16x04 - Danny's Surgery

[bunniefuu]

[theme music playing]

-[Wes] This is the true story...
-[Lacey] Yee-haw!

-[Lacey] ...of seven strangers...
-[Rachel] ...picked to live in a house...

[Nehemiah] ...work together
and have their lives taped...

[Johanna] ...to find out what happens...

-[Danny] ...when people stop being polite...
-Shut up.

-[Melinda] ...and start getting real.
-[all laughing]

-The Real World: Austin.
-[music concludes]

[rock music playing]

[crowd chanting] Stop the w*r!

[Lacey] Whose palace is this
that you're in?

S*ddam's.
It's one of his palaces in Baghdad.

[Rachel] I want my roommates to know
what I went through

because it's part of who I am.

I fought for this country,
and it gives you a sense of pride

that you actually added
to this country's well-being.

[Danny] Yeah, what happens
if you got caught

having sex with one of the soldiers?

-I did. [scoffs]
-[Lacey] You got caught?

[laughs]

[Rachel] I have a boyfriend.
His name's Eric.

We've been dating
for nine months. We met in Iraq,

and Eric is currently stationed
at Fort Drum,

and he's still in the army.

My punishment
was to have to guard the roof

for five nights in a row.
So, after my workday was done,

and I worked at the aid station
all day in the hospital,

and then they had me go sit up
on the roof for five hours.

[rock music continues]

[Rachel] We only had water in Iraq,
and we didn't have any kind of juice.

We used to put a whole bunch
of Starburst jellybeans and Skittles

in the bottom of your water bottle,

and it would taste like fruit iced tea,
like at the end, it was really weird.

Think about what people
in jail have to do.

[Melinda] No, whatever.
People in jail have it made.

You're crazy.

-[Melinda] They got the internet.
-I think they get juice.

[Melinda] They got libraries, gyms.

-People in jail have it made?
-Uh-huh.

[Rachel] Being deployed
is a lot worse than going to jail.

-Hell no.
-Do you know what?

I dug a hole and [bleep] in it.

[Melinda laughing]

Do you know how degrading
that is to dig a hole

and poop in it?

I had it up to here
with her braggin' and boastin'

because I'm against w*r.
And for me to sit back

and hear her brag about it all the time,

and I'm gonna react to that

because I have an opinion
just like she does.

-It's...
-You signed up for it.

-Well, jail, they committed a crime.
-Not all of 'em.

Jail, you have your freedom taken away.

I would much rather go to jail
than get deployed to Iraq

-for a year again.
-I bet you, you wouldn't.

[Rachel] It's hard coming from somewhere

where everybody understands
what you've been through

to coming somewhere where people

don't even really know
where you're coming from.

Maybe we should ask someone
who's been to jail and Iraq,

and see who can compare 'em.

[Rachel] It's only one guy
in the house that's acting like that.

He said he'd rather go to jail than get...

Or jail is harder than
getting deployed to Iraq.

I'm like, "No, you're safe.
You're not getting shot at."

[Erik] If you didn't go over there
and fight a w*r,

your roommates
wouldn't be able to have an opinion.

Yeah.

[Erik] You fought
for them to have an opinion.

-[Rachel] Yeah.
-[Erik] But because they're expressing it,

that's wonderful. That's just showing you,
you've helped them earn that privilege.

[Rachel] It's like chiseling away at me.

Pretty soon, I'm gonna freakin'...

say something. I can't take it anymore.

[Danny] So where exactly
are you guys going tonight?

[Melinda] I'm not sure.
I wish you could come out with us.

Go out and have fun.

-Just be very careful for me, okay?
-Mm-hmm.

[Melinda] When I go out
and Danny is still in the house,

I feel like I don't wanna go

and I just wanna
spend all my time with Danny.

But I know
that I still need to get to know

the rest of my roommates,
and that's very important to me.

[chuckles]

[Danny] I think the only thing
that makes me uncomfortable about Mel

and the only thing
that turns me off in a sense is that

I'm used to dating
more conservative girls,

girls that don't dance
on top of the bar when they get drunk.

