01x04 - Taloa

[bunniefuu]

You know Chula's store's been

closed down for a while now.

Probably extra busy with

Maya back in town and all.

What you lacked was

a place and a purpose.

You have that now with me.

CHULA: Maya's back.

It's time for a queen.

She's too much like her father.

I will never forgive you for this.

Well, maybe you shouldn't talk to her.

Maybe you should just listen for once.

You sound just like

Fisk.

So, are you with me or against me?

SKULLY: The ancestors would

watch out for family.

Your grandmother knows all that.

(DRUM BEAT)

Ancestors whispering in your ear again?

(CARS CRASHING)

Maybe you ask her?

My father was k*lled also.

When I was 12 years old.

VICKIE: No. No.

(EXHALES)

(GRUNTING)

We almost die because

there's a price on your head?

You have to learn to jump

between two worlds.

You're my family.

SKULLY: I guess we all do things

- we wish were different.

- I go too.

Maya!

FISK: You and I, we're family.

Thank you, Uncle.

No matter what.

(INDISTINCT CITY AMBIENCE)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

MAN: Chocolate, strawberry, vanilla.

Got enough cash?

Thank you. Hi.

What are you havin'?

Huh?

Want.

MAN: No, we're out of those.

(INAUDIBLE)

Want.

Which one?

Use your words.

- (INAUDIBLE)

- (MAN BREATHING HEAVILY)

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

(INAUDIBLE)

(FISK BREATHING HEAVILY)

(CAR DOOR OPENING AND CLOSING)

Wait here, Maya.

Uncle has something he needs to do.

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

(CAR DOOR SLAMS)

- FISK: (SHOUTS) Come here!

- (GASPS)

- (FISK SHOUTS)

- (GROANING)

(FISK GRUNTS)

- (FISK SHOUTS)

- (LOUD CRASH)

(GROANING)

(MOANING)

- (SHOUTS)

- (GROANS)

(SHOUTS)

(SHOUTS)

- (SHOUTS)

- (GROANS)

(SHOUTING)

(BLOOD SPLATTERING)

(PANTING)

(BREATHING RASPILY)

(PANTING)

(PHONE BEEPS)

Yes, I need a new jacket.

I don't want Maya to

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

Don't be afraid.

- (THUDS)

- (MAN GROANS)

(BREATHING RASPILY)

FISK: A toast.

(CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING)

To your final lesson.

Final?

- ASL INTERPRETER 3: Final?

- FISK: Yes.

Well, we'll still have our

our Sunday evening dinners,

but your tutelage has come to an end.

You're ready.

For what?

ASL INTERPRETER 3: For what?

To move from the theoretical

to the practical.

You and I

we are the only ones we can trust.

That's your final lesson.

You're dismissed.

(CLASSICAL MUSIC RISING)

ASL INTERPRETER 3: I don't know anything.

I won't say anything to anyone.

Please. Please, just let me go. No!

- (MUFFLED g*nsh*t)

- (BODY THUDS)

(BURNING BY YEAH YEAH YEAHS PLAYING)

SINGER: ♪ Believer ♪

♪ Took me over like a fever ♪

♪ Caught you hiding

in the smoke, smoke, smoke ♪

♪ Like a meteor I glow, glow, glow ♪

♪ What you gonna do

when you get to the water? ♪

♪ Well, I'll release her ♪

♪ From the bindings of her teachers ♪

♪ What they're hiding there

is broke, broke, broke ♪

Like the River Styx

I flow, flow, flow ♪
I flow, flow, flow ♪

♪ What you gonna do

when you get to the water? ♪

♪ What you gonna do

when you get to the water? ♪

♪ Into the sea, out of fire ♪

♪ All that burning ♪

♪ Into the sea, out of fire ♪

♪ All that burning ♪

(BURNING FADES)

(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

(SIGHS)

FISK: Easy.

(PANTING)

Can we please talk?

What the hell is this?

AUTOMATED INTERPRETER VOICE:

What the hell is this?

A gift.

You can understand what I'm saying?

AUTOMATED INTERPRETER VOICE:

You can understand what I'm saying?

Yes.

I commissioned a few accessories.

I thought it was important that we could

communicate with no go-between.

I thought you were

AUTOMATED INTERPRETER VOICE:

I thought you were

Dead? Yes.

Yes, you made that

very clear in New York.

Why are you here?

AUTOMATED INTERPRETER VOICE:

Why are you here?

I thought that we could have

a Sunday family dinner like we used to.

It's Thursday.

AUTOMATED INTERPRETER VOICE:

It's Thursday.

