Girl in the Woods (2021–…): Season 1, Episode 2 - The Door in the Woods - full transcript
- I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry!
[yells]
- You're from
the Disciples of Dawn, right?
We don't hear much
about you guys.
- It's to protect you.
- Lumi, gonna find ya!
Lumi!
- This was on a tree, like,
20 feet from my house.
And I heard this, like, freaky,
like, whistling sound.
- I'll split off.
You two go ahead.
Pray, warm shadow, let me in.
[eerie whooshing]
- [shrieks]
- [grunts]
[yells]
- Carrie?
Who are you?
[dramatic music]
[swarm of flies buzzing]
♪ ♪
- Warmth, friend.
Sleep easy.
To vast Gehenna, I give my skin,
pray, warm shadow,
let me... in.
[beastly growl]
♪ ♪
- Steady.
- [rasping]
- Much blood has been spilled,
and we mourn our dead.
We have all failed.
But Arthur Dean,
in exchange for keeping watch
over the guardian's post,
you've long been
given privileges
not offered to the rest of us.
So it is with your negligence
that Carrie Ecker escaped
and five of our family
were slaughtered.
Find and return her at once,
or face the consequences
in her place.
- Warmth, Council.
All: Warmth to you.
- On my life.
[terse music]
- Arthur!
Next month, I start
my guardianship training.
- Let's see your meanest look.
- [snarls]
- [chuckles]
[mysterious music]
♪ ♪
I am a vessel filled with light.
I am a weapon
against the shadow.
My pain is a symptom
of sacrifice.
My sacrifice
is a symptom of love.
I am a vessel filled with light.
I am a weapon
against the shadow.
My pain is a symptom
of sacrifice.
My sacrifice...
is a symptom of love.
[eerie music builds]
[dark rock music]
♪ ♪
- [grunts]
- Hey, are you all right?
- Hi, sir, how can I help you?
- Just looking.
- [whispering]
Go. Go. Go.
Something for your kids.
- Oh, poor girl.
You don't know
what you got yourself into.
[mysterious music]
♪ ♪
- Time to chow down
if I'm gonna get you to Salem.
- Dad, can Carrie
stay a few more days?
I'm not done with her yet.
- Fine.
I'm introducing her to Khalil's
famous flapjacks, then.
[door squeaks shut]
- Mmm.
- This is how a man
makes pancakes.
Fluffy. Buttery.
Like a cloud.
You know what this is?
- Off-brand maple syrup.
- Hey.
Liquid gold.
- Off-brand maple syrup.
- Liquid gold.
- [laughs]
- Carrie's my daughter now.
I don't want you.
- Mm.
- And do the dishes.
- When's Nolan coming?
- Um, soon as Dad leaves.
You still promise to open up?
- You're a good friend
for helping him.
- Maybe.
You ever feel
like you can tell strangers
more than you can tell
your closest friends?
- I've only met three strangers.
- True. [laughs]
That's wild.
Last week,
Nolan and I got stoned,
and, like an idiot,
I pulled his arm around me.
I put my head on his chest
and I told him how strong
he felt holding me;
and I just, like... I wanted him
to kiss me... so bad.
- Did he?
- He bounced.
Now whenever I try
to touch him, he goes cold,
and, like...
I used to think
he was gay 'cause, like, right?
But my dude watches literal
truckloads of lesbian porn,
so... I just suck.
[chuckles]
Sorry.
- Maybe just talk to him, Tasha.
- Charlie doesn't carry
an insulin pump.
- It's not him, Melanie.
- She could go into shock.
You know this.
- Of course
I'm thinking about that.
- Okay then. Find my daughter.
- We've surveyed the neighbors.
We have search teams
looking under every rock
in a five-mile radius...
- Are they searching up
your ass?
They've searched
everywhere else.
Talk to Melanie's ex.
- Mrs. Frisk, please.
- Charlie's pissed about what
my sister's doing at the mines.
- He's unstable.
- Rhonda Nguyen herself
saw Charlie
sloshed at the Ashland right
at the time Lumi went missing.
- All of his friends are miners!
And don't start with Rhonda.
Her one defining trait
is thinking
she was abducted by aliens.
She's an idiot.
Find my daughter.
