(thunder claps)
(wind howls)
(thunder claps)
(crickets chirp)
(bird squawks)
(crickets chirp)
(bird squawks)
(crickets chirp)
(bird squawks)
(dark music)
(mower buzzes)
(dark music continues)
(vehicle approaches)
- [Reporter] The Bennett boat factory
closed permanently last week...
Fifth economic revitalization program.
- I don't see anything, Wilma.
- [Radio Host] All right, it's time for another set
of great classics, starting right now.
- Hold on. - Only on 105...
(switch clicks)
(distant rumbling)
(car door slams)
- Hey!
Hey!
(dark music continues)
Give me that.
What is that? You can't shoot that on public streets.
(teenager giggles)
Get outta here. Get outta here.
Don't worry, Wilma.
It's nothin'.
- [Hogan] Todd.
You and Barkley on call tonight, right?
- Yeah.
- [Hogan] Need you in.
They're saying the storms are gonna be serious.
I'm waiting on a possible evacuation order.
- Copy.
(thunder claps)
(brooding orchestral music)
(waves crash)
(brooding music continues)
(father speaks foreign language)
(father chuckles)
(father speaks foreign language)
(Sofia speaks foreign language)
(father speaks foreign language)
(Sofia speaks foreign language)
(father speaks foreign language)
(waves crash)
(Sofia speaks foreign language)
(ominous tones) (water splashes)
(radio static crackles)
(muffled chatter from radio)
- If it don't look great, why don't you come on back?
(ominous tones)
(Sofia speaks foreign language)
(distant horn blows)
(ominous tones)
(warm orchestral music) (birds chirp)
(warm music continues)
(door opens)
(door creaks)
(warm music continues)
- Oh, I really, really hate kids.
(door creaks)
(door closes)
(birds chirp)
(vehicle approaches)
(birds chirp)
(gentle orchestral music)
(water splashes)
(car door slams)
(gentle music continues)
- [Wanda] Hey, Todd.
I wanted to talk to you.
Usual?
Coffee's on the house.
- I'll pay for the coffee, Wanda.
I'm surprised you're still open.
- (chuckles) Glad I got my generator last year.
You got one up at the house?
- Yeah.
So, what did you want to talk to me about?
- [Wanda] I had a break-in last night.
- You know almost everyone's evacuated, right?
- Check the window.
(birds chirp) (gentle music continues)
(birds chirp)
(shed door slides open)
(shed door thuds)
(gentle music continues)
(birds chirp)
- That shed belongs to a cop. You know that, right?
- That guy's crazy.
I saw him last week.
Watched him flip out just 'cause his lawnmower backfired.
- Bet your aunt's freaking out.
Guys, think how the island's on the news.
- Hey, check this out.
Hey! Halloween's not till next week, bro.
(eerie tones) (dark music)
(dark music continues)
(birds chirp)
- [Hogan] Todd, you on here?
I left you three voicemails.
What happened yesterday wasn't your fault, Todd.
You and I both know that.
Mayor Kraus was pitching a hissy fit, though.
Seems his sister didn't make it out.
Put me in kind of a sticky spot.
Todd, can you hear me?
Tell you what.
You deserve some time off.
Why don't you... (switch clicks)
(dark orchestral music)
(dark music continues)
(eerie tones)
(distant metal clunks)
(dark music continues)
- Hello?
Hello?
(dark music continues)
This is the kind of crap I'm really getting sick of.
(crickets chirp)
(dark orchestral music)
(dark music continues)
(footsteps clack)
(crickets chirp)
(distant clattering)
(muffled thunder rumbles)
(door closes)
(thunder rumbles)
(suspenseful orchestral music)
(Todd grunts)
Oh, okay! Look, look, look, look, look!
I'm letting her go.
Hey! Okay, cool it, would you?
You're a couple of those Hofsteder kids, aren't you?
She said she had you in school.
- You.
- I what?
- You utter your speech in the language of the books.
- Right. (suspenseful orchestral music)
Yeah.
(thunder claps)
(crickets chirp)
(muffled thunder rumbles)
(Sofia speaks foreign language)
- Oh, my God.
Hey!
(thunder claps)
- All we desired of you was a safe place to overnight.
It is plain that we are not welcomed here.
So Gabriella and I shall be leaving.
Come, Gabriella.
- All right! Stop!
Stop, stop, stop, stop.
Come back.
What are your names?
- My name is Sofia.
My sister is called Gabriella.
- Look, enough jokes, okay?
You're good actors. I'll give you that.
Just tell me who puts you up to this,
and I'll give you a ride home.
And how did you get into my house? 'Cause it was locked.
- The window was open.
(thunder rumbles)
- You came in up there?
(rain splashes)
(thunder rumbles)
- I did not intend to awaken you.
Water came out. It was not expected.
- Are you hungry?
(muffled thunder claps)
(dark orchestral music)
(dark music continues)
Hogan, I'm sorry I switched you off earlier.
(radio static crackles)
You there, Chief?
