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[eerie music playing]

[man] All right, Lily.

Today we're testing how much you've learned.

This time I won't be telling you

the name of each bird after it sings.

This time I'm just gonna be playing the bird songs

and it's up to you to name them.

You ready?

Let's try.

[bird chirping]

[Lily] Bluebird.

- [bird chirping] - Golden finch.

- [bird chirping] - Chickadee.

[bird cooing]

Mourning Dove.

[thudding]

[owl hooting]

[birds chirping]

[tense music playing]

[bin clatters]

[crickets chirping]

[gravels crunching]

[Silvia sobbing]

[Silvia sniffles]

[Silvia] Get back inside, baby.

Are you okay?

Lillian Pierce, get back in the house!

Now!

[eerie music playing]

[leaves rustling]

[engine humming]

[leaves crunching]

[music continues]

Mom.

- [gunshot popping] - [Lily screaming]

[panting]

[sighs]

[swords clattering]

Remember to watch your footwork before you are post.

[Liam] I just get ahead of myself.

[Lily] Oh, good. Let's go again.

[both laughing]

[both sighing]

No, you're... you're doing well.

You just gotta keep sharpening up the footwork.

Yeah, and... and keep the left shoulder bag, I know.

But anyway, thanks again so much for this.

And, uh, yeah. Catch you on the next one.

- Okay. - Yeah.

Oh, uh, I actually have a...

I have an extra ticket

to a DJ Starfish concert next month.

Really?

Yeah, my girlfriend's not a huge house fan, so.

[laughs] I mean, I'd be down. Super down.

Fuck yeah. [chuckles]

[Genevieve] How has the fencing been going?

Fine.

I've been working on cursing less at the students.

Cursing less at students

shouldn't be something you have to work on.

It should be something you choose to stop.

Yeah. Wow.

Profound.

Platitudes like that what I pay for?

The problem with platitudes is that they're usually true.

Should we talk about your dad today?

You told me last time that you were anxious

about him contacting you soon

because of the anniversary of your mother's death.

Well, let's just hope he doesn't.

Wouldn't be the first time he forgot an important date.

And what about the nightmares?

- Have they been... - [Lily] Same.

But I'm not worried.

[Genevieve] What do you mean?

Well, it's better to see Mom in a nightmare than not at all.

[sighs]

[pills clattering]

[slurping]

[phone buzzing]

[lock clicks closed]

[laughs] Are you mocking me?

[coughs] Me?

Never. I'm not funny.

Who said that?

Uh, my mom, my brother, first boyfriend.

Well...

I think you're funny.

Only took you 16 dates to notice.

- [both chuckling] - But who's counting?

Me. Definitely me.

Oh.

16, what is that?

Like...

tin...

- copper? - Head.

- [laughs] - I hope.

- [both laughing] - [Lily] See, you're funny.

Look, you did

sweet chili salmon

just seared to perfection

with, um, what?

Fucking like ginger and I don't know.

Cream cheese mashed potatoes and toasted sesame green beans.

Yeah. Toasted sesame green beans.

You're... yeah, you're definitely getting

whatever you want tonight. [chuckles]

Toasted sesame?

Is that what it was?

Or was it this green bean?

I love a green bean.

Everybody knows what happens if you eat green beans.

[both laughing]

[upbeat music playing]

- Wait. I... - Shh!

- No, I don't want you to... - What?

I just learned that I have to go away for a week to New York

and...

I don't want you to think that I'm, you know, disappearing

after the first time that we sleep together.

I... Yeah, that's fine. [chuckles]

But I didn't want you to feel like I was abandoning you...

or forgetting you.

For... Forgetting me? [laughs]

[both laughing]

Take a picture then.

[soft music playing]

Over there?

[both chuckling]

[Lily] Whoo!

You know, like, maybe some, like, over the shoulder.

[tense music playing]

Is everything okay?

Is that too much?

No, no.

[chuckling]

[upbeat music playing]

Um...

hey, um, you want help with your stuff?

Hmm?

