Season 2, Ep. 5: Lullaby
1 — It is nighttime. Randall is on the ground of the bus trying to sleep. The monsters continue to knock at his door nonstop to get him to open the door. Randall can’t take it anymore and stands up. He heads to the door to open it, to punch one of them? — but he stops.
Gradnma monster: Are you comfortable in there?
Randall goes Wolverine on them. They don’t scare him. Continues to taunt them. They grow tired of him and leave in different directions. Randall gets angry because they leave him behind talk to himself.
2 — Jade drinks a vodka bottle in Kenny’s house. He is watching the Polaroid Photo. Suddenly, he sees a vision. The guy in the Polaroid photo stands at his bedroom door holding wide open the notebook with the symbols. The symbols begin to bleed. It is not a nightmare. He is awake, and the vision vanishes before his eyes. He stands from the bed and searches the area around the door. The guy is nowhere to be found. Jade shouts out loud twice in anger and frustration.
3 — Boyd is asleep on a large comfy seat, alone, in the church. Someone wakes him up with loud knocks on the door. Sara calls his name from behind. Boyd asks her to stay downstairs in the basement. He will handle this.
Boyd opens the door and Tabitha rolls through demanding where Sara is. Jim follows behind. Boyd asks Tabitha to calm down. Jim has something to say about that. Boyd says there are a lot of things about this that both don’t understand. Tabitha says “Really?” as if he is mansplaining to her face. What? That she hears voices? That she is important? Kenny told them. She is a monster. How could he hide this info from them?
Boyd says she won’t hurt anyone anymore. Tabitha doesn’t care about what she will do, but that she tried to kill her son Ethan.
Jim asks if they are to pretend like nothing happened. What about Boyd’s rules?
Boyd says things have changed. Jim asks how. Boyd responds: “How? Someone put a tower, on Colony House, and told everyone they were going home! Now they’re all looking at me, wondering why I didn’t come back with all the answers! We got a busload of people we don’t have resources for, and a fucking house fell for no goddamn reason! So, yea, if she can help us figure out what’s going on here, she stays out of the box! Period!”
Sara shows up behind Boyd. Tabitha says she wants to talk to Sara. Boyd scolds Sara that he asked her to stay down in the basement out of sight.
Tabitha asks Sara to listen carefully. If she ever comes near her family again, she will kill Sara. Say that you understand. She yells that a second time.
Sara says she does. Boyd says he gives his word that Sara– Tabitha rudely says she doesn’t care a fuck about his word, and leaves. Boyd tries to talk to Jim, and he says doesn’t even try. Then leaves. Boyd is left there with his mouth open. Then slams the lectern in anger. His reputation is ruined. No one trusts him anymore.
Boyd asks Sara to close the door behind him and lock it. He is going to the Colony House to talk to Donna.
4 — In Kenny’s house, Ethan is on the ground in the corner of his room. Julie is knocking at his door asking to let her in. Tabitha and Jim walk up the stairs and ask Julie what’s going on. Julie says that Ethan heard them talking about Sara last night. Now he won’t come out of his room.
Tabitha knows at the door and tells Ethan that she promises no one is going to hurt him. Jim reassures he and his Mom won’t let anybody hurt him. It is like the Chromenockle. When she’s afraid to go inside of the cave.
Ethan stands up and opens the door. Ethan demands to see Sara.
5 — Sara leaves the Church and walks along the road to reach her old house. She finds Nathan’s sweatshirt on a chair and smells it. Two of the bus passengers, Reggie and Paula live in this house now. He says that’s his sweatshirt. Reggie tells Paula that the girl that killed her brother is in the house. Paula asks Sara to leave, this is no longer her house. Sara apologizes. Reggie wants the jacket back. Sara says this is her brother Nathan’s jacket. Paula says it is not his anymore. Put it down and get the fuck out.
6 — At the Gas Station (formerly Tom’s Bar), Jade uses dozens of alcohol bottles to simulate the shape of the symbol that obsesses him. Victor enters the Bar and says Jade doesn’t look good. Victor asks Jade what he is doing. He replies he is trying to figure out the symbol that Victor refuses to help him with. Despite the fact that Victor clearly knows something and is not telling him.
Victor says he will tell Jade what he can, but Jade needs to do a favor for Victor.
Jade goes oh so you want me to do something for you now. So first off, fuck off. Secondly, fuck off. Victor says it’s okay and leaves. Jade rolls his eyes and grunts and asks Victor to wait. Jade asks what Victor needs. Victor opens the door behind him and pulls his violin resting outside on the wall. Victor wants Jade to play the violin for him.
