Mistresses (2008) s02e03 Episode Script

I want you to love me.
I expect a certain amount of mystery.
I don't wanna know.
How's Jack, Katie? Yes, what's he like now? Oh, you know.
Married, a father, my boss! You're different to the rest of them.
Oh, great.
Thanks, Carrie, that's really kind.
Yeah, thanks, Carrie.
I love you so much.
It's a diamond set in platinum.
It's not.
No flaws, no sparkle.
Everything about it just feels wrong.
What's your name? No names.
Tell me your name.
No names! What are you doing? I'd have thought that was obvious.
I'd do anything for you.
Will you bail out a bankrupt events company? The answer's no, because I will not mix business with me and you.
Listen, I should go.
I've gotta meet Dan.
Katie! Don't tell me you didn't feel it too.
Jack, I didn't.
No-one should feel ever feel that it is wrong to seek release.
I can be that for you.
And, as for one part of your life being finished, perhaps another one's about to begin.
Ok, your turn.
Her.
No, she's too high maintenance.
No laughter lines, perfect nails.
She'd drive you mad.
What about him? Cute dog.
The dog's a plant.
He hasn't stroked it.
You'd hate him.
I like our game.
Yeah.
Her.
Bunny boiler.
We really should get up.
I just need to prove I can deliver her rich clients.
Why don't you get Katie or Siobhan to do it? They wouldn't generate the necessary enthusiasm.
You mean they'd tell you to get lost! You're the one getting married.
Darling, go and try some dresses on.
Look, we haven't even got our divorces yet.
Why would I want to try on wedding dresses? You're not trying to buy.
You just have to act like you are.
Well, I haven't even shaved my legs.
Why not? Isn't this the bit where you pretend you don't know me and I have to walk ten paces behind? I'd feel bad letting you do the walk of shame on your own.
No-one's gonna know! You're wearing the same shirt as yesterday.
It's nothing if not distinctive.
Excuse me! I happen to like this shirt, thank you.
Besides, I I wanted to ask you something.
Anything.
Ok.
I wanted to know whether you would maybe like to come away with me.
For the weekend? This weekend? Doesn't have to be.
Right, um it's just I've got a cricket match.
Why don't we look at our diaries? Ok.
Great! Lovely.
Trude! Aw! It's like a fairytale.
As every wedding should be.
How much? 5,000.
Er, that's very reasonable.
Miss Malloy is marrying a financial adviser, so no expense will be spared.
Well, he must love you very much.
There is no greater declaration than a dress from our couture range.
Yep.
And what if those declarations is every month, do they still count? This is ridiculous.
Oh, God! I don't know what I'm doing here.
She just needs to feel her way with this.
Trude, what's the problem? Full disclosure of my financial assets.
I'm to be grilled by your assistant.
Dominic's a partner.
It must be your natural authority.
He pales beside you.
Look, about last night.
I get the impression it meant more than it did.
I know what it meant to me and I know I want to see you again tonight.
I'm not wrong in that, am I, Siobhan? You don't know me.
Please don't act as if you do.
Hiya.
How was the dress? We could never afford it.
Well, I'll make sure we can.
What, by not paying Elaine Thompson £3,000 a month? She's the woman I saw you with.
Trudi are you having an affair? Oh, no! How could you? No, I haven't! It's not an affair! You told me she was a client! She is! She was.
You don't even know what you're saying anymore! You said that she had debt problems.
The debt problems they're they're mine.
She loaned me money for a business.
It went bust and I pay her back each month.
I would never cheat on you, Trudi.
You know that.
How much longer? How much longer do you have to pay her back for? Umm Five about five more years.
You didn't think you should tell me? We are getting married and you owe all this money, this fortune! How could you do that? I'm so sorry just leave me alone, Richard! The reception for MRI you want to take the second on the left, down the bottom corridor.
I'll find it.
They're bringing Ben in for chemo.
Do you want to have a talk? Yeah.
I'll be there in a minute.
