Season 1, Ep. 10: Oh, the Places We’ll Go
1 — Ethan is on his bed, playing with the finger figures: “Let’s go to the tower. Behold, the tower.” Julie wakes up and asks if he wants her to tell him a story. He said it is okay. He can tell his own stories now. Julie replies: “Hey, look at you. You’re all grown up now, huh?”
Jade knocks frantically at their door (a miracle he doesn’t barge in as usual). Jim opens the door. Jade says he figured out the Power problem. He asks where is their less favorite lamp. “Oh, this one. This is ugly. Jade drags the table closer to the electric outlet to place the lamp on the table. What is the biggest problem we have with powering the signal? Can’t plug anything in, right? There is no wiring inside the cords. By all means, these lightbulbs shouldn’t even turn on. But it does, right? Which means no matter what’s going on with the outlets or the wires, what comes out here is the electricity that lights the bulb.”
Jade removes the lightbulb to expose the interior of the lightbulb base. Now this hair blower came in the back of someone’s car and by all accounts it is useless. Electric plugs don’t work in this place. But… if we take the exit wires and fix it to the socket to where somehow actual bonafide electricity is somehow being delivered and we screw our little lightbulb here back in, and then turn on the lightbulb… Ma’am?”
Tabitha turns on the hair blower and it works.
Jade: “Ahh, see? With enough lamps and enough wire–“
Jim: “We could turn Colony House into a giant battery.”
Jade: “I bet you would have figured it out. Do you guys have any snacks? I’m feeling peckish.”
2 — Boyd and Sara open the camping tent in the morning. They figured out what dragged their camping tent during the night. They are now in a forest covered by massive webs.
3 — In the Sheriff’s Office, Donna looks at the USA map with all the pins marking the location everyone who ever comes to the town came from. She argues with Kenny how we know the radio signal will work when everyone comes from different States. Kenny says radiowaves might behave in a way they can’t and get past whatever makes them loop back to town.
4 — Kenny walks to the Ambulance to help Kristi. She is salvaging all its cabling. Kenny carried a lamp with a world globe as a base from the Sheriff’s Station. He separated the globe section and split it in two. He hid inside receipts and wrote the names of countries on them. He asks Kristi if she has ever been to Iceland. He says if the radio works and they ever leave this place, he would like to go to Iceland with Kristi. She hesitates and tells him that she is engaged with someone. He excuses himself to deliver the box of Ambulance wiring to the guys up at the Colony House. She apologizes.
5 — Bartender Tom and Tabitha open the door to a shed with lots of tools. He lets her peruse. As he leaves, Tabitha asks Tom why he isn’t up there at the hill helping the guys at the Colony House. Tom mocks her: “To help with the magic tower?” She asks if he doesn’t believe the radio broadcast will work. Tom says he has heard a lot of people with ideas on how to get out of this place over the years. Do you know what all of them have in common? They all end up in the Bar. Happy hunting.
Tabitha looks around and finds a massive pickaxe. She smiles and goes back home with her prize in tow.
6 — In the Colony House, people have plugged multiple cords to the lightbulb bases and plugged the lightbulbs back in.
Ellis asks Fatima to talk privately elsewhere. She says they are busy working on the wiring tasks. He insists and she follows. They stop near the greenhouse. Ellis says: “This is the spot I stood on when you arrived a year ago to this place. You were driving that Volkswagen bug around and around for hours. You hadn’t had your tires blown up yet. But you pulled over right over there. You stepped outta your car and looked around.”
Fatima: “I remember. I asked Corey for directions.”
Ellis: “I have been thinking a lot about what you said about going home, about who we would be and I realized I don’t remember any more about who I was before you stepped out of that car. And I don’t want to find out who I am without you.”
Ellis kneels before Fatima. “You are the love of my life. And we could be anywhere in the world, but it would not matter because you are my home. And would really like to be yours.
Ellis places a ring made of wires down her finger. He apologizes that all jewelry shops are closed. She asks if the wires are from her pile. He says yes. She smiles. They kiss.
7 — Boyd and Sara move quickly through this part of the forest covered in spider webs. Sara asks where they are going. Boyd says the light last night came from this direction. She doesn’t think it is a good idea after what her voice warned her. Boyd says last night they got dragged by who knows what to this webbed area. He doesn’t even know where the direction back to town is anymore. All he knows is that someone shined a light from that direction. That wasn’t a flashlight. That was a floodlight. Maybe a searchlight… which means that maybe there’s someone or something out this way that can help us. So we’re going that way.
Sara warns him the voice she heard was different than the other voices and whoever that was warned of the danger if we stay on this path. Sara asked who is Mr. Fish and Loaves? Boyd says it is me. A nickname given to him in service. The only people who know that nickname here is my son and—
Sara: — and your wife. Do you think she–
Boyd: What? Did my dead wife send you a message? Is that what you want to know?
Sara: You brought me out here because you thought I could help. OK? Look where we are! Whoever or whatever that voice was, it told us to go back. It told us what would happen if we stayed out here.
Boyd: Well, in that case, if she told you what direction to–
Boyd hears a woman talk nearby. Sara asks Boyd where he is going. This means only Boyd can hear the voice.
Voice: Someone, please. Help me! I’m over here. Help!
Boyd goes deeper into a tree heavily surrounded by giant webs. He finds Abby wrapped in web fluid.
