"Aah!" "Tell me about the Merge." "You things can't stay where you're from, so you come here." "Aah!" "Why can't I get it out of you?" "What you did to those poor people... making them all like that." "Is that supposed to bring on this Merge somehow?" "We'll stay here as long as it takes till you tell me how to stop it." "It's too late." "The Great Merge cannot be stopped." "Allison?" "Tongue." "Orderly!" "Easy now." "Easy now." "You're okay." "You're okay." "Shh!" "You're okay." "You're okay." "You're okay." "Hello?" "He got his." "Why don't I get one, too?" "Get one?" "Yours was even better." "Not all used up." "My what?" "She shines nice and bright." "Your little firefly." "What did you say?" "Hey!" "What are you talking about?" "It hurts." "It hurts." "It hurts." "They'll hurt her, too." "What did you...?" "Who are they gonna...?" "Who are they going to hurt?" "Who are they going to hurt?" "Who are they going to hurt?" "Please, talk to me!" "Please, talk to me!" "What are you doing?" "My mother wants to turn my old room into a crafting studio, where she can make her vanilla-scented," "Jesus-shaped candles or some bullshit." "So she suggested I sort through my keepsakes and pick out what I want to save." "It turns out... not a fucking thing." "Yeah, I meant, what are you doing here?" "Our house is haunted." "This one isn't?" "Jeanie told me you were here." "I thought she was having a fucking stroke." "No such luck." "Why don't you come stay at my place?" "I bug-bombed the whole house for you." "You should've used a regular bomb." "Come on, I'm serious." "You can stay in mom's old room." "I'll even, I don't know, buy new sheets or whatever it is you want me to do." "No." "I can't be around you." "What?" "I don't believe that bad things happen because of you, that you're cursed or any of that demon bullshit... but Holly does." "What happened to Mark..." "Holly thinks Amber had something to do with it." "Amber told Holly, that Allison had a "black thing" inside of her, but you two have "super powers,"" "so she can fight it if it ever comes back." "She said you told her that." "Megan..." "Tell me you don't believe it." "It's a fairy story, so she can sleep at night." "Kyle..." "You know how much you mean to me." "When it seemed like I didn't have anyone..." "I always had you." "But that's crazy, Kyle." "And if we're going to get past this, we can't be around the crazy." "What the...?" "Okay." "Where's the Chief?" "Let me get through." "All right." "Y'all..." "Okay." "We've got it." "All right." "All right!" "Everybody..." "Everybody, please!" "Now, we're going to let you know when there's news." "So please, please, let us do our job." "Go on home, now." "We heard it was some kind of sacrifice." "Yeah!" "Devil worship?" "Okay, okay." "Let me nip that right here in the bud right now." "Crazy rumors aren't going to help anybody with anything." "Is it crazy?" "We've heard things." "That's right." "Yeah." "That's right." "People getting sick, violent." "Some folks just upped and disappearin' and nobody doin' anything." "The cops, not doin' anything about it." "That's right!" "Tell us the truth." "The truth?" "The truth is a woman is dead." "One of our neighbors, murdered in her own home." "There isn't any devil worship." "There isn't any kind of conspiracy." "What it is... is a tragedy, and I'm not gonna let it turn into some goddamn circus." "So, I want everyone to take a deep breath." "And I want you to go on home and say a prayer... for our sister who has gone on home much too early." "All right." "Motherfuckers." "This doesn't sound right at all." "It's a shitty time for the department to be a man down." "That's why I'm here." "What's this?" "My "honey-do" list?" "Suspects." "What?" "You just said you were short staffed." "Let me help." "Well, now, there must be a dozen names here, Rosie." "If it happens within families, we should consider the people next closest." "Yeah, but..." "Joe's worked the Austin farm for 20 years." "Then, Lindsey Bartlett chaired the Easter Fair with Kat Ogden, and they were thick as thieves." "But..." "Byron, we agreed this has to be stopped." "Like this?" "Guilt by association?" "So would you prefer we wait until things are out of control?" "They already are out of control." "You saw what was going on out there." "Rose, honey, if we get people suspecting each other, they'll burn each other at the stake." "So we do nothing?" "These things hide... inside of people we've known our whole lives, people we care about." "We have to get the right ones before we really start to get our hands dirty." "You don't treat children here." "So, who is he?" "Why is he locked up like that?" "I can't discuss other patients, Allison." "Then how does that guy in the beanie know all about me?" "He called my daughter "firefly," only my husband calls her that." "Your husband came to visit." "Kirby probably overheard you." "Then how does he know what happened