All the Lord's Men (2022) Movie Script
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Going somewhere?
Just...
Larry is writing again.
Follow me.
- You see this house?
- I see it.
It's formerly
an orphanage for the Irish.
- You've been in Ireland, Shiela?
- I have not been in Ireland, sir.
- Never flown on Aer Lingus.
- No.
Well, the stewardesses
aboard an Aer Lingus flight are
not much to phone home about.
But if you ever find yourself on
a 9:00 a.m. to Dublin out of NYC,
don't hesitate
to ask for Millie.
Millie?
Former wife and mother
to my very first test tube baby.
Ten years a model
for Irish men she was.
Mm. Irish met the cigarettes?
Ten years a model. Oh, yeah.
A model.
Buzz her on a 9:00 a.m.
to Dublin out of NYC,
and say, "Busner says, 'Hi.'"
"Busner says, 'Hi.'"
Busner says, "Hi,"
and she'll let you smoke...
- in the lavatory.
- I don't smoke.
The French are coming.
What's the modern day?
Not five hundred years from now.
You could have vision, Shiela.
It's my jazz.
You've got to have vision.
Larry?
Larry, my boy.
Oh, he has vision.
He's got bad vision, wrong vision.
Thinks he's been touched.
Oh!
Take a touched man before I
dare a glance at the dead man.
It's our spirit.
I'm feeling inspired.
I don't know.
Get back out there, Shiela.
Give Larry a pat on the back
and tug him where it hurts.
- Hmm.
- Go on.
- Jimmy, this is your fault.
- Fuck you, Jerry. Fuck you.
Take me out
to the fucking desert.
You know, you should be happy
I brought you along.
All right, all right.
You should.
Probably one of the Mars trains.
The fucking train doesn't end.
- Probably going to Mars.
- It probably is.
You know,
where the fuck are we, Jimmy?
- So this is the place, huh?
- Yeah.
On a scale from one to ten,
how insane is he?
More than you or I.
I'm clinically insane.
Yeah, we both are.
So I was thinking, you spill
the beans in paragraph one.
You spell, "Casual genocide
swirling in on monthly waves,"
but you say it in French.
So, might sound cool.
- I heard there will be dancing.
- I heard that too.
- I heard she's gonna dance us till we drop.
- Hearsay.
- The French are coming.
- Hmm.
"The French are coming.
The French are coming."
That's all they say.
You know, I... I voyaged
to the Middle East once. Uh...
- Okay. How was it?
- It was hard, you know.
And the sand, it was,
like, really coarse.
Uh, but...
But sonically, it was heaven,
you know, just blue sky
everywhere and sounds and...
I don't know, it's like your
forever nightclub, you know?
It was cool.
You got to go there one day.
Morocco.
June.
That would've been my dream.
- It's gonna have to be 2069.
- Mm.
You can't be living like that,
in the past.
I like you girls
better than I do the boys.
Where did you go to
medical school, Doctor?
Harvard, Yale College.
An Ivy League?
Is it true what they say?
About the day at the barricades?
Is it all true?
I got to go.
I don't believe he is
who he says he is.
What do you think, Ines?
I think...
let's keep
our mouths shut till D-Day.
Damn.
Jimmy...
it's murder and cop, then.
Officer...
Go ahead.
- Mm.
- across the street.
Let's go.
You know, the architecture
in this town,
it never ceases to amaze me.
I'll lead.
If this woman is
who they say she is...
we're dead.
Shit, yeah.
- You're kidding me.
- I'm afraid I'm not.
- You've got no leads?
- Not a one.
Then what the fuck
are you still doing here?
Nice house.
Nice lady.
Here on your dime.
Here on your dime.
That's what's what.
You're new?
You've never seen me before,
and yet you're worried
if he's new?
What if I'm new too?
- You're new?
- Not in the sense you mean.
- Looked pretty normal to me.
- Yeah, he's pretty quiet.
Anyways, Myra,
obviously it's quite sad
that your husband
has been murdered
for more than a year now.
But I hope that you've realized
that we didn't just come here
for the purposes of a powwow,
like we're doing now.
Jimmy.
All righty, then.
Anyway, Myra,
it seems to me that the
disappearance of your husband
has caused quite a boom
in your business venture.
If we can call
the import and export
of crack cocaine from Nigeria
a business venture.
It's business.
I export by means of things
of which I import.
And she admits to the venture.
Now tell me, Mrs. Gold,
is it not strange
to your virgin ears
that your revenues have tripled
ever since the, "Oh,
so mysterious disappearance"
of a so called
- Mr. Gold?
- He was a time suck.
I pour all my angst
into business.
It's a coping mechanism...
Grief 101.
Yes.
Don't I know it?
Will that be all?
- I'm sad, Jimmy.
- I'm sad too, Jerry.
And Dr. Busner says...
that I'm clinically insane.
Whatever that means.
I... I think it...
means you're insane.
- Clinically.
- Am I a fool?
No, man.
How could you be
a fool in that coat?
I mean, it is nice, isn't it?
I got it, um, from Steve
Harrington's blowout sale.
I mean, before he got...
He went to Coeur d'Alene.
I mean, there's a lot
of prime real estate there.
- Think they need PI's?
- I don't know, man.
You don't know?
What do you know, Jimmy?
I know we're a couple of the best
damn PI's this side since NAM.
Since NAM?
Since forever, Jimmy.
Because we see things, Jimmy.
We see things.
And don't you
take that for granted.
I don't, baby, I don't.
Is that Busner?
Yeah.
He says north.
He says to head north.
And keep our eyes peeled.
So?
I used to think
all adult women were glamorous.
Like in Sex and the City.
That's not me, hon.
I like your vest.
- Well, T.J. Maxx.
- Mm.
Must have been quite a bargain.
- I stole it.
- Hmm.
Is that how you get your kicks?
Hardly the only way.
Would you mind showing me
how else you get your kicks?
Do you have 20 minutes?
Sure.
Follow me.
I just see...
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!
Yes!
Door was open, baby.
Writing?
Haven't stopped.
You're gonna make
yourself sick writing all day.
You woke up at 9:00 a.m. and
made yourself a pizza, Shiela.
Don't tell me
how to live my life,
I won't tell you
how to live yours.
Any idea
when that door is coming?
Supplier from Morocco had
to hire a contractor from Dubai.
Man's fee is 200K.
Somewhere someone's
waiting on a wire.
Until then, I suppose...
until Myra wills it.
You have high hopes
with this woman.
I'm afraid she seduced me.
She's like a Beetle.
Or a Rolling Stone.
I salivate.
I simply don't know what to do.
She told you to write this book?
This text. Yes.
- What sort of text?
- Religious text.
A tome for the eons.
Something infinite.
- Yes. Grand!
- Mm.
- Yes, grand.
- Can I help?
The ancient faiths of the world
were written by one man,
Shiela, solely inspired.
Moses spoke to his bush.
Mohammed spoke to the winds.
Larry speaks
to Myra from Geneva.
She's from Geneva?
- She has no accent.
- Tell me, Shiela.
If you were all-powerful, would
you not remove your accent?
I have no accent.
Look at those girls
from New Zealand.
Do you think they're happy
talking like a couple of dingoes?
Dingoes are Australian.
Don't you see?
It's the same thing.
I don't think New Zealanders
would be too happy
with this disdain
you're putting on.
Don't you talk to me
about New Zealanders.
This, this is a sacred space.
I will not endure such...
frivolity while I...
How do I put this politely?
Would you please get
the fuck... fuck out?
Fuck you. No.
