Fatal Attraction (2023) s01e03 Episode Script

Previously on Fatal Attraction
I want you to help me find
a copy of my old case file.
The first thing we do is rerun
all the prints that were found
on the scene that weren't yours.
Maybe some people
who weren't printed or arrested
15 years ago have been arrested by now.
I just wanted to update you
on Tracy Sims.
She's unconscious again,
but I was able to talk to her.
And she ID'd him. She said
he was the one who beat her.
If you could have the ideal
relationship with him going forward,
have you thought
about what that would be?
I just want to hold his hand.
Did you take something, Alex?
Pills.
I took all of them.
Morning.
Good morning.
See the hearing's been pushed?
I did, yes, thank you and oh.
Excuse me.
- How are you today?
- Okay.
I had a dream last night
this giant snake
bit me on the face.
That's disturbing.
Beatrice, here for Kosna?
Yep, it's been a while
since I've been up
against one of Norman's juries.
Can't say that I missed it.
I know that you're scared.
And also this robbery
wasn't the first time
that you've experienced
physical violence in your life.
Yeah, but it's not the same.
No, it's not.
But it can still make you feel like
like you're someone that
violence is drawn to.
The fact that it keeps happening to you
means that it's going to keep
happening to you.
But those men,
they were strangers to you.
And the way that your case is going,
there's no reason to believe
that they won't plead out.
And with a plea
comes no victim disclosure of any kind.
Not even your name.
What if there isn't one?
- A plea.
- Then we'll handle that.
But there will be.
So, for now
why don't we get
some of these other things
off your plate.
The broken hot water heater.
What is your landlord's number?
I'm in the mood to get loud.
Morning.
How's it going?
Did you see it? It was so tense.
I love a buzzer beater.
I mean, a win's a win.
Defense was for shit though.
I knew you were gonna say that.
What happened?
Oh, this defendant yesterday,
he wanted to get out
of custody,
I reminded him that he can't,
I torqued it a bit.
It'll be fine by tomorrow.
In the meantime
why don't you put a fritter on it?
You can't keep doing this.
I was just worried.
- I got back and you were gone.
- Mm.
So what happened when you went back?
He was sweet.
He said he's only
ever afraid of losing me,
is the reason always for what he does.
I say, he makes me
sell his drugs for him
so he won't lose me?
He didn't already kill me once
because the hospital
was too good and fast
at their job for me to die,
but he's afraid to lose me?
- You said all that?
- Yes.
To myself.
I'm not mad at you.
Why?
After all what you did for me,
I would feel mad.
Maybe you should.
Would that help?
Because I'll totally do it.
I like being mad.
He blames you. Artem.
He says we never had trouble before you.
Well, I did invent trouble.
I'm with Victims Services.
Instead of Conchita Lewis.
- For the Siddiqui case.
- Calendar number?
Um
Six. It's six.
All right, I've got it.
What's your name?
It's Alex Forrest.
- That fritter looks good.
- It is good.
Plus, it was free, so
Nawaz?
Hi, Mona. I'm Alex.
I met you with Conchita.
Do you remember me?
- Yeah.
- Yes.
Here's how today's going to go
Big day.
All the times I had to remind you
don't do anything to make the jury
feel bad or feel sorry
for the man that murdered Yalina.
But today
this is
This is the sentencing phase.
Today is the day
for all the emotions,
and this is the place.
Okay?
They are, actually, really, really well.
I'm glad to hear it.
I thought that you would be.
You know, considering
how often you had to listen
to how well things were notgoing.
Well, how are you doing
with finding someone there?
It's just, uh
you know, with their schedules and
my schedule, it's
even if you work that part out,
then, you know, you have to,
you have to meet,
and then you have to click.
- That's just the process.
- I know, but how do you know
in one session?
- Right? Look how long it took us.
- Alex
I-I know, but this is
what I'm thinking, okay?
I don't even really need
like, a regular scheduled thing.
At all, I just
need advice sometimes.
You know, from somebody who knows me
I'm not certified in California.
I understand that, but even over
I'm talking about over the phone, so
it seems pretty stupid to me
that you can't even talk
You have to keep looking.
I mean, I am. I
You sound mad.
I'm not.
Okay.
You know, you can say that,
but I can actually tell
if you're mad at me or not,
so I don't know why you wouldn't just
Take care of yourself. Bye now.
