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[suspenseful music]

[footsteps]

[wind blowing]

[relaxing music]

[door slamming]

You're Hunter.

I'm Elle.

[Hunter] I know.

I love you...in everything.

You don't have to sell yourself to me.

[sigh]

I gave away my room.

That's unfortunate.

The airline lost my luggage because of the mist.

It's been a disaster.

Aren't you the poor little match girl.

Hans Christian Andersen.

I don't really listen to European music.

Come on.

I'm just so excited to be in the movie with you.

[soft romantic orchestral music]

[music continues]

Fuck me.

My room is this way.

Hey.

You know, I can stay on the couch. It looks super comfy.

You can stay with me. I'm just taking my face off.

Ok. Cool.

[music ends]

I don't know if I can post these.

People will say I've become...unrelatable.

[romantic string orchestra]

[music fades]

[bangle rattling]

Can you help me with this?

[exhaling]

You've got expensive taste.

Play date?

[Dominique] That bangle hasn't been cool in ages.

It's for the masses.

For the masses? Oh, you're so unrelatable.

[Dominique] Ew.

Who would want to be relatable?

Hunter wants to be relatable.

It's...

a metrics thing.

Oh...no, no, no.

You can let the numbers measure you,

but you can't measure yourself by the numbers.

That's wise. Did you pick that up at a sound bath?

There's not a single person...

on this planet...

that is like you.

You're a very specific...

spec of stardust.

Stop!

No. You stop! This means something.

[Dominique] Say it with me.

I am a wholly unique consciousness.

I am a wholly...

unique consciousness.

And I am made...

of stardust.

I am made of stardust.

The moment you forget that is the moment you disappear.

I'm sorry, but...who are you?

I'd like you to meet Dominique.

My step mom.

[romantic string orchestra]

But you are so young.

And you know nothing about Johnny Thunders.

That father of mine.

[romantic music continues]

[Elle] He likes beautiful things and beautiful people.

He's a powerful man.

[Johnny exhales]

If you think he's playing games with you...

[chuckles]

...he is.

If you think he's being sincere with you...

...he is.

Sometimes he wants to impress you.

Other times he wants to be impressed by you.

Usually the latter.

In his mind, you either have it or you don't.

It must be genetic because I'm the same way.

[romantic music continues]

[music fades]

Ow!

You pricked me.

Oh, dear.

I'm so sorry.

Isn't it...

a sign of good luck?

[suspenseful music]

As a matter of fact, it is.

A prick of the needle is a sign of... success.

Fucking prick me, bitch. Preferably...

in the eye.

Have you experienced...misfortune?

I am a victim of the mist.

It is not the mist you need to worry about,

it is what the mist brings.

[orchestral music continues]

It's a tragedy if you ask me.

Something no father should have to endure.

[tense, suspenseful music]

I remember...

the day that you were born.

The day I saw the universe.

My dear, Elle...

I will always carry you.

Always.

I couldn't imagine losing you.

But if I did, I'd search the earth until my legs stopped working.

And if I had to kill to find you,

I'd do it. And I'd keep on doing it.

I would turn the oceans red before I gave up on you.

And that...my dear girls...

...is the tragedy of The Leatherman.

Who?

[sniffing]

[exhaling heavily]

The Leatherman is a father

searching for his daughter lost in the underworld.

[ominous music]

A father cursed to search for lifetimes.

Who eventually forgets who he's looking for.

[tense drone]

But when the mist returns, he remembers.

He remembers her.

He comes with the mist.

Searching.

His face...

an infinite abyss.

His strength insurmountable.

He wears leather gloves covered in razor sharp diamonds,

searching for her

and any girl who sees him.

For when you see him, he sees his daughter and he will try and

destroy you and anyone around you to get to her.

And the only way to kill him...

...is to cut off his hands.

[tense orchestral music]

That's why they say...

take care of your daughters. Or he will.

[music fades]

Daddy...is fascinating.

[Elle] He's just a money guy.

And you can call him Johnny.

Okay.

I wasn't expecting Johnny to be like that one bit.

[Hunter] He is so curious and nurturing.

He has this backwards logic

where he thinks that fucking girls my age will somehow bring him closer to me.

But didn't he, like, marry Dominique?

[soft romantic orchestral music]

Why are you leaving me, Daddy?

[music fades]

[Johnny] I want you and Dominique to be friends again.

That's a sweet fantasy.

Elle, making a movie is like going to war.

It'll bring you girls closer.

I'm here because I wanted to go to war with you.

I would have never have agreed to this if I knew you were going to go.

I'll only get in the way of you two making up if I stay.

You girls coming together is how we become a family again.

Dominique's one of us.

She's like us, but she's not one of us.

There's a difference.

She loves you something fierce.

Maybe more than she loves me.

