03x05 - Sort of the Worst Yoda

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♪ My head
wasn't on right

♪ Now we done
lost sight

♪ I'mma just throw it out

♪ That was
just one night

♪ My head
wasn't on right

♪ Now we
done lost ♪

What?
-What?

Were you gonna
say something?

It seemed like you were
gonna say something.

No.

Ugh, the rent.

What?

Sabi:
They wanna raise it.

And they want us to
use Rihanna lyrics

as the
e-transfer password.

Are they allowed
to do that?

They can use whatever
lyrics they want.

No, I mean
raise the rent.

Like, already.

They can't raise it

until we've been
here a year.

Yeah, but we don't
have a contract.

And as long as
we're subletting

without the
landlord knowing,

they can do whatever
they want to us.

Okay, well what if we out
them to the actual landlord?

Risky, cuz

then they'd have the
right to evict us.

[Wolf sighs]


Let's congregate, y'all!

Live with the stress it is.

Okay, meeting adjourned.

Commenced.


First order of business,

new keypad locks

on front and
back entrances.

Installed yesterday.

Okay, licence
to serve liquor

in designated
exteriors.

Violet:
Deenzie was on
that I believe.

You believe?
Or you know?

We're running a
bidness here, Vi.

Seriously?

Wolf:
Chill, horrible boss.

I'll check with him.

I don't think
y'all understand.

We got Ingeborg,

world renounced
installation artist

choosing to premiere
her new work here.

This changes the
game for us, y'all!

It makes us a
serious-a*s art venue!

Ingeborg is for
real a genius.


And don't forget, Sabi,
you are her liaison,

i.e. complete lackey
when she gets here.

Do whatever she wants,
however she wants.

Tell me again how
I got that job?


She's a bit high maint

and I can't help
yelling at those people.

I have no control,
you have all the control.

Whattup big daddy!

Oh, look who's back!

Back from sunnyyyyy...?

Costa Rica.
-That's right.

It was life changing.

Things seem to be
changing here.

The construction
upstairs is serious.

Who's the artist?

Are you ready?

Yes.

Ingeborg.

Engelbert?

Ingeborg.

Hindenburg?
-Ingeborg.

Instagram?

You're doing
this on purpose.

♪ Tell me how far
you'll take it ♪

Paul:
Yeah, so, uh,

I really don't want to
be at this meeting.

Um, I mean, maybe I'm
just having issues

with telling strangers
how I feel about things.

I'm a therapist, uh...

It feels strange

being on the other
side of the couch,

so to speak.

There's a lot going
on with my family.

It's making me want to
stress eat, for sure.

[Paul chuckles]

Um, I don't know where
my marriage is at.

I mean, some days,

some days it feels like
we're coming back.

And some days not.

I just-I just
wish there was

some ground
beneath my feet.

You know?

But, you know,
I gotta remember,

I have to turn it over, right?

Like, I have to let go
because we're not in control.

We are not in control.

You can put that over there!

Deenzie:
I've been restless
since the bar closed

and an opportunity came up,

kind of an early
retirement situation.

Oh, I forgot to mention,

Ingeborg requested no
booze during the exhibit.

Wait. What?


Just for the run
of the exhibit.

That's crazy. Why didn't
you tell us this?

Deenzie is giving news I wanna
be present for, thank you.

Deenzie, go ahead.

Deenzie:
Friend's built a bunch
of tiny homes in Tamarindo

that are in my price range

and I gotta snap
'em up if I want 'em

and I can't
afford two places,

So I'm moving.
In a month.

To Costa Rica?

He told me this morning.

So, you're just gonna pick
up your whole life and, like,

just go live somewhere
you just vacationed in?

Love that about you.

Vi!
-Coming!

Booze is our entire
revenue mode, 7ven!

We can't survive without
selling alcohol, 7ven!

Stop walking away
from me, please.

What is the good of
having Ingeborg here

if we're gonna go bankrupt?

Something's
different about you.

I like the 80s baggy vibe.

You tend to dump, like,
massive life changing stuff

on people at the
last minute, yeah?

