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[BBC jingle]

I told Seth to be here for 2.

Maybe he's on tardy writer time

where two means 2:27.

Who's Seth?

He is our first author and he's coming over

to talk strategy.

Delivery.

They say good things come in small packages.

Do you mean Dave or the box Barber Papa?

Hey, Erica, come here.

Ooh.

Oh.

Co-presidents, that's us.

Fancy schmancy, I like.

You know he's really late, maybe we should call him.

[phone ringing]

Or maybe that's him.

Stop, stop.

Ivan, what are you doing.

You know I temped for two weeks once.

50/50 press.

Please hold while I transfer.

A Leslie Colagian.

Ooh, good, thank you Ivan, thank you Dave.

Hey Leslie, are you calling to wish us

happy first day in our new office?

You have an office?

Well, I'll have my assistant call for the address.

Ooh, tell her to send submissions.

Keeping our office means we'll need more

than one book to publish.

Speaking of, I have very exciting news.

I signed Seth Newman.

That's, that's fantastic news Les,

you must be so stoked.

[Leslie] He's a talent, a rare find.

Yeah, and hey, listen is he on his way over

because we suppose to talk strategy today.

Uh, let's put a pin in that because

the thing is I've received another offer

for Seth's manuscript.

What, Les, he was here last week

and he said he was in, we had a deal.

You had an informal conversation

before he was represented.

Leslie.

Every publisher in Canada rejected the Purple Door,

so where's this coming from?

I can't tell you that.

River Rock.

[Leslie] Can't tell you that.

Brent.

He's come back with a substantially higher offer.

He's made it clear he wants the Purple Door

at any price.

Sorry, girls, but onto other projects, right?

[upbeat music]

♪ It's clearer inside of me

♪ Who I will always be

♪ Open the app to my heart

♪ Feels like I'm singing in the dark ♪

♪ To do it all over again and again ♪

♪ Until the end

♪ Some of my dream and everything I ever wanted to be ♪

[screaming]

Didn't connect with the material?

I am just so full of hatred for Brent Kennedy right now.

Julianne, this sucks, all right, this sucks.

What are we gonna do?

Well, option number one, we surrender.

Brent has more money, he's got more power.

He's got more leverage so we find another book.

No, I don't want to find another book.

I want to do the Purple Door.

Which leads us to option number two.

Mm-hmm.

We bring him down, we beg, borrow, steal,

whatever it takes to win.

There is a third option, we could just talk to him.

Or we could go drink cyanide laced Kool-Aid,

big no to both.

Now listen Julianne, I'm serious.

Communication, it solves most problems.

I've learned that the heard way.

Erica, this is Brent, Brent, the guy who set us up,

he got us fired and now he's trying to steal

our first book.

We are not going over there to beg.

Hey, I didn't say anything about begging.

I'm saying we go over there,

we have a rational conversation, we clear the air,

we voice our concerns and the, you know,

we figure out a way to co-exist professionally.

[sighing]

Julianne, I know that this is painful.

Oh, chicken, just you wait.

Yes, hello, this is Erica Strange,

I would like to set up a meeting with Brent Kennedy.

Mm-hmm.

Oh, dad, I can't do lunch, I'm sorry.

I've been going nonstop since the weekend.

Sure.

I sure be out of surgery by then.

Okay, great, bye.

[slow dramatic music]

[upbeat music]

[knocking]

Mr. Kennedy, Erica Strange

and Julianne Giacomelli are here.

Thank you Louis.

Bring them in.

[clearing throat]

Thank you.

Bon jour, girls.

Hello Brent.

Please have a seat.

Thank you.

Something on your minds?

Well, I'm just gonna get right to it.

We're in new business and we're trying

to establish ourselves and frankly

we're feeling some hostility from you,

so we just came to clear the air.

I wouldn't call it hostility,

you are River Rock's competition now.

Yes, we realize that, but-

Survival of the fittest.

Don't blame me, blame Darwin.

Brent, you're sitting in my office with my job.

