Sins of the Fathers preplay
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seaoftroublesDanny arrives, maybe just in time for Audrey to realize that Duke is gone. She fills him in on the strange marks, the probable missing persons, and the ghost trouble. Nathan arrives to give them a ride to the gravedigger's house to interrogate him, perhaps Danny notices the paint on the gravedigger's wife's hand instead of Audrey, and he and Audrey play confused tourists together while Nathan waits in the car? They tail her into the woods, where the Rev's people have gathered with the kidnapped troubled people.
The Rev's people are heavily armed, with rifles and pistols. A group of people make molotov cocktails by a collection of gas cans. Two men with rifles guard the doors to a shed, while another set pull an unconscious young man out of the back of a van, keeping him quiet with chloroform. They put him into the shed with several other bound, unconscious people. They're troubled. The Xs marked the homes of the kidnapping victims. They're clearly planning to burn the shed down.
Before the cops can decide to take action, the Rev walks out of the woods, with Duke on his tail. Audrey can't see the Rev, but Danny and Nathan can. All Audrey sees is Duke arguing with empty air.
The Rev's men manage to get the drop on the cops, disarming them, and forcing them into the open.
Duke sees the troubled people in the shed and accuses the Rev of being insane, declares that he's going to stop them. The Rev says that he's here to "save" them. One of his men forces a knife into Duke's hands, which he brandishes at anyone who comes near him, including Audrey when she's led right up behind him. Audrey's shocked. Nathan accuses him of working with the Rev. Duke denies it and drops the knife.
The troubled gravedigger is the one holding the gun to Audrey. Nathan tries to tell him not to listen to the Rev, and Audrey tells him that he's troubled. Kyle tries to deny it, and Duke's dad appears, telling Duke that this is the way it always goes when people realize they're cursed. The gravedigger's pregnant wife is clearly horrified. The Rev points to Duke as the person who can save the gravedigger and his family.
Duke tries to refuse. Someone shoves a knife into his hands again. Duke clearly struggles with the decision as both the Rev and his father urge him to use his trouble to "save" the gravedigger's unborn child, and the gravedigger begs him to help. Audrey tells him not to do it, and the Rev calls her a liar.
That's the last straw. Duke shakes his head. She's his friend!
Duke's father tells him that Audrey's previous incarnations killed his grandfather, killed him. That Audrey will kill Duke. Duke turns away, still in denial, and the gravedigger takes the chance to run up and grab Duke's hand, forcing him to stab him in the stomach.
Duke can't do anything but stare as the gravedigger collapses to the ground. And THANKS HIM.
With the kill complete, the Crocker trouble doesn't come with the same side-effects. His eyes go silver, but he doesn't need super strength. There's not adrenaline rush or high. He's just shocked. He meets Nathan's eyes as Nathan stares back at him, clearly distrustful.
The ghosts get in some last enigmatic lines as they fade out with the dying gravedigger's trouble. Lots of comments about how Nathan and Duke are on opposite sides and will have to kill each other, all while Nathan and Duke stare at each other trying not to have feelings. It's super deep, yo. And extremely weird.
The gravedigger dies. The ghosts vanish. Audrey grabs her gun and shouts that EVERYONE THERE IS UNDER ARREST DAMMIT!
Nathan and Audrey have a bunch of paperwork to process, but also a date to prepare for! Yay! Duke goes back to his boat, Danny following along yelling, probably, and gets out a big ass bottle of booze to try and drink his feelings. He and Danny maybe have a heart to heart about killing in the line of duty? The ways it fucks with your head. How to avoid it as best as possible. Duke starts to calm down, says that he just wants to get back to Fandom, but Haven behind him again. Danny gets up to use the bathroom? I feel like he should be out of the way a little when Nathan barges in. Nathan barges in, demanding to know what Duke's done with Audrey. Duke's all "WTF WHAT DO YOU MEAN AUDREY'S GONE??" and they fight. Danny hears the ruckus, comes rushing back out to find Duke prone on the floor with Nathan standing above him, pointing his gun in Duke's face. Duke's reaching for the gun he keeps taped under the galley table, but is too busy staring at the fresh new tattoo on the inside of Nathan's arm to actually grab it.
And the season ends with an exterior shot of the boat along with a gun shot, because this show is the woooooooorst!
