1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,050 at a heaping bowl of shit, Hasan! 2 00:00:10,969 --> 00:00:12,299 -You’re a sociopath! 3 00:00:12,346 --> 00:00:14,466 -I hate your job. All of it! 4 00:00:14,515 --> 00:00:16,225 -[Rita Weiss] That’s real estate, kitten. 5 00:00:16,266 --> 00:00:17,976 -I think I’ve found your mom. -[pitching machine clunk] 6 00:00:18,018 --> 00:00:20,268 Trying to track her through a couple of towns over the years. 7 00:00:20,312 --> 00:00:22,152 Any word from the adoption people. 8 00:00:22,189 --> 00:00:24,439 -You and Anthony will be the best dads ever. 9 00:00:24,483 --> 00:00:27,033 You haven’t heard from, uh, Susan? 10 00:00:27,069 --> 00:00:29,199 -[voice mail] You’ve reached Susan Ireland. 11 00:00:29,238 --> 00:00:32,448 -I’m sorry that I forgot how good you really are. 12 00:00:34,826 --> 00:00:36,446 [recap score fades out] 13 00:00:37,538 --> 00:00:38,998 [dogs barking] 14 00:00:39,039 --> 00:00:40,289 [tender score] 15 00:00:40,332 --> 00:00:42,712 -[woman] Morris, it’s time for bed! 16 00:00:46,964 --> 00:00:48,174 -Read to me! 17 00:00:48,215 --> 00:00:50,725 -Oh, it’s late. You have school tomorrow. 18 00:00:50,759 --> 00:00:52,389 -Thirsty. 19 00:00:53,387 --> 00:00:55,177 -Oh... 20 00:01:04,147 --> 00:01:05,767 -Don’t go. Not yet. 21 00:01:05,816 --> 00:01:07,356 -Morris. 22 00:01:07,401 --> 00:01:09,821 -Please, just a little longer. 23 00:01:09,861 --> 00:01:11,611 -There’s nothing to be afraid of. 24 00:01:11,655 --> 00:01:13,365 -Did you check all of the-- -I checked 25 00:01:13,407 --> 00:01:15,327 behind the dresser and in the closet. 26 00:01:15,367 --> 00:01:18,407 -How about under the bed? -Under the bed, too. 27 00:01:18,453 --> 00:01:19,913 Morris, 28 00:01:20,581 --> 00:01:22,461 you’re getting too big for this. 29 00:01:22,499 --> 00:01:24,709 There’s nothing to be afraid of. 30 00:01:25,669 --> 00:01:27,549 Now, go to sleep. 31 00:01:31,049 --> 00:01:32,799 -Open a little? 32 00:01:32,843 --> 00:01:34,473 [door hinges creak] 33 00:01:40,267 --> 00:01:42,097 [receding footsteps] 34 00:01:44,605 --> 00:01:46,235 [creepy score] 35 00:01:57,034 --> 00:01:58,664 -[whispering] Morris. 36 00:02:00,287 --> 00:02:02,997 [more insistent] Morrisss! 37 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:07,880 Morris, I am soooooo hungry! 38 00:02:07,919 --> 00:02:11,339 Eventually you’ll fall asleep. Yes, you’ll fall asleep! 39 00:02:11,381 --> 00:02:13,421 And your little hand will fall out of the bed 40 00:02:13,467 --> 00:02:15,087 just a little, a little, 41 00:02:15,135 --> 00:02:16,885 and that’s when I’m gonna grab it 42 00:02:16,928 --> 00:02:21,138 and then I’m going to eat your fingers like weenies! 43 00:02:22,601 --> 00:02:24,521 [crossfade score to opening theme] 44 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:37,160 [man screaming] 45 00:02:38,075 --> 00:02:39,415 -His name is Morris Truby. 46 00:02:39,451 --> 00:02:42,331 His mother just passed so he’s settling the estate. 47 00:02:43,497 --> 00:02:45,077 -What seems to be the problem? 48 00:02:45,123 --> 00:02:47,503 -I’m not sure. Truby doesn’t talk much, 49 00:02:47,542 --> 00:02:50,422 kind of rough around the edges. A little scary. 50 00:02:50,462 --> 00:02:53,012 It’s the house he grew up in, so it’s... 51 00:02:53,048 --> 00:02:54,508 gotta be kind of emotional. 52 00:02:54,549 --> 00:02:56,799 -So we treat it like a Normie? 53 00:02:56,843 --> 00:02:59,603 -Think we do a standard PKT, just in case. 54 00:02:59,638 --> 00:03:01,638 I got Phil doing a quick workup on the history, 55 00:03:01,682 --> 00:03:03,392 but the Trubys are the original owners 56 00:03:03,433 --> 00:03:05,313 so I don’t expect more there. 57 00:03:05,352 --> 00:03:07,312 Still, better safe than sorry 58 00:03:07,354 --> 00:03:09,774 before we start trooping buyers through the place. 59 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:12,820 -Sounds like you don’t trust Mister Truby. 60 00:03:12,859 --> 00:03:15,859 -He didn’t mention anything specific, but, uh... 61 00:03:16,530 --> 00:03:18,570 I got the feeling he was holding back. 62 00:03:19,950 --> 00:03:21,660 -Uh... -[tender score] 63 00:03:22,869 --> 00:03:24,659 A feeling? 64 00:03:25,163 --> 00:03:27,213 -I still get ’em, you know. 65 00:03:28,125 --> 00:03:29,885 -Good to know. 66 00:03:33,588 --> 00:03:35,298 [elevator arriving chime] 67 00:03:35,340 --> 00:03:36,840 [score fades out] 68 00:03:36,883 --> 00:03:40,513 -Hey! Anything new on the Truby place? 69 00:03:40,554 --> 00:03:41,974 -Uh, no. 70 00:03:42,347 --> 00:03:43,967 I mean, yes! 71 00:03:44,015 --> 00:03:45,595 There-there’s stuff on Truby 72 00:03:45,642 --> 00:03:47,482 that’s not much at all, but, um... 73 00:03:49,104 --> 00:03:50,734 this is something else. 74 00:03:52,190 --> 00:03:53,820 -What is it? 75 00:03:54,401 --> 00:03:56,401 -Your mom. -[tender score] 76 00:03:56,445 --> 00:03:59,365 I-I-I know there’s a lot of stuff going on right now, but... 77 00:03:59,406 --> 00:04:01,566 I thought that this kind of took precedence. 78 00:04:02,534 --> 00:04:04,954 After all it’s... it’s your mom. 79 00:04:07,038 --> 00:04:08,668 -Okay. 80 00:04:12,252 --> 00:04:14,752 -It’s all here. Her name, 81 00:04:14,796 --> 00:04:16,416 where you can find her. 82 00:04:17,090 --> 00:04:18,720 You know, whenever you’re ready. 83 00:04:20,844 --> 00:04:24,144 -So, what’s new on the adoption front? 84 00:04:24,181 --> 00:04:26,311 -Uh... [laughs] 85 00:04:27,017 --> 00:04:28,637 We wait. 86 00:04:29,227 --> 00:04:31,477 -I worry about Anthony. -How so? 87 00:04:31,521 --> 00:04:33,231 -Well, it’s dangerous to want anything 88 00:04:33,273 --> 00:04:34,943 as much as he wants this baby. 89 00:04:35,901 --> 00:04:37,531 -It’ll all work out. 90 00:04:40,113 --> 00:04:41,743 -So, Truby. 91 00:04:41,782 --> 00:04:44,702 Eleanor Truby bought the house new in the 70s. 92 00:04:44,743 --> 00:04:47,413 She, uh, lived there until she died last year. 93 00:04:47,454 --> 00:04:49,374 -Left it to her only son. -Morris. 