Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020) s01e04 Episode Script

[Tiago] Previously on
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels.
Sister Molly was fucking Hazlett.
You don't know that.
[Lewis] Take the valise.
You run it down and tell me I'm wrong.
[Peter] My boy Tom is having
a birthday party this Sunday.
Bring Frank, and he will have friends.
Do say you'll come, yeah?
No, no.
[Townsend] Councilwoman Beck's opened fire
on me and the motorway.
We need to do something about her.
Really, sir, your audacity
is truly as Herculean as your appetite.
[Magda] You know what he'll do now.
[Richard] Let him sneak a chocolate malt.
[Magda] If it were only a malt.
You need to conclude the Hazlett case.
You want us to conclude
the Hazlett case, not solve it?
That is entirely correct.
[Reilly] What are you crying about?
[clanks]
Officer Reilly.
[Mateo] I had never seen anything like it.
He was so smooth.
Brother, when are we gonna get active?
We have to fight.
- [whistle blowing]
- [Magda] First, we make them look.
Then we make them scared.
[grunts]
ominous music ♪
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[men speaking Hebrew]
[indistinct chatter]
[car approaching]
♪♪♪
[gunshots]
[people clamoring]
[dog barking]
[gunshots]
♪♪♪
[truck engine starts]
somber music ♪
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- [door closes]
- [bell ringing]
[distant shouting]
[indistinct chatter]
[overlapping dialogue]
- [thwacking]
- [man groaning]
What the fuck?
It's got nothing to do with you.
You cuffed him to a chair?
Cocksucker tried to bite me.
Stay away from him,
or I'll fucking kill you!
Detective! My office.
Reilly, put him back in the pen.
And get the blood off him.
Jesus Christ.
[mutters]
Are we arresting
every goddamn Chicano in the city?
You want me to go into the cells?
Sit down and shut up.
Close the door.
- [Vanderhoff] Look at them, Detective.
- [Tiago] I've seen them.
[Vanderhoff] Look at them.
What are the kids' names?
- Detect
- Steve and Marion.
Steve's about the same age
as that boy you had cuffed to a chair.
Officer Reilly was interrogating
a suspect,
and he'll go on doing that
till he gets someone to confess.
What the hell are you doing, Detective?
Lewis said Hazlett
might have been cooking the books,
shacking up with some gal
in a love nest, right?
I'm running it down.
When's Lewis back?
Couple of days, he said.
Oh, Jesus, you two.
Work the case.
Give me something, Tiago.
Will you stop the interrogations?
Give me a reason to.
Go do your job. Dismissed.
[frustrated sigh]
So I'm pleased to report
that Via Hermosa Development
has agreed to take over
the construction of the motorway
at no additional cost.
We should be able to break ground
as soon as the full city council
votes next month.
I expect the council will approve
our recommendations in full
because they understand
the Maynard West Memorial Motorway
will begin the process
of healing this city
and will be a legacy
of which we can all be proud.
Now, if there's nothing else
Point of order, Mr. Chairman.
Councilwoman Beck?
You know what's interesting?
I took a little drive
out to Belvedere Heights the other day,
stretch my legs a bit,
and something sort of struck me.
Ken, if you will.
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Now, you all recognize this line here.
That's the route of the motorway.
But I talked to some engineers,
put some questions to them,
and those clever gentlemen
came up with this.
[Beck] As you can see, this route
entirely bypasses Belvedere Heights
and goes through the hills here,
the hills where no one lives,
but a few coyotes and jackrabbits,
none of whom vote.
Now, I'll grant you this.
It'll add about four minutes
to the drive to Pasadena.
Four minutes.
But if our goal
is truly to heal this city,
as you said, Mr. Chairman,
I can't imagine those four minutes
will make much of a difference.
Don't you agree?
And after speaking
with my many old friends
on the city council
and in the mayor's office,
I can assure you, they also agree.
Sir, we can fight this,
put our own engineers
Cancel my speech tonight.
Oh, we can't cancel
this evening, sir. We need
Do what I tell you, woman!
[Lewis] This Nazi,
I know he killed them.
I just can't prove it yet.
So, what do you do now
about Anton and Sam?
[sighs]
I talk to Benny Berman.
This doesn't surprise you?
You know who was president
when I was born?
Ulysses S. Grant.
Not a lot surprises me.
But this is a gangster
you're talking about.
- He's a Jew.
- You better hope he's a good Jew.
This is about a lot more
than Anton and Sam now.
These Germans
It's terrible, what I know.
I need help.
You got me.
I know.
Lewis, this Benny Berman, you be careful.
