Castle Rock (2018–…): Season 2, Episode 3 - Ties That Bind - full transcript
Annie tastes her own medicine.
Mom?
Mom?
Mom, what are you looking at?
Did something happen?
Mom!
Guys, c... can you help, please?
Yeah. Yeah.
Yo, can we get some help, please?
Where is he?
- Got him.
- What happened?
I got him, I got him, I got him.
Mr. Merrill?
Can you breathe?
All right.
Watch your step.
Watch your step.
Pop, take it easy.
What happened?
You've had a stroke...
A mini one.
What?
What happened?
I got this, Jamal.
You tell me what happened.
Do you remember...
What? What?
What... why...
Abdi brought you here.
I've been looking for him.
He won't call me back.
He should have left me there.
I would have left me there.
Left you where?
Pop?
Did I hurt him?
Is he okay?
What?
Did you hurt Abdi?
I... I don't know.
I don't know.
What do you mean,
you don't know?
Abdi, please call me.
Hey.
Wanna go look for a dead guy?
What?
Is your mom here?
She went to work.
Love what you guys
haven't done with the place.
Yeah.
So, uh, dead guy.
Sounds weird; hear me out.
Ace Merrill... you know,
the shitty landlord, rapey-eyes dude?
They say he's dead.
Oh, my gosh.
It's fine.
He sucked.
Anyway, we're gonna go
find the corpse.
Usually dump them in the lake.
Everything bad in this town
starts at Castle Lake.
So are you in?
It's gonna be a hike,
but I got snacks.
Brownies.
Um, my mom...
Um, I think I...
You're fucking 16, right?
We're gonna be leaving town
like any second now.
Oh.
Getting out of this shithole
already, huh?
Keep the phone.
Find a McDonald's somewhere
and hit me up.
Wait.
I'll come with.
Sweet.
Bring a bathing suit.
Or not.
♪ And take your stand ♪
♪ Tip your hat to the world ♪
♪ Button up the bowtie
and dance all around ♪
♪ Once again
with the fat Hawaiian girl ♪
♪ Duncan and Jimmy
walk side by side ♪
♪ Nobody walks between them ♪
Anchors aweigh.
Well, if anyone sees an old
man's head bobbing, that shit's mine.
I call dibs.
What?
Warden of Shawshank
86'd himself in this lake.
They found the body
but not the head.
♪ Freighter man,
freighter man ♪
♪ Which way's the freighter
gonna run tonight? ♪
♪ Take me down
to Jacksonville ♪
♪ Or just leave me be
wherever it seems right ♪
♪ Duncan and Jimmy
walk side by side ♪
♪ Nobody walks between them ♪
♪ Duncan and Jimmy
walk side by side ♪
- Abdi?
- My pills!
The recipe...
What did you give me?
- Who's this?
- Anne Ingalls!
It's your employee.
Anne,
it's really not a good time.
My pills, they're all wrong.
Something is messed up.
Did you change the recipe?
I replaced one with generics,
but they're exactly the same.
Something's wrong!
I'm having
visual hallucinations!
If your symptoms
are getting worse,
then come in and I'll refer you.
Anne, I can't do this right now.
I have a family emergency.
I'll be in contact.
Who knows how many bodies
are at the bottom of this lake?
Vera knows all about bodies.
- Her dad was in Shawshank.
- He was set up, okay?
And then they shut down
the prison
and he was sent to Ohio.
Stop dishing
all my family trauma.
At least my dad doesn't beat me.
He isn't available
to beat you...
- Okay, whatever.
- He's in a fucking supermax.
Guys, less family therapy,
more trawling for dead bodies.
Well, Chance doesn't have to worry about
parents because Chance is emancipated.
"Emancipated"?
Like, free?
- As a fucking bird.
- Language.
Joy's mom hates
those F-bombs, Chance.
Vera.
What would happen, do you
think, if you just dropped one?
A big old "fuck"
right in her lap.
It wouldn't be good, I think.
I... I know 'cause...
She has all these rules
to protect me,
and even if they're dumb
or stupid, you know,
I know why she's that way.
And... and, I mean, who cares
if I can't say some stupid word?
Who cares if I can't say
some dumb...
fucking word?
Who cares if I can't say "fuck"?
- Whoa... whoa, there.