The Rev's people are heavily armed, with rifles and pistols. A group of people make molotov cocktails by a collection of gas cans. Two men with rifles guard the doors to a shed, while another set pull an unconscious young man out of the back of a van, keeping him quiet with chloroform. They put him into the shed with several other bound, unconscious people. They're troubled. The Xs marked the homes of the kidnapping victims. They're clearly planning to burn the shed down.
Before the cops can decide to take action, the Rev walks out of the woods, with Duke on his tail. Audrey can't see the Rev, but Danny and Nathan can. All Audrey sees is Duke arguing with empty air.
The Rev's men manage to get the drop on the cops, disarming them, and forcing them into the open.
Duke sees the troubled people in the shed and accuses the Rev of being insane, declares that he's going to stop them. The Rev says that he's here to "save" them. One of his men forces a knife into Duke's hands, which he brandishes at anyone who comes near him, including Audrey when she's led right up behind him. Audrey's shocked. Nathan accuses him of working with the Rev. Duke denies it and drops the knife.
The troubled gravedigger is the one holding the gun to Audrey. Nathan tries to tell him not to listen to the Rev, and Audrey tells him that he's troubled. Kyle tries to deny it, and Duke's dad appears, telling Duke that this is the way it always goes when people realize they're cursed. The gravedigger's pregnant wife is clearly horrified. The Rev points to Duke as the person who can save the gravedigger and his family.
Duke tries to refuse. Someone shoves a knife into his hands again. Duke clearly struggles with the decision as both the Rev and his father urge him to use his trouble to "save" the gravedigger's unborn child, and the gravedigger begs him to help. Audrey tells him not to do it, and the Rev calls her a liar.
That's the last straw. Duke shakes his head. She's his friend!
Duke's father tells him that Audrey's previous incarnations killed his grandfather, killed him. That Audrey will kill Duke. Duke turns away, still in denial, and the gravedigger takes the chance to run up and grab Duke's hand, forcing him to stab him in the stomach.
Duke can't do anything but stare as the gravedigger collapses to the ground. And THANKS HIM.
With the kill complete, the Crocker trouble doesn't come with the same side-effects. His eyes go silver, but he doesn't need super strength. There's not adrenaline rush or high. He's just shocked. He meets Nathan's eyes as Nathan stares back at him, clearly distrustful.
The ghosts get in some last enigmatic lines as they fade out with the dying gravedigger's trouble. Lots of comments about how Nathan and Duke are on opposite sides and will have to kill each other, all while Nathan and Duke stare at each other trying not to have feelings. It's super deep, yo. And extremely weird.
The gravedigger dies. The ghosts vanish. Audrey grabs her gun and shouts that EVERYONE THERE IS UNDER ARREST DAMMIT!
Nathan and Audrey have a bunch of paperwork to process, but also a date to prepare for! Yay! Duke goes back to his boat, Danny following along yelling, probably, and gets out a big ass bottle of booze to try and drink his feelings. He and Danny maybe have a heart to heart about killing in the line of duty? The ways it fucks with your head. How to avoid it as best as possible. Duke starts to calm down, says that he just wants to get back to Fandom, but Haven behind him again. Danny gets up to use the bathroom? I feel like he should be out of the way a little when Nathan barges in. Nathan barges in, demanding to know what Duke's done with Audrey. Duke's all "WTF WHAT DO YOU MEAN AUDREY'S GONE??" and they fight. Danny hears the ruckus, comes rushing back out to find Duke prone on the floor with Nathan standing above him, pointing his gun in Duke's face. Duke's reaching for the gun he keeps taped under the galley table, but is too busy staring at the fresh new tattoo on the inside of Nathan's arm to actually grab it.
And the season ends with an exterior shot of the boat along with a gun shot, because this show is the woooooooorst!
Re: Into the woods after the wifey
Date: 2020-10-15 06:08 pm (UTC)Re: Into the woods after the wifey
Date: 2020-10-15 06:14 pm (UTC)Marissa hadn't gone too far into the woods before she happened upon a very busy clearing. Audrey ducked behind a bush, tugging Nathan along after her and trusting Danny's instincts to do the same.
The clearing was centered around an old wooden shed. There was an open padlock on the shed door, and two men armed with rifles flanking it on either side. An unmarked, dirty white van was pulled up to the clearing's edge, back-end first, and two more armed men were pulling an unconscious prisoner out of it, pausing to press a rag over the prisoner's face before continuing to the shed. Between the van and the shed was a collection of gas cans, and several more people putting together what looked like molotov cocktails.
