American Horror Story s11e10 Episode Script
Requiem 1981/1987 Part Two
1
(SIRENS WAILING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(CLEARS THROAT) Excuse
me. Um what's going on?
The landlord smelled
something coming out of 6-B.
He went in and found a body.
Hi. Um, I'm friends
with the woman in 6-B.
Can I Can I please come in?
Yeah, sure.
- Come on.
- Thank you.
(SIRENS WAILING)
He says he knows her.
- What's your name?
- Adam Carpenter.
What's the nature of your
relationship to the deceased?
I'm the father of her child.
I'm sorry.
What happened?
No sign of forced entry.
Looks like natural causes.
Can't be sure till
the coroner weighs in.
Did she have any known medical issues?
Uh, her prenatal doc said she had a low
red blood cell count, but that it wasn't
anything to be worried about.
Give me a call in the morning.
We'll take your full statement.
Can I have a a minute in here?
Take your time.
♪
(TAPE REWINDING)
HANNAH (ON TAPE): The lab
received a strange call
from the Fire Island
Park Service this morning.
The rangers can't explain how the deer
are repopulating so quickly there
despite the culling earlier this summer.
I confess I can't explain it either.
(BUTTON CLICKS)
(SOBBING)
♪
♪
HANNAH: The lab received a strange call
from the Fire Island
Park Service this morning.
The rangers can't
explain how the deer are
repopulating so quickly there
despite the culling earlier this summer.
I confess, I can't explain it either.
(TAPE FAST-FORWARDING)
A virus? But how does it replicate?
(HANNAH COUGHS)
Dr. Gallo's report on T-cell lymphoma
makes me suspect that it could be
(HANNAH COUGHS VIOLENTLY)
(GLASS SHATTERS)
(HANNAH RASPS)
(TAPE REWINDING)
HANNAH: Dr. Gallo's
report on T-cell lymphoma
makes me suspect that it could be
(COUGHS VIOLENTLY)
(GLASS SHATTERS)
(HANNAH RASPS)
(TAPE STOPS, REWINDS)
(HANNAH COUGHS VIOLENTLY)
(GLASS SHATTERS)
(HANNAH RASPS)
♪
No way to be certain, but my
best guess would be heart failure.
Sudden, bolt-of-lightning
heart failure.
I'll know more when I get to her,
- probably tomorrow.
- What about homicide?
I'm sorry?
- What if she was attacked?
- Attacked?
Yes. Play it again.
I don't need to.
There are zero signs of
a struggle on her body.
And I'm so sorry, but if you
suspect something like this,
why wouldn't you bring
that to the police?
I have my reasons.
Well, you're giving me reasons to make
an official report of this
and have you brought in for questioning.
I agreed to this as a favor to Patrick.
He said you needed some
closure on what happened
to your friend Theo.
Look, Adam, there is no way
that these two cases are related.
I can get you more information
on Dr. Wells' body when I have it.
But your friend Mr. Graves
no sign of struggle either.
He had pneumocystis pneumonia.
Undiagnosed, untreated and aggressive.
That was the primary
factor in his death.
What is that?
It's a lung infection.
It's caused by a fungus.
Usually affects older patients
who have weak immune systems.
Then how would it kill him that quickly?
The report says that he'd been tied up
crucifixion style.
He was hanging by his arms
for what, hours probably?
That's what deprived him of oxygen.
That combined with the pneumonia,
he didn't have a chance.
Plus, toxicology found
quaaludes in his system.
Those would have depressed
his breathing to begin with.
Made it difficult for
him to struggle or gasp
or whatever he would need
And listen, that means
Theo didn't suffer,
if that helps you.
So the cause of death was, uh
Suffocation.
I know what you're
trying to get me to say
because it feels like
it would make more sense,
but I can't get there.
There's no proof of foul play, Adam.
Nobody was attacked.
The tragedy is that two
lives ended far too soon.
I'm truly sorry for your loss,
but I don't see how these two
cases are related in any way.
I don't know how anybody
else will, either.
Uh, thank you.
HANNAH (ON TAPE): June 27, 1981.
Seven months ago.
I asked Adam to get me pregnant.
I used a turkey baster with his
semen in it to conceive this child.
A direct route of transmission.
And the timeline is making sense.
I say this because it's definitive.
