The Nevers (2021–…): Season 1, Episode 11 - Ain't We Got Fun - full transcript

You're gonna need it

nope.. sorry no

You're gonna need it

Oh what the fuck is this? a sim

Some kind of test? a dream sequence?

Listen, the Galanthe's out, Maladie wants to kill

if she hasn't already I don't have time

for a drink with my dead selves right now

right now there'll be a scene where the code doesn't match up and that's my way out

First stage of grief

Denial



Doesn't she know she's dead?

Not dead

You got to consider it at least

I killed myself, Baker here killed herself

It's only a matter of time

before you join us

Okay how did I even get here? I was in the water I was

God makes his plan so here we are

When you say God you mean the big shiny

space elephant right hmm cause that's where our faith belongs

this isn't a sim is it? this is the Galanthe

it's an escape room for multiple selves

unlock my inner battles to see the truth or whatever

Remember when we were sent to combat shrinks



from pits in early days before they started just dosing

Yea cause that helped

That's what's it is

all right, I know how this works, empathy

hey you were doing your job

forgive yourself and let it go

I don't know anything about you

I'm sorry that your life sucked too

thanks for the body

fuck

my father refused to allow me to hunt

one summer I decided to become an expert

on the Fox

the gamekeepers taught me every detail of their fertile lives

I studied their prey and their range

their habits and habitat I learned to track

them in my own time until I found every Fox's earth within 15 miles of the house

I'd done all this so that when the morning came

the horns blew

the young men took to their steeds to follow my father

to follow the baying pack

I already knew where the Fox was going

so I waited there ahead of the dogs

ahead of the hunt

making the kill myself

and when my father eventually arrived

I held up that blooded rag of an animal

and demanded his appreciation

the art of the hunt gentlemen, is to be ahead of the pray

Quiet!

You pushed me

I was a child

we all need to be relieved of our burdens once in a while

help

Help us please

Hello, please

please we need your help, we have a touched.. girl

we rescued her, she's in my carriage

it's all right I know him, Lord swan

please?

- where's Heratio - where's mrs. True?

so you're the tof who runs the ferrimans.. Lord Swan

I always thought that was a fake title to be honest

look I know what you must think about me

but I want her to be safe she deserves that at the very least

perhaps I could make a donation

does it count as a donation if you made it off the backs of the touched to start with?

no we don't need money Lord swan we need

advocacy, we need somebody to actually pay attention to us and listen

No honestly, I'm listening

there is an amendment going through the House of Lords today, you could speak out against it

whose amendment may am I asking

Lord Masson's

the father of the girl you just kidnapped and brought to our doorstep

you didn't tell me that..

it's not gonna help things is it

I think it might though

I found this, at Masson's

He was looking for a cure for his daughter

using some doctor to dig around in the touched

for an answer

this woman here was the primary case study, he took her from an asylum

the doctor carved her up but she kept on living, now if I can find her

we'll have something on Masson, have something real

you might be right but it's not gonna stop the amendment

we need somebody in the House of Lords to speak out against it

and we need them to do it today

look the Lord's is little more than a pageant anyway

real decisions are made around tables and smoke-filled cabal's

far from public eyes as possible

Would you have a seat at any of these tables

the swans do tend to yes

fine

tell me about this amendment

have you much further to go? or will I be getting

the full opera tonight

it's by Verdi, it's a beautiful art of faith, an act of penance

you often pay penance? penance

I have no shame in my faith if you mean to imply that I should

we needn't be enemies mrs Adair

I was merely pointing out the contradiction in being a

religious scientist

no more contradictory than a doctor who does only harm

well science is about proof religion is about

I don't know kneeling

prayer, guilt

science can be like a prayer

if you ask the right questions he listens he slowly reveals

the extraordinary plan of his universe

he is charming this wide-eyed earnest thing

but

there's no need to lie to me

soon there will be no secrets between

the three of us

three?

the Holy Ghost of course

oh don't frown

we'll be there soon

communion that will enrapture us all

oh you've already met my boys

yes, many times

oh yes I have you and your your friend to thank

for all of those repairs

you should know that I won't leave my conscience at the door just to satisfy curiosity

look Eve is in the garden, right?

and the snake comes to her with the Apple

all of that knowledge all of that power in exchange

for just one mouthful

and humanity bears a burden of that sin forever after

it's not the compelling argument you think it is

how is this for a compelling argument

your holy book says, eve takes a bite of that Apple, give some to her fellow and

paradise ends. I say eve chomps down on that fruit and

everything begins

can you speak?

How do you do that?

