Nancy Drew (2019–…): Season 2, Episode 3 - The Secret of Solitary Scribe - full transcript
Every one of us lives with a clock.
Most of the time we don't hear it tick.
But when the end is near,
because you and your
friends made a bad deal
with a vengeful sea spirit,
and she's coming to
kill you in three days,
that ticking clock drowns
out everything else.
Here. Quaint carriage house, furnished.
You should look at this.
Okay. So, Nancy's tracking the
only known Aglaeca survivor,
and...
what are we doing?
We're doing this.
First you were on my couch
and then Nancy's couch.
It's time for a place of your own.
Three days, George.
Three days to beat the
Aglaeca or die trying.
Is finding me a rental
really a priority?
It is to me, okay?
This is my way of telling the universe
that in three days life moves on
and we're still gonna be here.
I'm buying green bananas.
Don't try to tell me otherwise.
Oh, my God.
They're buying produce,
and you're washing dishes.
Near the death cooler
with the meat hooks.
Great.
Should you even be here?
I tried staying home.
But my mom is out of town,
my dad and I just argue,
so this feels a lot better.
Okay, fine. Um, since I have you,
I have an idea.
So, Lucy's bones are what got
us here in the first place,
and-and I know that Nancy wants
to bury her mum, but...
what if we just give the bones
back to the Aglaeca?
What are you saying, we just
throw the bones back into the sea,
and the Aglaeca calls off everything?
Yeah. Yeah, bingo.
No more death sentence.
Wait. Look. I... I did some research,
and I found dozens of
cases throughout time.
Okay, the binding tablets of Macedonia,
the stones of St. Anne's Well...
it's all here.
Like a curse reverse.
Yeah.
- Okay, let's ask Hannah Gruen.
- Okay, good.
But even if we want to do it,
we don't have all the bones.
What?
The day that we put Lucy's
skeleton back together,
- there was a piece missing.
- Yeah.
A piece of Lucy's skull.
I-I... I found it,
and I hid it from Detective Tamura.
I-I thought you took it.
No.
So... none of us have it?
- What, Tamura found it?
- Yes!
Of course Tamura found it!
Okay, he already doesn't like us,
and now... now... he's gonna
think we're grave robbers
and-and bone smugglers...
Let's try to live long enough
for Tamura to be our biggest problem.
I'll get the bone.
You go talk to Hannah.
Yes, okay.
- Welcome to Lily's. Can I help you?
- Well, um...
Oh, you're Lily. Ha.
- Great name for a florist.
- Yes.
Almost like I had no choice.
Um, I was visiting the grave of
a dear friend the other night,
and I noticed that somebody left
this beautiful wreath of white roses.
The groundskeeper told me
that it came from your shop.
I would just really like
to issue a thank you.
Um, if-if you could give me their name
or their phone number, maybe...
Oh, no, that's legally impossible.
Legally?
Is there some kind of
florist-client privilege
I don't know about?
Well, in here there is. The answer's no.
Was there anything else?
No. I'm just gonna look around.
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Lily's Garden, can I help you?
I'm getting married this
afternoon, 150 guests.
My florist was just extradited.
Can you help me?
Oh, I would suggest zinnias, dahlias
and English daisies. I'll go count.
Oh, big day. Big, big day.
Come on, give me something.
Bingo, a phone number.
You have got to be kidding me.
Hi, you've reached the
law office of Carson Drew.
Carson Drew, the gift
that keeps on giving.
Your dad Carson?
Carson Drew sent the flowers
to the 1975 victims?
Yep. And he's been doing it
every year for over a decade.
How many secrets can one guy have?
What about AJ?
There's no mention of AJ,
just the note that went
along with the flowers:
"Forgive me, Kitsune", and
Carson Drew's phone number.
So the only connection we have
to the sole survivor of the Aglaeca...
Is the one guy that I don't know
if I can have a conversation with
without losing my mind.
Yeah. So that's why I'm
meeting him in a public place,
right here, and you guys...
We're like the ambulance
on standby at the Indy 500.
Exactly.
If everything goes up in
flames, get me out of there.
How are you?
Why do you send flowers
to the same five graves
at Hillside Cemetery every
year on the same day?
- What?
- Five graves.
Hillside Cemetery... every year.
Do you know what I'm
talking about? Yes or no?
Yes, but...
that's what you want to talk about?
I was hoping that maybe
you were ready to...
Oh, I don't know if I'll
ever be ready for that.
The guy that sends the
flowers' name is AJ.
Are you sending the flowers
for AJ, or are you AJ?
AJ Nishiyama.
He goes by AJ Crane.
You've probably seen his books.
AJ Crane, the horror novelist?
I was his lawyer years ago, briefly.
I arranged for that delivery.
White roses every year on Harbor Day.
Why was his lawyer doing
his flower purchasing?
Because AJ was a total
recluse, even back then.
He bought an old hunting
cabin up in the woods,
almost never left it.
Refused to deal with the outside world.
- Like Salinger?
- Or Kaczynski.
- I need his address.
- I won't give you his address.
But I'll take you there.
It's a two-hour drive.
It'll give us a chance to keep talking.
Quiet drive.
What?
Go away!
AJ, it's, um... it's Carson Drew,
your former attorney.
There was an old transaction
that I was hoping we could discuss.
AJ.
Look, he was eccentric
and prickly 15 years ago,
I can only imagine
it's gotten worse, so...
AJ.
