The Eddy (2020) s01e03 Episode Script

A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
Don't.
- Don't film me!
- [laughs]
[Amira] Go on.
[jazz piano playing in background]
[audience cheering]
[band plays swing beat]
Drop me off in Harlem
Any place in Harlem ♪
There's someone waiting there
Who makes it seem like Heaven ♪
Up in Harlem ♪
[Elliot] Hey, you're not from Harlem!
Hey, get off the stage.
Get out of here!
There's no one down in Dixie
Who can take me away from sweet Harlem ♪
Harlem has those southern skies
They're in my baby's smile ♪
I idolize my baby's eyes
And classy uptown style ♪
[trumpet solo]
[audience cheering]
[band switches to slower rhythm]
[Amira] Wow!
[band plays "Happy Birthday"]
[all sing] Happy birthday to you ♪
[all cheering]
[Amira laughs]
[band plays sultry riff]
- [trumpet player] It's a party ♪
- [all] It's a party ♪
- It's a party ♪
- It's a party ♪
- It's a party ♪
- It's a party ♪
- It's your party ♪
- It's your party ♪
- It's a party ♪
- It's a party ♪
[band plays swing beat]
[band playing over speakers]
- You're not sleeping?
- No.
It's still early.
- I love this thing.
- Mm.
- It's so funny.
- Yeah.
But bringing it to bed isn't funny.
You're going to drop it.
You really are wide awake.
I miss school. I want to go back.
- Do you miss school or Anaïs?
- Tough question.
You go back Monday, that's soon enough.
You're awake too?
What were you watching?
Nothing. I was watching videos of Dad.
[Adam] Can I watch too?
Come here.
How would you feel about breakfast in bed?
I mean, a real breakfast,
not some little
A real one.
With scrambled eggs, pancakes
The works. And we stay in bed.
- There's all that?
- Yeah.
- Can we order anything we want?
- Choux puffs!
Wait, I'll go first. [clears throat]
Choux puffs,
hot chocolate, and apple juice as well,
pain au chocolat,
and I'll take three croissants.
And five choux puffs. [inhales sharply]
- You won't eat all that. What about you?
- [girl] Look who's talking.
- I'm not hungry.
- [Amira] I'll get you something.
If you don't want it, give it to me.
Always.
You're always scrounging!
Everything you can.
[Elliot] That's him.
That's him, right there.
Can I please have my phone?
I need to call my daughter.
- [captain] Are you sure?
- [Elliot] I'm sure.
Thank you.
I I need to call my daughter. Please?
[captain] I had a man in here,
accused of his wife's murder.
He was swearing he was innocent,
as you are.
He had massive gambling debts.
And he couldn't face his wife's judgment
so he killed her.
Your club has debts.
Your club has big problems,
and I think you were desperate.
- No, I was not desperate.
- Yes.
And so you were angry with your friend.
Farid was my closest friend
in the whole world.
- What I think
- In the world!
Why would I ever do something like this?
You think I'm afraid?
Don't forget I'm the police.
OK, so you listen to what I'm saying.
I believe you left your club,
you went to Le Relais de Belleville,
you waited there till it was closed,
you returned and confronted him,
and then you lost control.
- No?
- You're wrong.
Farid was my best friend.
If he was your friend,
why did you know nothing about him?
Let's go get your things.
Have a nice day, sir. Goodbye.
[voicemail beep]
Hey, you've reached Julie.
I probably won't listen to this.
Hey, Julie. I'm glad you're OK.
I'm headed home. I'll see you soon.
Mr. Udo? I forgot to tell you
The Cabaret Unit
is shutting down your club.
- Sorry?
- Noise nuisance.
It's been going on for a while, so
Here's the notice.
- You're shutting us down?
- It's not me, it's the Cabaret Unit.
Different department.
But it will work itself out.
Have a nice day.
[cartoon] We follow procedure!
If he has no ID, we call the police!
He could be an alien.
You're handsome even when you're sulking.
- Stop it, Mom.
- It's true.
I'm sure all the girls at school
are in love with you.
Don't say that.
I hope you tell them
you only have eyes for your mother.
That's right. Or I'll get mad.
What? Am I right?
