Episode 27

## Day 9

Conrad Hearty, trenchcoat in hand and very nude, is thrown to the side by Cuppy. He reaches out to choke out Cuppy, as the man’s emerging tentacles reach out toward him.

Outside, Robin arrives with the bale of hay and rope and enters the house with Remy (upon them hearing a thump from upstairs). PT remains outside, shotgun pointed at the front door, still attached to his IV.

Conrad’s fingers slip into the goo of Cuppy’s neck. Cuppy’s tentacles come in for a full swipe, and though Conrad tries to maneuver away, he gets hit by two of them and knocked to the ground. Conrad punches straight through Cuppy’s gooey jaw.

Robin begins to pack hay against one of the corners of the house and tells Remy to get Conrad the heck out of there. PT brings up the rear.

Conrad follows his punch with a second one, straight through his jaw and into his skull, attempting to knock the eyes out of his head. The whole top of Cuppy’s head pulls away with the force of Conrad’s punch. Cuppy throws out his tentacles in a backhand, and Conrad dives to the ground and rolls out of his way.

Remy reaches the top of the stairs and hears a small child crying in another room. She asks Robin to check on the child. PT stays downstairs with the bale of hay and Robin’s lighter, Robin having instructed him to light the hay bale if he hears them die.

Remy reaches the room, kicking in the door as she screams and waves her baseball bat. Conrad grabs a lamp, unplugs it from the wall, and dodge rolls toward Remy, yelling at her to switch places with him. Remy swings her souped-up baseball bat high, ready to strike, and runs toward the Cuppy beast. Conrad manages to dodge the downward slap of a tentacle. Another tentacle slaps down toward Remy and she blasts it with her souped-up baseball bat. Remy brings her baseball bat down on the part of Cuppy where his head used to be, crushing up his squishy torso.

Robin reaches the top of the stairs and runs toward the room with the crying child. The door is closed. He cautiously opens it, finding a little kid’s bedroom painted a light blue with clouds and the word “Guppy” in cute lettering.

Conrad plugs in the lamp and jabs it into Cuppy’s body, yelling “For topsy!” In a cartoonish manner, it electrocutes Cuppy, showing his deformed skeleton. His flailing tentacles drop limply to the ground.

Robin looks in upon a crying Guppy, cracking open the door some more. Robin asks him if he is alright, and Guppy replies that his older brother is sick. Robin asks if Guppy is sick, and Guppy replies that his brother gave him some hugs.

PT hears the crying stop and hears Robin’s voice and heads toward it.

Conrad investigates the bedside table, finding a 9 mm revolver with one bullet in the chamber.

PT arrives at the room with Robin and Guppy, and the others gather in the hallway behind them. Guppy says “hi PP.” Remy gives him a cup of slightly bloodied water, and he drinks it. He complains of tummy pains. Conrad slings the boy over his shoulder and takes him to the kitchen for some juice. PT, Remy and Robin arrive at the basement door, which is padlocked. PT immediately blasts it with his shotgun.

Conrad opens the icebox to find some ice cubes, some wrapped up meats, and a tray of vials. There are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet vials. Conrad plucks a red and a yellow vial. He gives the kid the red vial, grabs the yellow one, and they down the vials.

Remy and Robin begin to head down the stairs, PT close behind. He picks up his IV on its wheels and juggles it with the shotgun as they head down. They reach the bottom of the stairs and Remy pulls the string attached to a dangling light bulb. It turns on several lights in the basement, and they see two long metal tables piled with weird science vials and tubes. Remy investigates the equipment, finding it to be some kind of chemistry experiment. PT clasps the edge of some of the glassware and begins to have a vision. He sees himself in the same room, though everything is in black and white. Papa and Cuppy Gimble are having a discussion, the gist of which is that Papa Gimble is trying to help his carrots grow better than the Broccolis’ potatoes. A bit of a scuffle occurs, and Papa Gimble smashes his hand on one of the vials. He asks Cuppy for his notebook, which he begins to scribble in.

Conrad downs a blue vial, passing an orange one to Guppy.

PT finds the notebook from his vision on one of the tables. He recounts his vision to the other two. Remy laments that her father isn’t there, as he was skilled in chemistry. As PT begins to reminisce, Remy heads up the stairs, sulking. PT proclaims that he is proud of Remy. She heads toward the kitchen.

Robin and PT are reading through the notebook. They find a description of the cure, noting that it is in a red vial. PT remembers seeing colored vials in the icebox upstairs. They head up to the kitchen.

Everyone arrives in the kitchen, as Conrad is rifling through the vials. The small child says that he is feeling better, and as PT gestures for Guppy to come his way, and Conrad grabs him. Guppy collapses in Conrad’s arms. Guppy is dead. PT and Robin recall that the red formula is the cure, the orange one is sudden death, the blue one is the infection, and the yellow one means one will puke blood. Conrad downs the violet vial, attempting to grab the green one, which Remy swats out of his hand. Conrad feels himself grow stronger from the effects of the violet vial.

Robin finds the instructions for the red vialed cure, but Remy realizes that the chemistry is too complicated for her and PT. Robin heads out in the truck to find Blood and utilize his skills. PT picks up the child’s body and heads for the backyard to dig a grave. Remy heads to the basement to search for red vials, but finds none. She and Conrad assist with the grave-digging.

Robin reaches Blood and brings him back to the farm. Blood insists that they put Conrad on ice because he doesn’t have long enough to survive without the cure. They all pack the chemistry materials and equipment into the car.