Leverage: Redemption (2021) s03e09 Episode Script
The Polygeist Job
- [STATIC ON RADIO]
- [SIRENS WAILING IN DISTANCE]
[JARED] Come in. Come in. Anyone there?
- Hello? Hello? No radio contact.
- [CHATTERING ON RADIO]
Move to the fire lines
and move everybody back.
Go, go, go, go, go.
[HELICOPTER WHIRRING]
Captain, we're stuck
here. We got sep
[LINE DISCONNECTS]
[AUTOMATED VOICE] Hello, and thank
you for being a Futurilogic customer.
We're sorry your
service has been cut off.
For a new low price,
you can upgrade and get it restored.
[CREAKING]
When they cut off our service,
it didn't just affect
our personal cell phones.
It took out our entire comms truck.
We couldn't issue evacuation orders.
My team is still in the hospital and
half the houses in
the area burned down.
Lot of vets become firefighters
when they get back.
I've heard this crap
from my friends before.
And when we finally cleared,
a-a corporate bot apologized and
said that to maintain
our current plan,
we would need to start paying double.
So, that's called throttling.
It's what some cell companies do.
They create an algorithm to track
where their signal is being used most,
and then they upcharge their customers
for a service they're
already paying for.
Look, they don't care
if it's an emergency.
They don't care
if it's a natural disaster.
It just doesn't matter to them.
And there's no legal recourse.
Your provider
Futurilogic is dealing with
some negative media
coverage right now,
but they're deflecting.
All right. Well, they're not gonna
change this algorithm thing.
I mean, they don't care who they hurt.
I don't want this to happen
to anyone else.
We're lucky no one died.
We're gonna make sure they don't
do anything at all
ever again.
You know, I honestly don't even know
how to be a criminal anymore.
[SCOFFS] There's no way to
even actually break the law.
[STAMMERING] This This
is one of the guys? This Matt Sandry?
Yeah. Cell-Service Throttler in Chief.
Matt claims he's all
about effective altruism.
That it's actually helpful for
Futurilogic to rake in billions
so that there's more money
to give back to the world.
They're about to launch Galactica.
That's free global Internet.
Matt and his team are about
to be net neutrality gods.
I'm sorry.
These people look like gods to you?
No, but if they provide free
Internet for everyone, they will be.
And I don't think they're
all complicit in it, right?
Okay, CFO Cassandra Shin.
She started in nonprofits.
She's kinda like
a rock star in that world.
Aubrey Wolf.
She's the head engineer and coder.
I checked out her work.
She's got some chops.
And Sam Wood
He takes care of legal
and CBD gummies as far as I can tell.
This is Matt's inner circle.
They're all execs in Futurilogic
and shareholders of Galactica.
So, if they do launch free Internet,
they'll be virtually untouchable.
Right. But about 50%
of the investments
in Galactica are from
anonymous crypto,
so we all know what that means.
[SOPHIE] Uh
- [PARKER MUTTERS]
- I don't know what that means.
We literally take down
corporate bad guys all day
and you don't know what anonymous
Okay. [INHALES DEEPLY] Okay.
A huge chunk of anonymous crypto
is actually bad actors
from North Korea
or Russia that invest in tech
companies to launder their money.
The feds say that
they're looking into it,
but they understand as much
about crypto as about anybody else.
All right,
then we burn the whole place down.
Yes! That is definitely still a crime.
[SINGSONGY] Metaphorically speaking.
Oh. So [HUFFS]
not a crime again. Man!
Okay, Matt Sandry, he's a control freak.
He has to know everything.
[STAMMERS] These other people,
they've done good work.
I mean, they could
still have good intentions.
So, Sophie goes in as some sort of
fancy person for something they need,
finds out who knows what,
and then we crime.
Wait.
Bring up the website again.
Beanbag chairs, bespoke snack machines,
that weird soda you drink.
Breanna, these are your people.
Why? Because we share
an affinity for prebiotic soda?
No.
Because you wanna give them
the benefit of the doubt.
Let's amp up a new round
of press around the fire story
and go in as a black bag PR.
If they're clean, we get one of
the execs to flip on Matt Sandry
and expose the money laundering.
So, what's gonna be
our fresh angle on the fire?
It has to be something
unexpected with teeth.
Here's another article.
"Does Matt Sandry care about the dogs?"
- What? We love dogs.
- [PHONE BUZZES]
Oh, well, not dog
fur but [CHUCKLES]
Wait, hold on. Should we think
about canceling this retreat?
No. We're not gonna cancel the retreat.
We need to look strong.
Canceling might give our Galactica
investors the idea we're worried.
Thank you. All right.
I don't understand this.
This doesn't make any sense.
What do dogs
have to do with a forest fire?
And why do we care
about saving the dogs
if we're trying to
save the world, right?
[CASSANDRA] Whoa.
Thousands of dogs are displaced
in every forest fire.
And you just lost 75%
of your single-female clientele
with that one comment.
I wouldn't mess with people's dogs.
[INHALES SHARPLY] Who are you?
How did you get in here?
Skylar Potts.
PR agent you need
but you could never find on your own.
And your receptionist
is not great security.
There's nothing about you
on any search engine.
- [AUBREY] Yeah, no socials either.
- Good. You work together.
You will need that to get through this.
We have PR people.
We don't need to hire anybody else.
[AUBREY] Mm-hmm.
First, if you could continue
saving the world on your own,
I would still be partying
with Dennis Rodman
in Turks and Caicos right about now.
Secondly, that's why
you have references
from some very
important, grateful people
testifying to my excellence
coming to your inbox
now.
[PHONES BEEPING]
You remember
that Oscar award-winning director
who attended human meat parties
in Ibiza three years ago?
- No.
- Of course you don't.
Because of me.
Now, do you wanna be remembered
for injuring firefighters and puppies,
or can we please get back to ending
global hunger and homelessness?
- You're a believer.
- [PHONE BUZZES]
[BREANNA] Well, to do the most good,
you need the most resources.
Effective altruism
is our only hope for the future.
[MATT SCOFFS]
- Yeah?
- Come on, Matty.
- Good?
- Yeah.
I like her.
Okay. [SIGHS]
- Where do we start?
- [BREANNA] With my fee.
Nonnegotiable. Paid in crypto.
I'll invoice you.
Now, I need to see if you all
are on the same page.
Oh, Skylar.
We're definitely on the same page.
We're all in this together. What
do you need to know? [SNIFFS]
Uh, I should talk
to you all separately.
That is how the lawyers are gonna do it
when they come after you
in the senate hearing.
A senate hearing? Okay.
That's fun.
- Where were you during the fire?
- Mmm.
It's just a caffeine pill.
I have trouble sleeping at night.
I can't stay awake during the day.
I was working from home that day
when we heard about the fire.
We had just gotten news
of the new investors.
I was running the numbers.
Were you home alone?
I was with my roommate.
I wanna make it abundantly clear
that the signal throttling
was A, fully legal
and B, the result of an algorithm.
[PHONE BUZZING]
You're getting a lot of calls.
Yes. Well,
our new investors are concerned.
What about your new investors?
Matt found them.
They've been giving millions in
crypto to get Galactica
off the ground.
But honestly, I'm really happy
that he's finally getting this win.
Seems like Matt found those
investors awfully fast after the fire.
Aren't you worried
they're a little shady?
I like your pin.
Oh. Uh, it's not a pin.
It was Josh's cuff link.
Who's Josh?
[MATT] He's no one. Not anymore.
He was one of us.
He made the decision to leave,
and now look what happened to him.
[WATCH RINGS, BUZZES]
- Wha
- Mmm.
These interviews are over.
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
So, that went pretty miserably.
Matt does not trust me in the slightest,
which doesn't even matter
because the other three are like a
brick wall he has built around him.
Did we find anything out about Josh?
Ooh, Josh Stern
was Matt's investing partner
and he left the company
about six months ago.
And promptly died.
[ELIOT] Of natural causes, though it
says he has a history
of heart problems.
[BREANNA] Oh, great. That's perfect.
Parker, make a list up there.
Breanna, forget what you heard.
Describe what you saw.
What I saw?
[STAMMERS] Um
Uh Okay.
They're, uh They're
a strong unit, right.
They care about each other.
Deeply.
They have this sort of
hive mind thing going on.
They used the word "we" a lot.
They hang out all
the time outside of work.
They might even live together, like
like all of them together.
And they're they're handsy, right.
They touch each other a lot.
It's kind of weird.
Maybe more than you would expect.
Hmm.
[SOPHIE] Live
together. Lots of touching.
Emotionally entangled.
Doesn't sound like they're coworkers.
We're all in this together.
We.
We.
We.
- We.
- [MATT] We.
[ALL] We.
It's a polycule.
All four of them are in an emotional,
and possibly physical,
relationship with each other.
I was a London street punk in the '80s.
I know what a polycule is.
