All language subtitles for The.Politician.S01E06.iNTERNAL.1080p.WEB.X264-STAR

Lastly, to everyone
who cast a vote for my opponent,

we may have our differences,
but from day one,

I pledge to be president
of every student at this school

and I will make sure
that your voices are heard too.

Certainly doesn't sound like
a concession speech.

It isn't.

Uh, and I...
I didn't bother preparing one.

You see, our internal polls

showed a higher-than-expected rate
of voter turnout.

We needed like 55 percent,
it's hovering around 57.

So, that shortens the tails on our model,
which as of ten minutes ago,

had us at a 71 percent chance of victory.

Listen, the vote is gonna close
in an hour,

and I know that this campaign
has been hard on you, okay?

You've been through a lot
with the whole River thing,

and... Sorry.

Wow.

Seems like the congratulations
are already pouring in.

I just...

I wanted to say for the record
I am sorry that this race...

got so nasty.

Thanks, Payton. Really appreciate it.

But those texts you're getting
aren't congratulations.

I imagine they're from your team
who are probably freaking out.

You're president, Payton.

Well, not yet.

The polls don't close for an hour.
And the votes haven't been counted.

And they're not gonna be.

They're being dumped outside as we speak.

See, a few minutes ago,
I sent around a school-wide email

announcing my withdrawal from the race.

So, Principal Vaughn agreed that
counting the votes would be pointless.

Why...
Why would you do that?

Because your model was right.
Ours said the same.

Voter turnout was up.
Late deciders were breaking for you,

so instead of just lose,

I thought I would drag you down with me
and make sure you couldn't win.

I mean, you're president,
so you have won something.

An office with no meaning,
which no one can respect.

Screw you very much, Payton.

Hell of a campaign.

What?

- Why don't you answer your phone?
- What can we do?

Nothing. They've closed polls
and thrown out ballots.

We can kiss any mandate goodbye.

Well, we can... Um, we can file an appeal.

Appeal what? Your victory?

Pyrrhic victory is the term,

one that is tantamount to defeat because
it is devoid of any value or meaning.

Shit!

♪ I fell in love again ♪

♪ All things go, all things go ♪

♪ Drove to Chicago ♪

♪ All things know, all things know ♪

♪ You came to take us ♪

♪ All things go, all things go ♪

♪ To recreate us ♪

♪ All things grow, all things grow ♪

♪ We had our mindset ♪

♪ All things know ♪

♪ All things know ♪

♪ You had to find it ♪

♪ All things go, all things go ♪

You're pathetic.

Infinity. What are you doing here?

I'm on to you, creep.

I'm not a professional clown,
I just like helping kids.

Shut up, Ray!

I know... everything.

And I have enough evidence
to put you away forever.

So unless you want to spend
the rest of your life in prison,

you're gonna have to do what I want.

And I have two demands.

All those in favor?

The motion passes.

Next item I would like to introduce,

St. Sebastian's new student body president

and vice president,
Payton Hobart and Skye Leighton.

Congratulations on your victory.

Oh, thank you, Principal Vaughn.

Members of the board, I am...

I'm humbled to stand before you today.

Drinking straws have been around
since the third millennium BCE,

since the ancient Sumerians
used straws made of gold.

Ryegrass eventually became used
and then paper.

And in 1955, single-use straws
made of plastic became the norm.

Now over 500 million straws are used
and thrown away each and every day.

That's enough straws to wrap around
our Earth two and a half times.

It's an ecological disaster

and a moral catastrophe.

Board members, I come before you here
to propose that St. Sebastian ban the use

of all single-use plastic straws.

For the cost of just one penny per straw,

we can join the city of Malibu

and McDonald's UK,

and become part of the solution
to this looming environmental catastrophe.

A penny per straw.

The school goes through thousands
of straws every day.

That's a lot of money.

Where do you propose the money comes from?

- Well...
- Mr. Hobart, you should knowthat straws

are part of an omnibus
cafeteria supplies contract

we have with Cali Food Service,

so we'll be getting plastic straws
through the year 2025 anyway.

That's tens of thousands of straws.

What do we do with them? Throw them away?

Also, this just came to my mind,

a lot of kids like chewing
on plastic straws.

I sometimes do.

