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Previously on From.

We need to figure out
where you're going to live from now on.

I don't think she's a bad person.

If it's all right, she would like
to live here with you.

Okay, sure.

Abby, stop!

No! Stop!

Hey, Abbs. I could really use some help.

No! Hey, hey! Hey, hey!

Elgin, I don't want to hate you.

This place took advantage of both of us.

There's something I need your help with.

I think we're gonna need
a little bit more.

So you just... walk inside?

Then I find my dad.

Ethan called it Storywalking.

He learned about it from one of his books,
and all his books are under the house now.

Shit!

I see the bag.

What are the titles?

Grand Gooligog, the Cromenockle.

Jade, tell me you got something.

The best thing I can do is just find a way
to unlock whatever's locked in here.

Henry said Miranda
started seeing this place

after an acid trip they took.

If it worked for her,
it stands to reason it could work for me.

The night we arrived here,
you had a dream.

Lake of Tears?

It's here, and I need you to find it.

- Maybe Jade can help.
- Jade?

The lake of what?

Why were you meditating?

Trying to remember something
that I used to know.

Hey, Victor, we got a lake to find.

Victor!

Hey, talk to me, son.

I told myself it wasn't real.

I told myself it wasn't real.

My wife, Miranda,

she painted things she saw here.

One of those paintings
was of a man in a yellow suit.

You're telling me
this could be the same suit?

You don't see a lot of people
walking around here

in a canary yellow suit.

Well, Victor obviously recognized it.

He didn't just recognize it.
I watched a grown man wet his pants.

My question is, if the suit's here,
then where's the guy who wore it?

Long gone, maybe.

For all we know, this suit might have been
laying out in the forest for years.

This close to town?
Look, it's not like it's easy to miss.

Then maybe those things
that come out at night

left it there to mess with our heads.

The point is, we don't know.

The best thing we can do right now
is talk to Victor.

- I'll do it. I'll talk to him.
- No, maybe we should all.

I...

I will talk to my son alone.

Okay.

- If there's nothing else, I'll...
- Yeah, no, okay.

The young boy, the one dressed in white,

he said to us
that we're running out of time.

For 40 years, that boy was nothing
but a painting in my basement.

That suit, this place,
all just paintings in the basement.

And now...

I think there was a part of me
that was still trying to pretend

any of this was normal.

Does he know?

About his wife?

About you?

We don't even know if it's real.

It's real.

No. No, Tabitha's right.

We need to be pretty goddamn sure.

Have you said anything to Fatima?

No, she's dealing with enough as is.

All right, then everyone who knows
is standing in this room.

Let's keep it that way for now.

Understood?

The man in the yellow suit...

If Miranda was able to paint him,

that means somewhere in your mind,
there might be an answer to who he is.

If this is about your fucking mushrooms...

Boyd, are you seriously okay
with him taking magic mushrooms

that he found in a haunted forest?

No, Donna, I'm not.

I'm also not okay
with waking up every morning

and counting how many
new bodies there are.

Are you okay with that?

We're losing, okay?

I'm not gonna say that out there,
but in here, whatever game this is...

we are losing.

And then that freaky little kid
in white pops up

and tells Tabitha
that we're running out of time,

and we still don't know
the goddamn rules.

If there are answers in his head,
any answers,

we need to get them out. Okay?

I'll be there with him.
Anything goes wrong, I'm right there.

Well, good luck with that.

Ellis, there are people waiting to go up
to the settlement to gather food.

People still need to eat.

And you, you do this,
you go on this little trip,

you know you may not come back, right?

Yeah.

Come on, let's go.

Yeah.

Boyd, would you mind
giving us a minute, please?

What? Yeah, of course. Yeah.

Come in.

I hope I didn't wake you.

I didn't sleep much.

Neither did I at first.

I...

I was hoping we could talk.

Okay.

I assume Kenny told you about me?

About what I did?

Yeah.

So why would you want to live here?

Because when I met you,
I knew you were kind.

I know what you did was terrible,
but my father used to always say

that only good people are tortured
by the bad things that they've done.

Plus, I figured here I get my own room.

I'll go make us breakfast.

I'll be right down.

No, no, no, please!

- No, no, no, please!
- Sara?

What's wrong?

Why were you in the woods with Ethan?

