Here and Now (2018) s01e03 Episode Script

1 MAN: A new patient had a dream about my mother.
Ramon.
(SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE) What does mean (SPEAKING OTHER LANGUAGE)? It's coming.
ASHLEY: (ON PHONE) Kristen, what's up? I have some kind of STD.
I'm just ashamed.
Of course you are, dumb whore.
(MAN GRUNTS) Hey, Kristen! (SIRENS WAIL) We need a meeting, after school, today.
- (TALKING OVER EACH OTHER) - (HORN BLOWS) Next person to speak has to start with "I feel.
" I feel like you just assume everybody experiences life the same way you do.
MALCOLM: Why were you at Planned Parenthood? ASHLEY: Because Kristen got an STD from that model I brought to Dad's 60th.
You brought a model? Well, Duke and I went out for drinks.
No, that's the night that you told me you had to work late.
Here's the deal.
If I end up undergoing medical treatment, that's my decision.
I want what's best for you.
Maybe what's best for me is not what's in store.
COMPUTERIZED VOICE: At the T-junction, turn left.
(TURN SIGNAL CLICKING) If possible, make a U-turn.
(TEXT ON SCREEN) (ROCK MUSIC PLAYING) Whoo, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh Whoo, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh Whoo, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh Whoo, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh Middle of the road Is trying to find me - (DEER SNORTS) - I'm standing in the middle of life With my plans behind (MUSIC STOPS) (BIRDS CHIRPING) (BIRDS TWITTERING) (INSECT BUZZING) Ah! God! Ah! Fuck! (GREG BREATHES HARD) (BIRDS CAW) - (KEYS JINGLE) - (CAR REMOTE CLICKING) (PANICKED BREATHING) Oh! Ah! (GRUNTS) (SPITS) (ANIMAL HOWLING) (FROGS CHIRRUPING) (GRUNTS) (THUNDER CRASHES) (RAIN PATTERING) (THUNDER CRASHING) (BIRDS CHIRPING) (GRUNTS) (GRUNTS, FARTS) (SIGHS) (KEYS JINGLE) RAMON: So, are you nervous at all about this dinner tonight? Uh no.
I'm not the "get nervous" kind of guy.
They can be really judgy, my older siblings.
They seemed pretty chill at your dad's thing.
RAMON: "Chill" isn't a word I'd use to describe 'em.
Well, believe me, I've handled worse.
(SPITS) - (SINK GURGLING) - (PHONE RINGING FAINTLY) (FAINT RINGING) (RINGING STOPS) (RINGING RESUMES) Can you hear that? (RINGING CONTINUES) HENRY: What's up? (RINGING STOPS) Nothing.
(HENRY SIGHS) Oh, um Call me, text me, lemme know if you get that PGX thing.
(CHUCKLES) Yeah.
I will stop by the Game Lab, so they can tell me that I did not make it most likely.
No.
What time should I meet you here then? Umm, I don't know, 4:00 or 5:00.
Um do you have a key? Then I can let myself in if I get here earlier.
Sure.
- (BOTH CHUCKLE) - What? Um I'm not giving you this key as like a statement about us.
Okay.
(LAUGHS) It's no worries, man.
Yeah, I'll just I'll find something to do.
- You just call me when you get home.
- No, no, no, I actually - No, dude.
It's really no big deal.
- No, I want you to take the key today.
I do.
Okay.
- RAMON: Yeah? - Yeah.
I'm gonna go get dressed.
(CHUCKLES) - (CARTOON PLAYS ON TV) - (KISSES) - Mmm.
- So is this my makeup breakfast? (LAUGHS) Makeup breakfast for what? Oh.
Uh, for the insane amount of lying you've been doing lately.
Cocaine, male model, opening up a can of whoop-ass at Planned Parenthood, jail time.
(SIGHS) Okay, so sometimes I act on impulse.
That's the price you pay for wanting to have fun, you know? - (CELL PHONE RINGS) - Yeah, I miss fun too.
You miss fun? Your whole life is fun.
- (BEEPS) - Hello.
DUC (ON PHONE): Can Malcolm come out and play? ASHLEY: He is all yours.
(BEEPS) Case in point you have a mountain-biking playdate.
That is not the same.
Mine is all out in the open.
Seriously? What is the difference between you jumping out of an airplane And you doing blow with a male model? You're right, those are exactly the same thing.
It's just as irresponsible, if not more so.
I am not talking about being irresponsible.
Come here.
I miss having fun together.
- So do I.
- Okay.
How about we start with tonight? (CHUCKLES) Fine.
