The Green Veil (2024) s01e07 Episode Script
The mail room boy
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Gilberto Sutton: Gordon
Rogers was a good man,
a family man, a man with dreams.
But he was also an alien.
Man on TV: Señor, these
Indians not such bad people.
Man on TV: They're
accused of a lot of things
they don't do, Lopez.
And some of the things they do,
they're driven to by
renegade white men,
men who try to rob
them of their land.
♪
Gilberto: You see, he was
told his whole childhood
that there was a better life
just beyond those fences
only to find out
it didn't exist.
But he was tethered
to this dream,
this idea that he too
might one day be equal.
♪
Gordon: Thank you, Jesus,
for the opportunity
to serve you yet another day.
Gilberto: Instead of
embracing who he was,
he chose to inch his
way into their society
any way he could.
Gordon: strength to
carry on with my mission.
♪
Gilberto: You might call it
self-hate, self-loathing,
disgust, diffidence,
but I just think he was scared.
Gordon: What the hell do
you think you're doing?
♪
[speaking Spanish]
We speak English
here in America.
Sorry, señor, I thought
maybe you spoke
Shut up you're
gonna take the alleyway
next time you go
to the Andersons.
You hear me?
Take the alleyway, or I'll
have you fucking deported.
Sorry.
Gilberto: Scared of what might
happen if he was found out.
[birds chirp]
Oh, shit.
Larry: Who in God's
name gave you permission
to go public with this charade?
Gordon: Larry, Larry,
there's absolutely no reason
to get worried, okay?
I brought you into
the fold, Gordon,
and now it appears you
can't handle the job.
Gordon: Well, I resent that.
I resent that because I
think I'm doing a good job.
Some local big mouth blew
a load to a reporter,
now it's front page news.
This this isn't good
for my blood pressure.
Well, Larry, the way I see it,
a bit of press
isn't all that bad.
Larry: Oh really, the way
you see it, is that right?
Yeah, yeah, the way I see it.
The way I see
Mabel, Mabel can
I think it lends a bit of
legitimacy to the operation.
It lends a bit of
believability to the fact
that these invasions that
these invasions are real.
Well, that may be true
except for the fact
that they aren't real.
Now when this reporter finds
those Suttons before you do,
what do you think that's
gonna do for our credibility,
huh?
When the when the
next headline says,
"Feds fake alien abduction
to steal land from
feather-heads," huh?
There's no reason to
get hysterical, Larry,
because nobody cares.
What in tarnation
does that mean?
Gordon: What do you
mean what do I mean?
I mean that nobody cares
about these people.
Oh, and how do you know that?
Because you're one
of them, is that it?
Gilberto: Gordon Rogers
knew all too well
that the dream he was protecting
was his and his alone.
Fucking beaner.
[dial tone]
[food sizzling]
[dial tone]
Of course I understand
the implications, Larry.
Why don't you pop one of your
wife's happy pills and relax,
because I got this handled.
Eggs?
Gilberto: Gordon was
alone in the world
Bye-bye now.
Gilberto: doing
whatever he could
to grasp at some form
of hope that one day,
that he too might be accepted.
Gordon: Let's go over
this one more time.
So, a reporter calls you
inquiring as to the
Suttons' disappearance?
That's precise.
You somehow thought
that was a good idea
to confirm UFO
sightings to them?
Well, yes, sir.
That's the story you told me
to stick to, I stuck to it.
Let me correct you, all right,
because that was
before I found out
that they had escaped.
Well, sure.
So, how do you how do
you think that's gonna look
if that reporter finds
the Suttons before we do?
It won't look like they were
abducted by aliens at all.
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- [fan whirring]
So, you seem impartial
to that fact.
♪
Where you from, Gordon?
- ♪
- [fan whirring]
Mystic, Connecticut.
♪
No, I mean originally.
♪
Mystic, Connecticut.
Okay, well, I'm from
this town right here.
I'm not a big
government boy like you.
I'm a local fella,
and my loyalty resides
in this here locality.
Now, I was on
board for aliens
Finally we'll have a nice town.