- You're alive.
- Sorry to bother you.
I would have called, but
you don't have a phone.
So people don't bother me.
Inside.
Make it quick.
Who's she?
- This is my...
- I'm Nancy,
and I need to know about Mac,
Perry, Rita, Javier and Autumn.
What happened in 1975?
If you're asking, you already know.
How are they dead and you're not?
Nancy, what kind of question is that?
You got a portent, didn't
you? How'd you survive it?
- Please.
- You called her, too?
My seven days are almost up,
and I'm...
They're coming.
- Who's coming? And what seven days?
- What is that?
What do you... what
do you keep looking at?
I can't help you.
You don't want what I
have. Fend for yourself.
AJ, I need...
If you know what's good for you,
you're gonna get the hell out right now!
- Don't threaten her.
- AJ...
It's not me threatening her, Drew.
- Go!
- Please, stop.
- Go! Go!
- Please! AJ...
Nancy, we're leaving. Let's go.
Looks like some sort of talisman.
Yeah, I got it off of someone
who survived the Aglaeca.
You found AJ Nishiyama?
AJ Crane, actually.
- But what are you doing here?
- Whoa, whoa, wait.
AJ is AJ Crane. Like, the AJ Crane?
I've read all of his books.
Did you meet him?
Yes. Um, so he kept looking at this
like it was a security blanket.
Is it possible that it could
repel the Aglaeca?
I could check the archives,
but it's probably a long shot.
Okay. Thank you.
Um, hey...
w-what if we just returned
Lucy's bones to the Aglaeca?
- What? Back into the ocean? No.
- Why?
It could cancel the curse.
I've-I've done research.
I have documentation.
It could be worth exploring.
No, we're not doing it, Bess.
It doesn't make sense.
Nothing we've done so
far makes any sense.
Nothing is working,
Nancy, and...
everyone wants to try this.
When were you all gonna tell me?
I'm telling you now.
Going to lunch.
Joyce is in charge. No parties.
Yo, Fred, you...
You're not Fred.
Where's Fred?
The new detective transferred
him to traffic duty.
Detective Tamura?
Why would he do that?
I mean, I'd ask the guy,
but he went to lunch.
Said the evidence room security was lax.
Too many civilians in and out.
Well, that makes sense.
I mean, what, with the
human skull that he found.
You don't want a lot of people
just popping in to say "hello".
What human skull?
Ooh, Dad. What are you doing here?
Again? What happened to retirement?
You never tell me when
you're coming in to work.
I'm part of this family, too.
Well, tonight I have
plans with my friends.
Uh... I'll be there.
I'll be there. See you
tonight at sundown.
Okay? All right.
Do you have a nice jacket?
Landlords like to rent to tenants
who wear nice jackets.
Yeah, yeah, it's just
under my top hat. George.
Polo shirt. See, this works.
Look, listen, before I go ask
for a three-day lease
with an option for death...
Okay, stop! Just stop.
It gets to me, too, all right?
Hey, okay. It's okay.
Look, I didn't come here to
pick out clothing with you.
I came because, if we have
less than three days left,
I don't want to be apart for any of it.
Me, neither.
It's not fair... you and me.
I just... I keep thinking
about all the things
we're gonna miss, like...
We're never gonna have a road trip,
or an anniversary for our first kiss.
Or wake up in the same bed,
argue over who stole the covers.
Or even get to bed in the first place.
I don't want to miss everything, Nick.
- Mmm.
- Mmm.
Oh, my. Oh, my God. Nancy. I...
Oh, we were, we were just, um, uh, uh...
Look, I don't need details.
- We're so sorry, Nancy.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Uh, we're gonna go. We're gonna...
- Sorry.
We're gonna go.
Hello?
Where's your daughter, Drew?
AJ?
That girl took something of mine,
and now hell is coming for her.
AJ, what are you talking about?
Hello? AJ!
Hello?
Nancy, it's Hannah.
Do you still have that talisman?
Yeah, I'm looking right at it.
Get rid of it.
That pattern...
it's the mark of the bhoot.
Malevolent spirits on
the Indian subcontinent.
What does that mean?
It doesn't repel spirits.
It attracts them.
It's bait for the most vicious
and dangerous ghosts in the area.
Nancy, you need to get...
Hannah?
Hannah?!
Don't look back!
Get down! Stay there.
Cover your ears! Do it!
- My talisman.
- Are you okay?
- What was that?
- Where-Where's my talisman?
Police!
AJ Crane, put your hands up.
What? No. Wait, wait.
What are you doing?
Your father asked me to check the house.
- My father?
- You're under arrest
for breaking and entering.
You have the right to remain silent.
- Anything you say...
- No! He didn't do anything!
I need to talk to him.
A Hudson getting his own groceries.
What is it, a full moon or something?
They're for Patrice Dodd.
That's unexpected.
You're, uh, getting groceries
for Lucy's mom now?
Yeah, well, she's all alone,
so I started visiting her.
I figured it was a...
a way to honor Lucy.
Is that supposed to make me feel better
about being your daughter?
I don't know. Does it?
Forget it. I... need a favor.
See, that right there... that's
the opposite of unexpected.
I know, but think about all
the times I didn't ask you
for money or braces or dance lessons
or keys to the Porsche.
Okay, Nancy. What's the favor?
I know that Horseshoe Bay P.D.
is under new management,
but does the Hudson name
still have juice there?
Hey! I want to see a lawyer!
