"Head Like A Hole"

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**"Head Like A Hole"** is the fourth episode of KOllOK 1991: Bleach

## Synopsis

Tibby tries to make up for the damage that he's done. And the Radar meets a familiar person.

## Plot

The episode begins at Kollok High, home of the Phoenixes. It's late. School begins next week. It's Faun's favorite time to frequent the halls. It's silent. Empty. Comforting. The warmth she feels when trespassing is a sharp contrast to the anxiety she feels when school is in session. Faun Concord heads to the girl's bathroom, East Hall. The bathroom is stool clean. Sterile. She begins to panic, and checks to see if her weed is still in its hiding place. She lets out an expletive when the desired object is not found, as a broom bounces off the floor and she hears whistling down the hall. She hides in the last stall, her feet up.

"You won't find what you're looking for," Lucky, the night janitor says. "I smoked it."

The janitor is standing in the door in his blue overalls, holding the door open. He allays Faun's nervousness by telling her she's not in any trouble. He tells her that he feels bad about smoking the pot, and he's been waiting for the owner to return. Despite her better judgement, she engages with the janitor, upset about her missing stash. The janitor offers to make it up to her. He doesn't have any money, but he offers her a drug.

"Do you know what it's like to be pulled under, twist in the jaws of a crocodile?" he asks.

He pulls a watermelon from the soapy water of his mop bucket. He thrusts his hands inside and produces a baggie with five pills in it. He says that it is all natural. Not a chemical in it. The essence of God, in all her glory. When she asks what the peak feels like, the janitor places the bag in her hand and says "like reclaiming your place up among the stars". The bag has a sticker of a crocodile and red apple. The pills are chalky and smell like pork.

The sound of whistling down the hall redirects her attention. The janitor is moving along his way. She looks at the bag, and the pills are glowing. There are only four capsules in the bag. She feels an expansion. She feels like every fiber of her body have been dismantled. Her nerve endings, like rivers, flowing through the valleys of the universe. Sink. She doesn't know if her vision is working as she is pulled down. It's dark and warm. Everything is discolored and out-of-focus. She sees the world as it is. Barriers. She chooses doors. It opens. She's in the gymnasium. It opens. She's in the hall. Is she moving? Or are they? A door. The janitor's closet. Lucky is holding her hand.

"Sink or Swim," he says. Is it a question? Her eyelids are the doors. She blinks and everything changes, like changing a channel. There's a rock hurtling through space, reaching out to her. Lucky squeezes her hand. It should hurt, but her hand is soft. Viscous. Like liquid.

"Reclaim," Lucky says. "The deal is off. The contract void. Rejoice for your return. Eternal. Sink."

Lucky takes two large metal spatulas and scrapes the pile of bubbling flesh on the floor of the girl's bathroom into his bucket's dirty, soapy water. He takes the bucket across the parking lot to the old wood furnace room. He opens the metal door into the floor, used for wood storage. For Lucky, inside is a set of stairs that appear to go on forever with a warm, red glow. Lucky doesn't dare to traverse the stairs. He lazily, pushes the bucket over with his boot, allowing the contents to go back for whence they came.

8-9PM. Thursday, August 1st, 1991. Kollok, Washington. The Kollok Radar wonder where police are. Why have the sirens stopped? Tibby's acts of healing are not on the Portland news. Neither is the loss of a police officer and Kollok's sheriff. Everything outside of Mallory's house is normal.

Tibby asks what the plan is. They plan to break into the morgue and heal the police officer that Tibby killed. If there was no dead officer, Tibby's name will be cleared. They discuss what they will say and do once Tibby revives the officer. The conversation switches to whether or not they should wear disguises, but they shift to explaining what happened in the tunnel to Mallory. Tibby suggests that the drugs might be making people into pounds of flesh for contracts.

The conversation eventually comes back to disguises. It comes up that Em Pegg's mom is Mallory's therapist while Mallory is upstairs looking for a disguise. The other members of the radar then want to steal copies of her mom's notes. It also comes up that Em's parents know about their powers.

Laura Bennett dresses up in one of Mearl Jenkins' suits. And Billy uses his power to give Mallory's car a new paint job, fuzzy dice, and a skull hood ornament. Billy does not change or obscure the license plate, however. When Mallory sees the changes to his car, he's impressed. Mickey is mad because Billy just killed a universe. Mallory asks if it was just like the Teens in Space stuff. It comes out that the Teens in Space sessions were normal and everyone just acted like Billy was changing things. But for Mallory, it all seemed real. Tibby tries to punch Billy, but Billy ducks. Mickey and Em both punch Billy in the arm.

Laura drives the car to the morgue, on the opposite side of town. They arrive and there are no lights on. The knock at the door, and Baily Mickey is surprised by its sound. He is downstairs. He tells his "friends", the inhabitants of the morgue, that he will be with them in just a moment. A voice asks him who would be visiting him this late. It is the voice of Darla, the assistant he murdered brutally. They argue. He tells her to "shut up", and she disappears.

