04x09 - The Inferno

Episode transcripts for the TV show "Search Party". Aired: November 2016 to present.*
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"Search Party" centers around five self-absorbed twenty-somethings, who become entangled in an ominous mystery when a former college acquaintance suddenly disappears.
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04x09 - The Inferno

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[TENSE MUSIC]

[SCREAMS]

[IN DISTORTED VOICE] Dory.

[SCREAMS]

[IN DISTORTED VOICE] Dory.

[SCREAMING]

Dory?

The waitress is asking for your order.

Can you please just
say "eggs" or something?

You're scaring me.

[CHRISTMAS CAROL PLAYING]

She's back.

Hey.

Hmm? Oh.

- Sorry.
- That's okay.

Could I just have...

Some ice cream?

Neapolitan.

- You got it.
- Just ice cream?

I mean... sorry.

That's so fun!
I love that you ordered that, girl.

Oh, that's cute. Ice cream. [LAUGHS]

[WHISPERING] She was brainwashed.

♪ Oh, but dear ♪

♪ The sky is low, watch ♪

♪ Fluent sea men... ♪

So Dor, how you feeling?

We can go home right away,
or maybe we could go

to the police first and then leave.

Yeah.

- Yeah, that makes sense.
- Yeah.

Yeah, we should report it.

He can't do this to anyone ever again.

Okay. Great.

So we'll, uh, go to the police,

and then you can sleep in the car

on the drive back to
the city if you need to.

What do you guys live for?

What's up? What?

Like...

Like, what gets you up...

in the morning?

I love acting.

Hmm.

Well, um...

What do you love about acting?

Okay, well, I fundamentally believe

that watching celebrities
talk in the form of lines

can help people cope with life and, like,

honestly, for me,
that feels noble and, like,

a reason to get up every morning.

Hmm.

What about you, Elliott?

What about me, what, honey?

What... gives you meaning?

Honestly, lately, it's
been all about, like,

connecting with the unexpected.

Like, my work literally has me engaging

with the kind of people we
would all regularly avoid,

which I guess is just
kind of exciting for me.

You know, to represent the people

I have a hard time
loving. It's a challenge.

But it's also kind of a fascinating place

to be in your life, and...

you know, to be honest,

I don't know if I believe
anything that I just said.

Drew?

[SIGHS] Um...

yeah, uh, you just do.

Okay? You just... You just get up.

Because you have to.

All right, look, I know, Dory,
that you're going through...

and have been going through some sort of...

unique trauma or something,

but generally, we have it very easy.

Or do you think starving
people in other countries

ask themselves these questions?

Do you think that our ancestors did?

No! They just got up, all right?

They got up, and then they painted

their little caves or made tools

out of a saber-toothed tiger
tooth or whatever, okay?

They just... they just did.

They didn't think about it.

They just got up.

I just...

I don't even know what I'm
gonna do when I get home.

It's like...

Who am I even gonna be?

You're just gonna be Dory,

Dory.

I just don't know if
that's a good thing to be.

Dor, you're great.

I'm a hazard.

Dor,
I think you just have to really remember

that, like, you didn't want

any of this to happen, you know?

Yeah, most of this stuff happened to us.

You know, we...
we didn't have any real agency

at any given moment.

You know, we have to start taking

more responsibility for
how little responsibility

we've actually had in our lives.

I think there's something...

wrong with me.

[UNSETTLING MUSIC]

He saw something in me,

And I'm just terrified that...

That there's this person...

deep down inside of me that...

I don't fully understand.

And that I cannot trust.

I think I made all these things happen.

Well, to be fair, girl... [CHUCKLES]

your s are all about...

Th-that.

- What?
- [STAMMERS] I don't know!

I'm sorry, Drew. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

At least I tried to say something, okay?

That was noble. You're just sitting there

with the f*cking half and half

like you're... making butter.

Okay, Dory.

Is there something that
you're trying to tell us?

You never should've looked for me.

[GASPS]

Okay, yay, ice cream.

Is there anything else I can get you?

Hmm.

Yeah, it's not the same.

- Uh, Dory.
- Dor...

Where is she going?

I can... I honestly can bring her

literally anything else.

You're doing beautiful work.
It's not about you.

Thank you.

Okay, honestly, this is mean,
but she sounds like an idiot.

That was like a conversation you have

with someone in college. [LAUGHS]

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

Are you the... the twink?

But you can call me "Chip."

I'm your best friend.

[SOBS]

Stephanie.

Well, Stephanie, I'm thinking...

we go out into the world together.

I need you to trust me.

[SCREAMS]

I went, like, very far

[PHONE BUZZING] with women.

How come I didn't know that?

- In middle school.
- [SIGHS] God.

Why is my brother calling me?

Hey.

Why do you need to know?

