- Swear for me, Mary.
Swear for me on your daughters' lives you killed my husband.
- I swear. - Travis, meet Mary.
She's the woman your wife hired to kill you.
You got to go into the station.
You give a statement, and then I can go after Olivia.
- Sorry, I had to get gas. - Get me a pack of tallboys.
- You got a pretty girlfriend there.
- Oh, no, she's not my girlfriend, man.
She's a--
Bitch.
- Picture this. Cabins right here.
There's one for each patient. We register as a hospice.
That way, when there's a dead body,
no one will ask any questions.
- Joshua Yang, 21, dying from bowel cancer.
I'm a virgin. - Virgin?
You're not ready, Josh. Get laid, all right?
- Well, I think doctors feel it's important for patients
to choose their death.
You'll feel a rush through your body,
and then a warm feeling of peacefulness
will take you slowly into sleep.
- Jess, I need to tell you something.
- Naomi, what is wrong with you?
- I don't know. I don't know. - Travis needs to disappear.
- We'd always be looking over our shoulders, Des.
- You think killing me is gonna keep you safe?
Olivia won't.
- Travis? You put pento in his beer?
- I did what you were gonna do.
There's no coming back from that.
[smooth music]
♪
- ♪ You can run on for a long time ♪
♪
- I ordered you pancakes, the short stack.
I wasn't feeling too celebratory.
- How are you doing? - Great.
I'm great. Crickety-wickets.
You?
- I feel relieved, I guess.
Our problem is solved.
- Yeah, I guess we have to look at it that way.
- Travis is gone.
He won't come back.
Olivia will leave us alone. It's over.
- Is it?
You know, I've been to jail,
but I never actually felt like a criminal.
But now,
the packaging matches what's inside.
- Don't say that. That's not true. We did...
both: What we had to do.
- That's your favorite expression.
[passing siren]
Remember this?
It's the line we don't ever cross.
- ♪ The backbiter
♪ Sooner or later God's gonna cut 'em down ♪
♪ Sooner or later God'll cut you down ♪
- No. I can't reach it.
- Try harder.
- You try. Your arms are, like, extra long.
- The party was your stupid idea.
Get it out.
Is it broken?
- Are we broken?
- My mom's back.
- You look like your head hurts.
- No, I'm A-okay.
So we cleaned up the place, and you love me.
So all is forgiven, right?
- I love you, and you're in a lot of trouble.
- That's not fair.
- Where were you last night?
If you hadn't been gone, there wouldn't have been a party.
So where is your karmic retribution?
- Well, you're out of control, so there's that.
- You're being a little harsh.
- Naomi, just stop.
- Is there something you'd like to say to me?
- I met your boyfriend last night.
- I don't have a boyfriend.
- Are you sure?
Accent? Hot?
Or maybe he was just tall. You know what?
I can never actually tell with older guys.
It's weird.
But yeah, he was collecting
all your lingerie for your night shift.
- My dating life is none of your concern.
Cleaning my house, which you trashed, is.
- It was just a party.
It's not like we killed anyone or anything.
[tense music]
♪
[percussive rock music]
♪
- Okay, you goons.
Time to break out the orange vests.
Community service starts right now.
- This is the worst.
- I mean, your aunt's pretty cool.
It won't be terrible.
- It will be, because you're coming.
- Thanks for taking them.
Kevin's still on his trip,
and I don't trust them alone in the house.
- Not a problem.
- I'm gonna be their mean warden.
I will make them pull up weeds
until their fingers are bleeding.
I know your fake smiles. What's wrong?
- Remember Ben?
I saw him.
- When? - Last night.
I had a...
a bad work situation.
He bailed me out.
- What, are you two together now?
- No, I messed it up.
- You know, maybe your work situation's bad
'cause you kill people. - Nicole...
- Maybe if Ben was helping you, there's still something there.
- You don't know what I did.
- No, but I have seen you two together,
so don't push him away.
- A woman who kills people can't be with a guy
who catches criminals for a living.
- If you say so.
