The Righteous Gemstones (2019) s04e03 Episode Script

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[TV STATIC DRONES]
[BRIGHT TONE]
[THUNDER BOOMS]
[LIGHT CLATTER]
[CLOCK CHIMING]
[CUCKOO CLOCK CHIMING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
[THUNDER BOOMS]
[GASPS]
[SCREAMING]
[GASPING]
Oh, it was a dream. [EXHALES DEEPLY]
- Sorry, Keefe.
- No, I'm sorry.
It seems your nocturnal
terrors and night sweats
have gotten a bit worse.
Nonsense.
These are your night
sweats coming off on me.
I wish it was that,
but I'm dry, brother.
Who cares who's night-sweating, Keefe?
- Mm, yeah.
- It's just a bad dream
Most likely because of the storm.
I hate storms.
I have ever since I was a little boy.
It's like the Devil's peeing on you.
Yes.
Yes, I can picture it.
Satan with his red-hot weenus,
pissing a foul-smelling
stream all over us.
The hue is lava orange.
The urine is more hot
than regular human urine.
The concrete beneath it steams
as it pours all over the land.
At first, it's gross, but
it's the Devil's piss, so
it can play tricks on us
make people think that
it's actually delicious.
So the people start
drinking it up, all of it,
thinking that it's a tasty wine cooler
or a new slightly bitter kombucha,
not realizing that it's Satan's TT.
All the while, the Devil
sits back, and he laughs.
[CHUCKLES] He laughs
watching the humans
lick up all this evil rain piss.
Can you see it?
[SNORES SOFTLY]
[THUNDER BOOMS]
Your hot sorcery piss
can't hurt us in here.
Begone, Devil.
- [THUNDER BOOMING]
- [MOANING]
Praise ♪
Praise ♪
[SQUEALS]
[GASPS] We have to
stop. We're being loud.
Shh.
[TOILET FLUSHES]
There, now no one can hear us.
[LAUGHING] We got to get back.
They're gonna be suspicious.
We're missing supper.
- Oh.
- [GASPS]
I'd rather have me a sweet treat.
Mm. Mmm.
Oh, you're so bad.
Go on. You go first. Hurry up.
- [GROANS]
- [GASPS]
Hmm.
So bad.
Lay some happiness on me ♪
So the brighter side you'll see ♪
No more loneliness to me ♪
It is so good to be hanging
with Gemstones again.
Corey talks about y'all a lot.
[LAUGHS] That's because we've
had some pretty rockin' times.
Yeah.
I hope the, uh, Mario
Brothers over there
save some food for the rest of us.
Jesse and BJ looking
like mustache twins.
Y'all plan this?
Why don't you shut the fuck up, Kelvin?
Ain't nobody no damn mustache twin.
I had my mustache
well before BJ had his.
Please, dude. BJ grew his.
It looks super macho. And you copied.
I think we kind of grew
them around the same time.
No, I don't think so, BJ.
I had my mustache first,
and, like, a week later,
- you had a not-as-cool one.
- Sensitive.
What the hell are we doing
talking about goddamn facial hair for?
Just drop it. Enough
about the mustaches.
[LAUGHS] Didn't I tell you they're fun?
- [LAUGHS] Oh, they're so fun.
- Too good, man.
I love it. I love the life.
Oh, man.
Hey, y'all remember
when your daddy got us
those Michael Jackson outfits?
- Oh, yeah.
- We remember. It's awesome.
I like the thought of y'all
as mini Michael Jacksons,
doing moonwalks.
I begged my daddy for that getup.
He couldn't get it.
Eli, somehow he pulled it off.
Yeah, I ordered them special
from the same guy that did MJ's.
Yeah, 20 grand each, all
with gold cords and everything.
Daddy did not fuck
around, did you, Daddy?
- There he goes.
- Daddy he moonwalked.
The Gemstones always did it big.
Some of us are still doing it big.
Guess who's about to be announced
as one of the nominees
for Top Christ Following
Man of the Year.
- Uh-uh.
- Moi!
- Oh, that's nice.
- Bullshit.
