Dead Ringers (2023) s01e06 Episode Script
Six
1
Previously on Dead Ringers
I hope you're going easy
on my Mantles, Silas.
It's a puff piece. Remember?
[BEVERLY] It's impossible to explain
this relationship, Silas.
Really.
I have learnt to only want
things because you want them.
The center, the pregnancy.
What was the point
if you're going to fucking abandon me?
[SNIFFS]
[SILAS] Thought you didn't
do this anymore, Elliot.
What Frankenstein shit
are you up to?
[TOM] You have almost grown a baby
through the first fucking trimester.
[REBECCA] Where's your sister?
It's just a shame.
She's my favorite.
[MAN] Some old lady found in the gutter
on the back roof of that building.
Oh
[MAN] She'd been there for ages.
Fuck.
[BEVERLY] Genevieve,
I've left her.
[WHISPERS] Beverly.
[BEVERLY] She doesn't exist.
[ELLIOT] Beverly!
Don't go.
Beverly.
[LEAVES RUSTLING]
[SIGHS]
[INHALES SHARPLY]
[BUZZING]
Hey, Beverly.
Morning, Beverly.
Hello, Beverly.
[BUZZING CONTINUES]
- Good morning.
- If there's anything you need
just press the call
button on your bracelet.
[HOLOGRAM BEVERLY] And someone will
be with you as soon as possible.
[PAINED MOANING]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[MOANING CONTINUES]
You okay?
[STRAINED BREATHING]
Yeah.
We're using an advanced form
of telemetry, developed
here in our research center.
We can observe mother and baby
without any intervention.
Martha, that's the mum,
doesn't need to be
strapped to a machine.
She can move around,
and we can keep an eye on heartbeats,
breathing, oxygen levels
without interrupting the process.
Move onto your back, Martha.
Okay.
[BUZZING]
[MARTHA MOANING]
Dad, get ready.
I'm right here. You're safe.
[BUZZING CONTINUES]
[SIGHS]
[ELLIOT] Come back to me.
- [BUZZING]
- Come back to me.
Come back to me.
Come back.
- [BOTH CHUCKLE]
- So, this
is a celebration of Beverly Mantle.
- [SUSAN CLAPS]
- [REBECCA] It's a success.
The Mantle Parker Center
is officially a success,
and you are at the
helm, queen of it all.
[LAUGHTER]
Am I making you very
uncomfortable, Beverly?
Look at her blush.
- Oh, babe.
- [SUSAN LAUGHS]
[SASHA] We were looking at the patient
satisfaction scores.
Everyone is just so happy.
Through the fucking roof.
[SUSAN] You are making
everyone so happy.
- I
- [SUSAN] The award. Beverly's getting an award,
- everybody.
- Yay, go, Beverly.
The lab is publishing
world-changing research
every single day.
- Yay, go, me.
- [LAUGHTER]
- [SUSAN] You're having babies
- [TOM] Yes.
[SUSAN] with a fucking movie star.
[GENEVIEVE] Maybe dial
it back a little bit?
[SUSAN] Yeah, it's like nothing bad
ever happens at the center,
you know? It's, like, women come in,
and they've lost all
hope, and they're so
full of fear and panic,
and you just take it all away.
You just make it all good again.
I don't think that that's true.
Okay, okay, but, you
know, if something happens
that's difficult or awful,
there are systems in place.
There's support available. It is all so
instinctual, so bespoke.
It's so fucking profitable.
[LAUGHTER]
It's exactly what you wanted it to be,
Beverly.
Yes. [CHUCKLES]
It's everything you ever wanted.
I know.
- To Beverly.
- Beverly.
- To Beverly.
- To Beverly.
And to the Mantle Parker Center.
All that it is and
- all that it could be.
- [GLASSES CLINK]
[EXHALES]
[WINCES]
Here you go.
[CHUCKLES]
[LARRY SIGHS]
[SASHA] We want to
continue with the rollout
of the Mantle Parker Center.
Three states, early next year.
Build on the success.
Keep the momentum going.
- That's very fast.
- [REBECCA] That was always
the plan. It works.
You agree?
Are you happy, Beverly?
[BUZZING]
- Yes. Yes.
- [LAUGHTER]
I'm happy, too.
Where's your sister?
Do you have any idea?
[BUZZING CONTINUES]
You've not
spoken?
[ELLIOT] Baby sister.
Baby sister. Baby sister.
- Baby sister.
- Are you in pain,
- Beverly?
- [ELLIOT] Baby sister.
That must be causing you pain.
[ELLIOT] Baby sister.
Come back.
- Or maybe not?
- Baby sister.
Baby sister.
- Baby sister. Baby sister.
- Maybe that's the shock?
- Baby sister.
- Life is better without her.
- [ELLIOT] Baby sister.
- Isn't it?
[BUZZING CONTINUES]
We need you to do something.
Um, excuse me, I just need one second.
- Beverly, are you?
- Could you just give me one second?
[SERVER] There you are.
[SIGHS]
Get up.
[BOTH PANTING]
On your knees.
[SQUELCHING]
[GROANS SOFTLY]
♪
[CHUCKLES]
[CHUCKLES]
I'm sorry.
[REBECCA] Silas Jordan is
about to publish his article.
I want you to know that there was
a version of this article that
effectively ended everything.
You, her, the center, Tom's career,
my reputation, Genevieve's
by association.
We tried to fight him on it,
scare the fuck out of him, but honestly,
- he has so much shit.
- [SASHA] And of course,
publishing this will
effectively un-cancel him.
He spoke to multiple colleagues
of yours, of Elliot's,
who say that she takes drugs
at work, that she spends
- her breaks in bars
- There's Alabama.
There's this whole
beautifully written, by the way,
section where he talks
about the two of them
getting fucked together
in my living room
just an hour before
she delivers my nieces.
Do you have any idea how much money
we had to pay my sister
just to shut her up?
She started getting all incontinent,
fucking Erin Brockovich on our ass.
[SASHA] He's heard
testimony from men who say
she gets them to show her their dicks
while their wives are on the
other side of the curtain.
[REBECCA] Yeah, I
never followed that one.
Like, she gets them?