It's about us, isn't it?
Who would read about us?
It's about us.
It's about all of us.
The human race needs
a spokesman.
And I am that man.
Perhaps... I could write
a chapter about us.
Air all our dirty laundry
to the world?
It won't be like that.
I am writing
for a post-cleansed world.
I'm writing for a world
free of guilt and shame,
where I could share our story
and share it proud.
And the world...
the world would read my tome.
And they will say there,
there with a hint of truth.
Like in the tales of old.
What language is that?
"When the Tower
of Babylon fell..."
"the world descended
into chaos, fell into chaos."
From whence we came,
lie the ruins
of a thousand and one languages,
dead to you, dead to me,
dead to all of us.
But I have been in contact
with a higher power.
I have tutored
in the final tongue,
the one true tongue.
The holy tongue and that...
that is the tongue
which you read.
Damn, boy!
I'll leave you to it.
I know you're testing me a lot.
I know your tricks!
We are a couple of dirty dogs,
you and me.
A couple of dirty, dirty dogs.
I'll tell you something.
Try as you might,
I will not say, "Woof."
Larry will not say, "Woof."
Yes!
What happened here?
- Murder?
- Is that the two greatest detectives in all of LA?
Wednesday is my Jazz Day.
I mainly file the classics.
Your Herbie Hancock
and all that.
Your C. Parker, your M. Davis.
The classics.
Hey, I'm gonna investigate
right over here.
You like jazz, Jimmy?
I don't know.
Give this a listen.
See you back in the castle.
- Can I help you?
- We're here to investigate a murder.
- Here?
- Yeah.
Okay.
I've been here all day,
I haven't seen any murder.
- Feel free to have a look around.
- Oh, isn't that convenience?
You guys are with Dr. Busner?
I don't know
what you're talking about, sir.
I'm Detective Jimmy.
This is my colleague, Jerry,
also a detective with the LAPD.
Special Unit.
Busner sends his best.
Anyway, sir, um,
your accent.
- I can't quite place it.
- It's French.
Ah, Oui.
Are you here on business?
- I don't believe in business.
- Oh, he does not
- believe in business.
- believe in business.
You idiots.
I've got your leads.
It's gonna give me coordinates.
Oui.
You're a good man.
This place must have used to be
one of those rave clubs.
Yeah. Takes me back to Berlin.
- The French flag.
- Yeah.
Now, you could sleep here,
dance here.
Bathroom is down yonder.
Hip, hip, hip, hip.
Inside, inside, inside.
They're recruits. Budapest.
Oui.
You with Busner?
Yeah.
You don't remember me?
No.
Miss, if I may?
What the fuck
are you doing out here?
- I'm Allison.
- That's a great fucking name, Allison.
But that doesn't answer
my fucking question.
Waiting for you.
Federico.
Hey.
Hello.
Was there a...
Was there a murder in here?
Not that I know of.
Mm, just taking
a little nappy-nap?
Yeah.
You, uh,
live in this shack?
I guess so.
You ever wondered
where it all went wrong?
Every day.
Are you LAPD?
- Special unit.
- Damn!
Mm-hmm.
You know, I got a hunch
that you didn't make any
contributions to the state last year.
How much did you pay in taxes?
I didn't.
Figured.
Well, no one's gonna miss you.
Jimmy.
Hey...
Busner.
Busner?
You know,
I was thinking,
once this whole thing is over,
we should all go grab a drink
in my brother's bar in Paris.
- Drinks on me.
- Mm.
You'll have to teach me
to speak Italian.
No, I thought
I'd teach you Swedish, actually.
- And she's got a sense of humor.
- Nah!
- I think you're funny, Myra.
- Thank you.
- I feel safe when I'm with you.
- Okay.
Can I ask you something?
Sure.
How do you do it with so
many people and not feel...
Like a slut?
A bad person.
A woman willeth
what a woman wanteth.
- What?
- I'm unemployed, Ines.
- I liked it.
- I do too.
Maybe in Europe, anything goes.
- No, sweetie, it's not like that anymore.
- But you are.
It's true.
You're like the Rolling Stones.
If they were a woman
and didn't play music.
Did someone say Rolling Stones?
I've got a couple of rolling
stones of my own I'd like to share.
Shut the fuck up, Larry.
Americans.
- Is that really her?
- Yes.
Why do you always have to be
such a creep, Larry?
I've got to lead my life
on my terms, girls.
On my terms.
Perhaps, one day,
you two will embrace yourselves
the way that I have,
both the good parts and bad.
Is it loud?
Yes.
We have to go right now.
I still haven't heard
the voices.
- Have you?
- Of course not.
Hey, hands up, Larry.
Is there a problem, officers?
Yeah.
Where are the bodies?
- Bodies? What bodies?
- The three bodies.
Charles Baum, Misha Evans,
and Greg Stevenson.
These names ring no bells.
- Gentlemen.
- Chief.
- I hear there was a murder.
- Yeah, three of them.
Huh.
- Did you know about this?
- I did.
Y'all did fine.
Next time,
I'm gonna need you guys
to shoot Larry.
Sir.
We could kill him.
Larry is a man of faith.
He's certain there's
an afterlife that awaits.
- Is that so, Larry?
- Don't worry about what Larry thinks.
The edicts of Rome have arrived along
with the ones from Dubai and Paris.
It turns out, Larry...
- is a great sacrifice.
- Must feel good, Larry?
Feels great.
Larry, where do you want
the bullet holes?
I want 'em right in his head.
Right directly in his head.
It's gonna be dark,
it's gonna be loud.
- You're gonna need night vision glasses, obviously.
- Hey, sign me up, Doc.
It's gonna be your next site.
So,
how's the writing
coming along, Larry?
It's going good, Father.
That's great. And the worship?
I've never felt closer to God.
Hey, Islam, huh?
- Yeah, you got to give it a shot sometime.
- You know, I might.
Anybody seen Shiela?
Last I've heard,
she went for a walk.
You should be nice to her.
Is it not enough
that I have loved her?
Just be nice to her.
Not everybody is
as touched as you are.
Everyone keeps saying
I've been touched.
'Cause you have been.
How were we, Doctor?
At the shack.
You guys were fine.
How... how, where, what?
"How were we on TV?" He means.
You guys were great.
The French people loved you.
On TV?
Je... Jerry. Hello.
We all saw you execute Federico.
I mean, you're a legend, man.
Regular Robespierre.
That sort of fame never fades,
and you got it in spades.
- Real detectives?
- We were on TV, Jerry.
Meeting in five.
Fucking yeah!
- Can I help you?
- We're related?
What are you talking about?
Myra says we're all one family.
She's speaking metaphorical.
She... she's
on her religion kick.
All this talk
of converting to Islam
-has got her thinking woo-woo thoughts.
- Woo-woo thoughts, Jimmy.
- Woo-woo thoughts?
- Woo-woo thoughts!
Fantastical thoughts,
indicative of a wild
and impressive imagination,
you know, not to mention in
immense capacity for self-delusion.
Oh, self-delusion.
She thinks she's one of us.
She is one of us.
She is not.
Busner found her at a...
cantina in Geneva.
She was serving chips.
He saw something in her.
Some... some sort of spark.
A spark? What does that mean?
You never wondered
why we all seem
- to be in love with her.
- She's cool.
She's got the spark.
The spark.
Not...
Yes.
The prophecy is true.
She's the chosen one?
Yes.
Then that means...
I... it means
we better be nice to her.
Dear Lord.
Yes.
I hope I'm not interrupting
anything important.
It's just we're all
waiting for you.
