01x04 - Coordinates

[bunniefuu]

[LOIS] What's that line
from that movie you love

with, uh, Bill Holden?

"If they move, k*ll 'em."

[HEART MONITOR BEEPING]

[SWALLOWS]

Did I tell you we got
robot cop-dogs now?

[VENTILATOR HISSING]

Steel Dobermans, razor-sharp teeth

with rocket launchers
and-and flame throwers.

They're no match for my guy.

[SOFT HISSING]

And I'm not.

Marsh...

lately, the only thing
that's holding me together

is uppers and vodka.

Used to be you.

Long ago.

Grotesquerie is, is taunting me.

I'm as doomed...

as you are.

You know you're doomed, right?

[OVER SPEAKER] Your great
enemy Nitzsche was right:

God is dead.

[REDD] Are we recording
this? I need evidence.

I don't have a lead on this.

Not a goddamned one.

I got to, I got to steady myself.

I got to concentrate

until I can catch this sicko.

I guess what I'm saying is, Marsh,

I'm not gonna be able to be
here to see you every day.

Abandonment!

This man needs care and familiarity.

If he gets me before
I get him, which is...

which is probably the case...

this is goodbye.

For our sins, we both deserve death.

♪

Maybe we'll be kinder
to each other then.

Kind ghosts.

In the land of the dead.

"Kind ghosts"? Her brain
is pickled in vodka.

[LOIS] But if I solve this

and I live,

ah, I'm giving away all your books,

with the notes in the
margins... for what?

What good did they do?

Baby, this is the end of time,

and that,

that is what Mr. Grotesquerie is saying.

"This is the end."

Christ, she's barking mad.

We will have power of attorney. We will.

♪

["IMAGES OF HEAVEN" BY
PETER GODWIN PLAYING]

[CHARLIE] It starts right here, baby.

The future of the Catholic church

is in this cycle class.

We're gonna take it up a notch.

I want everyone to
increase their resistance

another five to ten.

Five to ten, baby, let's go.

All right.

You are saving your souls
from sinning while spinning.

Come on.

[INHALES, EXHALES]

You got it in you, I know you do.

♪

Okay. All right.

Here we go. Get ready and deep breath.

[EXHALING]

♪ In this new religion... ♪

We're gonna go in five seconds.

All. Out.

This is it. And sprint.

♪ Nobody sees... ♪

Five, four,

three, two, one.

Douse yourself.

Inhale the Holy Spirit.

- Amen.
- [GASPS]

[FOOTSTEPS RECEDING]

♪ Images of heaven. ♪

[RUNNING WATER SHUTS OFF]

[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]

[CHUCKLES]

Oopsies.

Sorry, Father.

I just wanted to...

I just wanted to review
my recent reporting.

No.

No, this is not approved.

- This is where we are.
- We can't run a story that says

that the police are stymied
and that they have no new leads.

It's...

It's boring.

Lackluster.

Right, I-I-I'm sorry,
I know that you know

that I think that
you're a talented writer.

It's just that it...

seems like low-hanging fruit to me.

Maybe.

I think we can expect more

out of your journalistic
efforts than that.

Because, I'm sorry... [STAMMERS]
... where is the bloodlust?

Where is the fear?

[CHARLIE LAUGHS]

It's not in that story.

♪

Don't worry.

It's all part of the process.

The waiting.

Excuse me.

You're an observer.

It's what makes you
such a good journalist.

You like to watch.

♪

Maybe I'm stuck.

Maybe I need to push myself harder.

You are right, because there's
always something worth seeing.

If-if you look close enough.

You were watching me.

Earlier, in the rec room.

Anything worth seeing?

It was...

an exaltation of God's glory
through physical prowess.

It's kind of become my side hustle.

The Pedaling Priest.

I could become a coach.

Start my own show.

Some of the older bishops,

they deride all excessive exercise

as vanity.

They see it as worshipping oneself.

A sin of the flesh, but...

- to that I just say...
- "Do you not know that your bodies are temples

of the Holy Spirit, which is in you?

Therefore honor God with your bodies."

Yes.

Exactly.

♪

This is exactly what they're...

talking about right now at the Vatican.

