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Episode 8 - Cauterize

July 4th, 2026

LAURYN: Ready to go?~ LOWE: Doesn't get much better. REED: Can someone let me in? Please? LOWE: Do you have a backstage pass? REED: Uh, no. LOWE: Okay, good, hate those guys. Come in. LAURYN [thinking]: Not funny
LOWE: What's your deal? REED: Here to see a band. LOWE: Uh huh. REED: Not yours, though, some other one right after. LOWE: Alright man.
ROLLER: Okay WEIRDOS. Let's go. REED: Damn, really? I just got here. LOWE: Oh, hush. Go sit in the audience.
REED: ... MYLA: Isn't Lauryn sooo cuute? REED: I'm gonna call my sister. NOELLE: Yo. REED: Where are you? NOELLE: My couch. Razzle still isn't home. REED: You're home?
REED: I thought you'd be at, like, a police station. Or Areca's guest bedroom... NOELLE: No. There are a few reasons I can't talk to the police. REED: Why not. Whatever's going on seems really, really bad. NOELLE: I don't wanna talk about it...
REED: OK. But... the faster you tell us what's up, the better, okay...? NOELLE: I KNOW. I WILL WHEN I'M READY. Be there soon. RUTH: ...
NOELLE: Where were you. RUTH: Been at work! Lots to do! For the landlord! NOELLE: OK. RUTH: Replacing water pipes. And stuff ! What... you don't believe me...?
NOELLE: You have no idea how much I want to. RUTH: Can't you just trust me...? NOELLE: I... I want to. I want to pretend none of this happened.
NOELLE: It's like everything changed in a day. I miss two days ago. I miss when you were just my weird girlfriend. When the scariest thing about you was that you never stopped smiling. Ruth...
[SCRITCH...] NOELLE: ... There's blood on your face.
RUTH: UUAH! WHERE?! I GOTTA CLEAN IT! NOELLE: Reed thinks I should go to the police about you. RUTH: YOU / YOU
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