The hidden source is the watchful heart.
The hidden source is the watchful heart.
The hidden source is the watchful heart.
The hidden source is the watchful
The hidden source is the watchful heart.
The hidden source is
The hidden source is the watchful heart.
- Hey.
- What are you doing downstairs?
Mendoza's out sick.
I had to cover. What 60-year-old
gets fucking mono?
- Goddamn it.
- You're having a day.
Jesus Christ, I-I
Got a flat yesterday.
It's unfixable.
guys telling me when I can show up,
when I can have lunch,
when I can take a shit.
I'm a D.A., I shit when I want.
So is Judge Glynn gonna
retire, too, now that you are?
You're the only one who makes sure
he doesn't drink before lunch.
Sometimes I tell him
I put Sambuca in his coffee.
- Do you?
- He didn't.
But I didn't.
- But he thinks I did.
- Cheers.
Does he?
You know it's not happening, right?
What's not happening?
He didn't get it, the appointment.
Oh, my God, you're kidding!
Dan, uh, Gallagher, he was up for judge.
Wow, that's crazy. What happened?
Maybe somebody called in a bigger favor?
Or there's people
that still hate his dad.
Maybe they got together,
and did a little conspiring.
People being dicks isn't a conspiracy.
All right.
I'm gonna head back. You coming?
Uh, yeah, I'm gonna
grab a cookie first. You want a cookie?
Of course, that's why I'm leaving.
I'm here minimum three times a week.
Which means that since you moved,
I have been here 90 times.
Must be the place to be, I guess.
Or just the place I always am.
Are you okay?
You seem
I don't know, something right now.
Yeah, I probably do.
It'll be okay.
Or it won't.
Good night.
Good night, ladies.
See you next week, Doc.
Hey.
Uh-oh, he bailed on you.
Right?
Too hungry to wait, I guess.
What were those, um
the sandwiches,
with the peppers, the Italian ones?
Ah, the Calabrian.
The-the hot pepper salad.
Yeah, I think about those all the time.
Oh, um
Oh, shit, yeah, I couldn't remember,
uh, where I
I just bought another one.
- So Keep it.
- Oh.
That's how long it's been
since we've hung out.
You forgot where it was.
I just things have just been crazy.
I mean, I-I had to stop
seeing new patients.
Start a waiting list.
Uh
Yeah, so I-I just don't
want you to think that
it's just my schedule,
I just have no time
for anything these days.
I don't, I really don't think that.
Okay, good, because
I-I don't think the way that
you've been acting for the past
however long has been
a function of scheduling,
Paul, and remember before you argue,
just how long it's been since
you've returned a phone call
or even answered the door.
Or at least
remember that I remember.
I'm I've just been crazy busy.
- Really.
- So you I mean, you still,
like, want to be friends, right?
- Yeah. Of course I do.
- Okay, good.
Great.
'Cause I've been
crazy busy, too, but I
I always have time for my friends.
What I don't have time for, though,
is criminals.
That's what I don't have time for.
In fact, I have
a professional obligation
to report criminals.
I mean, obviously,
I work in the criminal courts.
But friends,
I always have time for those.
Thanks.
I can hear you now. Yeah, go ahead.
You want the works on both?
Yes, uh, the hot pepper,
the pepper salad, is that in the works?
- The Calabrian?
- Yep.
- Then yes.
- Okay, two with the works.
It'll be 20 or 30 minutes.
- Thank you.
- All right.
- Hi.
- Hi.
Hold on.
Oh, God.
Um
because I found them,
and I thought you would like
- to have them.
- Is it an apology?
No. For what?
I don't know,
for the things that you said?
For the way that you said them?
Okay, wait.
Which time that you
overreacted was this?
Okay, then how about you apologize
for how you fucking ruin everything?
What are we ruining again?
What, what is there to ruin?
Seriously, tell me, Alex,
because I-I don't know.
Yeah, why would you?
Fu I have to go.
Hey-oh, I got a fuckton
of sandwich here.
- For someone named Alex?
- Yeah, just put them on the table.
Okay.
You expecting guests?
Or you think you're gonna handle
both of these bad boys by yourself?
'Cause if you're trying
to save one for tomorrow
bad idea, too many condiments.
It soaks the bread.
But if you want to do it, just
know we don't endorse that shit.
So, it's up to you.