An ecumenical council

has congregated so that they
can discuss a radical change,

and this would completely disrupt

all of the archaic interpretations

of the Scripture,

and this is regarding sex and lifestyle.

And even, possibly,

potentially...

celibacy

for those in the cloth.

Oh. [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]

That's difficult to imagine.

Is it so difficult?

Parishioners are losing faith,

and the youth are not
being called to serve

- quite in the same way as they used to.
- [MEGAN MOANS SOFTLY]

- The church is dying.
- Mm-hmm.

And the bishops and the
pope, they-they know this.

[GASPING SOFTLY]

They know that change must come.

♪

It is still a sin.

♪

We are...

and we always will be...

[GASPING]

[MEGAN] Sinners.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[WHISPERS] So f*ck it.

Oh.

[MEGAN] Ah!

[GASPING]

[SIGHS]

EDDIE: Hey, detective sassy-pants.

How you doing? Rough day?

Hell yeah. You can tell?

I know the look.

How's Marshall?

He's circling the drain,

and I...

Listen, babe, I owe you

a countless number of apologies

for my less than perfect comportment.

"Comportment?"

That a fancy word for
being human, right?

You're fine. We're good.

- We're good, huh?
- Yeah.

I appreciate that.

You've always been this gentlemanly?

What can I say?

You know what? Let
me bake you something.

What's your favorite cake?

You know what I like?
Pop-Tarts without the frosting.

What?

That's not even cake.

Let's do something.

You mean like a date?

Sure, we can call it that.

[MAN] I was listening
to this one preacher,

says over the AM radio,

from the middle of the desert,

- "Hell is actually... "
- [ALARM BEEPING]

"... right here on Earth."

So when you die, you don't go to hell.

[ALARM STOPS BEEPING]

So, I think, "Well, why not die, then?"

- [SOFT HISSING]
- So I set out to do it with tequila.

I quit the job.

I quit everything, man,

except the tequila.

It's not an easy way to k*ll yourself.

You get very sick and you
find yourself in a hospital,

your loved ones crying,

begging you to live.

And that's hell.

Hurting your loved ones.

And I have slipped...
[EXHALES] ... three times,

and every single time,

it's people like you that hold me up.

So, if this is hell, then how
come there's folks like y'all?

[CLAPPING]

Can we please go get
something to eat now?

You get it, right?

You gotta slow down the sauce.

How'd you get off it?

So, I was your typical ski bum.

I love the slopes.

Until I tore all my ligaments.

And then, I hightailed
up to Juneau, Alaska.

Alaska?

- Mm-hmm.
- What'd you do there?

- [LAUGHS]
- Tell me.

I worked at a male strip joint.

[LAUGHS]

Jiggling it for horny mamas

coming off of cruise ships.

Tell me more.

I rocked a banana hammock

with the name "Big Peter
and His Banana Splitter."

- [BOTH LAUGHING]
- I know you made that up.

- Thought it was classy.
- No.

- No?
- [LAUGHS]

Well, it worked for all those
ladies off those cruise ships,

'cause I would get drunk with them,

take one back to my cabin, and...

if I got a tip, well, I told
myself it was for dancing,

and not all the other stuff.

Ended up on the streets.

Was that your rock bottom?

[SOFT CHUCKLE]

Oh, I had ways to go, Lady Lo.

Mmm.

But that's pretty much the gist.

I don't know, long story short,

I was just missing...

my dignity, you know?

Indeed I do.

Listen, Lo.

I had to find stuff to live for. You?

You haven't lost your dignity,

so don't.

All right?

[LOIS SNIFFLES]

I would invite you in,

but it's a little complicated right now.

Yeah. You have a kid, right?

A daughter.

- She fine like you?
- Stop.

[LAUGHS]

I don't want to talk
about her right now.

She's a wonderful girl,

I just...

I don't know if I'm the
right mother for her.

[CHUCKLES]

Here, let me get that for you.

Thank you.

[SIGHS]

You're a real one, you know that?

Right back at you, Lady Lo.

♪

[LOCK CLICKS]

[TAPS GLASS]

Sister.

Hey, uh, it's not too late, is it?

