- [Soft music playing] - [Clatters]
[Doors opening]
[Birds chirping]
Alba: What did you do with his clothes?
- I burned them. Most of them.
Alba: What is this?
Batty: I don't know.
Alba: Make sure to sand it down, it looks dreadful.
Make the bed first.
And bring me a lamp from the living room.
I need light.
And then run me a bath.
[***]
Can you cook?
- A little. I like to.
- What can you cook?
- Fish soup.
Omelette.
Roast chicken.
Eggplant caponata.
- That's it?
- Avocado toast?
- I like Indian.
Palak paneer, biryani.
Korma.
Learn.
[Footsteps receding]
Mm- hm.
[Water splashes]
[***]
[Voice- over] At first, ruling over someone
feels perfectly natural.
Batty: Thank you.
For not turning me in.
I don't deserve it.
Thank you.
Thank you for letting me live.
Thank you.
[***]
Alba: Did you poison it?
Batty: No.
Alba: Which one is mine?
Drink it.
You have 30 seconds.
Now drink yours. In one fell swoop.
[Sighs] I want to be alone.
Go swim in the ocean.
I'll watch you from here.
Try not to drown.
It would be so suspicious,
it would probably get me arrested,
but you'd be dead, so you couldn't enjoy it.
[Sighs]
[***]
[Waves splashing]
[***]
[Birds chirping]
[Water running]
[Birds chirping]
[Voice- over] Cruelty is underrated.
It's surprisingly easy to order people around
and make them do ridiculous things,
particularly monsters who steal your husband,
your house, and your entire identity.
- You have lovely hair.
[***]
[Water running]
[Gas stove clicks]
[Chopping]
[Cutlery clinks]
Do you like it?
- No.
- What can I do better?
- I can write a whole book about that.
- That's not very constructive.
Alba: Put this on.
Over your eyes.
Are you dizzy? - Yes.
- Are you dizzier?
Batty: Yes.
[Footsteps]
[Chair slides]
Alba: Follow the sound of my voice.
[Footsteps]
[Chair thuds]
Come to me.
[Glass shatters]
Are you afraid?
- Yes.
- Come to me.
[Footsteps]
[Chair clatters]
Did I say stop?
[Loud thud]
[Batty shaking]
- Settle down, Batty.
There's no need to shake.
You do not have permission to shake.
[Batty breathing heavily]
- Mm- hm.
[Batty breathing heavily]
- Good.
Now come to me.
[Batty breathing heavily]
Alba: Stop.
Take one step backwards.
Down on your knees.
Crawl to me.
[Tense music playing] [Batty breathing heavily]
- Well done.
[Crickets chirping] [Water dripping]
[Squeaking]
[Water dripping]
[Exhales]
[Voice- over] It helped when she fought back.
It felt like validation.
I was on the right track.
- How did you sleep?
- Fine.
You?
- Fine.
- I know you love your cold milk.
Lap it up.
[Soft dramatic music playing]
[Wind blowing]
[Birds chirping]
Did you know about me when you met Archie?
- Yes.
- You said he told you it was over between us.
- But he didn't say that.
- What did he say exactly?
- He said you were a capricious child
with zero interest in him,
a narcissist who took pictures of yourself all day.
That making love had become merely copulation,
the most unimaginative activity on earth.
That he was suffocating.
- Oh.
[Voice- over] But slowly, the conundrum of repetition
begins to weigh on you.
You have to keep upping the stakes
and it becomes a lot like a job
like the poor souls who work at the post office
and go ballistic because
the mail simply keeps on coming.
- Would you like anything else?
- Sing.
Yes, little monkey. Sing.
[Footsteps]
- * Seems like you were In a glass hotel *
* Seems like *
* Seems like there was Someone else as well *
* Seems like *
* Seems *
* Seems like you were in your glass hotel *
* Seems like *
* It seems like Everything was going well *
* It seems like a dream *
* Well the radio was playing *
* In the darkness of the hall *
* There was someone Standing with you *
* Who just wasn't there at all *
* And you were laughing *
* Well the telephone was ringing *
* In a corridor of blue *
* A geranium came out of it Reminded me of you *
* And I was crying *
* Seems like you were In a glass hotel *
* Seems like, it seems like *
* Seems like there was Someone else as well *
* It seems like it seems *
* Well, there's nothing In the future *
* And there's nothing In the past *
* There is only This one moment *
* And you've Got to make it last *
* And you were laughing *
In a glass hotel *
[***]
Alba: [Voice- over] I thought about her day and night.
I considered her my friend.
[Waves splashing]
Well, not a friend.
Not exactly.
I was in a state of... confusion.
I dreamt about her constantly.
[Waves splashing]
[***]
How did it happen?
- It's the heat.
- Where are your clothes?
This is so embarrassing. Wear this.
[Gasps]
[Breathes deeply]
[Voice- over] It became clear
I had to bring the game to a stop.
So I set a trap.
I would demand something she couldn't possibly submit to.
I have devised a game.
I hope you will have as much fun playing it
as I had devising it.
Have you noticed the construction site
across from the market?
- Yes.
- You will go there.
You will pay three workers 500 dollars apiece
to come home with you.
The biggest, meanest, roughest ones.
You will fuck all three of them here in front of me.
- What if they don't speak English?
- Repeat after me: Boys.
- Boys.
- I need you to fill all my holes.
- I need you to fill all my eggs.
- Holes.
- Means "holes". Huevos means "eggs".
- Oh.
- Go on.
[Soft emotional music]
[Receding footsteps]
[Soft emotional music]
[Voice-over] What if you met someone
willing to do anything you ask of them.
Anything at all.
[***]
Stop.
I'm so sorry.
So terribly sorry.
I don't know why I did that.
This is not who I am.
[Water running]
Please forgive me.
- Maybe we're not who we think we are.
- I'm so sorry.
- Maybe everybody thinks they're someone they're not.
- Can I ask you a question?
- I don't know.
- Can I ask you a question?
- I guess.
- Do you ever say what you mean?
- Not very often. You?
- Do you like to be told what to do?
- Is this another game?
- No.
- Is this another game?
[Water running]
[Tap squeaks]
[***]
[Waves splashing]
[Crickets chirping]
[Knocks on door]
- Come in.
[Door opens]
- Just wanted to say good night.
- Good night.
Do you want to sleep here with me?
- No.
- You could move into this room for a little bit.
- Thank you.
I appreciate it.
[Door closes]
- [Sighs]
[Crickets chirping]
[Distant flogging]
[Gasps]
[Footsteps thudding on stairs]
[Flogging]
Batty! Batty?
Stop that right now.
Batty!
Please don't do this.
[Drawer opens]
Stop! Right! Now!
What are you doing?
- Let me go.
[Alba shushing]
- Tell me what to do.
Please tell me what to do.
[Panting]
- Where did you find a Bible?
Where did you find this?
Did Inocencia leave this here?
[Bible thuds]
- It makes no sense.
It makes perfect sense.
[Panting]
[Cries]
[Door opens]
[Light switch clicking]
[Water running]
[Door creaks]
[Soft music playing]
[Soft kisses]
[Light switch clicks]
[***]