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Hey, babe, I got the cake.

Calvin, I told you to get the big one.

This is the big one.

Any cake bigger than this, the naked lady would have to pop out of.

I just want tonight to be special. Malcolm hasn't been home in forever.

Well, he has been home.

His home is in Venice Beach now.

Are you really trying to pick a fight with me after buying that little ass

Oh, oh, oh, that's Malcolm, that's Malcolm.

Mommy's coming!

Hey, I... It's just them.

No mind, Tina. She would just hope you guys were Malcolm.

Oh, I can only imagine how much you miss him. We are never letting Grover move

out. No way. I am out of here the moment I turn 40.

40?

Hey!

Daphne! She's getting something. Give me, give me, give me, give me. Oh, hi.

Hey, sorry.

Courtney's running a little bit late. Her building's being converted into

condos, so she is apartment hunting.

Apartment hunting?

Doesn't she live with you?

She doesn't live there, per se.

Oh, that's right. She just eats, sleeps, bathes, and raises their child there.

That's all.

Mama, I know, but every time I bring it up, she changes the subject. So clearly

she's worried that moving in feels so permanent.

I'm sorry. Is Daphne a temporary baby?

You know, Marty, I was going to ask you, that email you sent, I don't get it.

Who's this Al guy?

What Al guy?

Well, you keep saying Al's going to handle the payroll, Al's putting out the

schedules. Who's Al?

Nobody's Al, Daddy. It's A -I.

Well, it looks like Al. I mean, it wouldn't kill you to put some dots in

Besides, I don't want to have anything to do with this A -I stuff.

Calvin, you've got to embrace A -I. Look, it's the future.

Well, the future's dumb.

Sorry, Calvin. Dave's obsessed with this stuff ever since he started training in

AI at work.

Yeah, it does all of my grunt work for me so I can just concentrate on stuff I

really care about.

Oh, like creating images of me as a mermaid?

I just wanted to see.

Crap, I'm at 2%. Uh, Mr. Calvin, what kind of phone charger do you have?

Charger? I don't even know what kind of phone I have.

I hate how much time he spends on that phone.

Well, at least your son didn't leave you and move to the very edge of America.

Well, no, but he's out of new school now.

I used to be able to keep an eye on him all day. Now who knows what he's doing?

Do you know that she tracks him on her phone all day?

She does?

Mm -hmm. Wow.

That's, uh, that's crazy.

Oh, move! That's Malcolm!

Andrew, baby, I'm all flowered up.

Hey, baby, are you on your way?

Yeah, hey, hey, hey, Mama.

Listen, about that, you know that romance novel that I'm ghostwriting?

Oh, the one for the real housewife?

Yeah, hey, Gemma.

Listen, her people just sent me like 14 pages worth of notes.

I'm going to have to stay here tonight and work on the book.

Just wanted to let you know before you went to too much trouble.

Oh, okay, well, thank you, Malcolm. That was very considerate of you.

I love you.

Should we go?

I would if I could.

Hey.

Hey, what are you doing?

Just getting rid of all the leftovers since there's nobody here to eat them.

Okay, Tina, stop.

I'm here to eat them. Fine, knock yourself out.

Babe, you'll see Malcolm soon, okay?

Not just Malcolm.

Sure, Marty is still next door, but he and Courtney are like their own little

family. I feel weird every time I pop in late at night to kiss the baby.

You should feel weird about that.

mother, Calvin. I've got no one to mother.

Might as well just shove me down the disposal, push the button, and hold it.

Wow, that is dark.

I just miss our baby.

I don't get to make my own work schedule. You got a chance to see

times last week.

Well, it's not because I wanted to.

Malcolm's house is falling apart, and he's roped me into fixing it.

You know, today, I got to go re -bracket his damn bookshelf.

Well, I've got nothing.

You have a career that you love. You have your health.

And you have a sexy husband who loves you.

Beyond that, nothing.

Come on, Tina.

This is an opportunity.

You're a vibrant woman with your whole life ahead of you.

It's a new chapter.

Feel it.

All right, all right.

I'm going to. I just gotta figure out what my next thing is.

Oh, you know what? I read about this place that teaches you how to pole

I said my thing.

It's for exercise.

Marty, I'm putting you down as a reference for my new apartment.

Okay. Yeah, it's expensive, but it comes with parking.

Oh, hey, you know where else there's parking?

My house.

Oh, yeah.

Thing is, I'm just not ready to take a big step like that.

But it's not a big step. In fact, it's no step.

You already spent so much time there, and almost all of your stuff is there.

You're right.

But I can't move in with someone who's allergic to cats.

don't have a cat.

Not now, no, but I'm just not ready to say I will never have a cat.

You don't even like cats.

