04x06 - Bed and Breakfast

[bunniefuu]

[soft rustling]

[dull thudding]

[trickling]

[muffled] We have to get going, Lizzie.

[clearly] Come.

We have a long day ahead of us.

Lizzie.

It's going to go fast.

Much faster than we think.

We have to stick to the plan.

We have to focus, or we'll hang.

They can knock at the door any minute now.

[loud knocking at door]

[unsettling music rises steadily]

- [door creaking]
- [music fades out]

Hi.

Uh, is this the Lizzie Borden house?

'Cause we got a reservation.

[sirens wailing]

Welcome. Welcome. Come on in.
Sorry about the sirens.

[Aileen] That's okay.
We got the heat on us anyway. Ha!

- Oh my God.
- [Shelby] Oh...

- Oh my God.
- [door creaking]

[Aileen] Look at this place!

- Tell me your name again.
- Carolyn.

Oh, Carolyn!

What's happening, man?

[sighs]

- Here, I can take your bags.
- Oh, no. Thank you.

No, no. No need to take the bags.

We-- We travel real light.

I basically just pack
a change of underwear.

Oh...

So, Carolyn, I have a million questions.

Oh, yeah. Lee's a big fan of Lizzie's.

- We both are.
- Yeah, Shelby here...

I get her to read me this... this book.
What's it called?

[Shelby] Oh, it's called The... um...

The Ballad of Lizzie Borden.

- [Carolyn] Mm. Classic.
- [Shelby] You own this place?

[Carolyn] Yes. Bought it
to save it from a wrecking ball.

It's a historical house.

[gasps softly] No way!

[bag thumps]

Is this where it happened?

Is this where they k*lled
that m*therf*cker?

[Carolyn] So, this was where
the body of Mr. Borden was found, yes.

But, you know, no one really knows
what happened that day.

Oh, I f*cking know what happened.

I know exactly what happened.
I lived that sh*t.

[clock ticking]

[Carolyn] Oh. Uh, I'm sorry.

Aileen, is it?
We'd prefer if you smoked outside.

[clock ticking]

- Are you f*cking kidding me?
- Come on, Lee.

I mean... are you seriously
throwing attitude right out of the gate?

I mean, we just f*cking got here.

Sorry! Uh... you know, she's just
really excited to see the house.

Of course she could smoke outside.

[blows hard]

It's not about the smoking.

I don't give a f*ck.

It's about interrupting a moment
I was looking forward to.

Where I finally saw the couch where
she f*cking whacked the f*ck out of him.

And you're all, "You can't smoke in here."

I mean, are we at least
gonna be able to sleep in her room?

'Cause the whole reason why we're here
is because I wanna do things in that room.

We wanna do things in that room.

[hesitates] Yes.

You have the run of the house
per the bed and breakfast agreement.

You can sleep anywhere you'd like to.

Good.

Would you mind excusing us, then?

'Cause we're probably gonna
rub one out right here.

[exhales]

[ticking clock echoing]

[Shelby and Aileen moaning]

[rhythmic thumping]

- [Aileen] Ah! Yeah!
- [Shelby panting]

You like that. Don't you, little wh*re?

Yeah, I'm a f*cking little wh*re.

Yeah.

You little wh*re.

Say it again.

[panting intensifies]

[Abby's voice] I'm a f*cking little wh*re.

[Abby grunting]

[deep groan]

- [moaning]
- [couch banging]

Oh!

Stop, stop, stop... Come on, kiss me.

- Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me.
- f*ck, no. It's my turn now.

[Shelby scoffs]

[slow eerie music playing]

The f*ck is that?

- [birds cawing faintly]
- [music fades out]

It's f*cking creepy, ain't it?

"Chapter 12. Lizzie and Maggie
had crossed their own private Rubicon."

Their what?

- Yeah, I don't--
- The f*ck is a Rubicon?

I don't know.

"Their bodies washed of blood,

their brains still buzzing
with the act they just committed,

they held hands at the door."

"And then they kissed
one last time for luck

before they unleashed...
[softly] ...their stratagem upon the world."

[soft whooshing]

[sweeping classical music plays]

Something's happened to Father!

[bright notes playing]

Maggie, get the doctor!

[Shelby] "Maggie ran into town..."

[Maggie] Help! Mr. Borden needs help!

- Help! Help! Mr. Borden needs help!
- ["Hong Kong Garden" playing]

[Shelby] "...while Lizzie had a fit
on the front lawn."