I think Darwin has made his point.

What Julianne is saying is that we have

no intention of interfering with River Rock's slate,

so all we ask is you pay us the same professional courtesy.

By pulling my offer on the Purple Door?

A property I greatly desire.

You don't greatly desire it.

But you do.

Okay, Erica, you know what,

I can't listen to this anymore.

Maybe you both need to grow thicker skin.

Business is war and as you made crystal clear

at the Festival of Authors, we are not friends.

Brent.

Thanks for coming by.

And BTW, from now on, I will want any book

that you greatly desire.

I told that to every lit agent in this country.

River Rock will pay whatever it takes.

What happened to you?

Oh, looks like someone could do with a nap.

Oh, tell that to the drunk driver

in my operating room.

Oh, I don't know how you're doing it.

I mean you're a machine.

I don't see you sleep, you don't eat.

You spend your weekends here.

I'm making up for lost time.

Well, for someone that's supposed to be saving lives.

I don't really have one?

You should do something about that.

Right, I need a hobby.

You could join a book club.

A book club?

[Man] Yeah.

Wow, you must really think I'm boring.

Maybe I could take up quilting while I'm at it.

Okay, okay, if you want something more adventurous,

how about scuba diving.

In Lake Ontario, no thank you.

I've always wanted to try rock climbing.

My ex-husband said I'd fall to my death.

Anyway, I never tried it.

I love rock climbing.

No you don't.

I do.

I've done it all over the world.

Riley Beach, Thailand, the cliffs at Limestone,

the views are incredible.

Well, I think I would need to start somewhere

that doesn't involve actual cliffs.

Rock Oasis, I'm a member, totally safe.

So, if you ever want to go, just let me know.

All right.

I'll see you later.

Bye.

Yeah, I'll see you later.

What's up?

Hey, Dad.

New job, new life for your new office.

Thank you.

I know you're busy, so I won't stay.

Actually Dad, there's something I need

to talk to you about.

This morning, I was going to make a cup of coffee

and I found lorazepam in the cupboard,

prescribed to Mom.

Lorazepam's an anti-anxiety medication.

You should talk to your mother.

Dad, do you know about this.

Really, Sam, talk to her.

Is she okay?

Does this have to do with Norm?

What is it?

[buzzing]

Damn it, I gotta go.

I'm sorry.

Thank you.

I'll talk to her right after work.

Perfect honey.

Maybe we could offer Seth a three-book deal.

Erica, one book at River Rock

is probably worth three of ours.

I need ice cream.

I think better with ice cream.

Do Dave and I even have ice cream.

Julianne, we have been going in circles

over this for hours,

I really don't think that ice cream is gonna help.

You know what would?

Murder, that's the answer?

Well, we wouldn't have to kill him,

we could just scare him.

Uh, could I have that back please.

Oh, we need ice cream, can you set us up?

Vanilla or Rocky Road?

Both.

Uh, we should have never gone to River Rock today,

that was so humiliating.

Oh, hang on, this is kind of fun for me.

I told you so.

It wasn't supposed to go that way.

I mean, I thought that we could at least

reason with Brent.

He rode your coat tails, you'd think that he'd remember.

I remember.

What?

Julianne.

Here we go, ice cream for two.

Or one.

One will do.

No.

When I got promoted as River Rock's

editorial director of non-fiction,

Brent threw a little initiation dig

for my first day on the job.

Wait, wasn't your first day my first day?

You didn't invite me?

I didn't hurt you then like I hurt you now, chicken,

but that's not important.

Watch this.

Is he hammered.

Mm-hmm.

To Julianne, not only my friend, my mentor and my hero.

Hero.

But also the lady to my Gaga.

Wow.

Keep watching.

And now, um, and finally our fearless leader

Frank Galvin would like to say a few words, okay.

Oh, he's not.

Julianna, I remember when I started this company

back in 1813.

Napoleon had just lost in Lipzink

and I just suffered my third stroke.

And so I raise a glass to who the hell are you?

