A NETFLIX SERIES
[bus plays tone]
[indistinct announcement on PA]
[girl giggling happily]
[intense music playing]
[birds calling]
[music stops]
[foot tapping]
[car door slams]
[panting]
[emotional music playing]
[gasps] No!
What's wrong?
[Iliana sobbing]
Professor?
He's dead.
-[Iliana sobbing] -[Gigi] Who? How did he die?
♪ I know I know it hurts ♪
["Palermo” by Mary Komasa playing]
[continues sobbing]
♪ My open heart is dangerous ♪
♪ I know, we were in a hurry ♪
♪ To reach the unknown ♪
[sighs]
[loud bang]
♪ To find the future ♪
♪ But you're still in the past ♪
♪ Trying to control ♪
♪ Your urge to escape ♪
♪ One nightmare ♪
♪ Was a dead end ♪
[Alex sobs]
♪ One nightmare ♪
♪ Was a dead end ♪
-[grunts] -[glass shatters]
[knocking]
[song fades]
[knocking]
Hello?
[birds calling]
Who are you here for?
[Birdy clears throat]
Alex's grandma.
Bożena Złota.
I can help.
Grief gets worse when you're hungry.
Tell Alex I'm here.
Kitchen?
At the end on your left.
Keep up your strength.
We're not in the mood to eat.
[Bożena] You all could use it.
Especially you.
[syncopated music playing]
Hmm.
[Aitwar sniffing]
[sniffs]
[music intensifies]
Do something, for fuck's sake!
Don't just stare at me!
He's going to kill us all.
And you're just fucking sitting there.
-I had no idea it was-- -Fuck off!
[Bożena] I'll go.
Wait, Alex.
Grandma, take your fucking jars and get the fuck out of this city!
Calm down!
Can you leave us alone for a minute?
Listen. Please.
Grandma.
Last night I watched my best friend die in my arms.
He was killed by the same thing that drove my mom to suicide.
I won't leave you alone.
I never forgave myself for the fact
that Jagna was alone on the streets when she gave birth to you.
She wasn't alone.
She was always with us. [sniffles]
Always.
I'm sure she was.
[sad music playing]
I came here because a blood moon is rising.
The last blood moon was on the night you were born.
[Iliana] Hmm.
The waxing moon is fickle, always touch-and-go.
She'll either fade and die or live and glow.
[Bożena] That's what people say.
Hmm. Yeah.
-[Iliana] January. -[Bożena] Mmm.
[Iliana] Uh…
It says here the blood moon will be visible over Cracow
at 9:00 p.m. tonight.
It's just not clear what that predicts. A beginning or an end.
I was born at 9:00 p.m.
Maybe the fates haven't decided and it's up to me.
"Look for the rise of blood moon, then history will repeat itself."
Do you remember Mom talking about her friend Wanda?
She knew how to vanquish evil.
But then she drowned and took that secret to the grave with her.
[Zawadzki] What if…
we recreate her death?
You want me to jump into the Vistula?
No. We just need to trick your body into thinking it's actually drowning.
You mean regressing to a previous incarnation?
It's dangerous.
[Iliana] And where are we supposed to drown her?
In the shower?
I think we need to keep looking for answers in these books.
[Antoni] We'll give you a hand.
[tense music playing]
Alex.
[keys jingling]
AMBULANCE BAY
[shuts off]
Hi.
Quite a place to spend your birthday, isn't it?
[chuckles]
A walk down memory lane?
Mm-hmm.
Hm.
[keys jingling]
Thank you.
We're even, Alex.
Whatever you're planning, be careful.
Okay.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Antoni] What is this place?
[Hania] A progressive trend in psychiatry.
[Zawadzki] We don't have a lot of time. Fill it up.
Well, I found us a place. What's next?
In order to reconstruct the moment when your previous incarnation died,
your body has to react in a real way…
to the fear
As if you were really dying.
What's that?
Ketamine.
-Uh… -[Antoni] Wait.
Hold on. We never said we were going to use boosters.
[Basia] They use that for torture.
[Antoni] Alex, don't…
-If we make one tiny mistake-- -This is insane.
We're not fucking with mushrooms,
we're talking about a near-death experience.
We're talking about a dissociative state, where, as Basia was saying--
-She can go completely crazy. -A bad trip is not easy.
Alex, we cannot guarantee we'll be able to bring you out of this.
-No one knows better about this-- -[metal clangs]
[Antoni] What… What are you doing here?
[Iliana hums]
[Hania] Good idea.
[Basia and Hania continue humming]
[panting]
[water bubbling]
[dramatic music playing]
[muffled scream]
[Zawadzki grunts]
[Antoni] Jesus!
[grunting]
I… I can't!
-[muffled scream] -Someone's holding her down!
[gasping]
We trusted you and look what happened!
