You nervous, Bill?
[both chuckling]
Come on, these guys ain't shit. Ain't nothin', Bill. Ain't nothin'.
-Pain is only temporary, right? -That's right.
Go get 'em, devil dog. Go get 'em. [imitates barking]
-[all chanting] Russo! Russo! Russo! -Come on, Bill!
[all chanting] Russo! Russo! Russo!
Russo! Russo!
Russo! Russo! Russo! Russo! Russo!
[man 1] You're nothing, bitch ass.
[Billy grunts]
[indistinct shouting]
[man 2] Get up, pretty boy.
[all chanting] Castle! Castle! Castle! Castle!
[indistinct shouting]
[man 3] Is that your nose, or did a bus park on your face?
[Frank grunting]
I love you, man.
-[Frank grunts] -[all cheering]
[laughing]
Marine salvage, huh? She said that?
-[Curtis] Yeah. -[chuckles] That kid's a trip.
That's some deep shit that she's in.
The both of you.
The bounty on your head, that's no joke.
Five mil?
A man can do a lot with that.
[chuckles] Hey, don't get yourself any ideas, Curt.
I know you want to replace that shitbag car of yours.
[laughs]
Ain't gonna be no bounty if there's nobody alive to pay it.
-'Cause that's what you do. -Yeah, you bet your ass it is.
You got something you wanna say about that, Curt?
Nah, it's all been said.
And here we are...
in the rain.
[Dumont] You know them both well.
Yeah, I got a real insight.
Maybe if you did, you'd be drinking, too.
I might have some wine.
If you're staying.
Sure.
I've got nowhere else to go anyway.
We can sit in here.
It's a little less therapeutic and more friendly.
Is that what we are now, friends?
We can be.
No offense, but it looks like you need one.
Does "friends" come with a confidentiality clause?
You can write me a check if it makes you feel better, Dinah.
-Red? -Yeah.
-I feel like I'm just doing things. -[wine pouring]
And for what? None of it changes the fact that two of my partners have been killed.
I owe it to them to put Billy in prison,
and I feel like I can't move on until I do,
but I'm never any closer to it.
Look, forgive the clinical language,
but that feeling is what we call a death equivalent.
People who survive a near-fatal injury
often feel like they're living a waking death
and nothing matters and they have no power.
It's totally normal.
Okay, so what do I do about it?
You talk about it.
Talk?
What I should've done is shoot Billy when I had the chance.
Or let Castle do it.
He was there that night?
Yeah.
The three of us.
Maybe we still are.
Get it out, Dinah. Talk to me.
Frank Castle, Billy Russo, whatever you wanna share.
Let it out before it kills you.
[Dinah] You can't start to understand Billy until you understand Frank.
When Frank smashed Billy into that mirror...
he was looking at himself.
I never wanted you involved in this shit, Curtis.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
I'd probably be dead or locked up if you didn't jump in, though.
Hey...
no one I'd rather be on this roof with than you.
Maybe except Billy?
Back in the days?
How good was he in a firefight, huh?
But now we know why.
'Cause he's stone-cold crazy.
[Frank laughs] Yeah. The truth is...
even if I had known it, you know...
I probably wouldn't have given a shit.
When you think about half those assholes from back then, you know...
I wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire in the real world.
But over there, I'd take a bullet for 'em in a heartbeat.
I miss that.
I never saw anything about Bill, you know?
I should have. I should've seen it. I should've--
You should have what? Stopped Billy from being Billy?
Come on, Frank.
Maybe I could've helped him.
When have you ever known for Billy Russo to ask for help?
When have I ever asked for help?
I'm the same.
But here you are, on this roof with me.
You're the only one that's different, Curtis.
All that time we spent training to kill people,
you were trained to put 'em back together.
You know, help 'em, heal 'em.
Me and Bill, not so much.
Hey, hey, cut it out.
Stop that. You're nothing alike.
He was lying the whole time.
And maybe he didn't know it himself,
but he was something else, something empty.
That right there, that's the difference, Frank.
You give a shit about people.
He doesn't.
You know, I remember...
I remember killing every one of 'em, Curtis.
You know, just...
They're dead.
Sometimes, I think that's all I got.
Just me and the ghosts.
[theme music playing]
♪ When I get drunk and talk to God ♪
♪ I say I'm sorry For all the things I'm not ♪
♪ I mean every word I say ♪
♪ And I promise I can change ♪
[sniffs]
♪ When I get drunk and talk to God ♪
Blessed are the merciful...
for they shall obtain mercy.
[Kusack] That's nice.
