Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue (2025) s01e03 Episode Script

1
It might help if we all knew
a little bit about each other.
Carlos Luchador.
In normal life
I'm nothing.
But when I wear this, I'm Rapido.
It works but there's no signal.
We need a long antenna.
You want us to climb
all the way up there.
Down here, it's useless.
[Kevin] Two bodies, two days.
How many more of us are gonna join them?
Oh, God. He's not breathing.
Travis, come on, honey.
- Oh, God.
- He's gone.
I'm sorry. There was
There was nothing I could do.
There was something in his food
and it was put there deliberately.
One of us is a fucking killer.
[Sonja] So who's gonna be next?
[daunting music]
[crowd chanting] Rapido. Rapido.
Rapido. Rapido.
[crowd cheering]
[wild cheering]
[Mariachi music]
Rapido.
[crowd chanting] Rapido. Rapido. Rapido.
Rapido. Rapido.
[Mariachi music]
[crowd chanting] Rapido. Rapido.
Rapido. Rapido.
Rapido. Rapido.
[indistinct commentary]
[crowd groans]
[the Governor grunts]
[crowd cheering]
[crowd chanting] Rapido. Rapido.
Rapido. Rapido.
Rapido. Rapido.
[shouts in Spanish]
[indistinct commentary]
[crowd booing and whistling]
[commentary blips and stops]
[suspenseful music]
Sweet dreams are made of this ♪
Who am I to disagree? ♪
I travel the world
and the seven seas ♪
Everybody's looking for something ♪
Some of them want to use you ♪
Some of them want to get used by you ♪
Some of them want to abuse you ♪
Some of them want to be abused ♪
Oooh-oooh. Hey. ♪
Everybody's looking for something ♪
[distant birdcall]
[animal chittering]
[eerie music]
[Amy] Lisa?
I brought you some coffee.
- Coffee?
- Yeah, there was a little left,
so I heated it up for you in the fire.
Well, that's very kind of you, Amy.
Are you okay?
[scoffs]
Thirty years with the same man.
Thirty years and we never
spent a night apart.
I was always afraid I'd lose him.
Maybe it was the heat.
The heat?
My uncle, he had a heart condition,
and he died in Palm Springs,
by the pool.
You think I don't know how he died?
I know what you said, Lisa.
You said it was one of us
but why would any of us
wanna do a thing like that?
[Lisa scoffs] It doesn't make any sense.
What sort of people do you think we are?
Oh, well, that's a good question.
What sort of people?
Mm, well, let's see?
Well, first of all, there's Zack,
who lies every time he opens his mouth.
- How do you know?
- I just know.
There's Kevin, the doctor,
who's already killed Octavio,
and who hated Travis and me on sight
just because of who we are
and what we believed in.
There's [softly] There's Carlos,
your friendly Latino.
Would you trust any of those people?
Oh, yeah, and then there's Sonja,
but she's British so she must be fine.
Except she hasn't told us
anything about herself,
and it's funny how she knew
all about those mushrooms.
Well, I like her.
[whispers] And Dan.
You don't know anything about Dan.
Do you?
[suspenseful music]
How long have you known him?
- Well, I told you.
- Oh, that's right.
[chuckles]
The heiress and the limo driver.
Sonja told me.
[Lisa chuckles]
Oh. A wedding in Vegas.
I've heard that one before,
and it didn't end happily.
- Well, I love him.
- Don't talk to me about love.
You know nothing about love.
And if I was looking
for the snake in the grass,
the one who had it in
for the whole lot of us,
well, I think I might start with him.
Look, it's not Dan. [scoffs]
It's not Sonja, it's not any of us.
We're not alone here, that's
what you don't understand.
[inhales] You know what?
You are a horrible woman
and I wish I never spoke to you.
[scoffs]
Coffee was piss anyway.
[daunting music]
[suspenseful music]
[wings flapping, bird caws]
Dan?
Anybody?
[dramatic music]
Oh, hey. Amy.
Hey. You shouldn't go into
the jungle on your own, okay?
I I just wanted to be on my own.
What's the matter?
I don't know. I hate it here.
Oh. I saw you talking to Lisa.
Did she say something to upset you?
No.
[sighs]
The, uh They're taking the thing,
the transmitter up the mountain, so
- They want to talk.
