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The Boroughs Season 1 Episode 4
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00:07can i help you sir are you all right sir
00:15oh yes sorry i'm okay now
00:24i suppose you don't have a bathroom i could use
00:31don't do anything weird in there
00:52damn i'm not just the president of the
00:54head club for men i am also a client
01:07i will take all of these
01:10you feeling okay actually i have never felt better
01:14oh i forgot to give you back your key move all-timer whoa hands up put the money in the
01:20bag
01:21do it you don't want to do this son somebody might get hurt yeah you okay all right if you
01:27don't shut the fuck up all right shut the fuck up take it
01:33where's the rest that's all there is what about the safe you don't have a safe
01:39why don't you have a safe because this place sucks man
01:45what the hell
01:59that was awesome
02:13now you're going to work like you might want to bring it out
02:20so
02:21I don't know.
02:52I don't know.
03:25I don't know.
03:53I don't know.
03:54I don't know.
03:57I don't know.
04:03I don't know.
04:06I don't know.
04:12I don't know.
04:19I have the examiner's report, Sam.
04:21It was just a heart attack.
04:23And now the mortician is telling me that he found signs that you were fiddling with Jack's body in the
04:28middle of the night.
04:29This is some deeply disturbing stuff, Sam.
04:32It's not like that.
04:33Okay, well, what is it like, Sam?
04:35Help me understand what's going on here.
04:38I was...
04:41I was looking for proof.
04:42Proof that something killed Jack?
04:45Yeah.
04:49Sam, I, um...
04:52I'd like you to consider checking yourself into the manor, just so we can run a few tests.
04:57I know what I saw, goddammit!
05:07You know the story of the boy who cried wolf?
05:12What?
05:12The original story took place in this perfect village, surrounded by a dark forest.
05:22Now, in this village lived a little boy who loved to play beneath the trees at the edge of town.
05:29Until, one day, the boy saw a wolf watching him from the shadows of the forest.
05:39Scared, the boy ran home and told the villagers that he had seen a wolf.
05:44And, of course, the villagers believed him.
05:46They immediately formed a hunting party.
05:49But when they reached the edge of the woods, there was no sign of the wolf.
05:56The next day, the same thing happened.
05:58And the day after that, and, well, for days, this went on until the villagers became convinced
06:07that the boy was lying.
06:10Now, at this point, Sam, the boy could have walked away.
06:16The wolf would have never dared come out of his forest.
06:21The boy could have lived a long and happy life in that perfect village.
06:30But his pride wouldn't allow it.
06:34Determined to prove that he was telling the truth, the boy ventured into the forest where the wolf ate him
06:44up.
06:45Do you see what I'm saying, Sam?
06:51You forgot the ending.
06:54Did I?
06:55In the end, the villagers avenged the little boy.
07:00And they killed the wolf.
07:11Oh, well.
07:13Can't say I didn't try.
07:15What about me?
07:17You, you are free to go.
07:20What, that's it?
07:22We're not the cops, Sam.
07:24We're only trying to help.
07:26No hard feelings.
07:28I'll see you at Edward's memorial.
07:31Wait, wait.
07:35Edward's dead?
07:36You didn't hear?
07:38Yeah, he passed in his sleep the night you came to visit.
07:43He wasn't well, Sam.
07:45He, he kept talking about seeing monsters.
07:52Got himself into all kinds of uncomfortable scrapes.
08:00Only one way that story ends.
08:03What a shame.
08:24What a shame.
08:26Rene?
08:28Ah, good morning.
08:30Oh, good morning.
08:37You okay?
08:39Let's have a little tickle.
08:41Going somewhere?
08:42Yeah, I gotta teach a class.
08:44Oh, right.
08:49Uh, wanna do something later?
08:53Um, tonight?
08:54Sorry.
08:56Yeah, we could, uh, we could go see a movie or something.
08:59Still owe me that dinner.
09:02I can't tonight.
09:04Well, uh, Nosotros is playing the Tumblewood on Sunday.