- Buddy, you want to tell me
about that whistling
sound again?
- It... it was out in the woods.
It sounded like
an underwater flute.
I don't know.
It... it was pretty.
- His head's so lost in space
that Rhonda Nguyen
should do an exposé
about it on her idiotic blog.
- Hey, Mel. Cool off. Outside.
- But what does that even mean?
You saw the symbol.
It was weird.
- It means wake up! Wake up!
You should have had...
[voice breaks] Your eye on her!
[sobbing]
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[breathing shakily]
- Mommy!
- Lumi?
- Mommy!
- Lumi?
Lumi?
[intense music]
♪ ♪
- Join me, Mommy.
- We need to talk.
- Okay.
- Oh! Hi, Nolan.
Pancake?
- Hey, Carrie.
Can... can you just give us
some privacy, please?
Cops haven't found anything
out of the ordinary
that might be a lead,
but... I can think of something.
- She's literally
staying to help us.
- Seems like a big coincidence
that the day she showed up
was the day
that my cousin went missing.
I think maybe
we should tell someone.
- Tell the pigs,
put her at risk.
She's scared.
Let's hear her out.
- Tasha. Angel. Queen.
Carrie is just gonna
keep talking in riddles
because Carrie is not well.
- Carrie is not "not well."
Carrie is just not...
well.
- What about last night?
[intense music]
- [shouts]
- I mean... yeah.
Yeah.
- We should get moving.
- Can't wait to hear
your plan, Carrie.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- There is something out
in those woods
hunting for livestock.
It takes its victims
back to its nest,
where it milks them for blood.
I believe if I can track it,
I'll find Lumi.
- Nolan, what are you doing?
- Looking for nutmeg.
- Why?
- To get high?
- That's a strategy
that works for you?
Carrie, are you
calling Lumi livestock?
I'm sorry. I'm lost.
- [sarcastically]
There's a big, scary
vampire bear
carving things into trees.
- I'm here to help you.
But I also took
an oath of secrecy
and I owe it to my people
to uphold that oath.
- Mm-hmm.
- But what I can tell you
is how to stop the beast.
One of you must act as its prey
and allow yourself
to be lured into its nest.
- Okay, so we're calling it
a beast now...
- Vampire bear.
- [sighs]
Kay.
I will follow from behind...
and take care of the rest.
- Oh, thank you.
Hey!
- Carrie, walk us through
your people's beliefs,
maybe what goes on
at your colony,
because, to us, this sounds...
- Insane.
Not to be rude.
- I can't.
[low music]
The Colony does bad things
to those
who let their secrets out.
[loud knocking at door]
[gasps]
- Don't worry.
I'm not selling anything.
My name's Arthur Dean.
I'm knocking around on behalf
of the Disciples of Dawn.
- I thought you said
you weren't selling anything.
- Oh, gosh, no,
we're not recruiting.
Perhaps you remember me
from the other day.
Lee's Hardware?
- Yeah, I remember you.
- Do you remember her too?
- No, sorry.
- Take your time.
- I've never seen her.
Sorry, sir, I can't help you.
[door bangs]
- Tasha...
I'm not going to blame you
for helping a girl out.
I admire your kindness.
But this particular girl
is a cold-souled killer.
Every word that slithers
out of her mouth
is born of pure psychosis.
And frankly,
if you're not careful,
she'll bleed your neck
open in your sleep.
Are you sure she's not
in your house?
- Sir, please leave.
- Not around the corner
in your kitchen?
Or maybe up those stairs there
in your bedroom?
- She took a bus out of town.
I don't know where.
I saw she was scared.
I helped her out. That's all.
- And just ten words ago,
you said you'd never seen her.
- Good luck with your search.
- In case she pops up again.
- Wh...
- You're fine.
- See, I told you
she was in danger.
- We'rein danger.
[whispering]
Didn't you hear him? We are.
[door clatters]
- Carrie?
Carrie?
Carrie!
Are you out here?
[mysterious music]
♪ ♪
Carrie.
Carrie?
The man's gone.
- You watched him leave?
- Oh, my God.
- Jesus! Yes. You're safe.
- What did he say?
- He recognized me
from the shop.
Asked if I saw you.
- What did you say?
