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<i>Toby Fleishman awoke
one morning inside the city</i>

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<i>he'd lived in all his adult life,</i>

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<i>which was suddenly, somehow,</i>

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<i>now crawling with women who wanted him.</i>

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<i>Not just any women.</i>

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<i>Women who were self-actualized
and independent</i>

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<i>and who knew what they wanted.</i>

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<i>Women who seemed kind.</i>

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<i>Women who seemed motivated and available.</i>

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<i>But also some who just sent
over a picture of a G-string.</i>

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<i>Or their side boob. Or their under-boob.</i>

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<i>Or their just plain regular boob.</i>

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<i>It was more than
a newly divorced man could take</i>

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<i>after 15 years of marriage.</i>

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<i>All this, after a youth
full of romantic rejection?</i>

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<i>All this, after placing
a lifetime bet on one woman?</i>

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<i>Who could have predicted this?</i>

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<i>Who could have predicted
that there was such life in him yet?</i>

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<i>But these women were not objects to Toby.</i>

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<i>They were his mentors.
No, they were his heroes.</i>

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<i>They were teaching him how to
live now that he was suddenly,</i>

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<i>somehow, no longer living with Rachel.</i>

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<i>Each morning, he would wake up
with an overwhelming sense of panic</i>

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<i>in that new apartment of his.</i>

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<i>Where was he? Where was she?
Where was his home?</i>

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<i>"Something is wrong," he'd think.
"I am in trouble."</i>

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<i>For Rachel was no longer in bed with him.</i>

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<i>She was no longer griping about her day.</i>

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I'll have to spend the day
cleaning up that mess

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with a lunch I don't even have time for.

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<i>She was no longer just
coming home from the gym</i>

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<i>in a less black mood than usual.</i>

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It was a disaster.
It was a complete disaster.

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Maybe it will be fine. I don't know.

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I'll be home late,
so I'll need that prescription picked up.

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<i>She was no longer applying
a thick layer</i>

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<i>of black liquid eyeliner
to her upper eyelid</i>

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<i>with the precision
of an arthroscopy robot.</i>

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Are the kids ready already?

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<i>But on this particular morning,
she was also not</i>

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<i>in the much nicer home
that was just hers now.</i>

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<i>A spot opened up
at that yoga thing upstate, Everglade,</i>

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<i>so the kids are with you, FYI.</i>

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FYI? FYI, I dropped the kids off
a day early?

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What were you thinking?

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<i>I said, a spot opened up.</i>

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They're not groceries, okay?
They are children.

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What if I hadn't checked my phone?

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What if I'd been called to the hospital
in the middle of the night?

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<i>Well, that didn't happen, right?
Good news.</i>

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I have plans tonight.

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I'm not supposed to have them
until tomorrow.

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<i>It's just one night. Call Mona.</i>

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I want to be with them when I have them.

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I don't want to leave them with a sitter.

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That's you.

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<i>I didn't think you could say anything
shittier than you said last night.</i>

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<i>Be this aggressive in your career.</i>

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That's very nice. Very mature.

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<i>They went back and forth
for a while.</i>

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<i>All the while, Toby tried to remember</i>

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<i>exactly what he'd said
last night that was so bad.</i>

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<i>But he couldn't remember.</i>

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I can't believe you'd do that.

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Waking them up like that.

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<i>I have to secure my oxygen mask,
you know, before theirs.</i>

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Of course, your oxygen, I forgot.

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<i>Listen, it's been a hard month.</i>

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<i>I just need some me time.</i>

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All of your time is you time, Rachel.

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<i>These days, he only ever said her name
at the end of sentences.</i>

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All right, I gotta go, okay?

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I'm running late now.

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<i>Which was just as well
because his boner was gone.</i>

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All right, come on, guys. Let's go.

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I'm so tired.

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Well, I am excited
'cause I get you a full day early.

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And here, I think your mother
left some clothes for you here.

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There you go.

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These are for the Hamptons.
These aren't for camp.

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<i>The subtext of everything Hannah
said these days was, "You fucking idiot."</i>

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I wanted Corn Chex, not flakes.

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<i>You fucking idiot.</i>

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Okay.

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Hannah, these corn flakes are amazing.

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You have to try them.

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Okay. All right.

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Mwah! Thank you, buddy.

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No, we gotta go. We gotta go.

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Come on. Come on.

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<i>Of all the ways Toby so far resented
Rachel's mismanagement of that morning,</i>

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<i>the biggest was an unplanned
visit to that den of dread,</i>

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<i>that locus of late capitalist society,
the 92nd Street Y.</i>

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<i>Forget what you know about Ys in general,</i>

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<i>this place, with its
ridiculous parent population</i>

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<i>and a nursery school
you had to put your kids</i>

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<i>on the waiting list for at conception</i>

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<i>was as infected by the Upper East Side</i>

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<i>as anything else that came
into contact with it.</i>

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Okay, bye, Hannah.

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Toby, hey! Fancy seeing you here.

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- Hey.
- Where's Rachel?

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- Working as always?
- Yeah.

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Agency won't run itself, I guess.

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Hey, that's her line.

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<i>Rachel was a theater agent,
best known as the person</i>

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<i>who discovered Alejandra Lopez,
the creator of</i> Presidentrix!

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<i>It was so brilliant</i>

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<i>that it set the New York
theatergoing world on fire</i>

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<i>and reinvented Broadway.</i>

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Presidentrix! <i>was everywhere.</i>

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<i>There were parodies.</i>

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- <i>You're just the wife!
- I'm just...</i>

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<i>I'm just the something.</i>

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<i>All right. Look, hold your applause.</i>

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<i>And, oh, boy,
was there some merch.</i>

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- Take care.
- Thanks, yeah.

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She had a swear on her shirt.

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Yeah, ignore it.

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Okay, I'll see you later, Solly.

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You're picking us up? Not Mona?

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Yeah, it's all me.

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Toby!

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I keep meaning to reach out to you.

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How are you doing? How are the kids doing?

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Well, we're okay.

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It's a change for sure.

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I've been waiting to run into you

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to tell you myself
what I hope you already know,

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but we're not leaving your life.

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We're not going anywhere.

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We are your friends, too.

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<i>It never didn't shock him</i>

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<i>that this was who Rachel cared about.</i>

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<i>As a measure of self-protection,</i>

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<i>Toby thought about a PT
he'd slept with a few nights before.</i>

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<i>He couldn't quite remember her name.</i>

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<i>Jamie, Jasmine? Jill?</i>

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Had things been hard long?

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Um, yes... I mean, no.

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I mean, it wasn't a spur-of-the-moment
decision or anything,

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if that's what you're asking.

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<i>But Cyndi wanted information.</i>

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<i>These days, everyone did.</i>

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Did you have a date night?

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Were you fighting at that
parent-teacher conference?

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But you looked so happy
at the spring gala.

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<i>The questions were never
about the Fleishmans,</i>

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<i>but about the person's own marriage.</i>

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<i>Do we argue too much?</i>

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<i>Are our fights too vicious?
Do we have enough sex?</i>

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<i>Are we too miserable?</i>

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<i>How miserable is too miserable?</i>

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<i>Jenny!</i>

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<i>The physical therapist's name was Jenny!</i>

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Well, obviously the girls
are still thick as thieves.

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So you can count on us
to make sure nothing changes that.

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Sorry...

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We're here for you.

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<i>"Hoping we're still on tonight."</i>

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Sorry, this is work.

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- I have a biopsy.
- You're still at the hospital?

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People are still getting sick.

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Supply and demand.

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- Yeah.
- Yeah, anyway,

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it was great to see you.

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We gotta do dinner sometime with the kids

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'cause we had so much fun last time.

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<i>But had they?</i>

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It's 40 years old.
It's made by these Roman monks.

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They only make eight cases a year.

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- Mmm. I taste that.
- Mmm-hmm.

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I want in.
I have a hookup.

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- Can't say who.
- Come on, man.

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<i>The same crowd every time.</i>

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<i>Rachel's school mom friends,
whose husbands</i>

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<i>were a chronic condition
that Toby had to manage.</i>

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<i>There was Todd Leffer,
who was a portfolio manager</i>

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<i>at a distressed debt fund</i>

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<i>and who didn't not have a photo of himself</i>

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<i>next to a dead giraffe
and a live Trump son.</i>

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<i>There was Rich Hertz,
whose name was literally Rich,</i>

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<i>and whose father had made
his fortune in the '80s</i>

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<i>by buying up life insurance policies</i>

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<i>on people who had AIDS.</i>

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<i>And then there was the alpha
homecoming king,</i>

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<i>Sam Rothberg, a vice president
at a pharmaceutical company</i>

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<i>who rose to prominence pushing Vicodin</i>

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<i>on every housewife in the country.</i>

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<i>Except for his own wife,</i>

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<i>who was already besotted with Xanax.</i>

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So, how's the liver business, my man?

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Well, you know,
people still get sick, so...

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Let me ask you something.

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If your kids said that they
wanted to get into medicine,

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what would you say?

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<i>No. You don't get it, okay?</i>

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It was an insult. He was insulting me.

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This guy made his money buying up

200
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underwater mortgages in states
with expedited eviction laws

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so they can kick out
the tenants and go condo,

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and he asks me if I would ever lead
my poor children into my shameful life?

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Well, would you?

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Mrs. Fields, hi.

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This is Dr. Fleishman. Is now a good time?

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<i>By the time he was done
with his residency,</i>

207
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<i>medicine had undergone such upheaval</i>

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<i>that suddenly even being a specialist</i>

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<i>at a top hospital in Manhattan
wouldn't earn enough to offer</i>

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<i>Rachel the lifestyle
to which she so badly wanted</i>

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<i>to become accustomed.</i>

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<i>She never understood
that his job was its own reward</i>

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<i>and its own comfort.</i>

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<i>Particularly in those first delicate weeks
following his divorce.</i>

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And, Clay, what is the most
common vascular mass?

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Hepatocellular carcinoma.

217
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That would be correct
if a hepatocellular carcinoma

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were either vascular
or the most common anything.

219
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It's a hemangioma.

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I'm sorry, Clay, I...

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Listen, guys,

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I don't know if this is
an appropriate thing,

223
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but I'm gonna say it anyway.

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I'm getting a divorce.

225
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I don't mean to be an asshole.

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And if I am, forgive me.

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- Are you okay?
- Yeah, I'm okay.

228
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So, what are you doing now?

229
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We saw a psychologist to figure out
how to make sure the kids are okay.

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I moved into a new place recently.

231
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Great, but are you on the apps yet?

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What?

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Okay, this is gonna be fun.

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00:10:43,184 --> 00:10:45,814
I had a JDate account...
Do people have JDate accounts?

235
00:10:45,811 --> 00:10:47,061
This is different.

