01x04 - A History of v*olence

[bunniefuu]

I bought a house. (CHUCKLES)

RUBY BAPTISTE: Where'd you get the money?

Anything strange happening in your new house?

(SCREAMS, GASPS)

♪ (DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

I understand y'all belong to the order of ancient dawn.

Just because they don't want you here, doesn't mean you're not supposed to be.

RUBY: I don't have time for distractions.

I need to concentrate on perfecting my résumé.

I saw George's body.
Something doesn't feel right.

What else you think happened?

Wait!

ATTICUS: Leti's inheritance didn't come from her mother.

It came from you.

Stay the f*ck away from my family.

CHRISTINA: Every spell the Sons have created has come from the Book of Names.

The book is gone, and Titus locked his pages in a vault.

But imagine the possibilities if those pages were to be found.

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪

[TV STATIC DRONES]

[BRIGHT TONE]

If the United States fails to proliferate its stockpile of nuclear bombs, the barbaric Soviet Union will wipe out civilized America.

We have entered a new global age.

Ain't sh*t new about it.

Whitey keep cooking up death for the rest of us to eat.

I don't need your advice when it comes to raising my son.

- [SOBBING]
- He might not be yours.

- You shut your f*cking mouth.
- Uncle George!

- [g*nsh*t]
- Look at these n*gg*r*s.

I see the flower in your hair.

[LAUGHS]

Preening in the g*dd*mn mirror.

What else you think happened?

- I don't know.
- Please. I promise.

Dad, I won't do it again, I promise.

Begging won't save your hide.

I said pick a switch.

Pick a switch!

"Adam named.

Eve f*cked.

God brought forth Monsters.

Monsters devoured.

God smites Eve".

The only way for us to defeat the Reds is to destroy their stockpile.

Take this.

Give it to Tic to protect our family.

[ROARING]

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

♪♪

You might be all Tic has left.

♪♪

Smells like Tulsa.

[EERIE MUSIC]

♪♪

♪ Don't act like you forgot ♪

♪ I call the sh*ts, sh*ts, sh*ts ♪

♪ Like brah, brah, brah ♪

♪ Pay me what you owe me ♪

♪ Don't act like you forgot ♪

♪ Bitch better have my money ♪

[RIHANNA'S "BITCH BETTER HAVE MY MONEY"]

♪ Bitch better have my money ♪

[ENGINE REVS, TIRES SQUEAL]

♪ Pay me what you owe me ♪

♪ Bitch better have my money ♪

♪♪

♪ Bitch better have my money ♪

♪♪

♪ Bitch, bitch, bitch better have my money ♪

♪ Yo ♪

What the f*ck are you doing here?

Can I come in?

[ENERGY CRACKLES]

[LAUGHS]

Who helped you evict Hiram?

[FOREBODING MUSIC]

How the hell did you...

♪♪

Hmm.

The money.

So you want something in this house then?

Something that has to do with Atticus?

Don't let the men fool you into thinking it's always about them.

His blood may have power in it, but that's only because Titus spelled it that way.

It doesn't make Tic special.

Not really.

Certainly not enough to get away with m*rder.

Oh, he didn't tell you.

He showed up at the Realtist's office this morning and tried to sh**t me.

If he keeps operating in the way that he is, he's going to get you k*lled.

Again.

And I don't want that.

Or this house.

I just want Hiram's orrery.

What the f*ck is an orrery?

It's a model of the solar system.

I believe Hiram's ghost kept it locked away somewhere inside.

Listen, you may have paid for this house, but my name is on the deed, so you can get the f*ck off my porch.

Call me if you find Hiram's orrery.

What galaxy could sustain two suns?

The Virgo Cluster?

They said last year that any galaxy within billion light-years of it is confined to a giant supercluster disc.

That could explain why they're perpetually eclipsing each other.

- Yes, it would.
- But.

But, Daddy, what if... what if they aren't eclipsing?

What if they are really two suns?

Well, that sounds like the new comic you told me Diana's drawing,

AKA out of this universe.

