01x08 - The Devil is Us

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Previously on Mayor of Kingstown...

- DUKE: What's this?
- A gift.

Gifts usually come with strings.

Not this one.

Wanna party?

Breakfast.

- ED: It's a thr*at.
- It's a mind game.

All due respect, sir, you
are misreading the room.

Bring the leaders...

Just the leaders of each group...

To the cafeteria.

Do I have your word there
will be no retribution

against the other groups?

I need peace in the valley.

MILO: So let's talk about my favor.

What am I moving?

You don't have to move it.
You just have to find it.

The people following you
will know what to do next.

You won't be alone. FBI's all over you.

It's in a case.

The case is metal.

Look for metal.

[METALLIC THUD]

[BIRD SQUAWKING]

The suspense is k*lling me.
This is taking f*cking forever.

Stevie, you know a faster way to dig?

- Backhoe.
- IAN: [CHUCKLES]

You want to put a -ton
Cat on top of an -ton bus?

Think about that.

I just want to see what's inside.

I don't give a f*ck how they dig it out.

You don't wanna see what's
inside, I promise you.

Mike, you know about this?

I don't even know what the f*ck this is.

- Did Mitch?
- No.

Is that a you're sure no or you hope no?

I hope no.

Well, that's f*cking great.

- Yeah.
- Yeah, real f*cking great.

Explain to me how you found this.

It's, uh, Milo said metal case.

So I got a metal detector.
That's what I found.

Pretty big case, wouldn't you say?

Yeah. I don't think this is
what he wanted me to find.

[BIRD SQUAWKING]

Homicide, you're up.

Here we go, gentlemen, let's do it.

All right, I'm gonna break it.
f*ck this.

[BIRD SQUAWKING]

[GLASS SHATTERING]

f*cking Jesus Christ!

[COUGHING]

- sh*t! Mike?
- Yeah?

- You got any smokes?
- sh*t.

[COUGHING]

This f*cking job...

[GRUNTS]

[GLASS CRUNCHING]

[COUGHS]

It's Lyme. We got Lyme.

♪

[RATS SQUEAKING]

Aw, f*ck me!

[COUGHING]

[RETCHES, COUGHS]

[PANTS]

Hey.

You all right?

No, Mike. I'm not all right.

[COUGHS]

I count .

You count what?

STEVIE: Twenty-six bodies.

I'd put the crime
photographer in a Hazmat suit,

get him to just video this scene.

Then we get the coroner's
office, move the bodies.

We do our initial finds
at the f*cking morgue.

We should do it here.

I'm not going in that f*cking
thing again, all right?

You want it done here, you do it.

That's what I thought. Stevie? Let's go.

♪

[THEME MUSIC]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

♪

[WOMAN EXHALES]

[CRICKETS CHIRPING]

♪

- [CAMERA CLICKS]
- Hey.

It's the Chalk girl.

You sure?

♪

These are the missing victims.

These are James Parker's victims.

That's why they call him the Spider.

Yeah, we did.

The hole Milo dug for
himself just got deeper.

Yeah, I think he might've
dug a hole for us.

Mike, if you fall in it,

don't f*cking drag us
down there with you.

With regards to Mr. Sunter,
I know where we stand.

Where do you stand?

Look, I don't see motive.

Don't see opportunity, at least.

Not directly.

But the circumstantial
evidence is pretty damning.

It's his land.

He threatened Mike to move
something from this property.

And the circumstantial evidence
points to him committing

multiple felonies to
force Mike to do it.

I don't see a prosecutable
case from this.

But...

I mean...

Let me get the bodies
to the morgue, Evelyn.

Let me find you something
you can work with.

I want him moved to county.

I want to spin his head a bit.

Then I want that son of a bitch
in front of a judge by Monday.

Ian. You want this?

f*ck no, I don't want it.

Well, it's yours anyway.
Take Kyle and Stevie.

Rush jobs never hold
up in court, Evelyn.

Let's do this right so it sticks.

Let's do this right. Let's do it fast.

Walk with me, please?

Yeah.

Look, I don't believe in luck.

And if I did, I would not
believe that you had any.

