Devil

When I was a child,

my mother would tell me a story

about how the Devil roams the Earth.

Sometimes, she said, he would take human form

so he could punish the damned on Earth before claiming their souls.

The ones he chose would be gathered together

and tortured as he hid amongst them, pretending to be one of them.

I always believed my mother was telling me an old wives' tale.

My mother's story would always begin the same way,

with a suicide paving the way for the Devil's arrival.

And it would always end with the deaths of all those trapped.

I'm good. I feel good. I feel amazing.

You know the main reason why people go back to drinking?

No.

Guess.

The Eagles.

Resentment.

Are we seriously talking about this again?

It's important.

Your ability to forgive is gonna determine

the quality of the rest of your life more than anything else.

Look, some things are beyond forgiveness.

You're already on your way.

You've taken responsibility for your actions.

That's more than half the battle right there.

But to truly feel free,

you may need to finally start believing

in something greater than yourself.

That sounds good.

It does.

But when I think about the guy that killed my family,

I have a tough time believing in much of anything.

I'm just saying, leave yourself open to it.

Can we just have breakfast for once?

Talk about normal stuff.

I'm your sponsor. You can talk about normal stuff

with everybody else.

Hey. Got a good one for you.

Yeah?

Yeah, it doesn't make sense, right?

A guy hits a truck with this kind of force from a two-story building?

Definitely a jumper.

Are you sure he wasn't thrown?

He's got a rosary in his hand.

Not the kind of thing you grab in a panic.

Right.

Elsa. Bowden.

Hi.

There's no glass on the ground.

The truck wasn't here when he made impact. It must have rolled.

Uh-huh.

Your guy jumped from that building.

And what? Your dead guy turned the corner, here?

These things are made to bounce trucks off.

You got to be kidding me.

Let's walk it.

Yeah.

Larson.

Hey! Hey, lady, you got to sign in.

Oh. Where's Ramsey? He knows me.

Ramsey's out sick. You got me.

And that means you gotta sign in.

I mean, do I look like such a threat?

Don't blame me. They got procedures.

Keep dreaming, dawg.

You have to cover the sign in.

Some lawyers on 39 need this right away.

You're not taking the stairs again.

What else am I gonna do to stay in shape?

To 39? Just get on the damn elevator.

Come in.

It's too tight for me.

You can squeeze in.

No.

Hold, please.

Thank you.

Forty-two, please.

You bet.

Now, see, this I can do.

Could you hold that?

Uh. Sorry.

Thanks for your help.

Don't mention it.

Uh-uh, this is not good.

Oh, come on, man.

Don't do this.

Come on, Timonen, put a stick on it.

How we doing?

Same score.

Thanks. Yeah.

Why is elevator six in inspection mode?

Huh? Elevator six.

A full house. Two queens, three jacks.

Call Dwight. Yeah.

Yo, Dwight, you got a problem.

Tell me about it. I'm already up on 35 fixing it.

The elevator?

No, the broken window.

You're not fixing the elevator?

Screen says six is on inspection mode.

We got people stuck in there.

Are you sure you're reading that right?

Your eyes ain't what they used to be.

You know what? I'll ask your mom to read it for me

next time I got her bent over the console.

My mom's 78. Have at it.

Ooh!

Yeah. Listen, buddy, just go up to the machine room

and check it out, okay?

On my way.

Just trying to get something to jump-start it.

Don't you have emergency procedures?

I don't know, I'm just a temp. I just started working here.

Well, don't you service these things?

Try hitting the emergency button.

Don't you keep up your equipment?

I don't know. Like I said...

Don't you have a walkie-talkie?

No. I didn't think I'd need it.

Don't you think it would have been... Won't you shut up?

Yeah, take it easy.

I mean, seriously!

You don't have a walkie-talkie?

Hey, people, we see you in there.

We're stuck!

Hang tough, we got the building engineer on his way.

When was the last time you heard somebody say "hang tough"?

What did you say? Nothing.

Is he picking a fight?

Can one of you look towards the camera

and say something loud and clear, please?

Your building sucks!

I can't hear you.

The speaker in the car is supposed to let us talk both ways,

but you can hear me?

It's working on this end, yeah!

He just said he can't hear us,

didn't say we should talk louder.

Okay, um, give us a sec.

Well, this is reassuring.

I got to be somewhere.

You're not gonna get a signal in here.

I just need to call my job so I don't get fired over this.

Typical bullshit.

Do any of y'all have a signal?

I've got one bar.

Hello? This is Larson.

Can you please connect me to my job at the security desk?

Can you hear me?

Tell them to get us out of here!

Hello?

They'll just have to deal.

Well, at least we got tunes.

Don't sit under that apple tree with anyone else but me

Come on, grandma, you know the words.

Anyone else but me

Don't be a jerk.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Miss Manners.

Did I offend your noble sensibilities?

Why don't you lay off, pal?

Why don't you suck a butt?

This is great.

Let's just pick on the nice guy for bringing a little levity.

Maybe we should all just stop talking for a while.

Sure.

Okay, I was just joking. I'm joking.

Hey, Dwight, are you there yet?

Almost.

Hey, look, man, I'm just glad you're dating again.

I'm just glad you're glad.

You know what I meant. You know, after all your troubles...

I know what you meant.

So, how's that been going for you?

Good.

Ninety days tomorrow.

Wow, 90 days!

It seems like just yesterday since we...

Not to me, it doesn't.

You wouldn't happen to have a broken window up there, would you?

Yeah.

Facing this direction?

Mmm-hmm.

Big enough to fit a person through it?

I suppose.

Please stop sweeping.

I'm declaring this a crime scene.

Car 602.

What the hell is that?

Look out!

You might want to secure that better.

Okay, okay!

In her story, innocent people always die.

Poor souls just trying to help out,

who didn't realize what they were dealing with.

He doesn't take kindly to those who stand in his way.

Hey, old man.

It doesn't say inspection mode here. Circuits look fine.

Okay. Try flipping elevator six.

I'll tell the people in the car. You count to 20, then do it.

Cool.