Baily opens the door and sees a group of young individuals. He notices Billy and Mickey. Billy also recognizes Baily. As Billy tries to warn Mickey, Mickey changes egos. She's tired and doesn't know where she is. Mickey recognizes Baily. Laura introduces herself as Dr. Laura Benjamin from Frightened Right, trying to convince Baily that she is there to frighten teen delinquents into being good. Billy squashes this claim by saying that they know the mortician. Billy says that they need something from the morgue and Baily is going to cooperate with them because they know he killed his assistant, a surprise to over half of the Radar.

Baily explains that he thought that he killed a bunch of people, and he was trying to keep his assistant quiet. Darla says that he told their therapist that it was Billy's fault, but Baily shushes her. No one else can see or hear her. Darla reminds him that he wanted to hit Billy with a shovel, like he killed her. Billy threatens to call the police if Baily doesn't let them in and revive someone. Baily wants to know what they mean by "revive". Billy reminds him how he and Mickey were dead and then weren't, and says they are going to do something like that. Billy then threatens Baily again until Tibby realizes that the police must have let him go in the first place.

Baily takes exception when Laura calls him crazy. He hates that word. He says that he is fine. He was checked out of the mental ward and a clean bill of health from the doctor. Darla says to tell them why he was checked out. Baily shushes her again. He explains that the FBI collected him and took him to the psych ward. While he was there, they kept on letting people out. They may, or may not, have been okay, but they just let them go. Baily was the last one there and then they let him go. Baily questioned the decision, unsure if he was cured, but they let him go anyway.

It is hinted at that Baily may have been crazy before Darla's murder. The word "crazy" sets Baily off again, and says his grandmother was the crazy one. He retells the story of how she told him that the dead walked Kollok. How his father was dead. He came back missing a finger and his sanity. Tibby asks him how it is doing his job after getting out of the psych ward. He says that he is fine, and that he has lovely conversations with his company. Darla tells him to show them his pictures. Baily decides to do it despite Darla's sarcasm. He shows them photos of himself mock-killing the corpses in his charge. He says that working helps keep the voices and "stabby" feelings away.

When the Radar suggests that they have voices like Baily does, he invites them into the morgue. Before they step inside, Baily wants to go over what they mean by "revive". Darla thinks it's crazy, like how Billy said he had the power to change the world. She reminds him that on his second session he should he would wring his throat if he saw him again. Billy says that the they have a faith healer, and Tibby goes along saying that he is their "lord and savior". Mallory convinces Baily that Tibby can absolve him of his sins. Billy refers to Tibby as Daddy and the name sticks.

The Radar tells Baily that they can only revive deserving people when Baily mentions there are things that he wants to try with Tibby's power.

The Radar follows Baily into the basement of the morgue. Mickey takes Tibby aside to speak with him. She tells him that she's having trouble remembering how she got to the morgue. She felt like she hasn't slept, but when she does she's having strange dreams. She still doesn't remember how she got her legs. She had a dream about the Mickey from Prime A came to their universe, but she thinks it was a hallucination from the lake. She asks if she's been weird, and Tibby says that she seemed normal. Mickey says that she must've blacked out due to the exhaustion. Tibby helps fill in some of the gaps.

As Baily gives them the tour of his "dungeon", he reveals that no one comes to see the bodies in the morgue. They convince Baily that they have to revive the officer quickly or he might die. Darla reminds him of how he wants to slash all their pretty little faces. Ignoring her, he looks up Officer Christian Caleb, the policeman Tibby killed. Baily finds the body, and then they argue on whether or not he can film the reviving process. Billy has Baily fill out some paperwork for the filming, as Tibby secretly revives the officer. The officer's body looks like everything bad that could happen, happened to the man. Tibby realizes how many people that he's going to have to hurt to heal him. Tibby begins to cry, but the work is done.

The officer jumps off the table he was on and wraps a sheet around him. The officer is confused. Em asks him the last thing he remembers. He says that he saw a dragon floating over the lake and it attacked him. They try to explain that fracking caused hallucinations. Baily starts to step in and explain, but Darla keeps talking to him and he backs off. Tibby confesses that he was responsible for hurting him, but he came to fix him. He apologizes and says that he isn't sure what happened. Laura tells the officer that he has a brain aneurysm due to fracking gases.

The officer insists that he needs to contact the sheriff. There is then a knock at the door. Baily goes to answer the door. Sheriff Cody Bull greets Baily. Bull says that he came on a call; he heard their were teens in his basement and he needs to give them something. Baily leads him into the basement. Bull winks at Mickey, but when she looks confused, he is confused himself. He tells Officer Caleb to put some clothes on.

Billy immediately says that they watched him die and asks what is going on. He uses his premonition power to see if there is any "bullshit". Everything looks normal, except for Mickey. Sheriff Bull says it was hard to believe all the things that Tibby was saying at the station, but after he saw the tape he believed. Bull holds up Kenny's (the reporter) VHS recorder. Blood is strewn across it. Bull says that he doesn't like messes, and he doesn't like getting dirty. He doesn't like waking up in dirty tunnels. He likes to keep things simple. But he says that he has things handled. The Radar try to clarify if Kenny is dead, but Bull won't answer the question directly. He simply says that it's handled, and he doesn't want to make them accomplices in his mess.

