Saint X (2023) s01e02 Episode Script
Woman is Fickle
1
EDWIN: Welcome to Indigo Bay.
ROY: Multiple witnesses saw Alison
at the bar last night
with two young local men.
And the three of them left the bar
together around midnight.
Your daughter is no longer with them.
- PERSON: Gogo!
- [GRUNTS]
Who was that cutie you were talking to
in the Yale shirt?
EDWIN: I recommend the
hike on Faraway Cay.
CLAIRE: I don't wanna go.
I don't like to go either, Miss.
Ah, the weather.
She always change she mind, Miss.
- Hello?
- Would it be possible
to meet up so I could get my phone back?
GOGO: Little Sugar. See you there.
[LUCIANO PAVAROTTI'S
"LA DONNA E MOBILE"]
[SINGING ALONG IN ITALIAN]
♪
Shit.
[SIRENS WAILING]
♪
[SIGHS]
♪
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
Mr. Richardson, Mr. Hastings,
out of the car.
You boys,
you're gonna sleep it
off at the station
again.
Gogo, I should call your grandma.
You're supposed to be a father now.
What kind of example you setting f
♪
You two awfully quiet back there.
What y'all been up to?
♪
Javier said there was snow.
We should probably
get the gutters checked
- when we get back.
- Oh, great.
Gutter talk has begun.
Vacation is really over.
Clairey? What is it, sweetie?
Alison didn't come home last night.
Oh, honey, I'm sure she's okay.
I'm sorry.
Let's get you packed.
♪
DR. NORTON: You're not sleeping?
Something on your mind?
No.
No, it I'm just tired.
Probably the new mattress.
Josh snores sometimes too.
DR. NORTON: No one's perfect.
But he's close.
Josh is the first guy
who's actually fought
to tear down my walls.
[SIGHS]
He accepts me as flawed
and damaged as I am.
DR. NORTON: I see.
CLAIRE: I'm loving living
together, being a team.
DR. NORTON: And you're sure moving
to a Caribbean neighborhood
wasn't too much?
CLAIRE: No. Flatbush is great.
DR. NORTON: I still wish we could talk
about your history.
Dig in a little.
CLAIRE: I really don't need to.
I'm better.
You should feel proud of yourself.
I mean, I'm no longer
the self-destructive mess
you met at the hospital two years ago.
That's good to hear.
♪
We said if I was taking care of myself,
we could cut back to once a month.
I feel like I'm there. Don't you?
Often, people choose to quit therapy
exactly when they need it most.
That's really not it. I'm just
I'm good.
Well, the choice is yours.
But my door is open if anything changes.
You've been through a lot, Emily.
Don't forget it.
What are you doing today?
Work.
But first, getting my phone.
I stupidly left it in a cab.
♪
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
EDWIN: It was Daphne
birthday on top of that.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Take her to the center
of the dance floor.
GOGO: Edwin, you didn't.
DESMOND: Oh, he did, Goges.
He got up on a table,
and he started doing the Running Man.
- GOGO: Hmm.
- And the crazy part is,
all the ladies eat his shit up.
EDWIN: Yeah, because
because I got the moves.
You know [VOCALIZING BEAT]
[LAUGHTER]
And we know who he want
to give those moves to, eh?
EDWIN: Uh-huh.
[PAUL LAUGHING]
Right, and when I, uh
when I asked for egg whites only,
he looked at me like I was crazy.
[LAUGHS] You remember
that, uh, green omelet
- from Parrot Caye?
- Yes, I remember
the green omelet from Parrot Caye.
Hi, I'm Jamie. Mind if I join you?
- Yeah, sure.
- GREG: Uh, sure.
Have a seat.
[GROANS]
I don't know why we
left the nanny at home.
Two days in, I'm already exhausted.
[CHUCKLES] But finally,
the kids are at camp
and my husband's playing
golf and I get a break.
Foreign countries can be so stressful.
Although some people seem
to be acclimating well.
BILL: Oh, good morning, sunshine.
MIA: I wondered when
we'd see you this morning.
CLAIRE: Alison went out last night.
- [LAUGHS]
- Claire.
CLAIRE: I was all alone.
I don't like to be alone.
Well, honey, Alison's in college.
She gets to have a little fun.
Okay, next time,
just just let us know
so Claire can sleep
with us if she wants.
EDWIN: Good morning, Thomases.
Can I get you some piña coladas?
- Uh, please, two.
- [MIA LAUGHS]
Yes, and two virgin coladas, please.
- Seriously?
- It's, like, 9:00 a.m., Al.
It's Alison.
MIA: Okay, so spill. Who
were you with last night?
Cutie from Yale?
What?
It hurts me when you
say things like that.
So how'd it go last night?
We had a really great time.
You don't have to fake it with me, okay?
Look, if Princeton's too uptight,
what about her?
She seems attainable.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
You know, I saw you last night.
With that random dude
random married dude.
Everyone's random until
you get to know them better.
- Two piña coladas.
- BILL: Oh.
- Thank you.
- BILL: Thank you very much.
And two virgin. You will enjoy them.
[MOUTHING WORDS] Thank you.
TYLER: Alison, I was wondering
if you wanted to hang out tonight.
Uh, if that's all right with
you, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas.
Well, I mean, we have
early dinner reservations.
- But she's free after
- I'm actually not sure
what I'm gonna do, but I'll
catch up with you later.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
CLAIRE: That guy Tyler is a dork.
He's nice,
and it's fun to be
around kids my own age.
You know what's cool about vacation?
Nobody knows us.
No one's ever gonna see us again.
This is our chance
to try on someone new.
I'm Vacation Alison. Vacation Claire.
It's very nice to meet you.
Why don't you check
out the kids club later?
Vacation Claire's gonna knock 'em dead.
Hey there.
Thanks for the drink
earlier. I really needed that.
EDWIN: It my job to anticipate
the needs of the guests.
- Duty calls?
- Yeah, nonstop till 3:00.
- What's at 3:00?
- Break.
Usually take it down
there over by the firepit.
DESMOND: D'you remember
that redhead from last year?
Her father almost kill Edwin
when he found they in the carpark.
Just tell him to be careful.
