Calber Island (2024)

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- The

Bennett boat factory

closed permanently last week...

Fifth economic

revitalization program.

- I don't see anything, Wilma.

- All right,

it's time for another set

of great classics,

starting right now.

- Hold on.

- Only on 105...

- Hey!

Hey!

Give me that.

What is that? You can't

sh**t that on public streets.

Get outta here. Get outta here.

Don't worry, Wilma.

It's nothin'.

- Todd.

You and Barkley on

call tonight, right?

- Yeah.

- Need you in.

They're saying the storms

are gonna be serious.

I'm waiting on a possible

evacuation order.

- Copy.

- If it don't look great,

why don't you come on back?

- Oh, I really,

really hate kids.

- Hey, Todd.

I wanted to talk to you.

Usual?

Coffee's on the house.

- I'll pay for

the coffee, Wanda.

I'm surprised you're still open.

- Glad I got

my generator last year.

You got one up at the house?

- Yeah.

So, what did you want

to talk to me about?

- I had a

break-in last night.

- You know almost

everyone's evacuated, right?

- Check the window.

- That shed belongs to a

cop. You know that, right?

- That guy's crazy.

I saw him last week.

Watched him flip out just

'cause his lawnmower backfired.

- Bet your aunt's freaking out.

Guys, think how the

island's on the news.

- Hey, check this out.

Hey! Halloween's not

till next week, bro.

- Todd, you on here?

I left you three voicemails.

What happened yesterday

wasn't your fault, Todd.

You and I both know that.

Mayor Kraus was pitching

a hissy fit, though.

Seems his sister

didn't make it out.

Put me in kind of a sticky spot.

Todd, can you hear me?

Tell you what.

You deserve some time off.

Why don't you...

- Hello?

Hello?

This is the kind of crap

I'm really getting sick of.

Oh, okay! Look, look,

look, look, look!

I'm letting her go.

Hey! Okay, cool it, would you?

You're a couple of those

Hofsteder kids, aren't you?

She said she had you in school.

- You.

- I what?

- You utter your speech in

the language of the books.

- Right.

Yeah.

- Oh, my God.

Hey!

- All we desired of you was

a safe place to overnight.

It is plain that we

are not welcomed here.

So Gabriella and I

shall be leaving.

Come, Gabriella.

- All right! Stop!

Stop, stop, stop, stop.

Come back.

What are your names?

- My name is Sofia.

My sister is called Gabriella.

- Look, enough jokes, okay?

You're good actors.

I'll give you that.

Just tell me who

puts you up to this,

and I'll give you a ride home.

And how did you get into my

house? 'Cause it was locked.

- The window was open.

- You came in up there?

- I did not intend

to awaken you.

Water came out. It

was not expected.

- Are you hungry?

Hogan, I'm sorry I

switched you off earlier.

You there, Chief?

- All active personnel.

Please switch over

to our new channel.

- Fred, wait!

I really wish you wouldn't

have smashed my phone.

Your family must

be looking for you.

- I have never seen a

storm like this before.

I believe it shall be difficult

to travel before it passes.

- Yeah, well, I got

news for you, kid.

You're on an island now.

Just stick here for a

while with the rest of us.

All right, um...

Couch.

Pillows.

And food.

Where are you?

Come on.

Come on. Make some noise.

Make some noise.

Yours?

- They heard you coming.

- Who?

- The ones who came before us.

- Hogan, are you there?

- Todd.

- Chief!

- Todd?

What's going on over there?

Your phone's going

straight to voicemail.

- Yeah. No, I, uh...

I broke it.

- Listen, Todd. I

saw your shed yesterday.

- Look, Chief, I'm calling

because someone out

my way threw a Kn*fe.

Okay? There was a kid out

there and he almost hit her.

Do you know what

could've happened,

if I wouldn't have

been here and heard it?

- Todd,

this is Calber Island.

Who was it?

- Well, how should I know?

I mean, how many people

are even left around here?

I meant the kid.

- There's two of 'em.

I've never seen them before.

- Come on down

to the office, okay?

