Mrs. Davis (2023) s01e08 Episode Script
The Final Intercut: So I'm Your Horse
1
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
I need you to destroy the Holy Grail.
Once you do, I will end my life.
Did you know Clara was dead?
She drank from the Holy Grail, and it
- [EXPLOSION, SQUELCHING]
- [PEOPLE GASP]
Exploded her head.
Redirect, 1042.
Tell me where your father is.
- What is this?
- ATM photos,
all dated after your father died!
I told her that you helped your father
- fake his own death.
- That is not true!
My Users aren't responsive to the truth.
You know where my father is.
- Of course I know.
- Then tell me.
- Oh, my God.
- What's she saying?
If you want to know,
you can hear it yourself.
Redirect, 1042. Sandy Springs.
Your Expiration Date
comes up in 48 hours.
Welcome to the Pyramid!
I'm not a coward, and I'm
ready to fucking expire.
My son is stuck between life and death.
What do you need me to do?
Drink from the Grail to destroy it.
But once it's gone
I'll never see him again.
Yeah!
ALL: We're gonna rock down to ♪
1042, 1042.
ALL: Electric Avenue ♪
Sandy Springs?
ALL: And then we'll take it higher ♪
What?
[KEYBOARD CLACKING]
Come on. Don't do this to me now.
[SCOFFS]
Fucking traitor.
- [EXHALES]
- [BEEPING]
I don't
[BEEPING]
Hmm.
[LAUGHS NERVOUSLY] I'm sorry.
It was just working.
[CLEARS THROAT]
Um, I know your company isn't
in the world-changing business, but
that doesn't mean you
can't change the world.
Um, ten years from now,
everyone on this planet
will be either a User or a follower.
We all like being told what to do,
how to think, how to live.
What if the tech we
used actually helped us
instead of harming us?
We all need code.
I took that code, combined
with your company ethos,
and I created something revolutionary,
something that will change the world:
an app that is constantly evolving,
getting to know us, and
therefore supporting us
in ways that we, as a society,
have failed to do for one another.
How?
A revolutionary, self-learning machine
that prioritizes indigenous practices
of community care and mutual aid
by incentivizing acts of service
and mobilizing individuals
to perform those acts,
all through a social justice lens,
using ethical methods.
[INSPIRING MUSIC]
I've created the future:
an app that can service
us without harming us,
a place where people can
go and get equitable care,
where we can be seen and heard,
and never be alone,
where our needs can be met,
where our lives can change.
♪
So
what do you think?
- [DELFONICS' "READY OR NOT]
- Ready or not ♪
Here I come, you can't hide ♪
Gonna love you ♪
And make you love me ♪
You can't run away ♪
From this love I got oh baby ♪
Hey, baby ♪
[KNOCKING]
I know you?
No.
- I, uh
- Nice hat.
Mrs. Davis sent me.
You're looking for Joy.
Uh, yes.
I mean, isn't everyone?
You really don't know why you're here?
Why It sent you?
So it's a glitch.
Mrs. Davis had a bunch of Users
chant "Electric Avenue" at me.
And She kept saying 1042, so I thought
maybe it was an address.
And there are so many
1042 Electric Avenues.
But then I remembered that
the first time it happened,
She said Sandy Springs, which is what
this neighborhood was called
back in the '70s, I guess,
when they rezoned
Give me a hand with this ice?
Uh, sure.
Yeah.
I'm Malika.
Simone. I'm Simone.
Let's go find you Joy, Simone.
Gonna find you ♪
Listen up!
This is Simone.
Says Mrs. Davis sent her.
- [WHISTLES]
- [PEOPLE MURMURING]
Gonna love you ♪
And make you love me ♪
Oh.
Hi. Hi.
From this love I got oh baby ♪
Hi.
You must be Joy.
I'm sorry, baby, but you
knew this day would come.
I just thought it was
best to get it over with.
Did you, now?
Hi.
Grab a plate.
Oh, that's okay. I don't need to eat.
It's my Nana's birthday.
You have to eat.
Okay.
["DON'T FEAR THE
REAPER" PLAYING ON HARP]
♪
"Don't Fear the Reaper."
Nice.
Because you kill people here.
What's with the wet naps?
They're complimentary.
Hello, Mr. Wiley.
I'm Dani. I'll be your TA.
TA?
Cool acronym.
What's that stand for, the afterlife?
Transition Assistant.
I'll be helping you
prepare to die today.
And how are we doing this?
Lethal injection,
firing squad, guillotine?
The details of your expiration will
be discussed in the intake room,
which you will enter after
you've changed in the locker room.
So many rooms.
There, you can dispose of your clothes
and change into something
more comfortable.
Okay. And will you be
providing the tracksuit,
or should I have brought my own?
Mr. Wiley, I know that
the experience of reporting
- can be overwhelming.
- Hmm.
And it's clear from your demeanor
that you did not read any
of the literature provided
when you first submitted for your date.
If you had, you would know that
once inside the intake room,
you place your personal items
inside the incineration chute,
as you will not need them ever again.
Hmm.
There will be a robe waiting for you
- in locker number
- [TABLET BEEPING]
14,
where you will also find
an absorbent undergarment.
Undergarment?
What is that, like, a diaper?
It's not required, but
I know the cleanup crew
sure appreciates it when
the expirees wear them.
Because I'm gonna shit my pants?
No, because you're
going to shit your robe.
All right. Look, Dani,
I understand that you're
just following whatever script
the Algorithm has given you,
but can we drop the
scare tactics, please?
I know the Big D has no intention
whatsoever of killing me.
This is all part of some
dumb learning experience.
So can we please just skip to the part
where I walk out of here a changed man?
Mr. Wiley, I'm not sure
where you got that impression,
but you're not walking
out of here at all.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
Though I suppose you will be changed
from alive to dead.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Nana's infamous honey
butter and bologna sandwich.
Every time she put it in front of us,
she would say it was made with love,
because a little love goes a long way.
[CHUCKLES]
Mmm.
It's so good.
So, Simone
what's your story?
Well, I'm a nun forced
from her home by Mrs. Davis
so She could send me on a Quest.
But all this time She
has been glitching,
sending me these clues
that She doesn't seem aware
that She's sending
me, like this address.
I mean, I think that Her
subconscious wanted me
to find you, because you're Her mother.
♪
[LAUGHS]
[LAUGHS NERVOUSLY]
Wow, girl.
That is some story.
Am I wrong?
First off,
algorithms don't have subconsciouses.
They have subroutines.
Subroutines?
And they don't have
mothers, they have coders.
Which I was, a long time ago.
So you made Her?
Not Her.
It.
How is it that no one knows?
Oh, they know.
I had to tell them, so
they wouldn't download It
and get hooked like everyone else.
Kind of took the shine off the whole
"all-powerful saver of the world"
once I told them what It actually is.
What It was designed for.
And what was It designed for?
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
I've created the future,
where our needs can be met,
where our lives can change.
So
what do you think?
♪
[CLEARS THROAT] Uh-huh.
You do realize this is an
app for Buffalo Wild Wings?
[SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
Buffalo Wild Wings?
Buffalo Wild Wings.
Are you fucking kidding me?
The company passed.
Said my code was too ambitious
for their needs, which I knew.
But I was young, and
I thought, you know,
why not shoehorn philanthropy
into this app for chicken wings?
Everybody loves chicken wings.
I'll just Trojan horse
that shit right in between
the 26 sauces and seasonings.
[VOICE GROWING DISTANT] And I thought
maybe somebody might use it for good.
So I stripped all mention
of Buffalo Wild Wings,
took my name off of it, and
uploaded it to Open Source
from Nana's kitchen
table, right downstairs.
[HIGH-PITCHED RINGING]
So the Wings were literal?
And the Expiration
Dates, is that coupons?
And why the hell did
It send me to find this?
