Channel Zero 1x3

1. You guys remember "Candle Cove"?

2. In 1988, five kids went missing.

3. The Iron Hill Murders. Never solved.

4. Look who's back in the middle of things.

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

6. How are you holding up having him home?

7. It's so strange. I barely know him.

8. - Pay the toll. - Shove it up your ass.

9. Get him, Gene!

10. It did something to my brother.

11. It can make people do things.

12. - Hi, Daddy. - What is it, Lily?

13. You have to go inside.

14. Eddie. I did it.

15. - Did what? - I killed him.

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

17. It's something that your mom told me.

18. You missed the turn.

19. Where are you taking me?

20. Okay.

21. Ahh.

22. 11 years old.

23. Okay, make a wish. Both of you.

24. Why don't you trade? Make each other's wish?

25. Better do something good for me, Eddie.

26. We share.

27. Whatever you have, I have, too.

28. Ready?

29. One...

30. Two, three.

31. - Yay. - Yeah, there you got it.

32. Good job.

33. Did you wish for something good?

34. - I did. - Don't tell her what it was.

35. It won't come true.

36. Yeah, you're not too good at keeping secrets.

37. Gosh, a treasure chest.

38. Careful now, Percy.

39. That box might be locked for a reason.

40. And once you let bad things out,

41. you can never put them back.

42. Blow away, Mr. Cloud.

43. It's a treasure chest.

44. Pirates love treasure.

45. Oh!

46. Oh!

47. Oh, Marla, you scared me.

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

49. Why would Mike be here?

50. Well, Gary, he, um, brought him in just a little while ago.

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

52. Well, if Gary didn't bring him here,

53. where did he take him?

54. Are you saying Gary took Mike into custody?

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

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

57. You remember the old Iverson place?

58. Jess was the listing agent.

59. The house needed a lot of work, but it had good bones.

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

61. We had all these plans to fix it up.

62. Never got a chance.

63. Some rich guy from Cleveland bought it out from under us.

64. Paid all cash.

65. And gutted the place.

66. You know how these guys are.

67. Gets bored, never finishes.

68. So now the house is on the market again.

69. Jess is the listing agent.

70. But it'll never be ours.

71. The price is too high.

72. He's not answering.

73. Went to voicemail.

74. Any idea where Gary would have taken him?

75. What the hell is going on?

76. Um, what are we doing here?

77. Once the truth is out, you got to face it.

78. Sit.

79. Bologna.

80. Bologna.

81. In Italy they call it "Mortadella."

82. Mortadella.

83. Jacob.

84. Bless us, O Lord, and these, Thy gifts,

85. which we are about to receive from Thy bounty.

86. Through Christ our Lord...

87. Blessed be God,

88. the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ,

89. the Father of all mercies,

90. who comforteth us in all of our tribulation.

91. Our bodies...

92. even mine, believe it or not...

93. have 11 systems.

94. Digestive...

95. muscular...

96. circulatory...

97. respiratory...

98. skeletal...

99. You shouldn't have opened that box, shark bait.

100. But now you let me out,

101. and I'll have your hide!

102. Jawbone's the name and...

103. skinning's my game.

104. Immune,

105. nervous...

106. Endocrine,

107. reproductive.

108. Gary.

109. What's going on right now?

110. Hi, Mike.

111. Daphne.

112. Tim.

113. What are we doing here?

114. I don't like my phone ringing at the break of dawn,

115. but Gary here says, "Wake up.

116. "Get on out here because it looks like

117. "all that Friday night talk over the years,

118. "you know, hey, you think that, uh,

119. "maybe given certain details,

120. "the Painter family knew more about the murders

121. "than they're letting on?

122. "Looks like they were true because Mike Painter

123. just confessed to one of them."

124. Well, Mike, we're gonna have a little chat

125. that's long overdue because, I'll be honest,

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

127. We just want to talk, Mike.

128. Okay. I'm happy to talk.

129. Just untie me.

130. You can talk like that.

131. Just tell the truth, Mike.

132. Okay, this is the truth.

133. 28 years ago, somebody made a TV show called "Candle Cove"

134. and broadcast it on a dead channel.

135. It influenced the kids who saw it,

136. and before it was over five of those kids were dead.

137. You killed your brother Eddie.

138. You killed your brother, Mike,

139. then you left Iron Hill.

140. The murders stopped. The disappearances stopped.

141. Then 28 years later, you come back,

142. everything starts again, right away.

143. You're looking in the right direction,

144. but you're making the wrong connection.

145. So are you telling me that my kids wouldn't be

146. in the hospital if you hadn't come back?

147. I want to show you something.

148. Jacob Booth.

149. Mrs. Booth's only son.

150. Sadie Williams.

151. My cousin.

152. She taught me how to kiss.

153. Carl Cutter. The cut-up.

154. My brother Gene.

155. Tim.

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

157. Me and Tim are not cops right now.

158. We're all just people who lost people,

159. and before you go into the system,

160. we want to know exactly what you did and why you did it.

