Channel Zero (2016) s03e04 Episode Script
Alice in Slaughterland
1 I felt I needed to see how you were.
You'll feel better if you eat something.
- Let me see! - Ahh! Zoey, what did you do to your leg? There was a homicide in the precinct.
Pops, what the hell is going on? I saw my dad's men set a murderer free.
Those people the Peaches Are suddenly very interested in Alice and her sister.
He went inside of my head.
I think he woke something up.
Mr.
Schizophrenia.
[GIGGLING.]
No.
- [KNIFE SLICES.]
- Ahh! - [GUNSHOT.]
- [GASPS.]
Your sister suffered a psychotic break.
I just wanna know if this is gonna happen to me.
There's a place for you at our table and there is a room for you in our home.
Is that where the stairs lead to? [EERIE MUSIC.]
[DOOR CREAKS, SHUTS.]
- [CHUCKLES.]
- Because it's so muggy outside that we're about to get rained on heat.
Ooh, you better go shopping right before you're about to get rained on.
- [LAUGHS.]
- Oh.
- Hi, girls.
- Hi, Nestor.
- Muggy today.
- Yeah, but the flowers look great.
- [CHUCKLES.]
- Alice.
- I'm just thinking of you.
- What? Zoey, stop being weird.
Let's go.
[LIGHT MUSIC.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
[INTENSE WHOOSHING.]
[INDISTINCT, EERIE VOICES.]
[EERIE MUSIC.]
[TURNS ENGINE OFF.]
[LOW RUMBLING.]
Luke when I said you could bring him to my house, this is not what I meant.
Yeah.
We need to make a plan.
We? Are you gonna help me or not? [SIGHS.]
Cannot believe I let you get me into this.
Is it I would me? Are you kidding? Oh, come on.
That is Stop pretending like I got you into this, okay? You already were in this.
You know, this is what you've been waiting for, right? Answers to all those questions.
[LIGHT MUSIC.]
[SIGHS.]
Ah, ooh, ahh, ahh! [SCREAMS.]
Stop running around like a crazy rabbit.
I was wondering when you would show up.
What is this place? It's the summer house.
- What's the summer house? - Our little plantation on top of the food chain.
[GURGLING, HEART BEATING.]
Call it custom made by request.
Although, the landlord is a bit of a prick.
Uh There you go.
We had such high hopes for this.
I just wanna find my sister, take her home.
Where is she? She's at the house.
I can't get there.
- Can you take me? - No.
You have to go there by yourself.
And it's harder than you think.
Fine.
[SIGHS.]
[EERIE MUSIC.]
Mother, how much longer are they gonna rip people off of us? This tray they brought over, this tray is - Let's not kid ourselves.
- Truly, stop it.
Are they gonna beg her and take her because of the bone on the plate? BOTH: No.
[LAUGHS.]
Always tires me out, gettin' around.
Oh, hi.
Sorry I'm late.
Hi.
Whoo.
[LAUGHS.]
This house is a lot bigger than it looks on the outside.
[STOMACH RUMBLES.]
Oh, you're hungry, aren't you? Me, personally, I I can't sleep on a full stomach.
That's why lunch is my favorite meal of the day.
Eat and eat and eat and I still have time to digest before bedtime.
Sleep easy, no nightmares.
Oh, I'm not I'm not hungry.
Oh, hon, you can tell yourself that, but I can hear your stomach grumblin' from here.
Where's Robert? He's been downstairs since yesterday.
It's not like your brother to miss lunch.
He gets up to no good down there.
You know Robert.
He's not careful.
I know my son.
Do you, Mother? And do you ever imagine that despite all the attention that you give him, maybe you don't know - what Robert gets up to.
- Now, you're just being petty.
Lunch is here.
[LAUGHS.]
Okay, settle down now.
So what do you plan to do with the body? Yeah, I still gotta figure that out.
[CHUCKLES.]
Well, you need to figure fast.
I got a dead Peach in my basement, and it ain't gonna keep.
Mother Peach loves Robert.
It bothers Aldus to no end that Robert's her favorite Peach.
Robert is the best Peach of 'em all, though.
He rescued me from the secretarial pool down at Burkett Insurance Company in Georgia That's where I'm from.
Robert was down on a visit, right, and he walked in one morning and I was just sitting there, typing away and And he nodded at the door.
