02x03 - Homewrecker

[bunniefuu]

♪

[phones jingling]

[both sigh]

[jingling continues]

- [grunts]

[jingling stops]

♪

- You can't go home again.

♪

When you leave a place

for an extended
period of time,

like a long vacation,

college...

[items clatter]

Or cancer...

♪

Sometimes when
you get back home,

things are just different...

♪

Because you are different.

♪

- [sighs]

♪

- Your old home...
- [sniffles]

- Is gone for good.

♪

- God.
[toilet water splashes]

[soft ambient music]

♪

What the...

Can you believe this?

This is so like my mom

to just replace
her cancer daughter

with a new kid.
[door opens]

- Tell her I'm sorry.

- She can see you.
- Oh!

Hi, Mia. How are you?

- Hi, Jody, uh, just,

you know, tumbling down
a long spiral

of a dark nightmare
that has no end.

- Um, I'll let you two
talk alone.

- So, um,

Zac, are you--

are you getting psyched
for school?

- Uh, yeah.

Yeah, kind of.

You know, I'm--
I'm getting my classes

all situated and stuff.
- [chuckles]

- I don't know, I'm--I'm gonna
be a senior this year,

and all the juniors are
now gonna be seniors,

and, I don't know,
I just feel old, you know?

Like I missed out on
a whole year of my--

Are you okay?

- Yeah, I just...miss you.

- Look, things are gonna get
better, okay? I promise.

- Things will get better
when I see you.

- Okay, well, I'm gonna pick
you up after physical therapy,

all right?
- Okay.

- Bye.

[phone beeping]

- [sighs]

[soft guitar music]

♪

- Zac, I just spoke
with Dr. Lydell,

and he said that he made it
very clear with you

that you can't be
around crowds.

That includes school.
- No, no.

Dr. Lydell, I'm sure if he took
a recent lymphocyte count--

- Remission doesn't mean cured.

Now, the school agreed
that they would provide

a private tutor for you...
- No, I don't need that, Mom.

- So you could still prepare
for graduation...

- I don't need a tutor.
- But as far as spending

seven days a week surrounded by
germ-infested teenagers--

- Listen, I don't need a tutor.

- This is not a discussion.

I'll let the school know

that you're coming by
to register today.

You need to register
before the semester begins

and everyone arrives.

Honey...

you haven't had an immune
system for months.

Zac...

♪

[phone trills]

♪

- Hey, Mia, uh,
I hope your first day

of physical therapy
is going really good.

I've been thinking about you,

and I've been thinking about
your living situation,

and I think I found
the perfect solution.

[high-pitched] Oh!

- [laughs]
- It's a little cramped,

I know, and it's
right next to a hotel,

but I promise you,
once you pass Go

and collect your $200,

I can upgrade you to
a Park Place-adjacent suite.

- [chuckles]

- [exhales] I miss you.

I'll see you soon.

♪

- Phillips?

I'm Trevor. I'll be training
you for the next couple months.

- You can call me Mia.

- Great.

[muted guitar music]

No--the forms, please.

Please?
- Oh, yeah.

- Let's get you
walking again...

Phillips.

Let's go!

- Great.

[soft guitar music]

[woman laughs,
school bell rings]

[indistinct chatter]

♪

- Zac?

- Kyle?

- Yo.
- Hey.

- That's crazy.

Yo, I was scared you died...

or something.

♪

- No, I'm still alive...

allegedly.

- [gasps softly]

- Welcome to the real world.

Let's go, Phillips.

There it is, nice.

You got this.

Let's go.

[slow mundane music]

Come on, let's go.
You're almost there.

- These are really--

- Come on, you got this.
I promise you--

- These are really
hurting my arms.

Can we just take a break?
- Check this out:

I'll give you 15 minutes
if you get to the top.

It's one more step. Let's go.

♪

Get out of your head
and get up those steps.

Come on.

[clapping]

♪

There's gonna be
stairs outside of here.

- [panting]

- Come on.

Good, that's nice.

Almost there.
[clapping modulates]

Come on, Phillips.
[voice echoes]

- Can we just take a break?
- No, not yet.

Come on!
[voice echoes]

[clapping modulates]

This is real life.

- [gasps]
- You don't get a break from--

- I just can't!

I'm such a freak! [sobs]

I'm such a freak.

- Dude, that's heavy.
- Yeah.

- Yeah, I remember seeing
posts on Facebook.

I should've reached out.

Done, like, an ice bucket
challenge or something.

- Uh, thank you,
but I'm fine, really.

- Man, this place
just wasn't the same

without you, Zuckerberg.

I just dropped off
my baseball gear today,

and I just can't wait
to get to college already.

- Where are you going?

- I'm headed out to ASU.

