All language subtitles for Rutherford.Falls.S01E03_English

[light music]

* *

- What is the story
of America?

Is it a chronicle of
innovation and achievement...

or of oppression and greed?

Is it about freedom or power?

Who gets to write history?

And once written,
can it be changed?

I want to do a story about--

Guys,
can you please stop texting

for, like, five seconds?

I'm almost done.
[cell phone bloops]

This is a story about stories.

Our narrative's about who
we are and how we got here.

It's about a town,

but it's also about everything.

- Wow, everything.
- Sounds big.

- Rutherford Falls is the
birthplace of Rutherford Inc.,

a huge conglomerate
that makes everything

from missile-guidance systems
to wet wipes.

There's something happening
in that town,

and it feels like...

a powder keg.

- You think everything's
a powder keg, Josh

or a ticking time bomb or--

What'd you call the mall
that hired female Santas--

A tinderbox?

- A...Christmas-pocalypse.

[light laughter]
- Right. But it wasn't.

And this isn't
some Confederate statue

being pulled down
by protesters.

At best,
it's a local traffic issue.

Move on.
- Okay, can I--can I just--

- Please don't make me look up
from for my phone again.

[upbeat music]

* *

- Okay, climate control
is set.

I called the sheriff, let him
know I'll be out of town.

Thank you, Bobbie.
- Sure.

- Um, what am I forgetting?

- Get out of here.
Have a great weekend.

This place is gonna be exactly
the same as you left it,

maybe better.

- Uh, same is better,
so maybe go with that.

- Hard agree.
- Doesn't make sense, but sure.

- Oh, I am so glad Aunt Ida's
birthday is this weekend.

I'm so stressed out
about this Big Larry stuff.

I just need to be
around family.

You know, feed off that bond.

both: Yes.
- Oh, my God.

How could I forget?
- Oh.

- Ceremonial transfer
of authority.

- Okay. We're gonna do
the whole scroll thing?

- "I, Nathan Rutherford,
being of sound mind and body,

"do hereby surrender
the Rutherford Falls

Heritage Museum to the care
of--" state your name.

- Reagan.
- Yeah, uh, full name.

- Reagan Blanchard Wells,
as you know.

- Right, okay. "The weight
of 1,000 Rutherfords

"rests squarely
on your shoulders.

Stand tall, stand proud."
- Are we done?

- I know it sounds
over the top,

but I love this museum.

I obviously love and trust you,

but now you're legally bound

to love this museum as well,
and I can relax.

- And that's all
that's important.

Get on the road, man.

[indistinct chatter]

- Large almond-milk
caramel latte,

eight sugars,
and four Splendas.

- Yeah, the Splenda, like,
kills most of the sugar.

It's science.

You don't care.
Right.

- Reegs!
- [gasps]

- Ray. Oh, and Ray's pregnant
wife--I mean Shannon.

- Hey, girl.
- Hi.

This is fun.
[awkward laughter]

Congrats on the baby.
- Oh.

We owe it all to you

for breaking this one's heart
so I can mend it.

- Oh, I don't know
if I did all that.

- You did!
I took your advice.

Got off the couch,
and got my life together.

- Aw!
- Okay, well...

- Are you here
with someone or--

- Nope,
all alone on the sidewalk

and in life.

- I just know in my bones
you're gonna meet someone.

- Totally.
- Eh, there's, like,

five age-appropriate guys
in this town,

and I pretty much
know them all.

[chuckles]
One of 'em's Jeff.

- Yeah, we don't have
that vibe.

- [inhales deeply]
He's not wrong.

- Well, just stay positive.

You know, everything happens
for a reason.

[cell phone buzzes]
- Okay. Oh, phone.

Ha, bummer. All right,
great to see you both.

- Yeah!
- Okeydoke.

Bobbie, what's up?
- There's a reporter here.

He looks like one
of those "Vice" guys

that's too hot
to take seriously.

He's asking about Nathan
and Big Larry,

and I can't not tell him--
he's too hot.

