The Outsider (2020–…): Season 1, Episode 9 - Tigers and Bears - full transcript

(DOOR CREAKS SHUT)

Claude Bolton,
where is he now?

YUNIS SABLO: He said he went
to go hang with his brother

in Tennessee,
a town called Cecil.

This, uh, El Cuco,
what does it want?

It wants to survive,
at all costs.

(GUNSHOT ECHOES)

OFFICER: We have an APB
for John Jack Hoskins.

Suspect is considered
armed and dangerous.

How have you been feeling
lately?

HOLLY GIBNEY:
Like someone's been trying



to get inside your head?

CLAUDE BOLTON:
My head...

in the mirror
looking right back at me.

GIBNEY: This Cuco is turning
into Claude as we speak.

So, hopefully, it'll expose
itself to the world.

It has my brother!

-(GRUNTS)
-(GROANS)

He's here.

It's here.

♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

You're it!

GEORGE WEAVER:
Hey, John, wait up.

-(DOG BARKS)
-(COW MOOS)

(DOGS BARKING)



(ROOSTER CROWS)

Boys!

John! George!

(SIGHS)

Boys!

Let's go.

Boys!

(DOG BARKS)

♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪

Who the hell is that?

YUNIS SABLO:
Friend of the family.

Look. I'm not saying there's
absolutely no resemblance

to our guy, but...

You're saying
that he was with you last night?

From four till past midnight.

And why was that?

'Cause he's a witness in a...
homicide in Cherokee City.

DA asked me to come down,
get a statement,

and Lieutenant Sablo
rolled along,

because the staties are working
this one as well.

We just wanted
to question the man

in a non-threatening
environment,

and Mr. Bolton over there
on yonder porch

was kind enough to allow us
to use his home.

Since we're accounting for
his whereabouts, we figured--

I'm only going along with this
as a professional courtesy.

Sure.

Hey. One last question.

This individual
you're trying to find,

the perp we're looking for

abducted an 11-year-old boy
in Cherokee City.

We found him a few hours later,
tortured and murdered.

We talking
about the Peterson boy?

It's horrible.

O-- Of course, we're not...
we're not saying that--

that your guy and our guy
are the same guy, but... uh...

you know, if we could
interview your wits...

you know, that could be great
for all of us.

Might-could arrange it.
We'll be in touch.

Okay.

-HIDALGO: Thank you, fellas.
-Thank you. Thank you.

HOLLY GIBNEY:
From now on, we have to edit

everything we say
in front of Claude,

assume that whatever Claude sees
and hears, it sees and hears.

And if it gets wind that we know
that it's here, well--

Now this thing's in town
trying to fuck my brother up.

You wanna keep him
out of the loop?

The less he knows,
the safer he is.

The safer we all are.

(CAR ENGINES START)

The world has gone insane.

Yeah, well,
except for me and thee,

and I'm not so sure
about thee.

That photo, that was...
"the thing"?

I believe so.

-You believe so.
-Yeah, and look...

My advice to you
while you're out here,

you should believe so, too.

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

Let's say we find this thing,
then what?

Uh... Does anybody know
if it can even be killed?

Well, we-- we have to assume
it can be.

ANDY KATCAVAGE: Why?

It walks, it talks,

it clearly needs food
to sustain itself, so...

it can be killed.

I'm with him. We just don't know
what it responds to.

No one said anything
about killing it.

We just need to contain it.

In what? Butterfly net?
Tupperware?

Me, I'd go with
a couple of strings of garlic

and a big wooden stake,
maybe a big ol' cross.

You people know anything
about stopping this thing?

I mean, one thing.

That's what I thought.

Well, what I do know is that
we need to take your brother

somewhere else while we can
figure this thing out.

Yeah. So you said.

What would be best if one of us
could take him somewhere else

while the rest of us
make some plans.

Look...

no disrespect, but we need you.
So, drop the attitude, okay?

-CLAUDE BOLTON: Hey.
-RALPH ANDERSON: Morning.

(CLAUDE GROANS)

-Oh, shit.
-(TEAPOT SLAMS)

Here, take mine.

-You sure?
-Yeah.

Thank you.

SEALE BOLTON: Hey, Claude.

Know what would do everyone
in here nicely this afternoon?

A little taste of heaven.

Hi-Way Heaven?

When was the last time
you been there?

I can't even remember, man.

It's on their dime, too.

Best fried chicken
for 200 miles.

Well then, I'll drive.

(SIGHS) It's an hour there,
hour back.

