Girl in the Woods (2021–…): Season 1, Episode 5 - One Door Closes - full transcript
- Deep in the woods,
there lies a secret Door.
It is my duty to guard this Door
from the horrors
that lie behind it.
- Calm mind, steady hand.
- What are you doing?
Fight me.
- I'm not gonna hurt her
while she just stands there.
- Hah!
- Oh...
- I have to go back
to get the Ledger.
- What's the Ledger?
- It'll tell us how
to close the tear.
- You wanna act pretty
like your mom, faggot?
- Nolan, I'm sorry.
- It's over, Carrie.
You lost.
- Spoons?
Aah!
Various voices: Warmth...
warmth...
- Warmth.
- Warmth.
Warmth.
- Warmth.
- Warmth.
- Warmth.
- Warmth.
- Warmth.
- Warmth.
- Warmth.
[edgy music]
♪ ♪
- Warmth.
- Warmth.
- Warmth.
[voices continue softly]
- In the tradition
of the Guardians
who came before her...
The council gathers to invite
Carrie Lavinia Ecker...
Child of the dawn,
to bear forth the responsibility
of entering into vast Gehenna...
And serving
in the honored position
of guarding its sacred Door.
May the body
of all Disciples be one.
- Warmth.
- Warmth.
♪ ♪
- I'll do my best
to protect you.
There's a panic button
in the outpost.
You press it, and this calls me.
Use it only in emergencies.
Each time I open that door
means risk of escape.
They can't see.
And if they whiff even the
faintest trace of our world,
they'll come running.
Don't test me on that.
Take pride in your sacrifice.
You've earned this.
To Vast Gehenna I give my skin,
pray warm shadow let me in.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
[hinges creaking]
Solitude is a kiss.
[dark rock music]
♪ ♪
[scraping sound]
[choking]
- This hurts me more than
it hurts you, Carrie.
- What are you gonna do with me?
- The elders wanna chat
with you.
I'm just escorting you home.
- Hah...
- Aah!
[cattle prod clicking]
- Aah...
Carrie... warmth!
What did you expect from that?
- Help! Help!
[cattle prod clicking]
- I don't expect you
to talk right now.
But I'm here when you need to.
'Bout Spoons, 'bout anything,
I don't know, whatever.
Flaming Hot Cheetos or the
resurgence of the bucket hat...
I'm there. Okay?
[squeal]
- [gasps]
Do you hear that?
- I'm sorry. I can't hear...
- Shh. Listen.
- Baby, I don't...
- [whimpers]
[breathing hard]
[phone chimes]
- Don't go in today.
- Hey, you're safe, okay?
- Dad, don't go
in the tunnels today.
Promise me.
[TV playing]
[game sounds, announcer]
- Nolan, you have
to answer your phone.
Honey, we've been worried sick.
Hey.
Hey, come back where were you?
- I was at a good old
West Pine hootenanny.
- Are you okay?
Who did this to you?
Well, you're up, babe.
- [groans] Ohh...
- [whistles]
That's kinda punk rock.
- Yeah, so very punk, Dad.
- 2010 Riesling.
Buddy, there's cheaper wine.
Never mind.
You've had it tough.
- What are we supposed to do?
This town is... suffocating.
- Yeah, maybe you fight back
a little, huh?
West Piners will lock
onto your difference,
so maybe put on some camo
till collage.
It's not that far off.
All right.
Look...
[groans]
We don't wanna force
you to talk about it.
But if you're gay,
if you like men,
that is a beautiful thing.
- [laughs]
- Yeah, I'm serious.
You can live a fulfilled life.
Pete Buttigieg.
- Oh, Jesus.
[laughing]
- And Rob's friend,
Jay something,
runs that little HVAC shop.
- Oh, God, this conversation.
You're so great.
You know that I'm in love
with Tasha, right?
- Oh. Even with the...
- Not to preach,
but gender stuff,
it's different than sexuality...
- [scoffs]
- Oh. Okay.
- Come on, hey,
it's just your generation
with its 84 1/2 genders.