- A reporter?
No.

Publicity is the last thing
Nathan needs right now.

Okay, uh, I'll be right there.
Say nothing.

- I mean, I'll try,
but he has those arm things.

I already gave him
my social security number.

[whispering]
What is wrong with me?

- Thank you.
- Mm-hmm.

[light music]

* *

[indistinct chatter]

* *

- Hello, Rutherfords!
all: Hi!

- Oh!
Charlie, Kevin.

- Hi.
- Hey, guys.

Hey! Maddy, Molly.
- Hi, Nathan.

- Cousin Karen,
spinning a yarn.

Put a pin in it for one second.
Got to hand out some T-shirts.

Hey-ho!
T-shirts!

Cousin Linda, boom.
- Ooh.

- Mark, look alive.
- Oh.

- Little bro.
- Hey!

Get over here.
- How are you?

- [groans]

[strained]
Ooh, big hug.

- Yeah, I'm just, um--
I'm so happy to see you.

- Yeah, hey,
what's going on over here?

This writing desk used
to be a bookcase.

The plaster used
to be eggshell.

Now it's clearly ivory.

- Well, we, uh, you know--
we freshened things up a bit.

- Okay, did I miss
a email thread or--

- About cosmetic work
on my own house? No.

Anyway, look,
there is some family stuff

that I need to talk to about,
okay, at some point.

- Yeah, of course.
Let me just get a couple

quick announcements
out of the way.

Hello!
Everybody.

Quick announcement--

you all got my email
about the interviews

for Great Aunt Ida's
birthday video.

FYI, those times are sharp.

Also, I just need to shoot the
elephant in the room right now.

I know you're all aware
of the Big Larry brouhaha.

Huge bummer, tons of drams,

but I don't want it
to affect the weekend.

Just stay present,
and let's all have fun!

[excited chatter]

All right, put this on!
- I will.

- Put it on!
- I'll do it.

Right now.
I'll go do it right now.

[upbeat music]

* *

- Hi.
He's looking.

[chuckles awkwardly]
It's cool.

Totally chill.
Totally cool.

Human spa music.

[car door opens]

Hi, there.

I'm Reagan--
- Oh!

Oh, my God.
Are you okay?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm fine.

[sighs]
I'm Reagan.

Ha.

This is, um, unfortunately,

a very accurate
first impression, so...

But nice to meet you.

- Hey. Josh.
- Okay, yeah.

Nathan's just not reachable.

I don't know
when he's coming back.

Actually, don't even know
where he went.

- Maybe there.

- Oh, wow!
[chuckles]

Good digging.
You are a reporter.

- Really impressive.

Do you do cardio,
or is it mostly Pilates?

- Um, what were you hoping
to ask him?

- Oh, well,
I saw a video online

of Nathan from Founder's Day.

He seems really passionate
about his family lineage

and this statue?

Big Larry?

- Uh...yes.

I think I know
what you're talking about.

- Well, it seemed like
the story might resonate

with the rest of the country.

- The United States?

- Yeah, that one.
- National news.

Very exciting.

Um, well, I am in charge
of the museum today,

and I would love
to show you around.

Why don't we check out
the East Gallery?

* *

- [whispering] What do you
think you're doing?

- [whispering] Nathan couldn't
handle some dumb podcast.

How is he gonna do
with a smart,

crafty, annoyingly hot
reporter?

By the way, could have used
a little heads-up on that.

- I told you he was hot.
- Not centaur hot.

Whatever, we just need
to keep it cool and show him

that there is no story
in this boring, boring town.

- Old L.T. Rutherford
built this house in 1821,

and it's been passed down
in our family ever since.

Now, rumor has it,
this house was used

to pass secret messages
among Freemasons.

Of course, if you want
to pass a secret message,

you better have
a secret compartment, right?

Whoa! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!
[excited chatter]

Yep, every summer,
your Uncle Duz and I

would explore this house
looking for surprises.

Sometimes that surprise
was a horse skull

hidden by superstitious
Irish builders.

