Dead Ringers (2023) s01e01 Episode Script
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- [BEVERLY] Elliot.
- [ELLIOT] Beverly.
[BEVERLY] I can't keep
doing this, Elliot.
[ELLIOT] Doing what?
Delivering babies.
We're opening a birthing center
so we can do literally just that
until the end of time. Nonstop babies.
Yeah, you know what
I mean. Do it our way.
Total control.
Birthing center.
Lab.
Well, now, lab, fucking yes.
The lab is the fucking thing.
[MAN] Hey.
[LAUGHS] You guys have, like,
exactly the same face.
[ELLIOT] Yeah?
- No shit.
- [MAN] You like your meat?
Oh, I fucking love my meat.
You guys ever
- [ELLIOT] We ever?
- You know.
[ELLIOT] No.
Two of you, plus a guy.
Doing?
- [LAUGHS] Each other?
- [ELLIOT GASPS]
Doing each other?
Well, that's wild.
[GASPS]
How about it?
Well what do you reckon, Beverly?
Yes, please, let's go.
We love fucking each other.
I love putting my tongue on
her tongue and inside her cunt.
I absolutely love doing that.
- And for a man's pleasure? For your pleasure?
- [LAUGHS]
Please, that sounds ideal.
Perfect.
We just, uh, cut a baby
out of a woman's womb.
Um, she asked us to we
didn't just, like, do it
but what I'd like to do now,
the very next thing
that I would like to do,
just after I finish these eggs,
is fuck my sister in front of you.
- She's the funny one.
- [BEVERLY] What is it exactly that appeals?
Is it the maths of it?
Is your imagination so
fucked that you need to see
everything twice before
your dick can get hard?
- I was just
- You were just
messing around. I didn't
mean to cause any
I mean
It's like people say, don't they?
- What do people say, Larry?
- [MAN] That's not my name.
Well, you look like a Larry,
so I'm going to call you Larry
'cause, actually, I'm the funny one.
So, what do people say, Larry?
[MAN] They say twins
you know, like
you want to fuck them.
Oh, I genuinely didn't know people
said that about twins. Did you?
- No.
- [ELLIOT] Oh, that's fascinating.
So, absolutely everybody goes around
hoping to fuck a set of
twins, do they? [GASPS]
I feel like I've just
discovered a superpower.
Thank you, Larry.
[EURYTHMICS: "SWEE
DREAMS (ARE MADE OF THIS)"]
Sweet dreams are made of this ♪
Who am I to disagree? ♪
I travel the
world and the seven seas ♪
Everybody's looking for something ♪
Some of them want ♪
To use you ♪
Some of them want to get used by you ♪
Some of them want to abuse you ♪
Some of them want to be abused ♪
Ooh ♪
Hey ♪
- Ooh ♪
- Ah ♪
Sweet dreams are made of this ♪
Who am I to disagree? ♪
I travel the world ♪
And the seven seas ♪
Everybody's looking for something ♪
Some of them want to use you ♪
Some of them want to get used by you ♪
Some of them want to abuse you ♪
Some of them want to be abused ♪
Sweet dreams are made of this ♪
Who am I to disagree? ♪
I travel the world
and the seven seas ♪
Everybody's looking for something ♪
[URINATING]
[SIGHS]
[SHOWER RUNNING]
♪
Hello.
[CAR HORN HONKING]
Mm-mm.
- You'll get scurvy.
- I eat peas.
You're a child.
I lost another one, Elly.
Are you sure?
- Are you hurting?
- [AGNES] Any change?
You have embryos.
Elly.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Don't be sad. Mm.
Oh, Beverly, baby sister.
[SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE]
Oh, you take her. I'm terrified of her.
Fine, then you take her.
She cries every single appointment.
- Done.
- [MEGAN] Hi.
Morning, Megan.
- [GRUNTS EXCITEDLY]
- [BEVERLY] Go home, Megan.
- You're not ready.
- [MEGAN] It's starting.
- It's definitely starting.
- [BEVERLY] Contractions?
Uh, yeah, yeah, we-we think
so. A couple last night, maybe.
I-I feel like it might've started.
- Mm, it hasn't.
- [MEGAN] I lost the plug.
Did Elliot show you
a picture of the plug?
She did. It's a beautiful mucus plug.
Congratulations on its safe arrival.
Go home, Megan. It isn't happening yet.
Best thing you can do is go
home and try and get some sleep.
- But
- We'll see you in about 12 hours, Megan.
- [STRAINING]
- [NURSE] There you go. There you go.
Come on. Remember your
breathing. Come on. Come on.
- Push. Push.
- You got it, baby.
Why are you wearing my vagina
like it's a fucking glove?
I'm supporting the
baby's head, Francesca.
- Breathe in and push.
- You're doing great.
- [GRUNTING]
- [ELLIOT] One, two
We need to move to an
emergency C-section right away.
- What?
- [CHRISTOPHER] What is happening?
- Three. Really push. Five, six, seven, eight.
- [NURSE] Push. Push.
- I really don't want a C-section.
- [CHRISTOPHER] This is not
- in our plans.
- [BEVERLY] Push, push.
- [BEVERLY] Nine, ten.
- [NURSE] Good job. Nice, nice.
When you wake up, you're gonna be a mum.
You'll have a daughter.
[SIREN WHOOPING]
- [GRUNTING]
- [FATHER] You got it, you got it.
[BEVERLY] Push it. Push.
- [NURSE] There we go.
- [GASPING]
[ELLIOT] Have you spoken to Joseph?
He's called me about 12 times.
- [BEVERLY] One more push. One more push.
- [NURSE] Keep breathing.
- [BEVERLY] Okay, yes. Okay, there we go.
- [NURSE] You got this. Good.
[ELLIOT] Why is he so
fucking obsessed with us?
[BEVERLY] Congratulations, you're a mum.
Elliot, we are trying to
[OTHERS] Change the way
that women birth forever.
[BEVERLY] It's like you're a choir.
- [ELLIOT] Do you think we have time to go dancing?
- [BEVERLY] No.
[ELLIOT] I could murder a fucking drink.
- [BEVERLY] How's Mum?
- [CHARLIE] Looking fine.
[BABY CRYING]
[SIGHS]
♪
[INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER P.A.]
- You okay?
- Mm-hmm.
[SNORTING]
- [CALL ME LOOP: "SELF LOVE"]
- La, la, la, la, la, la, la ♪
La, la, la, la, la, la, la ♪
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la ♪
La, la, la, la, la ♪
I can sing a little louder now ♪
I can sing a little louder ♪
I can sing a little louder now ♪
I can sing a little louder ♪
I can sing a little louder now ♪
I can sing a little louder ♪
I can sing a little louder now ♪
- I can sing a little louder ♪
- Nope. Fuck off.
Self love ♪
Yes, please ♪
- [LITTLE SIMZ: "MIGHT BANG, MIGHT NOT"]
- This is for the now ♪
If I give you my love
and give you my truth ♪
Know that that shit's just
for you, can't know what
Can I please go?
Look at where we are, who
would've guessed, who knew? ♪
I did, that's for sure,
I kicked down the doors ♪
Give me five minutes.
Fuck that, I crashed the party ♪
Fuck that, I am the party ♪
Don't get me started,
I am a one-woman army ♪
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
- [DOOR OPENS]
- [BEVERLY] Elliot?
We're being fucking paged, Elliot.
And Joseph's there with
coffee and sad pastries.
- Come on!
- Sorry.
I'm leaving.
[ELLIOT] But I haven't
finished, Beverly.
[BEVERLY] I'm walking
out the door right now.
Yeah, yeah. H-Hang on. Us, too.
- You ready?
- Uh
I'll call you later. We're not done.
- [HORN HONKING]
- [SIREN BLARING]
[ELLIOT] We're running clinics.
Women are having babies.
Life is arriving, Joseph.
I appreciate that, Elliot,
but it's just one dinner,
and if we can make this
work, it could be huge for us.
- How huge?
- [ELLIOT] That's what she said.
If we land the Parkers, we
are talking the full amount:
all in, total backing. Ding, ding, ding,
let's open the fucking center tomorrow.
- When the Parkers like something
- [TIMER BEEPS]
- they go fast.
- [BEVERLY] Nineteen point eight.
- [ELLIOT] Yeah, that was faster, right?
- Much slower.
Fucker. Felt faster.
Do we want the Parkers?
Uh, we want their money, yes, Elliot.
[ELLIOT] I'm not saying that
I'm not really into this,
but and I'm really
thinking of Pollyanna here
aren't the Parkers pure fucking evil?
- [TIMER BEEPS]
- [BEVERLY] Go.
She's a little aggressive, involved,
but she's smart and
she likes smart women.
- [ELLIOT] Who doesn't?
- Men and most women.
She has a good track record
of medical investments.
We are not the same
as Big Pharma, Joseph.
- She's excited by science, Elliot, by innovators.
- [TIMER BEEPS]
[PANTING] But she's responsible
for a fucking opioid crisis, Joseph.
She's Satan fisting
dollars out of corpses.
I'm just questioning the optics.
What do you think?
Twenty-five point three.
[GROANS]
[BEVERLY] I think
I want to open the birthing center.
Women need the birthing center.
[MONITOR BEEPING]
Yep.
- Baby's breech.
- [LARA] Oh, fuck's sake.
Nicki, I'd like to try and
turn the baby. Is that okay?
[LARA] Yes, obviously.
Nicki, is that okay with you?
Of course. It's not my baby.
[BEVERLY] No, but it is your body.
We're going to use
something called terbutaline.
It's a muscle relaxant. It's
completely safe for you and baby.
- And if this doesn't work?
- We can try again. Oh, yeah,
- buttocks are down.
- [BEVERLY] If that's what Nicki wants.
We can try analgesia.
Or fetal acoustic stimulation.
[LARA] The hell is that?
Play the oboe at her belly
and cross your fucking fingers?
Lara, I'm going to ask
you not to swear at me.
You're going to, as in
you're about to ask me
not to swear at you, or you're
currently in the process of?
In the process of, exactly.
Nicki, I'm going to start applying
pressure to your abdomen.
It can be a little uncomfortable,
and you can ask me to
stop at any time, okay?
I'm fine. If Lara wants to stop
- It's not Lara's body.
- But it is her baby.
