[bright chiming music]
[wind whistling]
[tense suspenseful music]
[wind continues whistling]
[tense suspenseful
music continues]
Mom.
[wreath rustles]
[wind continues whistling]
The wreath fell again.
Okay. I thought
I saw something.
Okay.
What are you reading?
Green Lantern.
It's Earth's branch of the
intergalactic police force.
Makes things
happen with his mind.
Well, his ring.
But it's mostly his mind.
Yeah. [chuckles]
Maybe they
should write a comic
about a middle-aged
Louisville nurse
whose pheromones cause
men to lose their minds.
I'd read that.
What? Humor me.
The level to which I humor
you is already off the charts.
Please just eat your toast.
All right, we
should take your temp.
This isn't a cartoon.
My temperature doesn't
go up when I get mad.
You're mad?
[tense suspenseful music]
I can't, [exhales]
can't keep this up.
I know it's hard.
We both just have to be
strong just until it breaks.
Me or the blizzard?
[tense suspenseful
music continues]
[door creaking]
[creature growling]
[tense suspenseful
music continues]
[footsteps thudding]
[Charm sighing]
[door creaks]
[lock clicking]
[tense suspenseful
music continues]
You behave out there.
[creature growling]
[Charm banging]
[Charm screaming]
[Charm screaming]
What child is this
who laid to rest
Betwixt the
branches sleeping
[singers vocalizing]
Whom phantoms greet
and soothe the beast
While Mother's
watch is keeping
[tense suspenseful music]
This, this where
cold is king
And shepherds guard
when Mercury sings
Haste, haste
to bring her laud
The sound of
needles piercing
[teeth grinding]
So bring her chills
and snowy night
All night,
Mary stood round her
The sting of stings
sh*t Mary's wing
With pills and potions,
she ground them
[water burbling]
[tense suspenseful music]
[singer vocalizing]
[singer continues vocalizing]
[dramatic tense music]
[wind whistling]
[ice cubes clacking]
[water splashing]
[ice rumbling]
[ice crunching]
So'd you ever start your
graphic novel thingy?
Well, I sat down to draw it
and I was like, "Oh sh*t,
I should probably come
up with a story first."
A grand opening, grand closing.
Well, I'm sure
you have some ideas.
I wanna write something dark.
Something karmic, but
engaging and hopeful, too.
I, I don't know.
Well, I could help.
[tense suspenseful music]
Hey!
I'll autograph one for
you when I'm done, okay?
Just gimme some space.
Okay.
There is something you
could do that might help.
Tell me the worst
thing you've ever done.
Well, that's a bit direct.
[Charm] Before you had me.
[sighs] I don't,
[sighs] I don't wanna tell you.
Wouldn't be that
useful if you did.
Well...
the people and the
places are a b-, a blur,
but I remember
I was a bad person.
You? Or the dr*gs?
I'm glad that you can
make the distinction
between the two,
but no, it was me.
[water splashing]
I, I enjoyed
corrupting innocence,
[tense suspenseful music]
mm, you know, giving them
a taste of the darkness
that flowed through my veins.
It was, it was worse than
misery loving company.
It was, it was chaos
making chaos for breakfast.
Mm.
20 years ago, right?
Ancient history.
Mm. No, you don't just
click your heels and run...
Have a pass waiting for
you like that in the dark.
[ceiling creaking]
Or outside the window.
Mm, chaos making
chaos for breakfast.
[dramatic tense music]
[flesh squelching]
The past is a bitch like that.
[dramatic tense music]
At least you
didn't k*ll anybody.
Not like you're
gonna k*ll me. [sighs]
[tense ominous music]
[dramatic tense music]
That is not the most accurate.
My assh*le's frozen shut.
[objects clattering]
I think I stacked
the dishes funny.
Dry off. I'll be right back.
[water splashing]
[tense suspenseful music]
[Charm shivering]
[heater humming]
[wind whistling]
[Kory speaks faintly]
[object scraping]
[Liz speaks faintly]
[creature growls]
[creature growling]
[creature gently growling]
[tense suspenseful music]
[door squeaks]
[Kory speaks faintly]
[feet thudding]
-[door squeaks]
-Look at all the decorations.
They have decorations. I
hope there's no kids here.
[Kory] What?
[Liz] Well, I don't
wanna freak them out.
I don't wanna freak anybody out!
[Kory] Come here.
[Kory grunting]
[Liz] Kory?
-Yeah?
-This doesn't feel right.
[Kory] No, Lizzie,
it feels warm.
Look, we need to go!
[Kory] Where?
-[dramatic tense music]
-[pot shattering]
[Lizzie] Run! [yelling]
Get out of my house!
[dramatic tense music]
-[Faith grunts]
-[Kory yelling]
[Kory] What the? [yelling]
-Stop! Stop!
-Wait! Wait!
Okay, wait? Just
wait a second, okay?
We're not here to hurt anybody.
We, we just wanted
to get out of the cold.
Bullshit!
I'm sorry, okay?
This was a mistake.
-Yeah!
-Yeah, I told you that
10 f*cking minutes ago.
I need a doctor. Hey, lady,
are you a nurse or something?
No, and you need to get
the hell out of here now.
But ma'am, it
is freezing outside.
I can't walk.
I'm f*cking dying.
You're not dying.
You have to help me.
That's a rule, isn't it, right?
It's like the, the, uh, what
is it, the Hippocratic Oath?
