The Irregulars (2021) s01e08 Episode Script

[Linen Man] The barrier between the worlds
is starting to collapse.
I can stop it
if I take control of its power.
If not,
this world will be sucked through it.
Whoa.
Will you keep your side of the bargain?
You'll get what you came for.
Be patient.
Sherlock Holmes is a wanker. Just…
I can't believe
he'd just walk off with him.
Just leave you like that.
You need to look out for each other.
[Jessie] Bea.
He went into your mind,
didn't he? The Linen Man.
-What are you seeing?
-[Bea] Mum.
Mum saying goodbye to us,
the night that she left.
She must have known
that she wasn't coming back.
Imagine how scared she must have been.
Imagine how sad.
But I don't even remember that.
I wasn't old enough to remember.
So long as
it's in your mind, he can find it.
Maybe you should stay here.
Most people whose minds he dives into
are broke into pieces by sadness--
I'm fine, Jess. I'm fine.
I can handle it, okay?
As soon as we stop him,
all this comes to an end.
[Watson] The code that opens this lock
is the answer to the riddle,
"Which two prime numbers
when divided by the square root of six
are greater than or equal to--"
I'm done with riddles.
[Watson] The streets are
gonna be much worse now.
As the Rip widens,
there'll be more monsters.
We need to be ready.
Good choice. Amazonian, apparently.
How do I make it rifle people?
Point it and squeeze the trigger.
Don't pull. Never pull.
And work this bolt here to reload.
Not yet.
As you all know,
I'm not much of a fighter.
You think I am?
Mate, put it this way, yeah?
You wipe your bums
with swans necks at the palace.
-Pardon?
-Swans necks?
Why do you think there's the law that
the Queen owns all the swans in England?
That's preposterous.
[Spike] What I'm saying is,
imagine you finish your business,
you look down and… Ooh!
There's no swan necks left
in the umbrella stand or whatever.
[scoffs] What I'm saying is,
don't get caught short.
[Billy] Trust me. You're gonna need it.
[people clamoring]
[Watson] The more the Rip widens,
the more the city
will descend into turmoil.
Stick together.
Look at you all.
When I first asked for your help,
I was apprehensive.
Thought you were just kids.
We are.
[chanting incantation]
[rumbling]
[rumbling intensifies]
[dramatic music playing]
[Watson] It begins.
[opening theme music playing]
[Watson] They've barricaded it.
I thought they might.
Come.
I checked the ordinance before we left.
The old sewer runs
through the tunnel line.
It'll give us access
to the underground works.
Help me with this. [grunts]
[Bea] That's not bad, Watson.
You didn't just bring me
along for my charm, did you?
-Go on, then.
-What?
No, I'm the skeleton, not the testicles.
-[rumbling]
-[people screaming]
[Jessie] Something's coming.
Actually, why not?
Bill.
[Watson] For heaven's sake, stay together.
Everybody be as quiet as possible.
If they hear us approach, we're done for.
This way.
[cackling]
[chanting]
[rumbling]
[indistinct whispering]
[Sister Anna whispering]
It's not my responsibility.
You can't just keep…
[whimpering]
[Sister Anna] Beatrice…
I need you to be very brave.
[continues whimpering]
[Sister Anna] I need you
to be strong for me.
Something has happened to your mum.
-[crying] No!
-Beatrice!
[Bea] No!
[Linen Man] That's it. Give in.
-They're here.
-[Linen Man] Be one with me.
They're here!
[Linen Man] It's not complete.
It's not done.
[screaming] No!
[shushes]
Time to finish this.
[rumbling]
The tunnel's collapsing.
We need to move now.
[whispering] Stay calm.
[Spike] Can you hear something?
[Billy] No, be quiet.
-[indistinct clattering]
-[gasps]
[footsteps receding]
[splashing]
[whimpering]
[Vic] Hello, little Bill.
Billy?
-[Billy] Get away!
-[Spike] Go!
-[Jessie] The boys.
-[Watson] He's here.
[indistinct screaming]
-[breathing heavily]
-[footsteps receding]
-Stay here.
-No, Jessie.
[Bea whimpering]
[Watson] Beatrice, no.
Do not succumb to this trick.
[whimpering]
God, please.
Help her!
She's dying!
"My daddy was a brave soldier.
He was a hero."
I'm the closest thing you ever had
to a father. No, Bill? Me.
[footsteps echoing]
[Linen Man] I am impressed by you, Jessie.
I underestimated how far along
the road to mastery you had traveled.