Mr. Crane?
- You brought it?
- Yeah.
I, um...
I'm really sorry that I took it.
I... I didn't know what else to do.
Can you tell me how it works? Please?
Yeah, Shabbat. It's a
whole thing with my dad.
He converted when he married my mom.
Bess, don't worry.
I will be at the shoreline
in time for low tide.
I got to go. Bye.
Mom come back early?
Ace.
Heard I missed you at the station today.
Thanks for welcoming me into your home.
- You look surprised.
- No.
This is... this is my Shabbat face.
Ah.
How did all this come about?
"Ran into Detective Tamura after lunch.
Told him about our Shabbat
dinner, and he said..."
The hardest part about
moving to a new town
is having no one to
celebrate Shabbat with.
Well...
It's amazing. Uh...
The same day that I
visited the police station,
you got yourself invited to dinner here.
It is amazing, no bones about it.
I didn't know that you were Jewish.
- Half-Jewish.
- Half-Jewish.
Here's a thought. Why...
Why don't we let our guest
say the Motzi?
"We don't need to put Abe
on the spot like that".
Actually, I'm-I'm happy
to take a stab at it.
See if I can remember all the words.
Baruch ata, Adonai Eloheinu,
melech ha'olam,
hamotzi lechem min ha'aretz.
I could sing it, too, if you guys...
Oh, that's okay. He can't hear.
You look hungry. We should just...
go right into it.
There were six of us in the car.
Six... stupid teenagers.
Mac was driving too fast,
trying to scare Rita.
We skidded through a red light,
slammed into a station wagon,
and it burst into flame.
Did you...
God protects idiots.
The other driver and...
his wife were both killed.
They pulled a three-year-old
girl out of the wreckage.
She wasn't expected
to survive the night.
It was our fault.
We had to do something.
So you called to the Aglaeca.
We asked to make sure
the little girl lived.
Mm. We couldn't pay the toll.
Yeah, just like us.
The little girl...
After she got out of the burn unit,
she was adopted by a couple
that ran the historical society.
Oh, my God.
The scars on her arms are burns.
The-the little girl was Hannah Gruen?
The Aglaeca always keeps
her end of the bargain.
Seven days later,
my five friends were dead.
But you're not.
How is that? How'd you do it?
My friends stayed put. I hit the road.
But you can't outrun the Aglaeca.
She'll find you, wherever you are.
So...
... I started looking for anything
that would keep a monster at bay.
And I found it,
in a pawn shop in New Orleans.
It's like a magnet.
It draws the most malevolent
spirits around to you,
so the Aglaeca stays away.
How do you keep a man-eating
tiger out of your tent?
Make sure to keep yourself
covered with the most
poisonous spiders you can find.
And if you're an orphan
and your will to survive far
outweighs everything else,
you endure the pain.
They come in waves.
Every single day for 44 years.
And there's no other way out?
I've looked.
If there's another way
out, I haven't found it.
They're coming.
- You should go.
- Wait.
Um, my-my friend Bess, she-she
came up with this theory.
W-What if we give back what
we asked the Aglaeca for?
I asked for a little girl to live.
That option isn't available
to me anymore.
Y-Yeah, but-but... but what about us?
Try anything. Just don't end up like me.
- Now go.
- Are you gonna be all right?
Get the hell out!
Go! Go!
Bess? I'm in.
Let's give that bitch the bones back.
Oh. Uh...
Um, this is all they had.
I mean, I-I wanted it to have a view.
Or, um, or, um...
less colorful sheets.
Or maybe the...
Nick.
It's perfect.
I'm here, you're here.
It's just us.
Can I kiss you?
You know this was my idea.
Oh, was it? I'm pretty
sure it was, it was mine.
But if you want to rewrite history...
Wait.
What is it?
You okay?
I want to be, but I'm not.
It's just that...
... when I close my eyes,
all I can think about
is what's waiting for us.
For the both of us.
In the truck.
Yeah.
Me, too.
While your dad's in the kitchen,
is there something
you want to say to me?
Well, you knocked it out of
the park with that Hebrew.
Did you pick it up today? YouTube?
My bar mitzvah. Temple Sinai.
You know why I'm here.
You took something from my office today.
I don't even know where your office is.
Try again.
Detective, I don't know
what you're talking about.
Did you misplace something?
Listen to me, you walking haircut...
What's going on?
I found a human skull bone in The Claw,
and this afternoon that bone
went missing from my office.
You found a human bone at The Claw?
Okay, Brando, dial it down.
And why was a human bone in your office,
- and not the evidence room?
- Enough.
I'm gonna search you, search
your room until I find it.
All right?
"Not without a warrant".
He says this is his house
and his son, whom he trusts, so...
if you want to search, go see a judge.
Thanks for dinner.
Ace?
We'll talk.
Shabbat shalom.
I didn't do anything wrong,
but it's pretty deep.
You can't.
My friends and I, we-we think
that we're gonna fix it tonight,
but that means that I have
to go, like, right now.
Thank you.
Lucy, I'm sorry that I couldn't
give you a better burial.
Hey.
She's saving your life.
It's what she would've wanted.
Aglaeca,
guardian of the mighty sea...
You hateful, vindictive,
sex-life stealing,
- mortality-sucking...
- Hey, shush!
We humbly ask that you forgive our debt.
In return, we offer you
the bones of Lucy Sable.
What once was yours is yours again.
What more does she want?
