17x04 - Svetlana's Tough Times

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Previously onThe Real World:

You're never single until you break up with your first

relational partner. How long did you guys

go out for? Like a year and a half.

This is us on our two-year anniversary.

Oh, he's cute.

I'm going to miss Martin.

We've been together for almost three years.

Oh, you have a boyfriend?Yeah.

She has the boyfriend.Yeah! This is going to be interesting, dude.

This is gonna be the one...This is going to get interesting, dude.

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JOHN: How's Martin?

I don't know.

He's just like doing the same [ bleep] thing he promised

he would stop doing,

just being dumb with his friends.

JOSE: I think that Svetlana is needy and she loves

the attention. That's why she is

with Martin, but deep down inside,

I don't think she's happy,

and she may be looking for an outlet.

Is he worried?

about, like, the guys in this house?

I don't know, he doesn't say.He won't admit it.

All he keeps doing is just acting like...He can [ bleep] himself.

Does he know that you want my [ bleep]?

That-that's where we're at?Yeah.

JOHN: I take my cues from the girl. If everything

she says about the relationship is negative, that's usually

a pretty good sign that she might

be looking for something else.

Like, I cried so hard before I came here.

He didn't show one...

Is this the first time that you've b...

is this the first time that you've, like, had to be, like,

in a long-term relationship when, like, you've been away?

I've been away from him, but, like, there's been...

I've gone on vacation with my parents for like a week.

No, that's different. No.

This is the first time I've been away from him.

Is it him or is it just guys in general that you feel like

part of the relationship's depending on...

[ phone ringing]SVETLANA: Oh, that's probably him.

Speak of the devil.Speak of the devil.

Tell him wesaid hi.

Speak of the devil.

Hey, we love him. [ laughing]

SVETLANA: You're awful.

Hi.

[ Martin speaking foreign language]

Nothing.Whatcha doing?

We were playing pool. It's pouring rain out.

JOHN: I think at this point, Svetlana

is very dependent on Martin,

and she just has no better option.

It's kind of funny how he called

right when we were talking about him.

She's brave for coming out here, that's for sure.

JOHN: Why? That's not brave. That's-that's actually a copout.

PAULA: A copout?

Yeah, dude. If something here

is better than what I've got, then it's going

to work out. If not, then I'm just going to stay

with that, so it's almost kind of like,

you know, have your cake and eat it, too.

I think Fitz is confused at this point.

The first thing that

she said to us when she came here

is, "I have a boyfriend."

But her actions and a lot of things

that she says contradict that.

PAULA: I don't think she was looking to find somebody here.

Maybe she could learn something from this experience

and go back and he's just not the person

that she wants anymore, orshe could learn

something about herself and be like,

"This is the kid that's perfect for me."

[ Svetlana sighs]

PAULA: Where?

ZACH: In Key West, I haven't really found many girls

that I've been attracted to.

So with Crystal, it is really fun to hang out,

and just kind of, you know, be attracted to somebody.

I'm really kind of intrigued by her,

and I'm thinking that, you know, maybe she is

someone that I would like to talk to

and call again.

TYLER: Do you like Barbra Streisand?

SVETLANA: Mm-mm. I like her movies, though.

Funny Girl?

Nuts.Did you see Nuts?

Where she's a prost*tute?

She's a psychologist in that movie.

See, I forgot to do a toast.

Here's to Martin.

I'm sorry.

Here's to your ex-boyfriend.

Here's to your ex.

Soon-to-be ex-boyfriend.

I'll drinkto that!

I'll drink to that!

See, the only reason I feel like you're doing this

is because you think you have

a chance with me if we break up.

Not at all, dude.

SVETLANA: John wants to[ bleep] me. It's obvious.

That's why he talks [ bleep] on Martin.

As vulgar as that is, it's true.

I don't care what he says.

TYLER: They're not trying to sleep

with you, all right?!

No, that's what all the other girls said.

[ laughing] Hold on.If I had

a girlfriend, and I, all I ever talked about was her, and all

I was doing was complaining about

how she doesn't respect me,

you wouldn't like her either, dude.

Exactly. If he had a girlfriend,

I'd be busting his [ bleep], dude.

I'd be like, why would you

come out here with a chick, dude?

Honestly. What, what's wrong with you?

Were you dropped on your head as a child?

All right.

I'm just used to guys bashing my boyfriend

because they just want to sleep with me.

No. My boyfriend would freak out

if he thought anybody

was disrespecting him or me that way.

Would you appreciate

if a girl talked to Martin the way Johnny Bananas...

I'd k*ll her. I'd k*ll her.

Exactly. I'd k*ll her.

Why is that okay that he talks about Martin?

Because Martin just always lets it go.

SVETLANA: It's really hard to love someone when

this person that you love

has never made you feel as though

you can depend on him.