Before you head home?

Seriously?

What?

Could I maybe just...

stay over?

I'm sorry. That was...

assuming of me.

We're not there yet.

No, I just...

It's okay.

You can talk to me.

[Lily] Uh...

I've just been having a lot of nightmares recently.

That's all.

My dad was a sleepwalker.

So anything less

than chasing a 50-year-old naked man

down the driveway

is a peaceful night for me.

I...

thrash...

a lot.

Maybe with someone here, it wouldn't be so bad.

I don't mind a 30-minute drive.

I just want you to...

want me to stay.

[Silvia] "Martha with her sister possessed",

by the heritage of their mother,

the Castle Magdalene,

and Bethany, and a part of Jerusalem.

Martha inherited quite a bit from her mother.

It is nowhere read

that Martha ever had any husband

or fellowship of man.

Now there was, at that time,

a great half beast

having teeth sharp as a sword

and horned on either side.

Martha, at the prayer of her people,

led it to town to be slain

"with spears and axes of the people."

[Lily] She led it to town to be killed?

I prefer the knights who got their hands dirty

like Galahad or Roland.

Yes.

You love Roland, don't you?

[chuckles] Come here.

[Lily groans]

[gunshot popping]

[tense music playing]

[Willow grunts] Ow! Fuck!

- [Lily breathing heavily] - Lily.

[tense music playing]

[swords clattering]

- [Liam] Hey, Lily. - [Lily grunting]

Lily.

Lily. Lily.

- Lily, you won the touch. - [Lily breathing heavily]

Are you okay?

[panting]

[Genevieve] I know we talked before

about the facility in Chicago.

No, I... I told you I can't just...

I can't just disappear

halfway across the country for five weeks.

And I mean, I'm a fencing instructor.

It's... the cost alone is...

I know, but we're running out of options here, Lily.

[phone chimes]

[phone chimes]

[Lily sighs]

[man] Let us begin.

Situating ourselves comfortably.

Sit or lie down, whichever you prefer.

You can choose to be inside or outside.

And we will begin with a breathing exercise.

- First... - [phone ringing]

Close your eyes

and concentrate on how the air around you feel.

[phone ringing]

- [Lily sighs] - [ringing continues]

- Hi, Dad. - [Gregory] Hey, Lily.

How are you?

Why are you calling?

[Gregory] I, uh...

well, I'm sure you know

we're coming up on the 20th anniversary of her death.

So...

well, I thought it's time

to finally get rid of some of her things.

But before I did that,

I wanted to see if you wanted any of it.

Yeah.

Yeah, of course I do.

Um, when are you doing this?

[Gregory] This weekend.

I know it's short notice.

You think?

[Gregory] You could stay the weekend.

[clears throat] I'll make dinner.

[panting]

[phone ringing]

Hey.

[Willow] How you doing?

[Lily] "How you doing?"

Yeah, I gotta get ready for New York.

I'm gonna do Rosetta Stone New Yorker English on the train.

What are you attending again?

It's a conference for sustainable solutions

for modern architectural needs.

Uh, how we are gonna use silk worms for making pavilions

or like frog vomit for roof tiles, I don't know.

Poor frogs.

[chuckles] Yeah, it's time those little green bastards

did something for society.

What about you?

Have you got any plans this weekend?

Maybe.

My dad invited me out to the old house,

but it's...

creepy as hell.

The... uh, the new part was built in the '50s.

The rest is pre-revolution.

Sounds kinda cool.

Sure.

[Willow] I'm surprised.

What?

Just wouldn't have thought you'd be scared of anything.

That's sweet.

Especially said to someone

who nearly clawed your face off in fear.

[chuckles] Nightmares are different.

You're a, uh, special catch, Willow.

[Willow] I know.

You are, too.

- Oh? - Yeah.

I mean, how many beautiful as hell

house music-blasting badass fencing bitches do you know?

I know maybe two,

but I like red hair especially

when it's kind of wavy, kind of curly.

The kind of in-between, you know,

where it doesn't really know what it's gonna be.

