03x03 - All You Ghost Mice

[bunniefuu]

How did the Peach
family disappear?

Oh, there've been rumors

since the 30s.

Weird, occult stuff.

He k*lled and ate a
guy in the precinct.

- Not our problem, now.
- You know what, officer?

I'm gonna make a special
project out of you.

You don't have to worry
about your sister Zoe.

She'll be all right.

Alice, you don't have
to worry anymore.

- I'm cured.
- What happened to my sister?

Let me show you.

♪ ♪

Oh, my God.

[EERIE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[FLIES BUZZING]

♪ ♪

[COUGHING, GAGGING]

[CELL PHONE BUZZING]

Alice? This is Dave
from Collections.

We've taken over
your loan payments.

And let me give you some advice

on your credit score, honey.

I've seen this over
and over again.

And trust me, you don't
wanna keep dodging...

[HANGS PHONE UP]

[PANTING]

- Oh.
- What the f*ck?

- Ohh.
- What is happening?

- This is...
- Alice.

We both saw that, right?

Right?

- Okay. And then we lost time.
- No.

And then...

No, he put you to sleep
first and then...

it was just me and him.

And... and... and then what?

It's not a matter of if,
but it's a matter of when.

I have to go.

I have to leave Garrett.
We have to leave Garrett.

We have to get out of here.
We have to get out of here

- as soon as possible.
- No, no, no. Wait, wait, wait.

- Yeah, as far away as poss...
- Wait, wait. Stop.

You are important
to Joseph Peach.

Don't you see how
we can use that?

I'm scared.

I know. of course you are.

[CHILD SINGING]

[WHIMPERS]

- Alice, Alice.
- [CHILD SINGING]

You've drawn him out.

Now you said you wanted
to do some good, right?

Right?

So let's do some good, okay?

There you go.

You gonna be strong now?

Let's get out of this park.

Okay.

[PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT SQUEAKING]

[EERIE MUSIC]

Ah.

[SIGHS]

[LOW WHOOSHING]

[GASPS] sh*t!

What are you doing here?

Get out!

I felt I needed to
see how you were.

So...

any different?

[SIGHS]

I feel sick.

Yeah.

You're still weak.

You're changing.

Embrace it.

You'll be a lot
stronger than before.

I'm responsible for you now.

I'm your watchdog. I
would never hurt you.

You'll be fine.

Just relax. Blow your bubbles.

You'll feel better if
you eat something.

[LOW, RUMBLING TONE]

[DARK MUSIC]

♪ ♪

Hey.

What are you two doing here?

It's a public park.
How about you?

I'm looking into things.

Yesterday you didn't believe me.

That was yesterday.

What changed?

Look, just stay out of the park.

Okay?

Gee, thanks for the advice.

Hey.

Give me a call if
you wanna talk.

[LIGHT MUSIC]

♪ ♪

Alice. Hey, uh, I
need to talk to you.

Look, you missed work
and I tried calling,

but you haven't
answered your phone.

And... look, really...

The thing about a job is you
kinda have to, um, show up.

Can I help you?

Zoe?

Zoe?

Zoe?

Zoe?

It's no use going back to
yesterday, because I was

a different person then.

- What?
- Remember when Mom used to

read us "Alice in Wonderland?"

I loved it.

But you didn't.

- Zoe...
- Which is weird.

'Cause you're Alice.

What did he do to you?

Were you afraid you were gonna

fall down the rabbit hole?

[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO]

♪ ♪

Ahh.

I think you like
Alice, don't you?

Oh, well, I don't want
her to get fired.

Hm.

But I like her. I mean,
I like her as...

In a professional way, I mean...

She's smart.

And she's driven, so...

And, uh...

At first, I wasn't sure.

But... uh, I thought
she was a little...

fragile.

But... but, um, I think that's

part of her charm.

I... um, she...
she just kinda...

She kinda sneaks up on you.

- What?
- [CHUCKLES]

So...

what's with the taxidermy?

Mm. They make good
silent companions.

How much did you take?

I'm fine.

Absurdly fine.

Hey, could you just
sit up for me?

Mm.

What's wrong?

Are you hurt? Are you okay?

I'm cool, I just need to rest.

No... why do you have the sheets

- up this far.
- Go away.

- No, Zoe!
- Go away.

No, I... let me see, come on!
Let me see!

- Ah!
- [GASPS]

It's not as bad as you think.

Let us begin by
breathing deeply.

Breathe in...

and out.

Relax.

It's okay if your mind wanders.

You're okay.

You accept the things
you cannot change.

Bang!

Oh, you getting soft, Dad.

[LAUGHS]

Boy, you snuck up on
me like an assassin.

Yeah, well, I learned
from the best, so...

- [LAUGHS]
- Why do you even come

to this sh*thole?

You know, something
about the eggs.

- Oh, the eggs?
- The eggs.

- They're that good, huh?
- Mm.

[LAUGHS]

Hey, you ever see anything
like yesterday before?

You mean like a man eating
another man's lungs?

Yeah.