Sort of an oral fixation thing.

And I wonder,
if we get rid of those straws,

are these kids gonna be
more likely to, say,

smoke cigarettes or vape?
Do you have any data on that?

Smoke, um, that's definitely
something we can look into.

Before the board take the vote on this...

So, we're taking a straw poll?

All those in favor?

Motion is denied.

Thank you, Payton.

And congratulations again.

Thank you.

The next item is the motion to change
compact fluorescent light bulbs

in common areas from soft white
to cool white.

Infinity?

Answer me! I know you're in there!

How'd you find me here?

Ray, he told me.

Come on. Let me come in.

I can't talk to you
through a crack in the door.

Tough titties, Nana.

Infinity!

Oh, please, honey! Please!

It'll just take a minute, I promise,
then I'll leave.

Wow.

- Well, how are you affording this?
- You should ask Ray that.

He's the one paying for it.

It's a place of my own until I graduate.

And all the pistachio
and framboise macarons that I want.

That's my price
for not sending him to prison.

Stupid idiot.

Oh, honey, you can't just eat macarons.

You're gonna end up with diabetes.

But that's... Nana, that's on you.

I'd never even tried a macaron

until you got us into Club 33
at Disneyland.

Guess what? From now on,
I only want fancy things in my life.

I just can't believe what I'm hearing.

- No?
- I mean, I don't even recognize you.

Good!

- You can't smoke in here.
- Oh, of course I can smoke in here.

You can't smoke in here.

Nana?

How did my mom die?

Well, now, why...

why would you ask me something
that you already know?

She died of kidney failure.

Yeah.

But what caused the kidney failure?

I mean, if we had known that, maybe,

you know, maybe...
we could've helped her.

So, look, all her blood tests

say that she had lead poisoning,

but was never treated for it.

Maybe that's because Ray...

was the technician
who never told the doctors.

Is that how you and Ray met?

- Now you just hold on...
- There's lead paint in our basement.

I know that.

That's why I never,

never, never, never

let you or your mother go down there.

Because it wasn't safe.

But you did.

You went down into the basement
all the time.

What are you saying? That...
That I went down into the basement

and peeled paint chips off the wall
and fed them to your mother?

Yeah. That's exactly what I think.

That is insane.

You've been poisoning me! That's insane!

Nana, it makes sense!

I mean, you learned
how to do it on her, right?

That kept her around?

- No, don't drink so much juice...
- You're not the boss of me!

And you realized
all the attention you were getting, right?

This is an outrageous and evil lie.

I have made copies, Nana,
of all of these papers!

And they are sitting in a post office box

that I told Ricardo to open
if anything happens to me.

So you know what I want?

I want an all-expenses paid
senior trip to Paris, Nana.

Unlimited funds.

I wanna do Paris right.

Freedom is what I need right now.

I wanna go to the restaurant in
Ratatouille, the one where the rat cooks.

That's an animated film, Infinity.

Rats don't actually work there.

If you can pull that off,

I might...

might consider coming to your funeral.

Now get the hell

out of my apartment

before I call the cops.

I'm not sure I should drink that.

I'm only 18.

Oh, come on.

I am sure that you have done
more illegal things

than take a few sips of red wine.

Okay, look, the things that Infinity and I
maybe have done,

those are consensual.

Well, I think you are a great influence
on Infinity.

I hope you two get married

and have babies.

I think it would be so wonderful
to have you as part of our family.

Wow!

That... That's great!

I didn't know that. I mean, me too!

I just wish Infinity felt that way,
'cause she stopped speaking to me.

Oh, well, now, Infinity is going through
some growing pains

and I understand that.

But...

wow.

She has some ideas in her head.

They're crazy.

And I have to think,
where would she be getting these ideas?

Who would be poisoning that little girl

against me?

Against the both of us?

Payton.

That's right. Payton.

If it weren't for him,

she'd be sittin' here right now
at this table with us, her family,

listenin' to Shirley Bassey
and watchin' me drink.

♪ And I'll never... ♪

So what?

You think I should kill him?

What?

Yes. Yes, I do.

I'm gonna have to think about that.

Oh, and well you should.

You should think about that long and hard.

He took her away from us,

and she will come back...

if he is out of the picture.