(DOOR OPENING AND CLOSING)

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

I'm not angry with you, Maya

despite

(ELECTRONIC GEARS SPINNING, BEEPING)

the little souvenir you left me with.

(TAPE PEELING)

But you did what you thought

you had to, just like I taught you.

And I was impressed.

And I think there's a part of you

that's happy that I'm still alive.

No. I can assure you I wanted you dead.

(AUTOMATED INTERPRETER VOICE CONTINUES)

But your face, it told another story

just now when you saw me.

Relief.

It hurts that you were so ready

to believe the worst.

You raised a hand to me in violence.

(TSKING)

Violence was always our language.

I thought you saw my actions as heroic.

I used to.

I always had your back.

Even then, I couldn't stand

when you would get hurt.

That hasn't changed.

(CURTAINS BEING CLOSED)

I'll open the wine.

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING)

(WINE BEING POURED)

(SLAMS CHAIR)

(CAN OPENS)

(CAN OPENS)

What happened to the Lafite?

I poured it down the drain.

It came highly recommended.

Cookies from Levain.

Are they still your favorite?

Good.

Let's hope those don't go

the way of the wine.

It's been a long time since

we've had one of our dinners.

(UTENSILS CLATTERING)

(THUDS)

I told you that you and I are

the only ones we can trust.

I see everything that you are.

I always have.

Why are you here?

I have a proposition.

(SINISTER MUSIC SLOWLY BUILDS)

You want an empire? You'll have it.

You can have everything.

All you have to do is come home with me.

I'm leaving to New York this weekend.

Until then, I'm at the Choctaw Casino.

I'll be waiting for you.

I hope you're on that plane.

Think about it.

(DOOR CLOSES)

Wait, you had dinner?

He's handing me "queenpin".

Please tell me

you're not that stupid.

Just because you don't think I can

I know you can.

That's what scares me.

(THAT EMPTY FEELING BY RONNIE DOVE

PLAYING ON SPEAKERS)

(SHAKY EXHALE)

You know why I'm 45 and alone?

Because everyone I cared about

was taken away by him.

After your father died,

I tried to get out.

Fisk

threatened to k*ll me

if I did.

So

I came back here

and did his dirty work.

And I

don't

want you

to become me.

You say you're concerned about me.

But you left me in New York.

Alone.

And I was not okay.

(SIGHS)

I'm sorry.

I

I was confused.

Scared.

(SING TO ME BY KALLIE JEAN

PLAYING OVER LOUD SPEAKERS)

(LIVELY CHATTER)

Pass me one of those bulbs, would ya?

Sure thing.

(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING)

(DISCORDANT SOUNDS AND MUSIC)

CAROLINE: Chula?

(SCREECHES)

Maya!

(SCREAMS)

(PANTING)

(CRACKLING)

(CHOCTAW MUSIC PLAYING)

- Maya, are you okay?

- (GASPING)

Maya? Maya!

Come on, Maya, stay with me. Ma

- (ENGINE REVVING)

- (TIRES SCREECHING)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

(GASPS)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

Where the hell am I?

What are you doing?

There's something going on

Chula can help you.

Go on now.

(CAR DOOR SLAMS SHUT)

(EMOTIONAL MUSIC PLAYING)

(SIGHS)

(DOOR CLOSES)

(WIND CHIMES RING)

Want something to drink?

There's pop.

Let's stop pretending

everything is normal.

Fine.

Here, sit.

You tell me

what Henry thought

was so important?

(SIGHS)

There's something going on

in my head.

Sometimes, I feel like I'm losing it.

Like dreams that come

whether I'm asleep or not.

The last twenty-four hours

have been more

intense.

Intense?

How?

Overwhelming.

I'm seeing a bunch of people

I don't recognize, in a place

I've never been to before.

How long has this been happening?

Since I got to Tamaha.

What are you seeing?

A cave collapsing

And trees.

A woman braiding her hair.

What?

Everything

makes sense now.

What you're describing

it's what I saw

on the night

I gave birth

to your mother.

Doctors at the hospital

found complications with my pregnancy.

(HEART MONITOR BEEPING)

Me and the baby,

your mother,

we were both in danger.

"It's in God's hands", they said.

Against the doctor's orders,

my family

took me out of the white hospital.

(GROANING, PANTING)

Brought me to a midwife

where I could be surrounded

by my sisters.

(BREATHING DEEPLY)

(STRAINING)

(PANTING)

(GASPING)

(LOW RUMBLE)

(EMOTIONAL MUSIC SWELLS)

(ENERGY HUMMING)

(STEADY BREATHING)

I could hardly say they

were always with me.

