Phony (2026) s01e05 Episode Script
House of Dog
1
Sonny says you're, like, back
in normal people school now.
You know my boyfriend?
[Mallory] We haven't really
kept in touch, much.
If you ever want to
be with someone else,
just tell me.
Have you heard anything
about a "Dead Body Party"?
We should go.
You wanna go?
[suspenseful music playing]
- Fuck me.
- [camera clicking]
[Ellen 2] Sonny?
H-How did you know
where I was?
Because I'm your mother!
- [suspenseful music playing]
- [phone buzzing]
[Sharla] [on phone]
Sonny?
Who's this?
[Ellen 2] Sonny's coming home
with me, okay?
I'm not going.
- Sonny!
- [Sonny] I'll be at Vogel's.
[Vogel's mom] Vogel. Vogel, come here.
Is he okay? Did you give him a pillow?
[Vogel] Yes, Mom.
I gave him the good pillow.
And he's got the WiFi.
[Vogel's mom]
Why is he here on a weeknight?
[Vogel] He just
needs to lay low for a bit.
Is that okay?
- [soft music playing]
- [birds chirping]
♪
Hi, I'm Sharla, I'm an addict.
[group] Hi, Sharla!
[Sharla]
Yeah, it's been a stressful time.
I'm back doing PI work
on this case
with teenagers involved.
I'm helping one of them.
I mean, this kid
is terrified, you know?
[phone buzzing]
And with good reason.
♪
The case just keeps
getting bigger,
and I think there's
more than one bad actor.
[ominous music playing]
I've been sort of
tough on him, you know?
Maybe because
I wanna warn him
that I'm gonna
fuck this up for him.
And maybe that starts here
by me saying
too much about the case.
[quiet laughter]
[soft music playing]
That's all I got.
[door banging]
[door slamming]
[quiet chatter]
[soft, quirky music playing]
- [dog barking]
- [birds chirping]
[Sonny]
She met this guy behind a bar?
What's she handing him?
Huge wad of cash.
[Sonny]
Oh, my God, wait, so,
he's like her--
her partner in all this.
And you got
a fucking picture of it?!
- That's fucking amazing!
- He could be a lot of things.
He could be a kidnapper,
a hitman.
And either she's paying him
for something he's already done,
or something he's about to do.
So, do you recognize him?
Maybe hanging
around the school?
[Sonny] I mean, the picture's
kind of hard to make out.
- Did you get his license plate?
- Yeah, yeah.
But the car is registered
to a woman,
a "Tracy Marks."
- You know that name?
- Tracy Marks? No.
Might be a friend of your mom's?
A relative?
- I don't know her.
- Well, think on it.
For family, it's just us, right?
And-And for friends,
she really, like, doesn't have
any friends outside of work.
- Hmm.
- Was there, like, an address
tied to the car?
Mm, it's a rental.
Tracy Marks hasn't lived there
for over a year.
Prick landlord,
out-of-state investor,
wouldn't tell me anything
without a warrant.
Okay, this guy, uh,
when he drove off,
did you follow him?
- [energetic, tense music playing]
- Of course.
- Hell, yes! W--
- I lost him.
[music stops]
How?
That could've been
a huge break.
Fuck does it matter?
I lost him.
[clicking tongue]
Sit.
I blew up
my whole life last night.
And we have no leads, nothing.
I can't go home.
I can't go to school.
I need you
to tell me what to do.
Like, right now
what do I do, today?
Get a motel room.
Get some rest.
Motel room?!
You have to be 25
to get a motel room.
[Weldon]
Uh, that's rental cars.
- [door slamming]
- Ah, no!
Wait.
We need to talk.
Hey!
I'm sorry about last night.
I tried to circle back
after the cops left,
but you were gone.
Thanks. Um
[inhales]
[sighs]
Can I get a ride?
Sure.
What's Weldon doing
with the PI?
Oh
- Come on, Wellie!
- [horn honking]
[dog barking]
Go, go!
Damn. [chuckling]
Wellie going rogue, skipping school.
Wait, are you going to school?
Oh, no.
I can't. I c-- I can't.
Well, I mean,
I have a test second period,
so I can't really skip.
Well, it's okay.
Don't worry about it.
Oh, well,
where are you gonna go?
I don't know. I
I'll just
walk somewhere.
- What?
- "Oh, yeah, I'll just go walk
on the train tracks,
by myself, alone, in the rain."
[both chuckle]
I have an idea
where we can go.
Okay.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
[both chuckling]
Okay.
[car door chiming]
[school PA chiming]
[indistinct chatter]
[students chattering]
- [gasps] Vogel!
- Hey.
Where's Sonny?
Uh, um, he's just
laying low at my house.
He's, you know, taking
a mental health day.
He's alone at your house?
