Legion (2017–…): Season 3, Episode 6 - Chapter 25 - full transcript
Syd grows up in a foreign land.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
♪
(WAGON ROLLING)
OLIVER:
We were always finding things.
Pens. Poetry.
Socks.
The astral plane
was like a magnet
for lost dreams.
Minds.
That was the other thing
we found.
In the real world,
when people lost their minds,
they ended up here.
(COOING)
And who are we, then?
(BABY BABBLING)
♪
Hmm.
What you got today?
A baby.
A baby?
Wow.
Look at that.
(SNIFFS) Can I have him?
It's a her, I think, and no.
If you want a baby,
you can scavenge one yourself.
(SCOFFS) "Scavenge."
That's... I'm a wolf.
Wolves don't scavenge. We hunt.
You're lucky I don't hunt you.
Well, you live just next door.
Wouldn't be hard.
Have you told her
about the Holocaust yet?
- The...? What?
- Got to tell her.
Prepare her, Oliver.
You can't grow up too fast.
That's my motto.
Also, herpes.
Make sure you tell her
about herpes, like, right away.
- (SIGHS) Get away! Go on!
- (GROWLS)
Shoo! Get away! Get away!
Don't forget chlamydia. (HOWLS)
Wife.
Husband.
- What did we scavenge today?
- Well, half a sandwich,
a very nice sock
and, uh, this baby.
Oh, baby.
Well, look at that.
(GASPS) Oh.
Oh, aren't you adorable.
Let's get you inside.
(BABY COOING)
♪
(THE WOLF HOWLING)
(HOWLING CONTINUES)
(SIREN WAILING)
Mm.
What should we call her?
The soup?
No, not the soup; The baby.
Oh, her name is Sydney.
How do you know?
She told me.
What else did she say?
Well, nothing. She's a baby.
She looks familiar somehow.
Syd. Sydney.
It's okay.
Everything's okay.
- Mama's got you.
- (POUNDING ON WALLS)
(THE WOLF HOWLING)
Don't.
I won't.
Although, he did blow
the paper house down last time.
This house is straw, though...
Mighty Straw.
It should hold.
(WIND WHISTLING)
- (WIND HOWLING LOUDLY)
- (HOUSE CREAKING, RUMBLING)
I'll just go
and chat with him, shall I?
(PANTING)
Oh, hey. (CHUCKLES)
I was just, uh...
(EXHALES)
This is Cynthia.
I found her wandering alone
in the woods.
She's lost her innocence,
which is a win for this guy.
Plus, hey, she brought all these
dirty needles with her,
so I was thinking... party? Huh?
(SNIFFS) Is that soup?
No.
(GROWLS)
Hello, Melanie.
- This is Cynthia.
- CYNTHIA: Hi.
She's given up all hope.
(CHUCKLES)
Isn't that great?
Look, we're trying
to have a nice life here
and raise this baby
with wonder and magic,
so we need to keep
the real world out.
You guys like magic?
'Cause I can do magic.
(CHUCKLES) It was in my sleeve.
Go away.
- (GROWLING)
- Not you, hon.
Come in. Have some soup.
Sorry.
(ROARING)
Listen, don't be mad.
(SIGHS)
We should move.
(THE WOLF HOWLING IN DISTANCE)
♪
(INDISTINCT WHISPERING)
(INSECTS TRILLING)
♪
There we go.
That's perfect.
Oh, yes, that's perfect for...
(CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY)
Why does some music
make you happy
but other music make you sad?
That's a good question.
Well, uh, do you know
the difference
between a major
and a minor chord?
I'm five.
No excuse. I'll show you
when we get home.
Why do people use umbrellas
in the rain but not the snow?
OLIVER: Quiet now.
Whose stuff is this?
(SIGHS)
People in the real world.
When they forget
about something,
when it stops being important,
it comes here.
Oh.
- Oh.
- I'm gonna call her Heady.
Little bird.
Not that way.
Why not?
(MACHINERY WHIRRING)
What is it?
It-it's called the ostrich.
Oh, wait, that's not right.
It's the big bird, isn't it?
No, the city.
It's called the city.
Also known as the real world.
What makes it real?
I'll explain when you're older.
No, now.
That's not the way it works,
little bird.
I'm the daddy,
and you're the baby,
and I'll tell you about the
real world when you're older.
Now, come on. Mommy's making
stuffed animal pie.
Mmm.
We don't want to be late.
♪
(FLIES BUZZING)
People think death is scary.
It's pretty scary, huh?
I mean, look at it.
All oozy,
and what are those, maggots?
That's just nature.
Mm, kids die, too, you know.
Everybody. Your parents. Ooh.
That's got to be scary,
knowing that, huh? Mm.
My mom told me that death
is just part of life.
(GROANS) She did, huh?
OLIVER: Sydney!
- (THE WOLF GROWLS)
- Got to go. Bye.
Wait, wait, wait. Did she
tell you about chlamydia?
Tell me a bedtime story.
MELANIE: Hmm.
Oh.
Once upon a time,
there was a girl
who had the most
extraordinary ability.
She could feel everything
the animals felt.