- You should really ask Ethan about that.
- I'm asking you.

Did he tell you he saw Jim in the forest?

Yeah.

Apparently, Jim told him
that he had to find the Lake of Tears.

Does that sound familiar?

That's not real.

No, it's not.

But it is to him.

I'm not exactly the best person
to be giving advice about...

Well, anything, really.

But I do know some kids
just feel more comfortable

living in their imagination.

Right? It's where they go
when the world gets scary.

Because sometimes
believing in impossible things,

it helps with the...

It just helps.

I'm sorry about what I said in the barn.

Don't be.

You weren't wrong.

Be careful with those.

Everything all right?

If you can tell me the last time
everything was all right,

you win a cookie.

Okay, you ready for this?

Fuck no.

Ethan?

Dad?

Can you hear me?

Please. Answer me.

Dad?

Yeah?

Why didn't you tell me
about the Lake of Tears?

Why did you go to Jade and Victor
and not come to me?

Ethan, I need you to talk to me, please.

I didn't tell you
because I knew you wouldn't believe me.

He told me I need to find it.

He told me.

And when I find it,
that'll prove it was real.

He's not gone.

He's still here.

Okay, then.

I need you to pack a bag.

- Why?
- We're going on a trip.

- You find anything?
- No, they're kids' books, Julie.

If you don't wanna help me,
I can do this on my own.

I'm not saying that.

I just...

What?

Storywalker Fred.

Who?

Who's that?

Yeah, he's the...

distant cousin of the Grand Gooligog.
Here we are.

"Storywalker Fred was an elevator
repairman who spent his weekends

Storywalking as he pleased
through all the wondrous tales

and greatest adventures of our time."

Julie?

Hide the books.

Yeah, we're in here.

I need you to pack your bag.
We're going out to the settlement.

Why?

Ethan's convinced he needs to find
the Lake of Tears.

The magic lake he used to talk about?

Yeah.

He said he saw your father,
and then your dad asked him to find it.

He saw him?

What-- What does that mean?

I don't know.

I think he's grieving.

What I do know
is that if I try to stop him,

then he'll sneak out
and look for it by himself.

This way I can keep him safe.

Okay.

So what do you need me for?

Well, you're not staying here alone.

I'm not going to be alone.
I'll be with Randall.

Randall.

- Mom, it's not like that.
- It's really not.

I'll stay at the clinic.
Kristi and Marielle are there.

Can I talk to you for a minute?

- Mom.
- It's okay.

- First of all, I just want to say sorry.
- No, no, no. Stop talking.

- Just listen.
- Okay.

I don't know you, Randall.

I don't know who you are
or what you want.

Julie trusts you.

She feels safe around you,
and she needs that right now.

So I need you to look me in the eye
and tell me

you understand what I will do to you

if you ever do anything
to break that trust.

I understand.

Okay, good.

Mom.

Honey.

What?

- I love you.
- I love you too.

Promise me you'll be okay.

- Promise.
- Yeah.

I'll be back tomorrow.

Yeah.

This is your water.

- I don't need to go.
- Ellis, it's your turn.

Yeah, but I'm sure Donna
can find someone to take my place.

I'm fine.

Donna needs people out there
that she knows she can rely on.

Honey, I'm okay. I promise.

Yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

Tommy is responsible
for the cans on the door.

Ella and Jordan will check the windows.

And then about 20 minutes
or so before sundown--

Do a headcount. I know. I got it.

Just... keep an eye on Fatima,

with Ellis gone.

- Yeah. I got it.
- Yup.

- Donna?
- Okay.

Do you have room for two more?

More the merrier.

Okay. Let's move it out.

Come on.

Let's go.

How's this?

This is perfect.

Thank you, Elgin.

I can help you with the rest
if you tell me what this is for.

The rest I have to do myself.

You should go now.

Okay.

- One, two...
- Victor, hey.

...three, four...

What are you doing?

I have to see if the trees have moved.

Why would the trees be moving?

Because everything is changing,
and first it was snowing,

and now everything's green,

and everything is just moving too fast.

And I used to measure all the time,

and then I haven't
been paying attention,

and I should have
been paying attention.

I should have been paying attention.

I should have...

Can I help?

See if the trees are moving?

Okay.

Okay, what do I do?

You start with this leg like this.

One.

One.

