From (2022) s03e02 Episode Script

1
[BOYD] Previously on From
I'm sorry. This is the only way.
[SCREAMS]
- Where am I?
- You're in Camden, Maine.
Get the hell outta here.
You deaf? I said get the
Where did you get that?
You're Victor's father.
I'm gonna go look for my wife.
Someone's gotta make sure that
Jim comes back in one piece.
I know what it's like
to lose a parent here,
and I'm not gonna watch
Julie and Ethan lose
both their parents in the same week.
[IN CANTONESE]
Ma
- What the fuck?
- These look pretty solid.
We could just start
from here in the morning.
- Just give me a second.
- [NICKY] Come on!
My stomach just hasn't been right.
Those animals are the
only food that we have now.
They are a resource. We
have to make everything last!
There's goddamn cows in the street!
Get those smaller animals into the barn!
- [ETHAN] Alma's outside!
- No! Go! Ethan, run!
- Julie!
- [JULIE] Go!
- [MUFFLED GASP]
- Shh!
[SCREAMS, HOWLS]
- Let's go!
- [BOYD] Come on!
No, no, no! You go back!
- We do together!
- [GRUNTS]
- [GASPS]
- No!
Boyd!
You think this place can't break you?
Let's see.
- [SCREAMING AND CRYING]
- What the fuck?!
No, no, no, no, no, no, no!
No, no, no, no, no, no!
I know, I know, I know!
I know! I know! I know!
[HOOVES CLOPPING, GOATS BLEATING]
[CLOPPING AND BLEATING CONTINUE]
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
[BLEATING CONTINUES]
- Don't.
- [BLEATING CONTINUES]
Somebody has to go and see.
[BLEATING]
[SPEAKING CANTONESE REPEATEDLY]
[DOOR OPENS]
[BOYD CONTINUES IN CANTONESE]
Oh, God. Oh, Jesus, no.
- [CONTINUES IN CANTONESE]
- Boyd?
Boyd! Hey, hey, hey! Hey!
- [CONTINUES IN CANTONESE]
- Key.
- [CONTINUES IN CANTONESE]
- Hey, hey, hey, hey, Boyd.
[SPEAKING CANTONESE]
Where's the key?
[BREATHING HEAVILY] In my pocket.
They left it in my pocket.
[RESUMES SPEAKING CANTONESE]
[GASPING]
[SOBBING, SPEAKING CANTONESE]
I'm sorry! I'm so sorry.
[SOBBING] I'm so sorry!
[SCREAMING]
[YELLS]
I'm so sorry!
Please
[SOBBING]
[JIM, IN DISTANCE] Kenny!
No. No.
[JIM] You gotta come down here!
Look at this.
It's growing in patches
all around the lake.
There's enough food here to feed
everybody in the entire town.
Look.
["QUE SERA, SERA (WHATEVER
WILL BE, WILL BE)" PLAYING]
When I was just a little boy ♪
I asked my father ♪
"What will I be?" ♪
"Will I be handsome?" ♪
"Will I be rich?" ♪
Here's what he said to me ♪
Que sera sera ♪
Whatever will be will be ♪
The future's not ours to see ♪
Que sera sera ♪
What will be will be ♪
Now I have children of my own ♪
They ask their father ♪
"What will I be?" ♪
"Will I be pretty?" ♪
"Will I be rich?" ♪
I tell them tenderly ♪
Que sera sera ♪
Whatever will be will be ♪
The future's not ours to see ♪
Que sera sera ♪
What will be will be ♪
Que sera sera ♪
What happened?
Oh, no. It's okay.
You, um
You passed out on my front porch.
Maybe maybe I should just
You should sit.
Okay. Okay. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
You showed up on my doorstep
with the lunchbox my
son left here with
a very long time ago.
So, you're gonna tell
me how you found that,
and you're gonna tell me right now.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay. Um
[SIGHS]
My name is Tabitha Matthews.
My family and I were on a road trip
to see some relatives in Colorado,
when we had to take a
detour off the highway.
