Barracuda Queens (2023) s01e01 Episode Script

1
[police officer] Okay, interrogation
begins with Louise Millkvist.
on Friday October 26th, 1995.
The time is 11:50 a.m.
How long have you known
each other for?
Um, I mean, we've been friends
since, like, middle school.
[police officer] Write down where you've
been and with whom below every date.
[girl sighs]
The 18th
- I was probably at home.
- [police officer] Probably?
[girl sighs]
I was definitely at home.
We were at Villa Pauli.
Um, we were together all night,
and then me and my sister went home.
I just mix it up. Sorry. [sniffles]
I get so stressed sitting here.
But of course
I was together with them,
but then I went home earlier.
[police officer] To commit burglary?
What? No!
To go home.
[police officer] You're five girls
who often party together.
Do you like champagne?
What kind of question is that?
Hm? Who doesn't like champagne?
["Rhythm Is a Dancer" by Snap! plays]
INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS
Rhythm is a dancer ♪
It's a soul's companion ♪
Come, Alex!
- No, damn it
- [girl] What? Yes!
Lift your hands and voices ♪
Lollo's card's in the bar.
Louise Millkvist.
[all] Make the coffee, whip the cream!
Hot shot, hot shot, hot shot!
Right, let's go!
Cheers!
You can feel it in the air ♪
Oh, oh, it's a passion ♪
Oh, oh ♪
Mia, no.
[Louise] Mia! Come!
It's a soul's companion ♪
- Another shot?
- [girls] Yes!
Lift your hands and voices ♪
Free your mind and join us ♪
You can feel it in the air ♪
[gentle music plays]
[sighs]
[gentle music continues]
[distant voices]
[dog barks]
Hey.
[knocking on door]
[girl] Klara! Open up!
[knocking and rattling door handle]
[girl] Klara. For real. Hello?
Klara! What are you doing?
- [banging on door]
- [girl] Klara, please, open up.
What happened?
[woman] Water's dripping from the ceiling.
Oh.
We will contact you
regarding the cost of the water damage.
Okay. And
I'm really sorry.
So stupid. There was water
all over the floor.
[sighs] Honey, these things happen.
I'm sure the insurance will cover it.
You didn't do it on purpose.
- I'm never drinking again.
- [Louise] What about me?
I woke up at the beach with somebody
whose name I don't even remember.
Was it that weird guy?
[Louise chuckles]
- [girl 1] Did you have sex?
- Like I'd ever.
I really have to get going!
I'm going to dinner at Niklas' parents'.
We'll make it.
[groans] Don't want to know
where that mouth's been.
[Louise] Hey, quit whining. We'll make it
back to your "cool" boyfriend.
[girl 1] Are you fit to drive?
[Klara] How long does it take
for alcohol to leave the body?
Twenty-four hours, or?
No, you can have one drink an hour, then
wait an hour, then you're fit to drive.
So if I had five drinks five hours ago,
I can drive.
Are you sure?
- I feel completely sober.
- [girl 2] Shotgun!
[girl 1] At least you didn't try
to make out with your tennis coach.
[Klara] You did that?
[girl 1] Mm-hm.
[gasping]
Ugh, what the hell
No!
Oh, I can't deal with this.
Okay, duck down. Let's go.
Bye-bye, Båstad!
["Dolce Vita" by Ryan Paris plays]
[girls] Woo-hoo!
["Dolce Vita" continues]
Janina, you don't have all day.
The tablecloths have to be ironed.
[door closes]
[woman] About time.
The guests will be here soon.
You have to go change.
[Louise] Calm down.
[Louise's mum] No. No.
And this can't be lying around here.
It's probably the bill from Båstad.
This time, you will
have to cover the cost yourself.
- We paid for the Saint-Tropez trip.
- Yeah, you told me.
[Louise's mum] You have to learn
to take responsibility.
- Yes, Mum.
- [Louise's mum sighs]
[Louise's mum] Okay, upstairs.
Get changed now.
The Supreme Court
granted permission to appeal
and commuted the sentence
to seven months in juvenile detention.
With this verdict,
the Supreme Court deviated
from what had earlier been practised
concerning the sentencing of minors
in the New Legal Archive 1972, page 341.
Thank you, Klara. Very good!
[applause]
[girl] This came for you.
Did you open my mail?
Yeah. You're lucky
it wasn't Dad who did it. It's Båstad.
- You must be joking.
- [girl] Mm.
[Klara] How the hell am I supposed to pay?
- Why don't you ask Mum or Dad?