Some dude, like, hit me...

A guy smacked me across the face,

and he never did anything about it.

How about that?

Put itthis way. How about that?

If-if my boyfriend ever saw that, he'd k*ll them.

When it comes down to it, like,

I don't feel protected. I'm gonna start crying.

No, it's okay.I don't feel protected at all.

It's not even that, like,

I'm just... Like, I rely on my dad for that.

The dudes are just there

to, like, keep me happy,

screw me,

and take me out and celebrate anniversaries.

That's the lie.

A guy smacks a girl, you go over there--

"What's wrong with you? You don't hit a girl."

If I told my dad... My dad doesn't even know.

If I told my dad that some dude, like, hit me,

The guy would be decapitated in pieces.

That's why as much as I love him, I don't want

to talk to him. I don't want to talk

to him on the phone, 'cause I feel stupid.

I'm such a strong person,

but when it comes to my personal life,

I'm not very strong.

I'm pretty insecure, and sometimes I can be very weak.

That'sokay.No, but if I said that,

and think about all the bad stuff,

I wouldn't be able to look at him anymore.

'Cause he was so dumb.

I got him to this point, because he started off like an idiot.

I got him to this point of, like, molding him

into this person out of clay,

and I was kind of like keep pushing and pushing and pushing

and in the end result, he'll turn out to be

the perfect guy for me, but

I'll be so exhausted from molding

I'll be like...

"Go and find somebody else.

I'm tired of it."

ZACH: So, what do you want to do? Want to hang out?

CRYSTAL [ over phone]: Yeah, I want to be with you.

ZACH: Do you want to come over here and fish?

We have, like ten fishing poles, and we have a fish tank.

If we catch anything, we can keep 'em.

Really? That sounds like fun...

Okay.All right, cool.

All right.All right, bye.

Bye.

We have fishing dates.

With girls?

Yeah.

TYLER: Are they coming over?

Yeah.Sweet!

SVETLANA: Wait, they're coming into this house?

Yeah. Why? Why can't you go meet them somewhere?

We want to fish, so they're gonna come over and fish.

TYLER: Perfect, have them come over.

Have them come over.[ laughing]

No, it's my house!

Oh, shut up!

TYLER:She is getting jealous already!

I'm not jealous; I just don't like strangers in my house.

ZACH: I don't care that Svetlana may be jealous.

She can't be upset

if we, as the other roommates, bring people into this house.

So, I am really excited about

introducing Crystal to Svetlana.

Oh!

ZACH:Hello.

Hey, you!

How you doing?

Pleasure to see you.

It's so hot out.

What's the verdict?I don't know.

I have bad eyes, though. I can't tell, dude.

Second one's okay.

[ chuckling]

They caught us staring at 'em, dude!

They didn't bring... see, they should have brought...

they should have brought their bikinis, dude.

How you doing? I'm Svetlana.

Svetlana. Paula.

I'm Jessica.Everybody can all be friends.

CRYSTAL: Nice to meet you.Nice to meet you, too.

Those are adorable.What's your name?

Hi. Liz. Liz?

Yeah.Oh, I saw you. You were...

Yeah....serving drinks.

SVETLANA: Crystal-- she is so cute. She's really, really sweet.

I just get very protective of everybody in the house.

Like, I don't want anybody to bring anybody in the house,

'cause I don't want anybody to get hurt.

Why'd you move down here?

Get away from North Carolina.

ZACH: I'm relishing in this opportunity

just to sit there and listen and talk to Crystal

and get to know a really down-to-earth girl.

And she... and she's a hockey goalie.

JOHN: You're a hockey goalie?

Yeah. Ice hockey.Ice hockey?

I played college hockey.Where?

In Wisconsin.Oh, okay.

Yeah, I was there, and I was in Chicago.

So, you guys brought bikinis, I'm hoping, or bathing suits.

CRYSTAL: No.

Then we got to go skinny-dipping, I guess.

Welcome to our house.

♪ I'm gonna spend my time with you ♪

♪ 'Cause I got nothing to do

♪ You got me hanging from a noose ♪

♪ And I got nothing to lose...

ZACH: Crystal is someone

that I really think is an awesome girl.

I'm not saying I'm in love with this girl.

I really just enjoy spending

time with her.

Cool. Bye, ladies.

Bye. Bye.See you tonight.

Everyone in the house thinks she's really cool,

and I'm hoping that our relationship can be fun

and easygoing and stress-free.

Your girls gone?

Yeah.They left?

Mm-hmm.How was it?

It was fun.

That's all?That's all you get.

Stop, come here. I'm just asking.

You want to be their friends?Mm-hmm.

Anyway, it's very nice to have someone who will hang out and just listen.

Yeah.You know?

And I can talk to her, and she can talk to me.

Uh-huh.And it's really chill.