Is that a smile?
Have some.
Just a bit.
- I'm not hungry.
- Have some and I'll stop.
Mom?
Please tell me the truth.
I'm lost.
Tell me the truth about Dad.
[phone buzzing]
Hello?
Yes.
- Mom
- Speaking. Shush. Wait.
I'm on my way.
See you soon.
Who was it?
Mom?
[muffled crying]
[breathing heavily]
[muffled scream]
[ringtone]
- [Elliot] Hey, Amira.
- They're releasing the body.
We will bury him today.
I need you to organize which friends come.
T-Today?
[Amira] I will text you the address.
We have to bury Farid today.
You OK?
I tried to call you.
I tried to call you.
I hope you have a black dress.
We're burying Farid today.
[doorbell rings]
[in Arabic] Peace be upon you.
[in French] Let me take that.
- Aren't the children here?
- Yes, they are.
Adam? Inès?
[woman] Is that you? Inès
[speaks Arabic]
You've become a young woman.
Adam
- Hello, sweetheart.
- Hello.
You are so handsome.
Say hello to your grandpa.
Greetings, my son…
Here. Put that over there.
We've taken care of everything.
Our imam will bury him.
OK.
The cemetery is sorted too.
Good.
We've arranged catering afterwards.
At our home.
As you wish.
I want him buried quickly, that's all.
Will his friends be there?
Yes. It's what he would have wanted.
Where is he?
- Through there.
- Come.
[door opens]
[Farid's mother cries loudly]
[wailing]
Honey
Sweetheart
[weeping continues in next room]
Your grandma is asking
if you want to attend the ghusl.
It will be tough to see him like that.
- If you don't want to, it doesn't mean
- I want to be there.
I'll be downstairs.
[house music playing
from speakers on bike]
- [bell rings]
- Hello!
[laughs]
Hello!
Hey, green is sexy. All right?
Wow!
All right. Uh [chuckles]
I guess that's one way to do it.
- [Julie] Are they protesting?
- I-I-I don't know what they're doing.
That can't be comfortable.
[both chuckling]
Not at all. [chuckles]
Can I ask where you were?
What you were doing?
Um I was just wandering around
and then I got lost.
[grandfather] Go on, son.
Adam
Adam, if it's too hard, you can leave.
No, it's OK.
[grandfather] Come on, Adam, give me that.
In the name of Allah the Merciful.
Go on, son.
[grandfather] Adam
[speaks Arabic]
In the name of God.
[speaks Arabic]
[rattling]
[rattling]
[Adam sobs quietly, sniffles]
You can talk to him, you know.
Think about
about three memories that you have of him.
[Adam sniffles]
They don't all need to be good memories.
I don't care about your memories.
I want my dad.
[door slams]
[clatter of machinery]
[sings in Arabic]
And We place therein gardens ♪
Of the date-palms and vines ♪
And We therein cause
To gush forth springs ♪
That they may eat of the fruit thereof
And their hands worked it not ♪
Will they not, therefore, give thanks? ♪
Hallowed be He
Who hath created all the pairs ♪
Of that which the earth groweth
And of themselves ♪
And of that which they know not ♪
We ask Allah the Almighty
to have mercy on the deceased,
and award him a place in his vast heavens.
Pray for Allah the Almighty
to have mercy on your brother, Farid.
We ask you, Allah,
to award him your contentment
and a place in your heaven.
Forgive his sins and have mercy
on his soul. Spare him and guard him.
I told you not to come.
- I liked Farid.
- Well, he didn't like you.
- You're my baby sister, I love you.
- I don't have a brother, fuck off.
And Inès has grown.
Stay away from my kids. And fuck off.
[imam speaks Arabic]
[Amira translates]
He was human, like the rest of us.
[imam speaks Arabic]
[Amira] We are not angels.
[speaking Arabic]
You will depart
as you came into the world.
Naked, with no belongings, no possessions.
Is she going to translate everything?
- [imam speaks Arabic]
- [grandmother tuts]
[Amira] God is merciful and forgiving.
[imam] In the name of Allah
and in the tradition of His Prophet.
In the name of Allah
and in the tradition of His Prophet.