Jade says what the fuck is wrong with Victor. Victor says if Jade plays the violin, he will tell him about the man in the photo. Jade says you tell me about the photo now, then I play. Victor says no. Jade says just give me the fucking violin.
Victor says not here. Follow me. Jade says: “The fuck?”
7 — Tabitha paces back and forth on the porch. Jim stands there. Tabitha says there is no fucking way she will let Sara anywhere near Ethan. Tabitha asks Jim how is he even considering this. Jim responds after Thomas, the doctors all said they should let Ethan lead sometimes and they also said that they have to let him work through things in his own way and to be there to support him when he asks. Anyway, I will be right there with him.
Ethan is behind the door, listening to their conversation without their knowledge.
Tabitha insists she wants to be there. The hell what the doctors said. They are in a living hell and that bitch tried to kill her son.
Ethan stepped out and told his Mom that he remembers their conversation yesterday about how scary this place is. When you are on a quest, you have to face the scary things. That’s how you take their power away.
Tabitha asks him to stay with Daddy and do exactly what he tells you. Ethan agrees.
8 — Donna brings Boyd to her room to talk privately and slams the door behind her. She scolds Boyd. He created the rules and Sara should have gone to the box. Boyd said he was going on a journey to seek answers, and instead, he came back with a psychopath that killed 4 people and because she is special, she doesn’t have to go in the box.
Boyd argues that out in the forest, Sara knew things that she couldn’t possibly have known. Donna doesn’t give a shit about that. She only sees someone who may have just betrayed the only thing this place still has going for it.
Boyd asks what’s that. Donna responds: “Faith in you.”
Donna says she doesn’t think this has to do with going home. She thinks this is all about Abby (his wife). She thinks that he shot his wife, and every morning since, you wake up wishing you’d done more, that you’d been there for her, helped her, fixed her. But Abby is dead. And Sara is a killer.
9 — Sara is in front of the collapsed Matthews’ house, across the road from the Diner. Sara sees Kenny leave the Diner, but he doesn’t notice her. Behind Sara, Ethan calls her name.
Jim says Ethan has something to say to her.
Ethan: “Everyone thought you died. But you didn’t. You lived. Out in the woods. Only monsters live in the woods. I thought we were friends. But we’re not. You are a monster. And I am not afraid of you.”
10 — Jade asks Victor where they are going. Victor says just a little further. They are walking through the woods. Jade protests he doesn’t want to wander around all day. Victor ignores him and says it’s weird. The trees are changing. Jade doesn’t understand what he is talking about. Jade suddenly is surprised to see a field filled with cars. (Approximately 29 cars)
Jade asked Victor if he did all this. He said once he was all alone, he didn’t want to look at the cars anymore, so he drove the cars to this place to be out of his sight. Victor says there are more cars past the rocks to the right. A lot more cars. But those were already here before he arrived at the place. Victor apologizes for what he said yesterday, but he doesn’t like when people touch or take his things. But when he heard him play the violin– he stopped talking — sometimes I get angry and I’m sorry.
Victor brings Jade to an Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser, a station wagon. Victor wants Jade to play the violin here. Victor stands on the car’s bonnet and sits on the edge of the roof, near the windshield.
Victor wants Jade to play the “Twinkling Star” with the violin. Jade realizes this car belonged to Victor’s mother.
When Victor was a child and he was afraid, his mother would play “Twinkling Star” with the violin. He would sit on the car’s roof and she would play. When the monsters came and we heard people screaming she told me to think of the Twinkling Stars. And then… I wouldn’t be afraid anymore.
11 — Sara sits in the Church. Elgin opens the door without knocking. He apologizes. He didn’t think anyone would be here. Sara responds with plenty of room. She asks if he is in the bus. He asks how long she’s been here. Sara has been here a couple of months. Elgin asks if she lives in the town because he hasn’t seen her in the Colony House. Elgin used to go to church every Sunday with his grandma. Sara asks if that’s where he was heading when he took the bus. He confirms. Elgin goes to visit her every weekend.
Sara tells him she used to be a dork and her bother would go with her to Dollar Stores to buy Christmas tree figurines and paint them. She had one with her when they arrived, but it is missing. She thinks the person who has it wouldn’t want to give it back. Elgin offers to be her muscle man. She finds him to be a nice person. Elgin asks about her brother, and she says he is not here anymore. Eventually, they talk about the church and that she wonders if it is true that the Lord forgives anything. Then it comes up that she killed her brother. Elgin asks if it was an accident. She doesn’t respond other than soon he will find out. Elgin stands up and says he should go. He didn’t know who Sara is and what she did.