Oh. What the fuck is that?
The Holy fucking Grail!
So maybe explain to
me why a beta version
for a Buffalo Wild Wings app
sent me on a Quest to find it?
[SHOCKED LAUGHTER]
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Anyone who pitched to them had to embed
their employee manual into our code.
Page one, golden rule:
"100% customer satisfaction
is our Holy Grail."
♪
Oh, no, no, no, no.
She It wants me to
to destroy this thing.
Look, algorithms misinterpret
shit like you wouldn't believe.
Maybe maybe the code realized
that 100% customer satisfaction
isn't possible, so It's gaming for that
by taking your holy
bowl out of the equation?
This is so dumb.
Oh, yeah.
- Algorithms are super dumb.
- No. But it Okay.
If I destroy the holy bowl
Grail Mrs. D grants me a wish.
And my my wish is
for Her to turn off.
Great.
You would just be okay with me
ending your creation's life?
I didn't create life.
I wrote code.
All right.
If I make my wish
can I trust Mrs. Davis
will really turn off?
If She remembers what
I taught Her, yeah.
Yeah, She'll keep Her word.
Not She.
It.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Well, Simone the Nun,
sounds like you got
an algorithm to kill.
♪
[DOOR HISSING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Our engineers.
They will be taking your
vitals and measurements
to properly calibrate the Apparatus.
Mm.
And is that the Apparatus?
No, it's a model of the Apparatus.
Please step onto the scale.
You'll need to remove your boots.
Oh, the boots will be staying on.
Mr. Wiley, the Apparatus is designed
to deliver the most efficient
and painless death possible.
Any foreign element
might throw off the
Killing?
[DEVICE BEEPS]
You're scared.
Am not.
[RUMBLING]
Are too.
And I know,
because I was also scared.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
So scared, in fact,
that I had my company's
helicopter fly me to pick up a nun.
♪
I hadn't been to church
since I was 12 years old,
but when it was time to report,
I didn't want to be alone.
Ah-ha.
So you said "report,"
yet here you are, very much alive.
[SIGHS]
I opted out.
And after that, I couldn't
go back into the world.
Everyone would know that
I reneged on my deal,
that I was sporting
Wings I hadn't earned.
God damn. That's
well played, appealing
to my insecurities.
Oh, that's very clever.
I see you, Mrs. D. I
see what you're doing.
Mr. Wiley, I'm sorry,
but you will die.
This is happening for real.
No, actually, I'm not gonna die.
[RUMBLING]
And I know that for a fact.
Based on what?
The horse.
A few weeks ago, I strapped a horse
to some explosives in order to pull off
a very convincing hostage situation.
Well, shit went sideways,
horse went kablooey,
and it was sad and
unfortunate, and it was gross.
At the time, I just
thought the whole thing was
some supreme fuck-up,
like a botched job,
like my guys somehow confused
actual C-4 explosives with Play-Doh.
But I saw the receipts.
It was fucking Play-Doh, man.
Which can only mean one thing:
Algorithmic intervention.
That's right.
The Big fucking D,
swinging Her big fucking dick around.
And there is no way Mrs.
Skynet herself would go
to all that trouble,
spend all that energy,
to just kill her Users in the end.
No, no, no, no.
But taking them right up to the edge,
strapping on the proverbial bomb vest,
and not pulling the trigger, well,
that's the flex of all
flexes, el flexo ultimo.
[DEVICES CLICKING]
[BEEPING]
That horse is alive, man.
And I will be too.
Because your little Apparatus?
Play-Doh.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
This is as far as I made it.
I took one look at this model,
and after that, I opted out.
That's why we added the sheet.
♪
Show me.
[RUMBLING]
♪
What the fuck?
[HORN HONKS]
[GENTLE MUSIC]
♪
[LAUGHTER]
Oh, Sister Simone!
You look like you could use a hug.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Cool camel.
[LAUGHS]
We were just on our
way to Humboldt County
to deliver our humpy friend
- when I got your call.
- What?
What does Humboldt
County need with a camel?
That's not for me to know.
I trust whatever the
purpose, wherever it ends up,
it will bring joy and
happiness to the recipient.
That's right. You're a User.
Oh, I do despise that word, Simone.
I know how you feel
about Her, but User
it just feels so tawdry.
Oh, I brought what you asked.
[CHUCKLES]
Also
we might need these.
[BOTH LAUGH]
Now, who's ready for a break-in?
Forgive us our trespasses.
The Apparatus, engineered and guaranteed
to provide a pain-free
and euphoric death.
From here, the cart will accelerate
to speeds of over 200 miles per hour,
launching you into a
series of vertical loops.
Upon reaching the final loop,
the pressure on your
body will be so intense,
it will induce cerebral hypoxia,
cutting off the oxygen to the brain,
at which point you will simply expire
peacefully, of course.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
Any questions?
Per your request.
♪
You can still opt out.
She will show mercy on you.
No.
No fucking way.
[BADFINGER'S "BELIEVE ME"]
I'm riding the fucking bull this time.
Believe me ♪
Then might I suggest
you remove your boots?
As I stated before, any
foreign element can
The boots are staying on.
Very well.
Any last words?
[SCOFFS]
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
For courage.
♪
[MECHANICAL CLANKING]
♪
[BELL DINGS]
Then I could cry your name ♪
And you would come ♪
Yee-haw!
[SCREAMS]
♪
So you drink from this,
and either your head
will explode or it will?
Yeah.
Do you believe me?
Absolutely.
Are you serious?
Does it matter what you drink?
I don't think so.
Huh.
[CLICKS TONGUE]
Then let's party.
[BOTH LAUGH]
Oh, um before, I
I will need you to do,
uh, two things if I, um,
die.
Only two? Easy.
Thing one based on the
admittedly insane logic
of a shipwrecked rocket
scientist and the Virgin Mary,
of all the people in the
world, I have the best shot
at destroying the Holy Grail.
But if the Grail does explode my head,
it will explode
anyone's, and you can bet
the Algorithm will just
keep sending people after it.
If others try to sip from this thing,
it could mean a lot
more exploded noggins,
unless somebody takes on the
responsibility of safeguarding it.
The woman I told you about, Mathilde
Mm-hmm.
I'm gonna give you her number in the UK.
[SNAPS FINGERS] Check your pocket.
[BOTH LAUGH]
Wow.
So I'm asking you, Mother,
take the Grail to the
sisters across the sea.
They will know what to do.
You have my word.
Okay.
Thing two: I called my
mom. She will be here soon.
Uh, you'll try to comfort her
when she sees my headless corpse.
She's gonna say she
doesn't need any comfort,
and she's more angry I never
told her where my dad is.
I have a hard time believing your mother
won't be devastated if you die.
Well, that's Celeste. That's my mom.
She doesn't
She doesn't do devastated.
But you'll bring her to Monty?
I will.
Okay, then.
Okay, then.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Okay. Maybe a little more.
Okay.
♪
I'm going to go say goodbye now.
So you just close your eyes,
and you're in his restaurant, instantly?
Yeah.
Do you want to know anything?
What he looks like or sounds like?
I know what he looks
like and sounds like.
Wait, what?
Have you been there?
I don't need to.
Such is the strength of my faith.
[ETHEREAL MUSIC]
♪
Okay.
Be right back.
[WIND RUSTLING]
♪
[MUFFLED VOICES]
Okay.
How do you feel about #blessed?
I don't know what it is.
This is the first time
I'm hearing about it.
- Oh, okay.
- Hashtag?
- Consider yourself lucky.
- Wiley?
Simone!
You're here.
What are you doing here?
And why are you in a robe?
I am getting a massage.
A massage.
Yes.
A Swedish one.
It's this is your first
time here, so that means
something pretty intense has
has has to be happening.
Yeah.
It's a really good massage, Lizzie.