You're on.
- All right.
- (CHUCKLES) (KNOCKING ON DOOR) - Tonight.
- (LAUGHS) Ah.
(LAUGHS) Mmm.
Ah! You ready to fuck that mountain's brains out? I'm ready to rape that mountain.
No! We're not having that much aggression in this house.
God! Hailey's in the next room.
She does not need to hear that shit.
There's a reason "misogyny" is spelled with two "Y's.
" Oh, is that chromosome humor? - (CHUCKLES) It's very good.
- My husband will join you Go away.
He will join you once he's had his breakfast.
- You mean his cancer-causing swill? - Yup! So, Ramon's bringing tattoo-boy to dinner tonight.
- It should be interesting.
- "It" is named Henry, - and "it" is Ramon's boyfriend.
- We'll see about that.
- (SNORTS, GIGGLES) - Wow! Wouldn't want to be it tonight.
DUC: Me neither.
Ah.
I'll see you guys in three minutes.
That's what happens when you eat tree bark for breakfast! - (DOOR CLOSES) - Okay, I cannot wait for him to meet Carmen tonight.
He's gonna punch a baby when he finds out - you're trying to set him up.
- (CHUCKLES) You know he's celibate.
You're being disrespectful.
No, look, I love the guy, okay? - But he needs to get laid.
- Oh.
He needs a girlfriend, someone he can share his life with, and I know that, deep down, that's exactly what he wants.
So then why would he lie about that to all of us? It's Duc.
It's a big part of his schtick, - always being in control, you know? - Mmm.
Kinda like you.
AUDREY: I made it worse, didn't I? Jesus.
How can kids this young have so much hate? You think one of our students did this? AUDREY: Isn't it obvious? "I feel.
" - (PHONE CAMERA CLICKS) - This is payback for not getting their white pride club.
You need to put out a statement.
They've got a muzzle on me.
The board wants me silent until the PPD finishes its investigation.
Well, that doesn't make any sense.
- It's gonna be all over the Internet.
- You're right.
Pictures have already shown up on social media so this place is gonna be crawling with press any minute now.
And they'll be foaming at the mouth for answers.
Exactly.
(SIGHS) And finding answers is my specialty.
(SPEAKS ARABIC) - Hey.
- Hi.
- Where's your mother? - At the mosque.
She left early to help with final touches for Akilah's wedding tonight.
(SIGHS) Okay, great.
Yeah, I can put that stuff on your back.
You're sure? Okay.
Cool.
Yeah, I read online vitamin "E" doesn't really help.
Yeah, I know that.
So, what's the point? Well, I've lost the point of it years ago.
Just habit now, calms me, though I know it doesn't actually do anything.
Sounds a lot like ritualized superstition.
- (CHUCKLES) - Yes, it does smart-ass.
(SIGHS) Listen, Navid John.
Pray all day long if it truly makes you happy and wear the hijab and like boys or girls or both or neither.
(SIGHS) I just wanna keep you safe.
That's all.
We already have a target on our backs, and I just worry you'd be adding a few more.
Promised I would never go out like this, Dad.
I really hope so.
I wish you could.
I wish the world was different from what it is.
- (INDISTINCT CHATTERING) - (RAMON PANTING) (CHURCH BELL RINGING) You're 15 minutes and 37 seconds late, Colombia.
- Did I miss the announcement? - Yup.
Fuck.
And? Obviously, I got one of the spots.
Obviously.
And I didn't? Well not my spot.
- I got it? - (CHUCKLES) Oh my God! Dex, we're both going to the Portland Game Expo.
Chlamydia? - Yup.
- Nasty.
(BABY CRYING IN DISTANCE) You gave it to me? N-no, I got it from you.
It was my first time, remember? Oops! (LAUGHS) I should probably get that checked out, shouldn't I? Yeah, you should.
Hey, I know this is weird, but we could still Still what? You know, hang out sometime.
(LAUGHS) (LAUGHS) Oh! Wow.
(CLEARS THROAT) Look, I mean, I've literally just put a face to your name, Kirsten, okay? Kristen.
- It's Kristen, not Kirsten.
- (DOOR OPENS) - Hey, babe.
- Hey.
Mmm! (CHUCKLES) Did you get mine with the liquid Stevia? Yes, silly.
So who are you? Kirsten, Justina.
- It's Kristen.
- RANDY: Justina, Kirsten.
Cool.
He's got chlamydia.
- (DOOR SLAMS) - (CHUCKLES) Maybe.
