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I'm not sure what's going on.

Creatures from the sea.

Creatures of the sea.

Yeah, but let's try it louder.

Right? More commanding.

Like, a little like this.

Creatures from the sea.

I summon thee.

Creatures. Yeah. I summon thee.

Okay, Jelly. Look at me.

It's time for you to face conflict.

These creatures are your friends.

They're gonna help you fight the evil.

Get the trust in them.

What if I don't have friends?

Right. Well, uh,

you can't fight evil alone, right?

You need an army.

Look, Jelly, I believe in you.

You do? Yes, I do.

All you have to do is try.

My mom never really said what this Captain Tsunami comic was all about.

But I think somehow it's

about me.

I'm gonna go.

I'm gonna go.

I'm gonna go.

I'm gonna go.

I'm gonna go.

Hi. What do you sound,

kid? I already bought cookies

this year.

Gwen? Do

I know you?

No. I'm

gonna go.

I was not a good time.

Look at the picture I just sent you.

Oh, my God.

Is that who I think it is?

When did she get there?

Two minutes ago.

He just put an ambrose alert out for her.

How does she know where I live?

I don't know.

Just keep her there.

Wait, wait. Is everything okay?

Is her mom okay?

I don't know.

I don't know.

Look, man, I'll call you back.

Okay? Okay. Okay?

You know, there's an amber alert out for you.

I'm gonna go.

That was your dad.

He's probably already on his way.

Police are gonna get here first.

You gonna tell me what this is all about?

No. She

told me if anything ever happened to come here.

What does that mean?

If anything ever happened?

You know how she is.

Em, what happened?

Do not call me that.

What? My friends call me Em.

I don't really know you.

Emma? Where is your mom?

Gone. What does gone mean?

I don't know.

She was there and then she was gone.

Yeah. I don't do that sometimes.

I go away for a day or two.

Or a decade or two.

You don't think I know who you are?

I don't look anything like him.

Okay, let's take a breath for a second.

Alright. I

don't know what you think you know.

Come on.

How could you know?

How could you not?

What? What happened to your mom?

I don't know.

I can't talk right now.

Sisto's out. Sisto's out of what?

A sign. He's out.

He can't be out.

Get him back.

He's got some family emergency or something.

No, I'm telling you he can't be out.

Fix it. I don't care how you do it.

Sisto? Yeah, Jeremy

Sisto. He's an actor from...

Captain Tsunami. I know who Jeremy Sisto is.

He's doing a signing at your comic store?

Yeah. It's more than a signing.

It's an interactive thing.

Sisto comes in and the kids request poses.

So you're in a camera?

Everybody's got their thing.

Kids can choose their own costumes and everything.

It's gonna be cool.

We've been planning it for over a year.

You know about the comic bookstore, huh?

Well, you've been Googling me or something?

Yeah, I did some Googling before I took a bus 500 miles to meet a stranger.

She's really proud of you about the comic store.

Yeah, I used to be obsessed with Captain Tsunami comic books when I was a kid.

Every Halloween we do the costumes.

Creatures from the sea.

I, Tsunami.

Why did your mom make you read it?

Hey. What the

hell? She

told me if anything ever happened to come here and bring you this.

What is all this?

She said you would know.

She said only you would know.

She said you would know.

She said you

would know.

I understand that you're Emma Andrews' biological father.

Sir? Yeah. You were estranged from her mother?

Not exactly, no.

It's just that you and Miss Andrews live pretty far apart.

Yeah, she was raising Emma with Malcolm.

You weren't aware that he and Miss Andrews were divorced?

No, I wasn't.

We understand Miss Andrews is...

Desiree. We understand Desiree is neurodivergent.

Crazy. She's on medication.

Some pretty significant medication to manage her mental health.

But she also has a history of...

She was in a program.

She was in a lot of programs.

Yeah, well, they don't make programs for people like her.

What are people like her?

What are they telling her?

They're telling her about the car that we're still looking for her mom.

What are people like her?

What? He said they don't have programs for people like Desiree.

She wasn't crazy.

Okay. They never

agreed on what it was.

One day it was schizophrenia, the next day it was personality disorder.

They tried everything.

Sometimes she seemed completely normal.

Sometimes she saw monsters.

One day she's scribbling nonsense on the wall.

The next day she's painting like Picasso.

What do you call that?

I don't know.

What do you call it?

She'd like to stay here tonight until her legal guardian arrives.

He said it's fine with him if it's all right with you.

Her what? Her stepfather Malcolm is the legal guardian.

He's on the way.

She must have already known.

We got really weird the last few weeks.

Something was up but I don't know.

She wouldn't tell me.

Look man, she's a smart kid.

She probably just looked in the mirror and figured it out.

Yeah. Yeah, I guess she did.

I'll be there in a few hours.

We'll figure this out.

You driving?

As opposed to what?

Yeah, I don't know.

Sorry I didn't tell you earlier.

Hey, you know anything about this Captain Tsunami stuff she brought with her?