And I love intense, 'cause I'm intense.

But I like, also, having that chill.

You know? I'm not trying to say anything more...

like it's not anything more than that, honestly. You know?

TYLER:I can't even listen to him.

I just get lost in his eyes.

[ bleep] you.

[ laughing]

One of the big reasons I came here was because

you said this was gonna be good for us,

and that something's supposed to come out of this.

Because if I'm gonna come home

and it's gonna be just the same thing

that we had before I left, then that was pointless.

Then this meant nothing.

Martin feels that this is

really good for our relationship.

This is the deciding factor

of whether or not we're gonna be together in the long run

or if our relationship ends here.

When I go home, I will not go near your friends.

Yeah, but that's impossible. Do you understand?

His friends talk so much trash on me, and he just stays friends

with them, simply because they've

been friends so long.

You can [ bleep] complain about whatever

the [ bleep] you want, you understand?

Nothing's gonna change, you understand?Why?

My friends are my friends. Listen to me.

My friends will not change.

You come back, me and you can be different.

My friends will be there, and there's nothing you

can [ bleep] do about it, do you understand? They're there.

There's nothing about that part

of our relationship that's gonna change.

You tell me, "Oh, I'm only gonna come home if it's different"?!

Then don't [ bleep] come home!

I don't [ bleep] care, do you understand!

You [ bleep] have a great time.

I'm by my [ bleep] self!

Oh, okay. All right, Martin.

All right, all right.

Is this helping you? Is this making you feel better?

Is this how you deal with [ bleep]?

I call you and I say I don't want to come home unless

[ bleep] between us changes, and this is how you react?

When it comes to being a b*tch

and having no backbone, you are number one.

Did you just [ bleep] call me a b*tch?

Are you kidding me?!

You shook his hand the next day that you

saw him after he [ bleep] hit me in the face.

Don't even go there!

You've never been in that situation, so I don't want

to [ bleep] hear your opinion on it, you understand?Okay.

If you don't like something or if you're upset about something

or if you feel like you have to sacrifice something

to be with me, then please do me a favor

and don't [ bleep] be with me, all right?

SVETLANA: It's not that I want him to break up with me.

I just want to stop fighting,

and I want some result to come out of, like, this, like...

So, you'll either be sad or be happy?Yeah.

But he's still there.TYLER: Well, I have a novel idea.

How about you try being single for once?

Hell, no, that'll-that'll, like...

Like, here's his heart. It's already, like,

kind of like bent. That'll be like...

TYLER: Martin is not happy.

I mean, he must be some kind of sadomasochist

to be continuing a relationship with this girl.

'Cause this will break his heart even more.Your co-dependant relationship

is even irritating me, and I really don't even care

about your relationship.Everything irritates you.

No, mainly your relationship with Martin.

No, every... The hair on my body irritates you.

Just your relationship, mainly.That's not fair,

because there's so many good things about it.

There's just certain things that he's done where I'm like...

"What were you think..."?!Make a decision. If you're waiting

for him to make a decision, he won't,

'cause men won't make decisions like this.

No, I just want him to decide. It's so annoying.

Men won't make a decision...

A man won't make a decision like that.

JOHN:I-I second that, dude. He will never...

He will never sever himself from that [ bleep] like that.

The thing is, it's my fault...

If he's as immature as you are,

then this is going nowhere fast.

You're talking to this person all the time,

and it's solving nothing.I don't miss him at all.

I don't miss him a little bit, and it's like... "Oh, I'm gonna

miss you and I'm scared that I'll miss you; what the

[ bleep] is gonna happen?" And I want to know now. I don't want

to waste time and be broken up three months from now

when I could have, like...

PAULA: Been broken up right now. Yeah.

♪

SVETLANA: I never have experienced going out to clubs

and just being single and having an awesome time.

I feel like, "Oh, you know,

why can't I just do whatever I want?"

[ whooping]

♪

[ playfully shrieking]

Okay, don't choke me now.I'll squeeze. Ready?

Fitz, you have to break up with your boyfriend

and then John and I will make out you with you,

but until then, relax.

JOHN: Stop saying "John and I."

There's no twosome

to any of this ... twosomeness.

ZACH: When Svetlana looks at John, she sees

a guy that she wants to strangle,

and then hook up with.

JOHN: Fitz is by far the most flirtatious girl in the house.

There's a mutual attraction there and... and, uh...

So, those two...

I think something will happen.

JOHN:I don't feel like getting in the hot tub.

Why don't you want to go in the hot tub?

I don't want to get involved in that, dude.

Involved in what?

We're just chillin' in the hot tub.

I know. Exactly. That's all I'm saying.

I don't want to get involved in the getting wet thing.

Okay, let me ask you this.

I'm just saying, hypothetically,

if you were to break up right now, tomorrow you would go out

and be, like, "I need to find someone new."

