This is Us (2016) s04e06 Episode Script

1 Previously on This Is Us - Mom! Kevin! - Hey.
What's up, buddy? What do you say? Get me up high.
There it is.
Stay the hell away from my wife.
She is her daddy's world.
I want more for her than you can offer her.
I will do everything I can to stop this.
I did have a really nice time tonight.
Okay.
- You can come inside for a water.
- All right.
- A water.
- Uh-huh.
Every part of my body aches like death right now.
Do you want to have sex? And I'm cured.
You're a witch.
All right.
Okay, you can look.
Schwing.
Stop.
That's my spot.
Stop.
Okay, what's the safe word? Uh, spatula? Oh! Mm.
Wait.
Promise me we'll always be hot for each other.
Easiest promise I'll ever make.
Not even if you paid me in gold.
You are insatiable.
Only for you.
Mm.
I really want to.
But I promised my mom I would have brunch with her.
Oh Killed the mood.
- Sorry.
- Killed the mood.
Do you think you could maybe drop me off at my parents'? 'Cause Jenny has my car.
Please? Come on.
It's 20 minutes away.
Yeah, no, it No, it's fine.
It's not that.
I just, um I don't think your parents really approve of me after that first dinner at the club.
- What? - I just Think I was talking about myself too much.
Jack, you never talk about yourself.
I loved it.
Okay.
Okay, okay, fine, I'll give you a ride.
But I just want you to know, there is no such thing as a free brunch.
Dad, come on.
Let's go.
Whoa! Randall, you're-you're like a ninja.
- Get dressed.
I got to go to school.
- Oh.
It's 6:00 a.
m.
, bud.
I want to get there early to talk to Mr.
Lawrence.
He gave me a book to read.
- Mr.
Lawrence again.
- Oh, yeah? Mr.
Lawrence give you the book - about the tickle monster? - Stop.
Dad, stop! Stop.
- Tickle monster is - Oh, my God.
Something died in your mouth.
- Oh, did it? - Go brush your teeth.
- Come on.
Let's go.
- You know what, I think, uh I think I want to meet this Mr.
Lawrence.
He's made quite an impression on you.
Parent-teacher conferences are next month.
Or today.
- Yeah.
- Okay? - Yeah.
Yeah.
- Yeah.
Mr.
Lawrence.
Randall.
This is the latest you've ever been early.
Uh, Korey Lawrence, Randall's English teacher.
Jack Pearson, Randall's father.
I've heard a lot of great things about you.
Oh.
Well, uh, your son is a very curious young man.
He asks a lot of questions, yeah.
So, how's Notes of a Native Son going? Great.
When James Baldwin was ten, he wrote a play his teacher directed.
Hey.
You got a director.
Now you just need to write a play, right? - Hey, it was really nice to meet you.
- Yeah.
You have a very special kid here.
I agree.
Randall, your mom's gonna pick you up today.
Okay.
Love you.
So how far did you get? - "The Harlem Ghetto".
- Ah, yeah.
Wilkins is freezing me out.
Yeah, well, you did cancel on him twice.
Screw it.
I'm going over there.
- To say what? - I'm gonna ask him if I vote for his housing bill with revisions whether he'll support my grocery store in the food desert.
Actually, no.
I'm gonna tell him.
- Yeah, you are.
- Yeah.
- Yeah - Yeah.
- Come on.
- Mm.
No, no, no.
I'm telling you, I'm up five after nine, right, and then the back tightens.
And I still had to swi Morning, gentlemen.
Sorry to interrupt the golf banter.
Councilman, if this conversation is gonna start or end with the words "affordable groceries" or "food desert", you can keep walking.
Actually, um, Councilman, no.
Uh I know I had to cancel on you twice, and I wanted to make it up to you.
So, um, if you ever wanted to get onto Stillbrooke, I have an in.
- Stillbrooke? - Two-month wait for a tee time.
And, of course, Pearson has an in.
Ha-ha-ha.
Yes, 'cause I'm a carpetbagger with rich friends, and you men of principle don't want any part of that.
My offer stands.
It was nice talking to you.
Well, what about today? Today? - I'll make a call.
- Hmm.
We could use a fourth.
