A Storm for Christmas (2022) s01e04 Episode Script

1
[sighs]
Hello?
Hello?
I'm really sorry
Are you a total idiot?
I said I'm sorry.
Haven't you driven a car before?
- Uh, why, just because I'm a woman?
- [yells] No!
Because you backed over me!
Yeah. At least you're not stuck anymore.
[grunting]
Fucking Swedes.
You're paying for this trip right now,
and you're finding another taxi.
What are you talking about?
You can't just ditch me here.
My taxi. My choice!
Cash or credit card?
Card, then!
[scoffs]
What Oh, what the fuck?
You're kidding me.
My wallet's not here.
- So no, I'm not kidding.
- For fuck's sake. This is unbelievable.
[sighs] Okay, then, what's your number?
I can just Swish you.
Swish?
Swish. Transfer money to your account
through your phone.
- Vipps?
- What?
- In Norway. Vipps.
- [laughs]
Vipps?
Is that is that funny to you?
[laughing]
- You you Norwegians are so adorable.
- What's so funny?
- Vipps! Vipps, Vipps, Vipps!
- Vipps. [chuckles]
Huh? You know what? You're an extremely,
extremely annoying human being.
Okay, fine, we can try Taxifix.
You have your phone, then?
Oh, but what the fuck?
Oh!
- I mean
- [slams door]
It was just here.
Oh, you're fucking unreal.
You jump the line. You promise me 80,000.
I drive you through a blizzard.
I have to listen to all your bitching.
You run me over! And now you tell me
you don't have any fucking money!
[sighs]
- Never mind.
- Wait, what are you doing now?
- What are you doing with that?
- The trip is on the house.
It's the most wonderful time ♪
- Of the year ♪
- Ding, dong, ding, dong ♪
With the kids jingle belling ♪
- And everyone telling you ♪
- [phone chimes]
- Be of good cheer ♪
- Ah, ah, ah ♪
- It's the most wonderful time ♪
- Ah, ah, ah, ah ♪
- Of the year ♪
- Ding, dong, ding, dong ♪
- It's the hap-happiest season of all ♪
- Fuck me!
- Ding, dong ♪
- With those holiday greetings ♪
And gay, happy meetings
When friends come to call ♪
[in background] It's the hap-happiest
Season of all ♪
- Hanging in there, Berg?
- [grumbles]
- Here.
- Yeah, thanks.
I didn't ever catch your name,
I don't remember.
- Marius. Marius.
- Marius.
Ah, my time has passed, Marius.
It's time to face the music,
to see the writing on the wall.
The time has come to do all of that,
I'm afraid.
- You're going to end it all?
- Hell, no. No, no, that's too much fuss.
Way too much fuss.
No, I'm finished as a pianist.
- Oh?
- Finito.
- Really?
- Yes.
Anyone at home waiting for you?
A wife or someone else, maybe?
- Divorced three times.
- Oh. Any kids?
- Never made it that far.
- [chuckles]
An old mother, perhaps?
Yeah.
- Hm.
- You know what, Berg?
Hm?
Can't say you're finished.
You're doing a concert in Tromsø.
For 32 people.
32 people who paid for a ticket
to come see you sit and play.
Are 32 people coming
to watch me serve beer?
You know what?
To those 32 people, you're pretty special.
[man] Cheers for the drink.
[wind whistling]
[sighs]
So, listen, I was thinking.
It's pretty cold out, isn't it?
Well, I found my phone.
So I can pay you now.
My flight was canceled, so you'd be very
kind if you drove me to the city, please?
But the 80,000 kroner
still applies, right?
It does.
I knew you still wanted that money.
Yeah, well, it's not for me.
So get in.
[chuckles]
[glasses rattling]
[Marius] Your drink.
[man] Thank you so much.
[Marius] Hi.
- I fell asleep.
- Oh, that's all right.
[PA] This is a safety announcement.
For security reasons
Quite a few people are sleeping
at this airport right now.
Can I get you anything?
Um No, I can't really think of anything.
Yeah Going home?
