- [Announcer] Previously on "South of Hell."
- It reminds me of Sangolo.
That's where the Order of Everlasting was.
Enos was very kind to me.
(glass shatters)
(man screams)
(demon screeches)
- I'm ready for some action.
Jeremy's demon was lucky that last round,
but I'll take him out this time.
- Bitch, I eat souls for breakfast.
- I've tried ruling in hell.
It isn't all it's cracked up to be.
(Abigail growls)
- Maria, it's great to see you again.
- Sorry, but ... - I'm Trevor.
- Now you can step out of the car.
- [David] What's the charge?
- [Officer] I'm sure we'll find something.
- Open your mouth and I'll kill you.
- [David] What do you want?
- Your dad is disappointed in you.
- What's your other uniform?
- Society of Sons.
- Some kind of religious cult?
- Do I look like a Bible to you?
- Miss Genie Pool,
with all that anger, you're making me swoon.
(table scrapes)
- You're not going anywhere.
- What about Enos?
- When that son of a bitch shows his face,
I'll make him wish he stayed in hell.
* I'm not a child and I'm not a fool *
* Your baby's 16, young and mean *
* Gonna make you green
* Well, I don't care
(audience cheering)
(sultry rock music)
* 3:00 in the morning
* Sweat on your face
* Your blood is boiling
* Your heart starts to race
- [David] Abigail was getting stronger,
just like she promised,
fighting for more and more control.
* Don't you worry about what you can see *
The battle of wills was brewing between Maria and her demon
to decide just whose body this really is.
(sultry rock music)
* Garbage in the street
* Smog in the sky
* We met at 21
* No fear in our eyes
* Decades passed
* I'm losing my will
* You'd break my heart for a dollar bill *
* You'd break my heart
- Give me that.
(both moaning)
- Oh, finally, that's what I've been waiting for.
Maria, where are you going?
* Don't you worry about what you can see *
* Oh, oh, it's just the devil in me *
(sultry rock music)
- Watch it, baby girl.
- Do I look like anybody's baby girl?
- Who the hell are you?
- It depends; buy me a drink, sailor?
- I can think of about a dozen things to do to you,
and buying you a drink ain't one of them.
(rock music)
(Abigail growls)
(slap lands)
(stranger grunts)
- We do it my way.
- Whatever you want.
- I've had 3,000 years of practice.
I know exactly what I want.
(both panting)
(ice sizzles)
(liquid drips) (stranger gasps)
- [Stranger] Oh, that burns.
- We're just getting started.
(dramatic music)
(stranger whimpers) Abigail.
Where am I?
I'm sorry. - [Reverend Elijah] The devil
will try to seduce you at every turn,
to charm and deceive you
into doing his work. - [Audience] Amen.
- You must all take a hard look at yourselves
and push back against the evil
that is swallowing up our city.
- Amen, amen, peach on, brother man.
You know, the good Reverend speaks the truth, folks.
Yes, yes, there is evil in this city,
but what he won't tell you is that's closer than you think.
- Do I know you?
- No, no, but I know you.
Tell me, does it hurt to be in the house of God
when you're the devil?
(audience gasping)
(somber theme music)
* I've been on my best behavior *
* But I've heard that good girls finish last *
* And once you're gone
* They say no one can save you
* But who knows
* If I go, I may never want to ever come back *
* Oh, I just want to dance with the devil tonight *
* I want to know what it feels like *
* I want to close my eyes
* Put my hands in the sky
* I want to walk on the wild side *
* I want to dance with the devil tonight *
* I want to know what it feels like *
* I want to close my eyes
* Put my hands in the sky
* I want to walk on the wild side, oh *
- [David] People tell themselves
we're not always responsible for our actions,
but just because there's a devil
on your shoulder whispering in your ear,
doesn't mean you have to listen,
no matter how sweet the words.
- [Abigail] I think he liked us.
- Tell me you used protection.
- You should be happy.
We got laid.
- You got laid.
I'm the one who has to do the walk of shame.
I'm sick of you messing with my life.
(Abigail laughs)
- [Abigail] Who's going to stop me?
You?
Please, no matter what that preacher tells you,
I'm still the one in control here.
- We'll see about that.
(Reverend Elijah knocks)
- We got a problem.