There was a massive tree
in the middle of the road,
so we thought we were
just driving around it.
[CAWING]
But we never got back to the road.
We kept driving, and
and we got to this town,
a place that we couldn't leave.
But there were people there,
and some of them had
been there for a while.
- I don't know how long they'd been
- No, no!
Where did you get the lunchbox?
Well, that's what I'm
trying to tell you.
The place we ended up,
there are people that had been
there for years, I mean, for
Where did you get the lunchbox?!
- He gave it to me!
- Who?
Your son. Victor.
He he gave it to me.
Oh. He gave it to you.
Yeah.
When?
Um
- Three, four Four days ago.
- [GROANS]
Victor is alive. The town
I was telling you about,
he's been stuck there all these years.
Okay, all right. If, uh
If you won't talk to me, then
maybe you'll talk to the police.
No, sir. Please, please.
You can't call them.
I can't tell them who I am.
If I try to explain any of
this to them, I'll sound crazy.
When they ask where my family is
what am I gonna tell them? I don't
I don't know where they are.
Please, sir, you have to believe me.
- Please don't call the police.
- Well, Tabitha,
I called the police
about 20 minutes ago.
They should be here any minute.
So, we're just gonna
sit here together
until they arrive.
I know how to prove I'm not lying.
No. You don't come in
here. You understand?
Boyd might be okay
with everything you did,
- but if you think for a second
- Tian-Chen died.
What?
Something happened last
night. The animals
got out into the street, and she
I didn't I thought
you would want to know,
and I wasn't sure if anyone
I'm sorry.
- Kristi? Who was that?
- [DOOR CLOSES]
Baby?
Hey, what's wrong?
Um
What?
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
Uh, Kenny's mom died.
What?
[WHEELS SQUEAKING]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
♪♪♪
Over there.
Okay.
[STRAINING]
[STRAINING]
Okay.
♪♪♪
Okay
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Here. Okay.
We We need to, um
Uh
We need to make sure she
gets buried with her husband.
She would have wanted that.
She wouldn't
Uh, right.
- Yeah.
- Boyd
Yeah.
You were in the barn with
her, with those things.
Yeah.
How are you still alive?
They wanted me to watch.
They
Yeah.
[CROWD MURMURING]
[TIAN-CHEN] No! Let me go!
[SOBBING]
Boyd!
[SOBBING] Boyd!
[SCREAMING]
[SCREAMING CONTINUES]
[SCREAMING CONTINUES]
- [FLESH TEARING]
- [SCREAMING]
[TIAN-CHEN SOBBING]
Boyd!
Boyd!
Is it true?
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[WHISPERS] Oh, fuck.
[WEEPING]
I wanna go see her.
I just I don't think that
a good idea right now, okay?
She's gonna be okay,
right? Kristi can fix her.
Ethan
We should bring her her blanket.
She'll be more comfortable
when she has her blanket.
- Hey, hey
- I wanna go see her.
It's okay.
Tell her that we have
to go see Tian-Chen!
That we have to help!
[JULIE] I could use a
little help in there.
[VICTOR] No. I have to go.
- [JULIE] You You have to go?
- [VICTOR] Yes, I have to go.
- Hey, hey! I'm talking to you!
- I have to go!
Wait! Where are you going?
- I can't stay here anymore.
- Why?
- Because!
- We have to help her!
We can't help her! She's dead!
She's dead, Ethan!
People die here!
I told you that! It's not make-believe!
I told you that bad things happen here!
It's not my fault
that you didn't listen!
[BREATHING UNSTEADILY]
I have to go.
- [BREATHING UNSTEADILY]
- [DOOR SLAMS]
[BOTH SOBBING]
[JULIE] It's okay.
[TABITHA] I mean, there's
other people you can look up.
Boyd Stevens. His family went missing.
Uh Donna. Um, Donna
Um, okay.
Liu! Liu! Tian-Chen and Kenny Liu.
That family that family's there, too.
You're lying. I-I
I don't know how you're
doing this, but you're lying.
