1 00:00:18,768 --> 00:00:19,686 [Joe] Love. 2 00:00:19,769 --> 00:00:21,187 Hello. 3 00:00:21,271 --> 00:00:23,982 It's a reason for being. 4 00:00:24,065 --> 00:00:27,402 A reason to do better, do the right thing. 5 00:00:28,027 --> 00:00:29,863 -Be brave. -I wolf you. 6 00:00:30,447 --> 00:00:34,159 But Love burned me out completely. 7 00:00:34,659 --> 00:00:37,412 Yes, that's Love with a capital L. Wife. 8 00:00:37,495 --> 00:00:39,372 Why don't you love me anymore? 9 00:00:39,456 --> 00:00:41,791 -Mother of my child. -I killed Natalie for you! 10 00:00:41,875 --> 00:00:47,380 I did my best, but she was-- I hate to call a woman "crazy," but, well-- 11 00:00:48,423 --> 00:00:52,510 I did everything to be a good man, a good husband, a good father. 12 00:00:52,594 --> 00:00:54,304 I always do everything I can. 13 00:00:55,013 --> 00:00:56,055 [screaming] 14 00:00:57,432 --> 00:01:01,019 Can't say I've got the most impressive track record in the history of romantics. 15 00:01:04,064 --> 00:01:07,192 But my heart is in the right place. 16 00:01:07,275 --> 00:01:11,946 Love couldn't understand me, but, Marienne, you understood. 17 00:01:13,615 --> 00:01:15,116 We were the same, 18 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:17,911 meant for each other on every level. 19 00:01:17,994 --> 00:01:20,371 -He lied to you. -I'm sorry, what? 20 00:01:20,455 --> 00:01:23,625 What if I told you Joe's the one who killed your ex? 21 00:01:23,708 --> 00:01:25,460 No, Ryan was mugged. 22 00:01:26,961 --> 00:01:29,422 You need to run. Disappear. 23 00:01:29,506 --> 00:01:31,883 Ryan is just the beginning of what he's willing to do. 24 00:01:31,966 --> 00:01:34,844 [Joe] Until Love poisoned the well and you ran. 25 00:01:34,928 --> 00:01:37,055 I can't blame you, Marienne. 26 00:01:37,138 --> 00:01:39,599 We both know who's to blame here. 27 00:01:39,682 --> 00:01:44,020 Because of Love, my world went up in flames and I-- 28 00:01:44,103 --> 00:01:47,273 Well, as people everywhere read in New York magazine, People, 29 00:01:47,357 --> 00:01:51,236 and on Vox.com, I died by Love's hand. 30 00:01:53,029 --> 00:01:55,990 Thankfully, I knew good people to watch over Henry. 31 00:01:56,491 --> 00:01:59,285 I had to leave him behind. For now. 32 00:01:59,369 --> 00:02:02,247 The hardest thing I've ever done. 33 00:02:03,623 --> 00:02:05,208 Love tests us. 34 00:02:05,291 --> 00:02:07,210 I've been tested more than most. 35 00:02:07,293 --> 00:02:08,920 Turned into a ghost. 36 00:02:09,003 --> 00:02:12,590 No home, no name, all for you. 37 00:02:12,674 --> 00:02:14,008 So I'll admit, 38 00:02:14,884 --> 00:02:16,302 when I went to find you, 39 00:02:17,220 --> 00:02:20,557 I told myself, this is the last time. 40 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:21,766 It's you... 41 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:23,643 or nothing. 42 00:02:27,313 --> 00:02:31,067 As a problematic man appropriating a queer poet once said: 43 00:02:31,151 --> 00:02:33,528 "The heart wants what it wants." 44 00:02:33,611 --> 00:02:35,488 ["Oxford Comma" by Vampire Weekend playing] 45 00:02:35,572 --> 00:02:37,740 ♪ Who gives a fuck About an Oxford comma? ♪ 46 00:02:37,824 --> 00:02:40,952 ♪ I've seen those English dramas too ♪ 47 00:02:41,035 --> 00:02:42,203 ♪ They're cruel ♪ 48 00:02:42,287 --> 00:02:44,122 [Joe] Love chooses us. 49 00:02:44,706 --> 00:02:47,500 The only thing we can control is what we do, 50 00:02:48,168 --> 00:02:49,711 how far we go. 51 00:02:50,336 --> 00:02:53,548 In Ted Chiang's story "Hell is the Absence of God," 52 00:02:53,631 --> 00:02:56,384 Neil Fisk loses the love of his life. 53 00:02:56,467 --> 00:02:59,429 She was good. She's in heaven. 