236
00:10:47,063 --> 00:10:49,573
It's not that different. It's still scary.

237
00:10:49,565 --> 00:10:51,475
Well, you still do it.

238
00:10:51,484 --> 00:10:53,994
Yes, I do.

239
00:10:53,986 --> 00:10:56,446
Okay, so, there's a couple.

240
00:10:56,447 --> 00:10:58,407
What is this? Sorry, what am I looking at?

241
00:10:58,407 --> 00:11:01,157
So, that's her lighthouse.

242
00:11:01,702 --> 00:11:03,042
Her lighthouse?

243
00:11:03,037 --> 00:11:07,327
You know, it's to indicate
a person's readiness.

244
00:11:07,333 --> 00:11:10,673
- Her readiness?
- Like if she's available.

245
00:11:10,670 --> 00:11:12,380
- Okay.
- And horny.

246
00:11:12,380 --> 00:11:13,460
Wait. You do this, too?

247
00:11:13,464 --> 00:11:14,804
You see what I mean?

248
00:11:14,799 --> 00:11:16,879
Okay. Thank you.
I'm gonna... We'll table this.

249
00:11:16,884 --> 00:11:18,934
- We have patients to get to.
- Right.

250
00:11:18,928 --> 00:11:20,548
Those lives will not save themselves.

251
00:11:20,554 --> 00:11:21,814
Get me to the OR, stat!

252
00:11:21,806 --> 00:11:23,266
I mean, you are playing God.

253
00:11:23,265 --> 00:11:24,805
Yeah, no one's dying tonight.

254
00:11:24,809 --> 00:11:26,139
Not on my watch.

255
00:11:27,228 --> 00:11:30,608
<i>He watched the apps
passively for a week or two,</i>

256
00:11:30,606 --> 00:11:32,686
<i>- not engaging at all...</i>
- See you Monday.

257
00:11:32,692 --> 00:11:33,942
<i>...until one weekend.</i>

258
00:11:35,486 --> 00:11:37,606
<i>Rachel had taken the kids
out to the Hamptons.</i>

259
00:11:37,613 --> 00:11:40,123
<i>It was his first-ever
weekend without them,</i>

260
00:11:40,116 --> 00:11:43,116
<i>and he missed them so much
he thought he might die.</i>

261
00:12:03,848 --> 00:12:05,558
<i>The app asked him,</i>

262
00:12:05,558 --> 00:12:07,268
<i>"What is your fave movie?"</i>

263
00:12:08,728 --> 00:12:10,188
<i>It was</i> Twister.

264
00:12:10,187 --> 00:12:11,267
<i>The app asked him,</i>

265
00:12:11,272 --> 00:12:13,232
<i>"How do you like to spend
a rainy Saturday?"</i>

266
00:12:13,232 --> 00:12:14,782
"Doing a crossword puzzle."

267
00:12:14,775 --> 00:12:16,395
<i>Watching porn and masturbating.</i>

268
00:12:16,402 --> 00:12:17,532
<i>"Fave food?"</i>

269
00:12:18,529 --> 00:12:20,869
Caesar salad. With shrimp.

270
00:12:20,865 --> 00:12:23,735
<i>It was steamed chicken and vegetables,
no sauce, no oil.</i>

271
00:12:23,743 --> 00:12:26,543
<i>"What is your sun, moon, and ascendant?"</i>

272
00:12:26,537 --> 00:12:28,207
What is an ascendant?

273
00:12:29,123 --> 00:12:31,463
<i>Maybe he had tried to pump
himself up in some answers,</i>

274
00:12:31,459 --> 00:12:34,299
<i>but he'd been honest
about the important stuff.</i>

275
00:12:34,295 --> 00:12:37,255
<i>And then it asked, "How single are you?"</i>

276
00:12:37,256 --> 00:12:38,796
I'm divorced.

277
00:12:40,050 --> 00:12:41,550
<i>That was true.</i>

278
00:12:41,552 --> 00:12:43,682
<i>The app needed a pic.</i>

279
00:13:19,715 --> 00:13:20,875
<i>Hey, you. Hi.</i>

280
00:13:20,883 --> 00:13:22,513
<i>Hi!
Hi. How are you?</i>

281
00:13:22,510 --> 00:13:23,890
<i>- Tongue emoji.
- You're cute.</i>

282
00:13:23,886 --> 00:13:25,506
<i>- You're a doctor?
- Good for you.</i>

283
00:13:25,513 --> 00:13:27,013
<i>- Vampire emoji.
- Where do you live?</i>

284
00:13:27,014 --> 00:13:28,314
<i>- Where do you live?
- Brooklyn.</i>

285
00:13:28,307 --> 00:13:29,427
<i>In Queens.</i>

286
00:13:29,433 --> 00:13:32,233
<i>Like a doctor in a hospital
or a doctor of English?</i>

287
00:13:32,228 --> 00:13:33,478
<i>Where is the liver?</i>

288
00:13:33,479 --> 00:13:34,559
<i>If you're an asshole...</i>

289
00:13:34,563 --> 00:13:35,653
<i>I've been down that road.</i>

290
00:13:35,648 --> 00:13:36,728
<i>And no thank you.</i>

291
00:13:36,732 --> 00:13:38,072
<i>I grew up in LA, too.</i>

292
00:13:38,067 --> 00:13:40,437
<i>Friends,
he lost a full Saturday right there.</i>

293
00:13:41,278 --> 00:13:43,698
<i>I went into social work,
and I miss it all the time.</i>

294
00:13:43,697 --> 00:13:45,987
<i>I've had too much to drink.</i>

295
00:13:45,991 --> 00:13:48,491
<i>Then the weekend.
Winding down with wine.</i>

296
00:13:48,494 --> 00:13:50,914
<i>I'm into older guys.
You remind me of someone.</i>

297
00:13:50,913 --> 00:13:52,583
<i>Grandpa emoji.
You're hot.</i>

298
00:13:52,581 --> 00:13:55,331
<i>"Angry with smoke
coming from mouth" emoji...</i>

299
00:13:55,334 --> 00:13:58,134
<i>You have to understand
that Toby was not exactly</i>

300
00:13:58,128 --> 00:14:00,258
<i>a desired property in his youth.</i>

301
00:14:00,256 --> 00:14:01,506
<i>You're so handsome.</i>

302
00:14:01,507 --> 00:14:02,967
<i>Where have you been all my life?</i>

303
00:14:02,967 --> 00:14:04,967
<i>Possible samba
in evening gown emoji.</i>

304
00:14:04,969 --> 00:14:08,059
<i>Glass of milk emoji.
Enough about me. What about you?</i>

305
00:14:08,055 --> 00:14:09,425
<i>My dad was a doctor.</i>

306
00:14:09,431 --> 00:14:11,311
<i>- Purple devil emoji.
- I was just...</i>

307
00:14:11,308 --> 00:14:15,268
<i>By late Sunday, his cheeks hurt
from expressing joy and wonder,</i>

308
00:14:15,271 --> 00:14:17,941
<i>and his wrist and hand were sore
from repetitive stress.</i>

309
00:14:17,940 --> 00:14:20,480
<i>Will I get to
see that cute face soon?</i>

310
00:14:20,484 --> 00:14:23,404
<i>But then, he suddenly realized</i>

311
00:14:24,947 --> 00:14:26,117
<i>this was real.</i>

312
00:14:26,115 --> 00:14:27,615
<i>Very little on Earth stands still.</i>

313
00:14:27,616 --> 00:14:31,866
<i>That forward momentum is always available
to pluck you from your sadness</i>

314
00:14:31,871 --> 00:14:34,581
<i>and invite you to rejoin the living.</i>

315
00:14:45,885 --> 00:14:49,045
<i>"So, am I seeing you?
Question mark, question mark.</i>

316
00:14:49,054 --> 00:14:51,024
<i>"Don't leave me hanging, cutie."</i>

317
00:14:51,015 --> 00:14:54,175
<i>"Sorry. Yes. Looking forward to it."</i>

318
00:14:55,185 --> 00:14:56,765
Oh, shit.

319
00:14:56,770 --> 00:14:58,650
Yeah. Joanie. Hi.

320
00:14:58,647 --> 00:15:00,767
Yeah, I am on my way up.

321
00:15:01,483 --> 00:15:03,693
Look at that. Look at that.

322
00:15:03,694 --> 00:15:05,154
It's good as new.

323
00:15:05,154 --> 00:15:08,574
No scarring.
It's like nothing ever happened.

324
00:15:09,408 --> 00:15:13,158
Huh. You have to love the liver.

325
00:15:13,162 --> 00:15:16,122
I mean, seriously,
show me a more life-affirming organ.

326
00:15:16,123 --> 00:15:17,293
I mean, look at it.

327
00:15:17,291 --> 00:15:18,961
Look what it can recover from.

328
00:15:18,959 --> 00:15:20,499
We should all be like the liver.

329
00:15:20,502 --> 00:15:21,922
Livers behave in erratic ways.

330
00:15:21,921 --> 00:15:24,801
The liver is unique
in the way that it heals.

331
00:15:24,798 --> 00:15:26,128
It's full of forgiveness.

332
00:15:26,133 --> 00:15:30,013
It understands that you need a few chances
before you get your life right.

333
00:15:30,012 --> 00:15:32,472
And it doesn't just forgive you.
You know, it...

334
00:15:32,473 --> 00:15:35,393
You know, it practically forgets.

335
00:15:37,144 --> 00:15:39,314
<i>On the darkest days
of his marriage,</i>

336
00:15:39,313 --> 00:15:41,193
<i>Toby attended to his hospital business.</i>

337
00:15:41,190 --> 00:15:43,780
<i>Out of the corner of his eyes
was always the liver,</i>

338
00:15:43,776 --> 00:15:46,816
<i>whispering to him that one day
there would not be much sign</i>

339
00:15:46,820 --> 00:15:50,280
<i>of all of this damage,
that he would regenerate, too.</i>

340
00:15:50,282 --> 00:15:53,492
Toby, we have a new patient
up from the ER.

341
00:15:53,494 --> 00:15:56,044
That's great. Yeah. Let's go.

342
00:15:56,038 --> 00:15:57,288
I'm a liver specialist.

343
00:15:57,289 --> 00:15:59,289
I was called in
because your wife is jaundiced.

344
00:15:59,291 --> 00:16:01,131
Right. Okay.

345
00:16:01,126 --> 00:16:03,416
Do you want to tell us what happened?

346
00:16:03,420 --> 00:16:06,970
She was slurring a little,
and not making sense.

347
00:16:06,966 --> 00:16:09,006
She was clumsier than usual.

348
00:16:09,009 --> 00:16:11,049
Finally, I said we should go see a doctor.

