Original subtitles

- 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 kill 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 fuck, man?!

What the fuck?! Stop!

[ Clattering ]

[ Glass shatters ]

Hey!

Get out! Okay? Just get out!

Come on! You see this?

Don't shoot! Don't shoot, man. Take it all, man, don't shoot.

Okay.

[ Grunts ]

[ Gunshots ]

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

6'2", I'd say very handsome.

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. Shit, 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?

Shit, shit, 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 shit to pull out when it's assault 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 fuck 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 fucked up

and kicked a can of burnin' shit 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 fucking 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. Fuck.

Help! Someone help!

- Shut the fuck up! No help's coming, bitch!

- 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 killing 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. Fuck 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 ass is gonna be out.

- What if your ass 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.