No, no, no, he-he'll be fine.
My mom should be around.
- I think I'll go pick him up.
- Wait, wait!
I-I don't know
if that's a good idea.
Why?
- Okay, you know Bokito, the gorilla?
- No.
It's this gorilla
from the Netherlands, right?
And every day he had
this visitor, this lady,
who would come smile at him
through the glass.
Problem is, for gorillas,
baring teeth is aggression.
But, every day, this lady
would show up just smiling.
I'm gonna catch up with you later,
but send me that link.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Just, just wait.
Uh, so, Bokito couldn't, like,
take all of that
attention from her, right?
It was too much for him.
And one day,
he just bust out of his cage.
And he tracked this lady down
and put all his weight on her
and bit her, like, 100 times.
Your best friend is in crisis.
You know that, right?
Yeah, I-- I was with him
all night long last night, okay?
And yes,
he's working some stuff out.
And if you try
to check on him,
it's only gonna make things worse.
I mean,
I think he just needs to,
you know, work this
beat out on his own.
Vogel
[tense music playing]
has he been hanging out
with somebody
that I should know about?
Somebody who's
a bad influence?
Nah.
But, um,
I, I gotta get to class.
- Vogel?
- I'll-I'll tell Sonny
I ran into you, though, okay?
- [birds chirping]
- [dog barking]
So you think it's a funny joke?
Coming to my AA meeting,
laughing at my share.
- I didn't laugh.
- Oh, I saw you smirking.
[Weldon]
I was happy that you were there.
Those are my meetings,
I've been going there since I moved here.
You think you're an alcoholic?
No, I don't, um,
go for alcohol.
[Sharla]
Then what were you doing there?
Those meetings, they're sacred spaces
for people who need 'em.
[Weldon]
My problem is
why we moved here.
My parents thought
it'd be better if I lived
near my uncle, who's a pastor.
Yeah, wh-what is your "problem"?
My parents caught me with, um
a, uh
A what?
A jazz cigarette.
Weed.
You don't have to smoke it a lot
to become an addict.
Yes, you do.
- I thought what you shared was--
- Out. Now. Goodbye.
- I'm an addict too.
- No, you're not!
You're off the case,
and your trial employment
with the dog care is over.
I-- You never said it was a trial!
["Sound and Vision 2013"
by David Bowie playing]
Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo
doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo ♪
Doo ♪
Blue, blue, electric blue ♪
- That's the color of my room ♪
- [ominous music plays]
[Mallory]
This is "The House of Dog."
I've always wanted
to come out here,
but my dad says
that it's blasphemous.
That is rebellion, man.
You're like, "Dad, I just,
I need to go to this
artsy church for dogs."
[both chuckling]
- Alright.
- Oh, I don't turn the car off
in the middle of a song.
It's disrespectful.
["Sound and Vision 2013"
continues playing on stereo]
[laughing]
I mean, you can go.
No, no, no, no.
I can catch up to you, actually.
I'll listen.
Drifting into my solitude ♪
Over my head ♪
Don't you wonder sometimes ♪
'Bout sound and vision ♪
[piano instrumental playing]
It's a long song.
No, it's great.
'Bout sound and vision ♪
["Sound and Vision 2013"
continues playing]
'Bout sound and vision ♪
[song ends]
Alright! Let's go.
[Sonny] Alright.
[brooding music playing]
[car door slamming]
[engine rumbling]
[ominous music playing]
So, this is why
you called me in here?
Is this a burner phone?
I think a burner phone is for
like, international spies
and, and drugs.
Yeah. Drugs.
I mean, he's only calling
one number on there,
and I can't find
the number on Google.
Remember when
somebody was prank calling
Mr. Michaels?
How did you find
that number?
You think he's suddenly
getting into drugs?
Maybe he's self-medicating.
He's hanging out
with Mallory Russell.
- The preacher's kid?
- The Christian kids
are the ones who always
get in the most trouble.
The LSD gummy worms?
That was all
the Young Life kids.
- [office phone ringing]
- You know, I had somebody
who I was very close to
when I was younger,
who got-got mixed up in
pills, all of it, I guess.
And I was so young,
I didn't know that I could help.
So, I've seen this.
And the way
Sonny's been acting,
you know, the lying
and the secrecy
and the erraticism is
that kind of behavior.
That sounds really painful.
Yeah, thanks.
This person your ex?
- No.
- We haven't talked about exes yet, so--
Well, I mean, not "yet," just
- Yeah.
- at all.
So, do you have
the technology
to find who owns that number
that he's calling?
I have that technology.
[tense music playing]
[soft harp music playing]
[Sonny]
Wow, this is so sweet.
Oh, Jesus Christ!
All these dogs are dead?!
Yeah, it's a memorial.
- Horrible.
