Sorry for Your Loss (2018) s01e08 Episode Script

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Subscene @AliEmJay
- So--I have some news.
Ryan and I got engaged
late June.
- So, just after Matt.
- We both realized
that life is short.
Why wait?
- You know, you can get
another husband.
I can't just get
another brother.
- This is why
I still don't want
to hang out with you.
- I am supposed to make
a moral inventory
[sighs]
Every lie, every mistake--
so that I understand myself.
- Matt was my favorite person.
I just really wanted
to make him happy
and I don't know if I did.
- Can I show you something?
[kids shouting, laughing]
- Hey, man.
It's not too late
to change your life.
- Nope. Never.
- You gonna tell me
that guy isn't happy?
- Thank you.
[sweet, melancholic music]
♪
- Ow.
Ow, ow.
- Stop moving.
- I--you're poking me.
- There.
- [sighs]
[quiet, mellow music]
♪
- Okay, what about these?
- Those aren't black.
- It's close enough.
It doesn't matter.
- Yes, it does.
[shaky breathing]
[solemn music]
Everyone's gonna
be staring at me.
I hate when people stare at me.
- I know.
- [shaky breathing]
I don't want to have
a breakdown
in front of everyone.
♪
- Okay, so
a widow and an alcoholic
walk into a wedding
- Ha-ha.
What's the punch line?
- I guess we're gonna have
to go to this wedding
and find out.
- Hey, can I use the mascara
when you're done?
Hey, Leigh?
- Hmm?
- You okay?
- Uh, yeah, I'm fine.
- Here, let me help.
Well, the front looks like
you went to a salon,
but the back is like
[groans]
Yes.
Do you want us to leave?
We're in your room.
- I'm fine.
I'm just gonna go use
the mirror with the magnifier
in your bathroom.
- Okay.
So, I went to wake you up
this morning
and guess what I found?
Or, rather, didn't find.
Again.
- Sorry.
Sabrina and I went down
this '80s power ballad
karaoke rabbit-hole
at her house.
- Sabrina doesn't have friends
her own age
to do karaoke with?
- You're her age
and we're friends.
- Well, thank you for thinking
we're the same age.
Just call next time, okay?
- Yes, Your Mothership.
I wonder who will be
at our table?
I hope it's all the randos
that have major drama
with the other guests.
- Danny, probably, and maybe
some of the guys
from their pick-up game.
- Oh, wow.
I haven't seen those guys
since
- The funeral.
- Yeah.
- Me neither.
[guests chattering]
- So are you and Danny
friends now?
Semi-friends?
Quasi-friends?
I don't know
what comes after 'quasi.'
- Something like that.
One of those, yeah.
And there he is.
Hi.
- Hey.
- Hi.
- You're early.
- Yeah, I, uh--
I didn't want to be late
and I over-corrected.
- Oh, my God.
This task email
is 900 pages long.
Do they expect us all
to be their bridesmaids?
- Hey.
How you doing?
- I'm fine.
I'm okay.
- What do you think?
Too much?
I didn't want
to upstage the grooms.
- You won't.
But you look nice.
[laughs]
- Okay
So, Leigh, you are supposed
to help with the flowers
- Great.
- And I am helping
with Drew and Ryan's
family photos.
Danny, wanna help me out?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
Great, this'll be fun.
Yeah.
- See you guys later.
- Yep.
- Great.
- Uh, this way.
Yeah.
- Hi.
How can I help?
- Oh, my God.
Leigh?
Ginny Maxwell.
I did the flowers
for your wedding.
- I know.
[weak laugh]
Hi.
- Hi!
Is Matt here, too?
- No, he's out of town.
- Um, I loved your wedding.
You had those book cover
centerpieces, right?
- Yep.
- Yeah.
Will you tell him I said hi?
- Of course.
What can I do?
- Um, well--
can you put the eucalyptus
in each one?
- Mm-hmm.
- Great.
So happy you're here.
- [stammers]
[laughs weakly]
- It's good to see you.
- Hey.
What are you doing here?
- You wanted to talk.
- Well
[sighs]
You could have called.
- I just wanted
to get out of the house.
- Well, be useful.
