American Rust (2021) s02e06 Episode Script

You're wrong about
me. I didn't kill Sue.
Why don't you find out who did?
Your father's headstone is due
for delivery in a couple of days.
Will you come to the
cemetery when we place it?
Of course.
This man at the gas company
wants me to talk to people
about signing contracts with Landwill.
Oh, no, you're not
gonna buy me that easy.
I'm baking a cake. For Russell.
I actually like him. I
want him to know that.
[SIGHS]
The water test you said you had
I found it.
The only cases Landwill settles are
the ones where people have water tests.
They're hiding tests. Rinna's helping.
What if I spoke up?
If you're gonna do that, you gotta think
long and hard about the repercussions.
Billy, I left you in that
prison when you were innocent.
Aaron, my, uh, old cellmate
[PRISONERS CLAMORING]
- He's still
- I heard he just got released.
Good luck.
I didn't have anything to
do with her husband's death.
If you know something,
now is the time to talk.
We can't afford any loose
ends. Not a single one.
Either of you seen Vic?
And the lighter you let him have
is still in his pocket. Still recording?
Find him and set this
whole thing up again.
- [ANGELA] Del Harris!
- [GRUNTS]
What the fuck are you doing?
[INDISTINCT VOICES ON RECORDING]
[HARRIS OVER AUDIO] Nice. Brotherhood?
[WALKER] Brotherhood.
[CELL PHONE RINGING]
[HARRIS] Speak of the devil.
- [WALKER] Nope.
- [HARRIS] You don't wanna talk to mama?
[WALKER GRUNTS] Fuck
him. Inscrutable bitch.
[HARRIS] You guys have a disagreement?
I found an old one.
[WALKER] Tell that to Fisher.
Poker night's coming
up. Make the proposal.
I'll back you.
You serious?
[HARRIS] Fish it around the
table. I'll back you all the way.
[AUDIO FAST FORWARDING]
[CYNTHIA] you're
about to do, please don't.
This is how much I love you, Cynthia.
[WALKER YELLS IN PAIN] Fuck!
[WALKER GROANING]
[AUDIO FAST FORWARDING]
It's getting crowded in here.
Come on.
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[FOOTSTEPS IN LEAVES OVER AUDIO]
[TWIG SNAPS]
[GRUNTS] Shit.
Missed your doctor this morning.
Please man, I just wanna go home.
I won't do anything wrong again.
I'm sorry. I'm really sorry.
I'll do anything you say, man.
Think about Cynthia,
I just wanna go home.
Please stop Don't. Just don't do
[GUNSHOT]
You know who he was recording for?
[FOOD SIZZLING]
[VIRGIL HUMMING]
Mornin' killer.
You hungry?
[CONTINUES HUMMING]
[VIRGIL] Yeah, you'll eat.
[FRONT DOOR OPENS THEN CLOSES]
[GRACE] Billy?
What's wrong?
We're gonna have a
family meeting right now.
- Billy needs both of us.
- He always needs both of us.
You're incapable of parenting
on your own. What happened?
Last night he freaked out at the
Rock Room and they had to call me.
That's not what happened.
Dude, you got anger issues, man.
You think you can murder somebody else
and get out of jail a second time?
- Come on.
- I didn't murder Novick.
[WITH MOUTH FULL] Okay.
[SNIFFS] I just took the blame.
On purpose?
Lee visited me while I was in there.
We were worried about Issac.
- Issac?
- Right now, I'm confused.
- Okay, wait, what did she say to you?
- I gotta go, I'm sorry.
Whoa, whoa, wait, wait,
who did do it, then?
- [GRACE] Let me give you a ride.
- [BILLY] No.
[DOOR CLOSES]
What do we do now?
- Well, stop pecking for one damn second
- You called me.
Did you hear?
The kid's fine. He's fine.
The guy wasn't Walker's perp,
but they sent Walker to kill him.
And he took pictures.
That's how smug these motherfuckers are,
they think they can't get caught.
- If you're taking them down, I want in.
