Inside Job (2021) s01e05 Episode Script

1
Mmm! Mmm!
Rockin' meatloaf, Mom.
Why, Brett,
it's just the recipe I always use.
Yeah, meat and loaf.
- [all laughing]
- Meat and loaf.
[both laughing]
Oh, Deany.
So, how's the job, son?
Well, I'm not really supposed to talk
about it,
but I have made some awesome friends.
And I hear there's a girl.
Aw, Mom, it's not like that.
Reagan and I are just BFFs,
business friends forever.
- Brett!
- [yelps]
What kind of sick shit
are you doing in here?
The holo-chamber is not a toy.
It's for training simulations
and official government sex stuff.
Sorry, Reagan.
It's just, with work, I've missed
a lot of family dinners lately,
so this lets me bond virtually.
Family dinners?
I thought those were a myth
made up by greeting-card companies,
like Christmas or saying "I love you."
It's like no one ever really connects
face-to-face, you know?
Brett, Reagan, get out of the Sex-Deck.
We've got a mission.
You weren't looking through
my Sex-Deck history, were you?
- Good Lord, no.
- No, no, no, no.
Ah, good.
- Wanna look through his Sex-Deck history?
- Yeah, we got five minutes.
What's a pay pig?
[electronic music playing]
Say hello to today's mission.
Jolt Cola? Lawn darts?
[chuckles] Slap bracelets?
- [grunts] Son of a bitch!
- What kind of mission is this, J.R.?
[Myc] Are we assassinating
a 1980s sleepover?
- Not directly.
- [button clicks]
- ['80s pop music playing]
- Still Valley, Wyoming.
In 1984, we tested
our first mind-erasing chemicals there.
Unfortunately, they worked too well.
They've been mentally stuck
in 1984 ever since,
which makes it the perfect place for us
to sell all of corporate America's
recalled, outdated and dangerous products.
- [dart stabs]
- Ow! Goddamn, these things are sharp.
We're trapping a town in the '80s
to sell them recalled crap?
That is radically unethical.
Yes. [wildly] Radically unethical!
[laughs]
God, my eyes are killing me.
Huh. Ray-Banned. [laughs]
Anyhoo, every few years,
we give them a fresh spritz
of a chemtrail called Nostalgia Max
to keep them bodaciously brain-damaged.
That's what you'll be doing this week.
Here's the keys to the jet.
Hey, J.R., how about on this mission
we all really immerse ourselves
in the 1980s?
No phones, no social media,
just a group of six-way best friends
really connecting face-to-face.
[Glenn] Ugh, come on!
[Myc] Sometimes
I don't like talking to people.
- Fucking bullshit.
- Wait, guys.
Brett's got a point,
for the first time ever.
If '80s town catches us
on a modern device,
it'll totally blow our cover.
Then it's settled. Get ready
to have a great time in the past. [laughs]
Oh shit,
I should've said "blast in the past."
Everyone,
pretend I said "blast in the past."
All right, everyone,
hand over your devices.
- [coworkers groaning]
- No. No, no, no! Not my Instagram!
You son of a bitch.
I'll fucking murder you!
I know where you sleep! In the walls!
Look at all this stuff, Reagan.
Doesn't it just bring you back?
Koosh. Koosh. Koosh.
Oh, I don't know dick
about '80s pop culture.
My dad threw out the TV
to make me focus on science.
Weird Science? [laughs]
Yeah. Wait, if that's a reference
to something, I don't get it.
Aw, this stuff is making me nostalgic
for a time in my life when acid-wash
wasn't just a way to get rid of a body.
Come on, guys,
the '80s were a garbage decade.
We only idealize the past
because our brains
distort our memory of it.
Hey, there is nothing wrong
with my brain
Oh my God,
I had these exact scented markers!
[sniffs deeply]
Ooh!
Take me away, cosmic berry blast.
Why do you care about this stuff?
Weren't you born in the '90s?
Yeah, but I always felt like
a slightly older soul.
Also the '80s had the best TV show ever,
The Growing Years.
That was my family's Sunday night ritual.
Didn't that little brother from that show
become a drug addict?
[laughs] Yes. Yes, he did.