They're nominating you
for Top Christ Following
Man of the Year?
Mm-hmm.
They snub me every single year.
They've only nominated Daddy twice.
That's quite the honor.
Congratulations, Kelvin.
Thanks, Daddy.
I got snubbed, too. Fuckers.
It's actually called Top
Christ Following Man, Judy.
- [LAUGHS]
- It's for my bravery in starting Prism,
for centering individuals who
are usually othered by society.
I don't even know what
the fuck that means.
Big deal.
Bigger deal than your Prayer Pods.
- Oh.
- You shut up about that.
What are Prayer Pods?
Prayer Pods are Jesse's
dumbass invention
that the church blew
a butt ton of money on.
Everybody's returning them now.
It fucking sucks. It's
like, what a waste.
It's a big waste.
It was not a fuck-up, all right?
We were targeted for our beliefs.
We were chased out
of every single airport
- and mall in the country.
- Mm-hmm.
You know, some people want to make fun
and act like people's ideas aren't good.
Meanwhile, there's a
goddamn war going on
against Christianity in
this country, all right?
The death of Prayer Pods is the proof.
Uh, wrong, Jesse.
The death of Prayer Pods,
dude, is because people
were jacking off in them.
They were not praying.
Homeboy over here even
stocked them full of lotion.
Ew.
Yeah, you know, on gay Reddit,
they refer to them as squirt yurts.
Oh!
For your information, I
only put the lotion in there
to make sure that your
hands didn't get dried out
by the sanitizer.
Are you all taking a walk
down goddamn memory lane
without me?
You spend so much time in the bathroom,
you're gonna miss out, Mama.
We were talking about a business venture
that Jesse spearheaded
that didn't it didn't go so good
and a big prize that Kelvin
is being honored with.
Show some humility for once, okay?
Don't be blowing kisses
at me, you little bitch.
Fuck off.
- You guys are too funny, man.
- Yeah.
The way y'all rip on each other.
- It must be fun having siblings.
- [CHUCKLES] Yeah.
- Try to do it with Jana.
- Mm-hmm.
She don't get it.
Your dress is fucking dumb, Jana.
- Oh, wow.
- Oh!
- [LAUGHTER]
- Well, no, that's just mean.
That's not funny.
No, I'm just ripping, like siblings do.
But I'm your wife.
Don't be mean.
- Yeah, don't be mean.
- I'm not.
- I'm just ripping.
- He ain't being mean.
He's ripping. Rip Van Winkle. Rip, rip,
- Let me rip on Mr. Eli.
- Okay, okay.
- Yeah, yeah, do it, Corey.
- Should I?
- Yes, yes.
- Do it. Do Eli.
Let it go on Daddy. Do it.
Yeah, rip.
Eli, looks like you got a
little hickey on your neck.
- Oh.
- Right by the collar.
Oh. [LAUGHS]
[SPITS]
Bullshit.
That's that's that's
that's not not a hickey.
It's a mosquito bite.
[LAUGHS]
Corey, that was a pretty
sneaky little rip right there.
It works because Daddy is
such a nerd who gets no action.
Yeah.
Definitely not cool
enough to have a hickey.
- Good.
- Daddy's rizzless.
Yeah, he can't get within,
like, 12 miles of no pussy.
Right, Daddy?
- He seems pretty cool to me.
- [MOUTH FULL] He's very cool.
- He's not.
- He isn't.
[LAUGHTER]
Hey. Wait a minute.
Are those two acting
weird, or is it just me?
"Weird"? Weird how?
I mean, I did notice
they were taking pisses
at the same exact time,
but I just kind of wrote that off
to just typical old-people shit.
Are they fucking each other?
- [SCOFFS, LAUGHING] What?
- What?
- Okay.
- Corey.
Well, my mom is trying to make
herself look good all the time now,
putting on makeup
and perfumes and stuff.
Ugh, that's so gross.
Just like picture sweet Miss Lori,
you know, like, nude in her bathroom,
like, splashing on some CK1
so she can get railed by
Eli's big old floppy daddy dick.
Oh, God.
Your mama was our
mama's best friend, okay?
