Them (2021) s01e08 Episode Script

[Odetta: "He's Got
the Whole World in His Hands"]
He's got the whole world
in his hand ♪
He got the great, big world
in his hand ♪
He got the whole world
in his hand ♪
He got
the whole world in his hand ♪
He got the wind and the rain
right in his hand ♪
He got the stars and the moon
in his hand ♪
He got the wind and the rain ♪
In his hand ♪
He got the whole world
in his hand ♪
He's got the little bits of
babies in his hand ♪
He got the little bits
of babies in his hand ♪
He got the little
bits of babies in his hand ♪
He got the whole world
in his hand ♪
Well, he got everybody
in his hand ♪
He got everybody in his hand ♪
He got everybody here
right in his hand ♪
He got the whole world
in his hand ♪♪
[Moynihan] Mrs. Emory.
Thorazine seems
to be treating you well.
This place is a refuge,
wouldn't you agree?
Yeah, we're having a fine visit
today, Dr. Moynihan.
Hello, Mrs. Emory.
[Moynihan] I'm told
you still won't eat
- your food, Lucky.
- [Ella Mae] But she told me
- I could have this, Doctor
- It's Mrs. Emory.
My family.
- My family. When can I see my family?
- [Moynihan] What did we say
- about getting excited? What happens?
- I'm not getting
[whispers] I'm not
getting excited.
Good girl.
Each one, teach one, Ella Mae.
[Ella Mae] I'll mind her,
Doctor.
[whispering] Mind, Lucky.
You have to mind.
[Moynihan] She's very lucky.
The authorities
in North Carolina
have confirmed your story.
What a sad story.
Prison is not the right place
for your wife.
She has a medical condition,
not a criminal one.
I just need to talk to her.
- About what she did to your son?
- She didn't do anything
- to my son.
- Of course. I'm sorry.
- What I meant
- They took her so fast
that I couldn't tell her
what I needed to.
What would you tell her?
[scoffs]
Mr. Emory,
I've seen this behavior before.
I specialize in it.
Did you know
that several Negro women,
some in much worse shape
than your wife,
have come in here having done
some terrible things?
My treatment
has proven very successful.
What doesn't help
is your coming here
- every day, trying to see her.
- She needs to know that I came.
And that I'm not upset
and I understand.
At least, I think I understand
why she did what she did.
[Moynihan] In time,
you can tell her.
Now it will only agitate her.
- Doctor, I know my wife.
- [Moynihan] This is
an involuntary hold.
Do you understand
what that means?
That you can keep her
for as long as you want.
For as long as she needs.
So we can help.
At least let her see
her little girls.
They need to see their mama.
[Moynihan] After
what they witnessed?
I'm not a child psychiatrist,
but I promise you
that would be devastating.
You need to focus on your girls.
How are they holding up?
[scoffs]
Children are resilient.
I'll make sure to tell her
that you stopped by
and that you and the girls
are hanging in there.
But you focus on healing.
Doctor, what treatment?
Honestly, I mostly listen.
♪
[cattle lowing]
I made it
just the way you like it.
Milk and two sugars.
[jazz music playing quietly]
That's probably too hot, anyway.
Let it cool off a bit.
Do you notice the wallpaper?
You recognize it? [chuckles]
It took me a while
to find the same pattern, but
I can be pretty determined.
Look.
I had to guess your size.
I got you some things in pink.
I mean,
you don't wear enough pink.
If you hold me
Oh, don't fuss
with those, Betty.
You don't have to be scared.
Okay? I mean, tying you up,
that was just
for your own protection.
Give me your hands.
Udder cream.
Use it on a sow's teats.
It'll get rid of those marks.
Give me your hands.
It's George.
You know me. Hmm?
Hmm.
You're a good woman, Betty.
And I like to think
I'm a good person, too.
And I know what
our love would've
looked like to people
who just couldn't understand.
A married woman
running off with the milkman.
I know it seems extreme.
It's okay.
You'll see.
