Perpetual Grace, LTD (2019) s01e03 Episode Script
Felipe G. Usted. Almost First Mexican on the Moon. Part 1
1 PAUL: You ever think about having $2 million? You gain my parents' total trust, then we totally trick them to go to Mexico.
It's not like we're hurting them.
We just get them out of the picture for a little while.
You take my identity.
- I'm Paul.
- Paul Brown? - Yeah.
- You are a person of interest.
$26,000 back, or I'm gonna get you.
I have to be going.
My mother and father were killed in Mexico.
I'm wearing a fucking ankle bracelet.
It's the kind that an old Texas Ranger puts on you for a murder.
How do I get it off? HECTOR: Go find a rattlesnake, let it bite you, go to the emergency room.
They'll take it off.
[TELEPHONE RINGING.]
Dad, I can't really hear you 'cause you have your helmet on, probably.
SCOTTY: The simplest way to proceed would be to dissolve the trust.
It will take 90 days, no less.
It's Perpetual Grace, Limited, not Inc.
JAMES: You going to Mexico for me? - For what? - Give a guy some money? Cool.
Let's do it.
MAN: He just killed a 24-year-old kid with a shoe.
I'm going to kill you, motherfucker.
I'm the pale horse of Death, and Hell follows me, boy.
HECTOR: I'm taking him to a supermax.
I'm taking him to Monterrey.
PA: Get it.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There we go.
There we fucking go.
[CRICKETS CHIRPING.]
FELIPE: I only got involved in Hector and James' scheme for one reason so I could pay for space training.
As a third-generation coroner in the era of the Cartel, I dreamed of drifting up from this dirt world, up to where life began away from death.
I am Felipe Guillermo Usted, County Coroner of Hermosillo County, Mexico, and almost first Mexican on the moon until I met James and Hector, and they fucked me down.
And I will tell you this story of death on Earth.
Get it.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There you go.
There you fucking go.
Get it.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There you go.
There you fucking go.
Get it.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There you go.
There you fucking go.
Get it.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There you go.
There you fucking go.
Get it.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There you go.
There you fucking go.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There we go.
There we fucking go.
Get it.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There we go.
There we fucking go.
Get it.
One day you'll buy a ride on a comet And you'll ride into the sunset Of a planet that's beyond it Beyond the wall Of all there is And you will stash it in your pocket And you'll take it to Manhattan Where your grandma's 10, and you are 10 You're not a family man, you're best Friends And you will hold it together Under the oldest running water Of the river of each other With the power of the future One day you'll ride into the dawning Of the morning of the dreaming And the sundown of the nearing The evening of Of the living Perpetual Grace, LTD 1x03 Felipe G.
Usted.
Almost First This is snake repellent.
Yep.
We wanted something to attract snakes.
Like snake cologne? - Yeah.
- Yeah.
We don't sell that.
I don't think anyone makes that product.
Why would they? What do they like? Yeah.
What are rattlesnakes into? Well, they're into, like, long grass, pools of water, rodents.
But you don't have, like, a snake juice that just draws them on in? No.
We don't have snake juice.
There is, uh, one guy in town who knows who I am my Uncle Dave.
He lives in Kilroy County.
It's two towns up.
It's close.
He knows what I look like.
He's no problem, though Dave.
Why? He's shunned.
Why? He was convicted of, you know, bothering little boys.
Is that against the law? Yeah.
The way that he did it yeah.
Oh, okay.
I get it.
Uncle Dave? - Yeah? - To the tollbooth and back? Tollbooth, back.
Shunned? Shunned.
He gets out in 19 days, and then he's free to rove all over to non-tollbooth places, but you'll be gone in two weeks, so no Uncle Dave trouble on the horizon.
And tollbooth men have the highest suicide rate out of all of the jobs ever, so could be less.
It's 90 days.
What is? The wait.
It's 9 90? It's? It's 90 days 'cause it's 'cause it's limited.
It's a legal thing.
You're way off.
How the fuck Where'd you get 14 days, anyway? Oh, that wasn't like the actual I was just saying, like, a round number.
- Round number? - Yeah.
90's a round number, and 90's the actual number, too.
You could have said that.
Okay, well, that's gonna make things harder.
Yeah.
- [RATTLING.]
- Hey! Snake! Oh, shit.
It's a good thing.
Yeah, but, fuck, it's like right there.
It's real.
[RATTLING CONTINUES.]
This is real.
- Is that the item? - What's that? WOMAN: Is that the item you want to try on? DAVE: Yes, it is.
Um, that's not I don't think so with that item.
You don't think so why? That's underwear.
Right.
And? And no one does that.
Oh, I do that.
They're very important contours, and they're $7, and there's no take-backs.
Okay.
Just don't tell anyone.
WOMAN [ON P.
A.
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: Attention, shoppers.
A 7-year-old boy has been separated from his parents, and his name is little Garcia.
DAVE: Oh, gosh, hey, little friend.
Are you lost? OFFICER: Sir, step away from the boy.
[MAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY ON RADIO.]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
[BUZZER.]
Will you make me a promise? Sure.
Will you call me every day so I know you're okay? DAVE: I'm a registered sex offender.
Please retrieve your change from the change bowl.
We have not touched.
Have a nice day.
I'm a registered sex offender.
