Little Dog (2018) s02e05 Episode Script

1 Last week on Little Dog.
With Pamela out of town, Tommy and Cassius got down to some father-son bonding, and Tommy got into a bit of a tangle with the family of the man he killed.
You killed my dad! He broke into the morgue to have a word with him.
I came here to apologize.
As if the poor dead father could hear anything he said! - I got it.
- His kid, L'il Turk, hurt Tommy, though, and he must have appreciated it.
Fight me! And he beat Tommy to a pulp later.
- I let him beat me, OK? - Oh, yeah, right.
- But more importantly - It's my first time.
I fell in love.
- [ROCK MUSIC.]
- [PEOPLE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY.]
So I sat with my head in my hands And they started to rust And my legs, as I tried to stand They got turned into mush I got sick, I got tired I felt crushed And I suffered a lot But I drew a big line in the dust - [IN SLOW-MOTION.]
: Aaaah! - For you just to not cross But if you talk about a dream enough, it might come true Three.
Fall into the void It's mesmerizing Whoa-oh-oh Yet another victory for Team Ross, but what would you say to the critics of your winning streak who say you're only fighting old, out-of-shape men? And what or who is next for Little Dog? Yeah.
The critics, they can just go blow pygmy goats for all I care.
Them fellas, they are fit and ready, and they fought with all their heart.
But sure, Tammy, if you're gonna go for ageism and body shaming, then everybody should go out and buy tickets to Tommy Ross' next big fight! An epic battle of honour and revenge.
We're talking biblical proportions here, folks.
- What? - Watch Tommy Ross taking on L'il Turk, the son of Big Turk, - to avenge his father's death.
- Yeah, because Tommy killed L'il Turk's father in the ring.
I didn't kill him.
He died on his own.
He had a heart attack.
Shout with us, Little Dog fans! Stand right up and clap your hands! Little Dog! - [FANS.]
: Little Dog! - It looks like boxing fans will be in for a treat.
Will L'il Turk take Little Dog to the pound and put him down once and for all? Or will Tommy Ross send his opponent back to meet his maker just like he did to the young pup's father? Stay tuned for all your sports, killer action right here on downstream with Tammy Mackey on BONL.
Are we off? Was that too much? [BARKING.]
- What's with the hair? - Never you mind.
Saw your interview.
And ? By fighting this child, you're admitting - you murdered his father.
- You gotta give - the fans a good story.
- Ha! Bunch of jailbirds, lowlives and greaseballs salivating over a drop of blood.
Those are fans? What about you, little man? You're a greaseball or a jailbird, hmm? Not to mention this L'il Turk - is a child.
- [TOMMY GRUNTING.]
Why don't you give it a rest, Tommy.
Just step out of the spotlight just for a moment.
Let someone else in the family a chance to shine.
No, no, it's not that.
Look, look, I've been fighting old men and bums for a month, OK? I need some action.
I need something higher profile.
Look, I got a lot riding on this.
It's important.
And this little fella here and Pamela Oh, Pamela.
Yes, Pamela.
You want to impress her with a fight? How often have your fights shamed the most important woman in your life, - your own mother? - Can you pretend to be a little bit supportive? I mean, I'm working my guts out.
I was supportive last time, and I lost the house.
- What will I lose this time? - Lowly Jr lost - the house actually.
- Based on you giving your word to Tucker.
What good is a man without his word? [SIGHING.]
What's with the outfit? What, is it for the choir? You're back in the choir? Yeah.
Right.
Choir.
Well, that's great.
See? That's that's that's fantastic.
I'm sick of all this talking.
Just leave me be.
Give me some peace.
Come on, Cassius, let's go for a little walk, leave your old granny in peace.
- [SIGHING.]
- [SEAGULLS SQUAWKING.]
I'll tell you something.
No matter how old you get, moms will always get mad at you and they'll say horrible things.
But it don't mean they won't want you around.
She said you should go back to the woods.
Did she? Yeah, well, what kind of dad would I be if I did that, eh? That's not how families work.
You understand? Hey! Look who I see! - It's your mama.
- Mamamamama.
Hi, hi, hi.
How's my little champ, huh? I'm alright.
No complaints.
- Really? - Mhm.
How's Rico? Done.
Finished.
- Rear-view mirror.
- Alright.
Well, here look.
Sit down.
You're getting it all over yourself.
You're alright? Better like that.
I hear you have a great fight lined up.
I have a fight lined up; I don't know if I'd call it a great one.
It's good.
You're turning things around.
I don't know if I'm gonna sign.
- Aaah, God.
- What? Pamela, I killed this guy's father.
He killed himself when he took you on, Tommy.
It's boxing, you take a risk every time you get in the ring.
Everybody knows that.
What? You want to fight bums for Tucker your entire life? No.
Uh Or you want a challenge? I like a challenge, and I like you when you like one, so take the fight.
I'll be right there with you.
Yeah? What was that? [BOTH CHUCKLING.]
The three of us can be a team, huh? A family.
Yeah? - Yeah? - Yeah.
- Oh, yeah, I'll take that.
- Great! It's not that I don't want you there.
I just never told Mom about us.