[CHUCKLES]
One building I crashed in
had a sextagon in the loft.
- How many people are in a sextagon?
- Mm-mmm.
Well, it depends if Bowie was in town.
That's the reason
they won't sell out Sandry.
It's 'cause they're all together.
It's pretty naive.
[STAMMERS] You can't actually mix love
with the potential of that much money.
Well, then let's make them choose
which one they want more.
[SIGHS] This is gonna be fun.
They mentioned a retreat?
Yeah. Just some cabins out in the woods.
[CHUCKLES] A bunch
of young people in a
creepy log cabin in
the deep, dark woods.
Trust versus self-preservation.
Well, this one
practically writes itself.
[CHUCKLES]
Let's go steal a horror flick.
[GRUNTS]
[PARKER] Evacuate!
Hey! Evacuate!
There's a wildfire right there.
Can't you see?
When did it What happened?
Hikers smoking in the woods.
Devil's weed probably.
Who knows? Doesn't matter.
We gotta get you outta here
before it engulfs the whole place.
Go on.
Go! Faster! Get on.
- Giddyap.
- [ENGINE STARTS]
Easy-peasy.
There they go.
Finally.
I've been doing this for 30 minutes.
See if we can scare these dorks
into giving themselves away.
[SOPHIE]
It's a bit more complex than that.
Matt clearly sees Josh Stern leaving
the company as a personal attack,
so we're gonna terrify
the polycule into fleeing
and then use their absence to convince
Matt that they're
betraying him as well.
Just like Josh did.
Then Matt betrays them,
moves the money from the joint account
which convinces the polyculians to
roll on him for the money laundering.
[GRUNTS] Yeah, yeah.
What stupid horror flick
are we doing again?
The one with the
porcelain haunted dolls?
Haunted horse that chased all the
schoolgirls into the
woods and they died.
[EXCLAIMS] Really
all horses are haunted.
It's a satanic cult.
Breanna sent out a binder.
Please tell me you read through it.
[PARKER] Wait. Was
that what was stopping
my door from closing this morning?
[ELIOT] Yeah,
I think I used mine as a coaster.
- But the retreat is almost
- [HORN HONKING]
here.
[HORN HONKING]
Hello.
Come.
Oh. [CHUCKLES]
Come, come.
Come closer.
[CHUCKLES] Come.
- [LAUGHS]
- Hello, new friends.
I'm Gwynn.
Welcome to Shaw Pond Nature Camp
where we ask you to leave the hustle
and bustle of city life behind you
and embrace the tranquility of nature.
What's wrong with the Wi-Fi?
There's nothing wrong.
There is no cell reception
or Wi-Fi at Shaw Pond.
No. We invite you to commune
with Mother Earth.
[CHUCKLES] Skylar, you wanna
explain to me why we're in this dump?
Because it's bad
PR for you to look like
you're taking a luxury
vacation right now.
[CHUCKLES]
Now, it's clear to me that you all need
a cleansing reset.
These are your hosts.
[ALL GASPING, MUTTERING]
The owners of Shaw
Pond, Hiram and Lilith.
[CHUCKLES] Oh,
we're so happy you're all here.
- [CASSANDRA CHUCKLES]
- [PARKER GASPS]
It gets so lonely here
with just Husband.
That's your husband?
[GASPS] Oh.
We love meeting new people
and with all the accidents,
we haven't been able to
make any new connections.
- Um
- Accidents?
[CLEARS THROAT]
Oh. Now,
Hiram will escort all you lovely people
to your luxury cabin as requested.
And I will take the coders, yes?
To their shared cabins
and then we will meet for
your first circle activity at the
[EXHALES DEEPLY] firepit.
[BIRD SQUAWKING]
What What did Lilith
mean by accidents?
Yeah. You know, um, like, did somebody
get hurt here or should we be worried?
This camp has a strange past.
Nothing bad has happened
since me and my wife bought it.
[SCOFFS] What happened then?
Uh, this used to be a
[MOUTHING WORDS] Cult grounds.
Cult grounds. Cult grounds.
[NORMAL VOICE] campground.
Girl camp.
There was rumored to be, um
[PARKER CLEARS THROAT] Haunted horses.
Porcelain dolls.
- Horse
- Porcelain horse dolls?
- What?
- Cult.
- Whew.
- [ELIOT] Cult.
[STAMMERING] And then a cult
came in and it was
like a suicide pact.
Some of the bodies were never found.
Yeah.
We're here.
Okay.
[BIRD SQUAWKING]
They better have hypoallergenic sheets.
What the
[FLOORBOARDS CREAK]
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]
[GRUNTS]
[GRUNTS] Is there
a reason this door is locked?
- Sometimes that door gets stuck.
- [ALL GASP]
[BEEPING, CREAKING]
Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Move back. Get back.
Back up. Back up, Aubrey.
Back up. What is that?
Hiram, what's that noise?
What is in there?
[CREAKING CONTINUES]
It's okay. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- [MATT GRUNTS]
- Oh.
Holy sh
Aubrey. Aubrey, what are doing?
Aubrey.
[SAM] Hey, hey, hey. Guys, guys.
[CASSANDRA] No.
Don't leave me out here.
- [GASPS]
- It's okay. It's all right. It's okay.
[CASSANDRA] Oh.
What is this place?
This is where she makes all the art.
[CREAKING]
[BEEPS, CREAKS]
Huh. I guess that noise
was the fax machine.
What the hell's a fox machine?
[SAM STAMMERS]
It's like, it's like a copier.
Copy comes out in
someone else's printer.
[CHUCKLES] It's like
We got one at the office,
uh, I think it's in the basement.
Okay.
- Okay. Ah.
- Um.
[GROANS] Yuck. I'm gonna go, uh
- [CASSANDRA GROANS]
- I'm gonna go and meditate.
- If I can.
- [BREANNA] Great. Yeah.
So then I'll take, uh, Cassandra, Sam.
You wanna discuss some PR strategies?
[BOTH] Yeah.
[CHUCKLES] You know what?
Uh, let's uh, let's do that later. Yeah.
Because how often do we get to be out
here in nature like this, right guys?
Let's go explore the camp.
- Uh
- All of us.
- Together.
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah?
- [CASSANDRA SIGHS]
[MATT] Come on.
Come on.
Yeah. Let's go, let's go.
Let's just go. [SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]
[SOPHIE] Hiram is going to
hand out notebooks and pens.
I want each of you
to think about the one thing
you feel most guilty about
and write it down.
No, no. It's all right.
No one's going to see.
When you're done, you rip it out,
and throw it into the fire.
Release your guilts into the universe.
What are you gonna write?
I regret that
all those firefighters got hurt.
And I know that
I didn't do it directly but
that was our company.
So
- You?
- Honestly, I, um
I regret not being able to
help more people.
- Mmm.
- Hey, thank you.
Skylar, thank you.
That's exactly right.
I don't know if you heard that, but
that's what this is all about, guys.
When I started this company,
I started it on the idea
that if we could make enough money,
we could make
the entire world a better place, guys.
All of it.
Sometimes, in order to
make something like that happen,
huge sacrifices are required.
Sacrifices like Josh.
Or sacrifices like the firefighters.
- But that's Trolley Theory 101, guys.
- Yeah.
I don't have any regrets.
Not one.
[PAPER TEARS]
[CHUCKLES] Aren't you so glad
that you found us?
[BREANNA CHUCKLES]
[SOPHIE] Release your guilt.
Unburden yourself.
These are homemade.
And I have lots of free time.
[BREANNA] Does anyone
wanna talk PR with me?
- [AUBREY] Ooh, I will.
- [MATT] Oh, no.
Much more importantly, what are
our sleeping arrangements for tonight?
[CASSANDRA] I already dibsed
the terrifying squirrel room.
There's space for another person.
[OWL HOOTS]
- [AUBREY] Hmm.
- [CASSANDRA] Anyone?
- Skylar?
- [BREANNA] Aah. I'm thinking couch.
[LAUGHS]
Uh, yeah. I-I'm
gonna take a little walk.
- [CHUCKLES] Okay. Such a stoner.
- [CHUCKLES]
[SAM] Lilith?
[CHUCKLES] Is that you?
[CHUCKLES]
Come on, where are you?
Are you messing with me?
Mmm, yeah. Screw this.
Help me. He's coming.
- [CRIES] He's coming!
- Who, who, who?
Who-Who's coming? What happ
- [EXCLAIMING] Oh, God! Oh!
- [GROANING]
[SAM] Oh, my God!
[CAR APPROACHING]
[TIRES SCREECH]
You. [STAMMERING] I know you.
You gotta get me out of here.
I got Sam's laptop. And phone.
- Uh, thanks. I'll hide these here.
- Mmm.
Hey.
Sam was a mess when he got in my car.
- You really sold it.
- Oh, yeah.
I was like a ghost
fluttering in the wind.
So light and free.
So much more serene
than jumping off things.