♪ Surrendered in me
A most unordinary ♪

♪ Shadow of your face... ♪

I like theme parties,
so I'm really excited about going out.

-["Stealing Off" concluding]
-[upbeat music playing]

[crowd cheers]

[Johanna] When Leo is behind the bar,

I look at him, and I think he's so cute.

I wanna eat him up.

[woman] You have to prove your...

What do you want me to prove?
Right now, I'll prove it!

To get over there
and say, "[bleep], I want you."

-To who?
-Whomever you want.

-[Wes] I want you. Can I kiss you?
-[woman 2] No. No. [laughs]

-Hey, I want you. Can I kiss you?
-[Melinda] Okay.

[man] Prove it. There you go!

Whoa!

But she's my roommate. That doesn't count.

-[Melinda screams]
-[jazz music concluding]

[instrumental music playing]

-[indistinct chatter]
-Thank you.

[Melinda] I missed you.

I missed you so much.

It's not funny.

I wanna [bleep] you so bad.

-[Danny] Oh my God.
-[Melinda chuckles]

[Melinda] I'm sorry for being drunk.
I know it's unattractive.

[Danny] It's definitely
not unattractive on you,

but it's kind of different.

[soft music playing]

-[Rachel] Did you make out with Melinda?
-[Lacey] She said...

-Yeah.
-...they were being silly.

Okay, first off,
it was absolutely nothing.

It seemed like some drunk,
random party thing to me.

The entire time I was kissing her,
I was thinking, "Danny's back at home."

[Lacey] How long were you kissing her for?

[Wes] It... There was...

there was a good quality of time
that me and her were kissing.

[Lacey] Are you gonna tell Danny
you kissed Melinda?

-[Wes] I don't know.
-If that's your boy, you should.

-Just be honest about it.
-You know what? I probably should,

but if he could see it,
he would understand.

Why was that happening?

Why did that come up in the first place?

That's the only thing that bothers me.

I don't want their little
happy love affair thing to get

squashed in a month,
and then it be awkward and horrible.

[soft music concluding]

[rock music playing]

We gotta leave here in 15 minutes, okay?

[Nehemiah growls]

We're gonna go meet Jenn
and P.J. at the Velvet Spade

and try to put to use all of our training
on the camera and sound.

Are you almost done in
the shower, Danny?

[Danny] No, I'll probably be in here
twenty more minutes.

[Rachel] 'Cause I think
we have to in ten minutes.

[Johanna] Rachel overwhelms me
because she is always

trying to be in control.

-[Rachel] We're leaving in six minutes.
-[Wes] I'm speedy.

Okay, get ready.

People taking so long
to get their asses out of the door

is driving me crazy,

because in the army,
people are very punctual.

"There's five minutes left.
Okay, five minutes left, everybody."

"Get in the door in five minutes."

If we take a cab, we gotta call two cabs
and we gotta wait for them to come here.

And that's been a mess so far.

[rock music concluding]

[jazz music playing]

-[Jenn] Hey, guys.
-Hi.

-[Rachel] Hi.
-How's it goin'?

Everybody's here today.

So today we've decided to do
some training exercises

where you guys are following other people,
trying to cover some action.

This is a lot of real scenarios
in terms of sh**ting.

The camera
that we're gonna be sh**ting with

is called a PD170,
and it's by the brand Sony.

♪ They'll be cameras everywhere... ♪

Wes'll gotta make it difficult.

♪ There'll be cameras everywhere... ♪

[Lacey] Hang on, Wes. I wasn't ready.

[Wes] Is that what you're gonna
tell the bands when they...

It's exactly what I'm gonna tell
those bands. Get up the stairs.

[Danny] Wes, you know it's Nehemiah.
You get Nehemiah. Now, you...

Now, you're gonna focus this way.

You come in, Lacey,
without getting in the shot.

Don't get... Watch out for Lacey.

Take it out.
sh**t with it. Record some stuff.

Really get comfortable with everything.

I mean, it was great
'cause seeing you guys progress today...

[Rachel] All right, see you guys.

[Nehemiah] See you guys.

[instrumental music playing]

I know that you're used to being

very on time
and forceful and stuff,

but they might take it as...

