Doom Patrol (2019) s02e05 Episode Script

1
Life is but a dream ♪
It's what you make it ♪
Here we go. Better
late than never, right?
You know, I had this whole plan laid out
in case you asked me out again.
I was gonna be all sweet and be like,
"Sure, I'd love to".
- [CHUCKLES]
- And then ditch your ass.
Okay, so what happened?
- You asked.
- [CHUCKLES]
From now on
From now on, let's just ease up.
Let's just see where this thing goes.
I like that.
- Great.
- [WHIRRING]
Let's do it.
Let's see where this thing goes.
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
Oh, you got a little
schmutz right there
[GRID] Lethal engagement mode activated.
Grid, wait, wait.
This is fun. I'm glad we did this.
Grid, Grid, Grid, no, stop.
Grid, stop. No, no, no
[GASPS] Oh, Roni.
[PANTING]
What the hell, man?
Sorry to disturb your night terror.
It wasn't a night terror.
Spooky wet dream, then. Whatever.
You seen a videotape?
It was in my room.
No.
Why? What was on it?
The Chief confessing to all the
horrific shit he's put me through.
[MOANING IN PLEASURE]
Whoa!
Guess that's the new
normal around here. Hmm.
[MOANING CONTINUES]
Uh, excuse me.
Did either of you come across a tape?
It's good to be here,
with you again, Jane.
Like old times.
It's not like old times.
It can never be like old times.
The stuff that Josh
Clay gave me is gone.
Really gone.
Are you experiencing
any withdrawal symptoms?
Is being a pathetic piece of
shit a withdrawal symptom?
I could see it running out
when I wasn't obliterated
out of my fucking mind.
I thought about what I would do next.
What else could I shoot
up or snort to just
I'm the only one who can
be primary and I fucked up.
They're all angry at me.
- You did what you needed.
- Fuck what I need.
It's not about me. It's about her.
We could start over.
Why don't we begin with drawing out
a new map of the Underground?
Get a proper lay of the land,
and figure out each
persona's wants and needs.
[CRYING]
Baby Doll.
Oh, my God. Go away!
You're a bad man and a liar!
My darling, you are the last person
in the entire world that
I would ever want to hurt.
But you're right. I'm bad
and selfish
and I'm sorry.
If you'd give me a chance,
I'd try and be better.
[SOBBING]
- I hate you.
- Oh, my poor, poor thing.
[BABY DOLL SOBBING]
Everything hurts. My My face hurts,
and my throat hurts,
and my head feels like bees.
I feel so I feel so lonely.
And I'm already lonely
all the time. [CRYING]
There must be something I can
do to make those tears go away.
[WHINING]
Baby Doll.
This is Dorothy.
I love your pigtails.
I like yours.
Is this your room?
Oh, my gosh.
Everything is so pretty
and so fluffy!
- I'm sorry, um
- It's okay.
You can play with him if you like.
- What's his name?
- Constable Cork.
And this is Mallory.
Wow.
This is Frank and Ramona.
They're married.
[BABY DOLL CHUCKLES]
[MAN OVER PA] Attention, shoppers.
Don't miss our in-store
special on fertilizer.
Check out aisle five and stock up today.
Excuse me.
I'm looking for a Mickey Harris.
You found her. How can I help?
Oh, well, actually,
I'm here to help you.
This article says
the Cloverton Community
Players are holding auditions,
and we should contact the director.
[SCOFFS] Writer-director.
I beg your pardon?
I'm the writer and the director
for the Cloverton Community
Players, and this paper's old.
- Auditions were yesterday.
- Ah!
Well, Miss Harris, I can see
that you're a busy person,
what with your writing and
directing and assistant-managing.
I would never dream
of wasting your time.
Trust me, this will
be more than worth it.
Okay, let's go.
Let's go.
Here?
On aisle three?
I assume you've prepared a monologue.
Of course.
[EXHALES]
I can't bear it.
They're so young and beautiful.
Why did they ever have to get old?
Mama, I'm here.
I'm grown-up.
[MOANING]
[BABY CRYING]
Mama.
Just look at me.
[OBJECT BREAKS]
One minute
- [MAN OVER PA] Clean-up on aisle five.
- like you really saw me.
