Generation 56K (2021) s01e01 Episode Script

A NETFLIX SERIES
["Put Your Head On My Shoulder"
by Paul Anka playing]
[woman] So you meet someone cute
on the Internet.
You start texting every day,
then all of a sudden you ask yourself,
"Is this really how I meet my soulmate?"
"On an app? Is this
what we'll tell our grandchildren?"
But you agree to meet at a bar,
and when you see him walking you think,
"Thank God he looks like his photo.
No missing teeth or anything."
- Rosa. [chuckles]
- Daniel.
[woman] So you start talking,
maybe shake hands.
You're not exactly sure why.
Maybe the chemistry is off,
or some memory from a past life.
I mean, he's handsome.
You'd totally sleep with him.
But one thing's clear from the start.
It could never work.
Terminator is a loop in time.
Basically, this guy John Connor
has an army
and from the future, he's sent
as a soldier back in time to save himself.
[woman] You're there because you tapped
that little heart on his profile.
You asked him out.
It's your fault you're stuck here.
So now what? You leave?
Do you say, "Nevermind, thanks"?
That's not nice.
So you start to hope the other person
is thinking the same about you.
Maybe he doesn't like you either.
And now he'll say, "Hey, it's late.
I really gotta go."
And no one will have to worry
about hurting anyone's feelings.
Honestly, have you ever sat there
and thought,
"Damn. Now we have to fuck
or it will be awkward."
[groovy music playing]
[both moaning]
So, that's when you pull out
the oldest trick in the book.
[phone vibrating]
Give me a Give me a second. Wait.
[panting]
- Hello?
- [woman] The meanest trick in the world.
Simona?
Stay calm!
What happened?
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Where are you?
Okay, just stay there.
I'll be right there.
Bye. Okay. Bye.
[breathing heavily]
Simona, my friend, crashed her car.
- Oh, jeez!
- She might have broken her legs.
Um, I'll I'll come?
- Let me get
- No, no.
- You sure?
- Yeah, yeah. I'll be fine.
- [Daniel] I'm sorry.
- Yeah.
- I had a very good night.
- Me too.
Sorry to leave you like that.
- We'll do this again, right?
- [hesitating] Yes.
Okay.
- Okay. Bye.
- [Daniel] Bye.
- [woman] And now ask yourselves
- [phone vibrating]
how'd it have gone
if you hadn't had a friend
who could set-up your exit strategy?
- Lu?
- [in neutral tone] Help me! Help me!
Sandro's almost dead!
How come I have to go die?
Hon, why does he let me die first?
- You should take turns.
- Let's take turns.
Thanks, guys. But I think
her friend died before both of you.
See you tomorrow.
- He said that her friend just died.
- Yeah, right!
This is when you ask for Ludovica,
your new best friend.
Oh. Hang on a second. [chuckles]
There we are.
And here we go.
NO CALLER ID
[woman] Hello, it's Ludovica,
can you hear me?
I'm sorry. Can you come get me?
I'm at the ER in
[automated voice] Naples.
You can have it save the name
of any city and person.
[woman on phone] Please come quickly!
I need you
- [automated voice] Mario.
- [woman] Come help me.
It obviously can use some upgrades.
But I hope that
an innovative company like AurApps
can see the potential
and consider investing in this.
So, to ensure that we understand,
it's an app that,
if one night you have a situation
where it's not that you don't want to,
but let's say you'd rather, uh
Basically, it's an SOS to
It's an app to not get laid?
Yes, yes, yes.
- We like it.
- We like it.
Put your head on my shoulder ♪
Whisper in my ear, baby ♪
Words I want to hear ♪
- Seasick again, Daniel?
- [Daniel] Ugh, as usual.
[P.A. turns on]
[announcer] Naples, island of Procida.
Arriving at destination.
My shoulder ♪
[woman 1] "Dear diary, my name's Daniel."
"I'll be 12 in three months,
and I live on an island."
"And I have a huge crush on Ines."
"Hopefully, if she finds out about it,
she won't ask me to kiss her,
because I still don't know how"
- Raffaella! Stop it!
- [man] Come on. Come on now.
So you didn't just like my dolls, eh?
[woman 2] Someone bring me down
the cardboard boxes with the saucepans?
All the boxes are cardboard, Mama.
[Mom] It's the one that's all taped up.
How am I supposed to know
if there's pans in it if it's taped up?
Mom, you just moved downstairs.