And I said "Sir, what are you suggesting?" And he said, "I'm suggesting you follow me out that door and I make you a Georgia Peach.
" [LAUGHS.]
And that's exactly what I did.
I followed him out and in time, I followed him up here.
Ha! [CLAPS.]
Truth is, I'd follow Robert anywhere.
Actually, can I get one more? [SIGHS.]
It's like every day is Easter around here, you know? [CHUCKLES.]
- Oh.
- [CLEARS THROAT.]
[EERIE MUSIC.]
Go on, eat, honey.
Where the fuck did he go? Okay.
Well, he couldn't have gone far in his condition.
Yeah, his condition was dead.
What's in there? Bootleggers build the house, there's all tunnels, but they're boarded up.
[BANGING.]
[LOW, EERIE MUSIC.]
[THUMPING, CREAKING.]
Oh! [SCREAMS.]
Ahh! [WHIMPERING.]
Ahh, ahh.
Mouse! Ahh! Stay down! Uh! Uhh! [CRUNCHING.]
How do we make him stay dead? [PANTING.]
[LIGHT, EERIE MUSIC.]
[GRUNTS.]
You're new here.
Um, yeah, I am.
But I'm not staying long.
Good.
The landlord's a bit of a prick.
You've brought someone else with you.
A secret companion.
No.
I'm looking for someone.
I'm often shut, but I'm not a mouth.
- Sometimes I break - Is this a riddle? Do you want me to help you? I'm often shut, but I'm not a mouth.
Sometimes I break, but I'm not a heart.
When I am pained, I do not feel it.
When I am stained, I'm not unclean.
What am I? [EERIE FLAPPING SOUND.]
A window! Think it would get cooler at night.
Do you feel safe? Yeah, why? A window.
A window! [EERIE MUSIC.]
Um I'm just I'm actually trying to get to the house and I keep on walking, but I don't seem to get any closer.
Could you help me? I am framed but not guilty.
I have locks but no hair.
I only close when I'm open and my jam will not spread on any toast.
What am I? A waste of time.
Anyway.
[EERIE MUSIC.]
This time, let's make him stay dead.
[SIGHS.]
- You ready? - I got this.
[MOTOR STARTS.]
- [MACHINE ROARING.]
- [MUFFLED YELLING.]
[SAWING CONTINUES.]
[EERIE MUSIC.]
No! I know what you did.
I know.
- Calm down.
- I know! No, he's watching us while we're changing! He is watching us You watch my sister?! And then the flowers are towards the house.
- How do you explain that? - I have no idea - what she's talking about.
- What? - I know what you did.
- No idea what - she's talking about.
- He's been watching us while we are changing.
Look at this it's family These are turned towards the house! The house! I know what you're doing.
- You are sick! - Hey! - You're fucking sick! - Whoa, whoa, - ma'am, ma'am, no, no! - It's all right, it's okay.
- I am her sister.
- Who are you? - I am her sister.
- Okay.
- You're not my sister! - She's sick, okay? - Who are you? - Zoey Who are you? You're not my sister.
That is not my sister! What about my sister? - Zoey, you know who I am.
- No, who are you? I'm Alice! - No! Who are you? - She's not well.
- Who are you? - That's my sister! [BOTH YELLING.]
- Zoey! - Who are you? - Zoey, please! - Who are you?! - Who are you?! - You know what this I don't know who you are.
- Don't don't hurt her! - No! You're not my sister.
- She just needs some help.
- Who are you?! Who are you?! Please! [SOBBING.]
No.
That's not my sister.
Please.
[POLICE RADIO CHATTER.]
[HUMMING "TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE STAR.]
[HUMMING CONTINUES.]
Izzy! [INDISTINCT EERIE VOICES.]
Izzy, it's me, Alice.
What happened? [EERIE SOUNDS.]
No, Izzy, wait! [EERIE MUSIC.]
It's me, Alice! Izzy! [CLATTERING.]
[SIGHS.]
I'm telling you, it's our best option.
He's in their pocket.
He's my dad.
So you trust him? You know, all my life, people have told me that I have a weak stomach, that I am just too sensitive.
You know, when you hear that enough times, you start You start believing it.
So maybe Maybe somewhere along the line I stop trusting my gut.
Maybe shit maybe Maybe all the signs about my dad, they were there all along.