Your shift don't

start till noon.

It's just me here.

- Copy.

- Slower.

Slower.

- Figured someone should

be on the scanners.

I told the volunteers

to hit the road, Monday.

Only guys I have left are

Jack, Pete, and Barkley.

Hey.

Pulling him off duty was

the exact right call.

Textbook.

If you hadn't done

it, I would have,

and I probably would've

put him on probation,

if I wasn't so short-staffed.

- Well, then why am I on leave?

- Mayor gave me no choice.

What was Fred thinking?

On duty.

He smelled like a dorm

room on game night.

- It was Tom's memorial

service up at the museum.

- There was a funeral

back in March.

- This one was for the family.

- All right. Where

are these kids at?

Apparently, the girls

are not missing persons.

Yeah, my first thought

was Sarah Hofsteder,

with her whole

off-the-grid nonsense.

- If I hadn't personally

thrown her and her six kids

off the island, I'd

have thought so, too.

- Oh.

- I don't think I've

ever seen two kids

so on the edge before.

It might be something the

three of you have in common.

- The older one says she

saw somebody out there.

Hiding earlier.

Then she clammed up and I

can't get a thing out of her.

- I can make some calls, but

I doubt we'll get any answers.

At least till the

bridge opens up.

- How long on that?

- A lot of damage.

Hopefully in a couple of

days, they'll get some boats

out here to get more

people to the mainland.

You wanna talk about it?

- We already did.

- That wasn't it.

- Look, I heard him on

the radio last night.

You know he could've gotten

over before the bridge went out.

- I told him to get on out.

His old man's probably

rolling over in his grave.

Don't do that to yourself.

It don't lead anywhere good.

You've got a home here, and

it was what Thomas wanted.

- A home?

I used to have friends here,

Chief. You know, people.

Now all I've got is a half-paid

mortgage, a leaky roof,

and Tom's pissed off relatives.

- Well, when they're all dead,

we'll gather around

and read their wills,

and they'll get

what they want then.

That's just how it goes.

- Did that sound like that

was coming from Kathy's place?

I'll stop by and take a

look at it on my way back.

- You're not on duty.

- Just a neighborly check-in.

Hello, Kathy?

Kathy!

- It's a shame.

She should've never

have been here.

I could've gotten everyone over

the bridge who wanted to go.

But no.

Todd's mad he didn't get

a memorial service invite.

- How did you know?

Or ignore me. That's fine.

Hey!

What's that you got there?

And where did you get this?

- She plucked it from

the pocket of that man.

She's very skilled

at such things.

- Is that so?

What did you see out

there this morning?

The Kn*fe in the woods.

Whose is it?

I get it. I do.

We'll just...

Take a little

break or something.

Actually, you know what?

How about a game?

Kids like games, right?

It's the map game.

We'll each take turns saying

all the places we've ever been,

and I'll go first, okay?

I'm from Jacksonville,

right here.

After that, I went to

Paris Island, right here.

Then a lot of other places,

but mostly, all the way over

to here.

And then I came

all the way back.

To right here.

Calber Island.

Your turn.

- English.

- Why did you come back?

- I had to.

- Why?

- They said that I

wasn't in a good mindset.

Hey.

What would happen if I

took you home right now?

- The outsiders would find us.

- Who are the outsiders?

Yeah, I guess that depends

on your point of view, huh?

People in the woods.

Are they the outsiders?

- What happened to it?

- Trade.

Something from me, for

something from you.

- You first.

- The bridge to the mainland

went out a couple days ago,

during the storm.

It broke.

Slid right into the water.

I made a decision to bench

one of the guys in our unit,

and you don't even

know what that means.

I told one of our guys to stay

home and not come to work.

Because of that, people here

think that they

could've gotten over.

So, they spray paint the

shed and do other things.

It makes 'em feel like they

did something about it.

See, I moved here.

Everyone else was born here.

I'm not the same as them.

- I knew you were an outsider.

- Then why do you stay?

- Was your turn.

- The ones in the jungle.