Inside.
Rock and roll her for me
all night, will you, buddy?
I'll be watching.
Look at these faces
full of hope.
Ladies and gentlemen,
thank you.
You may already be aware...
God is dead.
Shit!
But... that does not mean...
that we can't remain
faithful.
The French are coming.
Kings and queens and mythic folk
all in their new caliphate.
There's gonna be
people who resist.
There's gonna be
a lot of people who resist.
- Oh, yeah.
- But I don't think it should be us.
So, we've got to have
a certain vision.
Tell them, honey.
That's all that's required.
And let me tell you
something, folks.
I am not worried
- in the least.
- No, siree Bob.
No.
- Myra, my dear.
- Mm?
Would you let
our loved ones know
-where you've been all their lives.
- I would love to.
I have been training.
Training where?
Where? Oh! Uh,
China, Japan, Vietnam,
Mexico, Argentina, Canada.
- Argentina?
- Uh, New Hampshire and now Paris.
- Paris, France! Yeah.
- Wow!
And I say it's, uh,
safe to assume that, uh,
you're, uh, your training
is all done, isn't it?
- It would seem likely, honey.
- Mm-hmm.
That would be very probable.
So I think we enlighten these people
what you've been training for.
Well, folks,
I've been training to be...
God. Almighty God!
- I've been tapped on the shoulder...
- Whoo!
And I've been made aware
that I am to assume
the role when God retires. Amen!
- Amen.
- Yes!
And God happens to be
retiring this week.
That would be very likely
since my training is complete.
So, ladies and gentlemen,
without further ado,
your new God,
Myra from Geneva.
Whoo! Look at that!
Now, I know this is a lot
to handle for some of you.
Now, let me be clear. It was a
lot for me to handle at first.
- Yeah, sure.
- But, after a very,
a very intense training
all over the world,
I've learned why I...
have been tapped
to be the new God.
- You ha... t... tell them why.
- Ooh, I'll tell them why.
- God was always meant to be a woman!
- -Amen.
- Yes!
- There are many other women.
- She's been tapped.
- Oh!
- I've been tapped.
- I see.
Now you all have
a guaranteed place
in the heavens above,
in my home.
Her heavenly castle.
- Mm-hmm.
- Fuck, yeah!
- Yes!
- Larry.
All right, to celebrate,
I'd like to sing you
a little ditty I met
from a Lebanese babe when I was
vacationing in Canada.
- Myra, take it away.
- Oh, yeah.
Let's join
in the musical festivities,
everyone, shall we?
A one, a two. A one, two, three.
Whoo!
The void in my head
The hole in my heart
I fill them with things
which all fall apart
I enlist the Gods
And all of the thoughts
We are hand in gloves
days have chains of love
Yeah!
Diego. Hey, the boss
wasn't kidding when he said
he was gonna make changes
to upper management.
Dude, it's a girl.
Oh, Jimmy? Oh, Jimmy's okay.
Hey, he thinks I am the dumbest
motherfucker on the face of the planet.
I mean, people here,
they're way too polite.
If Dad was running this,
he would've fired me
from the family a long time ago.
I mean, people here, I mean,
they're way too accepting.
I can just run around, take
pictures of nothing all day long
and no one bats an eye on me.
I'm sorry. Wha... what was that?
There's criminal activity
in West Hollywood? Shit!
Uh, all right, I...
I got to wake up Jimmy,
and... and, uh...
and you don't worry, boss.
We're gonna take
care of it, okay?
Hey, Diego!
Hey! Drinks on you,
you dirty bastard! No...
Hey, say hello to Jose for me,
and Jean Paul, and Dorothy.
Hey, see you, bitch.
The sulky trees sad
Dropping
their knees in defeat
The temperature falls
There's a big light
switch on
And from time to time
Pharos from the cats
Yes!
Jimmy.
Jimmy!
- Jerry?
- Jimmy, there's a murder
out of West Hollywood.
- The pray area. Let's go.
- Huh.
I'll be right there.
Oh, fuck.
I got to go now.
Okay.
It'll be okay.
Fucking how?
Maybe you win the lottery
or something.
I can buy you a Mega ball
ticket on the way home.
You know, the scratch
card thing from 7-Eleven.
We'll see.
Get to me about at that time.
Let me know if you got any plans
to head out
to the desert again tonight.
I'll do that, Shiela.
Hey, Jimmy.
Hey, Shiela.
- Where've you been?
- Geneva.
It's just the boys now, Jimmy?
Los Angeles.
Nighttime.
We got a crime to solve
and criminals to catch.
I mean, what more you need?
How long have you been
seeing Shiela?
Oh, Jimmy,
I belong to the city, man.
I mean, Shiela?
I mean, she's just
a radio operator.
You know, don't get me wrong.
And she has some great
qualities, but ultimately,
she's just a dime store bitch.
I mean, at the end of the day,
you know what you do?
Take your dime,
go to the nearest
convenience store,
then you find yourself another
Shiela at your convenience.
Maybe you just accept Alaska.
But you know how that goes.
Yeah, Larry won't be too happy.
Oh, Larry can go fuck himself.
Have you read my first chapter?
Yeah.
Did you like it?
Yes.
You notice
how I made Adam a woman?
Yes.
It makes you wonder.
Yes.
Well,
more for me.
Why did Jimmy and Jerry
get all the leads?
- Our time will come.
- No, man.
We should probably see
if Myra can do us a favor.
She is quite powerful,
she might be able to.
Yeah, but she ain't just yet.
And remember,
the boss is still the boss, Ray.
And between me and you,
the boss is always
gonna be the boss.
You sound
like some coop material to me.
- I'm just saying.
- Back burner, Ray.
Back burner.
Yeah.
It's nighttime in Paris.
Why can't you see
that it's nighttime here, too?
I can see that it's nighttime.
It's morning in Paris.
You know what I mean.
Sometimes I think that I married
a real asshole, you know that.
But sometimes
ain't all the time, honey.
Mm. True.
And it's the moments in between that
you stick around for, don't you know?
Sometimes I think
that your crowning achievement
is getting us to believe all
this nonsense that you spew out.
There's nowhere else to go.
It's nighttime in Paris.
Cities of the future.
I need this.
Perhaps.
I'm not holding you back,
you gotta do what you gotta do.
Think I have any trouble wringing
myself free from your grasp?
Oh!
- Hold me down.
- Oh, my God.
- Myra, pin me down.
- You're such a douche.
Make me stay.
Baby, I don't even know
what this is anymore.
But, honey, could you clear up
one thing for me?
What's that, darling?
Are you a real doctor?
Is there a God in the heavens?
I see.
Are you ready?
Two more minutes, please.
Larry.
Larry.
Officers.
Ray.
The French are coming.
The French are coming.
Finally!
And the night is still young.
Yeah!
Yes.
Yes.
It's really heating.
The dude thinks I'm Italian.
Oh!
Well, you know,
when we get back,
you have to give it to me.
I want to tell you something
about money.
Money is like a bird woman.
You cannot keep it on the ground
longer than two minutes before...
before it flies away.
You could have been a poet.
I couldn't help myself.
She was just...
there.
And Satie playing on the piano.
And the rain...
She was in a black dress.
Lots of Proust at home
by the fire.
Words that...
envelop you.
Look in the books.
Tell you it'll all be okay.
I drew closer.
Closer.
I nailed her.
I nailed so hard
until I could no longer take it.
And her arm goes here.
Under there.
She smiled.
That dimple smile.
I smiled.
We were the new explorers,
settlers in a New World.
Like in the old stories.
