[ Dramatic music plays ]
[ Panting ]
Oh, I can't breathe.
I can't breathe.
My boy.
Those eyes.
Oh, I would recognize them right away.
You look like...
Oh, my baby.
Sweet, sweet little boy.
[ Laughs ]
You're alive.
I knew you were. I could feel it.
You know, they told me to give up,
but I knew that you'd come back one day.
I knew it. My intuition is never wrong.
Ma, all right.
- Hi. - Hey.
Theo.
It's your brother.
Yeah, I know. Hi.
Hi.
This is a little bit...
- It's weird, yeah. - Yeah.
This is O'Keefe, our sibling.
Hi.
[ Dramatic music plays ]
I don't know if you remember me.
I'm your uncle Seamus.
Sorry, it's a bit fuzzy, but...
Of course. Of course.
W-Where's Spencer? [ Clears throat ]
Oh, he's back at the house.
God, he's gonna totally freak out
when he sees that you're here.
He knows that I'm here.
He paid for my flight and everything.
- What? - Yeah, he found me a month ago.
And he didn't tell you guys?
A month?
He's known a month?
And he didn't say anything to me?
It was supposed to be some fucked-up surprise.
Fuck.
- THEO: Hey, Mom. - No, whoa, no.
- Let's just talk... - I mean, really? What... How?
Let's talk to him and see what's going on, okay?
Maybe Seamus is right. Maybe it's some kind of surprise.
I-I am so sorry to have to tell you this,
but Spencer is gone.
Gone? He left the island?
No, I...
I gave him his end-of-life medication.
What? Oh, my God.
No, that's not... What happened?
- I'm sorry. It was his request. - WOMAN: I don't get it.
Come on.
[ Somber music plays ]
GRACE: Get out of my way. Get out of my way.
[ Dramatic music plays ]
[ Crying ]
Daddy.
[ Crying ]
I'm sorry.
He didn't want anyone worrying while it happened.
I... I'm his wife.
I should have been here.
Instead, he died alone.
Just alone...
FLORENCE: He wasn't alone.
[ Sobbing ]
[ Somber music plays ]
I assure you,
his death was peaceful.
[ Sobbing ]
[ Somber music plays ]
[ Dramatic music plays ]
Hey, hey. It's okay.
Starting off the competition with his death,
it just... doesn't make sense.
Unless he wanted to show us all how serious he was
about giving all his money away.
[ Scoffs ] It's crazy, man.
I mean, why... why wouldn't he say goodbye?
Why wouldn't he say goodbye to me?
I just... I just don't get it.
- I know, honey. - SEAMUS: Oh, God, come on.
He didn't say goodbye to any of us.
Yeah, yeah, but Dad... Dad and I would always...
But what?
'Cause, like, maybe,
just maybe you being his golden boy
has nothing to do
with how he wanted to end his fucking life!
[ Dramatic music plays ]
- I mean, look at her. - Aww.
- She's such a kook. - Such a showoff.
I just... I... I don't know, I just knew she was the one.
- Wow. - Oh, man.
She says she feels like an outsider with everyone.
Oh, you and Christy are talking to her?
Yeah. I mean, she's shy, but we talk on FaceTime.
In fact, she's the one that corrected us
on the time difference.
We were off by like an hour.
[ Laughs ]
So she's got the smarts of a 20-year-old at 13.
That's amazing.
Ah, you know, I can't wait to get to be a real uncle
without the weird age thing with Theo and O'Keefe.
She's gonna love you.
Seriously.
Talked about you.
For real?
Of course, for real.
I can't wait to meet her.
When does... When does the adoption go through?
I mean, foreign adoptions are expensive.
We're talking like 50 grand.
You know you can always ask Dad.
SEAMUS: Dad's not gonna give it to us.
I already hit him up once for fertility treatment.
Plus, he cut my monthly to, like, nothing years ago
because of my [Clicks tongue] partying.