What? She's got a bag of drawings and stuff about Captain Tsunami.

I can't talk about comic books right now man.

No, I think her mom gave it to her and told her to bring it to

me. Shouldn't anything ever happen to her?

Okay. That doesn't make any sense.

Yeah, that's what I said.

What did you show her to the cops?

No, I didn't even think about it.

Captain Tsunami?

Yeah, I think she drew it all herself.

It's a lot man, it's like months or years of work.

Alright, well I'll look at it when I get there.

You guys got divorced?

A couple years back.

She's hard to love you know?

It was me, I filed it.

I left her.

I'll see you when you get here man.

Yeah. Try safe.

Can we get pizza or something?

I had no idea your mom was drawing comics.

Nobody did. What up?

Was it a secret or something?

You tell me.

Everybody's got their thing.

What about you?

You have any gifts?

Yeah, I'm invisible.

But I can see you.

Take a few steps that way please.

I'll tell you when to stop.

Hey and stop.

Turn around. Okay.

Here are the rules.

You'll walk towards me, I'll walk towards you.

You act like you don't know me.

And don't see me.

Okay. Okay.

And go.

What? What?

I still see you.

What you?

You see me?

Right now are you sure?

Yeah. Okay, can you see this?

Say what?

What is it?

Oh my god.

Is this yours?

And he's magically holding up her bracelet.

That's not magic, it's pickpocketing.

Return of Captain Tsunami.

God, I wish.

They stopped publishing years ago.

Yeah, I know.

The Warrior Mermaid story was always her favorite.

This is really good.

Seriously, all this.

It's like full reboot good.

I mean, is that why your mom wanted you to bring it to me?

I don't think so.

Because you know, I just run the comic book store.

I'm not a publisher.

I can't do anything with this.

I think she just wanted you to read it.

She said you would know why.

I don't. I don't know what she wants.

I don't know the story or these characters.

Yeah, you do.

It's you. What's me?

That one, Jelly.

Jelly? The security guard with the soup.

That's supposed to be me?

Well, sort of.

Sort of? Have you read this?

I read the pages, but it's all out of order.

And it's not done.

Like these pages have pictures, but no words.

Okay, so... Isn't it your story?

And her story and dad's story?

There's a lot of you all being together.

And in this part, you guys are at some diner.

Jelly's like a big kid talking about Captain Tsunami.

Captain Tsunami can summon all the sea creatures he wants.

They're his army.

They have superpowers like super speed, super jumps, jumps, super

survival, lightning fingers.

There is also a mermaid.

She's a warrior mermaid.

Okay, first of all, I don't talk like that.

I think Vipers have been trouble controlling the power or something.

Your mom really loved mermaids.

You guys don't secretly have those super fish powers Jelly was talking about, right?

I don't know what you think happened to all of us back then, but...

This isn't it.

You weren't a security guard?

Well, yeah, I was a security guard at one point, but I wasn't dripping wet all

the time and constantly eating soup.

Were you drunk?

Yeah. Yeah, I was.

Are you drunk right now?

Six years sober.

So what is that?

How your mom thinks about me?

Do you think some sweaty dipshit security guard with a soup problem and this guy

Viper is supposed to be Malcolm?

He's got weird things growing on his back.

What is he doing?

He's selling some magical goo or something?

This was...this was that summer when the first Captain's Tannami movie came out.

I know some of these places.

Look, Emma, this is a lot for

anybody. I don't know anything about kids.

I don't even know how you sit here right now.

But I know your mom...

You knew my mom.

I know your mom saw the world differently than the rest of us.

Maybe this is what that looks like to her.

But whatever this is, it's not a history book.

This is just your mother...seeing

the world through a kaleidoscope.

Broken genius, right?

That's what people call her.

You don't know my mom.

You knew my mom.

You haven't seen her in years.

You don't answer the phone.

You don't write back.

You think she got better?

She didn't. She got worse.

Do you know how hard it is to keep a job when you're a single mom

with an unmanaged mental illness?

When your 12-year-old daughter has to translate your crazy into a grocery list?

She got worse.

This? This is like the best she could do.

You said this wasn't a history book.

Well, maybe it's not your history book, but it's hers.

And it's what happened.

I was there, Emma.

I know what happened.

Didn't even know you had a daughter.

What else did you miss?

Actually, no. Gus, I can't right now.

Sister's guy said it's not about money.

It's a family emergency.

Yeah, okay. I mean, he says, sister's.

Not like that.

I know. He's a good dude.

Look, I'm really sorry.

Forget it. It's not your fault.

Yeah, I know, but this is important.

Hey, um, are you at the store right now?

Yeah, I'm here.

Do me a favor?

Yeah, name it.

You know the combinations of the safe and the back, yeah?

Yeah, I know it.

There's a box in there.

Can you bring it to me?

Um, what's in it?

What are you talking about?

What's in it?

Just bring me the box.

This sister thing, okay?

It's not that bad.

It's not booze.

I promise it's not.

