[Heather] People tell lots of stories about how Panic began.
But none of them matter.
What really matters...
is how it ends.
[Ray] Looks like it's down to you and me
for Joust.
You or me.
Pretty tight work getting yourself back in the game.
I'd almost think you rigged it.
[chuckles softly]
You'd know all about that, wouldn't you?
[Ray] Oh!
What's that supposed to mean?
It means I know about the gambling.
And I know Luke sold us out. And I also know Luke doesn't
do shit unless there's money it for him.
So did you help him?
What's the difference if you're not gonna believe me?
That's a yes or no question, Ray.
Well, I'd be doing a pretty shitty job of it, wouldn't I?
Why, because I wasn't supposed to go up against you?
Because I wasn't supposed to care.
Thought you didn't.
You want to know the truth, Heather?
You want me to be honest with you?
I honestly have no idea what the fuck is going on right now.
I have no idea who has Luke by his balls
and I don't even know why.
All I know is we're both fucked.
Did Luke put Dodge's sister in that wheelchair
- on Halloween three years ago? - Maybe you shouldn't listen to everything
your little boyfriend tells you.
Are you talking about Bishop? Because he's not my boyfriend.
Well, you might want to clear that one up with him.
'Cause he seems to have a different idea
- about what's going on. - Know what? He didn't even tell me.
Cortez told Dodge and Dodge thinks it's true.
So did he do it?
I don't know.
I don't know what to believe.
But I guess that's the difference between you and me.
You got the whole story figured out, don't you?
What's that supposed to mean?
Be careful.
Is that a threat?
It's a warning.
You're not the one writing the rules in this game.
[engine starts]
♪ ♪
[Natalie] Dodge! Dodge, wait!
My individual challenge, Nat.
You told the judges the truth about Dana.
Stay away from me and my family.
I had no choice.
- [door closes] - [engine starts]
Dodge!
Fuck.
♪ ♪
How are you sure that Jimmy switched the guns at roulette?
He's the only other one who had access to that gun safe.
The sheriff has access to it, too.
It was for his own protection.
A few years back,
we started having money issues.
James started drinking again.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Then he started saying that we might be better off without him.
So I started locking up his gun with mine
when he got home from work, just to be safe.
I gave Jimmy the code
one weekend when I was down visiting my mom.
I haven't touched
that safe since Jimmy started senior year.
You know, James was...
doing better.
Last night,
I found a training gun in place of the revolver.
And a note.
Jimmy killed himself.
Don't say anything to James.
Not yet.
I should be the one to tell him.
[Langley] Melanie?
Why'd you go into that safe last night?
I missed my son.
I was so jealous of you when your dad bought this thing.
It was just a con to keep me off the furniture.
[Natalie] I'm gonna miss the Texas sky.
They say in L.A. the pollution's so bad
you can't even see the stars at night.
So you're still serious about California, huh?
No reason to stay here.
You're leaving for college.
Heather hates me, Dodge thinks I'm a liar.
- Well, can you blame him? - It was only a lie at the beginning.
Well, that's the problem.
In the end, it's hard to tell the difference.
Have you tried calling Heather?
She's not picking up.
What if she never forgives me?
Give it time.
You'll find a way to make it up to her.
You always do.
Uh, you ever wish you could just, uh, you-you know...
...hit stop and-and freeze everything right where it is?
I guess.
I screwed things up.
I don't know if I can fix it.
Maybe you don't need to fix it.
Maybe it's just something new.
Something different for you both.
Maybe it's better.
Maybe, yeah...
[exhales]
You know,
how come it's scarier to have the thing you want
than to want the thing you can't have?
Because...
you're scared to lose it?
A toast then.
- A toast? Here? - Yeah.
Right on this trampoline.
- You got a problem with that? - Uh, no, sir.
[chuckles]
May we always be scared
out of our fucking minds.
Amen.
- Let the bouncing commence. - Let the bouncing commence!
[Natalie whooping]
Wow, that's how I'm gonna get it!
[laughter]
[Dodge] How did the judges get your voice recorded?
Natalie said it was for an audition. She asked me to read
lines with her the day before the derby.
She lied.
She needed your voice to help the judges
rig my individual challenge.
The question is, why would she help the judges?
[Dayna] I don't know.
She just asked me to meet her in the stockroom at the pharmacy.
That's where she keeps everything she doesn't want
her dad to find.
I remember thinking how crowded it was with all her Panic stuff.
What Panic stuff?
I saw a Panic scrapbook when she knocked over one of the boxes.
A scrapbook of notes and all her photos
and maps and things. It was super detailed...
what little I saw of it.