[MEGAN] Father Charlie
is so happy to do this.

He is glad he can do something for you

in this time of need.

Did you want to talk to
me before he sees you?

Yeah? Exchange some recent theories

about our k*ller, maybe?

[LOIS] You okay?

You seem nervous.

I'm fine. Just frustrated

that, in terms of our case,
we seem to be at an impasse.

[LOIS] We're working hard.

Cases get solved and...

sick people get better.

[MEGAN] Most murders go unsolved.

And the majority of people in
hospitals usually die there,

alone.

Don't be naive.

I thought you were smarter than that.

He's right inside.

In the booth.

So...

how does this sh*t work?

Mmm. "Stuff" work.

I take it that this is
your first confession?

What goes on in the
booth, stays in the booth.

Does that sufficiently
answer your question?

I am

sick of my own bullshit.

I have let so many people down.

Mostly myself.

I... I need to be stronger

and-and sharper as a cop,

and better

as a wife and a mother, but...

instead, I climbed into the bottle.

[CHARLIE] You'll stop.

You're getting ready to. I can tell.

And while my husband is
dying, I'm starting an affair.

Of course you are.

But God forgives us our
weaknesses so long as we...

So long as we what?

I haven't seen a sign of God lately.

I mean, is he even listening?

Well, maybe his silence is
essential to our free will.

I think that there has been a change

in the basics of human nature.

Something old, brutal
and hellish is here.

I don't think that you're
crazy to think that.

[LOIS] You sense it.

Nobody can do anything about it.

It's like... the darkness

that hangs in the air even
when it's sunny and light.

It's like God just...

just locked up and left.

- Adios.
- And so what if he did, Lois?

What if he's gone?

What if that's exactly what he's done?

Big Daddy's left and gone
on a business trip, so...

[SIGHS]

We have the codes,

we know the rules that
goodness is governed by.

And maybe this is his way
of telling us that it's time

that we figure this sh*t out on our own.

[WHISPERING] He didn't
just leave, Father.

He left the keys to the
candy store to the devil.

[SCOFFS]

[LOIS SIGHS]

[MAN ON TV] Let's keep things easy.

- Just a few basic ingredients.
- [DOOR OPENS]

- [FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
- [DOOR CLOSES]

- [KEYS JINGLING]
- Garlic butter,

a little white wine, fresh parsley.

And start with our...

Miss Merritt, you and that
couch are gonna fuse together.

You been watching TV all night?

While you're talking,

I got it open.

At first, I thought it was
like a Karakuri puzzle box.

You know, opens in a few
steps, but they can be

kind of tricky. Uh, uh, uh.

But then I was like, "No,
maybe it's like a Rubik's."

You know, it-it's
gonna be an algorithm.

But, no, this thing has its own logic.

It teaches you as you go. I've
never seen anything like it.

You know what? I don't
care. What was in the box?

This.

[TOUCH TONES SOUNDING]

[LINE RINGING]

Sister, I got something.

It's coordinates.

- [INHALES DEEPLY]
- [PHONE RINGING]

[INHALES]

- [EXHALES]
- [PHONE RINGING]

[INHALES, EXHALES]

[PHONE RINGING]

- [ANSWERING MACHINE CLICKS]
- [INHALING, EXHALING CONTINUES]

[BEEPS]

[LOIS] Fast Eddie, I need a fast favor.

I know it's the crack of dawn,
but can you come by my house?

- I got good coffee.
- [EXHALES]

[CALL CLICKS OFF]

- [CUPBOARD CLOSES]
- [GLASS CLINKS]

[MERRITT LAUGHS]

What is this?

Are you trying to play
matchmaker or something, Mom?

Would that be so funny?

Merritt, I am trying
to keep you safe, okay?

Something is after me,

or us, okay?

Get your a*s in there.

Your mother doesn't want you
sleeping by yourself overnight.

Thank you. Is that so bad?

I don't know you.

Something's going on now.

I'm not stupid, Mom.

Are you two having relations, hmm?

You here to spy on me and report back?

Jesus!

Merritt,

he works at the hospital,
taking care of your father.

Hmm.

Are you sure you're
not having an affair?