Please retrieve your change from the change bowl.
We have not touched.
Have a nice day.
I'm a registered sex offender.
Please retrieve your change from the change bowl.
We have not touched.
Have a nice day.
I'm a registered sex offender.
[LINE RINGING.]
MA: You have reached Ma and Pa.
Please leave a message.
[BEEP.]
He's in a halfway house, and he's a tollbooth man.
- [LINE RINGING.]
- And he's just allowed to go to the tollbooth and back.
You have reached Ma and Pa.
[CELLPHONE BEEPS.]
PA: Get it.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There you go.
There you fucking go.
Get it.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There you go.
There you fucking go.
Get it.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There you go.
There you fucking go.
Get it.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There you go.
There you fucking go.
You go.
There you fucking go.
Get it.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There you go.
There you fucking go.
Get it.
Get the rhythm.
There you go.
There you fucking go.
What is it now? Oh, uh Okay.
"If a snakebite victim doesn't receive anti-venom within 90 minutes of a discharge, symptom onset can include nausea, swelling of the head and hands, accelerated heart rates, restricted breathing, and death.
" [RATTLING.]
90 minutes, so Oh, uh, um a really intense guy wants to kill you.
Me, I mean.
Something about his mom, and there's a church lady who won't even look at me at you.
Yeah, I don't really know about that, but, uh, my dad's a bad dude, man, and he he blames stuff on me.
So probably there's a bunch of people in town who hate you me.
Okay, well, thank you for telling me that before.
Sorry.
[RATTLING.]
You ever just say like, "Fuck it, starting tomorrow"? What do you mean? You ever say like, "I just had two beers I was trying to have none, but I just had two," and then you say, "Fuck it, I'm gonna have eight now"? - [CHUCKLES.]
- You know, "Just one more day.
I'm just gonna rip it up, and then I'm not gonna have any more tomorrow, starting tomorrow"? [LAUGHS.]
Yeah, sometimes.
That's natural.
That's what this is like this whole thing.
You know? I'm gonna do all this all this shit the snake stuff, Sheriff stuff, a weird guy who was telling me about glasses I'm gonna do it all.
And then starting tomorrow Pure.
[GROANS.]
[LAUGHS.]
Shit.
MAN: We are now leaving Cleaver.
Next stop Half Acre.
[BEEPING.]
WARDEN: Hello? Don't release DeLoash.
I'm late.
I know.
There's been trouble.
But I'll have your money.
You're too late, Brown.
[RECEIVER CLICKS.]
[KNOCK ON DOOR.]
DAVE: Hey, there, Paul? Paul? It's Uncle Dave.
Hey, there, Paul? It's your Uncle Dave.
I talk to your mother every day.
The last three days nothing, not a peep.
[KNOCKING RESUMES.]
[LINE RINGING.]
PAUL: Hey, are you at the hospital? I'm at the house.
I came by for your insurance card.
I need my last money to pay Hector.
You probably should hurry, man.
Yeah, I-I want to, and, fuck, but your uncle's here.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR.]
He keeps asking for you.
He's waiting outside.
Yeah, I-I told him I was in town.
I called him.
What? Why? I just wanted to check in with him.
He's a good guy.
I mean, you know, besides the And I knew I wasn't gonna see him 'cause of his situation.
Well, he's here, man, waiting outside.
Fuck.
Well I have, like, 25 minutes for the anti-venom.
I think my head's getting bigger.
Call the cops.
They'll drag him off.
Oh, that's harsh, man.
Won't he get in big trouble? Probably.
He's just concerned about his sister.
And that's cool.
I don't want to call the cops on that.
Wait him out.
Well, I do have this head situation.
Fuck.
Call the cops.
Call them, man.
Starting tomorrow, right? [SIGHS.]
[KNOCKING ON DOOR.]
DAVE: Paul? Paul? [CLOCK TICKING.]
[GROANS.]
[BREATHES HEAVILY.]
[GROANS.]
[SIGHS.]
[KNOCKING RESUMES.]
Fuck it.
OFFICER: Hey, where you going there, Tollbooth? [HANDCUFFS RATTLE.]
Morning.
Morning.
David Lesser? Yes.
You a relative of Paul Allen Brown? I am.
Wesley Walker.
Texas Ranger.
[SPEAKING SPANISH.]
I can't exercise.
I can't run.
I don't My heart's been racing since I've been here.
I'm confused.
I need rest.
May I sit over there? I feel awful.
[SHOUTING IN SPANISH.]
[GIRL SCREAMS.]
[LAUGHTER.]
[CELLPHONE RINGING.]
[RINGING CONTINUES.]
HECTOR: James? I'm not in a field.
I got the motherfucker's thumb, man, in my pocket! Well, I'm not in a field.
I got his fucking thumb in my pocket, and he's gone! Brown? Reverend Brown he's gone.
He beer-canned it off.
He took my gun and shit.
Beer-canned what off? His own left thumb.
Look, I'm going after him.
You got to get to Usted.
- Who? - Felipe Guillermo Usted, County Coroner of Hermosillo County, in Houston now! Why? He's got to delay issuance.
Of what? Of the death certificate.
Why? 'Cause the guy is still alive.
He's alive.
And he's driving my van to the Consulate, no doubt.
Look, he makes it there, I get arrested.
