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You haven't eaten anything in two days.

I don't like my body.

You look beautiful.

I don't. I don't even recognize myself.

Maya, if you don't eat, you'll die.

I think I already did.

But I don't remember seeing a light.

You had a near-death experience?

When was this?

I don't remember.

It's just a feeling.

I can see why people get addicted to these things.

It's almost as much fun as sending people to hell.

Plus...

He makes cool noises.

Do you have a name for me?

Are you sure you want to leave her here?

She might walk out in front of a truck or something

while you're off trying to save a stranger.

The name.

Helen Morningstone.

Isn't it lovely?

These are all my little souls.

I used to gather them myself, but by the 14th century I needed some help.

That's how I found Morgan. He was a monk back then, so he played hard to get,

but I found that with the right bait, you can catch any fish you want.

In the end, he came to work for me. He became a collector.

Then recently he made me the most interesting proposal

he wants to seek salvation for his clients.

I decided to let him try.

For now.

Thanks for coming, Taylor.

It takes me forever to clean the place up.

Rachel couldn't make it?

You didn't hear?

She got a job.

What would you do if all your sisters were employed at the same time?

Not likely.

Nice. So you're going to follow up on the dead guy?

You know, the one you thought Morgan Pym was involved with?

Yeah, the one with the nickname. Oh, you mean Frankie Fingers. Yeah, him.

You gonna drop it, or what?

I don't know. You mean you don't know?

We spent two hours on the phone talking about it.

You're totally freaked out.

Yeah, but last week I met this guy who Morgan Pym was working with.

You mean like a guy who's still alive?

Did he tell you something?

What did he say? He said Pym is an alien.

You mean like from Europe?

No, from outer space.

You didn't believe him.

Of course I didn't believe him. Something strange is going on with Pimp.

Not that, but something. So you're gonna keep following

him around? Hey, Tiger. Are you hungry?

Why don't I see if I can get us some breakfast, okay?

Okay, Gabe.

There's no jumping on the bed.

In fact, there's no sleeping on the bed.

Now that it's so nice, you're gonna have to sleep

on the floor for the rest of the month.

All right, just for the week.

Can I see your drawings?

Why don't you tell me about your deal?

The devil didn't tell you what my deal was?

When I was six years old, I started having these nightmares.

Well...

One nightmare, actually.

Over and over.

This creature is chasing me, trying to kill me.

After about a year, my dad took me to see a doctor.

He said it was probably about my mom or something. She died when I was little.

But it didn't stop.

I teach kids that age now.

They're still alive.

But I caved in.

Wouldn't go to school.

After a while, I wouldn't even come out of my room.

That's when the child psychologist started and the kiddie drugs.

After a while, I just pretended that they worked

so I wouldn't have to see another doctor.

But every night it was the same thing, same creature. When I was 18,

I finally had a nervous breakdown.

It felt like the creature was getting closer,

like it was going to come out of my dream and get me.

I was going to kill myself.

I just wanted it to be over.

And that's when it came to you?

My father must have made me a thousand dream catchers growing up.

But the one the devil made me really worked.

What happened after the nightmare stopped?

Life.

This is all I ever wanted.

Move away from the reserve, get my own place, a job.

I was happy.

Was? The nightmares come back?

Not yet, but I can feel them.

Waiting.

When you told me that there was a chance I might get out of going to hell,

the first thing I thought was, what then?

What happens when this stops working?

Let's take it one step at a time.

Tell me about the people close to you.

Do you think any of them could have suffered the bad luck from your deal?

All my friends are fine.

I mean, the usual problems, but... What about your family?

I don't know. I haven't been in touch with my family

or any of the people from the reserve since I left.

Why not?

That was where I grew up. That's where the nightmares happened.

When I left, I wanted to get away from all of it.

I didn't want to go back.

Then that's the first place we should try.

What a whiner.

It was just a little soul tonight's plan.

All right, all right.

I'll give you a little thing to help you adjust.

Let's not make a habit of it.

I'm sorry.

This is where I used to play as a kid. This is where all the kids used to play.

Where's your father's workshop? Oh.

Morgan, this is my father.

He's a member of the Council of Elders for our tribe.

This is George.

You do beautiful work.

Those are cicadas, aren't they?

The Kweepot people came from the southeast a long time ago.

The cicada is our symbol for death and regeneration.

And hope. This is for you.

