The Cape (2011): Season 1, Episode 2 - Tarot - full transcript

Give us the cash now!

Now!

You want to die today?
Do you?

No, please,
I have a family.

Open your register.

Don't try to be
a hero, dog.

Get down on the floor
real slow.

No problem, no problem.

Okay.

Hurry up, fat boy.

Come on, pops,
speed it up.



Take all the cash
out of the drawer.

Take it out, now, now!

Come on, come on, come on.

You think this is funny?
Hurry up, Borat!

Please, I have kids.

What'd I say, man?

I said don't try
to be a hero, dog.

Use your head, man.
You don't wanna get shot.

- What's up, dog?
- What?

That was--you--you--

how'd you do it?

- I have an item here.
- Keep it, take it.

- It's good.
- It's fine, I can--

No, no, no, I insist.



Thank you.

You're a superhero.

What do they call you?

The Cape.

The Cape?

Well...

You'll work on it.

Peter Fleming, Ark Corporation
are gonna take over the police force.

Chess is Peter Fleming.

I was framed.

Peter Fleming
has been given our police.

And now he wants our jails.

As Secretary for
the Bureau of Prisons,

I will not rubberstamp
this application.

At some point
someone in this city,

and I guess that someone
has gotta be me,

has got to stand up and say,
"enough, Mr. Fleming."

Yes, enough.

Secretary of Prisons,
Patrick Portman,

remains the lone holdout
against Peter Fleming

and Ark Corporation's bid

to privatize Palm City's
Correctional Services.

In a news conference
after today's special session

of the City Council,
the outspoken Portman joked

that he would be doubling
his own security team

until after the vote,
which is scheduled for tomorrow.

Tonight a twisted journey
into the mind of a killer.

Who was Vince Faraday?

That's exactly what
investigators want to know.

They have many questions
but few answers.

Trip?

Trip?

Hey, this was not
our agreement.

Get your butt downstairs.

He'll come.

Honey.

I know you want him
to be real.

Okay, but I'm in charge,

and it's bedtime.

Get downstairs.

Now, Trip!

Front door.

Who the hell are you?

Hello, Peter.
You miss me?

Take anything you want.

Just don't hurt me.

Don't play innocent
with me, Chess.

I'm just a businessman.

No, you are a psychopath.

People in glass houses--

Get thrown out windows.

Did you really think
that I would let you

get this close to me
unless I wanted you to?

I thought you had something.

I thought this
was gonna be fun.

Cain...

Tell him what
he's having tonight.

A strychnine glaze.

Goes down well
without the seizures.

A fast death.

Balanced with just a pinch

of red dart frog toxin

to suffocate the lungs.

Sounds delightful.

I paid your masters well,
Cain.

Don't disappoint me.

What the hell
were you thinking?

Nice ride.

Go, go!
Drive!

What were you thinking?
You're lucky I followed you.

How 'bout a little warning
next time?

I thought we were partners.

What's going on?

It's poi--it's poison.

I can't breathe.

Who did this to you?

Fleming called him Cain.

I thought you were better
than this, Vince.

Can't we just
talk about this later?

There won't be a later.

We'll never get
that close again.

If you weren't poisoned,
I could kill you.

He's going after
Patrick Portman.

- Portman.
- Yeah.

Secretary of Prisons.

Wait, where are you going?

- Hospital.
- No, no. No hospital.

No, no, they'll find me.

Just take me to Max,
Trolley Park.

Fleming's already got
the police department.

If he gains control
of the prisons,

he'll have his police state.

We have to stop him.

Are you listening?

Off and on.
I'm dying.

I'm sorry, Vince.
This is war.

- Hey, you!
- Hey!

Can't let them find me.

Hey, you!

Vince!

Vince!
Hey!

What happened?

Roll him over.

What happened?

A major hottie dropped him
off in a Gull-Wing Mercedes.

Vince, where'd you meet her?

Was it an online thing?

- Vince, can you hear me?
- Poison.

I can't--I can't breathe.

Max, do something.

Get my bag.
Breathe.

Leech him.

Uh, sorry, Max, I--
no way.

