Monsters (1988–1990): Season 1, Episode 21 - All in a Day's Work - full transcript
A man who is haunted by his doppleganger asks a witch to help him raise a demon to defeat it.
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
[CRICKETS CHIRPING]
[FATHER SIGHS]
[EXCLAIMING IN ANNOYANCE]
[UTENSILS CLATTERING]
Honey, it's family hour.
There must be something on.
DAUGHTER:
Oh, wow, Candy Critters!
[FATHER EXCLAIMS]
Oh, great. It's Monsters,
our favorite show!
[MONSTROUS LAUGH]
Shh, it's starting.
[MONSTROUS LAUGH]
[FATHER CHUCKLES]
[CAPTIVATING MUSIC PLAYING]
[WOMAN SHOUTING]
Pinch of periwinkle.
Mushrooms in this.
[PHONE RINGING]
Herbs and Herbalist.
Hi, Dad, how's the cough?
Well, are you taking
the lavender?
No. No, I'm just
finishing up a love potion.
Dad, I will not put
a curse on him.
I don't care how much
money he owes you.
Ian's fine. I'm just picking
him up from school in an hour.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
Well, I'll give him
your love.
Dad. Dad, I gotta go.
Right. I love you, too.
Bye bye.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
Who is it?
MAN: Fiona Flinn?
Who are you?
My name is Steven Rose.
Lisa Steigler
told me about you.
What does Lisa look like?
She's got brown hair
and freckles.
Uh-huh.
Blue eyes.
Uh-huh.
And a scar,
uh, above her lip.
From a bicycle accident.
Come on in.
Pretty careful, aren't you?
Well, I get
my share of weirdos.
Would you lock
the door, please?
Is this the seal of Solomon?
No. It's one of
the seals of the earth.
Keeps undesirable
spirits away.
I'm just finishing up
a love potion.
Potion.
Did she leave you?
Who?
Or is it someone
you've never met
but you've seen
on the street or in
a coffee shop or something?
Excuse me,
I'm not here...
I made you friend Lisa
a love potion.
Six months later
she was married.
I don't want to
fall in love.
I'm not in love.
Not interested.
Huh.
[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
Do you have children?
One. My son Ian.
He's in school right now.
Today's his first day
of third grade.
And... And your husband?
We were divorced
three years ago.
Love potion didn't work, huh?
What is it that you want?
I, uh...
I've got a doppelganger.
A double.
Maybe everyone does,
but mine has
manifested itself.
I can't help you.
You gotta hear me out,
please.
First few times,
it was at Grand Central.
I'd be getting off a train,
I'd be walking
toward the stairs.
It would be getting
on another train.
My double.
I'd be staring
at myself.
[SIGHS] It always
waits for me to see it.
Staring at me.
Please hear me out.
Now it's gotten bolder.
It goes places that I go.
I went into the deli
around the corner yesterday.
They smiled and said,
"Back so soon?
Did you forget something?"
I hadn't been there in a week.
Last night,
it was in my apartment.
I don't know what to do.
I think it's trying
to take over my life.
I've read that the only way
to get rid of a doppelganger
is to, uh...
...conjure up a demon.
Get out of my house.
What?
Look,
I'm sorry.
I don't do doppelgangers.
I don't do great magic
at all, I do small magic.
It's safer for me and my son.
You have to leave now.
But you've got to help me.
Look, I used to think that
all this magic stuff
was mumbo jumbo
designed to separate
fools from their money.
But this doppelganger
is real.
I don't know
where else to go.
Get out of my house now.
He followed you.
[SIGHS]
Yea, though I walk
through the valley
of the shadow of death...
You jerk!
Look, I'm...
I'm sorry. I didn't know...
I better go.
It's too late for that.
It's seen the seal on my door.
It knows all about me.
And Ian.
Why would it care
about your son?
You've done something
to bring it to you.
You'd better figure it out.
I didn't do anything.
Where are you going?
To pick up Ian from school
before your doppelganger
gets to him.
Don't answer the door.
Lighten up.
[SIGHS]
[BANGING ON DOOR]
[VOICES WHISPERING]
IAN: Okay, Mom,
let me tell you
about my story.
Now, there's this
green gorg monster
and it's eating up
all the bad guys.
Except for this one bad guy
who's really smart
who zaps the green
gorg monster
right between the eyes
with a laser gun, and...
How come you're
so uptight, Mom?
FIONA: We're back.
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
No thanks.
Ian! Get away from him!
Honey, that person you saw
in the hallway is someone
we don't like.
