleared up when they're back home and safe.
The good work we've all performed for homeless children city-wide means we've banked some good karma.
CATHERINE: In the meantime, we will not let our personal situation stand in the way of our mission.
Yeah.
If anything, what we're facing has made us even more committed to PRIDE's cause.
[APPLAUSE CONTINUES.]
- [DOOR CLOSES.]
- Think they bought it? DALE: I did.
Anyone else notice our wives are really good at lying? We sure it's safe to meet here? To the public, it's business as usual, but I designed this room with certain enhancements should the day come.
[SCANNER BEEPS.]
[CLICKING, WHIRRING.]
DALE: A secret antechamber.
Classic PRIDE.
TINA: Robert and I had Wizard's best techs wire this place.
It's a 24-hour surveillance center with CCTV from across the city interfacing with Wizard's state-of-the-art facial recognition software.
ROBERT: Designed by me.
We're in charge of getting our kids back now.
This is now PRIDE's central command, where we share everything we learn and keep it off the radar of the cops, the media, and most importantly, Jonah.
As I've said I want to hurt him as much as the rest of you do.
Not possible.
I wasn't the one who went to the police behind our backs.
GEOFFREY: I've heard enough about that.
TINA: You know what I would like to hear more about? Graciela Aguirre.
Presume everyone saw the news? She said she has proof that PRIDE is behind Molly's disappearance.
- You told us she was a distant relative - [DALE CLEARS THROAT.]
she lived alone and went to church.
- We may have underestimated her - She's feisty.
and not the most trusting soul, especially when it comes to us.
Sounds like more loose ends.
Someone needs to pay Graciela a visit.
Find out what she knows.
Make sure no one else learns it.
Gimme me an address.
- I'll deal with it.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Pump the brakes there, big guy.
Haven't enough innocent people died? Wouldn't it be great if we could, just, you know, dial down the murdering, just a little? Need we remind you of the mindwipe drug we created for just such an occasion? Yes, and we have made significant improvements Tremendous.
since it was first used on Frank Dean.
Yes.
Big improvements.
Yeah.
Fine.
But Robert and I are coming with you.
It's not that we don't trust you, but we don't.
[ALEX SIGHS.]
Must be out of my damn mind meeting you.
Shit's been on the news nonstop.
I'm aware.
Thanks for coming.
Hey every day you survive out there, it's another day your dad suffers.
I'm good with that.
OK, I wouldn't have called if it wasn't an emergency, all right, but [SIGHS.]
we need more money.
What? You already spent the fifteen hundred I gave you? What, you've been posting up at the Four Seasons? - We got robbed.
- That's why I gave you a gun.
Damn, man.
Parents raised you soft in Brentwood.
Please.
I can't go back to my friends empty-handed.
They're counting on me.
I'll do anything.
[SOFT CHUCKLE.]
OK, little homie.
But you want more? This time you've gotta earn it.
And you not gon' like it.
[HELICOPTER PASSES OVERHEAD.]
So how do we get to Graciela's? She lives, like, 20 miles away.
Uh, yeah.
Remember when life was so easy, like, 48 hours ago when we all had cell phones and Lyft accounts? - Do payphones still exist? - Even if they did, they require payment.
- We could take the Metrolink.
- Public transportation? Does anybody even know how to do that? I do.
That's how I got to school from Graciela's.
I still have my card.
You take the Purple line to the Red line, then you transfer to the Yellow line, then there's another Red one the last two are buses, not trains.
Only we would do it backwards, because we're going the opposite direction.
- But there's one problem.
- KAROLINA: Only one? The train runs only during rush hour.
- Which is hours from now.
- And too late for Graciela.
Of course, the d-bag who owns that car could go wherever he wants.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
Yes.
Yes he can.
Today.
Why do you think they're called time shares, bro? VALET: Range Rover.
CHASE: Babe, I was not flirting with that girl.
KAROLINA: Babe, you so were.
You're a giant dick.
No, I'm not.
I was being nice! That's the opposite of a giant dick.
- Keys.
- Oh, yeah.
Were you being nice when you banged my roommate? That's right.
You're a giant dick.
[MAN CHATTERS ON PHONE.]
- Pretty white privilege for the win.
- Yeah.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
You still got that piece I gave you? Yeah.
[SIGHS.]
Hold it right, as if you were gonna use it.
Gimme.
ALEX: What the hell? Oh, you thought I gave that to you? More like loaned it long enough to make sure your Wilder DNA is all over it.
You don't know what's been done with it, but I do and it's on you now.
You're framing me? Hold up.
We're still friends.
Just given your lineage, I need an insurance policy to make sure we stay that way.
Also, you ain't safe with that thing.
Cop sees you with it, you're shot in the head.
Come on.
Let's go.
Respect yourself, protect yourself.
Can't mess up that fine outfit.
It's actually from a thrift store.
Uh, not that it really matters.
I'm just I don't know, I'm getting a really bad feeling about what's up these stairs and what you expect me to do once we get to the top.
Stop.
First time is never easy but you'll be a man after this.
[EXHALES.]
At least give me back the gun.
[HINGES CREAK.]
I'm thinkin' a seafoam green.
You wanted me to paint? [LAUGHS.]
Man, what the hell did you think? You watch too many Tarantino movies.
Scorsese and shit.
Not even remotely funny.
It is to me.
Now get to it.
Baby's due in two weeks.
It's gonna be a boy.
You must be hungry, coming all this way to visit me.
- Oh.
Wow.
Isn't that nice, sweetie? - [LAUGHS NERVOUSLY.]
Look at all those little cookies.
- Mm.
- ¡Sabrosos! [CHUCKLES.]
We honeymooned in Zihuat.
- SÃ, sÃ.
- He just loves local cultures.
Well, claro que.
Now, what do you want? Well, Graciela, we're just we're very worried about - Molly.
- Molly.
Um, we how she is, where she is I told Detective Flores everything I knew, which is nothing.
And yet you do seem to know something.
Uh, yeah, about us or about PRIDE Graciela, I'm just gonna cut straight to the point.
Now, despite serving some very nice pan dulces [NERVOUS LAUGHTER.]
you obviously don't like us very much, and A part of that could just be our personalities, but You saw the news, and you want to know what's on that tape from the Hernandezes.
Yes.
The tape.
I'll get it for you.
I suppose it's only right that you know the truth.
- Yes.
The truth is always right.
- SÃ.
Entendió.
- DALE: Yes - Yes.
I'll be back.
¡La verdad! [CHUCKLES.]
- There's a tape - There's a tape.
- and we're gonna get it - OK.
- and then we will jab her.
- Oh, yeah.
It'll be like we were never here, and she never saw any tape, right? - Hon? - What? - Maybe I should do the jabbing.
- What? We never really discussed who was gonna jab.
No, no, no, no, no.
You go for the tape.
- I know - I'll sneak up beside her, - and I'll just give her the business.