54 00:03:00,930 --> 00:03:03,433 So the only way he'll feel her love again 55 00:03:03,516 --> 00:03:06,102 is if he goes to heaven too. 56 00:03:07,228 --> 00:03:10,607 ♪ Why would you tape my conversations? ♪ 57 00:03:10,690 --> 00:03:14,736 ♪ Show your paintings At the United Nations ♪ 58 00:03:14,819 --> 00:03:18,656 ♪ Lil Jon, he always tells the truth ♪ 59 00:03:23,703 --> 00:03:25,955 [Joe] But he's not exactly a guy who'd get into heaven. 60 00:03:26,039 --> 00:03:27,874 So he's gotta find a path to redemption. 61 00:03:27,957 --> 00:03:30,001 I'm sorry, but no. 62 00:03:30,752 --> 00:03:33,546 I just think the entire premise of the story is just pants. 63 00:03:33,630 --> 00:03:34,923 I disagree. 64 00:03:35,006 --> 00:03:38,676 It made a few nearly profound points for a work of fantasy. 65 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:41,137 -Meaning what? -Come on, that stuff's barely literature. 66 00:03:41,221 --> 00:03:44,766 Not that it shouldn't be on the syllabus. Americans do write heaps of it. 67 00:03:44,849 --> 00:03:46,309 Can't argue with you there. 68 00:03:47,977 --> 00:03:51,564 [Joe] The course is American Iconoclasts of the Short Story. 69 00:03:51,648 --> 00:03:55,443 Dean was probably picturing more Hemingway but, hey, I was a last-minute hire. 70 00:03:55,526 --> 00:03:56,945 Nadia, you said "pants." 71 00:03:57,028 --> 00:03:59,781 Mm-hm, yeah, I did, to great controversy. 72 00:03:59,864 --> 00:04:02,450 Explain "pants" to the American, please. 73 00:04:02,533 --> 00:04:03,493 [students giggling] 74 00:04:03,576 --> 00:04:06,246 It's crap, rubbish, not good. 75 00:04:06,329 --> 00:04:08,289 There are tricks to being a professor, like this: 76 00:04:08,373 --> 00:04:10,250 -Say more. -It's not redemption 77 00:04:10,333 --> 00:04:13,753 -if it's for selfish reasons. -Does it matter if he's doing good? 78 00:04:13,836 --> 00:04:17,674 Chiang isn't actually saying the highest redemption is doing good. 79 00:04:17,757 --> 00:04:19,884 He's saying it's just love. 80 00:04:19,968 --> 00:04:21,928 Most of my professor tricks are one trick 81 00:04:22,011 --> 00:04:24,013 I picked up spending time with a girl named Ellie. 82 00:04:24,097 --> 00:04:27,725 Wind them up, let them go. Teenagers will argue for you. 83 00:04:27,809 --> 00:04:30,603 Yes, the word "love" is used to mean something deeper. 84 00:04:30,687 --> 00:04:33,898 Like full civilizations, religions, all of literature. 85 00:04:33,982 --> 00:04:35,900 -Hyperbole. -These two will kill each other 86 00:04:35,984 --> 00:04:37,652 or get married by the end of term. 87 00:04:37,735 --> 00:04:40,196 Spoken like somebody that's never felt love. How would you know? 88 00:04:40,280 --> 00:04:43,616 Okay, all right, let's pause, table this one. 89 00:04:43,700 --> 00:04:46,369 Everybody read "The Tell-Tale Heart" 90 00:04:46,452 --> 00:04:50,540 and be ready to discuss where Poe lands on what love is. 91 00:04:50,623 --> 00:04:52,583 All right? That's all for today. 92 00:04:56,754 --> 00:04:59,549 -Um, Professor Moore. -Still getting used to that. 93 00:04:59,632 --> 00:05:02,719 -Question? -No. But yes. 94 00:05:03,386 --> 00:05:06,097 Why do you keep assigning stuff like Ted Chiang 95 00:05:06,180 --> 00:05:10,101 instead of all the, you know, usual canonical, vaguely racist men that drink? 96 00:05:10,184 --> 00:05:12,478 The people who decided what's important were wrong. 97 00:05:12,562 --> 00:05:16,566 The ones who assign those writers are lazy and this is my class. 