- Fuck, fuckity-fuck.
Fuckle-fuck!
Fuck!
W-what?
How are those brownies, Crash?
Are... are they...
Oh.
Was there something in those?
Oh, I don't know.
Breathe.
I hardly put any in there.
- Is the talking normal?
- Hilarious.
So funny.
Hey, uh, Timothy,
can you row a little bit?
My arms are getting really tired.
Yep, gotcha.
- Oops!
- Are you kidding?
- God!
- What the fuck?
Well, I am not getting in.
- My asthma.
- I can't reach it!
Well...
I threw it right to you.
Aww, man.
What are you...
What is she doing?
I'll get it.
Do you know how cold that is?
There's a weird sound
down there.
How many brownies did you eat?
Hey, Chance, stop!
- Stop!
- It's too fast for you.
Stop it!
Oh, my God, you're so annoying!
- I almost fell!
- Good.
- Ooh!
- Stop!
Hey, you know what?
You're a fucking mermaid.
Thanks.
Well, mermaids
are monsters, actually.
Disney lies, so...
And I'm giving you swim lessons
for your birthday.
- No, you're not.
- Yeah, I am.
No...
Well, too bad,
'cause I'm giving you...
Stop!
- See you later.
- See ya.
Peace.
Bye, Joy.
Bye.
That was, um...
pretty badass...
especially while high
for the first time.
Yeah.
Do you feel normal again?
Think so.
Ah, that's too bad.
Keep your phone on.
Mom, I'm sorry...
I was, uh...
I was just at the gas station
getting some food.
What is all this?
I'll get your pills.
No.
No, I think she poisoned me.
What?
The doctor...
at the clinic.
The one you like so much.
Her pills made me worse,
not better.
They made me do a bad thing.
What bad thing?
When I say this...
You have to hear me out.
I killed a man.
What?
The dirty bird
with the dirty look on his face.
Ace Merrill?
He came here...
and he threatened you.
Threatened us both...
in the vilest language, Joy.
So...
I ended him...
Right there.
But then I cleaned it up so good
I can't find a trace of it.
Not a single speck of him,
but I swear...
I did it.
And then I took him to the pit
and I threw him in the hole.
Mom, uh...
That's not even the worst of it,
because he came back.
That Ace...
After.
"After"?
After I...
I saw him.
I... I don't understand.
Me neither,
but I killed him, Joy.
I killed him.
All I know...
is I try so hard
to be there for you.
To be my best self
and not the other one.
Mom...
y-you must have...
What?
Imagined it?
I killed that man,
and then he came back.
And he'll come again...
to finish it.
Mom...
You believe me...
don't you?
- I love you, Mom.
No...
No, no, Joy, we said...
For emergencies.
- No...
- I love you, Mom.
Joy, no, no.
They're for emergencies...
- Eh?
- Mm-hmm.
Wheelchair to admitting.
Wheelchair to admitting.
You piece of shit.
Hello, Pop.
Where the fuck you been?
Derry.
You're a murderer now?
Your own fucking family?
Trying to burn
Nadia's house down.
The hell is wrong with you?
That was a mistake.
"Mistake"?
Your whole goddamn life's
a mistake.
All right, stay down, Pop.
My whole life, yes.
The fuck
you talking like that for?
Thought you were dead,
you fucking moron!
- Take it easy...
- The fuck out of here!
Take it easy, take it easy.
Pull over, asshole.
Hey, fuck nuts,
get out of the car.
Right now, asshole!
Hey!
Joy.
Come... come untie me.
Little love, please.
Please, Joy.
Little love.
Are you ready?
For what?
Your pills.
When we made this...
This plan, you and I...
If for ever I had...
I had a spell...
The thing is, little love,
we never talked enough
about what a genuine emergency
might look like.
You said you killed a man.
Yes.
You said the man you killed
came back to life to kill us.
It's an emergency when you see
things that aren't there, Mom.
Well, see, I...
Take your pills.
They aren't the right pills.
They are.
I checked.
It's the right recipe.
40, 20, 10.
Don't you see, Joy?
The plan is... is that I don't let
you out until you take your pills.
The medicine is wrong
so the plan is off, Joy!
That's what you said
you'd say when we made...
Joy, jiminy Christmas!
If you need water.
Wait!