- [COCKS PISTOL.]
- Oh, Jesus! - Oh! Graciela's a Bond Villain.
You want the tape? Here it is.
[YORKES BOTH SHOUTING.]
[GRUNTS.]
GRACIELA: You wanna be next? [BOTH PANTING.]
The hunters have become the hunted! [LAUGHS.]
STACEY: OK, where's the serum? Where's the serum? You have to jab her.
You have to jab her.
In the leg or the foot or something.
So she can forget how to shoot that thing? - Yeah! - Besides, I I kinda dropped it.
- STACEY: What? What?! - DALE: I'm sorry! - [EXPLOSIVE SOUND.]
- [WIND WHOOSHING.]
STACY: Oh! - You want me to shoot you, too? - Choke.
[GRUNTING, WHIMPERING.]
[WHOOSHING CONTINUES.]
[GRACIELA CONTINUES CHOKING.]
[WIND CHIMES TINKLING.]
[ENGINE REVVING.]
[TIRES SQUEAL.]
Molly.
Wait, what if our parents are in there? - [DOORBELL RINGS.]
- Graciela? - [BANGING ON DOOR.]
- Graciela? MOLLY: Graciela! Graciela, ¡háblame por favor! Maybe she got smart and left.
MOLLY: [SOBS.]
No.
She's dead.
CHASE: There's no sign of a struggle.
Maybe she couldn't take the stress and had a heart attack? That's what they want people to believe.
Our parents staged this.
We must have just missed them.
[GERT PANTING.]
Th That's a body.
I ca I can't.
I can't.
[GERT HYPERVENTILATING.]
She didn't do anything wrong.
I know, Mols.
We gotta go.
We can't just leave her.
We have to call the police! I'm sure Flores is on his way.
Our parents own the police, remember? [SIREN APPROACHING.]
KAROLINA: Molly? Seriously? You're robbing a dead person? Look, I know it's harsh but this is our reality now.
[SIREN CONTINUES.]
[MULTIPLE SIRENS APPROACH.]
Hey, be careful.
Don't drip, bruh, and put tape and shit around the windows, man.
TAMAR: Hey, D, how's it lookin' in there? DARIUS: Gotta go.
Hold on.
You went with the seafoam.
We agreed to go with robin's egg.
OK, we definitely did not agree, 'cause there is no way I'm raising my boy inside an egg.
You ain't gonna be around to raise him if you don't change this color.
- [ALEX CHUCKLES.]
- I'm sure your friend doesn't mind.
DARIUS: But I do, and if you cared so much, you should've been here when I started.
I had a doctor's appointment.
Thanks for coming.
My sister drove.
Livvie, get in here and tell Darius how wrong he is.
- Yup, I agree.
- DARIUS: You didn't even look up.
Don't need to.
Tamar is always right.
TAMAR: That's a smart girl right there.
[DARIUS SIGHS.]
All right, then.
Looks like we gotta start over.
I don't normally get rolled like this, but, uh, my lady's very emotional these days 'cause of the hormones.
Don't hormone me.
This shit is ugly.
I swear to God, Darius, I think you're color blind.
It's fine.
I don't mind.
This is the new Andre? Nah.
Don't get used to this kid, he's just here to do some manual labor.
I'm Livvie.
Nice to meet you.
Sorry about making you start over.
Um, to tell the truth, I agree.
These hands don't feel like they've done a lot of manual labor.
What'd you say your name was? TAMAR: He didn't.
DARIUS: Livvie, say goodbye, OK? My boy's got a lot of work to do here, and it needs to get done before Tamar's water breaks, so off you go.
- Tape.
- DARIUS: Yo, will you calm down? Great idea, D.
, bringin' him into our house.
And now Livvie's involved? I didn't know you were bringing her here.
How do you think I got here? I can't fit behind a steering wheel.
What's the real? 'Cause he's cute.
He is Alex Wilder, America's Most Wanted.
Doesn't seem like it.
That's because you do not know him.
And you're not going to.
I want him gone.
I can't budge on this one, Tam.
You gotta trust me, OK? This is for the best for all of us.
[CHATTER.]
This is where Alex told us to meet him.
CHASE: If all these people can survive out here, so can we.
How's Old Lace holding up? She's great.
She's really settling in.
She's actually quite the Dumpster connoisseur, - and if I'm calm, then she's calm.
- You don't seem calm.
That's a really helpful thing to say to someone while they're trying to be chill so that their psychically-linked dinosaur doesn't freak out, which would be so much easier if I had my meds, but they're in my room, which is next to my parents' room, who, just if we need a little reminder, tend to murder people.
So what you're saying is you're not calm? Um, there's a whole tone I'm trying to follow.
I can't believe we left Graciela.
She at least deserved a funeral.
She's gonna get one.
CHASE: Come on.
NICO: It's Wiccan tradition.
The candle can be adorned with anything that resonates with the energy of the deceased.
Then we add our own offerings.
[TRAIN CLATTERING.]
NICO: As we all come from the goddess to experience life in death so shall we return to her to experience peace.
By the element of Earth you were grounded in the physical world.
By the element of Air you were open to knowledge and communication.
By the element of Fire, you were inspired with passion.
By the element of Water, you could dream your dreams.
So now, by Earth, by Air, by Fire, by Water shall you pass to the next stage of your existence.
Molly you want to say something? MOLLY: I didn't really get a chance to know her that well, but she was kind to me and she gave me a chance to see my parents again, if only for a little while.
She was the last blood relative I had and now she's gone.
Everything's been taken away from me.
I have no one.
You have us.
Merry we meet, and merry we part until we meet again.
- NICO: Hey.
- KAROLINA: Hey.
That was really beautiful.
I thought I was done with religion.
You're gonna convert from Gibborim to Wiccan now? That would be a first.
I just meant "thank you.
" We all really needed something to believe in.
[SCOFFS.]
You gave us that.
They're our parents.
[VOICE BREAKING.]
How could they be such monsters? Hey.
We're not them.
We're better.
We can fix the world that they broke.
FEMALE VOCALIST: My name on your lips Your air in my lungs Drowned in oxygen Now you've set the scene High on intimacy Drawing me above Everything OK over here? - No, not really.
- [OLD LACE SNORTS.]
Look, I know seeing a dead body is traumatic.
We all felt the same.
Yeah, but some of us were strong enough to be there for Molly, and some of us, as in only me, completely froze up right when she needed me the most.
Um, thanks thank you for being there for her for stepping in when I couldn't.
Of course.
After being the guy who fell asleep on lookout, it's nice somebody thinks I'm good for something.
Yeah.
I think you're good for a few things.
Oh, yeah? Oh, I I meant things like babysitting Old Lace while I go talk to Molly.
[OLD LACE GROWLING.]
- Hey Hey! - [ROARS.]
She hates me.
GERT: Molly? I am so sorry.
I'm not.
I'm just angry.
Who's gonna get justice for Graciela? Maybe, instead of running from danger, we should run at it.