Thanks, but, uh, golf's not really my bag.
Golf.
Bag.
Um, do you still want me? Oh, we do now.
Ours is a money game.
All right.
Oh, God.
Just Uh Eh.
Mm Okay, what's wrong? Eh.
Aw, I'm just I'm creeping on my ex.
Ugh.
What's that even mean? Oh.
Uh I'm Internet stalking her.
God, you're old.
It's my-my ex, Zoe.
Uh, her documentary won a prize at this Rome film festival, and she's posted all these photos.
And every single one, she's with this hot guy.
See that? What do you think of that? Just friends? - Yeah.
Oh, yeah, definitely.
- Yeah? Yeah.
But they're also having sex.
Aw.
- What is this - What are Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- No, no, no.
What are you doing? - I'm trying to make - the picture bigger.
What - Well, you didn't make it bigger.
You touched the heart, man.
You touched the heart.
- Now she knows I'm stalking her.
- What's your problem? - I look like an What's my problem? - Yeah.
Everything here sucks.
That's my problem.
You know, you don't need to stick around here for my court hearing.
Yeah, no, I really do need to stick around here for your court hearing.
I told your vet counselor that I would.
Which means a few more weeks.
Let's do something though.
You know? You want to go in You want to go for a hike? - I've had more than enough hikes with you, kid.
- Okay.
Here we go.
Go to a meeting, Kevin.
Yeah, thanks.
Just went to a meeting.
Go to another one.
Oh.
Relax.
It's okay.
Hey, Mr.
Malone.
You, uh going out to play some golf? No, no.
I'm just gonna go hit some balls.
Do you play? Not really.
I mean, sometimes I'll do a twilight round over at Swenson.
Oh.
You want to join me? You know what, I got a lot of errands today.
Thank you, though, sir.
All right.
Some other time.
Are you sure? I think it's really sweet that my dad wants to get to know you more.
Uh, Mr.
Malone.
Maybe I will join you.
Come on! Thank you.
It'll be fun.
- Tobe.
- Yeah.
You left the onesies in the washer too long.
- Huh? - They sat in the washer too long, and now they're all mildewy.
Okay, I'm-I'm sorry.
I-I'm operating on-on two hours of sleep.
I can't be good at laundry and also work enough to save money for Jack's college tuition, which, accounting for inflation, will be $6 million a year by the time he's ready to go to school.
Okay, well, I'm operating on two hours of sleep, too.
And I know I don't have a job, but at least your nipples don't feel like chew toys.
Wait, are you getting rid of those? They're so nice.
Um, these are way too big for me now.
So I am donating them, yes.
I thought they were your favorite.
Don't get rid of 'em.
Okay.
Okay.
What? Uh, nothing.
Never mind.
I'll keep 'em.
Tobe, what is going on? We've been snippy with each other for the past two weeks.
Yeah, well, I'll tell you what hasn't been going on.
I'll tell you what hasn't been going on for nine months and 23 days.
We're tired.
And Jack is sleeping right next to us.
I know.
But he can't, like can't see us.
Um, he can hear us.
You.
So, y-you know what, we we need to get out of here.
All right? We need to we need to find a an environment that is more conducive to lovemaking.
Okay.
And when are we gonna do that? I don't know.
Today? How 'bout today? I already took the day off.
Huh? We can get your mom and Miggy Stardust to come over.
They've been dying to babysit.
They've been begging us to go out more.
Tobe, I don't know.
No, you do know.
You know we have to do this.
We need to do this.
For the sake of our sex life, call your mother.
- Okay.
- Please call her.
- I'm going to.
- Please start dialing.
Okay.
- Oh, oh, you got it, you got it, you got it.
- Oh.
Okay.
Ooh.
- Oh.
- Hey.
- Thanks.
I had that, by the way.
- Yeah.
Yeah, it's just, rep 99 and 100 are typically the hardest ones.
- Sure.
You're back.
- Yeah.
I'm just trying to stay out of trouble, you know, not that you could actually get into any trouble in this town.
Mind if I, uh - Yeah.
- You want a boost? Wha ? Okay.
She's got it.
She has got it.
Wow.
That's impressive.
- Here you go, Kevin.
