Light as a Feather (2018) s02e08 Episode Script

1 NARRATOR: Previously on Light as a Feather.
ALEX: Oh, my God.
Who did you kill? Blackout or not, I'm still doing the same thing she did.
With hypnosis, we can trick your brain into thinking it's actually asleep and see what happens.
Oh, my God.
[SCREAMS.]
Wrong place, wrong time, huh? ALEX: I thought you were dead.
VIOLET: I was.
We're still cursed.
Just tell me what's going on.
She she wasn't gonna do it herself.
I had to do it for her.
Jennie? [DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
SKYE: Inhale, two, three.
Exhale, two, three.
[EERIE MUSIC.]
[SOMBER MUSIC.]
Jennie? JENNIE: I'm still here.
I don't understand.
JENNIE: One body, one soul.
It's gone.
JENNIE: I'm doing what has to be done.
That was you.
The blackouts, you you led that game? Why? So you wouldn't have to.
I'm sorry.
[INTENSE MUSIC.]
Jennie? How is this happening? [SHUDDERS.]
This shit just keeps getting weirder.
Jennie where's Sammi? It was either her or Mack.
I had no choice.
I'm sor Hey, whoa.
Whoa, hey, hey.
Hey.
Hey.
Trey.
Trey, it's Jennie.
No, I know.
She did something to Sammi.
She thinks she's protecting me.
- Where is she? - I don't I don't know.
- Try to remember! - You know I can't! Jesus, McKenna! If she's dead This can't be happening.
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
This can't be happening.
If she's dead no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
MCKENNA: It's the Somerville Ice House.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
Ice? Oh, my God.
Come on.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC SWELLS.]
[ETHEREAL MUSIC.]
[TIRES SQUEAL.]
[TENSE MUSIC.]
Sammi! [GRUNTS.]
I'll never forgive myself if she's Even if it was Jennie, I can't believe she'd do something like this.
When did Jennie not fight your battles for you? Jennie! Jennie! SAMMI: Trey? - Trey! - TREY: Sammi! - SAMMI: Hello? - [LOUD POUNDING.]
- Help! - [POUNDING CONTINUES.]
Hello? [GASPING.]
It was it was her.
It's okay.
- SAMMI: It was her.
- Here.
SAMMI: Don't touch me! I know it's gonna sound crazy because it is, but it wasn't her.
It was Jennie.
[GASPING.]
[BIRDS CHIRPING.]
[GENTLE MUSIC.]
Dude, seriously? I'll give you at least a minute to get your shit all pretty for Henry.
Stop.
JENNIE: Complaining will not make me go any faster.
[HEAD THUDS.]
Oh, pancakes, I love it.
Yeah, no patients till noon, and I haven't had a carb in 37 months.
Wow.
Mmm, pancakes.
- Jennie, get a plate.
- JENNIE: [LAUGHS.]
ED: You guys are up early.
Yeah, Henry Richmond has a tennis match, and McKenna has to fawn all over him.
She's super in love.
Oh, my God, stop.
I'm not I'm not in love with Henry.
- Bullshit.
- ED: Hey! - Remind us of our swearing rule.
- Watch it.
BOTH: Not around Grandma.
Not at school.
Not at the dinner table.
We're not at the We're not at the table.
And it's not dinnertime.
[CAR HORN HONKS.]
It's Alex.
Bye.
ED: Mm.
- DEB: What, hey, what? - What? It's for Mack.
I hope you're hungry.
- [DOOR SLAMS.]
- [LAUGHS.]
I figured out a way I can help.
Help with what? Well, you said you guys are trying to dig up as much as you can on this curse and that you found a missing poster for Margaret Abbott but there was no sign that she died.
So maybe she got out of the curse.
So maybe McKenna can too.
But there's zero about her online.
My brother used to go missing sometimes.
And after the police stopped helping me find him, I used this online community of armchair detectives, and they, like, chase people down based on public record.
They found him every time.
I already gave them Margaret's name.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
What was that for? Not only do you believe us about some cursed slumber party game, but you didn't bail and you're helping.
I don't know what to say, so I'm just gonna hug you for a little while.
[GIGGLES.]
How does "love" mean "zero" and then you jump straight to 15? What is happening? Thanks for the ride.
