[Both grunting]
Just save yourself, Vic.
[Screams]
I'm pregnant.
♪♪
HUTTER: Bing Partridge is a dangerous man.
If we don't stop him, he will kill again.
I'm gonna make sure
this baby never meets anyone like Charlie Manx.
[Wind blowing]
[Footsteps crunching]
[Children laughing and chanting]
CHILDREN: Bite the smallest! Drink his blood!
Bite the smallest! Eat him up!
Bite the smallest! Drink...
[Sniffs]
[Giggles]
Bite the smallest! Eat him up!
[Laughter]
[Crickets chirping]
JACK: Sleigh House.
This is where he lived before it burned down.
My sister says he used to roast kids alive in that old stove.
Bullshit. He didn't eat them.
You scared?
He's in jail.
He's in a coma, but he could still kill you
'cause he's magic.
- CHILDREN: Bite the smallest! Eat him up! - Come get me!
Bite the smallest! Drink his blood!
Bite the smallest! Eat him up!
Bite the smallest! Drink his blood!
Bite the smallest! Eat him up!
Bite the smallest! Drink his blood!
Bite the smallest! Eat him up!
♪♪
Millie? What's happening?
♪♪
My sister says he tricked kids
with candy canes and presents.
Shh!
[Children whispering]
Tricked them into his creepy car,
brought them here.
♪♪
They say hundreds of kids could be buried out here,
maybe thousands.
No one knows how long he...
kept them here...
- Who are they? - ...or what he did to them.
DEMON BOY: Are they from the other world?
♪♪
- They look fun. - [Gasps]
♪♪
[Electricity crackling]
♪♪
You. Come here.
We're gonna play a new game.
[Grunts]
[Children gasping]
[Demon boy growls]
[Children screaming]
[Growls]
♪♪
- Aaaah! - Aaaah!
What is it, Millie?
[Screaming and shouting]
[Grunting and gasping]
♪♪
Father.
["Carol of the Bells" playing eerily]
♪♪
Synced & corrected by kinglouisxx www.addic7ed.com
["Can I Go On" plays]
♪♪
♪ Everyone I know is tired ♪
♪ And everyone I know is wired ♪
♪ To machines, it's obscene ♪
♪ I'll just scream till it don't hurt no more ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
♪ Everyone I know is happy ♪
♪ But everyone I know is napping ♪
♪ Half the day thrown away ♪
♪ But I can't find the thrill anymore ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
♪ Maybe I'm not sure... ♪
[Metal clanging]
WAYNE: She's in her bubble room again.
LOU: She's working. [Chuckles]
Mom! Mom!
Look what Dad got me.
Let me guess... "NBA 2k Four Million and One"?
"2k20"
Wow. Lucky Bats, huh?
[Chuckles] Dude, I'm the lucky one.
[Chuckles]
Now, how did a nerd like me get so lucky?
Well...
you and I both know the ugly truth, Carmody.
- I ain't here for you. - Oh, no?
No.
I'm here for your comic collection.
[Laughs]
Oh, man.
[Chuckles]
WAYNE: Guys, cut it out.
Okay. Let's see what ya got.
Wayne, tell your mom she's awesome.
- Stop being weird. - Yeah.
I'm gonna beat her at "2k."
Well, I gotta finish this tank, kiddo.
Talk to your dad.
He's too old.
No hustle.
[Laughing] Oh, excuse me?
Bats here thinks you're old.
- Ancient. - I am unhurried.
But I will beat y'all little behinds
at any video game any day of the week.
- Mm. - Who's Charlie Manx?
What'd you just say?
WAYNE: Charlie Manx. He's on the TV.
...serial killer died today in his prison hospital bed
after spending the last eight years in a deep coma.
Charlie Manx was...
[Gasping]
Aaaaah!
[Explosion]
[News anchor speaks indistinctly]
[Man speaks indistinctly]
LOU: Hey. Hey.
This is good news, Vic. Great news.
Look, I'm... I'm sorry. Did that...
that cause visions?
No, I'm fine. I...
