Original subtitles

(reel clicks)

(reel rustling)

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(soft piano music) (cicadas buzzing)

- [Jordie] What system?

You've lived here just as long as I have.

When something needs to be done, just do it!

- [Caleb] It's fine, I will.

- [Jordie] Ugh, you're lazy.

- I'm lazy, is that what you just said?

- Yeah, I just said

you're lazy. - I just spent a fucking

week doing your taxes and I'm lazy?

I do the yard work, I cook for you and Millie all the time.

And don't get me wrong, I actually like doing that.

- Yeah, well, I clean up the kitchen after you destroy it.

- Oh my god, you see these, these counters you're leaning on

and these colonial oak hardwoods you're standing on?

Who put all this shit in?

- A year ago.

You can't do something big once and think that just

magically exonerates you-- - Oh my god,

I just built you a fucking-- (crosstalk drowns out speaker)

- For the rest of your life. - Sunroom in January

that you turned into a gym.

Do you even hear yourself half the time?

I wish I could put a fucking tape recorder on you.

You know how when you were like 22, Jordie,

and you post some shit on Facebook,

and then you look back on it in like a Facebook memory

and you're so fucking embarrassed?

That would be you, except for each week I would be like,

"Hey, Jordie, um, look at this memory from Tuesday."

You'd be fucking embarrassed, man.

- You know what, you're my Facebook memory, from age 27.

I look at you and I wonder, what was I thinking?

- You're so fucking mean.

- Well, so are you, Caleb.

- How am I mean to you?

How am I mean to you?

What do I do that's so mean to you?

- It's what you don't do.

- What do you want to have happen, huh?

I'm sleeping on a couch upstairs.

I-I'm not going to the gym, I'm not going to see my family.

I'm not going to see my friends because all that scares you.

What in your perfect world do you want to have happen?

- I want you to leave.

I want you to leave me and Millie here

and I want you to leave.

- No, I'm not gonna do that.

(crickets softly chirping)

- I don't love you anymore.

(uplifting acoustic guitar)

- Versus her daddy,

let's see if she can go for another dunk.

Let's see you dunk again.

Oh my gosh, oh my gosh! (Millie squealing)

Whoa, holy crud!

♪ Skippin' stones along the water line ♪

He's coming back, he's gonna dunk on his daughter.

Oh, she steals it! (Millie squealing)

She steals it, she steals it!

She's gonna shoot it, she's gonna shoot it.

♪ I don't know where I'm going ♪

Oh, Kobe!

- I got buckets for days.

(Caleb and Millie laughing) ♪ Catch me if you can ♪

- I'm gonna get you, little trash-talker.

♪ Or I'm cuttin' loose ♪ (Millie giggling)

(Caleb mimicking roaring) (Millie giggling)

♪ It's just you and me now ♪

Blind zombie!

- He's gonna get you, he's gonna get you!

(Caleb mimicking growling) (laser gun beeping)

♪ And are you happy now ♪

- I'm getting tired.

♪ Are you happy now ♪

♪ Yeah, are you happy now ♪

♪ Mmm, are you happy now ♪

♪ Away along the coastline ♪

♪ Sheltering from the storm ♪

♪ I can't tell you where I'm at ♪

♪ Or where I am going ♪

♪ Counting out our lone star ♪

- Surprise! - Surprise!

This girl has cake all over your face.

- Oh my God.

- It's all over her face. - Are you eating my cake?

- I just ate this part.

- Oh, my goodness. - You just ate, you just ate that part?

- Yeah. - You ate my cake?

- A half-eaten birthday cake for your birthday.

♪ And I'm happy now ♪

Look at that, look at that.

- They're coming to get you, Barbara.

- Ooh! - That's so scary.

So anyway, we open up on this guy.

- Mm-hm. - All right?

He's in the middle of the woods.

He's got blood rushing from his head and, um, he wakes up

and he literally has no idea who he is

or how he got there, and neither do we.

But we slowly, slowly start to fall in love with this guy

because of all he has to endure.

But here's the kicker.

This guy was a bad dude.

Like a really, really, really bad dude.

Like a low-level mobster, like a hitman, killer guy.

But he doesn't have any memory of being that guy.

He just wants to live his life, you know?

And start new and just exist.

- Is he even really a bad guy

if he has no knowledge of ever doing

these terrible things? - Yeah, he doesn't have any

memory of being this guy,

so like, is he bad? - Right, right.

- You get it.

- I love it.

- Oh, fuck yeah, thumbs up from Jordie.

Game over, that's all I needed.

- I know, right?

I could show it to Ryan.

- You would show it to your

movie-star, high school sweetheart.

- Um, he's not my high school sweetheart, but--

- I haven't even written anything.

You're gonna show it to Ryan?

- Yeah, I mean he owes me.

- Yeah, I don't think I wanna know that story.

- There is no story.

You should write it.

- I'm not even a writer, I just talk shit with you.

- That's true, but you weren't a camera operator

until you picked up a camera.

You weren't a dad till we had Millie.

- And according to you,

I'm doing a pretty shitty job at that most of the time.

- No!

Like part of the time.

- Oh, only part of the time.

- Yeah, part of the time. - What a relief.

(both chuckle)

(tranquil music) (cicadas buzzing)

- You know she's just gonna come in our bed

in the middle of the night.

- I could always lock the door.

- You're bad.

- She asked me where babies came from the other day.

- What did you say?

- I told her it was stork.

Yeah, I told her Mommy fucked a stork.

- Oh my God.

(soft folk music) (muffled cheering on iPad)

♪ Where has the day gone ♪

This guy on here just won a million dollars.

I think Millie could have beat him,

this course was a cakewalk.

♪ Who is this person ♪

- Do you know what that expression means?

- What expression?

- Cakewalk.

- No, but I'm sure you do and you're gonna tell me.

- Cakewalk was a dance performed by slaves on a plantation

to entertain guests. - Oh, wow.

I didn't know we were going there tonight.

So do these terms offend you?

- I mean, they don't make me feel good.

- Well, sweetie, why don't you make a list

so I'll know what not to say from now on.

- Okay, well--

- Oh, she's gonna do it.

- Yeah, I mean, you asked, um--

- I'm ready, let me get my notepad here.

- Okay, "sold down river," "grandfathered in,

"manning the booth," the Augusta Masters.

- Oh no.

- No, seriously-- - I believe you, I'm just--

- No, I know, I know, I'm just telling you.

They required their caddies to be Black

into the early '80s, yeah.

- That's pretty fucked up.

- It is.

Um, the term, "blacklisted."

Honestly, I can go on, but--

- I know. - I won't.

Phrases like this, they just become part

of our everyday vernacular.

We don't even think about where they come from.

- You do.

- I do.

♪ Peer out ♪

♪ At all that is offered there ♪

- Oh man, 2020!

First match in the books, Feldman one.

(mimics gun firing)

Grey, nothing.

- Yeah, if that's any indication

on how this year's gonna go,

you might wanna find a new opponent.

- That is nonsense.

It's gonna be your year, bro.

It's gonna be our year, I can feel it.

- You think so?

- I know so, and you know what I've been thinking about?

- What?

- We should sign up for that mixed doubles tournament.

- You and me?

- Yeah, I could paint my nails.

I could wear a wig and I could identify as female.

- Yeah, I'm sure my neighbors would love this idea.

- They will love it.

- You know you'd have to shave your beard.

- That is not gonna happen, Caleb.

But you would look great in a wig, who is that?

- Oh, that's Dana.

- Hello, Dana.

- [Caleb] Yeah, she just moved in the neighborhood.

Divorce attorney from New York.

- Hm, is she single?

- You're fucking married, dude.

- I'm just making conversation.

- Yeah.

- And observing a beautiful woman walking by.

I think she's smiling-- - I'm sure Rachel,

I'm sure Rachel would love this conversation we're having.

- Pretty sure she's smiling at me.

- Mm-hm.

Absolutely.

Well, as far as I know,

it isn't illegal to have anyone in your home,

regardless of their race,

while an agent is showing your property.

Yes, ma'am.

No, I, I get it, I completely get it.

Yes.

Yes, definitely, I'll put you in touch with them.

- Hey, you wanna go get a drink?

- It's 10 o'clock in the morning, man.

- Come on, we'll go to Taco Mac, Bloody Mary's on me.

We should drink until we throw up.

- Oh, I wish, man.

We're building Millie a she-shed today.

- What the fuck is a she-shed?

- You don't know what a she-shed is.