Your mother's a little wound up
from the move.
- [Mom] Bruno!
- Give us five minutes!
So, how does it work?
It's simple. You just mark
the girls you like with a heart.
For example, "Magda from Naples."
- [dings]
- See?
- A little heart.
- Exactly.
If she hearts you too, then you meet up.
That's it? A little heart,
you're together?
You're not together, Dad.
You go out. You get to know each other.
- And then, if you want
- Ah.
Good, good. If it gives you a girlfriend.
Wait. That's Raffaella.
- [Daniel] No, it's not Raffaella.
- [Bruno] That's Raffaela.
- Let me see her picture. Give it to me.
- It's not Raffaella!
- Just give me the phone.
- Hands off!
Will you two help me deal with Mama,
please?
[dishes clattering]
[Mom] Raffaella!
Coming down!
- [grunts]
- No, it's no good. It's not right.
Just two seconds ago
you told me you liked it.
That is because I didn't know that
I mean, it's too easy.
Where would I be
if I'd taken every opportunity I ever had?
- You remember Mrs. Barone?
- This story again?
She asked me to help her with her phone,
opened the door in her underwear.
[both] And she told me she needed a man.
But I told her I was married.
That I loved my wife,
and wasn't interested in a fling.
Dad, she was in her sixties.
Daniel, you have to understand
what you like and what you don't like.
And I happen to like your mother.
Bruno, will you put that juice box down
and help us?
Hang on, I can't talk to my son
for five minutes?
- Your five minutes were up 10 minutes ago.
- I didn't know you had a stopwatch.
- I'll be down in a minute.
- That's 16 minutes.
Oh, but that's Daniel's minute, not mine.
Don't count his minutes toward my minutes
if I'm coming now.
- [Mom] Seventeen.
- [Bruno] Seventeen. Seventeen.
[gentle music playing]
[phone dings]
NICE HAT, MAGDA
SHALL I WEAR IT TONIGHT?
[chuckles]
OK, AT 8:00 P.M.?
[music continues]
[in teen voice] "Dear diary,
my name's Daniel."
"I'll be 12 in three months."
"I'm in seventh grade
and I live on an island."
"I like the island,
even if Sandro says it's too small
and everybody knows everybody else,
so it's hard to keep a secret."
"A secret like, I like Ines a lot."
"But I still haven't told her,
because I don't know how to kiss."
"Sandro and Lu say it's easy,
you just need to practice."
"But I'm too shy."
- [Mom] Raffaella!
- [young Raffaella] I'm coming!
["Alright" by Supergrass playing]
We are young ♪
26 OCTOBER 1998
[TV chattering]
See our friends, see the sights ♪
And feel alright ♪
We wake up ♪
[gasps]
You're making out with yourself in
the mirror, aren't you? I'm telling Mom!
No, wait, Raffaella!
Shut up! I wasn't.
Yes, you were.
You were doing it for practice.
If you tell Mom,
I'll throw your dolls in the sea.
I know you kiss them too.
[Mom] Bruno!
[Bruno] Daniel?
I'll tell you too.
Stay away from the modem.
Uh, modem?
- It goes to the Internet.
- Internet?
It's something you use to look for things.
Don't touch it, it's for work.
[Mom] Bruno, finish that later.
Your coffee's ready.
[TV chattering]
Daniel kisses my doll and also the mirror.
- That's not true.
- Yes, it is.
- You practice 'cause you don't know how.
- Behave!
He licks them 'cause he's gross.
- Shut up, you little shit.
- [Bruno] Daniel, don't say "shit."
See what happens when you use
that language in front of the kids?
- [Bruno] How'd I know where he learnt it?
- 'Cause it's from your mouth.
Mom, can I have an advance
on next month's allowance?
No advances. In fact, if you keep fighting
with your sister, you won't get it at all.
What do you need all this money for?
A girlfriend?
He doesn't have one because he's a wuss.
Raffaella, stop it, or it'll be no cake
and no candles. Got it?
Daniel,
are you buying drugs?
Mm. Wuss.
[school bell ringing]
[playful music playing]
[kids chattering, playing]
We needed that money for the PlayStation.
[young Daniel] Shut up, Lu.
We have a plan, so let's stick to it.
Your plan's awful.
I hear that once some poor kid
gave Antonio a tape back late,
so he beat him up, threw him in the sea.
Think what he'll do to us?
- You can go to jail for that.
- Antonio could get out of jail.
He has connections.