- What?!
[Klara sighs]
- [girl] Oh, I forgot.
- [Klara sighs]
They can't find out that their perfect
daughter drunkenly passed out in
[Klara] Stop! Shut up!
Please, can somebody kill me?
So get a job, then.
Great idea! Do you have something
where you can earn 75,000
in three weeks, when this is due?
I have to call Lollo.
[girl] To borrow money from her?
- No!
- Okay!
[Louise] But how the hell could it be
so expensive? It was an accident.
[Klara] Yes, I know.
But, Klara, take it easy.
Didn't you get loads of money
when you turned 18?
Mm. Mm, yes, but that account is locked
until I finish law school.
[Louise] Mm.
[Klara] What the hell am I going to do?
Frida, can't you say it was you
who fell asleep in the bathtub?
- Mm.
- I mean, you're 17.
They really wouldn't be surprised.
It's worked before, hasn't it?
Yes, but
For this, I would get grounded,
like, for at least a year.
I'm not risking that.
No.
If you get a full score on the exam
tomorrow, you'll get a bonus from Dad.
That's 10,000. Then it's only 65 left.
Please, can you stop stressing me?
[Frida] We should go home.
You have to change.
We really should go home
because I really have to study.
[Louise] What kind of crazy bill is this?
- 100,000, on my Amex.
- [Frida] What?
Who the hell drank for 100,000?
That's insane.
No. No, I can't take this.
[Louise] Fuck, fuck, fuck.
- Mum will give me away for adoption now.
- [Klara] We're so screwed.
[Louise's mum] Lollo!
Can you come right away?
Whoa.
[rock music plays]
[music fades]
For goodness' sake. Must you always
arrive just in the nick of time?
Hey, we're here now.
- Are you really going to wear that tie?
- Yeah?
[Louise's mum] Doesn't it look
a bit "new money"?
- Really?
- [Louise] I think it's fabulous.
They'll be here soon.
Everything needs to be perfect.
Never perfect.
[boy] Here, Mum. You need this.
Oh, I'm so glad
you're joining us this year.
Mm. Are you ready?
- [Louise's dad] Indeed.
- Oh, yeah.
The Millkvist party is the best party.
[Louise's dad] Absolutely.
[vacuum cleaner drones]
I'm going now.
- We'll see each other later, right?
- Yes.
[woman] Did you iron the laundry
that I laid out?
No. You didn't say anything about that.
You have to iron it before you leave.
I also have to get home and change.
I'll do it tomorrow.
Tomorrow will be too late. Gustav's going
on a business trip. He needs his shirts.
- [Gustav] Gunilla, we have to go.
- [Gunilla] Hm.
- Mia, don't forget to lock the door.
- No.
["Dressed For Success" by Roxette plays]
Take this, sweetheart.
- Darling?
- Hm?
- [Gustav] Is it time?
- Yeah.
Tried to make it little by little ♪
Tried to make it bit by bit on my own ♪
Quit the job, the grey believers ♪
Another ♪
- Are you wearing that?
- No.
[Mia's mum] This one is gorgeous.
- [Mia] I wore that last time.
- That doesn't matter, does it?
It obviously does.
It's embarrassing as hell.
I don't think anyone remembers that.
[sighs] Everyone will have
new dresses except me.
[Mia's mum] Everyone is invited except me.
[Mia] Quit it.
- Your dad'll be there with whatshername
- Sara.
[Mia's mum] Why are they invited,
but not me?
What are they so damned afraid of?
That I'll hit on their men?
[chuckles]
- Hey!
- Finally!
Ah!
- [Louise's mum] Oh, welcome.
- Thanks.
- [Louise's mum] Lovely to see you.
- Thanks.
[man] Margareta, beautiful as ever.
- All right?
- Mm.
- Hi.
- Such good girls. How are things with you?
- Good.
- Good.
[Margareta] I heard
everything about Båstad. Wild stuff!
All the tennis games you watched,
all the practising you did.
You practised all the time.
Lollo was exhausted when she got home.
She's here somewhere.
- We'll find her.
- Yes, here you go.
- Oh, thank you.
- [Frida] Thanks.
- You should take it easy.
- I'm so anxious.
- [Klara] I regret Båstad.
- [Louise] No, stop it.
It wasn't me who got shots for everybody.
Me neither.
I might have bought a round or two.
[Louise] On my card?
Uh
We'll solve this.
For God's sakes, we have several weeks.
What do you mean, "we"?
Of course we'll solve this together.