But now I have to kill you.
Jessie, look at this place.
You have such a beautiful mind.
It's such a shame to destroy it.
[grunts]
Now, what can I find to finish here?
[indistinct chatter]
[Linen Man] Who's that?
[indistinct chatter]
[Jessie] It's you.
These are your memories.
This isn't my mind.
It's yours.
[breathing heavily]
[Leo coughing]
[whimpering]
-[Vic] Look what you did to me.
-No!
[screaming] Look what they did to me!
Billy boy!
[whimpering]
It's not real.
Fight it. You must fight it.
[crying]
[crying]
[Watson] Fight it!
Your sister sleeps in the nursery
because she's a baby. And you sleep there.
And don't cry. No one is coming.
-[Watson] Beatrice!
-[crying] Please!
-Beatrice, stop crying.
-I want Mum.
You have to fight it.
You have to pull yourself together!
-Beatrice! We don't have time for this.
-I want my mum.
I'm supposed to be scared
that you're in my mind?
There isn't a fear or a moment in here
that is strong enough to break me.
He was your best friend.
You were jealous
of the girl he was dating.
He was the first person you broke.
The first of many.
You've seen the fear of a thousand men,
but each time you tortured someone
you took a piece
of what they felt with you.
You can't cause pain without feeling it.
[man screaming]
[both grunting]
Well, here they are!
[indistinct screaming]
Here they all are.
A sip of the fear of the people
you tortured, all in one moment.
Help her!
[Linen Man] No!
[indistinct screaming continues]
[screaming] Fight, Billy boy!
[breathing heavily]
[Linen Man groaning]
[breathing shakily]
[breathing heavily]
Leo!
[gasping]
[Billy] Leo!
I was bleeding…
It wasn't real, mate.
-You're okay. We're okay.
-Okay.
Spike!
[Spike] Here! I'm here!
[Watson] Time is short.
Let's find the others.
[Billy] Yeah, I got you.
Let's go. Come on.
[tense music playing]
[cave rumbling]
[indistinct screaming]
[both coughing]
[Bea] Billy! Leo!
[Billy groaning] My leg. My leg.
My leg's wrecked.
[Spike] Leo!
Billy! Leo!
Bea! We're here!
-[sighs in relief]
-[Spike] Billy's hurt!
It looks like his leg's broke.
[Bea] Get back to the cellar
and stay there!
Keep him there!
I'm not going back to the cellar.
I'm not leaving you guys.
These tunnels aren't safe, Billy!
-We can unblock it.
-[Bea] We don't have time.
Get back to the cellar and stay there.
And promise me… Promise me
that you'll keep each other safe.
Yeah.
Yes.
[Bea] Billy!
Billy, promise me!
Beatrice.
Billy! Promise me!
Yeah.
[grunts]
[Bea] Jessie!
[Jessie] Here, Bea! I'm down here!
[groaning softly]
[Bea] Jess, we're coming!
-[Jessie] I'm okay.
-Jessie!
If you try to close the Rip,
it will kill you like it did your mother.
Maybe it will.
Maybe I want what's best
no matter the cost. Like she did.
[laughs softly]
What are you laughing at?
When I went into Arthur's mind,
I didn't just see the Rip's location.
I saw who opened it.
What do you mean?
What did you say
to Sherlock to make him join you?
Who opened the Rip? Who opened it?
Deep down, somewhere, you must know.
[breath trembling]
Who is he talking about, Jess?
[whimpering]
Jess!
[sad dramatic music playing]
Is this in my head?
Jessie! Tell me this isn't in my head.
It's real.
[indistinct screaming]
[growling]
[imperceptible]
[Alice] Girls.
My babies.
-Mum.
-My little babies. [chuckles]
[all sobbing]
[Alice] I've missed you so much.
I've missed the bones of you.
Let me look at you both.
My little Jessie. Look how big you are.
And my Bea-Bea. So gorgeous.
Everyone is so gorgeous.
Look how much I missed.
[exhales deeply]
Sherlock.
Oh, love.
You look so old. [chuckles]
I am.
-[kisses]
-[sobbing]
[Alice] My love, you did
a fine job of raising our girls--
I have to tell you--
[Alice] I'm so proud of you.
I let you down.
I let the girls down.
I couldn't look after them. I'm sorry.
[Sherlock sobbing]
Is it true, John?
-Who looked after you both?
-We were in the workhouse.
-[Sherlock] I'm so sorry.
-[Alice] No.
-Stand up.
