Being Human (US) s02e11 Episode Script

Previously on Being Human Janet, this is all my fault.
You're not crazy.
Reaper.
I'm never gonna be like you! You did things.
Horrible things.
Don't you get it, Sally? You are me.
I want you gone.
It's not that simple.
My last girlfriend, Nora, she's a wolf.
You want to be human and I don't think I do.
So you'd give up on us? - Josh? - Julia.
Julia the fiancée? I either bring her in closer or I break her heart.
Aidan, you will be my daughter's second.
In return, I would be willing to grant you freedom.
People love that cliché, "Time heals all wounds.
" When Mother arrives, she'll want to meet our police and she'll wanna tour the house where the orphans were dealt with.
I've also taken care of the entertainment.
Just a small feast of Boston's tastiest blood whores.
Mother can sample down the line like it's a flight of tequila.
We don't want her to get bored, do we? No, boring is good.
Boring means business as usual and that's exactly what we want her to see.
- This is as far as you go.
- Are you serious? I gave my skin to get back into this family.
Doesn't that afford me the right to do anything more than follow you around and open doors? You're back, Henry, and I'm glad you're back, but it's only been a few weeks.
You can't blame Suren if she still can't bear the sight of you.
Keep your cool.
It might take 2 or 3 decades, but you'll move up.
But live long enough, you realize that most clichés are true.
Please, allow me.
It's what I live for.
I'm sorry I'm late.
I've been going over preparations for Mother.
I should have waited to invite her.
No, no.
It's time.
The orphans are gone.
Boston is running again with precision.
It's flawless.
Suppose Mother comes and likes what she sees.
What then? I get more power? I get seated in a bigger city, the East Coast maybe.
Aren't you getting the slightest bit ahead of yourself? Mother is going to give you your freedom.
You could use it to come with me.
I haven't seen the world in 80 years.
I want to see it with you.
It's amazing what even the smallest passage of time can accomplish, the cuts it can close, the imperfections it can smooth over.
Wow! We are so hardcore, we've shut this place down You could come over.
I can't.
I have to go home and check on my water heater.
I'm sorry.
Josh, you need to quit apologizing for everything.
Your water heater, my salad earlier, the rain.
That is my fault.
I get it.
You feel bad.
You know, you could come over.
No, I-- I really can't.
Because of Aidan.
That was months ago and you're with me now again.
After everything we've been through, and everything that I did, I think we've overcome a pretty major hurdle, and Aidan is just a tiny hurdle.
It's not so much what happened with Aidan, it's how he treated me after it happened.
I told you that's my fault.
You made him talk to me like I was a whore? I did not do that.
I can appreciate how much he respects his friendship with you, but I still kind of hate him.
Good luck with your water heater.
But in the end, it comes down to the size of the wound, doesn't it? If the wound is deep enough, there might be no way to keep it from festering, even if you have all the time in the world.
Tonight, on Paranormal Witness You should go on that show.
If only they knew how much we liked people.
Something was just not right with the house.
You can't ignore me forever, Sally.
I just felt very unsettled.
And then, the nightmares started.
I didn't understand what I just saw.
Something stepped in front of me.
I feel like I'm watching stories with my Meemaw! Sorry.
I was trying to drown out the Reaper.
These are things I can't explain Wait.
Whoa, whoa, whoa! He's here? No, not right now.
He comes and goes.
Could we not talk about him, please? Or me, for that matter? History shows that us ignoring your problems doesn't really work out well for anyone, so, if you don't mind, we will maintain the current level of care and concern.
We just wanna help you get better.
I don't think there is any getting better from this.
I shredded ghosts.
I robbed them of any chance they had at moving on.
And it's not just ghosts.
I wrecked the lives of people who were actually alive.
What? I saw that look.
What-- what do you know? Uh, Janet, Dr.
Forest's girlfriend Mm-hmm? she was, uh, brought into the hospital a week ago to the, uh, psychiatric ward.
Oh my god! Why wouldn't you tell me this? You'd been through enough.
We didn't wanna make you feel guilty.
Well, I am guilty, aren't I? She's in the psyche ward because I possessed her.
Hey.
So, I want to invite Julia over for dinner tomorrow night and I would like it if you could be there too.
Well, that sounds like it could be weird.
Exactly, yes.
I need to get the two of you in a room together and confront any mutual weirdness that there might be, just slap it in the face.
Please, man.
Listen.
I need to take this thing to the next stage with her.
What next stage? You already slept with her.
That wasn't me.
Stu stole my penis.
Yeah.
And besides, this isn't about sleeping together, it's about estab-- Re-establishing an honest-to-God relationship.
