Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020) s01e07 Episode Script

[Tiago] Previously on
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels.
[Molly] And what if I have feelings
for Detective Vega?
Strong feelings?
Your flock need to feel
as if you're married only to the church.
[Adelaide] All the good work you do
in the world can go away.
[Linda] If you think you're bringing
that German whore into my house
You will be checking into a sanitarium.
[Florence] Tommy? Tommy?
- [distorted scream]
- [panting]
[Lewis] Germans get that rocket,
the fight's over.
Kill him.
[groaning]
I'll tell you
who the other fucking guy is!
- [thuds]
- [groans]
Tiago!
Your fucking brother,
and you didn't tell me!
[Lewis] Hazlett was the beginning.
You killed him.
What?
Him, the wife, the kids.
Reilly too, of course.
You're going to San Quentin,
and you're not coming out.
All you still get to decide
is whether you go as a rat
or as a goddamn legend.
tranquil music ♪
[baby crying]
[indistinct chatter]
♪♪♪
ominous music ♪
♪♪♪
Am I blue? ♪
Ain't these tears in these eyes ♪
Telling you ♪
Some kinda mad dog, huh?
What?
Killed that whole family
from Beverly Hills.
And the cop.
That's right, that's what he did.
Hey, you nailed him, though.
You'll get some kind of medal, I bet.
There was a time ♪
Molly?
You've had a night.
Celebrating, I take it?
Nice picture, Detective.
You got him. That must feel good.
Yeah.
You're in need of a shave.
I could help.
Yes, I've become quite adept at that.
Jesus washed the feet of his disciples.
I shave the faces of mine.
The ones at the soup kitchen anyway.
You really do that?
I have no pride before my congregation.
They would smell it a mile off.
I meet them as they are.
No better, no worse.
Don't you have to get ready for work?
Captain gave us the week off.
Reward for a job well done.
- So this Mexican boy
- He's not Mexican.
He's a Chicano. It's different.
I didn't mean anything.
Can we not talk about work?
James Hazlett was important to me.
You know that.
I just want to know what happened.
This kid killed him. That's all there is.
- And the family?
- Yes.
And the family.
[sighs softly]
You ever been
in a place where there's no right answer?
Everything you do is gonna be wrong.
So you do something.
And you know it's wrong.
And you live with it.
It's not a compromise, it's not a mistake.
It's a sin.
soft music ♪
I meet you as you are, Tiago.
No better, no worse.
And I love you.
♪♪♪
You wanna come inside?
Hell yes.
♪♪♪
[Richard] Dare to imagine
a future with me, Brian.
No war, no poverty.
Only the greatest minds
and hearts walking side by side
to live and flourish together.
The place you shall find the destiny
you so richly deserve.
Your mind is an indispensable asset
to our new Eden.
You see that stretch of land
right over there by those oaks?
That is to be the location
of your very own laboratory.
You'll have all
the state-of-the-art equipment
of which you could ever dream,
and one day,
you'll share your beautiful ideas
with the Führer himself.
The Führer?
This is to be his new Eagle's Nest,
his heart and home in the new world,
surrounded by God's good nature.
You see, this is what people
don't understand about us.
We are builders, not destroyers.
I am an architect, a city planner.
So what pleases me is this,
imagining the future in your mind,
and then bringing it to life
in stone and steel,
building a new better world for everyone.
What if I can't figure out
the engine for the new rocket?
Oh, you will.
In there are such wonders.
tense music ♪
[camera shutter clicks]
♪♪♪
[Peter] You will see
your mother again, Tom.
She's just ill.
Like when Trevor had measles and had to go
into the other room to be safe.
Well, this is how it is with your mother.
When is she coming home?
Uh
It may be some time yet.
And you know,
sometimes things change in our lives.
Like what?
Like in the fairy stories.
Huh?
Sometimes things happen,
and you think they are bad.
But they turn out good, hmm?
When Hansel and Gretel
get lost in the woods,
they find their way out again.
Don't they?
Only when they kill the witch.