No, no. No, no, no, no, no.
I swear to you I'm not.
I swear on my children's lives.
My family is trapped, and
Victor is trapped, too.
Then how did you get here, huh?
You want me to believe you
just happen to be the one person
who somehow managed to
escape this terrifying place?
Listen, I don't
understand, but yes, yes.
And Victor helped me.
No, don't [SCOFFS]
[SIGHS]
Please.
Victor is a good man.
He's nice and sweet,
and my son loves him.
And my daughter He
saved my daughter's life.
I thought that if I saved the
children locked in the tower, then
somehow, I could save her from
whatever's happening to her
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa. What did you say?
Well, when I was in town,
I started seeing children,
or at least imagining I was.
And they were really frightening.
Victor said that they were
children locked in the tower,
that if I saved them,
then maybe I could
I could somehow help my daughter
from what she's going through,
- and I don't know if I'm doing it
- [KNOCK ON DOOR]
- [OFFICER] Camden PD!
- Please. Don't let them in. Please.
- Uh
- Please!
I'm not lying. I'm not lying.
[BREATHING UNSTEADILY]
[OFFICER] Henry! Henry, you in there?
[OPENS DOOR]
Hey, man.
I screwed up, man. I
thought I had an intruder
and turned out to be
just a dog off the leash.
The owner came back to
Look, I owe you a
dozen, okay? I'm sorry.
[OFFICER] All right, Henry.
Take care of yourself.
[HENRY] Yeah, you, too. Yeah, I'm sorry.
- Thanks.
- [DOOR CLOSES]
I, uh, bought that
almost 40 years ago
a few years after my family disappeared.
I never once had the courage
to even load it, much less
I'm gonna make you something to eat.
It was an ambush.
They knew we'd go after the animals.
Goddamn things opened the pen
and just waited for us
to walk right to them.
How many did you save?
What's What?
Animals.
How many did you save? Was it worth it?
Risking everyone's lives, for what?
An extra goat? A cow?
How much better off are we
today than we were yesterday?
Wait, wait.
Are you saying that I had a choice?
- [SCOFFS]
- Those animals are all we have!
No, Boyd! We are all we have!
Us! These people! This family!
That is all we've got,
and now we've got one less!
So, what was what
was I supposed to do?!
Just stand there,
watching our only resource go
wandering off into the woods?
- We would have starved!
- We would have found another way!
Yesterday you were ready
to crawl into a fucking hole
because the crops had spoiled!
And now you're standing
there, telling me
that we would have found another way?!
That I shoulda just I shoulda
That I should just
get the fuck outta here!
- What the fuck am I
- No, okay, No, you're right.
You're right. You did
what you had to do.
You did the only thing you could do.
And you lost
because the game here is fucking rigged.
And no matter what
hand you play, you lose.
Donna. Donna
No, no, no.
I'm not angry at you, Boyd.
I'm not. [SIGHS]
I'm angry at me.
Angry at me
because you told us that,
someday, we'd go home
[SIGHS]
and I was stupid
enough to believe it.
- I'm
- Get off!
[SOBBING]
[INHALING SHARPLY]
Oh! We gotta dress that
cow before the meat spoils.
[DOOR OPENS]
- [KNOCK ON DOOR]
- [RETCHING]
[ELLIS] Hey. You been
in there for a while.
You okay?
- Yeah, I'm fine.
- You know, I was thinking,
maybe we should go see Kristi,
uh, just as a precaution.
Ugh. [GASPING]
Look, that's not necessary.
- It's just morning sickness.
- [TOILET FLUSHES]
Can you at least open the door?
Give me a second!
You know, why don't I go see if Kristi
can just come up here, and
that way, you can just stay?
- Look, I said I'm fine!
- [WATER RUNNING]
I don't need everybody
It doesn't feel right.
You're not sleeping.
You're barely eating.
Fatima?
Fatima? Hey, look, come
on. What's going on?
[CRUNCHING]
Fatima, you're scaring me. Come on.