I'm glad you find this so entertaining.

I'm very single.

- Hmm. You? Why? You g*y?
- No, not yet, at least.

We'll see what the future holds, though.

Hmm. Well,

do you like to watch
old movies all night?

Hmm? When I can't
sleep, my mom comes in,

and we watch old movies.

I like westerns.

And cooking shows.

- Cooking shows?
- Mm-hmm.

What can you make?

[FRENCH ACCENT] Ooh. Chicken tenders

- with a lemon caper sauce and a panko crust.
- Mmm.

[NORMAL VOICE] And can't forget
my mom's famous tuna wiggle.

What the f*ck is tuna wiggle?

Like a casserole.

What house rules does she have?

Do I need to enforce anything?

- [SCOFFS] You, enforce me?
- Mm-hmm.

Just try me, baby, I'll
run straight through you.

Hey.

Keep this pepper
spray on you at all times.

It is powerful, but...

not exactly legal, okay?

Cool.

I might just use it on you.

Hey, nobody is leaving
this house at night

while I'm gone, okay?

Ed agreed to take off work for
a couple of days to protect you.

Just like he protects me.

[TURN SIGNAL CLICKING]

[LOIS] So, have you ever heard
of this show called Good Times?

It's about this Black family
that lived in the ghetto.

Florida was the mother, James,

Thelma, J.J. and Michael.

Them, like you,

they always prayed to a white Jesus.

I never understood that part.

Like, don't you think your
God should look like you?

[INSECTS CHIRRING]

♪ I don't know how to love him ♪

♪ What to do, how to move him ♪

♪ I've been changed ♪

♪ Yes, really changed ♪

♪ In these past few days ♪

♪ When I've seen myself ♪

♪ I seem like someone else ♪

♪ I don't know how to take this ♪

[INHALING SHAKILY]

♪ I don't see why he moves me ♪

♪ He's a man ♪

♪ He's just a man ♪

[INHALES SHAKILY]

♪ And I've had so many ♪

♪ Men before ♪

♪ In very many ways ♪

♪ He's just one more ♪

♪ Should I bring him down? ♪

♪ Should I scream and shout? ♪

♪ Should I speak of love? ♪

♪ Let my feelings out? ♪

♪ I never thought I'd come to this ♪

♪ What's it all about? ♪

♪

[LOIS] ♪ Don't you
think it's rather funny ♪

♪ I should be in this position? ♪

♪ I'm the one ♪

♪ Who's always been ♪

♪ So calm, so cool ♪

♪ No lover's fool ♪

♪ Running every show ♪

♪ He scares me so ♪

♪

[BOTH] ♪ I never
thought I'd come to this ♪

[MEGAN] ♪ What's it all about? ♪

[BOTH] ♪ What's it all about? ♪

♪ Yet, if he said he loved me ♪

♪ I'd be lost ♪

♪ I'd be frightened ♪

♪ I couldn't cope ♪

♪ Just couldn't cope ♪

♪ I'd turn my head ♪

♪ I'd back away ♪

♪ I wouldn't want to know ♪

♪ He scares me so ♪

♪ I want him so ♪

♪ I love him so. ♪

[RADIO STATIC CRACKLES]

[RADIO DEEJAY] You're
listening to Light 100.9,

the Desert Breeze.

[RADIO SHUTS OFF]

Jesus Christ Superstar.

Hot patootie, bless my soul.

That show made me

either want to be a
nun or a Broadway star.

I love this song.

I auditioned with this song.

It's about a wh*re, Mary Magdalene.

She's confused.

She's in love with a man
she can never truly have.

Hmm. Been there, done that.

See, she doesn't know how to love Jesus.

He's not like other men.

He's... one of a kind.

And... and frightening. [INHALES]

- Never mind.
- Okay, stop.

I can't.

Wait... Wait.

You auditioned for what?

Julliard.

I got in, but the Church
just called me more.

You remind me of a cat.

[LAUGHS]

[LOIS CHUCKLING]

♪

I have to say, this trip
feels like a fool's errand.

The devil's trick.

What do you mean?

You know what I mean.

A trap, a set-up.