At my age, I can't afford
to lose any more friends.
[smooth jazz music playing]
[children cheering]
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[Ackermann] No, no, no.
That is old-world, 19th-century thinking.
The Bund has to get on the radio.
We can make as many speeches
as we want in Pershing Square.
Who hears us? A handful.
We get on the radio, who hears us?
Everyone, all at once.
The Jews own the radio.
Not the Catholic stations.
We talk to them.
We talk to the Episcopals.
We talk to the Baptists.
We talk to that woman with the temple.
So, now you have us working
with a radio show cult, huh?
[all chuckle]
With the devil himself
if he will give us a microphone.
[background chatter]
You will excuse me.
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[Peter] So pleased you could come.
Yeah, you're good to ask us.
You have a beautiful home. My heavens.
Oh, yeah. Thank you, yeah.
[Trevor] Hey, Frank.
- Hello.
- Come on over.
We've got a piñata.
- May I?
- [Elsa] Have fun.
That smile I've not seen in too long.
We did not know
what gift to bring for your Tom.
I made a cake and I left it inside
with the Mexican woman,
but you have so much food already.
You didn't need to bring anything.
I left Frank's sleeping bag
inside as well.
Ah, good. Yeah, he'll have fun tonight.
I won't let them stay up too late.
- Don't worry.
- Where's the fun in that?
I should perhaps meet Mrs. Craft, ja?
[Ackermann] And who now is this?
You keep her hidden, Herr Peter.
Uh, Mrs. Elsa Branson,
may I present Mr. Herman Ackermann?
[speaks German]
It is a pleasure, Mr. Ackermann.
Wait, wait, let me guess.
The accent is Berlin, ja?
But I can do better.
We don't need your party trick now.
No, please, tell me who I am.
Now I have it. Kreuzberg.
With the artists you lived, ja?
Ja. That's wunderbar.
It's marvelous.
You are a Berliner?
Grunewald, born and bred.
Now walk with me and tell me
everything about yourself.
No. Uh
[chuckles]
She must meet the other fellows.
Uh, you will like them.
We're, um, sort of a political club.
[Elsa] Oh, I'm not much for politics.
[Ackermann] That's okay,
they also drink beer and sing and
[Elsa chuckles]
[children shouting]
[indistinct chatter]
- [laughter]
- [speaking German]
Yes, typical Bayerische, huh?
You have turned
Dr. Craft's pretty backyard
into a beer hall, gentlemen.
Away from their wives.
Ah, you're not married.
Not for me the handcuffs, Elsa.
I keep my wings free.
Can I get you more beer?
Another stein, yeah?
No, no. Give us a song, girl.
Yeah, you know the beerhouse songs.
We didn't learn your filthy songs
in Kreuzberg, sir.
Oh, leave the poor girl alone, now, huh?
- She doesn't want to
- Ja, okay.
You will help me with the words.
- It's been so long.
- Oh, I'll help you, I promise.
[singing in German]
[both singing in German]
[all singing in German]
[distant singing]
[both singing]
somber music ♪
Another whiskey sour.
Yes, ma'am.
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♪♪♪
[waves crashing]
foreboding music ♪
ominous music ♪
So you know.
Why'd you lie to me?
- Did I?
- Knock it off.
- You were having an affair with Hazlett.
- It's no business of yours.
You were having an affair
with a married man
who ends up dead.
That makes it my business.
Oh, so I murdered him
and his wife and his children?
You embarrass yourself. Get out.
Not until I get some answers.
All right.
I was sleeping with him,
and he wasn't the first,
and I didn't kill him,
and I don't know anything about it,
and you can slap handcuffs on me
and take me down to the station.
Is that what you want?
- I want the truth.
- Oh, I see.
I'm not who you want me to be.
Well, I'll tell you, friend.
I'm not who anyone wants me to be.
I am only who I am.
And that woman needs you
needs you to leave her in peace.
If poor James Hazlett let me have
a quiet life for ten minutes,
somewhere safe where I could just breathe,
then you must allow me that.
I cannot be what you want.
Molly.
somber music ♪
We were someone else for a day.
Now that's over.
It doesn't have to be.
Listen to yourself.
Don't you want more?
♪♪♪
"Want" doesn't enter into it.
I am Sister Molly. That's who I am.
It's all the value I have in life.
♪♪♪
We are who we are.
♪♪♪
I never want to see you again, Detective.
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[children cheering]
[indistinct chatter]
Linda, where might I find the powder room?
Oh, it's just down the hall,
past the kitchen.
Hey.
You know, Elsa,
my husband, your friend, Dr. Craft,
he's not who he pretends to be, dear.
