Previously, on "trickster."
I've had it with this place.
Sarah: I shouldn't have stayed over last night.
My foster units are talking about getting rid of me.
Jared: Come to vancouver with me,
We can leave right now.
If you're too chicken shit just say so!
You're an asshole.
Sophia: They're not our enemies.
They need trickster blood
To take them back to wherever they came from.
Wade doesn't want to die.
Dad, you-you don't have to do this, please!
(shtuck)
Jared: No!
(shtuck) (grunting)
(raven cawing)
(grunting)
You killed me.
To save you.
(metal clinking)
(suspenseful dramatic chords)
(uptempo dramatic music)
(dramatic music)
♪
(rhythmic inuit throat singing)
♪
(rap music)
(phone chiming)
(phone ringing)
Sarah: This is sarah,
Leave a message after the beep.
Beep.
Hey, uh, call me back.
It's me, dummy.
Jared: You got me.
You didn't go?
Guess not.
I haven't seen you the past few days.
Impromptu road trip with my mom.
Sarah: Where to?
Jared: To whitehorse.
Whitehorse?
Does this have to do with your dad?
What do you think our place woulda looked like in vancouver?
Why are you being so weird?
Maggie: You sure you don't gotta go?
I don't wanna stop again.
I'll call you back if I can.
Wait-
(sniffling)
Maggie: You got any smokes?
Jared: You asked me that like 100 kilometres ago.
Sorry, sour puss.
Geez.
(ominous music)
(raven squawking)
You hungry or what?
Why would I be hungry?
We ate yesterday.
You know, running isn't a plan.
Running is the only way I can keep you safe
Until I figure out what to do with wade.
Don't I get a say in any of this?
Nope.
(eerie dramatic music)
Jared: I think we should split up.
No, we stick together.
Wade's a goddamn shape shifter, he could be anybody.
Yeah but wade wants me dead,
And if you get in his way he's-
You just let me worry about me.
I need a damn drink.
How come you never told me
That grandma went to residential school?
Why would I?
It's just tragedy and heartbreak.
Because it's the truth.
Yeah but it's also the past.
Yeah, sure it is.
Maggie: I got my own shit to deal with.
I know.
And I will.
I mean it, jelly bean.
Once we're done with this wade shit,
I'm gonna get my act together.
You'll see.
Sometimes I feel like I went to residential school too.
That's the fucking truth.
Ah, could we get a order of large fries
And two vanilla milkshakes?
Sure.
You know, I'm full.
Me too.
I'm trying to buy us some time.
You ever dine and dash?
(jared sighs)
Seriously?
So we're gonna be on the run from the cops too?
We're low on cash.
You got a better idea?
You act like you're gonna go out for a smoke,
Bring the truck around,
And I'll give it a minute,
And then I'll go out and I'll meet you,
And then we'll be home free.
Yeah, except there is no home.
Just stick to the plan, now scoot!
(keys jiggling)
(engine rumbling)
(ominous music)
♪
Oh shit.
Come on, shit, come on.
Shit, shit.
Come on!
(ominous music)
♪
(raven squawking)
Jared.
Grandma?
Maggie: Hey!
What the hell are you doing here?
Saving jared from wade.
Wade was here?
Sophia: Yep.
Why are you with her?
You didn't tell him anything?
I'm a little busy trying to keep him alive.
Tell me what?
The truth.
Maggie: The truth is you've been following us.
Haven't you?
Sophia: You took off, maggie.
You left us no choice.
Good thing we were here, hey?
You've been using jared as bait.
Almost worked.
We're done here.
Move!
You can't watch jared forever.
The hell I can't.
Sophia: Come on, maggie, just hear them out.
Are you going to pay your bill?
Who's got money?
(banging)
(eerie ominous music)
♪
(eerie dramatic music)
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Maggie: First you tried to use jared as bait,
And now you wanna force him
Into a life and death confrontation with wade?
Your new friends here are assholes.
We can make it safe for jared to carry out his task.
Maggie: Task, he's not roasting marshmallows here.
Edna: We get wade,
Restrain him,
And then jared kills him.
Maggie: And how do you restrain a 500-year-old shape shifter?
Wow him with your new makeover?
Hmm.
You don't have a choice.
Jared doesn't have a choice.
Maggie: You guys don't give a shit about jared.
He was just your ticket home.
Sophia: It's also about restoring balance.
Maggie: This is your grandson that you wanna put in harm's way.
Sophia: So you're just gonna keep running and hope for the best?
I sure as hell
Won't let you put jared in the same room as wade.
Jared: So you're in agreement?
Maggie: What?
That only I can end this.
Yes.
Only you.
Jared.
Well then I'll do it!
I'll kill my father.
(dramatic music)
♪
Georgina: And then you go like this.