12 — Jim and Ethan return to Kenny’s house. Tabitha hugs Ethan and asks how it went. Julie asks Ethan if he wants to come with her to peel some potatoes. He doesn’t want to. She says she doesn’t want to either. Ethan shrugs and follows Julie to help her with the daunting task. Tabitha asks Jim how the meeting with Sara go. Jim says it went great. Life lessons of the Chromenockle.
As Jim and Tabitha hug, her eyes are fixed on Ethan’s Jenga-like structure. The one that resembles the stone structure she found inside the monsters’ tunnels.
13 — Tian Chen Liu is washing dishes and cleaning up the Diner. She goes to the front countertop and finds Sara at the entrance. Sara says she is sorry. Both stay silent. Sara says she shouldn’t have come here. Tian says wait. You take him from me. I take care of you. But you put hate inside me. I know why you come. You wait. Tian goes inside to the storage room and brings a box with Sara and Nathan’s belongings. You take and go. You never come here, this place. You never come again.
As Sara opens the door to leave, she hears Tian in the kitchen swiping the table, and throwing pans and stuff to the ground. Clatter and sobbing. Sara leaves the Diner as Kenny is approaching. He says: “Are you kidding me?” Kenny grabs the box from her hands and slams its contents to the ground. She grabs the Christmas tree figurine from her hands. Is this important to you? Is it meaningful? Kenny smashes it to the ground.
Kenny says he doesn’t care what Boyd says or how fucking special you think you are. You ever come near my mom again, and I swear I will drag your fucking psycho ass into that box myself.
Elgin witnessed the scene and assisted Sara with collecting her stuff from the ground back into the cardboard box.
14 — Marielle cuts Kristi’s hair. Tillie catches both about to kiss. She came looking for a Kristi. Kristi responds that’s her. Tillie wants to give Kristi her bottle of liquid morphine. Kristi asks Tillie why she has this bottle. Tillie stays silent. Kristi figures it out. When were you diagnosed? Tillie says about a month ago.
Tillie says that she figured that by the time she needs the liquid morphine, she probably won’t be in any shape to– (I guess she meant inject herself).
Kristi says she will take care of it. Tillie shares some gossip about Sara being back. Kristi storms out of the clinic and Marielle follows asking her to stop. Marielle catches up and stops Kristi demanding what’s going on. Kristi says Sara killed somebody and then tried to kill a little boy. They were talking one night. She was at the clinic, and she asked me what I would do to see you again. If it was something bad, would it be worth it? And I said yes. I gave her permission and then the next day she– I guess I wanted to see you so badly, I wasn’t even listening to the question. And now you are here, and I’m wondering if that’s my fault too. And I just… I feel that all I am doing is hurting people.
Marielle says this is not her fault. I am here. We are together. Come inside.
15 — Victor says the man in the Polaroid photo was named Christopher. Victor asks Jade to follow him. He protests. Victor says it is over here. This was Christopher’s car. He was a nice guy and made people laugh. Something not easy to do back then. People liked him. Then he changed. Jade asked how he changed. Victor says he doesn’t like this. We should go back. Jade stops him. They had a deal. He played his song on the violin. I held up my end.
Victor says he doesn’t understand. He shouldn’t be asking these questions (the photo and the symbol). Jade says he hasn’t had a sleep since he got here and he is seeing things that are scaring the shit out of him and it is all because of the symbol.
Victor says everyone died when Cristopher started seeing that symbol. Things changed. He changed and he didn’t make people laugh anymore. He stopped smiling. One night, my mother told me to hide somewhere new, somewhere different, somewhere Christopher didn’t know, and when I woke up the next morning, everyone was dead. There are bad things here. They make people do bad things. I’m sorry. Victor left Jade alone.
16 — Tabitha brought the Jenga-like pieces to the front of the monsters’ tunnels and mounted the structure outside hoping for the dead children to meet her outside.
Tabitha says: “I’m here” several times. The dead children start walking in her direction repeating the same word: “Anghkooey.”
The dead children surround her and touch her. She panics and cries out for them to stop. Suddenly, they disappear from her sight.
Her screams are heard by Jade who was on his way back to the town. He asks Tabitha if she is okay. Jade tells her that her nose is bleeding. She asks if he saw that. Jade asks saw what or who?
17 — Randall removes two seats from the bus and drops them outside the bus. He throws a rope to the top of the bus. He plans to pull the seats to the top of the bus for recreation purposes. Boyd observes what he is doing. Jim comes out of nowhere and wants to talk to Boyd. Boyd doesn’t want to deal with this now. Jim says he didn’t come to argue. He doesn’t agree with him hiding Sara and not putting her in the box, but he looked at Sara today, and he didn’t see a psychopath or a vicious killer. He saw broken kid.