They're not love.
Let it just be this.
Nothing more, nothing less.
No plans, no... no backstory,
worrying about my book.
Let's be here.
Right here, right now, together.
Forever.
So...
So many words, man.
You might take it
in yourself a little.
Well...
in my recess,
I've been touched.
Larry, you can't just write
anything you want.
Your words have consequences.
Shame on you for them barricades
and shame on you for putting
Jerry and Jimmy in harm's way.
I've got to do
what I've got to do, baby.
It's a feeling.
God damn Canadians.
Sex and sati.
There's your next novel.
Hmm.
Coming of age story, perhaps.
About a boy who...
becomes a man
and whose fatal flaw
is that he cannot achieve orgasm
without the sounds of sati
accompanying his mighty thrusts.
You mentioned
that one might get a better view
of the stars from over there.
In that dark place.
With a glimpse
of words unsaid
Everyone's asleep.
Yes.
In to a higher place
And you wish
you could be the one
Take my hand tonight
Before the night starts
to unwind
- Take my hand tonight
- Tonight
'Cause I'm not ready
to let you go
You've got me losing control
No, I'm not ready
to let you go
Go, go, go
Is this what you want?
Want, want
What the hell is going on here?
Allison!
Hi.
What are you doing?
What's up?
I can't stop.
Fucking never thought
I'd say this,
but I'm actually glad
we're with Busner.
Often power, baby.
Allison.
Yes, Jindabyne.
That was
a very cheesy thing to say,
and I feel
quite offended right now.
Damn!
My son, you're better than this.
Join us, my son.
You're ready.
Bring the book.
I'm finished.
It's time.
Now.
Coming.
Going somewhere?
I have to go now, Shiela.
What we had together...
it wasn't meant to last.
Goodbye, baby.
You guys aren't really
detectives, are you?
Jerry, want to answer that?
We don't have
to answer horseshit.
Girls,
where's the liqs here?
Can kind of order.
On the New Zealand z?
Sure.
- Triple good.
- Mm.
What are you doing here?
We're not safe.
We should take them
to the house.
We don't have a car anymore.
We do. Come on.
Jimmy, Jerry,
New Zealand is not the answer.
Did you just...
- New Zealand is great for a vacation...
- Yeah.
For a couple of weeks,
but for those in power,
to those people who matter,
New Zealand is nothing more
than a smudge in the ocean.
- It's nothing, and it's irrelevant.
- Wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
- This bitch is badmouthing New Zealand.
- I want to meet in Switzerland.
To Paris to Rome,
we will rule with an iron fist.
- You don't know anything about New Zealand.
- Oh, shut it, Jerry.
You've never even been
to New Zealand.
- You know nothing about the Kiwi people.
- Oh, I...
- And you do?
- I know I want nothing to do with them.
Something happened between you
and the New Zealand people, Myra?
Let's just say
if push ever comes to shove,
I won't think twice about sending
the little Kiwis a fist from the sky.
An asteroid?
Like the dinosaurs.
Myra, my partner and I
would like to continue
this conversation in private,
if you don't mind.
Sorry about that, girls.
Do your thing.
I wanted to meet young girls.
I don't know where you got the idea
that we were taking you to New Zealand.
Excuse me?
Yeah, excuse me.
No.
Just trust us.
Come with me.
We have work to do.
I've definitely been
here before.
Where've you been, Larry?
Thought you died, Larry.
My soul belongs to her now.
Myra from Geneva.
The one true God amongst us,
our savior.
And my one true love.
Come now.
We must tread quiet and careful
for the great one
can read our thoughts
and hear our whispers.
There is nowhere
that she is not.
Where are you taking us, Larry?
Where I should've taken you
a long time ago.
Dance now!
Dance to the rhythm,
you fools. She's watching.
She's judging us.
Dance or die.
Thanks, baby. Back in five.
So you see, gentlemen, that is
why New Zealand is the new Rome,
why I've declared the new world,
a world for the Kiwis.
By the Kiwis.
We thought lowly of you, Larry.
Yeah, Larry, we had no idea
your knowledge ran so deep.
We thought you were just weird.
Yes, well, I'm all these things.
Which language is this, Larry?
That's a language
beyond language, Jimmy.
What good is communication
if it falls upon a deaf ear?
I've written a tome, an eternal
tome, with guiding light,
sacred principles split
to the infinite,
legible, comprehensible
not to the blind or to the deaf,
but to those precious woke few
whose eyes are to the sky
and whose ears are clear like...
very clear.
- This is Arabic, Larry.
- Yes, it is Arabic.
I love this town.
I used to be so ashamed.
So, so, so ashamed.
My sex drive turned on
when I turned five,
and the highway's
laid itself out to me,
a perpetual summer,
an eternal night, warm, giving,
oh, so giving.
I tried at times,
I have, to put on the brakes,
acquiesce and be polite to those
who say, "I oughta what I gotta."
But there were no dice
on those rolls,
and the wheels,
they kept on rolling.
Rolling, rolling from city
to city, country to country,
I spread my seed,
a conqueror, a player,
a guilt-ridden man, so ashamed.
Bidding my wick,
a cessation, a stop, a slowdown.
"I have things to do,"
I said, "things to do, like,
find a job,
find a friend, find a life."
But that was not my destiny.
My destiny was to spread myself,
faults and all far and wide.
And so I continued under cover
of darkness to do my deeds.
Conscious, hopeful even
of a better tomorrow.
A tomorrow beyond all that
giving, beyond all that coupling,
a tomorrow where I might be
content to be myself by myself.
A tomorrow where I'd never again
have to worry about my Eve.
- So you like men as well, Larry?
- It's 50-50, Jerry.
My point is the new Earth
won't be just beyond language,
it will be beyond sex.
And our lives,
our lives will be eternal.
No longer
should we grow so wise,
no longer should we die so rich.
We shall keep
our riches and build,
and we should keep our wisdom
and continue to live.
And we may grow more wise,
make something
of ourselves finally.
Finally free of a deadline.
God damn,
that sounds good, Larry.
That's some pretty good work
there, Larry.
Mm.
It's from Marbella.
- Marbella. Who the hell is Marbella, Myra?
- Marbella!
I think it's where I'll go
to base myself out of.
I'll rule with an iron fist
and a sandy foot.
So this is evolution.
You'll choose your favorites
and then you'll let me know.
What is that in there?
Do you remember
what you learned in training?
One step forward.
What the hell is going on here?
Takes me back
to 10,000 BC Babylon.
The Tower of Babylon
was near completion.
The tower was one,
but the moves were many.
No one's ever known
how to dance until now.
We must contribute
our most here, Jimmy.
Let's dance.
Now... our work is done.
That's funny.
- She's just locked the door.
- Indeed it is, Jimmy.
Funny day.
She locked the door.
It's a nice night, though.
Really is.
Hey, you smell that?
Sounds like some sort
of poisoning.
I can't breathe, Jimmy.
Jerry!
I think it's happening.
Larry's making moves.
You don't worry about it, baby.
It's all part of the plan.
Myra... is gonna buy us houses
in the south region of France.
- Marbella?
- I can't. Oh!
- Myra!
- Oh, Myra.
- Jerry.
- Jimmy.
I think this is it.
I think we're at death's door.
Yes. Myra bought it, Jimmy.
Mama.
Jimmy...
It's been a pleasure
to serve alongside...
such an esteemed partner
such as yourself, Jerry.
The pleasure
was all mine, Jimmy.
I'm gonna cherish these moments
for the rest of my life.
It is time for us all
to move as one.