With a woman that you were gonna marry.
Aren't you rushing this a little bit? Look, Josh, I know that it hurt when Nora left.
This has nothing to do with Nora.
This is about me.
This is my do-over, man.
Julia is decent and beautiful and normal.
- Fine, I'll do it.
- Fantastic! I'll bring Suren.
- We'll double.
- Awful.
You're not the only one who's digging up bones here, you know.
we had something strong.
In present day, it's complicated and I need to know if we can have something beyond circumstance, see if she can do with the mundane parts of my life.
OK, I'm gonna blow past the fact that you just called me mundane, and agree to this deal.
Make sure you tell Suren about Julia.
Why? Well, there are certain golden rules to a relationship, one being never put your current girlfriend in a room with an old girlfriend without warning her.
Well, Julia's-- No! No, this is a very good idea, especially when the new girlfriend could potentially eat the old girlfriend.
They just come to me, like memories.
That's the house I lived in.
I mean, I've never lived there, but I have.
And what about this woman? How do you know her? Mom.
I don't know.
But I love her.
In what way? I-- I think that's enough for today.
All right? You could help her, you know? You could go back into Janet.
No, I can't do that.
Well, at least you're talking to me again.
It makes sense and you know it.
You slip inside her, answer the shrink's questions, just tell her what she wants to hear.
Janet would be out of this nut hut in a matter of days.
Absolutely not! I am not playing telephone for you and Janet.
Josh, please! I just need to let Janet know that she's not insane! By telling her she was possessed? She deserves to know the truth.
The truth to the normal people of this world is that Janet is a woman who had a break with reality.
If she gets further entrenched in the belief that you're real, she won't make any progress, and neither will you.
This isn't about me.
But it is.
It's all about you.
You wanna fix Janet so you don't feel so bad, but what you did is just as bad for you.
You were addicted to being her, Sally.
What will we be eating? Does it matter? I'm just a bit overwhelmed.
Mother will be here tomorrow and instead of making preparations, I'm sitting down at a table with a ghost and a dog.
OK, listen.
You need to remember this, Josh is not a dog.
He's not a wolf.
He's my closest friend.
Things are gonna change after Mother's visit.
Things between us are gonna be more about us.
And so, if we're gonna be together, you have to learn to accept my friends.
Of course, and your roommate's girlfriend, Julia.
She's human.
Yes, she's very human.
Do you think it's fair for her to sit down at a table, share a meal with us, completely blinded to the truth? Listen, about Julia-- Are you guys gonna stand out here all night, let my chicken get cold? Josh, this is Suren.
Suren, Josh.
Hi.
I'm Sally.
Oh! Hello.
Suren, please come inside of my house.
Uh, it's gonna be great.
This is painful! Somebody talk before I start watching loud TV! Julia! Um, I wanted to ask you how-- how-- how, um, how are you adjusting to the hospital? Oh, God! Well, it's been 3 months since we last spoke, so the adjustment's pretty much over.
It's a funny thing about roast chicken.
Everyone always assumes it's about the spices, but really, it's the slow cooking, that you-- to really seal in those juices.
And that's probably why it's so delicious.
Mmm! It is.
Thank you.
And you keep such a clean home, Josh.
I'm impressed.
You're a credit to your kind.
What's his kind? Jewish? Dude-ish! Right? 'Cause he's a dude and he's-- He's a clean dude and dudes are messy.
It's just a fact.
This conversation is not better.
So, how do you two know each other? Aidan used to work for my family, mainly keeping an eye on me.
I was always getting in trouble, because it was the only way to get his attention.
Yeah, right.
You have no idea how long I've loved you, do you? How long? How long have you loved him? My mother and I have always been hot and cold.
Uh, after one particular blow up, Mother wanted to make peace.
She gave me a black orchid.
Oh! Very delicate flower, the orchid.
Well, I was determined to let it die out of some form of foolish protest.
So I refused to water it, denied it light, and yet, day after day, it thrived.
And then I saw someone tending to it.
You saw that? I wasn't sure if you were trying to keep the peace for the sake of keeping the peace, or you were trying to protect me, but watching you care for that flower - Julia and I were co-captains of the speech team.
We were.
Forgive me.
I'm sharing too much.
Uh, TV? Do you watch any TV? - She doesn't-- - Antiques Roadshow.
Really? Antiques Roadshow! You watch Antiques Roadshow? That is literally my favourite program, hands down.
- He loves it.
- What's his name? Rudy Franchi? Man is a god.
Husky, but knowledgeable.
Bring her over more.