This movie's gonna be hell.

[sighs]

[Elle exhaling]

[Elle sniffling]

Promise me you'll be a good girl and play nice while I'm gone. Hmm?

Hmm.

[soft orchestral music]

[music fades]

[tense drone]

[soft orchestral music]

[Hunter laughs]

[Hunter] What is she doing?

[ominous drum]

[screaming] Help me!

Help me!

Help me! Help--

[woman's head crashing into the window]

[yelling] Daddy!

[bones breaking]

[tense orchestral music]

[pulsating sound]

[electronic button beep]

[sweeping sound]

[thrumming propulsion]

[spaceship rattling heavily]

[rattling fades]

[ominous drone]

[suspenseful music]

[dramatic orchestral music and laser fire]

[dramatic orchestral music fades]

[thud]

[calm orchestral music begins]

[Elle groaning]

[Elle breathing heavily]

[Elle winces in pain]

[dramatic crescendo, then fading]

Just kill me.

I can't.

I'm sorry, but...

...do you guys want to hear something scary?

[tense high strings]

[Hunter breathing heavily]

[panting]

I fell down the Leatherman rabbit hole last night.

And everything Johnny said is true.

And...

there are these beings...

called the kingmakers.

This pair of women, they always come in two.

And they can be old or young.

Hideous or beautiful.

And sometimes...

they can even become shape shifting foxes.

With multiple tails.

Magic foxes?

[Hunter] Yes.

And they are the guides for the Leatherman.

And they are neither good nor evil.

Neutral.

Morally ambiguous.

[Hunter] This is legit.

This leather guy has been around for like, ever.

Some cultures call him the leather King,

but most people...

...call him...

...the devil.

Oh...no, not the devil.

And it's these magical lady foxes

who help him find his destroyer.

They are the ones who make him.

And they are the ones...

[high-pitched voice] who end him!

I just want you to understand

that what we saw was not a normal murder.

[music fades]

What the fuck is a normal murder?

I feel like you two should be a bit more traumatized by this.

Trauma comes in all forms.

I mean, I couldn't even pretend to kill Elle today.

I really think we saw the Leatherman.

[suspenseful orchestral music]

[music fades]

[Johnny] Elle.

[Johnny] Sad to miss your big day tomorrow,

but happy that we can bury the hatchet. Use it with love. Daddy.

[shower running]

[orchestral music]

[sigh]

[music fades]

[ominous, wind-like ambience]

[lighter clicks shut]

[exhales]

[exhales]

[suspenseful orchestral music]

[Private K] I saw the Leatherman.

I saw him take my daughter.

Is he a ghost?

A monster? A God?

I don't know.

[music fades]

But what I do know is the mist has returned.

Girls are dying.

I'll never stop searchin for her.

[man] Yankee.

[woman in Japanese] Welcome.

Private K, it's been a while.

I thought you'd gone home by now.

[Private K in Japanese] Not yet, but maybe soon.

Is that so.

I brought you the latest issue.

[woman] I can't accept it.

I finished it this morning. Your daughter will love it.

I'd like to buy this.

Thank you detective.

[in English] Compliments of Uncle Sam.

[in Japanese] Who was that?

The saddest person in the world.

[orchestral music]

[woman] He's an American soldier. We call him Private K.

He used to bring his daughter in here...

until she disappeared one night.

One of the many girls who were kidnapped...

It happened when the mist came.

[man] I remember...

So his daughter was one of those missing girls...

Some people say it was a monster...

A creature from the underworld.

There are many ghosts amongst us.

But what happened to those girls, happened at the hands of a man.

Thank you detective.

[music fades]

[engine roars]

[soft piano]

[suspenseful orchestral music]

[woman screams]

[orchestral music intensifies]

[woman screaming]

[music softens to a few instruments]

[music fades]

[cicadas chirping]

[Yakuza guard] Get in.

[chains rattling]

[Yakuza guard] Get in.

[flash, heavy thud]

[camera shutter clicks]

[Private K in English] People tell me I have a death wish.

[orchestral music]

[camera shutter clicks]

I've thought about it.

[camera shutter clicks]

Figured if I died...

And go to hell.

If I went to hell...

I could find the Leatherman.

If I found him...

I could kill him.

Kill him and bring her back.

I can't tell you.

Not now.

Hell...

can wait.

[men groaning]

[Private K yells]

[music shifts to suspenseful orchestral]

[chains rattling]

[in Japanese] Hold this.

[man groaning]

[buttons clicking]

[jukebox starts, instrumental pop music]

Taoka.

[Private K yells]

[Taoka laughing]

[Private K yells]

[groaning]

[groaning]

[music continues]

[groaning]

[Taoka yells]

[Taoka screams]

[man with sword screaming]

[fighting sounds continue]

[groaning]

[music swells]

[Taoka straining]

[music ends]

[footsteps]

[man straining and groaning]

[in Japanese] Give me your sword.