Listen, do I need to apologise for last night? No, listen.
Don't worry about it.
It was just a kiss.
It was stupid, a bit misplaced.
But just a kiss.
Really, if I thought it meant anything more, you'd have my resignation on your desk.
But it didn't, so here I am.
Ok.
It's just whenever I play that song, I get a bit sentimental.
Don't play that song.
We were trying to make love and, um and then we just stopped.
Was that something you both felt? It was more Siobhan's decision.
I suppose I'd built it up in my head for so long, I kind of thought it'd be like it was before.
How was that? Well, we used to know what each other was thinking.
I think I think I wanted you to look at me like you used to.
I want to be like that.
Like I used to be.
But I look at you and I see you with him.
Dominic.
And I hate the way that makes me feel about you.
And how is that? Disgusted.
All the time or during intimacy? Just in bed.
Can I see it in the middle, just one more time? Left a bit, left a bit.
Whoa, that's a bit too much.
Back again.
Or there's fine.
To welcome in a new era.
Well, I suppose you deserve it.
I'll get that, shall I? Yeah.
Hello, Autograph Events.
Oh, hi, Miranda.
How are you? Yeah, you know, bearing up.
Listen, I wanted to thank you for what you did.
Refloating us like that was really generous.
Wha? Ahem.
Would you like to have dinner with me tonight? Well, er, tomorrow? On a late.
Then lunch at some point this week.
I tend to work through.
Oh.
Except the weekend.
I am free at the weekend.
Any other night? No, no, it's fine, it's fine.
Call me when you're through with your friends and your shifts and your parents coming to stay They're suitably distant.
And your dog having its pedicure.
No dog.
Are you seeing someone? Not the attitude if you want to make employee of the month.
Miranda called.
It's funny, she has no memory of your legendary sexual prowess in the bedroom or of her extraordinary generosity in the boardroom.
Sit down.
You didn't save Autograph, did you? It depends what you mean by Did you? Not completely.
Who did? Mark.
Mark.
He said he didn't mix business with pleasure! He was embarrassed his friends wouldn't help us out.
He was more worried about you.
What? Which is a nice thing? He rescued me? Yes! I don't need rescuing! I do.
That goes back first thing in the morning.
Turns out you didn't deserve it in the first place.
It's patriarchal, it's patronising, and it's not like he said to me, "Jess, this is a brilliant business, I really want to invest.
" It's a sympathy vote! He's looking after you.
I think it's rather cute.
Yeah.
Please! Anyway, I thought you asked him to help you out.
Exactly, so why go behind my back? So you wouldn't feel beholden? Ohh OK, all right.
What are we having? Oh, I've had a bit of a difficult day.
And there was me thinking he was having an affair.
This is better, right? A better bombshell.
What? What he doesn't seem to realise is that it affects all of us.
I want to be saving for our future! Why didn't he tell me? "Hi, I'm Richard Dunlop.
I'm 200 grand in debt.
Will you marry me?" Well, would you? Ok, but it's the lies.
It's getting me a fake ring and pretending it's worth a fortune.
But it's still the ring he chose.
Love, he went into a jeweller's and he picked this for you, and it suits you.
True.
For a bloke, that's good.
You loved it before you knew it wasn't worth anything.
Just like you loved Richard ok, ok.
I'm All right, it's not about the ring.
I love the ring.
But how can I support him when he doesn't trust me with something so major? What if he was trying to protect you? You can't solve it for him and he does seem to be dealing with it as best he can.
Oh, God! Maybe we need couples therapy.
Do you think you could get a discount for group booking? Right now, I feel like asking for a refund.
Why, is it not helping? I just thought that handing our problems away to somebody else would make things easier.
She just handed them right back, hmm? I think we were better off before, before we started asking all these questions.
Can you work through this together though? I don't know.
But something has to change.
Yes! Have I missed a trend in flooring? This is how I made my first 100 quid.
Oh yeah, playing toy track? Setting up tournaments and thrashing everyone in sight.