[goofy laughing]

Notice.

Wow.

What are we supposed to do with that?

Uh, I don't know, maybe send it.

To Galvin?

To the entire River Rock family.

Galvin's fired people for less.

Oh, Julianne, I don't know, I.

What did you say before,

you said diplomacy before war.

Well, we tried diplomacy.

Now it's an eye for an eye.

Come on, would Brent hesitate.

Then why are you?

So what's it gonna be.

Okay.

Okay, okay, well it has to be a joint effort.

Two fingers, one return button.

An eye for an eye makes

the whole world blind, Gandhi.

I disagree.

You disagree with Gandhi?

Well, look, we went to River Rock,

we sat in front of Brent and I tried to

reason with him and he made it perfectly clear

that he wants to destroy us.

So you feel you need to destroy him, first.

Well, show me a better option.

You know what, show me any option and I'll take it

because he just didn't leave us with a choice.

I agree with Erica.

When your enemy's motto is kill the competition,

yours has to be kill or be killed.

Hell, yeah, it's self defense.

Or maybe you need a plan B.

Do you have to publish books?

Yes, Darryl, we have to publish books.

Adam.

Let's hear from you.

I wouldn't do it.

You would just let him bankrupt your business,

you wouldn't do anything to stop him?

No, I'd do something, yeah, just not that.

The guy wants blood, Erica, he's out for war.

That kind of thing never ends well.

Oh, and where's this coming from?

What do you know about running a company?

Not much, but I know a lot about wars

and you don't.

Erica, why don't you tell us about the frat house.

[Erica] Why?

Please.

Okay.

My brother Leo, he had just left for university

and all of his friends, they stayed in Toronto,

but he went to school in London and Ontario.

And I was gonna visit for the weekend,

only on the bus ride down I met someone

and we decided to split a cab to campus.

♪ It's such a good day

♪ Anytime I know I'm gonna see you ♪

Brent, he was all lips and cinnamon bubble gum,

so by the time I saw Leo.

Leo spent the weekends with my bags

and I spent the weekend with Trent.

And two weeks later, Leo dropped out and came home.

It was obvious that he was having a rough time,

but I was so clueless, I didn't even notice.

And this time?

I'll spend every second with Leo.

No Trent, no distractions.

I wouldn't count on that.

What do you mean.

Sorry, this cab is taken.

Yeah, by me.

Look, man, whatever you thought was gonna happen, isn't.

So get out now.

Sorry.

Was that really necessary.

I kind of enjoyed it.

Okay, so here I am in 94 and I'm here

to see my brother, but I don't,

I don't see the connection.

To what's going on with you guys and Brent?

Don't worry, I'll help you figure it out.

[driving music]

Thank you.

There he is.

This is the brother you told me about,

the one who died?

Yeah.

You okay.

Yeah, you know, I mean, it's always hard

but wonderful to see him.

Leo!

Erica, hey.

Look at you, you're all sweaty and you're bony.

Who goes to university and gets thinner, huh?

Huh?

Easy, easy, all right.

What are you wearing?

Clothes, what does it look like I'm wearing?

So, who's here like she said she was gonna be, hmm?

I'm all yours 24/7.

24/7, what?

You know like 24 hours a day, 7 days.

Anyways, not a big deal.

The point is that I'm here and we're gonna

have a great weekend together, just you and me.

Who's that.

Leo, hi, I'm Adam.

Hi.

Nice to meet you.

Yeah.

Adam is my driving instructor.

Huh, so Adam you mind giving me

and my 17-year-old sister some space.

No problem boss.

Driving instructor, do you think I'm stupid?

Like I know that this may seem a little bit weird.

Erica, you show up here with some random Irish dude.

How old is he?

He's like 30.

30, he's 30?

Something, Leo please don't tell mom and dad.

Lips, marry me.

Sorry, my sister just arrived here.

And I just finished my beer here lips,

why am I waiting?

Why does he keep calling you lips?

It's a nickname.

Let's go, I'm thirsty.