- I can't argue with you there.
- Yeah, so,

how did you stumble upon
the crime of the decade?

He wanted me to.

Why would he want that, Mike?

I don't know.

Well, you better figure it
out before someone else does.

And when you do,
you come straight to me,

because you know what
you look like right now?

You look like a big f*cking patsy.

I'm thinking the same thing.

♪

♪

[LOUNGE PIANO MUSIC]

Hey, I hope you're hungry.
I ordered you a filet.

♪

[CRASHING, CLANKING]

Mike, Mike, Mike! Stop
with the gangster sh*t!

Yeah.

Send me on a gangster errand,

gangster sh*t's what
you're gonna get, okay?

- Did you find the case?
- The metal case, right?

- Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah. I found it.

You know what's in it?
Twenty-six f*cking bodies

wrapped in a f*cking cocoon, Paul!

- You found what?
- Yeah, yeah.

No, I got a lot of problems.

But stuttering is not
f*cking one of 'em!

- Bodies?
- Yeah! I'm surprised too.

Mike, no, no, no, no, no.

That's not what you
were supposed to find.

But that's what I found.

Oh, sh*t. [SIGHS]

Okay, okay, look.

I'm gonna tell you something.

Okay.

There is a substantial... oh, f*ck me.

All right, look.

His only avenue of release is
not through an appeal, okay?

He has another way.

And that way is $
million in bearer bonds.

You have to go back out.
You have to find...

Are you kidding me?

There's cops out there right now.

As soon as the feds show up,
they're gonna park a g*dd*mn

satellite right above
that property, okay?

You know, it doesn't f*cking matter.

You know what f*cking matters?

Your client is gonna be charged
with accessory to capital m*rder

times twenty-f*cking-six.

And then when they're done with that,

they're gonna charge
him with capital m*rder

times three federal f*cking agents.

They're gonna be so tired of
charging this m*therf*cker,

they're gonna forget all about
the kidnapping charges, right?

The guy's done!
f*cking done and so am I!

My client has been in
prison for nine years, Mike.

How on earth are they gonna
connect him with anything, huh?

I mean, he's in solitary confinement.

He is allowed one phone call
a week, which is recorded.

He has no computer,
no cell phone, nothing.

Don't talk to me like a
f*cking lawyer, please.

I just talked to him two days ago.

Where's the proof of that, Mike?

I mean, PD certainly has your phone.

They've already released
your call records.

If they had any... any proof
of... of any connection on that

phone call between you and Milo,

I wouldn't be here
talking to you right now

because I would be at his arraignment.

They have nothing and they never will.

♪

I'm being set up.

I'm f*cking being set up.

f*cking being set up.

I know it.

If they try to pin me
against the wall for something

that this f*cking lunatic
has done, they f*cking...

You know what? I'm not
gonna go after Milo.

I'm gonna come after you, m*therf*cker.

If I'm gonna go to prison,
it's gonna be for something

I f*cking did, you understand me?

And you have my word
I'm gonna do it to you.

You f*cking hear me?

If you don't know what's
really going on right now,

you better figure it the
f*ck out, you understand?

And when you do, I'm gonna be
your first f*cking phone call.

- Right.
- Yeah.

[PANTS]

[PEES IN FEAR]

Aw, damn it.

[PHONE RINGING]

Hey, you mind if I smoke in your car?

REBECCA: I mean, I'd rather you didn't.

But if it's been that kind of day...

It's been that kind of a day.

REBECCA: What happened?

Well, where do I start?

REBECCA: How about the beginning?

I lost in the parent lottery.

And it went downhill ever since.

REBECCA: Maybe this will cheer you up.

- I found a new office.
- Yeah, well, it doesn't.

But I'll take it.

REBECCA: Meet me at the old
office and I'll run you over.

Yeah, all right.

[BEEP]

So you don't smoke
in your car? Is that it?

Never.

It's my church.

Well, look, I'll get it detailed.

[TRAFFIC]

[BIRD CHIRPING]

I think you're really
gonna like the office.

Way less expensive,
which I don't know why,

because it's bigger, has
new carpet, new paint.

- MIKE: Okay.
- REBECCA: It's right here.