09:08Ah, Sunday's worse.
09:10Why don't you just come over here tomorrow night and, uh, I'll burn you some dinner.
09:15You know, I'm starting to feel like a sneaky link over here.
09:20What's that?
09:21The guy you don't want your friends to see you with.
09:23Sneaky link.
09:24I like that.
09:26You're not exactly making me feel better.
09:30Listen, am I the first older woman you've dated?
09:33What does that matter?
09:35You go out, you get looks.
09:37People make assumptions.
09:39It's like the whole thing.
09:40Well, fuck them.
09:40I don't care.
09:42That's what they all say.
09:46I'm not your first younger man.
09:51So, trust me when I say it is not worth all the bullshit that goes with you and me going
09:56to a concert at Tumblewood.
09:57You mean I'm not worth it.
09:58No, that's not what I said.
10:01Yeah, well, I'm old enough to read between the lines.
10:04Pass.
10:05Pass.
10:14Well, well, well.
10:25Hey.
10:26Good morning, sunshine.
10:28You didn't wait me for my shift.
10:30Anywhere from Sam?
10:32Eh, radio silence.
10:35How about art?
10:37I left a dozen messages.
10:41What if something happened to him?
10:43What is that thing?
10:44I'm sure he's fine.
10:45The safest place for art is out in that desert.
10:48Far away from our unfolding creature feature.
10:53You're awfully calm for a man who just found out monsters are real.
10:57Um, not that calm.
11:02Oh, this is our life now.
11:05Sleeping in shifts and hiding knives.
11:09I really don't know.
11:13Sam!
11:15Woohoo!
11:16Sam!
11:16Sam!
11:17Hey!
11:21Sam!
11:22Oh my God!
11:25You look terrible.
11:27I missed you too.
11:28So what happened?
11:28They just let you go?
11:31We better talk inside.
11:35So, Blaine knows about the monster?
11:37I think he's covering it up.
11:39But why would he do that?
11:40Well, he has houses to sell.
11:41So we go public?
11:43They won't believe us.
11:44The police?
11:44No, they won't believe us either.
11:46They'll think we're a bunch of senile coots and just lock us up in the manor.
11:50Well, we have to warn people.
11:52Our neighbors...
11:53We cannot tell a soul.
11:55Anyone who knows the truth is in danger.
11:57Blaine made that very clear.
11:59Oh, my God.
11:59What's he gonna do?
12:00Double ban me from the community center?
12:02He killed Edward.
12:04Holy shit.
12:07Why?
12:10For trying to help me.
12:14Poor Edward.
12:15Okay.
12:16No, this is wrong.
12:17This is wrong.
12:18Something is feeding on us and we have to do something.
12:23I'm gonna kill it.
12:25Kill it?
12:25Yeah.
12:26How do we do it?
12:27I didn't say we.
12:28Blaine has no idea you two are involved.
12:31Safer to stay that way.
12:32Hey, take it down a notch, cowboy.
12:34Yeah.
12:35We're both part of this now.
12:37Till the end, Sam.
12:38Which, given our ages, could be any day.
12:51Hey, all right.
12:52Looking good.
12:53You changed your hair or something?
12:55You know me.
12:55Always on the cutting edge of factory.
12:59Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
13:00Take care, Frank.
13:03Wee-haw.
13:10When I wake up in the morning, love.
13:15And the sunlight hurts my heart.
13:20There's something without warning, love.
13:24There's heavy on my mind.
13:28Then I look at you.
13:31And the world's all right with me.
13:37Just one look at you.
13:41And I know it's gonna be.
13:46A lovely da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da
13:52-da-da-da-da-da-da.
13:55You be great.
13:56Down, смотрите, in the morning, love.
14:07All right.
14:12You help me, remember, all right?
14:17You'll have to continue, yeah.
14:18I know it's gonna be good.
14:18It's gonna be good for you.
14:22Okay, if we want to kill the thing, we have to find it first.
14:25What do we know?