If you kiss me
I want you to know
that I'm ready
when you're ready.
Okay.
If you kiss me
[George grunts]
[door opens]
[cowbell jingles]
[door locking]
[radio broadcast
playing quietly] - [grunting]
Oh. [chuckles softly]
What, did you shake it up?
No, I just walked
right from the icebox
to just right here.
Um
- What?
- I
Well, you know, I just was
- We have some savings.
- Where's this going?
- And i-if
- Nowhere good, I'd bet.
What if we just moved?
You know, because with all this,
I don't think
anybody would blame us.
Did you hear
a goddamn thing Betty said?
Ms. High-And-Mighty.
She thinks she's just
better than everyone else.
I think I bet she took off.
You know, I bet
that she just found somebody,
and she took off.
You don't know that.
She's the only one of us
around here that had any guts.
Now you just want
to cut and run?
- N
- I'm disappointed
- in you.
- [door opens]
- Marty.
- Knock!
You see this?
"Compton sergeant shot dead."
- [Nat] Jesus.
- "In a suspected gangland shooting."
What have I been saying
all along?
- This is all on us.
- [Nat] Marty,
why don't you just go
to the bank first? Just see
- if maybe they could
- Shut up about that!
Seeps through,
makes my baby a coward.
What about you?
You want to run, too?
A couple of fucking women,
both of youse.
- I'm game, Marty.
- [phone ringing]
[Nat] Hello?
[sighs] No, nothing.
Zilch.
I mean, could you blame her,
though, if she did?
'Cause you know
how Clarke treated her.
And between you, me
and the back gatepost
Marty thinks
the coloreds kidnapped Betty.
Oh, you know Marty.
If he gets something
in his head, he, um
He won't. I already tried.
I don't know.
All this [sighs]
My doctor says
that all this stress
isn't good for the baby.
But what makes you say that?
'Cause I don't know
if I can be so sure.
I think so.
[exhales] I
I don't even know.
♪
Mrs. Beaumont.
Arnette.
What'd they do?
What's happened to you?
I saw him.
The man.
He spoke to me
and-and through me.
When he made you
hurt your family
did he talk to you?
He told me he could command me.
And his scripture.
He talked like
- he was some sort of god.
- [orderly] Mrs. Emory.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Just can't be in here.
I-I know. I was just
Come on, come on.
I don't want to get in trouble.
♪
[Lucky] What'd they do to her?
[orderly] You're in
a good place.
There's been a few
colored ladies,
you know, troubled.
But the doctor
she specializes in fixing them.
- Making them feel better.
- Can she even feel anything?
- Stop talking to me!
- [gasping] Sir.
Sir, can you please
get word to my family?
Please? Just one phone call?
Mrs. Emory,
the lady doctor, she listens.
If you make your case plain,
there's no way she won't
give you that phone call.
Please.
What if it was your family?
You're locked up in here
for days.
They're worried sick.
If it was me,
and I was worried
about my family
I'd yell from the rafters.
I wouldn't give up.
No matter what.
[lock latches]
[birds chirping]
[cows mooing]
[door creaks]
♪
[jazz music playing quietly]
Hmm.
You look lovely.
Thank you, George.
[both chuckle softly]
What?
[chuckles] Nothing.
Just
Mmm.
This is
nice, isn't it?
Please. Mmm.
I didn't know you were
such a good cook, George.
Well, if I'm honest,
I know how to cook two things.
- And you're eating one of them.
- [chuckles softly]
But I'm not too fussy.
Anything you make
- [cork pops]
- I'll love.
To
the future.
The future.
[glasses clink]
A Chablis from France.
You don't like it?
It's just [clears throat]
I usually take it
with a few ice cubes.
- But it's fine.
- No, it's not.
This is your home now.
Goddamn idiot, George.
How you like things is
how you'll have things.
[door opens]
[birds chirping, cawing]
♪
[brakes squeak]
♪
[Gracie] I'm scared.
I know. I know.