I don't like him.

Now, I think the key here is...

to find a way to do it

so that the suspicion doesn't
swing back on us.

What?

I just don't understand
why you would do all that stuff to her.

What stuff? Hmm?

Makin' her sick? You see?

That is why that Payton is so insidious.

Because he makes some outlandish claim

that is based on no facts,

and simply because it is so outrageous,

it sticks in your mind and you think,

"Could that be true?"

Let's say...

I did do it.

What if I made her sick?

I mean, I'm not saying I did, but what if?

Wasn't she happier?

She's all alone,
livin' in a motel for God's sake.

You know, people say to me,
"Dusty, you are a saint."

But...

I'm no saint.

I'm just a little old country girl.

Hey, do you know what my first job was
when I came out here to California?

I was modeling...

for those, uh, Santa Barbara car shows.

Well, I had no trouble
attracting the attention of men.

In fact, I...

I attracted a little too much attention.

And then Richard gets me pregnant,

and the day I tell him
is the last day

I ever see him.

And then suddenly, there I am all alone

with this beautiful little baby
in my arms.

Oh, my God.

I wish you could've seen her.

Infinity's mama was... Oh!

She was so beautiful!

She was just... like a little doll baby.

And I thought, "Well,

at least at least she'll never leave me."

And then, lo and behold, she turns 17,

and I can't do anything right.

But then, she gets knocked up.

She doesn't want to be under this roof,
but she's got nowhere to go.

She can't raise that baby on her own.

And that's when...

I made some mistakes.

I just couldn't let her ruin her life
and Infinity's by leaving.

She needed a reason to stay.

And I gave it to her.

And after she got sick,

we were so close again.

All the yellin' and fightin',
that was over.

We were a family again.

And her death...

her death was tragic.

There's no way around that.
I mean, I was devastated.

But then, I had this little girl again.

It was like I'd stepped
through some kind of time warp.

Only this time,
I could change the ending of that story.

I didn't have to watch someone I love
walk out the door.

If...

I'm saying if I'd done that.

Besides, we just got so much free stuff.

So...

I guess we know what needs to happen here,
don't we, Ricardo?

Mm-hmm?

But it's not coming out that well.

We used to do like a X,
like a crosshatch

- so that it will...
- Mm-hmm.

...expose it. You okay?

So good.

Oh, my God. What is that?

It's Dr. Pimple Popper.

You mean, there's a TV show
about a lady who just pops pimples?

Mm-hmm.

How did I miss this?

This is brilliant.

I just like that it has
a really clear narrative.

You know, bad things are excised.

Happy ending every time.

I think I'm falling
into a clinical depression.

I know, sweetheart.

It's because you don't take any time
to enjoy yourself.

That's not who I am.

I'm not about enjoyment.

I'm about winning.

I'm about making the world a better place,
and Astrid just took that from me.

I have no mandate, so I have no life.

I have no...

ground to launch from.

Those can't be the only things you enjoy.

You know, I do remember feeling something
when I sang for River at his memorial.

Not happiness per se, but...

just a connection to something
outside the blur of my own ambition and...

thwarted dreams.

Darling,

- you won the election.
- Mmm.

You did it.

Who cares if you can't get healthy snacks
into the cafeteria

or an emotional support pig
in the classroom?

This is your senior year.

You should be enjoying yourself.

Eat some pizza.

Hang out with friends. Experiment.

- I don't know how to do that.
- Would you like some advice?

Find some way
to bring music into your life.

- You okay?
- Yeah.

- Oh, my.
- Really?

- That's big.
- I'm not hurting you?

Hello again, everyone.

St. Sebastian is home
to 57 drinking fountains.

Now almost two dozen are rarely used,
and nine,

this may come as a shock to you,

in a week of monitoring,
were not used at all.

This is a waste of energy,

and it is taxpayer dollars
literally going down the drain.

'Cause...

Um, so I'm here to propose a plan

that would remove 15 of the
lowest-performing drinking fountains,

and use the revenue saved
to replace the remainder

with state-of-the-art
eco-conscious fountains.

Motion denied. Thank you, Payton.

We're gonna take a short recess
and reconvene in five minutes.

This is a disaster.

Yeah. They don't seem at all interested
in water-use policy.