That's with no traffic and all.

If I did not love to drive,
I would not have purchased

that fine piece
of machinery outside, right?

SEALE: Get you out of the house.
Clear your head.

Hey, honey.

JEANNIE ANDERSON:
(OVER PHONE) Hey.

Hey, what's going on?

RALPH: Well, you know, we're--
we're-- we're just...

we're... working on it.

"Working on it"?
What exactly is "it"?

Progress. We're making progress
on things.

JEANNIE: Ralph.

You're talking in riddles.
Just tell me what's happening.

(ENGINE REVS)

It's here.

JEANNIE: What is?

Oh, Jesus!

-(TIRES SCREECH)
-JOGGER: Hey!

-Oh!
-Watch where you're going, lady!

JEANNIE: Hang on.

What are--
What are you gonna do?

-Find it.
-JEANNIE: You said you were just

gonna guard Claude Bolton,
nothing else.

That's what I thought, too,
but then--

JEANNIE: You can't go anywhere
near this thing.

You have no idea
what you're dealing with.

Jeannie, nobody's doing
anything but talking, so...

Come home.

I can't right now.

Jesus!

Do not go after it.

Please.

There are others to do that.

We're just gonna share
what we know with them,

then step away.

Love you.

GEORGE: There are no bears.

-There were in the olden days.
-How do you know?

'Cause I snuck in there
one night to check for them.

You did not.

If you say so.

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

GEORGE: I wanna go in.

Uh. Do you have 25 cents?

'Cause I don't.

Come on. This way.

Dad's gonna kill us.

Not if you don't tell him.

-(JOHN ROARS)
-GEORGE: Cut it out.

(CROWD CLAMORING)

ALEC PELLEY: It's panicked.

Wasn't finished transforming.

It wasn't ready.

PELLEY:
So, why did it expose itself?

It's hungry.

RALPH: Huh.

And now, a day later,
hungrier still.

Starving.

Which means it's gonna take
a run at another kid.

Just a matter of when.

You see how he just about
knocked that big guy on his ass?

I don't know. I don't eat
for a while, I get kinda weak.

(SIGHS)
Hopefully, the effort cost him.

Hopefully.

There's only one cemetery
within ten miles of this place.

The New Olive Baptist.

Cuco likes to hole up
near his victims' families.

Look, if the Boltons have people
buried there,

-we should check it out.
-Hm.

(SEALE SIGHS)

Do you have any family
buried at New Olive Baptist?

SEALE: Do I what?

-Do you have any family buried--
-I heard you the first time.

No, we favor the other one.
Child of God.

I didn't see any second one.

Well, that's because all
the coffins,

they got flooded in the '60s.

All those dead folks,
kinda body surfin'

down the hill toward the river.

"Hey, look, there's Grandpap Joe
and he's waving at us."

(CHUCKLES) That must have been
some sight to see.

Now, cups never figured out

how to wash themselves
where I'm from.

-(CUPS CLINKING)
-(ANDY MURMURS)

(WATER RUNNING)

(SIGHS) He's all I got.

Your brother?

That's right.

I hear you.

Well, I hope you do.

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

EMMITT WEAVER: Hey, Ev.

Hey, my boys come through here
this mornin'?

EVELYN:
Oh, nobody's come through here.

You're the first soul I've seen
all day. (CHUCKLES)

Why? Are they lost?

Uh... They around here
somewhere.

I just don't--
I don't know, uh...

Hey, uh, I-- I need to go inside
and give a look around.

Oh, just go on in
and grab yourself a flashlight.

All right, thanks, Ev.

And Emmitt, be careful.

People get turned around
in there all the time.

♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪

(DOOR CREAKS OPEN)

SABLO: The grandfather
and the kid are coming in

to look at more mugshots.

They're gonna let us
talk to them.

There you go.

There you go.

RALPH: Seat belts.

Yeah.

-Okay.
-(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

Okay, I'll see you at home.

You all right?

We... You just got a heads up
from a Detective Schwenk

over in Prester County,
said that a hiker called in...

saying he came across the body
of a young boy

laying, um, in the trail.

Okay.

The boy was nude and, uh,
he was pretty torn up.

His... face was about gone
like an animal had had at it.

They're on the way
over there now

and wanted to know
if you wanted to come by...

given the...

You know.

No. Uh... No.

But tell them to keep me posted

and give them my home number
and my cell.

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

You know, when the old lady
wanted to talk to the old man

without me listening,
she'd send me on an errand.

HOWARD SALOMAN:
Like getting chicken.