Jim says he has observed a lot of people lately pushed to their edge and he asks Boyd if he has ever wondered maybe that’s the point. Boyd is confused. Jim says they heard a voice on the radio. Donna and he heard it right as the storm was coming. Whoever it was, he knew his full name, knew what his wife was doing in the house, in the basement of our house, and I thought maybe I was crazy. I think people are watching us and listening.
Now there are experiments like this going on all the way back to World War II. We don’t have to trust each other. We don’t have to like each other. But we’ve got to work together on this. I don’t know what they want from us, but if you can give me a more rational explanation for what’s going on here, I’d love to hear it.
Boyd stood there and simply said: “I gotta go, Jim.”
18 — Boyd enters the Diner. Shouts hello with no answer. The jukebox turns on by itself and starts playing: “Roy Orbison’s Candy Colored Clown.”
Boyd calls for Tian Chen Liu, but no response. Suddenly, Boyd feels pain in his right arm. He rolls his sleeves upward and sees the worms crawling under his skin.
19 — At the Clinic, Kristi puts on her favorite T-shirt, brought by Marielle to the town. Meanwhile, Marielle opens the medication cabinet to steal some liquid morphine from Tillie’s bottle.
20 — Boyd returns to the Diner. Tian Chen gives him the evil eye. He is short of words but finally utters: “We need to talk.”
Season 2: Ep. 6: Pas de Deux
1 — At the Diner, Boyd tells Tian Chen that he is protecting Sara because he believes she will benefit the townsfolk. He doesn’t support what she did to Tian Chen and Kenny, but he apologizes for keeping it a secret. He knows how it feels when this place takes someone that you love. Since Boyd arrived, he’s tried to make people feel safe. He thought if there are rules– (Boyd trails off). Here’s what I know. Things are changing. If we don’t use every little thing we have to get these people home.
Kenny arrives and asks Boyd why he is here. Boyd apologizes to Tian Chen, thanks her, and leaves the Diner.
2 — Boyd enters the Church to talk to Sara. None of the seats are in the church. The ballerina music box he found in the Tower Ruins starts playing. Boyd turns around and sees the music box in the corner. Boyd is startled when he hears something behind him. A ballerina woman is dancing behind him. He lifts his arm and grabs the top of her fingers to help her rotate in one foot. The woman stops, looks at Boyd, then opens her mouth to show a tongue made up of multiple sucking worms.
It turns out that when he opened the Diner door to leave, Boyd lived a full minute of a lucid waking nightmare compressed into the moment between fainting and hitting the ground. Kenny and Tian Chen turn around and head toward Boyd to aid him.
Kenny holds his head to help Boyd stand up. Kenny removes his hand and notices blood on it. Boyd injured the back of his head when he landed. Tian Chen asks Kenny to take him to Kristi. Boyd refuses. He says he is okay. Boyd starts to walk toward the door but immediately wobbles as he does. Kenny grabs him again and this time won’t leave him alone.
3 — Ellis is making an inventory of food resources. Dale brings a bag of potatoes. Dale says these are all the potatoes remaining. Fatima and Donna load everything on the pickup truck. Fatima says that’s everything they got. Donna says they will be okay if they stick to the rations plan. She asks Fatima and Ellis to keep it under wraps to prevent a collective panic.
4 — At the Clinic, Kristi is fixing her hair and looks for something in Marielle’s purse. There she finds a folder that says: “Lavender Palm Rehabilitation and Treatment Center. Information Package. Let us help you take your first step to the road of recovery.”
Marielle enters the room. Kristi asks what is this? Marielle is annoyed that she looks through her bag. Kristi said she thought she boarded the bus to go visit her aunt. Marielle says she did say that because she didn’t want Kristi to think– “It’s not a big deal.”
Kristi accuses her of lying to her. Marielle says she didn’t want Kristi to worry. Everything is under control. Kristi makes the connection that Marielle relapsed because she disappeared. Marielle says she was going to tell her. Kristi interrupts as she realizes there are bigger problems. Marielle has access to the locked medicine cabinet. Kristi opens the medicine cabinet. Marielle says she doesn’t need to do that.
