Soundtrack (2019) s01e08 Episode Script

1 Okay, Gigi.
Make it work.
Hello, old friend.
- Top of the morning, Joe.
- Morning.
- Any peonies left? - I set 'em aside for you last night.
- I'll bring them up to you.
- Thank you.
- Hi, Ahmad.
- Hello, Gigi.
- The usual? - Please, thank you.
Morning, Reema.
Oh, morning, Gigi.
Ah, 70? - Yeah.
- Ruh-roh.
Do you need help, Yolanda? No, I think I'm good.
How dead was it yesterday? It seems like it's been dead since Troy quit.
But today is Wednesday.
Farmers' market foot traffic.
Good for a Grey's actress or two.
Oh, I wanted those.
Kimora said no.
We sold out our first shipment.
The only thing we sold out all fall.
- Did you get a pair at least? - As if they'd let me.
- Fuck that.
- But I'm gonna wear them while I work.
Of course you are! Small pleasures, small pleasures - Who would deny us these? - Not me Gin toddies, large measures No skimping if you please I rough it, I love it Life is a game of chance I'll never tire of it Leading this merry dance If you don't mind Having to go without things It's a fine life Fine life And though it ain't all Jolly old pleasure outings It's a fine life Fine life And when you've got someone to love You forget your cares and strife Let the prudes look down on us Let the wide world frown on us It's a fine, fine life Get gone! Out of here, all of you! Every one of you No flounces, no feathers No frills and furbelows All winds and all weathers Ain't good for fancy clothes These trappings These tatters These we can just afford What future? What matters? We've got our bed and board If you don't mind Having to like or lump it It's a fine life Fine life And though there's no Tea-sipping and eating crumpet It's a fine life Fine life Not for me The happy home Happy husband Happy wife Though it sometimes touches me For the likes of such as me Mine's a fine Fine Life - Hi! - You open? Yes, come in.
Mm! So, Kimora, we need to get your signature on some checks, and then, have you had a chance to decide on the last shipment of hemp bags? How am I going to do that from Tulum, Gigi? Mm? - Mm.
- Oh.
Aren't these chic? Mm.
So chic, the chic-est.
That's what I said.
I was like, "These are chic.
Everyone in LA needs these.
" So I bought every pair they had for the store.
Totally.
I was thinking, we should take down the "help wanted" sign since the store seems to be struggling financially.
The store is struggling vibrationally.
It's always barely made a profit.
Okay.
What you're feeling is the loss of Troy's vibe.
Without him, the store, it's very emo.
I'm a Pisces, so we feel everything.
I mean, I feel lonely just talking to you.
Okay! Uh, what else? You can cover Troy's shifts until we find someone to brighten up the energy, then on Monday when we're closed, maybe I can have Bianca come sage.
We're closed on Mondays? Mondays and Tuesdays.
We're just not conjuring the foot traffic, and it's better to be less available than to seem unpopular.
You know what I'm saying? Rowan, hey! Do not put that in your pants! It does not go there! Okay, so I'm going to go to Hokkaido to get some rice canisters to convert into umbrella stands for the store, plus some skiing.
I think there'll be Wi-Fi there, but definitely don't call me.
Okay.
Oh, my God! Okay.
This is $40 olive oil.
It's from the Calabria region in Italy.
It's supposed to be really delicious.
And it's not going to hurt you.
Plus, your fur might even be conditioned afterwards.
Okay, babe.
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Mom, is everything okay? How could it be okay? Boris died.
Jesus Christ! Hi to you too.
It happened last week.
He was sick and then just - Your father and I were just heartbroken.
- Last week? So if I hadn't called, I'd still be living in a universe where Boris is still alive? Well, we didn't want to upset you.
We figured you knew.
We told Nellie.
You told Nellie? Well, I wrote it to her in a letter.
She and I write letters, you know that.
She loved that dog.
They were so cute together.
Hey, so did I tell you? I have an appointment later today with this, like, super famous Orthodox Jewish mystic guy.
Mm, I thought you weren't Jewish anymore.
He's a non-denominational intuitive who's going to give me some insightful advice on my future and what I'm supposed to be doing with my life.
