Hello Tomorrow! (2023) s01e04 Episode Script

Mmm. I'm glad you finally got
up the courage to ask me out.
Hey, wh what do you mean, "finally''?
You don't have to play
cool with me, Joey.
Just, I was waiting a while.
- I better head in now.
- Oh, come on. Just Just one more song.
You're sweet, Joey Shorter.
Now get yourself to work
and ask me out again soon.
You. Inside the house. Now.
Up.
Fetch regulatory halt.
Adhesive tape, 2.5 inches. Thank you.
Down. Follow.
Twenty-three years,
Charlene and I had together.
Way too sweet, just like you.
Every morning she'd say that
to me. God rest her soul.
Now that's love, son. Not like the
cheap kicks you're out prowling for.
I can only hope you went to college.
Of Of course, sir. Yeah.
Where?
Uh, Richmond State.
Mmm. Major?
English.
And business.
What kind of work that earn you?
Uh, sales. Sales, I'm
I'm I'm in sales.
- We're We're selling, uh, lunar
- I should have guessed. A salesman.
Of course, I'll need
to meet your parents.
What's that smell?
That's prime rib. The new models
come with top-notch aroma technology.
Prime rib, huh? Smells
like burning money.
Scared money don't make money, Shirl.
I'm feeling good about this town.
Let's get comfortable and
turn some lives around.
No one's changing any lives today, Jack.
"Regulatory halt. Further commercial
activity may result in arrest"?
This is what we get
for our recent success?
Yeah, Jack. It's on me.
The ad at the ball game.
You gotta make this go
away fast, Shirl. I
We're just starting to
find our stride here.
- Everything is loo Oh, here we go.
- I'm trying to do every
- Morning, team.
- Hey.
Joey's not here. Hope he isn't too late.
Oh, very kind, Herb, compassionate even.
We need to talk, fellas.
You know what? Hey, why
don't you guys take a day off?
Fully paid, as a "thank you"
for all of your hard work.
I'll treat it as an
extra training day then.
Oh, yeah. I I hear Joey is
training even harder, though, Herb.
I applaud that and I
welcome the challenge.
- Hey, did you also applaud your mother
- Got it. Mmm.
when she was robbing
you of your childhood?
Would you rather I tell them
you let a legal situation
blow out of control?
I am taking care of it. Just
waiting on HQ to send some details.
What kinda details?
Tax IDs, gross receipts, lunar zoning
Jesus. What? They need all
that just for us to do our jobs?
Yeah. It's basic
running-a-business-in-the-real-world.
What is that look?
Morning. Oh, wow, you
actually got a HoloTable.
Yeah. This was a great idea you had.
It's gonna help us sell
way deeper into this turf.
We might not have to
uproot for a while now.
Oh, okay, great. Uh, sorry I'm late.
Oh, no, you picked the perfect day.
Everybody's getting some
well-deserved R and R.
- Shirl's idea.
- Oh, thanks, Shirley.
Um, hey, Jack, can I talk
to you when you're done here?
Well, yeah, no, of course. We
just, uh, finished up, actually.
No, Bun Bun. Of course not.
Oh. Okay, okay, um, anger has its place.
But I can't waste my day off
not fully focused on work.
Hello?
Uh, there may be something, uh,
wrong with your line, Bun Bun.
You want my advice, or do
you want to keep pretending
there's something wrong
with the line over there?
Yeah. You know, I do say that,
uh, advice is like ice cream.
Yeah, that's great,
Herb. Just listen, okay?
Women, like games of chance, live
in realms beyond reason, okay?
A mystic mindset is called
for. Hunches, omens, instincts.
Not avalanches of explanatory
blah, blah, blather.
But if I'm clear and open with her,
and she's clear and open with me
Disaster. That's a
disaster. Look at me, okay?
I'm working hard to get my
girl up to the moon, right?
Now, do I talk her ear off
about that? No, I don't.
Do I heed certain
auspicious signs? Absolutely.
Which have coalesced over and over again
around milk, milk, and dairy in general.
Look at this, look at this. Right here.
Volts by three on the
money line with 61 ringers.
Now, what size do you buy milk in?
Sixty-four, 64 ounces,
come on. Simple math.
I see.
Herb, if you love her, find
your milk and follow it.
Okay. Won't be so hard to do
considering you haven't cleaned up.
- Ooh!
- Ah, Herb.
- Fuck. Oh, no, no, no. Yes!
- Oh, gosh. I'm so sorry, Eddie.
Okay.
Oh, Herb, you're a genius.
Look at that. Look at that!
Mr. Costopoulos?
Oh.
Oh!
Mr. Costopoulos?
Are you okay, Mr. Costopoulos?
Yes, ma'am.
Now, I reviewed the complaint
form you "sumbitted" submitted.
You have to be more careful.
- Here, let me help you.
