Lovecraft Country (2020–…): Season 1, Episode 6 - Meet Me in Daegu - full transcript
In the throes of the Korean War, nursing student Ji-ah crosses paths with a wounded Atticus, who has no recollection of their violent first encounter.
Where can I direct your call?
- South Korea?
- Yes.
Tic? Is that you?
You went home?
You shouldn't have.
You
misunderstood William's invitation.
It wasn't just to be white.
It was an invitation
to unmitigated freedom.
That's the currency of magic.
Something happened in the war.
There was a girl
when I was over in Korea.
Did you love her?
It ended in a strange way.
This is special.
- You believe me now?
- How'd you know that? Dammit.
You should've listened to me.
- Hmm.
- Underneath this prim exterior,
there are depths of emotion,
romantic longings.
- Young-ja Unni.
Ya-ho!
- Ya-ho!
- There's nothing to fear.
- America is here
to fight for your freedom.
- Do not be alarmed.
- There's nothing to fear.
- America is here
to fight for your freedom.
- Do not be alarmed.
- America is here
to fight for your freedom.
- Do not be alarmed.
- There's nothing to fear.
- America is here
to fight for your freedom.
- Get away from me,
you fucking gook!
God, these zipperhead bitches
are gonna cut my leg off!
- Help me! Help!
- All right,
move it off the back.
- Let's go. Come on.
- Let's go!
The fuck on your knees.
- Information is being leaked
out of your hospital
to the hands of Communist pigs.
- We've intercepted
communications
on multiple occasions
between 1600 and 1700 hours.
- Which makes it this shift.
One of you nurses
is a Communist spy.
- Which of you is it?
- Is it you?
- Oh, I know you bitches
speak English.
- I can do this shit all day.
All fucking day.
- Fuck.
Private.
Which of you is a goddamn spy?
Who is it?
- It's me!
I'm the spy.
- Young-ja!
Young-ja Unni! Young-ja!
- Get her up.
- Young-ja. Young-ja Unni.
- Let's go!
- Wait!
Wait, please! Wait! Wait!
Please!
Wait! Wait! Wait!
- Back to your truck. Let's go.
Let's go!
Get up! Let's go!
- Let's go.
Let's go. To the truck.
Get up. Get up. Let's go.
I have to turn your bed.
- You don't have to do that.
- Please.
I need something to do.
Can you do me a favor?
- What is it?
- Can you read this to me?
My glasses broke in the bombing.
Only got a few chapters left.
- Edmond gets his revenge
on Fernand in a swordfight.
Takes on Villefort
while defending himself
on trial.
Rekindles his romance
with Mercédès.
That's how it ends.
- You read this?
- Interesting premise
told poorly.
- How so?
- Edmond should not have
found out about the betrayal
so early in the story.
His relationship to Mercédès,
why rekindle it?
It robbed him
of his most interesting turn.
What would he have done
with his life
when finally given a choice?
- Find out for yourself.
Edmond and Mercédès
don't end up together.
But I see why they thought
that change
would make for a better movie.
Go on.
You gotta read it now.
- I have to take my break.
- Ooh. Ji-Ah.
Meet my friend Sung.
- Seen any new flicks
you wanna spoil for us?
- I told him
about our little debate.
Not everybody can go toe to toe
with Alexandre Dumas.
- I haven't been able to watch
any movies lately.
The only theater in town
is shut down.
I was hoping to see
"Summer Stock."
But who knows if it'll come back
after the war...
Or if we're even still here?
- With everything going on,
it must've been nice
to escape into the dark
for a few hours.
- Have you two met Judy Garland?
- Sorry, we don't mean to laugh.
It's just, the only way
we'd meet Judy Garland
is if I was her butler
or he was her chauffeur.
- I don't understand.
- In America, colored folks
are treated differently.
We're made out to be an enemy
in our own home.
- You should stay in Korea
after the war,
be with people who respect you.
- In America, I'm called a gook.
In Korea, I'm called yangnom.
That's what no one ever gives
a shit to think about.
Here or there, I'll always be
seen as a foreigner.
- Then why do you fight
for a country
that doesn't want you?
- I was drafted.
If I had a choice,
you think I'd be here?
Ask him. His ass volunteered.
- You went to the movies
to get away from everything,
everybody.
I stuck my nose in books.
I guess it just got to a point
where they couldn't take me
far enough away.
- So you came here?
- And now it's back to books.
- "He who has felt
the deepest grief
"is best able to experience
supreme happiness.
"We must have felt
what it is to die
that we may appreciate
the enjoyments of living."
Why'd you choose this one?
- It's my father's favorite.
I think maybe because
after years of oppression,
unfair oppression,
Edmond gets his sweet revenge.
