Swarm (2023) s01e05 Episode Script

[bees buzzing]
Uh, so I heard a secret
a few days ago.
Well, I'm not sure
if it's a secret anymore,
because it was
all over Twitter this morning.
What secret?
Uh, somebody bit
Ni'Jah in the face.
[audience laughing]
Yeah, yeah, apparently
the whole thing went down
at her husband Caché's
after-party.
[male host] Oh, yeah, yeah,
I was in Toronto at the time,
uh, but I was getting
a lot of texts about it.
- So you and Jenny weren't there?
- Sadly, no.
That makes me feel a lot better
about not being invited.
Hey!
- [laughter]
- Oh.
Hello. Can I help you?
Oh. [chuckles]
Looks like someone had
a wild night.
New screen?
The phone.
It stopped working.
Okay, copy that, copy that.
Well, my name is Kenny.
Nice to meet you.
What's your name?
Marissa.
- Oh.
- Jackson.
All right, Marissa Jackson.
Nice to meet you.
Okay.
Now can I see your ID, please?
Left it at home.
Oh, okay, all right.
What about your phone number?
- 713
- Mm-hmm.
- 082
- Mm-hmm.
[typing]
All right.
Now, do you have
the passcode for this account?
You know what, you seem
like you're in a pickle.
So let me help
a sister out, okay?
Just give me a second.
Okay, so it says this number
has been deactivated
by a Harris Jackson?
He-he turned the phone off?
[inhales deeply] Yeah,
and, um, it also says that
this number will be
reassigned in
- ten days.
- What?!
[gasps]
But this phone belongs to me.
It says right here,
apparently this phone
does not belong to you.
Is Harris Jackson
a relative of yours?
I need this phone to work.
[sighs] Look, family drama.
I get it.
I've been there before.
But I feel like he's the one
that you should be talking to.
Listen.
I need you to turn
this phone back on.
There's there's, uh,
really important things
on it, really important.
[sighs]
Well, everything is
still on there. You
I need it to work.
[sighs] Well, I can't.
But I can call
Mr. Jackson for you.
- [slaps]
- Do not call Mr. Jackson.
You know what?
This is feeling
a little bit sketchy.
Mm, mm-mm.
I don't feel right about this.
I'm sorry,
I cannot help you, ma'am.
You can't or you won't?
[exhales]
Ooh. [chuckles]
Wow, this is intense.
I'm gonna have to ask you
to leave.
[whispers] I'm so sorry.
Hold up.
Dre?
Oh, my God, Dre!
Oh, my God, oh, my God.
[crying]
You know who bit Ni'Jah?
Maybe.
Maybe, maybe?
What's that, maybe?
[laughs] Oh, I see
what you're doing.
Don't worry, because
I'm gonna keep nagging you.
Was it somebody famous?
I plead the Fifth.
[female host] Fine,
but now I'm pissed.
Because who would do that?
Who would bite that gorgeous
woman in the face?
Girl, come on
Sorry, the line
for the mocha was super long.
But I got you all your favorite
condiments, extra hot sauce.
[chuckles]
So how the hell
you been, girl?
So you work here now?
Yeah.
It's not so bad.
The Sharpstown Mall sucks now,
so the pay's
pretty consistent here.
So how long you been back?
You split so randomly.
I'm just here
for a little while.
And then just got
to take care of something.
Where'd you go?
A little bit of everywhere.
[scoffs]
I wish I had the money
to travel and shit.
You look really good.
Thanks. You look really
different, too.
Ay, girl, please.
I got chubby.
You can say it.
- I had a baby.
- For real?
Mm-hmm, he's part
of the Alief crew.
Actually, um
Khalid's older brother Talib.
Khalid had an older brother?
[Erica] Mm-hmm.
We met at the funeral.
We saw you
um, leave the funeral.
Was everything okay?
[scoffs]
Yeah.
Mm-hmm, life goes on.
[sighs] Dude,
my nipples are killing me.
I stopped breastfeeding
because of my schedule,
but my boobs be so mad.
[mutters]
[laughs]
Oh, yeah. I got, um
I got a tattoo of Marissa.
She loved my girls,
so I thought it was fitting.
I was wildin' for a minute
after she died.
I think everyone
handled it differently.
Like, I guess, you had to leave.
Yeah.
Seriously.
What have you been up to?
Coming back, looking
all stylish and shit.
Where you been?
I was traveling,
now I'm settled in L.A.
Ooh-la-la. Fancy.
- What you doing there?
- This and that.
It's all good.
You don't have to say.
It's just
I made a promise to Marissa
that I would leave Houston.
