Channel Zero (2016–…): Season 1, Episode 5 - Guest of Honor - full transcript
- You know how to tell me
and Eddie apart, right?
He's got an extra
tooth right here.
- Jake, Eddie's here.
He wanted to see you.
- It's my daughter.
Lily! - Is Lily okay?
- How did you get here?
- Is there anything
you're not telling me?
- I'm not Lily.
- Then who are you?
- I would know you
no matter what.
I remember what you did.
- Do you still think about
what your life would look like
if things had
happened another way?
- Hey!
I need to talk to these kids.
- They're all in the same class.
- It has been a
strange couple days.
Do you believe in intuition?
Something felt wrong today.
Take that mask off.
[screams]
[groans]
[thunder rumbling]
[police radio scanner]
[eerie music]
[police radio scanner]
[police radio scanner]
[solemn music]
- So what color is the river?
- Uh, bluish and
sometimes greenish.
- What... what color's the sky?
- Blue.
- And what color
is chocolate milk?
- Pink!
- [chuckling] No, it's not.
It's chocolate colored.
- Good morning.
- Ah, good morning.
- How're you doing, kid?
- Great.
- Mm.
Ah.
- Did you sleep well?
- I did.
I did.
I dreamt we all
went to the beach.
- Well, good dreams
are nature's Prozac.
- Yeah.
Been so long, I felt like I was
having somebody else's dream.
Oh.
- What's wrong?
[knocking]
[tense music]
- It's not confirmed yet.
But the wounds...
the footprints.
- It was kids.
- Yeah.
- We found Daphne Bell, too.
Dead a couple days.
In Frances Booth's basement.
And we found "Candle
Cove" props...
- In Frances Booth's basement?
- Yes.
- You found props
from "Candle Cove"
in Frances Booth's basement?
All... all that stuff
to make the show?
- Mm-hmm.
I'm gonna need your help.
- Okay.
- Meet me at the station.
[door opens]
[door closes]
- Jessica's, uh...
She's, uh...
I actually thought it was over.
Ugh.
- Mike.
- [grunts]
[groaning]
[grunts]
- Mike?
Your wife is here.
- [spits and retches]
- Hello.
- Is she here, Marla?
- She... she's outside.
- Are you bleeding?
- Oh, it's, uh...
It's nothing.
- I'm gonna go and get her.
- Mike, what happened here?
How does a six-year-old
girl just show up?
- Mommy!
- Hi, bunny.
It's good to see you.
Okay.
Well, time to say bye, okay?
- My guess is, she
killed Daphne, herself,
and directed them
to kill Jessica.
- Come on, Amy.
We know these kids.
There's no way.
- You heard what
the coroner said.
You saw the footprints.
- Kids aren't capable of that.
- Under the right
circumstances...
kids are capable of
almost anything.
- We're talking about somebody
carving up Jessica here.
- Children's brains are...
Are like clay.
An authority figure
like Frances Booth
could take advantage.
- This is all hands on deck.
First thing is we pick
up the four kids I saw.
I want to talk to them now.
Then we knock on every door,
we call every friend,
every relative,
every former student, until
we find Frances Booth.
Okay?
Good.
[tense music]
[knocks] - Yeah?
- You okay?
- I want to see that house.
- We searched it.
- No, no, no, um...
I-I, um... I need to see
the basement, you know?
The stuff she was using
to make the show.
You never even saw
"Candle Cove."
- It's a crime scene, Mike.
You can't go messing around.
- You come with me.
- No, we have to
bring these kids in.
That's first.
- Send someone else.
- Who? Look around.
It's all hands on deck.
- Could you stop saying that?
- Everyone's busy.
- Not everyone.
- No, he is locked up
on felony charges...
- These are... are
unique circumstances.
- Mike, he just found
out about Jessica.
- All the more reason
that he'll want to help.
[doors opening, closing]
[door opens]
[front door opens, closes]
- This isn't it.
[telephone ringing]
[telephone continues ringing]
[telephone continues ringing]
- Mike?
I have so much to tell you.
- Eddie.