And sometimes that surprise was

actual secret treasure.

all: Whoa!

- You could thank old
Eloise Rutherford for those.

- Nathan.

So, uh, when did you want
to have that chat?

It's kind of important.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Let's do it at Triple B.
- During what?

- Triple B.
BBB.

Come on.
It's that thing that we do.

- I have no idea
what that is, Nathan.

- Brandy, brothers, and...

- Nathan.
- Backgammon.

- Oh.
- Come on. We do it every year.

- Oh, we did at last year.
- Yeah.

- But wasn't that
the first time?

- Well, yeah, but I was like,
"We should do this every year."

And you were like, "Okay."
- Okay, then.

I guess we'll talk at Triple B.

- Triple B!
- Triple B!

- Okay. Oh, Ava.
[child coughs]

That's an ant trap, not candy.
[child gagging]

Come on,
let's go find your mom.

- So I bet you're thinking
Lawrence was elected mayor

and changed
the tree ordinance, right?

- Um, I guess I don't--
- Wrong.

He lost by a landslide,
and to understand why,

we have to go back to
the Great Fence Fire of 1847.

- It was the longest fire
in American history,

not by time, but by length.

- I think I might be
all set on context.

- Are you sure?
- Yep.

Maybe I should just go see
Big Larry.

- Perfect.

We can hit some hot spots
on the way,

including the Masquat Preserve,

site of four debunked
Bigfoot sightings.

- Okay.
- I'll drive.

- Hold that fork, Ida.

Ladies and gentlemen,

it is time to find out

what the Rutherfords
have been doing.

- Is that a thing or--
- Yeah.

It's sort of
a musical newsletter.

Don't worry. It's quick.
- Oh, no.

No, no.
It's great.

My family doesn't even
speak to each other.

- All right.

Uncle Roger, drop a beat.

Ah, one of these years, Rog.

All right, here we go.

* Well, a banner year,
it turned out to be *

* For them mighty
Rutherford clan *

* A swim team championship
for Carly *

* And a haircut for Dan *

[laughter]

* Emma saved
a stranger's life *

* A Heimlich to the chest *

* Uncle Jake went to Nepal *

* On a spiritual quest *

* Cousin Beth got married *

* To a Delawarean named Steve *

* Who got a big promotion *

* VP at Allstate, I believe *
- Hey.

- How the heck
did he know that?

- Oh, he does his research.
- Oh.

- * Mental note,
take a car or boat *

* To visit Ken and Randi *

* I heard from your son
that you've begun *

* To make
your own pear brandy? *

- We have.
It is gross!

- Yeah!
Oh, he mentioned that.

* Well, old Joe
is off the market *

* It's strange
to say those words *

* I must have it twisted,
he's always insisted *

* That love is *
all: * For the birds *

- It is for the birds!
[laughter]

- All right.

- I love being part
of this family.

- Oh, okay.

- Oh, we're glad
to have you, Steve.

- Aw, man.
I love this.

I love this tradition
you guys have.

I love this house.
Ah.

I can't believe
you're selling it, Larry.

[strumming stops]

To the Rutherfords.

- I'm sorry?
Uh, what did he say?

- It's dry.

- You know, a milkshake from
Kelly's is a story unto itself.

She gets the milk directly
from Bob Missiti's farm.

Oh, my gosh,
you should interview him.

He just installed solar panels.

- Cool.
Yeah.

Uh, so what about you?

For moving the statue,
or against?

- You know, the thing
about the statue is,

I don't care.

- [chuckles] Okay.
- [chuckles]

- Uh, well, what
about the rest the town?

- It's just not really a thing.

I mean, nothing here really is.

You coming is the biggest news
since Denise Richards

got her tire patched
at a Chevron.

- That is big news.
- It was.

- Yeah, well, not exactly
what I was hoping you'd say,

but I appreciate your candor.

- No problem.
- Two shakes?

- Ooh, the main event.

- Here you go.
- Thank you.

