Friday Ghosts

Lenny plans his departure from office but an encounter with Danny derails everything. Poppins attacks Beulah, leading to a deadly confrontation.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Dear City Council, it has been brought to my attention
that you intend to vote this Monday for the purpose
of reviewing a resolution to implement the impeachment process of
me Lenny Martelli as Oakland Mayor. It is my opinion
that the charges our bogus attempt to remove me from

(00:25):
office due to my rejection your choice for Oakland police chief.
That sounds weird, right? How does that sound? And that
what you're supposed to be giving me notes on my letter?
You could do meet a courtesy of at least paying attention.
This really isn't my forteil. Any where's your secretary? She
was Laussie. I had to give it a boot. I

(00:47):
don't get why you have to do this at all.
The new police chief day one is a bad guy.
Someone's got to take a stand against him. If the
council wants to vote me out, so be it. Uh huh?
And when did you become a beacon of virtueism? Huh?
I've always been about the people. Plus it means I'll

(01:10):
spend more time with Sebby if you say so. It
still seems a little odd to me. It's spend half
your life wanting to be mayor. And now you're giving
it all up. Maybe I realized being a politician is
the worst way to make a real difference. You mean,
it's actual work. Look, it's work. But still was running

(01:32):
a cafe and at least no one tried to kill
me when I was doing that. That's true. So are
you almost done with this speech or whatever? It's just
about time to pick up Sebastian for first Friday. Yeah,
I'll finish it over the weekend, so you come and
win us. No, thanks, not in the mood for big crowds. Besides,

(01:55):
you two should spend some one on one time together.
By the way, did you ever look at what was
on that flip phoney head? Mostly just text between him
and Danny. Pretty innocent overall innocent. Yeah right, Just don't
bring it up to Sebastian tonight. Just let him have fun,

(02:16):
be a kid. Hey, I'm all about the fun. Hey,
you warm enough, little buddy. Yeah? Who's that guy following us?
Oh that's just my new security guard, Mitch. He's here

(02:37):
to protect us, just in case from who, no one
in particular. It's just so you know, we feel safe. Hey,
how about we get one of his hot dogs over there.
I don't want hot dog. I want ice cream. You
can have ice cream after you have dinner. Otherwise your
grandma will kill me. I won't tell if you don't.

(02:58):
Now you speak in my language. How did you get
so tricky? You don't tell your grandma that either. Let's
go get that ice cream while there's no line. Hi?
What can I get you? Um? Let's see what you
have here. I'll have the Marscapone ice cream. Oh, it's

(03:19):
actually gelato. Don't sell ice cream. Okay, I'll have the
mascarpone gelato. Anything else? Yeah? Do you have strawberry? Do
you want strawberry? Right? Seby Sevy? Hey, Mitch, do you

(03:40):
see where my grandson went? No, Boss, he was with
you a second ago. Ship you go that way and
look for him. I'll head over here. Got it? Seven? Hey? Sebastian, Hey,
Hey Sebastian, Grandpa, why are you sweating? Sey? What are
you doing over here? I was looking all over for you?

(04:00):
What are you doing with that phone? We took that
away from you? Give me that. I found it in
grandma's closet. What did I tell you about going into
our room and taking things that aren't yours? But it's
how I talked to daddy. Were you calling your dad? No? Texting? Texting?
You can barely read. Let me see that. No, it's

(04:21):
my phone. What do you mean? No, give it to me,
Give me the phone. So he just wanted to know
where we were. He's going to meet us for ice cream?
Meet us, Yeah, Papa for ice cream, just like when
we used to go to Fenton's on Piedmont, Remember that, Dad, Hey,

(04:43):
it's my baby. How do you think you're doing, Danny,
exercising my parental rights? You don't have rights. You're a tweaker.
Do you know what? I'm tired of you calling me Dad?
I'm tired of you disrespecting me and keeping my son away.
You kill his mom, and you'll kill him too, just
like you tried to do to me. I'm getting really,

(05:06):
really sick of having the same conversation over and over
with you. Not that I expect anymore from a dope. Everybody,
See what a great guy my dad is, the mayor
of Oakland, He's the best. And he just stopped. Did
you know? Did you know that he actually gave me
my first joint? YEP? I was how old was I?

(05:30):
We used to do drugs together, but now he's an
uptight asshole. Well no matter, Dad can't do the hard stuff.
You're sad, just said in front of Semi. Really, this
is a new loaf for you. Come here, Papa, give
your son a hug. Just one hug and I'll leave
Funk away from me. Sebastian, come to me, Come here

(05:54):
so you'll take you'll take my kid, but you won't
take dr Owne. You won't even give me a hug. Huh.
How about the stay cramp up? This is the only
way we can be together. Come on, come on, let's go.
Someone so call boys say smash m hm. I can't breathe.

(06:55):
What's happening? Oh Poppins, you evil bitch. Who do you
think you are? Snitching on me in the storage unit?
Waking up to Poppin strangling me? Just another day in
the life of Beulah Rhodes. Why are you doing this?