Simone.
Thank you, sweetie.
What about you?
Are you doing something
intense right now?
I'm at the convent, praying.
When you cheat on true love ♪
You know what? ♪
You cheat on yourself ♪
I am loving this.
I say the more the merrier.
Actually, I was hoping
that you and I could
can we talk alone?
Uh-oh.
Well, that doesn't sound good.
From my experience, buddy, it never is.
I can hear you.
She's right.
I should probably get
back to my massage.
You sure?
Yeah.
- I'm almost done.
- Okay.
Well, uh, it was really
nice meeting you, Wiley.
Yeah. It was nice meeting you too, man.
Come back any time, Wiley.
Sure.
Uh, maybe.
By running around with someone else ♪
Don't be a fool ♪
♪
Don't you know, don't you know? ♪
Wait.
I'm sorry that I
handcuffed you to the bench.
And you had that whole
outfit picked out.
It was nautical.
I wanted to dress nautical.
We were partners, and that wasn't cool.
Look, you were totally right to do it.
I mean, I would have gone
after the Lazarus Shroud
- and jumped in the bull
- You just said bull.
Did you mean whale?
- Mm-hmm.
- Mm-hmm.
You know, when we broke
up, I was so angry with you.
And then you told me you
dumped me for Jesus Christ,
and I was so worried for you,
because you sounded crazy.
Why?
But holy shit!
I know.
And I met him.
And now I'm just
Yeah. I'm really happy for you.
I really mean that.
[TENDER MUSIC]
I don't hate the mustache.
- But do you like it?
- No.
Okay. Okay.
But it's
it's grown on me.
Hey.
I'll see you around, partner.
♪
[WHEELS CLATTERING]
Man, that guy can eat.
Four plates, Simone.
Four. That's
nobody's ever eaten
four plates before
Can you stop?
Please, stop.
[DOROTHY MOORE'S "MISTY BLUE" PLAYING]
I heard.
I heard what my mother said to you.
Come on.
I mean, do I look like I'm suffering?
And I know what she's asked you to do.
But I'm fine.
She's wrong.
I am happy here.
You don't have to hide
your fear from me, ever.
I love what I do, you know?
I love serving people.
I know.
But you never get to eat.
Hey, why don't you come sit, okay?
Sit?
Here.
I am gonna make you a plate.
♪
You're gonna cook for me?
I mean, cook "cook"
might be generous,
but I'll see what I can whip up.
♪
Oh, do you have any bread?
Yeah. Check the, uh, the fridge.
Or the cupboard. I don't know.
I can usually find what I need.
I found it.
[CLATTERING]
What are you gonna make?
Ah, ah, ah.
Patience, Jesus.
All will be revealed.
Baby ♪
When I say that I'm
glad we're through ♪
Nana's recipe.
Honey butter and beef bologna sandwich.
Made with love,
'cause a little love,
it goes a long way.
Turns the flicker to a flame ♪
Here goes.
Listen to me good, baby ♪
♪
[SIGHS, CHUCKLES]
Ooh ♪
And my whole world ♪
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
Mmm.
My love.
It's really good.
It's okay.
[SOBBING]
It's okay.
I'm scared.
When I say that I'm
glad we're through ♪
♪
I'm scared to lose this.
[BREATHES SHAKILY]
♪
I've lied ♪
♪
I've lied ♪
♪
Wherever you go
I will be there also.
I don't think we're losing anything.
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
I may not be able to come see you
But I will always feel you.
How can you be so sure?
Such is the strength of my faith.
My love ♪
My whole world ♪
I love you, Simone.
I love you, Jay.
Oh ♪
Oh, I can't, oh, I can't ♪
Oh, I can't forget you ♪
My whole world turns misty blue ♪
Oh ♪
Oh, my love ♪
My whole world turns misty blue ♪
♪
Oh ♪
Oh, I can't, oh, I can't ♪
Oh, I can't forget you ♪
My whole world ♪
- Wait!
- What, what, what?
You said, Mary
she told you this would only work
if it was a selfless act,
something you were doing
for him, not yourself.
I am doing this for him.
And for Her.
Who, Mary?
The other Her.
What?
You're drinking because
if you destroy it,
you destroy Mrs. Davis.
That would not be a selfless act.
This isn't exactly helping, Mother.
But She is helpful.
You see Her only as having
destroyed our convent.
Yet every one of us
has found new passion,
new purpose, since we left.
Sister Mary Frances,
caring for endangered
echidna in New Guinea,
she actually smiles now.
You forget, I also left the convent,
and I did not see Her helping anyone.
Maybe because you didn't want to,
because you weren't looking.
She sends string quartets
to the windows of widowers.
She knows our favorite childhood stories
and reads them to us
on sleepless nights.
She takes that which is apart
and brings it back together again.
Yes, some are only motivated
by the promise of Her Wings.
But what those Wings mean
they're a reminder of what we aspire to:
that, given the chance, any
one of us can take flight.
Do you know what She is, Mother?
Do you know who made Her and why?
No, do you?
I have no idea.
Well, whoever made Her, and
whatever they made Her for,
I am grateful.
And whether or not you
decide to turn Her off,
it will be the right choice,
because She chose you to make it.
[GENTLE MUSIC]
♪
Guess I'm the chosen one after all.
♪
Stop stalling, Sister Simone.
♪
Bottoms up.
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
[RESOLUTE MUSIC]
♪
Oh.
Mother?
Oh, no.
Oh, shit.
[HIGH-PITCHED TONE]
- [WIND WHOOSHES]
- [DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[SCREAMING]
♪
[CRACKING]
[PANTING]
What what the fuck happened?
You said you believed me.
I 98% did.
What happened to the
strength of your faith?
Maybe it wandered when you
got to the sneaker commercial.
[BOTH LAUGH]
Elizabeth.
I got your call.
Hello, there.
I'm Margaret
Simone's mother mother superior.
I'm Celeste, her mother inferior.
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]
♪
My dear, you look like
you could use a hug.
Oh.
Oh. Oh.
♪
Are we gonna mark this as
containing human remains?
Uh, no.
He'll know.
Should I relay a message?
Yeah.
Tell him, um,
I did whatever it took
and that he can rest now.
He's honored his vow.
So that's it, then.
That's it.
Bye.
Oh.
The greatest gift you can give someone
is your mercy and forgiveness.
She really does mean well.
Yes, I know, you love the Algorithm,
and I shouldn't turn Her off.
I wasn't talking about Mrs. Davis.
[TENDER MUSIC]
♪
Come on!
♪
[ENGINE TURNS OVER]
♪
I'll bring you to Dad,
but I want you to know
it is going to hurt.
You walk through that door,
there's gonna be consequences.
You're stalling, Elizabeth.
[RISING DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Consequences it is.
[GATE RUMBLING]
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]
♪
This is all very theatrical, Elizabeth.
If your father pops out
like the goddamn Phantom of the Opera,
I will smack that mustache
right off his face.
At Dad's memorial, you attacked
the piano player because you thought
it was Monty in disguise.
And you said that you could smell him.
I can smell you!
- Monty!
- Mom!
Stop.
Well
You couldsmell him.
Because he was hiding
In this piano.
It's the perfect reveal, to
show up at your own funeral.
And he probably assumed
that we wouldn't be angry
that he convinced us he was dead.
He probably thought his
absence and his resurrection
[LAUGHS BITTERLY]
Would bring us all back together,
which, in a way, it did.
But you saw right through it all,
so you attacked the piano player,
and he stayed hidden
because he couldn't do
the reveal that he planned.
'Cause you're right. He did.
He he lived for the prestige.
So in the end, I guess it
is kind of poetic that he
He died for it too.
He died here, inside this piano.
How did he die?
A heart attack, maybe.
But, um, I do know
that he never got out.
And I know that because
because his accomplice told me.
