01x07 - Blowfish

[bunniefuu]

[ Cell door clangs, slams ]

-You're with them now...
Christopher's crew.

I told everybody
you're a doctor.

-Oh, Copano and Harrington.

Say your touching goodbyes
or whatever, fast.

Splitting you two up.

-Kiki, Reutical
isn't a bad company, right?

-She's with them.
She's a spy.

-I got it.

-Reutical Pharmaceuticals.

-Hello? Marshall?

-We're going to take care
of Mr. Marshall.

It's already in motion.

- Oh, sorry.
- No problem.

[ Dramatic music plays ]

[ Marshall grunting ]

-It's okay. Relax.

It's over.

Aah!

[ Groans ]

[ Groans loudly ]

[ Grunting ]

-[ Gasps ]

-It is over.

[ Body thuds ]

Get him out, get him out.

You two have beef?
- Beef?

I-I've never seen him before.

Somebody...
I think somebody sent him or...

[ Groans ] Oh, God!

I-I have to get out of here.

I have to get out.
I have to get out!

-Hey! If you haven't noticed,
that don't work.

You're in here.
This is your reality.

I just saved your life, okay?

That means your life
belongs to me.

I'll send for you.

[ Alarm blaring ]
- [ Gasps ]

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[ Down-tempo music plays ]

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[ Branch snaps ]

[ Body thuds ]

[ Breeze blowing ]

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-Thank you, Kelly.
Can you check with Legal,

see if they've signed off
on the new Lavinol ad?

-Of course.
Um, but there is a...

-Wow. I love saying stuff
like that. [ Chuckles ]

"Check with Legal."
This is my life now.

And Legal really has to check.

-Um, someone's here
to see you, though.

From the [quietly]
federal government?

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-[ Slurps and laughs nervously ]

Um, I didn't solve this.

I-I don't know who did.
I... It was just here.

-And you're Vice President
of Marketing now?

-Uh-huh. Yeah.

-Love to see women succeeding.

You used to be
Rick's assistant, right?

-Uh-huh.

-I used to be an assistant.

My boss had a nickname...

Jonas "the Wolf."

-You were Jonas Backstein's
assistant?

-That's right.

Now I'm Deputy National Security
Director for Threat Assessment.

I handle all kinds of dangers
to this country.

Frances, I want to talk to you
about a mushroom.

-Oh! Um, yeah, I don't really
talk about the products

that we are
currently working on.

-Does Marshall know
you brought the mushroom here?

-Marshall?

-Probably not, right?
He's in jail.

-You know what, okay,
um, I'm, um...

not sure I should that I should
be talking to you

without a lawyer.

-We're on the same team here.
Save me some time.

-I-I'm sorry. I, um...
I-I need you to leave.

-Where are the original samples?

Here, in a lab somewhere?

Have you been able
to replicate it?

-I need you to leave.

Kelly, can you see Cecily out?

-We can work together.

Or...

-Hiya! Do you need
parking validation?

-Or maybe I'll take it up
with Jonas.

Goodbye, Frances.
And good luck with everything.

I'm sure it will be
smooth sailing from here.

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-[ Exhales ]

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[ Vomits ]

[ Door opens ]
- Are you... Oh.

Um, can I get you anything else?

-[ Clears throat ] Yeah.
I'll have a triple espresso.

Add an extra shot.

-Jonas, we've got
a big f*cking problem here.

The mushroom samples
were brought

to your own
pharmaceutical company.

Was this your plan?
Look, I don't...

You handle this one, Jonas.

[ Cellphone beeps off ]

[ Elevator bell dings ]

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-You know,
I love standing like this?

I pretend I'm an eagle
or an owl.

Any kind of bird.

Do you consider an owl a bird?

-Rick, please stand back.
That glass is not reinforced.

-Hey, check this out.

Helipad!
Isn't that beautiful?

If you get rich enough,
you can just fly around.

And it's your mushroom
that did this, Frances.

We are gonna make so
g*dd*mn much money.

-Look, Rick, I was just visited
by someone

from the federal government.

-The FDA? [ Scoffs ]
They have to announce that.

There's a whole schedule.

-I-I don't even know who
she was. She was scary.

-Well, did you tell her
anything?

-No. She said she knew
Jonas Backstein.

-Yeah, so what? So do I.
He's coming here this week.

He thought
that mushroom was nothing.

But when I show him what we've
got, he'll have to be like,

[as Jonas] "Excellent, Rick.
More than satisfactory.

Join me on my sailboat
for wines."

[ Normal voice ] Yeah.
The government is

such a little b*tch, honestly.

-[ Sighs ] Yeah. Y-You're right.
I'm gonna be fine.

Mm-hmm.
Mom will be looked after.

I'll be safe. I'll be secure.

-Trust me, you're with us now,
the helicopter people.

We don't worry about
the down-there problems.

[ Cellphone buzzing ]

-Oh. Sorry.
I'll be right back.

