Them (2021) s01e10 Episode Script

♪
♪
[gasps]
[panting]
- [insects buzzing]
- [birds chirping]
[cattle lowing]
[panting]
♪
[wind chimes tinkling]
[gunshot]
[cattle lowing]
[gasps]
[Mama Cass:
"Dream a Little Dream of Me"]
Stars shining bright
above you ♪
Night breezes seem
to whisper "I love you" ♪
Birds singing
in the sycamore tree ♪
Dream a little dream of me ♪
Say "Nighty night"
and kiss me ♪
Just hold me tight
and tell me you'll miss me ♪
While I'm alone
and blue as can be ♪
Dream a little dream of me ♪
Stars fading,
but I linger on, dear ♪
Still craving your kiss ♪
I'm longing to linger
till dawn, dear ♪
Just saying this ♪♪
[music playing softly]
Okay, princess.
Time to go to the ball.
[exhales] What time is it?
Time to get you prepped.
5cc's Haldol?
C-Can I have some water?
Absolutely. After.
It may not seem like it now,
but there is great freedom
in this gift you're receiving.
Please. Can I at least use
the restroom first?
Please?
I don't want to mess myself.
- [grunts]
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Are we at the ball already?
- Almost, princess.
- [grunts]
[panting]
[Ruby screams]
Fuck.
[coughing]
[panting] I wish you would.
[coughing]
- [Gracie] Daddy!
- [ax clatters]
Stay here.
[Ruby] Daddy.
[Gracie] Daddy!
[gunshot]
You crazy fucking coon!
Hey!
He fucking killed Earl
Oh. [grunts]
This fucking pickaninny
killed Earl!
Aah!
[Marty groaning]
[both grunt]
Turn your ass over.
[Marty groaning]
[indistinct chatter]
- [woman] He's got a gun.
- [Marty] Motherfucker.
[woman] Get out here.
Who's your buck now? Hmm?
- [groans]
- [man] Hey, leave him alone.
[shouts]
Oh, God
You, you fucking ape!
[car approaching]
[speaking indistinctly]
[Marty] I got a kid on the way,
you fucking coon.
You didn't give a shit
when they were mine, huh?
[Marty groaning]
[door opens]
[Nat] You get away from him!
Marty! Baby
[whimpers]
- What'd you do?
- Tell her to shut the fuck up.
[crying]
It's-it's o It's okay, baby.
- It's okay.
- I'm-I'm okay, baby.
[Nat] I'm-I'm gonna call
the police.
Go on. Do it.
And your man right here gonna
get a bullet in his head.
You dirty nigger!
[heart beating]
Ooh
[laughs]
[Marty] No, n-no.
No, no, no, no.
Please, please don't.
No, no, no. Please.
Want to feel what
it's like to lose a child?
[laughing]
Real tough, huh, buck?
- [laughs]
- No, no
[screams]
[laughing]
- Hands up!
- Hey!
[man] Look at me
- when I'm talking to you.
- [screams]
- [cackles]
- [Ruby] Daddy?
Daddy?
[neighbors murmuring]
Take your sister to your room.
[siren wailing]
[woman shouts]
[neighbors murmuring]
[siren wailing]
[panting]
- Stay right here.
- Don't leave me.
- I'm going to get Daddy.
- Well, what if Miss Vera
Miss Vera's not real, Gracie.
But I saw her. Mama said she
Mama's not here!
She's not real, Gracie.
Say it. She's not real.
She's not real.
Now stay here
and close your eyes
and don't open them
till I get back. Promise?
Promise.
[neighbors chattering
indistinctly]
Ruby.
[door thumping]
Ruby.
[distorted] Ruby.
Ruby.
[distant clapping]
[cheerleaders] goes down
and the moon comes up,
our boys will shine.
[children] I pledge allegiance
to the flag
of the United States of America.
And to the republic
for which it stands
[cheerleaders] Our boys
will shine.
Our boys will shine tonight.
All down the line.
When the sun goes down
and the moon comes up,
our boys will shine.
Our boys will shine tonight,
our boys will shine.
Our boys will shine tonight.
[children]
one nation indivisible,
with liberty
and justice for all.
[distant laughter]
[cheerleaders] When the sun
goes down and the moon comes up,
our boys will shine.
Our boys will shine tonight,
our boys will shine.
[children laughing]
[screams]
[doorknob jiggling]
[electricity buzzing]
Girls.
♪
Ruby Lee.
Gracie Jean.