No, I mean Payton.

He's the disaster. He has no agenda.

We need him out of the way
so we can do something.

- What do you mean?
- Why are we talking straws

and water fountains?

We should be up there asking
why girls' participation in sports

is half of what it is among boys.

It's like a Title IX issue right there.

"You should be president."
That's what you're thinking.

- I didn't say that.
- You didn't have to.

We need to get rid of him, McAfee.

Why are you doing this?

I'm giving you sensible,
common sense proposals.

You're giving me useless,
expensive proposals

that will cost me my job.

If you're not willing to take risks,
maybe you don't deserve your job.

You didn't win the election, Payton.

Yeah, I know.
Astrid dropped out before I could.

We counted the ballots,
and Astrid won the election by two votes.

What?

You don't speak for the students
at St. Sebastian.

They heard your message,
but they picked somebody else.

You don't have a mandate.

You're not Barack Obama.

You're Gerald Ford.

Enjoy your senior year.

Hi, it's Payton.

What do you want?

I was wondering, um...

Can I buy you dinner?

Mmm!

Mmm. That was good.

You look great.

You...

definitely got your appetite back.

Well, food...

Food finally tastes normal again.

Chemo made everything taste spicy.
Like, if there was one speck of pepper...

my whole mouth would burn
like it was on fire.

Infinity, um...

So, I think I owe you an enormous apology.

Why? I mean,
you said it yourself, you s...

you saved my life.

Yeah, but I went about it all wrong.

I was a politician...

and not a human being.

What happened to you is terrible.

And I just got caught up in it

because of my...

my ambition, you know?

But I have an idea that I think...

I think could be really great for you.

It's something that I'm gonna do to try...

and enjoy my last few months here.

Try at least.

And I really think that it might

actually be fun if we did it together.

What is it?

Hello. I'm Payton Hobart.

I will be auditioning for...
any of the male leads.

Payton, can I just say
I was at the assembly for River

when you sang that amazing song to him.

You, sir, don't have to audition.

Would you consider playing the part
of John Hinckley?

Trust me, it's the role.
You'll be fantastic.

Yeah, sure.

Oh, great.

Thank you, Payton.

Rehearsals start Monday.

Um, I do actually have one condition,
though. Um...

Come on.

I will only do the show if you can
cast my friend Infinity as well.

Oh!

It's so bright.

My name is Infinity Jackson,

and I'm specifically trying out
for the role of Squeaky Fromme.

Ah.

What's the next one?
Red leather, yellow leather.

Red leather, ye... llow leather.

Hey.

Infinity! Can I please talk to you?

I'm dying every day.

Who told you that I was here?

Your nana. She wants us to be together.
She told me so.

Ricardo, finding out that I wasn't dying

was the best thing
that's ever happened to me.

It opened my eyes, and now I can see
all the things that my life can be.

I can have my own place.
I can eat macarons.

I can go to Paris.
I can play the lead in a musical.

- What?
- Yeah, that's right.

They're doing Assassins at school
and I got the part of Squeaky Fromme.

It is, uh...

It's the best part in the show.

No.

Yeah.

- Best part of the show is John Hinckley.
- Goodbye.

Forever, Ricardo.

Infinity!

You're not gonna get a second chance.

I'm warning you!
Something really bad is gonna happen.

I don't care!

I don't think you can be
in the show if you don't go here.

Well, I used to go here.

But I dropped out a couple years ago.

And I talked to the career counselor

about enrolling in some night classes
to get my GED, so...

technically I will be going here.

Look, I know you need guys.

And I really wanna be a part of this show.

Oh, okay, well, you do have to audition.
Is there a song you'd like to sing?

Yeah.

I'm gonna sing "Beneath a Moonless Sky"

from Andrew Lloyd Webber's
Love Never Dies.

It's the sequel to Phantom of the Opera.

Hit it, Ms. Piano DJ.

Congratulations,
cast of Stephen Sondheim's Assassins.

Okay, so, uh...

I think you all know one another,
but I'd like to introduce Ricardo.

He is a continuing education student here,

and he is our John Wilkes Booth.

I will never forgive you for this.

Now, before we dive in with some
"getting to know you" exercises,

Daria is going to be giving each of you
a dramaturgical packet

of all the characters
portrayed in this play.

