The Host Page #5

Doc and everything.

Don't worry about that now.

We have to get you better.

You sound like Melanie.

Did Melanie say that just then?

Yes.

IAN:
Wanda.

I need you to kiss me.

What about Melanie?

Don't worry about Melanie.

No. Kiss me like

you want to get slapped.

What?

Was she stopping you?

No. That's the problem.

We're alone. She's gone.

Ever since I told her to get

out of my head, she's...

I'm afraid I've lost her.

She got so angry

before when you kissed me.

I thought she'd come back.

Then I guess you'll have to

make her really angry.

(CLUCKING)

Kiss her.

I lost Melanie.

I don't know

if she's still there.

You need to bring her back.

She hates me kissing you.

Okay.

JARED:
Melanie, come back.

I will not lose you.

MELANIE:
Jared.

Melanie?

Oh. Stop! (GRUNTS)

Melanie, you bit me!

Wanda, what the hell?

Melanie,

I'm so glad you're back.

Did I leave?

For three days.

You don't know what I've

been through to find you.

Yeah, you look like

you were suffering.

We have to help Jamie.

He's hurt.

Come on.

JARED:
Stop.

Stop.

Where are you going?

It's infected. It's got

into Jamie's bloodstream.

He needs medicine.

There's no medicine out there.

You souls have destroyed it all.

He doesn't need your medicine.

It's too late for that.

He needs ours.

You have to take

me out of the cave.

You'll have to trust me.

Cut me. I need a

wound like Jamie's.

I can't do that.

I'll be healed in minutes.

MELANIE:
Take it from him.

Do it yourself.

They'll be suspicious of this scar.

I can cover it with a cut.

It's gonna be okay.

Excuse me.

Goodness.

We have an emergency.

You can do this, Wanda.

I'm Healer Skye.

What happened?

Tell her you tripped.

Tell her you tripped!

I tripped.

With a knife in your hand.

With a knife in my hand,

cut myself.

You poor thing.

Let's fix you up.

Heal.

Seal.

MELANIE:
Send her away.

If it is no trouble, could

I please have some water?

Of course.

Hurry! Take it!

What do you think?

Perfect.

Thank you.

Goodbye.

What are you doing?

We have to go.

JARED:
Is he alive?

Barely.

DOC:
What is all that?

Medicine.

Wait! No. No. We don't

know what that'll do.

She knows what she's doing.

We all know what will

happen if we do nothing.

He'll die.

JARED:
Doc.

It's okay.

WANDERER:
Please.

Do it.

Doc, do it.

That's it.

MELANIE:
Come on, Jamie.

Open your eyes.

Please.

Jamie.

Hey, buddy.

You're getting good, Doc.

(ALL LAUGHING)

I've walked out of plenty

of stores without paying.

First time anyone's

been happy about it.

I liked it better

when we were stealing.

You spoil everything, Wanda.

WANDERER:
No, Wes!

Hello, Wanderer.

Seeker.

Why did you waste

the medicine on me?

Aren't you going to kill me?

Can I speak to her alone?

MELANIE:
Does that include me?

I guess it does.

We'll be outside, Wanda.

You just say the word.

SEEKER:
Huh!

Wanda?

Surely,

you go by "Melanie" now.

Did you ask to kill me

yourself, Melanie?

What are you waiting for?

I'm not here to kill you.

Oh.

You're my interrogator.

I do want to know something.

Why?

Why couldn't you

just let me go?

Because I was right.

I know the threat a weak

soul like you represents.

Unlike you, I am doing my duty.

I am fighting for us.

We cannot live with them

like the other worlds.

You, more than anyone,

know that.

Did you come alone?

Other Seekers will

come looking for me,

just like I came

looking for you.

No one else is

coming to find you.

You die, and the

danger dies with you.

The people here will be safe.

So you are going to kill me.

Wanda, what is this?

What are you thinking?

Don't put up walls against me.

Talk to me.

Wanda?

I never got the chance

to say how truly...

There's a way

to make up for it.

I know how to do

what you have been ending

so many lives trying to do.

I can take a soul from a body.

MELANIE:
You can do what?

What are you saying, Wanda?

I will only

give you this knowledge

on the condition

you do as I ask

and promise that no harm

will come to any soul.

I can promise you that.

There's one other thing

you must promise.

And you must promise

to keep it a secret.

You have to let me die.

No! No! No!

I can't do that, Wanda.

I... I can't.

It's the only way I can

give you what you want.

Wanda.

No.

She's out.

JEB:
So you don't want us

to kill the Seeker.

She killed Wes.

Who knows how many others?

She wouldn't blink

about butchering us.

There's been too much killing.

Not death. Exile.

You want us to forgive her.

And let them go,

just like that?

Yes.

We souls can leave

the same way we arrived.

I will send her away.

By the time she reaches

another planet,

your grandchildren

will have died of old age.

You have always tried

to extract it by force.

The secret is,

you do not remove it,

it removes itself.

You coax it out.

You have always seen it as the enemy.

It can feel the hate.

It can only be

captured by kindness.

Love.

Ian, help me.

Thank you.

What is your name?

I'm Lacey. (LAUGHS)

My name is Lacey.

I've been

screaming inside for years.

Nobody could hear me.

You're the reason why she

wouldn't leave me alone.

Yes, she wasn't

just after humans.

She was hoping to find

a way to fight the hosts.

Like me.

And you, Melanie.

Who fight back.

Have a safe trip.

MELANIE:
And a long one.

WANDERER:
Always send the souls

to the most distant planets.

Wanda?

Do you miss it out there?

The other worlds?

I miss many things.

Don't you miss Melanie?

Don't you want

your sister back?

She's here now.

MELANIE:
You know he's right.

Not the way she needs to be.

I think...

I think it's time to move on.

Leave us?

Yes.

But you can always

come back, right?

I asked you here

so no one would shout.

I wish I could shout loud

enough for them to hear.

As soon as I knew

what to do with the Seeker,

I knew there was a way for all of

you to get your loved ones back.

Without hurting the souls.

But, of course,

I knew I had to give

Melanie back to herself.

And leave.

That can't happen, Wanda.

We need you.

Us or you?

MELANIE:
Tell them the truth.

You're not leaving this world.

Tell them what

you're really gonna do.

Now that you

have this knowledge

of how to extract

a soul from a body,

you can survive without me.

And what does Mel say?

She's always

wanted her life back.

Don't speak for me.

You're lying.

I have to go.

You don't have to

decide right now.

Think about it.

Promise me

you'll think about it.

You are not leaving me.

I can't stay.

But I love you.

I love you.

Don't say it like

you're saying goodbye.

I love you in

every way that I can.

And I'll miss you the most.

I miss the future

I might have had with you.

You're willing

to sacrifice that?

Sometimes we have

to make sacrifices.

No, I can't let you go. I won't.

Let me talk to Melanie.

She's not there right now.

She stepped into the other

room, so I can kiss you.

I really can't

talk you out of it?

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