I started doing makeup.
All the stuff
that Marissa taught me.
And I got a contact
to Drama Queen,
and I, I told her what happened,
and she felt so bad
that she hired me
as an assistant
to her assistant.
And we were in Atlanta
for a little,
and then while she was
touring I started to do some
makeup for her friends
from time to time.
And then
one of them just
invited me to this party.
And I don't know
whose place it is at first.
And then I run into
Angie Hutton.
Get out!
- Ni'Jah's mom?
- Yes.
And she's so nice.
And she, she
We just, we hit it off.
She thought I was so funny.
And she just kept saying,
"You remind me
so much of my daughter.
You really need to meet her."
And I, you know,
I just, I told her
about what happened
with Marissa.
And-and she just
couldn't believe it.
So then she gives me her number.
And she tells me to call her
the next morning.
So I did.
And she picked up.
And she says,
"Meet me at this really
fancy brunch spot."
And when I get there,
I walk to the table.
And it's Ni'Jah.
[exhales]
It's Ni'Jah.
And she's glowing.
She's glowing and I can feel it.
And she turns around,
and she says
"There she is."
And she gives me
a big hug.
And it feels like
the longest hug I ever had.
Then she says,
"I feel like I
I know you.
Like we've always known
each other."
And we just, we talked
for hours. [laughs]
I get there at 11:00 a.m.
and I don't leave until 4:00.
We were laughing and they
kept on bringing mimosas.
- And we just laughed and laughed.
- [laughs]
Now I've been
doing her mom's makeup
for the past couple months.
Yeah, and, and it's
it's amazing.
I'm living a dream.
Wow.
You know, I always knew
you were gonna be something.
I was like, "She's so weird,
but she's got something."
Marissa would be
so proud of you.
I know.
I know.
[pigeons cooing]
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[doorknob rattles]
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[clatters]
♪
♪
[growling]
Hey.
[growling]
That's a good boy.
Hey, Otis, come on.
- Aw.
- [panting]
[inhales deeply] Hi.
Oh, you got fat.
Hey, buddy.
Hi, big boy. We still friends?
Hi. We're still friends?
[Otis whines]
[Phil Kieran: "Snakes Crawl"]
Records spin ♪
Flabby skin ♪
Pigs feed ♪
Full of greed ♪
Limp crank ♪
Phones ring ♪
Ding-a-ling, ding-a-ling ♪
Records spin ♪
Flabby skin ♪
Pigs feed ♪
Full of greed ♪
Limp crank ♪
Phones ring ♪
Ding-a-ling, ding-a-ling ♪
[singers vocalizing]
Snakes crawl ♪
Babies fall ♪
Cars crash ♪
Heads bash ♪
Rats bite ♪
Boys fight ♪
Noses run ♪
Girls have fun ♪
Ears hear ♪
Tongues lick ♪
I feel ♪
Lips peel ♪
Rats bite ♪
Boys fight ♪
Noses run, girls have fun ♪♪
[singers vocalizing]
- [clock chiming]
- [Harris] I know what they're doing.
They're doing it just
to charge higher prices.
[Patricia] No, maybe you can
just try something different.
- [Harris] Different? I said I liked my food.
- [keypad beeping]
- Okay.
- That wasn't the case. It's the menu.
Okay, well,
my salmon was delicious.
That's all I'm saying.
Got a package.
What you get now?
Some hair products.
Every day I come here,
you got a new box here.
Well, I was waiting on them
and they're here.
You know that boy of yours
keep overwatering my hydrangeas.
Which one, Ricardo?
No, the other one.
Hmm.
I'll take care of it later.
You left the light on up here.
I did what?
You left the light on, honey.
Asked today if other women
have received money
from the president,
Press Secretary Sarah Sanders
would only say
that she's not aware.
Rudy Giuliani was also asked
if the president would ever take
the Fifth Amendment
in the Russia investigation,
and he did not rule it out.
Mr. Trump, you'll recall,
has repeatedly said
that "only criminals take
the Fifth."
[man speaking indistinctly
on TV]
Andrea.
Where is he?
He's upstairs.
Come to finish the job,
have you?
You look
normal.
That's good for you.
Marissa's phone.
Turn it back on.
I don't deal with any of that.
You need to speak to Harris.
Yeah, well, I'm talking to you.
No, you are not.
Sort that with him.
You can't take much more away
from us than you already have.
Listen.
Just, please turn
the phone back on.
Just, please, the phone.
♪
Put the gun down.
I'll shoot her.
No, she won't.
[Harris] Girl, this is Texas.
