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What the hell?

Hey, Dad. Can I get a superhero toy?

- Yes, Vic. - Dad.

I'll hop in line at the register.

Meet me there. Be quick.

I know this memory.

Can I have Mary on the toy aisle?

Why are you grabbing me?

Take your hands off of my son.

He's damaging property.

He's looking for a toy.

Let's see what the cops say.

Am I going to jail?

- Dad? - Look, I will pay for whatever the damages.

Vic, why are these on the floor?

Now is not the time to be a coward, young man.

I was just looking for some black superhero toys.

We don't carry Black superhero toys.

Why not?

No one buys Black superhero toys.

Look, I guarantee you, he meant no harm.

Give me a moment with my son.

I'm sorry, Dad.

I just wanted a Black superhero toy.

I made a mistake.

We don't get to make mistakes.

One mistake could cost you your life.

Here.

General Tony's Black. Be like General Tony.

Clean this up.

I'm going to go apologize to the store manager.

Looks like my transport's here.

You take point.

What?

What the fuck?

What kind of Captain Kangaroo Jim Henson devilry is this?

Look, everybody, it's Jane.

Hi, Jane.

Um, where am I?

You're on Underground Avenue.

That's so awesome and totally makes sense

and no sense at all.

And who the fuck are you?

Jane.

You remember Harry?

You rescued him from the well.

This is Kay's imaginary world.

She's all grown up now and perfect.

The toy fucking lamb can talk now?

Come here. Come here.

Come here. Come on. Come on.

Here's the deal. We're in Kay's subconscious.

I thought we're always in Kay's subconscious.

Do I have a PhD in subconscious shit?

How the fuck should I know?

Point is, she's in control.

She's a well-adjusted adult.

Not. And we're fucking puppets.

So go with it.

Jane, you're just in time for the lesson of the day.

Does anybody know what trauma is?

Um...

Dr. Harrison.

Look.

Wow.

That's a fucking Dada bird.

- No. - Adult Kay's gone!

What the fuck are we gonna do now, Jane?

Whoa!

What am I doing here?

Wholly fuck!

What the fuck?

- What the fuck? - What the fuck?

What the fuck?

No, seriously! What the fuck?

Honestly, you're in a memory in your subconscious.

Fuck!

- Seriously? - Yeah.

Gotta say, you look worse than I thought.

That's your hello?

Well, it pains me to say this, but you look fucking awesome.

Bro, moisturizer.

I love that fucking moisturizer.

Why this memory?

Really?

You and I both know what's behind that door.

Ha ha. Right. We both know.

We do?

Hey, what's the holdup?

Catch your pale ass in here.

It's party time.

Time to face the music, big guy.

What the fuck?

Yo? Are you coming?

Me?

Let's go.

When in Rome.

Metal ass coming through.

What are you doing here?

You tell me.

If you're here to change things, you can't.

It just repeats itself, over and over and over again.

"Good luck, Sheryl and Larry. Love, Sally and Grant."

We needed more than luck, didn't we?

Now some humans might find the following disturbing.

Everybody, look who it is.

It's Larry.

Everybody say, "Hi Larry."

- Shh, Shh listen. - I don't know - what's happening.

There's a fog spreading over the world

and all kinds of creatures are walking the Earth.

The weather guy is a water buffalo with tattoos.

I'm scared.

People, this is FUBAR.

Agreed.

- Who are you? - This is General Tony.

This is Vic.

Cliff.

I gathered.

- And, this is Kay. - Wow.

Does anyone have any explanation for this?

Allow me.

You are subconscious beings.

So, you have not had the pleasure of meeting me.

I'm Rita Farr.

Firstly, I'm not a sub.

Secondly, I've taken a recent foray into the past,

and since my return, I've worked with the Sisterhood of Dada

to create this global phenomenon.

What you're experiencing is the Eternal Flagellation,

the Sisterhood of Dada's artistic experience

that is going to bring the world to its knees.

You're bewildered.

Let me break this down even further.