- That's really my type. - [laughing] Oh, my God.

Yeah. Well, that was good.

[laughs]

[soft music playing]

[keyboard clacking]

[phone chimes]

[sighs]

[pills clattering]

[birds chirping]

[sighs]

[engine humming]

[insects chirping]

[gravels crunching]

[car door shuts closed]

[chickens clucking]

Hey.

I was gardening out back. I heard your car pull in.

Can I have a... a drink or something or...

It's a long drive.

I don't keep alcohol in the house anymore.

- I promised, never again. - Yeah.

No, I... I know that I...

Um, I meant, like...

tea or...

juice, or something.

Right.

I'll get the door for you.

[soft music playing]

♪

[eerie music playing]

[soft music playing]

Starling.

Blue jay.

Wood thrush.

♪

[crickets chirping]

Good?

So I, uh... [clears throat]

I, uh, joined a garden club.

There's a couple members, old ladies mostly.

We chat and do lunch and play chess.

It's nice just to...

help them feel good, you know.

It's good for me.

Really good for them.

They don't have much companionship or much...

in common with the younger generations.

My knowledge of history

- allows for a deeper bond and... - You should fuck.

You know?

If you really wanna make old women feel good.

Just saying.

I'll stick to chess.

Yeah, you'll contribute the bare minimum.

And that's enough for you to feel good.

I was hoping this would go differently.

Why would this go differently?

Because you made dinner and...

you're telling stories about how now you treat women better

than you did Mom?

Don't...

make me regret inviting you here.

And there it is.

Like always.

Good guy routine gets challenged just a little bit

and you hit the fuck off button.

Where you start talking about the fall of Rome.

Well...

it wasn't a single cataclysmic fall

so much as it was a slow decay of the imperial system...

I wasn't asking.

So... [clears throat]

are you seeing anyone?

Yeah.

Her name's Willow and she's an architect.

She's very successful and very supportive.

[Gregory] How about friends?

Any luck with those these days?

Yeah, yeah, actually, um,

one of my adult students, Liam,

we hang out all the time.

- [chuckles] - [Willow] How's it going?

Uh, well, my dad is doing his whole...

"pity me, I'm a better man now" routine.

I'm not having it. So...

kind of feel like a bitch, but...

[Willow] Why do you feel like a bitch?

He made me dinner and I told him to fuck an 80-year-old grandma.

[Willow laughs] Hey, they need it too.

That's what I said.

Maybe just give him a little bit of a chance,

you know, while you're there at least.

Just a bit. Like, a pinky of a chance.

[sighs]

[eerie music playing]

[music intensifying]

[birds chirping]

That's right, boy. That's right. That's right.

Oh.

[chuckles] Okay.

[sighs]

Thank you...

for dinner.

Some of the fondest memories of my life

are teaching you how to ride.

My favorite was the horseshoes.

You taught me how to shape the iron and the forge.

That was cool as hell.

What? You ready for more?

You ready for more?

Yeah, that's right. That's it.

[soft music playing]

[rustling]

- You're getting rid of those? - Yeah.

This is your family's, not Mom's.

Yeah, I know.

A lot of the books weren't hers either, but...

she obsessed over this stuff...

and I can't look at it without thinking about her.

Is thinking about her such a bad thing?

When it's all you think about, yeah.

Whose idea was it to Marie Kondo your whole fucking life?

You're not the only one seeing a therapist.

It's the same therapist who helped you quit drinking?

You say that like it's a bad thing.

The cute one?

Yes. Yes, it is.

[soft music playing]

[sighing]

[man] Welcome.

Today's meditation will be focused

on achieving a deep relaxation

and oneness.

We will be reconnecting ourselves to our bodies.

And so it's often best to do this meditation

either alone or in a place where you feel safe.

As we delve deeper into our minds,

we will encounter energies,

frustrations, and fears.

[voice distorting] Do not be concerned.

We will work through them together.

[ominous music playing]

And you know [indistinct]...