You have no mercy coming.
I wasn't talking about me.
[laughing]
[Pilgrim grunts]
Make it dirty, boys.
♪ I'll say, "I can't be alone" ♪
♪ And he'll say "Son, you're on your own" ♪
♪ 'Cause when I talk to God I tell him why we're through ♪
[shudders]
[grunting]
♪ I wish that I could go to church ♪
♪ But I'm too ashamed of me ♪
♪ I hate the fact ♪
♪ It takes a bottle To get me on my knees ♪
♪ And I hope he'll forgive The things you ain't forgot ♪
♪ When I get drunk and talk to God ♪
[Pilgrim grunts]
[Kusack grunts]
[panting]
Hey, man, listen...
I didn't know it was gonna go down like that.
[sniffs]
You think Billy can still be helped.
But there's no logic in that.
Humans don't work by logic.
We think we do, and we want to, but in the end we...
We're just ruled by instinct and emotion, and we justify it to ourselves afterwards.
-Even you? -Even me.
[Dinah] You know, men think they're tougher than us?
[Dumont scoffs]
[Dinah] And too many of us believe it, but it's bullshit.
They're just way better at forgiving themselves than we are.
They pulled you into their war.
But that doesn't mean you have to participate...
or choose sides.
I'm sorry if this is blunt, but how is Castle any different from Billy?
If we're not judged by the things we do, then how are we judged?
Castle's family was gunned down right in front of him,
and he couldn't do anything about it.
The only way to make sense of that is to stop it from happening to someone else.
[Dumont] What happened to Castle doesn't give him the right
-to choose who lives and who dies. -[Dinah] No, it doesn't.
You have to tally up the good someone's done
compared to the bad they've done, and you see where they come out.
He's murdered a lot of people. He wants to murder Billy Russo.
-Never anyone innocent. -Who decides who's innocent?
[Dinah] I've seen him risk his life without a second thought
to save women or kids.
[Dumont] So... [sighs]
What? He's exempt because of some archaic idea of chivalry?
No, he is exempt because if Frank ever did the things Billy has done,
he would feel like he was burning in hell.
[telephone ringing]
[loud music playing in distance]
[indistinct chatter and laughter]
[sniffs]
[man] Slow it down. Slow down. I paid for an hour.
[indistinct chatter continues]
[man] You wanted molly. I called my guy. I called my guy who delivers.
You're not my guy.
[sniffs]
[man] What the hell, man?
Who the shit are you--
Hi, Linda, it's Curtis.
Yeah, I know. I know.
Hey, look, I think I'm on the mend, but I'm still not feeling great.
[coughs lightly] Uh-huh.
Look, I'm telling you, whatever this is, nobody wants it.
[Frank chuckles]
Yeah. Yeah.
Look, uh... [coughs] Look... Yeah, I appreciate that. Look, I...
And I'll call you whenever I'm feeling up to it.
Thank you.
Yeah, yeah, I appreciate it.
Hey. Bravo. You even did the voice and everything.
-Shit. -She fall for that shit?
-I just keep shoveling lies. -Atta boy.
-I told her I had some stomach thing? -Yup.
The rampant shits.
-[chuckles] Nice. Nice. -[Curtis laughs]
Yeah. Here.
You know, this is the real world.
I'd like... I'd like it to be there when this is all done.
You know, most people don't have a Frank Castle.
They just pay their premiums and trust the system.
You're hilarious.
-[Curtis] Are we set? -Yeah.
Any back doors?
Yeah, there's a tunnel.
That's out by the parking lot there.
Every rat's got a rat run.
-You ever heard of the Hashashin? -The Hasha-who?
The Hashashin, the original cult of assassins.
[Frank] No.
During the Crusades, there was this dude who organized a bunch of fighters.
He used their desire to defend the Holy Land for his own vendettas.
He'd send them on suicide missions and shit.
He made them feel special,
fed them the finest foods, girls, drugs, all of that.
And the only way they can get it is doing exactly what he told 'em.
And that's what Billy's doing.
These guys just want to be a part of something,
and Billy's giving that to 'em.
Now here you come, trying to go in there and take it all away.
They're not gonna like that.
-They're not gonna like it, Frank. -They're gonna have to get over it.
Man, they're just... [stammers] 'bout 15 guys in there.
What? Fifteen guys who are doing just what Billy tells 'em.
-Nothing else. -In the end, he's gonna be alone.
That's the thing with Bill.
He's always alone.
[Frank grunts]
[screaming]
[Pilgrim] Look, I don't understand brotherhood.
Do you know what brotherhood is?