- [imam] In the name of Allah…
- In the name of Allah…
- and in…
- and in…
- the tradition of…
- the tradition of…
- His Prophet.
- His Prophet.
Goodbye, Daddy.
Thank you.
Kind of you.
Yup.
I'm disappointed by the buffet.
I expected more since they work for us.
Don't worry, it's fine.
Your brother's here.
- I hope he behaves.
- [Amira] I asked him not to come.
We need to talk about Adam.
[Amira] What about him?
His future.
- Meaning?
- We could take him in.
Find him a good school around here.
You know what happens
when you don't study.
Farid never wanted you
to look after the kids.
I don't see why that would change.
Hey.
- You have a little
- What?
Oh, wow. Look at that.
Crazy.
Take it.
It's for the taxi.
Come on, take it.
OK.
[Julie] There you go.
I messed up really bad
and I'm really sorry.
That's just the way you are.
[quiet conversation]
- This doesn't feel like Dad.
- What?
All this. It's not his style.
I think your grandparents wanted this.
This is bullshit. It's their style.
You can do better by him.
The club?
Uh
- It's It's been closed by the police.
- What?
Why didn't you tell us?
Today wasn't the day.
- [Jude] You decide that?
- [Maja] Jude, stop.
- Do you have your house keys?
- Yes.
In half an hour, take your mom home.
Insist on it, OK?
Shush. Our secret?
Good.
Inès could stay.
No, we're all going home.
And my tummy hurts.
I'm not sure it's up to you.
You're right, it's up to me,
and we're going home.
As a family.
Anyway, thanks for everything.
I think it was a beautiful way
to remember him.
Yeah.
- Hello.
- [driver] Hello.
- You're such a bad actor!
- So bad.
- That was so lame.
- "Oh, my tummy hurts!"
- It was lame, right?
- Yeah, totally.
Your grandma won't forgive you.
[Amira] Well, I'm hungry.
Shall we order pizza?
Huh? What do you say?
[big dramatic chord]
[chuckles]
[music crescendos]
You assholes!
[band plays raucous tune]
[all instruments improvising
to a loose beat]
[drummer plays a fill]
[crescendo]
[Maja] How are you? Good?
[song ends]
- It's nice, yeah?
- This was your idea?
My grandfather was a chess player.
At his funeral
everyone set up chess boards and played.
It was beautiful.
He was an alcoholic too,
but that's another story.
[musicians play quietly in background]
Thank you.
Your dad,
he will never be good at
what you need him to be good at.
So if you need me, I'm here.
[multiple rhythms playing over each other]
[staccato stabs]
[wild squealing]
[djembe playing busy beat]
[people cheering]
Hey! Hey! ♪
Hey! Hey! ♪
Hey! Hey! ♪
Hey! Hey! ♪
Hey! Hey! ♪
- [man] For Farid! For Farid! ♪
- [all] Hey! Hey! ♪
- [man] For Farid ♪
- [all] Hey! ♪
- [man] For Farid ♪
- [all] Hey! ♪
- [man] For Farid ♪
- [all] Hey! ♪
- [man] For Farid ♪
- [all] Hey! ♪
- [man] For Farid ♪
- [all] Hey! ♪
[repeating bassline]
Hey! Hey! ♪
[brass instruments repeat
a three-note riff]
[music crescendos]
[all cheering]
Thank you.
[melancholic descending chords]
[sad bluesy melody]
Are you going to say a few words?
Do you want me to?
Of course I do.
Elliot, we have our differences, but you
and Farid were important to each other.
So, it's important
you say something today.
I know.
I'll try.
You have no choice.
[chuckles]
You haven't left yet?
What are you doing here?
- For the kids, maybe you should
- Since when do you care?
- Dad would have wanted me here.
- Dad would be ashamed of you!
Fuck off.
Fuck off!
Don't come back here. This is my home.
[Farid] Hey!
Hey!
[tires screech]
What the fuck is this?
If you hurt my daughter
Hey, hey!
You got a picture of my daughter?
What's wrong with you, man?
If you hurt her, I'll kill you. Hear me?
I just wanted you to come. Calm down!
I just wanted you to come. I don't have
interest for your fucking daughter, OK?