Yeah, but for something as great as this, I mean,
Dad will be all over it.
No.
I'm not in his good books.
No, no, no. You're gonna be a father now.
And once Dad sees how much this means to you,
I'm sure he'll come on your side.
And you know, in fact...
in fact, I'll make sure of it.
[ Somber music plays ]
- Yeah? - Yeah.
[ Somber music plays ]
Best brother a guy could ever ask for.
You know you can ask me for anything.
Anytime.
Straight up, man.
[ Tense music plays ]
JAYDEN: I'm sorry.
I was making this about myself.
You don't need to apologize.
No, we're all upset and shocked.
Now we have to go out there and play this ridiculous game
and pretend that paternoster isn't
up there lying alone in his bed.
Fuck it. I'm out.
DR. TRINH: Then you will be eliminated from the inheritance.
Spencer was strict about this, and I will be too.
Where's that will?
W-Why don't you all refuse to play?
Then you could just split it, right?
I mean, that would be the most fair.
THEO: Yeah, Grandpa thought of that too.
If no one plays, all the money and property
is rolled back into Galloway Shipping.
I will get nothing?
Zero.
At quick glance,
none of us will.
There's no way out of it.
We have to play.
I'm in.
Good. Good.
Because I'm ready and raring to go.
That's what he wanted. Who am I to stand in his way?
We're playing for Dad.
Really?
I'll play.
If we're all playing, then fine.
THEO: Fine, fuck.
For Spencer.
Last competition, and then none of us
will have to do this ever again.
[ Somber music plays ]
Oh, man.
This room is, like, exactly the same.
THEO: Yeah, Mom wouldn't let me change anything.
Even the smell.
THEO: So, you, uh... you recognize it?
VINCENT: Are you asking if I'm really Vincent?
I would be too.
I'm telling you the truth. I'm your brother.
Take this here.
I was obsessed with the family ghost.
Yeah, you were a pretty dark kid.
[ Vincent chuckles ]
So what happened, you know, that night?
You were there, man.
Uh...
I had a bag thrown over my head and I was taken away.
[ Dramatic music plays ]
A boat at first and then a truck, I think.
And when they took the sack off,
I was in a little room
in maybe a boarding house.
THEO: You must have been so scared.
Yeah.
So who were they?
What did they want?
I was just with them for a... for a couple weeks.
And after that?
My family,
the people I think of as my mom and my dad...
other side of the country.
It was like I was adopted
and no one would tell me anything about how.
And then, uh, I just forgot.
So who were they?
Did they buy you or some fucked-up thing like that?
They're good people.
I don't want to think about them that way.
Sorry, man.
No.
Look, I kind of forgot about my old life.
Blocked it out, I guess.
Like, even that I was a twin, right?
And then, boom, Spencer just finds me out of the blue
and all this comes rushing back.
[ Somber music plays ]
THEO: You know, not a single day went by
that I haven't thought of you.
Not one.
Or how...
how I let you down.
You were a kid, man.
We both were. What were we gonna do?
And, you know, this place is all nice and fancy and everything,
but my folks were good.
And I hate to say it, our mom seems more than a little nuts.
It sounds like our granddad was too.
Yeah. So you good to bunk here like a couple of kids again?
Yeah, dibs, bro.
Sure. [ Laughs ]
Where I come from, you don't want the bottom bunk.
- [ Bell clangs ] - DR. TRINH: 10-minute warning.
10-minute warning.
Last one there loses a million bucks.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
[ Chuckles ]
[ Tense music plays ]
Fun fact... Dr. Phil isn't an actual medical doctor,
and neither are you.
What do you want, Florence?
You, off the island pronto.
Well, I will be leaving Monday with the winner.
I don't expect it to be you.
How much are you making for killing my dad?
I'm the executor of his will,
and for that I get a standard 10%.
Mm, for tricking him into killing himself.
He was of sound mind when he presented me with his idea.