This is Steven.
Hi.
I think you better go
visit your grandfather.
Tonight?
Right now.
STEVEN: What are you
going to do?
FIONA:
Commit a mortal sin.
STEVEN: What do you mean?
FIONA: Well,
it's a mortal sin
to conjure up a demon.
What's that?
Copy of a manuscript
by Hebrew at Siena.
He was a 12th Century monk.
He made contact with demons.
Was that the same man?
Honey, it's all right.
Could you, uh...
Oh, okay. Sure.
Come on over here, pal.
Let's see if you have
some homework.
[THRILLING MUSIC PLAYING]
What are you drawing, Mom?
A snake.
It doesn't look
like a snake.
Well, I'm not
very much of an artist.
Did you know Steven
goes to school, too?
He does?
What do you study?
Medieval history.
I'm doing my dissertation
on pagan magical practices.
You're studying magic?
Mmm-hmm.
Don't do that!
I didn't do anything.
This is how you
manifest your doppelganger.
I said a few ancient words,
I drew some...
You people are a menace!
You study ancient practices
without really understanding
the seriousness of them.
You're like
high school students
making an atom bomb.
Wait a minute.
I have spent
my entire academic career
proving that people
shouldn't believe
in this stuff.
You don't have
to believe in it.
It believes in you.
Now help me
before it's too late.
[SCOFFS]
Fire, earth, water, air.
Fire, earth, water, air.
If you commit a mortal sin,
don't you burn
in hell forever?
Unless God thinks
you did it for
a very good reason.
Mine is my child.
Your child?
You don't get it, do you?
Your doppelganger isn't here
for you, it wants Ian.
They want the children.
[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]
[DOORKNOB RATTLING]
[VOICES WHISPERING]
I apologize for
involving you in this.
I didn't know
how serious it could get.
If you have any faith in you
use it to pray now.
[VOICES WHISPERING]
Ian! Don't open that door!
[WIND HOWLING]
Steven, in the circle!
In the circle...
What's happening?
It's your demon.
[GLASS SHATTERING]
I'm scared!
I won't let anything hurt you.
It's all right, honey.
Do we have everything we need?
Everything except that.
What do we do now?
I'm gonna try and conjure up
another demon
and get it to expel yours.
Hebra says demons change
their name according to
a pattern every 49 years.
Let's hope we get lucky.
By thy name
I conjure thee, Abimelech.
By thy name
I conjure thee, Melech.
By thy name
I conjure thee, Belphamelech.
Demon, change thy form
into something more cumly.
In the name of the son of God,
our Lord Jesus Christ,
change thy form,
Belphamelech.
What do you want, woman?
An answer to a question.
Quit eye-balling me, boy.
Booga booga.
Be civil or I'll mention you
in my prayers at night.
This person is being
plagued by one of yours.
Is that right?
Mmm-mmm-mmm.
Not one of mine.
Thy masters.
Answer out loud, Belphamelech,
or I'll say a rosary
in thy name.
All right, all right.
Yeah.
One of my masters' servants
plagues him.
Good. Fetch it.
Magika, I can't do that.
I'm a nothing.
A minor, a screw tape.
I'll be clawed and gutted
and left to drip blood
for 100,000 years.
I said fetch it.
A demon can't betray
another demon.
I won't be able to go back.
Hey. I give you
diamonds instead, huh?
I want the doppelganger demon.
For the kid? Hmm?
FIONA:
Stay where you are, Ian.
Hey, kid.
You do as I say, Belphamelech,
or I'll inscribe a blessed
candle with your name.
He'll run my hands over
hot coals and rip out
my fingernails.
All the demons will
make my life hell in hell.
And I'll burn the candle
as an offering in St. Patricks.
A long candle.
We need the canister.
I'll get it.
No! You can't leave the circle.
It'll make us vulnerable.
Something smells.
It smells like ammonia.
A demon's coming.
It's Steven.
Ooh, doggy.
Tell me its name, Belphamelech.
You know I can't deal with it
unless I know its name.
How about I make you famous?
Wanna be a rock star?
Wanna be in the movies?
And the angel of the Lord
declared unto Mary and she
conceived of the holy spirit.
Listen, stop it with
the Bible stuff.
You're killing me here. Okay?
Okay. His name is...
Dramon.
Yeah.
What is it?
[GROWLING]
It's staring at me.
Can I split now, Magika?
Soon.
I have a task for you first.
I'm going to send
my assistant across
the room to get something.
If anything happens to him
I will call you up
every evening
until the year 2009,
and sprinkle holy water on you.