It could just as well have been your card.
No. Since I don't have a credit card
with which you can waste 100,000,
and I don't usually fall asleep
with the water running.
But we're a gang. We help each other out.
I don't want to be a tightwad,
but I don't have any money.
Hey, girls. Having a good time?
- Mm.
- [Margareta] This is Amina Khalil.
She's just moved in at Väringavägen.
- And she's lived all over the world.
- Oh.
Her parents work at Ericsson,
and Amina here
has studied art in New York.
Okay. [chuckles] Hi.
- [Margareta] This is my daughter, Lollo.
- Hi.
And her gang, the Barracuda Queens.
[Louise] Mum, stop it!
- [Margareta laughs]
- [Louise groans]
- [Margareta] But you had a secret club.
- That was a long time ago.
A long time ago.
They used to spy on older guys
down by the Barracuda beach. [chuckles]
Have a sweet time!
[laughter]
[Amina] I need more champagne.
[Mia] Look, Tobbe's here.
Jesus.
- [Mia] Did you know he was back?
- [Louise] No.
God, he's so cute.
- I feel like I'm 12 again.
- Cut it out. Just go and speak to him.
[Louise] Okay. I'll do it.
[exhales sharply]
Hey.
Nice dress you have.
Cheers to you.
- Absolutely.
- [Louise] Hi, Tobias.
Hi, good-looking.
- Long time. Good to see you.
- You too.
Lollo, Calle,
come and say hi to our relatives.
- Mother
- Astrid and Carl-Johan are here.
Not now.
Come on.
[man] So I called the emergency services.
We had to wait two hours
for the ambulance to arrive.
- Wow. Long time.
- [woman] Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
But we were sent home again.
- Fractured rib.
- Mm.
[man] Heals by itself, the doctor said.
She's been prescribed these painkillers.
Where did he go? Where's Tobias?
He had somewhere else to be.
[man] Really good.
Hurry up, before they're gone.
Hi, Mia.
[Mia] Hi, Dad.
[Mia's dad] Hi, how are you?
- How are studies?
- Yeah, great.
Ah, you're so good.
Uh, and I actually have a
surprise for you.
- [Mia] Yeah?
- You don't have to tell Mum about it.
And, uh, I was going to tell you
earlier, but, uh
You'll be getting
a sibling! [chuckles]
[chuckles] Isn't it fantastic?
And it won't be long.
There's only a month or so left.
Mia. Hey.
Hi.
- [Sara] Hello.
- [Mia] Congratulations.
[Mia's dad] Quite a surprise, huh?
[chuckles]
Oh, wow, there's some kicking.
[slurps]
I mean, it's extraordinary.
Wow.
Grand Cru.
This is exactly the wine collection
you and me will have
once we get our apartment.
- [Klara] Mm.
- [Niklas] La Rioja Alta.
[Klara] Mm.
So this is one of Spain's
absolutely most celebrated wineries.
There's not a better Rioja to drink.
Then we have a Château de Beaucastel.
And this is, obviously,
from Châteauneuf-du-Pape.
It literally means
"The Pope's New Castle".
What's the big deal?
Red is red, white is white.
[clears throat] Hm.
I could try some of that one.
I think we'll have some water instead,
darling. Is that all right?
Mm. I'll just go to the bathroom.
[intriguing music plays]
[knocking on door]
[Niklas] Klara, are you there?
What are you doing in there? Klara?
[intriguing music continues]
- [knocking on door]
- [Niklas] Klara?
[music fades]
Are you okay, yeah?
Yeah. I had some stomachache.
Feels like period pains.
Oh. Come.
Okay?
- Let's go back down to the wine bar.
- [Klara] Mm.
Then we go home.
I feel stressed about my exam.
[laughter]
- [Louise] This is my brother.
- Oh.
[Calle] I recognize you.
- No, I don't think so.
- [Calle] Yeah.
You work at Bukowskis.
[Louise] He knows that
because Mum told him.
- Oh.
- [Calle] No. I was there.
- You were?
- [Calle] Mm-hmm.
- [Amina] When?
- Yesterday.
- [Amina] I didn't work yesterday.
- Well, there you go.
- [Amina chuckles]
- He's completely unreliable.
- And lazy.
- What are you doing next weekend?
- Hm.
- [Louise] Calle, give it up.
I'm going to a wedding in Cairo
with my family.
It is true.
- There they are.
- Amina, we're heading home now.
- [Amina] Hm.
- Thank you so much for tonight.
Glad you could make it.
- Really glad.
