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02x06 - Sundown

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "The Curse". Aired: February 6, 2022.*
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Comedy crime caper set in early-1980s London, following a g*ng of hopeless small-time crooks who, through their own stupidity and poor judgment, get themselves embroiled in one of history's biggest gold heists.

02x06 - Sundown

Post by bunniefuu »

Inspector.

My guys found a third body.

Well, I don't know
anything about that.

We can talk, can't
we, Jose? Can talk?

Detective Thread,
Metropolitan Police.

I work with...

I'm sorry.

He f*cking warned you.
Take a moment, huh?

I am really sorry for this.

Did he have a family?
A son, I think.

He had a picture of

a little boy in his wallet.
He never mentioned him.

Maybe it was just
a picture he liked?

Can you identify the other one?

That's Clive Cornell, also
part of the gold robbery.

They were looking for the
gold, this is all connected.

You need to arrest them all.

She must be around
here somewhere.

Tash? Maybe she's found out
that you lost all the gold?

I didn't lose the gold.
You let them get away.

Anyway, we've still
got one car left.

Yeah, where is that car
anyway? Just if we... What?

You know, if we wanted to.
Because I was just thinking,

maybe we should, you know,
do a run and... What?

If we needed to go. You
know, because I've just,

I've got a really bad
feeling about this, Albert.

We're not leaving, just me and you
together. What are you talking about?

What? No, I wasn't saying
that. I was saying,

when we're all together,
later, then we'll go.

Sorry, I thought you
were saying that me

and you should leave together.

No. That's not what you were
saying. No. No. But, that's.. What?

Is that definitely
not a good idea?

No, of course not.
Why would we do that?

Is it worth thinking about?
It's not, Sidney. No, all right.

That's my point, OK?

Lorenzo, have you
seen Tash, Natasha?

Police? Yes, Jeff.

Why's he calling you Jeff? He
wasn't. He was saying chef.

What the f*ck's going on?

Albert, there is something.

Right, Theresa, can you
get them out, please?

We need to go. Girls,
get your towels, please.

Albert, there's something
I need to tell you.

What? Tash.

Ronnie. You what? Tash, Ronnie.

I knew it, I knew it.

An affair, with Ronnie of
all people. No, no, no.

How long has this been going on
for? And don't lie to me, Sid.

No, Tash...

Yes, I know what that means.
Stop doing it in my face. No.

She k*lled him,
shot him with a g*n.

So, why are you doing that
then? Why didn't you do this?

Because that's the universal
symbol for k*lling someone.

Silly, silly old Uncle Sidney,
just messing about with your dad.

We're doing a dance.

It was him or me.

Oh, right, OK. So, you
thought she'd do it for you,

because you're so pathetic?

Pretty much, yeah.
Maybe we just, you know,

grab the gold and run?
In the car, drive.

No, no, we're not driving. We're
not running anyway in the car, OK?

Just stop talking and let me
think. I need to think of a plan.

I'm doing a dainty wash, if
you need your smalls doing.

Yeah, they're
upstairs in my room.

Also, you getting any more
beers from the supermarket?

There's beers in the fridge,
mate. You're a piss-taker,

you are, Phil. A living,
breathing piss-taker.

I'll be wiping your
cherry arse, like.

Bluebottles.

f*cking bluebottles. What?

Bluebottles over the horizon.

We've got to go.
We've got to go now.

What, go now? Yeah.

Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. No,
I'm more heavy set than you.

I'll tumble down there
like a f*cking boulder.

You've got thick ankles.

And thin legs and a big old
torso. I'll snap like a cr*cker.

Please don't be a fanny.

OK, you ready? One,
two, three. Urgh.

You all right? Yeah. That was
high, though, mate. That was high.

I've done myself a
mischief on my willy.

DOOR OPENS

My name is Detective
Yasmin Thread.

I've been investigating
the Newham Gold Robbery

with my partner, DCI Saunders.

Stop talking.

I was doing my job.
Doing your job.

A good man's died
because of you.

Wasn't my fault.

This all revolves around you.

Albert, he ain't got a clue.

Your brother is a f*cking moron,

and those other two, well.

This was always you.

This is out of control now,
and I'm your last hope.

The Guarda found another body.

Ronnie Gatlin.

So, what happened
out there, Tash?

sh*t.

Albert, so good to see you.

Have you heard? Tasha's missing.

My sources tell me she has
been arrested for m*rder.

I'm so sorry, Albert.

OK, so, what are
we going to then?

Um, are we gonna pay someone off or
have you got someone on the inside,

someone you know? Is it? How does
this work? I don't even know.

Please, I'm just a business man.
There's only so much I can do.

Please, I've got
no-one else to help me.

