Mrs. Fletcher (2019) s01e02 Episode Script

1 We finally get to do what we wanna do.
We're free from our kids.
Think about opening up to new things.
I don't I don't think my parents were this upset when I went away for college.
I just think they kinda just went on with their lives.
- Yeah.
- I just don't think they cared.
That's because they were They were not as close with us - as we are with our kids.
- Yeah, right.
God, I It's so weird.
I went I I went to the grocery store, and I I still bought cereal.
Like, those that Those huge boxes of junk cereal.
I brought 'em home and then I was like, "Oh, right, I don't need to buy this anymore.
" Claire used to practice the cello every night for an hour.
And now it's just dead silence.
Just pure, dead silence.
It's awful.
Eve? Are you dating anyone? Um No.
It's okay.
She just has higher standards than the rest of us.
No, no, no.
I just asked because there's this great guy who I think you should meet.
My husband's boss - Peter's divorced? - Oh, yeah.
Six months ago.
But, I mean, this was a long time coming.
Okay, thank you, but I'm I th Really? He's why not? I will give it Let me just I'll think about it.
Don't wait too long, or someone's gonna snap him up.
I agree.
I agree with her.
Thank you.
That's it.
Roy? Mrs.
Fletcher.
- Hi.
- You look so lovely today.
Thank you, Roy.
That's very sweet.
Uh Uh Are you going to water aerobics? Yes.
It's my favorite class.
Well, why don't I take you there? - Thank you.
- Sure.
Do you like oatmeal? It's okay.
My son makes it every day for breakfast.
I can't even look at it.
Well, why don't you ask him to make you something else? Oh, no, I don't eat that crap.
I have bacon and eggs.
Oh, good for you, Roy.
Come on, divas, you own this.
All of this is yours! And back Mr.
Rafferty! Hey! Hey, what's up? Come on, get in.
All right, dip it low, - and right, and left - It's you know, Amanda.
- Okay, easy.
- Woo! Right and left, to the side, and right And left, keep going.
Right and left.
Ooh! Grab it low.
You're doing it! Yes, Roy, yes! Work it, divas! All right, let me see you shake it out.
Shake it out! And front Ooh! And back! And front! Back! Come on now, oh! And now give the butt a lift.
And down, and right! Brendan, come on in.
So Why are you here? Because you sent me an email.
You told me to come to your office.
Not here in the room.
I mean, why did you choose BSU? Um Uh Sorry.
What were you saying? Why are you attending this college? - 'Cause I got in.
- You sure did.
- Yeah.
- Brendan What I'm trying to ask you is what do you want to get out of your undergraduate experience? Uh A job.
Fine.
A job.
What kind of job? Like, a good one.
Like, something that pays, like, you know, like, six figures or something.
Any particular area for this six-figure job? Uh Well, you're my advisor.
So, aren't you supposed to be advising me? That's actually what's happening right now.
Um Sorry, it's, uh, it's It's my mom.
Yeah, of course, it is.
I'm sorry.
Look I have a job to do here.
So, let's find out a little more about you, say.
How about extracurriculars? Well, I'm hoping to go Greek.
But I have to wait til next year 'cause they don't allow freshman to rush.
Well, I wouldn't know anything about that.
Where I did my undergrad work, um, we didn't have frats.
Vassar.
- That must have sucked.
- It didn't suck.
- Hm.
- Brendan, do you realize that in college every single minute of your existence is entirely up to you.
You have vast swaths of time that you have to fill under your own steam.
Mommy isn't gonna be around to tell you what to do.
Okay.
So - Mm We done? - Do you wanna be done? Yeah, I wanna be done.
- Yes, we're done.
- Great.
Good luck to you, Brendan.
Yes, thank you.
- Door closed, please.
- Mm.
Good luck to you too, dipshit.
Uh-oh.
Did we get a dud? Uh Yeah.
- Kind of sucks.
- We haven't officially met yet.
I'm Sanjay.
I live across the hall from you.
- Brendan.
- Nice.
Well, into the fray! See you on the hall.
Uh Cool office.
- Is that a map of the world? - All four corners.
Uh All four awesome corners.
Come on in.
I am a junior cartographer.
- You must be Sanjay.
- Yeah, yeah.
Hello.
Wanna try an organic popsicle? - Uh Okay.
- Yes.
Maybe not that one.
Sure.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Yeah.
You like that? Yeah.
Say you like it.
Did you like it? Uh It's okay.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Eve? This is so weird.
I haven't seen you in forever, and now twice in one week.
Uh Yeah, this is so This is so weird.
Emily, hi.
Just don't buy any cereal though, right? Right.
Right.
You know that guy that that you mentioned.
