Three Women (2023) s01e04 Episode Script
Maggie
1
Every day I have
to think about you ♪
Wonderin' where you've gone ♪
You know I'll cry
and try not to miss you ♪
Though you don't
love me at all ♪
And one day soon ♪
You'll find out you miss me ♪
But I won't hear your call,
and you'll ♪
- [MUSIC STOPS]
- [WIND WHISTLING]
[SIGHS]
[GIA] It was winter in Fargo.
And for Maggie, it seemed then
that it always was.
She had written him weeks ago,
asking for answers.
But really,
what she wants him to say
is that he loved her then,
and he loves her still.
Fucking asshole. You
[GIA] That she wasn't a victim.
That it wasn't all a lie.
But she could feel the momentum
of what was building in her.
And so, most of all, she wanted
him to write her back.
Stop her from ruining his life.
[MUTTERING]
[SIGHS]
I can't believe I'm still here,
waiting for him to call me.
What do you want him to say, Maggie?
I don't know.
That that he remembers.
That it happened.
And that he's sorry
because he knows he hurt me.
What if he doesn't get back
to you, tell you those things?
I don't
Last night I was working
on my application
- to go back to school.
- That's great.
I couldn't finish it.
- Why?
- Because I
I keep thinking, how am I
going to be a social worker?
How am I going to tell people
to advocate for themselves
when I don't advocate for myself?
I can't even tell my parents
what happened.
- Haven't.
- What?
You haven't told your parents.
- You said you can't.
- Yeah.
- The nails?
- Mm?
Very smart.
[LAUGHS] No.
Trichotillomania.
That's what it's called.
Pulling out your eyelashes.
It has a name? It's a thing?
It's a thing.
[SIGHS] But I already have
so many frickin' things.
Like everything else,
you will get better.
You are getting better.
Yeah, I sure-as-shit should be
with all the medications
I'm taking. Can I ask you something?
Shoot.
Do you think he googles me?
I have no interest spending time
in that guy's head.
Okay, but how do I move on?
He's Teacher of the Year.
If I do nothing, if I say nothing,
then he will go on forever.
Being perfect.
And I'll go on forever
being what he did to me.
So?
[MAGGIE] So
I guess I'm done waiting.
[ARLENE] And she said, "In truth, Gra"
[DOOR CLOSES]
Where you been?
[EXHALES] Steve Thorn needed help
fixing his garage door.
Took a minute. [GRUNTS]
Yeah, but I thought
we talked about Steve.
Why don't you say grace, Puppy?
No. I can't say grace
'cause I need to
tell you guys something.
Uh, okay.
And, uh, yeah, please, God,
don't ask a million questions.
'Cause I don't know if I'm ready
to answer any of them yet. Okay?
- Yeah?
- [KNUCKLES CRACK]
Um
When I was a senior
I had an inappropriate relationship
with my teacher, uh, Mr. Knodel.
What? W-What does that mean?
Uh, it means that we had a physical
relationship.
[CRYING] Sorry.
Um, so, yeah, I think I was I'm
I'm telling you now because I'm
I'm ready, uh, to go
to the police about it.
[ARLENE SNIFFLES]
So, I yeah, we can, um,
we can talk
more, uh, later. [MUMBLES]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
- [DOOR OPENS]
- Swe
- I'm gonna go
- [DOOR CLOSES]
[BEDROOM DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
[ARLENE] Puppy? Here's some dinner.
You you didn't eat anything.
Are those all things he gave you?
Yeah.
When do you think you'll go
to the station?
Tomorrow.
You want your dad and I to come?
No. No, no.
I think this is something I should
I should do on my own.
I'm gonna go say good night to Dad.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
- Whew.
- Hey, Maggie.
- What?
- I'm sor I'm sorry.
- I'm so I'm so, so sorry.
- It's okay.
And I'm really proud of you.
[SLOW COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING]
You okay?
Yeah, yeah, I just
working on this.
I should have known.
Dad.
He thought he was God's gift.
The way he talked
at your parent-teacher conference.
He had you be there.
When that was going on.
He looked me straight in the eye
Can we can we not
as you, as you were right there!
- Can we not?
- And
No.
He tricks people.
Some people are real good
at tricking other people.
He tricked me into believing,
uh, this story.
And once I was in it, I
I-I didn't know how, how to get out.
I'm sorry.
Your mom and I weren't there
when you needed us, uh, then.
I know you and I were fighting.
He knew things were rough at home.
You-you told him what?
That-that we were bad parents?
Well, it's not like
you're the fucking best!
I know.
- I can't
- I know.
I can't take care of you right now, Dad.
I-I need to take care of myself.
I don't-don't need you to.
I'm not asking you to. [SNIFFLES]
I'm going to do better, Mags. I am.
No, Dad, please, stop it.
Dad, stop. I'm sorry.
I'm going to go back to meetings.
- Dad, Dad. Dad? Dad.
- I'm-I'm going to get in shape.
I'm gonna pass the step test
and-and get my old job back.
I-I promise.
You're gonna be proud of me, Mags.
[INHALE, EXHALE ECHOES]
dramatic music ♪
♪
[MUTED POLICE RADIO CHATTER]
[BUSY CHATTER]
I'm here to report
the corruption of a minor.
Okay. Um
Fill this out. Both sides. Have a seat.
Someone will be with you shortly.
[MAGGIE] Knodel. K-N-O-D-E-L.
[OFFICER] Okay.
- Knodel. E-L.
- Yeah.
Yeah, how did that start?
Um
How far back should I go?
- [SCHOOL BELL RINGS]
- [BILLIE] I have great news.
My cousin said she can
get us in to Glory Springs.
- No. No.
- Yes fucking way.
We're not wiping old people's
asses all summer.
- Okay, settle. Settle, settle.
- Mags, $12 an hour. $12 an hour!
Settle, settle.
Settle, settle, settle, settle, settle.
I know no one's up
for being productive today.
Me neither. So, instead,
let's shoot the shizzle.
What's everyone psyched for this summer?
- No school!
- [WHOOPING, CLAMORING]
- [OTHERS] Yeah!
- No offense, Knodel.
Oh, no, none taken.
I know you'll miss me.
[LAUGHS SOFTLY] I have something.
Maggie, yeah. You want to share?
- Yeah. Yeah. Um
- Share.
My sister moved to Hawaii.
Her new husband's in the Army,
so I'm going to go visit them.
[STUDENTS OOHING]
Nice.
Well, take notes.
Pay attention.
When we're back, we're all gonna write
about the best moment of our summer.
"Yes and No"
by The Tambo Rays ♪
♪
Tell me could you let me know ♪
Could you let yourself go? ♪
Oh ♪
Could you let yourself be? ♪
- Release your fantasy ♪
- [LAUGHING]
Oh ♪
To be wild and free ♪
To be bad like me ♪
♪
[BABY COOS]
- [SPUTTERS PLAYFULLY]
- Oh, hey. Ah.
- Mwah.
- Baby, can you take her?
- Yeah.
- For a freakin' second, please?
Oh, yeah, just let me dry off.
I can take her.
Here you go. You got her?
- I got her.
- Aw
She really loves you.
