Battleground (2012) s01e09 Episode Script

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TAK: Hey.
COLE: Hey, what's up?
- Only five points back?
- Yeah.
I heard Creighton fired his staff.
- He did.
- Good for you guys.
[TAK CLEARS THROAT]
I wanna apologize.
- I did something.
- You kissed her.
It was a shitty thing for me to do.
I'm really sorry.
Yup.
You want what you want,
and everybody else can just (bleep) off.
Look, I made a mistake.
But we're a great team.
We are a great team.
- There's no one I wanna work with--
- Makers offered me a job.
You're gonna work for a prick
just to hurt us?
Not everything is about you, Tak.
Honestly, it would open a lot of doors
for me.
People think we're the team you pick
if you wanna come in second.
But at least we work
for people we believe in.
I worked for those people
because I believed in you.
I hope you come back.
We need you.
TAK:
Ben.
- Sir. Hi. It's good to see you, Tak.
- Good to see you too, buddy.
- I have some bad news.
- Is the door super-glued again?
No, someone broke in.
[TAK SIGHS]
Oh
We tried to call you.
My phone was off. What'd they take?
We're not sure.
We think it may be just the fax machine.
They left the coffee maker.
That's good.
- Computers?
ALI: No, most people had their laptops.
- Everyone all right?
- Yeah.
Lindsey.
Our fax machine saved documents?
The last 200.
But they left the coffee maker.
Interesting. Has Samuel seen this?
LINDSEY: They're on their way back
from Milwaukee.
We're calling the police.
No. No police. No media. Okay?
Whoever painted that
wanted to get it in the press.
Paint over it. Get some signs and posters
from the storage shed
and start cleaning this place up.
Hey, guys. This
- stays between us. Okay?
ALL: Okay.
Thank you. Thank you, guys.
[D-DAY SIGHS]
TAK: What are you doing here?
- I'm slumming.
What are you doing, filming Hoarders?
We had a break-in last night.
You remember that time
down in Georgia?
When that candidate trashed
his own office and tried to blame it on us?
- That was us.
- Never proven.
[D-DAY LAUGHS]
Yeah. I heard about Cole.
Think he's gonna go work for Makers.
- Tough loss.
- Yeah.
Well
- Did you hear about Broden's wife?
- No.
Hodgkin's disease.
Wow.
Yeah, well, she's a bitch.
I'm sorry she's sick, but she's a bitch.
Touching, Dad. Really touching.
Anyway, Broden's leaving
the Donnellan campaign.
I thought you might be interested.
- Presidential campaign?
- Yeah.
Republican?
Fiscal. Not social.
I mean, he'd be an independent if he
could win an election as an independent.
I think you two should meet.
[SIGHS]
- I gotta spend some time with the wife.
- Yes, marriage is important.
That's why I've tried it three times.
Maybe we'll be in D.C. with Samuels.
You're not gonna win, my boy.
You'll get Madison.
Creighton will get Green Bay.
Then the tie goes to Milwaukee,
where you got a church problem.
Well, we'll see about that.
- Yes, we will see about that.
- Yup, we will see.
Definitely gonna
be a very interesting campaign.
It's gonna be really interesting.
Just think
about the Donnellan thing, okay?
He's smart, he's got no money,
and he's a little bit too honest
for his own good.
- He's perfect for you. Ha-ha-ha.
- I'll think about it.
Hey, and get this place cleaned up,
will you?
- Looks like Grey Gardens in here.
- Thanks for stopping by, Dad.
Ha-ha-ha. Hey. Oh.
I do love this slogan.
- We're thinking about changing it.
- No, it's brilliant.
"Truth for a change."
It's perfect.
May I keep it?
- Yes, Dad.
- Thank you.
All right.
- It's a pleasure meeting all of you.
WOMAN: You too.
MAN:
Nice meeting you.
Until we meet again.
- See you later.
D-DAY: Right.