So don't even think those thoughts.
Those are nasty thoughts.
Corey still thinking Daddy's fucking.
- Silly bird, Corey.
- [LAUGHTER]
Okay.
Daddy ain't fucking. That's so stupid.
Stupid like you thinking
you're gonna get the Top
Christ Following Man nomination.
Ooh! Ooh!
- Ha ha! Yes!
- Ooh, he's butthurt.
Did you see Jesse's face when I told him
about the Top Christ
Following Man nomination?
The light just left his eyes.
- You bested him, for sure.
- Mm-hmm.
Could you imagine if I actually won
Top Christ Following Man of the Year?
I can picture it now.
All the other nominees
have exited this mortal world,
and it is just you, one
singular solo onstage,
the true Top Christ
Following Man of the Year.
What the heck is that?
Well, it's just me
imagining your victory.
- No.
- Heads up!
- That.
- Okay, okay!
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
That storm took out a whole side.
It doesn't look safe.
We're gonna demo it.
Demolish?
As in destroy? As in cease to exist?
Uh-uh.
No, Groundskeeper Aaron,
this is my childhood tree house.
Oh, look at you, knowing
big words like "demo."
I know words.
Annihilate, obliterate, devastate.
Synonyms.
And you can't do any of those things
to my childhood playscape, all right?
I forbid it.
Sure.
Okay, you're the boss.
Hey, boys, don't bust it.
He's keeping it.
[CHEERING]
Hell, yeah.
I know you think my
daddy is your mentor figure,
but I think it's time you give
your old man a shot, okay?
Mentoring begins right now.
Greetings, salutations,
Martin, leadership team.
- How are you?
- We are fine, Jesse.
Now, you see how I kicked
that off with some niceties?
I also kind of throw in a joke sometimes
just to keep the
spirit light, like this.
Fuck me up, leadership team. [CHUCKLES]
What sort of bad news you
gonna sling at me today?
Vance Simkins opened up another church
right next to one of ours.
Chad, I'm trying to
do lessons here, man.
You sitting here spitting
bad news for real?
Oh, I I thought you were asking.
Well, I am asking, but I'm just
[SCOFFS] Another fucking church.
Another mini-mall church encroachment.
God damn it!
Fuck!
Shit!
Mini mall!
Fuck!
Pause right there.
Now, that is not Chad's fault,
so I cannot get angry with Chad.
That is called killing the messenger.
If I'm going to cuss because
what he said upsets me,
it is important I do not cuss at him.
I can cuss around him,
cuss in the air above his head,
by the sides of his ears.
That is totally fine.
Fuck you.
Are you writing any of this down?
I feel like I'm following just orally.
Okay, I mean, this is a
lot of very valuable stuff
I'm teaching you here,
but, yeah, sure, just wing it.
[CHUCKLES] Now, I know that Matthew
and Chad and Levi and Gregory,
they would probably suggest visiting
- a little violence upon him.
- [LAUGHTER]
Not a good idea.
- Exactly.
- Oh, come on.
That is not how we handle things
now that we are elder statesmen.
We are respectable members of society.
- We are?
- Right.
Yes, Matthew. Of course we are.
Martin, what's the play?
How you think we pop this off this time?
You could visit these churches,
shore up the congregation,
give them attention
so they aren't poached.
That's it.
A reasonable solution
for reasonable men.
[CHUCKLES]
You're seriously not
writing any of this down?
No.
Should we write stuff down, too?
Yeah, Levi I would love for you
to fill your pockets with
rocks and write all of this
on the bottom of the ocean.
[LAUGHTER]
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
Jump to the right ♪
Jump to the left ♪
Stop ♪
Don't you worry about
those idiots, okay?
All you need to do is go out there
and bring home the gold.
You got this.
BOTH: Eye of the tiger, dick of a horse,
take no prisoners, show no remorse.
[APPLAUSE, MUSIC CONTINUES]
[CHEERING]
[FRENETIC ELECTRONIC MUSIC]
Go, BJ!