But not until the '90s.
[toilet flushes]
[laughs] At least someone
got in the spirit of this mission.
How about a game of Simon?
[Myc] I'm not taking orders
from some disco-ass hubcap.
[vibrating]
Wait, Myc,
did you smuggle modern-day technology
onto our 1980s
group-bonding/mass-hypnosis mission?
[Myc] Brett, I'd lie to you,
but I just don't respect you enough.
Ah, sweet screen time.
You're my real friends,
hate-filled strangers.
[Glenn] Approaching Still Valley!
- Chemtrails locked and loaded.
- Lowering altitude, raising attitude.
[into mic] Venting Nostalgia Max
in T-minus three.
Guys, I wanna make a toast.
To us, 'cause when we all get together…
[Myc] Whoa!
…Good things happen.
[Myc screams]
It's okay. I have parachute pants.
Shit, these things are fucking worthless.
- [yelling]
- [dramatic music plays]
- [gasps] Myc!
- Oh God, Myc!
Fuck, we have to go down there
and get him.
If he's seen, he could blow
a decades-long operation
and cost us a fortune.
Glenn, take us down outside of town.
Leave no mushroom behind.
[adventurous music plays]
I can feel it, guys.
This is gonna be the best summer ever.
Whatever happens,
we'll always be best friends.
- [Myc, in pain] Oh. Jesus Christ.
- [eerie music plays]
- Did you hear that?
- Yeah.
It sounds like Ashley's mom
getting humped.
- It does not.
- Guys, look.
- [Myc groans] Oh shit.
- [kids gasp] Whoa.
[Myc yells] Ah! What the fuck? My stem!
Where am I?
It's… it's…
An alien.
[slowly] I'm Kevin. This is Earth.
Do you have a name?
[Myc] I… I don't know.
All I remember
is a gigantic sense of my own self-worth.
According
to my junior pocket encyclopedia,
he has amnesia. [snorts]
Guys, we gotta take him back to my house
and help him get his memory back.
Yeah. It's the code of the summer friends.
[all] Summer friends!
[Myc] Yeah, I like
what this asthmatic virgin has to say.
- What?
- [Myc, slowly] Take me to a couch!
[mysterious music playing]
I don't get it.
He should have landed right here.
Myc, you out here, buddy?
- Well, I guess we tried.
- Look, bike tracks.
Small bikes.
Kids or possibly Vietcong.
Great, we're officially government agents
looking for a lost extraterrestrial
kidnapped by children.
- Like that classic movie, Mac and Me.
- [giggles]
This is bad, guys.
If Myc gets exposed, J.R. will make us
exterminate the whole town.
No one wants that, except maybe Glenn.
Just keeping our options open.
We can't let a whole town
get killed on our watch.
We'll get fired. Or promoted?
I can never remember how evil we are.
I can't track Myc's smartwatch
without my phone.
Quick, what's the most advanced
computing technology we have?
- [beeping]
- [groans] Okay, fork it over.
Reagan says find Myc,
and do not let anyone see you.
- [whirring]
- [dramatic music plays]
[crashing, clattering]
[hooting]
Goddamn it. Fucking '80s owl.
Global warming will take care of you.
[upbeat music playing]
[tires screech]
[inhales deeply] Ah.
Still Valley,
where Ronald Reagan is always president
and Me Too was just the answer to,
"Who else wants to go to Bennigan's?"
Okay, split the town into quadrants
and search on foot,
while I try to rig a tracker
for the signal for Myc's watch.
[siren wailing]
[tires screech]
Well, some pretty gnarly driving
there, huh?
What are you guys, the A-Team?
- What's the A-Team?
- [both gasp]
- She don't know The A-Team?
- Who wouldn't know The A-Team?
[laughs] Of course she knows
the most popular show on television,
which we all watch together as a family,
which we are.
- A family, Brett?
- [whispers] It's the perfect plan.
We'll go undercover as an '80s family,
earn the town's trust, and locate Myc.
That's convoluted and wacky.
It'll never work.
Works for me.
I hope you guys like the '80s,
'cause that's what
the temperature's gonna be all week.
