1 00:00:13,535 --> 00:00:15,363 - Hey, Tony, where you headed? 2 00:00:15,537 --> 00:00:17,191 - I hear the white perch are schooled up. 3 00:00:17,365 --> 00:00:19,541 Maybe look for some mackerel the east end of the canal. 4 00:00:19,715 --> 00:00:21,412 - Be careful when you head out, okay? 5 00:00:21,586 --> 00:00:24,720 There's another big storm headed in due south. 6 00:00:24,894 --> 00:00:26,765 It's messing with the tides. See you. 7 00:00:26,939 --> 00:00:28,289 - Thanks. 8 00:00:35,296 --> 00:00:42,042 ♪ ♪ 9 00:00:50,311 --> 00:00:51,051 I think we hit something. 10 00:00:54,054 --> 00:01:01,191 ♪ ♪ 11 00:01:04,107 --> 00:01:05,717 Oh, shit. 12 00:01:06,718 --> 00:01:10,287 ♪ ♪ 13 00:01:19,166 --> 00:01:20,123 14 00:01:20,297 --> 00:01:22,865 The home at 29 Commercial 15 00:01:23,039 --> 00:01:26,347 is requesting permission to change their shingles 16 00:01:26,521 --> 00:01:28,958 from our traditional "Simply White" 17 00:01:29,132 --> 00:01:31,308 to "Mountain Peak White." 18 00:01:31,482 --> 00:01:32,483 - Can we see the samples? 19 00:01:33,571 --> 00:01:35,356 - Have you lost your mind? 20 00:01:35,530 --> 00:01:37,358 - It's a scandal that you would even ask. 21 00:01:37,532 --> 00:01:39,011 - Why don't you just paint them orange? 22 00:01:41,057 --> 00:01:42,102 - Motion denied. 23 00:01:46,018 --> 00:01:48,630 Jim Levy, the owner of McHenry's, 24 00:01:48,804 --> 00:01:51,328 is requesting a 16-inch easement 25 00:01:51,502 --> 00:01:52,982 into the neighbor's green area 26 00:01:53,156 --> 00:01:55,985 so he can have expanded outdoor dining. 27 00:01:56,159 --> 00:01:59,510 I believe Mr. Levy is present to make his case. 28 00:01:59,684 --> 00:02:00,946 - Thank you, madam. 29 00:02:02,209 --> 00:02:03,732 As most of you know, I opened McHenry's 30 00:02:03,906 --> 00:02:05,429 as sister restaurant 31 00:02:05,603 --> 00:02:07,257 to my flagship McHenry's in Davis Square, Somerville. 32 00:02:07,431 --> 00:02:08,911 - Can it, Levy. You're wasting your time. 33 00:02:09,085 --> 00:02:11,522 - Excuse me? - Well, 34 00:02:11,696 --> 00:02:13,394 first of all, your name is Levy. 35 00:02:13,568 --> 00:02:14,699 I don't know where you get off 36 00:02:14,873 --> 00:02:16,397 owning not one but two Irish pubs. 37 00:02:16,571 --> 00:02:17,876 That's called cultural appropriation, sweetheart. 38 00:02:18,050 --> 00:02:19,878 Second of all, you have terrible taste. 39 00:02:20,052 --> 00:02:22,185 And not just in your footwear. 40 00:02:22,359 --> 00:02:23,665 My friend Mitch Wilson 41 00:02:23,839 --> 00:02:25,580 lives in the house next to your restaurant. 42 00:02:25,754 --> 00:02:28,017 He has exquisite taste. 43 00:02:28,191 --> 00:02:29,540 And the last thing we need 44 00:02:29,714 --> 00:02:30,889 are your cheap plastic tables and chairs 45 00:02:31,063 --> 00:02:32,717 soiling his hydrangea bushes. 46 00:02:32,891 --> 00:02:34,371 - Motion denied. 47 00:02:34,545 --> 00:02:35,720 - But-- - Denied. 48 00:02:35,894 --> 00:02:37,157 - Come on, he's be-- - Denied. 49 00:02:39,594 --> 00:02:43,902 Finally, Trooper Remy of the Mass State Police 50 00:02:44,076 --> 00:02:46,035 would like a moment to speak to the group. 51 00:02:50,387 --> 00:02:54,261 - Chairwoman, council, I'm Trooper Jan Remy. 52 00:02:54,435 --> 00:02:56,741 I was sent by the state police to run the investigation 53 00:02:56,915 --> 00:02:58,265 into your murdered chief. 54 00:02:58,439 --> 00:02:59,918 - I thought the chief was just missing? 55 00:03:00,092 --> 00:03:01,746 - She was, 56 00:03:01,920 --> 00:03:03,748 until a fisherman ran over her body in the harbor. 57 00:03:05,881 --> 00:03:07,230 And something you all may not know 58 00:03:07,404 --> 00:03:08,884 is that the chief was investigating 59 00:03:09,058 --> 00:03:10,712 a series of murders. 60 00:03:10,886 --> 00:03:12,670 They all followed the same M.O.-- 61 00:03:14,716 --> 00:03:18,067 Throat slashed with severe uneven wounds, 62 00:03:18,241 --> 00:03:21,375 and a draining of almost all of the victim's blood. 63 00:03:22,767 --> 00:03:24,291 I just examined the chief's body 64 00:03:24,465 --> 00:03:29,121 and observed the exact same wound pattern. 65 00:03:29,296 --> 00:03:30,253 - Boat propeller could have chewed her up. 66 00:03:31,602 --> 00:03:33,169 - Lotta sharks in the water at this time. 67 00:03:33,343 --> 00:03:36,825 - Which is why need to stop protecting the seals. 68 00:03:36,999 --> 00:03:38,827 - I don't mind the sharks 69 00:03:39,001 --> 00:03:40,307 as long as they're only killing Yankee fans. 70 00:03:42,439 --> 00:03:43,919 - I'm sorry, but this isn't funny. 71 00:03:44,093 --> 00:03:46,269 A law enforcement officer was murdered 72 00:03:46,443 --> 00:03:49,490 by what appears to be a serial killer. 73 00:03:49,664 --> 00:03:50,882 - Do you have proof that these cases are related? 74 00:03:51,056 --> 00:03:53,102 Right? DNA? 75 00:03:53,276 --> 00:03:54,712 - Not yet. 76 00:03:54,886 --> 00:03:56,279 - I just don't know why we would make a big fuss 77 00:03:56,453 --> 00:03:57,628 when we don't even know if there's a problem. 78 00:03:57,802 --> 00:03:59,151 - Your chief was brutally murdered 79 00:03:59,326 --> 00:04:00,327 and thrown in the harbor. 80 00:04:00,501 --> 00:04:02,633 I'd say that's a problem. 81 00:04:02,807 --> 00:04:04,374 - I mean, do we even know she was murdered? 82 00:04:04,548 --> 00:04:06,333 - Maybe she went for a night swim. 83 00:04:06,507 --> 00:04:08,335 - In her uniform? 84 00:04:08,509 --> 00:04:13,165 And many of these murders occurred miles from the ocean. 85 00:04:13,340 --> 00:04:15,820 Do you think the sharks and the boat propellers 86 00:04:15,994 --> 00:04:18,475 somehow came on land to kill all these people? 87 00:04:18,649 --> 00:04:21,043 - Look, Trooper. 88 00:04:21,217 --> 00:04:23,872 We really appreciate what you're trying to do here. 89 00:04:24,046 --> 00:04:25,874 Mass State Police are a wonderful organization 90 00:04:26,048 --> 00:04:27,441 full of fine men and women. 91 00:04:27,615 --> 00:04:28,920 - Absolutely. - Hear, hear. 92 00:04:30,444 --> 00:04:32,663 But these are wintertime problems. 93 00:04:32,837 --> 00:04:34,665 - What does that mean? - It means strange things 94 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:36,667 happen down the cape in the winter. 