Poker Face (2023) s02e02 Episode Script

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[DRAMATIC, MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[VEHICLE APPROACHING]
♪
[LOCK CLICKS]
[UNDERTAKER'S WIFE] Well,
we're taking a big risk here,
so just tell us what you want.
Alright, honey. Three hundred each.
Be at the gazebo at 6:00.
[UNDERTAKER] Three hundred?
I thought brains went for five!
We have to build up a
rapport with the new broker.
I think you've built enough rapport.
[UNDERTAKER'S WIFE] I don't
know what you're talking about.
It's just business. I swear to you.
You think I'm a fool!
We should have gotten
800 for those wrists.
You're holding out on me.
[UNDERTAKER'S WIFE] To hell with it.
I am keeping the money, and
I'm sleeping with him too.
You home-wrecking harpy!
[UNDERTAKER'S WIFE] No!
If it weren't for me,
this place would've
rotted a long time ago,
you weak, bloodless,
shriveled little worm!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
- [FIREPLACE POKER THUDS]
- [URN SHATTERS]
[GASPS]
♪
[DIRECTOR] Are we inside minimum?
[CREW MEMBER] Yeah. I
think he overshot the mark.
We're out. He's inside minimum, right?
[DIRECTOR] Okay. Alright,
we'll do it again.
Let's cut.
Reset.
[CREW CHATTERING]
Coming in.
[CREW MEMBER 1] Let's
reset the rug, please.
[ASSISTANT] [ON RADIO] Copy
that, set deck coming in.
[CREW MEMBER 2] Make way for the rug.
Oh.
There she goes.
Uh what's your story?
You with makeup, hair, wardrobe?
Oh, me? No, no.
I wish.
This is my husband's funeral home.
- [BOTH LAUGH]
- Do you need some help?
No, no, no. Don't touch that.
["WE'LL MEET AGAIN" BY
THE INK SPOTS PLAYING]
We'll meet again ♪
- [FRED WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]
- Don't know where ♪
Don't know when ♪
But I know ♪
- [WALKIE-TALKIE BEEPS]
- [ASSISTANT] Anybody got 20 on locations?
[ASSISTANTS GIGGLING]
[ASSISTANT 1] Why'd they
even set this in 1973 anyway?
[ASSISTANT 2] 'Cause, like,
iPhones and DNA and stuff
make it way too easy
to solve murders now.
Like, like, one drop of blood.
[CLAPS HANDS] Boom! There's your guy.
Excuse me.
This is a work area. It's off-limits.
- Go.
- Sorry, dude.
[SIGHS]
- [ELECTRICITY ZAPS]
- Ugh.
- [MUSIC DIES OUT]
- What the hell?
What the is going on?
[DIRECTOR] And we're back
up. Going right into a take!
- Roll sound, please!
- What happened to the lights?
It's a live set.
Sparks blew a breaker.
Shh, we're rolling.
Action.
The families will never know
because all they're getting are ashes.
[SCOFFS] Ashes.
- Shh.
- Everyone thinks they're ashes.
They're actually bone fragments
ground to the consistency of ashes.
Any respectable funeral
director would say "remains."
- [DIRECTOR] Cut!
- Please be quiet.
- Greta?
- Resetting!
Great job.
Fred.
Oh, my God. They've
destroyed the place.
[STAMMERS]
Honey, they're professionals.
They're gonna leave it
exactly the way it came.
Dan Locos told me.
Fuck is Dan Locos?
Dan, the locations manager.
Hat and mullet?
Yeah, that's what they all call him.
Like a nickname.
They have names for everything.
A whole secret language.
The bathroom is the "honey wagon"
and snacks are "crafty."
I-I-I don't care.
Just keep them out of my workshop.
And speaking of which,
what-what are you doing anyway?
You're supposed to be
finishing the makeup job.
Honey, I will.
Tomorrow morning, the
Hoppenstammers will walk
through that door to grieve
their beloved grandmother.
Real people dealing with real death.
That's what our lives
are about now, Greta,
not this fantasy land.
Yeah.
We've already rescheduled
the Hoppenstammers once
because you talked me into
this ridiculous filming.