When a donkey stubbed its toe,
her toe hurt.
Every time a monkey got sad,
she got sad.
It was her special power.
And she called her special power.
"Empathy."
And Empathy was her friend.
They did everything together.
But it's a hard thing
for a little girl to share
the feelings of others.
And she started to wonder,
"Where do they...
end and I begin?"
No. No. No.
(DISTANT HOWLING)
(GASPS)
Cynthia.
Hey.
Do you ever miss your parents?
Your real parents.
Back in the real world.
Wasn't your mom a lush?
I love that word. "Lush."
It sounds so... positive.
Which, uh...
Remember how she used to
tuck you in at night
with flecks of vomit
in her hair?
I live here now.
- With the rivers and trees.
- Mm...
And Kenny?
Do you ever miss Kenny?
Kenny beat me.
Kenny's real sorry, baby.
He wants you to come home
real bad.
He love-love-loves you.
I have to go inside.
- Hey.
- (GASPS)
Look what I found.
Hmm? (CHUCKLES)
I don't do that anymore.
Aw... come on.
Sure, you do.
Don't be scared, gorgeous.
You think the light bulb
is afraid of the dark?
The light bulb loves the dark.
'Cause in the dark...
it can shine.
- (SIGHS SOFTLY)
- Shine for me, baby.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
♪
♪
MELANIE: So,
that's where babies come from.
And in a couple years,
your body will start to change
to be more like Mommy's.
It's the most natural thing
in the world.
Any questions?
What's chlamydia?
Where'd you hear that word?
From The Wolf.
Uh, well...
um, you know how,
when someone sneezes on you,
you catch a cold?
Well, that's because the cold
is a virus,
and the sneeze transfers
the virus to you.
And chlamydia is kind of like
a cold, except for your vagina.
And, uh, you get it by having
unprotected sex with someone
who has that virus.
Does that make sense?
- Bodies are weird.
- (MELANIE CHUCKLES)
Well, I think the word you're
looking for is "beautiful."
(CRICKETS CHIRPING,
FROGS CROAKING)
(LAUGHTER ECHOING)
(MAKING SMOOCHING SOUNDS)
(GRUNTS)
(BIRDS SCREECHING)
(GASPING)
(DISTORTED SCREAMING)
(DISTORTED): David.
(WHIMPERING): No. No. No.
(CONTINUES WHIMPERING)
MELANIE:
She's having dreams about it.
Is she?
"It" what?
Her life.
Outside.
Whatever happened
that brought her here.
That'll pass.
Won't it?
Depends on if she decides
to go back or not.
(CHUCKLING): Back? Why would
anyone want to go back?
If she feels unresolved.
If there's something
she needs to do.
I swear, I... I feel like...
we know her.
From before.
There is no "before" for us.
MELANIE: Hmm.
Sydney.
- Yes, Mama?
- Come tell Daddy your dream.
I forgot.
Now... little bird,
you know that Mommy and Daddy
can't help you
unless you use your words.
That's okay.
When you're ready.
♪
(CRICKETS CHIRPING,
FROGS CROAKING)
DAVID: I'm sorry.
Don't worry.
None of this will happen.
No.
I'll fix it.
I promise.
(SCREAMING)
(INDISTINCT, DISTORTED CHATTER)
(SCREAMING CONTINUES)
(WHIMPERS)
(HEAVY, GRUFF BREATHING)
Good night, my sunshine.
(NIGHT BIRD HOOTING IN DISTANCE)
(DEEP INHALE)
(WIND WHISTLING)
(DEEP INHALE)
- (WIND HOWLING)
- (HOUSE RUMBLING)
(THE WOLF HOWLING)
OLIVER: We have to move.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Hey! Hey!
OLIVER:
Then the lean years came.
We moved from the woods
to the gutter,
trying to escape the knowledge.
Wife.
Husband.
- Where's daughter?
- She's inside.
Studying long division.
(INDISTINCT, LIVELY CHATTER)
(DOOR OPENS)
What ho, daughter?
- Math makes sense.
- Yes. It does.
Just add up the numbers.
Or subtract, divide, multiply.
Like me, for example.
How I'm 16 now.
Ready to learn about the world.
Well, I can tell you everything
there is to know about old shoes
and how to live with them.
HINT: Fumigation is key.
You know what I mean.
Did you have the dream again?
No.
It just feels like
I'm supposed to do something.
But I don't know what.
That's normal.
It's a big world.
And there's so much
you haven't seen yet.
Because you won't show me.
It's about the order of things,
the order you learn.
When you were young,
we let you be wild
because wildness is important.
But as you got older,
we gave you structure
so you'd feel safe.
I can take care of myself.
Here's something.
The secret of life.
If you feel safe
when you're young,
you will feel safe
when you're old.
I feel safe.
And we want
that feeling to last.
- You're not old yet.
- Yes, I am.
No.
You have your whole life
to be old.
But today, you're still young.
Trust me.
You're doing this right.
We have to learn about love
before we can learn about hate.
Otherwise, everything
goes to hell.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- (GASPING)
- (WOMAN HISSES)
(VIOLIN PLAYING A LIVELY TUNE)
(DISTANT, RHYTHMIC THUMPING)
(THUMPING GROWS LOUDER)
WOMAN: Better to leave it.