Good. 'Cause I really love her.
[RELAXING MUSIC]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
♪
[EXHALE ECHOES]
[EXHALE ECHOES]
[DANE] Just a couple guys. Nothing big.
I'll be home early.
A party sounds fun.
Yeah. Besides,
your sister hasn't been out
- the whole time we've been here.
- Yep.
Well, I haven't been out
since Emily was born.
Please? Just for a little while?
- [PULSING, EXCITING MUSIC]
- Okay. Go.
♪
[MAGGIE] It's a toga party?
[DANE] I have no fuckin' idea.
- We didn't bring togas.
- So what?
You didn't tell me it was a toga party.
- We'll stand out.
- Hey!
Dude! [GRUNTS]
Mateo, this is Maggie.
Bro, invite said it was a toga party.
He might have gotten it,
but can't read, so
Come with me. I'll hook you up.
Don't get the wrong impression.
I'm just housesitting.
[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING]
[MAGGIE LAUGHS]
[MATEO] Here you go, Maggie.
[POP MUSIC PLAYING]
[EXCITED CHATTER, LAUGHTER]
- You don't believe it?
- I don't believe it, yes.
It's so weird my sister's a mom.
Yeah.
Yeah, being married
is just crazier to me.
Why?
Makes them seem old.
- [LAUGHS]
- What?
[IMITATES ARROW WHOOSHING]
[LAUGHS] I've been married.
- You've been married?
- I've been married.
Recently divorced.
I don't think I'm old.
- No, you're old.
- [LAUGHS] Yeah?
So old.
You give people a lot of shit, huh?
- Only people who deserve it.
- Mm.
"Only people who deserve it."
What else do you want
to see while you're here?
Everything. But it's hard getting out
- 'cause of the baby.
- Mm.
Phone.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
If you want to take
a day trip or something.
Now you have mine, too.
[RELAXING MUSIC]
♪
[INHALE, EXHALE ECHOES]
♪
[PHONE RINGING]
- Hey.
- [MATEO] Hey.
Remember me from the other night?
Of course I remember you
from, like, 12 hours ago.
[LAUGHS]
You wanna take a ride later?
- Yeah, sure.
- Okay.
Great.
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[MELIA] No. You're not seeing him again.
- Please. Why?
- No.
But I already said I could go. Melia.
- [MELIA] What?
- [MAGGIE] It's so boring.
He's just going to show her around.
- What's the problem?
- Yeah, what's the problem?
If he does anything you don't like,
- you just come right home, okay?
- Okay.
- Okay? [LAUGHS]
- Oh.
[DREAMY MUSIC]
♪
[MAGGIE LAUGHING]
It's so beautiful!
[EXHALE ECHOES]
Oh, my gosh. [LAUGHS]
♪
[BOTH LAUGHING]
♪
[BOTH LAUGHING]
♪
[MAGGIE LAUGHING]
[MOTORCYCLE ENGINE REVVING]
[EXHALES]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[EXHALES]
[BOTH LAUGH SOFTLY]
- Can I show you inside? Yeah?
- Mm-hmm.
Welcome home.
- You want a beer?
- Yeah, sure.
[REFRIGERATOR OPENS]
[BOTTLES CLINKING]
[LAUGHS SOFTLY]
[GENTLE MUSIC]
♪
Are you sure?
Sure.
♪
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
- Are you okay?
- Yeah.
[WRAPPER RIPS]
[CONDOM CRINKLING]
Okay. Hold on.
Okay.
♪
[BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY]
[MOANING]
[PANTING]
[SIGHS]
- Hey.
- Hey.
You okay?
What happened?
Nothing. Just a rock from the road.
I'm okay.
I'll get you a Band-Aid.
[MOTORCYCLE ENGINE REVVING]
[ENGINE TURNS OFF]
[MAGGIE] I don't want to go.
[WHISPERS] I don't want you to go.
I think I love you.
Sorry. I'm sorry.
Shit, I'm sorry.
- Maggie. Maggie.
- Hmm?
No, I'm sorry.
[SIGHS] I just
Come here.
[SNIFFLES]
Hey, look at me.
You mean a lot to me.
You do.
But I can't say
I can't say I love you just yet.
Okay?
Okay.
Come here.
Come here.
[DANE] What the fuck?
You! Get in the house!
Get in the house right fucking now.
Okay.
- Get in the fucking house!
- O-Okay.
[MUTTERS] My fucking sister-in-law?!
Nah, man.
[ARGUING CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]
[MAGGIE] What the fuck?
I told you this isn't normal.
Thirty-year-old men aren't friends
with 16-year-old girls!
You're blaming this on me?
You let her go, too, okay? And Maggie,
Maggie should have
fucking said something!
You told him you were 16, right?
Okay, you'd better tell me everything.
And if you lie to me, I will
never talk to you again.
He's He's n he's nice.
He's really nice. I wanted to do it.
You had sex with him?
Are you kidding me, Maggie?
You had sex with him?
Yes, I had sex with him.
You had premarital sex, too.
Come on. It's not the same
At least we used a condom.
You're in serious trouble.
I have to call home.
No. You can't Don't tell Mom and Dad.
I have to tell them.
I do not want him to get into trouble.
You're worried about him?
I like him and I wanted to do it.
There is oh, my God.
[SOBBING] No. There is no problem!
You are 16 years old
and you just had premarital sex
with a 31-year-old divorced dude
you barely know!
So, yes, Maggie,
there's a fucking problem!
[BABY CRYING]
Oh, my God.
- I'll get her.
- No, no.
What?
- I don't want you. Near her.
- What?
Just don't.
[OFFICER] I'm sorry, miss, but
age of consent in Hawaii is 16.
Even if you're from somewhere else.
Sixteen, even in the military, so
If you were 16 at the time,
there was no crime.
- You can't press charges.
- [STAMMERS, LAUGHS]
I'm not No, yeah, um
Sorry, I'm not-I'm not here
to report him.
- Who are you here to report?
- I just-I just told you.
- My [SIGHS]
- Well, who is it?
Um, I
Mr. Aaron Knodel.
Okay, I'm sorry. All right.
So explain to me, please,
what Hawaii has to do with
your teacher in Fargo.
Everything.
[BILLIE] You better not have said shit.
[MELANI] I didn't.
It was fucking Heather.
[BILLIE] Mags told Heather?
- [MELANI] Yeah.
- [BILLIE] Fuck.
And then Heather told Danica and Reese
- and that big-mouth bitch Zoe.
- Zoe.
And now she's telling everybody
that Maggie spent the entire
summer getting banged out
- by some random Mexican dude.
- Fuck.
This is going to get bad, like,
really, really fucking bad.
[MELANI] Anybody that doesn't know now
is gonna know by this afternoon.
[BILLIE] Poor fucking Mags.
[MELANI] Poor fucking stupid Mags.
[SCHOOL BELL RINGS]
[MUTED MURMURING]
Hey, Maggie. You okay?
Um Uh, no. No.
Uh, no.
Hey, it's gonna be okay.
[STUDENT] She's right there.
- Okay?
- No, it's not.
[STUDENT 2] She looks really upset.
- [GIGGLING, CHATTERING]
- You have no idea.
