Being Human (US) s01e05 Episode Script

- How did you die? - I have no idea.
All night, I watched Danny and Bridget swoon over each other.
Who is Bridget? My best friend, who I now realize is a brutal whore.
Bishop wants us to go after more people of influence.
The hospital is off-limits for recruiting.
I wanna take you out.
You talk me again, it's your ass.
You know, you suck at being a werewolf.
- What do you mean? - I'm a werewolf too.
Ray's a pretty decent guy.
He's got nowhere to stay.
Maybe he could crash here.
- We hardly know him.
- What you gonna do? Rip me to shreds in this kitchen and prove to your friend, Josh, what a murderous scum we both know you to be? There are vampires in there? Tear him apart! Every culture has its own way of saying goodbye.
I found a letter that read our existence Comfort's in the rituals that prepare the living for death.
If it's turned on turned on the television and this time, maybe the wall is collapsing I think it's coming They ease the journey into what comes after I'm hearing whispers from an infinite Assuming there is an after.
And I don't know why it is I feel it coming I think it's real insignificant But in the end, death is a journey you take alone.
For some of us, that journey takes us on a hidden path through a darker forest, where instead of answers, we only find a whole new set of questions.
no one to talk with all by myself no one to walk with This is the carotid artery.
There's one on each side of the neck.
- I'm ready! - Shut up and listen! You're here to clean.
And it's like tapping straight into a geyser.
You can decide later if you're a lefty or a righty.
That's right.
The first gush is the freshest, the sweetest, isn't it? Hmm Now, it is customary to share your first kill.
And misbehaving saving my love for you I've been looking all around I've been wishing for the answers every day since I feel like I am in a submarine that is about to blow! You have to stop.
This isn't me.
Ever since you got back from talking to Danny and Bridget, it has been Amityville horror plumbing.
You are poltergeist-ing your own house.
I said goodbye.
I made my peace.
- I gave them my blessing.
- Then why does it Why does it sound like the house is gonna eat us? I don't know.
I I just I'm really I'm not trying to do anything.
Ok, well, so there's just nothing that you're upset about? No.
- Nothing? - Mm-mmm.
Oh! Oh I don't know how to make it stop.
That might be me.
I just flooded the toilet.
I think that the fact that we are drowning in sewage is a sign you should be moving on.
You've been here for a month.
Yeah, I've got so much joy in me, not even your cadaverous mug can ruin it.
Mmm ah! I'm starving after last night.
There's nothing like a little late-night exercise to get the appetite going.
I'm sure I don't wanna know what you're talking about.
There he is.
Sleeping it off? What happened there? Oh, that was just some Drunk idiots Being idiots.
They were baked, all bloated up.
The city is hell, man.
That's why I like the country, the woods, nature But those degenerates, they picked the wrong night to walk on Ray And this boy, with the puppy eyes, he's a killer.
It's the shy ones you gotta watch out for.
The sink's, uh I know.
Call a plumber.
I'll call Danny.
Um, do you want a ride tonight? You're off the hook.
Me and Josh are turning together.
Really? Hey, Ray You sure about that? Hey! We're gonna meet at the shed after sunset, right? I just hope it's not too much of a letdown after stomping the crap out of them fangers last night.
I just I have to go mail something, so We're gonna run together, all right? Unleashed! Help us hold him! - What's his story? - Dahmer out there attacked him.
He was ripping out this guy's neck with his teeth.
Poor guy stabbed him, but he's so tweaked on PCP or something, he I need the priest! The priest! Now he finds religion.
Convenient.
Aidan! Mr.
Sarin Mr.
Sarin, do you remember me? - I'm Aidan.
- You're the nurse.
Yes, and I thought we said goodbye yesterday.
I screwed up.
I screwed up! I need help over here! You know what? I got this.
I can't hear your heart.
Who did this to you? Who turned you? You're one of us? Help me! Shhh! I didn't see the knife.
- The cops were on me - Shut up! Why were you asking for the priest? Did he do this? - Get me out! - How many did he turn? - Help me! - Sedative! Get him! - Stop him! - Get out of the way! I poured in that drain-clog stuff.
The whole sink started bubbling over.
That's pure acid.
It'll eat through the pipes.
Well, I didn't know what else to do.
All the sinks, the toilet, every drain's backed up.
Don't you have one of those snake things, or whatever you call them? This is where Sally fell.
Mm-hmm.
Yep.
Fell so hard, I broke the floor.
I don't know, Danny.
Maybe it's time to change out those tiles.
I know this must be hard for you.
I'm glad you're here.
It makes it easier.
Hey, you're a raging capitalist landlord now.
