01x07 - Power Outage

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Freelancers". Aired: March 28, 2019 – December 16, 2021.*
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01x07 - Power Outage

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- Micah.

Did you mail the deposit for the
location we're renting

tomorrow?

It is very important
that you did that.

Did you mail it?

- But of course.

- Is that a British accent

I detect?

- Whatever...

[clearing throat]
do you mean?

- He's lying!

- You didn't do it?

- How dare you!

[clears throat]

You're as mad as a box of frogs!

- I'm sorry, Micah.

But you know that you get an
accent when you lie.

You're like a verbal Pinocchio.

[Micah laughing]
- Pish posh, tally ho

[gasps]

- It's getting worse! Confess,
man.

- I dare say this has gone
quite pear shaped!

- Search him!

- No, no!

[Micah struggling]

- Oh, you're hands are cold,
ha ha, child.

Tea, crumpets!

- Micah! Dammit you
didn't send it.

- I'm sorry. Okay.

I made a mistake

- Micah, how could you
fail us like that?

Look me in my non blind eye and
tell me it isn't so!

- So what ha- wait, you're
blinded in one eye?

- You drive us everywhere.

- Don't try to change
the subject!

- I can't even look at you.

- Me neither.

There you are.

- Enough!

Micah.

Go to the shame corner.

- But guys, I thought-

- The corner!

[mellow guitar music]

- And so his shame begins.

- It is written.

[whimpering]

- I think I've
learned my lesson.

- Shame is silent!

[upbeat music]

[hip-hop b*at]

- Alright, just one
more adjustment,

and this ad for Beef 'N Stuff

Barbecue is done!

- Man, I'm just sad we
never figured out

what the stuff was, in
Beef 'N Stuff.

- I thought the stuff was like
their sides, you know,

like mac and cheese.

- They don't offer sides
at Beef N' Stuff.

- Oh man.

I ate a lot of their beef.

- A lot of their stuff.

- Yeah. I'm just
going to say it.

Cause we're all thinking it.

Zona ate a person.

- No, no. We don't know that.
Okay.

Stuff is a very broad term. It
could be anything.

chicken, baby lamb.

- Aw. Cute.

Wait...

- If it helps, I messed with
a super attractive

girl on Tinder today.

[chair creaking]

- I was waiting for it to
come up naturally,

but it was taking too long.

- Aren't you a little worried
about using dating apps?

- I'm actually cat fishing
Mr. Gandolfini

to keep him occupied.

- I don't know if that's
dumb or genius.

- Title of my biography.

- Oh.

- Alright.

I would like to announce,
that we are,

for the first time ever,

ahead of schedule.

[clapping and chanting]

[thunder rumbling]

[electricity crashing]

- k*ll me now!

- Did you save the edit?

- I don't know it shut down
while it was saving.

Pray to your deities people.

- No guys, it's fine.

Okay. Worst case scenario,
we redo the edit,

but like Devin said, we're
ahead of schedule.

So unless the power's out
for five days.

[bubbly music beats]

- Why! Ugh!

Are we living in rural
Sumatra circa 1886?

Too specific?

- Maybe.

- How do We still
not have power?

Like I do not understand.

For real, I don't
have any concept

of how power works.

- Guys we got to get that
computer turned on.

The deadline is tomorrow!

- She's right.

I don't want to upset the owner

and become the stuff in
Beef 'N Stuff.

- We have no evidence to
back that theory up,

the stuff could be horses.
We don't know!

- I have never seen any
horses around here.

- Exactly.

[gasps]

- We need a power source.

- We should've gotten a
backup generator

like Mr. Gandolfini.

[upbeat techno music]

♪ Electricity ♪

[high-voltage cracking]

- He's swimming in power.

[high-voltage thuds]

- Well, everything is
out for miles.

It's hopeless.

There's just no way,

for me to contact my
Tinder match.

- Okay.

- Maybe she'll just think you're
playing hard to get.

- But I'm so easy to get,

all it takes for the
girl to be smart

and beautiful...

and funny,

maybe rich.

No pets but likes dogs.

The first of four
children so that she

understands responsibility
and how to share.

Blonde.

- Can we please focus
on the solution

to the power problem?

- I've been giving it a
lot of thought.

And I recall seeing a
documentary about harnessing

lightning to power electronics.

- Ryan that was a dream you had,

and you d*ed.

- Irregardless.

- You just say regardless.

- I will ascend to the
roof and attach

the power cord of the computer,
to a lightening rod.

- That's a terrible idea.

- I don't even know
where she lives.

- No wait!

My search radius was
only one mile.

She can't be far.

- One mile?

- He hates long distance
relationships.

He once dated our neighbor and
broke up with her

because she moved
across the street.

- It was a very large street.

I'm done having this
conversation.