♪
Lobby ♪
Let's all go to the lobby ♪
Let's all go
to the lobby ♪
To get ourselves a treat ♪
Delicious things to eat ♪
The popcorn can't be beat ♪
The sparkling drinks
are just dandy ♪
The chocolate bars
and the candy ♪
So let's all go to the lobby ♪
To get ourselves a treat ♪
Let's all go to the lobby ♪
To get ourselves a treat ♪♪
[applause]
[panting]
[Al Jolson: "Camptown Races"]
[laughter]
De Camptown ladies
sing dis song ♪
Doo-dah, doo-dah ♪
De Camptown racetrack's
five miles long ♪
Oh, doo-dah, day ♪
I come down dah
wid my hat caved in ♪
Doo-dah, doo-dah ♪
I'll go back home
wid a pocketful of tin ♪
Oh, doo-dah, day ♪
Gwine to run all night,
gwine to run all day ♪
I'll bet my money
on de bobtail nag ♪
Somebody bet on de bay ♪
De longtail filly
and de big black hoss ♪
Doo-dah, doo-dah
[Tap Dance Man] Ooh
We just loves us a picture show,
don't we, Mr. Henry?
Hmm? No?
[exhales]
Safer up here, I suppose,
than outside
with them scheming ofays,
the rascals.
[laughs]
Where are they?
Where who?
My girls, nigger.
You touch one hair on
their heads, I swear to God
What I want with them girls
and their pretty little heads?
Of course, I reckon
you done already seen
a world of hurt,
far as chilluns is concerned
Oh.
- Oh.
- Tell me where they are.
[laughs]
Tell me.
If you want to see 'em,
all you gots to do is look
with your own two eyes.
♪
[laughter]
[Amiri Baraka:
"Who Will Survive America?"]
Who will survive America? ♪
Few Americans ♪
Very few Negroes
and no crackers at all ♪
Who will survive America? ♪
Few Americans ♪
Very few Negroes
and no crackers at all ♪
Who will survive America? ♪
Very few Negroes,
no crackers at all ♪
Who will survive America? ♪
Very few Negroes,
no crackers at all ♪
Will you survive America
with your 20-cent habit? ♪
Yo, four-bag Jones,
will you survive ♪
In the heat and fire
of actual change? ♪
- I doubt it ♪
- Very few Negroes ♪
No crackers at all ♪
Will you survive, woman,
or will your nylon wig ♪
Catch afire at midnight
and light up Stirling Street ♪
And your ass-prints
on the pavement? ♪
Grease was melting
in this brother's eyes ♪
His profile was shot up
by a simba ♪
Thinking who was coming
around the corner ♪
Was really Tony Curtis
and not a misguided brother ♪
Got his mind hanging out
with Italians ♪
Very few Negroes,
no crackers at all ♪
Who will survive America? ♪
The Black future will
[Lucky screaming]
Scraping nickels out the
inside of nigger daydreams ♪
Few Americans,
very few Negroes ♪
Maybe no red Negroes at all ♪
- Who will survive America? ♪
- Who will survive America? ♪
Who will survive America? ♪
Very few Negroes,
no crackers at all ♪
The stiff-backed chalk-lady
Baptist in blue lace ♪
If she shrinks from blackness
in front of the church ♪
Following the wedding
of the yellow robots ♪
Will not survive ♪
She's old anyway ♪
And they're moving
her church in the wind ♪
Old people? No ♪
Christians? No ♪
First Negroes to be
invisible to truth ♪
1944, Minnesota? No, no ♪
Nothing of that
will be anywhere ♪
It will be burned clean ♪♪
[Tap Dance Man] Poor,
poor Mr. Henry.
I says it before
and I'll say it again.
Don't never seem to be
in the right place
at the right time.
Not at boss man Berks',
not even in your own home
when them ofays come
and strang you clear up
to the ceiling.
But you was that day, I reckon.
[laughs] Ooh, Lord,
you was that day.
Poor Miss Lucky, she just
wanted him to stay a while
and enjoy the morning
with their girls and that sweet
little boy-child.
But Mr. Henry had his mind
all made up.
[laughs] He wanted to take
his gals to the picture show,
get him some of that
Mr. Monroe's good old
greasy kernel corn
before it all got ate.
So, that day,
he left an hour early.
One
hour
early.
Mr. Henry was finally gonna be
in the right place
at the right time.
Ooh-wee, Mr. Henry.
I think you really
gonna like this picture.
♪
[applause]
[woman] Oh, beautiful day.
[cheering]
[Lucky] Yes. Yes, it is.
Thought we were friends.
Fuck off back to hell, devil.
Why do you think we met,
Ruby Lee?
Why do you think I chose you?
Because I know.
Know who you want to be.
Who you don't.
[Ruby] She had a gun. Outside.
- [screams]
- Everybody saw her.
It was embarrassing.
[Doris] What do you want?
[Ruby] I don't want
to be like them anymore.
