Baby Fever (2022) s02e03 Episode Script

1
- [intense music playing]
- [spits]
- [door opens]
- [Lise] Good morning!
[exhales, sighs]
- [urinating]
- [Lise] I smashed it yesterday.
Did you see how many there were?
Amazing to think that I can still attract
so many of the public in.
An old crone like me.
[laughs]
[toilet flushes]
[grunts]
- Is there a new toothpaste I could use?
- There's plenty in there.
- I can't see it.
- Just squeeze it out.
No, but it's I just can't get more out.
Ooh! This is
a really great mood to wake up to.
You left her, you know that?
Worse than that,
with an with an old drunk.
- You could have kept our agreement.
- What agreement? You were babysitting.
I did babysit her!
No, you totally didn't, clearly.
- I did.
- Did you have her when I came?
There's nothing wrong with Balloon Oli.
He babysat you when you were little.
But that's not what we're talking about.
He made incredible balloon animals
until he got arthritis in his hands.
[spits] I could want her to have
different experiences to me.
Listen, I [grunts]
[sighs]
It wasn't that bad either.
You know that very well.
[Nana] No, I actually don't.
I wasn't lucky enough to have
a fantastic mum who came over to babysit
while your dad just sat getting drunk
on a bench in Bagsværd in Bangkok.
- You said Bagsværd.
- Bangkok.
This one here,
shall I put it in the dishwasher?
Why did you say Bagsværd?
- What?
- Why did you say Bagsværd?
You said he sat getting drunk
on a bench in Bagsværd.
[tense music playing]
Yes.
It's actually an all right suburb.
What's that got to do with it?
- I thought it best you didn't know.
- Best? Are you joking?
- Oh, let's not make it such a deal.
- This is my father we're talking about.
- Calm down. I can't see the issue.
- I asked a thousand times!
It doesn't matter if your father
is living in Bagsværd or Bangkok or
In what world does this not matter?
Because he wasn't there.
It broke my heart, seeing how sad you were
each time he didn't turn up or that
that or he showed up full of drink
or or or He wasn't a father!
Yeah, but he was my father,
and I should've known this.
I could have contacted him.
Yes, precisely.
And what good would have come of that?
[Nana sighs]
Did he attempt to contact me?
It's a
- [baby crying]
- You stay. I'll go to her.
Just leave it.
- [baby fussing]
- [gentle music playing]
[Nana sighs]
[door opens]
[Nana] You're going?
Yes, it's best
if we take a break from each other.
You can't go. I've got a job.
I can't take her with me!
- Have a nice day at work.
- [Nana] Don't do this.
Helle gave me one chance.
I'll get fired. Mum?
Mum?
[tense version
of "Anything for You" playing]
BABY FEVER
[line rings]
[Lise] You have called Lise LaCour.
I can't come to the phone right now,
but if you sing your message,
I might call you back.
Bye-bye!
[mailbox beeps]
PLEASE CALL ME, MOM
[line rings]
[Simone] Hi. You've called Simone.
I don't check my voicemail,
so please send me a text instead.
[mailbox beeps]
- [line ringing]
- [baby fusses]
[coos happily]
[Nana] Fuck. What the hell
am I going to do?
[baby fusses]
[Nana] Okay, two clients, one meeting.
It's gonna be fine.
No one will notice
you've brought a baby with you.
[music fades]
[baby cooing]
[tense music playing]
[Nana sighs]
[Nana breathing shakily]
[baby cooing in box]
- [Nana gasps]
- Oh!
- Hi. Good morning.
- [Niels-Anders] Good morning.
- You're here early, huh?
- Indeed, yeah.
Yeah. No, I mean, it's for this
Today's my Starry Moment.
- Oh yes, that's right. It is.
- I just came in to prepare for it.
- I'm actually a tad nervous.
- Yeah, of course.
Do you know if anyone's got
an overhead projector?
- Good morning.
- Good morning. Have you a second for me?
- Yeah. Is that why you called me?
- Mm.
[sighs]
- What's in there, then?
- Yeah, I was wondering the same thing.
- Want a hand? I could
- I've got it! It
Come with me. It's Need to Will you?