Ask him about Essen.
Ask about his family.
[shushes]
Just between us girls.
Before you start measuring
the fucking drapes,
find out who he really is.
You know, just between us girls.
My dear, I will not let you turn me
into anything so banal
as the rejected wife.
[waiter] Oh.
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[indistinct chatter]
♪♪♪
suspenseful music ♪
Are you all right, Mrs. Branson?
[Elsa] You have
such a beautiful life here.
You know how I live.
You've seen my house.
This is the life I dream of.
♪♪♪
♪♪♪
[speaks German]
[both gasp]
[moaning]
Ja, ja.
[speaks German]
[grunts, speaks German]
[loud panting]
[both moaning]
[both groaning]
[both panting]
[engine rumbling]
You give me a moment, huh?
Sure, honey.
You take your time.
You are one annoying Jew.
Now, when a policeman is banging on doors
all over the city, looking for me,
I find it disquieting,
and I do not like disquietude.
What do you have to say to me?
That man was killed by Nazis.
- In LA?
- Oh, yeah.
And this is what we're to converse about,
you and me?
You and I. You and me.
- You and I.
- Hey, Jane Austen, shut the fuck up.
All right, talk.
You ever heard of a man
named Wernher von Braun?
He's a rocket scientist in Berlin.
You know, payloads and apogees
and the such-like.
So he's working on a new rocket
with a big engine called the V-2,
and everyone's racing to catch up,
including a bunch of kids
at Caltech over in Pasadena.
So just for the sake of argument,
let's say these kids
beat the Krauts to it.
They figure out how to make
this big new rocket fly.
And say the German steal that science
and get it back to Berlin.
And what do you know,
Mr. Hitler suddenly has a rocket
that can reach London
and Jerusalem and New York.
That's why the Nazis are in LA.
I'm here because they killed
two of my friends,
and I'm scared,
and I don't know what to do.
In what fanciful cogitation does this have
anything to do with me?
Everybody knows your boss, Meyer Lansky,
sends guns and money
to the Irgun in Palestine,
supports the Zionists there
against the Arabs.
- So if he
- Amigo.
That is a name
which should never escape
your lips with such felicity.
There is no Mr. L.
There is you, and there is me.
And if you continue to waste my time,
there won't be you much longer.
Then answer me this.
- Why are you in LA?
- What?
You arrive here and kick out
the wops in spectacular style.
Why do you do this?
Because you and your associates
see opportunities here.
City's wide open. Police are fucked.
Mayor's office is on the take.
City council only wants to make money.
The Nazis are here for the same reason.
New York is closed to them
'cause Mayor LaGuardia's half-Jewish
and he's not letting a pack of Germans
take over his city.
But LA? Oh, it's the promised land.
Is it not, Mr. Berman?
Oh, what have the Jews ever done for me?
You know how many temples
I tried to join here?
All of them.
And you know how many took me?
None.
There's your fucking tribe.
Look around.
They've been burying Jews here
for a hundred years.
Had to build our graveyard
out in godforsaken Elysian Park.
That's how much they hate us.
No one gives a shit
about the Jews but the Jews.
My friend, look,
I have enough battles to fight.
The Germans get that rocket,
the fight's over.
To them, you're not Murder, Incorporated.
You're just another greasy yid.
And a broken-down cop
a couple years away from retirement
is gonna take down the Third Reich?
Fucking right, I am,
and you're gonna help me.
Ah, just go back
to your precinct, Officer.
You see that grave?
He died to save Jews.
somber music ♪
[Berman] "Son of Palestine."
Was he from the Holy Land?
Van Nuys.
But all his life,
he dreamed of Judea.
♪♪♪
As do we all.
I'll be in touch.
♪♪♪
And slowly, Danny crept to the door,
leaving behind a trail of blood
and oozing guts,
step by step.
Reaching out for the doorknob,
his skeleton hand turned the knob.
Creak.
- I'm home!
- [gasps]
- [all laugh]
- Suckers.
Come on, who has another one?
[Frank] I do.
May I?
It's not a ghost story.
This is a true story.
The little girl's name was Florence Moore.
She was 12 years old
when the man kidnapped her
right outside her school.
She must have been scared.
The father arranged to pay the ransom
and drove to meet the kidnapper.
It was a dark night,
like tonight,
and he saw Florence
sitting in the passenger seat
of the man's car,
staring at him.
She looked so scared.
The father paid the ransom
to the kidnapper,
who said he would drop Florence off.
Then the man drove off with her,
but he stopped at the end of the street
and dumped Florence out of the car
and drove off.
