[upbeat electronic music plays]
♪♪
[heartbeat thudding softly]
[angels cawing]
[mysterious music plays]
-[Narrator]: The world as we know it...
came to an end eons ago.
♪♪
[lights snapping]
Humanity... [sneering laughter]
...twisted, bent...
and misshapen by hubris...
have entered a golden age...
of never-ending life.
♪♪
-[screeches]
-[all]: [hoarsely] Praise the black hand!
-[Narrator]: The Rotlings...
blissful in their lives of decadent indulgence...
...Are haunted by a myth.
-The beast whose blood flows black
threatens our blessed world!
Fear the prophecy!
Fear the human,
born of the angel's egg!
♪♪
-[Narrator]: [shouting] Welcome...
to the Gaslight District!
Abandoned by God!
The denizens of this land...
are left...
to rot!
Fester!
Scab!
[normal voice] And peel...
for all eternity.
That is, until the prophesized human...
decides to show its face.
[shady music plays]
-Ooh... [gobbling]
Ack! Eugh...
♪♪
[all chuckling malevolently]
♪♪
-[yelps, screams]
[wailing]
-[cackling]
-[screams]
♪♪
-[growls] [car horn honks]
Breadhead!
Papa needs a favor.
Heave left in three...
two... one!
-Ack!
[wheels squealing]
♪♪
[both cackling]
-[shrieks]
-[Mud]: [cackles]
♪♪
[hocks, spits]
♪♪
-[shrieks]
-[chuckles]
-[Singer]: ♪ Ooooh, yeah ♪
-Scum! -[Singer]: ♪ Ooooh, yeah ♪
Dirty bloody! Pulpy!
Purple scum!
[cackles madly]
Wait.
Why are we huntin' Jack?
I like Jack.
-If we get paid,
who cares why we do it? [chuckles]
-I'll give you five scarab to turn Mud inside-out.
-I'll give him ten.
-[grumbles]
I'd kill you degenerates for free!
[all cackling]
-Hey, Dad! Check this out!
[chuckles] -[sighs]
Breadhead, since you were just a bun in the oven,
you've been nothing but good.
-Ah... -[sighs] But your sister...
Get back in here, you little brat!
-[barks]
-[yelps] -[barking]
-[growls] [hollers]
-Worse comes to worst, she loses her leg.
Just sew on a new one when we get --
-[Ken]: Shut it! -[grunts]
♪♪
-[gasps]
[whimpering]
[thump!] -[Mel]: [chuckles]
♪♪
-[yelps] -So, Jack.
As I was saying before you BOLTED on us --
my blood.
It's purple.
Right?
-You can't silence me, black blood!
-Bzzt! Wrong!
All Jack needed to do
was answer correctly,
and Papa would have shown him some mercy!
-What happens to Mud and Breadhead
when they learn you're the human?
Will "Papa" be able to protect you
when the whole island pieces together
what you are?!
-I'm gonna make sure they don't.
[wheels screeching]
[slam!] [glass shatters]
[wings flapping]
[low tone rings]
-[Jack]: [groans]
-[Mel]: [groans softly]
[winces]
[exclaims softly] Damn it.
[angel shrieks]
Shit.
[angel croaks softly]
[all chuckling]
♪♪
-[grunts]
-[shrieking]
[all cackling]
[wailing]
[all chuckle]
-[chuckling] Jack!
Oh, it kills me to do this to one of my own.
So, I won't.
Breadhead will do it for me.
-[Breadhead]: [exclaims] -[shrieks]
[all laughing] Breadhead, please!
L-Listen to me!
[shrieks wetly]
-Whoops!
-[coughing]
[dark music plays]
[straining] She's human...
Mud... Breadhead...
Ken deceives us all...
-The shop won't be the same without you, buddy.
-[groaning]
-[sighs]
Cement him.
[both chuckling evilly]
[splash!]
♪♪
-[all]: [chanting] Cement! Cement! Cement!