You gotta take care of the place, right? Think you can squeeze in? Mary, can we get an IV? Could Mr.
Sarin find you? How long have you been here? Transferred from Summerville a couple of days ago.
I gotta say, I miss the bustle of a parish.
So you're a real priest? Ordained 10 years ago.
Holy orders and everything.
But prayers, communion How do you give mass? Nothing's changed for me.
I'm still saving souls, just in a different way.
Six years ago, I was dying of cancer, lymphoma.
I was 34.
In the hospital, as I looked into that Abyss, I suddenly knew.
I knew there was no afterlife.
God spoke to me like he never had before.
Not in words, but in a true and sudden revelation.
This life is all we get.
It was so clear.
And that wasn't enough for you? Of course not! I was 34.
I wanted to live.
A doctor, a very smart and sympathetic woman, pitied me and offered me another option.
Don't you see? God saved me.
I asked him.
I begged him to save me.
And he did.
So you think that God wanted you to become a vampire? Well, if God made everything, then he made vampires too.
Jesus himself rose from the dead.
Oh, are you saying that Jesus was a Gets you thinking, doesn't it? Look, I don't care what your perverted theology is, there is no turning in this hospital.
Well, unfortunately, you don't get to make that call.
What does that mean? Bishop's the one who brought me here.
So it's gonna be a scary year, but it's gonna be ok.
It's gonna be fine.
Please call 7428.
I'll see ya soon.
What are you doing with Mrs.
Maida? Excuse me? Don't bother my patients.
She just had Hip surgery.
Yeah, I know.
She needs to rest.
I'm pretty sure that chatting with her about her son is not going to endanger her hip.
- Her son? - Her son.
The youngest, Sunil, he's in Costa Rica for a year and she's convinced that he's gonna be macheted to death by maoist rebels.
I assured her that Costa Rica's a democracy.
It's peaceful.
And it's very economically developed for the region.
Fascinating, you listen to NPR.
Since when are you and Mrs.
Maida so tight? Oh, I was taking her down to radiology the other day, and she mentioned that she never gets any visitors.
So I said that I would visit her.
Is that all right with you? It beats mopping up vomit and changing urine-scented sheets, right? Yeah, well, it would Except it's my day off.
Sally? Will you stop it? Sally's not here.
I feel like I could make contact.
You remember when she spoke to me? Oh, for God's sake, she didn't speak to you! She did.
Well, I I felt her.
Do you even think about how this makes me feel? You constantly bringing her up? I'm sorry.
It's just If you were there, you would Danny? I snaked all the drains.
All I found was a hair clog in the shower.
So that was it? That would cause the drains to be a little slow Sorry, Bridg.
But it wouldn't cause a whole system backup.
I don't think it's this either.
A rock like that can't back up anything.
It's Sally's ring.
Dammit! Hey, I thought we were watching a movie.
I lost my engagement ring.
It fell.
- What? - It was right here.
I was washing my hands and it just slipped down the drain.
And I could see it.
I tried to reach in and I pushed it down further.
Why'd you take it off? It's a little loose and I was afraid it would slip off with the soap.
Oh, so you just leave it on the sink.
You never told me it was loose.
I thought Danny, come on.
- We'll take the sink apart.
- Why bother? What do mean, "why bother?" The ring obviously doesn't mean anything to you, if it's even in there.
Ok, look, it was stupid.
Ok? I made a mistake.
I shouldn't have left it on the sink.
I feel like a real idiot here.
Danny When else do you take it off? - When you go out with the girls? - Of course not.
Maybe you left it in some guy's bed! How the hell am I supposed to know? Oh, I know what this is about.
- It was too crappy for you.
- You know I love that ring! Then where the hell is it! I told you, it fell! Ah! Ah! What was the ring doing in the pipes? How am I supposed to know? Maybe the house was trying to tell you something.
The house wanted you to have the ring.
Look, Sally was always losing it, all right? She could never keep it on.
The house was trying to tell me how I died.
I don't know why our lives aren't the same I told you no recruiting at the hospital.
Well, you don't tell me anything.
Oh, you had to have Sarin, right? Because he is just so what? What? What is he exactly? Do you know that he died completely friendless? Childless, estranged from his parents.
Lucky for him, he was exquisitely provided for by the family estate.
Pharmaceuticals, apparently.
Ok, so you turned him for the money.
Ooh, that is so noble.
When you call for a cleanup, who do you think pays for that? The manpower, the body bags, the bribes to make people turn the other way.
We are vampires, you realize, and not magicians.
And turning a priest, that's what? Just for laughs? Well, nobody sells eternal life like a priest.
Since when do you need to sell it? Anytime that you want someone, you just take him Or her.