Can you please open the door?
[DOOR CREAKS]
Uh, I think you're right.
Maybe we should go see Kristi.
Kristi? You here?
Wait here.
Hello?
[MARIELLE] Coming.
- Hey.
- Is Kristi here?
Uh, she's She's down in town.
She's taking the news
about Tian-Chen pretty hard.
Listen, this can totally wait.
- The poor woman
- No, it really can't.
Come on in. I'll take a look at you.
You know what? Maybe we
should wait for Kristi.
Kristi's dealing with a lot right now.
Yeah, but
Look, no offense. You're not a doctor.
I am, however, a pediatric nurse.
So, as far as pregnancy goes,
I've pretty much seen everything.
Come on. Come.
Kinda cold out for a swim.
What are you doing out here?
I just realized that
I can't even remember
whose truck this was.
That's how many people we
Danny.
And his, um his girlfriend Shay.
Right.
Danny and Shay.
They were good kids, yeah.
What happened last night, it
wasn't your fault.
You know, with all
due respect, Kristi, I'm
not here for a pep talk.
All due respect, Boyd, I
don't really give a shit.
- [SIGHS]
- Look, after what happened with Sara,
when she tried to hurt Ethan
you sat with me in that diner
and you told me it wasn't my fault,
that it was this place,
that I had saved a lot of
lives, and that I was gonna save
a hell of a lot more by the
time this all was finished.
So, was that just a bunch of bullshit
to make me feel better,
or did you mean it?
[STAMMERS]
Hey. This isn't your fault. Okay?
Now, come on. Let's
go get you cleaned up.
[KENNY] Guys!
Hey! We found food!
Look! Look at this!
There's a there's a lake,
and it's got everything.
It's got vegetables
[JIM] We found food!
All right.
There's, uh, there's potatoes.
There might even be fish in the water!
What's going on?
[INDISTINCT MURMURS]
Where are my kids?
They're fine.
They're they're okay.
Whose blood is that?
Kenny
Where's
Wait. Where's
Where's my mom?
Kenny, maybe we should go inside.
Kenny!
Mom?
Ma!
Mom!
[SHOUTING IN CANTONESE]
- Hey, Kenny
- Stop! No, no, no, no, no.
[SHOUTING IN CANTONESE]
- Hey, bud. Ken?
- No, stop!
- Bud, I'm
- No.
- so s
- Stop, stop. No! No, no!
- Listen, I'm so
- No, no! Stop! Just just stop.
- Okay.
- [KENNY] Okay? [BREATHING RAPIDLY]
Okay. Yeah.
[BREATHING DEEPLY]
I got it.
[MURMURING CONTINUES]
[DOOR CREAKS]
I'm so sorry. I'm so
I'm so sorry.
- [DOOR CLOSES]
- [SOBBING]
Kenny, hey.
It's okay. It's okay.
It's okay. I'm okay.
I'm okay. I'm okay.
[INHALING, EXHALING SHARPLY]
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
[EXHALING SHARPLY] I'm okay.
Where is she?
In the church.
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
I just, uh
I just I need to
sit here for a minute.
- 'Kay?
- Yeah. Okay.
When was the last time you ate?
Uh, three four days?
She can't keep anything down.
I've tried to. It's just
even the smell of food,
it's just
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
Deep breath.
Look, are you sure we
shouldn't just get Kristi?
- Ellis, just
- How've you been doing
since, you know
Since what?
Since I went through withdrawal,
or since this place mind-raped me?
Look, I know this is scary,
and if it's any consolation,
you're doing exactly what
you're supposed to be doing.
In the tradition of
first-time fathers everywhere,
you're scared out of your mind,
and you're asking every
question you possibly can.
As for you, you're
severely malnourished.
It's a wonder only one tooth fell out.
You also may have something
called hyperemesis gravidarum.
What is that? Is that bad?
It's essentially really
bad morning sickness.
We really just need to
get you eating again.
[SIGHS] Well, you tell that
to the world's pickiest eater.