They're gonna fail the emergency on my own one on here.

Oh, shit, Glennaut.

Are you okay?

Yeah, it's fine.

Just... You can put the box on the porch and then send me a text, okay?

Yeah, right now?

Yes, right now.

It's very important.

Okay, yeah, you got it.

All right, thanks, Gus.

All right. So if this is her version of history, what does it say?

You read it?

I don't know what order it goes in.

It's just pages and gaps.

Then you want me to put it in order for you?

Yeah. Please?

What are you expecting to happen here?

I don't know.

Something. Like what?

What's something? Like, if this is the story and we're all in it, how

does it end?

Jelly and viper and Sedona.

And I guess me.

What did you just say?

That's mom. Sedona.

Do you remember something?

Hello? Sorry.

You're 12? I turned 13 in April.

Around April 12th.

If this is what I think it is, we'd already lost touch.

For how long?

Years. Your mom and dad?

Wasn't great.

She was homeless.

Like, full-on homeless.

Living in tents.

Mal was all over the place.

I lost track of them for a while.

Is that your home?

It's just me.

So, that's the beginning?

I always felt like an ending to me.

You're skipping stuff.

Jelly says he got his name from his uncle because of a captain's tsunami comic.

Seriously. Who are you?

Where did Jelly come from?

My uncle Tony gave that to me.

But why? Why Jelly?

Captain's tsunami comic number five.

Yeah, I got nothing.

So, what were you guys doing?

Just roaming. You got lost?

You can say that.

You ever get lost, Jelly?

I have GPS.

What? Did she ever tell you how we all knew each other?

They were orphans, and you were their foster family.

We were all orphans.

But it was your family.

Uncle Tony.

Mom called him Uncle T.

He was your real uncle.

Yeah. He was my real uncle.

Uncle Tony took me in after my parents...

...carbominoxide poisoning.

You know what that is?

They were in the garage.

Uncle Tony found them and dragged them out, but it was too late.

But he took me in.

He was already fostering kids after Auntie Barbara died, his wife.

The mom and Mal were already there.

We were all, any of us, not left.

Dick is thieves.

We had to be.

Best friends on the one roof.

It was the best time of my life.

Right up until it wasn't.

We grew up in the same house.

When real life came at us, and your mom and real life, they were never going

to get along.

Look at that view.

Yeah, this is a great view.

Okay, full disclosure, not a big fan of heights.

Can we stop with the high ups?

I've never felt at home on land.

Maybe I belong in the sky.

I'm ready. Cool.

But ready for what?

To jump. To leap of faith.

Wait, wait, stop, stop, stop.

Wait, wait. We can't do this.

Why not?

Because we're way too high right now.

I know.

But seriously, no.

I'm serious. Me too.

We'll never get higher than this.

Now is the time to fly.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Stop. You know we're on a dumpster ride.

You okay?

Mom's telling us something.

You think that's what's in here?

I know that's what's in here.

Well, it looks like a story about three weirdos who think they're fish getting

summoned by Captain Tsunami.

So you're saying it's three friends who forgot about the ship?

I don't know about who they were, but it's a story about how they remember.

I wonder what that's all about.

God damn it!

Whoa, language. You keep saying this is the end of your story, but it's the beginning

of mine. So will you please just be helpful?

You don't sound 12.

Well, I'm 13 in April, so...

I was a security guard at an outdoor mall.

This promenade thing.

Seemed like the easiest job in the world.

It should have been till this one night.

A woman was choking at one of the restaurants.

Everybody was freaking out, screaming at me to do something.

What did you do?

Nothing. I couldn't hear him.

Hadn't had a job any year.

I was back with Uncle Tony.

Hadn't seen your mom and Mal since I don't know when.

And, yeah,

I was more drunk than I'd ever been in my entire life.

I just... I just ain't something.

What happened to the lady?

She's in a coma, Jelly.

Her husband, her family, they probably got us to us.

We're counting on you to help people.

I just needed you to do your job.

You didn't do your job.

So... she went into a coma?

She died.

She went into a coma and she died.

She died. What did she do?

They suspended me.

But I was so drunk I just forgot.

I showed up to work that night.

Did her husband see you?

No. She

goes to the hospital.

He stabbed me.

She was a total...

I told you you didn't do anything.

She was my wife.

I remember him saying that.

She was my wife.

How did they find you?

Somebody called 911.

I mean, how did Mom and Mal find you?

They didn't.

Mrs. Do you think she's making this part up?

No. I'm

sorry. Hey, thanks, Matt.

Hey. What's going on?

You wouldn't believe me if I told you.

You alone? No, actually.

It's family.

Family? What family?

It's complicated. I'm not gonna blow my chip because Jeremy's sister wasn't showing

up. Come on, give me a little more credit.

Yeah. There's nothing in the house.

And I'm good.

Yeah, I'm 10 minutes away.

I know. Thanks for the thing.

All right.

Yeah. See you tomorrow.

See you.