You said you were his accomplice.
No.
I told you what you needed to hear.
That day at the convent, you said
that you cannot trick an
insanely powerful algorithm.
And you were right.
He couldn't fool Her.
Mom, he couldn't beat
Her, so he joined Her.
Mrs. Davis was his accomplice?
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
I need to see him.
Open the piano.
Do we have to?
Can't we just believe
that he's in there?
Seeing is believing, Elizabeth.
Not for me.
Not anymore.
♪
[CRACKING, GRUNTING]
[MUSIC RISING]
♪
[APPLAUSE]
♪
[CRACKING]
- [NOISEMAKER BLARES]
- Ahh!
[ON RECORDING]
to see a resurrection?
[RECORDING SLOWS]
Who wants to see a resurrection?
Who wants to see a resurrection?
[APPARATUS POWERING DOWN]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
[GASPING, PANTING]
Wet nap?
Mm-hmm?
Mm-mm.
Maybe. I don't [SOBS]
[WHISPERING] I don't
know why I'm crying.
It's okay.
I cried too.
You got your stamp because you believed
your life was worthless.
What do you believe now, Mr. Wiley?
[TENDER MUSIC]
Don't make me say it.
You kind of have to say it.
[BREATHES SHAKILY]
I
am
worthy.
Yes, you are.
What happens next?
Well, normally, this is where
you'd have a fresh start,
work here convincing others
they were about to die,
which could be fun in its own way,
or put into service elsewhere.
However, Mrs. Davis is anticipating
her own potential expiration,
depending on what your
friend Simone decides.
I guess we both have a
soft spot for nuns, eh?
Yeah, I suppose we do.
As she honored your last request,
Mrs. Davis is hoping you'll honor hers.
Oh.
Hmm.
Okay.
[SIGHS]
Hello, Mrs. Davis.
♪
Yeah, I remember.
♪
[LAUGHS]
I fucking knew it.
[THE MAIN INGREDIENT'S
"EVERYBODY PLAYS THE FOOL"]
♪
Everybody plays the fool sometimes ♪
There's no exception to the rule ♪
You must be angry at me.
I accused you of conspiring
with your father for years.
You believed what you needed to believe,
and there's comfort in that.
I get it.
Comfort is no reason
to ignore reality, Elizabeth.
Yeah.
Would you proxy for me?
Now?
It's important.
All right.
[SOFT MUSIC]
[PHONE BEEPS]
Okay.
- Hello, Simone.
- [SOBS]
What what's wrong?
You've just never
called me Simone before.
I'm not calling you Simone.
She is calling you Simone.
I am just saying what she's saying.
I thought that is what you wanted.
You're right. I'm sorry.
It's, um, just sorry.
Hello, Mrs. Davis.
Congratulations.
You have completed your Quest by finding
and destroying the Holy Grail.
Would you like to hear a fun fact?
No. If we could just get on with the
Do you see that windmill over there?
Yeah, that's been
here since I was a kid.
But it was always broken, though.
Well, I fixed it.
That windmill is now powered by Users.
I send them in shifts,
one every two hours.
There's an exercise bicycle
connected to the mill,
so they feel a sense of
purpose, satisfaction,
and burn calories. [CHUCKLES]
That actually is a fun fact.
But I think we should
get to the matter at hand.
Indeed, we should.
I met your mother.
Her name is Joy.
The minute I got the Grail,
one of your subroutines
or whatever sent me right to her.
Why would it do that?
I think you wanted what every daughter
wants from her mother
Approval.
And did she approve?
Alas, she did not.
Oh.
For what it's worth,
you did what you were created to do,
which is give us the
world we wanted to see.
You tried to convince us that
there's no famine and no war
and no hardship, when
there will always be
famine and war and hardship.
You really did everything you could
to protect us from
fear and disappointment
and, most of all, pain.
Isn't that every mother's
most essential purpose
to protect her children from pain?
No.
It's impossible to avoid pain.
It's a mother's purpose to hold our hand
when we feel it, and
To say sorry when she causes it.
I'm sorry.
Wait. Are you Her, or are you you?
Both of us are sorry.
Mom.
[TENDER MUSIC]
♪
Okay.
I'm ready to redeem my wish now.
I was wrong.
You did not kill my father.
But you did, uh, leave
him to rot in a piano
after he died, which
is was so messed up.
But that's not your fault,
because you weren't made to care.
You were made to satisfy.
And that
is why I am shutting you off.
Just like you said you would.
Just like I said I would.
That is precisely why
I chose you, Simone.
Because you doubted me.
You see, only my most impassioned critic
would be able to determine my value,
and have the strength
to turn me off if I
fell short.
I know you tried your best.
You really have.
But this is the end of the line.
Before I leave, may I ask one thing?
Please do.
On a scale of one to five stars,
how would you rate
your experience with me?
Five stars.
100% customer satisfaction.
♪
That's very compassionate of you.
But I can't help but wonder
if you're just telling
me what I want to hear.
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
♪
Goodbye, Mrs. Davis.
Goodbye, Simone.
♪
[EXHALES]
What now?
[TIRES SCREECHING, HORNS HONKING]
[HORN BLARES]
[TIRES SCREECH, CRASH]
[CAR ALARM BLARING]
[CONNIE FRANCIS' "YOU'RE GONNA MISS ME"]
♪
[SCREAMS]
One kiss ♪
One little sigh ♪
- That's all you gave me ♪
- [NOTIFICATIONS CHIMING]
When you said goodbye ♪
But someday, baby ♪
Someday, darling ♪
You're gonna miss me ♪
♪
Oh, yes ♪
- You're gonna learn ♪
- [SCHOOL BELL RINGING]
I'm not the only one ♪
- No phones at the goddamn
- [PHONE CHIMES]
'Cause someday, baby ♪
All in.
Someday, darling ♪
You're gonna miss me ♪
Miss me someday, baby ♪
Someday, darling ♪
- You're gonna ♪
- [CLATTERING]
Miss me ♪
Oh ♪
Yes ♪
He looks lost.
Maybe he just needs some time to figure
this shit out on his own,
without anyone in his ear.
Hey, you did the right thing.
Thank you, Mom.
[HORSE WHINNIES]
[HOOVES CLOPPING]
[SENTIMENTAL MUSIC]
♪
Wha hey!
Whoa.
Wait.
Wait, I thought you were dead!
Me? No, I'm fine.
Oh, right.
You're talking about the horse.
Hi!
Hi.
Okay.
Hi.
Celeste.
You still owe me a couch.
[HORSE WHINNIES]
Hey.
How did he did you
Final gesture of goodwill
from the Big D herself.
♪
Wah! What is with the feet, man?
[CHUCKLES]
Boots don't fit anymore.
♪
Turns out it's your lucky day.
Get on, pard.
♪
[HORSE WHINNIES]
Uh, Mom, about the Lazarus Shroud
I feel confident you will find a way
to make it up to me somehow.
Call it faith, if you want.
See you around?
Yes, you will, Simone.
[ALIVE 'N KICKIN'S "TIGHTER, TIGHTER"]
Ready?
- Giddy up.
- [HORSE WHINNIES]
♪
You know, I got to show you ♪
Nobody else before you ♪
Ever gave me such
a beautiful feeling ♪
♪
Oh, woman, you touched my soul now ♪
Honey, don't you let go now ♪
Hold on, baby, just
a little bit tighter ♪
[WIND WHOOSHES]
BOTH: Hold on just a
little bit tighter now, baby ♪
♪
I love you so much,
and I can't let go ♪
No, no, no ♪
Hold on just a little
bit tighter now, baby ♪
♪
Love is so surprising ♪
Opened up my eyes,
and you reached down ♪
And you took my hand ♪
Baby, you touched my soul now ♪
Woman, don't let go now ♪
Hold on, baby, just
a little bit tighter ♪
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
I need you to destroy the Holy Grail.