- [doorbell chimes]
- I'll get it.
Tommy!
- Dad?
- [Magda] Hello, Tom.
Ah, Maria, you remember Elsa Branson
and her son Frank.
It's a pleasure
to see you again, Mrs. Branson.
The pleasure is all mine, Miss Maria.
Dad, what's going on?
- Ah, Maria
- Yes?
Will you help Elsa and Frank get settled?
Yes, sir.
Upstairs, please.
[door creaks closed]
Our friends are gonna stay with us.
Isn't that nice?
You must be very kind to them
and show them where everything is, yeah?
How long are they staying?
Uh
Well, this we cannot say.
But it's good they are with us.
Elsa will help take care of you now, yeah?
I already have a mother and a brother.
tense music ♪
Isn't it all so lovely?
Little Frank and I,
we had nothing like this.
Do you have any special things
like this in your home?
We have a set with ivory handles
from my grandfather,
but we only use them on rare occasions.
Ja.
Rare occasions, I see.
Oh, Maria, I'm sorry.
This must be so strange and confusing.
To be honest, it is strange for me, too.
I'm only here to help.
But I know how highly Peter thinks of you.
I just I want things to be good, ja?
I want us all to be happy.
Of course, Mrs. Branson.
I have one more thing
to ask of you, if I might.
Well
I'm worried about Frank.
This whole change
is so frightening for him.
I think it would help
if he stayed with Tom in his room.
He's so fond of him.
Well, of course, we can do something
But I think also, Trevor is getting older
and should have his own room.
Ja?
Would you like him to have mine?
It's just, I know you don't
often spend the night.
I was thinking you could have
the room by the garage.
[Peter] Ah, yes, hello.
How are my two best girls settling in?
Oh, we were just discussing
how to settle the boys.
Would you prefer I move to the room
next to the garage, Dr. Craft?
Uh
Oh, I uh, yeah,
I think that would be best.
For now, that is.
[Magda] Wonderful. I think so, too.
Don't you, Maria?
Yes, ma'am, I'll move
my things right away.
Excuse me.
[sighs]
ominous music ♪
So many toys.
I never had any toys that weren't broken.
May I play with this?
I promise I won't break it.
Sure.
It's like the one from Robin Hood.
Robert Hood?
Robin Hood.
Like from the book.
We read that one, my dad and me.
My father didn't read with me.
Robin Hood's the greatest.
He's an outlaw who robs from the rich
and gives to the poor,
and he has a band of merry men, and
Oh, I have something to show you.
[squeaking softly]
What is that?
He's a hamster.
I named him Friar Tuck
after Robin's best friend.
What a strange little creature.
Tom.
I've never had a brother before,
and I want to be a good one.
Will you help me be a good brother?
Yes, Frank, I'll help you.
Thank you.
♪♪♪
Thank you so much.
[jazz music playing on radio]
♪♪♪
Hello, young sir.
What?
Oh.
I didn't think you were coming.
And miss our usual Wednesday lunch?
Hell, son, this is the closest
to a date I've had in 50 years.
So, tell me, anything
from our German friends?
Have they contacted you?
No, no, I haven't heard
anything from them.
Nothing?
Not a word.
You wanna try that again, pal?
So, where's the truth here, Brian?
- Are you a Nazi?
- [Brian scoffs]
You wanna build a rocket
that can kill all the Jews, is that it?
- Don't be stupid.
- Then why are you lying to us?
That photo sure as fuck
doesn't look like radio silence to me.
You know, you don't know everything.
What they talk about, it's not all bad.
[sighs]
They don't wanna take over the world.
That's just in the newspapers,
that's just politics,
about which I honestly don't give a hoot.
And unlike you,
they actually appreciate my work.
Now you leave me alone.
Now listen, kid
When I was your age,
I didn't have comic books.
What I had was the Yiddish theater.
My family had a troupe that performed
in a tavern back east.
No spaceships.
But we had King Lear, Faust,
and dozens of our own plays,
all in Yiddish.