Baily asks Bull if he was dead. Bull puts a hand on Baily's shoulder and rubs it aggressively. He says that Darla was a friend of his, and for Baily to tell her hello. When Billy starts to say something, Bull says that he knows that Darla is dead.

Sheriff Bull says that he was able to clean up the reporter mess, but he cannot clean up something that people have seen with their own eyes. Bull wants to keep Kollok safe, and if they become a problem, he will clean up their mess as well. Mallory asks if he was the one that broke into his house, but Bull denies it. Bull announces a plan to deal with the people at the hospital seeing him heal people. Tibby is going to be a "Gift from God". The town of Kollok will need a new voice, and Tibby will be that voice.

Mallory tries to convince Bull that Tibby shouldn't be forced into this role. The Radar tries to come up with an excuse for Tibby's miraculous healing, as Sheriff Bull humors them. In an attempt to free Tibby from his new responsibilities and come full circle back to the sheriff's plan.

Bull humors them again and let them ask some questions. They ask about his death and what the pill did to him. Baily asks if he really died. It upsets Bull that Baily is still around, and he tells the mortician to go take some more pictures of dead people. Baily starts thinking that nothing matters if Tibby can bring people back. It's like murder doesn't matter. When Baily goes on a rant, the sheriff says that he's probably just hearing voices again. Baily asks how he knows about that, and the sheriff says that Darla told him. Darla tells Baily that she doesn't just talk to him. Bull asks Baily to thank Darla for the pumpkin pie she brought by last week. Bull orders Baily to go to the corner, which he does to have a talk with Darla, but she won't answer.

Bull tells them that he told them what is going on as a courtesy and so they didn't do anything stupid. They will, as he orders, go back to normal. He'll ignore his own untimely demise for normal, and call it even since they brought back Officer Caleb. The Radar asks to leave and Bull tells them to go home. He says Tibby will know what to do when the time is right. He says that he'll deal with the water issue.

They leave the building. Along the way Laura mentions that Bull said that they weren't involved with the water, so the incident couldn't have been Billy's fault, which was weighing heavily on his mind. As they get closer to Mallory's car, they see Baily Mickey sitting in it. Baily repeats that "nothing matters" and that the "dead walk Kollok". Tibby notices that Baily is holding a knife. Baily says that he could kill any of them and they'd just pop back to life. He's says that he doesn't want to kill Tibby. Billy confirms that Baily wants to kill him, which sends Baily into a tirade about hos Billy ruined his life.

They try to calm Baily. Darla starts speaking to Baily again, saying he takes the pictures to avoid killing anyone. The Radar tries to walk away, but Baily tells Billy not to move. Mallory uses his ability to annoy people to pull the attention away from Billy. He tells Baily that his pictures suck and that his technique is all wrong. Billy slips away as Mallory lambasts him. Baily directs his anger at Mallory, and attempts to stab him. Em uses her power. She has barely used her power, so she can only freeze time for two seconds. Em pushes Baily, and he flies against the car, somehow stabbing himself. The knife is now stuck in his rib cage.

Baily calls out to Daddy (Tibby) for help. Billy agrees to stay behind, and he'll call an ambulance. He tells the others to go. They agree. Billy goes inside to make the call, but the line is cut. Sheriff Bull and Officer Caleb are missing. He is instead greeted by the red-haired man in a red suit. The Man in Red takes out a small bag, takes out a single blonde hair, and smells it. Billy asks the man to help Baily. The man says he knows a lot about taking things apart. He says that he's been looking for Billy for so long. When asked about Undecided, the man says that's not the only place where they call him the Diviner. The Man in Red informs Billy that he hired him. He says they aren't like him. They're so boring. So normal. They said that Billy Prime was special, but he didn't know until he first smelled him. Billy is so close to the "source".

The Man in Red says that he'll help Baily, but Billy doesn't trust him. The man asks why Billy wouldn't trust him when Billy was the one that sent him to find himself.

"That's right they're different, aren't they?" the man says. "They aren't really you,.. some of them call you a pretender."

Billy agrees to that.

"Fake," the man says. "You're just as much Billy as the other one. And the one before that."

Billy asks what that means, but the man just says he's been chasing him for so long. Billy blinks and the Man in Red is behind him. He puts a bag over Billy's head.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Aabria Iynegar as Laura Bennett
* Lucas Eubank as Billy Baker
* Matt Sohinki as Mallory Jenkins
* Mika Midgett as Embeth Pegg
* Shelby "Shubble" Grace as Mickey Jones
* Zac Lim Eubank as The Driver

### Guests

* John "Jacksfilms" Douglass as Baily Mickey

## Rumors

1. Twist
2. Sink
3. Open (winner)
4. Burn

## Notes

Some interesting things about this episode, or the making of this episode...

'**Footnotes'**

1. ↑ Jack rolls a critical success against Sohinki. Both use their token, making it still a critical success. Bailey's intent is to kill Mallory, and Sohinki gets to narrate it.
2. ↑ Jack critically fails his flight.