All language subtitles for Coroner.S03E08.Blue.Flock.1080p.WEB-DL.DD5.1.H264-NTb

Celina: Any idea where you're
going, or what you'll do next?

Liam: I haven't really
thought about it,

I'm just ready
for a fresh start.

(pained grunt)
- we made a pretty good team.

- Yeah, we did.

- We should celebrate.
What are you doing tonight?

It's a rage room.

(statue shatters)

♪

liam: Hey, jenny. Hi.

(machine whirs)

(beeping and clicking)

(classical music starts)

♪

(gas hisses)

(beeping and clicking)

(whirring)

♪

(blood bubbles)

(machine clicks and whirs)

(gas hisses)

(blood trickles)

♪

(footsteps thud)

liam: (grunts)

- you still have to see
a doctor.

- Hmm.

I needed to see you first.

(clears throat)

(birds chirp outside)

I wanna tell you
that you were right.

You were right about me hiding.

You were right about me
being scared.

I felt like all I could do
is ruin things so that um,

that I couldn't get
better here.

But that was my fear
of things going wrong.

(clock ticks rhythmically)

okay, look.

Hey.

We uh,

we can take it slow. Huh?

Start right here.

Where we are.

(jenny's phone rings)

- sorry.

(silences call)

it's okay, it's just work.

- No, no, hey,

you can go to work.

It's important.

Me, I'm just, I'll, uh...

I'll take care of my stitches.

Okay.

- Okay, uh...
- (winces)

- I'll uh, I'll take a look
at them afterwards just to,

you know, to make sure
that they're okay.

Come by the office?
- Yeah.

Okay.

Bye.

♪

(door creaks shut)

(sharp exhale)

- I can't believe we're about
to go into olivia rice's house.

It's like visiting kubrick
or something, man.

- I didn't know you were
such a big fan.

When's the last time
she even made a movie?

- Well, not since the 90's, but
my high school friends and I,

we used to do sci-fi marathons
of her, cronenberg, and scott,

and we would do a bunch of
mushrooms and we would just--

oh.

Lilium: Hey! Hey,
are you the detectives?

I called you,
I called the police,

but she won't let me
in the house.

I'm sorry, ma'am, who?
- My stepmother.

She won't let me in because
I know she killed my dad.

- Um, miss?

- Lorde. It's lilium lorde.

It's my dad in there.

- Okay, lilium,
I'm detective abed,

maybe we can just hang outside

until you're ready
to give me a statement.

Come on. Would that be okay?
- Oh, yeah.

(paper boots rustle)

♪

olivia: You must be
the detective

everyone's been waiting for.

- Ms. Rice.
I'm detective mcavoy.

- Please, my husband
doesn't have much time.

- Ma'am, I'm a homicide
detective.

I thought your husband
already passed on.

- Please.
- Hm.

You...

(suspenseful music)

(gloves rustle)

(door creaks open)

- hey.

(indistinct police chatter)

♪

jenny: Hey.

- Hey.

- It's funny how some people's
homes look exactly

how you would imagine, right?

So, uh, whadda we got on this?

- Xavier lorde, well known
neurobiologist.

Suffered from early-stage als.

He's been completely locked in
since his stroke last year.

His wife, olivia rice,

says he communicated
through voice technology

he developed himself.

Ms. Rice says she found him
dead at 7:00 this morning.

But the stepdaughter,
lilium lorde...

- Mm-hmm?

- Claims that olivia pulled
the plug on him.

- Well, it's not the oddest
thing for family members

to have different stories.

- Well, you haven't seen
what's odd, yet.

(ominous music)

(light footsteps)

♪

(camera beeps, snaps)
(machine hisses, beeps)

- it's preparation for cryonics.

- Cryonics?

- It's people who wanna be
frozen

and woken up in the future.

♪

♪

- three letters?

(thumping at window)

(echoed whispers,
window rattles)

(book rustles)

(exhales)

♪

(banging at window)

(echoed voices)

♪

(window rattles, banging)

- (breathing heavily)

(calming exhale)

ross: (echoey) hey!

(rattling stops)
(normal) hey!

- Hey.
- Hi!

- Hi, there, captain!
- Whadda ya doin'?

- I didn't see ya sittin' there.
- Yeah?