Oh. Oh, okay. Okay.
Go ahead.
Send your assistant.
Mom,
that thing's staring at me.
[GROWLING]
Go get the canister.
Watch it, watch it.
We need it.
[CHUCKLES]
[DRAMON GROWLING]
Watch it, watch it.
Watch it, watch it.
[CHUCKLING]
Put the lamb skin on it.
Mom, make that thing
stop staring at me.
I'm trying to, honey.
You just stay in the circle.
Uh, Magika, can I go now?
I don't want to be here,
okay? I don't need this.
Not yet. You put
Dramon in the canister.
In the name of the Father
and the Son
and the Holy Ghost--
Dramon!
Is it in there?
Yes.
Put wax all around the edges.
STEVEN: What do you mean?
He's not an assistant.
He doesn't know anything.
It has to be
completely sealed.
Ian, all the toys in
the world can be yours.
You just come on out.
Ian, stay in the circle.
Magika, your son stepped
out of the circle.
No!
Just kidding.
[FIONA YELLS]
Ian, help me!
[GROWLING]
IAN: Mom!
[GRUNTING]
[LAUGHS]
[PRAYS IN LATIN]
You committed a mortal sin.
[GROWLING]
[ALL GROANING]
[GRUNTS]
[LAUGHS MOCKINGLY]
Yeah.
FIONA: No!
IAN: Mom!
FIONA: No!
[FIONA SCREAMS]
[GROWLING]
Help!
STEVEN: Ian, the canister.
We have to seal the canister.
[FIONA SCREAMS]
Hey, no, no, no, no.
[LIGHTNING CRASHING]
Are you okay?
Yeah.
Thank you, buddy.
Can we get out
of the circle now?
Yes.
[SIGHS] See there?
You do great magic after all.
Well, I almost
got us all killed.
If you hadn't held me.
Well,
destroying a demon
makes up for conjuring one.
I guess my heavenly
tablet is clean.
Can Steven stay for dinner?
Hey, Mom,
what do we do about him?
Magika. [COUGHS]
Listen, uh,
got no place to go now.
Can't go back there.
Hey, um,
you need an assistant?
Yeah. Need some
help around here?
Start dinner.
Huh?
Damn.
Can't believe this woman.
Now she's got me
fixing dinner.
Yeah, I'll fix it.
Fix it real good.
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
[CRICKETS CHIRPING]
[FATHER SIGHS]
[EXCLAIMING IN ANNOYANCE]
[UTENSILS CLATTERING]
Honey, it's family hour.
There must be something on.
DAUGHTER:
Oh, wow, Candy Critters!
[FATHER EXCLAIMS]
Oh, great. It's Monsters,
our favorite show!
[MONSTROUS LAUGH]
Shh, it's starting.
[MONSTROUS LAUGH]
[FATHER CHUCKLES]
[CAPTIVATING MUSIC PLAYING]
[WOMAN SHOUTING]
Pinch of periwinkle.
Mushrooms in this.
[PHONE RINGING]
Herbs and Herbalist.
Hi, Dad, how's the cough?
Well, are you taking
the lavender?
No. No, I'm just
finishing up a love potion.
Dad, I will not put
a curse on him.
I don't care how much
money he owes you.
Ian's fine. I'm just picking
him up from school in an hour.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
Well, I'll give him
your love.
Dad. Dad, I gotta go.
Right. I love you, too.
Bye bye.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
Who is it?
MAN: Fiona Flinn?
Who are you?
My name is Steven Rose.
Lisa Steigler
told me about you.
What does Lisa look like?
She's got brown hair
and freckles.
Uh-huh.
Blue eyes.
Uh-huh.
And a scar,
uh, above her lip.
From a bicycle accident.
Come on in.
Pretty careful, aren't you?
Well, I get
my share of weirdos.
Would you lock
the door, please?
Is this the seal of Solomon?
No. It's one of
the seals of the earth.
Keeps undesirable
spirits away.
I'm just finishing up
a love potion.
Potion.
Did she leave you?
Who?
Or is it someone
you've never met
but you've seen
on the street or in
a coffee shop or something?
Excuse me,
I'm not here...
I made you friend Lisa
a love potion.
Six months later
she was married.
I don't want to
fall in love.
I'm not in love.
Not interested.
Huh.
[SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
Do you have children?
One. My son Ian.
He's in school right now.
Today's his first day
of third grade.
And... And your husband?
We were divorced
three years ago.
Love potion didn't work, huh?
What is it that you want?
