BT Bikini Top Hat Girl
[Sam arrives at a rooftop party at The Standard Downtown LA and is greeted by two bikini top hat girls holding Pacha cherry pin cushions]
Welcome to Purgatory.
[Taking a pin]
Good to be here. Needed some time to think about things.
BT Bikini Top Hat Girl
Use it wisely.
RR Rosie the riveter mime
[Reading a book aloud]
"All these holy trinities of women thriving like plants under the heat of the city's male gaze.
[Sam is swimming in the pool hiding behind a beachball to eavesdrop on the three women] [Singing]
Three, three, three, exploring where the cameras cannot see, you and I beneath the surface, where the lovers cannot breathe, turning teeth, turning teeth...
Troy': Jesus, we love you!
[Singing]
...turning teeth...
Mae Is Jesus still here? Did he leave already?
F Fannie
He's with one of the brides I think.
Mae Romantically?
F Fannie
Probably. Sure does seem to be making his way through all of them.
T Troy
One bride at a time.
Mae He's a romantic.
T Troy
You don't become a bride without **** Jesus. [They laugh]
F Fannie
If he wasn't so handsome, he'd never get away with it.
T Troy
Blessed by his holy father, I guess.
[Sam is walking up mountain and sees three lines painted on a fishing weir on a dried up stream and consults the Hobo guide which means "not safe" but Sam continues on, coming upon a hut with a man and his three concubines]
Hello, can I help you?
Yeah, my friend Sarah was killed. These three girls know something about it.
I don't assume it. I saw her taking things from Sarah's apartment, and I found a... hidden code in their friend's music and I've been in the tunnels.
All right. Please sit down. Have some tea.
I found a- I found a shelter down there. It's some- some kind of bunker in case of a nuclear war.
T Troy
It's not a shelter.
They're tombs for kings... like me... and Jefferson Sevence.
Why would Jefferson Sevence need a tomb underneath the city? Cemetery not- not good enough for him?
It's not about burial. It's about ascension. Not dying, being transported to another world, somewhere better than this.
Are you talking about heaven?
No. I'm talking about exclusive, and real. Our souls are going to be pulled from our bodies and carried through this amniotic sac. We will be beyond this universe living like kings without limitation. The pharoahs did it. Great men throughout history have done the same.
I'm about to be sealed in a tomb with my beautiful brides, and all of my worldly possessions, and we are going to have delicious meals, and wine, and television, and sex, enough to last six months.
No. We wait to be ascended. Only the richest of men can afford this ceremony.
It's expensive to build a tunnel system and keep it hidden. But is costs much more to murder people without being harassed about it.
[Hands a picture to Sam]
No one will found our chamber for a thousand years. Future men will understand, we were the modern kings, rulers without statues or effigies.
She was here. Oh, ****. Is Sarah alive?
She may have ascended already. I don't know.
She's down there in one of those things, one of those tombs? With Jefferson Sevence?
They found another man's bones mixed with most of Jefferson's teeth, some of his skin, and all of the organs he can live without. [Sam pounds ground in frustration and brides jump]
Mae That was such an angry thing to do.
What are you upset about?
I just want to see Sarah.
Well, why don't we see if we can get her on the phone?
Incoming calls only. We've had trouble in the past, people getting scared, trying to get out.
She's trapped down there? [Mae and Fannie place a coffee table with a briefcase that is a phone terminal]
We wouldn't want to lose out on eternal life just because we might have a normal physical aversion to being buried underneath the earth. We're only human.
Hello. How are you? Uh-huh. [Chuckles] Okay. Good. Do you mind if I put you one video phone? A friend of yours is here, and he wants to see you. Great.
Sarah, can you- can you hear me?
[Chuckles]
Uh, uh, I- I've been looking for you.
Really? You hardly know me.
Are you annoyed at me? Or angry?
Oh, do I sound angry? Oh. I just wanted to know what happened to you
You really want to be down there?
You're gonna- you're gonna die down there. Um, is that what you want?
[Glances over shoulder to Jefferson on couch]
I'm gonna take this in the other room. Will you hang it up when I get in there?
Their chamber was covered in a mountain of concrete. It can't be opened. There's no reason to upset that girl. Please be kind.
Do you think I made a mistake, coming down here?
Well, there's no getting out now, so I may as well make the best of it
Yeah. Same here. [Scoffs]
Have you thought about getting a new dog?
Might be good for you. A little unconditional love.
Yeah, I'll think about it.
Well, I better get going. I said I'd make dinner tonight. I have a million things to do.
Okay. Well, enjoy your dinner.
Mae [All brides start lying down]
Last night, I had a vision of us making love beneath the earth, and then swimming together, naked in a dark pool. And then when it happens, our bodies dissolve into the light, and every beautiful thought we've ever had, forms around us and carries our souls through space, and into another world, and we're just laughing the whole time, because we know that nothing can ever be wrong again. [Sighs] I wish you were coming with us.
This isn't a world that anyone with any sense stays in or spends much time worrying about. You're living in a carnival. Throwing little plastic rings at oversized pop bottles, hoping to win a prize. What are you gonna win? A two-week vacation? A new car? A little money to retire on? It's all just a shitty sawdust-filled rabbit. The things you care about are useless where we're going. [Lies down with the rest of the brides and Sam attempts to get up only to partly succumb to the spiked tea and the Homeless King pops up from a hatch and walks towards the hut]
How did you know I was here?