Okay. I

see stars. I see stars.

Even brighter than my tent lights.

They tell stories, you know?

Stars? There's Orion and his belt.

Holding his sword and his shield.

Protecting himself. Scorpio the scorpion.

And never in the sky at the same time, you know?

One one rises, the other sets.

And then there's the archer, Sagittarius.

And he brings arrow and untarys.

The star that's a scorpion's heart.

It's cool, right?

I mean, there are animals, goddesses, monsters, conflict,

war, love.

Process the next batch.

I need more paste.

And possibly an aspirin.

The rest of the crop is ready, sir, but we'll...

I don't care.

Just do your job and figure it out.

Oh, my God.

I'm in it, people.

Reporting in, sir.

Do you have them?

They look absolutely everywhere, sir.

There's no way they're still here.

Really? Okay. Can I see that?

We're on lockdown, people.

That means no one can exit the building.

It's not freaking rocket science!

I'm sorry. Danger is all around you when you least expect it.

Your friends are in danger, too.

Wow. Yeah, it's a lot to take in.

I have friends.

Okay. It's up to you to save them.

Can't you help?

One day, I'll be gone.

And I'll need someone strong to watch over my kingdom.

Gone? Where are you going?

Home. In the sea?

No, Beverly Hills.

When? It's up to you.

When that happens.

I need you to become the captain.

Hey. Hey, listen, man, something's up.

What's that mean?

No, I got shitty reception where I am, and I missed a call from the cops.

I'm sorry.

I can barely hear you.

Okay, listen. I gave them your number.

Keep your phone on.

They're gonna call.

Okay, yeah.

Hey, I gotta ask you something.

Remember when I got stabbed?

Yeah, I remember when you got stabbed.

Did you come see me in the hospital?

Yeah, we're both there, though.

We're a ship.

Both? D was there, too?

Yeah. You don't remember?

Mr. Joseph is different than other people.

How so? Most people are 50, 60% water.

What's jelly?

95. Is he gonna be okay?

It's a process.

You're welcome to stay here if you want.

We've got coming rooms.

I was going for a lot.

I didn't even know when you were.

I hadn't seen you in years.

How did you even know?

They called me.

Who called you?

The hospital. They said I was emergency contact.

Hello? Hello? Mal?

Shit. What's going on?

I don't know.

That's the truth.

I actually don't know.

But Mal says he remembers visiting me in the hospital.

You don't remember?

I don't remember a lot of things.

What do you remember?

When I was drinking back then, the real world and the comic book used to sort

of blend. Did Captain Sonani ever sing a song in one of his cartoons?

He did Rock, Paper, Scissors one time as a count.

Oh, no. Against a sinister squid who had eight tentacles, you

have to be really fast at Rock, Paper, Scissors to defeat a monster with eight

tentacles. I get it, Jelly.

Lots of rocks.

Papers. And scissors.

I am very scared of scissors.

I used to dream we were all changing.

I remember Mal was living in his car.

Everything he had was in there.

That's him in years.

And then suddenly there he was one night in the promenade garage, sleeping at the

wheel. What about Mal?

Homeless. I didn't know where at first, but Mal was the one who found her.

I think she found him first.

This one.

That's the promenade, right?

Yeah. Do you wish you were smarter?

I do. I don't mean that I wish you were smarter.

No, I wish I was smarter.

It's vital vitamins needed for your cerebellum.

It's called IQ.

It makes your brain make it.

It adds all the vitamins vital to your cerebellum.

Hello. Hello. Hey, do you wish you were smarter?

Do you wish?

I do. I did.

I knew he was selling that stuff, but when was this?

What stuff? She was watching him.

Selling what stuff?

She...maybe, but... Oh my god.

What? You sound just like mom.

Sorry. So Mal told me he found your mom at some point.

I thought it was after I got stabbed.

She stole his bag.

He chased her.

She almost got away, but some dudes jumped her in an alley and...

And Mal pulled her out.

You okay?

She ran off and he found her in tents and how...

I mean, that's what they said happened.

What? Yeah,

this is definitely before I got stabbed.

This is really nice.

Could use a big beanbag though.

Big beanbags go with everything.

This place certainly has that.

It's like a whole new world in here.

A galaxy.

Scott's stars.

I'm Viper. Like the snake?

I don't get it.

Welcome to the club.

They're acting like strangers.

Is it a game?

Don't say it's not real.

Okay. I'm Viper.

Like the snake?

Yeah. Yeah, I'm a snake.

Yeah. I slither.

I'm so often feel like I shed my skin and become something new.

I slither through a lot of jungles.

Now maybe someday I'll find the right jungle.

Do you also have a name?

Sedona. That's a really great name.

What's it mean?

What? You nearly had a heart attack when I said Sedona earlier.

What's it mean?

I don't know yet.

Why were you watching me the other day?

I wasn't. Okay.

Why are you here?

I wanted to see you.

I mean, why are you in this town?

Oh, I had a job interview.

What's that stuff you're selling?