[LAUGHS]

Mama, we're going to Bobo's to read some comics.

Bobo, you tell your mama to call me.

I will, ma'am.

Now, is that my granddaughter I hear?

What's that you're messing with, Hippolyta?

Hold on for a second, Dad.

It is... a mechanical model of a solar system.

It moves and predicts the relative position of planets.

At least it's supposed to.

This one's broken.

I can't figure out how to get to the gears.

Well, it's a piece of work, that's for sure.

Yeah.

Well, if there's one thing I do know, every locked thing has its key.

You'll find it.

[JADE JOSEPHINE'S "GET EM"]

[DARK HIP-HOP MUSIC]

♪ Get 'em, get 'em, get 'em, good ♪

♪ Get 'em, ah, get 'em, yeah ♪

♪ Get 'em, get 'em, get 'em, good ♪

♪ Get 'em, ah, get 'em, yeah ♪

♪ Get 'em, get 'em ♪

♪ Yeah, I'm on your head now ♪

♪ I did not come here to play around ♪

♪ Oh, no, you scared now ♪

♪ You will not make it home safe and sound ♪

♪ Let's make it clear now ♪

♪ I do this sh*t, I make you scream and shout ♪

♪ And yeah, I'm here now ♪

♪ Taking what I want, I want it now ♪

♪ Get 'em ♪

You try to k*ll Christina?

- Answer me.
- Shh.

[WHISPERING] Can you calm down, please?

How the hell am I supposed to do that when I got a white sorceress bitch showing up at my house she apparently bought for me?

Which you somehow figured out, but didn't think it was important enough to tell me.

I didn't wanna scare you.

[SCOFFS]

So what happened? Hmm?

You got cold feet?

She can't be k*lled.

- What?
- I had the g*n to her head.

No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't pull the trigger.

The invulnerability, it's some spell her father cooked up.

So does that mean that he's still alive?

The rest of the Sons of Adam too?

No, he had to remove his invulnerability to cast the spell that ended up crumbling the lodge.

I'm pretty sure Christina used me as a Trojan horse to k*ll him.

[BOTH SIGH]

Wait. You were leaving.

You were gonna k*ll her and just go back to Florida?

I'm not... I'm not going anywhere.

I'm not going anywhere until I know you and my family are safe.

That's what I'm doing here, trying to figure out a way

- to stop Christina.
- Mm-hmm.

Leti.

All right.

So what's all this got to do with her?

- Go on, tell me.
- [CHAIR SCRAPES]

What does this have to do with her?

She told me there's two sets of deciphered pages from the lost Book of Names still in existence.

Hiram kept his hidden from beyond the grave.

That's why she was asking me about his orrery.

Must be the key to finding his pages.

It's not in the house. I looked.

She also mentioned Titus kept his hidden in a booby-trapped vault only he could access.

You have his blood.

You think you can access his vault?

If I can get my hands on those pages, I can learn the Language of Adam and start casting some spells of my own to protect us.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪♪

Okay.

So where's this vault?

I don't... I don't... I don't know.

I've been reading everything I can on Titus to... to try to find a clue.

I might have to go back to Ardham.

And what?

See if you can excavate something out of the rubble?

They teaching colored boys paleontology in the army now?

You need to talk to your father.

No.

He probably did all this research and more once he got wind of your mama's connection.

I don't want him involved, or you either, for that matter.

Go home.

♪♪


- sh*t.
- Shh!

[BO DIDDLEY'S "COPS & ROBBERS"]

[RHYTHM AND BLUES MUSIC]

♪ I was driving home ♪

♪ On the boulevard late one night ♪

♪ When I spied a guy over on the corner ♪

♪ Bumming all alone ♪

♪ Now, as I passed him by ♪

♪ I heard him holler out ♪

- They in the back.
- ♪ Hey ♪

♪ I slowed down to see what he said ♪

[BASEBALL BAT CRACKS]

[ALL CHEERING]

♪♪

Where in the hell did I go wrong with you, boy?

Every time I tell you to do something, you do the exact opposite.