That's right.
You missed the meeting.
Um, I'm only turning the willing now.
The influential, the useful, people like Sarin and father gates.
You remember when Lincoln used the archbishop to sell the union cause? I was too busy fighting a war to read the papers.
Yes, you were very young.
Well, uh, it turns out, all the great monarchs have always had holy men by their sides to consecrate wars Boost their egos.
Win over the masses, from Charles I to, hell, George W.
Everyone's used religion.
Used it for what? You remember how we used to say that being a vampire was almost perfect? But the lying, the hiding, the stifling day job to cover our tracks is exhausting and tedious.
When we have the numbers and we have the power, we won't have to hide.
We can live right out in the open.
You're not serious.
Don't tell me you haven't thought about it.
How many times have you drilled it into me? Keep a low profile, blend in, be invisible.
'Cause we had to.
Soon we won't.
What happened to you, Bishop? You're asking me? I can barely stand to look at you, starving and weak.
I can't tell if you're delusional Now, I have been very patient and understanding and even helpful during your little experiment, but it is time to wake up, Aidan.
We live forever, humans don't.
Do the math.
It's evolution.
It's nature taking its course.
Yeah, there's nothing natural about us.
We'll start to unwind don't look behind I'll show you how I pack up today let's go let's get away You're so confused, Aidan.
You don't even know what you are.
You're a vampire playing a human while shacking up with an animal.
And a rabid one at that.
Of course hmm How could he tell you? Tell me what? Your wolf has a taste for vampires.
Muzzle your dog, Aidan, or we will.
Will not come back again Glad you decided to come.
Ready? Huh? Sally? The house, the pipes, it was me.
I was trying to tell myself all along.
What do you mean? It turns out, I didn't just die.
Danny killed me.
Oh, your face! It was an accident.
What happened? You'd never guess it by looking at him.
He's so sweet-looking, but Danny has a temper.
I never let myself see it.
"He's passionate.
" That's what I told myself.
"He's crazy in love with me and that's why he's so jealous.
" Sally, I am so, so sorry.
We had a fight.
He was in a rage and he shoved me.
And I fell down the stairs.
All these times that he has been here, going on about you.
He just stood there.
He looked at the evidence and walked away.
He blamed it on me! - Where are you going? - I'll be back.
No! Don't! He's not getting away with this.
Please! Please.
What are you gonna do? I don't know.
Can you feel it coming? I enjoy this.
I wish I could close my eyes, wake up, and it'd be morning.
This is just the beginning.
You and me.
Tomorrow we start.
We'll find more of us.
With your bulbous brain, it'll be easy.
Why would we do that? A pack, Josh! Think about it.
A whole team of us running together, living together, like nature intended.
Nature? You think this is natural? It'll be incredible! Nothing to hide from each other, nothing to fear.
Vampires couldn't touch us.
Yeah, but a pack would only make us more dangerous.
Exactly! Invincible! Safe.
What we did last night to those vampires, we we never would have done that alone.
They're murdering leeches, Josh.
I don't care! I lost control.
I gave in to the wolf! Your wolf! I never want to do that again.
All right.
Maybe I pushed you too far.
We can take it slower.
I don't wanna take it slower.
I was gonna tell you this tomorrow, after the Moon But I think it's time you headed out.
You're joking.
No.
Thank you.
I'm grateful for everything that you've taught me, but I can manage.
You can't even say "transform" without looking like you're gonna puke.
You keep on talking about the wolf like it's some kind of monster in a fairy tale, like it's not you! It isn't me! It's an infection, a disease! You don't have to suffer! You don't have to be alone, none of us do.
I I think maybe changing together isn't such a good idea.
What? Now you're gonna sulk? You take the shed.
I'll find another place.
I won't abandon you while you're living with that bloodmonger.
Come on, Josh! It's not safe.
We protect each other.
No, we don't! You make it worse for me.
You make everything worse for me.
You don't understand.
I've been looking for you for two years! Two years? I wanted to tell you earlier.
I'm the one you met on that camping trip.
No.
I'm the one who turned you.
I'm the one who gave you this gift.
You can't be.
I was roaming the forest in Maine.
I attacked two backpackers.
One of them died.
And one was wounded, a scratch on the shoulder.
I checked the paper for days after.
I found your name.
You killed my friend! But you survived.
You're the only one, Josh.
I've been trying to find you.
I've been tracking you ever since.
Why? Why? Why wouldn't you just leave me alone? I couldn't.
Every time I closed my eyes, I saw you lying there in the woods.
I couldn't stop thinking.
I had to see what was your life like.
My life? My life! I don't I don't have a life! My family, my fiancée, my whole future You should've You should've killed me.
