Friday the 13th: The Series S1E4
Episode 4 "A Cup of Time"
Cursed Item of the Week: Tea Cup
A homeless girl is sleeping on the bench at night when a hooded woman approaches her and asks her if she would like a cuppa tea. She accepts and as she drinks this cup the mysterious lady whips out of her bag, the vines from the tea cup come alive and strangle her to death. Oh noes!
Switching the scene to a recording studio where an artist is recording her vocals but she totes acts like a diva and storms off when things didn't go her way. Her manager catches up to her and tries to chill her vibe. He even inquires her about her upcoming benefit which is great and all but...for the homeless? Why? She tells him to mind his beeswax.
Over at Curious Goods, Ryan is jamming out to the aforementioned artist, Lady Die. Her song is blaring on the radio much to the annoyance of Micki since it was on so loud. While they are quacking at each other, an older woman named Birdie helps herself in the store and beelines over to Jack as she made cutesy curtains especially for him. Ryan gossips to Micki how this lady totally has the hots for Jack. Too bad Jack doesn't reciprocate those feelings back.
As Micki is getting Birdie coffee, Birdie says she didn't get much sleep last night because her job as a social worker was distraught over a recent strangling in the park of a young runaway girl. Worst thing, she continues, she's not the first and the police don't give a damn about solving the cases either.
This compels Micki and Ryan to visit the Lt. in charge of the case and they track him down at the morgue. Went as smoothly as you'd expect. Before they left, it was noticed that there is a trace of shrubbery on the victim. Lt. gets impatient and tells them to fuck off.
Ryan shows Jack the leaf he found on the body and 'ol Jack whips out a trusted book that is the Manifest and identifies the leaf as swappers ivy which was though to have gone extinct. It was believed that in possession you could trade for anything you wanted that would later be manufactured into a tea cup that Jack found as he combed through the Manifest.
So they go to the last known address of the seller to do some IRL investigating of their own. When Ryan and Micki reach the door, it's just so DISGUSTANG and abandoned but they help themselves in there anyway because plot points.
An abandoned place that just so happens to have functioning electricity.
With no reason whatsoever, the doors fly open and a wall bed flops on the ground to reveal that Fat Eddie Burrel found a new DIEt.
Lady Die and her team are working around the clock to get her benefit concert up and moving and she's being pissy about technicals and stomps away. The manager walks on by and sees a little girl who helps herself to the food table. He's surprisingly nice to this little girl. Instead of reprimanding her, he gives her more food. Elated, she gives him a big hug and takes her leave. He thought he did a good deed until he realized that she pick-pocketed him!! That little rascal.
A hooded woman (you literally know who this is by now) approaches a homeless man to offer some tea. Just as he is about to drink, the young homeless girl arises from the bushes and says she wants some tea too!!! Hooded woman adamantly says nah but promises to give her the swanky bracelet she is wearing if she gives them privacy. Except that she doesn't leave. She hid back in the bushes and witnessed the poor man's demise.
The next morning Micki and Birdie are on the crime scene of the homeless man. The little girl approaches the 2 to ask for food. This is when Birdie recognizes the bracelet belonging to a missing woman, Sarah Burrel. Micki asks if there is any relation to Fat Eddie and well what do you know, they were siblings. The little girl reveals that a pretty lady gave it to her after seeing the tea cup incident. She freaks out and runs off from them.
Ryan drops by and sees the tail end of the incident. Along the drive with all 3 in the car now plays Lady Die's song of a rock cover of "I'm A Little Tea Cup" song. Yeah, not suspicious at all.
They share their findings with Jack back at the antique shop. They figure out quite quickly that Lady Die is actually Sarah Burrel after comparing photographs. Good thing she is going be out in the public eye, they can perhaps get face to face with her to get to the bottom of it.
Well things didn't go as smoothly as they hoped. While Lady Die was doing a radio interview, despite Ryan and Micki able to get through the door under the guise of a media rep, it gets foiled and Lady Die runs off.
The midst of Lady Die running, the little girl just so happens to be there and pickpockets the tea cup. Now rapidly aging, she also comes across Birdie in an alley in which she is starting to recognize Sarah and bolts to the park.
Back to the park she goes frantic once she notices the missing teacup. She's totally aging hard.
Right when this homeless little girl is trying to crash out for the night she is forced to take off running as she feared someone was after her. Turned out to just be Micki and Ryan. She tries to bargain with her to trade in that tea cup in exchange for a warm meal and a nice bed. She actually says yes! They bring her back to the shop so she can rest.
Unbeknownst to them, they were followed by Lady Die herself who broke in the shop and stole back the tea cup! They all realize it too late. Lady Die hails a cab and once inside she takes off her mask. Except, it isn't Lady Die at all it is actually Birdy! Plot twist mothafucka.
Birdy pulls up to an unsuspected homeless man and gives that man a drink. Right when she sees the leaves were about to animate and attack him, she has a sudden change of heart and yeets it out of his hands and weeps. Clueless man is like WTF BRO so Birdy just gives him a bottle from her own stash. Homeless man is sweet and comforts Birdie despite not realizing how close he was to death.
It is now morning. After a long night of talking, they bid each other adieu. Birdy goes to the nearest payphone to call Ryan and 'fess up.
Ryan and Micki get there too late as Lady Die aged terribly and looks like a walking corpse now chases Birdy down and kills her. Police were also scoping out the place so right when Ryan and Micki get to Birdie's body is when they pop out and arrest them thinking they were the perpetrators.
Jack Marshak witnessing their arrest from afar, comes up with a plan of his own. He expected Lady Die or should I say SARAH BURREL to claim another victim, he decided to cosplay as a homeless man. It was a matter of time when she in fact doesshow up. He feigns accepting the cup then runs off like the dickens while she wails. It was literally that easy.
Did you really think Birdie is dead? SIKE, nothing can stop Birdie NOTHING. Birdie along with the rest of the group are at Lady Die's trailer and Jack joins them to show off the tea cup he retrieved. It is now the night of the concert and the manager comes strolling on up and beckon's her to get on stage. IT'S SHOWTIME!
Or not.
She flops out of her trailer and she's basically a bag of bones.
With the tea cup safely inside the vault the next morning, they dress up the young soon to be former homeless girl when in walks Birdie being a social worker ready to bring her to a new home. Before they leave, she cracks a morbid joke about having a tea party. Har har.
Episode 5 is next.