O'Dessa (2025) Movie Script
[person]
O'Dessa!
[groans]
[person]
Wake up!
[grunts]
Ugh.
[person] It's time
to get to work.
[sighs]
[automated voice] Zero
Plaz-Plazma... Plaz-Plazma.
- Zero Plazma.
- Shit.
Okay.
[clears throat] Here's one
I've been messing around with.
Don't tell Mama.
I wish I was
out on that road
Oh, I wish I was out
there On that road
Oh, I get so lonesome 'Cause
I ain't never left home
Well, I wish that I was
Ramblin' down that road
I know there's something
out there Just for me
Yeah
Well, I know someone is
out there Just for me
My daddy said "O'Dessa,
you've got some great destiny"
Well, I wish that I was
Out there on that road
[Mama] Thank you,
Earth, for this bounty.
Amen.
[coughs]
Check them pumps?
Dry as a bone.
I don't know why we don't
just do something about it.
Move on. Try someplace new.
The land's been sucked dry,
ain't got nothing left to give.
The world has gone
mad out there.
A kinda crazy you can't fathom.
People are desperate.
Ain't safe for a 19-year-old
gal with stars in her eyes.
Stop trying to spook me, Mama.
It don't work no more.
I'm telling you the truth.
We're dirt farmers.
Ain't nothing to be
ashamed about that.
We're survivors.
[coughs, breathes deeply]
Oh, your daddy's people
were something different.
They told themselves
some cosmic story
that their music was
gonna change the world.
Ramblin' ain't reality.
[coughs]
[breathing deeply]
How you feelin', Ma?
Like I could wrestle a bear.
[chuckles]
[Mama] When I die let me fly
Seven miles high on a wing
Not six in the ground With
his cursed six strings
Not six in the ground With
his cursed six strings
A poor young
rambler courted me
He sang me songs As he
strummed his six strings
[O'Dessa, Mama] Well,
I gave him my heart
He placed his silver
ring on my finger
Well, two became one And
our daughter made three
But the rambler would
sing Of his great destiny
He said
Babe, I must wander this world
But I'll be home come winter
And I say aye I
kissed him goodbye
I watched him go on
with A tear in my eye
He walked miles and miles
The song he did sing
He rambled And picked at
them cursed six strings
He rambled And picked
them strings over me
The days grew short And
the nights, they grew cold
My rambler, he died
And all they sent home
For his next of kin Were them
cursed six strings in a casket
Well, I dug a grave
Six feet in the ground
So them buried six strings
Could not make a sound
And my shovel struck oil And our
soil was poisoned with Plazma
And I sing aye, aye
O'Dessa my child
I wish I could fly
Feathers in my spine
I would rise seven
miles Up to heaven above
To be with my rambler
My darling true love
To be with my love
My one and only one
I know you're gonna
ramble like your daddy.
You're gonna do what
you're gonna do.
But please remember
there ain't nothing more
powerful in this life than love.
[breathing deeply]
[breathes shakily]
Mama?
[breathes shakily] Don't go.
[sniffles]
[sighs]
[breathes deeply]
[grunts, sniffles]
[grunts]
The Willa.
[rambler] This be your guitar,
and you best protect
it with your damn life.
You're the last in
a long line, girl.
Seven generations.
The closing of a circle.
Pecker or not, you're
the Seventh Son.
[crying]
You look beautiful, Mama.
[sniffles, sighs]
When the sun done rise In
them purple mountain skies
It's time to find The
life waiting for me
I will comfort the disturbed
And disturb the comfortable
On these six strings
I'll sing my destiny
As I ramble like my father
Just like his
father's father
And I walk this
world and wander
I ramble like my
daddy down this road
Oh, Lord
I'm ramblin' like my
daddy Down this road
Like a Galloway I roam And
the world is now my home
With a song every
stranger is a friend
And the earth becomes my pillow
Just me and my Weepin' Willa
We'll play together
till the very end
As I ramble like my father
Just like his
father's father
And I walk this
world and wander
I'll be ramblin' like
my daddy Down the road
I'll ramble like my
daddy Down this road
[fire igniting, people laughing]
[person] All right.
[person at camp]
Come on. Do it again.
[fire igniting, people
at camp cheering]
[older person at camp]
That never get old, do it?
Uh, excuse me.
Um, pardon the disturbance.
It's, um...
It's awful cold.
[older person at camp]
Well, welcome, friend.
Warm yourself by the
fire, little lamb.
Thank you, mister.
Uh, no. It's Father.
Father Walter.
As you see, I work
for the man upstairs.
Hmm. Pleasure. Name's O'Dessa.
[Father Walter] Give
this little fella
a little bit of that
milk of human kindness.
[Father Walter]
Drink up, drink up.
That Molotov will put a little
bit of heaven in your head
and hellfire in your belly.
- [O'Dessa clears throat]
- [people at camp laughing]
[Father Walter]
Now, wait a minute.
I know that guitar.
I used to bum around
with a crazy fella.
We had some good
rambling adventures.
Vergil?
Yeah, Vergil Galloway.
King of the Ramblers.
[people at camp
chuckle] Yes, he was.
That's my daddy.
Well, I will be damned.
- No, that can't be.
- Yes, sir.
Tha-That would make us
practically related.
[people at camp chuckling]
Ramblin' is a dying
breed in a dying world.
[person at camp] Mm-hmm.
You know, in the a.m., we're hopping a
freight all the way to Satylite City.
Satylite City, where all
of the pipelines end.
[chuckles] It is a
depraved and sinful place.
But God's work, it never ends.
But right now,
raise your glasses.
- Everybody on your feet...
- [person at camp] Ooh, come on, Walter!
...as we celebrate your first and
our last run of the ramblin' life.
And may Vergil smile down on you
as we pass you the
troubadour's torch!
[person at camp] May the
road rise with you, O'Dessa!
Well, there ain't
no turnin' back
Hop that boxcar
down the track
'Cause he's the
engineer of my destiny
Oh, yeah For I've
lived a life of sin
A life of sin
Drowned in women,
song and gin
Sweet gin
But I know when I see him
[O'Dessa, person at
camp] When I see him
He'll forgive me
When I see him, he'll
forgive me Oh, yeah
- So let's ride that glory train
- That glory train
- Oh, ride that glory train
- That glory train
- It's time to go
- It's time to go
- When that whistle blows
- Choo choo
[Father Walter]
I'll be redeemed
- Oh, I'm gonna be redeemed
- Oh, yeah
Oh, yeah
Choo choo!
Whoo!
Yeah!
Whoo!
[Vergil] Life will carve
that song into your soul
like ol' Galloway carved this
guitar from that Willa Tree.
The heavens have spoken.
From this tree's burning body,
you will carve a guitar...
[Vergil] And so the Earth
Spirit told ol' Galloway,
"Only the song of the Seventh
Son on this here guitar
will have a chance to
save this dying world."
And O'Dessa, you got
that song inside you.
It's your destiny.
[groans, exhales deeply]
[sighs]
[grunts] Willa?
[train horn blares]
Shit!
Shit! No, no, no.
[panting] No, no,
no, no, no, no, no.
Shit!
[panting]
[train horn blares]
No.
Hey! Hey!
Where the hell are you going?
- That's mine! Get back here!
- [laughing]
Our ramblin' rube has
roused from her slumber!
[O'Dessa] Stupid bitch!
- Elijah, run!
- It's ours now.
[grunting]
[Elijah] Get off me, runt!
[grunts, shrieks]
[laughing and exclaiming]
Hey! No! No, no!
Please, no!
I'm the Seventh So...
You are gonna go to
the Satylite City.
You are gonna get the Willa back,
and you're gonna keep moving on.
Jackass.
[sighs]
[Plutonovich] Call to worship.
- Stay with me. Look at me. Lock eyes.
- Um.
- Focus, my friends.
- Pardon me, sir.
- You need to focus.
- Have you, um...
- Do not be distracted by them...
- Have you seen a priest and, um,
some train rats with a
guitar passing through here?
...by what they wanna
shove down your throat.
They swindled me, so...
[Plutonovich] They want to tell
you what to do, what to feel,
- what to think, breathe, eat.
- Sir, excuse me.
They wanna treat you like you're
some pathetic, helpless toddler.
- In this life...
- Um, excuse me, sir.
...you are born free
to do what you please.
You are free to spend your
time doing what feels good!
Since when did pleasure
become a dirty word?
Am I right?
[sirens blaring]
[people clamoring]
[boss] Brothers and
sisters of Satylite City!
Let me hear you sing!
[boss, crowd] In the land of
television, the third-eyed man is king.
Praise be Plutonovich on high,
and his Plazma-powered eye in
the sky glowing above his stage.
Plazma to plastic.
Dust to dust.
In Plutonovich,
the man we trust.
Now, all of you tune
into tonight's broadcast
and see this scum dance
before our Lord Plutonovich.
Here's Rael the traitor!
[crowd booing] Traitor!
And let this be a lesson to anyone
of you who challenge Plutonovich.
I scream. You scream.
We all scream for ice cream!
Shit.
[Plutonovich] Since
when did pleasure...
- Hey, you lost, baby?
- ...become a dirty word? Am I right?
Bitch.
[Plutonovich, advertisers
speaking indistinctly]
Need a fix, Roach. Come
on, man. G-give me a bag.
Just give me a bag.
I need Dust. Need it, you know?
[Plutonovich] My Plazmatics.
True Plazma, you, my friends,
are powering my eye in the sky,
glowing high above my stage
and fueling Onederworld,
my megachurch of entertainment.
[vagrant] Hey, hey. Hey, you.
Come here. Come here.
- [guard] Eeny, meeny, miny, mo.
- [rebel sobs] Please don't.
[rebel screams]
Excuse me, ma'am.
I'm looking for, uh, a-a
bearded preacher with a guitar.
[speaking indistinctly]
Plutonovich.
Plutonovich. Plutonovich.
[Plutonovich] Be with me.
Seeing is being and
being is seeing.
Praise Plutonovich,
virgin sister.
Take the habit of the One Nun.
Save yourself for him.
He is your salvation.
[Plutonovich] One of
a kind? One to watch?
Are you the Chosen One?
If you answered yes,
then "onederful!"
You are the one I've been looking
for for my new competition, The One.
I will grant them one wish.
- [Plutonovich blows]
- [gasps]
Excuse me, ma'am.
[clears throat]
Can you hear me?
Hi. Um... So that's...
that's my guitar right there
just, um, hanging yonder.
No. See, it was, um... It
was... It was took from me by...
Ma'am, please, it's priceless.
Get a job.
No money, no honey.
Hey!
Lady, I don't think
you're understanding me.
That is 200 years of...
of blood in there.
- That is my rightful...
- Nestor!
- [Nestor grunts] Get out.
- That guitar... [grunts] No!
[panting]
Hey, little baby girl,
you got any money?
[barker] Oh, cometh ye seamen!
Into the open fins
of the Mermaid.
A carnival of carnal delights! To
whet every Sailor Johnny's Appetite!
Tonight, it's an amateur
hour. Big cash prizes.
Come on and watch...
Excuse me, sir.
You can get money for playing?
