Channel Zero (2016) s02e03 Episode Script

1 What if this is Room Six? What if we're still inside the house? Why would this place make another me? Is that what I am? My husband will be home soon.
I'm your husband.
Jules: This is not your home, and that is not your dad.
He killed himself.
Do you know how badly I've wanted a second chance to talk to him? Jules: Whatever is going on here, we should be terrified of it.
We need to find the exit door.
[whispered voices.]
[voices whispering intensely.]
[moans.]
Ho ho ho, who wouldn't go Jules, let your sister open it first.
Ho ho ho, who wouldn't go Up on the housetop [moaning.]
[indistinct voices.]
- I've missed this.
- Pizza from Sciscilo's.
[moaning.]
Jules.
- Jules.
- Good-bye, little sis.
[moaning.]
Hey.
You okay? Yeah.
Are you sure? You wanna talk? No.
What I wanna do is go and get Margot.
I just can't let anything happen to her.
You know, she's the closest thing I have to a sister.
[light music.]
[eerie music.]
Morning, Margot.
Morning, Margot.
Morning.
Morning, Margot.
Morning.
Morning, Margot.
Morning, Margot.
Morning, Margot.
Good morning, Margot! Morning, Margot.
Good morning.
Good morning, Margot.
Morning, Margot.
Dad? Morning, Margot.
[intense music.]
Hey.
What would you like for breakfast? I don't know, you are full of surprises.
No, not really.
Where's, um Jules, she left.
Remember? No, not Jules.
It's just you and me.
Hey, my head kinda hurts.
Are you having breakfast, too? I ate.
Why didn't you wait for me? Oh, you are full of questions.
Can you blame me? No.
Wish I had more answers.
But somehow I think I was put here because that's what you wanted.
Or needed.
And I'm not gonna look a miracle in the mouth.
Look at that, look at that.
Aren't you beautiful, Lacey? Aren't you beautiful? That's you and me.
Huh? Look at that, baby.
That's our life.
You remember that? Can't you see how much we love each other? Huh? Do you remember that? Can you see how happy we were? Who's that? That Is that someone you imagined? Does he really exist or is that just pictures? He exists.
I married him.
No, no, you married me.
You married me.
Yeah.
Hey, look who I found.
Hey.
Did you know that it takes 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup? Yeah, I think you told me that once.
I guess that's why it's so expensive.
Agh! [dishes clattering, water running.]
Why'd you do it? Do what? Leave us.
I was, uh, hoping we could work our way up to this.
So we can't talk about this? If certain thoughts are gonna hurt you, it might be best not to think them.
Well, how am I supposed to do that? You died.
Fair point.
Everything I've thought since then, it brings me back to that.
I found you.
You didn't look like you.
Your face You know, death used to be this thing that was it was out of sight, it was in hospitals and on the news.
You know, it's abstract until it's right there in your living room.
And then it's heavy.
And it's cold.
And it smells bitter.
And, you know, it wasn't just why you did it that I couldn't stop thinking about it.
It was it was what it must have felt like for you.
You know, to have your throat closing up and your eyes swelling.
Being suffocated by your own face.
I became obsessed with it.
I just wanted to see what you saw and feel what you felt.
Just anything that would make me feel closer to you again.
It happened fast.
And the, uh the reaction just squeezed all the thoughts out of my head, like toothpaste.
Like toothpaste.
Then I passed out.
There wasn't much pain.
Really? Really.
I love you, Margot.
And I am here for you.
Okay? Okay.
More syrup? No.
[laughs.]
Okay.
[tense music.]
Okay, let's go for a run.
[Corinne talking distortedly.]
I'm gonna go for a walk.
What? Wait, wait.
Let go.
- Stay here, hon.
- No, I wanna go for a walk.
- Why? - I need some air.
Well, I'll join you.
Um, you know, I just actually need some time to think.
I'm gonna go to my room.
Um [knocks.]
You okay? Can I just have a minute? You can have all the time in the world.
[tense music.]
[muffled bangs.]
Okay, so what's the plan? How are we gonna, you know, get out of here? If there even is a way out of here? We came in through a door.
If there's a way in, there's got to be a way out.
Right? She's right.
We'll find it.
We'll keep looking until we do.
After we get Margot.
[knocking.]
Margot.
Are you ready to talk? Margot.
I know you saw what was in the trash.
I'm still trying to figure this out for myself, but I think that's what I eat, and I think I wanted you to see it because I think that I'm gonna get hungry again soon, and I think it's gonna get worse, and I think I might lose control, so Unless you could maybe, you know, feed me.
Okay, honey.
Okay.
You know how much I love you.
And I know that you love me, so Margot! Could you help me, please? Look, I think that, uh Can you just come back in a bit? Uh okay.
You know, I think you're starting to scare me, so could you open this door, please? [door bangs.]
Okay, look, I love you, and please just open the door.
Just open the door.
Open the door! Open the door! Let me in! [tense music.]
- You gotta help me, please.
- Watch the flowers.
Someone's trying to hurt me.
Can you help me, please? You think it's gonna rain? What? All right, there she is.
Margot! Margot! Margot! Margot! - Which way did she go? - Watch the flowers.
- Which way? - Hey, I said watch the flowers.
- Margot! - I said watch the flowers.
Which way did she go? Which way did she go? - Watch the flowers! - Let me go! Let me go! [overlapping shouting.]
Watch the flowers! I said watch the flowers! No! No! Margot? No! No! No, no! No! No! [screaming.]