- Uh, yeah.
- Yeah?
- I mean, sort of.
- Yeah? To family?
- Uh, to, uh to my father.
- Ah, yes, that's him on
- The one on the wish list.
- Yeah.
Look at that.
Figured out what you're gonna get him?
[chuckling] No!
At least you're celebrating
with your father.
- Yeah, I guess.
- You guess?
Yeah, well
If it's like before. 'Cause we we
always celebrated together.
- After my mom
- Oh, I see.
So, it's like, he makes the lamb ribs,
I make the rice cream.
- Watch an episode of Christmas Calendar.
- Hmm.
Open presents. Eat Delfia cake.
So the best part is really
the way we always watch TV
until both of us fall asleep on the couch.
- A nice Christmas.
- Yeah.
[phone ringing]
Excuse me, I just have to get this.
Yes, hi. Thank you for calling so late.
Um I just need to go somewhere,
uh, somewhere more private.
I'll call you back in five minutes. Yes.
Yes, hi.
Thank you for taking the time to call.
I appreciate you getting back to me
before Christmas Eve.
I just wanted an update.
Yeah.
I see, I see.
Yeah.
Okay
And what do you mean
by spreading to bone metastases?
Yeah.
Okay, how much of the skeleton
are we talking about?
[sighs]
So more chemo?
Yes.
Yeah.
Um, yeah.
I spoke with a psychologist earlier.
Yeah. No, that wasn't really my thing.
But it's okay. Yeah, I'll be fine.
Yes, I'll be fine.
Yeah.
That's all right.
No, I'm going to
I'm at work, so
I'm going back to work now.
That's okay.
Absolutely. Yes, thanks.
Yeah. Thank you so much. Merry Christmas.
Bye.
[sighs]
- Hi.
- Hi.
Uh, it's I'm looking for a man.
Okay
Yeah, no! Pfft!
It's, uh I mean an old man.
I mean a passenger.
Like, he has a white beard and white hair.
Yeah. And it's not Santa Claus.
Yeah, I haven't seen anyone
who's not supposed to be here.
Okay, it's just that
I found his cap lying
It was lying
just outside the door up here.
So he's one of those "completely lost
at the airport" kind of people?
Yeah, and I just have no idea
what language he speaks.
- [Lasso whining]
- I've tried a bunch of them. Oh!
Oh Oh!
What a sweet, sweet girl!
Oh my goodness! Oh my, what have we here?
Her name is Lasso. She's from Spain.
She's stuck in transit.
I'm watching her until the Food Safety
Authority comes to pick her up.
- [chuckles] Oh, these are so sweet.
- [barks]
Did you make these?
Uh, yeah, they're sorta improvised,
I guess.
Hi! Do you think they're pretty?
You do? Yeah?
[chuckles]
Um
Do you think that
You think she can sniff out a person?
Uh, I don't know. I mean, maybe.
For all we know, she could be
Spain's best sniffer dog.
[sniffing]
["Silent Night" playing]
[in Spanish] Someone broke a glass.
Hm?
Someone broke a glass over there.
Could you hear it?
Yes.
A man is crying over there.
[sniffles]
There are two men
discussing football over there.
Can you understand them?
They're Spanish.
Uh
How how can you hear all that?
I don't know, it's been like this
since my vision got worse.
Here comes a dog.
A dog?
I don't see a dog.
Wait.
[snuffling]
There.
- [laughs]
- [Lasso barks]
[Henrik] She seems to be tracking
something, at least.
Let's just hope she wasn't a sniffer dog
in a previous life.
- We don't have time for that.
- Yeah. [chuckles]
[whimpering]
[Christmas song playing faintly on radio]
Sorry, but where are we going?
I'm just picking up Oscar.
But I really need to catch that boat.
- Yes, I remember. We'll make it there.
- [sighs]
[driver] So, just just wait here.
[wind whistling]
Come on.
[gasps]
[panting]
Oscar, say hi to, uh
What was your name again?
- Aah! Shit!
- Aah!
- Fuck!