Um
- [clears throat]
- Look, it's great that, uh,
you and Sabrina
are getting to know Jules,
but it feels
kind of strange
to go from polite hellos
at family functions
to sleepovers
within the span of a few weeks.
- Does it feel strange
to Jules?
- Nothing ever feels strange
to Jules; that's the problem.
Her compass is broken.
And--and, you know,
she gets too close to people
too fast.
- Well, but she's been
sober for, what,
almost five months now?
- But that's not a long time,
Richard.
- Look, Sabrina's mom
was an alcoholic,
and they have a connection
over the recovery stuff.
That's--that's gotta be good
for Jules, right?
I mean, it's--it's good
for Sabrina, too, I think.
Then again, it's hard to know
what's gonna make her happy
these days.
- The weird silver lining
of all the horrible things
that have happened to my girls
has been having them back home.
I miss them
when they're gone.
They're my friends.
- Hey.
I'll be your friend.
- [laughs]
- What?
You don't think
we can be friends?
- Well, we'd be friends
with an excessive amount
of baggage.
- What other kind of friends
are there?
- [laughing]
Mm.
- You should hurry up,
'cause the guests
are coming soon.
- Okay, thanks for your help.
Really did a lot.
[both laughing]
[mellow music playing
over speakers]
♪
What?
- Nothing.
It's just this wedding
is making me feel
really, really single.
- [laughs]
- Dude, me too.
When I was drinking, I had
no problem meeting people.
They're not the right kind
of people.
But now that I have standards,
I think I'll just
stay single forever.
- Probably not missing
too much.
My folks were married 30 years
and I never saw them have fun.
- [laughs]
Oh, no.
Are we broken?
- The best people are broken.
[both laughing]
I hope I find someone
broken enough to deal with me
and still want to be in it.
You know?
Like, fully in it.
♪
That's what I cry about
at night.
[both laughing]
What about you?
- I
just
want to have good sex
with someone I like, and
remember it the next day.
[stammers]
♪
- [sighs]
Okay.
- I think that's it.
- Great.
- So, is Matt still teaching
at the same place?
My sister's kid starts there
in the fall.
Maybe Matt could be
his unofficial mentor.
Or, no pressure
if Matt doesn't have time.
- I'm sorry.
I don't know why I told you
that, uh, Matt's
out of town.
He died
five months ago.
- I'm so sorry.
- It's okay.
- I--I didn't--
[stammering]
I'm--I'm sorry.
- Um
I'm gonna
[breathing heavily]
Okay.
- You should come
to a class sometime.
- [scoffs]
I'm a terrible dancer.
- I remember.
That's because you don't listen
to the music.
- [laughing]
Okay.
- No, you have to dance
the music, not the steps.
That's what César said, anyway.
- Uh
Who's César?
- My first love, César.
Before we met.
I went backpacking in Europe
and fell madly in love
with a tango instructor
in Barcelona.
- [stammering]
I remember you telling me
about César.
I don't remember the part
where you had a whole fling.
- Well, that's because, alas,
we did not.
[sighs]
I took his class every day
for two weeks.
I don't think
he ever noticed me.
But in my fantasies
Oh, we
danced all day and
spent our nights making
wild, European love.
- How--how does one,
uh, make
[clears throat]
"European love"?
- [laughs]
Well, first of all
there's no
clothes allowed
in the apartment, so, um
we would leave them
at the door with our shoes
- Where clothes belong.
- [laughs]
- And what else?
- Um
Well, nothing was off-limits,
so, you know,
the bed and the
kitchen floor, and
stairwell
against the windows.
Oh, my God.
- What?
- I can't breathe.
[gasping]
My chest hurts.
- Are--are you okay?
- I think I'm having
a heart attack.
[gasping]
- Um--are you nauseated?
- What does that have to do
with anything?
- Because I--I read somewhere
that, uh
- What?
- Heart attack symptoms
- [whimpers]
- In a woman are--never mind.
Um, is your left arm numb?
- Yes.
Oh, my God, take me to the ER.
- Yep, yep.
Come on.
- [moaning]
Richard
- I got you, I got you.
[mellow guitar music]
- Everybody,
please find a seat.
We're about to start.
[all chattering]
♪
[knocking on door]
- Yeah, come in.
- Hey.
What's the emergency?
