The Good Place 2x3

1. - We're on the same page.

2. I wanna team up with you guys.

3. - What? Why? You do? What?

4. - I'm in a bit of a bind and I could use some backup.

5. So, what do you say? New best friends?

6. - You wanna team up? You've been torturing us

7. and lying about it. - Let's not get

8. all caught up on who lied to who.

9. Which one of us created an entire fake reality

10. in order to cause eternal misery for the others.

11. That's ancient history.

12. - It was happening until 20 seconds ago.

13. - The point is that...

14. circumstances have changed.

15. And now, all of us teaming up is our best option.

16. - I love being on teams. Oh, we need a team name.

17. Um... the Bobcats.

18. - Great. - Slow down, ding dong.

19. He wouldn't offer us a deal for no reason.

20. He needs us.

21. Why? - Because, as you said,

22. you keep beating me.

23. - Look, I built this neighborhood

24. as a way to torture the four of you—psychologically—

25. for thousands of years.

26. And you keep figuring it out

27. and taking all the fun out of it.

28. - Fun? - Today, there was

29. a new development that really chapped my nips.

30. One of my employees is blackmailing me.

31. Vicky. She runs the clam chowder place

32. in the main square.

33. A Little Bit Chowder Now. - Oh, the place

34. with the—the chowder fountain.

35. - No, that's Pump Up the Clam.

36. A Little Bit Chowder Now has the lazy river of chowder.

37. Ugh! How did we ever think this was the Good Place?

38. - Vicky thinks that she can run this neighborhood

39. better than I can.

40. And she wants to start her version in 30 minutes.

41. I am supposed to reboot you,

42. erase your memory and turn control over to her.

43. - How are we supposed to team up with you

44. if you wipe our memories again?

45. - Easy. I'm not going to.

46. You're going to act like you've been rebooted

47. and pretend that Vicky and the others are torturing you.

48. But then, on your own time, in private,

49. you can study ethics, ogle mailmen,

50. do whatever you want. - Can I play iPad?

51. - Sure you can, buddy. - Yes.

52. - Guys, there's no debate here.

53. My boss gave me two chances to make this work.

54. Suffice to say,

55. I tried more than two times.

56. If he finds out, we're all in hot water.

57. Literally. They will boil us.

58. We will be the main ingredient in a chowder of pain.

59. - Human meeting. Bedroom. Now.

60. - Oh, yeah, um, that no stair thing,

61. that was part of the torture.

62. Let me help you.

63. - Son of a bench.

64. - Anyone have any ideas? - You know, believe it or not,

65. I actually found myself in a very similar situation

66. a few years ago, except in that instance,

67. Michael was Javier Bardem

68. and the Bad Place was Vanessa Redgrave's panic room.

69. - Okay, stop talking. Do not talk again for 100 hours.

70. - What do we do? - We team up with Michael.

71. - Okay, hot take, but I like your confidence.

72. Tell me why. - He has a bow tie.

73. - Oh, no.

74. - I always trust dudes in bow ties.

75. Once, this guy in a bow tie came up to me

76. at the gun range in a Jacksonville bus station

77. and said he'd give me $600

78. if I put these weird turtles in my duffle bag

79. and brought them to Daytona Beach.

80. So I hotwired a swamp boat to Daytona

81. and the guy paid me the $600.

82. My point is, you always trust dudes in bow ties.

83. Ahh!

84. - Look, Michael's a liar.

85. I know liars.

86. It was my job to trick people

87. into buying fake medicine

88. and I was the top salesperson

89. seven years in a row. - I thought you only

90. worked there five years. - Proves my point!

91. This is a trick.

92. There's no way we trust him. - I agree.

93. He could be lying about this whole thing.

94. For all we know, you three are in

95. the Bad Place and I'm up in the Good Place,

96. where I belong, being tested.

97. - How would that even— - I don't know,

98. but it's possible. - Before we do anything,

99. we need more information.

100. We should ask him every question we can think of.

101. - Yes. - Yes, we shall grill him

102. like the flank of a Niberian piglet.

103. - I'm sorry, has it been 100 hours?