I told you to stay away from this grand wizardry sh*t.

[INDISTINCT RADIO BROADCAST]

You wanna run chest first into some magical treasure hunt like a g*dd*mn fool.

No wonder y'all two sweet on each other.

Foolish and crazy go well together.

- "Pioneering".
- You gonna help us or not?

What do you think happens when you find Titus's pages?

What happens if we don't?

Christina was at my house.

We need to be able to defend ourselves.

Either one of y'all been listening to the news?

- We're the Reds in this fight.
- Oh, hell.

That means outnumbered, outgunned, fumbling to catch up.

We already got one lodge gunning for us.

You want the other ?

How you know there's lodges?

- [ALL CHEERING]
- [STAMMERS]

I don't!

That's the whole g*dd*mn point.

Now, none of us knows nothing except what this cr*cker bitch done told us.

So the answer is no.

I ain't gonna help you k*ll yourself.

Even if you too dumb and pigheaded to realize, you can't win this game that she's setting up for you to play, boy.

[FOREBODING MUSIC]

I told you this was a waste of time.

♪♪

[ALL GROANING]

You really gonna let him chase his tail looking for answers you already have?

[SCOFFS]

Now I see where your son gets it.

You're a real assh*le.

♪♪

You got family in Boston?

I think I know where to find the damn vault.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

♪♪

, .

Ready or not, here I come.

[CAR HORN HONKS]

♪ I can't make up my mind ♪

- ♪ Which one you are ♪
- [CHILDREN GIGGLING]

- Safe.
- Safe.

I got you!

What are you doing?

You're supposed to run to home base.

Ain't you ever play Hide and Go Seek before?

No, it's my first time. [LAUGHS]

[GRUNTING]

- Hurry.
- I'm safe!

Whoo! Safe!

♪ Devil or angel ♪

♪ Please say you will be mine ♪

♪ Love me or leave me ♪

♪ I'll go out of my mind ♪

- [OMINOUS MUSIC]
- ♪ Devil or angel ♪

♪ Whichever you are ♪

♪♪

Captain Lancaster?

What the f*ck are you doing in my city unannounced?

Went by the Winthrop house.

Wanted to have a chat with Hiram.

Convince him to give me the orrery.

[MOANING]

That is the key to unlocking his time machine, isn't it?

[DRAMATIC MUSICAL STING]

[MOANING]

I was surprised to find Negroes had moved in.

How'd you let that happen in your city?

You come here and try and take my lodge's rightful property, and you have the f*cking nerve to say it to my face?

Forgive me.

Did I miss your official initiation into the Order?

I know I didn't miss yours.

No c**ts allowed.

Not even if you think you can find the stolen pages.

♪♪

[LIGHT MISCHIEVOUS MUSIC]

♪♪

Let go.

[SIGHS]

Told me to let go.

Unlike you, I listen.

[SIGHS]

If I'd have listened to you, we wouldn't have a lead on Titus's vault.

Hey, hey.

This is not my fault.

Tic.

Catch.

[LAUGHS]

You're gonna love this museum, Dee.

You won't find a better astronomy exhibit outside of NACA.

[LAUGHS]

- You got this, young lady?
- Mm-hmm.

Why the hell would you invite them?

This isn't a family road trip.

You think I don't know that?

It's her damn car.

I had to tell her where the hell we were going.

Did you tell her we were planning on breaking in to the museum?

Hoping to find a hidden vault too?
You tell her that?

We can call this whole thing off right now if you'd like.

I can't believe I have to spend the next hours with you two in a car.

[TRUNK SLAMS]

Everything okay?

- Mm-hmm.
- Yes, ma'am.

♪♪

Get in the car.

[ENGINE TURNING OVER]

[BRAKES SQUEAL]

God damn it.

Man, what the hell you doing?

I got a filly in Philly.

Thought I'd catch a ride with y'all to Boston.

Save myself part of the bus fare.

[WHISPERING] I didn't invite him.

What?

Get in.

[LAUGHS]

George always said big ol' Woody could fit the South Side of Chicago if it had to.

