Servant (2019) s04e07 Episode Script

[GROANS]
[WIND WHISTLING]
[DOG BARKS IN DISTANCE]
- [DISTANT THUMP]
- [GASPS]
[CLATTERING, RUSTLING]
- [DOOR THUDS SOFTLY]
- [FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
[DOOR OPENS]
[FOOTSTEPS PASSING]
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
[GASPS] Oh, G [BREATHES HEAVILY]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[PHONE LINE RINGS]
- [INTERN] Hello?
- Eric,
I need you to confirm a girl's
last name. Did you get the clip?
[ERIC] I got it. Tell me
what I'm looking for.
Okay, so there's a little girl who
shows up at about 30 seconds,
and we interviewed her.
She'd had to have signed
a release form, right?
Hmm. Got a name?
Yeah. Leanne Grayson.
She'd have been about
eight or nine at the time.
Gotcha. Stand by.
Okay.
The talent portion of the competition.
- I'm Dorothy Turner, 8 News.
- You're ruining this for me. Get up.
- [ERIC] Dorothy?
- Yeah. Yes, I'm here.
Sorry, Dorothy.
She must not have signed a form,
or maybe she used a different name.
Are you sure?
Yeah, I'm sure.
[SIGHS]
[SULTRY MUSIC PLAYING]
[ELECTRICAL BUZZING]
[LEANNE] How'd you sleep?
[JULIAN SPITS]
Like a baby. [SIGHS]
Don't you ever listen to anything else?
[CHUCKLES] Dance with me.
Oh. No. I'm no good sober.
[LEANNE] Come on.
I'll lead.
[JULIAN] We need to talk about
what happened at the party.
No, we don't.
People keep getting hurt in this house.
Relax.
You're safe when you're with me.
What What does that even mean?
I need you to tell me
that I'm not alone in this.
Tell me you see
how fucked-up things have gotten.
Julian, shut up. [KISSING]
[GRUNTS] Fuck.
You bit me.
You talk too much.
The emulsion will break.
I think it might be
- Do you hear me talking to you?
- Yes, Chef.
Okay. Well, here's your
fucking emulsion.
[STUDIO AUDIENCE CLAMORING, BOOING]
[SEAN] Five minutes!
So, your excuse is
that this is incomplete?
- Are you crying in my kitchen?
- No, Chef.
There's more salt in your tears
than there is in this XO sauce.
Chef, I think I forgot to
[SEAN] Enough excuses, Dominic.
Get the fuck outta my kitchen.
[STUDIO AUDIENCE]
Get outta here! Sean! Sean! Sean!
- [CHUCKLES] Look at that.
- [BABBLING]
Yeah. That's right.
- Dada's gone viral.
- [SEAN, ON TABLET] Get the fuck out.
[STUDIO AUDIENCE CHEERING]
- What's this?
- You know what it is.
Your bedside reading.
Been doing some research?
[WHISPERS] We need to talk
about this. But not here.
[SEAN] Leanne. She's the common factor.
When she's angry, things go bad.
When she's happy, things go well,
inexplicably well.
And it all remains intact
as long as we stay loyal to her.
The infestation, the
house falling apart,
Dorothy's accident, Jericho.
I've been searching, and there's
a term for something like that.
The Faustian bargain.
This is crazy. We sound insane.
[SEAN] You thought you found
Leanne's headstone, right?
We thought that was Leanne playing
a trick on us, but what if it wasn't?
What if she died?
What if she came back as something?
The cult believes they're
servants of God.
- [COUGHS, CLEARS THROAT]
- [SEAN] Exactly.
Leanne abandoned their
ways when she left.
Fallen angel.
[CHOKES, COUGHING]
What's happening?
Wh [WHEEZES]
You can't talk?
[GRUNTS, COUGHING]
- [JERICHO BABBLING]
- [LEANNE] What are you doing down here?
[DOROTHY] I needed a change of scenery.
Well, you should've called for me.
[SIGHS]
[GRUNTING] Taking Jericho for his walk?
[LEANNE] Yeah.
- Wish I could come. [GRUNTS]
- [LEANNE] Soon.
[BREATHES HEAVILY]
[LEANNE SIGHS] Are you
gonna be okay here?
Yes. I'm working on a story, actually.
[LEANNE] Can I help?
No.
I don't have a lead yet.
It's like finding a needle
in a haystack.
[LEANNE] That's a funny expression.
Doesn't seem like it'd be
a very hard thing to do.
You'll crack it, though.
Dorothy Turner always does.
- [LEANNE] Okay. [SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]
- [SIGHS]
You think silver bullets could
stop her? I mean, worst-case?
- "Werewolf". Right.
- [SIGHS]
[SIGHS] Garlic?
No.
She loves my spaghetti aglio e olio.
Right.
Maybe water's her weakness. I've
never seen her bathe. Have you?
Right.
Cheers, brother.
