The Righteous Gemstones (2019–…): Season 3, Episode 5 - Interlude III - full transcript

- ♪ In these times
of hate and pain ♪

♪ We need a remedy to
take us from the reign ♪

♪ I've been thinking
of what I need ♪

♪ I need a freak
to hold me tight ♪

♪ I need a freak every
day and every night ♪

- Psst.

Excuse me, Judy.

Can you move your
hair off my desk?

- Oh, you mean my
luscious fluffs?

- Well, you're
getting your dandruff

all over my worksheet.



- You know you like it...

stud.

So long and perfume-y.

- Seriously, move your hair.

No!

- Ahh!

- Hi.

- Shoot!

- I liked you, you
fuckin' asshole!

I loved you!

- If I knew I could
care for my family

during a terrifying
and uncertain time

with just a bucket or two,

well, I would be running
to my pocketbook.



- Not only do Aimee-Leigh and I

want you to be safe,

the Lord wants you to be safe.

Jesus talked to me last night.

Jesus said,

"Eli, you better get
them folks ready."

Y2K is real.

It's coming.

And the church is
gonna need help.

I agreed to talk with you

because you're from
"TIME" magazine.

That's a periodical I respect.

- Your church raised an
enormous amount of money

by telling people that Y2K
would bring the end of days.

It didn't, of course.

- It was the grace
of the Lord Himself

that prevented humanity
from facing that disaster.

- Indeed.

You seem pretty convinced
it was happening.

Do you think it's
unethical to scare people

and then benefit from
that fearmongering?

- Folks come to me

when they're trying to
make sense of the world.

I just help as best I can.

- So who was wrong,

Jesus or you?

- Amber, baby.

They love you.

You had them wrapped
around your finger

at Parents' Weekend.

- But this is different.

Bringing me to your mansion...

ugh, it's all so daunting.

- Well, better get
undaunted, baby...

'Cause one day, this
crib will all be mine,

and I'm looking to have
your fine ass by my side.

- He cut my damn hair.

Tried to Samson my ass.

I wasn't just gonna take that.

- You tell your teacher
or your principal.

You stay out of it.

You don't act like a lunatic.

- That's right.

- Tell me about it.

I bring my "say, say, my
baby" all the way here

to get to know my family,

and we are instantly
dealing with

all this "he said,
she said" bullshit.

- Suck my dick, Jesse.

- You suck mine, Judy.

- I want a meal, boy.

Not no snack.

That was good.

She's saying that you
have a tiny little titi.

- Fuck off, Kelvin.

At least I got a titi.

Not a tiny little
doll pecker like you.

- Not even any hairs or nothing.

- Enough!

- We have a guest.

Boy, this is not the impression
we want to give you, Amber.

My apologies.

It's a blessing to
have you with us.

- Where are you
from, sweetheart?

Uh, Kentucky.

Just a small little town.

- Is that human hair, Country?

You wearing a horse hair wig?

Um, it's...

Real hair.

Not a wig.

- Oh.

- Judy, why don't you slide

this chicken-fried
steak with gravy

right up your ass?

- I wasn't trying to be mean.

She's from the country,
so I called her Country.

- All the best girls
are country girls.

Isn't that right, darling?

- Don't you know it.

- Well, well, well.

If it isn't the girl
from the Wendy's sign.

Y'all got running water
where you're from?

- Of course we do.

- Well, I don't know your life.

Look at you.

Just regular-ass
shopping mall clothes.

- Your pants are nice.

- Well, take a good look.

'Cause you couldn't afford this

if you sucked every dick

in the hills and
hollers of Kentucky.

- What is your problem?

- I just know what you're up to.

Impoverished girl
with big dreams,

chasing all the riches and gold.

- That is not what's
happening here.

Jesse means a lot to me.

- I call bull.

You don't love Jesse.

He's a fucking clown.

When you look at his dumb face,

instead of seeing eyes
and noses and shit,

you see your ticket
out of the sticks.

- You are very rude!

- And you have no idea
what you're talking about.

- Where you going, Wendy's?

I thought we were
doing girl talks.

- It's our faith!

Our faith that protects us!

- You said it! Yes!

- Be not afraid,

for I am Daniel
in the lion's den!

Amen!

All right.

We'll see you next week.
- Yeah, you too.

- Yes, ma'am.
- Oh, good to see you.

- Good to see you.
- All right.

Thanks so much for coming.
- Thank you.