349
00:16:11,053 --> 00:16:12,853
Then we got in the car, and on the way,

350
00:16:13,764 --> 00:16:15,144
she passed out.

351
00:16:15,140 --> 00:16:16,310
Maybe she's asleep?

352
00:16:16,308 --> 00:16:19,018
We're gonna figure that out.
She's in good hands now.

353
00:16:19,019 --> 00:16:21,559
Nurse Ortiz is gonna show you
to our family lounge,

354
00:16:21,563 --> 00:16:24,823
and we're going to examine your wife
and figure out what's going on.

355
00:16:29,863 --> 00:16:31,033
What's going on here?

356
00:16:31,031 --> 00:16:32,741
Yeah, it's alcoholic cirrhosis.

357
00:16:32,741 --> 00:16:34,581
- Okay.
- She went on a bender.

358
00:16:34,576 --> 00:16:37,446
Probably been a secret drinker for years.

359
00:16:37,454 --> 00:16:39,714
You seem pretty sure about that. Joanie?

360
00:16:40,916 --> 00:16:44,376
- He said she was slurring.
- Okay. What did he actually say?

361
00:16:45,087 --> 00:16:47,127
He said she was clumsy and slurring.

362
00:16:47,131 --> 00:16:49,011
- She's a drunk.
- Phillip!

363
00:16:49,008 --> 00:16:51,088
I'm sorry. Alcoholic.

364
00:16:51,093 --> 00:16:53,353
A person with alcoholism.

365
00:16:53,345 --> 00:16:54,755
An alcoholic-American.

366
00:16:54,763 --> 00:16:56,683
Yeah. Okay. Listen, the husband,

367
00:16:56,682 --> 00:16:59,142
he said that she was clumsier than usual.

368
00:16:59,143 --> 00:17:02,693
So, whatever this is, it's been going on
longer than just the last week.

369
00:17:02,688 --> 00:17:03,858
What else?

370
00:17:03,856 --> 00:17:05,266
Is she on an antidepressant?

371
00:17:05,274 --> 00:17:09,034
She's on Zoloft, as of a month ago.

372
00:17:09,028 --> 00:17:10,108
How'd you know that?

373
00:17:10,112 --> 00:17:12,612
- Get her internist on the phone.
- Okay.

374
00:17:13,198 --> 00:17:15,328
You saw her a month ago,
and prescribed Zoloft.

375
00:17:15,325 --> 00:17:17,075
<i>She said
she was feeling down.</i>

376
00:17:17,077 --> 00:17:19,497
- Her AST/ALT wasn't elevated?
<i>- I didn't check LFTs.</i>

377
00:17:19,496 --> 00:17:22,116
You didn't check.
Okay, well, she has an AST of 145

378
00:17:22,124 --> 00:17:24,294
and an ALT of 103 and a bili of 14.

379
00:17:24,293 --> 00:17:26,713
She is en-encephalopathic
and coagulopathic.

380
00:17:26,712 --> 00:17:28,302
Her total cholesterol is 98.

381
00:17:28,297 --> 00:17:30,417
She's in liver failure.
Yellow as a highlighter.

382
00:17:30,424 --> 00:17:32,974
<i>Listen, my whole practice
is these women in their 40s</i>

383
00:17:32,968 --> 00:17:35,678
<i>who become depressed and drink
more than they should at lunch.</i>

384
00:17:35,679 --> 00:17:36,759
Really? Good for you.

385
00:17:36,764 --> 00:17:38,524
I got to go treat your patient now.

386
00:17:38,515 --> 00:17:40,805
Sorry. You shouldn't do that.

387
00:17:40,809 --> 00:17:41,979
Here's the thing.

388
00:17:41,977 --> 00:17:44,767
This woman's doctor could have helped
if he'd taken her seriously.

389
00:17:44,772 --> 00:17:48,442
She wouldn't be having neurological
symptoms and a failing liver.

390
00:17:48,442 --> 00:17:51,072
Guys, insurance is not gonna pay
for more than 15 minutes.

391
00:17:51,070 --> 00:17:52,950
You still have to listen. Okay?

392
00:17:52,946 --> 00:17:54,946
You have to take that time as a loss.

393
00:17:54,948 --> 00:17:57,078
You have to ask questions and give a shit.

394
00:18:01,580 --> 00:18:03,080
What did our friend Dr. Osler say?

395
00:18:03,082 --> 00:18:05,172
You remember? Listen to the patient.

396
00:18:05,167 --> 00:18:06,917
She is telling you her diagnosis.

397
00:18:06,919 --> 00:18:08,169
Okay. So, go ahead.

398
00:18:08,170 --> 00:18:09,420
Look harder.

399
00:18:18,472 --> 00:18:19,972
Oh, my God.

400
00:18:19,973 --> 00:18:23,353
The patient has a ring of copper
around her iris.

401
00:18:23,352 --> 00:18:24,562
- It's Wilson's.
- Yeah.

402
00:18:24,561 --> 00:18:26,151
Yeah, I've only seen it once before.

403
00:18:28,565 --> 00:18:30,025
Do you see that?

404
00:18:30,025 --> 00:18:33,275
God, it's so beautiful.

405
00:18:33,278 --> 00:18:34,528
Yeah.

406
00:18:34,530 --> 00:18:38,280
As life-threatening diseases go,
it is a pretty one.

407
00:18:39,827 --> 00:18:41,537
It means her body doesn't process copper.

408
00:18:41,537 --> 00:18:44,117
So, usually it presents
as what you called clumsiness.

409
00:18:44,123 --> 00:18:47,213
All it takes is one night of drinking
for this to happen.

410
00:18:47,209 --> 00:18:49,749
She went to Vegas
with friends last weekend

411
00:18:49,753 --> 00:18:51,633
for, like, a bachelorette thing.

412
00:18:51,630 --> 00:18:53,130
That's really good to know.

413
00:18:53,132 --> 00:18:55,432
Dr. Clifton here will take
a more detailed history.

414
00:18:55,425 --> 00:18:57,585
- Okay?
- And what do I do?

415
00:18:57,594 --> 00:18:59,564
Tell your job you need a few days off,

416
00:18:59,555 --> 00:19:01,215
then call your family and friends

417
00:19:01,223 --> 00:19:03,143
so they can help with your kids.

418
00:19:03,142 --> 00:19:06,152
And we will tell you when
we know something, all right?

419
00:19:06,145 --> 00:19:07,895
All right. Take care.

420
00:19:07,896 --> 00:19:09,896
- Thanks.
- Yeah.

421
00:19:15,070 --> 00:19:16,410
So, never?

422
00:19:16,405 --> 00:19:17,695
I'm a middle-aged housewife.

423
00:19:17,698 --> 00:19:20,158
- I've been domesticated.
- You're a legend.

424
00:19:20,159 --> 00:19:21,739
Not pot? Not even cigarettes?

425
00:19:21,743 --> 00:19:23,293
- Cigarettes?
- Hey.

426
00:19:23,287 --> 00:19:24,537
Are you crazy?

427
00:19:24,538 --> 00:19:26,618
What would the other mothers
even say about me?

428
00:19:26,623 --> 00:19:27,833
I'd be a pariah.

429
00:19:27,833 --> 00:19:31,133
Do you realize that the only thing Libby
ever inhales into her lungs anymore

430
00:19:31,128 --> 00:19:33,208
- is the New Jersey pollution?
- Yes. She grew up.

431
00:19:33,213 --> 00:19:34,463
- I endorse this.
- Thank you.

432
00:19:34,464 --> 00:19:37,514
I knew this guy who lived
literally beneath a cave.

433
00:19:37,509 --> 00:19:39,639
Not in it, beneath it, in Argentina.

434
00:19:39,636 --> 00:19:41,506
And he grew this one strain of pot

435
00:19:41,513 --> 00:19:43,103
that he combined with this extract,

436
00:19:43,098 --> 00:19:45,848
so you're high,
but you don't know you're high.

437
00:19:45,851 --> 00:19:47,311
Sorry. What does that even mean?

438
00:19:47,311 --> 00:19:49,021
But I think I want to know if I'm high.

439
00:19:49,021 --> 00:19:50,981
- Am I high right now?
- Am I high right now?

440
00:19:50,981 --> 00:19:52,941
No. I'd be hungrier if I were high.

441
00:19:52,941 --> 00:19:54,821
- I'm not.
- Telltale sign.

442
00:19:54,818 --> 00:19:56,068
- You ready?
- Wait a minute.

443
00:19:56,069 --> 00:19:57,319
I am hungry.

444
00:19:57,321 --> 00:19:58,781
- Tuna sandwich, please.
- Thanks.

445
00:19:58,780 --> 00:20:00,030
Wait. Excuse me. Sorry.

446
00:20:00,032 --> 00:20:02,532
The American Medical Association

447
00:20:02,534 --> 00:20:04,914
recommends eating tuna fish
once a month, if that.

448
00:20:04,912 --> 00:20:06,212
Those people are animals.

449
00:20:06,205 --> 00:20:09,665
So, a tuna sandwich
would be amazing, thank you.

450
00:20:09,666 --> 00:20:11,166
I'm gonna have the Lumberjack,

451
00:20:11,168 --> 00:20:13,588
and can I have a grilled cheese
on the side?

452
00:20:13,587 --> 00:20:15,667
Wow. Child.

453
00:20:15,672 --> 00:20:18,092
I will have the spinach
and egg white omelet,

454
00:20:18,091 --> 00:20:20,591
no butter and very little oil.

455
00:20:20,594 --> 00:20:22,934
French fries or home fries?

456
00:20:22,930 --> 00:20:24,060
No, no, neither.

457
00:20:24,056 --> 00:20:25,636
And no bread, please.

458
00:20:25,641 --> 00:20:27,431
- I love it.
- Okay.

459
00:20:27,434 --> 00:20:29,104
Thank you.

460
00:20:29,102 --> 00:20:31,022
<i>The three of us had been
getting together regularly</i>

461
00:20:31,021 --> 00:20:32,981
<i>for the first time in years,</i>

462
00:20:32,981 --> 00:20:36,071
<i>ever since Toby called to tell us
that he was getting a divorce.</i>

463
00:20:36,068 --> 00:20:38,358
So, it's crazy because,
when you're in space,

464
00:20:38,362 --> 00:20:39,612
no matter where you are,

465
00:20:39,613 --> 00:20:42,743
you feel like you're in the center.

466
00:20:42,741 --> 00:20:45,871
Have you considered that maybe

467
00:20:45,869 --> 00:20:47,659
you shouldn't have been a lawyer?

468
00:20:47,663 --> 00:20:49,753
Only every day.

469
00:20:50,874 --> 00:20:52,004
How was your day?

470
00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,210
Fine. It was nothing.

471
00:21:03,971 --> 00:21:05,261
Toby Fleishman?

