01x05 - Episode 5

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- Morning.
- Morning.

Eggs on the way.

Oh, great.

How's your head?

- Uh, fine, actually. You?

- What would you give to be 21 again?

- I'd rather the hangovers, actually.

- There's lots to look forward to then.

- Yeah.

- Can I do anything?
- Uh, no.

Just enjoy your coffee.

- Thanks.

- Have you come to help me?

- To watch.

- Did you sleep?

Not really.

Can't believe it's our last day.

- It's probably a good thing.

What we're doing is insanely risky.

- Were you ever tempted
to do something like this before?

- No.

- Why not?

- Guess I didn't meet anyone.

- Really?

- Yeah. I don't know.

We were pretty happy
for a long time together.

At least, I thought we were.

I mean, when you're in love,
you don't really think about these things.

- And when did you stop being in love?

- I don't think I did stop.

- So... you're saying you still love her?

- Well...

yeah.

Uh--

Right.

He's there.

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- Morning.
- Just in time.

- Oh, I'm gonna dream
about this fruit when I'm home.

Just wait till breakfast.

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Ah. Valerie says she's en route.

- Oh, God.

Oh, stop. She loves you.

- Who's Valerie?
- Melissa's patron.

Thanks, Derek.

No, she's my agent.

Ah. The owner.

Ah, don't worry. She's nice.

She's funny

on a good day.

- Yeah, she's a real sweetheart.

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I'm just gonna bake a big fish
and do some sides.

- Sounds great.

Okay, I'll make a list.

- Frances, do you wanna
come with me to the market?

Give me a hand?
- Sure.

- Great.

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- Hey.

- Hi.
- Where are you headed?

- Um, we're just going to get supplies.

- Are you annoyed at me?

- I thought you were annoyed with me.

Okay, I'm a bit annoyed with you.

- Okay. Good.

- It was awkward for everyone last night.

- I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to embarrass you.

- Yeah?

- If anything, I was making fun of Nick.

He's clearly into you.

You know, you definitely
could hook up with him if you wanted to.

- Okay, I have to go.

- Hold on. I'm coming.

I've been tasked with dessert.

- We can get what you need.
- No, it's fine.

I've gotta see what's there
to get an idea.

Plus, it's probably about
to get stressful around here.

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How are things
with Melissa and Valerie these days?

Up and down.

Melissa thinks
Valerie's lost faith in her.

Do you think that's true?

Don't know.

I certainly didn't help things.

- Stop.

- At least you and Bobbi
will be there to defuse any tension.

- Is that what we do?

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- I'm sorry about earlier.

I was a bit blunt.

- Yeah.

- It doesn't change the way
that I feel about you.

- Which is?

Don't worry about it.

- Hi.
- Hey.

- How's it all going?

- Your wife's a little on edge today.

- Oh, yes.
- Yeah, I'm keeping out of the way.

- Oh, brilliant, you're here.
Can you throw me a lemon?

- Lemons weren't on the list.

- Yeah, I-I said on the way out.

- Well, I didn't hear you.

Do you want me to go back and get some?

Mm-mmm. I'll do without.

- Okay.

- Um, is there a vase
I should put these in or--

- Yep.

You know what?

Nick, will you help her, please?

- I can do that.

She likes the stems cut diagonal.

Why don't you rest?

It'll be fine.

Okay. Well--

- Hi.
- Hey, Frances.

- How are you?
- Good.

It was kind of--

- Yeah.
- This is not like a good thing.

Yeah. I think that was, uh--

Madness.

- But I think we're
getting somewhere here.

I know.

- Hi.
- Hey.

Hi.

Good sleep?

- Yeah.

- Wine?

- Sure.

- Thanks.
- Mm-hmm.

Cheers, everyone.

Nick?

- Yes?

- This looks nice.

- Yeah.
- Give me some of that.

Thanks.

I'm sorry for being a brat earlier

about the lemons.

You're forgiven.

- Could you give me a hand
with something in the kitchen?

- Sure.
- Okay.

- See you later.
- See you.

- Bye.

I can grab it.

- What were you two talking about?

- Nothing much.

He's funny.

He didn't mention you,
if that's what you were wondering.

- Yeah, well, I'm pretty sure
he's in love with his wife, so--

- People can be in love
and have meaningful relationships.

It's not some kind of finite resource.

- Yeah, but wouldn't it depress you

to sleep with someone
who loves someone else?

- Not if they love me too.

Can we just hide and get drunk?

- I wish.

Yeah.

Come on.

Taking the wine.
- Please do that.

- ...and I'm not quite sure.
- Yeah.

And then you have to be really careful

'cause you'll get burned.

Nice.

Oh, it's delicious.

Oh, there you are.

There she is.

- Hi.
- Hi, darling.

Good to see you.

Oh, look-- Oh, good grief.

What a frock.

- Thank you.
- Gorgeous.

How are you?

Good. How are you?

- Oh, I've had
an absolute nightmare of a week

with this b*tch writer in New York.

It's good to be amongst the sane.

- Oh, no, you've come to the wrong place.

- Girls.

Now...

which is which?

- Um, I'm Frances.

- Frances.

- Hi.

- Guess I'm the other one.

That's Bobbi.

- Bobbi.

Something smells good.

- Yeah, yeah. Shall I get you a drink?

Well, she's clearly a complete weapon.

- You've known her about ten minutes.

- Yeah.

- Please behave.

- I'll think about it.

- ...no, but he does look like one.

- Oh, yeah.

It doesn't work.

Oh.

Has everyone got a full glass?

Woo-hoo!

- Melissa?

Nice.

- Wow.

It's gorgeous.

- Yeah.
- It looks great.

- It's beautiful.
- Oh.

Yeah, it does. Yeah.

