The Dead Zone s02e12 Episode Script

I had the perfect life until I was in a coma for six years.
And then I woke up and found my fiancée married to another man.
My son doesn't know who I am.
Everything has changed including me.
One touch and I can see things things that happened, things that will happen.
You should see what I see.
Bruce: I wish I could find the words after so much time.
Father would have wanted me to give a sermon as he taught me.
Doesn't quite go with the hair, Daddy.
Our subject today: The end of the world.
- Audience: Amen.
- I beheld an angel.
I said I beheld an angel! Crowd: Amen! Y'all didn't hear me, I said I beheld an angel.
- Amen! - Hallelujah! I beheld an angel and he broke the seal.
Audience: Yes! Young Bruce: I beheld an angel and he broke the seal! - Come and see.
- Lewis: Amen! - He said, "Come and see.
" - Preach on! Amen! - Man: Hallelujah! - He said, "Come and see.
" Come and see.
I beheld the sun, black as sackcloth.
- Come and see.
- And the moon became as blood - Lewis: Yes! - And in heaven, there was silence.
Bruce: Thank you all for coming out.
Woman: We're gonna miss him so much.
Thank you for coming back with me, John.
I've learned more about you in the last two hours than you've told me in two years, man.
There's a lot of ghosts here starting with me.
Come on, man.
Deliver him from his sins, and let him partake of Thy redemption.
Man, your zone must be in overdrive.
I could feel you having a vision.
That never happened before.
Bruce? Please tell me you saw us on a plane going home tomorrow.
Not exactly.
(theme music playing) * Oooh * * Fall in love, fall in love, fall in love * * Fall in love * * Feel no shame for what you are * * Feel no shame for what you are * * Feel no shame for what you are * * Fall in love, fall in love * * Fall in love.
* Your mother says you've lived in a dozen different cities since you left home.
It's Maine right now, isn't it? Well, you know, I like being mobile.
It's the great thing about being a physical therapist.
Could you get any further from home? Did you stop running from Indiana when you got to the Atlantic Ocean? You should try the fried chicken, Dr.
McCants.
What are you searching for, Bruce? Can't you find it here with your mother? Carrying on the fine work of your father? Because she's gonna lose it all if you don't.
She's gonna lose the church and the house.
Thank you for making sure that I understood that.
Hey.
Alvin, too long, man.
Oh! It's so good to see you.
So sorry it had to be like this.
Hey, I want you to meet my wife Norma.
I didn't even know you were married, man.
- It's so nice to meet you.
- I'm sorry for your loss.
Bruce: Yeah.
Thank you.
Mother: Is there a special lady in his life? Oh, they're all special.
I mean uh Move back and forth like a typewriter.
You'll cover the room faster than if you just drift back and forth, back and forth.
Does he talk about us? Oh yeah, all the time.
It takes more time to lie than tell the truth, Mr.
Smith.
Are there any other black people up there in Maine? Not a lot.
Is he happy? He's been a great friend, Mrs.
Lewis.
He's not a man to show his feelings, you know? At least not to me.
Probably covers them up with a joke, I bet.
To be honest, after today I realize I didn't know him as well as I thought I did.
I wanted to change that, you know? Now that's an honest answer.
I don't think he knows himself any better than you do, Mr.
Smith.
Thank you for being his friend.
Deliver him from his sins and let him partake of Thy redemption.
Lewis: In time you'll find your way if you keep your faith in God.
I lost my faith in God a long time ago.
You will not talk that way in the house of God.
Not here.
Not in the house of God! You used me.
You used me to fill this house.
You used me to fill your collection plate every week.
You were doing God's work.
Was it God that took away my childhood? Was it God that wouldn't let me play ball, or be with a girl, or go to the movies? I'm the only black man in West Indianapolis who can't dance, Daddy.
(preaching) And I heard an angel say, with a loud voice, "Woe, woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth!" I never heard the angel, Daddy.
You will.
- You will.
- When? Armageddon? The end is near.
How could you possibly believe anything that we preach on Sundays? I believe in His teachings.
I don't.
If you deny your destiny, you deny God Himself and you deny me.
Nobody has a destiny.