[electronic chime]
[knocking at door]
[electronic chime]
- Joshua? - Hey.
- What are you doing here?
Is it--is it time?
- Oh, no. I mean, I just--
You're the only person who doesn't treat me
like I'm dying.
I mean, my parents have come around to this idea
that I'm peaceing out early, which is cool,
except every time they look at me,
they just start bawling,
and I don't know, it's kind of heavy.
- That does sound rather burdensome.
- Yeah, so I thought
maybe you and me could hang.
[gentle music]
♪
- Can we talk?
- You want to talk?
Let's talk.
- You're gonna take notes on what I say?
- If you say anything worthwhile, then yeah.
- It doesn't have to be this way.
- No?
I think you pushed it there at the gas station.
- I did what I had to do. It wasn't personal.
- It felt personal.
- Ben...
I have kids.
I have to protect them.
- I have a dog.
Where is the suspect? Mexico? Arizona?
Did you drive him to the border
or did you let him catch a bus?
I'm just--I'm curious.
Where is Travis, Mary?
Where is he?
- I don't know.
- Did you kill him?
- No, I--no.
- You know, in my line of work, Mary,
just to survive this shit, I got to put people in boxes--
good people, bad people.
Everywhere I turn in this thing,
there you are with Grady,
with Olivia, with Travis, but you--
it all comes back to you, because you know why?
You're one of the bad ones.
- I'm not that. That's not who I am.
You know that, Ben.
- You can go.
Go.
[somber music]
♪
[sighs]
[voices swirling]
- Dr. Harris, you've been standing there for ten minutes.
Do you need something?
- Yes, the patient in bed five needs an MRI,
and you can take the girl in bed three
for an X-ray on her arm.
- Which arm? - The broken one.
- Sure, if you want to go with the obvious choice.
- Nice giraffe.
- It symbolizes the future
and an ability to achieve things out of reach.
- A little positive symbolism never hurts.
- I guess.
We need all the help we can get.
- How's Brendan doing?
- My twin flame's burning a little low today.
Chemo's exhausting him. It's not just his body.
It's like the cancer's taking his spirit.
- Must be very hard for you as well.
- I just miss him.
He's not himself.
Stop by and visit if you get the time.
- Of course. - See you.
[both chuckle]
- [coughing]
- It's probably not helping you as much as you think.
- Yeah, well, it's for the pain.
Knight to C3.
- You know I'm a drug addict, man.
It's not really polite to smoke weed in my house.
- Oh, well, I'm dying, man.
So whatever.
- You to die and I to live.
Which of these two is better?
Only God knows.
- That's a weak move and a weak quote.
- Oh, is it?
- Yeah, my queen takes your knight,
and the tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon,
but that we wait so long to begin it.
That's the shit right there.
- No, no, no, no, no. You know what, Josh?
I've met a lot of dying people in my time,
and they're largely inspirational and spiritual.
They face the end with fortitude.
They cherish the time that remains.
- I tried. - Oh, did you?
Hmm?
How'd it go with Hailey?
- Kailey. - Whatever.
Did you get laid yet?
Hmm? 'Cause you aren't acting like a guy
that's been having it off with Hailey with a K.
- I am too sick.
I wouldn't know how to make a move on her,
and besides, I tried.
She just doesn't think of me that way.
She's known me since she was a kid.
You should see her. She's everything.
She is all--
Shit.
- Oh, man, you can't just die without trying.
- You don't know what it's like.
- No. No, I don't.
But I do know about regret.
Give me your phone. Do the password first.
- Okay.
- Right.
Kailey. Kailey, Kailey, Kailey.
- Des, no. Des--Come on, Des, give me the phone back.
- Ah, ah, ah, ah. - Don't call--do not--
- Oh, it's ringing. Oh! - Don't call her.
- Hello? Joshua?
- Well...
- Josh, is that you? - Go on, go on.
[grunts] - Hello?
- Hello, Kailey.
This is Des, Joshua Yang's nurse.
He is dying. Yes. Yes.
But he's also full of vim and excitement,
and he would like to ask you out on a date.
