You're leaking.
Okay. New game.
It's called find the Triumph.
If we find it before anyone else,
we get to go for a ride.
A fast ride?
The fastest in your life.
You're still warm.
C'mon.
Maggie, hey.
I can't find my Tiles.
Just leave them. Come on, we have to go.
The Triumph can barely fit two people.
Wayne.
Just head for the Bridge.
I'll be back for you.
Maggie, go to the Bridge.
I found it! I win!
I get to go for a ride!
Hold on tight.
Look at all the bats.
You're Bruce Wayne McQueen, remember?
All the bats in here are your friends.
Wayne!
Wayne. Hey.
Where's Maggie?!
She's alive. I gotta go get her.
Who's she?
Whoa, hey! No, Wayne!
Keep them safe.
Bring her back!
♪ It came upon the midnight clear ♪
♪ From angels bending near the earth ♪
♪ To touch their harps of gold
♪ Peace on the earth, goodwill to men ♪
♪ From heav'n's all gracious king ♪
♪ The world in solemn stillness lay to hear the angels sing ♪
♪ Shall come the time foretold
♪ When the new heaven and earth shall own ♪
♪ The prince of peace their King ♪
♪ And the whole world send back the song ♪
♪ Which now the angels sing
She's losing blood.
She needs a doctor.
Both: Doctor! Doctor!
Doctor! Don't worry. Help is on the way.
Doctor! Doctor! Doctor!
Oh, it looks very bad.
We have to amputate.
Leave her alone!
Maggie, come on.
Come on.
I still haven't found my Tiles.
They'll come back to you. They have before. Let's go.
Maggie. No, they'll be lost forever in here.
Stay here and so will you.
Shit.
Do you hear that?
It's Christmasland! Ugh!
Wayne! Wayne!
Wait, wait.
What's he -- What's he doing?
I think that's his ornament.
Some people believe
spirits can get trapped inside an object.
When souls fall.
What?
Maggie's Tiles.
They're horcruxes.
Like Harry Potter?
The kids' souls are trapped inside.
Hey, hey!
Hey, that's mine!
Aah, aah, ow!
Lou: Wayne, are you okay?
Wayne, Wayne. Ow.
Vic: We just have to make it to the Shorter Way, Maggie.
No one gets on it without me.
That's what Charlie Manx said about Christmasland.
Miserable harpies.
Hold on!
What are you doing?
We leave this Bridge,
he follows usstraight to the people we love.
This is my Inscape, Maggie.
He's nothing in here.
Just an old bitch like you said.
Maggie: Listen to me, Brat.
My Tiles chose you because you are brave
and strong and good, okay?
My Tiles are never wrong.
Manx: Our Inscapes are manifestations of our minds.
The Shorter Way was impressive as advertised.
Wayne: Look at all the bats!
You'll want to be careful of those bats.
You tattooed whore.
Chris: Forgive yourself, Brat.
Woman: No more ornaments on his creepy tree.
Aaaah!
It's okay, buddy.
Alright, you need to stop. You're hurting him.
No, it's the only way to save him.
Oh, God.
Oh.
Get away, you disgusting things!
Vic! Look!
We gotta get out of here.
Vic, we gotta haul ass right now!
Mom?
Mom.
I'm okay.
Special Agent Tabitha Hutter
requesting an ambulance at 225 Pleasant Street.
I have one dead, two critically wounded.
This is an emergency.
Man: Copy that, Agent Hutter.
He's -- He's dead, Lou.
Charlie Manx is finally --
He's finally dead.
When souls fall.
Mom, look.
Someone's here.
Whoa.
Where's Father Christmas?
Dad?
I-I want my dad.
This is Agent Hutter at 225 Pleasant Street.
We're gonna need social services
in addition to the ambulance.
Are you hurt?
You okay? Hmm?
Do you know where you are? It's okay.
We're gonna call your parents.
What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back?
Oh, a stick.
A stick!
A stick. A stick.
What did one mushroom say to the other mushroom?
"You're a real funghi."
I got one, I got one, I got one.
Alright.