[CLEARS THROAT]
[ROSCOE] Hey.
Hey.
Roscoe, what the hell? How long
have you been standing there?
I'm sorry to show up like this.
[ROSCOE] There's someone
here to see you.
Someone who can answer
all your questions.
[SEAN] George.
Hello, Sean.
Hello, Julian.
[ROSCOE] He's asked me to wait outside.
Good luck.
How did you get in here?
I lock this place.
[GEORGE] There are far more
pertinent things to discuss.
You see, today is a very important day.
Today is the day I confess.
It's time I told you the truth
about Leanne Grayson.
[ERIC] "Devastating fire kills
family of three in Oneida, Wisconsin".
Body of the daughter,
Leanne Grayson, never recovered.
Presumed dead".
Blah, blah, blah.
She was eight at the time.
- Do we know how the fire started?
- Nope.
[SIGHS]
[GEORGE] I owe your
family a great apology.
No, it's us who should be apologizing.
[SIGHS] You tried to
tell us what she was,
and we didn't believe you.
[GEORGE] I made the recent decision
to leave the Church
of the Lesser Saints.
I aim to right my wrongs.
What we have done to your family
is the most egregious of those wrongs.
You have been lied to.
Fooled.
Like the rest of us.
I tried to hang myself once
[STAMMERS] long ago.
I was a very sad man.
I awoke in the hospital room
with a woman staring at me.
Her name was May Markham.
And she told me that I had died
and been reborn a servant of God.
I had nothing else to live for,
and so I chose to adopt the faith.
From there, we began our journey
as aunt and uncle
bringing others into the gospel.
We were great at it.
Leanne's family died in a fire
when she was a young girl.
Her mother had been very cruel to her.
And so she felt the death had been,
in great part, her fault.
She was the perfect candidate.
And I told her what I
had once been told.
That she had died in that fire and
come back a servant of the Lord.
But we miscalculated how broken she was.
She quickly became a most vivid believer
in these extraordinary things.
And when sh she left us,
Leanne began to believe she
was becoming something else.
But that is not the truth.
You see, the beliefs of the church
have always been an illusion.
Leanne is a confused, deranged
and completely ordinary girl.
- [SEAN] What?
- Nothing more.
That's bullshit. We've seen too much.
Yesterday at Jericho's birthday,
the animals went insane.
A woman nearly died.
The way her face looked,
I've never seen anything like it.
How do you explain that?
I visited Beverly Alcott in the hospital
this morning as part of my amends.
She'd suffered a snakebite but is
well on her way to a full recovery.
What?
The venom of a Peruvian Bothrops
can cause spontaneous swelling,
discoloration of the face and limbs.
- [PARTYGOERS SCREAMING]
- [BABY CRYING]
[HISSING]
The simplest solution
is almost always the right one.
[DOROTHY SIGHS] What do we
know about the mother?
[ERIC] Hmm. Laura Grayson.
Looks like she had trouble with liquor.
There's a DUI in 2005.
Oh, a pretty bad crash.
Okay. [EXHALES] Maybe
there's something there.
What are some dates?
Birthday, date of incarceration,
date of death, anything?
There's gonna be something
with her mother.
When Leanne first arrived,
I lost my ability to feel and taste
when she was angry with me.
Taste and feeling can be lost
temporarily during a common cold
or in the presence of certain drugs.
It is possible she was putting
something in your food
to make you believe
you were being punished.
I kept finding splinters everywhere.
Like the house was attacking me.
It's one of Leanne's favorite tricks.
It was not uncommon, when
I'd discipline her as a child,
to find a shard of wood
or a sliver of glass
in m-my chair the next day.
Whenever Leanne leaves the house,
Jericho turns back into a doll.
We've searched every inch of this place.
There is nowhere she could be
hiding him. That I'm sure of.
These old houses always have secrets.
Yours has more than most.
[SCREAMING] Baby! Baby!
Baby! Wake up, little baby!
- [JERICHO BABBLES]
- [SHUSHING]
[SHUSHES]
[JERICHO FUSSING]
[JERICHO CRYING]
[GEORGE] There is a network of tunnels
beneath this neighborhood.
They were built in the 19th
century by opulent families
to transport mentally ill
relatives for treatment.
It was a way of hiding the issues
they'd rather not
display to high society.
Leanne has known about these
tunnels since the beginning.
We make it our mission to know about
the secrets of a place
before we enter it.
This is how Leanne brought
the child into your life.
How she made him disappear
and reappear at will.
An illusion.
[ERIC] Dorothy, you're a genius.
The mother, Laura, died
two days after that fire.
The date was April 17th, 2011.
Check out April 17th the following year.
Take a good look at the reflection
at the end of your tagline.
What do you see?
[DOROTHY] Ever hear the expression,
"So cute I could eat you up"?
Philly's Bakeshop on 20th has
introduced a radical new concept.
Cupcakes with faces.