472
00:21:05,389 --> 00:21:07,139
<i>Elizabeth Slater. Toby Fleishman.</i>

473
00:21:07,140 --> 00:21:08,390
God!

474
00:21:08,392 --> 00:21:12,352
It's Epstein now, but, yeah, hi.

475
00:21:12,354 --> 00:21:13,774
- Hi?
<i>- Hello.</i>

476
00:21:13,772 --> 00:21:16,692
I am calling to tell you
that I am getting a divorce.

477
00:21:16,692 --> 00:21:18,692
I'm doing this on the advice
of a therapist,

478
00:21:18,694 --> 00:21:20,074
who thinks it would be healing

479
00:21:20,070 --> 00:21:23,450
to reach out to people I haven't seen
since my marriage was falling apart.

480
00:21:23,448 --> 00:21:25,158
<i>I was stunned.</i>

481
00:21:25,158 --> 00:21:26,408
I'm stunned.

482
00:21:26,410 --> 00:21:27,540
<i>I just moved out.</i>

483
00:21:27,536 --> 00:21:29,746
I have the kids every other weekend

484
00:21:29,746 --> 00:21:31,746
and on weekdays when she's working late.

485
00:21:31,748 --> 00:21:33,668
<i>It was hard for a long time.</i>

486
00:21:33,667 --> 00:21:35,707
<i>We actually went to a couples therapist</i>

487
00:21:35,711 --> 00:21:38,211
who said that we have
three of the four horsemen

488
00:21:38,213 --> 00:21:39,633
of the marital apocalypse.

489
00:21:39,631 --> 00:21:40,971
What are those?

490
00:21:40,966 --> 00:21:42,796
<i>Contempt, I think, was the first one.</i>

491
00:21:42,801 --> 00:21:43,971
Defensiveness.

492
00:21:43,969 --> 00:21:45,889
And shutting down... You know what?

493
00:21:45,887 --> 00:21:47,217
I can't remember the fourth.

494
00:21:47,222 --> 00:21:49,932
Was it being a total fucking bitch?

495
00:21:49,933 --> 00:21:52,943
Elizabeth. Maybe.

496
00:21:52,936 --> 00:21:54,186
I hated her.

497
00:21:54,187 --> 00:21:57,767
I mean, I... Can I say that?

498
00:21:57,774 --> 00:22:01,324
I know I just said that,
but, like, can I say that?

499
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,240
<i>Yeah, I know, I know.</i>

500
00:22:03,238 --> 00:22:04,698
It's been a while, Elizabeth.

501
00:22:04,698 --> 00:22:07,488
What, like 10 years? Or 12?

502
00:22:07,492 --> 00:22:10,002
It's been since you didn't
bother showing up to my wedding.

503
00:22:09,995 --> 00:22:12,365
So, 12 years.

504
00:22:12,372 --> 00:22:15,292
<i>I'm so sorry. It was so hard.</i>

505
00:22:15,292 --> 00:22:17,842
Yeah. I mean,
you should have called me, you know?

506
00:22:17,836 --> 00:22:19,916
It was a nightmare.

507
00:22:19,921 --> 00:22:22,341
We would fight in public.

508
00:22:22,341 --> 00:22:24,631
I'm so sorry.

509
00:22:24,634 --> 00:22:25,844
I couldn't.

510
00:22:25,844 --> 00:22:28,474
You still should have called me.

511
00:22:30,599 --> 00:22:32,979
<i>We made arrangements
to see each other immediately,</i>

512
00:22:32,976 --> 00:22:34,806
<i>and I took a brief leave from my life</i>

513
00:22:34,811 --> 00:22:37,941
<i>as a housewife in New Jersey
to come into the big city.</i>

514
00:22:39,066 --> 00:22:41,066
- Hi.
- Hi.

515
00:22:41,068 --> 00:22:42,648
- Hello.
- Hi.

516
00:22:42,652 --> 00:22:43,902
- Okay. Come on.
- Yeah.

517
00:22:43,904 --> 00:22:45,744
- Come on in. Come on in.
- Let's hug.

518
00:22:45,739 --> 00:22:47,199
Should we get something to eat?

519
00:22:47,199 --> 00:22:49,029
No. I'm good. I ate on Tuesday.

520
00:22:52,037 --> 00:22:54,457
- Are you doing okay?
- Yes, I am okay.

521
00:22:54,456 --> 00:22:55,706
Okay.

522
00:22:55,707 --> 00:22:57,417
I don't know. I worry about the kids.

523
00:22:58,210 --> 00:23:00,960
I hate weekends when I don't have them.

524
00:23:00,962 --> 00:23:03,132
I freak out when I wake up
in my new apartment,

525
00:23:03,131 --> 00:23:06,431
which is like a hovel compared to
the palace I just moved out of.

526
00:23:06,426 --> 00:23:07,756
- Sure.
- Seriously.

527
00:23:07,761 --> 00:23:09,431
But...

528
00:23:09,429 --> 00:23:11,099
I think I'm past the hard part.

529
00:23:11,807 --> 00:23:14,597
And, yeah, I think I'm, like,

530
00:23:14,601 --> 00:23:17,441
actually up to the interesting part.

531
00:23:19,523 --> 00:23:21,113
Look at this.

532
00:23:21,108 --> 00:23:22,358
What is that?

533
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:26,909
It's like a bevy of
interested sexual partners

534
00:23:26,905 --> 00:23:29,825
that comprises the underlayer
of this city, apparently.

535
00:23:29,825 --> 00:23:31,365
Might have been here forever.

536
00:23:31,368 --> 00:23:33,698
Toby Fleishman.

537
00:23:33,703 --> 00:23:34,833
Hot damn.

538
00:23:34,830 --> 00:23:36,210
Can you imagine all those years

539
00:23:36,206 --> 00:23:38,626
I couldn't even get
return eye contact, and...

540
00:23:38,625 --> 00:23:42,085
I cannot believe that this is
where life has deposited you.

541
00:23:42,087 --> 00:23:44,667
Listen, I know it feels
like we haven't been in touch,

542
00:23:44,673 --> 00:23:47,343
but I get the magazine, and I look, like,

543
00:23:47,342 --> 00:23:49,852
every month for your name,
and I read the stories,

544
00:23:49,845 --> 00:23:52,715
and, Lib, it is like
your voice in my ears.

545
00:23:54,433 --> 00:23:56,393
I'm proud of you, you know?

546
00:23:56,393 --> 00:23:59,903
Yeah. I'm not at the magazine anymore.

547
00:23:59,896 --> 00:24:02,396
I'm not anywhere anymore.

548
00:24:02,399 --> 00:24:03,529
This is...

549
00:24:03,525 --> 00:24:04,685
Yeah.

550
00:24:04,693 --> 00:24:06,783
<i>Our friend Seth had fewer questions.</i>

551
00:24:06,778 --> 00:24:08,028
Dude.

552
00:24:08,029 --> 00:24:10,489
The world is your oyster now. Lick it up.

553
00:24:10,490 --> 00:24:12,910
- I'm trying, you know, to...
- I have a great idea.

554
00:24:12,909 --> 00:24:14,909
- Yeah?
- Go to your apartment, put on shorts.

555
00:24:14,911 --> 00:24:16,371
- Why?
- We're gonna go to yoga.

556
00:24:16,371 --> 00:24:17,581
It's Saturday night.

557
00:24:17,581 --> 00:24:19,711
It's Saturday afternoon. Trust me.

558
00:24:19,708 --> 00:24:21,458
What? I can't. I just had a drink.

559
00:24:21,460 --> 00:24:24,170
The place I go to is owned by
a guy who trained under Bikram.

560
00:24:24,171 --> 00:24:26,171
He started a splinter group
that nearly brought

561
00:24:26,173 --> 00:24:28,433
the Indian political system to its knees.

562
00:24:28,425 --> 00:24:29,625
- Really?
- Yes.

563
00:24:29,634 --> 00:24:30,934
Do you know who goes to yoga?

564
00:24:33,346 --> 00:24:34,636
- Girls.
- Yeah, right.

565
00:24:34,639 --> 00:24:36,559
Going to yoga shows a woman

566
00:24:36,558 --> 00:24:38,558
how evolved you are
and how not set you are

567
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,610
on maintaining the patriarchy
she so loathes and fears.

568
00:24:41,605 --> 00:24:43,895
I got to get home.
And aren't you dating someone?

569
00:24:43,899 --> 00:24:45,779
I'm doing this for you, not me.

570
00:24:45,775 --> 00:24:47,775
How high is your closing rate?

571
00:24:47,777 --> 00:24:48,857
It's like 60%.

572
00:24:48,862 --> 00:24:50,662
It's 30%. I can't keep track.

573
00:24:50,655 --> 00:24:52,115
You should be at 100%.

574
00:24:52,115 --> 00:24:53,945
You should only be closing right now.

575
00:24:53,950 --> 00:24:56,330
You are prime time now. You are golden.

576
00:24:56,328 --> 00:24:58,118
- Are you being picky?
- I'd put my penis

577
00:24:58,121 --> 00:25:00,371
in a he-donkey right now,
that's how picky I'm being.

578
00:25:00,373 --> 00:25:02,083
So what's the problem?

579
00:25:02,083 --> 00:25:03,343
The problem? I don't know.

580
00:25:03,335 --> 00:25:04,665
I'm getting out of a marriage

581
00:25:04,669 --> 00:25:06,839
to a woman who wouldn't
let me pee standing up.

582
00:25:06,838 --> 00:25:08,258
I have some healing to do.

583
00:25:12,135 --> 00:25:14,175
I really missed you, man.

584
00:25:16,890 --> 00:25:19,180
Go put those shorts on.

585
00:25:19,184 --> 00:25:20,984
<i>Then Toby invited us to his new place</i>

586
00:25:20,977 --> 00:25:23,307
<i>when his kids were
with Rachel one weekend,</i>

587
00:25:23,313 --> 00:25:26,113
<i>the three of us together
for the first time in 15 years.</i>

588
00:25:26,107 --> 00:25:27,437
Didn't want to move downtown?

589
00:25:27,442 --> 00:25:29,572
My kids are up here,
and I work across the park,

590
00:25:29,569 --> 00:25:32,159
so I'm kind of like
a prisoner of the Upper East Side

591
00:25:32,155 --> 00:25:34,485
until The Hague mandates that I can leave.

592
00:25:34,491 --> 00:25:35,741
You need new shades.

593
00:25:35,742 --> 00:25:37,622
Yes, I know. I also need a new toaster.

594
00:25:37,619 --> 00:25:38,909
Rachel has a good toaster.

595
00:25:38,912 --> 00:25:42,002
Well, I pronounce this place
completely delightful.

596
00:25:41,998 --> 00:25:43,458
I love this apartment.