95 00:04:36,841 --> 00:04:39,322 Everyone knows it. 96 00:04:39,496 --> 00:04:41,150 Us full-timers just accept it 97 00:04:41,324 --> 00:04:44,675 as the price of living in such a special place. 98 00:04:44,849 --> 00:04:47,374 But by the time spring rolls around, 99 00:04:47,548 --> 00:04:51,203 you'll see it all just magically stops. 100 00:04:51,378 --> 00:04:53,336 And the worst problem we have? 101 00:04:53,510 --> 00:04:55,382 Uh, traffic on Route 6, 102 00:04:55,556 --> 00:04:57,384 a bad sunburn, 103 00:04:57,558 --> 00:04:59,821 and too much butter on a lobster roll. 104 00:05:01,649 --> 00:05:03,868 - So you're saying I should just let this go? 105 00:05:04,042 --> 00:05:06,044 - We're saying that everyone in this room 106 00:05:06,218 --> 00:05:08,873 depends upon the summer to pay for the winter. 107 00:05:09,047 --> 00:05:10,571 We are saying 108 00:05:10,745 --> 00:05:12,703 that if you start making noise about this stuff, 109 00:05:12,877 --> 00:05:14,314 maybe the papers in Boston will pick it up, 110 00:05:14,488 --> 00:05:15,837 and then the New York rags, 111 00:05:16,011 --> 00:05:17,665 and then suddenly, all of those city-folk 112 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:19,493 who drive down for the weekend in July 113 00:05:19,667 --> 00:05:21,233 to spend all of that sweet city money 114 00:05:21,408 --> 00:05:23,671 get spooked and decide that maybe 115 00:05:23,845 --> 00:05:25,237 the Berkshires, or Newport, 116 00:05:25,412 --> 00:05:27,239 or--God forbid-- the Hamptons are just as nice. 117 00:05:27,414 --> 00:05:29,894 But not worth all the trouble and the worry. 118 00:05:30,068 --> 00:05:32,027 - The gays might stop coming. 119 00:05:35,726 --> 00:05:36,858 - You're all hiding something. 120 00:05:37,032 --> 00:05:38,686 You know something. 121 00:05:38,860 --> 00:05:40,383 - We know what's best for this community. 122 00:05:40,557 --> 00:05:41,906 ♪ ♪ 123 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:43,604 We know what's best for you. 124 00:05:43,778 --> 00:05:46,433 - I was sent by the State of Massachusetts 125 00:05:46,607 --> 00:05:48,870 to come down here and find out what's been going on, 126 00:05:49,044 --> 00:05:50,698 and that's what I'm gonna do. 127 00:05:50,872 --> 00:05:54,745 Impeding an investigation is a crime. 128 00:05:54,919 --> 00:05:56,356 And they don't serve lobster rolls 129 00:05:56,530 --> 00:05:57,792 in Walpole State Prison. 130 00:05:57,966 --> 00:06:04,233 ♪ ♪ 131 00:06:09,064 --> 00:06:10,370 - Don't worry. 132 00:06:11,414 --> 00:06:12,763 I'll take care of it. 133 00:06:12,937 --> 00:06:14,417 ♪ ♪ 134 00:06:18,726 --> 00:06:25,689 ♪ ♪ 135 00:06:44,447 --> 00:06:51,062 ♪ ♪ 136 00:07:04,946 --> 00:07:11,953 ♪ ♪ 137 00:07:25,532 --> 00:07:27,359 - Look, 138 00:07:27,534 --> 00:07:30,362 we have been extremely patient and understanding 139 00:07:30,537 --> 00:07:32,364 about this whole business with the pills 140 00:07:32,539 --> 00:07:34,410 and the blood drinking. 141 00:07:34,584 --> 00:07:36,368 I mean, the pales recede into the woods 142 00:07:36,543 --> 00:07:38,022 during the summer, 143 00:07:38,196 --> 00:07:39,371 and you gluttons don't feed on anybody 144 00:07:39,546 --> 00:07:40,808 who actual matters in this town. 145 00:07:40,982 --> 00:07:43,419 - And we don't feed past Memorial Day. 146 00:07:43,593 --> 00:07:44,507 - Yes. The system has held. 147 00:07:44,681 --> 00:07:46,030 It's a symbiosis. 148 00:07:46,204 --> 00:07:48,555 You get the freedom and the quiet 149 00:07:48,729 --> 00:07:50,426 to write and kill, and we get to brag 150 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:53,211 about having artists make their winter home out here. 151 00:07:53,385 --> 00:07:54,909 It adds to the charm. 152 00:07:55,083 --> 00:07:57,259 But this winter has been completely out of control. 153 00:07:57,433 --> 00:07:59,914 I mean, you killed the chief. 154 00:08:00,088 --> 00:08:01,872 If that isn't the worst example of shitting where you eat, 155 00:08:02,046 --> 00:08:03,395 I don't know what is. 156 00:08:03,570 --> 00:08:04,745 - It's not us. It's the Hollywood people. 157 00:08:04,919 --> 00:08:06,616 They ruin everything. - It's true. 158 00:08:06,790 --> 00:08:08,270 - Belle and I are people of the letters. 159 00:08:08,444 --> 00:08:10,968 Literature, the stage-- these are art forms that demand 160 00:08:11,142 --> 00:08:13,362 a degree of decorum and restraint from their purveyors. 161 00:08:13,536 --> 00:08:15,495 These fucking Hollywood people have no decency. 162 00:08:15,669 --> 00:08:17,366 - And no self-control. 163 00:08:17,540 --> 00:08:20,543 That beast of a man gave the pills to his child. 164 00:08:20,717 --> 00:08:22,545 It makes you think that maybe some of that QAnon business 165 00:08:22,719 --> 00:08:24,373 about them being satanic baby-killers 166 00:08:24,547 --> 00:08:26,418 is based in some fact. 167 00:08:26,593 --> 00:08:29,421 - All I know is I told you two to get rid of him days ago. 168 00:08:29,596 --> 00:08:30,945 - I've been very busy. I'm on a deadline. 169 00:08:31,119 --> 00:08:32,947 - Yeah, well, so are we. 170 00:08:33,121 --> 00:08:35,776 The council asked me 171 00:08:35,950 --> 00:08:38,779 "Get rid of the troublemakers, or all of you 172 00:08:38,953 --> 00:08:40,476 are suddenly gonna find yourself 173 00:08:40,650 --> 00:08:42,609 going into some very annoying zoning issues, 174 00:08:42,783 --> 00:08:43,697 including painting all of the curbs 175 00:08:43,871 --> 00:08:45,916 in front of your houses red 176 00:08:46,090 --> 00:08:49,572 and declaring all of your domiciles as historic landmarks 177 00:08:49,746 --> 00:08:51,226 which means that even to change a bulb 178 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:53,881 will take a six-week approval process. 179 00:08:54,055 --> 00:08:57,580 ♪ ♪ 180 00:08:57,754 --> 00:09:02,106 You know, I stopped Burger King from opening in this town. 181 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:03,934 I can stop you too. 182 00:09:04,108 --> 00:09:06,197 ♪ ♪ 183 00:09:07,721 --> 00:09:09,723 - So what's the plan? 184 00:09:12,247 --> 00:09:17,600 ♪ ♪ 185 00:09:32,006 --> 00:09:33,921 - So what do you think? 186 00:09:34,095 --> 00:09:34,791 - Well... 187 00:09:37,881 --> 00:09:38,926 I think you should kill yourself. 