I was ten.
I practiced a lot.
No friends then? No, I had a fortune to build.
Hmm.
Now that you've built it? I wanna build it bigger.
Haven't you got enough? Never.
In two days, I launch the Sibstar Fund.
I'm trying to raise 50 million quid.
50 million? Cross my fingers and hope the market doesn't whip my arse.
Doesn't that scare the pants off you? Yeah.
That's why I do it.
Although sometimes I do wish things were still as simple as all of this.
Well, you know, maybe it can just be cars with us.
I get to be the Porsche though.
Always! For what? For being my hero saving the business.
He sang like a canary, didn't he? Well, I broke him down.
Oh, and don't think this means I'm gonna let you win.
Wa-hey! Woo! How was your evening? Actually, I had a chance to think.
Look, all of this it's me.
The sex, the therapy it's making you deal with what I did, and it's just not fair on you.
We need to finish it.
But everything we have outside of sex, it works.
We've so much.
We like you said, we're each other's best friend.
We're good parents to our daughter.
But it's not working, is it? Enough is.
I love you, Hari.
And I think you still love me.
You know that I do.
But then then we don't need sex to prove it.
What are you saying? Lots of couples never have sex.
And that's the kind of couple you want us to be? I want us to be together, Hari.
Above anything.
See ya! Bye, Mum! I suppose bowling's out of the question tonight? It's just the girls really wanted to go.
Why didn't you tell me? Because I I look at you and I see someone who takes everything in her stride.
You never mess up.
You never make mistakes.
You just get on with life.
That's how I want you to see me.
Oh, Richard.
I manage.
You know, I always have done.
Privately, by myself.
It's not just you anymore.
Isn't it? I'm gonna help.
I'm earning now and I think I can earn some more.
Trudi, this isn't your problem.
Are you listening to me? This is our problem and we're gonna get through this together.
Really? Yeah.
They can't cancel us! They clearly can and they have.
Hey, what's the problem? The venue for tomorrow night's fallen through, the Oligarch Rooms.
We needed them to launch the Sibstar Fund.
So? Find somewhere else.
It's a Russian investment fund, gas pipelines, drilling in Siberia.
I need the Oligarch Rooms.
Ok, leave it with me.
What? Leave it with me.
Really? Surely you've got a hen night or something to organise? I'll make time.
Ok? Yeah.
Don't panic.
Thanks.
I know.
I made it, remember? Look.
I want to turn these cakes into a real business and make some proper money.
Am I not paying you enough? No, of course you do.
It's just I need some more and I want to ask you how to do that.
Are you sure that coffee's not going to push you over the edge? Sorry.
I'm getting a bit carried away.
Well, I decided to take over the world this morning.
Per week, what do you make? About 200 cupcakes, 10 fruit loaves and 10 sponges and about 300 muffins? Crikey, do I? Can you make twice as much? Um Three times as much, four times? Well, I could, but I don't know if my kitchen could.
Oh, God! I've got a bit ahead of myself, haven't I? Come upstairs.
I wanna show you something.
Ok, what are we doing here? I want you to bake.
Pardon? This is your new kitchen.
A room of your very own.
This is where you take over the world, or at least all the cafes and delis in it.
Um what? Lucas, this this is a lovely idea, but I couldn't afford the rent.
No rent.
Surely you'd want something? Of course.
I get exclusive tasting rights.
Why would you do something like this? Because I believe in what you want to do and I think you should be doing it bigger and better.
Oh, my God! No-one's ever done anything like this for me before! I don't know what to say.
Thank you! Whoa! Jessie baby, what a pleasure! Alexander, you double-booked my husband.
Since when you are married? Now that's another story.
But the double-booking Now, how do we get that sorted? We don't, so don't try and bribe or flatter me.
Oh, Alexander, you know I love a challenge.
Don't waste your time, Jessie.
It's not happening.
The first booking stands.