It's like a horror movie

people are sitting in the dark watching.

And the stupid heroine is creeping down

into the dark cellar, and everyone

in the audience is screaming,

"Don't go into the cellar, Jamie Lee!"

Because everyone knows

the k*ller is in there, ready to attack.

It's a set-up, and here we are,

heading down into the cellar.

Aren't we smarter than this?

Don't we know how this movie ends?

[WIND WHISTLING]

[SNIFFING]

Do you smell the smoke?

Fire season.

We're close.

♪

[WIND GUSTING]

[LOIS] Is he trying
to tell us something?

[MEGAN] Yes. Psalms 88:6-7.

"You have put me in the lowest
pit, in the darkest depths.

Your wrath lies heavily on me;

you have overwhelmed
me with all your waves."

English, please.

He-He's in the darkest
place imaginable,

cut off from God and
God's love in the darkness.

And the part about the
waves is the relentlessness

of his punishment.

How does this even happen?

A massive firepit in
the middle of nowhere?

Lois, we have company.

[MAN] Hey! Hey.

Hey, you need to leave!

Hands! Let me see your hands!

Yeah, fine. Hands are visible.

I don't know what the
f*ck you're doing here,

- but that thing's getting bigger by the day.
- You got ID?

Can you not point that
thing at me, please?

Look, I'm not armed.

Look, you ladies don't
want to hang around here.

There's been earthquakes
averaging 3.4 to 4.2

almost consistently
over the past two weeks.

I'm Joe Ritter. Dr. Joseph Ritter,
U.S. Geological Survey.

I was... I was camped out
here, when we got word.

- I've seen it widen.
- What the hell is it?!

It's a sinkhole over
a natural gas deposit.

There's a fault line you're on.

What are doing out here?

[LAUGHS] Well, trying to
keep people like you away,

until someone decides
whether the National Guard,

or the U.S. Army or some
other outfit takes over.

What are you doing out here anyhow?

Nobody knows about this yet.

You seen anybody else out here?

Car. And a pickup.

But they-they... they just took off

before I could see the driver.

I didn't know there were
natural gas fields out here.

It was just detected.

It's worth billions.

Or, I don't know...

Maybe hell finally opened up...

and it's not science at all.

[MAN ON RADIO] ... holiness without God.

If you could go into the
presence of God unsaved,

he would literally annihilate you.

You'd rather be in hell in a heartbeat

- [CAWING]
- than to come before a holy God.

Crying "Holy, holy, holy, holy."

Dare walk into the presence of God

without the blood covering your soul.

You'd scream for him, you'd beg for him.

I hate those people.

You don't say.

[FLAMES CRACKLING]

Grotesquerie is trying to scare us.

He's doing a pretty good
job of it, don't you think?

Oh... sh*t.

♪

What do we do now?

Um...

There was a motel back in the valley.

We're gonna have to spend the night.

♪

["IS THAT ALL THERE IS"
BY PEGGY LEE PLAYING]

[SPEAKING SONG] ♪ I remember
when I was a little girl ♪

- ♪♪ Our house caught on fire ♪
- [BELL CLANGS TWICE]

♪ I'll never forget the
look on my father's face ♪

♪ As he gathered me up in his arms ♪

♪ And raced through the
burning building onto the pavement ♪

♪ And I stood there,
shivering in my pajamas ♪

♪ And watched the whole
world go up in flames ♪

♪ And when it was all
over, I said to myself ♪

♪ "Is that all there is to a fire?" ♪

♪ Is that all there is? ♪

[SINGING] ♪ Is that all there is? ♪

♪ If that's all there is, my friends ♪

♪ Then let's keep dancing ♪

- [ELECTRICITY HUMMING]
- ♪ Let's break out the booze ♪

[DOG BARKS]

♪ And have a ball ♪

Hi!

- ♪ If that's all ♪
- [DOG PANTING]

♪ There is ♪

[SPEAKING] ♪ When I was 12 years old ♪

♪ My daddy took me to the circus... ♪

♪

- [TOOL CHOPS]
- [MAN HUFFS]

♪

- [CHOPPING]
- [MAN HUFFING]

[HUFFING]

I'm venturing a guess that
you have dogs. [GRUNTS]

I had 'em.

