Bitter Souls

Esther, where are you?

Mahleta!

Mahleta! (Laughs)

Mahleta Elgin! (Laughs)

Yes, me know you are there. (Laughs)

You are not welcome here, oungan.

Time to answer to me.

Answer for your crimes.

Answer for your insolence.

Dare ye practice Rada in me Parissh?

Granting gifts of love and prosperity to non-believers.

Me have warned you, mambo.

If you wish to practice the arts in me hounfo

you practice by me rules.

We shall grant their deepest desires.

Make them fortunes.

Fulfill all their carnal urges. (Laughs)

Cure their ills, vanquish their pain.

At what price?

Price?

You know the price. (Laughs)

We do not serve the bitter loa here.

You will serve who me tell you to.

Be aware, I have heard the nonsense

of your family's spirit voodoo.

A wicked world had little use for the sweet loa.

And those who appeased this notion

will be dealt with accordingly.

Like Miss Tichiba Worthy,

formally of Tichiba's Earthly Creation on Fifth Street.

Guilty! (Laughs)

Me have your attention, yeah?

And what of Esther?

Dear sister Esther. (Laughs)

What of her?

Complicity in every sweet loa at this very shop.

Dear Esther.

Guilty! (Laughs)

I like your necklace.

Oh, thanks. I've had it forever.

I want you to meet my dad.

Come on.

What? No.

Yes, I'll pick you up. We'll go to my parents.

You'll smile at my mom while she puts out salad,

laugh at my dad's jokes, eat some meatloaf.

That sounds like the most frightening interaction

of my entire life.

I'm slowly eating while your dad looks at me disapprovingly.

It's not gonna be like that.

Yeah, it is.

He'll smile when you're looking,

but when you're not, he's gonna shoot me a devil's glare.

That's what dads do.

Weird. So like, how many dads have you met?

It's not like that. It's just a strange situation.

Killing the beast is the only way

Okay, fine, you win.

I'd love to meet your parents.

But you have to promise to go with me

on that show on Friday night.

The one with the weird clowns?

Yeah, the special edition

of the "Show Town Circus Troupe."

Bearded ladies, fire breathing, feats of strength, clowns.

Wrestling clowns, they break concrete

on this guy's head with a sledgehammer.

Okay, calm down, Romeo.

Old Miss Beanstauffer's watching you.

I've gotta get back to work.

But no, you have five more minutes.

Ooh, I love a man in uniform.

You are crazy.

I am crazy, for you. Come here.

I can't. She's still watching.

I can sense the beast.

Should I be jealous?

She hears all, she sees all.

She particularly likes the young ones, especially you.

No, I came out here

I will totally take you up on that kiss later.

You better.

You know you don't have to work here, right?

Not much longer, I won't.

How much more you need for that old car anyway?

$942.18.

I mean, he didn't have... Lucien, let's go!

And, his whole freak family were

Ugh. I'll be here when you get off.

You better be.

We are gonna deal

with them the way they used to deal with these freaks.

What are you thinking?

I don't know. That stupid museum.

Freak show museum.

Hey, Kendall. I got my car back.

Do you wanna go for a drive?

Me and Vicki are going to Palm Grove

to see the Palm Grove pig.

Do you wanna join?

You guys know

that's just a random pig someone abandoned there, right?

No, it's an alien. Everybody says so.

Have you seen its eyes?

I don't know.

Don't you guys have a curfew?

We snuck out.

My parents think I'm at her house

and her parents think that I'm

Look, I get it, really.

I'd love to see a random cryptid more than anyone else,

but I gotta be here by midnight.

You have plenty of time.

It's Halloween in a few days, you have to do something

spooky with us. - Blonde, baby, blonde. Oh.

- Oh my god. - Double trouble.

Hey, where you going, baby? The party just got here.

Yeah, your little tricks, it'll be the time of your life.

Oh, and I see you have a friend.

Is she coming out to play? (Laughs)

There she is, my queen, Kendall Kane.

Creepy Kendall. (Clicks tongue)

My, my, my, you're looking fine this evening.

Literally nobody calls me that but you.

Get lost. This is the best part.

Oh, you haven't seen the best part yet, princess.

Don't you ever get tired of hassling high school girls?

What, you graduated like three years ago?

Five years ago. But you're 18 so it's cool.

No, I'm 17.

No one needs to know, baby.

Let me make this really, really easy for you.

First time I met you, I wasn't interested.

And now, I'm somehow even less interested.

Why are you running away from me?

I just wanna talk to you.

You're feisty. I like it.

Mm, mm, mm. You know I'm a pro wrestler, right?

Oh yeah, I shit you not.

The reverend thing, it's just a gimmick

'cause I am down with the sin.

Look, everybody's making friends tonight.

Why don't you and your girlfriends, me and my boys

get a little party started?

Got smokes, some beer.

Even got a party boat I borrow from time to time.

Borrow? Charming.

Yeah, I think I'd rather die.

Okay, you know, every time I see you, Kendall Kane,

I try to spark up a bit of conversation,

but you constantly shut me down, man.

I mean, I get you're weird but I kinda dig it.

I'm beginning to think you've got some kind

of problem with me, Kendall Kane.

I remember when you were all pigtails and glasses.

I need to get back into that building.

Is there a problem here?

Is there a problem here? Shut up, dude.

Hey.

Jackass.

Maybe we got off on the wrong foot. Let's start over.

I'm Bobby Montrose. It's a pleasure to meet me.

Watch your toes, Bobby Montrose.

I think you're going out of your crazy mind.

Crazy bitch.

We can't stay here.

Where else we gonna go?

Stop this.

Is everyone okay?

I thought you were... I'm fine.

Look, we don't have a lotta time.

Hey fellas, let's go.

Those ladies aren't gonna wait all night.

Do you really think we should trust

Whoo-whoo! (Laughs)

Whoo-hoo.

I thought you guys knew where we were going.

Been driving around for like an hour.