The Bridge (2013–2014): Season 2, Episode 4 - The Acorn - full transcript

Previously on The Bridge...

Her name is Eleanor Nacht.

One of Fausto's money people.

We grab her, we
have a legitimate shot

at bringing down Fausto Galvan.

We understood you would
be able to handle the volume.

And we can.

Then why didn't you?

I'm gonna put it
up into your ribs.

Straight into your heart.

We got hit.



Pack a bag and hang tight.

Remember the plan.

And I'm not talking about, like,

a seven-headed
Hydra, I'm talking...

Sunday school's over, Bob.

Would you like to touch?

Here?

Yes.

Did she say where Kyle was?

No.

Just that he was
with the butterflies.

I don't know what she meant.

It's Kyle.

Is it safe?



You got everything?

Yes. Is it safe?

Yeah.

I prefer you up front.

I want to sit behind you.

♪ Until I'm one with you

♪ My heart shall
not pass through

♪ Until I'm one with you

♪ Our love will be mistaken ♪

DeLARGE: Mmm-hmm.

I'm taking care of it.

Yes.

The ear, um, will
not be an issue.

He's a bright boy.

I understand completely.

Come in.

Everything all right?

I heard... It's fine.

Come in, Timmy.

How's the, uh, reattachment
process coming?

We're waiting
to see if it takes.

You haven't told anybody? No.

Not as long as you
keep paying me, sir.

Of course.

Absolute silence.

You understand what
these people will do

if you talk about what happened?

I know.

I'm sorry, Timmy.

You know that, right?

Right.

Would you like to be alone?

Who do I talk to
about getting his stuff?

No, gracias.

No.

Sonya. I'm sorry.

He... He died.

You should've called me.

I know. I'm sorry.

I wanted to be there
when it happened.

Nothing happened. He
just stopped breathing.

It's over.

Sonya.

Sonya. Come on...

Don't touch me!

Sorry.

I'm sorry. Go away.

Yeah.

This is Charlotte Millwright.

Hard winter.

I need help.

I got you some tacos.

Oh, my God, I hate this place.

It's temporary.

All right? Monte's coming.

He's got our passports
and the rest of our money.

And then what? I mean, the
money's gonna run out, Ray.

In months, not years. What then?

You sure you don't want a taco?

The wine should be cold by now.

No, I don't want a taco
and I don't want wine.

I want to know what we're gonna
do when there's no more money.

Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Look, I know it's fuzzy.

But we get to Alaska,
new names and all that...

And then?

And I get a job canning
fish, which I know I can do.

Which is good money, honey.

And you can get into,
you know, I don't know...

Designing websites
from home or some shit.

Or you can be one of
those virtual secretaries,

but very low-profile.

We save up,

we get a trailer with a
couple of acres, nice fire pit,

place for archery,

and you can pop
out a kid or two.

Eventually, we'll get a boat

and I could teach the
boys how to catch salmon

while you sunbathe on the deck
and read Twilight or whatever.

I'll get fat, probably.

You know, time passes,

and we live our
life that way until...

Until we die, I guess.

That's a good life.

What do you think?

That sounds nice.

Yeah?

Yeah. Maybe I can do that.

Alaska.

Rayburn National. Finest
bank cartel money can buy.

Right now, all we
have is some receipts.

Yeah, and a dead
Chuchito. Let me handle this.

I'm gonna get Mike
Wallace on his ass.

Don't do that.

Hi. Welcome. What type of
account were you interested in?

Um...

Small business, please.

Great. Right this way, please.

So, LLC, S corp?

Uh, we're actually... Excuse me.

We're actually not interested
in opening an account.

We would like to
discuss these with you.

DeLARGE: Um...

I'm not sure I know what...

We're from the El Paso
Times, Mr. DeLarge.

Okay.

We're doing a story on
money laundering on the border,

and we have a few questions.

It's about smurfing.

Small transactions at thousands of
ATMs to move huge amounts of money.

I know what it is.

Guess that kind of makes
you Papa Smurf, huh?

Come again?

Your bank does
this all the time.

Do you want to know where we
found these receipts, Mr. DeLarge?

In Juarez.

Next to a dead body
stuffed into a duffel bag.

Look, I am very busy. I
have no comment on...

Have you ever heard the name
Millie Quintana, Mr. DeLarge?

Look, Benjamin, we've
already linked your bank

directly to cartel money.

We got that.

I'm calling security.

Okay. Just, uh, call us
if you ever want to talk.

Just gonna grab those.

Thanks.

There are some phones
in my desk drawer.

Can you dispose of them?

I've lost track.

Um, okay.

Move back to
Pennsylvania, Timmy.

It's Tim, asshole.

Remember the phones.

Well, we shook the tree.
Let's see what falls out.

What?

If DeLarge was cleaning
money from the Quintana house,

why hasn't the DEA
caught up to him yet?

I don't know. Maybe, uh...

I don't know, maybe
somebody's slowing him down.

Daniel, it just doesn't
feel like the cartel's work.

Hey.

What do you think?
We should hit him now?

No, no, no, no.

Let's just see where he's going.