[THROAT CLEARING]
- Is it working?
- We're fine, Lara,
but maybe give us a bit more time.
Nicki and I wanted to talk
to you. Didn't we, Nicki?
- Uh-huh.
- Any pain?
- Uh-uh.
- My husband and I would like
a really small gap between
this baby and the next one.
Uh, should we get this one out first?
- I like really small gaps.
- Evidently.
Nicki, you're doing really well.
The baby's working with us.
Once we get pregnant again
I'm not able to have this
conversation with you right now.
Nicki, I'm going to start
increasing the pressure now.
- I want to talk about it now.
- [NICKI GROANS]
I would like to
concentrate on the patient.
I am the fucking patient.
I'm going to repeat the request
that you don't swear at me.
- You're going to?
- I am repeating the request.
Uh, Lara, there are regulations,
and Nicki has been surrogate
for all five of your children.
- Precisely.
- [BEVERLY] Any pain?
- [NICKI] Uh-uh.
- I mean, frankly,
- I'm on your side.
- [BEVERLY] Sorry?
Well, I mean, if Nicki's
happy and Lara's happy
Nicki's happy. Tell the Doctor Mentals
- how happy you are, Nicki.
- Really happy.
- Your bodies, your choices.
- Elliot, will you just move?
But no fertility clinic in Manhattan
will allow you to use
sorry, work with Nicki
for a sixth pregnancy,
particularly not straightaway.
What about your birthing center?
I thought that was going to have a lab
and a fertility clinic and
fucking everything in-house.
That's why I'm donating and
giving you fucking money.
Not for altruistic
purposes, fucking thank you,
but to skip the fucking queue.
I'm not swearing at you, Beverly.
I'm just generally
swearing in the vicinity.
I'm allowed to. This is stressful.
I'm concerned about the
stress for the patient.
- I'm the fucking patient.
- I'm fine.
No, eventually, it is the
plan. I mean, not immediately,
- but, eventually, it is.
- No, it's not.
- Yes, it is, eventually.
- No, it's not. No.
No, it's fucking not,
and even if we were,
we wouldn't be setting it
up so that women like you
could buy other women wholesale
and do what you want with them.
Do you want her other fucking organs?
Would you like me to pull out
her fucking teeth whilst I'm at it?
Could I ask you to
step outside the room
for a moment, Lara?
No.
You may not.
I'm very sorry.
Um, yeah.
Okay, let's get a
let's get a scan up.
[LAUGHING] I'm sorry. Sorry.
Oh.
Baby's head's down.
Good job, everyone.
[SNIFFS]
[ELLIOT] Oh, I love it
when you lose control.
I'm sort of on her side.
[BEVERLY] Yeah, I got that.
[ELLIOT] Yep, another
fucking miscarriage.
I'm sorry.
Don't you ever get just
a bit fucking bored?
I mean, they want to have babies.
We can make babies.
You want a boy and not a girl, fine.
Why shouldn't you?
- It's not fried food, Elliot.
- Eh
You want to have your
baby on a Wednesday.
You want it to have blue eyes.
You want it to be incapable of
catching a fucking cold ever.
You want to have twins, triplets, quads.
You want to stop the menopause.
You want men to lactate.
You want female sperm.
You want me to grow you
a baby out of nothing.
[SNORTS]
You want me to tighten your vagina
whilst I pull a baby
out of your belly button?
Fine, bring it on.
Let's do the research, let's
make anything fucking happen.
- That's not what we do, Elliot.
- [SIGHS]
That's not what you do, but
I will be doing some of that
as long as that's what people choose.
- You're talking about some kind of
- [SNORTS]
individualist "you want" structure
that I just cannot get on board with.
Uh, did you just read The
Communist Manifesto this morning?
And you'd like to
tell everybody about it
because you're worried that
nobody else has heard of it?
[GASPS]
[WHISPERS] Is capitalism very bad?
[CHUCKLES]
[SNIFFLES]
I just really believe in
what we're trying to do.
Change the way that women birth,
change things structurally, globally.
Radicalism always begins
with something small.
You are so perfect. You
are so deliciously perfect.
Where do you come from?
I'm not, though, am I?
This keeps not working.
My body keeps fucking it up.
Oh Beverly, Beverly, baby sister.
I'm going to take these to the lab.
I'm going to analyze
everything. We go again.
I will make this happen.
You will have a baby. I will solve this.
I promise.
[SOFT CHUCKLE]
[TOM] Where the fuck have you been?
- Hi.
- We've missed you.
Oh, I can see. They are looking ill.
Bullshit. She's a
beauty. Thirteen days old.
- Oh, I didn't bring a gift.
- We'll forgive you.
Due for destruction
in T-minus three hours.
So, how jealous will
you be when I'm in my lab
and I'm growing embryos into fetuses
and fetuses into babies and solving
all the fertility issues
that have ever been?
I mean, I'll visit you in jail.
Private lab, Tom. Private funding.
Oh, yeah, sure, that
means that you can do
- literally whatever the fuck you like. Right?
- Mm-hmm.
What do we got here? Oh, great.
- Beverly scrapings.
- Shut up.
You can't knock your sister
up, but you are confident
that you can grow a whole
baby from a fucking test tube?
What if we can get it safely
to eight, nine, ten weeks,
and then we put it in?
It's almost as though
you're not a scientist.
Did your mother not put
your drawings on the fridge?
I mean, why don't you have
any imaginative capabilities?
Right, always blame the mother, Elliot.
Want to get a drink later?
I can't. Got this thing.
Oh, yeah, it's your dinner
with the most morally
corrupt woman on the planet.
You two are gonna get along so well.
Yeah, that's right.
- Is there gonna be food?
- You're not invited.
No, I could come, for a bit.
I haven't seen Bev in ages.
Because she does not
like you. [LAUGHING]
- Are those ski goggles?
- [LAUGHS]
Yeah, they're comfier, and she loves me.
- Is there going to be tiny food?
- [LAUGHING]
Rich people love tiny food.
Don't fucking come, Tom.
You're an embarrassment.
Nobody wants you to come.
I'm sorry, Lenka.
Yeah, it was only six weeks. [CHUCKLES]
I lost one at 12 weeks,
one at 14, one at 16.
It-it's inevitable.
It's, uh my fault.
- My-my body kills babies.
- Lenka, it's not healthy to blame yourself.
- That's not what's happening.
- Yes, it is.
Have you thought about
speaking to a therapist?
I need to get back now.
My husband comes home
for lunch on Wednesdays.
Cooking him a steak.
So, Therese, everything looks good.
You have a yeast infection,
though. Are you in pain?
Not pain as such, just
uncomfortable. Usual.
It should not be usual
for you to be in pain.
We can do something about that.
Sorry, I I have to pee. [CHUCKLES]
Again.
Be right back.
How are you doing, Max?
- [CHUCKLES]
- [DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES]
How are you feeling about
impending fatherhood?
Sure. [CHUCKLES]
I mean, yeah, it's
[CLEARS THROAT] it's a lot.
Yeah. You're right.
People forget to ask the daddies.
It's important for you to
express how you're feeling.
Y-Yeah, I just
- [SIREN WAILING]
- [HORNS HONKING]
Is there anything you'd like to show me?
Anything at all you
think I'd like to see?
'Cause I can think of one
thing that I would love to see,
and I'd say you got about
30 seconds to show me.
- Can you do that for me?
- Is this
- Oh, my God, is this
- Yes.
- Yes.
- This is what you
- Want very much. Yes.
- Is this happening? Fuck.
[DOOR OPENS]
- [DOOR CLOSES]
- Oh, thank you so much, Max.
That was actually a huge disappointment.
[MAX LAUGHS NERVOUSLY]
So, uh, Therese, I'm writing you up
a script for clotrimazole.
It's-it's completely
safe for you and baby
and should clean things right up.
[ELLIOT TYPING ON KEYBOARD]
- [JOHN] Hi.
- Hi. Congratulations.
- [JOHN] Thanks. Um
- Are you all right?
[JOHN] It's my wife. She's
in, she's in some pain,
and her breathing's short,
and there was a doctor who said
she'll come take a look, but
that was a couple hours ago.
Mm-hmm, of course.
- Uh, hi, uh
- Sandra.
- Hi, Sandra. Congratulations.
- [SANDRA] Mm, thank you.
Can you tell me where
you're experiencing pain?
[SIGHS] Across my abdomen.
And can you describe the
kind of pain that it is?
- [GROANS] It's
- Hi. Hi, hi, hi.
Sorry, sorry. Mr. Russell, Mrs. Russell.
I'm here. Thank you, Beverly.
Mrs. Russell is experiencing
pain across her abdomen.
[TINA] Well, she had a-a C-section.
Oh, I've had a C-section before.
This-this feels different.
- [TINA] Uh-huh.
- [GROANS SOFTLY]
[TINA] Uh-huh, okay. Uh
I got it, Beverly, thank you.
CT scan, no?
Thank you, Dr. Mantle.
Congratulations.
Genevieve, you're-you're here
today for a hysterosalpingogram.
This is so we can get a clear
picture of your-your uterus
and your fallopian tubes, okay?
So, when the radiographer arrives
and-and you're ready,
I will insert a
speculum into your vagina
in order to locate your cervix.
This will feel a little cold,
probably quite uncomfortable.
- Y-You've had a Pap smear?
- Yes.
Once I've located your cervix,
I'm going to insert a catheter
into the neck of the womb and
pass a small amount of fluid
through the catheter.
You might experience
some pain that feels like
period pain at this point.
The fluid will fill the womb,
uh, pass into the fallopian tubes,
and then we'll be able
to take some X-rays.
- Okay?
- Yes, thank you.
That was all very clear.
Uh, lie back.
[CHAIR DRAGS ACROSS FLOOR]
Okay.
[SIGHS]
[BEVERLY] Okay.
I want a baby.
Is that a totally
inappropriate thing to say?
[SOFTLY] No.
I mean [SIGHS]
if ever there were a
place to say it, right?
I'm terrified.
- Is everything okay?
- Yes.
Could you just excuse me for one
- one second, please?
- Oh, my God,
is something not okay?
Is there something wrong?
I-I haven't examined
you yet, Ms. Cotard.
