Lovecraft Country (2020–…): Season 1, Episode 4 - A History of Violence - full transcript

I bought a house. (CHUCKLES)

RUBY BAPTISTE:
Where'd you get the money?

Anything strange happening
in your new house?

(SCREAMS, GASPS)

♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

I understand y'all belong to
the order of ancient dawn.

Just because
they don't want you here,

doesn't mean
you're not supposed to be.

RUBY: I don't have time
for distractions.

I need to concentrate on
perfecting my resume.

I saw George's body.
Something doesn't feel right.



What else you think happened?

Wait!

ATTICUS: Leti's inheritance
didn't come from her mother.

It came from you.

Stay the fuck away
from my family.

CHRISTINA: Every spell the
sons have created has come from

the Book of Names.

The book is gone,

and Titus locked his pages
in a vault.

But imagine the possibilities

if those pages were to be found.

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

[TV static drones]

[bright tone]



- If the United States fails

to proliferate its stockpile
of nuclear bombs,

the barbaric Soviet Union
will wipe out

civilized America.

We have entered
a new global age.

- Ain't shit new about it.

Whitey keep cooking up death
for the rest of us to eat.

I don't need your advice

when it comes to raising my son.

[sobbing]
- He might not be yours.

- You shut your fucking mouth.
- Uncle George!

[gunshot]
- Look at these niggers.

- I see the flower in your hair.

- [laughs]

- Preening
in the goddamn mirror.

- What else you think happened?

- I don't know.
- Please. I promise.

Dad, I won't do it again,
I promise.

- Begging won't save your hide.

I said pick a switch.

Pick a switch!

- "Adam named.

"Eve fucked.

"God brought forth Monsters.

"Monsters devoured.

God smites Eve."

- The only way for us
to defeat the Reds

is to destroy their stockpile.

- Take this.

Give it to Tic
to protect our family.

[roaring]

[ominous music]

♪ ♪

You might be all Tic has left.

♪ ♪

- Smells like Tulsa.

[eerie music]

♪ ♪

- ♪ Don't act like you forgot ♪

♪ I call the shots,
shots, shots ♪

♪ Like brah, brah, brah ♪

♪ Pay me what you owe me ♪

♪ Don't act like you forgot ♪

♪ Bitch better have my money ♪

[Rihanna's
"Bitch Better Have My Money"]

♪ Bitch better have my money ♪

[engine revs, tires squeal]

♪ Pay me what you owe me ♪

- ♪ Bitch better have my money ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Bitch better have my money ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Bitch, bitch, bitch
better have my money ♪

♪ Yo ♪

- What the fuck
are you doing here?

- Can I come in?

[energy crackles]

- [laughs]

- Who helped you evict Hiram?

[foreboding music]

- How the hell did you...

♪ ♪

Hmm.

The money.

So you want something
in this house then?

Something that has to do
with Atticus?

- Don't let the men fool you

into thinking
it's always about them.

His blood may have power in it,

but that's only because
Titus spelled it that way.

It doesn't make Tic special.

Not really.

Certainly not enough
to get away with murder.

Oh, he didn't tell you.

He showed up
at the Realtist's office

this morning

and tried to shoot me.

If he keeps operating
in the way that he is,

he's going to get you killed.

Again.

And I don't want that.

Or this house.

I just want Hiram's orrery.

- What the fuck is an orrery?

- It's a model
of the solar system.

I believe Hiram's ghost kept it
locked away somewhere inside.

- Listen, you may have paid
for this house,

but my name is on the deed,

so you can get the fuck off
my porch.

- Call me if you find
Hiram's orrery.

- What galaxy could sustain
two suns?

- The Virgo Cluster?

They said last year

that any galaxy within
200 billion light-years of it

is confined to a giant
supercluster disc.

- That could explain

why they're perpetually
eclipsing each other.

- Yes, it would.
- But.

But, Daddy, what if...

what if they aren't eclipsing?

What if they are
really two suns?

- Well, that sounds like
the new comic

you told me Diana's drawing,

AKA out of this universe.

- [laughs]

- Mama, we're going to Bobo's
to read some comics.