They get bitter
when they come here.
Hey, sunshine. Hey.
Where did you go?
Here. Just here.
These are my kids,
Sweetie and Blue.
You like vodka?
(CHUCKLING): What? No.
I don't know.
Oh, it's good.
They've got vanilla
and strawberry.
Choke chain?
Are you...
How are Mom and Dad?
Good. I'm sure they'd love it
if you came by the shoe shop.
- The shop?
- Yeah, we live right...
right near the park.
(CHUCKLES): Oh.
We like it over there.
We love it.
Maybe we could...
I mean, they probably don't
remember me, right?
No, they do.
We talk about you all the time.
Look.
What are you doing right now?
Because we're just...
we were gonna...
We live down there.
Right down there.
Maybe you could come over.
We've got...
Hey, do you like video games?
And I've got all the cereals.
Cocoa nubs and fruity chews.
And movies about slavery.
Do you know about slavery?
BLUE: They're super cool flicks.
So much whipping.
Jerome would love
to see you, too.
Jerome?
(FLIES BUZZING)
(HEAVY, GRUFF BREATHING)
I have to go.
Don't forget your heart.
(HEARTBEAT THUMPING)
I'm not going.
I'm never going.
Where?
The real world.
I don't want that.
Any of that.
I know, honey.
BUT HERE'S THE THING:
The real world needs you.
All those bad things,
they don't have to be bad.
They can be fixed.
See, you got this backwards.
We're not trying to protect you
from the real world.
We're helping you be the person
the world needs.
So you can save it.
What if I don't want to go?
We're not put on this Earth
to think of only ourselves.
You know that, right?
(DOOR CREAKS OPEN)
(TURKEY GOBBLING)
Look what I found.
We talked about this, remember?
No livestock in the house.
- Are you livestock?
- SYD: Okay.
We're gonna save her.
Well, I think it's a he.
No. Cynthia.
She ran into Cynthia.
- She's with The Wolf.
- And we're gonna save her.
- Now, hon...
- No.
You taught me
to be a good person,
and this is what good people do.
So we're gonna save her.
♪
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
♪
(STRING INSTRUMENTS PLAYING
LIVELY TUNE IN DISTANCE)
(DOOR CREAKING)
♪
SYD: Do you think she's okay?
Cynthia?
Well, she's a drug addict
who lives with a wolf, so no.
Maybe he won't care.
Don't be naive.
Real grown-ups aren't naive.
You think I'm a grown-up.
If we survive this, you will be.
Do you remember that wall
we built?
- The rock wall?
- Of course.
Why did we do that?
It didn't do anything.
It was a wall.
It did... wall things.
You know what I mean.
Your mother and I taught you
to work hard
so you'd know how to work hard.
We taught you to ask questions
so you'd know
how to answer questions.
Plus, I like a nice rock wall.
(WHISPERS): Did he see you?
No.
But he has our scent.
(GRUNTS, CHUCKLES)
(SNIFFING)
(GROWLS)
- MELANIE: It's okay. It's okay.
- (CYNTHIA PANTING)
- We're here. It's okay.
- (BARKING, GROWLING)
SYD: It's me.
Listen.
I know you had a bad deal.
You think you don't
deserve things.
Love.
(GASPS)
But you do.
We love you.
Come home.
It doesn't matter.
He's here.
(DISTANT HOWLING)
(INSECTS CHIRPING)
You can't have her.
Oliver.
- Jerome.
- (GROWLS)
You can't beat me.
I'm a wild animal.
(HOWLING)
I still have a few tricks.
There's only one way
this can end.
A rap battle.
- (BEAT PLAYING)
- (CHEERING, APPLAUSE)
♪ I'm the old wizard
who lives in the shoe ♪
♪ The slick mack daddy
from the ice cube ♪
♪ My body's quite muscular,
blood stream's corpuscular ♪
♪ If you step to me, farkas,
you'll be sorry, sir ♪
♪ Oh, yes ♪
♪ You'll be sorry. ♪
What?! What you got?!