Because I really want us to go deep here.

I want each and every one of you

to become these characters.

Because we have to remember,

a villain never thinks he's a villain.

He is the hero of his own story.

Don't be afraid about looking stupid.

Just move your bodies to the music.

Don't think about it.

Oh, yes, Ricardo.

Great!

I don't want to do this.

That's the point, Infinity.
It's a trust exercise.

And one, two, three.

- I finally did it, didn't I?
- You did great.

Get off!

♪ A thing distinctly hard to say ♪

♪ Yet harder still to do ♪

♪ A thing distinctly hard to say ♪

♪ Yet harder still to do ♪

Mr. President!

President Reagan! President Reagan!

- God!
- Oh, God!

Mr. President!

President Reagan! President Reagan!

- God!
- Oh, God!

Mr. President!

President Reagan! President Reagan!

- God!
- Oh, God!

- I don't believe it.
- Two votes? How did she even know that?

She counted them.

No. No, this is bullshit.

She's lying. The model said we had
an 80% chance of winning.

The model isn't the problem.

The problem is you assuming high turnout
early in the day

would continue later in the day,
which is A, stupid and...

Both of you shut up!

The fact is that we lost, okay?

Can go back and forth about fault,

but we will still face the fact
that the voters rejected our message,

and that we don't have
their confidence, okay?

Our real problem is
that we now have two big secrets, okay?

Astrid won, and we knew Infinity
did not have cancer.

If either of those facts ever get out,
our careers are over.

You're exhausted. We need to calm down.

Do not interrupt me, James!

This is what happens, guys, okay?
We have two little secrets.

Hey, we didn't actually win.

And hey, you remember
that girl with cancer?

We knew that she did not have cancer,
and we opted not to tell her.

Okay? Next campaign,
maybe there'll be, I don't know,

two more and then 15 years from now,
I'm running for Senate

and we have 40 skeletons in our closet.

Payton, how can we help?

Give me your loyalty.

You have our loyalty.

Then put it in writing.

Sign a non-disclosure agreement.

You've gotta be kidding.

No one is kidding anyone, James.

"During the term of your service
and at all times hereafter,

you hereby agree not to disclose,
disseminate, or publish

any confidential information
in any way detrimental to Mr. Hobart..."

This is all very standard stuff.
It's boilerplate, McAfee.

"Breach of said agreement
will be entitled to all remedies,

including, but not limited to
monetary damages of five million dollars"?

I don't believe this.

We've been friends since we were eight,
you can trust us.

Okay, good. Then none of this is an issue,

and you should have no problem
putting it in writing.

Look, right now,
we're all great friends, right?

Right? We're all in this together. But...

when the stakes get higher,
friendships fail.

So, sign the NDAs, and we can ensure that
that never happens.

I signed mine ten minutes ago.

Just think five million is
a little over the top.

For the record, this is insane.

Thank you.

Payton.

You seem really stressed.

I mean, I know you're stressed
and worn out and pissed off,

so I thought this might cheer you up.

It's red velvet.
Skye and I made a whole batch.

I hope it tastes okay.

Hey...

I got your back.

- You want a bite?
- I'm reducing for prom.

How long has he been like this?

Over an hour.

I did the juneberry and cactus poultice.

I put the crystal by his head.

Did you place some in his armpits?

Yes. I did everything you told me to do.

Nothing's working. I'm scared.

It's probably just a bug, Mom.

103.5!

We need to get him to a hospital.

- How are you? You OK?
- Is it something you ate?

I'm okay now, but...

this is bad, you guys. I'm...

I'm genuinely scared, OK?

First we find out
I'm not a legitimate president,

then someone tries to assassinate me.

Wait, hold on. Are you sure you didn't
just, like, have a bad oyster?

Someone tried to kill me, James.

Okay, I don't think
we need to jump to conclusions.

- Yeah, why would someone do that?
- Ronald Reagan.

At the nadir of his popularity,
he's leaving the Washington Hilton...

...and John Hinckley opens fire.

Reagan is hit and his agent Brady gets
shot in the head and paralyzed for life.

Payton, everyone agrees
that was a tragedy.

Abe Lincoln, James!

When you become president,
people come after you, James.

