Filthy Rich (2020) s01e05 Episode Script

But I did not mean
Camp Monreaux.
Townes, Don, and Governor
Virgil Love himself
want to buy Margaret
out of SunnyClub.
You best prepare
for a hostile takeover.
After all,
this is a man's business,
and all the hummingbird cake
in the world can't make up
for the fact that she's a woman.
It's too bad they're only
interested in grooming
my Eric for office.
My lieutenant governor
just got indicted.
I'll be looking for another one.
Veronica Dockerty
seems to have taken
a real interest in Jason.
Goodness, she's old enough
to be his mother.
There's something off
about that guy.
Dude, that's Mark.
Call me crazy,
but the whole thing
seemed to really annoy Rose.
Rose and Ginger
have been acting funny anyway,
and so has Ginger's
boozy mother Tina.
Ginger, we have to go.
She's got secrets. I know it.
Same goes for Antonio's mother.
Yopi Candalaria?
Long time no see, Don.
Do it!
It turns out Tina
and Ginger have been hiding
in Rose's closet the whole time.
Margaret wants to make some
sort of, like, united front.
If these men won't give us
a seat at their table,
then we'll create our own.
A ladies' table.
But she doesn't have
a humble bone in her body.
It hasn't been long
since his death,
but Eugene's spirit
fills this house.
It's palpable.
I keep expecting your daddy
to walk out of that cane
with a stringer full of ducks.
It feels like he could
show up at any moment,
and things would be back
to the way they were.
In Jesus's name. Amen.
It was Eugene.
I knew before I saw him.
I believe you saw
what you saw, Tina.
But had you been drinking?
When I told Ginger,
all she said was,
"This is why
we're getting you help, Mom."
That house is full of ghosts.
And the souls of the people
that worked that land
and walked those halls
are still there.
I'm not surprised
that Eugene has joined them.
But the Eugene you knew is gone.
Margaret and I are here for you.
Okay,
they're going to help you, Mom.
And if they don't,
I'll burn the place down
and kill their firstborn.
Just do what they ask, okay?
I'll call you every day,
and I'll keep you posted.
They took my phone.
Right.
I never gone a day
without talking to you.
Be strong for me,
and I'll be strong for you.
I love you.
Okay, okay.
Now go kick some ass.
Ready?
I guess Margaret
will expect a thank you
for footing the bill.
She had a mother, too, you know.
Your mama's lucky to have you,
though it must be a burden
from time to time
to have to be her caretaker.
"Caretaker"?
I'm her damn avenger,
and hell hath no fury.
Sa Fe Lontah!
Mardi Gras is here.
Now when we come back,
I'm gonna show you
how to make a roux
with my mama's skillet
and her old wooden spoon,
so don't go anywhere.
And we're out. 60 seconds.
If I never eat another beignet,
it will be too soon.
Traditions are important,
sweetie.
What if this year
for Mardi Gras,
I went down to Bourbon Street
for a pub crawl,
stripped off all my clothes,
and ran drunk, naked,
like everyone else?
No daughter of mine would be
caught dead doing that.
- Margaret?
- What are you doing here?
Just checking in
before I head out.
We're fine.
Will you give her my love?
Will do.
Franklin's day?
Every Mardi Gras.
The one day of the year
he's not to be disturbed.
I'm ready for you, Margaret.
I need levels.
I believe in our flag
- Mama.
- I believe
in our state,
and I believe in our Lord.
A vote for Love will keep
Louisiana in God's good grace.
A vote for Love
will keep Louisiana great.
Eric.
Like my mama always said
He's getting pulled
into their web.
Love always wins.
Governor Love is a pig.
I want that faithless hack
away from my son
and off of my network.
Good luck.
The sponsors are already
all in on getting him reelected.
Well, we'll make sure he's not.
- Hi, Margaret!
- Hey!
Mama, hadn't Ginger told you
about the tape?
What tape?
Never mind.
I just thought
with the whole ladies' table
- And we're back in ten.
- Rose.
Ginger has a cam tape
of the governor
doing sacrilegious things
with Mardi Gras beads.
Sacrilegious, how?
Puts them in his
Two, and we're live.
Welcome back!