- [Stine whimpers]
- [both yelling]
- [Oscar] Give me the water!
- Give me the water, man!
- [driver] Where is the water?
- [Oscar groans]
- [driver] Do you have it? Aah!
Listen, I'm sorry for calling you
a party pooper.
I don't know you well enough.
- You're not wrong, though.
- About what?
I think, most of the time,
I'm more concerned about
what I don't like, and not what I like.
- Hmm.
- Oh, well, you get it.
Mmm. I mean, I'm the complete opposite
of that, so I don't really get it.
You're not the first person
to call me naive.
I don't think you're naive.
A bit blue-eyed, perhaps.
Blue-eyed? Like, what?
Well, it's pretty much the same as naive.
Or almost.
It's just a more [laughs]
A more beautiful way of saying it.
Beautiful?
Yeah. Beautiful.
Flirting with me?
No, I'm not flirting.
You said I'm beautiful.
I said that blue-eyed is
a more beautiful
[sighs] Shit. Lost in translation, sorry.
- So, I'm not beautiful, then?
- Oh, sure.
[both laugh]
And you're a young, handsome pilot
in uniform. So you and me
God, it's all just too much of a cliché.
It's just like a rom-com or something.
- Okay, this is moving a bit fast for me.
- What is? Us being a rom-com cliché?
I mean, I don't care so much
about what I look like.
That means you think I do?
Well. Perhaps?
Aren't you filming selfies
for everyone to look at? So
Yeah, but I don't do it for other people.
I do it for myself,
because I think it's fun.
I don't care how many people see it.
But isn't that the whole point,
that someone is watching?
Not really. The point is doing
something that makes me content.
As opposed to you.
Well, you fly around the world,
but detest airports.
You hate Christmas, you hate the lights,
and you don't think too much about others.
I didn't say any of that.
Maybe you spend too much time
thinking about yourself?
Well, you come across
as pretty self-centered.
Well, I'm pretty sure I think about
other people as part of my job.
That's the point of what I do.
Getting people like you
safely to their destination.
[sighs] But, uh
I'll spare you my self-centeredness.
Have a good night.
- Lady, what the fuck was that?
- Don't come any closer!
- Hey! Why are you so fuckin' aggressive?
- I'm aggressive?
I'm the aggressive one?
You're the one with the fucking ax!
Because we have to cut sticks
for the lamb ribs.
For what?
[driver] Birch sticks! Traditional
Christmas food, ever heard of that?
I saw the blood running!
I saw it dripping out of that bag.
- It's sea trout.
- Straight from the fjord!
- [Oscar] Right.
- But I saw a head.
- [driver] Yeah, a sheep's head! Sheep!
- [Oscar laughs]
Merry fucking Christmas!
[doors slam]
[sobbing]
[car pulls away]
[crying]
Why on earth are you standing here?
It's such a long story.
My God, how funny is that?
Two Danes cross paths like this
up here in the Norwegian mountains.
Come on, now.
Hop in, or you'll freeze to death!
What's your name?
- [sniffles] My name is Stine.
- And I'm Magnhild. Nice to meet you.
Right there.
- [closes door]
- Good.
- Thanks.
- I'm sorry.
Do you have a minute?
[sighs]
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say
you don't care about other people.
I am a naive idiot.
Now, I wouldn't go that far.
Do you know how I pictured
this Christmas trip in Paris would be?
Do tell.
Paris
I thought I would go there
and just let myself be seduced
by the lights and the music
and the atmosphere.
Dance the tango by the Seine.
Below Pont Neuf,
I'd meet a handsome Frenchman,
who would invite me to a dark jazz joint,
where we'd look into each
other's eyes over a glass of wine.
And of course, he has a rooftop terrace
where we would sit
and look at the Eiffel Tower
while I rest my head
on his beautiful shoulder.
Then wake up in white satin sheets,
and get breakfast in bed.
Coffee, juice, and croissants.
Then we would walk, hand in hand,
over to Pont des Arts
to hang up our lovelock.
I'm sorry, again, for not appreciating
what your job is really about.