Oh!

I had an uncle
took his own life.

Jumped off an overpass.

Hit the windshield
of a semi truck,

semi truck pancaked a Volvo
driven by the local pastor.

Three people dead.

Asshole didn't think
about the consequences.

Why am I here for a suicide?

Sonya's already inside.

You gotta see what Cooper
found on the surveillance video.

This thing is bigger
than the banker.

Eleanor Nacht was here with
Yovani Garza, and they met with him.

Old Ben DeLarge
was a popular guy.

I got Yovani Garza and
Eleanor Nacht here six days ago.

Then, five minutes
before DeLarge

takes his shortcut
to the hereafter...

Daniel Frye. Hmm.

Have you seen him
since the bridge?

No. Why would I?

Well, they already
gave us a statement,

told us almost nothing about
what he said to DeLarge.

Couldn't hold them.

The nerd with the bandaged
ear is DeLarge's assistant.

All right, I'll go talk to him.

Hey, are you okay?

I'm fine.

I'll go talk to the reporters,

see what I can get from them.

Well, if anybody on
God's green Earth

owes you a favor,
it's Daniel Frye.

I suppose I'll go inform
our drug-enforcement pals.

You know what the strangest
thing about all this is, boss?

What's that, Coop?

This is my bank.

It done?

Si.

Good.

Well, that's it. We're done.

Something happened.

No details, please.

I felt a presence in the room.

And did you deal
with this presence?

No, it wasn't a person.

It was Jesus.

Yeah.

All right.

Does Jesus pay better than me?

I'll have the money
wired to your account.

Bueno.

Her name's Eleanor Nacht.
She works for the cartel.

Yeah.

She came to see DeLarge six
days ago. Do you know what for?

She do that to you?

Look, all I did was
spill tea on her dress,

and then she had that
psycho cut my ear off.

To scare DeLarge?

I don't know what she was
thinking. Isn't that your job, lady?

Well, she killed a kid for clothes
and a car, so he couldn't ID her.

Jesus.

Can't you put me in protective
custody or something?

Somewhere cool,
like Seattle or Banff?

Or just anywhere?

What else happened today?

Um...

He got a phone call this
morning and after, he seemed...

I don't know, like,
freaked out, nervous.

I checked his call history.

No, not from his office
phone. He had other phones.

He asked me to get rid of them.

Did you?

All I'm saying is blowing your
brains out at work is a rookie move.

You know, have the decency to
kill yourself in your own bathtub.

Grab a handful of
pills, a fifth of Stoli,

you throw on a little Captain
Beefheart, and you enjoy the ride.

Do you even care that he's dead?

Oh, my God, no.

He had a wife and two daughters.

Yes, and now they're sad, and
they're off somewhere crying.

Look, all I care about is
how it affects the story.

That's the only thing you
should care about, too.

We just changed the story.

We did not!

He was dirty. He put
himself in that position.

All we did was come along
and ask him a couple questions.

Hey, Detective.

Daniel. Hola, Adriana.

Hola.

I never got a chance

to say thank you for
what you did on the bridge.

You could've shot me.

Pretty sure I would've shot me.

I don't want to talk about that.

Okay.

What can we do for you?

You two were the last
to see the banker today,

and saw it happen?

Yeah.

What did you say to him?

The question is,
why do you care?

No.

Adriana?

What did he just say?

He said he'd bribe me with
what he knows about Dani,

in exchange for what
we know about DeLarge.

No, I did not say that.

Yes, you did.

We can help each other.
That is all I'm saying.

We don't have to tell you shit.

We made our statement. You'll
see what we got when we publish.

All right.

Okay.

Holy shit!

Mmm-hmm. Bank coffee.

Yeah. Delicioso.

You'd expect better from
the suit-and-tie crowd.

I've had better
at the Gas 'N Go.

Yup. Trying to
figure this all out.

Cartel dinero, no doubt.

It's a goddamn mess.

That, it is.

Serves you right, though,
for tipping off the DEA so fast.

Well, I promised them
I would. What's up?

Hey, I might have something.

I found phones in
the banker's desk.

He had some business
down in Juarez.

I'm meeting Marco
to check it out. Okay.

Make sure you check in.

Okay.

She's still not sold
on sharing, is she?

Cooper, why don't you get
Agent McKenzie a cup of coffee?

Copy that.

Hey! I thought we were
meeting back at the bank.

Do you know anything about
Clio Grupo Internacional?

Oh, yeah. It's a huge
company in Mexico.

They have tentacles everywhere.

Why are you asking?

Benjamin DeLarge
called there this morning.

Can you stop humming that?

We can listen to a CD.

You like Metallica?
The Black Album?

No.

Taylor Swift? My
wife got me into her.

Why...

Why don't you like
to sit in the front?

I prefer to sit behind you.

Yeah, but why?

So I can see what
you do before you do it.

It's a number on
a phone, that's all.

You can't just barge
into a legitimate business

and make accusations.

I can ask questions.

Yes, you can.

DeLarge had six phones
locked in his desk drawer.

Clio's the only
number he ever called.

Maybe he had business with them.

