01x07 - Weapon Against the Shadow

[bunniefuu]

A new Door opened because of me.

I need the ledger to help me close it.

Once the new door is closed, what then?

I'll return.

That's gold, Kal.

Keep access tight.

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

f*ck my life.

- k*ll it! k*ll it!

- [SCREECHING]

Tasha, look, they're human.

Why did you abandon us?

I should rip your heart out

and throw it to the Herd.

But then I couldn't make things right.

- Gotta make it stop.

- [OVERLAPPING ETHEREAL VOICES]

Make it stop.

Make it stop.

[TENSE MUSIC]

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- Make it stop.

- Make it stop!

[SCREAMS]

[WIND HOWLING]

Carrie.

Mom?

You know what to do.

Find me in Salem and

I'll make it all stop.

You need rest, dear.

The pain, the loneliness,

the unending noise.

♪

You'll be home.

[SOFT TENSE MUSIC]

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Open that door, then find me.

It was locked.

But someone has the key.

♪

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Disciples, don't let anything pass.

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You know the drill.

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[DOOR HINGES CREAKING]

[TENSE MUSIC]

- [THUMPING IMPACT]

- [GROANS]

♪

[THUMPING IMPACT]

♪

Thank you.

[SOFT OMINOUS MUSIC]

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[YELPS]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

- [METAL SCRAPES]

- Carrie, what are you doing?

- [GRUNTS]

- [GASPS]

[DISSONANT THRUMMING]

♪

Ah! [GROANS]

Shh. They'll hear you.

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[GASPS]

[SOFT TENSE MUSIC]

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No!

[KNIFES SLASHING AND BODIES THUDDING]

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[POUNDING ON DOOR]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[POUNDING ON DOOR CONTINUING]

♪

[STRAINING AND GROANING]

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I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry!

[DARK ROCK MUSIC]

♪

[EERIE MUSIC]

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That snails really lasering into us.

I cause so much death.

That thing was going to

cut my head clean off.

- You're my hero.

- She could have been saved.

Hallelujah.

One step from Bible

study and bake sales.

No, really, she could have been saved.

I understand her.

My whole life, I felt

like this c*ck,

so when someone treated

me, you know, I

good or I don't

know, what's the word?

- With, like, kindness?

- Trust?

I was theirs.

I cheated my way into

the position of Guardian.

Thought I'll play the hero, win love.

Johannes showed me

I'm a selfish nothing.

Carrie Ecker, the disappointment.

I began to think, I'm so worthless.

Doesn't everybody?

I ate its hatred like fruit.

We all have selfish thoughts.

You are the strongest,

most loyal person I know.

- You don't know what I did.

- Try me.

- You'll hate me.

- Try me.

I let out the beast that started this.

All of those dead.

I was unwell, but

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪

I thought the world deserved it.

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Those f*ck put a child

in charge of guarding the gate to hell.

Innocence is a virtue.

You know what my responsibilities are?

Like, literally, just the dishes,

and I can't even do that.

It's so boring. Oh, my God.

I make sandwiches

because, voila, no dishes.

[CHUCKLES]

If someone came to me and was like,

"Tasha, guard the literal gate to hell."

Minutes.

- Yeah, it's not true.

- Girl, yes.

My mom saw that and then, poof, dead.

So you're right.

Maybe everything can heal.

We're working on it.

Okay, good.

Because I got what I went back for.

Let's close the tear.

[PHONE BUZZING]

Brolan.

Tasha, Tasha I

something's wrong

- Slow down.

- I can't, I

I think he's having a bad trip.

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

♪

Oh sh*t, sh*t, sh*t.

Acid flashbacks.

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Weird puberty.

♪

sh*t.

sh*t, sh*t.

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Not my f*cking hair.

You stay here, I'll go check on Nolan.

Dad keeps all his WPN stuff

in a locked filing cabinet.

Okay.

The key is in the beer money box.

Okay.

I'll have a plan to close the

tear by the time you get back.

- I'll ask Nolan to come too.

- Good.

We're going to need

all the help we can get.

Just be safe, Tashie.

- Tashie?

- What?

Carrie, are you doing nicknames now?

What? No, be quiet.

Oh, my God. Care Bear,

I'm so proud of you.

- [BICYCLE BELL RINGS]

- Oh, sorry.

Sorry, I thought we were

- Well, no, wait.

Are we hugging?

- Go this way.

- Yeah.

[SIGHS]

- Pickles.

- Sandalwood.

Pickles.

b*tch, Sandali 22, sandalwood.

It's becoming my portable shower.

Thanks for everything, Karaoke.

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

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Nolan, what's going on up there?

I just need a second!

[GROANING AND CLATTERING]

Nolan! Hey!

[TENSE INDUSTRIAL MUSIC]

[SCREAMING]

[BESTIAL SNARLING]

♪

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪

Okay.

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One my invite Gehenna into Earth,

but never Earth into Gehenna.

A door may only be opened

or assigned by the

faithful hand of the Herd.

♪

And just as only the

Bloodherd can open the Door,

only the Bloodherd can close it.

[SOFT TENSE MUSIC]

♪

[CAR BRAKES CREAK]

♪

[MUFFLED INDUSTRIAL MUSIC]

[BESTIAL GASPING]

[LOUD INDUSTRIAL MUSIC]

This f*cking sucks!