You know, I was just sharing
with our ladies here
that the best thing
about Mardi Gras
It's all those surprises.
Dear Lord, Mardi Gras
is for pagans and whores,
and I'm walking
this lonely road alone.
Keep walking.
Your path will find you.
You just keep walking, Eugene.
Please, forgive me,
Lord, but I'm kind of bored.
I hate to sound ungrateful,
but if someone were to invite
me to a rave in Gomorrah,
these days,
I'm not so sure I'd say no.
Hey, yo, Rocky Raccoon,
you wouldn't know the way
to Nawlins, would you?
Yes.
I'm fighting my dark side,
so please, make a miracle, Lord.
Make a miracle.
In Jesus's name, we pray.
Amen.
Boys, I've got an itch
that the Lord
put me in this car for a reason.
Okay, this has gone weirdo.
You spell out your business,
I can help you.
You know this family
- Don't, TK, don't.
- The Monreauxs?
I do.
Well,
they got a snake in the garden,
and his name is Mark.
Maybe I ask Don Bouchard
to give Jesus
the damn fight, right?
I ride you because
I want the world for you.
You know that, right?
Antonio,
what are you doing here?
He lives here, with me.
Margaret, I'm so sorry,
but you shouldn't have come.
I'm sorry. I don't remember
being formally introduced.
Yolanda Rivera Candalaria.
A lot of people call me Yopi,
but you can call me
Mrs. Candalaria.
Pleasure.
Antonio,
if you and Jesus are here,
what are you doing
with your allowance?
That's none
of your damn business.
Ma, Ma, Ma.
Please, don't fight.
I have no interest in fighting.
My business is with Ginger.
Ginge, armor up.
Ginger.
I'm not giving you that tape.
- Tape?
- Rose told me she told you.
And I thought
we were all working together
- to take these men down.
- We are.
We'll take
every last one of them down,
but not by hurting more women.
Your mama she is safe.
Not Mom. My girls.
If that tape goes public,
there won't be a swinging John
from here to Guam
that'll trust us.
It'll be the end of SaintWagon,
which is exactly what you want.
What I really want
is to make sure
that my son is
out of harm's way.
What's Eric got to do with it?
Eric has joined
Virgil's political campaign.
Unlike us, he doesn't know
what kind of a man
Virgil really is.
Well, a tape's not
gonna change his mind.
No, that tape's "break glass
in case of emergency" only.
Virgil Love is one
of the most faithless men
to ever have a seat in power,
and my Eric he is a good man.
He is.
Your friend here
seems to get it.
Did you ever stop to think
that there is a woman
on that tape as well as a man,
who might not want her identity
splashed all over TV?
Now, you and I
are gonna burn the house down.
However, I just put
my mother in rehab
because men
took advantage of her.
I'm not doing the same thing
to someone else.
So we're watching this
Wings of a Dove thing, right,
'cause this hot cam chick
that TK calls
his "nighttime wife" was on,
and this Margaret lady
starts talking about how
her dead billionaire husband
left all this money
to these illegitimate kids
he had all over the country
Dude was dropping seed
like rain.
Who do you think we see standing
next to the Margaret lady?
It's our buddy Mark, man.
Mark's pretending
to be our other buddy,
his brother Jason.
- Why?
- It's a sad story.
Real Jason's in a coma
back in Colorado.
It sucks on so many levels.
I mean,
Mark's got this Margaret lady
thinking he's Jason.
Now Mark, he's, like,
set to inherit billions
that the dead guy
left for the real Jason,
who's a vegetable now.
That's sad. It's real sad.
And on top of that,
Mark took our jobs with him.
I mean, what about us, bro?
We don't have nothing.
So me and TK
We're gonna blackmail Mark
for, like, lots of money,
and if he doesn't pay us,
we'll spill the beans
to screw him.
"For many deceivers
have gone out into the world,
"those who do not confess
"the coming of Jesus Christ
in the flesh.
Such a one is the deceiver
and the antichrist."
Antichrist?
Nah, he's just Mark, man.
Your plan is righteous.
I want to see his face.
Who knew sex wrapped up
in a lie could be so hot?
Literally everyone.
Just answer it. Just answer it.
What?