Everyone in the world has swapped places

with their subconscious selves.

You have come out of a memory, a fantasy,

a buried shame, a deep dark hidden secret.

Anything trapped in the subconscious.

What the fuck?

Why?

Because then no one will be able to hide

who they really are anymore.

And that is going to rid the world of evil.

And it's art. So, stick a pipe in it.

Can I skip this?

I'm pretty comfortable with my shame.

Yeah, I think she's saying that it's the problem.

But where are our conscious selves?

Your conscious selves are in your place.

They are reliving the shame you have suffered

over and over again,

unless they have a breakthrough.

Wait. So, the plan is we just stew in our own shit

and the world is saved? Because that's pretty evil.

No evil?

Hardly. Ambitious maybe, pretentious, but evil?

Now, evil is the scourge who calls herself Madame Rouge.

Evil is what she did to the Sisterhood of Dada.

Evil is what we're going to do to her fishy little face,

when we find her ass!

I'm confused.

Are we Flagellating

or are we getting revenge?

The world will flagellate.

I'm getting mine.

I couldn't believe it, but Mallah told me,

the Bureau cut you loose.

A gem like you?

What did I say, Mallah?

You said you couldn't believe it.

And now she's here.

Now, she's here.

Blackballed by that fuck, Niles Caulder, no less.

Yes. well, what can I say?

Shit happens.

So, the ape filled you in? The big picture?

Well, the brotherhood of Evil is searching

for a human guinea pig

to travel to the year 2021 in a time machine

that you reverse engineers,

from a drawing that you drew 30 years ago.

To steal Niles Caulder's inventions

and bring them back here to 1949.

So, you would invent them before he does.

Steal his dreams and rule the world.

My God, the accent on her...

- Very evil... - Right?

And she shifts shapes.

Did you tell her the other thing?

I would never do that to you.

The name?

Nobody De Mille.

How attached are you?

Um, I don't know, what do you have in mind?

- Madame Rouge. - Seriously?

So sorry.

It's very exciting.

It's undeniable.

Madame Rouge.

Well, what do you say?

I say that you had me at fuck, Niles Colder.

I think this is crazy.

I don't have to do this. It's a memory.

Fuck this.

Everyone is waiting for you.

- Mom. - You will go through with this.

I know what's best for your son.

Mom, you do understand, right?

I'm not him.

- He's not here. - Let your sins live in the past.

You have to make a break from all those

immoral things that you've done.

Show the Lord that you could be a faithful husband.

Show him that you could be devoted to a woman.

Put the Lord first, Larry.

It isn't the past.

I'm gay, Mother.

- It's who I am. - I have prayed over this, Larry.

I have prayed for you to change.

And to be the man that Sheryl needs you to be.

Can you love me for who I am?

Why is that so hard?

In my heart,

I know that you don't want to bring shame to my life

and your father's life.

We are God fearing members of this community.

But you suffocated your own son.

For Sheryl.

My gift to you both.

You can have a good life, son.

Carry on our tradition

of righteousness and true salvation.

I've always been invisible to you.

See me.

Listen to me.

This is not who I was born to be.

Can't you hear me?

I've looked everywhere.

She's gone.

- No. - Relax, everyone.

- This feels like it's really happening. - No.

Kay is gone.

What if she got better?

She wouldn't do that, would she?

Could she?

What's going to happen to us?

Everyone, calm down.

Okay. How about something more positive?

What was the lesson of the day?

Drama?

Well,

how about we talk about something a little more uplifting?

Um...

See, it's going to be okay.

I fixed it.

I can fix this.

Jane, you can't fix this.

- None of you can. - Shut up, Harry.

What the fuck do you know?

Who told you that?

Did Kay tell you that?

Duh, all of you think you know Kay,

but I'm the only one

she tells her real feelings to.

I said, shut the fuck up.!

My God.

I'm so sorry.

No.

Here.

This is the lesson of the day that we needed.

I know. I'm not going to listen to a fucking stuffed animal.

Tell me what Kay wants or doesn't want.