I had to come back two
hours later and cut her down.
I was doing air dances.
Eliot. Air guitar.
[IMITATES GUITAR]
[EXCLAIMS]
[VOCALIZING]
I'm moonwalking.
I'm moonwalking.
So, what happened with Sam?
I dropped him at the Sheriff's.
Two hours down the mountain.
You sure that's a good idea?
Don't worry. I met the Sheriff.
[EXHALES DEEPLY] So now that we've
slept it off, sticking
with your story?
A woman in white seduces you
with graham crackers,
lures you into the woods
where a ghost rope comes down,
- and yanks her into the air.
- Yes.
You have to get out there,
my friends are still there.
With no Wi-Fi.
Oh, I'll get out there and investigate
the children's Bible camp ASAP.
For the ghost rope.
Did you see their faces yesterday?
This whole thing, it
circles around Matt.
I-It's more of a cult
than a relationship.
It's abusive.
- [MATT] Skylar?
- Yes.
- [MATT] Hi.
- Hi.
- [MATT] Well, good morning to you.
- Good morning.
- [MATT] You and I have a big problem.
- Yeah, we do.
We need to talk about
your media statement.
- People are coming to conclusions.
- No.
That investment is
going to get pulled
No. Skylar, stop. Stop. Stop. Okay.
Sam is gone.
Sam's gone. He only brought
his phone and his laptop.
And guess what? There's nowhere
anywhere near here with service.
- He went into town to get service.
- Oh, no.
Yes, he did.
He did go into town to get service.
To put more articles on me
that make me look terrible,
so he can cut me out
of the Galactica deal.
And you need to fix this.
Okay. Becau Listen.
Josh started acting real shady
and then guess what?
He turned out to be a traitor.
And now, Sam is acting
the exact same way.
I think you're overreacting!
No! Skylar, I'm not. I'm not over
I'm Hey! Hey!
Can you please shut that off?
I'm not overreacting.
What good are you to me, if you're not
even going to listen
to what I tell you?
Dude!
[SCOFFS]
Oh. Now, see I knew it.
No, I did. I knew it.
This is Sam's handwriting, clearly.
And I'm I'm, um, "M-A."
I'm Ma I'm Ma I'm Ma
Matt. I'm Matty!
And this is Sam's note!
I told you!
Sam left to betray us.
Because he's a traitor. Look.
Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah. This is Josh. All over again.
"I betrayed Ma"? This could be anything.
Yeah. Sam just went to town for weed
and ethically produced Internet porn.
[CHUCKLES]
- [STAMMERS]
- Maybe you should take a walk.
- Come on. Clear your head.
- Yeah.
Hey, let's both go.
And we can
talk through our feelings on it.
All right, fine.
- Cassandra do you wanna come?
- Nope.
Cassandra needs to take a nap
before the next event. Look at her.
She clearly needs it,
and every team-building event
needs to be attended
by all four of you,
yes, including Sam, who we'll find.
- Come on.
- Okay. All right.
[YAWNS]
[YAWNS]
[YAWNS]
I'll go look for Sam.
[SIGHS]
What did you switch
Cassandra's caffeine pills with?
[SIGHS] Just sugar.
Did you get the doll?
Matt and Aubrey aren't back yet,
so you guys are good to go.
So.
How's everyone managing without
the constraints of
phones and Internet?
Hmm?
It It's actually terrifying.
I'm-I'm physically cold and afraid.
[STUTTERS] And I don't know how to
live without random
strangers telling me
they hate me and giving me
breakfast suggestions.
You see. That's perfect.
What you're craving is ritual.
Now, we're gonna replace
all those modern unhealthy rituals
- with nature rituals of the ancients.
- [SWITCH CLICKS]
Now turn around everyone.
- [CODER 1] What?
- Grab a robe.
[CODER 2] Whoa.
And let's get started.
[STATIC ON RADIO]
[RADIO PRESENTER]
mostly sunny skies.
[PARKER ON RADIO] Help me.
[STATIC ON RADIO]
[CASSANDRA GASPS]
[CHATTER, STATIC ON RADIO]
[SCREAMS, PANTS]
[PANTING]
[PARKER] Help me.
- Matty?
- [STATIC CONTINUES]
Aubrey?
Is anyone there?
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[DIAL CLICKS]
Weird joke, you guys.
[CHUCKLES] Funny.
- [THUMP]
- [GASPS]
No.
This can't be right.
[RADIO DIAL CLICKS]
[PARKER] Help me!
[CASSANDRA WHIMPERS]
Guys!
[GRUNTS]
[SCREAMS, PANTS]
[GRUNTING]
[SIGHS]
[ELIOT] Good.
Just in time for the reckoning.
[SCREAMS]
[WHIMPERS]
[GRUNTS]
Matt! [PANTING] Aubrey!
[PANTING]
Matt! Aubrey!
[CODERS, SOPHIE CHANTING] A-E-I-O-U.
- A-E-I-O-U.
- No, no, no. [WHIMPERS]
[CAMPERS] A-E-I
Make sure she heads
towards the fire track to town.
[MATT] Ooh.
- [BOTH CHUCKLING]
- Uh, Cassandra's gone.
[MATT] No.
[GROANS] No.
- No!
- [AUBREY GASPS]
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
- [GASPS]
- They're both in on it.
This is Cassandra's pin.
She would have never left without this.
My God, something happened to her.
Yeah, no. I'll tell you what happened.
She and Sam want all
that crypto for themselves.
They're trying to cut us out. Yeah.
And this, this is a message.
She's doing exactly what Josh did.
- She's betraying me.
- Mmm.
We need to cut them out, Aubrey.
I'm so sick of you.
I'm so sick of you.
How could you think
such terrible things
about the people that love you, Matt?
[SCOFFS] They don't love me.
- Oh. Okay.
- No, no. And you don't love me.
- Hey. You want what I have.
- [SIGHS]
You are such a greedy, egotistical jerk.
I'm gonna go look for my friends.
Think whatever you want. I don't care.
[BREATHES SHAKILY]
God. [BREATHES SHAKILY]
I'm so stupid
[SNIFFLES] Why am I crying?
- [RUSTLING]
- [GASPS]
[BREATHES HEAVILY]
- [RUSTLING]
- [SCREAMS]
So, uh, what now?
What now is I cut them out.
Mm-hmm. I cut out all three of them
before they can
destroy what I have built.
Um, there's no Wi-Fi, remember.
Just remember that.
[CHUCKLES]
What about that foxy machine?
You know how to use that thing?
Kinda. Yeah. Yeah.
Okay.
Can we get a message to my bank on it?
What if they don't have one of those?
So all banks are required
to have one of those Okay.
- Okay.
- What do I do?
[BREANNA] Write out
the instructions on this paper.
Uh, any account numbers,
the amount of money [STAMMERS]
or crypto.
- And then you sign it.
- Okay.
- You sure you want to do this?
- Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
[CREAKS]
[BEEPING]
[CREAKING]
Well?
- It's done.
- [SIGHS] Okay.
All this stress has really been,
uh, messing with my electrolytes,
so I'm gonna go for a quick walk,
I'm gonna grab a snack,
and we will circle right back.
Okay. He transferred all the money
from the joint Galactica account
to his personal crypto wallet.
We did it. [SIGHS]
Once the others find out that Matt
moved the crypto, they'll turn on him.
If they think he's the one
that betrayed them,
they'll spill the beans
on the crypto laundering.
Hi. Where'd Aubrey go?
[PANTS] Did I miss
the terrifying-her part?
- She ran out. Eliot?
- [SIGHS]
I don't know. I didn't see her.
Then where is she?
I think somebody else is out here.
What are you doing with Matt's computer?
Matt is losing his grip
a little more than he should be.
Maybe he hired somebody
to take care of Aubrey?
I'm searching the grounds.
I'll see if I can track her from here.
Okay. Come on.
She isn't in the coders' cabin.
[PANTS]
There was definitely a struggle.
Matt was having Josh followed
after he left.
Josh must have known about
the money laundering.
That's why he left the company.
[GASPS] I found something. [PANTS]
- [BREATHING SHAKILY]
- [MUFFLED EXCLAIMING, GRUNTING]
[ELIOT] Some sort of
maintenance shed up here.
[CLATTERING]
Something's going on inside.
[TYPING]
Why would you go through the trouble
of hiding a receipt for oleander?
Wait. Josh died of a heart attack.
Yeah, but he had heart disease.
I'm looking at his medical records
right now that Matt
has for some reason.
What does oleander have
to do with heart disease?
It's poison.
There may or may not have
been a certain South American dictator
that died of a similar
heart attack at an opportune time.
So you're saying Matt killed Josh?
Help is on its way.
I found some folks tied up
who say they own the camp.
So who were those other guys?
[PERSON SPEAKS KOREAN]
[AUBREY] Please,
wait. What's going on?
[BREATHES SHAKILY]
I don't know anything.
