Channel Zero (2016–…): Season 1, Episode 3 - Want to See Something Cool? - full transcript

You guys remember "Candle Cove"?

In 1988, five kids went missing.

The Iron Hill Murders.
Never solved.

Look who's back in the
middle of things.

A lot of folks just like you
and your mom lost people.

How are you holding
up having him home?

It's so strange. I
barely know him.

- Pay the toll.
- Shove it up your ass.

Get him, Gene!

It did something to my brother.

It can make people do things.



- Hi, Daddy.
- What is it, Lily?

You have to go inside.

Eddie. I did it.

- Did what?
- I killed him.

Mike, I need you to come
down to the station with me.

It's something that
your mom told me.

You missed the turn.

Where are you taking me?

Okay.

Ahh.

11 years old.

Okay, make a wish. Both of you.

Why don't you trade?
Make each other's wish?

Better do something
good for me, Eddie.



We share.

Whatever you have, I have, too.

Ready?

One... Two, three.

- Yay.
- Yeah, there you got it.

Good job.

Did you wish for something good?

- I did.
- Don't tell her what it was.

It won't come true.

Yeah, you're not too
good at keeping secrets.

Gosh, a treasure chest.

Careful now, Percy.

That box might be
locked for a reason.

And once you let bad things out,

you can never put them back.

Blow away, Mr. Cloud.

It's a treasure chest.

Pirates love treasure.

Oh!

Oh!

Oh, Marla, you scared me.

I-I'd like to talk to Mike.

Why would Mike be here?

Well, Gary, he, um, brought him
in just a little while ago.

No, I, uh, I haven't
seen Gary all night.

Well, if Gary didn't
bring him here,

where did he take him?

Are you saying Gary
took Mike into custody?

Gary, I don't know what
my mother told you,

but my intention here is to
help Katie and Dane and...

You remember the
old Iverson place?

Jess was the listing agent.

The house needed a lot of
work, but it had good bones.

So we decided that we gonna
grab it for ourselves.

We had all these
plans to fix it up.

Never got a chance.

Some rich guy from Cleveland
bought it out from under us.

Paid all cash.

And gutted the place.

You know how these guys are.

Gets bored, never finishes.

So now the house is
on the market again.

Jess is the listing agent.

But it'll never be ours.

The price is too high.

He's not answering.

Went to voicemail.

Any idea where Gary
would have taken him?

What the hell is going on?

Um, what are we doing here?

Once the truth is out,
you got to face it.

Sit.

Bologna.

Bologna.

In Italy they call
it "Mortadella."

Mortadella.

Jacob.

Bless us, O Lord, and
these, Thy gifts,

which we are about to
receive from Thy bounty.

Through Christ our Lord...

Blessed be God,

the Father of our
Lord, Jesus Christ,

the Father of all mercies,

who comforteth us in all
of our tribulation.

Our bodies...

even mine, believe it or not...

have 11 systems.

Digestive... muscular...
circulatory...

respiratory... skeletal...

You shouldn't have opened
that box, shark bait.

But now you let me out,

and I'll have your hide!

Jawbone's the name and...

skinning's my game.

Immune, nervous...

Endocrine, reproductive.

Gary.

What's going on right now?

Hi, Mike.

Daphne.

Tim.

What are we doing here?

I don't like my phone ringing
at the break of dawn,

but Gary here says, "Wake up.

"Get on out here
because it looks like

"all that Friday night
talk over the years,

"you know, hey, you
think that, uh,

"maybe given certain details,

"the Painter family knew
more about the murders

"than they're letting on?

"Looks like they were
true because Mike Painter

just confessed to one of them."

Well, Mike, we're gonna
have a little chat

that's long overdue
because, I'll be honest,

I always thought your family
had something to do with it.

We just want to talk, Mike.

Okay. I'm happy to talk.

Just untie me.

You can talk like that.

Just tell the truth, Mike.

Okay, this is the truth.

28 years ago, somebody made a
TV show called "Candle Cove"

and broadcast it
on a dead channel.

It influenced the
kids who saw it,

and before it was over five
of those kids were dead.

You killed your brother Eddie.

You killed your brother, Mike,

then you left Iron Hill.

The murders stopped. The
disappearances stopped.

Then 28 years later,
you come back,

everything starts
again, right away.

You're looking in the
right direction,

but you're making the
wrong connection.

So are you telling me
that my kids wouldn't be

in the hospital if you
hadn't come back?

I want to show you something.

Jacob Booth.

Mrs. Booth's only son.

Sadie Williams.

My cousin.

