Something Undone (2023) s01e04 Episode Script

♪
(thudding)
(straining, banging)
Please
(gasping)
no.
(scratching)
(scratching)
Woman (recorded:)
you have one unheard message.
One saved message.
Farid (recorded:) jo, what are
you doing? Where are you?
- I've been calling you all ni--
- (phone beeping)
Woman (recorded:)
you have one saved message.
- Martha: Jo
- (exhaling sharply)
Martha: It's mom.
(martha breathing shakily)
♪
Farid: (voice breaking:) jo
I really need you right now.
(sobbing)
It's, uh
It's really
bad out here and, uh
I need you.
(sobbing)
Please
(sobbing)
Please call me.
Patrick: Yeah, that's, uh
Tanya, the mother's left hand.
Each of her fingers was
broken backwards at the joint.
Her hair was cut and stuffed
down her throat as a gag.
If you look at her neck,
You can see where the fishing
wire cut right through the bone.
(knocking)
Oh, fuck.
Brie:
Are you going to invite me in?
What are you doing here, brie?
Let's not.
Look, I asked for
help with an edit,
Not for you to fly out here
and hold my hand.
Barb's lost faith, farid.
And maybe you
do need your hand held
Because you haven't
been able to deliver.
I get it,
you're a one-man show, but
We don't get that
luxury anymore. I'm sorry.
I'm here to make sure
you're not fucking around.
There's not enough time left
to be precious with this.
Jo is mia, so we've
outsourced the sound
- What the fuck?
- And I'll be editing.
I don't want to be here,
believe me.
I've already got a rash just
looking at this place.
So
What is the plan for today?
Okay. I'm just up there,
and don't leave without me.
(classical piano playing)
Shit.
(classical piano playing)
Martha (recorded:)
I can't stand the smell,
All of them.
Disgusting. They reek.
They hid you,
Erased you.
Evil, selfish,
Disgusting animals.
Filthy. Stinking.
This is who our family is,
a big,
Dark hole of secrets
and cruelty and lies.
I can smell them.
A wound.
A festering wound.
I'm so sorry.
I'm so, so sorry they
did this to you.
(classical piano playing)
(phone vibrating)
- (phone vibrating)
- (sighing)
(phone vibrating)
Hi.
- Farid: Jesus, jo.
- I know.
Farid:
Where the hell have you been?
Look, can you talk?
I have something to tell you.
Farid: You promised me
you'd get this done.
I went to bat for you.
Shit. I didn't send
the sounds, did I?
Farid: No, you didn't.
Oh, god. I did them.
I swear to god, I worked all
day yesterday, and I just
Farid: Okay, listen--
Okay, look,
I'll send them right away.
I just have to
tell you something.
- Farid: Jo?
- No, wait, I I
I found a room.
It was hidden, barricaded.
And I think
Look, I know how this sounds,
but I think that my mom
Had an aunt
that no one knew about,
And I think they were
keeping her up there.
Can you believe that?
I mean, they completely
erased her from our family.
And my mom was trying
to figure it out, too.
She keeps saying,
on these tapes, that this--
Farid:
You're listening to her tapes?
Did you hear what I just said?
Farid: I thought you were
going to throw them out.
I'm trying to tell you
something important.
Farid: Okay.
I had a dream last night.
- (farid sighing)
- what?
Oh my god, fine,
I will send you the sound.
Farid: No, it's too late.
- It'll take two seconds for me.
- Farid: Brie did them, okay?
She's gonna take over.
No.
Farid: Jo, you can't
be mad at me, okay?
I've been calling
you since last night.
You went off the grid.
What was I supposed to do?
That's not your
decision to make, no.
Farid: I had no choice.
I have the sounds.
Farid: Have you been drinking
on your meds?
Excuse me?
Farid: A freaky dream?
Disappearing for a whole day?
We've been here before, jo.
Do you think I'm making this up?
Farid: I think you're not
supposed to drink on your meds.
I'm not my mother.
Well, you're sounding
just like her.
Jo:
Oh, yeah? And you would know?
Yeah, I would.
Jo: You know nothing
about my mother.
I met her.
No, you haven't.
Farid: I have.
When?
(sighing)
May, when you were
in the hospital.
Jo: What?
I'm sorry.
Wait. What are you saying?
Farid: I went out there,
To visit her, to understand,
to understand you,
To understand what
was happening to you.
I thought it could
only be a good thing
If she were back in your life.
I wanted to help you.
What the fuck?
I was wrong, okay?
She was Gone.
- She was crazy.
- Crazy?
You know what I mean. Unwell.
Do you think I'm unwell, farid?
Farid: No! No,
I just think that you shouldn't
Be drinking on your meds,
and that you shouldn't
Put yourself through the stress
of listening to recordings
Of a sick woman
who killed herself!
Jo: So, you're telling me
that you went there,
You spoke to a woman that sick,
You sat with her,
and you did nothing?
You left her there
to fucking rot?
- Okay, whoa, whoa--
- to kill herself?
Jo, are you putting this
all on me right now?
She was ill, farid, my mother.
You could have stopped her.
You know what?
You're the one who shut her out.
I'm sorry, I didn't
I'm sorry.
- Jo?
- I think I'm done.
Don't say that.
I'm serious. Don't call.
Can you come to
newfoundland, please?
No.
I need you.
Call brie.
Jo, don't do this.
Good luck with the season three.
Jo, listen to me. Don't--
(phone beeping)
(exhaling sharply)
(sniffling)
Woman (recorded:)
you have one saved message.