Cigarettes, mostly.

(SIGHS) You know how fucked up
this is,

what we're talking about here?

A thing that can become
other people?

(CHUCKLES) Oh, yeah.

You don't have any issue
believing that?

I'm a criminal defense lawyer.
I can believe anything.

(SIGHS)

Holly said this thing
knows everything

that comes into my head
as soon as I do,

like it's walking around
in there...

reading my thoughts
and seeing out of my eyes.

(SIGHS)

Hey, do you mind pulling over,
please?

I gotta get out. (PANTS)

-Yeah, hold on, hold on.
-I'm gonna be sick.

(RETCHING)

CLAUDE: Fuck! (SPITS)

Ah, shit!

(CLAUDE PANTS)

Thanks.

You know when you're first
coming down with a cold,

you ever tell yourself,
"Mind over matter.

I can will this out of me"?

-Yeah.
-It ever work?

-No.
-(SCOFFS)

Me neither.

Cold, flu, virus, cancer.
It want in?

There's not a fucking thing
you can do about it.

Same with this thing.

It wanted in. It got in.

Fuck! (SIGHS)

(SIGHS)

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

(WATER SPLASHES)

ANDY: Herschel
and Winnifred McCallum.

They died three days apart.

Maybe it was one
of those broken heart stories.

Always liked those.

You know, one spouse dies,

and the other can't live
without them,

so they go a few days later.

I had an aunt and uncle
that went like that.

They died of influenza.

So, you're gonna pull
some Holly-style

strange genius business on me?

They called it the Spanish flu
epidemic of 1918,

except it started
at an army base in Kansas,

went out from there

and killed 50 million people
around the world.

Look how hard it hit this town.

Well... history be damned,
you know.

I believe they were so co-joined
at the soul, the McCallums,

that... one just decided
to follow the other

into whatever came next.

Did I say something funny?

No.

What are you smiling about?

Nothing.

Let's go.

SAM: When he asked me at the map
what I was looking for,

I said I was trying to find
the cave that had

the saber-toothed tiger
footprints.

RALPH: Mm-hm.

He said he didn't know that one,
but he did know one

where prehistoric bears
had lived.

RALPH: Mm-hm.

He said he'd seen
their claw marks.

And then, he said
I should see it for myself.

And then, we were walking.

Did he say anything else?

He was quiet after that.

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

Then, I heard Wanda yelling

and I thought she was angry
at me.

He has my brother! Someone!

Stop! Get away from him!

(GRUNTING)

Then he pushed me away.

I turned around and saw Grandpa
Mike wrestling with him.

I was scared because
I didn't want him

to get another heart attack.

You know what,
you've done great, Sam.

Now, I just got
one last question,

then we're all done here, okay?

Did he touch you?

That's the first question
I asked him, he said--

Very important, please.

Sam. (CLEARS THROAT)

Well, he shoved me.

-Mm-hm. Yeah.
-That's like touching.

And he had his hand
on my shoulder

when we were walking.

My priority was elsewhere.

Did he scratch you,
maybe even just by accident?

Any scratch?

No.

Would he have hurt me?

No. No, no, no. I don't-- I--
No, I don't believe so.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(ANDY MURMURS)

ANDY: This makes no sense.

What doesn't?

Why did it run that way?

The caves are over there.

There's no place
to hide over here.

There's no light over there,
which means it's...

harder for people to give chase.

ANDY: Hm.

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

RALPH: So, that must have been
a hell of a thing

to confront this thing.

MIKE DAVIDSON:
Shit, if I was 20 years younger,

I would've broken him in two.

Why'd you ask Sam
if he got scratched?

This guy have some kind
of a contagious disease

we need to be worried about?

It's, um... just a question
that we're required to ask

in, you know, cases like these.

Well, I'm gonna get him
checked out

-as soon as we get back.
-Can't hurt.

-How 'bout you?
-What, getting scratched?

If he did, I didn't feel it.

So, Mr. Davidson,
now that you've had some time

to sit with this,
is there anything more

that you could tell us
about this man?

(SIGHS)

Weird eyes.

Weird how?

Well, when I first saw him...
they seemed kinda too far back

in the sockets,
you know what I mean?

But he was wearing
that dumb-ass fox mask,

so I just chalked it up
to that.

When I pulled that thing
off him...

he still looked like
he was staring at me

from under a mask.

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

(SIGHS)

HIDALGO: Anything useful?

Do you know of any bear caves
in the area?