Winner takes the
till, little lady.
[barker] They're gonna
love your ass, Huckleberry.
Appreciate that.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
Pardon me.
[shouting]
[Dion] Before I bring out
the raw meat amateurs,
I have a little treat
for you mindless animals.
Shut up, or give me the pleasure
of carving out your throat!
Without further ado, performing
The Veiled Dance of the Damned,
the erotic, exotic,
hypnotic, whirling Euri...
Euri Dervish!
Looking for that diamond
in the dust Cussed
Just dumb lust
Strutting through Your
gutters every night
The neon cuts the
static and the rust
Puppets strung
out Dressed up
Like blessings in disguise
For Johnny Fame
Yeah, Johnny Fame
Yeah Shallow be thy name
Whoo
Johnny Fame
Yeah, Johnny Fame
Yeah Shallow be thy name
Well, well, well
Oh, Johnny Fame
Hide your eyes behind
a veil of smoke
Oh I see you choke
I disappear through
The crack in the mirror
For Johnny Fame
Yeah, Johnny Fame
Yeah Shallow be thy name
[vocalizing]
Well, well,
well Johnny Fame
Yeah, Johnny Fame Yeah
Shallow be thy name
Whoo Well, well, well
Oh, Johnny Fame
- Whoo! Whoo!
- [Dion] Euri Dervish!
Come and see yours truly to arrange
a very private dance of your own.
[barker] Next performer
is "Opossum Gallows."
Oh.
Uh, that's, um...
- It's O'Dessa Galloway.
- [microphone feedback]
Um, so, I-I've
been doing some...
some hard traveling and, um,
rambling and, um, roving.
And, um, this song is...
Shut up and play, hayseed.
[clears throat]
Well, I lost my farm
And I lost my way
But I gambled and lost
In this Strangerland
- [audience member] Wow, you suck!
- [booing and clamoring]
[Plutonovich]
Remember, I see you.
I know your wildest wishes, your
deepest desires, your hidden fears.
[O'Dessa] You were right, Mama.
[sobs] This world's gone mad.
And I'ma get that
Willa back, Daddy.
[Plutonovich] Right here,
right now, looking at me.
- I promise. [sobs, sniffles]
- I see all of you, and I love you.
Without you there is no me.
Press your third
eye to the screen.
Spread your mind open wide
and let me come inside.
Baptize you in Plazma and
bring sight to the blind.
I will penetrate
your consciousness
and impregnate the barren womb
of your wounded, weary soul.
You who are
suffering. I feel you.
[bar patron] You had me
waiting all night, lover boy.
Herve.
- I am ready to go steady.
- I know. I know.
- [Euri] Back up, big boy. All right?
- [Herve] I like the way you dance.
[Euri] Herve, step off.
[grunts] Too close.
- [Euri] Hey. Hey. Too close, Herve.
- [Herve] I like the way you move.
[Euri] Herve. Get off me.
- Herve. Herve.
- Come on.
- Yo, be cool.
- [whistles]
Ah. Sorry, Herve.
I'm already on a date
so, uh, rain check?
[grunting]
What's your name?
O... O'Dessa.
O'Dessa, I haven't been able to
get you off my mind all night!
Slut. [grunts]
I owe you one.
[sighs] I gotta lay down.
Oh.
Chivalry.
[sighs, chuckles]
These heels are gonna
be the death of me.
[sniffles, sighs]
This place is as strange as
a checkered dog, ain't it?
[Euri] It's hell on earth.
Everyone knows you
can't sleep under here.
Those dusters will pick
your bones clean for a fix.
Yeah, I know. I'm just, um...
Just passing through actually.
So I won't be here long.
I'm a rambler.
The hell is a rambler?
Well, it's someone who kind
of roams from town to town
and sings for, um,
you know, people.
Kinda lifting their
spirits through song.
My daddy used to say
a rambler's reason for being
is to comfort the disturbed
and disturb the comfortable.
Catchy.
To be honest, I'm
new to it and, um...
my guitar got stolen.
What's eating at you?
You know, you get on that stage to
sing something new and for what?
For what? [chuckles]
They wouldn't know good music
if it bit them in the ass.
- Well, folks really seem to like you.
- [Euri] Yeah?
Like Herve the perv?
All right. Well, why don't
you play me a tune, rambler?
Oh, um...
[stammers] It ain't
much for the mood.
I am disturbed.
Okay. All right. Fair enough.
Um...
Okay. Um, [sniffles]
this one's about, um...
Well, my... my mama used to sing
it to me a mess of moons ago.
Cool.
Awake in a dream
Floating over the trees
Cicada songs surround you
The sweetest sounds
Have found you lost
Under the stars
Drowned in the fields
of Mother Nature's beard
Flows in clouds around you
Her mysteries abound
You're lost under the stars
No one knows really why
There's another
side of the sky
Like a million mirrors
Reflected in your eyes
Eyes, eyes
Tides are in tune With
the song of the moon
It's alive around you
The sweetest sights
Have found you lost
Under the stars
Under the stars
Holy shit.
Shit.
Um... All right.
Come on, rambler.
Show's over.
[Dion] Keep walking.
This is what you get,
you sack of garbage.
[O'Dessa] Where are
they taking him?
[Euri] Onederworld.
Take him.
A place you don't want to go
'cause you don't come back.
[Dion] ...dirty
disgusting face again.
Bon voyage, you dipshit.
It ain't safe here. You
got any place else to go?
[Plutonovich] ...he doesn't trust
just any old stranger on the street.
You understand me. We
understand each other.
You know what I'm talking about.
You can feel it in the air. You
can smell it in the streets.
That unbearable sense
that we're supposed to...
[Euri] Evening, Roach.
Meet O'Dessa.
She's gonna take the penthouse
until she splits town.
Follow me.
[Plutonovich] What use is it
to stay sane, huh? To the...
My boudoir.
The honeymoon suite.
[sighs] Excuse the mess. I didn't
think I'd be entertaining tonight.
Uh, make yourself at home.
Yeah, right.
Shit. Sorry.
[Euri] You all right there?
[O'Dessa sighs]
[Euri sniffing]
When was the last
time you bathed?
[crowd cheers
through television]
[announcer] From Onederworld in
front of a live studio audience,
put your hands together
for Plutonovich!
[Plutonovich] It is judgment night,
so I demand, let there be lights!
Who's this, um... this
Plutonovich fella?
You're kidding, right?
Where do I even begin?
After it all collapsed,
he sucked the Plazma
out of everyone's land
and now he uses it to
power his broadcast.
He's got everyone's attention
and anyone who speaks
out against him
just gets shipped
off to Onederworld
where he tortures them in
the name of entertainment.
And if you step out of line,
or make one false move,
you have to answer to Dion.
He's got everyone obsessed with
his every little corny move.
They're brainwashed.
[O'Dessa] But why?
[Euri] Because apparently,
he's extremely entertaining.
That's why you are getting
a facejob makeover.
[crowd cheers]
- [electronic voice] Facejob!
- [Plutonovich cackles]
[advert announcer] Facejob.
We replace your face
with a Plazma makeover.
Your soul belongs
to Plutonovich.
So, kiss your mind goodbye.
[laughs]
Later, traitor.
Can't watch this.
You know, you could torch that place
with all the Plazma running through it.
Now, that would be good TV.
The penthouse.
Nobody will bother you up here.
Plus, you get the
best view in town.
Yeah, it does look
kind of pretty.
Mmm.
You don't know how many times I
thought about swan diving off of here.
I hope you know how
lucky you are...
being able to ramble where
you please, when you please.
I can't go anywhere
without the Willa.
That guitar is all
I got in this world.
You can try busking on the
boardwalk for some bread.
It might take you a
couple of years, but...
No. No. I thought, um...
[inhales deeply] I thought life
on the road was gonna lead me
someplace I was
meant to be going...
but it's just been so damn
confusing and cruel and...
Well, I'm glad you're here now.
At least you get a good
song out of it, right?
[chuckles] Maybe we can
duet at the Mermaid.
Why are you being so kind to me?
Shit. I don't know.
[exhales deeply] I
don't know. Um...
When you sang to
me earlier tonight,
it reminded me of something.
It reminded me of how
beautiful some things are.
[clears throat, clicks
tongue] Okay. Um...
Well, I'm gonna turn in.
So, um, much obliged
for the help and um...
Uh, yeah. Nighty night then.
You're a strange bird
from another world.
Okay, then.
Um, good luck, O'Dessa.
I'll see you around and...
Stay out of trouble, rambler.
[O'Dessa moans]
[Dion] Little piggy,
little piggy, let me in.
- I've got a surprise for you.
- Shit, shit. Go, go, go.
- And why is this door locked?
- Hide. Go in the john. Quick.
Um, one second, D. I'm
just having a bath.
Where's my kimono?
[Dion] I ain't got all night.
Hey.
[pants]
Hmm.
So you really think
that you are...
- ...the One?
- [Euri chuckles]
Reminded me of my
doll-faced little Dervish.
Hmm.
You like it?
Of course, I love it.
Hmm.
I'm just, um... [coughs]
I'm just not feeling
too hot tonight is all.
Hmm. My, my, what a sty.
I pay for your abode, and
this is how you maintain it?
I swore I raised you better.
[groans] My dough-re-mi?
[Euri] Oh, shit.
Sorry. I'm spaced.
[groans, sucks teeth] Oh, me dog's
been barking like mad tonight.
[grunts]
[sighs] This better
be all of it.
Get that.
[Dion] Boy, oh, boy,
did we clean up tonight.
That new hoofin' routine killed.
[moaning]
Something you've been
meaning to tell me, darling?
- Nah.
- You know I detest secrets.
[scoffs] I don't know what
you're talking about, D.
[Dion] You see the strangest
of things transpired tonight.
That jelly-sack Herve
came in blubbering
that you was sub-boardwalk on a date
with some strange little butchie.
You ain't been freelancing now?
[chuckles] That's bullshit.
You know that, D... [grunts]
You work when I
say, with who I say.
Do I make myself clear?
Got it. Got it. I hear you.
[sighs] Zip me back.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have
to use the little girl's room.
No. Um...
Uh, no, no, no, no.
- [Euri] The plumbing's a mess in there.
- [Dion] Get out of my way.
[sighs]
[breathes shakily]
[Dion] Since when you
start taking cold baths?
[Dion's employee]
Boss, next contestant.
- [Dion groans]
- [contestant mumbles]
Another day, another
dipshit dissident.
[contestant whimpering] Please.
[Dion] Vulturo gets
'em every time.
Oh, I almost forgot.
[contestant whimpering]
Your little shipment came
in tonight, little piggy.
Don't smoke it all in one go.
- Who loves you?
- [contestant] Please.
You do, of course.
Sweet dreams.
Night, D.
O'Dessa?
O'Dessa?
Are you okay? Are you okay?
Oh, my God.
Yeah? You okay?
- Yeah.
- You strange and beautiful bird.
Do you ever think about
running away from here?
From her?
Just about every
second of every day.
Dion's got eyes
everywhere though.
I'm trapped.
Well, say in a perfect
world, where would you go?
Well, uh, I heard of this
little town called Enid.