- [Mallory] It's sweet.
[Sonny]
I wonder if my mom ever came here.
She said she put up a memorial
somewhere for Tucker.
- She's a dog person?
- Like, huge dog person. Look.
You remember Tucker, right?
- Last year, he ran away.
- Aw.
We should find him in here.
If he's in here.
[soft music playing]
"Frankie, you were the best
little brick shithouse
"a guy could ask for.
- You loved to hump your bed."
- [Sonny chuckling]
From Robert, Pennsylvania.
Robert Pennsylvania
is his name?
- No, it's--
- No, he's from Pennsylvania.
Yeah, he's from
♪
My dad wants me
to get baptized.
I'm taking the classes.
- Really?
- Yup.
Isn't that, like,
a thing for babies?
Well, in my church, you wait
until you're a certain age,
and then you make a whole pledge
in front of your community.
It's like a "believer's baptism."
But you don't, like,
you don't believe, do you?
Yeah, I mean,
as a woman of the night now,
who's, like, skipping school
and, you know,
doing parties and stuff,
it's like, I don't know,
I'm not sure that
I should get baptized.
- You know what I mean?
- I think "woman of the night"
means sex worker.
- Really?
- Yes.
[laughing]
Okay, I did not--
I didn't mean it like that.
- Are you sure?
- [chuckling] Yeah.
I also don't even know
if I believe in God.
So
Wait!
Dude, is this your dog right here?
[soft piano music playing]
Holy shit. Yeah.
It looks so much like him.
♪
There's no note.
Maybe we should just say it's him.
- For real?
- Mm-hmm.
- You're so quick to give up?
- [Mallory chuckling]
I told you,
this place is so depressing.
It's
Yeah, it's getting to me,
it's a little tragic.
Maybe this will help.
Ohhh!
Pew-pew-pew!
Where'd you get a joint?
- Shovel?
- [dumb voice] Shovel.
- [dumb voice] I'm Shovel!
- [Mallory chuckling]
You wanna smoke it or not?
[both laughing]
Yeah.
Hey, does Mr. Carbone ever try
and catch people skipping school?
- What?
- There's a person over there
who wasn't there
when we first got here.
[ominous music playing]
Well, if you wanna get back
to school or whatever,
I'm totally good.
I--
Maybe that's,
maybe that's better.
You can drop me at Vogel's
or something?
♪
[engine rumbling]
Come on.
♪
[car door opening]
[car door slamming]
[softly] Alright.
- [lighter clicking]
- Ohh. Damn.
She's going for it.
[inhales sharply]
[coughing]
I'm good to stay here
for a minute.
Alright.
[both chuckling]
This is my secret weapon.
NumberSleuther.com.
- Here's the number.
- Okay.
- Oh.
- What?
Well, you used to be able
to do one for free.
- Uh, well, I'll pay for it--
- No, no, no, no. No.
- Are you kidding? I-- This is on me.
- No.
[Jason] [under his breath]
Fifty-five for one search.
Sixty-five for unlimited searches.
Hmm.
- [normal] Fuck it.
- [computer mouse clicks]
We're in.
- [Ellen 2] It's listed.
- Mm-hmm.
[Ellen 2] Claude Rains?
[Jason]
Yeah, why do I know that name?
- [keyboard clacking]
- Claude Rains is
a fake name.
Yeah.
- He was the Invisible Man, so
- Right, like--
whoever,
whoever that phone belongs to
is fucking with you.
Yeah, alright.
[Jason] I mean,
here's the supposed address.
[Ellen 2 sighing]
S [sighs]
[softly] Oh, my God.
[Jason] [softly] Yeah, I don't think
that's the real address.
Oh, my God,
oh, my God, oh, my God.
[door opening]
Ellen, we need to move
the fire drill.
Didn't realize I was interrupting.
[Ellen 2] You're not interrupting.
Come in. Come in!
- Carbone?
- [door shutting]
We weren't doing anything wrong.
I'll deal with it.
Anyway
- This, I-I can't look at that anymore.
- Yeah, it's
[softly] Jesus.
[Mallory] You okay?
What are you thinking about?
- [birds chirping]
- [pensive music playing]
I wonder
if every moment
that I've had with my mom
and every memory
is just kind of all
I'll, I'll ever get.
I think that's always possible,
even in normal situations.
Sorry, I'm very distracted
by your forehead right now.
♪
Um, what?
- [giggling]
- Am I doing it?
[Mallory] [laughing]
Yeah!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's actually working.
- Really?
- Yeah, that's working really well.
[Sonny]
Okay, wait, you do it.
[Mallory laughing]
I don't see it.
Ah, fuck! I see it!
- [laughing]
- Ahh!
Fuck! Fuck! I hate that!
"Tracy Marks."