98 00:05:17,984 --> 00:05:19,360 Okay, I underestimated you. 99 00:05:19,444 --> 00:05:21,946 It's the accent, isn't it? Sorry. 100 00:05:22,030 --> 00:05:24,282 -I'm good at professor-ing. -What you got? 101 00:05:24,365 --> 00:05:27,702 Oh, um... Rhys Montrose. 102 00:05:28,786 --> 00:05:30,371 What? Is he not a thing in America? 103 00:05:30,955 --> 00:05:33,124 Well, everyone here wants him to run for mayor of London 104 00:05:33,207 --> 00:05:35,168 and ultimately save England from itself. 105 00:05:35,251 --> 00:05:37,670 But I guess the bar's so low, 106 00:05:37,754 --> 00:05:40,006 calling out hypocrisy at the most elementary level 107 00:05:40,089 --> 00:05:41,632 makes you Jesus Christ in a peacoat. 108 00:05:43,676 --> 00:05:46,179 Read it. You'll probably like it. 109 00:05:49,724 --> 00:05:52,810 [Joe] Brits are the most literary people on Earth. 110 00:05:52,894 --> 00:05:54,604 They really read here. 111 00:05:54,687 --> 00:05:57,940 I don't just mean "buy." Read. Cover to cover. 112 00:05:58,024 --> 00:05:59,275 And look at the respect. 113 00:05:59,358 --> 00:06:03,821 May not own a hairbrush, but does she dog-ear a page? 114 00:06:03,905 --> 00:06:06,449 If L.A. was purgatory and suburbia was hell, 115 00:06:06,532 --> 00:06:09,619 London may be when I finally got to the good place. 116 00:06:11,204 --> 00:06:13,748 I still miss you, Marienne. So much. 117 00:06:13,831 --> 00:06:17,919 But this feels like the European holiday I desperately needed. 118 00:06:18,002 --> 00:06:20,088 Laying low is imperative. 119 00:06:20,171 --> 00:06:23,174 I needed cash, but teaching's fun and London's not so bad. 120 00:06:23,257 --> 00:06:25,259 A city of art, theater, books. 121 00:06:25,343 --> 00:06:26,344 [man] Jonathan! 122 00:06:26,427 --> 00:06:28,513 And the occasional douchebag. 123 00:06:28,596 --> 00:06:30,848 -The American! -This guy. 124 00:06:30,932 --> 00:06:34,268 -Professor Harding, hello. -Malcolm, please! 125 00:06:34,352 --> 00:06:36,062 So when are you letting me 126 00:06:36,145 --> 00:06:37,730 -show you the real city? -Never. 127 00:06:37,814 --> 00:06:39,440 -Soon. -How's the flat? 128 00:06:39,524 --> 00:06:40,691 It's lovely, thank you. 129 00:06:40,775 --> 00:06:44,737 Ran into him after my job interview. It was 2:00 and he may have been drunk. 130 00:06:44,821 --> 00:06:48,658 -Chuffed you're looking after the place. -Yeah, very grateful again, so thank you. 131 00:06:49,659 --> 00:06:51,869 Shit. You know what, I've got office hours, I think. 132 00:06:51,953 --> 00:06:56,332 Yeah, no, no, no. Go, go, go. Rouse young minds and etcetera. 133 00:06:56,415 --> 00:07:00,294 Perks of the job, rumor has it. I wouldn't possibly know. 134 00:07:00,378 --> 00:07:01,629 [Joe] I bet. 135 00:07:01,712 --> 00:07:04,549 -We'll get those drinks. -I'd rather drink paint. 136 00:07:05,967 --> 00:07:07,969 [pop music playing] 137 00:07:08,761 --> 00:07:13,182 Campus is across town from where I stay, but in a city like London, 138 00:07:13,766 --> 00:07:15,226 I don't mind the walk. 139 00:07:16,686 --> 00:07:19,522 I guess you could say it keeps me young. 140 00:07:19,605 --> 00:07:23,693 I'm not sure when Gen Z became actual adults, but honestly, I like it. 141 00:07:23,776 --> 00:07:26,821 This is what cities are for. They make you work to keep up. 142 00:07:28,573 --> 00:07:30,491 In certain fundamental ways, 143 00:07:30,575 --> 00:07:32,452 all big cities seem the same. 144 00:07:33,119 --> 00:07:35,538 Insufferable hipsters are apparently universal, 145 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:38,541 as are the bridge-and-tunnel crowd. 