to Amber that night?" "He described her bedroom." "He's a troubled young man." "I'll make sure he doesn't bother you again." "I think it's time for me to leave." "You can't keep me here." "We don't want to keep you here." "We want you to leave when you're ready." "I'm ready." "Let's consider this your final session then." "You understand now what happened with your daughter?" "I was in a dissociative state." "You weren't taken over by some evil force that was controlling your actions, like your husband believes?" "That's insane." "And you feel it's safe for you to leave here?" "I'll be fine." "It's safe for your family." "For you to be around them." "That these... "dark forces"" "that you felt beleaguered by won't try to follow you home... won't cause you to lash out... to try to destroy these demons in your head." "To hurt..." "Amber... again." "It's a beaut, huh?" "3000 watts... air-cooled." "I sold a lot of them babies during the floods." "Man, that was positively Biblical." "Yep." "Is the boy in there?" "You know, I respect your position, Sidney, but we're all here to facilitate a smooth transition." "As long as there's a psycho killer on the loose, things are anything but smooth around here." "You need to give him up." "Now, look, don't believe your own press." "You didn't fall from the right hand of God, his favorite amongst the angels." "If you can't do this job, someone else will step up." "We are all the same." "You think you're like me?" "Maybe we all start the same, but it's who we merge with here, together, who we become, that separates the wolves from the sheep." "Now, what that boy in there did... you think you've got that in you?" "You're not even in the same league." "Now, he needs mentoring, but when the time comes, whoever gets him is going to have a bright future." "You're sick." "Yeah." "That's what makes me the motivated leader I am today." "Now, why don't you run along and help facilitate a smooth transition?" " You good with that?" " Is that okay?" "I was just thinking about you." "Good thoughts, I hope." "Well, that's what we generate out here." "That and some killer barbecue." "Hope you'll join us for lunch?" "What will it cost me?" "I have to sit through the snake handling after?" "Dinner and a show." "We're not selling time-shares." "You need to work on your sales pitch a little." "No pitch." "You came here." "Twice." "I don't know why." "I used to believe I was good at something." "So good at this one thing, I didn't bother with anything else." "It was all I needed." "I mean, you thought you were the one handling the snakes, but they'd all had their fangs pulled out while the real evil was slithering right past you." "Something like that?" "Pretty much exactly that." "We want the same thing." "No, I don't think we want the same thing at all." "Keep your pants on." "You had one inside of you?" "We all did." "Everyone here." "Told me the mark would go away, but that was the only thing he told me that wasn't true." "Who?" "Who took it out of you?" "I ran away from home when I was 16." "Long story, but I was living on the street... when my little visitor showed up." "That's where I met my savior." "Where's your savior now?" "I wish I knew." "Helping others like us come to the light." "We've all had a revelation." "Reverend, we've looked into the heart of our enemy." "What did you see?" "Did you see what they are, what they want?" "What they want is to devour everything that we are." "And you believe the fight's real." "That's why you're here." "So you two were just gonna leave?" "These were for Holly, but..." "I guess you can take them with you." "We're not leaving this minute, Mom." "I don't know why you have to go at all." "It's been really wonderful having you home, Megs." "We hope you're making the best decision for Holly." "She's suffered a terrible loss, and it might be good for her to stay here for a while." "She could start school in the fall." "She'd go to your old elementary." "And there are so many young families in the neighborhood now." "You're actually suggesting that I raise my daughter under this roof." "Mom and I have been talking." "Soul searching." "Yeah, about what went on, when you were younger." "We failed you." "We never should have let you stop going to church." "If we had helped you find the spiritual strength you needed, things might be easier now." "And you'd know..." "Mark is in a better place." "Mark isn't gone." "He's still here." "It's you two who are dead." "That's the only way you couldn't have heard it." "Sweetheart..." "The screaming." "The sobbing." "My bed... banging against the wall." "Megs..." " It was Donnie." "Raping me... forcing my legs apart, holding me down... fucking me." " That's enough!" " Night after night." "Under your noses." "And you did... nothin'." "Nothin' but go to church." "You recognize any of those names?" "Some of the families are still around, but this is long before I came