01x05 - Brillo, If Possible

[bunniefuu]

- [TIRES SCREECHING]
- [CROWD CHEERING]

Hey, f*ck you mean though, turn me out!

Turn me out though!

- [HORN HONKING]
- Turn me the f*ck out!

- [TIRES SCREECHING]
- [ENGINE REVVING]

[BEAR] I'm from Lower Bottoms, bitch!

- [TIRES SCREECHING]
- [UNINTELLIGIBLE CHATTER]

[SOUND WHOOSHES, STOPS ABRUPTLY]

- [BED SHEETS SWOOSH]
- What the f*ck!

- [BED SHEETS SWOOSH]
- [BEAR] Hey!

[SOFT DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

Hey this, hey, bro this,
this ain't funny no more.

Hey! Hey, hey somebody, some...
I know somebody out there.

Man come on, stop playing bro.
Bruh stop, bruh stop playing bruh!

[PANTING]

[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]

[GROANS, PANTING]

- [MUSIC BELLOWS]
- What the f*ck is this bruh... ?

[FIDDLE MUSIC]

[THROUGH SPEAKER] If you can hear this,

something happened to me this morning.

But don't worry 'cause I
ain't letting that stop sh*t.

Lower Bottom barbecue is
still going on like every year.

And whoever is chipping
in, I need that today.

I already sprung on the bottles,
a jumpy house, and the meat.

Oh sh*t. God damn.

Did I order too much food and drank?

[DISTANT POLICE SIREN]

It's the whole damn neighborhood.

The unavoidable death devolved
when The Oakland Giant,

known as the Twamp Monster
att*cked a police car

by stepping on it and
vandalized property.

These kids, they go around
like Thug One and Thug Two,

they destroy property...

The man was dragged through
the streets in chains,

and why not put him in handcuffs?

What The Hero did was
absolutely necessary.

But does that justify him being
dragged through the streets in chains?

He also lost his endorsement
deal with Asphalt Royalty.

Look, The Hero actually even customized

what I would consider a very fashionable

- Thwamp Monster sized ankle bracelet...
- Twamp, d*ck. d*ck, it's "Twamp".

I said "Twamp"! What
do you think I said?

Go to the streets of Oakland and
ask them him how they say "twenty",

'cause I'm in the
streets and I used to...

And this bracelet is
used for house arrest.

Yeah, but he couldn't go to jail

because there's no
jail cell large enough

for a man that size,
so this is what we have!

The last thing we want is
some giant thug that the kids

are literally looking up to.

- [PEOPLE MURMURING]
- [CAMERA SHUTTERS SNAP]

[BASS VIBRATING LOUDLY]

- [OUTGOING MESSAGE SWOOP]
- [DOOR CREAKS]

[DOOR SLAMS]

- I said I wouldn't say it anymore.
- Please don't Mom, please...

It's only a matter of time before
they made you into the villain.

Mom, don't worry about me, it's just TV.

The people love me. I
have T-shirts, billboards.

- They're not gonna just come to...
- This came for you.

How can you still read that?

This, is the ideal of
what the hero should be.

[HEROIC HUMMING MUSIC]

Look, I, I know the difference
between this, and this.

This is what really matters.

[SIGHS] Let me see your head.

- [SIGHS]
- [BED CREAKS]

- [MOM] I knew it.
- What?

The hero's ankle bracelet is cutting
off circulation to your brain.

- [EXASPERATED SIGH]
- [MOM LAUGHS]

You know how we do [CHUCKLES].

Just... Oh, I just wanna take
care of you a little bit more.

World out there... it's
cold. Your friend just d*ed.

House arrest is hard.

I know what it's like to have a
of freedom, and have it taken away.

[SOOTHING PIANO TUNE]

[MECHANICAL CLANKING]

It's crazy how Scat's death makes
me realize that life is happening.

Someone dying doesn't
stop everyone else from...

Going to work. You know,
paying bills, falling in love.

Like it's been happening long before us

and it's gonna happen long after us.

I guess...

I can see the infinite of a
life that'll happen after we die,

as opposed to the infinite
of death. It's beautiful.

Yeah, well I'm glad Scat's death
could bring you some understanding.

- Yeah. Silver lining, huh?
- [MECHANICAL THUD]

[MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYS]

sh*t is dying man, it's all f*cked
up and twisted on the inside.

Bleeding out all over the
place, it's not breathing right.

Now it's just gon' bleed
out here in front of me.