♪ I'm the Big Bad Wolf,
that's what I'm telling you ♪
♪ I've got a sensitive nose,
that's why I'm smelling you ♪
♪ I'll roofie your daughter,
hell, I'll roofie your son ♪
♪ I'm faster than a gun,
so you can hide ♪
♪ But you can't run. ♪
(CHEERING, APPLAUSE)
♪ I'm an old-school warlock ♪
♪ Slept in more bears' beds
than Goldilocks ♪
♪ Stay away from my kid or
I'll beat you with my cock ♪
♪ You may be an animal,
but I'm a magical mammal ♪
♪ Who can turn you into ash and
then I'll go on sabbatical ♪
♪ You got all of the id
and none of the ego ♪
♪ You're all bark and no bite,
while I fly like an eagle. ♪
♪ I'm the supine lupine,
my libido kills sunshine ♪
♪ Moody and spicy like
a fine-ass toilet wine ♪
♪ I'm the new norm,
like stepmother porn ♪
♪ Like a snatch and grab
in a college dorm ♪
♪ I'm everything that's real ♪
♪ Like the fact that veal
is really adorable baby cows ♪
♪ Who scream for their mommies
when they die ♪
♪ Mm, screams. ♪
(GROWLS)
♪ I'll take your reality
and I'll break it in half ♪
♪ Then I'll go take a shower
or maybe a bath ♪
♪ See, I'm classy, I'm elegant,
like a diplomat or a delegate ♪
♪ I've got balls of an elephant,
by which I mean I'm masculine ♪
♪ I've got a lot of nice
feminine qualities, too ♪
♪ You could say I'm the mother
of disaster ♪
♪ The battle master,
you call yourself a wolf? ♪
♪ You're a shitty
little bastard. ♪
♪ I'm the loco lobo,
and your name is meat ♪
♪ Here is my lap,
come take a seat ♪
♪ I've got a spiky erection,
like your daddy at bedtime ♪
♪ Holding you tight and reading
"Once Upon a Hate Crime" ♪
♪ I'm a hepatitis outbreak
in a homeless encampment ♪
♪ I'm realer than real,
I only got bad news ♪
♪ Now get out of my way
'cause I win and you lose. ♪
(CHEERING, SHOUTING)
♪ You're a scared little boy
and you're crying boo-hoo ♪
♪ Because you know deep inside
that nobody loves you ♪
♪ I've got family and friends,
I give money to charity ♪
♪ Every year on my birthday ♪
♪ People send me cards
and letters ♪
♪ My mom and dad
still write to me ♪
♪ Little old ladies
still smile at me ♪
♪ Puppies aren't afraid of me ♪
♪ I get more hugs
than hate mail ♪
♪ And I go to bed happy ♪
♪ Can you say that,
you sad, sad man? ♪
(CHEERING, APPLAUSE,
INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(LAUGHTER)
MAN: Are you crying?
- Stop.
- (APPLAUSE AND CHATTER STOP)
Don't kill him.
(CRYING):
The bad man was mean to me.
- I know, baby. It's okay.
- (CRYING)
Thank you.
For everything.
But we belong together.
(SNIFFLING)
It's okay.
♪
I don't understand.
She was my friend.
Not everyone...
wants to be saved.
- Then why do we...
- You had to try
so you'd know.
Oh.
(MELANIE GASPS)
A-Are we...
(LAUGHING)
I think she's ready.
Ready for what?
♪
Oh, my God.
(MELANIE CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
You see it now?
I have to go back.
MELANIE: Remember, it's not
"us or them."
It's us and them.
You're not coming?
I need you.
- OLIVER: We did our part.
- MELANIE: You can do this.
Just remember everything
we taught you.
♪
♪
(GASPS)
♪
(WHIRRING, RHYTHMIC WHOOSHING)
- (GASPS)
- (DEEP WHIRRING)
- (KERRY WHIMPERS)
- Ah-ah.
Stop fighting.
That's like me saying,
"Stop nerding."
S-Stay still.
Did we lose?
Yes, I think so.
So, does that mean we're just...
going to vanish
when he changes things?
Or...
I don't know.
SYD: I can fix it.
The time door's still open.
I can fix it.
But I need to get in there.
Did you...
change something about you?
Other than that I just lived
an entire second life
in the last 20 minutes?
Maybe my hair.
(KERRY GRUNTS)
Cary.
The time door.
Yes, David had a bracelet.
- That you made.
- Yes.
I'll make more.
♪
Why is it doing that?
- Cary?
- Yeah?
Why is it doing that?
I have a theory,
but you're not gonna like it.
Okay, don't tell me.
I think the Time Eaters
are back.
I said don't tell me.
Sorry.
Uh...
it's finished.
And this will get us
into the hall?
I've keyed it to her signal.
The time traveler.
We're piggybacking on her power.
KERRY:
How are you gonna find them?
The past is a big place.
Same way.
Just follow her signal.
Cary, she needs me.
I know.
I can't help like this.
I know, but you'll need me, too.
In case you need
to find your way back or...
Oh.
But you can do what you do
sitting down.
I can't.
What?
We need a minute.
♪
Ready?
- M-Maybe there's another way.
- Kerry.
It's the only way.
Come home.
(WHIMPERS) I'm so sorry.
(GRUNTING)
(GROANING)
(GASPING)
(GROANING, GASPING)
(FAINT, ECHOING LAUGHTER)
(ELECTRICAL CRACKLING)
Cary?
(GASPING WEAKLY)
Kerry, it's time to go.
(TIME EATER SNARLING)
Kerry?
Go.
♪
(TIME EATER CONTINUES SNARLING)
No!
(TIME EATER GROANS)
(CARY BREATHING WEAKLY)
We're gonna win.
♪
♪ I want to live
with a cinnamon girl ♪
♪ I can be happy
the rest of my life ♪
♪ With a cinnamon girl ♪
♪ Pa sent me money now ♪
♪ I'm going to make it somehow ♪
♪ I need another chance ♪
♪ You see,
your baby loves to dance ♪
♪
♪ Cinnamon girl. ♪
Captioned by
Media Access Group at WGBH.
