Sorry for Your Loss (2018) s02e04 Episode Script

1
We can't surf the Gold Coast
if you never learn to surf.
Tomorrow I'm teaching you.
We're doing this.
No, a day with a sub is
a wasted day for my kids.
You're always talking
about what lazy assholes
your kids are.
Isn't every day a wasted day?
Our beauty vertical is expanding.
If you want to write,
like, a makeup review
that takes down the patriarchy,
be my guest.
Yeah.
- Mom, look, about Christmas.
- I'm not going.
I'm not going, and and that's it.
I consider you a friend, Amy.
[laughs]
Your wife considers the person
with whom you are sleeping a friend.
And that makes you a chicken shit.
I've got to fix some things,
so I'm going.
- To where?
- Alaska.
[upbeat music]
How does Mom do this display?
I'll ask her next time she
checks in from Antarctica.
- Alaska.
- She's still in the States.
Not the continental ones.
- Oh.
- We just ran out of mats.
How many people
signed up for this class?
Um
It's 25 max.
Maybe the app glitched.
We could just call the developers
There's not time to call the
Okay, the last five people that
signed up get class vouchers.
- Okay, uh, where where
- Top drawer in the folder.
New year, same Jules.
She thinks I'm an idiot.
- You're fine.
- Lacey just sucks.
[chuckles]
Next time she comes at one
of us, you hold her down,
I'll strangle her with a sweat towel.
[laughs]
[chuckles]
Hey, don't you have
your thing at Matt's school?
Well, I can't leave you alone here.
I'll be okay.
It's just really bad timing.
Today's my deadline
for this makeup review
that I have to bang out
before I put my life on hold
to be the widow
for these high schoolers.
It's nice that they're doing
something to remember him.
Yeah, but they didn't know Matt.
They just saw him an hour a day.
- Well, do what you have to do.
- I will handle things here.
Hey, I have vouchers.
I'm so sorry about that.
Thanks for coming.
Wow.
Hi.
[knocking]
- Hey, Mom.
- What's going on?
What's going on with you, Daniel?
Today?
Um, surfing, lunch
[door closes]
I'm taking my bike up PCH.
No safety lectures, though.
I got a helmet.
If I was gonna give you a lecture,
I'd start with letting your mother
spend the holidays alone.
But you had Aunt Cheryl
and Uncle Justin
and all of our cousins
- And on Christmas?
- I had no sons.
Folks at Matthew's school
put together an event for him,
to honor him, and I'd I'd go,
but Cheryl's in the hospital,
she's having a hip replacement,
which you'd know
if you'd come for Christmas.
And she'll be fine,
but I just need to be there.
I'm her sister.
And Matthew was your brother.
And you you need to be there.
Mom, I'm finally getting to a place
where I don't think
about Matt every day.
Oh, must be nice to have that choice.
You can get back to that tomorrow.
Today you are going to this.
What are you gonna do, ground me?
- You know what?
- That's not a bad idea.
Taking your bike keys. You can
pick these up after the event.
- Mom, come on, give me my
- You need to clean up
your little apartment pretty messy.
[light music]
[upbeat music playing over speakers]
[indistinct chatter]
[sighs]
Good to see you're
at least pretending to work.
You drove 15 minutes out of your way
to guilt-trip me at my coffee shop?
I also like the drinks here.
You missed your deadline again.
Marie has been circling my desk
every hour to yell at me,
and so now I have to yell at you.
I'm sorry, okay?
Um, I'm still searching for the way in.
I'm I'm thinking
about a historical angle.
- It's makeup.
- Stop overthinking it.
So you don't want it to be good?
You know what's better than good?
- Hmm?
- Done.
Unicorn caramel mocha for Drew.
I need the piece, Leigh.
Go take your nasty drink
back to your office.
You will have it in an hour
90 minutes, tops.
[music continues]
[indistinct chatter]
Hey.
Uh, is, um, Bobby coming?
- We don't have to talk.
- We can just stick to emojis.
- Oh. Okay.
- Leigh? Hi, I'm Nina.
- Oh, hi.
- Matt told me
so much about you.
You must be Matt's brother.
Yeah, my mom couldn't make it.
So you put this together?
I had to, for Matt.
He meant so much to all of us.
[laughs] Okay.
I don't think he felt like
he meant much to this place.
He's always talking about how
crazy the school made him.
- Danny.
- That's what teachers do.
You should hear us
in the faculty lounge.
This job can be a real grind.
[phone buzzing]
But even on his worst days,
Matt gave it his all.
We were all so inspired by him.
Where can I find the restroom?
- Down the hall, hang a right.
- Just before the double doors.
Did you want anything?
A coffee or a tea?
- Oh, no, I'm good.
- Thank you, though.
Sure.
You wanted to see me?
- Hey, Tyler.
- So, uh
okay, so you spent three pages analyzing
the lake scene
in which Mr. Darcy
takes off his wet shirt.
That never happened
in Jane Austen's novel.
Colin Firth did it in
the BBC miniseries.
- [laughs]
- So you think this is funny?
Wrong "you're."
Wrong "its."
Run-on, passive voice
should I continue?