I'll take them.
Just give them to me.
I'll take them.
Get it over with.
Okay.
Open.
Okay, little love.
Untie me now.
Not yet, Mama.
You're not ready.
You didn't kill anyone.
Ace Merrill is still alive.
Sweetie...
Let me know
if you need the bedpan.
No, Kevin, no, no.
Just because I made more money
than you last year...
No, that doesn't mean
that child support flip-flops.
Uh-huh, yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Oh!
Oh, excuse me.
Uh...
Valerie Blount,
Blount Real Estate.
John Merrill.
"John" as in, uh, Ace Merrill?
Mm-hmm.
Uh, shall we?
Uh, you know,
the house was originally built
by, uh, a millionaire,
Hubie Marsten,
back in the '20s.
A gangster
who practiced black magic.
Lost his mind, shot his wife,
hanged himself.
Mm, can't fool the locals.
Do you have children?
Uh...
Um, yes.
One, middle school.
Pretty much takes care
of himself these days.
But you're still able
to have children...
right?
Uh-huh.
That's a...
That is a funny question.
Uh...
Oh, this shouldn't be here.
Hello?
Um...
Hello?
Uh, can you just wait one sec?
Is somebody here?
Oh...
The car...
Ugh... oh!
Oh, my God!
Joy!
"Ian held her stiffening body
as Orpheo tumbled on, heedless,
"through the lashing
bracken of Shadow Wood
"as the adder's venom
worked its way deeper,
black tendrils reaching
for her heart."
It's late.
You know, I used to read
to my father.
Tried to, anyway.
I'd always jumble up the words.
Mom?
Yes?
What's in that?
The lockbox.
Just papers.
Show me.
Nothing but nonsense
in there, Joy, honestly.
Then why does it need
a big lock,
and why can't I
just look inside?
I feel so much better,
little love.
Thank you...
for everything.
If you're really better, Mom...
tell the truth.
About what?
Everything.
Now, Mom.
What are we running from?
You're not getting out
of that bed
until you tell me the truth.
He didn't want you.
Your father, he didn't want you.
And I did...
so I took you and I ran.
I didn't expect the police
to understand what he was,
and lo and behold, they did not.
I told a lot of lies
to a lot of people...
but I told you only one...
because I didn't want you
to be afraid.
Why would I be afraid?
Because he's coming for us now.
He's a very bad man, Joy,
and he's not gonna stop.
He'll never stop.
That's why
you have to untie me...
So I can protect you!
You said Dad was a hero.
That he died in a war.
Yes.
It was just better.
It was better, Joy,
I-if you were running
towards the Laughing Place
and not away from...
You said
lying is the worst thing
that people who
love each other can do.
I know, I did, and... and it is.
How could you?
Everything I do
is because I believe
in a better world, Joy.
And that takes work, Joy.
Hard work.
Sometimes when we're
on the road,
we're rounding a cloverleaf,
I look out the window
and I look at all that dirt
and that grit...
The ugliness going by
and I think,
"Well, Annie,
you're wasting your time."
I look at you...
And the sun just...
rises.
You are my better world, Joy.
And, yes,
I've done bad for you...
And I'll do it again.
I will do the doggone worst
to protect you
from the monsters,
and I'll feel
just fine about it.
I won't give them
the satisfaction
of a single regret...
Because the only thing
that matters is you.
My... my world.
My little world.
Joy...
- You didn't take your pills!
- You listen to me.
You listen very carefully...
You lied again!
No.
Don't... don't answer.
Please, don't answer.
That could be him.
"Him" who?
Dad?
Ace Merrill?
You don't even know, do you?
They... they're all just monsters
out to get us!
You're fudging right they are!
Is your mom here?
She's... sick.
She can't come to the door
right now.
But everything's okay?
Sure.
It's just that she called me
very upset
and... didn't show up for work.
It... it was the stomach bug,
but... she's all better now.
Are you sure you're okay, Joy?
Your mom sounded like she was
having some pretty serious symptoms.
You should have sent her
to... to a head doctor.
You don't know anything
about her.
Mom!
Mom!
Mom.
Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy!
Oh, dear God.
Joy, I didn't mean...
No, no, Joy!
Joy, Joy, Joy!
I... I didn't mean...
Joy!
Joy, where are you?