Tracy Marks, Tracey Marks
Who are you, Tracy Marks?
- [gate rattling]
- [dogs barking]
I thought I told you to leave!
I cleaned out the dog runs.
Well, I wish you hadn't.
Can I use the bathroom?
No!
- [exhaling]
- Are you okay?
Yeah, sorry, I'm just
That shit-- Your forehead's
so much worse than mine.
It made me actually
wanna throw up.
[both laughing]
- Should we leave?
- No. No, we can't.
Do you see yourself?
- [laughing] No, I don't wanna see myself.
- It's-- We can't drive.
It's for safety.
[Sonny sighs deeply]
[Mallory sighs]
You're gonna have to go home
at some point.
No, I'm not.
How could you not go home?
Well
I'll steal a guy's car
and drive down to Monterey.
- Really?
- Yeah.
I'll open a bookstore
on Cannery Row.
And there's gonna be only just
amazing good books.
No, like, no tote bags.
Maybe there can be jam there.
Like, jelly? For
Yeah. You-- I mean--
- I don't know. I don't know.
- [chuckling] I think
a bookstore could have
a little bit of jam.
[both laughing]
I know how to make it,
um, for you, to the store.
Just jam and books.
The jam is for the idiots.
The people not quite
elevated enough
to understand our books.
- [chuckling] Yeah, yeah.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jam's a good second option.
[Mallory] Yeah.
[sighs deeply]
Um
I had sex with Chloe.
[softly] Just
Hmm. [swallows]
Cool.
Congrats.
Well,
I should probably get home,
so I can pretend like
I went to school.
[gentle, melancholy music playing]
[toilet flushing]
I think you owe me an apology.
For what?
For saying I don't belong at meetings.
It's not good to hang out with losers
in a church basement
unless you have to.
That's all I'm saying.
I'm sorry, alright?
The meetings help with, um
[clicks tongue]
lots of stuff.
Like what?
Like, how I'm not
a trustworthy person.
Who told you that?
Your parents tell you that?
[sniffles]
[chair scraping]
Know why I lost
this guy last night?
'Cause I was drinking.
Oh yeah, this is gin.
Zero days sober.
And I can't even
admit that in a meeting.
How's that for trustworthy?
[brooding music playing]
What?
I could be your sponsor.
[chuckling]
Get the fuck out of here.
[Sonny] Did you see that bird?
[Mallory] What?
[Sonny]
Sorry, I think I'm still high.
[engine idling]
I'm sorry if I was, if I was weird.
It's chill.
And I'm glad that
you're going home.
Well, I'm not really.
I mean, I'm not going home, I'm just--
I'm just grabbing food and stuff,
and then
Vogel's gonna pick me up later
before, you know,
before she comes back.
Um
I gotta go.
Okay.
[gravel crunching]
[mysterious music playing]
[Ellen 1] I feel like I've just been
really forgetful lately.
Maybe it's because I haven't had
a break in a couple of weeks.
Today I drove off with my coffee
on top of the car.
Maybe I should look
into fish oil supplements.
[melancholy music playing]
Yesterday was my birthday,
and I celebrated by going
to bed at 8:30 p.m.
[Sonny] [singing]
It's your birthday ♪
[Ellen 1]
Sonny was very sweet.
He put up decorations
and made me a cake.
School's about to start again
and Sonny wants these shoes.
I feel like there's so many things
I'll never understand
about the way
he sees the world.
What do these shoes
look like to him?
[music fades out]
[grunting, sniffles]
[mysterious music playing]
It's been almost a year
since Tucker broke out of the fence
and ran away.
But Sonny said today
that he's still hoping
that somehow
Tucker will come back.
[mysterious, melancholy music playing]
♪
He's so optimistic
about everything.
I wasn't that way
when I was his age.
But it does make him
really vulnerable to the world.
♪
Dad died today.
I went to pick up Dad's ashes.
Tracy got there first.
I was afraid
she'd come back.
Tracy got there first.
Tracy got there first.
Tracy?
- [mysterious music playing]
- [water running]
- [line ringing]
- Come on!
- [Sharla] [on phone] Yeah?
- Hey, uh, the name, Tracy,
uh, the-the-the car, the plates,
what was the name?
[Sharla] Tracy Marks. Why?
You got something?
Listen to
the last page
of my mom's journal, okay?
"Someone broke into the house.
"I told the police I thought
it was probably just kids,
"but I think it was Tracy.
"So sad.
She obviously was closer
to our dad when he died"
Blah, blah, blah.
"And she was a mess
at his funeral.
She's been erratic
and scary ever since."
[Sharla] Holy shit.
What are you saying?
[dramatic music playing]
My mom has a sister!
[mysterious, melancholy music playing]
♪
[music fades out]
[voice] Sew faster.