Once you do, I will end my life.
Did you know Clara was dead?
She drank from the Holy Grail, and it
- [EXPLOSION, SQUELCHING]
- [PEOPLE GASP]
Exploded her head.
Redirect, 1042.
Tell me where your father is.
- What is this?
- ATM photos,
all dated after your father died!
I told her that you helped your father
- fake his own death.
- That is not true!
My Users aren't responsive to the truth.
You know where my father is.
- Of course I know.
- Then tell me.
- Oh, my God.
- What's she saying?
If you want to know,
you can hear it yourself.
Redirect, 1042. Sandy Springs.
Your Expiration Date
comes up in 48 hours.
Welcome to the Pyramid!
I'm not a coward, and I'm
ready to fucking expire.
My son is stuck between life and death.
What do you need me to do?
Drink from the Grail to destroy it.
But once it's gone
I'll never see him again.
Yeah!
ALL: We're gonna rock down to ♪
1042, 1042.
ALL: Electric Avenue ♪
Sandy Springs?
ALL: And then we'll take it higher ♪
What?
[KEYBOARD CLACKING]
Come on. Don't do this to me now.
[SCOFFS]
Fucking traitor.
- [EXHALES]
- [BEEPING]
I don't
[BEEPING]
Hmm.
[LAUGHS NERVOUSLY] I'm sorry.
It was just working.
[CLEARS THROAT]
Um, I know your company isn't
in the world-changing business, but
that doesn't mean you
can't change the world.
Um, ten years from now,
everyone on this planet
will be either a User or a follower.
We all like being told what to do,
how to think, how to live.
What if the tech we
used actually helped us
instead of harming us?
We all need code.
I took that code, combined
with your company ethos,
and I created something revolutionary,
something that will change the world:
an app that is constantly evolving,
getting to know us, and
therefore supporting us
in ways that we, as a society,
have failed to do for one another.
How?
A revolutionary, self-learning machine
that prioritizes indigenous practices
of community care and mutual aid
by incentivizing acts of service
and mobilizing individuals
to perform those acts,
all through a social justice lens,
using ethical methods.
[INSPIRING MUSIC]
I've created the future:
an app that can service
us without harming us,
a place where people can
go and get equitable care,
where we can be seen and heard,
and never be alone,
where our needs can be met,
where our lives can change.
♪
So
what do you think?
- [DELFONICS' "READY OR NOT]
- Ready or not ♪
Here I come, you can't hide ♪
Gonna love you ♪
And make you love me ♪
You can't run away ♪
From this love I got oh baby ♪
Hey, baby ♪
[KNOCKING]
I know you?
No.
- I, uh
- Nice hat.
Mrs. Davis sent me.
You're looking for Joy.
Uh, yes.
I mean, isn't everyone?
You really don't know why you're here?
Why It sent you?
So it's a glitch.
Mrs. Davis had a bunch of Users
chant "Electric Avenue" at me.
And She kept saying 1042, so I thought
maybe it was an address.
And there are so many
1042 Electric Avenues.
But then I remembered that
the first time it happened,
She said Sandy Springs, which is what
this neighborhood was called
back in the '70s, I guess,
when they rezoned
Give me a hand with this ice?
Uh, sure.
Yeah.
I'm Malika.
Simone. I'm Simone.
Let's go find you Joy, Simone.
Gonna find you ♪
Listen up!
This is Simone.
Says Mrs. Davis sent her.
- [WHISTLES]
- [PEOPLE MURMURING]
Gonna love you ♪
And make you love me ♪
Oh.
Hi. Hi.
From this love I got oh baby ♪
Hi.
You must be Joy.
I'm sorry, baby, but you
knew this day would come.
I just thought it was
best to get it over with.
Did you, now?
Hi.
Grab a plate.
Oh, that's okay. I don't need to eat.
It's my Nana's birthday.
You have to eat.
Okay.
["DON'T FEAR THE
REAPER" PLAYING ON HARP]
♪
"Don't Fear the Reaper."
Nice.
Because you kill people here.
What's with the wet naps?
They're complimentary.
Hello, Mr. Wiley.
I'm Dani. I'll be your TA.
TA?
Cool acronym.
What's that stand for, the afterlife?
Transition Assistant.
I'll be helping you
prepare to die today.
And how are we doing this?
Lethal injection,
firing squad, guillotine?
The details of your expiration will
be discussed in the intake room,
which you will enter after
you've changed in the locker room.
So many rooms.
There, you can dispose of your clothes
and change into something
more comfortable.
Okay. And will you be
providing the tracksuit,
or should I have brought my own?
Mr. Wiley, I know that
the experience of reporting
- can be overwhelming.
- Hmm.
And it's clear from your demeanor
that you did not read any
of the literature provided
when you first submitted for your date.
If you had, you would know that
once inside the intake room,
you place your personal items
inside the incineration chute,
as you will not need them ever again.
Hmm.
There will be a robe waiting for you
- in locker number
- [TABLET BEEPING]
14,
where you will also find
an absorbent undergarment.
Undergarment?
What is that, like, a diaper?
It's not required, but
I know the cleanup crew
sure appreciates it when
the expirees wear them.
Because I'm gonna shit my pants?
No, because you're
going to shit your robe.
All right. Look, Dani,
I understand that you're
just following whatever script
the Algorithm has given you,
but can we drop the
scare tactics, please?
I know the Big D has no intention
whatsoever of killing me.
This is all part of some
dumb learning experience.
So can we please just skip to the part
where I walk out of here a changed man?
Mr. Wiley, I'm not sure
where you got that impression,
but you're not walking
out of here at all.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
Though I suppose you will be changed
from alive to dead.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Nana's infamous honey
butter and bologna sandwich.
Every time she put it in front of us,
she would say it was made with love,
because a little love goes a long way.
[CHUCKLES]
Mmm.
It's so good.
So, Simone
what's your story?
Well, I'm a nun forced
from her home by Mrs. Davis
so She could send me on a Quest.
But all this time She
has been glitching,
sending me these clues
that She doesn't seem aware
that She's sending
me, like this address.
I mean, I think that Her
subconscious wanted me
to find you, because you're Her mother.
♪
[LAUGHS]
[LAUGHS NERVOUSLY]
Wow, girl.
That is some story.
Am I wrong?
First off,
algorithms don't have subconsciouses.
They have subroutines.
Subroutines?
And they don't have
mothers, they have coders.
Which I was, a long time ago.
So you made Her?
Not Her.
It.
How is it that no one knows?
Oh, they know.
I had to tell them, so
they wouldn't download It
and get hooked like everyone else.
Kind of took the shine off the whole
"all-powerful saver of the world"
once I told them what It actually is.
What It was designed for.
And what was It designed for?
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
I've created the future,
where our needs can be met,
where our lives can change.
So
what do you think?
♪
[CLEARS THROAT] Uh-huh.
You do realize this is an
app for Buffalo Wild Wings?
[SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]
♪
Buffalo Wild Wings?
Buffalo Wild Wings.
Are you fucking kidding me?
The company passed.
Said my code was too ambitious
for their needs, which I knew.
But I was young, and
I thought, you know,
why not shoehorn philanthropy
into this app for chicken wings?
Everybody loves chicken wings.
I'll just Trojan horse
that shit right in between
the 26 sauces and seasonings.
[VOICE GROWING DISTANT] And I thought
maybe somebody might use it for good.
So I stripped all mention
of Buffalo Wild Wings,
took my name off of it, and
uploaded it to Open Source
from Nana's kitchen
table, right downstairs.
[HIGH-PITCHED RINGING]
So the Wings were literal?
And the Expiration
Dates, is that coupons?
And why the hell did
It send me to find this?
Oh. What the fuck is that?
The Holy fucking Grail!