Kristi says they have a very limited amount of medication that is vital for some people. She can’t risk anything going missing. Marielle shouts asking Kristi to stop looking through the medicine bottles. Kristi asks Marielle point blank if she took anything from the cabinet. Marielle confesses she took a bit of the liquid morphine to even herself out a bit. Marielle gets angry and starts to leave. Tells Kristi she is gonna leave her alone to hide all her medicine goodies to hide them from her junkie girlfriend. Kristi says the night is nigh. She shouldn’t leave the Clinic. Marielle becomes more irritated and drops the F-bomb, heading possibly to the basement out of Kristi’s sight.
5 — Boyd and Kenny are walking through the woods, and they are touching leaves. Boyd says he noticed the trees are changing leaves. He has never seen this before.
[This matches with what Victor said to Jade in Season 2, Episode 5. That trees are changing. Jade said he didn’t understand how.]
Boyd turns around and tries to talk to Kenny, but Kenny stops him. Boyd is walking better now, so Kenny decides he can continue on his own. Kenny doesn’t want to talk. As Kenny begins to leave, Boyd winces and grunts loudly. Kenny asks what’s wrong. Boyd is holding his right arm in pain. Boyd hesitates but blurts out that when he went into the forest boundaries the other day something happened to him out there.
Something that Boyd doesn’t understand. He’s gotten something in him now. Worms. They are crawling underneath his skin. Boyd stops talking. He can hear the ballerina music box in the distance. Boyd asks Kenny if he can hear that. Boyd sees the ballerina music box sitting on a rock in the woods in front of the Root Cellar. Kenny is worrying and asks Boyd what’s going on. Where is he going? Boyd stops in front of the Root Cellar to look at the music box. Boyd turns his eyes to the Root Cellar door and it slams open. The ballerina woman appears again. Kenny doesn’t see or hear any of this. Boyd goes pale. A few minutes ago, this music box and the ballerina woman happened in his mind when he fell to the ground in the Diner. Now Kenny is here and Boyd is awake.
Boyd asks Kenny if he saw her. Suddenly, the music box is gone. The door to the Root Cellar is closed. Boyd is confused but tells Kenny they should go. It’s getting dark soon.
5 — Ellis helps a Colony House resident secure a panel to cover the window. Fatima secures a string on the door with cans and bottles attached to it as a security alarm in case anyone opens the door at night.
6 — Kenny takes Boyd to the Clinic to see Kristi. She examines Boyd. He tells Kristi the old man Martin cut him in the right arm, near the shoulder. He put his bloody wrist against his arm and said “My blood is your blood now.” Whatever was inside him came out of him and went into Boyd. Then the tower disappeared. Kristi calls his name in disbelief. Boyd says there is nothing he can say to make this sound logical. He’s got worms under his skin. It feels like something is coming for him now. Kristi says that she can’t see anything on his arms.
Boyd says these worms had been feeding on him for years and he passed on the worms to him because they wouldn’t let Martin die. It was so bad that all he wanted to do was die. Kristi is still in disbelief. Her look was judgmental. Boyd says she doesn’t have to believe him now, he just needs her to promise that if things get bad, that she will end things before it goes too far. She wonders what Boyd is asking her to promise. Boyd says he doesn’t want to die like Martin did.
Kristi leaves and asks Kenny if he is going to sleep in the Clinic. Night caught up with him. Kenny asks Kristi if Boyd talked to her about the worms. She confirms. Kenny shares with her that this is how it started with his Dad. He began saying things he would normally never say, and he and his Mom rationalized it by saying he was too tired and needed to rest. But one day he was a different person. Kristi asks him to not worry. It is too early in his life for Boyd to reach that stage. That there are cases where Parkinson’s can lead to dementia but it happens way later on.
7 — In the Colony House, Donna tells Ethan to add only two spoons of salt to each jar. They have a limited supply of salt. Julie asks how long the salt will last. Donna responds if they ration it will last up to a year. That way they can ration the food they have and not worry about the food spoiling. Tabitha, Tian Chen, and Tabitha are here helping to cut Cucumbers, Carrots, and other stuff to place inside these large jars.
Jim asks Donna to please tell him this is not all the food remaining in their supplies. Donna says they have already planted new crops and– Jim interrupts her. Donna, there is barely a month’s worth of food here. Even with rations… (as an engineer, Jim calculates in disbelief). He says they need to let people know how bad things are. Donna says all that would accomplish is to make people panic. Jim says Donna should have told them sooner about the scarcity. Donna snaps back. When should she have informed him… when he was under the debris of the collapsed house? She gathers herself and apologizes for that one. Jim’s mind, however, focuses on something more relevant. This is what [they] want. The food scarcity is part of it. This food crisis is exactly what they would want. They would be trying to increase the stress level.