- Got a permit to be playing out here?
- Officer Parsing, just trying to make a couple extra bucks.
- Oh, kid, I know people in the music business.
Maybe I can help get you a paying gig,
make some real paper instead of coins.
- And what's in it for you?
- Cynicism is a prison mentality, my friend.
Gotta learn to trust your fellow man.
Buy you lunch.
- [Maria] Why did you bring me back to my old home?
- Enos sent his people into my church,
my house, where my daughter lives.
So now we're going into his.
Maybe we'll find something.
Maybe it'll trigger a memory.
Something we can use against him.
- I'm telling you, there's nothing here.
It's been abandoned for a reason.
No one wants to live in the devil's home.
- When was the last time you were here?
- I was 10 years old when we moved to Sangolo.
I don't know if I can do this.
- You do want to get rid of Abigail right?
- More than ever.
- Then I told you, this is the only way.
(eerie music)
- You know, I looked up your sheet.
You're an Abascal, which means we're practically related.
Yeah, your dad was in the Society of Sons
around the same time my dad was for a while; we're brothers.
- We're not brothers.
My father was never a part of anything
that wasn't sick and cruel,
so if that's what you're a part of, I want nothing to do--
- Which is exactly why the Sons parted ways
with Enos a long time ago.
Divergent points of view.
- So what are you guys?
Some kind of Knights of Columbus?
- We're just good people, doing good, praising God.
- I got a lot of things to worry about.
- Yeah, let me take a guess, money?
And drugs?
Am I right?
- I'm trying to go clean,
but my dealer's hurting me on a heavy vig.
Played Carnegie Hall
and I still couldn't get out from under him.
- Where does he live?
- It's my problem.
- Sons take care of their own.
- You want what's up in there?
You will always be my little girl, no matter what.
(light clicks)
- [Maria] What the hell are you doing?
- Sorry; somebody's paying the electric bill.
(Maria and David's Mother sobs)
- It's okay, sweetheart.
Mommy's okay, Mommy's okay.
(indistinct whispering) (ominous music)
Get out of this house.
(necklace jingles)
Take it, Maria.
- You okay?
- I'm never coming back here.
(upbeat rock music)
- I brought you something
for your collection, another tooth.
- One of your highly educated crackers slip up?
- And Sweetmouth exacted some necessary punishment.
- Aw, baby, I love that.
And look, this tooth's got gold in it.
- Well, look who it is.
Yo, your sister was here last night looking
like some prime cut.
Make a deal, break off a piece of that ass
for me and my girl
and I'll scrap some change off your debt.
- Oh, I'm not here to make deals.
- Huh, looks like I'm getting another tooth.
- Who the hell are you supposed to be, his sponsor?
- Him. (Sweetmouth sighs)
- David, you ever seen the body of a snitch?
You more than dead.
- Now it looks like a whole mouthful of teeth.
- I swear, I didn't.
- You and I need to talk, privately.
* Jesus was my left
* Never need a hand
- Well, do you think
that I could get your sister's phone number?
- Okay, everything's all straight.
- We good. - That's what I like to hear.
You good?
Let's go. * I'm gonna lick my hand
* God willing
- David?
You home?
(heavy breathing)
- [Dusty] What do you think you're doing?
- [Trevor] Get off of me.
- What's going on?
- I caught him looking through your window.
- Tell this guy to get his hands off me, Maria.
- How do you know my name?
- It's me, Trevor from Cadillac Blacks.
- You know him?
- Yeah, I've seen him around.
- What are you talking about?
We see each other all the time.
We made out last night at the Cadillac.
Just let me talk to her.
- Look, Trevin-- - Trevor.
- Trevor, I'm sure you're a nice guy,
but I really wasn't myself last night.
- I get it, it's typical.
- [Dusty] Hey, take it easy.
- Screw you, and screw her too.
- You watch how you talk to the lady.
It's okay, no need to explain.
- Dusty, wait. (cell phone rings)
(Maria sighs) Damn it.
- David, I want you to meet my favorite gal.
This is my mother, Lanie Parsing.
You know, David's folks were in the Sons too.
Isn't that something?
- That's not really true.
- It's a small, small world.
- I think I should get going.