Oh, but please don't tell her I told you.
She seemed really embarrassed.
I mean, I guess she doesn't want anyone knowing
how hard she's studied for Panic...
She hasn't been studying. She's been planning.
Natalie's one of the judges.
♪ ♪
[Natalie] If you get through this challenge, Heather,
you're headed to Joust.
[horses neighing]
Oh... I feel kind of weird
leaving you, you know,
when you just moved in, but...
my sister and I planned this trip... eons ago.
Oh, it's okay. You'll have a good time.
Yeah, okay. Um...
Lily knows not to go up on the hill, right?
It's best if she doesn't even go anywhere near there.
- Yes. - Wookie! Wisp!
- Hi, guys. - Hi.
I left the, uh, feeding schedule for the tiger
- on the refrigerator. - Okay.
And I keep forgetting.
Somebody dropped a package off for you.
I left it in the kitchen.
- Who was it? - I have no idea.
It was on the porch when I got home.
Maybe you have an admirer.
[engine starts]
♪ ♪
"Bishop."
I just wanted to say thank you.
Like, in real life, come and say thank you.
Oh, so you liked it.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's like...
the nicest thing ever.
Like, the-the nicest.
I figured, you know, since you got your first book out,
you won't be so scared to do a follow-up.
Oh, yeah, I'll get right on that.
I wanted to give it to you right away
because I'm leaving so soon.
What are you talking about?
I thought you weren't leaving for, like, a couple weeks.
Yeah, no, that's... that's when classes start.
Orientation's next week.
You-you can't leave in seven days, Bishop.
I have to.
Look, my whole life,
"away" is the only place I've wanted to go.
Away from my dad, away from his shadow.
But this summer,
the only thing I've wanted to do is stay,
because all those years that I pictured away,
it was never away from you.
What the fuck am I gonna do without you?
I don't know, kick some ass,
take some names.
Write a couple new stories.
[chuckles softly]
[♪ Lil Nas X: "Bring U Down"]
♪ I don't know what's gonna bring you down ♪
[siren wailing]
♪ I don't know what's gonna bring you down ♪
♪ I don't know, but I'm gonna bring you down ♪
♪ I don't know, but I'm gonna ♪
♪ Bring you down ♪♪
Shit... I thought it was you.
You should think about getting a new muffler.
I could hear you coming all the way from Oklahoma.
- We got a problem, Officer? - No.
You know where I could find your brother?
I haven't seen him.
- You try calling? - No.
Well, you got his number,
- don't you? - I do.
Tell Luke I'm looking for him.
Oh, and, Ray,
you Hall brothers have a history of getting into trouble.
Careful you don't go looking for any.
[♪ Viagra Boys: "Ain't Nice"]
♪ ♪
♪ You can have me...
- Hey, little brother. - Celebrating something?
Not a fucking thing.
Care to join?
What the fuck's your problem? What the shit, Ray?
Remember that girl you told me about three years ago?
Which one?
The one that you and Conrad... You know, that one.
Yeah. What about her?
She isn't dead.
What the fuck are you talking about?
Her name's Dayna Mason.
Dodge Mason's sister.
She was hit on Halloween three years ago.
She's alive, and she's in a fucking wheelchair!
A word of advice, Ray.
When you don't know what the fuck you're talking about,
keep your fucking mouth shut.
That girl was dead as fuck when we found her.
I know because I pulled her cold-ass carcass
out of that truck.
That's the only time I touched her.
Yeah, well, Sheriff Cortez seems to think
you're the one that ran her down.
Well, Cortez is gonna have his own fucking story
just like everybody else.
Yeah, but his story has you on the hook
for what happened three years ago.
Has you going down for the gambling ring,
and it has you going down for all of it!
I mean, do you know how fucked you are?
Don't worry about where the fist is gonna land, all right?
Ain't gonna be on you.
Are you listening to me?
The fist always lands on me, Luke.
Always.
You just focus on winning the game, all right?
Joust will fuck you up if you're not focused.
Oh, and by the way, Halloween, three years ago?
I was sitting in county.
♪ ♪
- [entry bell chimes] - What do you want?
I need your help.
Hmm, let me think about it. No.
It's about Dodge's sister.
You got two minutes.
I need you to ask your dad
to pull up my brother's arrest report.
Mm. And why would I do that?
Halloween, three years ago. The night Dayna got hurt.
My brother was in county jail.
- Is that what he told you? - Yeah.
And if that's true, then somebody's been spreading
a whole lot of lies for the last three years.
And wouldn't you think Dodge would want to know why?
- [kids] Bye! - Have a great day. See you tomorrow.