[fanfare playing]
Sonny says you're, like, back
in normal people school now.
You know my boyfriend?
[Mallory] We haven't really
kept in touch, much.
If you ever want to
be with someone else,
just tell me.
Have you heard anything
about a "Dead Body Party"?
We should go.
You wanna go?
[suspenseful music playing]
- Fuck me.
- [camera clicking]
[Ellen 2] Sonny?
H-How did you know
where I was?
Because I'm your mother!
- [suspenseful music playing]
- [phone buzzing]
[Sharla] [on phone]
Sonny?
Who's this?
[Ellen 2] Sonny's coming home
with me, okay?
I'm not going.
- Sonny!
- [Sonny] I'll be at Vogel's.
[Vogel's mom] Vogel. Vogel, come here.
Is he okay? Did you give him a pillow?
[Vogel] Yes, Mom.
I gave him the good pillow.
And he's got the WiFi.
[Vogel's mom]
Why is he here on a weeknight?
[Vogel] He just
needs to lay low for a bit.
Is that okay?
- [soft music playing]
- [birds chirping]
♪
Hi, I'm Sharla, I'm an addict.
[group] Hi, Sharla!
[Sharla]
Yeah, it's been a stressful time.
I'm back doing PI work
on this case
with teenagers involved.
I'm helping one of them.
I mean, this kid
is terrified, you know?
[phone buzzing]
And with good reason.
♪
The case just keeps
getting bigger,
and I think there's
more than one bad actor.
[ominous music playing]
I've been sort of
tough on him, you know?
Maybe because
I wanna warn him
that I'm gonna
fuck this up for him.
And maybe that starts here
by me saying
too much about the case.
[quiet laughter]
[soft music playing]
That's all I got.
[door banging]
[door slamming]
[quiet chatter]
[soft, quirky music playing]
- [dog barking]
- [birds chirping]
[Sonny]
She met this guy behind a bar?
What's she handing him?
Huge wad of cash.
[Sonny]
Oh, my God, wait, so,
he's like her--
her partner in all this.
And you got
a fucking picture of it?!
- That's fucking amazing!
- He could be a lot of things.
He could be a kidnapper,
a hitman.
And either she's paying him
for something he's already done,
or something he's about to do.
So, do you recognize him?
Maybe hanging
around the school?
[Sonny] I mean, the picture's
kind of hard to make out.
- Did you get his license plate?
- Yeah, yeah.
But the car is registered
to a woman,
a "Tracy Marks."
- You know that name?
- Tracy Marks? No.
Might be a friend of your mom's?
A relative?
- I don't know her.
- Well, think on it.
For family, it's just us, right?
And-And for friends,
she really, like, doesn't have
any friends outside of work.
- Hmm.
- Was there, like, an address
tied to the car?
Mm, it's a rental.
Tracy Marks hasn't lived there
for over a year.
Prick landlord,
out-of-state investor,
wouldn't tell me anything
without a warrant.
Okay, this guy, uh,
when he drove off,
did you follow him?
- [energetic, tense music playing]
- Of course.
- Hell, yes! W--
- I lost him.
[music stops]
How?
That could've been
a huge break.
Fuck does it matter?
I lost him.
[clicking tongue]
Sit.
I blew up
my whole life last night.
And we have no leads, nothing.
I can't go home.
I can't go to school.
I need you
to tell me what to do.
Like, right now
what do I do, today?
Get a motel room.
Get some rest.
Motel room?!
You have to be 25
to get a motel room.
[Weldon]
Uh, that's rental cars.
- [door slamming]
- Ah, no!
Wait.
We need to talk.
Hey!
I'm sorry about last night.
I tried to circle back
after the cops left,
but you were gone.
Thanks. Um
[inhales]
[sighs]
Can I get a ride?
Sure.
What's Weldon doing
with the PI?
Oh
- Come on, Wellie!
- [horn honking]
[dog barking]
Go, go!
Damn. [chuckling]
Wellie going rogue, skipping school.
Wait, are you going to school?
Oh, no.
I can't. I c-- I can't.
Well, I mean,
I have a test second period,
so I can't really skip.
Well, it's okay.
Don't worry about it.
Oh, well,
where are you gonna go?
I don't know. I
I'll just
walk somewhere.
- What?
- "Oh, yeah, I'll just go walk
on the train tracks,
by myself, alone, in the rain."
[both chuckle]
I have an idea
where we can go.
Okay.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
[both chuckling]
Okay.
[car door chiming]
[school PA chiming]
[indistinct chatter]
[students chattering]
- [gasps] Vogel!
- Hey.
Where's Sonny?
Uh, um, he's just
laying low at my house.
He's, you know, taking
a mental health day.
He's alone at your house?
No, no, no, he-he'll be fine.