- Enjoy.
- You know what?

I'm actually
lactose intolerant,

so you get to try both.

Multiple sources
for your investigation.

- [chuckles awkwardly]
- [chuckles]

- Nathan,
can we be adults, please?

Look, this is just too much
house for a family of four.

Okay?
So we're gonna sell it.

- It supposed to go
to your first heir.

Shouldn't Molly have a say?

- Well, Molly wants to be
some kind of surfing influencer

in Costa Rica

and not live in an ancient
money pit in New Jersey.

- Hmm.

- Look, this place just isn't
for us anymore, Nathan.

- [groans]

Fine.

God.
[sighs]

Who are you gonna sell it to?
Who's the lucky Rutherford?

Greg and Teresa,
I could wrap my head around.

Jared--
don't you dare, okay?

He would fill this place up
with "Star Wars" figurines.

You're not even gonna
keep it in the family?

You're just gonna sell it
to whomever?

- Yeah, Nathan.

It's a crazy system called
the housing market,

where, you know, whoever offers
the most money gets the house.

- [groans]

- Look, this isn't even what
I wanted to talk to you--

You know, I came
to you earlier, Nathan,

but you said wanted
to wait till BRB.

- BBB!

Triple B!
Okay?

Now there's a fourth B,

for betrayal.
- [scoffs]

- How long before
it hits "the market"?

- I'm not sure
why that's in quotes,

but, you know, in a few days.

- [sighs]

All right, I'm gonna
change your mind.

Just promise me you won't sell
it in the next 24 hours.

- I mean, yeah.

The listing won't go up
until Monday.

- You got yourself a deal.
Come here.

Bring it in.
- All right.

- You give me 24 hours.

I'm gonna get inside
that hard head of yours.

- [chuckles]
- Okay, everybody.

A slight change o' plans.

This video is now
about your wonderful memories

of this amazing house
and why it should not be sold.

It is not about Aunt Ida,

so don't talk about her.

She is irrelevant.

Who's first?

- I loved those summers
up here

with you, Duz, and the cousins.
[chuckles]

You know, we'd
frog hunt, mud slide,

play tag in the tall grass.
- Yes!

- Which, in retrospect,
was dumb.

It's a feeding ground
for ticks.

Lyme disease has not been fun.

- Well, but it wasn't that bad.

- Well, half my face was
paralyzed for about a year.

- Hmm.
- Plus, I had this rash.

- Okay, but now,
you're feeling like--

- Now, it's just overall
fatigue and muscle pain.

- Still?
- Mm-hmm.

- Wow.
- Yeah.

- I want to help,
but, technically,

this is my first time
in the house.

- Well, you're here now,
so talk about that.

- Well, we had lunch.
That was nice.

- Oh.
- I ate chili...

- Hmm.
- With shredded cheese.

There was corn bread
on the side--

- Stop talking about food.

Um, less about what you ate

and more about
how it made you feel.

- Full?

- Seriously, Mark?

You got nothing?

I mean, you got
married here, man.

It was beautiful.

We all threw rice on you
in the driveway.

- But, uh, Sarah and I
aren't together anymore.

That colors things.

- [groans]
Yeah, we all saw that coming.

But it's not like
you hate each other.

Like, you're still
in touch, right?

- Well, really just 'cause
we're co-parenting a dog.

- Next!

- So pretty much just
a straightforward statue.

- Mm-hmm.

- Is there anything
of note?

- The National Register
for Historic Places

did call us
and ask us to stop applying.

That was big.

[recorder beeps]
- Well, uh, thanks.

But I think you're right.
There's nothing here.

- Sorry.
It's a bummer. I thought--

Oh, did you go to Northwestern?

- Yeah, graduated in '08.
- Grad school, 2010.

[chuckles]

We were there at the...
both: Same time.

- And then we said at...

both: The same time
at the same time.

[both laugh]

- Ah, crazy world.
[clears throat]

- Uh, well, I should probably
go catch the next train.

I think there's one in...

four hours.

