American Horror Story s13e13 Episode Script

1
["ONE OF YOUR GIRLS" PLAYING]
Everybody loves you, baby ♪
[FAINT CHATTERING]
You should trademark your face ♪
- Thanks.
- Oh, shit.
Linin' down the
block to be around you ♪
But, baby, I'm first in place ♪
Does anybody know
what's fucking going on here?
I don't know. I was contacted
on SeekingArrangements.com.
Me too.
So this is some kind
of, like, sex thing.
Dude on dude?
Like, we do each other?
Oh, no. Hold up. I ain't
never doing none of that.
Well, you ain't gonna ever
make easier money than that.
Listen, a boner that
knows it's gonna get paid
starts reaching for the sky.
[CHUCKLES]
Cialis? Anyone carrying?
If you ever get lonely ♪
I'll be like one of your
girls Or your homies ♪
[ALL SNIFFING]
[SONG FADES]
Good evening, degenerates.
[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]
I love the sight of every
one of you roughnecks.
[SNIFFS] Mmm. And the smell.
You changed into your
dirty laundry just for me.
You know what? It all works.
Chud studs straight from the gutter.
This is like a kink thing, right?
Like, you're gonna give each
of us a bath or something?
The underwear I got on will
cost you a hundred bucks.
Mine's gotta be 200.
- So come on. What are you into, old man?
- [LAUGHTER]
Kink ain't what it used to be.
When I was a young juvenile
delinquent, the shame and the pain
and the thrill of getting your
rocks off just went hand in hand.
But today, with parents accepting
every kind of sexual reinvention,
it just takes the sting
out of good, guilty sex.
Kink today? [SCOFFS]
Feels as fake as a butt
plug with trainer wheels.
[ALL LAUGH]
Or is this one of those things where you
get off watching us feed one another?
You want us to chew slowly?
Or with our mouths open?
No sploshing necessary.
I don't wanna see that stuff.
Just delightful smiles on your face.
Have a good time.
Think slumber party.
Have a snack.
Milk and cookies.
Freshly baked.
[ALL CHATTERING]
[MR. PHIBES] Go on.
Go ahead. Have seconds.
[MONITOR BEEPING STEADILY]
[MR. NAS GRUNTS]
- [ROUGHNECK 1 SCREAMS]
- [OBJECTS CLATTER]
[SCREAMING CONTINUES]
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[MONITOR TINKLING]
Come on, come on, come
on, come on. Come on.
Come on, come on, come on.
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
- [YOUNG MR. NAS] That's enough.
- [THUNDER RUMBLING]
Your work is done.
My lord and master.
I am overjoyed to meet you.
It's all happening.
What a moment for mankind.
And those ruffians in the
other room, that was your doing?
Yeah, I killed that witch too.
We had to get this human iguana
past 100 by any means necessary.
I got you the roughest
of trade. Thirteen of them.
Half of 'em were bank robbers,
the other half were murderers.
All of them had more crabs than
a San Francisco seafood platter.
Tough shells, sweet meat.
That was my gift to you, Dark Lord.
And this is meant to help me.
Of course. You sent me here to serve.
When Constance was nowhere to be found,
I'm the one that had to think of
a way to push you over the top.
I tried to imagine a gay Jonestown.
And if I was Jim Jones,
who was a bossy bottom from what I hear,
here was a flock that I could snuff.
Why have Kool-Aid tea dances
when we could have
wholesome milk and cookies
- laced with spoonfuls of crystal meth?
- Hmm.
What a hopped-up,
horrid, horny, hot way to go.
I admire your ingenuity.
When the last person
croaks, it will be hell on Earth.
What a glorious time to be alive.
Actually, Mr. Phibes,
your plan has hit
[RUMBLING] an unfortunate snag.
- [INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
- [GURGLES]
["ONE OF YOUR GIRLS" RESUMES]
If you ever get lonely ♪
I'll be like one of your
girls Or your homies ♪
Say what you want
And I'll keep it a secret ♪
[FAINT SHRIEKING]
You've got the key to
my heart And I need it ♪
[ROUGHNECK 2 GRUNTS]
Give me a call If you
ever get desperate ♪
I'll be like one of your girls ♪
- [ROUGHNECK 2 GRUNTS]
- Go no further.
