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- Previously on "Midnight Texas."
- The veil between Hell and Midnight is fraying.
- There's a prophecy.
"An army will rise to battle the evil
and seal the veil forever."
- I know how to kill Colconnar.
- So you intend to be possessed by multiple demonic spirits.
- This is over.
- [screaming]
- You're safe. - We all are.
- Vampire blood's not good for humans,
but I couldn't lose you, Olivia.
- It's time to exchange the rings.
- Love you. - Love you, too.
- I want another century or two with you.
- Wanna go?
- As long as we come back before the cake.
- Being possessed by demons could have side effects.
- The new owners of the hotel.
This will completely revitalize Midnight.
- That's one way to put it.
[suspenseful music]
[scraping]
♪
- [gasps]
[heavy breathing]
- Morning, sunshine. Here you go.
[soft music]
- Thank you.
- Did you have another bad dream?
- Yeah.
- Do you think maybe it's time for you to invest
in a new pillow or maybe start taking melatonin?
- Yeah, or stop eating burritos before bed.
- Mm-hmm.
Or maybe it's time for a change.
I've been taking stock lately.
- Yeah, dodging the apocalypse will make you do that.
- Yeah, and since I've had time to breathe now
and think about Connor and my dad,
I'm not sure that staying in Midnight
is the best thing for me.
♪
- Oh.
[sighs]
- You know how much I love you, right?
- Of course. I love you, too.
- And I really care about this town,
and everybody in it.
But I don't wanna be serving patty melts forever.
- Yeah. Hmm.
- So, um...
I applied to Bison's writing program.
And it's--it's such a long shot.
I probably won't even get in, but if I do,
I want you to come with me.
♪
- Uh--um...
- That's a no.
- Home is wherever you are.
- Oh, your nose is bleeding.
- Oh.
[ominous music]
♪
[both moaning]
[both laughing]
[The Reverend Horton Heat's "In Your Wildest Dreams"]
- ♪ Late at night and you're sleeping ♪
♪ You'll hear my lonesome call ♪
[both laughing]
♪
- [laughs] - [groans]
- Sex magic's pretty hot, huh?
- Oh, beyond. You got skills, girl.
- [laughs]
[meows]
[both laughing]
- To think a mere two months ago I was pure as snow.
- How many frequent flier miles do you think we banked?
- I think we're probably approaching Elite Status.
- I bet I can get us over the, um, hump.
[coughs]
- ♪ I'll see you
♪ You'll see me as though I were real ♪
♪ I'll see you
♪ You'll see me as though you could feel ♪
♪ My breath on your neck the touch of my hand ♪
♪ You'll awake in a room of steam ♪
♪ I'll see you
- Honey? I'm home.
- ♪ In your wildest dreams
- [yawns]
♪
[groans]
How was your hit?
- Killer.
- Good morning, wife.
- Good night, husband.
♪
- ♪ My breath on your neck the touch of my hand ♪
♪ You'll awake in a room of steam ♪
♪ I'll see you
- How's the yoga? - [chuckles]
You know, I'm keeping my demons at bay.
- [chuckles]
Think evil's finally taking a break from Midnight?
- Babe, you just jinxed it.
- ♪ Oh
♪
[indistinct talking]
[brooding music]
♪
[indistinct talking echoes]
[demonic whispering]
- Take it... [demonic chuckle]
♪
- [echoing] Manfred.
[normal voice] Manfred!
Do you want a refill?
- Uh, sorry.
Yes. Yes, lots.
[upbeat music over radio]
- Mmm.
It's not nearly as good as Madonna's.
- I know.
I hope she's having fun on her cruise while we all starve.
[chuckles]
- That's like a hockey puck.
[both laughing]
[door closes]
- Hate to disrupt our tasty breakfast.
But we have business to discuss.
Dug up some information on the hotel renovation.
Not sure why the cone of silence,
but they didn't have a web site until yesterday.
And now it's some sort of spa retreat thing called--
- Crystal Desert. That is my territory.
- Sorry, Fij.
And get this.
They're fully booked for the next month.
- Why so suspicious?
- Have you meet Olivia?
- Why would anyone wanna visit Midnight?
I mean, it's not exactly a tourist destination.
- Because of him.
Healer Kai.
Has a huge following of the desperate
and delusional.
- Well, if it quacks like a cult...
- How do you know he's not legit?
- He's wearing Lululemon.
[all chuckling]
[brooding music]
[shovel clanking]
♪
You okay? You're quiet.
- Uh, I haven't been sleeping well.
But don't worry about the hotel.
It'll be out of business in three months tops.
Ghosts.