- Bobo, you tell your mama
to call me.

- I will, ma'am.

- Now, is that
my granddaughter I hear?

- What's that
you're messing with, Hippolyta?

- Hold on for a second, Dad.

It is...

a mechanical model
of a solar system.

It moves and predicts

the relative position
of planets.

At least it's supposed to.

This one's broken.

I can't figure out
how to get to the gears.

- Well, it's a piece of work,
that's for sure.

- Yeah.

- Well, if there's one thing
I do know,

every locked thing has its key.

You'll find it.

[Jade Josephine's "Get Em"]

[dark hip-hop music]

- ♪ Get 'em, get 'em,
get 'em, good ♪

♪ Get 'em, ah, get 'em, yeah ♪

♪ Get 'em, get 'em,
get 'em, good ♪

♪ Get 'em, ah, get 'em, yeah ♪

♪ Get 'em, get 'em ♪

♪ Yeah, I'm on your head now ♪

♪ I did not come here
to play around ♪

♪ Oh, no, you scared now ♪

♪ You will not make it home
safe and sound ♪

♪ Let's make it clear now ♪

♪ I do this shit,
I make you scream and shout ♪

♪ And yeah, I'm here now ♪

♪ Taking what I want,
I want it now ♪

♪ Get 'em ♪

- You try to kill Christina?

Answer me. - Shh.

- [whispering]
Can you calm down, please?

- How the hell
am I supposed to do that

when I got a white
sorceress bitch

showing up at my house

she apparently bought for me?

Which you somehow figured out,

but didn't think it was
important enough to tell me.

- I didn't wanna scare you.

- [scoffs]

So what happened? Hmm?

You got cold feet?

- She can't be killed.

- What?
- I had the gun to her head.

No matter how hard I tried,
I couldn't pull the trigger.

The invulnerability,
it's some spell

her father cooked up.

- So does that mean
that he's still alive?

The rest
of the Sons of Adam too?

- No, he had to remove
his invulnerability

to cast the spell that ended up
crumbling the lodge.

I'm pretty sure
Christina used me

as a Trojan horse to kill him.

[both sigh]

- Wait. You were leaving.

You were gonna kill her

and just go back to Florida?

- I'm not...
I'm not going anywhere.

I'm not going anywhere
until I know

you and my family are safe.

That's what I'm doing here,
trying to figure out a way

to stop Christina.

- Mm-hmm.

- Leti.

- All right.

So what's all this got to do
with her?

Go on, tell me. [chair scrapes]

What does this have to do
with her?

- She told me there's two sets
of deciphered pages

from the lost Book of Names
still in existence.

Hiram kept his hidden
from beyond the grave.

- That's why she was asking me
about his orrery.

Must be the key
to finding his pages.

It's not in the house. I looked.

- She also mentioned
Titus kept his hidden

in a booby-trapped vault
only he could access.

- You have his blood.

You think you can access
his vault?

- If I can get my hands
on those pages,

I can learn the Language of Adam

and start casting some spells
of my own to protect us.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

- Okay.

So where's this vault?

- I don't... I don't...
I don't know.

I've been reading
everything I can on Titus to...

To try to find a clue.

I might have to go back
to Ardham.

- And what?

See if you can excavate
something out of the rubble?

They teaching colored boys
paleontology in the army now?

You need to talk to your father.

- No.

- He probably did
all this research and more

once he got wind
of your mama's connection.

- I don't want him involved,

or you either, for that matter.

Go home.

♪ ♪

Shit. - Shh!

[Bo Diddley's "Cops & Robbers"]

[rhythm and blues music]

- ♪ I was driving home ♪

♪ On the boulevard
late one night ♪

♪ When I spied a guy
over on the corner ♪

♪ Bumming all alone ♪

♪ Now, as I passed him by ♪

♪ I heard him holler out ♪

- They in the back.
- ♪ Hey ♪

♪ I slowed down
to see what he said ♪

[baseball bat cracks]

[all cheering]

♪ ♪

- Where in the hell
did I go wrong with you, boy?