188 00:09:40,710 --> 00:09:43,191 Because you will never write anything this good-- 189 00:09:43,365 --> 00:09:46,194 no one will. No one has. 190 00:09:46,368 --> 00:09:47,978 - Good, I'm glad you like it. 191 00:09:48,152 --> 00:09:49,632 I'm kind of proud of it. - This is really it, Harry. 192 00:09:49,806 --> 00:09:50,851 I mean, this is your masterpiece. 193 00:09:51,025 --> 00:09:52,722 It's your "Moby Dick," 194 00:09:52,896 --> 00:09:55,333 your "Romeo and Juliet," your "Godfather." 195 00:09:55,507 --> 00:09:56,770 - Thanks, I know. 196 00:09:58,467 --> 00:10:01,775 Which is why I need to make a family announcement. 197 00:10:01,949 --> 00:10:03,864 Now that spring is coming, 198 00:10:04,038 --> 00:10:06,170 and I've written basically five years' worth of stuff 199 00:10:06,344 --> 00:10:07,041 since we've been here... 200 00:10:10,610 --> 00:10:11,175 We're done. 201 00:10:13,003 --> 00:10:14,657 - Done with what? 202 00:10:14,831 --> 00:10:16,964 - With the pills. 203 00:10:17,138 --> 00:10:18,443 It's been a fun ride, 204 00:10:18,618 --> 00:10:20,315 but it's time to get off this crazy train. 205 00:10:20,489 --> 00:10:22,970 - You mean until next winter, right? 206 00:10:23,144 --> 00:10:25,842 - I mean for good. 207 00:10:26,016 --> 00:10:26,713 - So now that you're done with your masterpiece, 208 00:10:26,887 --> 00:10:28,410 we all have to stop? 209 00:10:28,584 --> 00:10:30,151 - It's not like that. - It's exactly like that. 210 00:10:30,325 --> 00:10:32,022 You're being selfish. - I'm being a father. 211 00:10:32,196 --> 00:10:34,155 - All of a sudden? - Don't say that. 212 00:10:34,329 --> 00:10:35,722 After everything I've done for you this winter-- 213 00:10:35,896 --> 00:10:36,723 bringing you thermoses of blood, 214 00:10:36,897 --> 00:10:39,247 not grounding you for life 215 00:10:39,421 --> 00:10:41,205 for giving your mother a pill and condemning her 216 00:10:41,379 --> 00:10:42,903 to the misery of those pale people. 217 00:10:43,077 --> 00:10:44,252 - That wasn't just for me. 218 00:10:44,426 --> 00:10:45,688 You did all of that for you too! 219 00:10:49,213 --> 00:10:51,738 Tell him he's wrong. 220 00:10:51,912 --> 00:10:54,566 Tell him that we can't stop, that we don't have to stop. 221 00:10:54,741 --> 00:10:56,568 That we're better than everybody else. 222 00:10:56,743 --> 00:10:58,875 That no one else matters but people like us. 223 00:11:00,921 --> 00:11:02,357 - Well, there is some truth to that, sweetheart. 224 00:11:02,531 --> 00:11:04,011 There's a lot of truth. 225 00:11:04,185 --> 00:11:06,230 Harry, you don't take your foot off the gas 226 00:11:06,404 --> 00:11:07,754 just as you're pulling out into the lead. 227 00:11:07,928 --> 00:11:09,886 - I don't want to have to kill anymore. 228 00:11:10,887 --> 00:11:12,889 I just want to raise you and enjoy the fruits 229 00:11:13,063 --> 00:11:14,543 of what we've accomplished this year 230 00:11:14,717 --> 00:11:17,589 and maybe over time get some of my soul back. 231 00:11:17,764 --> 00:11:19,896 - Yeah, it doesn't work that way, bubbulah. 232 00:11:20,070 --> 00:11:22,594 Once you sell your soul, it's gone. 233 00:11:22,769 --> 00:11:24,379 - I don't want to believe that. 234 00:11:24,553 --> 00:11:26,033 - Because you're framing it as a bad thing, 235 00:11:26,207 --> 00:11:28,122 but it is not. It's freedom. 236 00:11:28,296 --> 00:11:30,951 Why have a conscience or a moral code anymore? 237 00:11:31,125 --> 00:11:32,779 You're above all of that. 238 00:11:32,953 --> 00:11:35,433 This is what success feels like, Harry, 239 00:11:35,607 --> 00:11:37,435 It feels like superiority. 240 00:11:39,611 --> 00:11:41,396 ♪ ♪ 241 00:11:41,570 --> 00:11:42,963 - Alma, I believe in you. 242 00:11:43,137 --> 00:11:45,487 You are better at playing your violin 243 00:11:45,661 --> 00:11:47,141 than most of us will ever be at anything. 244 00:11:47,315 --> 00:11:49,056 And now I can be home all the time 245 00:11:49,230 --> 00:11:52,015 with no distractions to support your dreams. 246 00:11:52,189 --> 00:11:53,974 I can just be a dad to you and your brother. 247 00:11:54,148 --> 00:11:56,977 We can do this the right way. 248 00:11:57,151 --> 00:11:59,066 You just have to trust me. 249 00:12:02,373 --> 00:12:03,113 - Okay. 250 00:12:04,767 --> 00:12:06,595 ♪ ♪ 251 00:12:06,769 --> 00:12:08,815 - I love you so much, honey. 252 00:12:08,989 --> 00:12:10,555 - I love you too, Daddy. 253 00:12:14,821 --> 00:12:18,781 ♪ ♪ 254 00:12:30,358 --> 00:12:32,664 - Insane Brainz Memory Boost. 255 00:12:32,839 --> 00:12:34,841 - It's supposed to be cutting edge. 256 00:12:35,015 --> 00:12:35,624 - I guess it's because "brains" is spelled with a Z 257 00:12:35,798 --> 00:12:37,017 instead of an S. 258 00:12:37,191 --> 00:12:38,496 I feel the boost already. 259 00:12:40,716 --> 00:12:42,065 - You really think vitamins are gonna make up 260 00:12:42,239 --> 00:12:44,546 for the black pills? - I didn't say that. 261 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:47,331 I just think the transition's gonna be hard for us, 262 00:12:47,505 --> 00:12:48,376 and it can't hurt to be as healthy-- 263 00:12:50,291 --> 00:12:55,339 ♪ ♪ 264 00:12:55,513 --> 00:12:56,950 - What? - I thought I saw her. 265 00:12:59,343 --> 00:13:01,171 - Dad, you gotta let her go. 266 00:13:03,695 --> 00:13:06,002 She's not some stray cat that shows up on your porch. 267 00:13:06,176 --> 00:13:08,091 You're talking about your mother. 268 00:13:08,265 --> 00:13:11,181 That's your mother out there. - She isn't anything anymore. 269 00:13:11,355 --> 00:13:12,879 She's not even a person. 270 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:15,011 - Whoever it was is gone. 271 00:13:19,189 --> 00:13:19,973 - Dad? 272 00:13:20,147 --> 00:13:22,366 Did someone break in? 273 00:13:25,195 --> 00:13:26,544 Kay, you throw another number out. 274 00:13:26,718 --> 00:13:27,850 I'm gonna fly out there and kick you 275 00:13:28,024 --> 00:13:28,808 in the fucking face. - Ursula! 276 00:13:28,982 --> 00:13:30,505 - Hang on. What? 277 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:31,245 - The kitchen door-- It looks like someone broke in. 278 00:13:31,419 --> 00:13:32,420 - Broke in? 279 00:13:32,594 --> 00:13:33,551 Francis, I have to call you back. 280 00:13:36,685 --> 00:13:39,688 ♪ ♪ 281 00:13:44,258 --> 00:13:45,563 - I know good help is hard to find, 282 00:13:45,737 --> 00:13:47,043 but you really should look into 283 00:13:47,217 --> 00:13:48,610 a new babysitter. 