Original subtitles

You guys remember Candle Cove?

In 1988, five kids went missing.

The Iron Hill Murders. Never solved.

Look who's back in the middle of things.

A lot of folks just like you and your mom lost people.

How are you holding up? Having him home?

MARLA: It's so strange. I barely know him.

GENE: Pay the toll. EDDIE: Shove it up your ass.

CARL: Hit him, Gene! (SCREAMS)

MIKE: It did something to my brother.

It can make people do things.

Hi, Daddy! MIKE: (ON PHONE) What is it, Lily?

LILY: You have to go inside.

MIKE: Eddie. I did it.

MARLA: Did what?

MIKE: I killed him.

GARY: Mike, I need you to come down to the station with me.

Something that your mom told me.

MIKE: You missed the turn.

Where are you taking me?

YOUNG MARLA: Okay.

Ah.

Eleven years old.

Okay. Make a wish. Both of you.

FATHER: Why don't you trade?

Make each other's wish.

Better do something good for me, Eddie.

We share.

Whatever you have, I have too.

Ready? One...

Two... Three.

YOUNG MARLA AND FATHER: Yay.

FATHER: There, you got it. YOUNG MARLA: Very good job.

Did you wish for something good?

I did. FATHER: Don't tell her what it was.

(CHUCKLES) It won't come true.

Yeah. You're not too good... It won't come true.

At keeping secrets. Oh.

(MUSIC PLAYING ON TV)

Gosh, a treasure chest.

Careful now, Percy.

That box might be locked for a reason.

And once you let bad things out,

you can never put them back.

Oh, blow away, Mister Cloud.

Huh?

PIRATE PERCY: It's a treasure chest. Pirates love treasure.

(LAUGHING MANIACALLY)

Oh! (CONTINUES LAUGHING)

(SIGHS) Oh!

(LAUGHING) Oh, Marla.

You scared me.

I... I'd like to talk to Mike.

Why would Mike be here?

Gary, he, um...

He brought him in just a little while ago.

No, I, uh, I haven't seen Gary all night.

If Gary didn't bring him here...

Where did he take him?

Are you saying Gary took Mike into custody?

Gary, I don't know what my mother told you,

but my intention here is to help Katie and Dane...

GARY: You remember the old Iverson place?

Jess was the listing agent.

The house needed a lotta work,

but it had good bones.

So we decided that we were gonna grab it for ourselves.

We had all these plans to fix it up.

Never got a chance.

Some rich guy from Cleveland bought it out from under us,

paid all cash.

He gutted the place.

You know how these guys are.

Gets bored, never finishes.

So now the house is on the market again.

Jess is the listing agent.

But it'll never be ours.

Price is too high.

(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER PA)

He's not answering.

Went to voicemail.

Any idea where Gary would've taken him?

(SIGHS)

What the hell is going on?

(SIGHS) Um,

what are we doing here?

Once the truth is out, you gotta face it.

(DOOR CLOSES)

Sit.

(SCHOOL BELL RINGING)

(KIDS CHATTERING)

YOUNG MRS. BOOTH: Bologna.

JACOB: Bologna.

(SIZZLING)

In Italy, they call it mortadella.

Mortadella.

Jacob.

JACOB: Bless us, O Lord and these thy gifts,

which we are about to receive from thy bounty.

Through Christ our Lord... (YOUNG MRS. BOOTH GASPS)

(THUDS)

(YOUNG MRS. BOOTH GROANING)

Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

(GASPING) The Father of all mercies.

Who comforteth us in all our tribulation.

Our bodies, even mine, believe it or not,

have 11 systems.

Digestive,

muscular,

circulatory,

respiratory...

(VIDEO PLAYING INDISTINCTLY)

MRS. BOOTH: Skeletal...

(CACKLING)

You shouldn't have opened that box, Sharkbait!

But now ya let me out

and I'll have yer hide.

(LAUGHING)

Jawbone's the name...

(DISTORTED) And skinning's my game.

MRS. BOOTH: Immune... (VIDEO CONTINUES)

Nervous...

Endocrine,

reproductive...

Gary.

What's goin' on right now?

(SIGHS)

Hey...

DAPHNE: Hi, Mike.