Yo, we know
what you're doing, man.
- Augie?
- It's wrong, man,
pretending to be your brother,
getting high on the hog
with those rich people while
Jason is, like, wasting away.
500 Gs, man, or everybody
knows you're a faker.
500 grand? Do you think
I have that kind of money?
Dude, that's extortion.
Hi. Who is this?
Listen, lady, here's the deal.
This guy you think
is Jason owes us big.
And either he pays up,
or the whole world knows
who he really is.
Okay,
this is what's gonna happen.
You're gonna text us
a drop-off location,
we pay, and you go away.
I'm cool with that.
- Yeah, we'll text
- You text it now.
Talk about rude.
So God's really cool
with all this?
Yes.
In an Old Testament kind of way.
Why did you agree to that?
Because I don't want
to lose you.
Now come on.
Put your shirt back on.
Really?
For me?
You've proven yourself, Eric.
You belong now.
This is a lot of bling
for charity work.
The Lord rewards with abundance.
You know, I-I can't accept this.
No, you don't reject
the Lord's bounty, Eric,
especially when it sparkles.
And there's a lot
more coming, son.
Believe me.
I'm overwhelmed and honored,
but this is
No buts. It's gorgeous.
Hey, Mama,
the, governor gave me this
for my work at the missions.
Well, isn't that
an expensive bauble
for missionary work?
Yeah.
Yeah. Ho, ho, ho!
Ho! Hey!
- Look at this.
- Wow.
Holy Look at that.
Thank you, Margaret.
Your scene shop
helped us out with this.
There's enough room
for the Love family,
the entire campaign team,
and, Eric,
I think you should take
the front bow.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
Look, we better get
to the French Quarter.
Maggie,
it's a pleasure as usual.
Funny you should use
the word "pleasure," Governor.
Excuse me?
I've heard said
that Mardi Gras
It can bring out
the true nature in us,
one's latent desires,
which could be used against us.
I believe the good people
of Louisiana
They deserve to be protected
from any, taped evidence
of a leader's
sacrilegious depravity.
You can't talk that way to me.
Wait, what tape? Who
who would tape Uncle Virgil?
It's your sister, sweetie.
Ginger.
I think she's
getting ready to use it.
SaintWagon taped its customers?
Virgil
now, I don't want you
or your family
to experience the media circus
that Eugene put us through.
So for the good of everyone,
I highly recommend
that you drop out
of the governor's race,
and resign any involvement
with the Sunshine Network.
Do I make myself clear?
You have fun, y'all.
- Mama.
- And happy Mardi Gras.
You can control her?
Who's running this holy war?
If I go down,
everybody goes down.
- Everybody goes down!
- Hey, hey, let me talk to her,
all right?
I'll talk some sense into her.
Yeah, talk some sense to her.
Mama, why would you do that
to Uncle Virgil?
I know these men.
They do bad things.
They hurt people.
You're a good Christian boy.
Stay that way.
Eric.
That tape is a boomerang.
If I take out the governor,
I'll take myself out
at the same time.
It's not news.
Not to me, at least.
What people do in the bedroom
is their business.
What do I do? I don't want.
Love to get away
with what he did to my mother.
What did he do to Tina?
No, that's not my story to tell.
Your mother
has a lot of information.
You should let me talk to her.
I don't think
that's a good thing for her.
She's trying to get better,
and I don't want to make her
relive all of that trauma,
not right now.
But maybe Margaret has a point.
Sex scandal
does nothing to these guys.
Love will just go
on an apology tour,
come back stronger than ever,
but
fraud, money laundering, and
maybe even murder.
Murder?
What I show you stays here.
What the hell is this?
Why is my father up there?
Eugene was in the middle
of all of this.
The reverend's friends,
the 18:20
They're into a whole
host of nasty.
Land, tax fraud.
And I think
it got Eugene killed.
Killed? It was
an accidental plane crash.
Maybe. Maybe not.
They collectively own
48% of Monreaux Unlimited.
That's three points away
from total control.
They want it all.
You think Margaret's in danger?
Hold onto the tape
as your insurance policy.
You want to take these men down,
work with me
to find the real story.
It ain't getting any easier
not having you here,
not having your guidance.