People who want to stop what you're doing,

people who want someone else in office
doing something different,

and people that are just nuts.

I barfed my guts out, James. Okay?

It's not like I just ate a bad oyster.

I was puking blood.

I was poisoned.

McAfee tried to kill me.

Wait. McAfee?

Yeah, ask her.

McAfee, did you poison Payton?

Yeah, I think I did.

- Wait, what?
- I didn't mean to.

Skye and I made those cupcakes.

I made the cake part,
but Skye made the icing.

Then we had them, they were fine.

But Skye wanted to make
a special cake for Payton

with icing I didn't see her make.

I didn't think anything of it,
who poisons someone?

But now I think she had to have.

She'd been talking about
getting rid of you,

- I thought it was just talk.
- Are you kidding me?

- Get out.
- When were you gonna mention this?

- I didn't think she'd actually kill him!
- Get out!

- I don't ever want to see you again.
- Payton, please.

McAfee, it's over. Leave.

Are you saying
what I think you're saying?

Why did you put special icing
on Payton's cupcake?

Because I wanted to write a message
on it to be nice, McAfee.

What was in the icing, Skye?

Sugar and butter, bitch!

I will not sit here and be accused
of trying to murder someone...

when making the cupcakes was your idea.

Three days earlier,
giving you plenty of time...

And I went along with it,
which now I realize I shouldn't have.

Because I wanted to do something nice for
someone who I actually think is an idiot,

and who I can't stand.

So if you want to believe
I tried to murder Payton

so I could be student body president,
I have two things to say to you.

- I'm just trying to understand...
- Number one, screw you.

Number two, I'm dumping your ass.

And I'm probably doing you a favor
because I don't think you're gay,

you tight-ass, stuck-up tourist.

If you were, you'd know your way
around a woman's body,

which, just so you know,

you don't.

Mom?

What are you doing here?

I need to talk to you.

Not here.

God, my husband is upstairs.

He's finishing a giant jigsaw puzzle
of Peggy Guggenheim's Venetian Palazzo.

Stables, 15 minutes.

- Okay.
- No sex.

I thought you went to work
on a dude ranch in Wyoming.

Montana. It's beautiful.

I saw a man get murdered by a bear.

I don't think a bear can murder a man.

He can kill him, but murdering
sounds like there's malicious intent.

My point is it's all so real there.

You could use some real.

I made a commitment to my son.

If I leave, he'll lose everything.

He will lose you if you stay.

You will start resenting him.

Maybe not today,

but someday soon.

I'm flying back tomorrow. Come with me.

Tomorrow.

"My dearest Jodie,

I'm humiliated by my weakness
and my impotence,

but I can change.

Jodie, I'll prove to you that I can change
with one brave historic act.

I'll win your love now
and for all eternity.

Love, John."

♪ I am ♪

♪ Nothing ♪

♪ You are wind and water and sky ♪

♪ Jodie ♪

♪ Tell me, Jodie
How I can earn your love? ♪

♪ I would swim oceans
I would move mountains ♪

♪ I would do anything for you ♪

♪ What do you want me to do? ♪

♪ I am unworthy of your love ♪

♪ Jodie, Jodie ♪

♪ Let me prove worthy of your love ♪

♪ Tell me how I can earn your love ♪

♪ Set me free ♪

♪ How can I turn your love to me? ♪

♪ I am ♪

♪ Nothing ♪

♪ You are wind and devil and god ♪

♪ Charlie, take my blood ♪

♪ And my body for your love ♪

♪ Let me feel fire, let me drink poison ♪

♪ Tell me to tear my heart in two ♪

♪ If that's what you want me to do ♪

♪ I am unworthy of your love ♪

♪ Charlie, darlin' ♪

♪ I have done nothing for your love ♪

♪ Let me be worthy of your love ♪

♪ Set you free ♪

♪ I would come take you from your life ♪

♪ I would come take you from your cell ♪

♪ You would be queen to me, not wife ♪

♪ I would crawl belly-deep through hell ♪

- ♪ Baby, I'd die for you ♪
- ♪ Baby, I'd die for you ♪

- ♪ Even though I will always know ♪
- ♪ Even though I will always know ♪

♪ I am unworthy of your love ♪

- ♪ Jodie, darling ♪
- ♪ Charlie, darling ♪

♪ Let me prove worthy of your love ♪

♪ I'll find a way to earn your love ♪

♪ Wait and see ♪

♪ Then you will turn your love to me ♪

♪ Your love ♪

♪ To me ♪

Great! Great! So good!