Let's go.
Let's dance.
Going somewhere?
Just...
Larry is writing again.
Follow me.
- You see this house?
- I see it.
It's formerly
an orphanage for the Irish.
- You've been in Ireland, Shiela?
- I have not been in Ireland, sir.
- Never flown on Aer Lingus.
- No.
Well, the stewardesses
aboard an Aer Lingus flight are
not much to phone home about.
But if you ever find yourself on
a 9:00 a.m. to Dublin out of NYC,
don't hesitate
to ask for Millie.
Millie?
Former wife and mother
to my very first test tube baby.
Ten years a model
for Irish men she was.
Mm. Irish met the cigarettes?
Ten years a model. Oh, yeah.
A model.
Buzz her on a 9:00 a.m.
to Dublin out of NYC,
and say, "Busner says, 'Hi.'"
"Busner says, 'Hi.'"
Busner says, "Hi,"
and she'll let you smoke...
- in the lavatory.
- I don't smoke.
The French are coming.
What's the modern day?
Not five hundred years from now.
You could have vision, Shiela.
It's my jazz.
You've got to have vision.
Larry?
Larry, my boy.
Oh, he has vision.
He's got bad vision, wrong vision.
Thinks he's been touched.
Oh!
Take a touched man before I
dare a glance at the dead man.
It's our spirit.
I'm feeling inspired.
I don't know.
Get back out there, Shiela.
Give Larry a pat on the back
and tug him where it hurts.
- Hmm.
- Go on.
- Jimmy, this is your fault.
- Fuck you, Jerry. Fuck you.
Take me out
to the fucking desert.
You know, you should be happy
I brought you along.
All right, all right.
You should.
Probably one of the Mars trains.
The fucking train doesn't end.
- Probably going to Mars.
- It probably is.
You know,
where the fuck are we, Jimmy?
- So this is the place, huh?
- Yeah.
On a scale from one to ten,
how insane is he?
More than you or I.
I'm clinically insane.
Yeah, we both are.
So I was thinking, you spill
the beans in paragraph one.
You spell, "Casual genocide
swirling in on monthly waves,"
but you say it in French.
So, might sound cool.
- I heard there will be dancing.
- I heard that too.
- I heard she's gonna dance us till we drop.
- Hearsay.
- The French are coming.
- Hmm.
"The French are coming.
The French are coming."
That's all they say.
You know, I... I voyaged
to the Middle East once. Uh...
- Okay. How was it?
- It was hard, you know.
And the sand, it was,
like, really coarse.
Uh, but...
But sonically, it was heaven,
you know, just blue sky
everywhere and sounds and...
I don't know, it's like your
forever nightclub, you know?
It was cool.
You got to go there one day.
Morocco.
June.
That would've been my dream.
- It's gonna have to be 2069.
- Mm.
You can't be living like that,
in the past.
I like you girls
better than I do the boys.
Where did you go to
medical school, Doctor?
Harvard, Yale College.
An Ivy League?
Is it true what they say?
About the day at the barricades?
Is it all true?
I got to go.
I don't believe he is
who he says he is.
What do you think, Ines?
I think...
let's keep
our mouths shut till D-Day.
Damn.
Jimmy...
it's murder and cop, then.
Officer...
Go ahead.
- Mm.
- across the street.
Let's go.
You know, the architecture
in this town,
it never ceases to amaze me.
I'll lead.
If this woman is
who they say she is...
we're dead.
Shit, yeah.
- You're kidding me.
- I'm afraid I'm not.
- You've got no leads?
- Not a one.
Then what the fuck
are you still doing here?
Nice house.
Nice lady.
Here on your dime.
Here on your dime.
That's what's what.
You're new?
You've never seen me before,
and yet you're worried
if he's new?
What if I'm new too?
- You're new?
- Not in the sense you mean.
- Looked pretty normal to me.
- Yeah, he's pretty quiet.
Anyways, Myra,
obviously it's quite sad
that your husband
has been murdered
for more than a year now.
But I hope that you've realized
that we didn't just come here
for the purposes of a powwow,
like we're doing now.
Jimmy.
All righty, then.
Anyway, Myra,
it seems to me that the
disappearance of your husband
has caused quite a boom
in your business venture.
If we can call
the import and export
of crack cocaine from Nigeria
a business venture.
It's business.
I export by means of things
of which I import.
And she admits to the venture.
Now tell me, Mrs. Gold,
is it not strange
to your virgin ears
that your revenues have tripled
ever since the, "Oh,
so mysterious disappearance"
of a so called
- Mr. Gold?
- He was a time suck.
I pour all my angst
into business.
It's a coping mechanism...
Grief 101.
Yes.
Don't I know it?
Will that be all?
- I'm sad, Jimmy.
- I'm sad too, Jerry.
And Dr. Busner says...
that I'm clinically insane.
Whatever that means.
I... I think it...
means you're insane.
- Clinically.
- Am I a fool?
No, man.
How could you be
a fool in that coat?
I mean, it is nice, isn't it?
I got it, um, from Steve
Harrington's blowout sale.
I mean, before he got...
He went to Coeur d'Alene.
I mean, there's a lot
of prime real estate there.
- Think they need PI's?
- I don't know, man.
You don't know?
What do you know, Jimmy?
I know we're a couple of the best
damn PI's this side since NAM.
Since NAM?
Since forever, Jimmy.
Because we see things, Jimmy.
We see things.
And don't you
take that for granted.
I don't, baby, I don't.
Is that Busner?
Yeah.
He says north.
He says to head north.
And keep our eyes peeled.
So?
I used to think
all adult women were glamorous.
Like in Sex and the City.
That's not me, hon.
I like your vest.
- Well, T.J. Maxx.
- Mm.
Must have been quite a bargain.
- I stole it.
- Hmm.
Is that how you get your kicks?
Hardly the only way.
Would you mind showing me
how else you get your kicks?
Do you have 20 minutes?
Sure.
Follow me.
I just see...
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!
Yes!
Door was open, baby.
Writing?
Haven't stopped.
You're gonna make
yourself sick writing all day.
You woke up at 9:00 a.m. and
made yourself a pizza, Shiela.
Don't tell me
how to live my life,
I won't tell you
how to live yours.
Any idea
when that door is coming?
Supplier from Morocco had
to hire a contractor from Dubai.
Man's fee is 200K.
Somewhere someone's
waiting on a wire.
Until then, I suppose...
until Myra wills it.
You have high hopes
with this woman.
I'm afraid she seduced me.
She's like a Beetle.
Or a Rolling Stone.
I salivate.
I simply don't know what to do.
She told you to write this book?
This text. Yes.
- What sort of text?
- Religious text.
A tome for the eons.
Something infinite.
- Yes. Grand!
- Mm.
- Yes, grand.
- Can I help?
The ancient faiths of the world
were written by one man,
Shiela, solely inspired.
Moses spoke to his bush.
Mohammed spoke to the winds.
Larry speaks
to Myra from Geneva.
She's from Geneva?
- She has no accent.
- Tell me, Shiela.
If you were all-powerful, would
you not remove your accent?
I have no accent.
Look at those girls
from New Zealand.
Do you think they're happy
talking like a couple of dingoes?
Dingoes are Australian.
Don't you see?
It's the same thing.
I don't think New Zealanders
would be too happy
with this disdain
you're putting on.
Don't you talk to me
about New Zealanders.
This, this is a sacred space.
I will not endure such...
frivolity while I...
How do I put this politely?
Would you please get
the fuck... fuck out?
Fuck you. No.
It's about us, isn't it?