My lab results are mirroring Adam's
and those of my other gay patients.
(SOFT MOANING)
(INHALING)
(MOANING)
HANNAH: It's a development
that leads me to suspect
that this disease could
be sexually transmitted.
(MOANING, PANTING)
I know he suspects
that something is wrong,
but he couldn't know
how sick we all are.
(MOANING CONTINUES)
Our defenses are down, our
bodies are under attack.
(CRIES OUT)
HANNAH (SIGHS): Adam.
How am I gonna tell him?
HANNAH: Fungi and bacteria
run rampant and unchecked.
Opportunistic infection.
Pneumocystis pneumonia.
Kaposi's Sarcoma.
I need to tell Adam as
soon as he gets back.
I need to tell him all of this tomorrow.
(EXHALES)
Okay, there
Results will take
between seven to ten days.
I can have the front desk call you
to set up a follow-up appointment.
I already know what it is.
I just need you to confirm
it for your records.
Oh, really? And what is that?
Kaposi's Sarcoma.
Doctor? Sorry.
I have I have reason to believe
that this is sexually transmitted.
Adam, you're a young
man. It's probably benign.
There's no reason to panic.
No, I I need you to listen to me.
Um, there's something new out there,
and-and you need to be
putting every colleague,
every medical body in
New York on high alert.
How do you expect me to get anyone
to take what you've just
said seriously, exactly?
On your say-so.
I don't expect you to,
but you will have my
results in seven to ten days,
and then maybe you
can take me seriously.
HANNAH: June 2, 1981.
More tests came back today.
The deer on Fire Island
are not the origin.
It makes me wonder if this
Fran woman is on to something.
Did all this begin with a lab leak?
I was able to confirm that
some of what she said about
the government experiments
on Plum Island is true.
But weaponized ticks?
It feels absurd even
entertaining this possibility.
But many of the rashes
and fevers in my patients
match a cluster of cases
in Lyme, Connecticut.
And now Rocky Mountain
Labs wants us to send them
tick samples from all over Long Island.
They suspect that deer
ticks are the actual carriers
of this, quote, "Lyme Disease."
But what about my gay patients with
these changes in immune function?
Similar reports of rashes and fever
shortly after trips to Fire Island.
From weaponized ticks?
It doesn't seem right.
Simplistic. Far-fetched.
What's more likely is that
I'm observing the effects
of an entirely new pathogen.
It was bound to happen.
It could have come from anywhere.
(BEEPS, WHIRS)
Wherever it came from,
I'm having trouble
getting my work any serious attention.
The neglect faced by this
community is criminal.
Surely others have
noticed something by now.
I have to make more noise.
(KNOCK ON DOOR)
If you're looking for an autograph,
you'll have to wait till after the show.
Uh, I'm-I'm not here for an autograph.
Um, it's a matter of public health.
Really?
Well, it's very kind of
you to finally show up.
Sorry?
I've been calling you guys for weeks.
We've been bleaching,
scrubbing with ethyl alcohol,
following every protocol
to the T, and still,
my patrons are getting sick.
Where the hell have you been?
I'm, uh, I'm not here
from the Health Department.
I'm just a concerned citizen.
Um, I was hoping you could post these.
I brought some boxes
of condoms in here, too.
Boxes?
Yeah. The checkout lady looked at me
like I was the Whore of Babylon.
There's something new going around.
Something deadly.
I'm just trying to keep as
many people safe as I can.
It's my last show tonight.
And it doesn't feel
safe around here anymore.
- Last show?
- Mm-hmm.
End of an era.
(LAUGHS)
I should have hung
my tiara up years ago.
But I'm stubborn.
Holding on to an old dream.
But what a dream it was.
All that music, all that love.
Freedom incarnate.
Vitality without shame.
But it's gone now.
I've sensed it coming for a long time.
It's over.
Deadly, huh?
(CLICKS TONGUE, EXHALES SHARPLY)
Well, go with God,
whatever that means to you.
I'm closing shop.
Now, listen, kid,
you are way too young to be
thinking about how not to die.
Don't forget how to live.
(SIGHS HEAVILY)
♪
(TRAIN HORN BLARES)
WOMAN: I told you.
I told you, I told you.
(LIGHTS BUZZING)
- (DISTORTED): I told you.