14:26We know it's a creepy bitch who sneaks into people's houses at night.
14:30How's it get in?
14:31Dunno.
14:32Where's it come from?
14:33No clue.
14:34What's it look like?
14:35What?
14:35It has too many legs.
14:37Like a spider?
14:38Not really.
14:39All right.
14:40New plan.
14:42We get it to come to us.
14:44What, you mean like invited over to watch the game?
14:47Ha!
14:47No!
14:49To dinner.
14:50Elaborate, Wally.
14:51Last night, when I couldn't sleep, I did a little bit of light reading.
14:54And based on the position of the marks in the back of our throats,
14:57I think the creature is drinking our cerebrospinal fluid.
15:00The stuff around our brains?
15:02Hmm.
15:03Somebody took AP Bio.
15:05Now, if the creature is taking small amounts, a little at a time,
15:08we might not even notice at first.
15:10But long term, we're talking brain damage, seizures,
15:13a whole list of neurological disorders.
15:15Like Maxwell's.
15:17Yes, exactly.
15:18Our little friend is taking years off our lives.
15:23Years.
15:24But if I can get a hold of a sample of cerebrospinal fluid,
15:27I think I can create a bait.
15:30Unfortunately,
15:31it's not something you can just pick up at the local Circle K.
15:35So where do we get it?
15:39Uh-uh.
15:40Oh, hell no.
15:48You've done this before, right?
15:49Oh, yeah.
15:50Plenty of times.
15:53Okay.
15:54First things first,
15:56I'm just going to apply a little topical lidocaine.
15:59Uh-huh.
16:03Are you aware of me, Sam?
16:04Uh-uh.
16:05Okay.
16:08Doing great.
16:10Great, Sam.
16:11There we go.
16:13I'll just give that a little bit of time to work.
16:16Well, the lidocaine will help with the pain, right?
16:18Absolutely.
16:20You know, Sam,
16:22while he here,
16:23he used to be a very famous doctor.
16:25No, he was on the cover of Time.
16:28I didn't know about that.
16:29I investigated you online.
16:31You lousy snoop.
16:33Yeah, I was a small part of a small article back in the 80s
16:36about a group of doctors in the front line
16:38in the fight against the mysterious gay cancer.
16:40And, uh,
16:41I don't have to tell you how that story ended.
16:44Okay.
16:45You should be numb by now.
16:48All right.
16:48Open wide
16:50and think of Europe.
16:54Squeeze my hand.
16:55Move.
16:59I'm almost done.
17:06That's it.
17:07Good job, Sam.
17:09Oh.
17:10Okay.
17:11You have beautiful brain fluid, my friend.
17:13Thank you very much.
17:15Oh.
17:16Okay.
17:16We got the bait.
17:17How do we kill the thing?
17:18Oh, I got an idea.
17:19But first, I need some supplies
17:20and a ride.
17:22I'll drive you.
17:23Wally, can we take your car?
17:25It's all yours.
17:26Okay.
17:29Okay.
17:30You better watch what you say.
17:32That mutt better watch its back.
17:34How dare you?
17:35Oh, I'm gonna kill it.
17:37Don't you touch my puddles.
17:38No, if only it were just puddles.
17:40Oh, what's the problem?
17:41His dog keeps crapping on my lawn.
17:44Puddles only craps on my lawn.
17:46That's because he's my dog.
17:47Okay, well, you can't be back here.
17:49I want to talk to Hank right now.
17:51What the hell is going on out here?
17:54Ah.
17:55How many times do I have to tell you two
17:58to quit coming in here
17:59and bothering us with this nonsense?
18:01I should take you both outside.
18:03Now, Hank.
18:05You know this is not how we speak to our residents.
18:09I'm sorry, boss.
18:11I sincerely apologize.
18:13Hank here has been under a lot of stress.
18:15Maybe, but that's no excuse.
18:18So we're gonna have, uh, uh, Paz.
18:21Paz here will take your statements.
18:23And don't worry.
18:24He's one of our best.