- No, no, no. - Yeah, yeah.

Dad was right.

Have to be strong like you, General Tony.

You were scared.

No one gave you permission to be scared.

It's time for me to grow up.

Be a brave, disciplined warrior.

You're a child.

It's okay to be a child.

Dad said, "No more mistakes."

I have my orders.

Please hear me.

I need you to hear me.

So Madame Rouge was canned by the Bureau of Normalcy,

because of what she did to the Sisterhood of Dada.

So, then she joined the Brotherhood of Evil.

That sounds like a bad comic book.

She came here to the future to destroy Niles Calder's legacy,

which is us.

We have to stop her in order to protect ourselves.

Wait, I thought she killed your lover boy.

- And you want revenge? - Yeah, that too.

Just wait a minute.

This is not what we do.

I'm a Sub.

I don't clean up messes, I create messes.

Looks like the lesson of the day is,

you're on your own.

For the record, your conscious selves are lazy,

self-pitying and cruel.

But at least they had spunk.

They always protected the little guy.

All right then.

We can sit here and go through the Eternal Flagellation.

Basically put your shit on display

for everyone in this room.

Who is first?

Go! Go!

Go! Go! Go!

Are you sure about this?

You have no idea.

Going on a trip?

What?

Yes, to the future.

Apparently I'll be borrowing your time traveling machine

or some facsimile of.

Don't you dare equate your mission with mine.

No, no, no, not at all.

Well, for starters, my mission

will actually, do something.

What happened to you?

You used to...

have a moral core.

For 30 years,

I had one duty.

Decide who was a weapon and who was not.

- I did that duty to the end. - To Malcolm's end.

And they still tossed you out on your ass?

Yes.

I'm going to see a man about that, aren't I?

I call bullshit.

You betrayed every friend you've ever had

and it wasn't because of duty.

It was because too much power,

is never enough for you

You loved playing God

with those sweet boys and girls you sent off to war.

Barely old enough to comprehend their own specialness,

let alone the word weapon you stamped to their foreheads.

And you loved lording that power over the Sisterhood

you so fastidiously nurtured

until the day you discovered

you loved bringing it all down even more.

That's all this was ever about, wasn't it?

And this

is all you ever were.

And now you've lost every friend you've ever had.

Well,

that was bracing.

And if it's just us gals, probably true.

Not that I'd ever admit that outside these walls.

Did you really think you could change the world

with a Jangly hat made out of serving utensils?

Another word poem to stick it to the man?

Art is bullshit.

Art is a narcotic you suckle while,

life, ambition, purpose pass you by.

I landed in a field 30 years ago,

with no memory of who I was or what I believed.

Art saved my life.

You destroyed it.

And I hope you burn in hell.

I hope I'm right here.

Or are you like your spineless friends?

Or is the memory that you forgot,

that you're evil?

Just like me.

Go ahead. Kill me again

For some reason, It felt appropriate to say goodbye.

After all, you were one of the best friends I've ever known.

Chins up, everyone,

you're doing the right thing here.

Don't worry about us.

We're all squared away.

Just tell us when it's time to do some superhero shit

because we're ready, right?

I'm not a superhero.

Vic is a superhero.

What the hell was that?

Don't even... You can't turn back.

You're on a mission.

Actually, you are on a mission, right?

- We're just visiting. - I'm warning you,

there's nothing back there

but more truth and self-loathing.

And beer.

No, Cliffie.

It's hard to believe how he got here.

Climate from dirt track to the Indy 500.

Yeah. You also climbed my wife every Thursday night,

you fuck.

A lot of years.

A lot of blood spilled, too.

Hell. We've had our share

of disagreements, am I right?

Like, would you take Kate from the front or the back?

Bottom line.

You the best goddamn friend I ever had.

That's why me and the boys,

we got something special for you.

Stay there. Don't move.

Earl, Jethro, come on, let's go.

Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere,

you wife fucking fuck up.

Okay. Think Cliffie,

those artists freaks did this Flagellation thing...