And the money from it is gonna
get us through the month.
And I needed
What?
What do you need, Greta?
I don't know.
Something alive.
[GLASS SHATTERS]
Hey!
What happened to the lights?
[DAN LOCOS] It was just a breaker.
I'm sorry, and I'll be sure
to keep the PAs out of the basement.
Oh, yes, and the
peons in the basement.
A-And look behind you.
You're destroying my father's peonies
and trampling my
grandmother's lavender.
And desecrating my
great aunt's azaleas.
[DAN] Fred, it'll all be
better than new when we leave.
I told you, you won't
even know we were here.
Oh, my God. The Hoppenstammers.
We'll replant those too.
The hell is this? We
didn't talk about a party.
Mrs. Hoppenstammer.
Mr. Hoppenstammer.
Mr. Hoppenstammer.
Ms. Hoppenstammer.
Ms. Hoppenstammer.
Fred, what the hell is going on here?
Well, we had to
reschedule for tomorrow.
Uh, Greta was supposed to call you?
Nobody called us.
Oh, shit.
Oh. Shit.
For three generations,
my family has kept
this place a sanctuary
to the sanctity of
life's final passage.
This is not a job
not a business.
This is a temple
to the dignity of death.
And you and I are its caretakers.
So, "Oh, shit" indeed.
I want
a divorce.
What?
One of the makeup girls
from the shoot said
she can set me up with work in Miami.
Local stuff.
Small ads.
My cosmetology license
can transfer over.
- Miami?
- I don't want to hurt you.
I just wanna take my half and go.
Your half?
I know, you probably can't
afford to buy me out.
I've spoken to the realtor
whose aunt we did last month,
and he's already found
us a really good offer.
Let's have a baby.
[STAMMERS] A baby would
bring life into this place.
That's what you want.
A-And he would grow
up to be our child.
And he would take over
this place when I die,
a fourth generation
keeping the fire burning
No!
I am not gonna trap
a baby too in this,
this depressing, haunted shithole!
You think I trapped you?
I don't know.
[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
I mean, when we got
married, I was so young.
So, yeah, I, I feel trapped.
But I think you're trapped here too.
Mostly maybe with all these ghosts.
You should get out.
- Out?
- Yeah.
I don't understand out.
There is no out.
Well, there is for me.
What about "Sleep Walk"?
Fred, I hate "Sleep Walk".
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
You home-wrecking harpy!
No! If it weren't for me,
this place would've
rotted a long time ago.
No thanks to you,
you weak, bloodless,
shriveled little worm.
- [FIREPLACE POKER THUDS]
- [URN SHATTERS]
[DIRECTOR] Cut!
Alright, let's reset and go again.
♪
[UNDERTAKER] You home-wrecking harpy!
- [FIREPLACE POKER THUDS]
- [URN SHATTERS]
[DIRECTOR] Cut. Reset.
[UNDERTAKER] You home-wrecking harpy!
- [FIREPLACE POKER THUDS]
- [DIRECTOR] Cut.
[UNDERTAKER] You home-wrecking harpy!
- [URN SHATTERS]
- You home-wrecking harpy!
♪
[DIRECTOR] And cut.
[DAN] That should do it.
We'll clean up the rest
of the blood spatter
in the morning.
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[FRED FINCH] Greta,
where have you been?
Hi.
Out with friends.
[GRETA LAUGHS]
Baby, I'm-I'm sorry. I overreacted.
C-Can we just talk about this?
No. [LAUGHS]
No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No.
Nooo
[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
How long will this take?
When will you be out of my home?
Tomorrow morning? 7:00 a.m.?
They'll strike the set dressing
and scrub the place, so don't worry.
You'll be able to eat off the floors
if that's your thing.
[TEXT WHOOSHES]
[TEXT MESSAGE CHIMES]
[WATER RUNNING]
[GRETA] [SINGING] Ring my bell ♪
Ring my bell ♪
Ring my bell ♪
Ring my bell ♪
Ring my bell ♪
- [OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
- Ring my bell ♪
My bell, ring ♪
Ring my bell ♪
[GRETA SINGING]
[GRETA CONTINUES SINGING]
You can ring my bell ♪
There you are.
