Younger (2015) s06e12 Episode Script

1 [UPBEAT POP MUSIC.]
Hey, we could have had coffee upstairs.
Why did you want to meet down here? Today is my last day at Millennial.
What? I wrote a Dear John letter to Charles, and I'm leaving.
Why? I've been there a while, and it's time for me to move on.
I want a fresh start.
But where? Where are you going? I don't know.
Liza, it's fine.
I'm taking a leap, and the net will appear.
Yeah, well, sometimes the sidewalk appears first.
Look, please, just take a beat, think, talk it over with me.
We can do, like, pros and cons.
My mind is made up.
Well, what did Charles say? Nothing yet.
I stopped by his office on the way here, and I left a letter on his desk.
I don't want to be there when he gets it.
[INTENSE BASS-HEAVY MUSIC.]
Are you crazy? Hey! Liza, wait! Can I help you? Hi, good morning.
Oh, right.
I left this for you.
It's a it's a letter for you.
But you shouldn't read it in the office because it's it's inappropriate at work, so I'm gonna take it back.
Now I really want to read it.
I won't report you to HR.
No, it's just it's [WHISPERING.]
It's really sexy stuff, and it's just, like, dirty, so I, um.
I wrote it's a limerick.
I wrote you a limerick.
That's it.
But it turns out that I'm not very good at those, so Um, that's not your handwriting.
[GASPING.]
It's my resignation, Charles.
- I'm leaving.
- No, she is not.
She is thinking about leaving, but we're gonna sit down and figure it out.
There's nothing to figure out.
I can't be editor where I was publisher.
I tried.
I can't.
Take two weeks.
Take a leave.
Let the dust settle.
Please, you're too important to us.
No, I'm sorry.
There's nothing else to say except Thank you, Charles, for finding me in the assistant pool and promoting me and giving me all of these incredible opportunities.
But my time here is over.
So [SNIFFLES.]
Don't make it hard for me, all right? Just read this.
I meant every word.
[SOLEMN MUSIC.]
No, Liza, don't.
This is not good-bye.
I'm gonna see you.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC.]
Done, done, and done.
Oh, and I got the Rome hotel upgrade.
You now get a bidet and an espresso machine right next to each other, but still.
Oh, good, we have a problem.
Yes, my maid of honor, late again.
Thank God you deputized Lauren.
You do know we're four days out.
That's just it.
I just got a call from Redmond.
We have a pitch on Friday.
That's the day before.
No, no, no, no.
That is not on my calendar.
Oh, God, Kelsey must have scheduled it without telling anyone.
That's the third time this week.
She left dirty little bombs everywhere.
Yeah, I mean, she kept a lot of stuff in her head.
I have no idea how this company is running without her.
It's just not the same place.
Liza, please.
She was not the heart and soul of this company.
We are happy for her.
We are happy for us.
We are happy! Yeah, absolutely, uh, but, weirdly, both of your offices are out of Kleenex.
I'm just saying.
She keeps dodging my calls too, just little texts saying she's working on her game plan.
I know she's coming to the wedding, though.
And the spa the day before? Kelsey's a no, but Enzo's sisters are in, and they want it all plus a moustache wax.
Yeah, curse of the Mediterranean.
Oh, yeah, they have got a Russian lady there, an actual Putin, with the finger strength of my first girlfriend.
She[CHUCKLES.]
She will get it done.
[CELL PHONE CHIMES.]
Oh, it's Enzo, the Uncle Joe meeting.
Uncle Joe, who's Uncle Joe? How can you be so bad at this maid of honor stuff? - [GASPS.]
- You're a thousand years old.
- This can't be your first rodeo.
- Well[SCOFFS.]
[UPBEAT CHEERFUL MUSIC.]
Thank you for meeting me here.
I gotta say, I'm surprised.
Thought I was public enemy number one.
Well, you're a very smart public enemy number one.
I need your advice.
I'm thinking of going out on my own and starting my own publishing company.
I already have a few meetings lined up this week, and I thought because you and Charles already did it with Mercury that I could just give you my pitch and get some feedback.
Uh, I don't need to hear the pitch.
My feedback is, don't do it.
Look, you're the best editor I've ever worked with, but talent only gets you so far.
Yeah, Mercury worked because Charles came up with 800K to buy the Audrey Colbert book.
It's cold out there in the publishing world.
Check your ego and come back.
With respect, my résumé looks a little different than yours when you went out.
I've started and run my own imprint.
I've been publisher.
I can do this.