to Rome." "Come on, all these names and nobody remembers a damn thing?" "Not even a ghost story, like they never existed." "That make sense to you?" "This town is much better at keeping secrets than I ever imagined." "What about that body you found?" "Bob told me there was somebody like Sidney here before." "He never mentioned that to you?" "Never breathed a word about it?" "You implying something?" "Look, all I'm saying is that if we're gonna stop this, we can't keep secrets from each other." "Chief, you were rounding people up with those things inside them and keeping them in a cage." "Is there anything else you want to mention?" "No." "That's all I got." "Something you need to see you, Chief." "The real issue is fear." "We can't let it rule our lives." "Keep us from loving our neighbors and raising our families." "So we're going to have a town meeting tonight at 7:30 at the school, and I encourage everyone to come out." "We'll discuss how the authorities have dealt with this tragedy, and whether we need to make any changes going forward." "Okay, thank you." "I will see you tonight." "Is that a threat, Owen?" "No, that's democracy in action, Byron." "What are you up to?" "We have our differences, Chief, no doubt, but we both want the same thing." "We love this town, love our way of life, want to see it go on... and I can help you with that." "I know where Aaron McCready is." "He's with Sidney." "We know that." "How do you?" "Well, the reverend was right about Sidney." "Well, not that he's the Devil, but he is a threat to this town, to everything I'm trying to accomplish here." "What the fuck is going on, Owen?" "You come with me, get that menace off the streets, and I'll tell you everything." "Stop moving." "Oh, God." "You begging for God now?" "You are a fickle little creature." "Stop!" "Stop." "I have to remove the dead flesh." "Doctor's orders." "Please, please!" "Stop, stop!" "Please, please." "Stop, stop." "Did your mother say those words to you?" "Is that what you wanted?" "Hear her beg for mercy?" "See it in her eyes when you pushed the knife in?" "Yeah." "Why?" "So you could feel more powerful?" "I thought that was the fucking point." "That we're better than them." "There's no "we" yet." "Power... is meaningless if you can't apply it judiciously... when it has a purpose." "You think... being a sadistic little coward, you think that impresses me?" "That doesn't make you powerful." "You cut that guy's throat right in front of me." "I did it for you." "Turn around." "Turn around." "Everything... for a purpose." "Yes." "Amber!" "Mommy!" "Mommy!" "Hi, baby!" "Are you okay?" "Did you escape?" "Yes, I did." "Oh..." "All right, Owen." "You better not be fuckin' with us." "Upstairs." "Ah, shit." "You son of a..." "Hey, hey!" "You setting' us up?" "What is this, huh?" "They were holed up out here." "God knows what he was doing with that boy." "How did you know Sidney was holed up out here?" "Don't tell me" "I've been sitting across the poker table from one of them things." "Byron, come on, now." "Take it easy." "Kyle!" "What?" "Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!" "Hey!" "Mm-hmm." "Mm-hmm." "You thought you knew all my tells." "Every time I was bluffing." "You said what a shitty poker face I had." "Well, let me ask you... when did it happen?" "Hmm?" "It's like that old commercial where they tell people at a fancy restaurant they're drinking decaf instant coffee." "And they act all shocked, like they could tell the difference anyway." "Why would you give up Sidney like this?" "I thought you all wanted the same things." "You think I wanted that to happen to Patricia?" "Hmm?" "I swore an oath to serve the people of this town." "Mm-mm." "Owen Boyd did." "Oh, I am Owen Boyd, goddamn it!" "What is Sidney?" "A killer, a psychopath." "I can offer you amnesty." "You stop messing with us, and I'll make sure no one messes with you." "You, your little girl." "Nobody has to be worried about getting locked in a closet." "Okay." "How do I know you won't come after us?" "You need us." "Well, there are others out there." "It might set us back some... but we'll make do." "What about them, huh?" "The next ones." "What happens to them after you use them up?" "Our world has been collapsing for sometime now." "When we threw your kind out, we didn't know we were setting our own house on fire." "And when your house is burning, there isn't a plan, everyone just runs for the exit." "There wasn't enough room for us there," "I doubt there will be here." "What then?" "You'll find out soon enough." "But I'd be more concerned with what's happening now." "That's for certain." "Chief!" "Hmm?" "Ah..." "Hey, you." "Just towing away some junk here that nobody wants." "Wanna look at me?" "Wow." "What do you say?" "Public enemy number one shows his face... and that is some face, too." "I'm not fuckin' around." "Why don't you wait till your balls drop, then you call me, we'll