01x06 - In the System

[bunniefuu]

- Okay, I'm gonna show you
something that one of

my top research
people is working on, okay?

- There's van about
a quarter mile down that road.

They say they're from
the cable company,

but they might be lying.
- Are you here to k*ll me?

- No, I-I think you're
government.

- Socrates was there when you
found it, right?

- We did it? Oh, my God!
- It's Marshall!

- Marshall Cuso,
you are under arrest.

- They didn't have any good ones.
Produce was picked over.

You should have seen the two
they had left.

[ Cellphone buzzing ]

I'm getting a work thing.
Hang on.

Copy. Sullivan County.

Might be a while,
but the money's good.

Gonna make our year.

Yeah. Okay, baby,
see you when I'm out.

[ Door chimes ]

[ Clattering ]

- What the f*ck, man?!

What the f*ck?! Stop!

[ Clattering ]

[ Glass shatters ]

Hey!

Get out! Okay?
Just get out!

Come on! You see this?

Don't sh**t! Don't sh**t, man.
Take it all, man, don't sh**t.

Okay.

[ Grunts ]

[ g*nshots ]

- Yeah, you need to get over here
and arrest somebody.



Been drinking though.

- Socrates?

Socrates!

Socrates!

Socrates.

- Right. Okay. Good.

- We going in?
- Nope.

They want us back
at headquarters.

- What if they grew mushrooms
in there?

- Not our problem. No warrant.

Suddenly no one wants anything
to do with this guy.

[ Engine starts ]

How do you think Marshall's
gonna do in jail?

- Pssh, he'll get out.

He probably got
an expensive lawyer.

Wait!

[ Tires squeal ]

- Is that Marshall's tortoise?

- This guy's gonna
get run over out here.

- Hey! You aren't stayin'?
What's not to like?

- Oh, hi.

Can you help
me look for Socrates?

He's out here somewhere,
and I have to leave soon.

- You gonna leave us any
of that mushroom or what?

- Um, I don't know,
there isn't much.

- Yeah, then gimme some.
sh*t, Turtleman's cool.

He'd let me have some.

- I just don't think I better...

- I think you better gimme
some shrooms.

Or should I just take some?

sh*t, sh*t, it's the cable guys
that aren't cable guys!

- Okay, get away from me!
- Hey. Hey.

Hey, hey, hey. Hey.
I'm not here to hurt you.

- You know this little guy?
- Socrates!

- Bye, Socrates.

[ Engine starts ]

- ♪ I couldn't say
it to your face ♪

♪ But I won't be
around anymore ♪

♪ I couldn't say
it to your face ♪

♪ But I won't be
around anymore ♪

♪ I needed a place,
so I walked in the door ♪

♪ I couldn't say it
to your face ♪

♪ But I won't be
around anymore ♪

♪ I heard ♪

♪ Them say maybe some day
I'd have to pay ♪

- What did they get you for?

- Arson.
- Arson?

Maybe you can help me figure out
how to light this joint.

- I can't help you.
I didn't actually do it.

- Sure, man. Love an arson.

I don't got sh*t to pull out
when it's as*ault and battery.

- So, what do you do
around here?

- You're doing it.
- Do you do any crafts

or activities?
How do you pass the time?

- Crafts?

- Well, I was
in a Peruvian prison briefly,

and one of the guys in there

was tattooing a fantastical epic
about the Incas

fighting off an invasion
of space aliens

on to another guy's back.

I thought maybe...

- Nah, we don't do anything
like that, man.

- Is there a phone
I could get my hands on?

I need to call some people.

- Just chill, man.
Relax. Enjoy the company.

- Maybe I'll just work on some
memory exercises.

That's probably...
- You do that, homie.

[ Lighter clicking ]

- What the f*ck did you
do that for?!

- I... He was looking at me.
Why?

- That's Christopher.
He's like the jail king.

You don't look back,
and you don't wave.

- So when you got down
to North Carolina,

did you notify the local SAIC?

- Uh, no, we had
the impression...

- We thought we were running
this out of New York.

- Did Amelia, the mycologist,

ever figure out what we gathered
from Marshall's other place?

- Amelia took time off. Sick kid.

So he's in custody now?
The guy?

- North Carolina Highway Patrol
delivered him

to Sullivan County.

- Terrific. Handled.
Let's let them sort this out.

- Look, something is up
with this guy.

Maybe we can talk to him
while he's in jail?

- Mm. This is bigger
than... this.

Washington's interested.

- Washington's interested
in mushrooms?

- Washington's interested
in you two.

You're gonna meet Cecily.
Okay? Buckle up.

[ Buzzer rings ]

[ Indistinct chatter ]

- Hey! Hey Marshall,
I thought it was you.

- Hey! Wait, wait, you're
one of the Mulvaney twins.

- Louis. Rosie's friend.
We burned down your house!

Me and Pete
got your papers and torched em'.

And then I f*cked up

and kicked a can of burnin' sh*t
on to your house.

Well, I mean, that's on me,
I own that.