[Jim is referring to the people that threatened him on the CB Radio. He knew Jim's name and that Tabitha was digging a hole in their basement. Someone is watching and listening to them as if they were in some sort of experiment.]8 — In the Clinic, Boyd is alone sitting on a bed. He reels in pain and checks both his arms. He can see and feel worms crawling under his skin. Shortly after, he hears the ballerina music box on a nearby desk.
Boyd turns to his right and sees the shade of the ballerina woman behind the curtains dividing the beds.
Boyd opens the curtain and finds nothing. The ballerina woman assaults Boyd from behind and pushes him to the bed where she straddles him and covers his mouth and nose to smother him. Boyd wakes up violently. It was a nightmare.
[This is a psychological warfare. Body can see and hear this ballerina woman and the music box in his sleeping nightmares, in lucid dreams while fainting, and also when fully awake in the presence of his friends. A dangerous situation because now he can't tell which version is reality. Point in case...]Marielle asks Boyd if he is okay. Boyd turns around startled and points his gun at Marielle. He apologizes and puts the gun away on the desk.
9 — Ellis and Fatima walk to their Colony House bedroom. Ellis says whenever she says she is fine, they aren’t fine. Ellis figures it out and tells Fatima that his Dad asked him not to tell anyone that he would go on a journey into the forest boundaries with Sara. Fatima snaps back telling him that she is not “anyone.” They are supposed to get married. She is her fiancé and he lied by omission to her. They shouldn’t keep secrets from each other. She says that his father shouldn’t have put him in that position to begin with. Sara murdered people. The fact that Boyd didn’t tell anyone — not even Kenny — that’s not right.
Ellis argues Boyd didn’t have a choice. Fatima counters that everyone has a choice and Boyd puts everyone in danger by bringing Sara back to their community. Made this place less safe, and Ellis shouldn’t have kept that from her. Ellis apologizes.
Ellis says this isn’t just about hiding Boyd’s secret about Sara from her. Ellis noticed that since the day at the Sheriff’s Station when the bus passengers died, she is been like this. Both hear some tumult coming from the base floor and go to investigate.
Dale caught someone sneaking food out of the pantry. Elgin replies he was taking some extra food out of his backpack and putting it– “Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! What the hell is going on?” — Ellis interrupts.
Dale accuses the bus passengers of stealing food. Bad enough, the storm wiped out everything they had. Ellis says that’s not true. Dale responds bullshit, he saw what they loaded on the pickup truck today. First, the magic radio tower was gonna get everybody home. Did they go home? No. Instead, they now have so many people they are running out of food and they are hiding it so that nobody panics.
[From the way Dale is cutting the celery, one can tell he might have been a chef before arriving to the town or got really good at doing it over the past years.]Fatima denies anyone is hiding anything. Dale asks Fatima to shut the fuck up. He is sick and tired of all her smiley-happy bullshit. Ellis gets angry at how he just talked to his fiancé. Ellis threatens Dale to better watch his fucking mouth. Dale turns around and looks Ellis dead in the eyes. They can’t have the new people stealing what little food they have. Dale declares the bus passengers must leave the Colony House. Dale approaches Elgin and Bakta with the knife and commands them to go, and get outside.
[This is irrational and dangerous. Dale is not the leader of the Colony House. Donna is. Donna is currently at Tian Chen's house cutting and packaging food in jars with salt to make the food last. Second, the night arrived and it is not safe to go outside.]Dale violently pushes Elgin away a few feet. Now confronts Bakta. Dale yells once more: “Get outside!” Ellis grabs Dale’s shoulder and asks him to calm down. In the heat of the moment, Dale turns around and stabs Ellis in the upper stomach just beneath the ribcage.
Fatima panics. Dale apologizes. Ellis says: “You fucking stabbed me.” Fatima asks people to get Dale out of here. Dale says he didn’t mean to and apologizes again. Ellis removes the knife from his stomach. Fatima presses a towel against his injury to slow down the bleeding. Bakta and Fatima carry Ellis’ arms around their shoulders to move him to the sofa. Fatima opens his shirt to take a look at the wound. It’s bleeding a lot. She asks for more towels.
10 — In the Clinic, Boyd goes to the basement. He stares at the blood stain on the wall and floor where Kenny’s Dad died days ago.
Father Khatri’s voice says: Some stains you can’t wash clean. Boyd asks Father Khatri if this is how everyone will end up. Devoured by those monsters like Father Khatri and Kenny’s Dad.
[At this point in the series, it is unknown whether this Father Khatri is a ghost, a memory, or something else. He's been appearing before Boyd a few times as his sort of subconscious advisor.]Father Khatri congratulates Boyd and says he is proud of him. The Boyd he knew was the most stubborn asshole he had ever met. Never admitted weakness. Now he is asking for Kristi, Kenny, Donna, Sara, and Jim’s help.