- It's okay. * Lord, the train keep movin'
* The train keep traveling'
* Movin' on towards heaven, Lord, it's me you've forgotten *
* The preacher keep preachin'
* The preacher keep talkin'
* Movin' on toward heaven, Lord *
* The preacher be rotten
(man laughs)
What are you singing?
- A little ode, to the new reverend who's come to town.
Bledsoe?
- You're a friend of his, aren't you?
- I wouldn't say we're friends.
Where do you know him from?
- You hear that, Mother?
He wants to hear how we know the good Reverend.
- Well, tell him, Dean.
- Son of a bitch killed my father, that's how.
That's how David.
- I found this by your father's incinerator.
I didn't want to tell you until I was certain what it was,
but I remember seeing this crest somewhere before.
- Society of Sons.
what's their connection to Order of Everlasting?
It's the same symbol.
- Enos just added the evil eye.
Society of Sons was founded just after the Civil War,
a fraternal order of theologians and scholars devoted
to harnessing the occult, but over the generations
their curiosity hardened into fear
and their bloodlines became inbred,
degraded into violence and bigotry.
- Enos was a lot of things, but he was no racist.
He had all kinds of people up there at Everlasting.
- Then that's why Enos splintered off to form his own sect.
- And how is it you're so familiar with these good old boys?
If you're going to drag me
around Charleston digging up my past,
then I need the same from you.
- It's not that simple.
- Usually isn't, but you've been hiding a lot more
than you've been sharing ever since you showed up.
If we're going to pretend we're on the same team,
then I need you to start playing the part.
What aren't you telling me?
- It doesn't matter now.
(Maria scoffs)
- Then call me when it does.
(heavy breathing)
- [Abigail] Ooh, looks like your new boyfriend, Trevor,
left us a gift.
- Yeah, well, you're dancing on tables
and now I'm the town whore.
- Oh, always the devil's fault.
Look in the mirror, honey.
You people are just as bad as demons.
Blame human nature, not me.
But I'll take care of it.
Next time he gets close, I'll rip his heart out.
- No, we're not doing that.
He's not possessed.
Trevor's a creep,
but I'm not letting you put me through another Memphis.
Stay out of it.
- I wasn't asking for your permission.
I see that prick again, he's a corpse,
and there's nothing you can do to stop me.
- I know, Lord, I know,
but this is the only way to do your work.
The bigger picture, that's all that matters.
- [David] It's not the lies we tell others.
It's the lies we tell ourselves that consume us.
(bottle explodes) (Reverend Elijah shouts)
(fire roaring) (dramatic music)
(extinguisher spouts)
(car revs)
The Society of Sons was nothing more
than a demented group of backwards clansmen.
But as I made my way back home,
Dean's words kept echoing in my head.
What did we really know about this new man in our lives?
- Where's Maria?
- [David] She's out.
Who was Bledsoe?
- There's trouble at the church.
Need Gracie to stay here for a bit.
- [David] Sure, of course.
- Maria told me she can depend on you.
Make sure I don't regret it.
Be sure to text me, okay?
- Don't worry, I'll keep her safe.
- Thank you. (door closes)
- It's not much, but beats sleeping in a truck.
- I like it.
- It's been a long time
since I saw you at the Everlasting.
- I remember; you used to sit outside with me at night,
taught me the constellations.
(David laughs)
- Yeah, I made that all.
There's no such thing as Bubba Minor.
(Grace laughs) - I know.
- You ran away from your dad, didn't you?
That's how you ended up at the Order of the Everlasting.
How come?
- He drank a lot and we fought.
Wasn't a very nice time.
- [David] Is that all?
- [Grace] What do you mean?
- Nothing, but after you escaped from the fire ...
- I couldn't believe people would do that to each other.
I needed to find some peace.
- [David] You mean the convent.
- It was the sisters who found me.
They said God told them.
Are you hungry?
- That's okay, sit.
I'll make something for you.
- [Sheriff Dickey] Well, if it isn't Sister Abascal.
What he you do this time?
- This isn't about David.
I have a problem.
- Usually we take confessions inside.
- It's not me.
I'm being stalked.
- Oh, is that so?
Well, the kind of people you hang around
aren't exactly what I'd call pious.
- I need you to arrest him.
At least put a restraining order on him
before somebody gets hurt.