We can't afford no more trouble.
ROY: Multiple witnesses saw Alison
at the bar last night
with two young local men.
And the three of them left the
bar together around midnight.
I arrested the two men
few hours later for drunk driving,
but your daughter was
no longer with them.
BILL: Okay, look, wh-wh-what men?
You don't have to say it.
I know it. Those two fucking guys.
The fat one and the thin one!
[KNOCKING AT DOOR]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
I have tea.
From the manager.
You stay the fuck away
from my family, you hear me?
What'd you do to her? Where's Alison?
Where is she? What'd you do to her?
♪
[PANTING]
♪
[BELL CHIMES]
- Emily?
- Yeah.
It's really nice of you
to bring me my phone.
Well, I had no choice.
You could have called dispatch,
accuse me of stealing, have me fired.
CLAIRE: No oh, I
would I would never.
GOGO: Here.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
This place looks great.
Have you eaten here?
Uh, Little Sugar has
the most authentic food
in the neighborhood.
Well
- GOGO: No.
- Please, I insist.
No.
Well, um,
thank you, then.
♪
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
CLAIRE: Guess who's able
to communicate again.
JOSH: Yay!
Wow, that was dope of
the driver to deliver it.
You okay?
You were out of the
apartment before I woke up.
Oh, yeah, I walked to Dr. Norton.
You know, getting to
know the neighborhood.
Hey, babe, I just got huge news.
The Hayden case got an appeal.
CLAIRE: No, seriously?
I thought you said it was impossible.
JOSH: I thought it was, but now I think
we can actually get him exonerated.
The firm is celebrating tonight,
and the partners are all gonna be there.
You'll come, right?
Of course I'll be there.
JOSH: You're the best. Love you!
CLAIRE: See you later.
JOSH: Okay, bye.
Bye.
Oh, great. More dry cleaning to pick up.
Fucking so glad I went to
film school for this shit.
Wow, you color-code your schedules, huh?
- Oh, hey.
- Thanks.
SUNITA: Shrier's been looking
for you, but don't worry.
I told him you had lady troubles.
So how are you doing?
CLAIRE: I'm kind of
shitty, to be honest.
I can't stop thinking about him
or her.
Yeah.
My sister's murder was
headline news for a year.
They made a fucking TV movie about it.
My parents tried to keep it from me,
but sometimes it feels like
the whole world knows more about
what happened to her than I do.
Trust me, your parents are right.
There's no good answers out there.
It's just awful internet shit.
Promise me you won't look.
I'm not gonna look.
It's too deep a rabbit hole,
and I know it's not good for me.
Did you tell Dr. Norton?
Did you tell Josh?
Em, I think knowing his
girlfriend got into a cab
with the man who killed
her sister is important.
He's gonna love you no
matter what, you know?
All right, enough. Shoo.
SUNITA: All right.
I have bear drama to edit.
SUNITA: Kay.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[WATER RUSHING]
EDWIN: You see the
boss man got new chairs
for the whities?
To cushion they tender asses. [LAUGHS]
Anyway, got news.
Oh, no.
No, when you be showing
me all them teeth,
always mean trouble.
No, no, not trouble, big man.
Opportunity.
Desmond cousin hook we up
with a meeting with One-Eye Mike.
- No.
- EDWIN: What you mean "no"?
You say yourself you
need money for Sara.
That your thing.
Cocaine way more serious
than we usual shit.
I won't be risking it.
This a good job. We make good tips.
I make good tips.
You still strugglin',
which be why I decide to include you.
No, Edwin. No more foolin' around.
- EDWIN: [CHUCKLES]
- No more crime.
I got a steady job.
I will provide for my family.
I will make Sara and Clive Jr. proud.
Think how proud they be when
you buy a bike for Clive,
when you buy a dishwasher for Sara.
One-Eye Mike a real drug dealer.
One-Eye Mike be a
business man, same as we.
- GOGO: You never met him.
- Neither have you.
I won't go.
Ah, how such a big man can
be such a little chicken
[CHUCKLES] I never know.
DESMOND: Edwin, I agree.
Go on. Talk to she.
No. No, Desmond. I can't.
Go on. Live you life, Gogo.
DESMOND: Get over there. Talk to she.
[PLAYFUL MUSIC]
[EDWIN AND DESMOND CLUCKING]
♪
[STAMMERS] You were were
[ALL SNICKERING]
Good!
[BOTH GIGGLING]
KEITHLEY: Sara Lycott,
the daughter of a government minister.
She not interested in
someone with no parents
who can't even speak right.
Hey, watch your mouth, Keithley.
KEITHLEY: Screw you, Edwin!
- Edwin, no!
- KEITHLEY: What you doing?
[ALL SHOUTING]
ROY: Wait. Wait, now.
Go on, go on, go on.
Enough, enough. Hey, stop it.
Cut this foolishness! Ya fight for what?
Shame on you.
Clive, wait.
You're a good boy.
Grandma take you to
church. She look after you.
Ya on the right path.
Don't let Edwin Hastings
get you in trouble.
You understand?
[BRUSH RUSTLES]
What you doing here?
- [LAUGHS]
- [LAUGHS SARCASTICALLY]
You're hysterical.
EDWIN: Ooh, you're bleedin'.
Yeah, I
Tough girl.
Oh, yeah, so tough.
So tough. [LAUGHS]
You know those will kill you.
Only if something else
don't kill me first.
You want one?
Very healthy choice, Miss.
You don't have to call me that.
So that there, that's Faraway Cay?
EDWIN: It is.
ALISON: Do you ever see her?
The witch who turns sinners into goats?
EDWIN: I seen the goats. [CHUCKLES]
Every idiot here got some
story of a naughty auntie
or a funny uncle who
disappear on the island.
Yeah, well, every culture
has their own version
of someone like that, though, right?
The boogeyman or the devil,
and even smart people believe it.
I believed in the tooth
fairy until I was 12, so
- [LAUGHS]
- Tooth fairy?
The one that leave money when ya
when your teeth go out?
It's stupid, right?
West Chester must be a nice place.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
I should get back.
I gotta get Claire from the kids club
before my parents call a search party.
All that family tough.
You need a break.
