02x02 - The eternal nightmare

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PREVIOUSLY

No envelope, no sign.

Eric?

[Daniel] I give you my word,

you'll be completely safe.

I'm not a bad person
and even less a stupid one.

I won't come close to that thing
just to end like our friends.

[growling]

What's this?

[mysterious music]

It's gone.

[growling]

[muffled growling, screaming]

[wind howling]

[swish]

[music stops]

[white noise]

[tape rewinding]

[glass breaking]

[chains clanking]

[suspenseful music]

[static]

[static]

[suspenseful music]

[chains clanking]

[heavy breathing]

[suspenseful music]

[gasp]

Mom?

Eric?

Is that you?

[gasping]

No! Please, don't!

What's going on, mom?
What's all this?

Eric, don't move, stay right there.

Mom!

[eerie music box]

[panting]

Hey, are you okay?

Yes.

What happened?

About what?

The lights.

Yeah.

That's right.
Wonder who El Espanto got this time.

What do you mean?

We confirmed that every time
El Espanto eats, the lights activate.

[mysterious music]

I was wrong this whole time.

No, don't approach.

You can end up like Cristian.

Do you realize the significance of this?

Why? What do you know?

You should have informed me.

This is too much for you.

You'd never found out without me.

You should be thankful I know now.

This is far too dangerous.

Just listen to me.

The less you know, the better.

Don't touch that.

What the hell was that?

None of your business.

[exclamation]

Had I known my signature
in Dalaras file was so precious,

-I would have asked for more.
-Don't be ungrateful.

We were never here.

-[phone ringing]
-Where?

-[laugh]
-Let's go.

Yes?

Your son is the new errand boy?

Can I send him to the store?

-[laugh]
-Count me in.

I'm on my way.

Don't worry, everything's under control.

[suspenseful music]

[crickets singing]

[Carmen] Come on in, hurry.

Go upstairs. Go on.

[panting]

-What are you doing?
-[gasp]

[laugh]

Oh… I'm sorry.

Is something wrong?

Eric and Uma showed me a room at Julia's.

A room?

Yes, it was hidden.

It doesn't even surprise me
coming from Roberto.

Me neither but I fear for the kids.

Yes, I'd rather not have them go
to that place but it's their home.

-But the thing is…
-I see they've improved.

They're growing up.

You're right.

They are.

[soft laugh]

All this changed you somehow.

What do you mean?

I'd never seen you lock the door before.

-[sigh]
-What happened?

I saw Mom.

Where?

Here, in the house.

It's hard to explain.

I believe it was the house
where Mom and Auntie grew up.

Was it a dream?

No. I was there. I was there.

I know it sounds crazy.

-[rumbling]
-[Eric] Wait.

Here,

look at this carpet.

And that couch.

You could have seen this picture before.

No, I think I never saw it.

[Uma] Are you sure?

I am.

Very sure.

[growling]

Uma!

[low growling]

[Uma] What's wrong?

I might be going crazy.

[Carmen] Yes, all excursions this week.

We'll see later about next week.

It's too dangerous to go
back to the caves.

Yes, because of the rockfall.

Thanks.

-Good morning.
-Did you call us?

Yes, I'm glad you're here.

I need you to return the book I lent you.

I want to look for
any information on El Espanto.

-I'll go get it.
-[Carmen] Sure.

-Auntie?
-Yes?

The rocks form El Espanto.

[soft piano music]

What?

I'm not getting you.

[Eric] Here you go.

You have to promise
you'll never return to that park.

You won't go out either.

We caught it once.

We have to do it again.

That was too risky.

-You must be careful.
-You sound just like Grandpa.

Trust us.

Just promise it.

I'm begging of you.

We promise.

[mysterious music]

Grandma.

For how long you had this carpet?

[Aurora] Oh, I don't know…

I don't remember seeing it in the moving,
so maybe we left it behind.

You think I saw it before we left?

Why you ask me all this?

You make me feel I'm an old woman
who can't remember.

But I have pictures.

Want to see them?

All right.

Give me a second…

[Eric laughs] Grandma!

-[Aurora] Oh, yeah…
-Is that you?

Yes… Wow!

I don't want to talk about it.
Look how cold it was in here…

[laugh]

Oh, so many memories…

[soft laugh]

Frightening, isn't it?