[indistinct chatter]
I don't know, Lily, a sleepover?
Please? McKenzie's going.
McKenzie, Summer's little sister?
And you said they live right down the road from Anne?
Please?
Do you have room for one more?
Of course. Come on.
- The more the merrier. - All right, go.
Don't stay up too late.
- Yay! Whoo-hoo! Whoo-hoo! - Thanks, Mrs. Walker.
♪ ♪
[breathing heavily]
Welcome to your individual.
Tonight's challenge is an escape room.
The next 30 minutes will decide if, for you,
Panic ends in a trap,
or the chance to win it all at Joust.
Crack the codes to unlock your victory.
Every minute wasted is a point lost.
Your challenge awaits.
Careful on those stairs.
Now cross the bridge.
Time starts... now.
- [rats squeaking] - Oh, oh...
Oh! Rats!
Why did it have to be fucking rats?
Good luck.
- [rats squeaking loudly] - [phone ringing]
Fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck.
Oh, gross.
[phone continues ringing]
Summer, what is it?
[Summer] Mrs. Walker just called me.
Our sisters are-are missing.
Can you see if they're at Anne's? I'm really scared.
I'll be right there.
Lily!
[panting]
Lily?
"The key"?
What the fuck?
Oh, shit.
[girl screaming in distance]
Lily! Don't move!
Heather.
- [tiger growling] - Lily, don't move.
I'm scared.
I know, but everything is gonna be okay.
All right?
[bushes rustling]
[tiger growling]
[all whimpering]
Okay, Lily...
I need you to stay very still.
I don't want to.
You have to, Lily. And don't run.
We're gonna be really brave, okay?
[growling grows louder]
[bell rings]
[snarling]
Okay, Lily. Hey, Lily.
Hi. Hey.
We're gonna be good, okay?
Hi. Okay.
- [roars] - [screams]
No, no, no, Lily, don't do that. Don't do... Lily?
We're gonna be good, okay?
I'm gonna throw this, okay?
Don't move.
Okay, ready?
[low growl]
[panting]
Okay. All right, come back towards me.
Come back towards me really slowly, okay?
Okay...
Everything's fine.
Okay, come back. Come on back.
Come on back. Come on.
You got it, you got it, you got it.
- [Skylar] Come on, you got it! - [Aisha] Go, Lily!
- You almost got it. - Keep coming, come on.
- You almost got it! - [Heather] Keep coming.
- You got it. - You almost got it!
You got it, come on. Keep coming.
- Come on! - Come on!
- Come on. Come to me. - [whimpers]
Come here. Just keep coming.
- Come on, come on. - You're gonna be okay!
[screams]
[all screaming]
[roaring]
♪ When everyone has gone to bed ♪
♪ I find myself all in my head ♪
♪ I'm walking down this lonely road ♪
♪ 'Cause I ain't got no place to go ♪
♪ I want to find this peace of mind ♪
♪ That people speak of ♪
♪ It stopped dropping ♪
♪ I'm walking down this lonely road ♪
♪ 'Cause I ain't got no place to go...
[Heather] If anything had happened to her, or to them...
[Summer] Don't think about it.
Our sisters are okay.
That's what's important.
- Coming? - Uh, one minute. Heather?
Heather, I just want to say that I'm really sorry.
Okay? About Lily and the timing and everything.
In my book, going head-to-head with a tiger,
that should at least get you into Joust, but I...
I know. You don't make the rules.
[engine starts]
Hey, at least it's all over, right?
Panic i-is a really dumb game.
It's very dangerous.
But... it's...
It's ours.
Maybe that's what makes it even scarier.
♪ Changing of the tides, changing of the tides ♪
♪ Everybody sees her, everybody sees her ♪
♪ Breaking, breaking, ooh ♪
♪ Everybody needs a, everybody needs a...
[Heather] "Doc Magic."
♪ Changing of the tides ♪
♪ Everybody sees her ♪
♪ Everybody sees her breaking, breaking ♪
♪ I'm not going ♪
♪ Home ♪
♪ And I'm not going home ♪
♪ I'm not going home...
Melanie?
♪ I'm not going home ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪♪
What are you doing, Mel?
It's time, don't you think?
Time, huh?
Did something happen?
I found this.
What is it?
"Dear Mom,
I love you.
I'm sorry."
Where'd you find this?
In the gun safe.
It's from Jimmy.
He's the one who switched out the gun.
No. No, that's wrong.
He killed himself, James.
Do you really think Jimmy would...
You think Jimmy would ever do something like this?
- Hmm? - People do things all the time
doesn't seem like they could.
Why is the rifle out?
