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Paradise - Season 1 - Episode 05: In the Palaces of Crowned Kings
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00:01Something happened that last week.
00:03He seemed burdened.
00:04He was the president.
00:05And he was in my office,
00:07stumbling around drunk in his bathroom.
00:13Take me through Wildcats' day. Anything irregular?
00:16He got out of his bathroom for the first time in a week.
00:18Spent the morning making pasta.
00:20And that's it?
00:20Coffee with Sinatra in the afternoon.
00:23You-know-who made her daily happy hour appearance.
00:25Kid bailed on him for dinner.
00:27I ghosted him yesterday.
00:29I had told him that I wished he was dead.
00:33How's your dad?
00:34Still just a light touch of dementia.
00:36Cal!
00:37Where is my son?
00:38That's why we're sending these four brave explorers into the unknown.
00:42Is that what we thought?
00:43There's life.
00:46I had done some things.
00:47It might have to do with what happened to our guy.
00:50What things, man?
00:51Look, tomorrow.
00:51I'll tell you everything, I swear to God.
00:53You think you're the only killer I brought down here just in case?
00:56You're gonna send somebody for me?
00:58You better make sure it's the biggest motherfucker you got.
01:16I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
01:22The bright sun was extinguished and the stars did wander darkling in the eternal space.
01:31And all hearts were chilled into a selfish prayer for light.
01:59You want your mix back, sir?
02:00Nah, you can keep it.
02:01I just like making them.
02:14Hey!
02:16What took you so long?
02:18You're pilot, you're jet, you tell me.
02:26Have you watched this guy play?
02:30Tiger Woods?
02:30Yeah.
02:32Everyone watches him play.
02:34The father did a hell of a job with him.
02:37It's possible the kid had some natural talent, too.
02:42Anything's possible.
02:44Make you a drink.
02:46It's 11 a.m.
02:47And happy hour somewhere.
02:52Our Oklahoma project didn't find a drop of goddamn oil.
02:56Eh, it happens.
02:58I am more bullish on North Dakota and the back and shale.
03:05Well, I am told that you have barely been to the fields.
03:10Got your little birdies delivering new intel, huh?
03:19I'm leaving the business, Dad.
03:23Drilling and hydrofracturing were never my speed.
03:26I want something simpler.
03:29I want to teach high school.
03:32Hmm.
03:38Oh, boy.
03:41No.
03:43No, no, no.
03:45Over my dead, corroded body, Cal.
03:50I will give you one thing.
03:51You are a shit oil man.
03:53And that is why you're going into politics.
03:55You will begin in Kentucky, of course.
03:58Our last name alone could get a horse with a speech impediment
04:02elected in Kentucky.
04:03Now, you can either run as a Democrat for the Senate
04:06or a Republican for governor.
04:07Either way, once you've served a couple of terms,
04:10we can begin to position you for better things.
04:15I'm not a teenager anymore.
04:17You don't control me.
04:20But...
04:21This is what's happening, Cal.
04:24You are going to have a life.
04:27And a big one.
04:28And one that does not include teaching dipshit ninth graders
04:32catcher in the rye year after year.
04:35Now, you come from a long line of men who have lived big lives.
04:40Men who have made this world, more or less, with their bare hands.
04:44And I am not going to watch you piss all that away.
04:48When you leave this life, you are going to goddamned exit it
04:52with some pride in your accomplishments,
04:54even if I have to drag you kicking and screaming to those accomplishments.
05:00Now, you will thank me one day.
05:03And even if you don't, your future children certainly will.
05:09Unlike you, they might just be grateful for that Bradford name.
06:03But of course, it's going to be...