146 00:07:38,624 --> 00:07:42,879 And they start drinking early. Pub time and weekends are sacred. 147 00:07:45,006 --> 00:07:46,841 My first thought when I saw my neighborhood was: 148 00:07:46,924 --> 00:07:49,051 I'm in a Hugh Grant movie. 149 00:07:49,844 --> 00:07:52,346 Don't get me wrong, no Notting Hill romance for me, 150 00:07:52,430 --> 00:07:56,559 or to be precise, South Kensington, but I can't deny the energy here is nice. 151 00:07:56,642 --> 00:07:58,978 Quiet. Okay, sleepy. 152 00:07:59,061 --> 00:08:01,147 Which is good. 153 00:08:01,230 --> 00:08:02,857 Perfect, even. 154 00:08:05,693 --> 00:08:10,740 I've had a lot of time to think, Marienne, walking around London. 155 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:12,575 Like a poet once said, 156 00:08:12,658 --> 00:08:15,411 "Heartbreak is our greatest teacher, and if so, 157 00:08:15,495 --> 00:08:18,039 thank you for making me wise." 158 00:08:18,122 --> 00:08:19,832 ♪ Hold on ♪ 159 00:08:21,334 --> 00:08:24,378 ♪ You are fading away ♪ 160 00:08:24,462 --> 00:08:25,713 ♪ We're strangers in the night ♪ 161 00:08:25,796 --> 00:08:29,800 [Joe] All I can say is never again. 162 00:08:30,593 --> 00:08:31,594 No love. 163 00:08:32,178 --> 00:08:33,262 No people. 164 00:08:34,138 --> 00:08:35,223 Just books. 165 00:08:36,474 --> 00:08:38,017 ♪ Hold on ♪ 166 00:08:38,643 --> 00:08:40,144 ♪ Hold on ♪ 167 00:08:40,228 --> 00:08:41,646 I love this place. 168 00:08:41,729 --> 00:08:43,564 Charm, built-in bookcases, 169 00:08:43,648 --> 00:08:45,566 a fireplace in every corner. 170 00:08:45,650 --> 00:08:48,361 All due respect, Williamsburg could never. 171 00:08:48,444 --> 00:08:51,197 But it's what's happening out my back window across the alley 172 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:53,950 that is of my particular interest. 173 00:08:56,410 --> 00:09:00,164 I don't think Malcolm knew about the view when he recommended this flat. 174 00:09:00,248 --> 00:09:02,291 Technical term for him is "party monster." 175 00:09:04,669 --> 00:09:06,754 And who is that? 176 00:09:07,964 --> 00:09:09,423 Is she his girlfriend? 177 00:09:10,049 --> 00:09:12,343 What kind of woman--? No. No. 178 00:09:12,426 --> 00:09:13,803 I am not interested. 179 00:09:13,886 --> 00:09:16,180 No people, not interested. 180 00:09:16,264 --> 00:09:20,434 As a man named Mooney used to say, "Not my circus, not my monkeys." 181 00:09:20,518 --> 00:09:22,353 I don't want to know. 182 00:09:28,276 --> 00:09:31,320 ♪ Bang, bang, knocking on my door ♪ 183 00:09:31,404 --> 00:09:33,406 [Joe] The best way to stay out of people's business 184 00:09:33,489 --> 00:09:35,783 is to know what that business is. 185 00:09:36,993 --> 00:09:38,452 She mostly works. 186 00:09:38,536 --> 00:09:39,912 He mostly plays. 187 00:09:40,538 --> 00:09:43,082 -♪ But then I got bored ♪ -♪ Ka-ching-ching ♪ 188 00:09:43,165 --> 00:09:46,794 Malcolm went to all the right schools, like his father and grandfather. 189 00:09:46,877 --> 00:09:48,504 He'll never have to work a day in his life, 190 00:09:48,588 --> 00:09:50,423 but he likes being an academic, 191 00:09:50,506 --> 00:09:53,509 giving him an air of respectability that counteracts the assumption 192 00:09:53,593 --> 00:09:57,096 that generations of wealth and inbreeding mean he's just not very smart. 193 00:09:57,179 --> 00:10:00,224 Sadly, other professors mostly consider him a charming bag of hair. 194 00:10:00,308 --> 00:10:03,936 Though rumor also holds remarkable in bed with above average-- 195 00:10:04,020 --> 00:10:06,272 You know what? My classroom is in the library. 