[Melanie] There was a coyote sneaking around
out back,
so I just fired a few shots to scare him off.
[insects chirping]
[metal clanging]
[tiger growls]
[Bingo] Check it out. Good as new, baby.
I even changed the oil for you, bud.
Thanks for dropping her off.
You, uh, you need a ride?
Nah.
Adios, man.
[Ray] Looks like I'm ready for Joust.
[Sarah] You're gonna win it.
Hey. What are you doing here?
I had something I wanted to give to Dayna.
Oh, really?
Was it an apology?
Look, I get it.
- You don't trust me. - Can I ask you something?
Why would you want to make a deal with me at all
if you were a judge?
You know, tricking Dayna into recording
her voice for my challenge wasn't a smart move.
That's Panic, Dodge.
- It's a game. - Right. Okay, it's a game.
- So you were just doing your job. - Yes.
You're getting to know the new guy so you can figure out
how to fuck with his head.
No, I became a judge so I can make some money
so I can get out of here, okay?
You made a deal with Cortez.
I haven't done shit for Cortez!
Everything that I've done has been for Dayna. You know that!
Are you sure some of it isn't because you're feeling guilty?
- You don't feel guilty? - All right, stop.
Everything that you have said has been nothing but a lie.
And you probably can't even keep it straight anymore, like
the fact that you tell everyone about having a dead mom!
My mother might as well be dead.
- Bye, Nat. - [crying] My God.
Get over yourself!
I came here for Dayna. I have proof.
I have proof about that night.
Luke Hall couldn't have been there.
[crying]
Stop.
Natalie printed the report.
- So we're trusting Natalie now? - Let me finish.
Luke was arrested in Twin Falls for carjacking
three days before my accident.
But the night before he was arrested,
a girl was found dumped in Oak Park.
She looked like she had been in an accident worse than mine.
She'd been dead a day before they found her.
[Dayna] He couldn't have done it.
Natalie was telling the truth.
How could James have gotten this wrong?
- Langley. - [Langley] Yeah?
Judge Ramsay finally signed off on our warrant
for Myra Campbell.
- Let's go. - Absolutely.
A week before Abby was killed,
she received these threatening notes.
"Only way you're staying in the game
is with a tag on your toe."
[Williams] Was it you?
- Where'd y'all find these? - [Langley] It doesn't matter.
What matters is who wrote them.
- There's more. - What's going on here?
This is a private police conversation.
Well, I want her to stay.
I'm staying.
You can't seriously think that I would write...
Abby was my best friend.
[Langley] Well, that's exactly our point.
Only a best friend could write notes like these.
I mean, "Tomorrow, everyone will know you killed the baby"?
[Williams] Mm. Abby was keeping her pregnancy a secret.
She must have told her best friend, right?
She told Jimmy's parents, too.
Jimmy's parents weren't playing Panic.
Jimmy's parents weren't worried about making it to the finals.
- All right, Bug. - [sirens wailing in distance]
Are you sure you don't want me to hang out with you today?
- We're getting our camp awards. - Oh.
Hey, wait.
Heather, am I gonna get arrested?
Why would you get arrested?
Because of the game.
No, you're not gonna get arrested.
But look at me.
Look, that can't happen to you
or any of your friends ever again.
Look at me. So if you know who sent you that invitation,
you need to tell me.
I already told you, it doesn't work like that.
It's all secret.
Hey, Lily, come inside.
Come on, it's time to get started.
Thank you, thank you.
We just got word there's a tiger on the loose.
They're shutting down the roads and, uh,
we don't want any of the kids outside.
So, be careful out there.
Get where you're getting.
[sirens wailing in distance]
[panting]
♪ ♪
[growling]
[Williams] Myra, why did you continue to play Panic
- after Abby died? - [Myra] I didn't want to,
but Luke said I couldn't quit.
He said there was a lot of money riding on me.
Okay. So he told you that people are gambling on Panic?
- I was scared. - Scared of what?
- Luke? - No.
Luke was trying to warn me.
I was scared of whoever he was scared of.
[receptionist] Can I help you, hon?
Yeah, um... I mean, no.
I'm just, I'm looking for Captain Williams.
He's out. Do you want to tell me what it's about?
U-Uh, no, it's...
I just, I heard about the tiger this morning.
- [phone ringing] - Oh. It's the sheriff.
[chuckles] Crazy morning.
Yeah? Mm-hmm. No.
Yes. No, I can, I can find out.
[exhales]
[grunts]
[Sarah] I told you, you're wasting your time.
John?
[Myra] Jimmy h-had that with him
the night he died.
I don't even remember taking it with me.
I don't even remember. It was such a blur.