I don't want any more innocent people getting hurt, and I can do something about it.
[ALEX GROANS.]
Found you guys.
I, uh, got us some tents, sleeping bags, couple of cheap burner phones.
You bought all of this? Uh, yes.
Well, some of it was on sale, but, yes.
OK.
You're welcome.
Was it PRIDE? Isn't it always? MALE VOCALIST: Some velvet JONAH: It's a little gritty for my taste, but if it's home to you This is the last day before my father left us.
He was not a sophisticated man, but he was a hard worker.
It's funny.
People liked him.
Of course, he was sober at work.
I used to sit at the counter and do my homework while he cooked in the back.
[WIND WHISTLING.]
And how she made it end Might think this was heaven, except you're here.
JONAH: I assure you, you're still very much alive.
Well, "very much" might be overstating a little bit, - but you're hangin' in there.
- [SCOFFS.]
This is a healing algorithm, a safe place for your mind to exist while your body repairs itself.
And my algorithm just happens to have a back door, so you can drop by unannounced.
[CHUCKLES.]
I understand this feels like an intrusion, but I have a problem, and you're the only one who can help me.
[SIGHS.]
You see, Victor, I'm going somewhere very soon.
I've been waiting for this for a long time, longer than you could ever imagine, and [SIGHS.]
I can't let anything and I mean anything get in the way of that.
What is that? Besides disgusting.
I'm assuming the kid Geoffrey pulled off the streets was depleted when we converted him, and I exerted quite a bit of energy e during an altercation with the kids.
The kids? Is Chase OK? No thanks to you.
I was the only casualty, I'm afraid, but, if I'm gonna heal myself, I need another box.
Yeah, Tina destroyed it saving Robert, who was sacrificing himself for Janet.
- I - Long story.
You don't need the details.
Don't want them.
I understand.
I'm the only one who can make a box.
Ironically, I'm basically in one hence your virtual visit.
And if I don't save you, I may not save myself.
All those magazine covers did not lie.
- You're sharp.
- [VICTOR CHUCKLES.]
I'll do it but we'll need help.
JONAH: Who could possibly help us? My wife.
[DEVICE CHIRPS.]
[PHONE VIBRATING.]
What the hell did you do? Wrote a touching obituary, if I do say so myself.
We handled our business.
PRIDE's business.
As you can see, it's far from the front page, and it says she died of natural causes.
It says she died.
I thought we were trying to avoid that.
Look, we did not anticipate her enthusiasm for the owning of large guns.
Or her skill at using them.
OK, the important thing is we got what we needed, a tape made by the Hernandezes.
Bullet-riddled.
But I was able to scan it.
We've all just watched it.
And? Thank God the kids stopped that dig when they did.
Otherwise, who knows what would've happened.
Well, we do now.
Earthquakes.
With lots of horrible consequences.
Jonah killed Gene and Alice to keep them from warning us.
Yeah.
Technically, it wasn't Jonah.
Maybe now would be a good time for the two of you to share your discovery with the group.
What's down in that hole is alive.
- Alive? - DALE: It's not life as as we conventionally understand it, but it has a strong energy signature, seems sentient.
STACEY: It also makes a noise.
- [DALE CLEARS THROAT.]
- We think it's some kind of language.
Holy shit.
It talks? Maybe they do.
There may be more than one.
We don't know yet.
Do you think Jonah knows what what they are? ROBERT: Or is he possibly the same thing? I mean, the guy requires sacrificed teenagers to survive.
And he glows.
I'm guessing that's not a medical condition.
Look, we examined the DNA from the serum that we stole, and And Jonah is not what you would call human.
No shit.
GEOFFREY: Leslie, maybe you can enlighten us? I wish I could.
I've known Jonah my whole life.
But where he came from before that or who he is, I have no idea.
I'm only just now realizing how much he kept from me.
TINA: Well, great.
We may have just helped an alien unearth more aliens? I have no idea what's going on at that dig site.
It's controlled by the church now.
The kids broke the drill, damaged the controls.
Jonah hasn't mentioned trying to fix it.
I don't know if that's because it's not possible JANET: Or it doesn't matter.
ROBERT: Because he already got far enough.
We have to kill him.
- Now.
- DALE: That's - That's not gonna be easy.
- His DNA is self-healing.
Conventional means won't work.
- Then we gotta get un conventional.
- We are working on it.
JANET: Let's not forget that our kids are missing.
So maybe we forget about Jonah for a second - and we try to find them.
- That's what we've been saying.
No.
What we do, we do together from now on.
No factions.
No secrets.
One voice.
[GEOFFREY SCOFFS.]
Let me guess.
Yours? I think this job is big enough to share.
Be willing to have you as my co-captain.
That still sounds like a dictatorship.
Last time we had a vote, you got boxed.
I'm in.
We said we were done with PRIDE, and you sign up to be co-chair with Tina? Let them take care of Jonah, then we take care of them.
- Being on the inside can only help.
- So, we're assassins now.
We have been for a while.
We just got new targets.
[FISTIGONS FIRE.]
[NEARBY EXPLOSIONS.]
[FISTIGONS FIRING.]
[EXCITED CHATTER.]
[PEOPLE SHOUTING.]
KAROLINA: Nothing good makes that sound.
- I know what is is.
- Let's go! - Do you guys hear that? - NICO: Yeah, come on! ALEX: Why are we running toward the explosions? [INDISTINCT SHOUTING.]
MAN: Mike On A Bike's lost it! - [FISTIGONS FIRE.]
- Hey! Hey! CHASE: Hey! - Don't point those at anything living.
- MOLLY: Especially us! - What the hell are these things? - It's hard to explain, - but we tried to warn you.
- KAROLINA: He's scared.
It's okay.
We can help you.
NICO: Yeah, just be still.
- We'll come to you.
- [FISTIGONS CHARGE UP.]
[ALL SCREAM.]
MIKE: Oh, no, I'm keepin' these.
[RUNAWAYS EXCLAIM.]
CHASE: No, no! Hey! Don't! - KAROLINA: Aah! - NICO: Don't shoot! - GERT: Holy shit.
- [MIKE LAUGHING.]
His nickname is "Mike On A Bike.
" Yeah? Well, mine is "Chase.
" That's not technically a nick Never mind.
Molly! Helmet.
CHASE: Come on! Faster! GERT: He's heading up the hill! CHASE: I can't close in.
We gotta find another way.
Come find me.
I need you.
[WHISTLES.]
What is she doing? - [OLD LACE GROWLING.]
- MIKE: Aah! "You know how to whistle, don't ya? Just put your lips together and blow.
" You can educate me later.
- [OLD LACE GROWLING.]
- [MIKE WHIMPERING.]
Don't shoot her! GERT: Old Lace, get back! [FISTIGONS CHARGE UP.]
- [KIDS EXCLAIM.]
- [OLD LACE ROARS.]