Dragonflies flying low.
The scent of the magnolias
floating towards me.
You calling
Margaret and me inside
when the light was gone.
I just wish Margaret
loved me back.
I just wish I felt like
any of them
knew how to love me back.
Miss you, Mama.
I can't believe
you're gonna pay those idiots.
They're spineless and stupid.
Look, if we don't pay
spineless and stupid,
they're gonna leak
your identity,
and you got to jail,
so, I mean, yeah,
we pay them and just
The world keeps spinning.
Please. They're only getting 50.
You're so comfortable with this.
It's weird.
Do you have any idea
how many times
Eric and I were almost
kidnapped as kids?
Hi, Franklin.
So sorry to disturb you.
This will only take a second.
We're not even here.
I'll be right back.
You're not here. Remember?
Okay.
Who even are you
to these people, Franklin?
I could ask you the same thing.
No, I didn't mean it like that.
I justl've never been around
this much money before,
and
I've never met people
like any of you.
Not you.
You seem cool and normal.
But the Monreauxs, it's
if they don't want to deal
with people,
they just throw money at them
to make them go away.
They try.
I'm so sorry, Franklin.
We were never here.
Have patience, Eric.
Your mother will come around.
A day with the Lord
is like 1,000 years,
and 1,000
How did you get in here?
I headlined this venue,
remember?
- Where's Margaret?
- Okay, you have some nerve
showing your face in here.
Listen, I don't like you,
but like your mother,
I am worried about you,
the creepy company
that you keep.
You're lecturing me,
you hypocrite?
Hypocrite?
What are you talking about?
Well, I thought
you had a code of honor.
Or are you planning to blackmail
all your customers?
- How dare you?
- Who let you in?
Norah, it's okay.
Let her say her piece.
I told you
I didn't want anyone to know.
- And you
- Ginger, Ginger,
just calm down.
Why don't we discuss this
in a civil manner?
Please?
You told Virgil Love
I had a tape of him.
Well, you do have a tape of him.
That's not the point.
I know that you're concerned
about that girl on the tape.
She will not be exposed.
We are handling that privately.
You blew it.
If you'd have listened,
we could've taken down
the whole 18:20.
How?
You honestly think
I would tell you now?
One way or another, that tape
It's coming out.
God has a way
of bringing the truth to light.
My
You have no idea
what danger you've put us in.
We can protect you
if I have that tape.
Well, it's hidden some place
you'd have to be crazy to look.
I had a feeling
you were bluffing.
This room here
is by invitation, Paul.
There is a tape.
Isn't there, Ginger?
I have a parade to get to.
No tape. No witnesses.
You think you're the queen
of New Orleans,
but, Margaret, it's Mardi Gras.
You don't even have a float.
Lord
your words
did I follow them incorrectly?
My sonhe wants so badly
to be important in this world.
Like his daddy.
But he never knew him.
I blame myself. I failed him.
I promoted our family myth.
I led him
to those faithless men.
Help me, Lord.
Help me save my boy.
I'ml'm sorry.
I can come back later.
No.
Just give me a minute.
Whatwhat is it, sweetie?
I wanted to explain
about the money.
My momshe's not like you.
She's
she's reckless.
And she owes, like,
80 grand in gambling debt.
And it's not just that.
She makes the worst choices
without thinking.
I'm listening.
She'd kill me for telling you,
but that tape
No, no, you listen. I know Don.
He knows me from way back.
You get him on the phone.
You're gonna give him
the message?
That's what you said
the last time,
and the last time before that
and the last time before that,
you
Hi. If you've come to move in
on my son some more,
he's not here.
Mrs. Candalaria, actually,
I've come here to see you.
Well, make an appointment.
I'm very busy.
It is you on that tape
with Virgil, isn't it?
Antonio told me.
That makes you an eyewitness,
and that, well
that can give you choices.
Why don't you just
get the tape from Ginger?
Well, to be honest,
she won't give it to me.
'Cause she's cool like that.
You may not like the guy,
but he didn't do anything wrong.
I'm just here to protect my son.
One mother to another
You did this.
You made him soft, your boy.
You gotta let him
clean up his own mess.
Well, this affects Antonio, too.
