Kurt watches a horrific video that shows him the type of man his father was.
This episode features Zack Ginsberg, Sam Burton, Bizzy Davis, and Joseph Landau.
Written and directed by Zack Ginsberg and Sam Burton.
Transcript
Dad Magick
Episode 6 – The Door
KURT carries a box upstairs from the basement and sets it down. It’s totally dark outside now, so he turns on a light, but the bulb buzzes and then bursts. He walks over to the TV with the videotape in his hand and kneels down to the VCR.
KURT:
You don’t have to watch this.
He puts the tape in.
KURT:
You could just drive home. You can leave any time.
The tape begins to play. It’s shot at night under the same tree from before. EUSTACE and WALTER stand in frame, and CAROLINE is lying down, pregnant and in labour. She breathes heavily while the others talk.
EUSTACE:
That’s it, Caroline. In. Out. That’s it, just breathe. We’re almost there, my love.
ANNABELLE:
(under her breath)
Jesus Christ… Carrie…
EUSTACE:
Oh, you’re so beautiful, so strong. Just in, out.
WALTER:
That’s it. The salt goes all the way around the door. The eyes are complete!
WALTER begins chanting in another language.
EUSTACE:
Walter! WALTER! WALTER! BE QUIET!
ANNABELLE:
Carrie, are you okay? You’re gonna be fine. Carrie, you’re gonna be fine. You’re gonna be okay.
CAROLINE:
(through heavy breathing)
Yes! Yes!
EUSTACE:
You heard her, little sunflower! She has more than enough strength for this, and now is not the time to invite doubt. We stand at the precipice now. She has nearly forged the lock. One journey ends and another begins. Now, Walter, hand me the key.
WALTER:
I present to ye, the blade of Irkalla!
WALTER hands the knife to EUSTACE.
EUSTACE:
Are you ready, my love? We’re about to begin.
Then by the blade of Irkalla, the blood of the first!
EUSTACE cuts his own hand and grunts. He begins chanting an incantation.
EUSTACE:
Sum-too-roo-da!
The constellations carve his name!
EUSTACE & WALTER:
Sum-too-roo-da!
EUSTACE:
Behind the door, a blinding light!
EUSTACE, WALTER & CAROLINE:
Sum-too-roo-da!
EUSTACE:
And of the three that forge the lock!
EUSTACE, WALTER & CAROLINE:
Sum-too-roo-da!
EUSTACE:
The key, through them, is turned tonight.
EUSTACE turns to CAROLINE.
EUSTACE:
The rest depends on you, my love. Are you ready?
CAROLINE:
Yes!
EUSTACE:
Caroline, you are so brave, so strong. We’re about to open the door and pass through to reap what we have sown, but my love, my love, this will hurt.
CAROLINE:
It already hurts! Just do it!
EUSTACE:
Then by the blade of Irkalla, the blood of the second!
EUSTACE begins to slice open CAROLINE’s stomach. She screams, and a blinding white light blanks out the TV screen.
KURT:
(screaming)
What happened?! What happened?! It all went white, what happened? What did you do? What the fuck did you do?
KURT begins smacking the side of the TV.
KURT:
Come back! Come back! Show me! Show me what you did!
The light fades and the tape resumes.
EUSTACE:
Oh, Caroline. Caroline, it’s a boy. He’s beautiful. He’s perfect.
ANNABELLE:
Eustace, do something! She’s dying!
EUSTACE:
Walter, Walter, come hold him. Come hold him.
WALTER:
Let him work, Annie!
EUSTACE:
Walter, come. Yes, hold him steady, hold him steady. I have to cut the cord.
WALTER:
Yes, of course.
KURT:
That’s my brother.
ANNABELLE:
Eustace, do something!
WALTER:
We’re doing everything we can!
EUSTACE:
Shut the fuck up! Let me focus, we’re almost there.
KURT:
Don’t do it.
EUSTACE:
Now, by the blade of Irkalla, the blood of the third!
EUSTACE cuts the umbilical cord.
WALTER:
Yes!
KURT:
No! WHY?! You’ll kill them!
A strange ringing noise begins coming from around the tree.
EUSTACE:
We’ve done it! Oh, we’ve done it. I can feel the lock turning. Forged of the three, the mother, the father, the son. Caroline, can you feel it?