Daphne. Tim.

What...

What are we doing here?

TIM: I don't like my phone ringing at the break of dawn.

Gary here says, "Wake up, get on out here,"

because it looks like

all that Friday night talk over the years,

you know, "Hey, ya think that, uh, maybe

"given certain details the Painter family knew more about the murders

"than they're letting on?"

Looks like they were true. Because Mike Painter just confessed to one of 'em.

Well, Mike,

we're gonna have a little chat that's long overdue.

Because I'll be honest.

I always thought your family had something to do with it.

DAPHNE: We just want to talk, Mike.

Okay. I'm happy to talk.

Just, uh, untie me.

TIM: You can talk like that.

Just tell the truth, Mike.

Okay. This is the truth.

Twenty-eight years ago, somebody made a TV show

called Candle Cove

and broadcast it on a dead channel.

It influenced the kids who saw it.

And before it was over, five of those kids were dead.

GARY: You killed your brother Eddie.

You killed your brother, Mike.

Then you left Iron Hill. The murders stopped.

The disappearances stopped.

And then 28 years later you come back,

everything starts again, right away.

You're looking in the right direction

but you're making the wrong connection.

TIM: So, are you telling me that my kids wouldn't be in the hospital

if you hadn't come back?

DAPHNE: I want to show you something.

Jacob Booth.

Mrs. Booth's only son.

Sadie Williams, my cousin.

She taught me how to kiss.

Carl Cutter. The cut-up.

My brother Gene.

(INAUDIBLE)

(BONE BREAKS)

Tim...

That's what we're doing here, Mike.

Me and Tim are not cops right now.

We're all just people who lost people.

And before you go into the system, we want to know

exactly what you did and why you did it.

Where's your brother, Fainter?

Where's yours, Gene?

Go home, dickless wonder.

Want me to break your fingers too?

Wanna see something cool?

Me and Eddie found it. Figured you would know what to do.

Bullshit.

(SIGHS)

It's worth money. But okay.

Where you going, Mike?

The Crow's Nest.

JESSICA: Gary? Are you home?

Are you here? Gary?

AMY: I'm gonna head over to Tim's.

Gary?

AMY: Why don't you two, uh,

stay here in case Gary comes back.

TIM: I still have dreams about my brother.

And the look on my parents' faces

when we heard that he was dead.

DAPHNE: I stopped eating.

Got so thin I almost died.

That's the worst thing about losing someone, Mike.

It's not knowing how or why.

They wouldn't even tell me what really happened to Gene.

But I found out, Mike.

Sure, he was a bully and we were redneck idiots.

But he looked out for me.

He didn't deserve to die with his neck broke and his teeth gone.

I just dream about Candle Cove.

That's because it's still there.

All the time.

Working on us.

What about you, Gary? Tim? You guys dream about it?

Because I do.

For 30 years I've been dreaming about it.

Always there.

Behind everything. We all saw it.

It did something to us.

Candle Cove was on TV the same time as the murders.

That's the only connection.

MIKE: I'm telling you, you're wrong.

The bottom line is, you killed my brother.

You killed Eddie. You killed Sadie.

No, I didn't... You killed Jacob.

You killed Carl. Come on, Mike.

And now you're back in town again.

Mike, what are you gonna do?

We shouldn't have done this. Where are our children?

C'mon, Mike. It felt pretty good

to tell your mom about Eddie, right? You know what,

now that I think about it? I think that we've had just about enough talk.

Maybe it's time for... DAPHNE: Hey!

Justice instead of talk. No, no! Tim!

I didn't have a choice!

How those fingers feelin'?

You like Candle Cove, Gene?

I don't watch that retard show.

Don't lie.

I know you do.

You can't lie to the Skin-Taker.

GENE: The what?

Stop.

(LAUGHING)

(CONTINUES LAUGHING)

What are you doing to him?

Showing him stuff. In his head.

He can't do anything now.

(LAUGHING)

(SPITS) (CONTINUES LAUGHING)

(LAUGHING)

Here, boy.

(LAUGHING)

Pay the toll.

Now you can go to Candle Cove.

Walk the plank.

Hey, wait!

Hey, wait!

(THUDS) (GENE GROANS)

MIKE: Eddie killed them.