And you wrap it really tight.
Okay?
Okay.
Georgina: Here, hold them tight by the stem and then we start-
Twirling it around.
Twirling it around really tight.
Do we really need these?
Ceremony honours your sacrifice.
It's the way it's always been done.
Jared: Yeah, well, just because it's always been that way
Doesn't mean it has to stay that way.
You have purpose.
Right, to restore balance.
What does that even mean?
To live in harmony with others,
The land,
Oneself.
If that's my purpose then what's yours?
Georgina: One in the same.
Tricksters enable us to cross from our realm to yours.
Witches give us skins so we can live among you.
And in return, we share knowledge and wisdom
That helps maintain balance.
And wade messed all that up?
Wade didn't start the fire.
But he certainly got caught up in it.
You coming around or I gotta be worried about ya?
Jared needs your support, maggie.
Ever occur to you that I might need your support?
That's true.
But I'm here now.
Yeah but you're on their side.
The only side is us against wade.
You mean a 17-year-old boy
Against a 500-year-old shape shifter?
I raised him too soft.
No, you raised him right.
Jared's a great kid.
He's smart, kind.
He's responsible.
Yeah, except he can't hurt a damn fly.
(eerie ominous music)
♪
(deep inhale)
(eerie ominous music)
(chuckles) hmm.
(eerie ominous music)
♪
Let's dine and dash.
What?
We'll figure it out on our own.
Just you and me, like always.
No, I can't.
Yes you can. Let's go.
Okay, then show me how you're gonna kill wade.
As if.
Show me!
Come on!
I'm not fighting you.
You know why they want you to do this?
Because they know that the only way to survive in this world
Is to look out for number one.
Now if you want to fight your own battles,
Then show me you can!
I'm not doing this, mom!
Maggie: You guys see this?
He's not ready!
Your plan is shit!
Hey, let her calm down now, okay?
Come on.
(eerie ominous music)
Maggie: You think I don't know that?
You're like a jackhammer in my head.
Shut up.
Let me think in peace for once.
(echoing voices in heiltsuk)
Maggie: Yeah, jared can't do it.
(echoing voices in heiltsuk)
I did, twice.
Bastard just keeps coming back.
(echoing voices in heiltsuk)
What's that mean?
(echoing voices in heiltsuk)
Jared: Mom!
Mom, where are you?
I'm coming!
Jared: What are you doing?
Maggie: Where are you?
Jared: I'm over here, where are you?
Maggie: Hold your horses, I'm coming.
(dramatic music)
(maggie gasps)
Hi, mom.
There.
Come on.
What if my mom's right?
What if I can't do this?
What choice do you have?
(cell phone vibrating) (eerie ominous music)
What? It's wade.
The nerve.
Should I answer?
It's up to you.
(eerie suspenseful music)
Yeah?
Wade: Hi son.
Jared: Don't call me that.
I can imagine the pressure you're under.
How are you holding up?
What do you want?
Wade: I'm calling about what you want.
(eerie suspenseful music)
Maggie: Jelly bean?
Mom, are you okay?
Maggie: Listen to me,
Do not do anything.
Where are you?
Jared, baby, stay away.
Wade: There's no need for your mom to get hurt,
Or for anyone else to get involved.
Come home, son.
(dramatic beat)
(horn honking)
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
You're staying here.
Wade wants you to go.
Well, isn't that what we want too?
The big trickster face off?
Well, not until it's safe.
But my mom's not safe!
They're not gonna let anything happen to her, jared.
Georgina: Oh, you're coming with us.
Why?
'cause we don't cast spells.
Jared: This is bullshit.
So wade lures you there
While I just sit here doing nothing.
That makes no sense.
Maybe he wants that.
You're staying here.
Watch him.
I'm not staying here, man.
(eerie dramatic music)
♪
Beer?
You've been around a while, right?
Centuries.
Bullshit.
Truth.
Truth me this,
What's the point of living so long
If you don't have anyone to share it with?
Are you trying to sway my heart?
Honest question.
Remember when we first met?
You going there?
Asshole.
If I knew you were a witch,
I'd a kept my distance.
You woulda saved us both a whole lotta heartache.
Hmm.
I wouldn't do this if I didn't have to,
Mags.
I like the kid.
You mean your son?
(eerie dramatic music)
♪
The point of living is not to share it with others,
The point of living is to survive,
That's it.
(swelling ominous music)
♪
Get up.
Where're we going?
Nowhere.
It's okay, don't worry, he's cool.
Can I come in?
We need a place to stay.
Georgina: This spell will keep your daughter safe
And hold wade inside.
No way will he be able to escape.
Once we have wade,
We'll bring jared back
To open the north door.
I don't know what to say.
Say what you hear.
What?