[phone trills]
- Congratulations.

- Hold up.

Uh, it's my dad.

Uh, we're taking the boat out
one last time

before the end of summer.

Hey, you wanna come?

Swimming, wakeboarding,

full bar in the galley.

Come on.

[gentle guitar music]

♪

- I can't.

Maybe next time?

- Yeah, cool, next time.

- You enjoy college.
- Bro, you already know.

♪

- So, how was school?

[door opens, closes]

- I ran into this guy

that I used to know,
I used to be friends with,

and he kept talking about
how school sucks,

and, like, he's gonna
go to college, and...

♪

It was--it was fine.

I just registered for classes,

and it's no big deal.

♪

- Are you sure?

- Let's talk about you.
How was your day?

- Well, you know it was
a really awesome day

when the highlight
is chemotherapy.

[both laugh]

♪

My mom invited her baby daddy

to come and live with us.

The place is already so tiny,

and it's just gonna get
more crowded with a baby.

But, I don't know...

this is--

this is my life now, so...

Please tell me that
everything's gonna get better.

[Huxlee's "Isn't Anything"]

- It'll get better...

I promise.

♪

Hey, Mom? Is Dad there too?

I wanna talk to you guys
about, uh--about Mia.

♪

Ready?

♪

If you can't go home again...

♪

Where can you go?

- ♪ Cover

♪ It up

♪ Cover it up

[camera shutter clicks]

♪

♪ Cover it up

[car door opens, closes]

♪ Cover

♪ It up

♪ Hey

all: Hey.

- Welcome home.

♪

- ♪ Cover

♪ It up

♪ Hey

♪ Isn't it everything?

[camera shutter clicking]

♪

- Nothing about moving in
with your significant other

is a science...
[rhythmically knocking on door]

But the close proximity
of our new living situation

is not without
some familiar benefits.

[rhythmic knocking continues]

♪

But it also comes with
disadvantages.

- Hey.
- Sorry I didn't knock.

I'm not in the habit,
considering this is my room.

- No, it's--it's fine.

- Which one?

- The one on the right
is really cute.

- Left it is.

- [sighs]

♪

[footsteps passing]

Um...
- Good morning.

- Good morning.

Uh...

- You can use the shower.
I'm gonna come back.

- I can come back.
- No, we can--I--

- It's your house.
You--you use it.

- No, I'm fine. I can--
I can wait if you wanna...

- No, it's...

- No, you can use the bathroom.

- Those are--those are cute.
- Thank you, yeah.

I'm gonna wait in my room now
if you--if--

do you need help or anything?

- Taking a shower?

- I'm not gonna help you
in the show--

I'm gonna help you get to--

- I'm good, yes.

- Okay.
- I'm good.

- Dis--disregard everything.
I'm gonna go this way.

The hot water is to the left.

Uh...

♪

- [sighs]
[doorknob rattles]

- Ocupado!

- [sighs] Sorry.

[phone beeping rapidly,
trills]

- I got in.
- No way! Really?

- I'm officially
off the waitlist.

God, orientation's next week,

and there's so much
that I have to do.

I have to pack.

There's, like, a zillion forms
that I have to fill out.

- Yeah.

[soft solemn music]

- Yo, it isn't weird
that I'm telling you

all of this, right?

- No, no, I'm happy for you.

I'm really happy for you.

♪

- Uh, you know, my dad, okay.

Any excuse for a party.

So, the whole Meier clan is
invited over this afternoon,

and Mia too, of course.

Why haven't I met her yet?

So, I'll see you then?

- I wouldn't miss it
for the world.

- Bye.
[phone beeping]

♪

- What do you mean "no"?
- This is not a punishment,

but being around all those
people at Sierra's party--

- Dad, come on, I know
all of Sierra's friends.

They're fine.

That's not that many people.
- I get it.

It's still a giant risk.

- But that's my risk to take.
- It's not.

And I'm sorry, Zac,
it's not your choice.

- That's not fair, Dad.

Why did I fight
if I can't do anything?

- You can do things.

You just can't go to
this party right now.

- Dad, I've already
texted all of them.

Why can't I go?
- Just--

- Why not?

[soft music]

♪

- I'm not ready to see you
in the ICU again, okay?

Can you--can you
understand that?

[inhales, exhales]

♪

- Okay.

[solemn guitar music]

♪

- You're gonna make me

a peanut butter
and jelly sandwich.

- Excuse me, what decade
do you think this is?

- Jelly's in the refrigerator.

♪

Open that door a little more.

- Hm.
- Nicely done.

Peanut butter...

is in the top shelf.

- [mutters] So stupid.

Excuse me.
- You're excused.

- [sighs] Okay.

♪

[groans]

- Looks like you're gonna
have to get out of the chair.