Prove it.
Assisted suicides require sign-offs from multiple doctors.
I'm one of three.
If you won't take my word for it, perhaps you'll take theirs.
Hmm, and what's their cut on this little scam of yours?
Typical consultation fee.
But I suppose that is a lot more than you're likely
to have after this weekend.
[ Dramatic music plays ]
There's my boy.
You know, you're just the same size as your brother,
but you feel so different.
Feel his shoulders, O'Keefe.
They're rock hard.
I'm good.
You know what? I'm, uh...
I'm gonna ask Theo, see if Spencer said anything,
any last words, that kind of... kind of thing.
Sure. Sure.
Mom, you're acting weird. You're freaking him out.
Oh, don't be so dramatic.
No, Granddad died, like, what?
An hour ago, maybe?
One second you're all like, "Oh, how could he do this to me?"
And then you're doing that,
you're grinning, and it's freaky.
Yes, because my son is back.
I am Leda and Melpomene.
I am comedy and tragedy.
- I am an artist. - Oh, Jesus.
I have multitudes living inside of me.
Okay, do I have to listen
to another God-awful spoken word piece?
You'll understand someday if you ever get out of
this jejune too-cool-for-feeling stage
and actually decide to have kids.
I'm a non-binary queer, mom.
We don't cut out our uteruses.
[ Tense music plays ]
I can't believe we're doing this.
You've got to get your head in the game.
Dad just died.
How far do you think a gold bar
and some baubles of jewelry are gonna take us?
I have gone through far too much to let our money
go to this garbage family.
- They're not garbage. - Oh, enough.
You think they'd defend you the way you defend them?
Man up and win this.
[ Somber music plays ]
Tough day.
This family, our mothers,
a lot of pent-up, repressed feelings.
Not a lot of room for us quieter voices.
Yeah.
You know you keep me sane, Theo.
Thank God you're here, man.
He was a great,
complicated man.
I'm gonna miss him a ton.
DR. TRINH: Everyone, it's time.
Follow me.
[ Dramatic music plays ]
VINCENT: So what the hell is this thing?
Oh, I see a brutalist gorgon,
each rope a snake,
representing a stage in Spencer's mortal journey.
Pick a rope, everyone.
And when I give the signal, climb up and stand on that knot.
SEAMUS: Until there's only one of us left?
There is no winner.
There is only a loser.
The first person who falls off their rope
is kicked out of the competition
and will not inherit anything from Spencer's estate.
Just a loser, huh?
That is so our dad.
Yeah, he always loved pointing out failure.
I, for one, plan on proving him wrong
and winning this Goddamn thing.
Uh, Doc, there's an extra rope.
Or is Dad's first big competition musical chairs?
It's for Liv.
FLORENCE: What are you talking about?
Live? But these competitions are for family only.
Liv is family.
She's like family.
Of course, we've always been magnanimous
and embraced our servants, but I mean real family.
She's actually biological family,
so yes, Liv is a Galloway.
No. I mean, my mother would have told me if...
Liv, honey. Shh, shh, shh, it's not true.
What's next, Dr. Trinh?
Homeopathy is a hoax?
What if it's true?
I want proof from a lab.
Do you have proof you're Spencer's daughter?
Of course I'm his daughter. How dare you?
Is there any way I'm not your child?
Please, world.
THEO: If Liv is a Galloway,
then she has every right to compete.
Get over here.
[ Dramatic music plays ]
[ Sighs ]
And I thought I was gonna be the big reveal.
Who's your dad?
I don't know.
The competition starts now.
Climb your ropes.
[ All grunting ]
This may look easy,
but we're barely above freezing.
Your hands will probably be the first to fail you
as they go numb.
[ Dramatic music plays ]
And there's one final present from Spencer
to make this more challenging.
SEAMUS: Spikes?
O'KEEFE: Jesus.
Whoa.
Are you sure you want to join the tribe?