Just...
Okay. Let's go... movies.
Always helps you forget.
We can start putting him behind us.
- Huh? - [Exhales sharply]
I think I just need to clear my head, you know?
Um...
Mind if I take the truck?
Uh... yeah, okay.
- All right. - Cool.
I'll be here.
[Door slams]
♪♪
[Spoon rattling]
["Juice" begins blasting]
♪♪
The beast has awoken.
♪♪
[Chuckles]
Yo, can you put my jacket back before you mess it up, please?
Nope.
♪ Mirror, mirror on the wall ♪
♪ Don't say it 'cause I know I'm cute... ♪
- Maggie, get away from me. - Nope.
Maggie. Ma...
- Ooh. - [Laughs]
- Feeling good? - Don't break me, now.
Don't break me. [Laughs]
- Oh, break you? - Don't break me.
Oh! Oh, my God.
Uh. Uh! Hold on, hold on, hold on.
No. No, no, no, Maggie.
Put my FBI bae on the Gram.
- Please, please. Mm-hmm. - Maggie. No.
- No, no, no. - Y'all, look at this woman.
While y'all sleeping,
my baby is serving and protecting the world.
- The world, y'all. - Okay, okay. Would you please stop?
[Laughs]
[Cellphone vibrating]
W-What?
I can count on one hand the number of times she's called
since she left town, and every time she does,
it's... trouble.
She must've heard about Manx's death.
Like I said.
[Cellphone continues vibrating]
[Line ringing]
MAGGIE: Well, well.
Look who finally figured out how to work a phone.
They're saying Charlie Manx is dead.
I know.
Will you ask your Tiles?
I don't do that anymore.
Maggie, please.
Vic, he's dead.
Did your Tiles say that?
The FBI did,
and they got it from a very reliable snitch...
the Denver medical examiner.
Well, they're wrong.
I'm the one who's supposed to kill him.
Your Tiles said so, Maggie. They never lie.
My Tiles said you'd find him.
And you did...
eight years ago.
I didn't finish the job.
You don't even have a knife.
Well, then, ask your Tiles how to find a new one.
We've asked them before. What would make today any different?
Because Charlie Manx isn't dead.
Vic, let it go.
This is your happy ending, so try to see it.
Go make an honest man out of that snuggly bear of yours
and get your ass online so I can see pictures of Wayne
before he hits the gangly phase.
[Sniffles]
♪♪
[Engine starts]
♪♪
You don't even have a knife.
Jolene told me knives can be replaced.
[Static crackling]
♪♪
Cuts the fabric between the Real World
and the World of Thought.
♪♪
Come on, you son of a bitch!
[Cellphone ringing]
♪♪
- Hey, Bats. - Sam called.
WAYNE: He has a bike for Dad,
but you took the truck, so...
A bike?
Did he say what kind?
No.
Tell your dad I'll pick it up.
- 'Kay. - Okay.
- Love you. - I love you, too. Bye.
[Blows air]
[Brakes screech]
- That was fast. - Where's the bike?
Well, I was clearing some junk out of storage,
and there it was. I called Lou right away.
Funny you were in the area. [Chuckles]
You know, Steve McQueen had one just like it.
Oh. Look at this.
[Exhales sharply] Show me.
Oh, it's in the loading bay. Go ahead.
♪♪
Hello there.
♪♪
[Electricity crackling]
♪♪
♪ She may contain the urge to run away ♪
♪ But hold her down with soggy clothes and breezeblocks ♪
♪ La-la-la-la ♪
♪ Do you know where the wilds things go ♪
♪ They go along to take your honey ♪
♪ La-la-la-la ♪
♪ Break down now weep, build our breakfast now let's eat ♪
♪ My love my love, love, love ♪
♪ La-la-la-la ♪
♪ Muscle to muscle and toe to toe ♪
♪ The fear has gripped me but here I go ♪
♪ My heart sinks as I jump up ♪
♪ Your hand grips hand as my eyes shut ♪
♪ Ahhh, ahhh, ahhh ♪
Need any help?