We know what she wants.
Aglaeca, forgive our debt.
What we requested, we've returned.
She took the bones back.
That one really likes her blood.
HBPD.
If that's Tamura, I'm not here.
Hello?
Where's AJ Crane?
30 minutes after you left, he escaped.
You're gonna tell me you don't
know how that happened?
I don't know how that happened.
Wait, I do.
I do.
Okay, so in one of his
books, The Cold Cell,
the guy spends three years
researching the company
who manufactures the prison's
bars, doors and hinges.
It's in the hinges.
Check the hinges!
We just had a sighting
on Chestnut Street.
- He's headed east.
- Set up a roadblock. Then...
check the hinges.
You and your friends,
we're gonna have a real
come-to-Jesus when this is over.
"Come to Jesus"?
The man had a bar mitzvah. Pick a lane.
Nancy, what's wrong?
AJ was spotted on Chestnut Street.
Hey, that's the historical society.
Yeah, what if we're not the only ones
trying to return something
to the Aglaeca tonight?
Well, what did AJ ask for?
Hannah Gruen's life.
Ace and Bess are checking the attic.
No sign of Hannah yet.
Okay, I'll try her phone again.
Oh, my God.
AJ?
AJ, stop.
Is this the plan?
Hannah dies in a car fire,
like she was supposed to,
you give her back to the Aglaeca?
For 44 years I let the worst
kind of monsters destroy me
every single day. I'm through.
You think that this ends your suffering?
Because it doesn't. I-I
think it'll be worse.
You can't avoid the
monster when it's you.
You are not a monster.
You are a survivor.
So give me the matches.
Give me the matches.
- Nancy!
- Oh, my God.
Uh, Hannah's in the car. Call 911.
Oh, my God, AJ Crane, I... I
have read all of your books...
Bess, not now.
Hey, she's breathing.
Hello? Uh, yeah, yeah.
Uh, we need, we need
assistance. We're at the, uh...
Hey, Nancy.
Let him go.
Is that his?
AJ, wait. Hey.
You're not gonna get very far.
I left it for you.
The Aglaeca's out there
waiting. You're unprotected.
Turns out I was never protected.
All those years alone with your demons,
it's... it's just another
way of being dead.
The Aglaeca can have
whatever's left of me.
What are we doing here?
Yeah, are any of us gonna wish that
we spent one more night at work?
We're celebrating.
What, you think the
curse reverse worked?
Called off the Aglaeca?
I don't know. Maybe. Maybe not.
But what I do know is that no
matter what happens tomorrow
or the next day,
the five of us were here today.
Yeah, we are.
Desserts all around.
Yeah, I like that. And for the record,
yes, I do think the curse
has been reversed.
Oh, no.
It's Lucy's bones.
No return policy.
I hate this store.
Hey, um...
I'm sorry I steamrolled you
into using your mother's remains
as some kind of offering.
That's okay. At least we got 'em back.
And we're not giving up,
- there's...
- Hey, guys, check your phones.
National News Alert.
"Renowned horror author
dies in freak accident".
- Oh, my God.
- "Writer AJ Crane was killed Friday
when an errant weather
vane fell from a rooftop
and impaled him in front
of horrified residents".
"Grieving fans are claiming
he predicted his own death
in his recent best seller..."
"He Died Alone".
Hey, I-I've read that one.
Yeah, it's... it's the scariest
book he's ever written.
Two more nights.
That's it.
Don't think about it.
I'll walk you home.
Nick...
let's get in the truck.
No.
The day after tomorrow,
we die in that truck.
Okay, and you know what?
I don't care anymore.
We're still here,
and the Aglaeca doesn't
get to ruin everything.
I'm tired of being afraid.
We're reclaiming your truck.
Get in.
All those years alone with your demons,
it's... it's just another
way of being dead.
Hey.
Hi.
I, uh...
I wanted to say goodbye
to my mother, to Lucy,
and I was just wondering if
you wanted to come with me.
Always.
Her headstone at the cemetery
gets tagged every year
by high school kids.
I don't know, it just
feels like that's where
the town ghost story is buried.
Lucy would want it to be somewhere else.
I just feel it.
Sylvan Woods.
It's peaceful.
Yeah. She loved it here.
She wrote about it in her journal.
Hey.
Did you... maybe want to invite Ryan?
Huh.
Yeah, this is the spot.
Rise and shine, you crazy kids.
We're going on a field trip.
Yeah, you reclaimed the truck.
That's a baller move.
Walk away.
Well, you were right.
This place is beyond creepy.
And in the middle of nowhere.
Which is why we buried
the talisman here.
But before we go...
Great.
AJ spent decades of his life
trying to figure out
how to beat the Aglaeca,
and all of his notes are here.
Yeah, it's like being inside
the brain of a crazy man.
Here is something.
Hey, what is that?
I think he was trying
to build a dybbuk box.
Um, follow-up question:
what is a dybbuk box?
Uh, in Jewish folklore,
the dybbuk's an evil spirit.
Just like the Aglaeca. And
you use this to trap it.
And it looks like he never finished it.
So he never got the chance to try it.
So there we go. We-we finish the box,
and we trap the Aglaeca.
Best plan I've heard since
the last plan I heard.
Hey, guys, what was that?
- The wind?
- They're coming.
The talisman drew the spirits back.
All right, people,
grab whatever you can.
We are vacating the premises.
Ace.
You got that over there?