Okay.

- Whatcha doing? A little
shopping online there, are ya?

- Are you okay?

- Who, me?
Fine, what about you?

- (scoffs) I'm doing well.

- (sighs)

- cryogenics is the study
of low temperatures.

Cryonics is the use
of low temperatures

to preserve people.

- Cool.

- Did you just--

- is there anything to the
stepdaughter's accusation?

- The dry ice is uh,
is new for me,

but I don't,
I don't see any foul play.

Cryonics is really just a
alternative funeral arrangement.

(footsteps approach)

olivia: If you're finished
working,

I'd like my husband back,
please.

Ms. Rice, uh detective mcavoy
relayed your request,

but unfortunately, I,
I can't release the body

until I finish my investigation.

- Investigation into what?

Xavier made his wishes
quite clear.

- And what were his wishes?

- I'm sure in your job you meet
people of different beliefs.

This is our belief.

Transhumanism.

That technology can transform
the human condition.

Xavier's wishes
are stated in this.

Donovan: This is?
- His living will.

- Okay, it says here,

upon his legal death his body
is to be sent to cryosleep,

facility for the patients
of cryonics.

- Xavier communicated
through his voice tech.

He told me exactly
what he wanted.

Officer: Just step back,
please?

Lilium: I'm his daughter.
You're a liar!

Olivia: You're not supposed
to be in here.

- Daddy and I spoke yesterday.
Just watch it.

Listen to him.

Her cryonics obsession was
destroying his piece of mind.

Xavier: Oh, lilium,
my sweet child, don't be sad.

- Daddy, I'm afraid of what
we'll do for this crazy belief.

I have to stop her.

- You always know what's best
for me. Lily-bear--

- your father transitioned
to biostasis naturally.

He is a sick man!
- You are the sick one!

She knew I was coming here
and turned off his machine

before I could get here
to stop her.

This proves that she killed him.
- Spoiled child.

If you truly cared, you would
know how much he wants this!

Jenny: Okay, let's just, let's,

let's just take a second, okay?

- Was there anyone else
in the house last night?

- Just the night nurse
and myself.

Donovan: Okay.
- (slow exhale)

- so, let's go over the events
of last night and this morning.

All right, olivia,
you said you found

your husband dead
at around 7:00 this morning?

- Dead?

Xavier is in a metabolic
state of suspension.

I got a notification
on my phone

from the heart monitor company,

saying xavier was having
a cardiac episode.

I ran into his room.

- Where you found cedric?

- Yeah, I am dr. Lorde's
night nurse.

- No, barney is the night nurse.

What happened to barney?
Why were you here?

- Barney had a family issue
and needed the night off.

Cedric replaced him.

Donovan: Okay,
so what happened next?

Cedric: Uh, he's uh, dnr,

so I called time of death
and immediately put him on ice.

It's what the family wanted.

- Once xavier went into
biostasis,

I called cryosleep so they
could take the body there

and start the perfusion.

- I got here just after
8:00 a.M..

- When you typically
overreacted.

- And called the police.

- (frustrated sigh)

we need to get on with this.

The clock is ticking.

If my husband's body degrades,

he will not be a candidate
for preservation.

Jenny: Excuse us.

(footsteps recede)

xavier was hooked up
to a heart monitor.

Data is stored remotely so I'm
gonna try to call the company

and see if I can find out
what time his heart stopped.

- Yeah, and get an exact time
of death?

- Right. If I can get a look
at the echocardiogram,

I may be able to tell
if it was a heart attack

or something more sinister,
like lilium's suggesting.

- That'd be an impressive trick.

- Yeah, it's worth a shot.

(blood trickles)

donovan: That's blood.

(sheet rustles)

- that's a perfusion machine.

- I'm gonna go with sinister.

(suspenseful music)

(blood trickles)

- perfusion machines are
usually used in hospitals

to recirculate blood in a,
in a heart surgery.

- So, you're saying that's five
litres of xavier lorde's blood.

- Dollars to donuts.

And perfusions normally
take a couple of hours.

- Yeah, then dollars to donuts,

olivia was lying about
finding him at 7:00 a.M..

- Yeah. Exactly.

(gurney rattles)

olivia: Stop!
You're killing him!

Do you not understand?