- Yeah.
[suspenseful music
[ominous music]
So this is the aerial
but it needs to be high up.
Otherwise, it won't resonate.
- How heavy is that thing?
- Not so heavy.
One person can carry it. We can switch.
And you're sure it's working?
I can't be sure. Perhaps.
Perhaps? Well, there's
a ringing endorsement.
So who's going up with Carlos?
Look, Carlos is going because
he knows what he's doing,
but he needs someone to go with him.
All right then, I don't mind
a stroll up the mountain.
Maybe we need someone
to protect Carlos from you.
What's that supposed to mean?
Octavio's dead. Travis is dead.
And you think I had
something to do with that?
I tried to save them, both of them.
- Yeah, and that went well.
- Fuck you, Dan.
[Zack] Kevin, look,
it's nothing personal.
Lisa thinks Octavio was murdered.
- I know he was murdered.
- And if she's right,
and she's right about Travis,
then we have to face the fact
that someone here,
for reasons I can't even begin
to imagine, wants to kill us.
Really? So we're going
with Lisa's theory.
First, we're stealing food
from each other
and now we're homicidal maniacs?
Lisa doesn't know
what she's talking about.
Thank you.
Amy's not going up there.
So I'm not going up there.
That's us out.
And I guess Lisa isn't going anywhere,
so that just leaves you or me.
I'll go. I could do
with the exercise and the view.
[Kevin] If there is one.
A little cloud cover today.
You'll be lucky to see
your hand in front of your face.
No, the sun will have burned it off.
Okay, it's decided then.
You, me and Carlos.
[Zack] Great.
You sure about this?
I can look after myself.
[eerie music]
[Sonja gasps]
[bird caws]
[wings flapping]
[Carlos] Hey.
- I'll take it.
- No, no, it's okay.
It's what we agreed, Carlos.
We all take a turn.
[grunts]
Okay.
[suspenseful music]
[daunting music]
Okay.
- [Sonja grunts]
- Sonja.
I got you. I got you. Come on.
[Sonja groans]
Okay, I got you.
I got you. I'll pull you up.
[Sonja straining]
[groaning]
[Sonja groaning]
I think I can reach it.
No. No, it's too dangerous. Leave it.
I can do it. You just have to lower me.
Come on. Sonja.
- I need just a few more inches.
- I can't.
[straining]
- I can do it.
- It's okay.
I have both of you.
[Sonja] Just wait.
Sonja, I can't hold you much longer.
[groans] I've got it.
- Okay, got it.
- Okay.
Let's go. Come on. Pull me up.
Don't let go.
Come on.
[tense music]
Lisa.
- You keep away from me.
- Hey, hey, come on.
- What are you doing?
- I'm not taking any chances.
You understand? You keep your distance.
I came looking for you
'cause I was worried about you.
Ah, well, I can look after myself.
I'm gonna have to now.
I'm sorry about Travis.
I really am.
He seemed like a good man.
I don't want you to talk about him.
I didn't kill him, Lisa.
Hmm. Why don't you tell
the truth about yourself?
I've met many insurance folk.
You're nothing like them.
I'm an investigator.
I told you, it's not the same.
And I can still tell
when someone's lying.
You, uh, getting in tonight's dinner?
Got nothing else to be doing.
I like having a gun in my hand.
What is it?
Oh, it's a coati, a kawaii.
It's like a raccoon that can
swim. Oh, it's a fast swimmer.
It would have to be
with what's in that water.
- Hmm.
- Can we eat it?
[Lisa] I guess we'll find out.
You know, Amy thinks
we're not alone here.
She's seen someone.
She thinks we're being watched.
You believe that?
- It's working?
- Yeah.
Yeah, there's plenty.
- [Dan sighs]
- Thank you.
Ah. We're gonna get you home.
We're gonna be fine.
So how's it coming on?
What?
Your book.
You keep on talking about it
but I never see you writing.
Yeah, well, I don't think I'm
gonna get much done out here.
Well, have you started it yet?
- What?
- Have you even got a title?
Amy, why are you asking me
about this now?
- Tell me what she said to you.
- Who?
You know who I mean. Lisa.
The two of you, you talk
this morning and then,
all of a sudden you're Chris Wallace.