- Such a great song!
- That was awesome.

- That was really good.
- We'll take a two-minute potty break

and we'll move on.

We're gonna move...

I'll catch up with you. I'll be back.

Okay. Do you want me to come with...
with... No? Okay.

I'm gonna get a snack.

That was great.
Show's gonna be really good.

Thanks.

Listen, I'm really glad that you're here.
I actually did want to apologize.

I was, um,

quite exhausted and dehydrated, and I...

well, I jumped to sort of
an insane conclusion.

I don't think you did.

Skye swears up and down
that she didn't do it,

and maybe we'll never know.

But there's a possibility
that she did poison you.

And that's on me for not seeing it sooner.

The fact is...

This is hard to talk about
and I should've earlier,

and I can't believe I didn't
and I don't know why I didn't.

- Didn't what?
- Tell you.

Skye and I have been having a love affair

since a few weeks
before she joined the ticket.

Oh my... You've gotta...
You've gotta be kidding me.

Complete honesty. Right?
Isn't that what we agreed on?

- Total transparency, right?
- I know, Payton. It was bad.

But I had to have something for myself.
You're not in charge of my personal life.

Anyway, it's over. I'm sorry. I'm...

- What else do you want me to say?
- Nothing.

- Think you and I should part ways.
- Payton!

You know what?
I wish you well, McAfee, but we're done.

And we're back.

Okay, Ricardo, I want to sing through
"The Ballad of..."

Where's Ricardo?

- You want one?
- I'm okay.

Oh, hi! Uh...

We don't need the gun right now.

BB gun.

I want to hold it.

It's important for the character.

♪ Damn my soul if you must ♪

♪ Let my body turn to dust ♪

♪ Let it mingle
With the ashes of the country ♪

♪ Let them curse me to hell ♪

♪ Leave it to history to tell ♪

♪ What I did ♪

♪ I did well ♪

♪ And I did it for my country ♪

♪ Let them cry, "Dirty traitor" ♪

♪ They will understand it later ♪

♪ The country ♪

♪ Is not what it was ♪

Bang!

Wow.

Just wow.

Nope.

My character would never wear that.

Hey. Uh, Ricardo? Can I talk to you
in private for a quick second?

Sorry.

First of all, great job out there, man.

I really think that once you
sort of modulate that performance,

then it's gonna be really effective.

You know what they say, man.

Less is more. So...

I wanted to talk to you about this gun.

It's just a BB gun. And I need it.

Okay, but, uh, John Wilkes Booth
didn't actually use a rifle,

he used a handgun.

I want to use a rifle.

Okay. Well, um, as you know,
I'm student body president,

and a significant part of my platform
was about gun reform,

so I can't really be part of a show
where an actor's holding a gun

when he doesn't need to.

It's not a gun.

Okay, well, it looks like a gun,

so either figure out a way
to butcher that song without it,

or I take this up with the school board.
Either way, I'm winning this fight.

Maybe... it is a gun.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Bang!

Just kidding.

Ow! Ow!

Ow! Oh, my God!

Ow!

See?

BB gun.

What the hell?

♪ Where do I begin? ♪

♪ To tell the story ♪

♪ Of how great love can be ♪

♪ The sweet love story
That is older than the sea ♪

♪ The simple truth
About the love he brings to me ♪

♪ Where do I start? ♪

- Hey!
- Hi.

♪ Like a summer rain... ♪

So, did you do it? It's done?

- Yeah.
- Oh!

I might just order a drink.

What are you talking about? You're 18.

So? I thought you didn't mind
if I drink around you.

Just listen.

I want you to tell me what happened,

and then you and I are gonna go
our separate ways

and we are never
gonna speak about this again, okay?

- You shot him, yes?
- Yeah!

Right in the ass.

He screamed like a bitch.

And I was like, "Whoops! I'm so sorry.

- I didn't mean to do that."
- No, no.

- Wait...
- He ran off screaming and drove home...