- Um
can you look at me?
- No way.
I'm not taking chances
two hours before our wedding.
- [scoffs]
That's an outdated tradition
from when brides were traded
by their fathers for dowries.
- Okay, so I can tell
by the sound of your voice
and the way you're bringing up
the patriarchy
that something's wrong,
so what's wrong?
- Everything is wrong.
My--my mom's upset
because she wants to walk me
down the aisle,
and my dad's obviously gonna
walk me down the aisle
'cause he paid for everything,
and he spent
way too much money
throwing a wedding
that's just making everyone
miserable,
and I don't even want
to have a wedding.
I don't--I don't even
want to be a bride.
I just want to be married.
- [laughs]
- Uh-oh.
You saw me.
That's a thousand years
of bad luck.
[laughing]
What?
What?
- I'm just looking at you.
[sound gradually fades in]
[chattering, chairs scraping]
[mellow guitar music]
♪
- Excuse me.
- [indistinct]
[laughter]
- Oh, God.
- Hey.
What's going on?
- I--
I just--
I know I should be able
to pull it together
for my best friend but, um
I just--
[sighs]
- It's only been a few months.
- It's not that long.
- It's not.
- Yeah, and I'm just
worried if I stay
I'm gonna lose it,
and I don't want
to make this about me.
- Leigh, it'll be fine.
He'll understand.
- Oh, Nissan.
Hi.
- Or you could stay.
[somber music]
- Uh, "Lay"?
Leigh?
- Uh, yeah.
Sorry, could you--
just one second.
- I mean, if you can, I--
I think everyone
would be glad if you stayed.
- Actually, um, you can go.
I am so sorry.
But thank you.
Sorry.
♪
- There goes your
perfect passenger rating.
- Yeah, there it goes.
Okay.
- Mm-hmm.
- [sighs]
- Okay if we talk about this
in front of your husband,
Mrs. Shaw?
- Uh, yeah, it's fine.
- There's nothing wrong
with your heart.
Were you doing anything
that could have raised
your heart rate?
Smoking, exercising, sex.
- Not really.
- Have you been under
an unusual amount
of stress, lately?
- No.
- Amy.
Come on.
- Um
[sighs]
Our son-in-law died
a few months ago,
and my other daughter
is just out of rehab.
- Then I'm reasonably sure
that you had a panic attack.
- What about the numb arm
and the chest pain?
- It's amazing how many
physical symptoms
have underlying
emotional triggers.
I'd recommend seeing
a therapist soon.
Anxiety can get worse
if untreated.
- [sighs]
- And to grow together,
entwined on the vine of life.
Comforting each other
in times of darkness
and sharing in the joy
for as long as you both
shall live.
both: I do.
- You know what to do.
[laughter]
[cheering and applause]
[indistinct chatter]
- [laughing]
I'm gonna be right back.
[pop music playing
over speakers]
♪
Hi.
- Hey!
- Hi!
- Look at you.
- Congratulations.
- Thanks, lady.
- That was so beautiful,
you guys.
- Aww.
- Mm.
And I love the "My Ry."
- [laughs]
- Thought you hate puns.
- But I love you guys.
[all laughing]
- Um, it was--
it was really great
to see you today.
- Good to see you, too.
- Excuse me.
- I am so glad you're here.
- Are you kidding?
I'd never miss it.
I love you.
- I love you, too.
♪
I was thinking
about you today.
How are you doing with
- I'm good.
- Yeah?
- Yeah, really.
Yeah, I was just so happy
for you two.
♪
- I should
- Yes, you should.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Can you believe it?
I'm someone's husband.
- I know, and you're gonna be
a really good one.
- Ugh.
- [laughs]
♪
- I went out
on this first date,
and this girl's pressing me
so hard, and I said,
"Is this a first date
or a deposition?"
At which point I asked
for an adjournment,
if you know what I mean.
[laughs]
- [laughs]
- That dude is definitely
swiping right on you right now.
- And handle that.
And so that's
- Um, I guess
I should go see
if it's a match?
Don't wait up.
- lawyersonly.com is not
[laughing]
- Hi.
Thanks.
Uh, your friend thinks
he's very funny.
- Mm.
Yeah, he's really not.