94 00:04:49,414 --> 00:04:52,464 -Morris’ history is, uh, a lot more cinematic. 95 00:04:52,959 --> 00:04:55,959 Bunch of misdemeanors as a kid, assault, petty theft. 96 00:04:56,004 --> 00:04:57,634 Joined the Navy, 97 00:04:57,672 --> 00:05:00,592 got a barely honorable discharge. 98 00:05:01,259 --> 00:05:03,339 Graduated to the big leagues as a young man: 99 00:05:03,386 --> 00:05:05,556 extortion, racketeering. 100 00:05:05,597 --> 00:05:07,517 Spent some time in prison for manslaughter, 101 00:05:07,557 --> 00:05:09,517 which is lovely. 102 00:05:09,559 --> 00:05:13,859 Just got out a few months ago and here we are. 103 00:05:14,314 --> 00:05:15,984 -Man did his time. 104 00:05:16,817 --> 00:05:19,067 -Not judging. Just doing what I do. 105 00:05:19,986 --> 00:05:21,646 [dramatic score] 106 00:05:22,113 --> 00:05:23,533 [approaching footsteps] 107 00:05:23,573 --> 00:05:26,623 -They’re here. -Excuse me? 108 00:05:26,660 --> 00:05:28,410 -About a thousand resumes. 109 00:05:28,453 --> 00:05:31,163 You know, the people you want to replace Susan with. 110 00:05:31,206 --> 00:05:32,616 [Luke sighs] 111 00:05:32,666 --> 00:05:34,576 -You know, I wish you wouldn’t put it that way. 112 00:05:34,626 --> 00:05:35,876 She quit, remember? 113 00:05:36,878 --> 00:05:38,668 We can’t make her love us if she doesn’t-- 114 00:05:38,713 --> 00:05:40,763 -Okay, Bonnie Raitt. Thank you. 115 00:05:40,799 --> 00:05:43,509 But we care about Susan here and this is just wrong. 116 00:05:43,552 --> 00:05:45,092 -And she quit, Zooey! She chose 117 00:05:45,136 --> 00:05:48,096 not to work here anymore and we have to respect that. 118 00:05:48,139 --> 00:05:50,479 So, the issue is what do we do now? 119 00:05:50,517 --> 00:05:52,477 We have a record number of listings, 120 00:05:52,519 --> 00:05:54,479 thanks in no small part to Susan’s efforts, 121 00:05:54,521 --> 00:05:56,151 -and we need help. -[gentle score] 122 00:05:56,189 --> 00:05:57,439 -Okay, fine. 123 00:05:57,482 --> 00:06:00,862 I could still help on a limited basis. 124 00:06:00,902 --> 00:06:02,822 -And I’m going to need you to, but you are new 125 00:06:02,863 --> 00:06:04,703 and your heart just isn’t in it. 126 00:06:05,532 --> 00:06:06,992 I need an experienced pro. 127 00:06:08,034 --> 00:06:09,494 I need a rainmaker 128 00:06:09,995 --> 00:06:11,875 and a closer both in the same body. 129 00:06:13,957 --> 00:06:15,627 And it would be nice if they wouldn’t 130 00:06:15,667 --> 00:06:18,497 run screaming into the night at the sight of our... 131 00:06:18,545 --> 00:06:20,595 target demographic. 132 00:06:21,923 --> 00:06:23,473 I think... 133 00:06:23,508 --> 00:06:25,088 I might know somebody. 134 00:06:27,554 --> 00:06:29,394 [device beeps, clicks] 135 00:06:31,516 --> 00:06:33,136 [beeping, rising flash charging tone] 136 00:06:35,020 --> 00:06:36,730 -Hey! 137 00:06:37,397 --> 00:06:39,437 What’s all this? 138 00:06:40,066 --> 00:06:41,186 -It’s science. 139 00:06:41,234 --> 00:06:42,944 -This is private property. 140 00:06:42,986 --> 00:06:45,236 You need to get your ass outta here. 141 00:06:45,280 --> 00:06:46,910 [crows cawing] 142 00:06:47,490 --> 00:06:49,120 [brooding score] 143 00:07:01,421 --> 00:07:03,421 You’re with Roman? 144 00:07:05,091 --> 00:07:06,761 Okay. 145 00:07:07,594 --> 00:07:09,894 You, uh, find anything interesting? 146 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:12,390 -Too early to tell. 147 00:07:12,432 --> 00:07:14,102 [crows cawing] 148 00:07:20,523 --> 00:07:22,153 [door opening] 149 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,070 [tender score] 150 00:07:39,417 --> 00:07:41,037 [sighs] 151 00:07:53,932 --> 00:07:55,522 [sigh] 152 00:08:01,773 --> 00:08:03,613 [score becomes darker] 153 00:08:05,485 --> 00:08:07,145 [sigh] 154 00:08:12,492 --> 00:08:14,162 [deep bass rumbling] 155 00:08:20,041 --> 00:08:21,671 [sighs] 156 00:08:46,317 --> 00:08:48,687 -Welcome home, 157 00:08:49,237 --> 00:08:51,067 Morris! 158 00:08:51,990 --> 00:08:53,820 [score crescendos, fades out] 159 00:08:57,162 --> 00:08:58,792 [birds chirping] 160 00:09:00,957 --> 00:09:02,577 [gentle piano music] 161 00:09:03,168 --> 00:09:04,748 [gentle sobbing] 162 00:09:06,629 --> 00:09:08,419 [mourners quietly whispering] 163 00:09:24,481 --> 00:09:26,111 -Lomax. 164 00:09:29,319 --> 00:09:30,439 -Roman. 165 00:09:30,487 --> 00:09:33,157 -Haven’t seen you since the Whitby deal. 166 00:09:34,866 --> 00:09:36,986 -Well, I’m sorry about how that turned out. 167 00:09:37,035 --> 00:09:39,955 -Buyer pulled out. Not your fault. 168 00:09:40,538 --> 00:09:42,748 -Only it actually kinda was. 169 00:09:44,167 --> 00:09:46,497 Our firm was controlling Whitby’s second choice, 170 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:49,340 so I whispered in his ear. He bailed on your property 171 00:09:49,380 --> 00:09:51,010 and then we became his first choice. 172 00:09:53,843 --> 00:09:55,803 -I knew you did that. 173 00:09:56,554 --> 00:09:58,144 [sniffles] 174 00:09:58,556 --> 00:10:00,426 -No, you didn’t. 175 00:10:01,017 --> 00:10:03,767 I know when people are lying. I get a... 176 00:10:05,021 --> 00:10:07,481 Kinda itch in my nose. It’s a thing. 177 00:10:09,567 --> 00:10:11,147 -So why’d you quit? 178 00:10:11,861 --> 00:10:13,651 You were their biggest producer. 179 00:10:15,365 --> 00:10:16,995 -They made my nose itch. 180 00:10:17,575 --> 00:10:19,195 A lot. 181 00:10:19,244 --> 00:10:20,834 [quiet footfalls 182 00:10:22,580 --> 00:10:24,170 How did you know where to find me? 183 00:10:24,207 --> 00:10:28,037 -Saw you at the cemetery. I was visiting my father. 184 00:10:30,380 --> 00:10:32,010 -Common ground. 185 00:10:35,093 --> 00:10:36,723 -So, who’s he? 186 00:10:39,222 --> 00:10:42,682 -Tonito, Gabriel R. 187 00:10:43,560 --> 00:10:44,940 -Tonito. 188 00:10:44,978 --> 00:10:47,648 -Yeah, I know. It sounds like a snack. 