Enlightened s02e04 Episode Script

They're shutting us down.
What do you mean? Cogentiva is folding.
If there ever was an evil empire, Abaddon's it, and that CEO is, like, a classic Darth Vader.
Is there any way you could get into Szidon's accounts? I-I think we can.
I mean, Tyler's a passcode that can get into anybody's work account.
You're right, they're dumping us.
Even Dougie.
They think he's a joke.
We have a security issue.
Some of the guys from IT are gonna need to get on everybody's computers for a few minutes.
I took your hard drive, and I put it on someone else's computer, I was just fired! And when I asked them why, they said that I hacked they system or something, This place is going to shit.
"The Atlantic"? We don't read this.
You're trying to impress your date.
Oh, Mom, it's not a date, except he's from the "LA Times," and he's an influential journalist, OK, that went to Princeton and has, like, lived all over the world.
This Shit.
You are trying to impress him, and it is the date.
I'm not bringing him in, OK? Have a great night.
Hi.
Here.
We're oh.
Hello.
Oh.
Jeff, this is my mom Helen.
- Hey.
- Hi.
Nice to meet you.
Why, Amy tells me that you write for a newspaper.
Yes.
And you're very influential, she says.
Oh, well, I don't That's nice.
I don't know about that.
What is your ancestry, Jeffrey? Mostly Irish on my mother's side.
My father was Jewish.
Jewish? Oh, and Irish.
Well, you know, Amy has a lot of Irish in her.
- Yeah.
- So you two have that in common.
Of course, the Irish do drink a lot.
Although, nobody could be a bigger drinker than her ex-husband.
OK.
We're going to go.
Bye, Mom.
- OK.
Bye.
- Jeffrey Nice to meet you.
You two have fun and just enjoy yourselves, OK? Sweet.
Thank you.
Bye.
- Bye-bye.
- Good night.
So hey, thanks for coming all this way out.
Oh, yeah.
How's that search going for Szidon? Well, cool, but I feel like the more information you can give me, the easier it's going to be for me to get you the right stuff, you know? So your ex-husband's a big drinker.
Hey, I had to ask.
- Thanks, Mom.
- Oh, come on.
Yeah, he is He's, yeah, full-on alcoholic and coke addict.
He's in treatment now, but Excuse me.
Are you Jeff Flender? Yeah.
We're so entranced with what you did.
Dude, you're a national treasure.
Thanks a lot.
I appreciate it.
We really need more voices like yours out here.
- Oh, thank you.
- Sorry to interrupt.
Oh, no.
No problem, you guys.
Enjoy your dinner.
Good night.
They recognize you, like, from your articles and stuff? I don't know, maybe from my blog.
I also have, like, 30,000 followers on Twitter, so Wow.
That's amazing.
Yeah, it's one of the cool things about new media.
I just wrote this article on this woman.
She's just a librarian, and she managed to start these huge corporate boycotts blogging and tweeting from a Starbucks in Monrovia.
Now she's got a $100,000 grant coming from the Gates Foundation.
I'd love to meet her.
That's incredible.
You should come to this event.
She'll be speaking there.
- Really? - Yeah.
I have to say, I feel like technology is cutting us off from each other, you know, like no human connection, just like we're all these zombies staring at our phones.
Oh, I don't know.
I think it's bringing us together.
With social media being so influential, anybody, even the nobody like you, can speak truth to power, and power finally has to listen.
Take the FDA, for example.
They have this drug.
Everybody knows it caused birth defects, and they're rolling it out This is it.
This is the angel sent to you from the other world the world where things happen and life is rich and full not like this one small and dumb and mean.
Follow this angel to the other world.
He can lead you and give you knowledge and the strength When that happens, we will effectively have ceased to be a free enterprise asylum.
and fight the darkness all around you.
We are on a path where our lives will be ruled by boards and bureaucrats, by commissions and so on.
We all know where that path leads.
We have found these financiers to be extravagant, and our employees are more - Charles Szidon.
- Yes? I was just watching your speech - at the TED conference last night.
- Oh.
Yeah.
You were talking about government and corporate partnerships.