Husky! Am I really high, or did we just pull this thing off? I stopped wanting to claw my eyes out by dessert.
Yeah, I think we're good.
- May I ask you a question? - Sure? Does Josh know you and Aidan have been together? - He does.
- Oh, sweet Lord.
Oh my god! I've been sitting here wondering the whole time whether Aidan had told you or not.
He hadn't.
Oh.
I've smelled you before on him.
Ah, you wear a very distinct perfume.
It's quite lovely.
You didn't tell her? What about the rule? I feel like she's gonna eat her.
- Do something.
- Shhh! I had no idea about you.
Oh, we, uh, weren't together at the time.
I had only just returned to Boston.
OK, whoa.
I would hate to be that woman, an "overlapper".
I mean, this conversation would be a lot different if we had overlapped.
Yes, it would.
Who wants more coffee? I would love some.
OK, here you go.
Uh-oh! "Spilly"! Just a little bit.
It's an old tablecloth.
That's fine.
I got hungry, and I knew how much you wanted to taste her.
Share her with me.
What are you doing? We keep talking about how much everything's changed in 80 years, Boston, you.
But I don't know if I've changed enough for all of this.
Your life, where do I fit in it? Come here.
You were amazing tonight and you fit perfectly.
So, are we gonna talk about last night? The chicken was delicious! Uh-huh.
You really sealed the crap out of those juices.
I do my best.
It was fine.
So if I was going to ask you to come over again I would think about it.
Meet me in the atmosphere I'll take that.
Don't worry I'll take you there I'm lost and what is home? It's not a place I need Or a place I know Oh my god.
Ooh Hi, Julia.
Hey.
Uh, I gotta go.
I'm late for rounds.
That was brutal.
What are you doing here? I'm-- I'm trying to fix things.
You're too late.
You could've come back when I was angry, you could've come back when I was confused.
It would've been great if you'd popped back up when I was still worried to death about you, but now-- Now there's Julia.
That was fast.
A lot of things have been happening very suddenly lately.
Where is Brynn? I don't wanna know the answer to that.
I'm sorry, Josh.
I was confused when I left, after everything that I'd seen and done.
It was a mistake, one of many that I wanna make up for starting with you.
Well, like I said, you're too late.
She wants you back.
I told her I'm with you.
I don't know if you should've done that.
What? Why? We can't keep pretending to move slowly like we just met.
We were engaged, OK? You don't wade back in after that.
You dive.
If you're gonna leave me, I want you to do it now No.
before I get in this any deeper.
I don't wanna get crushed again.
I'm not gonna do that.
I'm not saying this to get promises from you.
I want you to think about this conversation and whatever Nora said too.
Chantal Preston, extension 1145.
Nora? What are you doing here? Trying unsuccessfully to get my job back.
Hmm Have you seen Josh? Yeah, and Julia.
Oh.
Mm-hmm.
So how are you doing? You really wanna know? I've wrecked so many lives, Nora, starting with Janet.
But I think that she could be the thing that I set straight, if I could just make contact with her.
How do you know you can get through to her? I don't.
But I can't just not try.
Let me help you.
Seriously? I still have a few friends in here, friends who owe me favors.
When I brought my daughter out of the ground, and handed her the task of cleaning up Boston, many of you expected her to fail, as did I.
But in less than a year, she has shaped chaos into order.
Suren, the reward for hard work is usually more hard work, and that is to be the case with you.
You will continue to govern this city for the council.
So I will be staying here.
For how long? Until I deem otherwise.
So there is to be no advancement.
There may be in time.
Mother, why are you doing this? Are you unhappy with me? I am quite satisfied.
But a few months of "quite satisfied" don't make up for 8 centuries of "utterly disappointed".
And Aidan, you were to help Suren with Boston and I would grant you freedom from our world.
I believe you've kept up your end.
So now, I'm going to grant you freedom in the truest sense of the word.
You can enjoy your mortals and all their society holds for you, because this world is now sealed off to you all places and all people.
Mother, you can't mean this.
No one in our world is to have anything to do with Aidan White.
Any vampire found in contact with this man will be put to death.
How can you do this to me, after everything that I've done for this family, after everything that I've sacrificed for her? Come now, every move you've made, you've made for your own benefit.
And now, you can leave.
Yeah, and you can go to hell.
You dare to speak this way to me? This is what freedom sounds like.
I should turn you to dust right here.
But we know how fragile this one can be.
So enjoy the mercy I'm showing you now.
Then right when I think my mind is made up, Julia tells me to unmake it.
Didn't you tell me yourself earlier that Julia's the reason we got into this thing? Yeah, yeah.
But what Nora and I have is bigger.