- [Fred] All active personnel.
Please switch over to our new channel.
- Fred, wait!
(dark music continues)
(muffled thunder claps)
I really wish you wouldn't have smashed my phone.
(dark music continues)
Your family must be looking for you.
- I have never seen a storm like this before.
I believe it shall be difficult to travel before it passes.
- Yeah, well, I got news for you, kid.
You're on an island now.
Just stick here for a while with the rest of us.
All right, um...
Couch.
Pillows.
And food.
(birds chirp)
(gentle orchestral music)
(gentle music continues)
(birds chirp)
(door closes)
(door creaks)
(gentle music continues)
(Gabriella screams)
(crickets chirp)
Where are you? (dark orchestral music)
Come on.
Come on. Make some noise.
Make some noise. (Gabriella screams)
(dark music continues)
Yours? (pants)
- They heard you coming.
(ominous tones)
- Who?
- The ones who came before us.
(dark music continues)
- [Todd] Hogan, are you there?
(radio static crackles)
- [Hogan] Todd.
- Chief!
- [Hogan] Todd?
What's going on over there?
Your phone's going straight to voicemail.
- Yeah. No, I, uh...
I broke it.
- [Hogan] Listen, Todd. I saw your shed yesterday.
- Look, Chief, I'm calling
because someone out my way threw a knife.
Okay? There was a kid out there and he almost hit her.
Do you know what could've happened,
if I wouldn't have been here and heard it?
- [Calber Island] Todd, this is Calber Island.
Who was it?
- Well, how should I know?
I mean, how many people are even left around here?
- [Calber Island] I meant the kid.
- There's two of 'em.
I've never seen them before.
- [Hogan] Come on down to the office, okay?
Your shift don't start till noon.
It's just me here.
- Copy.
(shed door slides open)
(dark orchestral music)
(dark music continues)
(engine hums)
- Slower.
Slower.
(engine hums)
(birds chirp)
(door opens)
(gentle orchestral music)
(Gabriella pants)
- Figured someone should be on the scanners.
I told the volunteers to hit the road, Monday.
Only guys I have left are Jack, Pete, and Barkley.
Hey.
Pulling him off duty was the exact right call.
Textbook.
If you hadn't done it, I would have,
and I probably would've put him on probation,
if I wasn't so short-staffed.
- Well, then why am I on leave?
- Mayor gave me no choice.
What was Fred thinking?
On duty.
He smelled like a dorm room on game night.
- It was Tom's memorial service up at the museum.
- There was a funeral back in March.
- This one was for the family.
- All right. Where are these kids at?
(melancholy orchestral music)
(door opens)
(door closes)
(melancholy music continues)
(chair creaks) (birds chirp)
Apparently, the girls are not missing persons.
Yeah, my first thought was Sarah Hofsteder,
with her whole off-the-grid nonsense.
(Hogan chuckles)
- If I hadn't personally thrown her and her six kids
off the island, I'd have thought so, too.
- Oh.
- I don't think I've ever seen two kids
so on the edge before.
(Hogan chuckles)
It might be something the three of you have in common.
- The older one says she saw somebody out there.
Hiding earlier.
Then she clammed up and I can't get a thing out of her.
- I can make some calls, but I doubt we'll get any answers.
At least till the bridge opens up.
- How long on that?
- A lot of damage.
Hopefully in a couple of days, they'll get some boats
out here to get more people to the mainland.
You wanna talk about it?
- We already did.
- That wasn't it.
- Look, I heard him on the radio last night.
You know he could've gotten over before the bridge went out.
- I told him to get on out.
His old man's probably rolling over in his grave.
Don't do that to yourself.
It don't lead anywhere good.
You've got a home here, and it was what Thomas wanted.
- A home?
I used to have friends here, Chief. You know, people.
Now all I've got is a half-paid mortgage, a leaky roof,
and Tom's pissed off relatives.
- Well, when they're all dead,
we'll gather around and read their wills,
and they'll get what they want then.
That's just how it goes.
(distant horn blows)
- Did that sound like that was coming from Kathy's place?
I'll stop by and take a look at it on my way back.
- You're not on duty.
- Just a neighborly check-in.
(knocks on door)
Hello, Kathy?
(brooding orchestral music)
(knocks on door)
Kathy!
(brooding music continues)
(bleak piano music)
(bleak music continues)
(crickets chirp)
(somber orchestral music)
(somber music continues)
- It's a shame.
She should've never have been here.
I could've gotten everyone over the bridge who wanted to go.
But no.
Todd's mad he didn't get a memorial service invite.
(dark orchestral music)
(birds squawk)
- How did you know?
Or ignore me. That's fine.
Hey!
What's that you got there?
And where did you get this?
- She plucked it from the pocket of that man.
She's very skilled at such things.
- Is that so?
(keypad bleeps)
(locks clunk)
(footsteps clack)
What did you see out there this morning?
The knife in the woods.
Whose is it?
I get it. I do.
We'll just...