Aagh! How hard is to make White Russian?! That's it I quit! Mix your own drinks! Vicki, is it ok if I swap my weekend shift over? Any reason? It's just that Dan and I were thinking of going away.
Vicki, I'd like to run through these clinical trial proposals.
Do you have a second, please? Absolutely.
Mr McCormack, we cannot ignore the fact that your wife has rejected the settlement deal.
She's pushing for a 50-50 split.
I think that you should increase your offer marginally.
I don't negotiate.
My offer's I have a day of meetings.
You have my instructions.
Let's not take up any more of each other's time.
Leave a message with my office if you need anything further.
He doesn't want advice.
He wants an audience.
Well, we're a very bad example.
Mm.
Gotta light? You know Vicki Kendall's got a crush on you? You should put her out of her misery extinguish the flame.
Oh, Vicki's just attracted by the power.
I don't take it personally.
In fact, I think she had a crush on Dan at one point.
But he was always destined for greater things.
So where are you and Dan going for the weekend? Paris.
Paris.
Do you remember trying to get a room in that little hotel on the Left Bank? We pretended we were married.
Yeah.
Nobody believed a word of it.
I think a ring would have helped our cause.
Have you ever been tempted to accept one over the years? We are who we are, Jack.
And you're exactly as I knew you'd be.
You've got more wrinkles.
And there was me showering you with compliments.
Haven't you gotta be somewhere? Megan says you've got a play or something.
Yeah, Lily's acting debut.
The Tempest.
Oh! She's a leaf.
It's interpretive.
It takes a certain skill to fake foliage.
Well, I'm sure she'll be wonderful.
Thank you.
Ms Dhillon? Mr McCormack's expecting you at the Athenaeum.
He said you'd know what it was in connection with.
Ms Dhillon? Oh, wow! Look at you! Hello, hello.
And I'll get the cash deposit to you by the end of next week.
That's great.
Yes.
Excellent.
Thank you.
My lawyer, Ms Dhillon.
I wondered if you'd witness my signature? Yeah, of course.
What am I signing? I didn't take you for a sports fan.
I'm not much with the football, but it's a very good investment.
You're buying this? Mmm, with the consortium.
Dubai.
If you haven't been, you should go.
I don't, um get to take holidays very much.
Thank you.
And thank you, gentlemen.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
We'll be in touch.
Will that be all? I'm sorry for ruining your evening, Jack.
No, you did the right thing.
It's what I'm here for and Ben's in a very fragile state at the moment.
Can I get you a coffee or something? Bollocks to that.
There's a bottle of whisky in my office.
Is everything all right? Is Elsa ok? Yeah, yeah.
She's she's fine.
I'm later than I expected.
I I just had some papers to go through.
Listen, Siobhan, um, I've been thinking about what you said.
I don't want to live in a, in a sexless marriage.
OK.
We both want the same thing, don't we? We both want to make this right.
Maybe we just come at it from different angles.
I want you to move back into our room.
With you? I want us to be a couple again, Siobhan.
Not right away but, um, in time.
I just keep thinking about all the things I meant to do, wishing I'd just done them.
What stopped you? Stupid reasons.
Being scared.
Being lazy.
Always thinking I'd get another chance to do them.
Well, if it's any comfort, I think that's just the human condition.
You too? Oh, let's not even get started with me.
I'm sure there's a rule against this.
I'm sure there is.
Did I ever tell you that I went to med school with Dr Roden? Yeah, twice.
She obviously made a big impression on me.
OK.
Now I'm a proper businesswoman, I'm gonna get more demanding.
I think it'd be nice if you stayed as you are.
I quite like you subservient.
Tough.
Get that T-shirt off! Mmm! Ding-dong! Do that noise again.
Grrr! Jess, he's the best mixologist I ever had! Well, that's why I got him for you.
You tell your husband we will make tomorrow very special for him.
Tell him also he has a very ingenious wife.
Oh I'll be sure to tell him that! All right, have you got it? Come on! Phone numbers for every model we've used in the last five years.