- Is this like the time that psychic - Healer.
told you you should invest in red Hawaiian clay - Okay - and of course it turned out she had an Hawaiian red clay business that was failing and she No.
He's, like, legit legit, and I've been on a wait-list for six months, - and Gwyneth swears by him, so - And can I get a pound of ground turkey? - Lean as usual, Mrs.
Dubrowski? - Very lean.
- I'm sorry, I'm at the butcher.
- Mom? I'll call you when we decide what to do with Boris's ashes.
Thanks for calling Laurel Hardware, this is Derek.
Derrick, babe, it's Gigi Dumont! Could I please have a res tonight at 8:00, table 80 if it's avail, and if not, 41? I love you forever! I'm sorry, ma'am, unfortunately we don't have any availability in the dining room for dinner this evening.
Oh, I'm sorry, it's Gigi Dumont.
Is this Derrick? I am.
Derek with an E-K.
You may be looking for Derrick wiht a C-K.
Yes, of course.
Patch me through to Derrick C-K, please and thank you.
He and I have a special way of working this kind of riddle out.
Totally.
Unfortunately, Derrick C-K isn't here right now.
Well, we shall call him on his cell phone then.
He's in Barbados.
I'd be glad to add your name to the wait-list should there be any cancellations.
Dumond you said was the last name? Ma'am? Dumont with a T.
And may I recommend that you never utter the word "ma'am" to anyone ever again? Au revoir! Actually, would you mind putting half on that card and then half on this card? Totally.
Just give me one second.
Let me put you in a room.
I really like this paired with this skirt.
And then instead of wearing these as earrings, if you put it on as a brooch, I think it's super chic.
Ooh, I have a better idea for tonight.
Let's go to The Varnish.
It's Japanese whiskey night.
They have a password and everything.
You cannot tell anyone.
It's "Kamasaki.
" What are you doing? You have to wear that to Tower Bar and have a gimlet or five, then pop to Hyde, ask for Mario.
Perfection achieved.
Mario Lopez? No, sweetie, Mario Lopez is at The Grove.
I love The Grove.
Mm, no, you don't.
I like that.
Oh, yeah.
That's actually mine, it's vintage.
I'm wearing it to see Asher Katz tonight.
- The mystic? - Yeah.
I saw him on The Kardashians, like, two seasons ago.
No, I don't think so, he's kind of new.
Asher Katz is so six months ago, he's basically mainstream.
I don't think this fits me right.
Oh! Hi, Mr.
Katz.
Mm.
No touching, no photos, 500.
Up front? - This is beautiful.
- Open it to any page.
Mm-mm.
- Any page? - Don't think about it, just do it.
Mm-mm! The book.
Give me the book.
Oh.
Read the third sentence.
"Never insist everything go your way, even in matters spiritual.
" Open it.
Any page? You'll be fine.
Fine with what? Fine.
You'll be fine.
That's it? What more do you need? Okay, got it.
Leave me a nice Yelp review.
If you take the elevators behind me, you'll find her up on six.
Great.
Thanks.
- You good? - Yeah.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- Mr.
Jones.
- Sure.
- Thank you.
- Thanks.
Front desk, how can I help you? - I think he's already up there.
- Oh, good.
I'm sorry, but I can't tell you if a member's already here.
There's a chance he used a different name for me.
- Did he? - It's my birth name.
He does it as a bit sometimes.
He thinks it's funny.
It's not funny.
Um Jean Dubrowski.
I'm going to need you to spell that.
Jean, J-E-A-N.
Dubrowski, D-U-B-R-O-W-S-K-I.
It's "Du-brow-ski.
" I'm sorry, that last bit again? What, they don't do Polish names in LA? Not this side of West Hollywood.
Peter Fairman.
Not Polish.
Well, it used to be "Furmanek," but my grandpa was self-loathing.
Hence Fairman.
Was he a fair man? No, not in the slightest.
Very false advertising.
And you? - Me? - Mm? I don't know.
An approximation, occasionally.
I think this is probably a good time to tell you that I know who you are.
Oh, God.
What, are you from Cleveland? Detroit, but I've read Food & Wine and I saw your No Reservations.
And your New York Times article where you talk about how much you hate the no-carb movement.