- Please, let me go. [BREATHES SHARPLY]
- [PERSON SPEAKS KOREAN]
North Korean assassins.
It's a very distinctive accent.
Looks like there's just two of 'em.
And they got Aubrey.
What are assassins doing here?
[AUBREY] What's going on? Please,
- just tell me what's happen Okay.
- [SPEAKS KOREAN]
[AUBREY BREATHES SHAKILY]
Oh, God. [WHIMPERS]
I gotta find a way in.
Sophie, I need a distraction.
Something fast, something to keep them
off of Aubrey so I can find a way in.
- [CAMPERS CHANTING]
- I'm on it.
Um, that's not our only problem.
[BREATHES SHAKILY]
[MATT] Skylar,
I had really hoped
that you would replace the others.
That you would be my new start.
I can see now that
I'm gonna have to replace you too.
Matt, um,
what are you doing with that axe?
That is a giant axe.
Skylar, if I had just killed Josh
because he tried to ruin Galactica
and bring down net neutrality,
people would have forgiven me.
They would have.
But he tried to reveal that I was
laundering money to the North Koreans,
and, for some reason, people
are real touchy about North Korea.
[GRUNTING]
[GRUNTS]
Now what about altruism?
This is altruism, Skylar!
Whatever I need to do to save the world.
[GRUNTING, GROANS]
[GRUNTING]
[EXHALES HEAVILY]
[GRUNTING, PANTING]
[ASSASSIN 1 SPEAKS KOREAN]
[INHALES SHARPLY]
Hey, there!
[SHUSHES] Just a few
quick questions, hmm?
[CHUCKLES]
Oh, God.
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
What happened to the money our
government so magnanimously donated
to your little start-up?
What? Your government
was the anonymous crypto?
[SPEAKING KOREAN]
[ASSASSIN 2 SPEAKS KOREAN]
[CHUCKLES] After that forest fire,
my wife and I were assigned
to make sure our money was safe.
Now, Matt wasn't responding
to our very reasonable inquiries
That's why we came out here to
the retreat and met the Walters.
Very lovely people, by the way.
And my wife tied them up.
[INHALES SHARPLY]
Then an intriguing blonde woman
lied to us to get us to leave early,
which naturally piqued our curiosity.
Was she a federal agent?
Does she work for the Russians?
I don't know. I don't know.
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
Uh, so, we let it play out.
But now, our money is gone.
- That can't all be a coincidence.
- [BREATHING SHAKILY]
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!
Please! Please. Please.
Wait, please.
I don't know anything, I swear.
[CAMPERS CHANTING]
Et tu, Brute Et tu, Brute
- Et tu, Brute
- Is that Shakespeare?
[CHANTING CONTINUES]
Et tu, Brute Et tu, Brute
Don't make a sound.
- [INHALES SHARPLY]
- [SPEAKS KOREAN]
[CHANTING CONTINUES]
[GASPS] Hiram!
Um No, this is Hiram, but he
he just owns the camp,
he doesn't know anything.
Please don't hurt him.
[GRUNTING]
[GRUNTS]
Skylar? Don't run.
I do ultramarathons.
And I will catch you, Skylar.
It is only a matter of time.
Skylar?
Matt is still chasing me with an axe.
Guys!
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[GRUNTING]
I'm a little busy right now.
[SOPHIE]
What if we point Matt at the assassins?
Two birds, one stone.
Sure. Where are you?
[AUBREY WHIMPERS]
Oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God.
- [GRUNTING]
- No, no, no. [GASPS, SCREAMS]
[ELIOT] Just keep heading west.
West? What is west?
I am not a wayfinder.
[GRUNTS]
You just calm down, okay?
Why don't we talk about our feelings?
No, I'm so sick and tired of
talking about other people's feelings.
Skylar! Skylar!
[GRUNTING]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[GROANS]
Keep moving. With the sun on your left.
[INHALES HEAVILY]
I'm never going outside again.
[PANTS]
[BREATHES SHARPLY] Hiya.
About time.
[GRUNTING]
No way.
[GRUNTING CONTINUES]
We're just screwing
around with these guys.
- [CHUCKLES]
- [GRUNTING]
[PANTING] So good.
[PANTS]
[GRUNTING]
- [STRAINS, GROANS]
- Matt, please!
[GROANS]
- Aubrey.
- Is that the guy you're looking for?
[SIGHS] I'm so sorry about that.
- I liked your kick thing.
- You had a pretty good one as well.
I really like your choice of pliers.
[SIGHS] So unique
and surprisingly versatile.
You know, I think those people
are North Korean assassins.
Maybe you should run.
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
I'm sorry!
[PANTING]
[GRUNTS]
- [GASPS]
- [ASSASSIN SPEAKS KOREAN]
[PANTING, CHUCKLES]
- We're just gonna let 'em kill him?
- Uh-huh.
He's an ultramarathoner. He'll
be all right till the feds get here.
[AUBREY] Hiram?
Go. It's you.
[PANTS] Yeah.
[PANTS] He had me running too
- Yeah, man, I'm tired.
- Yeah.
- [PANTING]
- [BIRD SQUAWKING]
[PHONE CHIMING]
No way! Oh, no way! [CHUCKLING]
Yes! Okay. Here we go.
[OPERATOR] 911, what's your emergency?
Y-Yes, hello! Hello. Hi.
My name is Matthew.
And [STAMMERS] I'm lost.
[STAMMERS] I'm stuck in the woods.
I'm stuck and I'm being chased
by North Koreans,
who are assassins,
who are trying to kill me.
[LINE BEEPS]
[AUTOMATED VOICE]
Hello, and thank you for being
- a Futurilogic customer.
- Hello?
- We're sorry your service
- No.
- has been cut off.
- No.
For a new low price,
you can upgrade and get
No! No!
See how you like being throttled,
Mr. I'm Gonna Save the World.
- [ASSASSIN SPEAKS KOREAN]
- Who are you? Why?
No!
"In the wake of a
terrible fire, evidence
has come to light that Futurilogic,
run by disgraced CEO Matt Sandry,
was only launching Galactica
as a front to launder
crypto for North Korea.
He is currently in the
custody of the FBI."
[CHUCKLES] When did you
have time to send info to the FBI?
Well, after I got into
the service zone,
I sent them everything
about the murders,
and an anonymous tip
about where to find Cassandra.
The rope tightened itself.
I don't know how many times I have to
- Sam! Sam!
- Oh.
[GASPS] Sam. Sam, it's a cult.
It's a crazy cult.
There's a psycho cult in the woods.
And-And they tried to kill me.
See? This This is what
I've been trying to tell you.
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
Did you see the rope?
Rope? The rope? The-The owners
The owners, they're-they're-they're,
like, a hundred, but they
they look 35 and and they eat people.
- They eat people now?
- They eat people!
[PHONES CHIME]
[CASSANDRA] Huh?
Matt Sandry's
laundering cryptocurrency.
I have proof Matt Sandry's
laundering crypto for North Korea.
I have a ton of evidence right here!
Call the FBI! He's a terrible person.
[ELIOT] Yeah? No, no, no, no.
No, these nutters
aren't going to throttle anybody else.
And when you get here, I'm taking
you fishing on the Pontchartrain.
It's almost as good as Yemen.
[CHUCKLES] All right.
That was Jared.
- He says thank you.
- [BREANNA] Yeah.
Come on.
We got to haunt people in the woods.
And we won.
It's just, growing up,
when I saw how rotten the world is,
I just figured my generation,
we'd be better.
Or [STAMMERS] we'd do better.
People like Matt, Aubrey, Cassandra
[STAMMERS] even Sam,
they were supposed to save the world.
And they We
We keep falling into the same hole.
We're making the same mistakes.
Firstly,
Matt was never gonna save the world.
And as for the others,
they were sincere.
They were just [INHALES SHARPLY]
pointed in the wrong direction.
You know, I've been working on
that project with Hardison, you know?
- The one about how
- Ethics? Morals? Motivation?
Stuff, yes. Thank you.
And I think good
people get fooled easier.
They're weak like that.
- So weak.
- [ELIOT] Come on.
- [COMPUTER CHIMES]
- [BREANNA] Oh, look.
Aubrey just emailed Skylar saying
she's starting her own nonprofit.
Hey, look at that.
Everything's better already.
- Let's go have some dinner. All of us.
- Yes. [GROANS]
Hey, guys? Are we a poly
sync & corrections awaqeded
Edgar Ramirez owns five manufacturing
and food processing companies
Parker's trying to expose
this guy for child labor.
He had fake work papers
saying he was old enough.
It's a classic noir.
Can you be an evil lawyer for me
- one more time?
- Yeah.
Does anyone know what Parker's up to?
I'm tracking his financials.
He put all of his properties up,
he pulled out all the cash
from his hidden accounts.
Which we pillage
[GRUNTING]
Harry!