[ Elevator bell dings ]

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-[ Sobbing ]

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-Geez, Frannie.
[ Crying ]

I don't think anyone's sadder
about your mom dying than me.

[ Clinking ]

[ Slurps ]

-Well, it's not a contest,
Uncle Dan.

-[ Belches softly ]

So when are you gonna
come visit us in Idaho?

-Hi, yeah.
Can I talk to Frances?

- What's up?
- Nothing. You just looked

like you needed saving.
I know you're hurting right now.

Take these.
They'll make you feel like

you're being hugged by a panda
in a bubble bath.

- We make these?
- Off-market.

But they make pain fly away.

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-[ Sighs ] Thanks.

God, I wish my mom were here.

Everybody came,
even crazy Uncle Dan.

Rick? I'll be right back.

Rick. I...

-Oh, God, Frances.

I'm so sorry for your loss.

-Oh, uh, thanks.

-Uh...
[ Chuckles nervously ]

Look at this.

-The Sonia Applewhite Fund.

-Towards research, or whatever.
We'll figure that out.

Reutical is gonna make
a substantial donation.

-I don't know what to say.
This...

-When you lose your mom,
that's...

that's something.

A mom, I mean...

you only get one of those.

-I feel like I lost my mom
twice.

The mushroom brought her back.

Falling out of a tree?
Who would've guessed?

At least she felt alive again.
[ Chuckles ]

Sorry. It's not funny.
She's dead.

Can we give people the good part
of that without the dying part?

-I think we can.

Your mom would be proud
of you, Frances.

-She would've loved being
on a pamphlet.

-I see it...
a world behind this one

that will swallow this place

and... and heal us all.

I go there.
You'll be there, too.

It loves you.

-You seen Colorado
Car Crash Angel Man?

Everybody out there
losing their damn minds.

Sit. That attack wasn't random.
Someone sent him.

You must be important.
Are you important, Marshall?

-I'm really not, Christopher.

I've been betrayed
by somebody I really trusted.

I gotta get out of here.
What can I... how am I gonna...

-Hey! I don't think you're gonna
live very long.

- What?
- Whoever attacked you...

they'll be after you again.

I can only protect you so much.

You better make yourself useful.
Hector!

You're a doctor, right?
Hector, show him your foot.

-Oh, boy.
Uh, I'm not a doctor. So...

-You're close enough.

As long as you're around,
you work for me.

Or should I k*ll you myself?

It might make
the important people happy.

-Ugh, okay. Well, let's look.

Uh, ugh.

Are you diabetic?

You should probably cut down
on sugar.

-Not gonna happen with this boy.
[ Laughs ]

-Listen, do you think
there's any way

you could get me something
called tetrodotoxin?

It's extracted from pufferfish.

And I would also need someone...
- [ Laughs ]

I can get you cigarettes.

This is your life now.
Accept it.

[ Peppy instrumental
music plays]

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[ Music stops ]

-What the hell, man?

-I don't like music.
It's distracting.

-You ever hear about the
loneliest whale in the world?

Whales have songs, right?
They sing to each other.

[ Whale singing]
And the songs are at,

like, 160 megahertz, uh,

something like that.
I forget the specifics.

But they're all within
that range.

Yet there's this one whale

who sings at, like,


No one knows why.

But none of the other whales
can hear him.

So he just goes around singing,

and the other whales
don't even know he's there.

My old partner told me that.

-Eh. I'm not interested
in whales.

[ Slurps ]

[ Alarm blaring ]

-Whoa! There he goes!

Hey, stop!

[ Tires screech ]
- Oh!

Ugh!
- Trying to steal Sudafil?

-I got a cold. Ah!

-You're gonna cook meth,
ya dirtbag.

- Nice grab.
- Yeah.

Busted the world's
greatest criminal mastermind.

[ Music thumping in distance ]

-I wish we could just run up
and start tasing people.

-Yeah, that's not how it works.

[ EDM music blaring ]

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Hey, I was rolling
but I'm coming down super hard.

You know where I could score?

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Hey. Can I buy some molly?

This is so real to me.

I just need to keep
this feeling going.

-$80 for five.

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-You have the f*cking right
to remain f*cking silent.

-[ Gasping ]

-Enough!

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-Okay, this one is cute
as sh*t. You should get this.

-[ Chuckles ]
Kiki, it's $800.

-That's, like, less than a day
of work for you now.

That's like
going into the office

and spending three hours
on Instagram.

-Jesus. Wow. Is that bad?

-Spending three hours
on Instagram?

It is if you're, like,
spiraling.

-I mean, is it okay that I can
afford this tiny wallet

from selling medicine?

Like, what kind of twisted
system is making that happen?

-Okay, do not go hippie on me,
especially not here.

Have you not struggled?

-Yeah.
I have absolutely struggled.

-Have you not worked hard?
Gone above and beyond?

Tracked down some new thing?
- Yeah, I did do that.

I went through a lot.
I deserve...

-Something. Get yours.
It's Frances time!