06:13you look nice grown up and you look like you're pretending to be an agent they just put me on
06:20leave i'm still an agent where's your brother he's next door at carl's with you know
06:45ready go there we go this way good good she really listens to you james uh xavier uh james just
06:53wanted to come over and play with lucy just a little now son get your jacket come on it's okay
06:58james um it's a crazy day today at the tower i gotta get moving myself
07:04you gotta be more careful carl the no pets rule is pretty clear i know i know i just
07:10look how much they love each other
07:16expecting a 10 year old to keep your secret is a real leap of faith
07:20that street lamp they're working on that light was not out last night how easy would it be for
07:24them to put a camera in there come on xavier that's a little paranoid isn't it is it
07:32just be more careful you're right i will be i owe you xavier to anything you ever need
07:39you know cut your lawn trim your hedges sourdough starter for life you just say the word
07:47thanks carl
07:52tower
07:53is this ava with event logistics is there any way being bringing some cloud cover
07:57this isn't spring break we need somber copy that let's try this one
08:07there you go thank you tower out
08:11when i was little my dad would always invite me into his office at the end of the day to
08:17to uh to play a little golf
08:20turned out much to his chagrin i uh i wasn't exactly the next tiger woods
08:29he used to say putting was his happy place
08:32that his head would clear and that all the stress and the pressure would just fade away
08:40and i'm sure he needed golf down here more than ever
08:45i mean you know let's face it he was uh
08:49he was unraveling those last few weeks you know
08:52some of you might have even seen him running around in his bathrobe
08:57yeah those um
09:01those last days were rough
09:05my dude
09:06i got rocky 3 queued up not to mention some popcorn and some bourbon you in
09:11little clubber lang
09:12mr t
09:15we can skip right to eye of a tiger it's the best
09:17the hero at his lowest point gets his shit together and he kicks in some balls
09:21you'll love it what do you say i'd say your taste in movies is as dated as your taste in
09:25music
09:26yeah yeah yeah yeah save it from my biography
09:30come on watch a classic with your old man
09:32that biography that that pretty much writes itself no
09:37part one an alcoholic daddy's boy wakes up at age 42 and decides he wants to be president
09:43okay spare me the whole righteous teenage dick will you
09:46part two following the collapse of civilization he uh he hunkers down in his mansion
09:51playing pebble beach in a golf simulator while a bunch of gazillionaires stick their hands up his
09:55just ask to make his mouth move jeremy
09:58get off me
10:00keep your freaking hands to yourself
10:04what's going on
10:05dad i was just trying to get
10:07okay all right
10:08i'm sorry sir you got an alert he left the guest house we found him
10:10okay i want to go to my study he will not let me go to my study
10:14okay all right it's my study dad you live in the guest house remember how did he get out
10:17i have no idea grandpa i'll show you this i just want to get my book okay sniper here
10:22won't let me go to my study son of a bitch
10:26it's probably time we start thinking about putting a child luck no no not yet man just thought if we
10:31not yet
10:33not yet
10:34yes sir
10:36no jeremy my name's jeremy not cal
10:39huh that's why cal named his boy jeremy such a limp ineffectual name that's the kind of name for a
10:51fop or a fool or a physicist not according to pearl jam dad
10:55yeah that's where i put it
11:00okay dad you can't leave the grounds
11:02are you listening without telling someone
11:04yeah you were always weak that's why the sniper had to do it
11:08why do you keep calling him that it's agent pace
11:11and these agents aren't your babysitters you understand
11:15you thought they were all lost at sea those four
11:19and they did it right under your nose too
11:21you know you were never the sharpest tool in the shed kid
11:26okay why don't we get you back to your place
11:28ah ah ah ah
11:31not my president
11:36not mine either
11:37hey don't be like that
11:38hey
11:39i don't know what i did to piss you off
11:41you never stood up
11:43you never fought back
11:44you knew what was coming
11:46and you kept it to yourself
11:48that makes you complicit
11:52okay