597
00:25:43,458 --> 00:25:46,458
It reminds me of the first place
Adam and I had together.

598
00:25:46,461 --> 00:25:47,841
- Yeah?
- Mmm-hmm.

599
00:25:47,837 --> 00:25:50,087
It reminds me of our dorm room in Israel.

600
00:25:50,090 --> 00:25:51,760
- Very mean.
- I mean, I love it.

601
00:25:51,758 --> 00:25:53,838
I mean, I hated the place
that Rachel put us in.

602
00:25:53,843 --> 00:25:55,303
Had these high ceilings.

603
00:25:55,303 --> 00:25:58,103
They made the doormen
dress like they were in the military.

604
00:25:59,683 --> 00:26:01,773
Divorce is like that old <i>Othello</i> game.

605
00:26:01,768 --> 00:26:04,898
You start your marriage
with all the discs white, right?

606
00:26:04,896 --> 00:26:07,396
Then there are some black discs
along the way.

607
00:26:07,399 --> 00:26:09,279
You fight, but ultimately, you laugh

608
00:26:09,276 --> 00:26:11,856
and it's fine because the board
is still mostly white, right?

609
00:26:11,861 --> 00:26:15,411
But then something happens
and the marriage falls apart,

610
00:26:15,407 --> 00:26:18,197
and suddenly the entire board is black.

611
00:26:18,201 --> 00:26:19,701
Is that how you play <i>Othello?</i>

612
00:26:19,703 --> 00:26:22,583
They should probably change
the name <i>Othello,</i> you know?

613
00:26:22,581 --> 00:26:25,581
Yeah, so now even the good memories
are tinged with darkness.

614
00:26:25,584 --> 00:26:27,714
They're tainted, rotten from the start.

615
00:26:27,711 --> 00:26:28,961
Not all of them.

616
00:26:28,962 --> 00:26:30,802
Yes, man, all of them. Okay?

617
00:26:30,797 --> 00:26:33,837
Now you look back on all those memories,
like the honeymoon fight,

618
00:26:33,842 --> 00:26:35,722
a disagreement on a child's name,

619
00:26:35,719 --> 00:26:38,179
and suddenly they're no longer
innocuous fights.

620
00:26:38,305 --> 00:26:39,635
Now they're foreshadowing.

621
00:26:39,639 --> 00:26:43,229
When we get married,
we really have no way to fully understand

622
00:26:43,226 --> 00:26:45,556
what forever means, you know?

623
00:26:45,562 --> 00:26:46,902
That's what I say.

624
00:26:47,439 --> 00:26:48,899
Marriage is for suckers.

625
00:26:48,898 --> 00:26:50,858
How are you gonna know
how you're gonna feel

626
00:26:50,859 --> 00:26:53,359
in three times the amount
of years you've been alive for?

627
00:26:53,361 --> 00:26:54,491
You were how old

628
00:26:54,487 --> 00:26:56,157
- when you got married?
- Twenty-six.

629
00:26:56,156 --> 00:26:57,526
- Thirty.
- Thirty.

630
00:26:57,532 --> 00:26:59,202
Has your brain even stopped growing?

631
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:00,790
Does your brain grow?

632
00:27:00,785 --> 00:27:03,785
I was ridiculous in my 20s.
Who would I have married?

633
00:27:03,788 --> 00:27:06,498
What kind of decision or choice
would I have made?

634
00:27:06,499 --> 00:27:08,169
You grow up. You change.

635
00:27:08,168 --> 00:27:09,288
Like the show <i>Friends.</i>

636
00:27:09,294 --> 00:27:11,424
I used to like <i>Friends</i>
when it first came out.

637
00:27:11,421 --> 00:27:14,591
Now I hear that opening music,
it makes me want to kill myself.

638
00:27:14,591 --> 00:27:16,261
Definitely should not watch <i>Friends.</i>

639
00:27:16,259 --> 00:27:20,059
What I'm saying is I keep seeing people
outgrow the people that they were with,

640
00:27:20,055 --> 00:27:22,305
and now all the guys at work, my work,

641
00:27:22,307 --> 00:27:25,767
are these, like, miserable,
desperate creatures

642
00:27:25,769 --> 00:27:28,609
who get way too wasted at
other people's bachelor parties

643
00:27:28,605 --> 00:27:30,265
because they're dreading going home.

644
00:27:30,273 --> 00:27:31,693
But you know what?

645
00:27:31,691 --> 00:27:33,651
I was at their weddings. I saw them.

646
00:27:33,652 --> 00:27:35,112
They were in love.

647
00:27:35,111 --> 00:27:36,241
They were happy that day.

648
00:27:36,237 --> 00:27:37,817
You and Rachel were happy that day.

649
00:27:37,822 --> 00:27:39,742
- Yeah, we were.
- Yeah, you really were.

650
00:27:39,741 --> 00:27:41,991
So, how could
an intelligent observer of this

651
00:27:41,993 --> 00:27:43,543
ever decide to choose it?

652
00:27:43,536 --> 00:27:45,036
Hmm.

653
00:27:45,038 --> 00:27:46,578
Are you still going to therapy?

654
00:27:46,581 --> 00:27:48,631
No. The apps are like my therapy.

655
00:27:48,625 --> 00:27:50,625
It's like group therapy,
except at the end,

656
00:27:50,627 --> 00:27:53,337
you get to put your penis
in the therapist's mouth.

657
00:27:53,338 --> 00:27:55,168
My therapist does that.

658
00:27:55,173 --> 00:27:57,013
<i>So we met, and we laughed.</i>

659
00:27:57,008 --> 00:28:00,178
<i>And in our laughter,
I heard something dangerous,</i>

660
00:28:00,178 --> 00:28:02,218
<i>which was the sound of our youth.</i>

661
00:28:03,515 --> 00:28:05,265
<i>Which landed us here, on the day</i>

662
00:28:05,266 --> 00:28:07,766
<i>that Rachel dropped the kids off
at Toby's apartment</i>

663
00:28:07,769 --> 00:28:10,149
<i>a full day earlier than expected.</i>

664
00:28:10,146 --> 00:28:11,396
She does whatever she wants.

665
00:28:11,398 --> 00:28:12,858
I shouldn't have been surprised

666
00:28:12,857 --> 00:28:15,987
to see our kids sleep-marched
to the apartment at 4:00 a.m.

667
00:28:15,985 --> 00:28:17,235
00 a.m.! Sorry.

668
00:28:17,237 --> 00:28:18,487
I'm angry all over again.

669
00:28:18,488 --> 00:28:21,028
I thought she would at least be
a good divorce partner.

670
00:28:21,032 --> 00:28:23,622
Why would you think that?
She was a terrible wife.

671
00:28:23,618 --> 00:28:26,288
Yeah, no, I know.
I thought we had an agreement

672
00:28:26,287 --> 00:28:28,037
where we'd put each other through enough

673
00:28:28,039 --> 00:28:29,789
and we could be normal to each other.

674
00:28:29,791 --> 00:28:31,251
But what I remember is that

675
00:28:31,251 --> 00:28:34,921
I'm normal, and she's crazy,
and that's why this could never work out.

676
00:28:34,921 --> 00:28:37,221
Sorry. I had a date tonight.

677
00:28:37,215 --> 00:28:38,545
Let me see.

678
00:28:38,550 --> 00:28:41,050
Okay. Here you go.

679
00:28:41,052 --> 00:28:42,722
All right. What do you think of her?

680
00:28:42,721 --> 00:28:44,101
Oh. Nice.

681
00:28:44,097 --> 00:28:45,427
How old is she?

682
00:28:45,432 --> 00:28:46,682
- Let me see.
- I don't know.

683
00:28:46,683 --> 00:28:47,813
She said she's 39.

684
00:28:47,809 --> 00:28:48,979
- No.
- No?

685
00:28:48,977 --> 00:28:50,227
- She's not 39.
- No?

686
00:28:50,228 --> 00:28:53,438
Weird fact about dating
is no one is actually 39 or 29.

687
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:54,650
There's 40 or 30.

688
00:28:54,649 --> 00:28:57,189
They shouldn't let you use those ages
because they don't exist.

689
00:28:57,193 --> 00:28:59,363
How did it go with the zoologist?

690
00:28:59,362 --> 00:29:01,492
It was really freaky.
She wanted me to choke her.

691
00:29:01,489 --> 00:29:04,449
- What?
- Yeah, yeah. That happens all the time.

692
00:29:04,451 --> 00:29:06,371
Women have been let loose.

693
00:29:06,369 --> 00:29:07,499
They are emancipated.

694
00:29:07,495 --> 00:29:09,535
That is the opposite of emancipation.

695
00:29:09,539 --> 00:29:11,709
They're doing that
because they saw it in porn.

696
00:29:11,708 --> 00:29:14,338
- What did you do?
- I told her I took an oath.

697
00:29:14,335 --> 00:29:16,415
I'm serious. A person could die like that.

698
00:29:16,421 --> 00:29:18,131
I told her that.

699
00:29:18,131 --> 00:29:21,381
What does your oath say
about her being a naughty girl

700
00:29:21,384 --> 00:29:23,264
who needs some very light spanking?

701
00:29:23,261 --> 00:29:25,511
Come on.
Come on. No, no, no.

702
00:29:27,140 --> 00:29:28,310
What were we talking about?

703
00:29:28,308 --> 00:29:29,978
- Ages.
- Oh, yeah. Right.

704
00:29:29,976 --> 00:29:31,436
When I was on the apps, you know,

705
00:29:31,436 --> 00:29:34,056
I would put my search interest
from 21 to 28.

706
00:29:34,063 --> 00:29:36,323
That way, the oldest woman
I would get is 35.

707
00:29:36,316 --> 00:29:37,976
- Beat the system.
- Stop it.

708
00:29:37,984 --> 00:29:39,744
I don't really like
the younger women.

709
00:29:39,736 --> 00:29:40,986
- You don't?
- No.

710
00:29:40,987 --> 00:29:43,407
I mean, hey, come on.
We're not that old, you know?

711
00:29:43,406 --> 00:29:46,526
I don't think women our age are old.
The younger ones hate us less.

712
00:29:46,534 --> 00:29:49,084
Have you thought that all the way through?

713
00:29:49,078 --> 00:29:50,458
Am I wrong?

714
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:52,540
I don't know.

715
00:29:52,540 --> 00:29:55,460
I'm just... You know,
it makes a girl start to wonder

716
00:29:55,460 --> 00:29:57,710
how she might do on the produce market.

717
00:29:57,712 --> 00:29:59,422
You don't have to worry about it.

718
00:29:59,422 --> 00:30:01,172
- You're married.
- He was married.