Yeah.
Your whole thing has
too many condiments.
Yeah, okay.
Do you know how?
I man, can you roller-skate?
I mean, I don't remember doing it,
but I remember that I did it.
I used to be able to roller-skate.
I'd probably break my ass
if I tried now.
I think you should do it, seriously.
So what do you think? Is this the one?
It's certainly on budget.
Though I may not be able
to find myself a job, so
Come on, daughter
of a general contractor.
- What do you think?
- Well, um
It was weird how hard
they made it for you to get in
to see it and that's kind of a red flag.
And, uh, also Arthur would say
that they just painted
this part of the wall here and
then they left the cans there
because they want you to think
that they're renovating,
but once you're in,
they're never gonna come back
and finish it, and, uh, also the bathtub
is spraypainted white
to make it seem like
- the enamel's not coming off.
- So Arthur would keep looking, huh?
Yeah.
Yeah, Arthur would
definitely keep looking.
You get along with him?
I mean, I don't know why you wouldn't.
You always did.
- Um
- What do you call him?
Sorry. I'm sorry.
I shouldn't have said that. I
That, I'm
There is something that I-I just,
I want to say this to you, that
I really thought
I was gonna die in there.
And in the beginning, I didn't even know
how to
start thinking about that.
And once I did
I just was thinking of you and your mom.
And I would just drown in it.
So I really had two choices.
And both of them were bad.
But one of them was better for you.
I mean, I don't know, I just,
I think if I would've made
the other choice I probably wouldn't
Okay.
You know, I think this isn't the one.
Why don't we head
down to the other place
Uh, it's getting later than I thought,
so I'm actually gonna go.
Um are you good to get
over there by yourself?
- Of course.
- There's a bus stop that's
on this side.
It's about half a block away.
You can probably find that.
- Thank you.
- Yeah.
For today.
I'll grab some meatballs in a second.
Hey, Dan.
I thought you said you came here
a minimum three times a week.
And what did Mike
have to say about that?
Nothing. I never told him.
I actually never told anybody.
At least 40% of those wins the jurors
were probably not listening
to a word you said,
they were too busy watching your mouth.
I'm going to the ladies' room.
Yep.
Fraud Bureau Steve Park?
Yes, I've been assigned
to a case of his,
but I've never met him, so
Um, smart guy.
Slightly an enormous asshole.
Verschlimmbesserung.
That's, um
when you make a bad situation worse.
Like you're trying to apologize
to somebody for calling them stupid
and you accidentally call them old.
That is a weirdly specific example.
Pardon my arm.
"You are fantastic.
Thank you."
Did he give you his number?
We-we work together, remember?
He knows that I have it.
So you still think that
there's nothing to ruin?
Well, he's definitely
leaving the door open.
Leaving it up to you
to walk through it, though.
But that is what he wants
me to do, though. Right?
Well, he's a lawyer,
you say he's a good one.
I'm not a lawyer but even I know:
You leave a door open,
someone's gonna come in.
Quincy Ah!
Oh, my Oh, no.
Quincy, what are you doing, buddy?
I'm so sorry. Are you okay?
- Yes, I
- Hey. Hey.
- twisted my dignity.
- Hey. Buddy.
Come here, buddy. Come here.
Oh, I lost an earring.
You can't do that, okay?
You can't do that. You're too big now.
You're not a puppy anymore.
You're so tired, it's been a big day.
Been a big day.
So tired. Been a big day.
You killer attack dog.
Hi, buddy.
Everybody tired? Don't worry,
just hang in there.
I have some hamburger I can make him.
No.
No.
He does not do well with dietary changes
and I cannot afford a car blowout
after what he did at home last night.
I just got to take him home
and feed him there.
Also, I just realized
the cleaning service might've
left my place unlocked.
Thank you for today.
It was great.
Yeah.
It kind of really was.
Which is just my luck.
So what are you asking me?
It's just, uh, their mom is gone,
my wife is gone.
It's just the two of them and me left.
And they're saying either I drop it
or they're gonna leave me.
If the case against your
grandsons doesn't proceed,
then you have to take on
all of the debt that they
incurred in your name.
That means you either
have to pay that off
or you have to declare bankruptcy.
What if the case goes forward
in some different way?
Like if y'all
Like if the state pressed
charges against them?
Not me, but on my behalf, you know?