Who would read about us?
It's about us.
It's about all of us.
The human race needs
a spokesman.
And I am that man.
Perhaps... I could write
a chapter about us.
Air all our dirty laundry
to the world?
It won't be like that.
I am writing
for a post-cleansed world.
I'm writing for a world
free of guilt and shame,
where I could share our story
and share it proud.
And the world...
the world would read my tome.
And they will say there,
there with a hint of truth.
Like in the tales of old.
What language is that?
"When the Tower
of Babylon fell..."
"the world descended
into chaos, fell into chaos."
From whence we came,
lie the ruins
of a thousand and one languages,
dead to you, dead to me,
dead to all of us.
But I have been in contact
with a higher power.
I have tutored
in the final tongue,
the one true tongue.
The holy tongue and that...
that is the tongue
which you read.
Damn, boy!
I'll leave you to it.
I know you're testing me a lot.
I know your tricks!
We are a couple of dirty dogs,
you and me.
A couple of dirty, dirty dogs.
I'll tell you something.
Try as you might,
I will not say, "Woof."
Larry will not say, "Woof."
Yes!
What happened here?
- Murder?
- Is that the two greatest detectives in all of LA?
Wednesday is my Jazz Day.
I mainly file the classics.
Your Herbie Hancock
and all that.
Your C. Parker, your M. Davis.
The classics.
Hey, I'm gonna investigate
right over here.
You like jazz, Jimmy?
I don't know.
Give this a listen.
See you back in the castle.
- Can I help you?
- We're here to investigate a murder.
- Here?
- Yeah.
Okay.
I've been here all day,
I haven't seen any murder.
- Feel free to have a look around.
- Oh, isn't that convenience?
You guys are with Dr. Busner?
I don't know
what you're talking about, sir.
I'm Detective Jimmy.
This is my colleague, Jerry,
also a detective with the LAPD.
Special Unit.
Busner sends his best.
Anyway, sir, um,
your accent.
- I can't quite place it.
- It's French.
Ah, Oui.
Are you here on business?
- I don't believe in business.
- Oh, he does not
- believe in business.
- believe in business.
You idiots.
I've got your leads.
It's gonna give me coordinates.
Oui.
You're a good man.
This place must have used to be
one of those rave clubs.
Yeah. Takes me back to Berlin.
- The French flag.
- Yeah.
Now, you could sleep here,
dance here.
Bathroom is down yonder.
Hip, hip, hip, hip.
Inside, inside, inside.
They're recruits. Budapest.
Oui.
You with Busner?
Yeah.
You don't remember me?
No.
Miss, if I may?
What the fuck
are you doing out here?
- I'm Allison.
- That's a great fucking name, Allison.
But that doesn't answer
my fucking question.
Waiting for you.
Federico.
Hey.
Hello.
Was there a...
Was there a murder in here?
Not that I know of.
Mm, just taking
a little nappy-nap?
Yeah.
You, uh,
live in this shack?
I guess so.
You ever wondered
where it all went wrong?
Every day.
Are you LAPD?
- Special unit.
- Damn!
Mm-hmm.
You know, I got a hunch
that you didn't make any
contributions to the state last year.
How much did you pay in taxes?
I didn't.
Figured.
Well, no one's gonna miss you.
Jimmy.
Hey...
Busner.
Busner?
You know,
I was thinking,
once this whole thing is over,
we should all go grab a drink
in my brother's bar in Paris.
- Drinks on me.
- Mm.
You'll have to teach me
to speak Italian.
No, I thought
I'd teach you Swedish, actually.
- And she's got a sense of humor.
- Nah!
- I think you're funny, Myra.
- Thank you.
- I feel safe when I'm with you.
- Okay.
Can I ask you something?
Sure.
How do you do it with so
many people and not feel...
Like a slut?
A bad person.
A woman willeth
what a woman wanteth.
- What?
- I'm unemployed, Ines.
- I liked it.
- I do too.
Maybe in Europe, anything goes.
- No, sweetie, it's not like that anymore.
- But you are.
It's true.
You're like the Rolling Stones.
If they were a woman
and didn't play music.
Did someone say Rolling Stones?
I've got a couple of rolling
stones of my own I'd like to share.
Shut the fuck up, Larry.
Americans.
- Is that really her?
- Yes.
Why do you always have to be
such a creep, Larry?
I've got to lead my life
on my terms, girls.
On my terms.
Perhaps, one day,
you two will embrace yourselves
the way that I have,
both the good parts and bad.
Is it loud?
Yes.
We have to go right now.
I still haven't heard
the voices.
- Have you?
- Of course not.
Hey, hands up, Larry.
Is there a problem, officers?
Yeah.
Where are the bodies?
- Bodies? What bodies?
- The three bodies.
Charles Baum, Misha Evans,
and Greg Stevenson.
These names ring no bells.
- Gentlemen.
- Chief.
- I hear there was a murder.
- Yeah, three of them.
Huh.
- Did you know about this?
- I did.
Y'all did fine.
Next time,
I'm gonna need you guys
to shoot Larry.
Sir.
We could kill him.
Larry is a man of faith.
He's certain there's
an afterlife that awaits.
- Is that so, Larry?
- Don't worry about what Larry thinks.
The edicts of Rome have arrived along
with the ones from Dubai and Paris.
It turns out, Larry...
- is a great sacrifice.
- Must feel good, Larry?
Feels great.
Larry, where do you want
the bullet holes?
I want 'em right in his head.
Right directly in his head.
It's gonna be dark,
it's gonna be loud.
- You're gonna need night vision glasses, obviously.
- Hey, sign me up, Doc.
It's gonna be your next site.
So,
how's the writing
coming along, Larry?
It's going good, Father.
That's great. And the worship?
I've never felt closer to God.
Hey, Islam, huh?
- Yeah, you got to give it a shot sometime.
- You know, I might.
Anybody seen Shiela?
Last I've heard,
she went for a walk.
You should be nice to her.
Is it not enough
that I have loved her?
Just be nice to her.
Not everybody is
as touched as you are.
Everyone keeps saying
I've been touched.
'Cause you have been.
How were we, Doctor?
At the shack.
You guys were fine.
How... how, where, what?
"How were we on TV?" He means.
You guys were great.
The French people loved you.
On TV?
Je... Jerry. Hello.
We all saw you execute Federico.
I mean, you're a legend, man.
Regular Robespierre.
That sort of fame never fades,
and you got it in spades.
- Real detectives?
- We were on TV, Jerry.
Meeting in five.
Fucking yeah!
- Can I help you?
- We're related?
What are you talking about?
Myra says we're all one family.
She's speaking metaphorical.
She... she's
on her religion kick.
All this talk
of converting to Islam
-has got her thinking woo-woo thoughts.
- Woo-woo thoughts, Jimmy.
- Woo-woo thoughts?
- Woo-woo thoughts!
Fantastical thoughts,
indicative of a wild
and impressive imagination,
you know, not to mention in
immense capacity for self-delusion.
Oh, self-delusion.
She thinks she's one of us.
She is one of us.
She is not.
Busner found her at a...
cantina in Geneva.
She was serving chips.
He saw something in her.
Some... some sort of spark.
A spark? What does that mean?
You never wondered
why we all seem
- to be in love with her.
- She's cool.
She's got the spark.
The spark.
Not...
Yes.
The prophecy is true.
She's the chosen one?
Yes.
Then that means...
I... it means
we better be nice to her.
Dear Lord.
Yes.
I hope I'm not interrupting
anything important.
It's just we're all
waiting for you.
Inside.