Like, they're flashing
her in her workplace,
and yet, somehow, they're still claiming
that they're the victims.
And there's some dead homeless
woman shit that is frankly
Do you know about the
dead homeless woman shit,
Beverly?
- [BUZZING]
- [GENEVIEVE] Beverly?
[REBECCA] All of that might be fine,
might be manageable if we
shipped her off to rehab,
kept her fully behind the scenes.
I doubt anyone's got the energy
to bring down a woman as
brilliant as your sister
just because of some
negative-value homeless woman,
and as for the rest,
most people have a significantly
lower-than-you-might-think
"fuck off" price.
Like, we give Joseph ten grand,
tell him we know he
screwed a hooker in 2001,
in some kind of 9/11
grief fuck, and would he
like us to tell his wife?
And then we just watch his dick shrink.
But it's really the
amalgamation of all of it,
and we need you to do something.
No.
Hi.
Hi. Are you okay?
I [EXHALES] really love your show.
- Oh! [CHUCKLES]
- Aw.
[GENEVIEVE] Well, that's
so sweet, thank you.
- [TARA] Hi.
- What's your name?
- Tara.
- Hi, Tara, I'm Genevieve.
Yeah, I Do you think I could
- Oh, of course.
- Um, could I have some
- more water, please?
- Oh, hi, you know, actually, the lamb
- was not good.
- Are you really not coming back to Rabid?
[SUSAN] Like, it's such
a beautiful animal
[GENEVIEVE] It's a fun show, right?
[TOM] Are you old enough to watch it?
Isn't it kind of, uh
- with such a lack of dignity
- [TOM] I mean, I don't let my kids
You're my favorite character.
- I can taste that.
- I'm going to do this film.
- [SUSAN] I can taste shame, you know.
- [TARA] Oh.
- It's, uh, in Croatia.
- [BUZZING]
- That's really cool.
- Uh-huh.
And then just
some time at home.
Twins.
That's so cool. That's,
like, so exciting.
[REBECCA] Thank you so much.
I think your family must
be wondering what on earth
is taking you so long.
It was so nice to meet you.
Have a lovely evening.
Bye.
Doesn't that drive you fucking insane?
No.
So, he has enough to shut
down the center and start
a lawsuit and put your
sister in jail, and
we decided to engage.
- What does that mean?
- [REBECCA] We spoke
to him.
We gave him more fuel
to set her on fire.
All of you?
[CHUCKLES]
- All of you.
- Yes.
It wasn't difficult, Beverly.
[SUSAN] We need you to make a speech
at the awards.
Silas will be there.
You need to distance yourself publicly,
completely, from your sister.
You need to announce it before he does.
You need to destroy her.
I can't.
You have to.
Beverly?
Beverly I had to.
- She's always here.
- [BUZZING]
She's everywhere, Beverly.
She always will be,
unless we do something.
I had to.
♪
[BUZZING CONTINUES]
[PHONE BUZZING]
[LINDA] [OVER VOICE MAIL]
Hello, girls. Just saying hello.
Hello.
Hey, it's Mum.
Mum here.
Did you get my call?
We're excited to see you both,
to see what you've been
doing this whole time.
Hello, girlies.
It's your mum.
Hello, girls.
Well, here we are.
Please call me.
Your mum misses you.
Your father and I are fine.
Hope you're both well.
Your mum misses you.
Everything's fine, so that's very good.
Hello, girls.
Hello, loves.
Only me, only Mum.
Love you both.
Your mum misses you.
Hello, girls.
Just saying hello.
Hello.
[BEVERLY GRUNTS]
[BEVERLY EXHALES]
[EXHALES]
[SIMON] Lily, uh,
has a history of self-harm.
And, um,
last week I-I-I came home and
We, uh, we-we went to the ER.
I guess, um
I don't feel like, uh
Well
We don't feel like, um
she's getting the help,
you know, that she needs.
Mm-hmm.
Lily?
I don't want her.
She doesn't want me.
Um it's just this-this
awful mistake that I can't
figure out how to take back,
and I need to take it back.
I have to go back.
To
before.
- To the beginning.
- [BUZZING]
I I thought I would feel happy.
I thought this would make me feel happy.
[BUZZING CONTINUES]
I understand.
[ELLIOT] Nothing's this good.
I know it isn't.
Baby sister.
- Come back, baby sister, baby sister.
- [FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
Are you okay?
Do you know what you're
gonna say tonight?
You packed.
- You're leaving.
- I'm not leaving,
- I'm going to work.
- For four weeks.
And then I will be back.
You're behaving as though it's not
a significant amount of time.
- Behaving.
- I'm pregnant.
Beverly.
- I know.
- It's my job.
In the context of our relationship.
In the context of
what I give up for you,
of what I've given up for you.
- What you've given up for me?
- [BUZZING]
Yes, Beverly, I have given up for you.
I Sometimes
often, I have given things up for you.
- I've made concessions for you.
- Why do people say this to me?
Why do people say they
give things up for me?
Beverly, our whole relationship
has been about Elliot. Honestly.
I would like for that
not to be the case.
I would like for things to be different.
- [SCREAMS]
- The actress.
I would like for you
to fucking choose me
like I choose you.
- [SCREAMS]
- The actress.
I would like for us to be happy,
for you to choose
to be fucking happy with
me, with our children.
For fuck's sake, why are we here again?
Why am I doing this again?
Please, Beverly.
What are you gonna fucking
say tonight? [SIGHS]
[LINDA SPEAKING
INDISTINCTLY OVER SPEAKER]
[LINDA] [OVER SPEAKER]
Hello, girls. Hello, loves.
Only me. Only Mum.
Just saying hello.
Hello.
Hope you're both well.
Your father and I are fine.
Everything's fine, so that's very good.
Hey, it's Mum.
Mum here. Did you get my call?
- Hello, girlies, it's your mum.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- Please call me.
- You're very talented.
- Your mum misses you.
- Your mum misses you.
- I'm a writer.
- I've been writing articles lately.
- Your mum misses you.
I
Hello, girls.
Well, here we are.
I've been writing one
about the Mantle twins.
We're just getting ready.
- All packed, and-and
- What do you think of them?