'Cause I don't want to be alone.

It's so depressing.

Okay, so if I was single, what would happen?

That'd be bigtrouble.

JOHN: I kind of told myself from the beginning

that I wasn't going to get myself involved

within the house because it's just a very sticky situation.

You don't want a relationship in these circumstances.

I know. You live too far away, anyway.

Exactly.

You have to be prepared for something

not as serious as a relationship.

I know. I'm a creature of attachment.

That's what I'm saying, dude.

And that's the problem, is that you are that way

and I'm the exact opposite way, dude.

I met Martin and I fell in love with him

two weeks after we started dating.

Yeah. That's pretty quick, dude. Two weeks?Yeah!

I know now that I made him into somebody that he wasn't.

I so desperately wanted somebody there, somebody to love me

and somebody to care about me.

That's not good.

You got to fall in love with people for who they are.

I can't. I can't.Not for what you want to change them into.

I refuse to share my past.

I don't want to know about your past.

I honestly don't... Listen, Fitz.

I don't even want to know about your past, dude.

Okay, say you were still with your girlfriend.

This is a completely hypothetical situation.

Say she dated a guy before you and he r*ped her.

What would you say to that?Wait, I'm her boyfriend now, and...

You're her boyfriend now,

and you know that her ex-boyfriend r*ped her.

What would you say?

JOHN: Svetlana basically tells me

that she was r*ped by her first boyfriend.

This really does speak worlds

about why Svetlana is in the relationship

and the predicament she's in now.

This is kind of making me see her in a different light.

And her ex-boyfriend came up to you

because you went to school together

and said, you know, "I don't want ... between us,

I just want to make sure everything's cool."

What would you say in that situation?

Well, I wouldn't have anything to do with the guy.

You would say... you just wouldn't say anything, you'd walk away, right?

Yeah, pretty much.

Yeah.

What did you expect?

What, should I k*ll the guy or what?

No. Would that be better?

Would that make you feel better?

No, no... Would that solve...

It's a hypothetical...Would that solve...?

It's a hypothetical situation,

but you don't like the answer that I gave.

Would that solve things?

No. That's why it makes me always want to be with somebody

that I feel like... that can protect me,

because I don't want to be...

In that position again. I understand.Exactly.

I want to be with somebody that I know can protect me.

SVETLANA: He was never punished for it, you know?

He just did it and got away with it.

That's why I'm, like, always searching

for someone to stand up for me.

The fact that Martin didn't do anything to this guy

does not mean that he doesn't care.

But at the same time,

would him hurting this kid have made any difference?

It wouldn't have,dude.

There's nothing that can be done

that could take a situation like that back.

SVETLANA: It was the worst experience of my life.

It changed me completely.

After that day, I felt so insecure.

You need to start looking out for number one, dude.

You need to start looking out for your ... self.

You can't? Yes you can, dude.

Listen, at the end of the day, Fitz,

you are an awesome girl, dude.

Awesome.

Despite what I say, despite how I act sometimes,

I really am glad that you're here.

I really, truly am.

Let's go to sleep.I'm going to sleep.

Let's go. Go to sleep.I am.

I'm done. I'm done with you, man.

You're exhausting. I know.

I'm pathetic. God.

And I thought Paula was the biggest head case in this house.

No, stop saying that.

I kind of see Fitz

as a younger sister sometimes,

and I really feel for her and for what she's been through.

I'm here to give whatever type

of support I possibly can.

♪ Don't know which way to turn this page ♪

♪ When I look it's the same each way ♪

♪ I'll keep feeling grey in-between twin worlds ♪

♪ I need...

♪ And I'll speak

♪ When I'm out of ink...

I think it's stupid for us

to even talk about what's gonna happen until I see you.

All right.

'Cause I think the only reason I'm going nuts

is 'cause I don't miss you and I'm not used to it.

SVETLANA: When you have something

like me and Martin have, you have to hold on to it

and work through the bumps and bruises.

Love you.

Okay, bye.

♪ When I gather enough strength ♪

♪ To turn it over...

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TYLER: I need to be constantly challenged.

I kind of want to break into the sport of triathlon.

I'm taking baby steps up to that goal.

What do you think about if I was manager?

If I'm not manger, I'm going home. I need to be manager.

So is Zach the manager?This is so personal.

Will you stop?It is.

Okay, so let's vote.

Here are some pick-up lines to avoid.

"If you were a burger

at McDonald's, I'd call you McBeautiful."

[ laughing]

That is the worst one. I like that one.

That is the worst one I've ever heard.

Like...

"Let's get you out of these wet clothes."

[ laughing]

"I may not be the best looking guy in here,

but, uh, I'm the only one talking to you."

[ laughing][ phone ringing]

That's key right there, dude.

Martin!

Martin is very threatened.

And he should be.He should, man.