Two.

What the fuck?

Hi.

You know what they used to call me
in the army, right?

- Mr. Fish and Loaves!
- Mr. Fish and Loaves! That's right.

Hi.

Boyd?

What's going on?

Is Kenny in this room right now?

What?

Yes.

Never mind then.

- Is he on...
- Mushrooms found in the woods.

- Right.
- You need something?

It's Fatima.

I think maybe you should come up
to the Colony House.

- I should go.
- No.

Stay.

Please.

Okay.

You remember,
this is the first place I met you.

It's funny how things change.

Do you still see her?

The woman in the kimono?

No.

Do you think it's because
you did what she asked,

so now she leaves you alone?

Sara, is something going on?

I thought for a while that the voices
were leaving me alone.

I thought they were done with me,
but turns out they're not.

And what do they want you to do?

It doesn't make any sense.

They said they want me to go to the diner,

pour a glass of water from the pitcher,

take a sip, and then pour it back in.

And then what?

That's it.

So how is that going to hurt anyone?

I don't know.

But there's always a consequence.

Sara, it's just water.

- But I'll have drank from it.
- So?

Whatever is wrong with me,
what if it's like an infection?

What if I pass it on to someone else

and then the voices start torturing them?

I don't want anyone
to have to live like this.

Okay.

What if you just don't do it?

They said if I don't do it by midday,

then something bad will happen
to someone that I care about.

And it will keep happening until I do it.

How many steps?

Twenty-three.

Victor, I want to talk to you
about what happened yesterday.

Nothing happened yesterday.

Can we...

Dad, you can't just stop in the middle,

'cause you'll...

You'll mess everything up.

I'm sorry.

But I need you to talk to me.

Whatever it was,

whatever you're afraid of,
you can tell me.

I think they moved a little.

You said that you told yourself
it wasn't real.

Did you mean the yellow suit?

Can you tell me about the man who wore it?

Was he someone that hurt you?

Look, Victor, please.

Whatever it is, we'll face it together.

You can tell me.

Victor. Victor!

Come with me and I'll show you.

Hey, just sit down and don't go anywhere.

Come on.

Come in.

I told Kenny not to bother you.

Yeah.

Well, he...

It's a lot of dirt.

Yeah.

You want to tell me what's going on?

I'm making a monster.

Here we go.

The Grand Gooligog asks Fred
about Storywalking.

"How do you choose the point in the story
you wish to see?"

And?

"Fred replied,
'you have to create a bookmark.'"

"Fred discovered that by leaving
a bookmark somewhere in the story,

he could choose whatever chapter
he wished to visit."

We have to make a bookmark.

Julie, that doesn't make any sense.

I know what you're gonna say.
This is a kid's book, and it's crazy.

It's because it is.

What if that's not the right way
to look at this?

What if Storywalking existed here first?

The fuck are you talking about?

Everything here is impossible.

Okay?

But it's also real.

We're here, right now,
in this impossible place.

What if all of the crazy shit
that happens here has been...

like, seeping out into...

My mom.

My mom had nightmares about this place
when she was a little girl.

She didn't realize that she was
dreaming about it then, but she was.

Okay? Who knows how many
other kids or adults

or fucking children's book authors
have had dreams about this place

without knowing it.

And what if this author
had a dream about someone like me

doing what I can do?

He woke up, wrote it down,
and called it Storywalking.

There's literally thousands of books
that have stories and rules

- about traveling through time.
- No. No.

Why would this book...

The one with fucking
Fred the Storywalker.

Why would this book
be the one that explains anything?

Because out of all of those books,
this is the one my brother had with him

when we came here. Okay?

Well, maybe that means something.

Maybe it's fate.

Fate?

Randall, if I'm right, this could actually
be an instruction manual

on how to save my dad.

And it's all I have.

So I'm going to try
whether you help me or not.

So what kind of bookmark do we need?

When you say monster...

Boyd, I know you're worried about me,
but you don't have to be.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I hear you saying that.

The problem is,
Fatima, this says something else.

Have you told Ellis
what you're doing in here?

I wasn't trying to hide it from him.

He has been so worried lately.

I figured once he was back
from the food run,

once he could see what I was doing,
it would be easier to explain.

Okay, great.

Explain it to me?

Where I grew up, beliefs were very rigid.

