Marvel's The Punisher (2017) s02e11 Episode Script

1 No! How's he doing? He's a mess.
He's got multiple lacerations to the face, torso, arms and legs.
He's lost a lot of blood.
Can't even guess the internal injuries.
No! What the hell happened to him? He killed a bunch of people.
That's what he does.
Yeah? Somebody might have returned the favor.
- Whoa! Whoa! - Hey, hey.
Easy, easy, easy.
Scale of one to ten, what's your pain level? No! - Can someone remove these cuffs? - The cuffs stay on.
- I need two bags of saline.
- Got it.
- BP's 80 over 50.
- Resting heart rate is 120.
Give me 50 micrograms of phentermine.
Someone close these curtains, please.
Surgery prep.
Amy, it's Curtis.
Where's Frank? Curtis.
Curtis, where is he? What happened? Are Hey, are you hurt? Curtis.
Is he dead? No.
Okay, well, then why is he I don't know what happened.
Frank went in there, and the shit hit the fan Okay, so what? You just left him there? The police got him.
They put him in an ambulance.
That's Okay.
How bad? I mean, was he walking? Was he - Curtis, what happened to him? - I don't know.
- Was it Billy? - I don't know.
Well, you must know something.
I know I killed a man and shot others.
That's what I know.
I've held men as they were dying, many men but never one that I put there myself, not one with my bullet still in him.
I never realized how different it would feel.
With our rock-bottom prices and 100 percent financing known as the Punisher was arrested today in what appears to be a massive shoot-out at a warehouse in Queens.
Reports are coming in of several fatalities.
Castle was taken into police custody and is being treated for injuries at Sacred Saints Hospital.
No further details about the incident or his condition are available at We have to get him out.
- Now.
- Amy, don't.
Look, if he's at the hospital, that means he's hurt.
Forget the cops.
Curtis, every hit man in town is gonna go after that five million.
- We have to help him.
- Amy, helping him is what put us here.
And what are we gonna do, huh? Run down to the hospital with guns blazing to bust him out? It's done.
I'm done.
So that's it, huh? That's all you're gonna do? I'm gonna take a shower.
That's what I'm gonna do.
And you are loved.
Finish this.
Come home to me.
Pilgrim residence.
- Eliza.
- Hello, John.
Could I speak with Rebecca, please? I've missed her previous calls.
Yes, we've been trying to reach you.
Is something wrong? Rebecca's resting right now, John, but if you stay by the phone Then who just called me? That was me.
I promised Rebecca I'd try and get hold of you.
She was worried about you.
- We all were.
- Yeah, well, um I'm all right.
Stay by the phone then, John.
I will.
I'm not going anywhere.
Are you all right, John? Yeah, I just need to hear her voice.
Yeah.
Being away makes you understand you're not as strong as you think.
I'll wait.
All right, John.
Injury prevention coordinator, call 2345.
Injury prevention coordinator, call 2345.
Hello.
Ma'am, this area is restricted.
Hospital staff and police only.
Yeah, I'm Karen Page.
I work with Nelson and Murdock.
They're Mr.
Castle's lawyers of record.
Uh, I have strict orders.
All right.
Uh, Officer Smith, you know what else is strict? The Bill of Rights.
Especially the Sixth Amendment, which establishes a defendant's right to the assistance of counsel.
Furthermore, neither the federal nor the state government may deprive a person of their legal rights.
That's due process.
Look, the only reason that I'm saying this is so that you realize that by keeping me from conferring with my client, we're risking a mistrial and Frank Castle walking free.
Now, I am sure that your coworkers at the precinct would not appreciate that, now would they? No, I guess not.
- All right, just go.
Just go.
- Thank you.
Thank you very much.
She's good.
It's his lawyer.
Frank? Hey.
How are you feeling? It's kind of familiar, isn't it? So, um I watched the news.
I'm assuming this has something to do with Billy Russo.
What? Did he see you coming? Frank? You should walk away.
What? You think you can scare me off that easy? You know better than that.
Besides, I don't really think you want me to go.
Look, it's a It's a tough situation.
It's nothing we haven't dealt with before.
We just have to figure out what to do about it.
I did it.
Karen I killed three women.
Maybe I could help.
Yeah, you're not gonna fix this.
Okay? Doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter what you did.
It doesn't change how I feel about you.
It should.
It doesn't.
Make sure you tag all those, and make sure nobody goes up there, indefinitely.
Special Agent in Charge Madani.
Quite something, huh? - Thanks for letting me in.
- Well, I wanted you to see this.