No! God! No! No! [suspenseful music.]
Shhhhh.
Shhhhh.
Margot! Shhhhhh.
Shh-shhhhh! Shhh.
[Margot panting.]
[shouting in Russian.]
[Russian national anthem plays.]
- Hey, hey.
- Hey.
Shh, shh.
Margot! [Russian national anthem continues.]
Margot? [music stops.]
Margot? Margot? Martian? [banging.]
All right, come on.
[gentle music.]
You know when you lose a tooth, and you like push your tongue in the spot where it used to be? There's this mother-shaped hole in my brain.
I mean, I know I have a mother, but I can't remember anything about her.
It's like he took the memory and ate it.
Hey.
Can you check something out with me a couple streets over? [suspenseful music.]
Lacey, I'm home.
[Lacey grunting.]
Lacey.
Turn around.
Come here.
Yeah, okay, that's it.
Back up.
Back up I [muffled scream.]
He wasn't real, baby.
What'd you see in Room Five? Families.
What families? The ones I grew up with, in the foster homes.
They were all just in that room waiting for me.
What were they like? The families that you, like, actually grew up with? I don't remember.
You're not that old.
[chuckles.]
How old are you? I'm I'm in my 20s, okay? Okay.
That's not why I don't remember, all right? I don't remember because because I don't want to remember.
That easy, huh? You can decide to forget things.
The only thing I remember is the next family, because the next family was gonna be the good family.
Whoa, look.
What the hell is that? I think it's the edge of the world.
[gentle music.]
I went into one of those unfinished spaces before.
I just came out of another one.
But I don't know that I want to go into that.
Hey, but if this place has borders and we can see where they are, then at least we know what we're dealing with, right? Oh.
Hey.
Sorry.
God, you scared me.
You all right? You don't look too good.
Yeah, I, uh, think this place is making me sick.
I really need to get out of here.
You got any idea where to find the emergency exit? No, but you and me could go look for it.
I mean, it doesn't do us much good just to wait here till they get back.
Where are Margot and Seth? They went I don't know.
They went out.
What? Why? I don't know.
Small world.
Yeah, it only goes one way.
It's really something, isn't it? [chuckles.]
Are you kidding? Nothing wrong with enjoying the moment.
Hey, is that it? It might be.
Well, obviously it doesn't want to be found.
I mean, it's worth checking it out, right? [tense music.]
Margot! Shit.
Margot! Margot! Margot! Margot! Margot? Jules.
Where did you go? Hey, hey.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Come on, come on.
- Let's go! - Right now! Right now! - Jules! - Wait, is that him? - Go! Let's go! - Oh, God.
Come on, come on, come on.
Jules, come on.
[intense music.]
- We gotta keep moving.
- Wait, wait, wait.
We gotta hide.
He's coming.
Quick, over here.
Come on, come on.
No.
Margot, wait, please.
You asked me why I did it.
After I took the pills, I knew it was a mistake.
But it was too late.
I was in such pain.
It was like a storm that you kept waiting for it to pass, you know, but it it never did.
I was afraid that the pain was contagious, that you would be better off without me.
But-but you were what I had lived for.
You were what I had fought so long for.
I'm so sorry.
- I love you so much.
- Stop.
It's like you just pulled the words right out of my head.
You can't tell me anything I don't already know, can you? 'Cause you're not really him.
You're just made up of what I what I already know or what I hoped was true.
Honey, you What's up? We have guests.
Glad I found you guys.
I thought maybe I was the only one who made it this far.
Yeah, we should have listened to you when you warned us.
The house has a way of splitting people up.
It gets in your head, finds your weaknesses, and it makes these things out of them.
Like memories that eat other memories.
Yeah.
"Beware the cannibals.
" What happens to these cannibals when they run out of memories to eat? Who gives a shit? So you saw your dad.
What about the rest of you? Well, maybe you don't want to give it up just yet.
Maybe you're not ready to leave.
These people you see standing around, talking nonsense, they've been here too long.
Is that what happened to her? Yeah.
Yeah, there's not much left.
But if I could just get her back to reality, I think it'll come back to her.
Where do we go? How do we do that? We went back.
The house is gone.
So that's not an option.
Maybe we just have to find some other way.
It's not gone.
It's hiding.
It just keeps itself out of sight long enough that we get so hollow we forget to look for it.
Well, I think we know where it's hiding.
Yeah, she's right.
Then let's go.
No, let's head out in the morning.
[knocks gently.]
Hey.
Hi.
I couldn't sleep, so Really? Why? [both chuckle.]
You wanna come keep me company? Yeah, that's kind of why I'm here, I guess.
Where's Jules? [whispered voices.]
Margot: Oh, she's asleep.
Thanks for coming with me today.
Yeah, no, of course.
It must have been really hard.
You just don't always know what people are thinking, you know? Yeah, well, that's all life is, right? It's just one leap of faith after another, and end up just being a bunch of disappointments, and then you die.
- [both chuckle.]
- Oh, my God.
Okay.
[whispered voices.]
That's a great outlook on life.
That's great.
I know you like it 'cause you're actually a misanthrope.
No, I'm not.
[gentle music.]
[whispered voices.]
[voices rising.]
[Jules moans.]
- It's - [both laugh.]
Jules.
[laughter.]
[moaning.]
[eerie music.]
Jules.
Jules.
[moaning.]
[yells.]
You falling apart already? I, uh, think I'm allergic to something.
[Fever Ray's "Concrete Walls".]
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