The Gentleman From Hell |S1| Ep. 53

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Speaker 1 Ugh, what the hell happened?

Speaker 3 I

Speaker 13 don't know.

Speaker 14 We were upstairs, and now

Speaker 14 the sparrows.

Speaker 6 I remember the sound.

Speaker 6 Sparrows!

Speaker 16 It was everywhere.

Speaker 16 Wings fluttering all around me.

Speaker 3 Well, son of a bitch.

Speaker 17 Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 5 One of them got in.

Speaker 18 Hopped right through the front door, but

Speaker 18 that's about all I remember.

Speaker 19 Elijah.

Speaker 6 I heard him.

Speaker 20 In my mind. He summoned them.

Speaker 19 Witch birds.

Speaker 20 Somehow they knocked us all out and then brought us all here.

Speaker 20 Um

Speaker 12 does anyone else have a needle mark in their arm?

Speaker 21 Shit, I do. They even band-aided it.

Speaker 22 I guess just met the alcohol swab they used to clean the site.

Speaker 3 I even re-bandaged my bullet wound.

Speaker 17 Since these bruises from the fake bullets don't sting anywhere near as they show them.

Speaker 17 Thinking they even hooked me up with some painkillers.

Speaker 12 Why the hell are they being so careful with us?

Speaker 20 They wanted our blood to make up for the objects we took, but I have no idea why they took such pains about it.

Speaker 20 Unless the ritual requires us to be in reasonably good shape.

Speaker 21 Christ, we must have been out for a while. It's almost three in the morning.
We need to get moving.

Speaker 12 I'll juice up the resonator.

Speaker 5 we gotta get into the panic room before the goddamn mist shows up

Speaker 17 i don't know about that reasonably good shape requirement

Speaker 19 here i got you ready

Speaker 19 thanks

Speaker 17 I need to snag a cane from the antiques room just to stay on my feet.

Speaker 20 Phyllis, what happened up there?

Speaker 22 Between you and that man?

Speaker 6 I wish I knew. I just...

Speaker 20 Well, I entered his mind.

Speaker 23 More than that, I think.

Speaker 12 The resonator's gone. Along with all the rest of the equipment.

Speaker 14 Speakers, computers, firearms, all of it.

Speaker 17 Wait a minute.

Speaker 23 Son of a bitch, they took my piece.

Speaker 21 All the mine are gone, too.

Speaker 6 The same goes for me.

Speaker 22 What the hell are we going to do?

Speaker 16 Black noons right on top of us.

Speaker 21 I stashed a bunch of equipment in one of the back storage rooms. I wonder if they took that too.
We should check it out. Salvage what we can.

Speaker 6 What good is equipment against what's coming?

Speaker 12 We at least need flashlights, radios, whatever we can use to move around the mansion.

Speaker 15 Well,

Speaker 12 whatever's going to happen, have lights.

Speaker 20 No, I don't think that's a good idea.

Speaker 18 What are you talking about, Phil?

Speaker 18 What's not a good idea?

Speaker 20 Staying in the mansion.

Speaker 20 The rite of dissension is being performed on the anniversary of the sparrows' death, where they were buried in unhollowed earth, where their mother died trying to dig them free from hell.

Speaker 20 Right below our very feet.

Speaker 21 Rite of dissension?

Speaker 20 We really don't have time for lengthy explanations. Suffice it to say, my clairvoyance has been working overtime.
But I think, oh, I know, we need to get away from the mansion before the mists arrive.

Speaker 16 But

Speaker 16 I'm here.

Speaker 16 We're defenseless.

Speaker 20 I think that'll be the case no matter where we go.

Speaker 6 But it will be far worse here.

Speaker 20 Trust me.

Speaker 18 Help you heard it, folks.

Speaker 6 Time to go.

Speaker 21 I'll hit the storage room and grab whatever I can. Someone pulled the truck around.

Speaker 15 I'll get it.

Speaker 18 I guess I'll just stay here and limp around.

