02x04 - A Nation Divided

[bunniefuu]

- Previously on "Escape the Night"...

unscripted, unrehearsed.

- None of you are leaving this place alive.

- A spider goddess kidnaps three guests.

[screaming]

And two women must

risk their lives to save them.

- Who will you save?

- DeStorm.

- You b*tches can't k*ll me.

- After midnight, things change.

- [laughter]

♪ ♪

[man screaming]

[blade slicing]

- Sweet Mary, mother of God.

- That's the Captain. We gotta go! We gotta go!

We gotta--come on! - No, no.

I'm making a stand.

[creaking]

- [grunts]

- [grunts]

- Ah!

[grunting]

- How long will you resist us?

- Forever.

[dramatic music]

♪ ♪

[thunder booms]

- Where did that laugh come from?

- I--honestly, I think that was the Sorceress.

- Is this, like, a game to her? - Laughing at us.

- I'm hungry.

- She said at midnight is when something's

gonna happen. - What is that?

- I have no idea. - At midnight is so soon.

- Oh, that's an axe and a g*n. - Oh! Good eyes.

- So somebody's gonna have to fight.

I know the Sorceress is trying

to make us turn on each other.

And it's working. So Lauren's gone

because of you. - There's so much tension

going on between Alex and DeStorm.

- She deserved to go. - [sighs]

- It's me or her. - I found this at the doorstep

the beginning of the night. - So typical Alison

has another clue to give us.

And I'm thinking, why, if you have all these things,

are you holding them back from us?

But she gives it to us and Joey opens it up.

And it seems to be some type of propaganda flyer.

- "To arms. Your country needs you.

Open the key to freedom--"

- "Helm the ship of fury." - "The Dark Army--"

- "Has taken our land. Obedience required."

- Let's read the red. - Yeah, read just the red.

- "Key to helm of obedience behind a terrifying face."

- Her face! - Hey, that is not a--

- Oh, this face! - That face, duh!

- That, oh. - Oh, oh, yeah.

Take it off. - Clue, after clue,

after clue, after clue.

- Oh, right here, right here. - Guys.

- Oh, pull it. - Come to me.

- There's a key. both: Green room.

- Yeah, there's a room over there that's green.

Let's go. - It's this way.

- So we found this key and here we are again

on some other search to find something that unlocks

that basically just means someone else is gonna die.

- It's-- [banging]

[screaming]

- We tried to jet out of there. We hear all these sounds

coming out the damn hallway again.

[screaming] - This way.

- Oh, the green room. I'm running for my life.

- That was terrifying. - That was--my heart--

- What did that thing say? What did it say?

- It just says green room. We need a--

- Wait, wait, wait. You have a key?

- Yes, go. - This just keeps getting

scarier and scarier. - Open it. Just open it.

- [laughter, speaking gibberish]

- What the-- - Someone's gonna have to--

- Oh, my God. - Someone's fighting.

- It says, "The Helm of Obedience.

"Its wearer must surrender their will to the voice

of the Dark Army if they wish to proceed."

- I mean, whoever puts on this Helm of Obedience

has no control.

That's terrifying.

- I got a small head. - I mean, I'll do it.

- All right, who wants to do it? - Okay.

Y'all go do your thing.

I'm not doing this.

- I couldn't, because--

- Is it a good look? It's a good look.

- It looks cute with your hair. - It's kinda cute.

- Hello, Joey. - Oh, it's talking to me!

- Shut up. - You hear it? Listen.

- It said, "Hello, Joey." - You must follow

my instructions without fail. - You must follow

my instructions without fail. - Or your life will be forfeit.

- Or your life will be forfeit. - Do you understand?

Do you understand? - Yes, I understand.

Oh, my God. It's actually, like--

- So Joey puts on this Helm of Obedience.

But I have no idea what it's saying.

And it's very clear that Joey is terrified.

- Tell your friends to follow you.

- It says to follow--follow me. Walk back to the--

- We all follow you? - Yeah, follow me.

- So y'all gonna just follow him?

- We have to surrender to proceed.

- Okay. - Walk down the hallway.

- Is this the voice? - Can't believe we following

a damn helmet. - Okay.

- As much as I'm scared of the Sorceress,

I'm afraid of whatever's

about to come out of this crazy pot.

- Go up to the top of the stairs alone.

- Stay here. Stay here. - Umm.

- Wait, we all stay here? - Yeah, stay here.