- Oh, sir. Hey.
- Hi, Tom.

That's lovely.
- Thank you very much.

- Oh, what a sweetheart.

- Thanks for coming.
- Thank you.

- You guys are on
donuts next week.

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Now back to the
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- You hear the latest
from the Gemstones?

Their church made a
mint off the Y2K scare.

Millions.

Attendance is down
for the first time

in their history,

and people are protesting
outside their church.

They deserve
every criticism.

- Did Uncle Eli do
something wrong?

- Well, your uncle
was raised better,

but he's always been greedy
when it comes to money.

Y'all know that.

- Yes, ma'am.

- I want to be rich like
Uncle Eli when I grow up.

- Don't you ever say that again.

It is not something
to aspire to.

You aspire to be good
and wise like your daddy.

Right, Peter?

- He's just a kid
talking, May-May.

- Dummy.

- I... I was just kidding, Mama.

I love being poor.

- I still don't like that
y'all got him buried out here.

It's a long drive for us.

Now whenever I want to
spend time with Daddy,

I gotta get through
your security guards.

- There wasn't no more room
left where Mama's resting.

I thought about bringing
her here to put with him.

- Oh, that's sweet.

Then you can just have
'em all, can't you, Eli?

- Well, we can
just have security

just flag y'all right on through

any time you want to come by.

Our home is your home.

- Well, we appreciate that.

We don't usually have
no problem getting in.

- I made some
sandwiches for the boys.

Might as well eat
'em before we go.

- Well, you all are welcome to
stay as long as you want to.

- Okay.

- Nobody shit their pants,

but check out my newest toy.

- ♪ Redeemer ♪

♪ Redeemer ♪

- My Lord.

- Holy moly.

- Coke white.

- This is yours?

- Ah, basically mine.

I mean, technically, it
belongs to the church.

But all I gotta do is
use it in a sermon,

and then I can drive
it whenever I want.

- Can I drive it?

- Hell no.

But I'd be happy to let you
watch me smash some shit.

- ♪ Heaven ♪

♪ Heaven ♪

♪ This must be heaven ♪

♪ Oh, me, oh, my ♪

♪ This must be heaven ♪

♪ Heaven can wait,
I've got a date ♪

♪ Higher and higher,
people are talking ♪

- Yeah!
- Go!

- ♪ Heaven can wait ♪

♪ Heaven, heaven ♪

♪ This must be heaven ♪

♪ Oh my, take a
look at those eyes ♪

♪ This must be heaven ♪

- Hey, you know, I
saw y'all on the news.

They were saying
you conned everyone

with that Y2K nonsense.

I don't know
what kind of idiot

would have bought into that.

I mean, when the world
ends, it will be because

the Lord has decided it's time,

not because of some
computer malfunctions.

I never bought it for a minute.

- Well, I'm just relieved
it didn't happen.

That's all I keep
thinking about.

Just counting our lucky stars.

- Would have been
a real nightmare.

Lord changed His
mind, I suppose.

- Or people just made it
up to make money off it.

I mean, that's what the
news is saying y'all did.

Ooh, it's times like these

I sure am glad my last
name is Montgomery.

The way people would look at me

if my last name was
still Gemstone...

no, thank you.

You know, I need a refill.

Peter, run out to
the car and get me

that two-liter bottle of Fresca.

- Oh, we got plenty of cold pop

inside in the
refrigerator, May-May.

Uh, Sprite, I think.

- No, I don't want
Sprite. I like Fresca.

Peter.
- Sprite or...

- Car.

Run.
- Yep.

- Say, say, my baby.

- I got the Sega Saturn.

Have you played it?

- Mama don't let us
play video games.

- She says the devil's in 'em.

- Inside video games?

- Yep.

Just like movies,
music, dancing,

cartoons, and Halloween.

- We ain't allowed
to do nothin',

except maybe go huntin',
make some traps, catch food.

Not like you guys.

Y'all get to do everything fun.

- Yeah, your parents suck.

They're strict as hell.

I couldn't survive
under your roof.

I need my "TRL."

- I can relate, Judy.

My grandma's real strict.

Never let any boys call
the house or nothing.

- Oh, you had so many
boys calling the house

'cause of your
gorgeous red hair?

Okay, Raggedy Ann.

Surprised they even have phones
in the village you come from.

- She don't come from
no damn village, Judy.

Stop making fun of people
for being from poverty.