- Hold on.
If you got arrested for it,

why am I in here?

- Oh, I'm in here
for a different arson.

I kinda got the bug, you know?
[ Chuckles ]

- Listen.
I need to get out of here.

- We all do, man.
It sucks in here.

- I'm in here for
a crime you did!

- Aw, hell, are you mad at me?

- Yes. Very!
- Damn.

I hate when people are mad
at me.

- You've got to speak up, okay?
Listen.

Talk to your lawyer, say you did
this, so I can get out of here.

- Hm. What's in it for me?

- First of all,
justice and truth.

But also, I'm on to a discovery
that could heal the whole world,

but it's not gonna work
if I'm stuck in here.

- This is kind of a lot.
- [ Buzzer rings ]

- Hey, man, a guy like
you ain't gonna make it.

You're too f*cking weird.
Just so you know.

Okay, good luck!

[ Door opens, closes ]

- Mom? Oh, Mom, you're standing!

- Frannie! I feel terrific.
Let's go dancing.

- [ Laughs ] Mom, what?

- Come on, I still got it.
Should we climb that tree?

You used to love climbing trees.

- Okay, Mom. Let's take a beat.
Maybe we should just...

I mean, we've both been
through kind of a lot.

- Tell me something.

This mushroom,
it took me somewhere.

I went on a trip
like you wouldn't believe.

- Yeah!

There might be
some side effects.

We're not entirely sure yet.

- Doesn't my brilliant
daughter work

at a pharmaceutical company?

Well, use your resources.

Find out what
the lasting effects are.

- No, no.

Marshall would hate me forever
if I took this to Reutical.

I mean, he'd never forgive me.

- Frances,
this is bigger than Marshall.

You could change lives here.

- [ Sighs ]

- [ Clanging ]
- What?

Hoang? You okay?

- [ Sniffling ]

- Hey. What is it?
What did you take?

Withdrawal. f*ck.

Help! Someone help!

- Shut the f*ck up!
No help's coming, b*tch!

- Okay, okay.

- We tracked Miss Applewhite,

and followed her when
she drove to North Carolina.

- And she led you to...
- Marshall Cuso.

- She's his girlfriend
or something?

- I would say they were
more friends.

- Mushrooms.

Did he, they, whatever,
did they grow any mushrooms?

- Uh, we did not confirm that.
- Where are they now?

- Mr. Cuso is in jail
in Sullivan County, New York,

and Miss Applewhite...
- No, the mushrooms.

- If there were any,
they'd be with Miss Applewhite.

- Thank you for coming
all the way down here.

- Are there any sites
you'd recommend

while we're down here
in Washington?

We'll find something.

[ Buzzer rings ]

- Frances! Oh, you're okay.
How's Socrates?

- He's okay.
- Oh, thank God.

Listen, if anything
happens to him,

go see my half-brother
Zane, okay?

He'll probably be on pills,

but he has an aquarium store,
he knows what to do.

- Got it. Zane. Um, great.

Marshall, how are you?
How is, um...

- How's jail? Oh, it's... it's
wonderful, it's um,

it's better than...
you know what?

I can't even be sarcastic.

It's horrible. It's hell.
It's hell, Frances.

I need to get out of here.

Listen, remember the place

I was telling you about
in Joshua Tree?

- Yeah. Yes!
Oh, Upside Down Rock!

- It's Upside Down Elephant Rock.
It looks like this.

That's where I'll go.
Okay? So find me there.

- Yes, okay, okay, I got it,
Upside Down Elephant Rock.

- What's going...
are you okay, Frances?

You seem nervous or something.

- No, I'm... it's just... jail.

- Yeah, the feng shui is, uh...
off for sure.

But you have
the mushrooms, right?

- Yep, safe, secured, and about
that, Marshall, I have a plan.

We have to get it out, right?

There's this company,
Eve's Holistics.

- Eve's Holistics?
Eve's Holistics?

- Yes! Yeah, yeah yeah, they
do supplements, lion's mane,

that kinda thing.
They can help with distribution.

- No, Frances, Eve's Holistics
is owned by Reutical.

- What?
- It's a friendly mask

for their evil disgusting face!

Why would you even suggest...
do you have something

to do with Eve's Holistics,
or...?

- What? No! No, no, no. I just...

if anything I just use
their sleepy tea sometimes.

- Throw it away!
- What?!

- Throw that sleepy tea away.
It's k*lling you!

- Okay!
Okay, it's just, Marshall,

we... you have an enormous
discovery on your hands.

My mom is better than ever!

We have to get this to people.

- I... I can't talk
about this now.

Look, I'll be out soon, just
protect the mushrooms for now,

don't do anything...
- Okay!

- Can... can I...

Let me just look at your
for a second, it's like...

the only nice thing I've had to
look at since I've been in here.

- Oh! Excuse me, sorry.

I'm just, um,
headed to lunch with Hoang.

Do you know Hoang?
[ Chuckles ]

Good guy.

- You bothering our friend?

