Laid (2024) s01e04 Episode Script
Flagstaff
1
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Richie?
I fucking knew I had a stalker!
Whoa, whoa, whoa. What
are you talking about?
I'm not your stalker.
Stalkers never think
they're stalkers, Richie.
You're telling on yourself.
Look, whatever reason you
have to murder all my exes,
you don't want to murder me.
Party will be over.
I didn't murder anyone, and
I'm not gonna murder you.
Then why am I tied up in your apartment?
You're not tied up.
Oh.
- [MICROWAVE BEEPING]
- Oh, popcorn's ready.
[CLEARS THROAT]
You got a wild one on the side.
Other side.
- You got it.
- Okay, what what do you want, Richie?
Well, I brought you here today
Kidnapped me here.
I brought you here with force
because you showed up
at my place of work,
told me I'm gonna die,
and then vanished without letting me ask
some follow-up questions.
So you put a bag over my head
- and threw me in the trunk of your car?
- Yes, Ruby!
This is what you've reduced me to.
I tried calling and
texting. No response.
I did what I had to do
to get your attention.
What are you talking about?
I never got any calls or messages.
And if you just untie my hands,
I'll grab my phone and prove it to you.
Again, nothing's tied.
- Right.
- You're completely free to go.
I see.
Well, your twisted game
of reverse psychology
is working, because
now I don't want to go.
- Lucky me.
- Don't patronize me.
- I will walk right out of here.
- Go ahead.
Can't get rid of me that easy.
Stop, okay?
I'm not playing mind games, Ruby.
I just want to know what's happening.
If I'm gonna die, how
much time do I have left?
I don't know, unfortunately.
We don't know when, where,
or how you're gonna die,
but you are gonna die.
Now, if you'd kindly refer
to the sex timeline we wrote
on the back of that babysitting flyer,
we do know you have
two guys ahead of you.
Yeah, why do you have me down
as Green Day/Sum 41 T-shirt guy?
Sorry.
My friend AJ and I disagreed on
which T-shirt you always wore,
but I know it was Sum 41.
It was actually 4 Non Blondes.
And you borrowed that T-shirt
and never gave it back.
Been a few years, Rich.
Memory is a bit fuzzy on that one.
I'm sure it is.
But I did get your texts.
I just didn't have you
in my phone as Richie,
so I never read them.
What do you mean?
You're under Gabriel for some reason.
I just assumed it was some Mormon
I fell out of touch with.
You put me in your phone as Gabriel?
Yes.
All I'm saying is, why didn't Malignant
go to the police sooner?
Please stop calling her Malignant.
The character's name was Madison.
- Was it?
- Yeah.
She's the main character of the movie.
How did you miss that?
Because the movie's confusing.
No, it's not.
Malignant is Gabriel,
Madison's parasitic twin.
Well, then who's the guy
killing all those people?
Gabriel!
So he's the parasitic conjoined twin
and a separate person
killing the people?
It was a visual mislead.
We were in Madison's dreams
seeing Gabriel, not reality.
Well, maybe they should
have explained that
at the beginning of the movie.
They should have spoiled
the big plot twist
at the beginning of the movie?
Are you insane?
You know what? Let's reset.
Wanna see a picture of my dog?
[SCOFFS] No.
Fine.
- Cute.
- Thank you.
You know, that argument
about "Malignant"
was the last time I
saw you for, like, years
before you walked into my trivia night.
That's what happens
when people break up.
What breakup?
After we argued at the bar,
I drove us back to your place.
You said you were having a super period,
so I left, and then you ghosted me.
We were just casual.
What did you expect me to do?
Look
all I'm saying is that
you could have told me
you wanted to end things.
Richie! No message is a message.
Would you rather I had
sent you a long text
about all the things
I don't like about you?
Okay, I don't like
how your favorite
actor is Charlie Sheen.
I don't like how you end conversations
with "smell you later."
- Send.
- Yes.
That would have been better
than leaving me hanging.
I don't think we were
soulmates or anything.
It's just, like, basic human decency.
How do you not see that?
Like, do you even see that?
Look, I am trying my best, okay?
I know I'm not perfect.
But I am showing up and doing the work.
I know I ditched you years ago
and I'm only here now
because you kidnapped me,
but I am here now, aren't I?
Isn't that progress?
[SOFT MUSIC]
Or maybe not, and there's
just something wrong with me.
Hey.
Look at me.
Yeah?
There's for sure
something wrong with you.
You're the worst person I've ever met.
And I host trivia.
Whew!
Wow.
It felt amazing getting
that off my chest.
I've been wanting to
tell you that for years.
Okay.
Thank you for coming.
- What?
- Come on.
Out you go.
I appreciate all the info.
Seems like I got a lot
of loose ends to tie up,
so I'm gonna get at it.
Come on.
Smell you later.
[COVER OF JAMES' "LAID"]
This bed is on fire
with passionate love ♪
The neighbors complain
about the noises above ♪
But she only comes
when she's on top ♪
♪
My therapist said
not to see you no more ♪
She said you're like a
disease without any cure ♪
She said I'm so obsessed
that I'm becoming a bore ♪
Oh, no ♪
I think you're so pretty ♪
♪
[LIGHT MUSIC]
♪
To the left. To the left.
To the right. To the right.
And slide.
Oh. What's up, Rubes?
You want a ho-cho to the fo-cho?
- What?
- A ho-cho to the fo-cho,
hot chocolate to the face.
I'm gathering hot
chocolates for AJ and I.
They're, like, 8 bucks,
but I could get you one
if you want to Venmo me.
- No thanks.
- Okay.
More ho-chos to the
fo-chos for mo-mo, or
shit, I lost it.
What? Wait, wait, wait.
Why are you being so weird?
You're, like, all happy.
It's kind of gross.
I don't know. Why wouldn't I be happy?
AJ and I are back together. It's great.
Uh, it's not great,
because a couple days ago,
you and I, you know
- Humped?