- You showed up for Scat.
- [CAR DOOR SLAMS]

- Nothing else you could've...
- I could've had my sh*t running right!

Got there faster.

- Yeah, but you...
- Could've not been baby sitting yo ass!

- [ENGINE CLANKS]
- [TIRES SCREECH]

[BEEPING]

[ANKLE BRACELET] You did
the crime, do the time.

Step yo butt back in that house pronto.

- Three seconds, two seconds, one second...
- So much compassion,

in all that you do great Polypheme.

- [COOTIE] Huh?
- We await your celestial decree as to,

as to what we should do in
these inconsequential forms

- to continue our existence.
- [SUSPENSEFUL TUNE]

[MARTISSE SINGING]
♪ Girl I have plans on crushin' ♪

- [MOM] ♪ Hmm-hm-hm ♪
- ♪ I'm talking definite destruction ♪

- [MOM] ♪ Ooh-oh-oh ♪
- ♪ Girl I'm talking the destruction ♪

- [KEYBOARD TURN OFF SYNTH POP]
- I'm going to work anyway.

- He's in a funk.
- [MARTISSE] He should be.

He can't take just one punch
and go out for the count.

We told him the second
he hit the streets...

Just-just-just-just telling him, "I
told you so", ain't gonna do sh*t.

- Tried to talk to him and then he l...
- Th-th-th-th-this,

this time is pivotal for him. He
could be the one to spark it all off

and lead the whole
world out of this mess.

It's not about us being right.

You gotta stop letting your ego
get in the way of your principles.

It's discipline. Are we
revolutionaries, or not?

You gotta help him take hold
of the situation right now,

or he's not gonna be
ready for what is coming.

- You right baby.
- [SOOTHING TUNE]

- You right.
- Come here.

- [SOOTHING GOSPEL TUNE]
- [PEOPLE MURMURING]

- [WOMAN] Come on, keep up.
- [UNINTELLIGIBLE CHATTER]

Child let me see that pink slip. So,
you got fired like everybody else.

Come on. Get yourself a plate. I
got some doll clothes over here.

[CAR OWNER] Hey yo bruh, you
done had my car for three weeks.

- Dre would've had my sh*t fixed in a day.
- [BEAR] You talking about Dre.

- Yeah n*gga.
- [CAR OWNER] sh*t!

You drive your car out of his
garage it won't make it back home.

[CAR OWNER SIGHS] Man, whatever.

- [CAR DOOR SLAMS]
- [ENGINE ROARS]

Bear, we gotta take some decisive action

and you claim to be a leader so...

Somebody did this to us.

Well, we figure out who
did it and get some getback,

it's just problem solving.

Hm, like when you got us
all to sell açaí products?

I lost hella money.

Well, people only lost money on that
if they did not follow my advice.

Bear, ain't that yours over there?

[BEAR SIGHS HEAVILY]

Listen. All them years
with me yelling Bottoms,

newspapers calling us a g*ng.

I was yelling about us sticking together

through all the bullshit
they throw at us.

People knew not to f*ck with us.

- Yeah?
- [CROWD MURMURING IN AGREEMENT]

You know, you the one
that taught me how to box

by knocking the wind
outta me Mother Battle?

[ANGELIC MUSIC SWELLS]

So it's time for us
to get our wind back.

- [CROWD CHEERING IN AGREEMENT]
- And then square up.

[CROWD CONTINUES CHEERING]
- [NEIGHBOR] Lower Bottoms, baby!

[BABY WAILING]

- [BABY LAUGHING]
- I want my gifts.

[BABY GIGGLING, EUROPEAN
ACCENT] For being the first evil.

I've been good. Sly. A wolf to the
sheep and a snake to the charmer.

[HISSING, VOICE AGES] I want my throne.

We are born in w*r, in this
hateful hell that we live in.

Man has r*ped every
mind, every grain of sand.

Every pound of flesh has been pounded.

Pounced on.

All that is real is the
w*r we carry in our bodies.

w*r that eats away at our
flesh until we are bones,

- bones, bones.
- [HEART MONITOR BEEPING]

[BABY CONTINUES] The last
skeletons in our proverbial closets.

[GASPING]

[BABY CONTINUES] Closets made of bones.

- [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
- [MAN YELLING]

[BABY CONTINUES] And I want my
credit for it. For starting it all.

[BABY GIGGLING]

- Um, this baby is the devil.
- Shut your negative trap, Tori.

Boyoyoyoing!