It's amazing.

- Oh, this is my copy for you to sign.

- Give it here.
- Saying just eternal gratitude

and everlasting love, that's fine.

Hmm.

- Now we have to
raise a glass for this one.

Yeah.

- Okay.

It was a beast,

but we delivered it in the end.

- Amazing.
- Thank you.

Thank you.
- Cheers.

And I couldn't have done it without you.

Bloody right.

I see.

- Now--

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Well done.

I don't even understand you anymore.

- It's very impressive.

- How's Nick?

- Yeah, he's good.

- Working?

- Mm-hmm.

Good. I'm glad to hear it.

Looking very dashing.

Holidaying obviously suits you.

- Thank you.
- You know, Valerie,

you know that Frances is the one

whose poem I used
in the first essay of the book.

- And Bobbi's the performer, right?
- Yeah.

- I've been trying to convince them
to perform, but no joy.

- That poem was a good choice.

Keep at it.

- Thanks.

- Frances isn't interested
in publishing, though.

Too grubby.

Give her time.

- So you're both at uni?
- Hmm.

- Yeah, we're going into final year.

- Hmm. Nice to get away
before the fun starts.

Are you enjoying yourselves here?

- Yeah, it's great.

- It's beautiful.

- If you had told me 20 years ago

that I would have a place
in the former Yugoslavia,

would've laughed in your face.

- Yeah.

Nothing like a bit of ethnic cleansing
to pep up tourism.

- Oh, to be that age again.

Who is for dessert now?

Evelyn's done something very basic,

but I've complemented it
with a gorgeous fruit salad.

- Oh, yeah.
- Hmm.

Yes, you have, darling.
- Yes, I know.

- I'll give you a hand.
- Yes, yes, yes?

- Yes.

- Yes.
- Yes.

You don't have to clear up, Derek.

Fine, it's fine.

- Thank you.
- Okay, thank you.

- You're welcome.
- Mm-hmm.

- I'm gonna go for a smoke.

I'll join you.

- Frances?

- Um... no, I'm alright.

- You do know it's really good, don't you?

Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, sometimes I do.

- There was a time there
where I thought we weren't gonna make it.

- I couldn't have predicted...

You know.
- How's he doing?

He's good.

He's, he's better.

Nick had a bit of a rough time last year.

- He was seriously depressed.

Yeah.

It's usually pregnancies and babies

that stall the work, not husbands.

- No, but we're in a different place.

Things are, things are better now.

- Good.
- I'm--

I'm gonna be up for the whole
publicity circus and everything, you know.

- You mustn't be held back.

- Yeah.

- Wow.

- Everything okay, Frances?

- I mean--

You're talking about someone suffering

as if it's like a... career impediment.

- Are we?

- Okay. Excuse me.

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f*ck everything.

- What's up?

- I just blew up with Valerie.

- Excellent. f*ck her.

What happened?

- I just can't be
with these people anymore.

- Yeah.

Why'd you drag us here anyway?

Are you okay?

- Yeah. Just a bit overwhelmed.

- I know.

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- I'm pretty sure that I was a soldier.

You're pretty sure

or... this has been confirmed?

- Everything okay?

- All good. Just a long night.

- I think we could all use a drink.

- Yes.
- A real drink.

- Oh, yes.
- Perhaps a drop of brandy.

Oh, you're k*lling me, yes.

- Frances, can you help me
with the glasses?

- Yeah, sure.

Do you drink brandy?

- No. Too sweet.

- Did Valerie--

- Yeah, she's fine.
She just went to bed.

- She was tired.
- Oh.

I'm so sorry.

- No, listen.
- Um--

- So, she is a good friend,

but she's also
very important to me professionally.

- Yeah.
- And, you know,

I can't really afford to upset her,

which is mortifying to admit to you.

- No, I-I shouldn't have even--

Listen.

Nick-- Nick and I
had a hard time last year,

and my work fell to sh*t.

And Valerie was-was there
for a lot of that

and had to pull me through.

You know, and it's not
that I don't want to defend him.

You know, it's just sometimes
I get so tired

of-of having to like--

Yeah, obviously we have our problems.

We're not perfect, but--

I-I do love him, you know?

I really do.
- Yeah. Of course.

- Yeah.

There's nothing else I should know about
with Nick, is there?

- No. Of... Of course not.

- Okay. I'm--

Thank you. Um--

Um, I'm sorry, Frances.

That's-- Yeah.
- I can grab it.

Okay.

Shall we?

- Hey.
- Hey.

- Can I come in?
- Yeah.

- What happened?

Nothing.

- I was just in strange form all day.

- Me too.

- I think it all just
kind of spilled over.

Melissa seems like a good person.

I mean, deep down.

- Yeah.

Yeah, I think she is.

- Does that make us bad people?

- Not you.

Me maybe.
- She told me she loves you.

- You asked her that?

- No, she just said it.

And she asked was there
anything going on between us.

- Really?

Well... she asked me

if there's anything
that she should know about.

- What did you say?

- Well, I said no.

Both of you have now told me

you love the other in the space of a day.

I don't really know
what to do with that information.

- Yeah.

Or what I'm doing in the middle of it.

I don't think I thought about...

the reality or... the consequences.

All of this.

- Well, I did

think about it.

- Yeah?

- Just thought it would be worth it.

- What do you think now?

Or does your answer depend on
how terribly things turn out?

- In a weird way, I don't think it does.

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Frances?

Sorry.

- f*ck.

- You should go.

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♪ Walk ♪

♪ In silence ♪

♪ Don't walk away ♪

♪ In silence ♪

♪ See the danger ♪

♪ Always danger ♪

♪ Endless talking ♪

♪ Life rebuilding ♪

♪ Don't walk away ♪

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