There's a death certificate, I go to jail, I end up leaving my family.
Not the cool way where they have sweet cash, and I have the hot girlfriend, but where they have no money and I'm in prison.
I want to try to stop him before he gets to the Consulate in Monterrey.
You go to Houston.
Why? Because that's where Felipe is.
Who? Felipe Guillermo Usted, County Coroner of Hermosillo County, Mexico.
What's he doing in Houston? He's demonstrating that he has the mental and physical fitness to thrive in gravity-less environment and shit and other shit something like a torture-chamber shit.
I don't know.
Um Torture chamber? Um, not torture chamber.
W-what's the word? Uh, meditation chamber? Aspiration chamber? - Isolation? - Yeah.
He's going isolated for long periods and other stuff.
He's doing rigorous mental and physical stuff.
Your coroner qualifications are fucked up.
No, man.
He wants to be an astronaut.
What, he's in Houston at Space Camp? No, it's the actual thing.
He's actually going to be an astronaut, man.
He's doing this month-long thing, then he's an actual astronaut.
He's a can-do Mexican, man.
He's been training for this his whole life.
So tell him he got to quit and come back here.
Oh, and someone has to do the my wife, $2,000 thing, though, today simultaneously, 'cause I'm still afraid of her.
This is getting out of control.
Wesley Walker.
I didn't have the chance to do that back at the Sheriff's.
So, Dave.
Yeah.
Paul Allen Brown.
What's he doing here Paul Allen Brown in town all of a sudden? Uncertain.
Have you seen him? I haven't seen him, Wesley.
[SIGHS.]
Not just yet.
I tried.
I have questions.
About? My sister, Lillian.
She's missing, Wesley.
Dave? Yeah, Wesley? Dave, your nephew knows something about that.
Yeah, well, I can't find him.
I know where he is.
You do? Yeah, at all times.
HECTOR: James? JAMES: Yeah? I've been thinking.
Yeah? It would be easy, I'm saying, to stop the old man an easy thing for me to do, but not an easy thing for me to do.
What are you talking about? I call Hermosillo? Yeah? - County Dispatch? - Yeah? And I say, "There's a Cartel lieutenant being transferred in the ice-cream van.
" That'll leak right to the Cartel.
Yeah? They're gonna immobilize that truck with force.
He's gonna get injured for sure, but he won't make it to the Consulate in Monterrey.
Just injured? Yeah.
Man.
That's a fact, man.
Yeah.
Okay.
Get to Houston and Usted.
Yeah.
FELIPE: One time Captain Steve Schaeler, while performing ordinary repairs to the Space Lab in space, he just glanced off like, just glanced off casually to his right, looked around into the distance around him, and just totally lost his whole fucking mind.
The human mind isn't suited to the vastness of the universe.
It has evolved to squabble on Earth, to grub and wage local battles.
We're meant only to scrap, connive, and contend, to earn and keep a little place on Earth.
[CELLPHONE BUZZING.]
Good call, guy? Your vital signs are fine.
I overheard.
The Deputy's here.
He's in your corridor, ready to reattach you there.
That's your update.
- Fuck.
- What? I didn't know they were gonna do that.
Put it back on? Yeah.
Well, it stands to reason.
Can you get up? Yeah.
Good.
'Cause I want to show you something.
There is, uh, one guy in town who knows who I am my Uncle Dave.
He lives in Kilroy County.
It's two towns up.
He he knows what I look like.
That's a life-support situation.
- Double.
- Yeah.
Mom and Dad.
I did that with their hands.
I customized that.
So if they're able to feel anything, they can feel love.
That's beautiful.
Yeah.
So, I'm going to kill you in a matter of days.
So You're gonna kill me? Yes.
In a matter of days? Yeah.
How many days? I don't know.
The physician told me that my loving mother and father will pass in a matter of days.
It's a "Your Parents Are Dead Now" vibration like, formerly a-a Chili's thing.
Chili's closed.
Now it's a "Your Parents Are Off Life Support".
When it vibrates, I'm going to kill you.
If you don't return what you took from the Connellys by then by the bus Who Who are the Connellys? Them Me.
What did I What did I take? Life savings.
That's fucked up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's what I'm fucking saying, jerk.
That's why I'm going to kill you.
[LINE RINGING.]
MA: You've reached Ma and Pa.
Please leave a message.
[BEEP.]
[WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON P.
A.
.]
I killed two guys and a woman, but I'm just gonna say one guy in a minute because they only know about the one guy, and I don't want anyone to overhear.
But you should hear three in your head 'cause that's my tally, jerk.
I already killed one guy.
It's not a leap for me.
I did it once.
You'd just be number two.
What do you know about my father? Nothing.
Pastor.
What's your name? New Leaf.
What? I was trying to, you know, re-brand, hit the reset button on my persona.
Yeah? But my shop went down with their savings.
Then my dad stroked out.
Then my mom strokes out two days after that.
It's not uncommon for older couples who have known lifelong love, and if they can know anything in the state they're in, I'd like them to know I got their money back.
So, matter of days, I'm saying.
My dad's bad, New Leaf.
He took that money and more, and he doesn't give a fuck, New Leaf.
Tried to lay it on me.
But I'm getting it back.
But not, like, in an out-loud way.