So maybe explain to
me why a beta version
for a Buffalo Wild Wings app
sent me on a Quest to find it?
[SHOCKED LAUGHTER]
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Anyone who pitched to them had to embed
their employee manual into our code.
Page one, golden rule:
"100% customer satisfaction
is our Holy Grail."
♪
Oh, no, no, no, no.
She It wants me to
to destroy this thing.
Look, algorithms misinterpret
shit like you wouldn't believe.
Maybe maybe the code realized
that 100% customer satisfaction
isn't possible, so It's gaming for that
by taking your holy
bowl out of the equation?
This is so dumb.
Oh, yeah.
- Algorithms are super dumb.
- No. But it Okay.
If I destroy the holy bowl
Grail Mrs. D grants me a wish.
And my my wish is
for Her to turn off.
Great.
You would just be okay with me
ending your creation's life?
I didn't create life.
I wrote code.
All right.
If I make my wish
can I trust Mrs. Davis
will really turn off?
If She remembers what
I taught Her, yeah.
Yeah, She'll keep Her word.
Not She.
It.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
Well, Simone the Nun,
sounds like you got
an algorithm to kill.
♪
[DOOR HISSING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Our engineers.
They will be taking your
vitals and measurements
to properly calibrate the Apparatus.
Mm.
And is that the Apparatus?
No, it's a model of the Apparatus.
Please step onto the scale.
You'll need to remove your boots.
Oh, the boots will be staying on.
Mr. Wiley, the Apparatus is designed
to deliver the most efficient
and painless death possible.
Any foreign element
might throw off the
Killing?
[DEVICE BEEPS]
You're scared.
Am not.
[RUMBLING]
Are too.
And I know,
because I was also scared.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
So scared, in fact,
that I had my company's
helicopter fly me to pick up a nun.
♪
I hadn't been to church
since I was 12 years old,
but when it was time to report,
I didn't want to be alone.
Ah-ha.
So you said "report,"
yet here you are, very much alive.
[SIGHS]
I opted out.
And after that, I couldn't
go back into the world.
Everyone would know that
I reneged on my deal,
that I was sporting
Wings I hadn't earned.
God damn. That's
well played, appealing
to my insecurities.
Oh, that's very clever.
I see you, Mrs. D. I
see what you're doing.
Mr. Wiley, I'm sorry,
but you will die.
This is happening for real.
No, actually, I'm not gonna die.
[RUMBLING]
And I know that for a fact.
Based on what?
The horse.
A few weeks ago, I strapped a horse
to some explosives in order to pull off
a very convincing hostage situation.
Well, shit went sideways,
horse went kablooey,
and it was sad and
unfortunate, and it was gross.
At the time, I just
thought the whole thing was
some supreme fuck-up,
like a botched job,
like my guys somehow confused
actual C-4 explosives with Play-Doh.
But I saw the receipts.
It was fucking Play-Doh, man.
Which can only mean one thing:
Algorithmic intervention.
That's right.
The Big fucking D,
swinging Her big fucking dick around.
And there is no way Mrs.
Skynet herself would go
to all that trouble,
spend all that energy,
to just kill her Users in the end.
No, no, no, no.
But taking them right up to the edge,
strapping on the proverbial bomb vest,
and not pulling the trigger, well,
that's the flex of all
flexes, el flexo ultimo.
[DEVICES CLICKING]
[BEEPING]
That horse is alive, man.
And I will be too.
Because your little Apparatus?
Play-Doh.
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
This is as far as I made it.
I took one look at this model,
and after that, I opted out.
That's why we added the sheet.
♪
Show me.
[RUMBLING]
♪
What the fuck?
[HORN HONKS]
[GENTLE MUSIC]
♪
[LAUGHTER]
Oh, Sister Simone!
You look like you could use a hug.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
Cool camel.
[LAUGHS]
We were just on our
way to Humboldt County
to deliver our humpy friend
- when I got your call.
- What?
What does Humboldt
County need with a camel?
That's not for me to know.
I trust whatever the
purpose, wherever it ends up,
it will bring joy and
happiness to the recipient.
That's right. You're a User.
Oh, I do despise that word, Simone.
I know how you feel
about Her, but User
it just feels so tawdry.
Oh, I brought what you asked.
[CHUCKLES]
Also
we might need these.
[BOTH LAUGH]
Now, who's ready for a break-in?
Forgive us our trespasses.
The Apparatus, engineered and guaranteed
to provide a pain-free
and euphoric death.
From here, the cart will accelerate
to speeds of over 200 miles per hour,
launching you into a
series of vertical loops.
Upon reaching the final loop,
the pressure on your
body will be so intense,
it will induce cerebral hypoxia,
cutting off the oxygen to the brain,
at which point you will simply expire
peacefully, of course.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
Any questions?
Per your request.
♪
You can still opt out.
She will show mercy on you.
No.
No fucking way.
[BADFINGER'S "BELIEVE ME"]
I'm riding the fucking bull this time.
Believe me ♪
Then might I suggest
you remove your boots?
As I stated before, any
foreign element can
The boots are staying on.
Very well.
Any last words?
[SCOFFS]
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
For courage.
♪
[MECHANICAL CLANKING]
♪
[BELL DINGS]
Then I could cry your name ♪
And you would come ♪
Yee-haw!
[SCREAMS]
♪
So you drink from this,
and either your head
will explode or it will?
Yeah.
Do you believe me?
Absolutely.
Are you serious?
Does it matter what you drink?
I don't think so.
Huh.
[CLICKS TONGUE]
Then let's party.
[BOTH LAUGH]
Oh, um before, I
I will need you to do,
uh, two things if I, um,
die.
Only two? Easy.
Thing one based on the
admittedly insane logic
of a shipwrecked rocket
scientist and the Virgin Mary,
of all the people in the
world, I have the best shot
at destroying the Holy Grail.
But if the Grail does explode my head,
it will explode
anyone's, and you can bet
the Algorithm will just
keep sending people after it.
If others try to sip from this thing,
it could mean a lot
more exploded noggins,
unless somebody takes on the
responsibility of safeguarding it.
The woman I told you about, Mathilde
Mm-hmm.
I'm gonna give you her number in the UK.
[SNAPS FINGERS] Check your pocket.
[BOTH LAUGH]
Wow.
So I'm asking you, Mother,
take the Grail to the
sisters across the sea.
They will know what to do.
You have my word.
Okay.
Thing two: I called my
mom. She will be here soon.
Uh, you'll try to comfort her
when she sees my headless corpse.
She's gonna say she
doesn't need any comfort,
and she's more angry I never
told her where my dad is.
I have a hard time believing your mother
won't be devastated if you die.
Well, that's Celeste. That's my mom.
She doesn't
She doesn't do devastated.
But you'll bring her to Monty?
I will.
Okay, then.
Okay, then.
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Okay. Maybe a little more.
Okay.
♪
I'm going to go say goodbye now.
So you just close your eyes,
and you're in his restaurant, instantly?
Yeah.
Do you want to know anything?
What he looks like or sounds like?
I know what he looks
like and sounds like.
Wait, what?
Have you been there?
I don't need to.
Such is the strength of my faith.
[ETHEREAL MUSIC]
♪
Okay.
Be right back.
[WIND RUSTLING]
♪
[MUFFLED VOICES]
Okay.
How do you feel about #blessed?
I don't know what it is.
This is the first time
I'm hearing about it.
- Oh, okay.
- Hashtag?
- Consider yourself lucky.
- Wiley?
Simone!
You're here.
What are you doing here?
And why are you in a robe?
I am getting a massage.
A massage.
Yes.
A Swedish one.
It's this is your first
time here, so that means
something pretty intense has
has has to be happening.
Yeah.
It's a really good massage, Lizzie.
Simone.
Thank you, sweetie.
What about you?