[young Daniel] He's a news agent's kid,
that's how he gets the porn tapes.
You're acting like a big wuss.
Antonio will find out about us
and murder us. Everyone knows his rules.
You have to return the video
after 48 hours.
You can't ruin it, you can't lend it out,
and you can't copy it.
Or else he throws you in the sea.
[gentle music playing]
You're staring at Ines again.
Shit! Her tomboy friend saw us. Get down!
- Who, Matilda?
- [young Daniel] Yes.
Ines hangs with her
just to look prettier by comparison.
Ines is prettier on her own.
I'm gonna marry her.
[young Lu] If you keep spying on her,
you'll get arrested.
- [young Daniel] He got it! He got it!
- Really? Let me see!
I can't believe it! The porn tape is ours!
[Sandro] So, was she nasty?
Was she nasty?
- Who?
- The girl you saw last night.
Ah, no, no.
- [Sandro] Was she ugly?
- No. Actually, she
She Mm?
She was irritating?
Sandro, I didn't like her.
You know when you just don't like someone?
There's nothing bad about it.
It just happens.
- Sure, but eventually you'll like someone.
- [chuckles]
It's been like six years
since you broke up with Serena.
Keeping count?
- You sound like my father.
- I'm not counting.
But it's been six years.
I feel sorry for you.
Don't worry about me.
I'm going out with somebody tonight.
Oh yeah? What's she like?
- [plays flute]
- "What's she like?" I don't know.
- She's a
- Like what?
Photos are all from behind.
- So you've never seen her face?
- No.
Obviously. A few hours in,
you'll have us call you and say,
"Quick, we're dying!"
You think it's easy telling someone
you don't like her?
- "Sorry, I'm not feeling it. See ya."
- It's not easy to be a man today.
Exactly. You're married,
you wouldn't understand.
That has nothing to do with it.
I'm still a human being.
- Of course, you're still a human being.
- [Sandro] So?
We're different stages of life.
- Okay, but
- [Lu] Can I crash here tonight?
If you need help,
I'll call and say I'm dying.
Are you still terrified of seeing her?
My house isn't good enough
for you anymore?
Sandro, you're married.
- Again with this being married stuff?
- It's true.
You and Cristina are trying to have a kid.
I feel dirty being there, when I know
you're in there doing it across the hall.
- You're really trying to be a father?
- We're talking about it.
- So, you're having a baby?
- Yes, they're trying.
- Thinking about it.
- Deciding it.
- They're doing it. Right in the bedroom.
- What does this have to do with anything?
When the kid will be born,
what is it gonna think of me?
- I'll tell you the second it's official.
- Official how?
- Is the kid gonna send me a letter?
- When she's pregnant.
I don't want to hear them.
[overlapping conversations]
- Don't listen to him.
- Fine! Sleep at Daniel's.
One goes out with girls he doesn't like,
the other is afraid of the girl he likes,
and I'm the weird one?
I'll stay in phantom mode.
[Sandro laughing] And I'm weird because
Come on, guys.
PRINCESS BETULLA
[young Lu] We can't copy the porno.
That's one of the rules.
[young Daniel] Shut up, Lu.
[young Sandro] We're not copying it.
We're recording it onto another tape.
[young Lu] That's what "copying" is.
- Antonio's gonna kill us.
- I'm not afraid of some new agent's kid.
Hmm, he is kinda right.
I told you guys, we'll sell it
at the Bible study, not our school.
[blows]
- And if we catches on?
- There is no way.
[blows]
PRINCESS BETULLA
THE DIRTIEST PORNO EVER
Are you ready?
[tape whirring]
[Schubert's "Ave Maria" playing]
THE WOMAN OF WALL STREE
[slurping]
[gasps]
[woman moaning]
Wow.
[door opens]
[gasps]
[young Daniel] Get lost, we're busy!
It's my party,
so you're the one who has to leave.
[young Daniel] Can't you go
to the living room?
It's my party,
and we can watch cartoons if we want.
- [Daniel] Why are you such a brat?
- [Raffaella] You're a brat.
- [young Daniel] It's only half yours.
- And you're only half a pain.
[young Sandro] Let's go to Ciro's.
[whimsical music playing]
- [young Lu] Can't we stay?
- [young Daniel] No. We gotta go.
My brother French-kisses dolls
on the mouth.