Thanks for stopping by.
Eddie, is there
anything going on
that you'd like
to tell me about?
- I'm fine.
- You can always come to me
if you need any help, okay?
Good.
Now get home before your
mom starts to worry.
[thudding]
[gasping]
[groaning]
- Stop.
- [exhales]
- Mom?
- Get up.
- Where are you?
- I have something
important to tell you.
Something wonderful.
- Why don't you come
inside and tell me?
- Thanks for inviting
me into my own house.
But I don't think
that's a good idea.
I doubt Gary's capable of
a rational conversation.
I have somewhere else in mind.
I'd like you to meet me there.
- Where?
- I'd appreciate it if
we could speak alone.
Just the two of us.
Are you ready?
- And eager.
- Mike?
[engine revving]
[car pulls away]
[line trilling]
[cell phone buzzing]
- Hey.
- Mike's gone.
- Gone where?
- He just took the car. He left.
- [sighs] Okay, sit tight,
I will send someone
out for him and you.
- I won't be here.
- Gary, I have to
bring you back.
Gary!
- Ahoy, mates!
What adventure awaits?
- Do you sense it?
Something is coming!
A strange vessel,
headed for the cove.
[playful music]
[playful music
over eerie melody]
[dark music]
- Katie?
- Oh, God.
Come on!
- What's wrong, Amy...
Uh, Sheriff?
- Tommy's mother can't
find him or Alex.
What about yours?
- Chloe Benson's not at home.
- Same with Sofia Reyes.
Her mom said... - Shit! Okay.
Simon, I need you to
do something for me.
- Yeah, of course... anything.
- Find Mike Painter.
[eerie music]
- Are you in there?
- Come inside. Let's talk.
- Forgive my
hesitation, but, uh...
you ripped out Daphne
Bell's throat.
- To protect you, Mike.
Come inside, Mike.
[police siren chirps]
- Amy sent me to get you.
- Yeah, uh...
- She says you can't be...
you know, investigating
stuff on your own.
- Yeah, yeah, oh, right, right.
Um... I'll, um...
I'll head back in and
meet her at the station.
- The heck you doing
out here, anyway?
- Um, I...
I felt, just... I,
uh, I felt sick.
Uh, and so I pulled over.
[children giggling]
No, no, no, wait, wait, wait.
- What?
- Wait, wait, wait.
- What?
- Um, it's not safe.
- No, I know those kids...
- No, no, no.
No, you don't.
Trust me, we don't know how
much danger we're in yet.
- Okay.
- Okay.
Okay, good.
Uh... just stay here, okay?
Don't go near them.
Just, uh... just
stay here, okay?
Trust me.
- Wait, wait, wait, wait,
where're you going?
- Hey, listen, she
asked you to find me,
you found me, okay?
You did your job. That's good.
I'm gonna come with you... I
will come with you, okay?
Just give me a second.
Just one second.
Okay?
Simon.
Stay there, okay?
Okay.
Mrs. Booth?
Where are you?
Where are you?
[children giggling]
[children giggling]
Mrs. Booth?
You said you wanted to talk.
I'm here.
You can talk to me.
[voice echoing] Mrs. Booth?
- Hey, what're you
kids doing here?
I'm gonna need all of you
to come with me, okay?
Now! Move it.
Here we go, who's next? Come on.
Okay. Not so hard.
Easy, guys, easy. Not so...
Watch you're... watch...
Watch my jacket.
Watch my jacket. Come on.
[hook unsheathes]
- Simon!
- What kind of pizza are
we gonna have tonight?
- Daddy likes bacon.
- Yeah.
Daddy isn't coming
tonight, though, remember?
[tires squealing]
Are you okay?
I'm so sorry, sweetheart,
I know that was scary.
[telephone rings]
- Yeah?
[telephone rings]
Oh, God. Thank you.
Okay. Yeah, when?
[telephone continues
ringing, cell phone buzzes]
I'm gonna have to call you back.
Okay.
Yeah?
- Amy, it's Beth.
I think something's wrong.
- Tell me.