- Um, it's just that
- Yes, if you could just, um
um I'm going to get the radiographer,
and, uh, he's going to
be taking the-the X-rays,
so if you could just give me
five, maybe, uh, ten minutes.
[GENEVIEVE] Oh, okay.
[DOOR CLOSES]
Fuck.
- [GASPS]
- [METAL TRAY CLATTERS]
♪
[INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER P.A.]
[ELLIOT] Yep?
Uh, would you give me two minutes?
Twenty-two, brittle,
stubborn, frankly unpleasant.
I really liked her.
Requesting sterilization.
- Why? What's the trauma?
- I don't think there is one.
- Is she depressed?
- Doesn't seem to be.
- Then what's the issue?
- Very clear, very persuasive,
been requesting sterilization for years.
- Years?
- Yeah, years.
Ridiculous. She's 22.
Remember she's here to see
me, not you. Who have you got?
- Genevieve Cotard. Referral.
- Cotard?
As in the actor?
Referred from Peterson,
family history of fibroids,
fertility check.
She's on that show. I love that show.
You fucking love that show.
Is she trying? Who's she fucking?
She's not trying. She's
just informing herself.
Life's meaningless
unless she has a baby.
Did you get to touch her?
How deep did you get?
[CHUCKLING] You're all flushed.
Was it too much? Was she too delicious?
It's a fertility check. HSG.
- Done?
- No, prepped.
- Radiographer?
- Getting.
So she's just lying there in
stirrups with her legs wide open?
Oh, baby sister.
Are you ready?
[SIGHS]
[INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER P.A.]
Sorry about that.
- Is everything
- Everything's wonderful.
You're the sixth gynecologist
I've seen about this.
Well, sterilization is
not a small procedure,
um, and you're very young.
I have to cut, clip, burn
or tie your fallopian tubes.
Why are you saying that
as though I should have
some emotional relationship
with my fallopian tubes?
I picked you because
you have a good reputation for
actually listening to women.
I am listening to you.
I don't feel listened to.
- So, you're on that show.
- Oh.
- Yeah.
- Oh, that must be fun.
Has its moments.
- Any pain?
- Uh-huh.
Can you describe it to me?
Like bad period pain. Cramping.
Okay.
You're doing great.
We're just going to take
a couple more images.
I'm okay.
[WOMAN OVER P.A.] Transport to
first-floor nurses' station.
Transport to first-floor
nurses' station.
[ELLIOT] Your uterus is bicornuate.
It's heart-shaped.
That in itself isn't likely
to affect your fertility,
your chances of getting pregnant,
but it might increase the likelihood
of an early birth or of miscarriage.
And if you look here, you can see that
your fallopian tubes are
blocked on both sides,
which, if you were to start
trying for a baby today
Okay. I don't want to
try for a baby today.
Well, it-it would be difficult,
possibly very difficult,
but you have options.
[SOFTLY] Fuck.
Okay, well
Thank you for all of that.
Can I go?
This is not-not the final conversation.
- There is a lot that we can do.
- No.
I mean, thank you, but no.
I think I'd like to take a second
before moving onto the
"what do we do now" bit.
Okay. Shall we make a follow-up?
Sure.
Is that bar any good?
The one on the corner.
Uh, no. Awful.
Awful is good. Awful is perfect.
You really do have options.
There's a lot that we can do.
Yeah, I just, I don't want
to talk about that right now.
I want to get wrecked
and feel sad about how
deformed and infertile I am.
- You're not infertile.
- Just deformed.
- Not what I said.
- Sure.
No. Right. Great.
Thanks.
Well, thank you, Dr. Mantle.
Sure.
Maybe I'll come find you in a bit.
Help you get wrecked.
That would be wildly inappropriate.
Yep.
[DOOR CLOSES]
♪
[PHONE BUZZES]
[WOMAN SCREAMING]
- [ELLIOT] How many weeks?
- Uh, she's, uh
uh, nearly 45.
Forty-five weeks? Could
you get a wheelchair?
- And when was she last checked?
- She didn't have no check-ups.
- She's had no medical check-ups?
- She's terrified of hospitals.
How long has she been contracting?
- Three days, on and off.
- Are you fucking kidding me?
She wanted a home birth, a free birth.
Hospitals are traumatizing spaces.
- [ELLIOT] What's her name?
- Leonie.
[ELLIOT] Leonie, we're
going to find you a bed.
We're going to take
a proper look at you.
I need you to focus on your breathing.
- [SCREAMING]
- [NURSE] Get her on the monitor.
[NURSE 2] Make sure to get
a suction catheter, too.
[ELLIOT] Okay, ba-baby's
head's crowning.
[TESSA] I can't detect the
fetal heartbeat, Doctor.
[ELLIOT] Leonie, this is
going to be a vaginal birth.
- I need to use forceps.
- Forceps? Getting forceps, Dr. Mantle.
I need you to start pushing really hard.
We'll give you pain
relief on the other side.
Okay, look at me. Look at me.
- Look at me. Okay.
- [CRYING]
Breathe, breathe, breathe, breathe.
- Okay, Leonie.
- Okay.
- [NURSE] BP's dropping.
- [ELLIOT] Okay, okay.
- [NURSE] Keep it on standby.
- [GROANING]
[ELLIOT] Okay, push.
- [NURSE] We need a transfer
- [SCREAMING]
She won't latch.
Have you thought about
a lactation consultant?
Would you like me to see if
someone can come and talk to you?
That sounds like a good idea, honey.
They're discharging us.
I want to go home.
They said they need the bed and
Are you in any pain, Alexa?
- She hasn't slept.
- I want to go home.
She's, um
You're feeling kind of
funny about holding the baby,
aren't you?
[LEONIE BREATHING HEAVILY]
[LEONIE SOBBING]
- [BABY CRYING]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[MAN OVER P.A.] Dr.
Howard, call the pharmacy.
Dr. Howard, call the pharmacy.
♪
[WOMAN OVER P.A.] Dr. Marcus,
your son is waiting for you
in the downstairs lobby.
Dr. Marcus, your son is waiting
for you in the downstairs lobby.
- [URGENT, OVERLAPPING CHATTER]
- [MONITOR BEEPING RAPIDLY]
[BABY CONTINUES CRYING]
[INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER P.A.]
[LEONIE GRUNTS]
[LEONIE GROANS]
- Would you like to hold him?
- [LEONIE SOBBING]
[SOBBING]
[SOBBING] I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
Your wife suffered
heavy internal bleeding.
I know.
[TINA] A CT scan was ordered
but did not happen.
- [SNIFFLES] I know.
- [BABY CRYING]
[TINA] Mr. Russell.
- I am very sorry for your loss.
- [CRYING]
[MUTTERING]
[CHUCKLES]
Fuck this shit.
I hate this.
She was afraid of the place where
she's supposed to feel the most safe.
What was up with you and that actress?
You should go.
Have a break.
Whatever you need.
I'll pick up for you.
You like her.
Did you want me to get her for you?
Trainers are in room 12.
I can get her for you.
Would you like that?
Go do something nice, Elly.
[INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER P.A.]
[FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING]
- [SIREN WAILING]
- [HORN HONKS]
Mmm.
[VENDOR] You having a
- good day?
- [ELLIOT] No.
- I'm having a fucking shit day.
- Okay.
Cool. Sorry I asked.
Fuck you, asking about my fucking day.
- Okay, lady.
- No, seriously, fuck you!
- Yeah? Well, fuck you back.
- Oh, fuck me back?
- Fuck you back.
- Yeah.
- I'm not doing this.
- Fuck you!
[COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING]
[DOOR SQUEAKS SHUT]
[DRAMATIC TV MUSIC PLAYING]
[GRUNTING ON SCREEN]
[SCREAMING]
[GROANING]
♪
Did you always want to be an actress?
Yeah, I think so.
I don't know why exactly.
No one in my family
is, like, into the arts.
Mm-hmm. Where do you
think it comes from?
I mean, we moved all the time.
I feel like I always end
up saying in interviews
that it was about
creating some inner world,
being resilient, but I
don't think that's true.
We're a really close family.
I never felt lacking in any way.
I am talking.
Why did you move so much?
This feels a bit like an interview.
- Army brat.
- Mm.
- Did you always want to be a doctor?
- Yeah.
Did you live in other countries?
- Yes.
- Do you speak other languages?
- [CHUCKLES] When I'm drunk.
- Drink up, then.
Mm. Can I get another one?
So, was it always babies and vaginas?
Sure. Yeah, so, do you think
you're gonna stay on the show,
or do you want to do other stuff, or?
I don't know. Everyone
wants variety, right?
Yes. Very much so.
[SIGHS]
[ELLIOT SIGHS]
Should we go eat?
I could eat. Like, a steak
or a seafood platter,
or we could jump on a boat,
horse ride around Central Park.
[GENEVIEVE CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
I have a junket I have
to do, this press thing.
Okay, cool. Well, I
could come find you later.
[GENEVIEVE CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
This is a lot.
You're a lot.
- I should go.
- It's not
I don't not want to see you again.
- It's just, I
- Sure.
As in, I'd like to see you again. I'm
It's at The Beekman.
I'll be there till late.
It was nice to meet
you today, Genevieve.
Good sign that she's the one meeting us.
She could have sent some
- Underling?
- Representative.
- Little vestigial fuck monkey?
- Focus.
[SNORTS] Ah. That sounds
quite fun, actually.
But it's her and her wife, Susan Parker.
And Susan Parker is wife number
- 11?
- Four. Hmm.
Is she the one who
did a shit on the floor
at the Guggenheim at that opening?
- No.
- Shame.
That was wife number
two, the one who died.
Oh, my God. Yes, the one
who jumped out the window.
Don't talk about it. It's too sad.
We really want this woman's money?
We want the birthing center, Elliot.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
yes, yes, we want the lab.
[SIGHS]
[SNIFFLING]
I kissed the actress.
I thought I'd get her for you.
She's a patient. You
can't fuck the patients.
Okay, I won't fuck the patients anymore.
Are you seeing her again?
She has a press thing
at The Beekman till late.
Does she know we're twins?
She didn't mention it.
Most people fucking mention it.
Thank you.
[SNIFFLING]
- Beverly?
- Yes?
Just a quick fuck.
I'm worried she won't
live up to your fantasies.
I love babies.
