Clarice (2021) s01e05 Episode Script

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Previously on "Clarice"
Angela Bird,
Tess Laughty,
Sandra Bishop,
and Rebecca Clark-Sherman.
They were not random victims
of a serial killer.
Those women were
whistleblowers,
and Rebecca was gonna tell
their story.
Rebecca was looking
for a Dr. Marilyn Felker,
who was the lead physician
at the Lockyer Labs
clinical trials
the whistleblowers were in.
We wanted to talk to you
about your sister.
We may be twins, but Marilyn
and I haven't spoken
in a few years now.
Do you have any idea
where she might be?
Last I heard, she was
running a trial in Ghana.
We're still looking
for her.
Everybody dance now
Everybody dance now
Give me the music
Give me the music♪
Everybody dance now♪
Everybody dance now♪
Yeah♪
Sir?Jump to the rhythm♪
Jump, jump
to the rhythm, jump♪Sir, help! I can't --
I can't move my legs.
Sir, help!
Beats and lyrics
to make you shake your pants♪Wait! Sir!
Scream again,
and I'll inject the epidural
higher up your spine.
That will shut down
your lungs,
and I'll have to
intubate you.
Nod yes
if you understand.
Why am I here?
You certainly
weren't invited.
Is there
anyone else here?
I mean staff.
You're the skeleton crew.
I came here.
Was that tonight?
It's -- It's night.
It's night.
I came
I came to
to see you, to --
to ask you about Marilyn.
Only --
Only
you're, um
you're Marilyn.
And she's Luanne.
Did you do this
to your sister?
We're a mile away
from the airport.
Dulles never closes.
Why has no one from the FBI
come here looking for you?
I don't -- I don't know.
What is -- What is that?
It's not enough
to kill you.
But if you try
to fight me
I will.
Good girl.
Good girl.
Good girl.
Good girl.
What the hell, Clarice?
It's Esquivel.
Esquivel.
Hey. Sorry.
Is Clarice with you?
No.
I was calling to follow up
with her on something. Why?
Because I've sent five
911 pages.
Those are sacred.
That's always been the deal.
Oh, man.
I'll be right there.
How did she find you?
You tell me.
You said I was untraceable.
You tranquilized her?
What was I
supposed to do?
Don't you go silent
on me.
You really screwed it,
Marilyn.
You said no one would
get to me.
What does Starling know?
I just gave her something
that might get her talking,
but you need
to get us out.
Me and Luanne. Now.
That was always
the deal.
They can't be far behind.
Find out what she knows
about the reporter.
They could get here
any minute.
I need out.
I need Luanne out.
Get me whatever
the FBI knows.
Get me the reporter.
And I'll get you both out.
There's power in the blood
In the precious blood
of the Lamb ♪
What -- What's --
Esquivel.
Mapp, what's going on?
You haven't heard from her?
-Krendler?
-Not yet.
He's got
a family thing.
It's a real
family thing.
Starling still might be,
I don't know,
at the movies or something.
Yeah, she's working murder
and conspiracy
and she decides now
to go missing
and kick back
with some Raisinets?
She was still into it
when we went out for beers,
calling Customs
around 7:00, 7:30.
She came in my office
around then and told me
she thought Marilyn Felker
might still be in the U.S.
She didn't log in that
she was going anywhere?
Nobody got a call?
A page?
Nothing?
We had a falling out
earlier.
So bad that she wouldn't
come home?
That's not her thing.
She couldn't be out
on a date or something?
She's like the rest of us,
with no personal life.
My personal life
is exhausting.
Okay.
Who'd she talk to today?
Uh, we interviewed Felker's
sister, Luanne, earlier.
If Clarice thought the sister
might be in any kind of danger,
she'd go back.
-She's like that.
-She'd go back alone?
She worked Bill alone.
She worked BSU alone.
Alone is safe for her.
Felker's house.
Starling said she felt
spooky about it.
She could've gone
back there, too.
-She's a pain in the ass.
-Yeah.
I'm coming with.
I don't need any more
missingyouth tonight.
I don't need your face
on a milk carton, Esquivel.
Mandy. Sorry.
Got caught up
at a work thing.
-It's okay.
-And the car did the
thing.
It's okay.
Our table
isn't ready yet.
You okay?
Yeah. Um
I'm nervous.
Me too.
But it's still us.
It feels different.