-What are you-
-No, that's doctors.
Nurses take the
Nightingale Pledge.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Hey, that doesn't cover
home f*cking invasion.
Okay, we can debate
that while he bleeds
-all over your floor.
-[Kory grunting]
There'll be more damages
than we meant to cause.
Do you know what'll happen
if you send us out there?
I'm not sure I'd be able
to live with myself.
But your house, your call.
[wind whistling]
Please, please.
[sighs] Dammit. Help me
get him to the couch.
-Breathe, just breathe.
-Okay.
-I'm breathing!
-Little faster.
I think I'm hyperventilating.
I'm gonna f*cking pass out now.
-Ow, f*ck, come on!
-Ooh, sorry,
-sorry, sorry!
-Ow! Oh, f*ck.
Ooh, okay, rags.
-Huh?
-In the kitchen
-underneath the sink!
-[Kory grunts]
Ah, okay, I'm ready.
Just, just, just yank it.
Yeah, it's not
gonna be that simple.
What?
[gasps] What is that?
[bag thumps]
No, no, no, no, no
tools, no, no. It's okay.
Trust me, this is the easy way.
-[Kory exhales]
-Uh, what do I do?
Roll it up and
put it in his mouth.
[Liz] Okay.
Hell of a time to
be out for a stroll.
Blizzard's been full tilt
for the past six days.
Yeah, I told her that this
little missionary trip
could wait till spring.
-This isn't-
-Well 'tis the season.
[Faith] All right.
Hold the bat still.
There's gonna be
more blood coming.
-Here we go.
-[Kory whimpering]
[Faith] All right.
-[drill whirling]
-[Kory yells]
-Oh, sh*t! Sorry!
-[Kory yelling]
[Kory] What the f*ck, man?
-I'm sorry.
-[Kory crying]
[sighs] I'm sorry. Are you ready
No!
-[drill whirling]
-[Kory screaming]
-[blood gurgling]
-[Liz grunts]
-[Faith grunting]
-[Kory grunting]
-Okay.
-Just you here?
-[Kory breathing heavily]
-I have a daughter.
She has a fever.
Is that her room at the door?
She's not a basket
case or something?
[object loudly thuds]
[creature growling]
Apply pressure.
Do not leave this room.
[tense suspenseful music]
[wind whistling]
[liquid squelching]
[door squeaking]
Charm?
[dramatic tense music]
[creature growling]
[dramatic ominous music]
Charm.
[gentle suspenseful music]
[dramatic tense music]
[eerie foreboding music]
[thermometer beeping]
[Faith sighs]
[gentle suspenseful music]
[wind whistling]
[thermometer beeping]
[creature growling]
[cloth ripping]
[objects thudding]
[creature growling]
[objects thudding]
[dramatic suspenseful music]
[creature screeching]
[Faith grunts]
[wood banging]
You hammer,
I'll see to his knee,
and we'll figure
out the rest later.
[wind whistling]
[Charm gasps]
[Charm exhaling]
[gentle eerie music]
Nice house. Must be
one heck of a nurse.
I had a hospice patient.
We worked together
for two years.
I didn't think she
liked me very much,
but she went, her will came,
it was hers, and now it's mine.
Thanks.
Guest room.
It's yours for the night.
[wind whistling]
[necklace jangling]
Does that make you feel safe?
Yeah, absolutely. What
makes you feel safe?
Big bats with screws in them.
So what's your daughter's deal?
I told you. She has a fever.
Yeah, it must be pretty bad.
And all the metal.
She's prone to
psychotic episodes.
I'd insist that you stay away.
You're the boss, Nightingale.
Yeah.
Thanks again.
[footsteps thumping]
[Charm] I heard voices.
Are there really
people down there?
[Faith] Uh, yeah, they just,
they got caught in the storm,
so it's just gonna
be for a few hours.
I could get dressed, say hi.
You know that's not a good idea.
I just, I just wanna
talk to somebody.
Charm, these people, they're,
they're drifters, okay?
The 8 ball they did in
the shelter's probably
the only reason why
they're not frozen solid.
You would know.
I would f*cking know!
[wind whistling]
Can you just trust
me for once? Please?
[door banging]
[creature growling]
[door slams]
2.4 degrees.
That's all that's keeping her
from slipping away from me.
Again.
[eerie unsettling music]
I know addiction,
I know sickness,
but what has Charm is
a biological nightmare,
and I'm fighting it the
only way that I know how,
[liquid burbling]
but that, that safe
zone, that coveted window
is getting harder and
harder to maintain.
I'm so tired and my
sweet, sweet girl, she is
[Charm screaming]
[creature growling]
running out of time.
[eerie suspenseful music]
[Kory grunts]
[gentle eerie music]
[Kory] [exhales] We got lucky.
Wasn't luck.
Yeah, no, I know it.
I'm just, you know what I mean.
You mean we found the house
at the end of the rainbow
like the leprechaun
said we would?
Oh, look under the cushion.
Maybe there's some gold coins
sprinkled about, laddie.
I get it already.
And credit where it's due, huh?
No, just saying
that this is an extremely
fortunate situation.
Found a nice warm
house with the power on
and the hostess is a nurse among
other bucket-list fetishes.
That was a joke, Liz.
[sighs] But I
tell you that anyone
who looks at a woman lustfully
has already committed adultery
with her in his heart.