-Without you here, I was nothing.
When you became a father,
it stopped being about us.
It's about the girls.
Everything you do is for these girls!
-I tried.
-[Bea] You tried?
Last night, you ran off on your own
with that monster. You left me.
You abandoned me again.
Don't look at me like that.
I've seen it in your eyes,
you hurt just as much as I do.
We're the same.
You can't stand there and tell me
there's nothing
you wouldn't do to be with her.
And look at her. She's here.
Come.
[rumbling]
I'm here to love you
and look after you like I couldn't before.
I'm here and I'm never
going away ever again, okay?
Come here, Jessie.
Come here.
Let me hold you both for a while.
Why are you opening the Rip, Mum?
[Billy grunts]
[Spike] We made it back, lads. We did it.
Wait, wait.
[groaning]
Watson was right. The city's turning.
With the Rip the way it is,
every time someone prays for help
or wishes, that's all it takes.
We should've stayed and found
a way through. We're useless here.
[rumbling]
Jessie still hasn't closed the Rip.
-It's nearly over. It could be too late.
-[Spike] Come on.
Come on, Bill. Let's get off the streets.
[Billy groans]
[indistinct screaming]
[woman] Let us in!
[screams]
I rifled him. I rifled him!
Yep.
You rifled him real nice.
Sister Anna! Are you okay?
We were in the church
and this monster
came after us, this creature.
We have nowhere to go.
You can come with us.
I'm opening it
because I had to see you both again.
And once it's fully open, I'll be free.
We'll be free to be together.
I've been alone
on the other side for 15 years, Jessica.
[Jessie] I understand.
I've always imagined what it would
be like to meet you, see your face.
To smell you, to be held by you.
But this?
You knew it would
make monsters out of people.
No.
The monsters are temporary.
The chaos is temporary.
Soon the Rip will widen so far
that the barrier
between the worlds will collapse
and it'll no longer be a problem.
What?
I didn't do all this
for five minutes with you girls.
I did because we're gonna
be together again forever.
If the barrier collapses,
this world will be destroyed.
It will be consumed by the other side,
by whatever world it is you've come from.
-What world have you come from?
-[Alice] There are different dimensions.
The one I come from is where spirits wait,
spirits who don't want to move on.
I couldn't move on, not without my girls.
Purgatory.
You want to turn
this world into that, into Purgatory.
-It would be the end of death.
-[scoffs]
[Jessie] No. It's not right.
If you get rid of death, then you get rid
of life and everything else.
Life is an aberration.
When we're born, we cry,
because we feel
the pain of it for the first time.
And it ends with us being ripped apart
from everything we've ever loved.
Look around you.
Everyone here
has been torn apart by grief.
And no more death means no more grief.
I'm sorry, Jessica,
but that is how it will be.
Tell her, Sherlock.
Listen to your mother, Jessica.
No, you've been warped by sadness.
You both have.
I have to close the Rip.
Jessie, if you close it,
I'll be pulled back to the other side.
I'll lose you again.
We'll lose each other.
Our family.
I'm sorry.
[Bea] No.
I can't let you close it, Jessie.
[pounding on door]
Something's trying to get in.
[muffled growling]
[muffled screaming]
It's over.
Even if we survive the monsters,
it's all gonna disappear anyway.
I spent my whole life
thinking I was the son of a hero,
then when I found out he wasn't…
I thought maybe I could be one instead.
People like us don't get to be heroes.
Hey! Hey!
You're just going to give up?
Let them burst in here and attack us?
-There's nothing more to fight for.
-There's each other.
So long as we can fight
for each other, we fight.
[scoffs]
Who taught you to be such a badass?
You did. You all did.
Now, stand up and defend your home.
[growling continues]
[Leo] Trust me, you'll need it.
[thudding continues]
-This isn't the way!
-Why can't it be?
Because it isn't!
I know it! I can't explain why.
Listen to your sister, Jessie.
No, she's stuck like you are!
-I'm sorry, Jess! I can't let you do it!
-Get out of my way!
[rumbling intensifies]
[Watson] It's collapsing!
What are you gonna do?
Show me my worst memories?
I wanna show you the best ones,
and that life is worth it.
Our lives have been a shitshow
from the day we were born
and you wanna tell me it's beautiful?
-It's not gonna work.
-Just look.
[laughter and indistinct chatter]
[Spike] Okay, I'll start, yeah.
No pauses and no repetition.
-Once.
-[Billy] Upon.
-A.
-Time.