You take people to places
they dream of going.
We step off that plane into a new world.
[sighs] Where we're met
by unfamiliar scents.
Where the colors
take on a different filter.
Where our hearts can get a new beat.
I'm so glad that you are
rational,
and cool,
and so determined,
because we need people just like you,
to fly people who are just like me.
- Look, it's you!
- [PA chimes]
[Abba laughs]
[faintly] This is a message
for Kaja Melling.
Please contact the nearest
airport staff immediately.
Your mother and father
are looking for you.
I repeat, Kaja Melling, contact
the nearest airport staff immediately.
Your mother and father
are looking for you.
Yeah. Would you like a refill?
No, I I think I should, uh
wait a bit, I guess. [chuckles]
We just restocked,
so you'll be our guinea pig.
- Oh, well
- Yeah.
In that case, I won't say no,
if you're offering.
- Thanks, I appreciate that.
- Okay.
What can I get for you?
So, what would you say?
You think you've done everything that you
expected you would do in this life?
- Oh, an existential question. My God.
- [Iris] Yeah.
- [David] Oh, I'm sorry.
- It's fine.
Nothing to be sorry about. I will
I can happily answer that question.
[sighs]
Well, I think I'm in the red.
- Yeah, I definitely haven't done enough.
- Hm.
Things work out in the end.
Everything works out in the end.
- Yeah, well, sometimes it's too late.
- Yes.
It'll work out in the end, sure.
It always works out in the end.
Never that bad.
- Is everything okay?
- Yeah.
- Are you sure?
- Think it's just something I ate.
- Okay
- You get out of here.
- Head home. I'll take care of this.
- Now?
- [Iris] Are you sure?
- [Marius] Just go home.
- Come on, go home. It's Christmas.
- Merry Christmas. [sighs]
- [Marius sighs]
- [Iris] Thanks.
- Yeah, sure.
- See you in a few days.
Yeah, I'll see you. Merry Christmas.
Bye.
[Santa] Oh, for fuck's sake!
[sighs]
Uh What are you doing?
- Your kid peed on me.
- He just got scared.
- Pfft. Santa needs a break.
- We waited over an hour for this.
- Santa has to take a shit.
- [gasps]
You can wait a little longer, can't you?
[mother gasps]
Hey, wait!
- Oh ♪
- Here comes Santa Claus ♪
Here comes Santa Claus ♪
Right down Santa Claus Lane ♪
He's got a bag
That is filled with toys ♪
For the boys and girls again ♪
Hey.
- Hey, can I join you?
- Sure.
- But you gotta be quick.
- Yeah.
Five minutes.
- It'll get real ugly if someone sees you.
- Okay.
Oh.
- Oh, my God!
- The Grinch is hungry for a cigarette.
I don't get all the damned fuss
about Christmas, to be honest.
Aren't you Santa?
It's my second job.
Gotta pay the rent somehow.
It's a real drag.
Really?
These damn kids are the worst part.
Why did you get this job, then?
They want things that cost 10,000 kroner.
And you are certain
that it's the kids' fault?
You might be right, it's the whole system.
I mean, it's insane.
What's Christmas about, then?
It's not about opening presents,
but about opening your heart.
Then maybe it's time to be a little
less aggressive toward the system.
Yeah, I know, right?
I should probably work on it.
Are you really bound to secrecy
when you talk to people?
Why? Would you like to talk to me?
Yeah, uh, yeah
I think I just need to talk to someone.
You know?
It could be anyone, really.
If I tell you,
at least it will stay between us.
You can tell me anything you want.
I think
I'm not able to really commit
to any relationship.
I've felt it around Christmastime.
I'm sort of happy to not have anyone.
[Ronja] What do you mean?
Well, being in a relationship
just feels so invasive.
When you have to compromise all the time,
you can't really be yourself.
Ah.
But that's up to you. I mean, you don't
have to compromise if you don't want to.
You might you might be fortunate enough
to find that special someone out there.
But how can you predict that?