Very dangerous.

Of the clan that

k*lled our parents.

- Oh.

I'm sorry.

Wait.

Did you go into a

restaurant downtown?

Through a window?

Here you go.

Um...

Do you...

Do you need anything else, or...

Okay.

Uh...

Goodnight.

- Sofia?

- I don't like it.

- But life

has its storms.

Full of thunder and

lightening without the rain.

In the moment, it may

not seem like a blessing,

but sometimes, storms

like these are pointless,

only if you don't

let them change you.

- I'm sorry about yesterday.

I didn't realize you

lost your parents.

- It was long ago.

Gabriella remembers not.

We lived with our uncle.

- You know, I lost

a good friend, too.

Not that long ago.

- Your parents?

- It was Lieutenant

Barkley's father.

- The angry one.

- Yeah.

Hey, I tell you what.

How about today we go out?

We can relax a

little, go into town.

There's just one thing I

need you to do for me first.

- Trade?

- What are you supposed to say?

- Sorry, I took your key card.

- Good job.

- Cheryl's boy

said he'd be back by now.

- Hey, Todd.

Mind if I join you folks?

- Sure.

- See, she's afraid after

what happened to Kathy.

She said there are other

people on the island.

- "Other people"?

- Yeah.

- What happened to Kathy

is under investigation.

And Zeke Dawson?

He's been known to pull a

stunt every now and then.

He's probably just

pulling his mom's leg.

- Where did Cheryl

last see them at, Hank?

- That's the funny thing.

He said he was going out

to take algae samples,

but I know he was huntin'.

- Aww, dad gum it.

How many times am I gonna

have to bust that boy

for hunting off season?

- Oh, I didn't mean

to get anybody in trouble.

- You just tell Cheryl

I'll come by later, okay?

- Here you go. Two

shakes for you, Hank.

- Ah. Thank you.

- And Hank?

- Yeah?

- Tell Cheryl to stay as

close to home as possible.

That's probably where

Zeke's gonna show up.

And have her ask him to stick

with taking algae samples.

Maybe he can help get

this stink out of the air.

- All right!

- Ghost stories, coming

out of the woodwork.

- Yeah. Let's, uh, talk

about something else.

- All right.

But it breaks my heart,

every time I see the guy.

- Not me. You remember

him before, right, Todd?

- For a while, yeah.

- Wanda.

They pumped a quart of

water out of his lungs.

The man flat-lined

for six minutes.

- Hey, I thought locals

couldn't smell that

stink in the air?

- Mm. I'm used to it.

The tourists sure do.

You don't still

smell it, do you?

- You kidding me?

This place smells like a toilet,

between the boat

factory and the algae?

At least the factory's

not an issue, anymore.

Hey, is the museum gonna open

up when the bridge is fixed?

Tom was always really

in favor of that place.

- Not to mention the 20 jobs.

Oh, you're not aware of that?

That raft washed in with

the storm, on Monday.

- This is that boat that went

missing a couple weeks ago.

What was it? The...

Peacemaker.

With Triangle Charters.

Got any propane

tanks back there?

Take one, please.

- I saw somethin' last night.

- You know you don't

have to believe

everything Joe

prints in that thing.

All right, Ethan.

What'd you see?

- Barbarians.

Like, like the guys in

the "Gladiator" movie?

- "Gladiator"?

- Yeah.

- He had face paint,

and uh, animal skins.

Where'd they come from?

- Zeke went missing

this morning. Did

you hear about that?

- Yeah. He'll turn up.

- No. It was them.

The barbarians.

People are gonna pin that

on you, too, you know.

- "Too"?

In addition to what?

- The bridge.

Kathy.

Lotta stuff going

on around here.

Anybody talk to any

of the county folk?

- The reason the county

folk live out there

is because they don't

wanna be bothered.

They have everything they need,

and they can come to

town, if they want to.

- Don't worry.

I believe you.

- Have we done well?

- Yeah.

Fine.

- You can

pick up your propane,

around the back there.

Just make sure you show

Jackson your receipt, okay?