Take a little break or something.
Actually, you know what?
How about a game?
Kids like games, right?
It's the map game.
We'll each take turns saying all the places we've ever been,
and I'll go first, okay?
I'm from Jacksonville, right here.
After that, I went to Paris Island, right here.
Then a lot of other places, but mostly, all the way over
to here.
And then I came all the way back.
To right here.
Calber Island.
Your turn.
(Sofia speaks foreign language)
- English.
- Why did you come back? (somber orchestral music)
- I had to.
- [Gabriella] Why?
- They said that I wasn't in a good mindset.
(somber music continues)
Hey.
What would happen if I took you home right now?
- The outsiders would find us.
- Who are the outsiders?
Yeah, I guess that depends on your point of view, huh?
People in the woods.
Are they the outsiders?
- What happened to it?
- Trade.
Something from me, for something from you.
- You first.
- The bridge to the mainland went out a couple days ago,
during the storm.
It broke.
Slid right into the water.
I made a decision to bench one of the guys in our unit,
and you don't even know what that means.
I told one of our guys to stay home and not come to work.
Because of that, people here
think that they could've gotten over.
So, they spray paint the shed and do other things.
It makes 'em feel like they did something about it.
See, I moved here.
Everyone else was born here.
I'm not the same as them.
- I knew you were an outsider.
- Then why do you stay?
- Was your turn.
- The ones in the jungle.
Very dangerous.
Of the clan that killed our parents.
(somber music continues)
- Oh.
I'm sorry.
Wait.
Did you go into a restaurant downtown?
Through a window?
(door opens)
(wardrobe door creaks)
(fabric rustles)
(wardrobe door closes)
Here you go.
(clock ticks rhythmically)
Um...
Do you...
Do you need anything else, or...
Okay.
Uh...
Goodnight.
(clock ticks rhythmically) (door closes)
- [Gabriella] Sofia?
(Sofia speaks foreign language)
- I don't like it.
(shed door slides open)
(helicopter blades whir)
- [Thomas] But life has its storms.
Full of thunder and lightening without the rain.
In the moment, it may not seem like a blessing,
but sometimes, storms like these are pointless,
only if you don't let them change you.
(gun fires) (brooding orchestral music)
(birds chirp)
(brooding music continues)
(birds chirp)
(melancholy piano music)
(melancholy music continues)
- I'm sorry about yesterday.
I didn't realize you lost your parents.
- It was long ago.
Gabriella remembers not.
We lived with our uncle.
- You know, I lost a good friend, too.
Not that long ago.
- [Sofia] Your parents?
- It was Lieutenant Barkley's father.
- The angry one.
- Yeah.
Hey, I tell you what.
How about today we go out?
We can relax a little, go into town.
There's just one thing I need you to do for me first.
- Trade?
(crickets chirp)
(knocks on door)
(door opens)
- What are you supposed to say?
- Sorry, I took your key card.
(warm orchestral music)
(door closes)
- Good job.
- [Hank] Cheryl's boy said he'd be back by now.
- [Hogan] Hey, Todd. Mind if I join you folks?
- Sure.
- See, she's afraid after what happened to Kathy.
She said there are other people on the island.
- "Other people"? - Yeah.
- What happened to Kathy is under investigation.
And Zeke Dawson?
He's been known to pull a stunt every now and then.
He's probably just pulling his mom's leg.
- Where did Cheryl last see them at, Hank?
- That's the funny thing.
He said he was going out to take algae samples,
but I know he was huntin'.
- Aww, dad gum it.
How many times am I gonna have to bust that boy
for hunting off season?
- Oh, (chuckles) I didn't mean to get anybody in trouble.
- You just tell Cheryl I'll come by later, okay?
- Here you go. Two shakes for you, Hank.
- Ah. Thank you.
- And Hank?
- Yeah?
- Tell Cheryl to stay as close to home as possible.
That's probably where Zeke's gonna show up.
And have her ask him to stick with taking algae samples.
Maybe he can help get this stink out of the air.
- All right!
- Ghost stories, coming out of the woodwork.
- Yeah. Let's, uh, talk about something else.
- All right.
But it breaks my heart, every time I see the guy.
- [Wanda] Not me. You remember him before, right, Todd?
- For a while, yeah.
- Wanda.
They pumped a quart of water out of his lungs.
The man flat-lined for six minutes.
- Hey, I thought locals
couldn't smell that stink in the air?
- Mm. I'm used to it.
The tourists sure do.
You don't still smell it, do you?
- You kidding me?
This place smells like a toilet,
between the boat factory and the algae?
At least the factory's not an issue, anymore.
Hey, is the museum gonna open up when the bridge is fixed?
Tom was always really in favor of that place.
- Not to mention the 20 jobs.
(dark orchestral music)
Oh, you're not aware of that?
That raft washed in with the storm, on Monday.
- This is that boat that went missing a couple weeks ago.
What was it? The...
Peacemaker.
With Triangle Charters.