-[Lacey] "Shut up, Rachel."
-Yeah.

Rachel, after being in the army,
seems very bossy and loud

and very blunt about things.

[Rachel] I feel like such a b*tch,
but that's the way you do it in the army.

Everybody's on time.
You're ten minutes early anywhere you go,

-and that's how... My brain works.
-I know, Rachel,

but sometimes there's a different way

-of approaching things.
-[Rachel] Like I...

This so sucks 'cause I had no idea
that the army affected my life this much.

[Nehemiah] Bush is a robot.

-[Danny] No.
-Bush was not even a human being.

[Danny] He's a great president,
a great leader.

-He is? Leader for whom?
-[Wes] I'm glad that you're so educated.

I'm against w*r, and so far,

I have not been brought
with enough evidence

that we're fighting a w*r
that's needed to be fought.

-[instrumental music concluding]
-What's the whole w*r about?

[Danny] What's the whole w*r about?
Are you kidding me?

They k*lled 4,000 innocent people

on American soil,
and you're trying to tell me

that there's no cause
to even think that we have a...

[Rachel] It's about liberating
a nation of people.

[Danny] See, you're watching
too much of that, uh,

-Fahrenheit 9/11.
-[Nehemiah] Oh, oh. No. [bleep] that.

-[Wes] That's not a documentary.
-[Nehemiah] Whatever.

-[Wes] It's propaganda.
-Whatever. The w*r is propaganda.

-Burn this.
-The w*r is propaganda.

[Rachel] How could you know?
You weren't there.

You weren't there either.

-Yes, I was.
-You were in... You were a nurse.

-[Wes scoffing]
-[Danny] Oh, my God.

-[Rachel] What do you mean I wasn't there?
-[Nehemiah] You were a nurse.

So? I was... Did a lot more than you did.

While you were [bleep]
sitting on your a*s,

I was taking care of hurt soldiers, okay?

While you were sitting
on your a*s at home,

getting your little film degree,
I was taking care of soldiers dying.

Don't tell me I wasn't a real soldier,
and don't tell me I wasn't in the w*r.

[tense music playing]

-You done?
-[Rachel] Yes!

-Unless you wanna keep goin'.
-We can.

Unless you wanna keep on
speaking your stupid, ignorant statements.

The most ignorant person I've ever met.

You don't have no appreciation
for what people do for this country.

[tense music concluding]

[jazz music playing]

[Melinda] When you made the comment,

"Oh, she wasn't there," or whatever.

I was like, "Oh my God, Nehemiah,
why would you say something like that?"

"She was there."

"She's more of a man than I'll ever be,"

and that's how I felt.

I think Nehemiah's very, very in the wrong
for saying something like that.

I think, yeah, you can have your opinions,

but when it comes down
to hurting someone's pride

and trying to put somebody down

along the lines that Nehemiah took,
I think it's very wrong.

[Nehemiah] But I'm sayin',
she wasn't there as far as

in the straight-up battleground,
you know what I'm saying...

But don't you think she's kinda
in the middle of it, too?

-I mean, she's...
-[Nehemiah] She is, and she isn't.

She was closer to the w*r than we were.

[Melinda] You think she's bragging
and putting it in your face

that she was there
and that you weren't there?

In a way. I think...
'Cause she has low self-esteem.

And that's not a way to overcome it.

If I was there,
I'd want everybody to know too.

[Nehemiah] The way that I said it,
I actually worded it wrong.

I didn't mean to say, "You weren't there,"
know what I'm sayin'?

What I meant to say was,
"You wasn't actually in the battleground."

"You were patching up people

and giving food to people
and stuff like that."

"Good job. I can commend that."

[Melinda] You think
you're gonna talk to her about it?

[Nehemiah] I will. I can apologize
to her for making that comment.

I'm a man. And it wasn't a good
comment to make.

But I mean, I had enough.
I used to have a bad temper,

so maybe past fast decisions
that I made without sitting down

and actually looking
at the situation have gotten me

into a lot of trouble.

And now, growing up,
I can sit back and take a deep breath

and let the person release their anger.

