Black Mirror (2011) s07e02 Episode Script

1
[LOW, THRUMMING RUMBLING]
[HIGH-PITCHED TONE]
[ETHEREAL MUSIC PLAYS, FADES]
[REPORTER] A woman
who jumped from the roof
of a multi-story building
in Camberwell yesterday
has been pronounced dead.
[MAN] Okay, I found a place.
Five-star, swanky, the whole thing.
And I've never been
to Spain before, so
- Portugal.
- Hmm?
Sagres is in Portugal, babe.
Okay, who cares? Look, it looks so nice.
- And you know all about looking nice.
- Hey, now I've got hat hair.
Yeah, I like it like that.
Here, try this.
- What is it?
- My new creation.
It's focus group today, so
Oh, sneak preview. Lucky me.
- Mmm. Yeah.
- Mm-hmm?
- Yeah?
- It's great.
What is it?
- It's miso jam.
- Hmm?
- Miso jam.
- You so what?
- Oh, you are such a dick.
- You so pretty.
- [GROANS IN DISGUST]
- You so tasty.
- [WOMAN LAUGHS]
- [KISSES]
[MAN] And miso want a holiday.
[SIGHS] Okay.
[TENSE ORGAN MUSIC PLAYING]
[DOOR LOCKS CLICK]
People may say that they're not ready
for those textures in biscuits,
but our taste tests
have rated off the charts, so
- Ah, ah! That's my almond milk.
- I was only gonna have a bit.
- But you can have any milk.
- Well
- That's the only vegan one.
- Oh my God. You serious?
- Okay.
- Milk fascist. Okay, I'll have some
[MAN] Ow!
- Maria, we're ready in here.
- [MAN] My kidneys!
- [MARIA] Yeah?
- Yeah.
Guys, sorry.
I'm gonna have to wrap up on this.
Looking like a regular Hucklebuck.
[WOMAN] Yes, boss.
Made just like you said.
- Oh, no nuts in the nougat, right?
- Nah. Just sugar and egg whites.
Okay, good.
'Cause my EpiPen is way over there,
and I can't be arsed to run.
[WOMAN] I think you've done it again.
It's another of your mental ideas
that, annoyingly, really works.
Okay. Got my guinea pigs at reception.
All set?
Yeah. Wanna try one?
[WOMAN 2] Come on in.
Take a seat around the table, please.
Hi.
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
[WOMAN 2] Okay.
[MARIA] They're
amazing, but think about
[WOMAN 2] First thing I'm
Guys, Captain Jack Sparrow at the end.
- [WOMAN] What?
- That guy. Look at him.
- [WOMAN] That's nice.
- [MAN] Yeah.
[WOMAN 2] Thank you.
- [WOMAN 3] Anyone want a coffee?
- Oh, yeah.
- Can I get a double espresso, please?
- [WOMAN] Black for me.
[MAN] Can I get a latte?
Okay, well,
thank you all so much for being here.
Um, I'm Camille.
I'll be running today's session.
Hi. Sorry, is this the right room
for the tasting thing?
[CAMILLE] Oh.
Oh, sorry, I don't
think you're in today.
- [MARIA] Is that
- Oh.
No, it can't be.
Uh, I should be on your list.
Verity Greene.
- Christ, that is her. Verity Greene.
- [CAMILLE] Hang on.
Oh yes, you are down here.
Um, come on through.
We haven't got going yet.
- Sorry.
- [MAN] You know her?
- [CAMILLE] I'll grab my seat
- Yeah, she went to my school.
- Sorry, so sorry.
- [CAMILLE] Oh no, no bother.
- [VERITY] Hey.
- Well, that's a makeover she's had.
- [MAN] Oh yeah?
- [CAMILLE] Okay.
Guys, time to dig in.
Our head of flavor has dreamt up
a fresh take on our famous Hucklebuck,
and you lucky
people get to try it first.
So have a taste,
and let's talk about
how it makes you feel.
Yeah, do take a moment to sit
with the flavor if you're not sure.
I'm sorry, but that's rank.
[CAMILLE] Okay.
[WOMAN 4] I mean,
I like the normal Hucklebuck,
but these are just I mean
I liked it.
[WOMAN 5] What did you say
the flavor group was?
Uh, miso. It's a sort of umami.
Why? Why would you do that?
- Can I have another one?
- [CAMILLE] Yeah. Of course.
Take as many as you like.
Sorry.
Maybe it's just me,
but it definitely grows on you.
[CAMILLE] Okay.
But on the second one,
it's, like, ten times better. Honest.