- I don't know what a she-shed is.

You're building a dollhouse.

- [Caleb] Yeah.

- You dollhouse-building son of a bitch, you.

- According to my reading, my research, um,

it's the young female equivalent of a man cave.

- Hmm, sounds pretty fantastic.

I think I'd like a she-shed.

- Yeah. - Do you want help?

- You wanna help me build my daughter a she-shed?

- No, I don't wanna help you build your daughter

a she shed. I'm fucking with you - Okay, okay,

I knew you were fucking with me, I don't know why I bit.

- But I know you're gonna build the best she-shed ever

and I'm very proud of you.

- I appreciate it, I need that moral support.

- I'm here for you, buddy.

- [Reporter] Helicopter crash,

news reports are just coming in...

(door clattering muffles TV) (Caleb humming)

- Hey. - Heading to the scene.

Right now, Ramona, how did you first learn

the situation-- - What's up?

- [Reporter] And how are you absorbing it right now?

- [Ramona] Oh my god, I mean,

I was outside playing with my son and I just saw an alert,

and I, everyone I called, you know, you, you get, um,

quick, quick voicemails and people close to him are, are

in absolute shock right now.

And it's, you know, I, I can't even process it.

I'm, it's, it's shocking that Kobe Bryant is gone.

- [Jordie] I haven't seen you cry in years,

not since Millie was born.

- Are you keeping tabs?

- No.

Wilson died,

my grandfather died and, you didn't cry.

- You cried when Prince died, Jordie.

I didn't give you a hard time about that.

I'm sad, he was one of my heroes and he's dead now.

- Your hero was a rapist.

- Are you asking me that or telling me that?

'Cause if you're asking me, my response is,

I have no fucking clue if Kobe Bryant was a rapist or not.

I know he cheated on his wife when he was a 22-year-old kid.

She knows that, he admits that.

But she stuck by him for the last 17 years.

So that actually means something to me.

I also know that he spent the rest of his life trying

to be the best father he could be,

the best athlete he could be,

the best man he could be.

I mean, if I knew with absolute certainty

that he raped someone,

then I probably would not have become a Kobe Bryant fan.

But I don't know that, and neither do you.

- Well, as a lawyer from the evidence that I read,

he raped that woman.

- Yeah, well, you weren't there, Jordie.

It's not even about him.

It's about his family and his little girl, and the,

his fan base and the city of LA.

I mean, it's a fucking tragedy.

I can't believe that we're even

having this conversation right now.

- I'm just, I'm trying to understand, okay?

Wilson died, my dog since I was 22 at Northwestern.

He used to fall asleep in your lap every single night.

You didn't shed one tear when he died.

And then my grandfather died, Big Jack?

Your favorite person on the planet,

your words, not mine.

You didn't cry.

You didn't even cry at his funeral.

You, you, I never saw you cry.

(soft music)

I just don't understand.

(somber piano)

- I'm gonna go sleep on the couch.

- There's no way that I can get behind the idea

that one guy ate a bat at a fresh market in China

and that triggered a disease

that killed thousands of people,

cratered this country's economy,

and pretty much left the whole world in shambles.

Now, if you told me that this was done through uh man-made,

no, through gain-of-function research at that Wuhan lab,

that's something I can get behind.

- Where's this theory coming from?

- Instincts, bro, instincts.

- Those same instincts that wouldn't allow you

to go to Yellowstone with us?

'Cause there's a giant volcano

under the earth's surface out there

that's just waiting to explode?

- [Mike] Yup.

- Those same instincts that have you convinced

that Paul McCartney died in 1966

and was replaced by a lookalike?

- Fuckin'-A, right.

- Some might call those conspiracies, Mike.

- Some can go fuck themselves, Caleb.

- What about ghosts?

Aliens?

- All real.

- So fucking funny, man.

- Why the fuck are you wearing a mask?

- Oh, Jesus Christ.

- When it's just the two of us.

- Jordie wants me to wear it, man, I'm sorry.

I'm trying to be respectful.

- Well, it's fucking adorable, I'll give you that much.

But it doesn't do shit, I hate to break it to you.

I'm gonna, I'm gonna throw this one out there for you.

I want you to listen to me, I want you to follow along.

- Here we go.

- I'm gonna paint a picture for you.

I'm wearing a mask, just like you.

And one day I gotta, I gotta go shopping.

So I, I decide to go to Trader Joe's or,

or perhaps I go to Kroger and you're there.

And you're there too, Caleb, and ya got the Rona.

- I'm there and I'm there too, and I've got the Rona?

- You're making fun of me, Caleb,

just follow me here for a minute, not--

- So I've got the Rona in this scenario.

- Not you, the figurative you.

Follow me here. - Okay,

I'm trying, I'm trying. - You're in the store,

you're perusing the aisles and you're touching the fruit.

And then I come along and I touch the same piece of fruit

and I touch my mask and boom, (Mike inhales)

I'm breathing in the Rona, Caleb.

You just spit all over me, Mikey.

- I just spit a, I'm, perhaps you have the Rona now.

(Caleb laughs)

- What are you, some kinda doctor?

- I'm a fucking dentist, what's the difference?

- Five years of school, something like that.

- Something like that, something like that.

Comfort mask, that's what we call them,

those, those things that you're wearing there.

We call 'em comfort masks.

And do you know why we call 'em

comfort masks, Caleb? - No, I don't.

- It's because they make people feel comfortable

when they see other people wearing them.

They make people feel comfortable

when they're wearing them themselves, but that's about it.

It's the truth, truth hurts.

- What about spreading it though?

Like if I want to go see my mom?

- Yeah, of course, go see your parents.

Just don't sneeze in your dad's face

or spit in your mom's mouth.

- Oh. - You do that.

- Yeah, I've been planning-- - It's weird.

It's unhealthy and it's weird. - On doing that.

I'm wearing this mask.

Jordie wants me to wear it, man.

So just deal with it.

- It's cute.

(soft acoustic guitar)

♪ Porch lights in summer ♪

♪ The breezes on your skin ♪

- [Jordie] What if there was a statue

of Hitler hanging in Germany?

- [Caleb] Hanging from where, a noose?

(Jordie chuckles)

I would be, I'd be fine with that.

- If it was, um, standing in Germany.

- You're not gonna like my answer, but I would be,

I'd be okay with it.

- Wow.

- You're fucking drunk, man, you're drunk.

Their, it's, it's their history, it's not pretty.

I mean, a lot of history is not pretty.

- You know what that man represents.

- I do know what he represents and it's awful.

- Then why would you be okay with it?

- I shouldn't have said I would be okay with it.

I would just, I would learn to live with it.

I just think that's a slippery slope.

- Hmm, do tell.

- "Do tell," I will. - Yes, do tell.

- Can I take a shot?

- No, you cannot.

- Okay.

(Jordie laughs)

Uh, here we go.

So your, your grandfather fought in Vietnam

and he did some pretty fucked up shit over there.

Now I loved your grandfather.

I think I've told you many times,

he's one of the most interesting, like,

coolest humans I've ever met in my life.

But I'm willing to bet that there's some Vietnamese folks

out there that would beg to differ.

So what if they showed up at our door right now

and they said, "Hey Jordie, um,

"I wanna take Big Jack's purple Heart

"and throw it in the trash.

"I want you to take his albums and rip 'em up."

Would you do that?

- Hell no.

- Well, your grandfather fought for his country.

And some men, including him,

did not have a choice in the matter.

They just did the best they could in a very nasty

and complicated chapter in history.

Now, whether or not they were on the right side of history,

I don't know.

I think that's for God to decide.

- You don't even believe in God.

You, (Jordie chuckles) you told me so on our first state.

You, you thought that God was like Santa Claus.

- Oh my God, your brain fascinates me.

Uh, of all the things that you remember from our first date,

that's what you remember,

the fact that I don't believe in God?

- Yeah, 'cause it almost costs you

from getting a second date.

- And remind me what we did on our third date.

- We went to church with me and my parents.

- And probably a thousand more times since then.

- Okay, we can save the God conversation for another night.

- Thank you so much, I really appreciate that.

- [Jordie] You're so welcome.

- [Mike] I wanna make love to both of you.

Mm, I wish that I had two dicks,

and I would gently fuck you both.

- I wish I had zero vaginas.

- [Mike] A fucking Hitler statue, bro?

Who the fuck are you, man?

- I hate both of you right now.

Just go back to bed, please.

(soft acoustic guitar)

- [Jordie] Just hit 50,000.