It's biological.
Well, maybe it's guilt.
You might've made her into what you are, but she's let herself become what she is now.
You all right? What's up? You just seem extra broody today.
I'm free.
What? You're f-f-free from Everything, all of it.
Then isn't this great news? I mean, shouldn't you be, like, in a field somewhere, wearing white linen, rolling around in daisies? It's not freedom, Josh.
It's banishment.
I am banished from all vampires under penalty of death.
So no blood dens.
No food.
What am I gonna eat? No clean-up crew.
What the hell am I gonna do when I slip up? Don't.
Don't slip up.
That's not all.
I--I can't see Suren.
Listen, I've seen you bottom out.
That guy you drank from right before you went into violent convulsions, that was me.
So if you really wanna go clean, don't you think it's best if you eliminate the people that you got dirty with? Suren isn't just some drug buddy, Josh.
Freedom without her means nothing.
Uh I love her.
So what are you gonna do? Those are beautiful.
I know you, don't I? Yeah, I used to work here.
I know Tim Forest.
Oh.
But there's someone else we have in common.
Who? Her name's Sally.
The memories in these drawings they're hers.
I've been here before.
This house I see it in my dreams.
Sally? You're not sick, Janet.
Sally is a ghost.
And the reason that you have her memories is because she possessed you.
Hey.
You got a lot of nerve setting up this meeting.
I could be killed.
I wouldn't ask if it wasn't important.
Anyone follow you? Does it matter? My life is forfeit with you cast out.
Uh-uh.
No, you've paid your debt to Mother, you're safe for now.
But, Henry, let me ask you do you think I'm a fool? What? I wanna trust you.
Hell, I need to trust you.
Every chance that I've given you, you've turned into a grenade and you've lobbed it back at me.
That's not me anymore.
Aidan, I swear you can trust me.
OK.
All right.
I need a favour.
That was the first car I owned.
That was Sally's car.
You know all this because Sally's telling you? This is futile, you know.
You can help every living soul on Earth, but you'll never get rid of me.
Just please tell her I'm sorry.
Sally is a good person.
So she ruined me? She was weak.
She never thought of the consequences.
She would do anything to take it back.
Wait.
You're a patient here too.
What? A schizophrenic or a compulsive liar.
You heard me babbling to the doctors and made up your own version in your head.
No.
Sally, I need a little help here.
What do you want me to do? Please stop talking like that! I don't know, something "ghosty".
Do I look like Patrick Swayze to you? What can I do to make you believe me? "The trees blow in the breeze.
"The bees buzz by my knees.
" No way.
What is that? It's a poem.
I want you to finish it.
OK.
Sally? I wrote that when I was 9.
I don't-- I don't know if I can remember.
The trees blow in the breeze, the bees buzz by my knees.
Sally, you tried.
She doesn't want help.
Let's just go home.
Please.
Please, please.
"I look at the clouds" "I look at the clouds.
" "I wait for the sun" "I wait for the sun" "And yell, 'Please, please, please!'" "And yell, 'Please, please, please!'" Is that it? It's OK, Janet.
We're gonna get you out of here.
OK.
This means nothing.
This means everything.
I know that the good in me is stronger than you.
I'm stronger than you.
Sally? Go.
Who were you talking to? Nothing.
I'm talking to nothing.
You think Janet's gonna be OK? I think so.
You know what else I think? I think you are a horrible poet.
You couldn't listen to me? You need weight off your conscience, so when I won't help, you have to find somebody who's equally as damaged.
Leave her alone, Josh.
You are amazing.
I can't believe that I was trying to convince myself that you'd really changed.
I'm trying to.
Yeah.
Well, thanks for the moment of clarity.
Stay away from me.
Hello.
Oh! I was worried Henry was setting a trap, but I had to risk it.
It's OK.
He can be trusted now.
It's OK.
I thought I'd never get to say goodbye.
Now you don't have to.
Come away with me.
You said you wanted to see the world.
Now we can.
It's-- it's not that easy.
This isn't the future I'm supposed to have.
If you think that Mother is ever gonna let you lead, you're lying to yourself.
Suren, no one knows the future that they're supposed to have.
Maybe Mother's cruelty is a blessing in disguise.
I wanted my freedom.
You wanted to move on from Boston.
She's made me realize that we can have it all.
We can create a new life together.
How far and how fast? Thank you so much.
I'm so proud of you, Janet.
I'm just glad it's over.
Hopefully it's the last time we'll see you here.
You're in good hands.
All right.
Sally? You here? Hey.
Janet's home.
She was released.
That's good.
That's it? You save a woman from insanity and you say that's good? I know.