Why did the three-legged dog limp into town?
To find the man that shot his Paw.
Oh, come on.
It's my favorite one.
I even -- I had the accent.
It was okay. Went to work.
Hey! Open your hand.
You're hurting me. Vic.
Open it. Stop it!
You gotta eat something.
No, it's gross. Wayne, this is --
It's alright.
You'll eat when you're ready.
Go and clear your plate.
It's just a couple tater tots.
He hasn't eaten a normal meal in weeks.
How long did it take you to get over Charlie Manx?
Look.
Wayne's safe now.
You're both safe.
One of the Christmasland kids had it at processing.
Wow.
Thank you.
I thought about tossing it in the trash.
It might've found me anyway.
So.
How's it going with all those kids?
Making progress.
Some of the kids still have families.
Trying to get the others connected to foster homes.
That's been a challenge.
Some of the parents bring them back.
They can't trust them around their other kids.
It takes time.
How's it going with you?
Good.
Just keeping...busy.
Mm-hmm.
Good.
Well.
Tabs.
If you ever have a question or...
Take care of yourself, Maggie.
Can't sleep?
No whiskey.
A million years ago, before I had whiskey,
I had my sketch pad.
Who's that little dude?
Looks like an IG-88/Harley hybrid.
Well, hero robot to protect Wayne.
Help find him when he's lost.
He's not lost, Vic.
You found him.
Don't stay up too late.
I won't.
Love you.
Love you too.
Wayne.
Sugar for dinner is fun.
Put that down and come back to bed.
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry, Mom.
It's okay.
You're alright.
Hey. Hey.
Lou: Come to bed when you're done.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
You heard Dad. Bed.
Am I gonna be okay?
Of course you are.
You're gonna be fine.
Mom.
Yeah, baby?
When Charlie Manx hurt you,
did you get better?
Like, all the way better?
Yes.
Promise?
I promise.
Good night. Sleep tight.
I'll see you in the morning.
Love you.
Millie.
Wayne McQueen.
I want to go back to Christmasland.
Is there a way?
I haven't found one.
You're living here.
So?
You look sad.
It's not fair.
I hardly got to have any Christmas at all.
What was it like, living there?
It was wonderful.
I was boss of all the kids,
I had all the candy I could ever eat,
I had anything I ever wanted.
Here I have to sleep outside
and hunt for food.
Plus I'll never see my father again.
Your mother killed him.
I'm sorry.
This world is lonesome.
If you break your ornament,
you could turn into a kid like me.
Then someone might adopt you.
But I'd be weak and ordinary.
Do you want to grow up?
No.
But you could see the Great Wall of China.
People say that, but all the grownups I know
just work all the time and worry about bills.
They pretend they're happy,
but they're really just tired.
I'm keeping my ornament
and I'm gonna rebuild Christmasland.
I'm gonna bring back all the kids,
one by one.
Will you help me?
Is that your mother?
Vic: Wayne!
She's gonna try to kill me.
Wayne!
I don't think so, but if she sees you,
she'll definitely try to break your ornament.
Wayne!
Remember me, Wayne McQueen.
Wayne. Mom!
Wayne! Wayne!
You cannot just run off like that.
What are you thinking? What?
Why did you come out here?
I don't know.
How'd you know I'd be here?
I don't know. I just...
Come on.
Dude.
Oh, Jesus, look at this, Vicki.
You're telling me
we needed to pack this thing upand bring it here?
Yeah.
That's from the old shovelhead.
Harley ever ran.
Linda: I hated that bike.
I know.
I have been cleaning up after Chris McQueen my whole life
and I am still doing it now.
You know I met him when I was 12 years old?
I miss him.
He told me to forgive myself.
Yeah.
Your dad was always good at
giving advice he couldn't take.
It's hard advice for a mother to follow.
Did you?
I tell myself I have.
And how do you do it?
I don't know.
I used to resent how tightly you held us,
Dad and me.
I used to think we'd just both...
suffocate.
But I --
I get it now.
How's Wayne?
I don't know. He's different, Ma.