- Well, Alex was at Tommy's,
but I called over and...
- He's not there. I know.
Can you come back by the
house, or can I come in?
[telephone continues to ring]
He's been acting really strange. All
the kids have and I'm scared Amy.
[computer screen ticks]
[eerie music]
Amy?
Amy? Amy? Hello?
[gasps]
[chains rattling]
And how long will that take?
Well, it's... It's a rental
and I need something else,
'cause I'm stuck in a place
where I don't... I
don't want to be.
[phone beeps]
Yes, I can drive a manual.
[sighs] I don't know, it
depends how many days...
[ominous tone]
Maybe... maybe tomorrow?
[eerie music]
Yeah.
Hey!
Stay inside.
Close the door.
Sorry, what?
[metallic clattering]
[door creaks open]
[tapping]
What are you doing here?
Call Mike.
And tell him to come
alone this time.
[ominous music]
[door opens, closes]
The guest of honor has arrived.
Are you okay, Mom?
She's fine.
Sit down, Mike.
Shame about before.
You should've come alone.
Eat.
No better feeling than
seeing your kids well-fed.
My mom used to say that.
I didn't really understand
till later, but it's true.
Right, Marla?
You comforted me for
months when I lost my son.
And all this time...
you were the one
who took him away.
Well, now I'm here
to reunite you.
You wanted to tell me something.
Tell me about "Candle Cove."
What would you like to know?
Why?
And why us?
You are such a stubborn man.
Once or twice in a lifetime,
if you're lucky...
there are moments.
Someone slices the world
open right down the middle
and you can see the
sky behind it.
The true world.
And you understand your purpose.
And this was yours?
Nothing's sadder than a
life without purpose.
And I had a life like that.
You keep telling
yourself to be grateful.
Have faith.
I loved my son.
I did.
But I was just a void,
wasting life and space and air.
And powerless.
Then something
extraordinary happened.
I found myself in the presence
of something greater.
He showed me his power.
Something majestic that
flowered from indignity.
He?
I didn't create "Candle Cove."
Eddie did.
It rose out of him like
blood from broken skin.
No.
What are you talking about?
You thought "Candle
Cove" found him.
But what he had
was always there.
He was born with it.
He's the light.
The beacon.
He always was.
He's dead.
Only in the literal sense.
He's coming back.
You're almost ready.
You just have to let him in.
A fire needs fuel.
Power demands sacrifice.
I made mine a long time ago.
[leaves rustling]
[crickets chirping]
How did you do what you
did today in class?
I'm special.
Those things I saw, that...
That place.
Did you show me that?
Want me to show you again?
Please.
I'm not strong enough yet.
I need you to do
something for me.
Give me something.
Anything.
Jake.
Eddie's here.
He wanted to see you.
You killed your own son?
I fed him to a fire.
So it could burn even brighter.
Now it's your turn.
Even after all I've done,
you make him a hundred
times stronger
just by being here.
You were both born with
something special.
He needs you.
That's why he wanted you
to put him to rest...
It had to be you.
He loves you.
He's broken you down.
But only to make you ready.
Only because you fought so hard.
He's coming back.
Through you.
You are his blood.
You body is his body.
He can live again in flesh.
[sighs]
You can feel it, can't you?
It's already begun.
The sooner you let him in,
the sooner he'll
take your pain away.
I envy you.
Very soon, now.
Tonight, maybe tomorrow.
Go with him.
[sighs]
Daddy!
Mike?
Lily.
Mike.
Where's Mommy?
Lily.
Lily.
Lily.
Look at me.
You want to see something cool?
[indistinct television chatter]
Conservation biologist
and specialist
in great African herbivores.
[maniacal laughter]
[screaming]
[screaming continues]
[screaming continues]
Please, don't!
Don't! No!
[screaming continues]
[screaming stops]
[playful music]
[giggles]
Sleep.
Tomorrow's a big day.
He'll be here soon.
[ominous music]
[groaning]
[groans]
[groans]
[television static]
[playful music
over eerie melody]
Daddy?
[eerie music]
Daddy.