[shouting] Help! Help, help!

[wailing] Help, please!

[sobbing] Please, someone! Help!

Someone, please!

[Shelby] "Most of the Fall River
Police Department

were spending the day
at an amusement park."

- ["Hong Kong Garden" continues playing]
- ♪ Cymbals crashing everywhere ♪

♪ Reaps the fields of rice and reeds ♪

♪ While the population feeds ♪

[Lizzie sobbing]

Father, no!

[crying]

Officer Allen...
let's give Miss Borden some privacy.

All right, everybody outside.

♪ Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh ♪

♪ Hong Kong Garden ♪

♪ Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh ♪

[gasps sharply]

Wait. Mrs. Borden...

Where... Where's Mrs. Borden?

Mrs. Borden?

Mrs. Borden!

[exhales sharply]

♪ Tourists swarm to see your face ♪

[Maggie] Miss Borden fainted.

- [gasps]
- [breathing dizzily]

♪ Disorientated, you enter in ♪

♪ Unleashing scent of wild jasmine ♪

- [wails dramatically] No!
- Miss Borden!

- No!
- Where are you going?

- [crying]
- [footsteps in hallway]

- Lizzie!
- [muffled sobbing]

Miss, are there any axes in the house?

Um... the cellar!

- [sobbing]
- I'll show you.

There.

An axe is missing.

♪ Hong Kong Garden ♪

♪ Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh ♪

[quick instrumental continues]

[door creaking]

That's my menses cloth.

I beg your pardon?

For my womanly period.

[resounding cymbals fade slowly]

- [deputy] What do you think?
- Well, feel how heavy that is.

[Allen] Yeah.

[officer] And look at how many blows.

At least two dozen.

[officer] Oh, I'd say twice that.

No, you know what this tells me?

One thing I know for a certainty

is that this is the work of a man.

Or two.

And strong. Day laborers.

Yeah. [clears throat]

No way a woman could do this.

You think maybe a Portugee?

Oh, you gotta be f*cking kiddin' me.

No, that's what it says.
I mean, they believed her.

Stupid f*cking idiots.

That's why they're never gonna catch us.

Cops, man.

They've always been so f*cking dumb.

Oh.

This is it.

This is her f*cking room.

[somber music plays softly]

[Shelby] "When the police department
disembarked the ferry

from Rocky Point Amusement Park,

they found a crowd
thronging the Borden mansion."

[laughing]

"Meanwhile, Lizzie was unconsolable."

[sobbing weakly]

[Shelby] "The doctor
gave her Bromo Caffeine."

[Aileen] The f*ck
they give her caffeine for?

f*cking doctors.

Doctors don't know sh*t.

That dumb b*tch doctor
who said I had what?

Schizophrenia.

Exactly. Schizophrenia. Don't know sh*t.

"Well, nothing could calm her..."

[gasps, sobs]

"...so the doctor filled a syringe
and gave her morphine."

[breathing heavily]

[Aileen] Shut the f*ck up!

This f*cking b*tch got the f*cking doctor
to give her morphine?

I love this b*tch so bad.

Wait. Lee.

[Aileen] Hold on. I gotta get that junk.

That last john I k*lled
had a whole kit on him.

- Wait, you're gonna sh**t up?
- f*ck yeah. Lizzie did. So, so am I.

And you... are gonna be the doctor.

[solemn music rises]

[low thrum fades]

[softly] Oh, f*ck yeah.

[echoes dreamily] Oh yeah, baby.

[mellowed] Oh, I love her so bad.

[disjointed tones resonating]

[drawling] Lizzie Borden,
you're a mad genius.

[relaxed] You rest easy now, baby girl.

[calmly] Come on, keep reading.

Hey, what'd she do with the dress?

The one she... changed out of,

the one she k*lled him in.

Had to be all covered in blood and brains.

She burned it.

- [camera pops]
- [indistinct chattering]

Thanks, dear.

[flames crackle and whoosh]

Miss Borden, what are you...
Is that a dress you're burning?

Yes.

It's totally ruined.

I had gotten paint on it,
so I thought I'd burn it.

[low thrumming music rises]

Would you be so kind
as to call on the doctor again?

I think I could use another dose
of whatever it is he's been giving me.

[Shelby] "Early suspicion fell
upon Lizzie's uncle, John Morse."