Dad had to sit on the suitcase,
push all the birthday
[OVERLAPPING CHATTER]
[ELLIOT] Baby sister. Baby sister.
Baby sister.
- [ANNOUNCER] Beverly Mantle.
- [APPLAUSE]
Thank you, thank you.
Thank you so much for this great honor.
My sister and I worked
together our whole lives
to get to this moment,
and I'm so grateful.
I'm so grateful to my sister.
My sister is unable to
be here tonight. She is
unwell.
And she has been for some time.
We haven't spoken lately,
which has been painful,
and, um
Um
[ELLIOT] Baby sister, baby sister
It's-it's recently come to my attention
that my sister h-has a
pattern of behavior that
[ELLIOT] Baby sister, baby sister.
Well, it it could be described
as abusive.
- [CROWD MURMURING]
- [BEVERLY] Destructive.
Illegal.
No, not that could be
described as, that isn't enough,
that isn't good enough.
My sister has been abusive,
destructive, has
endangered lives in the most grave
and frightening manner, and
The Mantle Parker Center
strives to do work that is
groundbreaking but hopeful,
radical but safe,
and the award this evening is
a reflection of that, and
I will do nothing to
jeopardize that, so
going forward,
Elliot Mantle has nothing to do
- with the Mantle Parker Center.
- [CROWD MURMURING]
And the Mantle Parker Center
has nothing to do with her.
Um, thank you so much, thank you.
[APPLAUSE]
[ELLIOT] Baby sister.
[OVERLAPPING CHATTER]
Congratulations.
That was a great speech.
Congratulations on your excellent award.
Everyone is so proud.
It's the Karlovich Award. Yes.
That's the best award.
Everybody knows
the Tonys, the Grammys, the Karloviches.
I'm lying, nobody knows
what the fuck you just won.
Is it super important?
I feel like it must be.
Congratulations, Beverly.
I'm really so super
pumped for you. Great job.
[CLEARS THROAT] Excuse me, um,
could I have some water, please?
Thank you.
- [BARTENDER] Pardon?
- [CLEARS THROAT] Uh, uh
[AMERICAN INFLECTION] Water, thank you.
- [BARTENDER] Sure, no problem.
- [TOM CHUCKLES]
[BRITISH ACCENT] Water, water, yogurt,
schedule, pasta, pasta, basil.
[CHUCKLES]
You know, I really fucking loved
being that person at
dinner the other night.
Sort of shiny, right?
And-and lithe
and brilliant and successful.
Like, not being the
fucking butt of the joke.
It's such a fucking
cliché, right? Like, my wife
doesn't think I'm a fucking loser.
My kids don't look at me like
I'm covered in this sort of
damp, moist
layer of fucking pathetic.
And all it took
was to shit all over
the most extraordinary
person I've ever known.
And to steal her work and her lab
and everything that she's
ever worked for, and
and hope for her death
so that I can keep being
this reasonably okay
version of a human being
instead of just this
soup of disappointment.
You know that what you
just did will end her.
You know that, right?
You did this.
You started it. You set this in motion.
She would've been fine if you
hadn't fucking abandoned her.
Every Elliot fuckup is
recoverable if you're there.
Okay, well, this isn't sustainable, Tom.
Yeah, I don't think she knows that.
- I don't think you set her up for that.
- She's a fuckup.
- She's fucked everything up for me my whole life.
- That is not true.
- Yes, it is.
- You know that is not fucking true.
Everything she does is for you.
- Yeah, well
- Everything!
I didn't ask for that.
That is also not fucking true, Beverly.
I know that is, like,
the little Mantle lie
that you tell yourselves,
but that is just not true.
You are here because of
choices that you made, not her.
So, what's your plan?
[LAUGHS]
Hmm?
You're gonna let her rot? Die?
Disappear while you float off
and run your successful birthing center
and have your fucking babies
and live in your house
happily ever fucking after?
[BUZZING]
[GRETA] I was born in
the middle of the night
and was so quick to come
that my mother went into shock
and blood was everywhere,
and later
that night she died and I lived.
I was the last of three.
My mother got into the bath.
My brothers thought
she looked like a seal.
My father had buckets of ice
he held to her neck, her forehead.
My brothers flicked the
light switch on and off,
excited,
unable to sleep, and everyone
was light, was air,
was hope, joy,
until my mother was holding
the side of the bath
and blood was on her legs,
changing the color of the water, and
she must have been trying
very hard to remain calm,
remain calm.
Shh
Stay calm for my brothers
who occupied such
small bodies, even though they had to
age very suddenly about
eight hours later.
They got to the hospital.
Bunny ears in their mouths,
they waited for me to arrive,
expecting to be there for
such a long time, and then,
there,
my father is handed
a bundle, here,
a bundle of girl, of baby,
of limbs,
of skin,
blood,
flesh,
organs,
fingers,
and my brothers crowded
around, and here,
there,
here I was and
My father says everyone was kind.
That the doctor who told him
my mother had died
the doctor who told him
his daughter, minutes old,
had killed his wife
was very, very young
and that her hands shook.
He found himself looking for that doctor
any time he was in a crowd.
He couldn't tell you why.
[LEUNG] You look
very much like your mother.
[SNIFFLES]
Well, that's the idea.
Okay?
No.
I love you,
I love you, I love you,
I love you, I love you.
[THE SUPREMES: "MY
WORLD IS EMPTY WITHOUT YOU"]
[GENEVIEVE CHUCKLES]
My world is empty without you, babe ♪
My world is empty without you, babe ♪
And as I go my way alone ♪
I find it hard for me to carry on ♪
I need your strength, I
need your tender touch ♪
I need the love, my dear ♪
I miss so much ♪
My world is empty without you, babe ♪
My world is empty without you, babe ♪
From this whole world ♪
- I try to hide my face ♪
- I need you, babe ♪
But from this loneliness ♪
- There's no hiding place ♪
- I need you, babe ♪
Inside this cold and empty house ♪
- I dwell ♪
- I need you, babe ♪
In darkness with memories ♪
- I know so well ♪
- I need you, babe ♪
[BUZZING]
[BUZZING CONTINUES]
[BUZZING CONTINUES]
[BUZZING CONTINUES]
[ELLIOT] Baby sister.