What do you think?

f*ck, Rebecca. [CHUCKLES]

You know why it's cheap?

It's across the street from
where four murders took place

in three months.

I mean, you... you really
wanna be right here?

Really?

I mean, I was kind of
hoping for a fresh start.

You want a fresh start, Mike,
we should move to a new city.

They don't have those here.

[REBECCA OPENS DOOR]

[TRAFFIC]

REBECCA: What do you think?

Yeah.

Okay.

[TEXT CHIME]

[SIGHS]

f*ck, I don't know.

Can we have some new
furniture, at least?

Not the files.

Well, yeah, Rebecca,

I think we should keep the files.

We should get the
phones and the printers.

I don't see why we'd buy new ones.

Yeah, but how about you
and I get new desks...

without f*cking blood on it? How's that?

New desks, got it.

[TEXT CHIME]

Ed get a hold of you?
He said it was urgent.

I don't know. I got nothing.

No, nothing.

You gotta transfer that...
That number on my phone.

I did.

I need two minutes with this.

♪

[SIGHS]

I try to get away.

[SCOFFS]

This is how far I get.

[CHUCKLES] A hundred feet.

I swear I forwarded your calls.

There we go.

See.

[PHONE RINGING]

- Hey, what's up, buddy?
- Ed, what are you doing?

What am I doing? [CHUCKLES]

I am watching the leaders of the blacks,

the whites, and the Mafia
have a -minute pow-wow.

No soldiers with them. No posturing.

You know what it means when
rival gangs group together

with no soldiers watching,
Mike? You know what it means.

It means they're
f*cking talking about us.

Think they're planning a takeover?

That's exactly what I think.

Okay, well, lock it down.

I can't lock them down.

f*cking warden's on a feel good.

Well, then you know
what to do, Ed, right?

Press record, film it, show it to him.

Done.

He thinks he made peace.

What do you want me to do?

[PRISON YARD CHATTER]

Check their temperature
and get back to me.

- [TEXT WHOOSH, CHIME]
- Sorry, Mike.

I hope you didn't miss too much.

That's the thing about bad news, right?

No matter how long you wait,
it's gonna be right there

- waiting for you.
- [TEXT CHIME]

Look... oh, wait, here, take this.

Ugh, thank God.

The feeling's mutual, by the way.

[KEYS CLANGING]

REBECCA: [CHUCKLES]

[CHILDREN PLAYING]

♪

Look who it is.

It's the peacemaker.

Ha, ha!

How are you doing? Everything good?

Yeah, really good,
baby. Really good, man.

Everybody enjoying the sunshine.

Wheels of commerce is rolling.

sh*t.

They get their cable TV back,

you're gonna be on
a lot of Christmas lists.

[LAUGHS GLEEFULLY]

[CHILDREN PLAYING]

Aw, come on, man, you
worry too much, bruh.

sh*t.

When there's peace in the jungle,

you gotta enjoy the quiet.

Yeah.

Is there peace in the jungle?

Yeah, I'm good, I'm good.
Your work here is done.

You can go save somebody else's day now.

All right.

[CHILDREN PLAYING]

[CAR CHIMING]

[CAR STARTS]

♪

f*ck.

f*ck.

[DIALS PHONE]

[LINE RINGING]

- DUKE: Yeah?
- We need to meet.

- DUKE: Where?
- Wherever we can talk.

- DUKE: You know my love shack?
- No, I do not.

DUKE: I'll text you the address.

♪

[TEXT CHIME]

I think that's far.

DUKE: Then drive faster.

- On my way.
- [BEEP]

♪

[BOTTLES CLANKING]

You want one?

♪

I think I broke your new toy.

[CIGARETTE SIZZLES]

All by yourself?

It was a team effort, I guess.

♪

[SHOWER RUNNING]

[GASPS] No! No! No!

[SCREAMS]

No! No! No!

[SOBBING] Help me. Help me.

No... No...

Yup, you broke her.

Give me your arm.

IRIS: [SOBS HYSTERICALLY]

[GROWS SILENT]

[DROPS NEEDLE]

Come on, let's get you dressed.

