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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.
06:13you look nice grown up and you look like you're pretending to be an agent they just put me on
06:20leave
06:21I'm still an agent where's your brother he's next door at Carl's with you know
06:48good good she really listens to you James Xavier James just want to come over and play with Lucy
06:54just now so get your jacket come on it's okay James that's crazy day today at the tower I
07:00gotta get moving myself you got to be more careful Carl the no pets rules pretty clear I know I
07:09know
07:10I just um look how much they love each other expecting a 10 year old to keep your secret is
07:18a real leap of faith that street lamp they're working on that light was not out last night
07:23how easy would it be for them to put a camera in there come on Xavier that's a little paranoid
07:27isn't
07:28it is it just be more careful you're right I will be I owe you Xavier do anything you ever
07:39need you
07:40know cut your lawn trim your hedges sourdough starter for life you just say the word thanks Carl
07:52Tower is this Ava with event logistics is there any way being and bringing some cloud cover
07:57this isn't spring break we need somber copy that let's try this one
08:06there 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 turned out much to his chagrin I uh I wasn't exactly the next
08:25Tiger Woods
08:26um he used to say putting was his happy place that his head would clear and that all the stress
08:36and
08:36the pressure would just fade away and I'm sure he needed golf down here more than ever I mean you
08:46know let's face it he was uh he was unraveling those last few weeks you know some of you might
08:52have even seen him running around in his bathrobe yeah those um those last days were rough
09:05my dude I got Rocky III queued up not to mention some popcorn and some bourbon you in
09:11little clubber Lang with Mr. T we can skip right to eye of the tiger it's the best the hero
09:18at his
09:18lowest point gets his shit together and he kicks in some balls you'll love it what do you say
09:22I'd say your taste in movies is as dated as your taste in music yeah yeah yeah yeah save it
09:27for my
09:27biography come on watch a classic with your old man that biography that that pretty much
09:34writes itself no part one an alcoholic daddy's boy wakes up at age 42 and decides he wants to be
09:43president okay spare me the whole righteous teenage dick will you part two following the collapse of
09:48civilization he uh he hunkers down in his mansion playing pebble beach in a golf simulator while a
09:53bunch of gazillionaires stick their hands up his ass to make his mouth move Jeremy get off me
09:59uh keep your freaking hands to yourself what's going on it's just dad I was just trying to get
10:07okay all right sorry it's all right yeah an alert he left the guest house we found okay I want
10:11to go
10:11to my study he will not let me go to my study okay all right it's my study dad you
10:16live in the
10:16guest house remember how did he get out I have no idea grandpa I'll show you this I just want
10:20to
10:20get my book okay sniper here won't let me go to my study son of a bitch it's probably time
10:27we start
10:28thinking about putting a child luck no no not yet man just thought if we not yet yes sir
10:36no Jeremy my name's Jeremy not Cal huh that's why Cal named his boy Jeremy such a limp ineffectual name
10:49I that's kind of name for a fop a fool or a physicist not according to Pearl Jam dad yeah
10:56that's where I put
10:57it okay dad you can't leave the grounds are you listening without telling someone yeah you were
11:05always weak that's why the sniper had to do it why do you keep calling him that it's agent pace
11:10and these agents aren't your babysitters you understand you thought they were all lost at sea
11:17those four and they did it right under your nose to you you know you were never the sharpest tool
11:24in
11:25the shed kid okay why don't we get you back to your place not my president
11:36not mine either hey don't be like that hey I don't know what I did to piss you off you
11:42never
11:42stood up you never fought back you knew what was coming and you kept it to yourself that makes you
11:49complicit okay you know I I really I can't wait to see how you hide from yourself when the liquor
11:59finally runs out wish you'd died with the rest of the world
12:20may the man love his golf
12:30hey there Collins as Jane have you seen Billy today he hasn't answered my texts oh weird I've been
12:40trying to get a hold of him too hey press can you take James to curls please come on booger
12:46it takes one to know one you're still a booger something's not right let's go find Billy
12:59Colin can we have a quick word it's about Cal Jane give us a minute would you
13:11the crime team I sent the DNA samples to the lab for testing a few days ago
13:16the samples never arrived at the lab the later lost the samples never arrived and who was the
13:25one person with the power to get in the way of something like that
13:36look Collins I'm big enough to admit that you had a point but you and me is about as wide
13:44as my
13:45circle of trust goes right now but you are dating the murder victim so my circle of trust is staying
13:51put
13:56for right now
14:00what are you thinking about yeah my old man had a bad episode today you know my dad was one
14:08of the first
14:08people that Samantha recruited to help build this place he had the subsurface geologic experience he
14:15knew how to find seams in the earth but his biggest contribution was me his hand-picked man in charge
14:27who
14:27could open up all Lady Liberty's precious resources for whatever she needed ask you a question did you vote for
14:39me
14:39no
14:40oh
14:42oh
14:43you came off like the spoiled moron son of a billionaire
14:49don't you dare
14:52wow
14:54Cal 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 practices and policies I quite enjoy
15:27uh-huh
15:29wonder what those are
15:48hey does my dad have a nickname for you
15:52a nickname
15:53yeah
15:55other than the occasional condescending sweetheart or darling no
15:59no nickname
16:01why
16:01no he's been calling pace a nickname for a while sniper
16:05hmm
16:06I don't know it's weird
16:09yeah
16:09it's hard to be a sniper in a world without real guns
16:14god I miss it
16:16yeah what's that
16:17guns
16:19the weight of them
16:21you know
16:21not just some
16:22orange 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
16:40Cal
16:41I'm the special agent in charge
16:43if there are guns down here I need to know about them
16:46I got some work to do
16:47wait
16:47Cal
16:49the aquifer's acting up or some shit
16:52are you fucking serious right now
16:55this is still an illicit affair
16:58Cal
16:59you do realize that this is
17:02you
17:05this is more for me
17:06you know that right
17:07the scape
17:10I can't do this right now
17:11all in words
17:15is all I ever need
17:19Hall
17:20if you
17:24by the time
17:34Billy, hey, man, you in there?