There was so much going on
and there were all these people and...
That's Jimmy prom photo.
Wait a second, this...
[Langley] Oh, my God.
"You took everything from me.
- I guess we're even now." - This isn't Jimmy's jacket.
Lucky 13. This is...
[receptionist] Nothing from the D.A. yet.
Will do, Doc.
"Doc."
Sorry, that's the sheriff's football nickname.
Doesn't matter how long he wears that badge.
For those of us who knew him when...
[chuckles] ...he's always gonna be Doc Magic.
♪ ♪
[door bells jingle]
[music playing softly]
♪ Oh, please, my daughter...
[Jessica] Here you go. Enjoy your lunch.
[Dodge] Hi, Sheriff.
Any news on Heather's individual challenge?
- [Jessica] Sheriff. - Jessica.
♪ Do you love once again...
We've been talking.
Okay. A-About what?
[water pours]
I'm not letting Dodge go to Joust.
I need Dodge to beat Ray
so I can prove that Luke is a bookie.
Right? Texas state law...
He's forfeiting.
Forfeiting?
[laughs] Are you fucking kidding?
You want to let Luke Hall win?
Hmm? You want to let him get away with all that money?
Let him get away with everything?
Just like he did with Dayna?
♪ Ready to love again...
[dish clatters]
Hey.
I'm sorry.
I'll take it.
I'll take the wheel.
You're right, it's dangerous and Dodge shouldn't risk it.
But I'm not letting the Halls win.
Not after everything I've done. Not, not after
everything Dodge has done to get us to where we are.
How do you know no one will see you?
No one's gonna see me. It'll be dark.
I'll go to the starting gate, I'll win Joust
and I'll get the hell out of there.
All you have to do is make sure that your car
is good and ready for me.
'Cause I'm not letting the Halls win.
[door bells jingle]
I promise I can explain everything.
I'm not here because I'm ready to forgive you.
- So, why did you come? - Do you know how we thought
Luke Hall was leading the betting ring?
It's much worse than we thought.
I-I mean, yeah, I-I heard.
Um, my dad called already.
Wait, your dad knows?
I guess he just found out from Sheriff Cortez?
- Hold up, Cortez confessed? - Confessed?
- What are you talking about? - Luke Hall.
He was found in the park this morning.
Someone beat him up so bad that they had to use his prints
- to I.D. him. - Oh, my God. Ray.
No.
No, not the Panic money. Fuck!
[Sarah] Never trust a rich kid to be the bagman.
Cortez has been gambling on Panic all along?
Looks like it.
Does Dodge know?
He couldn't. He trusted Cortez.
He believed Luke put Dayna in that wheelchair.
- But he didn't. - What do you mean?
Ray asked me to look into what happened
the night of Dayna's accident.
Luke was in jail.
So Cortez lied about that, too.
What does this mean about the game?
It means it's not a game anymore.
[Cortez] I don't know,
have no idea what Luke was doing there.
Well, maybe he was just meeting someone.
He wasn't paying attention, that's for sure.
That's probably how they snuck up on him.
The first hit dropped him.
[coughs]
Fuck...
[screams]
Now, whoever did this...
...they just kept on going and going.
It was probably about a bet that didn't pay off.
Somebody was pissed.
So far, no evidence has been recovered.
[Heather] Ray was right.
Cortez has been using the game all along.
It doesn't belong to us anymore.
If he's betting on Dodge to win, he might go after Ray next.
We have to fix it.
[shushes]
♪ Follow, shake me down below ♪
♪ Feeling hollow, wake the souls ♪
♪ Show me power, give me control ♪
♪ 'Cause my sickness runs so cold ♪
♪ Runs so cold ♪
♪ Ah ♪
♪ Are you onto me, onto me, onto me? ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm onto you, onto you, onto you ♪
♪ Are you onto me, onto me, onto me? ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm onto you, onto you, onto you ♪
♪ Let me tell you a secret ♪
♪ You can try to run but you won't get free ♪
♪ I see trouble ♪
♪ And I want it ♪
♪ Will you come and play my games? ♪
♪ Roll the dice and fade away ♪
♪ Try to leave you, can't escape ♪
♪ Why don't you want to? ♪
♪ Ah ♪
♪ Can't escape ♪
♪ Are you onto me, onto me, onto me? ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm onto you, onto you, onto you ♪
♪ Are you onto me, onto me, onto me? ♪
♪ 'Cause I'm onto you, onto you, onto you ♪
♪ You can try to run but you won't get free ♪
♪ I see trouble ♪
♪ Let me tell you a secret ♪
♪ I see trouble ♪♪