Try me.
You can talk to me.
Any time, about anything.
[PENSIVE MUSIC]
♪
[MAGGIE] "I no longer felt like a child
of God."
[KNODEL] So, remember, for Monday,
I need an essay, one page.
Biography on anyone who inspires you.
Okay?
It can be someone from your real life,
anyone that we've
learned about this year.
One page, single spaced.
I don't want any of this
double-spaced nonsense.
- [KNODEL CHUCKLES]
- [SCHOOL BELL RINGS]
All right. Monday, okay?
[BUSY CHATTER]
See you in science.
Hey, Connor, kill it tomorrow,
would you?
[CONNOR] You know it, Knodel.
Hey.
Hey.
[MAGGIE CLEARS THROAT]
I read your assignment.
[WHISPERS] Yeah.
[KNODEL] Hey.
You did not do anything wrong.
You're the only person who thinks that.
- No, God thinks that.
- Hmm.
He still loves you no matter what.
I hope so.
Well, what do you think?
I know I'm supposed to feel terrible.
And I do. Just not about him.
How are your parents?
I know you said they sometimes go
a little heavy on the drinking.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, they don't get mean
or angry or anything.
They just kind of drift away.
- God, that must be hard.
- Yeah, it is.
My dad and I are fighting a lot.
- About?
- Everything.
My sisters and brothers
all had each other.
You're the only one still home?
[BOTH LAUGH]
- Yeah.
- [CLEARS THROAT]
My parents really try. They do.
I just I can't talk to them.
Well, you can talk to me any time.
About anything.
- I'm glad you came to me.
- Thank you.
Hey. I promise
Hey.
This moment will not define your life.
- [MAN MUTTERING]
- [CAMERA WHIRRING]
[MAN] Okay, sorry. One more time.
State your name for the record.
- Oh.
- [CAMERA BEEPS]
Yeah, it's on.
Maggie Wilken.
- All right.
- Is that why
they call you "Special Agent"?
'Cause you know how to use
the special spy equipment?
Yeah. That intake cop?
- Who you spoke to first?
- Mm-hmm.
- All pen and paper, am I right?
- [LAUGHS] Yeah.
- Yeah.
- See,
us high-level investigators,
we don't rely on that low-tech garbage.
Are you sure you don't want
anything else to drink?
Something good?
That stuff looks like piss.
Yeah. Oh, and yet it tastes
also like piss.
- [LAUGHS]
- Okay, tough guy.
All right.
- Now, before we took a break
- Mm-hmm.
We were talking about private
texts between you and Knodel.
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Now, can you tell me if
he started that? Or did you?
Knodel started it.
He got my number through the
Student Congress text thread.
And when he texted just me, alone,
it didn't seem that weird.
Because I'd been talking
to him about my life
- since I was a freshman.
- Okay.
Yeah. And the whole fall he was,
just, like, he was nice.
And there for me.
Until things shifted.
And that was?
It was uh Christmas break.
- [FESTIVE MUSIC PLAYING]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- [KIDS CLAMORING]
- [DAVID] Stop! She's cheating!
- Hey!
- She's cheating.
Put these around
we're very, very close.
[CHATTER CONTINUES]
[LAUGHTER]
[ARLENE] All right, hot, hot, hot.
Hot, coming through.
Hot, coming through.
[CHATTER CONTINUES]
Oh, okay, okay.
[PHONE CHIMES]
Come on. Come on.
- Let's go.
- [CHATTER CONTINUES]
Maggie! Earth to Mags,
let's go, let's go, let's go.
Let's play the game.
[CHATTER CONTINUES]
All right. You go. Go for her.
[CHATTER, LAUGHTER CONTINUES]
[PHONE CHIMES]
Hey, come on.
[KID] Sent you back to home base.
[DAVID] Yep, sent me back to home base.
[KID] Hey, look.
[ARLENE] All right!
Okay, dinner. Dinner is ready.
- [WHOOPING, CLAPPING]
- [MAN] There it is!
- [ARLENE] Behold
- [DAVID] Let's go.
[PHONE CHIMES]
[CHATTER, LAUGHTER CONTINUES]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[DISTORTED WHOOSHING]
♪
[DISTORTED CHATTER]
[DISTORTED LAUGHTER]
- ♪
- [DIALOGUE INAUDIBLE]
[PHONE CHIMES LOUDLY]
dreamy music ♪
♪
[BUZZING]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- Pink, purple,
lavender, periwinkle,
then orange, then red,
and then I would go with
a light red, but it wouldn't be
totally pink.
For what?
- My for my room.
- [KNODEL] Okay. Okay.
- Hot red?
- Light red.
Let's settle. Let's settle,
settle, settle.
Welcome back. I know reentry
is difficult. For me, too.
But we've got a lot of work ahead.
Oratory, we need to start
thinking about topics
for the new O.O. essays.
Uh, interp new scenes. Debate
well, that is a much
longer conversation.
[SOFT LAUGHTER]
But today, I will have mercy.
A little reprieve.
We're gonna ease back in
by watching a fantastic film.
[STUDENTS WHOOPING, CLAPPING]
If he puts Super Size Me again,
I'm gonna kill myself.
- [MAGGIE LAUGHING]
- I swear.
You can't say
[KNODEL] Nick, will you get the light?
[NICK] Yeah.
[SWITCH CLICKS]
[CHAIR ROLLING]
[INSTRUMENTAL FILM MUSIC PLAYS]
[PENSIVE MUSIC]
♪
♪
♪
[SCHOOL BELL RINGS]
[KNODEL] Okay. That's it for today.
We'll finish it next time.
But it's good, huh?
Slutty study on Sunday?
- Hmm?
- You, me at Mel's?
Mm-hmm.
[BILLIE] Okay.
Reese, hey. Freak-y freaky.
- Hey, Mr. Knodel.
- [GRUNTS]
I was wondering if I could
ask you about
Who? Kurt?
- Ew.
- Ew. Ugh.
[ALL MOCK RETCHING, LAUGHING]
- Kurt is a dirtbag.
- Dirtbag.
- Well, Zack is just as bad.
- Worse.
What about you, Mags?
[LAUGHS] What?
- You like someone.
- No.
Someone call Channel 11. We have news!
- Ew! Who? Spill.
- [MAGGIE] I don't, I don't.
- No, I have gotta go.
- [PHONE CHIMES]
- What? No, why?
- Bye!
Why? Where?
I missed Mass this morning. So
You're such a good girl.
The good-est!
Should we get at least one
thing done before you go, Mags?
- Yeah. Let's be ambitious.
- Yes.
One thing.