Seriously.
Me and Gogo usually lime
here a bit after work,
smoke some herb.
You dig, or are you
too healthy for that?
[LAUGHS] Um, no, I I dig.
Maybe see you here sometime.
Maybe.
[CHUCKLES]
♪
Hi, um, I'm looking for
my sister, Claire Thomas.
The children are playing
parachute game right now.
Yeah, Claire isn't.
[CHILDREN GIGGLING]
Um, she's pale with light brown hair.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
Miss, I'm certain she here.
One moment.
♪
Claire Thomas. Claire Thomas.
♪
ALISON: Oh, there you are.
I thank you.
I won three games in a row.
She a very skilled player.
That's great, Claire.
Will you go get your stuff, please?
Thank you for hanging out with her.
You didn't have to do that.
Me pleasure, Miss.
I be shy too when I was she age.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Miss, Edwin be my best friend,
but he also be trouble.
I urge you stay away from he.
♪
[KEYBOARD CLACKING]
♪
[PHONE DINGS]
[CARS HONKING]
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
- GOGO: Hey, hey, come back.
- EDWIN: Thank you.
Look at all this money, Goges!
We livin' the dream!
Next week, we do Guess jeans, charge 15!
Soon, we make so much,
we get ourselves a
house right out there,
- bigger than Keithley.
- [CHUCKLES]
Look down on everyone.
[PLAYFUL MUSIC]
Or maybe we move to
New York, like Perry.
- Police.
- EDWIN: Shit!
Shut it down.
♪
ROY: You gonna take them jeans back.
You're gonna find a way
to repay the store owner.
Okay, but Officer Roy, we business plan,
it is for love.
Goges need money so he
can steal Sara Lycott
away from that cocksuck, Keithley.
Uh, pardon my language.
ROY: Sara Lycott?
He still chasin' after her?
She ain't never look at him twice.
- EDWIN: That what I say.
- ROY: [LAUGHS]
Boys, you are too old for this. Hmm?
That resort going up on the east side,
it gonna be the first of many.
Tourism be comin' here
with plenty, plenty of opportunities
for well-behaved boys.
[SIGHS] Goges and I not interested
in being waiters for whities.
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
♪
- KEITHLEY: And my dad said
- SARA: Thank you.
KEITHLEY: Maybe we open a third
store within the next year.
Keithley, good for you.
You've always had a head for business.
[LAUGHS] No, you're the smart one.
Oh, how I miss that smile.
Well, there's not much
to smile about these days.
You know I'm not a schoolgirl anymore.
[CLIVE JR. BABBLES]
Sara, what you are doing here?
SARA: Keithley drove me and Clive Jr.
to he doctor appointment.
I told you my mom need new tires.
And your wife don't mind, hmm?
She with she sister in St. Kitts.
[CLEARS THROAT]
Sara and your pickney in a good hands.
Now
don't you have some towels to fetch?
[CLIVE JR. WHINES]
See?
Uncle Keithley better.
SARA: Go on. Go to.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
I heard what you called me last night.
The real cunt move?
Saying it under your breath.
[INTRIGUING MUSIC]
♪
TYLER: Ow, man! That kinda hurt!
GUY: I'm sorry, man.
Hey, um, you and Alison,
you guys are, like, together, right?
- Yes.
- GUY: Cool.
OLIVIA: Hey, Tyler.
Maybe I should go for her, then.
What's her name again?
TYLER: No idea.
♪
ALISON: Clairey!
How are you ever gonna be on swim
team like me if you never swim?
[LIGHTHEARTED MUSIC]
♪
[LAUGHS]
[BOTH SCREAM]
[BOTH LAUGHING AND CHATTING]
♪
Sweetheart, you know
you know it happens
to all men sometimes,
particularly expectant fathers.
- We can try again tonight.
- Can you just not?
CLAIRE: Beat you there!
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
- I swam in the ocean!
- MIA: I know, I saw you!
You were so brave. Look at you.
ALISON: [SIGHS] Have you seen my shorts?
My Princeton shorts?
BILL: You sure you were wearing them?
ALISON: Yeah, I had them
on the beach with Claire.
Why am I always losing shit?
MIA: Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Hope you're enjoying this gorgeous day.
BILL: Oh, yes, we are.
I envy you waking up to this every day.
Didn't you recently
have a hurricane, though?
DESMOND: Yes, Hurricane Martha.
Well, it four years ago.
600 homes, they were destroyed.
I'm so sorry. That's terrible.
Can you imagine living in a place
where every hurricane
season, a single storm might
decimate your entire existence?
The ability to cope
with that shit must be
somehow baked into their DNA.
How else could they stand it?
Do you realize how racist you sound?
Jesus Christ, Alison.
- It's practically eugenics.
- I was making an observation.
You're perpetuating racial myths and
BILL: You're taking this
political bullshit too far.
ALISON: Oh, whatever.
Whatever, Rush Limbaugh.
♪
This feels so good.
Almost makes me forget about
how unbelievably clueless
my parents can be.
Almost.
Bunch of kids in here earlier, though.
Probably full of pee.
Oh, so you probably
wouldn't want me to do this.
[TYLER SCOFFS]
[LAUGHS]
[BOTH LAUGHING]
Can't be easy having two daughters.
You know how guys are.
Oh, my oldest would say
that's why it's up to
fathers to raise better men.
Tyler seems like one.
Does he?
[CHUCKLES]
Well, I guess that's
his mother's influence.
I only see the kid a
couple times a year.
- Oh.
- She moved him 500 miles away.
That must be hard.
Yeah, I try to bond, you know?
Make up for lost time.
Give him some masculine influence.
But, uh, kid's pathetic. [CHUCKLES]
19 years old, he still
calls his mommy every night.
Well, Alison certainly
seems to like him.
Well, he's a pussy.
Hope she's the kind of
girl that likes to lead.
[LIGHT ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
- GOGO: Go away.
- EDWIN: What happened to you?
Sara and Clive was with Keithley.
EDWIN: Oh, when that bratty
boy gonna give up he dream?
GOGO: He got money.
- He always got money.
- You could have money too.
- You just choose not to.
- Don't be starting.