Liz, I'm not married.
I'm sorry. I'm in your
corner no matter what.
We just can't have
another misunderstanding.
Okay.
Not now.
[unsettling foreboding music]
[Faith humming]
[Charm] So what are you
looking for exactly?
Intracranial hemorrhaging.
It's a possible side effect
from a prolonged fever.
So brain damage.
It's just a precaution.
Heavy recovery from any
medication has a mini withdrawal
Psychosis is a possibility.
Auditory and visual
hallucinations,
lucid sleepwalking,
but you'll be fine.
When you said you made mistakes
before, was I one of them?
I've made mistakes before you,
after you, with you,
but never you.
So who are they downstairs?
Um, they're just some kids
who got caught in the storm.
Kids?
Well, no, no, they're adults.
Well, you just said kids.
Okay, it's a figure of speech.
Which is the exact
opposite of adults.
Why are you pushing me?
I'm not pushing you.
I just wanna have some
normal interaction with-
Well, you're not normal!
[wind whistling]
You're more, Charm.
You're more, okay?
You're more than anyone
could ever understand.
And what's happening right now
leads away from logic
into pure phenomena,
so it, it, it
doesn't make it easier.
It makes it harder. [exhales]
[gentle eerie music]
I promise I won't
give up if you don't,
but you have to trust me.
All right. Maybe a quick dinner.
[pills clattering]
What are those? Those aren't
what you normally, um...
Dinner or not, kiddo?
[tense unsettling music]
Okay. Well, I will
leave the door unlocked.
Come down in about 20 minutes.
[tense suspenseful music]
[door creaks]
[tense unsettling music]
[Kory grunting]
[toilet flushes]
Oh, come on man. You're
gotta say something.
She's gonna think you're
a f*cking serial k*ller.
Um, hey, going hiking?
[wind whistling]
[Charm] Who are you now?
Our little home invader?
Yeah. Yep, that's me, Kory.
Sorry, um, uh, it, it, it, just,
I'm not, I'm not
dangerous, okay.
Said every serial k*ller ever.
Okay, please, please
don't. Please don't scream.
Liz will freak out and then-
Liz?
Yeah, that's my sister who
thinks she is my mother.
You know, I love her,
I, I, it's just like,
don't you wish people would
back the f*ck off sometimes?
All the time.
You coming out or what?
Uh, I was sort of
thinking I'd stay here
because, uh,
if you don't see me,
then we got a little bit of,
uh, uh, plausible deniability,
you know what I mean?
So you're pretty
into porcupines, huh?
[Charm] I hate them.
Oh, yeah, sure.
That explains the shrine.
It's hard to exert
control over something
when you're too
busy running from it.
Sounds like you got
some adult concerns.
Yeah, I'm
juggling a few others.
Oh, yeah. Like what?
Like the effect antifreeze
has on one's innards.
Did you know porcupine
means pig with swords?
Did you know their quills
are basically calcified hair?
[Kory] I did not.
And that at the right angle
they sink into the flesh,
like hot rebar.
[chuckles] How did
you find that out?
The hard way.
[dramatic tense music]
My mom had surprised me
with a trip to the zoo.
Like always, she felt bad
and thought this would
make everything okay.
[people chattering indistinctly]
You wanna take it
outta my pocket?
-Yeah, I do!
-But even then
I could see
through her bullshit.
[Faith] Where is it, huh?
What you gonna do with it?
What are you gonna do with
it? Better give it on back!
-The look in her eye.
-Who you gonna sell it to?
[Charm] It was
more than hunger.
It was, it scared me,
so I ran.
[unsettling foreboding music]
There were people everywhere,
but no one helped.
[door creaking]
Ran through the first
door I could find,
the wrong one.
Mama, Mama, Mama.
The smell hit me first.
[porcupine growling]
Then I, I saw it.
[Charm yelling]
Possession, negligence. They
arrested her on the spot.
How long did they keep her?
She kept herself. 7
rehab stints in 10 years.
But, but she's, uh, she's all
better now, though, right?
Like she's, uh,
rehabilitated or whatever.
Part of recovering
is letting go.
She has this old suitcase
from her party days
out in the garage.
Probably still something
in there to make
all the pain go away.
Guess all that sh*t with
your mom is the reason
you got the whole tortured
artist thing going on, right?
I mean, well,
I mean almost anyway, right?
What do you mean?
I don't know, I mean, um,
no obsession is complete
without a cool origin story, so.
Some battle scars might have
sold it better. That's all.
[gentle suspenseful music]
[gentle eerie music]
[Faith] Honey
are you coming down?
[chuckles] Guess it's showtime.
[Kory] Yeah, yeah,
I guess I better, um...
Escape?
No one's getting
out of this zoo.
[Kory grunts]
[Charm exhales]
What? Okay.
[Kory grunting]
-Pass that.
-Oh, thank you.
Thanks.
Smells great, ma'am.
Hi, Charm. Uh, this is
Liz and that's Kory.
Uh, we appreciate
your hospitality.
We'll see.
Uh, before we start eating,
I would be honored to
lead us in a blessing.
If we could all join hands?
[Liz clears throat]
Heavenly Father, thank you
for leading us out of the cold
and into the limitless
warmth of Your love.
Please bless our food,
but especially our host,
hostesses who have graced us
with an all-too-rare compassion.
In Your name, we say
-amen.