That way, the kids get consequences.
And I'm not the one who
Avery, you have been here before.
You know how this goes.
You're just making it harder
by pretending that you don't.
Now, you get to decide
if you want to be with the
people that hurt you, or alone.
But it has to be one
or the other, because
those are the choices that you have.
- Oh, hey.
- Hey.
Uh, hope you're not looking
for Dr. Paul.
Keys in my mailbox,
no notice or anything.
Floors were refinished when he moved in.
Now it looks like one of those
Zen garden things you rake
except he forgot the fucking sand.
Now I got to deal with it
or the management company
is gonna make me eat shit.
So, sorry in advance.
Next however many days around here
it's probably gonna get
a little hard to breathe.
And please give
the defendant written notice
of her right to appeal.
Court dismissed.
All right.
Who was it who pinch-hit
for you on the Siddiquis?
- Alice?
- Oh.
- Alex. Mm-hmm.
- Alex. Right.
Yeah, I mean, that could work.
Do you want to brief her?
Do you want me to
No, no. You can take care of that.
She seemed smart.
She's in a coma at Saint Matthew's,
and no one is optimistic.
So, the thing is, if she does
not identify Jonathan Coleman
as the one who assaulted her,
we have no case.
So, Dan is getting creative
and he said you did great
with the Siddiquis,
that you're smart.
- I like to think so.
- So do I.
Since I'm the one who hired you.
But I've been wrong before.
Right.
And we watched it together.
My mother didn't want to
because it was upsetting,
it was about war.
But he loved it so much, so
I wanted to love it, too.
I couldn't follow the names
or the battles, but
then this actor, he read the last letter
that this Union Army major
wrote to his wife Sarah
before he died at, uh
My dad would kill me.
Um, Bull Run, I think.
And then I understood everything.
Sullivan Ballou was his name.
He crystallized his whole world
into just pure emotion, in that letter.
Everything else breaking down,
fading away to just
love, in the face of death.
My dad remembers all the battlefields,
the dates, but
I remember this.
"Forgive my many faults,
"and the many pains I have caused you.
"How thoughtless and foolish
I have sometimes been.
"How gladly would I struggle
with all the misfortune
"of this world, to shield you from harm.
"But O, Sarah
"if the dead can come back
to this earth,
"I shall always be near you.
"Amidst your happiest scenes
and gloomiest hours, always."
I didn't think that this
is what we were doing.
What were we doing?
Really, what were we doing?
Alex, I'm sorry,
but I really do have to go.
Well, then you really should go.
Do you want me to stay?
But you can go.
It's not what it looks like.
Looks like yesterday's clothes, big guy.
Looks like the wages of sin.
If falling asleep on your couch
was a sin,
then everyone in this bureau would burn.
Yeah, no, that was good.
That was good, a little self-righteous,
no pause to think.
Overall convincing.
I'll give you a nine.
Can I take these socks?
"To each according to his needs."
Oh, really?
The walk of shame closet
is a Marxist utopia?
What, so you're admitting you're
doing the walk of shame?
You honestly think I could pull
it off, living like you?
I fell asleep on my couch.
Are these cashmere?
They're amazing.
You know what? I believe you.
Hmm. Alex Forrest from Victim Services
was looking to have a quick
word with you about the Sims case.
I put her in the conference room.
I just wanted to
apologize, um, for what happened.
I'm so sorry.
- You don't have to do that.
- I do.
No, there's
absolutely nothing
for you to be sorry about.
I appreciate that, but
your kindness, I'm so grateful, your
- discretion.
- Alex.
I'm just happy that you're okay.
I am.
I am, I don't
know what that was.
Compassion fatigue?
A failure to empathize
with yourself, maybe?
Hmm. Maybe.
Maybe exactly. That's
exactly the kind of thing
you always just seem to know.
That I have to at least, at least ask.
If there's something that we can
um, you know, some sort of
I don't know,
casually adjacent hanging out,
maybe the occasional
very bland margarita, or
I know what you're saying.
I just don't see how that could work.
In fact, it definitely wouldn't.
Of course not.
That, I mean, what are we even
What are we even talking about?
Anyway, um
Thank you.
For everything.
Hey.
I'm so sorry, I
As soon as you have to be at
a place at a certain time
- Hey, don't worry about it.
- that's when your client
brings up a complaint they've
been hanging onto for months.