[floor boards creaking]

♪

[music intensifying]

[Lily gasps]

[floor boards creaking]

- [eerie shrieking] - [Lily gasps]

[Lily screams]

Lily?

[breathing heavily]

I read that when sleepwalking,

it can seem like you're in the real world...

but your subconscious can create a half-world

where you're aware of the real space you're moving through,

but your mind can still dream things into it.

So that was probably all it was.

There's nothing out there.

I know what I felt.

Something was there with her in the end.

Something that...

that took hold of me when she died.

Maybe whatever it was is gone now.

Please talk to me.

I'm concerned.

[scoffs]

You barely even spoke to me

until I was 25.

I mean, yeah, we had our... our moments,

we had the gardening and horseback riding.

But what is this?

You're concerned now?

Why? What has changed?

Time.

My grandmother was the same way, honestly.

She was a real bitch

until her 80s and then she softened.

Something about seeing the grave coming.

Dad...

Colon cancer.

Couldn't change fast enough.

70% chance of survival so, not bad.

But I start chemo in two months.

I wish I could have...

changed the way your childhood was.

I could have been around more

if your mom had...

Lily, she cheated on me.

I loved her always.

Still do.

I can't, um...

I can't get into this.

I'm sorry about your diagnosis.

I really am, but, um, I just...

I'm only gonna be here a couple more days, so.

A couple more days?

What the fuck are you talking about?

Nothing is coming for you.

You've had this irrational fucking fear ever since...

since I don't know when.

Yeah, you don't know when.

'Cause you were never fucking around for anything.

All you were doing was... was, like, wallowing

for decades.

Have you even once

thought about things from my perspective?

Sure, let's see, middling history professor

knocks up his TA.

And then, oh, wow, big surprise.

Loses his career.

Then you expected Mom to... to what?

Follow you forever just into this futureless life

with a ruined professor?

I loved her, Lily.

I loved her with all my fucking heart.

You loved her.

And that's why you were always moping,

never fucking present for shit.

'Cause you could not stand to be

in the same space as her without her affection.

You couldn't stand to be in the same room

as men she was seeing, men she was fucking.

[breathing deeply]

And don't tell me that I don't know what I'm talking about.

You're right.

I never loved you the way you deserved.

But I didn't deserve this life either.

You're why I lost everything. Why I lost her.

Thank you.

For what?

Finally admitting it.

[thrilling music playing]

[wind howling]

[music fades]

[soft knocking]

[gunshots firing]

[eerie music playing]

[gunshots firing]

[Lily panting]

[Young Lily] Did they really have

so many monsters in the past?

These are just stories, love.

Have you ever seen anything?

You're too young for my stories, little love.

Too young to hear about...

yellow eyes.

Wild and wicked.

Not ready to hear about the pain that never leaves you.

Huh! I heard that.

♪

Yellow eyes.

Jesus!

You look like you were up all night.

Are you leaving today?

[scoffs] No.

You taking time off work?

I haven't taken a vacation day all year.

It'll be fine.

How did Mom come to be in your class?

She loved folklore and everything medieval.

You know that.

And how did you come to teach it?

[scoffs] Oh, that's a long story. But...

my family was into it, I guess you could say.

"Into it."

I see.

You really dug deep.

Mom never read me this one.

But there's a page torn up.

Why?

Your mother, before the end,

started to believe some wild ideas.

What sorts of ideas?

The book you're holding is called

Those Creatures Born

Whilst God Did Sleep.

It is a compendium of medieval demonography

written by a 12th-century friar

named Athol Beman.

Everything in this box...

should be burned.

It's a collection of the last things

your mother ever wrote.

Letters mostly.

She said some... many...

terrible things.

Among them, though...

♪

Lily...

there's so many crazy texts in the Middle Ages like this.

Friars were drunk most of the time.

Read.

"As for those..."

monsters and demons beyond...

the knowing of this humble chronicler.

Beyond perhaps even the comprehension of man,

we name them

innominatum metus.