(echoing voices in heiltsuk)
(incantations in heiltsuk)
(voices echoing in heiltsuk)
(incantations in heiltsuk)
(dramatic music) (incantations in heiltsuk)
(ethereal music)
♪
(stirring dramatic singing in wolastoq)
♪ [ pomok naka poktoinskwes by jeremy dutcher]
♪
(video game gun fire)
No no no no no no no. (tapping on window)
Oh.
Wanna try?
Yeah, go for it.
This one you use to move around,
This one's to look,
And that one is how you get people.
(gun fire)
(eerie ominous music)
♪
Something's wrong.
Yeah.
(banging) (eerie ominous music)
I thought you were long gone.
Yeah, me too.
What's up?
I came to say goodbye.
What?
Child services.
They finally caught up with me.
They called my foster parents.
Let's go talk somewhere.
(banging) (pulsing suspenseful music)
♪
(gasps)
Where is he? -Not here.
Wade's not here.
Where's jared?
Jared: You're quiet.
Foster care bullshit.
I hate not having control of my own life.
Yeah, I get it.
(dramatic suspenseful music)
(eerie ominous music)
Sorry, this place is a mess.
(eerie ominous music)
Jared: But, um, I'm glad you came by.
I got some crazy family shit going on.
You know and I don't know what to do.
(jared cries out)
Shit!
You knew it was me all along.
Yeah.
Brave.
Or stupid.
(suspenseful dramatic music)
♪
Where's jared?
What?
I'm his mom, where is he?
I know who you are.
Crashpad said that he left with you.
I haven't seen jared, not for a few days.
You don't have to do this.
I don't wanna do this,
If that's what you mean.
But I have to.
If you were in my shoes you'd do the same thing.
No I won't use my trickster powers, okay?
I don't even know how to.
You will, in time.
Then you'll come after me.
Jared: You know, I'll stay outta your way.
I'll move far away, please.
That sounds nice.
I mean that.
But even if I wanted to live and let live,
I can't.
(coughing)
(dramatic beat)
Maggie: Oh my god.
Jared thinks he left with you.
Thinks, I don't understand.
Oh no.
Where-where would jared take wade?
You just said jared thinks he's with me.
Oh wait, I'm asking the wrong question.
Where would jared take you?
Jared!
What's wrong with you?
The stronger you become the weaker I get.
But I'm not doing anything!
Wade: It's not what you're doing,
It's who you are.
You can't escape who you are, son.
Jared!
Why didn't you just kill me before we even met?
Before I got to know you?
I had to be sure you were like me.
And now I know.
(suspenseful dramatic music)
I think I know what it's like.
To feel like your life isn't your own.
I release you from that burden.
Shh.
Jared!
(suspenseful dramatic music)
Wade: Shh.
It's okay.
(dramatic beat)
(wade yelling)
(wind blowing) (dramatic music)
(wade groaning)
(wind blowing) (suspenseful music)
♪
The north door is opening.
We're too far away!
I'm not like you.
Our people were killed.
Our land was taken,
Our practices outlawed.
They wanted to end us.
To keep our culture alive I had to stay alive.
But here we are,
Father against son.
What if there's another way?
There is no other way.
Maggie. - Can it!
Nice start.
Now finish the job.
(grunting) (thwack)
(groaning)
No, we're family, mom!
No, you and me are family.
Wade is nothing!
Wade: No jared, we are family.
Maggie: Do not trust him.
Only you can end this.
No, we'll find a way.
Together.
Son.
(maggie grunts)
Jared: No mom, don't! -Maggie please-
Jared: No!
(screaming)
(eerie screaming)
(fire crackling)
(indigenous vocables)
♪
The world is hard.
You have to be harder.
(indigenous vocables)
♪
(water splashing)
Tv host: That was a warning signal
To say that danger was around us, say, me.
And now, I may not see the beavers for some time.
I think a piece is missing.
Jared: Sure you don't want any help?
Nah. I wanna, uh, impress destiny.
You know, having kids,
It's like your life isn't yours anymore
And then you realize,
Your life was just missing a piece.
Second chances.
Everybody needs 'em.
Jared: Is that wade's bag?
Yeah, never came back for it.
True to style, I guess.
(knocking on door)
Oh shit, it's your mom.
Hey, listen,
You can stay as long as you need, okay, son?
Jared: Thanks, dad.
Morning, sunshine.
School's been on my ass.
You plan on going back or are you dropping out?
Jared: I'm taking this week off.
Call it a mental health break.
Come home.
News reporter: The pipeline has become a very divisive issue-
Jared: What if I leave the toilet seat up?
Or the milk carton open?
How do I know you're not gonna kill me too?
What are you going off about?
Jared: Breaking news, mom, I'm a trickster.