I just didn't pay attention.
But now Now I'm listening to my gut.
And it says that they have something on him.
They do.
They have something on him that forced his hand.
But Louise, this This'll force his hand the other way.
Because a fight has started.
And he'll have to make a choice.
Look, my dad He's not a monster.
His favorite show is "Futurama," for God's sake.
If it comes down to his own son, and a family of monsters he's got my back.
Okay.
Just keep my name out of it.
Ah.
I hope you know what you're doing.
Yeah.
[SILVERWARE CLANKING ON PLATES.]
[LAUGHTER.]
Well, you didn't eat your lunch, but maybe you'll like dessert.
Mmm, kidney parfait and ear wafer.
That's my favorite.
Bring it on.
[LAUGHS.]
Mmm, mmm, mmm.
Here comes the bat into the bat cave.
Here comes the train.
[IMITATES TRAIN CHUGGING.]
- That's right, hon.
- [WHISPERING.]
I'm really worried about Robert.
- Where is he? - Why? - Because he's a dear.
- Robert can take care of himself, he's like Father.
He's often away forever.
Am I embarrassing you, Mother? Yes, why don't you keep your voice down? - Keep my voice down? - Yes.
Been cleaning up his messes for years.
Even when we lived down there.
Why should I care about him? Do you Do you think he cares about me? He's your he's your brother.
Of course he cares.
Robert's a pirate.
He's off on another one of his adventures.
He'll come back like he always does with a story and a smile.
Well, he better, 'cause the rent's almost due.
- Oh, hush.
- [SLAMS TABLE, LAUGHS.]
[LAUGHING.]
Don't worry about him.
He's a bit of a fusspot.
Always has been, right Mama? You're lookin' awful pale, hon.
You know, if you don't eat enough protein, the body just starts to eat itself.
Yeah, I read that in a "Reader's Digest.
" You could just get so hungry your heart'll just up and eat itself.
And then it moves on to your brain.
And then it goes down to your spine and suddenly, you're just dead.
Happens to vegetarians all the time.
I I can't.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
You're not gonna let that go to waste, though, are you? Mmm, mmm, mmm.
[WHISTLING.]
[PLATE CLATTERS.]
[MICROWAVE CLOSES, BUTTONS BEEP.]
[WHISTLING CONTINUES.]
Hey, Dad.
Hey, son.
- What a nice surprise.
- [MICROWAVE DINGS.]
- Ow, ow, ow.
- Might wanna hold off on dinner.
[LAUGHS.]
Now, since when did you start bowling? [TENSE MUSIC.]
[MUSIC SWELLS.]
You damn idiot.
Where's the rest of him? How could you be so stupid? Whose side are you on? Izzy! [EERIE MUSIC.]
- [SQUEALS.]
- I'm made of wood, but I'm not a table.
I have a handle, but I'm not a brush.
I don't live within a house nor do I live without.
What am I? I'm a door.
[LIGHT, EERIE MUSIC.]
[INTENSE WHOOSHING.]
[SIRENS WAILING IN DISTANCE.]
When I first met him, Joseph Peach was just another weird, rich man who wanted to whisper in the Deputy Chief's ear.
He said he'd make me Chief.
Give me a chance to do all the things I wanted to do.
So I took it.
Got my chance to clean up the force.
Actually help the community.
See, all I had to do to get all the things I wanted for the better parts of town was Look the other way when people from Butcher's Block went missing.
People I wanted off the streets anyway.
You're still looking the other way.
Luke, I I did that for you.
And your brothers.
And, um Any maybe Maybe one day when you're Deputy Chief, he'll come to you with an offer to make a deal.
So you can do some good.
Maybe you'll be a better man than I was.
Yes, I will.
I'm not like you.
[EXHALES.]
[TENSE TONE.]
[MUSIC BUILDS.]
[EERIE MUSIC.]
Ah [TENSE MUSIC.]
[INDISTINCT VOICES MOANING.]
Go on, babycakes.
Don't look like much, but sure smells good, huh? Yeah.
Go on.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
[RETCHES.]
[GULPING.]
What are you doin'? [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
Oh, my God.
What are you doing?! [WINCES.]
[WHIMPERS.]
[GRUNTING.]
Ah! [YELPING.]
[SCREAMS.]
[INHALES SHARPLY, GRUNTS.]
[EERIE MUSIC.]