- [Amina chuckles]
- Nice to meet you.
- You too.
[Amina] Bye.
- [Louise chuckles] Forget about it.
- What?
She's too cool for you.
- Hi.
- [Louise] Hi.
- [Mia] I need to get some air.
- Come, honey, let's go out for a smoke.
[sighs] I just have to
[Mia groans]
- [Mia sighs contentedly]
- [Louise chuckles]
[both chuckle]
["Walkaway" by Cast plays]
[Mia chuckles]
[Mia] Come on.
[both giggle]
["Walkaway" continues]
I'm exhausted.
How the hell
are we gonna pay off a debt of 175,000?
Without, like,
robbing a bank?
I hate being poor.
Me too.
["Walkaway" continues]
Lollo, you're not poor.
You don't even have to work.
Can't you just ask your parents
for the money? You do have it.
[Louise] But No, I can't.
It doesn't work like that. [sighs]
All they've got to say ♪
[Margareta] What are you two doing?
A car could come. You could be run over!
[Louise] Mum! I get so
- [Margareta] This is crazy. Come on.
- [Louise giggles]
All you've got to say ♪
Now your words just slip away ♪
Just walk away ♪
Walk away, walk away ♪
That's what they say ♪
What they say, what they say ♪
- Gotta walk away ♪
- [alarm beeps]
[music fades]
- [Klara] Excuse me, can I get a cigarette?
- Sure.
- Thanks.
- [woman] Do you smoke?
No, I don't. Only sometimes.
[Klara coughs]
So, did you want something else?
[door creaks]
[intriguing music plays]
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
CONTRACT LAW
[intriguing music continues]
Stay right there.
[man] What's this?
Um
I've been suspended.
- [woman] Harsh.
- Hm.
But, uh, do you have the money?
Here.
[Klara] Fuck!
[Margareta] I know I put the watch here.
Here, where I always put it.
Here, come and have a look.
Here is where I always put my watch.
And now it's gone.
If you don't return it,
I'll have to report you to the police.
[Janina] No! No, I haven't taken anything!
[Margareta] Janina,
I'm giving you one more chance.
- Otherwise I'll have to call the police.
- [Janina] But it's not me!
[Margareta] Who else
would have done it? Who?!
[Janina, crying] I don't know!
- [Janina cries]
- [door slams]
[gentle music plays]
PAWN SHOP
[upbeat music plays]
- [Klara] Hi.
- Hi.
[upbeat music continues]
[clerk] Oh, well,
in the ballpark of 10,000.
Is that all?
This one?
[upbeat music continues]
[clerk] Well,
5,000, maybe.
[Klara] Hm.
- Both of them?
- Mm.
[upbeat music plays]
[Louise] It was, like, complete chaos
at our house this morning.
- Janina's been fired.
- [Mia] What?
Yeah, she nicked Mum's watch.
The one she got as a wedding gift.
[Frida] Whoa.
Will she really be fired?
[Louise] Janina cried,
said she hadn't taken anything.
- She'll probably get deported.
- I feel sorry for her.
What if your mum got her watch back?
Yeah? How the hell would that happen?
Because I took it.
- What?
- [Klara] Yes, I took it.
- You're kidding?
- Are you mad?
No, no, I was drunk
and it was lying there in the bathroom
and I was just going to look at it.
Then Niklas came and knocked on the door,
and I got stressed and took it.
I thought it could
maybe help clear some of the debt.
But I only got 10,000.
What? You've sold it?
No, no, I just took it to be pawned.
My own watch too.
I'll buy it back, of course.
I'm sorry. I was desperate.
And drunk.
[Louise] Maybe that's not such a bad idea.
[gentle music plays]
Did you guys see Laila?
Amina's mother, at the party.
Did you see her?
[girl] Mm. Yes.
- [Louise] Did you see her jewellery?
- [Mia] Super fancy.
She only wore Chanel, YSL,
and those sorts of brands.
Exactly.
I don't know, we could
borrow some of hers, maybe?
[gentle music continues]
- [Louise] What? She's probably got lots.
- Are we gonna steal them?
Amina said they're going
to Cairo this weekend.
- Just stop it, Lollo. It's not even funny.
- You started it.
[Klara] No, it's not the same.
[Louise] Yeah, it's the same. What?
I mean, the house is empty.
- We're only taking from the rich.
- [Louise] Yeah.
- Like Robin Hood.
- [Louise] Yes.
No, we can't.
I'm going to be a lawyer, you know?
- Hm. But my mum's watch was all right?