Because of you,
police think I killed Farid.
- What?
- You make picture of me.
What is this?
I don't kill.
I make money.
- What are you talking about?
- Chemical dye paint.
I make money.
Counterfeiter. And you make trouble.
- Counterfeiter?
- But I have solution.
Now listen to me. You see this man?
Ukrainian, close enough.
You tell the police you see this man.
Wait, wait.
- You want me to tell the police
- Elliot walk down street
See the man who killed Farid.
This man.
See killer.
Where?
Seventeenth. Rue Saint-Ouen.
Do this.
- After all over, Zivko, no more.
- And what about this guy? Huh?
- What about him?
- Happy. No problem. Paid. Go.
She go in good school. Super nice.
Private school. I like it.
Go.
[engine starts, door closes]
[tires screeching]
[Amira] Farid, you were proud.
- And a bit of an ass.
- [laughter]
Music was your life.
It was
It was visceral.
It was vital.
You meant
everything to him.
Your music was
- It was a pain in my ass.
- [laughter]
It annoyed me because it was
and still is, too irritating,
too snobby, too
I mean, it's no Céline Dion.
- [all groaning]
- [woman] You can say that again.
If you diss Céline, get out of my house!
[laughter]
And
let's not forget that when he founded
The Eddy with Elliot,
well, he wasn't here, I had no husband.
Um
But he was happy.
He said it was great.
That it would change his life.
I gently reminded him
that he had a wife and two beautiful kids.
But you were his biggest achievement.
I'm telling you.
And eventually
I was won over because
because I started to enjoy your music.
I ended up loving your music because
I understood that
that it had saved him.
So, let's play for him.
And let's keep remembering him
with a smile.
[applause]
[Randy] One, two, three
[driving swing beat]
[dramatic brass riff]
[Maja] In all this time
I know I do complain ♪
At everything that I'm
Finally understanding ♪
Just what we had
Want it so bad ♪
I want to be part of your world ♪
I didn't know
That all the days were numbered ♪
I let it go
And on and on I stumbled ♪
Now run away
Call it a day ♪
All I can do
Is reach out to you ♪
And not a day goes by ♪
That you're not crossing my mind ♪
I try to follow you ♪
But all I do is get lost
And fall further behind ♪
[song continues]
And not a day goes by ♪
That you're not crossing my mind ♪
I try to follow you ♪
But all I do is get lost
And fall further behind ♪
[scatting]
[continues scatting]
And not a day goes by ♪
That you're not crossing my mind ♪
I try to follow you ♪
But all I do is get lost
And fall further behind ♪
[screams]
[applause]
[applause in next room]
[band playing fast swing beat]
[Maja] At the end of the street ♪
[trumpet player]
A figure on four black feet ♪
[Maja] And he's not running away ♪
In fact he's moving your way ♪
He doesn't think you are strange ♪
And now your luck's gonna change ♪
He feels like you do ♪
'Cause he's a black cat too ♪
Black cat ♪
[descending bassline]
Black cat struttin' down the avenue ♪
Feelin' pretty good
About what he can do ♪
People see him coming
And they run away ♪
But he won't be lonely today ♪
[slow wailing melody]
[all cheering]
[applause]
[room falls quiet]
Um [clears throat]
[in French] Farid always used
to tell me to work on my French.
Because one day
I would really need it.
Well, that day has come.
And I'm
I'm still not prepared.
So, in English
[in English]
Here's what you need to know about Farid.
When we were younger men
Not so long ago
[laughter]
[Elliot] Thank you, thank you!
We decided after a big night out,
on a bit of a whim,
that we were gonna go to Marrakesh.
Did he tell you this?
And, uh
After a series of, uh, missed flights
and missed connections,
we somehow found ourselves in Dusseldorf.
[all laughing]
For those of you know don't know,
Dusseldorf is not in Morocco.
[laughter]
And it is not a particularly
happening city, if you know what I mean.
But, uh
I was exhausted, of course,
and more than a little bit pissed off,
and
Farid looked at me
and with a straight face he said to me,
"E, why don't we start off
with the Koutoubia Mosque,
and then maybe finish up
at the Sultan's Palace?