It's about a day away.
Supposed to be clean and quiet.
Sounds all right
for starting over.
Enid.
Okay.
My Plazmatics.
It's time for our daily
bread. Our call to worship.
Stay with me. Look at
me. Lock eyes. Focus!
Now I know, and you
know, they are out there.
Maybe they're in your
family. In your home.
[nuns chanting]
[Plutonovich] Even in your bed whispering
to you to betray The Party of One.
I promise you.
I promise you they're gonna
get what's coming to them.
Mark my words.
[electronic voice] Facejob.
Plazma to plastic.
Dust to dust.
In Plutonovich,
the man we trust.
[people outside
Satylite City shouting]
[Plutonovich] Know that
together we are one.
One focus. One mantra. One
channel. One power. One mind.
Let go, my friends.
[O'Dessa] My daddy used to
tell me the story 'bout how
I was gonna get my hands on
that guitar and change things.
[Euri] Change things how?
[O'Dessa] I don't know.
I look around here...
and I think people want
something that moves them...
My Plazmatics.
[O'Dessa] ...and they
just... They don't...
[Plutonovich] It's time
for our daily bread.
[O'Dessa] They
don't know it yet.
[Plutonovich] Stay
with me. Look at me.
Maybe I've got some big
fairy-tale idea stuck in my head
that ain't got nothing to do
with how the world really is.
We all tell ourselves tales to
get through this world, you know?
What's yours?
When I was little,
it was just me and my sister
Jan looking after each other.
We were in the streets,
and it was hard to eat,
so there's this
tramp that showed us
how to do, uh, some magic
tricks to hustle the sailors.
- What kind of tricks?
- [chuckles] Open your hand.
[Euri] Three magic words.
"Asa Nisi Masi."
Open your hand.
[O'Dessa] No way.
Jan gave it to me before, uh,
they took her away to Onederworld.
- Oh, geez. I'm sorry.
- Mm-hmm.
[Euri] This world
is cruel, O'Dessa.
[O'Dessa] Maybe
it ain't gotta be.
[Euri sighs]
[Euri] If they could feel half
as good as you got me feeling.
[O'Dessa] It would
be revolutionary.
When I I woke
up this morning
The world was
turned upside down
Well, I walk the
streets of this town
My feet a foot
off the ground
That one hell of a
fella Put a spell on me
And now I'm feeling free
Free, free, free, free
I'm feeling free
Free, free, free, free
I shake like I'm on fire
Whoo!
The sweetest fever dream
Well, I keep him
like a secret
Yeah!
His eyes make
me wanna scream
[screams]
Well, I'm spinning
till I'm dizzy
Isn't this a mystery?
And now I'm feeling free
Free, free, free, free
I'm feeling free
Free, free, free, free
I ain't got no money
[mumbles]
I ain't got no home
But he got something Touch
me deep down in my soul
When, oh, when
I was lonely
I was so lonely, baby
It was then
Oh, it was then
You were my friend
When
Oh, when
You were lonely
I know you were lonely, baby
[both] It was then
Oh, it was then
You were my friend
[O'Dessa] La la la la la
La la la la La la la la la
Feeling free I
said La la la la
La la la la la
Feeling free Free,
free, free, free
I said I'm feelin' free
[crowd cheers]
[Euri] Well, me and my
girl Comfort the disturbed
Yeah, she's a strange
And a beautiful bird
Oh, yeah She got
me feelin' free
Well, she glows in the dark And
she really made a mark on me
Me, me, me, me, me, me
- Well, me and my girl...
- When, oh, when...
Yeah, she's a strange
And a beautiful bird
- [O'Dessa] I was lonely
- She got me feelin' free
I was lonely, baby
Well, she glows in the dark And
she really made a mark on me
Me, me, me, me, me, me
Well, she glows in the dark And
she really made a mark on me
Me, me, me, me, me, me
- [grunts] That was incredible.
- [laughs]
I saw you today out there, and I
didn't know something like that
was even possible.
- It felt so good playing, you know?
- Mmm. Mm-hmm.
It was like a... like a... I finally
found what I'm supposed to be doing.
Yeah.
[Dion] My darling
little Dervish.
It ain't what it seems, D.
Where are your
manners, Euri darling?
Why haven't you introduced
me to your new friend?
- I can explain.
- Yeah?
[Euri] She didn't do
anything. She's innocent.
Mmm.
[Euri] Leave her alone.
Now, what is your
name, baby face?
[grunts]
Leave her alone, D.
Zip your goddamn lips.
If I ever see you near
my piggy bank again,
I will shuck open your guts
and yank the pearl from your
rotten, greasy little oyster.
Now, step off and get the
hell out of here. Now.
- [sighs] You ungrateful little shit!
- [grunts]
- Go. Go! Get out of here.
- Euri.
- Go! Now! It's over, O'Dessa!
- No. Euri.
- [screams, grunts]
- You are a nutty little runt, ain't you?
- [O'Dessa] No. No, no, no. Please.
- [Euri] What are you doing?
- No. D! Please don't hurt her!
- Please. [screams]
[Euri] No! No,
stop! No! O'Dessa!
[crowd cheers]
[Plutonovich] Are
you one in a million?
One of a kind? One to watch?
Are you the Chosen One?
If you answered yes,
then "onederful!"
You are the one I've been looking
for. For my new competition, The One.
[announcer 1, distorted] Can you sing?
Can you dance? Tell jokes, juggle?
- [announcer 2] Acrobatics.
- [announcer 1] Entertain the court
of Plutonovich on
The One. We see you.
The stakes are
high. Life or death.
You see hon, the
one who won The One
- will win a prize of a lifetime.
- [crowd cheers]
I will grant them one...
[kisses] ...wish. [blows]
[Plutonovich speaks
indistinctly]
[groans, pants]
Oh, cut the shit, Roach. [sighs]
[people chattering]
Don't you have Dust to sell?
[groans]
What, this?
You want it?
Here. Take it. I
don't need it anymore.
Come on.
No. [grunts]
Here.
Now, one finger here
and another there.
There you go. Now strum.
Yeah, there you go.
Your first chord.
You're welcome.
[breathing heavily]
[grunts]
[Plutonovich speaks
indistinctly]
...suck on your soul, and try to squeeze
the joy out from everywhere. [chuckles]
That unbearable sense that we're
supposed to stay miserable.
[sniffles]
[sniffles]
[sniffling, sighs]
[gasps]
[breathes shakily, sniffles]
[Euri] I skimmed enough from
Dion to get this for you.
I so wish I could
hear you play it.
Now go, leave this
shithole behind.
- It's hopeless.
- [breathes shakily]
Ramble like you're supposed to.
[sniffles, sighs]
I wish we could've
gotten to Enid,
but the thought of you
there will be enough for me.
[people chattering]
[Euri] You strange
and beautiful bird.
[Plutonovich] Are
you the Chosen One?
- Hey, where are you going?
- You're the one I've been looking for...
- Won't you come play us a song?
- ...for my new competition, The One.
[Euri] Fly away from here
as far as you possibly can.
[Euri] I love you,
O'Dessa. Your Euri.
[Mama] There ain't nothing more
powerful in this life than love.
[people chattering]
[groans]
Damn fog.
I got a shipment coming in.
But I'll be back tonight.
Roger that, boss.
Hmm. Naughty, naughty, Sister.
[Euri] Oh, goodbye, baby
There's no tomorrow
It's only sorrow
[crowd clamors, boos]
Shake some ass!
Shake some ass?
Huh? That's what you want?
Shake some ass!
Yeah!
[booing continues] Shake it!
You think you're
alive, but guess what!
You wouldn't know real if
it ripped your eyes out!
Screw Satylite City!
Screw that plastic-ass hack,
that pathetic pedo
Plutono-bitch!
And the whole
goddamn Onederworld.
I wanna see that
eye in the sky burn!
We need a revolution.
[clamoring, booing continues]
Somebody get him off of the stage!
Fuck you! See you in hell!
[microphone feedback]
Enjoy him while
it lasts, Sister.
[gasps] Euri.
I had to see you.
Euri, it's... It's O'Dessa.
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Disturbed.
Look.
I'm in there.
I'm in there.
[groans, pants]
This is gonna stop.
Right now.
Don't move.
I'm gonna make this right.
- [O'Dessa whistles]
- [guitar plays]
Ugh.
The runt.
What does your dusty ass want?
He ain't your property.
You know I scraped his
pathetic ass off the street.
Gave him a life.
That boy is a needy little
leech, and he will let you down.
We belong together.
It's destiny.
When I was just a wee thing,
a wild dog attacked me.
Vicious bitch sank her daggers
deep into my poor innocent leg.
I picked up a stick,
jabbed it straight
into her brain.
And now, every
step is a reminder
of the cruel and perverse
universe that we live in.
"Immoral" of the story.
Bite the bitch before
the bitch bites you.
- I'm taking him away from here.
- [gasps]
[grunts]
[Dion] How dare you?
[O'Dessa groaning]
There once was a singer
with ten little fingers.
Oh, she played the
guitar so fine,
but she put her grubby hands
on the wrong bitch's man.
- And now she's got nine.
- [O'Dessa] No. No, please. Please.
[Dion] Nine.
[no audible dialogue]
[screaming]
This ought to shut your ass up.
[screaming]
[whimpers, panting]
[people on street chatter]
[O'Dessa grunts]
[breathes heavily, sighs]
She's gone.
[sighs]
We're too young to be hunted
We can hide, we can run
From the first time I
saw you Saw you, saw you
Babe, I knew you're the one
Lay your nightmares
beside me
Watch them fade in the sun
Can you feel how I love you?
Love you, love you
Baby, you are the one
[Euri] Now we ramble
down This world together
The future is a song yet
To be sung
With our hearts intertwined
[Euri] You're my mirror
You are mine
[both] Oh,
relieved we are one
[O'Dessa] Enid?
- Hell yes.
- [chuckles]
[O'Dessa] With this
ring On your finger
Now your blood is my blood
It's bad luck for the bride and the groom
to see each other before the big moment.
All right, all right.
All our dreams,
they will come true
Come true, come true
Okay, go.
[O'Dessa] Baby,
you are the one
Hey, remember,
four o'clock sharp.
I wouldn't miss it
for the world, baby.
Wrap your wild
arms around me
Oh, our life's just begun
It goes on forever
Ever, ever, yeah
[knocks on door]
[O'Dessa] You and
me, we are one
What you forget?
Huh? I told you it's...
- [Vulturo] You ran away.
- [Euri] No! Please. Please!
Don't touch me!
Get your hands off...
[grunts] No! No!
- O'Dessa! O'Dessa!
- [thuds]
[O'Dessa] You and
me, we are one
[Father Walter] I guess we have a
classic case of cold feet. [laughs]
And here, the
prodigal son returns.
- [Father Walter laughs]
- [gasps]
- [gasps]
- [Father Walter] Oh, little rambler,
where are you going?
Little rambler. [laughs]
[O'Dessa] Euri! Euri,
where are you? [pants]
[sniffles]
[Rael] Tonight, the Veiled Villain,
Euri Dervish will dance for his life
on the season finale of The One.