No, I did not say I hated the movement, just all the people who partake in it.
Fair.
My bad.
What brings you to this I won't say city, 'cause that's too aspirational.
Uh I'm being wooed west.
Don't tell the gossip columns.
You've made a line.
I'm sorry, she was here before me.
Oh, she is not a member, Mr.
Fairman, and your guests are waiting for you upstairs behind the bar.
Please add Ms.
Dubrowski as my guest.
She's coming upstairs with me.
Just for the record, anyone who left someone like you waiting is not worth your time.
Thank you.
After you, Dubrowski.
A reminder, you're not allowed to use your phone upstairs.
Of course.
Thank you.
Chef Fairman thank you for using your celebrity for good.
It was a pleasure I won't soon forget.
Dobry wieczór, Dubrowski.
Next time you're in Cleveland you should come by the restaurant.
Why? You'll be here.
Excuse me.
Um, could Uh, excuse me, can I I didn't ask Anna, thank you.
Talk soon.
- A pleasure.
- Thanks, guys.
Nice meeting with you.
Dubrowski? You're still waiting? Friends have yet to arrive.
Kind of hoping something terrible happened to them, otherwise what am I doing? Seriously, what the fuck? - Your meeting went well? - Yeah.
If you call very fancy real estate people offering me two spaces in their new downtown hotel well.
Very fancy.
It would be a big move.
Yeah, one that would take me out of Cleveland, and, you know make me a brand.
It doesn't sound like you want that.
Oh, really? How can you tell? I'm good at people.
- Yeah, except your friends, apparently.
- Oh, well.
I'm too good at them.
Maybe that's why they didn't show.
Nobody likes honesty all the time.
I'm pretty sure only dishonest people don't.
Sorry.
You should go.
Mm.
I should.
I really I probably should.
And yet You'd like me to get you your car.
I would like your number.
To give to the valet.
I don't carry a cell phone with me.
I don't really like to.
You know that you have to use this to get your car to leave.
I'm going to tell them that I lost it.
Well, it's kind of an expensive way to get a number.
Twenty five dollars? It'd be worth it at twice the price.
Okay, well you know, I look forward to waiting by the phone for your call.
Dobranoc, Dubrowski.
To na razie, Fairman.
Fairman, you called.
Miss Dubrowski? This is she.
Great.
This is Allie, Peter Fairman's assistant.
Of course.
Hello, Allie.
I know it's last minute, but Mr.
Fairman was wondering if you might be available for dinner tonight.
I think so.
Yeah, tonight? Sure.
Perfect.
7:15.
I'll text you the address.
7:15 is lovely.
Thanks for calling.
He'll see you there.
He called.
Hi.
Um, I'm Jean Dubrowski, meeting Peter Fairman.
Right this way, Ms.
Dubrowski.
Thank you for not seating us at ten.
Oh, table 31 is Excuse me.
I don't love a high-top.
Actually, we're headed toward the kitchen.
Oh, okay.
I'm surprised you're on time, Dubrowski.
Please, Fairman, I'm always on time.
That's for you.
Did you move here and take a job in the last 24 hours? No, this is just something we chefs like to do when we're in town, cook with our friends.
Ori and Gen hosted my cookbook launch last year, so I owe them.
Here, try this.
It's so good and weird.
Excellent.
Good and weird.
I don't hate weird.
Hey, Ben, can I get four hamachi collars on the grill? - Can you do 'em at a sear this time? - Yes, Chef.
God, I love it when they say that.
What? "Yes, Chef"? Come on, say it again and mean it, Dubrowski.
Yes, Chef.
You don't want to know what's in it? Mm-mm.
I trust you.
Well, that's a mistake.
Is it? No.
Give me more stuff to try! Okay, Ben, one more hamachi.
This time do the one with the beet reduction, please.
- Yes, Chef.
- Yes, Chef! Very good.
I'll be right back.
So I was only supposed to prep, but this has gotten a little out of hand.
Do you mind keeping me company for a couple hours? Best seat in the house.
Literally nowhere else I'd rather be.
Uh-oh.
Tim, you're hovering.
- Why are you hovering? - Six is asking for a Barney Rubble.
- Harrison Ford is here.
- Cool.