MIKE: Leave me alone! Get away from me! - Aah! - NICO: Karolina! You guys are into some seriously weird shit.
You don't know the half of it.
I got 'em! What are you guys doin'? Guys! I found something.
FEMALE VOCALIST: You say I'm bad to the bone - 'Cause my blood runs cold - GERT: Come on! Over here! - And the dealer, he folds - Molly, you find anything? But he can't and he won't walk away Oh, oh, but not me - MOLLY: Guys! - CHASE: What is this place? By the wings on the back of my shoulder blades Gonna run away until they understand Oh, oh, to the sun Where the river runs dry I was gone in the blink of an eye Ooh, yeah, we're runaways, yeah, we're runaways - GERT: Come on, girl! - Yeah, we're runaways Ooh, ooh Yeah, we're runaways Yeah, we're runaways - [OLD LACE ROARS.]
Gonna run away until they understand I'm not sorry for the insanity We're racing to the end to meet Oh, we heard a gunshot ALEX: Whoa! Careful! OK? It might not be safe.
NICO: Something tells me it is.
- That we are.
- You and me - Till the end - [OLD LACE CHIRRS.]
GERT: Oh Girl, stay.
It's probably better if we test the stairs without a dinosaur.
Where the river runs dry I was gone in the blink of an eye Ooh, yeah, we're runaways Yeah, we're runaways Yeah, we're runaways Ooh, ooh Yeah, we're runaways Huh.
Looks like we aren't the first ones to discover this place.
GERT: Guys, it's amazing up here.
Except for the bathroom, which is pretty gross.
There's also no power or water.
Which would explain said grossness.
Also, I think we have raccoons.
KAROLINA: Sounds great.
[CHUCKLES.]
NICO: Sounds like home.
ALEX: Well, come on, but I just bought all the tents.
- Kidding, kidding.
- Gonna run away - KAROLINA: Right.
- NICO: Good one.
Where is your tent? Just put it down here if you want.
[OLD LACE PURRING.]
Gonna run away until they understand [FOOTSTEPS.]
JONAH: I knew you'd come.
[CHUCKLES.]
There's no need to be afraid.
After all, you asked me to meet you.
I know.
And thank you.
I I just shouldn't be here.
Why? Because of your friends? My dear, however important they are to you, I assure you nothing's more important than learning about who and what you are.
I assume that's why you're here.
Not because I like you or because I agree with any of the things that you've done, but because I need to know.
I can only imagine how lonely and confused you must feel.
- [RUMBLING.]
- [GASPS.]
Oh! What's happening? It's starting.
ALEX: What is happening? - Please, please.
I'm afraid.
- Whatever happened I think our parents killed that girl.
LESLIE: It worked.
How do you feel? I feel fantastic.
CHASE: Maybe the bracelet is some kind of inhibitor.
KAROLINA: Which would explain why my mom never wanted me to take it off.
You are the only other person that staff will work for.
Why don't you keep it for the night.
I trust you, Nico.
MOLLY: I think there might be something wrong with me.
- Aah! - Stop! Get away from her.
Holy shit, it does what I say.
Dad, don't! [GRUNTS.]
- Please.
- [GUNSHOT.]
JONAH: I can't fully revive him without a sacrifice.
Is he gonna be OK? That's what we're all hoping for.
Hi, Graciela.
It's Dale and Stacey.
We knew Molly would be home from school by now, and we were just missing her.
- She's not here.
- We trusted you with her.
Yes, but I don't trust you.
Your parents sent me this just before they died.
GRACIELA: There's a Metrolink.
Go down there in the morning if you like.
This was left specifically for me.
Something important.
Molly, since before you were born, we've been a part of an organization called PRIDE.
They're planning on digging something up, something buried deep beneath the city.
And even if what's down there is good There's a blind fault.
and if we disturb it, it will cause a series of seismic events ALICE: Not to mention we found some really weird stuff in these rock samples.
Whatever's down there, it's alive.
You gonna tell me what's going on with that school and those crazy-ass friends of yours? The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Then I guess we tight as hell.
About time, I guess, since tonight may be our last night on Earth.
Well, if that's how it is, I'd like one last dance.
KAROLINA: I've just wanted to do that for a really long time.
We have to stop this.
No one else will.
Time to come home, son.
I'm not going anywhere with you.
- We're a family.
- We're a family.
And we'll fight you if we have to! I'm your father.
Did you know about this? No, but it's what I was afraid of.
GENE: The point is, if you're watching this, we failed to stop it.
WOMAN ON TV: She has fallen in with a group of teenagers that are persons of interest in the death of Destiny Gonzales.
Anyone with news regarding this case should contact the police immediately.
[POLICE RADIO CHATTER.]
[REPORTERS CLAMORING.]
MAN: Are you happy you have the kids back? WOMAN: Did you think you'd get them back so soon? MAN: Mrs.
Wilder! Have you talked to them yet? MAN 2: One statement! Mr.
Dean, please! We'd like to thank you and the city for your support.
As for questions regarding our children and their safety Come on, honey.
We can talk to the press after we see our daughter.
[CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICK.]
And that is why Frank will never be a member of PRIDE.
I knew they wouldn't get far for long.
They have no idea how to survive on the streets.
No wonder it took them so long to run away.
We're still waiting for your apology.
You called the cops on our kids and made 'em fugitives.
Yeah, my son's face has been plastered across every screen in the city.
Which is why they've been found 24 hours later.
Don't bother, Cat.
Haters gonna hate.
Detective Flores.
Thank you for your assistance.
Just got here myself.
Came as soon as I received the call.
They're being held back here.
ROBERT: I just can't believe you found 'em so quickly.
We launched a citywide manhunt, pulled out all the stops.
My men said they'd split up.
Really? That seems strange.
FLORES: Makes sense.
Harder to find them that way.
Wait.
What are you gonna say when you see them? Nothing.
I just wanna hug them.
FLORES: Kids, your parents are here.
FRANK: Oh, shit.
GEOFFREY: You gotta be kidding me.
DALE: Uh, those aren't our kids.
For Christ's sakes, Flores.
I'm sorry.
I don't know what to say.
My men assured me Maybe you need more than just men handling your shit.
Don't call till you actually have them.
This means our kids are still running.
[ROCK MUSIC.]
- Stop, please! - Give those back! How did he even get them? Chase was supposed to be on lookout! Yeah, I only dozed off for, like, five minutes.
Gert, hurry! Yeah, you're not the one pushing the dinosaur in the shopping cart.
[GROWLS, ROARS.]
Yah! [LAUGHING.]
- [TIRES SCREECH.]
- [HORNS HONK.]
Shit! If my dad were here, he'd kill me.
- Again? - Alex, we gotta stop him.
Guys! MOLLY: Get away from the street.
Camera.
It's not safe.
CHASE: That guy got away with military-grade gauntlets.
MOLLY: I thought you said they don't work.
CHASE: With tinkering.