Speaker 20 You can help me pack up some of the food.

Speaker 18 Shotting.

Speaker 18 Oh, God.

Speaker 6 We better hurry.

Speaker 22 The Mr. Sergeanta Farm.
Oh, fuck.

Speaker 6 Leon! We gotta go, ASAP!

Speaker 12 Well, we can only take what we can carry. All the vehicles are gone.

Speaker 23 You gotta be fucking kidding me.

Speaker 21 Okay, I grabbed as much.

Speaker 6 Just so we can carry, Leon.

Speaker 18 They took all the trucks.

Speaker 18 Fucking great.

Speaker 21 Well, there's flashlights, a bunch of spare walkies, and that lantern we took from Gaffney's car.

Speaker 21 With all the electrical problems Ben had during Black Noon, I'm thinking old-fashioned might be the way to go.

Speaker 20 That's the elevator.

Speaker 6 It's coming up.

Speaker 3 Alright, let's move it.

Speaker 21 No matter what happens, we stay glued.

Speaker 12 Through the woods, the streets? Where do we go?

Speaker 3 Let's walk along the edge of the woods.

Speaker 18 Safer that way.

Speaker 17 We keep clear of both the deep forest and the city.

Speaker 6 That's fine by me.

Speaker 23 I know.

Speaker 6 We don't have a choice.

Speaker 22 But I still can't believe we're doing this.

Speaker 8 We gotta go.

Speaker 21 The elevator's almost here.

Speaker 16 Good God.

Speaker 6 It's like a different world out here.

Speaker 20 Everything's so washed out.

Speaker 6 We shouldn't be here.

Speaker 16 This place.

Speaker 16 It's all wrong.

Speaker 17 Whatever's happening here, it's better than what happened the other night when the Saturdays showed up.

Speaker 21 Maybe, maybe not.

Speaker 12 While it looks similar, this isn't exactly Cold Sparrow anymore. Cold Sparrow never had towers like those.

Speaker 20 You're right. It's like the whole city's transformed.
Mutated.

Speaker 8 Good lord, an earthquake!

Speaker 20 Look, the mansion.

Speaker 12 It's sinking.

Speaker 21 The earth. It's cracking open.

Speaker 18 We gotta get out of here.

Speaker 16 Come on! Run!

Speaker 19 Mace!

Speaker 23 Just keep going!

Speaker 23 I'll get you!

Speaker 21 The fuck you will. Come on, I got you!

Speaker 23 You're a stubborn frick.

Speaker 3 You know that?

Speaker 21 I'll have it tattooed on my arm if you shut up and move your ass.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 12 We're clear of the tremor. We can rest.

Speaker 22 You're all right about getting out of the mansion. It looks like it's about ready to tumble straight into the ground.

Speaker 20 Not yet, it won't. Not till the sparrows finish their ritual.

Speaker 21 I take it that's what you meant by the ritual of dissension.

Speaker 20 It's like the hole the sparrows were thrown in so many years ago opened away.

Speaker 20 Straight to hell. That's what this has been about the whole time.
Building a bridge to hell. One sin at a time.

Speaker 18 Oh, I I for one.

Speaker 12 Listen, do you hear that?

Speaker 16 Is that coming from underground?

Speaker 18 We need to get as far away from here as we can.

Speaker 20 I second that.

Speaker 6 Are those church bells?

Speaker 12 I think I can see movement in the streets. Way over there.

Speaker 12 Hard to tell with the fog, though.

Speaker 18 You brought the binos,

Speaker 16 right?

Speaker 21 Yeah, I got him right here.

Speaker 21 I can see a church steeple just over the rooftops. That church was never there before.

Speaker 21 And there's.

Speaker 23 What the hell?

Speaker 12 What is it?

Speaker 21 I don't know what to call them. Humanoids?

Speaker 8 Ghouls? They're warped corpses.

Speaker 21 Some of them even look mutilated. There are dozens of them coming out of the houses, walking towards the church.

Speaker 6 We need to get away from here.