You're all making me crazy.

A man's life
hangs in the balance.

Let Raia do it.
She's good with the animals.

Along the jugular
and the carotid.

Max, what is that?

Nightshade and jimson weed.

Nightshade's poison.

Omar the wise used to have
a freak show in Santa Rio.

Drank insecticide
for his act.

Always had nightshade on hand

as an antidote
to counter the effects.

That's completely nuts.

Yes, it was.

Omar died young.

We need to increase
the blood flow.

Look at me, Vincent.
Look at me.

Stay with me, son.

Okay.

It's in God's hands now.

Tri--tri--Trip.

I told you,
don't get cocky.

And where do you want
to put your popcorn maker?

Uh...

Oh, hey, none of that.
We have to unpack.

We are unpacking.

This is not unpacking.

And now we have
two popcorn makers.

Mmm.

Mmm, no.

Keep it together.

That was you that time.

Definitely you.

Okay, okay.

You are
the most random packer.

Plate in here,
rubber bands, DVDs,

and coffee?

That's--that's not coffee.

What's this?

Commendation medal of valor.

What'd you get it for?

Surviving.

And the can?

It's what you leave behind
on missions.

We couldn't take I.D.,

no pictures, no letters.

'Cause if they caught you
out there, well, I--

I couldn't be Vince Faraday.

So who were you?

Someone else.

Someone you probably
wouldn't like.

I hope you're in a red mood,
because we had a big debate.

You did good.

Hey.

Hey, how you doing?

We found accounts,

bank accounts.

The day that the Chief died,

Vince was the Head
of Security.

He called off
the security detail

just before the bomb.

That's enough, Marty.

Sorry, Dana.

What's wrong with you?

Just trying to help.

We came here to have
a nice evening,

and you had to bring
all this up.

Oh, Max.

So how does it feel
to be a superhero?

It hurts.

Count yourself lucky.

Where's the, uh--

I need The Cape.

You need your head examined.

Forget The Cape.
No, you don't understand.

A man's life is in danger,
Portman.

Fleming's hired an assassin.

I have it.

And with me,
it will stay.

The hell it will.

One man can't
make a difference

with a tag on his toe.

So Fleming
got the drop on me.

I made a mistake.

You can't afford
to make mistakes!

Up there on the high wire,

you have to be cold, precise,
like Peter Fleming.

In the lion's cage,

you can't be worried
about your family.

You can't be afraid.
The lions smell it.

You just walked into
the lion's cage

and got eaten, my friend.

Give me The Cape, Max.

You're a desperate man.

The Cape just threw gas
on a fire.

I was wrong to do it.
You're not ready.

The Cape is the only way
I can take down Peter Fleming.

It's the only way
I can get my family back.

Not the only way.

There's no shame in it.

Go on.

I spent good money on these.

Pick up your family,

change your names,

and live a life together

somewhere other than this
godforsaken town.

You can see your boy,
he can see you.

You can hold your wife.

It's the right thing.

It's the right thing?

Spend my life
looking over my shoulder?

Teach my son
to run from a fight?

This didn't just happen, Max.

This wasn't an act of God.

One man just took
everything from me!

My name, my home,
my family.

I am not gonna stop

until I take it all back,

everything.

You have no idea
what I'm capable of.

So keep your damn cape.

I don't need it.

Have a good one.

You too, sir.

Secretary Portman.

Oh, I'm so glad I caught you.

I'm sorry, and you are?

Diane Simone,
Congressional Quarterly.

We had an interview,
and you didn't show up.

Sorry, I don't remember you
on my schedule.

Oh, it was in my BlackBerry.

Take the next one.

Hello.

Who?
Who is it, honey?

Someone for Dana Thompson.
I was just--

That's for me.
I'll take it.

Thanks, sweetie.

Yes, this is Dana Thompson.

That's not your name.

You think he did it.

No.

No, honey, I--
I have to get a job.

I need to find a job.

And right now it's just
really hard

having daddy's name.

It's his name.

Why are you trying
to erase him?

I'm not.

I love him.

Mom, he's innocent!