I don't know, really. [laughs]
All you can do is try, I think.
[Lasso barks]
At least you have your little dog.
But it's not mine. [laughs]
No, but you're a very good match for it,
I can tell.
A tiny dog next to such a big guy.
Looks kind of weird, doesn't it?
- [laughs]
- Oh, I don't think so.
- [Lasso barks]
- Oh!
Okay, I think we need to head up there.
I have a Christmas wish, Santa.
- Then get in line by the Christmas tree.
- [Arthur] Hey, hey.
- Stop it.
- What?
Yeah, this is a child, not the system.
Okay, what do you want that doesn't cost
as much as the Norwegian Oil Fund?
My wish is that my mom
and my dad would stop fighting.
- Hmm.
- [PA chimes]
[muffled announcement]
- Okay, wanna sit down?
- Okay.
[sighs]
So, how much do they argue
on a scale from one to ten?
Around ten.
Oh!
What do they argue about?
Everything.
Is it big things or small things?
Mostly small.
Doing the dishes.
Packing. Tickets.
- Cupboard doors.
- Cupboard doors?
Yeah, if she forgets
to close the cupboard door.
Have you tried explaining that it's wrong?
But I don't feel like it's my job.
Right. It isn't.
But why do you think they argue?
- I just think they're disappointed.
- Mm-hm.
Because life didn't
turn out how they expected.
And then neither of them can
express how sad they really are.
[beep]
- So they just get angry instead.
- [Santa] Mm-hm.
[Kaja] And then they argue,
which makes for bad sex.
And then they stop
sleeping in the same bed.
[Santa] Oh, my.
Have you read Lewis Fordsworthe?
[Santa] Uh, no, I haven't.
[Kaja] He once said, "Assumption is
the mother of all fuckups."
I think he has a point.
[Santa] You know a lot for your age.
Hmm.
[Kaja] Seems like they're waiting
for something
that they don't get from each other.
Then they won't say what they really need
because they feel like
the other person should already know.
[Santa] Hmm.
[Kaja] But there's still hope.
Dad still uses Mom's birthday
as his credit card PIN.
[Santa] Hey
What's your name?
Kaja.
Okay, Kaja.
So, I'm afraid I have to return
to the tree.
But you're definitely
the smartest person at the airport.
And you deserve the most beautiful
Christmas present in the world.
Come over if you wanna talk some more.
Come on in. I won't bite, hon.
I mean, you need a warm bath.
You don't wanna die from pneumonia,
do you? Come on.
[sighs]
- [Stine] Thanks.
- [Magnhild] Come on.
Abba! There you are.
Goodness, we've been looking for you!
Thanks. Thank you so much.
Who would have thought your dog would
Here you go, Abba. Yeah.
- Mmm
- Yeah.
[Ronja] Yeah.
- [phone ringing]
- Oh. Excuse me.
This is Ronja.
Yes, but we found him. Yes, we're
with him now, here in the quiet room.
Okay.
Thank you.
That was security.
They know who Abba is.
I wanna see the city all in white ♪
I wanna see the people be all right ♪
I want you all to be ♪
Maybe a bit in love with me ♪
I want you to be
All the things you are ♪
Because to me, you are a star ♪
You bring me closer to the feeling ♪
All because it's true ♪
'Cause every time I see you
I feel warm ♪
And this time we'll make it
Through the storm ♪
I will be there, you know ♪
Waiting underneath the mistletoe ♪
Everything inside me feels so good ♪
It's kinda hard to tell you
But I should ♪
- Because you are my star ♪
- Star, star ♪
Take me home, it's Christmas tomorrow ♪
Let's go home, forget all the sorrow ♪
You and me as one ♪
I am in love this Christmas ♪
Take me home, it's Christmas tomorrow ♪
Dance with me, forget all the sorrow ♪
You and me as one ♪
We're in a storm for Christmas ♪
I wanna see the snowflakes
In your hair ♪
I wanna feel your smile
Like you were there ♪
A place for us to be ♪
Dancing around the Christmas tree ♪
We're walking through ♪