Outcast

Who's there?

Me.

Just a second.

Argh.

You got you-- you got you a girl up in here?

Wouldn't surprise me.

You and Brad McCready's widow got tongues wagging all over town.

You haven't even set up the card table yet.

Uh, no, I meant to cancel.

I'm not up for poker tonight.

You haven't missed a card game in 15 years.

What's going on?

I'm just not feeling well.

Does this have anything to do with your side business?

Something you wanna tell me about?

No.

You sure?

A lot going on.

You keeping to yourself...

Mildred, Caleb.

Fine. Let's play some cards.

It's just like a shot,

and it bounces off his own elbow.

What about you, kid? You're gonna be in front of a big crowd tomorrow.

You nervous yet?

What?

Remembrance Day.

Gonna be a lot of eyes on you.

Where's your head tonight?

Been seven years, and we finally have a fitting memorial to those men.

Thanks to you.

You seen it yet?

Sure did.

Helped cart it in from Pittsburgh.

Well, that's what you been doing on all these trips out of town.

Wouldn't you like to know.

Matter of fact, I would.

You been wearing that poker face of yours 24/7.

Why you so damn interested in my private life?

I ask you for an update every time you take a dump?

Every time you screw your wife?

I think we should call it a night.

We like to do it on Wednesdays.

Kind of a tradition.

Your turn.

You believe this shit?

Where were you that night that fire started at Lowell's place?

You weren't at home,

and you weren't on duty.

Rosie was over there with Kat.

Maybe I should just ask her.

You don't know shit!

Hey, hey! Let's call it a night.

Come on, knock it off!

Ugh.

For god's sake, break it up!

Man, come on!

Would you all please get the hell out.

Now. Now.

Here.

What you think you were doing?

You knocked down the reverend.

I'm fine.

Fucking shit... Come on.

Bullshit! You don't get to tell me what's police business and what isn't.

A man comes into another man's house and cuts him

is assault. This is different.

Putting him behind bars is not gonna stop him.

Hell yeah, it will. That's the point of jail.

What if he hurts someone else?

You gonna sit there, bleed, and tell me you're doing nothing about this?

This is a sign. I cannot ignore it.

Of what?

If this man is who he says he is,

then I'll be more effective than I could ever imagine.

It means he's afraid of me. That I...

I could hurt him.

How, exactly?

By bringing the Lord's power down to bear on him.

Drag him out of the shadows.

Exposing him for what he is.

What are you doing up?

It's Remembrance Day. There's no school.

I have stuff to do.

I'll see you at the memorial.

Wait a minute, wait.

Wait-- wait a minute, Megan.

Megan?

Amber?

Amber?

Sweetie?

Honey, why don't you come downstairs and get something to eat?

I don't feel good.

Well, why don't you come lie down, then. You can watch a movie.

Come on. one drink.

I don't know, Russ.

I can't. I told Allison I'd be home early.

Right.

Gonna make babies.

Don't do that. It's--

all the pressure's taking the damn fun out of the thing.

Megan getting pregnant didn't help either.

Tell me you think this is strange.

Megan wants me and Allison there in the delivery room.

Like, while it's happening.

Oh, I could take a shift.

You just let me know what day.

Nah, that's all right, you don't--

No, no, I insist.

I wouldn't want you to miss that, mmm-mmm...

uncomfortable moment.

Fucker.

All right.

You all right?

Yeah, I-- I just burned my hand on a Harley exhaust.

Dumbass.

Hey, Russ, thanks.

You bet.

Good morning!

Morning.

I remember when your grandfather owned this property.

Used to be a horse stable over there

before it burned down.

Break his heart to see what happened to the place.

Yeah. I'll have to take your word for that.

Why did you come back?

You wanna see the restraining order?

No, I know why you're not with your family.

Why are you here?

You could have gone anywhere.

Made a fresh start.

Put all this behind.

House is already paid for.

I gotta go to work.

I think you know what's going on around here.

Mildred Robson walking around with something inside of her.

Yeah.

Hospital report says "inconclusive."

They don't know why she died.

Just that she stopped breathing.

I told you, I got nothing to do with that.

And I believe you.

Come on, son. Take a ride with me.

Get in the car!

Lord, have mercy.

How can we take a ride with you not in the car?

¶ Just a mile ¶ ¶ Just a mile ¶

¶ Down the road ¶ ¶ Down the road ¶

¶ And a street or two away ¶

¶ Lives that freckled misses ¶

¶ That I want most every day ¶

¶ To the home ¶ ¶ To the home ¶

¶ Of her father ¶ ¶ Of her father ¶

...then after Zoe Trumble's poem I'll call you up.

You do your usual...

prayer, benediction, thing.

Then you'll present the memorial.

Huh? That's...

God bless all of us and the USA,

and that's it.

Then everybody eats.

That's right. Gordon Shipley's doing the barbecue this year,

and the Hetzel sisters are donating pies.

Wonder if they have free pies on the streets of Sodom.

It's a celebration of life for those left behind.

It brings the community together.

'Course it does.

You know, we went pretty late last night.

Get some rest.

Lie down for a couple hours.

Is this supposed to mean something?

You tell me.

Reverend says you have a sense for these things.

You picking up any kind of... reading on all this?

Reading?

I'm not a psychic.

But you can tell if, uh...

someone's like Mildred Robson.

Passing for a human with one of them things inside of 'em.

You're looking to test someone.

Who? Does it matter?

Um... I gotta get close to 'em.

Sometimes they have a reaction to me.

Um, especially if I touch them.

But you can fix 'em?

Get 'em out?

Sometimes.

Sometimes?

Look, what do you want?

I don't know how it works.

Sometimes when we get it out, they're fine,

and then sometimes it's...

like my mom.

Look, Kyle.

Lot of people are afraid of you.

They think you should be run out of town.

But I think it's a good sign you're here.

You didn't come back for the free rent.

You got unfinished business.

A stain you want to wipe off of yourself.