- Worldwide?

- No, in the US.

They're predicting that nearly 80% of us

are gonna get it at some point.

- Well, if that's the case,

I would just as soon go ahead and get it.

- Well, if you get it, you're not sleeping here.

- [Caleb] Oh yeah, where am I gonna sleep?

- Figure it out.

(Caleb chuckles)

- Jesus.

So who's, who's predicting all this?

- [Jordie] Scientists.

- [Reporter] Being built in Central Park.

- It seems like these statistics are changing every day.

- Yeah, they're increasing every single day.

- No, I mean, the facts.

What they know about all this is, is changing every day.

- Well, it's serious.

- I know it is.

- I wish you took this more seriously.

- I, I do take it seriously, I just said...

I'm just trying not to get worked up about something

until I know all the facts.

That used to be a quality of mine

that you actually appreciated.

- So it's not a fact

that 50,000 people have died in this country.

- [Caleb] I don't know.

- What, what do you mean you don't know?

- I don't know that. - Who's telling you that?

- I don't know that, Jordie, I don't know.

I know that hospitals are being bribed

to list deaths as covid deaths.

$12,000 a head, to be exact.

And that's coming straight from your best friend

who happens to work at one

of the most prominent hospitals in the city.

Is she lying to us?

I also know that if you get hit by a bus

or you fall off a cliff,

or you get gunned down in the street

and you got covid in your system,

they're marking that as a covid death too.

- So you think the whole world is in on some conspiracy?

- I...

The media is very powerful.

Okay?

And these stories,

they attract viewers and viewers bring in money.

Now, I'm not the wizard.

I don't know what goes on behind the curtain,

but I would suspect that a lot of this,

a lot of this has to do with money in some form or another

because everything else in this world does.

- You don't even watch the news.

- I do, I do watch the news.

I just don't watch it on a loop 12 hours a day like you do.

- I don't watch it 12 hours a day.

- Yeah, honestly, it's probably more.

- Honestly, I don't really know

how you would know that because you drink wine

till three o'clock in the morning and then you

sleep half the day away. - I don't have a fucking job

right now because of all this bullshit.

- So now this is all bullshit?

- Oh my God, there's nothing I can say that's right.

Nothing I'm gonna say is gonna

change your mind about anything.

I figured that out a few weeks into dating you.

- [Reporter] The planes from Shanghai, China touched down

in New York's JFK...

- [Caleb] Oh my god, I did not wanna argue with you today.

- You always fucking say that,

that you don't wanna argue.

But you know, sometimes arguing is, is healthy.

It's necessary, it's messy, it's uncomfortable,

but tough conversations have to be had.

If there's ever gonna be any understanding.

Or growth or, or change.

There are thousands of people dying

of this virus all around the world.

And you just pretend that everything is fine.

That everything is the same, that nothing is happening.

- [Reporter] Cases are now doubling...

- But I'm really scared...

[Reporter]... will fully double every six days

That you just don't seem to care.

- [Reporter] The death rate though, continues to rise.

(birds chirping)

- [Jordie] You spelled "refrigerator," look at you.

- How come there's a D in the word, "fridge"

but not in the word, "refrigerator?"

- That's a very good question.

That's a really good question.

(Caleb chuckles)

- When can I go back to school?

- [Caleb] Real soon.

- I don't know, baby.

- Sometimes I see you guys talking and you seem really sad.

When other people come around, you seem happy,

but when they leave, you get sad again.

Will I get sad like that?

(soft acoustic guitar)

(car rustling)

(birds chirping)

- [Evan] Jordie, Jordie, Jordie.

- Evan. - What's up?

- Mm-mm, social distance yourself.

- Okay, air hugs, I guess.

- Is that new?

- What?

Oh yeah, yeah, I got a Range.

What?

- Didn't you just get Leah a BMW for her birthday?

- Look at you keeping tabs on me.

- You are so bougie now, I cannot take it.

- I mean, if you got it, you gotta flaunt it.

- Oh, is that what they teach you at Morehouse?

- Oh, oh, okay, okay, big sis got jokes.

Somebody mic her up.

- Okay, come on, I got champagne to celebrate.

- Aight.

- [Jordie] Pardon the Solo cups.

- Classy as always.

- Mmmm, cheers to the promotion.

- Yeah.

(birds chirping)

You know, I was just glad I was able to make it over here.

You talk to Mom and Dad lately?

- I still get Mom's daily Bible-verse

voicemails every morning.

- Hey man, she's just trying to spread the good Word.

- Yeah, she's trying to get us to move back to Chicago.

- Look, I told 'em they need to move down here.

- They're not gonna uproot at their age.

- Yeah, but I offered to help.

A bigger place, downstairs bedroom.

- We can both help if the time comes.

- Okay.

- You don't have to always vie for Child of the Year award.

- Well, you set the bar pretty high, didn't you?

- What bar?

Dad's?

He thought it was a mistake for me not to go to an HBCU,

like you, that it was a mistake when I left Chicago.

And thought it was a mistake that I married Caleb.

- What's going on?

- Things are just weird right now between me and Caleb.

- You're not thinking about the D word, are you?

- No.

No, um,

we're gonna be fine.

I mean, every marriage has its ups and downs, right?

- Yeah.

Look, I'm just lucky to have Leah, you know?

We knew a SpelHouse marriage would last this long?

Leah and I are taking the kids to Baha Mar next week.

We got our own celebration planned.

- You feel comfortable traveling right now?

- Yeah, yeah.

I mean, we're taking the necessary precautions,

praying for the best.

- Oh, praying for the best.

You're just willing to take a gamble like that?

- Come on, you take a gamble any day you hop on the freeway.

Life's a gamble.

(Jordie scoffs)

(Evan chuckles) Yo, look,

I'm more afraid of dying in a fiery plane crash on the way

to Baha Mar than I am-- - I mean, but your family,

there are so many issues with this.

If anything goes wrong--

- I'm a grown man, all right?

I can make decisions for myself and my family.

Thank you.

(crickets chirping) - And conditions in Wuhan

at the epicenter out right desperate.

Video on social media of a woman's...

- How's Evan doing?

- [Reporter] That her husband can't breathe...

- I don't really wanna talk about my brother.

- [Reporter] As a way to treat him.

These images posted to YouTube appearing to show Wuhan's...

- Wanna play truth or dare?

- [Reporter] Converted to a warehouse

of beds for virus patients...

- [Caleb] With you?

- [Reporter] One of the chilling glimpses of the crisis...

- I mean, we can't really go anywhere.

So our dares are kinda limited.

- [Reporter] Social media, now his friends say he's missing.

- Hm, I can get creative.

- [Reporter] Death of a doctor...

(acoustic guitar drowns out news report)

♪ Your needs and my needs ain't always ♪

- Let's do this shit, I'm ready.

- [Jordie] Truth or dare?

- Truth.

- What's the most embarrassing thing

that has ever, ever,

♪ And your love is your love ♪

ever happened to you?

♪ But it ain't always the forgiving kind ♪

I shit my pants at a Radiohead concert.

- [Jordie] What?

- Yes, that's a true story.

I'm in the backseat with my date--

- [Jordie] Whose name you just conveniently don't remember.

- It's not convenient.

I, I blocked it out of my memory

because Mike's driving and I'm in the backseat with her.

- Yeah?

- And she proceeded to try to take a nap in my lap.

- No, no, no, no, no, no.

Nope, nope. (Caleb laughing)

Nope, no. - Yeah, so that lasts about

(hand slaps) a half second,

she shoots up and she's just like staring out the window.

- Wait, is that why Mike calls you SpongeBob ShitPants?

- That's definitely why.

All right.

I dare you to go into that bathroom,

turn the lights down low, stare in the mirror,

and say Candyman five times.

- No!

I'm not doing that, are you outta your goddamn mind?

(Caleb laughing)

- It's a dare.

- No, no, no, no, no, no.

- All right, well then, I win.

- Okay. (soft piano music)

Oh, I don't know, I was like 22 or something like that.

And I like threw up all over myself

while we were making out, which was extremely gross.

Very embarrassing.

- [Caleb] I think you did that on New Year's

last year with me. - I did not do that.

Why was there a mustard packet in your nightstand?

- I like to keep condoms and condiments

in the same place, apparently. - Oh my god.

You're ridiculous.

(both laughing) (soft piano music)

- Yeah, that experience alone makes me never, ever,

never ever wanna travel again.

And I look back and there are all these people

in the elliptical behind me just staring at me.