[door opens]
[gasps] What?
- [Nana] Shh!
- [baby whines]
- What?
- I've had a spat with my mother.
- There's no one to babysit.
- Hi.
[baby coos]
- Helle will freak out if she sees.
- I'll find a solution. It's just today.
So why couldn't you just ring her up
and apologise?
- No. I can't.
- Okay. Why not?
So, my father
obviously doesn't live in Bangkok.
He has never been a roadie
for Michael Learns to Rock.
- He's lived in Bagsværd all my life.
- No.
- Yeah! Yes.
- [laughs] No.
- Nana, no.
- In Bagsværd. Fucking Bagsværd.
- [both gasp]
- [Anton] Oh! Sorry.
Hi! You really shouldn't go in there
because I have a really bad stomach.
- Yes.
- That was me all last spring.
So much so, I even had to ring
my own doctor to get a second opinion.
- [Simone] Mm.
- Yeah.
- Who came up with the first opinion?
- [Anton] I did.
- It counts when you are a doctor.
- [Simone] I didn't know.
[Anton] Yeah. It's all right.
- [tense music playing]
- [baby fussing in box]
[tense music fades]
After six inseminations, I really think
that it's time to try something new.
- Yep. Yeah.
- Yes.
It's also that that
I suppose, at the moment,
there's not been a positive result,
I'm worried it's not ever going to happen.
- [baby fussing nearby]
- [Nana sighs, clears throat]
But it sounds like it's been
a long process you've been in.
- [woman] Did you hear, uh
- Absolutely.
- Heard what?
- I mean, it
There is a higher chance
with IVF, I'll just say.
So I think it would make sense
to start the treatment.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- We should start.
- [woman] Mm-hmm.
Uh, excuse me, but that
Is there, around here, a a baby?
[chuckles] That would be
So, is there a baby in here?
- Yeah. [chuckles]
- [Nana] No, there isn't.
That would be really weird.
That would be really weird.
- [baby fusses]
- [Nana coughs]
[baby banging and babbling]
Uh are you absolutely sure
there isn't, um a baby in here?
No! Um, it's difficult to
We have I totally forgot.
We have a We have some, um
Uh, or it's a it's a a pretend baby.
- Uh
- Actually, it's a a robot.
- [both] Oh.
- It's in there. It is
A robot, of course.
- It sounds very realistic. So genuine.
- This makes them irritating.
- What do you use them for?
- We use them to let people try them out.
- Yeah?
- Try them out? All right.
- I think I'll put her out it out.
- [man] Can you just turn it off?
[Nana] No turn-off.
You can't turn them off.
It's just like those Tamagotchi.
They get super upset.
It's awful, and they cry,
cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry.
But at any rate, um I do think
I say we're finished here, I reckon.
[tense music playing]
[softly] Hi, sweetie.
[indistinct chatter]
[cup shatters]
[Nana] What do I do with her?
Where the hell am I going to put her?
- Help me! Where should I put her?
- I don't know.
- Could you take her?
- No, I can't take her.
- [Helle] Here comes a new batch of cups!
- Hi.
- Hi.
- Hi.
Hi!
- Box meeting.
- Naturally!
[all laugh]
Well, it's just because
They seem to go up in smoke, right?
Or is it just me?
Perhaps people just love them so much
that they take one home with them.
- I think they do that.
- Most likely.
- [Helle] This glaze is different.
- It's a pretty glaze.
- [Helle] Yes! You see it? Yes.
- [Simone] Fainter, sort of fainter.
[Helle] Yes, I've tried
making them sharper.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Nana] Hi. [exhales]
[baby fussing]
[quietly] Fuck.
[Hampus] Uh, here. Here, let me.
- Let me take it. Let me take it.
- No. I've got it. I've got it.
- It's okay. Nana, let me help you.
- No, it's I've got it.
- I'll take it. I've got it. I
- Nana, let me help you.
- Let me help you. It's fine.
- Yeah.
I'd like to apologise to you if you were
worried by my Starry Moments concept.
- It's too much for you to take on?
- No, it was really good.