Abby grabs his arm tight, but he manages to detach himself and run away from the webs. Tiny spiders start to climb his legs. Boyd removes his shirt in panic. He is swatting away spiders climbing his belly and chest. One stings his belly. Another is in his back. Sara removes it. Sara asks what did he see. He replies nothing.
8 — Jim pulls a large cart with cables and wiring up to the Colony House. Julie and Ethan tag along with Jim. Jim looks at the finishing touches of the tower which is now erect vertically on the ground. It will soon be lifted to the top of the house. Ethan asks how they are going to get the tower up to the roof. Jim says they are going to hoist it. Once they get the antenna up in the roof, it will be tall enough to broadcast a signal out over the treetops.
9 — Boyd is in a bad spot after the spider bite. He is in pain. His mood is erratic. He is hopeless. He thinks there is now way out of this place and that all of them are going to die. Sara tries to calm him down and put him back on track to the mission. She reminds him that he wanted to go in the direction of the floodlight to find its source. Do you want to see your son again? — she asks.
Boyd calms down and cooperates. He allows Sara to help him walk. A storm is coming. They’ll need to reach their destination quickly before the weather gets bad.
10 — The guys in the Colony House aren’t aware of the storm coming yet. Two men are on the roof pulling a rope to lift the tower to the roof with the help of the hoist.
Jade mounts a bicycle and Jim stops him asking where he is headed. He says he is going to the town to help transport the remaining wiring. Jim said the last batch arrived a while ago. Jade has no other excuse and tells the truth. He wants to grab some paper from his bedroom for his weed. Jade arrives at Kenny’s house and sees Kenny’s mother at the altar with her dead husband’s photo. He thought she would be at the Diner right now. Didn’t expect her here. He walked past her, then backtracked. His tone changed. He said they might go home soon if the radio works. But he doesn’t see her excited about that. He begins to tell her a story of his childhood. He lived in France with his grandma. She died when he was 12. He had to come back to the United States to live with his Uncle. He had to go to the airport on his own because he had no one in France. He wanted to stay because no one lived in France to care for her tomb. He didn’t want to leave her alone. I mean she was dead, but. I was crying at the airport. This nice lady, I told her what was wrong and she said to me they come with you when you go. What i am trying to say is don’t be sad. Don’t feel guilty. He will come with you when you go. She struggles her tears back and places her hand on his chick. She asks him to pray with her.
11 — At the Colony House, Jim explains to Ethan how the radio works. They touch the coil with the screwdriver and that determines the frequency. Now if we move the screwdriver along the length of the coil that simulates changing the channel.
Ethan: And that will connect to this? (the microphone/receiver)
Jim: Yes.
Donna says they are ready on the roof to place the top of the tower. Jade arrives with a cooler filled with snacks for everyone.
Jade and his team completed the tower in position. Everyone turns on the lightbulbs to power up the CB Radio. Jim tests the CB Radio and it is working. He got a signal. They are ready to transmit any second. A woman on the roof points behind and asks if anyone has seen the big stormy clouds heading toward them. Jade cusses out. Not good for the tower.
12 — Boyd and Sara are almost at the top of the hill in the forest. Boyd tells Sara to keep going to the top. He needs to rest a little bit. She refuses and asks him to continue. They are almost to the top, and the storm is upon them. They need to take shelter. Both continue to the top. Suddenly, the loud horn is heard again. It is a lighthouse.
13 — Jim sends a broadcast: “Mayday. Mayday. Can anyone out there hear me? This is an SOS call. We need help. Mayday.” Jim waits a few seconds, waiting for a response. Nothing. He repeats the broadcast message. Seconds later, no response. Jim asks Ethan to move the screwdriver to switch to another channel. Jim repeats the broadcast message.
Someone responds: “Hello? Is there someone there?”
Jim: “We don’t have very much time.”
The voice on the radio: “Whoa, whoa, slow down. Is this Jim Matthews? Your wife shouldn’t be digging that hole, Jim.”
Jim panics and runs to the town for Tabitha.
14 — In her basement, Tabitha continues to dig the hole with the pickaxe. The hole begins to crack and rumble. The hole crumbles and caves in. Tabitha falls down the sinkhole.
Tabitha wakes up and sees a flashlight coming her way in the dark.
Victor welcomes her. “He said that you would come. The Boy in White. He said that you would come, that I should wait. We have to go. It is not safe here. This is where they sleep. You see? They make drawings too.
15 — Jim runs into town and enters their house, but he is too late. The entire basement and even the living room above caved in into the sinkhole.
16 — Rain is pouring down heavy on Boyd and Sara. He is exhausted and asks Sara to go. If she stays, both die. She refuses to leave him alone.
The Boy in White talks to Sara. He says: “Nathan was right about this place. It’s angry now. You have to get inside. Over there.”
The Boy in White points a finger in the direction she must lead Boyd. “You will be safe in there.” The boy pointed toward one of many Farway Trees scattered throughout the forest.
Sara tells Boyd they will be safe in the tree. Boyd is confused. Sara says she will be right behind him. Boyd steps inside the tree hole and appears in a hole underground.
[This is a game-changing checkpoint in the series. Later in Season 3, this very scene with Boyd in the hole is revisited creating the paradox of the chicken and the egg. Who throws the rope for him to escape? Stay tuned to Season 3.]
17 — The Diner is empty. Raining outside. The jukebox starts playing the song: “Everybody Knows This is Nowhere” by Neil Young.
A passenger bus arrives to town with many passengers.
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