You should try.
Mm. Actually,
now I've gotten used to it, it's
it's not bad.
[WOMAN 6] I like the saltiness.
[CAMILLE] Okay, saltiness.
It really compliments the chocolate,
like, the contrast.
- Yeah. That's what I thought.
- Great.
- Thank God for Verity, yeah?
- Yeah.
[INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING]
- [GASPS] Thank you.
- [MAN] Punchy.
- [MARIA] Mm.
- Well done, boss.
- [MAN 2] The colors go
- [CHUCKLES] Thank you.
[MAN] That was my design brief.
- [DOOR OPENS]
- [WATER RUNNING]
- [VERITY] Maria.
- [DOOR CLOSES]
Yeah, it's Maria, isn't it?
Verity Greene. Do you remember me?
Colworth Manor High.
- Oh my God. Yes. Of course.
- Yeah.
- Hi. Wow. It's been
- God, yeah like, ten years?
- Crazy.
- Yeah. What are the chances?
- Wow!
- Are you here for the tasting thing?
Oh, no. No, no. No, I I work here.
- You work here?
- Yeah, in the R&D division.
- In the R&D? Oh!
- Mm-hmm.
Yeah, I'm just doing
the focus group thing.
I really enjoyed it.
It was so interesting.
All the new fillings.
- I mean, all the science of it.
- Yeah.
Yeah. I think I'm definitely gonna
apply for the job.
[UNEASY MUSIC PLAYING]
Right. Sorry, the job?
Yeah, the, uh, research
assistant in R&D.
I don't think there is a job going.
Oh, the
It said on the website
there was a vacancy.
I'm quite I mean, I'd know,
and I, yeah, I don't think
there is a job going right now.
- Oh.
- Sorry.
Yeah, I could have sworn
Oh. [TUTS] That's a pity.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
If you remember anything about me,
you'll know that I love a lab.
[CHUCKLES] Yes.
I was such a geek at school, wasn't I?
- Well
- I, like, lived in the computer room.
Yeah, you were
I'm amazed you remember me at all
because you were definitely popular.
I mean, I don't know
Oh yeah. No. Especially compared to me.
- [CHUCKLES]
- Like, what was I?
[BOTH LAUGH]
Um, look, I Actually, I have to go.
- Oh God, sorry. Yeah. Sorry.
- Yeah.
Yeah, um
- It was good to see you.
- Yeah, you too.
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
Hey, Gabe.
- Hey.
- Hey.
Oh, nice one on the miso jam Hucklebuck.
Oh.
Camille said
they were hesitant at first, then
- Yeah, it's a grower.
- A big grower.
They asked for takeaways.
I just saw we've got an advert
for a research assistant.
Oh yeah. Yeah, it
went up a few days ago.
It's just that we hired Luisa in March.
Well, expanding the team.
I mean, we're doing well.
You are doing well.
Ditta's really into your mallow concept.
Might launch it globally if he likes it.
Mr. Ditta said that?
Ask him if you don't believe me.
He'll be here Thursday.
- Here?
- Yeah.
Gonna get myself a new shirt.
[MARIA] She's this girl
I went to school with.
I haven't seen her in years,
and then today, bam,
she's in one of the focus groups,
and then she's after
a job in our office.
- In your office?
- My office.
- Is there a job going?
- Well, yeah, but not for her.
- She was, like, the school freak.
- Is that her official title or
She was clever,
like, brainbox clever to the
point where she was sort of "off."
Zero social skills.
She had this mad hair.
She was always scribbling,
like, these weird little diagrams
of, like, computers
that she wanted to build.
She sounds kind of cool.
No, she definitely was not cool.
Right from the off.
And there was this rumor about her.
Spicy rumor?
That she wanked off Mr. Kendrick
in the computer room.
What, "Mr. Kendrick"?
What, like a teacher?
Yeah. But it probably wasn't even true.
- It was
- That is
Teenagers love to gossip,
even if it's bullshit.
This is you saying
you gossiped about Verity?
- Everyone gossiped about Verity.
- Okay.
- It was just She was just
- An easy target?
Not for me.
This one girl, Natalie Caine,
when she heard about the
Mr. Kendrick stuff, she was ruthless.
She kept calling Verity "Milkmaid,"
like, over and over till it stuck,
and then that was just her name.
Like, "Look at Milkmaid's hair."
"Look at Milkmaid sitting on her own."
- Kids can be vicious.
- Mm.
But she was always
this big computer genius at school,
and this says
she's been working at a travel agent.
