Brave New World (2020) s01e03 Episode Script

[Al Hazan's "The Inbetween
Years featuring Dick Steward"]
- # These are
the in-between years #
# We're going through #
# These are
the precious dreams #
- Mom!
- # Wonderfully new #
# These are the years to dream #
- Mom!
- # Of what will be #
- Shit.
Is he
Mom!
- Don't goddamn yell
from the other room!
- [panting]
Here, here.
You want him to live,
you gotta help.
Okay, just push down.
Push like that.
Mom!
- You know
[lighter flicking]
I can't stand it when
- # We'll treasure
in our memories #
- What'd you do?
- # These are
the in-between years #
# Come share them with me #
[tense music]
# #
- Hey.
You ever lend money, goods,
or other stuff to friends
or family
and they take their sweet time
getting it back to you?
- Car's fucked.
We barely made it.
There's battery fluid
all over the place.
It won't hold a charge.
- Shh, shh, shh, shh.
- What are we gonna do?
- Calm down.
- Calm down?
These Sheila people are crazy.
They shot up the whole park.
They're rounding people up
and they're gonna execute them.
- You're in my light.
- Mom, they're hunting
outsiders.
Do you understand?
These outsiders.
When they don't find them,
they're gonna come here,
and they're gonna kill me
and you.
- God damn it!
Do you see what you
just made me do?
- Why won't you
I fucked up. Okay?
I fucked up.
They came to me.
- Yes, you did the right thing
bringing them here.
- We have to go.
- We cannot move him like this.
- [laughs]
- You fuck him!
He's bleeding out.
- Shut it.
- [gasping]
- I've almost got this.
[grunts]
[exhales sharply]
There it is.
Now, there's an extra battery
up in the crawl space.
We're gonna be friends.
- Shit.
- John?
[ladder clattering]
- The battery's fucked.
[motorcycle engine approaching]
Oh, fuck.
It's Madysun.
- What is she doing here?
- She's one of 'em.
- God damn it,
I told you to stay away
from her!
- It's better if we tell her.
She likes me.
If I tell her
then it'll be okay.
- No, you will not.
[engine shuts off]
[distant dog barking]
[tense music]
# #
[muffled clattering]
[pounding]
- John!
Open the door!
[pounding continues]
Hey.
- Where the hell have you been?
I spent the last goddamn hour
looking for you.
- You did?
- What part of
"find the foreigners
and bring them back"
was confusing?
- # But year after year
I come back #
Jesus, you live like a pig.
- # Just to remember #
- You want a drink or something?
- # The taste
of strawberry wine #
- Look I messed up, okay?
I admit that.
I got in way over my head,
but I didn't know it was
gonna go down like that.
- You put the bullets
in the guns.
- No, I I know.
- Turn that shit off!
- [groaning]
- What did you think
would go down?
- Okay, I don't have any problem
with your whole movement.
I'm just not looking
to be a part of it.
- It's a little late for that.
So where are they?
[tense music]
- Sorry, who?
- [groaning]
[breathing heavily]
[groaning]
- I told you.
There's nobody here.
- Don't fuck with me, John.
- I'm not.
[distant creaking]
[shower running]
- Nobody's here?
Nobody's here?
- No no one but me and my mom!
She's taking a shower.
What?
She's taking
She's taking a shower.
- Tell her to get out here now.
[knocks]
- Mom, we have company.
Come on.
This is nuts.
Why would I help them?
- [groaning]
- I hate the bastards
as much as you do.
- We had them tracked.
Okay, we saw your piece of shit
truck tearing out of there!
- Yeah, I know.
I shouldn't have
run off like that,
but honestly I
- They saw someone with you.
- What?
Bullshit.
That's a lie.
Who said that?
- Sheila.
- Sheila said that?
Well, she made a mistake.
It was dark and there were
people running around.
She probably
- Yeah.
That's what Sheila said
you'd say.
She'll be here soon.
- Oh.
Good.
[tense music]
# #
- [grunting]
- In your pocket?
[shushes]
- You know,
if you tell me where
they are now,
I might go easy on you, John,
seeing as we had our
little thing that one time
and you were kinda sweet,
but when Sheila gets here
- I still think
about that night.
