05x10 - Home Is Where the Flaming Heart Is

Episode transcripts for the TV show "You Me Her". Aired March 2016 - June 2020.*
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05x10 - Home Is Where the Flaming Heart Is

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Previously on "You Me Her"...

We stood up for your honor.

We're trying to win you back here.

Just took over Lala's bachelorette party.

It's always about you.

You literally tricked me into doing your literal dirty work.

I thought it was gonna be a breeze, but it's not.

We are either moving in together - or we are breaking up.

- Oh, my God.

- Izzy?

- Leo.

- Hi, Peanut.

- I miss you.

Not much longer.

I promise, okay?

We're gonna get this figured out.

Lala's right.

I love you.

- Maybe more now than ever.

- Mom!

- What are you doing?

What's happening?

- Lala...

[CLEARS THROAT]

- It's my grandmother's.

- Oh, my God, it's so sparkly.

The Plan is malleable, and we wanna make an amendment for you.

- [LEAF BLOWER BLOWING]

Griswolds!

- Oh, my God.

- Go home!

Get!

- Nina's right.

You should go.

[YOUNG SUMMER'S "TAKEN"]

♪ I find it strange, find it strange ♪

♪ That you're wandering in this place ♪

♪ ♪

- So, hi.

- Hi.

Hi.

You're like a unicorn.

[BOTH LAUGH]

Oh.

♪ Which one of us ♪

- ♪ will look away? ♪

- Surprise.

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

- I'm just gonna...

- Izzy.

♪ ♪

♪ Say the words that we don't say ♪

♪ ♪

- [GIGGLES]

- She wasn't my first girl.

Or my second.

♪ To never separate ♪

I love us.

I mean, not just the sex, but, like, us.

[SNIFFLES]

You don't deserve me.

We think you have a right to know.

- Her flight leaves at : p.m.

- Jack, where is she?

- We need to go to the airport.

- The airport?

Hey, assholes.

♪ ♪

Somebody's following you.

♪ Say the words that we don't say ♪

We're together!

We're a "throuple." ♪ ♪

- ♪ Have I ♪

- [BOTH GIGGLE]

- f*ck this.

- ♪ Been taken by you one more time ♪

Hi.

♪ My, my ♪

♪ It's like we never looked into each other's eyes ♪

Can I come in?

Emma, Izzy, will you start a family with me?

[NO AUDIBLE DIALOGUE]

♪ No one is saying it's wrong ♪

♪ No one here is saying it's wrong ♪

- What the f*ck?

- You're pregnant.

You have gotta be f*cking kidding me.

You have a right to know.

♪ ♪

And Riley.

I like Riley.

Izzy Silva...

will you marry us?

[ALL CHEERING]

- You're the door...

- Yeah.

Opening up our lives in the most spectacular - and surprising ways.

- I love my door.

♪ Have I ♪

I can't do this.

[GASPS]

- Hey, Dad.

- There's my girl.

- I'm back.

- She's back.

Yep.

We'll be fine.

♪ I'm one heartbeat away from missing you again ♪

♪ I'm missing you ♪

It's very obvious that we still care about each other.

♪ Have I been taken by you one more time? ♪

♪ I'm missing you again ♪



- ♪ My, my ♪ - ♪ I'm one heartbeat away ♪


♪ From missing you again ♪

Suddenly, this good bye feels very real.

I think that's because it is.

♪ Heartbeat away from missing you again ♪

♪ I'm missing you again ♪

♪ No one here is saying ♪ - ♪ Have I ♪

♪ I'm one heartbeat away from missing you again ♪



- ♪ I'm missing you again ♪ - ♪ No one here is saying it's wrong ♪


♪ No one here is saying it's wrong ♪

♪ Have I ♪

Look at you.

Are you ready?

You are the prettiest best man ever.

- Not too bad, right?

- Yeah.

[SIGHS]

Well, you chose a good one, Ben.

Now I don't have to cry when I give you away.

- Are you...

- %.

- Yeah.

- I'm totally gonna ugly cry.

You know...

I used to dream about...

not being drunk or sick all the time, of waking up and remembering how and when I went to bed, but I never, ever dared...

dream of this.

Of you.

Of her.

I'm really proud of you.

- We're a pair, huh?

- Yeah.

[BOTH LAUGH]

- What time is your flight?

- Um, it's late.

: .

- Doing okay?

- Yeah, no big deal.

I'm just leaving literally everything.

You, Nina.

I still haven't found a proper pizza place down there.