Baby sister. Baby sister.
Baby sister. Baby sister. Baby sister.
Baby sister. Baby sister. Baby sister.
Baby sister. Come back
to me. Baby sister.
Baby sister. Baby sister.
Come back to me. Baby sister.
Baby sister. Come back
to me. Baby sister.
Baby sister. Baby sister. Come back.
Baby sister. Baby sister. Baby sister.
Come back. Baby sister. Baby sister.
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]
[BEVERLY SIGHING]
[BEVERLY] Elly?
Greta?
Elly?
[WHISPERS] No.
Elly?
[SNIFFLES]
Elly.
Elly?
[SNIFFING]
[SNIFFLING, CRYING]
Elly.
[BUZZING]
Elly.
- [ELLIOT] Baby sister.
- [BREATHING SHAKILY]
[SNIFFLES] I'm here.
Come and get me.
- [DOOR HISSES]
- [BEEPING]
- [DOOR CLOSES]
- [BEEPING STOPS]
♪
♪
[BEVERLY CRYING]
[ELLIOT CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
[KISSES]
[ELLIOT GRUNTS SOFTLY]
[BEVERLY BREATHING HEAVILY]
[ELLIOT SNIFFS, EXHALES]
♪
Oh, Elly.
Oh, Elly.
Fuck.
Fuck.
You did it for me.
For us.
They're beautiful.
Well, they're you.
They're perfect.
Where did you come from?
You're so perfect.
You're so deliciously perfect.
- [SIGHS]
- I'm so sorry.
What for?
Separation can be a terrifying thing.
Yes.
I think that's it.
I think I'm terrified.
Me, too.
You look very beautiful, baby sister.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
So do you.
Elly?
Yes, Beverly?
I don't think I'm capable of happiness.
I've tried so hard,
and I've got
as close as I think I could get.
With all this. [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
The babies.
You.
Late light, early dark solace,
and your hand in my hand
and the feeling just
here underneath my arms,
just underneath my arms,
the feeling of just having been caught.
- [CRYING]
- Do you remember when we were ten
and we went swimming,
and I couldn't find you
or you couldn't find me,
and there was just panic, was chaos?
I couldn't get back to the boat
or you couldn't,
and we separated,
and-and we forgot ourselves entirely.
That didn't happen.
[CHUCKLES]
No. No.
I
keep looking for windows, Elly.
I keep looking for air.
I keep looking for light.
[WHISPERS] You're it.
- You're it, found you.
- You're it, found you.
I have everything I
ever wanted, and I can't,
I can't draw breath.
It's a fishhook round
my middle pulling me up
when I want to be under.
I can't live without you.
But you don't have to.
I feel something,
oh, so close to happiness, Elly.
I have to climb inside you now.
There was only ever
supposed to be one of us.
You always were a better me.
[CHUCKLES]
[SNIFFLES]
- Don't forget the good part.
- Don't forget the good part.
[SNIFFLES]
This summer I went swimming ♪
[BOTH] This summer
I might have drowned ♪
But I held my breath
and I kicked my legs ♪
And I moved my arms around ♪
I moved my arms around ♪
[CHUCKLES]
I love you, Elly.
[WHISPERS] Baby sister.
It's time to go home now.
[ELLIOT] Mm-hmm.
[CHUCKLES]
♪
♪
Baby sister.
[GRUNTS]
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
[GRUNTING SOFTLY]
♪
[SHOUTS]
[GRUNTING LOUDLY]
[PANTING]
[GRUNTING, PANTING]
[BABY CRYING]
[GRUNTING]
[CLATTERING]
[BOTH BABIES CRYING]
[CRYING CONTINUES]
[MUTTERS]
It's okay.
Help me!
Somebody help!
Help me!
Help! Somebody help!
Let's get them to the NICU.
We need some help.
♪
♪
[SUSAN] Beverly.
Beverly, you're gonna be fine.
The babies.
The babies are fine.
Do you know what
happened? Can you remember?
[ELLIOT] My sister.
Your sister?
[ELLIOT] She helped me.
[SUSAN] Elliot helped you? How?
[REBECCA] She cut the babies out?
[SUSAN] Are you in pain?
Will you let a doctor examine you?
We can do that later.
[SUSAN] Where is your sister, Beverly?
Gone.
[THE DOORS: "THE END"]
[SUSAN] What do you mean, "gone"?
Gone where?
Congratulations, Beverly.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
[QUIETLY] Yes.
[CHUCKLES]
This is the end ♪
Beautiful friend ♪
This is the end ♪
My only friend, the end ♪
Of our elaborate plans, the end ♪
Of everything that stands ♪
The end ♪
- Hi
- No safety or surprise ♪
The end ♪
I'll never look ♪
Into your eyes ♪
Again ♪
Can you picture ♪
What will be? ♪
So limitless ♪
And free ♪
Desperately in need ♪
Of some stranger's hand ♪
In a desperate land ♪
Beverly.
♪
♪
[HEATHER] Beverly?
Hey. [CHUCKLES]
Oh.
Sorry.
I was on another planet.
Oh, well, sure.
Sleep deprivation will do that to you.
You had the baby.
- Congratulations.
- Yep.
Oh, my God. You had two.
Yep, there's two of them. [CHUCKLES]
You know, the last time we saw you,
you only knew about one.
Oh, my God.
That must have been
so painful for you. I am so sorry.
You know, we wondered
why you never came back.
Honestly, I hope it's okay for me
to say this, but it felt
like it gave you so much
to be able to talk about
the death of your sister.
It seemed to
release you somehow.
Where
Where did I talk about
the death of my sister?
You are tired. [CHUCKLES]
Uh-huh.
Where did I talk about
the death of my sister?
At the bereavement group in Midtown.
I thought you started coming
maybe a couple of years ago?
Yes.
My sister
died.
I know.
Did I
talk about how she died?
I don't, um
Uh, not really.
I think it had something
to do with the water?
The water?
Oh, yes.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
[CHUCKLING]
The water, yes.
That's how she died.
Have a nice day.
[GENEVIEVE EXHALES]
Who was that?
Oh, I don't know.
She thought I was my sister.
♪
[MAN] Beverly.
It's so good to see you again.