EDWIN: How you gonna
compete for Sara heart
when little Keithley be buying it?
Soon he buy your Clive love too.
- [SCOFFS] No.
- EDWIN: Yes.
He buy that pickney toys and then cars,
and pretty soon, he be the daddy.
You think that could happen?
Come tomorrow, Goges.
One-Eye hook us up right.
[LAUGHS]
We gonna be rollin' in lettuce, man.
Rollin'!
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
DESMOND: Free of charge, of course
complements of Indigo Bay,
where you can do some snorkeling,
or you can hike up a majestic waterfall.
JAMIE: Do you wanna do that?
It's really good for the kids.
- It's free?
- Yes, Miss.
♪
Welcome to Faraway Cay,
the one and only home of the goat witch.
JAMIE: Tell us about her.
DESMOND: Well, they say
she be eight feet tall,
and at the bottom of she
legs, she doesn't have feet.
She have hooves.
- KAIA: Hooves?
- DESMOND: Yes, hooves.
And they say that the goat witch,
she know what little boys
and girls are well-behaved
and which ones are not.
She know the ones that go to bed on time
and the ones that love to
tease their little sisters.
And when the naughty ones come,
she call them by their name.
[WITH CREEPY VOICE] "Kaia. Finn."
[NORMAL VOICE] And lure
they into the waterfall.
And when they come
out on the other side,
they realized that they transformed.
[GAGS] They changed.
They transformed.
They turn into goats. [BLEATS]
Destined to roam Faraway
Cay for the rest of eternity.
[LIGHT MUSIC]
Go and look for the goat witch.
See if you can hear she.
But don't let she lure you away.
Go.
I dare you.
[KIDS GIGGLING]
♪
Desmond, I so appreciate this.
It's been so stressful for them.
For all of us at the
hotel, with Alison missing,
all the police and the accusations.
Do you really think Edwin
and Gogo might be behind it?
DESMOND: They said she
was last seen with them.
I mean, you're friends with them.
- Is that right?
- Well [CHUCKLES]
Actually, I I don't
know them very well at all.
KAIA: [SCREAMS]
Mommy! Oh, no!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
JAMIE: Oh, my God.
[UPBEAT DANCE MUSIC]
Then I found out, hasn't
been a case of rabies
in New York City in
over a hundred years.
- Hi.
- Hey.
- CLAIRE: Hey.
- Hey.
You okay? Where ya been?
Yeah, um, I was on the phone to Sunita.
She's on this terrible date
um, with this woman who
was, like, a horrible racist.
JOSH: Oh.
Sh dang.
Do you mind if I go see her?
No. No, of course not.
CLAIRE: Love you.
Love you.
♪
- TYLER: Alison?
- ALISON: Hmm?
TYLER: What are you afraid of?
ALISON: I don't know, I guess
I mean, I could tell you stupid things.
I'm afraid of being home alone at night
because every time I hear a sound,
I think there's a murderer.
And I'm afraid of mayonnaise
because it's absolutely disgusting
and it gets on people's fingers.
Yeah.
Um,
the real stuff, I
I guess the thing I'm most afraid of
is that I have
everything going for me
the whole world at my
fingertips and all that.
But, um, what if I'm not the golden girl
they all think I am?
What if I'm actually
just totally mediocre?
You're not mediocre.
I wasn't
Whatever. Um, what are you afraid of?
[SIGHS]
Spiders.
[CHUCKLES] Classic.
A.I.
My dad, mainly.
Asshole was so busy
counting all his junk bonds,
didn't realize his
wife and son hated him
till it was too late.
I thought now I'm in college,
we wouldn't have to do these
dumb custody arrangements.
This trip must suck for you.
[CHUCKLES] Whatever.
It's only a week.
And it's not so bad.
[SOFT MUSIC]
♪
Let's go to the golf course.
I have a blanket.
Maybe another night.
Claire wakes me up super early,
and I have to get back.
TYLER: Okay.
Actually, I think I'm gonna walk.
[SOFT TENSE MUSIC]
♪
DANA: I was thinking a
light teal for the nursery.
Not-not too bright, but, like,
the color of the sea here.
- ETHAN: Yeah.
- Careful, Ethan.
We don't want another Sally situation.
OLIVIA: Hey, Mom.
You're not supposed to be drinking.
And you're supposed
to be with your wife.
♪
I should, uh yeah.
♪
DESMOND: How are we doing tonight, sir?
TODD: Much better.
Well, actually [CHUCKLES]
I'm drinking alone on my vacation.
That's how I'm doing.
Don't ever get married
- Desmond.
- Desmond!
DESMOND: I'll heed your advice, sir.
Don't. Please.
Just let me give you
some fatherly pointers.
Look, I get that it's a different world,
but some girls need convincing.
♪
EDWIN: So tomorrow,
we head right from the hotel to Mike's.
And don't wear that
stupid blue shirt, yeah?
How would you like to
stick your cock in that?
♪
Hi.
[LAUGHS]
Your parents know
where you be right now?
ALISON: Nope.
I don't really like
being told what to do.
[CHUCKLING]
[EDWIN LAUGHS]
ALISON: Can I have another?
EDWIN: Yeah, if you say "please."
CLAIRE: And I liked the swimming
and I liked the sundae at dinner
and I liked the checkers.
- MIA: So you had a good day?
- It was.
- MIA: Okay.
- Can I have Lion?
- BILL: Sure.
- Yeah.
- Roar!
- [GIGGLING]
[BILL SMOOCHING]
CLAIRE: Do you think
Alison's with Tyler?
- MIA: Probably.
- CLAIRE: I think he's a dork.
[BILL LAUGHS]
I mean [CLEARS THROAT]
He is a German major.
Can I play more checkers tomorrow?
Of course. I'll play with you.
- CLAIRE: You will?
- BILL: Yeah.
And can I also play with Gogo?
Yeah.
Oh, honey, I think it's
great that you made a friend.
Hmm?
[SOMBER MUSIC]
[SIGHS]
♪
Oh, my God!
[CRYING] Oh, God.
Oh, my God!
♪
Clive, can I get you anything else?
No, Ms. Vincia.
I should head home.
MS. VINCIA: All right.