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♪

Sabi seems off.

Well, you just dropped a
pretty decent sized b*mb, so.

Mm, it's not that,
it's just...

they seem different.

Are they
dressing differently?

Violet:
Hey, I've been thinking,

I had an idea about alcohol.

All ears. Go.

Didn't Deenzie
get us a licence

to sell outside
the building?

You notice Sabi
dressing differently?

Bar outside.

Separate from
the installation.

In the parking lot.

Good talk.


Ingeborg doesn't want
people who are effed up

experiencing the art.

Our rent is going up.

It's a delicate exhibit

with, like, twenty
glowing canvas tents.

Wait, they're raising rent?

Yes. So the idea is only once
you get through the exhibit

can you get to the bar.

And no reentry so they
won't cross-pollinate.

You gotta tell Ingeborg.

I agree.

Sabi has to tell Ingeborg.

♪ Standing at the front door
looking at the skyline ♪

I was going to come down
here and share my news

and then impart knowledge

and then feel good
about leaving.

Hm, yeah, that's
pretty shitty.

Yeah, I'm the worst Yoda.

Ah hey, these go outside.

No they don't.

Okay?

Also, we have news
re booze sales

that I need you to
break to Ingeborg.

She's gonna be here soon.

Sabi can't, they're
coming with me.

I am?

Yeah, the liquor
licence thingy

had a long
processing window

'cause we were
cutting it so close

and then we had to
blah, blah, blah.

Am I still talking?

Bye!

I need somebody to absorb
Ingeborg's toxicity!

She could pull the
plug on all this,

ruin everything
we've worked for!

Gloria:
Paul?

Yeah?

I wanted to comment
on your share.

My name's Gloria.

Hi Gloria.

Um, I just thought that you

articulated your
feelings amazingly.

Really?

I was hoping you'd
wanna get some, um,

fellowship over coffee.

Ah, I'm, I'm actually,

I have dinner plans
with my family.

Oh, okay.

See ya.

Ah, Gloria?

You, ah, any chance
heading, ah, west?

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Are we actually gonna go do
the liquor licence thingy?

No, I already did that.

Okay.

Where are we going?

Um, what?

I know what's going on.

You do?

I've been there,
is what I'm saying.

Whatever you're
talking about,

I don't want to
talk about it.

I get it.

You were looking
for a cheap space

and the people subletting
seemed a little shady

but it was such
an amazing deal.

I would've done
the same thing.

Oh, you're talking about
the landlord stuff.

What else would I
be talking about?


So, what we're talking
about is an outside bar.

This is not what
was negotiated.

Violet:
That looks super good!

Vi!

Thank Goddess.

Ah one second, I just have to-
-I'm talking!

I was talking here!

You're walking!

You have such a good
head on your shoulders.

What awful thing are you
trying to get me to do?

I just told
Ingeborg about the-

That's Ingeborg?

I'm this close to
driving her to an IKEA

and leaving her there.

I was talking,
she was walking!

Aw yeah,

she looks pretty
freaked out.

But I feel like I would
know how to talk to her.

But if I do, the way
you talk to me is over.

How do I talk to you?

Like I'm a kid and I'm
lucky to have this job.

But, that's like, true.

Okay, I'll try!

I promise.

I won't be perfect.
I'm wildly imperfect.

But Vi, you are integral
to this organiz-

OMG, Ingeborg?

Your last show
"Disco Voxnan Stodja"

was intensely mind blowing.

I'll call you back.

♪ Blues Clues Boo

♪ You made 'em softer
than baby boo boos

♪ I just might
escape from the city

♪ And catch the
choo-choo train

♪ Take us out
to the country ♪

Can I ask where
you're taking me?

♪ Howl at the new moon

♪ Wu, wu, wu, wu, wu ♪

Sabi:
You brought me to
Ontario Place?

Look at it.

It's an iconic,
architecturally modernist,

socioeconomic vision.

How many more
steps are there?

Deenzie:
There's never been an
amusement park like it.

It was originally
designed by the government

for people who couldn't
afford cottages in the summer,

and now it's becoming
something different.

