The Curse (2022) s02e04 Episode Script

It was one of the hottest days of
the summer when The Sun burnt us.
We hadn't realised
but that reporter had been following
us for a while.
Snapping pictures,
watching our every move.
They named and shamed us, all of us.
They might as well have printed
a target
and stuck it right on our backs.
And through all of this,
that was the first time
I felt true fear.
The first time I really knew in
my bones.
We are completely fucked.
You're out of touch, I'm out of time
But I'm out of my head when you're
not around
You're out of touch, I'm out of
time (time)
But I'm out of my head when you're
not around
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh♪
Hiya, you all right? Nice to see ya.
Quite random, of all, of all places,
middle of nowhere.
You're not gonna kill me, are ya?
KNOCKING ON WINDOW
MAN SPEAKS SPANISH Jesus.
Si, por favore.
I don't think we can over estimate
how bad this is, Natasha.
Oh, that, yeah, honestly,
no-one reads The Sun back home,
we've actually got a phrase for it,
tomorrow's fish and chip paper,
do you know that one? Mm.
They don't say it in Germany?
The Mayor has been in contact.
The Mayor? And how is he?
Is he is he well?
The deal for the waterpark is off.
What? No.
Well, he made arrangements
with you when you were anonymous
but this attention,
it doesn't work for him.
Fuck Fuck. Um, there,
there must be a way we can,
you know, sweeten the deal.
He could seize the restaurant,
the hotel
it could cost up to a million.
We don't have a million.
Are you sure, Natasha?
Well, we weren't gonna monetise that.
You need to fix this,
I vouched for you.
Tschuss. Oh.
Gasolina, give me the peseta.
Fucking liberty.
Ola, David, infamous big Mick Neville,
but you know that, don't ya? Ha.
Thanks for meeting me as such
short notice.
Yeah, of course, er, I wasn't sure
how you'd take the piece.
Well, I loved it,
couple of little fibs in there mind,
a few pork pies.
No. Nothing we can't hash out with
a little chat.
You got your Dictaphone?
Er, oh, of course,
yeah, like a exclusive?
Straight from the handsome horse's
mouth. Come on.
Oh. A bit of music, you like music
there, Davey mate?
Mick loves his pop. David loves his
pop too.
Right, so you know what's,
what's going on here mate,
it ain't a jolly mate,
you're being kidnapped.
It didn't feel like a kidnapping
earlier, we were having a laugh.
That's half the thing with
a kidnapping mate,
lull someone into a perfect sense of
security and joy and then boom.
Do we have to, mate? Can you make
like a suitcase, mate,
get yourself in the boot. Boot?
You can't do a kidnapping riding up
front, mate,
it's off putting, come on, Dave,
mate, get in the boot,
that's what happens in
the kidnapping.
You there, get in the boot, mate.
Come on mate, play fair here.
Very David Nelson that, mate.
I wanna have a laugh an all mate,
but this is a kidnapping mate,
I don't need you making it more
awkward than it has to be.
The kidnapping has officially
started now.
There's some peanuts there mate,
all right? If you get hungry. Oh, Mick.
No, no, I don't, I don't know
anything, I don't know anything.
No, no, shh, shh, shh,
it's fine babe,
there's no need to cry.
We've got this, it's really not that
bad, OK?
Oh, it's so sweet of you
to say that Alby
but of course it fucking is.
Yeah, you're right,
sorry I was lying,
it's really bad,
we're completely fucked.
The Mayor's gonna take all
the property unless we bribe him
a million in cash.
Jesus crumble.
Where are we gonna get
a million in cash?
I wasn't gonna tell you this till we
ironed this out but. Tell me what?
You know when I said that I went on
holiday golfing to Portugal,
I was actually, er, in the jungle,
er, making arrangements
with the cartel. The cartel?
The Columbian cartel
because basically I was, er,
I was I was trading some
of our gold for cocaine.
Yeah, I know but one kilo of cocaine
is actually worth 50 grand in,
in the street value so it's worth
more than the gold
and it's all been handled,
in great hands, by this guy called
Pablo so Pablo?
