With episode six ofCastle Rockwe get the sound.
Next comes the fury.
Meet Odin Branch (C.J.
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Odin is the older, more wizened member of the duo.
Hes also deaf, and Willie is his fast-talking translator.
They offer an explanation of what it actually is a discordance in the time-space continuum, of sorts.
A clash between alternate universes that leaves an audible trace as the universe reckons with the collision.
(More on that later.)
But to Odin, this phenomenon he calls it the schisma is not supernatural.
Best I can tell, schisma is actually nanoscale turbulences because of quantum totalities upbraiding in parallel.
Other years, other nows.
All possible pasts, all possible presents.
Schisma is the sound of the universe trying to reconcile that.
Henry gives him the same look you have right now.
To some listeners, schisma sounds like ringing in the ears.
You ever have that, Henry?
Of course, we know he does.
And now we know what it is.
And this may explain why Castle Rock is the source of so much malevolence and chaos.
It exists on the shore of this raging sea of cosmic disturbance.
Your father called it The Voice of God, Odin tells Henry.
Most people cant hear it at all.
Some hear it once and never again.
A lucky few hear it constantly, are practically deafened by it.
There are variations, naturally.
Its quiet in some places.
Much louder in others.
To steal a line from Hamilton: Who the eff is this?
Odin admits right away that he was an associate of Henrys father from back in the day.
Like the schisma, they were there only for those who were looking.
And theyve built something, based on the guidance Henrys dead father got from this voice of God.
But this is how the episode concludes.
It begins not with an uncovering, but with a burial.
The body of Henrys father is returned to a cemetery in Castle Rock.
No one is there to say goodbye except the dead mans son.
We will not all sleep.
But we will all be changed.
Later, Molly sees the same vision of him outside her office window, watching her.
He has a mission for Alan Pangborn: Recover the car that Warden Lacy used to commit suicide.
But the vehicle has been sold to a junkyard in Syracuse.
Then you go to Syracuse, the man tells him.
I cant explain in words youd understand.
Try me, Pangborn says.
Time is her enemy, sheriff, the man says.
But he goes anyway.
Continued on next page … One of them dive-bombs and kills itself on the ground beside Henry.
Thats a good omen, sometimes.
One of the hospital workers says, Second time this week.
So … maybe its not the doing of the mystery man?
(He was five.)
Why didnt they have their own kid?
They lost a baby.
Guess they didnt want to go down that road again.
What were they like, your real parents?
Henry says something that would truly warm the heart of anyone who is an adoptive mother and father.
Grandma and grandpa are my real parents.
See you in the morning.
That evening, Henry asks his mother why his father was always having him hike through the woods.
He ever talk about hearing a sound out there?
How would I know something like that?
She confirms she did, and that her psychic abilities allowed her to feel she was out with them.
You hated him, Henry.
I told you that?
You didnt have to.
I was in the woods the night you disappeared.
I was with you.
And then … Relieved, she says.
Back at home, Wendell is bonding with grandma and trying to get to the bottom of her dementia.
Time used to go forward.
I just brought your father home from foster care.
Now youre here, she says.
It sounds as though she is unstuck in time, like Vonneguts Billy Pilgrim.
Other years, other nows.
All possible pasts, all possible presents.
Schisma is the sound of the universe trying to reconcile that, as Odin said.
She explains why she hides chess pieces around her house.
Its a coping mechanism.
If I find a chess piece in the icebox, I know its now, not then.
And I can find my way out of the woods.
Severe damage has been done, and some inmates are on the loose.
Later that evening, the mystery man enters Ruth Deavers kitchen as she is picking up fallen pills.
We dont see what happens next.
This is when the episode cuts to Henry finding Odin and Willie in the woods.
Its a soundproof room inside their mobile home.
This gives the episode its title: The Filter.
Perhaps the only total silence on earth.
All noise, cleansed.
Whats left is the schisma, Odin says.
What you hear now is just a rumor.
What youll hear in the filter is truth.
As Henry reluctantly steps inside, Odin explains that silence is why I corrected myself.
Young Willie will be corrected, too.
Heres where these two reveal a darker and more twisted side.
You … made yourself deaf?
Henry asks, horror washing over him.
Not deaf, Odin says, looking utterly demented.
Back at the Deaver house, Pangborn finds the mystery man sitting on the front steps.
He says he is having the Wardens car delivered the next day.
Then they can begin fixing Ruth, as the mystery man promised.
Or … perhaps not.
There will be a monument to Warden Lacy, the man says flatly.
And to everyone who helped put me in that cage.
He is bleeding badly from his right hand.
You said youd help her.
Why would you say that?
Why would you leave me in that trunk, sheriff?
Inside the house, there is a skipping record.
The home is totally destroyed.
Castle Rock may be heading for the same.