Listen, mister. I gotta
see the money first, okay?
I can smack it, squeeze it, edge
it. You just gotta pay up front.
And-And I have Cash App, if that's okay.
Get on your feet.
[FAINT CLAMORING]
[FAINT SHRIEKING]
- [SHRIEKING, CLAMORING STOPS]
- [MUSIC STOPS]
[BREATH TREMBLING]
I just saved your life.
Now run.
[WHIMPERS]
[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]
[BUTTON CLICKS REPEATEDLY]
- You let one go?
- [MR. NAS WHEEZING]
That was a lot of work for
me to track down those guys.
I had to text pimps, parole
officers, pornographers.
[MR. NAS WHEEZING, COUGHING]
[CHOKING]
[GURGLING]
[GROANING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[MONITOR BEEPING RAPIDLY]
[BEEPING STOPS]
[FLATLINE TONE]
[STAMMERS] How How could you?
We almost got the world to
be exactly what you wanted.
You know, people always
just assume that I'm cruel.
But the devil shows
his other dimensions.
There's a softer side of Sears.
Suffice it to say,
whatever comes next
you'll be getting your just deserts.
Hail Satan!
- [EXCLAIMS]
- [SQUELCH]
[THUD]
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[GRUNTS SOFTLY]
Everything you ever
desired, faithful servant
except in hell.
[DOGS BARKING, WHINING]
[WHINING]
[BARKING CONTINUES]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[BARKING CONTINUES IN DISTANCE]
New patient alert.
Nan,
don't you need a break or something?
Or, like, a snack?
Some string cheese?
No.
- Guess what?
- What?
- It's a shih tzu.
- [SOFTLY] Oh, God.
Meet Patsy.
Nan, I told you to stop naming them.
It makes it a hundred percent
worse for me when you name them.
- [NAN VOCALIZES]
- [PATSY WHINING]
There you go.
Night night, Patsy.
Now?
Yeah.
[PATSY WHINES]
Sweet, sweet, sweet little Patsy. [SOBS]
You sweet, darling dog.
You perfect creature. I'm so sorry.
You don't deserve this. [SNIFFLES]
But I promise, wherever you're
headed, it is so much better than this.
[SOBS] With lots of furry friends and
shoes to chew on.
[CRIES, SOBS]
And so many kisses and so much love.
[SOBS] Nan!
Nan, are you ready?
[CRYING] I have to get this
over with. Goddamn it. Please.
[SOBBING]
[YOUNG MR. NAS,
RUMBLING] Let's let this one live.
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[PATSY GROWLING]
Oh.
You really are the worst, aren't you?
[CHUCKLES] Yes.
I knew your hell would be an
endless shift at a kill shelter.
And you delighted in it, didn't you?
You absolute monster.
Do I look like a monster? Look at me.
You'll see some good
if you bother to notice.
Evil can be hypnotic. Erotic.
Be open to all of my possibilities.
I sure am.
[RUMBLING] Now, kneel.
Never.
I would rather stay here
in hell than bow to you.
Surrender, you stubborn witch.
- No.
- And close your eyes.
Trust me.
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[YOUNG MR. NAS] Hmm.
Just disgusting, isn't it?
Your huddled masses
yearning to breathe free.
I mean, what did I even want
with this shithole anyway?
You can keep your precious Earth.
I don't want it anymore.
Well, what do you want from me?
You want me to sit here and
watch as you rain hellfire on this city?
Will I be smelling brimstone?
[CHUCKLES] No.
With my 100th birthday fast approaching,
I decided to keep things simple.
- I ended the game.
- "The game."
We are nothing but sport to you.
Correct.
Managing humans? Billions of them?
No, thank you.
I much prefer the
tempting, the tormenting,
remaining a menace among
the good, the great game of it all.
I can't tell whether
you're really giving it up
or whether you're as
committed to sadism as ever.
[SCOFFS]
Well, call it a satanic midlife
crisis that lasted nearly a century.
But admit it.
You never would have gotten
out of your hellscape without me.
Not even with a twitch of
that witchy little nose of yours.
I could have damned
you for all eternity.