- Huh. I don't know.

Should we give it to him or not?

Fred told me what happened.

You just couldn't stand

to let him help, could ya?

Mr. High and Mighty,

huh? City Boy.

Has to do it all himself.

- City Boy has a

survival instinct.

Fred didn't have much of any

kind of instinct, at the time.

- Right. I guess that's

why Thomas favored you.

Your odds were just better.

- I don't want you sleeping

in the shed tonight.

Might be dangerous.

- Do you not learn

to fight here?

- Most people don't.

- Did you?

- I was different.

You wanna see it?

- Yes.

You could not have

fought with this w*apon.

- I used a g*n.

- It is delicate.

- "Delicate"?

- I will begin making a

stronger one for you, tomorrow.

There are tools in the shed.

I should look in on Gabriella.

- Go upstairs.

Hogan.

Hogan!

Watch it!

- Todd!

- Sorry.

What the blazes are

you doing out there?

Barkley heard sh**ting

and called me over.

- Yeah. It wasn't me!

- It wasn't you?

- No.

It was a hunting r*fle.

- Look, I saw him.

It was just like Ethan said.

- Ethan?

- What'd I tell you, Chief?

- Easy, Todd.

This ain't loaded.

Fred picked it up outside.

- Was it Zeke that you saw?

- No.

- Zeke carved this exact

signature into a tree,

behind my fence line.

People are getting

more and more upset.

- Hogan, how long until

that ferry's up and running?

- They say the

closest available boat

is still in the panhandle.

- What about, uh,

local airboats,

or jet boats, or

whatever's out there?

I don't know what's

going on around here,

but I'm telling you, Hogan,

I saw a man I've never

seen before, okay?

He literally had had scars

and paint on his face.

He was like something

from the past.

- Sometimes, the symptoms

of stress can resurface.

How long has it been since

you talked to someone?

- Sofia talked about a

group of people out there.

The ones that k*lled

their parents.

- If the girls are saying

someone k*lled their parents,

shouldn't you be

asking more about that?

- Oh, come on. Have

some pity, Hogan!

I mean, how many times should

they have to relive that?

- Todd.

People are talking.

They're looking for

somebody to blame.

When that ferry opens up,

you might be having

a different problem.

Do you understand

what I'm saying?

Try to get some

sleep. All right?

I'll have Pete drive

by, every now and then.

- What?

- Cheeseburger does not agree

with Gabriella's stomach.

- I'll be right there.

I shouldn't have let

you eat such rich food

when you're not used to it.

I'm sorry.

Zeke!

Zeke Dawson!

Zeke!

What're you doing?

- Do you not want me to

make you a new sword?

- Sure.

How's Gabriella?

- Better.

- Sofia...

I've gotta ask you something.

- Vikings?

Really?

- The ones who came before us.

My people were trapped

in a land they did

not mean to come to.

We sought a new world,

but we got lost.

Stuck, somewhere.

- How long ago?

- 20 Generations.

But they were there,

long before us.

Lost, with nothing to conquer.

Until we came.

- In your home,

they're not the outsiders.

You are.

How many are there here?

Here.

- Five.

Three others d*ed

on the journey.

- That's a pretty

specific number.

- It was a pretty long voyage.

- "Voyage"?

"Voyage"? You came

here on a boat?

- A Peacemaker brought us.

- "Peacemaker"?

"Peacemaker"? That's, uh...

They never knew

you were onboard.

- One did.

- What did he look like?

He didn't hurt you?

- We sailed west.

Then the storm came.

They k*lled the outsiders,

to prevent them from

swimming to land.

- So, uh...

So, what are these vikings?

What do they want?

- It's just their way.

They have never known

anything different.

- Will you

stay until I fall asleep?

- Trade.

Something about me, for

something about you.

- Story?

- Sure.

- There was a shepherd.

His brothers were at w*r, and

when he came to visit them,

a giant challenged him to fight.

- Wait.

How do you know that story?

- The books where your

language comes from.

- That was one of the books?

- He fought the giant

with three smooth rocks.