-The stickers, I mean.
-[nervous laughs]

I always told Carmen she was ruining
the pictures but she loved it.

-They're fun.
-Sure they are.

[Carmen] Mom, guys.

You need to see this. Here.

Hello, my name is Cristian Maringolo

and this is a message
for all Cabo Qwert's population.

You deserve a proper explanation.

With the purpose of getting fame
and my superiors' approval,

I attempted to solve
the town's most famous case by myself.

Moved by my ambition,

I made two corpses pass for those of…

Roberto Dalaras and Julia Lumens.

My actions were reckless and dishonest.

I want to state I did this on my free will

and I was not aided in any way
by Cabo Qwert's Police Department.

I know this dishonors my uniform.

That's why I present
my immediate resignation.

I hope you can understand me and…

forgive me.

[sigh] I can't believe this.

I want to state I did this on my free will

and I was not aided in any way
by Cabo Qwert's Police Department.

Hey there.

Axel.

What can I get you?

Two coffees.

Two coffees?

Yes, to go.

Oh…

Right away.

You smell that?
It smells like a… cover-up.

You're talking about me?

No.

Surely it comes from the police station.

You better choose your words carefully.

And you have nothing to say?

About what you did.

What did I do?

Where's El Espanto?

We know you let it escape so better talk
before everything gets worse.

I don't know if you're stupider because
you think I'd ever go near that thing,

or for thinking I would simply confess.

Axel, this isn't a game for heaven's sake!

Roberto Dalaras was the only one
who thought it was a game.

[white noise]

Look at that face.

He knows when the truth comes out,

he'll end up just like his dad.

[distorted growling]

[Axel] Wow…

You're all bark and no bite.

Axel.

Your coffees.

Thanks.

The only ones who will be shunned
by the town are you and your dad!

[door slamming]

Are you okay?

Yeah.

[all] Daniel! Daniel!

What's the meaning of that video?

You said they had found
their bodies in a raid.

I feel as deceived as you.

What Cristian did was unforgivable.

He was already fired.

Nothing like that will ever
happen again in the station.

Yes, but it did happen!

We must know where our children are!

-Do you think Cristian knows anything?
-This is truly a nightmare!

I've been calling him, unsuccessfully.

I'm as shook as you are by all this.

I'll find him, you have my word.

-[woman] Daniel, please!
-[all arguing]

[woman sobs]

They'll appear, don't worry.

[sigh]

[door creaking]

[creaking]

[suspenseful music]

[creaking]

[Charlie] Took you long enough.

That's my chair, get up.

I sense you're hiding something
and I don't like that one bit.

Excuse me for disrupting your comfort.

Now leave, I got things to do.

I thought we were partners.

But…

something tells me you used me.

I want to know all the details.

Since when I owe you explanations?

[scoff]

Since the moment you screwed
by getting a witness and accomplice.

I'm covering for you.

The ship is sinking.

And if there's just one lifesaver left,

I'll grab it.

Are we clear?

Better keep eating your salami sandwich

and don't abuse my good will.

If I drown, I'll drag you down with me.

[scoff]

[tension music]

"At the eighth crossroad
that denies the dawn,

the liquid night hides the knowledge."

Let's think.

A crossroad, where all paths meet.

A game where there are
crossroads is the labyrinth.

Yeah but liquid night?
What's even that?

Maybe we need to go at nighttime?

It makes sense.

Some mystical places only appear
under the moonlight.

[Uma] It can't be that complicated.

We won't solve it by sitting here.

-We must go to the park.
-[Pablo] No.

El Espanto could be around.

We need that information
to trap El Espanto again.

We must complete the logbook.

It's not the time to go to the park.

We promised.

[Pablo] We must not lose
Axel out of sight.

Surely he released it.

It was my fault.

What did you do?

I talked to Axel.

I asked him not to do anything stupid,
but I think he made it angry.

I gave him the idea of releasing it.

It's Axel at the end of the day.

He'd do it even if you
hadn't mentioned it.

-What can I get you?
-Some spectral vomit to share.

Just one?

Yes.

Okay.

[camera clicks]

I got to go.

My parents told me to go home.

You aren't going to the park, are you?

No, I am not.

