01x04 - Chapter Four

[bunniefuu]

[dreamy music]

♪

[phone chiming, vibrating]

[phone ringing]

- Miles calling again.

- [sighs]

[intense music]

♪

[seagulls crying]

[Wesley barking]

- Come on.

[waves crashing, seagulls crying]

Keys to the guesthouse.

Night.

[dramatic music]

♪

[phone chimes]

♪

- It's always warm.

Short sleeves in December.

And we can have a lemon tree

in our backyard.

- Promise?

- Promise.

- When, Mama?

- Soon.

♪

[seagulls crying]

- Hope you don't mind.

I ordered groceries

and made breakfast.

Mole chilaquiles. You like?

- Love.

- Prosecco?

- No.

Actually

- Miles has been

calling nonstop.

- Of course he has.

He's terrified.

First time we went

grocery shopping together,

I asked him to grab olive oil.

He picked the most

expensive bottle.

$38.

I should've run then.

I grew up poor.

I hate wasting money.

- My mom and I never met

a coupon we didn't like.

- What do your parents do?

- I never met my dad.

- Same.

Your mom?

- My mom's an artist.

- Mine was an alcoholic.

I was a big distraction

in her life.

- Do you still see her?

- Haven't seen her in 20 years.

You have a boyfriend?

- [chuckles] No.

- Are you and Marty?

- [scoffs]

He listens to Pearl Jam

and doesn't know

who Clifford Odets is.

- [chuckles]

- Not my vibe.

Travis told me

You and Redmond

back in the day.

- [sighs] Not willingly.

But it's a million

years ago, so

- Did you ever tell anyone?

- Back then, we didn't talk

about things like this.

- He's still manipulating you,

calling the shots.

- It is what it is, Lou.

And you better tell Travis

to mind his own

f*cking business.

Understood?

- Yeah.

- I don't feel like

working today.

[Young Magic's "Lucien"]

♪

- Lucien, oh, Lucien ♪

So full of light ♪

Why on this day,

on this day ♪

You pull the knife? ♪

Like a nest ♪

To the static ♪

You're locked ♪

To the channel rows ♪

I don't mean to push you ♪

When you have

already spoken ♪

Like the brush ♪

And the lifeless ♪

You are locked ♪

To the channel rows,

no, I don't ♪

- [sighs]

I'd k*ll for a joint right now.

- When you have ♪

- I have something better.

- When you have ♪

Already spoken ♪

Lucien, oh, Lucien ♪

So full of light ♪

Why on this day,

on this day ♪

You pull the knife? ♪

♪

- Come on.

Lucien, oh, Lucien ♪

Lucien, oh, Lucien ♪

♪

- Javier Bardem meets Joe Jonas.

- [chuckles]

- Body of Chris Hemsworth,

face of Danny Trejo.

- [laughs] Let me see.

[both laughing]

Oh, my God.

I am so glad

I'm not young anymore.

- Dating apps are like

Postmates for sexual fantasies.

You can order whatever you want.

- [chuckles]

[phone chimes, vibrates]

You deserve so much better.

- [chuckles]

- I'm not so easy

to live with, myself.

An acquired taste,

my mother used to say.

- So what would you order?

- Huh?

Nothing.

- Tell me.

- I don't have

fantasies anymore.

I'm too old.

- Bullshit.

- [chuckles]

- Come on.

- [chuckles]

- What's something you've

never done you wish you had?

- I don't know.

Uh

Watch another

couple have sex maybe.

You?

- Let someone watch me have sex.

- [chuckles]

[phone chimes]

[intense music]

- Once you strap on ♪

Oh, ah, oh ♪

I'm a fighter,

I'm an outsider ♪

I'm a night rider

rolling through the sky ♪

I'm a psycho,

never gonna let go ♪

Till I got you eye to eye ♪

[water splashes]

Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪

Swim into the smoking g*n ♪

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪

The game has just begun ♪

Under disguises ♪

And into the dark unknown ♪

Mercury rises ♪

And sinks

right into my bones ♪

String you along ♪

I got secrets

I'll never tell ♪

Once you strap on ♪

There's no leaving

the carousel ♪

Casually grinning

while I keep you spinning ♪

You know

I can call your bluff ♪

Twister in a bottle,

slipping down the spiral ♪

Tell me,

have you had enough? ♪

Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah ♪

Tell me,

have you had enough? ♪

Under disguises ♪

And into the dark unknown ♪

Mercury rises ♪

And sinks

right into my bones ♪

String you along ♪

I got secrets

I'll never tell ♪

Once you strap on ♪

There's no leaving

the carousel ♪

Once you strap on,

there's no leaving ♪

Once you strap on,

there's no ♪

♪

- Let us watch you.

Over there.

♪

- Under disguises ♪

And into the dark unknown ♪

Mercury rises ♪

And sinks

right into my bones ♪

String you along ♪

I got secrets

I'll never tell ♪

Once you strap on ♪

There's no

leaving the carousel ♪

- Lou, I need to see you

in my office.

[door opens, footsteps approaching]

This weekend

what happened

I was upset.

- I'm sorry,

did something happen?