Rock and roll her for me
all night, will you, buddy?
I'll be watching.
Look at these faces
full of hope.
Ladies and gentlemen,
thank you.
You may already be aware...
God is dead.
Shit!
But... that does not mean...
that we can't remain
faithful.
The French are coming.
Kings and queens and mythic folk
all in their new caliphate.
There's gonna be
people who resist.
There's gonna be
a lot of people who resist.
- Oh, yeah.
- But I don't think it should be us.
So, we've got to have
a certain vision.
Tell them, honey.
That's all that's required.
And let me tell you
something, folks.
I am not worried
- in the least.
- No, siree Bob.
No.
- Myra, my dear.
- Mm?
Would you let
our loved ones know
-where you've been all their lives.
- I would love to.
I have been training.
Training where?
Where? Oh! Uh,
China, Japan, Vietnam,
Mexico, Argentina, Canada.
- Argentina?
- Uh, New Hampshire and now Paris.
- Paris, France! Yeah.
- Wow!
And I say it's, uh,
safe to assume that, uh,
you're, uh, your training
is all done, isn't it?
- It would seem likely, honey.
- Mm-hmm.
That would be very probable.
So I think we enlighten these people
what you've been training for.
Well, folks,
I've been training to be...
God. Almighty God!
- I've been tapped on the shoulder...
- Whoo!
And I've been made aware
that I am to assume
the role when God retires. Amen!
- Amen.
- Yes!
And God happens to be
retiring this week.
That would be very likely
since my training is complete.
So, ladies and gentlemen,
without further ado,
your new God,
Myra from Geneva.
Whoo! Look at that!
Now, I know this is a lot
to handle for some of you.
Now, let me be clear. It was a
lot for me to handle at first.
- Yeah, sure.
- But, after a very,
a very intense training
all over the world,
I've learned why I...
have been tapped
to be the new God.
- You ha... t... tell them why.
- Ooh, I'll tell them why.
- God was always meant to be a woman!
- -Amen.
- Yes!
- There are many other women.
- She's been tapped.
- Oh!
- I've been tapped.
- I see.
Now you all have
a guaranteed place
in the heavens above,
in my home.
Her heavenly castle.
- Mm-hmm.
- Fuck, yeah!
- Yes!
- Larry.
All right, to celebrate,
I'd like to sing you
a little ditty I met
from a Lebanese babe when I was
vacationing in Canada.
- Myra, take it away.
- Oh, yeah.
Let's join
in the musical festivities,
everyone, shall we?
A one, a two. A one, two, three.
Whoo!
The void in my head
The hole in my heart
I fill them with things
which all fall apart
I enlist the Gods
And all of the thoughts
We are hand in gloves
days have chains of love
Yeah!
Diego. Hey, the boss
wasn't kidding when he said
he was gonna make changes
to upper management.
Dude, it's a girl.
Oh, Jimmy? Oh, Jimmy's okay.
Hey, he thinks I am the dumbest
motherfucker on the face of the planet.
I mean, people here,
they're way too polite.
If Dad was running this,
he would've fired me
from the family a long time ago.
I mean, people here, I mean,
they're way too accepting.
I can just run around, take
pictures of nothing all day long
and no one bats an eye on me.
I'm sorry. Wha... what was that?
There's criminal activity
in West Hollywood? Shit!
Uh, all right, I...
I got to wake up Jimmy,
and... and, uh...
and you don't worry, boss.
We're gonna take
care of it, okay?
Hey, Diego!
Hey! Drinks on you,
you dirty bastard! No...
Hey, say hello to Jose for me,
and Jean Paul, and Dorothy.
Hey, see you, bitch.
The sulky trees sad
Dropping
their knees in defeat
The temperature falls
There's a big light
switch on
And from time to time
Pharos from the cats
Yes!
Jimmy.
Jimmy!
- Jerry?
- Jimmy, there's a murder
out of West Hollywood.
- The pray area. Let's go.
- Huh.
I'll be right there.
Oh, fuck.
I got to go now.
Okay.
It'll be okay.
Fucking how?
Maybe you win the lottery
or something.
I can buy you a Mega ball
ticket on the way home.
You know, the scratch
card thing from 7-Eleven.
We'll see.
Get to me about at that time.
Let me know if you got any plans
to head out
to the desert again tonight.
I'll do that, Shiela.
Hey, Jimmy.
Hey, Shiela.
- Where've you been?
- Geneva.
It's just the boys now, Jimmy?
Los Angeles.
Nighttime.
We got a crime to solve
and criminals to catch.
I mean, what more you need?
How long have you been
seeing Shiela?
Oh, Jimmy,
I belong to the city, man.
I mean, Shiela?
I mean, she's just
a radio operator.
You know, don't get me wrong.
And she has some great
qualities, but ultimately,
she's just a dime store bitch.
I mean, at the end of the day,
you know what you do?
Take your dime,
go to the nearest
convenience store,
then you find yourself another
Shiela at your convenience.
Maybe you just accept Alaska.
But you know how that goes.
Yeah, Larry won't be too happy.
Oh, Larry can go fuck himself.
Have you read my first chapter?
Yeah.
Did you like it?
Yes.
You notice
how I made Adam a woman?
Yes.
It makes you wonder.
Yes.
Well,
more for me.
Why did Jimmy and Jerry
get all the leads?
- Our time will come.
- No, man.
We should probably see
if Myra can do us a favor.
She is quite powerful,
she might be able to.
Yeah, but she ain't just yet.
And remember,
the boss is still the boss, Ray.
And between me and you,
the boss is always
gonna be the boss.
You sound
like some coop material to me.
- I'm just saying.
- Back burner, Ray.
Back burner.
Yeah.
It's nighttime in Paris.
Why can't you see
that it's nighttime here, too?
I can see that it's nighttime.
It's morning in Paris.
You know what I mean.
Sometimes I think that I married
a real asshole, you know that.
But sometimes
ain't all the time, honey.
Mm. True.
And it's the moments in between that
you stick around for, don't you know?
Sometimes I think
that your crowning achievement
is getting us to believe all
this nonsense that you spew out.
There's nowhere else to go.
It's nighttime in Paris.
Cities of the future.
I need this.
Perhaps.
I'm not holding you back,
you gotta do what you gotta do.
Think I have any trouble wringing
myself free from your grasp?
Oh!
- Hold me down.
- Oh, my God.
- Myra, pin me down.
- You're such a douche.
Make me stay.
Baby, I don't even know
what this is anymore.
But, honey, could you clear up
one thing for me?
What's that, darling?
Are you a real doctor?
Is there a God in the heavens?
I see.
Are you ready?
Two more minutes, please.
Larry.
Larry.
Officers.
Ray.
The French are coming.
The French are coming.
Finally!
And the night is still young.
Yeah!
Yes.
Yes.
It's really heating.
The dude thinks I'm Italian.
Oh!
Well, you know,
when we get back,
you have to give it to me.
I want to tell you something
about money.
Money is like a bird woman.
You cannot keep it on the ground
longer than two minutes before...
before it flies away.
You could have been a poet.
I couldn't help myself.
She was just...
there.
And Satie playing on the piano.
And the rain...
She was in a black dress.
Lots of Proust at home
by the fire.
Words that...
envelop you.
Look in the books.
Tell you it'll all be okay.
I drew closer.
Closer.
I nailed her.
I nailed so hard
until I could no longer take it.
And her arm goes here.
Under there.
She smiled.
That dimple smile.
I smiled.
We were the new explorers,
settlers in a New World.
Like in the old stories.
They're not love.