Eleanor Nacht
went to see DeLarge.

We know she works
for Fausto Galvan.

That links her to Clio.

Maybe.

Why are you not seeing this?

Do you not want to go?
I'm happy to go by myself!

Did I say that? I
did not say that.

No, I didn't.

We're going, right?

Jim Dobbs died.

When?

This morning.

How are you feeling?

It might help if
you talk about it.

I feel...

I feel confused, I guess. I...

I just wanted to
talk to him. Once.

Have one conversation.

To say what?

How much I loved my sister.

What would that do?

I don't know.

Get rid of what I
see when I imagine it.

A lot of money in
this place. Hmm.

Yeah. It looks
good on the outside.

Detective Ruiz? Si, senorita.

Detective Ruiz!

Thank you, Melissa.

Security called up.
How can I help you?

This is... Detective
Sonya Cross, El Paso PD.

We're looking into the death of a
man named Benjamin DeLarge.

Uh...

He called someone at
this building this morning.

I see. He shot himself

in front of Rayburn
National Bank.

He was the branch manager.

Oh. Very unfortunate.

Did you know him?

No. But we do
business with the bank.

We work both
sides of the border.

Right.

Does the name Eleanor
Nacht mean anything to you?

No.

She's responsible for
two murders in El Paso.

You're here about a suicide?

I'm sorry, I'm
slightly confused.

Well, it would help
if we could find out

who DeLarge spoke
to this morning.

That's what she means.

Would you like me to see
about getting phone logs?

Yes. Okay.

Actually, that would
be helpful. Yeah.

Ah, Melissa?

I'll have my assistant
take care of you.

We don't have a warrant...

No problem. Thank you.

Oh, you're welcome. Gracias.

Detective Ruiz, can I talk
to you about another matter?

Not related.

It's all right. Go
on. I'll catch up.

Okay.

She killed a kid.

Okay.

Ready?

Yeah. Anything?

No record of the
call from this morning.

Huh. What are those?

I asked for the last two months.

Why would the head of
the company meet us?

I don't know, maybe
he wants to help.

What'd he want from you?

He wanted to hire me.

For what?

Security consulting.

Many of us have second jobs.

What'd you say?

I told him I already had a job.

Miss Millwright. How are you?

Peachy.

Monte, my man.

Did you bring the passports?

In a manner of speaking.

Look, just give me the money,

so we can vamonos to
the Great White North.

There's no need to
run, Ray. Not now.

Really?

You take a mulligan
on the heroin.

Whoa, whoa! Wait
a minute, Monte.

You screw up a job, they
come for you. That's Cartel 101.

Let him talk, Ray.

I've spoken to Mr. Galvan.

He doesn't care
about the heroin.

So, we're supposed to just go back
and pretend like nothing happened?

Not exactly.

There's a new job.
Well, wait a minute, Tex.

Listen, we need to
discuss this. Alone.

Shut up, Ray. What's the job?

Let's go for a drive.

Okay, show me.

Whoa, whoa. Babe. Look,
we need to discuss this.

Alaska, our plans,

kids.

Screw Alaska.

Witch hazel or peroxide?

I'm sorry, what did you say?

Go to hell.

I guess it's the
witch hazel, then.

Might sting just
a little bit more.

I thought you saw a
good man in there, Steven.

I was mistaken.

You idiots have no
idea how to do this right.

How did you come to this path?

What?

Your life. You weren't
always a rapist.

You were a little boy once.

You ever done
anything good in this life?

One honest moment of
love in all this darkness?

I have.

And it was glorious.

Tell it, Brother Steven.

Happy to cut his nuts off,

take his eyeballs, swap 'em out.

Whatever it takes.

I want every name.

Every cop there that night.

Amigo.

Do whatever you want.

Kill me.

I don't give a shit.

Oh, you should
give a shit, friend.

Hey.

Hey.

Uh, sorry, I know you
don't like surprises.

It's all right. Come on in.

Yeah.

I got a little drunk.

You'll have to quit smoking now.

Yeah, funny.

Good memory.

So?

I, uh...

I should've called
you from the hospital.

It was important to you.

I knew that.

Why didn't you?

I don't know.

I didn't really expect
to have this reaction.

He was your brother, Jack.

Yeah. He was my brother.

What did you take from the room?

Nothing. Just more crap.

It's a good thing he's gone.

Can you feel it?

No.

Well, it is.

It is. It's over.

We don't have to talk
about it if you don't want to.

Wait.

There you go.

You sure? Yes.

I like it. I want you to.

Is it safe?

I'm not going to
hurt you, Eleanor.

I need you.

What happened in El Paso?

Yovani was inappropriate.
He touched me.

How did he touch you?

In a way I didn't
want to be touched.

So, you kill him?

Yeah.

I told him not to touch you.

He did.

I was worried you would
think that I betrayed you.

No.

I have something you want.

That means I have you.

Is the banker a problem?

No.

I think I can fix it.

Bueno.

So, we still have our deal?

Si.

May I see?

You got 10 minutes.

I was away.

Would you like me
to feed you an acorn?

Shh.

Dainty.