It's very stressful.

You can say it.

- Say what?

- Well, that you're also leaving Jack and Emma behind.

Sure, yeah.

That too.

But there are two very important people waiting for you at that border.

- Two?

- Yeah.

Leo and you.

The very best of you.

[LAUGHS]

Who the hell are you?

I'm Ben Silva, and this is my beautiful life.

[LAUGHS]

[ACOUSTIC GUITAR MUSIC]

♪ ♪

Let's get sh*t done, you badass queen.

- [SNORING]

- Whoa.

You are the love of my life.

[SNORING]

You...

God, you scare me so much.

I know.

All of, uh...

all this wedding crap... all the drama right when we were discussing the, um...

we were, you know...

we were talking about the thing where two people, they...

- Live together?

- Yeah, that.

Um, did I mention that you scare the living sh*t out of me?

Maybe I'm too much trouble.

Nah, you're just the right amount of trouble.

- Boo.

- You're so stupid.

[SIGHS]

Oh, I mean, you don't have to grovel.

That's, - you know...

I think that's overkill.

- I'm proposing.

- Okay, you overshot the mark.

I think that...

- Look, I love you way too much to let my fear f*ck this up.

Did I mention that I'm terrified?

Hey.

I love us too much to let either of us f*ck this up...

And I am going to spend every single day...

Making you forget that you were ever afraid.

[WARM MUSIC]

Shaun...

Neen.

I wanna put your name on a lease.

I want it to be as much your apartment as it is mine.

♪ ♪

Will you be my roommate?

[LAUGHS, SNIFFLES]

Will you be mine?

♪ ♪

I will.

[LAUGHS]

♪ ♪

Take the key.

[LAUGHS]

♪ ♪

[UPBEAT MUSIC]

♪ ♪

I...

okay, well, stop me if I'm crossing into self-diagnosis here.

Oh, you crossed long ago.

Well, this is more of a theory, really, and we're seeking professional input.

The only reason we feel like something's missing is because we made the mistake of inviting a third person into our relationship.

Yeah, so for a finite period of time, we're...

we're going to experience sort of an Izzy-shaped hole in our lives.

Right, but that doesn't mean that we're not enough.

- No.

- Me and Emma.

- Because we totally are.

- Right.

Right?

- Right?

- Yeah.

[LAUGHS]

Please say we're right, because...

especially about the "finite" thing.

Well, um...

you know I can't answer that for you.

I mean, we...

we did the right thing.

- We know we did the right thing.

- Mm-hmm.

We have everything we've ever wanted.

Yeah, it...

it's just that we're feeling this, um...

how do I describe it?

It's like this feeling of, like...

- feeling sad...

- Sad.

BOTH: Hopeless.

You know, maybe disinterested in...

- Disinterested.

- Everything.

- [LAUGHS]

In everything.

- Yeah,

- right.

- Yeah.

[BAND PLAYING PEACEFUL STRING MUSIC]

♪ ♪ A little nervous there, Ben?

Yeah, I know.

It's weird, right?

I mean, we're both super old, so even if it's horrible, I mean, how much time do we have left?

That's a little dark, no?

Oh, boy.

I'm starting to feel things.

- Oh, you're welcome.

- "Starting to feel things"?

What are you, a robot?

I feel all the things.

Hey, Shaun, what's it like to feel?

♪ ♪ Uh, well...

I, um...

I want this.

I...

I want a real wedding.

You want a wedding?

Let's have a wedding.

Check out my website: "ninadoesnups"...

if you guys are interested at all in it not sucking.

Okay, yeah, just keep on doing that.

- Come here, roomie.

- I'm trying to...

Come on.

For symmetry.

♪ ♪ That was nice.

♪ ♪ [LAUGHS]

Holy moly.

♪ ♪ ♪ To be the first to know ♪

♪ At last ♪

♪ I found the man I love ♪ ♪ ♪

♪ The fastest route ♪

[INAUDIBLE CHATTER]

All right, one minute and counting and then I want Motown.

Something that moves.

I don't want the oldsters getting stiff or sleepy.

What?

- Mm.

- Oh.

Get loose and stay close.

Father-daughter dance is T-minus and counting.

♪ ♪

Hello, anybody home?

- Oh, are you talking to me now?

- Oh, no, I want DJ Carl to dance with your dad.

No, Carl.

Sarcasm, okay?

- Google it.

- [BOTH LAUGHING]

You are f*cking loving this, aren't you?