189 00:10:49,149 --> 00:10:50,569 -What did he do? 190 00:10:50,608 --> 00:10:52,398 -He died. 191 00:10:52,443 --> 00:10:53,943 -Before that. 192 00:10:53,987 --> 00:10:56,107 -Large animal veterinarian. 193 00:11:00,118 --> 00:11:01,738 He was performing a... 194 00:11:03,413 --> 00:11:05,043 rectal exam 195 00:11:05,915 --> 00:11:08,285 on an Arabian stallion when his heart gave out. 196 00:11:10,170 --> 00:11:11,460 He was just, sorta... 197 00:11:12,088 --> 00:11:14,588 just dangling there until the paramedics arrived. 198 00:11:14,632 --> 00:11:16,262 It was very sad. 199 00:11:18,803 --> 00:11:21,763 -So he died as he lived. With his arm up a horse’s-- 200 00:11:21,806 --> 00:11:25,226 -Do what you love and you will never work a day in your life. 201 00:11:25,268 --> 00:11:27,058 -So on that subject: 202 00:11:28,146 --> 00:11:30,266 Are you looking to get back into real estate? 203 00:11:30,315 --> 00:11:31,945 -[laughing] Huh! 204 00:11:33,443 --> 00:11:35,243 -Maybe. 205 00:11:36,112 --> 00:11:37,662 I don’t know. 206 00:11:37,697 --> 00:11:39,617 I’m just here helping my folks out. 207 00:11:39,657 --> 00:11:42,077 My dad wants me to take over the family business 208 00:11:42,118 --> 00:11:45,248 but this just... this isn’t my thing. 209 00:11:46,623 --> 00:11:48,253 [gentle score] 210 00:11:48,291 --> 00:11:49,921 -So, the reason I’m here... 211 00:11:50,627 --> 00:11:52,247 we may have an opening. 212 00:11:52,629 --> 00:11:56,589 I need talent, experience and an open mind. 213 00:11:57,508 --> 00:12:00,088 -I’m in. -It gets weird sometimes. 214 00:12:00,970 --> 00:12:03,430 The Roman Agency tends to handle a certain-- 215 00:12:03,473 --> 00:12:05,103 -Number one, I know what you guys do. 216 00:12:05,141 --> 00:12:08,641 Number two, I currently sew dead people’s lips shut 217 00:12:08,686 --> 00:12:11,146 and scoop out their guts like a Halloween pumpkin, 218 00:12:11,189 --> 00:12:13,939 so whatever kind of "weird" you got is... 219 00:12:14,859 --> 00:12:16,779 a lateral move at best. 220 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:19,110 -May only be temporary. 221 00:12:19,864 --> 00:12:21,664 -Everything’s temporary. 222 00:12:22,242 --> 00:12:24,122 Just ask Mr. Tonito. 223 00:12:27,205 --> 00:12:28,795 [brooding score] 224 00:12:59,237 --> 00:13:00,817 -Susan? 225 00:13:01,572 --> 00:13:03,912 [clunks, whooshing] 226 00:13:03,950 --> 00:13:05,830 -[Zooey] Susan? -[knocking on door ] 227 00:13:07,704 --> 00:13:09,334 [phone buzzing] 228 00:13:12,125 --> 00:13:13,545 [click] 229 00:13:13,584 --> 00:13:15,464 Hello? 230 00:13:15,503 --> 00:13:17,803 Yeah. Okay, I guess. 231 00:13:19,716 --> 00:13:21,836 Okay, yeah, I’ll be back in just a minute. 232 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:24,350 Yeah, I’ll gather the troops. 233 00:13:25,096 --> 00:13:26,676 Okay. Bye. 234 00:13:27,265 --> 00:13:28,895 -[click] -[sigh] 235 00:13:32,437 --> 00:13:34,017 Damn it. 236 00:13:36,733 --> 00:13:38,533 [brooding score crossfades to gentle score] 237 00:13:38,568 --> 00:13:40,188 -Hey. 238 00:13:40,737 --> 00:13:42,527 -Do you know what this is about? 239 00:13:42,572 --> 00:13:45,832 -Zooey says show up, I show up. Anything on Truby? 240 00:13:45,867 --> 00:13:47,867 -The house is rather strange. 241 00:13:48,453 --> 00:13:51,623 There is something there, but it isn’t tripping the MEE. 242 00:13:51,664 --> 00:13:54,884 -Something... friendly? A Swayze? 243 00:13:54,917 --> 00:13:58,047 -Possibly. But have you met Mister Truby? 244 00:13:58,588 --> 00:14:00,588 -Uh, read his rap sheet. 245 00:14:00,631 --> 00:14:02,471 -There is anger rolling off the man. 246 00:14:02,508 --> 00:14:04,758 -[elevator arriving chime] -He just got out of prison. 247 00:14:04,802 --> 00:14:06,642 -[August] I could tell from the ink. 248 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:09,009 -What do you know about prison tattoos? 249 00:14:09,932 --> 00:14:11,352 -More than I care to. -[score fades out] 250 00:14:11,392 --> 00:14:15,942 -[approaching footsteps] -Phil, August, this is Lomax. 251 00:14:15,980 --> 00:14:18,190 She’s going to be working with us for a while. 252 00:14:18,941 --> 00:14:21,031 -We’re pretty informal around here. 253 00:14:21,069 --> 00:14:23,399 -What’s your first name? -Clytemnestra. 254 00:14:23,446 --> 00:14:28,736 -Ah! Wife of Agamemnon, twin sister to Helen of Troy. 255 00:14:28,785 --> 00:14:32,795 -My Mom’s Greek and my dad’s just... mean. 256 00:14:34,165 --> 00:14:35,965 -Lomax it is, then. Welcome aboard. 257 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,790 -Lomax worked at Halostone Properties 258 00:14:38,836 --> 00:14:41,086 -for six years. -Halostone? They’re huge. 259 00:14:41,130 --> 00:14:42,970 -She was their number one in sales 260 00:14:43,007 --> 00:14:44,217 and she ate my lunch on a deal 261 00:14:44,258 --> 00:14:47,468 so I’d rather have her with us than against us. 262 00:14:47,512 --> 00:14:49,262 [approaching footsteps] 263 00:14:49,305 --> 00:14:51,265 -Hey, Luke. Mister Truby’s here. 264 00:14:51,849 --> 00:14:53,479 -Where you been? 265 00:14:53,976 --> 00:14:55,686 -Around. We’ll talk later. 266 00:14:55,728 --> 00:14:57,978 -[mischievous score] -Delighted to meet you. 267 00:14:58,022 --> 00:14:59,982 I’m Zooey. I run things here. 268 00:15:00,024 --> 00:15:02,234 -Lomax. I sell shit. 269 00:15:07,865 --> 00:15:09,485 -Send him in. 270 00:15:10,368 --> 00:15:11,658 That’s it. 271 00:15:11,702 --> 00:15:13,662 -Okay. 272 00:15:13,704 --> 00:15:15,334 [score fades out] 273 00:15:15,373 --> 00:15:16,963 -Lomax... 274 00:15:17,417 --> 00:15:18,827 Mister Truby, 275 00:15:18,876 --> 00:15:21,456 this is, uh, Lomax, one of our top agents. 276 00:15:23,214 --> 00:15:24,844 [brooding score] 277 00:15:25,550 --> 00:15:27,010 -She needs to get out of here. 278 00:15:27,051 --> 00:15:29,011 This is between you and me. 279 00:15:29,053 --> 00:15:31,313 -No. We work as a team. 280 00:15:34,100 --> 00:15:35,850 -Then maybe I fire your ass. 281 00:15:35,893 --> 00:15:37,853 -Well, the exit is clearly marked. 