-There.
-Was.
-This.
-Lad.
-Called.
-Spike.
[both laugh]
-[Bea] Who.
-[Jessie] Had.
-[Spike] A.
-[Billy] Very.
-Small.
-Penis!
[Spike laughing] No! What?
[all laughing]
And repetition, mate.
Drink it down in one.
-[Spike] No, no.
-[Jessie] That was a repetition!
[sad piano music playing]
[sighs]
[imperceptible]
It's not gonna work.
You're wasting your time.
[indistinct chatter]
Jessie. Jessie, please don't.
Just look.
Look at how into you he is.
[Leo] I like your hands.
They're very elegant.
They're cello-playing hands.
You should learn to play the cello.
I can actually already play the cello.
Mmm-hmm.
Yeah, but I had to give it up,
because carrying it around
between performances was ruining my back.
[Jessie] Look at your face.
[Leo] Well, back injuries are no joke.
[sniffles]
[Leo] You made the right decision.
Do you remember that feeling?
Do you remember how happy you were?
-Jessie, please stop.
-Just one more.
Your sister sleeps
in the nursery because she's a baby.
And you sleep there.
And don't cry. No one is coming.
See? See what life is?
See what it's been like for me? For us?
Keep watching.
Even in a place like this,
in the darkness,
there was a light that shone.
It was the light of how much
you loved your little sister.
And of how much she loved you.
Don't you ever tell me
life isn't worth it.
Don't you ever tell me
it's no good, because…
life brought me you.
And that's why it's worth fighting for.
What did you say to her?
What did she say to you, Beatrice?
[Sister Anna] We ask our Lord God to give
us the strength to fight our enemies.
Give us the power to strike
them down with great fury.
-No, don't pray. Don't pray!
-In the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Don't say "amen"!
-Amen.
-[man and woman] Amen.
[suspenseful music playing]
You were wrong earlier, Sherlock.
You and me may hurt the same,
but we're different.
[Alice] No.
I won't be away from you anymore.
You have to let go.
We both do.
It wasn't grieving that hurt us,
it was that we didn't grieve.
Thank you for giving me
the chance to say goodbye.
We'll be together again one day.
Sherlock, do something.
I can't. I'm powerless on this side.
You were right.
It's not about me and you anymore.
It's about the girls.
-You have to go back. Yes.
-No.
You don't know what it's like.
I have no one.
Jessie! It's going! Close it!
Close it, Jessie.
It'll be okay. Trust me. I love you.
[rumbling intensifies]
[screams]
[Alice gasps]
My lambs,
it is time for you to be rewarded.
In the afterlife.
Heathens.
Stop! Stop, Sister, or I'll shoot you!
Heathen weapons cannot harm the anointed.
[Spike] Whoa! Go!
-Billy.
-[Billy screams]
[Spike] Come on!
-[Billy] Spike!
-Wait! Billy!
[grunting]
[groans]
You are unpure.
I'll baptize you before you die.
[groaning]
Girls, I love you.
Both. So much.
We love you, too, Mum.
[sobbing]
You've been a better friend to me
than I deserve, John. Thank you.
[Watson] Sherlock. Sherlock!
Dad, no!
Sherlock!
No! No!
[Sister Anna grunting]
[gasps for air]
[grunting]
[Watson grunting]
[Watson] Let go, Sherlock!
Jess!
[Jessie screaming]
Help me!
-No, I can't!
-Yes, you can!
Sherlock, let go!
Please! Please, help me save her!
Please! Please, help me save her!
Watson!
[Watson] She's slipping! I can't hold her!
[Bea] Please!
[Sister Anna grunting]
Help.
[cackles]
[rumbling stops]
[gasps]
[gasps for air]
[coughing]
They're gone.
Jess…
Jess…
[Jessie crying]
[sighs]
[panting]
Billy!
[groaning]
Jessie did it!
It's over.
Spike.
[both grunting]
Spike!
Are you all right?
Are you alive?
Spike.
[groaning]
[sighing] Thank God.
Is it over?
All of it?
She did it. We did it.
[coughing]
Well done, mate.
The sailor's love waits by the moon ♪
The silver moon, the silver moon ♪
Waiting for a sailor to come home soon ♪
Come home soon, come home soon ♪
One of us should say something.
I don't know what to say.
Well…
They definitely loved each other.
And I guess some people
can't exist if they're apart.
What will you do now that Sherlock's gone?
Find something to…
busy myself with, I'm sure.
Wanna join us for fish and chips tonight?