161. Where's your brother, Fainter?

162. Where's yours?

163. Go home, dickless wonder.

164. Want me to break your fingers, too?

165. Want to see something cool?

166. Me and Eddie found it.

167. Figured you would know what to do.

168. Bullshit.

169. It's worth money, but okay.

170. - Where you going, Mike? - The Crow's Nest.

171. Gary, are you home?

172. Are you here? Gary?

173. I'm gonna drive over to Tim's.

174. Gary?

175. Why don't you two stay here in case Gary comes back?

176. I still have dreams about my brother.

177. And the look on my parents' faces

178. when we heard that he was dead.

179. I stopped eating.

180. Got so thin I almost died.

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

182. It's not knowing how or why.

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

184. but I found out, Mike.

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

186. but he looked out for me.

187. He didn't deserve to die

188. with his neck broke and his teeth gone.

189. I just dream about "Candle Cove."

190. That's because it's still there,

191. all the time,

192. working on us.

193. What about you, Gary? Tim?

194. You guys dream about it?

195. Because I do.

196. For 30 years, I've been dreaming about it.

197. Always there, behind everything.

198. We all saw it. It did something to us.

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

200. That's the only connection.

201. I'm telling you, you're wrong.

202. The bottom line is, you killed my brother.

203. You killed Eddie, and you killed Sadie.

204. - No, I didn't. - You killed Jacob. You killed Carl.

205. - Come on. - And now you're back in town here.

206. Mike, what are you gonna do?

207. - We shouldn't have done this. - You gonna kill some more children?

208. Come on, Mike, it felt pretty good to tell you mom

209. - about Eddie, right? - You know what?

210. Now that I think about it,

211. I think that we've had just about enough talk.

212. Maybe it's time for some justice instead of talk!

213. - No, no, no, no, Tim! - I didn't have a choice!

214. How are those fingers feeling?

215. You like "Candle Cove," Gene?

216. I don't watch that retard show.

217. Don't lie. I know you do.

218. You can't lie to the Skin-Taker.

219. The what?

220. Stop.

221. What are you doing to him?

222. Showing him stuff in his head.

223. He can't do anything now.

224. Here, boy.

225. Pay the toll.

226. Now you can go to Candle Cove.

227. Walk the plank.

228. Hey, wait!

229. Hey, wait!

230. Eddie killed them.

231. "Candle Cove" got into him.

232. It changed him.

233. Because he was vulnerable.

234. Because you made him vulnerable.

235. Tim. Gary.

236. You hurt him.

237. And I had to stop him.

238. Something's up.

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

240. - Help! Help! - Hang on.

241. Stop! Help.

242. These kids are hurting someone!

243. Hey!

244. Hey, drop those knives!

245. Oh, my God.

246. Oh, oh, you guys scared the shit out of me.

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

248. Alex, Chloe, what's going on?

249. Why are you, uh... hey!

250. H-hey, get back here!

251. What?

252. Marla.

253. Why did Gary arrest Mike?

254. Mike...

255. did something unforgivable.

256. You mean you can't forgive him?

257. The last couple of years,

258. Mike and I started emailing.

259. Texts.

260. Like that.

261. At first, it was once in a while.

262. Then more.

263. And then every day.

264. It became...

265. important to me.

266. Did Gary know?

267. I didn't think so.

268. Then Mike went quiet on me.

269. Like he dropped off the face of the Earth.

270. So I deleted everything.

271. Every last email.

272. It's been hard this year.

273. Gary had his hopes set on this...

274. this property in the countryside.

275. And when that fell apart,

276. he just got so...

277. It's not here.

278. What?

279. I know where Gary took Mike.

280. TV shows don't kill people, Mike.

281. Gary, think about your daughter.

282. She saw the show and one day later she tries to kill Dane...

283. - No, she talked to you. - No. No. No.

284. You got it... no.

285. Daphne.

286. You feel it.

287. You know it's true, don't you?

288. - Mike. - It's okay, because I do, too.

289. Just tell them. Just tell them.

290. What do you dream about?

291. - Mike. - Just tell them.

292. - Cut the therapy shit. - He's right.

293. We knew it was connected somehow.

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

295. Gary, we have to find whoever made that show.

296. I saw it that day at the Crow's Nest.

297. Listen, Daphne, in the dreams,

298. what do you see?

299. A face that's just a skull?

300. The white eyes? You remember?

301. In the show. They called it Jawbone.

302. But in the dreams...

303. Okay. In the dreams?

304. It has a different name.

305. Well, I saw it that day.

306. A person dressed as Jawbone.

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

308. Okay, even if there is some person out there, Mike...

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

310. - Tim... - This all points back to him.