Er, Pablo Escobar,
a really great drug dealer
so that's is that OK?
Are you are you OK? I love you.
Oh, god. I'm sorry.
Albert. Yep.
Of all the things you have ever done
in your fucking life Yep?
This is one of the sexiest.
What? Ever.
Sexiest? I thought you were gonna
beat me up. No.
Oh, my god, Albert. Let's fuck.
Er, oh, OK, wow, yeah, definitely.
Before we do, er, I've got one more
thing to tell you.
Yeah? Yeah. There's more?
So do you remember that
Pablo Escobar geezer
I was telling you about. Yeah?
For some weird reason he wanted me
to have sex
with this, er, Columbian prostitute,
we ended up going to
the back room together
and one thing led to another
and, er, I ended up paying her
to say that we've had sex
but we didn't have sex so
and nothing happened, so that is.
Right.
You you do believe me, don't ya?
Of course I believe you.
Sounds exactly like you.
Oh, brilliant,
OK well where were we then?
Sort of, er, ruined the moment
for me.
Well, I can I can bring the moment back,
I'm surrounded by ten really strong
cartel members,
some of them had machine guns as well
which was pretty bad
and I could've died for you,
you like that?
The moment's gone, Al. OK. Oh.
Right, cassette tape recording,
11:00 hours,
just doing the washing up as
I normally do,
nothing illegal to report
and, er, well I hope you get what
you want mate.
I hope you're happy.
KNOCKING AT DOOR
Oh, a knock at the door,
it's probably, probably the postman. Ola.
I'm gonna fucking kill someone.
Oh, it's obviously just a thing that
people say for a joke.
Have you seen the paper?
Er, now's not a good time, boys.
I'm barely fucking mentioned in it,
they don't even use my real name,
they refer to me as
a holidaymaker, what do I look like,
Judith fucking' Chalmers?
I'm Pablo Escobar's number two
that's what I am.
Again, it could be an expression.
About to do the biggest cocaine deal
of our lives.
Wa-ha. What, what are you doing here
though?
The press are all over us so it's
the best place to hide. Mm.
We're expecting a call from Pablo.
I don't know anything about any
of that.
Oh, that's a good point actually,
we should update him because it's
your gold too. It's not.
What? It is. No, I mean it's not
gonna work is what I'm trying to say.
The phone, not in here.
What? Why why wouldn't it work?
Because of the ceiling,
you're better off in
an expansive space away from here,
away from me,
well away from here is what I mean.
Sidney,
you've wasted enough of my time,
come on, Albert, let's go somewhere
else. Yeah, better off somewhere else.
Sorry about that, boys.
Oh, god. Oh, great bunch of guys,
just, er, messing about
and saying random stuff that means
absolutely nothing at all.
I hope you're doing some thinking in
there, mate.
What? I said you have some thinking
to do, mate.
Mick, I can't hear you if you bang
and talk at the same time.
What? If you bang and talk at
the same time I can't hear
what you're saying. Well, what I was
saying, mate,
is you've got some
thinking to do, right.
You stop following us mate,
you stop taking photos,
you stop writing about us,
if I see you around, I'll kill you,
you got that mate? You got it mate?
Yeah, I've got pictures,
I've got pictures,
loads of 'em, but there's other
pictures, incriminating ones,
ones the press would love
to get their hands on.
If you take, Mick, if you take me
back there now,
I'll hand them all over to
you, yeah?
All of them, I promise I'll never
take another one.
Right, OK. So, that's a deal then.
Yeah, yeah. Good lad. All right.
Let's go back to your apartment then.
Is it over now? What?
The kidnapping, is it all done?
Yeah, I mean probably 20 minutes,
half hour,
this is my first kidnapping, if it's
any longer my apologies.
All right, appreciate that Mick.
Wait, wait, Mick. What?
Can I just can I just get a bit of
water?
No, no water, mate, but I've got some
more of those peanuts what you like.
Oh, man, my mouth's still dry from
the last ones. Mick.