And it looked like this man was on the elliptical

just staring at Bradley Cooper's face

for the last 10 minutes just like--

- Motivation. - My motivation.

- To look like Bradley Cooper.

- [Caleb] Yeah, yeah.

(soft music)

- I wish we traveled more.

- Well, we can't now,

'cause of covid and all.

Why don't you ever wipe your face

when you're eating buffalo wings?

- My dad, he told me

to always order chicken wings for dinner

and then not wash my face till after the meal.

- All right. - If that makes sense.

He said that if a guy had a problem with staring me

with sauce on my face for 40 minutes,

that he wasn't worth keeping around for the next 40 years.

You never said anything.

- I must be a keeper.

(soft music)

- So you're not gonna go with me?

- I really don't feel comfortable with that.

- That really upsets me.

- I don't...

Jordie, remember when Me Too happened?

And you said you couldn't fully get behind it?

You said it was because it was changing.

Every single day, it was gradually morphing

into something that was unpredictable.

And you didn't want to get on board because every morning,

you would wake up and it would be

something different the next day.

- This is different.

- No, I don't see how this is different.

You know, I, I go to sleep tonight and I say I'm all in,

and then I wake up, and this group

I'm attaching myself to says, "Fuck the police."

Or, uh, even worse, in my opinion,

"Dismantle the police altogether."

I think that's fucking insanity.

I do not wanna be a part of that.

- I'm a Black woman and you're married to me

and you supposedly love me--

- I "supposedly love you." - And you can't get

behind this cause?

I don't know you.

- Jordie.

- Black Lives Matter.

Do you not agree with that?

Do you not agree with that? - Of, of course,

of course I agree with that.

- Then why won't you go march with me?

- 'Cause I'm just trying to figure out

which Black lives matter, Jordie.

'Cause it's not the Black cops.

You know, no one seems to give a shit about them anymore,

even though they're out there risking their lives

every night to protect us.

It's not, it's not the Black babies

whose moms are getting infected with covid

every time they're out there protesting.

It's not our Black conservative friends,

people like your brother.

You know, they're told to shut the fuck up

if they know what's best for them.

I'm just, I'm fucking exhausted, man.

I, I'm trying to figure out what I'm supposed to do

or believe or be offended and outraged by next

and it's fucking exhausting.

I love you, all right?

I love you, I love our daughter.

And if I have to post a black square on my Instagram page

to like prove to our Black friends

how much I have their back,

then I think I've been doing

something wrong the last 37 years.

- I want you to go march with me.

I want you to march with me.

- If you want me to do that, I'll do it.

If you want me to go rub shoulders with a thousand strangers

and march with you, then I'll do that.

But I don't want to take our daughter.

I think she's too young to process something like this.

- Okay.

- Okay.

- [Reporter] Tonight, 18 states

and Puerto Rico reported increasing covid cases,

South Carolina registering its highest

single-day total Friday,

Florida coming out of its highest weekly spike.

And with protests showing no signs of slowing,

several cities now opening free testing...

- Why don't we turn that off?

Listen to some music or something.

- [Jordie] I wanna watch this.

- [Reporter] And Trevor, the New York Health Department...

- What if we changed up your programming a little bit?

Maybe you could play a game

with me and your daughter. (remote clicks)

- There, it's off.

It's not like when I turn this off,

this all just magically goes away.

This is our reality.

- It doesn't have to be.

What if we just went away for a little while?

You know, went and got an Airbnb

in the mountains or something.

Or hell, I don't care, let's go stay on a farm.

You think the Amish are concerned with the coronavirus?

- No, I don't because they aren't informed.

Do you think a squirrel is worried about running

into the middle of the road

and getting its skull crushed by an 18-wheeler?

- That's pretty graphic. (Caleb chuckles)

- No, because they have no concept

of the danger that's out there waiting for it

until it's too late and it's dead.

- But if that same squirrel like

watched the news all day, it'd be okay?

Look, I'm gonna take Millie to see my parents this weekend.

I know they really wanna see her and we can, um,

have it be socially distanced.

You know, we can wear masks and all that.

- [Jordie] No.

- [Reporter] On the ground where you are...

- You just said no?

Why no?

- [Reporter] First thing I would say

to everybody out there listening to all of us is...

- Do I really have to give you an explanation?

- Yeah, you do actually, considering we brought a child

into this world together, and as far as I know,

we still have equal say into what she does.

- When did your parents become All Lives Matter people?

No, listen, I-- - Oh my god.

- I posted something about the protests

and your mom commented, "#alllivesmatter."

- I'm sure she did not mean anything by it.

And honestly, at what point did the term, "All Lives Matter"

become a negative phrase anyway?

I mean it's like the powers that be just wake up one day

and decide what's PC and what's not anymore, you know--

- I am not saying that your mom is a bad person.

- Oh, thank God, she'll be so relieved.

- But what I am saying is that

that comment is very problematic.

- Why? Why?

Do you disagree with the term that All Lives Matter?

- Yeah, of course, all lives matter, Caleb.

But right now, that's not really

what we're talking about. - Well, my 67-year-old mother,

who I'm surprised can even use a computer--

- That's not what we're talking about.

- Is posting something that you agree with

and you have a problem with it.

- You just don't get it.

It goes against everything that's happening right now.

Everything that I believe in.

Do people, do they barge into cancer boards screaming,

"Other diseases matter too?"

- Jordie, my mother loves you.

She worships Millie.

I, I, I mean I know for a fact

that she actually likes both of you

a hell of a lot more than she likes me.

What do you see when you look at me?

- [Reporter] Message so people can understand...

- [Caleb] A white man?

Is that what you see?

- You are a white man.

- So that's what you see.

'Cause I don't see that when I look at you,

I just see my wife.

- [Reporter] Your family, and yourself...

- My beautiful, brilliant, stubborn-as-shit-sometimes wife.

Simple as that.

- [Reporter] Help in some ways, but in some ways...

- You're not colorblind, Caleb.

- [Reporter] We still have some control.

We don't want people to panic.

- You might think that you are,

but you're not. - Well, you're wrong

about this, you're wrong.

I can't prove it, but when it comes to me and you,

you're wrong.

- [Reporter] That's very good advice, and you said...

- There's nothing wrong with seeing color.

People, they're obviously more than their race.

But if you can't see race, you can't see racism.

- I don't even know what we're talking about right now.

That's fine, all of that is fine.

I'm just trying to say I want our daughter

to go see her grandparents.

- [Reporter] Coronavirus, and I think listening

to some of the doctors and nurses,

and the folks who are working with people

who are dying or close to dying,

you get a sense-- - No.

- [Reporter] Of what that burden is that...

- You're gonna deprive our daughter

of seeing her grandparents.

- If anything, I am protecting her.

- Jesus Christ, you're so fucking ridiculous sometimes.

- I'm trying to raise a daughter

who is proud to be half Black, Caleb.

- [Reporter] The most important part is...

- You know what I think?

I think that up until recently,

our daughter had no concept of black and white.

She had no concept of racism,

of prejudice, of anything of the sort.

- [Reporter] But they are still in their jobs.

- Now I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing

and I'm probably naive to think that that can last forever.

But I do wonder what a world looks like

if we all just shut the fuck up about it for five minutes

and just let the past be the past and just...

- [Reporter] Seriously, so do we (TV muffling)

- Let her be a little girl.

- [Reporter] Well, in a recent op-ed,

something that I think...

- I wish we could all just love each other.

I wish the world wasn't so ugly, I do!

- [Reporter] Sea to shining sea.

- But we are talking about centuries of hate, learned hate.

I can't, I can't just forget about the past

because I'm painfully reminded of it every single day.

And a Black child, they don't have the luxury

of blissful ignorance.

- [Reporter] People ignoring restrictions,

that they're tired of this, you know,

so they're getting complacent.

- I think we need to see a marriage counselor.

- [Reporter] I understand it, we're tired too.

Every human being I know wants this to be over.

We are so done with it.

- I feel like nothing I'm ever gonna do

is ever gonna make my wife take me seriously.

Like I'm always just gonna be a big kid in her eyes.

- I feel like I work really hard

and the only reason that we can afford

to live in this home is because I am working enough

for both of us, and--

- I feel like that is not accurate.

I work very hard and the only reason I'm not working

at the moment is because we're in a pandemic.

And I couldn't get a job if I tried

'cause my wife doesn't want me to leave the house.

And what she's not mentioning is

I actually put the entire deposit down on this house too.