And I beseech those tormented

to use against

their wretched tormentors,

a deadly

and powerful antidote to pain...

and in battle...

"let the matter be settled."

I... Innominatum metus?

Nameless fear.

[phone ringing]

- Hey. - [Willow] Hey.

Shouldn't you be learning about the uses

of beetles sperm in insulation or something?

[Willow] Oh, I'll be hearing all about

the Beatles splooge soon enough.

But there was some time between presentations

I needed to attend, so...

You could be checking out the city.

[Willow] I'd rather talk.

You still there?

Yeah.

[Willow] I wanna show you something I'm working on.

- Can I share an album? - Yeah, of course.

Designs for my ideal house.

[Lily] No way.

These are incredible.

Frog vomit roof tiles and everything.

Why don't you come to New York?

What?

Yeah. Leave the past behind.

We could dance until dawn, hit a few puffs.

[laughs] What you need is fresh air, new ideas.

I go on these walks where I look at all the different ways

- that architecture just... - Willow, stop.

What?

Come on, Lily...

I have... I have to go.

Sorry.

Talk later.

I can't believe this shit. Listen to this.

[scoffs] "I can't take it anymore."

I can't take it anymore. Greg is so weak.

He's so weak.

"I wanna hurt him sometimes."

"Lily."

I wonder if I should have aborted her.

I could have been free.

I could have gone anywhere, done anything...

"and been young."

It's possible that this was just an exercise and...

and not an uncommon one,

to write all your worst feelings down

in letters and then burn them.

Then why didn't she fucking burn them?

Maybe she was going to...

but wasn't ready yet.

- A... and then... - Then shot herself.

No.

No. There's more to this.

[eerie music playing]

[cell phone buzzing]

[soft music playing]

[music turns tense]

[floorboards creaking]

♪

[owl hooting]

[bird chirping]

[chirping continues]

[pigeon cooing]

[bird sounds continue playing]

[recorder clicks]

- [growling] - [Lily gasps]

[grunting]

[Lily gasping for air]

[panting]

[phone buzzing]

♪

[Lily breathing heavily]

What the hell are you doing?

Making sure you're not dead yet.

Thanks?

[Gregory sighs]

I'm very tired, Lily.

Can we talk tomorrow?

[eerie music playing]

[gasps]

[heartbeat thumping]

Fuck this.

"I beseech those tormented

to use against these wretched tormentors

and a powerful and deadly antidote to pain,

and in battle let these matters be settled."

Let's see how this monster's claws do

against fucking steel plate.

What?

No, I've looked through all the books,

and the one thing I see universally,

the guys trying to kill these things are armored

head to toe.

So, Mom...

This stuff, this was how she was trying to escape.

It was her antidote to... to pain.

- Fuck. - [steel clatters]

Can we talk through this?

Sure. Yeah. Who wants to go first?

Okay, I'll go.

When my mother was killed, this thing attached to me,

and it's been feeding on my pain the way it fed on hers.

It wants to scare me away with these visions.

I wasn't gonna run so it can keep fucking feeding.

Before Mom, maybe it was connected to your dad, right?

You always said he was a bastard, a tyrant.

And then... and then his mother before him, right?

You always said your grandma was this...

this depressive, angry, awful person.

And then just back and back.

And then this thing probably followed our family

over from Ireland.

I mean, maybe that's why our ancestors came here,

- to escape it. - What about me?

Maybe it's...

feeding on you too.

- Killing you. - [laughs]

You gotta be kidding me, Lily.

You sound...

Say it.

[soft music playing]

[metallic clattering]

♪

[thrilling music plays]

[hammer clangs on metal]

♪

That's not a foil you're holding.

You hold it like you mean to kill.

Not fence.

This isn't a sport.

You're not trying to score by poking someone's foot.

Get your power and your strength from your core.

So maybe you want it lower.

[hammer clanging]

[imitates whooshing]

When you strike, just get an impact...

[grunts]

on each one of those thrusts.

[Gregory grunting]

- [Lily grunts] - Oh, that's death.