[MOANING.]
Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm.
[ORGAN MUSIC.]
Guh.
[BANGING ON DOOR.]
[BANGING CONTINUES.]
[POUNDING ON DOOR.]
Ah! [BANGING.]
[BANGING INTENSIFIES.]
[EERIE MUSIC.]
[INDISTINCT SCRAMBLED VOICES.]
[INTENSE MUSIC BUILDING.]
[INDISTINCT VOICE.]
[VOICES INTENSIFYING.]
I just wanna know what happened.
Zoey! - [KNIFE STABBING.]
- [GRUNTS.]
Zoey! Zoey! [BLADE SLICES.]
[INDISTINCT VOICE WAILING.]
[GRUNTING.]
[BRENDA LEE'S "BREAK IT TO ME GENTLY PLAYING ON CAR STEREO.]
Break it To me gently Let me down [GRUNTING.]
You all right, Dad? Yeah, it's just my stomach turning over.
[GRUNTING.]
Let me help you finish up.
Son, I'll take it from here.
- [BLADE SLICES.]
- [GURGLING.]
[TENSE MUSIC.]
[GASPING.]
Take it gradually [SCREAMS.]
Break it Break it to me gently It's both.
It's both.
Give me a little time to ease the pain Love me just a little longer 'Cause I'll never, never Love again Never love again [GASPS.]
Alice.
What was that? It's your disease.
The evolution of your madness.
It's not good enough to put a knife in it.
It'll heal itself and grow back.
It needs to be extracted.
I can do it for you.
Just say Joey, cut off his head.
[OLD TIMEY MUSIC PLAYING ON CAR STEREO.]
[KEYS JANGLING.]
[STARTS ENGINE.]
[GURGLING.]
[CAR APPROACHES.]
Oh, oh.
Oh, oh.
Oh don't oh ah, ah [EERIE MUSIC PLAYING.]
Does it help? Eatin' your own flesh as sacrament's kind of a Biblical misreading there, I think.
[LAUGHS.]
Oh, I'm starting to really like you.
Let's toast.
Alice.
[SIGHS.]
To the family.
To the family.
No.
Don't do it.
Alice Alice, don't.
Alice.
Alice.
To family.
You'll feel better if you eat something.
- Let me see! - Ahh! Zoey, what did you do to your leg? There was a homicide in the precinct.
Pops, what the hell is going on? I saw my dad's men set a murderer free.
Those people the Peaches Are suddenly very interested in Alice and her sister.
He went inside of my head.
I think he woke something up.
Mr.
Schizophrenia.
[GIGGLING.]
No.
- [KNIFE SLICES.]
- Ahh! - [GUNSHOT.]
- [GASPS.]
Your sister suffered a psychotic break.
I just wanna know if this is gonna happen to me.
There's a place for you at our table and there is a room for you in our home.
Is that where the stairs lead to? [EERIE MUSIC.]
[DOOR CREAKS, SHUTS.]
- [CHUCKLES.]
- Because it's so muggy outside that we're about to get rained on heat.
Ooh, you better go shopping right before you're about to get rained on.
- [LAUGHS.]
- Oh.
- Hi, girls.
- Hi, Nestor.
- Muggy today.
- Yeah, but the flowers look great.
- [CHUCKLES.]
- Alice.
- I'm just thinking of you.
- What? Zoey, stop being weird.
Let's go.
[LIGHT MUSIC.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
[INTENSE WHOOSHING.]
[INDISTINCT, EERIE VOICES.]
[EERIE MUSIC.]
[TURNS ENGINE OFF.]
[LOW RUMBLING.]
Luke when I said you could bring him to my house, this is not what I meant.
Yeah.
We need to make a plan.
We? Are you gonna help me or not? [SIGHS.]
Cannot believe I let you get me into this.
Is it I would me? Are you kidding? Oh, come on.
That is Stop pretending like I got you into this, okay? You already were in this.
You know, this is what you've been waiting for, right? Answers to all those questions.
[LIGHT MUSIC.]
[SIGHS.]
Ah, ooh, ahh, ahh! [SCREAMS.]
Stop running around like a crazy rabbit.
I was wondering when you would show up.
What is this place? It's the summer house.
- What's the summer house? - Our little plantation on top of the food chain.
[GURGLING, HEART BEATING.]