- Okay, Caleb, remember when it's Jordie's turn,

we need to let her speak.

So, it's Jordie's turn.

- I feel like my husband

hasn't truly been attracted to me in years.

- I feel frustrated because my wife fucked Donald Glover.

- What?

- I mean if she's just gonna say random shit

that's not true, can I do that?

- Okay, try not to respond to her to anything that she says.

There's no need to defend or to counter.

Just tell us how you feel from your heart.

- I feel frustrated.

(soft music)

Because my husband has become this entirely

different person these past four months.

I don't even know him anymore and,

I don't like the person that he's becoming.

- I feel like I'm the same person.

- [Dr. Kwon] Remember, try not to respond to her.

Just tell us how you feel.

- I'm sorry, this is really hard.

- Look, there's no need to be sorry,

for anything ever in these sessions.

That goes for both of you.

How do you feel?

- I feel powerless.

I feel like my entire marriage

is falling apart right in front of me

and there's nothing I can do about it.

- I feel hopeless.

I am representing a woman right now,

a Black woman who had her white friend stand in her yard

and pretend to be her while her home was getting appraised

because she knew that it would be valued significantly less

if they knew a person of color lived there.

(Jordie exhales)

I go shopping at Phipps Plaza.

And this sales girl,

she follows me around until I leave.

I go running in my neighborhood

with my own brother,

and security, they, they pull up, they're nice at first, um,

and then they ask the inevitable, "Do you live here?"

I take my daughter to the pool, and the looks we get...

And my husband, he has no idea.

I have been complacent

my whole life.

(soft music)

- [Caleb] I think we need Mommy's help with this,

this is too hard.

- This is Mexico.

- That's New Mexico, that's a state.

- That's New Mexico?

- Yeah, that's a state.

You wanna help me put New York together?

- Whoa, New York is so far away.

- I know, you wanna help me put New York together?

Put it right there, there you go.

Oh, that's where daddy's from.

- [Millie] Why do they call it the Peach State?

- There's so many peaches.

Maybe we can go get somewhere later on today, you want to?

(sponge scrubbing)

(soft music)

Are we just not gonna talk?

- Are you just not gonna help me clean up?

- Of course, I'll help you clean up.

Just tell me what you want me to do.

- Why do you always say that?

"Just tell me what to do."

"Tell me what to do, Jordie, and I'll do it."

You know exactly what to do.

When the dishes are dirty, you wash them.

When the trash is full, you empty it.

When there's poop in the litter box, you scoop it out.

- We don't even have a cat, Jordie,

what are you talking about?

- Are you serious right now?

- I'm sorry, you just seem to have a system to everything.

I didn't wanna mess up your system.

- System?

- Yeah.

- What system?

You lived here just as long as I have.

When something needs to be done, just do it!

- That's fine, I will.

- Oh, you're lazy.

- What'd you just say?

- I said that you're lazy.

- I'm lazy, okay. - Yes.

- I just spent a week doing your taxes.

- Yeah, well, I clean up the kitchen after you destroy it.

- [Caleb] I just built you a fucking sunroom in January!

- [Jordie] I mean, do you want a crown?

Do you want a prize, what do you want?

- I, I'm not going to the gym,

I'm not going to see my family.

I'm not going to see my friends because all that scares you.

What do you want to have happen?

- I want you to leave.

I want you to leave me and Millie here

and I want you to leave.

(crickets chirping)

- No, I'm not gonna do that.

- I don't love you anymore.

(soft music rising)

I don't think I love you anymore.

- You've become my ceiling.

- [Jordie] Excuse me?

- "I don't think I love you anymore,

"you've become my ceiling."

It's from a song.

"The Gold" by Manchester Orchestra.

(soft music)

We danced to it on New Year's Eve at the Sundial.

- I don't remember.

(soft music) (birds chirping)

(treadmill rustling)

(treadmill powering off)

- Shit.

(door clatters)

- Why haven't I heard from you?

I've called you about 50 times, I texted you.

I wrote you a goddamn letter, for Christ's sake.

- I know, I can't do this with you right now,

I'm sorry. - Do what?

- Have it out with you.

Tell you everything that's on my mind.

I don't wanna argue with you.

I know it's gonna lead to that.

Please, just go home. - Caleb,

what the fuck is going on?

- Jordie and I are getting divorced.

That's what's going on.

- What?

- [Caleb] Yeah, we're separated.

- Wait, you're living in the same house.

- I know.

- What can I do?

- There's nothing you can do, I, (Caleb sighs)

I'm actually kinda pissed off at you right now.

- Me? Why?

- Yeah, your fucking blog or whatever, your Instagram page.

- What about it?

- You're going on there and you're saying, uh,

"My heart is so broken,

"I just discovered a close member of my family is racist?"

- It's just an Instagram page.

- So what are you saying, you don't mean it, Allison?

You just write cryptic shit

on the internet and it's just not true?

- I didn't say that, and I wasn't talking about you,

if that's what you're worried about.

- Who the fuck are you talking about then?

Who are you talking about, Uncle John?

The man who drove to North Carolina

and helped you renovate the farmhouse

you're currently living in?

Or Dad, the man who literally strong-armed the entire family

into having an intervention for you

when you suddenly stopped eating

for a year? - What are you seeing, Caleb?

Just because they do good things

doesn't mean they're not racist.

We have racism in our family and it just,

it makes me sad.

- Well, it doesn't give you the right

to air our family's dirty laundry on the fucking internet.

Especially when you have 240,000 strangers

who worship the elusive Allison Grey

watching on all the time.

- I'm sorry.

- No you're not, you're fucking not.

- Okay, I'm not.

- At least you're honest.

(Caleb sighs)

- What do you want me to do?

- I don't know.

You can start by taking down that post, I guess.

I mean, that would be a nice start.

- I'll consider it.

- Well, consider this, Allison,

you write jokes for Tiffany Haddish

and Mindy Kaling right now.

People like that, am I right?

- Yeah.

- You're talented, you're witty,

and I think you're probably the funniest person

I've ever met in my life and I'm really proud of you,

but what happens when they start digging into your past?

What happens when they find out

your husband has a confederate flag stamped

to the back of his pickup truck?

When they start looking at Facebook posts you made

in your twenties bashing liberal snowflakes?

- People have the right to change, Caleb.

I guess I'm changing.

I'm just doing what I think is right.

Using my platform to post about Black Lives Matter,

to post about issues that I'm passionate about.

- Allison, you write memes for an Instagram page

that caters to suburban housewives and moms.

Do you really think that's your target audience?

- That was mean.

- I didn't...

- Jesus, Caleb.

I mean, you gotta start somewhere.

(light folk music)

♪ Do you ever wonder if you raised enough hell ♪

♪ Well I'll tell you a story and I'll tell it well ♪

♪ Once upon a time my blood was thick as mud ♪

♪ And on a rainy day ♪

♪ I collapsed on a bus ♪

♪ And do you ever wonder ♪

♪ If you gave enough ♪

♪ And do you ever wonder ♪

♪ If you gave enough ♪

♪ And there were times when I couldn't see a thing ♪

♪ Not even the few feet stretching out in front of me ♪

♪ We watched the years pass us on by ♪

♪ I gave you all I had and then we had to say goodbye ♪

♪ And do you ever wonder ♪

♪ If we gave enough ♪

♪ Do you ever wonder ♪

♪ If we gave enough ♪

♪ Well I do, when it involves you ♪

♪ So come back now and we'll see this through ♪

♪ And do you ever wonder ♪

♪ If you gave enough ♪

♪ And do you ever wonder ♪

♪ If we gave enough ♪

♪ And do you ever wonder ♪

(birds chirping)

♪ Happy Birthday to you ♪

- Oh man.

♪ Happy Birthday ♪

To you, we gotcha now!

- It's fine, thank you.

♪ Happy Birthday to Daddy ♪

♪ Happy Birthday to you ♪

- Thank you so much.

My gosh, what a surprise.

You wanna help me blow out the candle?

- Yes.

- One, two, three.

(light acoustic guitar)

- Boom, nailed it.

♪ One, two, three ♪

♪ It's always you and me ♪

♪ And one day soon you'll see ♪

♪ I can do anything ♪

♪ With ♪

♪ Millie Bean ♪

You're like a little rockstar.

(Millie's harmonic vocals)

You wanna hear a song I wrote for you?