284 00:13:48,784 --> 00:13:50,699 In the meantime, I've taken it on myself 285 00:13:50,873 --> 00:13:52,179 to look after the little bundle of joy. 286 00:13:52,353 --> 00:13:54,050 Don't worry, he'll be safe and sound 287 00:13:54,224 --> 00:13:55,747 and snug as a bug. 288 00:13:55,922 --> 00:13:56,661 But if you aren't at my house by sunset, 289 00:13:56,836 --> 00:13:59,534 that will change. 290 00:13:59,708 --> 00:14:02,754 Make sure you bring the string plucker. 291 00:14:02,929 --> 00:14:05,279 This needs to be a family meeting. 292 00:14:05,453 --> 00:14:06,410 Sincerely, Belle. 293 00:14:10,066 --> 00:14:11,111 - Eli's gone. 294 00:14:11,285 --> 00:14:12,547 She took him. - Who took him? 295 00:14:12,721 --> 00:14:14,549 - Belle. You didn't hear anything? 296 00:14:14,723 --> 00:14:16,464 - Well, I heard a bonk or two, but I figured 297 00:14:16,638 --> 00:14:18,031 he was just moving around in his crib. 298 00:14:18,205 --> 00:14:19,336 - Newborns don't move around in their crib. 299 00:14:19,510 --> 00:14:20,816 - Well, what do you want me to say? 300 00:14:20,990 --> 00:14:22,557 I've been on the phone nonstop. 301 00:14:22,731 --> 00:14:23,819 I mean, Fincher, Cuarón, Nolan-- 302 00:14:23,993 --> 00:14:25,125 they all want to work with you. 303 00:14:25,299 --> 00:14:27,475 - Why would she do this to Eli? 304 00:14:27,649 --> 00:14:28,911 - There's only one reason I can think of. 305 00:14:29,085 --> 00:14:30,391 Belle's had it in for us ever since 306 00:14:30,565 --> 00:14:32,001 she found out you were taking the pills. 307 00:14:32,175 --> 00:14:33,263 That's what this is about. 308 00:14:33,437 --> 00:14:34,830 She thinks we've crossed the line. 309 00:14:35,004 --> 00:14:37,137 - You mean she wants to kill us? 310 00:14:37,311 --> 00:14:38,616 - She won't be alone. 311 00:14:38,790 --> 00:14:40,792 Austin will be there. 312 00:14:40,967 --> 00:14:42,316 God knows who else. 313 00:14:42,490 --> 00:14:43,143 We'll never come out of there alive. 314 00:14:43,317 --> 00:14:45,275 ♪ ♪ 315 00:14:45,449 --> 00:14:46,755 We can't call the police or... 316 00:14:46,929 --> 00:14:48,061 everything will come out. 317 00:14:48,235 --> 00:14:49,192 - We gotta go get Eli, Dad. 318 00:14:49,366 --> 00:14:50,715 - I can't risk losing you too. 319 00:14:50,890 --> 00:14:52,239 - You read the note. 320 00:14:52,413 --> 00:14:54,284 She wants both of us or she'll kill him. 321 00:14:54,458 --> 00:14:55,285 ♪ ♪ 322 00:14:55,459 --> 00:14:57,331 I'm not scared. 323 00:14:57,505 --> 00:14:59,899 I took out a police chief, remember? 324 00:15:00,073 --> 00:15:02,814 Plus, we have Ursula. 325 00:15:02,989 --> 00:15:04,251 - She's right. 326 00:15:04,425 --> 00:15:05,687 You need to go to Belle's and face them. 327 00:15:05,861 --> 00:15:06,993 But not with me. I'm not going with you. 328 00:15:07,167 --> 00:15:08,690 ♪ ♪ 329 00:15:08,864 --> 00:15:11,084 - Chicken-shit little bitch. 330 00:15:11,258 --> 00:15:12,215 ♪ ♪ 331 00:15:12,389 --> 00:15:13,956 - I am digging deep in my soul 332 00:15:14,130 --> 00:15:16,872 to find the small sliver of goodness 333 00:15:17,046 --> 00:15:19,788 that will allow me to overlook what you just said. 334 00:15:19,962 --> 00:15:20,571 Hear me out. 335 00:15:20,745 --> 00:15:22,269 ♪ ♪ 336 00:15:33,671 --> 00:15:40,678 ♪ ♪ 337 00:15:48,860 --> 00:15:49,992 - Hello? 338 00:15:52,821 --> 00:15:54,605 Hello? 339 00:15:56,564 --> 00:15:57,478 I know you're out here! 340 00:15:57,652 --> 00:16:00,176 I know that you can hear me! 341 00:16:00,350 --> 00:16:03,397 ♪ ♪ 342 00:16:03,571 --> 00:16:05,355 Just hope you have enough brain cells left to understand. 343 00:16:07,357 --> 00:16:07,923 Hello? 344 00:16:20,066 --> 00:16:22,546 - Look, I know this sucks, okay? 345 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:25,810 I know you got a raw deal. 346 00:16:25,985 --> 00:16:28,552 But you are not monsters. 347 00:16:28,726 --> 00:16:30,511 You're a bunch of Laurence Fishburnes. 348 00:16:30,685 --> 00:16:33,079 ♪ ♪ 349 00:16:33,253 --> 00:16:35,429 Fishburne turned down "Pulp Fiction" 350 00:16:35,603 --> 00:16:37,997 because his agent told him he'd be working with John Travolta-- 351 00:16:38,171 --> 00:16:39,563 a has-been. 352 00:16:41,217 --> 00:16:44,220 Now, look, you all made a very bad call, 353 00:16:44,394 --> 00:16:46,440 but it is not the end of the story. 354 00:16:46,614 --> 00:16:50,226 Fishburne went on to beat out Sam Jackson for "The Matrix." 355 00:16:51,923 --> 00:16:55,188 - The moral of the story is that sometimes 356 00:16:55,362 --> 00:16:56,058 there are second chances. 357 00:16:56,232 --> 00:16:58,147 ♪ ♪ 358 00:16:58,321 --> 00:16:59,235 And that's what I'm here to offer you-- 359 00:16:59,409 --> 00:17:00,671 a second chance. 360 00:17:01,716 --> 00:17:03,848 There's a new pill 361 00:17:04,023 --> 00:17:05,720 with a new formula. 362 00:17:05,894 --> 00:17:08,201 Not only is it more potent than the last pill, 363 00:17:08,375 --> 00:17:09,898 but it has no side effects. 364 00:17:10,072 --> 00:17:13,249 It might actually undo what happened to you. 365 00:17:13,423 --> 00:17:15,904 You have to understand... 366 00:17:16,078 --> 00:17:17,340 you can be cured. 367 00:17:17,514 --> 00:17:20,387 You don't have to live this way anymore. 368 00:17:20,561 --> 00:17:22,780 I am not the enemy. 369 00:17:22,954 --> 00:17:25,087 Okay? The people who took that pill 370 00:17:25,261 --> 00:17:28,090 and didn't end up like you-- they're the enemy. 371 00:17:28,264 --> 00:17:30,397 They're all laughing at you. 372 00:17:30,571 --> 00:17:32,877 - - Every success they have 373 00:17:33,052 --> 00:17:34,749 is a slap in your face. 374 00:17:34,923 --> 00:17:37,926 ♪ ♪ 375 00:17:44,324 --> 00:17:51,287 ♪ ♪ 376 00:17:57,337 --> 00:17:58,120 - Care for some baby charcuterie? 377 00:17:58,294 --> 00:18:00,427 I hear it's delicious. 378 00:18:00,601 --> 00:18:01,906 Pull in the reigns, Daddy! 379 00:18:02,081 --> 00:18:02,777 Come on. Come on. 380 00:18:02,951 --> 00:18:04,213 - Okay, okay, okay. 381 00:18:04,387 --> 00:18:06,433 - Kay, good. Much obliged. 382 00:18:08,304 --> 00:18:09,000 - What do you want? 383 00:18:11,002 --> 00:18:12,308 - Harry! 