It's time to end this.
- [SIRENS WAILING IN DISTANCE]
[JARED] Come in. Come in. Anyone there?
- Hello? Hello? No radio contact.
- [CHATTERING ON RADIO]
Move to the fire lines
and move everybody back.
Go, go, go, go, go.
[HELICOPTER WHIRRING]
Captain, we're stuck
here. We got sep
[LINE DISCONNECTS]
[AUTOMATED VOICE] Hello, and thank
you for being a Futurilogic customer.
We're sorry your
service has been cut off.
For a new low price,
you can upgrade and get it restored.
[CREAKING]
When they cut off our service,
it didn't just affect
our personal cell phones.
It took out our entire comms truck.
We couldn't issue evacuation orders.
My team is still in the hospital and
half the houses in
the area burned down.
Lot of vets become firefighters
when they get back.
I've heard this crap
from my friends before.
And when we finally cleared,
a-a corporate bot apologized and
said that to maintain
our current plan,
we would need to start paying double.
So, that's called throttling.
It's what some cell companies do.
They create an algorithm to track
where their signal is being used most,
and then they upcharge their customers
for a service they're
already paying for.
Look, they don't care
if it's an emergency.
They don't care
if it's a natural disaster.
It just doesn't matter to them.
And there's no legal recourse.
Your provider
Futurilogic is dealing with
some negative media
coverage right now,
but they're deflecting.
All right. Well, they're not gonna
change this algorithm thing.
I mean, they don't care who they hurt.
I don't want this to happen
to anyone else.
We're lucky no one died.
We're gonna make sure they don't
do anything at all
ever again.
You know, I honestly don't even know
how to be a criminal anymore.
[SCOFFS] There's no way to
even actually break the law.
[STAMMERING] This This
is one of the guys? This Matt Sandry?
Yeah. Cell-Service Throttler in Chief.
Matt claims he's all
about effective altruism.
That it's actually helpful for
Futurilogic to rake in billions
so that there's more money
to give back to the world.
They're about to launch Galactica.
That's free global Internet.
Matt and his team are about
to be net neutrality gods.
I'm sorry.
These people look like gods to you?
No, but if they provide free
Internet for everyone, they will be.
And I don't think they're
all complicit in it, right?
Okay, CFO Cassandra Shin.
She started in nonprofits.
She's kinda like
a rock star in that world.
Aubrey Wolf.
She's the head engineer and coder.
I checked out her work.
She's got some chops.
And Sam Wood
He takes care of legal
and CBD gummies as far as I can tell.
This is Matt's inner circle.
They're all execs in Futurilogic
and shareholders of Galactica.
So, if they do launch free Internet,
they'll be virtually untouchable.
Right. But about 50%
of the investments
in Galactica are from
anonymous crypto,
so we all know what that means.
[SOPHIE] Uh
- [PARKER MUTTERS]
- I don't know what that means.
We literally take down
corporate bad guys all day
and you don't know what anonymous
Okay. [INHALES DEEPLY] Okay.
A huge chunk of anonymous crypto
is actually bad actors
from North Korea
or Russia that invest in tech
companies to launder their money.
The feds say that
they're looking into it,
but they understand as much
about crypto as about anybody else.
All right,
then we burn the whole place down.
Yes! That is definitely still a crime.
[SINGSONGY] Metaphorically speaking.
Oh. So [HUFFS]
not a crime again. Man!
Okay, Matt Sandry, he's a control freak.
He has to know everything.
[STAMMERS] These other people,
they've done good work.
I mean, they could
still have good intentions.
So, Sophie goes in as some sort of
fancy person for something they need,
finds out who knows what,
and then we crime.
Wait.
Bring up the website again.
Beanbag chairs, bespoke snack machines,
that weird soda you drink.
Breanna, these are your people.
Why? Because we share
an affinity for prebiotic soda?
No.
Because you wanna give them
the benefit of the doubt.
Let's amp up a new round
of press around the fire story
and go in as a black bag PR.
If they're clean, we get one of
the execs to flip on Matt Sandry
and expose the money laundering.
So, what's gonna be
our fresh angle on the fire?
It has to be something
unexpected with teeth.
Here's another article.
"Does Matt Sandry care about the dogs?"
- What? We love dogs.
- [PHONE BUZZES]
Oh, well, not dog
fur but [CHUCKLES]
Wait, hold on. Should we think
about canceling this retreat?
No. We're not gonna cancel the retreat.
We need to look strong.
Canceling might give our Galactica
investors the idea we're worried.
Thank you. All right.
I don't understand this.
This doesn't make any sense.
What do dogs
have to do with a forest fire?
And why do we care
about saving the dogs
if we're trying to
save the world, right?
[CASSANDRA] Whoa.
Thousands of dogs are displaced
in every forest fire.
And you just lost 75%
of your single-female clientele
with that one comment.
I wouldn't mess with people's dogs.
[INHALES SHARPLY] Who are you?
How did you get in here?
Skylar Potts.
PR agent you need
but you could never find on your own.
And your receptionist
is not great security.
There's nothing about you
on any search engine.
- [AUBREY] Yeah, no socials either.
- Good. You work together.
You will need that to get through this.
We have PR people.
We don't need to hire anybody else.
[AUBREY] Mm-hmm.
First, if you could continue
saving the world on your own,
I would still be partying
with Dennis Rodman
in Turks and Caicos right about now.
Secondly, that's why
you have references
from some very
important, grateful people
testifying to my excellence
coming to your inbox
now.
[PHONES BEEPING]
You remember
that Oscar award-winning director
who attended human meat parties
in Ibiza three years ago?
- No.
- Of course you don't.
Because of me.
Now, do you wanna be remembered
for injuring firefighters and puppies,
or can we please get back to ending
global hunger and homelessness?
- You're a believer.
- [PHONE BUZZES]
[BREANNA] Well, to do the most good,
you need the most resources.
Effective altruism
is our only hope for the future.
[MATT SCOFFS]
- Yeah?
- Come on, Matty.
- Good?
- Yeah.
I like her.
Okay. [SIGHS]
- Where do we start?
- [BREANNA] With my fee.
Nonnegotiable. Paid in crypto.
I'll invoice you.
Now, I need to see if you all
are on the same page.
Oh, Skylar.
We're definitely on the same page.
We're all in this together. What
do you need to know? [SNIFFS]
Uh, I should talk
to you all separately.
That is how the lawyers are gonna do it
when they come after you
in the senate hearing.
A senate hearing? Okay.
That's fun.
- Where were you during the fire?
- Mmm.
It's just a caffeine pill.
I have trouble sleeping at night.
I can't stay awake during the day.
I was working from home that day
when we heard about the fire.
We had just gotten news
of the new investors.
I was running the numbers.
Were you home alone?
I was with my roommate.
I wanna make it abundantly clear
that the signal throttling
was A, fully legal
and B, the result of an algorithm.
[PHONE BUZZING]
You're getting a lot of calls.
Yes. Well,
our new investors are concerned.
What about your new investors?
Matt found them.
They've been giving millions in
crypto to get Galactica
off the ground.
But honestly, I'm really happy
that he's finally getting this win.
Seems like Matt found those
investors awfully fast after the fire.
Aren't you worried
they're a little shady?
I like your pin.
Oh. Uh, it's not a pin.
It was Josh's cuff link.
Who's Josh?
[MATT] He's no one. Not anymore.
He was one of us.
He made the decision to leave,
and now look what happened to him.
[WATCH RINGS, BUZZES]
- Wha
- Mmm.
These interviews are over.
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
So, that went pretty miserably.
Matt does not trust me in the slightest,
which doesn't even matter
because the other three are like a
brick wall he has built around him.
Did we find anything out about Josh?
Ooh, Josh Stern
was Matt's investing partner
and he left the company
about six months ago.
And promptly died.
[ELIOT] Of natural causes, though it
says he has a history
of heart problems.
[BREANNA] Oh, great. That's perfect.
Parker, make a list up there.
Breanna, forget what you heard.
Describe what you saw.
What I saw?
[STAMMERS] Um
Uh Okay.
They're, uh They're
a strong unit, right.
They care about each other.
Deeply.
They have this sort of
hive mind thing going on.
They used the word "we" a lot.
They hang out all
the time outside of work.
They might even live together, like
like all of them together.
And they're they're handsy, right.
They touch each other a lot.
It's kind of weird.
Maybe more than you would expect.
Hmm.
[SOPHIE] Live
together. Lots of touching.
Emotionally entangled.
Doesn't sound like they're coworkers.
We're all in this together.
We.
We.
We.
- We.
- [MATT] We.
[ALL] We.
It's a polycule.
All four of them are in an emotional,
and possibly physical,
relationship with each other.
I was a London street punk in the '80s.
I know what a polycule is.
[CHUCKLES]
One building I crashed in
had a sextagon in the loft.
- How many people are in a sextagon?
- Mm-mmm.