- It didn't motivate you.
- It was a little It was
- I can totally understand it's hard.
- [baby whines]
- Coming back from after maternity leave.
- Mm.
- It was really very tough for me as well.
- No.
I took long paternity leaves
with all three, yeah.
And you know, I loved it.
Absolutely. Yeah.
- It was so wonderful. It really is the
- Yes, it is.
Could you put it on the table?
You can just put it there.
Can I just say, if there is any problem,
or something else, anything, Nana
Nana, whatsoever, a problem of any sort,
that is important, you can talk to me.
- Yeah. I definitely feel I can.
- That's so important for me.
That the dialogue we have
is always ongoing and open.
- It's really, truly open.
- Yeah. It's really mega open. It sure is.
- [sighs]
- [Hampus] That's really great.
- Yeah. Thanks.
- Uh-huh. Same to you.
- Look forward to seeing you.
- Yes. Thanks.
[baby laughs]
No, no, no, no, no!
[sighs]
[baby cooing]
Hi, sweet!
Hi, sweetie. Hi.
Hi. [sighs]
- [cell phone rings]
- Fuck.
- What's up?
- [Simone] Hey, I think I have an idea.
[Nana] Oh, very smart.
Why didn't I think of this sooner?
[Simone] Because you don't have
an extra work phone.
There. Can you see her now? Yeah?
- Yes, perfect. Perfect. Yes, there.
- Excellent.
[Niels-Anders] And it is,
in my experience,
that as soon
as the hypertrophic endometrium
has been rejected,
then you should immediately initiate
hormonal stimulation
in order for follicle maturation. Hmm?
Niels-Anders, it's so very detailed
and also so relevant.
Really, thank you.
It's truly inspirational.
Oh. Yeah, yeah. Thanks. Thanks.
And so, in the handling of endometriosis,
one often has to up the dosages orally
to achieve efficient symptom relief.
And compared to other oral progestogens,
Dienogest shows a strong
[clears throat]
[Helle] Nana?
- Nana?
- I mean, I need to go and pee.
[Niels-Anders sighs]
No, Niels-Anders, continue.
It's very interesting.
- [Hampus] Yeah, it really is.
- Oh.
Hey, hey, you!
What the hell are you doing?
- Is it yours?
- Yes, it's mine!
[man] Well, we've got a lift
coming in now.
Yeah, yeah, I'll move her.
Okay. Yeah. Thanks. It's all right.
[baby fussing]
[exhales]
[sniffles]
- [gentle music playing]
- [baby fussing]
[Nana] Hi.
Is it very weird?
It's weird for you, isn't it?
[Nana chuckles]
[client] Yes, I've been saying all along
that I only have a 26-day cycle,
but it's like no one has listened before.
Mm. Yeah, I get that it's frustrating.
Um [clicks tongues]
I think we should try to stimulate you
so less are made. Yeah.
Okay. Do you think it'll help?
[baby fusses]
[Carsten] Prepare yourself for the fact
that this is probably
the worst fungal attack you've ever seen.
Well, I've seen quite a bit, you know.
What have you seen, Bob?
Let's see now.
Could you scoot down a bit, actually?
Unnaturally far down,
so if you don't mind
Because I think you'll be surprised.
[whistles]
- Just like that. Are you ready?
- Yeah.
[Nana] It's a bit cold at first.
- [Helle] Ah, so I made it. Oh, hi.
- In the nick of time, Helle.
- Yes.
- Bob has never seen anything like it.
[Helle] Oh? I've read this sort of thing
can actually be fairly localised
to an area because, um
The rest of the cellar
is in a different condition.
Look, in here, we're storing
a lot of very expensive equipment.
We'd be sorry to hear there was
If you have fungus in one place,
you'll have it in several places, right?
- [Helle] That's not what I read.
- Yep.
[Helle] Um, but it [yells]
Ooh.
We told you it was extreme.
We did tell you.
- It's great we could get going this time.
- I hope we succeed.
- Yes. Thank you.
- Yep.
- Have a good day.
- Thank you. Same to you.
- It can't be a product complaint, surely?
- A what?
A product return, Bob.