282 00:15:41,023 --> 00:15:43,613 -Okay, look, I-I really need your help with this. 283 00:15:44,193 --> 00:15:46,363 -I think you owe Lomax an apology. 284 00:15:50,741 --> 00:15:52,371 -Sorry. 285 00:15:52,410 --> 00:15:53,990 -Good. Now... 286 00:15:54,036 --> 00:15:55,656 why don’t you tell us 287 00:15:56,414 --> 00:15:58,584 what is really going on in your house. 288 00:15:58,624 --> 00:16:01,004 The truth, please. 289 00:16:06,048 --> 00:16:07,878 -It started when I was about seven. 290 00:16:09,260 --> 00:16:10,550 This... voice 291 00:16:10,595 --> 00:16:12,645 started talking to me from under my bed. 292 00:16:14,432 --> 00:16:16,232 You gotta understand, I was a kid. 293 00:16:17,518 --> 00:16:20,188 My mom and I barely got away from my dad alive. 294 00:16:21,439 --> 00:16:22,559 We had to start over. 295 00:16:22,607 --> 00:16:24,897 [tender score] 296 00:16:24,942 --> 00:16:27,572 She worked her ass off to keep us in that house. 297 00:16:28,738 --> 00:16:30,358 We loved that house. 298 00:16:31,282 --> 00:16:34,412 -And yet? -This voice under the bed 299 00:16:35,161 --> 00:16:37,911 it kept saying it was gonna eat my fingers, my-my toes, 300 00:16:37,955 --> 00:16:39,535 my feet... 301 00:16:41,125 --> 00:16:43,535 anything that extended past the mattress. 302 00:16:44,795 --> 00:16:46,375 -And you believed it? 303 00:16:47,173 --> 00:16:50,053 -Were you listening? I was seven! 304 00:16:50,968 --> 00:16:53,718 I made a lot of mistakes. I hurt a lot of people, 305 00:16:53,763 --> 00:16:55,353 [inhale, exhale] 306 00:16:55,389 --> 00:16:57,059 including my mom. 307 00:16:58,100 --> 00:16:59,940 It wasn’t my fault. 308 00:17:00,478 --> 00:17:02,058 It was the voice. 309 00:17:02,939 --> 00:17:04,569 That’s why I need you to kill it 310 00:17:05,107 --> 00:17:07,317 before it does the same thing to some other family. 311 00:17:07,360 --> 00:17:09,400 -Kill it? 312 00:17:09,987 --> 00:17:11,777 -That’s... 313 00:17:11,822 --> 00:17:13,912 that’s what you do, right? 314 00:17:14,492 --> 00:17:16,082 -Maybe. 315 00:17:17,620 --> 00:17:19,250 [score fades out] 316 00:17:22,166 --> 00:17:25,496 -So, that’s the brand of weird you were talking about? 317 00:17:26,170 --> 00:17:27,300 -The cast changes regularly, 318 00:17:27,338 --> 00:17:28,958 but the story is pretty consistent: 319 00:17:29,006 --> 00:17:32,296 There is something in the house making it hard for us to sell 320 00:17:32,343 --> 00:17:35,103 and we make it... go away. 321 00:17:36,931 --> 00:17:38,471 -You’re serious. 322 00:17:39,016 --> 00:17:41,516 -Well, you can always head back to the relative moral clarity 323 00:17:41,561 --> 00:17:44,101 of the embalming table. There’s still time for that. 324 00:17:44,146 --> 00:17:46,436 -[phone rings, beeps] -Hello, Zooey. 325 00:17:46,482 --> 00:17:48,482 -Hey. Todd from Cold Basin Developments 326 00:17:48,526 --> 00:17:50,436 wants to know when you’re gonna take another run at the squatte 327 00:17:50,486 --> 00:17:53,196 -in Marsden Towers. -Oh, man. 328 00:17:53,823 --> 00:17:56,163 -Might be a good job for the new girl. 329 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:57,830 Maybe scare her away. 330 00:17:57,868 --> 00:17:59,998 -I don’t scare that easy. 331 00:18:00,037 --> 00:18:01,827 -Ah, uh... 332 00:18:01,872 --> 00:18:03,962 Sorry. You’re breaking up. Can’t hear you. 333 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,250 -[Zooey vocalizes static] -[call hangup beep] 334 00:18:06,294 --> 00:18:07,924 -I like Zooey. 335 00:18:08,546 --> 00:18:11,006 She lies with style and flair. 336 00:18:11,048 --> 00:18:12,718 -So here’s the deal: Our developer client 337 00:18:12,758 --> 00:18:16,138 is razing an old housing project to turn into a new condo. 338 00:18:16,804 --> 00:18:18,604 Paying the current tenants a ton of money 339 00:18:18,639 --> 00:18:20,429 to get them out -- way over market -- 340 00:18:20,474 --> 00:18:22,734 but there is one woman who is not on board. 341 00:18:22,768 --> 00:18:24,268 -There’s always somebody. 342 00:18:24,312 --> 00:18:27,692 -Yep. We have sent over three different reps already. 343 00:18:27,732 --> 00:18:30,282 I’ve even gone myself. [scoffs] 344 00:18:30,318 --> 00:18:32,148 She won’t even answer the door. 345 00:18:33,070 --> 00:18:34,530 -Give me a shot. 346 00:18:34,572 --> 00:18:36,202 -Really? 347 00:18:37,116 --> 00:18:38,736 -Put me in, coach. 348 00:18:44,332 --> 00:18:45,752 -So... -[score fades out] 349 00:18:46,250 --> 00:18:49,670 to be clear, you’d like us to put out a hit on... 350 00:18:50,254 --> 00:18:52,764 -the boogeyman? -I don’t think I said that. 351 00:18:52,798 --> 00:18:54,468 -A monster under the bed. 352 00:18:54,508 --> 00:18:56,838 -Yeah. So what do we do to make it... 353 00:18:57,261 --> 00:18:58,721 go away? 354 00:18:58,763 --> 00:18:59,933 -Interesting. 355 00:18:59,972 --> 00:19:01,222 I don’t know that we’ve had one of these. 356 00:19:01,265 --> 00:19:04,515 -Well, Truby was genuinely terrified of it. 357 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:06,520 -Truby is packing. 358 00:19:06,979 --> 00:19:09,059 -Yeah, there is a lot of clutter in that house. 359 00:19:09,106 --> 00:19:10,976 -No, he’s packing. 360 00:19:11,609 --> 00:19:15,899 Carrying a gat, a piece, a roscoe, a gun. 361 00:19:16,447 --> 00:19:18,067 -Sign of the times. 362 00:19:18,115 --> 00:19:20,195 -No, much more. 363 00:19:21,118 --> 00:19:23,198 Truby is out on parole. 364 00:19:23,663 --> 00:19:25,913 If he’s caught with a gun, he goes right back in, 365 00:19:25,956 --> 00:19:29,036 so something must be frightening him terribly. 366 00:19:29,085 --> 00:19:31,425 -So, what, you think he wants to shoot the monster? 367 00:19:31,462 --> 00:19:33,592 -Hm, I doubt that would be effective. 