Teacup (2024) s01e03 Episode Script

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[GENTLE MUSIC]
[DISCORDANT RINGING]
The man in my head
he says we're trapped.
[PAINT CAN HISSING]
[ENGINE SPUTTERING]
God dammit!
What the fuck is happening?
It's coming.
And it kills everything
that gets in its way.
- Let me go!
- No!
[BONES CRACKING, SQUELCHING SOUNDS]
Claire [MOANING]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[HORSE WHINNIES]
[LEAVES RUSTLING IN BREEZE]
[CHAIN RATTLING SOFTLY]
[EERIE MUSIC]
[SHALLOW, RAGGED BREATHS]
[INSECTS BUZZING]
[DOVE CALLING]
[HORSE WHINNIES]
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
[DEEP SIGH]
[GROANS]
[DEEP SIGH]
[EXHALES]
[DOOR OPENS]
[SIGHS]
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACH]
[SOFT, OMINOUS MUSIC]
[SIGHS]
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACH]
[GRUNTS]
Hey.
I need you to look after
Arlo when he wakes up.
Okay.
- Nicholas still in there?
- Yeah.
He used to be such a goofball.
He still is, but
now he's also kind of
Hmm?
[CHUCKLES]
Yeah. Yeah, I guess he kind of is.
Cuddle with me for a minute.
Mrs. Kelly.
Claire.
She died?
She did.
What happened, Mom?
I would tell you if I knew.
I would love to keep hanging out
with you and Arlo here all day, but
there are things that I need to do.
Yeah, I know.
I really need you to
be an adult for a little while.
Can you do that?
Yeah.
Yeah, I can do that.
[FOOTSTEPS]
Should have gone to the
Navarros' last night.
No, no. Not in the dark.
Not with whoever's out there.
And certainly not with
whatever this line is.
"Don't trust anyone." Sure
it goes all the way around us?
Any other day, I'd say
he was a whack job, but
Not today, huh?
Not today.
[JAMES] I'll just cut through
the woods by the back pasture.
It's pretty much a
straight shot to Carmen's.
[MAGGIE] Well, whatever you do,
you should probably take Ruben with you.
[JAMES] Yeah, but that'd be leaving
you guys without somebody too.
Between Ellen and Valeria and I,
I think we're fine.
So please, take Ruben.
Uh, Maggie, I don't know.
We have absolutely no idea
who or what is out there, so
Well, that's that's what I'm saying.
That's not what you're saying.
[LAUGHS] Okay, so what am I saying?
You're saying you don't wanna
go with the husband of the woman
that you've been fucking.
[WHISPERS] How'd you find out?
Does it matter?
No, it doesn't matter
because I told you it's over.
Does Ruben know?
[EXHALES]
- Maggie, we can still try
- Try to what?
I don't know. Get through
whatever the hell this is,
and then, I don't know
Okay. Can we try not
to feel betrayed too?
Or humiliated?
Or sick about the fact
that Valeria is sleeping
in our fucking living room?
Could we try that?
Just go.
Maggie, I'm sorry.
Who cares if you're sorry?
I mean, who cares about any of that?
Obviously you do.
No, I don't, because I can't.
Because I have to be better than that.
And that's what I'm gonna be.
For Meryl and for Arlo and for me.
[SNIFFLES]
I need to go check on
Donald. Change his bandages.
Maggie, I'm sorry. I really am.
And I do love you.
Wouldn't hurt so much
if you didn't, James.
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[BREATH TREMBLING]
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACH]
- [KNOCKING]
- Ma?
[ELLEN] Yeah?
Can I come in?
Hey.
Uh
Hi. I'm gonna walk down the driveway.
Maybe somebody will come by?
Uh yeah, well, it's Sunday.
Mail isn't coming, but
And I was thinking we might wanna cook
some of the stuff that's in the fridge.
No electricity, frozen
stuff's not gonna last.
I mean, sure. Can't hurt. Freezer
in the barn has stuff in it too,
if you know, if you want.
What was that?
You heard?
Just the tone.
It doesn't matter right now.
Well, when it does
matter, do you think
Yeah.