Someone who was not satisfied
with the product?
Would you book a time
for Rikke for a cyst puncture?
- Pre-stimulation?
- [Nana] Exactly.
[Hampus] Where is Helle?
[Simone] In the cellar, I think.
- Uh-huh?
- The cellar?
[tense music playing]
Yeah.
[Helle] We're just coming through.
There's nothing to see here.
Just remain calm.
There's nothing to see. Just keep calm.
- There's totally no reason to panic.
- It's a little baby.
Helle? Um
Nana, it could be a mother
who has had to give up her baby
because she couldn't take care of it.
- Uh
- Or a substance abuser.
Yes, but in fact it's I mean
But, Nana, who could abandon
their own baby in a dark cellar?
When there is an acute fungal attack.
Are you really all alone and abandoned?
What's this now?
What what's going on here?
We suspect that a junkie's broken into
our cellar and left a baby.
- [mutters]
- It's a discarded baby.
This person must be
on their knees to do this, right?
- [Bob] Terrible.
- He woke up.
Perhaps we should ring the police?
- No, no, no. I don't think so.
- Nana, isn't it yours?
Huh?
She looks just like
like the one you have on your phone.
- Let me see?
- [Hampus] Yeah.
Yeah.
- [baby coos]
- [Helle] Is it
- But it's okay.
- [gasps]
Oh, that? Okay.
So you found her in the cellar?
I thought you found her on the street,
but it's in the cellar, so yeah, then, um
Then it's mine.
[Helle and Hampus murmur]
It was good that we found out, huh?
Can I take her from you?
Wait a little here. So you went
and hid your firstborn in the cellar?
Yeah.
A baby? At a fertility clinic?
Ring any bells?
I stood just there,
and I gave you a chance.
I gave you one chance, Nana.
Yeah.
Maybe we all need
to calm our nerves, and then
then, uh, you and I need
to have a talk about this, Nana,
and it will be a serious conversation.
- I can feel that. We need to prepare.
- Yeah.
[sighs] Yeah. And as it is
In fact, I would like it if you go.
[baby fussing]
- Can I have the basket? The bag?
- The bag.
- Yeah.
- [Nana] Yeah.
[softly] Yeah. Okay.
[sombre music playing]
[baby fussing]
Hi. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
[sighs deeply]
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
[cell phone ringing]
[call disconnects]
[phone chimes]
I HOPE YOU'RE OKAY AFTER TODAY.
CALL ME IF YOU WANT TO TALK.
I'M WATCHING "THE SOUNDTRACK OF YOUR LIFE"
ABOUT YOUR MOM.
[baby cooing]
People almost threw themselves at you
backstage, and they all wanted to say hi.
What do they say when they come up to you?
- [Lise] They say that they love my music.
- [scoffs] "Love my music."
[host] I guess that's why
you're called "Denmark's Lise." [chuckles]
And you are one of the very few Danes
who can brag about having won
the Eurovision Song Contest.
You won with "You're the One"
that you wrote for your daughter,
who you single-parented
because there was
no father in the picture.
[hesitates] No, that He wasn't.
[host] But tell me, how was it
to be at the peak of your career
and taking care of a tiny baby
all on your own at the same time?
[Lise laughs] Oh boy!
Well, I'm sure many people are capable
of taking care of a child by themselves,
but I think I could have done a better job
if I hadn't been so alone with it.
But then, sometimes things don't turn out
exactly the way you dreamed of.
[host] What did you dream about?
[sighs] So out there
was her father somewhere, so so
So it's sad he couldn't be there or
or be part of my daughter's life.
Perhaps it it it
also felt a little lonely
that that, um
the greatest joy of my life,
or the greatest gift,
I suppose you could say um it, um
I had to enjoy by myself.
[baby coos]
[host] Yes, I understand that.
- [gentle music playing]
- [coos]
[Lise] Mm.
But then, I've always had the luck
to be surrounded by music.
[host] Yes, and we're in luck.
You promised to sing
your winning song today.
- Thanks so much. Over to you.
- Thanks.