- No.
You can't catch them without me.
Sure we can and we will.
This isn't your operation.
It isn't yours either.
[ANGELA] To prove conspiracy,
you need them on tape
or in action, right?
Ray Fisher's paranoid. OCD.
If he found that lighter, they
aren't gonna be talking about,
or doing anything for a long time.
There won't be anything for
you guys to catch them at,
unless they find out
I know more than I should,
they think I'll talk.
Then they'll have to come after me.
Absolutely not. No.
How soon can you go to Fisher?
[SIGHS]
I wish you'd stayed out of this.
It took me half a day to make you.
What if Fisher or Orr, or one
of them had figured it out?
Think they'd have let me off the hook,
believed I didn't know my own partner
was working with the FBI?
I can't even believe it
I'm sorry!
[CELL PHONE CHIMES]
The warrant on Nell's bank
statements came through.
God help us if there's nothing
useful there, Bolt will lose it.
[CAR DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES]
[ENGINE STARTS]
If I'm involved, she won't
back off, so I'm out, it's over.
- I can testify.
- No.
The defense puts up
Steve Park or Deluca,
they paint you as manipulative,
corrupt, you're a shit witness.
Well, sorry, fellas, we're
just going to have to let it go.
Have a seat.
Sit down.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[GARN CLEARS THROAT]
Sometimes the craziest things
come up out of the water
when you go fishing.
[GARN] Whoever worked the
crime scene in West Virginia,
would love to get their
hands on this flak jacket.
The buckshot here and here.
The matching scars on your
shoulder. Let's see, right
[SIGHS]
We ran ballistics. Everything matches.
It's open and shut.
[GARN] Play nice. Make yourself useful.
Or if you want, we can
put you in cuffs right now.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[CLOCK TICKING]
[LINE RINGING]
- [MAYA] Hi.
- Hey, he um
He's 13 minutes late.
- I'm gonna leave.
- Maybe he's stuck in traffic.
There's no traffic.
He's new on the job,
he's probably swamped.
Maybe he just doesn't care if
he insults the chief of police.
Technically he outranks you, doesn't he?
I I gotta go. I love you.
[PANTING]
[GASPING]
Don't sit. I have a meeting in 10.
Sally Roberts.
Maiden name, Heinz.
You want to get elected in this state,
you got to get in with big ketchup.
Only problem is,
you can never get it out of the bottle.
I love running. Wait, no.
I hate running.
But I follow the same advice
that I give to my interns,
and single women over 35.
You want a seat at the table,
two things and two things only.
Keep it bright and keep it tight.
You have interns?
So, my question for you is
which buffoon made you Chief of Police?
The mayor.
- Mayor Holmes.
- That's cute, yeah, I know Holmes.
And look, I don't blame
you. Buell's a small town.
Worst thing that ever comes
across your desk, is, uh
Whiskers stuck in a tree, right?
We had a homicide last year.
Didn't you send the
wrong guy up the river?
I'd appreciate it if you'd
pull your head out of your ass,
and find one credible lead
about who shot Sue Herlitz.
Or better, find the fucking guy.
So he doesn't come back for me.
Anthony Martino for Miss Bransford.
[RECEPTIONIST] Anthony
Martino is here to see you.
Please follow me. We can
use the conference room.
No need.
Remember the water test you
insisted my clients were fabricating?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
Call me when you have an offer.
[DRILL WHIRRING]
[INDISTINCT VOICE]
[MAN] How's it looking on your end?
You remember the Howlands?
From the deposition?
They found a water test.
Proves their water was clean
before Landwill drilled.
They said they found it in the garage in
their meat freezer. What are the odds?
- What's that?
- [LEE] Nothing, just
You're getting divorced?
Why didn't you tell me?
If you need anything at all,
anything
Promise me.
Okay.
Good.
And now I get to call Dale Evans
and tell him that Landwill's gonna
have to settle with the Howlands.
[STRING QUARTET MUSIC PLAYING]
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]
Are you certain?