I know what you can do, Kelsey, and I know what you can't.
What does that mean? It means all right, look.
You and I were doing great together, really great, and then the thing happened and you decide to punish me for it.
You're being punished? I lost my job.
No, you gave up your job to save the company.
You think what happened was your worst moment.
I thought you were awesome.
I wanted to be there for you to help you see that, but instead, you bailed.
[SCOFFS.]
I I can't think about being in a relationship when I'm scrambling for my next move.
You were the same way.
You have to feel good about yourself to make room for other people, and I'm not there.
I believe you, Kelsey.
You know, I wish I didn't.
You deserve to get what you want.
I just I just wish you wanted more, and if you do one day, if you want more than just business advice from me, it's gonna have to be your move, okay? You're gonna have to reach out.
Good luck with your pitches.
[SOMBER MUSIC.]
Hey, you made it! Enzo, this is Queens.
There was a bridge.
I could have looked at photos.
You would have hurt his feelings.
Look, Uncle Joe wanted an unveiling.
He is the artist in the family, and he's my godfather small G so this is a big deal, him giving us this on our big day.
Il mio piccolino! Hey, Uncle Joe.
And your beautiful bride.
You remember Uncle Joe.
- This is Liza.
- Hi.
Diana, you grow more beautiful every day.
Oh, well, you obviously have the eyes of an artist.
That's encouraging.
Is that what you made for the wedding? It's so beautiful.
No, that's for a dog funeral.
You see the tails? Yours is my masterpiece.
I had to find something that would represent your two worlds coming together.
[ROCK MUSIC.]
Prepare yourselves.
I underprepared.
The toilet is you, Enzo, and, Diana, you are the fish, a beautiful trota like you.
It's beautiful, right, Diana? Look at the mouth, open like yours.
I've caught you.
I'm I'm speechless.
Either you or this ice sculpture would be at my wedding, not both.
- Capisce? - I totes capisce.
[UPBEAT POP MUSIC.]
[DOOR BUZZER SOUNDS.]
Hey, Maggie.
Uh, is Liza here? She just called from Queens, something about I I don't know.
I think I heard her say Ice Capades, which makes sense for her.
Ooh, you need this more than I do.
- Yeah.
- Come in.
- Bad day? - Oh, the worst.
I've been pitching my new company all over town.
All nos well, not no, but, "Oh, you poor thing.
" It's really hard to pitch to people that have seen the video because their eyes all of a sudden just start drifting.
Mm, I get it.
It's hard for me too.
How am I doing? Come.
You know, I'm afraid I painted myself into a corner.
I think Zane's right.
I let my ego get in the way.
Well, I don't know where I'd be without my ego, probably somewhere upstate crafting and smelling of hot glue.
Do you still believe in yourself? Yeah, I do, but it takes more than that.
I need one more believer.
I need a believer with money.
You had a believer with money, if I recall correctly.
Look, you quit your job to be a player, so be a player.
I mean, sometimes you have to get in bed with the devil.
How do you think I got this loft, hmm? Long story, no names.
[GLASSES CLINK.]
Because I love books, I always have, but that's not the only way to tell a story now: audiobooks, podcast, digital delivery of subscription content, serials like the way Dickens used to publish, and TV.
Yes, why not? It's all new ways of crafting a book.
Opening your mind, filling your soul, that is what KLP Print is all about with your help.
I like it.
KLP Print, that is the worst name I've ever heard.
In this day and age, you need something short and easy to say like Looli or Oobay.
I mean, what the hell does Google even mean? I'm open to changes with the right offer.
See this? This attitude, down but not out? This is what I'm buying.
[BOMBASTIC POP MUSIC.]
[UPBEAT HIP-HOP MUSIC.]
So there I was stuck in Thailand when the Wi-Fi goes down for 72 hours and I have an epiphany: You can miss a day online and the world doesn't come to an end.
And if it did, how would you know? I read more.
I slept better.
I had more fun in those three days that I'd had in years.
And after the initial freak-out and withdrawal, I realized that there is a joy in missing out.
Hence the book title "JOMO IRL: How to Unplug and Experience the Joy of Missing Out," the antidote to FOMO.
The what? You know, the fear of missing out.
FOMO is the curse of the millennial.
JOMO is the cure.
We have to give up all our alternate, imaginary lives and live in the real world, and that hurts.
But after a while, you realize that our limited analog lives are pretty amazing.
So if we can learn to detach ourselves from [CELL PHONE CHIMES.]
Sorry.
It's my publicist.
- I'm trending.