It goes,

♪ I know a girl named Millie ♪

- Lillie

♪ She's got a dog named Kiwi ♪

♪ And her face is kind of silly ♪

(Millie giggling)

♪ Her bedroom is pink ♪

♪ Her tooties stink ♪

(Millie giggling)

♪ She's the silliest billy Millie goat ♪

♪ I've ever known in my whole life ♪

That doesn't even rhyme.

- No.

- [Caleb] Write a song about me.

- Okay.

♪ Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah ♪

♪ Blah, blah, blah, blah ♪

♪ Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah ♪

♪ Blah, blah, blah, blah ♪ ♪ Blah, blah, blah, blah ♪

♪ Blah ♪ ♪ Blah ♪

♪ Blah, blah, blah, blah ♪

(Millie giggling)

- Hey.

I'm on page 17.

My script.

And I'm feeling inspired.

And you're always the one that like would inspire me.

And since you don't wanna do that anymore,

I don't know where to put this energy right now, I just,

I'm writing and it's making me happy.

And I just wanted to say thank you so much

'cause it's your doing.

Okay.

(light acoustic guitar)

♪ I washed your body down ♪

♪ Your muddy feet up to your crown ♪

- Bottom line is,

I don't know if I'm attracted to you anymore.

- So you look at me and you don't think I'm handsome.

I've lost my looks already?

- I didn't say that.

I said I'm not attracted to you anymore.

There's a difference.

- What's the difference?

If I see a girl and she's pretty, then,

I think she's attractive, I'm attracted to her.

- Well,

women's brains operate differently than men's.

- Oh yeah?

- Yeah.

It's, it's not all about looks.

See, we aren't shallow like you guys are.

So if a man is, um,

if he's kind or funny,

charismatic, or,

I don't know, he's just like a sexy voice,

it's, it's attractive.

- That is like the coldest shit

anyone has ever said to me in my entire life.

- I doubt that.

- So based on process of elimination, I am not,

what did you say?

Cute, or kind, or funny, charismatic.

I don't have a sexy voice.

I definitely don't have a sexy voice.

- I didn't say that.

- But it's the things you didn't say, Jordie.

Just like it's the things I don't do.

- I shouldn't have said that.

- Which part?

- Any of it.

- So you're not attracted to me?

- No.

- You're not attracted to me anymore at all.

(Jordie giggling)

- Fuck you.

You know whiskey makes me frisky.

You can't get me drunk and

make me fall in love with you again.

- You're the one who bought the liquor.

I don't even drink whiskey.

- Yeah.

♪ Float above the trees ♪

Remember when we went to see

"Blue Is the Warmest Color" at the drive-in?

And we fell asleep about halfway through?

'Cause I forgot my glasses

and it was all subtitles and,

I didn't know what was going on.

- Yeah, I remember I was enjoying it.

But, uh, you kept asking me

what was happening the whole time.

- I woke up in the middle of the film,

I just started staring at you.

I thought,

who in the world is this man

♪ Float above the trees ♪

that would come to a drive-in movie theater with me

to see a Danish film,

about two lesbians?

♪ Float above the trees ♪

I thought,

I think I could love this man.

♪ Float above the trees ♪

- What about now?

- I don't know, Caleb,

I know right now,

I want you.

Right now in this moment,

I want you.

- I want you so bad.

- Look, I know I take you for granted--

- No, right now,

♪ It's out of my hands ♪

I want you,

you want me.

Can we just start from there?

- "Blue Is the Warmest Color" is a French film, by the way.

- You fucker.

♪ Above the trees ♪

♪ Above the trees ♪

(hands clap)

- All I'm saying is that we are living

in the weirdest time ever.

And I just hope that we're at the absolute peak,

like the apex, because Caleb, I swear to God,

if this thing keeps getting any higher,

I'm gonna jump off the fucking top.

I'm gonna jump off the fucking top or move to Australia.

I don't, I don't know, I don't know.

I mean, there's no sports, you know?

There, there, there's, there's no basketball.

And I know how much we all love basketball.

And now, now I'm hearing

that they wanna cancel school in the fall.

Yeah, they wanna do that.

Because apparently, there's like a million cases of covid,

ages one to 17 in this state.

But you know what they're not telling you?

You know what they're not talking about?

Guess how many deaths there are in that age group?

Zero, bro.

Zero, nothing.

But yeah, hey, great idea, fucking great.

Let's keep the kids home from school.

Let's, let's have my wife,

who barely even graduated high school,

quit her job and stay at home to teach the kids.

That is a great fucking idea, amazing.

- Yeah, I think the fear, Mike,

is that the kids will get it and bring it back

to the parents or the grandparents.

- Well then, you know what?

If you're worried about that,

then by all means, keep the kids at home.

Keep 'em at home.

But you know what, Caleb?

I'm gonna tell you something.

I have asthma, I'm an asthmatic.

I also have high blood pressure, if you can believe that.

- I would never guess that with a guy like you.

- Okay, good, but you know what I'm not worried about?

Fucking covid.

Not worried about it.

My in-laws, they live in Oz.

My parents, they're still in Jersey.

She's got a job, I've got a job.

Our kids need to be in fucking school.

I just think it's really complicated, Mike.

How is it complicated?

I'm talking about facts, dude.

I'm talking about choice.

I don't have the choice to send my kids to school.

I don't have the choice to open my office

and work on people's fucking gums, it's insane.

And, and I'm gonna tell you something.

I'm gonna be very honest with you.

The Democrats, they are more dangerous

with their PC-virtue-signaling,

cancel-culture bullshit than anybody right now.

And I'm a registered fucking Democrat, did you know that?

- I did know. - Yeah.

But as I, as I speak right now,

as I hear the words coming outta my mouth,

I don't know where I stand.

I don't, I don't know, I'm, I'm,

I'm politically homeless.

I am politically homeless.

I mean, fuck Trump, fuck him.

I mean, ya gotta learn to read the room, guy, right?

But, but I'll tell you this,

and I know it's a bit controversial,

I agree with some of his policies, I do.

But it's like his bedside manner is

like Nurse fucking Ratched

from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."

And Caleb, I swear to God,

I'm beginning to think that half the goddamn country

has flown over the Cuckoo's nest.

And don't even get me started on Black Lives Matter,

because that whole thing-- - Whoa, Mike, don't,

let's not go there.

- [Mike] No, just let me--

- Let's not do that tonight.

- Please, let me finish, okay?

Let me gather my thoughts.

(Mike inhales)

(Mike exhales)

Martin Luther King.

Martin Luther King is one of my heroes.

Martin Luther King is a great American.

Martin Luther King is one of the greatest humans

to ever grace this good earth of ours.

But Martin Luther King is probably rolling over in his grave

with all of this rioting, and the looting,

and the burning of cop cars.

Caleb, it's sending us back in time, bro.

- [Jordie] You don't really think that.

- Jordie, I'm just saying

that I feel like it may be doing more harm than good.

That it's, it's, it's widening the divide.

But I would love to hear your rebuttal, counselor.

- Why?

You're not gonna remember anything I say in the morning.

- Jordie, I'm not that drunk.

Of course, I wanna hear what you have to say.

Please, speak.

- I think people of color have been under attack

by various systems

for nothing more than the color of their skin

for a very long time.

- And what systems are those?

- It's funny you should ask.

Let's see, um,

schooling systems, housing, healthcare, job market,

and probably the most pressing at the moment,

policing and incarceration systems.

- Ah, so unwarranted violence against people of color

by the police, is that right?

- Yes.

- Okay, Jordie, let me ask you a question.

Did you know that last year,

nine unarmed Black people were shot and killed

by the police in this country, did you know that?

- That doesn't surprise me.

- However, did you also know

that 17 unarmed white people were also shot

and killed by the police in this country last year?

So you tell me, counselor, are they being targeted?

Are they under attack?

- Well, to that,

I would say that African Americans account

for roughly 13% of the country, okay?

And whites account for roughly 60% of the US population.

So based on that,

the numbers still fall largely in your favor.

- In my favor?

- Yeah, your favor. - In my favor.

Jordie, I'm a Jew, I'm a minority, you remember?

- Okay.

Have you ever been racially profiled

or discriminated against based on the color of your skin?

- Not that I can recall, no.

But, but I once had a woman ask me where my horns were.

I'm serious, that actually happened.

True story, she was dead serious,

Caleb, you were there.

We were fishing in Gulfport, that happened.

- Well, maybe she thought that she were the devil.

- Oh, oh, okay. - [Caleb] Oh, you just got served son.

- Yeah, look, Michael, I'm not trying

to compare my plight to yours or anyone else's.