Wait, did he take anything else? Alex, you still have the money? Please.
Think I'd allow myself to get robbed blind like Chase? Oh, no, no, no, no.
[PATTING POCKETS.]
- It's gone.
- Way to go, Wilder.
You were supposed to be on lookout.
Well, what are we supposed to do now? Someone might have seen us.
- I'm so hungry I can't think.
- Except we have no money.
Then we find somewhere that we can eat for free.
Whatever we do, we gotta do it quick, guys.
We gotta go.
We're not going anywhere.
This wheel's busted.
I got it.
Man, we suck at being runaways.
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING.]
[DOG BARKING.]
[DISTANT SIREN WAILS.]
[LOW CHATTER.]
ALEX: OK, I don't see any cameras or cops.
MOLLY: Just lots and lots of food.
GERT: Hey, Old Lace is chilling in a Dumpster, though girlfriend's starting to get an attitude.
I can relate.
CHASE: Come on, let's go.
CHASE: You gotta be kidding me.
KAROLINA: This place is paid for by our parents? We can't eat that soup.
Nico's right.
It's PRIDE soup.
Soup is soup, and I'm starving.
Soup in and of itself has no inherent morality.
Neither do our parents.
Whether it's good soup or bad soup, it is hot soup, and we are starving.
Can everyone stop saying "soup"? Look, it's not like our parents are gonna be popping by.
They just write checks.
They don't give a shit about the homeless.
OK, grab your food and sit at different tables.
We might not be as noticeable if we split up.
No way.
Strength in numbers.
Everyone just eat as fast as they can.
Won't be a problem.
CHASE: You OK? Oh.
So many with so little.
CHASE: You seem surprised.
I mean, you were Brentwood's fiercest social justice warrior.
Yeah.
Guess I just never really seen social injustice in person before.
Come on.
This is so good.
Finish up.
We should move.
Where? Between PRIDE and the Church, the streets aren't safe.
- We have to stay hidden.
- We need a tent.
Which we can't buy since Alex lost the money.
ALEX: OK, forgetting for a moment that you were supposed to be on lookout, how about the fact that I got us the money to begin with? OK? Maybe you all could show a little gratitude.
Maybe if you told us where you got the money.
I can't, OK? It's for your protection.
NICO: Or yours.
How do we know your parents didn't give it to you? You think I'm a mole? CHASE: Nobody knows what to think, other than when Karolina was taken by Jonah you voted to leave her behind.
You are never gonna let that go, are you? Karolina, I was always gonna come back for you.
I'm sure you had your reasons.
I'm sure they had nothing to do with the fact that Karolina and Nico developed a certain chemistry.
I wasn't aware of that at the time, OK? And I'm still trying to process that information, actually.
But thanks for bringing it up, though.
So, if you weren't motivated by jealousy, then what? You're just a terrible leader who makes bad decisions under pressure? ALEX: Welcome to lead anytime, Chase.
But since you're incapable of coming up with an idea that doesn't suck, I'll handle it.
Again.
[SIGHS.]
There's an encampment off the river east of the underpass that we stayed at last night.
- I'll meet you guys there.
- Alex, where are you going? I told you, you have to trust me.
Thanks.
WOMAN ON TV: I'm here at the home of Graciela Aguirre, a distant relative of Molly Hernandez, who was allegedly abducted from her home.
Ms.
Aguirre, any comment on the fact that Molly Hernandez was taken from your home by children of PRIDE? GRACIELA: Not sure where the idea that Molly was abducted came from.
I never reported it.
And it's not the children of PRIDE the media should be looking into.
It's their parents.
The leaders of PRIDE are highly accomplished professionals, not to mention what their philanthropy has done for the city.
Trust me I've seen proof.
What what proof is she talking about? I may have sent Graciela the VHS tape my parents made me, the one with warning about California breaking off into the ocean.
If something happened to us, someone should know the truth.
Yeah, and now she does, but she's in danger.
She said it on TV.
Yeah.
She knows all about a conspiracy to cause an earthquake, but she has no idea about Jonah.
And that our parents are killers.
We have to warn her.
Did you see [CHATTER.]
- What are they doing here? - I figured they forgot about this place.
[CHATTER STOPS.]
On behalf of all of us, we're so sorry to hear about your kids.
And we appreciate that, but what you've heard is nothing but a big misunderstanding.
Our children may be runaways, but they're not criminals.
JANET: This will all be cleared up when they're back home and safe.
The good work we've all performed for homeless children city-wide means we've banked some good karma.
CATHERINE: In the meantime, we will not let our personal situation stand in the way of our mission.
Yeah.
If anything, what we're facing has made us even more committed to PRIDE's cause.
[APPLAUSE CONTINUES.]
- [DOOR CLOSES.]
- Think they bought it? DALE: I did.
Anyone else notice our wives are really good at lying? We sure it's safe to meet here? To the public, it's business as usual, but I designed this room with certain enhancements should the day come.
[SCANNER BEEPS.]
[CLICKING, WHIRRING.]
DALE: A secret antechamber.
Classic PRIDE.
TINA: Robert and I had Wizard's best techs wire this place.
It's a 24-hour surveillance center with CCTV from across the city interfacing with Wizard's state-of-the-art facial recognition software.
ROBERT: Designed by me.
We're in charge of getting our kids back now.
This is now PRIDE's central command, where we share everything we learn and keep it off the radar of the cops, the media, and most importantly, Jonah.
As I've said I want to hurt him as much as the rest of you do.
Not possible.
I wasn't the one who went to the police behind our backs.
GEOFFREY: I've heard enough about that.
TINA: You know what I would like to hear more about? Graciela Aguirre.
Presume everyone saw the news? She said she has proof that PRIDE is behind Molly's disappearance.
- You told us she was a distant relative - [DALE CLEARS THROAT.]
she lived alone and went to church.
- We may have underestimated her - She's feisty.
and not the most trusting soul, especially when it comes to us.
Sounds like more loose ends.
Someone needs to pay Graciela a visit.
Find out what she knows.
Make sure no one else learns it.
Gimme me an address.
- I'll deal with it.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Pump the brakes there, big guy.
Haven't enough innocent people died? Wouldn't it be great if we could, just, you know, dial down the murdering, just a little? Need we remind you of the mindwipe drug we created for just such an occasion? Yes, and we have made significant improvements Tremendous.
since it was first used on Frank Dean.
Yes.
Big improvements.
Yeah.
Fine.
But Robert and I are coming with you.
It's not that we don't trust you, but we don't.
[ALEX SIGHS.]
Must be out of my damn mind meeting you.
Shit's been on the news nonstop.
I'm aware.
Thanks for coming.
Hey every day you survive out there, it's another day your dad suffers.
I'm good with that.
OK, I wouldn't have called if it wasn't an emergency, all right, but [SIGHS.]
we need more money.
What? You already spent the fifteen hundred I gave you? What, you've been posting up at the Four Seasons? - We got robbed.