[jazz music concluding]

[instrumental music playing]

[Rachel] It means a lot to me
that Nehemiah's taking the time

to write a note to me and apologize to me.

Apologizing is hard because...

it hurts your pride.

I think pride is a big issue for Nehemiah,
and I recognize that,

and that's why
it's so much more meaningful.

Nehemiah?

I'm sorry for being a b*tch to you.

-I'm sorry.
-I am too.

[Nehemiah] I hope to get
to know Rachel a little bit more,

so I can find more qualities

and more things about her
that I can learn to respect.

-[Rachel] So...
-I shouldn't have made

the comment that I made.

Well, I shouldn't have
started it in the first place,

-so...
-It's all right.

-Okay.
-I might actually need it.

-Truce?
-Friends?

-Yeah.
-I think I was too drunk tonight.

Okay. That's what Scorpios do.
They forgive and forget.

[instrumental music concluding]

[upbeat music playing]

[indistinct chatter]

-[all] Whoo!
-Yeah.

[crowd cheers]

I wanna... I wanna go [bleep].

[upbeat music concluding]

[tense music playing]

[Danny] I like Mel a lot,
but at the same time, it's...

I don't know where she's coming from

because all's I hear is,
"I like you so much."

"I like you so much,"
and then she goes out.

I don't think she's planning
on calming down for your sake.

-I think she likes you a lot.
-[Danny] Right.

[Lacey] I'm concerned
that Danny's gonna get hurt.

He makes himself out to be a big softie,
and I don't know him that well,

but it seems to be the case.

[Lacey]

[Danny]

I'm definitely taken back
by the fact that I found out

that Melinda had kissed Wes.

To have somebody come up
and say how much they do like you

and at the same time,
they're making out with your roommate,

that's not really that cool.

I don't wanna be

the one that takes it too seriously,
you know what I mean?

To expect something and then to jeopardize

my time here, and to...

[Lacey] Get wrapped up in that...

-Exactly. You know...
-...whole relationship thing...

...instead of going out and having fun.

Not that I can't have fun, but going out
and meeting other girls.

[tense music concluding]

I was way ready to come home too.

[Rachel] ♪ Cold, hot ♪

[soft music playing]

-[Rachel] Where is everybody?
-[whispers] I don't know.

-[Rachel] Did they go out?
-Maybe they're having sex.

[indistinct chatter]

[Rachel] Are you okay, Danny?

[whispers] She was talking
about you all night.

That's why we came home.

Know what I found out?

-What?
-The other night.

-What?
-That she made out with Wes.

Oh, it sucked.

[Danny] I am pretty mad.
I'm distancing myself from Melinda.

If she wants to tell me something,
she can come up and talk to me.

I'm not gonna talk to her about it.
She's a big girl.

[whispers] I said, "What's wrong
with you?" He said,

"I found out that Mel made out
with Wes the other night."

And I said, "It sucked.
Don't worry, it didn't mean anything."

-[Melinda] Oh, my God.
-I didn't say anything to him.

[Melinda] I don't go around kissing guys.

I thought it was funny kissing Wes

because it... It was just a roommate.

I'm not attracted to Wes.
I like Wes as a friend, and that's it.

[indistinct chatter]

[Melinda] Talk to me.

[Danny] About what?

Well, if you're upset or annoyed

-or mad at me.
-[Danny] I'm not upset.

[Melinda] I don't want to
say anything wrong

because I don't wanna hurt his feelings
more than it's hurt, and...

I feel bad.

The whole thing
with Wes was a second.

I really wish you understood.
It was... It's nothing.

I'm not attracted to Wes.
I don't wanna be with Wes.

I never, ever would wanna fool
around Wes.

[Danny] It was my roommate
and my friend,

and then you tell me that,
you come here and you preach about how,

"I like you so much,
and I don't make out with anybody else,"

but in reality,
you actually made out with Wes,

who is like my boy, and he lives with us.

And you neglected to tell me that.

I'm not angry at her.
I'm just angry at the situation.

I just want people to be honest,
and I want people to be truthful.

You gotta understand
that I'm not letting myself get involved...

with a roommate, for one,

that is actually making out
with another roommate.

I totally understand what you're saying.