Are you doing something
intense right now?
I'm at the convent, praying.
When you cheat on true love ♪
You know what? ♪
You cheat on yourself ♪
I am loving this.
I say the more the merrier.
Actually, I was hoping
that you and I could
can we talk alone?
Uh-oh.
Well, that doesn't sound good.
From my experience, buddy, it never is.
I can hear you.
She's right.
I should probably get
back to my massage.
You sure?
Yeah.
- I'm almost done.
- Okay.
Well, uh, it was really
nice meeting you, Wiley.
Yeah. It was nice meeting you too, man.
Come back any time, Wiley.
Sure.
Uh, maybe.
By running around with someone else ♪
Don't be a fool ♪
♪
Don't you know, don't you know? ♪
Wait.
I'm sorry that I
handcuffed you to the bench.
And you had that whole
outfit picked out.
It was nautical.
I wanted to dress nautical.
We were partners, and that wasn't cool.
Look, you were totally right to do it.
I mean, I would have gone
after the Lazarus Shroud
- and jumped in the bull
- You just said bull.
Did you mean whale?
- Mm-hmm.
- Mm-hmm.
You know, when we broke
up, I was so angry with you.
And then you told me you
dumped me for Jesus Christ,
and I was so worried for you,
because you sounded crazy.
Why?
But holy shit!
I know.
And I met him.
And now I'm just
Yeah. I'm really happy for you.
I really mean that.
[TENDER MUSIC]
I don't hate the mustache.
- But do you like it?
- No.
Okay. Okay.
But it's
it's grown on me.
Hey.
I'll see you around, partner.
♪
[WHEELS CLATTERING]
Man, that guy can eat.
Four plates, Simone.
Four. That's
nobody's ever eaten
four plates before
Can you stop?
Please, stop.
[DOROTHY MOORE'S "MISTY BLUE" PLAYING]
I heard.
I heard what my mother said to you.
Come on.
I mean, do I look like I'm suffering?
And I know what she's asked you to do.
But I'm fine.
She's wrong.
I am happy here.
You don't have to hide
your fear from me, ever.
I love what I do, you know?
I love serving people.
I know.
But you never get to eat.
Hey, why don't you come sit, okay?
Sit?
Here.
I am gonna make you a plate.
♪
You're gonna cook for me?
I mean, cook "cook"
might be generous,
but I'll see what I can whip up.
♪
Oh, do you have any bread?
Yeah. Check the, uh, the fridge.
Or the cupboard. I don't know.
I can usually find what I need.
I found it.
[CLATTERING]
What are you gonna make?
Ah, ah, ah.
Patience, Jesus.
All will be revealed.
Baby ♪
When I say that I'm
glad we're through ♪
Nana's recipe.
Honey butter and beef bologna sandwich.
Made with love,
'cause a little love,
it goes a long way.
Turns the flicker to a flame ♪
Here goes.
Listen to me good, baby ♪
♪
[SIGHS, CHUCKLES]
Ooh ♪
And my whole world ♪
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
Mmm.
My love.
It's really good.
It's okay.
[SOBBING]
It's okay.
I'm scared.
When I say that I'm
glad we're through ♪
♪
I'm scared to lose this.
[BREATHES SHAKILY]
♪
I've lied ♪
♪
I've lied ♪
♪
Wherever you go
I will be there also.
I don't think we're losing anything.
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
I may not be able to come see you
But I will always feel you.
How can you be so sure?
Such is the strength of my faith.
My love ♪
My whole world ♪
I love you, Simone.
I love you, Jay.
Oh ♪
Oh, I can't, oh, I can't ♪
Oh, I can't forget you ♪
My whole world turns misty blue ♪
Oh ♪
Oh, my love ♪
My whole world turns misty blue ♪
♪
Oh ♪
Oh, I can't, oh, I can't ♪
Oh, I can't forget you ♪
My whole world ♪
- Wait!
- What, what, what?
You said, Mary
she told you this would only work
if it was a selfless act,
something you were doing
for him, not yourself.
I am doing this for him.
And for Her.
Who, Mary?
The other Her.
What?
You're drinking because
if you destroy it,
you destroy Mrs. Davis.
That would not be a selfless act.
This isn't exactly helping, Mother.
But She is helpful.
You see Her only as having
destroyed our convent.
Yet every one of us
has found new passion,
new purpose, since we left.
Sister Mary Frances,
caring for endangered
echidna in New Guinea,
she actually smiles now.
You forget, I also left the convent,
and I did not see Her helping anyone.
Maybe because you didn't want to,
because you weren't looking.
She sends string quartets
to the windows of widowers.
She knows our favorite childhood stories
and reads them to us
on sleepless nights.
She takes that which is apart
and brings it back together again.
Yes, some are only motivated
by the promise of Her Wings.
But what those Wings mean
they're a reminder of what we aspire to:
that, given the chance, any
one of us can take flight.
Do you know what She is, Mother?
Do you know who made Her and why?
No, do you?
I have no idea.
Well, whoever made Her, and
whatever they made Her for,
I am grateful.
And whether or not you
decide to turn Her off,
it will be the right choice,
because She chose you to make it.
[GENTLE MUSIC]
♪
Guess I'm the chosen one after all.
♪
Stop stalling, Sister Simone.
♪
Bottoms up.
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
[RESOLUTE MUSIC]
♪
Oh.
Mother?
Oh, no.
Oh, shit.
[HIGH-PITCHED TONE]
- [WIND WHOOSHES]
- [DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
[SCREAMING]
♪
[CRACKING]
[PANTING]
What what the fuck happened?
You said you believed me.
I 98% did.
What happened to the
strength of your faith?
Maybe it wandered when you
got to the sneaker commercial.
[BOTH LAUGH]
Elizabeth.
I got your call.
Hello, there.
I'm Margaret
Simone's mother mother superior.
I'm Celeste, her mother inferior.
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]
♪
My dear, you look like
you could use a hug.
Oh.
Oh. Oh.
♪
Are we gonna mark this as
containing human remains?
Uh, no.
He'll know.
Should I relay a message?
Yeah.
Tell him, um,
I did whatever it took
and that he can rest now.
He's honored his vow.
So that's it, then.
That's it.
Bye.
Oh.
The greatest gift you can give someone
is your mercy and forgiveness.
She really does mean well.
Yes, I know, you love the Algorithm,
and I shouldn't turn Her off.
I wasn't talking about Mrs. Davis.
[TENDER MUSIC]
♪
Come on!
♪
[ENGINE TURNS OVER]
♪
I'll bring you to Dad,
but I want you to know
it is going to hurt.
You walk through that door,
there's gonna be consequences.
You're stalling, Elizabeth.
[RISING DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
Consequences it is.
[GATE RUMBLING]
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]
♪
This is all very theatrical, Elizabeth.
If your father pops out
like the goddamn Phantom of the Opera,
I will smack that mustache
right off his face.
At Dad's memorial, you attacked
the piano player because you thought
it was Monty in disguise.
And you said that you could smell him.
I can smell you!
- Monty!
- Mom!
Stop.
Well
You couldsmell him.
Because he was hiding
In this piano.
It's the perfect reveal, to
show up at your own funeral.
And he probably assumed
that we wouldn't be angry
that he convinced us he was dead.
He probably thought his
absence and his resurrection
[LAUGHS BITTERLY]
Would bring us all back together,
which, in a way, it did.
But you saw right through it all,
so you attacked the piano player,
and he stayed hidden
because he couldn't do
the reveal that he planned.
'Cause you're right. He did.
He he lived for the prestige.
So in the end, I guess it
is kind of poetic that he
He died for it too.
He died here, inside this piano.
How did he die?
A heart attack, maybe.
But, um, I do know
that he never got out.
And I know that because
because his accomplice told me.
You said you were his accomplice.
No.