Drugs, I think.

Good drugs? They're not technically drugs, but I did try some and I was hella

trippin'. I've been crazy, crazy volucinations.

But they were drugs.

You didn't know that yet?

You thought it was a bootleg energy snack or something?

We're missing pages.

Where were you during all this?

This was all before I got stabbed.

Had to be.

Because they showed up at the hospital together.

Yeah. These?

Yeah. Yeah, that's exactly the spy.

I guess she was watching me too.

Just didn't see her.

Then Captain Tsunami says, No, I'm Captain Tsunami.

Really? With the voice again?

And then he disintegrates the evil shark monster.

With his lightning fingers.

That's when he becomes a superhero.

In the first comic book.

And in the 1970s classic cartoon here.

Now next Friday, the movie comes out.

Finally. I already bought an extra ticket after I got my paycheck.

So we can go together.

I just need you to pick me up because I don't have a car.

And I hate taking the bus.

But what's your question again?

Where is the restroom?

I was really, really into Captain Tsunami.

Like, and Ted's so much that you opened a comic book store?

A little bit more to it than that, but...

Sure. Whoa.

Uncle Tony! I'm on break.

Came home to eat.

Creatures! From the sea!

Creatures of the sea.

It's from, right?

We're all from the sea.

So we say creatures from the sea.

So it's creatures from the sea.

I summon thee creatures.

Better. Okay. A little deflated there at the end.

A jelly. Listen to me.

It's time for you to face conflict here.

These creatures, they're your friends.

You have to trust in them.

They're going to help you fight the evil.

You can't fight evil alone.

You need an army.

Jelly, listen to me.

You can be a leader.

You can't. I believe in you.

You do? Yes.

Yes, I do.

All you have to do is try.

No, and maybe go easy on the suit, huh?

What? That was a dream I had.

Like... a recurring dream.

The Sisto thing.

I never told anybody about that.

Clearly you did.

Yeah, yeah, obviously.

I mean,

Jesus. That place.

That's the place Uncle Tony and I lived after.

That's what it looked like.

And, you see this?

I did that.

Like that.

Nobody saw that.

Was she spying on me through the window or something?

Wouldn't put it past her.

Me neither. Jesus.

I mean, they were both fucking down two of that stuff Mal was supposed to be

selling. Which was what exactly?

You know what magic mushrooms are?

I live in Oregon.

Okay, well, when this all came crashing down in the newspaper, it said it was magic

mushrooms and yogurt.

My guy was making it, um, bathtub.

It doesn't sound so bad, except the bathtub part.

Now you sound like your mom.

Do you see how much fun they were having in all these?

I'm feeling very...

something right now.

Magical. Magic isn't in me.

It's something I find.

If that's a joke, I don't get it.

I find magic.

Smell the magic?

Oh, you'd be surprised when people discard.

Now watch this.

Fly away.

What else you got?

Hmm, combo. Uh, double jump, front kick, end

out, crossing kick, spinning back fist.

I'm sorry, what?

I don't... Take one dough.

Huh? Impressed?

You didn't.

Did I not?

Did I? Give me that.

Okay, like, that's some freaky magic.

Okay, so... maybe mom's trying to tell us that

any time you were all together, it was magic?

But then there's this stuff.

I don't understand how it all connects.

You're all trout.

Sorry, they dropped your little date.

Pick up at the grinder, clean up in aisle five.

And then there's this villain guy who has a giant red and black machine and he

chews people up and, like, steals their magic.

Great news. We've been cleared by the FDA.

Grocery stores, here you come.

And then these, like, big shark guys then yellow space suit bad guys attack.

They're just too powerful.

But in the end,

Jelly saves the day.

Didn't you say you wanted to know how it ends?

Well, I know how this part ends.

Hey, how you doing on time?

Am I speaking with Glenn?

Oh, yes. Um, sorry.

This is Glenn.

I thought you were somebody else.

This is Detective Hope.

I met you earlier this evening.

Yeah. Um, what's going on?

Sir, you're aware that they've been recovering a vehicle from the North Margin

River belonging to Miss Andrews?

Yes. Desiree was not found on the vehicle.

I'm sorry? There was nobody in the vehicle.

What's that mean?

It means they'll be opening a missing person's investigation.

No, I mean...

Did... Did the...

Did she just float out?

The detectives on the scene said the doors and windows were closed.

The car wasn't neutral.

It appears that the car may have been unoccupied when it entered the water.

They believe it rolled down a hill on its own.

Okay. Please relay this information to Malcolm Morton as soon as you can.

They've been unable to reach him.

Uh, yeah. He's driving and he has bad reception.

I understand. Please have him call me or the detectives up north right away.

The first 48 hours are extremely important.

I will. Thank you.

You said you know how it ends?

What? Before you answered the phone.

You said you know how it ends.

With the drug stuff.

Remember when... Viber told Sedona...

he had a job interview?

Yeah. Well, if it's what I think it is...

this job interview is with the guy who made that pay stuff.