- I said no, Carrie.
But why should we trust you?
Please.
If you can't trust us now,
why should we trust you?
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- [sighs]
You must never in your life
tell a soul what
I am about to impart.
- Deep in the woods,
stands a lone door,
not much different
from that one there.
My colony and all of
our practices
exist entirely
to protect the world
from the awful things
beyond that door.
It's what I've trained
for since birth.
But now, since I left,
they worry that our secret
will be unsafe.
They worry that the wrong person
with the wrong motives
could learn about this door
and breach it...
or somehow even make a new door
and let all those
awful things go free.
- Carrie...
what's behind the door?
- Nightmares.
Your worst nightmares.
[tense music]
- Mel?
You back here?
[eerie music]
♪ ♪
[cell phone ringing]
- I'll just tell her
respectfully
we don't need her help.
- I promise you,
she won't leave.
Any news?
- Mel's gone.
Out for a smoke.
Poof.
- What do you mean "gone"?
- I see a Hyundai.
I see her cigarettes.
No Mel. Can you come home?
I don't know what's happening...
[signal breaking up]
But I'm honestly scared.
- Mom?
Mom! Hello?
[line beeps]
- I hate to be so right,
but the beast is hunting.
- We saw a lot
of damaging weather
hammering the south
at the end of May,
and while some storms
may have calmed
in some states,
they also may r...
[faint wailing
through television]
[wailing grows louder]
[growling through television]
[intense music]
[water burbling]
- West Pine residents
are thrilled to find nature
prevailing upon closure
of the local mine.
Jobs in ecotourism have tripled,
cormorants have returned
to hunt in local streams,
and life expectancy has shot up.
[voice modulating] All thanks
to you, Victoria Frisk.
[bizarre laughter]
[eerie music]
♪ ♪
[overlapping conversations]
- I can smell this crap
from my bedroom.
It's bad for you.
- Pay me nine for the pack then.
- I put a word in
with Cal Gibson, by the way.
Get you started at WPN.
- I'm... I'm doing senior year,
Dad.
- We discussed this.
Worker's comp ran dry.
Your sister and I
need you to show up.
- No. Course.
I will.
I'm sorry.
- You gotta work, man.
- You gotta work?
- Damn...
[door slams shut]
- God!
[huffing]
Nolan Frisk.
- What...
- I told you
to stay off our block.
- What the fuck?
- I told you what I'd do!
- Get off!
[overlapping shouting]
[friends gasping and laughing]
- No way!
- [choking]
- Don't lay a hand
on Nolan again.
Be a good boy now.
- Carrie, that's enough.
- [choking]
I said stop!
[music rushing]
- [rasping]
- Rhys, go home!
- Good fight, Rhys.
- What is wrong with you?
- You almost had her, bro.
- I don't know. I'm...
I'm sorry.
[eerie music]
♪ ♪
- Tasha grew up with Rhys.
She'll talk back to him,
but even we fight
about the mine stuff.
Everybody's just worried that
they'll be put out of a job.
Like it's not their boss' fault
for poisoning everyone
in the first place.
- Fear blinds the soul.
- Tattoo it on my forehead.
Hey, I have treated you
the way that they treat me.
I didn't want to admit it,
but...
when I heard
that whistling sound,
"nightmare" is exactly the word
that came to mind.
Hearing it, I felt, like...
- Comforted? Like warm milk.
- Yeah.
And then very, very cold.
- Hey, you guys go ahead.
I'm just gonna make
a quick call.
- You good?
- Yeah.
Good.
[eerie music]
♪ ♪
- Mom?
- Cover your ears!
- Mom. Mom.
Mom. Mom, stop.
Mom! Stop.
Mom, Mom, look at me.
Mom?
- [stammers wordlessly]
- Mom, are you okay?
♪ ♪
[touch tones beeping]
[phone line trilling]
- [screaming]
- Tasha, it's good you called.
Where is she?
Where are you?
- It's cold! Oh, it's cold!
- Mom. It's Nolan.
Mom!
- It's so cold.
- Mom, Mom, it's me.
It's Nolan.
- It's so cold...
- Mom. Breathe.
- Nolan?
- So... cold!
- Mom, I got you. I got you.
It's me. It's Nolan.