I told you, she didn't say anything.
Don't lie to me!
What did she say? [dramatic music]
She She said that
- She said that, um
- Mmm?
it wouldn't end happily, you and me.
She said you might have
killed Octavio and Travis.
That's what she said?
- You're hurting me.
- Why did you listen to her, huh?
- You're hurting me.
- What?
Oh.
You hurt me.
I didn't mean to.
But I just I just
I can't believe that you would
let her come between us.
You don't know anything about her!
I don't know anything about you either.
What do you need to know, Amy, huh?
Tell me.
Yeah. I'm I'm poor.
Yeah, my dad isn't
a billionaire. He's a mechanic.
And I worked as a limo driver.
And I'm not like you or your family.
I have nothing except you.
What else is there, Amy?
I need my pills.
What?
I've got a headache.
Uh Where Where are they?
Over there in the plane.
- You really need them now? Okay.
- Yeah.
And some water.
I'd do anything for you, Amy.
I'm sorry.
Well, uh, I'll be right back.
[dramatic music]
[unsettling music]
[Sonja] Quite a view.
[Kevin] Yeah.
No sign of Mexico City though.
And still no signal.
[Sonja] Think it'll work?
No other way we're getting out of here.
[Sonja sighs] Look at it.
It's so beautiful.
This is what I came here for.
To lose myself in.
From London?
Yeah.
You got anybody back there?
Family or boyfriend?
- Husband?
- No. I'm on my own.
I'm sorry.
- Why do you say that?
- I don't know.
I just get a sense that you're, um
You know, when I had my practice,
a lot of my patients didn't
want to tell me the things
that were hurting them the most.
I don't mean illnesses.
I mean them.
I'm not your patient.
I thought I took pretty good
care of you back there.
Yeah, you did. Thank you but I'm fine.
It's done.
[beeping]
It's transmitting.
- [Carlos laughs]
- Okay.
Let's get down before it gets dark.
Good work, Carlos.
Lucky you had that gum.
[dramatic music]
[beeping continues]
They should have been back by now.
[Zack] They'll be on their way down.
If they get it working, how
long do you think it'll take?
Before someone comes?
Well, we're losing the light,
so maybe tomorrow.
[Dan groans]
I can't just sit around here
all day doing jack shit.
[Dan sighs]
You want anything?
Just asking.
I was just thinking
that there's a bottle
of bourbon on the plane.
And made it here intact.
Feels like a shame to waste it.
What do you say, Amy? You want a drink?
- No.
- Look, I don't think
a drink is going to help us right now.
Well, you're not
in charge here, asshole.
I can look out for myself.
[eerie music]
[sighs]
Where is Amy?
I don't know.
What, you just let her
walk off on her own?
I don't know where she is.
Oh.
[eerie music]
[gun loads]
Hey.
- Hi.
- Hey. You made it.
Only just.
- Is it working?
- Yes.
- It works.
- All right.
Couldn't have done it without you.
That looks like dinner.
What's on the menu?
- Coati.
- Coati.
Take it or leave it, man.
Well, it can't be worse than monkey.
[clears throat] Sorry, Lisa.
Where's the happy couple?
Yeah, they're around.
We should all talk, soon.
I'll go looking for them.
Wash my hands first
if there's enough water.
Amy.
Where you been?
- He's here. He's found me.
- What? Who?
You've got to come.
Okay, okay.
He was He was standing right there.
What did he look like?
You know what he looks like.
Why are you asking me that?
It's him. He was hiding on the plane
and he's followed me here.
Where would he hide on the plane, Amy?
That's not possible.
He was behind me, I heard him.
If I have hadn't turned around then
- You don't believe me, do you?
- Yeah, of course I believe you.
Don't lie to me.
You think I don't know
when you're lying to me?
You said you were going to be a writer,
you said you had all these plans,
but none of that's true, is it?
Amy, I don't know
what you're talking about.
Yeah, okay. Yeah.
The heiress and the limo driver.
Who said that to you?
Who have you been talking to?
Tell me about Bradshaw
and Maclean in Sarasota.
What?
Okay.
Dan Maclean of Maclean
and Bradshaw in Sarasota.
"A full service immigration law firm
dedicated to quality
and professionalism"?
You've been in my wallet.
