Ghostwriter (2019) s01e09 Episode Script

It must be so nice being
right all the time, Tess.
Oh, don't turn this around on me!
[RUBEN] Wow, I've never
seen Grandma so mad.
[CHEVON] I've never seen her mad at all.
Listen, Fee, you are the one
that walked away from everything.
Is that really what you think?
You are so naive.
People change.
Clearly. Because I don't know the person
standing in front of me anymore.
[SCOFFS]
This is my life, and
these are my choices.
You don't have to like them,
but you do have to respect them.
Well, that was intense.
It's all starting to add up.
Grandma had a huge fight
with one of her best friends
and she's always regretted it.
- Unfinished business.
- Which every ghost has.
What about the person in the
hospital from the other sparkle?
Grandma lied to Grandpa
about where she went that day.
It could be a red herring. A false clue.
Trust me, not every
sparkle is meaningful.
It led us to Sofia, and
that's what's important.
Well, it looks like we found
our number one suspect.
"Sofia Moore".
Good news. I went online
and found a 75-year-old
woman named Sofia Moore.
She's lived on Dane Street for 40 years.
Grandma would've been 75 this year.
Sounds like a match.
So, what's the plan?
Knock on her door, say her friend's
ghost has been haunting us?
- You should go, Ruben. Alone.
- Alone?
Just say you didn't know
your grandma very well
and you want to meet
some of her friends.
That kinda makes sense
- I guess.
- I'll tag along.
My sparkle power could come in
handy if we're looking for secrets.
Plus, I'm invisible.
I want you to write a backstory
for any of the characters
in Treasure Island.
Imagine the character
before the book began.
And I want you to work in pairs.
So be sure to pick a partner
that has strengths that you don't have.
All right? Buddy up.
[CHATTERING]
[KRISTA] And I'm punctual,
and I have neat handwriting.
So, for those reasons, I think I
would make an excellent partner.
Well, Krista, Todd,
you've both made compelling
arguments, but I must decline.
Good luck on your assignments.
Hey. Wanna partner up?
Oh, um, I was gonna work with Ben here.
Really? Ben?
No offense, but he's not gonna
help you raise your grade.
Don't you want to get back
on the basketball team?
I do, but I also don't want
to feel like a charity case.
I do. Will you be my partner?
Sorry, Curtis, but if I'm with
Chevon, it's a guaranteed B.
I don't get B's.
Okay. It's you and me, Chevon.
- I'm going to pull my weight, you know.
- I'm not worried.
So, we'll meet mornings, around 7:30,
afternoons till 5:00,
and most of Sunday.
Okay.
[SIGHS]
Alison, that outfit is fire.
I thought it was sold out.
How did you even get it?
Heather at Threads told me
she had one left in my size.
I saved my allowance
for, like, six months.
- Well, it looks amazing.
- I know, right?
Hey.
I love that.
- Did you get it at Threads too?
- What?
No, I got it at a thrift store and
then made some changes to it.
It looks brand-new.
Why spend $100 when I can make
it myself for almost nothing?
I'm impressed.
Hey, Alie, you should've
had Donna make your outfit.
You would've still had money.
[BECCA AND LEO CHUCKLE]
This is the address.
Wow.
[RAINE] Looks like
we followed the money.
Look, I know you like
to have a lot of fun
with being invisible or whatever,
but this is serious.
Don't worry, Ruben.
I'll just look for some
sparkles that might help.
- Yes?
- Are you Sofia Moore?
Yes?
And do you go by Fee?
I haven't been called that in years.
Where did you hear that?
My name is Ruben.
My grandmother was Teressa Reyna.
Unfortunately, she passed
away a couple of months ago.
Oh, my. I'm so sorry to hear that.
I didn't know her very well
and I was hoping to meet
some of her friends.
Grandpa said you two were very close.
Oh, for heaven's sakes.
You poor thing. Come on in.
Make yourself at home.
Oh, I'll take that for you.
This lady is seriously rich.
[SOFIA] Why don't I get us some tea?
Okay. Thank you.
Whoa. I always wondered what
a private jet looked like.