384 00:18:14,615 --> 00:18:15,746 - Belle, 385 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:17,096 whatever you're thinking of doing, 386 00:18:17,270 --> 00:18:18,575 just let me take my kids and leave town. 387 00:18:18,749 --> 00:18:20,621 I swear, you will never hear from us again. 388 00:18:22,318 --> 00:18:23,841 - Until your supply of pills runs out. 389 00:18:24,015 --> 00:18:27,323 - No, we're off the pills. 390 00:18:27,497 --> 00:18:28,716 We're never taking them again. 391 00:18:28,890 --> 00:18:30,021 I just want to go back to my old life. 392 00:18:30,196 --> 00:18:32,241 - - Sure you do. 393 00:18:32,415 --> 00:18:34,330 - Listen, I just finished writing something 394 00:18:34,504 --> 00:18:35,853 and it's gonna be huge. 395 00:18:36,027 --> 00:18:38,900 I don't need the pills anymore. It's the truth. 396 00:18:39,074 --> 00:18:39,901 - You forget you're talking to a fellow writer. 397 00:18:40,075 --> 00:18:41,729 Uh-- 398 00:18:41,903 --> 00:18:43,861 Novelists are writers. 399 00:18:44,035 --> 00:18:45,994 Screenwriters are more like creative typists. 400 00:18:46,168 --> 00:18:47,343 - - Really, 401 00:18:47,517 --> 00:18:49,258 all we are is professional liars. 402 00:18:49,432 --> 00:18:51,347 And the truth is whatever we decide it is. 403 00:18:51,521 --> 00:18:53,262 But lucky for us, 404 00:18:53,436 --> 00:18:54,742 the tasting party is just getting started. 405 00:18:54,916 --> 00:18:56,352 - Don't hurt him! - Ahh! 406 00:18:56,526 --> 00:18:58,224 - I promise he won't feel a thing. 407 00:18:58,398 --> 00:18:59,573 But you, on the other hand, 408 00:18:59,747 --> 00:19:01,618 are going to feel it profoundly. 409 00:19:01,792 --> 00:19:03,359 - Can't say we didn't give you a chance, Harry. 410 00:19:03,533 --> 00:19:04,708 We tried to be welcoming. 411 00:19:04,882 --> 00:19:07,233 P-town is a welcoming place. 412 00:19:07,407 --> 00:19:08,669 But you fucked it up. 413 00:19:08,843 --> 00:19:09,887 - Dad. 414 00:19:10,061 --> 00:19:11,933 - It's my fault, really. 415 00:19:12,107 --> 00:19:14,065 I should have seen how this was going to pan out. 416 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:16,242 I mean, is there anything 417 00:19:16,416 --> 00:19:19,462 Hollywood hasn't fucked up in the end? 418 00:19:19,636 --> 00:19:22,117 More often than not, whatever came out of there 419 00:19:22,291 --> 00:19:23,727 finished in a pool of its own piss. 420 00:19:25,555 --> 00:19:28,210 Whether it be Marilyn or even Fitzgerald. 421 00:19:28,384 --> 00:19:30,081 I mean, even back in the early 1900s 422 00:19:30,256 --> 00:19:32,519 when the silent pictures were coming out 423 00:19:32,693 --> 00:19:34,521 and the film people were moving to Hollywood, 424 00:19:34,695 --> 00:19:36,436 the locals didn't want them there. 425 00:19:36,610 --> 00:19:38,220 They called film people "movies" because they were all 426 00:19:38,394 --> 00:19:39,221 moving around and causing trouble. 427 00:19:39,395 --> 00:19:40,875 It was a term of disdain. 428 00:19:41,049 --> 00:19:43,182 The locals back, they were right and so are we. 429 00:19:43,356 --> 00:19:44,487 But unlike them, 430 00:19:44,661 --> 00:19:46,533 we're going to clean up this town! 431 00:19:52,887 --> 00:19:55,411 ♪ ♪ 432 00:19:57,413 --> 00:19:58,806 ♪ ♪ 433 00:19:58,980 --> 00:19:59,807 - Go, come on! 434 00:19:59,981 --> 00:20:01,635 ♪ ♪ 435 00:20:01,809 --> 00:20:02,810 Come on. 436 00:20:02,984 --> 00:20:04,333 ♪ ♪ 437 00:20:08,772 --> 00:20:12,863 ♪ ♪ 438 00:20:13,037 --> 00:20:14,256 Shit! 439 00:20:14,430 --> 00:20:17,172 ♪ ♪ 440 00:20:19,218 --> 00:20:25,267 ♪ ♪ 441 00:20:31,795 --> 00:20:38,759 ♪ ♪ 442 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:42,284 - Shit. 443 00:20:42,458 --> 00:20:43,894 ♪ ♪ 444 00:20:44,939 --> 00:20:51,337 ♪ ♪ 445 00:21:00,824 --> 00:21:03,914 ♪ ♪ 446 00:21:05,264 --> 00:21:06,830 - Well, 447 00:21:07,004 --> 00:21:08,136 that went better than expected. 448 00:21:09,833 --> 00:21:11,182 Was touch and go there for a sec. 449 00:21:11,357 --> 00:21:13,010 I wasn't sure I was getting through to them. 450 00:21:13,184 --> 00:21:15,665 But in the end, they bought it hook, line, and sinker. 451 00:21:15,839 --> 00:21:17,058 - Thank you. 452 00:21:17,232 --> 00:21:18,973 Now tell me how the fuck you did that. 453 00:21:19,147 --> 00:21:20,279 - Well, sometimes it's best 454 00:21:20,453 --> 00:21:22,193 not to ask how the sausage is made. 455 00:21:22,368 --> 00:21:23,847 Just know that I would do anything 456 00:21:24,021 --> 00:21:24,892 for my favorite client. 457 00:21:25,066 --> 00:21:26,285 - All that wasted talent. 458 00:21:33,117 --> 00:21:34,118 - Oh, here, I'll do it. 459 00:21:34,293 --> 00:21:36,120 He's fine. he's fine. 460 00:21:36,295 --> 00:21:37,600 See? Shh. 461 00:21:37,774 --> 00:21:39,994 Oh, Jesus, I think this kid is actually 462 00:21:40,168 --> 00:21:41,169 bringing out my maternal instinct. 463 00:21:41,343 --> 00:21:42,823 I hope there's a pill for that. 464 00:21:45,478 --> 00:21:46,653 - Are you okay? 465 00:21:46,827 --> 00:21:47,871 - Yeah. 466 00:21:50,352 --> 00:21:52,180 - You were so brave. - So were you, Dad. 467 00:21:52,354 --> 00:21:54,704 - We're gonna be all right. 468 00:21:54,878 --> 00:21:57,054 We're gonna get through this and go back to our old life 469 00:21:57,228 --> 00:21:59,143 and be happy-- the three of us. 470 00:21:59,318 --> 00:22:00,580 - I'm sorry, Dad, 471 00:22:00,754 --> 00:22:01,929 but it's just gonna be the two of us. 472 00:22:02,103 --> 00:22:04,323 ♪ ♪ 473 00:22:04,497 --> 00:22:07,456 - What? - I gotta be the greatest. 474 00:22:08,979 --> 00:22:10,981 I can't let you stop me. 475 00:22:14,115 --> 00:22:15,812 ♪ ♪ 476 00:22:18,032 --> 00:22:19,860 ♪ ♪ 477 00:22:20,034 --> 00:22:21,992 - I don't think I'll ever get used to that. 478 00:22:22,166 --> 00:22:23,472 - It's a loss. 479 00:22:23,646 --> 00:22:24,865 He could have been the next Sorkin. 480 00:22:25,039 --> 00:22:25,953 It's fucking tragic. 481 00:22:26,127 --> 00:22:28,738 ♪ ♪ 482 00:22:28,912 --> 00:22:31,741 So it looks like the new pill really works. 483 00:22:31,915 --> 00:22:34,265 - Actually, they were old pills that I rejected 484 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:36,398 'cause they caused some strange behavior. 