They defined you.

But my dad told stories
of all the different faiths.

He used to drive my mother crazy

because she understood
how dangerous it was.

But he would just smile.

He'd say, "Fatima, they have it wrong."

"They all think their road
is the only way."

"Don't they understand
that all roads lead to the divine?"

"They simply take different paths
to get there."

Fatima.

Of all the stories my father would tell,

all the fables and myths...

there's one story
I've been thinking a lot about lately.

Do you know what a golem is, Boyd?

Well?

She's...

She's making a golem.

A what?

It's a part of a religious folklore.

It's a giant made of clay.

It protects people. It's a champion.

She said it's a symbol of hope.

Maybe for now we just...

give her some space.

That's your solution?

Give her some space?

She's not hurting anybody.

That's not the point.

We have both seen this place turn people,

change them little by little
until one day we turn around and...

and the person that we knew is gone.

Boyd, that person up there
is not the Fatima that I know.

And I think if you're being
honest with yourself,

that's not the Fatima you know either.

Can I ask you something?

Yeah.

What the hell are you doing out here?

I don't know.

I don't know what I'm doing.

I just keep walking around
with this knot of terror inside me

that feels like it's going to explode.

And the whole time...

there's this question
that keeps ringing in my mind.

What am I supposed to do now?

Jim's gone.

I keep looking for him, but he's gone.

I have memories in my head
that belong to other people.

Memories that might have answers,

but I'm terrified of what it'll cost
if I go too far,

or if I remember too much.

But if I don't...

I know I'm failing.

What's gonna happen when Ethan learns
that the Lake of Tears is not real?

How am I gonna deal with that?

Hey, everyone.

Let's just take a little break, okay?

You good?

Yeah, we're fine.
Just need a little breather.

Okay.

Let's sit down.

I don't know how to do this alone.

You are not alone.

- People keep saying that.
- Well, maybe you should fucking listen.

I don't want to find
another one of those notes

- like the one on my nightstand.
- Oh, Donna.

You are not going to put me
in the position of having to explain

to your kids why I'm still alive
and you're not.

Donna, I'm--

You and those kids are as much my family

as any family I have ever had.

So from now on...

if anyone is going to risk their lives
to do something stupid...

that person is gonna be me.

And not you.

We clear on that?

I am asking, are we clear on that?

We're clear.

Okay.

Mom!

Come look at this!

Come on.

Looks like a broken wing.

Must have fallen
from a nest or something.

We never see anything here but crows.

We have to take him with us.

Ethan.

Mom, this is a sign.

If the lake at the settlement
really is the Lake of Tears,

it'll fix him.

That's how we'll know.

We have to take him with us.

I can't imagine what this is like for her.

At least when I got here,
I found you, you know?

I mean, she lost
the only person she had here.

Yeah.

I can't tell if she's handling it well
or just hasn't accepted it yet.

She prays a lot.

That's...
I don't know, maybe it helps.

Yeah, that's...

That was always the one thing about NA
that I just couldn't stand.

The whole giving yourself
up to a higher power.

If there were ever proof that
no one's looking out for us, it's here.

Hey.

I don't see a lot of you in here.

I won't be long.

Well, Sara, you can stay
as long as you like.

I think it's really nice
that you reopened the diner.

Well, I thought it'd be a good way
to keep busy.

You used to work here, right?

Feels like a long time ago now.

Well, if you ever want to come back,
I could use the help.

Look, I wasn't here
when you did what you did.

But who you've become
while I've known you...

that girl deserves a place.

Think about it.

- Bakta.
- Yeah?

Do you mind dumping that out for me?

Sure.

Oh, shit.

Wait, Marielle, what? Marielle, wait!
- What's happening?

I don't know.

I'm coming. Don't move, okay?

Stay right where you are.

- Where does it hurt?
- My arm.

Okay. Let me see.

Okay, look at me.
Take a deep breath.

What happened?

I was standing by the edge,
and I felt like something pushed me.

Okay, is there anywhere else?

No.

Hey, we done here?

No.

No, not quite.

Because Fatima's making a mud monster?

Sorry, I was eavesdropping.

I don't know
if I should be up there stopping her...

or if I should be up there helping her.

You know, if it wasn't for
what happened to me and Tabitha,

everything we remembered,

I never would have even considered
taking those mushrooms.