- Come on, let's go. Let's go.
- Come on, guys.
- Synced and corrected by Firefly -
-
Most of the time we don't hear it tick.
But when the end is near,
because you and your
friends made a bad deal
with a vengeful sea spirit,
and she's coming to
kill you in three days,
that ticking clock drowns
out everything else.
Here. Quaint carriage house, furnished.
You should look at this.
Okay. So, Nancy's tracking the
only known Aglaeca survivor,
and...
what are we doing?
We're doing this.
First you were on my couch
and then Nancy's couch.
It's time for a place of your own.
Three days, George.
Three days to beat the
Aglaeca or die trying.
Is finding me a rental
really a priority?
It is to me, okay?
This is my way of telling the universe
that in three days life moves on
and we're still gonna be here.
I'm buying green bananas.
Don't try to tell me otherwise.
Oh, my God.
They're buying produce,
and you're washing dishes.
Near the death cooler
with the meat hooks.
Great.
Should you even be here?
I tried staying home.
But my mom is out of town,
my dad and I just argue,
so this feels a lot better.
Okay, fine. Um, since I have you,
I have an idea.
So, Lucy's bones are what got
us here in the first place,
and-and I know that Nancy wants
to bury her mum, but...
what if we just give the bones
back to the Aglaeca?
What are you saying, we just
throw the bones back into the sea,
and the Aglaeca calls off everything?
Yeah. Yeah, bingo.
No more death sentence.
Wait. Look. I... I did some research,
and I found dozens of
cases throughout time.
Okay, the binding tablets of Macedonia,
the stones of St. Anne's Well...
it's all here.
Like a curse reverse.
Yeah.
- Okay, let's ask Hannah Gruen.
- Okay, good.
But even if we want to do it,
we don't have all the bones.
What?
The day that we put Lucy's
skeleton back together,
- there was a piece missing.
- Yeah.
A piece of Lucy's skull.
I-I... I found it,
and I hid it from Detective Tamura.
I-I thought you took it.
No.
So... none of us have it?
- What, Tamura found it?
- Yes!
Of course Tamura found it!
Okay, he already doesn't like us,
and now... now... he's gonna
think we're grave robbers
and-and bone smugglers...
Let's try to live long enough
for Tamura to be our biggest problem.
I'll get the bone.
You go talk to Hannah.
Yes, okay.
- Welcome to Lily's. Can I help you?
- Well, um...
Oh, you're Lily. Ha.
- Great name for a florist.
- Yes.
Almost like I had no choice.
Um, I was visiting the grave of
a dear friend the other night,
and I noticed that somebody left
this beautiful wreath of white roses.
The groundskeeper told me
that it came from your shop.
I would just really like
to issue a thank you.
Um, if-if you could give me their name
or their phone number, maybe...
Oh, no, that's legally impossible.
Legally?
Is there some kind of
florist-client privilege
I don't know about?
Well, in here there is. The answer's no.
Was there anything else?
No. I'm just gonna look around.
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Lily's Garden, can I help you?
I'm getting married this
afternoon, 150 guests.
My florist was just extradited.
Can you help me?
Oh, I would suggest zinnias, dahlias
and English daisies. I'll go count.
Oh, big day. Big, big day.
Come on, give me something.
Bingo, a phone number.
You have got to be kidding me.
Hi, you've reached the
law office of Carson Drew.
Carson Drew, the gift
that keeps on giving.
Your dad Carson?
Carson Drew sent the flowers
to the 1975 victims?
Yep. And he's been doing it
every year for over a decade.
How many secrets can one guy have?
What about AJ?
There's no mention of AJ,
just the note that went
along with the flowers:
"Forgive me, Kitsune", and
Carson Drew's phone number.
So the only connection we have
to the sole survivor of the Aglaeca...
Is the one guy that I don't know
if I can have a conversation with
without losing my mind.
Yeah. So that's why I'm
meeting him in a public place,
right here, and you guys...
We're like the ambulance
on standby at the Indy 500.
Exactly.
If everything goes up in
flames, get me out of there.
How are you?
Why do you send flowers
to the same five graves
at Hillside Cemetery every
year on the same day?
- What?
- Five graves.
Hillside Cemetery... every year.
Do you know what I'm
talking about? Yes or no?
Yes, but...
that's what you want to talk about?
I was hoping that maybe
you were ready to...
Oh, I don't know if I'll
ever be ready for that.
The guy that sends the
flowers' name is AJ.
Are you sending the flowers
for AJ, or are you AJ?
AJ Nishiyama.
He goes by AJ Crane.
You've probably seen his books.
AJ Crane, the horror novelist?
I was his lawyer years ago, briefly.
I arranged for that delivery.
White roses every year on Harbor Day.
Why was his lawyer doing
his flower purchasing?
Because AJ was a total
recluse, even back then.
He bought an old hunting
cabin up in the woods,
almost never left it.
Refused to deal with the outside world.
- Like Salinger?
- Or Kaczynski.
- I need his address.
- I won't give you his address.
But I'll take you there.
It's a two-hour drive.
It'll give us a chance to keep talking.
Quiet drive.
What?
Go away!
AJ, it's, um... it's Carson Drew,
your former attorney.
There was an old transaction
that I was hoping we could discuss.
AJ.
Look, he was eccentric
and prickly 15 years ago,
I can only imagine
it's gotten worse, so...
AJ.
- You're alive.
- Sorry to bother you.