See what all your bullshit led to.
It seems Castle forgot his code, huh? Castle came in via an underground tunnel.
We found a ton of evidence and some dead bodies.
Castle took out several men wearing masks just like this one.
Well, we both know someone else who wore a mask like that.
Castle came here after Russo.
Yeah, probably.
But the weird thing is, it looks like they knew he was coming and they didn't kill him.
We found rock salt, rubber bullets.
Castle is beat half to death.
Russo wanted Castle to suffer.
I don't give a damn what any of them wanted.
I've got three dead women who had nothing to with any of this shit.
Come with me.
There was three dead unarmed women laying there.
Shot to hell.
Their bodies are on the way to the hospital morgue right now.
Castle came up here like a madman and shot the shit out of this place.
Best guess is Russo was up here using the women for cover, and Castle just - shot right through 'em.
- No, that's not how Frank operates.
We arrested him standing over their bodies with the gun still in his hand.
Now, he may not have planned on it, but he did it.
And he ain't saying different.
What is he saying? - He ain't saying shit.
- But nothing about Russo? About what happened? About where Billy might be? How you feeling right now, Dinah? Awful.
Sick.
Does that make you happy? Would you let me talk to him? - Why would I do that? - He might speak to me.
And what? - Get your story straight? - Okay, I guess I deserve that.
Maybe I could get him to give us Russo.
We could finish this once and for all.
- And you'll give Russo to me? - Yes.
You have my word.
Uh What the hell? Can't hurt.
I'll call the hospital, tell 'em to let you in.
Hey, sleepyhead.
Hi.
Frank! Hey, hey.
- Wait - It's okay.
God damn.
What's that all about, huh? This dream is always the goddamn same.
Christ.
We just loved doing that.
Maria and the kids They're there, but I can't reach 'em.
You know, I I can't tell them that the monster's coming.
Day they died, I told Maria that I was done, that I wasn't going back.
I'd just got home the night before.
And when I woke up, I saw her face.
It just came at me.
But, like, the second it did, I knew it was right.
It was like this this weight got got lifted off my shoulders, you know? For both of us, you know? She knew it was right.
The kids, too.
I was just ready, you know? It was time.
I just I wanted to be with them.
But that day, we went to that park, and the kids were too old for that stupid carousel, but that day they just laughed, you know? They were laughing.
We were all laughing like idiots.
And then And that laughter, it stuck with me, you know? After I lost them, it would just It would echo, you know? It was over and over.
And it wasn't just in my dreams.
It was, like It was in my heart, you know? And I just I wanted to hold onto it.
I wanted to live in it and just hear that laughter, but Thing is, I can't hear it anymore.
It's all I had.
It's gone.
It's gone.
You know, and all I have is the looks on their faces after the bullets ripped through their bodies.
You see, the thing is, Karen, is they had time, yeah? They didn't die straight away.
They had time.
My son, Frankie, you know, he he tried to be brave, he tried to fight, but My daughter, too.
They just looked at me like like, "Why, Daddy?" They didn't understand.
Like, "Why? Why?" I think about those women, you know? What were their faces like, you know? What were they thinking about when my bullets, my bullshit, when it ripped right through them and ended everything they had Frank, no, you didn't know.
- You didn't know they were there.
- It's not that I didn't know.
I didn't care.
I didn't care.
Right then, I would've killed anything that got in my way.
You know what that means, right? Now I'm the monster.
Yeah.
If any of those pieces of shit that I killed, if they deserved to die so do I.
nurse to the ER, stat.
Any available cardiac care nurse to the ER, stat.
Afternoon, Officer.
Dr.
Mason sent me down to perform a neurological exam on, uh, Frank Castle.
- Is he down here? - Yeah.
You look too young to be a nurse, if you don't mind me saying.
Mind? No, of course not.
Why would I mind? But I am registered and everything.
- Mary Morrison.
- All right, got ya.
So, this guy, is he dangerous or something? Nah.
He's beat to shit.
And he's cuffed, but Right.
What's he gonna do, right? With all you guys here to protect me? Now, can I get this done, please? Yeah, you can go.
Come on.
She's good.
You need to leave.
I'm here to perform an exam, and he has to get naked.
Jesus Christ.
- What? You know her? - Who are you? Uh, I'm Karen Page, and I'm guessing that you're not a nurse.
Who are you? - Frank? - Nobody.
She's nobody.
Yeah, that's right.
I'm the nobody who came to get you out.
- God damn it.
- Thanks a bunch.
You look awful.
Can you, like, move or anything? No? Well, it doesn't matter.