Well, guess what.
Not everyone loved
our little Jewish theater so much.
So one night, they broke in.
My father was there.
They kicked him
and beat him so much he lost an eye.
But for him, that wasn't the worst part.
Because they burned down the theater
with all our plays inside.
Some men create.
Some destroy.
What kind of man do you want to be, Brian?
♪♪♪
Please don't let them hurt me.
I promise you.
Dottie's gonna take you home,
and you'll stay with her.
She'll leave you alone, so you can work.
It's real quiet there.
[Dottie] I'm over by the La Brea Tar Pits.
So nothing much has happened there
for a million years.
May I get a Yoo-hoo?
Of course, honey.
[sighs]
A Yoo-hoo. Breaks your heart.
Don't let him out of your sight.
We can't keep him hidden forever.
Won't have to.
I'm gonna take care of it.
suspenseful music ♪
[door closes]
Miss Malone.
Councilwoman.
Mind if I ask you a question?
Shoot.
That fat so-and-so
wouldn't last a day without you.
You are the brains. I can see that.
Why do you support someone
so utterly devoid of worth?
I think he has potential.
Do you now? Gonna make him mayor, are you?
Gonna make him president.
You're going to make a racist demagogue
without a single scruple
the President of the United States?
That's exactly what I'm gonna do.
And who's going to vote for him?
Every angry man and woman
who feels that you and Mr. Roosevelt
have betrayed them.
Oh, you'll keep the support
of the Jews and the coloreds
and all those people of worth.
We'll take everyone else,
thank you very much.
What are you about, Miss Malone?
I don't know what you mean.
No one seems to know anything about you.
Where you were born,
where you went to school.
It's like one day you appeared
out of thin air,
sitting on his shoulder
and whispering into his ear.
That means you have a secret.
And in politics, secrets are currency.
And I will discover yours.
And if I may, a bit of rouge never hurt.
♪♪♪
[cracks]
Did you see this?
Beverly's smiling
like fucking Jean Arthur,
but you notice she doesn't talk
about how much diverting
the motorway's gonna cost.
And for what, to save some Mexican slum?
Hell, they oughta give me a medal
for bulldozing the damn place.
We have a bigger problem, sir.
I just got off the phone
with the county elections office.
Councilwoman Beck has filed a petition
to have you recalled.
Recalled?
That's ludicrous. On what grounds?
That's immaterial.
She has you in her crosshairs,
and you're not getting out
until your head's on her wall.
Plus she has the support
of every New Dealer on the council.
Fucking Roosevelt.
So, what do we do now?
- We go to war.
- Yes.
- We give no quarter.
- Zip.
But realistically, sir,
our options are limited.
That woman
has an unimpeachable reputation,
a mountain of resources,
and decades of political capital
she can use as she likes,
and she's very popular.
While I am disliked.
foreboding music ♪
I'll tell you,
I might be able to end this war
before it even begins.
You're a cutthroat advisor, Alex,
but maybe we need someone
who actually knows
how to cut a few throats.
♪♪♪
[background chatter]
[Ana] I can't see it.
- Why? She's good.
- Katharine Hepburn isn't romantic enough.
She is.
I just want Cesar Romero
to play Rhett Butler.
- [all laugh]
- [Mateo] Fina.
- Oh, baby.
- I miss you so much, Fina.
Are you all right?
No.
You need to come home with me.
Will you tell me that you love me?
Of course I love you, Mateo.
- You promise?
- Yes.
Te Io juro.
I
I did something bad.
And I
I didn't think
I didn't know it was something I could do.
- I don't know what to do.
- Stop.
It's all right. I love you.
No matter what.
No matter what you did,
I love you to the sky, and I always will.
And you know who else loves you?
Our Father in Heaven.
His is the most important,
most powerful love there is.
There is nothing you can do
to make Him stop loving you.
- No, don't do this.
- Listen, please
No, I don't need make-believe.
I need my sister.
Your sister has found her faith.
So I have no one.