MAN: Now I get it.
♪
(WAGON ROLLING)
OLIVER:
We were always finding things.
Pens. Poetry.
Socks.
The astral plane
was like a magnet
for lost dreams.
Minds.
That was the other thing
we found.
In the real world,
when people lost their minds,
they ended up here.
(COOING)
And who are we, then?
(BABY BABBLING)
♪
Hmm.
What you got today?
A baby.
A baby?
Wow.
Look at that.
(SNIFFS) Can I have him?
It's a her, I think, and no.
If you want a baby,
you can scavenge one yourself.
(SCOFFS) "Scavenge."
That's... I'm a wolf.
Wolves don't scavenge. We hunt.
You're lucky I don't hunt you.
Well, you live just next door.
Wouldn't be hard.
Have you told her
about the Holocaust yet?
- The...? What?
- Got to tell her.
Prepare her, Oliver.
You can't grow up too fast.
That's my motto.
Also, herpes.
Make sure you tell her
about herpes, like, right away.
- (SIGHS) Get away! Go on!
- (GROWLS)
Shoo! Get away! Get away!
Don't forget chlamydia. (HOWLS)
Wife.
Husband.
- What did we scavenge today?
- Well, half a sandwich,
a very nice sock
and, uh, this baby.
Oh, baby.
Well, look at that.
(GASPS) Oh.
Oh, aren't you adorable.
Let's get you inside.
(BABY COOING)
♪
(THE WOLF HOWLING)
(HOWLING CONTINUES)
(SIREN WAILING)
Mm.
What should we call her?
The soup?
No, not the soup; The baby.
Oh, her name is Sydney.
How do you know?
She told me.
What else did she say?
Well, nothing. She's a baby.
She looks familiar somehow.
Syd. Sydney.
It's okay.
Everything's okay.
- Mama's got you.
- (POUNDING ON WALLS)
(THE WOLF HOWLING)
Don't.
I won't.
Although, he did blow
the paper house down last time.
This house is straw, though...
Mighty Straw.
It should hold.
(WIND WHISTLING)
- (WIND HOWLING LOUDLY)
- (HOUSE CREAKING, RUMBLING)
I'll just go
and chat with him, shall I?
(PANTING)
Oh, hey. (CHUCKLES)
I was just, uh...
(EXHALES)
This is Cynthia.
I found her wandering alone
in the woods.
She's lost her innocence,
which is a win for this guy.
Plus, hey, she brought all these
dirty needles with her,
so I was thinking... party? Huh?
(SNIFFS) Is that soup?
No.
(GROWLS)
Hello, Melanie.
- This is Cynthia.
- CYNTHIA: Hi.
She's given up all hope.
(CHUCKLES)
Isn't that great?
Look, we're trying
to have a nice life here
and raise this baby
with wonder and magic,
so we need to keep
the real world out.
You guys like magic?
'Cause I can do magic.
(CHUCKLES) It was in my sleeve.
Go away.
- (GROWLING)
- Not you, hon.
Come in. Have some soup.
Sorry.
(ROARING)
Listen, don't be mad.
(SIGHS)
We should move.
(THE WOLF HOWLING IN DISTANCE)
♪
(INDISTINCT WHISPERING)
(INSECTS TRILLING)
♪
There we go.
That's perfect.
Oh, yes, that's perfect for...
(CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY)
Why does some music
make you happy
but other music make you sad?
That's a good question.
Well, uh, do you know
the difference
between a major
and a minor chord?
I'm five.
No excuse. I'll show you
when we get home.
Why do people use umbrellas
in the rain but not the snow?
OLIVER: Quiet now.
Whose stuff is this?
(SIGHS)
People in the real world.
When they forget
about something,
when it stops being important,
it comes here.
Oh.
- Oh.
- I'm gonna call her Heady.
Little bird.
Not that way.
Why not?
(MACHINERY WHIRRING)
What is it?
It-it's called the ostrich.
Oh, wait, that's not right.
It's the big bird, isn't it?
No, the city.
It's called the city.
Also known as the real world.
What makes it real?
I'll explain when you're older.
No, now.
That's not the way it works,
little bird.
I'm the daddy,
and you're the baby,
and I'll tell you about the
real world when you're older.
Now, come on. Mommy's making
stuffed animal pie.
Mmm.
We don't want to be late.
♪
(FLIES BUZZING)
People think death is scary.
It's pretty scary, huh?
I mean, look at it.
All oozy,
and what are those, maggots?
That's just nature.
Mm, kids die, too, you know.
Everybody. Your parents. Ooh.
That's got to be scary,
knowing that, huh? Mm.
My mom told me that death
is just part of life.
(GROANS) She did, huh?
OLIVER: Sydney!
- (THE WOLF GROWLS)
- Got to go. Bye.
Wait, wait, wait. Did she
tell you about chlamydia?
Tell me a bedtime story.
MELANIE: Hmm.
Oh.
Once upon a time,
there was a girl
who had the most
extraordinary ability.
She could feel everything
the animals felt.
When a donkey stubbed its toe,
her toe hurt.