- I couldn't find the right moment.
- I think you're scared.
- Are you scared of Mommy Ross? - No.
No, I'm not! - I got myself all dressed up.
- I know.
You're gonna tell me I look good? You look beautiful.
But not enough for your family? No.
No, yes! Doh! It's complicated! Having no balls must be very complicated.
Guess I better take the outfit off.
- - Oooh Are you gonna help me? It's not gonna get itself off.
Ah, this is the fight I've been waiting for.
Is L'il Turk a good boxer? We don't know that much about him.
The media will be all over it.
It's more than Shakespearean, - it's Darwinian.
- Oh, yeah! And Jacobian.
And Norwegian.
And country and western.
Oh, it's all that and a bag of hard Cheezies.
We get that.
What we don't get is what we need you for.
Ha! Well, you're gonna front the thousands of dollars that's needed to promote this thing? You'll host it here; what can you hold? 40 spectators before the fire department shuts you down? I never said where I was gonna hold it.
Look, Tucker, I can make this big! I got the smarts, I got the means, and I got the paper.
Yep.
Paper means money.
Is that right? Is it your paper or Aunt Phyllis's paper? We'll take all the risk, pay you a fee upfront.
- How big a fee? - A reasonable one.
Hmm? What do you say? [TOMMY.]
: Alright.
We got some demands.
- Haha! - Me and Pamela.
- She's my new partner.
- Is she? 'Cause I'm your old manager.
I'm your trainer.
And I'm your "you do everything I tell you to do until you pay me back every red cent you owe me.
" That's who I am.
OK.
Alright.
It's all good.
I know Pam.
We can work something out, right, Pam? OK, look.
If Tommy is gonna fight that guy, we need an advance.
A big one.
I can do that.
OK.
Well, uh along with the advance, "all new gear with my name on it," uh, "some sort of rental vehicle" and a month's worth of gift certificates at Pancake House.
" - Mm-hmm.
- Done.
Anything else? My mom's house back from the bank.
Haha.
[LAUGHING.]
: That's a good one.
But I'm not buying you a house.
I could put you up in a hotel.
Hmm? Aaah! Hahaha! It's gonna be good! Ohhh! Oh, yeah.
The Smallwoods and the Tuckers working together.
Maybe I should have a word though - with your auntie Phyllis.
- Oh.
No, no, no.
That that won't be necessary.
- No? - She's a silent partner.
- [TUCKER.]
: Is that right? - Yeah.
But don't worry.
Everything's good.
Stranger bedfellows have made peace for the sake of the green.
Green means money too, right? Yeah.
Christ on a bicycle, Mother! This is a new low for you! This marriage?! Devereaux?! Fine! Don't come to the wedding if you feel like that, Ginny.
I wouldn't come unless I had a full gas can and a book of matches! Well, actually, you have to come to the wedding because I am your mother.
No, I don't have to do any such thing.
I hate you in my house, but I would rather die than you whoring yourself - to the fishmonger.
- Ha ha! Insult your mother on the most important day of her life? "Most important day of her life," what do you mean? That's right.
Yeah, I invited the father of your children.
I think he has a right to know you're marrying his worst enemy! Who?! - Devereaux?! - It's none of your business, - so don't start, but yes, Devereaux.
- No! No! No! How can you do this?! I can marry whoever the hell I want to.
Sure, it's not gonna be much of a picnic, but it'll be better than the hell you put me through! And, Ginny, if you don't come, I'll have no one on my side.
Uh, Sylvia, I-I-I will attend.
Otherwise, I'll just think this is some sort of a bad dream, and then I'll crawl into bed with you some night, and you'll in the arms of that that horrible fishy man! Ha! Well, that's not gonna happen because I'll be living in his castle, and there's gates and cameras and alarm systems.
Uh, yes.
I just came from a place very much like that, Sylvia.
Hi, Auntie.
Wait, what are you - No! No! - Tucker called! - [TIRE DEFLATING.]
- Oh, come on! What are you doing? - [GRUNTING.]
- [HONK.]
- Come here to me! - No, no, no! Oh! - What did I do? - What did you do? Get yourself in a whole mess of trouble! - I was gonna tell you.
- Explain or I move to a lung! OK.
Uh, this is gonna be big, - and it's gonna pay off.
- I told you I didn't want Tucker's dirty hands near my money.
Look, look, look, Auntie.
You wanted me to come into the family business with you, right? Now, you need to trust me, OK? I-I-I got a cable network.
I have a cable network that's interested.
OK, I'm gonna buy Tucker out, and we're gonna make 100% of the profits.
OK.
Triple our investment.
Maybe even quadruple.
- OK? - Grrr! [TIRE DEFLATING.]
- Let's talk.
- OK.
- [TV SHOW SOUNDTRACK PLAYING.]
- Did you enjoy that? It was alright.
[BLOWING A RASPBERRY.]
Christ! Ha! I'm gonna be late.
[KEY CLINKING.]
I dropped the keys.
There comes a time in that wretched life of yours where you're gonna have to choose between your girlfriend and your mother.
Yeah.
The universe wanted to be more clear what it was trying to tell you, it would drop a meteor on your nuts.