I yelled.
I was just worried you were doing the wrong thing and I've been just so worried about you lately.
Then Nora's back and the choices she's making Aidan's leaving.
What? He's not leaving.
He's leaving? Where is he going? I don't know yet.
Couldn't tell you anyway.
I thought when you said "banished", you didn't mean entirely from Boston.
This is my choice.
I'm gonna enjoy my freedom, and Suren's gonna enjoy it with me.
No lights on in that house You can't go! What about all this? Fitting in with people? Where does being a vampire fugitive fit in with that? Josh.
I am a vampire.
And the reason we got into this was to be happy.
And I think that that I can be happy with Suren.
Aidan, we need you.
We're strongest together, aren't we? Yeah, I'm not so sure about that.
Listen, you two, you're gonna be strong without me.
I know you can.
Something beautiful How do we get in touch with you? You can't.
How do you get in touch with us? I can't.
I mean, not even a letter? Mother would use it to find us.
You can't hack somebody's email? I'm sorry, guys.
This is it.
I can't just run.
I have to disappear.
out of the city I like the stolen email idea.
I'll try to reach out when I'm safe.
Good.
I gotta go now.
It's only time Going by It's only time Ain't it something beautiful? I'll always be here for you.
Know that.
Something beautiful Actually, he won't.
But I will.
Something beautiful Look me up in a couple hundred years.
Something beautiful I love you both.
It's only time Just like that? Going by Just like that.
It's only time Ain't it something beautiful? Hey.
I know you're mad.
But I have to talk to you.
OK, but I owe you an apology first.
You two were right helping Janet.
Don't apologize.
I'm a mess.
I went off to explore my new instincts and impulses.
What happened out there? Brynn.
I always thought that she was the one that kept Connor at bay.
Now I know it was the opposite.
That girl has got an appetite for violence, the purest, swiftest angriest violence I've ever seen.
And what about your appetite? I got full.
That's why I wanted to help Sally.
I didn't think you'd come back.
The way we left things-- I know.
I know.
And now you're happy with Julia.
And you deserve to be, Josh.
I just want what's best for you.
I hope you can believe that when I tell you this: There's other things I learned out there with Brynn.
I learned how you can get back everything you ever wanted and never have to worry about hurting anyone ever again.
You're not making any sense.
I know how to lift this curse, Josh forever.
It's about finding the man who turned you.
I'm the one who turned you.
I'm the one who gave you this gift.
If you find him and you kill him you're free.
No! It can't be that easy! I-- I-- Who told you this? It's true, Josh.
So, in order to cure myself permanently, I have to kill Ray? No! You need to take words like "cure" and "condition" and throw them out the window! This situation is not medical, Josh.
It's supernatural! It's a good, old-fashioned curse! Brynn told you this.
- Yes! - Yeah? Purebreads know.
She told me the specifics.
If you want to lift this curse, you have to kill Ray while he's still a man.
- I have to kill Ray! - Before the change.
Which means you have to do it before you change.
You can save yourself, Josh.
You can kill the son of a bitch who did this to you and get your life back.
I can't! Killing him won't make me normal.
It'll make me a murderer.
I'll still be every bit the monster I still am now.
Why are you smiling? Because I knew that would be your answer.
Wait! OK, let's just say this is all true.
Why haven't you killed me to cure yourself? I can see how much pain you're in.
I'm not in pain because of what I am.
I'm in pain because of what I've done.
And I could never kill you, Josh.
I love you too much.
This is not what I expected.
It's temporary.
We have to bury ourselves, and that means staying in places like this, using cash.
Suren, are you all right? I'm hungry.
Yeah, me too.
There's a small hospital one town over.
We can go there in the morning to get food.
I don't think that will do.
I know you don't want bagged blood, but we can't leave a trail of bodies behind-- You don't understand! I'm hungry now.
Feed with me! I think I overestimated my resolve.
OK, I'll get you some food.
Just, um, wait here.
I'll be right back.
Hurry.
It's how we know He rolled up his sleeves to his elbows When the boxes were filled And ever still a part of me For anyone I still believe While I was self-propelled It's none of your concern anymore 'Cause I know some people That could carry us around I told my mom and she was like, "I'm sure it was just the wind.
" But I wasn't imagining it.
There was definitely something up there.
What was that? And we heard these footsteps.
It was very loud, very heavy.
My daughter hears it, I hear it.
We're startled, we're scared What was that? It's how you were raised Ah You can't speak to insult your age On the face of the Earth Ah And we can take it now Because I know some people You thought we'd just let you run? Come now, Aidan.
Surely you know me better than that.
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