[gasps]
[melody plays through toy]
[whimpers]
Euri!
- [thunder rumbles]
- [whimpers, crying]
[crying, sniffles]
- [person speaking indistinctly]
- [whimpers] Leave me the hell alone!
The heavens have spoken.
I have been waiting for
you for seven generations.
[sniffles]
Your people cut that instrument
from the tree's burning body.
[inhales sharply] What?
You have been chosen.
I need to get to Euri.
[prophet] You have the
power inside you already.
[O'Dessa] Please, tell me how.
[prophet] As the Seventh Son,
you possess the Seventh String.
[inhales sharply]
[O'Dessa] If I sing my
song on that stage...
I can save Euri.
[prophet] You can do
more than save him.
You can bring light
to the darkness.
[echoes] The time has come.
- It is your destiny.
- Destiny.
My one true love
Left at the altar
The Devil took
your soul from me
I row this boat across
These toxic waters
Isle of the damned
beyond the sea
Beyond the sea
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Oh, here comes
the Seventh Son
Here comes the Seventh Son
To save my one true love
Here I come, here I
come The Seventh Son
The Seventh Son
[crowd cheers]
[announcer] From Onederworld, in front
of a live studio audience, The One.
[Rael] Plutopian party people!
Put your palms together for
His Highness in high-def.
The Amadeus of Chaos.
The Divine Comedian.
The Showman Shaman.
The man of our
dreams. Plutonovich!
Onederworld
Oh, Onederworld
We run the world
As we beam, beam Beam
to the eye in the sky
Tune in, turn me on...
[bouncer] Stop!
No trespass! Stop!
From on high kingdom
comes Like a Plazma God
Dust till dawn let your dazzling
daddy Take your mind for a ride
I'm your miracle man
Watch me dancing on air
Live on Channel One
So bask in the light of the
eye Bringing sight to the blind
It's just a game, my friends
But there can
only be one winner
In this modern age where
The world is my stage
You will dance for your life
On Onederworld The
second to none-derworld
Come on, all my
boy and girls
Get your dreams, dreams,
dreams From the eye in the sky
Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to the stage the
teen queen of your screen.
The First Lady of Onederworld.
Priscilla!
Bang, bang
Shake your thang
Man made to entertain
This hot bod God squad
Judgment day is where we play
Hate the player not the game
Replace your face
The price of fame
Manifest your destiny
Can only be one O-N-E on
Onederworld
[both] Oh, Onederworld
We run the world
As we beam, beam, b-b-beam
To the eye in the sky
[Rael] And now it's
time to face the music.
And entertain the judge,
jury, and executioner.
Bringing to the stage the
Veiled Villain Euri Dervish.
Order in the court. Order!
Euri Dervish,
you are on trial for
taking my name in vain.
[Euri] That pathetic... [bleep]
...Plutono... [bleep]
[tuts]
You're gonna now dance
for me and my Priscilla
like your life depends on it.
Because it does. [chuckles]
[audience laughs]
[panting]
- [announcer] Dance for your life.
- [crowd] Dance for your life.
[bouncer] Stop right there!
- Get back here! You can't go in there!
- [pants]
[grunts]
[bouncer] Stop!
[panting]
[bouncer] You gotta stop!
You're doomed for! [shouts]
- Euri Dervish, you are...
- [bouncer exclaims] Stop!
- [O'Dessa] Wait! No, please!
- [Euri] O'Dessa!
- Get back!
- [O'Dessa shrieks]
[Euri] Get out of here!
Get your hands off of her!
- Leave her alone!
- Euri!
- Shut up. Shut your trap!
- [Euri] O'Dessa!
- [O'Dessa] No! Please! Euri!
- [Euri] No!
O'Dessa!
Who do you think you are?
I'm O'Dessa Galloway, sir.
I am... I'm the last
of the Ramblers.
I've come here to perform a song
for you in exchange for Euri's life.
[crowd laughs, jeers]
I believe I'm the One.
Oh, well, why didn't you
say that in the first place?
Priscilla, my darling, our
search is finally over.
This little peach is the One.
You are zero!
You are a hollow surrounded
by a vacuum wrapped in a void.
You are nothing. Nothing from
nothing! Comes from nothing!
[sighs]
[whispers indistinctly]
Are you sure, Prissy?
Okay, buttercup.
Ladies and gentlemen, there has been an
11th hour change of plans here tonight,
on request of my better half.
[crowd murmurs]
This guitar-playing gate-crasher
- will be our final contestant!
- [crowd cheers]
But there is one stipulation.
We are taking it to the extreme.
Sudden death round!
[crowd cheers]
If Ginger here does not
entertain the court,
I will hit my buzzer
and she will be
incinerated on-site.
[crowd laughs]
So, still wanna
play, little lady?
[laughter continues]
- Yep.
- [crowd jeers]
- [Plutonovich] Why...
- [gasps]
- ...don't we...
- [crowd gasps]
- ...up...
- [string cuts]
...the stakes?
[gasps, whimpers]
[crowd cheering]
[chuckles]
If you really are the One, as
you say with such confidence,
then you'll only need one
string to sing your song.
[crowd laughs]
- But first, a word from our sponsors.
- [upbeat music plays]
[crowd cheers]
All right. Strike
the stage. Move it!
[stage crew chatters]
- [crew member 1] Coming through.
- [crew member 2] Moving on.
[announcer] We'll be right
back with more of The One.
[automated voice] The eye in
the sky, fueled by your Plazma,
the eye in the sky, the
power center of Onederworld,
the eye in the sky,
- the light of your life.
- [groans]
Praise Plutonovich.
Praise Plutonovich.
[Plutonovich] Hey, kid.
[breathes deeply]
[sighs]
Good job out there.
[sniffs]
Hit all your marks right on cue.
Felt real.
[automated voice] On air in one
minute. On air in one minute.
[sighs] God, they're insatiable.
What are you talking about?
[Plutonovich] The audience.
More, more, more.
You gotta feed the beast.
There's no end to it.
[sighs]
Ah, this isn't for
me, it's for them.
[groans, sighs]
What you mean?
[Plutonovich] The world is
a smoldering ruin, O'Dessa.
And I'm offering these poor
bastards a small comfort
as they take their final breath.
So, remember, don't bore
us, get to the chorus.
Or... [imitates choking]
[laughs, coughs]
[crowd cheers]
[announcer] Ladies and gentlemen,
broadcasting live from the heart
- of Studio One in Onederworld.
- [Plutonovich] Come here.
Put your hands
together for the man
- of the hour, Plutonovich!
- Get out.
[crowd cheers]
[grunts, breathes heavily]
[Plutonovich speaks
indistinctly]
[breathes heavily]
[O'Dessa pants]
[breathes deeply]
[announcer] Ladies and gentlemen,
it's sudden death time.
Will Plutonovich be moved?
Give it up for
the 11th hour song
of O'Dessa Galloway!
[microphone feedback]
[sighs]
So I'm small and
I know I'm young
But life's a song
that must be sung
Destiny, she beats her drum
All for love, all for love
As a child my dad told me
Of a song made from a tree
Now I found her melody
Is in my blood,
it's in my blood
And ooh, and she sings on
The love it is all
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah
All is love
Love it is all
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah
All is love
Heart's been
broken down to dust
Hope's been hunted
down and crushed
But there's a
string connecting us
All as one, all as one
Out the darkness
of the dream
There's a spark
that can be seen
The fire burns in you and me
And it's called love
Oh, it's love
And ooh
And she sings on
Love it is all
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah
All is love
Love it is all
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah
Love is all
[vocalizing]
Love is all
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah
Oh, yeah
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
When all is lost
and can't be won
And the eye of death
stares high above
With the final breath
left in my lungs
I sing all is
love, all is love
[breathes deeply]
[announcer] And now,
the moment of judgment.
Sometimes the most nourishing
part of the apple...
is the worm.
[crowd laughs]
O'Dessa Galloway...
you are...
- the One!
- [crowd cheers]
[crowd cheers, whistles]
[cheers]
[chuckles]
Yeah!
One wish.
[chuckles, groans]
Euri.
- [gasps] No.
- [electronic voice] Facejob.
[stammers, pants]
[laughs]
[Plutonovich laughs]
O'Dessa, you idiot saint.
[O'Dessa] Euri? Baby?
You walked right into this one.
Followed the bait all the way.
There can only be one winner, which
means all the rest are losers.
Sweet destiny.
[O'Dessa sobs]
[laughs]
Really, folks, I mean, is there anything
more hopeless than a hopeless romantic?
- Is there? [laughs]
- [crowd laughs]
[sobbing]
Good.
Now, bow down, doggy.
Bow down to Daddy.
[breathes shakily]
You see, folks, this is how you find out
who really has what it takes to be...
- [grunts, groaning]
- [gasps]
[groaning]
Stop her!
[screams]
[people on street chatter]
[O'Dessa] Out the
darkness Of the dream
There's a spark
that can be seen
The fire burns in you and me
And it's called
love, oh, it's love
And ooh
She sings on
Love it is all Oh
Oh, yeah
Oh, yeah All is love
[O'Dessa] Oh, here comes
The Seventh Son
Here comes the Seventh Son
To save my one true love
Here I come, here I
come The Seventh Son
Here I come, here I
come The Seventh Son
When the sun done rise In
them purple mountain skies
It's time to find the
life Waiting for me
I will comfort the disturbed
And disturb the comfortable
On these six strings
I'll sing my destiny
As I ramble like my father
Just like his
father's father
And I walk this
world and wander
I ramble like my
daddy down this road
Oh, Lord I'm ramblin' Like
my daddy down this road
Like a Galloway I roam And
the world is now my home
With a song every
stranger is a friend
And the earth becomes my pillow
Just me and my Weepin' Willa
We'll play together
till the very end
As I ramble like my father
Just like his
father's father
And I walk this
world and wander
I'll be ramblin' like
my daddy Down the road
Oh, Lord I'll be ramblin'
Like my daddy down the road
[O'Dessa vocalizing]
[Plutonovich] Onederworld
Oh, Onederworld
We run the world
As we beam, beam, beam
To the eye in the sky
Tune in, turn me on From
on high kingdom comes
Like a Plazma God
Dust till dawn let your dazzling
daddy Take your mind for a ride
I'm your miracle man
Watch me dancing on air
Live on Channel One
So bask in the light of the
eye Bringing sight to the blind
It's just a game, my friends
But there can
only be one winner
In this modern age Where
the world is my stage
You will dance for your
life On Onederworld
The second to none-derworld
Come on all my
boys and girls
Get your dreams, dreams,
dreams From the eye in the sky
[Plutonovich] Ladies and
gentlemen, welcome to the stage
the teen queen of your screen.
The First Lady of
Onederworld. Priscilla!
[Priscilla] Bang
bang Shake your thang
Man made to entertain
This hot bod
[both] God squad
[Priscilla] Judgment
day Is where we play
Hate the player not the game
Replace your face
The price of fame
Manifest your destiny
Can only be one O-N-E on
[both] Onederworld
Oh, Onederworld
We run the world
As we beam, beam, b-b-beam
To the eye in the sky
O'Dessa!