- Oh
- Yeah.
[PILLS RATTLE]
There you go. You okay?
Well, I'm not not okay.
I don't know. There's
some cramps, and
these tremors.
Right.
Nothing I can't handle.
I woke up this morning thinking
maybe it's all just a bad dream.
Yeah, afraid it still is.
I'll be back with help.
Everything is gonna be okay in the end.
- Mm-hmm.
- And if it's not okay
- it's not the end.
- [ELLEN CHUCKLES]
What is that, John Lennon?
- Uh, or Noel Coward.
- Sure.
I don't know. Either
way, desperate times
- call for reassuring quotes from Mom.
- Mm-hmm.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
- [WHISPERS] I'll be back.
- Okay.
Love you.
[GOATS BLEAT IN DISTANCE]
Hey.
You get any sleep?
I'll sleep when this is over.
Okay, well
Uh, are you all right?
No idea how to answer that.
Okay, well, I was supposed to drop
Nicholas off at the Eversons' today,
so maybe when we don't show
up or answer our phones
Even if somebody came by our place
to check on us, it won't matter.
Why not?
Because nobody knows we're here.
- Where are you going?
- I don't know, to do something.
Well, don't do anything stupid.
Or brave.
Keep it cowardly.
Got it.
[DOOR SHUTS]
Scout looks good.
Yeah. Yeah, he does.
But you're gonna tell
me he needs to stay put.
Um I am.
You got two other horses in that barn.
You, uh, wanna go with James?
[CHUCKLES]
The only thing dumber than him
going alone is us letting him.
Know how to use one of these?
Uh, they make me a
little nervous, but yeah.
The thing to remember is take your time.
Even if there is no time.
Slow is smooth.
Smooth is fast.
Slow is smooth.
Smooth is fast.
Got it.
Hey, Ruben?
Yeah?
Uh, thanks.
We'll get through this.
Both of us.
[DOOR SLIDING SHUT]
[QUIET, FOREBODING MUSIC]
[DOG WHINING]
[DOG WHINING]
Hey, Donald?
I just came down to get
my jacket and just
All right, why don't you come with me.
Come on.
Here.
Come on.
[EMOTIVE MUSIC]
[VALERIA] Okay.
- [ANIMALS WHINNYING, BLEATING]
- Come on goats, enough.
[GOAT BLEATING]
[ITEMS CLATTER]
Still okay with me
borrowing one of your horses?
Yeah, of course. Why wouldn't I be?
The goats are still spooked.
Definitely less than yesterday.
The guy in the mask
According to his drawing, the
line makes kind of a circle.
He also said don't trust anyone, so.
Say it is a circle.
I'm hoping Edward and
Carmen's is outside of it,
but close enough for us to talk to them.
Otherwise
Otherwise what?
The Navarros are just
as fucked as we are.
[SIGHS]
Okay.
This is gonna hurt a little bit.
What is it?
It's, uh, something that's
really not made for people,
but it will help you with the pain.
[SYRINGE CLATTERS]
I don't think I've ever
been this fucking tired.
Okay. Why don't you lie down? Here.
Who's this for?
Sometimes there's a horse that
I need to look after overnight.
Mm. Your boy?
He's, um, sleeping.
I'd love to have a son.
A real family, you know?
We wanted kids, Claire and me.
We thought we were gonna.
Not now. I'm
I'm talking ten years back.
Claire.
She was She was so excited.
You know? But then
[TEARFULLY] It didn't happen.
I'm so sorry, Donald.
She said we were gonna try again, but
- Oh, God.
- No, you you need to rest.
- The body
- We will take care of Claire, I promise.
No, no, no, not Claire.
There's a body in the woods.
[INSECTS BUZZING]
[HOOFBEATS APPROACHING]
Whoa, whoa. Whoa.
[JAMES] Jesus.
Man, how'd he know where to paint it?
Well, maybe he's the one behind
whatever the hell this is.
Yeah, I don't know. He was
acting like he did it to help us.
Sometimes people act like one thing,
even though they're something else.
Nobody'd know.
Nobody'd know what?
What happened if one of
us ended up over the line
out here in the middle of nowhere.