♪
[FIREPLACE POKER THUDS]
- [BLOOD SPLATS]
- [BODY THUDS]
♪
[METAL CLANGING]
[DEVICE BEEPING]
[TOOTHBRUSH CLATTERS]
[MACHINE WHIRRING]
♪
["SLEEP WALK" BY
SANTO & JOHNNY PLAYING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
♪
[WHIRS]
[CAR ENGINE STARTS]
[SIGHS]
♪
[SONG ENDS]
[GENTLE, UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
So, yeah, anyway, I'm, uh,
I'm pretty sure I
about cracked the code.
I mean, there was a while
there where I really
I just couldn't get a moment's peace.
You know, uh, hayride,
lighthouse, what have you.
But the last three months, well,
not a peep from Beatrix Hasp,
not a peep from the Five Families.
Mm-hm.
Feelin' pretty good.
Feelin' pretty good.
Oh, no big huge deal,
but I even quit smoking
and that was kind of my whole scene.
Yeah, I switched to vaping.
Techno Cotton Candy.
It's, uh, delicious.
Uh, you shouldn't know that, uh.
Anyway, no one really
knows if it's healthier.
But, hey, vice is spice of life.
What else are we doing on
this great trip to nowhere?
No one knows.
We do know how it ends at the end.
It ends the same for
each of us, I guess.
Uh, buy the ticket.
Take the ride, right?
Who knows? Might even
run for sheriff of Aspen.
I see my Hunter. S Thompson references
are lost on you, and that's a shame.
That's why we need to keep
books in Florida libraries.
It's very important.
Mai Tai on the beach, huh?
Gosh, kids, you guys are great, uh.
And that's It's dead.
And, you see, that's the one
downside with these things
is, uh, they run on batteries.
Yo, hey, with cigarettes,
you're always looking
for a lighter, right?
Okay, guess I'm off
on a, a battery run.
Pleasure doing business
and, uh, great work on the moat.
[SIGHS]
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[CLEARS THROAT]
Uh, uh, okay.
Uh, hi.
Uh, so, uh, what's the why?
Hey, uh, sorry for the chase.
What year is this, this car?
This is She's a beauty.
Oh, thanks. Yeah, it's, uh
This right here is a, uh,
1969 Plymouth Barracuda.
Limited edition, original engine,
uh, windshield wipers
that just won't start,
but, hey, that's why I got this rag.
I'm so sorry if I spooked you.
Let me just get to business here.
See, I rent these classics
for, like, movies.
They call them picture cars.
I see. And you're sure
you're not affiliated with the mob?
Nah. Union 385, Florida
Teamster Branch.
I have seen "Hoffa."
Yes. Very cool.
Okay. Got it, alright.
- We're making a new movie.
- Yes.
It's set in '73.
Does it pay cash?
[LIGHT ACOUSTIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
And I will pay you the
other half at wrap.
Wow, uh, which is, uh, when-ish?
Uh, six-ish.
I'm gonna put this CB
radio in with Transpo
so they can communicate with
the driver on set, cool?
It's actually, uh
- [TOMMY SULLIVAN] Check it out.
- super cool.
Uh, I'm gonna be like
Linda Manz, right?
Uh, "Hey, this is gorgeous.
"Uh, kill all hippies.
Subvert normality. Over."
Wow. Nothing? It's a, it's
a Dennis Hopper classic.
You really should check it out.
- Love that guy.
- You do?
Oh, it seems like
you're not that familiar
with his work actually.
Call sheets. You need a call sheet?
Oh, sure.
Looks like a murder
happened around here.
Good.
[ROCK] Corpse has COVID? No, great.
Copy that, corpse has COVID.
- Hey, do you have COVID?
- Uh, me?
Uh, no, uh.
Look, I'll be honest with you,
I haven't tested much recently.
Great. Wanna be a corpse? Pays cash.
- Sure. Cash, I like. Thanks.
- Okay, let's go.
[UNDERTAKER'S WIFE] It's just
business, I swear to you.