- Liz, I got you. - Keep walking.

- He's going upstairs. - He looked crazy to me.

Something was wrong with him in his head.

But I'm assuming it was the helm.

- Everybody keep your eyes peeled.

- Walk forward. - Okay.

- We should all, like, face outwards.

- You will see a case on the floor.

- I see it. - Joey, what's happening?

- Open it. - Oh. Oh, my God.

- Joey, what's going on? - Guys.

- You can handle this.

- What is it? - [laughs]

- [panting] - Are you okay?

- Jesse's g*n. - When I see he has a g*n,

and he makes eye contact with us,

it does not look pretty for us.

It looks like he's gonna k*ll us.

Joey. - No, no, no, no.

- What are you doing with your g*n?

- What are you doing?

- And because I'm a hero,

I made sure to, you know,

protect everyone and put my arms out.

I'm like, hey, everybody, just calm down.

- Now point the g*n at your friends.

- Joey. all: Joey!

- No! - No, no!

- What the hell? - Joey, Joey, Joey.

- Oh, my God. Oh, my--like, is one of us gonna die like this?

[overlapping protesting] - [laughter]

- I stepped away from the group.

I don't want the g*n pointed at me; I'm not with them.

- You cannot hesitate with this next action,

or your life will be over.

Do you understand? - Just do it.

- I want you to open the door, step out onto the porch,

and sh**t the first man you see.

- So he pulls the g*n away from us, and I'm like whew.

I saved the day. Thank God.

- What are you doing? - Good, good, good, good.

Good move. - I knew it was all--

he wouldn't do that. - No, no, no, no.

- [screams]

- Oh, my God! - You k*lled him!

- I'm shocked. A little turned on.

Okay, a lot turned on.

- Guys, come on. - Take the bugle from his side.

- Damn helmet turned him into a m*rder*r.

- The longer we're in this house,

the more evil you can see in everyone's hearts.

- Go to the back of the foyer

and stand before the outside door.

- Don't sh**t. - I used to play.

First chair trumpet. Like, six years in a row.

I got you. - Guys, I have to go

in the backyard. - Put the g*n down.

- Okay. - Joey don't sh**t at me.

I was actually shocked that he didn't k*ll me.

- Take off the helmet. - Can you help me?

- Blow the bugle. - Getting my hands dirty.

- Good-bye, Joey.

- Bye. Uhh!

- I would keep that on. That looked like protection.

- Literally, the devil was speaking to me.

- I don't like it. - He said the next thing to do

is to blow this. - Okay. Everybody just be ready

for something to happen. - Ready?

- No. - He's blowing a damn bugle.

[blows bugle] [screaming, cannons f*ring]

- What's going on? - Those are cannons.

- Is it, like, that?

All of a sudden, we hear a cannon fire.

And out of nowhere, there are two armies

coming together and they do not look like they like each other.

- Oh, wait! - Shh, shh, shh.

- I don't care if you're the last people

on the g*dd*mn Earth, we ain't gonna stop fighting.

- This is our land! - Should we hide?

- Shh.

- Oh, girl. Look what you've done.

Look what you've done. - He's pointing a g*n!

He's pointing a g*n! - You did say hide

and we did not. - Joey seems to think

it's a good idea to go out on the patio

and talk with these guys. - You see a w*r going on,

y'all gonna just go out? - I'm thinking

it's only right if they have a gem.

- He has a gem.

- Oh, you want this. You're gonna have to fight.

- Could you just give it to us, maybe?

- You're gonna have to get dirty.

Now, see, the team that loses this here skirmish,

one of them's gonna have to die.

- Oh, gosh.

- I don't see no other way.

Whose side y'all fighting on?

- What do you mean, side?

- The Confederates are a weak lot.

You join me, and we will crush them beneath our heals.

- The Dark Army will soon be returning

to its forgotten myth it once crawled out of.

Stick with me and you'll live.

- Guys, that's the only way we're gonna get the gem.

I think we should do it. - We need the gem.

- Then pick two captains.

One for the Dark Army and one for the Confederate filth.

- And that is when I realize,

we are gonna be having to fight each other.

both: I'll be a captain. - This is like school.

I never got picked for this. - I never got picked, either.

- Guys-- - Let me go against him.

- I feel like it's important the fact that you guys

think I'm responsible for this.

- So I'm the captain of the Confederates.