[chuckling]
Laugh! Your strongest tool
is thick skin.
Go and show Tasha
your tough side, right?
And put that shiner to good use.
It was a joke.
Forgive me.
I don't know what's PC anymore.
I got to keep up.
Nolan, come on.
You know I love you.
[soft music]
- Sup?
[huffs, laughs]
♪ ♪
[music intensifies]
[old-time jazz playing]
[woman singing]
♪ ♪
[music comes in and out]
♪ ♪
- Remember the training.
Guard the door.
[muffles growl]
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[gasps]
- [snarling]
[snarling, growling]
- [snarling]
- [yelling]
[yelling, panting]
Aaah... [wet tearing]
Aah!
[whimpering]
- [roaring]
[whimpering, panting]
[thud]
- [snarling]
- Hey, I'm here. I'm here.
You're safe. You're safe.
[breathing heavily]
- We used to imagine
what your life was like
outside of the Colony,
but you never really
left Gehenna.
- You know how I caught you?
Your friend has been sharing
your image around
for the whole world to see.
- I don't believe you.
- Carrie, you freak, I love you!
- You're just a novelty to her.
The outside's
not a welcoming place.
- There's a new Door
opening in West Pine.
The herd that slipped out
with me
tried to let the rest out too.
And I think
it might have worked.
- Remind me how it got out.
- You could help me
close this tear.
- Don't make me
come back there again.
- I don't have to do this alone.
My father called you
his attack dog.
A dog.
Council points, you follow.
That's how our own people
view us...
Animals to the slaughter.
If you don't help me
get the Ledger and learn
how to close this tear,
then all you sacrificed
will have been for waste.
Those children
condemned to death
in the name of the dawn,
those other young Guardians
you led to an early grave.
Can you help me?
Take me back to the Door
so that I can get the Ledger.
Help me.
- Hosea's harsh...
but he's predictable.
You made your bed.
- Arthur.
Arthur!
Hey!
[acid rock plays]
♪ ♪
- Dad?
[line ringing]
- This is Nolan.
You know what to do.
- Nolan, I need you
to get over here.
Something is following me.
My dad went back to the mine,
Carrie's MIA.
She went off to get
some monster hunting book,
a ledger or something.
I don't fucking know.
I need you superstar.
I'll wait for you here,
but hurry.
[chirp]
Hello?
Hello?
[squeak]
[squeaking]
[mellow jazz in background]
- Try it with this muscle.
When you flex, it puts pressure
on this tendon.
Relax, concentrate.
Close.
[mechanism whirring]
Open.
- [laughs]
Yeah, you'll need practice.
The research team
I "borrowed" this from
didn't exactly offer guidance.
- I have nothing
but time down here, so...
Has my father asked about me?
- The council
sends their offerings.
You ready to taste something
that will make
your head explode?
This is important... boil your
jerked meat in bone broth.
It rehydrates it
and wakes up the flavor.
Like it's fresh
from the smokehouse.
- I've never seen you
smile before.
I'm concerned.
- Oh, you'll see.
- Can you cut it for me?
- Well, now here's
the best part of your arm.
Remember how to make a fist?
Devil's Bone.
I added it myself.
Keep it sheathed.
And remember, if you strike,
you strike to kill.
All right, we walk from here.
- I'm not moving, Arthur.
- I don't like hurting you.
- No, you just leave that
to the Colony.
- It's not my choice. Up.
- We're the only two to ever
make it out of that hell,
and you swore to protect me.
- I'm sure our fine leader
will spare you
the worst of his fury.
- You don't know my father.
- Oh, don't I?
- Then you know
what he'll do to me.
He'll tie me up...
And gather the whole council
to order
as though it were the harvest.
- Hosea will search the ends
of the earth for you.
With or without me.
- He'll announce the ceremony
as a lesson in honor.
And as everyone watches,
all of those who raised me,
he'll hand you his knife.
- Stand down, Carrie.
- And you'll have no option,
but to gut me like a fish,
as I beg you for my life.
They'll make a spectacle
of my death.