Let it just be this.
Nothing more, nothing less.
No plans, no... no backstory,
worrying about my book.
Let's be here.
Right here, right now, together.
Forever.
So...
So many words, man.
You might take it
in yourself a little.
Well...
in my recess,
I've been touched.
Larry, you can't just write
anything you want.
Your words have consequences.
Shame on you for them barricades
and shame on you for putting
Jerry and Jimmy in harm's way.
I've got to do
what I've got to do, baby.
It's a feeling.
God damn Canadians.
Sex and sati.
There's your next novel.
Hmm.
Coming of age story, perhaps.
About a boy who...
becomes a man
and whose fatal flaw
is that he cannot achieve orgasm
without the sounds of sati
accompanying his mighty thrusts.
You mentioned
that one might get a better view
of the stars from over there.
In that dark place.
With a glimpse
of words unsaid
Everyone's asleep.
Yes.
In to a higher place
And you wish
you could be the one
Take my hand tonight
Before the night starts
to unwind
- Take my hand tonight
- Tonight
'Cause I'm not ready
to let you go
You've got me losing control
No, I'm not ready
to let you go
Go, go, go
Is this what you want?
Want, want
What the hell is going on here?
Allison!
Hi.
What are you doing?
What's up?
I can't stop.
Fucking never thought
I'd say this,
but I'm actually glad
we're with Busner.
Often power, baby.
Allison.
Yes, Jindabyne.
That was
a very cheesy thing to say,
and I feel
quite offended right now.
Damn!
My son, you're better than this.
Join us, my son.
You're ready.
Bring the book.
I'm finished.
It's time.
Now.
Coming.
Going somewhere?
I have to go now, Shiela.
What we had together...
it wasn't meant to last.
Goodbye, baby.
You guys aren't really
detectives, are you?
Jerry, want to answer that?
We don't have
to answer horseshit.
Girls,
where's the liqs here?
Can kind of order.
On the New Zealand z?
Sure.
- Triple good.
- Mm.
What are you doing here?
We're not safe.
We should take them
to the house.
We don't have a car anymore.
We do. Come on.
Jimmy, Jerry,
New Zealand is not the answer.
Did you just...
- New Zealand is great for a vacation...
- Yeah.
For a couple of weeks,
but for those in power,
to those people who matter,
New Zealand is nothing more
than a smudge in the ocean.
- It's nothing, and it's irrelevant.
- Wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
- This bitch is badmouthing New Zealand.
- I want to meet in Switzerland.
To Paris to Rome,
we will rule with an iron fist.
- You don't know anything about New Zealand.
- Oh, shut it, Jerry.
You've never even been
to New Zealand.
- You know nothing about the Kiwi people.
- Oh, I...
- And you do?
- I know I want nothing to do with them.
Something happened between you
and the New Zealand people, Myra?
Let's just say
if push ever comes to shove,
I won't think twice about sending
the little Kiwis a fist from the sky.
An asteroid?
Like the dinosaurs.
Myra, my partner and I
would like to continue
this conversation in private,
if you don't mind.
Sorry about that, girls.
Do your thing.
I wanted to meet young girls.
I don't know where you got the idea
that we were taking you to New Zealand.
Excuse me?
Yeah, excuse me.
No.
Just trust us.
Come with me.
We have work to do.
I've definitely been
here before.
Where've you been, Larry?
Thought you died, Larry.
My soul belongs to her now.
Myra from Geneva.
The one true God amongst us,
our savior.
And my one true love.
Come now.
We must tread quiet and careful
for the great one
can read our thoughts
and hear our whispers.
There is nowhere
that she is not.
Where are you taking us, Larry?
Where I should've taken you
a long time ago.
Dance now!
Dance to the rhythm,
you fools. She's watching.
She's judging us.
Dance or die.
Thanks, baby. Back in five.
So you see, gentlemen, that is
why New Zealand is the new Rome,
why I've declared the new world,
a world for the Kiwis.
By the Kiwis.
We thought lowly of you, Larry.
Yeah, Larry, we had no idea
your knowledge ran so deep.
We thought you were just weird.
Yes, well, I'm all these things.
Which language is this, Larry?
That's a language
beyond language, Jimmy.
What good is communication
if it falls upon a deaf ear?
I've written a tome, an eternal
tome, with guiding light,
sacred principles split
to the infinite,
legible, comprehensible
not to the blind or to the deaf,
but to those precious woke few
whose eyes are to the sky
and whose ears are clear like...
very clear.
- This is Arabic, Larry.
- Yes, it is Arabic.
I love this town.
I used to be so ashamed.
So, so, so ashamed.
My sex drive turned on
when I turned five,
and the highway's
laid itself out to me,
a perpetual summer,
an eternal night, warm, giving,
oh, so giving.
I tried at times,
I have, to put on the brakes,
acquiesce and be polite to those
who say, "I oughta what I gotta."
But there were no dice
on those rolls,
and the wheels,
they kept on rolling.
Rolling, rolling from city
to city, country to country,
I spread my seed,
a conqueror, a player,
a guilt-ridden man, so ashamed.
Bidding my wick,
a cessation, a stop, a slowdown.
"I have things to do,"
I said, "things to do, like,
find a job,
find a friend, find a life."
But that was not my destiny.
My destiny was to spread myself,
faults and all far and wide.
And so I continued under cover
of darkness to do my deeds.
Conscious, hopeful even
of a better tomorrow.
A tomorrow beyond all that
giving, beyond all that coupling,
a tomorrow where I might be
content to be myself by myself.
A tomorrow where I'd never again
have to worry about my Eve.
- So you like men as well, Larry?
- It's 50-50, Jerry.
My point is the new Earth
won't be just beyond language,
it will be beyond sex.
And our lives,
our lives will be eternal.
No longer
should we grow so wise,
no longer should we die so rich.
We shall keep
our riches and build,
and we should keep our wisdom
and continue to live.
And we may grow more wise,
make something
of ourselves finally.
Finally free of a deadline.
God damn,
that sounds good, Larry.
That's some pretty good work
there, Larry.
Mm.
It's from Marbella.
- Marbella. Who the hell is Marbella, Myra?
- Marbella!
I think it's where I'll go
to base myself out of.
I'll rule with an iron fist
and a sandy foot.
So this is evolution.
You'll choose your favorites
and then you'll let me know.
What is that in there?
Do you remember
what you learned in training?
One step forward.
What the hell is going on here?
Takes me back
to 10,000 BC Babylon.
The Tower of Babylon
was near completion.
The tower was one,
but the moves were many.
No one's ever known
how to dance until now.
We must contribute
our most here, Jimmy.
Let's dance.
Now... our work is done.
That's funny.
- She's just locked the door.
- Indeed it is, Jimmy.
Funny day.
She locked the door.
It's a nice night, though.
Really is.
Hey, you smell that?
Sounds like some sort
of poisoning.
I can't breathe, Jimmy.
Jerry!
I think it's happening.
Larry's making moves.
You don't worry about it, baby.
It's all part of the plan.
Myra... is gonna buy us houses
in the south region of France.
- Marbella?
- I can't. Oh!
- Myra!
- Oh, Myra.
- Jerry.
- Jimmy.
I think this is it.
I think we're at death's door.
Yes. Myra bought it, Jimmy.
Mama.
Jimmy...
It's been a pleasure
to serve alongside...
such an esteemed partner
such as yourself, Jerry.
The pleasure
was all mine, Jimmy.
I'm gonna cherish these moments
for the rest of my life.
It is time for us all
to move as one.
Let's go.
Let's dance.