Just saying.
Be careful.
[BIRDS SQUAWKING]
That don't look good.
[JAMES] Yeah.
Could be they're after
something that crossed the line.
Died that way. A coyote
or deer, maybe. You know?
Or maybe some new nightmare.
- [HORSE WHINNIES]
- Either way [CLICKS TONGUE]
Yeah, either way.
Let's go.
I think he's, like, learning words.
- What?
- Watch.
Hey.
Who are you?
[PAGES RUSTLING]
Warning-alert.
Prem Prem Premonition.
Harbinger.
So, "harbinger." That's that's you?
So, where's Arlo?
Arlo sleep-rest.
Sleep-safe.
Quiet-unscathed.
Got it. So that's a relief.
Is it?
[MERYL] Arlo?
Last night, my mom told my dad
Arlo said there's a voice in his head
telling him things.
That's super scary.
But it's not the scariest part.
He said the voice,
it told him there's something coming.
Something that's gonna
kill us. All of us.
[NICHOLAS] What is it you
said we need to do, Harbinger?
- Hide or die?
- Trapped.
Hide-or-die.
- [NICHOLAS] Assassin?
- Assassin-kill-murder.
- Assassin-kill. Assassin-kill-murder.
- Arlo
- Assassin-kill. Kill!
- Arlo.
- Stop. Let go!
- Kill!
- Arlo, stop, you're hurting me.
- Trapped. Hide-or-die!
- You all right?
- Yeah.
Yeah, I'm okay.
Trap?
- Arlo?
- Not-no.
Not trapped.
Not-trapped.
Not-trapped.
Arlo, where are you going?
We should go with him.
- I told my mom I'd watch him.
- We can watch him and go.
- No, we're supposed to stay.
- Hey, Meryl?
You have to listen to Harbinger.
Arlo
Are you all right?
I am. It's weird. Really weird.
But it's not bad.
He's not bad. He's good.
And he's scared, so
he's hiding in my head.
There is no "he," Arlo,
okay? It's just you.
Harbinger is real, Meryl. He is.
And he's telling the truth.
We need to go right now.
- Go where?
- He says
He says it's not far.
Arlo, this is crazy,
okay? It's crazy, isn't it?
Any crazier than that blue line
and what happened to Mrs. Kelly?
It is crazy, but
Assassin is coming, Meryl.
And Assassin won't stop.
You're always saying to trust you.
You're my sister, and you know things.
- That's different.
- It's not different.
I need you to listen.
I'm your brother, and right now,
I'm the one who knows things.
So I need you to trust me.
Please.
Maybe we should find your
mom, or my dad, or somebody.
No.
Arlo says there's no
time, so there's no time.
[WIND BLOWING]
James told me about your, um
Oh, yeah. My MS? Mm-hmm.
- Do they happen often?
- Oh, the tremors?
Only if always is often.
- Wow.
- It does take some patience.
[DEEP SIGH] My husband, William,
he used to say, "Patience is a virtue."
It used to make me nuts.
- Why?
- Because virtue is a virtue.
Patience is just tolerating
bullshit and not being annoyed.
Yeah, I like that.
That man was a pain in my ass,
but I sure did love my life with him.
It kept me sane, you know?
Kept me grounded.
A good marriage will do
that, don't you think?
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
James told you.
Well, nobody had to tell me.
When Ruben and I first
got married, moved here
I thought
farming seemed like such a
storybook kind of life, you know?
But it's just not.
It's non-stop, and it is all of this
just all this nothing.
[VEHICLE APPROACHING SLOWLY]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
- Oh, my God. Look.
- Oh!
Oh. Oh!
Oh, my God. The line.
Wait! Don't cross the line.
- [ELLEN] Stop! Stop!
- Wait, stop! Stop!
[ELLEN] Stop! You have to stop!
Wait! Wait! Wait!
[SCREAMS] Wait!
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Coming over to this
side's a piece of cake.
Heading back the other way
well, that's the problem.
But I guess you know that already.
We don't know anything.
All-all we know is
we're terrified.
[INHALES] I hate to say it, but
terrified's a pretty
good place to start.