11:54you know i i i really i can't wait to see
11:57how you hide from yourself when the liquor finally runs out
12:05wish you died with the rest of the world
12:20and the man loved his golf
12:30hey there colin zez
12:33jane
12:33yeah
12:34have you seen billy today
12:36he hasn't answered my texts
12:37no
12:39weird i've been trying to get a hold of him too
12:42hey press
12:43can you take james to carl's please
12:45come on booger
12:46it takes one to your one
12:47you're still a booger
12:51something's not right
12:52let's go find billy
12:57colin
12:57colin
13:00can we have a quick word
13:02it's about cal
13:04jane
13:04give us a minute would you
13:11the crime team
13:12i sent the dna samples to the lab for testing a few days ago
13:16the samples never arrived at the lab
13:19the later lost
13:21the samples never arrived
13:24and who was the one person with the power to get in the way of something like that
13:36look colin's
13:37i'm big enough to admit that
13:40you had a point
13:42but you and me
13:43is about as wide as my circle of trust goes right now
13:47but you were dating the murder victim
13:49so my circle of trust is staying put for right now
14:00what are you thinking about
14:02yeah my old man had a bad episode today
14:06you know my dad was one of the first people that samantha recruited to help build this place
14:11he had the subsurface geologic experience
14:14you know how to find seams in the earth
14:18but his biggest contribution
14:22was me
14:25his hand-picked man in charge
14:27who could open up all of lady liberty's precious resources for whatever she needed
14:35ask you a question
14:36hmm
14:38did you vote for me
14:39no
14:40oh
14:42you
14:43came off
14:44like the
14:46spoiled moron son of a billionaire
14:49don't you dare
14:52wow
14:54gal can i be honest with you
14:56that was sugar-coated
14:58no matter what your father did to get you here
15:01you have shouldered an unimaginable burden
15:05this is still your presidency
15:07you can make of it whatever you want
15:15so you're saying if you could do it again you would vote for me
15:19i am saying that i have since discovered you have certain
15:24practices and policies i quite enjoy
15:27uh-huh
15:29wonder what those are
15:33learning
15:48hey does my dad have a nickname for you
15:52a nickname yeah other than the occasional condescending sweetheart or darling no
15:59no nickname why no he's been calling pace a nickname for a while sniper
16:05i don't know it's weird man it's hard to be a sniper in a world without real guns
16:14god i miss it yeah what's that guns the weight of them you know not just some orange rubber taser
16:25you really think people this powerful would actually leave themselves defenseless
16:33what are you talking about
16:37yeah i can't really talk about it cal i'm the special agent in charge if there are guns down
16:45here i need to know about them i got some work to do wait cal the aquifer's acting up or
16:50some shit
16:52are you fucking serious right now this is still an illicit affair
16:59cal you do realize that that this is you this is more for me you know that right
17:09i can't do this right now
17:34billy hey man you in there billy
17:39billy man you there
17:41billy man you there
17:50billy
17:52billy
17:52billy
18:02billy
18:03billy
18:10Jane.
18:11Oh, my God.
18:12No, Jane.
18:13Jane, just go.
18:14No.
18:15No, Jane.
18:16No.
18:17Jane.
18:21No.
18:22Jane.
18:25No.
18:39Yeah, I'm, uh, Agent Collins.
18:45It's, um...
18:53I'm at the home of Agent Billy Pace.
18:58Agent Down.
19:01Hey.
19:03He's dead.
19:18I don't understand.
19:21I was with him last night.
19:23He was maybe a little off, but...
19:29He brought me a sparkler.
19:32I'm so sorry, Jane.
19:34I mean, we argued a tiny bit, but I don't think that's that way.
20:04He's a sniper.
20:07or lost at sea, what the fuck did I mean?
21:03Oh, my God.
21:05Restricted access.
21:06You've got top fucking presidential clearance, motherfucker.
21:57What the fuck?
22:11As you can see, there's nothing left.
22:15Radiation levels are still very high.
22:18We're taking a big risk being exposed this long.
22:23Are you there?
22:24Did you hear what I said?
22:26We found someone.
22:27A woman.
22:28Where did she come from?
22:29We don't know.
22:31We can only speak.
22:32I think it's Creole, but maybe someone with the city can do it.
22:35I need you to keep her there until I can speak to the others.
22:38I can't leave her out here.
22:39They're bringing her back.