I can't talk to Mama or Raul or Tiago,
and now I don't even have you anymore.
somber music ♪
I hope the church makes you happy.
It is only for a little time,
until Frank is comfortable here.
You know, he's very young,
and he has the asthma.
You don't have to explain yourself,
not to me.
Cigarette, Dr. Craft?
Maria, you smoke?
Am I off the clock?
Yeah.
Then, yes.
I can't imagine what you must think of me.
I send their mother away
and I bring this woman here.
In my family in Germany, this
[sighs]
this would be a disgrace.
All families have their secrets.
There's a reason windows have curtains.
[Maria chuckles]
Hm, I suppose you're right.
I will need your help now.
The boys love you so.
Hm.
And you've always been
a part of our family.
I'm not going anywhere.
That I can promise you.
Thank you.
And, um
how do you find my Elsa?
She is
very clean and pretty, sir.
Yeah, she is that.
She will need your help, too.
All this is very new to her.
And she has been through many hardships.
You know, she is
oh, well, fragile.
I'll keep an eye on her, I promise.
Very well, hm.
Well, will you stay here tonight?
No, I have to go home.
May I drive you?
Stay with your boys. They need you.
Very well, yeah.
You are a wonderful woman.
May I?
light music ♪
[approaching footsteps]
[Lewis] Here they are.
They weren't just my oldest friends
in the world.
They were acting as my agents,
before the Nazis killed them.
This is Richard Goss.
He's the leader, I think.
Highly connected in Berlin.
The kid's a scientist
with a lot of dangerous ideas
up in his noggin.
That's the real problem.
Lewis, two of your friends
are already dead.
I mean, no disrespect,
but you're in over your head.
Oh, so I should just let this go?
After those fucking animals
killed Sam and Anton?
Let me tell you something, son.
That little favor I did for you
at the station last night
wasn't only out of the goodness
of my heart.
I'm collecting on that debt right now.
Or you can just walk
outta here and we're done.
Either way.
[sighs]
So, what's the plan?
- [Dottie] Lewis?
- In here.
[Dottie] Oh.
Tiago Vega, meet Dottie Minter.
How do you do?
My pleasure.
Dottie's our other operative.
Don't look at me like that, Sonny Jim.
I ran guns to the Cubans
during the damn Spanish-American War.
[sighs]
Yes, ma'am.
Kid's all tucked in.
I gave him a hot water bottle
and a Seconal.
Okay, I'll need you
on surveillance tonight.
And you and me, partner,
we got some debts to collect.
suspenseful music ♪
[background chatter]
[Latino music playing on radio]
[sports announcer] Runs on across.
Man on third and man on first.
The score now Padres three,
and the Angels one.
Padres three, and the Angels one.
La bendicion, Mama.
[sports announcer]
And Collins swings. Strike one.
One strike and no balls
Que dios te bendiga, mijo.
Is Josefina here?
- In her room.
- Ah.
[indistinct TV chatter]
calm music ♪
[sizzling]
♪♪♪
[Josefina] We read all the time.
[Raul] Yeah, it's been a while
since I picked up the Old Testament.
You're going out?
Bible study.
With Father Nunez.
No.
The Temple.
That place.
- That place is my church.
- No, that's no church.
You know nothing about it.
I know enough!
Talk to your sister.
I cannot listen to her.
- [Josefina] Mama.
- Enough.
Go wash up.
We are having dinner.
I'm going to the Temple.
- So you are not Catholic anymore?
- [slams]
Are you?
When you're in need, what do you do, Mama?
You don't go to Father Nunez.
You go into the garage
and light candles to Santa Muerte.
Santa Muerte's a holy angel
Sister Molly is just as important to me
as Santa Muerte is to you.
The only difference
is Sister Molly is real.
[door opens, slams]
Well, I'm glad Josefina
has an older brother
to talk some sense into her.
You used to fight for your family,
and now look at you!
You sit and sit
and you don't say anything!
[sighs]
somber music ♪
[Maria] Tiago.
Hey!