-[Faith clears throat]
[Faith clears throat]
Let's eat.
So we're making tracks along
the road outside Shelby Bowl,
and then the snow just
starts dumping on us.
Mm-hmm, and we need shelter,
but we wanna keep moving.
-Bus, right?
-Wrong.
[Liz] Some kind human
took it upon themselves
to knock down every
stop marker for like-
For like, it's
like two miles easy.
So the buses are going by us
and we're screaming
bloody m*rder.
Yeah, for hours, so then
I gave up and I sat down-
In the snow.
And I cried.
Yes, you did.
Mm, why didn't you just pray
for the limitless
warmth of His love?
Uh, I did that, too.
Well, help me understand.
Like, maybe you can
explain it to me.
So when you have food
right, you thank Him for it,
but when you are trapped
in sub-zero temperatures,
that's a sign, right?
A sign of what?
That God wants you
to freeze to death.
I don't think God wants
anyone to freeze to death.
I think God uses the cold
like a farmer would use
an electric fence to steer
you to where you belong.
Okay, so say God
steers you here
and I send you right back out
the window that you came in,
and then, you know,
something bad happens.
Who's the guilty party?
The party that feels guilty.
I don't know.
Doesn't His plan kind of
give me an out, though?
Like, no repercussions,
cause like, whatever I do,
whatever happens,
it's His plan, right?
Well, God...
Have you ever heard
of the term PBAB?
Pine box at bedside?
Yeah, I've been a
nurse for 10 years now,
and I've helped more
people evade death
than you could even fathom,
and it wasn't because I
waited for holy intervention
or because I
trusted in the plan.
I acted. The use of
science is an act.
And the people who believe
in the myth to save them,
they build those pine boxes
and the people who act,
we keep them empty.
I think one day
you're gonna wonder
what else you are wrong about.
Emerald twilight.
What?
Oh, Mom, you're gonna love this.
Hal Jordan, Earth's
Green Lantern, uh,
he comes back from this cosmic
ass-kicking marathon, right?
And he finds his home, Coast
City, completely annihilated.
Everything he ever loved or
held dear is just a crater.
So he's devastated
and he gets an idea.
He uses his ring to
resurrect Coast City.
All the buildings are back
and people stroll the streets,
holding hands and
sharing embraces
with the one who got away.
He even spends time
with his dead mother
[gentle suspenseful music]
till his ring runs out of power.
So he sh**t up into space to
get back to his home planet
where their,
where their power source is,
and he needs it.
He needs all of it to
keep Coast City alive,
but the, the Guardians
and the other Lanterns,
they won't let him have it,
so he obliterates them all.
[Charm chuckles]
Charm. Charm?
No one feels guilty if
they're destroying something
in order to build.
Not God, not superheroes,
not f*cking politicians.
[gentle suspenseful
music continues]
But I think we should.
I, I think.
-[Charm gasping]
-[dramatic foreboding music]
Charm. Charm!
Whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, Charm!
Oh my god, this is a
seizure. What do we do?
Can't just stand here.
We gotta do something.
Help me lie her straight.
No, you're supposed to put
something in her mouth.
What, are you a doctor now?
She's gonna f*cking die, man!
[Charm gasping]
sh*t. The power transfer switch.
Oh great, the power transfer
switch. That's lovely.
Calm down!
Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
We can't see sh*t and there's
a girl dying on the floor.
I apologize for losing my zen.
-Okay.
-You, you have
like a, a backup
generator or something?
No, it should have kicked on.
Flashlights?
[Charm gasping]
Yes, there is a backup jenny
in the corner of the garage.
All right, you guys take these.
Go turn the switch on.
What, why us?
We don't know anything
about generators.
Because I need to be
here with my daughter.
Um, okay, he, he, he's right.
Okay, we don't know
what we're doing,
so why don't you take him
and I'll stay with her.
-[Charm grunting]
-[Charm's body thudding]
Okay, let's go.
After this, team meeting.
[Charm grunting]
Uh, okay, just um,
[exhales] stay there.
[Kory] S- so, uh, Charm's dad,
is he, is he in the picture?
I cut him out a long time ago.
Doesn't stop him
from squirming in
every now and then, but...
[sighs] sh*t. Can you
give me some light?
[Kory] Uh-huh. [sighs]
You know, I think the
whole body positivity thing
is super hot.
-[Liz exhales]
-[dramatic tense music]
[eerie crackling]
[dramatic tense music]
Hello? Charm?
[hand smacking]
[eerie ominous music]
Are you all right?
Like, if you need help,
if something's wrong,
like, really wrong,
you just have to tell me.
[eerie crackling]
[battery crackles]
[hand smacking]
[mysterious grumbling]
[creature chittering]
[creature squeaks]
-[creature rumbles]
-[Liz gasping]
-[Liz yells]
-[Liz thuds]
[flashlight rumbling]
[eerie suspenseful music]
[Liz breathing heavily]
[door creaking]
[wind whistling]
[door creaks]
[Liz grunts]
[creature squelching]
Charm?
[Charm] Help me, Mama.
O- okay, just, just, just
wait a second! You guys!
[Liz breathing heavily]
Team meeting, all right.
[hands and knees scraping]
[Liz grunting]
[snow rumbling]
Charm?
[Liz grunting]
[snow rumbling]
Charm? Can you follow my voice?
[Charm] Can you follow my voice?