And if you don't wanna pursue
anything more with me,

-I understand.
-[Danny] Just like that, you don't care.

I do care. I do care, Danny,

but if you feel like...
I don't wanna cry.

[Danny] Don't... Come here.
Don't... Do not cry.

[Melinda] I feel really rejected.
I feel low. I feel confused.

I don't wanna talk anymore
because it's not what I wanna hear.

I'm very, very sorry, Danny.

-[sniffles]
-[Danny] What...

-God...
-[sniffles]

[soft music concluding]

-Just from seeing the way she is...
-Mm.

...I don't think she's clingy.
Do you think she's clingy?

It seems to me

that maybe he got himself
in a little bit over his head,

and now he's kind of rethinking

-what he originally had done.
-[Johanna] Well, who told him

-about the Wes kiss?
-It doesn't even matter.

I don't know. He won't...

He won't really say,
which it doesn't matter

because I guarantee, it probably...

I bet it was in passing someone said it,

joking about... Because remember
how Melinda was making fun of

what a bad kisser he was?

-[Johanna] Mm, yeah.
-So, I'm... And plus the fact

that we all decided it wasn't a big deal,

so someone probably mentioned it,
not even thinking about it

because everybody said,
it wasn't a big deal.

-[insects chirping]
-[upbeat music playing]

[Danny] I like you with your glasses on.

-Hmm?
-I like it when you wear your glasses.

I wanna take 'em off.

-They were bothering my eyes.
-[upbeat music concluding]

-I wish you wouldn't be so standoffish.
-[Melinda] It's just hard.

What is hard?

-What is hard?
-I realize that I made a mistake,

and it's hard because
I like you more than I think

I've ever liked any guy,
and... [breathes deeply]

-Can you...
-[sobs] I don't wanna talk

about it right now.

-[sniffles]
-[soft music playing]

[Danny] You're sitting here
thinking things have to change,

and they don't. I just wanted to let you
know where I am coming from.

[Melinda] What you're saying, I know...
[sniffles] ...exactly what you're saying...

[Danny] 'cause I do like you,
and if I didn't care, I would say,

"You know what?
She made out with Wes?"

And I would be outside

making out with
eight different girls right now.

But I'm not, and I don't plan on it.

I could've kept it to myself
and went out when I felt better

and did my own thing
and let you get pissed off,

and been like, "You know what?
You did it to me."

But I'm not like that.
And you're getting way too upset,

-and you shouldn't be.
-I... It's hard not to.

No, you don't 'cause I'm not like that.
I'm not gonna hold a grudge against you,

and I'm not gonna make you feel bad
just 'cause I can.

[Melinda] I'm really sorry.

[Danny] Just be upfront and honest please,
'cause I'm not here to get strung along.

And I didn't come here to meet somebody,

and I did meet somebody,
and I do care about her,

and I don't wanna get screwed.

[Melinda] I don't wanna screw you.

I mean, I wanna screw you,
but I don't wanna screw you. [chuckles]

-[Danny sniffles]
-[Melinda kisses]

It's nice to know that Danny,

even though it's been
a short amount of time,

cares about me enough that he's just,

"Hey, I don't like this. It's not cool."

-[whispers] I'm sorry.
-[kisses]

Just be honest, and that's like...
that's the main thing in a relationship.

I was glad it came out,
and I'm glad we fixed it

-or worked through it.
-I will never, ever find a guy

-I could ever compare to you.
-["You Have My Attention" playing]

♪ Just do your best to hear me ♪

♪ It's all you can do... ♪

["You Have My Attention" concluding]

I would like to get my nails done.

-I'm... I need a pedicure.
-Fake ones, you're getting done?

I think so, yeah.
'cause I've had fake ones,

but I always had to take 'em off
for the army or 'cause of nursing,

'cause people [bleep],
and germs get all stuck underneath them.

From your poop burning days.

-[bleep].
-[crowd laughs]

Where you had to dig the hole
in the dirt, squat...

Everybody has heard that.
I'm so embarrassed I told that story.

It was the most degrading
experience of my life.

[laughs]

"Nehemiah, God,
you've always had a toilet."

[both laughing]