- That's why I gave you a gun.
Damn, man.
Parents raised you soft in Brentwood.
Please.
I can't go back to my friends empty-handed.
They're counting on me.
I'll do anything.
[SOFT CHUCKLE.]
OK, little homie.
But you want more? This time you've gotta earn it.
And you not gon' like it.
[HELICOPTER PASSES OVERHEAD.]
So how do we get to Graciela's? She lives, like, 20 miles away.
Uh, yeah.
Remember when life was so easy, like, 48 hours ago when we all had cell phones and Lyft accounts? - Do payphones still exist? - Even if they did, they require payment.
- We could take the Metrolink.
- Public transportation? Does anybody even know how to do that? I do.
That's how I got to school from Graciela's.
I still have my card.
You take the Purple line to the Red line, then you transfer to the Yellow line, then there's another Red one the last two are buses, not trains.
Only we would do it backwards, because we're going the opposite direction.
- But there's one problem.
- KAROLINA: Only one? The train runs only during rush hour.
- Which is hours from now.
- And too late for Graciela.
Of course, the d-bag who owns that car could go wherever he wants.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
Yes.
Yes he can.
Today.
Why do you think they're called time shares, bro? VALET: Range Rover.
CHASE: Babe, I was not flirting with that girl.
KAROLINA: Babe, you so were.
You're a giant dick.
No, I'm not.
I was being nice! That's the opposite of a giant dick.
- Keys.
- Oh, yeah.
Were you being nice when you banged my roommate? That's right.
You're a giant dick.
[MAN CHATTERS ON PHONE.]
- Pretty white privilege for the win.
- Yeah.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
You still got that piece I gave you? Yeah.
[SIGHS.]
Hold it right, as if you were gonna use it.
Gimme.
ALEX: What the hell? Oh, you thought I gave that to you? More like loaned it long enough to make sure your Wilder DNA is all over it.
You don't know what's been done with it, but I do and it's on you now.
You're framing me? Hold up.
We're still friends.
Just given your lineage, I need an insurance policy to make sure we stay that way.
Also, you ain't safe with that thing.
Cop sees you with it, you're shot in the head.
Come on.
Let's go.
Respect yourself, protect yourself.
Can't mess up that fine outfit.
It's actually from a thrift store.
Uh, not that it really matters.
I'm just I don't know, I'm getting a really bad feeling about what's up these stairs and what you expect me to do once we get to the top.
Stop.
First time is never easy but you'll be a man after this.
[EXHALES.]
At least give me back the gun.
[HINGES CREAK.]
I'm thinkin' a seafoam green.
You wanted me to paint? [LAUGHS.]
Man, what the hell did you think? You watch too many Tarantino movies.
Scorsese and shit.
Not even remotely funny.
It is to me.
Now get to it.
Baby's due in two weeks.
It's gonna be a boy.
You must be hungry, coming all this way to visit me.
- Oh.
Wow.
Isn't that nice, sweetie? - [LAUGHS NERVOUSLY.]
Look at all those little cookies.
- Mm.
- ¡Sabrosos! [CHUCKLES.]
We honeymooned in Zihuat.
- SÃ, sÃ.
- He just loves local cultures.
Well, claro que.
Now, what do you want? Well, Graciela, we're just we're very worried about - Molly.
- Molly.
Um, we how she is, where she is I told Detective Flores everything I knew, which is nothing.
And yet you do seem to know something.
Uh, yeah, about us or about PRIDE Graciela, I'm just gonna cut straight to the point.
Now, despite serving some very nice pan dulces [NERVOUS LAUGHTER.]
you obviously don't like us very much, and A part of that could just be our personalities, but You saw the news, and you want to know what's on that tape from the Hernandezes.
Yes.
The tape.
I'll get it for you.
I suppose it's only right that you know the truth.
- Yes.
The truth is always right.
- SÃ.
Entendió.
- DALE: Yes - Yes.
I'll be back.
¡La verdad! [CHUCKLES.]
- There's a tape - There's a tape.
- and we're gonna get it - OK.
- and then we will jab her.
- Oh, yeah.
It'll be like we were never here, and she never saw any tape, right? - Hon? - What? - Maybe I should do the jabbing.
- What? We never really discussed who was gonna jab.
No, no, no, no, no.
You go for the tape.
- I know - I'll sneak up beside her, - and I'll just give her the business.
- [COCKS PISTOL.]
- Oh, Jesus! - Oh! Graciela's a Bond Villain.
You want the tape? Here it is.
[YORKES BOTH SHOUTING.]
[GRUNTS.]
GRACIELA: You wanna be next? [BOTH PANTING.]
The hunters have become the hunted! [LAUGHS.]
STACEY: OK, where's the serum? Where's the serum? You have to jab her.
You have to jab her.
In the leg or the foot or something.
So she can forget how to shoot that thing? - Yeah! - Besides, I I kinda dropped it.
- STACEY: What? What?! - DALE: I'm sorry! - [EXPLOSIVE SOUND.]
- [WIND WHOOSHING.]
STACY: Oh! - You want me to shoot you, too? - Choke.
[GRUNTING, WHIMPERING.]
[WHOOSHING CONTINUES.]
[GRACIELA CONTINUES CHOKING.]
[WIND CHIMES TINKLING.]
[ENGINE REVVING.]
[TIRES SQUEAL.]
Molly.
Wait, what if our parents are in there? - [DOORBELL RINGS.]
- Graciela? - [BANGING ON DOOR.]
- Graciela? MOLLY: Graciela! Graciela, ¡háblame por favor! Maybe she got smart and left.
MOLLY: [SOBS.]
No.
She's dead.
CHASE: There's no sign of a struggle.
Maybe she couldn't take the stress and had a heart attack? That's what they want people to believe.
Our parents staged this.
We must have just missed them.
[GERT PANTING.]
Th That's a body.
I ca I can't.
I can't.
[GERT HYPERVENTILATING.]
She didn't do anything wrong.
I know, Mols.
We gotta go.
We can't just leave her.
We have to call the police! I'm sure Flores is on his way.
Our parents own the police, remember? [SIREN APPROACHING.]
KAROLINA: Molly? Seriously? You're robbing a dead person? Look, I know it's harsh but this is our reality now.
[SIREN CONTINUES.]
[MULTIPLE SIRENS APPROACH.]
Hey, be careful.
Don't drip, bruh, and put tape and shit around the windows, man.
TAMAR: Hey, D, how's it lookin' in there? DARIUS: Gotta go.
Hold on.
You went with the seafoam.
We agreed to go with robin's egg.
OK, we definitely did not agree, 'cause there is no way I'm raising my boy inside an egg.
You ain't gonna be around to raise him if you don't change this color.
- [ALEX CHUCKLES.]
- I'm sure your friend doesn't mind.
DARIUS: But I do, and if you cared so much, you should've been here when I started.
