01x03 - The Lure

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It is with your negligence

that Carrie Ecker escaped.

Find and return her at once.

Are the scars from them?

Just curious why y'all live

out in the woods like that.

Deep in the woods stands a lone Door.

My colony exists entirely

to protect the world

from the awful things beyond that Door.

And one of them got out.

You should've had your eye on her!

One of you must act as its prey.

I will follow from behind

and take care of the rest.

It's real.

There's no greater act of love

than the act of self-sacrifice.

In the years to come,

when your skin is maimed

and your bones broken,

you can look your friends

in the eye and say,

"I have loved."

The Guardianship is only

for the purest of heart.

Six years of battling

off the ravenous Bloodherd

in the depths of Gehenna,

of learning the divine

secrets that lay in the Ledger.

Six years of sacrifice.

You think you have enough love to give?

Yes!

Then say it loud and clear.

I am a vessel filled with light.

I am a weapon against the shadow.

My pain is a symptom of sacrifice.

My sacrifice is a symptom of love.

Louder!

I am a vessel filled with light.

I am a weapon against the shadow.

My pain is a symptom of sacrifice.

My sacrifice is a symptom of love.

I am a vessel filled with light.

I am a weapon against the shadow.

My pain is a symptom of sacrifice.

My sacrifice is a symptom of love.

I am a vessel filled with light.

I am a weapon against the shadow.

My pain is a symptom of sacrifice.

My sacrifice is a symptom of love.

Emotion.

Better not strike than act too soon.

Fodder for the Herd.

I am a weapon against the shadow.

My pain is a symptom of sacrifice.

My sacrifice is a symptom of love.

I could do better.

It's early in training.

Council leader's disappointed.

He sees my mother in me.

You're not your mom.

You're brave.

We're in this together, okay?

I am a vessel filled with light

Horrors of Gehenna lie in the mental

as much as the physical.

As weeks become months,

they'll prey on the dark

recesses of your mind.

Your longest time yet.

Let's go.

Calm. Steady.

Calm. Steady.

Carrie, calm mind. Steady.

Calm mind. Steady.

My pain is a symptom of sacrifice.

My sacrifice is a symptom of love.

Okay, Mom. Okay.

Everything's gonna be fine.

Boom.

- Snug as a bug on drugs.

- Thank you.

Mrs. Frisk, do you remember

anything from the past hour?

A whistling sound? Almost angelic?

A tall figure with a mask?

A gold coin, maybe?

I-I remember ecstasy.

Ecstasy.

Is it okay if I hold your hand?

To warm you up?

I'll be the lure.

Let's k*ll this thing.

Pretty big of you to put

yourself in harm's way.

Yeah, well if this were "Jaws,"

I'd be like the stink bait

that they use to lure the shark in.

You're my stink bait.

You're supposed to

say that I'm the shark.

I'm just having a bit of a

hard time visualizing it, so.

Oh, my God!

Nolan! Angel. Darling.

You're like my big dog alpha dog.

Yeah, such a big dog alpha

dog that I'm literally

about to piss my pants

from nerves, so watch out.

'Cause, yeah.

Okay, bye.

What?

Gonna pee my pants. Hot.

Yes, you.

Brings the total missing

in West Pine to five,

all within 36 hours.

The mayor is now implementing

a town-wide curfew

Hello?

Jeez.

You're scared of me.

No.

Yes, you are. You're scared of me.

No, Carrie, I'm not.

Christ is lord. f*ck me.

It's fine.

I'd be scared of me too.

There's just there's

a lot going on right now.

I'm a weapon.

That's how the Colony trained me.

- Don't think, just

- All right.

You're not you're not some weapon.

You could be in Salem right now,

but you're in shitty old

West Pine doing what's right.

I just leave when

there's drama, so props.

That's not true.

You helped me.

People look at me and think mad jokes,

mad style, chill,

but the entire time

in my head, I'm like,

"Don't stop moving. Don't

think about Mom's death.

Don't think about Dad's debt.

Distract, distract, distract."

It's like a factory

for exhausting thoughts.

You know, in the last weeks of her life,

I spent almost all my free

time at Evolve Dance Studio

like like like a dumb sl*t.

I just want to start over too.

Be like a baby.

Be anyone.

Get out of West Pine at least.

Ready to hunt a monster?

Better not to strike than strike early.