Saw them when they started the renovation.
Haunted hotels don't exactly rate well on Yelp.
[all laughing]
- Yeah, well, ghosts or not,
the eight of us are going to that grand opening.
[keys clacking]
[pensive music]
♪
[dramatic music]
[tape ripping]
♪
- [grunts]
♪
- Hey, babe.
[faucet running]
[exhales] You know what I would kill for?
That.
Exactly that.
[laughs]
Well, I have to admit, this whole psychic connection
doesn't suck.
- One of the benefits of drinking my blood.
- Mmm.
How long did you say it would last?
- Oh, till death do us part.
[soft dramatic music]
- Well, I didn't think I was the marrying type.
♪
But isn't this what every woman wants?
For their man to know her needs and desires--
[chuckles] before she even does?
- But you're not every woman.
- True.
♪
[moans]
Ooh, guess you knew I needed that, too.
[laughs]
[suspenseful music]
♪
- [startles]
[heavy breathing]
♪
[phone chimes]
- You're in trouble now, ain't you, Manny?
- Grandma?
- [laughing]
.
- Grandma. That really you?
- Sure is, Manny.
I'd hug you real big, if I could.
- I thought you'd crossed over.
- I did. That's why I look so good.
[both laugh]
Was resting in peace finally.
And it was real nice, too.
A home without wheels.
Rosé all day.
Canasta with Tammy Wynette.
Then I heard about this.
- I don't get it.
Uh, why at night?
During the day, I'm fine.
Well, mostly fine.
Lately I've been, um, having some urges.
Let's just say I shouldn't mix loved ones and sharp objects.
- So the graves are for your friends?
- Eight of them.
Guessing one for each Midnighter.
- Well, if that's the case, then you should go back
to town and tell everyone.
- No, no. I just got them to trust me.
There--there's no way I can tell them about this.
- Okay, fine.
When did it start?
- Well, I thought they were just dreams
until the other night.
And the dreams started right after Colconnar.
- You mean after your demon gang bang?
- It wasn't a gang bang, Grandma.
- Don't be embarrassed, son.
You swallowed six whole demons.
Took them like a champ.
It's a point of pride, if you ask me.
- Will you please stop talking about this?
- The point is, maybe there's a straggler.
[suspenseful music]
♪
[bird chirping]
If you're still possessed, that holy water will burn
your finger prints right off.
- Oh, great. That all?
♪
Okay.
[water sloshes] Oh.
- You're spick and span, son.
[laughs]
- So if I'm not still possessed,
then what the hell is it?
[indistinct talking]
- Hey. Hi, you.
Great timing.
- Hipsters. In Midnight.
- And I thought Colconnar was bad.
- Let's try and keep an open mind.
[soft soothing music playing]
[indistinct talking and laughter]
Feel that?
- The breeze, or the pretension?
- The energy.
It's incredible.
♪
- [groans] Are you kidding me?
They're charging ten times what I do.
- You're in the crystal business, too?
- No. Yep. What?
I'm, uh--
- Fiji owns The Inquiring Mind.
Hi, I'm Creek, by the way. - Oh.
- This is Olivia and the Reverend Emilio Sheehan.
- Please, call me Rev.
- Hello.
I'm Patience Lucero.
My husband Kai and I own the hotel.
Y'all are very lucky.
Midnight is a special place.
- Oh, yes, it is.
You know, I'm just curious.
Why here?
Sleepy little town, no freeway exit.
It seems like an odd place to buy a hotel.
- To be honest, darling, before this
we kind of functioned as a traveling circus.
Going from town to town. Healing people.
But it was exhausting.
Not to mention draining on Kai.
So we decided that we needed to find a spiritual center
that we could call home.
- Rent too high in Sedona?
- Sedona doesn't hold a candle to the energy in Midnight.
[laughs]
- Can't argue with that. - Mmm.
[ominous music]
[demonic whispering]
♪
- [grunts] - [gasps]
[indistinct shouting]
- [screaming]
[groans]
[gong ringing]
[indistinct talking]
- Uh, I gotta get out of here.
Work.
[gong ringing]
[bowl humming]
[crowd murmuring]
- [scoffs] Hidden platform.
- Mm.
- Welcome.
And thank you, all of you, for coming.
Today's-- it's truly an astonishing day.
This is the realization of a lifelong dream.
A dream of--of helping people--
- Healer Kai.
Make me walk, please.
My daughter's getting married next month.
To walk her down the aisle--
- I'm--I'm sorry.
- I'd give anything. - I'm sorry, sir.
Um, we'd be happy to schedule you an appointment later
in the week, but-- - Patience, Patience, it's...