- Ugh, horrifying.
But yeah, no big deal.
Just the ultimate
betrayal of my best friend.
And my best friend.
You know, I was literally
just told by an ex
that I was the worst
person he had ever met.
And at first, I was
like, that can't be true.
I adopted a middle-aged dog.
But then I see you, and I
think about what we did to AJ,
and then I'm like, yeah,
yeah, maybe he was right.
Maybe I am the worst
person in the world.
Hey, I don't feel great about it either.
But at least at the time,
AJ and I were broken up.
Plus, she straight-up balled
that wedding cellist that same night.
I think she just gave him,
like, a lot of hand jobs.
Ugh.
But I still feel so guilty.
- Like, why did we do that?
- [SIGHS]
I think I have to tell her the truth.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
You can't do that.
Uh, I definitely can.
I'm not the girl who sleeps
with her best friend's boyfriend.
But you kinda are.
Well, I don't want to be.
Listen, Linda, you don't think
I've thought about telling her?
I feel just as guilty as you do.
But I know that if I told
AJ, it would just destroy her.
Yesterday, she told me
she was the kind of person
who would always want to know
the truth, no matter how bad.
All that telling her would
do would make you not feel
like the worst person in the world,
or whatever that ding-dong told you.
To me, that's selfish.
The kinder thing to do
would be for you and I
to shut the hell up and let
the stress of our secrets
give us ulcers.
Right.
It's our burden to bear.
Exactly.
Look, we can't change the past.
But in the present, we
can be the best boyfriend
and the best best
friend we can be to AJ.
I can do that.
I think it's for the best.
I mean, it's not like we killed someone.
Ha!
As far as you know.
I know I'm getting a
ho-cho to the fo-cho.
That's what I know.
Hi, Ruby Hot Sauce.
Mommy's home.
Other mommy's in your room!
I sent Zack off for ho-chos
so I could whip this baby
out and make some updates.
Where have you been?
To hell and back.
Richie kidnapped me.
No. Green Day shirt?
Sum 41.
But he said it was 4 Non Blondes.
I don't see that band for him.
So what happened?
He held you at gunpoint? Knifepoint?
Neither.
He kept me there with mind games.
I was held at mind-point.
Oh.
While I do want to hear more,
I have some news that
is far more pressing.
As you can see, we have had a busy day.
You know your sex cluster?
The sex cluster is dying?
We're calling it a death cluster now.
I set up notifications on my phone
with all the cluster names,
and it has been dinging
like a church bell with death notices.
Shall we hit some highlights?
Are you excited?
Of course not. [CHUCKLES]
No.
Finance bro Simon?
Yeah, we'll see how
the Nikkei opens, huh?
[TIRES SQUEAL] [SCREAMS]
Car crash.
- Corbin the clown?
- [GASPS]
Heart attack.
Philippe and Jordana
[BOTH GASPING]
- Sauna malfunction.
- [SCREAMS]
Beth was forced to watch.
Help! Help!
And then there's Joao.
ALL: Lumber is murder!
Lumber is murder!
[SPEAKING PORTUGUESE]
Accidental chainsaw to the chest.
Your guy, Lug?
[GRUNTS]
[FABRIC TEARS]
Colon blowout in a burpees boot camp.
Oh, my God.
The cleanup was endless.
This is all so awful.
I know. Horrifying.
I didn't realize colons did that.
[PHONE DINGS]
Oh, there goes another one.
Down goes Brian Glidewell.
- No way.
- Yes, way.
Glidewell just glided
well into the afterlife.
Oh, shit.
I guess Richie was right.
It was 4 Non Blondes, and
I did take his T-shirt.
- [PHONE DINGS]
- Oh, no.
Speak of the devil.
What trivia master was just
killed in a gas explosion?
Wait. Richie's dead?
I'm afraid so.
Do you want to X him out, or should I?
Wait, this is so crazy.
I was just with him an hour ago.
He seemed fine.
I know.
Okay, I'll do it.
Look, I know this
case brings you energy.
But these are all real
people I knew, so you
- [PHONE DINGS]
- Oh!
Looks like Chuck bit it too.
Sorry. You were saying?
Can you just put it on silent?
Oh, false alarm.
That was just a
reminder that Amanda Knox
is gonna be on "The Today Show."
Gotta set my DVR.
[PHONE DINGS]
Okay, now Chuck's dead.
Apparently he was in a
rock climbing accident
and got peeled like a Fruit Roll-Up.
RIP.
I wish I knew.
Are you talking to the shirt?
- No.
- Good,
because you should be
taking in this board.
These deaths have given
us so much new data.
Like, Jordana getting steamed to death
means that women are not safe.
Another item of note
before the death cluster,
the deaths were separated by a few days,
but now, it is totally accelerating.
We are running out of
time to warn people.
Well, then shit!
We have to do more, pick up the pace,
find people, warn them,
keep them out of danger,
- whatever it takes.
- Agreed.
All right, okay. So who's next?
Oh, no.
The one celebrity on my list.
[DRAMATIC MUSICAL STING]
I don't understand why
I'm not in business class.
[SCOFFS] No.
No, no, I understand
that there's no business
class on this flight.
I guess I'm curious as to why that is.
This is a SAG issue.
I mean, why did we even strike?
Just coming in now, huh?
[WHISPERING] I'm surrounded
by selfish animals.
Okay, I gotta run.
The lady next to me is gonna
listen to our conversation,
and then I'm not gonna
be able to be myself.
Anyway, find me my "Anatomy
of a Fall," Mitchell.
Hi, John Early.
Hello friend.
[CHUCKLES] Look, you got a pen?
I sign everything except breasts.
No, it's me, Ruby.
Remember?
I [LAUGHS]
It was the beginning of COVID.
Everything was just canceled.
Tom Hanks had just died.
We were at our mutual friend
Liam's 4th of July barbecue,
all masked up and six feet apart,
wondering if we should even be there.
And then we had a few mai
tais, and you were like,
I don't want to be alone!