- Hey.
- The usual.
- Thank you.
That's You don't have to deliver my Oxi-Protein PB Energy Spike? - And did you add the ? - Chia.
- Yes.
- Wow.
You're like my phone anticipating my - Words.
- Okay.
Technically, you're not supposed to have drinks around the workout stations, but I'll let it go this time.
Well, thank you for letting it go this time.
- I appreciate it.
- Mm-hmm.
Ah.
The service here's amazing.
- Yeah.
She wrote her number on your cup.
- What? Hey! Look at that.
No.
No.
You know, AA discourages romantic relationships in the first year.
- And drinking.
- Wow.
You really sold that.
Talk to your husband? Not since the hockey game.
Really? Divorce is on the table, right? You don't have all this time.
Plus, you know what? He could just meet someone else.
Like, take my ex, for instance Zoe, right? It's only been, like, six months, but yet, here she is, jet-setting around the planet with some sandwich artist guy.
What do you think? Huh? She into him? Well, 20 bucks says they had bathroom sex right before they took this picture.
She's gorgeous.
- Yeah.
- Why'd you guys break up? She didn't want kids.
And you do? Well, yeah, I want kid Why do you act all skeptical and, like, surprised? I don't know.
You don't seem motivated.
You just moved to the middle of nowhere, and you spend all your time with your grumpy uncle, and Yeah, to help him out.
It's temporary.
Trust me, I'll get back in the saddle.
I'm just saying, you're not getting any younger.
I'm not getting any younger? I'm 30, like, something.
I'm sorry.
I missed that.
You're 30 ? - Can you enunciate a little? - I'll enunciate, - Just enunciate.
- okay? Okay, here it goes.
You are very annoying.
All right? Come on.
Spot me.
Grab the 45s if you can lift them.
What you want is what you get at McDonald's today.
- That swing - Hey, bud.
- Hey.
- That fantastic touch around the green.
- That smile.
- His name is Tiger Woods.
Mr.
Lawrence said he's gonna change the game of golf.
Yeah, I've heard of him.
Tiger Woods has won the world junior title six times.
In fact, Tiger has won so many trophies, his mother says they can't all fit in the house.
Some of his are stashed in the garage.
Hey, how about tomorrow after school, you and me, we we go play some? Golf? - Really? - Yeah.
Yeah, we'll go hit some balls at the range first, and then we'll go par three.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Sure.
Sure! Okay.
Cool.
But I thought you didn't like golf.
It wasn't the right fit for me, and my ball always seemed to find the water, but I think you might be cut out for it.
Okay, gents, dollar a hole, two dollar Nassau, 50 cent skins.
Pearson, you're up.
Oh.
Okay.
I'll say it again, gentlemen.
I don't have a very good history with this game.
As in, I have only played one time.
Fore! Sorry! - Oh, boy.
- Bubba.
Yeah.
- You're in the wrong cart.
- I sure am.
Sure as hell am.
Ou est le métro, madame? Ooh, la, la.
What did you just say? I said, "Where can I find the subway, miss?" It's the only French I remember after backpacking through Europe.
Um, can we dim the lights just so it's a little more romantic? As you wish.
Setting the mood - Oh.
- Wow.
- Oh.
- Oh.
My God, you are so hunky.
I don't need what you need, I'm so unbothered by you Oh.
Mmm.
Mm-hmm, yeah, I remember.
Like riding a bike.
Oh.
It's okay.
Oh, it's not I just have I just have a lot on my mind.
It's Like what, babe? I just need a minute to clear my brain, you know? Just empty my mind.
Um Okay.
Want to watch Turner Classics? It's a great idea.
Yup, Turner Classic Movies.
TCM that'll, uh, get me going.
- Well, here we are again.
- Yes.
You are gonna need to find the right clothes.
What? I thought we were just gonna hit some balls.
Well, it doesn't matter.
Uh, you need to wear a collared shirt here at the club and no jeans.
Uh, you know what? I forgot my credit card.
No, no, no, it's on me.
What size shoes do you wear? No, sir, I don't feel comfortable you buying me Hey, Dave? I'm playing with Johnson.
You want to join? Uh, sure.
Sure.