Honestly, I, I'm,

I'm simply saying that there is a long history

of systemic oppression in this country

and people are sick of it.

A Black kid in Alabama steals $9 in the '80s,

he gets life without parole.

A white kid at Stanford gets convicted

of three counts of sexual assault,

serves six months jail time.

- Jordie, that's, that's one extreme example.

- I have hundreds.

- [Caleb] She's got a bunch, man.

- And that is why you are a high-powered attorney,

and I clean people's teeth for a living.

I'm gonna go home.

- No, don't go.

- [Caleb] Let's call it a night, we can call it a night.

- It's fine, I'm good.

- I thought you were--

- Jordie, don't go to bed.

Jordie.

Bro, couldn't we have just talked about basketball?

So I'm friends with this director, right?

And we've worked on a few projects together,

and she's really, really, really fucking talented.

Well, I go on Facebook the other day

and she fucking posts this thing and says, um,

"If you voted for Trump, feel free to unfriend me.

"I don't need that energy in my life."

Well, uh, I didn't, I didn't vote for Trump, okay?

And (Caleb chuckles) I,

my parents probably did,

I know a lot of our friends probably did.

- I'm pretty sure that half the fucking country did.

- Exactly, man, that's what I'm saying.

So what if, uh,

what if I work with her again and she's just like,

like I, I bring my dad to set or something, you know?

Or like, my mom comes to a premiere.

Is this lady just like, not gonna shake their hand?

Is she just gonna be like, "Oh, Mr. Grey, uh,

"sorry, I don't want that energy in my life."

It's fucking ridiculous, dude.

- It's pretty fucking polarizing.

- It is, that's what it is.

Bro, I love, I love talking to you, man.

I know that sounds stupid, but I fucking,

you're the only person I can talk to

about this kind of shit.

I used to talk to Jordie.

Me and Jordie used to talk about everything, man.

Like, everything, I've told, I've told her everything.

And like, even if we don't agree

or we didn't agree on things,

like no, you know, we would just, it was cool.

Like, we would just agree to disagree

and it was always fine.

- You know, it's, it's, it's like

what I was talking about in there, right?

We're living in this, in this fucked up time, man.

I get it, it's, a lot of this is necessary.

Change is necessary, I get all that.

But, but quarantine and, and, and, and, and, and BLM, it's,

it's forcing people to have conversations

that they were not prepared to have.

You can't walk around with your head down

and your mouth shut.

I don't care what fucking industry you work in.

- Mikey, I don't wanna do that, I'm not talking about that.

I'm just saying I don't,

I don't wanna lose my family, you know?

- Yeah, I hear you.

So I guess Jordie doesn't wanna

have sex with me after that whole--

(both laughing)

(phone chimes)

Yeah, your Uber-

- Your Uber will be arriving soon.

- Thank you for getting that.

- They have like, bottles of water and champagne and shit.

- I'll Venmo you tomorrow.

Hey, let's do-- - No, no, I got this.

- Do you know what I love to do in these Ubers now?

- What?

- I get into the backseat

and then I start coughing a little bit.

I start coughing uncontrollably and then I start weeping.

(Caleb laughing)

- Don't do that.

Why are you doing that? - Start weeping,

because I'm a fucking idiot child, and--

- What do they do?

- Your wife is absolutely right,

they hate me-- - What do they say?

- They they freak out, they think,

they don't know what the fuck to do.

- They don't drop you off on the side of the road?

- No, they just, they, we usually sit still

for about five minutes before we even start moving.

- Hey, hey, hey, don't, hey, don't do that.

This is Jordie's, this is Jordie's number.

- Okay, okay, no promises.

(Caleb laughing) Shh!

Tell your wife that I love her.

- You love her. - And that I'm sorry,

and that next time I will keep my big,

stupid fucking mouth shut, okay?

- I think you should tell her that, but--

- I will. - I'll try to relay

the message, my friend, oy, get home safe.

- I always do.

(door chime)

I'm gonna start bawling.

(Caleb laughs)

- Don't, it's Jordie's, it's Jordie's account, dude.

Don't fucking do it.

(door shuts)

(light piano music)

(keyboard tapping)

(footsteps clattering)

Any requests for dinner?

- No.

- If you could have anything in the world,

any meal at all, what would it be?

- I don't care.

- All right, I'll make spaghetti and meat sauce.

That's what Millie wants, that's what I want.

So it's settled, okay?

- I'm trying not to eat a lot of meat right now.

- Oh, so you do care what we eat.

- I'm trying to work.

- How about this?

I'll make it with veggies for you

and then Millie and I can have the meat.

- [Jordie] Sounds good.

- Okay.

One more thing, I um,

I found out the drive-in reopened.

They're playing "Goonies" tonight at nine

and "Gremlins" at 11.

You wanna take Millie?

Turn her onto the classics?

- Not tonight, I'm tired.

- All right, well, Millie and I can go then.

- I'm not really comfortable with that.

- You're not really comfortable with what?

Are you worried about getting covid in our minivan now?

- No, I am not worried about covid, Caleb.

I'm talking about the fact that there are riots

that are happening after dark,

that they burned down a Wendy's right down the street

from the theater that you wanna go to.

I'm talking about the fact

that a nine-year-old girl was shot there.

- By peaceful protestors.

- Excuse me?

- Nothing.

- No, I'm talking about the simple fact

that you wanna take our five-year-old

to see a monster movie that starts at 11 o'clock at night.

She'll be terrified.

- I'm sorry, Jordie, I just thought it would be nice

to get her out of the house for a change.

My God, I thought we could all watch a movie together

and then she would be asleep for the second one.

You know she would.

God, you say no to everything these days.

"Do you wanna go hiking with me?"

"No."

"Can we get takeout tonight?"

"No."

"Can I take Millie to go see her grandparents?"

"No."

"Do you wanna go see one of your favorite movies of all time

"at the drive-in movie theater with your daughter and I?"

"No, I don't like that idea."

You didn't used to be like this.

- Well, we didn't used to be going

through a nationwide pandemic.

And I don't have to explain every decision I make to you.

- Well, neither do I, Jordie, and quite frankly,

I don't need your permission

to take our daughter to see a goddamn movie.

I ask you out of respect.

I invite you out of decency knowing

that you're probably gonna say no.

I mean, I'll fucking take her to see the midnight showing

of the goddamn "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" if I want to.

- You're such an asshole.

- Well, you're such a fucking--

- What, say it!

- You're such a fucking drag!

You're no fun to be around anymore.

And make no mistake, you used to be, but not anymore.

- You're just like the guy in your movie.

You think you know him,

fall in love with him, and then you just come to realize

that he's a bad dude.

- If you're so miserable, why don't you just leave?

- I will.

- That's fine. - Yeah.

I'll go stay with my parents in Chicago.

- Do that. - Okay.

And I'm gonna take Millie with me too.

- You're such a yes person.

No matter what it is.

"You wanna go see a midnight screening of The Exorcist?"

"Yes."

"You wanna take a road trip to Montana?"

"Yes."

You're so smart.

I can't even take it.

You're smarter than I'll ever be.

I could read 10 books a day for the rest of my life

and I'll never be as smart as you.

You believe in me.

When we met, I was working as a PA

for a reality show and valet-parking cars at night,

and you didn't care.

You saw something in me,

something that I didn't even see in myself.

I love your laugh.

I love your smile.

I love the way that you never let me get away with anything.

I used to tell you you should be an NBA basketball coach

or a colonel in the army or something

because you don't put up with any shit.

You're just cool.

We argue a lot,

but I kinda like it.

You keep me on my toes

and it never gets in the way

of how much we care about each other.

I like to fall asleep holding you.

It's addictive at this point.

I can't sleep without holding you.

My dad used to always say,

"Pay attention to who you're with

"when you're feeling your best."

You make me pay attention.

You make me feel my best.

- Really good.

Okay, Jordie, it's your turn.

Let's hear your wedding vows.

(soft music)

- When I first met you,

I had...

I'm sorry, I can't.

I can't, I can't do this right now.

- [Dr. Kwon] Okay, this is gonna take some--

(keypad clicks)

(soft music)

- Ready for bed, babe?

- Am I an introvert or exit-vert?

- What?

- Through my research, it is noted

by attracted to their opposite,

introvert or exit-vert?

- Extrovert.

- That's what I am?

- No, that's the word that you're looking for, extrovert.

- Extrovert.

- Yeah, you got it.

- It Daddy bad?

- No, baby.