I had a doctor's appointment.
Thanks for coming.
My sister drove.
Livvie, get in here and tell Darius how wrong he is.
- Yup, I agree.
- DARIUS: You didn't even look up.
Don't need to.
Tamar is always right.
TAMAR: That's a smart girl right there.
[DARIUS SIGHS.]
All right, then.
Looks like we gotta start over.
I don't normally get rolled like this, but, uh, my lady's very emotional these days 'cause of the hormones.
Don't hormone me.
This shit is ugly.
I swear to God, Darius, I think you're color blind.
It's fine.
I don't mind.
This is the new Andre? Nah.
Don't get used to this kid, he's just here to do some manual labor.
I'm Livvie.
Nice to meet you.
Sorry about making you start over.
Um, to tell the truth, I agree.
These hands don't feel like they've done a lot of manual labor.
What'd you say your name was? TAMAR: He didn't.
DARIUS: Livvie, say goodbye, OK? My boy's got a lot of work to do here, and it needs to get done before Tamar's water breaks, so off you go.
- Tape.
- DARIUS: Yo, will you calm down? Great idea, D.
, bringin' him into our house.
And now Livvie's involved? I didn't know you were bringing her here.
How do you think I got here? I can't fit behind a steering wheel.
What's the real? 'Cause he's cute.
He is Alex Wilder, America's Most Wanted.
Doesn't seem like it.
That's because you do not know him.
And you're not going to.
I want him gone.
I can't budge on this one, Tam.
You gotta trust me, OK? This is for the best for all of us.
[CHATTER.]
This is where Alex told us to meet him.
CHASE: If all these people can survive out here, so can we.
How's Old Lace holding up? She's great.
She's really settling in.
She's actually quite the Dumpster connoisseur, - and if I'm calm, then she's calm.
- You don't seem calm.
That's a really helpful thing to say to someone while they're trying to be chill so that their psychically-linked dinosaur doesn't freak out, which would be so much easier if I had my meds, but they're in my room, which is next to my parents' room, who, just if we need a little reminder, tend to murder people.
So what you're saying is you're not calm? Um, there's a whole tone I'm trying to follow.
I can't believe we left Graciela.
She at least deserved a funeral.
She's gonna get one.
CHASE: Come on.
NICO: It's Wiccan tradition.
The candle can be adorned with anything that resonates with the energy of the deceased.
Then we add our own offerings.
[TRAIN CLATTERING.]
NICO: As we all come from the goddess to experience life in death so shall we return to her to experience peace.
By the element of Earth you were grounded in the physical world.
By the element of Air you were open to knowledge and communication.
By the element of Fire, you were inspired with passion.
By the element of Water, you could dream your dreams.
So now, by Earth, by Air, by Fire, by Water shall you pass to the next stage of your existence.
Molly you want to say something? MOLLY: I didn't really get a chance to know her that well, but she was kind to me and she gave me a chance to see my parents again, if only for a little while.
She was the last blood relative I had and now she's gone.
Everything's been taken away from me.
I have no one.
You have us.
Merry we meet, and merry we part until we meet again.
- NICO: Hey.
- KAROLINA: Hey.
That was really beautiful.
I thought I was done with religion.
You're gonna convert from Gibborim to Wiccan now? That would be a first.
I just meant "thank you.
" We all really needed something to believe in.
[SCOFFS.]
You gave us that.
They're our parents.
[VOICE BREAKING.]
How could they be such monsters? Hey.
We're not them.
We're better.
We can fix the world that they broke.
FEMALE VOCALIST: My name on your lips Your air in my lungs Drowned in oxygen Now you've set the scene High on intimacy Drawing me above Everything OK over here? - No, not really.
- [OLD LACE SNORTS.]
Look, I know seeing a dead body is traumatic.
We all felt the same.
Yeah, but some of us were strong enough to be there for Molly, and some of us, as in only me, completely froze up right when she needed me the most.
Um, thanks thank you for being there for her for stepping in when I couldn't.
Of course.
After being the guy who fell asleep on lookout, it's nice somebody thinks I'm good for something.
Yeah.
I think you're good for a few things.
Oh, yeah? Oh, I I meant things like babysitting Old Lace while I go talk to Molly.
[OLD LACE GROWLING.]
- Hey Hey! - [ROARS.]
She hates me.
GERT: Molly? I am so sorry.
I'm not.
I'm just angry.
Who's gonna get justice for Graciela? Maybe, instead of running from danger, we should run at it.
I don't want any more innocent people getting hurt, and I can do something about it.
[ALEX GROANS.]
Found you guys.
I, uh, got us some tents, sleeping bags, couple of cheap burner phones.
You bought all of this? Uh, yes.
Well, some of it was on sale, but, yes.
OK.
You're welcome.
Was it PRIDE? Isn't it always? MALE VOCALIST: Some velvet JONAH: It's a little gritty for my taste, but if it's home to you This is the last day before my father left us.
He was not a sophisticated man, but he was a hard worker.
It's funny.
People liked him.
Of course, he was sober at work.
I used to sit at the counter and do my homework while he cooked in the back.
[WIND WHISTLING.]
And how she made it end Might think this was heaven, except you're here.
JONAH: I assure you, you're still very much alive.
Well, "very much" might be overstating a little bit, - but you're hangin' in there.
- [SCOFFS.]
This is a healing algorithm, a safe place for your mind to exist while your body repairs itself.
And my algorithm just happens to have a back door, so you can drop by unannounced.
[CHUCKLES.]
I understand this feels like an intrusion, but I have a problem, and you're the only one who can help me.
[SIGHS.]
You see, Victor, I'm going somewhere very soon.
I've been waiting for this for a long time, longer than you could ever imagine, and [SIGHS.]
I can't let anything and I mean anything get in the way of that.
What is that? Besides disgusting.
I'm assuming the kid Geoffrey pulled off the streets was depleted when we converted him, and I exerted quite a bit of energy e during an altercation with the kids.
The kids? Is Chase OK? No thanks to you.
I was the only casualty, I'm afraid, but, if I'm gonna heal myself, I need another box.
Yeah, Tina destroyed it saving Robert, who was sacrificing himself for Janet.
- I - Long story.
You don't need the details.
Don't want them.
I understand.
I'm the only one who can make a box.
Ironically, I'm basically in one hence your virtual visit.
And if I don't save you, I may not save myself.
All those magazine covers did not lie.
- You're sharp.
- [VICTOR CHUCKLES.]
I'll do it but we'll need help.
JONAH: Who could possibly help us? My wife.
[DEVICE CHIRPS.]
[PHONE VIBRATING.]
What the hell did you do? Wrote a touching obituary, if I do say so myself.
We handled our business.
PRIDE's business.
As you can see, it's far from the front page, and it says she died of natural causes.
It says she died.
I thought we were trying to avoid that.
Look, we did not anticipate her enthusiasm for the owning of large guns.
Or her skill at using them.