- Don't change the subject.
[shower handle squeaks,
water stops]
Mm, guess she's done in there.
I'm checking the roof next,
John,
and if I find them up there,
I'm gonna take this
and I'm gonna blow
your mom's brains out.
- I don't have your foreigners.
- Last chance.
- [breathing heavily]
- Oh, my God, oh, my God.
[shushes]
- I swear to God.
[clicks]
- Lying motherfucker!
- Wait, wait, wait!
- No!
- Wait!
- No!
- They didn't do anything!
- Is that what you think?
Move!
- Madysun, I love you.
- What?
- What?
- Shut the fuck up.
[wet sound]
[coughing]
[gagging]
[thud]
- I don't wanna hear it.
- [breathing heavily]
[rapidly clicking]
[groaning]
- Time to go.
- He needs Soma.
- He needs the wound closed.
# #
- You killed her.
- Somebody had to.
I've waited a long time
to get out.
I'm sure as hell not getting
stuck because some psycho girl
gave you a hand job once.
Now get up off your ass.
Let's go.
We need to get them down
and we need to get her up.
It's better that they're
looking for her than us.
# #
- Hey, hey!
What about Madysun's bike?
I can drive it.
- We're not leaving
without these people.
Get that through your head!
- Hey!
I think we've done enough.
I know I have.
If it weren't for me,
they'd be dead.
- Yeah, and if it wasn't
for you,
I wouldn't have a corpse
in my crawl space.
- Bernard, wake up.
Stay awake.
- I want to go back
to the hotel.
- [grunts]
[electricity buzzing]
- Okay, it happens all the time.
The dark is our friend.
- Where are we going?
[dog barking]
Mo no.
[dog barking]
- Mom, don't!
- You stay there
and keep out of sight.
[barking continues]
[pounding]
- What the hell
are you doing here?
[barking]
Shut up, asshole!
- She home?
- Linda.
[Bernard groaning]
- Shame she doesn't
know what she has.
- Go home.
Those cult people
started a riot.
The whole town's on fire.
- Mm-hmm.
- Shit.
Don't do this to me.
- What am I doing?
- You know exactly.
- I know that it's cold outside.
- Wow.
[dog barking]
Hey!
Hey, who's there?
- You gotta let us in, baby.
- Us?
- [groans]
- No, no way.
- We're in trouble.
- They're foreigners.
I can't.
- I've never asked
anything of you,
and you have asked a lot of me.
- You're gonna get me killed.
You show some respect
in my house.
- Sure, man.
You've always been like
a really terrible,
shitty father to me.
[dog barking]
[Bernard breathing rapidly]
- You shut up your fucking dog?
- It's my wife's dog.
I don't go near it.
He hates me more than she does.
Oh, Jesus.
What'd you do to him?
- I removed a bullet
and saved his life.
- It looks to me like
you just kinda hacked him
and stabbed him a bunch.
- Well, I'd like
to see you do better.
- Guy looks like Rodney
when I ran over his legs
with a lawnmower.
- We need to close him up.
Okay, come on.
Let's sit you up.
- Here you go, buddy.
Made this myself.
Come on.
- It's liquid Soma.
Come on.
- [coughing]
[gasping]
- No, I'm making some changes.
- Yeah, sure you are.
Come on.
More for us, buddy.
Let's go.
- It burns!
- That's how you know
it's working.
[dog barking]
- Fuck, they're here.
[car doors closing]
[indistinct chatter]
[tense music]
# #
- [exhales sharply]
I want to go home.
- I get that.
- You take us.
You saved us.
Me.
- Yeah.
I did but
- But now you won't?
- Well, I just I I I saw you
and I I don't know.
You don't even understand
what's happening, do you?
Why these people here hate you.
- It's your conditioning.
Violence, your selfishness,
your fear.
You're very confused.
- Hold on.
- John.
John.
Leave her alone.
- [groaning]
- Linda, why are you risking
your ass for these outsiders?
You're gonna wind up in a ditch.
- Just fix him up.
I need him.
- Him?
Why?
- Come on.
Let's get you cleaned up.
- Give me a hand here, kid.
- Fuck you.
I ain't your kid.