I want to thank you for bringing my daughter

back to her village. It's been far too long.

I should have tried harder to keep in touch.

It's not you, Daddy.

It's me.

I'm sorry.

Well, then you can make it up to me by cooking dinner.

I'm still a lousy cook.

But first, you've got to go over and see your cousin Ariana.

She'll beat me with a stick if I keep you from going over there.

How have you been sleeping, baby?

Okay.

Helen was like my sister.

Actually, I had a sister, but she was a bitch.

So I pretended Helen was my sister instead. I used to sleep over at Arianna's a lot.

Yeah. Whenever the medications start to wear off, she'd make these little noises.

You know, scared in her sleep.

She knew I'd punch her and wake her up.

So you finally outgrew him, huh?

Will this be your first child?

Numero uno.

Number one son.

You're gonna make a great mother.

And I hope this is just the first of many.

Yeah, well, I hope I get just one born.

I'll finally prove to everybody these stories

are just a bunch of crap. What stories?

You don't know?

Don't know what?

Haven't you noticed how quiet it is around here?

There's no kids. There haven't been for years.

Everybody says the keep walk can't have babies anymore.

They're all born dead.

Stillborn. It's been happening for years now.

There was a lot of them at first, five or six in a row,

and then all the people Ari had started leaving,

trying to get away from the curse or whatever.

How many years has this been going on? I think about nine, maybe a bit longer.

Does anybody have an explanation for this?

Yeah, the chief's got an explanation.

But if you want to know what's really going on, I'll tell you.

The World Bank.

World Bank?

Yeah.

They encourage all these multinationals to spread into every

country until nobody knows who's running them anymore.

Then they set up shop next to places like our reserve and

start dumping their toxins into the water and the ground, polluting everything.

You think it's pollution? I tried to get the government interested. I mean,

it's such an obvious cluster.

All they did was send in these epidemiologists who said they couldn't find anything.

What about the graves of all these babies? Could they find those?

Arianna, maybe you should leave too. Hell no.

I've been drinking bottled water for five years

now. I had myself tested. I'm totally clean.

You said the chief has his own explanation.

Yeah, but if you want to know about that, you're going to have to go talk to him.

Don't get me wrong, I know he means well,

but he's got everybody's heads so twisted around with his superstitions,

they won't even listen to reason.

Ellen.

Hello, Chief Kirk.

This is a friend of mine, Morgan Pym.

Chief Kirk, we've talked to Arianna.

She says you have a theory about what's been happening to the tribe's children.

Kivuat are being punished for abandoning the old ways.

Punished?

By who?

Not by who.

By what?

It's a monster.

A monster?

Sent by the Owens.

By the two chiefs. Sent to kill our babies before they're born.

Have people seen this monster?

It's been a shadow.

Always comes at night.

I fought it, but I can't really say what it looks like.

You fought it.

Ariana thinks I'm superstitious.

You tell me.

Are these superstitions?

Many times the monster try to kill me, but I'm a warrior.

I'll never abandon my tribe.

You think I did this.

You think it's my fault.

We know your dreamcatcher worked.

You caught the creature from your nightmare.

The devil may have used it to create the balancing bad luck for your deal.

By making it real?

By giving it flesh and unleashing it on my tribe, on my family?

It wouldn't be the first monster he created.

But all those babies.

How could I ever make up for that?

I'm not sure.

Maybe you could start by taking the creature out of the physical

world and pulling him back into your dream world.

You mean take apart the dreamcatcher?

If I let the creature back into my head, it's going to kill me.

How do I find redemption if I'm dead?

He said he could wait for you here.

I love these toys.

Who said that?

I don't remember.

I'm sorry about this. She's a friend of mine.

He must have brought her.

Why?

He's been taunting me ever since I met her.

I was just trying to help her, but I seem to have made things worse.

I'm sorry.

This has nothing to do with you.

I'll take her home.

Let me drive you.

What about the dreamcatcher?

I can't.

Not right now.

Please, let me do something.

Maya.

Maya.

It's time to go home.

I had a dream.

I met someone.

I think it was me.

She said something about the old one sending the creature.

The two chiefs.

Who were they?

It's the legend of the cicada.

I still remember my mom telling it to me.

I used to know it by heart.

Tell me what you remember.

It's just a story.

She always used to start it the same way.

In the time of the Old Ones, there was a great famine.

No rain fell, the salmon disappeared from the rivers, and the fish from the sea.