[laughs]
[mellow music playing]
Ah, I still can't believe
we were able to buy a 1980s family home
with the cash in our wallets.
Why are baby boomers so mad all the time?
We don't know.
Look, we're just staying in this house
as a cover while we hunt for Myc.
- Now, let's get this over with.
- I have undercover roles for everyone.
Glenn, you'll be the dad,
a gruff yet lovable teacher
at the high school.
You can grill your students for info.
A Guantanamo for teenagers? I love it.
Gigi, you'll be
our mom/editor of the local paper.
Snoop that gossip.
A baby and a briefcase? I want it all.
Andre, you'll be
a local Chinese restaurant owner.
I'm Korean.
And, Reagan, we're fraternal twins.
I'll be the boy.
Fine. Let's just go investigate
wherever normal kids hang out.
I wanna say welding-parts store.
Oh, sweet emotionally abused Reagan.
We're going to the mall.
'80s wipe!
[mysterious music playing]
- [door closes]
- Okay, it's safe to come out now.
- [Myc farts, groans]
- [girl sniffs] Ugh.
I'm Kevin, kind of a regular kid.
That's Charlie, a girl with a boy's name.
Ashley, a boy with a girl's name.
And that's Lamar.
But my friends call me O.J.,
after my hero.
[Myc] Yeah, I can't remember why,
but I'm not gonna do that.
- Do you have a name?
- [Myc] I'm not sure.
The last thing I can remember
is getting needled
by a bunch of inferior beings.
Needles? [gasps]
The government
must have been experimenting on him.
[watch beeping]
[watch voice] Myc, this is your reminder
to renew your subscription to…
- [woman moans]
- [gruff voice] …MrSkin.com.
[kids] Whoa!
This must be a device to communicate
with his home planet of… Bukkake?
Maybe some food will help him
get his memory back.
- [Myc] Fuck it. What the hell?
- [eerie music plays]
[Myc groans, spits]
Oh Jesus, what are you feeding me?
Licorice rabbit turds?
You dickheads trying to poison me
or something? Fucking shit!
I'm learning so many new alien words.
[Myc] God, I'm bored!
Where'd that hot mom go?
Is dad in the picture?
I'm getting a joint-custody vibe
off of you. Am I right?
['80s pop music playing]
[siren wailing]
Oh, so this is where Cognito unloads
all the hazardous products
they can't sell anymore.
Introducing new Tylenol eZ Cap,
with a cap so loose
even a baby could swallow it.
[coos]
[swallows, laughs]
This is the life, eh, Reag?
People shopping in actual stores.
And instead of smartphones,
filthy pay phones.
[coughing]
Well, yeah, but we have
same-day delivery, Wi-Fi,
and phones
that we never have to actually talk on.
Where's Andre?
[giggles] Oh my God, that accent.
I've never been with an Oriental guy.
Okay, I'm trying to decide
if you're hot enough
to get away with saying that.
Bow. What's your name?
It's Doc
Uh, I… I…
I mean Duck… Duck Peking.
Ah fuck!
- [gong rings]
- What the hell was that?
Sorry.
Oh, maybe I can turn
these hoop earrings into weapons
and torture information out of someone.
No. We're doing this together.
Dude, what is your deal?
You have been super clingy
ever since we got here.
Because in the '80s everyone has a clique.
Nerds, jocks…
- [laughs]
- [laugh maliciously]
[Brett] …evil mayors
who wanna tear down the rec center.
Hey, we need our own group name.
How about the Brett Pack?
When would we even use that?
Brett Pack never says die.
[school bell rings]
All right, I'm your new history teacher,
Mr. Dolphman.
O Captain, my Captain!
[shouts] Knock it off!
All right, jibber-jabber,
which one of you delinquents
is secretly harboring a talking mushroom?
We're not answering
any questions from adults,
not until this town
lifts the ban on dancing.
Eh, not sure how or why
an entire town could ban dancing,
but I don't like your attitude!
Eat my shorts.
- [tense music plays]
- [grunts] You gunning for detention?
Mr. Dolphman,
are you physically striking a student?
Uh, well, uh…
Let me give you my belt.
Beating lessons into kids
is very socially acceptable these days.
God bless this decade!