As the men carried the prisoner into the shed, at least a dozen others could be seen lying on the floor inside it, their eyes closed, their hands and feet tied together.
"Those people must be troubled," Audrey whispered. "That's what the graffiti was, marking the homes of troubled people."
Nathan nodded, expression dark. "They're going to burn that shed to the ground."
Re: Into the woods after the wifey
Date: 2020-10-15 06:21 pm (UTC)Re: Into the woods after the wifey
Date: 2020-10-15 06:27 pm (UTC)"They've been building up to this a long time," Nathan said. "Must've started before the Rev died. Probably before the lockdown, too."
Audrey opened her mouth to reply when Nathan stiffened.
"There he is." He gestured with his chin to the figure who'd just come walking out of the trees on the other side of the shed. A man all in black, with a priest's collar, whose passage didn't disturb the greenery in the least. "Rev's definitely here."
Audrey looked, but of course she couldn't see the Rev. She did see Duke, though. Unrestrained, unharmed. "Dammit, Duke."
Re: Into the woods after the wifey
Date: 2020-10-15 06:29 pm (UTC)Re: Into the woods after the wifey
Date: 2020-10-15 06:33 pm (UTC)Though they were too far away to hear the details of his conversation, he was gesturing like he was disagreeing with whatever the Rev had to say.
It'd be hard to find out more than that just yet, though, as three men armed with pistols stepped out of the greenery behind the detectives.
"You're gonna wanna drop any weapons you might have," the one behind Danny said. And cocked his pistol with an audible click.
Re: Into the woods after the wifey
Date: 2020-10-15 06:45 pm (UTC)"I really dislike your town," he informed Nathan, raising his hands to show he wasn't a threat. You know. Until the action-packed finale.
Re: Into the woods after the wifey
Date: 2020-10-15 06:56 pm (UTC)The Rev nodded to the shed. "Take a look."
Duke did. "Oh my god. What have you done?!"
"They're not dead, just unconscious. Couldn't risk their curses causing us problems."
"You're insane!" Duke swung around to point at the gathered group. "All of you! You're all insane! I'm not going to stand here and let you burn these people!"
"Oh, they're not going to burn," the Rev said. "You're going to save them."
One of his men grabbed Duke by the wrist and shoved a knife into his hand. Duke grabbed onto it instinctively, the adrenaline he'd been riding since the Rev led him away from the house cresting over. He swung the knife around, driving everyone back, and spun -- just in time to end up brandishing it at Audrey as the men holding guns on the detectives led them into the center of the clearing.
"Duke!" Audrey shouted. She'd only been able to catch half that conversation, and had no idea what Duke might be thinking. "What are you doing?"
"You working with the Rev?" Nathan asked.
Duke looked from him to the knife in his hand, then back over at the Rev. "What? No! Of course not!"
Re: Into the woods after the wifey
Date: 2020-10-15 07:19 pm (UTC)Re: Into the woods after the wifey
Date: 2020-10-15 07:25 pm (UTC)He rounded on the Rev and threw the knife to the ground. The Rev simply stared back at him, that little self-righteous, self-assured smirk of his firmly in place.
"I remember when you preached forgiveness, Reverend," Nathan said.
The Rev shook his head faintly. "I'm all out of forgiveness."
Re: Into the woods after the wifey
Date: 2020-10-15 07:33 pm (UTC)Re: Into the woods after the wifey
Date: 2020-10-15 07:38 pm (UTC)"You want us to put them in the shed, Reverend?"
"No, you should let 'em go," Nathan said, shooting the man a dark look. He couldn't feel his own guard's gun press into his neck. "You don't need to take orders from a dead man."
"Especially since you're the one who brought him back, Kyle."
Kyle Hopkins tensed and lifted his gun a little higher. "What are you talking about?"
Re: Into the woods after the wifey
Date: 2020-10-15 07:41 pm (UTC)Re: Into the woods after the wifey
Date: 2020-10-15 07:44 pm (UTC)Kyle scowled. "So what? I dig a lot of graves."
Simon Crocker stepped up next to Duke, leaning in as though sharing a secret. "They always fight the truth at first," he said.