22:41You are not to do that.
22:42Do you understand?
22:44That is final.
22:47I found them.
22:49And?
22:50It's like you said, they got someone with them.
22:52They're coming back here?
22:53Yeah.
22:54Less than a day away.
22:58Then you need to do what we discussed.
23:02Agent Pace, take them out.
23:04That's an order.
23:06If you can't comply, I'll find someone who will.
23:08But don't bother coming back.
23:25I'll find someone who will.
23:25I'll find someone who will.
23:25I'll find someone who will.
23:26I'll find someone who will.
23:26I'll find someone who will.
23:26I'll find someone who will.
23:26I'll find someone who will.
23:26I'll find someone who will.
23:27I'll find someone who will.
23:27I'll find someone who will.
23:28I'll find someone who will.
23:28I'll find someone who will.
23:29I'll find someone who will.
23:30I'll find someone who will.
23:31I'll find someone who will.
23:32I'll find someone who will.
23:36I'll find someone who will.
23:58Who are there?
23:59Your Honor.
24:00I mean, not, uh, not, Your Honor.
24:03What is, what is it?
24:04Mr. President.
24:05Cal is fine.
24:06If I wanted to make a mixtape, is that possible?
24:08Yeah, uh, yes, we have the music library.
24:11Thousands and thousands of albums in various formats with listening stations.
24:14Terrific, terrific.
24:15Where would that be?
24:17Straight ahead and up the stairs.
24:19Thank you very much.
24:20And great work you're doing here.
24:21The library is a jewel of the city.
24:33Here I go again on my own.
24:38Going down the only road I've ever known.
24:43Like a drifter, I was born to walk alone.
24:49I've made up my mind.
24:54I ain't wasting no more time.
25:10Does patient-doctor confidentiality still exist down here?
25:14Of course, yes.
25:18Confidentially, then.
25:20If ever, for some reason, we can't talk anymore, because I'm, uh, let's just say unavailable,
25:30you're gonna want to look at someone.
25:37Out of every one of my details, Xavier Collins is the only one I really trust.
25:42So you're gonna want to discuss it with him.
25:50Here I go again on my own.
25:56Going down the ugly road I've never known.
26:16It's nice to see you out of your bathrobe, Cal.
26:18Here I go again on my own.
26:21I know what you did, Samantha.
26:27I accessed the files about the expedition.
26:41A decision had to be made.
26:44And I made it.
26:46To be a murderer?
26:47Every indication is that the surface of the planet is uninhabitable.
26:52People need to know that there are survivors.
26:56That their people could be alive up there.
26:59And then what?
27:01They go searching, whatever the fuck that looks like, letting others know where we are,
27:06it's a death sentence.
27:07That's their decision, not yours.
27:11And I'm gonna tell them the truth.
27:13No, you're not.
27:13I'm the president.
27:15Don't you ever fucking tell me what I can or cannot do, you understand me?
27:20If I decide to tell...
27:22What?
27:23Say it to my face.
27:28I want to see what it looks like when you have balls, sir.
27:39It's fine.
27:42We're fine.
28:05I'm the president.
28:09I don't know.
28:10I don't know.
28:10Don't you ever see it?
28:11I don't know.
28:11You're not wrong at all.
28:13I don't know.
28:18Pace took a dose of fentanyl.
28:20No one could mistake for recreational.
28:24Coroner's ruling it a suicide.
28:26Billy was trying to warn me.
28:28He knew something.
28:30About her.
28:33First Cal, then Billy.
28:37It was her.
28:41Tequila neat.
28:45He was like a little brother to me, Billy.
28:50I was in love with him, Cal.
28:59Neat.
29:04So what are we going to do?
29:06Sit here and drink our feelings?
29:09That's an auction.
29:15Or we take her down.
29:20It's going to be hard taking anybody down without weapons.
29:28They're weapons.
29:32And I know how to get them.
29:57I've been looking everywhere for you.
29:58How was my eulogy?
30:02Um, it...
30:04It killed.