WOMAN:
Okay.
Did you hear the president
talked about us last night on 60 Minutes?
Uh, he said that Ohio and Wisconsin
are must-wins for the midterm.
We're not gonna win Ohio.
It's gonna be a slaughter.
You know, he's going to Ohio.
He's taking a visit.
Maybe he'll come here too.
I'm gonna talk to the White House
about that this afternoon.
Really? Wow.
Yup.
Talking to a building is impressive.
Could I be in your office
when you call them if I'm not at the rally?
- What rally?
- The rally that Jordan
is organizing on campus.
That can't be good. Jordan!
JORDAN:
Taco. Find out who did this?
No, you're having a rally today?
- No, not till the 18th.
- It's the 18th.
Yes, this afternoon on campus.
But you haven't done anything
to organize it?
Not true.
I sent out a press release on Monday.
Jordan, you can't invite the press to a rally
and then not have anyone show up.
I was gonna create a Facebook event.
Lindsey!
He's like, "This is how you plan a rally.
You don't speak Klingon to a reporter."
Like, seriously.
[SPEAKS KLINGON]
Relax, Captain Tak.
Lindsey, call the university,
see if we can get a permit to have a rally.
- Okay.
TAK: Ali.
Can you get the rally up on the site?
Full-court press, Twitter, Facebook,
Reddit, LinkedIn?
Yeah, everything. We can't
have an empty rally on the news.
- I'll post something on LiveJournal.
- Yeah, do that.
- Spend some time on it.
- Yeah, okay.
- A few hours. It really needs to be great.
- Yeah, that's what LJ is there for.
- Oh, my God, what happened?
- We had a break-in last night.
Was anything taken?
They went through our files,
grabbed the fax machine,
which means they have
our last 200 memos in its memory.
Why are they painting?
TAK: They tagged the walls
to make it seem like a street crime.
Creighton.
People start to get desperate
when their power starts to slip.
Tak, this is getting ugly.
And it's only gonna get worse.
TAK:
Don't bullshit me about scheduling, Dan.
If the president has time to go to Ohio
and visit the walking dead,
he has time to come to Wisconsin
and put on a cheesehead.
DAN: Tak, we're trying to make it work.
We just can't promise anything right now.
- Until we rise in the polls?
- No. It's not that.
Dan, we are five points back, okay?
You're gonna need this state
in two years.
This is your Florida, Dan. Okay?
Don't come crying to me in 16 months
when you're ten points down
to some tea party asshole.
Let me talk to David.
See if we can make something happen.
I just can't promise anything.
- What?
- Uh, your wife wanted to know
if you're still on for dinner tonight.
- Shit, yeah, tell her 7.
- Okay.
- Eight. Eight.
- Okay.
I thought you guys were separated.
We're trying to work it out.
Date night.
- Good luck, man.
- Thanks.
Okay, I'll see what I can do
about the president.
I love you.
TAK: How's the rally site coming?
- Good.
I have a friend who's an RA.
She got us the quad for an hour
today at 4 p.m.
with a platform, speakers, podium
and a mic.
Great.
Your wife was wondering
if she could drop the kids off here
so that she could go get her hair done.
TAK:
Yeah, see the problem with that is--
Ben and I would watch them for you.
- We would?
- Yeah, it'll be fun.
We'll play house.
Tak, I think we should do that.
Sure.
- How we looking?
- Pretty good.
- We've got about 200 so far.
- Great.
- They're getting a little restless.
- Let them in. Let them in.
KJ: We can't. Some campus cop
is giving us a hard time.
Okay.
I will take care of it.
- Hi, there. How you doing today?
- Fine.
Sir, what time
does your rally start today?
Uh, we were hoping for 4:00.
Says here you have a meeting permit
for 4:00.
Yes.
So we're on the same page.
No, we're not, sir.
How are we not?
You have a meeting permit,
not an assembly permit.
Right.