- Not what I was expecting.
- Me neither.
I thought she'd be
angry, from the sparkle,
but instead, she's, like
The sweetest lady ever.
Who did this?
The glitter. Who did it?
I did.
What were you thinking?
Um, I heard you say the
costume needed to sparkle more
and I thought the color
worked, so I put it on.
I thought you'd like it.
It does look pretty cool.
That's not the point.
What if it didn't look cool? We'd have
to remake the whole costume.
From now on, nobody does anything
without talking to me first.
I'm really sorry.
[SIGHS]
It's fine.
Did you finish tagging the costumes?
Almost. I'm just helping Becca
How about you finish
what I asked you to do?
A queen gave this to her.
- Put it back. It's not a toy.
- Come on. Just check it out.
Oh, oh! I'd better take that back.
It's extremely expensive.
And there's a certain Danish royal
that would be very
displeased if it broke.
I'm sorry, Ms. Moore.
Oh, please. Call me
Fee. Tess always did.
So, Ruben, let's talk business.
Do you want cookies, cheese, or scones?
Say cheese. Ask if she has any Gouda.
I've always been more of a cookie guy.
Coming right up.
Wow. She's so nice.
I have a bad feeling about her.
She reminds me of
people I know back home.
When you've watched as
many sparkles as I have,
you learn things about people.
Things that you wish weren't true
but they are.
I wouldn't believe
anything that she tells you.
These will be yummy. I know it.
Except for maybe that.
They do look good.
[SOFIA] There we were.
The biggest dance of the
year and no way to get there.
So, Tess looks at me and she says,
"Fee, we have no choice.
Get your roller skates".
- No.
- It's true.
We skated all the way
down Montgomery Avenue
wearing our ball gowns.
Made it in time to the dance, too.
- That's incredible.
- Oh, it was always that way with Tess.
One adventure after another.
Enough stories. Ask her
about their big fight.
- Raine.
- Oh, is it raining? I Oh, I better
No, sorry, I thought it was
raining. But it's not, it's sunny.
So you were saying, one
adventure after the next?
Always.
Well, like this painting.
We were traveling around
California and Tess had to have it.
So she spent every last
dime she had on it.
Borrowed my last dime too.
We had to sleep on the
beach the entire next week.
You could do that in those days.
You must've been mad.
Are you kidding? I was furious.
Yes, finally. Here we go.
Don't go easy on her, Ruben.
Did you two argue a lot?
Oh, not really.
She was hard to stay mad at.
Well, I was upset at the time,
but she ended up giving me
this for my next birthday.
I bet you she's lying about all of this.
I remember it as if
it was only yesterday.
She stopped by to drop it off
just before she was on
her way to a big date.
[GASPS]
- The painting.
- [LAUGHS]
I love it. Thank you, Tess.
Um
Here's the spot.
Well, I guess I forgive you for
making us sleep on the beach.
So, tell me about this date.
- Well, he's very cute.
- Mm-hmm.
And smart. Loves to read.
That's promising.
How'd you meet?
We actually grew up together.
We were friends as kids.
I ran into him at the bookstore,
which was an old haunt of ours.
He remembered me.
Are you sure that this dress is okay?
I could go home and change.
Tess, relax. It's not like
you're gonna marry the guy.
What's his name?
Ernesto. Ernesto Reyna.
[RUBEN] Grandpa.
Ernesto Reyna.
I knew the way she said it
he was something special.
And I remember thinking,
"Tess is gonna marry that boy".
Isn't that unbelievable?
Well, that part is believable
because I saw it with my own eyes.
- But I don't buy the other stuff.
- Shh
Choo! Sorry. I think
I'm catching a cold.
- Oh, let me get you a tissue.
- Really, it's not necessary.
No problem. I want to get
an old photo album anyway.
- You need to chill!
- I'm sorry. It's just
When I see a sparkle,
my fingers tingle and I
get the urge to touch it.
Okay, well, don't!
Put your hands in your
pockets or something.
Fine.
So, she's stuck with this
really rich fancy family
and all the phrases she knows
she hears from the butler.