And he wants a lean cut of steak and we don't do lean cuts of steak, do we? - No.
- No, we do not.
So we will make Indiana Jones a steak as it was meant to be made, and if he doesn't send a compliment back, what are we going to change? Abso-fucking-lutely nothing.
Thank you very much.
You have a catchphrase! You're famous.
All right, what do you want to try next? You pick.
I feel groggy and weary and tragic Punchy and bleary And fresh out of magic But alive But alive But alive I feel twitchy and bitchy and manic Calm and collected And choking with panic But alive But alive But alive I'm a thousand different people Every single one is real I've a million different feelings Okay, but at least I feel And I feel rotten Yet covered with roses Younger than springtime And older than Moses - Frisky as a lamb - Ah la-la - Lazy as a clam - Ah la-la Crazy but I am alive La la la la la La la la la la Eek, eek, eek, ow, ow, ow And I feel wicked and wacky and mellow Firm as Gibraltar and shaky as Jell-O But alive But alive But alive I feel half Tijuana, half Boston Partly Jane Fonda And partly Jane Austen But alive That's the thing! But alive This kaleidoscope of feelings Whirls around inside my brain I admit I'm slightly cuckoo But it's dull to be too sane And I feel brilliant And brash and bombastic Limp as a puppet and simply fantastic But alive But alive But alive She's here My dear, can you believe it? She's here Oh God, I can't believe it She's here And just to prove we do believe Woo Da da da Da da da Da da da da da da Da da Da da da da Ah Woo All right, it's almost midnight.
Where are we going? Uh, well Can you dive? Deep.
So this is it.
Just don't touch anything and you won't get typhoid.
But we can dance.
Ah delightful.
What's your drink? Uh, whiskey, but nothing fancy.
Hi.
Um two Jim Beams, rocks.
What? Jim Beam, ice, two.
Like the whiskey? Yes, we do like the whiskey.
What just happened? I thought this was a dive bar.
Yeah, but it's Echo Park, um, so nobody drinks bottom shelf unless it's PBR, ironically.
So I thought you said we could dance here.
We can.
Nobody does.
Well, that's stupid.
Blue Jean I just met me a girl named Blue Jean Blue Jean She got a camouflaged face And no money Remember They always let you down When you need 'em Oh, Blue Jean Is heaven any sweeter than Blue Jean? She got a police bike She got a turned-up nose Sometimes I feel like Ooh The whole human race Jazzin' for Blue Jean Ooh And when my Blue Jean's blue Blue Jean can send me Ooh Somebody send me Somebody send me Ooh Somebody send me Look, I live in a city where when you drink local beer, it's because it's what your mom and your dad and your granddad drank in earnest, and it's because you love it.
Here people drink to laugh at it.
It shouldn't be ironic.
Food should not be ironic.
Food should be an experience, at any level.
Like pierogi.
Every pierogi that I make reminds me of my mom, and on some genetic level, of all my relatives who came over here.
- Why did you do that? - Do what? You're playing down how good you are to make me think that I'm better than you.
You're really not from around here, are you? Why'd you start cooking? - So my mom, Blanca.
- Blanca.
Blanca.
She had this rivalry with Martha Stewart.
One-sided, of course.
Like an all-out feud with her.
I think that drive inspired me.
I mean, she taught me not only to love cooking, but to always try to do it the best that I could.
My mom also had a lot of nemeses growing up, but most of them were me.
- Oh, yeah? - Yeah, I I didn't want to be Jewish, let alone Polish, I did not want to be from Detroit, and I didn't want to wear what she wanted me to wear.
I guess inspired me too to be totally different than her.
Although as I get older now, I don't know why 'cause she's, like, an authentic, specific person, whereas I curate myself every day.
I don't see that about you.
It's 'cause I don't do it with you.
What did Blanca have against Martha? She thought that her goal of perfection was limiting, that there's no such thing as having all the right ingredients.
- I saw you cook, that wasn't perfection? - I mean, I strive for perfection, but I need to feel like I can experiment and fail too.
Yeah, well, that's why LA wants you.
I mean, you reinvented an entire cuisine.
Look, the thing that I love about food, it's about nourishing people.