[ Dramatic music plays ]
DR. TRINH: Not so easy, is it?
Back aching, hands cramping.
Lose your concentration and you slip.
That's just one hour.
Think that rope's gonna hold, Grace?
Why don't you hang yourself on your rope, Flo?
Look at you, dangling like a puppet on a string.
Hey, it's a good metaphor for your life, right?
Hey, don't listen to him.
SEAMUS: You do everything your mommy wants,
everything your daddy wants.
Okay, that's enough.
SEAMUS: You're just the handsome little puppet
that they fucking love to use.
How are you gonna run the business
without Spencer telling you everything to do, huh?
[ Laughing ] Huh?
Just as you grew Galloway Shipping,
we should grow our family.
I mean, we should support anything
that grows the family line.
Who did you knock up?
[ Laughs ] No one, Dad.
But say, if Seamus and Christy ever wanted to adopt...
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
Seamus is playing you.
You know that, right?
He's not.
No? So tell me,
what are you getting out of being his proxy?
I get the happiness of helping Seamus
and Christy give a sweet little girl a family, a home.
Look, I-I swear, Dad, I've never seen Seamus this excited.
I'll cover it.
Wait, you will?
Really?
Dad, thank you.
Thank you.
On one condition.
I need you to get something of substance out of it too,
something from Seamus.
Like what?
SPENCER: That's for you to figure out.
Come back with something
to balance your transaction with Seamus.
Something that shows that you...
you're thinking about yourself getting ahead.
And... And I'll pay for the adoption.
Otherwise, it's a no.
[ Dramatic music plays ]
GRACE: I can't feel my hands.
[ Dramatic music plays ]
Mom.
Okay?
Here.
Here, take this.
- GRACE: No. - Take it.
I'm fine. Just focus on yourself.
Hey, it's all good.
Ready?
We've got this in the bag.
Two of us in this competition is better than one, right?
Pitying the destitute
was never in the spirit of Daddy's competitions.
Hey. Wake up, Doctor. Look at this.
DR. TRINH: There are no rules against it.
In fact, there are no rules.
Oh.
So I can just kick someone off their rope, then?
'Cause that's what my dad would do.
Seamus, don't do anything stupid.
It's not stupid, honey.
It's fun.
CHRISTY: Honey.
JAYDEN: Fuck off.
CHRISTY: Babe, stop.
All bark, no bite.
Your father's only trying to help you develop
the kind of instincts necessary to run his business.
I know, but I don't need anything from Seamus.
He still wants you to run the business, right?
Of course he does.
See, it's training.
He's not making this kind of effort for anybody else.
There's got to be something Seamus has,
something that would impress your dad.
Like what? His turtleneck collection?
Something business-y.
It's the only thing he cares about.
And Seamus doesn't. I mean, that's the problem.
He's made me his proxy on the board of directors.
Then stop being a proxy.
Ask Seamus for his seat?
He doesn't want it. You do.
I-I couldn't, though.
Look, once upon a time,
Spencer thought Seamus was gonna take over the company.
That's why he has the seat.
I mean, it's not like Seamus wants it, right?
He probably wouldn't even care.
He'll be too busy being a dad.
You're so smart.
You're gonna make an incredible CEO.
[ Breathing heavily ]
[ Grunting ]
DR. TRINH: That's two hours.
I've been hard on you.
I didn't consider you had it bad too.
I just...
saw what I wanted to see.
And all that get in your competitor's head bullshit
that he kept pumping into us, it just...
JAYDEN: It's all right.
I've been there.
No, no, you never fell for this stuff.
You were always good.
It's just me being a petty piece of shit.
Hey. Hey.
This is cruel. Give him a jacket.
That way it's fair for all of us.
I can't help anyone.
FLORENCE: Don't do it.
Shut up.
You're worse than all of us.
[ Zipper unzips ]
[ Grunting ]
Here. Come here.
Take it.
Take it, brother.