His birthright,
his stake in the company,
and, both
your financial futures.
You don't know zilch
about my finances.
How about $80,000,
right here, right now?
I gotta go check up on the kid.
$100,000?
If Antonio takes Jesus
away from here today.
You got a deal, fancy.
Get these people
out of my sight.
How's it dangling, Gotlove44?
Whoo!
God, why have you forsaken me?
Hey, Don.
Looks like we won't be needing
Ginger's tape.
Mrs. Candalaria
is ready and most willing
to tell her story
to the nightly news.
Okay, Margaret,
First thing tomorrow,
Virgil will take an unexpected
vacation from politics
due to an illness in the family
that requires
his utmost attention
That is, if you
and Mrs. Candalaria
can keep this dreadful business
to yourselves.
Anything else?
Just one tiny thing.
Hey, Margaret, over here!
I love you!
You scream, I'll shoot,
and nobody will hear either.
Wow. Whoa, whoa.
Weird.
Okay,
my dad used to take me here
when I was a kid.
Like, literally, every Saturday,
he would give me
an envelope full of cash,
and he would wait outside
right there
until I had spent every penny.
There was no fuss.
There was no Mama
judging my every decision.
It was just all that fabric
and him and me.
Why would they
want to meet here?
Same reason we're giving them
money they don't deserve.
It's insanity.
"Jason"! 'Sup, man?
Don't "'sup" me, okay?
You're lucky I'm anti-gun.
Come on. Nothing personal.
This is strictly financial.
Okay,
you're gonna take this money,
and you are never gonna bother
anyone in my family again.
Do you understand?
'Cause I know people.
I do.
I, like, actually know people.
No, I feel you. Yeah.
Do you know who he really is?
Yes, I know exactly who he is.
And you know what?
I know who you are, too,
because people like you
have been bothering
my family for my entire life.
The story always ends
the same way,
so, I don't know,
when you blow all of that money
or when you lose it
or when someone steals it,
I want you to remember
it is because
of what you did to Mark,
because it was not nice,
and it was not fair,
and I curse you.
It is Mardi Gras, and I am
placing a voodoo curse.
A voodoo curse?
Who are you right now?
I want to get lost.
I want to just hide
in plain sight.
Come on, Rocky Raccoon.
Let's go celebrate.
Here's the situation, Ms. Sweet.
You're not gonna give me
trouble or back-talk.
And while you're not doing that,
you're gonna tell me
where you're hiding
the Governor's
little-tape-that-could.
Where's the tape?
Where's the tape?
It's at the motel.
"The wages of the righteous
is life,
but the earnings of the wicked
is sin and death."
Words to live,
or die by.
Here we go.
Whoo!
Hey, you want some bling bling,
you gotta work for it.
Show us your boobs.
Dude, we should throw them
some money.
We got enough.
Income equality. I love it.
Yeah!
Whoa. Where did it go?
Dude.
That rich witch cursed us.
Which was rude.
Antonio.
She sold you out, Margaret.
Who did?
My mom. She
she was playing you
the whole time.
She made a deal with Don
Bouchard to get me a big fight.
Thank you.
I know this wasn't easy for you.
I'm so sorry.
She can't seem to help herself.
You nenes gonna give
my boy the fight, or what?
I want that money in my account
by tomorrow afternoon.
Whoo!
Mama, look at me?
Guess I learned to fight
above my weight class.
Didn't I, Don?
Chin up, tiny.
Don't worry. It's under control.
I tried to live honest,
but sadly, it never took.
So I thought,
"What if I could be bad
for the good?"
And that's why
I am here right now.
Helping the good,
which is bad for you.
You should never have children,
by the way.
I'm not saying
the bad can't have them,
but you should steer clear
on account of your profession.
That sort of thing
gets handed down.
I should know.
My mother was a real whore, too.
Now
If you're lying to me
and there's another copy
of that tape
out there somewhere,
I promise I will find you,
and that will be
a bad day for us both.
Yeah?
You have a lovely evening.
Jesus.
When Jesus walked.
My God.
Can't believe
I had that many hurricanes.
I wasn't even counting.
Shoot. I forgot my phone again.
I will meet you at the bar.