Then they send me to my subconscious for something good?

I don't think so.

Yeah.

To the King.

Then again, I have been wrong.

I've been wrong.

Get some, dude, you're the man.

- I'm the man? - You're the man.

You know what I am.

I'm the fucking man. Who's the king?

Who's the king?

I am the fucking King!

We'll be safe here.

It's comfortable. Secure.

I've reinforced the cotton sheets with the flannel sheets.

That's it?

You've only secured enough for yourself.

Family sized.

Can I get a beer?

You're an adult, but you're a kid

who lives inside an adult.

So sure, why not, fuck it. Here.

- Gross. - More for me.

You're on the lookout for something?

Aren't we all?

Wow.

You even guard your subconscious.

That's impressive.

Are they right?

- Who? - The Sisterhood of Dada.

I mean, is it important for me to know

why there's a General Tony and Vic's subconscious?

Maybe it is.

Maybe knowing will move us forward.

Okay.

Why does Larry Sub stare out the window?

None of your goddamn business.

Let's go into the Fort and we'll wait this thing out?

We've got snacks.

Why didn't you say so?

Lead the way, sir.

Fuck me.

Fuck you.

On that day, Rita knew she had vengeance in her heart...

Godamn right, I do.

W hich was a shame because the last 30 years

had infused in her a new found confidence and joy

that had been so sorely lacking in all her years before,

in her "other" life.

Tough shit on a popsicle stick, Shipley.

But, as she rockets through the space time continuum,

the inevitable forces of physics

and sheer story inertia bring the memories

of that "other" life flooding back.

And with them comes the shame and insecurity

she'd left long behind

to a life once lived and to be lived again.

With these new old memories returning,

Rita had to wonder what would become of the old new memories.

If that makes any sense at all.

And what of the one memory she absolutely,

positively could not bear to lose?

She was convinced, this memory was so embedded in her heart

there was no way it could ever be extracted.

But could she ever truly be sure?

Could she ever truly guarantee

she and her beloved's bond would never be broken?

Turns out, when you have a time machine

of indeterminate function,

the answer is, in fact, yes.

Rita would have her vengeance.

She would pursue Madame Rouge to the ends of time.

But first, she would make a hard left to the Poconos

to ensure her lover's loop will never be broken.

Rita would have it all!

So... do we just sit here

and wait for the Eternal Flagellation to end?

I heard Larry-

he wants to talk it out.

I just thought it might help pass the time.

Talk? Are we like... Spill our shit talk?

No, thank you.

We relive our pain every day.

Why do we have to air it out?

Maybe because we have a duty?

A duty to our conscious self so that they can live a better life?

They're stuck because of us.

Life is about duty.

And it's about what and who you serve.

And I know you understand that. You're a father, I know you do.

You have a duty to your daughter, don't you?

Okay, that's enough.

Don't bring Clara into this.

Why not?

Our conscious selves never talk about this stuff.

Duty and daughters and Fathers...

Can we not talk about Fathers?

So we just don't talk at all?

Exactly!

No talking! Just...

Finally! I deserve something good!

That's why God gave me this memory

and a three-month supply of Parky meds.

I know it's your celebration so I'm guessin' you're the head guy here.

Give me all that sugar, Sugar.

There's somethin' I gotta tell you...

God.

Whisper those sweet, naughty nothings, Darlin'.

That Camaro outside?

There's a little girl alone in the backseat.

Fuck no.

No, no. Not my problem anymore. Goodbye!

Thank you! It's been good takin' a trip down memory lane

but I want no part of this bullshit!

That shit is from the weird lady in the gas mask.

Fuck it. Bye, assholes!

Larry?

Larry?

Larry? Larry?

- Cliff? - Hey!

- You okay? - What does it look like?

- I'm in hell. - Tell me about it,

it's those fucking Dada fucks, right?

And our Sub fucks are up top probably saying,

"God knows what to whoever the fuck about us!"

Fuck this Freaky Friday shit!

Yeah. That's not even close to Freaky Friday.

You want to get out of here or not?