He told Malo...

Fish oil.

Fish oil.

Viber looks up at the mirrored building...

in the darkened office of one Mr.

Hyde. In the darkened office?

There was an alley behind the falafel house.

I'm reading here.

I'm sorry. In the darkened office of one Mr.

Hyde. Sorry. Sir, I really, I really need this job.

And this job...

really needs you.

Oh, thank you.

Welcome aboard. Thank you so much.

No, really. I can't with this, please.

Why? There was no glass building or fancy office.

Malo had money to the highs.

A family who ran the falafel place.

To pay it off, he agreed to sell tubes of that imported goop.

Six ounces. Ten bucks a tube.

You're gonna sell it.

Oh, what is it?

It's fish oil mostly.

It doesn't matter.

Once the FDA clears us, we're going nationwide into grocery stores.

The FDA? Some government thing.

It doesn't matter.

Oh, man. She's making me miss this guy.

Mr. Hyde was just like this.

He's not a lot of these pages.

I think he's like the big bad.

No, he wasn't a bad guy.

I mean, he was bad by like standards, but he was cool.

It sounds like the mob.

Yeah, they were all mobbed up, but it was like the good mob.

So, Mom and Mal were selling imported drugs for the

good mob?

It sounds worse when you say it.

And it wasn't your mom.

It was just Mal.

No, I don't think so.

Oh, Mal, come.

She says, hey.

Hey. You want to sell all that stuff right now?

Tonight? To you?

I met this woman.

Real weird. Not sure drug dealer's the right term.

More like a wholesale merchandiser.

Merchandise being... Drugs.

Okay. She likes things that are outside the box.

They're literally in a box.

Except none of these pages show Mom selling anything.

It's just Mal trying to sell it alone, and then Mom comes in and...

Because it never happens.

How do you know?

How do you know?

Because the minute she came around, they ate it all.

They weren't drug dealers.

They were drug users.

They were addicts.

All three of us.

Mal has never been a drug addict.

No, but he was depressed and he would have followed your mom off a goddamn cliff.

He was addicted to her.

And addicted to being screwed up over her for years.

He did it because she did it.

What about you?

Vodka in comic books and stuff.

I mean about Mom.

What about her?

Would you have followed her off a cliff?

I did.

A dozen times before the story even started.

A hundred times since we were twelve.

We both did.

What's this?

The cliff.

What's in your bag?

Almost everything I own.

That's a new car.

The same. I guess we're living together.

One night only.

You charged ten bucks for this?

Yeah. How many we got?

A hundred. That's a lot.

And here comes the excuse.

Vipers says... What if she tries to rob us?

There it is.

All the reason she needs.

She never wanted to sell that stuff.

For someone who was black out drunk, you sure think you know everything.

Well, between the two of us, I was the one who was alive at the time,

and I was actually there, so...

You weren't there.

You were off being an alcoholic mall cop.

Well, Mom and Matt were homeless and living in a car.

She isn't a bad person.

I didn't say that.

Doesn't make you feel better saying that they were drug addicts?

So none of this is your fault?

I figured out years ago that Mal probably wasn't my dad.

At first, I didn't tell anybody, but I figured it was you.

I knew all about you.

You're the only other person I know.

I'm the only other person she ever talked about.

But I only ever heard the good parts.

And for years I wondered why.

If you were so great, why wouldn't she want me to know?

And now I think I get it.

Why are you acting like you didn't know about me?

I knew about you.

Then where were you?

I knew about you.

I knew about you.

Everybody has their thing.

Call it a gift or a curse if you want.

Whether they like it or not.

How's your thing?

Well, I burn everything I touch, so...

What is your thing, exactly?

I don't really like to talk about it.

I'm not a good person.

You know I can hear it, right?

It's weird.

Basically, I can sense when people are in trouble.

Thinking about jelly and endangered stresses me out.

My thing acts up.

Can I see it?

Fine. Just promise me you won't get grossed out.

I promise.

I know. Oh, my God.

Don't be rude.

That's so... so cool.

You think it's serious right now?

I'm totally serious.

It's kind of beautiful.

How does this feel?

It's okay. What about if I do this?

Oh, don't... Okay,

sorry. I'm sorry.

What about if I'm more gentle like this?

Yeah, that's nice.

What is that?

My mom used to hum that to me.

It's done.

She will remember this before the Wrightons.

Time to paint my Duct maar cadre ne.

When a line unravels, it's easy to get lost.

But every once in a while, you get found.

Monsoon swell, storms subside.

You bid farewell to creatures inside.

Rise to the surface, swim to the land.

Your kingdom awaits,

castles of sand.

Don't worry about me.

But you didn't know.

You're not alone.

Detective Cole.

Okay. Yep. Thank you.

Why didn't you just sell the high-Q?

What? You owed the highs money and you knew Mom had a problem.

Why'd you even involve her in it?

Don't look at me.

I tried to sell it.

Just not much of a salesman.

So you just got high with Mom?