Every time I tell you
to do something,

you do the exact opposite.

I told you to stay away
from this grand wizardry shit.

[indistinct radio broadcast]

You wanna run chest first
into some magical treasure hunt

like a goddamn fool.

No wonder y'all two
sweet on each other.

Foolish and crazy go
well together.

"Pioneering."
- You gonna help us or not?

- What do you think happens
when you find Titus's pages?

- What happens if we don't?

Christina was at my house.

We need to be able
to defend ourselves.

- Either one of y'all been
listening to the news?

We're the Reds in this fight.
- Oh, hell.

- That means outnumbered,
outgunned,

fumbling to catch up.

We already got one lodge
gunning for us.

You want the other 34?

- How you know
there's 34 lodges?

[all cheering] - [stammers]

I don't!

That's the whole goddamn point.

Now, none of us knows nothing

except what this cracker bitch
done told us.

So the answer is no.

I ain't gonna help you
kill yourself.

Even if you too dumb
and pigheaded to realize,

you can't win this game

that she's setting up for you
to play, boy.

[foreboding music]

- I told you
this was a waste of time.

♪ ♪

[all groaning]

- You really gonna let him
chase his tail

looking for answers
you already have?

[scoffs]

Now I see
where your son gets it.

You're a real asshole.

♪ ♪

- You got family in Boston?

I think I know
where to find the damn vault.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- 95, 100.

Ready or not, here I come.

[car horn honks]

- ♪ I can't make up my mind ♪

♪ Which one you are ♪
[children giggling]

- Safe.
- Safe.

- I got you!

What are you doing?

You're supposed to run
to home base.

Ain't you ever play
Hide and Go Seek before?

- No, it's my first time.
[laughs]

- [grunting]

- Hurry.
- I'm safe!

Whoo! Safe!

- ♪ Devil or angel ♪

♪ Please say you will be mine ♪

♪ Love me or leave me ♪

♪ I'll go out of my mind ♪

[ominous music]
♪ Devil or angel ♪

♪ Whichever you are ♪

♪ ♪

- Captain Lancaster?

- What the fuck are you doing
in my city unannounced?

- Went by the Winthrop house.

Wanted to have a chat
with Hiram.

Convince him to give me
the orrery.

- [moaning]

- That is the key to unlocking
his time machine, isn't it?

[dramatic musical sting]

- [moaning]

- I was surprised to find
Negroes had moved in.

How'd you let that happen
in your city?

- You come here and try and take

my lodge's rightful property,

and you have the fucking nerve
to say it to my face?

- Forgive me.

Did I miss
your official initiation

into the Order?

- I know I didn't miss yours.

No cunts allowed.

Not even if you think
you can find the stolen pages.

♪ ♪

[light mischievous music]

♪ ♪

- Let go.

[sighs]

- Told me to let go.

Unlike you, I listen.

- [sighs]

If I'd have listened to you,

we wouldn't have a lead
on Titus's vault.

- Hey, hey.

This is not my fault.

- Tic.

Catch.

[laughs]

- You're gonna love
this museum, Dee.

You won't find
a better astronomy exhibit

outside of NACA.

- [laughs]

- You got this, young lady?
- Mm-hmm.

- Why the hell would you
invite them?

This isn't a family road trip.

- You think I don't know that?

It's her damn car.

I had to tell her
where the hell we were going.

- Did you tell her
we were planning

on breaking in to the museum?

Hoping to find
a hidden vault too?

You tell her that?

- We can call this whole thing
off right now if you'd like.

- I can't believe I have
to spend the next 15 hours

with you two in a car.

[trunk slams]

- Everything okay?

- Mm-hmm.
- Yes, ma'am.

♪ ♪

Get in the car.

[engine turning over]

[brakes squeal]

- God damn it.

- Man, what the hell you doing?

- I got a filly in Philly.

Thought I'd catch a ride
with y'all to Boston.

Save myself
part of the bus fare.

- [whispering]
I didn't invite him.

What?

- Get in.

- [laughs]

- George always said
big ol' Woody could fit

the South Side of Chicago
if it had to.