[LEIKELI 'S "MONEY"]

[HIP-HOP MUSIC]

♪ Money ♪

♪ I got money ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ All my life ♪

♪ I had to grind and hustle ♪

♪ I had to work like Kobe ♪

♪ Just to shine like Russell ♪

♪ They say, "Glad you made it ♪

♪ It happened overnight" ♪

♪ They say, "Damn, you changed" ♪

♪ I'm like, "Sho', you right" ♪

♪ I got money ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

[REFINED MUSIC]

♪♪

Excuse me, ma'am?

Can I help you with something?

I'm just browsing.

Let me know if you need anything.

Did you just start working here?

Yes.

Yesterday, in fact.

Do you shop here often?

No, I...

I didn't realize this store was hiring colored girls.

I know. [LAUGHS]

I applied on a whim.

Can't believe I actually got it.

♪♪


[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Welcome to the museum.

Five.

Oh, the Light of the Universe exhibit is this way, Mama.

- Be back here in two hours.
- Three.

Yes, ma'am.

♪♪

Hey.

That's the guy right there.

He's expecting me.

♪♪

We'll need to find the entrance to Titus's vault.

I read the annual reports last night.

A few renovations happened while Titus was on the board.

You listening to me?

The vault could be in any one of those galleries.

Why don't we just start here?

Hey, they got dinosaurs?

We're not heading in that direction.

That's all right.

I'm sure we'll get around to it in the next three hours.

Hey, you know why they call me Tree, right?

Most men got two legs.

I got tree.

Shouldn't I already know that, since we f*cked in high school, Seymour?

[WONDROUS MUSIC]

♪♪

Dee.

See right there?

That's a comet.

It's called Hera's Chariot.

Hera's Chariot?

That's a cool name.

Yes.

It was mine.

You never told me you named a comet.

Not officially, I didn't.

That credit goes to Nancy Studebaker.

Who's that?

She's the niece of an astronomer in Sweden.

The astronomical society who held a naming contest didn't want a little colored girl to be the face of their competition.

That's... you should've fought that, Mama.

We know the truth.

That's all that matters.

♪♪

Y'all see that comet?

My mama named it!

My mama named Hera's Chariot.

[CROWD GASPS WITH WONDER]

Now they know the truth too.

[LAUGHS]

If everyone's ready, let's proceed to the next room.

This way.

In this, one of our museum's oldest sections, we see the many artifacts the famed explorer Titus Braithwaite was given

in exchange for teaching the savage tribes the ways of civilized man.

Excuse me.

His last expedition to the Caribbean...

So you told Letitia what I said about her, huh?

I mean, you can have her, man. [SCOFFS]

Ain't no call trying to backstab me.

Yeah, okay.

Any more questions?

I know what this about.

Yeah, this 'cause I sent you out back

when Sammy was with that man.

- I just thought you might wanna know.
- _

[FOREBODING MUSIC]

If everyone's ready, let's move on to the next room.

That's Sammy's business.

You sure it's not yours?

♪♪

I'm not a sissy.

Never said you was.

Just, uh, noticing how close

Montrose and Sammy become since you've been gone.

♪♪

[WHISPERING] Oh, what time?

Okay. Thank you.

♪♪

Okay, so I spoke to the security guard.

He gonna let us in through the back tonight.

How you know him again?

What? Friend at the bar.

What? You can trust him.

Now look, we only got two hours before the next security shift, so I hope you found this damn vault.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC BUILDING]

♪♪

[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]

[TIRES SQUEAKING]

[SNEAKY MUSIC]

♪♪

- What is he doing?
- sh*t.

He sees us.

Gentlemen.

[GRUNTING]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

♪♪

[GROANS]

[COUGHS]

Tell your captain

Ms. Braithwaite doesn't like to be followed.

Now, if you'll excuse me, gentlemen,

I have a date.

♪♪

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪♪

This is definitely a door.

Spread out.

See if you can find a way to open it.

♪♪

Turn off your flashlights.

Huh?