[doll hits the floor]
[upbeat music playing]
[karaoke singers singing in Italian]
[singing continues indistinctly]
[indistinct chatter]
MAGDA, 30, NAPLES
LESS THAN 5 KM AWAY
[woman] Daniel?
Magda?
I wasn't leaving. I was just, uh
I was just going back and forth, you know?
If you'd come ten seconds later,
you'd have thought that I just got here.
Right?
[chuckles]
You're prettier than your photo.
[chuckles]
[chuckles]
Shall we go?
Uh [sighs]
[karaoke singers singing
"Nord, Sud, Ovest, Est"]
[singing continues]
Hi! I booked the drink tasting
for eight o'clock.
Of course. Have a seat.
[both] Do you think
[laughs]
- No, you go.
- No, no, no. You go, you go.
So, what do you do?
I'm a restorer.
- What?
- I restore furniture.
- Oh, restore.
- Mostly antiques.
Like escritoires,
pendulum clocks, mirrors.
You can restore mirrors?
Uh-huh. Even mirrors.
Okay, there's ten cocktails.
Let's start with a pisco mule.
Basically, it's a Moscow mule, but
instead of vodka we use Peruvian pisco.
Thank you!
[both] Cheers!
[karaoke singers continue singing]
["Nord, Sud, Ovest, Est" playing on radio]
[indistinct chatter]
- Cheers!
- Thanks, Ciro.
Don't touch that, eh, Lu!
Sorry, Mr. Ciro.
Lu, it's the number one rule.
The bottle can't be opened.
Only future generations can do that.
Or aliens!
[exhales]
- What's the damage?
- Here we go again.
I'm your godfather, Daniel.
You never owe me anything.
Okay?
[grunting]
So, once we've copied the tape,
we rent it out 110 times.
- Then we buy the PlayStation.
- 110 times isn't much.
- We can do it by Christmas.
- But I don't know 110 kids.
- [both] Shut up, Lu!
- Why do I always have to shut up?
We gotta be careful.
If Antonio finds out we're charging kids
to watch his porno tape,
he might beat us up.
Hi, Daniel. Hi, Sandro.
How come she never says hi to me?
Matilda saw you
got a videotape from my brother.
- We didn't.
- We didn't.
We might have.
- It was this one.
- We want to see it.
If you don't let us see it, we'll tell
Antonio that you showed it to us.
You're evil!
He'll throw us in the sea. In the sea.
Shit, man.
It's a documentary.
Open it.
[tape case clicks]
[chuckles] What's Princess Betulla?
Oh, fuck! You took the wrong tape!
The porno tape was
in the other video recorder!
- Guys, we're safe!
- What porno?
- She's gonna watch a cartoon.
- My sister's gonna watch a cartoon!
This cartoon?
- Antonio will kill us!
- My dad's gonna kill me!
Maybe they changed their minds!
Who wants to watch Princess Betulla?
[girls] Me!
Let's go! Let's go!
Ah, aha ♪
Aha, aha ♪
- Daniel?
- What's going on, huh?
[Daniel] I'll explain it again.
- So, John Connor
- I'm listening.
- John Connor is the main character.
- Yes, John. Yes.
And he has to send a soldier back in time
when he wasn't born yet
to save his mother.
- And then she gives up to the soldier.
- Yes, and then
- John is born.
- John Connor!
So John is born, he grows up,
and then he has to send another soldier
another soldier back in time
to save his mother,
but he can't send the same soldier again.
- Because he's died in the past!
- Yes!
[both laugh]
- Very good! [laughs]
- Thank you.
So, he ends up sending
many different soldiers
and it's a new one every time.
Each one goes back in time,
to get his mother pregnant.
- So John Connor
- Has a lot of different fathers.
All different. All of them dead.
- It's terrible! [laughs]
- No, it's aloof! It's brilliant.
It's genius!
- Daniel!
- What?
You took the last one.
- No.
- It was.
- No.
- Yes.
Mm, yes.
It's my father's fault.
- Yes, it is. My father, his name's Bruno.
- Mm-hmm.
My father, since I was little,
he always told me, leaving the last one
for someone else is actually selfish.
Wait, let me explain. You know
it's like this last avocado appetizer.
- Right?
- Okay.
So, if I offer it to you, you'll eat it.
But because you know I like it,
you'd feel so guilty and horrible
- I really don't think so.
- No, it's true.
It'll play at your conscience
for the rest of your life,
because you'd constantly be thinking,
"Daniel sacrificed the last appetizer
so I can eat it. How selfish of me."
This way I did you a favor.