So, the question is, "How does one form a rational response to the" (DOOR CLOSES) GREG: Oh, good.
You started without me.
Mr.
Boatwright, we thought we'd lost you.
- Yeah, I I thought I lost me too.
- MAN: Christ.
- (PEOPLE LAUGH) - GREG: Hello, Thomas.
Good to see you again.
- Greg.
- Please continue.
Never mind me.
Right.
Well, in my book, I examined the existential crisis of living in a world that is overrun by chaos, corruption, war, and oppression.
I believe the most rational response - is "optimism.
" - Optimism? Hmm.
(CHUCKLES) No wonder Dante populated the first circle of Hell with philosophers.
- (SCATTERED LAUGHS) - Anxiety is a completely appropriate response to today's reality, Thomas.
And anger.
What do you want? People just to swallow the shit that they're in? By the way, when the fuck did we criminalize outrage? THOMAS: Greg, the point I make is not dissimilar from the one that you laid out in your first and only book.
Bullshit.
I never said anyone should be optimistic in the face of fascism.
"It is now, in this troubling moment, "that we must always choose joy "for us, for those we love, and for the entire world.
" These are your words, Greg.
Was the world any less challenging when they were published 30 years ago? Thirty years ago, truth was still truth, a fact was a fact, but we're not that society anymore.
The world got turned upside down.
Just a raging waterfall of fuckery - from here to forever.
- (CROWD MURMURING) Turned upside down by smart people like us you, me, them.
Who the fuck are we to proclaim some kind of rarified, objective wisdom? - Well, it's our innate - GREG: Nature doesn't care about our individual intellectual experiences.
Believe me.
Nature has plans of its own, and it is gonna be just fine without us.
If if a deer shits in the woods whether you're there to see it or not it means nothing.
It's just shit.
I got some bad blood, I got some bad blood They got no trust in your mama Got no hope for your son I got some bad blood, I got some bad blood They got no trust in your mama Got no hope for your son We drove away from the city, drove away from the city We were never gonna die, we were never gonna die We drove away from the city and we took all the money No, we're never gonna stop and they won't take us alive I got some bad blood, I got some bad blood They got no trust in your mama MAN: Hey! Here they come! - All right, Duc! - (CHEERING) They got no trust in your mama Got no hope for your son MAN: Let's go, let's go, let's go! (CROWD CHEERING) Got no hope for your son They got no trust in your mama Got no hope for your son - (INDISTINCT) - Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo! So, is, uh, is this the part where I ask you what's wrong, honey-bear? Huh.
Only if they give out trophies for sarcasm.
(CHUCKLES) Wow.
Okay.
- What's up, man? - Dude, you let fucking Phil win? - What the fuck? - Wait.
I thought you won.
You had second place all to yourself.
I saw you give up just before the finish line.
Come on, man.
Not this conversation again, okay? I didn't give up.
I was just done.
(SCOFFS) It's a race, bro! You race to place! That rhymes, which is awesome and everything, - but I beat my best time! - The best time is winning time! Duc, winning doesn't matter if I'm happy and I'm making progress, which I am.
Look, I just want my best friend always reaching for the brass ring.
- Is that a bad thing? - I don't know, man.
I just want my best friend to let me know when my wife does cocaine with a 20-something male model.
Is that a bad thing? Both the school board and the administration at James K.
Polk strongly condemn any kind of behavior that incites violence against others, regardless of race, sexuality, or religious beliefs.
- (MURMURING) - So would you support a prosecution if a student is identified and charged? Well, of course.
This is a crime.
It's unacceptable.
But these are just kids - BOY: What? - with their whole lives ahead of them.
(MURMURING) We have to continue to support them, even when they screw up.
They're so impressionable, and they have so many hateful messages coming at them from everywhere.
So, you think they shouldn't be prosecuted? There must be ways to deal with this other than throwing young kids into the justice system.
That's all for now.
You'll be hearing from the Portland Police Department when they're ready to put out a statement.
Thank you.
RAMON: So, you think I could've inherited it genetically? Schizophrenia? Ramon, we've agreed to avoid using diagnostic language.
And one doesn't really inherit the disease itself, more like a predisposition for it.
So, I could have inherited it? Well, how much do you know about your biological parents? Nothing.
Somebody just left me on the steps of this orphanage in Barranquilla.
No note, nothing.
And how do you feel about that? Whatever.
I mean, Colombia was totally whacked at the time, between the cartels, the guerrillas, the government.
Pretty much everybody got killed, so (CHUCKLES) Things worked out okay for me.
Things are okay with Henry? Yeah.