[GRUNTS]

Sell her.

To who? She's ruined.

White girl in the hood

will make money with her legs sawed off.

Get her dressed.

BIG BEARD: I'll call our new friends.

[PRISONER CHATTER]

Go check on A- .

CHERRY: [WHIMPERS]

She doesn't look too good.

Radio me if she needs
to go to the infirmary,

- and I'll buzz you through.
- All right.

[PRISONER CHATTER]

CHERRY: [WHIMPERS, MOANS]

Hey, are you okay?

It hurts!

What is it?

My side. I don't know.

- Your stomach?
- My side! I don't know.

Pain on her right side?

Ask her if it's constant
or comes in waves.

Is it constant or does it come in waves?

It came in a wave and now it won't go.

[SOBS]

It started in a wave, now it's constant.

ABBY: That sounds like her appendix.

Ask her if she can walk or
if she needs a stretcher.

- You need a stretcher?
- I can walk, I can walk.

The infirmary's to
the right out the door.

I know where it is.

All right, I'll have two
officers and a nurse meet you

at the second check.

Copy that.

Okay, come on.

CHERRY: [WHIMPERS, MOANS]

[BUZZER]

[WHIMPERS]

Oh, it hurts so bad.

You're okay, you're okay. Almost there.

Okay.

- [WHIMPERS]
- Right here.

Okay. Okay.

Come on. Whoa, hey!

Hey!

There's no cameras here.
Nobody can see us.

Are you out of your f*cking mind?

This is where everybody does it.

You don't want to?

Yeah, baby, you want to.

[MOANING]

Can you stand?

Damn, baby.

You look almost as good
as when you got here.

[ROCK MUSIC]

Damn!

She f*cked up?

Of course she's f*cked up.

How much?

Why the f*ck are you getting rid of her?

Oh... she don't like the way we party.

Mm...

But you folks put her on a corner,
she'll be an earner.

Nah.

Nah, you see, we put
this bitch on the corner,

someone will snatch her up real quick.

Now, you see, I know exactly
what to do with this girl.

You can put her in a room,
put a needle in her,

and she will be your
g*dd*mn f*cking bird dog.

Don't worry about me.

I wrote the book on
stringing out these b*tches.

That's right.

[ROCK MUSIC]

♪

[CAR STARTS]

♪

[SIGHS]

- Yeah?
- Come on in.

Let's just talk out here, you and me.

All right.

[CHUCKLES] I didn't give
enough credit to old Big Bird

for surviving this long, Jesus.

Oh, you forget things
quick. It's Big Beard.

Yeah, well, it's whatever
I want to call him.

How's that? f*ck him.

Just 'cause you don't run with us

doesn't mean you didn't run with us.

Remember where you're f*cking from!

This bring back any
f*cking memories? Hm?

Something hard jammed to your chin?

Eh, maybe it wasn't so long ago, was it?

sh**t me, you're a f*cking dead man.

[LAUGHS] Is that right?

Who the f*ck's gonna avenge you, Pete?

That big f*cking ret*rd over there

and his f*cking junkie girlfriend?

Line up of your f*cking best,

I'm happy to knock
'em all the f*ck down.

Now get the f*ck off of me.

No sense of loyalty.

Yeah, to what?

Think about it. To what, Pete?

Color of my f*cking skin?
Look, we were a tribe, yes.

In prison.

'Cause we had to.

Really. We didn't get
to choose that sh*t.

Prison chose it for us.

My only connection to you
is I f*cking protected you

and you protected me,

'cause we were outnumbered
three to f*cking one.

So don't think I f*cking chose that.

Now, I get why you have
to cling on to that sh*t

because you're gonna
go back at some point.

But me, I'm not going back ever.

- [LAUGHS]
- I'm never going back.

- I never heard that before.
- Oh, yeah?

I'm gonna send you the one
reason f*cking not to do this

in the first place.

Please let the court be that reason.

But don't f*cking do it here.

I know what you're doing, Pete.

And you need to f*cking rethink it.

- k*lling a guard...
- Sends a message.

Yeah, you're damn right it does.
What message?

Take the fight to the streets.

This f*cking street right here.