17:36Billy?
17:40Billy, man, you there?
17:51Billy?
18:03No, no, no, Billy.
18:10Jane.
18:11Oh, my God.
18:12No, Jane, please go.
18:14No, I didn't know.
18:17No, I didn't know.
18:21No, no, no, no.
18:40Yeah, I'm, uh, Agent Collins.
18:47It's, um...
18:53I'm at the home of Agent Billy Pace,
18:58Agent Down.
19:03He's dead.
19:17I don't understand.
19:21I was with him last night.
19:23He was maybe a little off, but definitely so.
19:29But he got me a sparkler.
19:32I'm so sorry.
19:41Oh, my God.
19:43Oh, my God.
20:04He's a sniper.
20:07Lost at sea.
20:08What the fuck did I mean?
20:14Oh, my God.
20:25Oh, my God.
20:28Oh, my God.
20:34Oh, God.
21:05Restricted access, you've got top fucking presidential clearance, motherfucker.
21:35All right.
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 from the city can translate?
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, less 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.
23:58Oh, 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 skills.
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.
24:32Here I go again on my own
24:37Going down the only road I've ever known
24:43Like a drifter I was born to walk along
24:49I've made up my mind
24:54I ain't wasting no more time
24:59I'm just another heart in me of rescue
25:05Waiting on love, sweet charity
25:10Does patient-doctor confidentiality still exist down here?
25:14Of course, yes.
25:18Confidentially, then.
25:20If ever for some reason
25:22We can't talk anymore
25:24Because I'm, uh
25:26Let's just say unavailable
25:30You're gonna want to look at someone
25:37I, I don't, uh
25:38Out of every one of my details
25:39Xavier Collins is the only one I really trust
25:42So you're gonna want to discuss it with him
25:45To walk alone
25:47Alone in sweet dreams
25:51And here I go again on my own
25:56Going down the only road I've never known
26:01Like a drifter I was born to walk alone
26:08And I've made up my mind
26:13I ain't wasting no more time
26:16It's nice to see you out of your bathrobe, Cal
26:18And here I go again on my own
26:22I know what you did, Samantha
26:27I accessed the files
26:30About the expedition
26:41A decision had to be made
26:44And I made it
26:45To be a murderer?
26:48Every indication is that the surface of the planet is uninhabitable
26:51People need to know
26:54That there are survivors
26:55That their people could be alive up there
26:58And then what?
27:01They go searching?
27:02Whatever the fuck that looks like?
27:04Letting others know where we are?
27:06It's a death sentence
27:07That's their decision
27:08Not yours
27:11And I'm gonna tell them the truth
27:12No, you're not
27:13I'm the president
27:15Don't you ever fucking tell me what I can or cannot do
27:18You understand me?
27:20If I decide to tell
27:23Say it to my face
27:28I want to see what it looks like when you have balls
27:32Sir
27:39It's fine
27:42We're fine
28:06I want to see what it looks like
28:18Pace took a dose of fentanyl, no one could mistake for recreational.
28:24Coroner's ruling it a suicide.
28:26Billy was trying to warn me, he knew something about her, first Cal, then Billy, it 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 gonna do, sit here and drink our feelings?
29:08That's an option.
29:15Or we take her down.
29:20It's gonna 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, it killed.
30:12All he wanted those last few days was to hit shots with me in 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 her.
30:32I didn't even shower for dinner that night.
30:34I didn't even shower 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.
31:49No.
31:51It's just really beautiful.
32:05What are you doing here?
32:08Grandpa, I'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, stop it.
32:21Hey, let go.
32:22Let go of me, you kind of a bitch.
32:23Stop.
32:24I got to get out of here.
32:25What are you doing here?
32:28Chris.
32:28Chris, I'm sorry.