And when I do, I'm gonna give you what he took.
[KNOCK ON DOOR.]
The Deputy's asking if you're conscious enough for your ankle business? Yeah, but [CLEARS THROAT.]
Yeah, soon.
[DOOR CLOSES.]
New Leaf? NEW LEAF: Yeah? Pa's your man.
Hey.
What? Was my head big before earlier? Charlie Brownish.
You know why? Because I was intentionally bit by a rattlesnake because I have to be free of that monitor so I can get this money and make things right.
Yeah.
You a good man, Charlie Brown? I don't I don't know if I'm a good man, man, but I'm not Pa, I'm telling you.
That ought to say "Pa".
They're gonna put that bracelet back on me, and the Rangers are tracking my whereabouts, and I can't have weird whereabouts these days.
FELIPE: On this day of an unnatural death, James and Hector, two men who would never kill someone, stand in separate countries, miles from one another, and instigate events that kill someone.
Get it.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There we go.
There we fucking go.
Get it.
[THRASH METAL MUSIC PLAYS.]
I see the man on the corner [THRASH METAL MUSIC PLAYS.]
I've got a home [THRASH METAL MUSIC PLAYS.]
[MUSIC STOPS.]
MAN: Felipe, you sure you're okay? No one's been in this long.
You cool to keep going? I'm cool.
- [THRASH METAL MUSIC PLAYS.]
- You've got the right stuff.
You're going to the fucking moon, dude! JAMES: Are you jacked about the shared experience of going to Mexico? GLENN: Yeah, I'm excited to share that experience with you.
Well, you won't actually be sharing that experience with me because I'm going to Houston for the space guy, and you're going to Mexico alone for the Sheriff bank thing.
I feel like we talked about that already, and you said you could handle it.
Right.
You wrote that note to your dad saying you're going camping? With the guys Teddy, Speedo, and Crazy Rich yeah, and I was writing it on paper, but I thought, "No way, man.
Got to think of something better than that" 'cause my dad doesn't really read notes.
He mostly drinks and fishes at Lake Marie.
I thought the guys' part Teddy, that stuff would make the camping story sell it better.
- There aren't guys? - No.
- You don't have friends? - No.
[SIGHS.]
So, where did you write the note? Lake Marie.
What? Lake Marie.
- The lake? - Yeah.
You wrote a note on a lake? Yes, Paul.
How? Just right there with a stick in the lake sand next to the lake water.
Okay.
You wrote in the sand? Yeah.
On the shore? Yeah.
What about the tide? What about the what? Tide? The water levels? Large bodies of waters are modified, Glenn, by the tug of the moon.
Whoa.
What? I'm saying your little note's going to get washed off.
- Moon? - Yeah.
Does what? Affects water levels, which erases notes and shit.
If that note gets erased before your dad reads it, he might list you as missing, which would Do you have a degree in moon? Degree in moon? - Yeah.
- No.
Then how do you know about moon powers? Dad Dads tell stuff to sons throughout history.
You don't need a degree in moon.
[BRAKES SQUEAL.]
Ow.
Really need the muffs? What? Do you really need the muffs? What? Do you need, like, full ear coverage? Don't you want to just have one sense, at least, as you're trying to get around Hermosillo to do this thing? Touch.
What? And smell.
I have senses.
- Taste.
- Oh, all right.
You're gonna taste your way across Mexico.
You have to get this money in the bank, man, for this guy's wife.
You can't fuck it up.
Ow.
What? That hurt my head when you were saying that stuff about fucking stuff up.
So I stopped listening.
Sorry.
Say it again.
You can't fuck up this money - Ow! - I'll just write it down.
Dave? Yeah? The information What Paul shared with me about your sister Yeah? Dave, she was killed.
Paul said.
Paul was told this.
There was an accident in Mexico.
Accident? He said nothing further.
I'm sorry.
I've been calling and calling.
[SIGHS.]
I didn't do it, Wesley.
What's that? I'm not that sort of man.
[DOOR OPENS.]
I'm just an awkward, normal person.
And I'm regarded as less than that if I'm regarded at all by everyone but her.
I'm sorry, Dave.
Well, there'll be a funeral.
Soon.
A few days, I guess.
I wonder if they'll allow me to be there and help put her body to rest and say goodbye to Lillian, Wesley? We never got around to talking about Paul.
We never did.
Another time.
Yeah, another time.
I want to find Paul.
We need to start discussing this funeral, the return of these bodies, and and the appropriate next steps.
I'd like to talk to Paul, too.
Well, you know where he is with that little ankle-dingus thing.
Can't you make him come back here? I can't compel him to go anywhere.
He's free to go wherever he wants.
All I'm permitted to do is track him so he doesn't go in the wind again.
[GUNSHOT.]
FELIPE: I desired to leave the hard Earth once, where we, frightened, live at the mercy of luck, where nothing is planned for us, nothing.
Not love, not safety, not peace.
Where the only certain thing is that our lives will end.
And here, another life ended.
Because more than one guy was driving an ice-cream truck in Mexico.
Go figure.
And the Earth spins and spins, and people die.
And it spins.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
Gracias.
[DOOR CLOSES.]
[ICE-CREAM TRUCK MUSIC PLAYING.]
Hello, boys.