There was nothing for the quipua people to eat.

Then the cicada came.

So the chief of the quipuat went to talk to the chief of the cicada and

asked him if his people could eat the cicada because they were starving.

And the chief of the cicada said they could, but in return,

they had to become one with the cicada,

celebrating them and keeping their memory alive

through the long sleeps, the 17-year cycle.

And the chief said that he would do this.

Hmm.

I can't believe I'm telling somebody this story.

You're a natural.

So, the chief agreed to do this,

and the quipuat kept the tradition so well Even

after the rains came and the salmon returned,

that the chief of the cicada returned to the tribe after the

long sleep and said that he would give them a special gift.

Every 17 sleeps, that means every 17 cycles of 17 years,

the cicadas would guide a great spirit to the tribe to become one of their children.

That great spirit would become their leader.

And lead them from the dark times into better ones.

The chief of the Cicada kept his promise.

A great leader has always been born to the Quipua people when the time came.

What are you thinking?

I'm wondering if your creature ties into the legend somehow.

Morgan, come on.

The monster didn't come from some fairy tale.

It came from my nightmare.

Because of my deal.

The devil could have chosen anything as your balance in bad luck.

Why choose something that ties into the mythology of your tribe?

So that nothing would ever be done.

They're sending in scientists to investigate.

But who's gonna believe a bunch of crazy natives?

But thank you.

For what?

For trying to take this off my shoulders.

I wish you could.

I wish you could.

Thank you.

I gave you that nightmare, you know.

Kind of a preview of coming attractions.

I didn't want you to have a heart attack when I showed up in that church.

Why did you put Maya in Helen's apartment?

Hey, at least I'm paying attention to her.

Well, don't!

Leave her alone.

I could have told you.

But you wouldn't have listened.

You still would have picked her up in that alley.

And now you're scared.

Scared to take her to heaven, and scared of sending her to hell.

It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. Mommy's here.

Shh. Mommy's here.

It's all right. Shh.

Yeah.

It's Helen.

We have to go back to the reserve.

The creature attacked Ariana last night.

I got so mad at my boyfriend, Eddie, when he said he was leaving.

He wanted me to go with him. He told me he was being stupid,

that the tribe would die if everybody ran away.

I was the one that was stupid.

What am I going to do?

You're going to pack up and move to the city like Eddie said.

You'll have your baby there. It'll be safe.

Aaron, maybe he's right.

And leave the place I've lived in all of my life?

Abandon the tribe like you and everybody else?

I don't want my baby to die.

I never thought the creature was real.

What exactly did you see? Can you describe it?

It was dark, but it was big and ugly with flat, dead eyes.

It was like I was in a spell or something. Then the chief came and fought with it.

The chief's right. It's a punishment in all of us.

What happened then?

I remember seeing something out the window, heading into the woods.

I'll be back in a moment.

We've been looking for years. It's not there. At least not during the day.

I can't believe this. This is what you've been doing while I've

been upstairs for four hours getting your kid to sleep?

Taylor, Gabe's had nightmares before.

I saw his drawings yesterday, Jerry. You know what they were? They were black.

Does that sound like a happy kid?

He doesn't know what I'm doing.

Come on, Jerry.

When did all this start?

It was when you met Morgan Pym. I mean, Gabe has always been unique,

but unless you're blind, you have to see that his behavior has gotten weirder.

Think.

You think that's a coincidence?

I don't know. And neither do you.

Rachel told me that he burned the file you had on Pym.

What kind of sign do you want?

Morgan Pym could be killing people.

Then let the police handle it. Let anybody handle it besides you.

You have got a kid to take care of.

Have you seen this before?

Not since I was a kid.

Cicadas.

I couldn't do that last night when I got home.

I knew it was the right thing to do, destroy the Dreamcatcher.

But I was so afraid.

There's still some time before nightfall.

That's none of your business.

Your children are dying.

That's everybody's business.

You can't fight the creature alone.

It'll kill you.

This knife is the power of the Keyblots.

The power of the Owens.

It protects me against the creature.

It's just a knife.

That's all it is. It's not magic. It can't protect you or Ariana.

I'm holding a tribe together.

You're just making it worse.

If the people think that you can protect them, they'll stay, and they shouldn't.

If everyone left when all this started, all those babies would be alive.

All this will be over soon. The cycle is almost complete.

You mean the cycle of the cicadas.