Daddy?
Daddy?
Daddy!
[sniffles]
and Eddie apart, right?
He's got an extra
tooth right here.
- Jake, Eddie's here.
He wanted to see you.
- It's my daughter.
Lily! - Is Lily okay?
- How did you get here?
- Is there anything
you're not telling me?
- I'm not Lily.
- Then who are you?
- I would know you
no matter what.
I remember what you did.
- Do you still think about
what your life would look like
if things had
happened another way?
- Hey!
I need to talk to these kids.
- They're all in the same class.
- It has been a
strange couple days.
Do you believe in intuition?
Something felt wrong today.
Take that mask off.
[screams]
[groans]
[thunder rumbling]
[police radio scanner]
[eerie music]
[police radio scanner]
[police radio scanner]
[solemn music]
- So what color is the river?
- Uh, bluish and
sometimes greenish.
- What... what color's the sky?
- Blue.
- And what color
is chocolate milk?
- Pink!
- [chuckling] No, it's not.
It's chocolate colored.
- Good morning.
- Ah, good morning.
- How're you doing, kid?
- Great.
- Mm.
Ah.
- Did you sleep well?
- I did.
I did.
I dreamt we all
went to the beach.
- Well, good dreams
are nature's Prozac.
- Yeah.
Been so long, I felt like I was
having somebody else's dream.
Oh.
- What's wrong?
[knocking]
[tense music]
- It's not confirmed yet.
But the wounds...
the footprints.
- It was kids.
- Yeah.
- We found Daphne Bell, too.
Dead a couple days.
In Frances Booth's basement.
And we found "Candle
Cove" props...
- In Frances Booth's basement?
- Yes.
- You found props
from "Candle Cove"
in Frances Booth's basement?
All... all that stuff
to make the show?
- Mm-hmm.
I'm gonna need your help.
- Okay.
- Meet me at the station.
[door opens]
[door closes]
- Jessica's, uh...
She's, uh...
I actually thought it was over.
Ugh.
- Mike.
- [grunts]
[groaning]
[grunts]
- Mike?
Your wife is here.
- [spits and retches]
- Hello.
- Is she here, Marla?
- She... she's outside.
- Are you bleeding?
- Oh, it's, uh...
It's nothing.
- I'm gonna go and get her.
- Mike, what happened here?
How does a six-year-old
girl just show up?
- Mommy!
- Hi, bunny.
It's good to see you.
Okay.
Well, time to say bye, okay?
- My guess is, she
killed Daphne, herself,
and directed them
to kill Jessica.
- Come on, Amy.
We know these kids.
There's no way.
- You heard what
the coroner said.
You saw the footprints.
- Kids aren't capable of that.
- Under the right
circumstances...
kids are capable of
almost anything.
- We're talking about somebody
carving up Jessica here.
- Children's brains are...
Are like clay.
An authority figure
like Frances Booth
could take advantage.
- This is all hands on deck.
First thing is we pick
up the four kids I saw.
I want to talk to them now.
Then we knock on every door,
we call every friend,
every relative,
every former student, until
we find Frances Booth.
Okay?
Good.
[tense music]
[knocks] - Yeah?
- You okay?
- I want to see that house.
- We searched it.
- No, no, no, um...
I-I, um... I need to see
the basement, you know?
The stuff she was using
to make the show.
You never even saw
"Candle Cove."
- It's a crime scene, Mike.
You can't go messing around.
- You come with me.
- No, we have to
bring these kids in.
That's first.
- Send someone else.
- Who? Look around.
It's all hands on deck.
- Could you stop saying that?
- Everyone's busy.
- Not everyone.
- No, he is locked up
on felony charges...
- These are... are
unique circumstances.
- Mike, he just found
out about Jessica.
- All the more reason
that he'll want to help.
[doors opening, closing]
[door opens]
[front door opens, closes]
- This isn't it.
[telephone ringing]
[telephone continues ringing]
[telephone continues ringing]
- Mike?
I have so much to tell you.
- Eddie.
Thanks for stopping by.