HIDALGO: And I'm born
and raised. (SIGHS)

We got a Sabertooth Cave
like the boy said

and a Copperhead Cave.

We got a Red Roof and an Ahiga,

-but no bear cave.
-Right.

-Thanks for your time.
-Sure thing.

-SABLO: Thank you.
-Mm-hm.

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

(MOUSE CLICKS)

(EXHALES)

♪ Let the world
Call me a fool ♪

CUSTOMER: Half-dozen wings
and hush puppies.

MALE SERVER:
Rub on medium or hot?

-FEMALE SERVER: There you are.
-CLAUDE: All right, thank you.

♪ That's all that matters
And I'll do ♪

♪ ("YOU ASK ME TO"
BY WAYLON JENNINGS PLAYS) ♪

CLAUDE:
Hey, we should be heading back,

this being everybody's
midday meal.

Mm-mm.

Midday is technically
two hours away.

Come on, sit down.

After all of that build up,
I'm dying for a taste right now.

CLAUDE: All right.

You a wing man?

HOWARD: I am an anything man.
(SIGHS)

(MOTORBIKE APPROACHES)

-My God.
-Right?

-This is--
-Best damn chicken in 200 miles.

(CHUCKLES) Mm.

You don't remember me, do you?

Remember you? From?

Court. About eight years ago.

-Representing you?
-Yes, sir.

-On what charge?
-Assault and battery,

coming off of a bar fight.

-HOWARD: Did you win?
-In court?

No, in the bar fight.

Well, if I'd had lost,

I wouldn't have needed a lawyer,
would I?

How 'bout in court?

Ninety days in county,
mandatory AA.

Well, I'll tell you,
if I don't remember you,

consider it a compliment.

How's that?

With all
of the truly evil bastards

that I have had to stand up for
over the years,

Claude, my man,

you just weren't bad enough
to make my hit parade.

(SCOFFS) Right.

♪ That's all that matters
And I'll do ♪

(JOHN GRUNTS)

GEORGE:
John, I think we're lost.

Hey. Hey, it's okay.

We'll just go out the way
we came.

It's-- It's this way.

-Are you sure?
-Positive.

GEORGE:
I don't think this is it.

JOHN: No, it is. It is.

Turn around. This isn't it.

EMMITT: John! George!

GEORGE:
Um... We didn't come this way.

EMMITT: Boys!

GEORGE: Dad!

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

Boys?

-BOTH: Dad!
-Can you hear me?

Dad, we're in here.

Daddy, help.

Boys!

John, George!

Dad, where are you?

Dad, can you hear us?

JOHN: Dad, we're lost.

Dad, we need your help.
We're stuck.

-Boys!
-We're stuck, Dad.

Boys, can you hear me?

Daddy, help.

JOHN: Dad, can you hear us?

♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪

-JOHN: Dad!
-EMMITT: John?

John, can you come to the sound
of my voice?

Dad?

John?

You and your brother
stop movin'! Okay?

Stay put, I'm going for help.
Don't move.

Did you know about the back way
into the caves?

That itty-bitty rock split?

-Only folks who can get
through there would be--
-Children.

Uh. You just asked me
if I saw them,

Emmitt, I'm so sorry,
I wasn't thinkin'!

EMMITT: Dara and I
can't thank y'all enough

coming to help us
so quickly.

Our boys are lost in them caves

and we want them home with us
where they belong.

The Clark boys and a few of us
gon' go the back way,

the rest of y'all gon' go in
through the souvenir shop,

-all right now?
-Yeah.

Let's bring 'em home.

(CROWD MURMURS)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

ANDY:
That's where he was last seen,

then he ran off toward the west.

If he kept heading
in that direction,

-he'd end up at the highway.
-No caves around there?

No, not one.

Well, the kid said it told him
about a cave

that bears used to sharpen
their claws on the rocks, but...

you know, no one else,
you know,

knew what he was referring to,
so...

Well, that's because
they'd have to be

near their 90s to recall it.

The old bear cave...

has been sealed, mostly
forgotten about since 1947.

Why?

Why, indeed.

It was in that very same year,
'47, the young Weaver boys

got themselves
good and lost in there.

Then came the first
of the search parties.

Took four of my kin.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(GRUNTS)

EMMITT: Honey.

Those boys are as good as out,
okay?

(SOBS)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

-MAN: All right?
-Yeah, yeah.

(KNIFE SCRAPES)

HIGH SCHOOL BOY:
I can hear them over there.

-Where?
-There. That way.

-Hush. Shh!
-JOHN: Dad?