I would have called, but
you don't have a phone.
So people don't bother me.
Inside.
Make it quick.
Who's she?
- This is my...
- I'm Nancy,
and I need to know about Mac,
Perry, Rita, Javier and Autumn.
What happened in 1975?
If you're asking, you already know.
How are they dead and you're not?
Nancy, what kind of question is that?
You got a portent, didn't
you? How'd you survive it?
- Please.
- You called her, too?
My seven days are almost up,
and I'm...
They're coming.
- Who's coming? And what seven days?
- What is that?
What do you... what
do you keep looking at?
I can't help you.
You don't want what I
have. Fend for yourself.
AJ, I need...
If you know what's good for you,
you're gonna get the hell out right now!
- Don't threaten her.
- AJ...
It's not me threatening her, Drew.
- Go!
- Please, stop.
- Go! Go!
- Please! AJ...
Nancy, we're leaving. Let's go.
Looks like some sort of talisman.
Yeah, I got it off of someone
who survived the Aglaeca.
You found AJ Nishiyama?
AJ Crane, actually.
- But what are you doing here?
- Whoa, whoa, wait.
AJ is AJ Crane. Like, the AJ Crane?
I've read all of his books.
Did you meet him?
Yes. Um, so he kept looking at this
like it was a security blanket.
Is it possible that it could
repel the Aglaeca?
I could check the archives,
but it's probably a long shot.
Okay. Thank you.
Um, hey...
w-what if we just returned
Lucy's bones to the Aglaeca?
- What? Back into the ocean? No.
- Why?
It could cancel the curse.
I've-I've done research.
I have documentation.
It could be worth exploring.
No, we're not doing it, Bess.
It doesn't make sense.
Nothing we've done so
far makes any sense.
Nothing is working,
Nancy, and...
everyone wants to try this.
When were you all gonna tell me?
I'm telling you now.
Going to lunch.
Joyce is in charge. No parties.
Yo, Fred, you...
You're not Fred.
Where's Fred?
The new detective transferred
him to traffic duty.
Detective Tamura?
Why would he do that?
I mean, I'd ask the guy,
but he went to lunch.
Said the evidence room security was lax.
Too many civilians in and out.
Well, that makes sense.
I mean, what, with the
human skull that he found.
You don't want a lot of people
just popping in to say "hello".
What human skull?
Ooh, Dad. What are you doing here?
Again? What happened to retirement?
You never tell me when
you're coming in to work.
I'm part of this family, too.
Well, tonight I have
plans with my friends.
Uh... I'll be there.
I'll be there. See you
tonight at sundown.
Okay? All right.
Do you have a nice jacket?
Landlords like to rent to tenants
who wear nice jackets.
Yeah, yeah, it's just
under my top hat. George.
Polo shirt. See, this works.
Look, listen, before I go ask
for a three-day lease
with an option for death...
Okay, stop! Just stop.
It gets to me, too, all right?
Hey, okay. It's okay.
Look, I didn't come here to
pick out clothing with you.
I came because, if we have
less than three days left,
I don't want to be apart for any of it.
Me, neither.
It's not fair... you and me.
I just... I keep thinking
about all the things
we're gonna miss, like...
We're never gonna have a road trip,
or an anniversary for our first kiss.
Or wake up in the same bed,
argue over who stole the covers.
Or even get to bed in the first place.
I don't want to miss everything, Nick.
- Mmm.
- Mmm.
Oh, my. Oh, my God. Nancy. I...
Oh, we were, we were just, um, uh, uh...
Look, I don't need details.
- We're so sorry, Nancy.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Uh, we're gonna go. We're gonna...
- Sorry.
We're gonna go.
Hello?
Where's your daughter, Drew?
AJ?
That girl took something of mine,
and now hell is coming for her.
AJ, what are you talking about?
Hello? AJ!
Hello?
Nancy, it's Hannah.
Do you still have that talisman?
Yeah, I'm looking right at it.
Get rid of it.
That pattern...
it's the mark of the bhoot.
Malevolent spirits on
the Indian subcontinent.
What does that mean?
It doesn't repel spirits.
It attracts them.
It's bait for the most vicious
and dangerous ghosts in the area.
Nancy, you need to get...
Hannah?
Hannah?!
Don't look back!
Get down! Stay there.
Cover your ears! Do it!
- My talisman.
- Are you okay?
- What was that?
- Where-Where's my talisman?
Police!
AJ Crane, put your hands up.
What? No. Wait, wait.
What are you doing?
Your father asked me to check the house.
- My father?
- You're under arrest
for breaking and entering.
You have the right to remain silent.
- Anything you say...
- No! He didn't do anything!
I need to talk to him.
A Hudson getting his own groceries.
What is it, a full moon or something?
They're for Patrice Dodd.
That's unexpected.
You're, uh, getting groceries
for Lucy's mom now?
Yeah, well, she's all alone,
so I started visiting her.
I figured it was a...
a way to honor Lucy.
Is that supposed to make me feel better
about being your daughter?
I don't know. Does it?
Forget it. I... need a favor.
See, that right there... that's
the opposite of unexpected.
I know, but think about all
the times I didn't ask you
for money or braces or dance lessons
or keys to the Porsche.
Okay, Nancy. What's the favor?
I know that Horseshoe Bay P.D.
is under new management,
but does the Hudson name
still have juice there?
Hey! I want to see a lawyer!
Mr. Crane?
- You brought it?