(bell on door rings)
(paper rustles)
Got any propane tanks back there?
Take one, please.
- I saw somethin' last night.
- You know you don't have to believe
everything Joe prints in that thing.
All right, Ethan.
What'd you see?
- Barbarians.
Like, like the guys in the "Gladiator" movie?
- "Gladiator"? - Yeah.
- He had face paint, and uh, animal skins.
(ominous music)
Where'd they come from?
(Sofia speaks foreign language)
- Zeke went missing this morning. Did you hear about that?
- Yeah. He'll turn up.
- No. It was them. The barbarians.
People are gonna pin that on you, too, you know.
- "Too"?
In addition to what?
- The bridge.
Kathy.
Lotta stuff going on around here.
Anybody talk to any of the county folk?
- The reason the county folk live out there
is because they don't wanna be bothered.
They have everything they need,
and they can come to town, if they want to.
- Don't worry.
I believe you.
- [Sofia] Have we done well?
- Yeah.
Fine.
- [Ethan] You can pick up your propane,
around the back there.
Just make sure you show Jackson your receipt, okay?
- Huh. I don't know.
Should we give it to him or not?
(car door slams)
Fred told me what happened.
You just couldn't stand to let him help, could ya?
Mr. High and Mighty, huh? City Boy.
Has to do it all himself.
- City Boy has a survival instinct.
Fred didn't have much of any kind of instinct, at the time.
- Right. I guess that's why Thomas favored you.
Your odds were just better.
(brooding orchestral music)
(brooding music continues)
(propane tank clangs)
(birds chirp)
(gentle orchestral music)
- I don't want you sleeping in the shed tonight.
Might be dangerous.
- Do you not learn to fight here?
- Most people don't.
- [Sofia] Did you?
- I was different.
(gentle music continues)
(sword scrapes)
You wanna see it?
- Yes.
(fabric rustles)
You could not have fought with this weapon.
(distant gun fires)
- I used a gun.
- It is delicate.
- "Delicate"? (scoffs)
(Sofia chuckles)
- I will begin making a stronger one for you, tomorrow.
There are tools in the shed.
(distant gun fires)
(curtains rustle)
(distant gun fires)
I should look in on Gabriella.
(dark orchestral music)
(dark music continues)
(gun fires) (ominous music)
(ominous music continues)
(gun cocks)
(gun clicks)
(door opens)
(door slams)
(Sofia sighs) (object shatters)
- Go upstairs.
(ominous music continues)
Hogan.
Hogan!
(knocks on door)
(suspenseful orchestral music)
(suspenseful music continues)
Watch it! - Todd!
- Sorry. (Todd grunts)
What the blazes are you doing out there?
Barkley heard shooting and called me over.
- Yeah. It wasn't me!
- It wasn't you?
- No.
It was a hunting rifle.
- Look, I saw him.
It was just like Ethan said.
- Ethan?
- What'd I tell you, Chief?
- Easy, Todd.
This ain't loaded.
(door closes)
Fred picked it up outside.
- Was it Zeke that you saw? - No.
- Zeke carved this exact signature into a tree,
behind my fence line.
(Hogan sighs)
(somber music continues)
(Hogan sighs)
People are getting more and more upset.
- Hogan, how long until that ferry's up and running?
- They say the closest available boat
is still in the panhandle.
- What about, uh, local airboats,
or jet boats, or whatever's out there?
I don't know what's going on around here,
but I'm telling you, Hogan,
I saw a man I've never seen before, okay?
He literally had had scars and paint on his face.
He was like something from the past.
- Sometimes, the symptoms of stress can resurface.
How long has it been since you talked to someone?
- Sofia talked about a group of people out there.
The ones that killed their parents.
- If the girls are saying someone killed their parents,
shouldn't you be asking more about that?
- Oh, come on. Have some pity, Hogan!
I mean, how many times should they have to relive that?
- Todd.
People are talking.
They're looking for somebody to blame.
When that ferry opens up,
you might be having a different problem.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
(Hogan sighs)
Try to get some sleep. All right?
I'll have Pete drive by, every now and then.
- What?
(door opens)
- Cheeseburger does not agree with Gabriella's stomach.
- I'll be right there.
(door creaks)
(footsteps clack)
I shouldn't have let you eat such rich food
when you're not used to it.
I'm sorry.
(bed creaks)
(birds chirp) (warm orchestral music)
Zeke!
Zeke Dawson!
(birds chirp)
Zeke!
(metal clangs rhythmically)
(fire crackles)
(metal clangs)
What're you doing?
- Do you not want me to make you a new sword?
- Sure.
(birds chirp) (fire crackles)
(gentle orchestral music)
(gentle music continues)
How's Gabriella?
- Better.
- Sofia...
I've gotta ask you something.
(Sofia speaks foreign language)
- Vikings?
Really?
- The ones who came before us.
My people were trapped
in a land they did not mean to come to.
We sought a new world, but we got lost.
Stuck, somewhere.
- How long ago?
- 20 Generations.