196 00:10:06,355 --> 00:10:08,190 I hear everything, whether I want to or not. 197 00:10:08,983 --> 00:10:11,402 Now, how about her? 198 00:10:12,903 --> 00:10:15,656 ♪ How can you sing about sex when... ♪ 199 00:10:15,740 --> 00:10:17,283 Kate Galvin. 200 00:10:17,366 --> 00:10:19,160 Kate gives very little. 201 00:10:19,243 --> 00:10:21,579 Her online presence is curated only for work. 202 00:10:22,038 --> 00:10:25,875 Gallerist, art lover, never married, appears to be daughter of Greta Galvin, 203 00:10:25,958 --> 00:10:30,212 a free-spirited '90s model who's now a spiritual stylist in Ibiza. 204 00:10:30,296 --> 00:10:33,215 If I had to guess, she grew up her hippie mom's opposite. 205 00:10:33,299 --> 00:10:36,469 Focused, ambitious, positively American work ethic. 206 00:10:36,927 --> 00:10:41,015 ♪ I tried saving the world But then I got bored ♪ 207 00:10:41,515 --> 00:10:44,060 Everything I've learned about Malcolm and Kate tells me I'm right. 208 00:10:44,143 --> 00:10:46,062 I do not need to get to know them. 209 00:10:50,107 --> 00:10:54,403 And while Malcolm is off getting smashed, she's, you guessed it, still working. 210 00:10:55,154 --> 00:10:56,906 What's got her so focused? 211 00:11:00,910 --> 00:11:05,706 Okay, I don't think that's Art News Daily on her screen anymore. 212 00:11:05,790 --> 00:11:06,791 Hello. 213 00:11:07,375 --> 00:11:12,380 So does Malcolm leave her unsatisfied or did--? No, not watching. 214 00:11:13,214 --> 00:11:15,758 Why does the universe keep doing this to me? 215 00:11:15,841 --> 00:11:17,510 [pop music playing] 216 00:11:19,261 --> 00:11:21,138 -[food sizzling] -[music cuts] 217 00:11:23,391 --> 00:11:24,934 I'm not getting hooked. 218 00:11:25,017 --> 00:11:26,811 She's not the first sexually frustrated woman 219 00:11:26,894 --> 00:11:29,146 I've ever seen forget to pull the curtains. 220 00:11:29,230 --> 00:11:33,192 I study to learn how they tick, so I can avoid the circus. 221 00:11:33,818 --> 00:11:38,030 Nothing is going to stand between me and my European holiday. 222 00:11:39,573 --> 00:11:42,827 But I do miss having someone out there. 223 00:11:43,619 --> 00:11:45,287 Someone worth watching. 224 00:11:45,913 --> 00:11:47,623 A puzzle worth solving. 225 00:11:48,749 --> 00:11:49,583 You. 226 00:11:51,335 --> 00:11:54,004 But missing you won't bring you back. 227 00:11:56,799 --> 00:12:00,553 I thought it would count for something, how far I traveled. 228 00:12:00,636 --> 00:12:03,973 All over France, the weeks, the months. 229 00:12:05,266 --> 00:12:08,018 What I did for you. 230 00:12:12,356 --> 00:12:14,608 I went to every artist haunt in Paris. 231 00:12:16,485 --> 00:12:18,487 I visited them over and over. 232 00:12:22,533 --> 00:12:24,034 I kept feeling... 233 00:12:24,702 --> 00:12:26,620 I'd just missed you. 234 00:12:26,704 --> 00:12:28,581 Weeks went by. 235 00:12:28,664 --> 00:12:31,167 I never gave up. 236 00:12:34,545 --> 00:12:36,213 I knew I was close 237 00:12:36,297 --> 00:12:39,550 and fate finally rewarded me. 238 00:12:52,354 --> 00:12:53,647 [speaking French] 239 00:12:54,940 --> 00:12:56,233 [speaking French] 240 00:12:57,401 --> 00:12:59,487 -[in English] May I? -Yeah, of course. 241 00:13:01,989 --> 00:13:03,282 I love this artist. 242 00:13:03,365 --> 00:13:05,618 Do you have any more of their work or an e-mail? 243 00:13:05,701 --> 00:13:07,203 Oh, yeah, an e-mail. 244 00:13:07,953 --> 00:13:09,205 Let me check. 245 00:13:09,288 --> 00:13:11,207 She may take some time to get back to you. 246 00:13:11,290 --> 00:13:14,084 She's in London to visit the Acanthus art fair. 247 00:13:14,710 --> 00:13:15,920 [Joe] An art fair. 248 00:13:16,587 --> 00:13:17,963 London. 