I can get it for you, sir, if you want.

Oh, I can get it for you sir if you want.

No, I don't want.

What I want is for lips to get me a beer.

If lips gets it, it's colder, tastes better.

I'm on it.

[Frat Guy] Let's go rush.

I want beer, now.

Hey, you forgot to open it.

What is he, retarded or am I the retard

for letting him rush.

Go set up the speakers for the toga party.

[laughing]

Leo.

It's fine, I'm rushing, it's how it goes.

Why don't you grab a burger and I'll catch

up with you as soon as I can.

Okay.

Let's eat.

Are you sure you having a beat there.

I love the metabolism of a teenager.

So, listen Adam, I just have to say, I mean,

I am lost.

I have no idea why Dr. Tom sent me back to this regret

or why I brought you with me.

Look, I don't know your brother,

but it doesn't really seem like the frat boy type.

No, no he's not at all, but I mean he's 18.

At this point in his life, he's still finding himself.

Yeah, but those guys are treating him like shit, Erica.

Yeah, that's what happens when you rush

a frat, it's normal.

Do you know what a goat is?

What, like the animal.

No, I mean the loser of the group,

the one the guys all pick on for laughs.

We only spent a few minutes with him but,

I think Leo's the goat.

No, no, look there's no way.

Leo, he's the coolest guy I know.

Everyone that meets him, they love him.

He's your brother.

I'm just telling you what I'm seeing.

Does he stay on the second or the third floor.

Is that Leo?

[speaking foreign language]

Is that Italian?

You guys are just jealous because

I can speak the language of love.

Yeah, gay love.

All right, very funny.

Come on, that's for this timing.

Really?

You guys gonna keep playing catch

or is someone gonna crank the Chimps.

Sure, hey, Leo, grandpa here wants some music,

just none of that weird ass radio mouth bullshit.

It's Radiohead.

Whatever, give us some Hootie.

[rock music]

Hey.

Hey, do you tie this in a knot

or do you use a safety pin?

I just use a knot.

Here, come on, let me.

[gentle music]

Hey, sis.

Hey.

You mind trading with me,

the guys got this one.

Yeah, of course.

Leo, do you know if there's a keg set up?

Yeah, we've got 10.

Great, there, I'll see you downstairs.

So, how are we gonna do the old toga switcheroo.

Right, you know what, we will in a second,

but first I just, I really want to talk to you, okay.

I know Jordan isn't calling you to set

up a keg or a stereo, so just sit down.

There you go.

So I'm sorry to ask, but since when

do you like this kind of stuff.

Since when do I like hanging out?

Frats and rushing and being a preppie.

What's this all about.

I don't think you're happy here?

Why, because the guys are riding me.

They do that to all the rushes.

As much as they do it to you?

You know, I just, I don't think that

this is the right place for you.

Those guys, they're laughing at you,

at your expense.

Leo, you're their goat.

No, no, I'm not.

Look, they don't want you in their frat

and honestly you don't need them.

I'm just worried that things, they're gonna get

worse for you until.

You show up here with a guy dad's age

and I don't judge you.

And you're in high school.

You don't know what you're talking about.

Hey.

Leo.

[party music]

You didn't have to call him a goat Erica.

And you didn't have to abandon me

for an open keg.

It's your regret.

I'm here to help, not hold your hand

and definitely not through your happiness.

Alex, Jenna, John, Stacy, yeah, lovely Talvender

and shit lips, no more gamma girls for you, damn.

It's okay, I got a whole lot of beer

to keep me company.

Wait, wait, what about Lucy?

There you go lips, special friend for

you to get busy with tonight.

Don't leave her hanging lips.

Somebody's got sand his vagina.

You really need to lay off my brother.

Oh, yeah, you really need to lay off my balls.

[party music]

Hey.

Hey.

Look, Leo, I'm so sorry about before.

That must've really hurt hearing what I said,

the way that I said it.

Strange, I'm out of beer.

I need my bestest, fastest beer getter.