We're seeing it transform
in front of our very eyes.

It's literally time travel!

Oh my God, no more.

Walking? Or explaining?

God, both.

It's a bit of a
dream to talk to you.

I was discussing the bar
situation with the other fellow.

Totes. But could I just
geek out with you?

Just quick?

Geek out?

If you don't mind
me mentioning this,

you shared that, um, all the
changes in your life lately

have been relentless.

It would be my honour to talk
you through your own exhibit

and tell you what
it means to me.

Like, give you
my feels on it.

Paul:
Oh yeah, the pace of change
is relentless these days.

If I think about what my
clients are struggling with,

that's pretty much
everyone right now.

♪ Wu, wu, we
just need space ♪

Deenzie:
If I could bottle
the memories here.

That's a stage.

Sabi:
Oh right.

I think I totally saw
Avril Lavigne there.

When I was a
teenage l*sbian,

my g*y boy best
friend Tom Jarvis

took me here on
his motorcycle.

We saw Janis Ian play.

Who's that?

You don't know
who Janis Ian is

and you call
yourself a q*eer?

Is this gonna end in a
story about Stonewall?

All right.

Janis Ian had this song
called "At Seventeen,"

which is about this
high school girl

who came to terms
with the fact that

love was only meant
for beauty queens.

Aw.

Massive q*eer undertones.

And then after
the concert here

there was a sea of
frenching lesbians.

Total orgy?

Lesbians don't do that.

Plus an orgy would've
freaked me out at that age.

But it was the queerest place
I'd ever been at that point.

And it was so
significant for me because,

even though I
identified as a d*ke,

this concert made me see
that I sort of wasn't.

I realized it was more about
gender than sexuality for me.

How did frenching lesbians
make you realize that?

I don't know.

It was just a feeling.

And it took me a long
time to face the fact-

[phone ringing]

You should
probably get that.

[phone ringing]

I don't recognize
the number.

I'm pretty sure you
should get that.

[phone ringing]

The tents speak to me
about homelessness.

Yeah.

Refugee-ness.

Yeah.

Violet:
Or even like,

the impermanence
of home in general.

Oh yeah.

Violet:
The idea that the places
where we live are solid

is actually very
privileged, right?

Nothing is solid.

And I love that when
patrons get here,

they're all
separated according

to the numbers on
their tickets.

'Cuz even that
is like, oh damn,

I came here with
all these people

and I wanna like
stay with them,

but I can't.

Because in life we don't
always have a choice where

or who we get to be with.

That's so life.

Sabi:
Who notified you?

Uh huh, one second.

It's the owner of
the BRLiN building.

You seriously did this?

You and Wolf should have taken
care of this way sooner.

That subletter's gonna
do whatever they want

with your rent until you do.

If they find out
what's going down

they're gonna evict us.

You don't know that.

You don't know how
it'll unrave. Ever.

The only thing you do know

is that not being
real about this

will make it worse for
you and for everyone.

And that applies
to everything,

by the way.

Sabi [on phone]:
Hi, yeah.

This is about your
building on Bridgeman Ave?

[tense rhythmic music]

♪

It was really nice, Paul.

Hey, I was just coming to
meet you at the restaurant.

Hi.

This is Gloria.

Gloria, Bessy.

[tense rhythmic music]

Yeah, um...

♪ Don't get no better

♪ Oh I, oh I cannot wait ♪

Sabi [on phone]:
Totally, we can leave
tickets for you at the door.

I'm glad you can come.

Thanks. See you soon.

Deenzie:
Look at you,
confronting like a grown up.

How'd it go?

I invited her to the opening
and she wants to come,

like she's gonna check
out what we're doing.

Oh, so I'm not an as*h*le.

You're still the worst Yoda.

Violet:
And finally, the patrons
come out to the bar

to rejoin with the
people they came with,

maybe with whoever
they met in the tent,

maybe their like, friends.

It's like this total natural
extension of the exhibit,

where people can
majorly reflect.

Whattup, kittens?

Just checking in.

Violet has explained to
me how the bar will work.