Man: Coming through!
- Please stop!

Murderer.
- This is a suspicious death.

I don't have a choice.

- I won't let you do this.

Please.

I'm begging you.

I'll stop this autopsy.

I'm calling my lawyer.

- Cedric, the night nurse,

he performed the perfusion?

- Do you know what the
perfusion process is,

detective mcavoy?

Or why it's essential
to our science?

- Yes, actually,

dr. Cooper explained it
a little bit.

It's when you pump the blood
from the body

and replace it with an
organ-preserving solution,

kinda like an antifreeze.
- That's right.

Without it, the cryo-freezing
process

could cause the water in
the blood to expand,

destroy the cells,
and putrefy the organs.

- But I also know that even
the most skilled perfusionist

would take at least three
hours to complete that job.

You still wanna convince me
that good ol' cedric

is just the night nurse?

Let me ask you,

what makes you so certain
xavier will be brought back?

It's never been done before.

- Tell that to the wright
brothers.

- Okay.

- Unimpressed by man learning
to fly?

How about harnessing
nuclear energy?

The internet?

You see, nothing seems
plausible until we make it so.

Then we forget, and act as if
it were there all the time.

(knock on door,
door beeps, opens)

(light footsteps)
donovan: (sighs)

one moment, please.

- Security camera from
the neighbour's showed

a van arriving at
about 4:30 a.M.

And leaving just before
8:00 a.M..

- That's when they pumped
the blood.

That van have a logo?

- No, but I ran the plates.

It's a rental leased out
to cryosleep inc..

Ah, xavier lorde's research
assistant uh, got in touch,

she's looking for that
talking box thing.

- Good. Bring her in.

- All right. I'll see
what I can find out.

(door closes)

river: We can't touch him.

Jenny: According to his wife's
lawyer, no,

but I uh, I'm working on it.

Dr. Garcia: Can he at least be
moved into a locker?

- The frozen carbon dioxide

is as good as putting him
in the morgue. He'll keep.

- So, nobody touches him
'til I say so.

Oh, hey, uh, dr. Garcia,

thank you for doing this
on such short notice.

I appreciate it.
- Are you kidding me?

This is one for the books.

(footsteps thud)

(low hum of chatter,
phones ring)

- oh, hey.
- Hey.

- Uh, should we talk, or--
- sorry, uh,

thank you for doing this,
and uh, yeah, we uh--

(video call chimes)
- uh, looks like we're up.

Woman: The honourable judge
helen koo is now ready.

Proceedings can begin.

Clark: Judge koo,
clark coleman of the crown

representing the office
the coroner

in a jurisdictional matter.

It's time sensitive, so, thank
you for accommodating us.

Judge koo: What are the facts?

- Yes, thank you.

Uh, the next of kin is trying
to block my autopsy.

The decedent has a will, uh,

in which they express their
wishes to be cryo-preserved.

- And is the autopsy warranted?

Clark: Well, the parties
involved have been deceitful,

and as you can see from the
documents that I've sent you,

the body has also been
interfered with.

- That's good enough for me,
mr. Coleman.

Dr. Cooper, paperwork will
be forwarded to your office.

You may proceed with
your examination.

- Thank you. Wonderful.
Thank you.

Okay.

- So, it's probably not
a good time, is it?

- Uh, sorry um, no,

can uh, can we...

Can we raincheck?

- I can wait.

- Okay.

(blinds rattle)

(footsteps approach)

(ominous music)

(blinds rattle)

- (huffs)

hey, are you okay?

- Me?
- Yeah.

- I'm fine, kiddo,
don't you worry.

(footsteps shuffle)

(blinds rattle)

(sighs)
I promise, I'm fine!

- You saw her again.

Where?
- Where? Everywhere!

I saw her in there, she's
in that window over there,

now she's over here.

I saw her at the dining room
window.

Look, it's ...'s different.

It's not like it was.

I, I don't know if I like it.
It's just not the same.

I mean, I shouldn't look.
Right?

I, I know she's not there,
so, my looking for her,

this looking is only gonna
make it worse,

but I just miss her so much.
(cries)

- I know.
- I miss my peggy.

It was great for a while,
there.

You know, conjuring her up
and seeing her again,

but it's just not the same.