- Stop it.
So what are we gonna do? Split it up?
40,000 each. Does everyone have that?
- Do you have that, Mia? 40,000?
- [Mia scoffs]
[Louise] Come on. It helps you.
It's for your sake.
It'll fix everything, Klara.
Come on.
Okay.
- But we're really only borrowing.
- [Louise] Mm-hmm.
[Klara] We'll have to find some way
to return the stuff later.
[Louise] Oh yes. Absolutely.
[tense music plays]
[exhales]
[tense music continues]
[exhales]
[tense music continues]
[boys talk]
[tense music fades]
- Hey.
- [Louise] Hi.
- [Tobias] What's up?
- Good, thanks. How are you?
I'm good.
I'm beating your bro at backgammon.
[Louise] Okay. [chuckles]
Are you, uh, joining us tonight?
- What?
- [Tobias] We're going into town.
- [Calle] Come on, Tobbe. It's your turn.
- Uh, shit. I I can't tonight.
Unfortunately.
[Tobias] Okay.
- But maybe next time?
- Maybe.
[Calle] All right, Lollo, have fun.
Bye, then.
- [Tobias] Bye.
- Bye.
[loud chewing]
Can you stop chewing?
[chewing continues]
- So?
- [Klara] Can't throw it out the window.
I actually wasn't going to.
[Mia] I'm so nervous.
[Louise sighs]
[Mia] Maybe we shouldn't bother.
[Louise] No, I missed out on a night
with Tobbe for this. Let's do it.
- [Klara] Okay.
- [Frida exhales loudly]
Shall we?
- Okay.
- Mm.
[suspenseful music plays]
Hey, the light is on!
Yeah, it's probably one of those timers.
They activate when they're not at home.
[Klara] Are you sure they're out of town?
[Louise] Yes, Klara.
They're at a wedding in Cairo.
You all right?
[suspenseful music continues]
- [Klara] Wait. They might have an alarm.
- [Frida] What?
They might have an alarm.
I guess we'll have to try.
If the alarm sounds, we run.
Yeah.
Okay. Let's do it.
[suspenseful music continues]
Oh, shit.
- [Mia] What do we do now?
- [Louise] We go in.
[suspenseful music continues]
[Mia] Here.
[Klara] This is insane. What are we doing?
[suspenseful music continues]
[girl] Where do they keep all their stuff?
[suspenseful music continues]
- [girls gasp]
- [Louise] Are you home?
- [Amina shrieks]
- [Louise gasps]
- [Amina] What?!
- [Frida] Sorry. Sorry.
- Oh God. Sorry. Sorry.
- What are you doing here?
Sorry, sorry. Go! Go, go, go!
["Alright" by Supergrass plays]
We are young ♪
We run green ♪
Keep our teeth nice and clean ♪
See our friends, see the sights ♪
Feel all right ♪
THIS SEASON
We had a break-in,
unfortunately, this weekend.
- [Louise] Amina has no proof.
- Do you have time for a chat?
[grunts]
[alarm wails]
["My Favourite Game"
by The Cardigans plays]
[girls shout and laugh]
Mia!
[girl] Cheers!
["My Favourite Game" continues]
[Louise] Cheers to the Barracuda Queens.
[Calle] Think about your reputation.
Me think about my reputation? Doesn't he
have a reputation to think about?
[Calle] You're a girl. It's different.
Where did you get all that money from?
Hi. We're investigating the break-ins
in this neighbourhood.
["My Favourite Game" continues]
[Klara] What's the matter with you, Mia?
We're not selling anything now.
Fuck off with your goddamn
first-world problems!
[Louise] You keep your mouth shut!
And when they ask about the jewellery,
you say that you found it. Got it?
["Alright" by Supergrass plays]
We wake up ♪
We go out ♪
Smoke a fag, put it out ♪
See our friends, see the sights ♪
Feel all right ♪
Are we like you? ♪
I can't be sure ♪
Of the scene, as she turns ♪
We are strange in our worlds ♪
But we are young, we get by ♪
Can't go mad, ain't got time ♪
Sleep around if we like ♪
But we're all right ♪
Got some cash, bought some wheels ♪
Took it out, 'cross the fields ♪
Lost control, hit a wall ♪
But we're all right ♪
Are we like you? ♪
I can't be sure ♪
Of the scene, as she turns ♪
We are strange in our worlds ♪
But we are young, we run green ♪
Keep our teeth nice and clean ♪
See our friends, see the sights ♪
Feel all right ♪
[music fades]