You know how this story ends.
You're going to kill her.
Bad Robot.
Mom?
Mom, what are you looking at?
Did something happen?
Mom!
Guys, c... can you help, please?
Yeah. Yeah.
Yo, can we get some help, please?
Where is he?
- Got him.
- What happened?
I got him, I got him, I got him.
Mr. Merrill?
Can you breathe?
All right.
Watch your step.
Watch your step.
Pop, take it easy.
What happened?
You've had a stroke...
A mini one.
What?
What happened?
I got this, Jamal.
You tell me what happened.
Do you remember...
What? What?
What... why...
Abdi brought you here.
I've been looking for him.
He won't call me back.
He should have left me there.
I would have left me there.
Left you where?
Pop?
Did I hurt him?
Is he okay?
What?
Did you hurt Abdi?
I... I don't know.
I don't know.
What do you mean,
you don't know?
Abdi, please call me.
Hey.
Wanna go look for a dead guy?
What?
Is your mom here?
She went to work.
Love what you guys
haven't done with the place.
Yeah.
So, uh, dead guy.
Sounds weird; hear me out.
Ace Merrill... you know,
the shitty landlord, rapey-eyes dude?
They say he's dead.
Oh, my gosh.
It's fine.
He sucked.
Anyway, we're gonna go
find the corpse.
Usually dump them in the lake.
Everything bad in this town
starts at Castle Lake.
So are you in?
It's gonna be a hike,
but I got snacks.
Brownies.
Um, my mom...
Um, I think I...
You're fucking 16, right?
We're gonna be leaving town
like any second now.
Oh.
Getting out of this shithole
already, huh?
Keep the phone.
Find a McDonald's somewhere
and hit me up.
Wait.
I'll come with.
Sweet.
Bring a bathing suit.
Or not.
♪ And take your stand ♪
♪ Tip your hat to the world ♪
♪ Button up the bowtie
and dance all around ♪
♪ Once again
with the fat Hawaiian girl ♪
♪ Duncan and Jimmy
walk side by side ♪
♪ Nobody walks between them ♪
Anchors aweigh.
Well, if anyone sees an old
man's head bobbing, that shit's mine.
I call dibs.
What?
Warden of Shawshank
86'd himself in this lake.
They found the body
but not the head.
♪ Freighter man,
freighter man ♪
♪ Which way's the freighter
gonna run tonight? ♪
♪ Take me down
to Jacksonville ♪
♪ Or just leave me be
wherever it seems right ♪
♪ Duncan and Jimmy
walk side by side ♪
♪ Nobody walks between them ♪
♪ Duncan and Jimmy
walk side by side ♪
- Abdi?
- My pills!
The recipe...
What did you give me?
- Who's this?
- Anne Ingalls!
It's your employee.
Anne,
it's really not a good time.
My pills, they're all wrong.
Something is messed up.
Did you change the recipe?
I replaced one with generics,
but they're exactly the same.
Something's wrong!
I'm having
visual hallucinations!
If your symptoms
are getting worse,
then come in and I'll refer you.
Anne, I can't do this right now.
I have a family emergency.
I'll be in contact.
Who knows how many bodies
are at the bottom of this lake?
Vera knows all about bodies.
- Her dad was in Shawshank.
- He was set up, okay?
And then they shut down
the prison
and he was sent to Ohio.
Stop dishing
all my family trauma.
At least my dad doesn't beat me.
He isn't available
to beat you...
- Okay, whatever.
- He's in a fucking supermax.
Guys, less family therapy,
more trawling for dead bodies.
Well, Chance doesn't have to worry about
parents because Chance is emancipated.
"Emancipated"?
Like, free?
- As a fucking bird.
- Language.
Joy's mom hates
those F-bombs, Chance.
Vera.
What would happen, do you
think, if you just dropped one?
A big old "fuck"
right in her lap.
It wouldn't be good, I think.
I... I know 'cause...
She has all these rules
to protect me,
and even if they're dumb
or stupid, you know,
I know why she's that way.
And... and, I mean, who cares
if I can't say some stupid word?
Who cares if I can't say
some dumb...
fucking word?
Who cares if I can't say "fuck"?
- Whoa... whoa, there.
- Fuck, fuckity-fuck.
Fuckle-fuck!