Yeah, they're good.
We're actually having dinner with my siblings tonight.
Hmm.
So you're still finding his presence to be of comfort? Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't really wanna talk about Henry, though.
He's kinda like my escape from all this, and I just wanna keep it that way.
Okay.
Has anything worth noting happened to you since our last session? What do you mean? Like like a hallucination? Anything that you might have seen or heard or even smelled.
- (PHONE RINGING) - Anything that seemed out of the ordinary.
No.
Nothing.
Have you stopped using marijuana? (SIGHS) Yeah, Fred, um I just I don't think that Ramon, I strongly encourage you to re Here's the thing, though.
Ever since my dad's party when when I saw the fire I have these moments where I'm so scared, it just feels like the fear is going to kill me.
Weed stops that.
It it just takes that clenched feeling in my heart, and it just lets it go.
Well, we can look at other ways to modulate your anxiety.
Why? This one works.
I mean, I I take a little bit of of Canna Bliss - Canna Bliss? - Yeah, Canna Bliss, and I work on my game, and I totally chill.
It gets me in the right now.
I I just don't need anything else, honestly, Fred.
If it's okay with you, I'd like to take a look at your game.
Why? You wanna analyze it? (CHUCKLES) No.
I wanna learn more about you and the world you create in the game.
Sure.
I'll send you a link.
Why did you even go over there? 'Cause I had to give him the card.
- What card? - The chlamydia card.
There is a card? Yes, there's a fucking card from Planned Parenthood, and they told me to give it to Randy.
Couldn't you have mailed it to him? Jesus.
I mean, Kristen, this guy's a stool sample.
The worst part is she was all, like, nice to me, and he was in his tighty-whities, and he's so Kristen, hey! Babe.
Mmm.
Okay, look at me, all right? Do not ever, ever, ever see this guy again.
Understand? Good.
Now give me the card.
AUDREY: You've gotta be fucking kidding me.
It was either the Empathy Initiative or math.
Oh, come on, Ray.
We have been working together for years now.
You and I have dodged budget cuts a hundred times.
Is this about the effigy? No! No, you did a fantastic job with the press.
You knew about these cuts before I spoke to the press but you waited for me to throw myself into the lion's den, save you, and then and then turn around and fire me? Very classy, Ray.
For Christ's I was gonna tell you this morning when I got the news, but I didn't, because you know, hate crime! Look, Audrey, we're all just trying our best here.
Yeah, well, it's not good enough, and you got it wrong.
It's not about me.
It's about those kids.
It's either them or math.
(ROCK MUSIC PLAYS) - (ROCK MUSIC PLAYS) - PHIL: All right, Duc you gotta tell me your secret, man.
What is it, roids? Huh? You on PED's? Huh? You Lance-Armstronging us, you motherfucker? (LAUGHS) Yeah, that much winning has an asterisk written all over it.
Look, guys, I don't have to cheat.
Besides, Lance Armstrong raised over $500 million - for cancer research.
Do better.
- (MOUTHS MOCKINGLY) Nah, I bet you get some weird concoction made of fucking goat dust and dried beetles from one of those places in Chinatown, right? - (GUYS LAUGH) - Some ancient oriental juju.
What's the secret sauce, sensei? MAN: "Sensei" is Japanese, you dumb-ass.
- Oh.
- I'm celibate.
- (LAUGHS) Come on.
- Yeah, right.
No, I really am.
What do you mean, like, celibate? Like not having sex at all? As a physical trainer for a professional soccer team Assistant physical trainer.
who actually knows what the fuck he's talking about, sex does not deplete testosterone levels.
It's not about saving testosterone.
It's about channeling that energy into something much more rewarding than getting my rocks off, because that's what - my baser instincts tell me to do.
- (LAUGHS) - Wow.
I don't know how you - Don't you even think about it.
- (MAN LAUGHS) - So you don't even I just stay in control.
Always.
WOMAN (ON TV): A racist mock-lynching at James K.
Polk Academy has many students at the Portland magnet school expressing outrage.
This is a hate crime.
The perpetrators should be prosecuted while hate crimes are still against the law.
But Audrey Bayer, a conflict-resolution consultant speaking for the school, dismissed the idea of prosecution.
These are just kids with their whole lives ahead of them.
We have to continue to support them, even when they screw up.
- (SIGHS) - Shireen Verma, News 8, Portland.
MAN (ON TV): Thanks, Shireen.
In other local news, a warehouse fire in East Portland (PEOPLE CHATTERING) (CELL PHONE BUZZING) - Hi.