I already told you where I am.

Yeah, I'm at a motel.
It's called "The Babyfoot Inn."

It's like the only motel in town.

Why are you so concerned
about where I am these days?

Okay, weirdo.

Bye.

Everyone has lost their minds.

- I know.
- I know.

Is this cashmere? It...

It's wool.

Tasteful tattoos. They're so sweet.

[INHALES]

Chip, love, please, talk to me.

I mean, you... it's...
It is hurting my heart

to get this cold treatment.

I'm just in shock, okay?

I just need to process this on my own time.

I understand, but I tried.

I tried my very best to
raise you from a distance.

When you were a toddler, I made candy bars,

and, you know, I cut a hole in the middle,

and I sent them to Richard to give to you.

And then when I was at home,
I would imagine that...

you were eating the
bar while I was at home,

eating the hole.

And together, then,
that meant that we were eating...

the entire candy bar.

There they are.

Teens.

Yoo-hoo! Boys!

You like fire?

Babe, you know, you don't need to tip.

Not outside the city.

Yes, you do. You always have to tip.

No,
but I think in like rural towns like this,

you can cap it at a %

because a dollar goes a long way here.

Where the hell is Dory?

Wait, wasn't the car parked,
like, right there?

Is the car gone?

- Oh, no.
- sh*t!

- Dory? Dory!
- No!

Oh... my God!

Did she go back to him?

Did she go back to the twink?

Ow, my knee!

Oh, twisted my knee!

Oh, sh*t.

Mom?

sh**t!

He saw me.

I'm sorry, he saw me.

Mom! God damn it! You screw up everything!

What are you doing here?

Hi. Oops, sorry.

Are you... are you Andrew?

- Yes.
- I'm sorry.

I'm supposed to give this to you.

I don't... sorry.

[WHISPERING] Why is his family here?

[WHISPERING] I don't know.

[UPLIFTING MELODY PLAYS]

BOTH: ♪ When you know, you know ♪

♪ You know, you know ♪

♪ When we know, we know ♪

♪ You know, you know ♪

Kathy and Frank:
♪ When you know, you know ♪

♪ You know it's love ♪

♪ When you know, you know ♪

♪ You know ♪

♪ ♪

♪ They'll say that you're crazy ♪

Grandfather Rooster!

♪ They'll say that you're wrong ♪

♪ They'll say this will be over ♪

♪ In no time at all ♪

♪ When you know ♪

♪ You know ♪

♪ When you know ♪

♪ ♪

♪ You know ♪

ALL: ♪ Now, when you know ♪

♪ You know, you know, you know ♪

♪ When you know, you know ♪

- ♪ You know, you know ♪
- Stop, stop, stop, stop.

ALL: ♪ When you know, you know ♪

♪ You know it's love ♪

♪ When you know, you know ♪

♪ You know ♪

What is going on?

♪ But love will take you over ♪

[FAMILY VOCALIZING]
And you'll be numb ♪


♪ Time will stand still ♪

♪ Because you found the one! ♪

- FAMILY: ♪ You know, you know ♪
- ♪ When you know ♪


- FAMILY: ♪ When you know ♪
- ♪ When you know ♪


- FAMILY: ♪ You know, you know ♪
- ♪ You know ♪


ALL: ♪ When you know, you know ♪

- FAMILY: ♪ You know, you know ♪
- ♪ You know ♪


♪ When you know-oh-oh-oh ♪

♪ Oh, oh, when you know ♪

♪ ♪

♪ You know ♪

♪ And I know ♪

[GIGGLES]

When you know, you know, Andrew.

And I know.

Will you marry me?

[GASPS]

Say "yes," Andrew.

[GIGGLES]

Oh, gosh.

I'm st... Still holding the keyboard.

[LAUGHS]

- Portia, could you hold this?
- What?

Can you hold the key... Hold the keyboard?

[WHISPERING] What's happening?

- Uh...
- [LAUGHS]

Can I... can we talk, um, about this

maybe somewhere away from
everybody really quick?

Speak up! I can't hear you say "yes"!

- Speak up!
- [STAMMERS] Can we just...

please go over here somewhere
and just talk about this

- in private really quick.
- No, no!

What do you want to say?
Just say it here. Say it.

Say it here so it can be a
part of this magical moment.

C... Cindy...

please.

Please, please, please,
please-please-please,

don't do this.

He said "yes"!

[ALL CHEERING]

No! No! No, no, no! I did not say "yes"!

- Yes, you did!
- No, I didn't!

Everyone needs to understand

I did not say "yes."

Honey, just say "yes" to her.

I did not ask for this!

Okay, Cindy, I still don't know

how much that I actually love you.

- I'm so sorry.
- Oh, no, no, no.

- I'm using you!
- No!

I'm using you to try and get over Dory.

