The Box (2021–…): Season 1, Episode 7 - Queen of the Box (Part II) - full transcript

First you got your nine-to-fiver,
that's me.

Then you got your Detective
Sharon Pici, queen of the box.

-No divorce.
-No murder.

Your obsession with the
Adina Ili&cacute case is

proving prohibitive to your recovery.

Word on the street, Sharon,

is that Detective Pici
is getting fucking loco.

I want a week to reopen the case.

Talk to me or let me go.

-Give me a sign.
-Is she taking the pills?

I don't know, but she's walking away.



I'm arresting you for the
murder of Detective Block.

You're gonna have to get out
of here now!

-Try to relax, Detective.
-Adina?

-What do you want from me?
-We're ending it today.

You're gonna bring my sister in.

Jed is on to us. What do we do?

Tell Jonah I love him.

-You tell him tonight.
-I'm not coming home.

-What will happen to you?
-I can stay with you.

Look, Adina, help us out here.
We're running out of questions.

My head's exploding.

Can you get me an Aspirin?

Hey.

They broke for lunch.



I think we're done here.

Can I get my coat from the locker?

Sure, yeah.

I need a cigarette.

Can I have a minute?

Yeah, sure.
I'm gonna go get the coat.

I love your nails.

Excuse me?

The red, I really like that colour.
What's it called?

I think you know.

Roses in the snow.

ROSES IN THE SNOW

Why didn't you just
let me die?

What good are you dead? To me...

your wife, your adorable boy,
this room.

I can't go back to my family,
not after everything I've done.

You haven't done anything yet.

-None of it will have happened.
-But it did happen.

To us, yes...

But not to any of them.

I thought you sent Adina home.

-Well, is she cooperating?
-No.

Not yet.

But she stays in there with Pici
long enough, Pici's gonna break her.

I thought you said that the meds that
I gave Adina were gonna end this.

Medicating isn't an exact science,
Tom.

An exact sci...

Tell me that you're
fucking kidding me!

I'll up her dosage.

She'll pass out before
Pici can do any more damage.

Jesus!

Do you think you can
get her to take...

three pills?

Look...

I'm giving you...

giving us a second chance.

If you clear my name,

I never hang myself
and you don't blow your brains out.

We both get a happy end
with the people we love.

But you have to trust me, Detective.

It's the only way this is gonna work.

Why would I believe you?

We're both still here
very much alive.

Don't be scared.

I told you red spiders are sacred.

Trust me, Detective.

Embrace them and
they'll lead you to the truth.

It took you three times to pass
the NDIT exam.

Actually, Lieutenant,
it was more like four.

It's not in the file.

-Jenny?
-Yeah, I know.

I got cold feet the first time,
I never made it into the exam...

Don't you ever blow smoke up my ass.

Now let's see who Lovell wants to
assign as your training officer.

I was just trying to be honest,
Lieutenant.

God, you're okay.

Sorry, Detective...

Have we met?

I'm new, today's my first day and...

My name's Jenny Block.

Right, your first day...

-Detective Block?
-Yeah...

Looks like the Lieutenant
wants to see me.

We don't have a lot of time left.

11:23

-11:23.
-11:23 and 17 seconds.

-What if I can't break it by then?
-That's not an option.

Because you'll be reliving your
nightmare a second time.

Why did you hang yourself?

I don't know, Detective.

It was just...

In those last moments,
everything got dark, I...

couldn't see a way out.

I've been through everything
on this case a whole year

and I can't break it.
I need your help, what's his name?

Your lover, what's his name?

Forget him, it's Zoe. I keep
on telling you, just get her in here!

I've been down that road.

You're queen of the box, right?

So break her! What's stopping you?

-You are.
-Me?

Only way I can crack this case...

is if you get out of my head.

It's the only way it's gonna work.

So, Detective Block,

you get to choose which one of us you
want as your training officer, right?

You want me, the nine-to-fiver?

Or do you want
the queen of the box?

-I...
-No, no! Shush. Don't answer now.

You think about it.

So how about you, Detective Block?

You like to sway those hips
when you're off the clock?

I...

-Uh... yes... sometimes.
-Yeah? Sometimes?

Yeah, I bet.

I thought we were gonna
discuss my training officer.

Why don't we consult my
brilliant partner on that?

-Is there anything I can do to help?
-Those boxes out there,

I want you to cut them all up.
Alright?

There's there, there...
a few in the back. All of them.

-Okay.
-Go, go.

-Hey.
-Hey.