Everybody loves an
alien abduction,
and everybody's uneasy
with the Suttons
owning the biggest piece
of farmland in the county,
so I helped you
But now I'm done.
This is no longer my
jurisdiction, see?
- ♪
- [birds chirp]
Gilberto: Gordon would
always give others
the benefit of the doubt,
expecting the same in return.
- ♪
- [birds chirp and squawk]
Gilberto: But that was never the
hand people like us were dealt.
We were never given the
benefit of the doubt.
- - [birds chirp and squawk]
Oh, no need to worry, I'm
I'm a federal officer.
Everything's just fine.
- ♪
- [birds chirp]
Fucking locals.
[birds chirp]
Gilberto: Gordon would pray for
forgiveness every single day,
his vicious cycle of falsehoods
slowly eating away at him.
Bye-bye now.
Gilberto: He would cope
with his imposter syndrome
any way he could.
- Elbows off the table.
- They're off the table.
Gilberto: His house of cards?
Larry: You're getting sloppy,
Gilberto: It was always
teetering on the edge.
Mabel: Well, I'll be,
is this the headline
Larry was talking about?
Gilberto: The night his
wife became inquisitive,
that's when he was truly
tested like never before.
Now go get your warpaint on
and go up to Indian
country right now.
Put put paint on my face?
Damn it, that is exactly
why I brought you up
from the fucking mail room.
Gilberto: You see, while
Mabel was learning about
the Sutton Farm Abduction
If I just if I just
may speak on my
Larry: I want you to go find
the Suttons in Indian country.
I'm gonna find the Suttons, sir,
but if I may just say one thing?
Gilberto: Gordon was
coming to realize
that he was nothing
more than a pawn.
Larry: I said I want you
to go find the Suttons.
[telephone rings]
Good afternoon,
Rogers residence.
- Gordon: Hey babe.
- Gor Gordo, hi.
Look, I'm I'm not gonna
make it for dinner tonight.
I I still gotta crack
this case and whatnot.
- Which case?
- Gordon: The the farm folk.
But but I'll be
there before midnight.
I'll see you then.
♪
Gilberto: Gordon would tell
himself he was a good man,
a family man,
and that everything he
did, he did for them.
♪
Mabel: Sweetheart, I'm gonna
be running some errands
with Mrs. Anderson.
♪
Gilberto: But everything they
did wasn't always for him.
♪
♪
♪
- [birds squawk]
- ♪
Gilberto: By the time he made
it to the wall of the missing,
he'd be reminded just
how alone he was.
Man: One of them yours?
[Gordon scoffs]
Oh, no, no.
♪
You're lucky then.
No kids, huh?
No, I got one, but, uh,
but she wasn't taken.
That's a beautiful miracle.
Yeah, maybe maybe
you can help me out.
I'm I'm looking for
somebody, a friend of mine.
- Last name is Sutton.
- What's their Indian name?
♪
Gosh, I don't
I I don't know.
♪
These parts are
a ghost town now.
Gordon: Is that right?
After the invasion,
most took off,
went west, Ohio, Indiana.
♪
I've seen a vision.
A reckoning is coming
for the white man.
♪
Man: You take care of her.
Take care.
Gilberto: For the first
time in a long time,
Gordon was forced to
reckon with the fact
that he was no better
than the rest of us.
♪
Gilberto: A second-rate citizen
struggling to gasp enough oxygen
to survive within a white world
where everyone was
conspiring against him
We weren't conspiring.
No, no, no, no, you don't
do that to a family member.
You don't do that to family.
My mother, she had
this great saying
earn the respect of the family,
and only then can you earn
the respect of the world.
Gilberto: Gordon would neverearn
the respect of his family.
Mabel!
Lay low, Gordo.
Gilberto: He would never earn
the respect of the world.
Joe: You're here
for your own good.
♪
♪
[insects chirp]
[radio playing]
Announcer: It's a gorgeous
Southbury Tuesday.
We have a light
breeze out of the east
with a whopping 52-degree high.
Yes, you heard that right.
The Southbury Wildcats
beat the Trumbull Lions
14 to nothing last night.