104. Okay, man. We got questions.

105. First off, how can we possibly trust you?

106. - You can't. But you have to.

107. Logically, you shouldn't but you have no choice.

108. I mean, I wouldn't, if I were you.

109. It's a crazy thing to do.

110. But you gotta. - What happens if we don't?

111. - Most likely, I reboot you once more,

112. you figure it out again, Vicky tells my boss,

113. he shuts everything down.

114. I get punished,

115. you end up spending the rest of eternity

116. in the real Bad Place,

117. up to your necks in a volcano full of scorpions.

118. - I'll tell you what I want to know right now

119. before we go any further.

120. Did the Jacksonville Jaguars

121. win the Super Bowl last year?

122. Oh, you're serious. Uh, no.

123. - Will they ever win the Super Bowl?

124. - Jason, I can't predict the future.

125. But no. They won't.

126. - Okay, well I just have, like, 12 more Jaguar questions—

127. - No, you don't. Hey, Janet?

128. - Hi, there. - Do you have something shiny

129. Jason can play with?

130. - How many different versions of this place

131. have we been through?

132. - Uh, let's see. 802.

133. The longest one was 11 months.

134. Uh, this current one has only been going for one week.

135. Boy, you guys barely know each other.

136. It's gonna make this tough.

137. - What's that super tiny line?

138. - That's the shortest one, eight seconds.

139. It was a butt reboot. I sat on the activator by mistake.

140. - Michael, was I also rebooted 802 times?

141. - Yes. Why?

142. - Every time a Janet is rebooted,

143. she increases her social awareness and abilities.

144. I might be the most advanced Janet in the universe.

145. - So Janet isn't with you.

146. - No. There has to be a Janet in every neighborhood,

147. good and bad.

148. This one is an actual Good Place Janet

149. that I stole to help sell the ruse.

150. - I guess it didn't work, though.

151. Because you keep failing.

152. - Yes, thank you. - You're welcome.

153. - If you're not human, why do you look like us?

154. - Everyone in the Bad Place Bureau of Human Affairs

155. gets randomly assigned a human body

156. so we can get the feel of how best to torture you.

157. I gotta say, it took me a long time to get used to

158. the hanging bits. - Gross.

159. - Oh, get your mind out of the gutter, Eleanor.

160. I was talking about my testicles.

161. - Mindy St. Clair's is fake, I bet.

162. - No, the Medium Place is real.

163. So annoying how you managed to slip away from me

164. all those times. - Why even tell us

165. about any real thing?

166. Why not just lie about all of it?

167. - Lies are always more convincing

168. when they're closer to the truth.

169. - That's true. I crashed a lot

170. of open bar weddings as Eileen Shelbourne.

171. Even dated a groomsman for a few months.

172. So I had to keep the name, and he got Eileen

173. tattooed on his neck. - Seriously?

174. How are she and I in the same place?

175. - Oh, get over yourself. - Trust me, don't trust me,

176. it doesn't matter.

177. We're running out of time,

178. and I'm your only option.

179. - We're running out of time

180. and I'm your only option?

181. A lot of guys your age said that to me

182. just as the bar was about to close.

183. But I never settled for them.

184. Because my ex-boyfriend lived nearby,

185. he was obsessed with me and he never slept

186. because he was addicted to Adderall.

187. There is always another option.

188. You guys do whatever you want.

189. I'm out. - No!

190. My plan only works if all four of you

191. are on board. - Then you better get cracking

192. on a new plan, pally, because so far,

193. I haven't heard a single good reason

194. why I should help you.

195. - All right, how about this? You help me

196. trick Vicky and all those other goons,

197. I can get you to the real Good Place.

198. - There's a way to get to the real Good place.

199. - It's complicated.

200. It may take a while to arrange—

201. especially since I'll have to do it in secret—

202. but yes, yes, there is a potential

203. method of transportation.

204. - Wait, is it nice?

205. Is there a business class?

206. Can I pre-board?

207. - Yeah, let's not worry about that right now.

208. I can get us there.

209. - Us?

210. You, Mr. Diabolical Torture Guy

211. are gonna try to join us in the Good Place?

212. - Yeah, if I stay in the Bad Place, I'm doomed.