249 00:13:18,047 --> 00:13:20,591 I knew where to find you. 250 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:24,762 [theme music playing] 251 00:13:30,434 --> 00:13:31,936 [Kate] Go fuck yourself, Malcolm. 252 00:13:32,019 --> 00:13:34,563 Which I'm sure you'd love 'cause you're a total fucking narcissist. 253 00:13:34,647 --> 00:13:36,148 [Malcolm] Kate, come back! 254 00:13:37,274 --> 00:13:39,401 [Joe] You see? You thought we had issues. 255 00:13:39,485 --> 00:13:40,986 I wonder-- No. 256 00:13:41,070 --> 00:13:43,489 I'm not-- I'm not wondering. 257 00:13:45,366 --> 00:13:46,784 Just so we're clear, 258 00:13:46,867 --> 00:13:50,663 it's not following someone if you have to walk the same way home. 259 00:13:50,746 --> 00:13:51,664 [alarm chirps] 260 00:13:55,876 --> 00:13:57,253 And... 261 00:13:59,922 --> 00:14:01,423 They don't look friendly. 262 00:14:01,507 --> 00:14:02,633 Grab her purse! 263 00:14:02,716 --> 00:14:05,010 This can't be happening. I can't get involved. 264 00:14:05,094 --> 00:14:07,304 Get off me! Get off me! Help! Help! 265 00:14:07,388 --> 00:14:10,474 Fuck. Not my circus, not my monkeys. Not my circus, not my monkeys. 266 00:14:10,558 --> 00:14:11,600 Get off! 267 00:14:11,684 --> 00:14:13,852 [all yelling] 268 00:14:14,562 --> 00:14:15,854 Oh, my God. 269 00:14:15,938 --> 00:14:17,982 -[car horn blaring] -Let's go! Fuck it! 270 00:14:22,987 --> 00:14:23,904 [Kate gasps] 271 00:14:27,741 --> 00:14:29,785 -Are you okay? -I fucking hated that watch. 272 00:14:29,869 --> 00:14:31,078 I'll take that as a yes. 273 00:14:31,161 --> 00:14:34,415 I should probably report it, in case they come back and attack a student. 274 00:14:34,498 --> 00:14:35,708 Fuck my life! 275 00:14:35,791 --> 00:14:37,585 Cops would not be good for me. 276 00:14:39,003 --> 00:14:41,005 I'm sorry, it's a little awkward. 277 00:14:43,424 --> 00:14:44,717 What? Just say it. 278 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:46,927 Can you maybe--? Don't mention me. 279 00:14:48,679 --> 00:14:50,514 My work visa is shaky. 280 00:14:53,058 --> 00:14:55,561 Damn it. I just had to do it, didn't I? 281 00:14:55,644 --> 00:14:57,938 I had to go and save her. 282 00:15:05,321 --> 00:15:08,449 She insisted on driving me home, not awkward. 283 00:15:08,532 --> 00:15:12,161 We exchanged some pleasantries and I introduced myself as Jonathan Moore. 284 00:15:13,829 --> 00:15:16,832 I still don't know if she mentioned me to the cops. 285 00:15:16,916 --> 00:15:18,834 Tonight was a wake-up call. 286 00:15:18,918 --> 00:15:23,255 From now on, no matter what, low profile. 287 00:15:23,839 --> 00:15:27,343 And most of all, stay away from both of them. 288 00:15:27,426 --> 00:15:29,011 [knocking on door] 289 00:15:29,678 --> 00:15:30,721 John-Boy. 290 00:15:30,804 --> 00:15:32,222 Can I call you John-Boy? 291 00:15:32,306 --> 00:15:35,351 [Joe] It's like how cats sense you're allergic and jump right in your lap. 292 00:15:35,434 --> 00:15:37,519 Jesus. 293 00:15:37,603 --> 00:15:39,605 You can see right in our flat. 294 00:15:40,648 --> 00:15:42,733 Are you a Peeping Tom, John-Boy? 295 00:15:43,317 --> 00:15:48,072 No hand shandies over my girl, do you hear? Any of my girls. 296 00:15:48,155 --> 00:15:49,657 Yep, still hate this guy. 297 00:15:49,740 --> 00:15:52,076 Thank you. For Kate. 298 00:15:53,869 --> 00:15:56,330 Used to be a time when any trouble you found in London 299 00:15:56,413 --> 00:15:58,499 was the trouble you went looking for. 300 00:15:58,582 --> 00:16:00,876 Those little shits are everywhere now. 301 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:04,755 I have to feel bad for people so desperate they need to do that. 302 00:16:05,589 --> 00:16:06,840 Desperate? 