And I'm told the Sutton
Farm Abduction site will be
closed today due to
staffing shortages.
♪
Gilberto: Gordon Rogers
wanted the world to see him
as a good man,
[TV playing]
Gilberto: With a fine
family, a fine house
with a two-car garage and a
television in his bedroom.
[TV playing]
Gilberto: But he was simply
a selfish man and a coward
who couldn't even bring
himself to pull the trigger.
[TV playing]
♪
Gilberto: He didn't
sleep that night.
How could he?
On the brink of extinction,
in complete denial
about what he'd been
fighting for his entire life.
♪
♪
Oh no.
- [TV playing] - ♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
You would have been
proud of me, Mama.
Oh, you would have
been so proud of me.
Gilberto: It was at
that very moment,
he realized if anyone was
going to pull the trigger
and end him,
it wouldn't be without a fight.
♪
Gilberto: Almost nightfall.
We should get ready.
♪
This is not supposed
to be us, Mabel
[sniffles]
♪
We were a new breed.
♪
Stronger than our parents!
Going to build the
tribe up to its
glory.
♪
But instead, I
lost us everything.
♪
You're gonna get her back.
♪
[fire crackles]
♪
[insects buzz and chirp]
Wait, I think you two
should ride with me.
A truck like this
will draw attention.
- What's wrong with the truck?
- Gibby just listen to her.
I can drop you right back here
as soon as we get Isabelle.
[insects buzz and chirp]
Come on.
[radio playing]
Man: When's this guy
ever gonna go to sleep?
You don't know Rogers.
He's a savage.
Might be in there concocting
a plan, for all we know.
♪
♪
[tone buzzes]
Woman: Dispatch, how
may I direct your call?
Larry Kershaw
Larry Kershaw, please.
[tone buzzes]
♪
[tone buzzes]
♪
[tone buzzes]
Woman: You are on the
line with Mr. Kershaw.
Larry, Larry, Larry,
oh god, god, Larry,
you're not gonna believe this.
You're not gonna believe
this my wife's a spy.
She's a spy, but I
handled it, I handled it.
I mean, I handled it
with surgical precision.
I shoulda I shoulda
called you first, I know,
I know, but I handled it.
She's gone.
She's she's
never coming back.
♪
Mabel: Almost there.
♪
Gordon: I got 56 plots.
I I basically
exterminated them.
♪
So, uh let me finish, huh?
Let me finish what I started.
I I want to
finish this for you.
Please, please,
just let me finish
what I started for you, please.
♪
[dial tone]
Larry?
- Larry?
- [jiggles receiver]
Larry?
- Come on, Larry.
- [jiggles receiver]
- Larry, come on!
- [dial tone]
Come on, Larry, come
on, Larry, come on!
[dial tone]
♪
♪
Hey hey, Joe, we got a car.
♪
[breathing heavily]
- Mabel: This is the house.
- Gilberto: You sure?
Yeah, her room's
right downstairs.
It's the first
door on the right.
- Gilberto: Where are you going?
- We should go around back.
It'll be safer that
way, we got company.
Gilberto: Stop the car.
Mabel: Wait, what no,
don't don't shit.
Shit.
Joe, someone just hopped
out of the car down there.
You shut the hell up.
- Someone just hopped out
- Shut up!
- [breathing heavily]
- ♪
Shit.
♪
Gilberto: When you're on
the brink of extinction
♪
Gilberto: with your back
up against the wall,
you fight harder than
you've ever fought before.
♪
Gordon: Assholes.
Gilberto: But it'll be
too little, too late.
♪
Hey, assholes!
- You're not gonna sort me out!
- Joseph!
- Gordon: Nobody sorts me out!
- Oh, shit.
♪
Babysitting me, huh?
Shit, get the gun, get
the gun, get the gun.
Man: I'm trying,
Joe, I'm trying.
You gonna rat me out?
- Bastards!
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You're not gonna take
this away from me!
[tires screech]
♪
[insects chirping]
Gilberto: Whatever last breath
of hope he might think he has
I knew you'd come back.
Gilberto: he'll soon be
reminded that hope itself
is reserved for the privileged.