Go figure. - I choose Liza.

- What? The Dark Army, you choose the brown girl. Okay.

- Gabby, you saved my life once.

Why don't you come on over here?

- DeStorm and I just get each other.

- I choose Tyler. - Good choice.

- Come on over here, Andrea.

- And then there were two.

- I'm hoping Joey chooses me.

- Tana. - Ah.

- Once I find out DeStorm is a captain,

I realize I'm not picking Alex.

I'm gonna put them on the same team to start some drama.

- Not only am I picked last,

but I'm picked by DeStorm's team.

By default.

- First, you need your colors.

- Oh, this goes. - I think Joey's team is weak,

slow, can't keep up with us.

- We don't wanna be up for elimination.

We have to make sure that it's them, okay?

- All right, so I'm the captain of this team

and what we gonna do is we gonna win.

We got the brains, we got the girls,

we got the weapons, and we got the soldiers.

- Honestly, I'm just hoping

that DeStorm's team self destructs.

- We're on the same team now

and if you need me, I'll step up.

But after this, we're back to enemies.

- When it's all over, he gonna get it.

- We go downstairs and the battle

is about to begin and we're just freaking out.

- Okay.

- Hi, guys.

This is so sad.

We're, like, against each other now.

- Gotta do what we gotta do.

- We've kind of lost hope.

Like, the game we thought we were playing

is not the game we're playing.

- This side is for the Dark Army.

And this side of the estate, for them Confederates.

The patio is no man's land

and a medical station.

The first team to find the location

of the flag is the victor.

You're allowed one person on each team

to stand behind their own territory to stand guard.

- This makes it so difficult

because essentially, we're never safe.

- When in enemy territory, your arm banner can be torn off.

And an enemy guest must escort you to the medical station.

- And you have to just sit there for five minutes,

looking at whatever is going on

and being unable to help.

- Marching orders. - What's this?

- Okay. - We have to get the big flag.

- "Confederate guys, your mission is to find

five golden pegs." - "Five red pegs

"hidden in Confederate territory,

and then insert them in your warlock's chest."

- "Where you will gain the final item needed to recover

for the enemy's flag." - Got it.

- Game on.

[g*nsh*t] [yelling]

- So when Cash sh**t this g*n,

we immediately are in, like, game mode.

[overlapping yelling]

- So immediately, we run into the action,

and I see this box.

I realize there's a peg inside this box.

So I literally just lift it up and throw it on the ground.

[overlapping shouting] Yeah, she is.

I found the first peg! I am so happy.

[grunting]

- Go out this way, go out this way.

- What? [grunting]

- Where the [...] are these things?

- I am a finesser, so I gotta go hustle these people

and be the distraction.

So you wanna get it? Let's go.

- I'm like--I just wanna book it; I wanna run into there;

I wanna find the pegs; I wanna get this over with.

- Oh, no! My shoe's untied.

My shoe's untied!

[laughter]

Wait, my other shoe's untied.

I'm having so much trouble walking up these stairs.

I decide I'm gonna distract the guard.

I'm gonna have them take me away

so that the other team members

can run in and get those pegs.

[grunting] - I am out of breath.

I cannot breathe. Honey, I think I have asthma.

- Oh, Tyler, keep looking.

Look under rocks and everything.

- Do we have any pegs? - No, we can't find any.

- I found one!

[grunting] I found it.

Oh, that was exhausting. I'm out of shape.

- I continue to search. Oh, I found it.

And I find my second peg in the tree.

[grunting]

Go. - They're probably--

- I was chasing Tyler 'cause he's slow but he's agile.

He's like--he moves quick.

both: Throw it! Throw the peg!

- Got away from me once. I couldn't get a grip

on his arm flag, so I couldn't get him.

- But as athletic as I think he comes across,

he could never catch me. - Look in trees and sh*t.

- Get it.

- Oh, I can't find these pegs!

- They were the color of sticks on the ground.

Like, I looked at a peg for five seconds.

I was like, is that a peg?

Guess what color the other team had?

Bright red!

[sighing]

[grunting]

- This game of capture the flag is pandemonium

because it's also kind of like a w*r.

[grunting]

The Dark Army and the Confederates are running around,

screaming... - [screaming]

- k*lling each other.

And I'm like, I just am here to find the pegs.

- But I don't have one. - No, I'm giving it to you.

- Oh. Okay. - Tana?