- [Sheriff Dickey] So did this man threaten you?
- [Maria] That's not what I'm worried about, exactly.
- All right, let's go back for a second here.
Who is he?
- This guy that works at Cadillac Blacks.
His name's Trevor.
- [Sheriff Dickey] And you have a relationship
with this gentleman? - No, I don't.
I may have kissed him once, but I wasn't myself.
- You made out with him.
You put it out there.
- What does that have to do with anything?
I didn't ask for this.
What am I supposed to do to?
Just wait until somebody gets killed?
- I don't write the laws.
I just enforce them.
Give me something I can work with.
I'll help you out.
- The Pacekos called.
They're moving back to First Baptist.
They're the third family to leave.
People are scared.
- There's a lot of hate in the world.
- [Tetra] This is more than that.
This is personal.
- [Reverend Elijah] It doesn't matter.
It's in the past.
I'm a different man now.
- Trust me, the past doesn't care who you think you are now.
Think about Grace.
- What about Grace?
- You have to take her away from here.
- No. - Damn it,
just listen to what I'm telling you.
I had a daughter too once, and when I lost her,
I swore I'd do anything to stop the pain.
Please, Reverend, you don't ever want
to have to do the things I swore.
She's rare and she needs to be protected.
- [Reverend Elijah] I know how to protect her
from these animals.
- I'm not just talking about the Sons.
I'm talking about him.
I was one of his first followers back on Sangolo,
and for the last 20 years, I've tried to atone,
but I can never wash myself clean
of the evil things I did there.
- Maybe you can't, but I have faith in the Lord.
- Which one, Elijah?
Which one?
(slow-tempo music)
* You tell your brother
- [Maria] I need you to give a message to Trevor.
- Your brother thinks he can come in here
and threaten my man, take the food out of my mouth?
- What are you talking about?
- Sweetmouth got muscled out of his own territory
by your traitorous brother and the Sons.
- Society of Sons?
- Why the hell do you think I'm working the bar?
Had to cut costs, fired that four-eyed candy-ass.
Stay the hell out of here.
- [David] The past has ways of catching up with us.
Sometimes it brings pain, sometimes anger,
but every once in a while,
sometimes the past brings us beauty.
It's a swamp.
- It's really nice.
- [Dean] Hey, pretty lady.
- Isn't Tetra expecting you at Frogmores?
Go. - That is a nice piece of ass.
- Not like that.
- You like her.
You know that's the Rev's daughter.
Just tragic if something happened to her.
- What do you want?
- I'm calling in the marker.
I took care of you,
now you're gonna take care of the black preacher.
- Are you crazy?
I'm not a killer.
- [Dean] Not yet.
- Go to hell.
- Come on out, Clive.
- Feeling all right, Davie?
You look a little shaky.
- I'm sure it's nothing a little mother's milk won't fix.
(David gasps)
Society of Sons.
We'll do for you when you do for us.
- What did you just give me?
- You like what we pumped in your veins?
There's plenty where that came from.
- It's our Mother Lanie's very own special blend.
- Didn't your girlfriend Charlotte tell you
there's a new Candyman in town?
And we run the show now.
- [David] Charlotte set me up?
- It's not Charlotte's fault.
See, mother's milk is more than just a high.
It's a whole new way of seeing things,
the way they really are.
- [David] A curtain of darkness fell over my world.
I could hear all my fears whispering inside my head,
turning me against myself, corrupting my thoughts.
- Now you gotta consider the greater evil here.
- Listen good, Bledsoe is not a man of God.
He's a killer, a murderer.
And he's got his dirty little claws in you and your sister.
He's playing you two like a six-string.
- Maria. - Now, Mother,
Mother and me, we pray, and we pray
for a way to make him pay for what he did, and you ...
You are the answer to our prayers.
- [David] This was different than any drug,
different than any possession.
I was being infected by madness.
- Bledsoe is Enos.
- [Dean] Now I think he's finally starting to see the truth.
(Clive laughs) (suspenseful music)
- Hey Romeo, the hell do you want?
- I need you to get back in your car
and drive it straight out of town.
- But you and I both know that's not gonna happen.
- You have no idea who I am.
(Trevor grunts)
- Okay, come on, get up.