Every time a monkey got sad,
she got sad.
It was her special power.
And she called her special power.
"Empathy."
And Empathy was her friend.
They did everything together.
But it's a hard thing
for a little girl to share
the feelings of others.
And she started to wonder,
"Where do they...
end and I begin?"
No. No. No.
(DISTANT HOWLING)
(GASPS)
Cynthia.
Hey.
Do you ever miss your parents?
Your real parents.
Back in the real world.
Wasn't your mom a lush?
I love that word. "Lush."
It sounds so... positive.
Which, uh...
Remember how she used to
tuck you in at night
with flecks of vomit
in her hair?
I live here now.
- With the rivers and trees.
- Mm...
And Kenny?
Do you ever miss Kenny?
Kenny beat me.
Kenny's real sorry, baby.
He wants you to come home
real bad.
He love-love-loves you.
I have to go inside.
- Hey.
- (GASPS)
Look what I found.
Hmm? (CHUCKLES)
I don't do that anymore.
Aw... come on.
Sure, you do.
Don't be scared, gorgeous.
You think the light bulb
is afraid of the dark?
The light bulb loves the dark.
'Cause in the dark...
it can shine.
- (SIGHS SOFTLY)
- Shine for me, baby.
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
♪
♪
MELANIE: So,
that's where babies come from.
And in a couple years,
your body will start to change
to be more like Mommy's.
It's the most natural thing
in the world.
Any questions?
What's chlamydia?
Where'd you hear that word?
From The Wolf.
Uh, well...
um, you know how,
when someone sneezes on you,
you catch a cold?
Well, that's because the cold
is a virus,
and the sneeze transfers
the virus to you.
And chlamydia is kind of like
a cold, except for your vagina.
And, uh, you get it by having
unprotected sex with someone
who has that virus.
Does that make sense?
- Bodies are weird.
- (MELANIE CHUCKLES)
Well, I think the word you're
looking for is "beautiful."
(CRICKETS CHIRPING,
FROGS CROAKING)
(LAUGHTER ECHOING)
(MAKING SMOOCHING SOUNDS)
(GRUNTS)
(BIRDS SCREECHING)
(GASPING)
(DISTORTED SCREAMING)
(DISTORTED): David.
(WHIMPERING): No. No. No.
(CONTINUES WHIMPERING)
MELANIE:
She's having dreams about it.
Is she?
"It" what?
Her life.
Outside.
Whatever happened
that brought her here.
That'll pass.
Won't it?
Depends on if she decides
to go back or not.
(CHUCKLING): Back? Why would
anyone want to go back?
If she feels unresolved.
If there's something
she needs to do.
I swear, I... I feel like...
we know her.
From before.
There is no "before" for us.
MELANIE: Hmm.
Sydney.
- Yes, Mama?
- Come tell Daddy your dream.
I forgot.
Now... little bird,
you know that Mommy and Daddy
can't help you
unless you use your words.
That's okay.
When you're ready.
♪
(CRICKETS CHIRPING,
FROGS CROAKING)
DAVID: I'm sorry.
Don't worry.
None of this will happen.
No.
I'll fix it.
I promise.
(SCREAMING)
(INDISTINCT, DISTORTED CHATTER)
(SCREAMING CONTINUES)
(WHIMPERS)
(HEAVY, GRUFF BREATHING)
Good night, my sunshine.
(NIGHT BIRD HOOTING IN DISTANCE)
(DEEP INHALE)
(WIND WHISTLING)
(DEEP INHALE)
- (WIND HOWLING)
- (HOUSE RUMBLING)
(THE WOLF HOWLING)
OLIVER: We have to move.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Hey! Hey!
OLIVER:
Then the lean years came.
We moved from the woods
to the gutter,
trying to escape the knowledge.
Wife.
Husband.
- Where's daughter?
- She's inside.
Studying long division.
(INDISTINCT, LIVELY CHATTER)
(DOOR OPENS)
What ho, daughter?
- Math makes sense.
- Yes. It does.
Just add up the numbers.
Or subtract, divide, multiply.
Like me, for example.
How I'm 16 now.
Ready to learn about the world.
Well, I can tell you everything
there is to know about old shoes
and how to live with them.
HINT: Fumigation is key.
You know what I mean.
Did you have the dream again?
No.
It just feels like
I'm supposed to do something.
But I don't know what.
That's normal.
It's a big world.
And there's so much
you haven't seen yet.
Because you won't show me.
It's about the order of things,
the order you learn.
When you were young,
we let you be wild
because wildness is important.
But as you got older,
we gave you structure
so you'd feel safe.
I can take care of myself.
Here's something.
The secret of life.
If you feel safe
when you're young,
you will feel safe
when you're old.
I feel safe.
And we want
that feeling to last.
- You're not old yet.
- Yes, I am.
No.
You have your whole life
to be old.
But today, you're still young.
Trust me.
You're doing this right.
We have to learn about love
before we can learn about hate.
Otherwise, everything
goes to hell.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- (GASPING)
- (WOMAN HISSES)
(VIOLIN PLAYING A LIVELY TUNE)
(DISTANT, RHYTHMIC THUMPING)
(THUMPING GROWS LOUDER)
WOMAN: Better to leave it.