I mean, if you would have told me a month ago that I'd be a wedding planner, I would've knelt on your arms and dangled spit streams until you take it back.

That is disturbingly vivid.

Yet here you are.

The amazing life you never imagined.

♪ ♪

Iz?

S... sorry.

It just reminded me of something that Jack said to me about us.

About me, Jack, and Emma.

He said, "What if your best, happiest, most honest life looked nothing like you imagined?

Would you have the balls to live it?" ♪ ♪

Are you gonna be okay?

Yeah.

Yes, of course.

- I've got you.

- Yeah.

- Mm, look at these guys.

- I know.

♪ At last ♪

♪ To say I will be ♪

[TENSE MUSIC]

♪ ♪

Feels different.

- You too?

- Yeah, what is it?

What's...

what's changed?

Us.

♪ I know my crew, everybody's laughing at you ♪

♪ Ha, ha, ha ♪

♪ I'm searching for a love that's fire ♪

♪ I'm stopping this b*at for no one ♪

Hey.

So what you doing?

Why do I need to be doing anything?

I'm just quietly sitting here sipping my drink 'cause I don't want to go dance.

- It'll embarrass people.

- Mm.

And that seems narcissistic, so...

[CHUCKLES]

Okay, fine.

I'm just...

I'm worried they're gonna crash the reception too.

- Dude.

- Don't do that.

Don't "dude" me.

Oh, you deserve to be "duded" in the most solemn of tones.

Like, "dude." You look like a puppy waiting for the front door to open, for the humans to come back with a steak bone.

Oh, blow me, wedding planner.

Oh, like that's an insult.

Too late.

I'm owning it.

♪ ♪

I meant what I said.

You should be proud of yourself.

- You did good.

- Oh, I k*lled it.

Ain't no doubt.

♪ I'm stopping this b*at for no one ♪

[BOTH LAUGH]

Somebody's had some drinks.

♪ ♪

- No?

- Oh, my God.

Yeah, no.

[SIGHS]

God, I'm in love with that corny ginger.

♪ ♪

- [CHUCKLES]

- Oh, shut up.

I didn't say anything.

♪ I'm searching for a love that's fire ♪ ♪ I'm stopping this b*at for no one ♪ [LIGHT ACOUSTIC GUITAR MUSIC]

♪ ♪

I don't know that one.

It's infinity.

Like, forever.

♪ Don't have to be rich ♪

Forever.

Forever.

♪ ♪

Let's go tear this place up, 'cause you know we do.

BOTH: [REPEATING]

We do, we do.

Whoo!

That's how we do.

- Let's do it.

- Whoo!

[FUNKY UPBEAT MUSIC]

♪ And over and over ♪

♪ I give you what it is ♪

♪ Take it higher, higher ♪

- Ooh.

- Ah!

♪ I give you what it is ♪

♪ Give you what it is, give you what it is ♪

There's...

there's a...

a finite space in time soon after you take your last, best sh*t at getting sober...

it's maybe, uh, five days...

but it's amazing.

It's euphoric.

But it...

it's just a taste of what is possible...

before all of the sobbing and the wall-punching begins.

In that finite, euphoric space, I could see this kind of beauty.

I could imagine this kind of life with these kinds of friends.

[CONTEMPLATIVE, SOMBER MUSIC]

I could imagine finally being the kind of father that my incredible daughter deserves.

♪ ♪

I could imagine a...

inspiring and amazing woman to love with all of my heart when I was healthy enough to give like that again.

[LAUGHS SOFTLY]

♪ ♪

But even...

at its most vivid...

even when I was at my most hopeful during that little mini-vacation...

♪ ♪

It was never, ever as beautiful as this.

♪ ♪

As beautiful as all of you.

[JASON SCAVONE'S "MY REPAIR"]

I love you people.

- [ALL LAUGH]

- ALL: Cheers.

- Congratulations, you two.

- Aw.

- Cheers.

- [ALL LAUGH]

- ALL: Cheers.

- Now.

[FIREWORKS WHISTLING, CRACKLING]

- Oh, wow.

- Thank you.

♪ Night sweats, sheets soaking wet ♪

♪ I toss and turn ♪

- ♪ trying to shake this regret ♪

- Nice.

♪ But I know I'll do it again ♪



- ♪ Water keep rising over my head ♪ - [LINE TRILLING]


- Leo, hi.

- Hi.

Hold on.

♪ Cold bones sink like a stone ♪

Do you see them?

- [LAUGHS]

- Bonito.

I know, right?

Okay.