A good meal can revive someone on their worst day, or in the worst times.
Borscht was invented during a war.
I don't know that borscht is the best example of nourishment.
Why is it so polarizing? It's unfair.
Gonna make borscht the new Brussels sprouts, Fairman? My spot in Cleveland has integrity.
It exists for the community.
It's very important to me.
Is LA going to take away that intention? I don't think so.
You're still you.
It's just that the clientele hasn't known you since high school.
Right, but that's not a feeling you can fabricate.
Can something be truly authentic if the puppeteer is distracted by zoning issues, and constant PR, and private parties? The mom-and-pop boutique I work at has to close two days a week.
Everything small is on the decline.
I mean, you might have to sell out a little to stay afloat.
I want to reach more people.
- I do.
- Yeah.
And not so I can buy a yacht and sail around the Greek islands in ten years like Batali.
I really want to bring joy to people.
Show people that what comes from the past survived for a reason.
I want to open people's eyes up to my culture.
Our culture.
You think I'm crazy.
I think a yacht, as a rhetorical first purchase for your millionaire alter-ego self is just, like, very revealing of your true character.
Okay, well, it would be an electric yacht.
Fantasy millionaire me has no tolerance for pollution.
I might have given you a hickey.
But you started it, so - Well, let's even this out.
- No! Your red flags are very well hidden.
I don't have any.
Sorry, I have known boys like you.
I'm surprised.
We are few.
As in you don't exist.
I think you're probably very bad, and you can just go ahead and be honest because we're all adults here.
Or maybe you can stop projecting your negative perceptions on me, Dubrowski.
I'm new in town and I was raised right.
And I like you.
Well, I'm having a fabulous time with you, Fairman.
I haven't even checked my phone, which is, like, a record for 2012, so Well, I feel very honored to be the subject of your attention tonight.
Do you want to get out of here? How far is your hotel? I'm not staying at a hotel.
I'm staying at a friend's place.
Okay.
Is your friend Steven Spielberg? Yeah, and he's never home.
That's convenient.
Hey.
I want you to know, I'm not in the habit of doing this sort of thing.
Oh, okay.
- I like to keep my mother proud of me.
- Good to know.
I mean, I never do this.
You're a terrible liar.
Okay, great.
Poor everybody else How I pity everybody else But me I'm sorry they're not loved Like I'm being loved In this world There's no girl alive Got the goose bumps That I've got today Feel so rich today I'd give everything But him away This town would flip But they just can't make the contact He's under exclusive contract To me Poor everybody else Pity everybody else I could sit down and cry For poor everybody else But me Poor Everybody else My heart aches for you and you and you And you We're physically tied We're spiritually tied Like kisses we're interdependers Like pants and suspenders We match It's funny how we match And what's more We hit it off from scratch I loved my friends But just in case they are tempted Remember this guy's preempted By me Poor everybody else Lonely everybody else Got a lump in my throat For poor Everybody else But Me Me Oh, wow.
You're cooking for me.
Normally I would not, but you kind of kidnapped me to this foreign land with an insane kitchen, so Are these what I think they are? My taxes? Yeah.
They're kind of complicated this year.
Is this a 1040? My God, pierogi.
I called my mom, I got her recipe.
She thinks I had a stroke, so You know, no one cooks for me anymore.
They aren't brave enough.
Hazelnuts? In the brown butter.
- Mm, like a mousseline.
- Exactly.
And? And pear.
Cute party trick you've got there.
Are you gunning for a job? Why else would I sleep with you? Shit.
Sorry, the investors.
What do they want? To know what I want.
Have you decided? Do you want my advice? How about your answer? What's the question? You know, growing up, the fanciest place to eat in town was Stouffer's on the Square.
- No.
- Yeah.
Literally, they're frozen meals on fancy china.
I mean, even then I knew I couldn't let that be the yardstick.
No, I knew whatever place that I created, I had to open it on that square.
You know, a place for my family, my friends.
But now I'm contemplating abandoning my family and my friends to become what? Room service? A line of spatulas? A judge on Top Chef? I'm still waiting for the question.
How do you feel about Cleveland? It's no Toledo.
So is that a yes? You want me to move with you to Cleveland? I'm sure you can think up 10,000 reasons why this is crazy.