They get bitter
when they come here.
Hey, sunshine. Hey.
Where did you go?
Here. Just here.
These are my kids,
Sweetie and Blue.
You like vodka?
(CHUCKLING): What? No.
I don't know.
Oh, it's good.
They've got vanilla
and strawberry.
Choke chain?
Are you...
How are Mom and Dad?
Good. I'm sure they'd love it
if you came by the shoe shop.
- The shop?
- Yeah, we live right...
right near the park.
(CHUCKLES): Oh.
We like it over there.
We love it.
Maybe we could...
I mean, they probably don't
remember me, right?
No, they do.
We talk about you all the time.
Look.
What are you doing right now?
Because we're just...
we were gonna...
We live down there.
Right down there.
Maybe you could come over.
We've got...
Hey, do you like video games?
And I've got all the cereals.
Cocoa nubs and fruity chews.
And movies about slavery.
Do you know about slavery?
BLUE: They're super cool flicks.
So much whipping.
Jerome would love
to see you, too.
Jerome?
(FLIES BUZZING)
(HEAVY, GRUFF BREATHING)
I have to go.
Don't forget your heart.
(HEARTBEAT THUMPING)
I'm not going.
I'm never going.
Where?
The real world.
I don't want that.
Any of that.
I know, honey.
BUT HERE'S THE THING:
The real world needs you.
All those bad things,
they don't have to be bad.
They can be fixed.
See, you got this backwards.
We're not trying to protect you
from the real world.
We're helping you be the person
the world needs.
So you can save it.
What if I don't want to go?
We're not put on this Earth
to think of only ourselves.
You know that, right?
(DOOR CREAKS OPEN)
(TURKEY GOBBLING)
Look what I found.
We talked about this, remember?
No livestock in the house.
- Are you livestock?
- SYD: Okay.
We're gonna save her.
Well, I think it's a he.
No. Cynthia.
She ran into Cynthia.
- She's with The Wolf.
- And we're gonna save her.
- Now, hon...
- No.
You taught me
to be a good person,
and this is what good people do.
So we're gonna save her.
♪
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
♪
(STRING INSTRUMENTS PLAYING
LIVELY TUNE IN DISTANCE)
(DOOR CREAKING)
♪
SYD: Do you think she's okay?
Cynthia?
Well, she's a drug addict
who lives with a wolf, so no.
Maybe he won't care.
Don't be naive.
Real grown-ups aren't naive.
You think I'm a grown-up.
If we survive this, you will be.
Do you remember that wall
we built?
- The rock wall?
- Of course.
Why did we do that?
It didn't do anything.
It was a wall.
It did... wall things.
You know what I mean.
Your mother and I taught you
to work hard
so you'd know how to work hard.
We taught you to ask questions
so you'd know
how to answer questions.
Plus, I like a nice rock wall.
(WHISPERS): Did he see you?
No.
But he has our scent.
(GRUNTS, CHUCKLES)
(SNIFFING)
(GROWLS)
- MELANIE: It's okay. It's okay.
- (CYNTHIA PANTING)
- We're here. It's okay.
- (BARKING, GROWLING)
SYD: It's me.
Listen.
I know you had a bad deal.
You think you don't
deserve things.
Love.
(GASPS)
But you do.
We love you.
Come home.
It doesn't matter.
He's here.
(DISTANT HOWLING)
(INSECTS CHIRPING)
You can't have her.
Oliver.
- Jerome.
- (GROWLS)
You can't beat me.
I'm a wild animal.
(HOWLING)
I still have a few tricks.
There's only one way
this can end.
A rap battle.
- (BEAT PLAYING)
- (CHEERING, APPLAUSE)
♪ I'm the old wizard
who lives in the shoe ♪
♪ The slick mack daddy
from the ice cube ♪
♪ My body's quite muscular,
blood stream's corpuscular ♪
♪ If you step to me, farkas,
you'll be sorry, sir ♪
♪ Oh, yes ♪
♪ You'll be sorry. ♪
What?! What you got?!