- Very provocative.
- Well, thank you.
Yeah.
It's quite an influence you have, right, I mean, real platform.
- And you are? - Nobody.
Just a girl who's worked here for 15 years.
I'm Amy Jellico.
Then you're not nobody to me.
Nice to meet you, Amy.
We'll see each other again, I'm sure.
I'm sure we will.
I just saw Darth Vader in the lobby.
I went right up to him and introduced myself.
Why would you do that? Because I wanted to look the enemy right in the eye.
Are we trying to be low profile here? I mean, it's not very stealth.
You guys sure whisper a lot.
What are you guys whispering about all the time? Uh, "American Idol.
" Yeah.
"American Idol"? Pretty good last night.
You're still upset about Omar? I mean, I know he was your friend.
Yeah, I'm still upset! There may have been a hacker down here, but it wasn't fucking Omar, OK? I know my people, and they're going to be eating humble fucking turds when they realize that they fucked up and that I was right and they were wrong.
Then they'll know not to muck around in my domain, and that's what this is my domain, OK, all this shit.
So did you have any luck getting into the account or anything? No, no, no.
I mean, if I'm going to go back Can we please talk about this later? Sure.
OK.
Oh, Tyler, are you on Facebook or Twitter or No.
Well, we need to get on there.
What the fuck are you guys whispering about? Twitter.
Are you on Twitter, Dougie? Will you get back to work, pretty fucking please? Show some fucking respect, OK? Hey, Louis Yeah? Are you on Twitter? Do I look like I'm on Twitter? Hmm Hi, Connie.
I'm on Twitter.
So? So I know you're on there too, and I'm following you, so you can follow me back.
Oh, I don't go on there very much.
It's a big time suck.
But, I mean, like, I don't go on and, like, tell everybody what I've had for breakfast and stuff.
I'm going on to spread information about, like, important things in the world, you know, like the Middle East.
I just follow my church group and our minister and Well, follow me, all right? OK, yeah.
I'll follow you.
OK, great, and you could have said that first.
Here, take this.
So, yeah, we'll do that, OK? And then the baby is open to all these new foods.
It's like Hey, you guys.
Hi.
I just wanted to come by and see how you were doing.
Oh, thank you.
I tried texting, but I didn't get a response.
Oh, I don't even know where my phone is.
Isn't that it? Oh, yeah.
There it is.
I guess I didn't see it behind my flowers.
I Yeah.
So how are you feeling? I'm OK.
You know, I'm I think it's just going to be two more weeks of boredom.
Right.
Hi, Janis.
Hi, Amy.
Hey, are you on Twitter? Am I on Twitter? Yeah.
I'm on Twitter, and, like, maybe we could follow each other.
OK, great.
I'm going to give you guys just a minute.
Oh, no.
You don't have to do that.
No, I do.
I have to go.
I have to check on my car because I had some cash that was very visible.
I don't want anyone to break my window in my car.
Be back.
Get a little time.
Where's your partner in crime? Amy.
Where's Amy? Oh, she's at lunch.
She's visiting a friend in the hospital.
Look, she's a fucked-up chick, OK, and if she's got you in over your head on something, it's best just to come clean, OK? I got a lot of sway here, so I can vouch for you, but you just got to be honest with me.
I'm being I'm being honest.
OK.
I gave you a chance.
Listen, I'm going to be here late tonight, and I might need to get on your computer Amy's, too so if you have a code for the operating system, just leave it open, OK, bud? Oh, sure.
This is so exciting.
In two weeks, you will have given birth to a new life.
I know.
Maybe I will have given birth to something, too.
What are you going to give birth to? I'm working on something, and it's not a life, but it's meaningful and complicated, and I will have made it, and just like a child, it'll have a life of its own, too.
Wow.
What is it? I can't really talk to you about it.
OK.
I'm sorry.
No, no.
That's OK.
Uh Hey.
What's going on? - Dougie fucking knows.
- What? He knows what? He's staying after work to get on our computers, and he's going to find out we switched your hard drive with Omar's.
I think we should just come clean.
It's just a matter of time.
