Last week on Wild Palms:
Your father blew his face off with a shotgun.
- There is a way out, Grace. - To where, Hiro.
To paradise?
- Is Coty my son, Paige? Answer me! - He's mine!
I had him with the senator.
You begged for this life. Did you think there wasn't a price to pay?
Chickie!
Will you need me for anything else?
No. Good night, Tobias. And thank you.
Heard from your wife, Harry?
- Who are you? - I'm sorry.
Poor habit of mine. Lieutenant Bob Grindrod.
Grace's in Japan. Soon as I find out where, I'm going over.
I think she's with her daddy.
I think Eli Levitt's pulled a real number on her.
Patty Hearst style. Dangerous man.
And not a great situation for the little girl...
Deirdre. That's her name, isn't it, Harry?
The audacity of Tully Woiwodel.
Holding my lovely bride-to-be hostage with a stiletto...
like so much terrorist fodder.
You were a hostage, weren't you, Paige?
What's that supposed to mean?
It's all too horrible to think of.
There was poor Tully, back in the catbird seat...
his heart revving furiously as he imagine himself carving up...
the gorgeous neck of his beloved sister's assassin.
Yet something stopped him.
What do you think that was, Paige?
I've had a hell of a time keeping you out of the press.
I didn't know you cared.
Mimecom's about to go public.
Your various affiliations don't exactly make you...
employee-of-the-month material.
Can I share something with you, Grindrod?
I feel a definite urge to seriously slap you around.
Why don't you climb out of my life...
and crawl back into whatever wet hole you call home?
The senator's the best friend you've got, Harry!
Anybody else would have thrown you to the clogs a long time ago!
- I was looking for you. - He knows where they are.
- What? - Deirdre...
and Grace, that son-of-a-bitch lieutenant knows!
He was playing with me. Watching me squirm.
He's holding them right here on the grounds just like they did Chickie!
- Harry, calm down! - Calm down!
The woman who just married the antichrist tells me to calm down?
I don't think they've been hurt. I'm trying to find out what happened.
Why hasn't Tommy gotten in touch with me, huh?
- Why hasn't somebody called me? — It'll be all right!
If they knew Grace and Deirdre were back at the house waiting.
If they knew that much...
they must've known I'm involved! They'll be coming after me.
- Harry, stop it! - You're with them, Paige, aren't you?
You killed for them. How many, Paige? How many?
Am I next, huh?
Why don't you just do me right here?
- Harry, please! - I'm losing it, you know that?
I'm losing it!
I gotta do something.
Or kill the senator.
Don't get crazy. Let it settle, or you'll lose everything.
Hey!
Have a hot wedding night.
I wanna play a little something for you we just taped with the new Mimecam.
I taped it!
He taped it.
It's portable...
and it costs about the same as a black-market pancreas.
We'll have it on the market sometime in the fall.
Ladies and gentlemen...
forget about instant replay.
Welcome to instant relive.
Play it, Sam.
- What do you have? - Gavin Whitehope's kid.
Picked him up in Barstow on his way to the Wilderzone.
He helped kill Chap Starfall.
We think he's the one who leaked Chickie's move to the motel.
Bury him.
Right this way.
Yes.
See. We really don't encourage them.
They're so noisy and troublesome.
- Don't you agree? - Oh, yes, yes.
And so terribly annoying when they cry.
Yes. I don't know what to do when they cry.
- Do you. Dear? - Drown them like puppies.
As you see. The nursery's far from the rest of the house.
This is my favorite part.
I always think they're gonna go down underneath the pool, like the Friends.
Do you know where my wife and daughter are?
Nobody watches movies anymore. Only TV.
Look how happy Plato is.
He thinks Natalie Wood and James Dean...
are his mom and dad.
— What did you come back here for. - Because I'd run away.
Oh. I used to run away a lot but they always took me back.
Who?
Peter...
are they still alive?
Deirdre's with the Fathers, somewhere in the desert.
And Grace?
Captain. My captain Our fearful trip is done.
The ship has weather'd every rack The prize we sought is won.
Red light. Green light.
Red light!
Green light.
Harry!
Tully!
Come on, down.
- You can see? - I do all right.
It's hardwired to the cortex. Sit down.
You look awful.