[UNDERTAKER] You think I'm a fool!
The wrists.
We should have gotten
800 for those wrists!
You've been holding out on me.
[UNDERTAKER'S WIFE]
Oh, to hell with it.
I am taking the money, and
I'm sleeping with him too.
You home-wrecking harpy!
No! If it weren't for me,
this place would've
rotted a long time ago,
you weak, bloodless,
shriveled little worm!
- [FIREPLACE POKER THUDS]
- [BLOOD SPLATS]
[DIRECTOR] Cut, cut,
cut. Let's go again.
Wait. Again?
Quiet from the corpse, please.
[CREW CHATTERING]
Alright, everyone, sit tight
while sparks works this out.
- No business like show business, huh?
- Tell me about it.
Back from lunch in 30,
people. Back in 30.
There's so much food,
they're gonna throw it away.
- Really?
- Oh, hey, corpse,
- you should come sit with us.
- Come, mm.
This guy? Wow.
[ALL LAUGHING]
I'm a corpse. So, what'd I miss?
So, anyway, it's not just eye
makeup like we're used to.
You use actual paint, not makeup.
I don't know these
people, these dead shells.
But when I start to work,
I imagine them alive
and happy with me.
Sometimes I even talk to them.
This is sounding creepy?
[GROUP LAUGHING]
Yeah, um, man, I get it. I get it.
Caring about someone,
even if they're gone
and, uh, wanna give them
a little bit of dignity,
even if they'll never know it.
I, uh, I get it.
[LAUGHS]
Yeah, but then
life among the dead,
what kind of life is that?
I-I get that too.
I actually went to cosmetology school
thinking I'd move to Miami
and work for a magazine or something,
like fashion shoots
or what you guys do.
But then my parents
got in a car accident,
and that's how I met Fred.
And then, switched
focus to mortuary stuff.
Wait, you mean your
parents are buried here?
No, they were cremated.
But, yeah, Fred directed the funeral.
I was devastated.
25 going on 18.
I'd never been on my own.
Just completely lost,
and Fred was gentle.
He really cared.
He was just what I
needed in that moment.
I didn't think I was picking a path.
But then you wake up
and it's too late for anything else.
Too late shit. Too late?
Girl, I know plenty of people in Miami
doing commercial stuff if
you ever need a hookup.
Really?
Okay, irregardless,
you two wanna get
blackout wasted tonight?
- [CHARLIE CALE] Uh
- We do a hell of a banger.
- Yes!
- [GROUP LAUGHING, CHATTERING]
Greta, can I speak to
you inside, please?
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
So, a banger, huh?
[FIRST AD] Back in five, people!
Points, points, points.
Wait, I
Ah.
Uh, bathroom?
Bathroom?
Thanks.
And what is all this, by the way?
Well, thank you for asking.
This day has been hell on me.
Here at Finch's, we are proud to offer
a guaranteed unbeatable variety
of keepsakes for your
family's remains.
Ah.
Fred Finch.
Oh, uh, Charlie.
Charlie Corpse.
[BOTH CHUCKLING]
Pretty cool. Pretty cool. Yeah, yeah.
So, wait, what does that mean?
I, uh Does that mean So, what?
You can put ashes in
any of this stuff?
Remains, not ashes. Remains.
We can infuse remains
into practically anything.
Bookends, fountain pen
ink, stained glass,
Christmas ornaments, shot glasses
cuff links, even fireworks.
Crazy. [LAUGHS]
There are constant breakthroughs
in crematory science.
So many ways to keep
your dearly departed
within arm's reach.
You like music?
Hm?
- Spice of life.
- Same.
- Be dead without it.
- Same. [CHUCKLES]
I installed a state-of-the-art
vinyl record press from
a supplier in Germany.
May I?
Learned rudimentary German as well.
- Wow.
- The buttons are in German.
- I see.
- You pick the song,
and we can press your loved ones
into vinyl records on site.
No other funeral home in
the Southeast can do that.
Huh, so these are
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Oh.
- Remains.
- Right, not ashes.
- No. No.
Crushed bone fragments
called "remains."
Greta, yeah.