I said turn 'em off, damn it!

♪♪

[TENSE MUSIC BUILDING]

♪♪

[DOOR RUMBLES]

[GRUNTING]

[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]

♪♪

Mm.

♪♪

[WINGS FLUTTERING]

♪♪

This is some "Journey to the Center of the Earth" type sh*t.

Do you see Titus's pages?

I see three tunnels.

♪♪

"Beware, all ye who tread the path.

Ever the tides shall rise".

♪♪

We're gonna need the map of Titus's voyages.

Now, wait a minute.

I promised the security guard we wouldn't mess with none of their artifacts.

[GRUNTS]

[TENSE MUSIC]

I'm coming down!

Wait, Le... Leti!

Leti, wait.

sh*t, let me see what we're dealing with first.

f*ck.

[GRUNTING]

♪♪

Oh, sh*t. Oh, God damn it.

God damn it. Oh, sh*t.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Oh, sh*t!

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

I got it. Damn it.

Give me that.

♪♪

The compass and the ledger match up.

If we follow the logic of adventure novels, these three tunnels... should relate to Titus's expeditions, which means all we have to do is figure out which one, and the buried treasure should be at the end.

Tour guide said his voyage to the Caribbean was his last.

Titus raided Guyana for all it's worth, which means the tunnel would've been westbound.

How you know he raided Guyana?

Same way I know anything. I read a damn book.

Well, I read the damn brochure, and it said the first renovations were done to the museum after he returned from the Caribbean.

What year was that?

.

♪♪

He established the Sons of Adam three years later.

You might be right.

North tunnel it is.

Whoa, wait!

Let's think about this for a minute.

[BOTH SIGH]

We could always double back, boy.

We only got two hours. Let's go.

Come on!

♪♪

Y'all hold up!

♪ It was early this morning ♪

♪ That I had ♪

♪ My trial ♪

[BLUESY GUITAR MUSIC]

♪ days ♪

♪ On the county road ♪

♪ And the judge didn't even smile ♪

♪♪

[SCATTERED APPLAUSE, CHATTER]

Well, f*ck you too.

[SIGHS]

No, I can't afford another.

Nah, blue eyes at the end of the bar has your tab tonight.

[UNEASY MUSIC]

Ooh.

♪♪

May I join you?

Keep my glass full and you can do whatever you want.

[CHUCKLES]

You didn't come over here hoping I was modest, did you?

Nah, that's not what you white boys come over to the dark side for.

But I can buy my own drinks, so you're gonna have to do a bit more to impress me.

What if I told you that I could change your life

- forever?
- [LAUGHS]

Then I would say that you're not the first white boy to offer to make me a kept woman.

Oh, I would never dare insult you like that.

[LAUGHS] Fine.

Then I would say that you're not the first white boy to promise me the world trying to lay with me.

It's a promise that I can keep.

[CHUCKLES]

♪♪

How long we been walking?

minutes.

Hope y'all picked the right tunnel.

Ah.

Oh, sh*t.

Don't die on me now.

Son of a bitch.

[WIND HOWLING]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

♪♪

Let's find another tunnel.

No.

No time.

- We walk the plank.
- No, no.

This thing probably been down here rotting for years, Tic.

Is it even sturdy enough to walk on?

You about to find out.

Oh, hell.

♪♪

Oh.

Will this hold if I plunge to my death?

- Yes.
- Are you sure?

It's a special knot, so yeah.

Oh, they teach you this in the army?

He learnt it from me.

I learnt it from my father.

He learnt it from his father, who was an enslaved man charged with tying down the horses.

Now, if one of those horses got away, my great-ancestor would've got b*at, but on Juneteenth, he walked off that plantation a free man, not one whoop mark on him.

So you can best believe this special f*cking knot that was passed down from generations to generations is gonna hold.

You hear me?

♪♪

[GROANS]

♪♪

[WOOD CREAKING]

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪♪

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

That's good.

That's good.

- You're doing good.
- [GASPS]

- Leti!
- Leti. Leti.