So just say it.
[ECHOING] I won.
I will never give you that satisfaction.
[CHUCKLING]
You've got spunk, you know that?
I like it. I always have.
Not enough spunk to kill you.
Kill me?
That's like killing a metaphor.
Impossible.
You see, evil thrives where
good thinks that it's triumphed.
As soon as you think I'm
gone, I'm gaining on you.
That's not true.
Evil starts out small
and builds momentum.
The world is way more fun
with chaos always lurking.
Just like it's more
interesting with you in it
Cordelia Goode.
The virtuous will always
rise up against you.
[LAUGHS] You're relentless.
You're also my offspring.
So I look forward to watching how those
inner demons wrestle inside of you.
Bucket after buttery bucket of popcorn.
Now [EXHALES DEEPLY]
get back to your Coven.
I'm even gonna toss you the keys to that
tomb with a view on the Upper West Side.
Call it your slice of the inheritance.
But fortify yourselves,
because you never know when
you're gonna see your
dear old granddad again.
Maybe when you least expect me.
[KISS ECHOES]
[WHISTLING]
Cordelia! Cordelia!
- [GASPS] Oh, God, thank you.
- Queenie.
Oh, Queenie.
[SIGHS]
You know I could never live
in a world without you in it.
But how?
How are you here?
Ben. It was Ben. He
came and got me from hell.
You did it, right?
Right? Cordelia, please.
No, no, no. Please tell me we won.
Please!
No.
But as far as I can tell,
we have not lost everything.
We still lost!
How long can we keep
fighting this fucking fight?
We may have to fight
this until the end of time.
I am just asking you
to give me a minute.
The sun is out.
The light has found us.
So, please, let's just
live in it for a little while.
- [STAMMERS]
- Please.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[MALLORY SPEAKING LATIN, FAINTLY]
Mallory.
What are you doing?
What I should have done months ago.
Tempus Infinitum.
No.
There's knowledge out
there, scattered across time.
Something that could end him for good.
It's too dangerous.
There should only be one
Supreme in this timeline.
It's not safe for you if I stay.
It is not safe for us if you go.
You cannot leave us.
We need you here.
[SOBS] I'll come back.
You can't know that.
I promise.
- Mallory, Mallory, don't.
- Tempus Infinitum!
Mallory, don't!
Don't!
[BOTH EXHALE DEEPLY]
That should've felt better.
Um, thanks.
- Oh. Sorry.
- [CHUCKLES]
I just mean, with everything going on,
sneaking away feels a little skanky.
- [CHUCKLES]
- [SIGHS]
- [GRUNTS]
- Um
- Ma-Madison?
- What?
I think the condom broke.
You've gotta be fucking kidding me.
I know. But, hey, I'm here.
Honestly, whatever
happens, we will figure it out.
- Ben.
- What?
What's happening?
[GASPS, SCREAMS]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
- [YELPS]
- Whoa. Oh, God.
- [SCREAMING]
- [CREAKING, CRACKING]
- [ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]
- Uh
- Benjamin, help! [SCREAMING]
- I'm here. I'm here.
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING, POPPING]
- [CONTINUES SCREAMING]
- [PANTING]
[CRACKLING CONTINUES]
- Push. You got this.
- [WHIMPERING]
Push for me.
- [WHIMPERS]
- One, two, three.
[SCREAMS]
[PANTING] Okay, another one.
Give me one more. One more.
Ready? One, two
[SCREAMS]
- [SQUELCHING, CRACKING]
- [ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
[BEN GRUNTS]
[PANTING] Here.
[BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY]
It's not breathing.
Come on. Baby. Come on.
Come on. Hey. You're good.
[YOUNG MR. NAS, ECHOING] Allow me.
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[MADISON, BEN BREATHING HEAVILY]
- [SMACK ECHOES]
- [BABY SPLUTTERS, CRIES]
[MADISON CHUCKLING]
[EXHALES DEEPLY] There we are.
[BABY FUSSING]
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
Mmm. All my progeny have
had their flaws and failures.
Antichrists with their own ideas.
Nuisances, mostly.
But, Ben, perhaps you've
just redeemed yourself.
And thank you, Ms. Montgomery.