719
00:30:01,174 --> 00:30:03,474
I did go out on a couple dates
with a 25-year-old,

720
00:30:03,468 --> 00:30:06,258
until I changed my search parameters
to 39 to 47, you know,

721
00:30:06,262 --> 00:30:08,972
'cause if they want to have kids,

722
00:30:08,973 --> 00:30:11,393
I don't want to waste their time.
But also...

723
00:30:11,392 --> 00:30:13,852
You know, also, I can't be with someone

724
00:30:13,853 --> 00:30:15,863
who doesn't understand consequences.

725
00:30:15,855 --> 00:30:17,765
How the world will have its way with you

726
00:30:17,774 --> 00:30:19,944
despite your careful planning
and good behavior.

727
00:30:19,943 --> 00:30:21,613
- Yikes, dude.
- I know. I'm sorry.

728
00:30:21,611 --> 00:30:22,951
I'm just so angry at Rachel,

729
00:30:22,946 --> 00:30:25,106
who is old enough
to understand consequences.

730
00:30:25,114 --> 00:30:26,994
And yet! And yet!

731
00:30:27,450 --> 00:30:29,700
Uh...

732
00:30:29,702 --> 00:30:33,792
May the townsfolk know of her promiscuity

733
00:30:33,790 --> 00:30:36,750
and stone her in the square.

734
00:30:36,751 --> 00:30:38,421
No, that is not nice.

735
00:30:38,419 --> 00:30:40,419
- And may the next man...
- Yeah?

736
00:30:40,421 --> 00:30:42,261
...who visits her undercarriage...

737
00:30:42,257 --> 00:30:44,337
- Yes.
- ...have a big sneeze.

738
00:30:44,342 --> 00:30:45,802
Oh, no, please. No, no, no.

739
00:30:45,802 --> 00:30:49,062
And the sneeze travels up her vagina
and causes an embolism.

740
00:30:49,055 --> 00:30:50,515
That's not how embolisms work.

741
00:30:50,515 --> 00:30:52,885
I'm pretty sure that's
how embolism works.

742
00:30:52,892 --> 00:30:54,482
Thank you for taking my side.

743
00:30:54,477 --> 00:30:55,937
Anytime.

744
00:30:57,272 --> 00:30:59,732
Okay. I should go.
You guys can split that.

745
00:30:59,732 --> 00:31:01,152
- Yeah.
- Thanks so much.

746
00:31:01,150 --> 00:31:02,400
Thank you.

747
00:31:02,402 --> 00:31:03,822
All right. Love you.

748
00:31:03,820 --> 00:31:04,950
Okay.

749
00:31:04,946 --> 00:31:06,026
- Bye.
- Bye.

750
00:31:06,030 --> 00:31:07,240
Bye-bye.

751
00:31:10,243 --> 00:31:12,373
Hey! Was today good?

752
00:31:12,370 --> 00:31:13,870
Hello to you.

753
00:31:13,872 --> 00:31:15,372
There's a STEM contest at the Y.

754
00:31:15,373 --> 00:31:16,833
Can we enter it?

755
00:31:16,833 --> 00:31:19,383
If you win, you get to be
in a science fair in September.

756
00:31:19,377 --> 00:31:20,837
I think we can arrange that.

757
00:31:20,837 --> 00:31:22,707
I have what Mom calls
"the competitive edge"

758
00:31:22,714 --> 00:31:24,094
because I have a science dad.

759
00:31:24,090 --> 00:31:26,380
Okay. Here comes the bus.

760
00:31:26,384 --> 00:31:28,014
Hey, what's going on?

761
00:31:28,011 --> 00:31:29,681
I'm not going on the bus.

762
00:31:29,679 --> 00:31:30,759
Hannah. Come on.

763
00:31:30,763 --> 00:31:31,973
No.

764
00:31:31,973 --> 00:31:34,433
You're so embarrassing.

765
00:31:34,434 --> 00:31:35,894
Okay. This is nonsense.

766
00:31:35,894 --> 00:31:38,524
Come with us right now,
or you're not going to Lexi's.

767
00:31:38,521 --> 00:31:40,271
Can we just take a cab?

768
00:31:50,742 --> 00:31:52,912
Look, you have to be able to,
like, live among people

769
00:31:52,911 --> 00:31:55,001
without wanting or needing
to be like them.

770
00:31:54,996 --> 00:31:56,656
You have to know our values.

771
00:31:56,664 --> 00:31:58,964
Not wanting to be seen on a bus,
that's not good.

772
00:31:58,958 --> 00:32:00,998
Not wanting to take a bus
is not a good value,

773
00:32:01,002 --> 00:32:03,252
for like a million reasons.

774
00:32:03,254 --> 00:32:04,924
- Hey, Dad.
- Yeah?

775
00:32:04,923 --> 00:32:06,383
Can I get golf lessons?

776
00:32:06,382 --> 00:32:09,512
You want golf... Yeah. Yeah, sure.

777
00:32:09,510 --> 00:32:10,850
I'll look into it, buddy.

778
00:32:13,181 --> 00:32:14,851
<i>For the 10th time that day,</i>

779
00:32:14,849 --> 00:32:17,479
<i>Toby was forced to ask
the question that occurred to him</i>

780
00:32:17,477 --> 00:32:20,147
<i>nearly every few minutes
since his separation...</i>

781
00:32:20,146 --> 00:32:21,226
<i>How did I get here?</i>

782
00:32:21,230 --> 00:32:23,230
<i>How did I become a divorced guy?</i>

783
00:32:23,232 --> 00:32:25,532
<i>How could my kids be so much
like these people</i>

784
00:32:25,526 --> 00:32:28,026
<i>when they also so resembled me?</i>

785
00:32:28,029 --> 00:32:29,449
<i>How did he get here?</i>

786
00:32:30,823 --> 00:32:32,083
- Hey, Dad?
- Yes.

787
00:32:32,075 --> 00:32:33,405
I think I found our project.

788
00:32:33,409 --> 00:32:35,749
Can we do quantum superposition?

789
00:32:35,745 --> 00:32:37,455
It's like Schrödinger's cat.

790
00:32:37,455 --> 00:32:39,785
Maybe. I just don't want to be killing
living things.

791
00:32:39,791 --> 00:32:41,751
There's no way to do it
without a dead cat?

792
00:32:41,751 --> 00:32:43,131
We'll figure something out, okay?

793
00:32:43,127 --> 00:32:44,377
- Hey, Dad?
- Yeah.

794
00:32:44,379 --> 00:32:45,459
Can we get a dog?

795
00:32:45,463 --> 00:32:46,713
Oh, God. Are you serious?

796
00:32:46,714 --> 00:32:48,344
I don't know. Check with your mother.

797
00:32:48,341 --> 00:32:49,801
I got to get changed.

798
00:32:49,801 --> 00:32:51,681
- Where are you going?
- He's going on a date.

799
00:32:51,678 --> 00:32:53,348
- Thank you, Hannah.
- What?

800
00:32:53,346 --> 00:32:55,216
Don't you want to work on our project?

801
00:32:55,223 --> 00:32:57,563
I do. You have play dates
with your friends?

802
00:32:57,558 --> 00:32:58,728
Adults have those, too.

803
00:32:58,726 --> 00:33:01,016
And it's healthy. It's, like, normal.

804
00:33:01,020 --> 00:33:03,610
- Yeah. Mona.
- Mona!

805
00:33:03,606 --> 00:33:05,476
Thank you so much for coming.

806
00:33:05,483 --> 00:33:07,443
- Hi!
- I really do appreciate it.

807
00:33:07,443 --> 00:33:09,113
- <i>It's a Halloween party.</i>
- Hi, Mona.

808
00:33:09,112 --> 00:33:11,412
Hey, babe. Nice to see you.

809
00:33:11,406 --> 00:33:13,906
Mona, you're a lifesaver.

810
00:33:13,908 --> 00:33:16,788
<i>You can have a costume brought to you
on a day other than Halloween.</i>

811
00:33:16,786 --> 00:33:20,156
<i>- Guess I should be punished.
- Well, that can be arranged.</i>

812
00:33:20,164 --> 00:33:23,924
Whoa! Hey, is this really the best
thing to watch right now?

813
00:33:23,918 --> 00:33:26,088
You ruin everything!

814
00:33:26,087 --> 00:33:28,257
- Okay.
<i>- Those sunglasses...</i>

815
00:33:28,256 --> 00:33:29,916
<i>He had emerged that summer</i>

816
00:33:29,924 --> 00:33:33,094
<i>like a newborn baby seal
with his eyes clamped shut.</i>

817
00:33:33,094 --> 00:33:36,974
<i>But now they were open,
and he was a student again.</i>

818
00:33:36,973 --> 00:33:40,103
<i>And in this short time,
he had learned a million new things.</i>

819
00:33:40,101 --> 00:33:41,441
<i>Among them was the fact</i>

820
00:33:41,436 --> 00:33:43,516
<i>that if you skew your vision just right,</i>

821
00:33:43,521 --> 00:33:46,861
<i>you could see the world
as his dating app presented it,</i>

822
00:33:46,858 --> 00:33:49,108
<i>with New York as a city full of people</i>

823
00:33:49,110 --> 00:33:50,900
<i>with only one imperative,</i>

824
00:33:50,903 --> 00:33:55,413
<i>to fuck or lick or suck
or finger or apply hot breath</i>

825
00:33:55,408 --> 00:33:59,538
<i>to a warm body with a compatible schedule.</i>

826
00:33:59,537 --> 00:34:02,287
<i>As he tried to get his bearings
these last few months,</i>

827
00:34:02,290 --> 00:34:04,670
<i>he enjoyed the simplicity of that.</i>

828
00:34:06,711 --> 00:34:07,961
Hey.

829
00:34:08,838 --> 00:34:10,258
Are you Alex?

830
00:34:10,256 --> 00:34:12,506
I'm... No, I'm Toby.

831
00:34:12,508 --> 00:34:15,218
Yeah, of course you are.

832
00:34:15,219 --> 00:34:17,719
<i>And he learned that he wasn't
alone in his search</i>

833
00:34:17,722 --> 00:34:20,602
<i>for someone to talk to
and kiss and ignite,</i>

834
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,230
<i>even if it was just for a night.</i>

835
00:34:23,227 --> 00:34:24,687
<i>He was meeting a woman named Tess</i>

836
00:34:24,687 --> 00:34:27,727
<i>that he'd been exchanging
dirty messages with for a week.</i>

837
00:34:28,733 --> 00:34:31,193
<i>He tried to remember what she
looked like, but she'd sent</i>

838
00:34:31,194 --> 00:34:33,744
<i>too many pictures of body parts
in the meantime,</i>

839
00:34:33,738 --> 00:34:36,028
<i>and he realized he'd lost
the plot on her face.</i>

840
00:34:36,032 --> 00:34:37,282
<i>Bicep emoji.</i>

841
00:34:37,283 --> 00:34:40,583
<i>Shrug with "What are you
gonna do?" arms emoji.</i>

842
00:34:40,578 --> 00:34:42,288
Hi. Hi.