Would you like to
talk about your sister?
♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
Previously on Dead Ringers
I hope you're going easy
on my Mantles, Silas.
It's a puff piece. Remember?
[BEVERLY] It's impossible to explain
this relationship, Silas.
Really.
I have learnt to only want
things because you want them.
The center, the pregnancy.
What was the point
if you're going to fucking abandon me?
[SNIFFS]
[SILAS] Thought you didn't
do this anymore, Elliot.
What Frankenstein shit
are you up to?
[TOM] You have almost grown a baby
through the first fucking trimester.
[REBECCA] Where's your sister?
It's just a shame.
She's my favorite.
[MAN] Some old lady found in the gutter
on the back roof of that building.
Oh
[MAN] She'd been there for ages.
Fuck.
[BEVERLY] Genevieve,
I've left her.
[WHISPERS] Beverly.
[BEVERLY] She doesn't exist.
[ELLIOT] Beverly!
Don't go.
Beverly.
[LEAVES RUSTLING]
[SIGHS]
[INHALES SHARPLY]
[BUZZING]
Hey, Beverly.
Morning, Beverly.
Hello, Beverly.
[BUZZING CONTINUES]
- Good morning.
- If there's anything you need
just press the call
button on your bracelet.
[HOLOGRAM BEVERLY] And someone will
be with you as soon as possible.
[PAINED MOANING]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[MOANING CONTINUES]
You okay?
[STRAINED BREATHING]
Yeah.
We're using an advanced form
of telemetry, developed
here in our research center.
We can observe mother and baby
without any intervention.
Martha, that's the mum,
doesn't need to be
strapped to a machine.
She can move around,
and we can keep an eye on heartbeats,
breathing, oxygen levels
without interrupting the process.
Move onto your back, Martha.
Okay.
[BUZZING]
[MARTHA MOANING]
Dad, get ready.
I'm right here. You're safe.
[BUZZING CONTINUES]
[SIGHS]
[ELLIOT] Come back to me.
- [BUZZING]
- Come back to me.
Come back to me.
Come back.
- [BOTH CHUCKLE]
- So, this
is a celebration of Beverly Mantle.
- [SUSAN CLAPS]
- [REBECCA] It's a success.
The Mantle Parker Center
is officially a success,
and you are at the
helm, queen of it all.
[LAUGHTER]
Am I making you very
uncomfortable, Beverly?
Look at her blush.
- Oh, babe.
- [SUSAN LAUGHS]
[SASHA] We were looking at the patient
satisfaction scores.
Everyone is just so happy.
Through the fucking roof.
[SUSAN] You are making
everyone so happy.
- I
- [SUSAN] The award. Beverly's getting an award,
- everybody.
- Yay, go, Beverly.
The lab is publishing
world-changing research
every single day.
- Yay, go, me.
- [LAUGHTER]
- [SUSAN] You're having babies
- [TOM] Yes.
[SUSAN] with a fucking movie star.
[GENEVIEVE] Maybe dial
it back a little bit?
[SUSAN] Yeah, it's like nothing bad
ever happens at the center,
you know? It's, like, women come in,
and they've lost all
hope, and they're so
full of fear and panic,
and you just take it all away.
You just make it all good again.
I don't think that that's true.
Okay, okay, but, you
know, if something happens
that's difficult or awful,
there are systems in place.
There's support available. It is all so
instinctual, so bespoke.
It's so fucking profitable.
[LAUGHTER]
It's exactly what you wanted it to be,
Beverly.
Yes. [CHUCKLES]
It's everything you ever wanted.
I know.
- To Beverly.
- Beverly.
- To Beverly.
- To Beverly.
And to the Mantle Parker Center.
All that it is and
- all that it could be.
- [GLASSES CLINK]
[EXHALES]
[WINCES]
Here you go.
[CHUCKLES]
[LARRY SIGHS]
[SASHA] We want to
continue with the rollout
of the Mantle Parker Center.
Three states, early next year.
Build on the success.
Keep the momentum going.
- That's very fast.
- [REBECCA] That was always
the plan. It works.
You agree?
Are you happy, Beverly?
[BUZZING]
- Yes. Yes.
- [LAUGHTER]
I'm happy, too.
Where's your sister?
Do you have any idea?
[BUZZING CONTINUES]
You've not
spoken?
[ELLIOT] Baby sister.
Baby sister. Baby sister.
- Baby sister.
- Are you in pain,
- Beverly?
- [ELLIOT] Baby sister.
That must be causing you pain.
[ELLIOT] Baby sister.
Come back.
- Or maybe not?
- Baby sister.
Baby sister.
- Baby sister. Baby sister.
- Maybe that's the shock?
- Baby sister.
- Life is better without her.
- [ELLIOT] Baby sister.
- Isn't it?
[BUZZING CONTINUES]
We need you to do something.
Um, excuse me, I just need one second.
- Beverly, are you?
- Could you just give me one second?
[SERVER] There you are.
[SIGHS]
Get up.
[BOTH PANTING]
On your knees.
[SQUELCHING]
[GROANS SOFTLY]
♪
[CHUCKLES]
[CHUCKLES]
I'm sorry.
[REBECCA] Silas Jordan is
about to publish his article.
I want you to know that there was
a version of this article that
effectively ended everything.
You, her, the center, Tom's career,
my reputation, Genevieve's
by association.
We tried to fight him on it,
scare the fuck out of him, but honestly,
- he has so much shit.
- [SASHA] And of course,
publishing this will
effectively un-cancel him.
He spoke to multiple colleagues
of yours, of Elliot's,
who say that she takes drugs
at work, that she spends
- her breaks in bars
- There's Alabama.
There's this whole
beautifully written, by the way,
section where he talks
about the two of them
getting fucked together
in my living room
just an hour before
she delivers my nieces.
Do you have any idea how much money
we had to pay my sister
just to shut her up?
She started getting all incontinent,
fucking Erin Brockovich on our ass.
[SASHA] He's heard
testimony from men who say
she gets them to show her their dicks
while their wives are on the
other side of the curtain.
[REBECCA] Yeah, I
never followed that one.
Like, she gets them?
Like, they're flashing
her in her workplace,
and yet, somehow, they're still claiming
that they're the victims.