- (GASPS)
(TRAIN HORN BLOWS)
(BRAKES SQUEAKING)
♪
♪
(DOOR BELL JINGLES)
♪
PHARMACIST (ECHOING): Next.
Sir, he just said you're next.
♪
♪
(QUIET CHATTER)
Mrs. Read, uh, Patrick would have
Aye-yi-yi. Gladiola.
♪
No, no, no, no, goddamn it!
This is supposed to be open, goddamn it!
We want people to face
what happened to you.
Why did you do this?
(QUIETLY): Patrick. Patrick.
- Patrick.
- Gino.
Gino.
We need to start the service.
(PAPER RUSTLING)
("RADIOACTIVITY" BY KRAFTWERK PLAYING)
♪
♪
♪
Radioactivity ♪
Is in the air for you and me ♪
- (CHANTING INDISTINCTLY)
- Radioactivity ♪
Discovered by Madame Curie ♪
♪
You're safe.
PATRICK: We're not safe, Gino.
(GUNFIRE)
Radio aktivität ♪
Für dich und mich in all entsteht ♪
Radio aktivität ♪
Strahlt Wellen zum Empfangsgerät ♪
Radio aktivität ♪
Wenn's um unsere Zukunft geht ♪
Radio aktivität ♪
Für dich und mich in all entsteht ♪
(COUGHING)
♪
♪
Radioactivity ♪
Is in the air for you and me ♪
(NECK SNAPS)
♪
♪
♪
Radio aktivität ♪
Für dich und mich in all entsteht ♪
Radio aktivität ♪
Strahlt Wellen zum Empfangsgerät ♪
Radio aktivität ♪
Wenn's um unsere Zukunft geht ♪
Radio aktivität ♪
Für dich und mich
in All entsteht ♪
♪
Radioactivity ♪
Is in the air for you and me ♪
Radioactivity ♪
Discovered by Madame Curie ♪
Radioactivity ♪
(GASPING)
Tune into the melody ♪
Radioactivity ♪
Is in the air for you and me ♪
Radioactivity ♪
Is in the air for you and me. ♪
♪
♪
(CLEARS THROAT)
(EXHALES SHARPLY)
(SIRENS WAILING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(CLEARS THROAT) Excuse
me. Um what's going on?
The landlord smelled
something coming out of 6-B.
He went in and found a body.
Hi. Um, I'm friends
with the woman in 6-B.
Can I Can I please come in?
Yeah, sure.
- Come on.
- Thank you.
(SIRENS WAILING)
He says he knows her.
- What's your name?
- Adam Carpenter.
What's the nature of your
relationship to the deceased?
I'm the father of her child.
I'm sorry.
What happened?
No sign of forced entry.
Looks like natural causes.
Can't be sure till
the coroner weighs in.
Did she have any known medical issues?
Uh, her prenatal doc said she had a low
red blood cell count, but that it wasn't
anything to be worried about.
Give me a call in the morning.
We'll take your full statement.
Can I have a a minute in here?
Take your time.
♪
(TAPE REWINDING)
HANNAH (ON TAPE): The lab
received a strange call
from the Fire Island
Park Service this morning.
The rangers can't explain how the deer
are repopulating so quickly there
despite the culling earlier this summer.
I confess I can't explain it either.
(BUTTON CLICKS)
(SOBBING)
♪
♪
HANNAH: The lab received a strange call
from the Fire Island
Park Service this morning.
The rangers can't
explain how the deer are
repopulating so quickly there
despite the culling earlier this summer.
I confess, I can't explain it either.
(TAPE FAST-FORWARDING)
A virus? But how does it replicate?
(HANNAH COUGHS)
Dr. Gallo's report on T-cell lymphoma
makes me suspect that it could be
(HANNAH COUGHS VIOLENTLY)
(GLASS SHATTERS)
(HANNAH RASPS)
(TAPE REWINDING)
HANNAH: Dr. Gallo's
report on T-cell lymphoma
makes me suspect that it could be
(COUGHS VIOLENTLY)
(GLASS SHATTERS)
(HANNAH RASPS)
(TAPE STOPS, REWINDS)
(HANNAH COUGHS VIOLENTLY)
(GLASS SHATTERS)
(HANNAH RASPS)
♪
No way to be certain, but my
best guess would be heart failure.