I'm going to walk around outside
and shout her name

until I find her.

Tinder Girl!

Where are you tinder girl?

- Where's Ryan?

[gasping]

- [All] The roof!

- I'm right here.

- Oh, we thought that you just-

- I have another idea.

[gong crashing]

[fast temp b*at]

- Now shuffle.

Faster.

[drum b*ating]

We need more power, use
the balloons.

[balloon friction]

- Now touch my finger.

[high-voltage cracking]

- Ah!

[rhythmic instrumental]

- That flew too
close to the sun.

- It didn't work.

Four hours of shouting
in the streets

and nothing to show for it.

- Does that mean you're going to
focus on helping us?

- I'm sorry Zona.

A man has to have a
code to live by,

and this.

This is one of my
foundational principles.

- Neglect your job.

- No hot girl left behind.

- I can't believe he's being
so self-centered.

- I can't believe we can't
power a stupid computer

for two minutes.

- If we just had a giant
hamster wheel.

- I have been saying
that for years!

Wait, why do you want one?

- We could use the
energy from a giant

spinning wheel to power
the computer.

- That's actually a really
good idea Micah.

I thought you said you didn't
know anything about

electricity.

- Oh ,I don't. But I
know hamsters.

- Ah.

- Ah!

- Anyone know where we can find
a giant hamster wheel?

- I know where we can
order one online,

but we can't get online
without power.

It's a catch 2 2.

- 22.

- You sound like an idiot.

- Did that work?

- The clothes hanger thingy?

- It's a stationary bike.

- Well slap my mama.

- I'm going to send her a note.
I just need a bird.

Does anybody have a
carrier pigeon,

or know of an Eagle that can
smell hot blondes?

- I do.

- My man.

[eagle scream]

[adventurous music]

- Sorry for the
misunderstanding.

[door shuts]

[girl crying]

- That was the wrong girl Devin.

Your Eagle is bogus.

- It's not his fault. The storm
threw off his senses.

- Okay so the bike is hooked
up to the computer.

All we need now is
someone to pedal.

- Toes goes.

- What? Wait.

[thud]

- Ow!

- Oh!

- She's breathing.

She alright.

[upbeat techno music]

- You're doing great Zona.

- You all realize I
was unconscious

like two minutes ago, right?

- There are no exceptions in the
world of toes goes.

- Ugh! I'm already tired.

Your thighs are strong like
feminine granite.

Bike woman!

- Ah!

- Oh! Zona is booting up,
keep going Zona!

- Go!

- Hurry!

- It's showing the
passive aggressive,

you didn't properly shut down
the computer message.

We're almost there, faster Zona.

- I can't keep going,
the strain,

it's too much pressure!

- Go Zona just a few
more minutes.

- Ah!

[farting noise]

- Was that a duck?

- I'm so sorry.

- No!

- Ah!

[all struggling]

- The devil is real!

- Sorry I was strained!

- What happened?

Is everyone?

Whoa!

Oh no!

Oh!

Whoa! Take me please death!

What happened?

- It was a duck.

- Open a window!

- In front of everything!

[struggling]

- It's mingling with
the humidity!

[shrieking]

- We got to get out!

- Ah!

- Owen.

- No, there's no time for him!

[mellow b*at]

- I'm really sorry.

- Silent. Shamed one.

[Arizona shrieks]

[all gasp]

[Micah gasps]

[energetic drumming]

- What happened? Did the
power get fixed?

- Not exactly.

After I woke up from
my stench coma.

- I'm sorry.

- I took stock of my life and
realized I've been so selfish.

I should have been helping you
guys make the computer run.

Instead, all I can think
about was Tinder girl.

- No judgment.

- A little judgment.

- So I snuck next door and
plugged in an extension cord

into Mr. Gandolfini's generator.

- Bless you Owen Darby.

We may have hope of not
becoming stuff.

- Wait, won't he be upset?

- Or worse? Use it as an
excuse to talk to us.

- He had so much power. I don't
think he'll notice.

He was sleeping in a
tanning bed in front

of an open refrigerator.

[typing]

- It's saved!

- Yes!

[cheering]

[victorious music]

- Well done Owen.

- I know.

[knocking]

I'll get it.

- Hi.

- What the.

[eagle screaming]

- Thank you eagle.

- [Eagle] You're welcome!

- So sorry, ladies,
please do come in.

Would any of you care
for a macaroon?

Macaroons, all right.

Macaroons all around.

Does anybody know what
a macaroon is?

I just offered a lot of
them to people.

- Come on down to Beef 'N Stuff.

We offer delicious, non
discreet meat items

your whole family will love.

The only health code violation
here is how good it tastes.

Beef 'N Stuff.

Where mystery ain't
worth looking into.

- How did this not raise a
red flag for me?
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