368 00:19:35,716 --> 00:19:37,586 -Well, find us something that will. 369 00:19:39,637 --> 00:19:41,257 [gentle score] 370 00:19:56,153 --> 00:19:57,743 [door closes] 371 00:20:21,178 --> 00:20:22,798 -Hm... 372 00:20:22,847 --> 00:20:24,637 [dramatic boom] 373 00:20:25,516 --> 00:20:26,976 [score fades out] 374 00:20:27,017 --> 00:20:30,187 -Ms. Amaranth? Hello? 375 00:20:30,855 --> 00:20:32,945 Hello? Ms. Amaranth! 376 00:20:35,234 --> 00:20:37,324 Ms. Amaranth, I’m pretty sure you’re in there. 377 00:20:37,778 --> 00:20:39,448 -Go away. 378 00:20:40,030 --> 00:20:43,660 -Ms, Amaranth, uh, my name is Lomax 379 00:20:44,118 --> 00:20:47,288 and this is my first day on a new job. 380 00:20:48,789 --> 00:20:50,499 My boss sent me over here to talk to you 381 00:20:50,541 --> 00:20:53,921 and if-- if you don’t so much as just open the door, 382 00:20:53,961 --> 00:20:56,711 he’s gonna write me off as an underachiever on day one. 383 00:20:57,465 --> 00:21:00,975 You don’t want me look bad on my first day, do ya? 384 00:21:04,889 --> 00:21:06,679 [multiple locks disengaging] 385 00:21:07,725 --> 00:21:09,355 [disquieting score] 386 00:21:13,939 --> 00:21:15,819 Hi. 387 00:21:18,569 --> 00:21:20,199 Can I come in? 388 00:21:27,328 --> 00:21:28,998 Thank you. 389 00:21:29,330 --> 00:21:30,750 [door hinges squeak] 390 00:21:30,790 --> 00:21:32,830 -Huh. -[door closes] 391 00:21:36,921 --> 00:21:38,711 -You’re the first woman they’ve sent. 392 00:21:40,257 --> 00:21:42,927 Mostly they’ve been workmen; hardhats. 393 00:21:43,928 --> 00:21:45,798 Then lawyers... 394 00:21:45,846 --> 00:21:48,096 I think one of them was a real estate guy. 395 00:21:48,140 --> 00:21:49,310 -Ooh. My boss. 396 00:21:50,476 --> 00:21:52,886 -You’re all wasting your time. I’m not leaving. 397 00:21:52,937 --> 00:21:56,437 -Actually, you are ’cause they have a warrant, 398 00:21:56,482 --> 00:21:59,232 which means they could, literally, pull you out of here 399 00:21:59,276 --> 00:22:02,026 kicking and screaming and throw your stuff on the lawn. 400 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:04,870 Or, 401 00:22:04,907 --> 00:22:06,487 you could leave with dignity 402 00:22:06,534 --> 00:22:12,124 and enough cash to buy yourself some place bigger, nicer. 403 00:22:12,164 --> 00:22:13,834 -And wouldn’t the press make a meal out of a 404 00:22:13,874 --> 00:22:17,294 greedy developer throwing a nice old lady out of her home. 405 00:22:17,336 --> 00:22:19,666 -That’s why their offer is so generous. 406 00:22:19,713 --> 00:22:21,343 But, Ms. Amaranth-- 407 00:22:21,382 --> 00:22:22,922 -Elsa. 408 00:22:24,134 --> 00:22:25,684 -Elsa... 409 00:22:25,719 --> 00:22:28,349 There is no way this ends with you staying in this apartment. 410 00:22:30,683 --> 00:22:32,393 How long have you been here, anyway? 411 00:22:32,434 --> 00:22:34,064 -Hm. 412 00:22:35,479 --> 00:22:37,109 Seems like forever. 413 00:22:47,658 --> 00:22:49,448 -It only talks to me when I’m alone. 414 00:22:50,661 --> 00:22:51,951 -And that’s why we’re going to 415 00:22:51,996 --> 00:22:55,116 Cyrano de Bergerac the shit out of it. 416 00:22:55,165 --> 00:22:56,995 -I’ll be listening in the other room. 417 00:22:57,042 --> 00:22:58,342 -I can tell you what to say. -[score fades out] 418 00:22:59,420 --> 00:23:01,670 -We can’t just incinerate the little turd? 419 00:23:01,714 --> 00:23:04,304 -No. And Morris... 420 00:23:04,341 --> 00:23:05,801 Give me your gun. 421 00:23:05,843 --> 00:23:08,183 -[laughs] Not gonna happen. 422 00:23:08,220 --> 00:23:10,600 -It’s not going to work against him. 423 00:23:11,181 --> 00:23:13,101 -[ominous score] -We don’t know that. 424 00:23:14,894 --> 00:23:16,854 -Give me the gun. 425 00:23:17,897 --> 00:23:19,517 [score intensifies] 426 00:23:30,701 --> 00:23:32,331 [sighs] 427 00:23:36,916 --> 00:23:38,536 [Morris sighs again] 428 00:23:46,884 --> 00:23:48,474 [score fades out] 429 00:23:51,096 --> 00:23:52,806 [traffic in distance, car horns honking] 430 00:23:53,724 --> 00:23:55,354 [suspenseful score] 431 00:23:55,893 --> 00:23:57,563 -Milk and sugar in your tea? 432 00:23:57,978 --> 00:24:00,018 -Uh, no. Straight up is fine. 433 00:24:00,064 --> 00:24:01,524 [teacup rattling] 434 00:24:05,319 --> 00:24:08,159 These vintage photos are amazing. 435 00:24:10,908 --> 00:24:12,778 Who’s this in this really old one? 436 00:24:12,826 --> 00:24:14,786 She looks just like you. 437 00:24:18,082 --> 00:24:20,172 -Yes. 438 00:24:20,876 --> 00:24:22,496 She does, doesn’t she? 439 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:24,590 [disquieting score] 440 00:24:26,590 --> 00:24:28,050 -Hello? 441 00:24:28,092 --> 00:24:29,682 [edgy score] 442 00:24:32,096 --> 00:24:33,756 So where are you? 443 00:24:35,224 --> 00:24:36,854 Aren’t you gonna scare me? 444 00:24:41,438 --> 00:24:43,568 Threaten to eat my fingers or-- 445 00:24:43,607 --> 00:24:46,687 -Morris. 446 00:24:47,111 --> 00:24:50,661 You’re such a scared little rabbit. 447 00:24:51,281 --> 00:24:53,491 -Tell him that you are not afraid. 448 00:24:53,534 --> 00:24:56,294 -Tell him-- -Your friend lies! 449 00:24:56,328 --> 00:25:00,918 He’s a lying liar! You are afraid. 450 00:25:00,958 --> 00:25:03,128 You’ll always be afraid! 451 00:25:03,961 --> 00:25:05,921 -Tell him he’s not real. 452 00:25:05,963 --> 00:25:07,423 [radio squelch] 453 00:25:07,464 --> 00:25:08,924 -You’re not real. 454 00:25:08,966 --> 00:25:12,216 -What if he’s right, Morris? -[static, interference] 455 00:25:12,261 --> 00:25:14,761 What if I’m nothing but your trembling, 456 00:25:14,805 --> 00:25:19,395 bed-wetty worry-worries whispering in your ear? 457 00:25:19,643 --> 00:25:21,103 -Tell him again. 458 00:25:21,145 --> 00:25:22,775 -You’re not real! 459 00:25:22,813 --> 00:25:26,863 -What’s worse, Morris? A coward or a fool? 460 00:25:26,900 --> 00:25:28,610 Or a bad son 461 00:25:28,652 --> 00:25:30,992 who couldn’t even protect his mother, 462 00:25:31,030 --> 00:25:34,740 a son so bad his own father ran away? 463 00:25:34,783 --> 00:25:36,413 [Morris screams] 464 00:25:39,079 --> 00:25:41,329 [approaching footsteps] 465 00:25:59,641 --> 00:26:01,271 [rattling] 466 00:26:07,191 --> 00:26:08,821 -I’ve had it. -Morris. 