It's okay. It's okay.
Don't, don't worry about it.
I don't have as much time as I thought.
Sorry about that, too.
I like the
You're wearing it well.
Thank you.
So are you.
What did you actually
want to talk about?
Uh
You know, did Ellen
- tell you about my, um
- Yeah.
She did.
And Mike, Mike's always
kept me up to speed
on whatever he knew about you.
That's not a surprise.
It does make some of the other things
a little harder for me to
wrap my head around, though.
Like what?
Like
Even though
I still feel like I made
the right decision,
it blows my mind how
completely you just
Believed you?
Took you seriously? Did what you asked?
This is what we're doing here?
No matter how wrong
and insane it felt to me,
you said it was what you needed.
That if you had to think about us,
thinking about you in that place,
you wouldn't survive.
You said "survive."
So wrong and so insane that you
just completely went along with it?
You wouldn't authorize my visits,
you sent all my letters back.
I can't fight with someone
who-who won't engage.
Also, I had to show Ellen
how to live with a thing
you can't change.
So what did you say to her?
That you wouldn't
be in our lives, but you'd
never stop loving her.
And how did she take that?
She was really bad, it was bad.
She talked about you for a long time,
then she stopped.
Maybe she thought that's
what you wanted her to do.
Now I'm gonna be late.
Hi, it's me. Again.
I'm gonna have this new special,
this robiola cheese
with roasted tomatoes.
You know for me to order not meatballs,
it must be pretty good.
But I don't know how much
longer it'll be on the menu.
So this is your heads-up.
Because I haven't seen you
here in a while.
It's starting to make me feel like
maybe I misunderstood something,
except I really don't think that I did.
I think you might have, though.
And so I want to help.
I want to help you be the man
that I know that you are.
For your sake and for everybody else's.
But in order to do that,
I can't let you pretend
like I don't exist.
Because I do exist.
And I'm not going to be ignored, Dan.
How was it?
I wanted to lick the plate.
The open house
is officially over at 5:00
so somebody's gonna come
back around 6:00,
6:15-ish to pick her up.
And it'll probably be me.
Okay, well, we'll just be here
reading I assume.
- How many books did you bring today?
- Five.
For not even a whole day?
She also has a language arts
worksheet she needs to finish.
Well, this is Nana's house,
we don't do homework
- at Nana's house.
- You heard the woman.
You're supposed to be the grown-up here.
Yeah, well, I'm supposed
to be a lot of things.
Bye.
Bye.
Hey, I've got a Dr. Diamond
calling from Saint Matthew's.
Okay, yep.
Hold on.
- Yeah?
- Hi, this is Dan Gallagher.
Hey, uh, your name was in
the file on Tracy Sims.
- Contact DDA directly in case of
- Yep, yep.
So, I'm calling to inform you
Ms. Sims passed away.
Oh, shit, that's
That's terrible news, I-I
I just assumed she was getting better.
Why?
Well, because of
you know, that day when my
colleague was there
and she spoke with her.
Ms. Sims came in braindead
and that status did not change.
Not to speak, not to anything.
I don't know who told you otherwise,
but they are not correct.
Okay, thank you.
Thank you.
This is Alex Forrest,
leave me a message.
- Oh.
- Excuse me.
- Thank you for coming.
- Of course.
Idiots.
I-I agree.
I do.
Hi.
- Hi.
- This is Alex
I forgot your last name.
- Forrest.
- Alex Forrest,
my husband Dan. Dan, Alex Forrest.
- No, I know him already.
- Oh.
From, uh, the criminal courts.
- I work in Victim Services.
- Oh.
That's with Conchita, right?
- Right.
- Wow, are you kidding?
You were right, Beth.
This place, I mean, it's
It's magical.
Well, we've been very happy here.
I can feel it.
The happiness.
- Thank you so much.
- Of course.
And, uh, yeah,
maybe I'll see you around.
What do you think?
She really in the market?
Um
I mean, yeah, I don't know, maybe.
Earl.
So they gave you parole, huh?
Yep, that's what they did.
And you haven't lost the gift
of the blarney then
because that is total bullshit.
So let me guess.
You want to talk about your case
and all the things that I
would've done differently
in retrospect, which is none of them.
Earl, can we do this inside?
Yeah, I'm not doing it at all, Mikey.
That case was so solid
it could make me a sandwich.