- Pe Uh Peter? - Mm-hm.
I could you could totally give him my number.
Or I you I could you know, you could give me his.
- Or whatever.
- Oh, my G Yes.
Oh, I'm so excited.
You guys are gonna love each other.
Looking at who we really are or what we really want can be terrifying.
It should be.
But that terror is what tells us that we've stumbled onto something real.
Something worth writing about.
So, I'm gonna go around the room, and let's talk about what scares us.
Whatever comes to mind.
Curtis Uh off the top of my head I'd say black holes.
They freak me out.
The idea of being sucked into nothingness.
Well, now, that scares me too.
- Julian.
- Um I'm scared of my anti-depressants not working anymore.
I'm on anti-depressants.
I guess I'm telling everybody that.
Thank you, Julian.
Barry? Don't love a nuclear Iran.
Okay.
Eve what scares you? You know that f feeling where you are convinced that you left the oven on, even though you know you haven't? Um Been having that feeling a lot since my son went to college.
And I know it's not about the oven.
Then what is it about? I don't know.
That's what scares me.
Hello.
Uh Hi.
Uh Yes.
Is this Eve? Mm-hm.
Uh This is Peter.
Uh I got your number from Emily.
Oh, hi.
Uh I hope you don't mind that I called.
Um I'm not big on texting, and No, no, I'm gla No.
No, me neither.
No, I'm just I'm so glad you called.
- Hi.
- Well it's - nice to hear your voice.
- Yes! Hi.
Um Well, uh, so Emily tells me that you're, um, in real estate.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I've been at Olive Branch Realty for the last 12 years, if you've ever heard of it.
I I think I have.
Wait, Olive - Olive - Olive Branch - Uh Olive Branch? - Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
That's the place, uh That's downtown, right? - Exactly.
- Oh, yeah.
- Got a good reputation.
- It does.
So, you have a son in college? I do.
He just started.
Uh He's the best.
We're really, really close.
Aw, nice.
I have a daughter, she just finished up in May.
Oh, where'd she go? Brown.
Where's your boy? Uh Broder State.
He's a a pre-med.
Wow, I'm jealous.
I love my daughter, but I'm pretty sure I just spent half my life savings on her poetry degree.
Oh So, what do you think? You, uh wanna meet up and do this in person? Yeah, I'd yeah.
I'd love to.
Great.
Fantastic.
It's new world now don't discriminate Look at the hula hoop girl.
Yo, what is Latinx? Uh It's "Latin-X.
" It's, um the way the Latin community wants you to spell it now.
It's like a way of being more inclusive, I guess.
- No, thank you.
- Okay.
Um I think I'm gonna go check out the Robotics Club.
Hm? Okay, yeah, well, I'll catch you for dinner.
- Yeah.
Yeah.
- All right.
- See you later, man.
- Nice.
- Hey.
- No.
- No, I was gonna ask you - Uh-uh.
About your club.
Hi, guys.
Are you interested in joining Vegan Club? Wow, she hated you.
Nah, she's busy.
I don't know.
It seemed a lot like deep hate.
Oh.
I'm Chloe.
Brendan.
This your thing here? Yeah, I stand here and ask people if they have any family members with autism.
But a lot of people don't, so Mm.
I actually do.
- Who? - My father's son.
- So, your brother? - Uh No, he's I guess.
He's like he's uh my half-brother.
Okay, well, that counts.
You should come to our support group.
We meet every Thursday.
Yeah.
I'll, uh think about it.
And don't worry.
You can stop by without knowing yet if you think I'm hot enough to fuck.
Oh, no.
I wasn't I wasn't I wasn't doing that.
- Hi.
- Hi there.
Do you have a family member with autism? - Yeah, I do.
- Here's a pamphlet.
- What's your name? - Mike.
So What's this club all about? Any hot weekend plans? Uh no.
- Nothing really.
- Yeah.
Actually, I, um I I am going on a a date.
Tonight.
It's my first in a really long time.
That's cool, right? Do you wanna see his pic? D Do you want me to see it? - I don't know.
- I wanna see it.
- Okay.
Okay.
- Yes, I wanna see it.
Yes.
- Th That's a normal thing.
- Okay, here.
Just Okay.
He looks good! - Really? - Yeah, he looks nice.
What do you mean, he's nice? - I don't know I - I think he looks solid.
You know, like a You know what he looks like? He looks like that thing that's on the top of, like, wedding cakes.
- A cake topper? - Yeah, he looks like a cake topper.
- He does? - That's not bad.
- Well - That's like ideal.
Right? Just like He He looks good.
And, you know what? No one's ever had a bad experience - with a cake topper.
- Well I mean, some people might have.
I I don't know how.
And, you know what? He could be the one, right? I don't know.