Well, that's a great start. [CHUCKLES]
[SUSAN] I love everything about them.
- [JOSEPH] That's fantastic.
- And I just, I love women.
- [JOSEPH] Yes.
- Mm.
Oh, and I read some of the
materials you sent across.
- [JOSEPH] Thank you.
- And, oh, my goodness,
it was all just so moving and so tragic,
and I just got so angry about
it all. Didn't I, Rebecca?
- You did.
- I just, I cannot think
of a better project to be
a part of. I really can't.
- Well, that's wonderful.
- [SUSAN] It is.
And we'd love to know what
you made of it, Rebecca.
Rebecca thinks babies are boring.
It's not that I think they're boring.
I had a bunch.
I mean, I didn't do
the having, obviously.
Right, you're a mother. You get it.
Yeah, I don't know what that means, Joe.
[ELLIOT LAUGHING]
[REBECCA] What are you
looking for in an investor?
Ideally, someone who cares.
[REBECCA] Less ideally.
- A check.
- [JOSEPH LAUGHS]
I'll be honest. I didn't
find your proposal
particularly exciting when I read it.
I find it even less compelling now.
I like science. I like medicine.
That is my fucking jam.
That was my dad's shit.
That's my community.
That is where I put my money.
I'm gonna be straightforward.
I always think that's best.
You guys want someone who really
gives a fuck about this, too.
I give a fuck.
But you give a fuck about dolphins
and rehabilitating
pedophiles and ice cream.
[SUSAN] I want a birthing center.
[REBECCA] Yeah, I wish I could
say that I love your passion,
your ability, your project.
I don't know that I feel it.
- So you're not investing?
- Doesn't look that way.
Because we didn't pitch hard enough?
You're asking for $16 million.
That's fuck-all to me,
but I was expecting more
than, like, sad-sack
expressions and silence.
I'm not asking for twins on their knees.
[BEVERLY] Okay.
A woman died today.
Four hours after giving birth.
And another woman lost her baby.
No, fuck that, not lost.
Her baby died.
Are you terribly bad at your jobs?
- [ELLIOT LAUGHS]
- No.
This may not be that exciting
for you to hear, but no,
it happened because of
the system, because
the system is fucked.
It's diabolical.
Despite the fact that this is how
every single one of us enters the world,
despite the fact that
women have been giving birth
for as long as humankind has existed,
this is the best that
we have come up with.
It's a system that bullies and scares
and terrorizes and humiliates and rushes
and ruins women and their bodies.
And then somehow,
somehow, we have been part
of making this system seem
normal and necessary
and just a by-product
of what happens should
a woman be in a position
where a baby needs to exit her body.
I know, I wish our proposal
were more thrilling for you,
was a fucking revolution
or a coup or a bomb in
the middle of the city
that could make the world look
radically different overnight,
but that's not how it works.
That's not what real change
for real human women
actually fucking looks like,
because we are fucking brilliant, okay?
We are extraordinary.
We are as close to fucking perfection
as you can get in this field,
and I am not fucking with you.
This is the most important investment
that you could make in your lives,
and not because it's about
sweet, soft, vulnerable,
hope, hope, hope, hopeful babies,
but because if we get this
right, if we do this properly,
then it is world-changing.
Actually world-changing.
Slowly, but in a way that is
deep, rooted,
permanent, meaningful, fucking real.
But fuck you if you don't see that.
Fuck you.
- [REBECCA] Where are you going?
- Oh, we're done, aren't we?
You don't tell me to fuck off
and then fuck off yourself.
Sit the fuck back down.
It's been a really difficult day.
[REBECCA] Shut up,
Joe. She's talking about
holding a dead fucking baby in her arms.
Did you hold a dead
baby in your arms today?
Thought not. Shut up.
Okay.
When I invest in something,
I need to get very fucking
involved, very fucking close,
like my breath on your
neck, do you understand?
That's my name, you know?
That's my family name.
That is important to me.
I'm not in, but I'm not not in.
We need to spend some time together,
see if this might work.
♪
[QUIET CHATTER]
[LAUGHTER]
♪
You're schizophrenic.
I don't want to be.
[MOANING]
[PANTING]
You okay?
[PANTING] Uh-huh.
- You good?
- Uh uh-huh.
[BOTH PANTING]
Are you good?
You with me?
Mm-hmm. [PANTING]
- You sure?
- [MOANING]
Can you hold out? [PANTING]
[GRUNTS] Uh-huh.
Did you always want to be an accountant?
Does any child want to be an accountant?
I was always very detail-oriented.
So you ended up where you should be.
I guess so.
I think that's amazing.
Do you have any siblings?
Two brothers, and
- I had a sister.
- Had?
Well, yeah. She, um
Yeah, she died when I was, uh
Is there This is kind of
- I'm sorry.
- Yeah, um [CHUCKLES]
I didn't, like, know her.
I feel bad for my parents,
and kind of guilty, I guess,
for not actually missing her.
I miss the idea of her.
I'm sorry, uh, this is
Do you crave stability, do you think?
Or do you run away from it?
[LAUGHS]
You have a really nice face
- Ryan.
- You have a really nice face, Ryan.
Thanks, Elliot.
You, too.
Obviously.
I crave it.
Stability.
My sister says I'm a hungry person.
I like to feast.
But just once.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER IN DISTANCE]
[EXCITED CHATTER]
♪
♪
[BELL DINGS]
- [GENEVIEVE] I just started dreaming about babies.
- [PHONE BUZZING]
[CHUCKLES]
About holding them, the weight of them.
Constantly. And
it's not something I, like,
think about or plan for, you know?
- Mm.
- Like, I'm not someone who always felt
that that kind of family life
- was necessarily for me.
- [BUZZING]
Right? So I figured
this is a body thing.
This is a hormonal thing.
This is fucking clock
shit, right? So don't panic.
Just do the grown-up thing
and get it checked out.
And now I just feel like, is
she fucking with me, my body?
Sending out all of these
crazy hormones when actually,
actually, fuck you, not possible.
I appreciate that. I don't
actually want to talk about it.
So, what about you? No babies?
No.
- No babies.
- [GENEVIEVE CHUCKLES]
- You don't want them?
- Yes, I-I do, actually.
It just hasn't been, uh, happening.
- You've been trying? On your own?
- Yeah.
Yeah, they don't stick, so
maybe it's not meant to be.
Maybe I should give up.
I just I just can't quite seem to.
Hmm.
Are you actively trying now?
Yeah.
I think that's amazing.
You have the most heavenly face.
[PHONE BUZZING]
[PHONE BUZZING]
Do you live here by yourself?
With my sister.
Okay. Cool.
You never mentioned a sister.
- I forgot she existed.
- [BOTH CHUCKLE]
Are you hungry?
Is that a line?
[LAUGHS] No.
I'm genuinely fucking starving.
You're really into the whole
delayed gratification thing.
I'm gonna make you something.
Oh, no, you don't have to do that.
You can't cook, you said,
and I'm a fucking good cook.
And I have a feeling
this is gonna have
some options. [LAUGHS]
Yep.
[BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GENEVIEVE MOANING SOFTLY]
♪
[ELLIOT] Baby sister.
- [BELL DINGS]
- [DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
♪
♪
[DISHES CLATTERING]
[SIREN WAILING]
[KNIFE CHOPPING]
Hey.
Good morning.
Would you like a juice?
You're not her sister.
True.
Did you tidy up?
You would like a juice?
I was going to tidy up.
This is so embarrassing.
Did you fold my clothes? Oh, my God.
Are you, like, a fucking
maid or something?
[LAUGHS] Yes.
Yes. I'm like a fucking maid.
That is so wild.
Good morning.
I'm Elliot.
[GENEVIEVE] Um
No.
No, I
I didn't know that
your sister was a twin.
[ELLIOT] Oh, she didn't tell you?
Well, that's outrageous.
But also, can't you google?
I mean, you must be the only
fucking person in Manhattan
who doesn't know about the Mantle twins.
Elliot.
Okay.
I didn't know you were famous.
We're not famous.
We're obviously not famous.
[ELLIOT] You're famous.
Excuse me?
You're on that show.
Beverly loves that show.
Right.
It is weird you didn't tell me.
Yes. Yes, I
just completely, genuinely
forgot she existed.
Can I ask you something awful?
- Something offensive?
- Yes.
It's only been you,
right? The whole time?
I've just been with you?
- It's offensive.
- Yes.
It's only been me.
I like you.
[CHUCKLES]
♪
- [BELL DINGS]
- [SIGHS]
[DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES]
♪
[DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES]
♪
♪
Are you psyched about the Parkers?
I like them. I really, really like them.
I don't know why they've got
such a bad fucking reputation.
She's directly responsible for the death
of hundreds of thousands of people.
Don't be boring, Beverly.
What happened with the actress?
Was it awful? Should I cheer you up?
- Should I get you someone else?
- No, thank you, Elliot.
What about her?
She looks nice.
- Soft, pliable.
- No.
- Let me get her for you.
- No, Elliot.
- Come on.
- No.
- Why not?
- [THE BLACKWELLS: "OH MY LOVE"]
My one and only ♪
I know if you return ♪
You aren't seeing her again?
Beverly.
She was incredible, Elliot.
What do you mean?
I'm not telling.
Beverly.
It's none of your business.
Everything's my fucking business.
Not this.
That you are my only love ♪
- You okay?
- Mm-hmm.
- You sure?
- Mm-hmm.
[MAN] Beverly?
Would you like to tell us your story?
I'm here because my
sister died.
My twin.
[URINATING]
[SCREAMS]
[CÉLINE DION: "THINK TWICE"]
Don't think I can't feel ♪
That there's something wrong ♪
You've been the
sweetest part of my life ♪
For so long ♪
I look in your eyes ♪
There's a distant light ♪
And you and I know ♪
There'll be a storm tonight ♪
This is getting serious ♪
Are you thinking about you ♪
Or us? ♪
Don't say what you're ♪
About to say ♪
Look back before ♪
You leave my life ♪
Be sure before ♪
You close my door ♪
Before you roll ♪
Those dice ♪
Baby, think twice ♪
Baby, think twice ♪
For the sake of our love ♪
For the memory ♪
For the fire and the faith ♪
That was you and me ♪
Babe, I know it ain't easy ♪
When your soul cries out ♪
For higher ground ♪
- [BEVERLY] Elliot.