[DOROTHY] So tell us, what
inspired this delicious idea?
Um, well, it was supposed to be
a Valentine's Day special,
but it really took off. Um, I
guess people like to eat people.
Especially ones they
don't like. [CHUCKLES]
This is my third-grade teacher.
Mmm. She's gone.
Well, this has certainly
been a sweet addition
to Bakeshop on 20th's popular lineup
of cookies, cakes and pies.
And the crowds are eating it up.
I'm Dorothy Turner, 8 News.
- [DOROTHY GASPS]
- [ERIC] Do you see them?
[DOROTHY] Oh, my God.
Now take a look at the
next year's tape, same day.
[SEAN] No. I've seen her
manipulate life and death.
There was, uh, the dog and
and Dorothy's colleague
on live television.
We all search for meaning
in dark things.
What about my boy?
I know he died. But that child
up there, he feels like my son.
We searched for missing persons
cases. There was nothing.
I know that's my son.
The Philadelphia Inquirer published
an obituary in September of 2019.
A woman overdosed near
Fitler Square Park.
An addict.
Some say she was traveling
with an infant.
A little boy with blue eyes.
But if he was never reported
missing, how could you know?
We have people on the streets
who hear these things.
[DOROTHY] neighborhood
is out of this world.
Just this morning,
three residents claimed to have spotted
a large floating disk
hovering in the sky.
Skeptics argue aliens aren't real
and that this morning's
excitement is just
a product of delusion or even a hoax.
All I can say is,
if our extraterrestrial friends
really are out there, beam me up.
[REVERSED DIALOGUE]
[DOROTHY] can say is, if our e
[ERIC] This girl's visited you
on the anniversary
of her mother's death.
That's some freaky shit.
[SEAN] Why would she do this to us?
Why would she do this to Dorothy?
Leanne saw Dorothy once
when she was very young.
Soon after she lost her mother,
it became an obsession.
I allowed her one day each year
to visit Dorothy's work
in hopes that it would help her grieve.
[GEORGE] She'd plan her
outfits weeks in advance.
But it wasn't enough to observe.
She needed to be a part
of Dorothy's life.
She watched Dorothy for weeks.
[DOROTHY SINGING INDISTINCTLY]
[SIREN BLARES]
[GEORGE] Your son's death
was the turning point.
[RADIO CHATTER]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[GEORGE] It was her way in.
[BABY CRYING]
[GEORGE] I believe she
saw the abandoned infant
as an act of God. An opportunity
to get the mother she wanted.
[GEORGE] So she took it.
Hello, Jericho.
[BABY COUGHS]
[GEORGE] I hope you know I take
no pleasure in telling you all this.
My apologies.
And my condolences.
Healing is born from truth.
I hope now you can begin.
What I have to ask of you
now won't be easy
but it is the most important
part of my reform.
I need your help getting Leanne back.
[SEAN] That's all we want,
George. That and the baby.
[ROSCOE] Everything you
told me was a lie?
[SIGHS]
I left my family for your faith. [SIGHS]
[GEORGE] You've played your role.
I believe it's time
to return to your family.
The story here is nearly over.
[HUMMING]
[SOFT JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING]
Did you cook all this by yourself?
Oh.
Do you mind setting the table?
Dinner's almost ready.
[DOOR OPENS]
- [CLEARS THROAT]
- Where have you two been?
Brother bonding.
Your voice.
[JULIAN] I feel much better now.
Could you take this out for me?
[JULIAN GRUNTS, BREATHES SHAKILY]
[SIGHS]
[SIPPING]
What did you do today, Leanne?
- I went to the market with Jericho.
- Aw.
Julian, what happened to your voice?
[SWALLOWS] Allergies. [SNIFFS]
- You sure about that?
- Dottie, please pass the salt?
Oh, this doesn't need salt.
This is exactly the way
Mom used to make it.
Do you remember all those amazing
dinners she would make us?
My God, she loved us so much.
Sean, how was your day?
I went viral today.
Really? That's amazing.
You must be so grateful.
Happens to a lot of people.
It's not that special.
That's not true.
Actually, I'm thinking of
canceling my contract.
- You can't do that.
- He can do whatever he wants.
What?
[THUNDER RUMBLES]
You should all be very careful.
[SUCKS TEETH]
Mmm.
- [SNIFFS]
- Isn't this nice?
- All of us dining together again?
- Mmm.
[DOOR SLAMS]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
Forgive your humble servant
for his blasphemy.
I have sinned with my lies.
- [WHIP CRACKING]
- [BREATHING SHAKILY]
Through my deceit,
I have put this family in grave danger.
[WHIMPERING]
But we are all in danger.
It was our last hope.
Please, please [STAMMERS]
give them the strength
to bring the Fallen one back to us.
- [WHIMPERING, CRYING]
- [WHIP CRACKING]
Forgive me. [GRUNTS]
Forgive me. [GRUNTS] F Forgive me.