- [GRACE] Hi.
- Hi.
Good to see you.
Dale will off in a second.
Just make sure nobody else
turns up a clean test, all right?
I don't know how, just make sure.
- Dale Evans.
- Nice to meet you.
Yeah.
Well, Russell was right.
You're as lovely as they come.
[DALE] Oh, she's blushing.
- No, I'm not.
- Oh, you are.
[DALE] I hear you're working
wonders for us up in Fayette county.
[RUSSELL] Mm-hm.
But what I want to hear
about is your mother.
Now, your father I
understand was a mining man.
Second generation, yeah.
Well, when the mines dried
up, so did his paycheck
his self-respect and probably
your parents' marriage with it, hm?
My father was a mining man too.
It means something.
This pedigree of ours.
Salt of the earth, hardworking.
Harder working than most.
How did you know about my dad?
Well,
when Russell tells me someone's
special, I do my homework.
You want?
That's an order from your boss.
How was your call with Landwill?
[RINNA] Uh
I should probably tell you,
I'm happy I got divorced.
I am. I am angry,
disappointed and terrified
but sad, I'm not.
Want me to show you the settlement?
I'm not taking anything.
Why not?
It wasn't my money before I met him.
I didn't earn it, I don't deserve it.
You think that bastard deserves it more?
- He's really not a bastard.
- That's not the point.
You deserve plenty, trust me.
Let me give you a piece of advice,
I wish someone had
given me when I was 23.
Not everyone has to like you.
See, someone like you, all right,
smart, ambitious, resourceful,
You should be able to
improve your quality of life
by working hard. That's what
this country's all about, hm?
That sewing job was probably the
best job you could get in Buell, hm?
See, that's why I love what I do.
Uh, sure we're a gas company,
but we don't sell gas.
What we sell is a way out.
Out and up.
Let's ask her.
We are looking for a
representative in Fayette county.
The job comes with a car,
monthly salary, expense account.
You'll wanna be able to take your
clients out for dinner,
isn't that right?
Absolutely.
Would you mind if I gave
you a little bit of advice?
- Sure. Okay.
- Salesman to salesman.
Did you, uh Did you
tailor that yourself?
- I did.
- [DALE] Huh.
That's lovely. Thank you.
But
Russell.
It's too lovely.
If you take the job, we'll need
you back in jeans and flannel.
We want the working man to see
you as one of them, and not
One of you.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
We wouldn't want anyone to feel like
Landwill was talking down to them.
No.
[DALE] Even if we are.
Well, if you can't beat 'em. Right?
Cyn?
[SLOW, MOODY MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
[ANGELA] If we leave it, I
can use it to talk to Fisher.
Clear Cynthia. I'm sure he
thinks she sent the photo.
And I can win Del some points.
I don't need points.
If he trusted you, he'd
tell you about the lighter.
Maybe he overhears the right
thing and let's you back in.
[DOOR CLOSES, FOOTSTEPS ON STAIRCASE]
Hi.
What are you doing here?
Mm, just a lonely gal looking
for a place to lay her head.
What's with the fancy threads?
- Whoops.
- [BOTH LAUGH]
Better get used to it
because you are looking at
the newest Landwill rep for all
of Southwestern Pennsylvania.
Baby, I'm a rich man [CHUCKLES]
[BOTH CHUCKLING]
[CELL PHONE RINGING]
[CELL PHONE RINGING AGAIN]
[LANDLINE RINGING]
Hello?
[MAN WITH DISTORTED VOICE]
Stop what you're doing.
I'm not doing anything.
Stop, or we'll send the same
package we sent to your husband.
[LINE CUTS OFF]
[DOOR OPENS, THEN CLOSES]
[ANGELA] Cyn?
You're here.
Raspberry croissants from Gourmandine.
I was there when they opened.
They're still hot.
[ANGELA OVER AUDIO] Did you
ever meet my stepbrother, Mateo?
- Short, ripped.
- [CYNTHIA] Are you trying to set me up?
Before Mateo got married,
he had this girlfriend.