Yeah, no.
We'll meet you right outside.
Okay.
Yeah.
Gonna take a lot more than lowering the speed limit to 55 to reduce our dependency on gas.
Yeah, what's your take on OPEC, Jack? Well, I know the lines are long where I work.
You work at a gas station? Yeah.
Part-time mechanic at Vine Auto when I'm not helping my buddy frame houses.
Well, you hear that, Merrick? Jack frames houses.
Doesn't your insurance company specialize in construction? Yeah, mostly umbrella liability.
Well, you must need smart guys.
Give Jack your card, Merrick.
Maybe he can come in next week for an informational.
- Sure.
- Oh, it's-it's not necessary.
- No, no.
- Hey.
Thank you for that.
There's hope for you yet.
- Bam! - Oh.
You didn't win the Masters, Bill.
I mean, come on.
You triple-bogeyed the second hole.
- Well are you sure? - Four.
- Yeah, I am sure.
- Okay.
- Ask my caddy.
- Yeah.
- There's a hundred in it for you.
- Oh, I'm sure there is.
- Better be sure - Gin and tonic.
- Double.
- Double or triple? Oh, I try.
- Triple.
- Can you back it up? Wow.
Look at us, huh? Yeah.
We should play for $1,000.
A grand? Really? That's what Michael Jordan bets.
Okay, M.
J.
, you're up.
Okay.
Mr.
Lawrence says Tiger Woods is gonna break barriers in golf.
Great putt.
Mr.
Lawrence says I'm breaking barriers at Hanes Academy, too.
- Is that right? - Yeah.
'Cause they never had a black kid on the debate team.
- I didn't know that.
- Mm.
Look at you.
Nice! Yeah, I'm not saying it'll be as hard for me as it was for Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali, but it'll still be hard for me, you know? Oh, you're gonna do just fine, Randall.
You are insanely smart and charming, and you're gonna do just fine wherever you want to go in life.
Thanks.
You know, when I was younger, I never felt welcome at country clubs.
People thought I I didn't make enough money or have the right job.
Probably why I stopped playing.
I let those people get to me.
That's not what I'm saying, Dad.
No, I I know what you're saying.
I do, and I'm gonna do everything in my power to make sure that nobody gets in your way or holds you back.
Okay.
Thanks.
Ooh.
Oh, right in the drink.
Dave, you should buy the kid a lake house.
He loves the water.
You're up, Dave.
Show us the way.
Mm.
- Thank you, Sam.
- Sometime today.
He liked it so much, right, that now every time we go over to the mayor's house, my wife has to make him potato salad.
You know, the one thing about potato salad Uh, they're off the green.
You can hit.
Oh, right on.
I'll walk.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Slow everything down.
You're too fast.
Look.
It's just back and through.
Tempo.
Okay.
Slowing down really helps.
Thanks for the tip.
I also ran track.
- Ah.
- Now I think I'm gonna go back to grad school and maybe get a degree in kinesiology or nutrition.
Yeah.
I am very much into nutrition.
- Really? - Yeah, really.
Like, uh, take now for instance.
I'm starving, you know? And we've been sitting here for 20 minutes and I've yet to see a menu.
I'm starting to realize that, uh, people from small towns are never in a hurry.
She's living in L.
A.
Small towns aren't for everyone.
- Mm.
- But I remind myself of something Richard Russo once said.
- Yeah.
- "People in small towns, more than in big cities, share a destiny.
" Well, I like that.
- They say it goes - Share a destiny.
I feel like, uh, destiny sort of brought me here, actually.
Yeah.
But do-do you see yourself settling down in a town like Bradford after grad school? I suppose if I met the right person and he wanted to live here, I would.
It's a perfect town to raise kids.
I love kids.
- Yeah? - Yeah.
See? There, we have something in common.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
Charlie, I've changed my mind.
I'll go with the ribeye.
- How would you like that, sir? - Rare.
Just knock off the horns and wipe its ass.
Hey, seriously, Jack, call me if you want to come in for an interview.
Yeah, you two should set up a time for next week.
Well, that, uh, won't be necessary, but thank you, Merrick.
Okay.
You okay, bud? Yeah.