[WOMAN SIGHING.]
[BOTH CHUCKLING.]
[TOMMY DOING PLANE-ENGINE SOUND.]
Oh, God! I'm losing Oh, God! Losing Aaaah! - [TOMMY DOING CRASHING SOUND.]
- OK, Tommy, L'il Turk.
He trained MMA.
He's been boxing less than a year.
Yeah, he's a baby.
Cassius could flatten him, couldn't you? Let me see them hands.
- Make a fist.
Yes.
- He hasn't lost yet.
Look, has he even had a pro fight? This is his attempt to go pro.
But he is good, and he is motivated.
Look at his stats.
- Schtats? - Stats! Stats? Pamela loves stats, don't you? - She does.
- Here, let me see that.
Ah! Ha ha ha! You fell for it! She fell for it.
- I miss how gullible - [PAMELA LAUGHING.]
you are.
I do.
Listen.
I don't want to talk about none of that stuff now, OK? Hey.
I don't know.
I just wanna stay here.
We could have some kind of little family night, watch a movie.
Hmm? You too? We don't have time.
Well, what do you gotta do? Where do you gotta be? Tommy, your mother is getting married today.
What are you talking about? She's marrying Devereaux today.
She texted us.
My mother's getting married? - To Devereaux? - Yeah.
So like when? Now? Today? What? Nobody thought to invite me?! [SEAGULLS SQUAWKING.]
Interesting choice of vehicle.
Well, my car is out of commission at the moment.
Are they having their wedding at a fish plant? Mom thinks it's "meaningful.
" [DOING RETCHING NOISE.]
Her dad used to work here.
Shit, we all worked here.
Plus Devereaux owns it, and he's cheap.
Alright.
Shall we? - Whatever.
- Alright.
- [CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING.]
- [INSECTS BUZZING.]
Here he is.
Remember my son Chesley? - Hey.
How you doing, man? - Hey.
Hi, Dad.
- That's her that's her dad.
- That's my dad, yeah.
Alright.
How are you doing there, Mr.
Ross? Feeling a pain in my heart right now.
Do you have any alcohol? - Where's Lowly Jr? - How should I know? Shall we move on? This one's a slippery fish.
As we trawl the ocean floor of life, clawing with our hungry buckets, grappling with the mysteries of the deep, "and some junk from time to time, like a "like a boat or a " tire.
But no, that's that's that's stretched out.
No, no.
Hold on, hold on.
Just trying to I'm having a hard time - reading my own handwriting.
- [CLANGING.]
[LOWLY SR.]
: Glory be to the hand of God! Sorry, Mom.
I had me a nice suit on and everything Ah, it's enough that you're here! Couldn't have got married today without my best man, huh? - Hahaha! - Oh, "my best man.
" Yeah.
That's what you used to call him.
Hey, remember that? "Here comes my best little man.
And Tommy Trouble.
" - [LOWLY SR.]
: Hi, Tommy.
- [TOMMY.]
: You couldn't think to tell me that my mother was getting married today? - I could not utter the words, Tommy.
- Ginny? I didn't think she'd get this far.
- Even Smallwood is here.
- Well, I didn't invite him.
You didn't invite me either, did you? [DEVEREAUX.]
: No, but you're here now, aren't you? What are you doing? You're marrying Devereaux.
Talk about shaming the family.
This is why I didn't invite you.
You always make a scene! Oh, what? That's not a scene? - Ha! - Yeah? Well, at least he's not making it about him, like you do every single time.
Do not ruin Mom's special day.
She got a point there, Tommy.
I was the one who wanted to ruin this wedding, not you! Who cares if it's ruined? It's ruined and it's ruined, so let's be done with it and go home.
I don't have a home! And every single one of you made me feel that I didn't belong in your life! So now, please, hold your peace.
Today, I have finally landed the most beautiful fish that ever appeared in any Devereaux net ever.
I do.
Just give me the ring! Yes, the ring.
Yes, I've got it on me.
OK Uh, I'm just gonna have to, uh You know I learned years ago, many years ago, sitting around waiting for true happiness was a waste of time because true happiness is for the naive and the stupid.
Life is just degrees of misery.
So, if it's all a struggle, then why not struggle from inside a castle? Oh, yeah, well, spare me the struggle of trying to get your house back from the bank, which is what I have been in the middle of.
Turns out this shameful little fight I got coming up, it's pretty lucrative.
- There it is! - Mom, don't do it.
Please, God, don't let her do it.
Mom, maybe you don't want to do this.
Do it.
Go on, do it.
- [GINNY.]
: Ugh! - [LOWLY JR.]
: Ugh! - Yeah! - I pronounce you man and wife.
I went to my old neighbourhood Nothing was there You're ripe for a family seminar.
The house where I lived was gone The streets were all bare Does anyone have a pair of pants? Size 36? Here where I spent - All of my childhood - 38? Nooo - A set of pliers? - Ah, nothing but bricks Broken bottles and sticks everywhere Hmmm, yeah, yeah, yeah Now as I walk down the street There's nothing to see No, no, no, no, no, no The candy store's gone No one waving to me Whoa oh oh oh oh A memory of our old love I hoped to find there