She taught me how to kiss.

Carl Cutter. The cut-up.

My brother Gene.

Tim.

That's what we're
doing here, Mike.

Me and Tim are not
cops right now.

We're all just people
who lost people,

and before you go
into the system,

we want to know exactly what
you did and why you did it.

Where's your brother, Fainter?

Where's yours?

Go home, dickless wonder.

Want me to break
your fingers, too?

Want to see something cool?

Me and Eddie found it.

Figured you would
know what to do.

Bullshit.

It's worth money, but okay.

- Where you going, Mike?
- The Crow's Nest.

Gary, are you home?

Are you here? Gary?

I'm gonna drive over to Tim's.

Gary?

Why don't you two stay here
in case Gary comes back?

I still have dreams
about my brother.

And the look on
my parents' faces

when we heard that he was dead.

I stopped eating.

Got so thin I almost died.

That's the worst thing about
losing someone, Mike.

It's not knowing how or why.

They wouldn't even tell me
what really happened to Gene,

but I found out, Mike.

Sure, he was a bully, and
we were redneck idiots,

but he looked out for me.

He didn't deserve to die

with his neck broke
and his teeth gone.

I just dream about
"Candle Cove."

That's because it's still there,

all the time, working on us.

What about you, Gary? Tim?

You guys dream about it?

Because I do.

For 30 years, I've been
dreaming about it.

Always there, behind everything.

We all saw it. It did
something to us.

"Candle Cove" was on TV the
same time as the murders.

That's the only connection.

I'm telling you, you're wrong.

The bottom line is, you
killed my brother.

You killed Eddie, and
you killed Sadie.

- No, I didn't.
- You killed Jacob. You killed Carl.

- Come on.
- And now you're back in town here.

Mike, what are you gonna do?

- We shouldn't have done this.
- You gonna kill some more children?

Come on, Mike, it felt
pretty good to tell you mom

- about Eddie, right?
- You know what?

Now that I think about it,

I think that we've had
just about enough talk.

Maybe it's time for some
justice instead of talk!

- No, no, no, no, Tim!
- I didn't have a choice!

How are those fingers feeling?

You like "Candle Cove," Gene?

I don't watch that retard show.

Don't lie. I know you do.

You can't lie to the Skin-Taker.

The what?

Stop.

What are you doing to him?

Showing him stuff in his head.

He can't do anything now.

Here, boy.

Pay the toll.

Now you can go to Candle Cove.

Walk the plank.

Hey, wait!

Hey, wait!

Eddie killed them.

"Candle Cove" got into him.

It changed him.

Because he was vulnerable.

Because you made him vulnerable.

Tim. Gary.

You hurt him.

And I had to stop him.

Something's up.

I can't reach Gary or Tim,
and this thing with...

- Help! Help!
- Hang on.

Stop! Help.

These kids are hurting someone!

Hey!

Hey, drop those knives!

Oh, my God.

Oh, oh, you guys scared
the shit out of me.

Where'd you get that thing
from, science class?

Alex, Chloe, what's going on?

Why are you, uh... hey!

H-hey, get back here!

What?

Marla.

Why did Gary arrest Mike?

Mike...

did something unforgivable.

You mean you can't forgive him?

The last couple of years,

Mike and I started emailing.

Texts.

Like that.

At first, it was
once in a while.

Then more.

And then every day.

It became... important to me.

Did Gary know?

I didn't think so.

Then Mike went quiet on me.

Like he dropped off the
face of the Earth.

So I deleted everything.

Every last email.

It's been hard this year.

Gary had his hopes
set on this...

this property in
the countryside.

And when that fell
apart, he just got so...

It's not here.

What?

I know where Gary took Mike.

TV shows don't
kill people, Mike.

Gary, think about your daughter.

She saw the show and one day
later she tries to kill Dane...

- No, she talked to you.
- No. No. No.

You got it... no.

Daphne.

You feel it.

You know it's true, don't you?

- Mike.
- It's okay, because I do, too.

Just tell them. Just tell them.

What do you dream about?

- Mike.
- Just tell them.

- Cut the therapy shit.
- He's right.

We knew it was
connected somehow.

No. No, we don't know
anything like that at all.

Gary, we have to find
whoever made that show.

I saw it that day
at the Crow's Nest.

Listen, Daphne, in the dreams,

what do you see?

A face that's just a skull?

The white eyes? You remember?

In the show. They
called it Jawbone.

But in the dreams... Okay.
In the dreams?

It has a different name.

Well, I saw it that day.

A person dressed as Jawbone.

And whoever this person is,
he's still out there right now.