[John] I couldn't have m*rder*d them
if that's what you're suggesting.

No.

I spent the day visiting a cousin
down the road in Woods Corner.

I arrived at dawn, left at noon.

Mmm... and then I boarded streetcar 334.
The conductor had a 56 on his cap.

I rode back to Fall River
with six Catholic priests

and asked each their name.

Father Murphy, Father Schutt,
Father Loftus, Father Dombrowski,

Father Meany, and Father Rodlin.

I have a photographic memory.

So you can ask any of those men,

and they can verify
my whereabouts this morning.

My brother-in-law, I hated.

In fact, I wished him ill,
but... I couldn't have m*rder*d him.

And Mrs. Borden,
as far as she's concerned,

was a good woman

whom I had no motivation to harm.

Might I speak to my niece?

[spits]

[knocking at door]

[door opening]

I know what you did, Lizzie.

It's plain as day.

I'm a butcher, you know.

I saw the bodies.
I know what it would take

to do what was done to them.

It was very personal, what you did.

And you are going to hang, Lizzie,
without my help.

Give me the money
that your father wouldn't.

Help me get my butcher shop
up and running,

and I will help you with your alibi.

If it should come to it,

I will even testify in court
on your behalf.

Hm?

Very good.

Now...

Let's talk about
what you're going to tell the police.

Hm?

I don't need your help.

[overlapping chatter]

[hushing and shushing]

[chattering dies down]

[solemn classical music playing]

[music fades slowly]

How are you feeling, Miss Borden?

{\an8}Woozy.

{\an8}Still, a bit, from the medicine
the doctor's been giving me.

{\an8}But you will be able to recall
the events of the day.

- Do you imagine?
- Oh, yes.

Undoubtedly.

[low indistinct chatter]

[light music rises]

[teacup clinks]

[sighs]

Everyone was very sick this morning.

Myself included.

Last night we ate some swordfish
and mutton stew,

which had apparently gone off.

[straining]

Also, some bad oysters.

John Morse, my uncle,
didn't dine with us, so he wasn't ill.

He left the house around dawn
to visit a relation in Woods Corner.

At around eight o'clock I roused again,
feeling slightly better,

and Mrs. Borden and I
did some light dusting.

I'm sorry... did you say dustin'?

Oh, yes.

It was my idea.

I find nothing calms a sour stomach
quite like dusting.

I decided to go into town,

and I remember seeing Mrs. Borden
putting fresh shams

on the bed in the guest room upstairs.

And I asked,

"Is everything all right, Mrs. Borden?"

And she said,

"Well, I just received note
from a sick friend."

"She's very sick. Very ill."

I might go pay her a visit this morning.

She's very ill.

Did she say who this friend was?

She did not.

As I left the house,

I remember hearing
Mrs. Borden shout to Maggie.

Maggie! I want you to clean
all the windows.

[Lizzie] "Inside and out."

In town,
I passed Sargent's department store

and saw they were having a sale
on calico, eight cents a yard.

And so I raced home to tell Maggie.

She couldn't believe it.

"Eight cents a yard, you say?"

I said, "Yes, eight cents.
Can you believe it?"

She said, "Why, let's go buy some."

And I said, "First,
I'd like to iron some handkerchiefs."

Why would you want to iron handkerchiefs?

I find it soothing.

But the iron was taking so long to heat up

that I read Harper's Magazine.

And I heard someone knocking
from the kitchen,

and I thought it might be Father,
so I yelled...

Father, is that you?

And I heard Father shout back,
"Why is this door locked?"

And I heard Maggie say...

"Pshaw!"

Which made me laugh.
I thought that was so funny.

And so I was laughing all the way
down the stairs to greet Father.

You ran downstairs?

Yes.

You said you were
warming the iron in the kitchen.

That is downstairs.

No.

I was upstairs in my bedroom.

"Pshaw!"

Pshaw?

[laughs]

I helped Father take off his boots.

"Thank you, Lizzie."

"Such a... good daughter."

Here are your slippers, Father,
and your reefer coat.

"I'm going to take a nap, right here."

Would you like me
to close the drapes for you?

"Very kind of you."

Oh!

I have a fishing trip on Monday.

I think I'll go look out back
for some sinkers.

That's when I heard a groan.

[detective] A groan?

Yes.

It wasn't a shout,
or I would have run towards it.

It was a loud groan
coming from inside the house.