[discordant suspenseful music]

♪

- You said you were always

fine with me stepping out

- It's a judgment thing, Miles,

and it's just

so unbelievably disrespectful

during this delicate time.

- You know what?

It's f*cking hard.

It's hard living in your shadow.

- Oh, please,

don't play the victim!

It's a massive turnoff.

- You don't think this

pregnancy and miscarriage thing

has taken a toll on me, too?

It's not just about you.

- I know it's been

a horrific three years,

which is why we're turning

to alternative methods.

- Yeah, with complete

f*cking strangers.

I'm not doing that.

I told you I'd rather adopt.

- I'm not adopting.

Pick one.

- No, I'm not

f*cking picking one!

Okay? It's f*cking crazy.

It's my sperm, mine.

None of this,

none of this is yours!

You can't have a f*cking kid.

[softly]

Oh, f*ck.

- Take a look around, Miles.

Take a look at your life,

because all of this is mine,

and I choose

to share it with you.

- You were f*cking nothing

when I met you.

- And now I'm everything!

So don't push me.

I might decide that

I don't like sharing anymore.

[dramatic music]

♪

- [sighs]

Coverage on "Islands of Stone"?

- It's a 388-page book.

- She wants it by noon.

Did you confirm her lunch today?

- Did you?

Oh, f*ck me, I'm out of Prep.

- What's that?

- g*y thing.

[door opens]

- I'm headed down to set.

Lou, come with me.

Update my software, walk Wesley,

and go get me

a GoMacro bar, please.

- [sighs]

- Sometimes being here

feels like I'm in a dream.

All the people

that have passed through here

Mary Pickford, Judy Garland,

Katharine Hepburn.

- I used to feel that way.

- You don't anymore?

- As a woman here,

you start to feel like

you're supporting a system

that doesn't want

to support you.

It's hard to get

back to the magic

and promise of it all.

- Does the magic of Hollywood

even still exist?

- You should get out

before it f*ck you up.

[bell rings]

- Looking good.

- "Good"? That's all I get?

[phone vibrates]

Good?

- Joyce

he's here.

I've got some contracts

for Mr. Goya.

- I think it's incredible

the performances,

the way you're sh**ting it.

I'm a total nobody around here,

but I'm blown away.

- Cute shoes.

- CELINE.

- Yeah.

I kind of miss the braids

and thrift-store sh*t.

- Let's go.

[dark music]

♪

- This is a classic romance.

Red states don't want to see

some Black guy

kissing a white girl.

- I'm gonna pretend you

didn't just say that.

- What were you thinking, Joyce?

In this political climate,

it's just way too polarizing.

We're gonna have to recast.

- That's dinosaur thinking.

- Well, I'm T.-f*cking-rex.

- Redmond, please just

- It's not your f*cking movie!

It's my f*cking movie,

and I don't want to see

some Black f*cking day player

making out

with my white female lead,

and the other half

of this country

doesn't want to see it either!

Get me a new cast list.

Otherwise, I will shut

this thing down so fast,

you won't know what hit you.

[line clicks, beeps]

- Get these refilled for Wesley

at Larchmont Animal Hospital,

then bring them back to me.

- No boyfriend

no friends

no social media.

Within months of you showing up,

Alex just

falls off the wagon and ODs,

after being sober for years.

- The implication being

I got rid of him

so I could get

his crummy assistant job

working for a woman

who's a notorious nightmare?

Pretty thin.

And if I really was

that duplicitous

and needed one of you gone,

wouldn't it have been you

at the bottom of the pool?

And yet

here you stand before me.

♪

[keys clacking]

♪

- You replace the dead kid?

- Not technically.

Just helping out.

- Oh, you're a girl.

She never hires girls.

You'd f*ck him, right?

- Um

well, I guess so.

But

- But what?

- Something's been circulated

between the assistants

I think you should hear, sir.

- Red states don't want to see

some Black guy

kissing a white girl.

What were you thinking, Joyce?

In this political climate,

it's just way too polarizing.

We're gonna have to recast.

Who taped that?

It's not your f*cking movie!

- I have no idea.

- Bullshit!

Who sent it?

- Legal's trying to track

where it originated from.

But what if this lands

in the media's laps,

especially now

given the political climate?

- Are you trying to

blackmail me, little girl?

- You're hurting me.

- Well, toughen the f*ck up.

[dark music]

♪

- He had a change of heart.

We're not recasting.

- [chuckles]

Where have you been all my life?

- Happy to help.

- Let Meredith know.

- Copy.

- Time for bed, my sweet boy.

♪

Wesley.

Time for bed.

Baby.

[gasps]

♪

Miles!

♪

- I am so sorry.

- Stop apologizing.

- I don't know how my medication

got mixed up with Wesley's.

- You almost k*lled my dog.

- Joyce, please

- Get out.

- Joyce.

- You're fired.

Get out!

- Joyce!

- Get out. Out!

[door opens]

[tense music]

- I'm gonna

take you down, b*tch.

♪

Mark my words,

you filthy little c**t.

- I'm sorry things

didn't work out.

♪

I wish you all the best.

♪

[glass shatters]

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