- AUDREY (ON PHONE): I need you.
Like - all hands on deck.
- GREG: What's wrong? Is it Ramon? No, I I I just thought it would be nice to have sex.
Oh.
Well, I've been looking for an excuse to get outta here.
It'll take me about three hours, though.
Hurry.
- 'Cause you got that something - (CAMERA CLICKING) (CAMERA BEEPS, CLICKING) Come on.
Yes.
Hey, how come Marco's not shooting? I sent him home, sent everyone home.
I kinda wanted to be alone with you.
- Really? - ASHLEY: Mm-hmm.
Now, give me your "O" face.
(LAUGHS) What? Come on.
Don't be shy.
(LAUGHS) (CHUCKLES, SIGHS) Ah.
Yeah, that's it.
And, uh And grab your crotch, too, like you're a real bad-ass.
- (MOANS) - That's it! (BEEPS) (ZIPPING) Oh, okay.
That's a way to do it.
(LAUGHS) This doesn't really seem like something that would be on your site.
Well, I'm starting a new line.
I call it "Douchebag.
" - (SCOFFS) - (CAMERA CLICKING) Hey, Randy, what do you know about statutory rape? I-I Say what? Kristen, the girl you fucked in the tree house she's 17 years old.
Yeah, well, props to her.
(SCOFFS) I'm still on the rape thing though? Well, you see, when a 26-year-old man fucks a 17-year-old girl, that is statutory rape.
(SCOFFS) Yo, man, I don't know what you're talking about.
- She seemed into it.
- You're not making it better, Randy.
- She was wearing a horse head! - Did you know she's my sister? - Oh fuck me.
- Yeah.
- Yo, Ashley, I Come on, I never - No, no.
- Ashley, if I would've known - No.
I need you to repeat after me.
"I, Randy Butler am guilty of statutory rape.
" Wait.
Are you recording all this? Say it.
'Cause you got that something That is literally the only thing that will keep me from calling the cops right now.
Dream and dream on (SIGHS) I, Randy Butler, am guilty of statutory rape.
You go near my sister again and this goes viral.
Karina, we're done here.
- (BEEPS) - 'Cause you've got that something - Did we catch our predator? - ASHLEY: We did.
Randy, this chlamydia card is yours.
And you can step your janky ass out now.
- Thank you.
- Mm-hmm.
'Cause you got that something Chop-chop, Randy.
- 'Cause you got that something - (KARINA LAUGHS) Seriously, we all value you as allies, okay? But especially today, POCs need this space to ourselves, so we can safely articulate how we feel about the hate crime at our school.
But how does being exclusionary CARLA: Why is this even a debate? Can we get a minute or what? "The Polk Academy chapter of United in Diversity "invites everyone to its inaugural meeting to discuss the recent hate crime here.
" You're still white.
This is for diverse people.
I don't think you're using "diverse" right.
I mean, "diverse" is all of us together, isn't it? This some "all lives matter" bullshit.
Let's just go.
Look, I just wanted to be a part of helping, because this affects me too.
I mean, this is why it always sucks around here, by the way.
We're on the same side but we can't have all good things all the time for everybody with zero compromises.
That's impossible.
Monster's gonna take an elevator down to the ground floor.
Bing! (MIMICS ELEVATOR MOVING) Bing! I'm gonna take the up elevator.
Bing! - Down.
- HAILEY: Bing! (MIMICS MONSTER ROAR) I'll jump in the water.
(MIMICS SPLASH) Mmm.
Oh.
Isn't it all kinds of beautiful in here? (LAUGHS) - Hi, baby! - Oh, it's a mama monster! Oh! Mwah! Is Uncle Duc your personal monster? - Yeah! - ASHLEY: Oh my gosh.
Keep going, Uncle Duc.
- Get her nice and tired.
- HAILEY: Yup! Oh, I just noticed.
There's three people of color here, and a white boy cooking.
I like these odds.
- Future of America, right here.
- HAILEY: Take that! - DUC: Take that! - This looks amazing.
Thanks, baby.
Not as amazing as you look.
(CHUCKLES) - And up! - MALCOLM: Long day? DUC: This is a funny way to ride a monster.
Nobody's ever ridden me like this before.
You know, if things work out with Carmen - Mm-hmm.
- she may not be the only one riding him tonight.
Ew.
You ruined it.
(LAUGHS) Seriously, that doesn't even make sense.
- Scared me.
Oh! - (YELPS) I'm gonna go change into something I can actually spill wine on.
Mmm.
Yes.
- GREG: Wow.