- [ELLIOT] Beverly.
[BEVERLY] I can't keep
doing this, Elliot.
[ELLIOT] Doing what?
Delivering babies.
We're opening a birthing center
so we can do literally just that
until the end of time. Nonstop babies.
Yeah, you know what
I mean. Do it our way.
Total control.
Birthing center.
Lab.
Well, now, lab, fucking yes.
The lab is the fucking thing.
[MAN] Hey.
[LAUGHS] You guys have, like,
exactly the same face.
[ELLIOT] Yeah?
- No shit.
- [MAN] You like your meat?
Oh, I fucking love my meat.
You guys ever
- [ELLIOT] We ever?
- You know.
[ELLIOT] No.
Two of you, plus a guy.
Doing?
- [LAUGHS] Each other?
- [ELLIOT GASPS]
Doing each other?
Well, that's wild.
[GASPS]
How about it?
Well what do you reckon, Beverly?
Yes, please, let's go.
We love fucking each other.
I love putting my tongue on
her tongue and inside her cunt.
I absolutely love doing that.
- And for a man's pleasure? For your pleasure?
- [LAUGHS]
Please, that sounds ideal.
Perfect.
We just, uh, cut a baby
out of a woman's womb.
Um, she asked us to we
didn't just, like, do it
but what I'd like to do now,
the very next thing
that I would like to do,
just after I finish these eggs,
is fuck my sister in front of you.
- She's the funny one.
- [BEVERLY] What is it exactly that appeals?
Is it the maths of it?
Is your imagination so
fucked that you need to see
everything twice before
your dick can get hard?
- I was just
- You were just
messing around. I didn't
mean to cause any
I mean
It's like people say, don't they?
- What do people say, Larry?
- [MAN] That's not my name.
Well, you look like a Larry,
so I'm going to call you Larry
'cause, actually, I'm the funny one.
So, what do people say, Larry?
[MAN] They say twins
you know, like
you want to fuck them.
Oh, I genuinely didn't know people
said that about twins. Did you?
- No.
- [ELLIOT] Oh, that's fascinating.
So, absolutely everybody goes around
hoping to fuck a set of
twins, do they? [GASPS]
I feel like I've just
discovered a superpower.
Thank you, Larry.
[EURYTHMICS: "SWEE
DREAMS (ARE MADE OF THIS)"]
Sweet dreams are made of this ♪
Who am I to disagree? ♪
I travel the
world and the seven seas ♪
Everybody's looking for something ♪
Some of them want ♪
To use you ♪
Some of them want to get used by you ♪
Some of them want to abuse you ♪
Some of them want to be abused ♪
Ooh ♪
Hey ♪
- Ooh ♪
- Ah ♪
Sweet dreams are made of this ♪
Who am I to disagree? ♪
I travel the world ♪
And the seven seas ♪
Everybody's looking for something ♪
Some of them want to use you ♪
Some of them want to get used by you ♪
Some of them want to abuse you ♪
Some of them want to be abused ♪
Sweet dreams are made of this ♪
Who am I to disagree? ♪
I travel the world
and the seven seas ♪
Everybody's looking for something ♪
[URINATING]
[SIGHS]
[SHOWER RUNNING]
♪
Hello.
[CAR HORN HONKING]
Mm-mm.
- You'll get scurvy.
- I eat peas.
You're a child.
I lost another one, Elly.
Are you sure?
- Are you hurting?
- [AGNES] Any change?
You have embryos.
Elly.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Don't be sad. Mm.
Oh, Beverly, baby sister.
[SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE]
Oh, you take her. I'm terrified of her.
Fine, then you take her.
She cries every single appointment.
- Done.
- [MEGAN] Hi.
Morning, Megan.
- [GRUNTS EXCITEDLY]
- [BEVERLY] Go home, Megan.
- You're not ready.
- [MEGAN] It's starting.
- It's definitely starting.
- [BEVERLY] Contractions?
Uh, yeah, yeah, we-we think
so. A couple last night, maybe.
I-I feel like it might've started.
- Mm, it hasn't.
- [MEGAN] I lost the plug.
Did Elliot show you
a picture of the plug?
She did. It's a beautiful mucus plug.
Congratulations on its safe arrival.
Go home, Megan. It isn't happening yet.
Best thing you can do is go
home and try and get some sleep.
- But
- We'll see you in about 12 hours, Megan.
- [STRAINING]
- [NURSE] There you go. There you go.
Come on. Remember your
breathing. Come on. Come on.
- Push. Push.
- You got it, baby.
Why are you wearing my vagina
like it's a fucking glove?
I'm supporting the
baby's head, Francesca.
- Breathe in and push.
- You're doing great.
- [GRUNTING]
- [ELLIOT] One, two
We need to move to an
emergency C-section right away.
- What?
- [CHRISTOPHER] What is happening?
- Three. Really push. Five, six, seven, eight.
- [NURSE] Push. Push.
- I really don't want a C-section.
- [CHRISTOPHER] This is not
- in our plans.
- [BEVERLY] Push, push.
- [BEVERLY] Nine, ten.
- [NURSE] Good job. Nice, nice.
When you wake up, you're gonna be a mum.
You'll have a daughter.
[SIREN WHOOPING]
- [GRUNTING]
- [FATHER] You got it, you got it.
[BEVERLY] Push it. Push.
- [NURSE] There we go.
- [GASPING]
[ELLIOT] Have you spoken to Joseph?
He's called me about 12 times.
- [BEVERLY] One more push. One more push.
- [NURSE] Keep breathing.
- [BEVERLY] Okay, yes. Okay, there we go.
- [NURSE] You got this. Good.
[ELLIOT] Why is he so
fucking obsessed with us?
[BEVERLY] Congratulations, you're a mum.
Elliot, we are trying to
[OTHERS] Change the way
that women birth forever.
[BEVERLY] It's like you're a choir.
- [ELLIOT] Do you think we have time to go dancing?
- [BEVERLY] No.
[ELLIOT] I could murder a fucking drink.
- [BEVERLY] How's Mum?
- [CHARLIE] Looking fine.
[BABY CRYING]
[SIGHS]
♪
[INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER P.A.]
- You okay?
- Mm-hmm.
[SNORTING]
- [CALL ME LOOP: "SELF LOVE"]
- La, la, la, la, la, la, la ♪
La, la, la, la, la, la, la ♪
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la ♪
La, la, la, la, la ♪
I can sing a little louder now ♪
I can sing a little louder ♪
I can sing a little louder now ♪
I can sing a little louder ♪
I can sing a little louder now ♪
I can sing a little louder ♪
I can sing a little louder now ♪
- I can sing a little louder ♪
- Nope. Fuck off.
Self love ♪
Yes, please ♪
- [LITTLE SIMZ: "MIGHT BANG, MIGHT NOT"]
- This is for the now ♪
If I give you my love
and give you my truth ♪
Know that that shit's just
for you, can't know what
Can I please go?
Look at where we are, who
would've guessed, who knew? ♪
I did, that's for sure,
I kicked down the doors ♪
Give me five minutes.
Fuck that, I crashed the party ♪
Fuck that, I am the party ♪
Don't get me started,
I am a one-woman army ♪
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
- [DOOR OPENS]
- [BEVERLY] Elliot?
We're being fucking paged, Elliot.
And Joseph's there with
coffee and sad pastries.
- Come on!
- Sorry.
I'm leaving.
[ELLIOT] But I haven't
finished, Beverly.
[BEVERLY] I'm walking
out the door right now.
Yeah, yeah. H-Hang on. Us, too.
- You ready?
- Uh
I'll call you later. We're not done.
- [HORN HONKING]
- [SIREN BLARING]
[ELLIOT] We're running clinics.
Women are having babies.
Life is arriving, Joseph.
I appreciate that, Elliot,
but it's just one dinner,
and if we can make this
work, it could be huge for us.
- How huge?
- [ELLIOT] That's what she said.
If we land the Parkers, we
are talking the full amount:
all in, total backing. Ding, ding, ding,
let's open the fucking center tomorrow.
- When the Parkers like something
- [TIMER BEEPS]
- they go fast.
- [BEVERLY] Nineteen point eight.
- [ELLIOT] Yeah, that was faster, right?
- Much slower.
Fucker. Felt faster.
Do we want the Parkers?
Uh, we want their money, yes, Elliot.
[ELLIOT] I'm not saying that
I'm not really into this,
but and I'm really
thinking of Pollyanna here
aren't the Parkers pure fucking evil?
- [TIMER BEEPS]
- [BEVERLY] Go.
She's a little aggressive, involved,
but she's smart and
she likes smart women.
- [ELLIOT] Who doesn't?
- Men and most women.
She has a good track record
of medical investments.
We are not the same
as Big Pharma, Joseph.
- She's excited by science, Elliot, by innovators.
- [TIMER BEEPS]
[PANTING] But she's responsible
for a fucking opioid crisis, Joseph.
She's Satan fisting
dollars out of corpses.
I'm just questioning the optics.
What do you think?
Twenty-five point three.
[GROANS]
[BEVERLY] I think
I want to open the birthing center.
Women need the birthing center.
[MONITOR BEEPING]
Yep.
- Baby's breech.
- [LARA] Oh, fuck's sake.
Nicki, I'd like to try and
turn the baby. Is that okay?
[LARA] Yes, obviously.
Nicki, is that okay with you?
Of course. It's not my baby.
[BEVERLY] No, but it is your body.
We're going to use
something called terbutaline.
It's a muscle relaxant. It's
completely safe for you and baby.
- And if this doesn't work?
- We can try again. Oh, yeah,
- buttocks are down.
- [BEVERLY] If that's what Nicki wants.
We can try analgesia.
Or fetal acoustic stimulation.
[LARA] The hell is that?
Play the oboe at her belly
and cross your fucking fingers?
Lara, I'm going to ask
you not to swear at me.
You're going to, as in
you're about to ask me
not to swear at you, or you're
currently in the process of?
In the process of, exactly.
Nicki, I'm going to start applying
pressure to your abdomen.
It can be a little uncomfortable,
and you can ask me to
stop at any time, okay?
I'm fine. If Lara wants to stop
- It's not Lara's body.
- But it is her baby.
[THROAT CLEARING]
- Is it working?