- This baby has star power.
- [CHUCKLES]
Congratulations.
It's a girl.
- [SOFTLY] Hey.
- [CHUCKLES, SNIFFLES]
- It's okay. I know. I know.
- [BABY COUGHS]
[SIGHS]
[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC STOPS]
[FAINT CHATTERING]
Make sure you get
all the corners, child.
Bad spirits lurk in each crevice.
["HOME" PLAYING]
And may I suggest that you
imagine all your possibilities
without such metal?
No one with a face like yours needs
to hide behind the work of a blacksmith.
[FLAME WHOOSHES]
We are home ♪
[CORDELIA] Dearest Mallory,
I leave you this letter with the hope
you will discover it in the future.
Time moves differently
for you now, I imagine.
You have to feel it in your
spleen, you know. The anger.
And then [INHALES]
send it out from there.
[CORDELIA] Some of our Coven chose
to remain in New Orleans, as you know.
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
[CORDELIA] There will
always be new witches
who need our house of instruction.
[GRUNTS, EXCLAIMS]
[BOTH LAUGH]
Well, hot damn.
You mean, all this time,
I could have burst a man
or a haunted fucking house into flames
with just a flick of my wrist? [LAUGHS]
We are home ♪
[CORDELIA] So we left the walls
we knew to make new connections.
To open ourselves to the wider world.
To welcome twists of fate.
Evil forces the good to rise
up, to gather what's broken,
to build something better
and brighter than before.
I once met the darkness with fear,
but now it gives me purpose.
I'm reborn again ♪
[CORDELIA] Anything
worthwhile demands the best of us,
whether it's saving the world
or simply showing up for
the ones who need us most.
But a Coven always
survives the same way.
With one woman reaching
out a hand to another.
So we reach out across the city,
onto its streets and into its shadows.
That is how our Coven now grows.
Wrapped inside a cocoon
Made of flesh and bones ♪
Doesn't really matter
Where you come from ♪
[CORDELIA] Though, perhaps
none of this surprises you, Mallory.
In any case,
you know where to find us.
Home ♪
[CORDELIA] Every day,
I pray you'll come home.
[SONG ENDS]
[SPEAKING LATIN]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[WATER BUBBLING]
- [EXCLAIMS]
- [GASPS]
[BOTH PANTING]
Oh You came back.
I promised you I would.
Come.
[BOTH PANTING]
What is this dress you are wearing?
Salem chic.
God, you would love it there, Cordelia.
And I did so much good.
I stopped the trials and helped
our sisters burn the wicked.
You discovered a new spell.
Yes, I did.
Tell me.
I danced under the maple leaves with
their Coven under the light of the moon.
And our sisters gave us
the gift of neglected sorcery.
A 17th-century spell
that just might do the trick.
Turns out, Sarah
Good and all her trickery
helped inspire the magic of Dorian Gray.
But to complete the spell,
we will need someone's help,
though they may not
be willing to give it.
[SOFTLY] What?
It will require the ultimate sacrifice.
[THUNDERCLAP]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[THUNDERCLAP]
[BOTH SPEAKING LATIN]
What's happening? [PANTING]
God, I was just on a diaper run.
Why did you guys bring me here?
We need you, to help save the world.
And you are the only one who can help.
Because I am the son of Satan?
Yes, the Antichrist.
But there have been others before you.
Caligula, Xerxes the Great,
Attila the Hun, Torquemada,
King John, Napoleon, Leopold II,
Stalin, Franco, Mussolini, Hitler
Michael Langdon.
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
Altogether, 12 before you.
Making you lucky number
Thirteen.
[MALLORY] The most powerful of them all,
which is why we need you to
destroy your father once and for all.
You found something?
[CHUCKLES]
Good. Christ. Okay. Tell me.
[STAMMERS] Tell me what I
can do. I'll do anything. Anything.
Tell me what it is.
You must end your existence.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[SCOFFS]
But You
You're asking me to give up everything.
I just became a
I just had a daughter. I don't
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
- I just fell in love.
- Yes.
It is the ultimate sacrifice.
It is you truly denying your birthright.
It is a refusal of everything
that he stands for.