- Wait. Are you stalking her?
- No.
But to go from that to food research,
I mean, why?
Maybe she's got the qualifications.
She won't have the qualifications.
[TENSE ORGAN MUSIC PLAYING]
Uh, after that, then I took
molecular biochemistry at Cambridge.
Yeah. I was quite proud
because I got a first.
So I see.
And around the same time,
I just got fascinated by food,
so I enrolled in a catering course
at Oxford Brookes.
You've been scuba diving
since you were 12?
[INAUDIBLE]
[BOTH LAUGHING]
[LAUGHING]
- That's your mate, isn't it?
- Mm.
Oh, who's been at this?
- Don't look at me.
- I'll write my name on it, then.
Need help with
spelling? Begins with "L."
Yeah. Funny.
Uh, guys? Hello! Everyone.
Um, this is Verity.
She's gonna be joining us
as our new research assistant.
Please make her feel welcome.
Nick, could you find Verity a desk?
Yeah. Definitely, yeah.
[GABE] Thank you.
- [VERITY] Hi. Thank you.
- [GABE] Enjoy.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- Do you want to come this way, m'lady?
- Yeah.
- Uh, great. You're welcome.
- Hi.
- Hey, again.
- [VERITY LAUGHS]
- [NICK] How about right here?
- [VERITY] Oh.
- [NICK] Pre-warmed chair.
- [VERITY] Oh.
- Slide you in, which is a plus.
- [MARIA] Gabe? Gabe? Hey.
Um
- That's quite the fast track.
- Yeah, well, I just thought, why not?
She's overqualified
if anything. I mean
Right, and that's that's all legit?
Well, I haven't rung Cambridge
to ask if she's a fantasist,
if that's what you mean.
I'm just saying
'cause, um, I went to school with her.
- Yeah, you said. Did you not get on?
- [NICK] There it is.
[MARIA] No, it wasn't that.
It wasn't that. She was just a bit
[GABE] A bit?
You know
odd.
Well, we're all a bit odd.
I'm just saying
maybe kick the tires a bit more.
[SIGHS] I'll I'll
call around. Better?
Yeah. Look, it's probably all fine.
Yeah. It probably is.
[NICK] It's a great place to work.
We're a really chill
partnership, and, um
No, internal dating is allowed,
but it's just frowned
upon in some areas.
We'll add you to, uh,
the WhatsApp group.
Um, there's a funny WhatsApp group.
We do memes. We do sort of, like
[MAN] Hey, babes.
- Gabe's hired her.
- Huh?
Verity fucking Greene.
[MAN] So she was qualified.
[MARIA] Yeah, on paper.
Qualifications are on paper.
Have you got beef with her?
No.
It sounds like you got beef with her.
Go back to your game.
[GAME CHIRPING]
[TENSE ORGAN MUSIC PLAYING]
[DEVICE BEEPS]
- [AUTOMATED VOICE] Doors closing.
- Oh.
- Morning.
- Doors opening.
- [MARIA] Morning.
- Morning.
- Doors closing.
- [GABE] So I checked Verity out.
- Yeah?
- Clean bill of health.
- They all said super attentive.
- Okay.
- Really smart.
- Okay.
- Plays well with others. Yeah.
- I get it.
- So, um, all okay?
- Floor two.
All okay.
Doors opening.
Great, because I told Verity
she can conduit between
you and Yudy today.
- She can conduit? Conduit's not a verb.
- You know, liaise.
- You you got what I meant.
- Also, we don't need a conduit.
It's just so, you know,
she can watch your process.
- Learn the ropes.
- Right.
- Uh-huh. And maybe even break the ice.
- Sure.
Have you tasted Verity's flapjacks? Wow.
[NICK] Steady on.
- [VERITY] Help yourself.
- [NICK] Hey. What's going on?
[WOMAN 1] These are so good.
Mmm. You should work for a food company.
Yeah, maybe I should. [LAUGHS]
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
[MARIA] So this is my new
mallow concept, the Doubloon.
Mmm. I wanna eat it already! [CHUCKLES]
Always a good sign.
So, for Yudy, the kitchen head,
we compile the full list of
ingredients, obviously.
Right, yes. That's where I come in.
For today, yeah.
- So, for the enrobing chocolate
- Mm-hmm.
That is 70% dark
with fine salt crystals.
70% dark choc, fine salt crystals.
- Yeah.
- Um
And the, um, marshmallow?
- It's just mallow.
- Yep, right, mallow.
Non-pork gelatine for the mallow.
Non-pork gelatine.