[Leikeli47's "Money"]

[hip-hop music]

- ♪ Money ♪

♪ I got money ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ All my life ♪

♪ I had to grind and hustle ♪

♪ I had to work like Kobe ♪

♪ Just to shine like Russell ♪

♪ They say, "Glad you made it ♪

♪ It happened overnight" ♪

♪ They say,
"Damn, you changed" ♪

♪ I'm like, "Sho', you right" ♪

♪ I got money ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

[refined music]

♪ ♪

- Excuse me, ma'am?

Can I help you with something?

- I'm just browsing.

- Let me know
if you need anything.

- Did you just start
working here?

- Yes.

Yesterday, in fact.

Do you shop here often?

- No, I...

I didn't realize this store was
hiring colored girls.

- I know. [laughs]

I applied on a whim.

Can't believe I actually got it.

♪ ♪

[indistinct chatter]

- Welcome to the museum.

- Five.

- Oh, the Light of the Universe
exhibit is this way, Mama.

- Be back here in two hours.
- Three.

- Yes, ma'am.

♪ ♪

- Hey.

That's the guy right there.

He's expecting me.

♪ ♪

- We'll need to find
the entrance to Titus's vault.

I read the annual reports
last night.

A few renovations happened
while Titus was on the board.

You listening to me?

The vault could be
in any one of those galleries.

- Why don't we just start here?

- Hey, they got dinosaurs?

- We're not heading
in that direction.

- That's all right.

I'm sure we'll get around to it
in the next three hours.

Hey, you know
why they call me Tree, right?

Most men got two legs.

I got tree.

- Shouldn't I already know that,

since we fucked
in high school, Seymour?

[wondrous music]

♪ ♪

- Dee.

See right there?

That's a comet.

It's called Hera's Chariot.

- Hera's Chariot?

That's a cool name.

- Yes.

It was mine.

- You never told me
you named a comet.

- Not officially, I didn't.

That credit goes
to Nancy Studebaker.

- Who's that?

- She's the niece
of an astronomer in Sweden.

The astronomical society
who held a naming contest

didn't want
a little colored girl

to be the face
of their competition.

- That's...

you should've fought that, Mama.

- We know the truth.

That's all that matters.

♪ ♪

- Y'all see that comet?

My mama named it!

My mama named Hera's Chariot.

[crowd gasps with wonder]

Now they know the truth too.

[laughs]

- If everyone's ready,
let's proceed to the next room.

This way.

In this,

one of our museum's
oldest sections,

we see the many artifacts

the famed explorer
Titus Braithwaite was given

in exchange for teaching
the savage tribes

the ways of civilized man.

- Excuse me.

- His last expedition
to the Caribbean...

- So you told Letitia
what I said about her, huh?

I mean, you can have her, man.
[scoffs]

Ain't no call
trying to backstab me.

- Yeah, okay.

- Any more questions?

- I know what this about.

Yeah, this 'cause I sent you
out back

when Sammy was with that man.

I just thought
you might wanna know.

[foreboding music]

- If everyone's ready,
let's move on to the next room.

- That's Sammy's business.

- You sure it's not yours?

♪ ♪

- I'm not a sissy.

- Never said you was.

Just, uh, noticing how close

Montrose and Sammy become
since you've been gone.

♪ ♪

- [whispering] Oh, what time?

Okay. Thank you.

♪ ♪

Okay, so I spoke
to the security guard.

He gonna let us in
through the back tonight.

- How you know him again?

- What? Friend at the bar.

What? You can trust him.

Now look, we only got two hours

before the next security shift,

so I hope you found
this damn vault.

[dramatic music building]

♪ ♪

[indistinct radio chatter]

[tires squeaking]

[sneaky music]

♪ ♪

- What is he doing?
- Shit.

He sees us.

- Gentlemen.

- [grunting]

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

- [groans]

[coughs]

- Tell your captain

Ms. Braithwaite doesn't like
to be followed.

Now, if you'll excuse me,
gentlemen,

I have a date.

♪ ♪

[tense music]

♪ ♪

- This is definitely a door.

Spread out.