213. But if I rescue four pitiful, foul-smelling humans

214. from eternal damnation—

215. hit 'em with the big puppy dog eyes.

216. Please, sir, take pity on me, I've changed—

217. and all that crap,

218. maybe I can earn a spot, too.

219. - We didn't deserve the Good Place

220. based on our time on Earth.

221. Will they even let us stay?

222. - I gotta be honest, I have no idea.

223. But at least if you help me fool Vicky,

224. your brains don't get erased every two weeks.

225. - Okay, all humans who have not already been

226. suckered by Michael, another team meeting.

227. This is definitely a trap.

228. We figured out his game every time

229. and now he's just trying a new way to mess with us.

230. Teaming up with a demon is insane.

231. - Maybe.

232. But I think we have to do it.

233. - Are you forking kidding me right now?

234. You take a half an hour to pick out a turtleneck,

235. and yet this you're sure about?

236. - Okay, look, I spent my whole life trying

237. to learn about right and wrong

238. and apparently, I failed.

239. I want us to get better and I want us to stay that way.

240. You understand that, right, Tahani?

241. - I understand nothing.

242. - Hey! Same here!

243. - Michael, there's been a mistake.

244. I belong in the Good Place.

245. The real one with the good people.

246. Who do I speak to about correcting this?

247. - Me and you're wrong.

248. - Very well. I would like to speak to your manager.

249. - Listen, sweetheart,

250. you've only been in this timeline for about a week.

251. So I think I'm gonna fast forward things a bit.

252. There's a very good reason why you ended up here.

253. You never cared about the people you were helping.

254. You did it only for fame or status or to spite your family.

255. - That is utter tosh!

256. I had my flaws, just like anyone else,

257. but I raised billions for charity.

258. I was a good person and I defy you

259. or anyone else to prove otherwise.

260. - You know, in all the reboots,

261. I never showed you how you died.

262. I was saving it in case I ever needed

263. to really make you miserable.

264. But it's hilarious.

265. Of course, I mean sad.

266. But it might help you come to grips

267. with who you really were.

268. Do you want to remember it?

269. - Tahani Al-Jamil, social activist,

270. philanthropist, neck model and now cover girl

271. for "International Sophisticate Magazine."

272. Tahani, welcome. - Oh, it's such an honor.

273. I have long dreamt of being one of the women

274. or yachts who grace your cover.

275. - Let's begin with your sister, Kamilah.

276. A woman who—as you know— was offered the spot

277. on our cover, but turned it down.

278. - I actually didn't know that.

279. Please, carry on.

280. - Well, next week, Kamilah will travel to Cleveland, Ohio

281. to become the youngest person ever inducted

282. into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame.

283. Remarkable.

284. - Is there a question?

285. - Don't you find that remarkable?

286. - Kamilah is very impressive.

287. As you know, she released her debut album

288. only six months ago and yet, the critics

289. thought it was so brilliant that the Hall of Fame

290. decided to waive its 25 year waiting period.

291. Sadly, I will not be attending the ceremony

292. because I will be in Haiti

293. on a relief mission.

294. Perhaps we should talk more about that.

295. - Perhaps we should. But first,

296. another question about Kamilah.

297. Don't you think she and I would be friends?

298. We have a lot in common, we are both Capricorn,

299. and we're both only children.

300. I'm sorry, I forgot about you.

301. Kamilah! Congratulations.

302. You have all the attention. Once again.

303. - Who are you? - Really?

304. - Good Lord. Tahani!

305. You're a cocktail waitress now.

306. Honestly, I think this is the right move for you.

307. - No, it's just that my own sister

308. didn't even deign to invite me to her little soiree.

309. So I had to weasel my way in here

310. like some common... weasel.

311. But I was supposed to be in Haiti being photographed

312. helping people, but instead I delayed my trip

313. by a day to come here and tell you off.

314. - No, you came to do what you always do:

315. make a scene and embarrass yourself.

316. - So I'm just an embarrassment to you?

317. Is that what you think of me?

318. - Honestly, I don't really think about you.

319. - No! Ow.