You're gonna have to.
Hey.
God damn it.
Listen to me, Frank.
We have to get out of here before they come.
- You need to leave now.
- Who's "they"? "They" is every hit man in New York.
There's a five million dollar bounty on our heads, and it's pretty easy to collect with you cuffed to a bed.
- Is that true? - Are you kidding me? Well, shit.
Looks like the gang's all here.
- Karen.
- Dinah.
Madani, you need to get her out of here.
She's in danger.
She needs to be protected.
Is this from the man in the black hat again? No, apparently they need protection from every hit man in New York.
Or so she says.
Whoever she is.
She is Frank's new little helper.
You should watch your purse with her.
- Look, why are hit men after you? - It's a long story.
I don't God.
She'll tell you the whole thing once you get out of here.
It is not safe for you to be here.
Well, I'm not leaving without you.
Can't you just, like, wave your stupid badge around or something? Get him out? No, I can't.
Well, he's gonna get killed either here or in jail.
Either one, he doesn't deserve.
Will you please help me get him out? I wanna help, but we can't just walk him out like this.
Didn't I ask you to stay with Curtis? Did I say that? - What did I say to you? - Madani.
How's our boy doing? I see you, Dinah no matter how many locks you put on your door.
And I see Frank, no matter how many cops you surround him with.
Are you gonna visit him every day? Like you visited me? So why don't you come down here, Billy? Join the party? Can he hear me? Yes.
How's it feel, Frankie? To be locked up in a cage like an animal? To be confined to a room with nothing but your miserable thoughts to comfort you? Nothing temporary about that pain.
It's like a waking death.
Like you're burning in hell.
Yeah.
Yeah, you're your own devil now, Frankie boy.
And you are no better than me.
Are you done, Bill? No, you, you're done! And every day, you'll remember that I'm the one that put you there.
Isn't that just how it goes? I win, Frank.
I win.
You put him exactly where we planned.
Yeah, well Sometimes that's just not enough.
What else is there? I thought this is what you wanted? Well, the thing about getting what you wanted is that sometimes it's a disappointment.
The getting it is the thing.
And then afterwards, you feel kinda hollow.
I wanted to make you happy to find some release so we could move forward.
But I guess I'm not getting what I want either.
It was a dark thing that we did.
How do you feel? I mean, those women, they're they're dead because of you.
I didn't know them.
They died hard, Krista.
Are you blaming me for I'm afraid that one day you will blame me.
You wanted to know how to get Castle where you wanted him.
I did that.
For you.
For us.
I'd do anything for us to be happy.
I think we both deserve to be happy together.
But we need to leave before they find you.
The police still want you.
And we have to go and leave everything we've done behind.
Are you sure? Hmm.
Are you sure that you want to give up everything that you've built? Everything that you worked so hard for? Are you sure? For me? What are you saying? I'm saying I'm saying it's not too late.
Nobody knows who you are.
I would know.
My whole life, I've felt like I've felt alone.
But not now.
You and I together, we we can have anything.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
You make me happy.
You make me so happy.
All finished.
How's he doing? Uh, he's a very sick man.
- Yeah, no shit.
- Yeah.
My next lucky customer.
This is new.
Those women, I don't figure Frank for that.
But you don't You don't have doubts, do you? Is that Is that why you're here? No, I'm here because this is as much my mess as it is his.
I'm the one who brought him back.
I don't know.
Maybe I'm just looking for ways to let us off the hook But? Come on, I hear a "but.
" But there are a whole load of things at the crime scene that don't add up.
And Billy calling like that.
I mean, maybe if there was some way to see the bodies So what's stopping you? This is Mahoney's case.
He let me talk to Frank because it suited him.
There's no way he'll let me do anything else.
I wouldn't if I was him.
Look Look, if there's even the slightest chance that Frank didn't do this, we have to check that out.
We need to be sure.
I mean, Frank seems pretty sure in there.
What if I could get you in the morgue? Take a look at the bodies.
How the hell are you gonna manage that? John.
What happened? - John - What happened? She went peacefully last night.
- Please, John, let us pray together.
- Stop.
Stop.
Last night? Last night? Come home to me.
She brought me back.
There's What's that? John.
Oh, John.
No.
She was here.
Hey, Ed.
Things just got a whole lot brighter down here.
How's my favorite investigator? Actually, in need of a favor.
- Oh, this is Homeland SAC Dinah Madani.
- Hi.
- She's a friend of mine.
- Homeland, huh? Well, a treasure to meet you.