Like a man eating
another man's lungs.

Well, not specifically.

But you know...

sh*t happens.

[LAUGHS]

- More coffee with that, sir?
- Thank you.

So, um, you get
that intake report

on the prisoner transfer?

Of course.

- Can I see it?
- Of course.

At the office.

Ask Lucille.

You know I still need to
make a statement, right?

You know, you really don't
have to write this one up.

Why would I not
write this up, Dad?

Yeah, but you seem a
little discombobulated.

Yeah, 'cause there was a
homicide in the precinct.

Pops, what the hell is going on?

Pops, come on, talk to me.
Be honest with me here.

Dad.

Remember that big, red head kid?

The big ol' redhead boy,
lived down the street.

Always picking on you.

Marty Macklemore.

We used to get the "Times,"
and you'd love to read

the sport page and, uh, one...

One week the paper didn't come.

And somehow you got it in your
head that Marty Macklemore

was stealing it.

So, next time you see him
riding by on his bike,

you clocked him in the face

and puke all over his shoes.

And what did I tell you?

You said you forgot to
renew the subscription.

I forgot to renew
the subscription.

[CHUCKLES]

You want some eggs?

- I'm good.
- Get him some eggs.

Two eggs. Sure thing, Chief.

See about them eggs.

Okay, this is gonna
hurt a little bit.

Perfect. Perfect.

You hungry? [CHUCKLES]

Where is everybody?

I told you, hospital's closing.

- City cut our funding.
- [CELL PHONE BUZZING]

We're about the last ones here.

What do you mean you
met him in the park?

Just what I said.

I don't understand Why
were you in the park?

I...

[LOW RUMBLING]

[MOZART'S "RONDO ALLA TURCA"]

♪ ♪

[MUSIC STOPS]

So what's going on?

My, um...

Dad, he seems to be...

connected to what your friend
saw in the park yesterday.

Staircases.

I saw my dad's men
set a m*rder*r free.

Medallion Park, last night.

I saw that man meet another man.

The two of them walked...
[CHUCKLES]

They walked up a
staircase in the park.

And they disappeared
though a door at the top.

Yeah. And those people...
The Peaches...

Are suddenly very interested
in Alice and her sister.

- Wait, why?
- Peaches? Like, Peaches Meats?

When I was a kid,
they told stories

of finding human sacrifice
in that guy's basement.

And when kids are like,

"Oh, the butcher will get you,"

that's all based on that guy.

Alice and her sister,
they're here?

Yes, they're upstairs.

[DARK TONE]

♪ ♪

Do you... know that guy?

Hey.

Hey.

Are you okay?

Zoe, what did you
do to your leg?

Mm... [CHUCKLES]

What?

[SIGHS] Sometimes
you just think,

why is this happening?

With your leg?

No, Alice.

I have a brain that misfires.

My life's an absolute
train wreck.

I mean, I think about...

this.

Why is this happening to me?

Because it's a genetic
predisposition from Mom.

And dr*gs and alcohol use...
I mean,

- they aggravate it.
- No.

That's not the answer.

Do you know what I think?

What?

The universe and
everything in it is just

one big, random act of v*olence.

Zoe, what happened to your leg?

[EERIE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[EXHALES]

[HUMMING WEAKLY]

[EXHALES]

[DARK MUSIC]

Ah!

Gah!

Ahh!

[SOBBING, WAILING]

[GASPING, CRYING]

[MOANING PAINFULLY]

Ahh, ah...

Gah...

Ooh!

Ah...

[MOANING]

[GASPING, MOANING]

[COUGHING]

[EERIE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

I told you, I cut
myself shaving.

He did something to me.

He went inside of my head.

I think he woke something up.

[EERIE MUSIC]

It's okay.

It's okay, it's okay.

Shh.

♪ ♪

Hey.

You sure you don't
want anything to eat?

I'm not hungry.

[WOMAN CRYING]

[STABBING, SOBBING]

[SOBS]

Mom?

[LABORED BREATHING]

[GRUNTS]

Oh!

[STABBING]

Ah.

- [STABS]
- [LABORED BREATHING]

[PAINED MOANING]

Um, who was that guy?

It's a long story, man.

Mouse!

Ah!

Do not move!

Bang.

[LAUGHS]

sh*t.

[STOMACH RUMBLING]

[RUMBLING CONTINUES]

[MONITOR BEEPING]

Alice!

Nurse?

[THRILLING MUSIC]

♪ ♪

Stay close.

Ah.

Sorry.

- Hey. Guys?
- [RATTLES DOOR]

- Guys?
- Nathan.

- Pardon me.
- Louise.

Guys, uh... I don't...

Well, I don't know how
to get the door...

I don't... it's not opening.

I can't get...

Is there a button?
Look for a button.

- Oh.
- What? What?

Oh.

No. No, no, no.
Come on, come on.

Where is it? Where is it?

- Luke. No.
- Come on. Come on!

- Come on, come on, come on.
- Come on!

Ah!

It's bulletproof glass.

Go, run.