[GRUNTS]

- Don't look down.
- Shut up.

- [WOOD CREAKING]
- sh*t.

[EXHALES]

♪♪

The Freemans were never slaves.

She out there, ain't she?

♪♪

- [DRAMATIC MUSICAL STING]
- [SCREAMS]

Leti!

Leti, hey, hold on!

I'm coming!

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

♪♪

What's wrong?

There's something... something flying around.

[WHOOSHES]

Tic!

We're okay! It's a booby trap!

I'm coming out!

Oh, sh*t. Wait, damn it!

It's o... you're gonna have to time it and jump through it.

- All right?
- [WHOOSHES]

The blade's not that fast, so it's not a big deal.

You just untied the safety knot, so it's a pretty big f*cking deal.

Get ready.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Go!

[YELLS]

♪♪

[HISSING]

♪♪

Tic!

The plank is disappearing!

[GASPS]

Okay, I'm coming.

I can't do it, Tic.

♪♪

You're gonna have to jump, Pop.

Come on! Throw me the bag.

♪♪

[GRUNTS]

[BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY]

You better catch me, boy!

- I got you. Come on.
- [YELPS]

I got you.

[BOTH SHOUTING]

- Oh, sh*t!
- Okay.

Okay. Okay.

What the f*ck is happening over there?

♪♪

Oh, f*ck.

Oh, sh*t! What the...

[GRUNTS]

Come on!

[YELLS]

[GASPS]

Go!

Run!

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

♪♪

[GRUNTING]

Oh! These move!

We gotta figure out the combination.

It's the Garden of Eden.

Adam, Eve, God... sh*t, Monsters?

sh*t.

Adam. Adam.

- What?
- Adam named.

- What?
- Eve f*cked.

God brought Monsters.

- Monsters.
- Monsters devoured.

- Eve.
- God smites Eve.

- Eve.
- [SCREAMING]

- sh*t.
- Whoo!

- [SCREAMING]
- [COUGHING]

Hot damn, boy, you see my jump?

Jesse Owens ain't got sh*t on me!

- [LAUGHS]
- [PANTING]

Wait, wait, wait. You're bleeding.

- Leti, I know.
- Let me see.

Leti, I know. sh*t.

Let's keep moving.

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

♪♪

Hey, is this water rising?

Moonset occurred right before we came down here.

What?

"Ever the tides shall rise".

High tide is three hours after moonset, which means... we got less than an hour to find the vault and get them pages.

Oh, sh*t.

Before we drown.

♪♪

She got there first.

[SNIFFS]

Would've been me. Should've been me.

But I let Leti distract me.

Who's Leti?

My sister. Half sister.

Lying-ass...

Why not just apply anyway?

- [SIGHS]
- You never know.

[SCOFFS] I f*cking know a lot.

I know there are employees at that damn department store, and two of them are never gonna be colored.

I know that because for us, it's a rat race to the finish line.

And it's "winner takes it all".

And I damn for sure know that if I was in your skin,

I wouldn't even have to run.

What I don't know... is what to do about it.

[MARILYN MANSON'S "I PUT A SPELL ON YOU"]

[DARK ROCK MUSIC]

You better stop looking at me like that.

It ain't happening, white boy.

♪ I put a spell on you ♪

♪ Because you're mine ♪

♪ I don't care if you don't want me ♪

♪ 'Cause I'm yours, yours, yours ♪

♪ Anyhow ♪

- [GLASS SHATTERS]
- [MOANS]

♪♪

♪ I love you ♪

♪ I love you, I love you ♪

♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

♪♪

♪ I put a spell on you ♪

♪ Lord, Lord, Lord ♪

♪ 'Cause you're mine, yeah ♪

♪ I don't care if you don't want me ♪

♪ 'Cause I'm yours, yours, yours ♪

♪ Anyhow ♪

[MOANING]

♪♪

Can you slow down?

I can't see.

Is that what they taught you in the imperialistic army?

Leave soldiers behind?

No.

No, I've never left a man behind, you hear me?

Ever.

