[narrating] "Freedom" is just a pretty way of saying that you've gone off the grid. For better or for worse, you're out of options. But we call it "freedom", we write songs about it, you probably crank them in your car, and never thought about it much. Some people think it's exhilarating not having your future mapped out. Others start to drown in all that nothing. Maybe you'll enjoy for a moment the purity of doing what you want, when you want. Beer for breakfast, sex in the afternoon. But obligations sneak up. Duty, moral code. Some of us are wired to put ourselves back into cages. Freedom is just that moment of calm before the dread sets in. Because no matter what you freed yourself from, you only get so far down the open road, car windows down, music blasting, before you are forced to take a turn, make a choice, and sentence yourself to the next adventure.
S2Turn This Mother Out
Look, Josh, Mother's coming to meet with me.
Oh, so that is happening? Because it's just, it's been weeks since we heard anything, and I was just thinking maybe she was on a cruise in, like, Alaska. It's really nice this time of year.
When you live forever, a few weeks is nothing. Look, when Mother gets here, she will give the proper order and that's that, and not even the council can go against her word. It's all good.
If there could be a lot less "Mother will determine the proper blah, blah, blah" and, and, and floating broken coffee mugs when Nora comes down here, that would be awesome.
Okay, come on. I mean, she knows I'm here. She saw Aidan not die. She saw you wolf out. You know, in the words of Don Aidan, it's all good.
No, it's not.
S2Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?
I had no idea you were so beautiful.
You can see me? Oh my, God, Nora! I've been wanting to talk to you for so long. How can you see me? You're not dead, are you?
I'm a wolf.
Why are there ghosts in there punching each other in the balls?
That's why his name is Boner. It requires heavy maintenance.
He's a ghost. He can't...
Yeah, it's like a phantom limb. He can mind-whack it.
S2All Out of Blood
Okay, when do we get to meet her or when does Josh get to meet her and I get to stand there and judge her silently?
Okay, I don't know if we're at that point yet.
Ah, so what point are you at? You're at a point.
We hang out, we enjoy each others company and then we go back to our lives. It's easy, it's casual, and above all else, it's normal, and that is exactly what I need right now.
When you say "enjoying each others company," is that code for "tapping that ass," yes, to be clear?
You are a classy lady.
Whoa! I can hear somebody having sex. And they are really going to town!
Yeah, well, you don't need super hearing for that one.
Oh, my! Is that Aidan?
Yeah.
Nurse ghost? How cute. Your shift's over, sweetie.
I'm not dead yet. Now go. No unauthorized ghosts in the nursery.
You're not dead and you're talking to me? You can see me? How can you see me?
Second sight, 6th sense. It's a gift. It's a curse. It's crazy stuff.
S2Dream Reaper
I'm a werewolf and he's a vampire and that's how we can see ghosts.
It's like we're different countries on the same continent.
And - and if I'm not far away from here in an hour or so, you will be in mortal danger.
Mortal danger. Right.
Yeah, this isn't a joke.
So - so you're going to turn into a wolf and have me for dinner.
Okay, listen very carefully. He's telling the truth.
Oh, of course. Of course it's the truth. You got to be the cool vampire. Everybody wants to be the cool vampire.
You got it!
We're not making this up! I'm not making this up!
[Aidan shows Zoe his fangs]
[gasps] Holy crap! You're monsters.
Thank you.
It smells like a slaughterhouse up in your room, Aidan! None of those doors are gonna last more than five seconds. The wolf's gonna smell the blood and go nuts and then he's gonna smell Zoe and go even more nuts! He's gonna run through this place like it was made of cardboard!
If you ever get in my face again, I...
What? You'll kill me, huh? You'll kill Zoe? You're gone, man. You started feeding live! You murdered those two girls, those two human beings under our roof! This sacred place! Does it stop, Aidan? When does it stop? I feel like I'm the only one trying anymore, like I'm dangling off the cliff by my fingertips and you're up there stomping on them!
S2Don't Fear the Scott
[narrating] People love that cliché; time heals all wounds, but live long enough you realize that most clichés are true. It’s amazing what even the smallest passage of time can accomplish, the cuts it can close, the imperfections it can smooth over. But in the end, it comes down to the size of the wound doesn’t it? If the wound is deep enough, there might be no way to keep it from festering, even if you have all the time in the world.
S2Partial Eclipse of the Heart
[narrating] When you're six years old, a shadowed bedroom can seem as terrifying as the night sky must have seemed to the ancient men. And those things said to go bump in the night, they can feel just as real. I’d imagine that something was hiding in the dark corners of my room; a monster, a ghost. I’d bolt upright in bed, terrified, screaming for my mother. Eventually I grew up, got over it, learned that if I could just hang on, the sun will always rise again. But then everything changed. Then the night, dark, came to mean something very different, that the turn was coming. So the childish night terrors came right back, because now I’m now one of those things that go bump.
S2It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To
[narrating] I was a good child, did my homework, ate my vegetables, kissed my mother goodnight. I was patient, I was kind, but I’m starting to think that good things don’t actually come to those who wait. We behaved as well as we could, for as long as we could, and now it’s time to try something else. We came screaming into this world. How can we possibly leave it without a fight?
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