My mom should be around.
- I think I'll go pick him up.
- Wait, wait!
I-I don't know
if that's a good idea.
Why?
- Okay, you know Bokito, the gorilla?
- No.
It's this gorilla
from the Netherlands, right?
And every day he had
this visitor, this lady,
who would come smile at him
through the glass.
Problem is, for gorillas,
baring teeth is aggression.
But, every day, this lady
would show up just smiling.
I'm gonna catch up with you later,
but send me that link.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Just, just wait.
Uh, so, Bokito couldn't, like,
take all of that
attention from her, right?
It was too much for him.
And one day,
he just bust out of his cage.
And he tracked this lady down
and put all his weight on her
and bit her, like, 100 times.
Your best friend is in crisis.
You know that, right?
Yeah, I-- I was with him
all night long last night, okay?
And yes,
he's working some stuff out.
And if you try
to check on him,
it's only gonna make things worse.
I mean,
I think he just needs to,
you know, work this
beat out on his own.
Vogel
[tense music playing]
has he been hanging out
with somebody
that I should know about?
Somebody who's
a bad influence?
Nah.
But, um,
I, I gotta get to class.
- Vogel?
- I'll-I'll tell Sonny
I ran into you, though, okay?
- [birds chirping]
- [dog barking]
So you think it's a funny joke?
Coming to my AA meeting,
laughing at my share.
- I didn't laugh.
- Oh, I saw you smirking.
[Weldon]
I was happy that you were there.
Those are my meetings,
I've been going there since I moved here.
You think you're an alcoholic?
No, I don't, um,
go for alcohol.
[Sharla]
Then what were you doing there?
Those meetings, they're sacred spaces
for people who need 'em.
[Weldon]
My problem is
why we moved here.
My parents thought
it'd be better if I lived
near my uncle, who's a pastor.
Yeah, wh-what is your "problem"?
My parents caught me with, um
a, uh
A what?
A jazz cigarette.
Weed.
You don't have to smoke it a lot
to become an addict.
Yes, you do.
- I thought what you shared was--
- Out. Now. Goodbye.
- I'm an addict too.
- No, you're not!
You're off the case,
and your trial employment
with the dog care is over.
I-- You never said it was a trial!
["Sound and Vision 2013"
by David Bowie playing]
Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo
doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo ♪
Doo ♪
Blue, blue, electric blue ♪
- That's the color of my room ♪
- [ominous music plays]
[Mallory]
This is "The House of Dog."
I've always wanted
to come out here,
but my dad says
that it's blasphemous.
That is rebellion, man.
You're like, "Dad, I just,
I need to go to this
artsy church for dogs."
[both chuckling]
- Alright.
- Oh, I don't turn the car off
in the middle of a song.
It's disrespectful.
["Sound and Vision 2013"
continues playing on stereo]
[laughing]
I mean, you can go.
No, no, no, no.
I can catch up to you, actually.
I'll listen.
Drifting into my solitude ♪
Over my head ♪
Don't you wonder sometimes ♪
'Bout sound and vision ♪
[piano instrumental playing]
It's a long song.
No, it's great.
'Bout sound and vision ♪
["Sound and Vision 2013"
continues playing]
'Bout sound and vision ♪
[song ends]
Alright! Let's go.
[Sonny] Alright.
[brooding music playing]
[car door slamming]
[engine rumbling]
[ominous music playing]
So, this is why
you called me in here?
Is this a burner phone?
I think a burner phone is for
like, international spies
and, and drugs.
Yeah. Drugs.
I mean, he's only calling
one number on there,
and I can't find
the number on Google.
Remember when
somebody was prank calling
Mr. Michaels?
How did you find
that number?
You think he's suddenly
getting into drugs?
Maybe he's self-medicating.
He's hanging out
with Mallory Russell.
- The preacher's kid?
- The Christian kids
are the ones who always
get in the most trouble.
The LSD gummy worms?
That was all
the Young Life kids.
- [office phone ringing]
- You know, I had somebody
who I was very close to
when I was younger,
who got-got mixed up in
pills, all of it, I guess.
And I was so young,
I didn't know that I could help.
So, I've seen this.
And the way
Sonny's been acting,
you know, the lying
and the secrecy
and the erraticism is
that kind of behavior.
That sounds really painful.
Yeah, thanks.
This person your ex?
- No.
- We haven't talked about exes yet, so--
Well, I mean, not "yet," just
- Yeah.
- at all.
So, do you have
the technology
to find who owns that number
that he's calling?
I have that technology.
[tense music playing]
[soft harp music playing]
[Sonny]
Wow, this is so sweet.
Oh, Jesus Christ!
All these dogs are dead?!
Yeah, it's a memorial.
- Horrible.
- [Mallory] It's sweet.