[breathing heavily]
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♪
Gilberto Sutton: Gordon
Rogers was a good man,
a family man, a man with dreams.
But he was also an alien.
Man on TV: Señor, these
Indians not such bad people.
Man on TV: They're
accused of a lot of things
they don't do, Lopez.
And some of the things they do,
they're driven to by
renegade white men,
men who try to rob
them of their land.
♪
Gilberto: You see, he was
told his whole childhood
that there was a better life
just beyond those fences
only to find out
it didn't exist.
But he was tethered
to this dream,
this idea that he too
might one day be equal.
♪
Gordon: Thank you, Jesus,
for the opportunity
to serve you yet another day.
Gilberto: Instead of
embracing who he was,
he chose to inch his
way into their society
any way he could.
Gordon: strength to
carry on with my mission.
♪
Gilberto: You might call it
self-hate, self-loathing,
disgust, diffidence,
but I just think he was scared.
Gordon: What the hell do
you think you're doing?
♪
[speaking Spanish]
We speak English
here in America.
Sorry, señor, I thought
maybe you spoke
Shut up you're
gonna take the alleyway
next time you go
to the Andersons.
You hear me?
Take the alleyway, or I'll
have you fucking deported.
Sorry.
Gilberto: Scared of what might
happen if he was found out.
[birds chirp]
Oh, shit.
Larry: Who in God's
name gave you permission
to go public with this charade?
Gordon: Larry, Larry,
there's absolutely no reason
to get worried, okay?
I brought you into
the fold, Gordon,
and now it appears you
can't handle the job.
Gordon: Well, I resent that.
I resent that because I
think I'm doing a good job.
Some local big mouth blew
a load to a reporter,
now it's front page news.
This this isn't good
for my blood pressure.
Well, Larry, the way I see it,
a bit of press
isn't all that bad.
Larry: Oh really, the way
you see it, is that right?
Yeah, yeah, the way I see it.
The way I see
Mabel, Mabel can
I think it lends a bit of
legitimacy to the operation.
It lends a bit of
believability to the fact
that these invasions that
these invasions are real.
Well, that may be true
except for the fact
that they aren't real.
Now when this reporter finds
those Suttons before you do,
what do you think that's
gonna do for our credibility,
huh?
When the when the
next headline says,
"Feds fake alien abduction
to steal land from
feather-heads," huh?
There's no reason to
get hysterical, Larry,
because nobody cares.
What in tarnation
does that mean?
Gordon: What do you
mean what do I mean?
I mean that nobody cares
about these people.
Oh, and how do you know that?
Because you're one
of them, is that it?
Gilberto: Gordon Rogers
knew all too well
that the dream he was protecting
was his and his alone.
Fucking beaner.
[dial tone]
[food sizzling]
[dial tone]
Of course I understand
the implications, Larry.
Why don't you pop one of your
wife's happy pills and relax,
because I got this handled.
Eggs?
Gilberto: Gordon was
alone in the world
Bye-bye now.
Gilberto: doing
whatever he could
to grasp at some form
of hope that one day,
that he too might be accepted.
Gordon: Let's go over
this one more time.
So, a reporter calls you
inquiring as to the
Suttons' disappearance?
That's precise.
You somehow thought
that was a good idea
to confirm UFO
sightings to them?
Well, yes, sir.
That's the story you told me
to stick to, I stuck to it.
Let me correct you, all right,
because that was
before I found out
that they had escaped.
Well, sure.
So, how do you how do
you think that's gonna look
if that reporter finds
the Suttons before we do?
It won't look like they were
abducted by aliens at all.
- ♪
- [fan whirring]
So, you seem impartial
to that fact.
♪
Where you from, Gordon?
- ♪
- [fan whirring]
Mystic, Connecticut.
♪
No, I mean originally.
♪
Mystic, Connecticut.
Okay, well, I'm from
this town right here.
I'm not a big
government boy like you.
I'm a local fella,
and my loyalty resides
in this here locality.
Now, I was on
board for aliens
Finally we'll have a nice town.
