WARNING: The following contains spoilers for The Stand Episode 3, "Blank Pages," now streaming on CBS All Access.
As The Stand closes out its first act, the miniseries adaptation of Stephen King's classic novel sheds further light on the leaders of the survivors in Boulder, Colorado, and how they first met in "Blank Pages." And while this ensemble begins to rebuild civilization from their new home, the nefarious Randall Flagg makes his first major moves directly against them as the war between good and evil starts taking shape.
A flashback in "Blank Pages" shows a young Nadine Cross in an orphanage being asked to play with a Ouija board's planchette, fitted with a pencil, to receive a message from the ether. As soon as Nadine touches the planchette, it writes her name on the paper before fully taking a mind of its own and carving a message in the wooden floor proclaiming that something will make the girl its queen, much to the horror of everyone present. The young Nadine then receives a glowing red stone matching the one Flagg gave Lloyd Henreid after freeing him from jail in The Stand's second episode.
Distant gunshots from a hunting party consisting of Larry Underwood and Stu Redman soon wake up Nadine in the present day. As the unsuccessful hunters return home, they are nearly run down by a sports car driven by a man from Las Vegas, bleeding profusely from crucifixion wounds. Before passing out from blood loss, the man warns the two that someone is coming for them and their Colorado community of survivors.
As Nadine prepares to lead Boulder's school, flashbacks reveal how she and Larry met. When she was still on the road, Nadine stopped Joe from attacking Larry with a knife. After Joe stands down, the three link up, and Nadine reveals she picked up the silent young boy just outside of Scranton, while Larry is following messages left by Harold Lauder.
In the present, Larry and Stu take the crucified man to Boulder's medical facilities for treatment, where the pregnant Frannie Goldsmith is being examined. Flashbacks reveal her first meeting with Stu, as she and distrustful Harold have a tense meeting with him before they separate. For their part, Frannie and Harold heads towards Atlanta, while Stu goes west, planning to get to California before winter hits.
As a frustrated Stu confers with Nick Andros over the ominous warning they just received from the man from Las Vegas, Nick recalls how he was passing through a small town as a drifter looking for work just before Captain Trips struck. Nick, who is deaf, accidentally incurs the wrath of a barfly, who blinded him in a bar fight with his ring. As Nick recovers in a nearby hospital, he has a vision of Flagg tempting him with an offer to join him in exchange for his hearing, voice and restored sight. Nick resolutely refuses and awakens in a hospital in the aftermath of the pandemic, caring for the man who blinded him in his final hours before receiving a vision of Mother Abagail, who bids him to join her in Colorado and serve as her voice for her planned community of survivors.
Additional flashbacks show other meetings as the characters continue to make their way towards Boulder. Stu meets a retired college professor named Glen Bateman, who is accompanied by his loyal golden retriever. Commiserating over their lost wives, Glen reveals he had the same dream as Stu of Mother Abagail bidding him to join her in Boulder before noting he had a vision of Frannie's pregnancy. Nick, for his part, has another fateful meeting before leaving for Boulder, as he encounters Tom Cullen. The two have a communications breakdown, with Nick unable to speak and Tom unable to read written word or sign language. However, Nick reads Tom's lips and realizes he also had a vision of Abagail.
In The Stand's present, Boulder's ruling committee debates its next steps in the wake of the crucified man's warning. Soon, though, Abagail arrives to hear from the man herself. Describing Flagg and his sinister community of survivors in Las Vegas, complete with slaves and crucifixions, the man's wounds horrifically reopen and he is possessed by Flagg, who declares he will blow up the community Abagail has rallied around her. The man then succumbs to his wounds, who Harold later buries. Finally, as the episode wraps up, Nadine receives a vision from Flagg bidding her to work with Harold to kill Abagail and her chosen leaders at Boulder.
With virtually all of Boulder's leaders now introduced, the coming showdown against Flagg is now on the horizon. But while Boulder ponders the ominous messages from the personification of evil, Flagg is already one step ahead of them, with a sleeper agent in the community's midst, groomed since she was a child for destruction.
The Stand stars Alexander Skarsgård as Randall Flagg, Whoopi Goldberg as Mother Abagail, James Marsden as Stu Redman, Odessa Young as Frannie Goldsmith, Jovan Adepo as Larry Underwood, Amber Heard as Nadine Cross, Owen Teague as Harold Lauder, Henry Zaga as Nick Andros, Brad William Henke as Tom Cullen, Irene Bedard as Ray Bretner, Nat Wolff as Lloyd Henreid, Eion Bailey as Weizak, Heather Graham as Rita Blakemoor, Katherine McNamara as Julie Lawry, Fiona Dourif as Ratwoman, Natalie Martinez as Dayna Jurgens, Hamish Linklater as Dr. Jim Ellis, Daniel Sunjata as Cobb and Greg Kinnear as Glen Bateman. The Stand releases new episodes Thursdays on CBS All Access.
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