[Sonny]
I wonder if my mom ever came here.
She said she put up a memorial
somewhere for Tucker.
- She's a dog person?
- Like, huge dog person. Look.
You remember Tucker, right?
- Last year, he ran away.
- Aw.
We should find him in here.
If he's in here.
[soft music playing]
"Frankie, you were the best
little brick shithouse
"a guy could ask for.
- You loved to hump your bed."
- [Sonny chuckling]
From Robert, Pennsylvania.
Robert Pennsylvania
is his name?
- No, it's--
- No, he's from Pennsylvania.
Yeah, he's from
♪
My dad wants me
to get baptized.
I'm taking the classes.
- Really?
- Yup.
Isn't that, like,
a thing for babies?
Well, in my church, you wait
until you're a certain age,
and then you make a whole pledge
in front of your community.
It's like a "believer's baptism."
But you don't, like,
you don't believe, do you?
Yeah, I mean,
as a woman of the night now,
who's, like, skipping school
and, you know,
doing parties and stuff,
it's like, I don't know,
I'm not sure that
I should get baptized.
- You know what I mean?
- I think "woman of the night"
means sex worker.
- Really?
- Yes.
[laughing]
Okay, I did not--
I didn't mean it like that.
- Are you sure?
- [chuckling] Yeah.
I also don't even know
if I believe in God.
So
Wait!
Dude, is this your dog right here?
[soft piano music playing]
Holy shit. Yeah.
It looks so much like him.
♪
There's no note.
Maybe we should just say it's him.
- For real?
- Mm-hmm.
- You're so quick to give up?
- [Mallory chuckling]
I told you,
this place is so depressing.
It's
Yeah, it's getting to me,
it's a little tragic.
Maybe this will help.
Ohhh!
Pew-pew-pew!
Where'd you get a joint?
- Shovel?
- [dumb voice] Shovel.
- [dumb voice] I'm Shovel!
- [Mallory chuckling]
You wanna smoke it or not?
[both laughing]
Yeah.
Hey, does Mr. Carbone ever try
and catch people skipping school?
- What?
- There's a person over there
who wasn't there
when we first got here.
[ominous music playing]
Well, if you wanna get back
to school or whatever,
I'm totally good.
I--
Maybe that's,
maybe that's better.
You can drop me at Vogel's
or something?
♪
[engine rumbling]
Come on.
♪
[car door opening]
[car door slamming]
[softly] Alright.
- [lighter clicking]
- Ohh. Damn.
She's going for it.
[inhales sharply]
[coughing]
I'm good to stay here
for a minute.
Alright.
[both chuckling]
This is my secret weapon.
NumberSleuther.com.
- Here's the number.
- Okay.
- Oh.
- What?
Well, you used to be able
to do one for free.
- Uh, well, I'll pay for it--
- No, no, no, no. No.
- Are you kidding? I-- This is on me.
- No.
[Jason] [under his breath]
Fifty-five for one search.
Sixty-five for unlimited searches.
Hmm.
- [normal] Fuck it.
- [computer mouse clicks]
We're in.
- [Ellen 2] It's listed.
- Mm-hmm.
[Ellen 2] Claude Rains?
[Jason]
Yeah, why do I know that name?
- [keyboard clacking]
- Claude Rains is
a fake name.
Yeah.
- He was the Invisible Man, so
- Right, like--
whoever,
whoever that phone belongs to
is fucking with you.
Yeah, alright.
[Jason] I mean,
here's the supposed address.
[Ellen 2 sighing]
S [sighs]
[softly] Oh, my God.
[Jason] [softly] Yeah, I don't think
that's the real address.
Oh, my God,
oh, my God, oh, my God.
[door opening]
Ellen, we need to move
the fire drill.
Didn't realize I was interrupting.
[Ellen 2] You're not interrupting.
Come in. Come in!
- Carbone?
- [door shutting]
We weren't doing anything wrong.
I'll deal with it.
Anyway
- This, I-I can't look at that anymore.
- Yeah, it's
[softly] Jesus.
[Mallory] You okay?
What are you thinking about?
- [birds chirping]
- [pensive music playing]
I wonder
if every moment
that I've had with my mom
and every memory
is just kind of all
I'll, I'll ever get.
I think that's always possible,
even in normal situations.
Sorry, I'm very distracted
by your forehead right now.
♪
Um, what?
- [giggling]
- Am I doing it?
[Mallory] [laughing]
Yeah!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's actually working.
- Really?
- Yeah, that's working really well.
[Sonny]
Okay, wait, you do it.
[Mallory laughing]
I don't see it.
Ah, fuck! I see it!
- [laughing]
- Ahh!
Fuck! Fuck! I hate that!
"Tracy Marks."