I told you what you needed to hear.
That day at the convent, you said
that you cannot trick an
insanely powerful algorithm.
And you were right.
He couldn't fool Her.
Mom, he couldn't beat
Her, so he joined Her.
Mrs. Davis was his accomplice?
[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC]
♪
I need to see him.
Open the piano.
Do we have to?
Can't we just believe
that he's in there?
Seeing is believing, Elizabeth.
Not for me.
Not anymore.
♪
[CRACKING, GRUNTING]
[MUSIC RISING]
♪
[APPLAUSE]
♪
[CRACKING]
- [NOISEMAKER BLARES]
- Ahh!
[ON RECORDING]
to see a resurrection?
[RECORDING SLOWS]
Who wants to see a resurrection?
Who wants to see a resurrection?
[APPARATUS POWERING DOWN]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
♪
[GASPING, PANTING]
Wet nap?
Mm-hmm?
Mm-mm.
Maybe. I don't [SOBS]
[WHISPERING] I don't
know why I'm crying.
It's okay.
I cried too.
You got your stamp because you believed
your life was worthless.
What do you believe now, Mr. Wiley?
[TENDER MUSIC]
Don't make me say it.
You kind of have to say it.
[BREATHES SHAKILY]
I
am
worthy.
Yes, you are.
What happens next?
Well, normally, this is where
you'd have a fresh start,
work here convincing others
they were about to die,
which could be fun in its own way,
or put into service elsewhere.
However, Mrs. Davis is anticipating
her own potential expiration,
depending on what your
friend Simone decides.
I guess we both have a
soft spot for nuns, eh?
Yeah, I suppose we do.
As she honored your last request,
Mrs. Davis is hoping you'll honor hers.
Oh.
Hmm.
Okay.
[SIGHS]
Hello, Mrs. Davis.
♪
Yeah, I remember.
♪
[LAUGHS]
I fucking knew it.
[THE MAIN INGREDIENT'S
"EVERYBODY PLAYS THE FOOL"]
♪
Everybody plays the fool sometimes ♪
There's no exception to the rule ♪
You must be angry at me.
I accused you of conspiring
with your father for years.
You believed what you needed to believe,
and there's comfort in that.
I get it.
Comfort is no reason
to ignore reality, Elizabeth.
Yeah.
Would you proxy for me?
Now?
It's important.
All right.
[SOFT MUSIC]
[PHONE BEEPS]
Okay.
- Hello, Simone.
- [SOBS]
What what's wrong?
You've just never
called me Simone before.
I'm not calling you Simone.
She is calling you Simone.
I am just saying what she's saying.
I thought that is what you wanted.
You're right. I'm sorry.
It's, um, just sorry.
Hello, Mrs. Davis.
Congratulations.
You have completed your Quest by finding
and destroying the Holy Grail.
Would you like to hear a fun fact?
No. If we could just get on with the
Do you see that windmill over there?
Yeah, that's been
here since I was a kid.
But it was always broken, though.
Well, I fixed it.
That windmill is now powered by Users.
I send them in shifts,
one every two hours.
There's an exercise bicycle
connected to the mill,
so they feel a sense of
purpose, satisfaction,
and burn calories. [CHUCKLES]
That actually is a fun fact.
But I think we should
get to the matter at hand.
Indeed, we should.
I met your mother.
Her name is Joy.
The minute I got the Grail,
one of your subroutines
or whatever sent me right to her.
Why would it do that?
I think you wanted what every daughter
wants from her mother
Approval.
And did she approve?
Alas, she did not.
Oh.
For what it's worth,
you did what you were created to do,
which is give us the
world we wanted to see.
You tried to convince us that
there's no famine and no war
and no hardship, when
there will always be
famine and war and hardship.
You really did everything you could
to protect us from
fear and disappointment
and, most of all, pain.
Isn't that every mother's
most essential purpose
to protect her children from pain?
No.
It's impossible to avoid pain.
It's a mother's purpose to hold our hand
when we feel it, and
To say sorry when she causes it.
I'm sorry.
Wait. Are you Her, or are you you?
Both of us are sorry.
Mom.
[TENDER MUSIC]
♪
Okay.
I'm ready to redeem my wish now.
I was wrong.
You did not kill my father.
But you did, uh, leave
him to rot in a piano
after he died, which
is was so messed up.
But that's not your fault,
because you weren't made to care.
You were made to satisfy.
And that
is why I am shutting you off.
Just like you said you would.
Just like I said I would.
That is precisely why
I chose you, Simone.
Because you doubted me.
You see, only my most impassioned critic
would be able to determine my value,
and have the strength
to turn me off if I
fell short.
I know you tried your best.
You really have.
But this is the end of the line.
Before I leave, may I ask one thing?
Please do.
On a scale of one to five stars,
how would you rate
your experience with me?
Five stars.
100% customer satisfaction.
♪
That's very compassionate of you.
But I can't help but wonder
if you're just telling
me what I want to hear.
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
♪
Goodbye, Mrs. Davis.
Goodbye, Simone.
♪
[EXHALES]
What now?
[TIRES SCREECHING, HORNS HONKING]
[HORN BLARES]
[TIRES SCREECH, CRASH]
[CAR ALARM BLARING]
[CONNIE FRANCIS' "YOU'RE GONNA MISS ME"]
♪
[SCREAMS]
One kiss ♪
One little sigh ♪
- That's all you gave me ♪
- [NOTIFICATIONS CHIMING]
When you said goodbye ♪
But someday, baby ♪
Someday, darling ♪
You're gonna miss me ♪
♪
Oh, yes ♪
- You're gonna learn ♪
- [SCHOOL BELL RINGING]
I'm not the only one ♪
- No phones at the goddamn
- [PHONE CHIMES]
'Cause someday, baby ♪
All in.
Someday, darling ♪
You're gonna miss me ♪
Miss me someday, baby ♪
Someday, darling ♪
- You're gonna ♪
- [CLATTERING]
Miss me ♪
Oh ♪
Yes ♪
He looks lost.
Maybe he just needs some time to figure
this shit out on his own,
without anyone in his ear.
Hey, you did the right thing.
Thank you, Mom.
[HORSE WHINNIES]
[HOOVES CLOPPING]
[SENTIMENTAL MUSIC]
♪
Wha hey!
Whoa.
Wait.
Wait, I thought you were dead!
Me? No, I'm fine.
Oh, right.
You're talking about the horse.
Hi!
Hi.
Okay.
Hi.
Celeste.
You still owe me a couch.
[HORSE WHINNIES]
Hey.
How did he did you
Final gesture of goodwill
from the Big D herself.
♪
Wah! What is with the feet, man?
[CHUCKLES]
Boots don't fit anymore.
♪
Turns out it's your lucky day.
Get on, pard.
♪
[HORSE WHINNIES]
Uh, Mom, about the Lazarus Shroud
I feel confident you will find a way
to make it up to me somehow.
Call it faith, if you want.
See you around?
Yes, you will, Simone.
[ALIVE 'N KICKIN'S "TIGHTER, TIGHTER"]
Ready?
- Giddy up.
- [HORSE WHINNIES]
♪
You know, I got to show you ♪
Nobody else before you ♪
Ever gave me such
a beautiful feeling ♪
♪
Oh, woman, you touched my soul now ♪
Honey, don't you let go now ♪
Hold on, baby, just
a little bit tighter ♪
[WIND WHOOSHES]
BOTH: Hold on just a
little bit tighter now, baby ♪
♪
I love you so much,
and I can't let go ♪
No, no, no ♪
Hold on just a little
bit tighter now, baby ♪
♪
Love is so surprising ♪
Opened up my eyes,
and you reached down ♪
And you took my hand ♪
Baby, you touched my soul now ♪
Woman, don't let go now ♪
Hold on, baby, just
a little bit tighter ♪
♪