And there's some dead homeless
woman shit that is frankly
Do you know about the
dead homeless woman shit,
Beverly?
- [BUZZING]
- [GENEVIEVE] Beverly?
[REBECCA] All of that might be fine,
might be manageable if we
shipped her off to rehab,
kept her fully behind the scenes.
I doubt anyone's got the energy
to bring down a woman as
brilliant as your sister
just because of some
negative-value homeless woman,
and as for the rest,
most people have a significantly
lower-than-you-might-think
"fuck off" price.
Like, we give Joseph ten grand,
tell him we know he
screwed a hooker in 2001,
in some kind of 9/11
grief fuck, and would he
like us to tell his wife?
And then we just watch his dick shrink.
But it's really the
amalgamation of all of it,
and we need you to do something.
No.
Hi.
Hi. Are you okay?
I [EXHALES] really love your show.
- Oh! [CHUCKLES]
- Aw.
[GENEVIEVE] Well, that's
so sweet, thank you.
- [TARA] Hi.
- What's your name?
- Tara.
- Hi, Tara, I'm Genevieve.
Yeah, I Do you think I could
- Oh, of course.
- Um, could I have some
- more water, please?
- Oh, hi, you know, actually, the lamb
- was not good.
- Are you really not coming back to Rabid?
[SUSAN] Like, it's such
a beautiful animal
[GENEVIEVE] It's a fun show, right?
[TOM] Are you old enough to watch it?
Isn't it kind of, uh
- with such a lack of dignity
- [TOM] I mean, I don't let my kids
You're my favorite character.
- I can taste that.
- I'm going to do this film.
- [SUSAN] I can taste shame, you know.
- [TARA] Oh.
- It's, uh, in Croatia.
- [BUZZING]
- That's really cool.
- Uh-huh.
And then just
some time at home.
Twins.
That's so cool. That's,
like, so exciting.
[REBECCA] Thank you so much.
I think your family must
be wondering what on earth
is taking you so long.
It was so nice to meet you.
Have a lovely evening.
Bye.
Doesn't that drive you fucking insane?
No.
So, he has enough to shut
down the center and start
a lawsuit and put your
sister in jail, and
we decided to engage.
- What does that mean?
- [REBECCA] We spoke
to him.
We gave him more fuel
to set her on fire.
All of you?
[CHUCKLES]
- All of you.
- Yes.
It wasn't difficult, Beverly.
[SUSAN] We need you to make a speech
at the awards.
Silas will be there.
You need to distance yourself publicly,
completely, from your sister.
You need to announce it before he does.
You need to destroy her.
I can't.
You have to.
Beverly?
Beverly I had to.
- She's always here.
- [BUZZING]
She's everywhere, Beverly.
She always will be,
unless we do something.
I had to.
♪
[BUZZING CONTINUES]
[PHONE BUZZING]
[LINDA] [OVER VOICE MAIL]
Hello, girls. Just saying hello.
Hello.
Hey, it's Mum.
Mum here.
Did you get my call?
We're excited to see you both,
to see what you've been
doing this whole time.
Hello, girlies.
It's your mum.
Hello, girls.
Well, here we are.
Please call me.
Your mum misses you.
Your father and I are fine.
Hope you're both well.
Your mum misses you.
Everything's fine, so that's very good.
Hello, girls.
Hello, loves.
Only me, only Mum.
Love you both.
Your mum misses you.
Hello, girls.
Just saying hello.
Hello.
[BEVERLY GRUNTS]
[BEVERLY EXHALES]
[EXHALES]
[SIMON] Lily, uh,
has a history of self-harm.
And, um,
last week I-I-I came home and
We, uh, we-we went to the ER.
I guess, um
I don't feel like, uh
Well
We don't feel like, um
she's getting the help,
you know, that she needs.
Mm-hmm.
Lily?
I don't want her.
She doesn't want me.
Um it's just this-this
awful mistake that I can't
figure out how to take back,
and I need to take it back.
I have to go back.
To
before.
- To the beginning.
- [BUZZING]
I I thought I would feel happy.
I thought this would make me feel happy.
[BUZZING CONTINUES]
I understand.
[ELLIOT] Nothing's this good.
I know it isn't.
Baby sister.
- Come back, baby sister, baby sister.
- [FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
Are you okay?
Do you know what you're
gonna say tonight?
You packed.
- You're leaving.
- I'm not leaving,
- I'm going to work.
- For four weeks.
And then I will be back.
You're behaving as though it's not
a significant amount of time.
- Behaving.
- I'm pregnant.
Beverly.
- I know.
- It's my job.
In the context of our relationship.
In the context of
what I give up for you,
of what I've given up for you.
- What you've given up for me?
- [BUZZING]
Yes, Beverly, I have given up for you.
I Sometimes
often, I have given things up for you.
- I've made concessions for you.
- Why do people say this to me?
Why do people say they
give things up for me?
Beverly, our whole relationship
has been about Elliot. Honestly.
I would like for that
not to be the case.
I would like for things to be different.
- [SCREAMS]
- The actress.
I would like for you
to fucking choose me
like I choose you.
- [SCREAMS]
- The actress.
I would like for us to be happy,
for you to choose
to be fucking happy with
me, with our children.
For fuck's sake, why are we here again?
Why am I doing this again?
Please, Beverly.
What are you gonna fucking
say tonight? [SIGHS]
[LINDA SPEAKING
INDISTINCTLY OVER SPEAKER]
[LINDA] [OVER SPEAKER]
Hello, girls. Hello, loves.
Only me. Only Mum.
Just saying hello.
Hello.
Hope you're both well.
Your father and I are fine.
Everything's fine, so that's very good.
Hey, it's Mum.
Mum here. Did you get my call?
- Hello, girlies, it's your mum.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- Please call me.
- You're very talented.
- Your mum misses you.
- Your mum misses you.
- I'm a writer.
- I've been writing articles lately.
- Your mum misses you.
I
Hello, girls.
Well, here we are.
I've been writing one
about the Mantle twins.
We're just getting ready.
- All packed, and-and
- What do you think of them?
Dad had to sit on the suitcase,
push all the birthday
[OVERLAPPING CHATTER]
[ELLIOT] Baby sister. Baby sister.