- No need. Please.
As I was saying, I reviewed and
found no legal grounds for complaint.
Your contract "stilputates" the
the departure window up to six months.
Jesus, why did I even bother?
I'm never getting up there.
On an entirely s-separate note,
I have engaged the entity in
a 97C4I. Failure to comply.
Really? What's that?
Forms they neglected to file.
So jus just paperwork?
F-Forms, ma'am, appropriately
filled and filed,
are the lifeblood of our
orderly commercial society.
And further noncompliance
constitutes contempt,
which puts it in my power,
in cooperation with the
courts, to make arrests.
Oh, my God. Oh, thank you. Thank you.
Oh, you hit them with this,
and some manager somewhere
is finally gonna pay attention
and get me out of here.
Oh.
You're my hero.
I resent the insinuation, ma'am.
Oh, no, I won't tell anybody.
Now, what does it take
to get them arrested?
Well, if they engage in further sales.
Mmm. Let's hope they
don't do that, right?
Don't talk like that, okay?
There is no blue blood who is
any better than you, you got it?
You like this girl, right?
I mean, I've been
planning on asking her out
ever since I bought my pet fish
at the store where she works.
How old is the fish?
Three, almost four.
Oof. But you pulled it off,
right? And the date went great.
Well
he said I can't take her out
again until he meets my parents.
Ah. Whoa.
Oh, well, maybe you know
someone who could pinch-hit?
I mean, I got a son about your
age. I could probably pass.
Is this crossing some kind
of line, professionally?
Here's the thing about love,
kid. None of those lines matter.
Sticking by her. That's the only rule.
Well, then how about today? Uh, maybe.
Perfect.
Okay. Well, then thanks Dad.
Fuck.
Bunch of parlayed props, zone-in
to start. Volts win, money line.
All right here if you
forget. You see how the shake
smeared off Ramosa and six?
Mm-hmm. It's very solid.
Puts me and my lady on
the moon in one game.
Not for nothing,
but lunar residence doesn't strike
me as the most stable sector.
And I'd clock that to
cover current obligations.
Well, I'm making it my outlay.
That puts you over the line.
Below the line, it's your knee.
Above the line, it's knees that
ain't yours and you might care about.
Lock it in.
Milk, baby!
Mr. Costopoulos, I came to apologize.
I shouldn't have spoken to you that way.
- It's hardly anomalous in my "oppucation."
- Oh.
Often, it's worse.
Oh.
You have a beautiful dog. Mmm.
She's passed.
My condolences.
I just wanted to hand
this over from Lunar HQ.
"Der seven. Craxt LP.
Slash plus utrew five."
Solar winds. Hell on our Telex system.
Just wanted to show you,
I'm trying to get the info we
owe you and explain the delay.
If there's any way that I can put
my boys back to work in the meantime.
- They really can't survive without it.
- This is incomprehensible.
Well, exactly. And it's all
I can get right now, so
You should care more about
your customers, ma'am.
What's that supposed to mean?
I'm sorry. I regret saying it.
Good day.
Also, I told him that
I'm regional manager.
You took my job. Well,
that makes me CEO.
Well, no, 'cause then I'm
only here because I'm your son,
so I was thinking maybe you're
just regional manager too.
Oh, wow. You are a
bulldog on a deal, kid.
Are you boys the moon men? 'Cause
this little birdie's ready to fly.
- Oh, sure, ma'am. How can we help?
- Uh, we're closed today.
Well, maybe for all the other
girls, but what about for me?
Uh, yeah, sorry. Goodbye now.
And remember, no business
with the old man tonight.
He'll be looking for any
excuse to count you out.
Good afternoon, JetBall fans.
Another double-malted, please.
Coming right up, sir.
Don't mix it yet.
Wai Wai Wait, wait.
N Now.
Hikaru Makoto steps up to home-zone
to lead-off the opening inner of
what's sure to be a nail-biter.
Hello, guest. What will it be?
Hey, Eddie. So I thought about
what you said, and I called Betty
Herb, with great affection, I
cannot have the domestic beef
and perpetual failure
report near me right now.
- Okay? Please.
- It was gonna be
Oh, hello, sluggers.
I know we've had our troubles,
but I've wised up, and I'm ready
to double down on the moon market.
- Can you boys help me out?
- It's our day off, so, no chance.
Ah. Well, how about you, boss?
You wanna sell me something special?
Customer does come first.
Don't you lift a goddamn finger,
Herb. After what she did to you.
You Get the fuck hence,
harpy. Game of a lifetime here.
Scram. You're gootchin' me.
Whoa.
- One more vanilla malted, please.
- Coming right up.
Just like my pal here.
Go! Go! Yes! Yes! Yes!
You just did that,
Herb. You just did that!
You stay right here. You drink
with me, you miracle. Yes!
You know, I played right-zone
back in junior high.