18:28Hank, can I have a word with you downstairs?
18:32Downstairs?
18:35Sure.
18:57I got your message.
18:59What's wrong?
19:00Honey, are you okay?
19:01I'm fine.
19:02But your message said S.O.S.
19:04Oh.
19:06Yes.
19:07There's a guy.
19:08A guy.
19:10A guy.
19:10Oh, God.
19:11Oh, darling.
19:13You scared the hell out of me.
19:15I thought something was actually wrong
19:16outside of the key lime all over your boob.
19:19I'm sorry to disappoint you.
19:21No, no, no, no, no, no.
19:21Ray, Ray, I'm sorry.
19:22It's just...
19:23Ugh.
19:24Things are crazy right now.
19:25Talk to me.
19:27I'll tell you later.
19:28Hey, so...
19:29Does your tea have anything to do
19:31with that hot security guard
19:32I saw leaving your house
19:33in a huff this morning?
19:34You know what?
19:36All I did was clearly
19:38establish my boundaries.
19:39Sure.
19:39Put up walls.
19:40And he gets his pandasol on a bunch.
19:42Great.
19:42Yeah, so you treated him like a child
19:43and you're upset
19:44that he's acting like a woman.
19:45Oh.
19:46You know what?
19:47I really like this one, Molly.
19:49I don't know.
19:50He's...
19:51He's different.
19:52Yeah.
19:52You know what?
19:53You gotta shake things up.
19:54I mean, if he's different,
19:55you gotta be different.
19:56You know what?
19:56Live it up.
19:58Well, you can.
19:59You gotta go rent a hotel room somewhere
20:01and fuck the walls down.
20:03You want my advice?
20:04Go be a whore in Sedona.
20:15Judy!
20:19You home?
20:26You home?
21:08Fuckin' Jack.
21:20Sam.
21:22Hey, Sam.
21:23We're here.
21:24Oh, I'm sorry.
21:25You must have drifted off.
21:27Well, you were snoring like a demon.
21:29I figured you needed the rest.
21:32Whose house is this?
21:35My daughter.
21:37We just need to grab a few things.
21:39Won't take long.
21:53Whoa, what's your deal with so many TVs?
21:56My daughter and I used to fix them up together.
21:58Just for fun.
22:00It's an engineering thing.
22:02Hmm.
22:02The cathode ray tubes on these sets seem to mess with the monster's blood.
22:08So I'm thinking, with enough TVs and a couple of other odds and ends, maybe I can build some kind
22:15of weapon.
22:15Is this your wife?
22:19Lily.
22:22She's pretty.
22:24Oh, look at you.
22:28Ah.
22:29You guys look so happy.
22:34Do you believe in ghosts?
22:39If you asked me two days ago, I would have said no.
22:43Now.
22:47Since I moved to the boroughs, I feel her presence.
22:54It's like she's always just around the corner.
23:03At Jack's memorial, I started to, um, see things.
23:08Little things.
23:10Impossible things.
23:13But last night I saw her.
23:16Saw.
23:17I think she was trying to tell me something.
23:20Oh, see.
23:25Dad, what are you doing here?
23:27Uh, who's this?
23:30I'm, I'm his next door neighbor.
23:32I, I just, your daddy wanted a TV.
23:35I'll be in the car.
23:38Aren't you supposed to be at work?
23:39Yeah, I forgot Cody's science homework today, so.
23:45What are you doing here?
23:48I just came to pick up some old TVs.
23:50For what?
23:52A little project.
23:54Okay.
23:55I've left you a lot of messages, Dad, and you haven't returned my calls.
23:59Yeah, I, I've been busy.
24:00But yet you have time for pretty neighbors and your old TVs, but.
24:03It's not like that.
24:04Can you explain to me what it's like then?
24:11I can't.
24:16Okay.
24:18And we're done here.
24:19No, no, wait, Claire.
24:21I lost her too, Dad.
24:35Hi, I'm calling to see if you have any rooms available this weekend.