So we're just gonna
have a very large meeting.
No, you're gonna have a rally.
Because when I asked you,
"What time does your rally start,"
you said, "We were hoping for 4:00."
I didn't know there was a problem
with the word "rally."
- There is, sir.
- Okay.
- There is.
- Okay.
What exactly is the difference
between a meeting and a rally?
Amplified music, banners and cheering.
So if we don't have amplified music,
banners and cheering,
- we can have our rally.
- No, sir.
- Our meeting.
- Yes, sir.
Okay.
Let's have a meeting.
- I'll allow that.
- Great.
Cut the Foo Fighters song,
lose the banner.
Tell Samuels
never to wait for applause.
Never?
Not till the end.
Okay.
SAMUELS:
This is the time, this is the moment
for your generation
to accept the burden
- Stump sounds good.
TAK: Cole was good.
- I like the no stopping.
- It's oddly passionate.
Like she doesn't have time for applause.
GEORGE: Can we talk?
- Yeah. What's up?
Can you give us a minute?
Yeah.
We have a problem, Tak.
My laptop was stolen from the office.
It had campaign financials
that hadn't been released to the public.
[SAMUELS SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
How bad?
It had donations
to Reverend Giles' church in Milwaukee.
Day of the primary?
Yeah.
Ten thousand dollars.
Cash?
Yeah.
You don't know how it works
in Milwaukee.
You have to pay to play.
People will understand that.
George, if it gets out that we paid
to suppress the vote,
it wouldn't matter if Rudy endorsed this,
we don't win.
Maybe it wasn't Creighton.
Maybe it was kids.
They stole our fax machine.
You know how much those are worth?
About 40 bucks.
- Coffee machine is worth 200.
- Well, maybe--
They weren't after lattes.
They were after info.
And you gave it to them.
It's the reason we won.
It's the reason we'll lose.
LINDSEY: Tak?
- Yes.
Bieder from the AP is on line one.
- That was quick.
- What?
Nothing. I will take it in here.
- Okay. Mm-hm.
- Thank you.
- Bieds.
BIEDER: Can I get a reaction?
- To what?
- Well, the Creighton campaign
just released a statement to the media.
- Hit me.
- Well, it reads:
"As of 3 p.m. this afternoon,
David 'D-Day' Davis has agreed
to come aboard as acting manager
of Governor Creighton's
Senate campaign."
Tak?
[TAK SIGHS]
Tak?
I welcome my father to the campaign.
He seems a very natural fit
for Governor Creighton
given the fact that my father
has always been an advocate
for big business
and wealthy special-interest groups.
Off the record?
- (bleep) me.
- Thanks, Tak.
Daddy, you said a bad word.
Ella, I did. Oh
Daddy's gonna have to lose a sticker
from his chart.
Maybe we can keep it a secret
between us.
- Okay.
- Okay.
TAK: I hear Charlotte.
CHARLOTTE: No, you're not.
I hear Charlotte. I can't see.
Where is she? Is she here?
CHARLOTTE: Boo.
- Charlotte, if you're there, give me a kissy.
You brought my eyesight back.
- Hi. Hi, Mommy.
- Hi. Hi, Daddy.
- Having a tough day?
- Hits just keep coming.
- Okay.
- We're gonna get through it.
Okay, I'm gonna go get ready for dinner.
- Great.
- Okay. All right, ladies. I'm out.
- All right, say goodbye to Mom.
- See you later. Bye.
- See you later. Aw
- She looks very pretty today.
- Until Daddy turns into a monster!
- Oh, my God. Get out of here.
[TAK ROARING]
[IN DEEP VOICE] Make sure
all those signs get out front, okay?
LINDSEY & BEN:
One, two, three.
TAK:
Could they be here?
- Aah!
LINDSEY: Right there! There she is.
CHARLOTTE: One, two, three, four,
ELLA: Three, four,
- five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
- seven, eight.