OK, the important thing is we got what we needed, a tape made by the Hernandezes.
Bullet-riddled.
But I was able to scan it.
We've all just watched it.
And? Thank God the kids stopped that dig when they did.
Otherwise, who knows what would've happened.
Well, we do now.
Earthquakes.
With lots of horrible consequences.
Jonah killed Gene and Alice to keep them from warning us.
Yeah.
Technically, it wasn't Jonah.
Maybe now would be a good time for the two of you to share your discovery with the group.
What's down in that hole is alive.
- Alive? - DALE: It's not life as as we conventionally understand it, but it has a strong energy signature, seems sentient.
STACEY: It also makes a noise.
- [DALE CLEARS THROAT.]
- We think it's some kind of language.
Holy shit.
It talks? Maybe they do.
There may be more than one.
We don't know yet.
Do you think Jonah knows what what they are? ROBERT: Or is he possibly the same thing? I mean, the guy requires sacrificed teenagers to survive.
And he glows.
I'm guessing that's not a medical condition.
Look, we examined the DNA from the serum that we stole, and And Jonah is not what you would call human.
No shit.
GEOFFREY: Leslie, maybe you can enlighten us? I wish I could.
I've known Jonah my whole life.
But where he came from before that or who he is, I have no idea.
I'm only just now realizing how much he kept from me.
TINA: Well, great.
We may have just helped an alien unearth more aliens? I have no idea what's going on at that dig site.
It's controlled by the church now.
The kids broke the drill, damaged the controls.
Jonah hasn't mentioned trying to fix it.
I don't know if that's because it's not possible JANET: Or it doesn't matter.
ROBERT: Because he already got far enough.
We have to kill him.
- Now.
- DALE: That's - That's not gonna be easy.
- His DNA is self-healing.
Conventional means won't work.
- Then we gotta get un conventional.
- We are working on it.
JANET: Let's not forget that our kids are missing.
So maybe we forget about Jonah for a second - and we try to find them.
- That's what we've been saying.
No.
What we do, we do together from now on.
No factions.
No secrets.
One voice.
[GEOFFREY SCOFFS.]
Let me guess.
Yours? I think this job is big enough to share.
Be willing to have you as my co-captain.
That still sounds like a dictatorship.
Last time we had a vote, you got boxed.
I'm in.
We said we were done with PRIDE, and you sign up to be co-chair with Tina? Let them take care of Jonah, then we take care of them.
- Being on the inside can only help.
- So, we're assassins now.
We have been for a while.
We just got new targets.
[FISTIGONS FIRE.]
[NEARBY EXPLOSIONS.]
[FISTIGONS FIRING.]
[EXCITED CHATTER.]
[PEOPLE SHOUTING.]
KAROLINA: Nothing good makes that sound.
- I know what is is.
- Let's go! - Do you guys hear that? - NICO: Yeah, come on! ALEX: Why are we running toward the explosions? [INDISTINCT SHOUTING.]
MAN: Mike On A Bike's lost it! - [FISTIGONS FIRE.]
- Hey! Hey! CHASE: Hey! - Don't point those at anything living.
- MOLLY: Especially us! - What the hell are these things? - It's hard to explain, - but we tried to warn you.
- KAROLINA: He's scared.
It's okay.
We can help you.
NICO: Yeah, just be still.
- We'll come to you.
- [FISTIGONS CHARGE UP.]
[ALL SCREAM.]
MIKE: Oh, no, I'm keepin' these.
[RUNAWAYS EXCLAIM.]
CHASE: No, no! Hey! Don't! - KAROLINA: Aah! - NICO: Don't shoot! - GERT: Holy shit.
- [MIKE LAUGHING.]
His nickname is "Mike On A Bike.
" Yeah? Well, mine is "Chase.
" That's not technically a nick Never mind.
Molly! Helmet.
CHASE: Come on! Faster! GERT: He's heading up the hill! CHASE: I can't close in.
We gotta find another way.
Come find me.
I need you.
[WHISTLES.]
What is she doing? - [OLD LACE GROWLING.]
- MIKE: Aah! "You know how to whistle, don't ya? Just put your lips together and blow.
" You can educate me later.
- [OLD LACE GROWLING.]
- [MIKE WHIMPERING.]
Don't shoot her! GERT: Old Lace, get back! [FISTIGONS CHARGE UP.]
- [KIDS EXCLAIM.]
- [OLD LACE ROARS.]
MIKE: Leave me alone! Get away from me! - Aah! - NICO: Karolina! You guys are into some seriously weird shit.
You don't know the half of it.
I got 'em! What are you guys doin'? Guys! I found something.
FEMALE VOCALIST: You say I'm bad to the bone - 'Cause my blood runs cold - GERT: Come on! Over here! - And the dealer, he folds - Molly, you find anything? But he can't and he won't walk away Oh, oh, but not me - MOLLY: Guys! - CHASE: What is this place? By the wings on the back of my shoulder blades Gonna run away until they understand Oh, oh, to the sun Where the river runs dry I was gone in the blink of an eye Ooh, yeah, we're runaways, yeah, we're runaways - GERT: Come on, girl! - Yeah, we're runaways Ooh, ooh Yeah, we're runaways Yeah, we're runaways - [OLD LACE ROARS.]
Gonna run away until they understand I'm not sorry for the insanity We're racing to the end to meet Oh, we heard a gunshot ALEX: Whoa! Careful! OK? It might not be safe.
NICO: Something tells me it is.
- That we are.
- You and me - Till the end - [OLD LACE CHIRRS.]
GERT: Oh Girl, stay.
It's probably better if we test the stairs without a dinosaur.
Where the river runs dry I was gone in the blink of an eye Ooh, yeah, we're runaways Yeah, we're runaways Yeah, we're runaways Ooh, ooh Yeah, we're runaways Huh.
Looks like we aren't the first ones to discover this place.
GERT: Guys, it's amazing up here.
Except for the bathroom, which is pretty gross.
There's also no power or water.
Which would explain said grossness.
Also, I think we have raccoons.
KAROLINA: Sounds great.
[CHUCKLES.]
NICO: Sounds like home.
ALEX: Well, come on, but I just bought all the tents.
- Kidding, kidding.
- Gonna run away - KAROLINA: Right.
- NICO: Good one.
Where is your tent? Just put it down here if you want.
[OLD LACE PURRING.]
Gonna run away until they understand [FOOTSTEPS.]
JONAH: I knew you'd come.
[CHUCKLES.]
There's no need to be afraid.
After all, you asked me to meet you.
I know.
And thank you.
I I just shouldn't be here.
Why? Because of your friends? My dear, however important they are to you, I assure you nothing's more important than learning about who and what you are.
I assume that's why you're here.
Not because I like you or because I agree with any of the things that you've done, but because I need to know.
I can only imagine how lonely and confused you must feel.
- [RUMBLING.]
- [GASPS.]
Oh! What's happening? It's starting.