Her dad ran up and saw her.
He had cut off her arms, her legs,
and held her eyes open with wires
so she would look alive.
But she was just a bloody torso.
Florence Moore lived in Pasadena
just a few blocks from here.
eerie music ♪
[groaning]
[Florence] Tommy?
♪♪♪
[Florence] Tommy!
♪♪♪
It hurt when he cut me up.
I was still alive.
[panting]
[panting continues]
[mumbling]
♪♪♪
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[distorted scream]
You said five.
[Townsend] Did I?
You said five.
No, I didn't.
Fuck you, faggot.
[gunshots]
tense music ♪
♪♪♪
[engine starts]
[chuckling]
When you're a big movie star,
can I be your bodyguard?
- Stop it.
- [laughs]
What happened to your hand?
Hold on. Hold on.
- What you got in there?
- What?
We had some kids spray-painting over there
at the construction site.
That's against the law.
Hey, I know you.
Huh? Huh? Huh?
Not such a tough little monkey
without your pachuco pals.
- Leave us alone. We didn't do anything.
- Hold him.
[grunting]
You know the drill, kids.
You carrying any weapons?
No!
How about you, honey?
- What?
- "What?" Grab the fence.
Grab the fucking fence.
- Don't touch her!
- [Reilly] Pipe down, Pancho.
[grunting]
We gotta be sure, you know.
[grunting]
You señoritas
hide weapons all over the fucking place.
[Mateo] Don't touch her!
tense music ♪
[Josefina groans]
[gasps]
[whimpering]
[sobs]
[Reilly] Have a nice day.
dramatic music ♪
[car engine revs]
♪♪♪
Fina
You can't tell Mama
or Tiago, or anyone else.
Promise me, Mateo.
[sniffles]
I'm so sorry. I could
Shh.
Just don't talk.
♪♪♪
somber music ♪
[lively music playing on radio]
[Raul speaking indistinctly]
[Tiago] I don't know what to do.
This woman, she's complicated.
I don't know if I'm coming or going,
mostly going, I guess.
But then she acts differently.
I don't know if I should trust her
or not trust her or what.
Jesus. You're dating a white woman.
How do you know that?
Chicanas, you always know where you are.
They make you chase them
until they catch you.
[both chuckle]
[Raul] Gringas are crazy, man.
Give up the idea of having a big family.
Ruin their figure.
I'm not dating anyone.
We just had one afternoon.
But it was special, you know?
[laughs]
Don't worry.
I'm gonna give a good speech
at your wedding.
[Maria speaks Spanish]
♪♪♪
Don't start eating. Wait for the kids.
Tiago's dating a gringa.
- Ay Dios, this now!
- [laughing]
[Tiago] I'm not.
What took you so long?
Come on, it's getting cold.
Your brother's dating a gringa now.
- [laughs]
- [Tiago] God.
Hey, your hand's bleeding.
Give me that. Come on.
- Mama, no. It's just
- Give me that.
You're not gonna bleed
over my good tablecloth.
Jesus Christ.
[Maria speaks Spanish]
Fucking pachuco mark.
[Maria] You let them do this to your skin?
Who are you, boy? You're a gangster now?
What is this?
I could pull you in right now.
Any damn cop in LA sees that shit
- You gonna arrest me?
- You shut up!
Mateo, you explain this to me right now.
No, no.
Don't even bother. I'm ashamed of you!
Well, I'm not. I'm fucking proud
for once in my life.
- Hey, you calm down.
- So you're gonna fuck up your life,
Mateo, being a goddamn pachuco?
That's right, better than
being a goddamn cop!
I'm not ashamed
of being Chicano, not anymore.
[overlapping dialogue]
[dialogue fading]
dramatic music ♪
You don't understand one thing about it!
You clean their fucking toilets
and you kiss their ass!
You are all so fucking weak,
and I am tired of being weak!
Get out, then!
Go to your gangsters and get killed!
[Maria speaking Spanish]
♪♪♪
Mama.
- I have to talk
- Not now, Josefina.
♪♪♪
[door slams]
tranquil music ♪
♪♪♪
[Townsend] I don't do it all the time.
I just
They just blow me
when I don't have time
for a date with a woman.
You know, all that time,
I just let them blow me.
[in American accent]
Don't do that.
They lock from up here.
You're American.
I'm a lot of things.
- [engine revs]
- Please don't hurt me.
No, no.
No, no, please.
No.
No, please.
[whimpering]
Please, please don't.
Top or bottom?
Bottom.
Spanish swing music ♪
♪♪♪
[Rico] What do you expect?
