- It is with your negligence that Carrie Ecker escaped.
Find and return her at once.
- Are the scars from them?
Just curious why y'all live out in the woods like that.
- Deep in the woods stands a lone Door.
My colony exists entirely to protect the world
from the awful things beyond that Door.
And one of them got out.
- You should've had your eye on her!
- One of you must act as its prey.
I will follow from behind and take care of the rest.
- It's real.
- There's no greater act of love
than the act of self-sacrifice.
In the years to come, when your skin is maimed
and your bones broken,
you can look your friends in the eye and say,
"I have loved."
The Guardianship is only for the purest of heart.
Six years of battling off the ravenous Bloodherd
in the depths of Gehenna,
of learning the divine secrets that lay in the Ledger.
Six years of sacrifice.
You think you have enough love to give?
all: Yes!
- Then say it loud and clear.
all: I am a vessel filled with light.
I am a weapon against the shadow.
My pain is a symptom of sacrifice.
My sacrifice is a symptom of love.
- Louder!
all: I am a vessel filled with light.
I am a weapon against the shadow.
My pain is a symptom of sacrifice.
My sacrifice is a symptom of love.
[both grunting]
I am a vessel filled with light.
I am a weapon against the shadow.
My pain is a symptom of sacrifice.
My sacrifice is a symptom of love.
[intense music]
I am a vessel filled with light.
I am a weapon against the shadow.
My pain is a symptom of sacrifice.
My sacrifice is a symptom of love.
- Emotion.
Better not strike than act too soon.
Fodder for the Herd.
all: I am a weapon against the shadow.
My pain is a symptom of sacrifice.
My sacrifice is a symptom of love.
- I could do better.
- It's early in training.
- Council leader's disappointed.
He sees my mother in me.
- You're not your mom.
You're brave.
We're in this together, okay?
[soft heartfelt music]
* *
all: I am a vessel filled with light--
- Horrors of Gehenna lie in the mental
as much as the physical.
As weeks become months,
they'll prey on the dark recesses of your mind.
Your longest time yet.
[students chanting mantra distantly]
[apprehensive music]
* *
Let's go.
[students grunting]
[suspenseful music]
* *
- Calm. Steady.
Calm. Steady.
[yells]
- Carrie, calm mind. Steady.
Calm mind. Steady.
all: My pain is a symptom of sacrifice.
My sacrifice is a symptom of love.
[dark rock music]
* *
- Okay, Mom. Okay.
Everything's gonna be fine.
Boom.
Snug as a bug on drugs. - Thank you.
- Mrs. Frisk, do you remember anything from the past hour?
A whistling sound? Almost angelic?
A tall figure with a mask?
A gold coin, maybe?
- I-I remember ecstasy.
Ecstasy.
[unsettling music]
* *
- Is it okay if I hold your hand?
To warm you up?
- I'll be the lure.
Let's kill this thing.
- Pretty big of you to put yourself in harm's way.
- Yeah, well if this were "Jaws,"
I'd be like the stink bait
that they use to lure the shark in.
- You're my stink bait.
- You're supposed to say that I'm the shark.
- I'm just having a bit of a hard time visualizing it, so.
- Oh, my God!
Nolan! Angel. Darling.
You're like my big dog alpha dog.
- Yeah, such a big dog alpha dog that I'm literally
about to piss my pants from nerves, so watch out.
'Cause, yeah.
- [laughs]
- Okay, bye.
- What?
- Gonna pee my pants. Hot.
Yes, you.
- Brings the total missing in West Pine to five,
all within 36 hours.
The mayor is now implementing a town-wide curfew--
- Hello?
[disquieting music]
* *
Jeez.
- You're scared of me.
- No.
- Yes, you are. You're scared of me.
- No, Carrie, I'm not.
Christ is lord. Fuck me.
- It's fine.
I'd be scared of me too.
- There's just--there's a lot going on right now.
- I'm a weapon.
That's how the Colony trained me.
Don't think, just-- - All right.
You're not-- you're not some weapon.
You could be in Salem right now,
but you're in shitty old West Pine doing what's right.
I just leave when there's drama, so props.
- That's not true.
You helped me.
[apprehensive music]
* *
- People look at me and think mad jokes,
mad style, chill,
but the entire time in my head, I'm like,
"Don't stop moving. Don't think about Mom's death.
Don't think about Dad's debt. Distract, distract, distract."
It's like a factory for exhausting thoughts.
You know, in the last weeks of her life,
I spent almost all my free time at Evolve Dance Studio
like-like-like a dumb slut.
I just want to start over too.
Be like a baby.
- Be anyone.
- Get out of West Pine at least.
[airhorn blasting]
- Ready to hunt a monster?
[soft sentimental music]
* *
[unsettling music]
* *
[both grunting]
- Better not to strike than strike early.
Calm mind. Steady hand.
You're holding back, Carrie. Mercy has no place in Gehenna.