I just--I just don't have
the heart to tell him yet.
- [laughs]
Uh, how do you know the grooms?
- I, uh--I went to law school
with Ryan.
We, uh--we sat next
to each other in torts--
which is short for "torture."
- [laughs]
Stanford.
Fancy.
- Where'd you go?
- Uh, I stayed local.
I wanted to be close
to the fam because, uh,
I did high school at Hogwarts.
- [laughs]
Very cool.
I, uh, minored in, uh, potions
in undergrad, so
- Oh, great.
[laughs]
- So, uh, what do you do now?
- Oh, you mean in real life.
I am an exercise teacher.
I work at the studio
"Beautiful Beast."
- Oh, I think I've heard of it.
Uh, someone famous owns that,
right?
- Um
No.
My mom does.
[laughing]
- Hey, I'm gonna grab a drink.
Can I get you a--a wine?
Beer?
- Um
No.
I'm an alcoholic.
- Uh, 'kay.
I could get you a Sprite.
- [laughs]
Um
I'm not doing
processed sugar right now.
♪
Uh, but
it was great to meet you.
♪
- Uh
- Great.
- Yeah.
♪
- I--I'm just gonna lock up.
You don't have to stay.
- Are you sure you're okay?
- Yeah, I'm fine.
- [sighs]
- I really thought
it was a heart attack.
- It wasn't.
- I know.
But I just kept thinking,
you know, it's too soon
after Matt, and Leigh would
never get over it.
And then there's Jules,
you know.
If something happened to me,
what would happen to her?
[stammering]
- You--you heard the doctor.
Your heart
is perfectly healthy.
- Please don't micromanage
my feelings.
You always did that
and it always felt terrible.
- Don't start a fight
to get away
from what happened earlier.
- Thank you for taking me
to the hospital.
[indistinct chatter]
- God, I broke the seal
way too early.
Ugh.
Spend the rest of this wedding
waiting in a bathroom line.
[chuckles]
At least I get to wait in line
with a hot girl.
[chuckles]
[soft music playing
over speakers]
- And now, for a special treat:
Please welcome Ryan
and his brother Mike
to the dance floor, y'all!
Let's go!
[all chattering, cheering]
- Whoo!
- Wow.
That's bold.
- [laughing]
- Oh, my Lord.
- Why didn't you and Matt
do a cool brother dance
at our wedding?
- Because Matt couldn't dance.
- That's--that's true.
- I'd have been great, though.
- [laughing]
Yeah?
Like that great?
- Yeah.
- [laughing]
- Oh
[laughing]
[laughing]
♪
[cheering and applause]
- Okay, everybody, it's time
to show us your moves.
Get to the dance floor!
Grab somebody!
Let's go!
Yeah!
- Danny, you wanna
show me greatness?
- No, I'm not into it.
- No?
Oh, no?
You just wanna be
a cool guy, Danny?
Sitting in his chair?
Drinking his vodka soda?
That's what cool guys do, huh?
- I want a place to stay ♪
♪
♪
- [laughing]
♪
- [singing off-key]
- [laughing]
♪
[laughing]
♪
[laughter dissolves
into sobbing]
♪
[sobbing]
- [sobbing, gasping]
♪
- [sighs]
- [sobbing]
[hiccupping, sobbing]
[breathes out heavily]
Oh, my God
[breathing heavily]
I can't believe
that just happened.
- Whatever.
It's okay.
It's all good.
Here--come on.
Come on.
- [shaky breathing]
[sighs]
- Better?
- [breathing heavily]
Do I have make-up
all over my face?
- No.
I'm just kidding, it's--
it's everywhere.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- [laughing]
- Wait, here.
Here, I got you.
- [sighs]
- Um
- I have to go.
- Yeah.
- Hi.
[mellow, melancholic music]
♪
[engine turns over]
♪
[phone ringing]
- Hello?
- Ms. Shaw?
I'm calling from
the Palms Club Hotel,
just to confirm your
reservation for this evening
- I'm sorry?
- The Palms Club
at Palm Springs.
Looks like the package
was gifted
by a Richard and Sabrina Shaw.
- Right
♪
- Ma'am, are we still expecting
you in Palm Springs today?
♪
- Hi, welcome to Palm Springs.