THE SOUNDTRACK OF YOUR LIFE
[gentle tune playing]
[in Danish] Everyone has a secret ♪
Something we don't share
Something we keep for ourselves ♪
[line ringing]
But, darling, truth be told ♪
You're the most beautiful ♪
- [Lise, in English] Hi.
- Hi, Mum. It's me.
[song ends]
- [door closes]
- [keys jangle]
I didn't have time to make dinner,
but there's Coco Pops
if you're starving.
[chuckles]
I didn't know
you were so lonely when I was a baby.
No, well, I I wasn't all the time.
I I had you, didn't I? Hey?
[both chuckle]
Mm. [sighs]
- [Lise] So
- There's something I think I have to do.
- Can you stay a little while?
- Yes. Of course, sweetie. Of course.
[Nana sighs] Thanks.
[Lise sighs]
[tender instrumental music playing]
[chuckles]
[in Danish] Everybody's got a secret ♪
Something we don't share
But keep only to ourselves ♪
But, sweetie
If I had to tell the truth ♪
You're the most beautiful thing
In this world ♪
POUL AND INGER
25 YEARS
[Nana, in English] Fuck.
[in Danish] And I think this is love ♪
[indistinct chatter]
- [song fades]
- [dance music playing in distance]
[Nana, in English] Okay.
So, you have a daughter.
She's three months old,
and she's so lovely.
I thought you might want
the chance to get to know her.
Nana?
[Nana] Hi!
I was just about to ring you, actually.
But why are you here?
Can you talk?
No. Obviously not.
There's 80 people inside
celebrating my parents, right?
It's serious.
[Nana takes a deep breath]
Okay. It's just I
Nana, what is it?
Could you turn around,
so you'll be looking away when I say it?
No, Nana. What do you want?
[Nana] Can you see me now?
- No.
- [Nana] Okay.
Um
Um, what I wanted to say was
[sighs] Fuck.
- Sweet Jesus.
- That you have a daughter.
Um
- [Nana sighs]
- Huh? What did you say?
[Nana] The baby you met
at the food mart, she's she's yours.
Nana, what are you talking about?
[Nana] She's your daughter.
She's ours.
Uh, it's impossible, as we haven't even
[Nana] The sperm that got lost? It it
It wasn't lost. It was me.
[sighs]
- Could you take down that turtleneck?
- [Nana] It was me. I took it.
I took it and used it for myself.
I inseminated myself,
and then I got pregnant,
and a human came out of it.
And that human
[bright music playing]
is ours.
[music dies down]
So you say I have a daughter?
[Nana] I'm sorry.
- [Mathias] You're not bullshitting me?
- [Nana] No.
But, what? Are you insane?
- [Nana] I don't know.
- What the fuck were you thinking?
[Nana] I don't know.
[Mathias] It's a crime, Nana. It's sick.
- [Nana] I'm sorry.
- [Lucia] Hi.
There you are. Sorry, I'm, uh
Uh, oh.
Hi. I am Lucia. Who are you?
Hi. I'm Nana.
- Ooh. Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
[Mathias] She was just about to leave.
No! Don't go.
I'm I'm so happy to finally
meet one of Mathias's friends.
It's fine. Don't want to crash the party.
But thank you.
Don't say that.
You're not crashing anything.
Yes, she is.
She always crashes everything.
[sombre music playing]
- Come on.
- [Lucia] What? What?
Don't say that.
What's going on, honey? ¿Qué pasa?
[couple arguing]
There's a violence
To the silence ♪
Don't you know? ♪
There are diamonds
In the darkness ♪
I feel them glow ♪
And I think I can hear
My own heart beating ♪
Heartbeat ♪
But the quiet's not peaceful
We're about to blow ♪
We wanna grab it
Hold it, control it ♪
We're losing our way ♪
But we're finally back
To the place it all started ♪
We create our mistakes
And we're finally starting on track ♪
Forgetting your name
We'll be dancing in the dark ♪
Dark ♪
We just keep movin'
To the rhythm of a beating heart ♪
Heart ♪
We wanna cry
We wanna dance ♪
Dancin' in the dark ♪
Please don't let them
Succeed in tearing us ♪