We're all just stumbling around in the dark.
There you are.
My mama told me you said there ain't no black people in Maine, now she's worried about me.
I think she's worried about you for a lot of reasons.
Why is everybody worried about me? Hm? I have I have a good job.
I have an apartment.
I have a lot of good white friends.
People want me to come back and save the church like I owe it to him.
Maybe I do.
I can feel him in this room.
I can feel him trying to pull me back reaching out from that casket.
You know, I could never I could never touch him like this when he was alive.
It was too too personal.
Too, um I'm sorry I let you down, Dad.
John! - John, what's happening? - Woman: Hallelujah! Lewis: If you deny your destiny, you deny God Himself, - and you deny me.
- (moaning in pain) Something's wrong.
- You got that headache again? - Something's wrong! Shh, it'll pass.
God will show you the way.
This isn't how it happened.
Oh, no, no, no.
John.
John! - Woman: Good morning, Elder.
- Bless you, Elder.
Okay, John, I hope that somehow you can hear me.
'Cause I feel like I'm caught in one of your visions.
Like our zones are somehow fused together.
But it's a strange vision, because I'm seeing things that never happened.
Like I never went out the door.
I never left home.
And I think you may be in trouble because I saw somebody shoot you.
Talk to me, John.
I need you.
Good morning, Elder.
- Rehearsing your sermon? - My sermon? Is everything all right? Yeah, I just got a little headache, that's all.
Mm-hmm.
I haven't been quite right since the funeral.
Funeral? What funeral? Bruce, your mother's looking for you.
You know she doesn't like to send you out to the service before giving you the once-over.
It's good to see you, Daddy.
What are you so tongue-tied for this morning? We haven't talked for a while, that's all.
The Elder might do well in moderating his Saturday nights before his Sunday mornings.
Go sit down and be quiet, Doctor.
- Morning, Pastor.
- Good morning.
- Elder.
- Good morning.
You don't think people notice, do you? - Notice? - That you just pull yourself together before the service.
Put eyedrops in your eyes before you see your mama.
Daddy, I Your mama's waiting for you.
Go ahead.
I can't do this.
You know your father doesn't preach anymore.
- It's been 10 years.
- What are you talking about? You need a haircut.
Mama, if you only knew.
"The misunderstandings that divide us"? - Indeed they do.
- What am I supposed to say up there? Just do what you always do, baby boy.
Just help the folks get happy.
(microphone feedback) How y'all doing, today? (clears throat) Yeah, I'm feeling kind of strange myself.
Parishioners: Amen.
No, no, no, no.
I mean, I'm really feeling kind of strange.
Mrs.
Johnson.
It's good to see that some things never change.
Folks behind you ought to be given obstructed view tickets.
- (laughter) - Alvin: Praise the Lord.
Woman: I know that's right.
I was gonna try to go with this, if y'all don't mind, get into the Zen of the moment.
We'll hold off on the Zen for now.
Our subject today: The misunderstandings that divide us.
Alvin: Misunderstandings.
And it's a subject that I know a lot about.
- A lot about.
- Man: Praise God! 'Cause you see, misunderstandings can sometimes drive families apart.
- Preach it! - Hallelujah! - Far apart - Mmm, that's right.
until it's too late to do anything about it.
- Mm-hmm.
Yes.
Oh, yes.
- That's right.
So in a way, I'm glad to be here again today with my family.
So I can tell something to my father and to the entire congregation in a way like I have never been able to tell it before.
Alvin: Hallelujah! I've seen the angel.
Preach, boy.
Preach.
I have.
I have seen the angel! I have seen the angel who has told me that a fire is going to rain down on me! - Praise the Lord! Hallelujah! - Amen! I have seen the angel who would come and save us and his name is John! - Amen.
John the angel.
- Praise the Lord! Hallelujah! - And John has visions! - Amen.
Matter of fact, I think he's having a vision right now.
And each of us are in it! All of us! Each and every one of us! - * This little light of mine * - Come and see.