[FLORA LAUGHING]

[FORCED CHUCKLING] Yeah.

[SOFT GIGGLING, LIPS SMACK]

- [COOTIE SIGHS]
- [CAR ALARM IN DISTANCE]

- [GIGGLING]
- [PLAYFUL MUSIC THROUGH TV]

Something about his face,
reminds me of a block of cheese.

[BOTH GIGGLE]

[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE FROM TV]

[LIPS SMACK]

[ANNOYED SIGH]

- [PLAYFUL MUSIC]
- [UNINTELLIGIBLE CHATTER FROM TV]

[SOFT CHUCKLE, LIPS SMACK]

[LIPS SMACK]

- [PLAYFUL MUSIC CONTINUES]
- [UNINTELLIGIBLE NARRATION]

[LIPS SMACK]

[PLAYFUL MUSIC CONTINUES]

[LIP SMACKING CONTINUES]

[DEEP SIGH]

[MUSIC CRESCENDOS]

So...

Oh... What are you gonna do today?

[SOFTLY] Hey... I'm here, you
don't have to worry about that.

Oh, I have to work later
tonight, but I... I...

If you're on house arrest...

I'm on house arrest.

[PLAYFUL MUSIC SWELLS BACK IN]

Uh, I appreciate that.

[COOTIE GROANS]

- [COOTIE FARTS LOUDLY]
- [MUSIC STOPS ABRUPTLY]

Damn... Damn, um...

[EXASPERATED SIGH] You, could you...

Can you please give me warning

next time so I can, I can, uh, I
could get out before it comes, um.

I swear your, your farts
leave sulfur in my lungs,

it's, I think, I think that, that, that,

that actually might be your superpower.

Excuse me, Flora.

[EXASPERATED SIGH]

How about I give you fart warnings

when you stop that smacking
sound that you've been doing?

[MIMICS LIP SMACKING]

- No, I don't.
- [COOTIE] Yes, you do.

- Well, you, no...
- [COOTIE] Yes, yes, you do.

- No I, you've never said...
- [COOTIE] Yes!

- I'm just keeping it a buck with you.
- Okay, how about, how about...

I stop smacking...

and you take a shower
more than once a week?

Yeah, you're a man.

A, a, a big, a big
giant man and I think...

I'm not going anywhere
so why would I shower?

I like your balls...

I think they're fun to play with.

I don't like smelling them from here.

I'll take one in a minute.

- [TV CLICKS ON]
- Rent strike is the beginning of a general strike

that will spread and
get their demands met.

[WOMAN REPEATING TO A b*at]
♪ Bing-Bang, Bing-Bang, Bing-Bang, ♪

♪ Bing-Bang, Bing-Bang,
Bing-Bang, Bing-Bang ♪

And experts have been astonished

to find a record
number report nightmares

about the Twamp Monster.

It was horrible. The things
he did in my dream.. [SIGHS]

He could rip my body straight in half,

leaving my spine waving in the wind.

That'd be a bit gruesome. How
could he live with himself?

These once hypothetical situations

are now within the realm of possibility.

It's frightening.

And so the way the letters grow
from left to right is "SCAT",

as in get away from me or else.

We can only guess what
the, "or else" means.

[NEWS REPORTER] And in
case of that "or else",

Jay Whittle has graciously

donated the funds and technical
expertise of his company, MCI,

to create a special
extra strength prison cell

that can house a -foot person.

f*ck this! I'm... I'm
gonna take a shower.

- [SENTIMENTAL MUSIC PLAYS]
- Hey.

- [RECORD SCRATCH]
- Make sure there's soap, washcloth...

Brillo, if possible.

- [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
- [SOFT PANTING]

[WOMAN ON VIDEO] Mars,
your moon is ascending.

Virgos all readings signal
that you are the catalyst

in the circumstances that await you.

Repeat after me Virgos, "I am
the reason and the solution".

I am the reason, and the solution.

I'm the reason, and the solution.

- [NIGHT SOUNDS]
- [STREET SOUNDS]

The reason. The solution.

[SULTRY FEMALE ON
PHONE] Deep in your mouth

for premium satisfaction. Get over
here now and swallow one. Mmmm.

- [COMPUTER VOICE] Bing-Bang, Bing-Bang...
- [FEMALE CONTINUES] So come on down...

[WOMAN ON VIDEO] Pisces...

All readings signal that you are
the catalyst in the circumstances

that await you. Repeat after me Pisces.