Legends live forever ♪
Rebels never die ♪
Live life to the fullest ♪
Don't be afraid to die ♪
Legends live forever ♪
Rebels never die ♪
Life is now or never ♪
Never is a lie ♪
Legends live forever ♪
Rebels never die ♪
Live life to the fullest ♪
Don't be afraid to die ♪
Legends live forever ♪
Rebels never die ♪
Look how strong my
husband is we're married.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
That's my man right there.
[AUDIENCE GROANS]
My darling.
[BJ GROANING]
BJ, it's your wife, Judy.
Somebody call a fucking ambulance!
- Judy.
- Finally.
Oh, I'm so sorry.
- Oh, my God.
- It'll be all right.
Miss Lori came, too. That's so sweet.
How'd you even know?
How did I know what?
Like, to come here to see about BJ.
I was I was just at
I was in my car.
Yeah, just a sexless older lady.
Okay.
And then your papa happened to give me
a a ring on the phone.
That's so weird because
I could have sworn
I saw the two of you show up together.
- What?
- That's right.
No, we did, because, uh
I was no longer able
to drive an automobile.
And Mr. Gemstone
None of this none of this
is very important right now.
Yeah, I know, Daddy. Thank you.
That's what I'm thinking,
'cause I'm, like, in a
code-red crisis over here,
and it's like, everybody's
just talking about transpo.
No offense, Miss Lori.
I don't want to hurt you.
Dudes, shut up.
BJ's gonna be A-okay.
Yeah, I think the thing you
got to get your head around
is a lot of time when
people do surgeries,
they got to shave ya.
So probably gonna have to
pop that mustache off him,
you know? Make sure his face
doesn't get any weird infections
or gonorrheas.
You motherfucker, Jesse.
BJ's in there fighting
for his damn life,
and you're out here trying
to gank his style for your own.
Ain't nobody trying
to gank nobody's style.
I'm trying to cheer you up.
I'm saying, worst-case
scenario, you know,
he loses his mustache.
It's probably the best
thing for anybody, anyway.
You are trying to
drink his facial fashions.
Trying to fucking guzzle him.
Stop trying to act like fucking BJ
trademarked fucking mustaches.
- News flash he didn't.
- You damn bitch.
You damn bitch.
[EXHALES SHARPLY] Here's the doctors.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
I'm so sorry.
- I was so close.
- [DOOR OPENS]
- [FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
- I misjudged my spin speed.
Just relax, okay?
You don't need to do
pole math right now.
[CRIES, SNIFFLES]
Don't cry. I'll be okay.
I'm sorry, but I don't know.
BJ, the nurses are
they're saying stuff about wheelchairs,
and one of them even
was talking about stair lifts,
like Mrs. Deagle has in "Gremlins."
What are we gonna do, Beej?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[UPBEAT ELECTRONIC MUSIC]
Jesse, did you hear?
Vance was nominated
for Top Christ Following
Man of the Year.
Big whoop.
Well, it is a big whoop, Jesse.
I thought I'd at least
be going up against you.
But I guess your homosexual brother
is the Gemstone with
the juice these days.
Well, I look forward to
wiping my ass with him.
Gross, man. I'm trying to eat.
Apparently quails aren't the only thing
dropping out of the sky.
I hear a Gemstone took a fall.
Your brother-in-law
he hurt himself pretty bad.
Word on the street is he was stripping.
[LAUGHTER]
He was doing male
competitive pole dancing,
for your information.
How many homosexuals does
that make in your family now?
Two.
The same number of dead
parents in your family, Vance.
[LAUGHS] Boom.
Conquered again.
You haven't conquered me.
You're actually losing in our rivalry
- [SCOFFS]
- Due to your poor character.
Pssh. Get real.
I ain't losing our rivalry.
You're losing. I'm doing the winning.
- [CHUCKLES]
- Oh, really?
- Well, that's interesting.
- [LAUGHS]
I guess that's why I
opened up six churches
in your backyard.
That's because you're
playing games, boy.
Opening up mini-mall churches in towns
we've already established
you better knock it off.
Afraid of a little competition, Jesse?
Pssh.
Just because there's
a McDonald's in town
don't mean there ain't
room for a Burger King.