[Liz grunting]
I'll go as far as I can, but
you're gonna have to meet me.
Charm, are you coming?
[mysterious crackling]
Our Father Who art in
heaven, hallowed be Thy name.
The Lord is my shepherd,
I shall not want.
[Liz grunting]
[creature rumbling]
Charm?
[creature growling]
Hello?
[creature growling]
[Liz screaming]
[creature growling]
-[feet pounding]
-Hurry, open this door!
Hurry, open the f*cking door!
[creature growling]
Somebody open this door!
[Liz screams]
[Kory] We got you. Hey, hey.
[gasping] Oh no.
There is, [gasping] there
is something out there.
-What?
-Okay, maybe there is.
There's a tunnel all the way
to your damn mailbox, okay?
-Come here, come here.
-well, where's Charm?
-Something was chasing me.
-Charm. Charm.
Ice tunnel?
Yes. Go look, I swear!
[tool clatters]
What the f*ck?
[Liz gasping]
[snow rumbling]
[door creaking]
[door slams]
Something is wrong here.
Have you been seeing things.
With all the pills
I've been taking,
I don't think I'm
seeing enough things.
Look, I'm being serious!
Yeah, and I'm
being logical, dude.
Like, we're all tired and
hungry and f*cking horny, okay?
So I think some minor
freakouts are allowed.
She drugged us.
What?
I was fine until we ate
and then, and then I, I,
-I thought I saw.
-Oh, no, no, no.
I ate the same thing you did.
Maybe it's too
busy bouncing off
all the other crap
in your system.
Yeah, and maybe
it's like the time
you saw St. Anthony
in the shower.
Look, you want me to
concur with something?
I'll concur that Charm is a
few bats short of a belfry.
Or is it too many bats?
It's too many bats, right?
I think she's here
against her will.
[Kory sighs]
The, the seizures, the
door. It, it makes sense.
No, it do-
I, I talked to her, okay.
She would've told me if she
was a, like a f*cking hostage.
It's my face. Makes
girls wanna open up.
-Ugh.
-Don't. Hey, don't, okay?
Your neurotic hunch
is gonna put us
in a freeze-to-death situation.
So you would ignore a
c*ptive human to stay warm?
I am disabled.
Just [grunting] get some
rest, okay, Nancy Drew?
We're hitting the slopes
tomorrow, no skis.
You know, when
they delivered you,
both of your lungs collapsed,
and the umbilical cord
wrapped around your
neck was not helping.
You weighed two pounds.
When they tried to check you
out in the corner of the room,
the power d*ed,
and I didn't know
what was happening.
You know, I was so
disoriented from the dr*gs,
theirs and my own.
I didn't know what was going on,
but I could hear them talking
and they were talking about
you like you were already dead.
And I knew that I
couldn't be there for you,
that you would have to
be your own battery,
your own safety, your own charm,
but this time, this time,
I'm here to pull
you out of the dark.
[gentle melancholy music]
[kiss smacks]
[gentle suspenseful music]
[door creaking]
[latch clicks]
[Charm sighs]
[recorder clicks]
The substitute compound is
making her more aggressive.
I might have to, [exhales]
I might have to. f*ck!
[objects clattering]
f*ck.
f*ck.
[creature rumbling]
[creature thudding]
[creature growling]
[dramatic tense music]
[Kory gasping]
[dramatic suspenseful music]
Hello.
Uh, uh, f*ck.
[Kory grunting]
Just leave you there.
Um, um, um.
Oh, Jesus, you're the man.
[lid bangs]
[tool clangs]
[gentle suspenseful music]
What the f*ck?
Jesus Christ, Faith.
What?
Make the pain go away, my ass.
-[eerie tense music]
-[shutter clicks]
[picture whirs]
Idiot.
[tense suspenseful music]
Mine now.
[dramatic tense music]
[Kory yells]
Okay.
sh*t, I got it.
[dramatic tense music]
[dishes clinking]
[water splashing]
[creature whooshing]
[Kory grunts]
Sorry. [gasps]
[tense eerie music]
[creature growling]
[door squeaks]
[dramatic tense music]
Some, uh, [clears throat]
it's a crazy day, huh?
[Creature] Still early,
isn't it, buddy?
Oh, oh, uh, you're, um.
[Father] Charm's father,
man of the house. That's me.
She didn't really, uh, she
didn't really mention you.
[Father] Really? Sounds like
sour teenage grapes to me.
[chuckles] Well, I wouldn't know
I, um, I don't have any kids.
[Father] Not yet,
but you got plenty
of that pure white venom
just itching to get out.
[inhales] I can
smell it from here.
[creature laughing]
[gentle tense music]
[dramatic tense music]
[Liz gasps]
You know, I never
apologized t-, um,
to you for sort of
just dropping in here.
So sorry.
[creature whooshing]
[Kory breathing heavily]
[gentle tense music]
I should go back to bed. So,
um, sorry to wake you up here.
[Father] Kory.
[Kory] Yeah? [gasping]
[Father] You've got
something of mine.
I'm sorry. I, I wasn't gonna.
[creature chittering]
[dramatic tense music]
[Father] Nighty-night.
[Kory breathing heavily]
[creature rumbling]
[nails scraping]
[Kory] What the f*ck?
[door squeaking]
Don't go out there.
I have to see her for myself.
Trust me, hey. It's not safe.
Well, maybe she's
not safe, either.