"No," Kyle said. "No no no no no no no no. Reverend, tell them it's not true!"
The Rev simply watched him, not saying a word.
Re: Into the woods after the wifey
Date: 2020-10-15 07:51 pm (UTC)Re: Into the woods after the wifey
Date: 2020-10-15 07:55 pm (UTC)Kyle's expression was falling.
"Then they have that moment," Simon said. "When they realize why all their lives, they felt different."
Kyle leaned past Audrey to look where his wife stood, watching. "Honey! They're wrong, I swear!"
Marissa looked down at her pregnant belly. At the unborn child inside, who would have Kyle's same curse.
"And then they start to beg," Simon said.
"Marissa," Kyle said, helplessly. "Reverend Driscoll, please!"
"Sorry. Can't help you, Kyle." The Rev did look sorry, that was the kicker. Until he pointed to Duke. "But he can."
Re: Into the woods after the wifey
Date: 2020-10-15 07:57 pm (UTC)Re: Into the woods after the wifey
Date: 2020-10-15 08:01 pm (UTC)"No." Duke shook his head. "No, wait, wait, hold on."
"Save him," the Rev insisted. Duke pressed his hand to his forehead, his head spinning. This wasn't happening. This couldn't be happening.
Someone shoved the knife into Duke's hand again, and he turned slowly away from the Rev, staring down at it
as the dramatic music swelled.Had Octavia gone through something like this? When her people were starving in the bunker? Had she had people breathing down her neck, urging her to kill, kill!?
Re: Into the woods after the wifey
Date: 2020-10-15 08:03 pm (UTC)Re: Into the woods after the wifey
Date: 2020-10-15 08:16 pm (UTC)Then Kyle broke away from Audrey, dropping his gun. He grabbed Duke's wrist before anyone could react and yanked it forward, plunging the knife into his own gut.
Duke let go of the knife as soon as he realized what was happening, but it was much too late. Kyle's blood was already all over his hand, and Kyle himself was already collapsing down to the ground.
Duke trembled as the blood soaked into his skin and vanished.
Re: Into the woods after the wifey
Date: 2020-10-15 08:20 pm (UTC)"Jesus, someone check on him," he snapped, gun pointed down for now.
Re: Into the woods after the wifey
Date: 2020-10-15 08:34 pm (UTC)"Kyle," Marissa said, a sob in her throat. "I love you."
Kyle looked up at Duke and gave him a shaky smile. "Thank you. My son will be safe now."
Duke could only stare down at him, his mind gone completely blank. There was no rush to hold back this time, no sudden burst of strength. Just a strange, indescribable sensation as Kyle's breath started to fail, as the ghosts began to glow and fade. As Duke's trouble broke down Kyle's and absorbed it, just as his skin had absorbed Kyle's blood.
Re: Into the woods after the wifey
Date: 2020-10-15 08:38 pm (UTC)"Duke," Danny said again, keeping an eye out for anyone who was still on the 'let's commit mass murder' train. Because this was a bad day and he wasn't in a great mood.
Re: Into the woods after the wifey
Date: 2020-10-15 08:51 pm (UTC)Duke didn't hear him. He glanced up, catching Nathan's eye, just in time to see Nathan stare back at him. To see recrimination and a kind of calculating horror on Nathan's face.
Not far away, like fading echoes, Nathan's father and Duke's stared each other down, too.
"I know you helped her kill me, Garland," Simon said, nodding to Audrey, who was trying to staunch Kyle's wound.
"No." Garland shook his head. "She just beat me to it." He looked to the Rev. "Hear she killed you, too."
"At least he's got a taste of what he's capable of," the Rev said, looking proudly at Duke. "That's all that matters."
"Well, she'll kill him too," Garland said.
"Not this time." Simon glared. "She may have taken me and my father out, but she can't stop my son."
Duke swallowed thickly, refusing to look at any of them.
"I have a son too, you know," Garland said, looking back at Nathan. "Damn good one." He gave Nathan a faint nod. "Just take care of our girl."
Nathan nodded back, just as faintly.
Then the light went out in Kyle's eyes, and the ghosts vanished from the clearing.
Re: Into the woods after the wifey
Date: 2020-10-15 08:59 pm (UTC)"Alright, weapons down!" Because they still had a load of kidnapped people to get out of here.
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