Make sure to hold your breath!
Once you reach the bottom --
a fate way worse than death!
Cement! Cement!
Cement!!
[water bubbling]
♪♪
[whale vocalizes softly]
[playing lovely piano music]
-[shrieking]
[overlapping chatter]
[creature weeping]
-[screams]
[blam!]
♪♪
-Welcome...
to the Whale Belly Butcher Shop.
[smooching] -[giggling]
♪♪
-Blegh...
-Excellent!
[all chuckling, munching]
-Huh?
-There you go. -Thank you, Mel.
-Hmm...
[sleazy music plays]
[exclaims]
[gulps] [sighs]
Say, pipsqueak. -[grunts]
-Impressive stuff out there for your first job.
How about you come work for me instead?
I'll pay you triple whatever Kenny-boy is givin' ya.
Eh?
-Triple of nothing is still nothing.
-Yeah.
Ken pays us in valuable life experiences.
-[retching]
-Back to work, ya ungrateful little stains.
[growls]
-[growls] -[grunts]
-You're just mad 'cause your greatest fear's
finally been realized.
Me, an official member of the Smiling Dead.
-[shrieks]
-[yelps goofily] -You keep her bored like this,
she's gonna start cookin' up some crazy shit herself.
-Too late!
I already have.
[growls]
-Mel. Look at you, huh?
Delicate, unscarred.
All your original limbs.
Untouched by this putrid world.
And I would like to keep it that way!!
-[exclaims softly]
-Now look at us.
Crusty.
Musty.
And rusty all over.
You ain't one of us.
And you never will be.
-[exhales sharply] As I was saying...
I may have our biggest job yet!
-Ooh! What's the take?
Better be enough to get me one of them cozy mattresses.
[shivers]
Sick of sleepin' on that meat hook.
-No, no, no, Mud.
This has nothing to do with scarab.
More like...
[whispering] Uman-hey egg-ay.
[dark music plays]
-The human egg?
-[all]: [muttering repeatedly] Human...
-[chuckles evilly]
I did some digging and figured out where it is.
Paradise Lost.
-[growls]
-We sneak our way into heaven,
snatch the egg from its frail old mother...
then smash it in front of the whole town!
Boom! We're legends!
-Mel...
Paradise Lost belongs to the virtues.
Haven't I ever told you what bein' sentenced
to an eternity in the inferno is like?
Imagine...
bein' subjected to a never-ending rain
of filthy, icy sludge!
It dripping into every fold of your body
as you lay frozen and numb!
But, yet...
you can't focus on any of it...
as the excruciating pain
of pullin' out an ingrown toenail --
-[slurring] Smash egg? [belches]
-Huh?
-Seems pretty easy to me.
-Those in favor of a mutiny,
point and say, "Go to hell."
-[all]: Go to hell!
-[growls] [babbles]
[screams] -[grunts]
-Father-daughter talk!
Now!
[grumbles]
The human egg?!
What are you sellin' these idiots, huh?!
There's only ever one human walking around this shit-hole,
and that's you!
-That's the beauty of it, Ken.
I'm lying! [chuckles]
It's just some dumb angel egg.
All those idiots in town will go crazy about it.
We dress it up, destroy it,
and then, no one will think twice
about me being human again!
Besides, I'm sick of you
cementing all my buddies!
-And whose fault is that?
Jack saw your nose bleed.
Honest mistake. Not much we can do about that.
-[snoring] -[chuckles]
-[gasps]
B-B-B-B-B--
Black blood!
-But you straight-up told Romeo,
who then told Cathy,
who then told Syd...
[gasps squeakily]
And now, I'm missin' a dishwasher,
a busboy, and two waitresses!
-Dad, work with me here.
Picture this!
[dramatic voice] Ken the butcher,
handsome leader of the Smiling Dead,
slays the human,
saves the Gaslight District
for another ten thousand years,
until the human is born again.
[normal voice] Blah, blah, blah.