- Listen... What can I do?

How can I help?

- My god, you don't know,
do ya?

Just you listening to me
and not thinking of me

I'm ju--as a crazy old man,
it just means the world to me.

- (sighs)
- don't know what I'd do

without ya,
to tell ya the truth.

- I think I better take a nap.
- I think so.

- Just a 20-minute nap.
Wake me up.

- I'll bring you some.

♪

(engine rumbles, beeping)

- how could he not straighten
these things?

(frames rattle)

- looks like the members
of cryosleep.

- Yeah, probably.

- Check out the one on the end.
It's our boy, cedric.

(rushing footsteps approach)

- looking to secure
your future?

Uh, please excuse my lunch.

Busy, busy, we're always
eating on the run.

Please, have a seat.

I am the chief physician
of this facility,

dr. Benedict yeats,
but please, call me dr. Ned,

everybody does.

- I'm detective mcavoy, this is
dr. Jenny cooper, the coroner.

- Yes, I was expecting you.

Uh, we, we have nothing to hide.

- Not even about cedric there,
employee of the month?

Not quite a night nurse, is he?

- He's a highly qualified
perfusionist.

I, I hope he's not being
charged with anything?

- Not yet.

Tell me, why did he lie
about who he was

and what he was doing there?

- Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.

It was a misunderstanding.

My team and I absolutely
performed the perfusion

on xavier lorde.

I have a legally binding
contract to do so.

- Okay, so olivia just,
just called you that night?

- Yeah, well that's the name
of the game.

We can't exactly book
appointments for our clients.

We aren't involved pre-mortem.

- Because that would be illegal.
- (clears throat)

what time did olivia call you?

- Uh... About uh, 4:00.

Yeah, shortly after xavier
achieved biostasis.

We arrived about 30 minutes uh,
after, and but,

we left before we were able
to complete the transport.

- You mean, when the
stepdaughter, lilium, arrived.

- Yes, knowing there was
going to be uh, you know,

a family issue,
we opted to leave quietly.

- Okay. And what,
what happens now?

- Well, now I'm awaiting
instructions from olivia.

- Could we take a look
around your facility?

(chair squeaks)

dr. Yeats: Cryotherapy bay

is home to cryosleep's
153 souls.

As you can see,

each of our patients
has their own capsule.

- Your patients?

- Our members have chosen
not to accept death

as a foregone conclusion.

We place them in liquid
nitrogen,

lowering them to a temperature
of -190 degrees celsius,

and then they reside here
in members bay.

- Have any of your members ever
been successfully resuscitated?

- No, not yet,

but the science is far closer
to a breakthrough

than you might think.
- Oh, is that so?

How much does it cost
to get set up in here?

- It's $265,000 for full
cryo-preservation,

and $125,000 for a neuro only.

- By neuro, you mean--
- just the head.

- Um, I noticed there are very
few of you working here.

- It's an intimate operation.

I do have some part-time staff
to assist with the intakes.

- And these intakes,

they've never interfered with
a death investigation before?

- Interfered?
No, no, no, no.

We've done it this way
153 times. No dispute.

Uh, tell me,

will we be receiving
xavier lorde's body today?

- I don't know, but I will uh,

I'll keep you posted.
- Okay.

But you know, you wait too long,
he won't be any good to me.

(crunches apple)
- to you?

(loud crash, system shuts down,
restarts)

- hm. Must be a power outage
in the neighbourhood.

(chuckles)

- hm.

(footsteps thud on steps)

- is it just me, or is this
place janky as hell?

- Oh, it's not you.
Pretty understaffed

for a high-tech operation.
- Yeah.

- Catch those light flickers?

- Oh, hey, uh...

Heart monitor data just came in.

Xavier's heart started slowing
slightly,

but noticeably around 4:30 a.M..

- And does it look like
natural death?

- No, it's inconclusive.

Hopefully the autopsy
will tell us more.

I'll let you know what I find.

(sighs)

(gurney rattles)

wonder if they're actively
recruiting people

to keep the lights on?

- Yeah. Recruiting them?
Or killing them?

♪

(door shuts, engine starts)

donovan: When xavier went
into cardiac distress,

why not call an ambulance?
Why call cryosleep?

- It's what he wanted.

- I know it's what cryosleep
wanted.