You sure? I mean, you barely said a word in the last couple of holes.
I don't think I want to play anymore.
Randall, c-come on.
We got four more holes to go.
You know we don't quit what we started.
We quit the dojo.
Do you remember that dojo we went to a few years ago with all the other black families? Yeah.
We went a few times, but then we stopped.
W You said you didn't want to learn karate anymore.
Yeah, but you won't let me quit soccer or baseball.
You don't want me to quit golf.
I ju I-I don't quite follow you here, Randall.
Forget it.
Can we please just go home? H-Hold on a second.
Where is this coming from? Is this Mr.
Lawrence again? N-No.
No.
You just, y You just don't get it.
What don't I get? What you said before about feeling weird at some country club golf course.
Okay? You felt uncomfortable at a golf course and I probably wouldn't have even been allowed on it.
Kiddo, I am sorry, okay? That was a stupid thing to say.
I just I-I don't I don't look at you and see color.
I see my son.
Then you don't see me, Dad.
Now, remember, you pull it back in one piece, slowly and let it go.
Oh, that was a good one.
And you were right about the grip, too.
- Thank you very much.
Thank you.
- All right.
- Book them the honeymoon suite.
- Yeah, no doubt about that.
Carl, why don't you grab your clubs, go look for your ball with Lester.
Randall, hop on in.
Thank you so much for the meal.
You are more than welcome.
So, um what else is there to do in this town? And, um, please don't say the Zippo factory.
To be honest, there's nothing really to do here, - Mm.
- except get high and have sex.
And I don't do drugs.
Uh, I know what you're thinking.
Even the tunnel's getting laid.
Is it me? Hmm? Are you still attracted to me? Are you kidding? I don't know.
You have a whole new body.
- And - Kate, really.
I swear, I just have a lot on my mind.
Okay? Okay.
It is the pants.
- What? - What you said to me about keeping my old pants in case I put the weight back on.
Along with the pressure of knowing that if I didn't perform, you would think it was because I wasn't attracted to you.
Add stress and exhaustion and - Toby - Look, why-why-why did you say it? You know, is it because you-you doubt that I can keep the weight off, or because you're hoping that I put the weight back on? Okay, Tobe.
Let's just go home.
Well, I'm glad I'm driving.
You really put back those G and Ts.
Oh, no.
I'm I'm fine.
Thank you, though, for the, uh drinks and the round.
Jack, you really should have taken that interview.
I appreciate the gesture, but I don't need any help, sir.
Look, my father was a pipe-fitter.
He worked hard to put me through college.
And after I graduated, I wasn't too proud to take a job as a runner at a brokerage house.
I rose up the ranks, met the woman I'd marry.
I bought a house, raised a family.
Yeah, I I joined a nice country club.
And-And this club is where we are gonna celebrate Rebecca's wedding.
I see myself walking her down the aisle at St.
Michael's, and afterwards, coming over here, and raising a toast to her and her husband at the reception.
I see it all so clearly.
Question.
Do you see yourself here? Randall said all that? Yeah.
Well he's getting older - and figuring out his place in the world.
- Mm.
Hey, did we let him quit the dojo too easily? I mean were we threatened by it? No.
It was a long drive.
And he wasn't excited about it.
It just - It fizzled out.
- Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, not a minute too soon.
Thank you, Lisa.
- Okay.
- There you go.
Could have been a lot worse without the councilman's lessons.
How'd you grow up with a white father and not know how to golf? Tell me about it.
Hey, how did you guys find the game? Well, when I-I said I wanted to learn, my father painted a golf pro's house for free in exchange for lessons.
Really? All right.
- Tiger winning at Augusta in '97.
- Mm-hmm.
Hey, my Aunt Lizzie.
She taught me to putt like Lee Elder and cuss like Red Foxx.
Well, thank you, gentlemen, for dragging my sorry ass around the course today.
Here is to fathers, to Tiger, and to Lester's foul-mouthed Aunt Lizzie.
- Yeah.
- Hear, hear.
- If they could see us now.
- Mm.
Listen Why don't you find some time to stop by the office, we'll talk about your grocery store.
After we talk about my housing bill.
- Yes, sir.
- Mm.