Also, throw in some crap advertising the restaurant.
-[growls] -Just look it over?
If there's any problem at all,
I swear, I'll never bring it up again.
-All this info is legit?
The times, locations...
the virtue.
-Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Triple-checked, sources confirmed --
and then silenced.
Blagh...
-[growls]
Okay, you win. -[exclaims]
-One condition.
You don't leave my side.
You pull any stunts like earlier today,
and you never see sunlight again.
[tense music plays]
[engine rumbling]
♪♪
[angels cawing]
♪♪
-Morning, officer!
Uh, I-I believe everything
should be in order.
[interface chirping]
[both grunt]
♪♪
-[sniffing]
♪♪
-[groans softly]
♪♪
-Ah... ah...
-[grunts softly] [angel croaks]
♪♪
-All clear.
[groans]
-[all]: Holy shit!
Hup-hup-hup-hup!
-Ugh! -Agh!
-[groans]
-[robotic voice] We are pleased.
And you...
-[growls] -...Are a filthy, rancid Rotling!
-Agh...
-You may proceed.
[all groaning]
[bell tolling]
[choir vocalizing eerily]
[backup alarm beeping]
-[all]: Hup-hup-hup-hup!
[thudding]
[shady music plays]
-All right, here's the plan --
Breadhead, you're on angel duty.
-[chuckling malevolently]
[angel snoring]
♪♪
[grunting] [chuckling evilly]
[grunting]
Pretty bird love yummy, yummy bread.
-[croaking]
♪♪
-[exclaims]
-Mud, secure the cameras
and get the guards to focus on our little distraction.
♪♪
-Mud?! -Joshua?!
-[exclaims] -Eh?
How long has it been?
5,000 years?
-Actually, 5,245 years.
But who's counting?
How's my Muddy buddy?
♪♪
-I hate ya!
I'll always hate ya!
I will never forgive you!
-[chuckles] Hup!
-Three, two, one.
-[hollering]
[alarm blares]
-[over speakers] All guards report to the garden!
An angel storm is forming!
Stop it before it rips this place apart!
-So, things are going pretty smooth.
Don't you think? -[growls]
[mumbling] Yeah. Oh, yeah.
-You're, uh...
...proud of me, right?
Y-You know, with...
everything going according to plan, and all?
-Uh-huh.
-Ken?
-[growls] Need to make a pit stop.
Just need five minutes.
-What happened to "don't leave my side"?
-Plans change!
This is what you want, right? To be one of us?
A member of the Smiling --
[sighs] Here's your chance.
Meet me at the stairway.
We go up together.
Yeah?
Wait for me.
[elevator dings]
-Hmm.
[elevator dings]
-[hollering]
[ominous music plays]
♪♪
-[growls]
[thunder crashes]
[crunchy squelching]
[blade slices]
-This may sting for just a moment.
Please, forgive me.
♪♪
[grunts]
[muffled cries] [ominous rumbling]
[door creaks, thuds]
♪♪
Butcher!
How did you find me?!
-Rrragh! -[groans]
[hollers] [angel shrieks]
-[roars]
[angel shrieks, caws weakly]
-I-I-I kept my promise, Ken.
I've never spoken a word -- any of it -- to anyone!
Please, reconsider your options!
-[roars]
[angel shrieks]
[grunting] -[gasping weakly]
♪♪
[hollers]
-Whoa, whoa, whoa!
We don't want that kind of heat, mate!
♪♪
[pensive, tense music plays]
♪♪
-[Angel Mother]: This way, child...
♪♪
Child blessed by black blood.
♪♪
-Ah, shit.
Bad intel.
[screams]
-Oh, how you've grown.
[angel croaks]
I see all, child.
You cannot hide what you are from me.
-[growls] [hollers]
-[screams]
[shrieking]
-[exclaims triumphantly]
♪♪
[warbled electronic shriek]
[growling]
[brain shrieks]
[crunch!]