I have to go.

Leo, hey.

And I need it in my lucky mug.

Hey.

Catch like a chick lips.

Sweep it up with your new special friend.

Laugh, it's a joke.

Come on.

Relax.

Come on.

Oh, God, Leo.

So it wasn't just Jordan.

The other guys they helped and they went along?

They must have.

What is this a cult, they do whatever

that psycho says?

These guys, they're supposed

to be civilized and educated.

This kind of mentality, it brings out

the worst in people.

We need to call the police,

we need to tell mom and dad.

No.

Leo, I'm serious Erica, do not call anyone.

Hey, Leo.

Hey, listen.

They assaulted you and it's a crime.

You tell anyone, I'll deny it.

Hey, how about you and me give him some space.

Leo.

Lock the door, okay.

I want that psycho dead.

His drunk and if I keep feeding him beers

maybe I'll get lucky and he'll choke

on his own vomit.

What you should do is get some air.

Let Leo have some rest and then get him out of here,

grab the first bus back to Toronto.

Where are you going?

Just stay here.

No.

Get your hands off me.

Erica.

Look, you said it yourself, this is my past,

my regret, you are here for me.

[hard rock music]

Hello, busy here.

Get out, get out.

I'm in trouble, huh.

Give us five minutes.

Oh, no, she looks really angry, better make it 10.

What did you do to my brother, hmm?

It's this whole honor in the house thing.

You would not understand.

What did you do to my brother?

There's a hierarchy here.

Without order, there is chaos.

You can't even say it can you, hmm?

What?

You want me to describe it to you, why?

So you can tell your mommy and daddy.

Get away from me.

Okay, fine.

I'm so sorry.

Are you happy.

You having fun at the party.

What you did, it was sick.

Are you done?

You're welcome to stick around if you want,

but the whole accuse things really killing it for me.

Ow, ow, shit!

You broke my goddamn nose.

We need to find Leo, we need to find him now

and we need to pull him out of here.

Erica, what did you do.

Erica, I got our bags, just come on,

I want to leave here.

You see this blood.

This is nothing compared to what's gonna happen to you

you little bitch.

Go, now.

Come on.

You next.

[hard rock music]

I broke that asshole's nose

and I enjoyed it.

You'd think that I feel guilty, but not at all.

You know, I feel pretty good actually.

What, you don't believe me?

Oh, I believe you.

I just don't think you've got anything

to feel great about.

You lost control and now you're getting off on it.

You know what, so what, it's a hell

of a lot better than standing around crying.

You know I should go back there,

I should go back there and trash the place,

smash that bastard's RX7.

Look, Leo, you can't.

You think I don't know that?

But Adam can.

Right, I'll go back and do what exactly?

You smash his head in, break his legs.

I don't care what you do.

You just make sure that you hurt him.

Is that really what you want?

Oh, yeah.

You folks needs a cab.

Leo, get in the car.

I'm serious Leo, get in there.

We need to let Leo cool off for a bit.

If the point of this trip

was to teach me perspective, then lesson learned.

Not that I hated Brent for stealing Brent's book,

but wow, could things get darker.

Yeah, it can.

But darkness is only driven out with light,

not more darkness, Martin Luther King.

Oh, no the fact is that good can come out of darkness.

Jordan will get what's coming to him.

Julianne and I can get Brent fired

and save our company.

I'm not denying that there can be a gain.

I'm only asking you to consider what will be lost.

If you're talking about Jordan,

absolutely nothing.

Well, I think Adam has something

that he wants to show you about perspective.

[horns blowing]

I don't recognize any of this.

We're in my past, come on.

[voices yelling in background]

Stay back and stay quiet.

Adam, what is going on.

That's me enjoying myself.

That guy owed me money,

he owed a lot of people money.

Where you going.

[grunting]

Do you stop soon?

I haven't broken his hand yet.

[Victim] Just stop.

Stop what?

[yelling]

I guess Dr. Tom thought this might

give you some ideas for sure.

What?

