01x07 - No Light, No Spark

[bunniefuu]

[CROWD CHEERING]

[CHEERING CONTINUES]

[WOMAN] Scott, you're amazing!

[MAN] Came out just to see you!

- [COUGHS]
- [MAN ] The best day of my life!

It's exactly like the one in
Relics. I made it for you.

It's a magic wand.

Thanks.

I don't want an autograph.

I just want you to know
you changed my life.

You did it. You!

Okay, thanks, we can go inside now.

[COUGHING]

Mr. Landon, you really
don't sound good at all.

No, I'm... I'm fine. [COUGHS] Really.

Okay.

You know the last time,
uh, a writer had a star

on his dressing room door, it's...

Yep. [SIGHS] Living the dream.

[COUGHS]

Um, the staff from the bookstore
who's sponsoring the event

would really love to come up
and say hello, if that's okay.

Yeah, that's fine. Just
give me a few minutes

to get myself together, okay?

Absolutely.

[COUGHING]

[LOCK LOCKS]

[COUGHING]

[PANTING]

Oh, boy.

[PANTING]

[COUGHING]

[GRUNTS]

[COUGHS, GRUNTS]

f*ck.

[g*nsh*t]

[g*nsh*t]

[COUGHS]

[COUGHING]

[COUGHING]

[GRUNTS, PANTING]

[COUGHING]

[GRUNTS]

[SCOTT COUGHING]

[SCOTT COUGHING]

[KNOCKING] [WOMAN] Mr. Landon?

[GROANS]

[GROANING CONTINUES]

I hate to rush you, but
they're ready for you.

[SCOTT COUGHING]

- [COUGHING]
- [WOMAN] Mr. Landon, can you hear me?

[WOMAN] Mr. Landon?

Are you okay?

[WOMAN] Mr. Landon, can you hear me?

[SPITS]

- [WOMAN] Are you okay?
- [COUGHS]

[DOOR RATTLING]

- [WOMAN] Mr. Landon!
- [TOILETS FLUSHING]

Mr. Landon!

[FLUSHING]

[FLUSHING CONTINUES]

- [KNOCKING]
- [WOMAN] Mr. Landon.

Mr. Landon, open the door.

Are you okay?

[KNOCKING]

[DOORKNOB CLICKS]

Mr. Landon?

- Mr. Landon!
- Hey.

The, uh, bathroom door locked behind me.

Could you get security to
open it and grab my phone?

Sure.

I'm ready.

Let's do it.

[WOMAN ] Tonight,
we have with us a writer

who truly needs no introduction.

After many years and
ten best-selling books,

he has become a literary icon.

Ladies and gentlemen, please give
a big welcome to Scott Landon.

[CHEERING, APPLAUSE]

[COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYS]

[SONG ENDS]

Good to be here and great
to be alive or what?

[CHEERING]

[MAN] The sign says no
swimming in the pool!

And what do we say to that, campers?

[AUDIENCE] Dive right in!

Who put that sign up?

[AUDIENCE] The fun police!

[CHUCKLES]

Before I read to you from my new book...

[CHEERS]

... I thought I'd talk a little about
how a novel comes into being.

- [WOMAN] Whoo!
- Whoo!

[AUDIENCE MURMURING]

[SCOTT] Sorry. [COUGHING]

[MAN] Take your time, Scott.

[WOMAN] What's happening?

Every...

[COUGHS] ... novel...

is a... a struggle between
the writer and the...

[COUGHING]

[MURMURING]

[COUGHS]

A struggle between the
writer and the story.

And the writer, well,
at least this one...

always tries...

to hold on [COUGHS] to keep control.

The story...

Um...

f*ck.

- [MURMURING]
- [SCOTT] Oh.

[SCOTT COUGHS]

- Oh. Oh, God.
- [WOMAN] You all right?

- [SCOTT GROANS]
- [MURMURING]

[MAN ] Take a break, man.

- [WOMAN] Is that blood on his hand?
- [MAN] What's going on?

- [PANTING]
- [MURMURING]

- [MAN ] Get some water.
- [MAN ] Is that blood?

[COUGHING, GROANING]

Can somebody...

call my w-wife...

[AUDIENCE GASPING, SCREAMING]

Is there a doctor in the house?

[CELL PHONE VIBRATING]

[VIBRATING STOPS]

Hey, babe. [SIGHS] What time is it?

[WOMAN] This isn't your
husband, Mrs. Landon.

It's Dr. Jantzen at Hudson
Hill Memorial Hospital.

Your husband was admitted tonight.

What? What... What happened?

He was at The Colonnade Theater,

scheduled to give a
reading and he collapsed.

Wait a minute. Wait.
Is... Is... Is he all right?

Mrs. Landon, I think you should get
here as soon as you possibly can.

[LISEY] Thank you.