No, don't say that.
Why didn't you? There were voices, screaming, men coming.
You know how it is, just flashes of memory.
The wolf is a gift, Josh.
I was just like you at first.
This is not a gift! It's a curse! Feel it! Feel it! We're faster and stronger than any human.
I don't wanna be this! We're more alive, Josh! We're the best of human and animal.
All this time.
All this time, you've been coaching me, pretending to help me manage my condition.
And you're the one who did this to me! What kind of sick freak are you? I'm your friend.
What do you want from me? What do you want? I thought if I helped you If you needed me, you'd let me in.
What are you talking about? I saw what you have: Your house, your friends, your job.
I wanted that too.
I wanted what I used to have.
I had a wife, a son.
I lost everything! Ah! Anyone you'd like to pray for? You seem troubled.
I'll pray for you.
I've been doing this for over 200 years.
You've done it for six.
Dammit, and you still look 25.
Sometimes I think: "If I'd just turned a little earlier" I remember six.
You still remember the faces of the people that you've killed, most of them anyway.
But they're just starting to fade now, aren't they? I have killed so many people That their faces are a blur.
I used to think that I would go crazy trying to remember.
But when you can't, when there's too many, when it has been too long That's when it gets scary.
Or liberating.
I've seen people come in here.
They sit, pray.
They seem at peace.
Church is a sanctuary, right? Does it mean the same for you now as before you turned? When there's no one here, when it's empty I can feel him here with me.
I've stopped feeding.
And this whole hospital, I need it.
I need a place to go where we are not.
So you pick a place full of bleeding bodies to go straight? I can help people move on to the death that I will never have.
You're lying to yourself.
If you wanna die, you could end it anytime you want.
We could do it right now.
That's it.
Don't don't fight it.
Lean into it.
Let it take you.
You want to live, and that's ok.
We all do.
God intended for us to live forever.
Adam and Eve were immortal before the fall.
It's our natural state.
"I am the resurrection and the life.
"He who believes in me will live, "even though he dies.
" I get it.
You're completely unhinged.
Electronic, medicated superficially sentimental, liquidated parasitic, suddenly Ah! They stole my generation I've got imagination let me give my expectations it's all a hallucination No more.
No more.
Ah! Ah! The first time we met I don't blame you.
You had no control.
You didn't know what you were doing.
But the second You should have stayed away.
All I wanted was to find the last person I had a connection with.
The connection of a murderer to the man he's killed? You don't know what it's like.
I've been so lonely for years.
You expect me to feel sorry for you? You think you're better than me? You think you won't do what I've done? I'm not like you, Ray.
The wolf is you, and you are the wolf.
The only difference between you and me is that I know what I am.
I accept it.
And I never will.
Give it a few years, or five, or ten.
This is it, Josh.
It's a life sentence, brother.
One day, you'll know what it's like, everything I'm saying, and you'll come looking for me! Josh! Josh! Josh! I'm just a piece of light Who did this? Your psychotic protégé.
Aidan? Fix me.
Shhh Aidan can be an animal.
I'm sorry.
Living is the one flaw in our evolution.
Fangs don't grow back.
Wha-what am I gonna do? How am I gonna eat? Shhh, shhh, shhh I told you, we are a family.
We'll take care of you.
I How will I survive? I'm just a piece of light I can't wait to be yours tonight My God! Oh man Did you leave the door unlocked? What? Are you kidding me? I can't believe this.
Just Oh God! Just say you'll be more Oh no Oh How'd that get there? Is there a place for me.
- I'm gonna check the bedroom.
- No, wait.
What if they're still here? You should call the police.
Is there a place for me in your eyes? You guys coming? Dinner.
Ok Whoa! You remember that neither of us actually eats, right? Well, fake it, you know? Do what all the anorexic girls in my high school used to do.
Push your food around, nibble, pretend to chew, whatever.
I don't care.
We are all sitting down to a hot, delicious meal together.
Ok.
Ok We have to hang on to some rituals of normalcy.
Mmm! Divine.
Thank you.
See? This is nice.
It's been Well, never since we all shared a meal together.
You're right! Thanks, mom.
Aidan told me.
I'm so sorry.
Do you There's nothing more to say.
Aidan How was work? I didn't see you on the shift today.
Ok then.
So, what happened with Ray? Ray's gone.
And the other night, those, uh, degenerates you rolled? That's gone too.
Oh! Fun tidbit.
Turns out that Ray Is the one that did this to me.
He made me what I am.
You're kidding.
Are you ok? Oh yeah, I'm awesome.
I'm incredible.
I mean, who wouldn't wanna meet their were-dad? Could you pass the salad, please?