They will not knock.

They will sh**t what they see.

And then the party in prison?

That's just f*cking over.

No more tennis balls
heading over the wall.

Why? There's no more f*cking yard.

It's gone!

Kingstown become Corcoran.

You will all be in an by cell,

wondering if you'll ever see
the sun again before you die.

You know what the answer
is? f*ck no, you won't.

They let you sell dr*gs.

They let you.

They let you cook meth in the cells.

They let you trick punks, okay?

Because it's easier not to fight you,

'cause they don't care.

They don't give a f*cking rat's ass.

It's just their job!

You give them a reason to care...

give them a f*cking reason to care,

you're gonna be begging for
the f*cking death penalty.

Go ahead, give them a f*cking reason.

Just give them a reason.

God help you.

[CAR CHIMING]

Be smart, Pete.

[CAR STARTS]

[MOANING, GRUNTING]

Come on, baby. Come on, baby.

Cum for me. Mm, cum for me.

I need some. f*cking cum for me, baby.

- f*cking cum for me.
- [GRUNTS]

Ah, f*cking cum for me, baby!

Cum, ba... f*ck...

[PANTING]

Oh, god damn.

Oh yeah, baby. God damn.

Oh, god damn.

God damn, you piece of sh*t.

My friends say hello, bitch.

[GRUNTS]

[PANTS]

♪

Help! Help!

What the...

CHERRY: Help!

Help me!

[SIREN WAILS]

[SOBS]

[RAP MUSIC ON CAR RADIO]

What the f*ck?

[RAP MUSIC ON CAR RADIO]

[TURN SIGNAL CLICKING]

- Yo, what these fools doing?
- Don't f*cking know,

but we gotta get the
f*ck up off this street.

This sh*t's heading us
straight to the Commons.

[RAP MUSIC ON CAR RADIO]

♪

Hey look, y'all better be
ready to bust something.

Right there, sh**t those m*therf*ckers!

[g*nf*re]

[TIRES SCREECHING]

[CAR CHIMING]

[PANTS]

[PHONE RINGING]

Yeah?

- BUNNY: Need you, brah.
- For what?

BUNNY: I got something
that belong to you.

How do you know it belongs to me?

BUNNY: 'Cause she says so.

- [BEEP]
- [TIRES SCREECHING]

[CHILDREN PLAYING]

♪

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[RAP MUSIC]

[BABY CRYING]

[WHISPERING]

Where did they get her?

They get their white
hoes from the peckerwoods.

Always?

If somebody else selling
them, I ain't heard about it.

[KNOCKS]

This my niece, BeeDee.

Hey.

She okay?

♪

Do you want to come with me?

Okay, come on.

Let's get up.

Thank you.

I got something for them
peckerwoods if you need it.

I got something for them too.

Come on.

♪

You hungry?

I'm thirsty.

I'll get you something to
drink right after this stop.

And hungry too, I think.

We'll fix that. All right.

- [BEEP]
- [LINE RINGING]

- DUKE: Hey, Mike?
- Hey.

There's one more thing
we need to talk about.

I'm right around the corner, all right?

- DUKE: All right, come over.
- Yeah.

[FRANTICALLY] No, no, no, no...

When he comes out, just
tell me if he did it, okay?

[HYPERVENTILATES]

It was him. It was him. He did it.

- That's him?
- Yeah.

All right.

- [g*nsh*t]
- [GLASS SHATTERS]

Stay in the car.

[g*nshots]

[g*nshots]

- [COCKS g*n]
- [g*nsh*t]

- [THUD]
- [SHELL CASING CLINKS]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

Told you.

It's me.

[CAR STARTS]

[TIRES SCREECHING]

You gonna stay down there?

No.

Here, take this.

You okay? You hurt? You need a doctor?

Everything they hurt will heal.

I take that back.

Not everything.

You're gonna be all right.

[PRISONERS CHATTER]

[KEYS CLANGING]

[BUZZER]

[PRISONERS CHATTER]

Wall side of the red line.

Get your ass across the red line.

Red line.

On the other side of the red line.

Come on, guys, on the other
side of the line, go around.