♪ ♪
- Oh, my God.
It's real.
I'm sorry!
[yells]
- You're from
the Disciples of Dawn, right?
We don't hear much
about you guys.
- It's to protect you.
- Lumi, gonna find ya!
Lumi!
- This was on a tree, like,
20 feet from my house.
And I heard this, like, freaky,
like, whistling sound.
- I'll split off.
You two go ahead.
Pray, warm shadow, let me in.
[eerie whooshing]
- [shrieks]
- [grunts]
[yells]
- Carrie?
Who are you?
[dramatic music]
[swarm of flies buzzing]
♪ ♪
- Warmth, friend.
Sleep easy.
To vast Gehenna, I give my skin,
pray, warm shadow,
let me... in.
[beastly growl]
♪ ♪
- Steady.
- [rasping]
- Much blood has been spilled,
and we mourn our dead.
We have all failed.
But Arthur Dean,
in exchange for keeping watch
over the guardian's post,
you've long been
given privileges
not offered to the rest of us.
So it is with your negligence
that Carrie Ecker escaped
and five of our family
were slaughtered.
Find and return her at once,
or face the consequences
in her place.
- Warmth, Council.
All: Warmth to you.
- On my life.
[terse music]
- Arthur!
Next month, I start
my guardianship training.
- Let's see your meanest look.
- [snarls]
- [chuckles]
[mysterious music]
♪ ♪
I am a vessel filled with light.
I am a weapon
against the shadow.
My pain is a symptom
of sacrifice.
My sacrifice
is a symptom of love.
I am a vessel filled with light.
I am a weapon
against the shadow.
My pain is a symptom
of sacrifice.
My sacrifice...
is a symptom of love.
[eerie music builds]
[dark rock music]
♪ ♪
- [grunts]
- Hey, are you all right?
- Hi, sir, how can I help you?
- Just looking.
- [whispering]
Go. Go. Go.
Something for your kids.
- Oh, poor girl.
You don't know
what you got yourself into.
[mysterious music]
♪ ♪
- Time to chow down
if I'm gonna get you to Salem.
- Dad, can Carrie
stay a few more days?
I'm not done with her yet.
- Fine.
I'm introducing her to Khalil's
famous flapjacks, then.
[door squeaks shut]
- Mmm.
- This is how a man
makes pancakes.
Fluffy. Buttery.
Like a cloud.
You know what this is?
- Off-brand maple syrup.
- Hey.
Liquid gold.
- Off-brand maple syrup.
- Liquid gold.
- [laughs]
- Carrie's my daughter now.
I don't want you.
- Mm.
- And do the dishes.
- When's Nolan coming?
- Um, soon as Dad leaves.
You still promise to open up?
- You're a good friend
for helping him.
- Maybe.
You ever feel
like you can tell strangers
more than you can tell
your closest friends?
- I've only met three strangers.
- True. [laughs]
That's wild.
Last week,
Nolan and I got stoned,
and, like an idiot,
I pulled his arm around me.
I put my head on his chest
and I told him how strong
he felt holding me;
and I just, like... I wanted him
to kiss me... so bad.
- Did he?
- He bounced.
Now whenever I try
to touch him, he goes cold,
and, like...
I used to think
he was gay 'cause, like, right?
But my dude watches literal
truckloads of lesbian porn,
so... I just suck.
[chuckles]
Sorry.
- Maybe just talk to him, Tasha.
- Charlie doesn't carry
an insulin pump.
- It's not him, Melanie.
- She could go into shock.
You know this.
- Of course
I'm thinking about that.
- Okay then. Find my daughter.
- We've surveyed the neighbors.
We have search teams
looking under every rock
in a five-mile radius...
- Are they searching up
your ass?
They've searched
everywhere else.
Talk to Melanie's ex.
- Mrs. Frisk, please.
- Charlie's pissed about what
my sister's doing at the mines.
- He's unstable.
- Rhonda Nguyen herself
saw Charlie
sloshed at the Ashland right
at the time Lumi went missing.
- All of his friends are miners!
And don't start with Rhonda.
Her one defining trait
is thinking
she was abducted by aliens.
She's an idiot.
Find my daughter.
- Buddy, you want to tell me
about that whistling
sound again?