[laughs]
♪♪♪
Yeah
♪♪♪
[dogs barking]
♪♪♪
What a new life you have given me.
And for me, too.
I will be so good to your boys.
Yeah.
It will take time for them, but
they will love you as I do.
How can they not?
I wonder, though, about Maria.
Hm?
Do you think having a mixture of,
well, cultures under the same roof
is good for the boys?
How then?
She makes her people's food for them.
They know Spanish words.
Such things do not happen in Germany.
Well, they happen in Pasadena,
and we get along just fine.
But if the boys
are to speak another language,
should it not be German?
Oh, I'm being silly.
Never you mind.
Hm, Maria has known the children
since they were babies.
She is a good woman.
Ja. Yeah, she is.
I shouldn't have said all that.
I was just trying to act like a woman
who belongs in a house like this.
[sighs]
I lived with a woman
who belongs in a house like this.
I was miserable.
Until I met you
I was but half alive.
But now I dream of everything
all at the same time.
With you
I am the man I was meant to be.
And all those dreams, they will come true.
You will be a strong man for your family,
an important man,
and the world will watch.
This I promise you.
[wheel squeaking]
How can you sleep
with that wheel squeaking all night?
I like to know he's there.
He makes me feel safe.
I'm scared.
There's nothing to be scared of.
I know. But I am.
I miss my father.
Can I get in bed with you?
[wheel squeaking]
[Frank sobbing]
Fine. You can get in bed with me.
[Frank] Sorry, my hands get clammy
when I'm scared.
Do you miss your mother?
Yes.
Do you think she still loves you?
Yes.
I love you, Tom.
We're brothers now.
And brothers love each other.
Don't they?
Yes.
Will you say it?
It'll make me feel safer
if you say you love me.
I love you, Frank.
eerie music ♪
[wheel squeaking]
[squeaking stops]
♪♪♪
[whimpering quietly]
[jazz music playing on stereo]
[waiter] Here you are. Enjoy.
His house is very modern.
Much more expensive than he can afford
on a councilman's salary.
That's family money. What else?
Here are your martinis.
He bought a new tie to impress me.
Of course, he did.
Has he talked about his father?
No, he never does.
He won't even drive
down Townsend Boulevard.
[scoffs]
Run as he might,
he can't escape his bloodline.
He's not as foolish as you think.
- You think not?
- No.
He's awkward and ungainly,
but he has a passion
for his work, for the city.
For you.
You're to be congratulated, Kurt.
You've done your job admirably.
I suppose so.
Does that icicle heart
of yours begin to melt?
I bid you to remember this.
Your only use to me is as the icicle.
Otherwise you're only one more
unnecessary American.
[exhales deeply]
Yes, sir.
Look, the kid's just too dangerous
and jumpy as the Chinaman's cat.
He's on our side, he's on their side,
he doesn't fucking know.
So we've got him hidden for now.
Because of this one rocket
he's working on?
Point is, with an engine big enough,
the V-2 has a killer range.
Old Adolf can press a button in Berlin,
and, boom, there goes part of London.
You put that rocket
on a ship or submarine,
and, boom, there goes part
of New York or Washington
or, God forbid, Hollywood.
Maybe not such a loss.
But we need to protect that kid,
because if they find him
and get that rocket,
ball game's called
on account of apocalypse.
So, we're following them?
No.
So, what are we doing here?
You know I have family in Germany?
My distant cousins.
I met them once.
They came here,
and I took them to the beach.
They liked it. Who doesn't like the beach?
You like the beach?
- Sure.
- Sure.
Anyway, second cousin, Manny's his name.
Sweet guy. Lives in the Rhineland.
Practically in Belgium, this is.
Used to cross the border
to buy chocolates,
because they were cheaper, right?
That's how much it was almost Belgium.
Sent me some chocolates once.
They were good.
And cheap.
So
two years ago,
Germany invades the Rhineland.
You probably didn't know.
No one cared much.
This wasn't so good for Manny, though.
See, he was what they call a degenerate.
A Jew and a queer
in one fucked-up package.