Calm mind. Steady hand.

You're holding back, Carrie.

Mercy has no place in Gehenna.

Council leader?

You're not allowed in here.

Father.

I don't understand why I

can't visit my family home.

My new post forbids

preferential treatment.

So I'm not entitled

to ask my own blood for training advice?

I have to treat all

the children equally.

Then as council leader?

When I look at you,

I see her,

your mother.

A sniveling little

victim who flees hardship

at a moment's notice.

Sara's just stronger than me.

Pressure points. Remember these?

It's how you exploit

vulnerability that counts.

The Bloodherd overpowers all of us,

so be ruthless.

Pain is a symptom of sacrifice.

And sacrifice is a symptom of love.

Win the Guardianship.

Then I'll call you my daughter.

Tasha, why are you walking like that?

It's my power pose.

I do it before recitals

when I'm nervous.

Oh, hell's greatest

weakness: empowered dancers.

I feel so safe.

Anything to stay calm.

What are you doing?

Oh, oh this is called the mean lean.

It's like the power pose but way sicker.

Well, our friendship is

actually canceled now.

Demons hate this sh*t. Freaks them out.

You freak 'em out you 'cause

you're a freaky little boy.

Little boy?

Little child.

It's good you're laughing.

A calm mind is a steady hand.

Remember, if you get too scared,

if you flinch in the place of action,

the Bloodherd will sniff

your weakness and k*ll you.

But if the Ledger is right,

then the Hypnotist prefers

to lure from a safe distance

rather than attack with

force, so you should be safe.

Nolan, are you ready?

Yes, sir. Ma'am.

You cannot drop the act.

The Herd don't have

eyes, but it will know.

Once it's onto you,

you must remain steady.

Under no circumstances

should you try to fight it.

This is not gold.

It's devil's bone, and

it comes from their world.

It's the only way to k*ll them.

Do not try to attack.

Devil's bone.

Nolan, what did you take?

Calm mind, steady hand.

This is real, dude. It's not cute.

Headphones ready? Let me see your phone.

Make sure the volume

stays all the way up.

And look at your feet,

never into its coin.

Imagine what your mom is

going through but much worse.

It marks the trees to claim the woods.

That's how it draws

its power from Gehenna.

Call, and it will come.

- I'm gonna be fine.

- You're gonna be fine.

- Whoa.

- Really? Really brave.

- Brave as mind meld.

- Weird.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, um, Tasha,

just in case anything legit bad happens,

I-I want you to know

that you're so beautiful.

No, stop. Like a sexy machine.

You're like a sexy church.

Why am I like a sexy church?

Good luck, Stink Bait.

Ow!

To vast Gehenna, I give my skin.

Pray warm shadow let me in.

This is so f*cking metal.

What are you doing? Fight me.

Come on, we've been training

for this our whole lives.

Fight me.

Call it. I'm done.

The final fight lasts till

one of you touches dirt.

Well, I'm not gonna hurt her

while she just stands there, so.

It's weird he's just

a dot on the screen.

I realize he's probably losing his sh*t,

but here, he's just dotting around.

Just just give me that.

Nolan and I can take it from here.

You'd literally have

to literally stab me

multiple times in the

eye with your blade

to get me not to help.

I thought you were

supposed to be a coward.

I thought you were

supposed to be a bad person.

sh*t. This service.

Come on. We're close. Just press on.

Come on. Follow the scary monster.

Follow the scary monster.

Oh, why the f*ck did I agree to this?

Stay back.

Go, go, go, go, go, go.

We're coming back, Lumi. I promise.

Hey.

That's the old mine entrance.

So what do we do now?

I'm gonna end this thing.

Oh, demon, what have you done?

Calm mind. Steady hand.

Carrie?

They want you back.

They sent me.

I thought I'd be angry, but

It's really you.

I get why you did it.

I hurt you,

and I'm sorry.

No.

I am.

Hey. Hey.

Hey. Hey.

You're not a weapon.

You're not a weapon.

You're not a weapon.

It's dead, okay?

It's dead. You're not a

weapon. You're not a weapon.

What was it doing down here?

Hey, who's there? This is WPN property.

We have to dip. Like, now.

Remember how I said

that the wrong person

could open up a new door?

Let all the nightmares out?

Well, I think it might

have done just that.

I said, who's there?

Go, go, go, go, go!