You know what?
Go ahead. Open up those churches.
Waste your money.
I'll shut those suckers down,
turn them into giant bathrooms
where people that go to my
church can go in to make poops.
Bathrooms are what you've
turned your churches into,
with that filth your
brother's been preaching.
It's what your church
is becoming known for.
- Does that bother you?
- No.
Absolutely not
because that is not what
my church is known for.
My church is known for
the stuff that I do as well.
Keep telling yourself that, Jesse.
[ANGELIC MUSIC]
Oh, my.
Oh, it's getting very
serious in here, isn't it?
You think I'm intimidated
by the circling of the men?
- You should be.
- Well, I'm not.
I can circle the men, too.
Oh, my.
It's not a big deal.
Okay, any fly-aways? How are my teeth?
Show is live in 5, 4, 3
- All right.
- All right.
Hello, brothers and sisters.
It's your old friend in
Christ Jacob Jones.
And tonight we announce the nominees
for the Top Christ
Following Man of the Year.
Whoo!
We've picked five ministers
from around the world
who represent the best of the best.
That's a pretty big deal.
Through a series of events,
they shall compete against one another
to determine who is the one
true Top Christ Following Man.
Okay, okay.
They're about to announce your boy.
Bring the energy.
Church in Reno, Nevada,
a man dedicated to
- Oh, that's not you.
- This is not me.
This is not me.
Put your hands together
for Reggie Daniels.
I'm your Top Christ Following Man.
Blessings be to God.
Paid extras. Paid extras.
Don't don't applaud.
From Rogers, South Carolina
I'm next, okay? A lot of energy.
But act like I didn't tell you.
And impressive man
Kelvin Gemstone.
- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
- Wow.
Thank you. Oh, my God.
[CELEBRATORY MUSIC PLAYING]
I'll come up with something else.
I got a shitload of
different great ideas
for money inventions, like
I have, like, so many other
ideas that will be successful,
I bet.
Oh, Jesse, just because
your brother is doing big things
shouldn't make you feel bad.
It feels like I just finally got out
from underneath my damn daddy's shadow,
and now my younger brother
decides he wants to start
casting fucking shadows.
Got a family full of
damn shadow casters.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
What are you looking at?
What the fuck are you looking at?
I'll wipe that fucking smirk
right off your face, white boy.
[GROANS]
They're over there
trying to laugh at you
because you're in a wheelchair.
I won't fucking have it.
You know what I'm
saying? I'll fuck them up.
We're just gonna get you up out of this.
[GROANING]
- Okay, good, Beej.
- [GRUNTS FORCEFULLY]
That's good, BJ. This is so easy.
[BOTH GRUNTING]
This is gonna be a cinch for us.
[GRUNTS]
[LAUGHTER]
Smelled like cat piss.
Damn it to hell.
- That's okay, Beej.
- I'm sorry.
- No, don't worry, dude.
- Thank you, Keefe.
No one's judging you for spilling.
Can everyone just talk and
eat like every Sunday, please?
I don't want pity.
Shut the fuck up, Hot Wheels.
You said treat you like normal.
[LAUGHTER]
Yes. Master of rips.
- Rip, rip!
- Fuck y'all!
BJ's in a wheelchair. I
don't know if you noticed.
- It's kind of hard to miss.
- Stop being monsters, then.
No one's acting like monsters.
We're sitting here having conversations.
You are acting like monsters, Jesse.
Okay, well, I won't have
conversations, okay?
Since you're the boss of conversations.
Okay, seriously. What's up?
I keep seeing looks.
"Looks"?
- What looks?
- Eli and my mama.
- They're doing looks.
- They're doing looks?
Daddy, Miss Lori, if y'all are laughing
'cause BJ is in a
wheelchair at the table
instead of a regular chair,
I'm gonna flip my shit.
- That is funny.
- No, it's not.
Oh, what's up? We standing
up doing speeches now?
All right, I have
struggled telling y'all this.
There never seemed to be a good time.
There's certainly more
important things going on,
but, uh
it's silly to keep hiding this.
Miss Lori and I have been
spending time together.
