The Signal Page #3

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a goddamn New Year's Eve party

is the last thing

on people's minds!

All right.

You get rid of them,

I'm gonna move Ken

into the bedroom.

Well, what...

What should I say?

Anything.

Just don't let them in,

no matter what.

Okay.

Yes?

Pest control.

There's no party, thanks.

Somebody here call

an exterminator?

We don't have bugs!

Think they were rats, ma'am.

Your husband

must have called it in.

- Ken?

- Yeah.

- Ken.

- Hey, we're fine.

Thank God it's you.

You're alive.

Wait, do you have it?

Are you crazy?

Look...

I know you left me

in the chair

because you'd thought

I lost it.

But I didn't.

I saw your car outside,

and I thought

the worst had happened.

I thought that one of the...

One of those people

had gotten you

and taken you away from me.

They can't get to you.

No one can get

to you.

What's this, now?

Stop, what are you doing?

Don't do that to him.

He was coming at you, I thought

he might be one of them.

He's my friend,

he's helping me.

You can't do that

to friends.

Looked like he was going

to try and hurt you.

He's Clark, you idiot.

He's not gonna hurt me.

You can't trust anybody

right now.

Oh, his poor eyes

are burning.

Mya, I'm sorry.

Who's Mya?

I'll... check in the bathroom

to see if there's anything

to flush the poison with.

Don't go in there!

Don't go in there!

What do you have here?

It's, you know, Ken.

He's napping.

He looks dead.

- He is.

- I see.

- Who did this?

- I did.

But I didn't want to.

You killed him?

And Clark killed somebody too.

I didn't... I did.

It was self-defense.

You chopped

his head off.

He had it coming.

Probably.

These are wild times.

Everybody's being driven

to desperate measures.

I guess this happens

to everybody.

I've got something

to show you too.

You just don't know

who to trust right now.

Mya.

Where's Mya?

Untie me.

F***.

You're him.

Rod!

The TV must have gotten

into his head

and told him to kill you.

Yeah, that's

what happened to Ken.

He was watching TV

and it made him go bad.

This is, without a doubt,

the most f***ed up day

in the history

of mankind.

We should get back inside.

Who wants cocktails?

Party guests.

Act natural.

Hi.

You've got to help me.

My mom was trying to kill me and

so I ran over her with the car

and my dad was in the house

and he made the dog die

because it tried to bite me

and I left in the car,

and I didn't know where to go

and I remembered

that Anna and Ken lived here,

and I'm Laura.

Laura.

Anna!

Laura!

What the f***?

You killed Laura.

She was coming at you.

Stay away from me.

You killed Laura!

She was heading for you

with that knife.

She doesn't have a knife!

That's a key chain.

I was trying

to protect you.

Oof.

It's okay. It's okay.

It's okay.

It's all right.

He beat her face in.

I know.

I know, and I'm gonna

find out what happened,

but I... I need you

to be strong for me.

Okay?

Laura might have

actually wanted to hurt you.

Her puppy's name

was Charlie Man.

We don't know where Laura

was at in her head.

We don't, okay?

For all we know, she might have

received this cancerous signal.

This hypnotic frequency

that's all around. All right?

She might have transmitted it,

from her car radio.

Or the television, or...

Or s... Stereo, or...

We don't know. Everybody's

a suspect right now. Everyone.

Turn that off!

Why'd you turn that on?

I didn't. She did.

When the TV went on,

she came back to life.

She's trying to get me.

Ah...

Get back at me

for what I did to her.

God, this is getting

to be ridiculous.

Ah...

God in heaven!

Just open the door

and then I'll take them down.

That's not the way

to play this.

We can't be sure.

We have to exterminate

with extreme prejudice.

It might be somebody

who could help us.

We don't know.

We can't risk it.

I'm killing whoever walks

through that door.

It's Jim.

It's Jim Parsons.

Trust no one.

You were the one watching TV.

I told you,

I wasn't watching the TV.

Listen, if I had it, I would

have killed you by now, right?

I guess.

I'm fine, and you're fine,

and she's fine.

This we know.

But he may not be

and probably isn't.

You might be right.

He might be infected.

Then we'd have to kill Jim.

Jim Parsons.

Maybe if we're quiet,

he'll go away.

He wants in... to get us!

Shh!

He's gone.

Sweet...

Clark.

Clark, is that you?

I have to let the poor guy in,

he might be in trouble.

Please, let me handle this.

If he's not okay,

I'll kill him myself.

Don't leave me out here, man.

Clark, come on, let me in.

Jim? Yeah, it's me, Clark.

Hey, Clark. Let me in.

Okay, just give me a second.

Come on, buddy.

I ain't got any...

Anywhere else to go tonight.

Clark.

You've just got

to turn the handle. Heh.

Where is everybody?

Oh, I'm early.

Early?

The shindig.

The fiesta?

It's tonight, right?

It better be.

When that ball drops,

I'm gonna grab a slut

and I'm just gonna pee

in her butt.

Jim, are you aware that...?

Oh, no, I'm so sorry.

Uh, Jim. Jim Parsons.

Jim Parsons, this is, um...

Lewis.

Lewis.

Lewis.

Clark.

Lewis and Clark.

Where's Sacajawea?

I would totally f***

an Indian girl. I would.

Uh, those kind,

if I ever saw one.

I would just take her back

to the tepee,

"Oh, nice little squaw.

Oh, peel my corn," you know?

Seriously, is there gonna be

some p*ssy here tonight?

'Cause I really don't

want to, um,

make out with

my two brave explorers here.

So you're...

You're here for the party?

You know this, yeah.

Are Ken and Anna around?

Anna's, uh, getting ready.

And Ken is just laying down

for a second.

He's dead tired.

Can I get you

a cocktail, Jim?

Oh, yeah, please.

Put that in the fridge.

I'll get that later.

Hm.

It says Lewis on your shirt.

Heh-heh.

That's funny.

I didn't even see it.

Place looks good.

Ken.

I knew you'd get better.

She's got nice b*obs

in there.

I hope she has

some cute friends.

That'd be nice.

I went

to a party last year.

Everybody started kissing

each other, you know,

at midnight,

like the tradition, or...

How did that start? Heh.

Everybody starts kissing

each other,

and I had no one else

to kiss, so I,

just as a joke,

kissed the dog.

But then I realized

when I got home

I made out with the dog

for my New Year's.

It's wrong.

Tonight I really wouldn't mind

just cleaning out my pipes,

you know?

Maybe a mnage three

in there.

Clark's been

in there a long time.

You know...

she's with everybody,

I guess.

You.

Me.

Clark.

The milkman.

She's damaged goods.

Somebody should just...

put her out of her misery.

That's my wife.

What?

That's not your wife,

that's Ken's wife.

Your wife's not here.

Your wife has gone

far away...

out of your sight

where you can't

help her anymore.

You don't know

what you're saying.

No.

You don't know

what you're saying.

That TV got in your brain

and has, uh, distorted

your perception.

I'm not crazy

like those others.

No, man.

You're much worse off

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