- I can reach it.

- Okay.

♪

- [grunts]

[grunts]

[glass shatters]
Damn it!

What was this
supposed to prove?

Where are you taking me? No.

Trevor!

[birds chirping]

[clock ticking]

[phone trills]

[people laughing, chattering]

[monitor beeping]

[ominous music]

[tense tone]

[prolonged beep]

[machines beeping rapidly]

[distressed breathing]

[thumping beat]

[slow solemn music]

♪

[waves crashing]

♪

[exhales]

- Trevor, what is this?
- Cancer support group.

- Oh, hey, hello.
Please, come on in.

Um, we have just begun.

- I'll be back for you later.

[soft music]

- Just make a little room
there for her.

♪

[solemn music]

♪

Or there--oka--
yeah, why don't we mo--

make room over here?

Look at that, we're really
expanding our circles.

Who wants to begin our session?

[waves crashing]

[slow wistful music]

♪

- I had cancer

the first time

after my second birthday.

Um, but years later,

I was diagnosed
with a brain tumor.

I had to relearn how to walk.

Now I'm dealing with
a second brain tumor.

[soft somber music]

I'm not really scared anymore.

It's just...

what can I do with
the time that I have?

I'm just thankful

to wake up every day...

♪

And usually
I don't cry--[laughs]--

but, um...

I'm gonna continue
to fight, you know?

- Thank you.

So, would anyone

like to go next?

Mia...

I know--[clears throat]--
that you've joined us,

but, uh, is there anything
you wanna share?

You know, Bec mentioned

that you recently moved in
with her family.

How's that going?

- It's--it's fine.

- [scoffs]

- I mean...

I guess it's a big adjustment,

and not just for me.

What I'm saying is,

I'm really just trying
to get healthy

without annoying anyone.

[lively ringtone playing]

Sorry.

- [softly]
Oh, my God, it doesn't end.

- Excuse me?

- Sorry, I've just had
my fill of Deadmaus

over the last few days.

- I am sensing some tension?

- Yeah, kinda.
- Nope.

- Look, I--

I know I just moved
into your house, okay?

- I'm sleeping in the attic
because of you.

[softly] Oh, my God,
what did I tell you?

- Is that what you do?
Come here to b*tch about me?

- Not everything is about you.

- Then why are you really here?
- Shouldn't you stop this?

- Um, yeah,
I--I probably should.

- I lived with Zac's cancer
for a year,

right beside him,

the whole time.

I've spent more time at
this hospital than you have.

I was here when Cam died,

and I had no one
to talk to about it.

[somber music]

I went through something too.

It wasn't just you.

♪

- We all experience grief
in different ways.

- Thanks, Patrick.

- Yeah, you're--
you're welcome.

[solemn guitar music]

♪

- [sighs]

- Hey, Bec, um...

look, I'm--I'm sorry,
I didn't--I didn't know.

- Hey, this is kind of
weird and awkward,

but could you maybe

not mention to Zac
that I was here?

♪

- I--I won't say anything.

- Thanks.

See ya.

♪

- [gasps]
- Whoa, those are good.

- Um...
- You take all those?

- Yeah.

It's--it's no big deal.

- What do you mean, no big deal?
These are good.

Let me see more.
- I'll think about it.

- Okay, are you done
thinking about it?

- I will let you know when
I'm done thinking about it.

How was your day?

- Nothing out of the ordinary.

- What is ordinary anymore?

- I'm still trying
to figure that out myself.

- You know, I would k*ll for
one normal thing to happen...

Just once.

- I can make that happen.

- [chuckles] Kay.

[chuckles] What?

- Is this your scarf?

- [chuckles] Are you gonna
perform a magic trick?

- That I am not.
- Okay.

- Do you trust me?

[soft music]

- Yeah, I do.

♪

[chuckles]

[cheerful music]

Oh, my God.

I told you to delete
that video!

- I thought I did too.

I--I don't know what happened.

♪

- This is really cute.

But aren't we missing
four Meiers?

- I may have paid Evan to take
them all out for the night.

I thought I'd give you
a housewarming gift.

Just the two of us.

♪

- I love it.

I have community service.

It's pretty much been
non-stop fun.

♪

- I don't think
you're a bad egg.

♪

- Thanks.

[music builds]

♪

[bright music]

♪

Wait...
- Are you okay?

- I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, I just can't yet.

- Hey, it's fine, really.
- [exhales]

[Gemma Hayes'
"All the Kids Go"]

- We can just watch
the rest of this movie,

and go inside and...

watch another movie inside
or something.

- Kay.

♪

- ♪ Our longing

♪ Is filled

♪ By a test

♪

♪ All kids go

♪

♪ All kids go

♪