You have until Monday
to actually read the book
and write me a new paper.
This weekend I'm taking my
girlfriend to Disneyland
- Oh, fine!
- Fine! You get an F!
"Dare to Care," man.
I spent more time grading this
than you spent writing it.
Monday.
You're welcome.
[door opens]
[door closes]
[distant laughter]
[boy coughs]
[indistinct chatter]
Hey.
Anybody see who parked that red SUV?
You guys wouldn't happen to know
where I can find some drugs?
Are you a narc?
You're related to Mr. Greer?
- He's my brother.
- Was.
Sorry we're not at the event.
Look, we can't deal right now.
- So you're what?
- Practicing self-care?
You gonna share?
[indistinct chatter]
Okay, so countless possible
worlds exist in the multiverse.
Only rare beings called Planeswalkers
can traverse dimensions.
Well, that's kind of awesome.
- I know.
- All right.
- Hey, there.
- Hey.
- What are you guys up to?
- Oh, you know,
just engaging in cosmic combat.
You?
I'm collecting for
Harvey's retirement present.
- Oh, right.
- $100 gift card
to Pickwick Gardens.
Oh, Jesus.
When I retire, please do better.
Hey.
That's really nice of you.
- Oh, no.
- I'm gonna kick his ass.
- [laughs]
- Sorry.
Have fun.
- All right.
- So these are Creature cards.
And then that's a Land card.
You use that to bring your
opponent's score
from 20 to zero.
I'm hoping for a good turnout,
but it's voluntary, and we're
talking about teenagers, so
It's right here.
[door opens]
Hey, doing Harvey's gift and cake.
- Oh, good.
- [door closes]
- What is that?
- Wow.
- You have a secret talent.
- Well, secret, yes.
Talent, no.
Hey, how how's it going year two?
I mean, I hear the kids really like you.
I just want to reach 'em, you know?
Really connect.
Like you, at lunch.
That was penance.
Penance for earlier sins I don't know.
Yeah, I lost it on a kid earlier today.
Not a good look.
I think I scared him.
Tyler wasn't that scared.
I have him fourth period.
He was telling people your
panties were on too tight.
Why do we do this, again?
[sighs] The money,
the cars, the clothes, the hos.
[laughs]
You know, in senior year,
my English teacher
taught me how to read.
- Never too late.
- Good for you.
- Oh, God, no.
- It was like one of the three
or four things that
I remember from high school.
Falling in love with
"Crime and Punishment."
The words weren't just words.
The characters were alive.
History 125A at Berkeley.
I wish I could teach that kind of stuff.
Like I'm up here talking about
the Battle of Bunker Hill,
and the kids think history's
about dead people in wigs.
I should be talking about Watts,
the L.A. riots,
you know what I mean?
Yeah. Look, you can't
ditch the curriculum.
But
but you can do other things.
You can put posters on the wall
to make them ask questions.
You can you can make
your tests insanely hard
so they have to do the extra credit
and learn about the other stuff.
Yeah, those are good ideas.
Ready for cake?
- [groans]
- It's not hard, it's cake.
Okay, you're right.
- Lemon.
- Yo, what?
- Yeah, it's delicious
- It's his favorite.
- Come on.
- No, you're right.
[door opens]
[school bell rings]
Matt and I used to smoke together.
- No way.
- Mr. Greer was so uptight.
He was always, like, clenching.
He must've been so boring
when he was high.
- No, he was hilarious.
- Like how?
So Matt did Model UN
in high school, right?
And this one time he got stoned
the morning before a conference.
He put his suit on and went to represent
Liechtenstein
in the UN General Assembly.
- What's Liechtenstein?
- It's a city, dumbass.
[laughs] It's a country.
It's about the size of
Glendale, but way less people.
Y-you guys really need
to go to class more.
Anyway, Matt was out of his mind.
And he gets up in front
of, like, a thousand people
and goes on this epic rant.
I mean, "Liechtenstein
has acquired nukes."
We are tired of being
a little bitch of a country!"
[laughter]
He said that?
Then he grabs the gavel
from the Secretary-General
and starts banging it.
He's like, "The Principality"
"of Liechtenstein demands respect.
Respect!
We will not be your bitch!"
And he couldn't stop saying it.
People were losing their minds.
- No way.
- [laughter]
That's the real Matt.
Mr. Greer was actually cool.
[indistinct chatter]
Mr. Greer told
the corniest jokes.
Like, dad jokes.
Uh, thank you all for coming.
This is quite a turnout.
First I want to give it up
for Kayla, Austin, and Bree.
The mural is amazing.
[cheers and applause]
It's been six months
since Mr. Greer's passing,
and we've had some time
to process our feelings.
I thought, with the mural done,
this would be a good
opportunity for us to share
thoughts or memories.
Anyone have something
they'd like to contribute?
Okay, Olivia.
We had to read "Crime and Punishment"
for Mr. Greer's class.
That shit was emo as hell.
[laughter]
Sorry, Ms. Copeland.
Anyway, he said if we
were bored after 100 pages,
we could study Kendrick Lamar.
I was like, "Okay, weird,
but whatever, that's cool."