- Mrs. Landon, I'm so sorry about...
- Where is he?

[WOMAN] I believe a Dr. Jantzen
is waiting for you inside.

He was coughing in the
car and it was not light.

And then I came to see him
in his dressing room...

- Okay, thank you.
- Mrs. Landon.

- Yeah.
- Come with me, please.

Thank you so much. Thank you.

[WOMAN ON PA] Dr. Morris,
dial , please. Dr. Morris.

- Dr. Jantzen.
- Hello, Mrs. Landon.

You got here much faster than
I expected. That's good.

- Where is he?
- One floor up.

None of us here have ever
seen old wounds reopen.

His lungs, the water...

The root cause is
almost certainly viral,

but as of now we have no idea
what virus that might be,

but only that it's taken hold
with incredible speed.

[SIGHS]

He requested to be taken
off the ventilator.

What? Why?

He wants to talk to you.

How bad is it?

He's running a fever of degrees,
and he's in organ failure.

I'm sorry, Mrs. Landon.

He's holding on for you.

[MACHINE BEEPS]

Hey.

Hey.

- Lisey?
- Yeah.

I'm so hot.

[SCOTT] It's so hot.

Is there ice?

Can we have some ice?
Can we have some ice, please?

Yes, of course.

Okay. All right, let's go.

Let's go to the pool.

Just crawl there if you have to.

Long boy.

What about the long boy?

[GROWLING]

Blocking the path.

[GROWLING]

Higher than the trees.

[GROWLING]

[SCOTT] No way around.

[GROWLS]

No, no, no. No. What happened?

What... What happened?

Something from...

[SIGHS]

... a long time ago.

From when I was a kid.

Something from Paul.

From... From Paul?

[PAUL GROWLING]

[YOUNG SCOTT] Oh, Daddy!

Daddy, help!

Paul's got the bad!

Daddy! Daddy, help!

Paul's got the bad! Daddy!

- [GRUNTS]
- [BODY THUDS ON GROUND]

[MAN] You're infected.

He cut me.

Ever since...

all these years...

something has been...

This is from Paul?

I went to Boo'ya Moon...

from the airport lounge.

I went again.

It's still blocked.

No way to the pool.

No, try. Try.

Try. Try again. Try again.

You and me, Lisey.

You and me.

Oh, my God.

How I loved you.

I love you. [SNIFFLES] I love you. Stop.

Don't talk. Just... [SNIFFLES]

- Stop talking. Save your breath...
- I was lost in the dark.

I was...

lost in the dark.

- And you found me.
- [SNIFFLES]

You held me.

No. No, no, no. [SNIFFLES]

No. No. [SNIFFLES]

Oh, baby.

No.

- No, no, no, no, no, no.
- Baby.

Don't go.

[MACHINE BEEPS SPEEDS UP]

Babyluv.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

No, don't go, don't go.

Don't go.

[MACHINE BEEPS STOPS]

[SOBS] Don't go.

[SOBS] No, don't go. [SOBS]

[SOBS]

[SOBBING]

[SOBS]

["ST. JAMES INFIRMARY" PLAYING]

[SONG CONTINUES]

[SONG CONTINUES]

[SONG ENDS]

- [TYPEWRITER THUDS ON GROUND]
- [LISEY SIGHS]

[LISEY] I don't know
how to be this way, hon.

[THUDS ON GROUND]

[LISEY] I don't know how to think it.

You would know. You...

[THUDS ON GROUND]

[LISEY] You would know.

You said saying is knowing.

[THUDS ON GROUND]

So... So what do I...
what do I say? Do I say...

Do I say you kicked the bucket?

Do I say...

you popped off?

[LISEY] Are you eating a dirt sandwich?

Are you riding the mystery train?

Did you bite the big one?

Pop your clogs?

Peg out?

No. [SNIFFLES] Uh... bought the farm?

[LISEY] I don't know. What do I say?

What is it? I don't know.

I don't know how to think it.

No light.

No spark.

No light.

No spark.

No light. No spark.

No light.

No spark.

[SOBS]

[LISEY SOBBING]

[SOBBING CONTINUES]

[LISEY SNIFFLES]

- [CLICKS]
- [WHIRRING]

[SQUEAKS]

[SQUEAKS]

[CLICKS]

- [CLICKS]
- [WHIRRING]

[CLICKS]

[DANNY] Base, this is Two
out on Sugartop Road.

[FEMALE DISPATCHER]
Thought you were - .

Thought I'd take another
run past the Landon place.

I just have a funny feeling.
Then I'll be - .

Copy that. Out.

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

[PANTING]

Lisey.

Lisey.

Lisey.

Lisey.

- [SIGHS]
- [THUNDER RUMBLING]

- Hey.
- [GASPS]

- [SIGHS]
- [SIGHS]

What is that?

Oh, it's a hockey stick.
A signed hockey stick.