Yes. How?

Look at that spiral thingy. Follow me.

I don't know about the rest of you

but I don't have a duty to anyone.

No one's ever honored their duty to me.

So you're saying that duty isn't a thing anymore?

Duty is all that I am.

I'm saying, fuck fatherhood!

Whoa! You're like, what? Seven?

Really? This is after you gave her the beer?

Though... Maybe Kay is onto something.

I watched Little Vic honor his father more than himself

and now that I'm up here, yeah, I got questions.

No, you don't.

'Cause A, Number one, we're going to avoid our shit,

just like we always do

B, Number two,

stop blaming your parents for your own fuck ups.

Says the parent who fucked up.

What?

Sorry,

was I the parent who was fucking the crew chief

down by the train tracks?

So it was better to be fucking the Nanny?

I bet your conscious self is down there now

finding a way to screw her on a ping pong table.

Hey! Don't you dare pretend to understand

that you know what's going on inside me.

Can you two grow the fuck up?

You know what, I thought you is useless.

You, of all the people swimming around inside you,

we get the one who can't do anything helpful,

like, flit my fat fucking ass out of here.

- I don't need them. - Newsflash:

You do.

We all do. We need to get the fuck out

of this pillow fort fuckery!

So, that's it, you're just gonna party forever?

No, because there is no forever for me,

I'm dying.

What?

The first part of my life, I was a fuckin' red neck.

Dirt poor, didn't have a pot to shit in.

But then I found race cars,

and that was my ticket out of hell.

When you come from nothin' you don't know what to do

with the somethin' that you get.

People started treatin' me differently.

They started treatin' me like I'm, I was special.

And once you get a taste of special-

there's no turning back.

But I never really felt like I deserved it,

so I plugged up the holes with drugs and women.

I was king of the race track

but inside I was an empty fuck. But, but, I was a king.

And this king decapitated his wife

Well, joke's on me.

Because... Parkinson's has me now. Um...

I'm deteriorating.

But Abracadabra, I'm going to do the most ordinary thing that you can do.

I'm gonna die...

slowly...

before your very eyes.

So, fuck it.

You wanna flagellate? l

Let's flagellate.

Vic!

Where is he?

- What the hell? - Over here.

What the fuck! You're a toy?

We gotta get you out of here.

Wait! Wait!

Give him this.

He doesn't even know you're here.

Just do it.

What did we just do?

What are we becoming?

Well, what if it's true and Kay doesn't need us?

Of course she needs us,

she created us.

Things change.

What did you think was going to happen when she went on that bike ride?

I don't know, Dr Harrison,

what did you think was going to happen when you stole the bike?

What the fuck?

Which one of you felt fucks is Jane?

You metal bitch,

how about I shove that Underground Avenue sign up your ass?

That's Jane.

Where are we?

In Kay's fucking fantasy workshop where she's an Adult

and we're asshole Puppets.

Get me outta this Dada hellscape.

Okay. Come here.

You're like a baby!

Hey, baby!

Fuck you, bucket head.

That's it!

Jane goes off to leave us with a mess. Again.

No, not again.

Never again.

- What the fuck! - Stop.

Reflect. Move forward?

This is more Dada shit!

Fuck this fuckin' Art school project.

If the message is to move forward out of this rainbow vomit, I'm in!

Shit.

Um... who wants a piece of stripper cake?

Did you see Mom?

I did.

And I changed the script.

Said the things I should have said.

Are you blaming me?

Are you saying I should have said something else?

No. You should have done something else.

You think I don't know that?

How do you think it feels to be the worst memory of someone's life?

You're not the worst, okay?

There are others far worse than you.

Then why am I here?

You're the day I committed to lying to myself.

- What? - I got news for you,

I'm from the day that you hid from love.

That's why you secretly like those bandages.

They give you an excuse to keep people away.

You're afraid you don't know how to love.

You think you're not worthy of it.

Maybe you are the worst memory of my life.

You know, on my wedding day, Mom invited me into her trauma

and then I sucked the people into my trauma.