Look, when we have to tell him, then we're going to tell him the truth.
We're going to show him the e-mails.
When he realizes he doesn't have a job here, he's not going to care what we did.
This is what you're going to do.
After work, you'll go back into the system, and you'll find more e-mails that'll turn him.
Me? What about you? Well, I told Jeff that I'd go to this event after work.
Are you serious? Tyler, you are so much better at this hacking shit than me.
It's going to be OK.
Just stay calm.
It's all Wow, beautiful house.
Thank you.
Hi.
I'm Laurie David, and I want to thank everybody for coming.
I'd also like to thank Bob and Stacey for opening up this beautiful home for us this evening.
Thank you.
If you know Roberta like I do, you know she's a soft-spoken, demure, and extremely humble human being, but don't be fooled.
She's actually an indomitable force of nature.
It is my pleasure, my privilege, and my honor to introduce to you Roberta Jackson.
Thanks so much.
Thank you.
Thank you so much, Laurie.
I'm so moved, and my heart is so full.
Right now across this country, there are millions of people sitting at their computers, and from where I stand, these people are soldiers in a global army that could be mobilized to do miraculous things.
Our computers connect us in ways we've never been connected before, and in those connections, we find solidarity, information, hope, enlightenment.
The Web can be such a source of good.
We can now defeat tyranny in a virtual space, the cyber-revolution.
Now, I had no fancy background.
I had no connections.
I had no college degree, but I have to say, in all humility, I have made a difference for good, and I have seen hope manifest.
I have seen a world that can heal and fix itself.
Follow me to this world.
It is just a click of a few buttons on a keyboard away.
Thank you so much.
Ha ha ha! Yeah.
It is.
Yeah.
Sure.
Really.
Excuse me.
I wanted to say I mean, I'm just Oh, I don't have words.
I'm just so happy to meet you.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
I mean, what you could do from a computer in Monrovia oh, my gosh just, like, using the Internet and Twittering and all that's you know, all of it, just the Roberta Hi.
Hi.
How are you? Come over this way for a second.
Let me introduce you to Lisa Lange from PETA.
PETA! Hi.
How are you? Very nice to meet you.
Simone Reyes, animal rights activist, as well, that works with Russell Simmons.
Oh, my goodness, nice to meet you.
What a wonderful speech.
We were riveted.
Oh, my goodness, thank you.
I'm such a fan of Russell Simmons.
Horizon on energy policies.
If there's not a story there, I'd be shocked.
Make sure I get your e-mail, all right? Yeah.
- Oh, Amy.
- Hey! Hey, how you doing? I saw you across the room there.
I know.
Me, too.
Wasn't that amazing, you guys? Oh, my gosh, what an inspirational person.
I was, like, fucking crying.
Amy, these are my friends.
Michele Roan Collin.
She's with Lift.
It's anti-poverty movement.
This is Vince Duffy, writes speeches for the governor.
Pleasure.
And these are the Zekalises Rebecca and Josh.
- Hi.
- They made "The Big Fix," - the documentary on the BP oil spills.
- Oh.
- This is Amy Jellicoe.
- Oh, my gosh.
The new world.
This is it.
I am a stranger here, but I'll learn its language and read its signs.
I will be welcomed.
This will be my home.
- Hey, I know you.
- You do? Yeah, you live in Riverside, don't you? Yeah.
Yeah.
I sometimes work at Chili's.
I've served you a few times.
Oh, great.
Yeah, cool.
It's so random to see you here.
So I got a book, and she did sign it.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
She signed it, I think, right here.
Oh, here.
I'll take that.
- Oh, thank you.
- There you go.
Thanks.
There's mine.
Thanks.
Thank you so much for inviting me.
Oh, sure.
I'm really glad you came.
You have no idea how much I needed this.
Yeah, cool.
What an inspiration, and the Charles Szidon thing, we are going to nail this guy.
There's a little hiccup.
I have this idiot boss who's just breathing down my neck and just, you know, on me, but I am on this in, you know, such a big way.
- Oh, that's great, Amy.
- Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Just keep me posted.
I will.
You know I will.
Good.