I am the reason and the solution.

Gemini...

All readings signal that you are
the catalyst in the circumstance...

Libra...

All readings signal that
you are the catalyst...

- [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
- Muthafucka.

[FEMALE NEWSCASTER ON TV]
Spread and get their demands met.

Business owners are claiming
that members of the network

got jobs with a specific goal of
organizing actions against them

across different industries, that
you're trying to strong arm them,

hold their profits hostage and
force their hand on healthcare,

- housing, wages.
- Is there a question?

[JONES] If we don't come
together around all this,

they'll do us all like
they did the Lower Bottoms.

Look at the power company.

They have a regulator on the
output to have us in darkness

instead of paying to
upgrade their system.

These m*therf*ckers don't give a
f*ck about us or public shaming.

They want profit. f*ck them!

[ANGRY CROWD CHANTS] Shut
it down! Shut it down!

So you're having trouble in some
locations replacement workers

have got through with
some help, from police.

We're countin' on people to
back us up and help stop that.

[FEMALE NEWSCASTER ON TV]
The general strike started when

Krown hospital workers went on
strike to change the policies

that k*lled a young man named Scat."

- There you have it.
- [HEAVY SIGH]

[CHANTING CONTINUES IN THE BACKGROUND]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]

[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]

[MUSIC DISTORTS]

[FEMALE DETECTIVE CHARACTER ON TV]
The -foot giant's an anomaly

we've tracked for the past
months, but it's a shame his parents

neglected him, making him
not go the college route,

forcing him into welfare
scams and carjackings.

Yeah, like I said in the last
episode, the crowd he hung out with

turned him into the
violent predator he is.

[DOOR SLAMS ON TV]

Come off it Tanya, we know the giant
is your pimp and is abusing you.

- [SUSPENSEFUL TONE]
- My baby wouldn't hit me.

I... I fell.

[MALE ADVERTISER]
You're at home with your family

when a giant thug att*cks!

[BOTH CHARACTERS SCREAM]

[MALE ADVERTISER CONTINUES] But
you won't be caught off guard

you've got BIP Security.

B-I-P makes giant thugs flee

[DISTORTED VOICES]

[CRASHING, RATTLING]

[DOOR SLAMS]

[PAPER CRINKLING]

[COOTIE WHISPERS] What the hell?

[MOM] It's only a matter of time
before they made you the villain.

[MARTISSE] Soon, people are gonna
try to figure out how to use you.

[d*ck] The last thing we
need is some giant thug...

[MALE INTERVIEWEE] How
can he live with himself?

[MALE INTERVIEWER]
Basically, some giant thug

who these kids literally look up to...

[CROWD MURMURING VOICE OVER]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

[MOM] It's only a matter of time
before they made you the villain.

I'll be the m*therf*cking villain then.

- What?
- I said I'm...

- I'm gonna be the f*cking villain.
- You're cussing at me?

I'm cussing with you.

- [SENTIMENTAL MUSIC PLAYS]
- They want a villain...

So I'll play that role.

I'll make villains the new heroes.

- You know what you're risking?
- Y'all were right to protect me.

Fine, okay, I get that...

But there's no turning back
now. You want me to make a move?

- This is my move.
- [MUSIC CONTINUES]

- We've been preparing for this moment.
- The training and the reading, I know.

No. We've been preparing
everything for this moment.

What do you, what do you mean?

Every day for the last years...

I've been working down at that
damn Lawrence Livermore lab.

And every day, it's taken a piece of me.

[INTENSE, ENERGETIC MUSIC PLAYS]

[MARTISSE CONTINUES] So, every
day for the last years,

I've been taking a little piece of it.

Things they were gonna
destroy... So little by little,

piece by piece...

We fortified the house.

And assembled weapons
customized, for you.

And we knew that they'd be
coming for you at some point.

- [SENTIMENTAL MUSIC SWELLS]
- People with g*ns.

We just wanted to give
you a fighting chance.

We love you, Cootie.

We knew you could inspire
people and set things in motion.

We just didn't want it to
happen before you were ready.

We wanted you to find
your purpose on your own.

So since they coming for you..

You might as well do
what you already gonna do.

[KNOCKS ON WALL IN A PATTERN]

[WOOD CREAKS]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

[MUSIC SWELLS]

What are you thinking?

I'm thinking us half-wits
finally got our minds right.

[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC
PLAYS THROUGH CREDITS]

[SUBTLE expl*si*n]