311. This is not about a goddamn puppet show.

312. It was just a show that aired on TV then.

313. His mom sends him away and the murders stop.

314. He killed those kids.

315. - I didn't. - Tim.

316. He killed Gene,

317. and maybe, just maybe, his mother helped cover it up.

318. - Okay, look, even if he's lying... - Tim.

319. we need to look at this, we need to look in the woods

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

321. What are you doing, Tim?

322. No, no, no. Tim, what are you doing?

323. This is going a little too far, Tim.

324. - We're done here, all right? - Tim, Tim.

325. We're done.

326. I'm gonna take him in. Give him a trial by jury.

327. - This is it. - He can have a trial by jury right now.

328. - Okay, Tim. - Fu... talking.

329. - Tim! Tim! - I'm done talking!

330. This is not what we're here to do.

331. - Get out of the way, Gary. - Now, listen to me.

332. You're gonna put that away.

333. We're gonna forget this ever happened.

334. - That's an order. - 911...

335. - Daphne, hang that up. - I want to...

336. Now. Hang that up.

337. - I'm not moving, Tim. - Tim, I didn't do anything.

338. - Get out of the way, Gary. - I'm not moving, Tim.

339. You put that gun down. That's an order.

340. I'm sorry, Sheriff.

341. I'm just like Mike. I don't have a choice.

342. Yeah, you do.

343. Don't!

344. 18 years a cop.

345. The first time you draw is on me.

346. We're gonna talk him to the station.

347. It was an accident.

348. An accident?

349. That's right. He tried to get your gun.

350. - Gary? - What, Daphne?

351. Your wife's here.

352. - Hey. - Hey.

353. What just happened?

354. Shut up!

355. That's enough.

356. Jess, you can't be here right now.

357. - Where's Mike? - You got to leave.

358. - You got to leave. You got to leave. - Where's...

359. - Is Mike inside? - Let me handle this.

360. Daphne, give me the box cutter.

361. Mike! Are you in there?

362. Marla! Marla, get down from there right now!

363. Marla, get down from there.

364. - Just let me inside. - Mike!

365. - Oh, Gary... - Jess.

366. Jess!

367. - Jess, he... - Oh, my God.

368. Jess, he killed his brother.

369. We needed to find out what happened.

370. Have you lost your mind?

371. Tim!

372. Oh, my God.

373. Oh, shit.

374. It'll be okay.

375. It'll be okay.

376. Gary.

377. Jesus, Gary.

378. Mike.

379. I need you to tell me what happened out there

380. and why.

381. Marla, maybe you should leave us alone.

382. No. I'll stay.

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384. More troubling news in Iron Hill.

385. 12-year-old Carl Cutter has been reported missing.

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

387. What happened to Carl?

388. He's in Candle Cove.

389. You're saying he was... influenced

390. by this TV show?

391. A show no one can prove existed?

392. Yeah.

393. And this other person you saw,

394. this adult accomplice,

395. you have no idea who they were?

396. It's back.

397. Kids will watch it,

398. just like we did.

399. And when they do,

400. they may start to behave in ways that...

401. What?

402. What do you know?

403. Did something happen?

404. All I know...

405. is you confessed to killing Eddie,

406. and as acting sheriff, that is a fact that I...

407. No, he didn't.

408. He didn't confess.

409. Gary misunderstood.

410. Gary misunderstood?

411. You just said Eddie killed the other four kids,

412. and then you killed him.

413. Eddie killed the other four kids.

414. And then he disappeared.

415. So that's your story now?

416. It's the truth.

417. This is just the beginning.

418. Hey. Mike.

419. I can't sleep here.

420. We didn't mean to hurt anyone.

421. I tried to stop Tim.

422. We both did.

423. But he shot Mike,

424. and then Jessica and Marla showed up.

425. - And I just took off. - Jesus. Is Mike all right?

426. I...

427. I hope so.

428. The shot went sideways.

429. It winged his arm.

430. I don't know what to tell you.

431. You're not exactly gonna go on the lam

432. and start a new life in Mexico.

433. You have to turn yourself in.

434. I know.

435. I will.

436. Attagirl.

437. You want something to drink?

438. Cocoa?

439. Is all that for us?

440. No.

441. I'll get you something stronger.

442. You shouldn't fu... with Mike Painter.

443. What is it? What happened?

444. It was a nightmare. Oh, God.

445. - Oh, God. - You're okay.

446. You're okay.

447. Yeah, I'm fine now.

448. Oh, it was horrible.

449. Oh.

450. What is it?

451. I don't know.

452. Lily. It's my daughter.

453. Lily! Lily!

454. Lily! Lily!

455. What... what are you... What are you doing here?

456. How did you? Baby?

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

458. Are you okay? Are you okay?

459. Lily.

460. Are you... Lily?

461. Are you okay?

462. How did you get here?

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

464. How did you get here? How did you get here?