You'll be all right. - Get off me.
- [Dusty] It's time for you to go.
(crowbar thuds)
- [Grace] Tetra, are you here?
- [Tetra] I'm here, Gracie.
- [Grace] What is all this?
- [Tetra] Drink the tea and be calm, trust me.
This will all make sense soon.
I tried to want him, Grace.
I told your father to take you away from here
before it was too late.
(Tetra chants in foreign language)
- [Grace] Those are his words, Enos.
- [Tetra] Yes, but sometimes in the right hands,
even evil can be used for good.
(Tetra chants in foreign language)
My soul may already be damned, but by all that is unholy,
I swear I will do everything I can to protect you.
(Maria knocks)
- Dusty?
(suspenseful music)
- What the hell are you doing?
- Please, just sit down.
I want to tell you something.
- Trevor, just put the gun down
and we can talk about whatever you want, okay?
- Look at you.
I see you differently than everyone else.
I see the way you are,
the way you move,
I know you now.
I've taken your invitation seriously.
- What invitation?
- The kiss, the way you show yourself to me.
You like the flowers?
- They're very nice.
- I've seen you at the market.
I know how you stare at them, wanting them,
and you never buy them for yourself,
but I can buy them for you.
I know what foods you like.
I know what panties you wear.
I know how your face changes when you touch yourself.
After you left, I went into your bedroom and I smelled you.
And then my face changed too.
- [Maria] You need to get out of here, Trevor,
before it's too late.
- But we need to get rid of the men in your life, Maria.
There's too many.
You only need me.
I mean, there's your brother and Reverend and Dusty,
but he won't bother you anymore.
- What did you do to him?
- I did what you needed me to do.
(cell phone rings)
Don't answer it.
(gun thuds)
(Maria shouts)
Maria?
(Abigail hisses)
- What the hell?
(Abigail growls)
(punches thudding)
What are you?
(Abigail laughs)
- Abigail, no, you can't kill him.
- Yes. - I said no.
(Abigail growls)
(dramatic music)
- [Trevor] You crazy bitch.
(gun fires) (Maria gasps)
(body thuds)
(Dusty pants)
- Maria, I'm in trouble.
It's about Bledsoe.
You've gotta call me back.
- He could've killed us both.
We need to call the police.
- No, you can't.
I did a little time and I'm still on probation.
- For what? - After Afghanistan ...
It doesn't matter.
It's on me, all right?
I'll take the hit, don't worry.
- [Maria] No, no, it's my fault you got caught up in this.
- Forget it, listen to me.
Nothing about this was your fault, okay?
That's it. (dog barking faintly)
- Look, I already spoke to Sheriff Dickey.
Son of a bitch has been gunning for me and my brother
since we've moved back here.
He won't believe us.
- [Dusty] I told you, it's on me.
- We have to get rid of the body.
I know where there's a furnace.
(foreboding music)
(fire roars)
I don't ever want to talk about this again.
- Trust me, it's in the past.
- [Dean] Bledsoe, he's got his dirty little claws
in you and your sister
He's a killer.
Playing you two.
- [Clive] Bledsoe is Enos.
- [David] Who are you really?
- David?
- Get down, just get down.
- Don't do this, David.
Where is Grace?
If you hurt her--
- I would never hurt her, but maybe you would.
Is it true that you killed a man?
- I had no choice.
- You're saying it was self defense?
- I'm saying it was complicated.
- Who are you really?
You just came here out of nowhere
and all this trouble came with you.
My sister told me Enos can be anyone.
Maybe you're him. - No.
David, Enos is the one trying to trick you into pulling
that trigger to damn your own soul.
If someone wants me dead so badly,
why doesn't he do it himself?
Give me the gun.
(David grunts)
David, David, don't do it.
- Why not?
There's something bad inside me.
- [Maria] David, please.
- I don't think I can control it much longer
and I don't have any other way to stop it.
- You have me.
You always have me.
I know how hard it is sometimes, David.
(David sobs)
It's okay. (gentle acoustic music)
From now, on no more lies,
or I'll take you out myself.
- [David] It's easy to let emotions blind us,
to let fear lead us into darkness.
Sometimes we need someone to open our eyes again
and help us see the light.
(dramatic music)
(somber acoustic music)