You have a good night.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
EDWIN: Welcome to Indigo Bay.
ROY: Multiple witnesses saw Alison
at the bar last night
with two young local men.
And the three of them left the bar
together around midnight.
Your daughter is no longer with them.
- PERSON: Gogo!
- [GRUNTS]
Who was that cutie you were talking to
in the Yale shirt?
EDWIN: I recommend the
hike on Faraway Cay.
CLAIRE: I don't wanna go.
I don't like to go either, Miss.
Ah, the weather.
She always change she mind, Miss.
- Hello?
- Would it be possible
to meet up so I could get my phone back?
GOGO: Little Sugar. See you there.
[LUCIANO PAVAROTTI'S
"LA DONNA E MOBILE"]
[SINGING ALONG IN ITALIAN]
♪
Shit.
[SIRENS WAILING]
♪
[SIGHS]
♪
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
Mr. Richardson, Mr. Hastings,
out of the car.
You boys,
you're gonna sleep it
off at the station
again.
Gogo, I should call your grandma.
You're supposed to be a father now.
What kind of example you setting f
♪
You two awfully quiet back there.
What y'all been up to?
♪
Javier said there was snow.
We should probably
get the gutters checked
- when we get back.
- Oh, great.
Gutter talk has begun.
Vacation is really over.
Clairey? What is it, sweetie?
Alison didn't come home last night.
Oh, honey, I'm sure she's okay.
I'm sorry.
Let's get you packed.
♪
DR. NORTON: You're not sleeping?
Something on your mind?
No.
No, it I'm just tired.
Probably the new mattress.
Josh snores sometimes too.
DR. NORTON: No one's perfect.
But he's close.
Josh is the first guy
who's actually fought
to tear down my walls.
[SIGHS]
He accepts me as flawed
and damaged as I am.
DR. NORTON: I see.
CLAIRE: I'm loving living
together, being a team.
DR. NORTON: And you're sure moving
to a Caribbean neighborhood
wasn't too much?
CLAIRE: No. Flatbush is great.
DR. NORTON: I still wish we could talk
about your history.
Dig in a little.
CLAIRE: I really don't need to.
I'm better.
You should feel proud of yourself.
I mean, I'm no longer
the self-destructive mess
you met at the hospital two years ago.
That's good to hear.
♪
We said if I was taking care of myself,
we could cut back to once a month.
I feel like I'm there. Don't you?
Often, people choose to quit therapy
exactly when they need it most.
That's really not it. I'm just
I'm good.
Well, the choice is yours.
But my door is open if anything changes.
You've been through a lot, Emily.
Don't forget it.
What are you doing today?
Work.
But first, getting my phone.
I stupidly left it in a cab.
♪
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
♪
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
EDWIN: It was Daphne
birthday on top of that.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Take her to the center
of the dance floor.
GOGO: Edwin, you didn't.
DESMOND: Oh, he did, Goges.
He got up on a table,
and he started doing the Running Man.
- GOGO: Hmm.
- And the crazy part is,
all the ladies eat his shit up.
EDWIN: Yeah, because
because I got the moves.
You know [VOCALIZING BEAT]
[LAUGHTER]
And we know who he want
to give those moves to, eh?
EDWIN: Uh-huh.
[PAUL LAUGHING]
Right, and when I, uh
when I asked for egg whites only,
he looked at me like I was crazy.
[LAUGHS] You remember
that, uh, green omelet
- from Parrot Caye?
- Yes, I remember
the green omelet from Parrot Caye.
Hi, I'm Jamie. Mind if I join you?
- Yeah, sure.
- GREG: Uh, sure.
Have a seat.
[GROANS]
I don't know why we
left the nanny at home.
Two days in, I'm already exhausted.
[CHUCKLES] But finally,
the kids are at camp
and my husband's playing
golf and I get a break.
Foreign countries can be so stressful.
Although some people seem
to be acclimating well.
BILL: Oh, good morning, sunshine.
MIA: I wondered when
we'd see you this morning.
CLAIRE: Alison went out last night.
- [LAUGHS]
- Claire.
CLAIRE: I was all alone.
I don't like to be alone.
Well, honey, Alison's in college.
She gets to have a little fun.
Okay, next time,
just just let us know
so Claire can sleep
with us if she wants.
EDWIN: Good morning, Thomases.
Can I get you some piña coladas?
- Uh, please, two.
- [MIA LAUGHS]
Yes, and two virgin coladas, please.
- Seriously?
- It's, like, 9:00 a.m., Al.
It's Alison.
MIA: Okay, so spill. Who
were you with last night?
Cutie from Yale?
What?
It hurts me when you
say things like that.
So how'd it go last night?
We had a really great time.
You don't have to fake it with me, okay?
Look, if Princeton's too uptight,
what about her?
She seems attainable.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
You know, I saw you last night.
With that random dude
random married dude.
Everyone's random until
you get to know them better.
- Two piña coladas.
- BILL: Oh.
- Thank you.
- BILL: Thank you very much.
And two virgin. You will enjoy them.
[MOUTHING WORDS] Thank you.
TYLER: Alison, I was wondering
if you wanted to hang out tonight.
Uh, if that's all right with
you, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas.
Well, I mean, we have
early dinner reservations.
- But she's free after
- I'm actually not sure
what I'm gonna do, but I'll
catch up with you later.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
CLAIRE: That guy Tyler is a dork.
He's nice,
and it's fun to be
around kids my own age.
You know what's cool about vacation?
Nobody knows us.
No one's ever gonna see us again.
This is our chance
to try on someone new.
I'm Vacation Alison. Vacation Claire.
It's very nice to meet you.
Why don't you check
out the kids club later?
Vacation Claire's gonna knock 'em dead.
Hey there.
Thanks for the drink
earlier. I really needed that.
EDWIN: It my job to anticipate
the needs of the guests.
- Duty calls?
- Yeah, nonstop till 3:00.
- What's at 3:00?
- Break.
Usually take it down
there over by the firepit.
DESMOND: D'you remember
that redhead from last year?
Her father almost kill Edwin
when he found they in the carpark.
Just tell him to be careful.
We can't afford no more trouble.