320. Thing—just—ah!

321. I'll bring you down!

322. I will bring you down.

323. Come on. Come on!

324. Come down to the ground where you belong, will you—

325. Oh, no. - Mm.

326. - I died in Cleveland?

327. - I don't think that should be your biggest takeaway

328. from that story. - Is that really

329. all I cared about?

330. Just outshining my sister

331. and gaining praise and acclaim?

332. I mean, I did gain praise and acclaim.

333. You know, I dare say on some occasions,

334. more praise and acclaim than my sister, Kamilah, so—

335. Oh.

336. Oh, I see.

337. Oh, God. - Oh, come on, now.

338. It's not all bad. Imagine you're me

339. and you're designing a torture chamber

340. for people who think that they belong in the Good Place.

341. I mean, you were perfect.

342. - But I've always wanted to be perfect at something—

343. I just never thought it would be the perfect stooge.

344. I want to do it. I want to become

345. the person I pretended to be.

346. I agree with Chidi. We should team up with Michael

347. and all try to build a better Tahani.

348. - Great. Yet again, it's everyone against Eleanor.

349. Because everyone except Eleanor is an idiot.

350. Why am I the only person who clearly sees

351. what's going on here? - It's not that

352. we don't understand the risks,

353. we just wanna become better people

354. and this is our best chance.

355. - Oh, I get it. 'Cause you're so much better than me.

356. That's what this is about? - Hang on,

357. don't lash out at us just because of

358. your innate distrust. - Lash out?

359. - No, it's not about who's better.

360. - I have no idea what's going on right now

361. but everyone else is talking

362. and I think I should too!

363. - What is so funny?

364. - I'm sorry, I shouldn't be laughing.

365. How do I explain this?

366. I'm basically an exterminator

367. and you're cockroaches.

368. My job was to squish you and poison you

369. and yet, somehow, my very survival

370. now depends on you, the cockroaches,

371. agreeing to help me.

372. That's funny. - We're cockroaches to you?

373. - Yeah. Or dung beetles.

374. I don't know. Something small and gross

375. that creeps on the ground in its own filth.

376. Just being honest.

377. - Okay, okay, okay, okay.

378. All right, forget about him. - Oh!

379. Forget about him, focus on us.

380. Kant wrote it is our duty to improve ourselves.

381. So whatever Michael's reasons for doing this,

382. he's giving us the best chance to improve ourselves.

383. - Okay, I have to admit, you're making

384. a lot of sense right now.

385. I need to just untangle all of this.

386. Give me a minute to think about it alone.

387. - Okay.

388. - Janet? - Hi, there.

389. - Call me a train. Fill it to the brim with cocaine.

390. - Gonna bail, huh? - Hm? No.

391. Why—why would you say that?

392. - Well, you got a bag full of clothes,

393. you stuffed a bunch of pillows and a mop

394. in your bed to make it look like you're asleep

395. and you're literally sneaking out the back gate.

396. - Okay. I'm going to Mindy's.

397. I don't want to live forever in a boring, beige house

398. with a weird, horny cokehead, but look at

399. what you're asking me to do.

400. Make a deal with an actual devil

401. so that I can then do homework in secret.

402. And by the way, you're not my friends, man.

403. We've known each other for, like, a week.

404. - You know it's more than that.

405. We've been through some version of this

406. 800 different times.

407. And who cares that it's only been a week?

408. How long do you have to know someone before you

409. do the right thing? - Nine weeks, minimum.

410. - Okay. - Look, bro,

411. I don't owe you anything.

412. I gotta do what's right for me.

413. You can come with me if you want.

414. I got another mop we can put in the bed.

415. - Good luck.

416. - I got a couple more questions.

417. - Sure. Take your time.

418. We're not in a hurry or anything.

419. - How many times in all the reboots

420. did I ask Chidi for help,

421. he refused to help me and then I had to

422. get better on my own?

423. - Never. He always helped you.

424. - God.

425. Really? - Yep.

426. No matter how I set it up,

427. you found him, confessed you didn't belong,

428. asked him for help, and he said yes.

429. Now his agreeing to help was part of my plan.

430. What wasn't part of my plan

431. was it actually working.