You come to see the ME? 'Cause he's not here right now.
No, please.
I came for information straight up.
So I came to you.
You know more about what happens here than anyone else.
Look, I was kind of hoping that we could view the bodies of the three female victims that came in from the Frank Castle shoot-out last night.
They haven't been processed, right? No, they're on the docket for first thing tomorrow.
- That's kind of a tall order, Karen.
- Yeah, I know.
I'm sorry, but Look, Ed, I'd owe you big time.
How big? Okay.
Yup.
- Really? - Mmm-hmm.
They were all brought in first thing this morning.
Messy.
Not nice at all.
You examined them? Sure did.
Same as everyone down here.
Always good to know everything you can know, you know? Do you mind if I take a look? Actually Ed, why don't you tell us what you saw? - You squeamish? - I'll get by.
All righty then.
All three died by gunshot wound.
This one had three, right? Any of them could have been fatal.
At that range, it was gonna be hard for anyone to survive.
Uh, sorry What do you mean by "that range"? Uh, well, see, they they still have gunpowder grains around the entry sites.
- See? - Yeah.
So the shooter was only a few feet from the victims.
What was the trajectory of the entry wounds? The exit wound was straight through, right? Parallel to the ground.
Looks to me like someone stood right in front of this girl and unloaded right into her.
And that's the same with all three? Yeah.
Okay.
Then I've seen enough.
The way they were shot doesn't fit.
They were executed, not caught in the crossfire.
Okay, tell me that means Frank didn't kill them.
Yes.
Anything else I could help you pretty ladies with? Uh No, Ed.
Thank you.
Really, you've been great.
Thanks for your help.
Um You should work with the police more.
I've tried several times.
You know I mean, at the end of the day, um they wouldn't hire me.
People think I'm a little strange.
They call me Creepy Ed.
They think I can't hear 'em, but I can.
- Thanks.
We've got to get - My senses are acute.
- You know - Karen.
You don't like that, huh? I mean, unless we're having sex or it's causing you pain.
Remember when I asked you about your dreams? - Yeah? - It's the same thing.
But I hated that, because I didn't remember.
I hate that I do.
I'm gonna make tea.
Hey, hey.
Whoa, whoa.
Sit down.
You know everything about me.
I mean, you got the files, the lawyers, cops everything I ever did.
Pretty much anything I ever I ever felt.
But you, I I really don't know anything.
I told you to ask once.
Yeah.
Yeah, and you told me You told me that you fell as a kid.
I did.
Yeah, but that's like me That's like me telling you that I hurt my shoulder.
There's the fact, and then there's what it means.
And whatever those scars mean to you, they led us here, to me, to you to everything we've done.
We killed people.
Together.
We killed people as sure as if you were standing next to me and pulling the trigger.
I did that to save you.
Yeah.
And why is that so important? Because I love you.
And you love me because you think that I need saving.
Who was KM? - Hmm? - In my file you said that I was like him.
Yes and no.
Did you love him, too? Yes.
He was my father.
He was a soldier in the army.
Two tours of Vietnam.
And afterwards, he struggled.
He loved us.
He tried.
But there was no one there to help him.
And I was just a kid, so I didn't know how to reach him.
One night, I woke up to him yelling at my mother.
And I learned later that she wanted a divorce.
I should have stayed in my room, but he was crying, so I just wanted to make everything okay and make him feel better.
He picked me up, hugged me told me he loved me more than anything.
And he said if he can't have me, then neither could she.
And he jumped out the window.
He died.
I lived.
He needed help.
He needed someone to save him, but there was no one there.
And now, I have my scars and I have my memories.
Rebecca was like a daughter to me.
And you are like a son.
The pain you feel, I feel.
She was my wife.
I should have been there, not here.
I know the promise you made Rebecca.
She knew you would've been with her if not for your work here.
She wanted the last thing that she saw in this world to be me.
You mustn't blame yourself.
These people who are trying to harm us, they are why you weren't with Rebecca.
This man, this Castle, he is the reason.
Yeah? He never did anything to me.
Your fight is for more than yourself.
It's for a way of life, a future for you and your boys.
My boys need me home.
But they need you certain, John.
Not home full of regrets and fears or resentments.
Anderson and I will protect them, just as we protect our own son, David, no matter what comes next.
But the hopes of all of us Rebecca, Michael, Lemuel, they still depend on you! Your work here it must be finished! You understand that? Yeah, I understand.
I understand.
God is testing you, John, like he tested Abraham.
He's using my boys to test my loyalty.
That's God doing that? Call it a final test of your faith.