Raise your voices so that John can hear! All: * This little light of mine * * I'm gonna let it shine * - Are you working on this, John! - (parishioners continue singing) Give us a sign any time you're ready, John! * I'm gonna let it shine, let it shine * - * Let it shine, let it shine * - (softly) Where are you, John? * This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine * Rose, you sure have outdone yourself.
Don't be silly.
Just Sunday dinner as usual.
(Bruce softly) Just Sunday dinner.
Bless the table before it gets cold, Bruce.
O, merciful God who provides food for the body and soul You have kindly granted what is spread before us.
We thank You.
Bless the loving hands that have prepared this meal, and us who are to enjoy it, please.
- Amen.
- Amen.
- Amen.
- All right.
Bruce, I don't think I've heard that blessing.
- It's Tamil.
- Tamil? A social entity on the island of Sri Lanka.
I read about Sri Lanka.
It used to be called Ceylon.
Right, Mom.
And the Tamil nation, located in the northeast corner of the island, they have their own history, culture and language.
They're an interesting people, proud of their traditions.
(chuckles) You're full of surprises today, Elder.
Well, if no one's going to say it, I will.
That was one of the best sermons I have ever heard.
- Natural born, I always said.
- Well, I'm a little out of practice.
I mean, I didn't have time to practice it this week.
- It was heartfelt.
- Lewis: Indeed.
I didn't know you were so interested in John the Baptist.
Or the Tamil civilization.
Did y'all see that thing on Claire Johnson's head? - I think she feeds that hat.
- I think so too.
- I hardly even noticed it.
- Noticed? I couldn't tear my eyes away.
Alvin: That hat has its own gravitational field.
Um (clears throat) Is it just me or is it hot in here? The door's open.
- Yeah, must be letting the hot air in.
- It's March.
- Right.
- Bruce Bruce, sit down.
- Yes, sir.
- Mom: Have some iced tea.
Have some iced tea.
You know, I just remembered, I I have to make a phone call.
Answer the phone, man! I gotta talk to you, John.
I gotta know where you are.
Operator: The number you are calling has been disconnected I keep telling myself that it's a vision that's it's gonna end.
That I'll close my eyes and click my heels three times and say, "There's no place like home," and it will all be over with.
Oh, this cannot be real! Things like this do not happen.
His cell phone.
His cell phone.
Try the cell phone.
Stillson: Thank you! I want you to read that pamphlet.
Everything in that's true.
Absolutely.
How are you? Thank you, sir, for coming out.
Pleasure.
- (phone ringing) - Thank you for coming out.
I know it's hard.
I know it's cold, but I appreciate the support.
(phone ringing) Ma'am, great to see you.
Thank you very much for your support.
I want both of you at the polls, side by side, as a matter of fact.
I want to thank each and every one for coming out today.
You're wonderful.
I like that sign.
Make sure everybody sees it.
Pleasure, sir.
Great to see you.
Hope I get your support.
(phone ringing) You've reached the cell phone of John Smith, leave a message.
Damn it, John.
Answer your phone, man! If that's the angel, number's unlisted.
Can we talk? You said that we haven't talked in a while.
That's true.
I miss it.
Me too, Daddy.
I've been waiting for you to come to me.
I know and of course, I've been waiting for you to come to me.
- Maybe that's why we're doing this.
- Doing what? Talking like this.
You're talking in circles, boy.
There's something not right with you today.
I can't put my finger on it.
Sit down.
Were you standing in front of that congregation today asking me to believe that you were what, born again? That's closer to the truth than either of us could ever believe.
Excuse me if I find that hard to accept.
Especially after Officer Lorber brings you home at 3:00 in the morning covered in your own vomit.
And at your mama's supper table today, watching you and Alvin's Missus, pretending that nothing's going on, which I know there is! And that's not the first lonely wife in this parish that you've messed with.
Next week's sermon is about the road not taken.
Road? What road?! I am different today, in more ways than I could possibly explain.
You have no idea how hard You have no idea how hard I've tried, my entire life, to find the answers that I could never find here.
Somehow searching for the meaning itself would somehow bring me closer to you.
I see myself through your eyes, Daddy.
I want you to be proud of me.
No matter what else happens, I'm glad that I had the chance to tell you that.
Wait here.
John, what's happened? Where are you, man? Thank you.