That's a sure shot.
That wasn't my shot.
I told you - You parked so far away.
- I'm sorry.
My uncle lives right here so we got to kind of be quiet.
- I'll try.
- Okay.
- But I make no promises.
- You are trouble.
Hey.
Sorry.
Thought you'd be alone.
You didn't have to send her away.
Sorry I interrupted.
That's all right.
You interviewing mothers to bear your children? Really? 'Cause I can catch up with Donna.
I saw Ryan.
And? Total fubar.
It started out okay, and then he got critical, and I got defensive, and then we started arguing, and I lost my temper.
I'm sorry.
I told you it was a bad idea.
I don't blame Ryan.
I wouldn't want to be with someone as screwed up as me.
Hey, come on.
You've seen things.
You-you have seen things that 99% of us, we can't even imagine.
And yeah, you made some mistakes along the way, but you're trying.
That doesn't make you unlovable.
It makes you human.
I'm sorry.
- Hello? Anybody home? - Oh, no.
They're, um, heading back from The Grove now with Jack.
Oh.
I'm gonna unpack.
Okay.
Kate? Okay.
Do you forgive me? For what you said or for cutting up the wrong pair of pants? Both? Baby, I believe in you.
I always have.
I always will.
Oh, yeah? Yes.
Do you believe me when I say that you still fuel the furnace that is my loins? Well, I could use some convincing.
My attraction to you - Mm-hmm.
- is purely primal, Kate Pearson.
You are nothing more to me than a vessel for my feral lust.
And the rest of it, the emotional stuff, I cast aside with contempt.
Now, do you want to take Toby 2.
0 for a spin? I will drive you down to the rims.
- Safe word? - Mom and Miguel.
- Weird, but I like it.
- No, they're gonna be back - in, like, five minutes.
- Good.
That gives us four minutes to put ourselves back together.
- Oh? Yeah? - Yeah.
I'm gonna marry your daughter, Dave.
I'm I'm gonna marry her.
I'm gonna get a good job.
Buy a real nice house.
A happy one.
With kids running around the yard.
So let me ask you.
Do you see yourself there? You're never gonna be good enough for her, Jack.
Say again? - Why don't you say that again? - Oh, there he is.
There's the guy I've been waiting for, huh? Say it again.
Uh-huh.
Jack? Hey, Bec.
- I Oh! - Oh.
- You okay? - Yeah, no.
- I'm fine.
- It was hot out there, and he just had a few too many.
I'm fine.
You good? You okay? - You, uh, you good? - Hey.
Why don't we get you home? - Yeah, okay.
- Yeah, I'll take you home.
Jesus, Nick.
You scared the hell out of me.
Why can't you just stay at your own place? You have fresh cold cuts.
Yeah.
Well, okay.
Well, you know, help yourself.
Of course.
I'm sorry.
We should've taken that hike today.
- Night.
- Good night, Uncle Nicky.
Wait.
- Mr.
Lawrence.
- Randall, my man.
Mr.
Lawrence, can I, uh, talk to you a sec? Sure.
Go on.
I'll be right in.
Okay.
Thank you for taking a special interest in my son.
He really looks up to you.
Uh, still, he's a 12-year-old kid, and if my son is asking complicated, heavy questions about his place in this world, a simple heads-up to his parents couldn't hurt.
Don't you think? - A heads-up.
- Mm.
Okay.
Anything else? No.
Actually, would, uh you and your wife like to come to the house this weekend for dinner? We'd love to.
Great.
Saturday at 7:00? - Hey, nice job, Randall.
- Thanks.
I'll do better next time, I promise.
Randall, hold on a second.
Stop.
I'm sorry.
All right? I will listen better and lecture less.
Okay? You are gonna be a very important man, Randall.
And a lot of important relationships happen on a golf course.
Me, I I hit a ceiling.
But for you, there is only sky.
So don't get caught on the outside looking in.
Sometimes you'll have to play up to the competition, sometimes you'll have to play down.
But play the game.
Like father, like son.
What you want is to have a routine.
First, you got to line your shot up.
And then you line your feet up to the target.
- Okay? - Okay.
Good.
Again.
Again.
Again.
This one's for you, Pop.