[BESTIAL GASPING]

♪

Ah, ah!

[ROARS]

[MUFFLED INDUSTRIAL MUSIC]

Why is there a rave in our house?

I don't know, Gordon,

what the hell did you two talk about?

What? He wants to be picked on less,

I told him to put on a suit of armor.

Blend more, be less overt.

You told our child to

pretend to be someone else?

Yeah.

You lost your dadding

privileges for the week.

[GLASS SHATTERS UPSTAIRS]

Kid? Talk to us.

[LIGHT SWITCH CLICKS]

Nolan?

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

Honey?

♪

[BESTIAL DISTORTION] Mom.

♪

Nolan?

♪

[BESTIAL DISTORTION] Help.

Kid.

Kid, are you all right?

♪

[LOUD CRUNCHING]

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

♪

- [ROARS]

- [SCREAMS]

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪

Snowball?

Not snowball.

♪

- [SCREAMING]

- [SCREAMING]

♪

- Khalil.

- [DOOR CLOSES]

[SOFT TENSE MUSIC]

♪

Khalil, you have to stop.

♪

I don't know if you practice

it at the Colony, but

privacy, Carrie.

♪

[CHUCKLING]

[SIGHS]

I'm a clown.

Clown around time.

♪

You ever just let it ride?

♪

Where's Tasha?

I know you're in there.

♪

Okay.

I know you're in there.

Right, Khalil?

Yes, I'm standing right here.

♪

This mineral, it's called devil's bone.

It's not gold.

♪

Look.

♪

[SLITHERING]

[HISSING]

I'm sorry you were exposed.

♪

I'm always sticking us

at the edge of things.

It's always humid.

Grasses, lakes

Those in charge would

never stoop so low,

do it themselves?

I know.

- We lose our house

- I know.

- What more can I lose?

- You're whole self.

Please, you have to stop.

♪

[WORM SQUEALING]

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[GASPS]

[HAMMER CLATTERS ON FLOOR]

Pressure points, just pressure points.

You're going to be okay.

- [KHALIL THUMPS ON FLOOR]

- [PANTING]

[INSECTS DRONING]

Hello?

Nolan?

[BESTIAL BREATH AND FOOTFALL]

[BESTIAL BREATH AND FOOTFALL]

♪

[BESTIAL BREATHING]

[BESTIAL GROAN]

Nolan?

[BESTIAL GROAN]

[APPROACHING FOOTFALLS]

[BESTIAL BREATHING AND GROANING]

[SOFT TENSE MUSIC]

[APPROACHING FOOTFALLS]

[BESTIAL GROANING]

[BESTIAL SNIFFING]

♪

♪

[BREATHING HEAVILY AND SNIFFING]

♪

[TENSE PERCUSSIVE MUSIC]

♪

[BESTIAL ROAR]

[SOFT TENSE MUSIC]

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Carrie.

He's corrupted. He's not

really your dad right now.

Tasha, baby, your friend

has lost her damn mind.

I'm so sorry, Dad.

Nolan's corrupted too.

He's, um, not himself.

Are their parents okay?

They went to the police,

like that'll help.

Holy sh*t, Carrie.

If we close that tear,

cut them off of Gehenna's influence,

they stand a chance at

getting back to normal.

Ready?

Dude, duh. Let's go save the town.

[CHUCKLES]

♪

[PAINTBALLS POPPING] [LAUGHTER]

- Whoo.

- [LAUGHS]

- Whoo!

- Take that, Frisk.

Frisky!

[LAUGHTER AND INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Spoons,

I know you're up to some

hectic sh*t in the afterlife,

so you probably can't hear me.

For you, spoons.

RIPIWP.

Rest in peace in West Pine, bro.

For life.

Try that sh*t on me, sicko!

See how you do!

[HOWLS]

[BESTIAL SNARL]

♪

[BARKS LIKE A DOG]

[BESTIAL SNARLING]

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Ah, ah!

[BESTIAL SNARLING]

♪

[BESTIAL DISTORTION] Reece, run!

[GROANS]

♪

[LAUGHS]

Yo, dudes, there's some

drunk f*ck out here.

Listen to this. Ah! Ah!

♪

Uh? [LAUGHTER]

Oh, cut off. [LAUGHTER]

[CLEARS THROAT]

[BAD SCOTTISH ACCENT] In

honor of our fallen brethren,

which of you lads is man enough to claim

Timothy Spoons-in-ya-beans

Richardson's title

as the one and only

dumpster b*tch?

Huh? [FRIENDS JEERING]

You.

You think you have what it takes?

I can only do my best, liege.

Very well, challenger. [LAUGHS]

Gentlemen, without further ado,

we bear witness to our dear friend,

Reece Whelan's courage.

- Today, he becomes a man!

- [FRIENDS CHEER]

Hold your post!

- [FRIENDS CHEERING]

- Annihilation!

[CAN LID CLANGING LOUDLY]

[EARS RINGING]

What the [SCREAMING]

[BOTH SCREAMING]

[EARS RINGING]

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Oh, my God.

[BESTIAL PANTING]

- [ROARS]

- [SCREAMS]

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]

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