Culprits (2023) s01e03 Episode Script

1
JOE: Hey! Hey!
You're a key witness. If
we go on to catch the guy,
your statement will be important.
- Why are you following me?
- I'm an investigator.
- A private investigator.
- Who hired you?
- PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR: Kyle Bedrosian.
- I'm not here for trouble.
You need to withdraw the
statement you gave to the police.
I can't do that.
Someone like you should be
very scared of someone like me.
- SPECIALIST: Don't do it.
- OFFICER: You know who that is, right?
- Brain called her Specialist.
- More like Psycho.
(SCREAMS IN PAIN)
Officer, talk to me!
JOE: Is she gonna live?
This will probably help her
stop from bleeding out for now.
- (GASPS)
- (ZAPPING)
DEVIL: You worked for this woman.
Now, Doctor, tell me
where this woman is.
Joe, I know you're
keeping things from me.
- If this isn't what you want
- JOE: It is, Jules. It is.
I want this.
I want you.
JOE: Who is this?
OFFICER (OVER PHONE): It's me, Officer.
Somebody is killing us, David.
Someone's coming. It's happening.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(GRUNTS)
OFFICER (OVER RADIO): The
backup security team are here.
Repeat, the backup is
here. They're early.
You gotta get the fuck out!
- SOLDIER: Shit!
- JOE: Come on! Go!
(TIRES SCREECH)
ARMED MAN: Move it! Go, go, go!
(SUSPENSEFUL CONTINUES)
- (GUNSHOTS)
- (BOTH PANTING)
(ARMED MAN GROANS)
(ARMED MEN GROAN)
BACKUP SECURITY: Bravo Team, move in!
(BOTH GRUNTING)
SPECIALIST (GRUNTS): Fuck it!
- (GUNSHOTS)
- (GROANS)
DRIVER: Muscle! Get in the
freaking car! We gotta go!
Get in the car!
Muscle!
- (SPEAKS IN ITALIAN)
- (TIRES SCREECHING)
got one of the fucking bags!
(GROANING LOUDLY)
(TIRES SCREECHING)
(CHUCKLES)
SPECIALIST: So, how was your day?
- (TIRES SCREECH)
- (ENGINE REVVING)
("GOT TO BE REAL" BY
CHERYL LYNN PLAYING)
What you find-ah ♪
What you feel now ♪
What you know-ah ♪
To be real ♪
What you find-ah ♪
Thank you.
I love this place.
I'm up in the penthouse.
The view is spectacular.
You should come up
and take a look later.
I'd love that.
Listen, Vee, I've spoken to Jean Paul,
and we're really keen to come in
as investors if there's a chance.
Oh.
Um (SIGHS)
Well, there's a lot of
competition for that last chunk.
- We just want five percent.
- Mm
Two million, that's doable.
Do you have the capital ready to go?
Yeah. It would only take
Jean Paul a week to secure?
A week?
A week and a slot may be gone.
Well, can we make a down payment?
I can do you 100K right here, right now
if you guarantee that slot is mine.
- I shouldn't.
- Please!
Oh, please.
- Okay.
- (CHUCKLES)
If you want me to, I could
call my father right now
and see if he'd do it.
Call him!
- Yes, do it.
- Yeah? Okay, okay, okay.
Fuck it.
Calling him. Okay. Wait here.
One, two,
three, four, five,
six, seven, eight,
nine, ten.
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
We're in business!
- Seriously?
- Yeah, he said he'd do it!
My father sent me his bank details.
- Okay.
- Show me.
- Done.
- Yay!
Cheers. (CHUCKLES)
- Watch that for me. I'll be right back.
- Yeah.
("THE LESS I KNOW THE BETTER"
BY TAME IMPALA PLAYING)
OFFICER: Oh! Taxi!
(SPEAKS IN FRENCH)
seen Vee? I've got her drink.
WOMAN: No, I'm sorry.
Excuse me.
- Uh, Sami Tahar?
- Yes.
Um, I'm afraid the card you used to
secure your stay has been declined.