It's a defense against your weakness.
It's surrounding yourself with people as pathetic as you are.
It's just a way to avoid staring your own...
your own sins in the face.
Brotherhood is a hall of mirrors...
looking back at you, reflecting your own self back at you.
But there comes a time...
[softly] you gotta smash the mirror...
[in normal voice] and look inside and decide, "Who am I?
What kind of man am I?"
You gotta understand your own true nature.
[softly] And you gotta use it.
[in normal voice] You gotta understand, really understand, what is...
that you have to change.
Who among us can look at themselves without shame?
Get out.
What's that, honey?
Get out. Go. Get out.
Get out. Go. Get out of here.
[door opens]
Get out.
[door closes]
[women shouting indistinctly]
Party tonight!
Woo-hoo!
[Curtis] This goes as usual.
They all get shit-faced by midnight.
The girls leave by 2:00 a.m.
They never stay.
[Frank] Let's just hope he shows up.
Oh, he'll show up.
Every good commander needs his men to see him,
kiss the ring.
Or they'll get ideas of their own.
I'm gonna get into position.
You let me know as soon as those women are out of here, yeah?
Billy shows up, you make the call. We get this done.
Yeah.
You sure you're all right with this, Curt?
If anything happens to you...
I don't know if I'll be able to forgive myself.
Yeah, come on.
Yeah, you don't owe me anything.
Come on.
Don't get yourself killed.
I'll do my best.
[Rebecca chuckling]
[kissing]
[Rebecca] I love you, John.
[Pilgrim] I love you.
-Yeah. -[Rebecca chuckles]
My name isn't John.
[Rebecca] I'm sorry?
[Pilgrim] It's Robert.
I wasn't a good man, Rebecca.
It feels wrong not telling you.
I don't wanna keep nothin' from my wife...
if you would have me.
And the man you were before, do you still feel like that man?
[Pilgrim] No.
[Rebecca] But you're scared he's still there?
[Pilgrim] I'm scared he always will be.
I hurt people because they were different.
I hurt people for money.
For revenge.
Every manner of sin, I've done it. Every one.
I've killed men, Rebecca.
And I did all those things because...
there was something inside of me that wouldn't stop
until the whole world was blood.
I was so lost.
But now I've been found.
[Rebecca] And you are loved.
Finish this.
Come home to me.
[telephone ringing]
[sniffles and exhales]
Did you always want to work with people like Billy?
When I was a kid, eight maybe, I found an injured bird in our yard.
It had probably flown into one of our windows.
So I took it inside, and my father said, "That one is a lost cause."
And that broke my heart.
How could anyone give up on a living thing? So...
I put it in a shoebox, and I brought it to bed with me.
I gave it water out of an eyedropper, and I talked to it all night.
And that bird flew away a week later.
Given enough care and love,
even the most lost cause can thrive.
I know it's hard for you to believe that Billy was worth saving, but I believe it.
You think Billy was a victim of his shitty childhood?
Children don't get to choose.
And the world is a cruel place.
Because men are cruel.
Billy wanted money and a corner office,
and he took out anyone who was in his way. It's as simple as that.
You see people when they're broken, when they're in need of help.
But if you could see the world from where I'm standing,
you wouldn't think he was worth saving.
Trust me, okay?
They almost never are.
Can I ask you a question about Billy?
[Dumont] Sure.
Say I do it right...
Bring him to court. Put him in jail.
I'd want to see it in his eyes that he knows I survived it all and he didn't.
Is he even capable of understanding that?
I think the question is...
will that be enough for you?
What's an acceptable outcome for this story?
You need to answer this question honestly, or you will never find any peace.
After today...
I want him dead.
[Dumont] But how does that make you any different
from someone like Billy? Or Frank?
These men for who killing is the answer to everything.
Why will you find comfort in it any more than them?
[cell phone vibrates]
Yeah?
[Curtis over cell phone] I got a PID on Billy. He just joined the party.
You still good?
What could go wrong?
[Frank screaming]
[Billy] You boys happy?
-I said, "Is everybody happy?" -[all] Yes!
-Hells yeah. -[Todd] Like a pig in shit.
Yeah.
You should be.
We're kings.
We own this city.
And all I gave you was each other.
This. Us.
Eight of us started this.
Four of us left:
Todd, Philip, José and me.
Now, Bobby...
He was a Judas. He wanted more than everybody else.
Thought that he was better than us.
And I killed him for it.
Now there's another man that thinks that he's better than us.
He killed another three of our brothers.
The Punisher.
A man just like us once.
My brother!