Sound good?
I said, "How am I going to tell Amira that
her husband has completely lost his mind?"
[laughter]
But off we went.
And we found ourselves visiting
these horrible, horrible malls,
and pretending
that we were in spice markets.
Eating this terrible German sausage,
and, uh
He said,
"Oh, E, this is a local delicacy."
We spent two days
in that cold, cold German city
and not once, not one time, did he admit
that we were completely lost.
Adam
I want you to know, your daddy had a way
of making everything magic.
He never met a stranger.
And even when
things didn't go his way, he
He could somehow just
turn it around and make it OK.
I lost my son a few years ago.
And I was lost.
Still am lost.
[in Arabic] Brother
I love you dearly.
I'm going to miss you so much.
[in English] Thank you all.
Thank you.
[applause]
[knocking]
- [Julie] Hey.
- Hey.
Good speech.
Thanks.
You know something pretty cool you used
to say to me, right after Fred died?
What's that?
"Joy comes in the morning."
You remember that?
- [Julie] Is something going on?
- Hmm?
[Julie] Are you OK?
You left, earlier.
Oh.
Just a business matter, that's all.
Hmm.
Business.
[sighs heavily]
They left?
[brother] The singer asked everyone
to leave to give you some space.
But you stayed?
[brother] I stayed for the kids.
[Amira] Where's Inès?
Playing in the garden, having fun.
[Amira] And Adam?
I don't know, he's in his room
with the door closed, so
video games, porn, I have no idea.
Funny. Didn't I ask you to leave?
Why are you still here?
Why do you talk to me like that? Huh?
What did I do to you?
You went off to live your life. I stayed.
You stayed because you had
nowhere to go. You were a bum.
I took care of our parents.
And now they're dead.
- And you've been ignoring me since?
- Yeah.
I get it, but
now you need me.
You have no one left.
What, I need a man?
No, no.
But you need someone to help you
with the kids and everything.
Think about it.
You're all alone.
Trust me. For once, just trust me.
And why would I trust you?
Huh?
"Why would I trust you? Huh?"
- Cut it out.
- Cut it out.
- [Amira sighs]
- [he mimics her]
[sighs, groans]
[Elliot] Hello.
POLICE
[buzzer]
- Evening, Captain.
- [captain] Evening.
Mr. Udo.
[captain] Mr. Udo
- Please.
- Thanks.
What brings you here?
- Um, I have something to say.
- OK.
Right
So, the man who did it
Who I believe did it
I saw him today.
- You saw the man?
- Yeah.
- Yeah. Today. And, uh Yeah.
- Today?
Where?
Avenue de Saint-Ouen. Seventeenth.
[Captain] OK.
- [officer] Should I reopen the report?
- [captain] Yeah, go for it. There.
- That one.
- [officer] OK.
- OK.
- And could you identify him again?
Hmm?
- [captain] Could you identify him again?
- Ah, yes. Of course.
[captain] OK.
- This doesn't mean your club is reopened.
- Yes, I know.
[captain] Yeah.
How lucky! Hmm?
You go out, you walk the street
and, boom, you see the man.
What? You think I'm lying to you?
Well, it would be a very bad idea
to do so.
Of course.
Today, I was walking
down the street in the 17th.
Avenue de Saint-Ouen.
It was the day
of my best friend's funeral.
And I saw the man that killed him.
[band plays driving swing beat]
[rising brass riff]
In all this time
I know I do complain ♪
At everything that I'm
Finally understanding ♪
Just what we had
Want it so bad ♪
I want to be part of your dream ♪
I didn't know
That all the days were numbered ♪
I let it go
And on and on I stumbled ♪
Don't run away
What will it take? ♪
All I can do
Is reach out to you ♪
And not a day goes by ♪
That you're not crossing my mind ♪
I try to follow you ♪
But all I do is get lost
And fall further behind ♪
[song continues]
And not a day goes by ♪
That you're not crossing my mind ♪
I try to follow you ♪
But all I do is get lost
And fall further behind ♪
[scatting]
And not a day goes by ♪
That you're not crossing my mind ♪
I try to follow you ♪
But all I do is get lost
And fall further behind ♪
[song ends]