I'll shoot your ass
and have a beer
over your dead body.
Now I'm only gonna say this
one more time.
Put the gun down.
Now put your hands
over your head
and walk towards the kitchen.
Put your hands over your head!
Why are you here?
Something about Marissa's phone.
[Harris] Phone?
Just t-turn it back on.
[Harris] Why are you
really here?
- The phone.
- [liquid pouring]
[Harris] You something else,
you know that?
You came all the way back here
because you lonely?
See?
I knew she'd come back.
I knew that funeral wasn't
the last time I'd see her.
I should've killed you then.
You killed Marissa.
She'd be with us right now
if it wasn't for you.
She was my family, too,
and you had no right
to make me leave that funeral.
Hmm.
How long was she lying to us
behind our back,
paying your rent?
[crying] We took care
of each other.
Bullshit.
I had a long time to think
about why this happened.
And I realized
it was restitution.
Mama was sick.
Gave all our money
to the doctors.
After my son died,
the business fell through.
And there you were.
A check at the front door.
Taking that money
was the biggest mistake
I ever made.
They say
at your highest moments,
that's when the devil
comes for you.
What they don't tell you
is, at your lowest,
he's already
motherfucking there.
Patricia, go to the next room.
Turn around.
I said turn around.
[yelps, whimpers]
[Otis barking]
[Dre screams]
- [Harris] Fuck! Bitch!
- [yelps]
Patricia! She's upstairs!
Watch out!
Patricia, go outside,
don't come back till I say so.
- [lock clicks]
- [panting]
Patricia, get the dog.
Move!
Get the fuck out of her room!
- [bees buzzing]
- I'm gonna kill her!
[Chloe x Halle:
"All I Ever Wanted"]
- All I ever wanted, all I ever ♪
- All I ever ♪
- All I ever wanted, all I ever ♪
- All I ever ♪
- All I ever wanted, all I ever ♪
- All I ever ♪
- All I ever wanted, all I ever ♪
- All I ever ♪
- All I ever wanted, all I ever, all I ever wanted ♪
- All I ever ♪
- All I ever ♪
- All I ever, all I ever wanted ♪
- All I ever ♪
- All I ever, all I ever wanted ♪
- All I ever ♪
- All I ever, all I ever wanted ♪
- All I ever ♪
- All I ever, all I ever wanted ♪
- All I ever ♪
- All I ever, all I ever wanted ♪
- All I ever ♪
- All I ever, all I ever wanted
[Harris] You destroyed
this family.
[Dre grunting]
I'm gonna cut
your fucking head off.
You don't think
I can break down this door?!
Get the fuck out
of her room. [grunts]
Open the fucking door!
- [gunshots]
- [gasping]
[Otis barking]
[gasps]
[slamming]
[Harris] There's no way out!
[grunting]
[barking continues]
Where the fuck are you?
- [thud]
- [Dre crying in pain]
[Otis barking]
[Harris] Haven't you taken
enough from this family?!
- [gunshot]
- [gasps]
- You killed my baby girl!
- [racks shotgun]
- Now I'm gonna kill your ass!
- [gunshot]
- [racks shotgun]
- [gunshots]
[gasps, screams]
[Harris] Come back again,
I'll blow your fucking head off!
[Erykah Badu:
"Caint Use My Phone (Suite)"]
- I'm gonna kill you, motherfucker!
- No!
[Harris] Keep running.
Keep running!
I'll call the cops
on your sorry ass.
[Dre groaning]
[neighbors speaking
indistinctly]
- [Harris] You killed her.
- [Dre] No!
- [Harris] You killed Marissa!
- [Dre] He's trying to kill me!
[Harris] You took her for life!
[Dre] She hated you!
She hated you!
[dog barking]
[Harris] I don't want
to ever see your face again.
Ever!
[siren wailing]
- [shotgun racks]
- Damn you, Dre!
Damn you to hell!
Ah ♪
You can call her,
but you can't use my phone ♪
Ah ♪
You can call her,
but you can't use my phone ♪
Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
Better use telepathy ♪
'Cause you can't use
my phone ♪
Ah ♪
Get a towel and some smoke ♪
- 'Cause you can't use my phone ♪
- Down, calling, up, right ♪
Down, dialing, dialing ♪
- You can call her, but you can't use my phone ♪
- Calling, dialing, right ♪
Up, right, down,
calling, calling ♪
- You can call her, but you can't use my phone ♪
- Calling, dialing, right ♪
Up, right, down ♪
Calling, calling, calling ♪
Badu, Badu, Badu, Badu ♪♪