I don't want to be ugly.
- [gasps] - [Ruby] We'll
never be like Mama.
[Ruby and Gracie] We'll
never be like Mama.
- Stop.
- But it's too late for you, Ruby.
You already are just
[distorted]
like her.
Kept your baby brother in a box.
[Epps' voice] The sow.
[crowd shouting, jeering]
Burn their fucking house down!
- Fuck you, nigger!
- You shouldn't be here!
No!
[Clarke] What the fuck
were you two doing
- in the Emorys' basement, Marty?
- [Marty] Teaching that family
of apes that this place is ours.
- [gun cocks]
- Marty!
Shut up, bitch!
Protecting what
our fathers built.
And you, treating what we earned
as a gift
instead of a birthright.
You know who said that?
Your wife.
I wouldn't waste a bullet
on a fucking traitor.
Faggot.
[gun clicking]
[screaming]
[wailing]
My fucking leg
♪
♪
[man] You got a surprise
coming to you, boy.
- [woman] You don't belong here.
- [Carol Lynn] You Black bitch!
I should've known the day
you came at my boy.
Betty was right
about you people.
- She knew.
- She knew.
- What'd you do to Betty, huh?
- Murderer!
- Fucking animals!
- This is our home!
You never should have come here!
What did you do to Betty?
You don't belong here.
This is our home.
Go back to where you came from!
[screaming]
[woman] In the beginning
- In the beginning
- God created
- God created
- the heaven and the Earth.
The heaven and the Earth.
- And God said
- And God said,
"Let there be light."
- And there was light.
- [screaming]
- And there was light.
- And God said
And God said,
"Let the water be gathered
- unto a firmament.
- Unto a firmament.
- And let the dry land appear."
- And let the dry land appear."
And God called the dry land
- Earth.
- My country, 'tis of thee ♪
Sweet land of liberty ♪
Of thee I sing ♪
Land where my fathers died ♪
Land of the pilgrims' pride ♪♪
Girls?
[Gracie cries out]
- [Miss Vera] What need have you for the book?
- [pained cry]
Miss Vera!
Mama?
Not today, bitch.
[shrieking]
Mama!
And one day
I'll be a teacher,
just like Mama.
I have the smartest little girl
sitting right here,
so this teacher's doing
just fine.
- [Lucky gasping]
- [Miss Vera growling]
You'll never be like Mama!
[gasping]
[grunts]
You'll never be
like Mama. [grunting]
[hyperventilating]
Are you really back, Mama?
I'm back, baby.
Mama's back.
I'm back.
[Epps' voice] While
your daddy was
at the picture show that day
your mama had other plans.
Clean the laundry
Clean the child.
I had to, Ruby Lee.
Before the picture was over
Clean him good.
Before we got home
[distorted]
Now I'm going to clean you, too.
[Ruby gasps]
[Ruby crying]
[slashing]
[Lucky] Ruby Lee.
Ruby Lee.
- Ruby Lee.
- [breathing erratically]
Ruby Lee?
My Ruby.
It's all right, baby.
It's all right, baby.
It's all right.
[gasps]
What happened that day
to your brother
to me
That's not something
you ever need to know about.
But you must know this.
I would never, ever hurt you,
Ruby Lee.
I would never, ever hurt you.
Don't you know that?
[sobbing]
Why are you my Ruby?
- Because I sparkle.
- That's right.
I'm so sorry, Mama.
[sobbing]
Nothing to be sorry for.
Nothing. You hear me?
Nothing.
Nothing.
It's okay. It's okay.
It's okay.
[woman] [on screen] Oh,
is that your baby?
[Lucky] [on screen] Yes.
Yes, he is.
[woman] What's his name?
I said wh what's his name?
[Lucky] Chester.
You're gonna want
to pay attention here,
Mr. Henry.
I can't.
Sit down, nigger!
- [woman] Will you give him to me?
- [Lucky] Go on.
Go!
[woman] I'm right here.
This here is the best part.
[woman] I'm right here.
[man whistling on screen]
[Lucky straining]
[gasping, crying]
[crying out, sobbing]
[Lucky] No! No!
[Tap Dance Man] Why they do you
like that, Mr. Henry?
- [Lucky crying]
- [man moaning]
These crackers just take
and take and take
like it's all theirs.
Like it's all for them.
- [Lucky screaming]
- [man moaning]
Take your missus,
take your child ♪
Take your work,
take your home ♪♪
[laughing]
When they gonna stop
taking from you,
Mr. Henry?
[inaudible]
They won't.
[Tap Dance Man] That's right,
they won't.
They start with your pinkie.
No telling where they gonna end.
I only got one bullet left.
You don't need no bullets.