Call it custom made by request.
Although, the landlord is a bit of a prick.
Uh There you go.
We had such high hopes for this.
I just wanna find my sister, take her home.
Where is she? She's at the house.
I can't get there.
- Can you take me? - No.
You have to go there by yourself.
And it's harder than you think.
Fine.
[SIGHS.]
[EERIE MUSIC.]
Mother, how much longer are they gonna rip people off of us? This tray they brought over, this tray is - Let's not kid ourselves.
- Truly, stop it.
Are they gonna beg her and take her because of the bone on the plate? BOTH: No.
[LAUGHS.]
Always tires me out, gettin' around.
Oh, hi.
Sorry I'm late.
Hi.
Whoo.
[LAUGHS.]
This house is a lot bigger than it looks on the outside.
[STOMACH RUMBLES.]
Oh, you're hungry, aren't you? Me, personally, I I can't sleep on a full stomach.
That's why lunch is my favorite meal of the day.
Eat and eat and eat and I still have time to digest before bedtime.
Sleep easy, no nightmares.
Oh, I'm not I'm not hungry.
Oh, hon, you can tell yourself that, but I can hear your stomach grumblin' from here.
Where's Robert? He's been downstairs since yesterday.
It's not like your brother to miss lunch.
He gets up to no good down there.
You know Robert.
He's not careful.
I know my son.
Do you, Mother? And do you ever imagine that despite all the attention that you give him, maybe you don't know - what Robert gets up to.
- Now, you're just being petty.
Lunch is here.
[LAUGHS.]
Okay, settle down now.
So what do you plan to do with the body? Yeah, I still gotta figure that out.
[CHUCKLES.]
Well, you need to figure fast.
I got a dead Peach in my basement, and it ain't gonna keep.
Mother Peach loves Robert.
It bothers Aldus to no end that Robert's her favorite Peach.
Robert is the best Peach of 'em all, though.
He rescued me from the secretarial pool down at Burkett Insurance Company in Georgia That's where I'm from.
Robert was down on a visit, right, and he walked in one morning and I was just sitting there, typing away and And he nodded at the door.
And I said "Sir, what are you suggesting?" And he said, "I'm suggesting you follow me out that door and I make you a Georgia Peach.
" [LAUGHS.]
And that's exactly what I did.
I followed him out and in time, I followed him up here.
Ha! [CLAPS.]
Truth is, I'd follow Robert anywhere.
Actually, can I get one more? [SIGHS.]
It's like every day is Easter around here, you know? [CHUCKLES.]
- Oh.
- [CLEARS THROAT.]
[EERIE MUSIC.]
Go on, eat, honey.
Where the fuck did he go? Okay.
Well, he couldn't have gone far in his condition.
Yeah, his condition was dead.
What's in there? Bootleggers build the house, there's all tunnels, but they're boarded up.
[BANGING.]
[LOW, EERIE MUSIC.]
[THUMPING, CREAKING.]
Oh! [SCREAMS.]
Ahh! [WHIMPERING.]
Ahh, ahh.
Mouse! Ahh! Stay down! Uh! Uhh! [CRUNCHING.]
How do we make him stay dead? [PANTING.]
[LIGHT, EERIE MUSIC.]
[GRUNTS.]
You're new here.
Um, yeah, I am.
But I'm not staying long.
Good.
The landlord's a bit of a prick.
You've brought someone else with you.
A secret companion.
No.
I'm looking for someone.
I'm often shut, but I'm not a mouth.
- Sometimes I break - Is this a riddle? Do you want me to help you? I'm often shut, but I'm not a mouth.
Sometimes I break, but I'm not a heart.
When I am pained, I do not feel it.
When I am stained, I'm not unclean.
What am I? [EERIE FLAPPING SOUND.]
A window! Think it would get cooler at night.
Do you feel safe? Yeah, why? A window.
A window! [EERIE MUSIC.]
Um I'm just I'm actually trying to get to the house and I keep on walking, but I don't seem to get any closer.
Could you help me? I am framed but not guilty.
I have locks but no hair.
I only close when I'm open and my jam will not spread on any toast.
What am I? A waste of time.
Anyway.
[EERIE MUSIC.]
This time, let's make him stay dead.
[SIGHS.]
- You ready? - I got this.
[MOTOR STARTS.]
- [MACHINE ROARING.]