Hey, in what planet are you?

I have to see my mom again.

Like that time you fell asleep
in Carmen's truck?

No, I was there. It was real.

I saw this candy dish. I broke it.

It couldn't have been a dream
because I had never seen it.

Not even in pictures,
it was covered with this.

It wasn't a product of my imagination.

I must talk to Grandma.

Respected representants,

I summoned you
in light of the most recent

and unpleasant events in Cabo Qwert.

Five people have disappeared and all
you think is it's unpleasant?

[Rodolfo] Calixto, please.

I know this is eerily familiar
to the Night of the Lights

but let's try to think it
with a cold head.

You're right, it might be something else.

[Calixto] But it isn't.

I heard the lights in the park
activated several times.

Like eight years ago, but worse.

We're dealing with evil forces.
It's the return of the…

Ucutau.

This woman again?

This woman is
a direct descendant of the Nictu.

I told you she wasn't authorized
to witness this meeting.

And even less to participate.

While you chatter here,
the evil is loose in Cabo Qwert streets.

Before naming my town,
apologize for disrupting.

When you apologize
for what you did to my ancestors,

maybe then you'll hear my apologies.

[Rodolfo] Enough!

Calixto, make this woman leave.

Arapi, please.

[speaks in indigenous tongue]

[mysterious music]

Daniel, I hope you have a more
reasonable explanation for all this.

Oh, I do.

Instead of telling you,

let me better show you.

If you're referring to
your subordinate's video,

we already saw it
and it doesn't explain a thing.

The only obvious thing was
that you need more respectable colleagues.

[Dolores] Can you explain
the disappearances?

The lights in the park?

The Dalaras.

Since the traitor
and his grandson came back,

everything fell apart.

But I fixed it already.

I got everything under control.

Soon, you'll see the answers
to all the mysteries.

[exclamations]

[humming]

[laughs]

[shocking music]

[growling]

[screaming]

[glass breaking]

[screaming and growling continue]

[panting]

AT THE EIGHTH CROSSROAD
THAT DENIES THE DAWN,

THE LIQUID NIGHT HIDES THE KNOWLEDGE

[loud bang]

[action music]

Do you even understand
how powerful our imagination can be?

Some studies even prove…

It wasn't my imagination.

[laser sounds]

Eric!

Eric!

What's that?

[man's voice] It's coming.

[several voices whispering]
Get me out! It's coming!

[woman pleading]
Get me out of here.

[woman] Please, leave me.
I won't do it again.

Please…

I can't see!

Please, let me out…

[distorted sounds]

[suspenseful music]

Mom!

Where are we?

[shush]

[chains clanking]

I'm not sure where are we.

It's like your childhood home…

but different.

I don't… know what this place is.

But now you're here.

How did you get here?

-Mom…
-Baby, listen to me.

You must be extremely careful.

He's about to come.

And he'll be very angry.

[distorted sounds]

He gets furious whenever I escape.

Mom, don't worry.
I swear I'll find a way to release you.

-[soft laugh]
-No matter what.

No!

[panting]

[growling]

[scream]

[panting]

[stutter] Hey, easy!

It's growing.

[groan]

Eric, what's going on?

You saw Mom again?

[groan]

[screaming]

[suspenseful music]

[Eric] It wasn't a dream or a product
of my imagination, it was real!

The lights.

The lights activated at the same time
you were in that truck.

And they activate when El Espanto eats.

-It's a syllogism.
-A what?

You arrive to a conclusion
based on two propositions.

If I faint when the lights activate
and they activate when El Espanto eats…

Then you faint when El Espanto eats.

So you're both co-- connected.

And if he's with Mom every time he faints,

and Mom was eaten by El Espanto…

We're witnessing a bilocation.

-A what?
-Bilocation.

The ability to be in two places
at the same time.

Your body remains in this plane,

while your conscience travels
to wherever El Espanto's victims go.

Oh… sorry.

What did Mom say?

She's in some kind of nightmare.

She's chased by a faceless monster.

With chains.

[sky thundering]

Let's go.

[thundering continues]

[loud thunder]

[panting]

No!

-It can't be.
-What?

[shocking music]

Stay here.

-But Eric…
-Pablo!

Just stay here.

[action music]

[theme music]