- [BOTH LAUGH.]
- Trending, I'll be out here.
- [LAUGHS.]
Oh.
[CLEARS THROAT.]
Do millennials really want to be nagged about their screen time? He's not wrong.
I mean, maybe we all need to give up our alternate lives and choose real ones.
- So you're buying it? Good.
- I'm not sure.
[MOCKING.]
"I'm not sure.
" God, I miss Kelsey.
She had instincts, quick no, quick yes, not that this elderly dithering isn't also attractive.
We miss Kelsey too, you have no idea, but Millennial is still here and going strong.
Why do you even call it Millennial anymore, 'cause it sounds better than Menopausal? [LAUGHS OBNOXIOUSLY.]
Liza, I adore you, giantess.
[GROANS.]
You're like a tall, literate redwood, but you were born I don't know how many presidents ago, and, Diana, you well, no.
You're ageless.
That always sounds like longwearing, like a carpet for high-traffic areas.
What I'm saying is, you're the Mr.
Coffee in a world of Keurigs now that Kelsey's bailed.
Well, you know what they say: I-H-L.
It's her loss.
- They don't say that, no.
- I'm not sure.
Look, why don't you ask some of your interns what they think, and if you want to make a deal, just pick up your Jitterbug phone and give me a call.
But don't sweat it because we already have an offer from Random House.
Byeee! Did we give him a plus one for the wedding? - I think so.
- Yank it.
[UPBEAT MUSIC.]
It's just not the same without Kelsey.
And all the wedding stuff for Diana? I'm not drowning exactly, but I definitely feel the water rising.
Sounds to me like you need a vacation.
Oh, my God, this is the absolute worst time.
With Diana away on her honeymoon next week? I Not now, this summer when things calm down.
I am taking the girls to Scotland.
You know, I thought that they would want the beach, but Bianca heard about a Harry Potter tour.
Anyway, so there will be hiking and golfing and a lot of time to drink whiskey and learn spells and I was thinking maybe you and Caitlin might want to join.
Wow, that's a lot to think about.
Yeah, I think it's time we all got to know each other a little better.
I could talk to Caitlin.
I have to warn you, though: if we leave the girls with her, she will charge for babysitting.
I admire her business instincts.
Charles, Liza.
Hello, Quinn.
Quinn.
Oh, I see you still haven't forgiven me for yanking my money out from under you.
I had to.
It's politics.
And my campaign is going so much better now, so Still friends? Oh, as much as we ever were.
So funny, running into you.
This whole week has been a real blast from the past.
- How so? - Let's just say that someone who used to work for you or with you or next to you I don't know, it's always so confusing over there is going into business with me.
Isn't life hilar? Anyway, my biggest donor awaits.
Watching him eat is the hardest thing I do.
[SIGHS.]
Bye.
That couldn't be Kelsey she's talking about.
She'd never team up with Quinn.
[UPBEAT PERCUSSIVE MUSIC.]
Bellissimo, maestoso.
Complimenti, Giuseppe.
Coming from a real artist like you, Miss Amato, that means everything.
Aw, look at you two bonding.
It's like when Michelangelo and da Vinci would get together over drinks and talk about boys.
I love it.
Isn't this too important of a piece to throw it away at a wedding? You know, I know a gallery in Brooklyn that would love this.
We invite the critics.
We watch it melt.
- Yes.
- Performance arts.
I mean, you must have something else here that we can give them instead, possibly a Venus de Milo or an Empire State Building? Oh, you flatter me, artista.
I'd be honored to show you my work.
- This way.
- Thanks.
Oh, okay, great.
Uh, you guys go do that.
I'll just be here.
I'ma take a little piccy.
Yo, I see ice, I see stupid ice I see rice on rice Chain is ice, take it easy, psych Earrings dipped in ice, heart is ice Motorbike with pipes Ah! I see ice, I see stupid ice Ice, ice, I see ice I see ice "Pussy on Ice," until we women get the respect we deserve.
Dipped in ice, heart is ice Motorbike with pipes [GASPS.]
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow! Dio mio! - Oh, my God.
- I'm stuck.
I'm stuck.
Please help.
I'm stuck like a tongue on a winter water oh, my God.
[SCREAMING.]
Don't move! You'll pull a thread.
You'll unravel like an old sweater.
Oh, my God! My God! [SCREAMS.]
You ruined it.
I know! I know! And it's my favorite part! I think I left a bit of it up there.
Do you have a first aid kit or ow Anbesol? Yeah, yeah, in the office.
