Ponies (2026) s01e05 Episode Script

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Previously, on "ponies"
Good morning. I am eevi, your nanny.
I said that I was your boyfriend.
I need an "I" pill.
I'm not gonna give you a
pill so you can kill yourself.
How dangerous is he, andrei?
It's a sensitive undercover operation
to infiltrate a high level k.G.B. Agent.
Of course he's dangerous.
You, hey. Come on, lili.
Okay.
Alan was busy having sex with Lily.
Shep's wife?
You're gonna contact caterpillar,
and get the location of this facility.
Yes, that's our deal.
- Your husband was a mole.
- No, you're gonna tell me.
Look
When were you planning on
telling me that Vera is dead?
Wait, caterpillar's never met Vera.
Caterpillar will see this woman up close.
So, unless any of you have
another elderly Russian woman
- you'd trust with your life
- Dane, I do.
All right. I think she's okay.
Okay? Just okay?
No. Very good. Very good.
And and also, you know, they're
they're never actually gonna
ask you these questions.
All you're gonna do is you're just gonna
you're gonna sit on a bench
and a man's gonna come,
he's gonna give you a package,
you're gonna take the
package, bring it back to us,
and that's it, that's the whole thing.
Well, unless of course you
no, but that really is the whole thing.
- That's it.
- Don't worry, mishka,
I'm not afraid of a little danger.
- Okay.
- Do you know what's dangerous?
Trading your mother's
wedding ring to an officer
in the waffen sturm brigade
for three pieces of bread.
How did I not know that story?
When was I going to tell you that story?
While I was dropping you
off at horseback riding camp?
It wasn't like, a fancy one, you know?
We we like, cleaned the stalls,
did chores around the barn.
I still think I should be the
one to take her to the meet.
- I am the one that she knows.
- No.
We need you with vasiliev tonight,
- at the poker game.
- Yeah.
And, this is really my responsibility,
you know, since Vera died on my watch.
That wasn't my fault.
She fell, there wasn't anything I could do.
Well, the point I'm trying to make is that
I can I can handle this.
Seriously, you can trust me.
Okay.
Young man, I have a request.
I need a nap.
And frankly, I could use a shower.
- Coffee candy?
- Yes!
- Yeah!
- Thanks, baba.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
This is a tiny camera.
You squeeze the pack
here to engage the shutter.
- Okay.
- So, at the poker game tonight,
take pictures of everyone at the table.
Make sure their faces
are clearly visible, okay?
We've never gotten this close
to high level k.G.B. Before.
I wanna know who's there,
I wanna know who's talking
to whom, who's giving
orders, and who's answering.
Yes, okay.
Find out andrei's position
in the pecking order.
Yep.
Okay.
Twila can manage things
with your grandmother tonight.
You said it yourself.
What we need from
many a is very simple.
Look. Twila, okay, she
can't speak Russian.
- Granted.
- And,
she's never been in the field by herself.
And she doesn't have the best history.
It's just if something goes wrong
then I don't know
that she has the capacity
to be able to deal with that.
If something goes wrong,
then the best person to have
on the ground is someone
who's not emotionally invested.
- I know.
- Someone who can be fearless,
which is her, not you.
If you wanna take a
nap, that side's clean,
'cause I only sleep on this side.
This side was Chris' side.
Yeah.
Maybe someday you'll
want to stretch out,
fill up the whole space.
Well, not I I don't need it.
It's a big bed.
Maybe not need, but
someday you'll want to.
Maybe. Okay, I gotta get back to work.
I'll be back tonight, we
can get ready together.
And listen, I just
It's not too late, if you
wanna change your mind.
What is the worst that can happen?
I die?
So what?
And what's the best that can happen?
I help you turn this bad
year into a good year.
Or maybe a medium year?
I remember that.
Those little slips of paper, under a pillow,
when we were little on new year's Eve?
Good year, medium year, bad year.
- It's a Russian tradition.
- Why did we stop doing that?
Your father made me stop.
His fault. He always picked a bad year.
He hated it!
"How could any year away
from the Nazis be bad?"
"How could any year in america be bad?"
No, if anyone should be worried,
it should be me about you, being here.
- I'll be fine.
- You don't know that.
Funny they never made
you take a typing course.
I mean, watching you type
reminds me of my son
playing his little piano.