Your turn.

- Okay.

Um...

I'm coming up blank.

Maybe your sister's got one.

- When I was only a little

older than Gabriella,

I remember a man.

He was hungry,

and stole a basket of fish

from an important man.

They said he would

be sent away for it.

My uncle and my father,

they both tried to stop it.

But they couldn't.

We all assumed he'd

be k*lled by them.

- The vikings?

- But three weeks later,

they returned,

and k*lled many in our village.

- Including your parents?

- People began to say

that the man had led them

back to us, for revenge.

But I did not believe them.

- Is...

Is he the one that

hid you in the boat?

For your uncle's sake?

- They were friends.

I believed he would protect us.

- Do you remember his name?

- You have

read the books?

- What other books did you find?

- Lots.

Most had the same title, though.

- What was it?

- "TV Guide".

You do not have

many friends here.

- No.

But I'm used to it.

- My whole life,

I was afraid of the books.

It changed the ones who read it.

- I bet your uncle read it.

- Perhaps change is what

scares your people, too.

- Change isn't

always a bad thing.

Sometimes it's great.

- Listen. He's not a bad guy.

He's just not...

I don't know.

Thinking straight.

I mean it's not bad, but what

if he acts upon it, you know?

Keep the change.

- Fred's never sat

around here before.

- Well, he does

have a point there.

- Hey, Wanda. Your

daughter on the mainland.

She has a boat, right?

- Yeah. It's

just a little putsy thing.

- Seats four people.

That's four people rescued.

10 trips?

That's all it'll

take to get everyone

safely to the mainland.

- Uh, rescued from what?

- Oh!

Hello?

- Hm.

Oh! Sorry.

- You in, Hank? It's

just for a couple weeks.

It's, uh, like a

little vacation.

- I don't take vacation.

- Wanda's going.

- Well, yeah. When the

ferry service gets here.

- No, no, no, no. Sooner.

- You're telling me you

want me off the island?

- Yes.

- What about my car?

- You can come back

and get it later.

Uh, rescued from what?

- I'm not gonna answer that.

You got anything

going on later today?

- Uh...

I was gonna go to Rob's place

later, mow his front lawn?

You know, seeing as he's

stuck "Being in a evacuee."

- I was gonna go out and

look for Zeke Dawson today.

Wouldn't mind if you came

along, just as a witness.

In case I come across something?

I don't need any

more accusations.

- Yeah. Sure.

- Zeke!

- Zeke!

Zeke!

- River is the only

fresh water around here.

I don't think they're

gonna get too far from it.

Hey, why'd you stay on the

island near the storm, Hank?

Why didn't you evacuate?

- I don't know. Just

didn't know where I'd go.

- What's the furthest

way you've ever been?

- Farthest?

- Yeah, you ever go anywhere?

- I went to Naples, once.

- Naples?

- Yeah!

- Hank, that's like

an hour from here.

- Yeah. Well, never

had nowhere to go.

- What about before

the accident?

- I don't know.

- You don't remember?

- Nah.

- That puts things into

perspective a little bit.

- Like what?

- Most of us here, we've

lost someone or something.

You've lost everything you have,

and you're the

happiest guy I know.

That's gonna take

a while to fix.

Town our size might

not survive the wait.

- What if they don't fix it?

- Winds

continue across the state,

with a thr*at for fire.

The howling North winds

have backed off some,

Wednesday morning, but

they will pick back up,

Wednesday afternoon.

- Yeah. Anyone there?

- Todd, I need you

to come down to the beach.

- So, the

fire danger is extreme.

Please use caution and do not-

- Yeah. I'm on my way.

I have to go to town.

Keep the doors locked, okay?

- Boy, I tell you.

When I catch these jokers,

whoever they are...

- Hey, the raft in the paper

came in Banker's Cove, right?

- Yeah.

- They've had high algae

levels here lately.

Higher than usual.

You know, if a boat

were to wash in...

- Could be.

Let's go.

Barkley was all over town today.

Honestly.

I think he talked to every

last person on the island.