Well, it depends if Bowie was in town.
That's the reason
they won't sell out Sandry.
It's 'cause they're all together.
It's pretty naive.
[STAMMERS] You can't actually mix love
with the potential of that much money.
Well, then let's make them choose
which one they want more.
[SIGHS] This is gonna be fun.
They mentioned a retreat?
Yeah. Just some cabins out in the woods.
[CHUCKLES] A bunch
of young people in a
creepy log cabin in
the deep, dark woods.
Trust versus self-preservation.
Well, this one
practically writes itself.
[CHUCKLES]
Let's go steal a horror flick.
[GRUNTS]
[PARKER] Evacuate!
Hey! Evacuate!
There's a wildfire right there.
Can't you see?
When did it What happened?
Hikers smoking in the woods.
Devil's weed probably.
Who knows? Doesn't matter.
We gotta get you outta here
before it engulfs the whole place.
Go on.
Go! Faster! Get on.
- Giddyap.
- [ENGINE STARTS]
Easy-peasy.
There they go.
Finally.
I've been doing this for 30 minutes.
See if we can scare these dorks
into giving themselves away.
[SOPHIE]
It's a bit more complex than that.
Matt clearly sees Josh Stern leaving
the company as a personal attack,
so we're gonna terrify
the polycule into fleeing
and then use their absence to convince
Matt that they're
betraying him as well.
Just like Josh did.
Then Matt betrays them,
moves the money from the joint account
which convinces the polyculians to
roll on him for the money laundering.
[GRUNTS] Yeah, yeah.
What stupid horror flick
are we doing again?
The one with the
porcelain haunted dolls?
Haunted horse that chased all the
schoolgirls into the
woods and they died.
[EXCLAIMS] Really
all horses are haunted.
It's a satanic cult.
Breanna sent out a binder.
Please tell me you read through it.
[PARKER] Wait. Was
that what was stopping
my door from closing this morning?
[ELIOT] Yeah,
I think I used mine as a coaster.
- But the retreat is almost
- [HORN HONKING]
here.
[HORN HONKING]
Hello.
Come.
Oh. [CHUCKLES]
Come, come.
Come closer.
[CHUCKLES] Come.
- [LAUGHS]
- Hello, new friends.
I'm Gwynn.
Welcome to Shaw Pond Nature Camp
where we ask you to leave the hustle
and bustle of city life behind you
and embrace the tranquility of nature.
What's wrong with the Wi-Fi?
There's nothing wrong.
There is no cell reception
or Wi-Fi at Shaw Pond.
No. We invite you to commune
with Mother Earth.
[CHUCKLES] Skylar, you wanna
explain to me why we're in this dump?
Because it's bad
PR for you to look like
you're taking a luxury
vacation right now.
[CHUCKLES]
Now, it's clear to me that you all need
a cleansing reset.
These are your hosts.
[ALL GASPING, MUTTERING]
The owners of Shaw
Pond, Hiram and Lilith.
[CHUCKLES] Oh,
we're so happy you're all here.
- [CASSANDRA CHUCKLES]
- [PARKER GASPS]
It gets so lonely here
with just Husband.
That's your husband?
[GASPS] Oh.
We love meeting new people
and with all the accidents,
we haven't been able to
make any new connections.
- Um
- Accidents?
[CLEARS THROAT]
Oh. Now,
Hiram will escort all you lovely people
to your luxury cabin as requested.
And I will take the coders, yes?
To their shared cabins
and then we will meet for
your first circle activity at the
[EXHALES DEEPLY] firepit.
[BIRD SQUAWKING]
What What did Lilith
mean by accidents?
Yeah. You know, um, like, did somebody
get hurt here or should we be worried?
This camp has a strange past.
Nothing bad has happened
since me and my wife bought it.
[SCOFFS] What happened then?
Uh, this used to be a
[MOUTHING WORDS] Cult grounds.
Cult grounds. Cult grounds.
[NORMAL VOICE] campground.
Girl camp.
There was rumored to be, um
[PARKER CLEARS THROAT] Haunted horses.
Porcelain dolls.
- Horse
- Porcelain horse dolls?
- What?
- Cult.
- Whew.
- [ELIOT] Cult.
[STAMMERING] And then a cult
came in and it was
like a suicide pact.
Some of the bodies were never found.
Yeah.
We're here.
Okay.
[BIRD SQUAWKING]
They better have hypoallergenic sheets.
What the
[FLOORBOARDS CREAK]
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]
[GRUNTS]
[GRUNTS] Is there
a reason this door is locked?
- Sometimes that door gets stuck.
- [ALL GASP]
[BEEPING, CREAKING]
Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Move back. Get back.
Back up. Back up, Aubrey.
Back up. What is that?
Hiram, what's that noise?
What is in there?
[CREAKING CONTINUES]
It's okay. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- [MATT GRUNTS]
- Oh.
Holy sh
Aubrey. Aubrey, what are doing?
Aubrey.
[SAM] Hey, hey, hey. Guys, guys.
[CASSANDRA] No.
Don't leave me out here.
- [GASPS]
- It's okay. It's all right. It's okay.
[CASSANDRA] Oh.
What is this place?
This is where she makes all the art.
[CREAKING]
[BEEPS, CREAKS]
Huh. I guess that noise
was the fax machine.
What the hell's a fox machine?
[SAM STAMMERS]
It's like, it's like a copier.
Copy comes out in
someone else's printer.
[CHUCKLES] It's like
We got one at the office,
uh, I think it's in the basement.
Okay.
- Okay. Ah.
- Um.
[GROANS] Yuck. I'm gonna go, uh
- [CASSANDRA GROANS]
- I'm gonna go and meditate.
- If I can.
- [BREANNA] Great. Yeah.
So then I'll take, uh, Cassandra, Sam.
You wanna discuss some PR strategies?
[BOTH] Yeah.
[CHUCKLES] You know what?
Uh, let's uh, let's do that later. Yeah.
Because how often do we get to be out
here in nature like this, right guys?
Let's go explore the camp.
- Uh
- All of us.
- Together.
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah?
- [CASSANDRA SIGHS]
[MATT] Come on.
Come on.
Yeah. Let's go, let's go.
Let's just go. [SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]
[SOPHIE] Hiram is going to
hand out notebooks and pens.
I want each of you
to think about the one thing
you feel most guilty about
and write it down.
No, no. It's all right.
No one's going to see.
When you're done, you rip it out,
and throw it into the fire.
Release your guilts into the universe.
What are you gonna write?
I regret that
all those firefighters got hurt.
And I know that
I didn't do it directly but
that was our company.
So
- You?
- Honestly, I, um
I regret not being able to
help more people.
- Mmm.
- Hey, thank you.
Skylar, thank you.
That's exactly right.
I don't know if you heard that, but
that's what this is all about, guys.
When I started this company,
I started it on the idea
that if we could make enough money,
we could make
the entire world a better place, guys.
All of it.
Sometimes, in order to
make something like that happen,
huge sacrifices are required.
Sacrifices like Josh.
Or sacrifices like the firefighters.
- But that's Trolley Theory 101, guys.
- Yeah.
I don't have any regrets.
Not one.
[PAPER TEARS]
[CHUCKLES] Aren't you so glad
that you found us?
[BREANNA CHUCKLES]
[SOPHIE] Release your guilt.
Unburden yourself.
These are homemade.
And I have lots of free time.
[BREANNA] Does anyone
wanna talk PR with me?
- [AUBREY] Ooh, I will.
- [MATT] Oh, no.
Much more importantly, what are
our sleeping arrangements for tonight?
[CASSANDRA] I already dibsed
the terrifying squirrel room.
There's space for another person.
[OWL HOOTS]
- [AUBREY] Hmm.
- [CASSANDRA] Anyone?
- Skylar?
- [BREANNA] Aah. I'm thinking couch.
[LAUGHS]
Uh, yeah. I-I'm
gonna take a little walk.
- [CHUCKLES] Okay. Such a stoner.
- [CHUCKLES]
[SAM] Lilith?
[CHUCKLES] Is that you?
[CHUCKLES]
Come on, where are you?
Are you messing with me?
Mmm, yeah. Screw this.
Help me. He's coming.
- [CRIES] He's coming!
- Who, who, who?
Who-Who's coming? What happ
- [EXCLAIMING] Oh, God! Oh!
- [GROANING]
[SAM] Oh, my God!
[CAR APPROACHING]
[TIRES SCREECH]
You. [STAMMERING] I know you.
You gotta get me out of here.
I got Sam's laptop. And phone.
- Uh, thanks. I'll hide these here.
- Mmm.
Hey.
Sam was a mess when he got in my car.
- You really sold it.
- Oh, yeah.
I was like a ghost
fluttering in the wind.
So light and free.
So much more serene
than jumping off things.
I had to come back two
hours later and cut her down.
I was doing air dances.
Eliot. Air guitar.