Chuck and Karl are dirt poor.

It's rude.

- Jesse, I'm so sick of you

showing out for your girlfriend.

Y'all don't make a good couple.

Behind your back,
we're all laughing

at what a bad couple
you actually are.

Hardy-har-har, dummy.

- Why don't you go
fuck yourself, Judy?

- What?

- It's a sin to swear, Jesse.

- No shit, Karl.

Watch me load up some more.

Judy, you wish you had
a fuckin' boyfriend.

Don't be jealous 'cause
somebody actually likes me

besides my own
parents, unlike you.

No one likes your ass.

- Hey, Peter.

Come on in.

I'm in a bit of a pinch, Eli.

- Is that so?

- Yeah.

I got a damn warehouse
full of Y2K buckets,

and nobody wants 'em.

- Yes.

The only downside to
society not collapsing.

I'm in over my head, Eli.

- I told you not to buy
more than you could afford.

- You also told me that
the world was gonna end.

- It ain't my fault
things changed.

I got no control over that.

Liquidate 'em.

Repackage 'em as camping
supplies or somethin'.

Hell, if I could
count the amount

of bad business investments
I've made in my life,

we'd be here all day.

It's the nature of the beast.

You win some, you lose some.

- Yeah.

Well, I lost a lot.

25 grand.

That's a lot of
money for my family.

That's everything
we had in savings.

Damn, Peter.

Why would you invest
all your savings?

- 'Cause I trusted you.

I wanted to do what
you were doing.

May-May is gonna kill me.

She's gonna kill me
because we're broke.

She's gonna kill me
'cause I didn't tell her.

- She's gonna kill you
'cause you did it with me.

- I've never asked
you for money.

I don't know what else to do.

I could lose the house.

- How about I buy
your stock back?

I don't know what to say.

I just got so greedy.

- You thought you were
helping your family.

- I thought we were coming
to the end of times.

Did you really
believe that too, Eli?

- You think I'm just out
there lying to people?

Take us in through the
service entrance, Walker.

We can drive right in
through the loading bay.

- You got it, Dr. Gemstone.

All: Where's my money?
Where's my money?

- ♪ Redeemer ♪

[horn honking]

♪ Redeemer ♪

♪ Redeemer ♪

- Whoo!

♪ Redeemer, redeemer ♪

- That's the coolest thing ever!

- And that is what you
call a moist-maker.

My monster truck is
the fucking tits.

- Jesse, have you seen my ring?

- Your ring?

- My grandma gave it to me.

I wear it all the time.

I must have misplaced it.

- When things go
missing in this house,

it's usually one
person responsible.

- Who?

- Judy.

- You think Judy
stole Amber's ring?

- I don't know.

She's been stealing a
bunch of stuff lately.

I went to the mall with
her a few weeks ago.

I hate going to
places with Judy.

Especially the shopping mall.

She steals music.

She shoplifts fancy fashions...

Tiny trinkets...

And some other stuff that I
don't even know what it is.

She threatened to
cut my privates off

if I told Mama and Daddy.

Judy will do it.

I know she will!

- That bitch could steal from
all the malls in America.

But steal from my
woman, my queen,

my "say, say, my baby"?

She's gone one step
too fuckin' far.

- We live in a world
where material things...

Wealth, status...

it means something, don't it?

- Mm. Amen.

- That stuff don't mean
nothin' to the Lord.

So why does it
mean so much to us?

I think I know why.

Because of the people we love.

That's why.

It can be hard seeing
others thriving,

living a life of
wealth, comfort,

while you watch your own family,

your own children,

not able to live
in the same way,

not given the same
opportunities.

Oh, maybe we don't
need those things.

But it can be hard
not to feel like

you're letting down
the ones that mean...

That mean the most to
you when you got nothin'.

Yeah.

You know what I'm sayin'?

- Amen.
- Amen.

- You changed up
the sermon today.

I thought you were gonna be
preaching about outreach.

Instead, you were
talking about wealth.

- Well, the message
seemed important.

- You've been acting
funny lately, Peter.

The boys have noticed it.

Haven't you, boys?

- Yeah, maybe a little.

A bit
quieter than usual.

- Don't talk with
your mouth full.

Peter, are you crying?

- I made a mistake.

I made a bad investment.

- Investment?

- You tricked him.

You've been pulling this
stuff since we was kids.

- No, he... he didn't
trick me none, May-May.

- You're a fool, Peter.