- Yeah, I saw him.

- If I was you, I wouldn't be

going out much for a while.

I'm getting old.

I can fire Barkley,

I can write reports,

but the one thing I cannot

do is stop an angry mob

from storming your cabin,

looking for that Dawson kid.

- Thinks they're in my house?

What? Like, logged

up in my attic?

Is that the rumor?

- Come on, Todd.

You know what he's up to.

Fred is trying to

pressure you out.

And everything he's saying

is just fertilizer

for the grapevine.

The problem is,

nobody knows that.

Everybody thinks you're crazy.

Especially talking about

barbarians in the woods.

- I know how it sounds.

- Then why do you

keep saying it?

- Where did the girls come from?

And the arrow? You saw

it out there yesterday.

- That arrow doesn't

prove anything.

And the backwoods

people on this island?

They're just weird.

They could be from anywhere.

- I just don't think

it's a coincidence.

- "Coincidence"?

- Yeah, I mean, Calber Island.

This town.

It's an artifact.

A fossil. I mean, it's

just evidence of the past.

No? You don't think so?

Who's gonna pay for those

bridge repairs? The state?

We're losing our

industry, Chief.

I mean, even Wanda's leaving.

And now, some

ancient viking clan

gets spat out the

Bermuda Triangle?

They shouldn't exist today,

and frankly, neither should we.

I mean, what're we

even doing here, Chief?

And I don't just mean

me. I mean all of us.

Thomas may have been

wrong in his methods,

but he was right

about one thing.

This town is dying.

Whether we like it or not.

- Look at that.

The mainland is so close.

You can see the lights.

But it might as well

be 100 miles away.

I used to fish down here.

There's an inlet that opens

up, when the tide is right.

There's a sandbar.

Used to trap the fish

in shallow water.

- He could've washed in

and gotten stuck there?

- Oh, man.

- So you do

smell that, huh?

- I don't know how,

but I'm beginning to think

you might be onto something.

Oh, man.

One time, I helped

my granddaughter

research a report on

vikings, for school.

And I remember reading

that, sometimes,

they would leave a man

behind, to guard the dead.

- Guard them from what?

- People like us, I guess.

What? What the?

Todd!

- Hogan!

Hogan!

Chief.

Chief.

What part about "Keep

the door locked"

do you not understand?

- You saw them again.

- He k*lled Hogan.

- This is unlike them.

They fight in groups.

- Yeah, well, they're

in new territory, now.

We might not have long,

before they start to feel

comfortable here, too.

- Todd!

- Not a good time, Joe.

- Look.

I respect your sense of duty.

And I'll give

you, a situation like this

could take a toll

on a guy like you.

- A guy like me.

- Mm-hm.

- Exactly what kind of guy

do you think I am, huh?

Am I crazy?

Am I dangerous?

What?

- Look. No one said dangerous.

- Fred, we've gotta talk.

- Now Zeke.

- Yeah, well, something

else happened last night.

- Listen, I don't care about

what happened last night.

- That's what I'm

hear about, okay?

- No one's heard from

Hogan this morning.

Not on the radio,

not on the phone.

10 years, I've

worked on this force.

- I don't wanna

tell you like this.

Fred, I do not want

to tell you like this!

- Tell me what?

- Hogan's dead.

- He's dead?

- He's dead.

Last night.

- It was you!

- No.

- Stop it, Pete.

- Stop what? The

channel was open.

We all heard him put you

out of the squad car.

He just couldn't take the

competition and finally snapped.

And now it doesn't

even matter anymore.

Whatever it takes to

make him look right.

- You said that? Is

that what you said?

- Pete!

I didn't say you k*lled anybody.

- Right. You just said

whatever it takes.

- Look. No

one is coming for us.

It's time we take this

into our own hands,

before someone else dies.

- That's a great idea. Let's

see what that leads to.

- Yeah, you know you're

sick. You know that?

I never came to

Calber Island for you.

I came for him, and I thought

you'd be grateful for it.

Thomas set me up is all he did.

- That's the first thing

you've said that I believe.