Oh, no, no, no.
I'm not staying here.
That's my friend, Vee.
- She's staying up at the penthouse
- Um
I'm sorry, but the
penthouse was reserved
under the name of Sami
Tahar, using your card,
and I'm afraid that I need you
to settle the bill immediately.
Well
(SAMI GASPS)
("THE LESS I KNOW THE BETTER"
BY TAME IMPALA CONTINUES PLAYING)
Said, "Come on Superman,
say your stupid line" ♪
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
(FRENCH CHATTER ON TV)
(TENSE MUSIC)
Doctor.
Fuck.
Fuck.
- (LINE RINGING)
- (EXHALES SHARPLY)
(EXHALES NERVOUSLY)
Come on. (EXHALES NERVOUSLY)
David.
Who is this?
OFFICER (OVER PHONE): It's me, Officer.
Driver's dead, David.
Soldier's dead.
Doctor's dead.
Somebody is killing us, David.
Someone's coming.
It's happening.
- (LINE DISCONNECTS)
- David?
Fuck.
- (BUSY TONE)
- Fuck.
No, David.
Fuck.
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(MAN GROANS)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC CONTINUES)
- (CAR ENGINE STARTING)
- (SIGHS)
(YELPS)
(PENSIVE MUSIC)
(INHALES SHARPLY)
JOE: Come here.
- Frankie, hold my hand.
- I don't want to.
- Hold my hand.
- Hey.
Stop.
Go inside.
The bell hasn't gone yet.
Why are you acting so weird?
Go inside.
I mean it.
You too, Bud. Go on.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(DOOR ALARM BEEPING)
(BEEPING STOPS)
(SOFT SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(LINE RINGING)
(MAN SPEAKS IN GERMAN OVER PHONE)
(SPEAKS IN GERMAN)
- Great.
- How can I help?
- I'd like to place a job listing, please.
- Certainly. In which sector, please?
- Nursing management.
(GLOOMY MUSIC)
(SPECIALIST PANTING)
You're okay. You're okay.
(SHUSHES)
You're okay, sweetheart. It's okay.
(SPECIALIST PANTING)
Joe, can Grammy Rachel
come to the wedding?
Do you want Grammy Rachel to come?
I don't know. She might feel weird.
Well, she might.
You know, you lost your
mom. She lost a daughter.
Now I'm coming in and
everything is, um
Everything's changing.
Doesn't she like you?
I don't think she's spent
enough time with me to know
and I don't think she wants to like me.
FRANKIE: Why not?
Uh
She she doesn't understand?
Understand what?
That your dad and I love
each other the way we do.
You know, how after being
with your mom for so long,
that your dad could
fall in love with me?
Well, he did. It's not
really that complicated.
(JOE AND FRANKIE CHUCKLE SOFTLY)
You got a good point, Bud.
BUD (GIGGLES): No, no, no!
(OMINOUS MUSIC)
- Want a glass?
- Uh, no, thanks.
Hey, did you pay the deposit?
The wedding venue.
Oh, fuck, um
I'll do it now.
Joe. They'll be closed now.
Shit, I'm I'm sorry.
Today's been It's
just It's been a lot.
I'll pay it tomorrow. I'm I'm sorry.
(JULES SIGHS)
Sure you're not having second thoughts?
JOE: About the venue?
About getting married?
JULES: I'm serious.
What are you doing?
No.
("I AM THE BLACK GOLD OF THE SUN" BY
ROTARY CONNECTION & MINNIE RIPERTON)
Joe.
I'm serious.
No, no, no.
(GLASS CLINKS)
(VOCALIZING)
I'm the one song of the sun ♪
(CHUCKLES)
Come on. Come on. Move it. Move it.
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
- What's that?
- I don't know.
(JOE SINGING ALONG)
- JULES: All right.
- (CHUCKLES)
I'm not having second thoughts.
I'm still mad at you right now.
- (WHISPERS) Really?
- Yes.
(JULES MOANS)
We gotta take out the trash.
- (SOFT CHUCKLE)
- It's pickup day tomorrow.