They had an ability to know

when they were truly needed.

(WATER TRICKLING)

That night with your mother and I

it was a life or death ordeal.

(YOUNG CHULA PANTING, GRUNTING)

(BABY CRYING)

CHULA: Taloa came into

this world and set about

lifting the pain of others.

She had a gift

she was a healer.

There's a unique

connection

between

a mother and her child.

An unbreakable connection.

When

your mother was k*lled

I

My heart

shattered.

I wanted to die.

You

You disowned me.

No.

Not you.

Your father.

I was angry.

All I ever heard growing up

from my dad was

how you destroyed this family.

How you wanted nothing to do with us.

I couldn't

bear

to be around you.

You're so much alike.

And I think

generations are

echoing

reaching out

to us.

At a time when we

need them

the most.

I was a child.

I needed you.

(WHIMPERS)

(SLAMS)

But you chose yourself!

(HEAVY BREATHING)

(DOOR OPENING AND SLAMMED SHUT)

How did that go?

I don't know, exhausting.

(CAR ENGINE REVVING)

(TRUCK DRIVING AWAY)

- (CHULA SIGHS)

- (LIGHT SWITCH CLICKS)

(DOWN TO THE RIVER TO PRAY

BY ALISON KRAUSS PLAYING)

♪ As I went down in the river to pray ♪

♪ Studying about that good old way ♪

- (SOBBING SOFTLY)

- ♪ And who shall wear the starry crown ♪

♪ Good Lord, show me the way ♪

♪ Oh, sisters, let's go down ♪

♪ Let's go down come on down ♪

♪ Oh, sisters, let's go down ♪

♪ Down in the river to pray ♪

BISCUITS: Yeah, I'd say there's

something here to fix Pokni's truck.

WOODY: "Everything

the light touches is yours".

Isn't that from Lion King?

It's different, but it's the same.

Do you know what you're looking for?

I'll know when I find it.

Chula always says, "There's

nothing too broke to fix.

If you want it bad enough,

don't throw it away".

Don't get lost.

♪ Oh, brothers, let's go down ♪

♪ Let's go down come on down ♪

♪ Come on, brothers, let's go down ♪

♪ Down in the river to pray ♪

♪ As I went down in the river to pray ♪

♪ Studying about that good old way ♪

♪ And who shall wear the starry crown ♪

♪ Good Lord, show me the way ♪

(MALLET TAPPING)

♪ Oh, sinners, let's go down ♪

♪ Let's go down come on down ♪

♪ Oh, sinners, let's go down ♪

♪ Down in the river to pray ♪

♪ As I went down in the river to pray ♪

♪ Studying about that good old way ♪

♪ And who shall wear

the robe and crown ♪

♪ Good Lord, show me the way ♪

I suspect you've come to k*ll me.

Again.

I can't remember a time

when I haven't loved you

like a daughter.

We only had each other.

Don't you remember?

My memories are a lie.

(AUTOMATED INTERPRETER VOICE CONTINUES)

A child's fantasy

that turned a monster into a hero.

FISK: A monster.

You knew what you were

part of at every turn.

All the people you k*lled for me,

did you plead for their lives?

I ask you

who's the monster?

You isolated me.

Told me you

were the only one I could trust.

But it was all a lie.

Even these contacts,

you got them because

you didn't care enough to learn to sign.

I was there for you!

I know now that I failed you.

The same as my father failed me.

(SINISTER MUSIC PLAYING)

I keep this with me.

It's to remind myself

of where I come from,

and what I had to do to get there.

It's something that I

wanna pass on to you.

My father felt stronger

when he beat my mother,

until I got strong enough

to stop him with that.

That's how your father died?

You

k*lled him?

I k*lled him to be free.

To move forward in my life.

So, enough games.

Here. Free yourself.

Go ahead.

Free me!

(SINISTER MUSIC BUILDS)

(HAMMER THUDS)

You and I, Maya, we've come full circle.

In the morning, come home.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

- (SOUND FADES)

- (MUSIC RISES)

(INAUDIBLE)

(SINGLE HEART BEATING)

(INAUDIBLE)

(DISCORDANT SOUNDS SLOWLY BUILD)

I love you.

I love you.

(DETERMINED MUSIC PLAYING)

(MOTORCYCLE REVVING)

Yes.

MAN: (ON PHONE) I'm sorry, Mr. Fisk.

We tailed her, but she's gone.

(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)

(ELECTRONIC GEARS SPINNING, BEEPING)

(SHOUTS)

(BREAD & CHEESE FEATURING BLACK BEAR

BY THE HALLUCI NATION PLAYING)