I'm a witch, whoop-de-fucking-do.
Jared: Well maybe tricksters and witches are arch enemies?
That's one of the many questions I would've asked wade
Before you torched him to death.
Wade's not dead.
He's contained.
Wait, what are you doing with them?
Maggie: Nothing.
You're gonna scatter his ashes in the river.
It'll be years before that bastard could regenerate.
No, you killed him, you get rid of him.
It's also a peace offering, idiot.
So that you can move on.
Jared: There's nothing I can do that will change anything,
The shit is all messed up.
Scatter his ashes.
And get your ass home.
You know who else has been riding my ass?
Sarah, you're not returning her texts.
You know, I like her, but she's trouble.
And what's that mean?
I'm making roast beef for dinner tomorrow night.
Family dinner.
Grandma's gonna stay with us for a while.
You're leaving?
Come with us.
Where?
There's more of us, but in hiding.
(eerie dramatic music)
We need you to sew skins for us.
I-I can't.
My daughter, we just barely-
(soft dramatic music)
♪
Georgina: Those voices you heard,
They were your people.
Your ancestors.
I hear them, even now.
Come, there's so much I can show you.
Come with us.
So does this mean you got all wade's stuff now?
No, just the title.
You liked him, didn't you?
Man, I don't even know what a trickster's supposed to do.
Man, you'll figure it out.
(background laughter)
What are you doing?
This is how you stop your dad from regenerating.
You put him in all the pepper shakers.
He'll end up in the bellies all over town,
And then eventually down the toilet
And then into the river.
(whoosh)
(eerie music)
What. The. Hell?
The hell, man, that's-
Yeah, you need to scatter this like now.
Yeah, man, that's probably a good idea.
Real quick though, do it again.
What? No.
Real quick, come on, dude, hurry up, I'll post it.
Okay. (eerie music)
(whoosh)
Whoa.
Cool trick, jared.
(soft dramatic music)
(rock music)
♪
Mmm, what you got there?
Meat.
Home cooking.
I missed you.
Anything I can do?
You can't stay with me tonight.
What do-what do you mean?
You bail me outta jail just to kick me to the curb?
Well my mom's gonna move in.
I'll fix you a drink.
No, I'm good, you get one.
Hey, uh, just in time.
You can teach me how to make your gravy.
Hi.
(stammering) I'm richie.
I was just-just leaving.
Well at least you came to say goodbye this time.
I don't wanna leave you and jared.
Especially now.
I'm on a path.
I need to follow it,
See where it leads me.
So it's, uh, it's not a choice,
It's a spiritual calling?
I don't know what to do.
No, bullshit.
You already made up your mind.
So where's jared?
No, no, no!
You just want our blessing so that you can feel good
About taking off again!
Maggie.
Goodbye, mom.
You have a path too, maggie.
I hope you find it.
(sophia sighs)
(sombre country rock)
("helpless" by buffy sainte-marie)
♪ hmm
♪ hmm hmm
♪ now here's a town in north ontario ♪
Randy: Hello, my name is randy and, uh,
I have an addiction to alcohol and to cocaine.
Please, grab a seat.
It's been tough,
But I feel like these meetings
Have really been helping me
Get my life back on track, so, thank you.
Mediator: Thanks for that randy.
("helpless" by buffy sainte-marie)
♪ blue, blue windows behind the stars ♪
(fire crackling)
Edna: We'll get another chance to cross home.
Georgina: Hmm.
Trickster blood runs thicker than water.
We can't trust jared.
No.
So when the next time comes
We force the boy to kill the father,
Do whatever it takes.
And when that time comes,
We close the north door forever.
Before this dying world sickens ours.
How?
We end the trickster bloodline.
♪ helpless, helpless, helpless, helpless ♪
♪ baby, baby save me somehow
♪ helpless, helpless
♪ blue, blue windows behind the stars ♪
Hey.
You're really leaving?
Not by choice.
Off to the next foster home.
Well, to where?
The indian agents won't tell me.
If they had their way it'd be residential school.
♪ shadows on our lives
♪ leave us helpless, helpless, helpless, helpless ♪
(soft buzzing)
How are you doing that?
I have no idea.
♪ helpless, helpless, helpless, helpless ♪
♪ helpless, helpless
♪ the chains are locked and tied across the door ♪
I'm doing this?
♪ helpless, helpless, helpless, helpless ♪
♪ baby, baby, save me somehow ♪
♪ blue, blue windows behind the sky
♪ yellow moon on the rise
♪ baby, baby sing with me somehow
♪ helpless, helpless, helpless, helpless ♪
(eerie ominous music)
(suspenseful dramatic music)
♪
(engine rumbling)
(suspenseful dramatic music)
♪
(swelling suspenseful music)
♪