[chuckles]
- All right, this is what the bad boys look like,
so just get rid of them.
- Can we have machetes?
- Sure.
- You want a machete so you can decapitate me?
- The thought might have crossed my mind, yeah.
- Hey, Nicole, do you have a computer by chance?
I want to show Jess something.
She's being a bitch, so I feel like ruining her life.
- What is it?
Is it like a sex tape of you and Heather?
Or a humiliating moment of me you secretly recorded?
- I don't know. Maybe.
- Okay, then just stop stalling and show me.
Burn my life to the ground. That's what you seem to want.
- Stop! - Stop!
- Just give it to me. - Stop!
- Give it to me! - Ow!
- Stop!
All right, you little shits.
Grab a life jacket.
- A life jacket? Where are we going?
[gentle music]
♪
- Feels right, doesn't it?
- Do you know what's going on with Dr. Dunn
in the conference room?
- He's leading an investigation into Betty Lisko's death.
- What? You didn't tell me?
- You didn't consult me about offing Betty.
- I should have told you, but it just kind of happened.
- It just sort of happened. Okay.
- Annie...
- You didn't think of me once when you were killing Betty.
And you know what?
I kind of admire you for it.
You're like one of those people that blazes a trail.
You're a single-minded visionary.
But I got to live in the wake of your chaos.
- If they figure it out, I'll deal with it.
I would never tell anyone about you.
You know that.
- Why did you have to kill someone at the hospital?
[gentle music]
♪
[machinery beeping]
- Can I help you?
- Olivia Bloom? - Yes.
- Ma'am, I'm Detective Ben Wesley.
I'm sorry for the intrusion,
but I need to talk to you about your husband, Travis Bloom.
- What is this about?
- Mrs. Bloom, when was the last time you saw your husband?
- My husband likes to drink.
Sometimes he disappears for days--goes on a bender.
- So three days ago?
That was the last time you saw him?
- I've been calling him, leaving messages.
He hasn't gotten back to me.
- Is that normal?
Your husband doesn't return your calls?
- We don't have the best marriage.
- Can you think of any reason
why he may have wanted to leave town?
- Nope.
- Can you think of anyone who may want to harm your husband?
- No.
- Mrs. Bloom, the reason I'm here
is because your husband is known to police.
- What does that mean?
- Well, we believe he's dealing drugs,
right out of this warehouse, in fact.
- You can't be serious.
- You haven't seen anything suspicious?
- I'm very involved in the business.
I would know if something like that was happening.
- Well, I'd say it's a big place.
You sure?
- Well, a person can never know everything,
but yes, I'm pretty sure.
- Okay.
Look, ma'am, I'm sorry to be the one
to have to lay this all on you.
- Well, you're just doing your job.
- Maybe I could drive you down to the station,
help you fill out a missing persons report.
- He's only been gone a few days.
He's disappeared for longer. I'm sure he'll be back.
- Okay, well, if there's anything, just call.
- I will.
- You don't seem too worried, ma'am.
About your husband?
- I process my emotions in a very private way.
- Okay.
- How are you, Brendan?
- I'm gonna die here, pretty doctor Mary Harris.
- Chemo's working.
- It's making me sicker.
- It's buying you time.
- I've never given up on anything in my life,
but I feel like giving up.
- Maybe giving up is okay.
- Then why does it feel so bad?
Like I'm not being true to myself?
- You can stop the chemo, go home,
be with Germaine, with family.
- Just lie there and wait to die?
I didn't think I'd go out like this.
- In Mexico, they have a festival called
the Day of the Dead.
There are parades,
and people bring food to the cemeteries
to encourage the souls of the dead to visit.
It's a celebration.
- A fiesta. - Yes.
- Hmm. - Death isn't bad.
It doesn't have to be.
It's part of life.
And you can say good-bye the way you want,
live your death as you would your life.
- I would want it to be a party.
- It can be.
- Like a performance.
- All right, come on.
You got this. - Yeah.
- Excuse me.
If I were to flirt with you, what would be my best approach?
Nothing too creepy.