- Yeah.
I, um...
I'm really sorry that I took it.
I... I didn't know what else to do.
Can you tell me how it works? Please?
Yeah, Shabbat. It's a
whole thing with my dad.
He converted when he married my mom.
Bess, don't worry.
I will be at the shoreline
in time for low tide.
I got to go. Bye.
Mom come back early?
Ace.
Heard I missed you at the station today.
Thanks for welcoming me into your home.
- You look surprised.
- No.
This is... this is my Shabbat face.
Ah.
How did all this come about?
"Ran into Detective Tamura after lunch.
Told him about our Shabbat
dinner, and he said..."
The hardest part about
moving to a new town
is having no one to
celebrate Shabbat with.
Well...
It's amazing. Uh...
The same day that I
visited the police station,
you got yourself invited to dinner here.
It is amazing, no bones about it.
I didn't know that you were Jewish.
- Half-Jewish.
- Half-Jewish.
Here's a thought. Why...
Why don't we let our guest
say the Motzi?
"We don't need to put Abe
on the spot like that".
Actually, I'm-I'm happy
to take a stab at it.
See if I can remember all the words.
Baruch ata, Adonai Eloheinu,
melech ha'olam,
hamotzi lechem min ha'aretz.
I could sing it, too, if you guys...
Oh, that's okay. He can't hear.
You look hungry. We should just...
go right into it.
There were six of us in the car.
Six... stupid teenagers.
Mac was driving too fast,
trying to scare Rita.
We skidded through a red light,
slammed into a station wagon,
and it burst into flame.
Did you...
God protects idiots.
The other driver and...
his wife were both killed.
They pulled a three-year-old
girl out of the wreckage.
She wasn't expected
to survive the night.
It was our fault.
We had to do something.
So you called to the Aglaeca.
We asked to make sure
the little girl lived.
Mm. We couldn't pay the toll.
Yeah, just like us.
The little girl...
After she got out of the burn unit,
she was adopted by a couple
that ran the historical society.
Oh, my God.
The scars on her arms are burns.
The-the little girl was Hannah Gruen?
The Aglaeca always keeps
her end of the bargain.
Seven days later,
my five friends were dead.
But you're not.
How is that? How'd you do it?
My friends stayed put. I hit the road.
But you can't outrun the Aglaeca.
She'll find you, wherever you are.
So...
... I started looking for anything
that would keep a monster at bay.
And I found it,
in a pawn shop in New Orleans.
It's like a magnet.
It draws the most malevolent
spirits around to you,
so the Aglaeca stays away.
How do you keep a man-eating
tiger out of your tent?
Make sure to keep yourself
covered with the most
poisonous spiders you can find.
And if you're an orphan
and your will to survive far
outweighs everything else,
you endure the pain.
They come in waves.
Every single day for 44 years.
And there's no other way out?
I've looked.
If there's another way
out, I haven't found it.
They're coming.
- You should go.
- Wait.
Um, my-my friend Bess, she-she
came up with this theory.
W-What if we give back what
we asked the Aglaeca for?
I asked for a little girl to live.
That option isn't available
to me anymore.
Y-Yeah, but-but... but what about us?
Try anything. Just don't end up like me.
- Now go.
- Are you gonna be all right?
Get the hell out!
Go! Go!
Bess? I'm in.
Let's give that bitch the bones back.
Oh. Uh...
Um, this is all they had.
I mean, I-I wanted it to have a view.
Or, um, or, um...
less colorful sheets.
Or maybe the...
Nick.
It's perfect.
I'm here, you're here.
It's just us.
Can I kiss you?
You know this was my idea.
Oh, was it? I'm pretty
sure it was, it was mine.
But if you want to rewrite history...
Wait.
What is it?
You okay?
I want to be, but I'm not.
It's just that...
... when I close my eyes,
all I can think about
is what's waiting for us.
For the both of us.
In the truck.
Yeah.
Me, too.
While your dad's in the kitchen,
is there something
you want to say to me?
Well, you knocked it out of
the park with that Hebrew.
Did you pick it up today? YouTube?
My bar mitzvah. Temple Sinai.
You know why I'm here.
You took something from my office today.
I don't even know where your office is.
Try again.
Detective, I don't know
what you're talking about.
Did you misplace something?
Listen to me, you walking haircut...
What's going on?
I found a human skull bone in The Claw,
and this afternoon that bone
went missing from my office.
You found a human bone at The Claw?
Okay, Brando, dial it down.
And why was a human bone in your office,
- and not the evidence room?
- Enough.
I'm gonna search you, search
your room until I find it.
All right?
"Not without a warrant".
He says this is his house
and his son, whom he trusts, so...
if you want to search, go see a judge.
Thanks for dinner.
Ace?
We'll talk.
Shabbat shalom.
I didn't do anything wrong,
but it's pretty deep.
You can't.
My friends and I, we-we think
that we're gonna fix it tonight,
but that means that I have
to go, like, right now.
Thank you.
Lucy, I'm sorry that I couldn't
give you a better burial.
Hey.
She's saving your life.
It's what she would've wanted.
Aglaeca,
guardian of the mighty sea...
You hateful, vindictive,
sex-life stealing,
- mortality-sucking...
- Hey, shush!
We humbly ask that you forgive our debt.
In return, we offer you
the bones of Lucy Sable.
What once was yours is yours again.
What more does she want?
We know what she wants.
Aglaeca, forgive our debt.