[breathing heavily]
[Tap Dance Man] Couldn't
protect your missus
or your boy-child that day.
But you sure can protect
your family now.
[siren approaching]
So go out there
go out there
with your bare hands,
and show them crackers
what they came here to see.
A beast.
[roars]
A beast of the field.
[roars]
A beast. [roars]
A beast of the field.
[roars]
A beast of the field.
[roars]
A beast of the field.
A beast of the field.
Whatcha gon' do? ♪
Beast of the field.
Beast of the field.
- Whatcha gon' do? ♪
- Beast of the field.
Beast of the field.
You take.
And take.
Take.
Take
and take.
Take
and take.
Take.
- [Lucky] Henry.
- And take.
[breath trembling]
[softly] Luck.
I should've
- I should've been there.
- Shh
I should've been there, Luck.
Couldn't have known, Henry.
We couldn't have known.
I'm sorry.
[exhales]
I just wanted
to make it all right.
The job.
The house.
I know it.
We all know it.
Got two little girls out there
who need their daddy.
I need you.
We got this, Henry.
We got this, Luck.
♪
[Tap Dance Man] Whatcha
gon' do? ♪
Whatcha gon' do? ♪
Whatcha gon' do? ♪
[chuckles] Whatcha gon' do? ♪
Whatcha gon' do? ♪♪
[Lucky screams]
[David McCallum: "The Edge"]
You ain't me.
And you ain't never gonna be me.
[laughing]
[laughing dies away]
♪
[crowd clamoring]
I'll go out there first.
Bring the girls out behind you.
I don't want you to go, Daddy.
Hey.
I'll be all right, baby girl.
Okay?
We all gonna be just fine.
What happened to us?
What if they come back?
They are never
coming back, okay?
What about them?
[Lucky] We're not running
from them.
We're not running
from anyone anymore.
[Epps] Lucky.
[flames crackling]
[Epps] Sow.
No more running.
[Gracie] Mama?
Luck.
No more running.
Luck.
It's not over, Henry.
♪
Why have you come here?
Not your concern, devil.
What is
is that I'm here now.
[Epps] Your trespass upset
the order of things.
God intended
our community stay pure
of intention
of purpose
of blood.
Who gave you the right?
The Lord Himself.
As it is written, your vile,
indolent race suffer,
toil at our hands.
Not in any book I've read.
Spiteful beast.
Have you considered
this shall
not end?
That your curse follows you?
Followed you here to our land.
And will follow you
without escape
into the next.
You had a covenant.
A most sacred bond
that you failed to uphold.
You failed him
on that day.
I, too
know this pain.
The loss of a child.
Of one's dear
sweet boy.
And the hole it leaves.
A hole
[Chester crying]
we must inhabit.
[gasping]
[Lucky sobbing]
- [Chester cries]
- [Lucky shushes]
The gift
I offer you
is one I was not blessed
to receive.
Leave your suffering.
Out there
- will only ever be
- My baby.
A torment to you.
Pain.
But here
with him
be as if new.
My baby.
[Epps] Yes.
Your baby.
My boy.
[sobbing]
I'm right here.
I'm right here.
♪
I'm right here.
I'm right here.
I'm right here.
I'm right here.
My boy is gone.
You lost your boy?
Huh?
Well, that's where
our similarity ends, devil.
All this time you've spent
trying to blind me.
Us.
Stop us from seeing ourselves.
Well, I'm right here,
motherfucker.
And I see you.
And I see you.
[gasps]
[Epps whimpering]
I see you.
[Epps groaning]
I see you!
[whimpering]
I see you.
♪
[Epps groaning]
[Nina Simone: "Young, Gifted and
Black"] Young, gifted and Black ♪
Oh, what a lovely ♪
Precious dream ♪
To be young ♪
Gifted and Black ♪
Open your heart ♪
To what I mean ♪
In the whole ♪
World you know ♪
There's a million boys ♪
And girls ♪
Who are young,
gifted and Black ♪
And that's a fact ♪
You are young,
gifted and Black ♪
We must begin to tell ♪
Our young ♪
There's a world waiting
for you ♪
Yours is the quest ♪
That's just begun ♪
When you feelin' really low ♪
Yeah, there's a great truth ♪
That you should know ♪
When you're young ♪
Gifted and Black ♪
Your soul's intact ♪
How to be young ♪
Gifted and Black ♪
Oh, how I long ♪
To know the truth ♪
There are times ♪
When I look back ♪
And I am haunted ♪
By my youth ♪
Oh, but my joy ♪
Of today ♪
Is that we can all be proud ♪
To say to be young ♪
Gifted and Black ♪
Is where it's at ♪
Is where it's at,
is where it's ♪
At ♪♪
[song ends]