[belt cracks]
All right, you ink-stained desk jockeys,
let's break some news.
- [slow banjo music plays]
- [reporters snoring]
[donkey brays]
- I said wake the hell up!
- [yelps]
We've got a missing persons case,
and it's the biggest thing
to ever happen in this sleepy-ass town.
I don't know,
we had a big story last year.
The hell?
Are you kidding me with this crap?
Don't worry, boss.
It'll run first thing Sunday
if there aren't too many coupons.
- Oh yeah, coupons are a big thing.
- Everyone uses coupons.
How could '80s news be so slow?
I thought you were all on cocaine.
On a reporter's salary?
Uh, not unless there's
some cheap, new, smokable version
we don't know about yet.
[both laughing]
Hook me up.
Listen, where I'm from,
the news is inflammatory opinions
that even the reporters don't believe.
Grab your laptops. Write this down.
Opinion one. Blind people
shouldn't be allowed to have dogs.
Opinion two. Only blind people
should be allowed to have dogs.
Are you getting this down?
'Cause Gigi is on a roll, baby.
[all typing]
['80s pop music playing]
So how was everyone's day?
Exhausting.
I had to make up
a whole 24-hour news cycle
out of thin air.
I had to jam their info
with so much 'tainment.
I had to stay three hours late
to supervise the brats
I sent to detention,
but then they kept coming of age!
Come on, it's not all bad. Right, Andre?
[groans] This town is racist as hell.
Everyone keeps bowing at me.
A kid challenged me to a karate fight,
and every time I say anything,
somebody rings a gong.
[gong rings]
Who are you?!
You know what I'm hearing?
A lot of feelings.
And we never open up like this
at work. Right, Reagan?
- Huh?
- [device powers up]
Booyah. While the rest of you guys
were playing house,
I MacGyvered together a homing device.
Just like the TV show.
- What TV show?
- [rapid beeping]
Lock on Myc!
Let's go grab him and get the fuck
out of this one-decade town.
No, we were supposed to watch
Growing Years as a family.
The season premiere's on tonight.
Brett, it aired 40 years ago.
When we get home, you can stream it.
You can't stream me back to my childhood!
- [suspenseful music plays]
- Okay, I see what's going on.
This wasn't a plan to find Myc.
It was your weird plan
to spend more time in fantasyland.
It's just everything
is so much better here.
Listen, Brett,
someone has to tell you this.
- Nostalgia is bullshit.
- [somber music plays]
It is a brain-worm
that makes adults regress into children
who argue about Ghostbusters
while the world fucking burns.
Hey, don't say things
about Ghostbusters you can't take back.
- Ghostbusters…
- Don't.
- …Is fucking…
- Don't you dare.
- …Stupid.
- [all gasp]
You never enjoyed anything as a kid,
so you can't understand
how much this stuff means to me.
Brett, you can stay here
in the past if you want,
but we're gonna find Myc
with or without you.
I can't believe
we came out of the same womb!
- [door slams]
- We didn't.
Mmm, mmm, mmm.
I thought I raised you better than this.
[Myc] And that's how you smoke
and drink at the same time.
- Is your memory back yet?
- [Myc] Almost, yeah. Uh.
Why don't you grab
another Bartles & Jaymes
and see if that does the trick?
Oh, and tell whoever decorated this room
that it looks like a TGI fucking Fridays.
Kevin, I don't think Myc is actually nice.
He keeps eating all your Zoobooks
and punching holes in the walls.
I don't think he's punching.
[Myc laughing naughtily] Ooh.
And I don't wanna make a big thing of it,
but he called me Leroy twice
and Tyrone once.
I don't know, guys.
What if the government finds him?
Maybe President Reagan
will give us a medal.
[Myc] Reagan.
Reagan? Why does that name
annoy the crap out of me?
Nah, lost it. [belches]
Main kid, go get your hot mom's car keys.
We're going to the liquor store.
No. All you've done
is take advantage of us.
According
to my junior pocket encyclopedia,
you're a dick.
[Myc] Fine, I was leaving anyway.
Put me back in your bike basket
and bring me back where you found me.
- Well?
- You can walk to the bikes.