See if you can find a way
to open it.

♪ ♪

- Turn off your flashlights.

- Huh?

- I said turn 'em off, damn it!

♪ ♪

[tense music building]

♪ ♪

[door rumbles]

- [grunting]

[mysterious music]

♪ ♪

Mm.

♪ ♪

[wings fluttering]

♪ ♪

This is some
"Journey to the Center

of the Earth" type shit.

- Do you see Titus's pages?

- I see three tunnels.

♪ ♪

"Beware, all ye who tread
the path.

Ever the tides shall rise."

♪ ♪

We're gonna need the map
of Titus's voyages.

- Now, wait a minute.

I promised the security guard

we wouldn't mess with none
of their artifacts.

- [grunts]

[tense music]

I'm coming down!

- Wait, Le... Leti!

Leti, wait.

Shit, let me see
what we're dealing with first.

Fuck.

- [grunting]

♪ ♪

- Oh, shit. Oh, God damn it.

God damn it. Oh, shit.

[breathing heavily]

Oh, shit!

[breathing heavily]

I got it. Damn it.

Give me that.

♪ ♪

- The compass and the ledger
match up.

If we follow the logic
of adventure novels,

these three tunnels...

should relate
to Titus's expeditions,

which means all we have to do
is figure out which one,

and the buried treasure
should be at the end.

- Tour guide said his voyage
to the Caribbean was his last.

- Titus raided Guyana
for all it's worth,

which means the tunnel
would've been westbound.

- How you know he raided Guyana?

- Same way I know anything.
I read a damn book.

- Well, I read
the damn brochure,

and it said

the first renovations were done
to the museum

after he returned
from the Caribbean.

- What year was that?

- 1810.

♪ ♪

- He established
the Sons of Adam

three years later.

You might be right.

- North tunnel it is.

- Whoa, wait!

Let's think about this
for a minute.

[both sigh]

- We could always
double back, boy.

We only got two hours. Let's go.

Come on!

♪ ♪

- Y'all hold up!

- ♪ It was early this morning ♪

♪ That I had ♪

♪ My trial ♪

[bluesy guitar music]

♪ 90 days ♪

♪ On the county road ♪

♪ And the judge
didn't even smile ♪

♪ ♪

[scattered applause, chatter]

Well, fuck you too.

[sighs]

No, I can't afford another.

- Nah, blue eyes
at the end of the bar

has your tab tonight.

[uneasy music]

Ooh.

♪ ♪

- May I join you?

- Keep my glass full

and you can do
whatever you want.

[chuckles]

You didn't come over here
hoping I was modest, did you?

Nah, that's not
what you white boys come over

to the dark side for.

But I can buy my own drinks,

so you're gonna have to do
a bit more to impress me.

- What if I told you
that I could change your life

forever? - [laughs]

Then I would say that
you're not the first white boy

to offer to make me
a kept woman.

- Oh, I would never dare
insult you like that.

- [laughs] Fine.

Then I would say

that you're not
the first white boy

to promise me the world
trying to lay with me.

- It's a promise
that I can keep.

- [chuckles]

♪ ♪

- How long we been walking?

- 20 minutes.

- Hope y'all picked
the right tunnel.

- Ah.

Oh, shit.

Don't die on me now.

Son of a bitch.

[wind howling]

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

Let's find another tunnel.

- No.

No time.

We walk the plank. - No, no.

This thing probably been
down here

rotting for years, Tic.

Is it even sturdy enough
to walk on?

- You about to find out.

- Oh, hell.

♪ ♪

Oh.

Will this hold
if I plunge to my death?

- Yes.
- Are you sure?

- It's a special knot, so yeah.

- Oh, they teach you this
in the army?

- He learnt it from me.

I learnt it from my father.

He learnt it from his father,

who was an enslaved man charged
with tying down the horses.

Now, if one of those horses
got away,

my great-ancestor would've
got beat,

but on Juneteenth, he walked
off that plantation a free man,

not one whoop mark on him.

So you can best believe

this special fucking knot
that was passed down

from generations to generations
is gonna hold.

You hear me?