Candle Cove got into him.

Changed him.

Because he was vulnerable.

Because you made him vulnerable.

Tim. Gary.

You hurt him.

And I had to stop him.

(EXHALES)

Something's up.

I can't reach Gary or Tim and this thing...

WOMAN: Help. Help. Hang on.

Stop! Help!

These kids are hurting someone.

(CAR BEEPING)

Hey!

Hey, drop those knives!

(PANTING)

Oh, my God. (LAUGHS)

Oh.

Oh, you guys scared the shit out of me.

Where'd you get that thing from, science class?

Alex, Chloe, what's going on?

Why are you, uh...

Hey!

Hey, hey, get back here.

What?

Marla.

Why did Gary arrest Mike?

Mike...

Did something unforgivable.

You mean you can't forgive him?

The last couple of years...

Mike and I started e-mailing,

texts,

like that.

At first it was once in a while.

Then more.

And then every day.

It became...

Important to me.

Did Gary know?

I didn't think so.

Then Mike went quiet on me.

(SIGHS) Like he dropped off the face of the Earth.

So I deleted everything.

Every last e-mail.

It's been hard this year.

Gary had his hopes set on this...

This property on the countryside.

And when that fell apart, he just got so...

(SNIFFLES)

It's not here. What?

I know where Gary took Mike.

GARY: TV shows don't kill people, Mike.

MIKE: Gary, think about your daughter.

She saw the show. And one day later, she tries to kill Dane.

No, she talked to you.

No. No, you guys. No.

(SIGHS) Daphne.

You feel it. You know it's true. Don't you?

GARY: Mike... It's okay because I do, too.

Just tell them. Just tell 'em.

What do you dream about? GARY: Mike.

Just tell them.

TIM: Cut the therapy shit. He's right.

We knew it was connected somehow.

GARY: No. No, we don't know anything like that at all.

MIKE: Gary, we have to find whoever made the show.

I saw it that day.

At the Crow's Nest.

Listen.

Daphne, in the dreams. What do you see?

A face that's just a skull?

The white eyes? You remember?

In the show they called it Jawbone.

But in the dreams...

Okay. In the dreams... It has a different name.

Well, I saw it that day.

A person dressed as Jawbone.

And whoever this person is, he's still out there right now.

Okay. Even if there is some person out there, Mike...

What the hell is wrong with you, huh? Tim...

This all points back to him.

And it's not about a goddamn puppet show.

It was just a show that aired on TV then!

His mom sends him away and the murders stop.

He killed those kids. I didn't.

And he killed Gene.

And maybe, just maybe, his mother helped cover it up.

Tim... GARY: Okay. But, even if he's lying

we need to look at this. We need to look in the woods

and just see what's going on with what he's talking about.

What are you doing, Tim?

No, no, nah, Tim, what are you doing?

It's going a little too far, Tim. We're done here. Tim...

All right, we're done. I'm gonna take him in. Give him a trial by jury.

This is it. He's having a trial by jury right now.

Okay. Tim... Fuck talking.

I'm done talking. Tim! This is not what we're here to do!

Get outta the way, Gary.

GARY: Now, listen to me. You're gonna put that away.

We're gonna forget this ever happened.

That's enough. 911.

TIM: Daphne. I want to report...

TIM: Hang that up. Now. Hang that up.

GARY: I'm not moving, Tim. Tim, I didn't do anything.

Get outta the way, Gary.

I'm not moving, Tim. You put that gun down. That's an order.

I'm sorry, Sheriff.

I'm just like Mike.

I don't have a choice. Yeah. You do.

Don't!

(GUNSHOT)

(HIGH-PITCHED RINGING)

(GARY AND TIM STRUGGLING)

(PANTING)

(VEHICLE APPROACHING)

Eighteen years a cop, first time you draw is on me?

GARY: We're gonna take him to the station.

It was an accident. An accident?

GARY: That's right. He tried to get your gun.

DAPHNE: Gary? GARY: What, Daphne?

Your wife's here.

JESSICA: Hey. GARY: Hey.

JESSICA: What just happened?

(MUFFLED SCREAMING) Shut up!

(MUFFLED SCREAMING) (STRAINING)

That's it. Good. That's good. (STRAINING)

Jess, you can't be here right now.