[BABY CONTINUES CRYING]
I'm sorry. Sorry,
could we just try again?
- [MAN OVER PA] Mickey, price check, aisle six.
- That's me, hon.
[SIGHS]
I think we're good.
Rita '84.
Battle of the Network Stars.
Hmm, Jane/Mama Pentecost
Where the fuck is that dumb,
shit-ass fucking tape?
The fuck?
[NILES] Looking for something?
- What the hell is all this?
- Possible upgrades,
brainstorms, I'm not entirely sure yet.
Upgrades? For me?
Like Cyborg type of shit?
Well, it was a thought, yes,
but what Victor Stone has
isn't what Cliff Steele needs.
How would you feel about regaining
more human aspects of your body?
Which human aspects?
I'd like to give you
a somatosensory system.
A sense of touch.
And this psycho shit's your idea
for me to become more human?
No. God, no.
That sketch, all of those
sketches are just musings.
Bad ideas, excrement that I have to
pass before I can hopefully
lay the golden egg.
Is this just a trick?
Trying to buy some time
off from me hating you,
or can you really pull this off?
Because false hope is the
last thing I need, Chief.
After everything we've been through,
I think we're past tricks.
But I do need to ask for your patience.
To see this to fruition will take years.
Decades, maybe.
[CLIFF] Do you even have decades?
Right. Patience.
[RITA] What are you up to?
Are you ordering food?
Can I see a menu?
[LARRY] I just made a
date to see my son, Paul.
Sounds promising.
We're going to clean
out my dead son's house.
Sounds unnerving.
He's trying to get
rid of it and move on.
I figured helping him
is the least I could do.
When he asked who was
calling, I said Larry Trainor.
I didn't know what else to say.
At least you said something.
All thing considered, you're
having a far better day than me.
You auditioned.
My mouth opened. Words came out.
But I don't know if
I'd call it an audition
any more than I'd call myself an actor.
How about you make that drink to go?
[DOROTHY] Cliff.
Hi, Cliffie.
[BABY DOLL LAUGHS]
How are you, Cliff?
[CLIFF] Top shelf.
So are you two running buddies now?
Two little masters of disaster? Nice.
Yes, siree. We're very close friends.
[BOTH GIGGLING]
- Hey.
- [GIRLS SQUEALING]
[CLIFF] Those two are
just cuter than shit.
Man, you missed out
on a killer tea party.
[CLIFF] What?
What?
B-A-B-Y D-O-L-L.
Who's the best? Baby Doll!
Do you want me to make you a song?
I'm really good at it.
D-O-R-Y No, wait.
D-O-R-O-T-E-E. Dorotee!
[DOROTHY CHUCKLES] Why
don't we sit down for a bit?
No, no. The grass is lava.
- I'm tired.
- Oh, no, don't be tired.
We'll play something else.
Tag! [PANTING]
Pirate ship. Arr!
Pirate ship?
[BABY DOLL GIGGLES]
[CANDLEMAKER] An infant
game for infant girls.
Oh, now you're talking to me.
I thought I told you,
I'm not a grown-up.
Quick. You have to spin.
If you don't spin,
the world will explode.
[BOTH LAUGHING]
I win, I win!
I'm the greatest spinning machine. Whoa!
[CANDLEMAKER] I feel
your vexation, dear one.
Stop it.
[CANDLEMAKER] Every fruit must ripen.
- Even you.
- Stop it!
Who are you talking to?
No one.
Just a friend.
From inside your head?
I have lots of friends in there.
Can I meet them?
Please, please, please?
- You have to be polite.
- I'm always polite.
- Promise?
- [BABY DOLL] Uh-huh.
You won't get scared?
No. Why? Are they scary?
No. But he's big and he
smells like a wet dog.
[BOTH GIGGLING]
He was the first friend I ever made.
He was my mama's friend first.
She said that he knew I was in
her belly before she even did.
When Mama was gone,
he followed me to the new
world and he kept me safe.
It was just the two
of us for a long time.
[CREATURE GROWLING]
It's okay. He's nice.
I call him Manny.
- [MANNY SNARLS]
- [BABY DOLL LAUGHS]
Wait, where'd he go?
Bring him back.
I told you to be polite.