Like, "Dinner is served, madam".
Then, one day, she looks out the
window, she sees a pirate ship.
Then she's like,
"I hate this fancy home.
I'm gonna go and live with the pirates".
So, of all the characters
in Treasure Island
you could've written a backstory for,
you chose Captain Flint the parrot?
Yeah. Is it too weird?
Are you kidding? It's brilliant!
Everyone else is gonna
write up some dumb story
about how Long John Silver lost his leg.
Only thing left to do is
sit back and wait for that A.
Yeah, right. Now comes the actual work.
Write an outline, do a first draft,
second draft, have our
parents read it over,
address their thoughts,
read over it again,
print it out, and staple.
Suddenly, I feel tired.
It'll be fun. You write the first
half, I'll write the second half.
- I'm really glad we partnered up.
- Me too.
Now, this photo is from
our class trip, senior year.
- Where's the rest of your class?
- We ditched them.
Like I said, it was always
an adventure with Tess.
She was always so full of life.
It's hard to imagine
she's not with us anymore.
I know.
[RAINE] Ruben! You cannot
believe how big her closet is.
Seriously. It's like the
size of my whole house!
I wish I'd seen her again.
I always meant to drop by the
bookstore, but it never happened.
[SIGHS] We just grew apart.
- Was there a big fight?
- No, nothing like that.
Our lives just took different paths.
Did you ever try to reach out to her?
I wish I had, but no.
Not even a letter?
Like a, um, emotional letter
written on an old typewriter
and signed only with an initial?
Time's a funny thing.
It always feels like
you got plenty of it,
but, in fact, there's
never nearly enough.
[SIGHS]
You know, you should stop
by the bookstore sometime.
I'm sure Grandpa would love to see you.
I just might.
We need to leave! We need to leave!
- Uh
- Now!
Okay. Well, um, Sofia Fee.
I just remembered that I have a, um
- A trampoline lesson.
- Trampoline lesson.
And I have to go, like,
right now. Sorry for the rush.
Um, stop by the bookstore sometime. Bye.
- Trampoline lessons?
- It's all I could think of.
You need to see what I found.
Well, it better be good. I felt
bad walking out on her like that.
Plus, those cookies were awesome.
What is it?
Just watch.
Please just keep this quiet.
[MALE POLICE OFFICER] Next.
Thank you.
Next.
Told you.
I don't believe it.
Grandma went to jail?
Hey, Alison.
I really like your outfit.
[ALISON] And I like your jumpsuit.
You get most of your clothes
from the dollar rack, right?
I guess so.
Did you get to the part about the piano?
Uh-huh.
I thought it was really good.
Uh-huh.
- I'm confused.
- By which part?
The beginning. The middle. The end.
All of it. What happened?
Hey, I worked really hard on
that. I thought it was great.
Well, we have very different standards.
And I'm not trying to sound mean,
but your ideas were all over the place.
You sound mean, so work on that.
You had sentences that went on and on,
and so many spelling mistakes.
It's a total mess, and now
I have to rewrite all of it.
You're not gonna believe
what we just found.
We shouldn't talk
about it here. Let's go.
Yeah. So, Raine and
I went to Fee's house.
It was massive. She answered the door.
I thought she seemed nice,
but Raine thought she
was hiding something.
- Ruben's grandma went to jail.
- What?
I was getting to that!
Anyways, we saw a sparkle where
they got their mug shots taken.
And get this. Sofia told
Grandma to keep it quiet.
Then that's the secret your
grandma was keeping for "S".
Yeah.
That's a pretty big clue.
Aren't you gonna write it down?
Huh? Oh, right. Yeah.
[CHEVON] What could they
have been arrested for?
[RUBEN] I have no idea.
Maybe for something really
small, like jaywalking.
[CURTIS] No way. I
totally disagree with you.
Sofia wouldn't tell your
grandma to keep that a secret.
[RUBEN] I don't know. If I
got arrested for jaywalking,
I wouldn't want my mom to find
out, even if I was grown up.
Dude, they weren't jaywalking.
Look, Ruben, I get it.