Just as a teachable moment for my young friend here.
- Okay. You could ask me if my eyes are hazel or brown.
- Are your eyes hazel or brown?
- They're brown.
- Thank you.
See? It's easy.
- Yeah, maybe for you with your James Bond accent.
- It's not my accent. It's my charm.
Oh, is that your lady friend?
- Oh, my God, oh, my God. What do I do?
What do I do? What do I do? - Calm down.
You can't have sex until you've had
a conversation, so talk to her.
- This was such a stupid idea.
- You got this. Come on.
- Hi, Joshua. - Hey, Kailey.
- Is this your nurse?
- More of a spiritual advisor.
You've got this.
I'll be over there loitering nonchalantly.
Wave if you need me to ollie on over.
- That's not what ollie means.
- Good to know.
[gentle music]
♪
- So are your eyes hazel or brown?
- They're blue.
[both chuckle]
- Right.
- Out.
- Whoa. Wait. What are you doing?
- Well, this is what my mom used to do with me and Mary.
Solve whatever's going on between you.
- You're literally marooning us on an island!
Your aunt's actually pretty gangster leaving us out here.
Why are you so mad at me? Huh?
- I don't want to talk to you.
- Oh, what, Jess? Is it because I kissed you?
- What do you think?
- That wasn't--
that was just for fun.
- Do you want to be with me?
- I don't know.
- Do you want to be in a relationship with me?
- We are in a relationship, Jess.
- No, do you want to be my girlfriend?
No, of course you don't. You're not even gay.
I am, and you just can't let anyone be happy.
- That's not true.
I could ruin your life right now,
and by not doing that, I am making you happy.
- I'm done. I'm done. I am so done.
I'm done playing all your stupid games.
- What are you doing? Jess!
What, you can't just leave me here alone!
[gentle music]
♪
- What's it like being sick?
Like, knowing that you're...
- That I'm dying?
- Yeah.
- Do you remember this birthday party I had?
I think we were, like, ten,
and my parents got me this piñata shaped like a turtle.
- Vaguely. - Right.
Well, they blindfolded us, spun us around,
and kind of let us loose.
You couldn't see shit,
and you were swinging around a bat like crazy
just trying to get all this candy.
I don't know. It's kind of like that.
- Young love. Hey. I did that.
- Oh. Sorry, Kailey. I got...
- Josh? Nurse? Or whoever you are.
Can you help him? - Josh? Josh?
Hang on.
Joshua, mate, you okay?
Now we need to get you to a hospital.
- No, Des. I'm good. You were right about today.
I'm ready for what you promised me.
- I got rid of the medicine, Josh.
- What?
- [groans]
Okay. Okay. Please.
Pick up, Mary. Pick up.
[line ringing]
- Hello?
- I need you to bring me some medicine--the medicine.
- Why? - I chucked all mine.
I'm with a kid named Joshua Yang.
- A kid? - He's terminally ill.
He's a pain in the ass,
but he's mostly--
he's why we do this.
- Where should I meet you?
- Go to his house. I'll text you his address.
- Okay.
- Okay, boss. We're in.
Olivia's warehouse is completely wired for sound.
- Good.
- You know, it was like she thought she was above it all.
She barely tried to fake any feeling.
- Oh, she's definitely a player.
You were right about her,
and you were right about Mary Harris.
- You put a team on Mary? - Yeah.
She just left the hospital, early.
Something's definitely up.
Good. Let's hope she leads us to Travis.
[tense music]
♪
[dialing]
- Yeah, Mary.
- Des, we need a new plan.
- What? Why?
- I'm being followed.
[gentle music]
♪
- You know your mom would kill me
if you drowned, right?
- She doesn't even have time to punish me.
She probably wouldn't notice.
- What? Your mom loves you, you heinous little brat.
What are-- what is wrong with you?
- I was on the swim team. I knew I could make it.
- No. What is wrong with you?
Why are you acting like somebody else?
- I don't know.
- Is it your bad influence bestie?
- No. She's the least of my problems.
- Then what?
- My mom.