Uh, studio's private.
Well, I-I'm, uh, I'm Ethan Anderson,
- a Rolls-Royce enthusiast. - Oh, right.
You replied to my online post.
The preview'll be at the cafe after the show's installed.
You can discuss sales with a gallery assistant there.
Ah, you took the engine out.
Yeah, th... this one you're eyeing, uh,
was actually owned by a ruthless serial killer.
I got it at a police auction a few months ago,
restored it for the show.
Now it'll return to the earth and be forgotten
like all of capitalism's false, murderous idols.
You replied to my post...
that this Rolls-Royce Wraith was for sale.
Yeah, it will be, next week,
at the gallery, uh, for like $150,000.
[Exhales sharply]
That's a lot of money.
Well, there are smaller pieces available.
No. No, I want this Wraith.
You see, I'm a Rolls-Royce enthusiast.
Dad.
Mom says I have to stay at her place tomorrow night,
but I don't want to 'cause I hate Eric.
[Sighs] Well, he's your step-brother.
It's his birthday. Try and be friends?
I don't like sleepovers, either.
Friends can be mean.
Sometimes they won't play with you.
Sometimes they hit you.
Sometimes they even hit you in the privates.
- All right. - Eric does that.
Yeah. Well, I-I had a friend once.
Name's Vic McQueen.
She told lies about me, tattled.
I hate her.
Uh, Mr., um... Anderson, was it? Uh...
I appreciate your interest. Uh, I'm pretty busy.
Yeah.
You sure you don't want to give me that Wraith?
♪♪
[Chuckles]
Well, you have a nice day.
It was a pleasure to meet you.
♪♪
It's my knife, Lou.
I can frickin' feel it. I'll, uh...
I'll finally be able to open the Shorter Way.
- The Shorter Way. Cool. - Uh-huh.
Wait, that magical bridge that gives you
the ability to go anywhere?
Well, you know, to... to find lost things, yeah.
And, uh...
look, I know this might sound crazy, but this...
this Triumph [sniffles]... I think I conjured it.
- Mm. - Dude, I have no doubt.
We've already established that you're a superhero.
It'll be our Millennium Falcon.
Well, we got to get it runnin', so...
We'll be like Han and Leia.
Oh! Rey and Finn.
I'm gonna use it to find Charlie Manx.
He's... he's dead, Vic.
Have you been drinking?
[Chuckles]
Okay, this... this isn't like Christmas, all right?
It's... It's...
Good, because every Christmas,
you nearly drink yourself to death,
and you start hearing phones, voices.
Wayne and I need you around.
I have a knife now, all right?
I'm gonna find him, Lou.
I'm gonna find him and I'm gonna kill him once and for all.
Vic. Vic, listen to me.
Doctors, coroners, cops, reporters...
they all say he's dead.
This thing that's been hanging over us... it's gone.
We're free of him now.
We can finally start thinking about making things legal...
with us, with Wayne.
I mean...
if that's...
if that's something you would want.
Of course it is. I...
I don't want you to die an old maid.
[Laughs]
- [Sighs] - Let's celebrate.
I'll call in sick.
Uh, no, sir. We need your paycheck.
Go.
I'll get this running.
Han and Leia, huh?
And I'll pick up Wayne, too.
Team Carqueen.
- Huh? - We need a team name.
Team McCarmody?
Team Carqueemody.
Yeah, you know, keep thinking about it.
- It's the last one. - Is it?
- It's the last one. - Mm-hmm.
_
♪♪
[Drawer closes]
♪♪
[Line ringing]
Hi.
Um... I'd like to report an emergency
at Haverhill Public Library.
Yeah, uh, the lights went all fritzy,
and s-something happened to one of the librarians...
the really cute, fun one with purple hair.
Yeah.
She's i-in the basement, so... please hurry.
♪♪
Is the Wraith dead?