Her Highness was annoyingly chipper today.
Sure.
Speak of the devil.
Let me guess, Alex is still bitching about the complexity of the tennis scores.
Hey, tennis makes no damn sense.
Yo, Mack, over here! Sorry, that's my sister.
Who's she talking to? Some prep school tennis groupie.
Does anyone have any cash? I want a snow cone from the concession stand.
I have exactly one dollar.
That's not enough.
Ah, just pull a Livvy.
Bat your eyelashes to get your way.
OLIVIA: Oh, my God, you're still mad.
On the way over here, we stopped for coffee.
It was awful, so I said something and I didn't have to pay for mine and she's pissed.
It was terrible coffee, and I still had to pay for mine.
OLIVIA: Fine, you big baby.
I'll get some for us now, my treat.
- ALEX: Mm.
- Hmm.
But you better appreciate me.
- MCKENNA: Hey! - Who's in? I'll help.
JENNIE: Bye.
Okay, is it me or is Livvy, like, really [CLICKS TONGUE.]
Extra this year? - Yeah.
- [GROWLS.]
She's been like that ever since she started up with Isaac.
No, I don't think it's him.
- HENRY: Hey, guys.
- ALEX: Hey.
What's the name of this chump you're murdering again? Uh, Marc Regan.
- He's actually pretty good.
- Marc Regan sucks! Boo! Could you just not embarrass me? Yeah, that ship's sailed.
Nice ass today, Henry.
I mean, good good luck today, Henry.
Were you making fun of Mack? Just a little.
I almost had you, though, right? It was it was pretty good.
[GIRLS LAUGH.]
Mack still worked up about Henry? Yeah, like rom-com level obsession.
She loses, like, 30 IQ points whenever he looks her way.
JENNIE: Yeah, it'll never happen, hence why I must get 100% up in their shit.
ALEX: Yes.
ALL: [GIGGLE.]
Here.
.
It's the least I could do Maybe you could buy me a new phone too.
[KNOCK ON DOOR.]
[DOOR SCRAPES.]
Hey.
Whoa, what happened to you? Oh, uh, Jennie Brady possessed McKenna, knocked me out, and locked me in an icebox today, so How was your day? Jennie? Jesus.
Peri.
I, um Wish I could have met you sooner under less weird circumstances.
So I found Margaret Abbott.
What? How? Margaret changed her name to Sylvia Gallagher, and we have an address Wait, seriously? Well, we should go, like, right now.
We need to get her temperature up.
Yeah, but if Margaret or Sylvia or or whoever she is, if she played and she's still alive, we should [GASPS.]
Hey, hey, hey, are you okay? Yeah, yeah, I'm fine.
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
Let's go.
[OMINOUS MUSIC.]
[EERIE MUSIC.]
[CELL PHONE RINGING.]
- Yeah.
- MURRAY: Miss Simmons, this is Murray from over at the auto body shop.
What's the damage? MURRAY: Like literally or the cost of What happened? MURRAY: Well, if we were in a spy movie, I'd say your brake lines were cut.
Good thing you weren't on a hill when it happened.
Yeah, good thing.
Just fix it.
[OMINOUS MUSIC.]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
- WOMAN: [LAUGHS.]
I know, right? - MAN: Yes! CANDACE: I'm just saying, there's a rule about dating your friend's brother.
I'm not trying to date him.
That rule also applies to hooking up.
Does Jennie have a thing for your misfit next door? MCKENNA: Trey? No way.
Hey, would you guys mind not mentioning the sociology project that Livvy and I are doing when she gets here? The lunchtime sociology project talk is kinda my thing, so We're doing this thing on bullying, and I haven't quite done my part yet.
I'm supposed to interview people who have been bullied, but Willow Falls High is either bully-free - [SCOFFS.]
- Or no one wants to go on record.
CANDACE: [LAUGHS.]
Hey, you guys want to Mack, do you have those testimonials? Um, actually, I was gonna ask Miss J for some more time.
What? Why? You've had weeks.
The presentation is due tomorrow.
I know, but I tried and no one wanted to talk.
Okay, well, I'm not flunking this class, so I guess we'll just have to make it up.
The testimonials, you want me to lie? Come on, Mack, who cares? Well, I care.