Just kill that bitch for me, I'll pay you whatever you want.

[man on floor groaning]

[subtle orchestral strings]

[man] You really fucked up this time.

I'm sympathetic to your situation.

Losing a child the way you did.

Well, the Yakuza is one thing...

but our friends at the police department...

...they can't have the men mistake mercy for weakness.

[in Japanese] You failed to protect your family.

That's why you get treated like this.

It's karma.

[lighter flicks]

[in English] Compliments of Uncle Sam.

[music fades]

Hm-mh.

[belt strikes his back]

Daddy. Daddy.

Daddy.

Daddy.

[belt strikes his back]

Daddy.

[belt strikes his back]

[dreamy orchestral music]

[Ms. T] It is not the mist you need to worry about.

It is what the mist brings.

[Johnny] When the mist returns, he remembers.

[Elle] Daddy! Daddy!

[Dominique] And he will destroy everything and everyone in his path to get to her.

[Johnny] Take care of your daughters...

or he will.

[music fades]

[Elle laughs]

It's a bit performative...

but it's tradition.

[growling and barking]

[Dominique barking]

[barking]

[barking continues]

[Dominique and Elle howling]

[Dominique and Elle panting]

[laughing]

[soft romantic music]

That's so cool. You guys speak Wolf.

We used to speak it all the time.

[Dominique] It's our secret language.

You know...

when I first met Elle, she told me she was an orphan.

So I bought her drinks all night.

My little match girl.

She got so drunk, I had to bring her home.

And she threw up all over me and my bed.

And we've loved each other ever since.

[music fades]

I want to be an orphan, too.

Should we play orphans tonight?

Niko's in town.

[Dominique] He'd probably adopt all of us.

The...Nico?

Put your tongue back in your mouth.

[Dominique] Oh! Come on.

I adore Niko, and he's always wanted to meet you.

Of course he wants to meet me.

He famously hates my father.

I read that.

[Dominique] I gave our driver the night off.

No need having one of my husband's snitches keeping tabs on us.

I'm going home.

You really want the night to end?

[whimpering]

[barking softly]

[whimpering]

[wordless female choir over a beat]

Your fucking dad, Johnny Thunders, is a sick motherfucker.

Hi.

I like freaky shit. Okay?

Like the real freak shit.

But Johnny, he's next level.

We were in this...

lesbian they/them performance.

Actually, it was pretty interesting. Fucking grungy crowd.

And in the corner of the whole thing, there was Johnny.

And Johnny was pointing right at me. Like, right at me.

You want to see something scary?

Next thing I know, I'm in this art studio behind a dumpling store in Chinatown,

watching a super art installation about one of the greatest living artists

tattooing a skull on a fucking fetus.

Ew! Like a baby?

Like a dead baby, yeah.

-[Dominique] And Johnny saw this? -[Nico] Oh, yes.

He bought it right there. Paid like 10 grand for it. Cash.

Do you know about this? Have you seen the fetus?

My father protects me.

Well...

aren't you Daddy's little baby.

[Dominique chuckles]

I might even tell him about how you can't keep your hands off my stepmom.

[Nico] Hunter. What's this scary thing you want to tell me about?

[Hunter] Oh, my gosh, it was so scary.

Have you heard about the Leatherman?

[music fades]

[Nico] What?

[Hunter] The Leatherman.

[ominous, wind-like ambience]

[footsteps approaching]

[suspenseful tremolo strings]

[Private K] Death has its time.

My daughter didn't get a second more than what was due.

[strings fade, leaving wind-like ambience]

If I could sweep the pain off her feet, I would.

Body's fault the time.

Memories fault the time.

But I know that time bows to love.

And love only.

[low, ominous piano notes]

[suspenseful orchestral music]

[music fades]

Yoko isn't here tonight.

It's been a difficult time for you...

Private K.

I know your heart has been blackened by grief.

Most people...

choose to live in a comfortable amount of pain.

But you...

Private K, you have chosen to live in agony.

You're just a memory you won't let go of.

That won't work on us.

We know your girl is a strong child,

a resilient one.

[low, ominous piano]

Her will alone has kept her blood warm.

All these years.

We know that she is not far from you.

[ominous piano builds into orchestral music]

She is in his kingdom.

His kingdom in the mist. And the mist...

is right in front of you.

The Leatherman must die.

And then, and only then will you see your daughter.

[music fades]

[dramatic orchestral music]

[groaning]

[panting]

[groaning]

[music intensifies]

[yelling]

[music ends]

[Ms. T] But remember Private K...

to catch a ghost...

you must become a ghost.

[orchestral music]

A gift for my pup.