I gotta go.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[BUZZING]
["BRIGHT SMILE"
BY JOSH RITTER PLAYING FAINTLY]
Bright smile, dark eyes ♪
Everywhere I went, oh ♪
I was always looking for you ♪
Bright smile, dark eyes ♪
I'm looking for some peace ♪
But it's so hard to find ♪
With Calamity Janes ♪
And the Steamboat Casanovas ♪
And Darling Clementines ♪
If she's your only one ♪
Then she is also mine ♪
Just pin your heartbeat ♪
Up against my heartbeat ♪
And you'll see how well
we rhyme ♪
With bright smiles
and dark eyes ♪
Bright smile, dark eyes ♪
Everywhere I went, oh ♪
I was always looking for you ♪
Bright smile, dark eyes ♪
Man is only half himself ♪
The other half
is a bright thing ♪
He tumbles on
by luck or grace ♪
For man is ever a blind thing ♪
Oh, bright smiles ♪
And dark eyes ♪
Bright smile, dark eyes ♪
Everywhere I went, oh ♪
I was always looking for you ♪
Bright smile, dark eyes ♪
Smile, dark eyes ♪
Dark eyes ♪
Found it.
Dark eyes ♪
[CAR CHIRPS]
You want to go for a drive?
Uh, yep. Yeah.
[KEYS JINGLE]
[ENGINE STARTS]
[MUSIC PLAYS QUIETLY ON RADIO]
Trying to figure out what's
wrong and what is right ♪
From the moment
I first saw you ♪
We're near my house right now.
- Really?
- Mm-hmm.
How do I get there?
What? To-to my house?
Yeah. Go on. Uh, I want
to know where you live.
Where you sleep.
Uh, yeah, it's, uh,
it's n-next right.
[TURN SIGNAL CLICKING]
Imagine my surprise ♪
When I survived ♪
We just
I shouldn't know where your house is.
Okay.
No, I'm just a
I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to
stop myself from driving by
and checking up on you.
[LAUGHS SOFTLY]
[TRAIN HORN BLOWS IN DISTANCE]
[KNODEL SIGHS]
I'm not going to kiss you if
that's what you're waiting for.
[PENSIVE MUSIC]
[ENGINE STARTS]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- [MUSIC PLAYING FAINTLY]
Oh. How was church, Puppy?
[MARK] You're back late.
I took a drive after.
Did you actually even go to Mass?
- Yes.
- [MARK] Well, good.
[SLURRING] Sometimes we just
need a little boost from God.
- [ROCK MUSIC PLAYS]
- Oh.
[ARLENE] What?
[MARK] We gotta dance to this one.
[LAUGHING]
[MAGGIE] I'm going to bed.
- Come and dance with me.
- Aw
[PHONE CHIMING, BUZZING]
- Hey.
- Hey.
I'm sorry if I was weird.
I-I drove off and, like,
I said stuff I was so nervous.
Yeah, me-me, too.
[BOTH LAUGH]
Yeah.
Where are you?
Um, in my room.
Oh. I wish I could see it.
It's pretty basic. It has-it has a bed.
A bed?
Yeah. It's got a
- [LAUGHS]
- Bed and a desk and a closet.
What color are the walls?
Purple.
Uh, like a-a bluey-purple. [LAUGHS]
[KNODEL LAUGHS]
- Yeah.
- A blue bluey-purple?
Yeah, a bluey-purple.
You don't even know
what color the walls are.
[LAUGHS] It's like a purple. Shh
Like a purple-blue.
[KNODEL LAUGHS]
Okay. What else?
I have a Twilight poster.
Twilight, huh?
Uh-huh. Yeah.
I don't know if I ever saw it.
What do you love about it?
It's like, uh, yeah, everything
I guess. It's just like a
a perfect, gothic, forbidden
romance.
But modern and better.
Can you lend me your copy?
You want to read Twilight?
I want to read what you love.
[NESS] How long did this go on?
The texting, calls.
Until it ended.
Do you still have any
of those texts, Maggie?
No, no, I don't.
He told me to delete everything
a few weeks into it.
So, I did.
Even the ones I-I wanted to save.
Could you possibly estimate
how many calls?
Hours and hours. He'd
Yeah, he'd-he'd call me after
his kids went to bed.
Uh, sometimes after ten. Yeah.
I lived for it.
It was all his rules, though.
When-when I could call.
How long we could talk.
But he was always receptive?
He'd back away sometimes.
Say he couldn't talk for a day or two.
Would say his kids needed him.
Like yeah, like it was my
fault he was ignoring his kids.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
[PEN SCRIBBLING]
Yeah, and then I just started getting
really fucking tired of it. You know?
Him controlling everything. The
The push and pull. And
Yeah, it turned out he was right.
What was he right about?
Uh, the gossip and Hawaii
and all that. He was right.
Everyone moved on.
Uh, things got better with my parents.
It faded.
Everything, except for him,
kind of felt,
uh, normal.
[SCHOOL BELL RINGS]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
You know, honestly,
at that point, I feel like
he cared more about me
than I cared about him.
Come on!
[SQUEALS] Hey.
He knew just the thing.
To reel me right back in.
[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]
No! No! Snowboarding!
What did you think I said?
[BILLIE LAUGHS ON PHONE]
I thought you said "so boring"!
[PHONE CHIMES]
I was like, you're gonna
be with me, Mags.
I can guarantee you,
it will not be "so boring."
- [PHONE CHIMES]
- Well, yeah.
Uh, yeah. I Hey, I gotta go, okay?
Gentle music ♪
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[BUZZING]
A few nights later,
he invited me to his house.
Um, yeah, and his-his wife
was out of town. Uh
That's when it got, uh, physical.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
- Hey.
- Hey.
♪
You okay?
Yeah.
Yeah, this guy, though,
he didn't make it easy.
Well, you should have
come and gotten us.
[PENSIVE MUSIC]
♪
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
I told Agent Ness everything.
Including all the physical stuff.
And how do you feel?
For the first time in a long
time, I actually feel like I'm
- okay.
- Good.
And like justice might actually be done.
That's great.
Yeah, you know what else?
I sent in my application
to go back to school.
- Social work?
- Social work.
This is all so great, Maggie.
I am so proud of you.
But I need you to do something, okay?
I need you to hang on to this feeling.
How good you feel today.
And how right you know you are.
Because it's going to be hard.
- [CRYING] I know.
- What's ahead.
But the work, Maggie,
is to hang on to who you are
and what you know is true.
No matter what anyone says,
that is your North Star.
[PHONE RINGING, BUZZING]
Hey, asshole.
Hey, tough guy. News is out.
World's finally gonna know.
I'd say, stay off your phone
today if you can, yeah?
Let's get the fucker, Mike.
What you doing?
News is out. Felony charges filed.
- I know.
- Mm.
I've been told to
[QUIETLY] I gotcha.
Yeah.
You heading to work?
No. I took the day.
- Come with me.
- Hmm?
To run the stairs? No, thanks.
Get out on the ice, Mags.
Do a few of your old moves.
I don't remember any of it.
I bet you'll be surprised.
Then you can drive me
to a meeting, okay?
Okay.
Even while we sleep ♪
[MARK] Oh, there she is.
- [LAUGHS]
- Come on, Maggie.
One step at a time.
Turn your back
on Mother Nature ♪
"I ain't too graceful."
"I don't move so well."
There she is! Maggie Wilken
out of Fargo, North Dakota.
Skating for the United States of America
at the Olympic Games.
It's been a while
since she was on the ice,
but she's still got it.
It's my own design ♪
This girl will not be beaten.
Let's see Rocky!
There she is.
Yeah.
There she is.
You're gonna be all right, Maggie.
You're gonna be all right.