Can you just listen? Please, you
don't even have to talk.
- Can I? Sure. Will I?
- Earl, will you cut the shit?
Yeah, but you know what's
pretty crazy, though?
That you're letting him
drag you into this.
I mean, I would say "have you no shame?"
But as we all found out a while ago,
you don't.
I don't, I don't I don't understand
w-what did he want you to say?
I don't know. It's like
the shittiness of his situation
was why he was supposed
to be the one to say
how things were gonna go,
but then it was also why
we weren't supposed to listen to him.
Don't try to logic this.
No, he got to tell us
what to do then, so
now he also gets to tell us how
we should've felt about it.
Or something.
What? Please, just let me get
my scissors and go.
You know that he thinks
you're a part of it too, Dad?
- Part of why we never
- He said that?
I mean, kind of, yeah.
Do you think he has a point?
- About me being
- About any of it.
Ellie, do you think that
I should've tried to keep him
more actively in your mind?
Should I have reached out
after however many years to see if he
changed his mind, to check?
Honestly?
Those seem like crazy things to expect,
but I didn't lose my whole life.
I don't know what it's like to be him.
But also it sounds
like that shadow stuff
that you were talking about,
isn't it, Ellie?
If it isn't part of us,
it doesn't bother us.
If you ask me, he's mad at you guys
because he's mad at himself
and-and and he knows he
doesn't get to be mad, but
I mean, that doesn't mean he isn't.
What the fuck was that?
I was going to call you.
I don't know what you
think you're doing,
but it's going to stop.
- Right now.
- It's not going to stop.
- Why would it stop?
- Why?
Because you are not going
to come into my home,
into my private life,
and threaten me and my family.
What are you talking?
I-I didn't do that.
How could I do that?
Dan, wh?
What are you so afraid of?
Really, you remember what it was like.
Right? You remember what you were
Stop! Just stop this!
I spoke to the hospital about Tracy.
And I don't know what
fucking insanity
Why you would even try
to do something like that,
but I could end your career.
And if you come after
my family again, I will.
You know, some people would say
it doesn't count as a kitchenette
if there's a stovetop and a fridge.
But no sink.
Well, there's a sink in the bathroom.
Yes. Exactly.
And the rest is my office,
which I don't even use.
Because I do everything on my phone.
Now, we just can't ever find a tenant
that you can peacefully coexist with.
One was too friendly,
one was hiding a cat,
and one had doll eyes,
whatever that means.
Oh, I know exactly what that means.
Well, we'd be giving you
an extremely competitive
monthly rate of nothing?
At least for now.
- I'll take it.
- Okay.
But when I come in here,
I get to sit in my chair, hmm?
Ah. Honestly, you'd be doing us
a favor, though.
You know Mom,
she's on the ball for 92, but
man, her bones are like rice noodles.
Ugh.
This is amazing, Mike, thank you.
You are welcome. Oh, shit.
A set of prints came back already.
That's fast. Why so fast?
Because the guy they belong to
is in prison now apparently, Calipatria.
Some
pill mill doctor, drug dealer
guy, Paul Halliwell?
Mean anything to you?
Hmm? No? But it will.
Uh, first we got to get your stuff, huh?
Sorry there's no bathtub.
You know, not something I really missed.
Yeah, you know, you see enough
crime scene photos
of the creative ways
that people use bathtubs,
they kind of lose their charm.
I need you.
Please, I don't care if you're not
certified in California,
just please just call me back.
- Hey.
- Hey.
Hey, um, are we supposed to,
like, sign in or something?
No, no, but if you need
somewhere to leave your shoes,
Lorena is gonna
watch 'em while we skate.
Cool.
It's fine. Just put them there.
God, everybody here
is like really good, huh?
How good are you at this?
More towards the front?
- Middle?
- No, no, the back.
Uh, the back of the back.
- Even though you own skates?
- That I thrifted for this.
- Oh, God. Oh. Oh, yep. Yep.
- Maybe you want a little help?
Oh, yep. Could you just shield
me from ridicule for a second?
All right, all right. Hi. You're good.
Hi.
Hey. I feel like I know you.
Do you T.A. for Macksey?
Yeah, for Macksey.
- Macksey. Yeah.
- Okay.
- Okay. All right.
- Cool.
- You want to? Okay.
- Yeah, sure.