[Tiles rattle]
♪♪
[Grunting]
♪♪
["Relay Runner" plays]
♪ Sometimes there's no one listening ♪
♪ Sometimes there's nothing... ♪
[Static crackles]
♪ Away in a manger no crib for a bed ♪
♪ The... ♪
[Telephone ringing]
♪♪
[Crackling]
[Ringing continues]
♪♪
LOU: Vic?
Where were you?
You were supposed to pick up Wayne from school.
Oh, my God. Bats... I'm so sorry.
I lost track of time, and I, uh...
The other moms were there.
I, uh... I messed up.
Big time.
Are you coming to my game Saturday?
I'll be there, okay?
[Ball bounces]
[Sighs]
You want to talk about it?
I just lost track of time.
Working on your...
supernatural bike that helps you find stuff.
Sorry.
I don't know what it is you're trying to find, babe.
I guess I hoped that Wayne and I would be enough.
Lou...
[Birds chirping]
[Lou snoring]
Hi.
I'm sorry...
for yesterday.
You and Wayne are enough.
You're more than I deserve.
[Snorts]
Come on.
You deserve... so much more than this.
I keep waiting for you to wake up
and realize your terrible mistake...
shacking up with a dumbass like me.
You know, I've made a lot of terrible mistakes in my life,
and shacking up with you is just not one of them.
Wow.
I think, uh... I think that's
the most romantic thing anyone's ever said to me.
[Chuckles]
[Exhales]
[Whispering] Team McCarmody forever.
Mm.
You didn't like Team Carqueemody?
- [Normal voice] Meh. - Oh.
[Cellphone vibrating]
[Sighs] Telemarketer.
Probably trying to sell us some solar panels.
- [Sighs] - [Grunts]
One day I'll get us a few.
[Chuckles]
You get ready for work.
- I'll do school. - All right.
[Sniffles]
Where's Dad?
Work.
I'm gonna be late for school.
We're playing hooky today, mister.
Today's my day to feed the class gerbil.
[Scoffs]
I think Ms. Lewis will let you swap days with another kid.
I'll write you a note.
Ready for breakfast?
♪ Aaah ♪
Breakfast of champions!
- [Can hisses] - Wayne!
Keeping it all for yourself.
[Can hisses]
[Both chuckle]
[Laughs]
[Humming "Silent Night"]
[Footsteps crunching]
[Humming continues]
[Bird caws]
[Humming continues]
♪♪
- Oh-ho-ho-ho! - Swish.
[Laughing] Swish!
All right. I'll show you swish.
[Ball hits backboard]
Denied!
Oh, take it easy on me, kiddo.
You're pretty tough competition.
Dad says that thing reminds him of a sewing machine.
Yeah, well, Dad's a Harley guy.
- Yep. - But he is also a good person
who loves us very much, so we are gonna overlook
this obvious flaw in his character.
Who was that guy on the TV?
Charlie Manx?
[Exhales sharply]
I saw your face.
Yeesh. Nothing gets by you.
You know, there are a lot of bad people in the world, right?
Mm-hmm.
And Charlie Manx is one of them.
He'd take kids, he'd promise them candy
and... and toys...
and then he'd take them away from their parents forever.
And that is why I told you you should never go anywhere
with anyone who doesn't know the password.
10:48 Fairbanks.
Code to the Batcave.
That's right. [Clicks tongue]
Did Charlie Manx take you?
He, uh... he took someone I loved.
Was it my dad?
Dad's your dad, you know?
The ancient guy with no hustle.
I know.
But I mean my other dad,
my biological dad,
the one who died.
Craig.
His name was Craig.
- Craig. - Mm-hmm.
Did Charlie Manx kill him?
He died in Manx's car. [Sniffles]
But I promise, I will never, ever let
anything like that happen to you.
'Cause Charlie Manx is dead.
[Telephone ringing]
Wayne, do you hear the phone ringing?
What phone?
[Ringing continues]
♪♪
[Telephone ringing in house]
♪♪
Mom?
[Ringing continues]
♪♪
[Cellphone ringing]
[Static hissing]
♪♪
[Cellphone ringing]
♪♪
What are you doing?