And?

Yeah, it's good.

[gentle music]

Weird question.

Go ahead.

How can you, like, pick
up and leave your life

and go live somewhere
you've never lived?

I'm in a weird place.

I feel like I did when
I first transitioned...

out of my skin.

I don't know.

I just want to
go be somewhere

where there's no preconceived
notions of me for a bit.

When you decided
to transition,

did you have trouble
telling people?

[gentle music]

Oh, cupcake.

Were you on a date?

No.

It definitely felt
like flirty vibes.

She was laughing at
your jokes way too hard.

She's someone
from the program

so we're kinda not
allowed to date.

You know, I can't remember
the last time that we kissed?

I mean, I know
this is the worst

that it's coming
out of jealousy

and I'm definitely
feeling jealous right now.

But I, I think
we should kiss.

Yeah, let's kiss.

I don't care where it's
coming from, just let's-

Yeah okay, you just
need to tell me

the next time you
see her again.

Kiss me, kiss me, kiss me.

I just feel like we're really
gonna need to communicate.

Shut up, kiss me.

[gentle music]

[both moaning]

Violet:
Stop!

Oh, hey guys, sorry.

We were, um, just-
-Don't wanna know.

I gotta be in a
stream in a bit.

Yep, I only have an hour

before I have to
get back to BRLiN.

Okay, well let's, uh,
get ordered then.

[Paul chuckles]

[gentle music]

["At Seventeen"
by Janis Ian]

♪ I learned the
truth at seventeen

♪ That love was meant
for beauty queens

♪ And high school girls
with clear-skinned smiles

♪ Who married young
and then retired

♪ The valentines
I never knew

♪ The Friday night
charades of youth

♪ Were spent on
one more beautiful

♪ At seventeen I
learned the truth ♪

Hi, I'm Sabi Mehboob.

I think we spoke
on the phone?

Oh, okay.

Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you.

♪ And those of us
with ravaged faces

♪ Lacking in the
social graces

♪ Desperately
remained at home

♪ Inventing lovers
on the phone

♪ Who called to say,
"Come dance with me"

♪ And murmured
vague obscenities

♪ It isn't all it seems

♪ At seventeen ♪
Is everything good?

I think so, yeah.

Hey, I'm gonna miss you.

But I think going away for
a bit is the right thing.

Thanks.

What's that?

Deenzie:
Go to this tent.

Sabi has something I think
they want to tell you.

It's big so don't push them.

♪ And the rich-relationed
hometown queen ♪

I'll take those.

I'll jump behind the
bar until you get there.

Okay.

♪ With a guarantee
of company

♪ And haven for the elderly

♪ Remember those
who win the game ♪

Oh, hey.
Oh my God,

did you get the
same number as me?

No, I just have pull here.

Okay, you're not
gonna believe this

but the owner of the
building is here.

What?

Yeah, and she's like,
blown away by this place.

That's-that's good for us.

Yeah.

And also, your dad took me to
Ontario Place for some reason?

Yeah, that happens.

Hey.

Yeah?

I've got something
to drop on you.

Okay.

I feel like you're
gonna be fine

but you should
definitely know.

Okay.

I'm transitioning.

I've started
transitioning. Medically.

Nobody knows but you.

And Deenzie,
he figured it out.

Thoughts? Feelings?

Um...

I'm not, like,
surprised or something.

Right.

I'm a bit, um...

like I gotta
process it of course.

Of course.

Wolf:
I know how potentially,
ah, wild this ride can be.

'Cuz, you know, I-I've
lived with it all my life.

But yeah, we'll deal?

It's just a lot
to process today.

♪ We all play the game,
and when we dare

♪ To cheat ourselves
at solitaire

♪ Inventing lovers
on the phone

♪ Repenting other
lives unknown

♪ They call and say,
"Come dance with me"

♪ And murmur
vague obscenities

♪ At ugly girls like me,

♪ At seventeen ♪

♪

♪ Where did you go

♪ What did you see

♪ When'd you wake up

♪ How did it feel

♪ I'm a lot like you,
you're a lot like me ♪