Sudden, bolt-of-lightning
heart failure.
I'll know more when I get to her,
- probably tomorrow.
- What about homicide?
I'm sorry?
- What if she was attacked?
- Attacked?
Yes. Play it again.
I don't need to.
There are zero signs of
a struggle on her body.
And I'm so sorry, but if you
suspect something like this,
why wouldn't you bring
that to the police?
I have my reasons.
Well, you're giving me reasons to make
an official report of this
and have you brought in for questioning.
I agreed to this as a favor to Patrick.
He said you needed some
closure on what happened
to your friend Theo.
Look, Adam, there is no way
that these two cases are related.
I can get you more information
on Dr. Wells' body when I have it.
But your friend Mr. Graves
no sign of struggle either.
He had pneumocystis pneumonia.
Undiagnosed, untreated and aggressive.
That was the primary
factor in his death.
What is that?
It's a lung infection.
It's caused by a fungus.
Usually affects older patients
who have weak immune systems.
Then how would it kill him that quickly?
The report says that he'd been tied up
crucifixion style.
He was hanging by his arms
for what, hours probably?
That's what deprived him of oxygen.
That combined with the pneumonia,
he didn't have a chance.
Plus, toxicology found
quaaludes in his system.
Those would have depressed
his breathing to begin with.
Made it difficult for
him to struggle or gasp
or whatever he would need
And listen, that means
Theo didn't suffer,
if that helps you.
So the cause of death was, uh
Suffocation.
I know what you're
trying to get me to say
because it feels like
it would make more sense,
but I can't get there.
There's no proof of foul play, Adam.
Nobody was attacked.
The tragedy is that two
lives ended far too soon.
I'm truly sorry for your loss,
but I don't see how these two
cases are related in any way.
I don't know how anybody
else will, either.
Uh, thank you.
HANNAH (ON TAPE): June 27, 1981.
Seven months ago.
I asked Adam to get me pregnant.
I used a turkey baster with his
semen in it to conceive this child.
A direct route of transmission.
And the timeline is making sense.
I say this because it's definitive.
My lab results are mirroring Adam's
and those of my other gay patients.
(SOFT MOANING)
(INHALING)
(MOANING)
HANNAH: It's a development
that leads me to suspect
that this disease could
be sexually transmitted.
(MOANING, PANTING)
I know he suspects
that something is wrong,
but he couldn't know
how sick we all are.
(MOANING CONTINUES)
Our defenses are down, our
bodies are under attack.
(CRIES OUT)
HANNAH (SIGHS): Adam.
How am I gonna tell him?
HANNAH: Fungi and bacteria
run rampant and unchecked.
Opportunistic infection.
Pneumocystis pneumonia.
Kaposi's Sarcoma.
I need to tell Adam as
soon as he gets back.
I need to tell him all of this tomorrow.
(EXHALES)
Okay, there
Results will take
between seven to ten days.
I can have the front desk call you
to set up a follow-up appointment.
I already know what it is.
I just need you to confirm
it for your records.
Oh, really? And what is that?
Kaposi's Sarcoma.
Doctor? Sorry.
I have I have reason to believe
that this is sexually transmitted.
Adam, you're a young
man. It's probably benign.
There's no reason to panic.
No, I I need you to listen to me.
Um, there's something new out there,
and-and you need to be
putting every colleague,
every medical body in
New York on high alert.
How do you expect me to get anyone
to take what you've just
said seriously, exactly?
On your say-so.
I don't expect you to,
but you will have my
results in seven to ten days,
and then maybe you
can take me seriously.
HANNAH: June 2, 1981.
More tests came back today.
The deer on Fire Island
are not the origin.
It makes me wonder if this
Fran woman is on to something.
Did all this begin with a lab leak?
I was able to confirm that
some of what she said about
the government experiments
on Plum Island is true.
But weaponized ticks?
It feels absurd even
entertaining this possibility.
But many of the rashes
and fevers in my patients
match a cluster of cases
in Lyme, Connecticut.
And now Rocky Mountain
Labs wants us to send them
tick samples from all over Long Island.
They suspect that deer
ticks are the actual carriers
of this, quote, "Lyme Disease."
But what about my gay patients with
these changes in immune function?