Yeah.
OK.
Oh, is this yours? Yeah.
All right.
- Hey, let's talk soon.
- OK.
OK.
Good night.
- Good night.
- Bye.
OK.
OK.
This was amazing, totally great.
Bye.
Well, if you wanted e-mails that will turn Dougie, I found them.
They call him joke, incompetent, a dirt bag.
Oh, my God, Tyler, this is great.
Yeah, and they say he's cheesy.
They make fun of his hair.
Tyler, great job.
Amy, Tyler, can I see you in my office? Have a seat.
So I went on your computer last night, and I know what you did.
I don't know what you're up to, but I know it wasn't Omar.
It was you, and I can prove it, and I know you fucking helped her.
- There's no way a tech retard like her - Hey could hack into the system and switch hard drives and all that.
Uh-uh.
No, you both are fucked.
Is there anything you want to say before I head up to HR? Actually, Dougie, yes.
There are a lot of things that I Well, I don't want to hear it.
What, did you think I wasn't going to figure this shit out? Amy, did you think I'm a fucking fool or I'm stupid? Well, guess what? You both can kick rocks.
What? Oh, holy fuck, where are the e-mails? They're on my desk.
Come on.
Give it.
Uh Dougie, before you go up there, please just read through these.
Please.
Hey, before you You know what? Before we have you go upstairs, just take a minute to read more of these.
- They're shutting down Cogentiva? - I know.
I know.
And we're all getting fucking dumped.
And they didn't consult you.
- No, they didn't fucking consult me! - Right.
They think I'm a fucking dirt bag.
Right.
Just relationship.
Let's just go outside for a second.
No.
Come on.
Come here.
Now just be cool.
Are you kidding me? They really don't respect you, do they? What's wrong with my fucking hair, huh? I think it looks great, and I don't think you're incompetent.
I mean, you're competent.
Come on.
Fuck this.
Fuck you.
This whole time I was working here, I thought I had some power.
I thought I was somebody.
I don't have shit.
That's not true.
You still have power.
No, I don't.
They think I'm a fucking joke.
I know how you feel.
This company is evil.
That's why I hacked into the system.
I'm trying to take them down.
Help me.
Look, we give them the best years of our lives, and they treat us like dogs? They mock us? They ridicule us? What's the point of loyalty, huh? Dougie, they called you a dirt bag.
Let's fucking turn the tables on them.
Close the door.
I'm in.
You want a good hacker, well, I'm the best there is.
I can get you anything you fucking need.
They didn't make a VP of operating systems for nothing, despite what you might have read.
This is amazing, Dougie.
This is so amazing, and it's not just about revenge, OK? Like, we're really going to do something good here - by exposing Abaddon.
- No.
I don't care.
I don't give a shit about any of that.
I just want to fuck these guys.
I want to fuck this whole company.
I mean, what have I got to lose? They're just going to fire my ass anyway, right? You know, I've always been more of a rebel at heart.
I never really learned how to work the system.
Well, that makes two of us.
Yeah.
Ah Oh Oh Yeah? Hey, I have such exciting news, I had to share it.
My boss is in.
He's totally going to help us.
He's going to help us get the information - we need on Szidon, everything.
- Really? There is a mutiny brewing.
This is so amazing.
It's incredible, Amy, really.
That's great, but listen, I'm going to have to call you back, OK? The article I wrote on Roberta, it just landed, and the "Huffington Post" picked it up.
So it's going nuts around here.
Yeah.
No problem.
Do you mind if I call you back? Oh, my gosh, I was just so excited.
You know, it's a big deal, but it's totally cool.
In fact, I'll find the link and re-tweet it because I joined Twitter yesterday.
- You should follow me.
- OK.
I will.
I'll call you later.
Bye.
I have joined the new world.
I learn its language, clicking and flashing and pinging.
I read its signs electric, invisible.
In this world, the meek like me will finally rise, and the confused will become certain, and the powerful will be laid low Oh! Oh, my and we will all unite in a single current of compassion and action.
The new world, it is so close you can hear its angels buzzing.
It is here.
Follow me.
Follow me.