She had mentioned that you were
into all this kind of
stuff, and I can see why.
I think it's, uh, it's cool.
I-I-It's cool, genuinely.
Very special place here.
Yes.
Well, a certain amount
of urgency on the pee-pee front.
- Oh. [LAUGHS]
- Yes.
- All yours.
- Ah, thanks.
[BRIGHT MUSIC PLAYING]
I don't wanna be pressed
into an ornament!
You don't wanna be an ornament!
No!
I don't, I don't wanna
become a, a record.
Greta, it is, it's, it's weird.
It's niche, but it's
also kind of cool.
Romantic.
He's already had the molds made
for our special songs.
It's like I'm already dead.
Red flags.
[GRETA FINCH] I didn't
even get to pick mine.
You think I'd pick Santo
& Johnny's "Sleep Walk"?
And you can't dance to that song.
"Ring My Bell," I told him.
Fifteen years of marriage,
he's never taken me dancing.
And never rung my bell.
- [GROUP LAUGHING]
- Shit.
- Harsh.
- [GRETA] "Sleep Walk."
I hate the slide guitar.
Wh-What am I, Hawaiian?
- No, no, no.
- Uh, ixnay on this
I mean, that, that's appropriation.
[CHARLIE] You don't need
to go here. Trust me.
- I
- Google it. Google it.
Greta, before we all Google,
maybe it's time for a
little, uh, hydration, huh?
Easy on the moonshine.
[ACOUSTIC GUITAR MUSIC PLAYING]
- No.
- What, this?
Gimme, gimme, gimme.
Put your, um, number into my phone.
Oh.
Oh, the password's, um, it's 1212.
After my old Chihuahua's birthday.
Pouring one out for
the dead Chihuahua.
Think I'm in here.
Call me anytime.
- She's good.
- Yeah, yes.
I'm learning. I'm learning tricks.
["RING MY BELL" BY
ANITA WARD PLAYING]
- Ring my bell ♪
- [ENGINE RUMBLING]
- You can ring my bell ♪
- [GRETA] Shh, turn it off, turn it off.
- Shh, shh.
- Oh.
[WHISPERS] He's inside. [LAUGHS]
- [OWL HOOTING]
- Uh.
You sure you don't want to come in?
Me? No, I live in this car.
Hey Miami.
Miami, alright.
Miami my hammy!
Miami my hammy.
- We're gonna go, right?
- What?
[GRETA] Don't bullshit me
because I'm gonna go pack.
No, I don't bullshit. Seriously.
- Okay, it's Greta and Charlie.
- It's a big rule. Yeah.
We'll go [STAMMERS] wherever anywhere.
- Yeah, any
- But, but,
but here tomorrow, okay?
Listen, you still wanna
go tomorrow morning,
I'll be here, I'll pick
you up, kiddo. Okay?
- Yeah? [LAUGHS]
- Alright, buddy.
Alright. Alright.
- Good night. Good night.
- Nighty-night.
Shh! Shh!
Okay.
[GRETA] Good night. [LAUGHING]
[OWL HOOTS]
Okay, Miami.
[WALKIE-TALKIE BEEPS]
[ASSISTANT] [ON WALKIE]
Locations is ready
to lock up now.
Trucks are loaded.
See you at the stage.
Oh.
Hey, gorgeous. This is CB.
Are you copy?
Kill all hippies. Subvert normality.
Over. Good morning.
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[DOOR CREAKS]
Greta?
Yo Greta! Oh, hi.
Uh, have you seen Greta?
- Who?
- Uh, yeah, the wife.
She lives here, um. We had this plan.
We're gonna go to Miami today, uh.
Uh, we were pretty wasted, so
- Busy, babe.
- Oh.
Greta, we ride at dawn!
Ooh.
Ah.
Where's, uh, Greta?
She's gone.
She told me she was gonna leave me.
This is the last thing
she texted me last night.
I woke up this morning,
she was gone, without a trace.
[CHARLIE] Ay.
Just like that, after 20 years.
Oh.
She must have left with the film crew.
Yeah.
I-I'm so sorry.
[CHARLIE SIGHS]
Hmm.