I, uh...
I've got a doppelganger.
A double.
Maybe everyone does,
but mine has
manifested itself.
I can't help you.
You gotta hear me out,
please.
First few times,
it was at Grand Central.
I'd be getting off a train,
I'd be walking
toward the stairs.
It would be getting
on another train.
My double.
I'd be staring
at myself.
[SIGHS] It always
waits for me to see it.
Staring at me.
Please hear me out.
Now it's gotten bolder.
It goes places that I go.
I went into the deli
around the corner yesterday.
They smiled and said,
"Back so soon?
Did you forget something?"
I hadn't been there in a week.
Last night,
it was in my apartment.
I don't know what to do.
I think it's trying
to take over my life.
I've read that the only way
to get rid of a doppelganger
is to, uh...
...conjure up a demon.
Get out of my house.
What?
Look,
I'm sorry.
I don't do doppelgangers.
I don't do great magic
at all, I do small magic.
It's safer for me and my son.
You have to leave now.
But you've got to help me.
Look, I used to think that
all this magic stuff
was mumbo jumbo
designed to separate
fools from their money.
But this doppelganger
is real.
I don't know
where else to go.
Get out of my house now.
He followed you.
[SIGHS]
Yea, though I walk
through the valley
of the shadow of death...
You jerk!
Look, I'm...
I'm sorry. I didn't know...
I better go.
It's too late for that.
It's seen the seal on my door.
It knows all about me.
And Ian.
Why would it care
about your son?
You've done something
to bring it to you.
You'd better figure it out.
I didn't do anything.
Where are you going?
To pick up Ian from school
before your doppelganger
gets to him.
Don't answer the door.
Lighten up.
[SIGHS]
[BANGING ON DOOR]
[VOICES WHISPERING]
IAN: Okay, Mom,
let me tell you
about my story.
Now, there's this
green gorg monster
and it's eating up
all the bad guys.
Except for this one bad guy
who's really smart
who zaps the green
gorg monster
right between the eyes
with a laser gun, and...
How come you're
so uptight, Mom?
FIONA: We're back.
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
No thanks.
Ian! Get away from him!
Honey, that person you saw
in the hallway is someone
we don't like.
This is Steven.
Hi.
I think you better go
visit your grandfather.
Tonight?
Right now.
STEVEN: What are you
going to do?
FIONA:
Commit a mortal sin.
STEVEN: What do you mean?
FIONA: Well,
it's a mortal sin
to conjure up a demon.
What's that?
Copy of a manuscript
by Hebrew at Siena.
He was a 12th Century monk.
He made contact with demons.
Was that the same man?
Honey, it's all right.
Could you, uh...
Oh, okay. Sure.
Come on over here, pal.
Let's see if you have
some homework.
[THRILLING MUSIC PLAYING]
What are you drawing, Mom?
A snake.
It doesn't look
like a snake.
Well, I'm not
very much of an artist.
Did you know Steven
goes to school, too?
He does?
What do you study?
Medieval history.
I'm doing my dissertation
on pagan magical practices.
You're studying magic?
Mmm-hmm.
Don't do that!
I didn't do anything.
This is how you
manifest your doppelganger.
I said a few ancient words,
I drew some...
You people are a menace!
You study ancient practices
without really understanding
the seriousness of them.
You're like
high school students
making an atom bomb.
Wait a minute.
I have spent
my entire academic career
proving that people
shouldn't believe
in this stuff.
You don't have
to believe in it.
It believes in you.
Now help me
before it's too late.
[SCOFFS]
Fire, earth, water, air.
Fire, earth, water, air.
If you commit a mortal sin,
don't you burn
in hell forever?
Unless God thinks
you did it for
a very good reason.
Mine is my child.
Your child?
You don't get it, do you?
Your doppelganger isn't here
for you, it wants Ian.
They want the children.
[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]
[DOORKNOB RATTLING]
[VOICES WHISPERING]
I apologize for
involving you in this.
I didn't know
how serious it could get.
If you have any faith in you
use it to pray now.
[VOICES WHISPERING]
Ian! Don't open that door!
[WIND HOWLING]
Steven, in the circle!
In the circle...
What's happening?
It's your demon.
[GLASS SHATTERING]
I'm scared!
I won't let anything hurt you.
It's all right, honey.
Do we have everything we need?
Everything except that.
What do we do now?
I'm gonna try and conjure up
another demon
and get it to expel yours.
Hebra says demons change
their name according to
a pattern every 49 years.
Let's hope we get lucky.
By thy name
I conjure thee, Abimelech.