467 00:26:08,859 --> 00:26:10,279 -I’ve had it. I’m done. 468 00:26:10,319 --> 00:26:11,529 -Morris, you need to calm down. 469 00:26:11,570 --> 00:26:13,490 -Nobody talks that shit to me! Nobody. 470 00:26:13,530 --> 00:26:15,740 I am gonna burn that damn house to the ground 471 00:26:15,783 --> 00:26:17,413 and torch that shit along with it! 472 00:26:17,451 --> 00:26:19,121 -[car engine revving] -[tires squealing] 473 00:26:19,161 --> 00:26:20,791 [edgy score] 474 00:26:25,125 --> 00:26:26,835 [gasp] 475 00:26:26,877 --> 00:26:28,797 -Now, Elsa... 476 00:26:29,505 --> 00:26:31,425 put the knife down. 477 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,800 -Oh, I will, dear. 478 00:26:34,843 --> 00:26:36,723 [squealing tires] 479 00:26:37,137 --> 00:26:39,637 [gunshots] 480 00:26:45,312 --> 00:26:47,192 [squelching] 481 00:26:47,231 --> 00:26:48,901 [Lomax screams, gasps] 482 00:26:53,821 --> 00:26:55,491 I can’t die. 483 00:26:58,408 --> 00:27:00,658 -[squelching] -[blade ringing] 484 00:27:01,578 --> 00:27:03,458 Nothing can kill me. 485 00:27:03,831 --> 00:27:05,541 [vocalizing] 486 00:27:05,582 --> 00:27:07,502 Nothing I’ve found, anyway. 487 00:27:13,549 --> 00:27:15,179 [score fades out] 488 00:27:15,217 --> 00:27:16,837 -Okay... 489 00:27:16,885 --> 00:27:18,505 [tea sloshing] 490 00:27:21,014 --> 00:27:22,394 -So, you’ve been-- 491 00:27:22,432 --> 00:27:25,352 -I’ve been alive for over 500 years. 492 00:27:26,270 --> 00:27:28,020 I’ve lived here for over a 100. 493 00:27:28,856 --> 00:27:30,476 So you-- 494 00:27:30,524 --> 00:27:32,534 you see why I don’t want to leave. 495 00:27:33,026 --> 00:27:34,486 Why I can’t. 496 00:27:37,030 --> 00:27:38,570 [tea sloshing] 497 00:27:38,615 --> 00:27:40,655 -When was the last time you were outside? 498 00:27:40,701 --> 00:27:43,701 -I, uh... can scarcely remember. 499 00:27:43,745 --> 00:27:45,455 [gentle score] 500 00:27:47,457 --> 00:27:49,667 The war had just ended. 501 00:27:50,210 --> 00:27:52,170 -Which war? 502 00:27:52,212 --> 00:27:53,842 -Oh, pick one. 503 00:27:53,881 --> 00:27:55,511 [shaky inhale] 504 00:27:55,924 --> 00:27:57,554 I remember... 505 00:27:58,468 --> 00:28:00,048 I went outside. 506 00:28:01,388 --> 00:28:03,558 People were celebrating in the streets. 507 00:28:04,933 --> 00:28:08,563 A man grabbed me and kissed me and I was so frightened that... 508 00:28:09,479 --> 00:28:11,819 I went inside and I haven’t been out since. 509 00:28:13,108 --> 00:28:15,818 Oh, there’s always been someone to bring me groceries and... 510 00:28:16,987 --> 00:28:18,567 and books. 511 00:28:20,949 --> 00:28:26,289 And then Amazon and DoorDash and COVID 19 came along 512 00:28:26,330 --> 00:28:28,040 and the world caught up with me. 513 00:28:28,081 --> 00:28:29,791 -Still... 514 00:28:29,833 --> 00:28:32,593 -I just grew so tired of seeing friends... 515 00:28:34,504 --> 00:28:36,094 lovers... 516 00:28:37,674 --> 00:28:39,724 children, everybody I cared about 517 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,100 grow old and die while I just... 518 00:28:43,013 --> 00:28:44,603 stayed the same. 519 00:28:45,349 --> 00:28:47,099 Like a bug caught in amber. 520 00:28:47,601 --> 00:28:50,151 -You know, I feel you. [sighs] 521 00:28:50,854 --> 00:28:53,444 I can understand the downside of living too long. 522 00:28:53,941 --> 00:28:55,191 But I gotta say 523 00:28:55,234 --> 00:28:58,454 there are a lot of people who live too short. 524 00:28:59,696 --> 00:29:02,116 I met some of them on my last job. 525 00:29:02,616 --> 00:29:04,616 -I crave permanence. 526 00:29:06,370 --> 00:29:08,750 This was supposed to be my forever home. 527 00:29:10,165 --> 00:29:11,785 -Let me show you something. 528 00:29:15,212 --> 00:29:16,882 These... 529 00:29:17,965 --> 00:29:19,635 are houses... 530 00:29:19,675 --> 00:29:21,345 you can buy with what the developer 531 00:29:21,385 --> 00:29:23,435 is going to pay you. 532 00:29:23,470 --> 00:29:25,100 Some of them are really nice. Look... 533 00:29:26,682 --> 00:29:28,772 they’ll move your furniture and all your stuff in there 534 00:29:28,809 --> 00:29:30,519 and you can be every bit as comfortable there 535 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,060 as you are here. 536 00:29:32,104 --> 00:29:34,984 Even more so because people like me will stop bugging you. 537 00:29:40,988 --> 00:29:42,358 [paper crinkling] 538 00:29:42,406 --> 00:29:44,066 -Thank you. I-I have a home. 539 00:29:49,288 --> 00:29:50,998 -I’m not giving up. 540 00:29:53,250 --> 00:29:54,920 [brochure down on table] 541 00:29:59,715 --> 00:30:01,515 -It was very nice talking to you. 542 00:30:02,050 --> 00:30:04,590 -Well, it’s not like you have anyone to compare me to. 543 00:30:05,512 --> 00:30:07,142 And just so you know, 544 00:30:07,180 --> 00:30:08,930 present company excluded, 545 00:30:10,350 --> 00:30:12,190 any poor schmuck can die. 546 00:30:13,270 --> 00:30:16,190 But to live, to truly live? 547 00:30:17,607 --> 00:30:19,277 Takes work. 548 00:30:25,365 --> 00:30:26,985 [receding footsteps] 549 00:30:27,034 --> 00:30:28,704 [door opens] 550 00:30:29,328 --> 00:30:31,038 [door closes] 551 00:30:34,541 --> 00:30:38,091 [score fades out] 552 00:30:38,128 --> 00:30:39,498 [indistinct police radio chatter] 553 00:30:39,546 --> 00:30:41,336 [gentle score] 554 00:30:43,967 --> 00:30:45,427 -I didn’t see the shooter. 555 00:30:45,469 --> 00:30:48,599 Uh, the car was a sedan. White, I think. 556 00:30:49,431 --> 00:30:51,351 -You’re pretty quiet, Mister Truby. 557 00:30:51,391 --> 00:30:52,771 -Never saw ’em before. 558 00:30:52,809 --> 00:30:55,399 -You’ve got quite a colorful history. 559 00:30:55,437 --> 00:30:57,767 -See, the important word there is history. 