What? this?

practice

control

discipline

all things you can learn here

my father said I was the only one

no darling, you ain't special

What was it like? with your family, when they found out

I had three sisters younger ones

annoying, stubborn, a bit scary you don't like them we're on our own we didn't have much

we did alright for a while then there was one winter where it was just

so cold I tried to keep them warm to keep them safe but

they died

yeah

I'd have given anything to have had this gift back then

I wish I could make fire, I could burn down my house burn down that prison

in the past

the past is where we learn

and where we hurt, I want it all in ashes

now what is that?

I'll tell you what it isn't

no I think I'd rather you tell me what it is

huh yes

Hugo, hey you wear this earpiece, and I'll wear the other one and that way

I can feed you the arguments when you get lost

you can't be serious

this will never work

these people loathe me, Madison considers me to the scourge of class

he and his cronies won't listen to anything I have to say

no matter how convincing your demagogue ears

anyone can win an argument you just need to know what the other person wants

if you had any integrity

integrity is the luxury of the poor I have none

you have the wrong man for the task I'm sorry but this is a terrible mistake

no no no no this is your responsibility

you're afraid

why did you save that little girl

because it seemed like the humane thing to do

you took a risk

a risk? do you not see what he was doing to her

she adored him and he put her in a cage like an animal, a monster

my father was exactly the same

my only regret about his death is that I didn't actually

ever get to tell him sthat he was the monster

so

Carpe, bloody diem.

Ow!

Oh, shit.

Sorry.

Ow!

Really ow!

Please, we don't have much, take whatever you want, please don't hurt me.

Oh, you've come for tea, haven't you?

Well,

we'll

just have to make do with bread and butter.

This is your house?

Yes.

Oh, we've lived here for years, only, well, I've been away, you see, so I'm all at sixes and sevens.

Why don't you sit down?

Can you feel her?

Is she reaching out to you?

Telling me what she needs?

She?

Oh, I cannot wait to finally introduce you

my mother.

Right, sorry.

Sit.

Sit!

Mother's only half there.

In the wires, you can feel her.

It's just her spirit, it's just her trembling soul.

But you can finish this.

And then we can divert all that energy into a new body, and we can prize her from the maw of death itself.

That's what you were trying to do with your boys?

Yes, exactly.

Early attempts, crude.

I don't have your expertise, you see, I'm just a doctor.

I could not get the transfer right.

And humans aren't strong enough for the grand dame.

She roasted them inside out within hours.

But

I found uses for them.

I can't abide waste.

What if the cells are already in those bodies?

Oh, just a casualty of science, my dear.

The cells aren't the domain of science.

This is where our two beliefs meet.

God bakes his plans, so here we are

So here we are

The problem is, if we fall back, free life catches up before we make it to the pods.

And if we don't, they have twice the numbers, so they just pick us off.

So what did you do?

She left her husband and her wife and 30 others to hold the line

while she and two other high rags got out of Edinburgh.

Last surrender of that war for us that wasn't just losing.

Was just losing though.

I couldn't take them with me.

But you never quite managed to leave them behind.

All that guilt, all those ghosts.

Nothing that an ice cold can of necro couldn't fix.

It isn't funny, you killed yourself.

We killed ourselves.

You know,

when I was down there in the water,

sinking deeper and deeper, I remember thinking

What?

Before it ended, I remember wishing.

Another chance.

Another breath.

One more.

Is that how you felt?

No.

I'm sorry we haven't any tea. That was our only teapot.

Lester will be so disappointed.

Where is your husband?

Mrs.

Eason, we did say. Of course he did.

I did know.

I simply can't remember.

It's tough.

Does Mr. Eason have any concerns about your memory?

He says I haven't been the same since the sanatorium.

I can't remember where he...

Does Stroman's asylum ring any bells?

That was the first one. The nice one. The other, I don't remember it so well.

Do you remember Dr. Haig?

Was he the American gentleman? Americans are very polite.

Do you like jam? I love it.

I once ate a whole pot.

But don't tell Lester.

Please don't tell Lester.

Don't draw attention to it.

I draw enough attention as it is.

You do not want to let them beat you or talk over you. Remember, you're one of them.

That's what worries me.

If we maintain a high alert without panicking the populace, we can bring this matter under control swiftly.

However, the last thing we need is any interruption from gangs of the touched.

They must know that there is no strength in numbers, only punishment.

We must ensure this amendment is passed now.

This isn't about politics, man. This situation is completely unprecedented.

All the more reason to trust in politics.

Even without unanimous consent, it appears we have the votes.

Not all the votes.

What are you doing, Swan?

Taking my father's seat where he is unable to attend.

Your father is dead.

Well, then I may be here for some time.

He has the right, and the prince is absent.

Bettina's lumbago has a curious tendency to flare when our meetings concern the touched.

I'm afraid you're a little late, Swan. Our business here is all but concluded.

It is the will of this assembly that the touched amendment, the Prosperity of London bill, be passed tonight.