So you figured, what the heck?
Might as well try
sleeping with a woman once.
Maybe this will help.
[SIGHS]
Oh, yep.
[PANTING]
[GRUNTING]
[PATRIOTIC MUSIC]
[MUFFLED] I'm never gonna come.
[MUFFLED] I can't understand you!
[BOTH PANTING]
Ruby, right.
[LAUGHS] What a time to remember.
How have you been, by the way?
Can you believe how long that lasted?
"Two weeks to flatten
the curve," they said.
Two weeks. And then no one
Okay, I'm sorry, John.
I hate to interrupt what I know will be
a hilarious run, but
Thank you.
We have to focus on you right now.
Your life is in danger,
and you have to get off this plane.
Oh, you poor thing.
Did you decide to get off your meds
so you could feel feelings again?
I've been there, and, honey, trust me,
it's better to stay numb.
No, but I get why you're skeptical.
You're a contrarian, and
that informs your comedy.
But everyone I've slept with
has been dying, for real.
So getting on a plane
right now is way too risky.
[LAUGHS NERVOUSLY]
Sweetie, I validate your worries
[WHISPERING] But I'm shooting
an Icelandic yogurt commercial
in Flagstaff tomorrow.
So unless you have $2.5 million
that you can give me right now,
I'm gonna stay on this
plane and sell some Siggi.
- Please!
- Jesus.
If you won't listen to
me, then can you at least
get in touch with
your celebrity friends?
- Uh
- Your mouthiest queens
Sarandon, Messing, Drescher
and tell them what's happening.
We need their help to stop
this before anyone else dies.
- [SCOFFS]
- Remini.
Okay, I am so sorry
for whatever it is you're going through.
Clearly, there's
there's something here.
But unless you want to help
me run my lines in Icelandic
for Siggi, then this is where
I put on my noise-cancels
and get some qui-qui time.
Okay?
Finally. [LAUGHS]
I pressed the call button,
like, three minutes ago.
It's so crazy.
The service in economy is insane.
How can I help you, sir?
Um, I think we have a, um
a cuckoo.
Ma'am, can I see your ticket?
- I am not a cuckoo.
- I
I bought a ticket on
the way to the airport
so I could warn you.
Here you go.
This isn't your seat,
so I'm going to need you to move.
These seats are $27?
Oh, my God!
Ma'am?
Ma'am.
[SIGHS]
I am not flying to Flagstaff,
and neither should you, John Early.
[SPEAKING ICELANDIC]
Tom Hanks is fine, by the way. [SCOFFS]
[BELL DINGS]
[LIGHT MUSIC]
No way you booked the Brett
Hely Trio for the reception.
[LAUGHS] My parents are gonna flip.
There's always Hely or
Tesh playing at the house.
[CHUCKLES]
So how'd you work this miracle?
Ruby?
Oh, I, uh, did PR for
their West Coast tour
a few years back.
Nice guys.
Hey. Hi.
You okay? What's going on?
Oh. Sorry.
There's just a lot going on right now.
Like what?
Well, it's just
bad things keep happening
to people close to me,
and it's all my fault.
Well, I'm sure it's not.
Oh, no.
I really think it is.
Don't be fooled by this
cute, sweet-looking face.
Inside, I'm a Dahmer monster.
[LAUGHS] Okay.
Well, thank you for the warning.
I was in danger of being fooled.
Yeah, you're welcome.
I feel like I've seen you
upset like this before,
with that other thing
with your friend, AJ.
But you got through that, right?
You know what's funny about you?
You're kind of a mess,
but you're not as much of a mess
as you think you are.
I think you're wrong, but thank you.
I don't know.
Sometimes it's all just
so overwhelming, you know?
You know what helps me
whenever I'm feeling overwhelmed?
Let me guess. You rewatch "The Office"?
That feels like an insult,
but I don't know why.
[BOTH LAUGH]
Okay, this is a little embarrassing,
but you remember the
last time you were here
and I was watching
"The Greatest Showman"?
Well, I actually do
a little more than just watch it.
You don't mean you
[LAUGHS INCREDULOUSLY] No!
- Okay.
- No.
[LAUGHS AWKWARDLY]
I, um
I like to perform the choreography
from the movie.
Perform?
I've memorized all the dance sequences,
and I and I dance to them.
That's, uh, really cool, Isaac.
[LAUGHS] Shut up.
- Don't laugh at me.
- [LAUGHS] No, it's I mean
It always calms me down
and helps me feel better.
You should try it.
Well, can I see it first?
Like, can I see you do it?
No. No, no, I couldn't possibly.
- Oh, come on.
- Fine.
Help me move the couch.
[SIGHS]
I was just watching
it before you got here.
[TV CHIMES]
You're electrified ♪
And the world becomes a fantasy ♪
And you're more than
you could ever be ♪
'Cause you're dreaming
with your eyes wide open ♪
- Wow, you're really good.
- Thank you.
To the world that we were living in ♪
'Cause we're dreaming
with our eyes wide open ♪
So come alive ♪
[BOTH LAUGH]
It's your turn. Come on.
[GROANING PLAYFULLY]
Come on. Take off your shoes. Let's go.
Let them break me down to dust ♪
I know that there's a place for us ♪
For we are glorious ♪
When the sharpest
words wanna cut me down ♪
Eh, eh, eh ♪
I'm gonna send a flood,
gonna drown 'em out ♪
Eh, eh, eh ♪
I am brave, I am bruised ♪
I am who I'm meant to be ♪
This is me ♪
Look out, 'cause here I come ♪
What the fuck is going on in here?
Merci.
I thought "Greatest
Showman"-ing was our thing,
a thing I hated but did
with you out of love.
Babe, it it is our thing.
But Ruby was feeling down
and needed cheering up, so
Oh, is that right?
Were you feeling sad, Wuby?
Why is your hair like that?
It's I'm the bearded lady.
You're embarrassing yourself.
You know he has a girlfriend.