Wait a minute!

You shot him in the ass?

I wanted the BB to get lodged in his ass
so it'd be hard to pull out.

A BB?

The plan wasn't to shoot him
with a BB gun!

I've been doin' all this research
for this role I've been playin', right?

I've been learnin' about
all these famous assassinations.

Have you ever heard of Philoctetes?

Yeah? Well, you should check him out

because he was this famous Greek warrior

who wanted to bone down
with Helen of Troy,

and he got shot with an arrow

that was dipped
in the gallbladder of the Hydra.

Which I get is, like,
a mythological creature,

but still, I was like, "That's it."

And there's this possum that somebody
ran over right by my uncle's house,

and it got ran over, like a while ago.

And I didn't know which part
was his gallbladder,

so I pulled out all of its guts
and I mashed 'em up

and I got these hollow-pointed
air gun pellets,

and I soaked 'em in it overnight.

I buried the pellet at least

two inches...

deep into the muscle,

putting all that dead possum guts bacteria
straight into his bloodstream.

Ow!

It's called sepsis.

And you die of it.

Your organs shut down or something.

Jesus Christ!

You didn't do what I asked!

Dimwit.

I am trying to get my granddaughter back,
you twat!

- Calm down...
- No!

Don't tell me to calm down!

Shut up and sit down!

Sorry.

Family stuff.

He'll be dead by morning.

And I can say it was an accident,

and you weren't connected
in any way at all.

Okay?

Thank you, Ricardo!
For doing exactly...

what I asked you to do.

Whatever that is, that's gross.

101.

Another fever.

I think I'm just run down this time.

You're so sad.

I love you so much.

And that makes you sad?

My mother was very cold.

At least that's what
my babysitter told me.

She wasn't really around enough
for me to get a sense of her.

So I had no model

for what a mother was.

No model to reject or to embrace.

I had very little natural instinct for it.

Which is why your brothers
turned out so poorly.

And when we adopted you,

I sat down and I made a list
of how a perfect mother would be.

Gentle, endlessly loving,

patient, trusting,

and selfless.

That's exactly how I would describe you.

I don't know
if I can be those things anymore.

A person can't be truly selfless
and survive.

I was no one until you came into my life.

I was a corked bottle floating in the sea,
the tide pushing me wherever it wanted to.

The note inside me was blank.

I'm only who I want to be

when I'm in relation to you.

That's too much pressure to put on me.

In a year I'll be out of the house,

thousands of miles away.

Were you planning on moving to Cambridge?

Maybe not full-time.

Mom, I don't need the money.

I don't. I'm not like Martin,

or Luther, or even Dad.

I'll find my way no matter what.

I'm in love with someone
for the first time in my life.

It might be real,
it might be just an escape hatch,

but I feel like...

...if I don't give it a try,

I will die here.

Then go.

You don't need my permission,
but I give it to you.

You will always be the love of my life.

Oh, my God.

Oh, honey, you're soaking wet.

I want you to take a cold shower.
I'm gonna call the doctor.

Okay.

- Mom. Mom?
- Yes, my love.

I love you.

Oh, my... Help!

Somebody come and help me, please!

Payton!

♪ If you go away ♪

♪ On this summer day ♪

♪ Then you might as well
Take the sun away ♪

Payton, wake up!

- Payton! Help!
- ♪ All the birds that flew ♪

♪ In the summer sky ♪

♪ When our love was new ♪

♪ And our hearts were high ♪

♪ When the day was young ♪

♪ And the night was long ♪

♪ And the moon stood still ♪

♪ For the night birds' song ♪

♪ If you go away ♪

♪ If you go away... ♪

This is Georgina Hobart.

I need an ambulance immediately.
My son is very ill.

♪ But if you stay ♪

♪ I'll make you a day ♪

♪ Like no day has been ♪

♪ Or will be again ♪

♪ We'll sail the sun ♪

♪ We'll ride on the rain ♪

♪ We'll talk to the trees ♪

♪ And worship the wind ♪

♪ Then if you go, I'll understand ♪

♪ Leave me just enough love ♪

♪ To hold in my hand ♪

♪ If you go away ♪

♪ If you go away ♪

♪ If you go ♪

♪ Away ♪