That's when I saw
the screen door was open.

- [creaking]
- [ominous tones rising]

[clattering]

And I thought,
"Oh, Father must have awakened."

[door shuts]

And when I came inside...

[inhales deeply]

That's when I saw
my father had been m*rder*d.

So it wasn't until later
that you found your mother's body?

She's not my mother.

She's my stepmother.

My mother died very young.

But no.

Maggie and I discovered her later.

[unsettling tones resonate]

Thank you, Miss Borden,
for your statement.

If there's one thing we can be certain of...

This girl is completely innocent.

[low background chatter rises]

[woman] Oh, bless Miss Borden.

Innocent as a lamb.

[cackles] Ha ha ha!

f*cking cops!

Thanks for being such dumb f*ck!

See, man.

That is what I'm telling you.

f*cking cops.

This is why
you don't have to be afraid of 'em.

I sure as hell ain't.

- [doorbell chimes]
- Oh, f*ck yeah.

Pizza's here!

♪ Happy anniversary to you ♪

[Aileen] Shelby, come on.
You know that's not a song.

♪ Happy anniversary to you ♪

Shelby, stop it! God damn it!

Jesus! I mean, I...
I like-- I love you and all,

but you know I don't like when
you sing a song and change the lyrics.

Okay, sorry, I forgot.

It's okay. Just...

Just put it down.
Just be careful of the dead bodies.

What did you just say?

[Aileen] I said...

put the pizza down
between Lizzie's parents.

Baby, there's nothing there.

[scattered notes resonate]

Oh. [soft chuckle]

Well, sh*t.

But didn't you say that they brought
the bodies back in here, right?

- Yeah.
- Yeah, so keep reading.

[somber music rises]

Here it is.

"That night, the bodies were placed
on the dining room table

where they would remain
for the next three days."

[clattering and thudding]

"Lizzie slept alone in the house,

where the mangled bodies
lay silent on the table."

[somber music swells]

[Lizzie sobs softly]

You didn't deserve this.

I don't know what you deserved.

[sniffs]

But it wasn't this.

You, on the other hand...

I should have given you
a dozen more whacks.

c**t.

[Shelby] "But suspicion was
about to fall on Lizzie Borden."

No! No, please let me. Please!

You can't!

[Shelby] "It was decided
that the bodies should be cut open

to test the contents of their stomach."

Oh man, and get this.

"The detectives found Lizzie's grief
at the funeral unconvincing."

"So they took her parents' bodies."

"And chopped off their heads."

- f*cking what?
- [Shelby whispers] I know.

"The coroner wanted
a better look at the wounds,

so he took the heads to Harvard
and boiled the flesh off."

To figure out, like,
what kind of axe was used

and... how many blows it took and whatnot.

"The walls were closing in
on Lizzie Borden."

[thunder rumbling]

[yawning]

I'm sorry, baby.

I'm bushed, okay? I gotta go to bed.

I know, I know.
You've been doing so much reading.

This has been
the best anniversary ever, Shelby.

I love you.

I'll be right back.

I gotta go take a leak.

[thunder rumbling]

[pee trickling]

[fabric rustling]

[eerie swishing]

[thunder rumbling]

[slow somber music playing]

Hello?

Who's there?

[thunder rumbling]

[bittersweet string music rises]

[cooing]

Holy f*ck.

[whispers] Lizzie.

What are you doing here?

Oh, I...

I don't know. I've just always
been a... fan of yours, I guess.

And... I've always liked you
ever since I heard your story.

[music fades out]

How do you know my story?

[warmly] You're Lizzie Borden.

You're famous.

Famous?

[Aileen] Yeah.

You're like a, um...

a woman... who didn't take any sh*t.

[sighing] No.

You did something you had to do.

And it was violent, what you did,

and... if you're anything like me,
you don't love doing it.

But you're...

forced to do it, almost,
and then you just f*cking do it.

You've k*lled people?

[Aileen] Oh, yeah.

Your father and your stepmother?

No.

I mean,

I wish I did.

My whole family.

Every one of 'em.

If they weren't beatin' me,
they were rapin' me.

[thunder rumbles softly]

[tearfully] My brother.

Even my granddad.

[scoffing]

My f*cking grandpa r*ped me.

And then here I go trying to k*ll myself?

I shot myself in the stomach

when it's those m*therf*ckers
I should've k*lled.