I can't watch this.

[heavy breathing]

You know a history of violence,

it's something that Adam and I have in common.

I remember the first time that I beat someone up.

It was in a bar and it was about a week

after Sara had disappeared.

I picked a fight with the bartender,

as a matter of fact and I remember my hands shook.

I felt like I wanted to vomit

and the second time it was easier.

And after that, well, it just stopped registering really

and it became normal.

So, what, you think that I'm gonna become like you,

like Adam because I want to protect my brother

from a monster and I want to save

my business from being destroyed.

You take one step in that direction,

it's just that, it opens the door to more

and violence is violence whether it's physical or not.

You know, you do violence to Jordan, to Brent

and it might solve one problem,

but it creates a far more serious one

and acting counter to your own values

will do more than just change your circumstances,

it will change you and you may not like what you become.

Hello, what are you doing?

Just hang on a second Julianne.

Don't be a chicken, chicken.

No, I'm not being a chicken.

I just, it's just, is this the right thing to do?

Of course it's the right thing to do.

Brent is trying to destroy us.

So we destroy him?

Yes, we destroy him.

And then we go we go after Frank and we

expose him for the fraud that he really is.

If you knew what I know about that guy.

And we don't stop there.

We do not stop until we take down

Frank Galvin himself, until we turn all

of River Rock Publishing into a giant rubble heap.

Is that why we opened this business?

They started it.

Yes, they did.

But I want to publish books

and what you're talking about here

is something else entirely.

Erica.

It's gross what we're doing and it's beneath us.

Hey, mom.

Hey, honey.

How was your day?

Long, tiring.

Well, it's a shock to the body to start working.

Sit, I'll make some tea.

Mom, I don't want tea.

I found your pills.

Oh.

Is this about Norm?

No.

What's going on.

Tell me.

Or I'll ask dad because he knows, right?

When did you speak to your father?

He came to visit me.

He wouldn't tell me what's going on,

he just said that I should talk to you,

so what is it?

I have breast cancer.

There's a possibility it's localized,

that we caught it really early

and I'm waiting on the tests.

Sam, I didn't want to tell you

until I had all the information.

You have cancer?

Yes.

Okay.

Well, if it has been caught early,

then that's good, really good.

I'm a doctor, I know what I'm talking about.

I know you do.

Your oncologist, I want to know

his or her name and which hospital you'll be going to.

Okay.

Does Erica know?

Not yet, one step at a time, okay.

Oh, sweetheart.

[knocking]

Coming.

Hey.

So, did you send the email?

No.

Thank you.

Now we just need to come up with a plan B.

I'm two steps ahead of you,

I am calling Leslie Colagian in the morning

to tell her we will be outbidding Brent

on the Purple Door.

Okay, but we don't have the money to do that

and we don't even really have a way

to come up with the money.

I have our recipes.

I don't.

I mean, I could, I don't know, I could get a job,

I mean a different job than this.

Maybe Ivan and David, they need a barista or something.

Okay, you're panicking Erica

and when you panic, I start to panic

and then I seriously question that going after this

book instead of screwing Brent over

the way he screwed us over, well, I question

if it's worth it.

Is it worth it?

Yes, it is.

Okay, then this whole second job thing, fine,

but please not at Goblin's.

Yeah, that would be weird.

No, because your lattes chicken, they suck, sorry.

Thank you.

Bye.

Some things are true

whether we want them to be or not.

Thoughts become words, words become actions,

actions become habits, habits become character

and character, well, character becomes destiny.

It's a hard thing to look deep down

and examine our character.

Will we do the right thing,

even when no one's looking,

when it's not convenient, when it's really hard.

Will we do the right things simply

because we have to, because it's who we are.

Because it's right.

Dude you are talking to a woman with two jobs.

Oh, I got a freelance gig.

Editing blu-ray manuals on the side.

Mm-hmm.

[knocking]

it's very glamorous.

Can you hang on a second, there's someone at the door.

I need to talk right now.

[upbeat happy music]