Who f*cking cares?
That sickening lack of
empathy for your fellow man
is gonna come for
you tenfold, brother,
so do yourself a favour
and get with the program
before it's too late.
Move.
[door squeaking]
[Kory breathing heavily]
[tense suspenseful music]
[lights crackling]
[dramatic tense music]
[lights continue crackling]
[dramatic tense
music continues]
[Faith moaning]
[door squeaks]
Charm?
It's me, Liz.
-[shutter clicks]
-[Liz grunts]
-[picture whirring]
-Yeah, I know where you are.
Come to stare at
the basket case?
Old school. Nice.
Literally been in
hundreds of those things,
but I still don't
understand how they work.
Photo chemicals are basically
popped like a pimple
onto a positive sheet
when the exposure exits.
After that,
what you see is what you get
or what you thought you saw.
Mystery solved.
I brought you these.
Th- they're very striking.
Thought you might want them.
Liz, right?
Last time I checked, there's
only one copy of that key.
I had to see for myself.
See what for yourself?
That you weren't
here against your will.
The seizure, the door,
the, the, the tunnel.
The tunnel.
Take my picture.
Your home is odd.
I've been keeping my eyes open.
Usually there'll
be a sign somewhere.
You know, a trinket, a symbol.
Some evidence of-
Evidence of what?
-[shutter clicks]
-[picture whirring]
Faith.
Hmm. Value judgements from
the home invader, hmm?
I'm sorry. I just...
I- is there something
that you wanna tell me
about your mother?
I've seen situations
like this before.
This isn't how real
protection works.
What's there to tell?
My mom thinks I
turn into a monster
if I get too hot or too cold.
Well, do you?
[exhales] Joking.
I really, your mother seemed
to have this overdeveloped
sense of duty when it
comes to your health.
Sometimes people want us to
think that their transgressions
are powered by passion.
Then what's actually
in the t*nk, hmm?
I don't know. Guilt, maybe.
[chuckles] You two sure seem
fascinated by the G word.
I just wish we agreed
on its functions.
Guilt is a stain
bestowed upon people
who make the wrong decisions.
It's the whole point. It's
what separates us from beasts.
So if I really am a monster,
my mom shouldn't feel
guilty for locking me up,
tranquilized like a beast?
Charm, I've seen monsters.
You're not one of them.
[gentle tense music]
[heater humming]
Charm.
What you see is what you get.
[Charm gasping]
That's, that's enough.
[Charm grunting]
[blood squelching]
[Charm screaming]
[Charm groaning]
[Liz] Charm!
[creature rumbling]
[creature growling]
[blood squelching]
[creature roaring]
Charm! [gasping]
[tense eerie music]
[feet thudding]
[footsteps thudding]
[Liz crying]
Hey, I don't know
what just happened.
You don't have to tell me. But,
um, we obviously have to go.
[Liz crying]
I don't know what
the f*ck that is.
[Liz] Look.
[dramatic intense music]
Listen, we're gonna get,
we're gonna get some blankets
and then we're gonna steal
some food and then we go out
the way we came in and we
just move faster than sh*t.
I can't. We can't.
Hey, Lizzie. Hey,
hey, hey, Lizzie.
I know you think you
can help these people.
That's why you're,
you're amazing.
Whatever's happening
in this house is so big
and dark that even a
f*cking idiot like me
knows you cannot pray it away.
We're all she has.
f*ck, no, Liz! Pack your sh*t.
Lizzie, I'll leave you.
Turning our back on
her would be a sin
that dwarves all others.
[gentle melancholy music]
What do you wanna do?
I wanna vanquish the demon.
[dramatic tense music]
The substitute compound is
making her more aggressive.
I might have to, [exhales]
I might have to. f*ck!
[objects clattering]
[button clicks]
[tape whirring]
Every medicinal compound
ever created is just a litany
of chemicals that either
trigger, inhibit,
or neutralize until the
desired effect is reached.
There's no precedent
for what we face,
and this holding pattern
is becoming more harmful
to her than the real thing.
[button clicks]
[tape whirring]
The real thing.
[sighs] Maybe just a micro dose
to get us through the storm.
[tense suspenseful music]
[suitcase thuds]
Hey, Faith. Hey.
What is going on?
[Kory] Nothing.
-Hmm?
-Yeah, I, I swear.
You swear.
I thought you Jesus freaks
weren't supposed to do that.
Well, I'm kind of a failure
of being a Jesus freak.
So she, um, she just
wants to help, okay?
[dramatic tense music]
[blow thuds]
[Faith thuds]
Charm has begun to
experience blackouts
along with an extreme
personality disorder
in which her body
physically alters.
I have tracked a
continuous high fever,
noting flashes of clarity
between 102 and 104.4 degrees.
We'll attempt to maintain
that 2.4 degree safe zone
via a controlled
methadone overdose.
That's extremely
questionable parenting.
Yesterday, I would've called
that plain manic overkill,
but today?
Porcupines, though?
What kind of fever conjures
farm animals out of thin air?
Mm, porcupines aren't
farm animals, Liz.
Kory!
Liz.
You know there's a theory
that 10% is what we
use of our brains
and that full capacity
operation could be the result
in unlocking of powers like
telepathy, telekinesis,
that'd mean we'd only be
limited by our imagination.
I don't know, it's kinda
like the Green Lantern,
right, but without the rings?