Is it a deal breaker if he doesn't get it? Yes! Anyway, you can't go chasing models all your life.
Can't I? No! Ok, I get to go home and surprise my husband with the good news.
You made a real difference to Ben tonight.
No, I just listened.
No, it was more than that.
You gave him comfort.
Yeah, but I can't save him, can I? You know, I spend half my life feeling like a complete and utter fraud.
And the worst part is walking into the room and seeing a look of hope on a patient's face and realising there isn't any.
You used to say you'd never get emotionally involved.
I said a lot of things when I was young.
Didn't realise the impact.
I regret them.
I regret them, Katie.
Hello.
Hey.
I'm sorry.
I I thought that's what you meant.
I I'm trying.
I'll go.
How can you have completely omitted to tell us how hot he is? Who? Cupcake cutie.
Oh! No, he's just Lucas to me.
Wasted! And clearly you are not just Trudi to him.
Mmm.
A gift.
It's from us.
Well, mostly Mark.
It's waiting for your fitting.
Oh, my Oh, Jess! I can't accept this.
This is more than my car cost! It's yours.
Oh, my God! Thank you.
You're welcome.
You really have found a soulmate in Mark, haven't you? I was worried about you at the beginning, but I got that so wrong.
Yeah keep him under observation for the next 24 hours.
Katie? I'm going to have to swap your shifts back.
Eddie's got study leave that weekend.
Oh, come on! You are kidding! I've booked the trip.
It was all sorted.
There's nothing I can do.
Sorry.
It's just a couple of days! There's gotta be someone who can cover.
Like I said, sorry.
Oh Hey, gorgeous.
Late night? Oh, never stops.
Make it.
You're in charge.
Draw a line under it.
Are you ok? You tell me.
A happy birthday? Your anniversary? No.
Just another regular day.
I got you the Oligarch Rooms back.
You're kidding me! Am I smiling? Screw Eddie! I'm not having our weekend trashed cos some kid needs to take his exams! Oi, Hudson! Dan, Dan it's fine.
I'll get him to pull some strings.
No, it'll look like favouritism.
So what! You're his favourite.
For God's sake, Dan I said no.
Since when do you have a problem with Jack? I don't.
I just don't want to go running to him for everything.
He's my boss.
Has something happened? Have you two had a row? Just leave it, Dan, please.
So you're proposing an affair? No, an arrangement.
Now you sound like my lawyer again.
Well, I need you to be completely clear about what I'm suggesting.
You want me purely for sex? Yes.
I love my husband.
He gives me everything I need except what I get from you.
And these are your terms and conditions? Oh, um I have this necklace, this small cross.
I think I left it in your room.
Did you come across that? The room's been cleaned.
Has it? Is it, um valuable? It was from my husband.
Are you ok? Yeah.
I've just had it up to here with the men in this place.
Yeah.
Sorry about your weekend.
No, it's fine.
He always freaks out about ward cover.
Jack wanted me in? Mmm.
I recommend we keep the patient under observation for the next 48 Did you wreck my weekend because you couldn't find any cover or you resent me spending it with Dan? Look, um this isn't one of those nice little practices where you can get a locum in every time you fancy a long weekend.
I had sorted my cover.
Oh, please! Eddie was so hungover he'd have sold you a kidney yesterday! The department comes first.
It's nothing personal.
And last night, that wasn't personal either? We're not doing this.
You're married.
You have a family.
We haven't seen each other for 15 years.
I am not what you've been missing.
Yes, you are.
You don't want me, Jack.
You just don't want anybody Don't do this to me.
Hi.
Am I forgiven? For what? For whatever it was I did that made you charge a very expensive wedding dress for Trudi Malloy to our joint account.
And what did you do? I bought you something.
Huh? Oh, yeah, and I have a lot of dresses and a lot of shoes.
Yeah, but you don't have enough kisses, right? I mean, no-one can have enough kisses.
Especially not when they've done what you did for me.