Hurry up.

Yes, yes, yes, yes. So, um...

Gentlemen.

We have all seen the unrest in the streets following Melody's hanging.

We all care about the safety of our citizens.

We all care for the safety of our citizens.

But the problems were not caused by her death, but rather by those of us in power intent on making a spectacle of the touched.

It comes as no surprise that you would attack your peers to defend dissidents and terrorists.

Terrorists?

But do you know how many of the touched are children?

Do you know how many of the touched are children? Where are they to go?

Your new law makes their only safe haven in this city illegal.

Oh, be quiet, you bloody reprobate. I've half a mind to show you the...

Well, the fact that you have a mind at all is the most debatable topic at this table.

This is not vaudeville, Swan.

Stop it. You need to get them on your side, Hugo.

The beast itself is on the loose.

Sorry.

What's happening? What is it?

Sorry, what am I looking at?

A monster of unknown power and ferocity.

Are you sure?

We do not have the luxury of debating this further.

Those who are capable of finding and eliminating this threat must be allowed to do so without intervention from your verminous touched.

Hmm.

Hang on.

You're no stranger to monsters, though, are you, Lord Massen?

No, no, no, no, no. This isn't what we discussed. This isn't what we're supposed to be doing, Hugo.

You shame yourself and your family name with this display.

Indeed, I know shame all too well.

What are you doing? Stop it.

Which of us here does not?

I know for a fact that behind closed doors many of you have embraced the touched as intimately as you would any other.

No, not like this, Hugo.

What about you, Lord Massen? Do you deign to drag your shame into the light?

Get out!

Or does the veil of your virtue conceal nothing but rank hypocrisy?

You always were a fucking disgrace!

Stop!

Hugo!

Forgive me.

One of your courtesans, I suppose.

I know you think me immoral.

Hopeless.

Perhaps I am.

But somehow today it falls to me to remind you that the decisions made around this table affect the lives of millions.

Will you please, just listen.

So, you see it now. He's in league with them.

My lords, it is not my intention to offend you.

But as we are on trial in the court of your good opinion, I should like to make my case.

Just last month there was a fire in an Islington boarding house.

It burned so suddenly, so fiercely, that the place would have been in cinders before the fire brigade could reach it.

Yet there was a young, touched man walking by who had the ability to generate water.

He put the fire out on his own, saved dozens of lives because he was free to do so.

Imagine if your wife had been in that house, your child, you.

But you'd lock that young man away for the crime of nothing more than his existence.

You have the most uniquely powerful group of people humanity has ever recorded here, now, in your city.

Why would you send us away?

A single touch can save a burning building.

Another can translate languages of all nations and facilitate trade, end war, sow harmony.

There are others with unmatched strength, and some, as you know, would sight into the future itself.

Can you imagine what future we might see if we were to work together, rather than let fear keep us apart?

Mother, mother, mother, here she comes. Mother, mother, mother, I can't wait.

I can always see where energy wants to go.

This is different.

I can see what it wants to be.

The current's so strong, I don't even know what could contain this.

uncharacteristically theatrical of me, I know, but there is a reveal.

The perfect host.

It can't be.

Where did you find this?

Only the best for Mother, don't you agree?

I mean, we don't want her to end up in a, well, I hate Penny Baker.

What?

Oh, I nearly forgot your incentive.

Amalia?

No, no, no, no.

I knew the voice was off.

I was so annoyed with Mother when I found out that Mrs. True was a transplant, ripped out of the afterlife and stuffed into some dead girl.

Now, I might have been able to get Mother out of the wires without your help if I'd been able to look into your friend's head.

Maybe, maybe I still will if this doesn't work out.

I swear to God, if you hurt her.

Well, she's in your hands now.

Fine, I'll do it.

I never doubted you.

Did Dr. Egg ever bring anybody to see her?

They said I couldn't have visitors.

That's why I never saw Lester.

The doctor's work was too important to share, but that's what he said.

Though he did get telephone calls sometimes.

Yeah? Who from?

Well, his mother mostly.

She was the right old nag, as Lester would say.

Said.

Says.

And there was a man, too, with a big stern voice that boomed.

And he never said sorry, and he never said please, he just ordered the doctor about.

Always put him in a foul mood.

He'd get out his tray with all the silver pieces after the stern man called.

To cheer himself up.

Do you remember anything else about the stern man?

I remember the pain.

Did they find what they was looking for?

Nobody ever said.

I'm not sure that was fair.

No.

No, I don't think it was.

I like talking to you.

I bet you're nice to your wife.

You got children?

No.

Shame.

You'd be a good father.

I could see that.

Sad eyes.

Kind, soft bit in the corner.

You look like someone who wants to do the right thing.

It's hard to know that sometimes.

What?

