Morbid Morsals. Season 2. Episode 13. The Last Hand

3:01 SPEAKER_01: Hello, my friend.

3:05 SPEAKER_01: How is it that you stumbled into my caverns in the abyss?

3:12 SPEAKER_01: I am ancient.

3:14 SPEAKER_01: I am forever.

3:17 SPEAKER_01: And I have been chained down here for a millennia.

3:33 SPEAKER_02: Please, please help me.

3:40 SPEAKER_01: Oh, I'm afraid there's no escape.

3:45 SPEAKER_01: I can assure you of that.

3:50 SPEAKER_01: Sooner or later, you all come here.

3:54 SPEAKER_01: Your dark thoughts brought you here.

3:59 SPEAKER_01: And for that, you are forever trapped down here.

4:06 SPEAKER_02: Please, please let me go.

4:08 SPEAKER_02: I have a family.

4:10 SPEAKER_02: I don't know how I got here or what I'm doing.

4:13 SPEAKER_02: Whatever you are or place this is, I'm sorry.

4:17 SPEAKER_02: Please, I can't see it's so dark.

4:24 SPEAKER_01: Before your suffering begins, I will tell you the tale to master time.

4:32 SPEAKER_01: Short stories of horror.

4:36 SPEAKER_01: Tiny tales of the creeping.

4:41 SPEAKER_01: I will assure you, by the end you'll be screaming with madness.

4:51 SPEAKER_02: Please.

4:53 SPEAKER_02: I swear on your edit.

4:55 SPEAKER_02: Please just let me go.

4:58 SPEAKER_02: Please.

5:04 SPEAKER_01: Where are my matters?

5:08 SPEAKER_01: I am a shadow dweller.

5:12 SPEAKER_01: Here to keep you company until the abyss swallows you whole.

5:19 SPEAKER_01: I've been here for eons and collected stories that I pass down to you before the darkness takes you.

5:32 SPEAKER_01: This little ditty is called The Last Hand.

5:47 SPEAKER_00: Jack Malone was the kind of guy your mother warned you about.

5:50 SPEAKER_00: Slick, smug, and always with an ace up his sleeve.

5:54 SPEAKER_00: Literally.

5:55 SPEAKER_00: He roamed city to city like a wolf in a three-piece suit, living off the wallets of unlucky suckers who thought they could beat him at cards.

6:04 SPEAKER_00: He wasn't just good, he was a damn magician.

6:08 SPEAKER_00: Or maybe something worse.

6:11 SPEAKER_04: Well now, that's four fleshes in a row.

6:14 SPEAKER_04: Either I'm the luckiest bastard in Chicago, or you boys just plain suck.

6:18 SPEAKER_04: You're cheating, along.

6:20 SPEAKER_04: Me?

6:21 SPEAKER_04: Cheating?

6:21 SPEAKER_04: I'm insulted.

6:22 SPEAKER_04: You won me, sir.

6:24 SPEAKER_04: Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I hear another poor sap calling my name from the next city.

6:28 SPEAKER_00: Next stop, New Orleans.

6:31 SPEAKER_00: A bar on the edge of town called the Devil's Cut.

6:34 SPEAKER_00: He liked the sound of that.

6:36 SPEAKER_04: What a drinking.

6:37 SPEAKER_04: Whiskey meat.

6:38 SPEAKER_04: And a little luck if you got any of that in stock.

6:42 SPEAKER_04: You'll find more than luck here, stranger.

6:44 SPEAKER_04: Might even find your end.

6:46 SPEAKER_04: Yeah, spooky bar talk.

6:47 SPEAKER_04: I've heard worse in Detroit.

6:49 SPEAKER_04: Mind if I join you?

6:50 SPEAKER_04: Depends.

6:51 SPEAKER_04: You got money.

6:52 SPEAKER_04: Or just charm and mystery.

6:53 SPEAKER_04: Oh, I've got everything, including a deck.

6:56 SPEAKER_04: Care for a game?

6:57 SPEAKER_04: You look like you couldn't tell a flush from a foot.

6:59 SPEAKER_04: This'll be quick.

7:01 SPEAKER_03: Let's make it interesting.

7:04 SPEAKER_03: You win.

7:05 SPEAKER_03: You get whatever you want.

7:07 SPEAKER_03: Cash, cars, women, hell, even immortality, if that's your thing.

7:12 SPEAKER_03: Alright, alright.

7:13 SPEAKER_03: And if you win.

7:15 SPEAKER_04: Your soul.

7:17 SPEAKER_04: Buddy, I sold that thing for a six-pack and a blowjob years ago.

7:21 SPEAKER_04: Deal.

7:22 SPEAKER_00: They played.

7:23 SPEAKER_00: And Jack cheated.

7:24 SPEAKER_00: Of course he did.

7:26 SPEAKER_00: Marked cards, palm switches, the whole nine yards.

7:30 SPEAKER_00: But every time he thought he had the upper hand.

7:35 SPEAKER_03: Son of a bitch.

7:36 SPEAKER_04: Fine.

7:36 SPEAKER_04: Double or nothing.

7:38 SPEAKER_03: You're slick, Jack, like an eel covered in oil.

7:41 SPEAKER_03: But even slick things slip eventually.

7:45 SPEAKER_00: Jack laid down a royal flush.

7:48 SPEAKER_00: Impossible odds.

7:49 SPEAKER_00: But that's what made him smile.

7:51 SPEAKER_00: That's what made him think he'd won.

7:53 SPEAKER_04: Read him and weep, Grandpa.

7:55 SPEAKER_03: Ugly hand.

7:56 SPEAKER_03: Shame its counterfeit.

7:58 SPEAKER_03: What the hell is that?

7:59 SPEAKER_03: Straight flush in your blood.

8:01 SPEAKER_03: What kind of trick?

8:02 SPEAKER_03: What the hell are you?

8:03 SPEAKER_03: You called me Jack.

8:05 SPEAKER_03: Every time you cheated.

8:07 SPEAKER_03: Every time you looked a man in the eye and robbed him with a smile.

8:11 SPEAKER_03: You weren't just playing cards.

8:14 SPEAKER_03: No, no, this isn't real.

8:15 SPEAKER_03: This is a nightmare.

8:17 SPEAKER_03: Nightmares are for the sleeping, Jack.

8:18 SPEAKER_03: You, you're wide awake.

8:20 SPEAKER_03: You cheated.

8:22 SPEAKER_03: I never cheat, I just play to win.

8:24 SPEAKER_00: Who in the hell are you?

8:26 SPEAKER_03: Oh, I go by many names, Jack.

8:29 SPEAKER_03: I go back as far as time can remember.

8:32 SPEAKER_03: All mankind indulges in the seven sins, which makes it easier for me to collect souls when you're already being manipulated.

8:41 SPEAKER_03: I'm willing to bet that where you're going, there's no amount of cheating that will set you free.

8:49 SPEAKER_00: They found Jack's body in the Devil's Cut the next morning.

8:52 SPEAKER_00: Mouth stretched in a scream, eyes blackened, heart stopped, yet no signs of a struggle.

9:33 unknown: What the hell do you think of me?

9:53 SPEAKER_01: Intel to be left to be as the caverns of the abyss takes you.

10:36 SPEAKER_01: Your dark thoughts always lead you to me.

10:43 SPEAKER_01: So, my friends, until next time, I look forward to tasting your fear.

11:33 SPEAKER_01: And you have stepped into the abyss.

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