But they were there, long before us.
Lost, with nothing to conquer.
Until we came.
- In your home,
they're not the outsiders.
You are.
How many are there here?
Here.
- Five.
Three others died on the journey.
- That's a pretty specific number.
- It was a pretty long voyage.
- "Voyage"?
"Voyage"? You came here on a boat?
- A Peacemaker brought us.
- "Peacemaker"?
"Peacemaker"? That's, uh...
They never knew you were onboard.
- One did.
- What did he look like?
(Sofia sighs)
He didn't hurt you?
- We sailed west.
Then the storm came.
They killed the outsiders,
to prevent them from swimming to land.
- So, uh...
So, what are these vikings?
What do they want?
- It's just their way.
They have never known anything different.
(footsteps clack)
(chair creaks)
(warm piano music)
(warm music continues)
- [Gabriella] Will you stay until I fall asleep?
- [Todd] Trade.
Something about me, for something about you.
- Story?
- Sure.
- There was a shepherd.
His brothers were at war, and when he came to visit them,
a giant challenged him to fight.
- Wait.
How do you know that story?
- The books where your language comes from.
- That was one of the books?
- He fought the giant with three smooth rocks.
Your turn.
(Todd chuckles)
- Okay.
Um...
(door creaks)
I'm coming up blank.
Maybe your sister's got one.
- When I was only a little older than Gabriella,
I remember a man.
He was hungry,
and stole a basket of fish from an important man.
They said he would be sent away for it.
My uncle and my father, they both tried to stop it.
But they couldn't.
We all assumed he'd be killed by them.
- The vikings?
- But three weeks later,
they returned,
and killed many in our village.
- Including your parents?
- People began to say
that the man had led them back to us, for revenge.
But I did not believe them.
- Is...
Is he the one that hid you in the boat?
For your uncle's sake?
- They were friends.
I believed he would protect us.
- Do you remember his name?
- [Sofia] You have read the books?
- What other books did you find?
- Lots.
Most had the same title, though.
- What was it?
- "TV Guide".
You do not have many friends here.
- No.
But I'm used to it.
- My whole life,
I was afraid of the books.
It changed the ones who read it.
- I bet your uncle read it.
- Perhaps change is what scares your people, too.
- Change isn't always a bad thing.
Sometimes it's great.
(door closes)
- Listen. He's not a bad guy.
He's just not...
I don't know.
Thinking straight.
I mean it's not bad, but what if he acts upon it, you know?
(melancholy piano music)
Keep the change.
(melancholy music continues)
- Fred's never sat around here before.
- Well, he does have a point there.
- Hey, Wanda. Your daughter on the mainland.
She has a boat, right?
- (chuckles) Yeah. It's just a little putsy thing.
- Seats four people. That's four people rescued.
10 trips?
That's all it'll take to get everyone
safely to the mainland.
- Uh, rescued from what?
- Oh!
Hello?
- Hm.
Oh! (chuckles) Sorry.
- You in, Hank? It's just for a couple weeks.
It's, uh, like a little vacation.
- I don't take vacation.
- [Todd] Wanda's going.
- Well, yeah. When the ferry service gets here.
- No, no, no, no. Sooner.
- You're telling me you want me off the island?
- Yes. - What about my car?
- You can come back and get it later.
(lighter flicks) - Uh, rescued from what?
- I'm not gonna answer that.
You got anything going on later today?
- Uh...
I was gonna go to Rob's place later, mow his front lawn?
You know, seeing as he's stuck "Being in a evacuee."
- I was gonna go out and look for Zeke Dawson today.
Wouldn't mind if you came along, just as a witness.
In case I come across something?
I don't need any more accusations.
- Yeah. Sure.
(birds chirp)
- [Todd] Zeke!
- [Hank] Zeke!
Zeke!
(brooding piano music)
- River is the only fresh water around here.
I don't think they're gonna get too far from it.
Hey, why'd you stay on the island near the storm, Hank?
Why didn't you evacuate?
- I don't know. Just didn't know where I'd go.
- What's the furthest way you've ever been?
- Farthest? - Yeah, you ever go anywhere?
- I went to Naples, once.
- Naples? - Yeah!
- Hank, that's like an hour from here.
- Yeah. Well, never had nowhere to go.
- What about before the accident?
- I don't know.
- [Todd] You don't remember?
- [Hank] Nah.
- That puts things into perspective a little bit.
- Like what?
- Most of us here, we've lost someone or something.
You've lost everything you have,
and you're the happiest guy I know.
That's gonna take a while to fix.
Town our size might not survive the wait.
- What if they don't fix it?
(fire crackles)
(crickets chirp)
(gentle piano music)
(fishing reel clicks)
(fishing line whooshes)
(fishing reel clicks) (dark orchestral music)
(dark music continues)
(water splashes)
(dark music continues)
- [Radio Host] Winds continue across the state,
with a threat for fire.
The howling North winds have backed off some,
Wednesday morning, but they will pick back up,
Wednesday afternoon.