You know this isn't going to work.

What isn't going to work?

This movie isn't going to fix us.

[music fades out]

I have no misconceptions about fixing us.

I don't love you for you to love me back.

I just do.

[Elle] Christ. That girl is fucking unbearable.

[Dominique sighs]

She's really begging to be touched.

Imagine being that attractive, yet that unfuckable.

[Dominique] Ouch! Well, aren't you evil?

I slept with Nico the other night.

That is vile.

Opposite. He tasted like soap.

That's even worse somehow.

I kind of like the way he tastes.

Does Johnny know?

Your father and I enjoy our secrets.

It's a part of our contract.

But we don't lie.

Not to each other and not to anyone else.

Except for that one time.

Except for that one time.

[romantic orchestral music]

Do you feel like I replaced you?

No one could replace you, Elle.

Not to him and not to me.

Did you think that marrying my father would bring me closer to you?

That's one way to look at it.

Maybe that was a part of the appeal.

You could have just copied my shoes, or my hair.

I did. So did you.

Honestly, Elle, I've been mothering you since the day we met.

How is this any different?

[sighs] I can't believe you actually admitted that.

I know being best friends again might be a bit out of reach.

But...

I will always...

...be your evil stepmother.

[kiss]

[Elle sighs]

This family is rotten.

[Dominique laughs]

[Dominique] I should probably save her from him.

[Elle] Or him from her.

You're free to go.

I can distract Nico.

[Hunter exhales]

Nico says nothing spontaneous happens at these private parties.

And we should go to the uniform night.

What happens at uniform night?

Nico?

What happens at uniform night?

[industrial elevator rumbling]

[ominous synth tones]

[techno music]

[techno music becomes muffled]

[techno music fades into ominous music]

[Dominique] Missed you.

I'm not in the mood.

[instrumental pop music]

[pop music fades into ominous music]

[music ends]

[ominous ambience]

[moaning]

[Elle moaning]

[Elle breathing heavily]

[music becomes happy orchestral]

[cheerful music fades to ominous]

[ominous music fades back to cheerful]

[ominous music]

[both breathing heavily]

[heavy breathing]

[ominous music intensifies]

[thud]

[Elle moaning]

[thud]

Daddy.

[ripping sound]

[optimistic orchestral music]

[music fades]

[orchestral music]

[music fades]

[sigh]

[breathing heavily]

[muffled scream]

[breathing heavily]

Can you taste him?

Can you taste him? Can you taste the soap?

Your father's gonna love this.

Oh, yeah? Yeah, you're gonna tell on me?

You're gonna be a little tattletale!

Elle. I don't want you.

There's nothing you want or have that doesn't belong to me.

You will never be one of us!

You're just a possession. All worn out. Dried up.

You're something that my father will fucking throw away.

Toxic fucking waste!

You think you're so special.

Somehow everyone else seems to think so too.

But I see you.

I used to think we were the same.

But I don't bask in self-doubt and pity. I don't wallow about my own father.

I write my own fucking story. I've recreated myself.

I used to wonder how it was possible for someone

who had it all to be so cruel and insecure.

And then I met you.

And I have never met someone so empty and disappointing.

You won't feel fucking whole until you wear my fucking skin!

Money won't fucking fix it!

Enlightenment won't fix it! My daddy won't fucking fix it!

Your daddy?

You know, the other day, after your daddy fucked me,

he confessed something.

He told me how painful, how sickening it is

to come face to face with all the things he hates the most about himself in you.

He looks at you, and all he sees is this gaping maw of misery and need.

No wonder he's always leaving. He cannot stand the fucking sight of you.

Fuck!

Fucking psycho.

[Elle yells]

Back the fuck off, bitch!

[laughing]

[breathes out heavily]

[huffs]

Don't bring a knife to a fucking axe fight, you fucking...

bitch!

[laughing hysterically]

[laughing continues]

[yells]

I could kill her!

[dramatic orchestral music]

[crying hysterically]

[hysterical crying continues]

[ominous music]

[Dominique screaming]

[Dominique] Elle!

[pounding]

[Dominique screaming]

[Dominique screaming] Open the door!

[Dominique screaming]

[Dominique screaming] No, Daddy!

[pounding on door]

[Dominique pounding on door and screaming]

[pounding and noises stop]

[loud crack]

[intense orchestral choir music]

[music fades]

[ominous music]

[Elle breathes nervously]

[nervous breathing]

[dramatic orchestral music]

[music intensifies]

[music fades]

[axe clatters to the floor]

[hymn-like orchestral music builds]

[music fades]

We don't often...

get to choose our fate.

But you have always been special, Elle.

After all,

you were pricked by the needle of success.

If you were to put these gloves on...

you will find what you have lost.

[orchestral music]

[instrumental pop music]