[CHUCKLES]
I'm gonna see if maybe we have
something that can settle your stomach.
But as far as the baby?
- Everything's okay?
- As far as I can tell,
everything's fine.
- I'll be right back.
- [SIGHS]
Ah, you see? I told you.
- Everything is okay.
- Was that you?
- Yeah.
- That was that was you?
Yeah, yeah, it was totally me, you know,
calm, cool, collected.
Yeah. Might have missed that.
[SIGHS]
You hear that in there?
Everything's gonna be okay.
Whenever things got
really bad here, she'd
she used to always say
"No matter how bad it gets,
we'll never have this day again."
She'd always repeat it to
make sure I got the message.
[SPEAKING CANTONESE]
Did she
Did she suffer?
- Kenny, I
- No, I
It's okay. You don't
have to [SNIFFLES]
[SIGHS]
Have you seen her?
Have you seen what they did to her?
Not yet, no.
Whenever I think about my dad
I can't
All I can see is him lying
there in that basement.
I can't think of him and
not see him like that.
I don't want it to be like that for her.
[SNIFFLES]
Can you do me a favor?
Yeah, of course.
Can you [SIGHS]
[SNIFFLING]
Can you make her
Can you make her look like her?
Can you make sure she looks nice?
She would be really upset,
if she, uh [SNIFFLES]
if she didn't look like her.
Yeah. Yeah, of course.
[SNIFFLING]
Thank you.
Thank you. [SNIFFLES]
You, um You need anything at all,
anything, you get someone
to come get me, okay?
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
["CELEBRATION" PLAYS]
Celebrate good times! Come on! ♪
Celebrate! ♪
- Celebrate ♪
- Stop it.
- Good times, come on! ♪
- Stop.
Let's celebrate ♪
There's a party going on right here ♪
A celebration to last ♪
- Stop!
- Throughout the year ♪
Fucking stop! Shut the fuck up!
And your laughter, too ♪
Stop! Fucking stop!
We gonna celebrate
your party with you ♪
Come on now, celebra ♪
[CLATTERING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
You're back.
Yeah.
Tian-Chen is dead.
I know.
Ethan's upstairs.
- Julie
- No.
Don't. Just please don't.
Julie, whatever you're
feeling right now,
it's okay.
No, it's not.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Ethan almost died, too.
Did you know that?
You should have been here, Dad.
I I can't. I can't be like before.
Hey, hold on. What
are you talking about?
I can't be the fill-in parent
while you lose your shit.
I was looking for your mother.
Mom is gone! Okay? She's gone!
She went through a
tree, and now she's gone!
We don't know that.
Dad people can't survive
more than a few hours at night
without a talisman.
She's been gone four days. I know
I know you feel bad that you
didn't stop her, but I can't
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
When Thomas died, you
and Mom fell apart,
and there was no one there for Ethan.
I was 15.
I can't do it again.
I can't. Not this time.
I need you to get your
shit together. Okay?
Okay.
[STAMMERS] I don't
get a lot of visitors.
At least now I know you
won't pass out on me.
[CHUCKLES]
Back before she disappeared,
my wife, Miranda,
started hearing voices.
She said they were
children, calling out to her,
that they were
locked in a tower somewhere,
you know, crying out to be saved.
She was terrified of them.
The only person I ever repeated that to
was the investigating detective,
and he died 20 years ago.
When you're done, I-I
wanna show you something.
Yeah.
I want you to look at this room.
This is where my children slept.
My little boy.
My little girl.
They were the lights of my life.
And when they disappeared
it ripped my life to pieces.
I didn't care about the accusations.
I didn't care that everyone
thought that I did it.
But
all I could think, all
I could remember,
even now,
is that the last words I said to them,
"Clean your room or no TV."
And then, I went to work.
When I came home they were gone.
Why are you showing me this?
I don't know how you know
about those children my wife heard.
I don't know how you got a
hold of my son's lunchbox or
or how you could have possibly
faked those articles online.
[STAMMERS] The only possible explanation
I can come up with
is that you're actually
telling the truth, and
that means my son is alive.