OLIVIA: Yeah, and I care about my GPA, so just make it up, now.
Well, at least we know there's one bully that goes to Willow Falls High.
BOTH: [GIGGLE.]
That's what you should do, Mack: you be the testimonial.
Yeah, that'll go over great.
No, I'm serious, knock her down a peg.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
[LINE TRILLING.]
[PHONE RINGING.]
Hello? Lisa, it's Violet Simmons.
Isaac isn't answering his phone.
Is he there? Can I talk? He's not here.
VIOLET: Do you know where he is? Yeah.
Lisa.
My mom told Isaac to stop hanging out with you.
Did you know that? 'Cause you were in juvie.
Please tell me where he is.
So I'm gonna hang up now.
VIOLET: Listen, I've had a really shitty day, okay? Someone stole something really important from me, and I'm on my last damn nerve.
The last time someone pushed me this far, I cracked my friend's skull and ended up in juvie, so do you have any more of that junior high attitude for me? No.
[MEASURED.]
Where is Isaac? He went to see our grandma.
He's her favorite.
He's everyone's favorite.
[SCOFFS.]
It's kinda nauseating.
[DIAL TONE.]
Shit.
MCKENNA: Miss Gallagher? Hi, um, can we ask you some questions? Are you Margaret Abbott? Is this you? Get get off my property.
Please, it'll just take a second.
Wait, we played Light as a Feather.
PERI: People have died.
[OMINOUS MUSIC.]
Did you play the game? Yes, and I barely got out of it.
Well, how? How did you get out? The first time, I was the only one left alive.
The second, it was on me.
The game feeds on souls, so I gave it enough to be sated.
What does that mean? We played in an old hospital where an outbreak had killed dozens.
I didn't know if it would work, but nobody died, and little by little, that thing on my back healed and went away.
That is all I know.
Now leave! Oh, my God.
We got it.
Let's go.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
HENRY: McKenna! Alex! [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC SWELLS.]
[EERIE MUSIC.]
Fresh from the dryer.
Have you ever tried to play a barre chord with frostbite? [CELL PHONE RINGING.]
It's Mack.
Look, you have every right to be pissed, but you have to believe me.
I've known her my whole life, and she wouldn't do anything to hurt anyone.
Yeah, sure, she's a saint, till she falls asleep.
Hey, was it her? Yes, she played and she survived and she told us how.
She said we should play the game again, which is a terrible idea.
She said she fed the game souls in a place where a lot of people died.
I don't I don't know.
We have to do this, Trey, as soon as possible.
I can't let anyone else die.
Okay, I get it.
So who plays? I was hoping everyone else from the last game: Isaac.
Sammi.
Like I have a choice.
MCKENNA: And Violet owes us.
You have to have five.
You're still one short.
I know, and I can't just ask some random person on the street to do this.
He's right.
We need more people.
McKenna, I can't.
I cannot sit in that circle and go through it all again.
Please don't ask me to.
No, I would never.
I promise.
Don't worry.
Okay.
I'll do it.
Where? PERI: I have an idea about that.
You know that old factory off Highway 99 just north of town? Always creeps me out, but wasn't there a fire or an accident there? Yeah, we know where it is.
We're on our way.
We just need Isaac and Violet to meet us.
I guess I'll call her.
Hey.
We have to do this before Jennie does something that can't be undone.
Come on.
OLIVIA: Mack, are you freaking kidding me? My student government bid is based on an antibullying stance, and you label me a bully.
MCKENNA: That that was a joke.
You didn't turn that in, did you? Yeah, of course I did.
It was due.
You have to admit, it's, um, kinda hilarious.
Yeah, I don't think you understand the house of cards here.
Student government looks good on transcripts.
A good transcript leads to a good college.
She didn't lie, Livvy.
We all saw that you demand that she makes that shit up.
Okay, stop, I don't want everyone fighting.
I just thought it was funny.
So you'll redo it? I'll try and find people willing to talk, but I'm not lying, Liv.
CANDACE: Livvy, stop.
What is up with you? I I just I'm under a lot of pressure, okay? My parents are on me about going Ivy League, and I just can't screw up.
Well, why didn't you just say that from the start? Why would you make McKenna do something that you know she doesn't want to do? Look, Liv, it was it was my fault.