I mean, seriously, what
kind of person does this?
- Honey.
- No, she's right.
I am so sorry.
Whose idea was the hair beard, Isaac?
Bet it was yours, you sick fuck.
[LINE TRILLS]
Hey.
I just finished watching the Amanda Knox
"Today Show" interview,
and it was gripping.
Yeah, that's good.
Hey, can I tell you about something?
Sure. Let me just come down
from this interview for a second.
If I had to offer critique,
I'd say Hoda seemed a little tired.
It's like, ma'am, wake the hell up.
You are sitting with an icon.
Yes, for sure. Totally.
Okay, so you're gonna be mad at me,
but I think I like someone.
Cute client, 7 feet tall?
- Yeah.
- Nope.
Shut it down and suck it back in.
You can't like someone right now
because you could kill them.
I am not gonna sleep with Isaac,
but I can't help my feelings.
Yeah, you can.
Shut it off like our subscription
to the "Seattle Times."
News every day was too much.
It's off.
He has a girlfriend.
Good. You're better than that.
[SIGHS]
It's just
being with him makes me feel
less like a piece of garbage,
you know?
He just sees me so differently
than all these other people do.
Well, of course he does.
You have zero history.
There's no baggage.
But don't mistake that for
something more than it is.
I know.
It's just, he makes me feel
like I could be a good person.
You are a good person.
I don't know if that's true, but
I want to be.
Stop.
Put that Eeyore shit away and come home.
We'll have a nice dinner
together with Zack.
He made meatloaf.
He said he put extra bread in the meat,
which should be interesting.
Yeah, that does sound interesting,
but, uh, I'm gonna go to Richie's bar
and see if there's, like, a memorial
set up for him or something.
Richie, the guy who kidnapped you?
Look, he told me I was the
worst person he's ever met.
Flat-out said the most honest criticism
anyone's said to me in a long time.
I felt destroyed.
[BOTH CHUCKLING]
But in a crazy way,
I think maybe it's
what I needed to hear,
because it did really
make me look at myself.
So I'm grateful for the gift he left me
before he passed on and went to hell.
For an unhinged dickhole,
he wasn't half bad.
So that's why I'm visiting his memorial,
because that is what a
better version of me would do.
AJ?
Guess I lost her.
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
- What can I get you?
- First of all,
I am sorry for your loss.
I'm sure Richie was a
valued member of your team.
Anyway, I was just wondering
if there was a memorial area
set up for him so I
could pay my respects.
Look, lady, I'm new
here, and I have no idea
what you're talking about,
but there's no memorials going on,
as far as I can tell.
Well, then I'd like
to start one for him,
if you don't mind.
Hey, Percy.
This gal wants to start a
memorial for a guy named Ricky.
- That all right?
- Richie. Ri Richie!
It's Richie.
He's not hearing me. Hang on.
I'll find out for you.
♪
Rest in peace, Gabriel.
Smell you later.
You friends with that d-bag Richie?
Hmm, friends.
It's a little more nuanced than that.
Well, he no-showed for trivia.
Not a call, not a text.
We've had to throw our barback Andrew,
who is very poorly educated,
in as Trivia Master.
- The answer is Pluto.
- Come on.
Pluto's not the answer
because Pluto's not a planet.
It's a nightmare.
Oh, no.
Richie is dead in his apartment.
He's dead in his apartment,
and no one's found his body.
[KEYS JANGLING]
[SNIFFS] I smell ammonia in the air.
That means he's already decomposing.
Ugh. [SIGHS]
Trust me, you're going
to want some of this.
Blocks out all odors.
I got Long COVID.
I can't smell a damn thing.
My best friend is obsessed
with finding a dead body,
so we always carry some
of this in our purses.
[CHUCKLES]
Actually, I should probably text her
to tell her to come meet us.
But let's grab a quick look first
so I know how to tease it for her.
Okay.
What the fuck, Larry?
You can't just burst into my apartment.
Ruby?
You're alive?
How do you know Larry?
Is that an aquarium?
You can't have an aquarium.
Oh, really, Larry?
Where does it say I can't
have an aquarium, huh?
$1,200 a month.
I thought you were dead,
so I talked your landlord
into letting me in to ID the body.
What what are you
I'm frosting my tips.
After you left the other
day, I was like, fuck it.
If I'm gonna die, I'm gonna
explode my life in style.
Blew off my job, broke
up with this girl Chelsea
I didn't even like, and then decided
it was now or never to see if
I could pull off frosted tips.
Hand me the tint brush, please.
Wait, but all the people
after you in my sex
cluster have already died.
So how are you alive?
Wait, wait, wait. They have?
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]
So it skipped me.
[TV REPORTER SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
I guess it did.
In other news, a box of kittens
is responsible for a fire
Do you know what this means?
- You're a sex loophole.
- My dick is invincible?
I'm a sex loophole.
The cats tipped their box off the table,
knocking over a lit candle.
The three homes burnt
down, but thankfully,
the kittens survived.
Now, we've just received confirmation
that a plane bound for Flagstaff
went down today due to
an engine malfunction.
Thankfully, everyone on board survived,
except for one passenger.
Sucked out of the back of economy class,
niche gay performer
John Early dead at 54.
Early, whose middle name is also John,
was probably someone you didn't
Some people say ♪
A man is made out of mud ♪
A poor man's made ♪
Out of muscle and blood ♪
Muscle and blood ♪
And skin and bones ♪
A mind that's weak ♪
And a back that's strong ♪
You load 16 tons ♪
What do you get? ♪
Another day older
and deeper in debt ♪
St. Peter, don't you call me ♪
'Cause I can't go ♪
I owe my soul to the company store ♪
[TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD'S "SIXTEEN TONS"]
I was born one morning ♪
When the sun didn't shine ♪
I picked up my shovel ♪
And I walked to the mine ♪
I loaded 16 tons
of number nine coal ♪
And the straw boss said ♪
"Well, bless my soul" ♪
♪
I think that's a good idea.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
Richie?