I got it.
(UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING OVER STEREO)
(ZAPPING)
(TENSE MUSIC)
(JOE GROANS)
(CAR ENGINE STARTING)
(ENGINE REVVING)
MASKED MAN 1: Oh, there he is.
You pissed yourself, tough guy.
When we shocked you
you pissed your pants. (CHUCKLES)
- You know why you're here?
- (JOE BREATHING HEAVILY)
MASKED MAN 1: Don't be coy.
You know what you did.
Do you know what happens now?
We cut your balls off.
We slit your throat.
We burn this place.
Then burn your home.
With everyone inside.
Do you want that?
Then listen to me.
Take back your police statement.
Say you were mistaken.
And then stay the fuck
away from Mr. Bedrosian.
- You understand?
- (BREATHING HEAVILY)
Good.
See, I don't know who the
fuck you imagine you are.
But you cannot just threaten
a man like Mr. Bedrosian
- and expect to walk away.
- (CHAIR CREAKS)
That's against the natural order
of this this, this ecosystem.
See, there's a pyramid, a hierarchy.
The fucking sharks, the
fucking fish, fucking plankton.
- You are plankton, okay?
- (TENSE MUSIC)
Don't forget that.
See, plankton doesn't make
trouble for the sharks.
Ever.
Do you understand me?
- (JOE GRUNTING)
- (MASKED MAN 2 GROANS)
MASKED MAN 1: Fuck.
- (INTENSE MUSIC)
- (MASKED MAN 2 GROANS)
- Fuck.
- (SHOUTS)
- (MASKED MAN 1 GROANING IN PAIN)
- (CLATTERING)
MASKED MAN 1: Fuck.
(COUGHS, PANTING)
(JOE GRUNTS)
Roll over. Put your
hands behind your back.
You brought your license with you?
JOE: Fucking amateurs.
(BREATHING SHAKILY)
(CAR ALARM BEEPS)
I got jumped.
JULES: Jumped? What? What do you mean?
I got tasered. Taken.
What?
- JULES: Tasered?
- (WATER RUNNING)
Did you get robbed?
- (WATER STOPS RUNNING)
- Um, no.
The person in the hit-and-run,
the person whose license
plate I gave to the police.
(CLICKS TONGUE) Um
(INHALES SHARPLY)
He's trying to scare me
into retracting my statement.
Fuck, Joe.
Fuck.
- Are you okay?
- Yeah, yeah. Don't worry.
I'm just totally exhausted.
I fixed it.
- We got to call the police.
- No, no.
But this is insane. We have
to call them now. Tell them.
No, don't.
Police won't help.
They won't help us.
What do you mean?
- I fixed it.
- Stop saying that.
We can't call the police.
- Joe, you're scaring me.
- I know, I know.
I'm sorry, okay? I'm so sorry, but I
- Hey.
- Just
Hey, talk to me.
Please talk to me.
I will.
Just Can we
Can it wait?
I can't think straight.
I'm so tired. I just need to sleep.
(ENGINE REVVING)
Hmm.
(SIGHS, SNIFFS)
NURSING SERVICE MANAGEMEN
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(IMITATES EXPLOSION)
("MR. SANDMAN" BY THE
CHORDETTES PLAYING)
Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream ♪
MRS. BEDROSIAN: Oh, my God.
Kyle!
Go back inside.
Who did this?
Kyle!
Then tell him that his
lonesome nights are over ♪
Sandman, I'm so alone ♪
Don't have nobody to call my own ♪
Please turn on your magic beam ♪
Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream ♪
(MUFFLED GRUNTING)
Mr. Sandman, bring us ♪
Please, please, please ♪
Mr. Sandman, bring us a dream ♪
JULES: All right, come
on. Let's go. Let's go.
- You have your lunch money?
- BUD: Yeah, I got it.
Have a good day.
Thanks for taking the kids.
I want us to talk later.
You gonna be home?
Yeah.
I'll be here.
We can talk.
Hey.
I love you.
JULES: Me too.
