01x08 - Angel of the Dawn

[bunniefuu]

A new Door opened because of me.

Only a Bloodherd can close it.

f*ck my life.

[DEMONIC GRUNTING]

[ROARS]

We're in this together. Okay?

Find and return her at once.

This mineral is called Devil's Bone.

It's not gold.

What more can I lose?

If we close that tear,

cut them off of Gehenna's influence,

they stand a chance at

getting back to normal.

[ROARS]

[SOFT INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪

River seepage?

It'd be ugly. This

whole thing could cave.

♪

Take what we can, while we can, boys.

We'll be set for life.

No more of this sh*t.

- Yeah!

- [DRILL RATTLING]

Closing the tear should

get us Nolan back.

Okay, here

is the tear,

and here is the entrance.

We need to get those

workers out of the gallery.

My dad had me do this ride-along

when I was, like, seven.

Pointed out these station thingies

that had these emergency levers.

They trigger an evacuation.

What if they don't leave?

You saw your dad. It was an obsession.

- [SNIFFING]

- Tasha.

If they don't dip, WPN

will force them out.

I mean, it's protocol.

And then we slip in like

a couple of sly eels.

You close the tear with

your ledger thingie,

and you save Nolan from

being a blood-thirsty monster.

[DOGS BARKING, WHIMPERING]

What? What's going on?

Shh.

[TENSE MUSIC]

[BANGING ON DOOR]

♪

[ENGINE TURNS OVER]

See ya, nerds! Whoo-hoo!

[DARK ROCK MUSIC]

♪

[CRICKETS CHIRPING]

Wild no one knows what's coming.

They never will.

[SOFT ROCK PLAYING OVER RADIO]

See that baseball field over there?

Prospector's diamond.

West Pine's holy land.

"Can you feel the power?"

Yeah, it's, like, very bright.

[BOTH LAUGH]

You know, when I was

seven, my dad's guy Paul

drunkenly lit a bottle

rocket off his butthole.

- [GASPS]

- Right back there.

[LAUGHS]

Yeah. All the local 636 crew gathered.

- And it just it didn't go off.

- [LAUGHS]

It just, like, exploded in his a*s.

It was so funny. We were dying.

- It just exploded in there?

- Yes.

Flames. Sparks.

Dying. Dying.

Same night Mom got me

my first ice cream cone.

Mint chocolate chip.

And then I got salmonella,

and the next few weeks

were spent on the toilet.

- Oh.

- But it was worth it.

Mom joked I was sh**ting

more sparks than Paul.

[LAUGHTER]

- sh**ting sparks?

- Yes.

Kaboom, like

- Tasha.

- Dude, it was a mess.

Tasha, you are such a

liar. You love this town.

I don't know. In my head, it's, like

Mom died here.

And no one talks about her anymore.

And, like, so, what was her life worth?

Like, she was just this

chick from a small town

that no one knew about?

I can I can, like, feel that silence.

♪

Dude, West Pine's a sh*thole.

Yes.

Everyone is a stupid as*h*le. Like

Yes.

And your Colony sucks, bro.

Definitely.

But it's home.

♪

f*ck you, West Pine! I love you!

My ear!

f*ck your ears! I love you!

f*ck you, the Disciples! I love you!

f*ck you, Big Chris and

Little Chris and Spoons!

I love you!

f*ck you, Gehenna, I love you!

f*ck you, the Colony, I love you!

[BOTH SHRIEKING]

[SCREAMS]

What is that thing?

[MINERS SCREAMING]

Ready?

Yeah, definitely.

You don't have to go in there.

You know I do.

What's your plan actually entail?

Just say some words. The

tear to Gehenna closes up.

You just say, "Some words?"

They're really good words.

[WATER DRIPPING]

That's not good.

What is it?

Spoons said the tunnel

could cave in the river.

That's how the Frisks won their case.

They said it could flood the whole mine.

The Colony gets their

water from that river.

So does all of West Pine.

If the water mixes

with that Devil's Bone,

the entire town could

end up like your dad.

Or Nolan, right?

Why is it so quiet down here?

[FLESH SQUELCHES]

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

♪

Well, I think I found your answer.

Looks like we improvise.

[ALARM WHIRS]

Attention. Critical flooding

risk has been detected.

You must evacuate.

[CREATURE GROWLS, GROANS]

[CREATURE ROARS]

[CREATURE HISSING]

- Nolan?

- [ROARS]

I need you to hide for me.

Okay?

Go, Tasha.

♪

- [BARS RATTLE]

- [ROARS]

Carrie, no.

Hey.

Hey. Girl boss.

Superstar. Muse.

I know you're in there.

I'm gonna save you, okay?

[ROARS]

Oh, my God! [SCREAMING, WHIMPERING]

♪

[GRUNTS]

No!

Sorry, Superstar.

[MACHINE WHIRS]

So close.

I'm shaking. Look.

[ROARS]

- Ready to get our friend back?

- Uh-huh.

[ROARS]

You sure this'll work?

No. Not at all.

But we don't have a choice.

Calm mind, steady hand.

[ROARS]

Oh, my God. Be strong. Almost there.

Once I get this thing

out, you will be you again.