- Then why do you don't like him anymore?

(cicadas buzzing) (crickets chirping)

- If we can't learn to live in the middle somewhere,

then we're doomed.

And I'm not just talking about you and me, our marriage.

I'm talking about everyone.

There's gotta be some kind of compromise.

'Cause not everything is black and white.

There is a whole lot of gray.

We gotta learn to live in the gray sometimes.

Find peace in the gray.

(phone vibrating)

What's up, man, where you been?

Hey, Rache.

What are you, his secretary now?

I just saw him a few weeks ago, Rachel.

(soft piano music)

What, what are you talking, what are you talking about?

What are you, what are you, what are you saying?

Oh, fuck.

No, just keep, just keep talking, we're here.

I'll, I'll, we'll be right over there.

We're gonna come over there.

(somber piano and violin music)

(birds chirping)

- And now, Michael's dear friends, Jordie and Caleb Grey,

would like to say a few words.

- Michael,

um, what can I say?

He was...

A bit of a wild card.

He was abrasive, uncompromising.

He was, um,

I'll be honest, he was a bit of an asshole at times.

But he was also,

he was genuine.

Loyal,

passionate, even radical at times.

He was incredibly generous and thoughtful.

When I passed my bar exam,

he kept on saying that I should come in for a checkup,.

"And it's on the house," he kept on saying.

Well, I finally agreed and I got there.

There were about 100 people hiding inside.

He threw a surprise party for me

in a dentist office.

On a Tuesday morning, I mean, who does that?

(Jordie chuckles)

Michael Feldman does.

He said, "I knew you'd never expect it."

He was right.

I mean, Michael used to always say that I hated him.

"Jordie hates me.

"I know she does, she hates me."

And we, we fought a lot, it's true.

But I mean that's, that's what families do.

They fight.

Michael always pushed me.

He challenged me and...

I didn't hate him, mm-mm.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

I loved him very much.

We loved him.

Like family.

- How did we get here?

- I don't know.

- I've said so many things to you--

- We don't have to talk about any of that right now.

- No, I'm just, I, half the time,

I'm just thinking out loud.

- I've said things too, I have been awful at times.

- No, you're fine, I just,

you just feel the way you feel.

Maybe our feelings just don't line up anymore.

I don't know.

- I'm so sad.

- I don't want you to be sad.

I don't want to make you sad.

- The universe,

it just needed us to...

God, I don't know...

(soft music)

Spend some time together.

- And I went and uh,

I went and fucked it all up like I usually do now.

- No, no. - Yeah.

Yeah.

- You just...

You feel the way you feel.

- I want you to know that I cried when Wilson died.

I did, I just,

I didn't do it in front of you 'cause I knew

that how sad you were and how sad Millie was.

And I didn't wanna make it any worse.

And the night Big Jack died,

I just, he grabbed me by my arm and he said,

"Don't you cry, boy.

"Don't you dare cry in front of those girls.

"You gotta be a man," that's what he said.

"You gotta be a man and take care of them.

"That's what men do."

Jordie, I'm just trying to be a man for you.

- Come here.

Come here, it's okay.

Come here.

It's okay.

It's okay.

(Caleb softly sobbing)

(soft music)

(birds chirping)

- No, I dug it, man, I really did.

- Thank you.

- And you wrote this by yourself?

- Yeah, I did, I, um,

I mean, Jordie, Jordie, you know, she gave me notes

and she really encouraged me, but um, I did.

- Right, that's amazing, um...

Well, I prepared a monologue for it for my audition.

So I'm gonna do it.

(Ryan grunts)

(Ryan panting)

Your sun-kissed hair,

and a curious stare.

And the bounce in your goddamn step

when you walk down the stairs.

Everything I am is because of you.

Send in the tanks!

Send 'em in!

(Ryan loudly grunts)

(Ryan mimicking machine gun)

I'm just fucking around.

- Oh my God, dude.

- [Ryan] Oh, man, I'm not serious, come on.

- Jesus Christ, you scared the shit outta me.

- So you've never written anything before?

- Uh...

- [Ryan] Huh?

- No, I haven't, I just run camera, you know.

She told you I've done the cameraman--

- No, I've seen your work.

Jordie sent over your reel, it's,

was fucking visceral, man.

At least that's what my reaction was to it.

- I'm sorry, did you say she, she sent you my reel?

Is that what you said?

- Yeah, yeah man, it was, uh...

I cried.

- I didn't even know that I had one of those.

- Well, Jordie has never asked me for anything before,

so I figured this must be important.

And I'm really glad she reached out.

I've known her since way back, high school.

She was something else back then.

- Yeah, I would imagine.

- I played football then, but I didn't have the grades.

I was shit, absolute shit in English.

Couldn't read.

I was dyslexic, still am.

Not many people know that about me.

And if you tell anybody,

slit your throat.

- I would never-- - I'm just fucking with you,

man, come on. - Okay, I was gonna say,

I would never tell anyone.

- Nah, I'm just making a joke.

(Caleb chuckling)

I'm not really good at comedy,

talking to people and whatnot.

Anyway, she was my tutor when I was a senior.

She was a sophomore and she didn't know shit about football,

I didn't know shit about literature, but we just

connected in so many ways.

It wasn't romantic though, man, I promise you that.

We were like fucking anomalies in our respective crowds,

if that makes any sense.

Your wife sat in my living room and read to me

for an entire semester.

Fucking "Farewell to Arms,"

"Catcher in the Rye," "Gatsby," "Great Expectations."

When I say it out loud, it does sound kinda romantic.

But it was fucking bananas, man.

I, I think that she got the only B in her entire life

'cause she spent all of her free time helping me out.

I, I graduated high school because of your wife.

I played football at Illinois 'cause of your wife.

I'm sitting here right now 'cause of your wife.

But she's my fucking hero, man.

Can people who are younger than you be your heroes?

I always wondered about that.

- Um, well, the cool thing about this movie is

it would mostly just be you in the woods, you know?

So like, it would just be like, um,

a lot of the times just me with the camera

and the sound guy and, and you and that--

- Hey, you don't have to sell it to me, brother.

I dig your script, I wanna do it.

(muffled light music)

- He said yes.

- Are you serious?

- I swear to God, he said, "Yes, I'll do the movie."

I think he might also be in love with you,

but we can talk about

that some other time. - God, shut up.

- So, um, you've sent him my reel, he said.

- Yeah, yeah, he wanted to see some of your work

and we weren't talking,

so I just cut something together.

- You're fucking awesome.

- He said yes?

- He did, he said--

(Jordie squealing)

(crickets chirping)

- Got everything?

- Yes, ma'am.

- Do you want me to make you some coffee?

- I can stop on the way.

I'll get us all some.

- I'm really proud of you.

- None of this would be happening if it weren't for you.

- When I first met you,

I had just graduated law school.

(soft music)

I had spent three years being serious and,

I just wanted to have fun.

That's what we did.

We had fun.

(soft piano music)

You're such a goofball.

You made me laugh more than anyone I had ever met.

You're so talented.

Take pictures and play basketball,

build things, and cook.

When you're good at everything you try,

it's equal parts maddening and inspiring.

I used to tell you that

if being a cinematographer didn't work out,

that you should be an actor.

'Cause you're so comfortable in your own skin.

Which is something that took me years to accomplish.

I'm still working on that naturally, but,

you've helped me with that more than you'll ever know.

With you, I feel seen

and not judged for being me.

All of me.

You're such a romantic.

You love movies

and you want your life to be like one and,

I love that.

Because now it'll be our life.

Before I introduced you to my family,

I told them, "You're gonna love him."

(soft acoustic guitar)

You're passionate.

And you're honest.

And I know that you will be a great father.

And I know that I will love you

the rest of my life.

I still have mine memorized.

(soft music)

(soft acoustic guitar)

♪ Your needs and my needs ain't always in line ♪

♪ Your wants are your wants ♪

♪ They're not always the same as mine ♪

♪ And your love is your love ♪

♪ But it ain't always the forgivin' kind ♪

♪ And your way are your ways ♪

♪ But I hope you'll keep me in mind ♪

♪ And your maze is your maze ♪

♪ I know you'll get through it fine ♪

♪ And your world is your world ♪

♪ I know you'll be home at night ♪

♪ Save your best for me ♪

♪ Save your best for me ♪

♪ And we'll lay it all down ♪

♪ Yeah, we'll lay it all down ♪

♪ Yeah, we'll lay it all down ♪

♪ Yeah, we'll lay it all down ♪