After 100 pages, I still liked the book.
We never got to study Kendrick Lamar.
But I'm gonna play
a song for Mr. Greer.
[soft guitar music]
- So how was work today?
- Change anyone's life?
[groans] I'm lucky if they
change their shirts.
Well, did you change
anyone's shirt today?
Come on, it's Friday.
Let's just enjoy this cheap-ass
wine and this delicious
Trader Joe's Vegan Soy Chorizo.
- Vegan Soy Chorizo.
- [laughs]
- [sighs]
- Come on.
One one good thing.
Um
I had lunch with a kid today.
Um, total weirdo in a good way.
The kind who'll grow up
to a be a pretty cool adult.
- In five years.
- Ten.
Once he learns personal boundaries.
[laughs]
I think you're really good with kids.
You'd really want a little Leigh?
I'd prefer a mini Matt.
Ah.
Well, things
haven't changed for me.
I don't know how to be a dad.
No one does.
Anyway, we have time.
I'm just
wondering if it will
ever be a possibility.
Honestly, I don't know.
That's okay.
Sorry, I have to
So what's your weirdo's name?
- Barnaby.
- Whoa.
[laughs]
Oh, my God.
Kids' names these days.
Huxley, Delilah, Talulah
[laughing] Uh, Django.
- No.
- Gulliver.
- Namaste.
- Stop it.
Namaste is in my
third-period honors class.
[laughing] Both of her parents
are lawyers.
Oh, my if we if we had a kid,
we would have to come up
with some ridiculous name.
Hmm
Like
like Pickle.
- Pickle?
- [laughing]
She would be an astronaut
and a Supreme Court justice.
Oh, God, our
nonexistent kid is a genius.
Obviously.
Pickle Greer?
[laughing]
God. Poor kid.
[laughing]
So, if you didn't want
to be here, why come at all?
My mom made me.
[snorts] So that never ends.
Most days I do what I want.
Ride my motorcycle, I surf.
I mean, that's why I quit my
job, so I could have six months
where my life was mine.
- You quit your job?
- In this economy?
Sounds like you're
having a midlife crisis.
- My dad is, too.
- I'm not
Whatever.
You guys are babies,
so I really don't care what you think.
- Dare to care.
- What did you say?
You have to dare to care, man.
Your brother said it.
Hey, don't quote Matt at me.
Mr. Greer was grouchy a lot,
but at least he cared about us.
Cared about
Matt didn't even like you.
You guys drove him crazy.
All he ever did was talk about
how much he hated this place.
Nice.
[sighs]
[soft chatter]
Guys, Mr. Greer's wife
is here with us today.
Would you like to say a few words?
Okay.
When your husband dies
Sorry, none of you have husbands.
Um
[chuckles]
Okay, when you
when you lose someone, it's
there's a-a hole
in your life where the person was.
I thought I knew what today
was going to be, that I
that I would come here
and explain to you all
how amazing my husband was.
But you already knew that.
The hole wasn't just in my life.
It was here, too.
I just hope that Matt
knew how much he meant to all of you.
I'm sorry for your loss.
Thank you.
[car horn honking]
Come on!
[door opens, closes]
Do you know what "Eisner" means?
It's an award for comics.
Why?
[chuckles]
I never noticed that before.
He always wanted to surf the Gold Coast.
So these were all things Matt wanted?
Does that say, "Pickle"?
- Thank you again.
- Um
I should get going.
[sobbing]
[phone buzzing]
[sobbing]
[breathing heavily]
Drew.
- You're not gonna believe
- No, no, no.
I-I-I don't want to hear it, Leigh.
- You're out of excuses.
- No, Drew, I
Whatever you have, just send it now.
Fine.
[sighing]
[sobbing]
Okay.
Eyeliner, let's do this.
Let's talk about why we spend
all this time putting crap
on our eyelids.
People have been doing
it since Mesopotamia,
and my question is why?
Why are we trying to be okay
and normal on the outside
when there is a nuclear holocaust
happening on the inside?
[laughs]
I mean, I guess it's because
if we try hard enough
we can believe our own lies.
I know I did.
I believed my own face.
And I used
Hey Lady Waterpoof Liquid Eyeliner
by Headturner's Cosmetics,
in case you were wondering.
It's great for work, for weekend brunch,
for date night
or for those days when a hole
in the universe opens up
where your husband used to be
and you find yourself on
the floor of a public restroom,
and it just doesn't come off,
no matter how much you cry.
There are definitely hundreds
of diseases
now living on my face.
But my face
Thanks to this stupid eyeliner,
looks just like it did when
I left the house this morning.
When, like an idiot
I still believed that
the worst of this nightmare
[breathing shakily]
Was over.
- What's going on with Leigh?
- She's falling apart.
And the studio is falling apart.
It's making me fall apart,
quite literally.
Why would I want
to be out in the world
with people who are having fun?
I won't take you anyplace fun.
I promise.
I thought you just lived at
home and worked for your mom,
did whatever you want
and basically had no problems.
I have problems.
With us being friends
it's like I don't know
you're gonna find another Matt.
Where does that leave me?
You're gonna have this whole new life
that doesn't include me.