Everybody ♪
Every day I have
to think about you ♪
Wonderin' where you've gone ♪
You know I'll cry
and try not to miss you ♪
Though you don't
love me at all ♪
And one day soon ♪
You'll find out you miss me ♪
But I won't hear your call,
and you'll ♪
- [MUSIC STOPS]
- [WIND WHISTLING]
[SIGHS]
[GIA] It was winter in Fargo.
And for Maggie, it seemed then
that it always was.
She had written him weeks ago,
asking for answers.
But really,
what she wants him to say
is that he loved her then,
and he loves her still.
Fucking asshole. You
[GIA] That she wasn't a victim.
That it wasn't all a lie.
But she could feel the momentum
of what was building in her.
And so, most of all, she wanted
him to write her back.
Stop her from ruining his life.
[MUTTERING]
[SIGHS]
I can't believe I'm still here,
waiting for him to call me.
What do you want him to say, Maggie?
I don't know.
That that he remembers.
That it happened.
And that he's sorry
because he knows he hurt me.
What if he doesn't get back
to you, tell you those things?
I don't
Last night I was working
on my application
- to go back to school.
- That's great.
I couldn't finish it.
- Why?
- Because I
I keep thinking, how am I
going to be a social worker?
How am I going to tell people
to advocate for themselves
when I don't advocate for myself?
I can't even tell my parents
what happened.
- Haven't.
- What?
You haven't told your parents.
- You said you can't.
- Yeah.
- The nails?
- Mm?
Very smart.
[LAUGHS] No.
Trichotillomania.
That's what it's called.
Pulling out your eyelashes.
It has a name? It's a thing?
It's a thing.
[SIGHS] But I already have
so many frickin' things.
Like everything else,
you will get better.
You are getting better.
Yeah, I sure-as-shit should be
with all the medications
I'm taking. Can I ask you something?
Shoot.
Do you think he googles me?
I have no interest spending time
in that guy's head.
Okay, but how do I move on?
He's Teacher of the Year.
If I do nothing, if I say nothing,
then he will go on forever.
Being perfect.
And I'll go on forever
being what he did to me.
So?
[MAGGIE] So
I guess I'm done waiting.
[ARLENE] And she said, "In truth, Gra"
[DOOR CLOSES]
Where you been?
[EXHALES] Steve Thorn needed help
fixing his garage door.
Took a minute. [GRUNTS]
Yeah, but I thought
we talked about Steve.
Why don't you say grace, Puppy?
No. I can't say grace
'cause I need to
tell you guys something.
Uh, okay.
And, uh, yeah, please, God,
don't ask a million questions.
'Cause I don't know if I'm ready
to answer any of them yet. Okay?
- Yeah?
- [KNUCKLES CRACK]
Um
When I was a senior
I had an inappropriate relationship
with my teacher, uh, Mr. Knodel.
What? W-What does that mean?
Uh, it means that we had a physical
relationship.
[CRYING] Sorry.
Um, so, yeah, I think I was I'm
I'm telling you now because I'm
I'm ready, uh, to go
to the police about it.
[ARLENE SNIFFLES]
So, I yeah, we can, um,
we can talk
more, uh, later. [MUMBLES]
[TENSE MUSIC]
♪
- [DOOR OPENS]
- Swe
- I'm gonna go
- [DOOR CLOSES]
[BEDROOM DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
[ARLENE] Puppy? Here's some dinner.
You you didn't eat anything.
Are those all things he gave you?
Yeah.
When do you think you'll go
to the station?
Tomorrow.
You want your dad and I to come?
No. No, no.
I think this is something I should
I should do on my own.
I'm gonna go say good night to Dad.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
- Whew.
- Hey, Maggie.
- What?
- I'm sor I'm sorry.
- I'm so I'm so, so sorry.
- It's okay.
And I'm really proud of you.
[SLOW COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING]
You okay?
Yeah, yeah, I just
working on this.
I should have known.
Dad.
He thought he was God's gift.
The way he talked
at your parent-teacher conference.
He had you be there.
When that was going on.
He looked me straight in the eye
Can we can we not
as you, as you were right there!
- Can we not?
- And
No.
He tricks people.
Some people are real good
at tricking other people.
He tricked me into believing,
uh, this story.
And once I was in it, I
I-I didn't know how, how to get out.
I'm sorry.
Your mom and I weren't there
when you needed us, uh, then.
I know you and I were fighting.
He knew things were rough at home.
You-you told him what?
That-that we were bad parents?
Well, it's not like
you're the fucking best!
I know.
- I can't
- I know.
I can't take care of you right now, Dad.
I-I need to take care of myself.
I don't-don't need you to.
I'm not asking you to. [SNIFFLES]
I'm going to do better, Mags. I am.
No, Dad, please, stop it.
Dad, stop. I'm sorry.
I'm going to go back to meetings.
- Dad, Dad. Dad? Dad.
- I'm-I'm going to get in shape.
I'm gonna pass the step test
and-and get my old job back.
I-I promise.
You're gonna be proud of me, Mags.
[INHALE, EXHALE ECHOES]
dramatic music ♪
♪
[MUTED POLICE RADIO CHATTER]
[BUSY CHATTER]
I'm here to report
the corruption of a minor.
Okay. Um
Fill this out. Both sides. Have a seat.
Someone will be with you shortly.
[MAGGIE] Knodel. K-N-O-D-E-L.
[OFFICER] Okay.
- Knodel. E-L.
- Yeah.
Yeah, how did that start?
Um
How far back should I go?
- [SCHOOL BELL RINGS]
- [BILLIE] I have great news.
My cousin said she can
get us in to Glory Springs.
- No. No.
- Yes fucking way.
We're not wiping old people's
asses all summer.
- Okay, settle. Settle, settle.
- Mags, $12 an hour. $12 an hour!
Settle, settle.
Settle, settle, settle, settle, settle.
I know no one's up
for being productive today.
Me neither. So, instead,
let's shoot the shizzle.
What's everyone psyched for this summer?
- No school!
- [WHOOPING, CLAMORING]
- [OTHERS] Yeah!
- No offense, Knodel.
Oh, no, none taken.
I know you'll miss me.
[LAUGHS SOFTLY] I have something.
Maggie, yeah. You want to share?
- Yeah. Yeah. Um
- Share.
My sister moved to Hawaii.
Her new husband's in the Army,
so I'm going to go visit them.
[STUDENTS OOHING]
Nice.
Well, take notes.
Pay attention.
When we're back, we're all gonna write
about the best moment of our summer.
"Yes and No"
by The Tambo Rays ♪
♪
Tell me could you let me know ♪
Could you let yourself go? ♪
Oh ♪
Could you let yourself be? ♪
- Release your fantasy ♪
- [LAUGHING]
Oh ♪
To be wild and free ♪
To be bad like me ♪
♪
[BABY COOS]
- [SPUTTERS PLAYFULLY]
- Oh, hey. Ah.
- Mwah.
- Baby, can you take her?
- Yeah.
- For a freakin' second, please?
Oh, yeah, just let me dry off.
I can take her.
Here you go. You got her?
- I got her.
- Aw
She really loves you.
Good. 'Cause I really love her.