- Kai-- - All right, it's all right.
Enter the pool.
No, out of your chair and on your own.
[crowd whispering]
[all gasping] - Oh, oh!
- [grunts]
[splashing]
[heavy breathing]
[soft dramatic music]
♪
[crowd murmuring]
- Do you believe?
- Yes, I do.
- [inhales deeply]
All right, now get up.
- Okay.
- Oh. Oh.
[crowd exhaling] - Wow.
- Yes, yes!
Rejoice! - [laughs]
- You are healed, brother!
- Amazing. - Yes.
- Yes! - Yes, yes.
[suspenseful music]
- Thank you.
- If I'm not still possessed, then it's gotta be
a side effect from it.
- It's a good thing I was a pack rat
and kept all these journals. [chuckles]
Lord knows our family's had its fair share
of run-ins with demons.
Sun's going down.
- I know.
- Bad things happen when night falls.
- I know.
- Hey, Creek. - Hey.
- I hate to say it but I don't trust you around that girl.
- Me, neither.
[The Black Keys' "Howlin' For You"]
- ♪ All right I must admit I can't explain ♪
- Hey, you're a natural.
- Heh, yeah. Bartending suits me.
At least until I figure out what I wanna do
for the next 1,000 years.
- Come on, you like what you see here, come on.
- Stop!
- Lem.
- Get out of here.
- First let me look at you.
Come on. Just a little bit.
- Let's go. - Ah.
- Get out of here.
- ♪ Baby I'm howling for you
- I tell you, between the pawn shop and here,
you gotta be the hardest working man in Midnight.
- Mm. - [laughs]
[kisses]
- I still can't believe you took a watering hole
from Nazis and turned it into Cheers.
- Well, I got a witch as a girlfriend now.
Gotta walk the walk.
- Mm-hmm. [laughs]
So, I have a surprise.
It's the key to my place.
- Whoa.
- Uh, too soon?
- [laughs] Heck no.
I was wondering what you been waiting for.
- It's--the time just feels right.
[laughs]
- Chuy, he's a con man.
And that guy in the wheelchair, he's obviously a paid actor.
It's the oldest trick in the book.
- So he's a con man.
But maybe he's a harmless one.
- Uh, no such thing.
People don't just settle down in Midnight.
They come here when they're running from someone
or they got something to hide.
- Watch where you're going, pal.
- Wanna take this outside, friend?
[suspenseful music]
- Oh, I am not your friend.
♪
- Thought I just got rid of you.
Come on.
Get out and stay out.
- Let go. Hey!
- ♪ Yeah da, da, da, da, da da, da, da, da, da ♪
- I'm not so sure what good getting tanked's gonna do you.
- Trust me.
[phone beeping]
[line trilling]
- 911. What's your emergency?
- Um, yeah, I'd like to report, uh, a naked drunk guy
outside the Cartoon Saloon.
- There isn't any naked drunk guy.
- There will be in a minute.
[sirens blaring]
[cell bars clanking]
[lock clanks]
- Gotta admit, not a bad plan.
[both laughing]
[gentle country music]
♪
- [gasps]
[heavy breathing]
[dramatic music]
Creek.
♪
Creek?
♪
Creek?
Oh, my God.
What did I do?
.
[dramatic music]
♪
[indistinct radio chatter]
- [sighs]
[country music playing]
[sighs]
- Where the hell have you been?
I left for work at 5:30 this morning
and you weren't back yet.
- I ended up in the drunk tank in Davy.
Blame Bobo's Two-for-One Tuesdays.
- What is going on with you, Manfred?
Lately you're not you.
- Nothing's going on. I was just drunk.
And it's not gonna happen again.
I promise.
- I wanna believe you.
Really, I do.
Because honestly I'm over the drama.
I'm over the lies.
I've had enough to last a lifetime.
- Um...
- Is this about Austin?
[echoing] Because if you have changed your mind,
I would understand that.
[demonic whispering]
[suspenseful music]
[knuckles crackling]
- Take it...
- Manfred.
- It's--it's not about Austin.
[laughs] Austin sounds great.
[country music playing]
- [sighs]
- Uh, do you--do you mind if we just talk
about it later, though?
Uh, I think I need to lie down.
I'm still kind of hungover. [soft laugh]
- Buckle your belt, hon.
You're about to experience the healing wonders of crystals.
- Can't hardly wait.
[chuckles]
- All right.
Enjoy. - Uh-huh.
[soothing music playing]
[door closes]
♪
[tense music]
♪
- [distant] Can you believe this?
This incredible place we found...
This can be home for us right here.