Do you pray to my soul When I hang from that pole? Y'all can all just undress What is left of my earthly flesh I'll be howlin' underground While y'all all bless me Down
It's not like we're hurting them.
We just get them out of the picture for a little while.
You take my identity.
- I'm Paul.
- Paul Brown? - Yeah.
- You are a person of interest.
$26,000 back, or I'm gonna get you.
I have to be going.
My mother and father were killed in Mexico.
I'm wearing a fucking ankle bracelet.
It's the kind that an old Texas Ranger puts on you for a murder.
How do I get it off? HECTOR: Go find a rattlesnake, let it bite you, go to the emergency room.
They'll take it off.
[TELEPHONE RINGING.]
Dad, I can't really hear you 'cause you have your helmet on, probably.
SCOTTY: The simplest way to proceed would be to dissolve the trust.
It will take 90 days, no less.
It's Perpetual Grace, Limited, not Inc.
JAMES: You going to Mexico for me? - For what? - Give a guy some money? Cool.
Let's do it.
MAN: He just killed a 24-year-old kid with a shoe.
I'm going to kill you, motherfucker.
I'm the pale horse of Death, and Hell follows me, boy.
HECTOR: I'm taking him to a supermax.
I'm taking him to Monterrey.
PA: Get it.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There we go.
There we fucking go.
[CRICKETS CHIRPING.]
FELIPE: I only got involved in Hector and James' scheme for one reason so I could pay for space training.
As a third-generation coroner in the era of the Cartel, I dreamed of drifting up from this dirt world, up to where life began away from death.
I am Felipe Guillermo Usted, County Coroner of Hermosillo County, Mexico, and almost first Mexican on the moon until I met James and Hector, and they fucked me down.
And I will tell you this story of death on Earth.
Get it.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There you go.
There you fucking go.
Get it.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There you go.
There you fucking go.
Get it.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There you go.
There you fucking go.
Get it.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There you go.
There you fucking go.
Get it.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There you go.
There you fucking go.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There we go.
There we fucking go.
Get it.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There we go.
There we fucking go.
Get it.
One day you'll buy a ride on a comet And you'll ride into the sunset Of a planet that's beyond it Beyond the wall Of all there is And you will stash it in your pocket And you'll take it to Manhattan Where your grandma's 10, and you are 10 You're not a family man, you're best Friends And you will hold it together Under the oldest running water Of the river of each other With the power of the future One day you'll ride into the dawning Of the morning of the dreaming And the sundown of the nearing The evening of Of the living Perpetual Grace, LTD 1x03 Felipe G.
Usted.
Almost First This is snake repellent.
Yep.
We wanted something to attract snakes.
Like snake cologne? - Yeah.
- Yeah.
We don't sell that.
I don't think anyone makes that product.
Why would they? What do they like? Yeah.
What are rattlesnakes into? Well, they're into, like, long grass, pools of water, rodents.
But you don't have, like, a snake juice that just draws them on in? No.
We don't have snake juice.
There is, uh, one guy in town who knows who I am my Uncle Dave.
He lives in Kilroy County.
It's two towns up.
It's close.
He knows what I look like.
He's no problem, though Dave.
Why? He's shunned.
Why? He was convicted of, you know, bothering little boys.
Is that against the law? Yeah.
The way that he did it yeah.
Oh, okay.
I get it.
Uncle Dave? - Yeah? - To the tollbooth and back? Tollbooth, back.
Shunned? Shunned.
He gets out in 19 days, and then he's free to rove all over to non-tollbooth places, but you'll be gone in two weeks, so no Uncle Dave trouble on the horizon.
And tollbooth men have the highest suicide rate out of all of the jobs ever, so could be less.
It's 90 days.
What is? The wait.
It's 9 90? It's? It's 90 days 'cause it's 'cause it's limited.
It's a legal thing.
You're way off.
How the fuck Where'd you get 14 days, anyway? Oh, that wasn't like the actual I was just saying, like, a round number.
- Round number? - Yeah.
90's a round number, and 90's the actual number, too.
You could have said that.
Okay, well, that's gonna make things harder.
Yeah.
- [RATTLING.]
- Hey! Snake! Oh, shit.
It's a good thing.
Yeah, but, fuck, it's like right there.
It's real.
[RATTLING CONTINUES.]
This is real.
- Is that the item? - What's that? WOMAN: Is that the item you want to try on? DAVE: Yes, it is.
Um, that's not I don't think so with that item.
You don't think so why? That's underwear.
Right.
And? And no one does that.
Oh, I do that.
They're very important contours, and they're $7, and there's no take-backs.
Okay.
Just don't tell anyone.
WOMAN [ON P.
A.
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: Attention, shoppers.
A 7-year-old boy has been separated from his parents, and his name is little Garcia.
DAVE: Oh, gosh, hey, little friend.
Are you lost? OFFICER: Sir, step away from the boy.
[MAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY ON RADIO.]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
[BUZZER.]
Will you make me a promise? Sure.
Will you call me every day so I know you're okay? DAVE: I'm a registered sex offender.
Please retrieve your change from the change bowl.
We have not touched.
Have a nice day.
I'm a registered sex offender.
Please retrieve your change from the change bowl.
We have not touched.
Have a nice day.
I'm a registered sex offender.
Please retrieve your change from the change bowl.