[RELAXING MUSIC]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
♪
[EXHALE ECHOES]
[EXHALE ECHOES]
[DANE] Just a couple guys. Nothing big.
I'll be home early.
A party sounds fun.
Yeah. Besides,
your sister hasn't been out
- the whole time we've been here.
- Yep.
Well, I haven't been out
since Emily was born.
Please? Just for a little while?
- [PULSING, EXCITING MUSIC]
- Okay. Go.
♪
[MAGGIE] It's a toga party?
[DANE] I have no fuckin' idea.
- We didn't bring togas.
- So what?
You didn't tell me it was a toga party.
- We'll stand out.
- Hey!
Dude! [GRUNTS]
Mateo, this is Maggie.
Bro, invite said it was a toga party.
He might have gotten it,
but can't read, so
Come with me. I'll hook you up.
Don't get the wrong impression.
I'm just housesitting.
[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING]
[MAGGIE LAUGHS]
[MATEO] Here you go, Maggie.
[POP MUSIC PLAYING]
[EXCITED CHATTER, LAUGHTER]
- You don't believe it?
- I don't believe it, yes.
It's so weird my sister's a mom.
Yeah.
Yeah, being married
is just crazier to me.
Why?
Makes them seem old.
- [LAUGHS]
- What?
[IMITATES ARROW WHOOSHING]
[LAUGHS] I've been married.
- You've been married?
- I've been married.
Recently divorced.
I don't think I'm old.
- No, you're old.
- [LAUGHS] Yeah?
So old.
You give people a lot of shit, huh?
- Only people who deserve it.
- Mm.
"Only people who deserve it."
What else do you want
to see while you're here?
Everything. But it's hard getting out
- 'cause of the baby.
- Mm.
Phone.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
♪
If you want to take
a day trip or something.
Now you have mine, too.
[RELAXING MUSIC]
♪
[INHALE, EXHALE ECHOES]
♪
[PHONE RINGING]
- Hey.
- [MATEO] Hey.
Remember me from the other night?
Of course I remember you
from, like, 12 hours ago.
[LAUGHS]
You wanna take a ride later?
- Yeah, sure.
- Okay.
Great.
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[MELIA] No. You're not seeing him again.
- Please. Why?
- No.
But I already said I could go. Melia.
- [MELIA] What?
- [MAGGIE] It's so boring.
He's just going to show her around.
- What's the problem?
- Yeah, what's the problem?
If he does anything you don't like,
- you just come right home, okay?
- Okay.
- Okay? [LAUGHS]
- Oh.
[DREAMY MUSIC]
♪
[MAGGIE LAUGHING]
It's so beautiful!
[EXHALE ECHOES]
Oh, my gosh. [LAUGHS]
♪
[BOTH LAUGHING]
♪
[BOTH LAUGHING]
♪
[MAGGIE LAUGHING]
[MOTORCYCLE ENGINE REVVING]
[EXHALES]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
[EXHALES]
[BOTH LAUGH SOFTLY]
- Can I show you inside? Yeah?
- Mm-hmm.
Welcome home.
- You want a beer?
- Yeah, sure.
[REFRIGERATOR OPENS]
[BOTTLES CLINKING]
[LAUGHS SOFTLY]
[GENTLE MUSIC]
♪
Are you sure?
Sure.
♪
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
- Are you okay?
- Yeah.
[WRAPPER RIPS]
[CONDOM CRINKLING]
Okay. Hold on.
Okay.
♪
[BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY]
[MOANING]
[PANTING]
[SIGHS]
- Hey.
- Hey.
You okay?
What happened?
Nothing. Just a rock from the road.
I'm okay.
I'll get you a Band-Aid.
[MOTORCYCLE ENGINE REVVING]
[ENGINE TURNS OFF]
[MAGGIE] I don't want to go.
[WHISPERS] I don't want you to go.
I think I love you.
Sorry. I'm sorry.
Shit, I'm sorry.
- Maggie. Maggie.
- Hmm?
No, I'm sorry.
[SIGHS] I just
Come here.
[SNIFFLES]
Hey, look at me.
You mean a lot to me.
You do.
But I can't say
I can't say I love you just yet.
Okay?
Okay.
Come here.
Come here.
[DANE] What the fuck?
You! Get in the house!
Get in the house right fucking now.
Okay.
- Get in the fucking house!
- O-Okay.
[MUTTERS] My fucking sister-in-law?!
Nah, man.
[ARGUING CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]
[MAGGIE] What the fuck?
I told you this isn't normal.
Thirty-year-old men aren't friends
with 16-year-old girls!
You're blaming this on me?
You let her go, too, okay? And Maggie,
Maggie should have
fucking said something!
You told him you were 16, right?
Okay, you'd better tell me everything.
And if you lie to me, I will
never talk to you again.
He's He's n he's nice.
He's really nice. I wanted to do it.
You had sex with him?
Are you kidding me, Maggie?
You had sex with him?
Yes, I had sex with him.
You had premarital sex, too.
Come on. It's not the same
At least we used a condom.
You're in serious trouble.
I have to call home.
No. You can't Don't tell Mom and Dad.
I have to tell them.
I do not want him to get into trouble.
You're worried about him?
I like him and I wanted to do it.
There is oh, my God.
[SOBBING] No. There is no problem!
You are 16 years old
and you just had premarital sex
with a 31-year-old divorced dude
you barely know!
So, yes, Maggie,
there's a fucking problem!
[BABY CRYING]
Oh, my God.
- I'll get her.
- No, no.
What?
- I don't want you. Near her.
- What?
Just don't.
[OFFICER] I'm sorry, miss, but
age of consent in Hawaii is 16.
Even if you're from somewhere else.
Sixteen, even in the military, so
If you were 16 at the time,
there was no crime.
- You can't press charges.
- [STAMMERS, LAUGHS]
I'm not No, yeah, um
Sorry, I'm not-I'm not here
to report him.
- Who are you here to report?
- I just-I just told you.
- My [SIGHS]
- Well, who is it?
Um, I
Mr. Aaron Knodel.
Okay, I'm sorry. All right.
So explain to me, please,
what Hawaii has to do with
your teacher in Fargo.
Everything.
[BILLIE] You better not have said shit.
[MELANI] I didn't.
It was fucking Heather.
[BILLIE] Mags told Heather?
- [MELANI] Yeah.
- [BILLIE] Fuck.
And then Heather told Danica and Reese
- and that big-mouth bitch Zoe.
- Zoe.
And now she's telling everybody
that Maggie spent the entire
summer getting banged out
- by some random Mexican dude.
- Fuck.
This is going to get bad, like,
really, really fucking bad.
[MELANI] Anybody that doesn't know now
is gonna know by this afternoon.
[BILLIE] Poor fucking Mags.
[MELANI] Poor fucking stupid Mags.
[SCHOOL BELL RINGS]
[MUTED MURMURING]
Hey, Maggie. You okay?
Um Uh, no. No.
Uh, no.
Hey, it's gonna be okay.
[STUDENT] She's right there.
- Okay?
- No, it's not.
[STUDENT 2] She looks really upset.
- [GIGGLING, CHATTERING]
- You have no idea.
Try me.