485 00:22:36,572 --> 00:22:38,574 Made the users turn on each other. 486 00:22:38,748 --> 00:22:40,184 On these poor fools, it made then turn on anyone 487 00:22:40,359 --> 00:22:42,056 using and talented. 488 00:22:42,230 --> 00:22:43,884 - Hmm, explains why they didn't come after me. 489 00:22:45,886 --> 00:22:46,756 - You really think the state trooper's 490 00:22:46,930 --> 00:22:47,844 gonna believe this story? 491 00:22:48,018 --> 00:22:50,412 That he killed all of them? 492 00:22:50,586 --> 00:22:53,067 - Well, it's gonna take a little dressing, 493 00:22:53,241 --> 00:22:54,242 a little finessing, 494 00:22:54,416 --> 00:22:56,244 but a strung-out Hollywood writer 495 00:22:56,418 --> 00:22:58,768 under pressure and doing drugs going all Manson? 496 00:22:58,942 --> 00:23:00,553 I think that's a story I can sell. 497 00:23:00,727 --> 00:23:01,945 But that can wait. 498 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:04,861 First, we set you up in La La Land 499 00:23:05,035 --> 00:23:07,386 so you can start cranking out your pills. 500 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:09,431 There's a whole city bursting with talent 501 00:23:09,605 --> 00:23:10,737 just waiting to shell out for a boost. 502 00:23:12,913 --> 00:23:14,654 - Do you mind? 503 00:23:14,828 --> 00:23:15,916 I don't like people watching me while I eat. 504 00:23:31,410 --> 00:23:38,112 ♪ ♪ 505 00:23:42,943 --> 00:23:43,378 - Yeah? 506 00:23:50,429 --> 00:23:51,430 - Hey. - 507 00:23:53,214 --> 00:23:54,607 - Hey! 508 00:24:02,266 --> 00:24:04,617 ♪ ♪ 509 00:24:10,449 --> 00:24:11,841 - Show me your hands! 510 00:24:12,015 --> 00:24:13,495 - Get back! - Hands up! 511 00:24:13,669 --> 00:24:15,497 - Get back! - Hands up! 512 00:24:26,508 --> 00:24:28,554 - This is the fifth police officer 513 00:24:28,728 --> 00:24:30,686 who has been killed by fellow officers 514 00:24:30,860 --> 00:24:31,861 after attacking what appears to be 515 00:24:32,035 --> 00:24:33,689 random victims in the street. 516 00:24:33,863 --> 00:24:35,561 We have learned that each of the dead officers 517 00:24:35,735 --> 00:24:38,346 are well-known members of what police reform activists 518 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:40,174 call the Bad Apple List, 519 00:24:40,348 --> 00:24:42,350 which is an unofficial database 520 00:24:42,524 --> 00:24:45,832 of LAPD officers with multiple race-based complaints 521 00:24:46,006 --> 00:24:47,877 filed against them. 522 00:24:48,051 --> 00:24:49,836 - Thank you, Miranda. More on this story at 10:00. 523 00:24:50,010 --> 00:24:53,187 - You shouldn't be messing with police. 524 00:24:53,361 --> 00:24:55,494 - I'm sorry, didn't you kill and eat a cop? 525 00:24:55,668 --> 00:24:57,017 - That was out of necessity. 526 00:24:57,191 --> 00:25:00,324 - What I'm doing is out of necessity too. 527 00:25:00,499 --> 00:25:02,849 Every one of those pricks 528 00:25:03,023 --> 00:25:04,328 had no business protecting and serving. 529 00:25:04,503 --> 00:25:07,027 Racist, sadistic garbage. 530 00:25:07,201 --> 00:25:08,550 - What if they find out that they're all on your pills? 531 00:25:08,724 --> 00:25:10,683 - They won't. And if they do, 532 00:25:10,857 --> 00:25:12,685 they won't know what it is. 533 00:25:12,859 --> 00:25:14,338 It's a proprietary formula, 534 00:25:14,513 --> 00:25:16,210 which means the only people that know about it 535 00:25:16,384 --> 00:25:20,170 are me and the military scum who paid for me to develop it. 536 00:25:20,344 --> 00:25:22,216 And they're not giving up their top security clearance 537 00:25:22,390 --> 00:25:24,000 to help some local detectives 538 00:25:24,174 --> 00:25:27,351 figure out what happened to a bunch of shitty cops. 539 00:25:27,526 --> 00:25:29,049 Look. 540 00:25:29,223 --> 00:25:30,877 I don't need money anymore. 541 00:25:31,051 --> 00:25:33,880 Ursula's taking care of that with her big client list. 542 00:25:34,054 --> 00:25:35,446 I have nothing left to prove as a scientist. 543 00:25:35,621 --> 00:25:39,233 I think I'll start giving back to my community. 544 00:25:39,407 --> 00:25:41,104 Do some public service. 545 00:25:41,278 --> 00:25:43,367 For me, that means ID'ing the worst cops in the city, 546 00:25:43,542 --> 00:25:45,761 sneaking them a little bit of my magic medicine, 547 00:25:45,935 --> 00:25:47,894 and sitting back and smiling 548 00:25:48,068 --> 00:25:50,026 as they slowly lose their shit and get what they deserve. 549 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:52,551 Now stop sassing me and practice your violin. 550 00:25:52,725 --> 00:25:54,030 You're all of five years old trying to tell me how to be. 551 00:25:54,204 --> 00:25:56,424 - I'm nine. - You wanna make it to ten? 552 00:26:02,604 --> 00:26:04,084 - I know she is a first-time creator. 553 00:26:04,258 --> 00:26:05,912 I know she was driving for Uber Eats a month ago. 554 00:26:06,086 --> 00:26:08,610 But this is what I do, Kevin. 555 00:26:08,784 --> 00:26:11,047 I find geniuses and genius ain't cheap. 556 00:26:11,221 --> 00:26:14,224 So either you up your offer by a lot, 557 00:26:14,398 --> 00:26:17,880 or if you prefer, you can just suck my dick. 558 00:26:19,055 --> 00:26:20,753 Where's Eli? 559 00:26:20,927 --> 00:26:23,407 - With the nanny. How was your day? 560 00:26:23,582 --> 00:26:25,192 - Oh, God, I'm destroyed. 561 00:26:25,366 --> 00:26:27,586 I've been trolling Starbucks all day handing out pills 562 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:29,588 to anyone with a laptop with a script on it. 563 00:26:29,762 --> 00:26:32,025 - That the most efficient use of your time? 564 00:26:32,199 --> 00:26:34,680 - Who has time to read submissions and talk to agents 565 00:26:34,854 --> 00:26:35,985 about who they think is talented? 566 00:26:36,159 --> 00:26:36,899 I mean, we like this lifestyle. 567 00:26:37,073 --> 00:26:38,205 If we wanna keep it up, 568 00:26:38,379 --> 00:26:39,859 we've gotta be in the volume business. 569 00:26:40,033 --> 00:26:42,122 - You're creating a lot of pale people. 570 00:26:42,296 --> 00:26:44,951 Especially pushing pills at a Starbucks. 571 00:26:45,125 --> 00:26:46,605 No self-respecting writer writes at a Starbucks. 572 00:26:46,779 --> 00:26:47,780 - So what? If they're talentless, 573 00:26:47,954 --> 00:26:49,259 they're useless anyway. 