Thank you.
Yeah, well, I didn't consent to being bored out of my fucking skull.
I don't feel safe.
Stop.
Okay.
I'd love to have two volunteers help me out.
Oh shit.
Thank you.
Come on up.
Anyone else? Fuck, that's harassment.
You over there.
The one forcing his friends hand up.
Come up here.
We're gonna do a little role-play about consent.
Okay? You are Max.
You are Sam.
We're both guys? That's up to you.
All that matters is that Max and Sam have been hooking up this semester.
But on this particular night, Max doesn't feel like it.
The question is, does Sam have the right to expect sex? No.
No.
- No.
- No, dude.
No.
Hey, girl.
- What you doing? - I'm studying.
You look fucking hot.
- I wanna hook up.
- I told you, I have to study.
Come on.
Hey.
No means no.
Don't pressure me.
I know you want it.
Okay.
You don't have to do that for this.
Hm? Oh.
I'm not renewing my consent.
You need to leave.
Fine.
Enjoy your stupid book.
Bitch.
Okay, that's enough.
socially prominent young couple plan to take a trip around the world.
- The paper's sending you? - No, I've quit the paper.
We're gonna have a last fling before we settle down and become good old American parents.
But, Roger, you just didn't give up your job on the paper for no reason at all? Darling, this trip's an inspiration.
Do you remember the honeymoon I promised you? Well, we're gonna have it.
But things are different now.
- We've got to think about the baby.
- Well, that's just it.
As soon as the baby comes we won't be able to go anywhere.
Besides, I want our baby born in the USA.
Maybe we can get to work and start that little paper.
But a trip like this costs a fortune.
- Did you get more than the 20,000? - Oh, shit.
Well, no.
As a matter of fact, we didn't get the 20,000.
We sold the property for cash and got 13,500.
Well, can you take a trip and buy a paper - and all that on 13,500? - Roy Don't forget there's still lawyers' fees, deductions, stuff like that.
Just how much did you get, Roger? I'm trying to tell you - Roy - After the deductions, we got 10,000.
10,000? George.
This is Eve Fletcher.
Um I feel terrible, uh, leaving this on a voicemail, but your father had another incident today, and we are gonna need you to come pick him up.
I hope you know how much we all love your father here.
Um But at this point he he needs more help than we can provide.
I'm so sorry.
Thought you might like these.
You happy now? - Hi.
- Hi.
You all set, Roy? - Yeah.
- Okay.
- I'm all set.
- Okay.
- I'm sorry.
- I'll see you soon.
All I'm doing is adding heat so that, uh And the fact that this is warm now means that no weight to the hair.
But in order to give it even more of that luxurious glamor is we do have to add some shine I live it how I get it Count the mothafuckin' digits Dude, you took those Jell-O shots like a champ.
- I I I love Jell-O.
- Man, that was fucking badass.
- 'Cause you know it's just - That was sick.
It's just sucrose, baby.
It's basically just gelatine.
It's just jelly, and don't be jelly Don't be jel Hey Max.
Sam! I've been looking all over for you.
- Yeah? - Uh-huh.
- Here I am.
- Mm-hm.
How'd you like that stupid book? It was, uh - It was kinda boring.
- Told you.
Oh, yes! Oh! Oh! Fuck, yeah.
- Yeah, you like that fat cock? - Yeah.
Oh, Daddy! Oh! Give it to me, Daddy! Hey, Pop, come in.
Let's watch the game.
I don't feel like it.
Nobody's mad at you.
Right, well, you come in when you're ready.
I got us some ice cream.
Okay.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- Peter? - Yes.
Hi.
- So nice to meet you.
- Hi.
Nice to meet you.
- Thanks for coming.
- Of course.
Please, have a seat.
You know, the second I saw you I was hoping it was you.
You never know if someone's gonna look like their picture.
Well, this is this is me.
- Well, you look great.
- Aw.
Yeah, I hope you like this place.
It's one of my, uh, Haddington faves.
Mm.
Steaks I mean, that ribeye, oh, my God.
And I I actually live not too far from here, so Yeah, I'll tend to show up here more often than maybe I need to.
But, uh, everyone knows me here, so it feels like, kind of, my local place, and yeah.
It's just, kind of, a classic feel to it.
Not too formal, but, uh Can I get you a drink? Would you like some wine? There's some great wines.
Have you been here before or? Mm.
Mm-hm.
Um Is something wrong? I'm so sorry.
I think I left something on at home.
- Really? - Yeah.
- I'll wait for you.
- Oh, no, please don't.
Oh, sorry! Excuse me, I No, no, no.
You don't have to wait, I Sorry.
Roy! I like it here.
I like it, too.