KNOCKING ON DOOR
Oh, for god's sake.
Boys, I can't have people just
coming in
and, you all right Ron?
Do you want, do you want me,
do you want to come in?
Come in, come in if you want.
Yeah, bloody press.
How's things?
Yeah, good, yeah great
actually, yeah,
the bar's doing really well,
we've got some new crisps,
Salt 'n' Shake they're called,
you get these plain crisps
but then inside the pack is
a little sachet of salt
and you can add as, as,
as little or as much salt as you
want to the crisps for flavour.
What's that?
What? That fucking wire sticking
out of your pocket.
That's, oh, that's just a bit
of old gardening wire,
I like to carry round
a length of wire with me just
so that I, in case I wanna do some
gardening or.
I hate doing this.
I'm not even fucking dressed
for it, I'm getting too old
for this game, I tell ya.
Er, for what game?
Cutting your tongue out and sticking
it up your fucking arsehole.
Sorry about that,
turns out it is possible,
I've been wanting to do that, ah,
you do have to tuck your legs on
the way down
because you will bump yourself on
the bottom.
You've gotta watch your leg
positioning. Don't make me chase
you, son.
Oh, god. Argh.
Hey, you little fucker.
Get here, you fucking grass. Come
here, I just wanna talk to ya.
Come here, you big lanky prick.
Fuck it.
Hiya. Shit, are we going out?
You look like we're going out.
Sorry, did Idid I get the day
wrong?
No, probably not, I dunno,
I just feel like I'm,
I'm having a mental breakdown.
Come in.
You all right?
Oh, my god,
I'm so sorry about all the mess.
It's immaculate, babe.
Theresa? You've been dusting that
piano for hours,
honestly can you do the kitchen? It
looks awful.
Si, si.
That's Theresa, she's an angel,
I love her honestly,
she's more than a cleaner,
she's a nanny,
she's a gardener, some nights I
think she's my only friend
but now I've got you. Oh, my god,
I'm such a mess today.
Did you see the paper this morning?
I did, yeah.
Oh, the whole thing's been such
a nightmare, do you need a drink?
Yeah. I'll get us some drinks.
That is a lovely little
lampshade that.
Oh, thanks, yeah, it's antique.
So here, here we go,
cheers. There you go.
Oh, cheers babe.
So, you're in the gold robbery
business then?
Oh, I wouldn't say that. Oh, go on,
you can tell me.
I've got my own little stories,
you know?
Oh, yeah? I've got my own skeletons
in the closet, I mean we all do.
Go on. Oh, no. You see my skeletons,
they ain't front page news.
Well, yeah.
So, what happened?
Were you there or what?
No, I weren't actually there.
Who was there?
Other people. So, it's actually all
true?
If I tell ya I'm gonna have
to tell you everything,
go back right to the beginning.
Well, I've got all day.
Huh, here we go.
I had this idea. And I went to the boys BANGING
One second, I'll be right back.
Ah, bollocks.
What happened to you?
I need to come in Nat-Nat,
it's not safe for me out here.
What? Fuck, it's that Sidney.
What are you talking about?
I am completely fucked.
What's happened? Well, it, the
thing is
Ava? Where's she gone?
Where's who gone? That's so weird,
Ava. What are you talking about?
Where are you going? My friend Ava
was just here.
What are you talking about, Ava?
Ava?
You're not listening to me Nat-Nat,
Ronnie Gatlin's trying
to kill me. Are you listening to me?
That's so weird.
Stop pottering around.
I'm beside myself here.
Sorry, Sidney, well what's going on?
Saunders came in, said he's gonna
tell every crim on the coast
that I'm a grass, made me wear a
wire, then Ronnie turns up,
he knows about it somehow,
so he tries to stab me,
says he's gonna cut off my tongue
and shove it up my arsehole.
Up your arsehole? It's a graphic image.
I really think he's gonna kill me
Nat-Nat,
I think he's gonna kill me.
I can't get a new identity
because he's the one who got me this
one in the first place.