Thank you very much.
That was Mark DeCastrique down at the bus station.
He said Bruce bought a ticket to Bangor, Maine.
- What's in Maine? - God only knows.
And why wouldn't he tell us where he was going? Was he having the headaches again? Something is terribly wrong.
I don't know what it is, but I can feel it in my bones.
Where are you going? I'm gonna buy myself a plane ticket for Maine.
How will you find him? I'll find him.
Purdy: Sorry for all the turmoil, we're getting ready for a rally.
There's a wild congressional race in Maine this year.
We have old Harrison Fisher quaking in his boots over our boy Greg Stillson.
- Yeah, I've heard of him.
- Really? All the way in Indianapolis? That's very encouraging.
Our balloons haven't arrived.
Find out what happened to our balloons.
Now then, what would a man of God want with Johnny Smith? I have an interest in psychic phenomenon.
Elder Lewis, there are psychics and there are psychotics.
I fear poor Mr.
Smith has more in common with the latter than the former.
He had the audacity to sue me over his mother's estate.
In a coma for six years.
Not a day went by, I didn't pray for his recovery.
I washed my hands of him a year ago.
I have no idea where you might find Mr.
Smith, nor do I recommend that you try.
Purdy: Check the sound system.
Tweak it again.
You have to understand, I don't really see Johnny anymore.
It became almost impossible.
Can you check that? Impossible? I really don't feel comfortable talking about this.
- Mrs.
Bannerman, it's terribly impor - Bracknell.
It's Bracknell.
I went back to my maiden name after the divorce.
Yeah, I like that border.
- I I'm sorry, I didn't - (sighs) Johnny became well, he just wasn't the same after the coma.
He never fully recovered.
You know, I mean it's not his fault.
I guess he didn't have the right therapeutic people working with him.
God knows I tried.
He became irrational.
My ex-husband even had to arrest him once for stalking my son.
The stress of it all eventually broke my marriage up.
Hey, Sarah, do you have the reports from the pollsters? Ah, hello.
Greg Stillson.
Hope you'll be with us on election day.
Mr.
Lewis is a preacher from Indiana.
I'll be running on election day in Indiana just give me a few years.
What can we do for you, preacher? He's looking for John Smith.
Your psychic friend from the parade yesterday? You looking to get your fortune told? - Something like that? - You got 1,000 bucks? I hear that's what he charges.
That guy kind of gives me the willies.
Well, good luck to you.
See you in Indiana in a few years.
This is the last address that I have for him.
You can keep that.
I don't need it anymore.
It was nice to meet you.
John! John! Open the door, John! John, what are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing here? Who are you? John, I am so glad I found you.
- I've been looking for you everywhere.
- Do I know you? Yes, but you don't remember me.
I remember you.
Don't ask me why I do I just do.
My name is Bruce Lewis.
Does that sound at all familiar to you? Bannerman sent you here, didn't he? - No, John - I do not know what he told you but I got a permit for every single gun.
I got the legal right, my friend.
- The Second Amendment - Look, I'm not a cop, John.
Please! Something has gone terribly wrong.
Either we're trapped in one of your visions or something a lot worse.
I'm your best friend.
Think, John! Try to remember! I've never even seen you before, my friend.
All right, look, touch me.
No, no no.
Touch me.
Maybe you'll see.
Maybe you'll see what I'm talking about and then this whole nightmare will end.
- Well? - Come and see.
I've seen the angel.
You're a preacher.
I'm not a preacher, I'm a physical therapist.
And I was your physical therapist before everything changed.
This isn't you.
Everything in this room, man, this isn't you.
This is the you that would have been had I not been there for you.
You need to leave.
Yes.
That's my whole point.
I think we'd both better leave The rally at Faith Heritage this evening.
Stillson.
John The cab driver at the bus station, he said he brought him here.
Your son was here early this morning, Pastor Lewis, on a rather dubious mission looking for a man I've had some unfortunate dealings with named John Smith.
- John? Did you say John? - Yes.
Local man claims to have psychic powers.
Your son said he was interested in the subject.
Psychic powers? This obviously comes as a complete surprise to you.