I fucking knew I had a stalker!
Whoa, whoa, whoa. What
are you talking about?
I'm not your stalker.
Stalkers never think
they're stalkers, Richie.
You're telling on yourself.
Look, whatever reason you
have to murder all my exes,
you don't want to murder me.
Party will be over.
I didn't murder anyone, and
I'm not gonna murder you.
Then why am I tied up in your apartment?
You're not tied up.
Oh.
- [MICROWAVE BEEPING]
- Oh, popcorn's ready.
[CLEARS THROAT]
You got a wild one on the side.
Other side.
- You got it.
- Okay, what what do you want, Richie?
Well, I brought you here today
Kidnapped me here.
I brought you here with force
because you showed up
at my place of work,
told me I'm gonna die,
and then vanished without letting me ask
some follow-up questions.
So you put a bag over my head
- and threw me in the trunk of your car?
- Yes, Ruby!
This is what you've reduced me to.
I tried calling and
texting. No response.
I did what I had to do
to get your attention.
What are you talking about?
I never got any calls or messages.
And if you just untie my hands,
I'll grab my phone and prove it to you.
Again, nothing's tied.
- Right.
- You're completely free to go.
I see.
Well, your twisted game
of reverse psychology
is working, because
now I don't want to go.
- Lucky me.
- Don't patronize me.
- I will walk right out of here.
- Go ahead.
Can't get rid of me that easy.
Stop, okay?
I'm not playing mind games, Ruby.
I just want to know what's happening.
If I'm gonna die, how
much time do I have left?
I don't know, unfortunately.
We don't know when, where,
or how you're gonna die,
but you are gonna die.
Now, if you'd kindly refer
to the sex timeline we wrote
on the back of that babysitting flyer,
we do know you have
two guys ahead of you.
Yeah, why do you have me down
as Green Day/Sum 41 T-shirt guy?
Sorry.
My friend AJ and I disagreed on
which T-shirt you always wore,
but I know it was Sum 41.
It was actually 4 Non Blondes.
And you borrowed that T-shirt
and never gave it back.
Been a few years, Rich.
Memory is a bit fuzzy on that one.
I'm sure it is.
But I did get your texts.
I just didn't have you
in my phone as Richie,
so I never read them.
What do you mean?
You're under Gabriel for some reason.
I just assumed it was some Mormon
I fell out of touch with.
You put me in your phone as Gabriel?
Yes.
All I'm saying is, why didn't Malignant
go to the police sooner?
Please stop calling her Malignant.
The character's name was Madison.
- Was it?
- Yeah.
She's the main character of the movie.
How did you miss that?
Because the movie's confusing.
No, it's not.
Malignant is Gabriel,
Madison's parasitic twin.
Well, then who's the guy
killing all those people?
Gabriel!
So he's the parasitic conjoined twin
and a separate person
killing the people?
It was a visual mislead.
We were in Madison's dreams
seeing Gabriel, not reality.
Well, maybe they should
have explained that
at the beginning of the movie.
They should have spoiled
the big plot twist
at the beginning of the movie?
Are you insane?
You know what? Let's reset.
Wanna see a picture of my dog?
[SCOFFS] No.
Fine.
- Cute.
- Thank you.
You know, that argument
about "Malignant"
was the last time I
saw you for, like, years
before you walked into my trivia night.
That's what happens
when people break up.
What breakup?
After we argued at the bar,
I drove us back to your place.
You said you were having a super period,
so I left, and then you ghosted me.
We were just casual.
What did you expect me to do?
Look
all I'm saying is that
you could have told me
you wanted to end things.
Richie! No message is a message.
Would you rather I had
sent you a long text
about all the things
I don't like about you?
Okay, I don't like
how your favorite
actor is Charlie Sheen.
I don't like how you end conversations
with "smell you later."
- Send.
- Yes.
That would have been better
than leaving me hanging.
I don't think we were
soulmates or anything.
It's just, like, basic human decency.
How do you not see that?
Like, do you even see that?
Look, I am trying my best, okay?
I know I'm not perfect.
But I am showing up and doing the work.
I know I ditched you years ago
and I'm only here now
because you kidnapped me,
but I am here now, aren't I?
Isn't that progress?
[SOFT MUSIC]
Or maybe not, and there's
just something wrong with me.
Hey.
Look at me.
Yeah?
There's for sure
something wrong with you.
You're the worst person I've ever met.
And I host trivia.
Whew!
Wow.
It felt amazing getting
that off my chest.
I've been wanting to
tell you that for years.
Okay.
Thank you for coming.
- What?
- Come on.
Out you go.
I appreciate all the info.
Seems like I got a lot
of loose ends to tie up,
so I'm gonna get at it.
Come on.
Smell you later.
[COVER OF JAMES' "LAID"]
This bed is on fire
with passionate love ♪
The neighbors complain
about the noises above ♪
But she only comes
when she's on top ♪
♪
My therapist said
not to see you no more ♪
She said you're like a
disease without any cure ♪
She said I'm so obsessed
that I'm becoming a bore ♪
Oh, no ♪
I think you're so pretty ♪
♪
[LIGHT MUSIC]
♪
To the left. To the left.
To the right. To the right.
And slide.
Oh. What's up, Rubes?
You want a ho-cho to the fo-cho?
- What?
- A ho-cho to the fo-cho,
hot chocolate to the face.
I'm gathering hot
chocolates for AJ and I.
They're, like, 8 bucks,
but I could get you one
if you want to Venmo me.
- No thanks.
- Okay.
More ho-chos to the
fo-chos for mo-mo, or
shit, I lost it.
What? Wait, wait, wait.
Why are you being so weird?
You're, like, all happy.
It's kind of gross.
I don't know. Why wouldn't I be happy?
AJ and I are back together. It's great.
Uh, it's not great,
because a couple days ago,
you and I, you know
- Humped?
- Ugh, horrifying.
But yeah, no big deal.