[unnerving music]
* *
- Council leader?
[low inquisitive music]
* *
- You're not allowed in here.
- Father.
I don't understand why I can't visit my family home.
- My new post forbids preferential treatment.
- So I'm not entitled
to ask my own blood for training advice?
- I have to treat all the children equally.
- Then as council leader?
- When I look at you,
I see her,
your mother.
A sniveling little victim who flees hardship
at a moment's notice.
- Sara's just stronger than me.
* *
- Pressure points. Remember these?
It's how you exploit vulnerability that counts.
The Bloodherd overpowers all of us,
so be ruthless.
Pain is a symptom of sacrifice.
- And sacrifice is a symptom of love.
- Win the Guardianship.
Then I'll call you my daughter.
[Sara grunting]
- Tasha, why are you walking like that?
- It's my power pose.
I do it before recitals when I'm nervous.
- Oh, hell's greatest weakness: empowered dancers.
I feel so safe.
- Anything to stay calm. What are you doing?
- Oh, oh this is called the mean lean.
It's like the power pose but way sicker.
- Well, our friendship is actually canceled now.
- Demons hate this shit. Freaks them out.
- You freak 'em out you 'cause you're a freaky little boy.
- Little boy?
both: Little child.
[laughter]
- It's good you're laughing. A calm mind is a steady hand.
Remember, if you get too scared,
if you flinch in the place of action,
the Bloodherd will sniff your weakness and kill you.
But if the Ledger is right,
then the Hypnotist prefers to lure from a safe distance
rather than attack with force, so you should be safe.
Nolan, are you ready?
- Yes, sir. Ma'am.
- You cannot drop the act.
The Herd don't have eyes, but it will know.
Once it's onto you, you must remain steady.
Under no circumstances should you try to fight it.
This is not gold.
It's devil's bone, and it comes from their world.
It's the only way to kill them.
Do not try to attack.
- [whispering] Devil's bone.
- Nolan, what did you take?
- Calm mind, steady hand.
- This is real, dude. It's not cute.
[foreboding music]
Headphones ready? Let me see your phone.
Make sure the volume stays all the way up.
- And look at your feet, never into its coin.
Imagine what your mom is going through but much worse.
It marks the trees to claim the woods.
That's how it draws its power from Gehenna.
Call, and it will come.
- I'm gonna be fine. - You're gonna be fine.
- Whoa. both: Really? Really brave.
- Brave as--mind meld. - Weird.
- Wait, wait, wait, wait, um, Tasha,
just in case anything legit bad happens,
I-I want you to know that you're so beautiful.
No, stop. Like a sexy machine.
You're like a sexy church.
- Why am I like a sexy church? [both laugh]
[Carrie clears throat]
Good luck, Stink Bait.
* *
[metal music playing on phone]
* *
- Ow!
[foreboding music]
* *
To vast Gehenna, I give my skin.
Pray warm shadow let me in.
This is so fucking metal.
[both grunting]
- What are you doing? Fight me.
Come on, we've been training for this our whole lives.
Fight me.
Call it. I'm done.
- The final fight lasts till one of you touches dirt.
- Well, I'm not gonna hurt her
while she just stands there, so.
- [yells]
It's weird he's just a dot on the screen.
I realize he's probably losing his shit,
but here, he's just dotting around.
- Just-just give me that.
Nolan and I can take it from here.
- You'd literally have to literally stab me
multiple times in the eye with your blade
to get me not to help.
- I thought you were supposed to be a coward.
- I thought you were supposed to be a bad person.
Shit. This service.
- Come on. We're close. Just press on.
[metal music playing on phone]
- [panting]
- Come on. Follow the scary monster.
Oh, why the fuck did I agree to this?
[ominous music]
* *
- Stay back.
[thralls screaming]
- [shouts]
[low intense music]
* *
- Go, go, go, go, go, go.
We're coming back, Lumi. I promise.
- Hey.
* *
- That's the old mine entrance.
- So what do we do now?
- I'm gonna end this thing.
[unsettling music]
* *
- Oh, demon, what have you done?
* *
Calm mind. Steady hand.
- Carrie?
They want you back.
They sent me.
* *
I thought I'd be angry, but...
It's really you.
I get why you did it.
I hurt you,
and I'm sorry.
- No.
I am.
[Hypnotist screeches]
[intense music]
[Carrie yelling]
* *
[grunting]
- Hey. Hey.
Hey. Hey.
You're not a weapon. You're not a weapon.
It's dead, okay?
It's dead. You're not a weapon. You're not a weapon.
- What was it doing down here?
- Hey, who's there? This is WPN property.
- We have to dip. Like, now.
- Remember how I said that the wrong person
could open up a new door?
Let all the nightmares out?
Well, I think it might have done just that.
[foreboding music]
* *
- I said, who's there?
- Go, go, go, go, go!
[dark ominous music]
* *