Come here.
[groans, sighs]
It's all right.
We're just gonna get
some things, then we go.
Do we have to go
back to Aunt Hazel's?
[chuckles softly] Yes.
Just for a while.
Family's good
to have around, huh?
We need to stay close
so when your mama comes home,
she can find us.
I don't want her to.
She hurt my brother.
- No. We talked about this.
- [Ruby] Come on, Gracie.
I'll help you.
Let's get our things.
♪
[Earl] Hey, coon.
- [jazz music playing quietly]
- [Betty chuckling softly]
So, George.
If we are meant
to be together
- Oh, it's fated, Betty.
- Well
keeping me locked up
under the earth
is no way for me
for us to live.
Hmm.
No, you're right.
You're always so smart
about things.
Maybe I could come
and stay with you,
up at the house.
Like a normal
Hmm.
If it is real love,
then there's nothing
to worry about.
[chuckles softly]
[sighs]
- More wine, Betty?
- Okay, George.
- [grunts]
- [gasps]
[gasping]
[panting]
I'm sorry you feel this way.
[whimpers]
[groaning]
The course of true love
never did run smooth.
If I have to
prove it to you, I will.
If you don't love me,
if you want to leave
it'll be the hardest thing
I've ever done.
But I love you enough
to take that chance.
[door opens]
[door closes]
[gasps]
[exhales]
- [Ruby] Daddy?
- [Gracie] Daddy!
- [hit lands]
- [Henry grunts]
[Earl and Marty laughing]
[grunts]
[Earl] Well, I'll be
dipped in dog shit.
Look who's back.
[Marty] Daddy's home.
[laughs]
Don't. Leave her alone.
Now you ready to tell us
what you did with Betty?
- I never even talked to that woman.
- We don't believe you.
[grunts softly] Please.
Just leave us alone.
- Gracie.
- Watch that one, Earl!
No. No, look. No, no, no, look!
- [crying]
- Look. All on me. All on me.
All right? They're just kids.
You deal with me.
We let them go,
and you deal with me.
Hmm?
- [sniffles]
- Get off me.
Okay.
Now, either you
or that nutjob mammy
that lives here
knows something.
- No, sir.
- I don't know.
[Henry] No. No.
Hey, that woman
- Her name's Betty.
- Okay.
- [gun cocks]
- Betty. Betty.
We never even spoke.
Never.
Sir, no.
Hey. Hey.
[Marty] How old are you, gally?
- Fourteen.
- Fourteen?
- Hey.
- In dog years, you're practically grown.
[Henry] Hey!
Stay away from her!
You stay away from her!
- Take little Topsy there down to the basement.
- [Ruby] No.
- Grace.
- [Marty] Come on. - No.
- Hey!
- [Gracie crying] - [crying] No, Gracie
[Earl grunting]
Get the fuck down there.
[Marty] You are a tough nut,
buck, I'll give you that.
- [pounding in distance]
- [Gracie yelling]
Go make us some food.
The fuck you looking
at him for?! Go!
- Earl, take her to the kitchen.
- [Earl] Let's go.
It's all right.
[Earl] You cook?
Yeah.
[Gracie shouting in distance]
[pounding in distance]
[Earl] Jackpot.
Well, cook it, then.
Smart.
[Henry] Come on.
Let my girls leave.
[music playing on TV]
You sit here every day
watching Betty.
She's an attractive woman.
- Who could blame you?
- Bullshit.
- You're saying she's not attractive?
- You know
I didn't have anything to do
with wherever she is.
Yeah, but you know something.
No, sir.
What are you,
a doctor or something?
Just a working man.
Like you.
Bullshit like me.
I'm an engineer.
[whistles]
College and everything.
What's that pay?
You fancy buck.
Forced to live
among the hoi polloi.
Please.
That house is
none of my business.
Maybe not yours.
What's that supposed to mean?
That wackadoodle wife of yours.
Everybody knows
she killed the little baby.
- [Henry] That's not what happened.