Similar reports of rashes and fever
shortly after trips to Fire Island.
From weaponized ticks?
It doesn't seem right.
Simplistic. Far-fetched.
What's more likely is that
I'm observing the effects
of an entirely new pathogen.
It was bound to happen.
It could have come from anywhere.
(BEEPS, WHIRS)
Wherever it came from,
I'm having trouble
getting my work any serious attention.
The neglect faced by this
community is criminal.
Surely others have
noticed something by now.
I have to make more noise.
(KNOCK ON DOOR)
If you're looking for an autograph,
you'll have to wait till after the show.
Uh, I'm-I'm not here for an autograph.
Um, it's a matter of public health.
Really?
Well, it's very kind of
you to finally show up.
Sorry?
I've been calling you guys for weeks.
We've been bleaching,
scrubbing with ethyl alcohol,
following every protocol
to the T, and still,
my patrons are getting sick.
Where the hell have you been?
I'm, uh, I'm not here
from the Health Department.
I'm just a concerned citizen.
Um, I was hoping you could post these.
I brought some boxes
of condoms in here, too.
Boxes?
Yeah. The checkout lady looked at me
like I was the Whore of Babylon.
There's something new going around.
Something deadly.
I'm just trying to keep as
many people safe as I can.
It's my last show tonight.
And it doesn't feel
safe around here anymore.
- Last show?
- Mm-hmm.
End of an era.
(LAUGHS)
I should have hung
my tiara up years ago.
But I'm stubborn.
Holding on to an old dream.
But what a dream it was.
All that music, all that love.
Freedom incarnate.
Vitality without shame.
But it's gone now.
I've sensed it coming for a long time.
It's over.
Deadly, huh?
(CLICKS TONGUE, EXHALES SHARPLY)
Well, go with God,
whatever that means to you.
I'm closing shop.
Now, listen, kid,
you are way too young to be
thinking about how not to die.
Don't forget how to live.
(SIGHS HEAVILY)
♪
(TRAIN HORN BLARES)
WOMAN: I told you.
I told you, I told you.
(LIGHTS BUZZING)
- (DISTORTED): I told you.
- (GASPS)
(TRAIN HORN BLOWS)
(BRAKES SQUEAKING)
♪
♪
(DOOR BELL JINGLES)
♪
PHARMACIST (ECHOING): Next.
Sir, he just said you're next.
♪
♪
(QUIET CHATTER)
Mrs. Read, uh, Patrick would have
Aye-yi-yi. Gladiola.
♪
No, no, no, no, goddamn it!
This is supposed to be open, goddamn it!
We want people to face
what happened to you.
Why did you do this?
(QUIETLY): Patrick. Patrick.
- Patrick.
- Gino.
Gino.
We need to start the service.
(PAPER RUSTLING)
("RADIOACTIVITY" BY KRAFTWERK PLAYING)
♪
♪
♪
Radioactivity ♪
Is in the air for you and me ♪
- (CHANTING INDISTINCTLY)
- Radioactivity ♪
Discovered by Madame Curie ♪
♪
You're safe.
PATRICK: We're not safe, Gino.
(GUNFIRE)
Radio aktivität ♪
Für dich und mich in all entsteht ♪
Radio aktivität ♪
Strahlt Wellen zum Empfangsgerät ♪
Radio aktivität ♪
Wenn's um unsere Zukunft geht ♪
Radio aktivität ♪
Für dich und mich in all entsteht ♪
(COUGHING)
♪
♪
Radioactivity ♪
Is in the air for you and me ♪
(NECK SNAPS)
♪
♪
♪
Radio aktivität ♪
Für dich und mich in all entsteht ♪
Radio aktivität ♪
Strahlt Wellen zum Empfangsgerät ♪
Radio aktivität ♪
Wenn's um unsere Zukunft geht ♪
Radio aktivität ♪
Für dich und mich
in All entsteht ♪
♪
Radioactivity ♪
Is in the air for you and me ♪
Radioactivity ♪
Discovered by Madame Curie ♪
Radioactivity ♪
(GASPING)
Tune into the melody ♪
Radioactivity ♪
Is in the air for you and me ♪
Radioactivity ♪
Is in the air for you and me. ♪
♪
♪
(CLEARS THROAT)
(EXHALES SHARPLY)