- You have a son?
- Anyway,
I need to talk to you about tonight.
You are lucky enough to
accompany me to the ballet.
Lili and I were supposed
to take my counterpart
at the British embassy, but
She's come down with something
again, and I don't fly solo.
I can't tonight.
I'm not really a ballet person.
Okay, listen, sweetie.
This is a part of your job.
Try to be grateful, all right?
You're being paid to spend the evening
at the bolshoi with diplomats.
Bet you never dreamed of that
as a little girl growing up in
- Wherever.
- Indiana.
Yeah, okay, 7:30. Meet me in the garage.
Sir?
You you can't leave
lili home alone tonight.
Yeah? Why?
Why?
Well
Be because she's having an affair.
I'm I'm serious.
- You
- she's cheating on you.
Wait, what?
I mean, you didn't see the signs?
Maybe she's been distant lately.
And dressing up a little
nicer for no particular reason.
Does everyone know?
No! No, no.
Of course not, no. I'm I mean, you
I'm just, you know, I'm
I'm just a little more astute
than most people in the office.
But I'm not gonna tell anyone.
Yeah, well, what would
you do if you were, like
- as a
- as a woman?
- Yeah, like, what would
- what would I want?
I'd want you to show up.
Yeah, but but how?
Remember why you fell
in love with her, and then
Show her that every single day.
Like tonight, you know, be her rock.
You know, she's sick, you're
there with chicken soup.
Her knight in shining armor.
- Thank you.
- Of course.
And listen, I'm I am
sorry about the the ballet.
I'll get over it. Yeah.
These shitty colors are not for me.
What do you mean, shitty?
- They're it's subtle.
- The color of shit.
Well, yeah, you know, Vera's
options were kinda limited.
She didn't exactly get
to shop at casual corner.
No wonder she killed herself.
- She didn't kill herself.
- It was an accident.
Doesn't mean she didn't pray for it.
My friend valorie's reading that book.
- You like it?
- It's a gift for someone.
- So
- Who?
Just this man I'm
seeing. I'm not seeing him.
I just see him sometimes, for work.
- Is this andrei?
- No.
No, no, no. This is another man.
Now I know why you stayed in Russia.
No, it's honestly not like that.
Is he nice to look at?
Baba! Chris just died.
If you went grocery
shopping with this man,
and he wanted a coffee, would
he offer to buy you one as well?
Or would he just forget about
you and get one for himself.
Chris did that to me one time.
One time, you learn a lot.
Look, it's not like he never got me coffee.
- Forget about it.
- Yeah?
- Hey. You ready?
- Okay.
Okay. You're gonna be fine. I love you.
- Don't worry.
- Okay, okay.
- The hair looks, looks just
- no. I'm not fooled.
Please, please, please,
please, please be careful.
- You too.
- No, I'm talking to twila.
Obviously, I'm gonna be careful.
Okay.
"This book is sure to get pulses racing."
Every woman west of
the Mississippi has tried
her hand at taming
rock and roll super stud
al king,
but they all meet the
same fate, heartbreak.
How did you know, by the way?
Well, you told me you love those books.
No, I mean, my birthday.
When is your birthday?
- Tomorrow.
- I didn't know.
I didn't know. No, that was just a gift.
- Sorry.
- It's okay.
- It's okay.
- Is that is that what the
what the necklace is
for, for your birthday?
No.
This is where I keep the suicide pill.
Yeah.
- Anyways, this outfit Yes.
- It's looking great.
- Thank you.
- Where is he taking you?
He is taking me to a k.G.B. Poker game.
- A poker game?
- Yeah.
- A gambler game?
- Exactly.
Exactly.
So I should I should go.
'Cause I I I need
to meet him outside,
'cause I don't want him to come up.
And I told him that you were
away with your family, so
- okay.
- But
- Okay, should
- should I turn off
the lights so he doesn't
see any in the window?
Will will he even see it
- in the day?
- Let's not risk it.
Let me know how the book goes.
And happy birthday.
I was sorry about your husband.
I lost mine too, at about your age.
Really?
Sorry.
Yeah, but losing your
husband was not as bad for you
as it was for my granddaughter.
Is it that obvious?
When avram died, it was sad.
But there were greater losses in my life.