♪ ♪

- [groans]

♪ ♪

[wood creaking]

[tense music]

♪ ♪

[breathing heavily]

- That's good.

That's good.

You're doing good. - [gasps]

- Leti!
- Leti. Leti.

- [grunts]

- Don't look down.
- Shut up.

[wood creaking] Shit.

[exhales]

♪ ♪

- The Freemans were
never slaves.

- She out there, ain't she?

♪ ♪

[dramatic musical sting]
- [screams]

- Leti!

Leti, hey, hold on!

I'm coming!

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

What's wrong?

- There's something...
Something flying around.

[whooshes]

- Tic!

- We're okay! It's a booby trap!

- I'm coming out!

- Oh, shit. Wait, damn it!

It's o...

You're gonna have to time it

and jump through it.

All right? [whooshes]

The blade's not that fast,
so it's not a big deal.

- You just untied
the safety knot,

so it's a pretty big
fucking deal.

- Get ready.

- [breathing heavily]

- Go!

- [yells]

♪ ♪

[hissing]

♪ ♪

- Tic!

The plank is disappearing!

- [gasps]

- Okay, I'm coming.

- I can't do it, Tic.

♪ ♪

- You're gonna have
to jump, Pop.

Come on! Throw me the bag.

♪ ♪

[grunts]

[both breathing heavily]

- You better catch me, boy!

- I got you. Come on.
- [yelps]

- I got you.

[both shouting]

- Oh, shit!
- Okay.

Okay. Okay.

- What the fuck is happening
over there?

♪ ♪

- Oh, fuck.

Oh, shit! What the...

- [grunts]

Come on!

- [yells]

- [gasps]

- Go!

Run!

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

[grunting]

- Oh! These move!

- We gotta figure out
the combination.

It's the Garden of Eden.

Adam, Eve, God... shit, Monsters?

Shit.

- Adam. Adam.

- What?
- Adam named.

- What?
- Eve fucked.

God brought Monsters.

- Monsters.
- Monsters devoured.

- Eve.
- God smites Eve.

- Eve.
- [screaming]

- Shit.
- Whoo!

[screaming] - [coughing]

- Hot damn, boy,
you see my jump?

Jesse Owens ain't got shit
on me!

- [laughs] [panting]

Wait, wait, wait.
You're bleeding.

- Leti, I know.
- Let me see.

- Leti, I know. Shit.

Let's keep moving.

[ominous music]

♪ ♪

- Hey, is this water rising?

- Moonset occurred
right before we came down here.

- What?

- "Ever the tides shall rise."

High tide is three hours
after moonset,

which means...

we got less than an hour

to find the vault
and get them pages.

- Oh, shit.

- Before we drown.

♪ ♪

- She got there first.

[sniffs]

Would've been me.
Should've been me.

But I let Leti distract me.

- Who's Leti?

- My sister. Half sister.

Lying-ass...

- Why not just apply anyway?

- [sighs]
- You never know.

- [scoffs] I fucking know a lot.

I know there are 103 employees
at that damn department store,

and two of them are never
gonna be colored.

I know that because for us,

it's a rat race
to the finish line.

And it's "winner takes it all."

And I damn for sure know
that if I was in your skin,

I wouldn't even have to run.

What I don't know...

is what to do about it.

[Marilyn Manson's
"I Put a Spell on You"]

[dark rock music]

You better stop looking at me
like that.

It ain't happening, white boy.

- ♪ I put a spell on you ♪

♪ Because you're mine ♪

♪ I don't care
if you don't want me ♪

♪ 'Cause I'm yours,
yours, yours ♪

♪ Anyhow ♪

[glass shatters] - [moans]

♪ ♪

- ♪ I love you ♪

♪ I love you, I love you ♪

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

♪ ♪

♪ I put a spell on you ♪

♪ Lord, Lord, Lord ♪

♪ 'Cause you're mine, yeah ♪

♪ I don't care
if you don't want me ♪

♪ 'Cause I'm yours,
yours, yours ♪

♪ Anyhow ♪

- [moaning]

♪ ♪

- Can you slow down?