Just the ultimate
betrayal of my best friend.
And my best friend.
You know, I was literally
just told by an ex
that I was the worst
person he had ever met.
And at first, I was
like, that can't be true.
I adopted a middle-aged dog.
But then I see you, and I
think about what we did to AJ,
and then I'm like, yeah,
yeah, maybe he was right.
Maybe I am the worst
person in the world.
Hey, I don't feel great about it either.
But at least at the time,
AJ and I were broken up.
Plus, she straight-up balled
that wedding cellist that same night.
I think she just gave him,
like, a lot of hand jobs.
Ugh.
But I still feel so guilty.
- Like, why did we do that?
- [SIGHS]
I think I have to tell her the truth.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
You can't do that.
Uh, I definitely can.
I'm not the girl who sleeps
with her best friend's boyfriend.
But you kinda are.
Well, I don't want to be.
Listen, Linda, you don't think
I've thought about telling her?
I feel just as guilty as you do.
But I know that if I told
AJ, it would just destroy her.
Yesterday, she told me
she was the kind of person
who would always want to know
the truth, no matter how bad.
All that telling her would
do would make you not feel
like the worst person in the world,
or whatever that ding-dong told you.
To me, that's selfish.
The kinder thing to do
would be for you and I
to shut the hell up and let
the stress of our secrets
give us ulcers.
Right.
It's our burden to bear.
Exactly.
Look, we can't change the past.
But in the present, we
can be the best boyfriend
and the best best
friend we can be to AJ.
I can do that.
I think it's for the best.
I mean, it's not like we killed someone.
Ha!
As far as you know.
I know I'm getting a
ho-cho to the fo-cho.
That's what I know.
Hi, Ruby Hot Sauce.
Mommy's home.
Other mommy's in your room!
I sent Zack off for ho-chos
so I could whip this baby
out and make some updates.
Where have you been?
To hell and back.
Richie kidnapped me.
No. Green Day shirt?
Sum 41.
But he said it was 4 Non Blondes.
I don't see that band for him.
So what happened?
He held you at gunpoint? Knifepoint?
Neither.
He kept me there with mind games.
I was held at mind-point.
Oh.
While I do want to hear more,
I have some news that
is far more pressing.
As you can see, we have had a busy day.
You know your sex cluster?
The sex cluster is dying?
We're calling it a death cluster now.
I set up notifications on my phone
with all the cluster names,
and it has been dinging
like a church bell with death notices.
Shall we hit some highlights?
Are you excited?
Of course not. [CHUCKLES]
No.
Finance bro Simon?
Yeah, we'll see how
the Nikkei opens, huh?
[TIRES SQUEAL] [SCREAMS]
Car crash.
- Corbin the clown?
- [GASPS]
Heart attack.
Philippe and Jordana
[BOTH GASPING]
- Sauna malfunction.
- [SCREAMS]
Beth was forced to watch.
Help! Help!
And then there's Joao.
ALL: Lumber is murder!
Lumber is murder!
[SPEAKING PORTUGUESE]
Accidental chainsaw to the chest.
Your guy, Lug?
[GRUNTS]
[FABRIC TEARS]
Colon blowout in a burpees boot camp.
Oh, my God.
The cleanup was endless.
This is all so awful.
I know. Horrifying.
I didn't realize colons did that.
[PHONE DINGS]
Oh, there goes another one.
Down goes Brian Glidewell.
- No way.
- Yes, way.
Glidewell just glided
well into the afterlife.
Oh, shit.
I guess Richie was right.
It was 4 Non Blondes, and
I did take his T-shirt.
- [PHONE DINGS]
- Oh, no.
Speak of the devil.
What trivia master was just
killed in a gas explosion?
Wait. Richie's dead?
I'm afraid so.
Do you want to X him out, or should I?
Wait, this is so crazy.
I was just with him an hour ago.
He seemed fine.
I know.
Okay, I'll do it.
Look, I know this
case brings you energy.
But these are all real
people I knew, so you
- [PHONE DINGS]
- Oh!
Looks like Chuck bit it too.
Sorry. You were saying?
Can you just put it on silent?
Oh, false alarm.
That was just a
reminder that Amanda Knox
is gonna be on "The Today Show."
Gotta set my DVR.
[PHONE DINGS]
Okay, now Chuck's dead.
Apparently he was in a
rock climbing accident
and got peeled like a Fruit Roll-Up.
RIP.
I wish I knew.
Are you talking to the shirt?
- No.
- Good,
because you should be
taking in this board.
These deaths have given
us so much new data.
Like, Jordana getting steamed to death
means that women are not safe.
Another item of note
before the death cluster,
the deaths were separated by a few days,
but now, it is totally accelerating.
We are running out of
time to warn people.
Well, then shit!
We have to do more, pick up the pace,
find people, warn them,
keep them out of danger,
- whatever it takes.
- Agreed.
All right, okay. So who's next?
Oh, no.
The one celebrity on my list.
[DRAMATIC MUSICAL STING]
I don't understand why
I'm not in business class.
[SCOFFS] No.
No, no, I understand
that there's no business
class on this flight.
I guess I'm curious as to why that is.
This is a SAG issue.
I mean, why did we even strike?
Just coming in now, huh?
[WHISPERING] I'm surrounded
by selfish animals.
Okay, I gotta run.
The lady next to me is gonna
listen to our conversation,
and then I'm not gonna
be able to be myself.
Anyway, find me my "Anatomy
of a Fall," Mitchell.
Hi, John Early.
Hello friend.
[CHUCKLES] Look, you got a pen?
I sign everything except breasts.
No, it's me, Ruby.
Remember?
I [LAUGHS]
It was the beginning of COVID.
Everything was just canceled.
Tom Hanks had just died.
We were at our mutual friend
Liam's 4th of July barbecue,
all masked up and six feet apart,
wondering if we should even be there.
And then we had a few mai
tais, and you were like,
I don't want to be alone!
So you figured, what the heck?