Out in the trenches, I can trust those standing next to me.

Hell's that supposed to mean?

How do you know so much about the Sons of Adam?

Hmm?

How many lodges there are?

Whatever it was that helped you with that... that combination back there.
How do you know that?

[FOREBODING MUSIC]

♪♪

George gave me the Order of the Ancient Dawn bylaws... the night he d*ed.

When were you gonna tell me that?

Where's the book now?

I read it and I burnt it.

- What?
- You heard me.

Why would you do that?

Answer me! Why would you do that?

Because my brother told me to protect our family!

That was his dying wish.

And I did it the night I burnt that damn book, closing Pandora's box once and for good!

Then why are you here helping us anyway?

Because your stupid ass won't stop, Tic!

And I wasn't about to sit in Chicago while you charged head first into the lion's den with no backup!

Don't yell at her.

- Get out of my way, boy!
- No.

You gonna tell me what else was in the bylaws.

[SCREAMS]

- Tic!
- Leti?

What is... what is it?

Aw, sh*t.

[BOTH GASPING]

I'm pretty sure that's... that's one of my neighbors who went missing.

[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]

♪♪

[ELEVATOR WHIRRING]

♪♪

[ELEVATOR DINGS]

Hiram Epstein was part of the Order.

He must've been chasing Titus's pages too.

That's probably how he got k*lled.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

It's getting too dangerous. Y'all get in.

Take the elevator up.

- No!
- Pa, get in!

It ain't just get dangerous.

He was kidnapped!

I d*ed!

Can you stop acting like this is only happening to you?

You're not the center of the f*cking universe.

♪♪

[PENSIVE MUSIC]

♪♪

Hey, Tic?

You have to apologize to your girl.

I don't think it's gonna be that simple.

Yeah, your mama was complicated too.

Mom was complicated?

She navigated you all right.

Yeah, you got a point there.

But she was crazy like the rest of 'em though.

Hey, you know what your grandpa told me?

Said, "Always have a love song for your woman.

This way, when they get to fussin'...

You just sing that song to yourself.

When you're through, she'll be done and you can get back to what you want, the lovin'.

'Cause that's all that fussing is anyway.

Whole lotta lovin'".

♪♪

This might be the vault!

♪♪

- [GASPS]
- Oh.

Is that an arm?

[FOREBODING MUSIC]

♪♪

Looks like a lock.

With the wrong key.

♪♪

[DRAMATIC MUSIC BUILDING]

♪♪

[GRUNTS]

[COUGHS]

♪♪

[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]

♪♪

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

♪♪

[ALL SCREAMING]

♪♪

Wait, wait, wait!

[GRUNTS]

[MYSTERIOUS DRONING]

[STONE SCRAPING]

[MECHANISM CLUNKS]

♪♪

[BOTH SCREAM]

♪♪

[GRUNTING]

[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]

♪♪

♪♪

Up there!

♪♪

- sh*t!
- [ALL SCREAMING]

[CORPSE GROWLING]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

[CORPSE WHEEZES]

♪♪

[CORPSE ROARS]

[ALL SCREAM]

[CORPSE ROARS]

[SCREAMING]

♪♪

[GROANING]

[ROARS]

[WHEEZING]

♪♪

[SPEAKING ARAWAK]

Titus has been dead for over a century.

You understood her?

What?

[SPEAKING ARAWAK]

No. I mean... sh*t, yes. Yes.

Blood... but not... not family.

[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]

♪♪

What are you?

Who are you?

Yahima.

Maraokoti.

Yahima Maraokoti.

[SPEAKING ARAWAK]

Woman. Man.

Two spirit.

How did you get here?

How did you get here?

[SPEAKING ARAWAK]

"I come from a land of many waters".

[SPEAKING ARAWAK]

"Titus came on his ship searching for ones who could read his book.

I knew the symbols from the cave of Alomun Kundi".

[SPEAKING ARAWAK]

"I had no reason to distrust him".

[SPEAKING ARAWAK]

"I'd never encountered people with so much hunger.

Always hungry".