All right, we'll see you there.
And don't take too long.
Dang.
Lord, you scared me.
Did you film me?
Like the governor?
Did you film us?
I deleted them.
Soon as your mom got involved,
I deleted every single minute.
You have to believe me.
- Every minute?
- Everything
- Every word we said?
- Everything.
- Delete
- Everything, everything.
I'm so sorry.
How am I
supposed to believe you?
Because you're the guy.
You'll be totally fine.
Ginger?
Go away.
Let me in, sweetie.
Just go away.
I can't do that.
I need that tape. I have
I have tried
every way I know how,
but I can't protect you
or this family without it.
You only protect yourself.
We kids are
just collateral damage.
No. That is not true, Ginger.
Just leave me alone.
Are you okay?
Something wrong?
I can hear it in your voice.
Please.
Talk to me.
I wish you would.
I will pray for you.
Heels stay on.
Franklin,
I need you to come home.
Come on.
Come on.
Go away, Margaret!
Wrong Monreaux, wench.
I know he's in here.
Where is he?
Who?
Eric.
Here's here with
one of your concubines,
and I want him returned to me
with his earthly soul intact
and ripe for the Lord's bounty.
You sure you don't
want to talk about it?
'Cause you know I've been down
the warpath with Margaret.
Heck, she's the reason
girls like us even know
what power looks like.
I knew what power looked like
way before I met Margaret,
thank you very much.
Yeah,
but no one wields it like her.
Plus, she does it with this
infuriating steadfast faith.
Why is it that everyone
in this town seems to think
that Margaret holds
the monopoly on God's love?
Please. That woman doesn't hold
a monopoly on a thing.
She's just blessed in Christ.
How do you know that?
Because she's rich.
And I'm some sinner
who missed my blessing?
I should really be going.
Great idea, fundie.
Feel better, trollop.
Today was awesome, wasn't it?
I mean,
we went to three parades,
two bars, and a caper.
As long as we had our masks on.
I don't belong here.
What do you mean
you don't belong?
Impersonating my brother,
going on Christian talk TV,
and then being blackmailed
by my two idiot friends.
This whole thing is a farce.
Are we living a farce?
My life is not a farce, Jason.
It is what it is, and it's mine.
And for the life of me,
I'm trying to keep you in it.
Game on, creep.
You knit.
They won't give me
any whiskey here,
so yes, Franklin, I'm knitting.
What are you doing here?
Just came to check on you.
Can't a person do that?
Not a person who works
for the Monreauxs.
Well,
I've worked for the Monreauxs
my whole entire life.
My mother before me.
I'm good at it.
But sometimes
I can't help but feel
like I'm living for the dead.
Funny how that happens
in the South.
I mean, the same tired story.
Our lives are not stories,
Franklin.
They're happening. Right now.
One day sober,
and you're this smart.
I read it in a pamphlet.
You know,
today is the anniversary
of my mother's death.
Five years gone.
I'm sorry.
Don't be.
I couldn't do much
for my mother.
But I can certainly help
Ginger avenge you.
How?
By releasing
that tape she gave you.
Ginger's playing with fire.
She's in way over her head.
Ginger said she hid it
some place
you'd have to be crazy to look.
I'm the craziest.
Honestly, I sat with my mother
all day today.
There was nobody I trusted more.
I figured Ginger
felt the same way about you.
You and I both
want to keep her safe.
The past is too big a burden.
If I'm ever gonna be well,
I can't drag it along with me.
Don't I know it.
Is Louisiana falling out of love
with Governor Virgil Love?
Poor Virgil.
The family values politician
finds himself
in an adulterous sex scandal.
Ruined by a drunk
with a thumb drive.
Now, you know the governor's
not gonna take this lying down.
As long as Eric is safe.
Margaret.
Ginger.
You've ruined me.
Without trusting subscribers,
SaintWagon is finished.
Your mothershe chose
to give us that tape, and
You people are so low.
Why not look at this
as an opportunity for change?
You crossed a line.
You came for my business.
Now I'm coming for yours.
Ginger, wait.
To think
that I actually trusted you.
My mom was right.
My dad is watching all of us.
And he knows exactly what you
just did to his daughter.
Franklin?
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