- It... it was out in the woods.
It sounded like
an underwater flute.
I don't know.
It... it was pretty.
- His head's so lost in space
that Rhonda Nguyen
should do an exposé
about it on her idiotic blog.
- Hey, Mel. Cool off. Outside.
- But what does that even mean?
You saw the symbol.
It was weird.
- It means wake up! Wake up!
You should have had...
[voice breaks] Your eye on her!
[sobbing]
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[breathing shakily]
- Mommy!
- Lumi?
- Mommy!
- Lumi?
Lumi?
[intense music]
♪ ♪
- Join me, Mommy.
- We need to talk.
- Okay.
- Oh! Hi, Nolan.
Pancake?
- Hey, Carrie.
Can... can you just give us
some privacy, please?
Cops haven't found anything
out of the ordinary
that might be a lead,
but... I can think of something.
- She's literally
staying to help us.
- Seems like a big coincidence
that the day she showed up
was the day
that my cousin went missing.
I think maybe
we should tell someone.
- Tell the pigs,
put her at risk.
She's scared.
Let's hear her out.
- Tasha. Angel. Queen.
Carrie is just gonna
keep talking in riddles
because Carrie is not well.
- Carrie is not "not well."
Carrie is just not...
well.
- What about last night?
[intense music]
- [shouts]
- I mean... yeah.
Yeah.
- We should get moving.
- Can't wait to hear
your plan, Carrie.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- There is something out
in those woods
hunting for livestock.
It takes its victims
back to its nest,
where it milks them for blood.
I believe if I can track it,
I'll find Lumi.
- Nolan, what are you doing?
- Looking for nutmeg.
- Why?
- To get high?
- That's a strategy
that works for you?
Carrie, are you
calling Lumi livestock?
I'm sorry. I'm lost.
- [sarcastically]
There's a big, scary
vampire bear
carving things into trees.
- I'm here to help you.
But I also took
an oath of secrecy
and I owe it to my people
to uphold that oath.
- Mm-hmm.
- But what I can tell you
is how to stop the beast.
One of you must act as its prey
and allow yourself
to be lured into its nest.
- Okay, so we're calling it
a beast now...
- Vampire bear.
- [sighs]
Kay.
I will follow from behind...
and take care of the rest.
- Oh, thank you.
Hey!
- Carrie, walk us through
your people's beliefs,
maybe what goes on
at your colony,
because, to us, this sounds...
- Insane.
Not to be rude.
- I can't.
[low music]
The Colony does bad things
to those
who let their secrets out.
[loud knocking at door]
[gasps]
- Don't worry.
I'm not selling anything.
My name's Arthur Dean.
I'm knocking around on behalf
of the Disciples of Dawn.
- I thought you said
you weren't selling anything.
- Oh, gosh, no,
we're not recruiting.
Perhaps you remember me
from the other day.
Lee's Hardware?
- Yeah, I remember you.
- Do you remember her too?
- No, sorry.
- Take your time.
- I've never seen her.
Sorry, sir, I can't help you.
[door bangs]
- Tasha...
I'm not going to blame you
for helping a girl out.
I admire your kindness.
But this particular girl
is a cold-souled killer.
Every word that slithers
out of her mouth
is born of pure psychosis.
And frankly,
if you're not careful,
she'll bleed your neck
open in your sleep.
Are you sure she's not
in your house?
- Sir, please leave.
- Not around the corner
in your kitchen?
Or maybe up those stairs there
in your bedroom?
- She took a bus out of town.
I don't know where.
I saw she was scared.
I helped her out. That's all.
- And just ten words ago,
you said you'd never seen her.
- Good luck with your search.
- In case she pops up again.
- Wh...
- You're fine.
- See, I told you
she was in danger.
- We'rein danger.
[whispering]
Didn't you hear him? We are.
[door clatters]
- Carrie?
Carrie?
Carrie!
Are you out here?
[mysterious music]
♪ ♪
Carrie.
Carrie?
The man's gone.
- You watched him leave?
- Oh, my God.
- Jesus! Yes. You're safe.
- What did he say?
- He recognized me
from the shop.
Asked if I saw you.
- What did you say?
- I said no, Carrie.
But why should we trust you?
Please.