David, I just want to take this opportunity to commend you for your work

implementing our new AI program.

I'm very pleased.

Oh, well, thank you, Gregory. I'm flattered.

AI wrote that for me.

Well, it really captured your personality.

Thank you. Just FYI, from this point forward, I'll be free -balling.

Understood. Look, AI has been great. It has freed up so much of my time by doing

my grunt work for me, so now I can just focus on being a big picture guy.

Yes, I've noticed you've been using AI to send the veterans reminders about

their counseling appointments.

It has reduced no -shows by 10%. Which is great.

But a few of the veterans have been...

Startled by the avatar.

Kitty the Clown?

Yeah, what is that?

What? A cat clown.

Cat head.

Clown body.

Maybe pick one.

These people have been through war. Let's be gentle with them.

Understood. I'll go full clown.

How about full cat?

I think that's a mistake, but okay.

Yes, I got your notes for Chapter 2, and they are great.

But, you know, just thinking out loud, you say you want Serafina and Trent to

make love on the beach, but it's Chicago in December.

No, no, no, I'm sorry. I'm saying it doesn't... Okay, I'm sorry. Can you hold

for one second, please?

Hey, Pop.

Hey, Malcolm.

Have you seen the refills for my glue gun?

Bookshelves done, six to go.

Okay, look, thank you again, Pop, but the old bookshelves were just fine,

I didn't even ask you to do any of this, man. What kind of father would I be if

you had to ask?

Speaking of which, you know, you might want to raise these feelings, and we can

do that together.

No, no, no, no. No, we can't, because, hey, I'm on a Zoom call with Mercedes'

assistants getting some notes, so I just need some peace and quiet. Oh, great,

baby. Enough said. I do not want to disturb the art team.

I'll just finish this up here and we'll go grab some lunch.

No, no. Hey, Pop.

I can't go to lunch because... Oh.

Who are all these people?

Yeah, I'm on a Zoom call.

Okay, I'm sorry about that. Hello!

I'm Malcolm's dad, Calvin.

Just, just... Look, I'm just going to tighten up a couple more screws. I'll

drill quiet.

No, no, no, Pop. You can't drill quietly.

Oh,

my God, woman. Are you still tracking Grover?

I can't help it. It's so scary having a kid in high school.

I'm not his principal anymore.

Grover's whole life I've been able to keep an eye on him. But now the bell

at the end of the day and he's just out in the world.

It's hard to let go.

I know.

I'm in the same boat. I still can't get used to Malcolm being all the way across

town.

Yeah, but Malcolm's like 36.

So what's your point, Jim?

No point. Same boat.

Uh -oh.

Grover's on the move. Oh, where is he?

He's three blocks from his school.

Some place called Slow Grind.

What the hell is Slow Grind?

Oh, my God. Is it a strip club?

It's a coffee shop.

Yeah, that makes sense. Good.

Just going to text him to make sure he got a decaf.

I mean, you'd think after having a baby, we'd be past this whole big step thing.

But I don't want to push her, because then she'll feel pushed, and no one

to feel pushed. You know what I mean?

Hola, amigo.

Tiempo, paparitos.

Oh, that is awful. I would recognize that accent anyway.

Hey, hey, hey, Pop, Pop, man, look. I said I can't go to lunch.

I know.

That's why I brought lunch to you.

Got us some jerk chicken burritos.

Only individual tub of guac.

That's because I'm considering.

Look, I appreciate that you are trying to help. But I never ask for shelves and

I never ask for lunch.

Tell me what you need.

I need some peace and quiet.

I need you to go.

Oh.

Huh? Yeah.

Wait. No, I'll just take my burritos and my individual guac and, uh...

I'll take them to the guys down in Muscle Beach. I'm sure they'll

protein.

Don't, don't.

Don't be like that, Daddy.

So how's my first born baby boy?

Well, he's a grown man, Tina.

He's already had a prostate exam.

Well, he's still my baby. You know what?

I finally had to put my foot down.

That's it. You're just too needy.

You're going to have to take some responsibility for your own life.

Oh, good for you, baby. And guess what?

I finally found my thing.

See,

I've been thinking, what... was something that I always wanted to do.

A vacuum under the sofa?

No, Calvin.

Although I did, but no.

You and I are going to learn how to salsa dance.

I bought a course on YouTube.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

I thought this was about you finding your thing.

It is my thing. And my thing is dancing salsa with my very sexy husband who

loves me.

Oh, how many lessons are there? 25.

We got to move this couch 25 times.

Oh, hey, babe. What are you doing home so early?

Oh, well, thanks to AI, I got a week's worth of intake form done in an hour.

Freed up my whole afternoon.

Oh, did you start dinner?