I was.
Dorothy!
Come back!
[MACHINE WHIRRING]
They put stickers on us.
Huh? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I know.
And the puffy ones are hard to get off.
Let me ask you something
Can you feel stuff?
Like cold stuff, hot stuff,
wet stuff, fuzzy stuff.
Tactile sensors. Yeah.
My dad put them in during
my first surgery. Why?
Chief thinks he could
rebuild my sense of touch.
Congratulations, man.
He also said it would take decades.
Which would be fine if he wasn't dying.
Niles always finds a way.
You know who else always
finds a way and isn't dying?
Your dad.
You know how they say the
longer you're away from people,
the harder it is to remember
what they look like?
Well, I have that but with sensations.
I used to hold my arm
out when it was raining,
feeling the drops hit my skin.
I remember doing that,
but not the feeling.
Running my hands through my wife's hair.
In my head, I know it felt amazing,
but I don't know at the same time.
[SIGHS]
It's all floating away from me.
Hey.
Looks like you crashed.
Who are you?
That's my father, Toby.
Dex
this is Larry Trainor, your grandfather.
Wow.
I'm not sure what to say.
Nice to meet you.
[LARRY] Works for me.
- [RITA CLEARS THROAT]
- Oh, uh, this is Rita.
- My dear friend.
- Charmed.
We're glad you're here.
So, where should we start?
It's quiet down here without Baby Doll.
Oh, she's just running
and singing up-top,
like she's always wanted.
I know you don't like anything
and you're not wild about the
attachments we're making here,
but it's Baby Doll's job
to spin around in circles
and laugh till her sides hurt
and have real, genuine
fun making friends.
If we didn't need that No,
if the girl didn't need that,
Baby Doll wouldn't exist.
Kids fight, Jane.
And when that happens,
whose side do you think
Dorothy's own fucking
father's gonna choose?
Do you think Baby Doll can handle that?
Dorothy!
I'm sorry, Baby Doll.
She was so tired from
such a fun day with you,
she fell asleep in my room,
and she really does need her rest.
Maybe you'd like to
take a little nap, too.
- I'm not tired, I wanna play.
- Oh.
Oh, you know, I adore you, Baby Doll,
but I really think I'm getting
- a little old and creaky for play.
- [WHINES]
Fine.
I certainly hope everyone's being polite
and good to the new friends we've made.
I'd be very disappointed
if someone decided
to be a sour little girl.
[SILAS] You want me to install
Cyborg technology in you?
- That's the pitch.
- [CLIFF] I can tell you're a man
who likes a challenge.
What's a bigger challenge than this guy?
You told him it was a good idea.
I told him nobody gets
anything if they don't ask.
Come on. Just imagine digging
through the mess Niles made,
then building a better me and
then shoving it in Niles's face.
Man, you do not break your stride.
My tech is cutting-edge.
Niles's tech isn't even tech.
It's spare parts. They're incompatible.
Like trying to connect
an iPhone to a telegraph.
But if anyone could
connect those two, it's you!
I mean, just look at
what you've done with Vic.
- You're a genius.
- Look, Dad
I'm sorry for what has happened to you.
I truly am. But what I did for Victor
was surgery. What Niles did to you?
Manslaughter at best.
He's a criminal.
If I help him do anything to you,
that would make me an accessory.
I cannot do that.
[CLIFF] What the fu [SIGHS]
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
[LARRY] Hey, buddy.
What do you got there?
You know, I know somebody
that resembles this.
Does it hurt?
Sometimes. But not right now.
Right now I feel pretty good.
Hey, Toby.
Tell your dad to spark up the grill.
Your old gramps is
getting a little hungry.
Congratulations, Paul.
Your family's
perfect.
[SCOFFS] You wouldn't say that
if you were at Thanksgiving.
Here, let me show you
what to do with that.
Three piles here. We got,
uh, sell, keep and throw away
Wife's idea.
She got it from some TV show
about a Japanese condo or something.
If it doesn't "spark joy", it must go.
[LARRY CHUCKLES] Roger that.
[PAUL] A lot of Mom's stuff.
- She lived here for a while.
- [LARRY] She did?
I must have been hard for her
with Gary's conspiracy theories.