You don't know me.
You think I'm cute now, but you're going to think that I'm too much soon, and I'm not too much, for the record, I'm just a lot, but there is a difference.
You think I don't know you? Of course I know you.
I think you and I were meant to meet.
You know what? Fuck meet.
I think we already know each other.
I mean Pete and Jean in Malibu? Who are they? We're Piotr and Janina, we're two dots connected across time to our ancestors in the old country, by them for a reason.
I think this reason.
You and I don't belong here.
We're too real for this place.
Come home.
Yeah.
Yes.
- Really? - Yeah.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
Yes.
- Okay.
- Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
I have to meet the investors at this club tonight in the Warehouse District.
I need you to come with me so I don't lose my nerve when they tell me how much money I'm turning down.
Okay.
Okay.
- I'm calling them.
- Okay.
There's a door there.
So our new schedule is Wednesday to Sunday.
Whatever's best for the store.
And the good news is I decided to listen to you and not bring in a new Troy.
That's really thoughtful of you.
So you'll open and close, okay? Cool, yeah, whatever.
Chad and I are adding Addis Ababa to our trip.
I'll send you new dates.
Okay, sure.
Stay on the line, I want to show you some scarves, OK? Furmanek! Dubrowski.
You cold? No, but don't let go.
Come on.
Gige! Gigi! - I think this guy thinks he knows you.
- Where were you last night? I don't know who he is.
I'm sorry, I think you have the wrong person.
- Gigi.
Hello.
- Let's go in.
We stayed at Laurel late waiting for you last night, you never showed.
I called you all night.
Gigi Dumont, are you seriously blanking me? Her name is Jean.
Not for at least a decade.
I'm sorry, do you know this guy? Not really, no.
Oh, you are such bullshit, Gigi.
- Stop.
- What's going on? - This is why we don't hang out anymore.
- God, Troy.
- I got so sick of you bailing on me.
- Calm down.
- Dropping me for a better plan.
- This is Pete.
If you can find one.
A better table, a better friend.
Years of feeling second, tenth, non-existent.
Troy, tone it down.
And the moment I get some new friends, you go crazy.
Chase me down, stalk me on social media.
- I have to go inside.
- That's why I had to quit the store.
I couldn't take another day of you eavesdropping for something better, - writing in your book - Can someone get him? - Not letting anyone - He's on Can you go? My therapist told me to get out of this pattern, and your neediness lately without regards to my feelings is just the last straw.
What are you doing? - I was with Pete Fairman! - See? - Can you just check I'm going.
- Exactly.
- I'm sorry.
- I was just with him, and then he I'm But I'm sorry.
We're full.
Fairman, can I explain? There's no need, I got it.
I don't think you do.
I'm who you think I am.
You don't know what I think.
I'm real with you.
I'm not totally real with everybody else.
My name is Jean.
I got here and people made fun of it, so I changed it just to fit in.
It's kind of like what your grandfather did.
I didn't even necessarily want to fit in, I just I thought I had to, or something.
I don't care if you fit in or not.
I don't care that you changed your name.
Well, great.
Then I care about the fact that when your friend showed up, you ignored him.
You pretended that he didn't exist.
In fact, you told me that you'd never even met him.
Just because you thought that I'd judge you for it? That's not honest.
You hurt someone just because you thought that he stood in your way.
I don't know what I was thinking about all this.
I'm sorry, I have to go home.
Oh, no.
I can come with you.
If you just listen to me, I can Jean, this is not an argument.
I'm not interested in knowing you anymore.
Don't follow me.
Fuck.
Fuck.
Life is just a bowl of cherries Don't take it serious Life's too mysterious You work, you save, you worry so But you can't take your dough When you go, go, go Keep repeating, it's the berries The strongest oak must fall The best things in life To you were just loaned So how can you lose What you never owned? Life is just a bowl of cherries So live and laugh at it all Keep repeating, it's the berries You know the strongest oak Has got to fall The sweet things in life To you were just loaned So how can you lose What you never owned? Life is just a bowl of cherries So live it Love it Wiggle your ears And think nothing of it You can't do without it There's no two ways about it You live And you laugh at it all Make it work.