Far behind, that's weak. Here you have power.

- [sword swishing] - [hammer clanging]

[Lily grunts]

[music fades]

[horses neighing]

[Gregory sighs]

Your mother did love me...

for a time.

But she got tired

of my relentless sadness.

She was young, of course, she started seeing other men.

[scoffs] I should have forgiven her that.

She was a good person,

and I regret many things I said to her.

I know she wouldn't want this.

She'd want you to be happy. Move on.

Not fighting this old fight.

There is something out there...

and I need to kill it.

Remember Don Quixote?

He imagined different realities

from what was actually in front of him.

He took everyday things

and made them part of a great knight's tale.

Born to wallow.

You told me that.

[exhales]

I love you, Dad.

But I...

I don't need lectures.

I love you too.

Even if I've been terrible at showing it.

We've both been terrible at showing it.

[Gregory sighs]

[video call beeping]

Hey.

I, um...

I wanted to apologize.

Last time we talked, I was a little...

terse.

You were.

But I also tried to get you to come away,

so I'm sorry too.

I need to give you the time that you need

and I shouldn't have been that way.

Is there anything else I can do?

You know, to help you through this?

Um...

there might come a time

when I tell you some crazy shit

and I just need you to hear me out.

That's all.

Pineapple on pizza crazy, or vegan cat crazy?

[both chuckle]

Anything you wanna talk about now?

No.

Not on the phone.

Um...

when we're together again, then yes.

Yeah. When we're together again.

Every day here, away from you...

I keep feeling as though...

it wasn't you who needed to be pried away from there,

but maybe me who needs to go to you.

- Um, you have a job. - I know. I know.

I just... A feeling is a feeling

and I... I feel like I let you down.

If you need to take space from me...

I... I understand.

Is that your dad?

Oh, I'll call you back.

[eerie music playing]

[floorboards creaking]

[flies buzzing]

[ominous music plays]

[Lily panting]

Keep trying, you fucker! I'm coming for you!

You took my mom.

You're not taking me, you're not taking my dad.

You hear me?

[Gregory sighs]

[Lily sighs]

They always show armor getting penetrated...

- in movies. - Yeah, that's a crock of shit.

If armor didn't do its job, no one would've bothered.

Sword feels right. Feels like a part of mom.

Hmm.

I was thinking I might just take the pistol too, though.

If you're gonna fight in armor,

don't take anything with you

that can be used against you if taken away.

The sword won't penetrate steel plate.

[inspiring music playing]

[horse huffs]

[horse whinnies]

♪

[owl hoots]

[ominous music plays]

[Lily sighs]

[steel plates clinking]

[steel plates clinking]

[Lily breathing shakily]

[bait snaps]

[demonic voice] I did not kill your mother.

I tried to stop her.

I showed her what would happen to you

if she's gone.

♪

It feeds you, doesn't it?

This pain?

I can feel it.

You're trying to trick me.

I can't take it anymore.

Then leave.

Get some air.

♪

Leave?

I'd rather die than have Lily think I didn't love her.

[demonic voice] I showed what she would do

and she did it anyway.

- [gunshot] - [grunts]

[screaming]

[dramatic music playing]

[groans]

[demonic voice] Your mother was a monster, Lillian.

Let me show you what she really was.

Lillian Pierce back in the house!

[demon growls]

[eerie music playing]

♪

[dramatic drumming]

Go home, Lillian Pierce.

You won't kill me.

[sighs]

If you wanna see Mom...

just sleep.

I'll be right there.

Young forever.

Just like I always wanted.

Better to see me in your nightmares

than to not see me at all.

[pensive music playing]

[somber music building]

I stabbed it right in the chest.

Nothing happened.

This thing's gonna be attached to me forever.

You know, I just need to accept that,

like, live my life the best I can.

Keep pissing the bed in fear every now and then.

Won't have a relationship.

It's fine.

Plenty of people don't.

Let's say...

if you were following what was written on that page...

Don't pretend that you believe a goddamn word that I've said.