Eli did this on
purpose to punish me.

For what? What did I
ever do to you, Eli?

- You need to calm
down, May-May.

- What?
- I'm trying to help you all.

I'm the one that's gonna get
stuck with all the overstock.

- Over... overstock?

You think you're
damn Sears Roebuck,

talking my husband
into investing

what little we
have into nonsense.

Complete nonsense.

That was the boys'
college money.

- He's gonna buy it back.

We're not gonna lose
anything, May-May.

Eli's gonna help.

- No. No, no, no.
- And he...

- We're not taking a penny
from you and your damn wife.

That money is evil.

It rotted your family.

I will not have it rotting mine!

- We have to!

If we don't...

I could lose the house.

I'm sorry.

- Let us help, May-May.

We're family.

- Don't you dare.

Don't you dare make me think
you're doing us any favors.

You stand there in
your pretty dresses,

singing your little songs,

pretending you don't
know what's going on.

But I see right through you.

You enable his behavior.

You promote it.

You and your whole damn family!

You got the devil in you.

- You're about to see him

if you don't get the
hell out of my house.

Talk to my wife like that!

- I look in your ugly face,
and I think to myself,

I may be poor, but at
least I got principles.

- Shove your
principles up your ass.

- Ugh!

- You're letting
your kids go hungry

to prove a point, you dumb bag!

Thanks, Peter.
- Yep.

- ♪ I'll be bouncing
like a ball ♪

♪ When I say yes, y'all ♪

♪ If you don't rock with
me, you won't rock at all ♪

♪ So check me out
without no doubt ♪

♪ I'm guaranteed to rock
and turn the party out ♪

- It's the way May-May
has always been.

Always trying to make
me out like I'm bad,

even since we was kids.

Now I gotta bail
her husband out,

and I'm still somehow
gonna be the bad guy.

- I just feel so ashamed, Eli.

I don't like being
seen as dishonest,

and I feel like what
we did was dishonest.

Not just you.

Me too.

- Dishonest is a strong word.

- I never believed it
was really gonna happen.

Did you?

- No.

- I mean, I guess I romanticized

the idea at first.

You know, not
civilization ending,

but going back to a
simpler way of life.

Worshipping God the
old-fashioned way.

Raising our kids
without the trappings

of all this wealth.

Sometimes I think that's the
best idea for our family.

- Growing up poor ain't
all it's cracked up to be.

I think, no matter what you do,

you're gonna end up with kids

who don't listen
to a word you say.

- It ain't that way with
May-May and Peter's kids.

You don't hear
them mouthing off.

- You don't see 'em
smiling, neither.

They're scared.

They're afraid to speak.

You think I got heavy hands?

Whew!

I guarantee May-May smacks
the shit out of 'em.

That's the way Daddy raised us.

- Well, our kids ain't scared
to speak, that's for sure.

- No, they're not.

It's 'cause I only smacked 'em

half the time I
felt the urge to.

Oh, Eli, I know they're spoiled.

But did we ruin 'em?

- I wouldn't say ruined.

There's still hope.

- Even for Judy?

- Even for Judy.

She's just got some minor
undiagnosed mental problems.

Nothing a rubber room won't fix.

- For her or us?

- Oh, she's a mess.

- She is somethin' else.

- All right, get up.

I know we've knocked
each other around,

but I've never hit you back.

But if you don't
cough up Amber's ring,

we're gonna fight for real.

Understand my words?

Ooh!

I know you're not
sleeping, Judy.

Stop playin'.

- I ain't playin' like
I'm sleeping, Jesse.

You're saying that. I'm
just fuckin' laying here.

- Well, face me!

I'm tryin' to have a fuckin'
hardcore come-to-Jesus talk

with you right now, and
you're being very rude

with your body
positioning to me.

- Why are you cryin'?

Are Mama and Daddy putting
you up for adoption?

- Can you just leave me alone?

Did you steal Amber's ring?

- She left it.

Finders keepers.

- Well, her grandma, who
is a dead person now,

gave it to her.

So you're not
finders-keeping it.

- It's trash anyway.

Not worth nothin'.

- How do you know that?

- I know because I took
it to the pawn shop,

and Mars-Eye Larry
said it ain't shit.

Jesus, Judy.

What is wrong with you?

- I don't know, Jesse.

Wish I did.

I've just been
getting so bored here.

You're gone.

I'm stuck with baby dick
Kelvin all the time.