574 00:26:49,433 --> 00:26:50,783 - That's my girl. 575 00:26:50,957 --> 00:26:53,133 - I can't believe you turned out so well 576 00:26:53,307 --> 00:26:55,396 being raised by Harry and that glass of warm oat milk. 577 00:26:55,570 --> 00:26:56,919 How's the practicing? 578 00:26:57,093 --> 00:27:00,314 - Good. I'm ready. 579 00:27:00,488 --> 00:27:02,142 - I know you're gonna get it, sweetheart. 580 00:27:02,316 --> 00:27:04,623 - I could use something to eat before I go, though. 581 00:27:04,797 --> 00:27:06,363 - Oh, I picked up a hustler 582 00:27:06,537 --> 00:27:08,191 from that donut shop on Santa Monica and Highland. 583 00:27:08,365 --> 00:27:09,410 He's out in the pool house. 584 00:27:11,630 --> 00:27:12,805 You look adorable. 585 00:27:12,979 --> 00:27:15,024 Proud of you. 586 00:27:15,198 --> 00:27:16,504 - Oh, did you get donuts? - Of course I did. 587 00:27:21,161 --> 00:27:21,335 - Oh. 588 00:27:23,772 --> 00:27:25,295 Not what I was expecting. 589 00:27:25,469 --> 00:27:28,821 - Me neither. But I'll take it. 590 00:28:09,383 --> 00:28:15,302 ♪ ♪ 591 00:28:16,651 --> 00:28:17,391 - Take a seat. 592 00:28:20,176 --> 00:28:22,744 All right, it's down to the two of you. 593 00:28:22,918 --> 00:28:25,007 So just sit tight so the team can chat. 594 00:28:25,181 --> 00:28:26,226 Won't be too long. 595 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,054 Though, to be honest, 596 00:28:28,228 --> 00:28:30,056 you're making it a very hard choice. 597 00:28:30,230 --> 00:28:31,318 You're both wonderful. 598 00:28:38,891 --> 00:28:41,415 - So... 599 00:28:41,589 --> 00:28:43,069 how long have you been playing? 600 00:28:43,243 --> 00:28:44,418 And don't say, "Since I was a kid." 601 00:28:44,592 --> 00:28:45,375 - I'm better than you. 602 00:28:45,549 --> 00:28:46,594 - Excuse me? 603 00:28:46,768 --> 00:28:48,596 - I said I'm better than you. 604 00:28:48,770 --> 00:28:49,162 - Did you listen to my audition? 605 00:28:49,336 --> 00:28:50,946 - No. 606 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:52,469 I didn't have to. I know I'm better than you. 607 00:28:52,643 --> 00:28:54,080 I'm better than everyone. 608 00:28:56,822 --> 00:28:59,085 Wow, you are something else. 609 00:29:01,391 --> 00:29:02,523 I'm a prodigy too. 610 00:29:02,697 --> 00:29:04,438 Graduated Juilliard when I was 16. 611 00:29:04,612 --> 00:29:06,483 You're new to this game, 612 00:29:06,657 --> 00:29:07,702 but what you'll start to realize 613 00:29:07,876 --> 00:29:10,183 is that there are lots of us. 614 00:29:10,357 --> 00:29:12,315 Most of the players in the big philharmonics were prodigies. 615 00:29:12,489 --> 00:29:14,709 It's not as big a deal once you meet others like you. 616 00:29:14,883 --> 00:29:15,928 - There are no others like me. 617 00:29:16,102 --> 00:29:17,581 - I guess that's true, 618 00:29:17,756 --> 00:29:20,236 but you think that's a good thing. 619 00:29:20,410 --> 00:29:22,935 It's actually why you're not going to get this job. 620 00:29:24,588 --> 00:29:27,504 If you get first chair, it's a huge story. 621 00:29:27,678 --> 00:29:29,506 "Today Show," "People" magazine, 622 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,335 "60 Minutes" maybe, if it's a slow news month. 623 00:29:32,509 --> 00:29:34,511 You're a novelty. A distraction. 624 00:29:34,685 --> 00:29:35,991 Audiences will come to see you 625 00:29:36,165 --> 00:29:37,950 and get bummed out if you're not featured. 626 00:29:38,124 --> 00:29:40,343 It's bad for morale. 627 00:29:40,517 --> 00:29:42,476 Makes it impossible to play anything 628 00:29:42,650 --> 00:29:44,739 that doesn't have a violin solo. 629 00:29:46,349 --> 00:29:47,524 It becomes a freakshow. 630 00:29:50,658 --> 00:29:52,007 We play classical music. 631 00:29:52,181 --> 00:29:53,356 We are as square as we can be. 632 00:29:53,530 --> 00:29:56,359 ♪ ♪ 633 00:29:56,533 --> 00:29:57,360 You're the bearded fucking lady, kid. 634 00:29:57,534 --> 00:30:01,451 ♪ ♪ 635 00:30:05,804 --> 00:30:06,979 What? 636 00:30:07,153 --> 00:30:14,160 ♪ ♪ 637 00:30:21,994 --> 00:30:23,865 - Where'd Rory go? 638 00:30:24,039 --> 00:30:25,606 - He said he was going out back to have a cigarette. 639 00:30:25,780 --> 00:30:32,831 ♪ ♪ 640 00:30:37,531 --> 00:30:44,712 ♪ ♪ 641 00:30:48,542 --> 00:30:54,940 ♪ ♪ 642 00:31:02,730 --> 00:31:03,862 - Talent rises, 643 00:31:04,036 --> 00:31:05,864 but it is nothing without craft. 644 00:31:06,038 --> 00:31:08,605 That's why you need the Story Prism. 645 00:31:11,130 --> 00:31:12,653 The Story Prism is hard like a diamond. 646 00:31:12,827 --> 00:31:14,307 It takes commitment. 647 00:31:16,265 --> 00:31:18,050 You. Stand up. 648 00:31:18,615 --> 00:31:20,139 You look confused. 649 00:31:20,313 --> 00:31:22,184 - I still don't understand the difference between 650 00:31:22,358 --> 00:31:24,056 the Primal Defense Co-tagonist 651 00:31:24,230 --> 00:31:27,450 or the Shadow-Trickster Pre-tagonist. 652 00:31:27,624 --> 00:31:29,278 Why does it have to be so complicated? 653 00:31:29,452 --> 00:31:32,629 - Because drama is life and life is complicated. 654 00:31:32,803 --> 00:31:34,414 Now get the fuck out. 655 00:31:34,588 --> 00:31:36,416 He'll never amount to anything. 656 00:31:36,590 --> 00:31:38,026 He's never gonna write a screenplay 657 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:39,810 that gleams like a diamond. And full refund. 658 00:31:39,985 --> 00:31:42,248 He's gonna need every penny he's got. 659 00:31:42,422 --> 00:31:44,119 - Screw you. 660 00:31:46,121 --> 00:31:49,168 Now for the rest of us, I have a surprise. 661 00:31:49,342 --> 00:31:51,300 I told you when you finished my seminar 662 00:31:51,474 --> 00:31:54,651 you would walk out of this building changed. 663 00:31:54,825 --> 00:31:57,132 Well, get ready to meet someone. 664 00:31:57,306 --> 00:31:59,265 Her client, the late Harry Gardener, 665 00:31:59,439 --> 00:32:00,919 just swept the awards season. 666 00:32:01,093 --> 00:32:02,659 And in the last six months, 667 00:32:02,833 --> 00:32:05,010 other clients have barnstormed this town. 668 00:32:05,184 --> 00:32:06,141 They're launching projects all over 669 00:32:06,315 --> 00:32:08,752 broadcast and streaming. 670 00:32:08,927 --> 00:32:10,754 It's an unprecedented winning streak. 