You can talk to me.
Any time, about anything.
[PENSIVE MUSIC]
♪
[MAGGIE] "I no longer felt like a child
of God."
[KNODEL] So, remember, for Monday,
I need an essay, one page.
Biography on anyone who inspires you.
Okay?
It can be someone from your real life,
anyone that we've
learned about this year.
One page, single spaced.
I don't want any of this
double-spaced nonsense.
- [KNODEL CHUCKLES]
- [SCHOOL BELL RINGS]
All right. Monday, okay?
[BUSY CHATTER]
See you in science.
Hey, Connor, kill it tomorrow,
would you?
[CONNOR] You know it, Knodel.
Hey.
Hey.
[MAGGIE CLEARS THROAT]
I read your assignment.
[WHISPERS] Yeah.
[KNODEL] Hey.
You did not do anything wrong.
You're the only person who thinks that.
- No, God thinks that.
- Hmm.
He still loves you no matter what.
I hope so.
Well, what do you think?
I know I'm supposed to feel terrible.
And I do. Just not about him.
How are your parents?
I know you said they sometimes go
a little heavy on the drinking.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, they don't get mean
or angry or anything.
They just kind of drift away.
- God, that must be hard.
- Yeah, it is.
My dad and I are fighting a lot.
- About?
- Everything.
My sisters and brothers
all had each other.
You're the only one still home?
[BOTH LAUGH]
- Yeah.
- [CLEARS THROAT]
My parents really try. They do.
I just I can't talk to them.
Well, you can talk to me any time.
About anything.
- I'm glad you came to me.
- Thank you.
Hey. I promise
Hey.
This moment will not define your life.
- [MAN MUTTERING]
- [CAMERA WHIRRING]
[MAN] Okay, sorry. One more time.
State your name for the record.
- Oh.
- [CAMERA BEEPS]
Yeah, it's on.
Maggie Wilken.
- All right.
- Is that why
they call you "Special Agent"?
'Cause you know how to use
the special spy equipment?
Yeah. That intake cop?
- Who you spoke to first?
- Mm-hmm.
- All pen and paper, am I right?
- [LAUGHS] Yeah.
- Yeah.
- See,
us high-level investigators,
we don't rely on that low-tech garbage.
Are you sure you don't want
anything else to drink?
Something good?
That stuff looks like piss.
Yeah. Oh, and yet it tastes
also like piss.
- [LAUGHS]
- Okay, tough guy.
All right.
- Now, before we took a break
- Mm-hmm.
We were talking about private
texts between you and Knodel.
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Now, can you tell me if
he started that? Or did you?
Knodel started it.
He got my number through the
Student Congress text thread.
And when he texted just me, alone,
it didn't seem that weird.
Because I'd been talking
to him about my life
- since I was a freshman.
- Okay.
Yeah. And the whole fall he was,
just, like, he was nice.
And there for me.
Until things shifted.
And that was?
It was uh Christmas break.
- [FESTIVE MUSIC PLAYING]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- [KIDS CLAMORING]
- [DAVID] Stop! She's cheating!
- Hey!
- She's cheating.
Put these around
we're very, very close.
[CHATTER CONTINUES]
[LAUGHTER]
[ARLENE] All right, hot, hot, hot.
Hot, coming through.
Hot, coming through.
[CHATTER CONTINUES]
Oh, okay, okay.
[PHONE CHIMES]
Come on. Come on.
- Let's go.
- [CHATTER CONTINUES]
Maggie! Earth to Mags,
let's go, let's go, let's go.
Let's play the game.
[CHATTER CONTINUES]
All right. You go. Go for her.
[CHATTER, LAUGHTER CONTINUES]
[PHONE CHIMES]
Hey, come on.
[KID] Sent you back to home base.
[DAVID] Yep, sent me back to home base.
[KID] Hey, look.
[ARLENE] All right!
Okay, dinner. Dinner is ready.
- [WHOOPING, CLAPPING]
- [MAN] There it is!
- [ARLENE] Behold
- [DAVID] Let's go.
[PHONE CHIMES]
[CHATTER, LAUGHTER CONTINUES]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[DISTORTED WHOOSHING]
♪
[DISTORTED CHATTER]
[DISTORTED LAUGHTER]
- ♪
- [DIALOGUE INAUDIBLE]
[PHONE CHIMES LOUDLY]
dreamy music ♪
♪
[BUZZING]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- Pink, purple,
lavender, periwinkle,
then orange, then red,
and then I would go with
a light red, but it wouldn't be
totally pink.
For what?
- My for my room.
- [KNODEL] Okay. Okay.
- Hot red?
- Light red.
Let's settle. Let's settle,
settle, settle.
Welcome back. I know reentry
is difficult. For me, too.
But we've got a lot of work ahead.
Oratory, we need to start
thinking about topics
for the new O.O. essays.
Uh, interp new scenes. Debate
well, that is a much
longer conversation.
[SOFT LAUGHTER]
But today, I will have mercy.
A little reprieve.
We're gonna ease back in
by watching a fantastic film.
[STUDENTS WHOOPING, CLAPPING]
If he puts Super Size Me again,
I'm gonna kill myself.
- [MAGGIE LAUGHING]
- I swear.
You can't say
[KNODEL] Nick, will you get the light?
[NICK] Yeah.
[SWITCH CLICKS]
[CHAIR ROLLING]
[INSTRUMENTAL FILM MUSIC PLAYS]
[PENSIVE MUSIC]
♪
♪
♪
[SCHOOL BELL RINGS]
[KNODEL] Okay. That's it for today.
We'll finish it next time.
But it's good, huh?
Slutty study on Sunday?
- Hmm?
- You, me at Mel's?
Mm-hmm.
[BILLIE] Okay.
Reese, hey. Freak-y freaky.
- Hey, Mr. Knodel.
- [GRUNTS]
I was wondering if I could
ask you about
Who? Kurt?
- Ew.
- Ew. Ugh.
[ALL MOCK RETCHING, LAUGHING]
- Kurt is a dirtbag.
- Dirtbag.
- Well, Zack is just as bad.
- Worse.
What about you, Mags?
[LAUGHS] What?
- You like someone.
- No.
Someone call Channel 11. We have news!
- Ew! Who? Spill.
- [MAGGIE] I don't, I don't.
- No, I have gotta go.
- [PHONE CHIMES]
- What? No, why?
- Bye!
Why? Where?
I missed Mass this morning. So
You're such a good girl.
The good-est!
Should we get at least one
thing done before you go, Mags?
- Yeah. Let's be ambitious.
- Yes.
One thing.
I gotta go.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[BUZZING]
["BRIGHT SMILE"
BY JOSH RITTER PLAYING FAINTLY]
Bright smile, dark eyes ♪
Everywhere I went, oh ♪
I was always looking for you ♪
Bright smile, dark eyes ♪
I'm looking for some peace ♪
But it's so hard to find ♪
With Calamity Janes ♪
And the Steamboat Casanovas ♪
And Darling Clementines ♪
If she's your only one ♪
Then she is also mine ♪
Just pin your heartbeat ♪
Up against my heartbeat ♪
And you'll see how well
we rhyme ♪
With bright smiles
and dark eyes ♪
Bright smile, dark eyes ♪
Everywhere I went, oh ♪
I was always looking for you ♪
Bright smile, dark eyes ♪
Man is only half himself ♪
The other half
is a bright thing ♪
He tumbles on
by luck or grace ♪
For man is ever a blind thing ♪
Oh, bright smiles ♪
And dark eyes ♪
Bright smile, dark eyes ♪
Everywhere I went, oh ♪
I was always looking for you ♪
Bright smile, dark eyes ♪
Smile, dark eyes ♪
Dark eyes ♪
Found it.