Okay, I did not plan this well.
- Oof.

- Okay.

Thanks for the...

Thanks.
- Yeah.

[both chuckle]

- Um, the train station is

more of a bathroom
for homeless drifters.

Um...

want to get a drink?

- [groans]
- Well...

sending this little guy home.

Isn't that ironic?

- Well, I'm not sure I agree

that the center bar
is that piece's home.

- But you get why it's ironic?
- Nathan--

- Because you're selling
our family home?

- If you love this house
so much, why don't you buy it?

- Because I'd have
to leave Rutherford Falls,

where I'm the last remaining
member of our entire family.

- All the better.

I mean, come on, man.

This town,
the whole family thing--

don't you ever want to get
some space from it all?

- Uh, no.
- Why?

And, I mean, what is so great
about being a Rutherford?

I'm one, and I can't
for the life of me--

- We founded a town.

We're the namesake of a huge
multinational corporation.

We blazed thousands of trails
through uncharted--

- Right, but our family also
did some other shit that sucks.

Okay?
But you never mention that.

- What are you
even talking about?

- Okay.
I mean...

You want to know what the
"Rutherfords" are really doing?

Well, Ken's at home
making brandy

so he doesn't get
his fifth DUI-ee.

Jake's in Nepal because they
don't allow extradition at all.

Greg's leaving Teresa
for the babysitter

and Kate's "wellness business"
is a Ponzi scheme.

I didn't have rhymes for those,
but you get it.

- Yeah, I'm not saying
we're perfect, Duz,

but we're pretty close.

- I just--I want you to move on
from all this bullshit.

- Our history is not bullshit.

- I want more for you, Nathan.

I mean, you could do such
great things with your life.

- Well, I just demolished you
in backgammon,

so that's a pretty cool thing
I did with my life.

And this Triple B
is officially over.

This was not a good one.

[solemn music]

* *

- Maggie's.
- Ew!

Maggie's.
Oh, my gosh.

I completely blocked that
shitty bar out of my memory.

The women's bathroom there was

a straight-up
human-rights violation.

- Yeah, I know
because I had to clean it

when I worked there
as a barback.

- No!
Ugh, you're gross now.

I now find you gross.
- Agreed, yeah.

Hey, if we were there
at the same time,

we might've, like,
seen each other.

- Mm.
- Or just been like, "Hey."

- Is that how you talked
back then?

- Oh, no, I was doing you.

- Ah, nice.
- That was you.

Because if you were drinking
at Maggie's,

you know, chances are you're
probably pretty angsty.

- No.
I mean, I did smoke cloves.

And I had this
Neutral Milk Hotel T-shirt

that had a huge hole
under the arm--

You know what?
Fair shot.

I was maybe angsty.

- You would not have liked me--

an idealist
studying journalism,

capital J.

I had this vision of how
my career was gonna go,

which, uh, has very much
not panned out.

- I got a master's
in museum studies,

and you'd think I would be
working at a museum,

not a casino.

- You run a cultural center.

Isn't that, like,
pretty close to a museum?

- You don't know
what a cultural center is.

- No idea.
- [laughs]

- Why don't you show me?

- The cultural center?
- Yeah!

Take me there, right now.

It's an amazing idea.
And I still have...

nine minutes.

Shit.

Ah, that's the last train.

- Wow, you are, like,
obsessed with this train.

- My mode
of transportation home,

yeah, I--yes.

- [mockingly] I want to ride
the choo-choo.

- Wow, okay, so you're
just openly bullying me now?

- [laughs]
- Well, it's working.

Tell you what--

I will skip the train

if you take me
to the cultural center.

- All aboard.

- I don't have a train thing.
- Uh-huh.

- I don't.
- I believe you.

[solemn music]

* *

- [humming]

* *

- Uh, this is a wedding basket.
- Okay.

- When a couple gets married,

each family fills it up
with gifts.

It used to be squash
and tobacco.

Now it's, like, iPads
and Chipotle gift cards.