It was in her hubby's sports cupboard.

Can't make out the name, though.

I think hockey players
must be illiterate.

It's Patrice Bergeron, and
if anything happens to it,

Matt's gonna k*ll you.

So, what's the plan?

I'm gonna tackle him,
and then once he's down,

you can pile on and then I'm
gonna take him to Boo'ya...

You're gonna take him to
that place that you went.

- Boo'ya Moon?
- [LISEY] Mm-hmm.

[SIGHS]

- [THUNDER RUMBLING]
- [DARLA SIGHS]

Jesus.

Good. I hope the assh*le gets soaked.

Amanda, do you know
why you were a double?

And the afghan too?
It was in both places at once.

I'm sorry, the what?

The afghan that Good Ma gave
us as a wedding present.

Scott loved it.

[SCOFFS]

You married a very strange man.

Scott was a double too.

He was... He was a double
about eight years ago.

He never said anything about
doubles, at least to me.

He knew how to get there, Lisey,

but beyond that, I don't
think he knew very much.

No, but he knew about the pool,

because he used to talk about it
all the time when he gave lectures.

The pool where we all
went down to drink.

I thought it was a metaphor.

Now you know better.

[LISEY] What do you remember?

I remember it was beautiful...

and terrible.

And I never want to go back there again.

Good, then you're gonna
stay here with us.

Okay, I'll try, I'll try.

What about the people on the benches?

The ones that are wrapped up.
Who are they?

I don't know. I don't want to
talk about the shrouded ones.

[LISEY] But what do you think they are?

- I don't want to talk about that.
- Okay.

Okay, I'm sorry.

[DARLA] Don't get your
panties in a bunch...

Don't get your panties in a bunch

if you don't... talk about
things that I don't...

Stop. Okay, both of you, stop it.

Just... Just go. Go hide. Go into
the bathroom and shut the door.

He needs to think that
I'm alone when he comes.

[SIGHS] I do... I do remember one thing.

Not from Boo'ya Moon. From...
From here. Something Scott said.

Just after the, uh...

Last time that I... that I cut myself,
you know, when I went dark,

before he d*ed.

Something about a story.
It was Lisey's story, he said.

[AMANDA] He never dedicated
a book to you, did he?

No. I asked him not to.

Why?

Because everything changed
once he became famous.

You know, the world came in.

You have to have a private part
to a marriage, a secret part.

And if we hadn't have had that...

we never would have survived
all this rich and famous sh*t.

What was the story about?

I don't think he said.

If he did, I don't remember. I'm sorry.

[SIGHS]

Do you really have a plan
for dealing with Dooley?

I do.

But we need a code word,
in case I need you.

Oh, a safe word. Yeah, like S&M.

What? Were you and Charlie into S&M?

Oh, God, no. His idea of bedroom
excitement was leaving his socks on.

What word, Lisey?

"Greenlawn."

So, you're gonna hear
me talking to him...

Wait, wait, wait. Why
are you talking to him?

Because I need to talk to him.
I need to be close to him.

I have to be close to him.

Don't come out unless
you hear "Greenlawn."

And then you can tackle him.

- That's plan B?
- Yeah. That's plan B.

Okay, plan B sucks. And plan
A makes absolutely no sense.

Really doesn't sound like it was
thoroughly thought out, Lisey.

Sometimes you have to
let the story tell itself.

- Oh, I am begging you.
- No, no.

- I am begging you to stop this bullshit.
- Come on, no.

Sometimes you have to
let the story tell itself.

You invited a maniac, a f*cking
lunatic into your house!

- Stop yelling. She knows what she...
- Just go hide.

- [DARLA] She has no plan!
- Get into the bathroom. Shut the door.

- [DARLA] What am I supposed to do?
- [THUNDER RUMBLING]

f*ck.

Get into the bathroom.

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

[SIGHS]

[THUDS]

[SIGHS]

I have to pee.

[WHISPERS] No.

[SIGHS] Lisey?

What?

[AMANDA] I have to pee.

Well, you're in the right place for it.

- Darla won't let me.
- [DARLA] Shut it.

You're a grown woman, you can hold it.

[LISEY] Be quiet. Both of you, be quiet.

[SIGHS]

[SNIFFS]

[GASPS]

- [FOOTSTEPS]
- [GASPS]

[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]

Mr. Dooley.

I know you're here.

[JIM] I'm right here, Missus.

You can't see me, but I can see you.

You're lying.

[JIM] Well, if I'm lying,
I'm dying, miss.

What's that in your hand? Is that a g*n?

Why would I have a g*n?

We're here to make an exchange, right?

[JIM] Well, I got other
business with you tonight.

You're here to k*ll me, aren't you?

[JIM] You know, that thing you're
hiding behind, that lighthouse,

that was your husband's.