In junior high. I know, you
told me, Herb. About 15 times.
Come sit, everybody. Make
yourselves comfortable.
Joseph tells me you're
in sales, door-to-door.
Must have spent most of
his childhood on the road.
- Absolutely, out always providing for us.
- No, no, no. I didn't miss a thing.
Well, it felt like I
was gone more than I was.
Boys need their dads, right?
Don't you find the itinerant
lifestyle breeds loose morals?
Lustful gypsies and such?
Sir, if the road teaches you one lesson,
it's folks don't buy your product,
- they buy your character.
- Mmm.
I raised this boy to be the
straightest arrow out there.
- The Jet just overthrew and the Dynamo
- Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!
Who, Herb?
Who let these lobotomized
puddles of shame take the field?
- I don't know.
- What genius? Goddamn it.
Hey, do you really think
it makes a difference
how much milkshake we drink?
I mean, the players don't
actually know we're doing it.
Well, it's all we got
kid, so suck it down, huh?
Mmm. Sucking it down for you, Eddie.
You know he did two majors at college?
- Had to talk him out of three.
- Mmm?
- Dad
- A triple major at Richmond State?
What would have been the third?
Philanthropy.
Philosophy.
- It's a little joke of ours, together.
- Yeah.
You guys get along great.
What a bond. It's nearly unbelievable.
Not to mention, the Dean of
Business at Richmond State
didn't seem to remember
much about your career there.
Mmm?
Would you excuse us a
moment, my angel? Please.
That's a double-zone set
by the Dynamo and that means
more bad news for the Volts
as the Dynamo takes the lead
You know, I'm really starting
to understand your passion
for sports and betting.
It's great fun.
As long it doesn't threaten
your personal relationships
or great opportunities at work.
Herb, workers who worship their
work are doomed to die working.
This is my ticket out of all that shit.
Phyllis must have told
you I served in the war.
I was a scout.
Got so I could tell
by the hairs on my neck
if we were facing down an ambush
from those brainwashed crods.
I wish I had been old enough to enlist.
Quit shining me on, mister.
'Cause the hairs on my neck
are screaming over you two
and whatever cheap con
you're running here.
Easy, now. Listen, this is a good kid.
- He's a bullshitter in a
bargain-bin suit. - Hey, watch it.
Excuse me. Jack, I need a minute.
- Not now, Shirl.
- Sure. I'll be packing.
All right.
We'll figure all this out. Two seconds.
This has to be now?
What's going on in there
that's so important?
It's not sales.
I can't fix our problems.
Guy's got it in for us. Let's move on.
- Not gonna happen.
- Why?
- Don't cook up some answer for me.
- No, of course not.
Why are we stuck here? Why
are you throwing money around?
Well, don't stop there,
Shirl. What else you got?
- The car.
- Ah, geez.
- It's a company car, like I said.
- I didn't buy it then either.
What the hell is going on, Jack?
I don't know, Shirl. You tell me.
You seem to have it all figured out.
You're walking away?
- The kid needs my help.
- Congrats, Jack.
Help the kid in need and then
let everything else go to hell.
Is he okay? You work with them, yeah?
My dad's being a real prick in there.
- I'm Phyllis.
- Shirley.
You can see Jack cares
so much about his son.
Would you please tell him I'm
sorry if I don't get the chance?
- Now, look, pal.
- You hold your tongue.
Oh, no. You hold your fucking tongue.
Stop! I was just about to I was
just about to tell him the truth.
About how Mom was in an accident
pretty bad, and sh-she's still
not out of the woods yet, but
Well, how you'd been gone for a while,
but you came back to help. And, uh
Oh. Oh, Joe, come here,
you didn't have to
I done a lot that I'm not proud of.
And the truth is
I left his mom when he was a boy.
And he has been man enough
to let me back into his life.
And now, really, I'd
be lost without him.
Tell you this, though.
He's taken the worst
punches life has to offer,
and all it's done is left
him ready for anything.
And if that's not what
you want for your daughter,
I feel sorry for her.
I'm sorry about your mother,
Joe. I know what it's like.
I know you do.
I still keep my Charlene
right here by my heart.
Phil, would you like me to
Yes. Please.
- The end of eight and a half innings.
- Come on.
Dynamo six, Volts four. Volts fans
looking very nervous right now.
- We need to talk, Ed.
- No. No.
- Bit bigger than the game.
- I am not a man
you wanna be seen with
right now, Shirl, okay?
Get lost, stranger.
I don't have time or money for
your famine-racked orphans, okay?
This will be the half-inning
that will be the determining one
for the series champion.
Hearts are beating, pulses
are racing on every
Orphans, huh?
The Vistaville Volts, facing impossible
headwinds, pray for a miracle.
I told myself I was
done weeping for her.
- What?
- But
that's her smell.