[DOOR CLICKS SHUT]
["SLEEP WALK" BY
SANTO & JOHNNY PLAYING]
[SIGHS] Okay. Guess that's it.
Hawaiian appropriation. Google it.
♪
[SONG FADES OUT]
[ELECTRIC GUITAR MUSIC PLAYING]
[BIKER] I remember the night we met.
Randy Savage had just died,
and we were just pounding shots
for the Macho Man.
Oh, gosh. Excuse me. It's
a beautiful story. I
[FRED] Did she have, uh, a pacemaker
or an implant with a battery?
It's a fire safety issue.
A-Anything with a battery will explode
in the crematorium furnace.
- Babe?
- No.
Not that we know of.
[FRED] Can you sign
here to attest to that?
My wife, Greta, was supposed
to go over all this with you.
Hi, uh, Mrs. H, uh, and Mr. H.
Hi, I-I-I, I did wanna say
that your mother-in-law seemed
like an incredible woman
and my condolences.
Uh, and Fred, hi.
Uh, I just wanted to, uh,
double-check on Greta.
I'm kind of in the middle of
shepherding a grieving family
through their final moments
with a loved one right now.
Uh, your sweet wife
Greta. Is she okay?
It's a crazy thing. She's,
she's disappeared, and,
uh, so I just wanted
- to double-check
- No, no, no.
She didn't disappear.
Well, I, I
She's gone and you
don't know where she is
and, well, I don't know where she is.
The poor girl. Fred, can we help?
I can hog up a posse.
[CROWD CHATTERING]
[FRED] Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No need to hog up.
Excuse me, Mrs. Hoppenstammer.
This is Banshee's moment.
I'm so very, very, very
sorry for the intrusion.
Yes, it is. And thanks for the hog up.
I'm, uh, sorry. She was incredible.
Hi, Fred. I, I did.
I just was wondering
is there anything that
may have indicated
that Greta was, uh,
gonna take off like this?
No, no. Greta decided to
leave with the film crew.
Alright?
She said she wanted to
leave with the film crew
and she did.
True. Huh.
Oh.
Oh, also, and, um, I
this is incidental.
I'm just curious, you had mentioned
that you press your
own vinyl in-house, uh.
About how long does that take?
Come back when you have a body,
and I'd be happy to discuss
all of our services.
Now, kindly leave.
Hm.
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
A call sheet.
A-ha.
[CREW CHATTERING]
She texted me late last
night, like, 50 times.
"Hey." "Hay," well, spelled with an A.
"Hey, wassup?"
Uh, "Haaaaaaaay," with,
like, a ton of As.
You get the picture. But, yeah,
this morning I didn't
get any texts back.
Huh, weird.
Hey, uh
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
do you know what
this movie is about?
No idea.
Right.
Thought you said it
was in set in 1973.
[TOMMY] I think it's
a multiverse thing.
- Oh.
- Anyway, I'll ask around
and see if anyone's
seen Greta, you know?
Set deck was here at 7:00 a.m.
It's worth asking them
if they saw her leave.
Oh, okay. Um, set deck. Paige.
- Wild night.
- [PAIGE WHISTLES]
Hey, um, so you, uh,
were you at the funeral
home this morning?
Yeah, uh, 7:00 a.m. call.
Set deck had to go clean
up the murder scene.
Right, right. And did you see Greta?
No, but that creepy funeral guy
was kind of hovering the whole time,
making sure we got everything.
To be fair, we did
leave it kind of grisly
after last night's shoot.
You know, fake blood splattered
everywhere, the usu'.
How do you know that
that blood was fake?
Babygirl, it's a movie.
Oh, right, right.
Yeah, makes sense. Oh,
uh, pardon. Uh, hi.
Uh, do you happen to know
what this movie is about?
Uh, it's not my department,
but I think I heard someone
say it's about vanity.
Oh, cool. Uh, now I get it.
Yes, yes, of course. Hi.
No one's seen Greta all day.
I tried calling her, but all
I got was a voice message.
You know, her husband told me
that she left with the film crew,
and I could tell he
was telling the truth.
- How?
- Well, 'cause things
You know, it's a long story, anyway.