[groans]
[person]
Wake up!
[grunts]
Ugh.
[person] It's time
to get to work.
[sighs]
[automated voice] Zero
Plaz-Plazma... Plaz-Plazma.
- Zero Plazma.
- Shit.
Okay.
[clears throat] Here's one
I've been messing around with.
Don't tell Mama.
I wish I was
out on that road
Oh, I wish I was out
there On that road
Oh, I get so lonesome 'Cause
I ain't never left home
Well, I wish that I was
Ramblin' down that road
I know there's something
out there Just for me
Yeah
Well, I know someone is
out there Just for me
My daddy said "O'Dessa,
you've got some great destiny"
Well, I wish that I was
Out there on that road
[Mama] Thank you,
Earth, for this bounty.
Amen.
[coughs]
Check them pumps?
Dry as a bone.
I don't know why we don't
just do something about it.
Move on. Try someplace new.
The land's been sucked dry,
ain't got nothing left to give.
The world has gone
mad out there.
A kinda crazy you can't fathom.
People are desperate.
Ain't safe for a 19-year-old
gal with stars in her eyes.
Stop trying to spook me, Mama.
It don't work no more.
I'm telling you the truth.
We're dirt farmers.
Ain't nothing to be
ashamed about that.
We're survivors.
[coughs, breathes deeply]
Oh, your daddy's people
were something different.
They told themselves
some cosmic story
that their music was
gonna change the world.
Ramblin' ain't reality.
[coughs]
[breathing deeply]
How you feelin', Ma?
Like I could wrestle a bear.
[chuckles]
[Mama] When I die let me fly
Seven miles high on a wing
Not six in the ground With
his cursed six strings
Not six in the ground With
his cursed six strings
A poor young
rambler courted me
He sang me songs As he
strummed his six strings
[O'Dessa, Mama] Well,
I gave him my heart
He placed his silver
ring on my finger
Well, two became one And
our daughter made three
But the rambler would
sing Of his great destiny
He said
Babe, I must wander this world
But I'll be home come winter
And I say aye I
kissed him goodbye
I watched him go on
with A tear in my eye
He walked miles and miles
The song he did sing
He rambled And picked at
them cursed six strings
He rambled And picked
them strings over me
The days grew short And
the nights, they grew cold
My rambler, he died
And all they sent home
For his next of kin Were them
cursed six strings in a casket
Well, I dug a grave
Six feet in the ground
So them buried six strings
Could not make a sound
And my shovel struck oil And our
soil was poisoned with Plazma
And I sing aye, aye
O'Dessa my child
I wish I could fly
Feathers in my spine
I would rise seven
miles Up to heaven above
To be with my rambler
My darling true love
To be with my love
My one and only one
I know you're gonna
ramble like your daddy.
You're gonna do what
you're gonna do.
But please remember
there ain't nothing more
powerful in this life than love.
[breathing deeply]
[breathes shakily]
Mama?
[breathes shakily] Don't go.
[sniffles]
[sighs]
[breathes deeply]
[grunts, sniffles]
[grunts]
The Willa.
[rambler] This be your guitar,
and you best protect
it with your damn life.
You're the last in
a long line, girl.
Seven generations.
The closing of a circle.
Pecker or not, you're
the Seventh Son.
[crying]
You look beautiful, Mama.
[sniffles, sighs]
When the sun done rise In
them purple mountain skies
It's time to find The
life waiting for me
I will comfort the disturbed
And disturb the comfortable
On these six strings
I'll sing my destiny
As I ramble like my father
Just like his
father's father
And I walk this
world and wander
I ramble like my
daddy down this road
Oh, Lord
I'm ramblin' like my
daddy Down this road
Like a Galloway I roam And
the world is now my home
With a song every
stranger is a friend
And the earth becomes my pillow
Just me and my Weepin' Willa
We'll play together
till the very end
As I ramble like my father
Just like his
father's father
And I walk this
world and wander
I'll be ramblin' like
my daddy Down the road
I'll ramble like my
daddy Down this road
[fire igniting, people laughing]
[person] All right.
[person at camp]
Come on. Do it again.
[fire igniting, people
at camp cheering]
[older person at camp]
That never get old, do it?
Uh, excuse me.
Um, pardon the disturbance.
It's, um...
It's awful cold.
[older person at camp]
Well, welcome, friend.
Warm yourself by the
fire, little lamb.
Thank you, mister.
Uh, no. It's Father.
Father Walter.
As you see, I work
for the man upstairs.
Hmm. Pleasure. Name's O'Dessa.
[Father Walter] Give
this little fella
a little bit of that
milk of human kindness.
[Father Walter]
Drink up, drink up.
That Molotov will put a little
bit of heaven in your head
and hellfire in your belly.
- [O'Dessa clears throat]
- [people at camp laughing]
[Father Walter]
Now, wait a minute.
I know that guitar.
I used to bum around
with a crazy fella.
We had some good
rambling adventures.
Vergil?
Yeah, Vergil Galloway.
King of the Ramblers.
[people at camp
chuckle] Yes, he was.
That's my daddy.
Well, I will be damned.
- No, that can't be.
- Yes, sir.
Tha-That would make us
practically related.
[people at camp chuckling]
Ramblin' is a dying
breed in a dying world.
[person at camp] Mm-hmm.
You know, in the a.m., we're hopping a
freight all the way to Satylite City.
Satylite City, where all
of the pipelines end.
[chuckles] It is a
depraved and sinful place.
But God's work, it never ends.
But right now,
raise your glasses.
- Everybody on your feet...
- [person at camp] Ooh, come on, Walter!
...as we celebrate your first and
our last run of the ramblin' life.
And may Vergil smile down on you
as we pass you the
troubadour's torch!
[person at camp] May the
road rise with you, O'Dessa!
Well, there ain't
no turnin' back
Hop that boxcar
down the track
'Cause he's the
engineer of my destiny
Oh, yeah For I've
lived a life of sin
A life of sin
Drowned in women,
song and gin
Sweet gin
But I know when I see him
[O'Dessa, person at
camp] When I see him
He'll forgive me
When I see him, he'll
forgive me Oh, yeah
- So let's ride that glory train
- That glory train
- Oh, ride that glory train
- That glory train
- It's time to go
- It's time to go
- When that whistle blows
- Choo choo
[Father Walter]
I'll be redeemed
- Oh, I'm gonna be redeemed
- Oh, yeah
Oh, yeah
Choo choo!
Whoo!
Yeah!
Whoo!
[Vergil] Life will carve
that song into your soul
like ol' Galloway carved this
guitar from that Willa Tree.
The heavens have spoken.
From this tree's burning body,
you will carve a guitar...
[Vergil] And so the Earth
Spirit told ol' Galloway,
"Only the song of the Seventh
Son on this here guitar
will have a chance to
save this dying world."
And O'Dessa, you got
that song inside you.
It's your destiny.
[groans, exhales deeply]
[sighs]
[grunts] Willa?
[train horn blares]
Shit!
Shit! No, no, no.
[panting] No, no,
no, no, no, no, no.
Shit!
[panting]
[train horn blares]
No.
Hey! Hey!
Where the hell are you going?
- That's mine! Get back here!
- [laughing]
Our ramblin' rube has
roused from her slumber!
[O'Dessa] Stupid bitch!
- Elijah, run!
- It's ours now.
[grunting]
[Elijah] Get off me, runt!
[grunts, shrieks]
[laughing and exclaiming]
Hey! No! No, no!
Please, no!
I'm the Seventh So...
You are gonna go to
the Satylite City.
You are gonna get the Willa back,
and you're gonna keep moving on.
Jackass.
[sighs]
[Plutonovich] Call to worship.
- Stay with me. Look at me. Lock eyes.
- Um.
- Focus, my friends.
- Pardon me, sir.
- You need to focus.
- Have you, um...
- Do not be distracted by them...
- Have you seen a priest and, um,
some train rats with a
guitar passing through here?
...by what they wanna
shove down your throat.
They swindled me, so...
[Plutonovich] They want to tell
you what to do, what to feel,
- what to think, breathe, eat.
- Sir, excuse me.
They wanna treat you like you're
some pathetic, helpless toddler.
- In this life...
- Um, excuse me, sir.
...you are born free
to do what you please.
You are free to spend your
time doing what feels good!
Since when did pleasure
become a dirty word?
Am I right?
[sirens blaring]
[people clamoring]
[boss] Brothers and
sisters of Satylite City!
Let me hear you sing!
[boss, crowd] In the land of
television, the third-eyed man is king.
Praise be Plutonovich on high,
and his Plazma-powered eye in
the sky glowing above his stage.
Plazma to plastic.
Dust to dust.
In Plutonovich,
the man we trust.
Now, all of you tune
into tonight's broadcast
and see this scum dance
before our Lord Plutonovich.
Here's Rael the traitor!
[crowd booing] Traitor!
And let this be a lesson to anyone
of you who challenge Plutonovich.
I scream. You scream.
We all scream for ice cream!
Shit.
[Plutonovich] Since
when did pleasure...
- Hey, you lost, baby?
- ...become a dirty word? Am I right?
Bitch.
[Plutonovich, advertisers
speaking indistinctly]
Need a fix, Roach. Come
on, man. G-give me a bag.
Just give me a bag.
I need Dust. Need it, you know?
[Plutonovich] My Plazmatics.
True Plazma, you, my friends,
are powering my eye in the sky,
glowing high above my stage
and fueling Onederworld,
my megachurch of entertainment.
[vagrant] Hey, hey. Hey, you.
Come here. Come here.
- [guard] Eeny, meeny, miny, mo.
- [rebel sobs] Please don't.
[rebel screams]
Excuse me, ma'am.
I'm looking for, uh, a-a
bearded preacher with a guitar.
[speaking indistinctly]
Plutonovich.
Plutonovich. Plutonovich.
[Plutonovich] Be with me.
Seeing is being and
being is seeing.
Praise Plutonovich,
virgin sister.
Take the habit of the One Nun.
Save yourself for him.
He is your salvation.
[Plutonovich] One of
a kind? One to watch?
Are you the Chosen One?
If you answered yes,
then "onederful!"
You are the one I've been looking
for for my new competition, The One.
I will grant them one wish.
- [Plutonovich blows]
- [gasps]
Excuse me, ma'am.
[clears throat]
Can you hear me?
Hi. Um... So that's...
that's my guitar right there
just, um, hanging yonder.
No. See, it was, um... It
was... It was took from me by...
Ma'am, please, it's priceless.
Get a job.
No money, no honey.
Hey!
Lady, I don't think
you're understanding me.
That is 200 years of...
of blood in there.
- That is my rightful...
- Nestor!
- [Nestor grunts] Get out.
- That guitar... [grunts] No!
[panting]
Hey, little baby girl,
you got any money?
[barker] Oh, cometh ye seamen!
Into the open fins
of the Mermaid.
A carnival of carnal delights! To
whet every Sailor Johnny's Appetite!
Tonight, it's an amateur
hour. Big cash prizes.
Come on and watch...
Excuse me, sir.
You can get money for playing?
Winner takes the
till, little lady.