- Oh.

- The couple swaps

and delivers them
to the other's family.

- You're, like, way better
at this than the other museum.

- Well...
[both laugh]

- I think I would want
a Nintendo Switch in mine.

- Ooh, nerd alert.
- Yeah--whoops.

I meant something more grown-up
like a Roth Ira.

Is it IRA or Ira?

- It's not Ira.
- It's not?

- Well...

I had this really beautiful
abalone necklace in mine.

- Oh.
You were married?

- Oh, no I--
it fell apart.

I chose a different route...

specifically I-90 West.
[chuckles]

This is actually the basket
that I was supposed

to deliver
to the groom's family.

- You were a runaway bride,

like that movie
"Runaway Bride."

Wow.
- Long time ago.

I'm very over it.

So let's, uh, move on.

- You know, maybe there's
a-a story in this place.

- The cultural center?
- Yeah, sure.

I mean, think about it.

Wedged in the middle
of a casino,

the site of the most base
human instincts...

Reagan Wells carves out a space

to honor her culture.

It's incredibly inspiring.

[soft music]

* *

Sort of like a...

cultural powder keg.

- Okay, maybe less talking
and more of the other thing.

* *

- Man.

This is a pretty
amazing dining room.

They don't make them
like this anymore, right?

Yeah.
That's good wood.

- Uh, listen, Nathan, I'm--

I'm really sorry
about yesterday.

I just--I want you
to have your own life.

- I know, Duz.
I get it.

And...
[chuckles]

I just think
I have my own life.

It's not like I've never
thought about life

outside of Rutherford Falls
and what that might look like.

Look, I promise
that I will consider

the very remote possibility

of selling my museum
and buying this house,

if you promise

to watch the very persuasive
video that I just emailed you.

- Well, that's a deal.
Come here, brother.

[dramatic music]

* *

- Hey, Big B.
It's Little B.

You know, I think the reason
I love this house so much

is just because you and I have

so many
incredible memories here.

With that in mind,
I want to send you

on one last treasure hunt.

Step one, go to the spot

where we found that mouse's
feet and tail and no body.

Yuck.

Now walk down the stairs
where I fell and broke my nose

and you calmed me down
by telling me

you'd collect all the blood
and put it back in my body.

- [chuckles]
- Liar.

And now take
three steps forward

and turn to the right.

I just want you to know

that I want what's best
for you, too, Duz.

And if you think selling this
house the right thing to do--

even though it's been in our
family for hundreds of years--

then I support you,

because you're my brother
and I love you,

even if you're a fart face.

* *

[switch clicks,
model train chugging]

- Nathan Rutherford?
- Yeah.

Hey, um,
sorry, we're not open yet.

- You've been served.

[folk music]

* *

- Two hot coffees.
What's going on there?

- Oh, nothing.

* *

Here you go.
- Mm.

Mm, it's not bad.

It's no Coffee Lab, but--
- Oh, God, nothing is.

[chuckles] Uh, sorry, not sorry
you came all this way

and didn't get your story.

- Yeah, me too.
Sorry, not sorry.

- Yeah.
[chuckles]

- You know, the ride's
not that long to the city.

Just sort of
putting that out there,

kind of like
a public-service announcement.

- That's good information
to know

in case one would want to--
- Reagan.

Have you seen this?
- Oh, hey.

- I'm being sued
by the Minishonka Nation!

[scoffs] They're using
the Big Larry contract

as evidence against me.

How does that even--
- Okay, let's just hold on.

- How do you--Wow!
Oh, shots have been fired.

Yeah, I'm ready for war here.
This is--

I mean, if you--Hi, I'm sorry.
I'm Nathan Rutherford.

- Uh, Josh.
I'm actually a reporter.

- Well, Josh the reporter,
hope you like big stories

'cause you just landed
on a frickin'...

- Powder keg?

- Yes.
A powder keg!

I like this guy.

Why are you wearing

my Great Aunt Ida's
birthday shirt?

[person speaking
native language]