-Lucky dying wasn't enough? -Why are you risking her life?
She has to remember.
Why did you pull me out?
Alex…
I was so close.
One more time.
Alex…
When you start to drown, make sure you reach out.
[humming]
[dramatic music playing]
[Alex] Three faces from which the gods were born.
Where three axes of the world intersect
on the day and hour of the power of three.
Three faces from which the gods were born.
Where three axes of the world intersect
on the day and hour of the power of three.
[needle thuds]
[gasps]
[coughs]
[gasps]
[coughs]
The fifth of January, 2022 gives the astrological number of three.
And 21:00 hours adds up to three.
The doubled power of the priestess.
Mine and Wanda's. I get that, but…
"The three faces from which the gods were born"?
It's Triglav.
And?
And there is nothing left of his cult.
[tense music playing]
[ominous whispering in Old Slavonic]
[dripping]
[whispering continues]
[exhales shakily]
[panting]
[church bell tolls]
[tense music continues]
[cell phone ringing]
-Yeah? -[sobbing] Janek…
Janek. Feliks! Help him, please. Help him.
Hurry. Hurry!
Ewa.
Ewa, I can't come there right now.
[sniffs]
[Robert panting]
[Robert mutters in Old Slavonic]
[Alex whimpers]
[in English] Shh. Don't be scared.
He's afraid of you. The boy is afraid of you.
I was with the Dark Boy a long time. I saw a lot. I saw everything.
[Alex whimpering]
Don't scream. I can help you.
Don't scream.
Are you gonna scream?
[Robert chanting in Old Slavonic]
[grunting]
[groaning]
[Robert grunts]
Wait.
[grunts, groans]
[Alex] Make him stop.
Now!
[whimpering]
[Zawadzki] Enough! Antek!
-I'll take him to the living room. -Triglav.
[Zawadzki] Triglav.
[grunts]
[intense music playing]
Triglav's statues do not exist.
Where did you get it?
I found it in the ground.
I swear.
He can hear him.
Triglav.
You can talk to it?
I'm not fucking touching that thing.
[Zawadzki] You know the language of the gods?
Who taught you that?
I don't know who.
He's telling the truth.
He's one of us.
I ran away from the Dark Boy.
I promise you.
[Alex] One, two, three.
Three.
Nine.
And Wanda.
He brought us exactly what we were looking for.
We don't need him anymore.
[panting]
[inhales sharply]
He should stay.
Why?
Without Lucky, we're still one person short for the ritual.
Triglav will emerge right in the center at 9:00 p.m. sharp, no sooner, no later.
Understand?
[vehicle door slams]
Mm-hmm. Okay.
[Antoni] I just dropped pins to everyone's phones with their location.
[Iliana] Nine p.m. sharp. Everyone in position.
[Gigi] Get in. Hurry up.
[tense music playing]
Do you know what's coming?
Zawadzki, the world is in our hands.
-[grunts] -[Alex] What the fuck?
[both grunt]
I'm in position.
[Gigi on radio] Everyone check in.
You fucking kidding me? Here?
[cameras clicking]
[Alex groans]
[yells]
[grunts]
[groans]
I'm here!
[footsteps pounding]
[snarls]
[music intensifies]
[grunts]
[Alex groans]
[boy growling]
-My son! -[Alex yelps]
[Alex groans]
[sniffs]
[panting]
[footsteps pounding]
[suspenseful music playing]
[people chattering]
[glasses clinking]
[chiming]
[Gigi] Everyone in position?
[Hania] I'm ready.
All right. We're here.
Take this.
What's wrong? What don't you understand?
-I don't know what it means. -I thought you knew the Old Tongue.
These are basics. The alphabet.
All right. Uh…
Our ancestors didn't use letters, just four words.
Focus.
[rolls tongue] Ra.
-Ra. -Ra. You can do it.
"Ra" says the Prime Mover. Come on. Ra.
-Ra. Ra! -Okay? Ra. Focus.
-Ra, yes. Da. -Da.
-No, no, no. Come on. -Da.
With your tongue. Your tongue. Just like you're trying to say "dove."
Dove, the symbol of peace. Everything that goes with it.
All that good energy.
It doesn't have to be dove. What's important is good energy. Da.
-Da. -Da. Watch. Da.
-Da! -Da.
-Ra! Da! -Ra!
Fuck. You can't screw this up.
-Do you understand? -Da.
Read the gestures. Ra. Okay?
Start the incantation at 9:00 p.m.
[groans]
[growling]
[cell phone chimes]
[Iliana on telephone] You all there?
Antek?
Come on. Come on!
Fuck.
[Zawadzki panting]
[low growl]
[Alex panting]
[grunts, groans]
[groans]
[coughs]
[boy snarling]
[grunts]
[roaring]
[groans]
[panting]
[groans]
[low growl]
Huh.