(BOYS CONTINUE SHOUTING
FOR HELP)

It was louder before.

Boys?

Boys?

Boys?

Boys?

GEORGE: Dad!

♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪

Boys? Follow the sounds
of our voices.

GEORGE: Dad!

Boys? Can you hear us?

GEORGE: Dad?

We're here, boys.

JOHN: Dad, where are you?

John, George, we're here.

♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪

John? George, Daddy's coming.

(ROCKS RUMBLE)

-CLARK: You all right?
-(MEN COUGHING)

They all died?

SEALE: Not right away.

But they were trapped.

No food, no water, no way out.

So, you imagine for yourselves
what it must have been like

for those people
to waste away in there,

how long it would have taken
for them to...

give up the ghost one by one.

There must have been
other search parties.

Indeed, there was.

But the only thing any of them
could do

is try to figure out
the most likely place

where that rockfall had--
had sealed them in.

See, back then...

nobody could figure out
how to get to the other side

of those rocks
without blasting it.

Then, the whole
cave system collapse.

So... (SIGHS)

...there they still lie.
Thirty-four men and boys,

including my grandfather
and his three brothers,

which is how come I can give you
chapter and verse on that event,

whilst most people
around here cannot.

I'm sorry for your family.

Yeah, you ask me where my people
are buried around here?

That goddamn hellhole's gotta be

the biggest Bolton family plot
in the state.

So, you say the system
is sealed.

So, there's no way in?

There's an old souvenir shop
that you had to go through

to get into the caves, but...
the state, they cemented it up

right after the last
of the search parties got out.

Now, these local shitbirds
been breaking it down,

so they can get in there,
they can get high,

make babies
with their underage sweethearts.

Can you perhaps just show me
where that is on this?

Well, no.
Not on this little dinky thing.

You gotta be able to give us
some kind of idea.

Hold on.

We found him. He's in there.

That's the good news and
the bad news at the same time.

-SEALE: Right about here.
-RALPH: Mm-hm.

Unless it's been blown away
by a strong wind this week,

and the parking lot
is right here.

Just a baby step away.

Now, there was a back entrance
that the rescuers used,

but, uh, another cave-in
coming off a little earthquake

we had a few years ago
took care of that.

Y'all are thinkin',
"Yeah, we got this thing now."

It's in the cave, waitin'.

Well,
maybe it's waiting for you.

You think of that?

Well, you know, we just have
to confirm its whereabouts,

and then,
we call in the cavalry.

We're not taking the fight
to it.

Yeah, what you gonna tell
that cavalry?

We don't have to say anything,

but the man who tried to snatch
a boy on the midway...

he's in that cave.

SEALE: What if it gets past you?

Gets past them? Since they know
less about it than you do.

It gonna come for my brother
next?

My brother who don't know
a goddamn thing about shit,

'cause y'all don't think
that's such a good idea?

I back my colleague--

Chicken.

(DOORBELL RINGS)

-I should have called first.
-JEANNIE: Come in.

Hi, come on.

HOWARD: I didn't drive down
here in the middle of the night

just to babysit.

You came down here to help,
which I appreciate,

and this is the best way
to do it.

I only have today, you know.

In the morning, I have to go
back and join the real world.

Howie, we're gonna be back
in a couple of hours.

I appreciate it.

Hey, I'm thinking we take
two cars, if anything gets weird

-or if we need to split up.
-Yeah, sounds good.

GLORY MAITLAND: I was
at the county building today,

and I ran into DA Hayes
in the hallway.

He asked if he could have
a word with me in private,

but since he's a plaintiff
in one of my lawsuits,

I told him
it wasn't a good idea.

JEANNIE:
You think he's gonna try

and talk you into dropping it?

GLORY: That's the funny thing,

he didn't give off
that impression.

He seemed much more subdued

than the other times
I've seen him actually.

-JEANNIE: Kind of hangdog?
-Yeah.

How did you know?

Just a hunch.

Now I half wish
I had let him speak to me.

I was so angry at you
for dragging me to that meeting

at your so-called
investigator's.

I know you were.

To hear her spout
all that crazy shit...

felt like a setup.

No, I had no idea
what she was gonna say

until the words started
coming out of her mouth.

No one did.

But you bought right into it.

Yeah, I did.

I still do.

So do a lot of the others.

I would say to you

that they're putting themselves
in harm's way

for their convictions,

but then
I'd have to explain to you

the how and the why of it,

and forgive me for saying this,
but right now...