[IMITATES GUITAR]
[EXCLAIMS]
[VOCALIZING]
I'm moonwalking.
I'm moonwalking.
So, what happened with Sam?
I dropped him at the Sheriff's.
Two hours down the mountain.
You sure that's a good idea?
Don't worry. I met the Sheriff.
[EXHALES DEEPLY] So now that we've
slept it off, sticking
with your story?
A woman in white seduces you
with graham crackers,
lures you into the woods
where a ghost rope comes down,
- and yanks her into the air.
- Yes.
You have to get out there,
my friends are still there.
With no Wi-Fi.
Oh, I'll get out there and investigate
the children's Bible camp ASAP.
For the ghost rope.
Did you see their faces yesterday?
This whole thing, it
circles around Matt.
I-It's more of a cult
than a relationship.
It's abusive.
- [MATT] Skylar?
- Yes.
- [MATT] Hi.
- Hi.
- [MATT] Well, good morning to you.
- Good morning.
- [MATT] You and I have a big problem.
- Yeah, we do.
We need to talk about
your media statement.
- People are coming to conclusions.
- No.
That investment is
going to get pulled
No. Skylar, stop. Stop. Stop. Okay.
Sam is gone.
Sam's gone. He only brought
his phone and his laptop.
And guess what? There's nowhere
anywhere near here with service.
- He went into town to get service.
- Oh, no.
Yes, he did.
He did go into town to get service.
To put more articles on me
that make me look terrible,
so he can cut me out
of the Galactica deal.
And you need to fix this.
Okay. Becau Listen.
Josh started acting real shady
and then guess what?
He turned out to be a traitor.
And now, Sam is acting
the exact same way.
I think you're overreacting!
No! Skylar, I'm not. I'm not over
I'm Hey! Hey!
Can you please shut that off?
I'm not overreacting.
What good are you to me, if you're not
even going to listen
to what I tell you?
Dude!
[SCOFFS]
Oh. Now, see I knew it.
No, I did. I knew it.
This is Sam's handwriting, clearly.
And I'm I'm, um, "M-A."
I'm Ma I'm Ma I'm Ma
Matt. I'm Matty!
And this is Sam's note!
I told you!
Sam left to betray us.
Because he's a traitor. Look.
Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah. This is Josh. All over again.
"I betrayed Ma"? This could be anything.
Yeah. Sam just went to town for weed
and ethically produced Internet porn.
[CHUCKLES]
- [STAMMERS]
- Maybe you should take a walk.
- Come on. Clear your head.
- Yeah.
Hey, let's both go.
And we can
talk through our feelings on it.
All right, fine.
- Cassandra do you wanna come?
- Nope.
Cassandra needs to take a nap
before the next event. Look at her.
She clearly needs it,
and every team-building event
needs to be attended
by all four of you,
yes, including Sam, who we'll find.
- Come on.
- Okay. All right.
[YAWNS]
[YAWNS]
[YAWNS]
I'll go look for Sam.
[SIGHS]
What did you switch
Cassandra's caffeine pills with?
[SIGHS] Just sugar.
Did you get the doll?
Matt and Aubrey aren't back yet,
so you guys are good to go.
So.
How's everyone managing without
the constraints of
phones and Internet?
Hmm?
It It's actually terrifying.
I'm-I'm physically cold and afraid.
[STUTTERS] And I don't know how to
live without random
strangers telling me
they hate me and giving me
breakfast suggestions.
You see. That's perfect.
What you're craving is ritual.
Now, we're gonna replace
all those modern unhealthy rituals
- with nature rituals of the ancients.
- [SWITCH CLICKS]
Now turn around everyone.
- [CODER 1] What?
- Grab a robe.
[CODER 2] Whoa.
And let's get started.
[STATIC ON RADIO]
[RADIO PRESENTER]
mostly sunny skies.
[PARKER ON RADIO] Help me.
[STATIC ON RADIO]
[CASSANDRA GASPS]
[CHATTER, STATIC ON RADIO]
[SCREAMS, PANTS]
[PANTING]
[PARKER] Help me.
- Matty?
- [STATIC CONTINUES]
Aubrey?
Is anyone there?
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[DIAL CLICKS]
Weird joke, you guys.
[CHUCKLES] Funny.
- [THUMP]
- [GASPS]
No.
This can't be right.
[RADIO DIAL CLICKS]
[PARKER] Help me!
[CASSANDRA WHIMPERS]
Guys!
[GRUNTS]
[SCREAMS, PANTS]
[GRUNTING]
[SIGHS]
[ELIOT] Good.
Just in time for the reckoning.
[SCREAMS]
[WHIMPERS]
[GRUNTS]
Matt! [PANTING] Aubrey!
[PANTING]
Matt! Aubrey!
[CODERS, SOPHIE CHANTING] A-E-I-O-U.
- A-E-I-O-U.
- No, no, no. [WHIMPERS]
[CAMPERS] A-E-I
Make sure she heads
towards the fire track to town.
[MATT] Ooh.
- [BOTH CHUCKLING]
- Uh, Cassandra's gone.
[MATT] No.
[GROANS] No.
- No!
- [AUBREY GASPS]
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
- [GASPS]
- They're both in on it.
This is Cassandra's pin.
She would have never left without this.
My God, something happened to her.
Yeah, no. I'll tell you what happened.
She and Sam want all
that crypto for themselves.
They're trying to cut us out. Yeah.
And this, this is a message.
She's doing exactly what Josh did.
- She's betraying me.
- Mmm.
We need to cut them out, Aubrey.
I'm so sick of you.
I'm so sick of you.
How could you think
such terrible things
about the people that love you, Matt?
[SCOFFS] They don't love me.
- Oh. Okay.
- No, no. And you don't love me.
- Hey. You want what I have.
- [SIGHS]
You are such a greedy, egotistical jerk.
I'm gonna go look for my friends.
Think whatever you want. I don't care.
[BREATHES SHAKILY]
God. [BREATHES SHAKILY]
I'm so stupid
[SNIFFLES] Why am I crying?
- [RUSTLING]
- [GASPS]
[BREATHES HEAVILY]
- [RUSTLING]
- [SCREAMS]
So, uh, what now?
What now is I cut them out.
Mm-hmm. I cut out all three of them
before they can
destroy what I have built.
Um, there's no Wi-Fi, remember.
Just remember that.
[CHUCKLES]
What about that foxy machine?
You know how to use that thing?
Kinda. Yeah. Yeah.
Okay.
Can we get a message to my bank on it?
What if they don't have one of those?
So all banks are required
to have one of those Okay.
- Okay.
- What do I do?
[BREANNA] Write out
the instructions on this paper.
Uh, any account numbers,
the amount of money [STAMMERS]
or crypto.
- And then you sign it.
- Okay.
- You sure you want to do this?
- Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
[CREAKS]
[BEEPING]
[CREAKING]
Well?
- It's done.
- [SIGHS] Okay.
All this stress has really been,
uh, messing with my electrolytes,
so I'm gonna go for a quick walk,
I'm gonna grab a snack,
and we will circle right back.
Okay. He transferred all the money
from the joint Galactica account
to his personal crypto wallet.
We did it. [SIGHS]
Once the others find out that Matt
moved the crypto, they'll turn on him.
If they think he's the one
that betrayed them,
they'll spill the beans
on the crypto laundering.
Hi. Where'd Aubrey go?
[PANTS] Did I miss
the terrifying-her part?
- She ran out. Eliot?
- [SIGHS]
I don't know. I didn't see her.
Then where is she?
I think somebody else is out here.
What are you doing with Matt's computer?
Matt is losing his grip
a little more than he should be.
Maybe he hired somebody
to take care of Aubrey?
I'm searching the grounds.
I'll see if I can track her from here.
Okay. Come on.
She isn't in the coders' cabin.
[PANTS]
There was definitely a struggle.
Matt was having Josh followed
after he left.
Josh must have known about
the money laundering.
That's why he left the company.
[GASPS] I found something. [PANTS]
- [BREATHING SHAKILY]
- [MUFFLED EXCLAIMING, GRUNTING]
[ELIOT] Some sort of
maintenance shed up here.
[CLATTERING]
Something's going on inside.
[TYPING]
Why would you go through the trouble
of hiding a receipt for oleander?
Wait. Josh died of a heart attack.
Yeah, but he had heart disease.
I'm looking at his medical records
right now that Matt
has for some reason.
What does oleander have
to do with heart disease?
It's poison.
There may or may not have
been a certain South American dictator
that died of a similar
heart attack at an opportune time.
So you're saying Matt killed Josh?
Help is on its way.
I found some folks tied up
who say they own the camp.
So who were those other guys?
[PERSON SPEAKS KOREAN]
[AUBREY] Please,
wait. What's going on?
[BREATHES SHAKILY]
I don't know anything.
- Please, let me go. [BREATHES SHARPLY]
- [PERSON SPEAKS KOREAN]
North Korean assassins.