No!
[yelling] No!
What's happening?
Professor, what's happening?
[Zawadzki groaning loudly]
-Professor? -[groans]
[grunting]
The professor's not there. Or Antoni.
Something's wrong.
[panting]
[snarling]
[yells]
Holy fuck!
[roars]
Fuck it, fuck it! I'm doing it!
All right.
Let's go.
[car horns honking]
It's almost time.
[horn honks]
[loud rumbling]
[snarling]
Rrrr…
Ra!
Da!
[Alex groaning]
[Chworz] Your pride doomed you, priestess.
You were trying to cheat fate, to change your history.
[Alex screams]
-[growling] -[Alex moaning]
[Chworz grunts]
Rrrrr-ra!
[Antoni] Hello?
I'm here.
- [Iliana] Antek, we've already started. - Oh…
Rrr…
[growling]
[Alex screams]
[grunting]
[groans, pants]
What's wrong?
What's going on?
[snarling]
I am Hvor.
I am Knegh.
[screaming]
[snarling]
-[Gigi] This is pointless. -Shit.
It's not working.
Zawadzki's not there.
I am the black water and the moon.
Terror of gods and mortals alike.
This city will be mine.
[bones cracking]
[Basia] What's happening?
[Zawadzki panting]
[melancholy music playing]
[indistinct whispering]
[Zawadzki] Lucky?
Ah.
[people on phone] Ra! Da!
Rrrr! Ra!
-Da! -Da!
-Ra! Da! -Ra!
Ra! Da!
-Ra! - [on phone] Ra! Da!
-Da! -[on phone] Da!
Ra!
[panting]
-Ra! Da! - [people on phone] Ra! Da!
Ra!
-Da! Ra! - [on phone] Ra! Da!
Da!
Ra!
-Da! Ra! - [on phone] Ra!
Da! Ra!
Ra!
Da! Ra!
Ra! Da!
[all] Ra! Da!
Da! Ra!
[all echoing] Da!
[low growl]
Ra!
[sniffing]
[all] Da! Rrrr…
Ra! Da!
[grunting] Ra!
[yells] Da!
-Ra! Da! -[roars]
[all] Ra! Da!
Ra!
-[yells] -[growls]
Ra!
-[yelling] -[groans]
[Alex screams]
Ra! Da!
Ra!
[grunts]
[all] Da! Ra!
[Alex] Ra! Da!
-[Alex grunting] -[roars]
[Alex panting]
[Alex laughs]
[liquid burbling]
[loud rumbling]
[groans]
[panting]
Did it work? Does anyone know?
[Hania] Did it work?
[men laughing]
-[man] Give us your dealer's number? -[panting]
-[man 2] Tell us! -Fuck off!
[panting]
[sighs]
-[panting] -[door closes]
Uh… excuse me.
May I?
[panting]
[breathing heavily]
[coughing]
[groans]
[grunts]
[melancholy music playing]
[Alex] Hurry…
[Iliana] No!
What have you done?
[woman vocalizing]
[music fades]
MEDICAL COLLEGE
LUCJAN SZCZĘSNY DIED ON JANUARY 4th, 2022 AT THE AGE OF 26
[sniffs]
[intense music playing]
[male voice] You cannot kill gods.
Even the most evil ones.
You broke an eternal law.
You will pay for it.
["City of My Dreams” by Mary Komasa playing]
♪ Childhood memories ♪
♪ Shadows in the park ♪
♪ Hiding in the dark ♪
♪ That's what you brought That's what you want ♪
♪ That's what I saw in you ♪
♪ Running through the streets Secret games we played ♪
♪ Coming home too late With bruises on the knees ♪
♪ The cleaner source The last we saw ♪
♪ That's what I saw in you ♪
♪ So don't leave me here ♪
♪ Alone ♪
♪ So don't leave me here ♪
♪ Alone ♪
♪ So don't leave me here ♪
♪ Alone ♪
♪ So don't leave me here ♪
♪ Alone ♪
♪ City of my dreams ♪
♪ No more what it seems ♪
♪ Shadows in the park Monsters in the dark ♪
♪ That's what I feel That's what I'm scared ♪
♪ That's what I see in you ♪
♪ Keep running away From the games we played ♪
♪ Home before the meal With bruises that won't heal ♪
♪ The clearer choice The inner voice ♪
♪ That told me to break through ♪
♪ You won't leave me here ♪
♪ Alone ♪
♪ So don't leave me here ♪
♪ Alone ♪
♪ You won't leave me here ♪
♪ Alone ♪
♪ So don't leave me here ♪
♪ Alone ♪
♪ You won't leave me here ♪
♪ Alone ♪
♪ So don't leave me here ♪
♪ Alone ♪
[vocalizing]
[tense music playing]
[music ends]