30:12All he wanted those last few days was to hit shots with me on this stupid thing.
30:19To pretend we were playing Pebble Beach or Kapaloo and that none of this had ever happened.
30:29It was so awful to him.
30:31It was so awful to him.
30:32I didn't even show him for dinner that night.
31:11How about you show me Kapalua?
31:44Are you okay?
31:46Do you want me to turn it off?
31:48No.
31:48No.
31:49No.
31:50It's...
31:51It's just really beautiful.
32:05What are you doing here?
32:09Grandpa, um...
32:10I'm so sorry.
32:11Whoa, whoa, whoa.
32:12What are you doing here?
32:14All right, come on, Grandpa.
32:15I know you.
32:16No, I saw her, Kal.
32:18I know you, girl.
32:19I know you.
32:20Hey, Grandpa!
32:20Stop it!
32:21Hey, let go of me, you kind of a bitch!
32:23Stop!
32:24I gotta get out of here.
32:25What are you...
32:26I know you.
32:27Prez.
32:28Prez, I'm sorry.
32:30He's...
32:30He thinks that I'm my dad and...
32:33Prez, Prez...
32:35Let's go.
33:26I don't want any more of your trinkets.
33:31What?
33:32What are you talking about?
33:34I can't do this, Cal.
33:36I can't keep coming over here like you're a hooker.
33:39Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
33:41Hang on.
33:45All right, I'm sorry.
33:47I'm sorry.
33:47Listen, can you come sit, please?
33:50No.
33:51Hey.
33:55So you're telling me you came over here dressed like this just to break my heart?
34:03I'm going to go.
34:03Okay, look.
34:04Hey.
34:05Come on.
34:07Get out of my way before I break your fucking nose.
34:11Now you're just turning me on.
34:13Ow.
34:14Shit.
34:15Fuck.
34:16Robinson, wait.
34:17Hey, hey.
34:17The guns.
34:22You said you missed holding a gun.
34:25I was going to take you shooting.
34:27The sub-basement of the arena, okay?
34:29You just punch in a four-digit code.
34:31It's my inauguration day.
34:34Are you actually trying to use guns to bribe me into staying?
34:39Yeah.
34:41Yes.
34:41Yes, I am.
34:42That's exactly what I'm doing.
34:43I'll do whatever it takes.
34:44So I got a few months left on this job.
34:46I can stop the play acting with Jessica.
34:49We can get a divorce and you and I can do all that romantic shit together.
34:54We can hold hands in public and talk about our love languages.
34:57All of it.
34:57I want all of it with you.
35:02Nicole, I love you.
35:05You make me crazy.
35:16Call me when you're sober.
35:34Cities were consumed and men were gathered round their blazing homes to look once more
35:46into each other's face.
35:55I averaged two people.
35:57Three books a week for my entire life.
35:59And now all I can read is poetry.
36:04It's the only thing that will stay in my brain from start to finish.
36:14My wife, she was an English teacher in high school.
36:19She loved teaching this poem.
36:22Darkness.
36:24Lord Byron.
36:27My wife said it was one of the few poems that actually got her kids to sit up in their
36:32seats.
36:33I remember.
36:34Yeah.
36:36I remember her giving you that bookmark for Christmas.
36:39All the luxuries we had.
36:41That's the one thing you held on to all this time.
36:44Yeah.
36:46Yeah.
36:46Kind of makes you think, doesn't it?
36:50What would she have thought of all this?
36:57She would be grateful that her son was alive.
37:05She and I met in college.
37:08My family didn't approve of her and hers could not make head or tails of me.
37:13So our courtship had to be a secret and this was our little signal, you see, because I would slip
37:20flowers into whatever she was reading so that I could be sure that she knew as soon as we graduated.
37:27And I, and I found my place in the business that I would marry her.
37:34Every flower was a secret and then when it came time to build the biggest secret of all, the great
37:45secret that would carry on the history of mankind, I kept this symbol alive for her.