And you will be my reaper,
the one who swore
to protect all Guardians.
- Silence.
Stand back.
- I don't wanna die
in shame, Arthur.
Will you please spare me that?
- I said silence.
- Gotcha.
Calm mind, steady hand.
[rock/pop music]
♪ ♪
- Fuck it.
Who are you?
You a... a big dog?
Big dog, alpha dog?
Big man.
Men don't ask for help.
They take it.
Come on, be a man!
Come on, stand up!
Be a man, come on!
Come on. Come on.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Come on!
Come on!
- ♪ But you can't look me
in the eye ♪
♪ While you're living a lie ♪
♪ Living the lie ♪
- Fuck my life.
- ♪ 'Cause you're a little
bit proud ♪
[phone buzzing]
♪ You're a little bit proud ♪
♪ You're a little bit proud ♪
[line ringing]
- This is Nolan.
You know what to do.
[beep]
- Everything is fucking
wonkadonk...
like bad-bad,
and I just need to hear you.
'Cause I'm like...
Yu should be here.
Just give me something.
[croak]
[creak]
- [click, croak]
[clicking, croaking closer]
- [panting]
- Haaaah...
- Aah!
- Aah!
[both yelling, grunting]
- [grunt]
- [glass shatters]
- Stop.
Stop fighting now, Carrie.
Stop.
They won't strip off
your dignity.
I won't let them take that.
- [gasping]
- Calmly now.
Soft. You're safe.
You're safe.
- [gasping]
- You'll shed your skin
with grace.
This body is a chrysalis
and death is a butterfly,
and you are loved.
Pain is a symptom of sacrifice.
Pain is a symptom of sacrifice.
Pain...
is a symptom of sacrifice.
- [weak gasp]
- Pain
is a symptom of sacrifice.
[click]
[wheezy gasp]
[click]
- [wheezes]
[shuddering breaths]
Sacrifice is a symptom of love.
[somber music]
♪ ♪
To vast Gehenna, I give my skin.
Both: Pray warm shadow,
let me in.
[thunk, hinges squeaking]
[punchy music]
♪ ♪
there lies a secret Door.
It is my duty to guard this Door
from the horrors
that lie behind it.
- Calm mind, steady hand.
- What are you doing?
Fight me.
- I'm not gonna hurt her
while she just stands there.
- Hah!
- Oh...
- I have to go back
to get the Ledger.
- What's the Ledger?
- It'll tell us how
to close the tear.
- You wanna act pretty
like your mom, faggot?
- Nolan, I'm sorry.
- It's over, Carrie.
You lost.
- Spoons?
Aah!
Various voices: Warmth...
warmth...
- Warmth.
- Warmth.
Warmth.
- Warmth.
- Warmth.
- Warmth.
- Warmth.
- Warmth.
- Warmth.
- Warmth.
[edgy music]
♪ ♪
- Warmth.
- Warmth.
- Warmth.
[voices continue softly]
- In the tradition
of the Guardians
who came before her...
The council gathers to invite
Carrie Lavinia Ecker...
Child of the dawn,
to bear forth the responsibility
of entering into vast Gehenna...
And serving
in the honored position
of guarding its sacred Door.
May the body
of all Disciples be one.
- Warmth.
- Warmth.
♪ ♪
- I'll do my best
to protect you.
There's a panic button
in the outpost.
You press it, and this calls me.
Use it only in emergencies.
Each time I open that door
means risk of escape.
They can't see.
And if they whiff even the
faintest trace of our world,
they'll come running.
Don't test me on that.
Take pride in your sacrifice.
You've earned this.
To Vast Gehenna I give my skin,
pray warm shadow let me in.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
[hinges creaking]
Solitude is a kiss.
[dark rock music]
♪ ♪
[scraping sound]
[choking]
- This hurts me more than
it hurts you, Carrie.
- What are you gonna do with me?
- The elders wanna chat
with you.
I'm just escorting you home.
- Hah...
- Aah!
[cattle prod clicking]
- Aah...
Carrie... warmth!
What did you expect from that?