Don't try to tell us the same
lies you tell her, Faith.
We know better.
There are documented studies
of drastic physical transitions.
I could show you.
Your room was interesting.
That lab you got there is
rudimentary to say the least.
f*ck you.
Tell me about your compound,
Faith, about your cure.
f*ck you.
Fine. We'll just skip
to the lightning round.
You might out of methadone,
but your garage is
stocked full, huh?
f*cking antifreeze?
Two questions.
What kind of mother pumps her
little girl full of this sh*t?
And what kind of little
girl gets pumped full
of this sh*t and doesn't die?
Admit your hand in this,
Faith, and convince me
that there is something at
work here other than the devil.
The devil. You little bitch.
You don't know sh*t.
You don't know what it's
like to pull yourself out
from the brink, to pull
your baby out, too,
with no help, no one.
Just the storm and
the resentment.
You don't know what it's
like to be a mother!
So you can take your good book
and your fairy tale
f*cking holiday!
You mean Christmas?
And your Ten Commandments.
It's the season of His birth.
And you can go straight to hell!
[fire crackling]
That spiked bat wasn't
meant for us, was it?
You're scared.
How many more weapons do you
have stashed around here?
You have taken this as far
as you can go. Further, even.
What are you holding onto?
What is the sin whose
shadow in which you live?
[lively raucous music]
[person speaking indistinctly]
It is time to put
your confidence
in something other than
yourself for her sake.
Just say the word.
You want my blessing?
Yes. Yes, I do.
Don't touch her.
If you f*cking touch her...
[objects scraping]
[creature growling]
It'll be painless, Faith.
We just invoke His name
and we let Him decide
who's right or wrong,
our truth or your poison.
Don't lay a finger on her.
Don't you f*cking touch her!
[creature growling]
[fire continues crackling]
[gentle tense music]
[tense suspenseful music]
-[Kory grunts]
-Kory.
[chair scraping]
-Get out!
-This, this
-is Christ the King
-Get out of here!
-Whom shepherds guard
-Stop!
-And angels sing
-[creature growls]
[Liz] Get back here.
-Haste, haste
-Get back!
Get out! Mom!
-Mom!
-Coming!
The babe, the son of Mary
No!
[Charm] Mom!
[bright contemplative music]
What child is this who laid
[creature growling]
[Kory thumping]
-[body squelches]
-[Kory yelling]
-[dramatic tense music]
-[creature rumbling]
Oh, f*ck! [yelling]
[Faith yelling]
[creature rumbling]
[foot steps thumping]
[creature screeches]
[Kory grunting]
Breathe. Apply pressure.
[Kory grunting]
Okay. Okay, so we're oh for one.
You're never gonna
convince her you're right.
Your sister was
right about one thing.
I am sh**ting in the dark.
Fever is all that I have.
I just, I have to get control.
Well, you had control,
but now it does.
We gotta leave her.
No, no!
All right, well, um, uh, uh,
Liz's stun g*n in her bag maybe?
[creature grunting]
[dramatic tense music]
[bodies thudding]
[Faith and Liz grunting]
-[blow thuds]
-[Faith grunts]
[blow thuds]
[Faith grunting]
[Liz grunting]
[glass shattering]
I won't let anyone else
ever hurt her again!
[Liz grunting]
[taser crackling]
[Faith thuds]
[Kory breathing heavily]
Hey, hey, somebody. Liz!
[gentle tense music]
[Kory grunting]
[creature growling]
[tense suspenseful music]
[creature screeches]
[bells tinkling]
[creature screeches]
[Kory gasps]
[creature growling]
[dramatic tense music]
[Kory grunting]
[creature growling]
[tree thuds]
[tense suspenseful music]
[creature rumbling]
[creature chittering]
[Kory breathing heavily]
[Liz grunts]
[tense suspenseful music]
[planks thunking]
-[Liz grunting]
-Wait!
P- pl- please, please don't go.
[gentle melancholy music]
Good luck, Nightingale.
[wind whistling]
[Faith crying]
[door creaking]
[Kory grunting]
[door creaking]
[tense suspenseful music]
[creature grumbling]
sh*t. sh*t.
[feet thumping]
Oh! [breathes heavily]
[creature rumbling]
[creature squeaks]
[creature growls]
[Kory grunting]
[door squeaks]
Okay, f*ck.
[creature rumbling]
[creature growling]
[claws scraping]
[creature howling]
[door squeaks]
[Kory panting]
[creature rumbling]
[wind whistling]
Where is she?
Tell me she's not out there.
Oh God, Jesus.
[gentle melancholy music]
What if,
what if He won't take me?
Then you just come on back.
-[liquid splattering]
-[Kory gasping]
[creature growling]
-[body squelches]
-[creature squeaking]
[blood squelching]
[creature howling]
[dramatic tense music]
[door squeaks]
[gentle tense music]
[latch squeaking]
[wind whistling]
When you said you
made mistakes before,
was I one of them?
No. No, baby.
I, I thought I,
I thought I saw something.
I thought I saw something.
[Charm] Part of
recovering is letting go.
-[mortar and pestle grinding]
-[liquid burbling]
I would never.
[Charm] She has this old
suitcase from her party days.
-[mortar and pestle grinding]
-[liquid burbling]
I would never.
No one feels guilty if
they're destroying something
in order to build.
I just can't do this!
I need help!
