01x10 - Episode 10

[bunniefuu]

- MR. GONE NARRATES:
Most of us inhabit at least

two worlds...the real world,
where we're at the mercy of

circumstance, and the world
within, the unconscious,

a safe place where we can
escape.

The Maxx shifts between these
worlds...against his will.

Here, homeless, he lives
in a box in an alley.

The only one who really cares
for him is Julie Winters,

a freelance social worker.

But in Pangaea, the other world,
he rules the Outback

and is the protector of Julie,
his Jungle Queen.

- There, he cares for her.

But he always ends up
back in the real world.

And me, old Mr. Gone...

Only I can see that
the secret which unites them

could destroy them.

I could be helpful.

Ah, screw it!

I think I'll have some fun
with them, first.

- SARA NARRATES: The clay told
me to listen to the horse...

that it was my Spirit Animal.

God, that sounds so lame.

"The clay told me."

I even brought the clay to
Julie's house which is where

I saw that itty bitty purple guy
fighting that blue marshmallow

with teeth...which explains why
I'm crazy.

No crazier than the stupid
architect who put these animal

heads on the side of this
building.

A horse.

I think I like the squirrel
better.

At least, maybe a squirrel would
tell me the stupid secrets of

the universe instead of me just
standing here hour after hour

waiting.

Life is pretty pathetic when
even your own hallucinations

lie to you.

Maybe I have to get closer.

- MR. GONE: No, no!

No time left.

I have to do it now.

- CREATURE:

- JULIE:

- CREATURE:

- JULIE:

- Yikes, that little
cream-filled blintz is going

native.

I'd better book...

- You!

I always knew you weren't dead.

Now I want the truth.

- Talk to Descartes, toots.

- JULIE:

- MAXX: Maxx is triumphant over
the ravenous Piranhasaurus.

Maxx has planned to rid jungle
of demonic beast.

This good plan.

Maxx clever.

Maxx is steadying...

Oops.

- JULIE: Who's out there?

I can hear someone.

- Maxx?

Are you out there, Maxx?

I'm still locked in
the bathroom.

- MAXX: I'm coming, Julie.

- JULIE: Thank god.

It's about time.

- Maxx, your mask.

It's fallen.

You're...

You're a...

Oh, god...

- CREATURES:

- Wow, just look at those
Iszes eat.

- AIR WHALE:

- Oof!

Uh, I meant to do that.

- SARA NARRATES: Nothing's
happening...no insights,

no flashbacks,
no neat explanations of

why my life is so miserable.

No nothin'.

What kind of Spirit Animal
are you, anyway?

I mean, I'm here, I'm listening.

Say something.

Of course, the only thing
stupider than a talking horse,

other than Mr. Ed, of course,
is a girl who looks to one

for answers.

- JULIE: Maxx? Maxx?

Did you always...

Under the mask, I mean.

Or is this the secret?

Why you were sent here?

Or is this some kind
of awful joke?

For god's sake, Maxx,
answer me.

- MR. GONE: Julie, you're
still in the bathroom with that

twisted, leering, long-eared...
- JULIE: And, here, seeing

the...the lamp?

A spray of water drops over
this thick blue...

- MR. GONE: ...blue surface.

The pain. The blood.

- JULIE: What are you
doing to me?

- Showing the truth.

- Stop this! It hurts!

- Oh, and I thought this was
what you wanted.

Did you see it...behind the mask?

- How do you know about that?

How do...

you know about everything?

- MR. GONE: Very simple.

A part of me is projected into
the other world, into your home.

In fact, I'm there
right now...listening.

That's how I know the Outback
is getting smaller and smaller,

while the world of the city
is growing.

When you spoke to your other
selves yesterday, you damaged

the barriers.

Now it's all unbalanced.

I'd go into more detail,
but you have a nasty habit of

cutting off my head when
I tell you the truth.

So, do you want to know why
you're so afraid of wet, blue...

- Shut up!

- MR. GONE: No, not again.

- JULIE:

- SARA NARRATES:
What has it been?

Three weeks I've been coming up
here staring across at this

stupid horse.

I know I'll never hear this
horse.

I'm beginning to wonder about
the lengths I go to...looking for

answers in garbage heaps,
on rooftops, even in the stories

of an old bum.

Well, not any more.

I'm sick of it.

It'll be a million years before
I do something

this stupid again.

And then, just as I go to leave,
still staring at that stupid

horse, the weirdest thing
pops into my head...this really

pathetic poster in my Mom's
room...one of those sickening,

sticky-sweet, big-eyed kid
message posters.

You know the kind.

I think it goes something
like...

"And the day came when the risk
"to remain closed in a bud

"became more painful than
the risk it took to blossom."

Ugh.

So, this poster thing keeps
popping into my head.

And I'm staring at the horse
and he's staring back

and nothing's happening.

And this bad poem keeps running
over and over in my head.

It won't stop.

And, suddenly, I feel tears
running down my...

Oh, god, I know what you're
thinking.

How sweet.

The big-eyed kid poem is making
her cry.

But it's not that.

And I think please, please, god,
please don't let my Spirit

Animal speak to me through
a hypoglycemic poster.

What a cruel world...letting
something this profound be

conveyed in words this trite.

Please don't let the horse speak
to me this way.

But it was too late...

because I had heard it
and I could never go back again.

- CREATURES:

- AIR WHALE:

- MAXX: I wonder if this means
I've really been hanging off

a Goodyear blimp for the last


- MAXX: Do you know how hard it
is to catch an Air Whale going

this direction?

Great, now we're stuck in
a million miles of primordial

wilderness.

- JULIE: b*tch, b*tch, b*tch.

- MAXX: Uh-oh.

- JULIE: Please tell me it's
not so.

Please, please, please tell me
I haven't been sitting up here

like an idiot for god knows
how long.

- SARA: Julie, what are you
doing up there?

- JULIE: Oh, god, Sara,
I'm forgetting it all.

- SARA: Come on, I'll get you
home.

- MAXX: What the hell are you
starin' at, kid?

- JULIE: But I'm almost sure
that I k*lled somebody.

- SARA: Sure you did.

It's okay.

When you're feeling better,
I wanna tell you about

this horse.

- JULIE: A horse?

- SARA: No, see, i-it's more
like this...

- JULIE: Shhhh.

Sara, do you see my full ottoman
lying on the sidewalk?

- SARA: Yes.

- JULIE: It's not supposed to
be there, is it?

- SARA: No.

- JULIE: Okay, just checking.

- That Sara's a nice kid.

Man, something stinks.

Did you check your shoes?

- MAXX: Uh-huh.

- JULIE: Hm.

So, how much of it do you figure
was true?

- MAXX: I don't know.

How much can you remember now?

- JULIE: Some.

Enough.

Do you think Gone was lying?

- MAXX: About having a part of
himself in this room?

Definitely not.

I can feel him here.

Somewhere.

- JULIE: Yeah, me, too.

Where is that smell coming from?

- MAN: Safe home, dear friends,
and come again, to behold the

mysteries of MTV's "Oddities."