I took a look at their
financials - a lot of red.

They need your $265,000.

Did you also know that their
membership relies heavily

on high profile names?

Names like yours
and your husband's?

- So? Ask.

- All right,

was xavier alive or dead

when cedric arrived
to perfuse him?

- You think I'm some stupid
old lady who can't let go?

So desperate to hold on
to her husband

that she'll let cryosleep
kill him

and take my money?

- Did they?

- (scoffs)

we were going to be young again.

The way we live now is barbaric.

Aging is a crime.

To let a brilliant mind
like his just be stolen,

it's absurd.

- I'll admit,

the future where no one
gets sick or dies,

sounds pretty nice.

But it also doesn't sound real.

I've been to this cryosleep
place,

and I'll tell ya,
it felt like a trick,

like I was on the set
of a cheap magic show.

- I don't care about
the window dressing.

I believe in the science.

Imagination can change
the world.

Maybe you're not using
yours enough.

Look, will you let me show you
something?

Humour me.

(projector thuds on table)

(footsteps thud,
light switch clicks)

- so, this chat-box thing,
you developed this

to help people who've lost
the ability to speak.

- That's a part of it.

The main project is
brain emulation.

- Huh.

- Imagine you could scan
a brain,

then construct a software
model of it.

That was our goal,

to replicate xavier's
consciousness and upload it.

- (impressed huff)

- he believed that one day
we'd exist entirely

in a virtual world.
We were making progress,

but it's still at
a speculative stage.

- Okay, so um,

what does that, what does
that mean, exactly?

- The software?
- Yeah.

- Or ai, hasn't yet achieved um,

actual awareness.

The device still needs verbal
cues to interact with.

We have hundreds of back-ups
of conversations.

- Hmm, uh, okay.

But... Were any of these
conversations

with lilium and xavier?

- I have them here,
if you wanna take a listen.

- Uh, yeah, that, that would...
That would be great.

Lilium: Tell me what you need,
daddy.

Xavier: Lily-bear, you always
know what's best for me.

- Okay. I'm coming there.

I'll be on the first flight
tomorrow.

Daddy, do you wanna be frozen?

- Lily-bear, you make me
want to be alive.

- Okay, then we have
to stop olivia.

- Yes, lily-bear, yes.

- Um, do you mind if I play
this for my partner?

He's gonna wanna hear that.
- Yeah, of course.

- Yeah, okay.
I'll be right back.

- Okay.
- Yeah. Oh.

Olivia: These are concepts
I created for a film

I never made.

The storyboards are almost
40 years old.

3d printing of organs,
synthetic limbs

that sense touch,

facial recognition software.

These things only existed
in my dreams at that time.

Now, they're real and
we use them every day.

That's what immortality
means to me;

a dream made real by science.

(projector clicks off)

(chair rattles,
light switch clicks)

I know they're going to autopsy
my husband's body.

But his brain can still be
saved by cryonics.

Jenny: They did a good job.

- Yeah. It only took six hours
too, so.

- Well, I'll take them out
for you.

- (sharp inhale) hm.

- I'll take them out
when they're ready,

so you, save you some time.

(indistinct background chatter)

(chair rattles)

- wait, wait, wait,
let me show you something.

Here, take a look.

- What is this?

- This is a small,
beautiful piece of land.

And I just bought it.
- (surprised gasp)

- (small laugh)

- yeah. I think we can start
over, just...

Try to build something together.

You know?

- Yeah.

It's just...

You know, what if we...

What if we try this again
and we just end up

in the exact same place?
- No, no, jenny, listen. Listen.

Something happened to me
yesterday,

now everything is clear.

The only thing that I want is--
(knock on door)

- we're, we're ready for you.

(door closes)

- okay, I can wait.

- Okay.
(footsteps recede)

dr. Garcia: Feel that?
The pulmonic valve?

Jenny: Yeah,
could be a blockage.

It's hard to tell without
having any history of the heart.

- And without a tox screen,

I can't confirm any kind of
injection or drug overdose.

- Yeah, a lethal arrhythmia

would've shown up
on the heart monitor data.

Unless they uh, unplugged it
before they gave him the shot.

River: The widow really
wants to freeze the brain.

