Blue Tongues Don't Lie

***Blue Tongues Don't Lie*** is the third episode in the first season of the T.V. adaptation of *Paper Girls*. It was released on July 29, 2022.

## Synopsis

Mac reunites with the grown-up version of her brother Dylan and is stunned to learn how her family turned out. Tiff, KJ, and the Erins meet a stranger who might be the ticket back to 1988.

## Episode Summary

Larry talks to Juniper Plimpton over a walkie talkie- he tells her it’s not going to be open much longer. Juniper sees the Old Watch and warns Larry. He tells her to get out of there and she tells him they made it out of 1988. Larry calls for Juniper on his walkie talkie but it goes silent. A pink light takes over the sky. He leaves a message onto a tape recorder, explaining that he’s a member of the STF Underground and that “blue tongues don’t lie”.

Larry knocks on the door of a house and Juniper answers the door. She asks him where is her food and if he’s from Uber Eats. He tells her no and that he needs her to listen to something- a tape recorder. He plays her a recorded message that she herself left before. She listens and tells him it’s not her. Her memory erases again and she asks for her Uber Eats order.

Larry gets in his car and sees on his beeper “System Alarmed”. He looks really worried. Larry trails Erin’s car.

Erin drives, and the lit up screen says “STF Unit 953 - System Armed”. She drives around looking for the girls. She finds Erin, Tiff, and KJ and pulls over, begging them to get into the car. Tiff sees that Erin turned on the device and demands to know what it said.

Mac waits at a hospital for her brother. Dylan walks out and sees his younger sister. He seems shocked but Mac explains to him what happened. She asks about her dad and Alice. Dylan seems too confused to speak but eventually explains that Mac died of cerebral lymphoma when she was 16.

Donna Metcalf, a social worker, walked over to ask a few questions about Mac’s situation. She takes Mac away to talk while Dylan looks at her walkman, which has his name on it and mix tape inside. Mac tells Donna that she’s a time traveler from 1988. Dylan tells Donna that Mac is his kid -that he took a DNA sample from her water glass and it’s a match. He asks her to get rid of Mac’s file.

Dylan and Mac get into his car. She asks him how long he was sick for. He explains how he became a doctor. They blast “Mother” by Danzig and drive off. Erin and the girls pull up at the hospital to look for Mac.

Erin walks out to try and find Dylan but Larry intercepts her and tasers her. He puts her into his truck. The girls see what happened and Tiff drives to follow his car.

Larry sees Tiff following him and asks Erin who they are. He demands to know where Heck and Naldo are. He presses a button to release spikes on the road to flatten the tires in Erin’s car. Larry fires a gun to scare the girls and locks them inside his basement.

Dylan lies to his wife, Jennifer Coyle, about who Mac is. He says she’s the daughter of his cousin who is in rehab and that her name is Kimberley. Mac asks to be called Jo and they lead her to their spare room to sleep.

The next morning, Larry opens the basement door and tells them they should have some breakfast. He asks them who they work for. He also asks where they get the device. KJ tells them they’re paper girls. Larry realized they time traveled and asks how. They explain that two guys helped them travel, but then were shot and died. Larry asks who did it and KJ explains they looked like soldiers with white armor.

Dylan and Mac chat in the morning and Dylan asks for her to go get her blood drawn to make sure she never gets sick.

At the hospital, Prioress asks about Mac and a hospital representative, Glen Flynn, explains that there are no release records for her. Prioress grabs him and threatens him to give her the name of the case worker who spoke to Mac. She sees Donna’s name on the screen,

Erin and the girls run out of Larry’s house but can’t leave because the tires are blown. Erin talks to Larry about the STF Underground and the Old Watch. The STF try to course-correct moments in history where mankind lost their way. He tells them they’re still in the middle of a war against the Old Watch. He tells the girls that they’re targets now because they traveled out of their time, which is a capital defense. Larry looks at an old photo of him and Juniper and throws it in the fire, along with several other documents. They tell Larry about Mac and he tells them she’s probably dead by now.

Larry takes Erin and the girls into a big warehouse and shows them a giant mechanical robot.

## Cast

### Main Cast

* Riley Lai Nelet as Erin Tieng
	+ Ali Wong as adult Erin
* Camryn Jones as Tiffany Quilkin
* Sofia Rosinsky as Mac Coyle
* Fina Strazzaas as KJ Brandman
* Nate Corddry as Larry Radakowski

### Recurring Cast

* Adina Porter as Prioress
* Celeste Arias as Juniper Plimpton
* Cliff Chamberlain as Dylan Coyle
* Marika Engelhardt as Jennifer Coyle
* Jacqueline Williams as Donna Metcalf
* Adam Poss as Glen Flynn

## Quotes

> Holy shit. You got old. You’re an actual doctor, how the hell did that happen?
>
> Mac to Dylan