Duh, Daddy.
We're all spending
time together it's lunch.
No, Kelvin, honey, I think
what your daddy meant to say
You're fucking him, aren't you?
Wait, is that what's going on?
Do you have confirmation of that, Daddy?
That's not what's going on.
There's no confirmation on that.
Say it, Daddy. Say the real thing.
It's true.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- I lost my appetite.
- Oh.
No offense, Gemstones.
I blame this on my mama.
Can't stop falling in love all the time.
You are way out of line, buddy.
Am I?
Let's go, Jana.
Okay.
Bye, Gemstones. Bye.
That's Mama's best friend, Daddy.
Really?
I can't believe you would
do this to me, Daddy,
with the fucking state my husband's in.
He's an invalid, in
case you didn't notice.
Did you guys do stuff?
- That's none of your business.
- Oh, my God.
This is like horror-movie shit, dude.
I thought you were
my mama's ride-or-die.
I was, Judy.
And she was mine, too.
- It's okay, sweetheart.
- [CRYING] I don't
There, there, sweet prince.
Are they crying?
Of course they are.
Daddy, you slut!
Baby, it's okay to be upset.
- I'm not upset.
- Okay.
They're the ones
that are crying, not me.
Jesse, you're fucking crying, too.
[CRYING] I am not.
[CHAIR BANGING AGAINST TABLE]
Oh, God.
- Let me guess.
- [MUFFLED SHOUTING]
ALL: [MUFFLED] He's fucking her!
He's fucking her! He's fucking
- [POUNDING ON DOOR]
- Come out of there!
You can't hide in the freezer
at Jason's Steak House.
Come out!
Come out of there!
What the hell's the matter with y'all?
What the hell's the matter
with you, dirty old Daddy?
Mama is flipping in her grave!
- [DOOR CLOSES]
- What do you want from me?
What do you want from me?
Am I supposed to stay all alone?
Am I supposed to stay sad?
Am I supposed to live the
rest of my life in mourning?
Yes!
Is it so hard?
If I could have
anything in this world,
I'd have your mama back alive with me.
Oh, God, I'd
give anything for that.
But
I can never have that again.
I can never have
that again, and it just
[CRYING] I've been
I've been so lonely.
[CRYING]
I wish you could understand.
[SNIFFLES] Please try to understand.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
I'm, uh, sorry that I
called you a slut, Daddy.
We didn't mean to upset you, Daddy.
It was just "heat of the
moment" stuff, Daddy.
We got a lot going on.
[SIGHS]
We're all so powerless.
Anything can happen.
I won't let anything happen to you.
The Lord can make bad
things happen to anyone, Keefe.
[LIGHT DYNAMIC MUSIC]
He killed my mama, and
she was His greatest follower.
Back in the day, when Jesse
and Judy were mean to me,
I'd come up here and know
that no one could get me.
This place made me feel safe.
[SERIOUS MUSIC]
[CROWD CHEERING]
Business is open. Come on in.
Thank you! Thank you!
Commitment we commit
to Him and His ways.
And in doing so, that
will be what takes us
into the Kingdom of Heaven,
reunited with everybody we ever loved,
everybody we ever lost,
to live for eternity surrounded by love.
Now, we want to deliver you there.
We are committed to doing just that.
All we ask in return
is that you commit to
us, commit to this church.
- ALL: Amen!
- [APPLAUSE]
Now, don't be led astray
by some new church
that wants to set up shop,
presenting itself like
it's some new little treat.
Beware of the wannabe
trying to make you think
they got your best interest
at heart.
Be warned.
Gemstone Ministries
that is a name that you can trust.
That is a name that
you know will fulfill
all of your spiritual needs.
There ain't nothing
you're gonna get out there
that's gonna match what you're
getting right here, right now.
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
We are good, honest people
[PEOPLE WHOOPING]
Out here doing the Lord's work.
And when you join us,
when you worship with us
[LAUGHTER, SHOUTING, WHOOPING]
You become a part of our family.
And family, my friends, is forever.
And no matter what, we
never turn our back on family.
That is our Gemstone commitment
to you.