I feel like I never know what's going on with her.
I can't talk to her about what's going on with me.
I feel like she's always lying to me.
Like this morning, she went out early,
and she said it was for work, but I--
I know it wasn't, and...
I don't know, it just makes me feel like I'm a crazy person.
- Do you know why my mom would put us on that island?
- To punish you.
- No, I made that shit up.
She would get really depressed sometimes,
and she couldn't look after me and Mary.
- Really? - Yeah.
So she would put us on the island
to kind of protect us from her,
which is kind of what I think your mom does
with you sometimes.
- She neglects us because she cares?
- She protects you from parts of herself
that she feels are dangerous.
- Like what?
- You just need to work that out with her.
[gentle music]
♪
- Keep walking. You can do it.
We're almost there.
- His house is just through here.
- That kiss you gave Kailey was epic.
You charmed her, my friend.
- Couple more weeks and I would have gone all the way.
- The student becomes the teacher.
I'm proud of you, man.
- Okay, Casanova. Just a few more steps.
- Hello? Anybody home?
- Joshua!
Who are these people?
- These are the doctors I was telling you about, Mom.
- I'm technically not a doctor. She is, though.
Doctor Mary. I'm Desmond.
- We're death counselors.
We're here to honor your son's wish to die with dignity.
- We discussed it.
We support our son's wish.
- Does it have to be today? Just one more day.
That's all we want.
- Joshua, one more day?
It's possible. Do you want to wait?
- No.
I'm ready to go.
- We would come back.
You know we wouldn't let you down.
- No, I know, but...
today was a good day.
My only good day since my diagnosis.
- I hear you've been collecting quotes on death.
Want to know my favorite?
"Dying is a wild night and a new road."
- I'm not afraid.
- You should talk to your parents now.
Des and I will be ready when you are.
We'll give you some privacy.
- Mom, Dad, will you let me go?
[somber music]
♪
[indistinct radio chatter]
- Let's do this.
[intense music]
♪
Police.
- What? - What's going on?
- The police are here.
Hey. Where are you going?
- Do you know where Mary is?
- Des, I've been thinking.
If the cops come, if they find us,
I'll say it was all me.
- We're in this together.
I believe you're what they call my ride or die.
But Mary, I love this part.
I love it.
It gives me purpose.
It makes me feel like I'm doing good in the world.
- Me too.
- But the other part-- the part that you like--
- This is the part I like. - Is it?
Not the skulking around away from the law?
The threatening drug lords?
- What we do isn't legal. Things creep in.
- Yeah, I'm aware, but Mary, let's do the death retreat.
- Your idea where we pretend to open a hospice
and kill people en masse?
- Yes.
Because I can do this,
but the rest of it, the criminal shit,
the bad shit,
that's my line.
- Okay. - Ready?
- Yep.
But I won't let you go to jail again.
That's my line.
- Hey. Josh.
This is for old time's sake.
- Thank you.
[somber music]
♪
- I love you, Joshua.
- I love you too.
♪
- He'll slip away now. It's peaceful.
♪
- Go.
[Kyson's "You" plays]
♪
- ♪ No man's an island
♪ When he's had this conversation ♪
♪
♪ No man's a forest
♪ Even if he tries to be one ♪
♪
♪ I've seen your insights
♪ They're colorful
♪
♪ But you're not an island
♪ Even if you try to be one with me ♪
♪
♪ If I had a problem then so did you ♪
♪
♪ Don't choose an ocean of solitude ♪
♪
♪ Oh I swear
♪ Did you care for me
♪ Oh I swear
♪ Did you care for me
♪ Oh I swear
♪ Did you care for me
- [sighs]
I just watched you kill someone.
♪
- It was done before you got there.
♪
- So that's what you do?
♪
- I'm never gonna stop.
♪
♪ We had a problem so miniscule ♪
♪
♪ Don't choose an ocean of solitude ♪
♪
♪ Oh I swear
♪ Did you care for me
♪ Oh I swear
♪ Did you care for me
♪ Oh I swear
♪ Did you care for me
♪