There's still gold?

No, there's no gold left.

We did a deal with the
Colombians, Pablo Escobar,

and it was for cocaine,
and they took everything,

and they just knocked us.

Cocaine? Pablo Escobar? I know.

Scheiss, mensch.

We do not deal with
such men, Albert.

I don't know what came over me.
It's this gold, it's cursed.

The White Elephant. Yeah.

Are you aware of the
famous phrase, huh?

Yeah, of course, the
elephant in the room.

No, Albert.

If something is
a white elephant,

the great kings of Siam
used to gift white elephants

to anyone in their kingdom
who displeased them.

See, the cost and upkeep
was way out of proportion to

the elephant's worth,

resulting in ruin and
downfall for the recipient.

You see, Albert,
with white elephants,

although rare and precious,

they're useless in the
wrong person's hands.

Is that... is that the?
Um, the elephant is...

Is it the... The gold.

It is the gold. Yeah, no,
I was... I wasn't sure,

whether I'm the elephant
in this scenario.

No, Albert, what I'm trying to say
is you're better off without it.

Yeah, no, I really enjoy
phrases and German sayings,

but, um, it's just
quite confusing,

as to how that all
links with helping Tash.

You may have to accept
your wife's situation.

But you can save
your children. OK.

We need to minimise damage. OK.

The police will seize all
your properties. Really?

As part-owner, you can
sign over to me, for cash.

And once this has all died
down, I can sell it back to you.

Oh. It's a way to
protect your money.

OK. So, that's... yeah,
thank you. I'll, just.

Um, is this definitely
the best way to go, yes?

Yeah. Just because usually

Tash makes all my
decisions for me.

So really appreciate you
doing what you can to help.

Now, you must go to your
children. Yeah, OK, sure.

And make your escape.
Yeah, OK, fine. So.

OK, so, take this? OK.

Well, thank you so much.

I deal with many unique figures,
Pablo Escobar is one of a kind.

See ya.

PAGER BEEPS

PAGERS BEEP

Hold on, I'm... I'm buzzing,
mate. Are you buzzing?

I thought I just needed a piss.

Did you find Tash?
She's been arrested.

What? For k*lling Ronnie.
What, Ronnie's dead?

Yeah, but that was self-defence.
Yeah, defending you.

No, defending all of us, really, in a
roundabout sort of way, if you think about it.

Anyway, this is not about
blame. What did the Baptist say?

He's done us over. f*ck
sake. f*cking slippery Kraut.

He's behind the
Colombians knocking us.

Say what now? How's that work?
Right, we're going there right now.

Yeah, well, about that. He
made me sign over everything.

The hotel, all our properties.

Your beach bar. The
beach bar as well?

Yes, your bar. He did
some German sayings at me,

and gave me a
suitcase full of cash.

He bought us out? How much?
I dunno. You didn't count it?

I didn't count it, because
it felt weird at the time.

Woah, woah, woah,
woah, woah, woah.

Woah, now, let me get
my loaf around this.

Are you telling me you sold
everything what we own for

an undisclosed amount of cash
and a tiny little suitcase?

We should count it.
Shall we? Hold on.

Are you certain the
Baptist is behind this?

Yes, I saw the Colombian's
boat at his gaff.

There's a private little beach.
He was unloading cocaine off it.

As soon as I saw that,
I started thinking

he's got to, my mind started.

I ain't staying there. That is
suspicious. That is suspicious, mate.

Phil, you've got to say, mate. It
is suspicious. I'm not having this.

We need to go and
take back what's ours.

He's got a army. Well,
I'm not gonna give up.

I hate bullies.

Ever since Tony Clarke
humiliated me in middle school.

Can't have bullies.
Now's not the time, mate.

It's just the time.

Because whether it's one of your classmates
pulling your underpants down at sports day,

or it's an international drug
dealer taking all your cocaine

and all your money,
bullies shouldn't win.

Yes, exactly.

I am not walking away from this with
nothing, I'll tell you that now.

Tell you what, if he wants
f*cking w*r, yeah. That's it.

If he want f*cking w*r,
we'll bring it to him.

Let's have it. We'll have
this. He can have it that way.

Won't we all. We having it boy?

Are we going to have it, Albert?

It's the end of the
road for me, boys.

What? I've got
something I need to do.

I've got to protect my girls,
got to make sure they're safe.

You boys go ahead, you know?

Get the gold, the cocaine,
whatever you want.

Um, it all sounds really
exciting and you know

I'd love to be a part of it,
but it's an adios from me.

Adios, mate.

Won't be the same
with you, mate.

Take the suitcase. You sure?

I'll see you boys on the
other side. All right, then.