Actually, you know what?
I can't remember if it's
pork Mr. Ditta doesn't eat.
Better to go totally plant-based.
Um, carrageenan.
Uh
Uh, it's made from
it's made from a sort of seaweed.
- [WOMAN] Oh, seriously, again?
- [VERITY] Carra
- [WOMAN] Who's had me almond milk?
- Carrageenan.
- "Not I," said the little red hen.
- [VERITY] How do I spell that?
Uh, carra
Uh, carrageenan is
- C-A-R
- [MARIA] Uh, no. It's
- [WOMAN] I know it was
- Honestly, I went for cow's milk.
Um [TUTS]
Know what? I'm just gonna email you
with the full spelling.
- Yeah, great. That's great.
- Yeah? Great, great.
[WOMAN] Seriously, this stuff costs,
like, £4.50 a carton.
[NICK] I actually lived above a Greggs
in Wandsworth once.
- My waistline's still not forgiven me.
- [VERITY LAUGHS]
[WOMAN] I used to be hooked
on their steak bake.
It was like heroin in pastry for me,
but now I've gone vegan, so
- [VERITY] They do a chicken one?
- [WOMAN] Yeah. It has weird sauce.
The only chicken thing I actually miss
is the Morley's burger.
Oh, I love Morley's.
Well, if we're talking
fast-food chicken,
the absolute winner for me is Bernie's.
- [WOMAN] Bernie's?
- [NICK] Bernie's Chicken.
Had branches everywhere. Went bust.
Whoever Bernie was,
he was shit with money.
[LAUGHTER]
[MARIA] It was Barnie's.
- Say again.
- Barnie's Chicken, the chicken chain.
It was "Barnie's" with an "a,"
not Bernie's with an "e."
[NICK] Yeah, no,
it was definitely Bernie's.
- B-E-R
- B-A-R-N-I-E-S.
"Barney" with an I-E at the ending?
That's not how you spell Barney.
No, I think "Barnie" meant,
like, an animal that lives in a barn.
Like a chicken.
They live in coops.
- Honestly, it's Barnie's.
- [NICK] Yeah.
It was the chain. Bernie's.
They were all over South London.
Yeah, sorry, I've got to
say, I think it was Bernie's.
Bernie's Chicken.
- Okay. I know for a fact it's Barnie's.
- [NICK] She's getting a strop on.
Yeah, Nick, because my boyfriend
used to work at a Barnie's.
He still wears a
baseball cap from there,
so I see the logo every single day.
So I know it is Barnie's.
Come on, guys.
"Bernie's," "Barnie's," does it matter?
- It matters that she's wrong.
- Oh my God! Okay! Okay!
- Let's Google it.
- Yeah, okay. Let's do it.
- Let's Google it.
- Yep.
[SIGHS]
Barnie's Chicken.
- [MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
- Oh dear.
N No.
- Oh no. Oh, no, no, no.
- No, look.
- [NICK] Oh, deary me.
- No.
- [NICK] No?
- It was not that.
- Oh, is it not? No.
- It wasn't that.
- Is the whole Internet wrong today?
- It
- That's annoying, isn't it?
- Oh my God.
Troubleshoot that if you can.
Feel the "Bern."
[NICK GLOATS CHEERFULLY]
- [CAMILLE] Nick
- What?
- [CAMILLE] Let it go.
- I am.
[MAN SIGHS]
- Hon
- Mm-hmm?
Look at this.
- [MAN] What about it?
- It's changed.
- [MAN] From what?
- Just read it.
Bernie's.
It used to say "Barnie's."
Why? It's Bernie's Chicken.
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC CONTINUES]
- [MAN] You okay?
- It was Barnie's.
- [MAN] Babes.
- Don't "babes" me. It was Barnie's.
I was the one who worked
at a Bernie's Chicken for a year, okay?
- It's always been Bernie's.
- I swear to God, it's changed.
Maybe you just think it has,
like the Mandela Effect.
- People misremember things.
- No. I
Like the Monopoly man wearing a monocle.
That was a big one.
[SIGHS]
- I made a dick of myself at work.
- 'Cause of Bernie's Chicken?
- No, because of fucking Verity.
- Okay, what's she got to do with that?
She's just getting on my nerves.
Everyone's fawning all over her,
kissing her arse.
- She's allowed to be popular.
- Why are you taking her side?
What side? She's allowed to be popular.
I didn't say she wasn't.
It doesn't make her a threat.
- I didn't call her a threat.
- Okay, well
What? Now I'm threatened
by popular people? Is that it?