And that
That means something I-I don't
I don't even have the
words to express.
So, if you, if this isn't real
you tell me right now.
If this is all just
some cruel, elaborate
No, no, no, no, no. I
swear to you, it's not.
I believe that the
reason I was sent here
was to find you.
No.
I think you're here for
what's in the basement.
[JADE] I didn't want her to be alone.
She made me tea.
[MURMURS IN HORROR]
I'll I'll give you some time.
Wait!
I have to
fix her before Kenny sees her,
and I don't know how to do that.
I'm
I'm not a mortician.
Hey, hey, hey.
- I don't
- Hey. Let me help you.
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
I used to play dress-up a lot as a kid.
We can do this. Right?
[TOWNSPEOPLE CHATTERING]
There we go.
All right, let's get you inside whoa,
get you fed.
See if Marielle's magic
elixir does the trick, okay?
Why don't you go see your dad?
All I gotta do is get in bed,
and he's having a really hard day.
Are you sure?
Yeah. Go. Go. I love you.
I love you, too.
Um, here.
- Oh.
- I'll be back soon.
Give him my best, okay?
Okay.
[WOMAN] None of these are
any good. They're all gross.
[NICKY] Take those to the kitchen?
Are those the crops?
Yeah. We figured we'd
try composting them,
see if we can't get
the soil turned around.
- You think that'll work?
- Who the hell knows?
Sorry about yesterday,
the bathroom, I just
It's okay. Everyone's on,
uh, on edge these days, so
Still, no reason to be a dick. Sorry.
[DOOR CLOSES]
[SNIFFING]
[SNIFFING]
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
♪♪♪
[STRAINING]
Victor?
Ethan, what are you doing up here?
- Have you seen Victor?
- I haven't, no.
He's not in his room.
He was pretty upset.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
Is that the cow that
died from last night?
Yeah.
I've never seen what things
look like on the inside before.
Is that what Tian-Chen looked like
after what they did to her?
No, sweetie.
Everything's covered in snow,
and it looks so different outside.
I think she'd like that.
Hey, how about you and me
I'm gonna go home.
Ethan?
She loved you Tian-Chen.
She loved you very much.
I know.
[DOOR OPENS]
- [EXHALES DEEPLY]
- [DOOR CLOSES]
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
Excuse me. Um
When I worked at the diner,
one of the
We used to try on dresses sometimes,
when things were slow.
We'd go to the storage and
Well, it was silly.
But this was the one she always
This one was her favorite.
She said she'd wear it
the day we all went home.
I just thought, um
Thank you, Sara.
Thank you.
[DOOR OPENS]
[BOTTLES CLANK]
[LIQUID POURING]
That's a heavy pour,
even on a day like today.
What I'm about to do
I'm gonna do, and that's it.
I don't wanna talk.
I don't wanna listen.
Kenny, what are the bottles for?
I'm going into the tunnels.
I'm gonna find those things
and I'm gonna burn every
last fucking one of them.
- You think that'll work?
- We burned the last one.
- The last one was already dead.
- I don't care.
I don't care.
I'm gonna make those
fucking things hurt.
- Okay.
- Okay what?
Okay. Let's do it.
Let's go.
Victor and Tabitha said they're, uh,
everywhere down there.
Yet Jade went down there,
clearly saw some disturbing shit.
What he didn't see
creatures, not a single one.
Do you still think they're down there?
I don't know.
Maybe they went somewhere else after
Tabitha and Victor found them
or maybe they went deeper in.
This is one thing I do know.
This is how they want us
angry, stumbling around in the dark.
I also know this.
Hey, if we find them,
there's a good chance
we are not coming back.
But if this is what you want to do
I will go with you, side by side,
and we will take out as many of
those motherfuckers as we can.
I can't stop thinking about
how
scared she must have been,
how alone she must have felt.
Hey.
She wasn't alone.
What?
They made me watch.
I couldn't help her. I couldn't
hey, they made me watch.
They made me watch.