You've got to learn how to let love in, guy.

One step at a time.

- I have a duty to myself. - Yeah.

You do.

I live that memory, every moment of it, every day.

Make it worth what I'm going through.

Can you do that?

I can try.

Whoa!

Okay, that was beautiful.

Show's over, folks!

Is it?

- Come fucking on. - I know, I know.

You seriously want to spill our shit?

No, I don't.

But then I saw Larry holding hand with himself,

and it was really fucking nice!

So, fuck it.

Do you wanna know what I live through

every fucking day?

Every day from dusk until dawn,

I leave my daughter in the car

so that I could go do some blow and cozy up to a stripper.

That's what I do, every fucking day.

I say, "Fuck you"

to fatherhood because fatherhood doesn't make me feel special

As a dad,

I'm just part of the wallpaper.

Doin' blow. Fucking strippers.

That shit makes me feel like a king.

Every day, when party's over,

I come back to the car,

I look my daughter in the eyes and I feel...

Nothing.

No guilt. Remorse. Shame.

I got my rocks off

and that has earned me another week

of stomaching changing dirty diapers

until the next race,

Nanny, stripper.

When I can go back to feeling like a fucking king again.

You left your daughter in the car to go party?

Look, I didn't sign up for this shit!

That kid interrupted my life.

Why did I have to stop living because I stuck my dick in a hole?

I want to feel special, too!

You know, at some point, the party's gotta stop.

I may be stuck on a loop, but I'm not fucking blind.

You're on the same track.

You're tripping balls on Parkinson's meds,

it's like it's 1984 all over again.

You're selling their shit on Ebay.

I'm fucking exhausted.

But you have a second chance with Clara and Rory,

but instead you're doing the same shit all over again,

that's killing both of us.

Is it worth it?

Answer me, is it worth it?

- Fuck you! - Fuck you, too!

- Fuck you! - Fuck you!

And fuck all of ya'll!

Dude.

This shit is crazy.

I'm fine.

I don't need no pop psychology.

Okay then, we'll just stand here and protect everyone.

I have one question, sir?

Who protects us?

I don't need protection.

No question about that,

you've always been a good soldier.

Brave, disciplined. Warrior.

You saw the memory I came from.

Yeah, I was a child.

- You think anyone saw that? - That I was a child?

No, I don't think anyone saw that

- or cared. - Well, I did.

And on that day, I saw you go straight

from being a 10-year old child to a soldier.

Trying to please everyone,

always saying the right things, never making a mistake.

You became perfect.

But you lost something very important.

My childhood.

That's correct, sir.

I'd never get that back.

Yeah, but you can make your own choices now.

And maybe instead of doing things that made you a good soldier,

you could do some wrong things.

You can make some strong choices,

even if they're wrong.

What do you think I was trying to do

before this Eternal Flagellation?

I know.

I'm not here to criticize.

I am here to say, keep going.

Have some fun.

Find your happiness.

Play.

And then you take back what was taken from you.

This is crazy.

Why am I even listening to somebody I didn't even want?

I didn't want a soldier!

I was a fucking kid.

Harry said you didn't want us anymore.

What did we say the lesson of the day was?

Seriously?

- You want to do a lesson of the day now? - Yes.

Because it's you.

You just cause me more trauma.

Everything you do just brings me more pain.

And it's time for me to grow up and be on my own.

No, you can't survive without me.

I'd like to try.

No. No.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no. No!

I wish you would die.

Is it over?

I think so. The fog's lifting.

Okay!

I think we can all agree,

that what happens in the Eternal Flagellation,

stays in the Eternal Flagella...

You want to talk about parenting

or you want to talk about...

- God. Fuck, fuck! - I don't know

what's going on with you, Dad, but...

this isn't working anymore.

I know.

Hello?

Hello?

I know things were said and I hear you.

We're gonna work it out,

all of us.

They're all gone.

Thank God.

I got you.

Here you go.

Vic,

you awake?

I'm awake.

I'm awake.