When I left Belarus,
I had to leave behind
my best friend in the world, that
we'd been friends
since we were little girls.
Sofia.
You know where she is now?
- Sofia?
- Yeah.
She probably got herself killed.
She was such a stupid girl.
I never laughed so
much as I did with her.
My point is that it's hard to be like be a,
and lose the love of your life.
But it's also hard to lose your husband
when your feelings for
him are not so simple.
You know it wasn't always
like that with Tom and I.
The beginning was exciting.
Talk about laughing? We
we never stopped laughing.
We had great
- Physical
- Sex?
Yeah. Yeah.
He said when I met him
how much he loved that I
wasn't like other women.
You know?
And then the second we got married,
all he wanted was for
me to be like other women.
- Other women?
- Yeah.
Yeah.
More traditional, you know?
Just felt like I was always
disappointing him for not being
this person that I never claimed I was.
You know? It's like
He never fully knew me.
I guess I never fully
knew him either, so
Why do you say that?
I, found out something
about him recently.
Something big, a
secret, that you know if
If be a found out, I
I don't think she'd wanna be my friend.
Does this have to do
with Chris, this secret?
Yeah, it does, yeah.
Tom is Is the reason they died.
- You want my advice?
- Please.
You're a good friend to be a.
If she needs to know
about this, you tell her.
If she doesn't
All right. Are you ready for this?
Yeah, yeah. Are you?
Hope so.
Fuck!
My god. They're fucking taking her.
My god. Fuck!
- Twila, what are you
- they arrested many a.
- What what happened?
- It was a setup.
I mean, these two
two k.G.B. Guys came in.
I I was watching her
the whole time, though.
- Fuck.
- Where where are we going?
- We're gonna go get her back.
- Okay.
They do not take our people.
- Let's go.
- Okay.
Eevi, this smells just delicious.
- Is this another family recipe?
- Yes, my mother's.
- Delightful.
- Careful, it's hot.
I can blow on it. Yeah, okay.
- It's a bit late.
- Yeah.
Evening. Sorry to interrupt.
Ray, the, Spanish ambassador
is waiting in the office.
Didn't forget, did you?
No. Honey, I have to go.
- What?
- This is about the hostages.
- Slugger?
- No.
Do everything your mom tells you to do.
- Ray?
- All right?
- Excuse me.
- I'm gonna get some more wine.
Bathroom.
Hey! What are you doing?
We need a car that can
actually fucking drive.
That's the ambassador's car.
It's a matter of international security.
Thank you, sergeant.
- Head to the known safe houses.
- Hey!
The bathroom is that way.
Sorry.
Guys?
I think they're following us, the k.G.B.
They are.
- Now they are not.
- Wow.
Their piece of shit cars
can never make those turns.
No, no, no. No.
Was it america?
Good.
Good, then you won't be afraid
when I tell you where
we're taking you next.
At lefortovo,
your new home will be
a cell the size of a coffin.
You'll eat once a day
a meal that contains
small pieces of glass.
You'll try to escape into dreams at night,
but we don't allow our prisoners to sleep.
You'll be paid regular visits by a man
who calls himself a doctor, but he isn't.
He'll inject you with a chemical
that will damage your nerves,
one by one, forever.
On the bright side, that means
you'll feel the beatings less.
Of course, a guard or
two may take pity on you
and rape you
Knowing that no other man alive
would ever fuck an old hag like you.
But you didn't understand any of that?
So now it'll be a nice surprise.
Help! It's be a, they've
taken my grandmother.
They've taken her to lefortovo.
There there's a
building across the street.
It it's it's square and
it's stone and it's really long.
It takes up, like, a whole block.
Tell Dane to fucking hurry, okay?
Broadcasting on an open channel.
Partners on the water,
remember to watch
where you are going, click, click, click.
Click, click, same as before.
Two more times, two more times more.
However you have to go right ahead.
Click, click, click, click.
Very good, sir. Let us
remember, click. Done.
Bea is in the holy Trinity
church in Lenin hills.
- Let's go there first.
- Wow. Wait, wait.
- How'd you get that?
- It's a code.
Obviously, yeah, but what
what's the code what is it?
It's a secret code.
Take a left up here.
How the fuck did this happen, ray?
How did anybody else
find out about this meet?
I don't know.
Bea, I don't I don't know what to tell ya.