- (phone beeping)
- (exhaling sharply)
Martha (recorded:) jo, it's mom.
(breathing heavily)
Why won't you call me back?
I need help!
You hate me.
Stupid! I'm so stupid!
You won't help me.
You've always been selfish.
(sobbing)
I can't do this anymore.
I want my baby
My daughter.
A mother
should be with her child.
(phone ringing)
Woman: Front desk.
I said no one is to
come in my room--
Not housekeeping,
not front desk, no one.
Was that not clear?!
Brie: That was intense.
That was a private conversation.
Well, it's hard not to hear
when the floor is so thin
And you have your ear
pressed against it.
(brie chuckling)
Listen, when I got in,
the bedspread was soaked
And the entire room
smelled like febreze.
The only way I'm gonna
be able to sleep tonight
Is if I'm hammered.
I know a place.
Oh, oh! What the fuck was that?
- Screech.
- Uh-uh.
No, never again.
Oh
Are you gonna cry?
- Fuck off.
- (laughing)
You can.
I don't cry.
Oh, he's a big boy.
Shut up. I
(chuckling)
I wish I could.
Every guy I've ever dated
has told me he doesn't cry,
And every one of them did,
when I dumped him.
Jesus
What? You don't cry with jo?
Well, not like cry-cry.
What does that mean?
Sometimes
When I can't, uh
Get through to jo,
If I'm desperate, I, uh
(chuckling mirthlessly)
I actually
force myself to cry,
I fake it.
Sometimes,
it's the only way she hears me.
Wow.
I know.
Once I found out
a boyfriend was cheating on me,
And I logged into his savings
account,
And I e-transferred
myself 10 grand.
Uh That is not the same,
but I thank you for that.
You're welcome.
Fuck, I should call her,
you know? I should
I should fight for us.
It's like
I've just been given this
Get-out-of-jail-free
card, you know?
Is it giving up
If I just let it fade away?
When jo's mental health
first declined,
It took up all the room
in our relationship.
I think I grieved
the loss of us a long time ago.
Maybe that's why I can't cry.
Well, that was depressing.
Um, can I have two more
shots of screech, please?
I still love her.
Brie: I know.
(east coast folk music
playing indistinctly) ♪
Oh! Hey!
Hey, hey, hey, hey! Uh-uh.
Uh
I
I'm Sorry.
I, uh
Uh
♪
Maggie (recorded:)
um, hello, mr. Matar.
This is maggie knockwood
returning your call.
I have to say I was quite
rattled to get your voicemail.
It took me a bit to decide
whether to call you back,
But, um I do want to talk
about what happened to roseanne.
If you think
you can help, then I'll talk.
Eat up; long drive from briddus.
Really, I'm fine.
Fry bread's still warm.
Thank you.
It's funny, when you called,
I was actually
in roseanne's room.
Sometimes, I sleep there,
just to be close to her.
I can imagine that this isn't
really easy to drag back up.
I appreciate you having me.
Yeah, you know what?
I actually enjoy
talking about roseanne.
It keeps her alive.
You know,
so much of her is faded.
Can you walk me
through the events?
It was August '88.
Levi and I were out of town,
Visiting some
friends in dartmouth.
Left her alone for the weekend.
She was 18, a big girl.
Worked the summers as
a waitress at the local resort,
The windsor house.
I think that's
where she met him,
A secret beau.
No one saw her with him,
but he was older.
Name was, uh
Daniel Dylan Douglas,
something like that.
Caught her drawing little hearts
around the letter 'd'
In the sand
at the beach one day.
Romance for the young
is something special.
I'm sure you know
exactly what I mean.
You think it was him?
Of course it was.
How was rosanne found?
Bound.
Hands behind her back
Tied to her feet
Like an animal.
She was beaten,
stabbed 16 times.
But the worst part was that
All her teeth were gone.
Such a horrible crime
to just explain away.
Lovers quarrel,
and poof, that was it.
Cops said they did
everything they could.
Did they?
White cops
Don't have much time
for girls like rosanne.
Eventually,
everyone around here forgot,
And now that levi's gone,
I'm the only one that
remembers it happened.
Is there anything left behind?
Something that could have
helped track her killer down?
Yeah, sure.
He left something behind.
This is where I found her.
She was
Lying right there.
♪
You didn't change the carpet.
I don't want to forget.
That symbol is
what led me to jesus.
In that vent there,
The cops found a hank
of long hair tucked inside.
- He cut off her hair?
- No. No.
Roseanne's hair
is black as night.
That hair? It was bright red.
(phone ringing)
Man (on phone:)
fahey's funeral services.
Hi, this is farid matar.
We met the other day.
Man (on phone:)
I remember.
Okay. When I asked you about
unsolved cases in the '80s,
You told me about
a young hitchhiker.
Man (on phone:)
listen, don't call here anymore.
- Pardon?
- The town knows I spoke to you.
- People are unhappy.
- Okay.
Man (on phone:) oh,
and I want those photos back.
All right. I just--
The young hitchhiker,
what was the colour of her hair?
Man (on phone:)
I told you, I'm not--
No, no, okay, look, look,
I will leave you alone, okay?
I promise. I just Please.
Do you remember
the colour of her hair?
Man (on phone:)
I do.
And?
Man (on phone:) well, it was cut
almost clean off,
But it was red, bright red.
♪
(siren sounding in distance)
(siren sounding)
(car wheels crunching on gravel)
(siren sounding)
(car door closing)
(floorboards creaking)
(creaking)
Rose?
- (thudding)
- (jo gasping)
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