ROY: Multiple witnesses saw Alison
at the bar last night
with two young local men.
And the three of them left the
bar together around midnight.
I arrested the two men
few hours later for drunk driving,
but your daughter was
no longer with them.
BILL: Okay, look, wh-wh-what men?
You don't have to say it.
I know it. Those two fucking guys.
The fat one and the thin one!
[KNOCKING AT DOOR]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
I have tea.
From the manager.
You stay the fuck away
from my family, you hear me?
What'd you do to her? Where's Alison?
Where is she? What'd you do to her?
♪
[PANTING]
♪
[BELL CHIMES]
- Emily?
- Yeah.
It's really nice of you
to bring me my phone.
Well, I had no choice.
You could have called dispatch,
accuse me of stealing, have me fired.
CLAIRE: No oh, I
would I would never.
GOGO: Here.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
This place looks great.
Have you eaten here?
Uh, Little Sugar has
the most authentic food
in the neighborhood.
Well
- GOGO: No.
- Please, I insist.
No.
Well, um,
thank you, then.
♪
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
CLAIRE: Guess who's able
to communicate again.
JOSH: Yay!
Wow, that was dope of
the driver to deliver it.
You okay?
You were out of the
apartment before I woke up.
Oh, yeah, I walked to Dr. Norton.
You know, getting to
know the neighborhood.
Hey, babe, I just got huge news.
The Hayden case got an appeal.
CLAIRE: No, seriously?
I thought you said it was impossible.
JOSH: I thought it was, but now I think
we can actually get him exonerated.
The firm is celebrating tonight,
and the partners are all gonna be there.
You'll come, right?
Of course I'll be there.
JOSH: You're the best. Love you!
CLAIRE: See you later.
JOSH: Okay, bye.
Bye.
Oh, great. More dry cleaning to pick up.
Fucking so glad I went to
film school for this shit.
Wow, you color-code your schedules, huh?
- Oh, hey.
- Thanks.
SUNITA: Shrier's been looking
for you, but don't worry.
I told him you had lady troubles.
So how are you doing?
CLAIRE: I'm kind of
shitty, to be honest.
I can't stop thinking about him
or her.
Yeah.
My sister's murder was
headline news for a year.
They made a fucking TV movie about it.
My parents tried to keep it from me,
but sometimes it feels like
the whole world knows more about
what happened to her than I do.
Trust me, your parents are right.
There's no good answers out there.
It's just awful internet shit.
Promise me you won't look.
I'm not gonna look.
It's too deep a rabbit hole,
and I know it's not good for me.
Did you tell Dr. Norton?
Did you tell Josh?
Em, I think knowing his
girlfriend got into a cab
with the man who killed
her sister is important.
He's gonna love you no
matter what, you know?
All right, enough. Shoo.
SUNITA: All right.
I have bear drama to edit.
SUNITA: Kay.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[WATER RUSHING]
EDWIN: You see the
boss man got new chairs
for the whities?
To cushion they tender asses. [LAUGHS]
Anyway, got news.
Oh, no.
No, when you be showing
me all them teeth,
always mean trouble.
No, no, not trouble, big man.
Opportunity.
Desmond cousin hook we up
with a meeting with One-Eye Mike.
- No.
- EDWIN: What you mean "no"?
You say yourself you
need money for Sara.
That your thing.
Cocaine way more serious
than we usual shit.
I won't be risking it.
This a good job. We make good tips.
I make good tips.
You still strugglin',
which be why I decide to include you.
No, Edwin. No more foolin' around.
- EDWIN: [CHUCKLES]
- No more crime.
I got a steady job.
I will provide for my family.
I will make Sara and Clive Jr. proud.
Think how proud they be when
you buy a bike for Clive,
when you buy a dishwasher for Sara.
One-Eye Mike a real drug dealer.
One-Eye Mike be a
business man, same as we.
- GOGO: You never met him.
- Neither have you.
I won't go.
Ah, how such a big man can
be such a little chicken
[CHUCKLES] I never know.
DESMOND: Edwin, I agree.
Go on. Talk to she.
No. No, Desmond. I can't.
Go on. Live you life, Gogo.
DESMOND: Get over there. Talk to she.
[PLAYFUL MUSIC]
[EDWIN AND DESMOND CLUCKING]
♪
[STAMMERS] You were were
[ALL SNICKERING]
Good!
[BOTH GIGGLING]
KEITHLEY: Sara Lycott,
the daughter of a government minister.
She not interested in
someone with no parents
who can't even speak right.
Hey, watch your mouth, Keithley.
KEITHLEY: Screw you, Edwin!
- Edwin, no!
- KEITHLEY: What you doing?
[ALL SHOUTING]
ROY: Wait. Wait, now.
Go on, go on, go on.
Enough, enough. Hey, stop it.
Cut this foolishness! Ya fight for what?
Shame on you.
Clive, wait.
You're a good boy.
Grandma take you to
church. She look after you.
Ya on the right path.
Don't let Edwin Hastings
get you in trouble.
You understand?
[BRUSH RUSTLES]
What you doing here?
- [LAUGHS]
- [LAUGHS SARCASTICALLY]
You're hysterical.
EDWIN: Ooh, you're bleedin'.
Yeah, I
Tough girl.
Oh, yeah, so tough.
So tough. [LAUGHS]
You know those will kill you.
Only if something else
don't kill me first.
You want one?
Very healthy choice, Miss.
You don't have to call me that.
So that there, that's Faraway Cay?
EDWIN: It is.
ALISON: Do you ever see her?
The witch who turns sinners into goats?
EDWIN: I seen the goats. [CHUCKLES]
Every idiot here got some
story of a naughty auntie
or a funny uncle who
disappear on the island.
Yeah, well, every culture
has their own version
of someone like that, though, right?
The boogeyman or the devil,
and even smart people believe it.
I believed in the tooth
fairy until I was 12, so
- [LAUGHS]
- Tooth fairy?
The one that leave money when ya
when your teeth go out?
It's stupid, right?
West Chester must be a nice place.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
I should get back.
I gotta get Claire from the kids club
before my parents call a search party.
All that family tough.
You need a break.
Seriously.