What do you got?

She let it slip about...

About a lover,
but she won't say who it is, so...

-A lover?
-Mhm.

Hm...

And she won't give a name.
Going in for a second round,

-see if she slips up.
-Look, maybe...

Maybe you've just reached
a dead end with her.

Why don't you just let me go?

I'll go solo,
see what damage I can do.

-So you're with me?
-Am I with...?

Who are you talking to?
I'm always with you, right?

Jenny, enough with the boxes,
you're not doing that all day.

-They don't make male rookies do it.
-Thanks.

Are you okay?

-Uh...
-What is it?

Detective Lovell, uh...

He's married, right?

Mhm. Yeah, and very happily, why?

No. No reason. He was just giving me
the lay of the land and that...

telling me that everyone around here
calls you the queen of the box.

No, only he calls me that.

-How would Adina know that?
-What?

No, sorry, nothing.

Sharon Pici...

Nobody will ever love you
like your partner.

Exactly. Maybe it's finally time
that you stepped out of here.

She's got an alibi, she's got
no motive. She's a trophy wife.

You bastard.

Who are you talking to?
I'm always with you.

You're Sharon Pici.

You're not keeping up with anybody,
you're ten steps ahead.

Tom, why are you so worried?

Maybe uh... I don't know...
Maybe it's because you...

Maybe it's because
you told Pici about us.

-What? No.
-No?

No, I wouldn't.

Alright. So...

Your sister,
does she know about me?

-Hey, Jenny?
-Yes, Detective?

I need you to get somebody for me.

She would if we spoke, but we don't,
so no, she doesn't.

And the Aspirins aren't helping.

I need more of the pills
you gave me.

I just want this nightmare to end.

You've got a minute, Detective?

Did you teach Jonah to slam his palm
into other kids' faces?

Admit you're embarrassed
you taught our son

-to resolve conflict with violence.
-Shit.

I admit I'm a little embarrassed.

Sharon... can you... can you please
try to stay in the moment?

Focus on our son?

I promise, by the end of today
I will never be distracted again.

Why? What's happening
at the end of today?

Please just...
try and make his play tonight.

Please.

Pici, she can't know.
About this, about me, you.

-Of course.
-Alright?

-Tom?
-Yeah?

Can I see you tonight?
At that motel in Jackson?

You know what? I'd love to.

I'd love to.

I really would, but listen,
why don't we...

Why don't we wait, right?

Just wrap this case up.

-One last thing, Tom.
-Yeah?

I'd be very...

angry...

if I ever found out
that there's another woman,

especially if she had your child.

That's your job, right? Huh?

Thank you, Anderson.
Detective Sharon Pici.

Do you know if your sister was seeing
anyone other than your husband?

I would if we spoke,
but we don't, so no.

So my sister's trying to frame me
for her husband's murder, right?

That's crazy. Can I go?

That depends.

You and Adina are
about the same size, right?

Try that.

Can you make sure...

Three of those. I'll be back soon.

-Tom?
-Yeah?

Are you sure there's not
another woman in your life?

No. Well, there's my wife, but...
So no.

-You're leaving her to be with me?
-Yeah.

Okay.

You... Take... take three.
It'll work faster.

Okay.

And if it's a boy,
let's call him Coit, after my father.

Alright, alright. Coit Lovell it is.

I love you.

-Lieutenant!
-Hickman and Doyle pick up Joey Cox?

They got to the apartment,
he wasn't there.

That's not what I asked.
Where the hell is he?

It's hard to say.

His wife is splattered on
the pavement under the window and...

Joey picked up the twins from school
and took off.

You know what, Anderson?

I really hate
when they drag the kids into it.

You know what? I'm gonna pick up
that bastard myself.

Okay. I just had Social Services
wanting help to track them down.

-So...
-Yeah.

-What do you want to do?
-Call them back,

tell them we're on track.

Hey, what's going on?

Why is the board down?
Not taking another pass at her?

Sorry, I can't.
I gotta go see Jonah's principal.

Is he okay?

No, he almost broke a kid's nose
in rehearsal for the school play.

Shit... Wow.

But this is what I told you, right?
About the Krav Maga moves.

-I know.
-Yeah, you know.

Is that... Was that Mrs. Ili&cacute?
You gave her a cigarette break?

What?

Yeah, I told Anderson to let her go.

Huh? Alright, yeah.
So... what changed?

You can't see it, I can't prove it.
It's a dead end.

Yeah. Yeah. Alright. Okay.