[SPEAKING ARAWAK]

"When I saw Titus for what he was,

I refused to decipher another word.

He promised to reunite me with my people.

And he kept that promise".

[SOBBING IN ARAWAK]

"By k*lling them and imprisoning me here".

[SOMBER MUSIC]

♪♪

He was a monster.

♪♪

I'm... I'm sorry for what he did to you.

But I need your help to stop others like him from hurting my people.

♪♪

[SPEAKING ARAWAK]

♪♪

What'd she say?

She said...

I am not guilty of my forefathers' sins...

But she doesn't know my spirit.

♪♪

She will not help.

♪♪

Let's get the damn pages and get the hell outta here.

[FOREBODING MUSIC]

♪♪

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

[GLASS SHATTERING]

Ah!

Come on, boy!

We gotta get out of here!

- [SCREAMS]
- Come on!

Go!

[GRUNTS]

♪♪

[ALL GASPING]

♪♪

[ELEVATOR DINGS]

♪♪

[SCREAMS]

♪♪

[ALL GASPING]

[SWEEPING ROMANTIC MUSIC]

♪♪

[BOTH LAUGH]

You okay?

[HIGH-PITCHED SCREECH]

[ALL GROANING]

[TENSE MUSIC]

What was that?

♪♪

How'd they get back to Chicago without Woody?

I don't know, Diana.

Everything's been weird since Pop d*ed.

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

Is that your dad's atlas?

Where'd you get that?

Where'd you get it?

I found it in the glove compartment.

- [TIRES SQUEAL]
- What's wrong?

♪♪


[ENGINE REVS]

Mama, where are we going?

To get answers.

♪♪

She thinks you're right.

Titus turned her into a siren so she couldn't speak if she escaped his vault.

Does she think she can break the spell?

She doesn't.

But I got Titus's pages now.

I'll figure it out.

Meantime, we should teach her English.

Might be easier for her to write down the Language of Adam than for us to decipher it.

You were brave as hell out there today, boy.

You grew to be a good man in spite of me.

[SOFT MUSIC]

Your mama would've been proud.

♪♪

Night, Pop.

♪♪

[OMINOUS MUSIC]

♪♪

I'm sorry.

[GASPS]

[ALICE SMITH'S "SINNERMAN"]

♪♪

♪ Oh, Sinnerman ♪

♪ Where you gonna run to? ♪

♪ Sinnerman ♪

♪ Where you gonna run to? ♪

♪ Sinnerman ♪

♪ Where you gonna run to? ♪

♪ All on that day ♪

♪ Well, I run to the rock ♪

♪ Please hide me ♪

♪ I run to the rock ♪

♪ Please hide me ♪

♪ I run to the rock ♪

♪ Please hide me ♪

♪ All on that day ♪

♪ But the rock cried out ♪

♪ "I can't hide you" ♪

♪ The rock cried out ♪

♪ "I can't hide you" ♪

♪ The rock cried out ♪

♪ "I ain't gonna hide you" ♪

♪ All on that day ♪

♪ I said, "Rock ♪

♪ What's the matter with you, Rock? ♪

♪ Can't you see I need you, Rock?" ♪

♪ Devil was waiting ♪

♪ All on that day ♪

♪ Power ♪

♪ Power ♪

♪ I cried power ♪

♪ I cried power ♪

♪ I cried power ♪

♪ I cried power ♪

♪♪

CHILDREN: Bad Robot.

[BRIGHT TONE]

You have an invitation to do whatever you want.

♪ (INTENSE MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

MAN: The butterfly lives a full life before it dies.

And a caterpillar emerges from the same cells, yet different.

Magic exists.

Does that scare you?

- This evil is corrupting all of us.
- No, no. Leti, Leti.

Look, it's not inherently evil, all right.

It's what we do with it that matters.

WOMAN: There wasn't pain.
There was something else.

CHRISTINA BRAITHWHITE: I've been where you are.

Disillusioned and pissed.

You can't relate to who I am.

CHRISTINA: Who are you really, uninterrupted?

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