Me and Gogo usually lime
here a bit after work,
smoke some herb.
You dig, or are you
too healthy for that?
[LAUGHS] Um, no, I I dig.
Maybe see you here sometime.
Maybe.
[CHUCKLES]
♪
Hi, um, I'm looking for
my sister, Claire Thomas.
The children are playing
parachute game right now.
Yeah, Claire isn't.
[CHILDREN GIGGLING]
Um, she's pale with light brown hair.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
Miss, I'm certain she here.
One moment.
♪
Claire Thomas. Claire Thomas.
♪
ALISON: Oh, there you are.
I thank you.
I won three games in a row.
She a very skilled player.
That's great, Claire.
Will you go get your stuff, please?
Thank you for hanging out with her.
You didn't have to do that.
Me pleasure, Miss.
I be shy too when I was she age.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Miss, Edwin be my best friend,
but he also be trouble.
I urge you stay away from he.
♪
[KEYBOARD CLACKING]
♪
[PHONE DINGS]
[CARS HONKING]
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
- GOGO: Hey, hey, come back.
- EDWIN: Thank you.
Look at all this money, Goges!
We livin' the dream!
Next week, we do Guess jeans, charge 15!
Soon, we make so much,
we get ourselves a
house right out there,
- bigger than Keithley.
- [CHUCKLES]
Look down on everyone.
[PLAYFUL MUSIC]
Or maybe we move to
New York, like Perry.
- Police.
- EDWIN: Shit!
Shut it down.
♪
ROY: You gonna take them jeans back.
You're gonna find a way
to repay the store owner.
Okay, but Officer Roy, we business plan,
it is for love.
Goges need money so he
can steal Sara Lycott
away from that cocksuck, Keithley.
Uh, pardon my language.
ROY: Sara Lycott?
He still chasin' after her?
She ain't never look at him twice.
- EDWIN: That what I say.
- ROY: [LAUGHS]
Boys, you are too old for this. Hmm?
That resort going up on the east side,
it gonna be the first of many.
Tourism be comin' here
with plenty, plenty of opportunities
for well-behaved boys.
[SIGHS] Goges and I not interested
in being waiters for whities.
[UPBEAT MUSIC]
♪
- KEITHLEY: And my dad said
- SARA: Thank you.
KEITHLEY: Maybe we open a third
store within the next year.
Keithley, good for you.
You've always had a head for business.
[LAUGHS] No, you're the smart one.
Oh, how I miss that smile.
Well, there's not much
to smile about these days.
You know I'm not a schoolgirl anymore.
[CLIVE JR. BABBLES]
Sara, what you are doing here?
SARA: Keithley drove me and Clive Jr.
to he doctor appointment.
I told you my mom need new tires.
And your wife don't mind, hmm?
She with she sister in St. Kitts.
[CLEARS THROAT]
Sara and your pickney in a good hands.
Now
don't you have some towels to fetch?
[CLIVE JR. WHINES]
See?
Uncle Keithley better.
SARA: Go on. Go to.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
I heard what you called me last night.
The real cunt move?
Saying it under your breath.
[INTRIGUING MUSIC]
♪
TYLER: Ow, man! That kinda hurt!
GUY: I'm sorry, man.
Hey, um, you and Alison,
you guys are, like, together, right?
- Yes.
- GUY: Cool.
OLIVIA: Hey, Tyler.
Maybe I should go for her, then.
What's her name again?
TYLER: No idea.
♪
ALISON: Clairey!
How are you ever gonna be on swim
team like me if you never swim?
[LIGHTHEARTED MUSIC]
♪
[LAUGHS]
[BOTH SCREAM]
[BOTH LAUGHING AND CHATTING]
♪
Sweetheart, you know
you know it happens
to all men sometimes,
particularly expectant fathers.
- We can try again tonight.
- Can you just not?
CLAIRE: Beat you there!
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
- I swam in the ocean!
- MIA: I know, I saw you!
You were so brave. Look at you.
ALISON: [SIGHS] Have you seen my shorts?
My Princeton shorts?
BILL: You sure you were wearing them?
ALISON: Yeah, I had them
on the beach with Claire.
Why am I always losing shit?
MIA: Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Hope you're enjoying this gorgeous day.
BILL: Oh, yes, we are.
I envy you waking up to this every day.
Didn't you recently
have a hurricane, though?
DESMOND: Yes, Hurricane Martha.
Well, it four years ago.
600 homes, they were destroyed.
I'm so sorry. That's terrible.
Can you imagine living in a place
where every hurricane
season, a single storm might
decimate your entire existence?
The ability to cope
with that shit must be
somehow baked into their DNA.
How else could they stand it?
Do you realize how racist you sound?
Jesus Christ, Alison.
- It's practically eugenics.
- I was making an observation.
You're perpetuating racial myths and
BILL: You're taking this
political bullshit too far.
ALISON: Oh, whatever.
Whatever, Rush Limbaugh.
♪
This feels so good.
Almost makes me forget about
how unbelievably clueless
my parents can be.
Almost.
Bunch of kids in here earlier, though.
Probably full of pee.
Oh, so you probably
wouldn't want me to do this.
[TYLER SCOFFS]
[LAUGHS]
[BOTH LAUGHING]
Can't be easy having two daughters.
You know how guys are.
Oh, my oldest would say
that's why it's up to
fathers to raise better men.
Tyler seems like one.
Does he?
[CHUCKLES]
Well, I guess that's
his mother's influence.
I only see the kid a
couple times a year.
- Oh.
- She moved him 500 miles away.
That must be hard.
Yeah, I try to bond, you know?
Make up for lost time.
Give him some masculine influence.
But, uh, kid's pathetic. [CHUCKLES]
19 years old, he still
calls his mommy every night.
Well, Alison certainly
seems to like him.
Well, he's a pussy.
Hope she's the kind of
girl that likes to lead.
[LIGHT ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
- GOGO: Go away.
- EDWIN: What happened to you?
Sara and Clive was with Keithley.
EDWIN: Oh, when that bratty
boy gonna give up he dream?
GOGO: He got money.
- He always got money.
- You could have money too.
- You just choose not to.
- Don't be starting.
