Susan sends a text to Bryan.
Susan
Leave now, while you can!
Susan
How could you be so stupid as to ring the doorbell, Bryan?
Bryan
What are you talking about?
Susan
Mama’s hungry and you just rang the dinner bell!
Bryan
Are you threatening me?
Susan
I’m not the threat to you.
Susan
The cure would have to be administered precisely.
Susan
NOT BY RINGING THE BELL
Bryan
I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Susan
Danny just texted me — someone’s at the door.
Bryan
I’m just turning into your neighborhood now.
Bryan
There’s a plumber truck parked in front of your house.
Mom’s call to the plumber, Bill, goes unanswered.
She then texts Bill instead.]
Susan
Are you working alone today?
Susan
Dr. Susan Winchester.
Susan
You’re at my house.
Susan
My son is home sick and I don’t want him to be overwhelmed.
Bill
Listen, lady. I made this appointment with your husband.
Bill
He texted me last night. Told me to be here now.
Bill
Don’t worry your pretty little head about it.
Susan
Change of plans. We’ll rebook.
Bill
Now you prob don’t understand this, but let me explain.
Bill
That upstairs bathroom is leaking.
Bill
It’s costing you a buttload of money.
Susan
My son has the flu and needs to rest.
Bill
He’s coming to the door.
Bill
I deal with literal shit on a daily basis.
Bill
Point is, I’ll take my chances on your kid’s bug.
Susan
You don’t understand.
Bill
He’s opening the door now.
Bill
Be in and out before you know it.
Moving jerkily, Danny opens the door.
Bill steps inside and speaks to Danny.
Bill
It’s awfully dark in here, son.
Danny steps back, body moving like a marionette doll.
Bill
What happened to your face?
Bill scowls in the shadows at Danny. Something stirs at his feet.
Bill
Ugh! Looks like you need an exterminator in here, too.
Bill stomps on a spider, squashing it with his heel.
A garbled noise erupts from Danny as his mouth stretches open, wider and wider.
A text comes in from Mom to Danny.
Mom
Please answer me, Danny.
Danny
Mom? Mom, this is bad.
Danny
OMG, Mom. What did I do?
Mom
Danny, it’s going to be okay.
Mom
Tell me what happened.
Mom
Whatever it was, it wasn’t your fault.
Danny
I was there, sort of, fighting.
Danny
The plumber came in.
Danny
He stepped on one of my babies.
Danny
WTF is happening to me?
Mom
Just take me through it.
Mom
I have what I need to help you now.
Mom
I’m in a taxi. I’m on my way.
Danny
My legs were twitching.
Danny
It felt like knives were in my throat.
Danny
Blood. There is so much blood.
Danny
No! It’s not…my blood.
Danny
My mouth is filled with webs, Mom.
Danny
That hole in my cheek. It’s gone.
Danny
It’s filled in with webs.
Mom
Mama’s taking care of you.
Danny
I think I’m losing my mind.
Danny
The plumber guy is dying.
Danny
The spiders, they just came out of everywhere.
Mom
Are you sure he’s dying?
Mom
How can you be positive?
Danny
BECAUSE I FUCKING ATE HIM, MOM
Danny
His blood. I drank his blood!
Danny
I didn’t want to, but this THING came out of my mouth.
Danny
It latched onto his neck.
Danny
Even though it was still inside my mouth.
Danny
I didn’t want to do it, but it made me swallow the blood.
Mom
She’s trying to keep you strong.
Mom
She’s trying to take care of you.
Danny
Are you making fucking excuses for a goddamned spider?
Danny
You are so fucked up.
Danny
Mopsie. I see Mopsie. What’s left of her.
Danny
She’s in a bundle of webs at my feet.
Danny
The spiders are working on the plumber.
Danny
He’s going all flat, like Mopsie.
Danny
They’re like making him a mummy.
Danny
Dragging him to the corner behind the couch.
Danny
There are millions of them.
Danny
Are you fucking kidding me?
Danny
You’re correcting my count?
Mom
It’s important for a scientist to be precise.
Mom
What else do you see?
Danny
They have webs covering the door now.
Danny
Did they know the plumber was coming?
Mom
Of course not. I tried to stop him.
Danny
How will you come in now?
Mom
I’ll figure it out. What else do you see?
Danny
White pieces everywhere around me.
Danny
Teeth! They’re my teeth!
Danny
What’s happening, Mom?
Mom
I told you that we combined DNA of several arachnid species.
Mom
Including funnel spiders.
Mom
Mama is a funnel spider.
Mom
Funnel spiders back into a cave-like space.
Mom
When prey is nearby, they shoot out with tremendous force.
Danny
So my throat’s the cave.
Danny
And my teeth are what?
Mom
Sacrifices must be made.
Danny
They’re gathering again.
Danny
Mom, something’s happening!
Danny
The spiders around me, they’re all shaking.
Danny
Splitting. Their backs are cracking open.
Danny
My throat is closing — I can’t raise my arms.
Danny
Legs are poking out of my teeth.
Danny
Where my teeth were.
Mom
I love you more than anything in this world.
Danny
Legs wiggling down into my stomach.
Mom
I can still save you.
Mom
But I have to talk with Mama.
Mom
Stop fighting, Danny.