-I gotta call Syl.
-Of course, I'll go...

-I'll go put in the paperwork.
-Mhm.

You're sleeping with our suspect?
And you didn't tell me?

So you're my partner... right?

And you're treating me
like a fucking perp?

Well, when you lie to me
I don't have a choice!

You're Adi... You're Adina's lover?

No, she's not my lover! Right? I was
using her to get to her husband.

Alright, so last year I...
I was undercover.

I was loaned out to the DEA.
Adina's husband was our target!

Why wouldn't you tell me that?!
We tell each other everything!

Because I... I'm a married man,
alright? I was ashamed.

What, you love her?

No, I don't fucking love her.
Look at her!

The woman is trash!
And fucking insane! Hey! Stop!

Adina!

Look, Sharon, I know
I should have told you sooner!

I don't even want to hear it.
You should have fucking told me!

Adina, stop!
Come on!

Come on, Adina!

It all makes sense now,
every single thing makes sense.

-Trying to cover up the hanging!
-What hanging?! She's right there!

Stop!

-What else are you hiding?!
-I'm not hiding anything! Stop!

No one loves you
like your fucking partner!

Is the whole god damn thing
just a lie?!

You're fucking insane!
She's insane! Both of you need help!

I loved you!

Pici, what the fuck is going on here?

Adina...

You said that you loved me, Thomas.

You know... you know that I do.

Everything you said to me was a lie.

What about our son Coit?

Adina?

I did everything I could
to get back to you.

Everything.

Just to prove to you
that I was innocent.

You...

And all you did was lie to me.

But that's all gonna change.

Now sit across from me.

Look me in the eye...

and tell me the truth.

You used me.

For what?

-My husband was always...
-Your husband.

Your husband...

was a pharmacist who shifted opioids
by the fucking kilo.

If you were there to arrest him,
why didn't you?

Because of his partner.

-He didn't have a partner.
-No, he did.

Dr. Snow.

Dr. Snow, the police shrink,
was his partner.

And I found out about them
and so they cut me in for a third.

But your husband
found out about us, Adina.

He found out about us.

And I think he was gonna report me
and cut a deal with the feds...

I did this to save you!

I did that to save you, to save us.

It was never meant to hurt you,
it was meant to save you.

You set the fire.

You set the fire, you...

used me and those pills,
that's what made it...

made it all go dark.

That was you.

That's why I...

That's why I hung myself.

No!

God!

-Did you ever love me?
-Yes!

-Liar!
-God!

Liar!

What happened? Tom!

Tom, it's Tory!

He needs to get to a hospital
right away!

Dr. Snow, you need...

you need to stop
writing people prescriptions.

Thomas...

Thomas never loved me.

Dr. Snow!

Dr. Snow!

You have to kill him.

No, Tom's my partner.
This isn't him.

Your partner was always talking about

trying to keep up with
the queen of the box.

No, that's not him.

He betrayed and lied to both of us.

You were always one step ahead.

Always how you...

-You...
-No.

You had everything.

No, this is just another
one of your games.

You're a loving person, Adina.
What's happened?

You'd be amazed how love
can be even more of a trigger

-for murder than hate.
-You're hurting me.

You need to kill him!

Bitch!

-Kill him!
-You really gotta stop doing that!

-Doing what?
-Calling women bitches!

No!

No!

Why didn't you arrest him
when you could?

Because of his partner.

-He didn't have a partner.
-Yes, he did, Dr. Snow.

-Dr. Snow.
-Dr. Snow...

Yeah, the police shrink.

She...

She was his partner.
I found out about them

and they tried to give me
a third of the cut.

But then your husband found out
about us and was gonna report me.

He was gonna cut a deal
with the fucking feds!

I swear it is the truth!
You gotta believe me, Pici!

Are you sure?

-Hawaii?
-Yeah. Oceans, beaches, rainforests.

Wow... That's far.

Need a ride?
I promise I'll drive slow.

Alright, well...

Maybe we can have dinner
and I don't know,

-discuss the best route?
-Yeah.

Alright.

Good night, Pici.

Hello?

It's me, Jonah.

Hi, babe.
I'll be up in a minute, okay?

Not yet, mama. You have to
kill Jenny before you leave.

What did you just say?

You have to kill her
before she leaves for Hawaii.

-Why are you saying this?
-She's carrying his baby.

Jonah, please don't say that.

Don't look for your partner.

You cracked the case.
He's rotting in hell.

No!

Mommy!