37:54So, when you ask what would she think, I, I, I think that you have confused yourself about why I
38:04did this.
38:09I built this for you, Uncle Jeremy.
38:14And I built it for her.
38:25Can I ask you something, Dad?
38:27Because I may be in a bit of danger right now and I need to know.
38:33I did everything you asked of me in this life.
38:38My life was your chess piece.
38:41And I delivered.
38:44I led as big a life as a man can live and I hated every fucking moment of it.
38:49But I did it.
38:52For you.
38:56So does any of it.
39:02Have I ever made you proud?
39:10You never did anything I didn't do for you.
39:20And the crowd was famished by degrees.
39:25Please.
39:26Please.
39:27kasih.
39:44Whoa!
39:45Whoa.
39:49Whoa!
39:50Whoa.
39:51Whoa!
39:52Whoa!
39:52Whoa!
39:53Whoa!
39:53Whoa!
40:54Dad, there's a thing I...
40:55Hey, listen, um, there's something awful I need to tell you.
41:01I don't even know.
41:04Uncle Billy, he's gone.
41:06He's dead.
41:10What?
41:11I hate to drop it on you like that, but, um, there's something I gotta take care of, and I
41:16need you to do exactly what I ask right now, okay?
41:19Go upstairs and get your brother.
41:21Pack a bag, whatever you can put into a backpack.
41:23Why? What's happening?
41:24Extra clothes, James' toothbrush, maybe a few books to read.
41:27Dad, what are you talking about?
41:28I need your help, Presley.
41:31I need you to be in control, and I need you to be strong, okay?
41:39Uncle Billy's gone?
41:40Like, this is real?
41:47I know, baby.
41:49I love you, and I'm asking a lot of you.
41:52I know I wouldn't put you through the duty.
41:54It's okay.
41:54Dad, go.
41:57What you have to do...
42:20Hey, Carl.
42:21I need to call in that favor.
42:23It's gonna be a bit more than a sourdough starter.
42:35What the hell is wrong with you, huh?
42:37Why did you do that?
42:38Grandpa, you scared the shit out of her.
42:42Who?
42:43Don't play it like that.
42:44I'm not playing it like anything, Cal.
42:46I'm not my fucking dad!
42:48Oh, God.
42:54Never mind.
42:57You were right the other night.
43:01You were right, Cal.
43:09What was I right about?
43:10All of it.
43:14All of it.
43:23Your mother wanted to name you Arthur, after her grandfather.
43:29Too soft, I said.
43:32Not a great man's name, but Cal Bradford now.
43:37Now, that's, uh, that's a name for a leader, a leader of men.
43:49I am not proud of anything I did.
43:58But I am so very proud of you.
44:11And I am so very sorry, son.
44:26I'm sorry, too, Dad.
44:37I'm sorry for what I said to you.
44:42I forgive you for everything.
45:02The world was void.
45:05The populace and the powerful was a lump, seasonless, herbless, trueless, manless, lifeless.
45:15A lump of death.
45:18A chaos of hard clay.
45:23Ships, sailorless, lay rotting on the sea.
45:27And their masts fell down piecemeal.
45:31As they dropped, they slept on the abyss without waves, were dead.
45:39The tides were in their grave.
45:43The moon, their mistress, had expired before.
45:49The winds were withered in the stagnant air.
45:54And the clouds perished.
45:59Darkness had no need of aid from them.
46:05She was the universe.
46:13She.
46:18I saw her that night.
46:24I saw her.
46:27I saw her.
46:27I saw her.
46:32I saw her.
46:52You trade your passion for glory
46:57Don't lose your grip
47:03Keep them alive
47:37And he's watching us all with the eye
48:01I am a tiger
48:09I am a tiger
48:13I am a tiger
48:20I am a tiger
48:25I am a tiger
48:27I am a tiger
48:30I am a tiger
48:32I am a tiger
48:34I am a tiger
48:35I am a tiger
48:36I am a tiger
48:37I am a tiger
48:40I am a tiger
48:42I am a tiger
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