- Guys, I found the peg! - DeStorm!

- I found the peg. - Trees and boxes.

- Trees and boxes, my ass!

There's no trees and boxes.

- Oh, my God. My shoe's untied.

Oh, no! - I got you.

- Oh, no!

Go, Liza. - Oh, that's one!

- One left. - They only have one more!

- Our plan is working.

Like, we're doing good.

- [spitting] - [laughs] Hey!

- [grunts]

- How many people are caught? - Two.

- You have to come on this side.

- There were moments that I was ready to just give up.

My feet hurt. - You wanna go sit up there?

- [laughs] Joey, please.

Let me run just a little. - No!

- Let me run just a little. - I've been running

like little boys all day.

- I have a bruise here and here. No more.

- Gabby's putting up such a fight.

We're literally wrestling on the ground right now

- No! No! This is life or death.

[grunting]

- No, no, don't go boneless on me.

Don't you go boneless on me!

Okay. Here we go. Here we go!

- That is gorgeous. - Let go of the gate.

We're-- - Okay.

- Come on. - So I'm about to go back on

the opponent's side and I notice there's a peg

inside the light.

Guys, I found it! I found the last one!

- Yes, Joey! - Come on.

- They got it! They got it!

- Guys, I got it! - Wait, put it in.

We're gonna get a clue. Come on.

- Okay. - We have all five pegs!

- Oh, wait. - Go upstairs.

- Oh, it's not over? - Okay, what does it say?

- "The cannon on the patio has been authorized

"for your use, soldier. Pour in the powder

and let her rip to reveal the enemy flag."

- What? - Pour in the powder, come on.

Once we get all five pegs, we get gunpowder,

and we run up to the cannon.

- Wait, all of us, put your hands on the rope.

- Yeah, let's go. - Teamwork makes the dream work.

- One, two, three! - Fire!

- Whoo! - It's over.

- They won. - Jasper, do you see it?

- I got it!

[cheering]

- Oh, my God. - Joey.

- Guys! - We did it!

[laughter]

- Oh, my God. I'm so tired.

- You were saved! - Oh, my God.

- We just couldn't find our pegs.

Trees and boxes, my ass!

- They were the color of the ground.

Did you see that sh*t? Real life.

- We won. Can we have the gem?

- Now, I said, one of you losers is gonna have to die

if you still want this.

Well, that ain't changed.

Two people will have a little showdown.

You have to vote. - Guys, let's step inside.

- Follow Alison. - All right.

- Per usual. - Come on, guys.

- Oh, I'm freezing.

I have no idea what's gonna happen next.

- I am tired. - I know.

- [sighs] - But we live another day.

- When we get to the room, it was already in the air.

We knew it would be me and Alex.

- DeStorm needs to pay for what he's done.

If you wanna go, we can go head to head.

I've been waiting for this. - Oh, my!

This has never happened before.

Alex is literally volunteering himself to potentially die.

- He had the biggest hand in k*lling Lauren.

- DeStorm didn't k*ll Lauren.

And he shouldn't be blamed for Lauren's death.

- 'Cause his girlfriend deserved to die.

- DeStorm keeps saying, "She had to die, she had to die."

Like, that's not okay.

That was his girlfriend. He loved her.

- We'll do DeStorm, you guys do Alex.

Settled.

- Shall we? - Go first.

- Alex is soft and he needs to go.

[intense music]

♪ ♪

- DeStorm. - Ah, I love this.

- And Alex.

- You gonna join your girlfriend.

- Damn. - That was shady as hell.

- Right this way.

Everyone, follow me.

- If I come back this time,

I think they will all know that I am king.

- Well, look who it is.

I figured it'd be you two lowlifes.

You want this, don't you?

- No! No! - [gasps]

- Ugh. Really?

Cash is an assh*le.

Honestly, we went through all of this.

He said he was gonna give us the damn gem.

And then he threw it into the swimming pool.

- First person to get the gem out of the pool keeps it.

The other's going to the f*ring squad.

- Oh, man, we gotta walk in the pool to get the gem?

It's freezing out here.

But I'ma do it.

- On my mark. [cocks g*n]

- Go! [overlapping shouting]

- What? - We look over the ledge

and we see the pool is filled with thousands of gems.

Oh, my God. - Are you kidding?

- Shut up. - And I'm thinking,

this is gonna take all night

and something is happening at midnight.

We don't have any time.