Where's Grace?
- Eli doesn't want to take the chance. — Damn it. Tully!
Maybe in a week.
- Is she all right? - She's fine.
Choke... can we have some whiskey here?
Tully, what happened that night?
They got Deirdre.
Left Grace for dead at the old bathhouse.
We patched her up like new, so stop worrying.
What do you think of the club?
Fabulous.
The Wilderzone has its own laws.
Cops stay away.
Easy for a blind artist...
and his fugitive friends to blend in.
I know what Grace was going through.
I know why she was cracking up.
I don't wanna sit around anymore.
What do you want to do Harry? Throw Molotovs?
Hey, look who's here. Stranger in a strange land.
Tommy.
God. I didn't think I was gonna see you again. Are you all right?
- Never better. - He's been partying.
Partying is such sweet sorrow.
Not exactly your part of the neighborhood, Harry.
Welcome to the Fourth World.
Hey, Choke, I'm starving. Fix me some food, woman.
Good to see you, Harry.
Stick around. This place will grow on you.
Hey, Choke!
- What's the matter with him? - Mimezine sickness.
He's not responding to the antigens.
Pretty soon. He'll be ringing the bell at Notre Dame.
Tully, what am I supposed to do? Get drunk and go bowling?
- Business as usual, Harry. - Well, at least let me speak to Eli.
The general ain't around.
Well, let me join the Friends. I wanna do something.
Stay close to the senator.
Tell us everything on his sick little mind.
You wanna be a samurai, Harry?
Now's your chance.
How are you feeling?
Why didn't they just kill me?
Josie must have intervened.
If it were up to Josie, I'd be buried somewhere under the Hollywood sign.
I miss my baby.
I know.
Do you think she's safe?
- Yes. We'll get her back. - Like we got Chickie?
Why did you take my tapes away from me?
I don't want you watching them torturing yourself.
Don't you like seeing your little granddaughter?
It isn't her.
It's a trick, Grace. A hologram.
They dump those tapes on the black market.
- New ones, every few days. - But what if it isn't a trick?
She talks, Grace.
Why would Deirdre suddenly talk on tape.
To strangers? It isn't her.
I'm sorry.
Get some sleep.
I love you.
Mommy, it's Deirdre. I miss you.
Why won't you come rescue me? They're hurting me.
Mommy, why won't you come?
Mommy, it's Deirdre. I miss you.
Why won't you come rescue me? They're hurting me.
Mommy, why won't you come?
Mommy, it's Deirdre. I miss you.
- What was it? - A cyst.
- I want you to take these for a week. - Antibiotics?
You've got an infection.
Who gave you that tattoo, Harry?
Oh, I got it on Hollywood Boulevard one night. I was very drunk.
Midlife crisis?
- Hey, lighten up, doc? - Have you got an hour?
You're clue for a physical. It's been a couple of years.
Nope. I gotta go down to the desert to see the senator.
Are they gonna get him on the ballots?
That's the idea. Thanks.
By the way, I'm sorry about Grace. I hope it all works out.
This is Arnold Klein. He was here.
Looking for someone?
It's so much easier if you drain the pool first.
Well... The prodigal son returns.
With a message: Leave Grace alone.
And so demanding.
Don't you feel anything? She was like a mother to you.
There are no mothers, Peter, only fathers.
Coty, they're using you.
Soon you'll be too famous, you'll be dangerous to them.
Pathetic, you know. Why don't you go sell a map?
Oh, you think Josie's gonna actually give you any real power?
- Better get out. - She'll have you killed.
And no one will ever know. Once the ratings drop...
they'll sell your holographic image like an old video game.
You'll be a relic, a Milton Berle. Mr. Virtual Television.
Little freak.
I'll put you in that pool...
and your dirty friends won't be waiting at the drain.
Leave my mother alone.
You're too late, little punk.
We made sure she was in church real early today.
She's praying right now.
We're talking with presidential candidate Senator Tony Kreutzer.
The man who dragged us, for better or for worse...
into the age of virtual telepresence.
Let's talk about Synthiotics.
Been talking about it for 30 years, Billie.
One social critic defined...
the quasi-religious movement as and I quote:
“A dangerous cult of techno-shamanists...
whose members worship its billionaire founder.“
Just what are the goals of Synthiotics, senator...
and what role will the group play if you're elected?