Reverend Purdy, I've prayed to God today for guidance and I don't understand what's happening.
Something is terribly wrong and I can't explain it.
- Can I help you? - Yeah.
Electrical.
I got a call from someone in Reverend Purdy's office.
Someone named Mike Kennedy.
Oh, Mike Kennedy, yes.
Okay.
Something to do with the lighting grid.
Maybe.
Unless you know exactly what it's doing? No, but go ahead.
Check it out.
Oh, God! (crowd cheering) Stillson: Well, what a greeting! Thank you.
Pleasure.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Absolutely, thank you.
Sir, thank you very much for your support.
Your support has not gone unnoticed.
Thank you, sir.
My pleasure.
Thank you very much, sir.
I appreciate it, ma'am.
We are going all the way.
Wonderful to see you.
Thank you very much.
Purdy: Here we go.
This one's for the money.
Stillson: Thank you very much.
Thank you.
I appreciate it, ma'am.
Thank you, sir.
Hey, I'm looking for a blond guy.
He's about God bless you.
God bless you all for coming! God bless Greg Stillson! Have you seen anybody like that? - Supporter: God bless America! - And God bless you too! Bruce: Just keep your eyes open.
Stillson: And let's hear it for Reverend Purdy! Thank you! - (gunshot) - (microphone feedback) (chambers bullet) No! Deliver him from his sins and let him partake of Thy redemption.
- Come and see! - Come and see! Dear Lord! They're called dreadlocks.
You think I don't know what dreadlocks are? I've just never seen them on my son.
I know.
Well I don't like 'em.
(chuckling) I knew you wouldn't.
You know, when a man dies he dreams of what might have been.
My last thoughts on earth were of the day you left.
Yeah.
It's been on my mind too.
Maybe that's what he tapped into.
Is he really an angel? (Bruce chuckles) I don't know.
Maybe.
It's his vision that we're in.
Are you sure? I'm talking to my father at his funeral in an alternate reality, I'm not sure of anything.
Would you be surprised if I spoke to my father at his funeral? It's not unusual.
It happens all the time.
What happened today between us, that was unusual.
No.
It was a blessing.
Angel or not.
Deliver him from his sins and let him partake of Thy redemption.
You were wrong about one thing though.
We're not all just stumbling around in the dark.
You have found your destiny by his side.
Protecting him.
Bruce: If I don't come back she'll lose the church the house.
Before everyone decides what's best for Rose Lewis, they'd better talk to her.
She's been after me for years to retire.
We have a little nest egg she wanted to see some of God's good earth before she dies.
I guess she'll have to do it without me.
I don't I don't know how to say goodbye.
Sure you do.
You all right? You didn't see any of that? Any of what? Because it had to be a vision, didn't it? You had a vision? Something.
When you touched me as I was touching him, somehow the three of us I didn't see a thing.
I've been having these strange flashes all day though.
Didn't make any sense.
Me being shot, your father praying over me.
John, everybody has a dead zone, right? We just don't know how to use it.
But there are times that we come awfully close times like this.
Your abilities, maybe they acted like a lightening rod when you touched me.
I'm not sure, but I know how you feel now, John.
I know the power of your visions.
My father and I, we got a chance to spend some quality time together.
It wasn't quality for you, but We got a chance to work some things through, you know? No, no.
Don't.
Don't touch me, man.
I like it here.
And you need me here.
You won't get an argument out of me.
* This little light of mine * * I'm gonna let it shine * * This little light of mine * * I'm gonna let it shine * * This little light of mine * * I'm gonna let it shine * * Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine * * This little light of mine * What? Nothing.
'Cause spring is coming and it's already starting to get warm and my ears needed some air.
Oh, they got plenty now.
You did that to yourself? - The haircut? - (forced laughter) Yeah so you got jokes, right? Why, though? What's wrong with it? Nothing, it's cool.
It's just the left ear's about an inch and a half higher than the right.
Yeah.
Let's go home, John.
We got work to do.
- John: We got work to do? - I got your back, so let's go.
- John: I thought you had my back.
- I did.
Now, I know.
John: Oh, now you know.
(theme music playing) - No no! - Yes yes! You're grounded!