INT. SKEETER'S WINE BAR - LATER
The four enter the bar, stopping to let their eyes adjust to the low light ambiance.
SKEETER (getting on in his years, his once almost orange curls look as desaturated as his once hot pink western shirt) stops wiping down the bar to see who it is.
A small smile creeps on his face as he locks eyes with them, then nods toward the back.
The four make their way to a dark corner of the room, toward a table, where a man - NED (played by Michael Douglas; obviously old, but how old is hard to tell) - sits, his features cloaked in darkness.
Ned's electrolayrnx cuts through the darkness as he speaks through the device at his throat.
NED: It's been a while, Stan.
Ned leans forward, the four gasp as his scarred features come into light.
A black bandana is wrapped around his forehead, and a white, patchy mustache and soul patch grow from pockets of unscarred skin around his mouth and chin.
NED: Seems like everyone's coming back to Park County these days.
Kyle looks at Stan - Stan gives a shrug, not sure who Ned's talking about.
STAN: Who else is here?
NED: Was here. Jerome McElroy.
KYLE: Chef?
ERIC: He's dead.
The scar tissue around his lips seems like it might crack as he smiles.
NED: That's what they want you to think. They saved him. Kept him alive with their machines.
LEO: Wh - who?
NED: Who do you think?
STAN: Oh, Jesus. You can't keep going on about this.
KYLE: About what?
STAN: He's into that whole nonsense about a secret group of liberal elite pedophiles hiding their crimes across international borders!
NED: Not across borders. They're here now. That's what McElroy - Chef - was here for. To set up shop.
Eric feels his phone BUZZ.
He pulls it out and checks.
A message from Rupert - "trust him."
Eric looks around.
NED: Don't believe me? Check out the new Wayfair distribution center. I told your friend the same thing.
KYLE: You told Kenny?
NED:And then he died.