[grunts]
[cackling]
-[yelps]
[alarm blaring]
-Contain the storm!
I'll take care of the intruders.
-It was just a prank, man!
Put me back! Put me back!
♪♪
-[Angel Mother]: You do hear it...
don't you?
-[grunts]
[growls]
-The call of the prophecy...
echoes louder each day.
-[grunts] [wails]
[gasping]
♪♪
-[stammering]
[hollers]
-A legion of angels
to rain fire upon all those...
who rot upon the earth...
-[hollers] -[shrieks]
-[grunting] -[gasps] [coughs]
-[panting]
-[shrieks]
-Huh?
-Whoa.
-Get Ken and Mel!
Meet me at the entrance!
-[shrieking]
-[yelps]
♪♪
-[grunts]
Do our pinkie promises mean nothing to you?
-[coughs weakly]
Give me shit later.
[thunder crashes]
-Foolish blind human!
[shrieks] -[hollers]
[grunts]
-Intruders!
[grunts]
-[Mud]: In! Now!
-[grunts] -[Ken]: Ow!
-Touch not your feet upon the land to be razed!
When your day of destiny arrives,
we shall be there to guide you
on silver wings!
-[growls]
[exclaims]
[dramatic music plays]
♪♪
-You!
-[wails]
♪♪
-[Ken]: [panting] Stay with me.
Stay with me.
-[exclaims]
[choir vocalizing]
♪♪
-You belong...
to the angels!
♪♪
-[growls]
♪♪
-[shrieks]
-[giggling]
I'm invincible! Me!
A member of the Smiling Dead!
[laughing]
♪♪
-[sighs]
♪♪
I'll make sure you never end up...
like one of us.
[crowd chattering]
-The human ceremony begins. -The ceremony begins.
-Welcome, fine denizens of the Gaslight District!
Today, I present to you...
the human egg!
[all cheering, cackling]
-[all]: [chanting]: Spike! Spike! Spike! Spike!
[band playing dramatic music]
♪♪
-Uh...
-Keep it together, kid.
They're buyin' it.
A prayer...
to the black hand!
[tense music plays]
Rotten little human hidin' in that egg,
listen, and listen good.
You shall never find peace
in our land...
as we will bathe this spike in your black blood
time and time again.
For you are the one thing
to threaten our gift of eternal life.
Now, let us rejoice in our victory!
Let us restart the cycle!
Let us praise the black hand
for another ten thousand years!
[all cheering, cackling]
Now, just like you planned.
-Death to the human.
Life for us eternal!
[all gasping]
No...
No, no, no, no, no, not now.
♪♪
[angel caws]
[all whispering]
♪♪
-Liars! -Charlatans!
-Hobgoblins! -Liars and cheats!
-Liars and cheats! -Bloody fibbers!
[overlapping shouting]
♪♪
-That's not a human.
♪♪
-Dad?
What do we do now?
-[Narrator]: Welcome to the Gaslight District.
A land of eternal life...
for all but one of its denizens.
A place where everyone has secrets to bury...
and skeletons to hide.
Six feet deep
or a thousand fathoms under the sea...
Eventually...
all things rise to the surface.
♪♪
-[choir singing] ♪ I walked upon a melancholy hill ♪
♪ While whale-song echoed from the chasm deep ♪
♪ The weight of family bonds cementing still ♪
♪ The secrets that our fathers chose to keep ♪
♪ We drown our vulgar truths ♪
♪ Beneath the tide ♪
♪ And lance the boils ♪
♪ That fester in the dark ♪
♪ The trust we place in blood ♪
♪ Has been belied ♪
♪ The soul adrift without a guiding mark ♪
♪ The ship of family now unrigg'd adrift ♪
♪ Conceals a cargo of unspoken shame ♪
♪ The veil between the worlds begins to lift ♪
[music distorts]
[feedback squealing]
[alarm blaring]
[distorted musical feedback plays]
[Captioned by Foulweather Studios]