No, I'm just saying
that you like to be top dog.
- Oh, fuck off.
- You do.
You love it
when everyone's sucking your dick
I expect people to suck my dick?
I didn't say "expect."
Oh sorry. I ask them to?
Be a bit difficult
since I don't have a fucking dick.
You can relate to that, can't you?
Bernie's Chicken!
[DOOR SLAMS]
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC FADES]
[TENSE ORGAN MUSIC PLAYING]
[GABE] Oh, just through here, Mr. Ditta.
This is where the magic happens.
Uh, this is Nick in Graphics.
Um, Kitchen Head, Yudy.
And, of course,
of Chili Flake Bête Noire fame,
our chief wizard, Maria.
Oh, technically,
a female wizard is a witch, so
Either way,
I'm impressed by your conjuring.
Thank you.
Ah, the famous miso jam Hucklebuck.
- I've heard good things.
- [MARIA CHUCKLES]
[MARIA] There is a bit of
a learning curve to it.
Very good.
Uh, this is the Doubloon.
- Mm-hmm.
- It's a new concept.
- It's made from
- Please, please, no spoilers.
Let me guess.
That's good.
That's great.
Okay, so it's, uh,
dark salted chocolate.
- Yes.
- And, um, kind of a marshmallow.
- Just mallow.
- Mm.
But what's this texture?
It's very interesting.
Uh, well, it's bound
with a plant-based gelatine,
which is derived from seaweed.
- Seaweed?
- Mm.
- Um
- The things that we can do, hey? May I?
Yeah. Oh, yeah, you're
the boss. [LAUGHS]
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[MR. DITTA] Mmm.
Mmm.
Tight ship you're running, Gabe.
See you in Berlin.
Yes. Of course.
Good. And I think you should join us.
I
Yeah. Yes.
- Good.
- [GABE] Okay, all right.
- What is up with you?
- It's beef gelatine in the mallow.
- Beef?
- Oh, what? Ditta is Hindu.
- You just fed him beef.
- Carrageenan.
- I said "carrageenan."
- Wasn't on the list.
- I was specific.
- It wasn't on Verity's list.
Verity's list.
Verity's list.
[SIGHS]
- Sorry, what did you call it?
- [MARIA] Carrageenan.
- I've never heard that word before.
- You wrote it down.
You even asked how to spell it.
- She just said, "Non-pork gelatine."
- I didn't.
[VERITY] Luisa was
complaining about almond milk.
Maybe you were distracted.
[MARIA SCOFFS]
- Honestly, non-pork was all she said.
- So it's a verbal instruction.
Maybe some things get misheard.
I wrote it in an email to her.
Listed every ingredient.
Sorry, Maria, but in the email you sent,
it just says non-pork gelatine.
I know what I wrote.
Well Please stop shouting at me.
[CHUCKLES] I am not
- I am not shouting.
- You've been raising your voice.
- What? When?
- I think you need to calm down.
I am calm!
I'm I
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
I am calm.
[MARIA SIGHS, CLEARS THROAT]
Gabe, I remember what I wrote
and how I wrote it.
I am saying that Verity is mistaken.
[SIGHS] Let's see that email.
[MARIA] Mm.
- [GABE] You owe Verity an apology.
- That is not what I wrote.
Just apologize.
I'm sorry.
Can I go now?
- She altered it somehow.
- Whoa!
I don't know how or why. She must have.
- Maria.
- Gabe, please, come on.
You have known me for years.
Will you please just listen to me?
I am listening. You
sound quite emotional.
I know what I wrote.
Look, you have
some personal issues with Verity.
I can see that.
But, from my perspective,
she's hardworking, you know, well-liked.
- She's done nothing wrong.
- Yeah, she's doing this.
No one is doing anything.
- Look, is everything all right at home?
- Don't fucking patronize me.
- If you want to take some time off
- I am fine.
All right. Well, if that ever changes,
- I'm always here to talk.
- [LAUGHS]
Oh, uh, Maria.
In the meantime,
get off Verity's back.
Okay?
You're starting to look vindictive.
[MARIA] What I don't understand is how
she changed the fucking email. How?
[MAN] Maybe she didn't.
- Kae, I know what I wrote.
- Maybe you sent it to draft by mistake.
I checked the draft
folder. Fucking hell.
Have you have you listened
to anything I've fucking said?
Every word since you came in.
Okay, Verity has orchestrated
some high-tech conspiracy
She has always been good with computers.
Like, mad genius level.
- She is doing this.
- I think you're working too hard.
- Oh, don't you fucking start.