I have a lot riding on tonight and you saved my bacon.
I dunno how you did it, but I do know that Mrs Hardy is one hell of a woman.
I think it's very kind of you to buy Trudi's dress for her.
Mmm.
Hey, girls.
What you doing? Hi.
Still cutting out photographs? Your mum's beautiful.
Like you.
Aw! That's a pretty dress.
Who's that? Auntie Elaine.
And why's she not on the tree? She made Mum cry one day and then I didn't see her again.
Oh Thank you.
Now go and build that fortune.
Can I have your attention, please, everyone? Er I want to thank you all for being here tonight.
I know, with schedules as tight as they are and the global financial uncertainty, things haven't been easy.
However, tonight is all about the opportunities opened to us through the Sibstar Fund.
And they, ladies and gentleman are limitless.
Sibstar.
ALL: Sibstar.
Sibstar.
I completely overreacted about Jack.
I'm sorry.
Well, you used to sleep with him, didn't you? That's got to throw the occasional curveball.
I'm sorry.
I understand.
You didn't expect your past to be on your doorstep again, did you? Mm.
I just sometimes think we have a little too much Jack in our lives.
Can't it be just you and me for a while? Yeah.
Come home with me.
Come on! I'll cancel.
No, don't.
I don't want you to let them down.
I'll keep.
You promise? Mm-hm.
Call you tomorrow? Ok.
Bye.
Bye.
Oh, thank you.
You're welcome.
Nice dress.
Yeah, it's from Mark a little thank you gift.
Really? Mine too.
What's he thanking you for services to filing? You left me off the table for tonight.
Oh? It's fine.
I rang the caterers.
Mark doesn't manage without me, Jessica on any level.
It's important you know that.
Resignation not accepted.
It's not up for discussion.
It has to be, because I can't just stand by and watch while you screw up your entire career.
It's better than screwing everything else up.
Is that what we're in danger of doing? What do you think? I don't know, because you never tell me how you feel.
You never did.
I don't feel anything, which is why you need to accept this resignation and you have to leave.
I will not lose you again.
If you want me to deny my feelings, Katie, I'm sorry I can't.
I don't want you to deny them.
But you are married and I'm with Dan and you have a family and we had our chance and neither of us took it.
Oh, God we're not safe together.
Looks like your husband's sweet-talking my wife into parting with our children's inheritance.
Woah! Woah.
Still, what do I know about business? I just play golf and drive her mad at home.
You know, I've never met a trophy husband before.
We should compare cabinets at some point.
So, the question is, Julia, does Sibstar have your support? It's an attractive idea, Mark, and I like attractive ideas.
In fact, why don't you come home with me, mm? We could fool around, just the two of us.
C'mon, I've got a car outside.
C'mon, what do you say? Let's get you some air, my darling.
My wife's had a very tough day.
You're right, I have.
Hey, I'm loving the hall furniture.
Been here about seven or eight years.
How grand are you, getting your clients to bring round their own paperwork? Hello, boy.
I'll leave you to it.
C'mon, you beddiebyes.
What are you doing here? We had an arrangement! All deals are up for renegotiation, mm? In exceptional circumstances.
Can I get you a drink? No, I can't stay.
Some other time.
I'll see you out.
I just don't know what to say to her.
Anything just talk to her.
Tell her about your day.
Richard's come to see you.
For God's sake, say something.
She's still your wife.
'Hi, this is Katie.
Leave a message.
' 'Hi, it's me.
Um 'I've realised I've got very, very poor judgement, um Should've cancelled that cricket.
I should be with you.
Yeah.
Miss you.
' Get out of my house! You should be grovelling.
I'm getting back his five million.
You're going to have to work a lot harder than that, I'm afraid.
I should never have let you go.
I just don't think this is working out.
I think we should call it a day.
I saw you with your wife! Natalie has Alzheimer's, early onset.
What's her name? Amy.
I had a little girl.
She remembers being a mum.
Stay away from me! Stay away from my family!