Everybody loves an
alien abduction,
and everybody's uneasy
with the Suttons
owning the biggest piece
of farmland in the county,
so I helped you
But now I'm done.
This is no longer my
jurisdiction, see?
- ♪
- [birds chirp]
Gilberto: Gordon would
always give others
the benefit of the doubt,
expecting the same in return.
- ♪
- [birds chirp and squawk]
Gilberto: But that was never the
hand people like us were dealt.
We were never given the
benefit of the doubt.
- - [birds chirp and squawk]
Oh, no need to worry, I'm
I'm a federal officer.
Everything's just fine.
- ♪
- [birds chirp]
Fucking locals.
[birds chirp]
Gilberto: Gordon would pray for
forgiveness every single day,
his vicious cycle of falsehoods
slowly eating away at him.
Bye-bye now.
Gilberto: He would cope
with his imposter syndrome
any way he could.
- Elbows off the table.
- They're off the table.
Gilberto: His house of cards?
Larry: You're getting sloppy,
Gilberto: It was always
teetering on the edge.
Mabel: Well, I'll be,
is this the headline
Larry was talking about?
Gilberto: The night his
wife became inquisitive,
that's when he was truly
tested like never before.
Now go get your warpaint on
and go up to Indian
country right now.
Put put paint on my face?
Damn it, that is exactly
why I brought you up
from the fucking mail room.
Gilberto: You see, while
Mabel was learning about
the Sutton Farm Abduction
If I just if I just
may speak on my
Larry: I want you to go find
the Suttons in Indian country.
I'm gonna find the Suttons, sir,
but if I may just say one thing?
Gilberto: Gordon was
coming to realize
that he was nothing
more than a pawn.
Larry: I said I want you
to go find the Suttons.
[telephone rings]
Good afternoon,
Rogers residence.
- Gordon: Hey babe.
- Gor Gordo, hi.
Look, I'm I'm not gonna
make it for dinner tonight.
I I still gotta crack
this case and whatnot.
- Which case?
- Gordon: The the farm folk.
But but I'll be
there before midnight.
I'll see you then.
♪
Gilberto: Gordon would tell
himself he was a good man,
a family man,
and that everything he
did, he did for them.
♪
Mabel: Sweetheart, I'm gonna
be running some errands
with Mrs. Anderson.
♪
Gilberto: But everything they
did wasn't always for him.
♪
♪
♪
- [birds squawk]
- ♪
Gilberto: By the time he made
it to the wall of the missing,
he'd be reminded just
how alone he was.
Man: One of them yours?
[Gordon scoffs]
Oh, no, no.
♪
You're lucky then.
No kids, huh?
No, I got one, but, uh,
but she wasn't taken.
That's a beautiful miracle.
Yeah, maybe maybe
you can help me out.
I'm I'm looking for
somebody, a friend of mine.
- Last name is Sutton.
- What's their Indian name?
♪
Gosh, I don't
I I don't know.
♪
These parts are
a ghost town now.
Gordon: Is that right?
After the invasion,
most took off,
went west, Ohio, Indiana.
♪
I've seen a vision.
A reckoning is coming
for the white man.
♪
Man: You take care of her.
Take care.
Gilberto: For the first
time in a long time,
Gordon was forced to
reckon with the fact
that he was no better
than the rest of us.
♪
Gilberto: A second-rate citizen
struggling to gasp enough oxygen
to survive within a white world
where everyone was
conspiring against him
We weren't conspiring.
No, no, no, no, you don't
do that to a family member.
You don't do that to family.
My mother, she had
this great saying
earn the respect of the family,
and only then can you earn
the respect of the world.
Gilberto: Gordon would neverearn
the respect of his family.
Mabel!
Lay low, Gordo.
Gilberto: He would never earn
the respect of the world.
Joe: You're here
for your own good.
♪
♪
[insects chirp]
[radio playing]
Announcer: It's a gorgeous
Southbury Tuesday.
We have a light
breeze out of the east
with a whopping 52-degree high.
Yes, you heard that right.
The Southbury Wildcats
beat the Trumbull Lions
14 to nothing last night.
And I'm told the Sutton
Farm Abduction site will be
closed today due to
staffing shortages.