They met in high school,
they were together forever.
And she was awful.
Everyone hated her.
The whole family, his friends.
- Even he hated her.
- What is your point?
You can't help who you love.
And you never know what goes on
between two people when they're alone.
And friends should be supportive.
I'm really sorry, okay?
I should have never gone to IA.
You know what really bugs me about Vic?
He doesn't recycle?
[CYNTHIA] He gets so
obsessed with his cases
that he forgets about everything else.
Is that where you think he is, working?
He's never been gone this long.
All of his friends are detectives,
and no one's looking for him.
- Maybe they know where he is.
- What?
You ever feel like him and
Harris and all these guys,
they're in on something,
I don't know, dirty.
Dirty?
[ANGELA] Grifting off drug evidence.
Committing crimes whenever they
want and covering for each other.
[CYNTHIA] That's crazy.
[ANGELA] I just have this
feeling I can't trust Del.
Vic stayed at his cabin that night.
They didn't invite you, they were
always palling around with Orr
I know what everyone thinks,
but deep down, Vic is a good guy.
And Harris is like, the
nicest guy on the planet.
There is nothing dirty going on.
It's in your head.
[SIGHS]
[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING]
We loved him.
Even if he was a pain in everyone's ass.
Is anyone else gonna talk?
Okay, then.
I'm gonna see Lee.
Henry picked a real nice
spot for the graves, huh?
Really nice view.
Billy still look fine to you?
I mean, it's a funeral,
everyone's upset.
- What's wrong?
- Nothing.
- Ah, I know that look, what's wrong?
- It's a funeral, everyone's upset.
Who's that?
[GRACE] This guy from Landwill.
He was at dinner last night.
I think he has a crush on me.
- Everyone should.
- I'd second that.
- Driving back?
- Yeah.
I'll walk with you.
- I gave you your condolences to Lee.
- Fine.
Did something happen
between the two of you?
Billy told me he took
the rap for Novick.
On purpose.
She knew about it and
didn't do anything.
Maybe she couldn't.
Well, he wouldn't just take the
blame for something he didn't do
unless someone made him.
Let it go, Gracie.
He's trying to move on. Let him.
[ENGINE STARTS]
I'm sorry about your dad.
What do you want?
I have to start up a site
just outside Dupont City
and I didn't want you to hear I
left, and think it was because of you.
And
I wanted to make sure that you're okay.
I'm fine.
Landwill likes the image
of a family company.
A steady home life.
And just so you know, she, um
She understands.
She let's you screw around?
No, not screw around.
That's a very loose definition
of "for better, for worse."
Tell me how it works.
Do you have a guy in every town?
- Of course not, and it was different
- [SCOFFS]
- I'm serious, something happened with you.
- I said shut the fuck up!
[SIGHS]
My first impulse is the bad choice.
You think I'm bad for you?
I think
you've gotta go to Dupont City.
Issac
[MAN] Can I help you?
Are you looking for
something for self-defense?
No. I'm hunting.
Small game? Big game?
Try this one.
The ones highlighted in yellow
support the notion she had
her husband disappeared.
"Getting it done. Soon.
X." "No one but you."
You think a blue heart
symbol is evidence
she had her husband assassinated?
Let me show you the financials.
What does this even mean?
Mean purple cartoon
face then a peace sign.
- That's not important.
- Who's the purple guy?
It's an emoji. The devil.
A horny devil?
- You know the word, "sext?"
- Sure.
Still need me to explain?
Oh, no.
Here.
Is the "peace sign fingers" also a sext?
- Yes.
- No. It is?
- Let me show you
- Wait, tell me.
Hey, desperado, look it up.
Chief, see this deposit?
A payment to her on January
22nd from an offshore account.
Untraceable, I checked. Fifteen grand.
And then this, same day, January 22nd,
a text from a burner phone, 5-0-6-8.
I think it's a 4-digit PIN
so she can retrieve the money.
- What money?
- [ANGELA] That's my point.