Nolan, we're here.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[GRUNTS]

♪

[SHRIEKS, HISSES]

- Gotcha.

- [SQUEALS]

[ROARS]

Nolan.

I'm sorry, Tasha.

[CHUCKLES]

- It worked.

- Attention.

If anybody else still remains,

you must leave immediately.

Gallery eight is about to flood.

Okay. I'll lure him out.

You perform the ritual

before it's too late.

Wait. Ah.

I wanna say something big,

but my mind is in puddles,

and I just it's like bluh, mush, I

What about an "I love you?"

I need to say something perfect.

Perfect last words.

What?

Go, Tasha.

Go.

C'mon. You can do it.

I believe in you.

♪

Only a member of the Bloodherd

can open up a new Door.

[SQUEALING]

So only a member of the

Bloodherd can close it.

♪

C'mon.

Come and get me.

I'm right here.

[FOOTSTEPS THUDDING]

Oh, my God.

Nolan? Nolan!

[WHEEZING]

Nolan. Nolan.

Vast Gehenna, I pray to thee.

Close your Door and set me free.

Vast Gehenna, I pray to thee.

Close your Door and set me free.

Which is why you must

join the Bloodherd.

Join the Bloodherd.

Pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig.

You're just rotting flesh.

Join the Bloodherd.

Vast Gehenna, I pray to thee.

Close your Door and set me free.

You're rotting flesh. Rotting flesh.

Vast Gehenna, I pray to thee.

Close your Door and set me free.

[OBJECTS RATTLING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪

[WHEEZING]

Please be okay. Please be okay.

Please be okay. Nolan. Nolan.

Hey.

I'm literal stink bait.

[LAUGHS]

You should smell my pits.

No perfume. No shower.

Don't. Rhetorical. [LAUGHTER]

Second hell you've saved me from.

I'm so glad I didn't hurt you.

I-I wouldn't be able to live with

I'm gonna kiss you

now. Like, a kiss-kiss.

On the lips. Good?

Yeah. Good.

Wait.

f*ck it.

I'm non-binary.

Oh.

Like, genderqueer.

Enby. A "them."

Your timing is unreal.

- I know.

- I know.

You're g*dd*mn perfect, Nolan Frisk.

BOTH: Cool. [LAUGH]

[FOREBODING MUSIC]

♪

[INDISTINCT WHISPERINGS]

Vast Gehenna, I pray to thee!

Close your Door and set me free!

[WHISPERINGS STOP]

[GASPS]

Come home, Carrie.

Come home.

[GAGGING]

♪

Your friends found

sanctuary in each other

while you are left alone.

No parents. No home.

But you are never alone in hatred.

We see through your bitter bones.

We see your sour heart beating.

Your blood is the pestilent stream.

Your family is the Herd.

And you are vast Gehenna.

But you're wrong.

I found a home.

I reject you.

- Save yourself.

- I reject you.

- Save yourself.

- Save yourself. Save yourself.

- I reject you.

- Save yourself. Save yourself!

- I reject you!

[BOTH SCREAM]

Vast Gehenna, I pray to thee!

Close your Door. Set me free!

[GRUNTING]

Set me free.

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[CAT MEOWS]

♪

Warmth, daughter.

You did it.

You're safe now.

You're a hero.

Our angel awakens.

[APPLAUSE]

Disciples.

It is with great pride that

I welcome back our guardian,

Carrie Lavinia Ecker.

She learned of a tear

between our world and Gehenna,

and she risked everything to stop it

her skin,

reputation at home,

bending her own principles

in order to save thousands.

In offering herself up in sacrifice,

she has truly become

an angel of the dawn.

A hero is born. So, marvel.

- A hero.

- Hero.

My daughter.

We are prepared to offer you

Arthur Deane's old post

liaison to the guardians,

free to move between

our world and others.

How does that strike you?

Mm?

She accepts.

[APPLAUSE]

Just one final test.

- Disciples.

- [DOOR OPENS]

[GRUNTING]

[FOREBODING MUSIC]

And warmth.

♪

Our tradition states that

outsiders must not know our ways.

Carrie, display your devotion.

Prove your love. You know what to do.

My blade was lost in the mine.

I trust you, daughter.

♪

Humanity has wilted.

Out there, they poison the land.

They build chambers of self-obsession,

and always choose the one over the many.

And still

They had the nerve to confide

their pathetic problems to me.

[BOTH WHIMPERING]

Their stupid crisis of identity.

Her petty grief an o*gy of vanity.

Do one better, Father.

Show them all that we sacrifice

so they can live their empty lives.

Teach them our love.

Feed them to Gehenna.

You spoke of trust.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[BOTH CRYING, WHIMPERING]

♪

To vast Gehenna, I give my skin.

Pray warm shadow, let me in.

[DOOR RUMBLES]

No. No!

Carrie. Carrie, please. We won't talk.

You know we won't. Carrie.

Carrie, please. We

won't talk. Tell them.

- Try not to scream.

- Tell them, Carrie.

You'll survive longer.

Please. Carrie, please.

Carrie!

Carrie!

[BOTH SOBBING]

Carrie!

Please. We won't talk, you know that.

Tell them, please!

♪

[TENSE DRAMATIC MUSIC]

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