It's not funny.
Oh, it kind of is.
I mean, you rappel out
of helicopters.
You were at Waco,
but every time
we talk about splitting up,
you get a nosebleed.
You're a shrink's dream.
Tilt your head forward.
Why are you the only one
that can fix --
Count to 10.
You wore the boots.
They've always been lucky
for us.
Weirdest divorcing
couple ever.
Yeah.
Daddy?
Hi, Reesey.
Daddy?
You're not a doctor.
You're a lawman.
Well, I'm lending a hand.
Daddy, I'm scared.
I don't know where I am.
Shh, shh, shh, shh,
shh, shh.
You been away
from home before.
Remember when Mama
sent you away?
To her cousin's ranch?
Remember?
You used to write me
letters.
I did?
You don't remember?
But you had --
I'd passed by then.
You'd been through a lot.
What were they about?
You'll remember.
Darn flies.
Your father is a lawman?
You were rambling.
It's not important
what he was.
Mm.
So, he's dead.
Unlike someone
who really likes Mounds bars
that wants you
to call them.
Last digits 0121.
They're looking for you.
You lied about that.
No.
I said I didn't know.
What are you doing?
The reporter --
Rebecca Clark-Sherman.
Where is she?
We're still looking
for her.
Is she in FBI custody?
We can keep doing this
a very long time.
Tell me everything
she told you about me
and the clinical trials.
Scared her pretty good.
She didn't say anything.
Sure she did.
You got to me,
didn't you?
All my nights are blue♪
What did I write to you about
the ranch?
That your mother's cousin
was a nice woman.
There was more.
You'll remember.
Mama couldn't afford us all
after you
To tell the truth♪
She sent me away.
Say, is it true that
you're driving my old Pinto?
Yeah.
No one wanted it.
That's 'cause the starter
was on the fritz
way before I got shot.
But you wanted it.
Because it was yours.
Honest, oh, honest, I do♪
People need family,
Clarice.
The sheep and the horses
were my family on the ranch.
Well, maybe the letters you
wrote me were about that.
We found evidence
in your house.
That's impossible.
The poison
that killed Wellig.
It was easy to find.
Too easy.
You are not someone who'd leave
poison under your sink.
No, I'm not.
They planted it,
Marilyn.
They used you for
the Lockyer clinical trials.
They think
you're expendable.
Did you know the drug
would cause birth defects?
You're trying
to get in my head.
They are setting you up.
Who are they?
A corporation?
A person?
There is no evidence.
You're lying.
There is no "they."
Oh, there is a they,
Marilyn.
And they always
dump the girls.
They always dump the girls.
This could be your life,
Clarice.
My life ain't so much.
Not like
your sister's, huh?
You stepped
right into it
when Rebecca started
poking around, huh?
What are her, um
circumstances?
She can see and hear.
She just can't do
anything else.
It's humane.
It's the most humane way.
Sounds like you've been
giving it some thought, huh?
You don't know
anything about it.
I know you've been taking
good care of her.
We're sisters.
Family.
These people,
they have files.
I read.
I care.
That's Abigail.
Vegetative state.
Her family can't
bring themselves
to do anything for her.
They don't see her.
That's Adam.
He was a sports agent,
and his family sends
one of those
stupid foam fingers,
'cause he's #1.
That's Andrea.
Andrea was doubly invisible
'cause she had really bad skin
before she got hit
by a train,
and her family doesn't want
to see her lumpy, bumpy face.
This is Anthony.
Anthony was the most
invisible of all
because he was a crack baby.
His parents hated him so much,
they left him in a hot car,
and he cooked.
I'm sorry, did you alphabetize
these people?
Yes!
I'm the only one
who keeps them alive
and cares enough to alphabetize.
What are you doing?
Clock's ticking.
No, Mar-- Stop it.
I need to motivate you
to talk to me.
Stop! Stop it!
But since you're being
so stubborn,
I guess I'll have
to try it this way.
Stop!
I don't know anything!
Hmm. There was another photo
on this table before.
Marilyn with her sister.
What do you think snipers do
besides notice things?
Kill people.
Starling take it?
She'd never screw with
potential evidence.
Ah.
What?
Nothing.
You have insight.
And you have something
in your teeth.
Yeah.
I don't care.
I'm beginning to see
what Starling's talking about.
I don't like that we found
what we found so easy.