- Hold on to my hips? Hold on.
- Let's do it. Yeah. Definitely.
Okay.
Oh, my God.
This is crazy.
Why the fuck are we doing this?
I don't know, I don't know.
Oh, my God.
Ugh.
With this episode,
I like this peek behind
the curtain for Alex.
I want to know why she thinks
these decisions that she's making
are the right decisions to make.
Alex's perspective episode,
it started with
Glenn Close in interviews
saying that if anyone was ever
going to reboot or
reimagine Fatal Attraction,
that the only version
of it that she felt like
would be worth telling
would be the one from
Alex's point of view.
The concept of that stuck in my head.
In the first two episodes,
I only have a handful of scenes.
Even though we are messing
with perspective shifts,
it's not until the later
episodes, starting with 103,
we get to see her side of things
and just how different it is
from what we were
initially presented with.
One of the things that I loved most
about the way that we
are telling the story
is those are big shoes to step into,
but there's also an
opportunity given to us
to really get into Alex's psychology.
We wanted to make sure
that we allow Lizzy
to play a character that
is all of the things
that she was in the movie, but more.
I decided early on, and I
talked to both Josh and Lizzy,
that I wasn't gonna tell them
whose perspective I was in.
I didn't want them to start
catering their performance
or changing it based on
whose perspective I was in.
It'll be okay or it won't.
I held back information
when I showed things
through Dan's perspective visually,
that then you get to see when
you're in Alex's perspective.
And so for the people
really paying attention,
her hand might have dropped out of frame
in Dan's perspective, but now
that we're in her perspective,
we get to go down there
and see what she was doing.
We really play with
different points of view
of the same affair, and
when you look at a story
from two different points of view,
you get a whole different truth to it.
Brother, you said you came here
a minimum three times a week.
I think that's probably the
most interesting new layer
that we're putting
into Fatal Attraction.
How are you doing
with finding someone there?
In 103, Alex is
speaking to her former therapist.
She's constantly trying to
revive that relationship
and the therapist has boundaries.
I just need advice sometimes, you know,
- from somebody who knows me.
- I'm not certified in California.
Alex really feels
like, "All I was trying
to do is call and tell you
how well everything is going,"
but the audience will know
that the only reason
things are going well
is because she just
met this handsome man
who lost his train of thought
when he looked at her,
and therefore, they must be in love.
For her, she puts people on a pedestal.
They're everything to her.
She thinks they're amazing.
So I don't know why you would just
Take care of yourself.
Bye now.
And as soon as they
puncture that fantasy,
very easy for her to
switch them over to,
"This is a terrible
person and I hate them."
It's just a tiny little
taste of how her brain works.
The hidden source is the watchful heart,
the hidden source is
The line, "The
hidden source is the watchful heart"
comes from a wonderful poem
by a Northern Irish poet
named Derek Mahon that's called
"Everything Is Going to Be All Right."
Alex is struggling with
severe intrusive thoughts
that sometimes make her lose time.
When the therapist rejects
her, she starts to feel as if
she's gonna go into that state.
Part of the coping
mechanism she's evolved
has been to turn this poem into a mantra
so that she can keep herself
present by reciting it.
It's certainly not for
the meaning anymore.
Alex Forrest from Victim
Services was looking
to have a quick word with
you about the Sims case.
There's a moment in the
film, she comes to his office
to end things and apologize.
Thank you for everything.
She goes to shake
his hand to say goodbye
and he pulls her into a hug.
This is a pivotal moment in the film
and something we definitely
wanted to have in the series.
Within the scene, we actually
see the transition to,
"Oh man, this is gonna be
more than I thought it was."
He should have just let her walk away.
He is giving this very fragile woman
pretty extreme mixed messages.
I think it makes sense
for Alex for her to think
maybe she misread the situation.
Starting to make me feel
like maybe I misunderstood something,
except I really don't think that I did.
And maybe he doesn't want to end things.
And it's up to her to remind him
why he doesn't want to
end things with her.
I wanna help you be the man
that I know that you are.
We are watching a replay of
events that we already saw
to remind the audience
that there's two people
in every conversation.
Dan thought it was one way,
Alex took it in this way.
And that's why you need to think
about the consequences of your actions.
Dan just assumed he knew.
While he's assuming them,
we don't want the
audience to assume them
and that's, for me, what 103 is about.