JOE: Be you.
- (PHONE CHIMES)
- (CAR DOORS OPENING)
- (CAR DOORS CLOSING)
- (CAR ENGINE STARTING)
(CAR ENGINE REVVING)
(EXHALES SHARPLY)
(TENSE MUSIC)
(INTENSE MUSIC)
(SPECIALIST SNORING)
(ALARM BLARES)
- (ALARM BLARES)
- (CHIMES)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(MUSIC INTENSIFIES)
(SPECIALIST GRUNTS)
- (SPECIALIST SPEAKS IN NORWEGIAN)
- Are you lost?
- WOMAN: It's me!
It's me, Officer!
(OFFICER GROANING, PANTING)
SPECIALIST: You.
- Are you alone?
- Yeah.
I'm alone. (PANTING)
I need your help.
- Get up.
- (GROANS)
How did you find me?
OFFICER: It took years.
I hired three teams of investigators.
We scoured digital trails
and Internet chatter,
had monitors on
international airports, but
nothing.
So we started sending
out messenger pigeons.
Yeah. Messenger pigeons.
To all corners of the globe.
Each had a description of
you and a contact email.
And finally
Finally.
After sending out hundreds of
birds to dozens of countries
Found a thread.
Really?
No.
- (SIGHS)
- Not really.
I use a facial recognition app.
I found you in a photo.
On Facebook.
You're in the background in the
general store in Longyearbyen.
Some tourists accidently
took your picture.
- Posted it.
- No.
- Yeah.
- No.
- I'm afraid so.
- Fucking Facebook!
It's going to destroy the world.
Wait.
How did you get a photo
of me to put into the app?
I took photos of
everyone from back then.
I took them while we prepped.
- For insurance.
- Brain was very clear that was not allowed.
Oh.
Oops.
Driver's dead.
Killed.
And Soldier and Doctor.
Thought it might be you at first.
Cleaning house.
It's not out of character.
But then he came for me,
and it wasn't you, so
Who was it?
I don't know.
Male, white, slim.
White hair. He wore a mask.
Felt like a professional.
I didn't get a good look.
As soon as I saw him come
in, I maced him and I ran.
I got away in my car.
It was close. Too close.
Did he have a tattoo here?
On his neck? An eye on a pyramid.
I didn't get a chance to see.
- Do you know who he is?
- Why are you here?
I had nowhere else to go.
But why me?
Why not your friend, Muscle?
You don't even like me.
No.
But if someone wants to kill us, I
know the safest place in the world
is standing right behind you.
OFFICER: Have you
heard from anyone else?
- Like who?
- The crew.
Dianne.
- You heard from Dianne Harewood?
- No.
(CUPS CLANK)
OFFICER: You're not surprised?
You're not surprised
that someone's killing us.
We took over 100 million pounds.
I'm surprised they
haven't killed us already.
They? Who's they? The
people we stole from?
Or one of us.
Is it just you out here?
Mm-hm.
Don't you miss being
around other people?
You should drink.
Keep yourself warm.
How do I know this isn't spiked?
I guess you don't.
Hmm.
(JOE GRUNTING)
(GRUNTS)
Ah, shit! Ugh! (GROANS)
(COUGHING)
JULES: Thank God.
Fuck. Are you okay?
I was calling. You didn't answer.
I I sent messages.
Where were you?
- Why are you dirty?
- Jules, we need to talk.
Can you just wait down
here for me? I'll
I'll just be a second.
What is it? Is this about
the guys that tasered you?
- JOE: No, no, no, um
- Is it
Please, can you just
listen until I finish
what I need to say?
Okay.
You know, uh
how my parents died in a
fire in the home and, um
that everything they had, everything
everything I had was was burned?
That was a lie.
There was no fire.
My parents aren't dead.
They're alive. They
They live in England.
I was
I was born in England.
I'm English.
Jules, I'm English.
My name isn't Joe Petrus.
It's just a name I chose not
long before we met.
Joe Petrus has only
really existed for
for three years, he's
His paperwork, his
history, none of it's real.