If you can't trust us now,
why should we trust you?
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- [sighs]
You must never in your life
tell a soul what
I am about to impart.
- Deep in the woods,
stands a lone door,
not much different
from that one there.
My colony and all of
our practices
exist entirely
to protect the world
from the awful things
beyond that door.
It's what I've trained
for since birth.
But now, since I left,
they worry that our secret
will be unsafe.
They worry that the wrong person
with the wrong motives
could learn about this door
and breach it...
or somehow even make a new door
and let all those
awful things go free.
- Carrie...
what's behind the door?
- Nightmares.
Your worst nightmares.
[tense music]
- Mel?
You back here?
[eerie music]
♪ ♪
[cell phone ringing]
- I'll just tell her
respectfully
we don't need her help.
- I promise you,
she won't leave.
Any news?
- Mel's gone.
Out for a smoke.
Poof.
- What do you mean "gone"?
- I see a Hyundai.
I see her cigarettes.
No Mel. Can you come home?
I don't know what's happening...
[signal breaking up]
But I'm honestly scared.
- Mom?
Mom! Hello?
[line beeps]
- I hate to be so right,
but the beast is hunting.
- We saw a lot
of damaging weather
hammering the south
at the end of May,
and while some storms
may have calmed
in some states,
they also may r...
[faint wailing
through television]
[wailing grows louder]
[growling through television]
[intense music]
[water burbling]
- West Pine residents
are thrilled to find nature
prevailing upon closure
of the local mine.
Jobs in ecotourism have tripled,
cormorants have returned
to hunt in local streams,
and life expectancy has shot up.
[voice modulating] All thanks
to you, Victoria Frisk.
[bizarre laughter]
[eerie music]
♪ ♪
[overlapping conversations]
- I can smell this crap
from my bedroom.
It's bad for you.
- Pay me nine for the pack then.
- I put a word in
with Cal Gibson, by the way.
Get you started at WPN.
- I'm... I'm doing senior year,
Dad.
- We discussed this.
Worker's comp ran dry.
Your sister and I
need you to show up.
- No. Course.
I will.
I'm sorry.
- You gotta work, man.
- You gotta work?
- Damn...
[door slams shut]
- God!
[huffing]
Nolan Frisk.
- What...
- I told you
to stay off our block.
- What the fuck?
- I told you what I'd do!
- Get off!
[overlapping shouting]
[friends gasping and laughing]
- No way!
- [choking]
- Don't lay a hand
on Nolan again.
Be a good boy now.
- Carrie, that's enough.
- [choking]
I said stop!
[music rushing]
- [rasping]
- Rhys, go home!
- Good fight, Rhys.
- What is wrong with you?
- You almost had her, bro.
- I don't know. I'm...
I'm sorry.
[eerie music]
♪ ♪
- Tasha grew up with Rhys.
She'll talk back to him,
but even we fight
about the mine stuff.
Everybody's just worried that
they'll be put out of a job.
Like it's not their boss' fault
for poisoning everyone
in the first place.
- Fear blinds the soul.
- Tattoo it on my forehead.
Hey, I have treated you
the way that they treat me.
I didn't want to admit it,
but...
when I heard
that whistling sound,
"nightmare" is exactly the word
that came to mind.
Hearing it, I felt, like...
- Comforted? Like warm milk.
- Yeah.
And then very, very cold.
- Hey, you guys go ahead.
I'm just gonna make
a quick call.
- You good?
- Yeah.
Good.
[eerie music]
♪ ♪
- Mom?
- Cover your ears!
- Mom. Mom.
Mom. Mom, stop.
Mom! Stop.
Mom, Mom, look at me.
Mom?
- [stammers wordlessly]
- Mom, are you okay?
♪ ♪
[touch tones beeping]
[phone line trilling]
- [screaming]
- Tasha, it's good you called.
Where is she?
Where are you?
- It's cold! Oh, it's cold!
- Mom. It's Nolan.
Mom!
- It's so cold.
- Mom, Mom, it's me.
It's Nolan.
- It's so cold...
- Mom. Breathe.
- Nolan?
- So... cold!
- Mom, I got you. I got you.
It's me. It's Nolan.
♪ ♪
- Oh, my God.
It's real.