If she's the one hiring,
why is she getting payouts?
[KEYS CLICKING]
[NELL] Come on, Marta.
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
- Hey.
- Hey.
Where was it, exactly?
Under the juniper bush
at the end of the row.
[STEVE] Did you touch it?
[MAYA] Just with my gloves.
I've been waiting for you.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC LAYING]
[SOBBING]
Run ballistics, I guarantee
it's the gun used to kill Sue.
You guarantee?
It's the right caliber and
it was planted on my property
by Grace Poe or Del Harris.
Grace didn't like the deal
that Sue Herlitz offered Billy,
so she used this gun to kill Sue,
and now she's trying to frame me.
So you've lost touch with
reality completely, huh?
- Can I show you something ?
- Steve, baby
It It'll just take a second.
This one here's West Virginia.
Harris must've been wearing a flak
jacket because there's this area here
where he would have a buckshot
in the heart if he wasn't.
If you look here, it explains
the odd pattern on the wall.
[DELUCA] Enough.
Photograph all of this.
[SIGHS]
If you wanna use them, we can bring
them to the station, I don't mind.
[DELUCA] I don't wanna use them.
But if I have to describe this and the
person I'm telling doesn't believe me,
I want a picture.
I'll run the ballistics and
as a professional courtesy
I won't relieve you of your weapon.
But this all of this is crazy.
Get some help.
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[CELL PHONE BUZZING]
You've been down here for two hours.
You should have asked me
before you showed them to anyone else.
[WOOD CRACKING]
[MAYA SCOFFS]
That was mature.
[FOOTSTEPS ON THE STAIRS]
Are you going through those?
Yes.
No time like the present.
Please don't.
No time like the present.
Come in.
Mind if I close the door?
I have something delicate.
I don't know if I should
be telling you this.
Maybe I'm paranoid, it's all in my head.
This Cynthia and Vic, again?
Promise me you won't do anything
without telling me first.
Promise.
This is a picture Walker
sent to Cynthia as a threat.
This guy was Mike Orr's perp.
Not Walker's.
The picture was date-stamped two
days before the body was reported.
Walker killed him and sat
on the body for two days.
When it was reported, it
wasn't where it is here.
Orr knew. He's the one who called it in.
Others too. You can't stash a body
at a fresh crime scene without help.
I think Del is in on it.
I think this one of many
murders committed and covered up
by detectives at this precinct.
I know I can find proof of more.
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[DOOR CLOSES]
Hi.
I was, uh, out all night.
How is Russell?
[SIGHS]
What are you doing?
Sending out clean water tests.
Landwill sweeps into town,
befriends people they're
only going to use
Go somewhere new and do it again.
It's not just the water they
poison, it's every person they touch.
Yeah, detective? You got a pen?
- Excuse me?
- [OFFICER] Yeah, it's a C, A
C as in cat, yeah.
- Excuse me.
- I'll be with you in a moment.
- A
- I'm Nell McKenna.
I killed my husband, I sent
a bomb through the mail.
Cuff me and get it over with.
[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
Have a seat, Del.
[DOOR CLOSES]
Ahh.
Mike.
[DEVICE BEEPS]
Now me.
Vic was wearing a wire.
So we're taking precautions.
Empty your pockets.
[MIKE] The other one.
Come on.
[LAUGHING]
Big night, tonight?
Jesus, how many dick
pills does one man need?
Shut up.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[MIKE] Del.
[DEVICE CLICKING SOFTLY]
[MIKE] Your pockets, Del.
We have a problem.
Your partner, Harris.
She's been asking a
whole lot of questions.
Mike's stepped up. He's
gonna take care of it.
With your help, of course.
Grace, can you give me
one of those napkins?
I know what you did.
[BILLY] Next on
American Rust: Broken Justice
Go ahead, open it.
When did you make the plan?
When Liam found out about Marta.
Was that before or after
the money transfers?
Did you put that under my kitchen table?
Hey, why don't you take
a ride with me, kiddo?
Got a surprise for you.
What have you done?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]