Down by two zones,
let's see if Johnny Zapp can turn
this mess around for the Volts.
Uh, Herb, it's dawning on me
I might have made a
decent-sized mistake here.
Well, I guess we better
keep drinking then.
Oh, God. This is what it's like to die.
I'm floating. I hear my mother's
voice calling from the kitchen.
Ooh, line drive.
That ball has ripped to right
field, sailing towards the foul pole.
- And the call is out of bounds.
- What?
- No. No. No!
- Oh, boy!
- No zones for Zapp.
- What? Are you kidding?
- It sailed wide right by a hair.
- No, it didn't.
Look at it again!
How can that happen?
How can that happen?
Oh, shit.
I do not prefer my
evenings to end this way.
Well, me neither.
Count back to two strikers and
Zapp with one last Hail Mary try.
You and me. We're gonna chug
like my life depends on it.
Come on. Chug. Chug. Chug.
Herbie? Herbert Porter.
You!
- Little Miss Spread-'Em-Wide.
- No, no, no!
- No, no! She's just a customer, Bun Bun.
- Herb, here comes the pitch! Herb!
Oh.
Going! Going! Gone!
- I won. We wo We won. -
It's an all-zoners grand slam!
- I just We won.
- Volts win! Volts win!
Shirley. Shirley!
We won. I I won. Milk, milk.
- You're my milk, Bun Bun.
- I won!
And what's that mean?
I have no idea. But it's great.
- We won.
- Mmm.
I won!
You see, there there are
minerals in certain craters
that absorb light so at
night, they kind of glow.
Now, say I wanted to help
my daughter's young suitor
here with some extra commission.
Who doesn't need another
write-off, right, Jack?
Well, I'm happy to help, Phil,
but it turns out it's our day off.
Ah, don't run games on me, Jacky,
this day off, slow-play nonsense.
It's It's okay, Dad. I don't mind.
There is plenty of
time for business later.
Hell, we might know each
other our whole lives.
Yeah. I can take a hint, Jack.
Jack.
Why didn't you tell me?
Well
It was better that you didn't know.
Let's get out of the hallway, okay?
He's out in the bar anyway.
He He Who Who is?
Your son, Jack. Come on.
You know, he's not actually
uh
fully up to speed on that yet.
So, please. I'm not proud of
this, but, yeah, he's my boy.
So he doesn't know, but
that girl and her dad do?
Well what we told them was a lie,
but what I'm telling you
now, Shirl, is the truth.
My God, Jack.
Your family up on the
moon, do they know?
Well, as far as they go,
it turns out it's easier to sell people
as a loving father and husband
than as I, uh, you kn
I never told you so
you never had to lie.
Pretty lonely life
you made for yourself.
No, come o I've got the best
people in the world with me.
Mm-hmm.
- Sorry it had me acting so strange.
- Mmm.
You know you have to tell him.
Of course, but there's
a lot I can do for him
without him hating me
for who I used to be.
Once he's up on his feet,
I'll tell him everything.
- It'll be up to him.
- Mm-hmm.
Good luck with that. I mean it.
You know what? I'm
gonna tell him tonight.
He's a great kid, and if he doesn't
get it now, he never will. Right?
Good for you. It won't be easy.
Night.
Now, look here, Mr. Montes.
If Phyllis is going to
be dating a salesman,
then you better not be the
kind who wastes easy money by,
you know, taking days off.
So, I'm I'm thinking,
if you're still interested,
maybe we could, um, do some business.
Now that's my kind of attitude, Joe.
Not really in the mood, Ed.
Okay. Is this about the important
thing you wanted to tell me?
No.
Turned out to be nothing.
'Kay. Um, you wanna hear
my, uh, important thing then,
which is actually, uh
Oh, it's not nothing.
So I spent my whole life
saying, "This is the moment.
This is the moment that my whole
life has been leading up to."
But this, this is really it.
Jesus, Eddie.
Because if it's a yes
from you about this,
I will never want
bigger than that. Ever.
- Lot B-18.
- Midsize B-Plex.
Full of charm, full of charm.
Let's call it a beginning of, uh,
of more than we can currently know.
It's great, Eddie. You did great.
Um, excuse me, this is now.
This Are we doing this or what?
You're really serious.
Shirley, powerful
forces are at work here.
They are not to be spurned.
And I love you.
I love you, Shirley.
It's kinda scary how good
you were on your feet.
Now, do we need to have a birds-and-bees
talk before your next date?
Uh, no. No, I think I'm
all right without that.
You are an impressive young man, Joe.
N You know, strange as it may sound,
I I meant a lot of
what I said in there.
And, uh
And
I know that you can't stand him.
But wherever he is
I bet your dad would be
proud to call you his son.
Well Thanks for everything, Jack.
I would've given up on it without you.
"Give up"? Never.
Not my son. Get out of here.
Good night.