Baby sister.
- [ANNOUNCER] Beverly Mantle.
- [APPLAUSE]
Thank you, thank you.
Thank you so much for this great honor.
My sister and I worked
together our whole lives
to get to this moment,
and I'm so grateful.
I'm so grateful to my sister.
My sister is unable to
be here tonight. She is
unwell.
And she has been for some time.
We haven't spoken lately,
which has been painful,
and, um
Um
[ELLIOT] Baby sister, baby sister
It's-it's recently come to my attention
that my sister h-has a
pattern of behavior that
[ELLIOT] Baby sister, baby sister.
Well, it it could be described
as abusive.
- [CROWD MURMURING]
- [BEVERLY] Destructive.
Illegal.
No, not that could be
described as, that isn't enough,
that isn't good enough.
My sister has been abusive,
destructive, has
endangered lives in the most grave
and frightening manner, and
The Mantle Parker Center
strives to do work that is
groundbreaking but hopeful,
radical but safe,
and the award this evening is
a reflection of that, and
I will do nothing to
jeopardize that, so
going forward,
Elliot Mantle has nothing to do
- with the Mantle Parker Center.
- [CROWD MURMURING]
And the Mantle Parker Center
has nothing to do with her.
Um, thank you so much, thank you.
[APPLAUSE]
[ELLIOT] Baby sister.
[OVERLAPPING CHATTER]
Congratulations.
That was a great speech.
Congratulations on your excellent award.
Everyone is so proud.
It's the Karlovich Award. Yes.
That's the best award.
Everybody knows
the Tonys, the Grammys, the Karloviches.
I'm lying, nobody knows
what the fuck you just won.
Is it super important?
I feel like it must be.
Congratulations, Beverly.
I'm really so super
pumped for you. Great job.
[CLEARS THROAT] Excuse me, um,
could I have some water, please?
Thank you.
- [BARTENDER] Pardon?
- [CLEARS THROAT] Uh, uh
[AMERICAN INFLECTION] Water, thank you.
- [BARTENDER] Sure, no problem.
- [TOM CHUCKLES]
[BRITISH ACCENT] Water, water, yogurt,
schedule, pasta, pasta, basil.
[CHUCKLES]
You know, I really fucking loved
being that person at
dinner the other night.
Sort of shiny, right?
And-and lithe
and brilliant and successful.
Like, not being the
fucking butt of the joke.
It's such a fucking
cliché, right? Like, my wife
doesn't think I'm a fucking loser.
My kids don't look at me like
I'm covered in this sort of
damp, moist
layer of fucking pathetic.
And all it took
was to shit all over
the most extraordinary
person I've ever known.
And to steal her work and her lab
and everything that she's
ever worked for, and
and hope for her death
so that I can keep being
this reasonably okay
version of a human being
instead of just this
soup of disappointment.
You know that what you
just did will end her.
You know that, right?
You did this.
You started it. You set this in motion.
She would've been fine if you
hadn't fucking abandoned her.
Every Elliot fuckup is
recoverable if you're there.
Okay, well, this isn't sustainable, Tom.
Yeah, I don't think she knows that.
- I don't think you set her up for that.
- She's a fuckup.
- She's fucked everything up for me my whole life.
- That is not true.
- Yes, it is.
- You know that is not fucking true.
Everything she does is for you.
- Yeah, well
- Everything!
I didn't ask for that.
That is also not fucking true, Beverly.
I know that is, like,
the little Mantle lie
that you tell yourselves,
but that is just not true.
You are here because of
choices that you made, not her.
So, what's your plan?
[LAUGHS]
Hmm?
You're gonna let her rot? Die?
Disappear while you float off
and run your successful birthing center
and have your fucking babies
and live in your house
happily ever fucking after?
[BUZZING]
[GRETA] I was born in
the middle of the night
and was so quick to come
that my mother went into shock
and blood was everywhere,
and later
that night she died and I lived.
I was the last of three.
My mother got into the bath.
My brothers thought
she looked like a seal.
My father had buckets of ice
he held to her neck, her forehead.
My brothers flicked the
light switch on and off,
excited,
unable to sleep, and everyone
was light, was air,
was hope, joy,
until my mother was holding
the side of the bath
and blood was on her legs,
changing the color of the water, and
she must have been trying
very hard to remain calm,
remain calm.
Shh
Stay calm for my brothers
who occupied such
small bodies, even though they had to
age very suddenly about
eight hours later.
They got to the hospital.
Bunny ears in their mouths,
they waited for me to arrive,
expecting to be there for
such a long time, and then,
there,
my father is handed
a bundle, here,
a bundle of girl, of baby,
of limbs,
of skin,
blood,
flesh,
organs,
fingers,
and my brothers crowded
around, and here,
there,
here I was and
My father says everyone was kind.
That the doctor who told him
my mother had died
the doctor who told him
his daughter, minutes old,
had killed his wife
was very, very young
and that her hands shook.
He found himself looking for that doctor
any time he was in a crowd.
He couldn't tell you why.
[LEUNG] You look
very much like your mother.
[SNIFFLES]
Well, that's the idea.
Okay?
No.
I love you,
I love you, I love you,
I love you, I love you.
[THE SUPREMES: "MY
WORLD IS EMPTY WITHOUT YOU"]
[GENEVIEVE CHUCKLES]
My world is empty without you, babe ♪
My world is empty without you, babe ♪
And as I go my way alone ♪
I find it hard for me to carry on ♪
I need your strength, I
need your tender touch ♪
I need the love, my dear ♪
I miss so much ♪
My world is empty without you, babe ♪
My world is empty without you, babe ♪
From this whole world ♪
- I try to hide my face ♪
- I need you, babe ♪
But from this loneliness ♪
- There's no hiding place ♪
- I need you, babe ♪
Inside this cold and empty house ♪
- I dwell ♪
- I need you, babe ♪
In darkness with memories ♪
- I know so well ♪
- I need you, babe ♪
[BUZZING]
[BUZZING CONTINUES]
[BUZZING CONTINUES]
[BUZZING CONTINUES]
[ELLIOT] Baby sister.
Baby sister. Baby sister.