Yeah. Why would you do that?

It wasn't a plan.

She said she knew someone who'd buy the whole box.

We just, uh,

never got there.

Because you thought she might rob you?

She has been busy.

You've seen this before?

Some of it, but...

there's a lot missing.

But you know what happens next.

Uh, yeah, we get there.

Arc. And before we go in, I say, what if she robs us?

She says, I know Taekwondo.

What if she tries to rob us?

I know Taekwondo.

Oh. Why don't you use that to Ally?

They caught me off guard.

Okay. They came up from behind me.

Yeah. I'm sure they did.

You never went in.

Couldn't even find the place.

Because? Because that stuff kicked in right when we got there.

You already ate some?

Yeah, we had some on the way.

I thought it was legal.

Oh. Eventually we found the car, and I tried to get

her to go to the park with me.

We shouldn't be driving.

We have to, because we gotta move to the car.

What is up with the city?

You can't park anywhere.

It's like 90% Toe's Owns, and the other half is strictly...

Let me drive, please.

I want to take you to Griffith's Park.

I always wanted to see it.

Well, it's far.

We can have stars.

I want to show you stars.

You have no game.

No, I do not.

Did you guys make it?

Man, they really got me a boxed in.

What happened next?

We ate some more of that stuff, wandered around for a bit, and then we stole

a scissor lift.

What? Scissor lift.

No way. Yeah.

Wasn't that in the paper?

Yeah, it was.

It was you.

Yeah, it was us.

We were up there for hours.

At least that's how it felt.

I mean, you know, long enough to sober up.

What did you talk about?

Time. Luck.

Stars. You have an actual flask?

What are you, an early settler?

It's a souvenir.

Got it from Father Number Four.

That's a lot of family.

That's one way to look at it.

Bounce around foster homes.

Kept getting sent back.

Guess when something's defective, you return it.

And Number Four was a drinker.

Gave this to me when I was 12.

Two. Child abuse.

Mm. No.

Got that from Number One and Number Three.

I lost my mom when I was 11.

Dad couldn't handle it.

When I was 18, I ran off.

Never looked back.

But you had a home.

I had a house.

It's not the same thing.

Did she actually say that?

No, I never heard a word of that up there.

That doesn't make sense.

Sedona says she lost her mom when she was 11.

Dad couldn't handle it.

I thought she was in foster care all that time.

She was. I mean, look, maybe this is all...

complete fiction. You know, like, the character backstory.

All of it's meant something so far.

So... what if she's talking about Uncle Tony?

She never called Uncle Tony Dad.

She never said anything like that.

I would've heard about it.

No, he died never hearing those words and he knew it every day.

Maybe she wishes she did.

Well, she had plenty of chances.

Maybe she changed her mind.

Maybe she told him when all of this was going on.

Uncle Tony was gone by then?

No. Collin was still living with him.

What is he talking about?

Remember? You said you were still living with Uncle Tony.

Uncle Tony! I'm on break!

When you got

stabbed that night?

We went to the hospital after we got the call.

We hadn't seen or heard from Uncle Tony or him in years.

So we figured we'd go to the apartment, get him some clothes, see Uncle Tony.

Oh! Why wouldn't we have Uncle Tony's number

in his phone?

So, what happened?

Was he there?

Uncle Tony was the only decent father figure we had ever had.

I didn't know he was gone until we saw the urn.

He was gone until he was gone.

It was a shitty way to find out.

She never said it.

It was one word.

She could have said that one word.

You want to know what happened after we left that apartment?

So, I was thinking, I really could use the rest of my spray paint to put

fiber on your coat.

Like, spray paint.

That would be so cool.

No, no, no.

No. No, no.

It's okay. We'll find the tow company.

I have no money!

In 24 hours, I found out that my oldest friend was stabbed.

The girl I was in love with was a junkie, and my foster father was dead.

And on top of all of that, every physical object in my life that had any

happy moment attached to it was in that parking space.

And I'll never forget this.

Your mom walks over and she says, I'm in your space.

She was his family.

You were his family.

That's not true.

Glenn, you were his family.

He loved you like you were his own.

He deserved better.

You know, he actually believed he'd show up right up until the end.

Every night before he went to sleep, he'd look at me and he'd say, maybe tomorrow.

Maybe tomorrow, Mal and Des will come by.

And I'd say, yeah.

Maybe tomorrow.

I swear to God, I don't know what killed him.

The cancer of the broken heart.

I'm sorry.

Hey, did Mommy ever tell you why she decided to draw him like this?

That wet, floppy stash.

He said he was drunk a lot.

Yeah. He

said, yeah.

But why did she do anything?

I don't know.

There's a lot of us in this.

There's a lot of truth.

But some of this is just...

Crazy. Hey.

He didn't know.

I know.

He didn't know.

Mommy sent him letters.

He never opened the letters.

You could have told me.

Told you what?

The truth. Which is what?

I'm your dad.

That's the truth.

That's the only truth that's been anything for the last 13 years.