Not in a place
as uptight as this.
It's like it was planted.
I'm getting Krendler.
Oh, I don't want to
mm, but I do.
Me too.
It'll be bad for a while,
being the ex-Krendlers.
But it'll get
Different.
Yeah.
How many days for you?
I don't
Less than you.
A lot less. It's hard.
Mm.
You like your sponsor?
I have generations
of this.
-But I'm trying, Paul.
-I know. I know.
I'm not saying
that you're not.
Why do you have to make it
a competition?
It's not.
More than anything,
you need to know that.
So, what? We
get a mediator?
I could talk to Holly.
See who they got.
Yeah.
That's great.
I'm looking at a place
in Chevy Chase.
Has a big backyard.
Closer to school.
I don't understand.
I think they should be
with me
until you can --
Until I can what?
Mandy.
You want to be the primary
caregiver to our kids?
How are you gonna
swing that, Paul?
You gonna leave a murder scene
to get Alison
from school to soccer?
You work crazy hours.
You put that job
That's why we're here.
No, no.
We're here
because we drank.
Separating was about
stopping drinking, and I have.
The kids stay with me.
And no judge in America is gonna
look at your job and our family
and say any different.
You just tried
to take my kids.
Answer your phone.
Krendler.
Starling's missing.
Nobody's heard from her.
Okay, Murray,
define missing.
Mapp's here, say Starling
never goes off-radar like this.
Alright.
Who's doing what?
Mapp and Tripathi
are retracing her steps.
Esquivel and I are headed
to the Point.
Okay. I'm coming in.
Give me 20 minutes.
Okay.
Were you ill as a child?
You're answering me.
What are you gonna do?
Run around, unplug everyone
in the place?
You get an answer,
I get an answer, Felker.
Simple.
Were you ill as a child?
You and your sister
both go into medicine.
You got a little hitch
in your step when you walk.
Sepsis.
Penicillin?
Didn't work.
Ah.
So your parents put you
in a clinical trial.
The limp --
was that a side effect?
Guillain-Barré Syndrome
was the side effect.
I was paralyzed
for a year.
I could see.
And I could feel.
But you couldn't move.
Did Luanne
take care of you?
She preferred
the outdoors.
I see how hard
it's been for you.
Aah!
I-I can't --
I can't --
I can't breathe.
Help.
Help me.
I can't --
I can't breathe.
I need you alive.
I shouldn't have
I can't --
I need you alive.
I need you alive.
Open. Open, open!
Before the paralytic
kicks in.
You won't be able to speak
or move for a little while,
but at least
you'll be alive.
You made me
do this to you.
You're selfish.
You know how long it's been
since I let anyone touch me?
You don't know
what it is.
You don't
understand my humanity.
I'm gonna go
see if there's room in the C's.
Aah.
Thank you for allowing us
access to the visitor logs.
We'll be out of here
pretty quickly.
I'll ask that you keep
your voices level in the ward.
'Course.
When I first saw you,
I thought something terrible
had happened to my sister.
Well, the FBI never comes
with good news.
I know you can't tell me
anything.
Marilyn's brilliant.
Brilliant's hard
sometimes.
I'll take your word
for it.
Do you have a sister,
Agent Mapp?
No.
I'm going to use
the ladies' room.
Protocols.
I'm afraid I can't leave you.
Ma'am,
we're law enforcement.
Agent Mapp
won't steal the soap.
I'll stay with you.
First door
on your left.
I just need to see
your guest logs.
-Not a problem.
-And I'll need to make
a copy of it.
Our copy machine's down.
What are you doing,
Agent?
She moved.
It's a cadaveric spasm.
Bodies move after they die.
They --
They do all kinds of things.
Mm. Ms. Felker, what's protocol
when a patient dies?
She passed
just as you arrived.
But I-I do have to
tend to her,
so if there's nothing else
I have a lot of work
to do.
If you hear from your sister,
please let us know.
I will.
Welcome back, traveler.
I hope you went
someplace warm.
Amazing how loud
your mind is
when your body's
an echo chamber, isn't it?
You understand me
a little better now?
Mm.
I'm still kind of
Loopy?
I'm sorry no one
took care of you.
I saw a photograph in your house
of you and Luanne.
Her clothes are all clean.
There was a stain
on your collar.
-I had to be fed.
-Come on, Marilyn.
You were a mess.
Knots in your hair.