- [MUFFLED YELLING.]
[SAWING CONTINUES.]
[EERIE MUSIC.]
No! I know what you did.
I know.
- Calm down.
- I know! No, he's watching us while we're changing! He is watching us You watch my sister?! And then the flowers are towards the house.
- How do you explain that? - I have no idea - what she's talking about.
- What? - I know what you did.
- No idea what - she's talking about.
- He's been watching us while we are changing.
Look at this it's family These are turned towards the house! The house! I know what you're doing.
- You are sick! - Hey! - You're fucking sick! - Whoa, whoa, - ma'am, ma'am, no, no! - It's all right, it's okay.
- I am her sister.
- Who are you? - I am her sister.
- Okay.
- You're not my sister! - She's sick, okay? - Who are you? - Zoey Who are you? You're not my sister.
That is not my sister! What about my sister? - Zoey, you know who I am.
- No, who are you? I'm Alice! - No! Who are you? - She's not well.
- Who are you? - That's my sister! [BOTH YELLING.]
- Zoey! - Who are you? - Zoey, please! - Who are you?! - Who are you?! - You know what this I don't know who you are.
- Don't don't hurt her! - No! You're not my sister.
- She just needs some help.
- Who are you?! Who are you?! Please! [SOBBING.]
No.
That's not my sister.
Please.
[POLICE RADIO CHATTER.]
[HUMMING "TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE STAR.]
[HUMMING CONTINUES.]
Izzy! [INDISTINCT EERIE VOICES.]
Izzy, it's me, Alice.
What happened? [EERIE SOUNDS.]
No, Izzy, wait! [EERIE MUSIC.]
It's me, Alice! Izzy! [CLATTERING.]
[SIGHS.]
I'm telling you, it's our best option.
He's in their pocket.
He's my dad.
So you trust him? You know, all my life, people have told me that I have a weak stomach, that I am just too sensitive.
You know, when you hear that enough times, you start You start believing it.
So maybe Maybe somewhere along the line I stop trusting my gut.
Maybe shit maybe Maybe all the signs about my dad, they were there all along.
I just didn't pay attention.
But now Now I'm listening to my gut.
And it says that they have something on him.
They do.
They have something on him that forced his hand.
But Louise, this This'll force his hand the other way.
Because a fight has started.
And he'll have to make a choice.
Look, my dad He's not a monster.
His favorite show is "Futurama," for God's sake.
If it comes down to his own son, and a family of monsters he's got my back.
Okay.
Just keep my name out of it.
Ah.
I hope you know what you're doing.
Yeah.
[SILVERWARE CLANKING ON PLATES.]
[LAUGHTER.]
Well, you didn't eat your lunch, but maybe you'll like dessert.
Mmm, kidney parfait and ear wafer.
That's my favorite.
Bring it on.
[LAUGHS.]
Mmm, mmm, mmm.
Here comes the bat into the bat cave.
Here comes the train.
[IMITATES TRAIN CHUGGING.]
- That's right, hon.
- [WHISPERING.]
I'm really worried about Robert.
- Where is he? - Why? - Because he's a dear.
- Robert can take care of himself, he's like Father.
He's often away forever.
Am I embarrassing you, Mother? Yes, why don't you keep your voice down? - Keep my voice down? - Yes.
Been cleaning up his messes for years.
Even when we lived down there.
Why should I care about him? Do you Do you think he cares about me? He's your he's your brother.
Of course he cares.
Robert's a pirate.
He's off on another one of his adventures.
He'll come back like he always does with a story and a smile.
Well, he better, 'cause the rent's almost due.
- Oh, hush.
- [SLAMS TABLE, LAUGHS.]
[LAUGHING.]
Don't worry about him.
He's a bit of a fusspot.
Always has been, right Mama? You're lookin' awful pale, hon.
You know, if you don't eat enough protein, the body just starts to eat itself.
Yeah, I read that in a "Reader's Digest.
" You could just get so hungry your heart'll just up and eat itself.
And then it moves on to your brain.
And then it goes down to your spine and suddenly, you're just dead.
Happens to vegetarians all the time.
I I can't.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
You're not gonna let that go to waste, though, are you? Mmm, mmm, mmm.
[WHISTLING.]
[PLATE CLATTERS.]
[MICROWAVE CLOSES, BUTTONS BEEP.]