Enjoy.

- You're with them now.
- I'm with who?

- Christopher's crew. I told
everybody you're a doctor.

- No, I'm not a doctor.

Any herbalist would know
to give you milk thistle.

- You're valuable now.

Anything valuable in
here belongs to him.

- Hey, so, um,
you're not getting bail.

- What? Hold on.

Legally under the New York
State bail reform rules,

modified 2020, bail has to be
granted in a non-violent

offense, which,
also, I didn't do,

wasn't even present for.
- You don't get it do you?

Somebody wants you in here.

And they're not gonna
let you out.

My office will send you
a final bill.

[ Up-tempo music plays ]

♪

♪

- Whaddup?
- Um, made anything good lately?

- We're doing a pill that started
as an ulcer medicine,

but it turns out it like
really lubricates your labia.

- Wow.
- Oh, it works.

- Kiki, Reutical isn't
a bad company, right?

We're good?

- Oh this old thing?
"Big Pharma bad?"

Let me show you something.
We made this drug Lavinol.

It's a suped up beta blocker

that lowers atrial fibrillation
rates in heart disease patients.

Before Lavinol.
After Lavinol.

- Okay.
What am I looking at?

- Worldwide deaths
from heart disease.

That dip is 80,000 lives
Lavinol saved.

- 80,000?
Yeah.

Reutical put out millions
of doses

all over the world in months.

It's not a perfect system.
But it's a system.

- Okay. f*ck it.
I'm bringing it here.

[ Clanging ]

- Oh! Somebody's popular.
You got another visitor.

- Did you grow it?
- [ Sighs ]

- If you were really in here
for arson,

they have to give you bail.

They want you in here.

- Hildy, I don't want to hear
this right now.

- Hitler was on speed, cocaine.

What do you think
our government's on?

The government and pharma
work together.

They make the chemicals.

That Frances of yours knows.

- Wait, what? What about Frances?
- She's with them.

She's a spy.

- A spy? Hildy,
she wouldn't do that to me.

You don't know what
you're talking about.

- If you're so clever,
work it out for yourself!

- Bye, Hildy.
- You're a scientist,

for cryin' out loud!
- We're done. Guard, let me out.

- You are obligated
to share your findings.

You pathetic fat worm!
How do I grow it?!

[ Door slams ]

- Hey. Got a second?

- No.
- Yes, you do.

I keep your schedule, Rick.

This is an hour of
"unstructured time."

- Well, soon I'll have all the
unstructured time in the world.

My a*s is gonna be out.

- What if your a*s were just
fine, Rick?

[Clears throat ]

I want a promotion.
I want my own office.

I want a car to pick me up
and drive me places

so I don't have to take
the subway.

I want stock... options.

I don't know,
whatever rich people get.

I want to never have to worry
about money

for the rest of my life.

- Uh...

- I got it.
The last drug you'll ever need.

- Okay, I have good news
and bad news.

- Cecily, there is no good news
and bad news.

There's always ambiguity.

Did they not teach you
that at your Harvard Law School?

- I went to Yale Law School.

- Well, maybe that
is the problem.

What is your good bad news?

- There's a woman
who may have some mushrooms.

But, I'm on it.
- Oh, you're "on it"?

- I'll handle her.
And Marshall's incarcerated.

He's not getting out.

- We're going to take care
of Mr. Marshall.

It's already in motion.

- Oh, sorry.
- No problem.

[ Buzzer rings ]

- No, but that's what I'm saying.
If you have milk in your coffee,

no energy.
Have you ever seen a cow?

- But what about a baby?

All they drink is milk,
and they're nothing but energy.

- Oh, Copano and Harrington.

Say your touching goodbyes
or whatever. Fast.

- What?
- We're shuffling the deck.

Orders. Splitting you two up.
- But we're a good team!

- Are you?

Somebody in Washington
thinks you're dicking

around a little too much.

You're getting new partners.

Copano, pack your stuff,

you're going upstate,
talk to Budrigger.

- Budrigger?
- Yeah, go on upstairs.

So, Harrington, you're gonna be
on a new squad.

Why are you still here?

So you're working with Perry,
going after party drugs,

night clubs, raves,
that kind of thing.

Catch a few local dealers,
work our way up the chain.

- We have to get it out, right?

There's this company,
Eve's Holistics.

You're gonna have
this great product...

Oh, I work for the CEO
of this... company.

- Hey. Hey. Um. I need a phone.
How can I get a phone?

Help me.
- Bud, chill.

There's one under
a ceiling panel in the laundry,

by the back.

[ Line ringing ]

- Reutical Pharmaceuticals?

- Hi. I'm looking for
a Frances Applewhite.

[ Telephone ringing ]

- Hello?

Um. Hello? Who is this?

[ Buzzer rings ]

[ Door clangs ]

Marshall?

[ Dial tone ]

- Please, I don't want
any trouble.

[ Grunts ]

[ Panting ]

[ Grunting ]

- It's okay.

It's okay, it's over.

Relax.