That is quite bad. Oh, it's bad,
isn't it? I knew it was bad. Argh.
Argh. No mate,
I'm sorry I didn't mean that.
You're right though. He's gonna kill
me Nat-Nat.
Breathe. In and out, breathe.
Sidney, come here, come on, listen
to me, listen to me now.
I'm gonna get you
out of this somehow.
Dave, mate. Ah, ah, ah, ah.
I can't breathe in here,
I can't breathe in here.
Give us your keys.
This is why you keep your keys
and your valuables in a pocket mate,
not in an handbag, that's why women
are always losing shit. Please, please.
Oh, yeah.
Beautiful.
It's too hot. Why are you wearing a
suit?
Because I'm in business mode,
I like to dress for
the occasion when I'm talking
to Pablo Escobar.
All right, well, let's just find
some shade please.
Well, no we can't,
because there'll be something above
us and it'll block the phone.
PHONE RINGS
Oh, hold on.
Pabs, it's the captain.
So, er, how's the weather where
you are?
It's fucking roasting here mate.
I will outline the plan. OK.
He's gonna outline the plan.
OK, OK.
You will pack the gold into
suitcases in the dead of night,
you will load the suitcases onto
a van.
Suitcases, dead of night,
van, nice touch. OK.
We could use the Golden Palms
Tourist Bus.
Not the tourist bus,
not the that's our hotel's.
OK, Albert says apparently we can't
use the tourist bus.
Don't fucking don't say I said it.
You will drive to the port where Mr
Gatlin will have a boat waiting.
Boats, love boats. What boat? What
boat?
Instead of the bus?
I haven't got a boat.
You will meet the Colombians at
the sea to make the trade.
In the middle of the sea to make
the trade, cool, yeah.
Not at sea, not at sea. One minute.
I'll fax a map and the co-ordinates.
OK, adios Pablo. Wait, let me speak.
Good to talk. Let me speak to him.
Te amo to the family, all right?
Idiotas.
I made us a couple of bo-ca-dillos.
Dave?
David?
Oh, Jesus Christ, it stinks.
I think he's definitely dead,
right, Albert?
Yeah, I'd say so.
Look at his sad little eyes,
all vulnerable yet adorable,
like a little rabbit cub.
Right, let's get him buried so we
can get back for dinner.
Fucking hell Albert, that's some
gangster shit, sort of shit I'd say.
Goodbye, old friend.
Evening.
So, where's your brother?
I'm not his keeper.
Then I come in peace.
So, you've invited me for a wee
after hours drink, have ya?
Well, it's not all pleasure,
I've got some business
to discuss with you.
You're looking to trade?
Get your wee baby a new daddy?
It is about its old daddy now you
mention him. Drink?
Well, what's the wee fanny been up
to now?
Well, he's been doing a deal
with some of the gold.
And I know you know about it.
It's not down to me to divulge.
You have a very confusing
moral compass.
Mhm. But I like it.
Now see there is something I
need to tell you Natasha,
that yous have got
a mole in your midst
and it's that brother of yours.
He's wearing a wire,
I saw it myself.
Well, it doesn't surprise me.
Then you know what I'll have
to do then.
Rules of the game.
Got ya. Yes. That's poison,
you just drank poison,
you're fucking dead mate.
Why is he not dying, Nat-Nat?
Sidney, you dumb fuck,
it doesn't kick in straight away.
What? Why didn't we discuss
this before?
We should've discussed this
before, definitely.
It takes a while to get in the
bloodstream. Oh, Jesus.
You fucking rat, come here.
Fuck.
Tash Tash, get him off me,
this is freaking me out.
I really can't believe I just
did that.
How'd it go with that journalist?
Oh, yeah, that's, er, it's all
sorted now, how was your night
anyway?
Oh, yeah just went to Sid's,
had a few, good to catch up.
Yeah, it's always good to catch up.
The funny thing is,
the more lies we told each other
seemed like
the closer we became,
bound in bad luck,
destined to fall apart.
But the curse had truly taken hold.
Help! Help!