Baby sister. Baby sister. Baby sister.
Baby sister. Baby sister. Baby sister.
Baby sister. Come back
to me. Baby sister.
Baby sister. Baby sister.
Come back to me. Baby sister.
Baby sister. Come back
to me. Baby sister.
Baby sister. Baby sister. Come back.
Baby sister. Baby sister. Baby sister.
Come back. Baby sister. Baby sister.
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]
[BEVERLY SIGHING]
[BEVERLY] Elly?
Greta?
Elly?
[WHISPERS] No.
Elly?
[SNIFFLES]
Elly.
Elly?
[SNIFFING]
[SNIFFLING, CRYING]
Elly.
[BUZZING]
Elly.
- [ELLIOT] Baby sister.
- [BREATHING SHAKILY]
[SNIFFLES] I'm here.
Come and get me.
- [DOOR HISSES]
- [BEEPING]
- [DOOR CLOSES]
- [BEEPING STOPS]
♪
♪
[BEVERLY CRYING]
[ELLIOT CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
[KISSES]
[ELLIOT GRUNTS SOFTLY]
[BEVERLY BREATHING HEAVILY]
[ELLIOT SNIFFS, EXHALES]
♪
Oh, Elly.
Oh, Elly.
Fuck.
Fuck.
You did it for me.
For us.
They're beautiful.
Well, they're you.
They're perfect.
Where did you come from?
You're so perfect.
You're so deliciously perfect.
- [SIGHS]
- I'm so sorry.
What for?
Separation can be a terrifying thing.
Yes.
I think that's it.
I think I'm terrified.
Me, too.
You look very beautiful, baby sister.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
So do you.
Elly?
Yes, Beverly?
I don't think I'm capable of happiness.
I've tried so hard,
and I've got
as close as I think I could get.
With all this. [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
The babies.
You.
Late light, early dark solace,
and your hand in my hand
and the feeling just
here underneath my arms,
just underneath my arms,
the feeling of just having been caught.
- [CRYING]
- Do you remember when we were ten
and we went swimming,
and I couldn't find you
or you couldn't find me,
and there was just panic, was chaos?
I couldn't get back to the boat
or you couldn't,
and we separated,
and-and we forgot ourselves entirely.
That didn't happen.
[CHUCKLES]
No. No.
I
keep looking for windows, Elly.
I keep looking for air.
I keep looking for light.
[WHISPERS] You're it.
- You're it, found you.
- You're it, found you.
I have everything I
ever wanted, and I can't,
I can't draw breath.
It's a fishhook round
my middle pulling me up
when I want to be under.
I can't live without you.
But you don't have to.
I feel something,
oh, so close to happiness, Elly.
I have to climb inside you now.
There was only ever
supposed to be one of us.
You always were a better me.
[CHUCKLES]
[SNIFFLES]
- Don't forget the good part.
- Don't forget the good part.
[SNIFFLES]
This summer I went swimming ♪
[BOTH] This summer
I might have drowned ♪
But I held my breath
and I kicked my legs ♪
And I moved my arms around ♪
I moved my arms around ♪
[CHUCKLES]
I love you, Elly.
[WHISPERS] Baby sister.
It's time to go home now.
[ELLIOT] Mm-hmm.
[CHUCKLES]
♪
♪
Baby sister.
[GRUNTS]
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
[GRUNTING SOFTLY]
♪
[SHOUTS]
[GRUNTING LOUDLY]
[PANTING]
[GRUNTING, PANTING]
[BABY CRYING]
[GRUNTING]
[CLATTERING]
[BOTH BABIES CRYING]
[CRYING CONTINUES]
[MUTTERS]
It's okay.
Help me!
Somebody help!
Help me!
Help! Somebody help!
Let's get them to the NICU.
We need some help.
♪
♪
[SUSAN] Beverly.
Beverly, you're gonna be fine.
The babies.
The babies are fine.
Do you know what
happened? Can you remember?
[ELLIOT] My sister.
Your sister?
[ELLIOT] She helped me.
[SUSAN] Elliot helped you? How?
[REBECCA] She cut the babies out?
[SUSAN] Are you in pain?
Will you let a doctor examine you?
We can do that later.
[SUSAN] Where is your sister, Beverly?
Gone.
[THE DOORS: "THE END"]
[SUSAN] What do you mean, "gone"?
Gone where?
Congratulations, Beverly.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
[QUIETLY] Yes.
[CHUCKLES]
This is the end ♪
Beautiful friend ♪
This is the end ♪
My only friend, the end ♪
Of our elaborate plans, the end ♪
Of everything that stands ♪
The end ♪
- Hi
- No safety or surprise ♪
The end ♪
I'll never look ♪
Into your eyes ♪
Again ♪
Can you picture ♪
What will be? ♪
So limitless ♪
And free ♪
Desperately in need ♪
Of some stranger's hand ♪
In a desperate land ♪
Beverly.
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[HEATHER] Beverly?
Hey. [CHUCKLES]
Oh.
Sorry.
I was on another planet.
Oh, well, sure.
Sleep deprivation will do that to you.
You had the baby.
- Congratulations.
- Yep.
Oh, my God. You had two.
Yep, there's two of them. [CHUCKLES]
You know, the last time we saw you,
you only knew about one.
Oh, my God.
That must have been
so painful for you. I am so sorry.
You know, we wondered
why you never came back.
Honestly, I hope it's okay for me
to say this, but it felt
like it gave you so much
to be able to talk about
the death of your sister.
It seemed to
release you somehow.
Where
Where did I talk about
the death of my sister?
You are tired. [CHUCKLES]
Uh-huh.
Where did I talk about
the death of my sister?
At the bereavement group in Midtown.
I thought you started coming
maybe a couple of years ago?
Yes.
My sister
died.
I know.
Did I
talk about how she died?
I don't, um
Uh, not really.
I think it had something
to do with the water?
The water?
Oh, yes.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
[CHUCKLING]
The water, yes.
That's how she died.
Have a nice day.
[GENEVIEVE EXHALES]
Who was that?
Oh, I don't know.
She thought I was my sister.
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[MAN] Beverly.
It's so good to see you again.
Would you like to
talk about your sister?
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