So, what's your real name?
It's better if you don't know.
(EXHALES SHARPLY)
I don't understand. Are
you witness protection?
No. Sort of like that.
But I had to do it alone.
I did something.
Something I had to run away from.
Before I met you, before
I I came here
I did bad things
for money.
Illegal things. I I stole things.
You're a criminal.
I hated it.
I hated that life.
I needed to get out.
So I did one last job and I ran.
I started over.
And I thought my old life was gone.
But it's not gone.
People have been killed.
People I worked with, people
that did the same crime,
they have been
they have been found.
They have been killed.
- Killed by who?
- I don't know.
But unless I go fix this,
someone will come for me too. And
if they find me with you
What are you saying?
I never wanted to put you in danger.
We're in danger?
The kids.
How could you do that? How
could you bring this to us?
- How could you
- I'm so fucking sorry.
Joe.
Fuck.
The kids.
But why would you even get involved
with me if you knew all this?
If you knew that this
danger was out there?
I
I just fell in love.
(EXHALES SHARPLY)
You just fell in love.
- I didn't know how not to want this, it
- Oh, fuck you.
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
I fell in love too.
But if I knew
If I knew you came with
with all this
(JULES BREATHES DEEPLY)
I always sensed you'd had
some trauma in your life.
You always had this damaged
little boy thing going on, but
I always thought you were
a victim of something.
But you're not
are you?
You're not a victim.
I'm gonna fix this.
Jules, I promise.
I'm gonna fix this.
What did you do?
What was the crime?
Jules, listen to me.
We're in danger.
I know it's not fair on you,
but we haven't got time for
you to be angry right now.
Oh, fuck you.
JOE: Inside here is
50,000 dollars in cash.
There are two handguns and ammunition.
There are three passports
for you, the kids, and fake names.
There are burner cell phones
and a set of keys to a house.
(SNIFFLES) A house I own in Canada.
Oh, my God.
Listen, Jules
There may come a time when I'm away,
when you just have to
take the kids and run.
And you have to promise me that if
I tell you to go, you'll just go.
Leave your cell phone, leave everything.
Just take this bag to that
house in Canada and stay there.
Just go and hide.
Wait.
What the fuck did you do, Joe?
I did a bad thing.
Now I'm gonna undo it.
Jules, look at me.
Jules, look at me. Look at me.
You know me.
Better than anyone has ever known me.
The person I am with you, that's me.
(SNIFFLES) That's the real me.
I don't even know your real name.
Go.
Do what you need to do.
But listen, Joe, if anyone
gets anywhere near my kids,
if I feel that my kids
are in any kind of danger,
I'm calling the police
and I'm telling them
everything you just said to me.
Please.
No, please don't do that.
Then you better fucking fix it.
- (JULES SLURPS)
- (GLASS THUDS)
Jules.
Fuck!
Fuck.
- (GROANS)
- SPECIALIST: Get up.
- You drugged me.
- Yeah. I had shit to do.
(OFFICER GROANS)
I didn't want to have to
listen to you chatter all night.
Where's all your stuff?
Get dressed then meet me outside.
(GROANS, SUCKS TEETH)
- (SPECIALIST WHISTLING)
- (FIRE CRACKLING)
(SIGHS)
I really like this place.
We should go.
Go where?
To go end this.
(CRACKLING CONTINUES)
(ENGINE STARTING)
(ENGINE REVVING)
JOE: I'll only be out of town
a couple of weeks, okay, Bud?
Look after your dad
and sister for me. Okay?
- (CAR BRAKES SQUEALING)
- All right?
- Are you gonna FaceTime us?
- Often as I can.
- And bring us back gifts?
- Of course!
I love you, Poppa Joppa.
I love you too.
I love you.
JULES: I know.
Your car's here.
I'll miss you.
JULES: Be careful.
Go.
Be you.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)
(CAR ENGINE STARTING)
TAXI DRIVER: Airport, right?
Which terminal?
International.
(ENGINE REVVING)
(CLOSING THEME MUSIC)