- I know, but she may have
killed him,

so we need to know how he died.

Can we confirm the cause of
death with what we've got?

- Not that I can see.

- Okay. All right, well, yeah,
just gotta do it.

(saw whirrs)

(scull cracks)

- (sighs)
(snipping sounds)

- whoa! Hey, hey, stop, stop,
stop.

His brain. Stop!

(brain oozes, plops)

oh, my god, his brain
is completely liquified.

I don't understand,
I mean this,

this level of decomposition
would mean that he had

to have been brain-dead
for at least 48 hours.

- At least.

- But both his wife
and his daughter said

that they had communication
with him yesterday.

- That's not possible.
- No, it's not,

not unless they were
talking to the dead.

(suspenseful music)

- hello?

Anybody there?

- Xavier was locked in.

This device it works on the
eye tracking tech, right?

Yeah.

Without xavier, I don't think
we're gonna get anything.

- Hi, daddy.

Xavier: Lilium,
my sweet lily-bear.

So happy to hear your voice.

- (shaky exhale)

all right, teja,
I wanna be very clear,

are you saying it's probable
that when olivia and lilium

were talking to xavier
yesterday,

they were actually
talking to that?

- Things have always been toxic
between lilium and olivia.

Communicating with them
was draining for xavier.

He was always caught
in the middle.

- So, you made some adjustments.

- I reprogrammed the box.

I wrote in an algorithm to
mimic xavier's conversation,

to use his words
and his expressions.

- So, the algorithm was created
to de-escalate conflict

between them?

Tell olivia and lilium
what they wanted to hear?

Teja: So that he wouldn't
have to.

So that he could rest.

The algorithm is triggered
by verbal cues

specific to lilium and olivia.

Dad, daddy, darling,

my love, and so on.

So, yes, when they thought
they were talking to xavier,

it was the box talking.

100%.

Olivia: That's impossible.
I don't believe you.

Jenny: It's the truth.

The autopsy revealed that
xavier lost brain function

days ago.

- (shocked gasps)

(crying) so, when...

I wasn't talking to daddy?

Xavier: Lily-bear,
you're upset.

What can I do to help?

(fire crackles)

jenny: I'm sorry, no.

- (sighs heavily)

- (sobs) okay.

(sobbing)

- after everything I did.

♪

- what did you do?

- I overheard them talking.

I couldn't understand why

xavier would say different
things to lilium and me.

I thought he was just...

Trying to spare her feelings.

Knowing lilium
was on her way I...

I called dr. Ned.

He said the window

to get xavier into
cryo-preservation was slim.

So...

I told him to come.

He gave xavier a muscle
relaxant,

to put him at ease.

And I...

I...

I took him off the ventilator

and I...

I shut off his machines.

(exhales heavily)

- (mournful exhale)

- olivia, for what it's worth,

I hope I'm wrong
about the future.

(footsteps thud away)

(gasps)
- no. Where are you going?

You have to arrest me.

I just told you I murdered
my husband.

- You didn't murder him.

He was already dead.

- (sobs heavily)

(realizing rapid breaths)

(sobbing)

(footsteps thud)

- olivia?

- (sobs) I am sorry.

I'm sorry.

I lost him.

(sobbing)

(street traffic whooshes)

shameer: I was glad you dm'd me.

I wasn't sure where we left it.

I was worried about you,

you know, after the party.

- I'm okay.

I pretty much just needed
a wingman

with wheels and nothing to do.
- (chuckles)

that's basically what it says
on my id.

- Oh, perfect!

- Is your boyfriend cool
with us chilling?

- Yeah, yeah, super cool.

Super cool with the chilling.
- Okay.

- (sharp exhale)
- so, we're here. What now?

- I guess I have to go in there.

- You can always just buy
flowers.

You can do it.
- Yeah. Right.

I just need a minute.

- Take your time.

I got nowhere else to be.

- Thank you.

Dr. Ned: Excuse me, sorry,
you can't be in here.

- Dr. Benedict yeats,
I'm arresting you on suspicion

of criminal harassment,
malpractice,

and anything else
I can think of

on the drive over to lockup.
- No, no, don't--

please, you need to
let me finish this intake.

This patient's life
is in my hands!

- Jenny...

- No, no, no,
you mustn't go in there.