Or Dan Maclean of the Maclean
Law Group in Tampa. CEO.
Oh, and here's Dan Maclean,
attorney of Aventura Law Company.
- You sure have a lot of jobs.
- Amy, this is nothing.
This is from a long time ago.
- It's all behind me.
- Then why didn't you tell me?
Amy, listen to me, okay? Listen.
Ah, you shouldn't have
gone into my wallet, okay?
There are things about me
that you don't understand.
But when we get home,
I will tell you everything,
everything you want to know, okay?
But right now, with everything
that's going on,
I just I just need you
to trust me, okay?
Look, it won't be long now.
The transmitter, it has to be working
- Hey.
- Hey, you're back.
Yeah. Zack's looking for us.
Okay.
[Zack] Thanks to Carlos,
Sonja and Kevin,
the transmitter should be doing its job
and we could have
air force rescue out here
as early as first light tomorrow.
- Why aren't they here now?
- 'Cause it's getting dark.
It's difficult to land.
It's a big place.
[Zack] Right.
So we could be in Houston by lunch.
That'd be great
because this really sucks.
Maybe we should, um, think about moving.
- What?
- I'm going nowhere.
Yeah, Lisa's right.
We're safer where we are.
Safer?
What do you think, Carlos?
I think we should wait.
- And miss the big fight?
- The helicopter will come.
I hope you're right.
It will, it'll show up.
It has to.
[monkeys chittering]
[tense music]
What?
- Uhh.
- [blood splatters]
[daunting music]
Yeah, he's gone.
So who was the last person to see him?
We all did. He was here
with us last night.
What, nobody woke up?
Nobody heard anything?
No, no. What are you thinking?
Well, he's not in the plane,
he's not at the cenote.
He can't have gone far. It was dark.
And he took nothing with him, so
It's been ten hours. More.
[Lisa] He's dead.
Where do you think he is?
He's been killed.
- Lisa, we don't know that.
- Yeah, we do.
Oh, I wonder what it's gonna
be this time? Mm?
Another poisoned mushroom?
Another post-operative shock?
For Christ's sake.
Would you turn it off?
One by one. They're coming
for us, one by one.
Yeah, maybe, but can you,
like, shut the fuck up?
You're scaring us for nothing.
This could be my fault. Carlos
was the one stealing the food.
Up on the hill, he had a packet of gum,
same brand as on the plane.
- Did you accuse him?
- Mm.
Not in so many words but, yeah.
He knew I knew and he was
he was ashamed.
So? What? He's walking to Houston?
Taking his gum
and his energy bars with him?
I hope so. I really do.
Okay, I say we start looking for him.
He could have gone out
in the jungle and hurt himself.
- We need to search a wide area.
- How wide?
One hour, and we go in pairs.
Kevin and Sonja. Dan and Amy.
Lisa, are you going to help us?
I'll look.
We're not gonna find him.
And I'm not going with you.
- You and Kevin, then.
- Oh, yeah, perfect.
Hey, isn't there something else
we should be looking for
that matters maybe
a little more than Carlos?
The helicopter, why isn't it here?
[eerie music]
[Zack] Carlos!
Carlos!
Carlos!
Hey.
- Amy.
- Not now, Dan, please.
[Kevin in the distance] Carlos.
You ready?
[Dan] Carlos!
You think we're gonna find him?
No, I don't.
Do you believe Lisa, what she said?
- Don't you?
- Carlos!
Maybe the answer to all this
is right here.
[distant shouts
of "Carlos" continue]
What are you gonna do?
I'm gonna rip this plane apart,
what's left of it, see what it's hiding.
What about Carlos?
[Kevin] Carlos?
[Lisa] Carlos.
Lisa.
[sighs] I just want to say,
I'm sorry about Travis
I'm sure he was a good man
no matter what his politics.
And, uh, I was out of line
attacking you both.
We're used to it.
People like you looking down
on people like us.
You know what scares you?
There's more of us
than there are of you.
Zack, there's nothing here.
- There's got to be something.
- Like what?
- What are we looking for?
- A reason to kill us.
And what would that be, exactly?
To punish us? We're just passengers.
It's not our fault the plane crashed.
- Maybe to stop us talking.
- About what?
We don't have anything to say.
