S2E8: Sweet Vitriol
(in progress)
You hear about that clusterfuck up on North Pine?
Hampton: Dutch Stevens' kid.
How the fuck do you flip a two-ton snow plow?
Hampton: With stupidity.
The apple don't fall far from the gutter.
[CUSTOMER] Well, that's kind of you.
Hampton: On the house.
Thank you.
Hampton: Hey, Rose. You want a refill?
Rose: You can top me off anytime.
Hampton: I like the new do. Très chic.
Ms. Cobel: Harmony Cobel. Well, flip my toboggan.
Hampton: You want coffee?
Ms. Cobel: No.
Hampton: Tables are for paying customers.
Ms. Cobel: Fine. Then buy me a coffee. The town is older than I remember. Frailer.
Hampton: Yeah, well, with the market readjustment from a few years ago and the fluctuating interest rates, there was a retrenchment from some of the core infrastructure investments.
Ms. Cobel: I need a favor. But not here. Meet me at the factory.
Hampton: Hey, Dot. Close up for me.
Dot: Sure.
Hampton: You know how fucked it is to ask me to come here?
Ms. Cobel: I need you to drive me to Sissy's.
Hampton: Oh. No, thanks.
Ms. Cobel: If they're watching the house, they'll recognize my car.
Hampton: How much trouble are you in?
Ms. Cobel: Enough.
Hampton: You know she still lives by the nine?
Ms. Cobel: I assumed.
Hampton: Then you know she's a fucking pariah here.
Ms. Cobel: You can stay in the truck. I need to get something.
Hampton: Why would I help you with anything?
Ms. Cobel: We were once chums. Old colleagues lift each other up.
Hampton: Colleagues? Child fucking labor.
Ms. Cobel: Kier and Imogene met at the Ether Mill, you know that?
Hampton: Was she hacking up a lung at the time?
Ms. Cobel: I can smell it on your breath. Pathetic.
Hampton: Fuck you.
Ms. Cobel: You can help me or not. But I'll not be the punching dummy for your resentments.
Hampton: Coast is clear.
Ms. Cobel: You're higher than a bearded vulture.
Hampton: Tell her to drop dead for me.
Sissy: You are not welcome here. This is trespass. I have a mind to call the authorities. I do not want that huff peddler on my property.
Ms. Cobel: You gave him his thirst for it.
Sissy: You've a liar's mouth.
Oh.
Sissy: Do you want to come down here and tell me what this is all about?
Ms. Cobel: What have you done with my things?
Sissy: Sold. To the poor.
Ms. Cobel: They weren't yours to sell.
Sissy: I sit in this house. You do not.
Ms. Cobel: Has anyone been here?
Sissy: No one comes here.
Ms. Cobel: Or telephoned?
Sissy: A Mr. Drummond.
Ms. Cobel: And what did he want?
Sissy: What have you done, little mouse? Harmony!
Ms. Cobel: I want the key to Mother's room.
Sissy: That room stays shut until all who remember her sit with Kier. You know this.
Ms. Cobel: Give me the key.
Sissy: Why do you bring nothing but woe into my life?
Ms. Cobel: No, it is you who cursed this house with woe.
Sissy: I will not have this quarrel.
Ms. Cobel: What were her last words?
Sissy: Child, do not test me.
Ms. Cobel: What were they? She said nothing after you pulled the tube from her gullet.
Sissy: There was gratitude in her eyes to be freed from her suffering. If only she had been a believer. Perhaps she would have found solace in the nine. You didn't have to listen to her wheezing as I did, day after day.
Ms. Cobel: I would have cared for her myself, had I not been at school.
Sissy: Where you belonged.
Ms. Cobel: I didn't even get to say goodbye.
Sissy: Your studies were more important. Mr. Eagan saw Kier in you. He really did. And the Wintertide Fellowship... Even at the factory, no apprentice was more industrious than you. Such a disappointment you've proven to be.
Ms. Cobel: What did Drummond tell you?
Sissy: Return and plead forgiveness, child. The Eagans will grant it.
Ms. Cobel: And show me mercy, just like you did with Mother. Where is the key?
Sissy: All you will find in there is pain.
Ms. Cobel: Where is it? I found it! Come on.
Sissy: Don't! Stand away!
Hampton: Get your harpy hands off me.
Sissy: You've no salutation here, you blighted snuff slave.
Hampton: All right, I missed you too. You smell like crow skin.
Sissy: I'll phone somebody. I swear it!
Hampton: Yeah, call everyone. We'll have a fucking kegger.
Sissy: This is a pure house.
Hampton: Back off or I'll put you in the bay!
Ms. Cobel: What is it? What happened?
Hampton: Nothing. Came to get you. She's not too happy about it.
Ms. Cobel: Did you see something?
Hampton: No, but it's cold as shit in the truck, and I gotta get back.
Ms. Cobel: I have to find it.
Hampton: Find what?
Ms. Cobel: Oh, just give me a minute just to think.
Hampton: I liked her.
Ms. Cobel: You barely knew her.
Hampton: She hated Lumon more than I did. That's all I needed to know.
Hmm.
Hampton: At least she doesn't have to live with Sissy anymore. You wanna get high?
Wow.
Ms. Cobel: Oh, I haven't done that since I was eight.
Hampton: You ready to man the vat for ten hours?
Oh.
Ms. Cobel: It's so shameful that you sell it.
Hampton: I don't think it's here. What you're looking for.
Sissy: Get out of here!
Ms. Cobel: She wouldn't throw it away.
Hampton: Find it?
Ms. Cobel: Get the truck ready. And watch my head.
Ms. Cobel: I'm going. Don't tell them I was here.
Sissy: I would never bear falsity to a steward of the Eagans.
Ms. Cobel: Lumon destroyed this town. You owe them no loyalty.
Sissy: There was no town before the factory. And what about your own employ? Everything that you have, you owe back to the Eagans as fealty.
Ms. Cobel: Fealty? Mine! My designs! Circuit blueprint, base code, overtime contingency, glasgow block. All of it.
Sissy: Jame Eagan was the inventor.
Ms. Cobel: So I've heard.
Sissy: Extraordinary. Why have you never spoken of this?
Ms. Cobel: It was told Kier's knowledge is for all.
Sissy: That is true.
Ms. Cobel: That if I sought credit, I would be banished.
Ms. Cobel: I hope you die as painfully as she did.
Sissy: It was her hand that removed the tube, not mine.
Ms. Cobel: No!
Sissy: Your mother was a coward. More sick in the soul than in the body. Filled with malice and resentment.
Ms. Cobel: I don't believe you!
Sissy: I thought you were different, my flower. I tried to help you grow. But now I see you are a weed, just as she was.
Hampton: Hey! Someone's coming! You better get going.
Ms. Cobel: Hampton.
Hampton: I'll see you around.
Hampton: Come and tame these tempers, assholes.
Devon (on phone): Mrs. Selvig? Oh, thank fuck, I've been trying to reach you.
Mrs. Cobelvig: Yes, I'm aware.
Devon (on phone): So, listen, Mark has been reintegrating.
Mrs. Cobelvig: Reghabi?
Devon (on phone): Yeah.
Mrs. Cobelvig: And she hasn't killed him yet?
Devon (on phone): No. I mean, I think he's okay? But listen, we wanna try something else.
Mrs. Cobelvig: Is Mark with you?
Devon (on phone): Uh-huh. Yes.
Mrs. Cobelvig: Put him on.
Mark (on phone): Yeah. Hello?
Mrs. Cobelvig: Tell me everything.