We have not touched.
Have a nice day.
I'm a registered sex offender.
[LINE RINGING.]
MA: You have reached Ma and Pa.
Please leave a message.
[BEEP.]
He's in a halfway house, and he's a tollbooth man.
- [LINE RINGING.]
- And he's just allowed to go to the tollbooth and back.
You have reached Ma and Pa.
[CELLPHONE BEEPS.]
PA: Get it.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There you go.
There you fucking go.
Get it.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There you go.
There you fucking go.
Get it.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There you go.
There you fucking go.
Get it.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There you go.
There you fucking go.
You go.
There you fucking go.
Get it.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There you go.
There you fucking go.
Get it.
Get the rhythm.
There you go.
There you fucking go.
What is it now? Oh, uh Okay.
"If a snakebite victim doesn't receive anti-venom within 90 minutes of a discharge, symptom onset can include nausea, swelling of the head and hands, accelerated heart rates, restricted breathing, and death.
" [RATTLING.]
90 minutes, so Oh, uh, um a really intense guy wants to kill you.
Me, I mean.
Something about his mom, and there's a church lady who won't even look at me at you.
Yeah, I don't really know about that, but, uh, my dad's a bad dude, man, and he he blames stuff on me.
So probably there's a bunch of people in town who hate you me.
Okay, well, thank you for telling me that before.
Sorry.
[RATTLING.]
You ever just say like, "Fuck it, starting tomorrow"? What do you mean? You ever say like, "I just had two beers I was trying to have none, but I just had two," and then you say, "Fuck it, I'm gonna have eight now"? - [CHUCKLES.]
- You know, "Just one more day.
I'm just gonna rip it up, and then I'm not gonna have any more tomorrow, starting tomorrow"? [LAUGHS.]
Yeah, sometimes.
That's natural.
That's what this is like this whole thing.
You know? I'm gonna do all this all this shit the snake stuff, Sheriff stuff, a weird guy who was telling me about glasses I'm gonna do it all.
And then starting tomorrow Pure.
[GROANS.]
[LAUGHS.]
Shit.
MAN: We are now leaving Cleaver.
Next stop Half Acre.
[BEEPING.]
WARDEN: Hello? Don't release DeLoash.
I'm late.
I know.
There's been trouble.
But I'll have your money.
You're too late, Brown.
[RECEIVER CLICKS.]
[KNOCK ON DOOR.]
DAVE: Hey, there, Paul? Paul? It's Uncle Dave.
Hey, there, Paul? It's your Uncle Dave.
I talk to your mother every day.
The last three days nothing, not a peep.
[KNOCKING RESUMES.]
[LINE RINGING.]
PAUL: Hey, are you at the hospital? I'm at the house.
I came by for your insurance card.
I need my last money to pay Hector.
You probably should hurry, man.
Yeah, I-I want to, and, fuck, but your uncle's here.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR.]
He keeps asking for you.
He's waiting outside.
Yeah, I-I told him I was in town.
I called him.
What? Why? I just wanted to check in with him.
He's a good guy.
I mean, you know, besides the And I knew I wasn't gonna see him 'cause of his situation.
Well, he's here, man, waiting outside.
Fuck.
Well I have, like, 25 minutes for the anti-venom.
I think my head's getting bigger.
Call the cops.
They'll drag him off.
Oh, that's harsh, man.
Won't he get in big trouble? Probably.
He's just concerned about his sister.
And that's cool.
I don't want to call the cops on that.
Wait him out.
Well, I do have this head situation.
Fuck.
Call the cops.
Call them, man.
Starting tomorrow, right? [SIGHS.]
[KNOCKING ON DOOR.]
DAVE: Paul? Paul? [CLOCK TICKING.]
[GROANS.]
[BREATHES HEAVILY.]
[GROANS.]
[SIGHS.]
[KNOCKING RESUMES.]
Fuck it.
OFFICER: Hey, where you going there, Tollbooth? [HANDCUFFS RATTLE.]
Morning.
Morning.
David Lesser? Yes.
You a relative of Paul Allen Brown? I am.
Wesley Walker.
Texas Ranger.
[SPEAKING SPANISH.]
I can't exercise.
I can't run.
I don't My heart's been racing since I've been here.
I'm confused.
I need rest.
May I sit over there? I feel awful.
[SHOUTING IN SPANISH.]
[GIRL SCREAMS.]
[LAUGHTER.]
[CELLPHONE RINGING.]
[RINGING CONTINUES.]
HECTOR: James? I'm not in a field.
I got the motherfucker's thumb, man, in my pocket! Well, I'm not in a field.
I got his fucking thumb in my pocket, and he's gone! Brown? Reverend Brown he's gone.
He beer-canned it off.
He took my gun and shit.
Beer-canned what off? His own left thumb.
Look, I'm going after him.
You got to get to Usted.
- Who? - Felipe Guillermo Usted, County Coroner of Hermosillo County, in Houston now! Why? He's got to delay issuance.
Of what? Of the death certificate.
Why? 'Cause the guy is still alive.
He's alive.
And he's driving my van to the Consulate, no doubt.
Look, he makes it there, I get arrested.
There's a death certificate, I go to jail, I end up leaving my family.
Not the cool way where they have sweet cash, and I have the hot girlfriend, but where they have no money and I'm in prison.