32:30He thinks that I'm my dad.
32:33Chris.
32:33I don't have to go of me.
33:26I don't want any more of your trinkets.
33:31What? What are you talking about?
33:34I can't do this, Cal. I can't keep coming over here like you're a hooker.
33:39Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hang on.
33:45All right, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Listen, can you come sit, please?
33:50No.
33:52Hey.
33:55So you're telling me you came over here dressed like this just to break my heart?
34:03I'm gonna go.
34:03Okay, look. Hey, come on.
34:07Get out of my way before I break your fucking nose.
34:11I'm not just turning me on.
34:14Shit. Fuck.
34:16Robinson, wait. Hey, hey. The guns.
34:22You said you missed holding a gun.
34:25I was gonna take you shooting.
34:27The sub-basement of the arena, okay?
34:29You just punch in a four-digit code, it's my inauguration day.
34:34Are you actually trying to use guns to bribe me into staying?
34:39Yeah. Yes. Yes, I am. That's exactly what I'm doing. I'll do whatever it takes.
34:44I got a few months left on this job. I 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. I want all of it with you.
35:00Nicole.
35:02I love you.
35:05You made me crazy.
35:16Call me when you're sober.
35:39You made me crazy.
35:40When you're sober, you're prepared.
35:41I'm over here.
35:46All right.
35:47I'm over here.
35:48When you're on your feet.
35:51I'm over here.
35:53I'm over here.
35:53I'm over here.
35:53I'm over here.
35:54I'm over here.
35:56I'm over here.
35:58We'll be here.
35:59It's just a big time.
35:59I'm over here, the time.
35:59All you'll be fine.
36:02You're over here.
36:03All you'll be in here.
36:03It's the only thing that'll 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,
36:23Darkness, Lord Byron.
36:27My wife said it was one of the few poems
36:29that actually got her kids to sit up in their seats.
36:33I remember her giving you that bookmark for Christmas.
36:39All the luxuries we had,
36:41and that's the one thing you held on to all this time.
36:44Yeah.
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,
37:11and hers could not make head or tails of me.
37:13So our courtship had to be a secret.
37:17And this was our little signal, you see,
37:18because I would slip flowers into whatever she was reading
37:22so that I could be sure that she knew
37:24as soon as we graduated and I found my place in the business
37:31that I would marry her.
37:34Every flower was a secret.
37:38And then when it came time to build
37:42the biggest secret of all,
37:45the great secret that would carry on the history of mankind,
37:48I kept this symbol alive for her.
37:54So when you ask what would she think,
37:58I think that you have confused yourself
38:02about why I did this.
38:09I built this for you and for 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,
38:29and 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 lived as big a life as a man can live,
38:46and 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?
39:09You never did anything I didn't do for you.
39:21And the crowd was famished by degrees.
39:25Please.
39:56I swear to God,
40:53Dad, there's a thing.
40:54Hey, 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,
41:14there's something I gotta take care of,
41:16and I need 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,
41:26maybe 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,
41:32and 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.
41:53It's okay.
41:54Dad, go.
41:57Do what 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!
42:54Never mind.
42:57You were right the other night.
43:01You were right, Cal.
43:08What was I right about?
43:10All of it.
43:14All of it.
43:23Your mother wanted to name you Arthur,
43:26after her grandfather.
43:29Too soft, I said.
43:32Not a great man's name, but Cal Bradford now.
43:37That's a name for a leader.
43:41A 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 am so very proud of you.
44:27I'm sorry too, Dad.
44:38I'm sorry for what I said to you.
44:42I forgive you for everything
44:44The world
45:04was void
45:05the populace and the powerful
45:08was a lump
45:09seasonless
45:11herbless
45:12trueless
45:13manless
45:14lifeless
45:15a lump of death
45:17a chaos of hard clay
45:22ships
45:23sailorless lay rotting
45:26on the sea
45:27and their masts fell down
45:30piecemeal
45:30as they dropped
45:33they slept on the abyss
45:36without waves
45:38were dead
45:38the tides
45:41were in their grave
45:42the moon
45:44their mistress
45:46had expired before
45:48the winds
45:50were withered
45:52in the stagnant air
45:54and the clouds
45:57perished
45:59darkness had no need
46:01need of aid from them
46:04she was
46:06the universe
46:13she
46:18i saw her that night
46:24i saw her
46:26i saw her
46:47so many times
46:50so many times
46:52you change your passion
46:55for glory
46:57don't lose your grip
47:03keep them alive
47:05that night
47:07and
47:18and
47:19they
47:20and
47:20and
47:24and
47:37And he's watching us all with the eye
48:01I am a tiger
48:10I am a tiger
48:13I am a tiger
48:16I am a tiger
48:23I am a tiger
48:53I am a tiger
49:23I am a tiger
49:53I am a tiger
50:21I am a tiger
50:24I am a tiger
50:25I am a tiger
50:26I am a tiger
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