24:44Oh, really?
24:45Um, any king bed?
24:50Haha, that's excellent.
24:54Um, I think Desert View, yeah, not Pool View.
25:02Uh, sorry, you know what?
25:04Uh, something just came up.
25:05I'm gonna have to call you back.
25:18What are you hiding, you shady sasquatch?
25:49Do you subscribe to New York City?
25:52Melton Houser?
26:16What are you drinking?
26:18Uncle Nearest.
26:21Never heard of them.
26:25Well, let me introduce you to...
26:38There you go.
26:54Uncle Nearest will get you.
26:56No!
27:06Wally! We're back!
27:09I'm in the bedroom!
27:13Good Lord, what are you doing?
27:15Oh, I finished preparing the debate, but then I realized that if we want to entice the creature into our
27:20trap, we have to make the whole scene as alluring as possible.
27:24We're gonna get you a date, baby.
27:26So the humidifier there distributes the cerebrospinal fluid through the dummy and into the air.
27:33Precisely. And then when the creature comes sniffing, we spring our trap.
27:37Oh, speaking of which, how'd it go?
27:39Do we have our weapon?
27:40We have a car full of old TVs.
27:42And these?
27:43Toys?
27:43I can use the magnets to direct and focus the particles from the TVs into a beam.
27:49Like a laser gun?
27:50Yeah, kind of.
27:52Oh, I haven't seen one of these since I was a kid.
27:54They're beautiful, aren't they?
27:55I'll be back.
27:56Where are you going?
27:57To get a real weapon.
28:32I'm coming.
28:34Hold your horses.
28:38What the hell do you want?
28:40Are you, uh, Tim Houser?
28:42I'm not looking to sell my house.
28:44No, uh, no.
28:45I'm here to ask you about your father, uh, Milton Houser.
28:54Christ.
28:55Another one.
28:56Another?
28:57You think you're the first long-lost kid to come sniffing around here asking questions about Dad?
29:02Man had more bastards than brains.
29:06Well, you come this far, you might as well get disappointed inside.
29:18I hope you like your lemonade a little tart.
29:21The doctor says I can't go with the sugar anymore.
29:28Go ahead with your questions.
29:31Judge Judy will be on in 20 minutes.
29:33I never miss an episode.
29:37So, sounds like you and Dad didn't get along.
29:40I couldn't stand the bastard.
29:43What's this?
29:44A little bit of family history.
29:46That's what you came for, huh?
29:51When did he pass away?
29:531975.
29:55I'm older now than he was when he passed.
29:58He crashed his car out in the desert.
30:01The body was burned so bad they had to keep the casket closed.
30:07And he worked in prison, right?
30:08Started out as a guard and worked his way up to warden.
30:12That's when I came on board.
30:14That's when I met Mr. Smile.
30:17Mr. Smile?
30:18That's what the inmates called him.
30:20No one ever saw the old man smile unless he was hurting somebody.
30:25I should have reported him, but he was still my daddy.
30:38Do you recognize the other man in that picture?
30:43Can't say they do.
30:47I've seen all the terrible things Daddy did to people.
30:50Our blood is poisoned.
30:52Everybody would be a lot better off if our whole family line choked out and died.
30:57Let time do what it do.
30:59Wipe things clean.
31:09I'm not afraid to start again.
31:12When I left school to start the contracting business, she was there.
31:17When the kids went off to college and I was no longer Daddy, she was there.
31:23But I hurt my back and had to retire.
31:25She was there.
31:28Your duty.
31:29My North Star.
31:33A fixed point in an ever-expanding universe.
31:39But she fell in love with another man.
31:42Now I'm lost at sea and what the hell do I do?
31:49Easy.
31:52You punish her.
31:55Punish?
31:56For what she did to you.
31:59I don't care about the sex.
32:00I'm not talking about sex.
32:03I'm talking about love.
32:06True love.
32:08That's...
32:09Transcendent.
32:13Meaning above all else.
32:19You had that.