There's a saying we have at Synthiotics:
“What a difference an 'A' makes.
With a tiny letter 'A'...
you can change a worrier into a warrior.“
Let's leapfrog the homilies for a moment, if we...
Powerful stuff, don't you think?
Very effective.
After the Billie Wheaten show, I jumped 18 points in the polls.
- Hello, Harry. - Paige.
What happened to your hand?
Oh, a cyst.
Come out to the garden, Harry. I wanna talk to you.
Your old boyfriend and I are gonna compare notes.
Very funny.
Something's wrong.
- Tell me. - They killed Ushio last night.
The guy who gave me the tattoo?
- Where, Kyoto? - No, here in L.A., the Wilderzone.
- What's this all about? - Harry, I'm scared.
- It's all right. It's all right. - Careful.
Hungry, Harry?
No. I grabbed something before I came.
Everybody's hungry-
Everybody's a hungry ghost.
What do you mean?
It's a Buddhist thing...
like our hell.
Hungry ghosts are souls...
doomed to wander the earth in torment...
and insatiable desire.
Should I have that developed?
Sounds like a Channel 3 sitcom.
Play the ponies, Harry?
Once in a while. I like the exams.
Santa Anita. Lovely track.
They used it during the Second World War.
Called it an “assembly center.“
For the camps?
They moved them out from there to...
Heart Mountain... Ma nzanar.
The people have forgotten all about that.
Pearl Harbor changed everything...
for Mama.
Your mother was Japanese?
Just a drop.
But enough to satisfy Executive Order 9066.
They sent her to Manzanar.
I'm sorry.
And he never took us to see her. Not even once.
Crazy drunk all the time.
“Mama was in the desert, “ he said.
“Helping government agents bury children who were bad.
So we'd better stay away.“
She died...
a few weeks before the camps were liberated.
- And your father? - Cirrhosis. Thank God.
I still think of him...
wandering the earth, speaking in tongues.
The original hungry ghost.
What the hell are you doing?
- What did they give you in Kyoto? - What?
- Was it the Go-chip? - No!
Ushio gave it to you, he said so. Why would you lie?
- I don't know. - Does Woiwode have it?
- I don't know. - Would you betray me, Harry?
- No! - Would you keep me from eternity?
- Why did you go to the doctor? - I had a cyst removed.
Is that what eternity is? A cyst? My son!
Yo Ll'|. E Crazy'
Crazy! Crazy! Crazy!
Deirdre?
Mama's here.
Are you here, baby?
I came just the way you told me to.
Are you here?
Josie.
Wanna see my baby.
Josie.
- Mommy, I miss you. I miss you. - Baby!
Why won't you come rescue me?
Mommy, it's Deirdre. I miss you.
Why won't you come rescue me? They're hurting me.
Mommy, why won't you come?
I miss you. Why won't you come rescue me?
Mommy...
It's not here, senator. We're too late.
- Paige? It's me. - Where are you?
I've been hiding out in movie theaters all day. Listen...
- Are you okay? - Yeah, sort of.
What's going on?
Well, I can't go home.
Wherever that is.
I think they're gonna kill me.
- I'll come get you. - No.
I'm going to the Wilderzone.
- Don't think I'll be... - Hello, Harry.
Harry.
He hung up.
- That was rude. - Don't give me any crap. Let's go.
Get off me! Get off me!
- You're under arrest, Harry. - For what, jaywalking, Grindrod?
The murder of Grace Wyckoff.
You better be lying, you son of a bitch.
Tobias, where am I?
The Perceptory. I don't know where the order came from.
Grindrod, I thought he was gonna kill me.
- He said Grace was... - She's dead.
Oh, God! Tobias, they killed her!
You're in trouble. Where did you get the gun?
- Gun? - The same that killed Maisie Woiwode.
They're setting me up!
The senator's insane. He killed Grace.
- He's got my daughter. - Listen to me, Harry.
- You've got to tell them everything. - Everything.
You don't know what you're up against.
Listen, Harry. The senator only wants the chip.
Where is it, Harry? Tell them or you'll never get out of here.
Tobias, I don't know!