[SOBBING]
I couldn't help her. I couldn't
- [SOBBING]
- Hey. But
- Hey.
- [SOBBING]
She was strong, Kenny.
- She was strong.
- No, no.
Listen, listen to me. She was brave.
She looked at me, and she
did not take her eyes off me.
And before
before before she died, she said
[SPEAKING CANTONESE]
You know, I don't even know
if I'm saying this right.
[SOBBING]
[SNIFFLING]
"Take care of him"
that's what it means.
"Take care of him."
"He'll be alone now."
[SOBBING]
Hey. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, come here.
Come here, man. Come here.
It's okay.
[SOBBING]
I got you, brother.
[SOBBING]
Hey, let's go back, okay?
Let's go back.
[CONTINUES SOBBING]
Think her hair's okay?
Yeah, I think her hair is great.
What about the makeup? Do you think
do you think her makeup's okay?
Honestly, I think if you try
and put any more makeup on her,
Tian-Chen might sit up and slap
the lipstick out of your hand.
I just I just I just
want it to be right for Kenny.
It's right. Okay?
It's right.
You'll come with us when we go.
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
♪♪♪
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
I just wanted to say thank you
for what you did last night.
You're welcome.
Something happened to me a few days ago.
- I was
- I heard. You okay?
No. [SNIFFLES] No, not really.
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
I think this place has
gotten in my head now,
and I'm scared of what that might mean.
I don't want to hurt anybody. I don't
It's okay. You can say it.
I don't wanna end up like you.
I wouldn't either.
If you ever want to talk
Thanks.
Well, believe it or not, it
all started on my birthday.
See, me and Miranda were
hippies back in the day,
but we gave up all the drugs,
all the drinking when she
got pregnant with Victor.
Then, one day, years later,
it was my 35th birthday,
Miranda gets it in her head
that we're gonna take a
stroll down memory lane.
She gets us two hits of acid.
We take the kids to her
parents' house for the night,
and we take one last
trip for old times' sake.
That's when the voices started,
when she started seeing things.
She painted everything she saw.
[TABITHA] Oh, my God.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
I've seen that, too.
She said it was like she'd been chosen.
She said it was a place
that was everywhere, but you
couldn't find it if you tried.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Somewhere you could
stumble into from anywhere,
but never find a way to leave.
♪♪♪
She said there were people there
people who were lost
and afraid
who found themselves
living inside a nightmare
that they couldn't escape
fighting a battle they
knew they couldn't win.
She said they were holding on to hope.
And when that hope was gone
they held on to each other.
It all sounded like riddles,
gibberish.
She said that, of all the people
who would find their way to this place,
she was the one who had been
chosen to free the children.
But she wasn't the first.
Others were chosen before her.
She could see each and every one.
And all of them had failed.
None of them had ever
set the children free.
And none of them had ever gone home.
So, if you've seen the children,
if they've called to
you, then I guess
you've been chosen now, too.
- So, how did you get out?
- Oh, my God.
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[CLEARS THROAT]
How you holding up?
Dad?
Not good.
Not good.
Look, I know you, uh,
carry a lot of weight from this place,
and I know
I know it feels like
everything that happens here
We can't keep doing this.
We can't just keep sitting around,
waiting to see what
we need more information.
Yeah. Yeah.
I'm gonna need your help
with something tomorrow, okay?
Yeah, all right. But with what?
We're gonna catch one
of these fucking things.
[ETHAN] Are we still gonna live here?
Even though Tian-Chen is gone?
I don't know.
I have to take that one step at a time.
Are you not coming inside?
No, I'm gonna go check on the animals,
and make sure they're fed.
It's almost dark.
- Won't be long.
- I'm gonna go, too.
- Well, just be careful.
- Yeah, okay.
I love you guys.
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
[TELEPHONE RINGS]
[RING]
[RING]
[RING]
[STATIC HISSING]
Hello?
[MALE VOICE] Dad? It's Thomas.
[STATIC LOUDLY HISSING]
♪♪♪