- Help! Help!
[cattle prod clicking]
- I don't expect you
to talk right now.
But I'm here when you need to.
'Bout Spoons, 'bout anything,
I don't know, whatever.
Flaming Hot Cheetos or the
resurgence of the bucket hat...
I'm there. Okay?
[squeal]
- [gasps]
Do you hear that?
- I'm sorry. I can't hear...
- Shh. Listen.
- Baby, I don't...
- [whimpers]
[breathing hard]
[phone chimes]
- Don't go in today.
- Hey, you're safe, okay?
- Dad, don't go
in the tunnels today.
Promise me.
[TV playing]
[game sounds, announcer]
- Nolan, you have
to answer your phone.
Honey, we've been worried sick.
Hey.
Hey, come back where were you?
- I was at a good old
West Pine hootenanny.
- Are you okay?
Who did this to you?
Well, you're up, babe.
- [groans] Ohh...
- [whistles]
That's kinda punk rock.
- Yeah, so very punk, Dad.
- 2010 Riesling.
Buddy, there's cheaper wine.
Never mind.
You've had it tough.
- What are we supposed to do?
This town is... suffocating.
- Yeah, maybe you fight back
a little, huh?
West Piners will lock
onto your difference,
so maybe put on some camo
till collage.
It's not that far off.
All right.
Look...
[groans]
We don't wanna force
you to talk about it.
But if you're gay,
if you like men,
that is a beautiful thing.
- [laughs]
- Yeah, I'm serious.
You can live a fulfilled life.
Pete Buttigieg.
- Oh, Jesus.
[laughing]
- And Rob's friend,
Jay something,
runs that little HVAC shop.
- Oh, God, this conversation.
You're so great.
You know that I'm in love
with Tasha, right?
- Oh. Even with the...
- Not to preach,
but gender stuff,
it's different than sexuality...
- [scoffs]
- Oh. Okay.
- Come on, hey,
it's just your generation
with its 84 1/2 genders.
[chuckling]
Laugh! Your strongest tool
is thick skin.
Go and show Tasha
your tough side, right?
And put that shiner to good use.
It was a joke.
Forgive me.
I don't know what's PC anymore.
I got to keep up.
Nolan, come on.
You know I love you.
[soft music]
- Sup?
[huffs, laughs]
♪ ♪
[music intensifies]
[old-time jazz playing]
[woman singing]
♪ ♪
[music comes in and out]
♪ ♪
- Remember the training.
Guard the door.
[muffles growl]
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[gasps]
- [snarling]
[snarling, growling]
- [snarling]
- [yelling]
[yelling, panting]
Aaah... [wet tearing]
Aah!
[whimpering]
- [roaring]
[whimpering, panting]
[thud]
- [snarling]
- Hey, I'm here. I'm here.
You're safe. You're safe.
[breathing heavily]
- We used to imagine
what your life was like
outside of the Colony,
but you never really
left Gehenna.
- You know how I caught you?
Your friend has been sharing
your image around
for the whole world to see.
- I don't believe you.
- Carrie, you freak, I love you!
- You're just a novelty to her.
The outside's
not a welcoming place.
- There's a new Door
opening in West Pine.
The herd that slipped out
with me
tried to let the rest out too.
And I think
it might have worked.
- Remind me how it got out.
- You could help me
close this tear.
- Don't make me
come back there again.
- I don't have to do this alone.
My father called you
his attack dog.
A dog.
Council points, you follow.
That's how our own people
view us...
Animals to the slaughter.
If you don't help me
get the Ledger and learn
how to close this tear,
then all you sacrificed
will have been for waste.
Those children
condemned to death
in the name of the dawn,
those other young Guardians
you led to an early grave.
Can you help me?
Take me back to the Door
so that I can get the Ledger.
Help me.
- Hosea's harsh...
but he's predictable.
You made your bed.
- Arthur.
Arthur!
Hey!
[acid rock plays]
♪ ♪
- Dad?
[line ringing]
- This is Nolan.
You know what to do.
- Nolan, I need you
to get over here.