[creature growling]
[Faith grunting]
[wind howling]
[Faith yelling]
I can't! Wait, no, I can't!
I don't want to! No!
[dramatic tense music]
[Faith crying]
I can't do it.
I won't f*cking do it!
[liquid burbling]
Please, please,
I won't f*cking do it.
Please, please, no!
[fire crackling]
You know,
when they delivered you,
I was so disoriented
from the dr*gs,
I knew that I
couldn't be there for you,
but this time I'm here
to pull you out the dark.
I'm here to pull
you out of the dark.
Pull you out of the dark.
Pull you out of the dark.
[lid thuds]
[Faith grunting]
[dramatic tense music]
[door creaks]
[creature rumbling]
[lights crackling]
[dramatic tense
music continues]
[fog hissing]
[tense suspenseful music]
[creature growling]
[feet pattering]
-[creature growls]
-[Faith yells]
-[bat thuds]
-[creature howls]
[creature growling]
[dramatic tense music]
[creature growling]
[feet thudding]
[dramatic tense music]
[bat thuds]
[creature rumbling]
[Faith humming]
[creature growling]
[paper rustling]
[door latch rattling]
[creature growling]
[Faith continues humming]
[Kn*fe tings]
[creature rumbles]
[Faith yells]
[creature growling]
[wind howling]
[lights crackling]
[creature squelching]
[dramatic tense music]
[creature rumbling]
[Faith grunting]
[hand squelching]
[creature screeching]
[creature growls]
Come on. Charm!
[gentle melancholy music]
[creature growling]
[wind whistling]
[creature screeching]
[heart squelching]
[Faith crying]
[gentle melancholy
music continues]
[papers rustling]
[Announcer] KLU,
Louisville, Kentucky.
K-top mornings with the bishop.
Get your shorts out, folks.
We got a high of 75 today.
Spring sprung it in January,
a few months early it seems.
there are reports all
over the Louisville area
of flash floodings
melting off the snow
from last week's
white out blizzard,
so be careful out there.
Don't be a stranger over here.
Do you have any
plans this morning?
[Announcer] I'm happy
about it. I'll still-
Gonna add some flowers
to my painting.
You know,
dig into my multimedia bag.
Some, oh, maybe you should
try some gold leafing.
I can help you pick some.
Of course. The more the merrier.
I'll go change.
Okay.
Mom?
Yeah?
Thanks.
For what?
Pulling me out of the dark
like you said you would.
[birds chirping]
[Faith humming]
[dramatic tense music]
Tell me the worst
thing you've ever done.
[Faith] I was a bad person.
[lively raucous music]
[people chattering
indistinctly]
You're not gonna get a
bigger crown in heaven
trying to save something
that's already lost.
What the f*ck are we
doing here then, Liz?
I, I don't believe, I had
a connection, you know?
Yeah, I bet.
No, it's, it's more than that.
It's, it's the, she, I
think she'll listen to me,
so I gotta try.
Kory, she doesn't
want to be saved.
Human
Like my mind
This is the sound that blows
This is the sound that blows
This is the sound that blows
This is the sound that blows
Hey!
[loud music playing]
Come with me.
There's no way
I'm stopping it
I wanna help you.
Mm.
Let's get outta here.
We can leave.
We can go somewhere else.
Shh. Shh.
[Faith laughs]
I'm gonna cum so hard when
I pop your f*cking cherry.
What are you doing?
Faith. Faith, what the
f*ck, what the f*ck?
[tense suspenseful music]
One, two, three, four
-Strike
-Come on
-Strike
-Come on
[Kory grunting]
[Faith] I enjoyed
corrupting innocence.
Somebody help!
Somebody help!
[tea cup shatters]
[wind whistling]
-[wood thumps]
-You hammer,
I'll see to his knee, and we'll
figure out the rest later.
[Charm] Who are you now?
Our little home invader?
[Liz] Charm, it's me, Liz.
[Charm] Yeah, I know who you are
Uh, this is Liz and that's Kory.
[dramatic tense music]
[Faith crying]
[creature growling]
Take your f*cking medicine!
Don't you f*cking touch her!
I won't let anyone else
ever hurt her again!
[Liz] I can't keep this up.
[tense ominous music]
[Faith] Wait.
[button clicking]
[rewinding tape whirring]
Wait.
You stay back!
[wind whistling]
You get away!
Please, please don't go.
Please.
[tense melancholy music]
[Faith gasping]
[paper rustles]
[dramatic tense music]
[Faith crying]
No one's getting
out of this zoo.
[wind whistling]
[creature growling]
[tense suspenseful music]
What child is this
Who laid to rest
Betwixt the branches sleeping
[singers eerily vocalizing]
Whom phantoms greet
and soothe the beast
While Mother's
watch is keeping
This, this
where cold is king
And shepherds guard
when Mercury sings
Haste, haste to
bring her laud
The sound of
needles piercing
So bring her chills
and snowy night
All night,
Mary stood round her
The sting of stings
sh*t Mary's wing
With pills and potions,
she grounds them
[singers eerily vocalizing]
[haunting eerie music]
[singers continue
eerily vocalizing]
[dramatic tense music]
[eerie ominous music]
[tense suspenseful music]
[tense suspenseful
music continues]
[ominous foreboding music]
[tense suspenseful music]
[gentle melancholy music]
[gentle melancholy
music continues]
A Creature Was Stirring (2023)
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