303 00:16:06,924 --> 00:16:09,134 Scum from birth, you mean. 304 00:16:09,218 --> 00:16:11,845 They target people like us 'cause they know that no one... 305 00:16:11,929 --> 00:16:15,265 Something tells me he's about to explain how the rich are the real victims. 306 00:16:15,349 --> 00:16:16,600 ...hate the rich. 307 00:16:16,684 --> 00:16:18,644 We're the real victims here. 308 00:16:18,727 --> 00:16:22,940 You see, my family is practically royal. 309 00:16:23,023 --> 00:16:25,025 Royal adjacent, anyway. 310 00:16:25,109 --> 00:16:26,944 I think that was a humblebrag? 311 00:16:27,027 --> 00:16:30,948 We built this country, and what thanks do we get for it? 312 00:16:31,031 --> 00:16:33,367 Ah, yes. Definitely builder's hands. 313 00:16:34,535 --> 00:16:37,454 But enough about the peasants. 314 00:16:38,330 --> 00:16:42,292 My dear friend Adam Pratt recently opened Sundry House. 315 00:16:42,376 --> 00:16:45,587 It's absurdly elitist, everyone is devastatingly smart, 316 00:16:45,671 --> 00:16:48,549 and the mixologist is a bloody magician. 317 00:16:49,133 --> 00:16:50,551 You'll come along with us tonight. 318 00:16:50,634 --> 00:16:55,597 -Uh, no, I have a lot of reading-- -No, no, no. That wasn't a question. 319 00:16:56,890 --> 00:16:58,851 You saved Kate's life. 320 00:16:59,435 --> 00:17:01,603 I am repaying you. 321 00:17:02,187 --> 00:17:03,689 We leave in half an hour. 322 00:17:03,772 --> 00:17:07,860 And I continue to do great at staying away from these people. 323 00:17:09,361 --> 00:17:11,613 ♪ I could use a nice vacation ♪ 324 00:17:11,697 --> 00:17:15,576 [Joe] Adam Pratt's Sundry House is the most exclusive club in Soho. 325 00:17:15,659 --> 00:17:19,288 A hideaway for London's unfathomably fortunate and privileged. 326 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:22,207 No photos, please. 327 00:17:22,291 --> 00:17:24,084 [paparazzi clamoring] 328 00:17:25,502 --> 00:17:26,837 What is all that for? 329 00:17:27,421 --> 00:17:29,214 -Mal? Kate! -[woman] Over here! 330 00:17:29,298 --> 00:17:31,508 Oh, my God, you look stunning. 331 00:17:31,592 --> 00:17:33,469 I'm blinded. I've died. 332 00:17:33,552 --> 00:17:36,305 Phoebe, Lady Borehall-Blaxworth. 333 00:17:36,388 --> 00:17:37,598 [Joe] I know. 334 00:17:37,681 --> 00:17:40,309 Of course, I researched before I got here. 335 00:17:41,018 --> 00:17:43,854 Lady Phoebe. Kate's most famous friend. 336 00:17:43,937 --> 00:17:45,355 Toxically aristocratic, 337 00:17:45,439 --> 00:17:46,982 quintessentially blonde, 338 00:17:47,066 --> 00:17:49,651 dated the captain of not one but two Premier League teams 339 00:17:49,735 --> 00:17:50,944 at the same time. 340 00:17:51,028 --> 00:17:55,199 Every blunder and bikini wax documented by the tabloids since she was 15. 341 00:17:55,282 --> 00:18:00,412 And yet, always gives the impression of being genuinely sweet and kind. 342 00:18:01,080 --> 00:18:02,956 Could that possibly be true? 343 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:05,751 Who's this sad baby tarsier? 344 00:18:05,834 --> 00:18:08,378 Come on, Phoebs let's get you inside before they eat you. 345 00:18:08,462 --> 00:18:10,464 ["Vacation" by Travelle playing] 346 00:18:12,216 --> 00:18:14,468 ♪ Just pick a destination... ♪ 347 00:18:16,178 --> 00:18:17,721 -Lovely. -[woman] Phoebe! 348 00:18:17,805 --> 00:18:19,973 Oh, my God! What are you doing here? 349 00:18:20,057 --> 00:18:23,811 [Joe] So this what a £25,000-a-year membership will get you. 350 00:18:23,894 --> 00:18:26,563 The gorgeous, the hip and the spoiled wearing real fur 351 00:18:26,647 --> 00:18:28,732 to drink in Instagram-friendly lighting. 