Bags under your eyes.
You don't miss a trick.
I guess looking at that
photograph takes the edge off
paralyzing your sister.
Sometimes remembering old wounds
can feel like a warm bath.
But taking care of you
wasn't Luanne's job, was it?
Where were your parents?
They worked.
Did they check on you?
They did.
Did they spare you
a thought?
They tried.
It's natural for parents
to resent a sick child.
No.
To forget sometimes.
No.
For a long time.
Forgetting for a long time.
You were an invalid.
In-valid? No.
Forgetting.
No one.
They forgot you.
They dumped you.
Like all these people
in here.
Like that crack baby
in the car.
And whoever you're doing all
this for is dumping you, too,
but you're too desperate
to see it.
They are gonna run as far away
from you as they can,
'cause who would want to
keep you, huh?
You belong in here
with all these vegetables.
That is the only reason you're
still talking to me, bitch.
You are so damn lonely,
it is pathetic.
That's why
I'm not dead yet,
because you have got
no one else.
So do it. Kill me.
Do it!
Aah!
Daddy?
Daddy.
Call FBI.
Call
Da--
Call them, please.
Daddy?
You want to talk
about the fight?
It might help us understand
where she went.
Clarice just
doesn't realize
that my world
looks different than hers.
That's never easy.
Yeah.
We took first steps,
but it's a long road.
I know about long roads.
We all have to look
at ourselves sometime.
But it can't be the last thing
we had together.
It's important.
The last time we were
at Marilyn Felker's house,
this photo was there.
When we went back,
it was gone.
It's important to someone.
We don't know who.
The whole place was staged.
Someone's jerking us around.
I don't do well with that.
Yeah, well, they're jerking us
toward the Felker sisters,
and Luanne
is the only one we have.
Mapp, she was weird,
but that whole place was weird.
Metro PD found
Starling's car.
No sign of forced entry,
engine's cold.
Where?587 Dogwood Street.
It's near the airport.
Weird, my ass.
That's right by Woodhaven.
Let's go.
I hate her.
She says they found evidence
in my house.
Stop talking.
She can't --
This is all because they
connected the women you dumped
to the reporter to me.
You said she gave you
something I would need.
What did she give you?
She didn't give you anything.
You just wanted to place me
at the scene.
Yeah. People always leave
something behind.
Where is the incinerator?
Sub basement.
Is everything ready
for me and Luanne?
Yes.
When it's done,
you're both on a plane.
We'll get you
out of here clean.
I burned them.
The letters.
After I wrote them.
Yeah.
I wrote about Hannah.
You loved that horse.
More than anything.
She was going blind,
but I loved her.
Why did I burn
the letters?
I don't know, Reesey.
Maybe you thought
I could read smoke signals.
Or maybe there was something
in what you wrote
that scared you.
Something you
Something you saw.
In the barn.
What'd you see
in the barn?
A helmet.
On a hook.
It had a slot for
the cartridge.
So, why'd the helmet
scare you so much
that you burned
the letters?
I just didn't want it
to be real.
That that was what
was waiting for her.
That scary thing is --
is waiting for all of us,
Clarice.
And sometimes,
that scary thing
it's the only way
to survive.
What's happening?
I'm taking you
to the incinerator.
Mind your fingers.
Lu, you've got the veins
of a junkie.
Better change that out.
Soon, Lu. Soon.
Marilyn.
I do it, she's dead.
No.
You're a doctor.
Now save her life.
What's it like
to be so beautiful?
Beautiful.
Clarice!
I've got you.
You're safe.
You're safe.
She's up here.
Marilyn.
She knows everything.
There was a man.
I couldn't see his face.
Okay.
I couldn't see his --
Ohh!
You're okay.
You're okay.
FBI!
Freeze!
Put your hands in the hair!
-Put your hands up!
-Hands up!
Let me take care of her.
Step away
from the patient!
I'm trying
to save her life!
I will continue
compressions.
Agent Mapp
will handcuff you.
Put your hands
behind your back.
No!
You put it down.
Put it down.
Lu?
Drop the needles.
Put it down.
Would you be free from
the burden of sin? ♪
There's power in the blood
Power in the blood
[ Camera flash whines ]Would you o'er evil
[ Camera shutter clicks ]A victory win?
There's wonderful power
in the blood ♪
About earlier.
Not now.
There's time.
Rest.