- We're fine, Lara,
but maybe give us a bit more time.
Nicki and I wanted to talk
to you. Didn't we, Nicki?
- Uh-huh.
- Any pain?
- Uh-uh.
- My husband and I would like
a really small gap between
this baby and the next one.
Uh, should we get this one out first?
- I like really small gaps.
- Evidently.
Nicki, you're doing really well.
The baby's working with us.
Once we get pregnant again
I'm not able to have this
conversation with you right now.
Nicki, I'm going to start
increasing the pressure now.
- I want to talk about it now.
- [NICKI GROANS]
I would like to
concentrate on the patient.
I am the fucking patient.
I'm going to repeat the request
that you don't swear at me.
- You're going to?
- I am repeating the request.
Uh, Lara, there are regulations,
and Nicki has been surrogate
for all five of your children.
- Precisely.
- [BEVERLY] Any pain?
- [NICKI] Uh-uh.
- I mean, frankly,
- I'm on your side.
- [BEVERLY] Sorry?
Well, I mean, if Nicki's
happy and Lara's happy
Nicki's happy. Tell the Doctor Mentals
- how happy you are, Nicki.
- Really happy.
- Your bodies, your choices.
- Elliot, will you just move?
But no fertility clinic in Manhattan
will allow you to use
sorry, work with Nicki
for a sixth pregnancy,
particularly not straightaway.
What about your birthing center?
I thought that was going to have a lab
and a fertility clinic and
fucking everything in-house.
That's why I'm donating and
giving you fucking money.
Not for altruistic
purposes, fucking thank you,
but to skip the fucking queue.
I'm not swearing at you, Beverly.
I'm just generally
swearing in the vicinity.
I'm allowed to. This is stressful.
I'm concerned about the
stress for the patient.
- I'm the fucking patient.
- I'm fine.
No, eventually, it is the
plan. I mean, not immediately,
- but, eventually, it is.
- No, it's not.
- Yes, it is, eventually.
- No, it's not. No.
No, it's fucking not,
and even if we were,
we wouldn't be setting it
up so that women like you
could buy other women wholesale
and do what you want with them.
Do you want her other fucking organs?
Would you like me to pull out
her fucking teeth whilst I'm at it?
Could I ask you to
step outside the room
for a moment, Lara?
No.
You may not.
I'm very sorry.
Um, yeah.
Okay, let's get a
let's get a scan up.
[LAUGHING] I'm sorry. Sorry.
Oh.
Baby's head's down.
Good job, everyone.
[SNIFFS]
[ELLIOT] Oh, I love it
when you lose control.
I'm sort of on her side.
[BEVERLY] Yeah, I got that.
[ELLIOT] Yep, another
fucking miscarriage.
I'm sorry.
Don't you ever get just
a bit fucking bored?
I mean, they want to have babies.
We can make babies.
You want a boy and not a girl, fine.
Why shouldn't you?
- It's not fried food, Elliot.
- Eh
You want to have your
baby on a Wednesday.
You want it to have blue eyes.
You want it to be incapable of
catching a fucking cold ever.
You want to have twins, triplets, quads.
You want to stop the menopause.
You want men to lactate.
You want female sperm.
You want me to grow you
a baby out of nothing.
[SNORTS]
You want me to tighten your vagina
whilst I pull a baby
out of your belly button?
Fine, bring it on.
Let's do the research, let's
make anything fucking happen.
- That's not what we do, Elliot.
- [SIGHS]
That's not what you do, but
I will be doing some of that
as long as that's what people choose.
- You're talking about some kind of
- [SNORTS]
individualist "you want" structure
that I just cannot get on board with.
Uh, did you just read The
Communist Manifesto this morning?
And you'd like to
tell everybody about it
because you're worried that
nobody else has heard of it?
[GASPS]
[WHISPERS] Is capitalism very bad?
[CHUCKLES]
[SNIFFLES]
I just really believe in
what we're trying to do.
Change the way that women birth,
change things structurally, globally.
Radicalism always begins
with something small.
You are so perfect. You
are so deliciously perfect.
Where do you come from?
I'm not, though, am I?
This keeps not working.
My body keeps fucking it up.
Oh Beverly, Beverly, baby sister.
I'm going to take these to the lab.
I'm going to analyze
everything. We go again.
I will make this happen.
You will have a baby. I will solve this.
I promise.
[SOFT CHUCKLE]
[TOM] Where the fuck have you been?
- Hi.
- We've missed you.
Oh, I can see. They are looking ill.
Bullshit. She's a
beauty. Thirteen days old.
- Oh, I didn't bring a gift.
- We'll forgive you.
Due for destruction
in T-minus three hours.
So, how jealous will
you be when I'm in my lab
and I'm growing embryos into fetuses
and fetuses into babies and solving
all the fertility issues
that have ever been?
I mean, I'll visit you in jail.
Private lab, Tom. Private funding.
Oh, yeah, sure, that
means that you can do
- literally whatever the fuck you like. Right?
- Mm-hmm.
What do we got here? Oh, great.
- Beverly scrapings.
- Shut up.
You can't knock your sister
up, but you are confident
that you can grow a whole
baby from a fucking test tube?
What if we can get it safely
to eight, nine, ten weeks,
and then we put it in?
It's almost as though
you're not a scientist.
Did your mother not put
your drawings on the fridge?
I mean, why don't you have
any imaginative capabilities?
Right, always blame the mother, Elliot.
Want to get a drink later?
I can't. Got this thing.
Oh, yeah, it's your dinner
with the most morally
corrupt woman on the planet.
You two are gonna get along so well.
Yeah, that's right.
- Is there gonna be food?
- You're not invited.
No, I could come, for a bit.
I haven't seen Bev in ages.
Because she does not
like you. [LAUGHING]
- Are those ski goggles?
- [LAUGHS]
Yeah, they're comfier, and she loves me.
- Is there going to be tiny food?
- [LAUGHING]
Rich people love tiny food.
Don't fucking come, Tom.
You're an embarrassment.
Nobody wants you to come.
I'm sorry, Lenka.
Yeah, it was only six weeks. [CHUCKLES]
I lost one at 12 weeks,
one at 14, one at 16.
It-it's inevitable.
It's, uh my fault.
- My-my body kills babies.
- Lenka, it's not healthy to blame yourself.
- That's not what's happening.
- Yes, it is.
Have you thought about
speaking to a therapist?
I need to get back now.
My husband comes home
for lunch on Wednesdays.
Cooking him a steak.
So, Therese, everything looks good.
You have a yeast infection,
though. Are you in pain?
Not pain as such, just
uncomfortable. Usual.
It should not be usual
for you to be in pain.
We can do something about that.
Sorry, I I have to pee. [CHUCKLES]
Again.
Be right back.
How are you doing, Max?
- [CHUCKLES]
- [DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES]
How are you feeling about
impending fatherhood?
Sure. [CHUCKLES]
I mean, yeah, it's
[CLEARS THROAT] it's a lot.
Yeah. You're right.
People forget to ask the daddies.
It's important for you to
express how you're feeling.
Y-Yeah, I just
- [SIREN WAILING]
- [HORNS HONKING]
Is there anything you'd like to show me?
Anything at all you
think I'd like to see?
'Cause I can think of one
thing that I would love to see,
and I'd say you got about
30 seconds to show me.
- Can you do that for me?
- Is this
- Oh, my God, is this
- Yes.
- Yes.
- This is what you
- Want very much. Yes.
- Is this happening? Fuck.
[DOOR OPENS]
- [DOOR CLOSES]
- Oh, thank you so much, Max.
That was actually a huge disappointment.
[MAX LAUGHS NERVOUSLY]
So, uh, Therese, I'm writing you up
a script for clotrimazole.
It's-it's completely
safe for you and baby
and should clean things right up.
[ELLIOT TYPING ON KEYBOARD]
- [JOHN] Hi.
- Hi. Congratulations.
- [JOHN] Thanks. Um
- Are you all right?
[JOHN] It's my wife. She's
in, she's in some pain,
and her breathing's short,
and there was a doctor who said
she'll come take a look, but
that was a couple hours ago.
Mm-hmm, of course.
- Uh, hi, uh
- Sandra.
- Hi, Sandra. Congratulations.
- [SANDRA] Mm, thank you.
Can you tell me where
you're experiencing pain?
[SIGHS] Across my abdomen.
And can you describe the
kind of pain that it is?
- [GROANS] It's
- Hi. Hi, hi, hi.
Sorry, sorry. Mr. Russell, Mrs. Russell.
I'm here. Thank you, Beverly.
Mrs. Russell is experiencing
pain across her abdomen.
[TINA] Well, she had a-a C-section.
Oh, I've had a C-section before.
This-this feels different.
- [TINA] Uh-huh.
- [GROANS SOFTLY]
[TINA] Uh-huh, okay. Uh
I got it, Beverly, thank you.
CT scan, no?
Thank you, Dr. Mantle.
Congratulations.
Genevieve, you're-you're here
today for a hysterosalpingogram.
This is so we can get a clear
picture of your-your uterus
and your fallopian tubes, okay?
So, when the radiographer arrives
and-and you're ready,
I will insert a
speculum into your vagina
in order to locate your cervix.
This will feel a little cold,
probably quite uncomfortable.
- Y-You've had a Pap smear?
- Yes.
Once I've located your cervix,
I'm going to insert a catheter
into the neck of the womb and
pass a small amount of fluid
through the catheter.
You might experience
some pain that feels like
period pain at this point.
The fluid will fill the womb,
uh, pass into the fallopian tubes,
and then we'll be able
to take some X-rays.
- Okay?
- Yes, thank you.
That was all very clear.
Uh, lie back.
[CHAIR DRAGS ACROSS FLOOR]
Okay.
[SIGHS]
[BEVERLY] Okay.
I want a baby.
Is that a totally
inappropriate thing to say?
[SOFTLY] No.
I mean [SIGHS]
if ever there were a
place to say it, right?
I'm terrified.
- Is everything okay?
- Yes.
Could you just excuse me for one
- one second, please?
- Oh, my God,
is something not okay?
Is there something wrong?
I-I haven't examined
you yet, Ms. Cotard.
- Um, it's just that
- Yes, if you could just, um
um I'm going to get the radiographer,
and, uh, he's going to
be taking the-the X-rays,
so if you could just give me
five, maybe, uh, ten minutes.