- I do. You're sounding
I think you sound stressed and obsessed.
- [PHONE BUZZES]
- Sh, Natalie texted back.
Who's Natalie?
Nat from school.
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
It's not from her.
"Hi, this is Dan, Nat's husband."
"No easy way to say this,
but Nat passed away a few days ago."
"Sorry it took a while to reply,
but it's been tough,
as I'm sure you understand."
[KAE] Shit.
Sorry.
Was she a close friend or
Maybe just send him a text, you know.
Poor guy.
"Sorry for your loss," or
Don't Babes, don't call.
What you doing? The man
just said he's grieving.
- [MAN] Hello?
- Hey! Hi, sorry.
Um, this is this is Maria, um,
from Nat's school. You just texted me.
Yeah. Your name was on the thing.
Honey, stop.
Sorry to break it in a text.
It's just been rough, you know?
With the kids and
It was such a shock.
Oh, I'm sure, I'm sure, I'm sure.
Um, God, yeah.
How did she
Was she ill, or
- Maria.
- Or
- How did she die?
- Yeah.
She she took her own life.
- As in, she killed herself?
- Yeah.
But why? I mean
I don't know. Some kind of breakdown.
In the weeks leading up,
she wasn't really rational.
How so?
Like, paranoid. Accusing everyone
of lying about stuff. Stupid things.
Her grip on reality wasn't,
you know, the best.
Sorry, why why do
you wanna know this?
Had she been in touch
with anyone from school?
What do you mean?
Had she bumped into anyone
from Colworth Manor High?
- What's that have to do with anything?
- Did she mention Verity Greene?
- No. I don't know who that is.
- Fuck's sake. Maria.
- Are you sure?
- Look, I'm sure.
- Verity Greene.
- Listen, I have to go.
- I've got to put my kids to bed.
- Oh, I'm so sorry.
- I'm gonna hang up.
- If you could try to remember
- Don't call this number again.
- [LINE DISCONNECTS]
[UNEASY MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC FADES]
[DOOR SLAMS]
[TENSE ORGAN MUSIC PLAYING]
[VERITY] Morning.
Morning.
Are you sitting the meeting out?
[MARIA] Sorry?
There was a team meeting this morning.
The rest are still down there.
- I'm early.
- Uh, it was at 8:00.
- No one said.
- I think Gabe sent an email yesterday.
I did not see that.
- I mean, it's probably in your junk.
- Oh, I bet it is.
Do you have a problem with me?
What?
You just seem like
you have a problem with me.
And why might that be?
I don't know.
You can't think of any reason?
I know you didn't think
much of me at school.
I didn't think anything of you
at school, Verity. I hardly noticed you.
You even said yourself
you were always in the computer room.
I'm sorry, but you didn't really
cross my mind very often.
- People said stuff about me.
- I don't know. Did they?
About me and Mr. Kendrick.
I never I never believed any of that.
Whole time I was at
school, he was, like,
the only one who was nice to me.
He didn't care
that I had mad hair or whatever.
He just, like, told me I was clever,
and he looked out for me.
That computer
room, like, I lived for it,
those lunchtimes, because it was
the only place I wasn't on my own.
So when he was
transferred, I had nothing.
Because everything
outside of that was, like
You know.
Kids can be fucking awful.
They're just kids. They're not thinking.
Yeah, I know.
I never had a problem with you, Verity.
And I am I'm really sorry
that you had such a hard time.
Thank you.
Mm.
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[VERITY CHUCKLES]
[MUSIC FADES]
[CAP CLATTERS]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC STOPS]
[DOOR OPENS]
[INDISTINCT CHATTERING]
[GABE] Nick, we gotta change
that slogan by the end of the day.
"Crunchy Surprise"
is not gonna play. Oh.
What's with the no-show at the meeting?
Hello?
We had an emergency recall.
A YouTuber found a
toenail in a Caramel Cove.
Did you not get my email?
Maria, my email?
Uh, I bet it's in my spam.
[LUISA] Oh, you guys
are taking the piss.
Okay, sorry, everyone.
Uh, this keeps happening,
and it's not on, all right?
One of you's been at
my almond milk again.
And it was full this morning,
so I know it's just happened.
So who was it?
I was in the meeting with you, so
[SCOFFS]
[SIGHS] Oh my God. It was her.
Okay? It was Verity. She drank
the whole thing in front of me.
- Why are you doing this?
- Because you are a fucking freak.
- Okay, enough.
- I don't know why she's doing this.
- I don't know why you're doing this.