[barker] They're gonna
love your ass, Huckleberry.
Appreciate that.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
Pardon me.
[shouting]
[Dion] Before I bring out
the raw meat amateurs,
I have a little treat
for you mindless animals.
Shut up, or give me the pleasure
of carving out your throat!
Without further ado, performing
The Veiled Dance of the Damned,
the erotic, exotic,
hypnotic, whirling Euri...
Euri Dervish!
Looking for that diamond
in the dust Cussed
Just dumb lust
Strutting through Your
gutters every night
The neon cuts the
static and the rust
Puppets strung
out Dressed up
Like blessings in disguise
For Johnny Fame
Yeah, Johnny Fame
Yeah Shallow be thy name
Whoo
Johnny Fame
Yeah, Johnny Fame
Yeah Shallow be thy name
Well, well, well
Oh, Johnny Fame
Hide your eyes behind
a veil of smoke
Oh I see you choke
I disappear through
The crack in the mirror
For Johnny Fame
Yeah, Johnny Fame
Yeah Shallow be thy name
[vocalizing]
Well, well,
well Johnny Fame
Yeah, Johnny Fame Yeah
Shallow be thy name
Whoo Well, well, well
Oh, Johnny Fame
- Whoo! Whoo!
- [Dion] Euri Dervish!
Come and see yours truly to arrange
a very private dance of your own.
[barker] Next performer
is "Opossum Gallows."
Oh.
Uh, that's, um...
- It's O'Dessa Galloway.
- [microphone feedback]
Um, so, I-I've
been doing some...
some hard traveling and, um,
rambling and, um, roving.
And, um, this song is...
Shut up and play, hayseed.
[clears throat]
Well, I lost my farm
And I lost my way
But I gambled and lost
In this Strangerland
- [audience member] Wow, you suck!
- [booing and clamoring]
[Plutonovich]
Remember, I see you.
I know your wildest wishes, your
deepest desires, your hidden fears.
[O'Dessa] You were right, Mama.
[sobs] This world's gone mad.
And I'ma get that
Willa back, Daddy.
[Plutonovich] Right here,
right now, looking at me.
- I promise. [sobs, sniffles]
- I see all of you, and I love you.
Without you there is no me.
Press your third
eye to the screen.
Spread your mind open wide
and let me come inside.
Baptize you in Plazma and
bring sight to the blind.
I will penetrate
your consciousness
and impregnate the barren womb
of your wounded, weary soul.
You who are
suffering. I feel you.
[bar patron] You had me
waiting all night, lover boy.
Herve.
- I am ready to go steady.
- I know. I know.
- [Euri] Back up, big boy. All right?
- [Herve] I like the way you dance.
[Euri] Herve, step off.
[grunts] Too close.
- [Euri] Hey. Hey. Too close, Herve.
- [Herve] I like the way you move.
[Euri] Herve. Get off me.
- Herve. Herve.
- Come on.
- Yo, be cool.
- [whistles]
Ah. Sorry, Herve.
I'm already on a date
so, uh, rain check?
[grunting]
What's your name?
O... O'Dessa.
O'Dessa, I haven't been able to
get you off my mind all night!
Slut. [grunts]
I owe you one.
[sighs] I gotta lay down.
Oh.
Chivalry.
[sighs, chuckles]
These heels are gonna
be the death of me.
[sniffles, sighs]
This place is as strange as
a checkered dog, ain't it?
[Euri] It's hell on earth.
Everyone knows you
can't sleep under here.
Those dusters will pick
your bones clean for a fix.
Yeah, I know. I'm just, um...
Just passing through actually.
So I won't be here long.
I'm a rambler.
The hell is a rambler?
Well, it's someone who kind
of roams from town to town
and sings for, um,
you know, people.
Kinda lifting their
spirits through song.
My daddy used to say
a rambler's reason for being
is to comfort the disturbed
and disturb the comfortable.
Catchy.
To be honest, I'm
new to it and, um...
my guitar got stolen.
What's eating at you?
You know, you get on that stage to
sing something new and for what?
For what? [chuckles]
They wouldn't know good music
if it bit them in the ass.
- Well, folks really seem to like you.
- [Euri] Yeah?
Like Herve the perv?
All right. Well, why don't
you play me a tune, rambler?
Oh, um...
[stammers] It ain't
much for the mood.
I am disturbed.
Okay. All right. Fair enough.
Um...
Okay. Um, [sniffles]
this one's about, um...
Well, my... my mama used to sing
it to me a mess of moons ago.
Cool.
Awake in a dream
Floating over the trees
Cicada songs surround you
The sweetest sounds
Have found you lost
Under the stars
Drowned in the fields
of Mother Nature's beard
Flows in clouds around you
Her mysteries abound
You're lost under the stars
No one knows really why
There's another
side of the sky
Like a million mirrors
Reflected in your eyes
Eyes, eyes
Tides are in tune With
the song of the moon
It's alive around you
The sweetest sights
Have found you lost
Under the stars
Under the stars
Holy shit.
Shit.
Um... All right.
Come on, rambler.
Show's over.
[Dion] Keep walking.
This is what you get,
you sack of garbage.
[O'Dessa] Where are
they taking him?
[Euri] Onederworld.
Take him.
A place you don't want to go
'cause you don't come back.
[Dion] ...dirty
disgusting face again.
Bon voyage, you dipshit.
It ain't safe here. You
got any place else to go?
[Plutonovich] ...he doesn't trust
just any old stranger on the street.
You understand me. We
understand each other.
You know what I'm talking about.
You can feel it in the air. You
can smell it in the streets.
That unbearable sense
that we're supposed to...
[Euri] Evening, Roach.
Meet O'Dessa.
She's gonna take the penthouse
until she splits town.
Follow me.
[Plutonovich] What use is it
to stay sane, huh? To the...
My boudoir.
The honeymoon suite.
[sighs] Excuse the mess. I didn't
think I'd be entertaining tonight.
Uh, make yourself at home.
Yeah, right.
Shit. Sorry.
[Euri] You all right there?
[O'Dessa sighs]
[Euri sniffing]
When was the last
time you bathed?
[crowd cheers
through television]
[announcer] From Onederworld in
front of a live studio audience,
put your hands together
for Plutonovich!
[Plutonovich] It is judgment night,
so I demand, let there be lights!
Who's this, um... this
Plutonovich fella?
You're kidding, right?
Where do I even begin?
After it all collapsed,
he sucked the Plazma
out of everyone's land
and now he uses it to
power his broadcast.
He's got everyone's attention
and anyone who speaks
out against him
just gets shipped
off to Onederworld
where he tortures them in
the name of entertainment.
And if you step out of line,
or make one false move,
you have to answer to Dion.
He's got everyone obsessed with
his every little corny move.
They're brainwashed.
[O'Dessa] But why?
[Euri] Because apparently,
he's extremely entertaining.
That's why you are getting
a facejob makeover.
[crowd cheers]
- [electronic voice] Facejob!
- [Plutonovich cackles]
[advert announcer] Facejob.
We replace your face
with a Plazma makeover.
Your soul belongs
to Plutonovich.
So, kiss your mind goodbye.
[laughs]
Later, traitor.
Can't watch this.
You know, you could torch that place
with all the Plazma running through it.
Now, that would be good TV.
The penthouse.
Nobody will bother you up here.
Plus, you get the
best view in town.
Yeah, it does look
kind of pretty.
Mmm.
You don't know how many times I
thought about swan diving off of here.
I hope you know how
lucky you are...
being able to ramble where
you please, when you please.
I can't go anywhere
without the Willa.
That guitar is all
I got in this world.
You can try busking on the
boardwalk for some bread.
It might take you a
couple of years, but...
No. No. I thought, um...
[inhales deeply] I thought life
on the road was gonna lead me
someplace I was
meant to be going...
but it's just been so damn
confusing and cruel and...
Well, I'm glad you're here now.
At least you get a good
song out of it, right?
[chuckles] Maybe we can
duet at the Mermaid.
Why are you being so kind to me?
Shit. I don't know.
[exhales deeply] I
don't know. Um...
When you sang to
me earlier tonight,
it reminded me of something.
It reminded me of how
beautiful some things are.
[clears throat, clicks
tongue] Okay. Um...
Well, I'm gonna turn in.
So, um, much obliged
for the help and um...
Uh, yeah. Nighty night then.
You're a strange bird
from another world.
Okay, then.
Um, good luck, O'Dessa.
I'll see you around and...
Stay out of trouble, rambler.
[O'Dessa moans]
[Dion] Little piggy,
little piggy, let me in.
- I've got a surprise for you.
- Shit, shit. Go, go, go.
- And why is this door locked?
- Hide. Go in the john. Quick.
Um, one second, D. I'm
just having a bath.
Where's my kimono?
[Dion] I ain't got all night.
Hey.
[pants]
Hmm.
So you really think
that you are...
- ...the One?
- [Euri chuckles]
Reminded me of my
doll-faced little Dervish.
Hmm.
You like it?
Of course, I love it.
Hmm.
I'm just, um... [coughs]
I'm just not feeling
too hot tonight is all.
Hmm. My, my, what a sty.
I pay for your abode, and
this is how you maintain it?
I swore I raised you better.
[groans] My dough-re-mi?
[Euri] Oh, shit.
Sorry. I'm spaced.
[groans, sucks teeth] Oh, me dog's
been barking like mad tonight.
[grunts]
[sighs] This better
be all of it.
Get that.
[Dion] Boy, oh, boy,
did we clean up tonight.
That new hoofin' routine killed.
[moaning]
Something you've been
meaning to tell me, darling?
- Nah.
- You know I detest secrets.
[scoffs] I don't know what
you're talking about, D.
[Dion] You see the strangest
of things transpired tonight.
That jelly-sack Herve
came in blubbering
that you was sub-boardwalk on a date
with some strange little butchie.
You ain't been freelancing now?
[chuckles] That's bullshit.
You know that, D... [grunts]
You work when I
say, with who I say.
Do I make myself clear?
Got it. Got it. I hear you.
[sighs] Zip me back.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have
to use the little girl's room.
No. Um...
Uh, no, no, no, no.
- [Euri] The plumbing's a mess in there.
- [Dion] Get out of my way.
[sighs]
[breathes shakily]
[Dion] Since when you
start taking cold baths?
[Dion's employee]
Boss, next contestant.
- [Dion groans]
- [contestant mumbles]
Another day, another
dipshit dissident.
[contestant whimpering] Please.
[Dion] Vulturo gets
'em every time.
Oh, I almost forgot.
[contestant whimpering]
Your little shipment came
in tonight, little piggy.
Don't smoke it all in one go.
- Who loves you?
- [contestant] Please.
You do, of course.
Sweet dreams.
Night, D.
O'Dessa?
O'Dessa?
Are you okay? Are you okay?
Oh, my God.
Yeah? You okay?
- Yeah.
- You strange and beautiful bird.
Do you ever think about
running away from here?
From her?
Just about every
second of every day.
Dion's got eyes
everywhere though.
I'm trapped.
Well, say in a perfect
world, where would you go?
Well, uh, I heard of this
little town called Enid.
It's about a day away.