You deserve it more than I do.
[ Dramatic music plays ]
You got it, man.
Come on, just a little more.
[ Screaming ]
[ Screams ]
I may be a piece of shit,
but I'm a damn good actor, huh?
[ Screaming ]
[ Panting ]
CHRISTY: These wounds need to breathe.
We need some iodine. I was a nurse.
I'm sorry, Jayden,
but you're out of the competition
and removed from your father's estate.
You cheating assholes!
Uh, oh, no, it's "winning assholes," Grace.
"Winning"!
I'm gonna crush this.
Christy, let's go.
Yeah, don't worry about me, big brother.
I'm gonna take care of him, thanks.
Come on, sweetie.
Are you up to date on your tetanus shots?
Yeah, his boosters are up to date.
We made sure at his last physical.
JAYDEN: Mm.
Okay, well, we'll clean these up,
and then maybe we'll get your mom
to give you a couple quick stitches
for some of those bigger cuts.
I'll go get the first aid kit.
GRACE: Okay.
How could I be so stupid?
You should have known better.
[ Crying ]
All these years
avoiding the question,
refusing to tell me.
And I am one of them?
[ Crying ]
[ Clock chiming ]
Oh, no, are your hands sore from trying to kill your brother?
Hey, I thought we were a team.
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Your brother's back was ripped open by rusty metal spikes.
I know every family has its issues,
but maybe you guys should skip the dysfunction Olympics
and... and lock yourselves up with therapists
for a month or two, for me.
Christy, this... this... this is what we do.
No, it's what you did.
It doesn't have to keep happening,
especially now that your dad...
When I was 6, when I was 6,
my dad would blast "We Are the Champions"
at full volume every time he beat me at checkers.
At 6. Well, guess what?
You're a sore winner as a result.
No, no.
- I'm unbeatable, baby. - CHRISTY: Trust me, I know.
Every game we play, when you win,
there's a hip-grinding dick in my face
and it's not 'cause we sleep together, that's for sure.
I promise you, Jayden's only hurt because he lost.
He's a tough kid.
No iodine and nothing to stitch a cut with,
but there are Band-Aids from 1985.
The fallout shelter probably has what you need.
CHRISTY: Great. Let's go there and get it.
[ Scoffs ]
Fuck this weekend and fuck this competition.
You are getting ugly out there and in here.
There's millions of dollars on the line,
for Christ's sake, Christy. What do you want?
I want you to be yourself, not the maniacs
that your father's goading you all into being.
Everything we could possibly want.
My family rubbing it in my face
that we're broke for the rest of my life.
I know you, Seamus.
You're gonna hate yourself after this is all over.
- No. - Yes.
I did what Jayden would have done,
if he was smart enough to think of it.
[ Dramatic music plays ]
Good news. I talked to Dad.
He's gonna give us the money?
[ Laughs ] Come here.
- Holy shit. - Holy shit.
Oh, you're gonna be a dad.
[ Laughing ]
- Thanks, man. - JAYDEN: Oh, yeah.
But here's the thing.
It'll cost you your seat.
Dad wants my board seat?
Not Dad.
Me. I want it.
You said you needed my help.
Un-fucking-believable.
The deal was a condition. Dad made it a condition.
He said that I needed to get something out of this too.
And that's what you chose?
You don't even want to be on the board.
And... And it's not like you've ever done anything with it.
Yeah.
I mean, he couldn't mold me,
so he's just doing it to you.
He's not molding me.
Oh, this is you?
[ Scoffs ]
That's bullshit.
No, you're just becoming what he wants.
[ Dramatic music plays ]
Fine.
Take the fucking board seat, superstar.
But if you're gonna be just like our fucking dad...
[ Suspenseful music plays ]
...you are no brother of mine.
[ Suspenseful music plays ]
It's my fault. I shouldn't have taken your...
He would have gotten to me some other way.
He gets into my head, Mom.