I don't wanna think of
Grandma as a crook, either,
but we have to face facts.
Huh?
Your ghost is back.
[CHEVON] Grandma's
trying to explain herself.
The same clue, twice?
"Follow the money". Maybe they
robbed a bank or something?
Grandma was not a bank robber.
That would explain Sofia's big house.
Then why didn't Grandma
get any of the money?
Maybe she did. She
just kept it a secret.
She could've hidden it under
a floorboard or something.
Maybe Sofia had some dirt on Grandma
and kept it all in exchange
for not revealing it.
Wow. This is deep.
[BELL JINGLES]
Uh-oh.
- What?
- Don't look now, but Sofia just walked in.
Or should I say inmate number 146658?
[CURTIS] That lady's a criminal?
It's a brilliant disguise.
No one would ever suspect her.
Grandma was really nice,
too. Was that all an act?
- What do we do?
- We confront her.
We know her secret.
Yeah, Ruben, go for it.
- What's the worst that could happen?
- That's not helping!
Oh, Ruben.
I forgot how wonderful this place is.
Ruben?
- I know you lied.
- Excuse me?
You lied about always
getting along with Grandma.
I know you had a big fight.
What? No, we didn't.
I mean, sure, friends have
their disagreements, but we
You and Grandma were arrested.
You went to jail.
This isn't funny.
Oh, I'm sorry.
You know, it's not as
serious as you think.
I didn't want to tell you because
I didn't know how much you knew
and I didn't want to upset you.
But it's true.
Tess and I were pretty wild back then.
Were you bank robbers?
What?
No, of course not.
We were peace activists.
Nonviolently standing up
for what we believed in.
There was a pretty big
war going on back then.
We marched in protest.
- Fee! What a wonderful surprise.
- Ernesto!
[BOTH CHUCKLING]
I see you met Ruben.
- Funny. We were just talking about you.
- What?
Yeah. Odd. Then she
just randomly walked in.
You should have seen Fee and
your grandma back in those days.
Everyone loved to talk
about peace and love,
but these two actually fought for it.
We did. That's why we were arrested.
We organized a sit-in at the
state capitol to protest the war.
But don't worry, charges were dropped.
[GRANDPA] You two were utterly fearless.
It was really inspiring.
Still a smooth talker after
all these years, I see.
Nope. Just honest.
Wait. So, you and Grandma were cool?
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
They were the coolest.
I was
I was so sorry to hear about Tess.
Thank you.
And, you know, I always felt
badly about the way things ended.
So did she.
- She missed you all those years.
- Oh.
What happened? Why did you stop talking?
As silly as it sounds,
it was all over a job.
I was supposed to run
the bookstore with Tess,
but at the last moment, I took a job.
So? You decided to take another job.
It's not that she got another job,
it's who she went to work for.
You see, I went to work
with a real estate developer
and your grandmother thought
that we were running small
stores like this out of business.
- Maybe she was right.
- [SCOFFS]
- We were young. What did we know?
- Yeah.
You needed the money. We did too.
- Yeah.
- We were so broke back then.
Wait. If you were so poor, then
how could you afford this bookstore?
It's one of life's enduring mysteries.
What do you mean?
Out of nowhere, and I mean nowhere,
your grandma got a huge inheritance
from a great aunt she never
met on her mother's side.
- That's right. I forgot all about it.
- Follow the money.
It was, oh, what was it? Um
- Daisy!
- [CHUCKLES]
- Sadie.
- Ah.
Wait!
Is that Sadie with an S?
Not sure how else you would spell it.
Got it. Well, I know you two
have a lot of catching up to do.
It was nice seeing you.
You know, peace.
Did you hear that?
- And a big inheritance from Aunt Sadie.
- Follow the money.
The first "follow the
money" took us to Sofia
and the second "follow the
money" brings us to Sadie.
Your grandma really needs
to give simpler clues.
So, what do you know about your
grandma's side of the family?
Almost nothing.
Don't worry. I just found
this free genealogy website.
We need to look at your family tree.
Great idea. Then maybe we
can find this Aunt Sadie.
And finally solve this mystery.