Tracy Marks, Tracey Marks
Who are you, Tracy Marks?
- [gate rattling]
- [dogs barking]
I thought I told you to leave!
I cleaned out the dog runs.
Well, I wish you hadn't.
Can I use the bathroom?
No!
- [exhaling]
- Are you okay?
Yeah, sorry, I'm just
That shit-- Your forehead's
so much worse than mine.
It made me actually
wanna throw up.
[both laughing]
- Should we leave?
- No. No, we can't.
Do you see yourself?
- [laughing] No, I don't wanna see myself.
- It's-- We can't drive.
It's for safety.
[Sonny sighs deeply]
[Mallory sighs]
You're gonna have to go home
at some point.
No, I'm not.
How could you not go home?
Well
I'll steal a guy's car
and drive down to Monterey.
- Really?
- Yeah.
I'll open a bookstore
on Cannery Row.
And there's gonna be only just
amazing good books.
No, like, no tote bags.
Maybe there can be jam there.
Like, jelly? For
Yeah. You-- I mean--
- I don't know. I don't know.
- [chuckling] I think
a bookstore could have
a little bit of jam.
[both laughing]
I know how to make it,
um, for you, to the store.
Just jam and books.
The jam is for the idiots.
The people not quite
elevated enough
to understand our books.
- [chuckling] Yeah, yeah.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jam's a good second option.
[Mallory] Yeah.
[sighs deeply]
Um
I had sex with Chloe.
[softly] Just
Hmm. [swallows]
Cool.
Congrats.
Well,
I should probably get home,
so I can pretend like
I went to school.
[gentle, melancholy music playing]
[toilet flushing]
I think you owe me an apology.
For what?
For saying I don't belong at meetings.
It's not good to hang out with losers
in a church basement
unless you have to.
That's all I'm saying.
I'm sorry, alright?
The meetings help with, um
[clicks tongue]
lots of stuff.
Like what?
Like, how I'm not
a trustworthy person.
Who told you that?
Your parents tell you that?
[sniffles]
[chair scraping]
Know why I lost
this guy last night?
'Cause I was drinking.
Oh yeah, this is gin.
Zero days sober.
And I can't even
admit that in a meeting.
How's that for trustworthy?
[brooding music playing]
What?
I could be your sponsor.
[chuckling]
Get the fuck out of here.
[Sonny] Did you see that bird?
[Mallory] What?
[Sonny]
Sorry, I think I'm still high.
[engine idling]
I'm sorry if I was, if I was weird.
It's chill.
And I'm glad that
you're going home.
Well, I'm not really.
I mean, I'm not going home, I'm just--
I'm just grabbing food and stuff,
and then
Vogel's gonna pick me up later
before, you know,
before she comes back.
Um
I gotta go.
Okay.
[gravel crunching]
[mysterious music playing]
[Ellen 1] I feel like I've just been
really forgetful lately.
Maybe it's because I haven't had
a break in a couple of weeks.
Today I drove off with my coffee
on top of the car.
Maybe I should look
into fish oil supplements.
[melancholy music playing]
Yesterday was my birthday,
and I celebrated by going
to bed at 8:30 p.m.
[Sonny] [singing]
It's your birthday ♪
[Ellen 1]
Sonny was very sweet.
He put up decorations
and made me a cake.
School's about to start again
and Sonny wants these shoes.
I feel like there's so many things
I'll never understand
about the way
he sees the world.
What do these shoes
look like to him?
[music fades out]
[grunting, sniffles]
[mysterious music playing]
It's been almost a year
since Tucker broke out of the fence
and ran away.
But Sonny said today
that he's still hoping
that somehow
Tucker will come back.
[mysterious, melancholy music playing]
♪
He's so optimistic
about everything.
I wasn't that way
when I was his age.
But it does make him
really vulnerable to the world.
♪
Dad died today.
I went to pick up Dad's ashes.
Tracy got there first.
I was afraid
she'd come back.
Tracy got there first.
Tracy got there first.
Tracy?
- [mysterious music playing]
- [water running]
- [line ringing]
- Come on!
- [Sharla] [on phone] Yeah?
- Hey, uh, the name, Tracy,
uh, the-the-the car, the plates,
what was the name?
[Sharla] Tracy Marks. Why?
You got something?
Listen to
the last page
of my mom's journal, okay?
"Someone broke into the house.
"I told the police I thought
it was probably just kids,
"but I think it was Tracy.
"So sad.
She obviously was closer
to our dad when he died"
Blah, blah, blah.
"And she was a mess
at his funeral.
She's been erratic
and scary ever since."
[Sharla] Holy shit.
What are you saying?
[dramatic music playing]
My mom has a sister!
[mysterious, melancholy music playing]
♪
[music fades out]
[voice] Sew faster.
[fanfare playing]