I wasn't finished.

What I was gonna ask is...

how are you satisfying the part

about those tormented

use a deadly antidote?

"I beseeched those tormented

to use against these wretched tormentors

a powerful and deadly antidote to pain

and in battle let the matter be settled."

That's...

That's what I've been doing.

Using in battle a symbol of ♪om's love the...

the armor that claws can't penetrate.

She loved everything medieval,

yes, but...

what about you?

Maybe there needs to be more.

More of what you specifically love.

Stop going through Mom's stuff.

Go through yours.

[soft music playing]

♪

[birds chirping]

[soft music continues]

[fire crackling]

♪

What if creatures like this operate...

in a place in between?

One foot in the real world.

And one in another that we can't possibly understand.

And fear is here to protect us from that world.

Maybe it's a delusion...

and I have lost it.

♪

I need someone to believe me...

and to see...

what I see.

♪

[fire crackling]

- [ominous music building] - [armour clattering]

[owl hooting]

[faint sigh]

I am right here.

I'm right fucking here.

[dramatic music playing]

[both groaning and grunting]

♪

Holly berries.

Beautiful.

Poisonous.

[dramatic music continues]

♪

Fuck it!

Mr. Pierce?

Mr. Pierce, I'm Willow. I'm Lily's girlfriend.

Lily told me about you.

Has she told you what she's doing?

A little.

We may not have much time.

Is she in danger? Should I call the police?

They'll never believe this.

How can I help?

[both struggling]

[dynamic music playing]

♪

Silvia.

[both grunting]

[Lily grunts]

I should have cut you out.

Fuck yourself.

You are not her.

[groans]

[Lily groans in pain]

[Lily panting]

[grunting in pain]

You can't keep me off forever.

[demon sighs]

[claws scraping]

What the fuck!

Need a plan. Need an idea.

Willow.

Willow, listen to me.

[claws scraping]

[faint up-tempo music playing over speaker]

[screaming over speaker]

[Lily panting]

[panting]

Lily.

Dad, did you... did you see it?

Yeah.

Hang on.

Yeah. [winces]

[up-tempo music playing over speaker]

[panting]

He said just play the music. He said just play the music.

[Lily panting]

Okay.

Dad, what do we do?

I wasn't enough.

That's not true.

That is not true.

You are fighting it.

Just like your mother.

And if she hadn't been alone... [sighs]

maybe it would've been different.

You didn't cower

like I've always done for my fears.

And I am so fucking proud of you.

[Gregory sighs]

We need this thing drowning in poison,

not just slashed by it.

Dad, what are you saying? Dad?

I love you, Lily.

Should have told you that a hundred thousand times more

than I did.

[somber music plays]

Let me be the father I always should have been.

- [Gregory coughing] - Dad.

Dad, don't take another step.

[panting]

[fire crackling]

♪

I missed your bedtime story tonight, didn't I?

Why didn't I tell you what I know by heart then?

[Gregory panting]

There once was a brave little girl.

And she was quick.

And she was strong.

And she was going to be okay...

[Willow grunting]

[somber music playing]

even if her mom couldn't always be there for her.

Because some things are too much to bear.

But that brave little girl was stronger

than her mom could ever be.

[inspiring music playing]

[Gregory groaning in pain]

- [sword scraping] - [armour clattering]

[tense music building]

[Lily panting]

♪

Willow, go help my dad stop the bleeding.

[retching]

[sword clangs]

I had rather claw my fucking face off

than spend another day with you.

[Lily gasps and grunts]

♪

[painting]

This is not who you were.

My mom was a human.

She was afraid and she was in pain.

She wasn't a monster.

She died long ago and you are not her.

[growling and screaming]

♪

[music fades]

[Gregory grunting]

Stay with me, Dad.

Is that just...

Is that all really just...

70% chance?

We are here now.

That's all that matters.

[birds chirping]

That's all that matters.

Let's go.

[Gregory grunting]

[dramatic music playing]

[upbeat music building]

♪

♪