671 00:32:10,929 --> 00:32:12,887 Ursula Khan. 672 00:32:15,585 --> 00:32:17,413 - Thank you. Thank you. 673 00:32:17,587 --> 00:32:22,636 ♪ ♪ 674 00:32:22,810 --> 00:32:25,856 - A writer once said, "Writing is easy. 675 00:32:26,031 --> 00:32:28,990 Just sit at your desk, open a vein, and bleed." 676 00:32:30,644 --> 00:32:32,211 Now, we've all heard that quote, right? 677 00:32:32,385 --> 00:32:33,995 And it's been attributed to a lot of people. 678 00:32:34,169 --> 00:32:36,650 But whoever did say it didn't know the half. 679 00:32:36,824 --> 00:32:38,869 If you want the brass ring, 680 00:32:39,044 --> 00:32:41,481 you better be wearing brass knuckles. 681 00:32:41,655 --> 00:32:43,178 Greatness comes with a price. 682 00:32:43,352 --> 00:32:45,659 And you just have to ask yourself, 683 00:32:45,833 --> 00:32:47,966 how much do you want it? 684 00:32:48,140 --> 00:32:49,315 Are you ready to bleed? 685 00:32:51,839 --> 00:32:54,363 Are you? Yes! 686 00:32:54,537 --> 00:32:56,539 - I'd like all of you to reach under your seats right now. 687 00:32:56,713 --> 00:32:58,237 Don't be shy. 688 00:32:58,411 --> 00:33:00,152 There's a little something special under there. 689 00:33:00,326 --> 00:33:02,632 ♪ ♪ 690 00:33:02,806 --> 00:33:04,983 Now, it looks like a pill, 691 00:33:05,157 --> 00:33:06,462 but it's not. 692 00:33:06,636 --> 00:33:08,987 It's the key to condos in Malibu, 693 00:33:09,161 --> 00:33:11,815 to dinner meetings with Charlize, 694 00:33:11,990 --> 00:33:13,948 to reservations at the Tower Bar. 695 00:33:14,122 --> 00:33:15,689 Tell yourself it's a vitamin. 696 00:33:15,863 --> 00:33:18,344 A sugar pill placebo packed with Satan. 697 00:33:20,172 --> 00:33:21,477 Just don't say no. 698 00:33:21,651 --> 00:33:24,350 - Wait. 699 00:33:24,524 --> 00:33:26,352 I'm sorry, you didn't tell me about this. 700 00:33:26,526 --> 00:33:27,701 Is this a stimulant? 701 00:33:27,875 --> 00:33:28,832 Because good writers don't need that. 702 00:33:29,007 --> 00:33:31,400 I don't need that. 703 00:33:31,574 --> 00:33:32,749 I'm sorry, we'll take a quick break-- 704 00:33:32,923 --> 00:33:34,664 - Shut the fuck up, you hack. 705 00:33:34,838 --> 00:33:36,101 You teach a screenwriting class. 706 00:33:36,275 --> 00:33:37,711 Have you ever sold a fucking script? 707 00:33:37,885 --> 00:33:39,321 - Yes. - One. 708 00:33:39,495 --> 00:33:43,673 A failed Orion Stallone flick back in '88? 709 00:33:43,847 --> 00:33:45,588 You know nothing. 710 00:33:45,762 --> 00:33:47,938 I know something. 711 00:33:48,113 --> 00:33:49,331 Would you all rather listen to me 712 00:33:49,505 --> 00:33:52,900 or this sad, fraudulent typist? 713 00:33:53,074 --> 00:33:54,597 You. 714 00:33:54,771 --> 00:33:57,731 - Everything you've heard is bullshit. 715 00:33:57,905 --> 00:33:59,428 ♪ ♪ 716 00:33:59,602 --> 00:34:02,214 Reality isn't the choice between the blue pill 717 00:34:02,388 --> 00:34:03,128 and the red pill. 718 00:34:03,302 --> 00:34:05,347 It's the black pill. 719 00:34:05,521 --> 00:34:07,741 This pill. 720 00:34:07,915 --> 00:34:10,570 My special vitamin brain sauce stimulant 721 00:34:10,744 --> 00:34:12,702 with zero risk and maximum upside. 722 00:34:13,660 --> 00:34:15,792 I'm gonna tell you a little something about success 723 00:34:15,966 --> 00:34:17,968 that is the bedrock of this dirty business 724 00:34:18,143 --> 00:34:20,232 that no one else wants to admit. 725 00:34:20,406 --> 00:34:23,844 It's just one swallow away. 726 00:34:25,498 --> 00:34:27,413 Spit or swallow-- the choice is yours. 727 00:34:35,595 --> 00:34:39,599 ♪ ♪ 728 00:34:42,950 --> 00:34:44,430 Now, as it's going down, 729 00:34:44,604 --> 00:34:45,648 that tingling that you feel? 730 00:34:45,822 --> 00:34:47,476 It's not the pill 731 00:34:47,650 --> 00:34:50,305 and it isn't that food truck burrito you had for lunch 732 00:34:50,479 --> 00:34:51,611 and it isn't nerves. 733 00:34:51,785 --> 00:34:53,091 It's the future taking hold. 734 00:34:55,615 --> 00:34:56,094 Your future. 735 00:35:03,623 --> 00:35:04,972 ♪ ♪ 736 00:35:08,715 --> 00:35:09,803 - It looks like the streets are running red 737 00:35:09,977 --> 00:35:11,979 with blood and metaphors. 738 00:35:12,153 --> 00:35:13,676 At least all of those no-talent monsters 739 00:35:13,850 --> 00:35:16,331 are taking their pain out in a real way. 740 00:35:16,505 --> 00:35:18,812 Being great is hard. 741 00:35:18,986 --> 00:35:20,379 The rest of us just don't get it. 742 00:35:20,553 --> 00:35:22,859 We drive ourselves crazy with envy 743 00:35:23,033 --> 00:35:25,949 longing for just a taste of the delicious madness 744 00:35:26,124 --> 00:35:27,995 of the creative mind. 745 00:35:28,169 --> 00:35:29,866 But the truth is, 746 00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:32,173 most people aren't willing to put in the work. 747 00:35:32,347 --> 00:35:34,349 They focus on the success, the notoriety, the wealth 748 00:35:34,523 --> 00:35:36,830 that their great piece of art will bring. 749 00:35:37,004 --> 00:35:38,832 But the journey there is tedious. 750 00:35:39,006 --> 00:35:40,834 And those that achieve greatness 751 00:35:41,008 --> 00:35:43,358 only do so because they are fucked up enough 752 00:35:43,532 --> 00:35:45,012 to push through the pain and failure 753 00:35:45,186 --> 00:35:47,145 it takes to reach your potential. 754 00:35:47,319 --> 00:35:49,277 At least with these pills the world can find out 755 00:35:49,451 --> 00:35:50,539 if you're any good. 756 00:35:50,713 --> 00:35:52,454 - Sorry, baby. 757 00:35:52,628 --> 00:35:54,848 Shh, don't cry. 758 00:35:55,022 --> 00:35:56,937 We're gonna move on to another place, 759 00:35:57,111 --> 00:35:58,547 create another drug-- 760 00:35:58,721 --> 00:36:00,810 maybe one that will make you and I live forever. 761 00:36:02,116 --> 00:36:03,683 Mommy's here. 762 00:36:03,857 --> 00:36:05,815 She's on top of it. 763 00:36:05,989 --> 00:36:07,339 ♪ ♪ 764 00:36:07,513 --> 00:36:09,515 - To be told we are talented, 765 00:36:09,689 --> 00:36:10,994 isn't that all we ever want? 766 00:36:14,737 --> 00:36:16,826 The truth is, history will only remember a handful of us, 767 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,263 but at least now 768 00:36:18,437 --> 00:36:20,134 we're leveling the playing field. 769 00:36:20,308 --> 00:36:23,877 ♪ ♪ 770 00:36:35,367 --> 00:36:41,373 ♪ ♪