I can't see.

- Is that what they taught you
in the imperialistic army?

Leave soldiers behind?

- No.

No, I've never left
a man behind, you hear me?

Ever.

Out in the trenches, I can trust

those standing next to me.

- Hell's that supposed to mean?

- How do you know so much
about the Sons of Adam?

Hmm?

How many lodges there are?

Whatever it was that helped you
with that...

That combination back there.

How do you know that?

[foreboding music]

♪ ♪

- George gave me the Order
of the Ancient Dawn bylaws...

the night he died.

- When were you gonna
tell me that?

- Where's the book now?

- I read it and I burnt it.

- What?
- You heard me.

- Why would you do that?

Answer me!
Why would you do that?

- Because my brother told me
to protect our family!

That was his dying wish.

And I did it the night I burnt
that damn book,

closing Pandora's box
once and for good!

- Then why are you here
helping us anyway?

- Because your stupid ass
won't stop, Tic!

And I wasn't about to sit
in Chicago

while you charged head first
into the lion's den

with no backup!

- Don't yell at her.

- Get out of my way, boy!
- No.

You gonna tell me what else
was in the bylaws.

- [screams]

Tic! - Leti?

What is... what is it?

Aw, shit.

[both gasping]

- I'm pretty sure that's...
That's one of my neighbors

who went missing.

[mysterious music]

♪ ♪

[elevator whirring]

♪ ♪

[elevator dings]

Hiram Epstein was part
of the Order.

He must've been chasing
Titus's pages too.

- That's probably how
he got killed.

[dramatic music]

- It's getting too dangerous.
Y'all get in.

Take the elevator up.

- No!
- Pa, get in!

- It ain't just get dangerous.

He was kidnapped!

I died!

Can you stop acting like
this is only happening to you?

You're not the center
of the fucking universe.

♪ ♪

[pensive music]

♪ ♪

- Hey, Tic?

You have to apologize
to your girl.

- I don't think
it's gonna be that simple.

- Yeah, your mama was
complicated too.

- Mom was complicated?

She navigated you all right.

- Yeah, you got a point there.

But she was crazy
like the rest of 'em though.

Hey, you know
what your grandpa told me?

Said, "Always have a love song
for your woman.

"This way,
when they get to fussin'...

"You just sing that song
to yourself.

"When you're through,
she'll be done

"and you can get back
to what you want,

"the lovin'.

"'Cause that's all
that fussing is anyway.

Whole lotta lovin'."

♪ ♪

- This might be the vault!

♪ ♪

- [gasps]
- Oh.

- Is that an arm?

[foreboding music]

♪ ♪

- Looks like a lock.

- With the wrong key.

♪ ♪

[dramatic music building]

♪ ♪

[grunts]

- [coughs]

♪ ♪

[mysterious music]

♪ ♪

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

[all screaming]

♪ ♪

- Wait, wait, wait!

[grunts]

[mysterious droning]

[stone scraping]

[mechanism clunks]

♪ ♪

[both scream]

♪ ♪

[grunting]

[mysterious music]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- Up there!

♪ ♪

- Shit! [all screaming]

[corpse growling]

[suspenseful music]

[corpse wheezes]

♪ ♪

[corpse roars]

[all scream]

[corpse roars]

- [screaming]

♪ ♪

- [groaning]

[roars]

[wheezing]

♪ ♪

[speaking Arawak]

- Titus has been dead
for over a century.

- You understood her?

- What?

- [speaking Arawak]

- No. I mean... shit, yes. Yes.

Blood...

but not... not family.

[mysterious music]

♪ ♪

- What are you?

- Who are you?

- Yahima.

Maraokoti.

- Yahima Maraokoti.

- [speaking Arawak]

- Woman. Man.

Two spirit.

- How did you get here?

- How did you get here?

- [speaking Arawak]

- "I come from a land
of many waters."

- [speaking Arawak]

- "Titus came on his ship

"searching for ones
who could read his book.

I knew the symbols
from the cave of Alomun Kundi."

- [speaking Arawak]

- "I had no reason

to distrust him."