[laughs]
A long road to get here, but we finally made it.
♪
I only ask this. Please just give me strength.
♪
- Any leads?
- Not really.
Unless I wanna know how to curse someone with gout.
- [laughing]
- Interesting.
[ominous music]
♪
- Eww. That's--
- Exactly what's happening to me.
- Uncle Barney?
- Time for a family reunion.
[whooshing]
- Hate to break it to you, but even if you survive
the possession, it comes at a cost.
- What's with the black crap?
- Demon residue.
Left untreated, it takes over the body cell by cell.
- So, demonic cancer?
- Once it reaches the brain, you start hallucinating.
And before long, you lose your mind.
- Okay.
How do I stop it?
- Put a bullet through your brain.
♪
Before you put one through someone else's.
[both moaning and laughing]
[smooth music]
♪
[both moaning]
- I like it.
- [sighs] Damn it.
- What?
- Someone broke in.
- The money still there?
- Yep. All of it.
What the hell they take, then?
[door opens]
- I'm screwed.
Demon cancer.
What the hell is that?
- Your booty.
After you got out of the drunk tank,
you broke into the pawn shop.
- That's--that's how I cut my hand.
[suspenseful music]
♪
Maybe it is time to tell everyone.
- Or you could just give in to temptation.
Might feel good to just let it out.
I'd start with Creek.
That skinny little thing'll be easy to take out.
♪
[trunk shuts]
- Wait, wait, wait.
This house is inhospitable to the dead.
How are you here?
♪
You're not really here, are you?
[squishing]
I'm hallucinating, aren't I?
It's too late, isn't it?
- You always were a smart boy, Manny.
[crack] - [breathing heavily]
[demonic whispering]
.
[country music playing]
♪
[both grunting]
- It's not every day a demon like me
gets to take out an angel.
- Hey, man, I'm not looking for any trouble.
- Well, too bad. 'Cause I am.
[both grunting]
[chuckles]
You're making this way too easy for me.
[both grunting]
[suspenseful music]
[both grunting]
[laughs]
[both grunting]
- [shouts]
- [grunts]
♪
Oh, look. It's a party.
[both grunting]
[laughs]
[blows landing]
- Now, that ain't a fair fight.
You mind if I join you?
[both grunting]
[blows landing]
[intense humming]
[flesh squelches] - [pained groaning]
[grunts]
- [shouting]
[all grunting]
Well, I'll be damned.
Never thought I'd be in the trenches
with the legendary Joe Strong.
[all shouting]
- I know you? - Just a fan of your work.
Name's Walker. Demon hunter.
- Are you human?
- Yep. [kick lands]
[all grunting]
[machinery clanking]
Made it myself.
[electrical crackling]
[intense humming]
- [shouts]
- [pained groaning]
[both breathing heavy]
- Pleasure to make your acquaintance.
[country music sting]
- Likewise.
♪
- Oh.
[suspenseful music]
♪
[camera shutter clicks]
♪
[keys clacking]
[text message chimes]
[dramatic sting]
- Where do you think you're going?
[tense music]
- Just running out to the store.
We're out of milk.
- Don't you wanna talk about Austin?
- Manfred? What has gotten into you?
- I don't know, I just have this, uh--
this overwhelming desire to cut you.
So sorry to burst your bubble about moving to the big city.
But, you know, you probably would have ended up a waitress.
Again.
Just serving frito pies to D-bags
and writing crappy poetry that no one wants to read.
I did you a favor.
- This isn't you.
- Oh, but it is.
[Taser charges, clicking]
- [gasping]
- One haunted katana. - Check that.
That's no missing samurai swords.
- Moving on to Civil War memorabilia.
[brooding music]
♪
What's wrong?
[door opens]
- Creek! Oh, my goddess.
- Creek?
Manfred!
No one's here.
♪
- Okay, tell me what happened again.
- Uh, we got into a fight and she--
she hitched a ride to Blanco Canyon.
She was acting crazy.
- Doesn't sound like Creek.
- I'm telling you, she's not herself.
- [sighs]
♪
[tires rumbling]
- Creek?
Where are you?
Babe, are you okay?
- So she ran away to the middle of nowhere.
Doesn't make any sense. - Trust me.
A lot of what Creek did tonight doesn't make sense.
Wait. Did you hear that?
[knife flicks]
[suspenseful music]
♪
- What's going on?
Where's Creek?
- Ooh. Cute knife.
- It won't be so cute when it crushes your trachea.
.
[brooding music]
♪
[thuds]
- [grunts] [blow lands]
- [groaning]
- I'm claustrophobic, you dick!