(07:22):
This is all your fault. I don't know what you're
talking about. Would you drop the act already? It makes
me sick? Poppins, blaze, just tell me what happened before
you started choking me. You told me to meet you
with a storage locker, and then you tried to frame
me for that pipe bomb ships What yeah, that's right.
Try to try to get me to put my fingerprints

(07:43):
on the materials. I'm not bowling for your bullshit. Boy,
don't know what you're talking to. You don't have let
me guess you don't recall blackmailing me into stitching for pigs.
What can I say? This situation doesn't bode well for me.
Who the hell am I really? This other bee is
more than a stranger, she's a menace. Say look, I'm sorry,

(08:04):
but whatever happened, But that wasn't me. Until we're talking
that I was the rap? What the fun was that
I had to? I didn't have a choice. I've never
killed anyone before, but I think I'm actually gonna enjoy
killing you. Stay stay away from me. Here's the thing,
California will be free, no matter what you and your
piggy pals try to do. It's already in motion. A

(08:26):
new era has begun. Don't don't, don't come any clothes
and we stop? What are you doing? You killed him?
Damn right? I did? Are you okay? I'm not God?
This is all my fault. No, no, it's not. You've
done a fantastic job here. Given the circumtance, you don't

(08:47):
understand here, it is the truth. I have to tell
him everything, Agent Evans, There's something, there's something I need
to tell you. I've been having black counts. At first
they seemed harmless, but lately a lot of bad ship
has been happening around me, and I'm afraid that I'm
going like crazy. It's having psychological breakdown or going it's there.

(09:11):
I don't know. Do you think I don't know all that? What? Look,
I appreciate the honesty I do, but I think it's
time I tell you something as well. It's time you
knew knew what. Okay, I'll start at the beginning, back
at Quantico. If you graduated, graduated, I didn't graduate. I

(09:33):
dropped out. Not quite. You actually excelled at the academy,
you're quickly pushed through. If you're wondering why you don't
remember any of that, it's because of these pills. Well
what kind of pills? Okay? When you left the academy,
you approached for a special assignment something we've been working
on a conjunction with the c i A, specifically the

(09:56):
Clandestine Service. Off the book kind of stuff, right, the
c I A me. That's right. You were tasked with
infiltrating a potential terrorist group here in your hometown of Open.
The only problem was these terrorists where people you were
close to. Rebecca and Savannah No no, not Savannah, no way.

(10:18):
She was shot by the police. That's true, but she
was also engaged in potentially violent activities. I'm sorry, but
it's true. Anyway, this problem was also part of the
reason you were chosen to Hope was of course, that
your relationship with the suspects could also help you infiltrate them.
So they came up with a solution. You'd be given
an experimental but proven drug that would say, assist you

(10:40):
in your endeavors. For two months, you were dosed with
these pills here why look, to make a long story short,
everything was going as planned until your sister was shot.
When you found out, you had an unexpected reaction was
like your it was like your mind fractured. Bull You
went in through some kind of psychoses. Well because your mind, imagine,

(11:01):
no one really wanted to take responsibility for that mess.
So what I was discarded like trash, not at all.
They simply stopped medicating you. Your memory was white clean
in the previous sixty days, and you were sent back
home to be with your sister. So you're telling me
I was a failed experiment and that I lost my

(11:22):
entire career because of those drops. In a sense, yes,
you did agree to knowing the risk. Are you going
to tell me what the pills do? What kind of
ship makes you forget your whole life? Essentially, they're meant
to make it easier for agents to fulfill task that
they might ordinarily find difficult. That's really the point. It
also helps maintain the cover of the agent, thus protecting

(11:43):
confidential information. And how do you factor into all this ship?
I've been in Oakland for the last two years, okay.
I was given the responsibility to watch over you from afar,
make notes of any lingering side effects, and and all
I saw was a hard working young woman who was
trying to put her life back together. That's what I

(12:04):
told my bosses. Then certain events necessitated your involvement. That's
when I approached you all those months ago. This is
a lot. I don't know how to take it all
in right now. I can't say I blame you. It's
some trippy ship, but I've been blacking out memories lost.
What is that? Have you been drugging me again? Basil

(12:25):
actually part of his job since he was in close
daily contact with you, that fucker. He was always giving
me waters and coffee, now that I think about it, Okay, No, No,
he was just doing what he was assigned to do,
just like me and just like you. I just don't
understand why I've been having these gaps in my memory.
And Rebecca told me that I did all this horrible

(12:47):
ship and that I was pretending to be Savannah. I
don't know. It must be a glitch in the midst.
But rest assured. Everything you've done has been because you
were told to. You've done nothing wrong, even the pipe bomb.
That's right. Look, I'm sure you've got a lot more questions,
but we do have a somewhat pressing matter to attend to.

(13:08):
Oh right, Poppins. I feel like I should feel worse
about this. The truth is I feel nothing. Isn't that bad? No,
he was trying to kill you. Thanks for helping me out.
There no need for the thanks. I'm going to call
this in how my guys take care of it. So

(13:30):
what next? You go home, get some rests. I'll give
you a couple of days before I brief you on
your next assignment. Next assignment, Yes, you'll need to extract
some very important information from Rebecca and Owen. But my
cover's blown and she hates my guts. Now you're resourceful,
you'll make it work. Hey, I believe in you. If

(13:55):
you say so. What info do they have? They're high
the identity and whereabouts of a woman who lived in
Freedom House before it burned out. She's involved in some
pretty heinous crimes and we need her for questioning. Huh. Yes,
but look, we can talk all about it later. Off

(14:16):
you go. What a complete and utter mind fuck. Yet
somehow I feel relieved. I know that's messed up to say,
because Poppins is lying on the floor of a storage
unit with a bullet in his head. But if I'm
being honest with myself, I feel better than I have

(14:40):
in a long, long time. Learning the reason behind the
blackouts has been intensely gratifying. Everything just makes sense. I
never left the academy, never stopped being myself. The truth
has set me free, at least for now. Grant, I'm back. Yeah, Hello, Grant.

(15:11):
Grant always waits up for me. Is something wrong, It's
never been this quiet. There's a light on in Savannah's room.
There you are. Oh God, I'm so worried. Something bad
happened to you. Bad. Oh no, I feel honey, nothing
bad here at all. Look, oh Savel, hey sais you?

(15:40):
You look like you've just seen a ghost s