The Cape told me.

Trip.

Trip.

I think he's got my chin.

Oh, no, that's--

that's mom's chin.

No, he's got--

he's literally
got my chin.

Oh, my God.

No, that's a Faraday chin.

Oh, no,
that's my mom's chin.

No, Dana, look at him.

I am.

He's beautiful.

Trip Faraday.

There's been
a Faraday in Palm City

for 200 years.

Your great-great-grandfather,

he fought in World War I
in the trenches.

He was very, very brave.

Just like you're gonna
be brave.

Oh, he doesn't have
to be brave.

He's a baby.

Oh.

And your grandfather,

he was a Palm City Sheriff.

And he could shoot
a coke bottle at 100 yards.

Guns too?
What is this?

This is his name.

I nt him to be proud
of his name.

Faradays are fighters.

And they all
had this chin.

Okay, well,
you can have the chin.

'Cause I want him to be
just like you.

You're gonna carry on this name,

my son.

Okay, maybe we'll go
a little slower there.

Ah!

Ooh, whoa.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Whoa!

Whoa!
No, stop, stop!

I want Cain.

If I talk, I'm dead.

Tell you what, Linus--

Linus, really?

Screw you.

What do you know about
a hit on Patrick Portman?

Here's the deal, Linus.

If you don't talk,

I'll make sure
every trigger man

from Scales
to Johnny the Bull

thinks that you did talk.

You talked Cain,

you talked smuggling,
you talked L-9,

anything I can think of.

You just sang like a little
boys' choir soprano,

you dig that?

Okay, but not here.

Meet me at The Bottoms.
It's a bar.

- I know it.
- Midnight.

Go.

That was a good lead you just
threw back in the ocean.

Hey.

Thanks for
the get well card.

Speaking of that...

What, are you reading
my fortune now?

Cain has this symbol
tattooed on his arm.

It's The Tower,

one of the major arcana
of the Tarot.

That's good,
it'll make him easier to I.D.

No, Vince,
what I'm saying is

Cain is not some
Ark mercenary for hire.

This tattoo, this could be
the first confirmation

of the existence of Tarot.

Okay.

Maybe 'cause
I've just been hit

with a couple of baseball bats
I'm a little slow.

What are you--
what are you talking about

a secret society of killers.

I think Cain's
their poisoner.

I woulda heard about this
when I was a cop.

You've never faced anything
like this as a cop,

I promise you that.

Peter Fleming's just a gift
that keeps on giving.

By the way,
where's your cape?

Dry cleaners.

Yeah, yeah.

Pretty public place
for a private conversation.

Portman's the hit
is what I hear.

You're gonna piss me off

if you keep telling me things
I already know.

Tomorrow night.
Tomorrow night it goes down.

Where?

Linus?

Linus, where?

Where?

Don't touch that.

I know how--
I know how to use this.

The glass is poisoned,

I'm thinking the whiskey too.

So we need you alive,
Portman.

Poisoned?

How do you know that?

And who the hell are you?

Why don't you just come over
here so I can see you?

Put the gun down.

I want to help you.

Help, really?
How?

I want to help you stand up
to Peter Fleming.

Yeah, well, no thanks.
I'm through.

I've got a family.

I've been followed,
I've been threatened.

Look, somebody slipped this
under my door this morning.

Something tells me
this is not a good thing.

No, it's not.

But without you, Peter Fleming
will win control of the prisons,

and that can't happen.

Yeah, well, we are
the only ones in this city

that give a crap,

and you're not exactly
a portrait in courage

standing over there
with a mask on.

Listen, just listen
to me, Portman.

I know what
you're going through.

Palm City, it's like
Peter Fleming's laboratory.

But if he succeeds here,

it'll just spread unless
people start standing up.

I can't show my face,
Portman,

but I can and I will
watch your back.

But you have to do this.

Palm City needs you.

What are you, some--
some do-good vigilante?

Some superhero?

I'm The Cape.

The Cape?

You're not wearing a cape.

I'm aware of that.

- No offense.
- None taken.

It's not just me, Portman.

There are others,
there's an underground.

You're not alone.