[distant indistinct chatter]
- [breathing sharply]
- I didn't know booze
even worked on their kind.
- It does.
- Yeah, so
- [coughs]
- You need to cauterize him.
- What?
- Cauterize.
Worked for Rodney.
- Rodney?
Rodney, your fucking dog?
Rodney's a paraplegic, man.
- Oh, man, he gets around okay.
- [groaning]
# #
- That's better.
I know you think you need
that Soma,
that you might die without it.
But the truth is, you won't.
That's the cruelest part.
To be forced to cope.
All that time
and nothing to fill it.
So you imagine or remember.
I used to think about
this gorgeous,
gorgeous orange clouds over
the crematorium.
Then after a while you start
to wonder if those things
that you cling to,
if they're even real.
- You're a Beta.
- Plus.
- How are you
- Here?
- A mother.
Sorry.
I didn't mean to
- No, no.
I knew what you meant.
I used to think being a mother
was the worst thing
a person could be.
But it's not.
Abandoned
That's the worst.
You come with an Alpha,
you leave with an Alpha,
but if the Alpha
leaves you behind
- It wouldn't happen.
They wouldn't just leave
someone like
- You?
- [screams] [crashing]
- [gasps] Now what?
- [screaming]
- What'd you do to him?
- Fixed him, like I said.
- Here, let me see.
- He he burned me!
- Yes, but you're gonna
be all right.
Come on.
- [breathing rapidly]
- They they burned me!
- Keep your voice down.
- I'm gonna report you
and you and you
- Take it easy.
Come on, take it easy.
- To the bureau when I
When we
This is how he wants it.
Do you see?
The Director.
He wants me banished.
We're never going back.
We're gonna die here.
- Bernard, stop.
What's wrong with him?
- If we live
I'll be monogamous with you.
[muffled chatter]
- They found Madysun.
[dog barking]
[car door closes]
[tense music]
# #
- Shit, she's coming.
Get down.
- Come on.
Let's get you down.
- [grunting]
- [shushes]
[dog barking]
# #
[dog whining]
- Okay, I think she's leaving.
- Are you an Alpha?
- Alpha Plus.
How how'd you
- Can you get us
through the barrier?
- What?
- If I take you to the barrier,
will you take us through?
- Yeah.
Yes.
Yes, I can do that.
- Good.
That's really good.
Is your truck charged?
- What the hell you want
with my truck?
- Wait, wait, wait, wait.
More of them.
- Oh, shit.
[car breaks squeaking]
- That's my wife.
Y'all need to get
the fuck out of here.
- Don't go out there.
- Sorry, sorry, sorry.
- What are you doing home, baby?
- I live here.
Betty's house is full of smoke.
- Well, I just wanted
to see you, baby.
- You been drinking without me?
- The keys.
- Motherfucker!
That slut in my house again
Let go of me!
Linda!
I'll kill you, bitch!
- Calm down.
- Get the fuck off of me!
- Got 'em.
- Okay, come on.
Get him up.
We gotta move.
Mom, now!
- Stand aside.
- Can't do that.
- Now!
[gun cocking]
Let's go.
Come on.
# #
[gunshot]
- [screams]
[gunshot]
- Mom, get in the car!
[distant shouting, dog barking]
Come on!
# #
- Come on.
Get in.
- Come on!
[truck engine turning over]
- # Just like the white
winged dove sings a song #
# Sounds like she's singing
who, who, who #
# Just like the white
winged dove sings a song #
# Sounds like
she's singing #
# Said ooh #
# And the days go by #
# Like the strand in the wind #
# In the web that is my own #
[tires squealing]
- Behind you.
- # Said to my friend baby #
# Nothing else matters #
[Stevie Nicks'
"Edge of Seventeen"]
- Get down!
[gunshot]
- [screams]
- # No more than a baby then #
- John.
- # Well he seemed
broken hearted #
# Something within him #
# But the moment
that I first laid #
- [gasping]
- # Eyes on him #
# All alone on the edge
of seventeen #
# #
- Just turn here.