You seem worried. You think something
might have happened to Greta?
The record thing, well, it's tenuous.
Maybe I should go back
to that death house
and do a little snooping.
Our lunch break is in 20 minutes.
I'm gonna come with you.
Wow. You're a good egg, Tommy.
[MOTORCYCLES RUMBLING]
What are we snooping for, though?
It's a good question.
I guess anything amiss, out of place.
Strange, weird. I-I don't know.
I-I think I'm hoping
I'll know it when I see it.
Hoppenstammers ho!
The highway screams
with high-octane dreams!
Mama Banshee's gonna ride with us.
Come on, Mama.
Let's ride!
[MOTORCYCLE ENGINES ROARING]
Let's snoop.
[WHISPERS] Shh, okay.
Come on, come on.
We need a plan.
Shh, you go in there.
I'll go down the stairs.
♪
[WHISPERING] Tommy? Tommy?
[FLOORBOARD CREAKING]
[FLOORBOARD CREAKING]
Hello?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[SIGHS]
Hot.
[ZAPS]
- Ah!
- [BODY THUDS]
What are you doing in here?
Uh, hi.
I, uh,
I'm just here looking
for my, my friend, Greta.
[FRED] Are you kidding me?
I told you she left
with the film crew.
I don't know where they took her.
Yeah, you did tell me that.
And, uh, it's true,
but it's also true
that, uh, Mama Banshee,
well, she rides with
the, uh, Hoppenstammers.
- What?
- I'm just thinking.
Well, if it's true that Greta
left with the film crew,
uh, the question remains, Fred,
what condition did she
leave with them in?
Remains, see? The question remains.
Added to which, uh,
she hasn't been picking up
her phone for some reason.
And well, gosh, I mean, more
things just keep adding up.
You know, the, um,
the death song thing.
The, uh I saw you listening
to that record this morning.
The one with the song that
you picked out for her
even though she hated it, uh
[SNAPS FINGERS] "Sleep Walk."
Yeah. And now,
well, the craziest thing.
Now there's this, uh, speck of
- What's that look like to you?
- [FRED] You're insane.
What do you think happened
in here yesterday?
That's movie blood.
They missed a spot.
They missed a spot. Yeah.
Yesterday.
You see, yesterday,
well, I was lying in
this casket all day,
uh, pretending to be dead.
As far as vocations go, intolerable.
I had nothing to do
but, uh, stare up at
that ceiling all day
watching over and over that cheesy,
and, frankly,
misogynistic murder scene.
And each time, well, you see,
a bunch of that movie blood,
it would splatter on
that wall over there.
And every time, a few
specks would land on that
white silk cloth situation
covering the whole ceiling.
But the people that do the,
uh, the lights and so forth,
well, they told me that they,
they said that they ramped
out after the filming.
So, that means that I guess
they would've taken the
white silk with them.
Hmm, I guess that means that, uh,
whatever this little spot is here,
i-it must have gotten here
after the shoot, you see?
Uh, overnight?
I think that, uh, Greta
finally decided she'd, uh, had enough
of being trapped inside of
this embalmed death house,
and you didn't like that, Fred.
And she, well [CHUCKLES]
Hey, this movie shoot gave you
the perfect cover to stop her.
To keep her here
forever, uh, trapped inside of a song
that you got to choose.
Am I getting warmer?
But what you didn't count on, I guess,
is, uh, somebody giving
a damn about her.
Now look me in the eye,
you manipulative creep,
and, uh, tell me that
you didn't kill her.
[TOMMY] Greta just texted me.
She's fine.
Huh?
Wait, wait, wait. What?
Yeah, I guess she must
have fallen asleep on the,
on the Greyhound to
Miami, but she made it.
It's all good. See?
Oh, geez.
Uh, oh, man. I
Oh, oh, oh, Fred.
Ah, shit, I'm sorry.
Well, my lunch break's up.
Catch you later.
Alright, Tommy. Thanks, man.
Huh, geez.
Aw.
[FRED SOBBING]
Fred, Fred, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
No, really please, man. I'm sorry.
She's gone and it's,
it's all my fault.