Might as well try
sleeping with a woman once.
Maybe this will help.
[SIGHS]
Oh, yep.
[PANTING]
[GRUNTING]
[PATRIOTIC MUSIC]
[MUFFLED] I'm never gonna come.
[MUFFLED] I can't understand you!
[BOTH PANTING]
Ruby, right.
[LAUGHS] What a time to remember.
How have you been, by the way?
Can you believe how long that lasted?
"Two weeks to flatten
the curve," they said.
Two weeks. And then no one
Okay, I'm sorry, John.
I hate to interrupt what I know will be
a hilarious run, but
Thank you.
We have to focus on you right now.
Your life is in danger,
and you have to get off this plane.
Oh, you poor thing.
Did you decide to get off your meds
so you could feel feelings again?
I've been there, and, honey, trust me,
it's better to stay numb.
No, but I get why you're skeptical.
You're a contrarian, and
that informs your comedy.
But everyone I've slept with
has been dying, for real.
So getting on a plane
right now is way too risky.
[LAUGHS NERVOUSLY]
Sweetie, I validate your worries
[WHISPERING] But I'm shooting
an Icelandic yogurt commercial
in Flagstaff tomorrow.
So unless you have $2.5 million
that you can give me right now,
I'm gonna stay on this
plane and sell some Siggi.
- Please!
- Jesus.
If you won't listen to
me, then can you at least
get in touch with
your celebrity friends?
- Uh
- Your mouthiest queens
Sarandon, Messing, Drescher
and tell them what's happening.
We need their help to stop
this before anyone else dies.
- [SCOFFS]
- Remini.
Okay, I am so sorry
for whatever it is you're going through.
Clearly, there's
there's something here.
But unless you want to help
me run my lines in Icelandic
for Siggi, then this is where
I put on my noise-cancels
and get some qui-qui time.
Okay?
Finally. [LAUGHS]
I pressed the call button,
like, three minutes ago.
It's so crazy.
The service in economy is insane.
How can I help you, sir?
Um, I think we have a, um
a cuckoo.
Ma'am, can I see your ticket?
- I am not a cuckoo.
- I
I bought a ticket on
the way to the airport
so I could warn you.
Here you go.
This isn't your seat,
so I'm going to need you to move.
These seats are $27?
Oh, my God!
Ma'am?
Ma'am.
[SIGHS]
I am not flying to Flagstaff,
and neither should you, John Early.
[SPEAKING ICELANDIC]
Tom Hanks is fine, by the way. [SCOFFS]
[BELL DINGS]
[LIGHT MUSIC]
No way you booked the Brett
Hely Trio for the reception.
[LAUGHS] My parents are gonna flip.
There's always Hely or
Tesh playing at the house.
[CHUCKLES]
So how'd you work this miracle?
Ruby?
Oh, I, uh, did PR for
their West Coast tour
a few years back.
Nice guys.
Hey. Hi.
You okay? What's going on?
Oh. Sorry.
There's just a lot going on right now.
Like what?
Well, it's just
bad things keep happening
to people close to me,
and it's all my fault.
Well, I'm sure it's not.
Oh, no.
I really think it is.
Don't be fooled by this
cute, sweet-looking face.
Inside, I'm a Dahmer monster.
[LAUGHS] Okay.
Well, thank you for the warning.
I was in danger of being fooled.
Yeah, you're welcome.
I feel like I've seen you
upset like this before,
with that other thing
with your friend, AJ.
But you got through that, right?
You know what's funny about you?
You're kind of a mess,
but you're not as much of a mess
as you think you are.
I think you're wrong, but thank you.
I don't know.
Sometimes it's all just
so overwhelming, you know?
You know what helps me
whenever I'm feeling overwhelmed?
Let me guess. You rewatch "The Office"?
That feels like an insult,
but I don't know why.
[BOTH LAUGH]
Okay, this is a little embarrassing,
but you remember the
last time you were here
and I was watching
"The Greatest Showman"?
Well, I actually do
a little more than just watch it.
You don't mean you
[LAUGHS INCREDULOUSLY] No!
- Okay.
- No.
[LAUGHS AWKWARDLY]
I, um
I like to perform the choreography
from the movie.
Perform?
I've memorized all the dance sequences,
and I and I dance to them.
That's, uh, really cool, Isaac.
[LAUGHS] Shut up.
- Don't laugh at me.
- [LAUGHS] No, it's I mean
It always calms me down
and helps me feel better.
You should try it.
Well, can I see it first?
Like, can I see you do it?
No. No, no, I couldn't possibly.
- Oh, come on.
- Fine.
Help me move the couch.
[SIGHS]
I was just watching
it before you got here.
[TV CHIMES]
You're electrified ♪
And the world becomes a fantasy ♪
And you're more than
you could ever be ♪
'Cause you're dreaming
with your eyes wide open ♪
- Wow, you're really good.
- Thank you.
To the world that we were living in ♪
'Cause we're dreaming
with our eyes wide open ♪
So come alive ♪
[BOTH LAUGH]
It's your turn. Come on.
[GROANING PLAYFULLY]
Come on. Take off your shoes. Let's go.
Let them break me down to dust ♪
I know that there's a place for us ♪
For we are glorious ♪
When the sharpest
words wanna cut me down ♪
Eh, eh, eh ♪
I'm gonna send a flood,
gonna drown 'em out ♪
Eh, eh, eh ♪
I am brave, I am bruised ♪
I am who I'm meant to be ♪
This is me ♪
Look out, 'cause here I come ♪
What the fuck is going on in here?
Merci.
I thought "Greatest
Showman"-ing was our thing,
a thing I hated but did
with you out of love.
Babe, it it is our thing.
But Ruby was feeling down
and needed cheering up, so
Oh, is that right?
Were you feeling sad, Wuby?
Why is your hair like that?
It's I'm the bearded lady.
You're embarrassing yourself.
You know he has a girlfriend.
I mean, seriously, what
kind of person does this?