talk, huh?" "I said, look at me, asshole." "Whoa." "Big gun for a little turd." "Sidney has some questions for you." "Which one is Sidney again?" "God!" "Tell me about Helen." "She put the pedal to the metal on our mission here," "I want to know how." "I thought you guys all shared information on the other side." "Only if you come back." "She never came back." "But others did." "We know she found a way to speed up the process, to get us here faster." "Tell me what it was." "Why the fuck should I want more of you assholes here?" "What you did to your mother... was senseless." "What you're gonna do to him, that's a means to our end." "Looks like your balls are gonna drop now, bitch." "She changed 'em." "Changed who?" "The ones like Barnes, and the other ones with the lights... the beacons!" "Changed them?" "How?" "How?" "I don't know!" "She did something to... to make 'em more powerful." "Let's go." "What about him?" "Byron!" "I'll catch up with you." "Where have you been?" "I've been trying to reach you all afternoon." "Looks like we're going to have to get our hands dirty." "It's a pleasure to see so many familiar faces here tonight." "I just wish it was under kinder circumstances." "We all mourn the loss of our sister Patricia McCready." "Whether you knew Patricia as I did, or not, the..." "The loss of any member of a community diminishes the whole." "Now, I've never been one to pander or sugarcoat the truth, so I'm just going to grab the bull by the horns here." "Excuse me." "Some of you believe this is the work of dark forces." "Yeah." "That there are monsters, loose in our midst." "Folks, the only monsters out there are the ones within ourselves." "They eat us up from inside." "We look at the faces of our neighbors and suddenly see strangers, worst enemies." "Our dear friends and loved ones transformed by the fear that festers inside our hearts." "But we will not give in to those monsters because something better is on the way." "It's my responsibility to ensure that nothing gets in the way of a brighter future where we can walk our streets again without fear, safe in the knowledge that we all share one collective purpose for one common good." "But to bring about this vision..." "Excuse me." "To calm the storm that has blackened our skies, will require hard change." "New commitment, new resolve... and I regret to say... new leadership within our police department." "Effective immediately Byron Giles, who has served this community with loyalty and distinction, will be stepping down." "Officer Laura Nuñez will be named interim chief until a new replacement can be found." "I make this decision with a heavy heart, but it's with the interest of every man, woman, and child in this room." "The hell it is, Owen!" "Please, Byron." "By..." "Chief, we're done here." "Too bad!" "I got something to say." "Now, I've known you all for nearly a lifetime." "Keeping you safe... has been more than a job to me." "But now," "I can't save you people from what I know is coming." "Not without a little help." "Byron..." "There comes a time when each of us must take responsibility, not just for ourselves but for each and every one of us." "Thank you, Chief." "I'm not finished!" "Your mayor... is a damn liar." "Byron..." "And if he gets his way, these monsters that he says just don't exist... well they are going to come down and they are going to destroy each and every one of you." "You don't believe me?" "God speed." "But I for one plan on fighting to the death, because that's exactly what it's going to take." "Byron!" "Kiss my ass!" "Byron?" "Honey..." "What happened?" "Everybody remain calm!" "Get the hell away from my husband." "He's gonna be fine!" "Rev." "We're gonna get the chief..." "The former chief, some medical attention." "Come on." "This meeting is over." "Vacate the building!" "Rev, come on!" "Look out!" "Get out of the way!" "Byron!" "Ah, shit." "Chief?" "Hey." "Giles..." "Giles." "Wait, hey..." "Hey, wait." "It's okay." "I'm gonna help you." "It's okay." "It's okay." "That's it." "It's okay." "Sorry I missed your visit today." "You left me no choice." "You should've killed that freak when you had the chance." "Hey, sticks and stones, dick head." "Oh..." "I could snap your neck... end your delusional little life right now." "What happened in there?" "The chief was taken right in front of everyone." "The timing could have been better." "You didn't feel it?" "What?" "Kyle wasn't the only one." "There was another." "Someone more focused, made their combined light more powerful." "Who?" "Well, I certainly intend to find out." "All right... go ahead." "Byron!" "Byron, no!" "Kyle!" "Kyle?" "No!" "Byron!" "Honey?" "Are you okay?" "Careful." "Careful, don't move him." "Help!" "Help!" "Kyle..." "Ky..." "Kyle." "Kyle?" "Hey, hey." "Hey... hey." "I'm sorry, I should've believed you." "Hey, stay with me." "Hey, I'm right here, stay with me." "Kyle?" "Help!" "Captioned by Point.360."