Setups were my old

man's specialty.

Or didn't you realize that?

Knowing him all of

what, two years?

- Oh, you're just

here to spite him.

- I thought you'd take my side.

- Yeah, you have no idea

what it was like out there!

- He's dead because of you.

- That's right!

- Him and his big dreams for me.

- He's dead because of

me and I have one thing,

One thing that I can do

to make it up for him.

He asked you to do something

and you did the exact opposite!

You know what he wanted for you?

He gave you enough to

last you for years,

and all you care about

is one leaky-roof,

roach-infested house!

- Exactly what he

wanted her to do.

- That's not all he

meant, and you know it!

This place is trouble for you.

It's trouble for everybody.

Go ahead and take it.

Have it your way, Fred.

You and this town were

made for each other.

- What happened to Hogan?

- Left the body on the

Peacemaker. Banker's Cove.

- You found the Peacemaker?

- It's bad.

- You'll have to

make a statement.

- I'm asking you one more time.

Get yourself from the

mainland, before it's too late.

- Yeah, and Hank. Conway.

Who else?

- Pip.

- Uh-huh.

- Joe.

- Yeah.

- Mark and

Cindy are staying.

So's the whole east

side of Main Street.

We won't need more than

two or three round trips?

- How it go again?

- "I've lived on this

island, 60 years,

and I'll be darned

if I go anywhere!

For a storm, or a flood,

or a w*r party from the Crip!

- But life

has its stories.

Full of thunder and

lightning, without the rain.

- Wanda's place is

closed. She said forever.

I was at Porky's this morning.

And Jackson said

you k*lled Chief Hogan.

Which, you know, I said he was

probably mistaken and such,

but I, I don't think

anybody believed me.

- I gave Fred the house key.

- Wait. Are you leaving, too?

- In a manner of speaking.

Look. Vikings know

what a boat is.

Soon as we start bringing

them back and forth

from the mainland,

they're gonna want one.

Somehow, I've gotta keep

their eyes off of that water.

- Well, maybe you could talk

to 'em. Work something out!

- Yeah, sure. Maybe.

- Listen. You're the only

one I can ask of this, Hank.

Make sure they get off.

If you can get help, send

back here for the rest of us.

- I don't think anybody's

gonna believe me.

Why don't you do it,

when you get back?

- You can do this,

Hank! You can.

Tell them whatever

you have to tell them

to get them moving, okay?

Tell them that I've gone crazy.

That I'm coming after them.

I don't care. Just get help.

Send back here for the

rest of us. Real help.

Take Sofia and Gabriella

and don't come back.

You hear me?

- Yeah.

Okay.

- Give me just one second. Okay?

- Yeah.

- Here.

This is for you.

But I thought you

had need of it?

- No.

I just really wanted to see

if you could make a sword.

It's time for you and Gabriella

to leave Calber Island.

- The end of an era.

When your way of life

changes, trouble comes,

but it pushes you out, into

the best part of your story.

- Sound like someone

else I used to know.

Hey. One more trade.

When I was your age, I

didn't have much of a family.

Managed to push away

anybody that I did have.

They said m*llitary school

would straighten me out.

So, off I went.

A bunch of rich brats.

I never started any fights,

but I sure finished them.

So I was always in trouble.

Anyways, I wasn't popular.

None of that stuff.

So I graduated,

and I didn't know

where to go home to.

So I joined up.

Served under a man

named Thomas Barkley.

Took me under his wing, and

I don't know why he did,

he never told me why, but

he treated me like family.

He would say that my

life was worth something.

That it mattered.

That my future mattered.

That my decisions mattered.

Nobody had ever talked

to me like that before.

People in this town say a

lot of things about Thomas,

but the truth is,

he was a good man.

He loved his wife, and

his kids, Fred and Elaine.

He worried about them every day.

Fred, most of all.

- Fred Barkley does not

know how lucky he is.

- One day, I was in

a really tough spot.

sn*per had me in his crosshairs.

But Thomas picked him

off from a good ways off.