I want to try to stop him before he gets to the Consulate in Monterrey.
You go to Houston.
Why? Because that's where Felipe is.
Who? Felipe Guillermo Usted, County Coroner of Hermosillo County, Mexico.
What's he doing in Houston? He's demonstrating that he has the mental and physical fitness to thrive in gravity-less environment and shit and other shit something like a torture-chamber shit.
I don't know.
Um Torture chamber? Um, not torture chamber.
W-what's the word? Uh, meditation chamber? Aspiration chamber? - Isolation? - Yeah.
He's going isolated for long periods and other stuff.
He's doing rigorous mental and physical stuff.
Your coroner qualifications are fucked up.
No, man.
He wants to be an astronaut.
What, he's in Houston at Space Camp? No, it's the actual thing.
He's actually going to be an astronaut, man.
He's doing this month-long thing, then he's an actual astronaut.
He's a can-do Mexican, man.
He's been training for this his whole life.
So tell him he got to quit and come back here.
Oh, and someone has to do the my wife, $2,000 thing, though, today simultaneously, 'cause I'm still afraid of her.
This is getting out of control.
Wesley Walker.
I didn't have the chance to do that back at the Sheriff's.
So, Dave.
Yeah.
Paul Allen Brown.
What's he doing here Paul Allen Brown in town all of a sudden? Uncertain.
Have you seen him? I haven't seen him, Wesley.
[SIGHS.]
Not just yet.
I tried.
I have questions.
About? My sister, Lillian.
She's missing, Wesley.
Dave? Yeah, Wesley? Dave, your nephew knows something about that.
Yeah, well, I can't find him.
I know where he is.
You do? Yeah, at all times.
HECTOR: James? JAMES: Yeah? I've been thinking.
Yeah? It would be easy, I'm saying, to stop the old man an easy thing for me to do, but not an easy thing for me to do.
What are you talking about? I call Hermosillo? Yeah? - County Dispatch? - Yeah? And I say, "There's a Cartel lieutenant being transferred in the ice-cream van.
" That'll leak right to the Cartel.
Yeah? They're gonna immobilize that truck with force.
He's gonna get injured for sure, but he won't make it to the Consulate in Monterrey.
Just injured? Yeah.
Man.
That's a fact, man.
Yeah.
Okay.
Get to Houston and Usted.
Yeah.
FELIPE: One time Captain Steve Schaeler, while performing ordinary repairs to the Space Lab in space, he just glanced off like, just glanced off casually to his right, looked around into the distance around him, and just totally lost his whole fucking mind.
The human mind isn't suited to the vastness of the universe.
It has evolved to squabble on Earth, to grub and wage local battles.
We're meant only to scrap, connive, and contend, to earn and keep a little place on Earth.
[CELLPHONE BUZZING.]
Good call, guy? Your vital signs are fine.
I overheard.
The Deputy's here.
He's in your corridor, ready to reattach you there.
That's your update.
- Fuck.
- What? I didn't know they were gonna do that.
Put it back on? Yeah.
Well, it stands to reason.
Can you get up? Yeah.
Good.
'Cause I want to show you something.
There is, uh, one guy in town who knows who I am my Uncle Dave.
He lives in Kilroy County.
It's two towns up.
He he knows what I look like.
That's a life-support situation.
- Double.
- Yeah.
Mom and Dad.
I did that with their hands.
I customized that.
So if they're able to feel anything, they can feel love.
That's beautiful.
Yeah.
So, I'm going to kill you in a matter of days.
So You're gonna kill me? Yes.
In a matter of days? Yeah.
How many days? I don't know.
The physician told me that my loving mother and father will pass in a matter of days.
It's a "Your Parents Are Dead Now" vibration like, formerly a-a Chili's thing.
Chili's closed.
Now it's a "Your Parents Are Off Life Support".
When it vibrates, I'm going to kill you.
If you don't return what you took from the Connellys by then by the bus Who Who are the Connellys? Them Me.
What did I What did I take? Life savings.
That's fucked up.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's what I'm fucking saying, jerk.
That's why I'm going to kill you.
[LINE RINGING.]
MA: You've reached Ma and Pa.
Please leave a message.
[BEEP.]
[WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON P.
A.
.]
I killed two guys and a woman, but I'm just gonna say one guy in a minute because they only know about the one guy, and I don't want anyone to overhear.
But you should hear three in your head 'cause that's my tally, jerk.
I already killed one guy.
It's not a leap for me.
I did it once.
You'd just be number two.
What do you know about my father? Nothing.
Pastor.
What's your name? New Leaf.
What? I was trying to, you know, re-brand, hit the reset button on my persona.
Yeah? But my shop went down with their savings.
Then my dad stroked out.
Then my mom strokes out two days after that.
It's not uncommon for older couples who have known lifelong love, and if they can know anything in the state they're in, I'd like them to know I got their money back.
So, matter of days, I'm saying.
My dad's bad, New Leaf.
He took that money and more, and he doesn't give a fuck, New Leaf.
Tried to lay it on me.
But I'm getting it back.
But not, like, in an out-loud way.
And when I do, I'm gonna give you what he took.
[KNOCK ON DOOR.]
The Deputy's asking if you're conscious enough for your ankle business? Yeah, but [CLEARS THROAT.]