- (SOFT MUSIC PLAYING) You weren't kidding around.
You swim Swim through my veins Be right back.
(AUDREY CHUCKLES) Drown me in your rain My desire Carries no shame My will will harbor no pain I'm, uh, I'm out of the magic pills.
Fine.
We'll just watch TV.
WOMAN (ON TV): dissatisfaction with the current administration's - No.
Fuck TV.
- (TV SHUTS OFF) What else are we gonna do? We have to be doing something? Can't we just Just what? I don't know.
Just just be here together, for fuck's sake without a goal, without a plan.
Greg, please! - Don't seminar me right now.
- Hey.
I listen.
Honey, I'm serious.
When was the last time that we just were with each other and that was enough? I miss that.
Me too.
- Carmen.
- Ashley.
Mmm! It's so good to see you again.
(WOMEN SIGH) ASHLEY: Oh! Can't wait to try this.
- (CARMEN CHUCKLES) - You always bring the best wine.
Who's the hugger? Oh.
Carmen consults for the team.
Great.
Another consultant.
What does she consult? - Carmen! - (LAUGHS) Hi.
- Good to see you.
- (SIGHS) Uh, Duc, this is Carmen.
Carmen, this is my brother-in-law, Duc.
- Duc, we met at the wedding.
- It's good to meet you.
We met at the wedding.
Right, of course.
Yeah.
(SIGHS) Oh, Carmen, would you mind helping me with the sprouts? Yeah.
They're almost done, and I I just love the way you season them.
CARMEN: Definitely, yeah.
(WHISPERS) It wasn't my idea, I swear.
Yeah.
Just haven't figured out which one I'll kill first and which one I'll make watch.
Okay, Carmen is a friend of ours, so even if you don't wanna have sex with her, just don't fuck up dinner, okay? - (PATS) - CARMEN: That's good.
(VOICES SCREAMING) Why don't you guys go ahead? I'll catch up with you later at the hotel for the reception.
(LAUGHS) Farid, don't do this.
You agreed to come.
You put on your best suit.
I can't do this.
Navid, give us a minute, huh? Take as many as you like.
(DOOR CLOSES) Farid, it's a wedding.
I'll pick you up later.
I'm worried about you.
(ENGINE RACING) (VOICES SCREAM) - (YOUNG FARID SCREAMS) - (GASPS) (ENGINE RACING) (SCREAMS) (SOBBING) (SIGHS) - So, Henry - Yeah? how is selling coffee at a laundromat provide opportunities for professional growth as well as a sustainable income for years to come? - Duc.
- (HENRY CHUCKLES) It's a good question.
HENRY: Wow.
I mean, years.
He means, what's your plan? No, I don't have a plan.
Life's got to have a plan, right? Yup.
(LAUGHS) What I mean to say is, I've never made a plan that went the way I planned it.
And people tell you, "Well, it's your fault for not sticking with the plan, but" - Maybe the plan is the problem.
- Exactly.
- Mmm.
- It is? Yeah.
Fuck plans! - In the face.
- (GUYS LAUGH) Mmm.
Duc, he's a life coach.
Mmm, motivational architect, actually.
Ooh.
Sounds so scientific.
You know, Ramon may not think he has a plan - Let's all say "plan" one more time.
- (LAUGHS) but he's going to change the future of video game design, and that kind of talent might be really hard for you to keep up with.
- Ashley.
- Hmm? DUC: He's going to have to work, though.
Talent just gets you in the room.
(CHUCKLES) Can you say that again, please? I'm actually writing a book about uber-extra siblings who are incredibly condescending and yet have no idea what they're talking about, so Boatwrights at the table, your control freak is showing.
- Well, speaking of keeping up - Mm-hmm.
did you guys know that Ramon was just selected as one of two finalists to represent his university as the Portland Game Expo.
- That's amazing, Ramon.
- DUC: No shit.
- That's what I'm talking about, bro.
- Really? - What? It's amazing.
- DUC: Yes! This is your moment.
This is life offering you an opportunity to actualize your best self.
Yeah.
That sounds way too intense, Duc.
CARMEN: Maybe this is not about Ramon's best self.
Maybe it's just a continuing journey of successes and failures.
You see? That I can handle.
(CHUCKLES) Okay.
You've known my brother for a minute and a half Well, uh, a little context.
Carmen is an intuitive.
- Like a Jedi.
- (LAUGHS) Yeah.
Sort of like a Jedi.
You mean like a psychic? - Uh, no, not - Oh.
I'm I'm sorry.
Did Was that a bad word? Now did I offend you? Of course not.