It's a very distinctive accent.
Looks like there's just two of 'em.
And they got Aubrey.
What are assassins doing here?
[AUBREY] What's going on? Please,
- just tell me what's happen Okay.
- [SPEAKS KOREAN]
[AUBREY BREATHES SHAKILY]
Oh, God. [WHIMPERS]
I gotta find a way in.
Sophie, I need a distraction.
Something fast, something to keep them
off of Aubrey so I can find a way in.
- [CAMPERS CHANTING]
- I'm on it.
Um, that's not our only problem.
[BREATHES SHAKILY]
[MATT] Skylar,
I had really hoped
that you would replace the others.
That you would be my new start.
I can see now that
I'm gonna have to replace you too.
Matt, um,
what are you doing with that axe?
That is a giant axe.
Skylar, if I had just killed Josh
because he tried to ruin Galactica
and bring down net neutrality,
people would have forgiven me.
They would have.
But he tried to reveal that I was
laundering money to the North Koreans,
and, for some reason, people
are real touchy about North Korea.
[GRUNTING]
[GRUNTS]
Now what about altruism?
This is altruism, Skylar!
Whatever I need to do to save the world.
[GRUNTING, GROANS]
[GRUNTING]
[EXHALES HEAVILY]
[GRUNTING, PANTING]
[ASSASSIN 1 SPEAKS KOREAN]
[INHALES SHARPLY]
Hey, there!
[SHUSHES] Just a few
quick questions, hmm?
[CHUCKLES]
Oh, God.
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
What happened to the money our
government so magnanimously donated
to your little start-up?
What? Your government
was the anonymous crypto?
[SPEAKING KOREAN]
[ASSASSIN 2 SPEAKS KOREAN]
[CHUCKLES] After that forest fire,
my wife and I were assigned
to make sure our money was safe.
Now, Matt wasn't responding
to our very reasonable inquiries
That's why we came out here to
the retreat and met the Walters.
Very lovely people, by the way.
And my wife tied them up.
[INHALES SHARPLY]
Then an intriguing blonde woman
lied to us to get us to leave early,
which naturally piqued our curiosity.
Was she a federal agent?
Does she work for the Russians?
I don't know. I don't know.
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
Uh, so, we let it play out.
But now, our money is gone.
- That can't all be a coincidence.
- [BREATHING SHAKILY]
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!
Please! Please. Please.
Wait, please.
I don't know anything, I swear.
[CAMPERS CHANTING]
Et tu, Brute Et tu, Brute
- Et tu, Brute
- Is that Shakespeare?
[CHANTING CONTINUES]
Et tu, Brute Et tu, Brute
Don't make a sound.
- [INHALES SHARPLY]
- [SPEAKS KOREAN]
[CHANTING CONTINUES]
[GASPS] Hiram!
Um No, this is Hiram, but he
he just owns the camp,
he doesn't know anything.
Please don't hurt him.
[GRUNTING]
[GRUNTS]
Skylar? Don't run.
I do ultramarathons.
And I will catch you, Skylar.
It is only a matter of time.
Skylar?
Matt is still chasing me with an axe.
Guys!
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[GRUNTING]
I'm a little busy right now.
[SOPHIE]
What if we point Matt at the assassins?
Two birds, one stone.
Sure. Where are you?
[AUBREY WHIMPERS]
Oh, my God, oh, my God, oh, my God.
- [GRUNTING]
- No, no, no. [GASPS, SCREAMS]
[ELIOT] Just keep heading west.
West? What is west?
I am not a wayfinder.
[GRUNTS]
You just calm down, okay?
Why don't we talk about our feelings?
No, I'm so sick and tired of
talking about other people's feelings.
Skylar! Skylar!
[GRUNTING]
[BOTH GRUNTING]
[GROANS]
Keep moving. With the sun on your left.
[INHALES HEAVILY]
I'm never going outside again.
[PANTS]
[BREATHES SHARPLY] Hiya.
About time.
[GRUNTING]
No way.
[GRUNTING CONTINUES]
We're just screwing
around with these guys.
- [CHUCKLES]
- [GRUNTING]
[PANTING] So good.
[PANTS]
[GRUNTING]
- [STRAINS, GROANS]
- Matt, please!
[GROANS]
- Aubrey.
- Is that the guy you're looking for?
[SIGHS] I'm so sorry about that.
- I liked your kick thing.
- You had a pretty good one as well.
I really like your choice of pliers.
[SIGHS] So unique
and surprisingly versatile.
You know, I think those people
are North Korean assassins.
Maybe you should run.
Oh, God.
Oh, God.
I'm sorry!
[PANTING]
[GRUNTS]
- [GASPS]
- [ASSASSIN SPEAKS KOREAN]
[PANTING, CHUCKLES]
- We're just gonna let 'em kill him?
- Uh-huh.
He's an ultramarathoner. He'll
be all right till the feds get here.
[AUBREY] Hiram?
Go. It's you.
[PANTS] Yeah.
[PANTS] He had me running too
- Yeah, man, I'm tired.
- Yeah.
- [PANTING]
- [BIRD SQUAWKING]
[PHONE CHIMING]
No way! Oh, no way! [CHUCKLING]
Yes! Okay. Here we go.
[OPERATOR] 911, what's your emergency?
Y-Yes, hello! Hello. Hi.
My name is Matthew.
And [STAMMERS] I'm lost.
[STAMMERS] I'm stuck in the woods.
I'm stuck and I'm being chased
by North Koreans,
who are assassins,
who are trying to kill me.
[LINE BEEPS]
[AUTOMATED VOICE]
Hello, and thank you for being
- a Futurilogic customer.
- Hello?
- We're sorry your service
- No.
- has been cut off.
- No.
For a new low price,
you can upgrade and get
No! No!
See how you like being throttled,
Mr. I'm Gonna Save the World.
- [ASSASSIN SPEAKS KOREAN]
- Who are you? Why?
No!
"In the wake of a
terrible fire, evidence
has come to light that Futurilogic,
run by disgraced CEO Matt Sandry,
was only launching Galactica
as a front to launder
crypto for North Korea.
He is currently in the
custody of the FBI."
[CHUCKLES] When did you
have time to send info to the FBI?
Well, after I got into
the service zone,
I sent them everything
about the murders,
and an anonymous tip
about where to find Cassandra.
The rope tightened itself.
I don't know how many times I have to
- Sam! Sam!
- Oh.
[GASPS] Sam. Sam, it's a cult.
It's a crazy cult.
There's a psycho cult in the woods.
And-And they tried to kill me.
See? This This is what
I've been trying to tell you.
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
Did you see the rope?
Rope? The rope? The-The owners
The owners, they're-they're-they're,
like, a hundred, but they
they look 35 and and they eat people.
- They eat people now?
- They eat people!
[PHONES CHIME]
[CASSANDRA] Huh?
Matt Sandry's
laundering cryptocurrency.
I have proof Matt Sandry's
laundering crypto for North Korea.
I have a ton of evidence right here!
Call the FBI! He's a terrible person.
[ELIOT] Yeah? No, no, no, no.
No, these nutters
aren't going to throttle anybody else.
And when you get here, I'm taking
you fishing on the Pontchartrain.
It's almost as good as Yemen.
[CHUCKLES] All right.
That was Jared.
- He says thank you.
- [BREANNA] Yeah.
Come on.
We got to haunt people in the woods.
And we won.
It's just, growing up,
when I saw how rotten the world is,
I just figured my generation,
we'd be better.
Or [STAMMERS] we'd do better.
People like Matt, Aubrey, Cassandra
[STAMMERS] even Sam,
they were supposed to save the world.
And they We
We keep falling into the same hole.
We're making the same mistakes.
Firstly,
Matt was never gonna save the world.
And as for the others,
they were sincere.
They were just [INHALES SHARPLY]
pointed in the wrong direction.
You know, I've been working on
that project with Hardison, you know?
- The one about how
- Ethics? Morals? Motivation?
Stuff, yes. Thank you.
And I think good
people get fooled easier.
They're weak like that.
- So weak.
- [ELIOT] Come on.
- [COMPUTER CHIMES]
- [BREANNA] Oh, look.
Aubrey just emailed Skylar saying
she's starting her own nonprofit.
Hey, look at that.
Everything's better already.
- Let's go have some dinner. All of us.
- Yes. [GROANS]
Hey, guys? Are we a poly
sync & corrections awaqeded
Edgar Ramirez owns five manufacturing
and food processing companies
Parker's trying to expose
this guy for child labor.
He had fake work papers
saying he was old enough.
It's a classic noir.
Can you be an evil lawyer for me
- one more time?
- Yeah.
Does anyone know what Parker's up to?
I'm tracking his financials.
He put all of his properties up,
he pulled out all the cash
from his hidden accounts.
Which we pillage
[GRUNTING]
Harry!
It's time to end this.