Kenny enters the basement and catches Boyd having a conversation with nobody. Kenny asks Boyd who he is talking to. There is no one in this room. Boyd says nobody. He was thinking out loud. Kenny doesn’t accept that response. He asks Boyd once again who he was talking to. Boyd asks Kenny to get out of his way. Kenny shuts the door. He is going nowhere until he responds and knows it is safe. Kenny implies here that Boyd might be a potential risk of opening the door and letting the monsters in.
Kenny says Marielle told them what happened upstairs. Boyd had pointed the gun at her earlier. Boyd reveals he was talking to Father Khatri. He knows how this looks. But something happened to him out there. He came back with something inside his body. He doesn’t understand how that is possible, but all he knows is that it’s real and he is fucking terrified.
11 — In the Colony House, Fatima and Bakta continue to contain Ellis’ bleeding. Fatima tells Ellis they are going to take him to the Clinic. Ellis replies that Donna took the truck. Fatima responds they will take the van she arrived in the town with. It’s parked by the shed. Ellis says she can’t. It’s too dangerous. Fatima says they have lookouts at all the windows to alert her of incoming monsters. Fatima says there is nothing they can do for him in the Colony House. He needs to be looked after at the Clinic. Ellis counters that they should wait until the morning. Bakta nods sideways at Fatima. This means he won’t make it until the morning. He will die if not tended immediately at the Clinic. Fatima asks for Elgin’s help to carry Ellis.
A resident with the shotgun looks through the window. He alerts Fatima he detected someone 50 yards out coming up the hill. Fatima says they can make it. Elgin breathes deeply and opens the door. He asks them to meet him at the steps. Elgin is running to the van to drive it to the entrance. That way only he is in danger. As he approaches the shed, two monsters chase slowly after him behind. Elgin enters the van. There are no keys. He searches the drawer on the side of the van, and the sun visor for a key. He finds the key in one of them, but it drops to the floor. Elgin begins to insert the key, but the monsters are coming on both sides of the car where the bonnet opens up. That’s too close. Elgin turns on the engine and drives away to the Colony House entrance.
Six monsters are now approaching the Colony House. Fatima and Ellis leave the house and walk down the porch toward the van. Elgin opens the van’s side door, and then assists Ellis into the van. The monsters are mere feet away. One manages to touch the van’s window. Elgin drives away to the Clinic. The camera focuses on Fatima and Ellis as Elgis drives along the road. Monsters can be heard shrieking in the distance.
Elgin parks the van next to the Clinic and assists Fatima and Ellis out of the van.
12 — Inside the Clinic, Marielle tells Kristi if she wants her to leave, she can move to the Colony House. Kristi says no and is interrupted by the knocking and yelling outside the Clinic. Kristi looks through the window and opens the door. Fatima explains there was an argument and Dale had a knife.
Ellis complains he can’t breathe. Kristi asks how long since he was stabbed. Elgin says about 25 minutes ago. Boyd and Kenny come after Kristi shouts for their help. Boyd sees Ellis on the bed and comes to his side. Boyd is informed Ellis was stabbed.
Kristi asks Boyd to put pressure on the wound. Kristi rips the shirt with scissors for access to the wound. She asks Ellis if he can breathe. He has no response, but he’s awake and shows difficulty breathing. Kristi says she is afraid blood is filling his chest cavity, putting pressure on the lungs. His chest is tensioning. Kristi asks Marielle to bring the saline at the top shelf of the supply closet.
Kristi pours alcohol around the wound and punctures the side of Ellis’s chest to see if it is air or blood compressing the lungs. She finds blood in his chest cavity. Boyd takes Fatima out of the room. They need space to work on Ellis. Kristi asks for the scalpel and some rags. She informs Ellis she will make a little incision. Kristi asks for the forceps and announces she is going to relieve the pressure from his chest. There will be a lot of blood. Kristi begins to drain the excess blood. Ellis recovers the ability to breathe normally.
Kristi goes to the other room to talk to Fatima and Boyd. She was able to relieve the pressure on his lungs, but he has lost a lot of blood. His heart is trying to compensate, but unless they get him more blood his organs will start to fail. Kristi asks what his blood type is. Boyd responds O-Negative. They are both. Kristi will use Boyd’s blood to do a transfusion.