- [Marty] Oh, what?
It came with the house?
Oh, you want to know
what happened?
Some peckerwood motherfuckers
killed our child.
That's what happened.
Okay, buck.
Okay.
[Lucky] Just let me
see my family.
Just let me warn them.
[Moynihan] They won't
see you, Lucky.
- What?
- They're frightened by you.
And, frankly,
I can understand it.
- How do you know?
- I spoke with your husband on the phone.
He agreed that it's best
that you not be disturbed.
No.
Yes.
What are you doing
to these women?
Lucky, I have cared for
dozens of Negro women,
and I understand the pressures
facing you are different
than those for a normal woman.
Listen to me, you bitch.
Maybe what I did was wrong,
but I have never
hurt my child.
It was a white bitch,
just like you!
- Okay, let's go.
- Just like you, who killed my baby!
I'd hoped you weren't
this far gone, Lucky.
Let me see my family!
Let me see 'em!
[music playing on TV]
[Henry] Mister
I don't even know your name.
That's not very neighborly.
[Henry] But I know
you're a father.
I seen your wife.
My wife is not somebody
you should be looking at.
I know what it's like
to want to protect them,
- but you feel like you can't.
- What's that supposed to mean, "can't"?
No, no, that's not what I mean.
'Cause I seem to be doing
a pretty good job
taking care of me and mine.
Till you and your
fucking brood showed up.
[Earl] That's right.
♪
♪
Open your hand.
Open your hand.
- Daddy, don't do it. Daddy. Please, Daddy!
- [Henry] Get off her!
- Get off her!
- [Marty] Daddy, you better fucking do it!
- Keep that on her, Earl.
- [groans] Ruby!
- [Ruby crying]
- All right! All right!
[Marty] There you go.
[panting]
[scissors click]
♪
- [scissors snap]
- [screaming]
- [groaning]
- [Ruby sobbing]
[faint laughing]
And you have no idea
where Betty is?
I don't know! I don't know!
I don't know!
- [girls screaming]
- Where you going, jackrabbit?
[groaning]
Stay the fuck down.
Be still for me, boy.
Be so still now.
- Daddy!
- You don't want this!
God don't want this!
You can still walk away!
You people may like jail,
but me, not so much.
[girls screaming, crying]
Get him up!
- [Henry grunting]
- [girls shouting]
- Daddy!
- [Earl shouting]
Here we go!
Goddamn it.
Fuck off me!
[panting]
Hello? Hello?
Hello?
Why am
- Hello?
- [orderly] Shh.
- Lucky, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh.
- Help me.
- Oh, Lucky.
- Please.
- Please.
- Shh.
If they think you're gonna
start fussing again now
Well, you just get some rest.
Oh, but they don't understand.
You know you know
I'm not crazy.
Lucky, shh. You don't want to
get me in trouble, too, do you?
You can take these off,
though, please.
- Please?
- It's just a precaution.
Just so you don't hurt yourself
before the procedure tonight.
- What?
- You're so far gone.
The lady doctor thinks
sooner is better.
- Huh?
- [distorted] You'll sleep through the whole thing.
If I'm honest,
it's really the best thing.
[Reverend Epps] Oh, black sow
if only you'd minded me.
Your brood minds me.
They know their place.
But you
What black magic
are you made of?
What perversion
lets you fight against
the alliance I have?
Stay the fuck away
from my family!
Lucky.
If ever there was
an irony to a name.
Do you think
the rest of your kin
can keep me out of their minds?
Their corruptible,
venal Black hearts?
Oh, sow, by the time
I leave you here
in this place,
I'll have them
rend each other to pieces,
morsel by morsel.
No.
For your strength in this trial
has earned a mercy from me.
I'll let them take your brain,
spare you ever having to know
you had a family.
And that mercy
is near.
But for now
you must ponder
at your wickedness
whilst I exult in my labors.
[sobbing]
[grunting, screaming]
[screaming continues]
[screaming echoes]
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