You just lost your mom.
Treat yourself.

Oh, my God. I'm so sorry.
- [ Sniffles ]

[ Crying ] It's like,
what's the point of money

when I lost the only person
I could talk to?

And the only other person who
cared about me is stuck in jail

and will probably never
speak to me again.

But, hey, at least I got
this tiny, little wallet.

-Okay, you gave Marshall
the opportunity

to be a part of this.

It's not your fault.

He's judgmental,
and dude never had a plan.

-Thank you! Yes.

There could have been
a compromise

if he would have
just listened to me.

-Yeah. That guy suuuuucks.

-Yeah.
This is what my mom wanted.

We're gonna synthesize it,
we're gonna test it,

we're gonna distribute it,

and we are gonna
save lives, Kiki!

I'll be buying this.

And I'd like it
to be monogrammed.

Please.
- Hell yes. We love this Frances.

This is who you are.

[ Door opens ]

-Oh, no. No.

[ Footsteps approaching ]

[ Tense music plays ]

- Sit down.
- Who are you?

-I volunteer here, okay?

Ever since I found out
that you were here.

-Okay. And what do you know
about me?

-I'm a mycologist.

The DEA hired me
to go to your house.

-You're DEA?!

Well, f*ck off and die then.

-I don't work for them anymore.

I found one of your mushrooms,
and I took it from them.

I saw what it can do.

- You did?
- Uh-huh.

It helped someone
I love very much.

This is my son, Wyatt.

And this is him
after I gave him your mushroom.

He can breathe on his own now.

You changed my son's life.

-Okay, right now, that mushroom
is with a woman I cannot trust.

She's gonna bring it
to her evil company,

and I need to stop them.

If I don't get out of here soon,
you don't understand...

-Yeah, but they're just...
they're never gonna be able

to grow it, okay?
Look, you're stuck in here.

Just tell me how to grow it.
I have tried everything.

-[ Sighs ] Okay.
Well, yeah, it's tricky.

Uh, it feeds on
industrial runoff.

-Yeah, okay, b-but what did you
use for the substrate?

Where was the fiber coming from?

Was there dung?
- Dung?

-Like animal, like something
it was feeding on?

-Listen, you're a scientist.
Have you heard of fugu?

-Wait. Pufferfish?

With the poison in it?

You gotta cut it real carefully?

-Yes! Exactly. Uh, they use it
for Haitian voodoo.

How much do you know about that?
Zombie powder?

- I've read Wade Davis.
- Yes!

So then you know about...

-Tetrodotoxin. TTX.
I mean, the wrong dose of that,

I mean, even just a little
bit, like, that'll...

that'll k*ll you.

-I know.

-I can get it.

[ Lock clicking ]

-Oh, my day?
Yeah, I arrested this guy.

Yeah, that's right.
Real bad guy, this dude.

Real monster.
He was stealing medicine.

Sudafil. Yeah.

Yeah, explain to me
how that makes any sense.

He steals this medicine

and uses an ingredient
to make another medicine.

Only that other medicine is bad,

makes you crazy,
so it's ill*gal.

Well, it's ill*gal
if you make it yourself.

If a big pharma company makes
pretty much the same thing,

calls it ADD medicine, then
you can prescribe it to kids.

He's trying to get f*cked up

cause he's got a f*cked-up
life like everybody.

I try to stop him.
Never ends.

-Hey, real quick,
is anyone with you?

-No, nobody's here. Why?

[ Pounding on door ]

[ Tense music plays ]

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- Surprise.
- Girl, what the...?!

-I took some vacation days.
I thought, what better place

than beautiful
Syracuse, New York?

That doesn't look like enough
Panda Kingdom for both of us.

Luckily, I also stopped
at Panda Kingdom.

So, have you learned
anything interesting

about your favorite guy?
- Get this.

Talked to a buddy
with New York State Police.

They told me they'd never pursue
an arson across state lines.

That must've come
from higher up.

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-Tonight.

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-Hoang, just FYI, um,

I'm gonna die tonight.

-What? Shut the f*ck up, man.
Don't be weird.

-It's true.
I'm gonna die tonight.

-Shut the f*ck up, man.

-When you know you're
going to die,

suddenly things occur to you.

You... You start putting it
all together.

-Shut the f*ck up, man.
Shut up!

-Like the mushroom.
The Blue Angel.

I know how it grows now.

He eats the grass.
He makes a poop.

And what's the poop?

The poop is perfect.

It's a substrate.
It has everything.

And the spores of
the mushroom fall on this poop.

That's why they grew
where they did.

Socrates is the key.

Frances doesn't know.
She can't grow it.

But we can.

And if I get out of here,
I'm gonna find him.

Either way, first, Hoang,
I have to die.

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Goodbye, Hoang.

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[ Grunting ]

-Yo, man. Yo.

Yo. Yo!

-[ Groaning and grunting ]

-Yo! Help! Help!
I need help in here!

I need help! Help!

I need help!

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