That was Scott Landon's biggest prize.

, books sold for his
greatest novel ever written,

Coaster's Daughter.

I'm curious about something, Jim.

I mean, I... I hope you
don't mind if I call you Jim.

I feel like we're friends now.

[THUNDER RUMBLING]

[GASPS]

[LISEY] I'll take that as a yes.

There was something
that Scott talked about

when he talked about writing.

He said he learned it from Dickens.

[JIM] Well, I didn't come here
to talk about writing, Missus.

What?

What kind of a camper are you?

You don't want to talk
about your favorite writer.

"Beam me up, Scotty."

- "Duty of love."
- I'm a prophet.

[LISEY] "The duty of love,"
that's your favorite.

I'm the greatest camper there ever
was, and I came here to make sure

that Scott Landon's works are
shared with the entire world.

Scott said that every character
in a novel had to be used twice.

But there's one character in our
story that's been used only once.

And that's... that's Cole.

The man who sh*t my husband at
that university in Tennessee.

Hey, but you're from Tennessee. Right?

- A Jim Dandy from the volunteer state?
- Shut up.

You knew Cole.

The man who sh*t my husband. Right?

You know him from the mental
hospital, from the asylum.

- [JIM] Shut up!
- [LISEY] Yeah.

Scott and I used to talk about
guys like you. All the time.

We called you "deep space cowboys."

Most of you are harmless. Right?

But you and Cole aren't.

Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!

Just a couple of deep space cowboys

sitting around the mental hospital

talking about who Scott
Landon belonged to.

- And you're not a hero.
- Shut up!

- You're not a hero.
- Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!

You're just a crazy fan!

[JIM] Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!

[GRUNTS, GROANS]

[LISEY] You like my lighthouse?

[GRUNTS, GROANS]
That's not your lighthouse!

That is everyone's lighthouse!
That is Scott Landon's prize!

[LISEY] You're my prize.

- [GRUNTS]
- [GROANS]

[WHIMPERS]

[GRUNTS]

[GASPING]

[GRUNTING]

[SCREAMING]

[GROANING]

[GROANING CONTINUES]

Greenlawn! Greenlawn! Greenlawn!

[SCREAMING]

Hey!

You fucker, you m*therf*cker!
f*cking die!

[LISEY] Don't you mess
with her, m*therf*cker!

Hey! Come over here! Get me!

- [AMANDA] Lisey!
- [LISEY SCREAMS]

[WHIMPERS]

- [SCREAMS]
- [DARLA] Oh, f*ck!

[DARLA] Die, die, die!

[GRUNTS]

[DARLA SCREAMS]

- [DARLA] f*ck off!
- [GRUNTS]

[AMANDA] You f*cking assh*le!
Get him off me! Get him off!

[AMANDA SCREAMING]

- [GRUNTING]
- [DARLA] k*ll him.

[SCREAMING]

[GROANING, SCREAMING]

[GROANING]

[GROWLS, GRUNTING]

[GRUNTS, GAGGING]

Respect!

- [GASPING]
- [GROWLS]

[LISEY GASPING]

No wife! [GROWLS]

[GROWLS]

Respect!

[JIM GRUNTING]

[WHEEZING, GASPING]

[JIM GROWLS]

[GASPING, GAGGING]

[JIM GRUNTING]

[JIM GROWLS]

[JIM GROWLS, PANTS]

[LISEY GASPING]

[GRUNTS]

[JIM GRUNTS]

[GRUNTING]

[ANIMALS SQUAWKING, CHIRPING]

What are you trying to do to me, Missus?

[ANIMALS SQUAWKING, CHIRPING]

Always have to worry about motivation.

Beware of coincidence.

Explain situations.

Which is bullshit!

Because life doesn't work that way!

Who are you with?

[LISEY] Never did.

- Reality is a f*cking dog.
- [JIM] Who are you with?

[LISEY] That somehow travels , miles

and ends up at home, three years later.

[JIM] You are just the wife!

You are not an artist!

[LISEY] Reality is Ralph.

[JIM] You are not a poet!

[LISEY] Reality is Ralph.

[JIM] You were just sleeping with him!

[LISEY] Where'd you go?

[JIM] You're disgusting!

- [LISEY] I know you're here.
- Don't be selfish!

- Why won't you share?
- I know.

[JIM] Share with the world!

[GASPS]

Come here.

Come here.

[LISEY] Where are you?

Where are you?

Tell you one thing, Missus.

You are not going home.

[JIM] You were the greatest
mistake he ever made!

[LISEY] Come on!

Come on!

[JIM] You're an ignorant bitch!

Are you afraid?

f*ck you! I am the lighthouse.

- Come on, come on.
- I am a prophet.

- [RUMBLING]
- [GROWLING]

Come on! Come here! Come here!

Help me.

[CREAKING]

There you are.

[GROWLING]