[BREATH TREMBLES]
[MALLORY] His blood
runs through your veins,
filled with all of his
power for hurt and hate.
But by destroying yourself,
you'll destroy that power.
[INHALES SHAKILY] Cordelia.
You're not gonna ask
this of me and Madison.
Please.
[SOBBING SOFTLY]
- Do you think I have a choice?
- [WHIMPERS]
[CORDELIA] Trust me. I know the cost.
I will have to look into Madison's eyes.
I will have to tell her
that I asked you to do this.
I will have to tell her it was me.
Then don't.
- But she will understand.
- [BREATH TREMBLING]
And she will be so very proud.
[SOBBING]
[CRYING, SNIFFLING]
Ben
I am very sorry,
but the more difficult, the
more power it will summon.
And we will need all of it we can get.
They will know you left them because
of how much you love them, Ben.
But there truly is no time.
We must do this now,
before he catches on to us.
Me with a daughter.
What are we supposed to even do?
No one taught me how
to be a good parent.
Maybe we can make the
world a better place for her.
Give her parents a fighting
chance at keeping her safe.
[BABY FUSSING]
- [CHUCKLES]
- [SOFTLY] Hey.
[CRYING]
[SNIFFLES]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[EXHALES SHAKILY]
Tell me.
Tell me what I have to do.
Come.
[YOUNG MR. NAS] Care to
share what the fuck you're doing?
[THUNDERCLAP]
You missed me?
All humans long for the
thrill of temptation in the end.
We are not your average humans.
We are witches.
But not just any witches.
Two Supremes united today for
a brief period in a single timeline.
That is how powerful we are.
And together, we realized our mistake.
- Which is?
- To let you go on, destroying our world.
To accept the fact that good
cannot exist without you, without evil.
Well, that may be your philosophy,
but it is not ours. Not anymore.
We want you gone. Forever.
And with you, wars, pain and suffering.
And, uh, how do you plan on exiling me?
Hmm? You shot your shot. You failed.
You witches have had
centuries to try something clever.
You're out of clever.
- What about folk magic?
- Folk magic?
- Courtesy of Old Salem.
- [SCOFFS] How charmingly pathetic.
Ever heard of the Vinculis spell?
It chains the soul to
whatever it truly desires.
Angels are perfect, pure beings
without the need for a soul.
You gave up that
perfection when you rebelled.
God cast you down into hell.
- Gave you a soul.
- [BEN BREATHING SHAKILY]
An eternal life force that
could experience pain.
And pleasure.
You can't resist being
looked at, admired.
Nothing would please you more
than being called a masterpiece.
[LAUGHS]
You dumb bitches don't got the juice.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[BEN] They do
if they have my help.
Ben, what are you doing? Put that down.
You just became a father.
And I will not let my daughter
grow up in a world with your evil in it.
We've been afraid
of you for far too long.
But no more. Goodness reigns supreme.
You fucked with the wrong Coven.
- [MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
- [GRUNTS]
Let my blood be a symbol of
all that is righteous and good.
Let the spilling of it bestow the spell
with the everlasting
power of that light.
Fuck you, Dad.
All my life I've been
afraid of the number 13.
But I am afraid no longer.
It is more than a fear.
It is more than my number.
It is my destiny. The
purpose of my life.
[MALLORY, CORDELIA] Vinculum Picturae!
[MUSIC STOPS]
[BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY]
Judas, the deadly betrayer.
[CORDELIA] The devil himself.
Forever the 13th guest at the table.
So now, we keep watch.
No.
He's already taken enough from us.
[HAUNTING MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
[MUSIC FADES]
[BELL RINGING]
["TONIGHT YOU BELONG TO ME" PLAYING]
- I know ♪
- I know ♪
You belong ♪
It's tight, but it'll hold this time.
Finally, finally.
Okay. Busty, say the
line with double the gusto.
And on this next take,
when you hit Brutus,
I wanna see some blood.
He's biker deity.
The ultimate meal penalty.
Give him what he deserves.
Motor Psychos from Hell, take 7,894.
Gonna get it this time, Mr. Phibes.
Vroom, vroom.
Oh, I could do this for
eternity. [CHUCKLES]
Okay, take your places.
And action!