Not death, just more in
the near future. See ya.

Albert? Yes, mate?
Keep your pager on.

Always.

Let's go and make some
f*cking sauerkraut.

What we doing now? What
do we do now, mate?

Does anybody have
a pencil and paper?

No. What for? To draw a map of
the layout of the buildings.

The only lead I've brought
to the party is this.

That's very cool. What
was that, Scarface?

No, that's my own.

I like that, mate. That was f*cking
cool. Yeah, it's good, innit?

That's very cool. Yeah,
just thought of it.

I think I'm filling up. I
think the safest bet would be

for me to run straight
round the back there,

directly down towards the boats,
and you guys create a diversion.

OK, you run to the boat.
Yeah. But you wait.

Yeah. Five minutes.
Five minutes, yeah.

Oh, for, er, the only thing is,

my watch hasn't been working
since I was thrown into

the sea by the Colombians.

Let me show you, there's
an old trick you can do.

One tea and crisps.
Two tea and crisps.

I'm not doing that.
Three tea and crisps.

I'm not saying "tea and crisps."

That is an old naval
trick. Napoleon used it.

Napoleon didn't have crisps.

Right, listen, you
meet us at the boat.

I'm trusting you.
Let's do this, boys.

The other hand. The other hand.
I've got a hand on the g*n.

Put your hand in. f*ck
sake. Good sh*t. OK.

What is it?

Diversion. Diversion. Oh.

f*ck me, that was loud,
mate. I k*lled one of them.

What are we gonna do now?

We've got to f*cking run. We

We are under attack.

One tea and crisps,
two tea and crisps.

Six tea and crisps,
seven tea and crisps.

Oh, mate.

OK, on my signal, you run.

Wait, what are you... Mick.

g*nshots CONTINUE

Why did you run?

You said to me, to run.

You said run. No, I
was f*cking reloading.

I didn't give you
the action to run.

So f*cking confusing.

78 tea and crisps, 79 tea...

f*cking hell.

Is it bad?

No, it's gone straight
through you. Everything?

I know it sounds bad,
but that's a good thing.

I took a lover in jail, Phil.

Yeah? OK. Needs must, mate.

Hot, steamy bunk
room sex, it was.

Beautiful and disgusting,
all at the same time.

Don't think now's the right time
to have this conversation, mate.

I think you need to speak
to a priest or a doctor.

It's been an honour
to serve you, Captain.

Mick, I need you to run.

I can't run.

No, it's an order. I
can't run, I can't.

You can, you're not going
to die. I am dying. Sorry?

This is death. It's not.

I think it's say hello
to my little friend time.

Is that Scarface? Yeah.

I need to see that movie.

I'm going to run,

I'm going to f*cking sh**t
the f*ck out of these c**ts.

You're going to follow me, OK?

Sidney? Sidney? Sid.

I knew it, he's a f*cking rat.
I told you not to trust him.

We could make a swim for
it, Phil, mate. Swim where?

Well, it can't end like this.

Sidney. Hey. Sidney. Sidney. Sidney.
See? I told you, mate. He's a good egg.

Sidney. Sidney, mate.
Sidney. Sidney. Mate.

Ahoy there.

It's time to do a deal, Tash.

I'll tell you. I'll
tell you what happened.

Clive k*lled Ronnie,

because he found out he was

the one who brought us out here
to Spain, didn't like that.

He poisoned him, and then
he shot him, the sick f*ck.

Then he came to the villa

and asked me to take him
to where the gold was.

I didn't know
anything about that.

So, he took me to where
Ronnie was buried.

Told me I was next, made
me dig my own grave.

I thought I was going to die,

but then Saunders came
along and he saved me.

Clive shot him, but
Saunders shot him back.

I had nothing to
do with any of it.

KNOCKING ON DOOR

Sorry. She's free to go.

What do you mean? The k*ller,
he's handed himself in.

You want to make
a full confession?

Yeah, yeah. Whatever you're saying
she's done, it was actually me.

OK, Albert Fantoni, I am arresting
you for the three murders.

Mm-mm, no. Sorry, you just said
three. It was... it was one m*rder.

Three. Mm-mm, no. Three murders.

You keep saying three, it's one.
Pretty sure it was one m*rder.

You said you did everything
your wife did. Yes, yes,

which I thought was one.
So, now, it changed.

That is three bodies, m*rder.
One m*rder, one m*rder.

Are you... are you sure
it's three murders?

Albert didn't realise it then,

but they had absolutely
nothing on us.

His sweetest gesture was
undoubtedly his most stupid.

As for the rest of us,

we just disappeared into
the sunset, of sorts.

We still had one last carful of gold
and our lives, or so we thought.