I mean, we did everything
according to plan.
You know what, I don't
care. It doesn't matter.
It doesn't fucking matter.
All that matters is
getting my grandmother.
Yeah, I just wanted you to
know that I did everything I could
twila, just stop, okay?
It's not about you.
Okay.
Let's go.
Manya, come on. Now!
Come on, we gotta do it now! Come on.
Baba! My god!
- My god!
- Okay!
Thank god!
Alright, everyone hold on!
No, wait. We have to save him.
- No!
- The man in the Van!
He's he's caterpillar! He helped us.
- Mikhail!
- Okay, okay, okay.
Hey, hey, hey. Buddy? Look, look at me.
Look at me, you can
do it. Three, two, one.
Mikhail! No!
- We have to go back!
- No, we can't. We can't.
It's okay.
You can't leave him. He can't leave him.
I'm sorry, baba. It's okay.
It's okay. You're safe.
I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
That's not your fault.
It's okay. You'll be okay.
You owe me.
No, I'm sorry.
It's not safe for you to
stay in the Soviet union
after what just happened.
We have to fly you back to the states.
Yes, you will. After I go
to my village in Belarus.
It's a three day journey,
that's all I ask. Three days.
Three days with us having
to forge travel documents
Yes. Big problem.
I think you've done
this before, haven't you?
We may have.
- But if you get caught
- Yeah, if I get caught, what?
We won't be there to save you next time.
- You could die there.
- Yeah.
And maybe I'm going
to die soon anyway.
What is the worst case scenario?
Some k.G.B. Officer catches me in a lie,
puts me in a Soviet prison,
interrogates me, humiliates me?
And then I have to risk my
life jumping off a moving vehicle
so that I pull a muscle in my hip?
- You pulled a muscle?
- It's okay.
I took three aspirin.
I did not get to choose
when I left my home, or why.
Now I get to choose to go back there,
just to see it one more time.
And to see if anybody I
left behind there is still there.
- Like Sofia?
- Who?
Her best friend.
So, you will do this for me.
You know, I think this look suits you.
This look suits nobody.
I love this train station.
I feel like we're in doctor
Zhivago, or something.
That movie?
No Russian with self-respect
would enjoy that movie.
- Okay.
- It was so wrong.
Especially the station, the
hellos and the goodbyes.
Who says hello with a
little peck on the cheek?
When they've been separated for years?
British people.
Well, they should stick
to their own stories,
not put their repressive
nonsense onto us.
And look around you, look.
This is how Russians say goodbye.
My darling how am I
going to live without you?
I'll die without you.
No, you won't, you'll be
all right, you'll be all right.
- What?
- If by some chance,
I don't make it back to america
You're gonna be fine.
Probably, I'll be fine.
I'm very proud of you, mishka.
We'll see each other again.
Do svidaniya.
Hi.
Just in time for the picnic.
Ooh! Lucky me.
It wasn't easy to get that one out.
- It should work.
- Should work?
So
How was your night last night?
That bad?
I wish I could tell you.
Add it to our list of secrets.
I think he's just a regular person.
Yeah, but he's looking right at us.
Probably because
we're looking right at him.
Yeah, maybe he thinks we're on a date,
but here, hold my hand, that'll sell it.
Is he gone?
Yeah.
Hey! Hey, you got a second?
- Okay.
- I just wanted to tell you
I feel really badly about what happened.
I wish that there was
something I could've done
to stop it, but, yeah I just I hate that
you and many a had to
had to go through that.
Yeah.
Actually, I was just thinking
maybe we could have a
little hangout, you know?
Casual, normal night, you know?
I could hear about everything.
Honestly, I kinda just
wanna be on my own.
That okay?
Yeah. No problem, yeah.
Those little slips of paper,
under our pillow, when we
were little on new year's Eve?
Good year, medium year, bad year?
They don't have the American brands,
so I just got "wheetos."
I don't know what the translation is.
Hey. Hey, bud.
What do you say, can I have a go?
Yeah?
Alright.
That was a good one.
And another one.
Where did he get this?
I-I don't know.
What is that?
Hey, buddy. Hey, you're not in trouble.
But you have to tell me
where you found this.
It's okay, you can tell me.
What?
We have a mole. We
have a fucking mole.
Yeah.