I don't know
if I have the strength

to deal with your reaction.

I came over here because as
painful as that meeting was...

I didn't want it to destroy

any of the goodwill
there was between us.

You've never been anything
but kind to me and my girls.

And even though I refuse
to accept anything

around this... Cuco thing...

I just want you to know that...

I respect the sincerity
of your beliefs.

Well, thank you.

I noticed you drop
the conditional

when you talk about it.

You don't say
"If this thing is real" anymore.

"If it's trying to become
Claude,"

"If it's truly capable of
hopping from person to person."

RALPH: Yep.

Guess my sense
of what's rational

just got tired and left town.

SABLO: And how is that sitting
with you?

RALPH: Oh, I...

It makes me sick to my stomach,

'cause if I have to believe
that a thing like that

-can exist in the world--
-You take small bites.

It's just the reality
of this thing,

it upends everything. It means
everything we ever believed in,

-everything we've come
to an understanding--
-Hey, Ralph. Ralph.

What? What? What?

You take small bites.

You accept what you can

to keep your shit together
and nothing more,

until you're ready
for another bite. That's it.

We're talking about containing
this thing

-until the troops arrive.
-Yeah.

What if it doesn't cotton
to being contained? Then what?

Then we kill it
before it can kill us.

What if it can't be killed?

Yeah, we're back to that again.

Small bites, my ass.

(COUGHS)

HOWARD: Shit.

What you hit that with,
gunpowder?

(HOWARD COUGHS)

(CHUCKLES)

That take you back
to your dormitory days, does it?

HOWARD: Hm.

Do you think this right?

What's "this"?

Not telling him that
that fucking thing's out there.

What, do you think this is
my tenth rodeo or something?

How the hell should I know?

It's not right.

Listen, how 'bout we just stick
to the game plan. All right?

HOWARD: Thank you.

You mind if I, um...

scrounge around for what's left
of that heavenly chicken?

Heaven chicken. Not heavenly.

I stand corrected.

Yeah. Help yourself.
You paid for it.

SEALE: Claude, this Cuco
or whatever you wanna call it,

it's coming for you.

Now I feel like I wouldn't be
your big brother

if I didn't at least tell you
what was going on.

CLAUDE: Do you know
what you just did?

Do you know what the fuck
you just did?

What I did?
I know what I just did.

I gave you the heads up
of your life.

No, no, no. He's in my head,
Seale.

So, you just told
that fucking thing

that all those people
are coming for it.

You are one dumb fuck.

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

(DIAL TONE RINGS, BEEPS)

Nothing.

Try the statie.

(DIAL TONE RINGS)

Probably no signal up there.

(LINE BEEPS)

Yeah. I might have fucked up
with that.

Seale, they're going up
against this thing for me.

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

(ENGINE STARTS)

(WHEELS SPIN)

Can you wait with that
until you're outside?

Sir?

You, in the back.

♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪

(SNAKE HISSES)

♪ (MUSIC CONTINUES) ♪

(CHUCKLES)

♪ You ever have the feeling
That you wanted to go ♪

♪ But still you had the feeling
That you wanted to stay? ♪

Funny.

Movie, please.

The Man Who Came to Dinner.

Warner Brothers, 1942,
directed by William Keighley,

with Monty Woolley
and Bette Davis.

♪ You knew it was right
Never wrong ♪

♪ But still, you knew
You wouldn't be very long ♪

-Jimmy Durante.
-(CHUCKLES)

(SIGHS) And how did you like
the film, Ms. Gibney?

-I never saw it.
-(CHUCKLES) Yeah.

That's my girl.

Okay.

Let's get this thing over with.

Okay.

♪ (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪

Firing a gun in there
is a really bad idea,

-you know that, right?
-No doubt, but just having one

makes us cowboy types
feel more secure.

♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪

-(GUNSHOT ECHOES)
-(BLOOD SPATTERS)

(GUN COCKS)

(GUNSHOTS ECHO)

♪ (EERIE MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

♪ (TENSE MUSIC PLAYS) ♪

HOLLY GIBNEY: When I was little,
my father would say,

"A man knows a man.

But an outsider knows
an outsider."

BILL SAMUELS: There have been
certain developments

in the Frankie Peterson
homicide case.

RALPH ANDERSON:
This is where it happened.

Holly...

GIBNEY: He's feeding.

♪ (MUSIC INTENSIFIES) ♪

(ROARS)

(RATTLING)

GIBNEY: What is your name?

♪ (MUSIC CONCLUDES) ♪