What!? No!

I'm addicted to her!

[CINDY CRYING] Okay?

I'm addicted to a brainwashed,
psychotic m*rder*r!

I can't stop thinking about her!

I'm not well!

Okay? Neither are you!

Or you! Or you!

And Merry Merry Land is not merry!

[SOBBING] Oh, no, no.

And I'm still in love with Dory.

Aah! [SOBBING]

Broad strokes, boys.
Come on, broad strokes.

Don't be stingy.

I want every inch of this place soaked.

If you run out,
there's more where that came from.

And smile!

You're supposed to be having fun!

Good-bye, floral runner.

Good-bye, wig.

[GRUNTS] The portrait.

Chip.

[TENSE MUSIC]

Stephanie?

Dory.

♪ ♪

Hey!

Hey! Hey! Wait!

♪ ♪

Come on, Chip.

I'm not gonna hurt
you. I just want to talk.

♪ ♪

Ha!

Drewbie?

Was that your girlfriend?

Can you guys just please
give me some space?

I don't want to talk about this right now.

No, I'm just wondering,
where did you guys meet?

Nowhere.

Okay, Drew, when I went through your bag

last night after you went to bed, um...

I found a Flopsy Dog keychain,

and one of the keys
said "staff apartments."

Drew... do you live in Merry Merry Land?

Okay, you know what?
You two are making fun of me,

and I don't think it's very funny.

And Elliott, I've asked you this before,

but will you please stop
going through my bag?

Okay, Drew, I'm not making fun!

I'm literally just putting
two and two together.

Look, I'm gonna go ahead and just say it,
Drew,

I think you should've said "yes."

She just seemed sweet,
you know what I mean?

Unlike the person that
we are searching for,

who is not sweet.

And we just love you, Drew-Boo.

We just want you to be happy. That's all.

Thank you.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

Chip?

♪ ♪

- [GRUNTS]
- No, no, no, please!

Please don't hurt me! Please don't hurt me!

- Chip, I'm not gonna hurt you!
- Please, please!

- Stop it! Stop it!
- Please, please, please!

Okay! I swear I'm not gonna hurt you!

- Stop! Stop squirming! Stop it!
- Oh, my God.

I want you...

To do it again.

Do what?

Make me forget everything that I've done.

Huh?

Make me be Stephanie.

Ma'am, think that's about it.

Every inch is soaked?

Uh, yeah.

Come and get it.

for you. for you.

You didn't think I would really

come through with this, did you?

Now, I'll see if you've
learned your lesson.

There really are good people in this world

who mean what they say
and say what they mean.

You hurt me.

You isolated me.

You tortured me.

But...

it's still easier...

To live with that anger...

Than it is to live with being myself.

And you want me to make that hell go away?


I just wanna be free.

But when I'm me...

I can't escape being me.

But when I'm someone else...

I can just...

I can just be.

And that's what I want.

I want to just...

be.

So, Chip...

please, just...

just make me someone that I'm not.

You know what I hear?

Whining.

Whining that has nothing to do with me.

I did everything that I did to you...

because I wanted a friend.

I needed one friend!

But for one moment,

I got to finally feel what it's like...

to be myself around somebody else.

And can you imagine what it feels like

for you to come in here

and want to do it all over again,

but you could care less
about me or how I feel?

That's not true.

Chip...

we can still be friends.

As long as you get what you want...

And I get what I want.

You think I know what I did?

I don't know what I did!

I bonked you on the head,

I read half a book and a couple articles

and made up a drug cocktail

out of pills that have been
in this house since the ' s!

And the moon was full!

Maybe it was that. I don't know!

I'm not some evil mastermind, okay?

I'm just wealthy and inbred.

Oh, I'm inbred, by the way. It's official.

Chip, are you down there?

We have to go.

I'm coming!

- It's time, Chip, hurry up.
- I'm coming.


I know, but my sinuses are k*lling me.

Those fumes.

Oh!

Can Dory come, too?

That's the Dory girl!

Well, of course, she can!

Why don't you wait in the car, sweetheart?

Well, look at you.

It's a bold haircut.

Come on.

Come on, there you go.

I've been looking forward to meeting you.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

I've heard so much about you.

♪ ♪

Ooh. Sorry, sweetheart.

[PANTING]

Well, if it's any consolation,

we are a very good family.

♪ ♪

Drewbie!

Please do not be mad at me, okay?

I love you so much.
I just... I feel really bad.

I shouldn't have said anything, okay?

I'm not mad.

[CRYING] I'm just really

disappointed in myself.

- Drew!
- Drewbie!

I don't know who I am!

- Hey, hey, hey, hey!
- Drewbie, Drewbie!

What's wrong? What's wrong?

- What's up, baby?
- Oh, sweetie!