In order for two people to get along,
they've to steal from each other's plates?
Yes, exactly. Beat the other to it.
That way we're both happy.
It's weird.
[bartender] Guys, you wanna sing?
- Yes. Come on, let's go.
- No! No, no, no, no!
- Come on.
- No, no, no, Daniel.
- I drank too much. No!
- [Daniel] Come on!
- Don't you ever say no?
- [Daniel] Just sometimes.
[upbeat music playing]
[young Lu] Wait for me! Guys, wait.
- [young Sandro] Hurry up, Lu!
- [young Lu] Daniel!
[upbeat music continues]
[inaudible]
Oh no. [laughs]
Ah, come on.
[both singing in Italian]
- [young Sandro] Daniel, wait!
- Follow me! Faster!
Daniel!
We gotta get back to my house.
[singing continues]
[giggling]
Go! Daniel!
[singing continues]
Daniel, don't go into your room.
Raffa's friends are still there,
having a screaming contest.
[singing continues]
[girls screaming]
You pervert!
[singing continues]
[screaming]
[music continues]
No, no! Please, Dad!
No. No, no, no! Please, no.
[Bruno breathes deeply]
[somber music playing]
WARM TARALLI
- Thank you.
- [man] You're welcome.
[ship horn blowing]
Here I am.
- [sighs] Put this on your wrists.
- [Daniel] Thanks.
- Young lady, he just threw up.
- You promised not to tell her.
No, I have to tell her
'cause you threw up twice.
Thank you, ma'am.
I'll take care of him now.
- Bye-bye, guys.
- Thank you.
[inhales]
- [Daniel sniffles]
- What?
- [Daniel laughs]
- What?
- [laughs] I really messed up.
- [chuckles] Why?
Oh, come on, I threw up on our first date.
Twice.
- [Daniel] I really suck on first dates.
- [laughs]
[Daniel laughs]
[sighs]
It's weird, you know, uh [clicks tongue]
I had this feeling, you know, like
[sniffles, chuckles]
- What?
- [Daniel] No, it's just
Like I Like I already know you, or
[gentle music playing]
It's getting late. I gotta go.
[Daniel] My phone died,
I didn't even notice.
This was nice, Daniel.
Yeah.
Maybe we can meet again sometime? Or text?
["We Might Be Dead By Tomorrow"
by Soko playing]
Careful where you go throwing up.
[Daniel laughs]
Give me all your love now ♪
'Cause for all we know ♪
[Mom] Bruno, you have to calm down!
[Bruno] How can I calm down?
It was a fucking cock!
[Mom] Don't use that language.
[Bruno] It was a big cock,
what do you want me to call it?
[Mom] I got it. Now, stop!
There's no need to shout it.
I can't go on wasting my time ♪
Adding scars to my heart ♪
'Cause all I hear is I'm not ready now ♪
And I can tell that you didn't had ♪
To face your mother losing her lover ♪
Without saying goodbye ♪
Without saying goodbye ♪
'Cause she didn't have time ♪
[music continues]
[laughing]
[speaking indistinctly]
[phone dings]
I don't want to judge ♪
What's in your heart ♪
But if you're not ready for love ♪
MAGDA: SORRY, GOT HELD UP AT WORK
SORRY, DANIEL, I CAN'T MAKE I
DIDN'T YOU GET IT? IT WASN'T MY FAUL
Oh. [gasps]
Daniel. You scared me. What's up?
Shut up, Lu!
You want me to shut up? I was sleeping.
- Shut up, Lu! It wasn't her.
- Who wasn't her?
I went out with somebody I met online,
but it wasn't her,
it was a different person.
Are you hungry?
I don't even know
if her real name's Magda.
I don't want to judge ♪
DANIEL FROM THE ISLAND?
PRINCESS BETULLA?
[laughs]
YEAH, THAT'S HIM!
READ
[phone dings]
How can you be ready for life ♪
[woman on phone] Oh, Jesus!
How did he not recognize you?
Why didn't you tell him it was you?
I know it was an absurd situation,
but you could've told him.
You're totally weird, Matilda.
[gasps]
So let's love fully ♪
So, you finally like someone,
but they don't really exist.
Who is she?
'Cause soon enough we'll die ♪
[sighs]
I'm gonna make tea.
[grunting]
Mm. Red berry or fennel? Let me pick.
[upbeat music playing]
[jazz music playing]
[music continues]
[music continues]
[music ends]