560 00:30:58,648 --> 00:30:59,858 Old news. 561 00:30:59,900 --> 00:31:02,650 -Make sure we have your contact information. 562 00:31:02,694 --> 00:31:05,704 -We’ll be getting in touch. -We gave the officer my card. 563 00:31:06,406 --> 00:31:08,236 [receding footsteps] 564 00:31:09,493 --> 00:31:11,373 -[car door closes] -Hey, thanks. 565 00:31:11,912 --> 00:31:14,082 -You actually saved my life. [score fades out] 566 00:31:14,122 --> 00:31:15,292 Not to mention what would have happened 567 00:31:15,332 --> 00:31:17,292 if that cop found me carrying a gun. 568 00:31:17,334 --> 00:31:19,544 [sighs] Let me buy you a drink? 569 00:31:19,586 --> 00:31:21,586 -Do you know who took a shot at you? 570 00:31:22,381 --> 00:31:24,421 -I owe them money. 571 00:31:25,133 --> 00:31:27,093 And they’re trying to kill a dead man. 572 00:31:31,515 --> 00:31:33,475 The headaches started when I was in prison. 573 00:31:33,517 --> 00:31:36,097 -I thought it was lack of sleep. -[indistinct conversations] 574 00:31:36,561 --> 00:31:38,401 The nightmares were coming back hard. 575 00:31:39,064 --> 00:31:40,694 -The voice under the bed. 576 00:31:41,149 --> 00:31:42,859 -Yeah. 577 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,700 Then a few months ago I had an MRI. 578 00:31:46,696 --> 00:31:48,156 [tender score] 579 00:31:48,198 --> 00:31:50,698 They call it a grade 4 glioblastoma. 580 00:31:52,702 --> 00:31:54,332 Brain tumor. 581 00:31:54,371 --> 00:31:56,161 Last dance. 582 00:31:58,041 --> 00:31:59,831 -I’m sorry. 583 00:31:59,876 --> 00:32:01,246 -So, basically, 584 00:32:01,294 --> 00:32:04,054 I made up a checklist of three things I needed to do 585 00:32:04,714 --> 00:32:06,554 while I was vertical and lucid: 586 00:32:07,926 --> 00:32:09,546 Sell my mom’s house; 587 00:32:10,429 --> 00:32:12,849 settle the score with that thing under the bed; 588 00:32:15,058 --> 00:32:16,938 and then I gotta get to Elko, Nevada. 589 00:32:17,436 --> 00:32:19,266 -What’s in Elko, Nevada? 590 00:32:19,813 --> 00:32:21,443 -My daughter. 591 00:32:24,818 --> 00:32:26,438 She’s 19. 592 00:32:29,197 --> 00:32:31,237 I haven’t seen her since I got out. 593 00:32:35,412 --> 00:32:37,252 She never gave up on me. 594 00:32:38,999 --> 00:32:40,629 -Nice. 595 00:32:40,667 --> 00:32:42,377 -Yeah, well, 596 00:32:42,419 --> 00:32:44,379 so far I am zero for three. 597 00:32:44,421 --> 00:32:46,381 [phone onto counter] 598 00:32:46,423 --> 00:32:49,133 I am gonna get rid of that house and that thing 599 00:32:49,176 --> 00:32:50,796 one way or another. 600 00:32:50,844 --> 00:32:52,394 -Morris, the voice, 601 00:32:52,429 --> 00:32:55,059 the monster, what it said about your mom and dad-- 602 00:32:55,098 --> 00:32:57,228 -No. It was just trying to piss me off. 603 00:32:57,267 --> 00:32:59,227 -Maybe there’s more to it? -Let it go. 604 00:32:59,936 --> 00:33:01,596 It’s not something I really want to talk about. 605 00:33:01,646 --> 00:33:03,056 -That is what I’m saying! 606 00:33:05,192 --> 00:33:06,902 I know a little about how complicated 607 00:33:06,943 --> 00:33:10,033 the whole parent thing can be -- dads, moms. 608 00:33:11,948 --> 00:33:13,448 You can ignore it. 609 00:33:13,992 --> 00:33:16,412 But it’s always there because it’s a part of you. 610 00:33:16,453 --> 00:33:18,203 It’s where you came from. 611 00:33:22,250 --> 00:33:23,880 And until you confront it, 612 00:33:25,295 --> 00:33:26,925 it’s your unfinished business. 613 00:33:28,798 --> 00:33:31,008 -[glass down on bar] -Stick to real estate. 614 00:33:32,469 --> 00:33:34,099 You’re a lousy shrink. 615 00:33:35,013 --> 00:33:37,523 -[cash onto counter] -Now, if you’ll excuse me, 616 00:33:39,017 --> 00:33:40,637 I have some boxes to check. 617 00:33:42,604 --> 00:33:44,444 [glass down on counter] 618 00:33:49,736 --> 00:33:52,606 -See, the MEE is flat. It’s not malevolent. 619 00:33:52,656 --> 00:33:55,196 -[score fades out] -It wants to eat his fingers. 620 00:33:55,825 --> 00:33:58,235 -The MEE does not measure rhetoric; 621 00:33:58,286 --> 00:34:00,076 only intent. 622 00:34:00,121 --> 00:34:01,791 It does not wish him ill. 623 00:34:02,249 --> 00:34:04,039 -I gotta ask: 624 00:34:04,084 --> 00:34:05,794 that prison tattoo thing? 625 00:34:07,754 --> 00:34:09,174 -My big brother. 626 00:34:09,214 --> 00:34:11,674 I idolized him. He was... 627 00:34:11,716 --> 00:34:15,756 smart in all the ways I was not. 628 00:34:16,596 --> 00:34:18,506 -So what happened? 629 00:34:18,557 --> 00:34:20,927 -He was stopped at the wrong intersection 630 00:34:20,976 --> 00:34:24,396 by the wrong police officer with the wrong companion. 631 00:34:25,438 --> 00:34:27,648 -Damn. -It was only two years. 632 00:34:27,691 --> 00:34:29,691 -[tender score] -24 months. 633 00:34:30,318 --> 00:34:32,028 But... 634 00:34:32,070 --> 00:34:33,240 he came out of jail 635 00:34:33,989 --> 00:34:37,529 with the hard look of someone I didn’t know. 636 00:34:38,493 --> 00:34:40,123 And lots of ink, 637 00:34:41,204 --> 00:34:43,124 just like Mister Truby. 638 00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:45,710 -I’m sorry. 639 00:34:46,209 --> 00:34:48,039 -He died a quiet death 640 00:34:49,087 --> 00:34:50,707 12 weeks later. 641 00:34:51,881 --> 00:34:53,551 A knife in the guts. 642 00:34:57,554 --> 00:34:59,894 My brilliant brother. 643 00:35:00,557 --> 00:35:02,387 [phone buzzing] 644 00:35:03,226 --> 00:35:05,056 [sucks teeth] 645 00:35:05,103 --> 00:35:06,563 [buzzing continues] 646 00:35:07,022 --> 00:35:09,572 -You know, I am so sorry. I gotta take this. 647 00:35:10,317 --> 00:35:11,937 Phil Orley. 648 00:35:12,402 --> 00:35:14,822 Yeah, Anthony is my husband. Is he okay? 649 00:35:16,364 --> 00:35:18,494 -When? -[score becomes darker] 650 00:35:18,533 --> 00:35:21,083 All right, I’m on my way. Where should I--? 651 00:35:22,245 --> 00:35:23,785 Emergency? 