- I'm stumbling through the halls,

trying to get my clothes off

so I can swim as fast as possible

to get this gem. - Oh! Oh!

- He dives into the pool. I walk in.

'Cause I'm a classy man.

- I dive into this pool

and I can't see anything.

Ah, the goggles keep filling back up with water.

- Tighten them! - Hold them to your face.

Hold them to your face.

- These goggles are old, Victorian goggles.

So of course, they're not gonna work like modern goggles.

They could've gave us some better goggles.

- DeStorm, hold the goggles to your face.

- Don't help DeStorm. - Don't help him.

- I think that we all know who I'm rooting for.

DeStorm. We have each other's back.

We're an alliance. We get each other.

- Can we get new goggles? - Just go down and scoop.

- I know, but there's hundreds of gems.

- Well, you're not gonna get it by not doing it.

- Just keep scooping it. Just keep scooping.

- I mean, we're all screaming at Alex to just start

taking gems out of the pool and looking.

And he's not listening!

- Alex, what's your strategy?

- I have to look from up here. I can't see down there.

I can't get in.

- Hey, come on, DeStorm!

That's cheap. - Shady! Shady!

You gotta scoop and check.

- Do what now? all: ♪ Scoop and check ♪

- That's right. all: ♪ Scoop and check ♪

- Okay. all: ♪ Scoop and check ♪

- Okay. all: ♪ Yeah, scoop and check ♪

- That's right. All: ♪ And scoop, and check ♪

- Okay. All: ♪ Now, scoop-- ♪

- Okay, let's go!

- There you go! - Yes! Keep doing that.

- There you go! - That's the best thing

you've done. - Prince of scooping

and checking. - Yes! My king!

- DeStorm's looking in the shallow end.

I'm in the deep end,

thinking the gem probably rolled down.

- This is like finding a needle in a haystack.

- Good analogy, Joey.

- Finally, I get some new goggles.

- Oh, hell yeah!

- Oh. - Alex, go quick!

DeStorm has them on. - Alex, be quick.

- You go, boy. Go quick!

- Alex, Alex, he's under the water with the new goggles.

- Come on, Alex. We want you to win!

You got this!

- I'm looking through the water.

By the time I'm on my thousandth gem,

I don't even know what the gem looks like anymore.

I forgot the color. He threw it in the water too fast.

I never really paid attention to Cash.

He's not my type.

- The gem is kind of an amber, yellow, orange color.

- He, like--his logic-- - I think he's

just, like, tired. - So that's what

I'm looking for. - Especially the up and down,

up and down. - Like, holding your breath.

- I mean, swimming's exhausting, dude.

- Yeah, it really is. Alex is under the water

for a while and I'm just hoping when he comes up,

he has the gem.

- Found it! - You got it?

[cheering]

- Alex just pops out of the water with his fist up.

And he says, "I found it!"

And I know that means DeStorm's dead.

- How do you know? - Are you sure?

- The gem is yours. [cheering]

- Yes! - But holding onto it's

gonna be a painful thing. - [sighs]

- Time for the execution. - See you in hell!

- The execution? - Lock him up.

- No! - You!

Here, please. - Oh, my God.

- No, I don't wanna see him die.

- This is violent.

- I wish the house got to know me better.

We could've all got along.

I just came for the party.

- We have to watch him die? - Oh, my God.

- Draw.

And-- - Third time wasn't

a charm for me.

It was my time to go.

- Fire! - [screams]

[somber music]

♪ ♪

- Ouch.

- Oh.

- Oh, everyone, don't look so sad.

Y'all are trying to tangle with the Sorceress.

This ain't the least of what's coming your way.

- It was terrifying, seeing DeStorm get k*lled.

But I was so happy I didn't have to look

at his beady little eyes anymore.

- Think it's time for another skirmish.

- I finally get my revenge on DeStorm

and it is sweet.

both: Yes! - Alex.

- Way to go. - You did it.

- Oh, thank God. - We did it.

- Honestly, you're my hero. Thank you.

- I cannot believe you got it. - That was crazy.

- Yes! - Look at it. Yes!

- Put it in, put it in. - I got the gem.

I place the gem in its rightful spot.

both: Five left. - We're getting there, you guys.

- I feel like that means five more people are gonna die.

And that's not gonna be me.

- Wait, there's something else. - What?

Chocolate. - Chocolate?

- Chocolate?

[dramatic music]

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