[GENEVIEVE] Oh, okay.
[DOOR CLOSES]
Fuck.
- [GASPS]
- [METAL TRAY CLATTERS]
♪
[INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER P.A.]
[ELLIOT] Yep?
Uh, would you give me two minutes?
Twenty-two, brittle,
stubborn, frankly unpleasant.
I really liked her.
Requesting sterilization.
- Why? What's the trauma?
- I don't think there is one.
- Is she depressed?
- Doesn't seem to be.
- Then what's the issue?
- Very clear, very persuasive,
been requesting sterilization for years.
- Years?
- Yeah, years.
Ridiculous. She's 22.
Remember she's here to see
me, not you. Who have you got?
- Genevieve Cotard. Referral.
- Cotard?
As in the actor?
Referred from Peterson,
family history of fibroids,
fertility check.
She's on that show. I love that show.
You fucking love that show.
Is she trying? Who's she fucking?
She's not trying. She's
just informing herself.
Life's meaningless
unless she has a baby.
Did you get to touch her?
How deep did you get?
[CHUCKLING] You're all flushed.
Was it too much? Was she too delicious?
It's a fertility check. HSG.
- Done?
- No, prepped.
- Radiographer?
- Getting.
So she's just lying there in
stirrups with her legs wide open?
Oh, baby sister.
Are you ready?
[SIGHS]
[INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER P.A.]
Sorry about that.
- Is everything
- Everything's wonderful.
You're the sixth gynecologist
I've seen about this.
Well, sterilization is
not a small procedure,
um, and you're very young.
I have to cut, clip, burn
or tie your fallopian tubes.
Why are you saying that
as though I should have
some emotional relationship
with my fallopian tubes?
I picked you because
you have a good reputation for
actually listening to women.
I am listening to you.
I don't feel listened to.
- So, you're on that show.
- Oh.
- Yeah.
- Oh, that must be fun.
Has its moments.
- Any pain?
- Uh-huh.
Can you describe it to me?
Like bad period pain. Cramping.
Okay.
You're doing great.
We're just going to take
a couple more images.
I'm okay.
[WOMAN OVER P.A.] Transport to
first-floor nurses' station.
Transport to first-floor
nurses' station.
[ELLIOT] Your uterus is bicornuate.
It's heart-shaped.
That in itself isn't likely
to affect your fertility,
your chances of getting pregnant,
but it might increase the likelihood
of an early birth or of miscarriage.
And if you look here, you can see that
your fallopian tubes are
blocked on both sides,
which, if you were to start
trying for a baby today
Okay. I don't want to
try for a baby today.
Well, it-it would be difficult,
possibly very difficult,
but you have options.
[SOFTLY] Fuck.
Okay, well
Thank you for all of that.
Can I go?
This is not-not the final conversation.
- There is a lot that we can do.
- No.
I mean, thank you, but no.
I think I'd like to take a second
before moving onto the
"what do we do now" bit.
Okay. Shall we make a follow-up?
Sure.
Is that bar any good?
The one on the corner.
Uh, no. Awful.
Awful is good. Awful is perfect.
You really do have options.
There's a lot that we can do.
Yeah, I just, I don't want
to talk about that right now.
I want to get wrecked
and feel sad about how
deformed and infertile I am.
- You're not infertile.
- Just deformed.
- Not what I said.
- Sure.
No. Right. Great.
Thanks.
Well, thank you, Dr. Mantle.
Sure.
Maybe I'll come find you in a bit.
Help you get wrecked.
That would be wildly inappropriate.
Yep.
[DOOR CLOSES]
♪
[PHONE BUZZES]
[WOMAN SCREAMING]
- [ELLIOT] How many weeks?
- Uh, she's, uh
uh, nearly 45.
Forty-five weeks? Could
you get a wheelchair?
- And when was she last checked?
- She didn't have no check-ups.
- She's had no medical check-ups?
- She's terrified of hospitals.
How long has she been contracting?
- Three days, on and off.
- Are you fucking kidding me?
She wanted a home birth, a free birth.
Hospitals are traumatizing spaces.
- [ELLIOT] What's her name?
- Leonie.
[ELLIOT] Leonie, we're
going to find you a bed.
We're going to take
a proper look at you.
I need you to focus on your breathing.
- [SCREAMING]
- [NURSE] Get her on the monitor.
[NURSE 2] Make sure to get
a suction catheter, too.
[ELLIOT] Okay, ba-baby's
head's crowning.
[TESSA] I can't detect the
fetal heartbeat, Doctor.
[ELLIOT] Leonie, this is
going to be a vaginal birth.
- I need to use forceps.
- Forceps? Getting forceps, Dr. Mantle.
I need you to start pushing really hard.
We'll give you pain
relief on the other side.
Okay, look at me. Look at me.
- Look at me. Okay.
- [CRYING]
Breathe, breathe, breathe, breathe.
- Okay, Leonie.
- Okay.
- [NURSE] BP's dropping.
- [ELLIOT] Okay, okay.
- [NURSE] Keep it on standby.
- [GROANING]
[ELLIOT] Okay, push.
- [NURSE] We need a transfer
- [SCREAMING]
She won't latch.
Have you thought about
a lactation consultant?
Would you like me to see if
someone can come and talk to you?
That sounds like a good idea, honey.
They're discharging us.
I want to go home.
They said they need the bed and
Are you in any pain, Alexa?
- She hasn't slept.
- I want to go home.
She's, um
You're feeling kind of
funny about holding the baby,
aren't you?
[LEONIE BREATHING HEAVILY]
[LEONIE SOBBING]
- [BABY CRYING]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[MAN OVER P.A.] Dr.
Howard, call the pharmacy.
Dr. Howard, call the pharmacy.
♪
[WOMAN OVER P.A.] Dr. Marcus,
your son is waiting for you
in the downstairs lobby.
Dr. Marcus, your son is waiting
for you in the downstairs lobby.
- [URGENT, OVERLAPPING CHATTER]
- [MONITOR BEEPING RAPIDLY]
[BABY CONTINUES CRYING]
[INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER P.A.]
[LEONIE GRUNTS]
[LEONIE GROANS]
- Would you like to hold him?
- [LEONIE SOBBING]
[SOBBING]
[SOBBING] I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
Your wife suffered
heavy internal bleeding.
I know.
[TINA] A CT scan was ordered
but did not happen.
- [SNIFFLES] I know.
- [BABY CRYING]
[TINA] Mr. Russell.
- I am very sorry for your loss.
- [CRYING]
[MUTTERING]
[CHUCKLES]
Fuck this shit.
I hate this.
She was afraid of the place where
she's supposed to feel the most safe.
What was up with you and that actress?
You should go.
Have a break.
Whatever you need.
I'll pick up for you.
You like her.
Did you want me to get her for you?
Trainers are in room 12.
I can get her for you.
Would you like that?
Go do something nice, Elly.
[INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER P.A.]
[FOOTSTEPS DEPARTING]
- [SIREN WAILING]
- [HORN HONKS]
Mmm.
[VENDOR] You having a
- good day?
- [ELLIOT] No.
- I'm having a fucking shit day.
- Okay.
Cool. Sorry I asked.
Fuck you, asking about my fucking day.
- Okay, lady.
- No, seriously, fuck you!
- Yeah? Well, fuck you back.
- Oh, fuck me back?
- Fuck you back.
- Yeah.
- I'm not doing this.
- Fuck you!
[COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING]
[DOOR SQUEAKS SHUT]
[DRAMATIC TV MUSIC PLAYING]
[GRUNTING ON SCREEN]
[SCREAMING]
[GROANING]
♪
Did you always want to be an actress?
Yeah, I think so.
I don't know why exactly.
No one in my family
is, like, into the arts.
Mm-hmm. Where do you
think it comes from?
I mean, we moved all the time.
I feel like I always end
up saying in interviews
that it was about
creating some inner world,
being resilient, but I
don't think that's true.
We're a really close family.
I never felt lacking in any way.
I am talking.
Why did you move so much?
This feels a bit like an interview.
- Army brat.
- Mm.
- Did you always want to be a doctor?
- Yeah.
Did you live in other countries?
- Yes.
- Do you speak other languages?
- [CHUCKLES] When I'm drunk.
- Drink up, then.
Mm. Can I get another one?
So, was it always babies and vaginas?
Sure. Yeah, so, do you think
you're gonna stay on the show,
or do you want to do other stuff, or?
I don't know. Everyone
wants variety, right?
Yes. Very much so.
[SIGHS]
[ELLIOT SIGHS]
Should we go eat?
I could eat. Like, a steak
or a seafood platter,
or we could jump on a boat,
horse ride around Central Park.
[GENEVIEVE CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
I have a junket I have
to do, this press thing.
Okay, cool. Well, I
could come find you later.
[GENEVIEVE CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
This is a lot.
You're a lot.
- I should go.
- It's not
I don't not want to see you again.
- It's just, I
- Sure.
As in, I'd like to see you again. I'm
It's at The Beekman.
I'll be there till late.
It was nice to meet
you today, Genevieve.
Good sign that she's the one meeting us.
She could have sent some
- Underling?
- Representative.
- Little vestigial fuck monkey?
- Focus.
[SNORTS] Ah. That sounds
quite fun, actually.
But it's her and her wife, Susan Parker.
And Susan Parker is wife number
- 11?
- Four. Hmm.
Is she the one who
did a shit on the floor
at the Guggenheim at that opening?
- No.
- Shame.
That was wife number
two, the one who died.
Oh, my God. Yes, the one
who jumped out the window.
Don't talk about it. It's too sad.
We really want this woman's money?
We want the birthing center, Elliot.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
yes, yes, we want the lab.
[SIGHS]
[SNIFFLING]
I kissed the actress.
I thought I'd get her for you.
She's a patient. You
can't fuck the patients.
Okay, I won't fuck the patients anymore.
Are you seeing her again?
She has a press thing
at The Beekman till late.
Does she know we're twins?
She didn't mention it.
Most people fucking mention it.
Thank you.
[SNIFFLING]
- Beverly?
- Yes?
Just a quick fuck.
I'm worried she won't
live up to your fantasies.
I love babies.
Well, that's a great start. [CHUCKLES]
[SUSAN] I love everything about them.