Fuck!
W-what?
How are those brownies, Crash?
Are... are they...
Oh.
Was there something in those?
Oh, I don't know.
Breathe.
I hardly put any in there.
- Is the talking normal?
- Hilarious.
So funny.
Hey, uh, Timothy,
can you row a little bit?
My arms are getting really tired.
Yep, gotcha.
- Oops!
- Are you kidding?
- God!
- What the fuck?
Well, I am not getting in.
- My asthma.
- I can't reach it!
Well...
I threw it right to you.
Aww, man.
What are you...
What is she doing?
I'll get it.
Do you know how cold that is?
There's a weird sound
down there.
How many brownies did you eat?
Hey, Chance, stop!
- Stop!
- It's too fast for you.
Stop it!
Oh, my God, you're so annoying!
- I almost fell!
- Good.
- Ooh!
- Stop!
Hey, you know what?
You're a fucking mermaid.
Thanks.
Well, mermaids
are monsters, actually.
Disney lies, so...
And I'm giving you swim lessons
for your birthday.
- No, you're not.
- Yeah, I am.
No...
Well, too bad,
'cause I'm giving you...
Stop!
- See you later.
- See ya.
Peace.
Bye, Joy.
Bye.
That was, um...
pretty badass...
especially while high
for the first time.
Yeah.
Do you feel normal again?
Think so.
Ah, that's too bad.
Keep your phone on.
Mom, I'm sorry...
I was, uh...
I was just at the gas station
getting some food.
What is all this?
I'll get your pills.
No.
No, I think she poisoned me.
What?
The doctor...
at the clinic.
The one you like so much.
Her pills made me worse,
not better.
They made me do a bad thing.
What bad thing?
When I say this...
You have to hear me out.
I killed a man.
What?
The dirty bird
with the dirty look on his face.
Ace Merrill?
He came here...
and he threatened you.
Threatened us both...
in the vilest language, Joy.
So...
I ended him...
Right there.
But then I cleaned it up so good
I can't find a trace of it.
Not a single speck of him,
but I swear...
I did it.
And then I took him to the pit
and I threw him in the hole.
Mom, uh...
That's not even the worst of it,
because he came back.
That Ace...
After.
"After"?
After I...
I saw him.
I... I don't understand.
Me neither,
but I killed him, Joy.
I killed him.
All I know...
is I try so hard
to be there for you.
To be my best self
and not the other one.
Mom...
y-you must have...
What?
Imagined it?
I killed that man,
and then he came back.
And he'll come again...
to finish it.
Mom...
You believe me...
don't you?
- I love you, Mom.
No...
No, no, Joy, we said...
For emergencies.
- No...
- I love you, Mom.
Joy, no, no.
They're for emergencies...
- Eh?
- Mm-hmm.
Wheelchair to admitting.
Wheelchair to admitting.
You piece of shit.
Hello, Pop.
Where the fuck you been?
Derry.
You're a murderer now?
Your own fucking family?
Trying to burn
Nadia's house down.
The hell is wrong with you?
That was a mistake.
"Mistake"?
Your whole goddamn life's
a mistake.
All right, stay down, Pop.
My whole life, yes.
The fuck
you talking like that for?
Thought you were dead,
you fucking moron!
- Take it easy...
- The fuck out of here!
Take it easy, take it easy.
Pull over, asshole.
Hey, fuck nuts,
get out of the car.
Right now, asshole!
Hey!
Joy.
Come... come untie me.
Little love, please.
Please, Joy.
Little love.
Are you ready?
For what?
Your pills.
When we made this...
This plan, you and I...
If for ever I had...
I had a spell...
The thing is, little love,
we never talked enough
about what a genuine emergency
might look like.
You said you killed a man.
Yes.
You said the man you killed
came back to life to kill us.
It's an emergency when you see
things that aren't there, Mom.
Well, see, I...
Take your pills.
They aren't the right pills.
They are.
I checked.
It's the right recipe.
40, 20, 10.
Don't you see, Joy?
The plan is... is that I don't let
you out until you take your pills.
The medicine is wrong
so the plan is off, Joy!
That's what you said
you'd say when we made...
Joy, jiminy Christmas!
If you need water.
Wait!
I'll take them.
Just give them to me.
I'll take them.
Get it over with.