I don't know, it may also be
because it's written
by a Negro man.
- You should ask him
which one it is.
- We don't talk much anymore.
- Things are difficult
with my mother too.
She wishes I was someone
I'm not.
- I like who you are.
My entire life,
my father's been trying
to turn me into someone I'm not.
I've gone halfway
across the world
to get out from under
his thumb, and now...
Being here,
this war,
it's done his job better
than he could ever imagine.
- We have to stop
letting their fear shape us.
- That's good advice.
- It's from my best friend.
- Well, I'd like to meet
this best friend.
Get some more advice.
- "Live, then,
"and be happy,
"beloved children of my heart,
and never forget that
until the day..."
Hey!
- You can have a go with her
when I'm done,
if she can walk.
- Just make sure you're not
fucking your own sister.
- Atticus?
Atticus?
- Yeah?
Judy Garland's got
some competition.
- You sure don't.
- How did you do this?
- I'd like to take the credit,
but it was mostly my uncle.
- Is he in the movies?
- Uncle George? No.
He publishes a book called
"The Safe Negro Travel Guide,"
and he gets to meet
all sorts of people,
traveling the country,
collecting information for it.
Let's get some good seats.
- Hey, you okay?
- I'm just...
I'm just a little cold.
But I know
what would warm me up.
- Ji-Ah, hold on.
Hold on.
- What's wrong?
Don't you want to?
- Yeah. Yeah.
It's just...
I've never done this before.
- You're a virgin?
I'm not.
- No, that's... that's okay.
That's not why... I just...
I just wanted to tell you,
to be honest with you,
because...
Ji-Ah,
I've done... horrible things,
things I've tried to forget.
And when I'm with you,
that seems possible.
It's like...
it's like, 'cause you see
the good in me,
I know it's there.
I've never felt this way
about anybody before.
Get out.
Get out! Go!
- What...
- Get out!
- You need to go.
Fellas.
- You killed my best friend.
Her name was Young-ja.
She was a nurse.
Your unit shot some of us
at checkpoint,
then dragged her away.
- She was a Commie sympathizer.
- Is that
what you tell yourself?
- I was following orders.
Who knows how many lives
I saved by doing what I did?
- Does that balance
how many you have taken,
the ones that keep you
up at night and sobbing?
There's no book for you
to escape what you have done.
- You knew this entire time
and didn't say a word?
Ji-Ah, you made me care for you.
What's wrong with you?
- Nothing is wrong with me.
You're the monster.
- Why'd you agree
to go out with me, then?
- Because I was
going to kill you.
But I didn't,
because I've never felt
this way either.
You murdered my best friend,
and then you sa...
And then you saved me, I think.
The first time I saw you
at the hospital,
the anger shot through me
like lightning.
And then all I could see
was a murderer.
And then I got to know you,
and I realized
how this war has torn you apart.
We've both done
monstrous things,
but that does not
make us monsters.
We could be the people
we see in each other.
We just have to choose to be.
Relax.
I don't wanna hurt you.
- You okay?
- Yeah.
- Deep in the mountainous forest
lives a nine-tailed fox spirit
called a kumiho.
The spirit can be summoned
into the form
of a beautiful woman
to avenge the wrong done by men.
- Ji-Ah, I got something
to tell you.
I earned enough points
to rotate out.
I can go home.
- That's good news.
- I can choose to stay.
- I can't ask you
to do that for me.
You hate this war.
- Then...
Then come with me.
- Atticus, there...
There are so many things
you don't know about me.
- Ji-Ah, there's nothing
you could tell me
that would change
the way I feel about you.
- Don't go home.
- What just happened?
- You're going to die.
- What...
What'd you do?
- Don't go home.
- Stay back!
- Please listen to me.
- Stay away from me!
- Please! Please!
If you go home, you will die.
I saw it.
- Stay the fuck away from me!
- Wait. Wait. Wait.
Listen. Listen, please!
Please! I'm a kumiho.
- I don't honestly understand
why I've been the victim
and been made the victim
of so many untruths.
Perhaps you don't understand
what it's like
to pick up a paper
and read things about yourself
that aren't true,
read loathsome things
that have nothing to do
with your life
or you or your heart
or your beliefs
or your kindnesses
or your willingness.
I've spent years and years
and years
trying to please
through singing or acting.
There's nothing wrong with that.
And yet I've constantly
been written or talked about
by certain individuals
as an unfit person.
Well, what kind of people
are they?
They're dead people.
But they've tried to kill me
along the way,
and, by God, they won't.
- Ji-Ah.
- They won't.
I don't know
exactly what it all means,
but God, it feels real.
I think Hippolyta
knows we lied to her.
If she's going where
this thing's leading her,
she's in danger.