- I didn't want to say.
I find her so intimidating.
But it was Maria who drank your milk.
[GABE SIGHS]
Really?
I drank almond milk?
Yeah.
Which I'm allergic to?
I mean, I only know what I saw.
- You lunatic fucking liar.
- I said enough.
We can we can just check the camera.
The security camera?
Okay?
Uh-huh.
Yeah. Let's do it.
[GABE] All right.
[GUARD] Okay.
- Kitchen area.
- [GABE] Mm-hmm.
- Play it from here?
- [GABE] Yeah.
Honestly, it wasn't me. It was her.
[GABE] Let's just watch the tape.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[GABE] Jesus Christ, Maria.
I didn't do that.
Oh my That
That is not even possible.
I've got a nut allergy!
- No such thing as a nut allergy.
- [GABE] What's "nutallergy"?
- A nut allergy.
- What?
[GUARD] Nut
"Nutallergy"?
An allergy to nuts.
I am allergic to nuts.
Well [SCOFFS]
I have had a serious nut allergy
my whole life.
I've always had to read ingredients
and study labels.
It's how I got into food.
Because of my nut allergy!
"Nutallergy." You keep saying it
like it's supposed to mean something.
- What does it mean?
- Do you know?
- [SCOFFS] No.
- No.
Oh, now we're Googling it. Okay.
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
How are you doing this?
[GABE] Okay, look, Maria. Look, just
- It's that. It's that pendant thing.
- [GABE] Maria
Oh my God. She's changing things
Okay. Whoa. Hey.
With that thing around her neck.
- Get off me!
- [GABE] You need to calm down.
I am calm. I am calm.
All right. So why
don't we just sit down?
- Let's Maria. Hey! Whoa!
- [SHOUTING]
[GABE] Your actions leave me
with no choice but to let you go.
Maybe you're struggling
with your mental health. I
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[INAUDIBLE]
[GABE] Whatever nutallergy is,
I don't know.
But you need to take a break
and focus on yourself.
You need to get well.
This is not coming from me as a boss
but as a friend,
one human being to another.
Please speak to someone.
- Get some help.
- Oh, shut up, you cunt.
[MARIA SIGHS]
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC CONTINUES]
- [NICK] See you tomorrow, Verity.
- See you tomorrow, Nick.
[DISTANT SIREN WAILING]
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC CONTINUES]
[MUSIC FADES]
[MARIA] What the fuck?
["STARFIRE 500" BY AMYL AND
THE SNIFFERS PLAYING FAINTLY]
[DOG BARKING]
Oh shit.
[DOGS BARKING]
[GROANS]
Shit. Ow!
["STARFIRE 500" CONTINUES LOUDLY]
["STARFIRE 500" CONTINUES]
Her legs are long like a licorice ♪
She's a genie, and you got one wish ♪
Ya dressed up in the snake's venom ♪
You wanna touch her ♪
And you just might let 'em ♪
You're rolling on the esplanade ♪
Her spirit's long ♪
And her spirit's hard ♪
You wanna try her,
and she'll fold ten ♪
Life ain't a bitch ♪
It's a lover or a friend ♪
Star fire, she fell from the sky ♪
Star fire, do you wanna ride? ♪
Star fire, she fell from the sky ♪
Five hundred times a night ♪
She sees the golden grass ♪
And golden towers ♪
Here she comes, she's star fire ♪
You think you know ♪
The world about loot ♪
She'll take you out ♪
On the back of the boot ♪
Star fire, only one side of town ♪
Star fire, star fire ♪
Burning holes in her short hot gown ♪
- Star ♪
- [MUSIC STOPS]
[GASPS SOFTLY]
[VERITY HUMMING]
- [PENDANT BEEPS SOFTLY]
- [GASPS]
[HUMMING STOPS]
[WHIMPERS SOFTLY]
[WHIMPERS SOFTLY]
[VERITY] Come out.
I will call the police.
[MARIA MOANS]
Yeah, I thought it might be you.
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
I've got your fucking thing.
Your fucking pendant.
It won't work for
you. It's got finger ID.
This changes things, doesn't it?
You say something,
you fiddle with this,
and then somehow, reality changes.
How can that little
thing change reality?
It's just a remote.
Connects to
the quantum compiler downstairs.
That's what changes reality.
I'll show you how it works.
- You're not fucking getting this back.
- It really is just a remote.
I've got loads of them.
Technically, it's not changing anything.
It just retunes our corporal frequency
to one of the parallel realities
where whatever I've said
has always been true.