- Oh, God!
- Hey, it's okay, it's okay.

[CRYING] I don't know where I belong!

I don't know where to go!

I don't know who to love!

That's okay.

She's so nice.

Like, she's like a really nice,

beautiful princess.

I can't love her 'cause
I don't love myself!

I've been finding out
more stuff about myself,

and it's like I don't like it!

I know, I know.

I k*lled a man!

[SOBBING]

I know! I know!

I know! It's not good!

Not... not you, not you, but me. Me! Me!

Look at me and my stupid, fat choices!

I'm just... I'm a person

playing a person playing a person!

And it's all fear!

It's all because of fear! I mean...

[VOICE BREAKING] that factory blew up,
you guys!

What factory?

The Elliott g*ns factory!

One g*n went off, and
then another went off,

and then another went off,
and then they all went off,

and it was...
they all just went off like dominos,

and then the walls of
the factory collapsed.

Oh, God.

And then...
and then I sued the building owners,

saying it was an earthquake,

and I'm gonna make
"$ million" off of that?

What the hell, man?

What's my problem?

I'm a f*cking despicable person!

[CRYING] No, you're not!

- I am!
- No...

- I am!
- No.

I signed up to do a movie

that completely mocks all my best friends,

and I was so bad that I got fired from it!

- No, no.
- And everyone in the industry

literally thinks I'm a joke,

and I'm doing all this self-help.

I'm so exhausted trying
to find my f*cking power!

[SOBBING] Please just tell me who I am!

I don't know who I...

Or any of us, okay?

We're all so f*cking lost.

We're like a lost generation.

It's like we just have to make a mockery

of all our lives.

Look at us, you guys.

We're literally sitting...

on the side of the road

looking for a friend who screamed at us

that she wants to k*ll us.

Dory doesn't even want us to look for her.

Well, that went well.

We can call Big Jon and tell him

that he has one less job to do,

and we'll save a little bit of money.

[SIGHS]

Couldn't we have just paid her off?

[LAUGHS] Oh, no.

No, you went too far.

You see, there's a line, a pay line.

You crossed over.
You crossed over the pay line.

All right, you two, listen up.

[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING]

♪ Ah, ah oh ♪

- ♪ Kiss away ♪
- ♪ Kiss away my tears ♪


- ♪ Kiss away ♪
- ♪ Kiss away my tears ♪


- ♪ Kiss away ♪
- ♪ Kiss away my tears ♪


- ♪ Ah-ah ♪
- ♪ My tears ♪


- ♪ Kiss away my tears ♪
- ♪ Ah ♪


♪ Ah, ah ♪

Now, you wait until we're out of sight,

then you count to ,
and then you can light up.

But skedaddle away really quickly

so you don't get caught.

Oh, and boys?

Merry Christmas.

Do we try to save her?

- It is almost Christmas.
- Thank you.

We should probably be, like...

with our families.

And just leave her here?

It's Christmas.

I guess we have to save her.

But, but, but, but...

Do we?

[PANTING]

[LOCK BEEPING]

[DOOR BUZZES]

[DOOR BUZZES]

No.

No! No, that's the code!

That's the code! That's the code!

Okay, of course, I want to save Dory.

- We all want to save Dory.
- Yeah. Mm.

But maybe she doesn't need
to be saved right now.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

You know what I'm saying?

You cannot help someone
who doesn't want your help.

Help me!

Help me!

Drew, what do you think?

I mean, I already ordered
a car to the train station.

[TENSE MUSIC]

[FLAMES CRACKLING]

♪ ♪

[LOCK BEEPING] [DOOR BUZZES]

[YELLS]

[DOOR BUZZES]

[SCREAMS]

[GASPS]

[PANTING]

[SIRENS WAILING]

[GROANS]

[WAILING CONTINUES]

Ah!

Why do they make that so loud?

- [GROANS]
- I hate that so much.

I know, it's so freaking annoying.

It's like, what are you guys doing?

Getting a cat out of a tree or something?

Can you believe we pay for that?

Out of our own tax dollars.

♪ ♪

What a day from hell.

- [KNOCK ON GLASS]
- Can you unlock it?

All: Thank you.

♪ ♪

[GASPS]

[GASPS]

[COUGHS]

[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTS] [MUSIC STOPS]

[STEADY ELECTRONIC MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[PANTING]

♪ ♪

I'm just terrified that
there's this person,

deep down inside of me, that...

I don't fully understand...

and that I cannot trust.

I made all these things happen.

♪ I would never trust my heart ♪

♪ ♪

♪ I would say, I would say ♪

♪ I would never tr... ♪

[FLAMES CRACKLING]

[WOOD CRACKING]

[FLAMES CONTINUE CRACKLING]

[WOOD COLLAPSING]

[COUGHS]
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