I wanna know everything.
Freedom... Now that I'm Tisa,
I see what I was robbed of.
I am Hippolyta.
I am Hippolyta!
- South Korea?
- Yes.
Tic? Is that you?
You went home?
You shouldn't have.
You
misunderstood William's invitation.
It wasn't just to be white.
It was an invitation
to unmitigated freedom.
That's the currency of magic.
Something happened in the war.
There was a girl
when I was over in Korea.
Did you love her?
It ended in a strange way.
This is special.
- You believe me now?
- How'd you know that? Dammit.
You should've listened to me.
- Hmm.
- Underneath this prim exterior,
there are depths of emotion,
romantic longings.
- Young-ja Unni.
Ya-ho!
- Ya-ho!
- There's nothing to fear.
- America is here
to fight for your freedom.
- Do not be alarmed.
- There's nothing to fear.
- America is here
to fight for your freedom.
- Do not be alarmed.
- America is here
to fight for your freedom.
- Do not be alarmed.
- There's nothing to fear.
- America is here
to fight for your freedom.
- Get away from me,
you fucking gook!
God, these zipperhead bitches
are gonna cut my leg off!
- Help me! Help!
- All right,
move it off the back.
- Let's go. Come on.
- Let's go!
The fuck on your knees.
- Information is being leaked
out of your hospital
to the hands of Communist pigs.
- We've intercepted
communications
on multiple occasions
between 1600 and 1700 hours.
- Which makes it this shift.
One of you nurses
is a Communist spy.
- Which of you is it?
- Is it you?
- Oh, I know you bitches
speak English.
- I can do this shit all day.
All fucking day.
- Fuck.
Private.
Which of you is a goddamn spy?
Who is it?
- It's me!
I'm the spy.
- Young-ja!
Young-ja Unni! Young-ja!
- Get her up.
- Young-ja. Young-ja Unni.
- Let's go!
- Wait!
Wait, please! Wait! Wait!
Please!
Wait! Wait! Wait!
- Back to your truck. Let's go.
Let's go!
Get up! Let's go!
- Let's go.
Let's go. To the truck.
Get up. Get up. Let's go.
I have to turn your bed.
- You don't have to do that.
- Please.
I need something to do.
Can you do me a favor?
- What is it?
- Can you read this to me?
My glasses broke in the bombing.
Only got a few chapters left.
- Edmond gets his revenge
on Fernand in a swordfight.
Takes on Villefort
while defending himself
on trial.
Rekindles his romance
with Mercédès.
That's how it ends.
- You read this?
- Interesting premise
told poorly.
- How so?
- Edmond should not have
found out about the betrayal
so early in the story.
His relationship to Mercédès,
why rekindle it?
It robbed him
of his most interesting turn.
What would he have done
with his life
when finally given a choice?
- Find out for yourself.
Edmond and Mercédès
don't end up together.
But I see why they thought
that change
would make for a better movie.
Go on.
You gotta read it now.
- I have to take my break.
- Ooh. Ji-Ah.
Meet my friend Sung.
- Seen any new flicks
you wanna spoil for us?
- I told him
about our little debate.
Not everybody can go toe to toe
with Alexandre Dumas.
- I haven't been able to watch
any movies lately.
The only theater in town
is shut down.
I was hoping to see
"Summer Stock."
But who knows if it'll come back
after the war...
Or if we're even still here?
- With everything going on,
it must've been nice
to escape into the dark
for a few hours.
- Have you two met Judy Garland?
- Sorry, we don't mean to laugh.
It's just, the only way
we'd meet Judy Garland
is if I was her butler
or he was her chauffeur.
- I don't understand.
- In America, colored folks
are treated differently.
We're made out to be an enemy
in our own home.
- You should stay in Korea
after the war,
be with people who respect you.
- In America, I'm called a gook.
In Korea, I'm called yangnom.
That's what no one ever gives
a shit to think about.
Here or there, I'll always be
seen as a foreigner.
- Then why do you fight
for a country
that doesn't want you?
- I was drafted.
If I had a choice,
you think I'd be here?
Ask him. His ass volunteered.
- You went to the movies
to get away from everything,
everybody.
I stuck my nose in books.
I guess it just got to a point
where they couldn't take me
far enough away.
- So you came here?
- And now it's back to books.
- "He who has felt
the deepest grief
"is best able to experience
supreme happiness.
"We must have felt
what it is to die
that we may appreciate
the enjoyments of living."
Why'd you choose this one?
- It's my father's favorite.
I think maybe because
after years of oppression,
unfair oppression,
Edmond gets his sweet revenge.
I don't know, it may also be
because it's written
by a Negro man.
- You should ask him
which one it is.
- We don't talk much anymore.
- Things are difficult
with my mother too.