And then he gave me...
this.
Why?
Because he thinks that he is better than me,
that he has the right to judge me, to judge you, to kill you.
But he's not a cop.
He's not a judge.
He don't care about no friendship, no flag and no cause except his own.
-Screw him! -He's gonna get his.
Now, in the spirit of what we have here,
I'm not gonna lie to you.
My beef with this man... is personal.
And none of you needs to have any part of that.
But he's out there right now.
I know him.
And he is arrogant enough to think
that he could come in here after me like a cat-five hurricane.
And he will kill any of you that stands between me and him.
[José] Let him try that shit.
[Todd] That's what Valhalla means.
You built this. We got you.
[José] That's right.
See, I don't want it to be about just me.
It has to be about any of us, all of us.
He is just a man alone, but we...
we got something more.
Easy words.
But are we to die for what we're building here? Hmm?
It would be easy to kill him.
But I want more than that.
I have more than that planned for this man.
I need him to understand!
But I need you.
I need all of you with me...
to deliver it.
[man grunts]
-There. Take 'em home. -Okay.
-The others? -[José] Right where you wanted 'em.
-Hey, what's the plan here, Billy? -Don't worry about it.
Do you know anyone who is really happy?
Isn't that what keeps you in business?
[chuckles] It's not in our natures.
Take the prettiest girl, and she'll say she's too short. Or...
the best-looking guy, and he'll say he's too skinny.
A genius worries about his physique. A priest questions his faith.
A soldier doubts his courage.
I think if there is a hell, that's what it would be...
an eternity spent facing our own failings.
"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."
And so you force yourself to do a job that is incompatible with your feelings.
Billy Russo chases power
because he fears that he is worthless and unlovable.
Frank Castle,
he does terrible things, but he still wants to believe he is good.
So what's yours?
What's your hell?
I believe, despite all evidence to the contrary, that...
one day I will free one of you from yours.
Oh, hell.
[beeps]
[indistinct shouting]
[music starts and stops]
[Frank grunts]
[music starts and stops]
[Frank grunts]
[gunshots]
[music starts and stops]
[Frank shouts]
[grunts]
-[music starts and stops] -[screams]
-[music starts and stops] -[shouts]
[screams]
[yells]
Russo!
How does it feel, Frank?
You think I wouldn't know you were coming?
[screams]
[Frank] Where are you, Bill?
I am you, Frank!
[Frank] Where are you?!
[Frank shouts]
Where are you?
[Frank breathing shakily]
Look at you.
What a mess.
[shuddering]
You should have stayed in your hole.
You want to end this, Frank?
This pain is only temporary.
[panting]
[Frank gurgling]
Break him.
Break him and then finish him.
[man] Move! Move! Move!
Shit.
[Frank screams]
[man screams]
[men grunting]
Back off!
I don't wanna have to kill you guys!
This doesn't have to happen!
We're all the same!
[man grunts]
Next time, I'm shooting to kill.
Get your asses out of here!
Enough. Enough, man.
[Philip panting, whimpers]
[Curtis] Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit.
Just stay with me. I got you, all right? Come on.
[groans] Don't let me die.
I'm doing my best, buddy, okay? You got a name?
-Philip. -Philip, look at me. Keep your eyes on me.
Take him down!
[Frank groans]
-[gasps] -[shouts]
[screams]
Russo!
[screaming]
♪ Some folks are born Made to wave the flag ♪
♪ Ooh, they're red, white and blue ♪
♪ And when the band plays "Hail to the Chief" ♪
♪ They point the cannon right at you ♪
♪ It ain't me ♪
Stay with me now. Stay with me now. All right?
Keep breathing. Keep breathing. Keep breathing.
[softly] Damn it.
Thanks for the drink.
Anytime. I mean it.
-Bye. -Bye.
♪ But when the taxman comes to the door ♪
♪ Lord, the house look A rummage sale, well ♪
♪ It ain't me, it ain't me ♪
♪ I ain't no millionaire's son ♪
I know how to break Castle.
No!
[Billy] Tell me.
[Dumont] Take away the one thing he has left.
[Frank] Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!
[Dumont] The idea that he is somehow better than you.
No, no, no, no, no...
[Dumont] That he's good.
[Frank] Billy!
No, no, no! No! No! No!
[officer] Police! Get down!
Get down, or I will shoot you down!
Drop the gun! Drop it now!
Down, or I will shoot you down!
Drop that gun! Drop it now!
I will shoot you! Down on your knees, now!
Drop that gun! Drop it now! Down on your knees, now!
[dramatic music playing]