- # Just like the white #
# Winged dove sings a song
sounds like she's singing #
# Ooh baby ooh, ooh #
# Just like the white
winged dove #
# Sings a song
sounds like she's singing #
# She said ooh baby
ooh said ooh #
# Well I went today
maybe I will go again #
# Tomorrow #
# Yeah, yeah
and the music there #
# It was hauntingly familiar #
- You have no idea
where we're going.
Admit it.
- Trust me.
They'll block the road
to the hotel.
- What about the Barrier?
- Just get us as close
to the launch pad
- Fuck that!
I'm not going anywhere
near there!
- What is that?
Slow down.
- Those are Sheila's people.
- I told you.
Fuck!
Get ready.
We have to make a run for it.
There's room on the shoulder.
John, what are you doing?
- Shh.
- Come on.
You've gotta just stay calm.
[indistinct shouting]
John, no!
John!
[fence rattles]
Don't you move.
[tense music]
# #
- [breathing heavily]
- They're coming back, right?
They're coming back.
- [screaming]
- Bernard, act your level!
- You took the last Soma.
- What?
What is it?
- [gasping]
[screaming]
I feel terrible!
- We'll have Soma soon,
Bernard, okay?
These people are gonna help us.
- These people!
[grunts]
[breathing heavily]
- What are you doing?
- Acting my level.
- Bernard, you don't know how!
Stop!
- I watched the bus driver.
It's not complicated.
I'm getting us away
from these people.
They shoot you, burn you.
- They saved our lives.
The woman, Linda
- She's a killer!
They all are.
- She's one of us.
She's from New London.
- She's a mother!
- She's a Beta Plus.
Same as me.
- You'll believe anything
they say, won't you?
- John.
John!
Wait.
- I am not dying for them.
- This is our chance to go home.
- Jesus,
when are you gonna stop?
You're not one of them.
Look at yourself.
- I am a Beta Plus.
- You're a drunk.
- You're right,
and I'm a shit mother,
but I am not a liar.
I am a Beta Plus and your father
is an Alpha Plus.
He was the Warden
- Warden of the Savage Lands.
It's a lie and I let you tell it
because it's the only thing
that ever made you happy,
but now it's gonna get us
fucking killed,
so I'm done.
What the fuck was that?
What was that?
You're taking their drugs now,
too?
- You don't know what it's like.
You don't.
Come with me.
Even if you don't believe me,
come with me.
- You've seen what the barrier
does to a person, right?
- Yes, and Bernard
can get us through.
- Oh!
- He's an Alpha.
That's how it works!
- Bullshit!
- [breathing heavily]
There's no pain there, John.
No fear.
Everyone fits.
No one's ever alone.
I want that for you.
I've always wanted that for you.
Don't you wanna know
who you are?
Please don't make me choose.
- Bernard
- I'm doing it!
Lenina, I'm doing it!
I'm driving!
I'm driving the auto car!
Wait, how how does it
- Bernard?
Make it stop.
- Don't shout at me!
It's not responding!
- Oh, Bernard.
- [shouting]
- She said don't move
and you're moving!
They said don't move!
- Need to make the car stop.
Stupid Savage technology!
- Bernard!
[both shouting]
[music blaring]
- Oh, shit!
[both shouting, music blasting]
- Stop it!
Stop it right now!
Do you wanna get
yourselves killed?
Come on, get out.
- Get out of the car.
- It's broken.
It's not me.
[gunshots]
- Get out!
- I can do it.
- Right now.
- Come on.
Come on.
Come on, let's go.
Let's go.
- We we're lost, aren't we?
- It can't be much further.
We just need to stay off
the road.
All right, just one foot
in front of the other.
- I drove the auto car.
You saw.
- Yes.
Very impressive.
- Look at me.
Where is it?
- Where's what?
- My Soma.
The Soma.
You I'm a counselor.
I can see it in your eyes.
- Last one.
Come on.
- I can walk myself.
Thank you.
- I keep thinking
about that woman.
Madysun, the one that you
- Don't talk.
What are you doing?
Stop that.
Is this
This can't be how
you people feel.
[breathing heavily]
- Welcome to the real world.
Stop it.
Stop crying.
- How?
- I I you I don't you stop.
Just stop.
Stop.
No.
Just [exhales]
Stop.
- So what's it like there?