Come on. What's wrong with you today?

[PRISONERS CHATTER]

Go around. Go around. Go around.

Far side of the red line.
That's what it's there for.

Easy, guys. Come on, man.

[PRISONERS CHATTER]

TIM: Move along.
Wall side of the red line.

I'm glad you know how
to follow instructions.

Oh, you are a real hero, Jones.

What the f*ck is going on, man?

Guys, get on the other
side of the red line.

[GRUNTS, PANTS]

[LABORED BREATHING]

[BLOWS WHISTLE]

[SIREN WAILS]

[BLOWS WHISTLE]

[CHOKES]

Where are you taking me?

Someplace safe.

I gotta see your hip.

- My hip?
- Yeah.

Let's see if you have the scar.

- Yeah, I have the scar.
- Okay.

No place is gonna be safe

until we get that
thing out of you, okay?

You trust me to do it? Good.

[CAR CHIMING]

- [LEAVES RUSTLING]
- [BIRDS CHIRPING]

I don't have room in the car, okay?

We're gonna have to do it out here.

Come on.

What side is it on?

- Right side.
- Okay.

Lay down on your left.

Take off your shoes.

[SIGHS]

You know how to do this?

I roughly know how to do it.

Where did you learn?

Lack of options.

[SIGHS] All right, look,

I'm gonna need you to lift your dress.

You can cover up with that blanket.

I don't care.

MIKE: Geez.

I don't have anything
to numb the pain, okay?

I'm numb enough.

All right.

Ow.

It's all right, you're all right.

Aw, Jesus, this sick f*ck.

Oh...

Look, I'm gonna have to put
all my weight on you here, okay?

This is gonna hurt.

I said I don't care.

MIKE: It's in there deep.

It's gonna f*cking hurt.

Here.

Bite down on that.

We don't need some good
Samaritan stopping by

- 'cause you're screaming, okay?
- IRIS: Mm-hmm.

[PANTS]

[MUFFLED YELPS, SCREAMS]

Come on, come on, come on, come on...

It's almost there, almost there. Relax.

[MUFFLED SCREAM]

MIKE: Okay.

All right, that's it,
that's it, that's it.

You're done.

Here, hold this.

There you go, see?

All done.

[LAUGHS]

[BREATHES DEEPLY]

Been on some wild dates.

[LAUGHS] Yeah, there she goes.

No, no, I think I've
been on my last date.

Don't say that.

Don't let them take that from you.

I took it from myself.

Or it was taken from me a long time ago.

You know, I've never been on a date.

Ever.

I've never had a boy
take me to the movies...

and walk me to the door, you know?

And me wonder if he was gonna kiss me.

I knew my date was kissing me...

and everything else he wanted.

But...

It made me feel wanted.

It made me feel like a woman.

But I wasn't.

I was a child.

I pretended... pretended like
it was something beautiful.

I know what that is now.

Never believed in...

in heaven or Hell.

Or God or the devil.

Still don't believe in God.

But I believe in the devil.

'Cause he looked me right in the eye.

And every... every dream...

every fear...

every pain...

he looked right past
it at what he can take

and he took it.

It was a person that took that from you.

It's what I said. The devil.

It's what we all are.

You. Me.

We're all just...

all just f*cking monsters.

[PHONE VIBRATING]

You can take that.

[PHONE VIBRATING]

You want to see my favorite
place in the whole world?

It's right up here. Watch.

[PHONE VIBRATING]

_

♪

- [PHONE VIBRATING]
- MIKE: Almost there.

[VIBRATING STOPS]

[LAUGHS]

Like f*cking magic.

Yeah.

Until you drive back down the hill.

Magic's gone.

Next time, on Mayor of Kingstown...

KYLE: It is a giant mess, but
we are trying to clean it up.

It's your brother's mess.

I wonder if you'd do me a favor.

Of course I will.

CHERRY: What are you doing here?

They want me to ask you what happened.

I already told them what happened.

They want different answers.

GUARD: Everybody in your cells.

ED: They should be on lockdown

until they've served their sentences.

And if we don't put the
screws to these f*ckers,

they'll do it again and
again. They won't stop!