[whimpers]
[screams] - [grunts]
♪
- [crying]
♪
[heavy breathing]
- Looking for these?
[grunts] - [screams]
Let go of me! Let go of me!
[screaming] - [snarling]
- Get off of me!
- [snarling]
- [low growling]
- [gasping]
[groaning]
- [gagging]
[vomits]
[coughs]
- Thank you. Thank you.
How--how did you know?
- Psychic connection.
Olivia's in danger.
- He got Olivia, too?
- He got lucky.
- [grunting]
- Any fowl or evil force may now and forever
return to its source.
- Witch!
- Uh, you don't know any other spells?
- There's not really a spell for this.
Uh, I wouldn't have even recognized it as demon residue
if it wasn't for Colconnar.
- [shouting]
- I could research. But that would take time.
- We don't have time. Look at him.
- [grunting]
- Manfred. Manfred.
- [grunting]
- If you're in there at all,
I just want you to know that I love you.
[gentle music]
- [soft crying] You have to kill me.
Do it. Before I kill you.
Please.
Kill me!
Now! Now!
- No one's killing anyone.
- [grunts]
- What are they doing here?
- I can help.
- [grunting]
- Don't tell me you drank the Kool-Aid.
- I know you have doubts.
But when I walked into Crystal Desert,
I sensed it was a special place,
that Kai was special.
I just believed,
and I think with an open mind, you can too.
- You have no idea what you're dealing with.
- And you have no idea what I've dealt with.
Your friend is afflicted.
And I'm afraid if I don't step in,
he may die.
- [grunting]
- Let me help you.
- [grunting]
[demonic snarling]
[soft whoosh]
- Be at peace. Be at peace, brother.
[soft dramatic music]
♪
- [demonic vomiting]
[gasping]
♪
- [inhales deeply]
[soft whooshing]
- [gasps] - [grunts]
- Oh, baby, you okay?
- And so it is done.
[heavy breathing]
- [burps]
[light music]
[coughs]
.
- [sighs]
I don't know what to say.
Or how to thank you.
I mean, I was gonna die.
And you saved my life,
and theirs.
- Well, you let us help, and that's thanks enough.
- Mmm. Kai's right.
We're just happy to be a part of Midnight
and call this place our home.
- Well, you certainly earned it.
- I hate to admit it, but you're the real deal.
- You guys, I put you all in danger.
I lied to you.
I betrayed your trust.
Which took me so long to earn.
Because I didn't want to mess it up.
[soft music]
But I was wrong.
And I get it if you don't ever wanna talk to me again.
- Manfred.
You're not to blame.
You weren't exactly yourself.
- Trust me. I understand.
- I don't deserve your forgiveness.
- The only reason this happened is because you tried to save us
from Colconnar.
Just next time, just--you come to us.
- No next time, please.
[all laughing]
Where did Creek go?
- [sighs]
- What--what's going on?
- Um, I'm going to Austin.
- Okay.
But I thought we said we'd talk about it some more first.
See if you got into the program.
- Uh, yeah, at this point, it doesn't even matter.
I just gotta get out of here.
- Austin it is.
I've been wanting to see those bats on South Congress.
You know, ordinary bats that don't turn into vampires.
- Manfred, stop.
- Why? I wanna go.
I told you. Home is wherever you are.
- I don't want you to come.
[somber music]
I'm done.
There's only so much that a person can take
until they've reached their limit,
and I've reached my limit with Midnight
and with you.
- But I'm--I'm fine now.
I promise, I'm fine.
- How can you know that?
- No, that--that wasn't me. Okay?
I--I would never hurt you.
You gotta believe that.
Huh?
- I--I've just...
I've witnessed too much violence
and I've had too much fear.
And I'm sorry, but Kai can't just kiss it better.
I have to leave Midnight, and I have to do it alone.
♪
- But I love you.
- Then let me go.
♪
[birds chirping]
- [yawns]
[chuckles]
[Tommy Ashby's "Getting Started"]
♪
[sighs]
♪
- ♪ Knees are shaking
- It's a big step.
- I know.
Hear it's the gateway to marriage,
babies, living happily ever after.
- You want all that?
- Why wouldn't I?
You're my soul mate, Fiji Cavanaugh.
- And you're mine, Bobo Winthrop.
♪
[moans]
- Come here, you.
- Oh. [laughs]
- [grunts] - [soft laugh] Oh.
- ♪ And you say we're only getting started ♪
♪
♪ And just wait
♪ I'll show you where your heart is ♪
- Welcome home.
- ♪ Whoo-hoo
♪
[brooding music]
♪
- I will avenge you.