Mimezine. A thousand units.
No!
No, Tobias! You son of a bitch!
No!
What's wrong, darling?
They...
They told me you died.
Have you been having one of your crazy dreams again?
What's that?
Just a flesh wound. How do you want your eggs?
Something's weird.
What is it, Grace?
What's the matter with me?
You're just working too hard, I guess.
Love me?
Yes.
I'm so sorry, Grace.
For everything that's happened.
Maybe we can start over.
We can. Once you tell them where to find the Go-chip...
we can leave this place forever.
Dad, come look.
Don't forget your briefcase.
Cow?
Where's the door. Where's the damn door?
Make a break with Tommy and Tully.
They got you into all this.
I'd never have been killed if it weren't for them.
You've got to tell the senator about the Go-chip.
I already told you, Grace. I don't know anything.
Do you know how much it hurts to be shot in the chest, Harry?
Don't you even love us?
You care more about a bunch of wormless terrorists than you do...
love at your own flesh and blood!
Father?
Father.
Tell Daddy what you know.
Talk or Daddy's gonna beat the brains out of that fat freaking head.
Dad!
He's going into shock.
He doesn't know anything. He would have talked.
Give him the antigen. Then get him the hell out of here.
Hey, dream boy, back for more?
I only have enough for a gram.
What you doing with the stuff, dream boy?
I know you can't be doing it all yourself.
It's for my mother.
How about some holotapes to get you through the night?
I got some travel tapes. Some sex stuff.
Porn from Osaka.
Give me the Mimezine.
You one gimme-gimme dream boy.
You know where to find me.
Ahoy, captain.
Well, don't you look grand.
Deirdre's been cooped up too long. It isn't healthy.
Has she complained?
I haven't heard a word.
Grandma, what's gonna happen after Church Windows?
You know, when people get tired of watching.
They'll never get tired.
Don't lie to me. In a year, I could be history.
What's gotten into you?
Are there other shows being developed?
- Well, of course, there are. - For me?
Yes. Don't be silly.
Well, what are they?
I don't know, darling. That's the programmers' domain.
I want the details...
HOW.
You're acting like a child.
Don't ever say that to me. And don't you underestimate me.
When you killed your daughter, your pulse never rose above normal.
We're alike in that way.
But my crimes will be grander, I assure you.
One day, I'll put out the sun...
and make bare every womb there ever was.
Fix me a drink, will you?
Tobias really botched it with Harry.
What happened?
Just when he was about to tell us all about the Go-chip...
Harry had this big old scary heart attack.
Just kidding.
But very good.
You barely even flinched.
Where do you think you're going?
I'm going to sleep in town tonight, in my own bed.
No, you're not.
You're going to take a drive.
I want you to pick up Harry at the Resort...
and take him to the Wilderzone.
How?
In half an hour, Channel 3 will announce...
that the arrest of attorney Harry Wyckoff was an error.
The real killer was picked up at WPN.
I don't understand.
I need him out of prison.
We made a deal with someone.
How can I take Harry anywhere? I'm known. I'll be recognized.
Not in the Wilderzone.
What am I supposed to do?
I want you to set up an exchange.
The chip...
for Deirdre.
This is a farce. What are we doing here?
Hiro said 9:30. He'll come.
Remember, this was his idea.
That's what bothers me. This has to be one of Eli Levitt's tricks.
He'll be here.
He's making the supreme sacrifice for his first love.
Very Japanese.
There he is.
It's better this way, Grace.
Harry will be with the children.
Beat me up, Scotty.
- Where am I? - Hiro turned himself in.
The senator made a deal with him.
Paige.
I'm gonna...
Harry, I'm scared.
Paige.
I'm gonna... I'm gonna...
I'm gonna bring them...
I'm gonna bring them down.
Hey, hey, hey. It's all right, little man.
- It's all right. - Don't leave me.
Please, don't leave me. - I'm right here.
Don't worry, I'm right here.
Did they tell you I was there when Grace died?
Yeah. They told me.
I tried to save her, but they held me back.
They made me watch.
I didn't know about the camera.
Don't cry.
After they left, I went over to her and we talked.
And she knew who I was. I know she did.
- She called me her wild child. - Knew who you were?