Actually, she was the one who
got him into all that stuff.
What?
Sheryl?
Wow. I had no idea.
How could you? You weren't here.
[RITA SIGHS]
There is a cute, absolutely mint
pencil skirt in the "keep" pile.
Perhaps it could wind up
in the "Give to Rita" pile.
It was my wife's.
Then never mind.
I don't know if this was the best idea.
No, it's good that you're here.
Good for you and Paul to
say what you want to say,
yell what you want to yell.
Hey, nobody said anything about yelling.
And why not? This is
an opportunity, Larry.
For you to air your dirty laundry.
Express your love, get
to know one another.
Real catharsis.
I wish that I could've
done that with my mother.
[DEX] I'm gonna get
you. I gonna get you.
- Get him, get him.
- [PAUL] Oh, no.
[DEX LAUGHING] Got him.
I'm proud of you, Larry.
[CLIFF] Geez, and I
thought I hated the Chief.
Your old man makes me look like a piker.
Man, they got history.
What are we doing here?
Shouldn't we be headed home?
- I used to patrol this area.
- Okay
Wait, is that what this is?
- Are we patrolling?
- No.
'Cause I've been thinking about this.
We both know I got a lot
of anger in me, right?
What if the best way for me to manage it
is to blow a hot load of
rage all over some bad guys?
- Bust some perps with you!
- What?
Don't judge. Not till you
hear our super-team name
Steele and Stone.
I'm Cliff Steele, you're Vic Stone.
Wait, hold on.
So you think I'm here
to fight crime? With you?
I think you're thinking about it
and I think you're thinking
it sounds pretty fucking cool.
No. [CHUCKLES]
No. There's this woman.
Roni. That's her place.
We were seeing each other.
[CLIFF] I'm so glad you feel
comfortable sharing this.
There's been this unspoken
bet between all of us
about whether or not you have a shlong.
We were seeing each other
and then I
I kind of just freaked out.
Took off.
Man, I just I can't
stop thinking about her.
Ah. Patch-up job. What's the plan?
- Sandwiches?
- [VIC CHUCKLES]
I mean, we were supposed to go
for subs when I stood her up.
So I figured I'd get these as
a kind of gesture, you know.
- Better late than never, right?
- Smooth
as a sandpaper strap-on.
Hey, yo, man, what's up?
Hey, that's wasteful.
Look, I know I may not look it anymore,
but I used to be good
at getting the ladies
and even better at
getting them to forgive me.
All right. So what's your plan?
You're gonna go in there.
You're gonna knock on her door.
And then you will say, "I'm stupid.
I fucked up. I'm sorry".
What? That's it?
Bro, it's verbal Astroglide.
Steele and Stone forever.
What do you want?
I'm stupid, I fucked up and I'm sorry.
- It's okay. I get it.
- You do?
It's not like I expected
you to stick around
after I gave you those files.
So that was some sort of test?
Does it mean anything that I came back?
- Can I help you?
- I got it.
You can slice the bread.
- Three cheeses?
- Cheddar, blue, Brie.
- Meats?
- Ham and turkey.
No sausage?
Don't push it.
- What are you making?
- [NILES CHUCKLES]
Well, hello, there.
It's the magical disappearing Dorothy.
You hungry?
You want a kitchen-sink sandwich?
[DOROTHY] What's a
kitchen-sink sandwich?
It happens to be Jane's favorite.
But it could be your favorite, too.
Go on.
[NILES LAUGHS]
Are you ready now ♪
To get on down ♪
[MAN] Mmm! You're
looking fine, pretty baby!
You ready to get stuck, bitch?
- [SLASHER GRUNTS]
- [METAL CLANGS]
Not tonight, motherfucker.
Time to take out the trash.
- [VIC GRUNTS]
- [SLASHER SCREAMS]
Booyah!
[PEOPLE CHEERING]
[CLIFF] Nice work, rookie.
Next time, you can hide in the
garbage and I'll wear the wig.
[CLIFF] Please. We know who's prettiest.
[BOTH LAUGHING]
- [FUNKY THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
-
[IMPERCEPTIBLE]
[GUN FIRING]
[SIREN WAILING]
[IMPERCEPTIBLE]
[GUNS FIRING]
[CLIFF] Steele and Stone.