Speaker 25 And where would he be going, my dear?

Speaker 16 Watch on earth.

Speaker 6 You stay the fuck back.

Speaker 16 Or I swear to fuck I'll...

Speaker 17 Here,

Speaker 6 when the bell tolls...

Speaker 17 It tolls for you.

Speaker 17 Behind us! Four of them!

Speaker 21 Look, just stay back.

Speaker 8 We don't want any trouble.

Speaker 16 Oh, there's far more

Speaker 16 where we came from.

Speaker 16 And we'd love for you to join us.

Speaker 6 I

Speaker 6 don't think they belong here.

Speaker 15 They're not lost.

Speaker 3 Not yet.

Speaker 16 Oh, there's life in them.

Speaker 16 I can smell it.

Speaker 6 Twas me who found them. They're mine.

Speaker 1 And what does the priest say about sharing?

Speaker 24 Life, like the tolling of the cracked bell,

Speaker 16 belongs to all of us.

Speaker 16 The fuck it does!

Speaker 16 Run!

Speaker 8 Come on, go, go!

Speaker 6 It struck me!

Speaker 24 They're still behind us.

Speaker 21 There's a cord field up ahead. Maybe we can lose a minute.

Speaker 16 I can't keep up

Speaker 3 this pace.

Speaker 21 Up you go then.

Speaker 17 Take good care of her, Leon.

Speaker 23 And look after my family if you get out of this.

Speaker 21 What the fuck are you talking about, Mace? Let's go!

Speaker 21 I can't.

Speaker 16 Too busted up.

Speaker 8 I'm buying as much time as I can.

Speaker 16 No, Mace, don't you dare!

Speaker 3 Mesa more.

Speaker 12 But we can...

Speaker 16 Get the fuck out of here!

Speaker 16 Now!

Speaker 19 Mace.

Speaker 19 I'm okay.

Speaker 15 Me too.

Speaker 16 Please don't do this.

Speaker 16 Please. I'm begging you.

Speaker 23 Ain't got a choice.

Speaker 6 I'm sorry, Phil.

Speaker 15 Yo, Leon.

Speaker 15 Go!

Speaker 6 Get her out of here.

Speaker 21 Come on. We gotta go.

Speaker 21 No,

Speaker 21 me, please, no.

Speaker 16 You don't need to do this.

Speaker 6 I'm sorry, the way things worked out, Pauline.

Speaker 15 Emily,

Speaker 16 Grace,

Speaker 16 Frank.

Speaker 16 I fucked it all up.

Speaker 16 I love you all more than you all might be able to tell you.

Speaker 6 The fight seems to have left this one.

Speaker 20 I still

Speaker 20 smell some life

Speaker 6 clinging to those bones of his.

Speaker 4 There's hardly enough for all of us.

Speaker 16 We'll have to draw straws.

Speaker 16 You

Speaker 3 just try it.

Speaker 23 Oh, we intend to do far more than simply try you.

Speaker 23 Then stop talking and throw down, you motherfuckers.

Speaker 19 That's a splendid idea.

Speaker 3 Answer, you fuckers.

Speaker 6 Come get sir!

Speaker 6 Fuck you!

Speaker 25 What's the situation?

Speaker 3 Managed to get a lot of people out through the back stairs, but the ceiling on three just collapsed. Don't know how many might be trapped up there.

Speaker 6 Roger that.

Speaker 16 This way! Fire hasn't reached the hallway yet.

Speaker 24 Everyone over here

Speaker 16 We have to help them. It's too late.
They're gone.

Speaker 6 Hurry this way

Speaker 6 Where now we gotta get to the stairs they might be clear

Speaker 6 fuck, the door stuck. Stand back.

Speaker 6 You hear that? Little busy at the moment.

Speaker 6 Come on, let's go.

Speaker 25 Fire hasn't made it this far. We might be able to get out this way.

Speaker 16 I don't think that was the fire.

Speaker 5 It's the Nephilim.