TAK:
I want to eat little children!
He's a great dad.
Terrible husband.
Well, this is the best tea party
I've ever been to.
MAN:
Hi, girls.
TAK: Cole.
CHARLOTTE: C-Train.
CHARLOTTE & ELLA:
Cole-Train.
COLE: Hey, man.
CHARLOTTE & ELLA: Cole-Train.
[GRUNTING]
[ALL LAUGH]
Cole-Train.
- You have a sec?
- Yeah. Yeah, of course. Of course.
I'll be right back.
CHARLOTTE:
I didn't have
So I-- Like, I waited for Makers
to leave the room.
- Didn't want to offend his elder sensibility.
- Right. Ha-ha-ha.
And I said, "Corboy,
you are a vile human being.
I never wanna work with or near you.
Go (bleep) yourself."
Ha, ha. Aw
- To his face?
- Oh, yeah, I was like this close.
- I got right in there.
- Did he get the eye thing?
- The twitch? Oh, yeah, yeah.
- Yeah.
- He was going, like, nuts.
- That's when you know you got him.
I have to toast to that.
- Are we drinking soap?
- Yup, from Kentucky.
It's a pump system.
Lot of bars around this town would love
this technology, but I won't give it up.
I missed you, man.
Well, I came back
because I cared about the people.
I-- Yeah.
I don't know. A dysfunctional family
is still a family.
We'll just run it back.
To you coming back.
You are back, right?
I'm back.
Oh, that's not great.
That's a little soapy.
You get used to it. It's pumped.
[YELLS]
Off! Away. Away, you pirates!
- Lay your hands off her, you.
- Thank you. How can I ever repay you?
BOTH:
Kiss, kiss, kiss.
SARAH:
Hey, guys.
- How'd they do?
- They were great.
SARAH: You were great?
- Yup.
Were you great, Charlotte?
How great were you?
Were you the bestest?
- The bestest?
- Yes.
Yeah, I bet so.
You know, if you want, we can take them
out for ice cream.
- And you guys can have dinner alone.
ELLA: Yes.
Yes. Yes, you want to, Ella? Yeah?
- Yeah?
ELLA: Can we?
BOTH:
Cole-Train! Cole-Train! Cole-Train!
Choo-choo!
I thought we were going all the way down.
Thought we were going all the way down.
There was this small child trapped
to the tracks. I didn't wanna--
Trapped to the--
Cole is back!
Ladies and gentlemen, Cole is back.
BEN:
That's awesome.
We need to celebrate.
We gotta celebrate.
We gotta celebrate.
We're all going to dinner tonight.
We're all going. Every single one of us
is going to dinner tonight to celebrate
that you're back, baby.
You guys are going. Lindsey. Ben.
Just say yes.
Just say yes with your face.
Just say a pretty yes.
Pretty yes.
- Everybody's going.
- Tak.
- What are you doing?
- What?
KJ:
Tak.
- Uh-- Hey, Sarah.
SARAH: Hi.
Hey, girls, you know
what would be really fun?
Let's go back to the hotel
and get some dinner, huh?
- Yeah, it's gonna be so fun.
- Sarah, what are you doing?
- Sarah, what are you doing?
- Don't. Don't. Not right now.
No, right now. You're not doing that.
Tonight was supposed to be special.
Will you relax?
I can't relax.
It meant a lot to me.
Okay.
Wait. Fine then. Fine.
- You guys aren't going, okay?
- No, it's
- Sarah, it's not that big of a deal.
- Let's go, okay?
- Thank you for watching them.
LINDSEY: Of course.
TAK: Sarah, please don't do this.
- It's not a big deal?
TAK: That's not what I meant.
That's not what I meant!
[TAK SIGHS]
Oh, (bleep), yeah.
(bleep), yeah, right?
(bleep), yeah!
That's how you cap
a perfect (bleep) day!
What were you gonna say?
The president is coming to Madison.