Don't make fun of my Spanish.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

I'm gonna see you real soon, okay?



- Bye-bye.


- Bye, Peanut.

♪ I swear to God, I won't be running ♪

♪ 'Cause we know ♪

Hey, you see the highest one?

- Mm, yes.

- Mm-hmm.

That's you.

- I love you.

- I love you.



BOTH: ♪ Another night, another song ♪


♪ My angel comes to save before long ♪

♪ Pull me up for air ♪



BOTH: ♪ Honey, I swear ♪


♪ Your love is my repair ♪

♪ Yeah-eh-eh-eh-eh ♪

♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh ♪

Thanks, Dad.

[SNIFFLES]

We've already done it, right?

Yeah, I've done...

I've done it so many times.

- Yeah...

- It's totally fine.

♪ If we could know at all ♪

- [SOBS]

- It's okay, it's okay.



BOTH: ♪ Which purpose we've been called ♪


[SNIFFLES]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

We really are infinite.

[INHALES SHAKILY]

I love you.

I love you.

Don't forget, okay?

Shut up.

Of course I'm not gonna forget you.



BOTH: ♪ You never gave pause ♪


- Whoever you are.

- d*ck.

[LAUGHS]

I'm gonna miss you, kid.

- Take care of him, please.

- I will, honey.


It'll be okay.

Love you.

[BOTH LAUGH]

♪ ♪

[SNIFFLES]

You gotta go, babe.

Your taxi's here and the flight's on time, so...

Yeah.

You ready, Dad?

- [SNIFFLES]

- I'm ready if you are.

So go on, now.

- Git.

- [LAUGHS, SNIFFLES]



- ♪ Pulls me up for air ♪ - BOTH: ♪ Honey, I swear ♪




BOTH: ♪ Your love is my repair ♪


♪ When nothing went right ♪

♪ Everything's wrong, we lose ♪

You gonna do it?

[SCOFFS]

I don't know.



BOTH: ♪ Honey, I swear ♪


[SIGHS]



BOTH: ♪ My repair ♪


♪ Yeah-eh-eh-eh-eh ♪

♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh ♪

Okay, we need to get to sleep.

Why don't you be a little sterner about it?

That might work.

Well, one or the other is gonna be up in three hours and counting.

What is it?

This isn't our home anymore.

It...

it's just wires and walls and pipes...

'cause Izzy's not here.

Yeah, I guess she is home, right?

I mean, wherever she goes, that's our home.

What if she's over us?

What if we took too long?

[PHONE RINGING]

Nina.

- Okay, I'm having déjà vu.

- Hey.

We decided you have a right to know.

Yeah, we already know she's leaving, so...

: to San Diego.

Okay.



Well, here's the actual news:


she was hoping you'd come back for her.

"She's hopping on a comeback tour"?

What?

That doesn't even make sense.

I know, but I'm very...

this is stressful, okay?

She's hoping we'd come back for her.

Oh, my God.

Look, maybe it means something, maybe it doesn't.

Either way, I'm out.

Hey, you wanna get stoned, have strenuous sex, and spend the rest of your life with me?

[UPBEAT MUSIC]

I do.

♪ ♪

Cool.

♪ ♪

BOTH: She's not over us.

[BOTH LAUGHING]

- BOTH: Freedom!

- Whoo-hoo!

- Whoo!

- Yeah, see?

Now, this is why we need a neighborhood watch.

[LAUGHS]

You know you can't just put a sign in the ground that you stole from somewhere?

You gotta actually talk to a real estate agent.

- That's how that works.

- Eh, it's symbolic.

For the better part of a decade, anytime I felt down, I would think, "What wackadoodle sh*t are Jack and Emma gonna do today?" Now what am I supposed to do?

I'll take it.

Yes.

Thanks.

[LAUGHS]

Does my sister thinks she just bought your house?

BOTH: I think so.

Well, Trakarskys...

What's the word?

We are putting a stake in the heart of The Plan.

[LAUGHS]

Yeah.

Unfortunately, your sister just ran off with it, but still.

So you're really gonna do it?

You're gonna go get her?

Yeah, we're gonna race to the airport, again.

[LAUGHS]

Yeah, this...

but this time, instead of bringing her back, - we're gonna go with her.

- If...

if she'll have us.

[PENSIVE, HEARTFELT MUSIC]

You know, you two have just about the biggest balls I've ever seen, and that's why, on behalf of Carmen and I, I wanna thank you.

- For what?

- Well, for showing us how it's done.

- We love you.

- Oh.