She wishes I was someone
I'm not.
- I like who you are.
My entire life,
my father's been trying
to turn me into someone I'm not.
I've gone halfway
across the world
to get out from under
his thumb, and now...
Being here,
this war,
it's done his job better
than he could ever imagine.
- We have to stop
letting their fear shape us.
- That's good advice.
- It's from my best friend.
- Well, I'd like to meet
this best friend.
Get some more advice.
- "Live, then,
"and be happy,
"beloved children of my heart,
and never forget that
until the day..."
Hey!
- You can have a go with her
when I'm done,
if she can walk.
- Just make sure you're not
fucking your own sister.
- Atticus?
Atticus?
- Yeah?
Judy Garland's got
some competition.
- You sure don't.
- How did you do this?
- I'd like to take the credit,
but it was mostly my uncle.
- Is he in the movies?
- Uncle George? No.
He publishes a book called
"The Safe Negro Travel Guide,"
and he gets to meet
all sorts of people,
traveling the country,
collecting information for it.
Let's get some good seats.
- Hey, you okay?
- I'm just...
I'm just a little cold.
But I know
what would warm me up.
- Ji-Ah, hold on.
Hold on.
- What's wrong?
Don't you want to?
- Yeah. Yeah.
It's just...
I've never done this before.
- You're a virgin?
I'm not.
- No, that's... that's okay.
That's not why... I just...
I just wanted to tell you,
to be honest with you,
because...
Ji-Ah,
I've done... horrible things,
things I've tried to forget.
And when I'm with you,
that seems possible.
It's like...
it's like, 'cause you see
the good in me,
I know it's there.
I've never felt this way
about anybody before.
Get out.
Get out! Go!
- What...
- Get out!
- You need to go.
Fellas.
- You killed my best friend.
Her name was Young-ja.
She was a nurse.
Your unit shot some of us
at checkpoint,
then dragged her away.
- She was a Commie sympathizer.
- Is that
what you tell yourself?
- I was following orders.
Who knows how many lives
I saved by doing what I did?
- Does that balance
how many you have taken,
the ones that keep you
up at night and sobbing?
There's no book for you
to escape what you have done.
- You knew this entire time
and didn't say a word?
Ji-Ah, you made me care for you.
What's wrong with you?
- Nothing is wrong with me.
You're the monster.
- Why'd you agree
to go out with me, then?
- Because I was
going to kill you.
But I didn't,
because I've never felt
this way either.
You murdered my best friend,
and then you sa...
And then you saved me, I think.
The first time I saw you
at the hospital,
the anger shot through me
like lightning.
And then all I could see
was a murderer.
And then I got to know you,
and I realized
how this war has torn you apart.
We've both done
monstrous things,
but that does not
make us monsters.
We could be the people
we see in each other.
We just have to choose to be.
Relax.
I don't wanna hurt you.
- You okay?
- Yeah.
- Deep in the mountainous forest
lives a nine-tailed fox spirit
called a kumiho.
The spirit can be summoned
into the form
of a beautiful woman
to avenge the wrong done by men.
- Ji-Ah, I got something
to tell you.
I earned enough points
to rotate out.
I can go home.
- That's good news.
- I can choose to stay.
- I can't ask you
to do that for me.
You hate this war.
- Then...
Then come with me.
- Atticus, there...
There are so many things
you don't know about me.
- Ji-Ah, there's nothing
you could tell me
that would change
the way I feel about you.
- Don't go home.
- What just happened?
- You're going to die.
- What...
What'd you do?
- Don't go home.
- Stay back!
- Please listen to me.
- Stay away from me!
- Please! Please!
If you go home, you will die.
I saw it.
- Stay the fuck away from me!
- Wait. Wait. Wait.
Listen. Listen, please!
Please! I'm a kumiho.
- I don't honestly understand
why I've been the victim
and been made the victim
of so many untruths.
Perhaps you don't understand
what it's like
to pick up a paper
and read things about yourself
that aren't true,
read loathsome things
that have nothing to do
with your life
or you or your heart
or your beliefs
or your kindnesses
or your willingness.
I've spent years and years
and years
trying to please
through singing or acting.
There's nothing wrong with that.
And yet I've constantly
been written or talked about
by certain individuals
as an unfit person.
Well, what kind of people
are they?
They're dead people.
But they've tried to kill me
along the way,
and, by God, they won't.
- Ji-Ah.
- They won't.
I don't know
exactly what it all means,
but God, it feels real.
I think Hippolyta
knows we lied to her.
If she's going where
this thing's leading her,
she's in danger.
I wanna know everything.
Freedom... Now that I'm Tisa,
I see what I was robbed of.
I am Hippolyta.
I am Hippolyta!