843
00:34:48,544 --> 00:34:50,964
He turned 50 and got depressed,

844
00:34:50,963 --> 00:34:53,473
so I sent him on a survival skills weekend

845
00:34:53,466 --> 00:34:54,926
with a famous life coach.

846
00:34:54,926 --> 00:34:57,636
It cost $10,000 for a weekend.

847
00:34:57,637 --> 00:34:58,807
Oh, my God.

848
00:34:58,805 --> 00:35:01,265
- She's a shaman now.
- I would hope so.

849
00:35:01,265 --> 00:35:02,675
Well, he comes back and says

850
00:35:02,683 --> 00:35:04,733
he wants to start having threesomes.

851
00:35:05,436 --> 00:35:09,396
I'm surprised, but I also think,
"Look at this beautiful life."

852
00:35:09,398 --> 00:35:10,648
So I say sure.

853
00:35:10,650 --> 00:35:13,820
You know, we'll need some rules,
but why not?

854
00:35:13,820 --> 00:35:14,900
I'm not dead yet.

855
00:35:14,904 --> 00:35:17,414
Well, that is very generous of you.

856
00:35:17,406 --> 00:35:20,446
Well, turns out he wants to have
threesomes with other women.

857
00:35:20,451 --> 00:35:22,201
Two other women.

858
00:35:22,203 --> 00:35:23,453
- None of them me.
- No!

859
00:35:23,454 --> 00:35:24,754
No. That is insane.

860
00:35:24,747 --> 00:35:26,707
Wait, so the life coach
told him to do this?

861
00:35:26,707 --> 00:35:29,127
She told him to live his truth,
or whatever.

862
00:35:29,127 --> 00:35:30,627
His truth?

863
00:35:30,628 --> 00:35:33,508
I swear, you think you know someone,
and then they do something

864
00:35:33,506 --> 00:35:36,296
you could not have predicted
in your wildest dreams.

865
00:35:36,300 --> 00:35:38,090
Boy, isn't that the truth.

866
00:35:38,094 --> 00:35:40,604
That's my truth.

867
00:35:40,596 --> 00:35:42,596
So, how did you guys meet?

868
00:35:42,723 --> 00:35:44,273
You know, it's funny.

869
00:35:44,267 --> 00:35:45,347
In a threesome.

870
00:35:47,979 --> 00:35:49,859
<i>But what Toby really
learned the whole summer</i>

871
00:35:49,856 --> 00:35:51,396
<i>was that he was wanted again.</i>

872
00:35:51,399 --> 00:35:54,819
Toby! Oh, yes!

873
00:35:54,819 --> 00:35:56,949
<i>He was wanted on top.</i>

874
00:35:59,031 --> 00:36:00,201
<i>He was wanted on bottom.</i>

875
00:36:02,118 --> 00:36:03,288
Get down.

876
00:36:03,286 --> 00:36:05,616
<i>They wanted him on all fours,
which was new for him.</i>

877
00:36:05,621 --> 00:36:06,871
Yes, ma'am.

878
00:36:11,085 --> 00:36:12,545
<i>They wanted him to go slower.</i>

879
00:36:14,922 --> 00:36:17,132
<i>They wanted him to go faster.</i>

880
00:36:17,133 --> 00:36:20,473
<i>They wanted to know
if he was gonna come hard.</i>

881
00:36:20,469 --> 00:36:23,099
<i>They wanted him to come to Mommy.</i>

882
00:36:23,097 --> 00:36:25,807
<i>They wanted to call him Daddy.</i>

883
00:36:39,906 --> 00:36:42,236
<i>He was madly in love with each of them.</i>

884
00:36:44,744 --> 00:36:47,464
<i>On these nights, he didn't wonder why
this had happened to him.</i>

885
00:36:47,455 --> 00:36:49,535
Albert. My man.

886
00:36:49,540 --> 00:36:52,290
<i>On these nights,
he was grateful life was long</i>

887
00:36:52,293 --> 00:36:55,053
<i>and he got to experience
all of these new things.</i>

888
00:36:55,963 --> 00:36:57,303
<i>He had been so lost.</i>

889
00:36:57,298 --> 00:37:00,718
<i>And each night, he became just
a little more found.</i>

890
00:37:10,144 --> 00:37:12,904
I know. We can do relativity.

891
00:37:12,897 --> 00:37:15,017
Yeah. Yeah.
That's actually not a bad idea.

892
00:37:15,024 --> 00:37:16,824
Oh!

893
00:37:16,817 --> 00:37:18,237
That might be for me.

894
00:37:19,612 --> 00:37:21,412
<i>"Good morning, Doctor."</i>

895
00:37:22,782 --> 00:37:24,742
Who's Tess?

896
00:37:24,742 --> 00:37:27,082
Tess? Oh, she's a resident.
She's a fellow.

897
00:37:27,078 --> 00:37:28,498
She's a new patient.

898
00:37:28,496 --> 00:37:29,996
She's a good patient.

899
00:37:29,997 --> 00:37:31,247
<i>"That was fun last night.</i>

900
00:37:31,249 --> 00:37:33,919
<i>"I just bought a piece of lingerie
you'll enjoy removing.</i>

901
00:37:33,918 --> 00:37:35,168
<i>"Cat with heart eyes emoji,</i>

902
00:37:35,169 --> 00:37:37,339
<i>"poison skull emoji, robot arm emoji."</i>

903
00:37:37,338 --> 00:37:39,128
- I found a corner!
- Yeah, I'll be right there.

904
00:37:39,131 --> 00:37:40,341
-"Tomorrow night?"
- Dad.

905
00:37:40,341 --> 00:37:41,591
<i>"My kids. Your place?"</i>

906
00:37:41,592 --> 00:37:42,682
Two pieces that connect!

907
00:37:42,677 --> 00:37:43,757
I got it, buddy.

908
00:37:43,761 --> 00:37:45,601
- <i>"Thumbs up emoji."</i>
-"Say 6:<i>00?"</i>

909
00:37:45,596 --> 00:37:47,006
I'll see if I can find another.

910
00:37:47,014 --> 00:37:48,394
Yeah. Just hold on to it.

911
00:37:48,391 --> 00:37:51,021
"866 East 91st Street.
Any time after 5:00."

912
00:37:51,018 --> 00:37:52,688
<i>"Laughing and crying emoji."</i>

913
00:37:53,813 --> 00:37:54,983
What if I need to call you?

914
00:37:54,981 --> 00:37:57,321
I'm sure the Leffers have a landline.
Or Cyndi's phone.

915
00:37:57,316 --> 00:37:59,186
You've never called me from a sleepover.

916
00:37:59,193 --> 00:38:00,653
Can't you just get me a phone?

917
00:38:00,653 --> 00:38:02,573
I will get you a phone
on your 12th birthday.

918
00:38:02,571 --> 00:38:03,821
That's in four months.

919
00:38:03,823 --> 00:38:06,413
Well, then, you get to be my baby
for four more months.

920
00:38:08,619 --> 00:38:10,959
<i>On their way to
the sleepover at the Leffers',</i>

921
00:38:10,955 --> 00:38:13,285
<i>Toby felt the same anxiety he always felt</i>

922
00:38:13,291 --> 00:38:16,341
<i>leaving his daughter
on the front lines of a social war zone.</i>

923
00:38:16,335 --> 00:38:17,795
<i>But he was momentarily distracted</i>

924
00:38:17,795 --> 00:38:19,455
<i>as they passed a brownstone doorway</i>

925
00:38:19,463 --> 00:38:21,723
<i>that he'd ended up
getting a hand job in a week ago</i>

926
00:38:21,716 --> 00:38:23,466
<i>from a writer he'd been out with.</i>

927
00:38:24,802 --> 00:38:26,892
Is it too late to switch
my bat mitzvah venue?

928
00:38:26,887 --> 00:38:31,307
You know, I think we already printed up
invitations, and there's a deposit.

929
00:38:31,309 --> 00:38:32,519
I still don't have a dress.

930
00:38:32,518 --> 00:38:34,808
It's not till November.
And you know your haftarah.

931
00:38:34,812 --> 00:38:36,272
That's the most important thing.

932
00:38:36,272 --> 00:38:37,942
Sure, Dad.

933
00:38:50,202 --> 00:38:52,582
Fleishmans! Hello!

934
00:38:52,580 --> 00:38:54,080
- Hi, Mrs. Leffer.
- Hi, honey.

935
00:38:54,081 --> 00:38:55,371
Lexi!

936
00:38:56,500 --> 00:38:58,290
Hannah, you have to see this.

937
00:38:58,294 --> 00:38:59,594
Hello, Dr. Fleishman.

938
00:38:59,587 --> 00:39:00,917
Hi, Lexi.

939
00:39:00,921 --> 00:39:03,671
Hey, Hannah, if you need me...
Honey... Yeah, okay.

940
00:39:03,674 --> 00:39:06,014
So, big plans for you boys tonight?

941
00:39:06,010 --> 00:39:07,350
We're going book shopping.

942
00:39:07,345 --> 00:39:08,675
Nice.

943
00:39:08,679 --> 00:39:10,349
How's the good doctor?

944
00:39:10,348 --> 00:39:11,638
Oh, Toby!

945
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:14,520
We were gonna have you and the kids
to the club next weekend,

946
00:39:14,518 --> 00:39:16,848
but Todd says
you don't play tennis or golf?

947
00:39:16,854 --> 00:39:18,234
Yeah, I play basketball.

948
00:39:18,230 --> 00:39:19,610
No kidding?

949
00:39:19,607 --> 00:39:21,107
- <i>Fuck you, Todd.</i>
- Mmm-hmm.

950
00:39:21,359 --> 00:39:22,739
Good for you.

951
00:39:22,735 --> 00:39:24,815
<i>You ever get an outdoor hand job, Todd?</i>

952
00:39:24,820 --> 00:39:26,030
Well, okay.

953
00:39:26,030 --> 00:39:27,740
Rachel will be picking up the girls

954
00:39:27,740 --> 00:39:29,490
to take them to the show at about 4:00.

955
00:39:29,492 --> 00:39:31,452
"You're just the wife."

956
00:39:31,452 --> 00:39:32,872
Curtain's at 7:00.

957
00:39:32,870 --> 00:39:34,790
And Rachel has reservations at Joe Allen.

958
00:39:34,789 --> 00:39:36,249
Isn't she the nicest?

959
00:39:36,248 --> 00:39:38,328
Well, you call Hannah
if you need anything, okay?

960
00:39:38,334 --> 00:39:39,964
She doesn't have a phone yet.

961
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:41,090
- Toby!
- Yeah?