A Morilar Production.
[CLIFF] Steele and Stone ♪
Gettin' it done ♪
Steele and Stone
trouble's on the run ♪
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
Huh? Oh! Oh, shit.
Uh
Oh, shit! [PANTING]
[EXHALING LOUDLY]
Uh
Hey, get the fuck away from the car.
- What the fuck?
- That's my line, asshole.
[THIEF 1 GROANS]
Whoo! Steele, baby!
[ARM CREAKS]
[THIEF 2 WHIMPERING]
[CLIFF] What the Wait.
Come on. Not now. Damn it!
[GRUNTS] No!
[GROANS]
Holy shit!
- [CLIFF] I'm sorry! Oh, shit!
- [SCREAMING]
I'm sorry! I'm
Holy shit! I'm sorry! Shit!
[SCREAMING CONTINUES]
I'm sorry!
It wasn't me, it was my
dumbass arm. I'm sorry.
Hmm.
Would it have killed her to let
me start my monologue over?
I'm sorry.
Hey, bud, you like char
on your dog? Yeah?
Oh, who am I kidding,
I could've started 1,000 times
and I still would've collapsed.
Wanted it too badly.
To prove to Mother that I
could land a role on my own
and when I want something,
that's when that tumor of a
thought bursts into my mind.
You, uh You close with your mom?
God, no.
That witch died ages ago.
But she haunts me.
The things she did, they haunt me.
Yeah. Uh
Oops, I, uh, forgot the ketchup.
Excuse me.
[DOOR CLOSES]
Your father seems nice enough,
and I'm sure he means well.
But don't ever let him crush your spirit
and step on your dreams.
- [CELL PHONE RINGING]
- Excuse me.
Hello. This is she
I see.
I see.
I can.
Yes. Thank you.
That was Mickey Harris. [CHUCKLES]
The writer-director for the
Cloverton Community Players.
It seems several of the cast
shared a tainted didgeridoo
while on vacation
and have come down with mono.
They need me.
I'm in the play. [LAUGHS]
Do you hear that, Mother?
I did it!
[VIC] What are you thinking right now?
If you want to leave or not.
- [VIC CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
- It's okay. You can go.
Is this some kind of test?
'Cause I don't wanna do that no more.
Those files I gave you were a warning,
- about who I am.
- Who you were.
So you made some bad
choices. Everyone does.
It's easy to make bad choices
when all you have are bad options.
There are only a few
ways to get out of here.
That's getting mixed in
some bullshit on the street,
stumbling over a pot of gold
and going to college, or
the military.
There's nothing wrong with the military.
Out of the three, I guess not.
Is that how you got these?
That's where it started.
An IED outside of Baghdad.
It was fucked-up.
Next thing I know, I'm in the hospital
thinking about coming back here.
So when Quorum approached me
- You know them?
- I know they're into some scandalous shit.
Yeah, well, they gave
me a different option.
I could go back home and
try to figure out my life,
or I could work quiet missions for them.
But quiet missions for Quorum,
they require something more than human.
They gave you enhancements.
And when I fucked up big
enough, they took them away.
Some of it was my fault.
A lot of it was my fault.
Worse than anything in
those files I sent you.
Power is one hell of a drug.
Someone once told me
not to judge someone by the
worst things they've done.
That's assuming the
worst is behind them.
Hey.
You're not a bad person, Roni.
I don't wanna be.
[LARRY] Can I help?
Uh, there's a box over here for you.
A couple of days after the crash,
a few guys from your unit
cleaned out your locker.
I thought you might want it
if, you know, you came back.
Gary never cried so hard as he did over
how much you hated that thing.
You should've seen the
look on his face when
he saw that you'd kept it anyway.
[LARRY] He nailed it.
I was just too much of
an asshole to see it then.
[SIGHS] This was John's.
My ground crew chief.
He was also my lover.
I'm gay.
I wish I could have
admitted that to your mother.
She always knew, but
I wish I'd just given
her that. A way out.
But I was selfish and I was scared.
Thank you. Uh
[EXHALES] Thank you, for telling me.
Mom never mentioned it.
I guess it's my turn to be honest.