Eddie, is there
anything going on
that you'd like
to tell me about?
- I'm fine.
- You can always come to me
if you need any help, okay?
Good.
Now get home before your
mom starts to worry.
[thudding]
[gasping]
[groaning]
- Stop.
- [exhales]
- Mom?
- Get up.
- Where are you?
- I have something
important to tell you.
Something wonderful.
- Why don't you come
inside and tell me?
- Thanks for inviting
me into my own house.
But I don't think
that's a good idea.
I doubt Gary's capable of
a rational conversation.
I have somewhere else in mind.
I'd like you to meet me there.
- Where?
- I'd appreciate it if
we could speak alone.
Just the two of us.
Are you ready?
- And eager.
- Mike?
[engine revving]
[car pulls away]
[line trilling]
[cell phone buzzing]
- Hey.
- Mike's gone.
- Gone where?
- He just took the car. He left.
- [sighs] Okay, sit tight,
I will send someone
out for him and you.
- I won't be here.
- Gary, I have to
bring you back.
Gary!
- Ahoy, mates!
What adventure awaits?
- Do you sense it?
Something is coming!
A strange vessel,
headed for the cove.
[playful music]
[playful music
over eerie melody]
[dark music]
- Katie?
- Oh, God.
Come on!
- What's wrong, Amy...
Uh, Sheriff?
- Tommy's mother can't
find him or Alex.
What about yours?
- Chloe Benson's not at home.
- Same with Sofia Reyes.
Her mom said... - Shit! Okay.
Simon, I need you to
do something for me.
- Yeah, of course... anything.
- Find Mike Painter.
[eerie music]
- Are you in there?
- Come inside. Let's talk.
- Forgive my
hesitation, but, uh...
you ripped out Daphne
Bell's throat.
- To protect you, Mike.
Come inside, Mike.
[police siren chirps]
- Amy sent me to get you.
- Yeah, uh...
- She says you can't be...
you know, investigating
stuff on your own.
- Yeah, yeah, oh, right, right.
Um... I'll, um...
I'll head back in and
meet her at the station.
- The heck you doing
out here, anyway?
- Um, I...
I felt, just... I,
uh, I felt sick.
Uh, and so I pulled over.
[children giggling]
No, no, no, wait, wait, wait.
- What?
- Wait, wait, wait.
- What?
- Um, it's not safe.
- No, I know those kids...
- No, no, no.
No, you don't.
Trust me, we don't know how
much danger we're in yet.
- Okay.
- Okay.
Okay, good.
Uh... just stay here, okay?
Don't go near them.
Just, uh... just
stay here, okay?
Trust me.
- Wait, wait, wait, wait,
where're you going?
- Hey, listen, she
asked you to find me,
you found me, okay?
You did your job. That's good.
I'm gonna come with you... I
will come with you, okay?
Just give me a second.
Just one second.
Okay?
Simon.
Stay there, okay?
Okay.
Mrs. Booth?
Where are you?
Where are you?
[children giggling]
[children giggling]
Mrs. Booth?
You said you wanted to talk.
I'm here.
You can talk to me.
[voice echoing] Mrs. Booth?
- Hey, what're you
kids doing here?
I'm gonna need all of you
to come with me, okay?
Now! Move it.
Here we go, who's next? Come on.
Okay. Not so hard.
Easy, guys, easy. Not so...
Watch you're... watch...
Watch my jacket.
Watch my jacket. Come on.
[hook unsheathes]
- Simon!
- What kind of pizza are
we gonna have tonight?
- Daddy likes bacon.
- Yeah.
Daddy isn't coming
tonight, though, remember?
[tires squealing]
Are you okay?
I'm so sorry, sweetheart,
I know that was scary.
[telephone rings]
- Yeah?
[telephone rings]
Oh, God. Thank you.
Okay. Yeah, when?
[telephone continues
ringing, cell phone buzzes]
I'm gonna have to call you back.
Okay.
Yeah?
- Amy, it's Beth.
I think something's wrong.
- Tell me.
- Well, Alex was at Tommy's,
but I called over and...