♪ I'm the Big Bad Wolf,
that's what I'm telling you ♪
♪ I've got a sensitive nose,
that's why I'm smelling you ♪
♪ I'll roofie your daughter,
hell, I'll roofie your son ♪
♪ I'm faster than a gun,
so you can hide ♪
♪ But you can't run. ♪
(CHEERING, APPLAUSE)
♪ I'm an old-school warlock ♪
♪ Slept in more bears' beds
than Goldilocks ♪
♪ Stay away from my kid or
I'll beat you with my cock ♪
♪ You may be an animal,
but I'm a magical mammal ♪
♪ Who can turn you into ash and
then I'll go on sabbatical ♪
♪ You got all of the id
and none of the ego ♪
♪ You're all bark and no bite,
while I fly like an eagle. ♪
♪ I'm the supine lupine,
my libido kills sunshine ♪
♪ Moody and spicy like
a fine-ass toilet wine ♪
♪ I'm the new norm,
like stepmother porn ♪
♪ Like a snatch and grab
in a college dorm ♪
♪ I'm everything that's real ♪
♪ Like the fact that veal
is really adorable baby cows ♪
♪ Who scream for their mommies
when they die ♪
♪ Mm, screams. ♪
(GROWLS)
♪ I'll take your reality
and I'll break it in half ♪
♪ Then I'll go take a shower
or maybe a bath ♪
♪ See, I'm classy, I'm elegant,
like a diplomat or a delegate ♪
♪ I've got balls of an elephant,
by which I mean I'm masculine ♪
♪ I've got a lot of nice
feminine qualities, too ♪
♪ You could say I'm the mother
of disaster ♪
♪ The battle master,
you call yourself a wolf? ♪
♪ You're a shitty
little bastard. ♪
♪ I'm the loco lobo,
and your name is meat ♪
♪ Here is my lap,
come take a seat ♪
♪ I've got a spiky erection,
like your daddy at bedtime ♪
♪ Holding you tight and reading
"Once Upon a Hate Crime" ♪
♪ I'm a hepatitis outbreak
in a homeless encampment ♪
♪ I'm realer than real,
I only got bad news ♪
♪ Now get out of my way
'cause I win and you lose. ♪
(CHEERING, SHOUTING)
♪ You're a scared little boy
and you're crying boo-hoo ♪
♪ Because you know deep inside
that nobody loves you ♪
♪ I've got family and friends,
I give money to charity ♪
♪ Every year on my birthday ♪
♪ People send me cards
and letters ♪
♪ My mom and dad
still write to me ♪
♪ Little old ladies
still smile at me ♪
♪ Puppies aren't afraid of me ♪
♪ I get more hugs
than hate mail ♪
♪ And I go to bed happy ♪
♪ Can you say that,
you sad, sad man? ♪
(CHEERING, APPLAUSE,
INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(LAUGHTER)
MAN: Are you crying?
- Stop.
- (APPLAUSE AND CHATTER STOP)
Don't kill him.
(CRYING):
The bad man was mean to me.
- I know, baby. It's okay.
- (CRYING)
Thank you.
For everything.
But we belong together.
(SNIFFLING)
It's okay.
♪
I don't understand.
She was my friend.
Not everyone...
wants to be saved.
- Then why do we...
- You had to try
so you'd know.
Oh.
(MELANIE GASPS)
A-Are we...
(LAUGHING)
I think she's ready.
Ready for what?
♪
Oh, my God.
(MELANIE CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
You see it now?
I have to go back.
MELANIE: Remember, it's not
"us or them."
It's us and them.
You're not coming?
I need you.
- OLIVER: We did our part.
- MELANIE: You can do this.
Just remember everything
we taught you.
♪
♪
(GASPS)
♪
(WHIRRING, RHYTHMIC WHOOSHING)
- (GASPS)
- (DEEP WHIRRING)
- (KERRY WHIMPERS)
- Ah-ah.
Stop fighting.
That's like me saying,
"Stop nerding."
S-Stay still.
Did we lose?
Yes, I think so.
So, does that mean we're just...
going to vanish
when he changes things?
Or...
I don't know.
SYD: I can fix it.
The time door's still open.
I can fix it.
But I need to get in there.
Did you...
change something about you?
Other than that I just lived
an entire second life
in the last 20 minutes?
Maybe my hair.
(KERRY GRUNTS)
Cary.
The time door.
Yes, David had a bracelet.
- That you made.
- Yes.
I'll make more.
♪
Why is it doing that?
- Cary?
- Yeah?
Why is it doing that?
I have a theory,
but you're not gonna like it.
Okay, don't tell me.
I think the Time Eaters
are back.
I said don't tell me.
Sorry.
Uh...
it's finished.
And this will get us
into the hall?
I've keyed it to her signal.
The time traveler.
We're piggybacking on her power.
KERRY:
How are you gonna find them?
The past is a big place.
Same way.
Just follow her signal.
Cary, she needs me.
I know.
I can't help like this.
I know, but you'll need me, too.
In case you need
to find your way back or...
Oh.
But you can do what you do
sitting down.
I can't.
What?
We need a minute.
♪
Ready?
- M-Maybe there's another way.
- Kerry.
It's the only way.
Come home.
(WHIMPERS) I'm so sorry.
(GRUNTING)
(GROANING)
(GASPING)
(GROANING, GASPING)
(FAINT, ECHOING LAUGHTER)
(ELECTRICAL CRACKLING)
Cary?
(GASPING WEAKLY)
Kerry, it's time to go.
(TIME EATER SNARLING)
Kerry?
Go.
♪
(TIME EATER CONTINUES SNARLING)
No!
(TIME EATER GROANS)
(CARY BREATHING WEAKLY)
We're gonna win.
♪
♪ I want to live
with a cinnamon girl ♪
♪ I can be happy
the rest of my life ♪
♪ With a cinnamon girl ♪
♪ Pa sent me money now ♪
♪ I'm going to make it somehow ♪
♪ I need another chance ♪
♪ You see,
your baby loves to dance ♪
♪
♪ Cinnamon girl. ♪
Captioned by
Media Access Group at WGBH.
MAN: Now I get it.