Yeah, soon.
[DOOR CLOSES.]
New Leaf? NEW LEAF: Yeah? Pa's your man.
Hey.
What? Was my head big before earlier? Charlie Brownish.
You know why? Because I was intentionally bit by a rattlesnake because I have to be free of that monitor so I can get this money and make things right.
Yeah.
You a good man, Charlie Brown? I don't I don't know if I'm a good man, man, but I'm not Pa, I'm telling you.
That ought to say "Pa".
They're gonna put that bracelet back on me, and the Rangers are tracking my whereabouts, and I can't have weird whereabouts these days.
FELIPE: On this day of an unnatural death, James and Hector, two men who would never kill someone, stand in separate countries, miles from one another, and instigate events that kill someone.
Get it.
Get the rhythm.
Get the rhythm.
There we go.
There we fucking go.
Get it.
[THRASH METAL MUSIC PLAYS.]
I see the man on the corner [THRASH METAL MUSIC PLAYS.]
I've got a home [THRASH METAL MUSIC PLAYS.]
[MUSIC STOPS.]
MAN: Felipe, you sure you're okay? No one's been in this long.
You cool to keep going? I'm cool.
- [THRASH METAL MUSIC PLAYS.]
- You've got the right stuff.
You're going to the fucking moon, dude! JAMES: Are you jacked about the shared experience of going to Mexico? GLENN: Yeah, I'm excited to share that experience with you.
Well, you won't actually be sharing that experience with me because I'm going to Houston for the space guy, and you're going to Mexico alone for the Sheriff bank thing.
I feel like we talked about that already, and you said you could handle it.
Right.
You wrote that note to your dad saying you're going camping? With the guys Teddy, Speedo, and Crazy Rich yeah, and I was writing it on paper, but I thought, "No way, man.
Got to think of something better than that" 'cause my dad doesn't really read notes.
He mostly drinks and fishes at Lake Marie.
I thought the guys' part Teddy, that stuff would make the camping story sell it better.
- There aren't guys? - No.
- You don't have friends? - No.
[SIGHS.]
So, where did you write the note? Lake Marie.
What? Lake Marie.
- The lake? - Yeah.
You wrote a note on a lake? Yes, Paul.
How? Just right there with a stick in the lake sand next to the lake water.
Okay.
You wrote in the sand? Yeah.
On the shore? Yeah.
What about the tide? What about the what? Tide? The water levels? Large bodies of waters are modified, Glenn, by the tug of the moon.
Whoa.
What? I'm saying your little note's going to get washed off.
- Moon? - Yeah.
Does what? Affects water levels, which erases notes and shit.
If that note gets erased before your dad reads it, he might list you as missing, which would Do you have a degree in moon? Degree in moon? - Yeah.
- No.
Then how do you know about moon powers? Dad Dads tell stuff to sons throughout history.
You don't need a degree in moon.
[BRAKES SQUEAL.]
Ow.
Really need the muffs? What? Do you really need the muffs? What? Do you need, like, full ear coverage? Don't you want to just have one sense, at least, as you're trying to get around Hermosillo to do this thing? Touch.
What? And smell.
I have senses.
- Taste.
- Oh, all right.
You're gonna taste your way across Mexico.
You have to get this money in the bank, man, for this guy's wife.
You can't fuck it up.
Ow.
What? That hurt my head when you were saying that stuff about fucking stuff up.
So I stopped listening.
Sorry.
Say it again.
You can't fuck up this money - Ow! - I'll just write it down.
Dave? Yeah? The information What Paul shared with me about your sister Yeah? Dave, she was killed.
Paul said.
Paul was told this.
There was an accident in Mexico.
Accident? He said nothing further.
I'm sorry.
I've been calling and calling.
[SIGHS.]
I didn't do it, Wesley.
What's that? I'm not that sort of man.
[DOOR OPENS.]
I'm just an awkward, normal person.
And I'm regarded as less than that if I'm regarded at all by everyone but her.
I'm sorry, Dave.
Well, there'll be a funeral.
Soon.
A few days, I guess.
I wonder if they'll allow me to be there and help put her body to rest and say goodbye to Lillian, Wesley? We never got around to talking about Paul.
We never did.
Another time.
Yeah, another time.
I want to find Paul.
We need to start discussing this funeral, the return of these bodies, and and the appropriate next steps.
I'd like to talk to Paul, too.
Well, you know where he is with that little ankle-dingus thing.
Can't you make him come back here? I can't compel him to go anywhere.
He's free to go wherever he wants.
All I'm permitted to do is track him so he doesn't go in the wind again.
[GUNSHOT.]
FELIPE: I desired to leave the hard Earth once, where we, frightened, live at the mercy of luck, where nothing is planned for us, nothing.
Not love, not safety, not peace.
Where the only certain thing is that our lives will end.
And here, another life ended.
Because more than one guy was driving an ice-cream truck in Mexico.
Go figure.
And the Earth spins and spins, and people die.
And it spins.
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
Gracias.
[DOOR CLOSES.]
[ICE-CREAM TRUCK MUSIC PLAYING.]
Hello, boys.
Do you pray to my soul When I hang from that pole? Y'all can all just undress What is left of my earthly flesh I'll be howlin' underground While y'all all bless me Down