- He's not there. I know.
Can you come back by the
house, or can I come in?
[telephone continues to ring]
He's been acting really strange. All
the kids have and I'm scared Amy.
[computer screen ticks]
[eerie music]
Amy?
Amy? Amy? Hello?
[gasps]
[chains rattling]
And how long will that take?
Well, it's... It's a rental
and I need something else,
'cause I'm stuck in a place
where I don't... I
don't want to be.
[phone beeps]
Yes, I can drive a manual.
[sighs] I don't know, it
depends how many days...
[ominous tone]
Maybe... maybe tomorrow?
[eerie music]
Yeah.
Hey!
Stay inside.
Close the door.
Sorry, what?
[metallic clattering]
[door creaks open]
[tapping]
What are you doing here?
Call Mike.
And tell him to come
alone this time.
[ominous music]
[door opens, closes]
The guest of honor has arrived.
Are you okay, Mom?
She's fine.
Sit down, Mike.
Shame about before.
You should've come alone.
Eat.
No better feeling than
seeing your kids well-fed.
My mom used to say that.
I didn't really understand
till later, but it's true.
Right, Marla?
You comforted me for
months when I lost my son.
And all this time...
you were the one
who took him away.
Well, now I'm here
to reunite you.
You wanted to tell me something.
Tell me about "Candle Cove."
What would you like to know?
Why?
And why us?
You are such a stubborn man.
Once or twice in a lifetime,
if you're lucky...
there are moments.
Someone slices the world
open right down the middle
and you can see the
sky behind it.
The true world.
And you understand your purpose.
And this was yours?
Nothing's sadder than a
life without purpose.
And I had a life like that.
You keep telling
yourself to be grateful.
Have faith.
I loved my son.
I did.
But I was just a void,
wasting life and space and air.
And powerless.
Then something
extraordinary happened.
I found myself in the presence
of something greater.
He showed me his power.
Something majestic that
flowered from indignity.
He?
I didn't create "Candle Cove."
Eddie did.
It rose out of him like
blood from broken skin.
No.
What are you talking about?
You thought "Candle
Cove" found him.
But what he had
was always there.
He was born with it.
He's the light.
The beacon.
He always was.
He's dead.
Only in the literal sense.
He's coming back.
You're almost ready.
You just have to let him in.
A fire needs fuel.
Power demands sacrifice.
I made mine a long time ago.
[leaves rustling]
[crickets chirping]
How did you do what you
did today in class?
I'm special.
Those things I saw, that...
That place.
Did you show me that?
Want me to show you again?
Please.
I'm not strong enough yet.
I need you to do
something for me.
Give me something.
Anything.
Jake.
Eddie's here.
He wanted to see you.
You killed your own son?
I fed him to a fire.
So it could burn even brighter.
Now it's your turn.
Even after all I've done,
you make him a hundred
times stronger
just by being here.
You were both born with
something special.
He needs you.
That's why he wanted you
to put him to rest...
It had to be you.
He loves you.
He's broken you down.
But only to make you ready.
Only because you fought so hard.
He's coming back.
Through you.
You are his blood.
You body is his body.
He can live again in flesh.
[sighs]
You can feel it, can't you?
It's already begun.
The sooner you let him in,
the sooner he'll
take your pain away.
I envy you.
Very soon, now.
Tonight, maybe tomorrow.
Go with him.
[sighs]
Daddy!
Mike?
Lily.
Mike.
Where's Mommy?
Lily.
Lily.
Lily.
Look at me.
You want to see something cool?
[indistinct television chatter]
Conservation biologist
and specialist
in great African herbivores.
[maniacal laughter]
[screaming]
[screaming continues]
[screaming continues]
Please, don't!
Don't! No!
[screaming continues]
[screaming stops]
[playful music]
[giggles]
Sleep.
Tomorrow's a big day.
He'll be here soon.
[ominous music]
[groaning]
[groans]
[groans]
[television static]
[playful music
over eerie melody]
Daddy?
[eerie music]
Daddy.
Daddy?
Daddy?
Daddy!
[sniffles]