My foster parents always told me I was switched with another little baby boy...
they said it as a joke, but it wasn't.
Why did they have to kill her?
It's gonna be all right.
What's the matter?
I want you to have this.
What is it?
I wanna go home, Daddy. Please take me home.
Hiro!
What's happening?
Grapevine says you're being transferred to the Resort, man.
- When? - Sometime tonight.
Beware of the Pharm.
They play with your head.
Don't worry, Chico.
I come from a long line of tough bastards...
my grandpa liberated Dachau.
Let them come.
Ciao, baby.
Amidst a gentle storm of speculation...
"presidential candidate. Senator Tony Kreutzer will announce..."
His running mate tonight from Wild Palms, his desert home.
An ABC News poll showed the senator would gamer...
62 percent of the vote in a three-way race with incumbent-
For you, old friend.
Knife with a rhino.
I've dreamt of this before.
Is there anything we can do to help?
His system's been pickled in Mimezine.
Got too much of it in jail. A thousand units all at once.
I gave him something, he should sleep.
The senator's made the ballots in 63 of the states.
Tonight he'll announce his running mate...
right after Church Windows. Who's that gonna be, Paige?
- Josie. - Perfect.
Do you have a plan?
I've called a war meeting.
I'm gonna suggest that we blow Channel 3 all the way to hell.
What's that gonna do?
Put a serious crimp in sweeps week.
It'll turn the public against you.
Besides, it'll barely slow them down. I know. I worked there, remember?
Channel 3 is the beating heart of Wild Palms.
Eli, you've been in prison too long. They have too many arms.
- Eli, he's right. - You stay out of this.
Look, even if you did some damage...
they'd just reroute and broadcast from the desert compound.
That'|| be our second target.
“Be subtle to the point of formlessness.'
A little poetry, Harry.
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War. - Bravo, Harry Wyckoff.
Television executive and weekend warrior.
“Be mysterious to the point of soundlessness.'
No more quotes. They took my children from me!
From all of us.
The senator wants a trade.
Deirdre for the Go-chip.
If we give them the Go-chip, we've played our last card.
They'll slaughter the Friends.
Well, if we use arms, we'll lose.
There must be another way.
Hi, Steve, sorry to bust in like this. I need some papers in my office.
I didn't think you had an office here anymore.
You didn't read the papers? They let me out of jail.
- I know. I know, but... - It'll just take a second.
Where's your access card?
It's demagnetized. My son threw it in the pool.
I can't let you in, Mr. Wyckoff.
Okay. No problem.
Hey, listen, Steve. Think I can use the can before I leave?
- No way. - You're killing me, Steve.
Eli has the chip.
He'll make the exchange. He just needs a little time.
Everything's fine.
Thank you, darling. Thank you.
Wow, I never met anyone who lived in a church before.
I feel so satanic.
You're sick.
Let's put on some old Black Sabbath records and eat sugar.
Just babysit. Okay, Judy.
I'm trying to entertain you, Ivan. Would you stop being so Oedipal.
I just don't think Mom should be dating, that's all.
That's exactly what Norman Bates said.
I guess you're right.
Of course I am. And besides, what's the worst that could happen?
She meets someone she likes, falls in love, elopes.
Would that be so terrible?
Hi.
- Who are you? - Harry Wyckoff.
I want you to put this on live feed.
- You crazy? - Yeah. Now, do it.
- Want me to interrupt programming? - Exactly.
I guess I haven't been acting very mature, huh?
Now that's better.
Are you ever gonna get married, Judy?
Married? No way.
Tully, I can hear them.
I can hear the bells.
Do it.
Do it!
The last time he gave me a hickey the size of...
Get up, dog! Weak dog!
When I think I gave birth to you, I am seized by revulsion!
Tommy, can you see?
Now, all the world will know.
You tricked me! Why, Mother?
I used to think you were like your father, but now I know.
You aren't like him.
- Tommy. - Please, Mother!
Don't leave me now.
- You stillborn calf. - Please, please, Mother...
I wanna see my daughter. Please, Mother. Please.
I'm begging you! Please, let me see my baby!
You'll see her... in hell!
Turn it off!
Oh, I'm sorry, Grace!
I loved you so much!
I always will!
Goodbye, baby! Goodbye!