652 00:35:27,584 --> 00:35:29,004 [score fades out] 653 00:35:29,044 --> 00:35:31,174 [elevator arriving chime, doors open] 654 00:35:31,212 --> 00:35:32,842 [Luke sighs] 655 00:35:33,340 --> 00:35:35,380 -Morning. -Late night? 656 00:35:35,425 --> 00:35:37,095 -Kinda. August in? 657 00:35:37,135 --> 00:35:39,965 -Yeah. Hey, Luke, um... 658 00:35:41,598 --> 00:35:44,018 -I’m worried about Susan. -We talked about this. 659 00:35:44,059 --> 00:35:46,389 -No, no, no, no, no! Listen, listen, listen, okay? 660 00:35:46,436 --> 00:35:49,556 I went by her new place and it is like nobody 661 00:35:49,606 --> 00:35:52,356 even lives there. I mean, the drapes are closed 662 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:54,360 in the middle of the day and at night it’s-- 663 00:35:54,402 --> 00:35:56,702 -How often do you drive by? -[gentle score] 664 00:35:57,405 --> 00:35:58,945 -I’m just worried. 665 00:35:58,990 --> 00:36:02,120 Okay? I-I call her and her voicemail’s full. 666 00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,950 I email and nothing. I-I text, I get nothing. 667 00:36:04,996 --> 00:36:08,366 Or something that I can’t even imagine Susan would say. 668 00:36:08,416 --> 00:36:10,126 -I’ll give her a try. 669 00:36:10,168 --> 00:36:12,418 -Yes! Please. Thank you. 670 00:36:16,007 --> 00:36:19,717 -The voicemail box of Susan Ireland is full. 671 00:36:19,761 --> 00:36:21,391 -Goodbye. -[approaching footsteps] 672 00:36:21,429 --> 00:36:23,759 -[knocking on door] -You got a sec? 673 00:36:23,807 --> 00:36:25,467 -Yeah. 674 00:36:26,976 --> 00:36:28,766 [sighs] 675 00:36:28,812 --> 00:36:31,562 -I struck out on the squatter. 676 00:36:32,315 --> 00:36:33,475 -I’m not surprised. 677 00:36:33,525 --> 00:36:36,155 -She is determined to stay for... 678 00:36:36,778 --> 00:36:37,988 reasons. 679 00:36:38,029 --> 00:36:40,869 -But you talked to her. She opened up to you. 680 00:36:42,033 --> 00:36:44,453 -Opened up is what she did, yeah. 681 00:36:44,494 --> 00:36:46,084 [edgy score] 682 00:36:46,121 --> 00:36:48,831 What happened to your "monster under the bed" guy? 683 00:36:49,999 --> 00:36:52,289 -I’m worried he’s going to do something dumb. 684 00:36:52,335 --> 00:36:53,995 [crow cawing] 685 00:37:07,016 --> 00:37:08,846 [score crescendos, fades out] 686 00:37:12,856 --> 00:37:14,316 [tense score] 687 00:37:14,357 --> 00:37:15,937 [liquid sloshing] 688 00:37:20,989 --> 00:37:22,569 [measured exhale] 689 00:37:35,962 --> 00:37:37,922 [deep inhale] 690 00:37:39,382 --> 00:37:42,132 -I... hate you. 691 00:37:47,474 --> 00:37:49,564 I hate what you did to me. 692 00:37:53,897 --> 00:37:57,067 You made me a bully and a criminal. 693 00:38:00,737 --> 00:38:02,527 You made me a monster. 694 00:38:05,700 --> 00:38:07,370 [sob] Goddam you! 695 00:38:07,410 --> 00:38:09,080 You’ve made me just like you! 696 00:38:12,373 --> 00:38:14,003 So tonight... 697 00:38:15,585 --> 00:38:17,255 I am going to burn it all down. 698 00:38:21,633 --> 00:38:23,513 I am gonna die. 699 00:38:25,178 --> 00:38:26,718 But first... 700 00:38:26,763 --> 00:38:28,973 you are gonna burn. 701 00:38:30,934 --> 00:38:32,604 [monster laughs] 702 00:38:32,936 --> 00:38:34,846 -Don’t die. 703 00:38:36,523 --> 00:38:38,153 -What do you- what do you mean? 704 00:38:38,191 --> 00:38:39,901 -Don’t die! 705 00:38:39,943 --> 00:38:44,663 I wasn’t-- I didn’t be to make you afraid! 706 00:38:44,697 --> 00:38:47,527 It was to stop you afraid! 707 00:38:48,451 --> 00:38:49,911 -I don’t believe you. 708 00:38:49,953 --> 00:38:52,963 -But you do! You do believe! 709 00:38:52,997 --> 00:38:55,077 Oh, Morrisss, 710 00:38:55,124 --> 00:39:00,174 I live to make you scared of me so you become tough! 711 00:39:00,213 --> 00:39:01,673 Haaarrrd! 712 00:39:01,714 --> 00:39:04,554 Not scared of nobody ever again! 713 00:39:04,592 --> 00:39:08,852 Not the bad man, not nobodeee! 714 00:39:09,472 --> 00:39:10,932 -The bad man? 715 00:39:10,974 --> 00:39:15,274 -But then you got so mean, Morris. 716 00:39:15,311 --> 00:39:16,851 So mean! 717 00:39:16,896 --> 00:39:20,686 I’m sorry, soooo sorry. 718 00:39:21,234 --> 00:39:23,324 -Why are you still here? 719 00:39:24,112 --> 00:39:28,452 -I only live for scare you, Morris! 720 00:39:28,491 --> 00:39:30,121 But never enough. 721 00:39:30,159 --> 00:39:32,699 You stay hard and mean. 722 00:39:32,745 --> 00:39:35,245 -[Morris sobs] -I get tired. 723 00:39:36,165 --> 00:39:37,875 I fail. 724 00:39:37,917 --> 00:39:42,247 So sorry, Morrisss. 725 00:39:42,297 --> 00:39:45,587 -If I stood up to you once, just-just one time, 726 00:39:48,761 --> 00:39:50,891 would my life have been different? 727 00:39:52,348 --> 00:39:56,138 -I’m sorry, Morrisss. 728 00:39:56,185 --> 00:39:59,765 I don’t want you to die. 729 00:40:01,357 --> 00:40:03,277 [Morris sobbing] 730 00:40:31,679 --> 00:40:33,309 [tender score continues] 731 00:40:37,310 --> 00:40:38,980 [loud inhale] 732 00:40:39,812 --> 00:40:41,652 [wavering exhale] 733 00:40:44,317 --> 00:40:45,777 [calm exhale] 734 00:40:45,818 --> 00:40:47,648 [score fades out] 735 00:40:48,529 --> 00:40:50,319 [phone dings twice] 736 00:40:51,699 --> 00:40:53,199 [click, swoop] 737 00:40:53,242 --> 00:40:54,792 [gentle score] 738 00:40:54,827 --> 00:40:56,497 [buttons clacking] 739 00:40:59,499 --> 00:41:01,129 [swoops] 740 00:41:02,585 --> 00:41:04,165 -[buttons clacking] -[swoops] 741 00:41:10,593 --> 00:41:12,263 [swoop] 742 00:41:13,346 --> 00:41:15,006 [swoop] 743 00:41:21,187 --> 00:41:22,857 [buttons clacking] 744 00:41:27,026 --> 00:41:28,686 [swoop] 745 00:41:29,445 --> 00:41:31,025 [click] 746 00:41:35,493 --> 00:41:37,163 -Until you confront it, 747 00:41:40,123 --> 00:41:41,963 it’s your unfinished business. 748 00:41:45,420 --> 00:41:47,050 [pensive score] 749 00:42:01,728 --> 00:42:03,398 [knocking on door] 750 00:42:15,324 --> 00:42:16,914 [baby crying] 751 00:42:28,296 --> 00:42:29,706 [cooing] 752 00:42:29,756 --> 00:42:31,416 -[Anthony] Hm. 753 00:42:54,363 --> 00:42:56,033 [score fades out]