What's your point?

My point...

is something changed.

Made me realize I had to do something
drastic before it was too late.

Even if everyone around me
thought I was insane.

So maybe the question
you need to ask Fatima

isn't why she's making that thing.

Maybe the question you need to ask
is why she's making it now.

Jesus.

These things are even creepier in person.

Jade said they're
to ward off evil spirits.

That's...

comforting, I suppose.

Okay.

The more food we collect before dark,
the earlier we leave in the morning.

So drop your bags. Let's go.

Mom, we need to get him to the lake.

Come on. Let's go.

Julie?

I'm up here.

Got what you asked for.

Got the--

What are you doing?

Last time I tried this, one of those
things grabbed me by the hair.

That's not going to happen again.

Okay.

Ready?

Okay, so to create a bookmark...

fold up a piece of paper

and I bring it with me when I Storywalk.

Wherever I end up in the past,
like whatever chapter I'm in,

I just draw the symbol on the paper

and leave it there.

If this works, when you pull me out,
the symbol that I drew in the past

will also be here on the paper
in the present.

You've been waiting to do that
since we left town, haven't you?

I have, yeah.

Okay.

Let's say this thing works.

Let's say you make it out of this thing
with a functioning bookmark.

How does that help us?

Because from that point forward,

whatever point in the story
I want to visit,

like the chapter right before
my father was killed...

Write it here, in the folds,

fold it back up,
cross the threshold.

And that's where
the bookmark will take me.

You're asking me
to watch you have another seizure.

I'm asking you for five seconds.

I draw the symbol, you pull me out.

Randall, if this works,
this changes everything.

Please.

Five seconds.

Five seconds.

Come on.

Be careful.

Yeah.

Hey, hey, hey. It's me.

It's me. It's me.

You're okay. You're okay.

You're okay.

No.

Fuck!

It didn't work. It didn't fucking work.

Victor, come on.

They're in there.

He came in a car
just like the rest of us.

I thought his yellow suit was funny.

And we thought he was just like us. We...

brought him in and made him our friend,
but he wasn't like us.

When everyone died,

when I found Mom out by The Bottle Tree,
I saw him.

He was eating her.

Oh, God.

So it's definitely broken.

But we're gonna wait
for the swelling to go down

before we reset the bone.

- Okay.
- Okay?

I know all of this is a little scary.

It's just another test.

It's why we're here.

God is testing us and allowing us
to prove our faith in him.

Yeah...

I know this all sounds silly to you.

No.

- No, it doesn't.
- Do you know the story of Abraham?

No. No, I don't.

He was a simple man
with an unshakable faith

and obedience to God.

One day, God tested Abraham,

ordering him to kill his only son
as a way to prove his faith.

But at the last moment,

God intervened and offered a ram
to be sacrificed instead.

You see, God never intended
for Abraham to kill his son.

He simply needed to know if he would.

Hey, okay if Kenny joins us?

Look, I know how strange
this must seem, guys, but...

Fatima, I need to know
why you're doing this.

- I told you why I'm doing this.
- Why are you doing it now?

Whatever it is, I need you to tell me.
Please.

Don't let this place
make you afraid to talk to me.

I still feel it.

That thing I carried inside me,
I still feel it.

- Okay.
- Feel it how?

Like we're connected.

Part of me feels what he feels.

Okay.

And this thing that you're making,
it's gonna, what, break the connection?

It goes both ways.

Right.

He feels what I'm feeling too.

He feels how afraid I am.
He likes it.

But making this, it makes me feel strong.

- It makes me feel less afraid.
- Okay.

It's the only way I know to fight back.

Right.

Jesus.

Making that thing,
you think it could actually help?

I don't know.
But all things considered...

having a champion in our corner,

not the worst thing
in the world right now.

I'll spread the word...

- Good.
- ...to give her some space.

- Keep everyone out of that room.
- Yeah.

Okay.

Boyd?

We gotta go.

Now.

Boyd, what's wrong?

Just give me a minute.

What?

No, it's...

All right, new category.

Saturday morning cartoons.

Okay, I'll go first.

The Jetsons.

The Flintstones.

Nice.

Okay.

Ready?

Okay. Let's do it.

Roger, you good?

What the fuck?

Mom?

Oh, fuck.