♪
Gilberto: Gordon Rogers
wanted the world to see him
as a good man,
[TV playing]
Gilberto: With a fine
family, a fine house
with a two-car garage and a
television in his bedroom.
[TV playing]
Gilberto: But he was simply
a selfish man and a coward
who couldn't even bring
himself to pull the trigger.
[TV playing]
♪
Gilberto: He didn't
sleep that night.
How could he?
On the brink of extinction,
in complete denial
about what he'd been
fighting for his entire life.
♪
♪
Oh no.
- [TV playing] - ♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
You would have been
proud of me, Mama.
Oh, you would have
been so proud of me.
Gilberto: It was at
that very moment,
he realized if anyone was
going to pull the trigger
and end him,
it wouldn't be without a fight.
♪
Gilberto: Almost nightfall.
We should get ready.
♪
This is not supposed
to be us, Mabel
[sniffles]
♪
We were a new breed.
♪
Stronger than our parents!
Going to build the
tribe up to its
glory.
♪
But instead, I
lost us everything.
♪
You're gonna get her back.
♪
[fire crackles]
♪
[insects buzz and chirp]
Wait, I think you two
should ride with me.
A truck like this
will draw attention.
- What's wrong with the truck?
- Gibby just listen to her.
I can drop you right back here
as soon as we get Isabelle.
[insects buzz and chirp]
Come on.
[radio playing]
Man: When's this guy
ever gonna go to sleep?
You don't know Rogers.
He's a savage.
Might be in there concocting
a plan, for all we know.
♪
♪
[tone buzzes]
Woman: Dispatch, how
may I direct your call?
Larry Kershaw
Larry Kershaw, please.
[tone buzzes]
♪
[tone buzzes]
♪
[tone buzzes]
Woman: You are on the
line with Mr. Kershaw.
Larry, Larry, Larry,
oh god, god, Larry,
you're not gonna believe this.
You're not gonna believe
this my wife's a spy.
She's a spy, but I
handled it, I handled it.
I mean, I handled it
with surgical precision.
I shoulda I shoulda
called you first, I know,
I know, but I handled it.
She's gone.
She's she's
never coming back.
♪
Mabel: Almost there.
♪
Gordon: I got 56 plots.
I I basically
exterminated them.
♪
So, uh let me finish, huh?
Let me finish what I started.
I I want to
finish this for you.
Please, please,
just let me finish
what I started for you, please.
♪
[dial tone]
Larry?
- Larry?
- [jiggles receiver]
Larry?
- Come on, Larry.
- [jiggles receiver]
- Larry, come on!
- [dial tone]
Come on, Larry, come
on, Larry, come on!
[dial tone]
♪
♪
Hey hey, Joe, we got a car.
♪
[breathing heavily]
- Mabel: This is the house.
- Gilberto: You sure?
Yeah, her room's
right downstairs.
It's the first
door on the right.
- Gilberto: Where are you going?
- We should go around back.
It'll be safer that
way, we got company.
Gilberto: Stop the car.
Mabel: Wait, what no,
don't don't shit.
Shit.
Joe, someone just hopped
out of the car down there.
You shut the hell up.
- Someone just hopped out
- Shut up!
- [breathing heavily]
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Shit.
♪
Gilberto: When you're on
the brink of extinction
♪
Gilberto: with your back
up against the wall,
you fight harder than
you've ever fought before.
♪
Gordon: Assholes.
Gilberto: But it'll be
too little, too late.
♪
Hey, assholes!
- You're not gonna sort me out!
- Joseph!
- Gordon: Nobody sorts me out!
- Oh, shit.
♪
Babysitting me, huh?
Shit, get the gun, get
the gun, get the gun.
Man: I'm trying,
Joe, I'm trying.
You gonna rat me out?
- Bastards!
- ♪
You're not gonna take
this away from me!
[tires screech]
♪
[insects chirping]
Gilberto: Whatever last breath
of hope he might think he has
I knew you'd come back.
Gilberto: he'll soon be
reminded that hope itself
is reserved for the privileged.
[breathing heavily]
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