WALTER:
Yes. Yes! Yes! Oh, the magnificence. Oh, the glory. Yes, we’re so close! Yes!
EUSTACE:
Oh, it’s so- The door is opening! It’s so warm! We can go through! Caroline, my love, come with me! Do you fell this? Come through with me!
KURT:
(sniffling, crying)
There’s nothing there, there’s nothing there! You killed them, there’s nothing there!
WALTER:
Ahhhhhh, the glory! Haha! Ahhh haha! I feel it! Eustace, I feel it! The beauty of a thousand moons! The shine! The shine! Yes!
EUSTACE:
Come… through… It’s so bright. It’s heaven, it’s so warm. It’s the paradise we’ve always wanted. You feel it, my little sunflowers. Caroline! Caroline, come through! Do you feel it? It’s…
WALTER:
We’re there, Eustace! No, no, Eustace! Eustace, focus! We’re right there! Eustace!
The ringing from the tree stops.
EUSTACE:
What’s wrong?
(begins to break down)
No! No, no, no, no, no!
WALTER:
We were just there! We were right… Oh, we gotta do it again.
EUSTACE:
Oh, I felt it. You felt it! You all felt it! Walter, I know you felt it! Carrie, you saw it!
WALTER:
We can do it. We can do it again.
ANNABELLE:
Oh my god, Carrie, the baby! Oh my god! Carrie…
EUSTACE:
You saw it! You felt it, you felt– No! What’s wrong? You felt it! No… You felt it.. You felt it, Carrie, stay.. I know you felt it, my love, stay with me. I know you felt it. I know you..
ANNABELLE:
We need to help her!
WALTER:
We have to do it again. We have to do it one more time. We can be there.
ANNABELLE:
We need to help her. She can’t! Stop! It’s too much! Stop! We need to help her!
EUSTACE:
Carrie, stay. Carrie, stay with me. Carrie, what’s wrong? What’s wrong, Carrie? Stay with me, Carrie.
WALTER:
Do it again! Do it again! Do it again!
The tape turns to static. KURT is weeping. The tape returns to EUSTACE alone in the basement of the house.
EUSTACE:
The key will be turned, the lock will turn red. To open it, turn it, again and again.
KURT:
Fuck you. Fuck you! FUCK YOU!
EUSTACE:
This is where it all started. I copied the instructions for the ritual from the Dark Book myself.
KURT:
You killed them! The woman that you loved!
EUSTACE:
I spent years perfecting the translation, but now I… Now I don’t know.
KURT:
Your own child. Your own child!
EUSTACE:
What went wrong?!
KURT:
This is what I was born for? Some backup plan?
EUSTACE:
The lock was forged correctly! Three points of one line. The father, the mother, the son. The key to open it. We stood there, right there. Right in front of the door.
KURT:
And mom… Oh god, mom. I understand. I finally understand.
EUSTACE:
It doesn’t matter now.
KURT:
There was nothing for me here.
EUSTACE:
It’s too late.
KURT:
Just a frightened man alone in the woods.
EUSTACE:
When I began all this, all I wanted to know was that there was something more, something more than this ugly world. This world we made wrong.
KURT:
I shouldn’t be here.
EUSTACE:
Just to know, just to know! That’s it! I would’ve given anything. I would’ve done… But I couldn’t even pay the price.
KURT:
No one should. Fuck you.
EUSTACE:
My beautiful Caroline. My Isaac.
KURT:
Fuck you.
EUSTACE:
He’s gone now. One less star in the night to guide me.
KURT:
Mom… I understand now.
EUSTACE:
Tonight I will bury Caroline underneath that tree, wanting only…
KURT:
You wanted to erase him. He should be.
EUSTACE:
Just to know, just to know, just so I can know for certain.
KURT:
He should be erased!
EUSTACE:
Walter remains… compelled, but, as for myself…
KURT:
If I had never come here, he would be.
EUSTACE:
The only reason I could continue would be for them. But without them… I can’t.
KURT:
I’ll do it myself. I’ll burn this house down! I’ll turn this whole forest into ash!
KURT picks up the whiskey bottle and throws it through the living room window, shattering it.