- Yeah. Anyone there? (radio static crackles)
- [Hogan] Todd, I need you to come down to the beach.
- [Radio Host] So, the fire danger is extreme.
Please use caution and do not-
- Yeah. I'm on my way.
(footsteps clack)
I have to go to town.
Keep the doors locked, okay?
(crickets chirp)
- Boy, I tell you.
When I catch these jokers,
whoever they are...
- Hey, the raft in the paper came in Banker's Cove, right?
- Yeah.
- They've had high algae levels here lately.
Higher than usual.
You know, if a boat were to wash in...
- Could be.
Let's go.
(engine hums)
Barkley was all over town today.
Honestly. (brooding orchestral music)
I think he talked to every last person on the island.
- Yeah, I saw him.
- If I was you, I wouldn't be going out much for a while.
(Hogan sighs)
I'm getting old.
I can fire Barkley, I can write reports,
but the one thing I cannot do is stop an angry mob
from storming your cabin, looking for that Dawson kid.
- Thinks they're in my house?
What? Like, logged up in my attic?
Is that the rumor?
- Come on, Todd.
You know what he's up to.
Fred is trying to pressure you out.
And everything he's saying
is just fertilizer for the grapevine.
The problem is, nobody knows that.
Everybody thinks you're crazy.
Especially talking about barbarians in the woods.
- I know how it sounds.
- Then why do you keep saying it?
- Where did the girls come from?
And the arrow? You saw it out there yesterday.
- That arrow doesn't prove anything.
And the backwoods people on this island?
They're just weird.
They could be from anywhere.
- I just don't think it's a coincidence.
- [Hogan] "Coincidence"?
- Yeah, I mean, Calber Island.
This town.
It's an artifact.
A fossil. I mean, it's just evidence of the past.
No? You don't think so?
Who's gonna pay for those bridge repairs? The state?
We're losing our industry, Chief.
I mean, even Wanda's leaving.
And now, some ancient viking clan
gets spat out the Bermuda Triangle?
They shouldn't exist today, and frankly, neither should we.
I mean, what're we even doing here, Chief?
And I don't just mean me. I mean all of us.
Thomas may have been wrong in his methods,
but he was right about one thing.
This town is dying.
Whether we like it or not.
(car approaches)
- Look at that.
The mainland is so close. You can see the lights.
But it might as well be 100 miles away.
(waves gently lap)
I used to fish down here.
There's an inlet that opens up, when the tide is right.
There's a sandbar.
Used to trap the fish in shallow water.
- He could've washed in and gotten stuck there?
(dark orchestral music)
- [Hogan] Oh, man.
- [Todd] So you do smell that, huh?
- [Hogan] I don't know how,
but I'm beginning to think you might be onto something.
Oh, man.
(light clicks)
One time, I helped my granddaughter
research a report on vikings, for school.
(Hogan sighs)
And I remember reading that, sometimes,
they would leave a man behind, to guard the dead.
- Guard them from what?
(Hogan sighs)
- People like us, I guess.
(flies buzz)
(Hogan sighs)
(dark music continues)
(flies buzz)
(dark music continues)
What? What the?
Todd!
- Hogan!
(door closes)
(door handle rattles)
(Hogan groans) Hogan!
(Hogan pants) (gun cocks)
(door opens)
(water splashes)
(Hogan grunts)
Chief.
(car approaches)
(car door opens)
(car door slams)
What part about "Keep the door locked"
do you not understand?
- You saw them again.
(somber piano music)
- He killed Hogan.
- This is unlike them.
They fight in groups.
- Yeah, well, they're in new territory, now.
We might not have long,
before they start to feel comfortable here, too.
(somber music continues)
(birds chirp)
- [Joe] Todd!
- Not a good time, Joe. - Look.
I respect your sense of duty.
(Todd grunts) And I'll give you, a situation like this
could take a toll on a guy like you.
(tense music)
- A guy like me. - Mm-hm.
- Exactly what kind of guy do you think I am, huh?
Am I crazy?
Am I dangerous?
What?
- Look. No one said dangerous.
(Todd grunts) (door creaks)
- Fred, we've gotta talk.
- Now Zeke.
- Yeah, well, something else happened last night.
- Listen, I don't care about what happened last night.
- That's what I'm hear about, okay?
- No one's heard from Hogan this morning.
Not on the radio, not on the phone.
10 years, I've worked on this force.
- I don't wanna tell you like this.
Fred, I do not want to tell you like this!
- Tell me what?
- Hogan's dead.
- He's dead?
- He's dead.
Last night.
- [Pete] It was you!
- [Todd] No.
- Stop it, Pete.
- Stop what? The channel was open.
We all heard him put you out of the squad car.
He just couldn't take the competition and finally snapped.
And now it doesn't even matter anymore.
Whatever it takes to make him look right.
- You said that? Is that what you said?
- Pete!
I didn't say you killed anybody.
- Right. You just said whatever it takes.
- [Pete] Look. No one is coming for us.