- [JOSEPH] That's fantastic.
- And I just, I love women.
- [JOSEPH] Yes.
- Mm.
Oh, and I read some of the
materials you sent across.
- [JOSEPH] Thank you.
- And, oh, my goodness,
it was all just so moving and so tragic,
and I just got so angry about
it all. Didn't I, Rebecca?
- You did.
- I just, I cannot think
of a better project to be
a part of. I really can't.
- Well, that's wonderful.
- [SUSAN] It is.
And we'd love to know what
you made of it, Rebecca.
Rebecca thinks babies are boring.
It's not that I think they're boring.
I had a bunch.
I mean, I didn't do
the having, obviously.
Right, you're a mother. You get it.
Yeah, I don't know what that means, Joe.
[ELLIOT LAUGHING]
[REBECCA] What are you
looking for in an investor?
Ideally, someone who cares.
[REBECCA] Less ideally.
- A check.
- [JOSEPH LAUGHS]
I'll be honest. I didn't
find your proposal
particularly exciting when I read it.
I find it even less compelling now.
I like science. I like medicine.
That is my fucking jam.
That was my dad's shit.
That's my community.
That is where I put my money.
I'm gonna be straightforward.
I always think that's best.
You guys want someone who really
gives a fuck about this, too.
I give a fuck.
But you give a fuck about dolphins
and rehabilitating
pedophiles and ice cream.
[SUSAN] I want a birthing center.
[REBECCA] Yeah, I wish I could
say that I love your passion,
your ability, your project.
I don't know that I feel it.
- So you're not investing?
- Doesn't look that way.
Because we didn't pitch hard enough?
You're asking for $16 million.
That's fuck-all to me,
but I was expecting more
than, like, sad-sack
expressions and silence.
I'm not asking for twins on their knees.
[BEVERLY] Okay.
A woman died today.
Four hours after giving birth.
And another woman lost her baby.
No, fuck that, not lost.
Her baby died.
Are you terribly bad at your jobs?
- [ELLIOT LAUGHS]
- No.
This may not be that exciting
for you to hear, but no,
it happened because of
the system, because
the system is fucked.
It's diabolical.
Despite the fact that this is how
every single one of us enters the world,
despite the fact that
women have been giving birth
for as long as humankind has existed,
this is the best that
we have come up with.
It's a system that bullies and scares
and terrorizes and humiliates and rushes
and ruins women and their bodies.
And then somehow,
somehow, we have been part
of making this system seem
normal and necessary
and just a by-product
of what happens should
a woman be in a position
where a baby needs to exit her body.
I know, I wish our proposal
were more thrilling for you,
was a fucking revolution
or a coup or a bomb in
the middle of the city
that could make the world look
radically different overnight,
but that's not how it works.
That's not what real change
for real human women
actually fucking looks like,
because we are fucking brilliant, okay?
We are extraordinary.
We are as close to fucking perfection
as you can get in this field,
and I am not fucking with you.
This is the most important investment
that you could make in your lives,
and not because it's about
sweet, soft, vulnerable,
hope, hope, hope, hopeful babies,
but because if we get this
right, if we do this properly,
then it is world-changing.
Actually world-changing.
Slowly, but in a way that is
deep, rooted,
permanent, meaningful, fucking real.
But fuck you if you don't see that.
Fuck you.
- [REBECCA] Where are you going?
- Oh, we're done, aren't we?
You don't tell me to fuck off
and then fuck off yourself.
Sit the fuck back down.
It's been a really difficult day.
[REBECCA] Shut up,
Joe. She's talking about
holding a dead fucking baby in her arms.
Did you hold a dead
baby in your arms today?
Thought not. Shut up.
Okay.
When I invest in something,
I need to get very fucking
involved, very fucking close,
like my breath on your
neck, do you understand?
That's my name, you know?
That's my family name.
That is important to me.
I'm not in, but I'm not not in.
We need to spend some time together,
see if this might work.
♪
[QUIET CHATTER]
[LAUGHTER]
♪
You're schizophrenic.
I don't want to be.
[MOANING]
[PANTING]
You okay?
[PANTING] Uh-huh.
- You good?
- Uh uh-huh.
[BOTH PANTING]
Are you good?
You with me?
Mm-hmm. [PANTING]
- You sure?
- [MOANING]
Can you hold out? [PANTING]
[GRUNTS] Uh-huh.
Did you always want to be an accountant?
Does any child want to be an accountant?
I was always very detail-oriented.
So you ended up where you should be.
I guess so.
I think that's amazing.
Do you have any siblings?
Two brothers, and
- I had a sister.
- Had?
Well, yeah. She, um
Yeah, she died when I was, uh
Is there This is kind of
- I'm sorry.
- Yeah, um [CHUCKLES]
I didn't, like, know her.
I feel bad for my parents,
and kind of guilty, I guess,
for not actually missing her.
I miss the idea of her.
I'm sorry, uh, this is
Do you crave stability, do you think?
Or do you run away from it?
[LAUGHS]
You have a really nice face
- Ryan.
- You have a really nice face, Ryan.
Thanks, Elliot.
You, too.
Obviously.
I crave it.
Stability.
My sister says I'm a hungry person.
I like to feast.
But just once.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER IN DISTANCE]
[EXCITED CHATTER]
♪
♪
[BELL DINGS]
- [GENEVIEVE] I just started dreaming about babies.
- [PHONE BUZZING]
[CHUCKLES]
About holding them, the weight of them.
Constantly. And
it's not something I, like,
think about or plan for, you know?
- Mm.
- Like, I'm not someone who always felt
that that kind of family life
- was necessarily for me.
- [BUZZING]
Right? So I figured
this is a body thing.
This is a hormonal thing.
This is fucking clock
shit, right? So don't panic.
Just do the grown-up thing
and get it checked out.
And now I just feel like, is
she fucking with me, my body?
Sending out all of these
crazy hormones when actually,
actually, fuck you, not possible.
I appreciate that. I don't
actually want to talk about it.
So, what about you? No babies?
No.
- No babies.
- [GENEVIEVE CHUCKLES]
- You don't want them?
- Yes, I-I do, actually.
It just hasn't been, uh, happening.
- You've been trying? On your own?
- Yeah.
Yeah, they don't stick, so
maybe it's not meant to be.
Maybe I should give up.
I just I just can't quite seem to.
Hmm.
Are you actively trying now?
Yeah.
I think that's amazing.
You have the most heavenly face.
[PHONE BUZZING]
[PHONE BUZZING]
Do you live here by yourself?
With my sister.
Okay. Cool.
You never mentioned a sister.
- I forgot she existed.
- [BOTH CHUCKLE]
Are you hungry?
Is that a line?
[LAUGHS] No.
I'm genuinely fucking starving.
You're really into the whole
delayed gratification thing.
I'm gonna make you something.
Oh, no, you don't have to do that.
You can't cook, you said,
and I'm a fucking good cook.
And I have a feeling
this is gonna have
some options. [LAUGHS]
Yep.
[BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GENEVIEVE MOANING SOFTLY]
♪
[ELLIOT] Baby sister.
- [BELL DINGS]
- [DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
♪
♪
[DISHES CLATTERING]
[SIREN WAILING]
[KNIFE CHOPPING]
Hey.
Good morning.
Would you like a juice?
You're not her sister.
True.
Did you tidy up?
You would like a juice?
I was going to tidy up.
This is so embarrassing.
Did you fold my clothes? Oh, my God.
Are you, like, a fucking
maid or something?
[LAUGHS] Yes.
Yes. I'm like a fucking maid.
That is so wild.
Good morning.
I'm Elliot.
[GENEVIEVE] Um
No.
No, I
I didn't know that
your sister was a twin.
[ELLIOT] Oh, she didn't tell you?
Well, that's outrageous.
But also, can't you google?
I mean, you must be the only
fucking person in Manhattan
who doesn't know about the Mantle twins.
Elliot.
Okay.
I didn't know you were famous.
We're not famous.
We're obviously not famous.
[ELLIOT] You're famous.
Excuse me?
You're on that show.
Beverly loves that show.
Right.
It is weird you didn't tell me.
Yes. Yes, I
just completely, genuinely
forgot she existed.
Can I ask you something awful?
- Something offensive?
- Yes.
It's only been you,
right? The whole time?
I've just been with you?
- It's offensive.
- Yes.
It's only been me.
I like you.
[CHUCKLES]
♪
- [BELL DINGS]
- [SIGHS]
[DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES]
♪
[DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES]
♪
♪
Are you psyched about the Parkers?
I like them. I really, really like them.
I don't know why they've got
such a bad fucking reputation.
She's directly responsible for the death
of hundreds of thousands of people.
Don't be boring, Beverly.
What happened with the actress?
Was it awful? Should I cheer you up?
- Should I get you someone else?
- No, thank you, Elliot.
What about her?
She looks nice.
- Soft, pliable.
- No.
- Let me get her for you.
- No, Elliot.
- Come on.
- No.
- Why not?
- [THE BLACKWELLS: "OH MY LOVE"]
My one and only ♪
I know if you return ♪
You aren't seeing her again?
Beverly.
She was incredible, Elliot.
What do you mean?
I'm not telling.
Beverly.
It's none of your business.
Everything's my fucking business.
Not this.
That you are my only love ♪
- You okay?
- Mm-hmm.
- You sure?
- Mm-hmm.
[MAN] Beverly?
Would you like to tell us your story?
I'm here because my
sister died.
My twin.
[URINATING]
[SCREAMS]
[CÉLINE DION: "THINK TWICE"]
Don't think I can't feel ♪
That there's something wrong ♪
You've been the
sweetest part of my life ♪
For so long ♪
I look in your eyes ♪
There's a distant light ♪
And you and I know ♪
There'll be a storm tonight ♪
This is getting serious ♪
Are you thinking about you ♪
Or us? ♪
Don't say what you're ♪
About to say ♪
Look back before ♪
You leave my life ♪
Be sure before ♪
You close my door ♪
Before you roll ♪
Those dice ♪
Baby, think twice ♪
Baby, think twice ♪
For the sake of our love ♪
For the memory ♪
For the fire and the faith ♪
That was you and me ♪
Babe, I know it ain't easy ♪
When your soul cries out ♪
For higher ground ♪