Kurt finds himself in an impossible and life-changing situation.
This episode features Zack Ginserg, Joseph Landau, and Bizzy Davis.
Written and directed by Zack Ginsberg and Sam Burton.
Transcript
Dad Magick
Episode 8 – Three Points
ALBERT drags KURT through the woods and chains him up against the tree. He whistles while pouring a circle of salt around the tree, Kurt, and himself. KURT begins to wake.
KURT:
(groggy)
My fucking head.
ALBERT:
Aw, Kurt. Kurt, you’re awake. That’s great.
KURT:
(disoriented)
Where are we?
ALBERT:
Where are we? Where are we. Kurt, we’re in a very special place. You know, when I first met your father, he told me this was a very special place. At first I didn’t believe him because, well, look around. But, he was right. Do you know why it’s a very special place?
KURT:
Fuck you. I saw the tape, I saw what you did to her. I know why you have me tied to this tree. I know what you’re gonna do.
ALBERT:
It’s not a tree, Kurt! It’s a door to a place that is above, below, and all around us. I know you feel it. Doesn’t it feel like coming home? You feel it because you’re special, Kurt. Special like me! Do you even know why you’re special, Kurt? Do you even know who you are? Who I am?
KURT:
You were on that tape. You’re Walter.
WALTER:
(laughing/incensed)
Walter? From the videotape? Is that all I am to my own grandson?
KURT:
Eustace was your son-
WALTER:
What?! What?! You think I would sire a failure like your father? No son of mine! Your mother would be so disappointed in you.
KURT:
Because she took me away from you psychos after you murdered my brother?
WALTER:
Brother? Brother? You’re still in denial after having watched your own birth. I can see why it would be a touchy subject for her sister, but nevertheless.
A car rolls down the path and into the driveway.
WALTER:
Oh! Speak of the devil. It’s only fitting that she should be here for this. Maybe she’ll finally be ready to talk to you about it!
KURT:
Mom. Mom!
WALTER:
She’s not your mom, Kurt.
KURT:
Mom!
WALTER:
Stop calling her that!
ANNABELLE:
Walter! Where are you?!
WALTER:
Finally, the prodigal daughter returns!
ABBY/ANNABELLE comes running through the woods to the tree.
ANNABELLE:
Shut the fuck up, dad! How dare you! Fucking come back here and play wizard in the woods! Get the fuck away from my son!
WALTER:
You don’t have to call him that anymore. He knows. You can stop pretending.
KURT:
Mom! Mom, be careful. He’s fucking crazy!
ANNABELLE:
I know that better than anyone.
WALTER:
You don’t get to tell me about what you know. You ran! You ran when we were so close!
ANNABELLE:
You stood there and watched as that lunatic murdered your daughter!
WALTER:
So did you!
ANNABELLE:
That’s not how it happened!
WALTER:
Come on, Kurt! Who did you think was filming?
ANNABELLE:
That’s not-
KURT:
Mom? You weren’t really part of all this, were you?
ANNABELLE:
Kurt, my sister… I came here after I found out she was pregnant, and… I’d just never seen her so happy. And Eustace just… brainwashed her.
WALTER:
No, no, no. Eustace showed her the truth!
ANNABELLE:
That is bullshit. Eustace… changed her But I could never take her away from something that made her happy. But then it went too far. I watched my sister die, and for our fathers, that still wasn’t far enough! Thirty years later and he’s still playing this fucking game!
WALTER:
The wrong daughter died that day.
ANNABELLE:
Fuck you! Fuck.. fuck you! Kurt, I should’ve told you.
WALTER:
(mocking)
Should’ve told him? Should’ve told him? Kurt! Kurt, after all this, she hasn’t even gotten to the good stuff yet!
ANNABELLE:
Jesus Christ, dad! There’s no such thing as magic! The tree isn’t a fucking door! This circle of salt is not an altar! And that is not a key, that is your fucking grandson!
WALTER:
(menacing)
And what about this?
WALTER pulls out and brandishes the knife.
ANNABELLE:
(mocking)
Ohh, the blade of Irkalla! La-di-da! What’s that little pinprick gonna do against this baseball bat?
WALTER:
This is no mere knife! This is the lock to the door-
ANNABELLE:
Also it’s supposed to be a lock?! That doesn’t make any sense! People do not go into knives!
WALTER:
Enough! It is time to finish what has been started.
ANNABELLE:
What has been started? You’re just a crazy old man, in the woods, trying to summon a demon, and you don’t even get it! Three of a line! The stars align! Son. Mother. Grandfather. If you want to complete this spell, stab yourself!
WALTER:
I will hear no more of this heresy!
ANNABELLE:
Fine then. Try me.
WALTER:
Very well.
ANNABELLE rushes WALTER and attacks him. The two of them go back and forth until she finally knocks him down and winds him.
KURT:
Holy shit, mom! That was incredible! Come on, can you get me out of here?
ANNABELLE:
(winded)
Just give me a second. Yeah.
KURT:
Holy shit am I glad to see you.
ANNABELLE:
Sorry I didn’t get here sooner. I knew something fucked up was gonna happen.
KURT:
Well if I had known, I wouldn’t have come.
ANNABELLE:
Thought you were just gonna find some empty cabin.
KURT:
I mean, what the fuck is all of this?
ANNABELLE:
I know, baby, I know.
KURT:
I mean, really, what the fuck?
ANNABELLE:
I know. It’s a combination lock. What’s the combination?!
WALTER:
(groaning)
Fuck you.
ANNABELLE:
What’s the combination, Walter?
She kicks him in the stomach.
ANNABELLE:
What’s the combination.
WALTER:
Six. Six. Six.
ANNABELLE:
Fucking child.
KURT:
Did… did you say he was trying to summon a demon?
ANNABELLE:
I know, baby, I’m sorry. None of this matter. It doesn’t exist.
ANNABELLE unlocks the chains and KURT is free.
KURT:
Oh god, thank you. Thank you so much for coming.
ANNABELLE:
Of course, I would never leave you. Let’s get out of here. Can you walk?
KURT:
Yeah. Yeah, fuck, my head, but… I’m good, I’m good.
ANNABELLE:
Okay, let’s go.
They start walking away when WALTER lunges and attacks ANNABELLE. She screams.
KURT:
Mom! You motherfucker, I’ll kill you!
ANNABELLE:
My leg!
KURT beats the shit out of WALTER. In a rage, he picks up the knife that’s lying in the dirt and walks toward the beaten WALTER.
ANNABELLE:
Kurt, you don’t have to do this!
KURT squats on WALTER’s stomach.
KURT:
You never should’ve come here.
KURT lifts the knife with both hands and stabs WALTER in the chest. There is a loud ringing and cacophony of sounds as the door opens and KURT begins to change.
KURT:
Oh… Hmm… Oh god. This… this is different.
ANNABELLE:
Kurt?
KURT:
I… feel… Annie?
ANNABELLE:
Stay away from me.
He laughs and breathes and grunts inhumanly.
ANNABELLE:
No.
KURT:
I feel, I feel all of it now. He chose me.
ANNABELLE:
(crying)
Don’t fucking touch me.
KURT:
He chose me! Oh, I can feel all of it now! It’s mine now! I feel all of it now!
ANNABELLE:
(crying)
No. Don’t fucking touch me.
KURT keeps talking but it becomes unintelligible. ANNABELLE watches in terror until, all at once, the cacophony ends, the door closes, and KURT vanishes. Injured, horrified, and distraught, ANNABELLE sits in the dirt, cries, and screams.