32:21But she...
32:23Sullied it.
32:25Defiled it.
32:28She stabbed you in the back.
32:31So now...
32:33You stab her in the front.
32:38Punish her.
32:43You are...
32:52What's wrong?
32:59Excuse me.
33:04Excuse me.
33:29Oh, oh.
33:55Oh, oh.
33:59Oh, oh.
34:01Oh, oh.
34:10Oh.
34:17Help me.
34:20Help me.
34:54Quartz.
34:56Fucking Hank.
34:59Oh, oh.
35:00Oh, oh.
35:01Oh, oh.
35:01Oh, oh.
35:02Oh, oh.
35:04Oh, oh.
35:13Oh, oh.
35:31Oh, oh.
35:32Oh, oh.
35:58Oh, oh.
36:02Oh, oh.
36:06Oh, oh.
36:17Oh, oh.
36:21Oh, oh.
36:33Oh, oh.
36:38Oh, oh.
36:42Oh, oh.
36:43Oh, oh.
36:44Oh, oh.
36:46Oh, oh.
36:46Oh, oh.
36:48Oh, oh.
36:51Oh, oh.
36:56Oh, oh.
36:59Fuck me.
37:06Learn to mind your own business, amigo.
37:23It's getting dark out there.
37:25How's it going, Sam?
37:26Uh-uh.
37:27Yeah, almost done.
37:30House is all sealed up.
37:32There's no way in or out.
37:34Except that patio door, right there.
37:36Well, the tableau is set and our star is ready.
37:40As soon as that thing comes in, we blast it with Sam's TVs.
37:43Okay, we're working four-hour shifts.
37:45One of us posted in the bathroom with the controls.
37:47The second, across the street, asleep, or the other one watches over them.
37:51And then rinse and repeat.
37:53Could take days, could take weeks.
38:04Judy, are you absolutely sure you sealed the house?
38:07I'm sure.
38:10Well, something got in.
38:11It's impossible.
38:15Nothing's impossible anymore.
38:19What the hell are you going to do with that?
38:21I'm going to shoot something.
38:22Wait, wait, Judy!
38:25Maybe two now.
38:27Stick to the plan.
38:54Powering up.
38:56Wait.
38:59Why is it then?
39:06Why is it?
39:15I can't be joking.
39:20I can't be joking.
39:22What is it?
39:24What?
39:29What the hell happened?
39:30I tripped the breakers, but I've got battery backups.
39:37It's here.
39:44It's on top of the closet.
39:48What's it doing?
39:51It's looking at us.
39:57Turn the TVs.
39:58What?
39:59Turn the TVs to aim at it.
40:02But do it casually.
40:05Oh, casually?
40:07Yeah.
40:09Shit.
40:11Shit.
40:14Oh, my God.
40:18Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit.
40:19He's doing something.
40:20Yeah, I'm almost done.
40:22Sam, we have to go fast.
40:26Climb's up.
40:27Now.
40:33It didn't work.
40:35Jesus!
40:41I hit it! I think I hit it!
40:42Don't let it get away.
40:43I hit it!
40:44Don't let it get away!
40:44You can do it.
40:47You can do it.
40:49Yeah, it doesn't work.
40:50You're not.
41:01It's going to hurt!
41:07I'm not.
41:08I'm not.
41:11My body's including a pen.
41:12You can do it.
41:14It's going to be a nest.
41:14You can do it.
41:14I'm not.
41:14You don't.
41:38I am a passenger
41:41And I ride, and I ride
41:44I ride through the cities by stars
41:48I see the stars come out of the sky
41:51Yeah, the bright and hollow sky
41:54You know it looks so good tonight
42:04I am a passenger
42:08I stay under glass
42:11I look through my window so bright
42:14I see the stars come out tonight
42:18I see the bright and hollow sky
42:21Over the city's red backside
42:24And everything looks good tonight
42:33Sing me, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
42:54La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
43:07la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
43:11la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
43:11la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
43:11la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
43:13la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
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