432. Drove me nuts.

433. Pesky little nerd.

434. Stuck with you and always helped you

435. overcome your biggest problem.

436. - Assuming that's my selfishness.

437. - No. No, no, no.

438. It's that you never found a haircut

439. that framed your face properly.

440. Yes, your selfishness. - I'm not that selfish.

441. - Eleanor, your cocaine and escape train are ready.

442. - Not now. - Okay.

443. - I think Michael is a liar.

444. I think there's a 99% chance he's forking with us.

445. But he's asking us for help, so we should help him.

446. Because that's what Chidi would do.

447. That's what Chidi would do for me

448. or for any of us.

449. - It's what I am doing. - I know.

450. - It's just—you're talking about me like I'm not here

451. or something and that just makes me feel weird.

452. - All right. We're all in.

453. We'll help you.

454. - You finally listened to reason.

455. - On one condition.

456. You wanna be on our team, you gotta be on our team.

457. Which means the professor over here

458. is gonna give us all lessons on how to be better people.

459. Including you.

460. - Oh, no.

461. No, I won't be taking any classes.

462. I'm an immortal being

463. with abilities you can only dream—

464. - Yeah, and we're in Arizona, dirtbag.

465. A human turtleneck, a narcissistic monster,

466. and literally the dumbest person I've ever met.

467. - And who am I? Describe me now.

468. - We are all going to take classes.

469. We are all going to improve.

470. And the second you betray us, I walk into

471. Vicky's stinky chowder restaurant

472. and tell her everything.

473. You agree to those terms,

474. and you can join us on Team Cockroach.

475. So what's it gonna be?

476. You're running out of time.

477. And we're your only option.

478. - So it's all frozen yogurt places now, huh?

479. - Yeah, yogurt was what we started with.

480. A lot of us like the first version best

481. so we went back to 322 perfectly matched human souls,

482. blended together in a blissful,

483. harmonic balance.

484. - Well done. - I've only given

485. this opening day tour to you like, 800 times.

486. - Hey, how's this for my oh-my-God-I'm-in-Heaven face?

487. - Not bad. - Right?

488. I'm a pretty good liar.

489. - Now I wanna introduce someone that you're gonna

490. get to know very well.

491. She was the top point getter, so she'll be

492. helping me out around the neighborhood,

493. kind of like your mayor.

494. Vicky Sengupta!

495. Vicky, would you like to say a few words?

496. - Actually, Michael, I'd like to sing a few words.

497. Janet, hit it.

498. - We should have a few hours to ourselves.

499. Vicky's working on her performance

500. for the welcome party tonight.

501. - It looks like pretending to enjoy her singing

502. is gonna be half our job here.

503. - I got her to tell me how she was gonna torture you

504. at the party, which is basically

505. the same way I did.

506. Eleanor gets drunk,

507. hogs all the shrimp,

508. insults people, etcetera.

509. Whatever bad stuff you do

510. becomes the basis for the chaos tomorrow morning.

511. - Okay, okay. So my job is to get drunk

512. and insult people.

513. I think I can hack that.

514. - Now, Chidi, I'm gonna need you

515. to act nervous and embarrassed by Eleanor.

516. - Way ahead of you. - Tahani, just be

517. your fabulous self.

518. And Jason, you're good old silent Jianyu the monk.

519. So I told Vicky that I would handle the surveillance

520. on the four of you.

521. That'll let us meet each day

522. for Chidi's ethics lessons,

523. which will apparently include me.

524. Even though that's transparently insane.

525. - Cool. And, um, Janet, you're not gonna

526. rat us out, right? - Well, Jason,

527. I've been thinking about this a lot

528. over the last 1.3 milliseconds,

529. I'm not allowed to lie, but my purpose

530. is to make humans happy.

531. And since you're the only actual humans here,

532. I'm on board for whatever fun little schemes

533. you guys come up with.

534. - Okay, bring it in. Team huddle.

535. The Bad Place is about to be outsmarted

536. by a cowardly traitor, four dum-dums,

537. and a robot. - Not a robot.

538. - We can do this.

539. Team Cockroach on three.

540. One, two, three.

541. Team Cockroach! - Bobcats!

542. I still think that's better.