I see ice, I see stupid ice I see rice on rice Chain is ice, take it easy, psych Earrings dipped in ice, ice, ice, ice, ice, ice, ice But Quinn Tyler? Kelsey, she was nothing but trouble for you at Millennial.
But she made me publisher.
No one else did.
It's a step up, Liza.
It's ownership, and I need something that's mine.
- Kelsey - I'm good with my decision.
Can we talk about something else? You know whatever you do, I'm on your side.
Speaking of sides, you're sitting on the bride's with us tomorrow, right? Yeah.
I know that Charles is gonna be there and Zane but it's Diana's day.
We're there to celebrate her.
Good.
At least for one day, I can pretend everything's the way it used to be.
Remember the way it used to be? It wasn't so bad, was it? I know that you don't want to ask about him, but Josh is doing fine.
He'll be in Midtown next week.
Wow, that's good.
We, um, sort of had a bad talk last week about me seeing less of him.
- He didn't like that.
- No kidding.
You're kind of the most important woman in his life who isn't teething.
It's just I feel like, for the both of us, it's time for a little space.
How's that working out for you? It's weird, but we have to make choices in life.
It's like this book pitch we had today about JOMO.
You know, the joy of missing out.
What? That is not a thing.
I hope you passed in the room.
Really? Yeah, I absolutely will.
I will.
But there is something to it.
I mean, not joy of missing out but, like, more refocusing on other things, on new horizons.
[SCOFFS.]
Please.
That is what people who are missing out tell themselves to make it okay.
[SCOFFS.]
Whatever.
To new horizons for both of us.
- [GLASSES CLINK.]
- No looking back.
[UPBEAT JAZZY MUSIC.]
Hey.
Well, what do you think? Are we gonna be ready for Monday? Absolutely.
I am so excited about this.
You are gonna be on every girl in Manhattan.
I am that market, and we all wanna piece of you.
- Huh.
- One of your pieces, I mean.
I keep saying piece.
I don't even know why.
[LAUGHS.]
Oh, can I look at yours? - Your lookbook? - Oh, yeah, yeah.
Uh, yeah, um, I was actually thinking that we could stick to some of these smaller, simpler designs.
You know, that way I can get everything done fairly fairly quickly in just one visit.
Absolutely, maximize revenue.
Get 'em in.
Get 'em out.
Tat and scat.
[GASPS.]
Shoot, is that a better name than Inkburg? Nope.
Okay, um [CLEARS THROAT.]
These are so good.
They're very elaborate.
Um, could you do, like, emojis or maybe like [GASPS.]
Pikachu.
Um, that's so good.
Yeah, yeah, it's like time standing still.
- Hmm.
- Yeah.
It's like a moment that lasts a lifetime.
Um, the point is, it's aspirational.
- Yeah.
- We can sell a ton.
Ah, you know, that one is more of, like, a one-off.
You know, like, it doesn't really belong to me anymore.
You know when you sell a painting, it's like it's not yours.
It's theirs, you know? [WHINING.]
Josh, I super like it, though.
Can't you just ask who you gave it to, and please don't say you forgot who she is.
[UPBEAT ELECTRONIC MUSIC.]
Hi! BOTH: Mwah, mwah! - You're so beautiful.
- [LAUGHS.]
Ah, hi.
- Hi.
- Hey.
You go on in.
I have to wait for Diana.
Oh, we're on the left.
Do you see Kelsey? I can't believe she's going with Quinn.
Oh, let's not bring it up today.
She wants something she can own.
She was pretty clear about that.
She does, huh? Oh, it's Enzo's mother.
Hi, you look beautiful.
- It's such a happy day.
- Is it? I saw a crow flying upside down on the way here.
It's a bad omen.
Especially for the crow.
The bride has landed, people.
Bridal party, line up.
- Okay.
- Shit's goin' down.
- Yay! - Great, you go up there.
- Good.
- Okay.
You ladies, come here.
[SOFT ORGAN MUSIC.]
It's a beautiful church, isn't it? Hi, Charles.
If I were a praying man, I know what I would be asking for right now: for you to come back home to Millennial.
As flattered as I am, is this really the place to be talking about it? Isn't this where we bring our problems and hope for answers? We miss you, Kelsey.
We need you.
Whatever you're being offered, I can match that.
You can't.
I want to work for myself on something I own.
But that's Millennial.
You built that from the ground up.
- You own that.
- Not officially.
You know what I mean.
So let's make it official.
I'll give you a stake in the company, enough of my shares to get you a seat on the board.