When they told us you'd finally
died from your injuries, she
There were days of her just
sprawled out on the
bedroom floor crying
Oh, Paul. I had no
No, she tried to move on. I mean
We bounced around. Guys came and went.
Then one nut, Wayne, he showed up.
Filled her head with a
lot of crackpot nonsense.
Said you weren't really dead.
Said it was a big government cover-up.
I left Gary behind to
get sucked into her world
and went out to follow in your footsteps
thinking I was paying
tribute to my hero father.
I kept telling myself,
"You just survive".
Survive the tours,
survive watching my mother
drive herself to the grave,
survive Gary taking his own life.
And I was standing there
By his casket
And, God damn, if I didn't
feel a sense of peace.
And there you were.
I had no idea I was
carrying so much of it.
The anger. The hatred.
That's when I realized I didn't survive.
No one survives Larry Trainor.
[DOOR SLAMS]
Larry!
[VEHICLES APPROACHING]
[LARRY GASPS]
[AGENT] Capt. Trainor!
[LARRY] What's going on?
I needed some answers
after Gary's funeral,
so I did some digging all the way
to the Department of Defense.
I'm sending you back where you belong.
I'm not going anywhere.
Negative Spirit, release.
[LARRY GROANS]
[AGENTS GROANING]
- What the hell is that?
- Dad, what's going on?
Toby, get in the house.
[GUNS FIRING]
[PAUL] No!
Are you hurt? Are you all right?
I'm fine.
[DEX GROANING]
- Dad!
- [PAUL] Dex!
- [DEX GROANS]
- [PAUL] Dex!
Dex. Dex.
- What have you done?
- Larry.
What have you done?
[GASPS] Oh, my God. Paul
You're a curse on this family.
[TOBY CRYING]
Larry, we have to go.
[LARRY] Paul
- I'm so sorry.
- Dad
[GASPS]
Baby Doll?
I'm sorry, I don't feel
like playing right now.
To be honest, Baby Doll,
I think I might be a little bit
too big for some of your games.
Your dad is a bad man.
What?
He hurt me.
He hurt everyone in this house
and that's why everyone hates him.
That's not true.
It is. He's bad.
Worse than bad. He's evil.
You're just hurt.
And sometimes hurt feelings
make us say bad things.
Things that aren't true.
I'm not lying.
I was being mean.
I shouldn't have said
I was too big for games.
- Why don't we play one, before bed.
- You're just
You're the seeker, I'm the hider.
[BOTH GIGGLING]
[BABY DOLL] Ready or not, here I come!
[DOOR SLAMS]
Dorothy.
Dorothy?
Boo!
[GASPS] Ow!
[CHUCKLES]
That's what you get,
you lying little baby.
What are you doing? Stop!
[DOROTHY GROANS]
[DOROTHY GROANS]
- Baby Doll, let me out.
- No!
I'll tell on you. I'll tell Papa
And I'll turn on the
fire so you won't tell.
[GASPING IN FEAR]
No, no, no. Stop. Stop it!
No! Stop, stop, stop!
Stop!
[MANNY GROWLING]
[SCREECHING]
[SCREECHING IN PAIN]
[DOROTHY] Manny!
Manny!
[CANDLEMAKER] Our friend is dead.
[DOROTHY SOBBING]
Manny!
[CANDLEMAKER] Make a wish.
[SOBBING] Dorothy, I'm sorry.
[SNIFFLES]
[CANDLEMAKER] Make a wish.
[BLOWS]
[TRAIN RUNNING]
[CRASHING]
[RATTLING]
[CANDLEMAKER GROWLING]
[GROANS]
He's coming! Don't let him get me!
- [SCREAMING]
- Baby Doll.
[CANDLEMAKER GROWLING]
Get back.
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
Let's get out of here.
I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
It's okay. It's okay. Everything's
gonna be okay. Come, come.
[CANDLEMAKER GROWLING]
Get out of here. This isn't your job.
Hammerhead, no!
Come at us, you fucking fuck!
[CANDLEMAKER ROARS]
[GASPS]
[CANDLEMAKER SNARLING]
[HAMMERHEAD GROANS]
I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
I didn't mean to!
[BABY DOLL SCREAMING]
[BABY DOLL GROANS]
[MAN] Greg, move your head!