By thy name
I conjure thee, Melech.
By thy name
I conjure thee, Belphamelech.
Demon, change thy form
into something more cumly.
In the name of the son of God,
our Lord Jesus Christ,
change thy form,
Belphamelech.
What do you want, woman?
An answer to a question.
Quit eye-balling me, boy.
Booga booga.
Be civil or I'll mention you
in my prayers at night.
This person is being
plagued by one of yours.
Is that right?
Mmm-mmm-mmm.
Not one of mine.
Thy masters.
Answer out loud, Belphamelech,
or I'll say a rosary
in thy name.
All right, all right.
Yeah.
One of my masters' servants
plagues him.
Good. Fetch it.
Magika, I can't do that.
I'm a nothing.
A minor, a screw tape.
I'll be clawed and gutted
and left to drip blood
for 100,000 years.
I said fetch it.
A demon can't betray
another demon.
I won't be able to go back.
Hey. I give you
diamonds instead, huh?
I want the doppelganger demon.
For the kid? Hmm?
FIONA:
Stay where you are, Ian.
Hey, kid.
You do as I say, Belphamelech,
or I'll inscribe a blessed
candle with your name.
He'll run my hands over
hot coals and rip out
my fingernails.
All the demons will
make my life hell in hell.
And I'll burn the candle
as an offering in St. Patricks.
A long candle.
We need the canister.
I'll get it.
No! You can't leave the circle.
It'll make us vulnerable.
Something smells.
It smells like ammonia.
A demon's coming.
It's Steven.
Ooh, doggy.
Tell me its name, Belphamelech.
You know I can't deal with it
unless I know its name.
How about I make you famous?
Wanna be a rock star?
Wanna be in the movies?
And the angel of the Lord
declared unto Mary and she
conceived of the holy spirit.
Listen, stop it with
the Bible stuff.
You're killing me here. Okay?
Okay. His name is...
Dramon.
Yeah.
What is it?
[GROWLING]
It's staring at me.
Can I split now, Magika?
Soon.
I have a task for you first.
I'm going to send
my assistant across
the room to get something.
If anything happens to him
I will call you up
every evening
until the year 2009,
and sprinkle holy water on you.
Oh. Oh, okay. Okay.
Go ahead.
Send your assistant.
Mom,
that thing's staring at me.
[GROWLING]
Go get the canister.
Watch it, watch it.
We need it.
[CHUCKLES]
[DRAMON GROWLING]
Watch it, watch it.
Watch it, watch it.
[CHUCKLING]
Put the lamb skin on it.
Mom, make that thing
stop staring at me.
I'm trying to, honey.
You just stay in the circle.
Uh, Magika, can I go now?
I don't want to be here,
okay? I don't need this.
Not yet. You put
Dramon in the canister.
In the name of the Father
and the Son
and the Holy Ghost--
Dramon!
Is it in there?
Yes.
Put wax all around the edges.
STEVEN: What do you mean?
He's not an assistant.
He doesn't know anything.
It has to be
completely sealed.
Ian, all the toys in
the world can be yours.
You just come on out.
Ian, stay in the circle.
Magika, your son stepped
out of the circle.
No!
Just kidding.
[FIONA YELLS]
Ian, help me!
[GROWLING]
IAN: Mom!
[GRUNTING]
[LAUGHS]
[PRAYS IN LATIN]
You committed a mortal sin.
[GROWLING]
[ALL GROANING]
[GRUNTS]
[LAUGHS MOCKINGLY]
Yeah.
FIONA: No!
IAN: Mom!
FIONA: No!
[FIONA SCREAMS]
[GROWLING]
Help!
STEVEN: Ian, the canister.
We have to seal the canister.
[FIONA SCREAMS]
Hey, no, no, no, no.
[LIGHTNING CRASHING]
Are you okay?
Yeah.
Thank you, buddy.
Can we get out
of the circle now?
Yes.
[SIGHS] See there?
You do great magic after all.
Well, I almost
got us all killed.
If you hadn't held me.
Well,
destroying a demon
makes up for conjuring one.
I guess my heavenly
tablet is clean.
Can Steven stay for dinner?
Hey, Mom,
what do we do about him?
Magika. [COUGHS]
Listen, uh,
got no place to go now.
Can't go back there.
Hey, um,
you need an assistant?
Yeah. Need some
help around here?
Start dinner.
Huh?
Damn.
Can't believe this woman.
Now she's got me
fixing dinner.
Yeah, I'll fix it.
Fix it real good.
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]