- We love you, buddy.

- Aww.

Thank you.

You know, I think I'm starting to feel it.

I get it now...

why you guys are into this.

Okay.

No, it's nice, 'cause I got stubble but then Pantene.

- Uh, it's both for me, actually.

- Oh.

Yeah.

So what time is Izzy's flight?

- Uh, it's...

- BOTH: : .

W...

what time's it now?

: .

No, no, no, no.

We...

we'll get there.

- We're gonna miss her flight.

- No, no, we'll get there.

We're gonna miss her flight.

What time did you think it was?

- f*ck, we f*cking...

- Easy, easy.

You know what?

We...

we'll drive.

We'll drive.

[SIGHS]

Road trip.

- We'll drive.

- You ready to go on a road trip, girls?

- This is gonna be fun, right?

- Oh, it's gonna be so much fun.

Remember when we used to road trip back in college?

- I think this is a good thing.

- Yep.

We have lots of time to practice our speech.

Maybe we have time to stop and go see that big chair.

I want a picture of myself in that chair.

What the hell are you talking about, honey?

We gotta get going.

♪ So what could begin ♪

- Did we get everything?

- Okay, yeah.

♪ Oh, oh-oh-oh ♪

♪ Oh, oh-oh-oh ♪

♪ I'm on my way, I'm on my way ♪

♪ Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh, oh-oh-oh ♪

- Whoo-hoo!

- Whoo!

BOTH: Road trip!

♪ I'm on my way ♪

♪ I see it, I feel it, I'm going ♪

♪ Too much noise ♪

♪ The children on the bus make too much noise ♪

- ♪ All day long ♪

- [BABIES CRYING]

[MUSIC STOPS]

[BABIES SCREAMING, CRYING]

How soon can we forget all that?

[SIGHS]

Road trips are...

not fun anymore.

[BABIES CRYING]

[SIGHS]

Okay, well, we can't just show up at her office looking like this.

Okay, well, we'll wash up in the bathroom here, but we gotta make it quick 'cause it's almost : .

Fingers crossed for a change table and spa music.

[GRUNTS]

You get skills for each character and they have special abilities and stuff.

Can you put, like, different skins on them and stuff?

- Yeah, you...

- [GASPING]

[COUGHS, GAGS]

- Holy sh*t.

- Oh, my God; dear Jesus.

Holy f*cking sh*t.

Tell me they don't have memories.

They don't have memories, right?

I don't know.

I hope not.

But, you know, let's just move on.

It's happened, it's over.

Just forge on.

[SIGHS]

[GROANS]

- It's not that funny.

- [LAUGHING]

It's not that funny.

How would you pronounce it?

- "Hey"?

- [BOTH LAUGH]

[LAUGHING]

How would you pronounce it?

[TENDER MUSIC]

Hey, assh*le!

Somebody's following you.

♪ ♪

You must be Leo.

Hey, buddy.

♪ ♪

We left everything behind for you.

The house in Hawthorne Heights, The Plan, all of it.

- It's not our home anymore.

- You are.

We're not us without you.

We're not whole.

Uh, we didn't come to take you with us.

We came to be with you.

If you'll have us.

Can we stay?

Please?

[BABY FUSSES]

♪ ♪

[SCREAMING]

I hate you m*therf*ckers! Look what you did to me!

[SCREAMING]

♪ ♪

I hate you guys so much!

Why'd you do this?

- You got this.

- Babe, you can do this.

- Just a few more, okay?

- [PANTING]

Okay.

[STRAINING]

[EXHALES SHARPLY]

- Yes!

- Oh, my God.

You did it.

You did it.

Did I?

- Oh, my God.

- [BABY CRYING]

♪ Maybe you're a modern-day prodigy ♪

Hi.

Hi, honey.

[LAUGHING]

♪ And you wrote a symphony to pass the time ♪

♪ Shadows stretch, the darkness bows ♪

♪ Staring down the tunnel, I can see it now ♪

♪ I caught a glimpse of us breaking through ♪

♪ How are we seeing? ♪

♪ Or are we believing ♪

♪ I'm wide awake and I'm no one's fool ♪

♪ Is it what it seems? ♪

♪ Can we make our dreams come true? ♪

♪ Hold your breath as we count to ten ♪

♪ Searching for the places that we've never been ♪

♪ Is it what it seems? ♪

♪ Can we make our dreams come true? ♪

♪ We dream in colors no-one's ever seen ♪

♪ Maybe you're a modern-day prodigy ♪
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