[Myc grunts, coughs]
Oh, your Earth atmosphere,
it's like poison.
[pants] Carry me!
[kids groan]
[Myc] Yeah, that's right.
Carry me, you swine.
[mysterious music playing]
[scans, beeps]
Okay, Brett, it's no big deal.
You just wanna stay here
a little longer with your friends.
Just a couple spritzes of Nostalgia Max,
and they will love it here
as much as you do.
Oh no. No, no.
[yells] Fuck!
[hesitating] Okay,
a full tank of Nostalgia Max
mixed with banned '80s products
full of dangerous chemicals.
[sinister voice] What could go wrong?
[dramatic music playing]
[sinister voice] Did I do that?
Yes! Yes, I did!
- [beeping]
- [Reagan] Okay, this is it.
Vietcong stronghold.
Damn it. This was Myc's last location.
He must have left tracks.
Man, maybe I was too harsh on Brett.
I just don't get why he's so obsessed
with this decade.
He is clearly going through something.
He said he wanted to be
streamed back to his childhood.
I've known POWs
with a better grip on reality.
I thought it was another one
of his weird '80s references.
- I mean, what the hell is a Koosh ball?
- How would you know?
You've never watched
anything from the '80s.
And it's not about what a Koosh is.
It's what a Koosh means.
How do I make it up to him?
Like most white dudes,
the only way to bond with Brett
is to watch '80s movies
then quote them
instead of thinking of jokes yourself.
- [scary music plays]
- Go. We'll keep looking.
And if I see one goddamn rewind fee…
- Thanks, Glenn.
- [emotionally] They grow up so fast.
Good evening, ma'am.
It's Super Saver Night.
- What do you want to see?
- Everything.
I wanna super save my friendship.
['80s guitar music plays]
Listen, I don't need to know
your whole deal.
['80s rock music playing]
Watchin' all the stuff
That everyone likes  ♪
They're gonna get remakes
Again and again and again  ♪
Until you die  ♪
Okay, I memorized
your whole must-see list,
but I still don't get why Brett
is so wrapped up in this stuff.
- [gentle music plays on TV]
- I'm sorry I went in your room, Mitch.
I just wanted to be like my big brother.
You're my hero, Mitch.
[studio audience] Aw!
The hell? That family looks just like
The Weavers. The heartwarming family
from TV's The Growing Years.
[Deany on TV] Yeah, meat and loaf.
Oh my God. That family in the hologram
wasn't his family.
It was this '80s sitcom family.
I'm not sure who we're talking about.
Yeah, welcome to my fucking world.
[banging loudly]
[Brett roars]
- [dramatic music playing]
- [gasps]
[Brett, in sinister voice]
Don't you forget about me.
Where is my Brett Pack?
[Myc] Faster.
I thought you kids were hopped up
on milk hormones and grape juice.
I'm pedaling as fast as I can.
[Myc] Seriously?
[chuckles] No wonder your dad left.
- That's it!
- [tires screech]
- Fuck you, Myc!
- [Myc yells]
- [Myc yells] Shit!
- [adventurous music playing]
You ruined the magic of childhood.
I hope you get mutilated
by the government, asshole!
[Andre] Oh, the signal's back.
It's coming toward us really quickly.
It's like he's right on top of us.
- [Myc grunts]
- [coworkers scream]
Found him.
[Myc groans] I remember everything.
[laughs] It's you guys.
I hate you guys.
Wait, there's one missing.
- [Andre and Glenn gasp]
- Oh my God. Brett!
[Myc] Yeah, Brett.
That big, dumb pussy
with all the Mormon energy.
He's floating right behind me, isn't he?
Oh my God! Oh shit!
[sinister voice] I am
the mighty Nostalgia Max!
Bow before my totally tubular power!
- It's the chemtrails!
- He must have gotten an overdose.
He's turned
into some kind of nostalgia monster!
I'm Lester Majors live in Town Square.
- Ow!
- [grunts]
Oh no, you don't, Lester.
This is my scoop.
Pandemonium tonight as some kind
of nostalgia monster attacks Town Square.
Are your children going to die?
If you change that channel,
they just might.
Brett, float down here right this second.