- Honey.
- No, she's right.
I am so sorry.
Whose idea was the hair beard, Isaac?
Bet it was yours, you sick fuck.
[LINE TRILLS]
Hey.
I just finished watching the Amanda Knox
"Today Show" interview,
and it was gripping.
Yeah, that's good.
Hey, can I tell you about something?
Sure. Let me just come down
from this interview for a second.
If I had to offer critique,
I'd say Hoda seemed a little tired.
It's like, ma'am, wake the hell up.
You are sitting with an icon.
Yes, for sure. Totally.
Okay, so you're gonna be mad at me,
but I think I like someone.
Cute client, 7 feet tall?
- Yeah.
- Nope.
Shut it down and suck it back in.
You can't like someone right now
because you could kill them.
I am not gonna sleep with Isaac,
but I can't help my feelings.
Yeah, you can.
Shut it off like our subscription
to the "Seattle Times."
News every day was too much.
It's off.
He has a girlfriend.
Good. You're better than that.
[SIGHS]
It's just
being with him makes me feel
less like a piece of garbage,
you know?
He just sees me so differently
than all these other people do.
Well, of course he does.
You have zero history.
There's no baggage.
But don't mistake that for
something more than it is.
I know.
It's just, he makes me feel
like I could be a good person.
You are a good person.
I don't know if that's true, but
I want to be.
Stop.
Put that Eeyore shit away and come home.
We'll have a nice dinner
together with Zack.
He made meatloaf.
He said he put extra bread in the meat,
which should be interesting.
Yeah, that does sound interesting,
but, uh, I'm gonna go to Richie's bar
and see if there's, like, a memorial
set up for him or something.
Richie, the guy who kidnapped you?
Look, he told me I was the
worst person he's ever met.
Flat-out said the most honest criticism
anyone's said to me in a long time.
I felt destroyed.
[BOTH CHUCKLING]
But in a crazy way,
I think maybe it's
what I needed to hear,
because it did really
make me look at myself.
So I'm grateful for the gift he left me
before he passed on and went to hell.
For an unhinged dickhole,
he wasn't half bad.
So that's why I'm visiting his memorial,
because that is what a
better version of me would do.
AJ?
Guess I lost her.
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]
- What can I get you?
- First of all,
I am sorry for your loss.
I'm sure Richie was a
valued member of your team.
Anyway, I was just wondering
if there was a memorial area
set up for him so I
could pay my respects.
Look, lady, I'm new
here, and I have no idea
what you're talking about,
but there's no memorials going on,
as far as I can tell.
Well, then I'd like
to start one for him,
if you don't mind.
Hey, Percy.
This gal wants to start a
memorial for a guy named Ricky.
- That all right?
- Richie. Ri Richie!
It's Richie.
He's not hearing me. Hang on.
I'll find out for you.
♪
Rest in peace, Gabriel.
Smell you later.
You friends with that d-bag Richie?
Hmm, friends.
It's a little more nuanced than that.
Well, he no-showed for trivia.
Not a call, not a text.
We've had to throw our barback Andrew,
who is very poorly educated,
in as Trivia Master.
- The answer is Pluto.
- Come on.
Pluto's not the answer
because Pluto's not a planet.
It's a nightmare.
Oh, no.
Richie is dead in his apartment.
He's dead in his apartment,
and no one's found his body.
[KEYS JANGLING]
[SNIFFS] I smell ammonia in the air.
That means he's already decomposing.
Ugh. [SIGHS]
Trust me, you're going
to want some of this.
Blocks out all odors.
I got Long COVID.
I can't smell a damn thing.
My best friend is obsessed
with finding a dead body,
so we always carry some
of this in our purses.
[CHUCKLES]
Actually, I should probably text her
to tell her to come meet us.
But let's grab a quick look first
so I know how to tease it for her.
Okay.
What the fuck, Larry?
You can't just burst into my apartment.
Ruby?
You're alive?
How do you know Larry?
Is that an aquarium?
You can't have an aquarium.
Oh, really, Larry?
Where does it say I can't
have an aquarium, huh?
$1,200 a month.
I thought you were dead,
so I talked your landlord
into letting me in to ID the body.
What what are you
I'm frosting my tips.
After you left the other
day, I was like, fuck it.
If I'm gonna die, I'm gonna
explode my life in style.
Blew off my job, broke
up with this girl Chelsea
I didn't even like, and then decided
it was now or never to see if
I could pull off frosted tips.
Hand me the tint brush, please.
Wait, but all the people
after you in my sex
cluster have already died.
So how are you alive?
Wait, wait, wait. They have?
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]
So it skipped me.
[TV REPORTER SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
I guess it did.
In other news, a box of kittens
is responsible for a fire
Do you know what this means?
- You're a sex loophole.
- My dick is invincible?
I'm a sex loophole.
The cats tipped their box off the table,
knocking over a lit candle.
The three homes burnt
down, but thankfully,
the kittens survived.
Now, we've just received confirmation
that a plane bound for Flagstaff
went down today due to
an engine malfunction.
Thankfully, everyone on board survived,
except for one passenger.
Sucked out of the back of economy class,
niche gay performer
John Early dead at 54.
Early, whose middle name is also John,
was probably someone you didn't
Some people say ♪
A man is made out of mud ♪
A poor man's made ♪
Out of muscle and blood ♪
Muscle and blood ♪
And skin and bones ♪
A mind that's weak ♪
And a back that's strong ♪
You load 16 tons ♪
What do you get? ♪
Another day older
and deeper in debt ♪
St. Peter, don't you call me ♪
'Cause I can't go ♪
I owe my soul to the company store ♪
[TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD'S "SIXTEEN TONS"]
I was born one morning ♪
When the sun didn't shine ♪
I picked up my shovel ♪
And I walked to the mine ♪
I loaded 16 tons
of number nine coal ♪
And the straw boss said ♪
"Well, bless my soul" ♪
♪
I think that's a good idea.