The right thing.

Upstairs.

No, I...

Now.

Please, please don't.

I think we should wait for my husband.

I really, really think we should wait for Lester.

You said you didn't know where he was.

No, I said I didn't remember.

Up you go, Maladie.

Good game, though, eh?

Lovely tea party.

Lester mentioned Maladie at dinner.

He reads the papers to me sometimes.

She wasn't very nice, was she?

No.

She killed a lot of people.

Go.

Go on.

Open the door.

Please.

Open the fucking door.

I don't remember.

Jesus Christ, Maladie, what have you fucking done?

I don't remember.

Get on the fucking floor.

No, no, no, no.

No, I thought she killed me, so I kept quiet and stayed very still.

But then God was reborn and she got close to him.

But he told her a beautiful secret.

A curse.

It wasn't a curse.

It was a gift.

And we didn't need to hide from it.

It was to protect us.

So I woke up and I...

You ain't the fucking asswife.

I am not her, either.

This ain't a fucking game no more.

No, no, it isn't.

It's not a game.

This is another bad place.

It's another bright light and a tray of silver pieces just...

...just picking through everything inside until it burns like rapture.

God gave Maladie power because men gave Sarah pain.

But now they're both here and I don't know.

Nobody ever told me who I was supposed to be after they ripped me in two.

But you won't understand

Shh.

Still.

Stay there.

Stay near.

there

Aren't you gonna arrest me?

The world can ask a lot from us.

Sometimes too much.

You forget who you are.

You're the soft, kind bit in the corner, I think.

Even Maladie knew. Mary told her.

I once heard you say I should get justice?

They died in Edinburgh, watching us leave.

We're eyes on our back.

You don't know that they saw us.

No, her eyes on us.

Watching us.

Blood bursting between them every night after.

Do you remember?

Do you remember?

Do you remember the last thing he said?

No.

No, fucking say it

We are never, never, never getting out of here.

I cannot believe you would waste our time with such petty childish squabbling.

This might be just a laugh to you, but it is my life and the life of countless others that you have put in the balance.

Harriers!

The nays have it.

What?

Thanks to you.

Tell the King of Rats there is to be no more waiting.

His army marches at dawn.

I've been a sinner and I've been a saint.

I've been to places where our good Lord ain't.

I've been to France and to old Amsterdam.

But wherever I go, there I am.

There I am.

Wherever I go, there I am.

Are you one of us now?

No, Donna. You're one of me.

Is it working?

We have to gather the energy.

Oh, Jesus.

Oh.

Hello dear

You're from the future, from Amalia's time?

We only met once when she was a soldier.

We fought on the same side.

What did she say?

So your mission was to protect the Galanti?

It was, but I've had a lot of time to think it through, sweetheart.

The Galanti were held as saviors.

But what did they actually achieve?

Everything only got worse after they arrived.

People made it worse. It wasn't the Galanti's fault.

What about all the lives in that orphanage of yours?

Has the Galanti helped them?

Who knows what they've done to your friend?

Or if she'll even wake up.

The Galanti would never hurt Amalia.

It may not mean to hurt someone.

But that Alameda didn't.

Doesn't mean it won't.

Are you willing to gamble on good intentions?

I don't even know what your intentions are.

You're not betting on me.

I'm betting on you.

It is no sin to consider what a little thing like yourself might do with such knowledge.

I'd love to see how good you can do and ...

With all the future's technology at your fingertips.

All good than any Galanti has ever done.

Don't you think?

This is just like you. Drunk off your ass.

Chasing a fucking mission that you knew, deep in your heart, never even existed.

You want a chance at life with love and music.

Dresses fot for a lady and you wasted it.

Left everyone behind, again.

And what did you do with this life that you were given?

I wanna help.

What did you do?

What did you do?

Where to then?

No way out but through

I told someone her name.

I told someone her name

You're not Mary.

This isn't about me.

All this was...

For you.

And...

Is there anything else?

Please, I am listening. Just...

Talk to me.

We've been through this before.

What you're talking isn't always telling.

We don't really know what we're living for. Until we know what we die for.

All of her will need to leave the circuit, otherwise we'll risk losing...

Bits.

No, no, no. Not one molecule of mother can go to waste.

We're losing power.

Did you have a nice nap?

Penance, you're in danger.

Well, I know, hence your unstrapping.

Get out of here now.

I'm not leaving you, not again.

I'm sorry I didn't give you a proper break, Mrs Adair

But now that you've had it, back on the job.

Finish what you started, and I'll call them off.

What are you doing?

It's time.

Amalia, it's in the tank!

That is not your mother.

Miss Adaire

Oh, miss True

You look very fine.

I think so too

Gentlemen!

you should not cower before evil.

You should look it straignt in the eye and take a careful aim