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all kind of agreed

that we wouldn't share things

like that,

especially after your brother,

you know?

My brother what?

I'm having such a nice time

with you.

I'm so glad you're back.

It's just we don't need

to talk about it.

Okay.

(DISTANT CHANTING)

(WHISPERING)

Do you hear music?

(CRYING)

- Hey. Hi.

- Hi.

Are you all right?

I'm fine. I just can't sleep

with everybody up like this.

And I leave these notes

f***ing everywhere

saying, please, please, please

shut the hell up!

You, uh...

you don't like the parties?

I did for a few nights,

but after a while...

f***, man!

What's your name?

Justin.

I'm Jennifer.

Hey, Jennifer.

So if you don't like it here,

why don't you just leave?

It's a really weird story.

You sure you wanna hear it?

It's possible you're the only

woman here

not taken by several men,

so you'd have to convince

me otherwise.

I'm not hitting on you. That was

mostly me making a joke.

I'm 100 percent married, so...

Right.

Very nice to meet you.

No, it's fine.

You're...

You're all harmless.

A little brainwashed

but mostly harmless.

So you're not part

of the camp?

My husband Mike

disappeared near here.

So I came out

looking for him.

He just sort of lost it.

And I wandered until I almost

passed out.

Must have been dehydration

or something.

Hal found me.

He said we'd find him.

It'd take some time...

but we'd find him.

So how's the search going?

Uh...

it's been a few, um...

it's been a few...

Our son is with

my parents.

So...

I'm gonna go lay back down.

Nice meeting you.

There's something out here,

isn't there?

Yeah.

Yeah, there is.

I saw some things last night

that...

I... I can't...

Hey, you're gonna hate this.

Um...

But what if we stayed?

- Like permanently?

- Yeah.

You know, we'd be

taken care of.

Nothing to worry about except

for doing our own thing.

There's kind of an order

to things here, you know?

It's fair.

Like something really is

watching out for us.

I don't know.

I always thought that if I did

experience

that there was something more

to all of this,

that I'd like start going to

church or something.

Everybody thinks that.

But last night I was walking

back to the cabin...

and there was this girl at one

of the cabins, and she was...

What?

She wasn't all "Kumbaya" like

the rest of the camp.

She was really scared and sad

about something.

I don't know, I just...

I don't think comfort

is worth dying for.

Look, man, there is no

mass suicide here.

You're, like, leaping to

conclusions.

We can't go back to our,

like, regular shitty lives

knowing that there's actually

something out here.

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

Hal said the answer is at

the bottom of this lake.

So I am going to bottom

of this lake.

Answer to what?

Exactly what "it" is.

Well, that's way culty.

Oh!

- Not a god, it's a monster!

- What?

There's something down there!

I saw it! It held me down!

- What?

- I don't know!

Go!

We're leaving.

- It's a tape.

- I don't care, we're leaving.

Look, man, I know

you've been just...

dying to make something up

and get me out of here.

But I didn't see a monster

or anything.

And actually, everything's

fine here.

Fine, you can stay.

I'm leaving.

Look, we both know that's just

not happening, all right?

Look, we'll go back

to the camp.

We'll say our good-byes like

we're normal people,

and then we'll go,

all right?

- All right.

- All right. Good.

- Great.

- Good!

I wish you guys

could stay longer.

Yeah, me, too.

Yeah, really hard to leave,

but we gotta get back to work.

Hey, I drew you

a going-away gift.

Oh. Wow.

Thank you.

That's, uh...

that's honest.

Hey.

Do you mind if we get

a little...

culty in here?

One last time?

Um... no.

- You sure?

- Yeah.

Everybody...

Justin and Aaron found a message

in the lake today.

That's awesome. We haven't had

one of those in a while.

Thought we'd have

a viewing ceremony.

- To send 'em off.

- What is it?

It's how to communicate

with us.

With images.

I'm, uh... I'm Michael.

So you guys are, like,

in a church group?

JUSTIN:

Uh, nice to meet you, Mike.

We're prophets of

the Camp Arcadia faith.

Our whole thing is just making

sure that people know

that self-sacrifice for

the one true god

is the only way to begin the

journey into the cosmos.

AARON:
Yeah, Justin's

taught me a whole lot

about our coming apocalypse,

so, you know,

if you ever wanna come worship

with us at the camp,

we'd love to have you.

JUSTIN:
And we also

take small donations.

We're just devoted to...

to... to... to... to...

(CLIP STOPS)

So...

it appears that the message

is forgiveness.

Forgiveness for those lies.

That was embarrassing.

Guys, guys, guys.

Guys, wait up.

I didn't know that's what it

would be.

It's not supposed to be

embarrassing.

It's a lesson.

What does that mean?

Forgiveness.

We forgive you for going out

and evangelizing us

as a UFO death cult

or whatever.

Then telling the press,

among other things, that all of

us are castrated.

You are castrated.

(SCOFFS)

As far as I know,

everybody here has

their sex organs.

You told me the camp...

they had to do that.

That they sanctioned

all of that.

- I never said that.

- Yes, you did! Why...

Why did we tell that story?

Why did we go and tell

that story?

I knew there was

something wrong here.

And there is something

very wrong here.

And I did what I had to do

to keep to safe.

- And I'm sorry you're finding out this way...

- You made that all up?

Without trying to throw fuel

on the fire here,

would you say maybe it has something

to do with you wanting to lead?

I'm trying to lead?

Even as a little boy, you were

never comfortable

with there being no leader here

giving definite answers.

Maybe you take crappy pictures

because "it" takes pictures.

Maybe you wanna be "it."

You wanna control, you wanna

be the alpha.

You've led to me

so f***ing much.

He lied to you.

F*** him!

I pulled the both of you...

out of your mother's

burning car.

I gave you food,

I gave you shelter,

I gave you every opportunity

to grow.

And what you did

to undermine us...

Let's just forget the fact

that we are never

gonna get Dave

to take that damned white

button-up shirt off...

Can you imagine trying to sell

your beer

when someone can find a news

article that makes you look like

a dickless, poison Kool-Aid

drinking,

Heaven's Gate offshoot?

That is our livelihood.

So, no!

F*** you!

She's up there, terrified,

with some story about

how you're going

to help her find her missing

husband.

What are you doing here, Hal?

Walk away, man.

- Come on.

- No.

- Let's go.

- No.

- Now!

- No!

You are a f***ing

cult leader!

I'm gonna have to ask you

to leave.

Or we can go inside and we can

put that to a vote.

But why don't you just make it

easy on everybody.

God damn it, Aaron.

(ENGINE SPUTTERING)

(BEEPING)

F***!

(RUSTLING)

(RATTLING)

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