We thought he knew.

We thought he knew and just wasn't coming.

Nobody lied.

Why does he...

I mean... What's with all the Captain Tsunami stuff?

I don't get it.

Uncle Tony?

There's always Uncle Tony.

Did he ever tell you what happened to his parents?

The gas leak thing in the garage?

Yeah. Why?

That's a big step for him.

He's always told stories.

What do you mean?

Remember what your mom used to do with the reading the shells?

Oh, no. Yeah.

She's been doing that ever since she was about your age.

Last time we did that was when we got together again after he

got out of the hospital.

That's when he told us another one of his stories.

These are the acts of your life.

Past, present, and future.

Close your eyes for a moment.

And look at me through your third eye.

Act one. Your childhood.

You felt a lot of love back then.

You were surrounded by lots of people.

El Salvador.

I was born in a village.

That's where my mom was from.

My dad was on vacation when they met.

I was here when I was three.

First my dad left, and then my mom went looking for my dad.

In his stories his parents were always on big adventures.

But they always leave him.

Then it was just me.

Nobody ever told him the truth?

They told him.

He just...

What do the other shall say?

Act two.

He said something earlier about reality.

It was hard for him to tell what was real.

Yeah, mommy felt like that all the time.

I'm feeling never one away.

Things haven't been easy for you.

But... you've persevered.

Is that why she writes like you're all strangers in this?

Maybe. You know, we think we'll grow up and everything will make sense.

What about our third one?

Act three.

Your future.

The world almost gets...

stranger. For a lot of us we go through a lot.

Sometimes you just can't imagine reality.

You imagine something else.

Mom didn't always have a choice in what she saw.

You become a superhero.

Maybe Glenn didn't either.

Tell her what happened next.

Tell her how I phoned you guys.

You said you wanted to know how it all ends, right?

You know how it all ends, don't you?

Or do you not remember?

Your mom nearly OD'd.

No, she didn't.

Yeah, she did.

She did not.

She did.

And they didn't pay back Mr.

Hyde. Because they ate all those drugs.

And all these pages.

With the weird black cages.

And men in spacesuits and mad scientists and Dr.

White and Evil Mr.

Hyde. None of that happened.

Now what really happened back here on Earth is that I sobered up and

I paid off Mr.

Hyde. And as soon as he said he was square, I called

the cops and I told them to grab your mom and Mal and throw them into

detox. Two days in, your

mom went completely mental.

Screaming that she was a magic sea creature who was gonna return to the sea.

So they threw her in a padded cell and they locked the door.

And all these pages here.

Where she's scared and tortured and trapped and trapped.

And she was scared.

And she was alone.

And all that crazy she was about was because of a goddamn Captain Tsunami comic

that she wouldn't even have known about if it weren't for me.

They found some drugs that they thought worked.

They let her go.

They literally just opened the door and let her walk out.

But she was a different person.

Okay. Put my finger on it.

That that's what she was like when she was sober.

But, maybe what she was like when I was sober.

She just wanted to get out of town.

That's all she wanted.

Where'd you go?

Sedona. Two

days in.

I loved her.

In some way she loved me.

But in her mind.

In the story she had to create.

Wasn't me in there helping her escape that place.

Wasn't me in there helping her survive.

Mel. You're not defective.

You're beautiful.

You were her superhero.

And I was just...

Because I was still just a drunk.

We left. Came back here.

She found out Mel was gone.

She went after him.

And they were sorry again.

They didn't deserve to.

They didn't find your mom in the car.

Why would they have?

What does that mean?

Mom wasn't in the car.

Emma? Do you know who your mother is?

I already told you.

She was there and then she was gone.

There where? Use more words.

She didn't come home a couple of nights ago.

She's been doing that a lot.

So I tracked her phone.

She was down at the bridge.

And she wasn't moving.

I knew how to drive the car.

So I took it and drove to her spot.

She was just standing there.

I got distracted and left the car in neutral.

And it rolled into the water.

Next morning she woke me up.

And told me she wanted to introduce me to some old friends.

It was like nothing ever happened.

She was totally normal.

She packed this giant bag and we took the bus to this

beach. It was like in the middle of nowhere.

I asked if her friends were coming.

She said, they'll be here.

Hours and hours passed.

And nobody came.

Finally mom stood up.

Walked out and put her feet in the water.

She just stood there.

For what seemed like forever.

I got really tired.

And I looked back.

She was gone.

And now...

What do I do?

I'm going to be a good girl.

Act three.

Your future.

And I surrounded my more shells.

You've become a superhero.

Sometimes the hardest thing

Is doing what you know you're supposed

to. And sometimes it

can be.

Believing when no one else believes Except

for you.

Sometimes I just wanted to leave this place.

But I won't wait for you.

And someday when you are ready

Then you can see just what this world

can do for you.

So get up on your feet.

And take a step towards me.

And open up your eyes So you can see

what's going on.

Open up your eyes

You'll see me.

Open up your eyes You'll see me.