I just -- I don't --
I don't know how to help him.
What I regret with you
is covering for your father,
cleaning his messes.
Maybe, if --
Maybe if we'd talked about what was going on
instead of pretending it wasn't happening --
I wouldn't've been an alcoholic teenage mom
and Wayne would be okay?
Maybe it would've been easier for you.
And maybe I could forgive myself.
I love you.
Mwah.
Stay here, Vicki, okay?
Just for a little while.
How can either of you get better
living out there where everything happened?
You can even keep that Lou.
Tabitha: Some kids found it in the Merrimack River
close to the Pittman woods --
Strange it turned up here instead of Colorado.
Maggie: Not really.
Christmasland was in Charlie Manx's Inscape.
The Shorter Way Bridge was in Vic's.
The Shorter Way was here in Haverhill.
My father helped demo it when I was a kid.
What happened to the body?
Cremated.
No.
It's over, Bats.
It's all over.
Maggie: We really did it, Brat,this time.
Like, we stopped the Wraith,
destroyed Christmasland, saved those kids.
Yeah, what's left of them.
They're better off with their families.
Including Wayne.
Lou is adopting him officially.
Yeah.
We're gonna stay in Haverhill for awhile.
Gunbarrel was Manx's home, not ours,
and it's -- it's -- it's bad for Wayne.
He --
It's bad for me, too, I think.
Christmasland was Manx's home.
The real question is, what else is out there?
How many other Inscapes in the World of Thought?
The Triumph's in storage.
Well, let's go take it out of storage. We're gonna stay here.
In the Real World with Wayne and -- and Lou.
It's our happy ending, Maggie. Try to see it.
You're a Strong Creative.
I can be creative in this world too.
I started drawing again.
You know that's not the same.
I used to think that way.
And, uh, it nearly got me and my whole family killed.
Vic, not every Inscape is Christmasland.
Think about Jolene's Tunnels.
Your Bridge, yours.
There is so much in this world for us to explore.
Crooked Alley, the Empty Forest.
My Tiles have told me about all kinds of places.
Okay, and you know that they came back to me for a reason.
Yeah, the reason is that Tabitha brought them to you.
Just don't make her regret it.
Hey, kiddo.
Supper's almost ready.
Okay.
One of the best things about staying at Grandma's?
Grandpa Sean's spaghetti sauce.
Make a train drive up a dirt road.
When are we going home?
Uh...
We're gonna be staying here for awhile, buddy.
I miss my friends.
I think you miss Christmasland.
No.
You know, it's okay to talk about it.
I used to miss Charlie Manx.
I thought that, uh, chasing him was -- was fun.
Sometimes things that feel fun aren't always good.
Like having sugar for dinner.
Yeah. Mm.
Are there other things like that, Wayne?
Look, it's okay if there are.
Just, you know...
That's mine! It's okay, Bats.
Whatever it is, it's okay.
I'm gonna look at it, alright?
I thinkthere's something wrong with me.
On the inside.
It's okay to feel that way.
You know, I-I feel that way about myself all the time.
That's why I -- I-I chased after Charlie Manx.
It's why I drank too much.
It's why I ran away from you and Dad.
Do you think maybe that's why you ran away, too?
Why you want to go back to Christmasland?
Hey.
This?
Coloring?
Much better than doing any of those other things.
Even if the picture is scary?
Absolutely.
Tell you what.
No more running away for either of us.
Hmm?
And no more pretending like we feel okay when we don't.
Dad included.
Team McCarmody.
Alright?
Yeah?
We're staying in the Real World, hmm?
How do I get to the World of Thought?
Hotel.
Whoa.
This is it.
Yeah.
This is where I used to live.
Pretty creepy, huh?
Yeah.
You know, Walter says it's haunted.
Walter?
You've been out here with him?
What?
No. No.
C'mere.
Mm.
What was that? I don't know.
Is that a bear? I don't know.
Did you hear that?
What the hell?
Wh--
It's the ghost of Charlie Manx.Stop, stop.
And he's coming to kill us! Baby, stop, stop.
It's not funny.