You back looks like stewing beef,
and this is what you're worried about?
Don't start siding with him now.
I'm not siding with a single one of you.
You're all the same.
GRACE: Yeah, afraid of being penniless
and having to start all over again.
Wait, there's a keypad?
Since when?
GRACE: Ever since your father started spending
way too much time on the dark web
and decided to turn this into some impenetrable safe room.
[ Beeping ]
The security code...
another thing he didn't tell me.
[ Beeping ]
Who the fuck's that?
[ Dramatic music plays ]
GRACE: Maybe it's the next challenge.
Seriously?
Hey, buddy, get the fuck out of here.
LARPing was lame 15 years ago, and I've had enough.
This fucking guy.
How did you even get here?
Tell us who you are,
or we'll rip that stupid mask off
and shove it so far up your ass.
JAYDEN: Christy, stop. You might mess up the next competition.
CHRISTY: Are you kidding?
[ Dramatic music plays ]
You know what? I'd love to.
[ Screaming ]
JAYDEN: Run! Quick!
GRACE: Jayden! Jayden!
[ Screaming ]
[ Dramatic music plays ]
JAYDEN: Back off!
[ Dramatic music plays ]
[ Panting ]
[ Suspenseful music plays ]
[ Squishing ]
What the fuck is that?
[ Suspenseful music plays ]
[ Growling ]
[ Dramatic music plays ]
[ Birds calling ]
Help! Help me!
Help!
Where the fuck is everybody?
Help me!
Anybody?
Seamus!
What the fuck happened?
Seamus, Seamus. We were attacked.
- We were attacked. - Come here.
He's wearing a mask and he's chasing Jayden.
- Let me see. What the fuck? - He's chasing Jayden...
- Get some towels! - He's chasing Jayden and Grace.
We have to go right now.
He's chasing Jayden and Grace right now in the woods.
We have to go.
DR. TRINH: Jayden!
CHRISTY: Jayden!
FLORENCE: Jayden!
Grace!
CHRISTY: Jayden!
[ Suspenseful music plays ]
[ Panting ]
Hey.
Help me!
Hey, somebody help me, please!
[ Motors whir ]
Help me!
Jayden! Jayden!
JAYDEN: Help me!
Jayden!
JAYDEN: Help, please!
Help me!
[ Screams ]
[ Gasping ]
JAYDEN: Mom! Mom! Help me!
- JAYDEN: Help me. - GRACE: Oh, my God.
Oh, my God!
Help!
CHRISTY: Jayden? Jayden?
Everyone be quiet for a sec.
[ Screaming in distance ]
The old shed.
[ Dramatic music plays ]
[ Screaming ]
SPENCER: There's that Galloway killer instinct.
I knew you had it in you.
[ Somber music plays ]
Nothing worthwhile is easy, Jayden.
You have to be ruthless
and slice away at those weaknesses of yours.
I understand.
I see how hard this was.
You... You care about your brother.
Of course you do.
And because of that,
I'm so very proud of you.
Yes, you need to celebrate
every time you overcome the world
begging you to be kind, to conform, to care.
And you did that.
The world will pull at you in every direction.
You have to resist and always be stronger.
GRACE: Jayden!
[ Jayden screaming ]
Hey, turn off... turn off the winch!
Turn it off!
[ Indistinct screaming ]
CHRISTY: It's not going off!
- THEO: Turn it off! - CHRISTY: It's not turning off!
SEAMUS: I can't turn it off.
[ Jayden screaming ]
[ Motors whir ]
[ Screams ]
No! No!
[ All screaming ]
I'm trying, I'm trying!
[ Screaming ]
No! No!
[ Sobbing ]
[ Dramatic music plays ]
No! No!
[ Dramatic music plays ]
[ Motors stop ]
[ Somber music plays ]
[ Blood dripping ]
[ Somber music plays ]
[ No audio ]
[ Wind howling, blood dripping ]