I didn't k*ll a single one of them,

but not one of them didn't deserve
a b*llet in their f*cking mouth.

Sorry.

Or worse. [scoffs]

Who did you k*ll?

Oh, I mean...

They were johns, mostly.

Johns?

[laughs]

Oh, how do I pu...

How do I put this? Um...

I sell myself.

I'm a hooker.

A prost*tute.

And the guys I sell myself to,
some of them are okay,

but... some of them are real f*cking creeps.

And I'm talking real bad men.

And I don't feel like they deserve to live
after they done what they done to me.

But it wasn't just the johns
I was pissed at.

I was pissed at everybody.

People who hurt me.

Treated me like trash.

And... [hesitates]

And raping me.

[crying] Making me give my baby away.

[sniffs] So I thought, "All right."

"This piece of a*s says 'f*ck that.'"

Just like you did.

You said, "f*ck that sh*t."

"I'm gonna stand up for myself
because no one else is f*ck' comin'."

And that's why I love you.

You love me?

I see you, Lizzie Borden.

And I thank you.

[bittersweet music plays]

[music fades]

[distant dog barking]

Lee?

Lee?

[Aileen] It was freaky.

Felt real.

Don't tell me I'm crazy, Shelby.

I'm not.

We shared some sh*t.

It's nice to be able to talk
to someone who... just gets it,

and I think she needed a friend.

Yeah.

All right, well, um...

We gotta leave in about an hour, so...

Well, there's something I gotta see first.

Come on.

[birds chirping]

[bittersweet piano music builds]

[Shelby] Whoa.

- [flapping]
- [soft cooing]

[Aileen softly] This is it.

This is the birdhouse.

[sighs deeply]

[Maggie] Lizzie?

[sniffs]

[exhales]

I think it's better if I go.

For now.

You'll get through it.

We covered our tracks.

If we stick to the story...

everything will be fine.

Do you promise?

[faintly] Yes.

I don't want you to go.

Think.

When we get the money,
we can live together.

You and I.

[tearfully] We can be together.

Would you dance with me?

One last time?

Yes.

[breathes deeply]

[bittersweet music fades]

["Smalltown Boy" by Bronski Beat playing]

♪ To your soul ♪

♪ Cry ♪

[beat kicks in]

♪ Cry ♪

[instrumentation picks up]

♪ Alone on a platform
The wind and the rain ♪

♪ On a sad and lonely face ♪

♪ Mother will never understand
Why you had to leave ♪

♪ But the answers you seek
Will never be found at home ♪

♪ The love that you need
Will never be found at home ♪

♪ Run away, turn away
Run away, turn away, run away ♪

♪ Pushed around and kicked around
Always a lonely boy ♪

♪ You were the one that they'd talk about
Around town as they put you down ♪

♪ And as hard as they would try
They'd hurt to make you cry ♪

♪ But you never cried to them
Just to your soul ♪

♪ No, you never cried to them
Just to your soul ♪

♪ Run away, turn away
Run away, turn away, run away ♪

♪ Run away, turn away
Run away, turn away, run away ♪

♪ Run away, turn away
Run away, turn away, run away ♪

- [knocking at door]
- [music fades out]

[knocking continues]

[pounding on door]

Miss Borden, I'm sorry to inform you
that you're under arrest.

We can give you a moment
to gather your things,

but you'll need to come with us.

Oh, that's okay.

I'm already packed.

["Smalltown Boy" resumes]

♪ Run away, turn away
Run away, turn away, run away ♪

♪ Run away, turn away
Run away, turn away, run away ♪

♪ Crying... ♪

♪ Run away, turn away
Run away, turn away, run away ♪

♪ Run away, turn away
Run away, turn away, run away ♪

♪ Cry, boy, cry ♪

♪ Cry, boy, cry, boy, cry ♪

[instrumental continues]

♪ Run away, turn away
Run away, turn away, run away ♪

♪ Run away, turn away
Run away, turn away, run away ♪

♪ Run away, turn away
Run away, turn away, run away ♪

♪ Run away, turn away
Run away, turn away, run away ♪

♪ Run away, turn away
Run away, turn away, run away ♪

♪ Run away, turn away
Run away, turn away, run away ♪

♪ Run away, turn away
Run away, turn away, run away ♪

♪ Run away, turn away
Run away, turn away, run away ♪

♪ Run away, turn away
Run away, turn away, run away ♪

[song fades]