- New London?
I thought you knew.
- I do.
I just wanted to know
if it was the same.
- Of course.
Nothing ever changes.
- Yeah, I have.
You know, time passes here.
There's nothing anyone
can do about it.
I just wondered if
I mean, if I would still fit.
- Just stop this.
- What, you don't believe me?
- It doesn't matter
what I believe.
I don't control the Barrier.
Indra does.
- You're too many people
at once.
You save us, you don't.
You're violent, you're gentle,
you're angry, you're scared.
- I'm not.
- Impulsive.
- Yeah, primitive Savage.
- I didn't say that.
- Yeah, you don't need to.
You people come here,
gawk at us,
judge us, fly the fuck home.
I know exactly
what you think of me.
- We think that you
- Go on.
[gunfire]
Oh, shit!
Mom, stay down!
[tense music]
# #
[gunfire]
Let's go!
Come on!
# #
Go!
[gunfire]
Run!
[gunfire]
- [shouting]
- Lenina!
- [screams]
# #
- Let's go, John.
We've gotta go.
- I won't make it.
- The last one.
Hurry.
Lenina, there's nothing we can
do for the rocket's leaving.
We
- Abandoned.
That's the worst.
- You can do it.
Please, John.
Come on.
Come on.
We've gotta go.
[gunshot]
- [grunts]
[both grunting]
- [gasps]
- You okay?
- Yes.
Let's go home.
- You.
You go back there.
You tell your kind
we will not suffer
for their amusement anymore.
Beyond this barrier,
they will find only death.
Do you understand me?
We are free people.
This is our land.
# #
Even better.
# #
- Oh, look.
There it is.
Oh, it's so beautiful.
- What is it?
- [gasping]
It's New London.
[dramatic music]
I knew I'd see it again.
# #
- What are they gonna do to us?
Mom?
- Don't call me that.
# #
- Mom.
Mom.
[rumbling]
Mom.
Mom!
Mom!
Mom!
Mom!
[door opens]
[footsteps approaching]
- Turns out I rather
enjoy decontamination.
Who knew?
Ah.
My shoulder's fixed.
Good as new.
Didn't feel a thing.
It's all new.
I, um
Fully restocked.
For next time I try to drive.
[canister opens and fizzes]
- What do we do now?
- Well, we go home.
Um, they'll send
a Gamma up shortly to
- No, um, after that.
You know, just
Home and work.
After that, after today,
how do we
What do we do?
- What we've always done.
[drink splashing]
- What did she say to you?
- What what did who?
- That Sheila woman
at the Barrier.
We were leaving
and you turned back and
- I don't think so.
- Well, no, I saw you.
You turned back
and she spoke to you.
What did she say?
- Oh, my God.
I don't remember.
Um, she said she, um
She was rambling,
you know, raving.
As they do.
Uh, she said she said, um,
that we shouldn't
go back there anymore.
You know, they're quite
territorial, actually.
Um, they said something
about they're
They're free people now.
- Free from what?
- Why are we talking about this?
They're savages, Lenina.
They don't even
understand themselves.
[dramatic music]
# #
- [exhales]
# #
- Where is she?
I know you're out there!
Where the fuck is she?
Where is she?
I wanna see her!
I wanna see her now!
Where's my mom?
Where is she?
Where is she?
Where is she?
You show her to me now!
[door opens]
- He's asking to see her.
- There's nothing to see.
These people don't cope
with death.
They don't understand it.
They've been conditioned
to fear it.
They go mad.
- He's going mad as it is.
- Indulge their grief,
they become something else.
Something
Permanent.
Useless.
Trust me.
In the interest of stability.
I've seen it before.
- So have I.
[dramatic music]
# #
- Where is she?
[glass shattering]
Where is she?
Where is she, you motherfucker?
- [gasps]
- Where the fuck is she?
Let me out of here!
- Tsss!
- I want to see her!
[cracking sound]
Let me the fuck out!
- [gasps]
[exhales]
- I want to see her.
I wanna see her.
Where am I?
- John?
John.
- Where am I?
Where am I?
- You're home, John.
- Who are you?
- Welcome.
# #
[dramatic sweeping music]
# #
# #