Supposed to be clean and quiet.
Sounds all right
for starting over.
Enid.
Okay.
My Plazmatics.
It's time for our daily
bread. Our call to worship.
Stay with me. Look at
me. Lock eyes. Focus!
Now I know, and you
know, they are out there.
Maybe they're in your
family. In your home.
[nuns chanting]
[Plutonovich] Even in your bed whispering
to you to betray The Party of One.
I promise you.
I promise you they're gonna
get what's coming to them.
Mark my words.
[electronic voice] Facejob.
Plazma to plastic.
Dust to dust.
In Plutonovich,
the man we trust.
[people outside
Satylite City shouting]
[Plutonovich] Know that
together we are one.
One focus. One mantra. One
channel. One power. One mind.
Let go, my friends.
[O'Dessa] My daddy used to
tell me the story 'bout how
I was gonna get my hands on
that guitar and change things.
[Euri] Change things how?
[O'Dessa] I don't know.
I look around here...
and I think people want
something that moves them...
My Plazmatics.
[O'Dessa] ...and they
just... They don't...
[Plutonovich] It's time
for our daily bread.
[O'Dessa] They
don't know it yet.
[Plutonovich] Stay
with me. Look at me.
Maybe I've got some big
fairy-tale idea stuck in my head
that ain't got nothing to do
with how the world really is.
We all tell ourselves tales to
get through this world, you know?
What's yours?
When I was little,
it was just me and my sister
Jan looking after each other.
We were in the streets,
and it was hard to eat,
so there's this
tramp that showed us
how to do, uh, some magic
tricks to hustle the sailors.
- What kind of tricks?
- [chuckles] Open your hand.
[Euri] Three magic words.
"Asa Nisi Masi."
Open your hand.
[O'Dessa] No way.
Jan gave it to me before, uh,
they took her away to Onederworld.
- Oh, geez. I'm sorry.
- Mm-hmm.
[Euri] This world
is cruel, O'Dessa.
[O'Dessa] Maybe
it ain't gotta be.
[Euri sighs]
[Euri] If they could feel half
as good as you got me feeling.
[O'Dessa] It would
be revolutionary.
When I I woke
up this morning
The world was
turned upside down
Well, I walk the
streets of this town
My feet a foot
off the ground
That one hell of a
fella Put a spell on me
And now I'm feeling free
Free, free, free, free
I'm feeling free
Free, free, free, free
I shake like I'm on fire
Whoo!
The sweetest fever dream
Well, I keep him
like a secret
Yeah!
His eyes make
me wanna scream
[screams]
Well, I'm spinning
till I'm dizzy
Isn't this a mystery?
And now I'm feeling free
Free, free, free, free
I'm feeling free
Free, free, free, free
I ain't got no money
[mumbles]
I ain't got no home
But he got something Touch
me deep down in my soul
When, oh, when
I was lonely
I was so lonely, baby
It was then
Oh, it was then
You were my friend
When
Oh, when
You were lonely
I know you were lonely, baby
[both] It was then
Oh, it was then
You were my friend
[O'Dessa] La la la la la
La la la la La la la la la
Feeling free I
said La la la la
La la la la la
Feeling free Free,
free, free, free
I said I'm feelin' free
[crowd cheers]
[Euri] Well, me and my
girl Comfort the disturbed
Yeah, she's a strange
And a beautiful bird
Oh, yeah She got
me feelin' free
Well, she glows in the dark And
she really made a mark on me
Me, me, me, me, me, me
- Well, me and my girl...
- When, oh, when...
Yeah, she's a strange
And a beautiful bird
- [O'Dessa] I was lonely
- She got me feelin' free
I was lonely, baby
Well, she glows in the dark And
she really made a mark on me
Me, me, me, me, me, me
Well, she glows in the dark And
she really made a mark on me
Me, me, me, me, me, me
- [grunts] That was incredible.
- [laughs]
I saw you today out there, and I
didn't know something like that
was even possible.
- It felt so good playing, you know?
- Mmm. Mm-hmm.
It was like a... like a... I finally
found what I'm supposed to be doing.
Yeah.
[Dion] My darling
little Dervish.
It ain't what it seems, D.
Where are your
manners, Euri darling?
Why haven't you introduced
me to your new friend?
- I can explain.
- Yeah?
[Euri] She didn't do
anything. She's innocent.
Mmm.
[Euri] Leave her alone.
Now, what is your
name, baby face?
[grunts]
Leave her alone, D.
Zip your goddamn lips.
If I ever see you near
my piggy bank again,
I will shuck open your guts
and yank the pearl from your
rotten, greasy little oyster.
Now, step off and get the
hell out of here. Now.
- [sighs] You ungrateful little shit!
- [grunts]
- Go. Go! Get out of here.
- Euri.
- Go! Now! It's over, O'Dessa!
- No. Euri.
- [screams, grunts]
- You are a nutty little runt, ain't you?
- [O'Dessa] No. No, no, no. Please.
- [Euri] What are you doing?
- No. D! Please don't hurt her!
- Please. [screams]
[Euri] No! No,
stop! No! O'Dessa!
[crowd cheers]
[Plutonovich] Are
you one in a million?
One of a kind? One to watch?
Are you the Chosen One?
If you answered yes,
then "onederful!"
You are the one I've been looking
for. For my new competition, The One.
[announcer 1, distorted] Can you sing?
Can you dance? Tell jokes, juggle?
- [announcer 2] Acrobatics.
- [announcer 1] Entertain the court
of Plutonovich on
The One. We see you.
The stakes are
high. Life or death.
You see hon, the
one who won The One
- will win a prize of a lifetime.
- [crowd cheers]
I will grant them one...
[kisses] ...wish. [blows]
[Plutonovich speaks
indistinctly]
[groans, pants]
Oh, cut the shit, Roach. [sighs]
[people chattering]
Don't you have Dust to sell?
[groans]
What, this?
You want it?
Here. Take it. I
don't need it anymore.
Come on.
No. [grunts]
Here.
Now, one finger here
and another there.
There you go. Now strum.
Yeah, there you go.
Your first chord.
You're welcome.
[breathing heavily]
[grunts]
[Plutonovich speaks
indistinctly]
...suck on your soul, and try to squeeze
the joy out from everywhere. [chuckles]
That unbearable sense that we're
supposed to stay miserable.
[sniffles]
[sniffles]
[sniffling, sighs]
[gasps]
[breathes shakily, sniffles]
[Euri] I skimmed enough from
Dion to get this for you.
I so wish I could
hear you play it.
Now go, leave this
shithole behind.
- It's hopeless.
- [breathes shakily]
Ramble like you're supposed to.
[sniffles, sighs]
I wish we could've
gotten to Enid,
but the thought of you
there will be enough for me.
[people chattering]
[Euri] You strange
and beautiful bird.
[Plutonovich] Are
you the Chosen One?
- Hey, where are you going?
- You're the one I've been looking for...
- Won't you come play us a song?
- ...for my new competition, The One.
[Euri] Fly away from here
as far as you possibly can.
[Euri] I love you,
O'Dessa. Your Euri.
[Mama] There ain't nothing more
powerful in this life than love.
[people chattering]
[groans]
Damn fog.
I got a shipment coming in.
But I'll be back tonight.
Roger that, boss.
Hmm. Naughty, naughty, Sister.
[Euri] Oh, goodbye, baby
There's no tomorrow
It's only sorrow
[crowd clamors, boos]
Shake some ass!
Shake some ass?
Huh? That's what you want?
Shake some ass!
Yeah!
[booing continues] Shake it!
You think you're
alive, but guess what!
You wouldn't know real if
it ripped your eyes out!
Screw Satylite City!
Screw that plastic-ass hack,
that pathetic pedo
Plutono-bitch!
And the whole
goddamn Onederworld.
I wanna see that
eye in the sky burn!
We need a revolution.
[clamoring, booing continues]
Somebody get him off of the stage!
Fuck you! See you in hell!
[microphone feedback]
Enjoy him while
it lasts, Sister.
[gasps] Euri.
I had to see you.
Euri, it's... It's O'Dessa.
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Disturbed.
Look.
I'm in there.
I'm in there.
[groans, pants]
This is gonna stop.
Right now.
Don't move.
I'm gonna make this right.
- [O'Dessa whistles]
- [guitar plays]
Ugh.
The runt.
What does your dusty ass want?
He ain't your property.
You know I scraped his
pathetic ass off the street.
Gave him a life.
That boy is a needy little
leech, and he will let you down.
We belong together.
It's destiny.
When I was just a wee thing,
a wild dog attacked me.
Vicious bitch sank her daggers
deep into my poor innocent leg.
I picked up a stick,
jabbed it straight
into her brain.
And now, every
step is a reminder
of the cruel and perverse
universe that we live in.
"Immoral" of the story.
Bite the bitch before
the bitch bites you.
- I'm taking him away from here.
- [gasps]
[grunts]
[Dion] How dare you?
[O'Dessa groaning]
There once was a singer
with ten little fingers.
Oh, she played the
guitar so fine,
but she put her grubby hands
on the wrong bitch's man.
- And now she's got nine.
- [O'Dessa] No. No, please. Please.
[Dion] Nine.
[no audible dialogue]
[screaming]
This ought to shut your ass up.
[screaming]
[whimpers, panting]
[people on street chatter]
[O'Dessa grunts]
[breathes heavily, sighs]
She's gone.
[sighs]
We're too young to be hunted
We can hide, we can run
From the first time I
saw you Saw you, saw you
Babe, I knew you're the one
Lay your nightmares
beside me
Watch them fade in the sun
Can you feel how I love you?
Love you, love you
Baby, you are the one
[Euri] Now we ramble
down This world together
The future is a song yet
To be sung
With our hearts intertwined
[Euri] You're my mirror
You are mine
[both] Oh,
relieved we are one
[O'Dessa] Enid?
- Hell yes.
- [chuckles]
[O'Dessa] With this
ring On your finger
Now your blood is my blood
It's bad luck for the bride and the groom
to see each other before the big moment.
All right, all right.
All our dreams,
they will come true
Come true, come true
Okay, go.
[O'Dessa] Baby,
you are the one
Hey, remember,
four o'clock sharp.
I wouldn't miss it
for the world, baby.
Wrap your wild
arms around me
Oh, our life's just begun
It goes on forever
Ever, ever, yeah
[knocks on door]
[O'Dessa] You and
me, we are one
What you forget?
Huh? I told you it's...
- [Vulturo] You ran away.
- [Euri] No! Please. Please!
Don't touch me!
Get your hands off...
[grunts] No! No!
- O'Dessa! O'Dessa!
- [thuds]
[O'Dessa] You and
me, we are one
[Father Walter] I guess we have a
classic case of cold feet. [laughs]
And here, the
prodigal son returns.
- [Father Walter laughs]
- [gasps]
- [gasps]
- [Father Walter] Oh, little rambler,
where are you going?
Little rambler. [laughs]
[O'Dessa] Euri! Euri,
where are you? [pants]
[sniffles]
[Rael] Tonight, the Veiled Villain,
Euri Dervish will dance for his life
on the season finale of The One.