What we requested, we've returned.
She took the bones back.
That one really likes her blood.
HBPD.
If that's Tamura, I'm not here.
Hello?
Where's AJ Crane?
30 minutes after you left, he escaped.
You're gonna tell me you don't
know how that happened?
I don't know how that happened.
Wait, I do.
I do.
Okay, so in one of his
books, The Cold Cell,
the guy spends three years
researching the company
who manufactures the prison's
bars, doors and hinges.
It's in the hinges.
Check the hinges!
We just had a sighting
on Chestnut Street.
- He's headed east.
- Set up a roadblock. Then...
check the hinges.
You and your friends,
we're gonna have a real
come-to-Jesus when this is over.
"Come to Jesus"?
The man had a bar mitzvah. Pick a lane.
Nancy, what's wrong?
AJ was spotted on Chestnut Street.
Hey, that's the historical society.
Yeah, what if we're not the only ones
trying to return something
to the Aglaeca tonight?
Well, what did AJ ask for?
Hannah Gruen's life.
Ace and Bess are checking the attic.
No sign of Hannah yet.
Okay, I'll try her phone again.
Oh, my God.
AJ?
AJ, stop.
Is this the plan?
Hannah dies in a car fire,
like she was supposed to,
you give her back to the Aglaeca?
For 44 years I let the worst
kind of monsters destroy me
every single day. I'm through.
You think that this ends your suffering?
Because it doesn't. I-I
think it'll be worse.
You can't avoid the
monster when it's you.
You are not a monster.
You are a survivor.
So give me the matches.
Give me the matches.
- Nancy!
- Oh, my God.
Uh, Hannah's in the car. Call 911.
Oh, my God, AJ Crane, I... I
have read all of your books...
Bess, not now.
Hey, she's breathing.
Hello? Uh, yeah, yeah.
Uh, we need, we need
assistance. We're at the, uh...
Hey, Nancy.
Let him go.
Is that his?
AJ, wait. Hey.
You're not gonna get very far.
I left it for you.
The Aglaeca's out there
waiting. You're unprotected.
Turns out I was never protected.
All those years alone with your demons,
it's... it's just another
way of being dead.
The Aglaeca can have
whatever's left of me.
What are we doing here?
Yeah, are any of us gonna wish that
we spent one more night at work?
We're celebrating.
What, you think the
curse reverse worked?
Called off the Aglaeca?
I don't know. Maybe. Maybe not.
But what I do know is that no
matter what happens tomorrow
or the next day,
the five of us were here today.
Yeah, we are.
Desserts all around.
Yeah, I like that. And for the record,
yes, I do think the curse
has been reversed.
Oh, no.
It's Lucy's bones.
No return policy.
I hate this store.
Hey, um...
I'm sorry I steamrolled you
into using your mother's remains
as some kind of offering.
That's okay. At least we got 'em back.
And we're not giving up,
- there's...
- Hey, guys, check your phones.
National News Alert.
"Renowned horror author
dies in freak accident".
- Oh, my God.
- "Writer AJ Crane was killed Friday
when an errant weather
vane fell from a rooftop
and impaled him in front
of horrified residents".
"Grieving fans are claiming
he predicted his own death
in his recent best seller..."
"He Died Alone".
Hey, I-I've read that one.
Yeah, it's... it's the scariest
book he's ever written.
Two more nights.
That's it.
Don't think about it.
I'll walk you home.
Nick...
let's get in the truck.
No.
The day after tomorrow,
we die in that truck.
Okay, and you know what?
I don't care anymore.
We're still here,
and the Aglaeca doesn't
get to ruin everything.
I'm tired of being afraid.
We're reclaiming your truck.
Get in.
All those years alone with your demons,
it's... it's just another
way of being dead.
Hey.
Hi.
I, uh...
I wanted to say goodbye
to my mother, to Lucy,
and I was just wondering if
you wanted to come with me.
Always.
Her headstone at the cemetery
gets tagged every year
by high school kids.
I don't know, it just
feels like that's where
the town ghost story is buried.
Lucy would want it to be somewhere else.
I just feel it.
Sylvan Woods.
It's peaceful.
Yeah. She loved it here.
She wrote about it in her journal.
Hey.
Did you... maybe want to invite Ryan?
Huh.
Yeah, this is the spot.
Rise and shine, you crazy kids.
We're going on a field trip.
Yeah, you reclaimed the truck.
That's a baller move.
Walk away.
Well, you were right.
This place is beyond creepy.
And in the middle of nowhere.
Which is why we buried
the talisman here.
But before we go...
Great.
AJ spent decades of his life
trying to figure out
how to beat the Aglaeca,
and all of his notes are here.
Yeah, it's like being inside
the brain of a crazy man.
Here is something.
Hey, what is that?
I think he was trying
to build a dybbuk box.
Um, follow-up question:
what is a dybbuk box?
Uh, in Jewish folklore,
the dybbuk's an evil spirit.
Just like the Aglaeca. And
you use this to trap it.
And it looks like he never finished it.
So he never got the chance to try it.
So there we go. We-we finish the box,
and we trap the Aglaeca.
Best plan I've heard since
the last plan I heard.
Hey, guys, what was that?
- The wind?
- They're coming.
The talisman drew the spirits back.
All right, people,
grab whatever you can.
We are vacating the premises.
Ace.
You got that over there?
- Come on, let's go. Let's go.
- Come on, guys.
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