[Big problem. Boyd can't be the blood donor. He has this worm under the skin stuff going on. Boyd won't want to transfer this to his son. From Kristi's point of view, she sees no worms and thinks it's not real. But Boyd knows while he can't logically explain it, it is real.]Boyd stops Kristi. She can’t use his blood. Whatever is inside Boyd is going to go into Ellis. Kristi asks Boyd to listen to what he is saying. Boyd shouts loud at Kristi that he is not fucking crazy. Even if I can’t see them, I can feel the worms. Fatima confronts Boyd. If he doesn’t do this, Ellis is going to die. Fatima says that even if what he is saying is true, it can’t be worse than dying. Boyd snaps back with: “You tell that to the guy who did this to me. We have to find another way.”
Kenny grabs Boyd’s gun from the table and points it at him. Kenny says he needs to sit down and let Kristi do her work. Boyd tells Kenny if he does this– the pain prevents Boyd from talking. He grabs his right hand. Worms crawling beneath his skin all over the place. No one else can see this except Marielle who exclaims and announces that she can see them. Kristi can now see the worms moving beneath his skin.
Kenny puts the gun aside, gets a knife from his pocket, and opens it. Kenny asks Boyd to give the worms to him. That way he can give Kristi his blood to save Ellis. Kenny uses the logic that if the old man Martin passed the worms to Boyd, then Boyd can pass it on to someone else. As long as you get the transfusion done, we figure out the rest later.
Boyd refuses. There is a nightmare happening under his skin. He can’t do that to Kenny. The illness is growing stronger. Boyd has no idea what will happen if he passes it on to Kenny. Boyd’s voice slowed down as he said these last words as if something clicked in his mind.
Boyd turns around toward the exit and says that he has an idea. Kenny says where he is going. Boyd is standing next to the door and lifts the curtain to look outside the door. Boyd says the worms have to go somewhere, right? Boyd opens the door and exits, closing the door behind him. His hand grasps a knife tight. Boyd stands outside in the night and taunts monsters to come and get him. They come every night to their doors and windows knocking. You want to play games? I am right here.
One of the monsters appears 5 yards from Boyd. Two more monsters appear on each side behind Boyd. A fourth appears behind the first one. The first one walks toward Boyd. Boyd cuts his left hand with the knife. Boyd slashes the monster’s throat in a straight horizontal line. No blood pours out from the wound. The monster smiles. A fifth monster appears behind the first one.
Boyd feels surrounded. Boyd extends his arm and wraps his left hand across the monster’s throat. Both open wounds making contact. Boyd says: “My blood is your blood now, motherfucker!”
Boyd feels his hand and arm shake in pain as if something has been transferred. The monster smiles and laughs. He likes this game. All monsters close in on Boyd. Suddenly, the monster starts to shake, troubled and choking. The monster screams in pain. The monster reels in pain flat on the ground. The remaining 4 monsters around Boyd ignore him and approach the monster on the ground. Boyd runs back to the Clinic.
Kristi says the transfusion needs to start. Kenny is standing there in shock. This has never happened before. Not only does Boyd kill a monster. He survived 5 monsters.
The 4 monsters leave in different directions leaving behind the corpse of the first monster.
The transfusion begins to save Ellis’s life.
13 — In Kenny’s house, Donna and Ethan walk down to the basement to store the remaining food supplies. Ethan tells a secret to Donna. He told his parents that he wasn’t afraid. However, he is afraid. He doesn’t want to be on the quest anymore. He wants to go home. Donna tells Ethan a secret. She is a little scared too but that is a good thing. Ethan asks why. Donna responds that her Mom told her something when she was about Ethan’s age and she thinks it is the smartest thing anyone ever told her.
Donna’s mother said that fear is something that lives inside us. Just like hope or joy or love. They are all things that make us special. But fear might be the most important one of all. Ethan asks why. Donna responds that because without fear, we wouldn’t know how to be brave. Fear is what makes us heroes. Ethan hugs Donna.
14 — In the Clinic, Kristi and Fatima check on Ellis after the transfusion is over. He can breathe normally again. He is on his way to recovery. Fatima leaves the room to sob privately. Kristi is nearby and approaches her. Fatima confirms that she also saw Boyd’s worms crawling beneath his skin. How is that possible, she asks. Fatima asks Kristi if she can share something with her and must promise not to tell anyone.
Fatima asks if she has any pregnancy tests in the Clinic.
15 — Boyd is looking at the dead monster outside through the glass door. Kenny approaches and stands next to Boyd. Kenny says they should have listened to him about the worms. They should have trusted Boyd. Boyd responds it all worked out. That’s all that matters. Kenny asks if the monster has moved. No. Kenny asks if the monster is dead. Boyd says they will find out soon enough.
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