[WHISTLING CONTINUES.]
Hey, Dad.
Hey, son.
- What a nice surprise.
- [MICROWAVE DINGS.]
- Ow, ow, ow.
- Might wanna hold off on dinner.
[LAUGHS.]
Now, since when did you start bowling? [TENSE MUSIC.]
[MUSIC SWELLS.]
You damn idiot.
Where's the rest of him? How could you be so stupid? Whose side are you on? Izzy! [EERIE MUSIC.]
- [SQUEALS.]
- I'm made of wood, but I'm not a table.
I have a handle, but I'm not a brush.
I don't live within a house nor do I live without.
What am I? I'm a door.
[LIGHT, EERIE MUSIC.]
[INTENSE WHOOSHING.]
[SIRENS WAILING IN DISTANCE.]
When I first met him, Joseph Peach was just another weird, rich man who wanted to whisper in the Deputy Chief's ear.
He said he'd make me Chief.
Give me a chance to do all the things I wanted to do.
So I took it.
Got my chance to clean up the force.
Actually help the community.
See, all I had to do to get all the things I wanted for the better parts of town was Look the other way when people from Butcher's Block went missing.
People I wanted off the streets anyway.
You're still looking the other way.
Luke, I I did that for you.
And your brothers.
And, um Any maybe Maybe one day when you're Deputy Chief, he'll come to you with an offer to make a deal.
So you can do some good.
Maybe you'll be a better man than I was.
Yes, I will.
I'm not like you.
[EXHALES.]
[TENSE TONE.]
[MUSIC BUILDS.]
[EERIE MUSIC.]
Ah [TENSE MUSIC.]
[INDISTINCT VOICES MOANING.]
Go on, babycakes.
Don't look like much, but sure smells good, huh? Yeah.
Go on.
[TENSE MUSIC.]
[RETCHES.]
[GULPING.]
What are you doin'? [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
Oh, my God.
What are you doing?! [WINCES.]
[WHIMPERS.]
[GRUNTING.]
Ah! [YELPING.]
[SCREAMS.]
[INHALES SHARPLY, GRUNTS.]
[EERIE MUSIC.]
[MOANING.]
Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm.
[ORGAN MUSIC.]
Guh.
[BANGING ON DOOR.]
[BANGING CONTINUES.]
[POUNDING ON DOOR.]
Ah! [BANGING.]
[BANGING INTENSIFIES.]
[EERIE MUSIC.]
[INDISTINCT SCRAMBLED VOICES.]
[INTENSE MUSIC BUILDING.]
[INDISTINCT VOICE.]
[VOICES INTENSIFYING.]
I just wanna know what happened.
Zoey! - [KNIFE STABBING.]
- [GRUNTS.]
Zoey! Zoey! [BLADE SLICES.]
[INDISTINCT VOICE WAILING.]
[GRUNTING.]
[BRENDA LEE'S "BREAK IT TO ME GENTLY PLAYING ON CAR STEREO.]
Break it To me gently Let me down [GRUNTING.]
You all right, Dad? Yeah, it's just my stomach turning over.
[GRUNTING.]
Let me help you finish up.
Son, I'll take it from here.
- [BLADE SLICES.]
- [GURGLING.]
[TENSE MUSIC.]
[GASPING.]
Take it gradually [SCREAMS.]
Break it Break it to me gently It's both.
It's both.
Give me a little time to ease the pain Love me just a little longer 'Cause I'll never, never Love again Never love again [GASPS.]
Alice.
What was that? It's your disease.
The evolution of your madness.
It's not good enough to put a knife in it.
It'll heal itself and grow back.
It needs to be extracted.
I can do it for you.
Just say Joey, cut off his head.
[OLD TIMEY MUSIC PLAYING ON CAR STEREO.]
[KEYS JANGLING.]
[STARTS ENGINE.]
[GURGLING.]
[CAR APPROACHES.]
Oh, oh.
Oh, oh.
Oh don't oh ah, ah [EERIE MUSIC PLAYING.]
Does it help? Eatin' your own flesh as sacrament's kind of a Biblical misreading there, I think.
[LAUGHS.]
Oh, I'm starting to really like you.
Let's toast.
Alice.
[SIGHS.]
To the family.
To the family.
No.
Don't do it.
Alice Alice, don't.
Alice.
Alice.
To family.