Things like this happen
all the time, Mateo.
This was two blocks away from our house,
and I couldn't do a fucking thing.
[Mateo] My sister, man.
Reilly's one bad cop.
Are there any other kind?
My brother's a cop.
Oy.
Someone gotta teach that fat man a lesson.
[Mateo] Fucking right.
But we sit here, and we talk, and we talk,
and we play cribbage.
[Rico] What do you have in mind, baby?
Make him look like Diego.
[Bernadette] Reilly keeps
these little girls down Sonoratown,
puts them on smack,
and they're his bitches.
I know the one now, Sofia.
She was a good girl.
You know the place?
Over on Alameda.
♪♪♪
This was my sister, Rico. Yes.
So, you're gonna bust him up, hmm?
I'm gonna do something.
I'm with you.
Let's do what pachuco do.
Raise your voice! I hear you.
Raise your voice. The Lord hears you.
- [audience cheering]
- [Molly] You are silent no longer!
You are heard.
You must be heard. Sing out.
Sing out!
Let me hear you!
[audience cheering]
These are the days of roses and thorns,
and we need your voice,
we need your prayers,
because Satan walks outside that door
[audience murmurs]
that beast who tempts us
and teases us
and pulls us down, down,
down to the everlasting pit
where the crown of thorns
rips at our skin.
We must fight him.
We must stand up and be heard!
We can no longer be weak and powerless.
Women, do you hear me?
[women] Yes.
I was once as you are now,
afraid and unheard.
But, sisters, I learned to stand up.
[all] Yes!
Who will stand up with me now?
[Molly] Stand up and be heard!
Raise your head.
Raise your voices!
- [audience chattering]
- [Molly] Lord, children, do it now
for the beast, Satan, is here!
[audience gasps]
Can't you hear him walking?
He is here.
He is here!
Children, you are not safe.
You are not safe. Lord, save us.
- [audience clamoring]
- Save us!
Save us!
[gasps]
foreboding music ♪
[muttering]
[audience chattering]
[gibbering]
[yelling]
[Molly gasps]
Come
and be sanctified.
[Molly] Come and be saved.
uplifting music ♪
Come and follow
the Lamb of God to paradise.
- Who will be saved?
- [woman] Yes.
Who will be saved?
♪♪♪
[Molly muttering]
♪♪♪
Child of God,
come with me on that holy road.
Will you do that, sister?
♪♪♪
[indistinct whispering]
[sobbing]
♪♪♪
[indistinct radio chatter]
[loud banging]
[Lewis] What the
[grunting]
What the fuck? Get your monkey ass
[Sofia screaming]
[whimpering]
[Lewis panting]
Jesus fucking Christ.
Good evening, Detective Michener.
You'll forgive
the rather baroque subterfuge,
but necessity requires certain,
well, protocols.
Fucking hell.
Will you come with me?
Like I have a choice.
May I introduce you to Leonard Schiff?
A member of our organization
on the outs right now, you could say.
Now, at our last interview,
you mentioned Mr. Lansky's support
for the Zionist cause.
- You recall?
- Yeah.
Well, couple days ago,
our Mr. Schiff here makes his way
down to old Mexico
and hijacks a shipment
of Mr. Lansky's weapons
intended for Palestine.
Kills two good guys in the process
and a boatload of spics.
Now, can you guess
what he did with those weapons?
Go on, guess.
I don't know.
I'm sorry. Can't hear you.
I don't know.
Why, he sold them
to your friends, the Nazis,
right here in LA,
probably the same ones
that murdered your friend.
You stupid fucking putz!
Now, Mr. Schiff, he's a
he's a good Jew, you understand.
Every temple wanted him.
suspenseful music ♪
Kill him.
♪♪♪
Do we do business, my friend?
♪♪♪
Go fuck yourself.
[gunshot]
♪♪♪
By blood and fire Judea fell.
By blood and fire Judea shall rise.
♪♪♪
[Reilly panting]
Kill him.
He's seen us, Mateo. He knows who we are.
[Rico] Do it.
She's your sister.
[grunts]
ominous music ♪
- [blade rasps]
- [yells]
[groans]
[loud grunting]
[flesh squishing]
[grunting]
[Reilly yelling]
[choking]
[gurgling]
tense music ♪
♪♪♪
ominous music ♪
[Richard]
Let's hope we don't have to use it.
Better he's with your guy
than hustlers on the street.
This way, we protect him from himself.
Kurt will see to that.
He knows precisely what to do.
♪♪♪
Ah, love.
What it does to us.
♪♪♪
light music ♪
[plates clanking]
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