And I just...

I get real excited sometimes.

I... I want to do
things my own way.

And... and when it feels
like my own way ain't workin'

or I'm startin' to look bad,
somethin' goes off in me.

It... it just feels warm.

My ears get hot.

I figure, fuck it.

They want it.

Let's give 'em some.

- Word.

My motor runs hot too.

It's that Gemstone
temper we both got.

We get it from Daddy.

Kelvin is more
like Mama that way.

He handles things
more like a girl does.

Just "sensitivitively"
and stuff.

But you, you're more like me.

You handle things
like most men do.

Just you know, fuckin'
mash everything.

I think it's actually
kind of cool.

- You don't think that makes
it so people don't like me?

- Weaks and wieners
don't like you, Judy.

But who needs them?

The dreamboat who
cut my hair, Trent...

I liked him a lot, and
he didn't like me back.

Made me feel so embarrassed.

Made me feel dumb
for even trying.

Like, who is gonna like me?

- Someone will, all right?

God will make sure.

Just like he did
for Mama and Daddy

and me and Amber.

- No, Jesse.

You and Amber are
not the same thing

as Mama and Daddy.

- We're one true loves, bitch.

- Ugh. Quit makin'
me hurl, boy.

- Why the hell are
they still out there?

Can't we have 'em removed?

- Legally, we can,

but uh, it wouldn't look good.

They are members of
the church, after all.

What do I do?

- I suggest you talk to them.

- Mm...

- Yes.

- Whoever it is, come on out.

- 'Sup, Country?

Jesse said you were lookin'
for a ring or somethin'?

- Yes.

It went missin'.

Judy, my grandma raised me...

- Yeah, yeah. I
don't really care.

Is this it?

Found it in the toilet.

- Yes.

It is.

- How do I know for sure?

You could just be
saying it's yours

'cause it looks like it's
worth a bunch of money.

- There's a tiny cross
engraved on the underneath.

- Well...

what do you know?

I actually do like your hair.

I wasn't making fun

when I was asking
if it was real.

- Oh.

Well, thank you, Judy.

- Sweet. Sweet.

Don't get a big head
about it, though.

- You crook!

You ripped people off!

- How much money did you
make swindling people,

Dr. Gemstone?

- I never, never
swindled nobody.

- Hey, if you all want
to have a discussion,

I'm all ears.

If you're gonna cast aspersions,

I'll just go back inside.

Through God's grace,

we are not living in
the dystopian world

that Y2K threatened us with.

Prayers and the Lord our Savior

have kept us safe once again.

My predictions were wrong.

I was wrong.

- The Lord sees all,

and we will answer
to all of our sins.

That's just the way it goes.

- You Trent?

- Uh, yeah.

Who are you, Darkman?

- It's hard to admit
you were wrong.

But I'll do it,
because the Lord knows,

so what's the point in hiding?

You think I'm more afraid
of you than I am of Him?

The world didn't end.

If this church raised money

when people thought the
world was going to end,

it's because they wanted God.

Well, I'm standing
here, giving Him to you.

- That's bullshit.

- How are we supposed
to believe you?

- We will not lose
sight of our mission,

and our mission is
to serve you in a way

that is befitting of the Lord.

Put down your signs

and come back and
worship with us.

We are not your enemy.

We love you.

And we want to help you see
the light in our savior.

That is our purpose,

making sure we take
as many souls with us

to those pearly gates
as we possibly can.

Amen?

- Amen.

- Put the gun down!

- Who's that?
- Run!

- What's going on out there?

- What is happening out...
- Hold it!

Hold it there!

- What the hell is going on?

- I don't know.
- Stay there!

- ♪ Oh solo Domini ♪

♪ Oh solo Domini ♪

♪ Oh solo Domini ♪

♪ Oh solo Domini ♪

♪ Take this in hand ♪

♪ Said he who stands ♪

♪ Behind the chair ♪

♪ A broken table there ♪

♪ Every Christian
lion-hearted man ♪

♪ Will show you ♪

♪ Every Christian
lion-hearted man ♪

♪ Will show you ♪

♪ Oh solo Domini ♪

♪ Don't walk so tall ♪

♪ Before you crawl ♪

♪ For every child ♪

♪ Is thinking of
something wild ♪

♪ Every Christian
lion-hearted man ♪

♪ Will show you ♪

♪ Oh solo Domini ♪

♪ Oh solo Domini ♪