[Static hissing]
Stop! You're gonna break it!
♪♪
[Door slams]
Oh...
♪♪
[Exhales sharply, sniffles]
♪♪
[Telephone ringing]
♪♪
Wayne, I'm coming... I'm coming in.
[Ringing continues]
Wayne. 10:48 Fairbanks.
Open up. Come on!
Open the door right now!
Stop it! You're scaring me!
[Grunts]
Mom!
[Ringing continues]
Stop calling here.
What are you doing to Christmasland, bitch?
You wanna harass me, that's fine.
But stop calling this house. You leave my family alone.
You leave Christmasland alone,
or my father will stick a fork in your eyes
and pop 'em out like corks.
Let him try.
I'll light him on fire like I did at Sam's Gas.
You be quiet, Vic McQueen.
You're a liar and a pest.
You tell Father Christmas I'm coming for him,
and never call here again, or I'll light you up, too.
[Line disconnects]
♪♪
[Groans]
♪♪
[Grunts]
[Engine starts]
♪♪
[Engine running]
♪♪
- Did Charlie Manx kill him? - He's dead, Vic.
LOU: Doctors, coroners, cops, reporters...
they all say he's dead. [Echoing]
♪♪
_
♪♪
[Crashing]
♪♪
[Door hinges creak]
♪♪
[Gasps]
[Sniffles]
♪♪
[Engine running]
♪♪
[Laughs]
♪♪
[Firefighters shouting]
♪♪
[Radio chatter]
WAYNE: Mom.
Oh, my baby. Are you okay?
WAYNE: Yeah.
[Firefighters shouting, radio chatter]
♪♪
[Crickets chirping faintly]
I'm sorry.
For what?
[Exhales sharply]
What exactly... are you apologizing for, Vic?
You apologizing for...
not talking to me about what's been going on with you
since that damn news report?
Or for telling me you're fine when you're not?
Or for feeding me one-liners instead of telling me
that you love me or you hate me
or anything real
about whatever the h-hell you're feeling?
[Exhales sharply]
For always having one foot out the door?
I don't.
Team McCarmody.
Ah, that's bullshit.
I know it. So does Wayne.
We're used to it...
used to the drinking and the hiding and the deflecting.
- Lou, this is... - But tonight, Vic...
[Sniffles]
...tonight, you got drunk...
in front of Wayne...
...and then started a fire in our house.
That's crazy.
[Exhales sharply]
- Charlie Manx... - He's dead!
I know!
I know.
I just had to see it for myself.
Why did you need to believe that he was alive so badly?
You know, Maggie said a long time ago
that every gift comes with a cost, and I think that just...
using my Bridge a lot when I was younger
and fighting Charlie Manx and Craig...
[Sniffles]
♪♪
...it has taken me apart...
...in ways that I don't understand...
...and don't think I can be p...
put back together.
That's not true.
You need help, Vic.
Like... professional help.
We can't afford it.
- We'll sell the bikes. - No. You love your bikes.
Dude, I love you so much more than I love that stupid bike.
[Sighs]
Like, it's... it's not even a contest.
[Sighs]
You also need to...
stop drinking.
Come here.
We'll figure this all out in the morning, okay?
God damn you for smelling so good, Carmody.
♪♪
[Lou snoring lightly]
♪♪
[Door squeaks closed]
You're leaving, aren't you?
You're safer with Dad.
Is it because of Charlie Manx?
No, Bats.
It's because of me.
Don't forget your jacket.
Dad says it's got armor, to protect you.
You be good.
I love you.
♪♪
[Engine running]
♪♪
WAYNE: Stop it! You're scaring me!
VIC: Open the door right now!
WAYNE: You're leaving, aren't you?
♪♪
_
You know, I tried to play nice.
I told you I was an enthusiast,
but you dumb as a box of hair.
Well, help me get this engine in.
Let's do this.
And slowly, slowly, slowly.
Yes, sir.
Yeah, stop.
♪♪
The lights are on!
[Gasping]
[Shouting and laughing]
♪♪
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♪♪