[gasps]
[melody plays through toy]
[whimpers]
Euri!
- [thunder rumbles]
- [whimpers, crying]
[crying, sniffles]
- [person speaking indistinctly]
- [whimpers] Leave me the hell alone!
The heavens have spoken.
I have been waiting for
you for seven generations.
[sniffles]
Your people cut that instrument
from the tree's burning body.
[inhales sharply] What?
You have been chosen.
I need to get to Euri.
[prophet] You have the
power inside you already.
[O'Dessa] Please, tell me how.
[prophet] As the Seventh Son,
you possess the Seventh String.
[inhales sharply]
[O'Dessa] If I sing my
song on that stage...
I can save Euri.
[prophet] You can do
more than save him.
You can bring light
to the darkness.
[echoes] The time has come.
- It is your destiny.
- Destiny.
My one true love
Left at the altar
The Devil took
your soul from me
I row this boat across
These toxic waters
Isle of the damned
beyond the sea
Beyond the sea
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Oh, here comes
the Seventh Son
Here comes the Seventh Son
To save my one true love
Here I come, here I
come The Seventh Son
The Seventh Son
[crowd cheers]
[announcer] From Onederworld, in front
of a live studio audience, The One.
[Rael] Plutopian party people!
Put your palms together for
His Highness in high-def.
The Amadeus of Chaos.
The Divine Comedian.
The Showman Shaman.
The man of our
dreams. Plutonovich!
Onederworld
Oh, Onederworld
We run the world
As we beam, beam Beam
to the eye in the sky
Tune in, turn me on...
[bouncer] Stop!
No trespass! Stop!
From on high kingdom
comes Like a Plazma God
Dust till dawn let your dazzling
daddy Take your mind for a ride
I'm your miracle man
Watch me dancing on air
Live on Channel One
So bask in the light of the
eye Bringing sight to the blind
It's just a game, my friends
But there can
only be one winner
In this modern age where
The world is my stage
You will dance for your life
On Onederworld The
second to none-derworld
Come on, all my
boy and girls
Get your dreams, dreams,
dreams From the eye in the sky
Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to the stage the
teen queen of your screen.
The First Lady of Onederworld.
Priscilla!
Bang, bang
Shake your thang
Man made to entertain
This hot bod God squad
Judgment day is where we play
Hate the player not the game
Replace your face
The price of fame
Manifest your destiny
Can only be one O-N-E on
Onederworld
[both] Oh, Onederworld
We run the world
As we beam, beam, b-b-beam
To the eye in the sky
[Rael] And now it's
time to face the music.
And entertain the judge,
jury, and executioner.
Bringing to the stage the
Veiled Villain Euri Dervish.
Order in the court. Order!
Euri Dervish,
you are on trial for
taking my name in vain.
[Euri] That pathetic... [bleep]
...Plutono... [bleep]
[tuts]
You're gonna now dance
for me and my Priscilla
like your life depends on it.
Because it does. [chuckles]
[audience laughs]
[panting]
- [announcer] Dance for your life.
- [crowd] Dance for your life.
[bouncer] Stop right there!
- Get back here! You can't go in there!
- [pants]
[grunts]
[bouncer] Stop!
[panting]
[bouncer] You gotta stop!
You're doomed for! [shouts]
- Euri Dervish, you are...
- [bouncer exclaims] Stop!
- [O'Dessa] Wait! No, please!
- [Euri] O'Dessa!
- Get back!
- [O'Dessa shrieks]
[Euri] Get out of here!
Get your hands off of her!
- Leave her alone!
- Euri!
- Shut up. Shut your trap!
- [Euri] O'Dessa!
- [O'Dessa] No! Please! Euri!
- [Euri] No!
O'Dessa!
Who do you think you are?
I'm O'Dessa Galloway, sir.
I am... I'm the last
of the Ramblers.
I've come here to perform a song
for you in exchange for Euri's life.
[crowd laughs, jeers]
I believe I'm the One.
Oh, well, why didn't you
say that in the first place?
Priscilla, my darling, our
search is finally over.
This little peach is the One.
You are zero!
You are a hollow surrounded
by a vacuum wrapped in a void.
You are nothing. Nothing from
nothing! Comes from nothing!
[sighs]
[whispers indistinctly]
Are you sure, Prissy?
Okay, buttercup.
Ladies and gentlemen, there has been an
11th hour change of plans here tonight,
on request of my better half.
[crowd murmurs]
This guitar-playing gate-crasher
- will be our final contestant!
- [crowd cheers]
But there is one stipulation.
We are taking it to the extreme.
Sudden death round!
[crowd cheers]
If Ginger here does not
entertain the court,
I will hit my buzzer
and she will be
incinerated on-site.
[crowd laughs]
So, still wanna
play, little lady?
[laughter continues]
- Yep.
- [crowd jeers]
- [Plutonovich] Why...
- [gasps]
- ...don't we...
- [crowd gasps]
- ...up...
- [string cuts]
...the stakes?
[gasps, whimpers]
[crowd cheering]
[chuckles]
If you really are the One, as
you say with such confidence,
then you'll only need one
string to sing your song.
[crowd laughs]
- But first, a word from our sponsors.
- [upbeat music plays]
[crowd cheers]
All right. Strike
the stage. Move it!
[stage crew chatters]
- [crew member 1] Coming through.
- [crew member 2] Moving on.
[announcer] We'll be right
back with more of The One.
[automated voice] The eye in
the sky, fueled by your Plazma,
the eye in the sky, the
power center of Onederworld,
the eye in the sky,
- the light of your life.
- [groans]
Praise Plutonovich.
Praise Plutonovich.
[Plutonovich] Hey, kid.
[breathes deeply]
[sighs]
Good job out there.
[sniffs]
Hit all your marks right on cue.
Felt real.
[automated voice] On air in one
minute. On air in one minute.
[sighs] God, they're insatiable.
What are you talking about?
[Plutonovich] The audience.
More, more, more.
You gotta feed the beast.
There's no end to it.
[sighs]
Ah, this isn't for
me, it's for them.
[groans, sighs]
What you mean?
[Plutonovich] The world is
a smoldering ruin, O'Dessa.
And I'm offering these poor
bastards a small comfort
as they take their final breath.
So, remember, don't bore
us, get to the chorus.
Or... [imitates choking]
[laughs, coughs]
[crowd cheers]
[announcer] Ladies and gentlemen,
broadcasting live from the heart
- of Studio One in Onederworld.
- [Plutonovich] Come here.
Put your hands
together for the man
- of the hour, Plutonovich!
- Get out.
[crowd cheers]
[grunts, breathes heavily]
[Plutonovich speaks
indistinctly]
[breathes heavily]
[O'Dessa pants]
[breathes deeply]
[announcer] Ladies and gentlemen,
it's sudden death time.
Will Plutonovich be moved?
Give it up for
the 11th hour song
of O'Dessa Galloway!
[microphone feedback]
[sighs]
So I'm small and
I know I'm young
But life's a song
that must be sung
Destiny, she beats her drum
All for love, all for love
As a child my dad told me
Of a song made from a tree
Now I found her melody
Is in my blood,
it's in my blood
And ooh, and she sings on
The love it is all
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah
All is love
Love it is all
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah
All is love
Heart's been
broken down to dust
Hope's been hunted
down and crushed
But there's a
string connecting us
All as one, all as one
Out the darkness
of the dream
There's a spark
that can be seen
The fire burns in you and me
And it's called love
Oh, it's love
And ooh
And she sings on
Love it is all
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah
All is love
Love it is all
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah
Love is all
[vocalizing]
Love is all
Oh, yeah, oh, yeah
Oh, yeah
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
When all is lost
and can't be won
And the eye of death
stares high above
With the final breath
left in my lungs
I sing all is
love, all is love
[breathes deeply]
[announcer] And now,
the moment of judgment.
Sometimes the most nourishing
part of the apple...
is the worm.
[crowd laughs]
O'Dessa Galloway...
you are...
- the One!
- [crowd cheers]
[crowd cheers, whistles]
[cheers]
[chuckles]
Yeah!
One wish.
[chuckles, groans]
Euri.
- [gasps] No.
- [electronic voice] Facejob.
[stammers, pants]
[laughs]
[Plutonovich laughs]
O'Dessa, you idiot saint.
[O'Dessa] Euri? Baby?
You walked right into this one.
Followed the bait all the way.
There can only be one winner, which
means all the rest are losers.
Sweet destiny.
[O'Dessa sobs]
[laughs]
Really, folks, I mean, is there anything
more hopeless than a hopeless romantic?
- Is there? [laughs]
- [crowd laughs]
[sobbing]
Good.
Now, bow down, doggy.
Bow down to Daddy.
[breathes shakily]
You see, folks, this is how you find out
who really has what it takes to be...
- [grunts, groaning]
- [gasps]
[groaning]
Stop her!
[screams]
[people on street chatter]
[O'Dessa] Out the
darkness Of the dream
There's a spark
that can be seen
The fire burns in you and me
And it's called
love, oh, it's love
And ooh
She sings on
Love it is all Oh
Oh, yeah
Oh, yeah All is love
[O'Dessa] Oh, here comes
The Seventh Son
Here comes the Seventh Son
To save my one true love
Here I come, here I
come The Seventh Son
Here I come, here I
come The Seventh Son
When the sun done rise In
them purple mountain skies
It's time to find the
life Waiting for me
I will comfort the disturbed
And disturb the comfortable
On these six strings
I'll sing my destiny
As I ramble like my father
Just like his
father's father
And I walk this
world and wander
I ramble like my
daddy down this road
Oh, Lord I'm ramblin' Like
my daddy down this road
Like a Galloway I roam And
the world is now my home
With a song every
stranger is a friend
And the earth becomes my pillow
Just me and my Weepin' Willa
We'll play together
till the very end
As I ramble like my father
Just like his
father's father
And I walk this
world and wander
I'll be ramblin' like
my daddy Down the road
Oh, Lord I'll be ramblin'
Like my daddy down the road
[O'Dessa vocalizing]
[Plutonovich] Onederworld
Oh, Onederworld
We run the world
As we beam, beam, beam
To the eye in the sky
Tune in, turn me on From
on high kingdom comes
Like a Plazma God
Dust till dawn let your dazzling
daddy Take your mind for a ride
I'm your miracle man
Watch me dancing on air
Live on Channel One
So bask in the light of the
eye Bringing sight to the blind
It's just a game, my friends
But there can
only be one winner
In this modern age Where
the world is my stage
You will dance for your
life On Onederworld
The second to none-derworld
Come on all my
boys and girls
Get your dreams, dreams,
dreams From the eye in the sky
[Plutonovich] Ladies and
gentlemen, welcome to the stage
the teen queen of your screen.
The First Lady of
Onederworld. Priscilla!
[Priscilla] Bang
bang Shake your thang
Man made to entertain
This hot bod
[both] God squad
[Priscilla] Judgment
day Is where we play
Hate the player not the game
Replace your face
The price of fame
Manifest your destiny
Can only be one O-N-E on
[both] Onederworld
Oh, Onederworld
We run the world
As we beam, beam, b-b-beam
To the eye in the sky