- Get him outta here.

No, you don't understand
this work!

♪

(door clicks, bell chimes)

(door shuts)

woman: I'll be right there!

Hi there.

- Hi.
- Can I help you?

- Uh, um, yeah. Yes.

I would like some flowers
please, for my boyfriend.

(chuckles nervously)

- oh, well, what's he like?

- I don't know, he's um,
he's kind of metropolitan,

he's... Very sweet.

- (chuckles) um...

He sounds like a keeper.

How long you been together?

I'm sorry, that question
is really none of...

I'm just nosy.

- No, no, don't worry.

- Why don't we um,
make him something

that he'll really love?
I'll just...

- Sorry. Are you margaret?

- I am.
- (happy exhale)

- most people call me peggy.

- I'm ross.

- (chuckles)

hello, ross.
- Hi.

- I have been wanting to meet
you for such a long time.

- (small laugh)

(indistinct police chatter)

- hey, uh...

What did you mean when you said

you hope you're wrong
about the future?

- Oh uh, you know,
olivia just showed me

some things that,
that got me thinking.

- Don't tell me you wanna
get frozen now? (chuckles)

- (sighs)

♪

- I have cancer.

Or, I had cancer.

I got treatment,

and it caused a hole
in my spine, so,

now I need surgery,

and there's a chance I could
lose the use of my legs.

- Oh, my god, donovan!

♪

- I don't know what to do.

It started with this shooting
pain up my leg.

Next thing I know,
hearing the words

a "solitary spinal
plasmacytoma."

- and the radiation caused
damage to your spine.

- Yeah. You know, they say
it's operable,

but high risk.

- Well, dr. Lamb is a great
orthopedist.

You couldn't be in better
hands there.

(papers rustle)

look, I uh,

I know this doesn't make it
any less scary but,

but this is a, this is a really
good place to start.

- (sighs)

so, he showed up this morning.

- Yep.

- But you hadn't been home
yet from the night before?

- No. (sighs)

- (laughs)
- it's not funny.

- I'm sorry.
- It's not... Ah...

I mean, like,
what am I gonna do?

- Well, how serious is it
with clark?

- I mean it's, you know,
it's not serious,

it's just... Different.

- Different is good.

There's nothing wrong
with different.

(soft music plays)

- what about you?
- What about me?

- How's it going with...

- Oh, kirima?
- Yeah.

- Yeah, she's really cool.

I don't know what else to say,
she's just... Very cool.

- Great. Awesome.
I love that for you.

Sounds like we're having
the exact same experience

in our love lives.
- (laughs)

- I mean, why choose?
Or maybe I choose both?

Ooh! I get both!

(laughing)

- yeah, I know, I know.

Uh, I was just imagining I
was someone else for a minute.

- Ah, wouldn't that be nice,

be someone else for a minute.

(fire crackles)

- okay, all right.
Let's take a look at that spine.

- Oh, so this is official now.
- I am a doctor.

♪ nice love's getting colder ♪

♪ getting colder ♪

♪ and I can't get a job, no ♪

♪ but I know, I know
I can make it, baby ♪

donovan: (pained grunts)

- that shouldn't hurt.
- Yeah.

- I mean, the radiation
reduced your tumour.

I think the pain you're
feeling is uh,

it's from the damage
to your spine.

(exhales)

look...

As your friend, you know,

I want you to do whatever
is right for you, um...

- Yeah.

- But as a doctor,
I don't, I don't...

I don't see a way around this.

You know, I think...

If you don't get the operation,
your spine...

Will collapse.

So, I mean, I would say...

I'd say to book your surgery.

(fire crackles)

- (hard exhale)
yeah. You're right.

I'm gonna book it.

I think, I think
I've always known,

but, you know, I just...

Yeah, maybe, I was just hoping
for a miracle. Just--

- I know.

♪

- hey, ross!
- Hey!

- You good?
- Yeah. You okay?

- Oh, yeah.

- Thank you.
- Bye.

- Hi.
- Hi.

- These are beautiful.
- Mm-hmm.

- They from you?
- Uh, no.

They're from my grandmother.

- Oh, they're from muna.

- No, my other grandmother.

- What?
- I met your mom.

Get those in some water!

(footsteps thud away)

♪

♪