What's your game about, Ramon? (LAUGHS) Well, um It's not about anything, really.
It's, um (CLEARS THROAT) more of an experience.
It's how we perceive impossibility.
How sometimes you have to go backwards to go forward, or make a choice to fall in order to rise back up stronger, better.
I just wanted to create a journey about what's in the player more than what's in the game.
I love that.
Me too.
- I don't get it.
- It's all right.
Nobody gets everything.
Your way works for some people, it doesn't work for others, just like everything in life.
(MOUTHS) Well, that suspiciously sounds like relativism, and the war on truth continues.
- (CHUCKLES) - The truth is one can have a great life without pretending to be invincible to the world.
I'm not pretending.
This cap is fucked up.
Hey, there.
How can I help you? Oh yeah, hi.
Um (CHUCKLES) I'm, uh I'm, uh, I'm looking for a strain that treats, I suppose, anxiety.
Okay.
What kind of anxiety? - Religious.
- Oh God.
- That's the worst kind.
- Mm-hmm.
Okay.
So for anxiety, stress, depression, you're gonna want to go with Sour Diesel.
SPOILER ALERT: Smells like diesel.
(LAUGHS) Okay.
Cool.
All right.
I'll I'll take that.
Do you have them pre-rolled? Pre-rolled, sure.
That'll be six bucks, and I need to see some ID.
Sure.
(BILLS RUSTLE) Here you go.
"Farid Shokrani.
" What's that? - What's what? - Where are you from? Uh, Portland.
(CLEARS THROAT) No, I mean, where are you actually from? Where are you actually from? Exactly.
I'll take that weed now.
(WOMAN SHOUTS) Mijo! Mijo! Mijo! Oh! Aah! You've always been a masochist when it comes to massages.
You've always been a fucking sadist.
We're a match made in hell.
- (LAUGHS) - Oh! (PAINED LAUGHTER) Ah.
Tell me about your day.
Oh.
I really don't want to think about it right now.
Is that okay? Of course.
But you can tell me what's happening with you.
I've been so focused on Ramon, we never got a chance to talk about your - speech on your birthday.
- Mmm.
- Maybe that's a good thing.
- Greg.
There's nothing shameful in admitting you're depressed.
It's not depression.
(BREATHES DEEPLY) It's existential.
- It's grief.
- Over? Life.
I I feel like it just went by so fucking fast that everything's over now.
Us.
Our kids.
The world.
Oh.
It's not over.
Well, a big chunk of it is.
You know? Where I really felt like I was part of it, and it was part of me? It's gone, you know? I I guess I haven't really figured out yet how to be old.
And I feel so irrelevant.
Honey, practice what you've preached your whole life.
Over a million copies sold.
Be here now.
Forget the past.
Don't worry about the future.
It is a hell of a lot easier to make that argument when you're 25 years old.
(BOTH LAUGH) (SIGHS) You are beautiful.
Shut up.
You're so beautiful.
Mmm.
I used to walk down the street and get catcalled so much.
I'd think I was going to be assaulted.
I'd never thought I'd miss that.
You want to be assaulted? No.
But I do want to be wanted.
Greg.
I still need you to want me.
I want you.
I still need you to want me.
Oh my God.
(MOANING) - Why are you stopping? - Um Apparently the, uh the need for my little magic pill is no longer necessary.
(BOTH LAUGH) (MUMBLES) What are we waiting for? Uh, there we go.
(BOTH LAUGHING) - Yeah.
- (MOANING) (WOMAN SPEAKING SPANISH) - (SPEAKS SPANISH) - (CHUCKLES) Certainly been missing you (EXHALES) Damn.
That's Doughy eyes are innocence - (COMPUTER CHIMES) - (KEYBOARD CLICKING) That leaves everybody so confused No one knows just how I, Randy Butler, am guilty of statutory rape.
You survived (LAUGHS) (SIGHS) - (KEYBOARD CLICKING) - Certainly been Missing you Doughy eyes are Innocence that leaves Everybody so confused No one knows Just how (SIGHS) - Come on.
- (LAUGHTER) - You know, I have some skill - ASHLEY: Oh my God.
(INDISTINCT CHATTING) Look, um I am so sorry about that family meeting thing.
I know that that really sucked for you.
It's just Mom being Mom.
She's scared.
I get it, but I'm good.
- Mmm.
- I am.
(SIGHS) - Good.
- (LAUGHTER CONTINUES) Mmm.
You know I'm here for you when you need me.
Anytime.
DUC: That I that's dishonest.