Abraham proved he was capable of great sacrifice, and for that, his family prospered long after him.
I'm sure yours will, too.
Whoa.
You're early.
I happened to catch the express.
Record time.
All right.
How's he been? Quiet as a mouse.
Half dead by the sound of it.
- Good to know.
- Yeah.
All right.
Have a good one.
Hey, Castle.
Smile.
No? All right.
A little before and after, you know? Something for the scrapbook.
Five million bucks.
That's a lot of overtime, Frank.
It'd save the system the trouble of putting you on trial.
Not to mention the fact that you killed my cousin.
You cut one Irishman, and we all bleed.
Know what I'm saying? Any last words? - Shit.
- No! Hey! No! No! No! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey, you touch her, I'll kill you! You hear me? - Little bitch.
- Piece of shit! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey, God damn it! She's just a kid! Look at me! Look at me! I'm right here! Kill me! Hey! Let her go! God damn it! You let her go! - Jesus Christ! - You okay? - Jesus Christ.
- You okay? God damn you! I told you to stay away! I told you! You mother scratcher! What was that, huh? You were just gonna let him do it? You were just gonna let him kill you? Frank, you didn't do it.
You didn't kill those women.
What are you talking about? They were dead before you arrived.
- Billy set you up.
- You're not the monster.
You never were.
This is all great, but it helps absolutely nothing right now, okay? That was a cop that just tried to kill him.
And then me.
I mean, what's next, a nurse? Why don't you get those keys and get these cuffs off? I'm gonna go take care of him.
That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
- Get the keys.
I'll take care of it.
- You need a plan.
You have to listen to us, okay? I need the two of you to walk out, okay? Please, just give us a second alone.
Madani, please, just one second.
Can I ask you something? That Matt Murdock, does he know you're here? - Yeah, that's what I thought.
- What does that have to do with this? Come on, Karen.
He's good.
Don't throw that away for me.
Hey.
You gotta walk away now, Karen.
Come on, Karen.
Look, I know you.
All right? You're brave.
You're strong, all right.
But you are so goddamn stubborn, and you will throw everything away for me, and I cannot let that happen, all right? So, it's okay for them to risk everything, but not me? Karen, don't do that.
Look, they That kid needs me to stay alive, all right? Eff Madani.
Madani, she's as batshit and lost as I am.
I mean, she's lost, Karen.
It's not the same.
What if there's a better way? What if there is? What if you and I figure it out together? No.
No, there's no There's no - warm, cozy ending.
Not for me.
- Frank, listen to me.
You can't keep loving people in your dreams.
There's no light at the end of the road.
There's no light.
- There could be if you let it.
- No.
- You could choose to love - I don't want that.
I can't.
- someone else instead of another war.
- No.
I don't want to.
You know something? That That kid out there, she got people that want to kill her.
Serious people, Karen.
So that means I'm gonna go and find them and I'm gonna kill them.
- I'm gonna murder them, Karen.
- Yeah.
I'm gonna do that to keep her alive, because that's my life.
That's what I do.
You wanna be a part of that? Hang on.
Just God.
Karen, I can't tell you how much it means to me that you came here.
You sat with me.
So make it mean something.
I gotta walk out of here, and you can't do it with me.
Just You guys are the cutest.
I'm almost jealous.
But, uh, do you mind if we continue this heart-to-heart once we're outta here? What the hell is going on? Tell me you've still got eyes on Castle.
As soon as you can, you need to get him back.
Okay? - Yeah.
- All right? - They just wheeled him out.
- Wherever they take him, - you follow.
Hear me? - Loud and clear.
Loud and clear.
I can't believe this.
How did this happen? I don't know.
All units.
All units.
Frank Castle has escaped.
All exits, I want 'em covered.
- Just keep it cool.
- Elevators, rooftops, stairwells.
No one leaves this hospital.
You understand? No one.
Karen? What happened to your shoes? I gave 'em away for a worthy cause.
Good luck, Frank.
Freeze! - Freeze, God damn it! - Shit! Now, drop your weapon.
Drop it! Drop the belt, Frank.
You, too.
Drop it! Don't test me, you son of a bitch.
I shoot you now, nobody's gonna bat an eye.
Drop it, Madani.
Don't try no shit.
And put one on your wrist.
Mahoney, just listen.
I've been listening to you way too much.
Put one on your wrist.
- Get in the ambulance.
- Need to calm down.
Step up.
Step up now, God damn it.
I'm gonna fry your ass for this.
You're not the only one who gets to be crazy.
No.