[sinister voice]
Wha'choo talkin' 'bout, Glennis?
[groans] Where's the beef?
Where's the beef?
- Where's the beef?
- Don't let him spray you.
You'll become a stunted man-child
like Chris Hardwick!
- Oh God.
- We're staying in the '80s forever!
It will be radical!
[siren wails]
[laughing]
Say hello to my little friends.
- [toys laughing]
- Don't let them leave.
- [toys laughing]
- [Myc screams] Holy shit!
- [Glenn screams]
- [robot] The cow says die!
[Myc] Pull me up, pull me up!
Oh God!
It's Ready Player One all over again!
[coworkers gasp]
Brett, what's with
your whole Firestarter, Slimer vibe?
It's a little derivative.
How much time
did you spend at Blockbuster?
Enough to make this.
[whirring]
[laughs]
[grunting]
[Cabbage Patch Kid laughing]
[clanking]
- [Cabbage Patch Kid laughs]
- [laughs]
I didn't know violence could end badly.
[Myc] Tragic, dead at 40.
Hey, fuck you.
[coworkers gasp]
- [gasps]
- [Brett grunts]
Brett, listen.
I know why you're doing this.
I get it now.
All this junk was important to you
because you were using a fake family
to make up for your crappy one.
Am I right?
[growls] I… I…
Fight it, Brett.
Think of your real family. [echoes]
- [family laughing]
- [laughing]
Family photo. Everybody crowd in, come on.
[soft music playing]
[Brett's dad laughs]
My kids, they're champions.
- Except for Brett.
- [woman] Which one's Brett?
[horse nickers]
Master Brett, your parents called.
They'll be extending their trip
to Barbados one more week.
But tomorrow's my birthday.
Indeed.
Are my brothers coming?
They send their best from military school
and rehab, respectively.
Will there be anything else?
No, I'm okay.
You're my hero, Mitch.
[studio audience] Aw!
[sinister voice] I just want…
[normal voice] Wanted a… a loving family.
Hey, I get it, man.
My family was dogshit too.
But you don't need a fake family
when you've got real BFFs.
- [mellow music playing]
- My BFFs?
We're your business family forever.
- [toys crashing]
- [gasps]
- [coworkers laughing]
- [Myc] Yeah, all right!
This just in,
all the white people are hugging.
It really is the fucking '80s.
Whoa, I really got hit hard
with nostalgia.
I'm so sorry, guys.
I guess I got carried away
by this fake '80s town.
[chuckles] But I'm ready
to go back to the 2020s.
Wait a minute. Fake '80s town?
- [dramatic music plays]
- And what did you mean by 2020s?
Are you from the future?
Uh, yes, let's go with that.
- We'll see you guys in 30-something years.
- Wait, can we use your time machine?
We want to go back
to the one perfect decade, the 1950s.
- [dramatic music plays]
- Huh. I guess everybody's nostalgic
for a simpler time
that never really existed.
And the word "Chinese"
just meant "generally Asian."
I really fucking hate this town.
- [gong rings]
- Goddamn it!
[mellow music playing]
[Myc] Oh hey, virgins.
Kevin, Charlie, fat kid, Tyrone.
Man, come on.
I guess you'll be going back
to your home planet.
[Myc] It's actually
a brownstone in Alexandria.
But don't worry, Kevin.
- [slowly] I'll be right here.
- [grunts]
[Myc] That's for throwing me off a cliff,
you little bastard.
You know, Brett,
you weren't totally wrong.
This decade did bring us
accidentally closer together.
Hey, I've got an idea
for when we get back.
- Family dinner. What are we watching?
- Boom.
Can you believe Goonies was only 6.99?
Thoroughly, yes.
[inhales deeply] Ah.
- [The Goonies playing on TV]
- Everything you remember?
Even better.
[VHS tape ejecting]
So is their disabled brother
just straight up chained to a wall?
Huh. Wow, yeah, that's…
That hits different today.
Watchin' all the stuff
That everyone likes  ♪
They're gonna get remakes
Again and again and again  ♪
Until you die  ♪
Remakes till you reach for a gun  ♪
Remakes till the heat death of the sun  ♪
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