Where's Mike?

You gotta leave. Where is he?

You gotta leave. You gotta... Is Mike inside?

Let me handle this.

(MUFFLED SCREAMING)

(TIM STRAINING)

TIM: Daphne, give me the box cutter.

Mike? Are you in there? Marla!

Marla, get down from there right now.

Marla! Get down from there.

JESSICA: Just let me inside. Mike!

Oh, Gary, come on.

Jess. Jess! Damn it!

Oh, my God... Jess! Jess.

He killed his brother. We needed to find out what happened.

(MIKE GASPING)

Have you lost your mind?

(GROANS)

GARY: Tim.

MARLA: Oh, my God.

(PANTING)

MARLA: Oh, shit.

It'll be okay. Yeah?

It'll be okay.

Gary.

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

Jesus, Gary.

(WINDOW ROLLING DOWN)

(MACHINE BEEPING)

Mike?

(SIGHS)

I need you to tell me what happened out there.

And why.

Marla, maybe you should leave us alone.

No. I'll stay.

MAN: (ON TV) Watch amazing magic for free every...

REPORTER: More troubling news in Iron Hill.

Twelve-year-old Carl Cutter has been reported missing.

He was last seen yesterday around 3:30...

MIKE: What happened to Carl?

He's in Candle Cove.

You're saying he was influenced by this TV show,

a show no one can prove existed...

And this other person you saw, this adult accomplice...

You have no idea who they were.

It's back.

Kids will watch it just like we did.

And when they do,

they may start to behave in ways that...

What?

What do you know?

Did something happen?

All I know

is you confessed to killing Eddie.

And as acting sheriff, that is a fact... No, he didn't.

He didn't confess.

Gary misunderstood.

Gary misunderstood?

You just said Eddie killed the other four kids.

And then you killed him.

Eddie killed the other four kids.

And then he disappeared.

So that's your story now?

It's the truth.

(AMY SIGHS)

This is just the beginning.

(TWIGS SNAPPING)

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

(FOOTSTEPS)

(MAN AND WOMAN LAUGHING)

(FOOTSTEPS)

(CHILDREN LAUGHING)

(BELL RINGING)

Hey. (GROANS)

Mike?

(SIGHS)

I can't sleep here.

We didn't mean to hurt anyone.

I tried to stop Tim. (SOBBING)

We both did.

But he shot Mike

and then Jessica and Marla showed up

and I just took off. Jesus. Is Mike all right?

I hope so.

The shot went sideways, it... It winged his arm.

I don't know what to tell you.

You're not exactly gonna go on the lam

and start a new life in Mexico.

You have to turn yourself in.

I know.

I will.

Attagirl.

You want something to drink?

(CONTINUES SOBBING)

Cocoa? (CHUCKLES)

Is all that for us?

(LAUGHING) No.

I'll get you something stronger.

(GASPS)

(CHOKING)

You shouldn't fuck with Mike Painter.

(DISTORTED NOISES ON TV)

Where did you leave the body?

(SHOVEL DIGGING)

(CALLIOPE MUSIC PLAYING IN DISTANCE)

(MUSIC PLAYING LOUDER)

(MUSIC CONTINUES)

(FAINT RATTLING)

(FLOORBOARDS CREAK)

(FOOTSTEPS)

(FLOORBOARDS CREAKING)

(FAINT RATTLING)

(FAINT RATTLING)

(DOOR OPENS)

(FAINT RATTLING)

(SCREAMING)

(FOOTSTEPS RUNNING)

Oh...

Oh... What is it?

What happened? It was a nightmare.

What happened? Oh, God.

Are you okay? Oh, God.

Are you okay?

Yeah. I'm fine. Oh.

Oh, it was horrible.

LILY: (FAINTLY) Mike. Horrible.

What is it?

I don't know.

Lily. It's my daughter.

Lily!

Lily!

Lily!

What are... What are you doing here?

How did you...

Baby, baby, look at me. What are you...

Are you okay?

Are you okay?

Lily. Are you okay?

How did you get here?

Baby, look at me. Look at me. Look at me.

How did you get here?

How did you get here?

(FAINT RATTLING)