The Cape.

Dana Faraday.

Yes.

Travis Hall.

I really hate
to do this to you,

but the job's
been filled already.

I'm really sorry.

Thank you
for coming in though.

I know my name is a stigma.

That is not the case.

You need me.

Convictions are off
the charts down here.

Ark's flooding
the streets with cops

who make four hours
of court overtime

every time
they make an arrest.

You're on your backs.

And as for my name,
let me enlighten you

and your super-curious
little staff here

to one nagging detail
regarding my husband,

Vince Faraday.

He never had a trial.

I am here to provide
the justice to others

that my husband was denied,

and if you have a vertebra
in your spine,

you'll give me the chance.

This interview is over.

And as for the vertebra
in my spine,

it works both ways,

because now I'm afraid
to send you home.

You defend your clients
with this much energy?

Yeah, I do.

Faradays are fighters.

Find a desk.

I murdered my brother,

and my mother,

and my two sisters.

Cain is the father
of all murderers.

Cain's real name
is Raimonde LeFleur.

Raimonde LeFleur?

Yes.
Trained as a gourmet chef.

Three young wives,

all deceased.

Spent time
in Owl Island prison,

where he was probably
recruited by Tarot.

Raimonde LeFleur.

Man, this guy's
super French.

What are you doing?

I am inside the Ark police
search engine.

Wouldn't bet your password's
still good, Vince.

Yeah, maybe not mine,
but Marty's on the other hand--

what the hell was it?

He never changed it.

It's, uh, his mom's cat
that he hated.

Flowers, Flowers.

I'm in.
Nice one.

Cain's got about
50 aliases here

and an address
2 years old.

It's worth a shot.

Okay, you stay on Portman.

And if Cain gets to Portman
before I get to Cain,

you call me.

Play safe.

Love what you've
done with the place.

What the hell do you want?

Rollo made
a cauliflower soup.

The smell alone
drove me away.

He has a profound lack
of talent in the kitchen.

Yeah, well, I'd love
to stay and chat, Max,

but I'm trying
to prevent a murder.

Aren't you
forgetting something?

Most men would have
walked away.

Not you.

My family's
not my weakness, Max.

It's my strength.

But if choose
to stay and fight,

they will be in danger.

Not as long as
Vince Faraday's dead.

Is that a secret
you're willing to keep?

This is a war.

I was a cop,
I was a soldier.

I'll do what I have to
to keep my family safe.

The Cape is just a tool.

It alone won't get you home.

Only Vince Faraday
can do that.

Don't ever forget who it is
that's wearing The Cape.

I won't, Max.
Thank you.

Mr. Portman,

thank you for agreeing
to meet with me.

Mr. Fleming, understand
that nothing can convince me...

Oh, my God.

We are fully booked,
I'm afraid.

Anna Orlando.

I write the blog Taste Buds.

Not to brag,
but we were just bought

by Mise-en-Place Magazine.

Drove up the traffic
to our views 200k last week.

I don't typically do drive-bys,
but here I am.

I'm sure we can find you
something, Miss Orlando.

Oh.

The Chef will prepare you
something quite special,

I'm sure.

Thank you.

Nothing can convince me...

Good evening.

I'm so pleased you came.
Miss Orlando, is it?

Have we met?

No.

You look very,
very familiar to me.

I think you remind me
of my second wife.

A reviewer,
you are food expert, no?

Please, you will be
my guest in the kitchen.

I will show you
the whole works.

I couldn't.

I insist.

You must be very,
very busy,

what with
your food blog and...

Writing for
The Congressional Quarterly.

You just don't know when
to give up, do you?

It's my most
annoying feature.

- Sorry, sir.
- I'm sorry, excuse me?

All right,
I'm sure everything's fine.

Sir, we should
get you out.

It's under control.

I've heard all sides.

Everyone has had
a fair hearing.

I will not approve
Mr. Fleming's application.

The jail system will remain
under city and state control.

The motion is denied.

Hi.

Hey.

Can I join you?

Hey.

You know no matter
what they say,

they can never take away
our memories of him.

We know the man he was.