That's a really nice thought, but you can't do that.
It's a family-held company.
And you're family, Kelsey.
I knew that the day that you sacrificed everything that you wanted to save us.
If that isn't family, then I don't know what is.
I don't know what to say.
Don't don't don't say anything right now.
Take time.
Think.
But I will be waiting, hoping, praying for your answer.
[SIGHS.]
Diana, you look so beautiful.
I'm ready.
Enzo gave me this last night.
- It's my something new.
- [LAUGHS.]
He said you helped him pick it out? I wouldn't say that.
You know, Liza, as a maid of honor, you're a slow burn, but in the end, you're white hot.
[UPBEAT UPLIFTING MUSIC.]
I am so, so happy for you.
If you make my eyes turn red, I'll kill you.
- [LAUGHS.]
- Okay.
Oh, here, I'll hold your wedding purse.
Oh, leave it.
I threw up in it two blocks ago.
Oh, okay, no problem.
I've got mints.
See what I mean? White hot.
Yeah.
["PACHELBEL'S CANON" PLAYING.]
Does this count as me reaching out? It counts.
Hi.
You almost missed it, plus one.
It's okay.
It's okay.
[UPBEAT PARTY MUSIC.]
Wow, "Flush with Love.
" You did this? It's beautiful.
- How did Uncle Joe take it? - Not well.
I had to gift him three of my big blue booty pieces and a case of prosecco.
I think you should have left it just the way I did, give the bride something borrowed and blue, a piece of my cooch.
Speaking of which, how are you with wound care? I am familiar with the territory.
Brace yourself.
It doesn't even look familiar to me anymore.
I'm hoping Liza sat us together.
[GASPS.]
Oh, are we rekindling? - [GLASSES CLINK.]
- What a lovely first dance.
And now, everyone, please join the new Mr.
and Mrs.
DeLuca on the dance floor.
[GENTLE JAZZ MUSIC.]
That eye twitches every time we call you Mrs.
DeLuca.
Does that show? - I'm sorry.
- [LAUGHS.]
I should've never let the time [OVERLAPPING CHATTER.]
[UPBEAT ROCK MUSIC PLAYING.]
- Josh.
- Hi.
I didn't know you were Lauren Lauren needed a plus one, so I know it's super weird seeing me here, but it was a chance to see you again, and I really don't like the way that we ended things the other night, so And, let's be honest, if that was our last conversation, it sucked.
Then I'm glad that it wasn't.
Yeah.
It's really good to see you.
- Yeah.
- Really.
And I hear Inkburg is doing well.
Eh, kind of.
Ah, it is.
[CHUCKLES.]
Funny thing, actually.
You know that tattoo I gave you? Yes.
Well, they want to license it.
You know, they want to promote it and put it on every single person that wants to get it tattooed.
I don't know, figured I should ask you first, see if that was okay.
Oh, okay.
That's fine.
- Yeah? - Sure.
[UPBEAT COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING.]
Okay.
Uh Have a nice night.
Ah, I love it.
It's us, living in the now.
Wait.
If it's all the same to you, that tattoo, it it's ours.
It's mine, I mean.
I wouldn't want anyone else to have it.
Is that okay? Yeah.
Yeah, that's great.
[DISTANT CHEERING.]
I'll see you around.
Okay.
[BERLIN'S "TAKE MY BREATH AWAY" PLAYING.]
Watching every motion Memories? What? Our song.
Did you ask them to play that? I don't know what you're talking about.
May I have this dance? Absolutely.
I've been thinking, the trip to Scotland.
I don't know if that's the right thing, the kids.
No, you're right.
I was I was thinking the same thing.
You deserve time alone with the girls.
It's fine.
What I mean is, kids don't belong on a honeymoon.
What? You and I have been through a lot these past few months, real-life ups and downs.
I have fallen deeper and deeper in love with you.
How could I not? I cannot imagine not waking up each morning with you, with your smile and your laugh, with everything about you.
Liza Miller, will you marry me? Oh, my God.
Charles I do! Charles, I do.
I've been trying to come up with reasons for the past half hour of why I wouldn't say yes, and I can't.
Yes, Charles, I do want to come home.
Charles, Kelsey, is it true? Yes, I am coming back.
Charles, how did you convince her? Hey, Liza, are you happy? Yes, I am so happy.
- I just - [SCREAMS.]
I told you I got you, diva! [SCREAMS.]
We are family I got all my sisters with me We are family Get up, everybody, sing Ooh We are family