Something is following me.
My dad went back to the mine,
Carrie's MIA.
She went off to get
some monster hunting book,
a ledger or something.
I don't fucking know.
I need you superstar.
I'll wait for you here,
but hurry.
[chirp]
Hello?
Hello?
[squeak]
[squeaking]
[mellow jazz in background]
- Try it with this muscle.
When you flex, it puts pressure
on this tendon.
Relax, concentrate.
Close.
[mechanism whirring]
Open.
- [laughs]
Yeah, you'll need practice.
The research team
I "borrowed" this from
didn't exactly offer guidance.
- I have nothing
but time down here, so...
Has my father asked about me?
- The council
sends their offerings.
You ready to taste something
that will make
your head explode?
This is important... boil your
jerked meat in bone broth.
It rehydrates it
and wakes up the flavor.
Like it's fresh
from the smokehouse.
- I've never seen you
smile before.
I'm concerned.
- Oh, you'll see.
- Can you cut it for me?
- Well, now here's
the best part of your arm.
Remember how to make a fist?
Devil's Bone.
I added it myself.
Keep it sheathed.
And remember, if you strike,
you strike to kill.
All right, we walk from here.
- I'm not moving, Arthur.
- I don't like hurting you.
- No, you just leave that
to the Colony.
- It's not my choice. Up.
- We're the only two to ever
make it out of that hell,
and you swore to protect me.
- I'm sure our fine leader
will spare you
the worst of his fury.
- You don't know my father.
- Oh, don't I?
- Then you know
what he'll do to me.
He'll tie me up...
And gather the whole council
to order
as though it were the harvest.
- Hosea will search the ends
of the earth for you.
With or without me.
- He'll announce the ceremony
as a lesson in honor.
And as everyone watches,
all of those who raised me,
he'll hand you his knife.
- Stand down, Carrie.
- And you'll have no option,
but to gut me like a fish,
as I beg you for my life.
They'll make a spectacle
of my death.
And you will be my reaper,
the one who swore
to protect all Guardians.
- Silence.
Stand back.
- I don't wanna die
in shame, Arthur.
Will you please spare me that?
- I said silence.
- Gotcha.
Calm mind, steady hand.
[rock/pop music]
♪ ♪
- Fuck it.
Who are you?
You a... a big dog?
Big dog, alpha dog?
Big man.
Men don't ask for help.
They take it.
Come on, be a man!
Come on, stand up!
Be a man, come on!
Come on. Come on.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Come on!
Come on!
- ♪ But you can't look me
in the eye ♪
♪ While you're living a lie ♪
♪ Living the lie ♪
- Fuck my life.
- ♪ 'Cause you're a little
bit proud ♪
[phone buzzing]
♪ You're a little bit proud ♪
♪ You're a little bit proud ♪
[line ringing]
- This is Nolan.
You know what to do.
[beep]
- Everything is fucking
wonkadonk...
like bad-bad,
and I just need to hear you.
'Cause I'm like...
Yu should be here.
Just give me something.
[croak]
[creak]
- [click, croak]
[clicking, croaking closer]
- [panting]
- Haaaah...
- Aah!
- Aah!
[both yelling, grunting]
- [grunt]
- [glass shatters]
- Stop.
Stop fighting now, Carrie.
Stop.
They won't strip off
your dignity.
I won't let them take that.
- [gasping]
- Calmly now.
Soft. You're safe.
You're safe.
- [gasping]
- You'll shed your skin
with grace.
This body is a chrysalis
and death is a butterfly,
and you are loved.
Pain is a symptom of sacrifice.
Pain is a symptom of sacrifice.
Pain...
is a symptom of sacrifice.
- [weak gasp]
- Pain
is a symptom of sacrifice.
[click]
[wheezy gasp]
[click]
- [wheezes]
[shuddering breaths]
Sacrifice is a symptom of love.
[somber music]
♪ ♪
To vast Gehenna, I give my skin.
Both: Pray warm shadow,
let me in.
[thunk, hinges squeaking]
[punchy music]
♪ ♪