We've been saving our cash for a treat.
No, thank you. I have dinner plans.
Hmm.
Yeah. Okay.
[laughter]
Beer.
[Jessie] Wow!
-It looks so good.
-[Billy] Pour us out one, Spike.
-[Jessie] I'm starving.
-All right, cheers.
[Bea] You're always starving.
-Budge up.
-'Course.
Do you have fish and chips
when you're a prince?
We have fish and chips.
We only eat them
out of crystal bowls, though.
Actually, our servants
hand feed them to us.
Would you care to take
some fresh air with me?
Sure, I'll take some fresh air with you.
Um, Beatrice,
I actually can't stay for supper.
I have to go back.
I promised my mother
I'd go to Europe this week.
I leave tomorrow.
What do you mean?
When you're a member of the royal family,
there are certain expectations of you.
Expectations of…
Of who you'll be with.
What do you mean, "be with"?
Like, "be with" be with?
Yes.
Who is this person?
Her name's Helena. Helena Augusta.
-Do you like her?
-I barely know her.
-Do you like her?
-I like you. You know I like you.
It doesn't seem like that.
I don't just like you. I don't…
I'm completely in love with you.
You see, it's quite the problem.
-Then why are you going along with it?
-Because I have to.
No, you don't, Leo.
I thought you got it.
You can be whoever you want to be.
You can do whatever you want.
How can you have spent so much
time with us and not changed at all?
I agreed to it because it was the only
way I could get them to help Billy.
Don't tell him.
I don't want him to feel bad.
I'm sorry, Beatrice, but if I don't go
they might take Billy again. I don't…
I don't… I'm so sorry.
Why would you apologize for doing
the nicest thing I've ever heard?
I didn't lie to you about who I was
because I was trying to trick you.
I lied because
I was trying to be more real.
Everyone I've ever met has pretended
to like me because I'm a prince.
And you liked me because I wasn't.
["when the party's over" playing]
Call me friend but keep me closer ♪
And I'll call you
When the party's over… ♪
This was real, right?
Just tell me it was.
It was.
This was it.
Even if I live for another thousand years,
this was it.
I could lie, say I like it like that
Like it like that ♪
I could lie, say I like it like that
Like it like that ♪
But nothin' is better sometimes ♪
Once we've both said our goodbyes ♪
Let's just let it go ♪
Let me let you go ♪
Quiet when I'm comin' home
And I'm on my own ♪
I could lie, say I like it like that
Like it like that ♪
Bit underdressed for going
out to dinner, aren't you?
Hungry?
Can you light a candle by blinking?
-With your mind?
-No.
What about…
What about arousing people
by clicking your fingers?
-Yeah.
-Can you?
No.
[both laugh]
Down in the sewers,
when the Linen Man touched you…
what did you see?
What were your darkest thoughts?
Was it rats?
Come on.
I could touch you and go into
your mind and find out anyway.
Tell me.
I saw you.
I saw you everywhere.
You was hurt.
Sometimes you was more than hurt and…
I don't really want to talk about it,
because I--
That's what you saw?
That was your worst thing?
Spike…
Is that why
you didn't get an Irregulars tattoo?
'Cause you felt guilty?
Of course not.
I didn't get one 'cause they're vulgar.
Tattoos are for pirates
and Parisian bohemes.
-I'm a doctor. Doctors don't get tattoos.
-Oh!
I actually thought
it was because you're a bit…
A bit what?
Well, a bit spineless.
[cutlery clatters]
Okay. If you're so brave,
I'll make you a deal.
If you get one, I will head straight down
to Soho and drill some ink under my skin.
Oh. I see you're not so
confident anymore, are you?
-It's not that.
-No? What is it, then?
Well…
I was just wondering
how late tattoo parlors stay open.
I'm… not getting a tattoo.
[snorts]
How do you stop loving someone?
I'm sorry?
When you don't want
to love someone anymore,
because it hurts too much…
how do you stop?
You don't.
Quiet when I'm comin' home
And I'm on my own… ♪
[crying]
-You okay?
-[Bea sniffles]
I could lie, say I like it like that
Like it like that ♪
But nothin' is better sometimes ♪
Once we've both said our goodbyes ♪
Let's just let it go ♪
Let me let you go ♪
Quiet when I'm comin' home
And I'm on my own ♪
I could lie, say I like it like that
Like it like that ♪
[crying] Everybody leaves me.
[Watson] I'm here. I'm not going anywhere.
[closing theme music playing]