EDWIN: How you gonna
compete for Sara heart
when little Keithley be buying it?
Soon he buy your Clive love too.
- [SCOFFS] No.
- EDWIN: Yes.
He buy that pickney toys and then cars,
and pretty soon, he be the daddy.
You think that could happen?
Come tomorrow, Goges.
One-Eye hook us up right.
[LAUGHS]
We gonna be rollin' in lettuce, man.
Rollin'!
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
DESMOND: Free of charge, of course
complements of Indigo Bay,
where you can do some snorkeling,
or you can hike up a majestic waterfall.
JAMIE: Do you wanna do that?
It's really good for the kids.
- It's free?
- Yes, Miss.
♪
Welcome to Faraway Cay,
the one and only home of the goat witch.
JAMIE: Tell us about her.
DESMOND: Well, they say
she be eight feet tall,
and at the bottom of she
legs, she doesn't have feet.
She have hooves.
- KAIA: Hooves?
- DESMOND: Yes, hooves.
And they say that the goat witch,
she know what little boys
and girls are well-behaved
and which ones are not.
She know the ones that go to bed on time
and the ones that love to
tease their little sisters.
And when the naughty ones come,
she call them by their name.
[WITH CREEPY VOICE] "Kaia. Finn."
[NORMAL VOICE] And lure
they into the waterfall.
And when they come
out on the other side,
they realized that they transformed.
[GAGS] They changed.
They transformed.
They turn into goats. [BLEATS]
Destined to roam Faraway
Cay for the rest of eternity.
[LIGHT MUSIC]
Go and look for the goat witch.
See if you can hear she.
But don't let she lure you away.
Go.
I dare you.
[KIDS GIGGLING]
♪
Desmond, I so appreciate this.
It's been so stressful for them.
For all of us at the
hotel, with Alison missing,
all the police and the accusations.
Do you really think Edwin
and Gogo might be behind it?
DESMOND: They said she
was last seen with them.
I mean, you're friends with them.
- Is that right?
- Well [CHUCKLES]
Actually, I I don't
know them very well at all.
KAIA: [SCREAMS]
Mommy! Oh, no!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
JAMIE: Oh, my God.
[UPBEAT DANCE MUSIC]
Then I found out, hasn't
been a case of rabies
in New York City in
over a hundred years.
- Hi.
- Hey.
- CLAIRE: Hey.
- Hey.
You okay? Where ya been?
Yeah, um, I was on the phone to Sunita.
She's on this terrible date
um, with this woman who
was, like, a horrible racist.
JOSH: Oh.
Sh dang.
Do you mind if I go see her?
No. No, of course not.
CLAIRE: Love you.
Love you.
♪
- TYLER: Alison?
- ALISON: Hmm?
TYLER: What are you afraid of?
ALISON: I don't know, I guess
I mean, I could tell you stupid things.
I'm afraid of being home alone at night
because every time I hear a sound,
I think there's a murderer.
And I'm afraid of mayonnaise
because it's absolutely disgusting
and it gets on people's fingers.
Yeah.
Um,
the real stuff, I
I guess the thing I'm most afraid of
is that I have
everything going for me
the whole world at my
fingertips and all that.
But, um, what if I'm not the golden girl
they all think I am?
What if I'm actually
just totally mediocre?
You're not mediocre.
I wasn't
Whatever. Um, what are you afraid of?
[SIGHS]
Spiders.
[CHUCKLES] Classic.
A.I.
My dad, mainly.
Asshole was so busy
counting all his junk bonds,
didn't realize his
wife and son hated him
till it was too late.
I thought now I'm in college,
we wouldn't have to do these
dumb custody arrangements.
This trip must suck for you.
[CHUCKLES] Whatever.
It's only a week.
And it's not so bad.
[SOFT MUSIC]
♪
Let's go to the golf course.
I have a blanket.
Maybe another night.
Claire wakes me up super early,
and I have to get back.
TYLER: Okay.
Actually, I think I'm gonna walk.
[SOFT TENSE MUSIC]
♪
DANA: I was thinking a
light teal for the nursery.
Not-not too bright, but, like,
the color of the sea here.
- ETHAN: Yeah.
- Careful, Ethan.
We don't want another Sally situation.
OLIVIA: Hey, Mom.
You're not supposed to be drinking.
And you're supposed
to be with your wife.
♪
I should, uh yeah.
♪
DESMOND: How are we doing tonight, sir?
TODD: Much better.
Well, actually [CHUCKLES]
I'm drinking alone on my vacation.
That's how I'm doing.
Don't ever get married
- Desmond.
- Desmond!
DESMOND: I'll heed your advice, sir.
Don't. Please.
Just let me give you
some fatherly pointers.
Look, I get that it's a different world,
but some girls need convincing.
♪
EDWIN: So tomorrow,
we head right from the hotel to Mike's.
And don't wear that
stupid blue shirt, yeah?
How would you like to
stick your cock in that?
♪
Hi.
[LAUGHS]
Your parents know
where you be right now?
ALISON: Nope.
I don't really like
being told what to do.
[CHUCKLING]
[EDWIN LAUGHS]
ALISON: Can I have another?
EDWIN: Yeah, if you say "please."
CLAIRE: And I liked the swimming
and I liked the sundae at dinner
and I liked the checkers.
- MIA: So you had a good day?
- It was.
- MIA: Okay.
- Can I have Lion?
- BILL: Sure.
- Yeah.
- Roar!
- [GIGGLING]
[BILL SMOOCHING]
CLAIRE: Do you think
Alison's with Tyler?
- MIA: Probably.
- CLAIRE: I think he's a dork.
[BILL LAUGHS]
I mean [CLEARS THROAT]
He is a German major.
Can I play more checkers tomorrow?
Of course. I'll play with you.
- CLAIRE: You will?
- BILL: Yeah.
And can I also play with Gogo?
Yeah.
Oh, honey, I think it's
great that you made a friend.
Hmm?
[SOMBER MUSIC]
[SIGHS]
♪
Oh, my God!
[CRYING] Oh, God.
Oh, my God!
♪
Clive, can I get you anything else?
No, Ms. Vincia.
I should head home.
MS. VINCIA: All right.
You have a good night.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