Hey, it's midday.
No one's come.
We need to go back up
and check the transmitter.
[sighs]
Carlos was the only one
who could fix it.
It could be nothing.
Maybe it's just
a new battery that's needed.
What else can we do?
All right, I've been up once.
I guess I can find my way again.
- I'll go with you.
- Really?
We're doing everything in pairs, right?
If you say so.
Here, take these with you.
Spare batteries.
- Worth a try, right?
- What about you?
We'll wait for it to cool off,
then we'll keep looking, I guess.
Well, if he's dead, he's
probably been eaten by now.
[upbeat music]
- You all set?
- Sure.
Okay, let's do it.
[birds' wings flapping]
[eerie music]
[distant birdcall]
[Kevin sighs]
Ah.
You and Zack seem be
getting awfully close.
You think so?
Just an observation.
- I trust him.
- Maybe you shouldn't.
- Why do you say that?
- Because I don't.
And you think I should trust you?
Sonja, you nearly fell off a cliff.
If I wanted to hurt you,
I could have just let you go.
- Oh, God.
- What?
There.
[birds cawing]
[Sonja] What are they circling?
Oh, Jesus.
We've got to go back down.
[daunting music]
[whispered voice] Amy.
[whispered voice] Amy.
[eerie music]
Which way?
Through here.
Come on.
[grunts]
Dan?
[groans] Oh, my God. Dan.
[flies buzzing]
[Kevin] Carlos?
[wings flapping, bird caws]
[Sonja gags]
I don't think he's gonna
make that fight.
[Sonja gags]
[bird caws]
[daunting music]
Hey.
- You okay?
- [sighs]
That was horrible.
Why would anyone do that to him?
To any of us?
What's happening here?
I don't know.
We'd better talk to Dan.
I'll be all right.
Here, drink this.
You really mustn't upset yourself.
[Sonja] So what happened?
Nothing.
- She attacked you?
- No.
She didn't know what she was doing.
Look, Amy is not well.
[Zack] What?
Yeah.
You already know
that I was her limo driver.
Well, when I first met her,
I was taking her
to a clinic in Santa Barbara.
Her dad had sent her there
because she had problems.
Uh, she was being treated by a shrink.
- An army of shrinks.
- Why?
She's been like that her entire life,
ever since she was seven years old.
She went to Bluebird Elementary.
- Oof.
- It's in Los Altos, California.
In 2003, it was the scene
of a mass shooting.
Five kids, two teachers, killed
by a man called Billy Spencer,
using his dad's automatic rifle.
- Oh, God.
- Yeah.
Amy was in first grade.
She was in the corridor when the
first teacher was gunned down
right next to her and for
a moment she was standing there,
opposite the killer,
staring him right in the eyes.
And he he aims at her.
And he'd have gunned her down too.
But just then, a door opens,
he turns round, he fires there instead.
And somebody grabs a hold
of Amy and drags her away.
- I'm so sorry.
- Yeah.
She never got over it. I mean,
of course she never got over it.
And then 20 years later,
Prince Charming shows up
in a white limousine and
saves her from therapy. Nice.
How can you say that to me, huh?
Is she taking medication?
Yeah, of course she's taking medication.
Anti-depressants,
tranquilizers, the works.
Has she ever hurt anyone else?
No. No, no, no. You can't think
that she'd hurt Travis.
Or Carlos.
She didn't plan what she did to me.
She's not
She's not some kind of maniac.
She's the victim here, okay?
Where did you find Carlos?
[ominous music]
He's been stabbed multiple times
and here's the bad news.
Whoever did this has Travis' knife.
Nothing else could
have made these wounds.
Do you think it could have been Amy?
Thinking he was Billy Spencer?
Yeah, it's possible.
- No shirt.
- This is how we found him.
What was he doing out here?
[Kevin sighs]
Hey.
Look.
[scoffs]
- You were right about him.
- Yeah.
And there's one thing
that's not in doubt anymore.
Octavio, Travis, they
could have been accidents,
illnesses, but Carlos was murdered.
- Someone crept up on him and
- Yeah.
It wasn't Amy.
I just don't see it.
So if not her, then who?
[Zack] It's not just a question of who.
It's why.
[thunder rumbles]
[eerie music]
[thunder rumbles]
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