Dark eyes ♪
[CAR CHIRPS]
You want to go for a drive?
Uh, yep. Yeah.
[KEYS JINGLE]
[ENGINE STARTS]
[MUSIC PLAYS QUIETLY ON RADIO]
Trying to figure out what's
wrong and what is right ♪
From the moment
I first saw you ♪
We're near my house right now.
- Really?
- Mm-hmm.
How do I get there?
What? To-to my house?
Yeah. Go on. Uh, I want
to know where you live.
Where you sleep.
Uh, yeah, it's, uh,
it's n-next right.
[TURN SIGNAL CLICKING]
Imagine my surprise ♪
When I survived ♪
We just
I shouldn't know where your house is.
Okay.
No, I'm just a
I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to
stop myself from driving by
and checking up on you.
[LAUGHS SOFTLY]
[TRAIN HORN BLOWS IN DISTANCE]
[KNODEL SIGHS]
I'm not going to kiss you if
that's what you're waiting for.
[PENSIVE MUSIC]
[ENGINE STARTS]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- [MUSIC PLAYING FAINTLY]
Oh. How was church, Puppy?
[MARK] You're back late.
I took a drive after.
Did you actually even go to Mass?
- Yes.
- [MARK] Well, good.
[SLURRING] Sometimes we just
need a little boost from God.
- [ROCK MUSIC PLAYS]
- Oh.
[ARLENE] What?
[MARK] We gotta dance to this one.
[LAUGHING]
[MAGGIE] I'm going to bed.
- Come and dance with me.
- Aw
[PHONE CHIMING, BUZZING]
- Hey.
- Hey.
I'm sorry if I was weird.
I-I drove off and, like,
I said stuff I was so nervous.
Yeah, me-me, too.
[BOTH LAUGH]
Yeah.
Where are you?
Um, in my room.
Oh. I wish I could see it.
It's pretty basic. It has-it has a bed.
A bed?
Yeah. It's got a
- [LAUGHS]
- Bed and a desk and a closet.
What color are the walls?
Purple.
Uh, like a-a bluey-purple. [LAUGHS]
[KNODEL LAUGHS]
- Yeah.
- A blue bluey-purple?
Yeah, a bluey-purple.
You don't even know
what color the walls are.
[LAUGHS] It's like a purple. Shh
Like a purple-blue.
[KNODEL LAUGHS]
Okay. What else?
I have a Twilight poster.
Twilight, huh?
Uh-huh. Yeah.
I don't know if I ever saw it.
What do you love about it?
It's like, uh, yeah, everything
I guess. It's just like a
a perfect, gothic, forbidden
romance.
But modern and better.
Can you lend me your copy?
You want to read Twilight?
I want to read what you love.
[NESS] How long did this go on?
The texting, calls.
Until it ended.
Do you still have any
of those texts, Maggie?
No, no, I don't.
He told me to delete everything
a few weeks into it.
So, I did.
Even the ones I-I wanted to save.
Could you possibly estimate
how many calls?
Hours and hours. He'd
Yeah, he'd-he'd call me after
his kids went to bed.
Uh, sometimes after ten. Yeah.
I lived for it.
It was all his rules, though.
When-when I could call.
How long we could talk.
But he was always receptive?
He'd back away sometimes.
Say he couldn't talk for a day or two.
Would say his kids needed him.
Like yeah, like it was my
fault he was ignoring his kids.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
[PEN SCRIBBLING]
Yeah, and then I just started getting
really fucking tired of it. You know?
Him controlling everything. The
The push and pull. And
Yeah, it turned out he was right.
What was he right about?
Uh, the gossip and Hawaii
and all that. He was right.
Everyone moved on.
Uh, things got better with my parents.
It faded.
Everything, except for him,
kind of felt,
uh, normal.
[SCHOOL BELL RINGS]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
You know, honestly,
at that point, I feel like
he cared more about me
than I cared about him.
Come on!
[SQUEALS] Hey.
He knew just the thing.
To reel me right back in.
[DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE]
No! No! Snowboarding!
What did you think I said?
[BILLIE LAUGHS ON PHONE]
I thought you said "so boring"!
[PHONE CHIMES]
I was like, you're gonna
be with me, Mags.
I can guarantee you,
it will not be "so boring."
- [PHONE CHIMES]
- Well, yeah.
Uh, yeah. I Hey, I gotta go, okay?
Gentle music ♪
♪
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[BUZZING]
A few nights later,
he invited me to his house.
Um, yeah, and his-his wife
was out of town. Uh
That's when it got, uh, physical.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
♪
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
- Hey.
- Hey.
♪
You okay?
Yeah.
Yeah, this guy, though,
he didn't make it easy.
Well, you should have
come and gotten us.
[PENSIVE MUSIC]
♪
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
I told Agent Ness everything.
Including all the physical stuff.
And how do you feel?
For the first time in a long
time, I actually feel like I'm
- okay.
- Good.
And like justice might actually be done.
That's great.
Yeah, you know what else?
I sent in my application
to go back to school.
- Social work?
- Social work.
This is all so great, Maggie.
I am so proud of you.
But I need you to do something, okay?
I need you to hang on to this feeling.
How good you feel today.
And how right you know you are.
Because it's going to be hard.
- [CRYING] I know.
- What's ahead.
But the work, Maggie,
is to hang on to who you are
and what you know is true.
No matter what anyone says,
that is your North Star.
[PHONE RINGING, BUZZING]
Hey, asshole.
Hey, tough guy. News is out.
World's finally gonna know.
I'd say, stay off your phone
today if you can, yeah?
Let's get the fucker, Mike.
What you doing?
News is out. Felony charges filed.
- I know.
- Mm.
I've been told to
[QUIETLY] I gotcha.
Yeah.
You heading to work?
No. I took the day.
- Come with me.
- Hmm?
To run the stairs? No, thanks.
Get out on the ice, Mags.
Do a few of your old moves.
I don't remember any of it.
I bet you'll be surprised.
Then you can drive me
to a meeting, okay?
Okay.
Even while we sleep ♪
[MARK] Oh, there she is.
- [LAUGHS]
- Come on, Maggie.
One step at a time.
Turn your back
on Mother Nature ♪
"I ain't too graceful."
"I don't move so well."
There she is! Maggie Wilken
out of Fargo, North Dakota.
Skating for the United States of America
at the Olympic Games.
It's been a while
since she was on the ice,
but she's still got it.
It's my own design ♪
This girl will not be beaten.
Let's see Rocky!
There she is.
Yeah.
There she is.
You're gonna be all right, Maggie.
You're gonna be all right.
Everybody ♪