It's time we take this into our own hands,
before someone else dies.
- That's a great idea. Let's see what that leads to.
- Yeah, you know you're sick. You know that?
I never came to Calber Island for you.
I came for him, and I thought you'd be grateful for it.
Thomas set me up is all he did.
- That's the first thing you've said that I believe.
Setups were my old man's specialty.
Or didn't you realize that?
Knowing him all of what, two years?
- Oh, you're just here to spite him.
- I thought you'd take my side.
- Yeah, you have no idea what it was like out there!
- He's dead because of you. - That's right!
- Him and his big dreams for me.
- He's dead because of me and I have one thing,
One thing that I can do to make it up for him.
He asked you to do something and you did the exact opposite!
You know what he wanted for you?
He gave you enough to last you for years,
and all you care about is one leaky-roof,
roach-infested house!
- Exactly what he wanted her to do.
- That's not all he meant, and you know it!
This place is trouble for you. It's trouble for everybody.
Go ahead and take it. Have it your way, Fred.
You and this town were made for each other.
(key clangs)
- What happened to Hogan?
- Left the body on the Peacemaker. Banker's Cove.
- You found the Peacemaker?
- It's bad.
- You'll have to make a statement.
- I'm asking you one more time.
Get yourself from the mainland, before it's too late.
(door opens)
(door slams) (car approaches)
- [Pete] Yeah, and Hank. Conway.
Who else? - Pip.
- [Pete] Uh-huh.
- Joe. - Yeah.
- [Friend] Mark and Cindy are staying.
So's the whole east side of Main Street.
We won't need more than two or three round trips?
- [Pete] How it go again?
- "I've lived on this island, 60 years,
and I'll be darned if I go anywhere!
For a storm, or a flood,
or a war party from the Crip!
(friend laughs)
(helicopter blades whir)
- [Thomas] But life has its stories.
Full of thunder and lightning, without the rain.
(gentle orchestral music)
- Wanda's place is closed. She said forever.
I was at Porky's this morning.
And Jackson said
you killed Chief Hogan.
Which, you know, I said he was probably mistaken and such,
but I, I don't think anybody believed me.
- I gave Fred the house key.
- Wait. Are you leaving, too?
- In a manner of speaking.
Look. Vikings know what a boat is.
Soon as we start bringing them back and forth
from the mainland, they're gonna want one.
Somehow, I've gotta keep their eyes off of that water.
- Well, maybe you could talk to 'em. Work something out!
- Yeah, sure. Maybe.
- Listen. You're the only one I can ask of this, Hank.
Make sure they get off.
If you can get help, send back here for the rest of us.
- I don't think anybody's gonna believe me.
Why don't you do it, when you get back?
- You can do this, Hank! You can.
Tell them whatever you have to tell them
to get them moving, okay?
Tell them that I've gone crazy. That I'm coming after them.
I don't care. Just get help.
Send back here for the rest of us. Real help.
Take Sofia and Gabriella and don't come back.
You hear me?
- Yeah.
Okay.
- Give me just one second. Okay?
- Yeah.
(Hank sighs)
- Here.
This is for you.
(sword scrapes)
But I thought you had need of it?
- No.
I just really wanted to see if you could make a sword.
(Todd chuckles)
It's time for you and Gabriella to leave Calber Island.
- The end of an era.
When your way of life changes, trouble comes,
but it pushes you out, into the best part of your story.
- Sound like someone else I used to know.
Hey. One more trade.
When I was your age, I didn't have much of a family.
Managed to push away anybody that I did have.
They said military school would straighten me out.
So, off I went.
A bunch of rich brats.
I never started any fights, but I sure finished them.
So I was always in trouble.
Anyways, I wasn't popular.
None of that stuff.
So I graduated,
and I didn't know where to go home to.
So I joined up.
Served under a man named Thomas Barkley.
Took me under his wing, and I don't know why he did,
he never told me why, but he treated me like family.
He would say that my life was worth something.
That it mattered.
That my future mattered. That my decisions mattered.
Nobody had ever talked to me like that before.
People in this town say a lot of things about Thomas,
but the truth is, he was a good man.
He loved his wife, and his kids, Fred and Elaine.
He worried about them every day.
Fred, most of all.
- Fred Barkley does not know how lucky he is.
- One day, I was in a really tough spot.
Sniper had me in his crosshairs.
But Thomas picked him off from a good ways off.
By doing so, he gave away his position.
That should've been me.
Thomas would've came home,
if he wouldn't have fired that shot.
Anyways, I came home and
they read his last wishes and everybody found out
that he gave me the house.
He should've gave it to Fred, but he gave it to me.
- That was cruel of Thomas.
Why did he do that?
- Because he was done enabling.
Sometimes, what's best for us, hurts.
I mean, sooner or later,
the house won't be worth two nickels, anyways.
Hey.
Trade!
That was a really big one about me.
- Are you saying goodbye?
- I'm gonna find the one from your village.