I am a creep.
You're not a creep.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Look, people grow apart.
They want different things.
Greta, she wanted to
move to Miami. Okay?
And you? You, you love it here.
This embalmed death house?
Alright, I'm sorry I said that.
Really. I
Believe me, if you knew the wreck
that was my life, I
My whole family,
everyone I ever cared
about has passed on.
They're all right here with me.
Yeah. And it's, uh, it's beautiful.
Like, you can feel their presence.
My Uncle Jeffrey, he's
right there in that lamp.
Huh.
What do you mean, uh, "in" the lamp?
His remains,
they're, they're in the lamp.
- Yeah.
- Isn't that beautiful?
A-And my cousin Shirley's
over there in the music box.
Hey, Shirley.
[FRED] Great Uncle Rick
is in the stained glass
and Grandma Bee, well,
she's actually in the
grandfather clock.
And that's my dad
right there in, in the mug.
[SNORTS]
I s
The rest of his remains
we mixed with oil paints.
That's him.
I like to sit here and have
coffee with him in the morning.
Greta never really understood.
How could she?
I, uh,
should probably, uh,
hit the head and then the road,
belly full of tea.
Thanks, Dad.
- [FRED GRUNTS]
- Fred.
[TOILET FLUSHES]
Sorry, Aunt Edna.
["RING MY BELL" PLAYING]
Holy shit.
Ah.
Dog birthday. Dog birthday.
Huh.
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
2022?
Oh!
[MUFFLED SCREAM]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[HANDS THUMPING]
Fred?
Hey! Hello?
What the fuck is happening?
[HANDS THUMPING]
Please let me out of here!
Please, please!
No, no, no, no, no!
Fred, Fred, Fred, Fred!
- [MUFFLED SHOUTING]
- ["SLEEP WALK" PLAYING]
Listen, if you let me out of here,
I swear to God I won't
say anything. Okay?
I swear. I swear. I'm really sorry.
Okay? I promise.
Just please, please,
let me out of here!
Please! Please!
Fred!
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[FRED] With your clever guessing,
you're getting warmer.
Much, much warmer.
Fred, Fred, please listen
to me. Okay? Listen to me.
- Listen.
- You were the one
who talked her into
leaving in the first place.
So, in a way, it's perfect justice.
- [WOOD THUDS]
- [CHARLIE] No, no, no, no!
- [HANDS THUMPING]
- [MUFFLED SHOUTING]
- Fred! Fred!
- [MACHINE WHIRRING]
Fred!
Fred, let me out!
Fred! Fred! Fred! Fred!
[COFFIN CLATTERS]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[GASPING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[CLANGING]
- No!
- [EXPLOSION BOOMS]
[BODY THUDS]
- [GLASS SHATTERING]
- Ah, shit! Ah!
Come on, come on. Come on!
Let's go! Come on!
- [FRED GASPING]
- Come on.
Oh, look, look.
[CHARLIE] Fred, we gotta go.
Come on, come on!
- [CLATTERING]
- [CHARLIE SHOUTING]
[DRAMATIC, HAUNTING MUSIC PLAYING]
[FRED GASPING]
Fred! Fred!
Ah, fuck!
Ah!
[CHARLIE GASPING]
Shit!
[FLAMES ROARING]
["SLEEP WALK" PLAYING]
[FLAMES ROARING]
[RUMBLING]
- [SIGHS]
- [SONG ENDS]
Fuck me!
Fuck.
[PANTING]
Ah, fuck.
If I've ever deserved one.
You know better than
that, Charlie Cale.
Those things'll kill ya.
Beatrix Hasp, huh?
We got some unfinished business, pal.
Drive!
[ENGINE RUMBLING]
[FIREWORKS WHISTLING, BURSTING]
["NIGHT LIFE" BY RAY PRICE PLAYING]
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You will find me hanging 'round ♪
Oh, the night life
ain't no good life ♪
But it's my life ♪
Many people just like me ♪
Dreaming of old used-to-be ♪
Oh, the night life
ain't no good life ♪
But it's my life ♪
Well, listen to the
blues they're playin' ♪