- Wh-Why do you say that?
- [PANTS]

She likes you.

Doesn't like girls, usually.

But the girls that she does like tend

to be girls who also have dogs.

Digging for buried treasure?

[MAN SIGHS] Making a fire line.

[LOIS] It's like this thing just

sprang up out of nowhere, right?

No, nothing comes from nowhere.

We did it.

Burned fossil fuels,

increasing the greenhouse gasses,

depleting the ozone layer.

Just nobody... cared.

You know if there's
a way around the fire?

[CHUCKLES]

Too late for that.

You think we should go back?

Oh, definitely too late
to turn back. [LAUGHS]

Do you know what the tipping point is?

The global temperature is
up three degrees centigrade.

Threshold is four.

The only thing to do now is...

improvise, adapt and overcome.

You got to go through it.

- Through the fire?
- Uh-huh.

Heat rises,

so you want to get to lowland.

Safest place to be is on the road.

You're lucky.

You got a car.

You'll survive... probably.

But not everybody, though.

Never everybody.

Well, what about you?

I mean, didn't somebody
come through here

- to evacuate this place?
- [LAUGHS]

You mean, run away?

There isn't anywhere
left to run away to.

Here.

You take this.

Got to be prepared for the worst.

You're feeling a little hot,

feel free to douse yourself
off, and just baptize...

Time to hit it.

[CAR DINGING]

It's time to get the hell out of here.

How are you getting reception, anyway?

[ENGINE STARTS]

[TIRES SCREECH]

["LET'S DANCE" BY DAVID BOWIE PLAYING]

♪ Let's dance ♪

♪

I can barely see a thing.

[DISTANT ENGINE REVS]

♪ Let's dance ♪

♪ Put on your red shoes ♪

♪ And dance the blues ♪

♪ Let's dance ♪

♪ To the song they're playing ♪

♪ On the radio... ♪

[LOIS] Hey.

I'm not gonna let anything
happen to you, okay?

We're gonna be fine.

The safest place for us to
be is right here on this road.

And we got this baked potato thing.

We can hunker in it together.

It's my fault.

Well, according to Al Gore back there,

it's all our fault.

So beat yourself with
a feather, not a bat.

No, I-I've done something.

I've sinned.

You mean, drooling over Father Charlie?

Have an impure thought?

Not thought.

Oh, sh*t.

What, you and him?

I swore fidelity. To God.

It's-it's adultery
of the highest order.

Hey, hey, hey.

Because a man who's your boss,

in position of authority over you,

pulled you in some coat
closet and got handsy,

you blaming yourself?

Listen, I work a ton of
sexual as*ault cases, and...

No, I wanted this. Badly.

I made this happen.

- Okay. Okay. Okay.
- It's my fault. Everything.

Forget about him for a second, okay?

You think all of this is happening

because a nun had a thought,

acted on it,

and now all hell is opening up

- and coming just for you?
- No.

Not just for me.

It's larger than that.

It's coming for all of us.

What I've done, it's part of it.

♪ Let's sway... ♪

Lois, have you ever committed this sin?

Adultery?

Lois.

Stop!

[TIRES SCREECH]

[MEGAN PANTING]

♪

Come! Get inside!

- Come in, you're safe.
- He's coming!

- He's coming, he's coming...
- What? Who?

Him.

Go!

[TIRES SCREECH]

♪ Dance ♪

♪ Let's dance ♪

♪ Put on your red shoes ♪

♪ And dance the blues ♪

♪ Let's dance ♪

♪ To the song they're playing ♪

♪ On the radio ♪

♪ Let's sway ♪

♪ While color lights up your face ♪

♪ Let's sway ♪

♪ Sway through the
crowd to an empty space ♪

♪ If you say run ♪

♪ I'll run with you ♪

♪ And if you say hide ♪

♪ We'll hide ♪

♪ Ah... ♪

♪ Because my love for you ♪

♪ Would break my heart in two ♪

♪ If you should fall ♪

♪ Into my arms ♪

♪ Tremble like a flower ♪

♪

♪ Let's dance. ♪

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