If you're the judge of character that I think you are,
he may be our best chance of getting through to them.
You girls are gonna be okay. I promise.
(Sofia sobs)
Sofia!
(melancholy music continues)
(suspenseful music)
Truck's all yours.
(birds chirp) (suspenseful music continues)
(crickets chirp)
- Hank. We thought maybe you were next next!
- "Next"?
- Where is he, Hank?
The Peacemaker turned up this morning.
Todd could be in a lot of trouble.
= I need another boat. We have to get to the mainland.
(ominous orchestral music)
(Sofia speaks foreign language)
(birds chirp)
(Todd grunts)
- Sofia told me about you, and I want to trust you.
Do not think that you'll do the same with me
as you did to Zeke and those teenagers.
Sofia.
(suspenseful orchestral music)
Why aren't you with Hank?
Where's Gabriella?
- I should've said goodbye.
(Sofia speaks foreign language)
(stranger speaks foreign language)
- What did he say?
- "The storms are like lightning without rain."
(stranger speaks foreign language)
(thunder claps)
- [Fred] Where is he?
- I don't know, and that's the truth.
Todd told me to take Sofia and Gabriella to the mainland,
and to send help.
- Why?
- 'Cause nobody believes him!
- Look, I can think of one way to get 'em out.
- Hey. You leave them alone.
- Give me the keys, Hank.
- Listen. They'll be fine.
They can't leave the island, anyway.
(Hank sighs) (keys clink)
- I gotta go get help now. - [Pete] Hey!
I thought there were two?
(thunder claps)
- You get to the docks.
Gabriella's your responsibility.
I'll catch up, if I can.
Go. When I say go, you go and you don't look back.
You hear me?
(Todd pants)
Go.
Go!
(thunder roars)
(dark orchestral music)
- [Pete] Hey Jack. Did you check the radar?
- Pete. It started a fire, man.
It's not good.
- Hey, let's get the water truck out.
Get the kid inside somewhere.
- No. I have to take them back to the mainland and get help.
(fire crackles)
- [Sofia] I was afraid of the books.
It changed the ones who read it.
(distant grunts and groans)
Perhaps change is what scares your people, too.
(dark music continues)
(keys clink)
(fire crackles)
(vikings yell)
(alarm rings)
- [Hank] How did you get in here?
- [Sofia] Why do you all have so much trouble with windows?
- [Hank] You think they'll have any trouble?
(suspenseful music)
(suspenseful music continues)
- [Fred] Did Todd send you for help?
- Yeah.
- Go get it.
- What about the girls? - We'll take care of 'em.
Jack, you two.
- No, I'm good. I'm good.
- Nobody flies solo.
We stick together. That's the rules.
- Hey, come on.
(suspenseful music continues)
- Gabriella!
Sofia!
(tense orchestral music)
Gabriella!
(tense music continues)
(distant metal clinks)
(ominous tones)
- [Pete] Hey (grunts)
(suspenseful music continues) (Pete grunts)
(suspenseful music continues)
(gun fires)
(tense orchestral music)
- Oh, God. No.
(Todd coughs)
Todd.
(tense music continues)
(guns fire rapidly) (soldier yell)
- Thomas.
Thomas.
- No. You should take your energy.
Listen to me.
Birdie and Elaine will be okay.
- What?
I don't worry about 'em. They'll move on.
But Fred...
Stubborn, like me.
Loves the status quo, far more than it loves him back.
Nothing this side of death lasts forever.
Promise me you won't see him waste his life away.
You need a home and he needs a future.
I gave him a little help getting started,
but life has its storms,
full of thunder and lightning without the rain.
In the moment, it may not seem like a blessing.
But sometimes, storms like these
are pointless, only if you don't let them change you.
Humble yourself under it.
(distant guns fire) (somber orchestral music)
(Todd breathes heavily)
- He did it for you, Fred.
All for you.
Why do you fight it so much?
(somber music continues)
(Benjamin speaks foreign language)
(Todd gasps)
(ax hacks)
(Todd grunts)
(dark orchestral music)
(crickets chirp)
(dark music continues)
(bird squawks)
- [Reporter] Today, after enjoying more than 140 years
of township status, hundreds of residents are protesting
the state's decision not to rebuild
the Calber Island Bridge.
The bridge was destroyed during a mudslide
that occurred two weeks ago.
Next up, meteorologists across the state
are all talking about a...
(phone vibrates)
- [Hank] Guess where I am.
- Naples.
- [Hank] Seattle.
- [Todd] No way, Hank. Good for you.
- [Hank] (laughs) Yeah!
I wanted to try Tokyo, but they said I needed a "passport"?
Are the girls okay?
- [Todd] Yeah.
- [Hank] Is Fred okay?
- Yeah, he will be.
You know, I really wish I wouldn't have given Hank
my truck keys.
That a girl.
Trip time.
Maybe we can go 50 miles an hour this time.
- No!
(warm orchestral music)
(warm music continues)
(somber orchestral music)
(somber music continues)