- [speaking Arawak]

- "I'd never encountered people
with so much hunger.

Always hungry."

- [speaking Arawak]

- "When I saw Titus
for what he was,

"I refused to decipher
another word.

"He promised to reunite me
with my people.

And he kept that promise."

- [sobbing in Arawak]

- "By killing them

and imprisoning me here."

[somber music]

♪ ♪

He was a monster.

♪ ♪

I'm... I'm sorry

for what he did to you.

But I need your help
to stop others like him

from hurting my people.

♪ ♪

- [speaking Arawak]

♪ ♪

- What'd she say?

- She said...

I am not guilty
of my forefathers' sins...

But she doesn't know my spirit.

♪ ♪

She will not help.

♪ ♪

- Let's get the damn pages
and get the hell outta here.

[foreboding music]

♪ ♪

[suspenseful music]

[glass shattering]

- Ah!

- Come on, boy!

We gotta get out of here!

- [screams]
- Come on!

- Go!

[grunts]

♪ ♪

[all gasping]

♪ ♪

[elevator dings]

♪ ♪

- [screams]

♪ ♪

[all gasping]

[sweeping romantic music]

♪ ♪

[both laugh]

- You okay?

- [high-pitched screech]

[all groaning]

[tense music]

- What was that?

♪ ♪

- How'd they get back
to Chicago without Woody?

- I don't know, Diana.

- Everything's been weird
since Pop died.

[ominous music]

- Is that your dad's atlas?

Where'd you get that?

Where'd you get it?

- I found it
in the glove compartment.

[tires squeal] What's wrong?

♪ ♪

[engine revs]

Mama, where are we going?

- To get answers.

♪ ♪

- She thinks you're right.

Titus turned her into a siren

so she couldn't speak
if she escaped his vault.

- Does she think
she can break the spell?

- She doesn't.

But I got Titus's pages now.

I'll figure it out.

Meantime, we should
teach her English.

Might be easier for her

to write down
the Language of Adam

than for us to decipher it.

- You were brave as hell
out there today, boy.

You grew to be a good man

in spite of me.

[soft music]

Your mama would've been proud.

♪ ♪

- Night, Pop.

♪ ♪

[ominous music]

♪ ♪

- I'm sorry.

- [gasps]

[Alice Smith's "Sinnerman"]

♪ ♪

- ♪ Oh, Sinnerman ♪

♪ Where you gonna run to? ♪

♪ Sinnerman ♪

♪ Where you gonna run to? ♪

♪ Sinnerman ♪

♪ Where you gonna run to? ♪

♪ All on that day ♪

♪ Well, I run to the rock ♪

♪ Please hide me ♪

♪ I run to the rock ♪

♪ Please hide me ♪

♪ I run to the rock ♪

♪ Please hide me ♪

♪ All on that day ♪

♪ But the rock cried out ♪

♪ "I can't hide you" ♪

♪ The rock cried out ♪

♪ "I can't hide you" ♪

♪ The rock cried out ♪

♪ "I ain't gonna hide you" ♪

♪ All on that day ♪

♪ I said, "Rock ♪

♪ "What's the matter
with you, Rock? ♪

♪ Can't you see
I need you, Rock?" ♪

♪ Devil was waiting ♪

♪ All on that day ♪

♪ Power ♪

♪ Power ♪

♪ I cried power ♪

♪ I cried power ♪

♪ I cried power ♪

♪ I cried power ♪

♪ ♪

children: Bad Robot.

[bright tone]

You have an invitation to do
whatever you want.

♪ (INTENSE MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

MAN: The butterfly lives
a full life before it dies.

And a caterpillar emerges

from the same cells,
yet different.

Magic exists.

Does that scare you?

- This evil is corrupting
all of us.
- No, no. Leti, Leti.

Look, it's not inherently evil,
all right.

It's what we do with it
that matters.

WOMAN: There wasn't pain.
There was something else.

CHRISTINA BRAITHWHITE: I've been
where you are. Disillusioned and pissed.

You can't relate to who I am.

CHRISTINA: Who are you really,
uninterrupted?

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