You think it's time for the chosen one to be born.

I'll make sure he's born alive.

Or die trying. Go home, Ellen. There's no place for a woman.

You're not buying into this, are you?

It's just a story.

There is no chosen one.

Most people don't believe in the devil either.

Where is she getting it? She doesn't look like she's left your apartment.

It's him.

He was here.

So what happened when she walked in on you

with that other woman, the other collector?

Nothing. She just walked away.

And you can't explain it or she'll go to hell.

You can't blame yourself for this.

It's her choice.

The devil's right. I should have never touched her.

I should never touch anyone.

It always leads to unhappiness.

Or worse.

So you're supposed to be strong enough to be alone forever?

No one's that strong.

She's dreaming.

I had a dream last night.

I saw a boy.

Did he say anything to you?

No, he just stood there.

He looked sweet.

Don't be fooled.

It was the devil.

He can go wherever he wants, even there.

I was thinking I should have just killed myself instead of making a deal.

Would have been better for everyone.

We've both hurt other people by clinging to life.

But we both have a chance to make up for it.

We can't waste that.

I need to talk to your father again.

We can't leave her.

I can't protect her from the devil.

Well, maybe not, but at least we can make sure she's not alone.

Maya?

Maya.

You wanna know?

Mr. Morningstone.

Arianna said the stillbirth started nine years ago.

Would you say that's accurate?

Dad, please.

It's important.

Actually, it started with my sister Arianna's mom.

It wasn't a full-term pregnancy like the rest.

She was only about four months pregnant.

There were complications, and she lost the baby.

Anyway, we thought there were complications at the time.

She didn't want Ariana to know that she'd lost a baby sister.

You can't tell her. And when was that?

Ariana's 29, so that would have been 14 years ago. Fourteen?

Are you sure? Mr. Morningstone, I did some research into the history of your tribe.

The details are sketchy, but the Keepwad apparently

did have a great leader around 300 years ago.

The last chosen one.

He was the one who led us to our new home.

So you think the legend of the Skaters is true?

I don't know what we're gonna do.

Chief said the chosen ones due to come soon.

If this creature kills that baby, our people are finished.

Is there someplace on the reserve where the three of us can spend the night?

Now, you can stay here. I got some sleeping bags.

That is, if you want to.

I'll get them set up.

I don't understand.

If my dad is right, then the attack started before I made my deal.

We're missing something, and we've only got one night left to figure out what it is.

I know there's one thing I can do.

Don't be. At least now, if the creature is coming, it'll come for me.

I don't see how you're gonna redeem this one, Morgan.

I mean, wow, a baby killer?

That's heavy.

I don't think it's that simple.

I got baby souls dropping into limbo like apples off a tree.

No.

You don't get unborn souls.

Hey, once you blame original sin for all the evil in the world,

you gotta throw the fetuses out with the bathwater.

It's all for the little children to come unto me.

It's going to stop.

I'll stop it.

Ooh, is that a challenge?

Let's start the game.

Morgan!

Morgan!

What is, what's happening?

It's okay.

You're okay. It was just a dream. It came for me. Morgan.

Seventeen times seventeen.

Ariana.

Chief, what are you doing? What I've been doing for years. Protecting this tribe.

You haven't been protecting it. You've been killing it.

Poisoning the babies so they'd be born dead.

Why? So we could decide who the chosen one would be. Stay out of it.

You don't know anything. I know one thing.

I know you miscalculated.

I know the last great leader of your tribe was born 306 years ago.

Your legend predicts a new leader every 17 cycles of the cicada,

but it's already been 18.

You were off by 17 years.

Which means the chosen one will be in her 20s by now.

Impossible.

She's a girl. A worthless girl who abandoned her tribe.

You're right.

I did abandon it.

The dream started when I was seven.

I was too scared.

I confused the messenger with the message.

You were the evil it was trying to warn me about.

And I ran. I ran from the nightmare, and I ran from my people.

I left them to you.

But I'll never leave them again.

I don't feel like I made amends.

All those dead babies.

The devil offered you a way out when you were weak, and you took him.

But it was the chief who killed the babies.

That's on his soul.

Don't take it on yours.

Take care of her.

I pray for the holy souls of those in limbo.

Grant unto them the remission of all their sins,

that through the perpetual sacrifice of your divine Son,

they may find redemption and be delivered into heaven.

Do you want to know?