By doing so, he gave

away his position.

That should've been me.

Thomas would've came home,

if he wouldn't have

fired that sh*t.

Anyways, I came home and

they read his last wishes

and everybody found out

that he gave me the house.

He should've gave it to

Fred, but he gave it to me.

- That was cruel of Thomas.

Why did he do that?

- Because he was done enabling.

Sometimes, what's

best for us, hurts.

I mean, sooner or later,

the house won't be worth

two nickels, anyways.

Hey.

Trade!

That was a really

big one about me.

- Are you saying goodbye?

- I'm gonna find the

one from your village.

If you're the judge of

character that I think you are,

he may be our best chance

of getting through to them.

You girls are gonna

be okay. I promise.

Sofia!

Sofia!

Truck's all yours.

- Hank. We thought maybe

you were next next!

- "Next"?

- Where is he, Hank?

The Peacemaker turned

up this morning.

Todd could be in

a lot of trouble.

= I need another boat. We

have to get to the mainland.

- Sofia told me about you,

and I want to trust you.

Do not think that you'll

do the same with me

as you did to Zeke

and those teenagers.

Sofia.

Why aren't you with Hank?

Where's Gabriella?

- I should've said goodbye.

- What did he say?

- "The storms are like

lightning without rain."

- Where is he?

- I don't know, and

that's the truth.

Todd told me to take Sofia

and Gabriella to the mainland,

and to send help.

- Why?

- 'Cause nobody believes him!

- Look, I can think of

one way to get 'em out.

- Hey. You leave them alone.

- Give me the keys, Hank.

- Listen. They'll be fine.

They can't leave

the island, anyway.

- I gotta go get help now.

- Hey!

I thought there were two?

- You get to the docks.

Gabriella's your responsibility.

I'll catch up, if I can.

Go. When I say go, you go

and you don't look back.

You hear me?

Go.

Go!

- Hey Jack. Did

you check the radar?

- Pete. It started a fire, man.

It's not good.

- Hey, let's get

the water truck out.

Get the kid inside somewhere.

- No. I have to take them back

to the mainland and get help.

- I was

afraid of the books.

It changed the ones who read it.

Perhaps change is what

scares your people, too.

- How did

you get in here?

- Why do you all have

so much trouble with windows?

- You think

they'll have any trouble?

- Did Todd

send you for help?

- Yeah.

- Go get it.

- What about the girls?

- We'll take care of 'em.

Jack, you two.

- No, I'm good. I'm good.

- Nobody flies solo.

We stick together.

That's the rules.

- Hey, come on.

- Gabriella!

Sofia!

Gabriella!

- Hey

- Oh, God. No.

Todd.

- Thomas.

Thomas.

- No. You should

take your energy.

Listen to me.

Birdie and Elaine will be okay.

- What?

I don't worry about

'em. They'll move on.

But Fred...

Stubborn, like me.

Loves the status quo, far

more than it loves him back.

Nothing this side of

death lasts forever.

Promise me you won't see

him waste his life away.

You need a home and

he needs a future.

I gave him a little

help getting started,

but life has its storms,

full of thunder and

lightning without the rain.

In the moment, it may

not seem like a blessing.

But sometimes, storms like these

are pointless, only if you

don't let them change you.

Humble yourself under it.

- He did it for you, Fred.

All for you.

Why do you fight it so much?

- Today, after

enjoying more than 140 years

of township status, hundreds

of residents are protesting

the state's decision

not to rebuild

the Calber Island Bridge.

The bridge was destroyed

during a mudslide

that occurred two weeks ago.

Next up, meteorologists

across the state

are all talking about a...

- Guess where I am.

- Naples.

- Seattle.

- No way,

Hank. Good for you.

- Yeah!

I wanted to try Tokyo, but they

said I needed a "passport"?

Are the girls okay?

- Yeah.

- Is Fred okay?

- Yeah, he will be.

You know, I really wish I

wouldn't have given Hank

my truck keys.

That a girl.

Trip time.

Maybe we can go 50

miles an hour this time.

- No!