Nathan, no. Please.

Ahh!

Down! Down!

Get down!

Hands behind your back.

[LAUGHING]

Hands behind your back.

[LAUGHING CONTINUES]

[HANDCUFFS RATCHETING]

[LOW, OMINOUS MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[INDISTINCT WHISPERING]

[LAUGHTER]

Oh.

Oh, God.

Oh, oh.

We could take him to my place.

What? Why?

- Question him.
- [LAUGHS]

[EERIE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[LAUGHS]

[SLURPING]

♪ ♪

[SIGHS]

[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]

Who are you?

[HUMMING]

[WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]

Your sister suffered
a psychotic break.

This is not a one-time thing.

We use a program here called
coordinated specialty care.

- CSC.
- Case management,

psychotherapy,
medication management...

Peer and family
support education.

- Yeah.
- Alice...

I think it might be helpful

if you spent a little less
time with the literature.

9%.

Excuse me?

That's the risk of me
developing schizophrenia

based on a known relative
with the disease.

My sister, 9%. My mother, 13.

And what if it's both?
I mean, do you just...

add up the percentages?

I'm aware of the data, but...

I just wanna know if this
is gonna happen to me.

[MUTTERING]

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[GIGGLING]

♪ ♪

I'm Edie Peach. I'm
Robert's wife.

Oh, my. It is dark in here, huh?

Let's get the light on in.
[LAUGHS]

Oh, that's better. That's nice.

Why are you dressed
like it's the 1950s?

Because that's the last time I
went shopping, hon. [LAUGHS]

Oh, here we go.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Ohh. [SIGHS]

It's getting big.

- Mmm, mmm, mmm.
- Ohh.

Mama's home cookin'.

That's what I'm talkin' about.

Mmm, mmm.

- Mmm.
- What is it?

[LAUGHS] You know what it is.

Just go with it, hon.

If you're hungry, eat.

There's a place for
you at our table,

and there is a room
for you in our home.

Is that where the
stairs lead to?

That's right, sweetheart.

So this is what you do.

We're just a family. That's all.

Just a real special family.

You're real special, huh?

They should make a
TV show about you.

"Keepin' Up with the Peaches."

It has a nice ring.

[LAUGHS] I have no idea

what you're talkin'
about, but I like it.

Aw, you've always
struggled, haven't you?

You've never had a real family.

Oh, aren't you tired
of feeling like

every day is a battle
that you just can't win?

Our family is wonderful,

and we will love
you if you let us.

Hey.

It's okay.

Just think of all the fun
we're gonna have, huh?

Here, go ahead, hon.

[LOW RUMBLING]

[THRILLING MUSIC]

♪ ♪

So...

[LIGHT, EERIE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

Your sister has come
upstairs with us.

You are welcome, too.

♪ ♪

[THRILLING MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[CELL PHONE BUZZING]

- Hello?
- Alice, this is Dave

from Collections.

I know you're on the
line, I can hear you.

- Is this real?
- You made it real

by maxing out your
loans every quarter.

Listen to me, honey.

We will take you to court,

we will garnish your wages,

we will come to your house.

Alice.

Alice.

- Zoe?
- Alice.

[CARNIVAL MUSIC]

Zoe?

Help me out.

- Alice, help me.
- Zoe?

Ow.

♪ ♪

- Alice!
- Whee-hee!

- Whoo-hoo-hoo!
- Alice!

Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
Whoo-hoo-hoo!

Whoo-hoo! Whoohoo-hoo-hoo!

Whoo-hoo! Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!

Alice. Alice! Alice?

[INDISTINCT WHISPERING]

Whee-hee! Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!

Whee-hee-hee! Whoo-hoo!

Help me, Alice.

[SCREAMS]

Help me, Alice.

Help me, Alice.

[WHISTLING]

Stop whistling. Stop.

[CHUCKLES]

That nice lady wanted you to
take me back to her house

and break my knees.

But look at you, a
good, little maggot.

Always going by the book.

Hey, just be quiet, all right?

You wanna hold my tongue for me?

What the f*ck is
wrong with you, man?

- Who the hell are you?
- [LAUGHS]

Who are you?

A mouse in a uniform?

A mouse with no scent.

You're a ghost. A ghost mouse.

[LAUGHS]

Okay, all right. Yeah.
Ghost mouse.

You even had me back there,

but you couldn't even
pull the trigger.

[CHUCKLES] Oh, you ghost mice.

You just don't stick.

Your lives don't stick.

You do this, you do that,

but it doesn't really matter.

To us, you're just protein.

Ah. [LAUGHS]

[PLACES CAR IN PARK]

Let me give you an example.

Those people... The
woman and the kid...

- Tonya and Izzy.
- What?

Their names.

It doesn't matter.

They don't matter.

If they did, you would've
tried to find them.

You know I'm right, Mr.
Mouse Man.

- [g*nsh*t]
- [WHIMPERS]

[DARK MUSIC]

♪ ♪

[g*nshots]

[DOGS BARKING]

♪ ♪

Zoe!

[EERIE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