- (LAUGHS) - I am judging you harshly.
- HENRY: I know.
- (DUC LAUGHS) (INDISTINCT CHATTING) I love you.
DUC: I really hope your boss does not find that shit out.
HENRY: Oh, me neither.
Me neither.
- (LAUGHTER) - Hey, uh, Ramon? Your boy Henry here has been using his boss's Lyft account for over a year.
- HENRY: Ex-boss.
- Has he? DUC: Uh-huh.
And that is the tax on stupidity.
All right.
Well, as much as we would like to party forever, you and I, Henry, gotta bounce.
HENRY: oh, we gotta bounce.
All right, thanks, guys.
Yeah.
Dudes, no! No, no, no, no.
Look, we're just getting started.
- (LAUGHS) - I've got I've got Yahtzee.
I've got Uno.
- (LAUGHTER) - Oh! We've got Yahtzee! - Shut up.
Shut up.
- I really had a blast.
It was lovely meeting everyone.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Thank you.
You're so welcome.
(GIGGLES) It was great meeting you, Carmen.
Hey, do you mind if I ask you a question? It's kind of personal.
- Yeah, of course.
- Okay.
(INDISTINCT CHATTING) - So, um - Mm-hmm? You're perceptive about energy and and stuff like that, right? Sometimes, yeah.
Do you pick up on anything about me? Not anything I can tell you without knowing you a little bit better and spending some time with you.
Anything about, maybe, the number 11:11? Not really.
How about you get my contact info from your sister - and we'll make an appointment? - Cool.
- Yeah? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll do that.
- Okay.
Of course.
- Thank you.
- Thank you so oh! - Absolutely.
MALCOLM: Hey, you guys want some leftovers? - Yes.
Yes.
- MALCOLM: Yeah? Ramon, don't fuck this up.
Don't fuck this up, Ramon.
Oh.
(LAUGHTER) That was a good shot.
Good shot.
HENRY: Sucker-punched.
Here.
Yeah.
All right.
- That's for you.
- MALCOLM: Take whatever you want.
Ah.
Your card.
Really? - Well, just in case, you know.
- Just in case what? I need you to motivate my architecture? (CHUCKLES) And this is where you give me your card.
- Yeah, I don't have any cards.
- Of course you don't.
- (INDISTINCT CHATTING) - Yeah.
This is dinner, not a TED talk.
- (BOTH CHUCKLE) - Hold on.
(SIGHS) Aha! You're in luck.
Whoa.
This is ancient, but it is me, yup.
Here.
Give me a shout sometime.
Uh, well, um, we can hug if you want.
I'm I'm just you know, I'm just saying.
I'm not like ideologically opposed to hugging, - so, okay, I'm officially being weird.
- You're not weird.
(INDISTINCT CHATTING) Nobody is.
HENRY: Well, just put it in - put it in the box.
- (CHATTING STOPS) At least What? It's okay, Duc.
I like you.
(INDISTINCT CHATTING) (LAUGHS) (INDISTINCT CHATTING) (KIDS LAUGHING) You came? (CHUCKLES) Hey.
I did.
Imam Chuck, this is my husband, Dr.
Shokrani.
He actually exists.
(SPEAKS ARABIC) (SPEAKS ARABIC) Imam Chuck? - It's Charles Demers.
- We call him Chuck.
Oh, Demers.
That's French, isn't it? You don't look French.
(CHUCKLES) I'm Acadian, from the South, so the French is in there somewhere.
(CHUCKLES) Well, we can thank European colonialism for that, can't we? (LAUGHS) Yes, we can.
I told Layla earlier I would love to have you both over for iftar dinner.
Well, yes, definitely.
We would love to.
Fantastic.
Uh, where's my son? - Oh.
- Oh, he's been He's been dancing up a storm for the last hour.
You should join them.
I think I might go and stuff my face at the buffet.
(MAN SINGS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE) I'm so sorry.
(INDISTINCT CHATTING) (PANTING, MOANING) RAMON: They seemed impressed by you.
(CHUCKLES) Yeah.
I think they were definitely charmed by me.
(CHUCKLES) If you don't say so yourself.
Oh shit.
Before I forget.
(KEY JINGLES) - Key.
- Oh.
(SHOES CLATTERING) You know what? Here.
Keep it.
- You sure? - Mm-hmm.
Come on.
I like having you here.
I like being here.
(PANTING, MOANING) You made me really happy tonight.
Want to make you happy every night.
What would I do without you? (SOFT SNORING) (KEYBOARD CLACKING) (RUMBLING)