No.

But I took a picture of everything in the fridge, and AI came up with 14

potential recipes. Look at that. We have bigger problems. Have you heard from

Grover? No. Have you checked his location?

Why would I? He's a big kid now, and I trust his judgment.

Based on what?

You're right. What am I saying?

Damn it. He turned his location off. Yeah, four hours ago.

Last place I have him is someplace called Slow Grind?

What kind of sleet? No, it's a coffee shop.

Where has he been?

That's just it. We don't know where he's been. He could be at a drug den. Or a

dope house.

What's the difference?

I don't know. I've never been to either.

What's up, y 'all? Dear God!

Over? Thank God!

Where have you been?

Upstairs.

Why are your locations up?

I don't know. Oh, my phone died when I was getting coffee after school. Okay,

you know what? I'm getting one of those batteries that snaps onto the back of

your phone.

Oh, sure. I'll remember to charge that.

Hi, Daph Daph.

Mommy's home.

Hi. Ha!

What?

Nothing. It's just, you called this place home, and yet you've made it

abundantly clear this... ain't your home.

Well, I'm just keeping it simple for the baby.

OK.

Marty, do you have something to say?

You know what?

I do.

I simply don't understand why you insist on paying rent for a place that's

basically storage for your ski boots and high school yearbooks, all because you

won't admit we are living together.

OK.

Yes. It is a little scary for me. At this point, how could it be scary?

Can we please lose the puppet?

Look, I always thought that I would find my soul mate by starting with a

hypothesis, collecting data points, maybe a spreadsheet or two.

But then that whole plan went out the window.

I got pregnant.

I had a baby.

Then I got feelings.

Courtney, I get it.

This was the last thing I was expecting.

Statistically, the idea that a woman I accidentally impregnated would be my

soulmate. The odds are infinitesimally low, but I like to think of our

relationship like the butterfly effect.

One tiny fluctuation that changed our whole universe.

The patterns are random, but there is beauty in entropy.

Yeah. Third.

Mm. But hey, if I'm going to live here,

these curtains have got to go. OK. Yeah, duh.

That was muy caliente, Calvin. Well, I told you, these hips don't lie.

What she and I do, we would find something to fill that void.

Well, it doesn't fill the whole void, but it helps.

Yeah. You know, you were right, Calvin.

I'm not as strong as you.

Oh, come on now, Tina. Don't beat yourself up. I mean, I'm just... I'm

different. You know, that's the thing.

Hey, y 'all.

Hey, Mama. Hey, Mama.

Hey,

Mama. Good to see you.

I'm sorry. Can you give me one minute? I need to apologize to Pop.

No, no. We good, man.

No,

no. Hey, we're not good. Pop, I just, I didn't mean to be so rude.

Hey, you weren't. So, you know, let's let it go.

No, no, listen. I got that place because I needed peace and quiet for my work,

but it was just rude of me to kick you out the way I did. Whoa, whoa, whoa,

whoa, whoa, whoa.

Kick you out? Yeah.

Well, I thought you were the one who put your foot down. Oh, come on, babe. It

was so long ago. Like, who knows who said what, you know?

Well, well, Pop, I'm sorry I hurt your feelings, man. I thought of pain in your

eyes when you grabbed that burrito. Oh.

Well, I... I guess we're built kind of the same, huh?

Oh, no, no. I thought I saw your car.

Hey, man. It's good to have you back.

Oh, well, y 'all come on in. We're going to celebrate.

I'm going to heat up that leftover fish. Damn it, Calvin.

Why you let me put so much down the sink?

Hey, everybody.

Oh,

hey, Dad.

Are you okay?

When Malcolm kicked you out early, I heard the hurt in your voice.

OK,

this is kind of perfect that you're all here, because we have some big news.

I know this is kind of unexpected, but I'm moving in with Marty.

Wow. Wow.

Congrats.

Thanks, everyone.

I think we should celebrate.

We should.

You know what, Tina?

Let's show them how we do it. Let's show them how we do it.

And we go.

Did anybody have a phone charger?

Hey, boss. You wanted to see me? Haven't we, David? I assume you know why you're

here. Uh -oh.

You want to tell me how awesome I'm doing?

So you don't know why you're here. David, your AI model has worked out

knew it would.

So great that the people upstairs have decided they can effectuate a workplace

realignment.

Oh, no.

Not Chet.

Not Chet.

Thank goodness.

Oh, my goodness.

Not Gilbert.

Gilbert's good. I can see I'm going to have to go about this a little more

directly.

David, I need you to clear out your office.

Oh.

Well, which office am I moving into?

Dear God.

Oh, well, Gregory, I really don't think I should be drinking in the middle of a

work day.

Oh, no.