I'll I'll write it.
I'll do it tonight, and I'll send it over.
I can sound just like Mack.
Really? Don't you have a paper to write? JENNIE: I'll figure it out.
Just leave Mack out of it, okay? ALEX: We're hugging! ALL: [LAUGH.]
- ALEX: What did I miss? - Nothing.
So I kind of have a long night ahead of me.
Dude, you can't.
But you can? I should have never told you.
Come on, you know I hate coffee.
If I drink an energy drink, I'll just punch a hole in the wall.
Alex.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
[THUNDER RUMBLES.]
[EERIE MUSIC.]
[DOOR CREAKS AND THUDS.]
ALEX: Oh! We have a problem.
Someone's out to get me.
And this surprises you? They cut my brake line.
They recorded me in my home.
You were in the car with me.
You're about the only one I trust right now.
I can't even trust McKenna.
She keeps blacking out.
That's Jennie.
She takes over McKenna's body when she sleeps.
Jennie's still around? Hey, where's Isaac? I don't know.
One of you guys clued him in on what I did.
He's not answering my phone calls.
He's not even in town.
I thought you said you had answers.
PERI: Yo! Over here.
[WATER DRIPPING.]
We found Margaret Abbott.
She has a new name, Sylvia Gallagher.
She told us how to beat this thing, but she said that we have to play the game again.
VIOLET: Wait, what? Are you insane? No, this has always been a "last man standing" sort of thing.
If she beat it, then how did it get to me? That just doesn't add up.
I don't know.
I mean, maybe it left her and latched onto somebody before you.
ALEX: It's like a virus.
Maybe there are different strains.
There's a common root, but then it offshoots into multiple lines, and Sylvia ended hers.
What? I know stuff.
My sister's premed, you know.
No, no, never again.
You owe us.
You brought this on us.
MCKENNA: Violet, you've been trying to help me ever since the day I got you out.
In your weird, backwards way, you tried.
I mean, you could have let Alex die in that accident, and you didn't.
And I I never thought that I would say this, but on the other side of this, I understand what you went through.
And if you feel as bad as you say you do about everything you've done, you will do this for us.
I mean, that's why you're here, right? Because we said we had a way, so believe in it.
We have to play the game.
PERI: Guys.
Let's go.
[THUNDER RUMBLES.]
[TENSE MUSIC.]
I had this creepy image in my head of what this place might look like.
Turns out, it's worse.
- TREY: Yeah.
- [GASPS.]
Super swanky.
ALEX: [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
Trey, Isaac isn't coming.
SAMMI: Is it even gonna work then? One short.
I know.
Okay, fine, I'll play.
No, no, no, no.
We can wait for Isaac.
- [GASPS.]
- ALEX: Hey! No, we can't.
Look at her.
Eventually, she's going to fall asleep and Jennie is going to come back.
Who knows what happens then.
We can't wait.
I'm in.
Alex, you don't have to do this.
You promised.
I know.
ALEX: My choice.
Everyone else is diving in.
I'm not backing out if it means saving you.
And this place fits the bill? Oh, you don't know? This place has a body count.
They used to pump out cute little dolls in the '60s.
The boss was like a "own your soul" type.
He'd work everyone to the bone.
Then one day, a coworker popped into the closet, lit up a cigarette, accidentally set some newspaper on fire, and, of course, the smoke detectors' batteries hadn't been changed in years, so place went up pretty fast.
38 people died.
How do you know all that? VIOLET: Who doesn't love a good ghost story? Me.
I really, really don't.
MCKENNA: It's a little different when you know the ghost, Violet.
I've been living with Jennie since the day she died.
Now two people are dead.
And even if it was her doing, it's on me now.
This place seems right.
Let's just do this.
I feel it Breaking from these icy chains I hear the fire that speaks my name It begs me to come home again I hear it, I hear it Bound to the arrow calling me to follow Calling me to follow now Bound to the arrow calling me to follow Calling me to follow now And it haunts me, haunts me Yeah, it haunts me, haunts me It haunts me, haunts me Yeah, it haunts me, haunts me Running 'cross a garnished pave Was chosen by I'm sorry.
And soon I'll reach those pearly gates I'll reach them, I'll reach them So let's begin.
[THUNDER RUMBLES.]