Okay, even if there is some
person out there, Mike...

What the hell is
wrong with you, huh?

- Tim...
- This all points back to him.

This is not about a
goddamn puppet show.

It was just a show
that aired on TV then.

His mom sends him away
and the murders stop.

He killed those kids.

- I didn't.
- Tim.

He killed Gene,

and maybe, just maybe, his
mother helped cover it up.

- Okay, look, even if he's lying...
- Tim.

We need to look at this, we
need to look in the woods

and just see what's going on
with what he's talking about.

What are you doing, Tim?

No, no, no. Tim,
what are you doing?

This is going a
little too far, Tim.

- We're done here, all right?
- Tim, Tim.

We're done.

I'm gonna take him in.
Give him a trial by jury.

- This is it.
- He can have a trial by jury right now.

- Okay, Tim.
- Fu... talking.

- Tim! Tim!
- I'm done talking!

This is not what
we're here to do.

- Get out of the way, Gary.
- Now, listen to me.

You're gonna put that away.

We're gonna forget
this ever happened.

- That's an order.
- 911...

- Daphne, hang that up.
- I want to...

Now. Hang that up.

- I'm not moving, Tim.
- Tim, I didn't do anything.

- Get out of the way, Gary.
- I'm not moving, Tim.

You put that gun down.
That's an order.

I'm sorry, Sheriff.

I'm just like Mike. I
don't have a choice.

Yeah, you do.

Don't!

18 years a cop.

The first time you
draw is on me.

We're gonna talk him
to the station.

It was an accident.

An accident?

That's right. He tried
to get your gun.

- Gary?
- What, Daphne?

Your wife's here.

- Hey.
- Hey.

What just happened?

Shut up!

That's enough.

Jess, you can't be
here right now.

- Where's Mike?
- You got to leave.

- You got to leave. You got to leave.
- Where's...

- Is Mike inside?
- Let me handle this.

Daphne, give me the box cutter.

Mike! Are you in there?

Marla! Marla, get down
from there right now!

Marla, get down from there.

- Just let me inside.
- Mike!

- Oh, Gary...
- Jess.

Jess!

- Jess, he...
- Oh, my God.

Jess, he killed his brother.

We needed to find
out what happened.

Have you lost your mind?

Tim!

Oh, my God.

Oh, shit.

It'll be okay.

It'll be okay.

Gary.

Jesus, Gary.

Mike.

I need you to tell me
what happened out there

and why.

Marla, maybe you
should leave us alone.

No. I'll stay.

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More troubling
news in Iron Hill.

12-year-old Carl Cutter has
been reported missing.

He was last seen
yesterday around 3:30...

What happened to Carl?

He's in Candle Cove.

You're saying he was...
influenced

by this TV show?

A show no one can prove existed?

Yeah.

And this other person you saw,

this adult accomplice,

you have no idea who they were?

It's back.

Kids will watch it,
just like we did.

And when they do,

they may start to
behave in ways that...

What?

What do you know?

Did something happen?

All I know...

is you confessed
to killing Eddie,

and as acting sheriff,
that is a fact that I...

No, he didn't.

He didn't confess.

Gary misunderstood.

Gary misunderstood?

You just said Eddie killed
the other four kids,

and then you killed him.

Eddie killed the
other four kids.

And then he disappeared.

So that's your story now?

It's the truth.

This is just the beginning.

Hey. Mike.

I can't sleep here.

We didn't mean to hurt anyone.

I tried to stop Tim.

We both did.

But he shot Mike,

and then Jessica and
Marla showed up.

- And I just took off.
- Jesus. Is Mike all right?

I... I hope so.

The shot went sideways.

It winged his arm.

I don't know what to tell you.

You're not exactly
gonna go on the lam

and start a new life in Mexico.

You have to turn yourself in.

I know.

I will.

Attagirl.

You want something to drink?

Cocoa?

Is all that for us?

No.

I'll get you something stronger.

You shouldn't fu...
with Mike Painter.

What is it? What happened?

It was a nightmare. Oh, God.

- Oh, God.
- You're okay.

You're okay.

Yeah, I'm fine now.

Oh, it was horrible.

Oh.

What is it?

I don't know.

Lily. It's my daughter.

Lily! Lily!

Lily! Lily!

What... what are you...
What are you doing here?

How did you? Baby?

Baby, look at me.
What are you...

Are you okay? Are you okay?

Lily.

Are you... Lily?

Are you okay?

How did you get here?

Baby, look at me. Look at me.
Look at me.

How did you get here?
How did you get here?