Okay.
Open.
Okay, little love.
Untie me now.
Not yet, Mama.
You're not ready.
You didn't kill anyone.
Ace Merrill is still alive.
Sweetie...
Let me know
if you need the bedpan.
No, Kevin, no, no.
Just because I made more money
than you last year...
No, that doesn't mean
that child support flip-flops.
Uh-huh, yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Oh!
Oh, excuse me.
Uh...
Valerie Blount,
Blount Real Estate.
John Merrill.
"John" as in, uh, Ace Merrill?
Mm-hmm.
Uh, shall we?
Uh, you know,
the house was originally built
by, uh, a millionaire,
Hubie Marsten,
back in the '20s.
A gangster
who practiced black magic.
Lost his mind, shot his wife,
hanged himself.
Mm, can't fool the locals.
Do you have children?
Uh...
Um, yes.
One, middle school.
Pretty much takes care
of himself these days.
But you're still able
to have children...
right?
Uh-huh.
That's a...
That is a funny question.
Uh...
Oh, this shouldn't be here.
Hello?
Um...
Hello?
Uh, can you just wait one sec?
Is somebody here?
Oh...
The car...
Ugh... oh!
Oh, my God!
Joy!
"Ian held her stiffening body
as Orpheo tumbled on, heedless,
"through the lashing
bracken of Shadow Wood
"as the adder's venom
worked its way deeper,
black tendrils reaching
for her heart."
It's late.
You know, I used to read
to my father.
Tried to, anyway.
I'd always jumble up the words.
Mom?
Yes?
What's in that?
The lockbox.
Just papers.
Show me.
Nothing but nonsense
in there, Joy, honestly.
Then why does it need
a big lock,
and why can't I
just look inside?
I feel so much better,
little love.
Thank you...
for everything.
If you're really better, Mom...
tell the truth.
About what?
Everything.
Now, Mom.
What are we running from?
You're not getting out
of that bed
until you tell me the truth.
He didn't want you.
Your father, he didn't want you.
And I did...
so I took you and I ran.
I didn't expect the police
to understand what he was,
and lo and behold, they did not.
I told a lot of lies
to a lot of people...
but I told you only one...
because I didn't want you
to be afraid.
Why would I be afraid?
Because he's coming for us now.
He's a very bad man, Joy,
and he's not gonna stop.
He'll never stop.
That's why
you have to untie me...
So I can protect you!
You said Dad was a hero.
That he died in a war.
Yes.
It was just better.
It was better, Joy,
I-if you were running
towards the Laughing Place
and not away from...
You said
lying is the worst thing
that people who
love each other can do.
I know, I did, and... and it is.
How could you?
Everything I do
is because I believe
in a better world, Joy.
And that takes work, Joy.
Hard work.
Sometimes when we're
on the road,
we're rounding a cloverleaf,
I look out the window
and I look at all that dirt
and that grit...
The ugliness going by
and I think,
"Well, Annie,
you're wasting your time."
I look at you...
And the sun just...
rises.
You are my better world, Joy.
And, yes,
I've done bad for you...
And I'll do it again.
I will do the doggone worst
to protect you
from the monsters,
and I'll feel
just fine about it.
I won't give them
the satisfaction
of a single regret...
Because the only thing
that matters is you.
My... my world.
My little world.
Joy...
- You didn't take your pills!
- You listen to me.
You listen very carefully...
You lied again!
No.
Don't... don't answer.
Please, don't answer.
That could be him.
"Him" who?
Dad?
Ace Merrill?
You don't even know, do you?
They... they're all just monsters
out to get us!
You're fudging right they are!
Is your mom here?
She's... sick.
She can't come to the door
right now.
But everything's okay?
Sure.
It's just that she called me
very upset
and... didn't show up for work.
It... it was the stomach bug,
but... she's all better now.
Are you sure you're okay, Joy?
Your mom sounded like she was
having some pretty serious symptoms.
You should have sent her
to... to a head doctor.
You don't know anything
about her.
Mom!
Mom!
Mom.
Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy!
Oh, dear God.
Joy, I didn't mean...
No, no, Joy!
Joy, Joy, Joy!
I... I didn't mean...
Joy!
Joy, where are you?
You know how this story ends.
You're going to kill her.
Bad Robot.