962
00:39:41,087 --> 00:39:42,837
Get that girl a phone!

963
00:39:42,838 --> 00:39:46,008
You boys have
a good night, okay?

964
00:39:46,008 --> 00:39:47,758
Bye, guys. Bye, Solly.

965
00:39:51,764 --> 00:39:55,564
"Leffers expecting you at 4:00
<i>for Joe Allen and show."</i>

966
00:39:55,559 --> 00:39:58,099
Hey, what do you got?

967
00:39:58,104 --> 00:40:00,404
Let's see...
<i>4,000 Facts About the Universe.</i>

968
00:40:00,398 --> 00:40:02,648
This is good. And this...

969
00:40:02,650 --> 00:40:04,440
No, this one's more for grown-ups.

970
00:40:04,443 --> 00:40:06,993
They don't have so many
relativity books for kids.

971
00:40:06,987 --> 00:40:08,697
Well, yeah, that makes sense.

972
00:40:08,697 --> 00:40:10,407
Okay, go with those.

973
00:40:12,493 --> 00:40:13,663
We'll take these two.

974
00:40:13,661 --> 00:40:15,751
All right.
Is that gonna be it for you?

975
00:40:15,955 --> 00:40:17,535
Yeah.

976
00:40:17,540 --> 00:40:19,210
<i>You've reached Rachel Fleishman.</i>

977
00:40:19,333 --> 00:40:22,173
<i>If this is urgent, you can call
my assistant Simone at...</i>

978
00:40:30,010 --> 00:40:32,510
So, the same thing happens
at the same time.

979
00:40:32,513 --> 00:40:33,933
Mmm-hmm.

980
00:40:34,056 --> 00:40:36,266
If someone else observes it
at a different angle...

981
00:40:36,267 --> 00:40:38,057
Yeah, it means it's also true, though.

982
00:40:38,060 --> 00:40:39,520
Here. You know what?

983
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:41,770
Put out your thumb like this.

984
00:40:41,772 --> 00:40:42,982
Yeah. Good.

985
00:40:42,982 --> 00:40:44,862
Now close your right eye.

986
00:40:45,776 --> 00:40:47,186
Yeah. Good. Now close your left.

987
00:40:48,487 --> 00:40:49,697
It's weird, right?

988
00:40:49,697 --> 00:40:52,697
It's like a different perspective,
but they're both reality.

989
00:40:53,909 --> 00:40:55,329
<i>Suddenly it occurred to Toby</i>

990
00:40:55,327 --> 00:40:57,577
<i>that he hadn't heard a thing from Rachel</i>

991
00:40:57,580 --> 00:41:00,460
<i>since their phone conversation
on Friday morning.</i>

992
00:41:00,458 --> 00:41:03,288
<i>"Question mark. Question mark."</i>

993
00:41:06,130 --> 00:41:08,010
<i>"Where are you, Rachel?</i>

994
00:41:08,799 --> 00:41:10,799
<i>"It's Sunday.</i>

995
00:41:10,801 --> 00:41:13,471
<i>"I am so sick of this shit."</i>

996
00:41:17,558 --> 00:41:19,518
"Hey, Toby, it's 4:30,

997
00:41:19,518 --> 00:41:20,978
<i>"and I haven't heard from Rachel,</i>

998
00:41:20,978 --> 00:41:23,518
<i>"and Todd and I have to head out
for a golf tournament."</i>

999
00:41:23,522 --> 00:41:25,232
We got to go. Come on, we got to go.

1000
00:41:29,487 --> 00:41:31,317
Look, your dad's here now.

1001
00:41:31,322 --> 00:41:32,572
- Hey.
- Where's Mom?

1002
00:41:32,573 --> 00:41:35,083
Mom's running late.
I think her yoga retreat ran over.

1003
00:41:35,075 --> 00:41:36,325
I don't know. Maybe... Hi.

1004
00:41:36,327 --> 00:41:37,947
Maybe they all fell asleep.

1005
00:41:38,704 --> 00:41:39,964
That's not funny.

1006
00:41:39,955 --> 00:41:41,785
She would not miss this. It's her work.

1007
00:41:41,790 --> 00:41:44,790
Come back to my place
and she can pick you up there.

1008
00:41:44,793 --> 00:41:47,803
No, no, I am not taking
Lexi to your apartment.

1009
00:41:47,796 --> 00:41:50,506
Hey, how about you're not going
anywhere if you keep this up?

1010
00:41:52,384 --> 00:41:54,094
Oh, my God.

1011
00:41:57,806 --> 00:41:59,766
<i>It was right then that
Toby started to wonder</i>

1012
00:41:59,767 --> 00:42:02,057
<i>whether it was weird
that he hadn't heard from her</i>

1013
00:42:02,061 --> 00:42:04,481
<i>since their conversation
on Friday morning.</i>

1014
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:08,730
<i>No dismissive eye-rolling,
no middle finger emoji,</i>

1015
00:42:08,734 --> 00:42:10,154
<i>no three dots.</i>

1016
00:42:10,152 --> 00:42:12,032
<i>She wouldn't just blow him off.</i>

1017
00:42:12,029 --> 00:42:13,909
<i>She wouldn't reserve seats for a show</i>

1018
00:42:13,906 --> 00:42:16,826
<i>that she helped put up
and leave the box office hanging.</i>

1019
00:42:16,825 --> 00:42:19,575
<i>She wouldn't even let
the maître d' at Joe Allen down.</i>

1020
00:42:19,578 --> 00:42:20,828
<i>Toby? Yes.</i>

1021
00:42:20,829 --> 00:42:22,869
<i>The Joe Allen maître d'? No.</i>

1022
00:42:23,624 --> 00:42:24,794
What?

1023
00:42:24,792 --> 00:42:26,672
Hi.

1024
00:42:26,669 --> 00:42:28,589
This is where your dad lives?

1025
00:42:28,587 --> 00:42:30,417
It's just temporary.

1026
00:42:30,422 --> 00:42:32,802
It's not temporary.
Can't really talk right now.

1027
00:42:33,509 --> 00:42:35,009
Okay.

1028
00:42:35,010 --> 00:42:36,550
Okay, bye.

1029
00:42:44,603 --> 00:42:46,153
Hi.

1030
00:42:46,146 --> 00:42:49,106
How was your day in the actual world?

1031
00:42:49,108 --> 00:42:51,148
You didn't miss anything.

1032
00:42:51,151 --> 00:42:54,071
The real world is highly overrated.

1033
00:42:54,071 --> 00:42:56,281
How was everything here in paradise, huh?

1034
00:42:56,282 --> 00:42:59,492
<i>Lately I couldn't stop thinking
about Toby on his dates.</i>

1035
00:42:59,493 --> 00:43:01,793
<i>Coming home alone,
coming home with someone.</i>

1036
00:43:01,787 --> 00:43:04,707
<i>I didn't have a thing for him,
and I didn't want to be divorced.</i>

1037
00:43:04,707 --> 00:43:08,377
<i>It's that Toby's life
was no longer predictable.</i>

1038
00:43:08,377 --> 00:43:12,047
<i>He had somehow had the sense
of possibility returned to him.</i>

1039
00:43:12,673 --> 00:43:14,303
<i>I'd been feeling so old.</i>

1040
00:43:14,300 --> 00:43:16,180
<i>Here was Toby, exact same age,</i>

1041
00:43:16,176 --> 00:43:18,676
<i>just realizing how young he was.</i>

1042
00:43:18,679 --> 00:43:21,179
<i>I couldn't believe that it was
possible for two people</i>

1043
00:43:21,181 --> 00:43:23,891
<i>to be the same age and feel so different.</i>

1044
00:43:23,892 --> 00:43:26,022
<i>Which one of us was right?</i>

1045
00:43:26,020 --> 00:43:29,690
<i>Which is a way of saying I was
going through something, too, right then,</i>

1046
00:43:29,690 --> 00:43:31,400
<i>but I couldn't name it yet.</i>

1047
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,400
Are you Elizabeth Slater?

1048
00:43:33,402 --> 00:43:34,742
I was.

1049
00:43:36,030 --> 00:43:37,410
Sign this, please.

1050
00:43:37,406 --> 00:43:38,526
Yeah.

1051
00:43:42,536 --> 00:43:44,826
- Thanks.
- Thank you.

1052
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,180
<i>But this isn't about me.</i>

1053
00:44:04,183 --> 00:44:08,063
I don't know what you think you're doing,
but I have two kids at my apartment

1054
00:44:08,062 --> 00:44:10,982
for a 7:00 curtain, and it is 5:55.

1055
00:44:10,981 --> 00:44:13,231
Yeah. What? What?

1056
00:44:13,233 --> 00:44:15,243
- Yeah.
- We missed our reservation!

1057
00:44:15,235 --> 00:44:16,565
We'll never get there!

1058
00:44:16,570 --> 00:44:18,030
I don't know where she is!

1059
00:44:18,030 --> 00:44:19,410
If I called, she'd pick up!

1060
00:44:19,406 --> 00:44:20,656
- She hates you!
- Enough!

1061
00:44:20,658 --> 00:44:22,738
Oh! Thank God.

1062
00:44:24,536 --> 00:44:25,786
Mom!

1063
00:44:25,788 --> 00:44:28,458
Toby!

1064
00:44:28,457 --> 00:44:30,827
I am so sorry. I had a change of plans.

1065
00:44:30,834 --> 00:44:32,094
- Whose kids are those?
- Mine.

1066
00:44:32,086 --> 00:44:34,756
One's a friend of my daughter's,
the tall one... No matter.

1067
00:44:34,755 --> 00:44:37,465
- I'm not here to be humiliated.
- I'm not trying to.

1068
00:44:37,466 --> 00:44:38,716
- I am so sorry.
- Fuck off!

1069
00:44:38,717 --> 00:44:40,177
Yeah.

1070
00:44:40,177 --> 00:44:42,257
Dad. Dad. Where is Mom?

1071
00:44:42,262 --> 00:44:43,972
Yeah, that woman had the wrong apartment.

1072
00:44:43,972 --> 00:44:45,272
Are you okay, buddy?

1073
00:44:45,265 --> 00:44:46,595
She knew your name.

1074
00:44:47,309 --> 00:44:50,149
- I don't know why I'm crying.
- Oh, God. It's okay.

1075
00:44:50,145 --> 00:44:52,305
I hate you! Where is Mom?

1076
00:44:52,314 --> 00:44:54,694
- I don't know, Hannah!
- Where is Mom?

1077
00:44:56,735 --> 00:44:59,355
<i>"Where are you?"</i>

1078
00:44:59,363 --> 00:45:01,033
<i>Where was she?</i>

1079
00:45:01,031 --> 00:45:04,161
This is so embarrassing!
I hate you!