[GENTLE MUSIC]
[STREAM GURGLING]
[MERYL] It's not far, is it, Arlo?
I don't think he's Arlo.
Harbinger?
It's close.
- [MERYL] What's that?
- What's what?
That.
You know, with all the animals
acting so weird, I thought
you know, to protect us.
What, it's not it's not cool?
No, it's cool.
It's really cool.
Arlo? Harbinger!
- [EERIE MUSIC]
- Arlo?
[DARK, OMINOUS MUSIC]
[NICHOLAS] I guess this is
where all the animals went.
What is this?
Mine.
It's mine.
What does that mean?
This is mine.
Did you come from ?
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
Arlo? Hey, don't.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[NICHOLAS] Whoa.
[MERYL] Arlo, what is that?
Toxin bad poison.
That's poison?
Poison.
So, what are we gonna do with it?
We drink it.
- [JAMES] Hey, Edward!
- [RUBEN] Anybody here?
[JAMES] Carmen! Brian!
I'll go this way. You check the barn.
- Meet at the house?
- Yeah.
[CROW CAWING]
[WINGS FLAPPING]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[DOGS WHIMPERING]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
- Go. Go on. Get!
- [DOGS BARKING]
[WATER RUNNING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[CROW CAWING]
[DOOR CREAKS]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
Hello?
Edward!
Ruben!
Oh, fuck.
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
[INSECTS BUZZING]
[UNSETTLING MUSIC BUILDING]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[PERSON COUGHING]
Carmen?
[INSECTS BUZZING]
Hello?
Hello?
[SIGHS] Carmen
What happened to you?
[PERSON COUGHS]
Hello!
Hello?
[PERSON COUGHING]
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
Is somebody down there?
- [DRAMATIC STING]
- [GASPS]
[LOUD CLATTERING]
[NOEL COWARD] I just had the
most extraordinary experience ♪
I understand not everybody
has that story, I suppose ♪
Something to do with
the sun and all that ♪
I wouldn't understand,
myself, really ♪
Quite for no reason, I'm here
for the season and high as a kite ♪
Living in error with Maud at
Cap-Ferrat, which couldn't be right ♪
You know, everyone's
here and frightfully gay ♪
Nobody cares what people say ♪
Though the Riviera is really much
queerer than Rome at its height ♪
On Wednesday night I
went to a marvellous party ♪
With Nounou and Nada and Nell ♪
It was in the fresh air,
and we went as we were ♪
And we stayed as we
were, which was hell ♪
Poor Grace started
singing at midnight ♪
And she didn't stop singing til four ♪
We knew the excitement
was bound to begin ♪
When Laura got blind
on Dubonnet and gin ♪
And scratched her
veneer with a Cartier pin ♪
I couldn't have liked
it more, honestly ♪
I've been to a marvellous party ♪
I must say, I must
say the fun was intense ♪
We all had to do What
the people we knew ♪
Might be doing a hundred years hence ♪
Can you beat it? ♪
We-we talked about
growing old gracefully ♪
And Elsie, who's seventy-four ♪
Said, "A, it's a
question of being sincere ♪
And B, if you're supple,
you've nothing to fear" ♪
Then she swung upside down
from a glass chandelier ♪
I couldn't have liked it more ♪
I've been to a marvellous party ♪
We didn't sit down
to dinner till ten ♪
And young Bobbie Carr
did a stunt at the bar ♪
With a lot of extraordinary men ♪
Poor Frida arrived with a turtle ♪
Which shattered us all to the core ♪
The duchess passed out
at a quarter to three ♪
And suddenly, Cyril
cried, "Fiddle-de-dee" ♪
And he ripped off his
trousers and jumped in the sea ♪
I couldn't have liked it more ♪
I've been to a marvellous party ♪
Elise made an entrance with May ♪
You'd never have guessed
from her fisherman's vest ♪
That her bust had been whittled away ♪
Louise made a couple
of passes at Gus ♪
And Freddie, who hates
any kind of a fuss ♪
Did half the Big Apple
and twisted his truss ♪
Ha ha! I couldn't have liked it more ♪
[SONG ENDS]