There's infinite timelines,
so I just pick the one
where you're the only one
who knows what's going on.
- So you feel really
- How
special.
- Where where did you
- I built the system.
[SIGHS]
Computer lab nerdo.
I can change little
things, like you chose
a red top this morning
instead of yellow.
- [TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
- [MARIA GASPS]
Make it so you've always spoken Chinese.
[SPEAKING CHINESE]
this conversation in the office.
[PANTING]
- [SPEAKING CHINESE]
You total fucking bitch!
It's quite cool, though, isn't it?
[SOBS] I don't understand.
[MUSIC FADES]
I don't care if you understand it.
I'm doing it to hurt you.
That's the main thing.
Why?
- You know why.
- I don't know.
Who started that rumor
about me and Mr. Kendrick?
- What?
- Who started the lie?
I I don't know.
And you're still lying.
Natalie Caine told me it was you.
Just before she jumped.
She said it was you.
Was she lying?
No.
Then why?
I don't know.
Um, maybe I was jealous.
Um, maybe I wanted Natalie
to get off my back.
I It wasn't my fault.
I just said it as a joke.
She ran with it, and, like
And everyone else
just went along with it.
Yeah, and then it became a reality,
and weirdo Milkmaid couldn't fight back.
And she was stuck there.
Just like everyone calling her mad.
[SNIFFLES]
Lonely old place, isn't it?
You you could use that.
You could use that to do anything.
You can make it
so that none of that matters.
- You could be
- Empress of the universe?
Yeah.
What, make it
so I'm empress of the universe?
Worshiped by acolytes?
Yeah. Yeah, that was
the first thing I did.
Don't get me wrong. It was amazing.
For a while.
I've done everything.
I've been everything.
But whatever I do,
all that stuff is just
It's just still there.
Just aching away.
So here I am, fixing a hole.
[CHUCKLES]
Seeking closure. [LAUGHS]
Took me five weeks to break Natalie.
You've been what, like,
five days.
How do you think you'll do it?
She was a jumper,
but you're not a jumper.
[SOBS SOFTLY]
Maybe you like wrists.
Or, um
[GROANS]
[LAUGHS]
[SCREAMS]
[GRUNTING]
[SCREAMING]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
- [GRUNTS]
- Ow!
Fuck!
[BOTH PANTING]
[VERITY SHRIEKS]
[PANTING]
- The police are here. Armed police.
- Fuck you!
Your boyfriend called
and said you've gone berserk.
You've broken into
my house with a knife.
- [BOTH PANTING]
- [FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
- Police! Drop it!
- [GASPS]
Oh, thank God you're here.
[SOBS] Don't let her hurt me.
Drop the knife.
- [KNIFE CLATTERS]
- Hands on your head. Now.
Turn around.
[TENSE ORGAN MUSIC PLAYING]
- Christ!
- [PANTS]
- [GUNSHOTS]
- [SHRIEKS]
[GRUNTS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[OFFICER 1] Drop it!
- [GUNSHOTS CONTINUE]
- [GASPING]
[OFFICER 1] Get your hands up!
[TENSE ORGAN MUSIC CONTINUES]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[MARIA SCREAMS]
[OFFICER 1] Stop!
[PANTS]
The pendant works for me.
The pendant works for me!
Drop it now, now, now!
She shot herself. It wasn't me.
You saw the whole thing.
I know.
Who is she?
Um
[SPLUTTERS] I've never
seen her before in my life.
I don't know who she is.
So why did she shoot herself?
What's going on here?
We're gonna need to take you
to the station to ask some questions.
No, you won't.
How so?
You work for me. Both of you.
[BOTH] Yes, guv.
You worship me.
[BOTH] Yes, ma'am.
Because
[CHUCKLES]
I am
I am the empress
of the universe.
- [CROWD CHEERING]
- [BOTH] Hail Maria.
[TRIUMPHANT ORGAN MUSIC PLAYING]
[CROWD CHANTING] Hail Maria!
Hail Maria! Hail Maria!
Hail Maria! Hail Maria! Hail Maria!
[CHANTING CONTINUES]
Never in a million fucking years ♪
Did I ever think I'd ever ♪
See your fucking face again ♪
I'll find you on the wall ♪
Find you in reflection ♪
Well, I thought I was getting better ♪
I must think I'm
fucking Mickey Mouse ♪
This year's been a belter ♪
Shithouse! ♪
Well, I thought I was getting better ♪
I must think I'm fucking Cinderella ♪
In the mind there lives a louse ♪
Shithouse! ♪
[MUSIC ENDS]