This they don't like.
This they cannot have.
So
they stuck him on a meat hook.
Took films of it and sent it to Berlin,
so Adolf could have a laugh, right?
On this meat hook, for hours, I guess.
While they filmed it.
This is who those people are.
And my friends, Sam and Anton
were good men.
And the time comes, you say enough.
Enough.
You with me?
I'm with you.
Good man.
How?
They got their big Nazimobile parked
around the corner.
We follow them there, bang, bang.
Walk away.
Serve and protect, right?
That's the idea.
[distant chatter]
[Lewis] Hold on. Something's going on.
[Tiago] Jesus Christ.
That's Councilman Townsend.
- The motorway guy?
- What's he doing here?
[Lewis] Bosom pals, looks like.
They got a man in city hall now?
You think he knows what they are?
No, he can't. That
tense music ♪
[Lewis] So, correct me if I'm wrong,
but we currently got city hall
and the biggest radio church in LA.
The bully pulpit and the public airwaves
sitting down with the Third Reich.
Yeah.
[Lewis] Oh, Christ.
We better keep our powder dry, partner.
Tell you one thing,
if the dragon mother's there,
the daughter can't be far behind.
♪♪♪
[animals howling]
[whooshing]
What do you want from me?
Tell me why your bitch of a sister
is attacking my family.
Old Coyote.
You think too much of yourself.
My children are being taken from me,
one by one, and all at once.
And I smell her.
The beast.
In the air.
I feel her on my neck.
The Old Coyote knows.
And must the Coyote be told
how to care for her cubs?
ominous music ♪
You watch and wait
and you do nothing,
while my family
my family is the battleground
of a war I don't understand.
Now, Lady Death, you tell me.
[Magda] Yes,
why don't you tell her, sister?
♪♪♪
Why do you torment this family?
I know how they feel.
I know what it is to be loved by you
and to be rejected.
Do you remember how it was
when you turned from me?
Do you remember that agony?
I made my choice.
And I have suffered for it.
But do you remember
how it was when you loved me?
soft music ♪
And here is my victory.
One single tear.
Or an ocean of them.
Weep, sister.
Weep in darkness and forever.
dramatic music ♪
Why does she call you Coyote?
It is my spirit guide.
A hunter of the night.
I could give you a better one.
Why not raven or bat or tigress?
Why that sad, little dog?
I am a dog.
That is my strength.
You are not welcome in this home.
This is the Lord's house.
[laughs]
Oh, Mamacita.
Spare me the invocations of a dusty faith
in which you no longer believe.
What is all this, but wicked idolatry?
And you worship her.
She's the icy finger of death,
and yet you embrace her.
I give mankind what it wants,
and you hate me.
Now where's the sense in that, Maria?
Why do you only break
what others have built?
All life comes from death.
What do you know of life?
You should choke on the word.
I've created life.
I nurtured it here inside me.
What have you done?
You hunt, you kill.
There is no life in it.
You do know I can end your suffering, yes?
Bring your family back to you,
all around the table just like it was.
I will not be tempted by your lies.
You're a hateful old cunt.
Hollow words from a broken heart.
My sister has no ear for it, but I do.
I hear you cry out for a savior.
I can be that savior, Maria.
If you love your family,
if you would protect them,
you will embrace me with open arms.
I can bring you peace.
[thunder rumbles]
My dear Maria.
You've clawed through the mud,
you've climbed hills with a broken back,
all to give your family a better life.
Now you need to rest.
Yes.
My time for rest is coming.
But not yet.
My family may be at the center
of this chess game of yours.
But we not pawns.
We are kings and queens.
And the blood of the Aztecs
runs through us.
The soldiers of the revolución
walk beside us.
And as long as I draw breath
from my lungs,
I will claw through mud,
I will climb hills,
and I will fight you to the end of days.
♪♪♪
In the name of my children,
whom God knit together in my womb,
I banish you from this place.
♪♪♪
[thunder rumbles]
[thunder crackles loudly]
light music ♪