Speaker 8 We have to hurry.

Speaker 8 It's coming!

Speaker 8 Hey, Martin, where you going, pal?

Speaker 24 I thought you and I were a team, watching each other's back and all that.

Speaker 8 What happened?

Speaker 25 You chose a skirt over your partner?

Speaker 25 Ignore it.

Speaker 16 It's just trying to play with your mind.

Speaker 25 You hear me answering him?

Speaker 24 You gonna tell him, Martin?

Speaker 22 Or should I?

Speaker 25 You know as well as I do, the chances of an untrained old man and a simpering girl trout surviving are about the same as a goldfish in boiling water.

Speaker 13 You know we'll get him.

Speaker 23 Eventually.

Speaker 25 Fuck! The smoke is getting thicker this way. Gotta take the next landing back into the hallways.

Speaker 25 There's debris blocking the stairs.

Speaker 16 It's not much.

Speaker 13 We can move it.

Speaker 6 Come on, give me a hand.

Speaker 25 Do you know what they did to me, old buddy of mine?

Speaker 24 I was just driving along, minding my own business, when all of a sudden my tire went flat.

Speaker 8 Naturally, it was them who did it.

Speaker 25 Probably knifed it in just such a way that it took a bit before it went kaput.

Speaker 25 And I wasn't swift enough to find the track they stuck underneath the car.

Speaker 16 Keep it up, we're almost through.

Speaker 16 They just pulled up behind me.

Speaker 6 I took a couple rounds before I went down.

Speaker 8 I was always a fighter, you know me.

Speaker 25 Neck Danny, let's get to that landing.

Speaker 25 Well, when they got what they wanted out of me, they took everything else out of me, too.

Speaker 13 Just opened me up right in the middle of the road.

Speaker 25 Throw my organs up into the trees for the buzzards.

Speaker 21 Knop's cool to the touch.

Speaker 25 Stand back, just in case. Don't need to get fried in the backdraft.

Speaker 16 All clear, let's go.

Speaker 24 Yeah, I am opening up for you, and you're taking off.

Speaker 8 Maybe...

Speaker 8 The smoke's thinning.

Speaker 8 I think we can get out through here.

Speaker 8 It's coming through the ceiling! Get back!

Speaker 8 Army!

Speaker 8 The time for our final meeting is at hand, Dr. Loctrum.

Speaker 19 The only question that remains is shall I make you watch her die swiftly or slowly?

Speaker 19 Let her go!

Speaker 19 No!

Speaker 16 Put her down!

Speaker 16 Please!

Speaker 8 I'll do whatever you want.

Speaker 23 You know perfectly well what I want, Doctor.

Speaker 2 The pages.

Speaker 25 They're in a barn in...

Speaker 16 Vermont.

Speaker 23 606, Doghill Road.

Speaker 16 Take them.

Speaker 25 They're yours.

Speaker 16 Just please, don't hurt her.

Speaker 19 I thought I made my intentions clear. None of you will leave this place alive.

Speaker 19 But take comfort in this. Before you ascend beyond this realm, I will grant you an eternity of suffering.

Speaker 23 A memory of hell itself to fester forever in your minds.

Speaker 22 And you can go straight back to hell.

Speaker 22 How?

Speaker 21 You will live a thousand lives of agony for that. Lenor!

Speaker 21 Run!

Speaker 23 There is nowhere to run, little girl.

Speaker 21 The world beyond the fire belongs to us as well.

Speaker 21 Lenor, this way! Run!

Speaker 24 With my last breath upon this earth, I will know the taste of your blood, your brains, your

Speaker 25 Fell through the floor.

Speaker 24 It's done.

Speaker 25 Let's get out of here.

Speaker 25 I think everyone's out that can get out.

Speaker 6 Roger that.

Speaker 6 Start pulling your teams back.

Speaker 6 Copy. All right, everyone.
Pull back. Pull.
Wait. I see something.
Over there. Survivors.
Where?

Speaker 6 All right, go. Get him out of there.

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