352 00:18:28,816 --> 00:18:30,984 It even smells rich in here. 353 00:18:31,068 --> 00:18:33,237 If a bomb dropped on this place, 354 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:36,740 Britain's GDP would drop by 10%, but it might be worth it. 355 00:18:36,824 --> 00:18:38,867 -[Phoebe] Jonathan! -Let the games begin. 356 00:18:38,951 --> 00:18:41,662 Which one of these people will I hate the most? 357 00:18:41,745 --> 00:18:45,666 Darling, this is Jonathan Moore. He's American. 358 00:18:46,291 --> 00:18:47,918 -[woman] Nice to meet you. -Hi. 359 00:18:48,001 --> 00:18:51,046 Blessing is a Nigerian princess. 360 00:18:52,256 --> 00:18:53,549 Blessing Bosede. 361 00:18:53,632 --> 00:18:56,510 Princesses grow on trees at Sundry House. 362 00:18:56,593 --> 00:19:00,055 She's in tech. All of her business plans feel more like pyramid schemes. 363 00:19:00,139 --> 00:19:02,099 All that and a snob. 364 00:19:02,182 --> 00:19:05,310 Soz, not soz for interrupting. This way. 365 00:19:05,394 --> 00:19:07,312 Oh, good, more introductions. 366 00:19:07,396 --> 00:19:09,648 How do you feel about art, John-Boy? 367 00:19:09,731 --> 00:19:10,941 I like it. 368 00:19:11,024 --> 00:19:13,694 Well, then, this is Simon Soo. 369 00:19:13,777 --> 00:19:16,155 I'm sure Simon Soo's record-breaking art sales 370 00:19:16,238 --> 00:19:18,574 have nothing to do with his dad being a billionaire. 371 00:19:18,657 --> 00:19:22,035 Simon painstakingly cultivates a tortured artist persona, 372 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:24,413 as though he's ever suffered worse than a paper cut 373 00:19:24,496 --> 00:19:27,166 that Daddy's money bandaged immediately. 374 00:19:27,249 --> 00:19:29,626 Simon, this is Jonathan Moore. 375 00:19:29,710 --> 00:19:31,211 I have too many friends. 376 00:19:31,837 --> 00:19:33,463 Come back when one is dead. 377 00:19:34,298 --> 00:19:36,300 -[Joe] Ouch. -Simon, sweetie, 378 00:19:36,967 --> 00:19:38,260 don't be a cunt. 379 00:19:38,886 --> 00:19:41,221 This is Sophie, Simon's sister. 380 00:19:41,305 --> 00:19:42,472 Sophie Soo. 381 00:19:42,556 --> 00:19:45,184 Every item on her body is a sponsorship deal. 382 00:19:45,267 --> 00:19:48,520 It's so greedy, I'm almost impressed. 383 00:19:48,604 --> 00:19:52,900 Sophie went to Oxford, then Harvard Law, but while studying for the bar in Mykonos, 384 00:19:52,983 --> 00:19:57,321 realized making a career on likes and follows requires a lot less reading. 385 00:19:57,404 --> 00:19:59,865 Sophie is a jet-set influencer, 386 00:19:59,948 --> 00:20:03,118 a job comprised of posting bikini photos 387 00:20:03,202 --> 00:20:06,371 to inspire fat, council-estate plebeians. 388 00:20:06,455 --> 00:20:08,665 Ruthless, capitalist, illusionary. 389 00:20:08,749 --> 00:20:10,667 Almost sociopathic. 390 00:20:11,376 --> 00:20:12,377 What? 391 00:20:12,461 --> 00:20:13,962 I'm a fan, darling. 392 00:20:14,046 --> 00:20:18,759 -[laughs] Fuck off and die, Malcolm. -[Joe] They don't like each other either. 393 00:20:18,842 --> 00:20:20,260 Very nice to meet you... 394 00:20:20,761 --> 00:20:24,056 Jonathan. Nice to meet you too, both of you. 395 00:20:24,139 --> 00:20:25,182 Oh... 396 00:20:25,265 --> 00:20:27,184 -American, are we? -Careful. 397 00:20:27,893 --> 00:20:29,061 They all have guns. 398 00:20:31,021 --> 00:20:32,189 I wish. 399 00:20:38,445 --> 00:20:39,655 Facts about Malcolm. 400 00:20:39,738 --> 00:20:43,867 Drinks like a fish, loves his own voice, has many friends, all terrible. 401 00:20:43,951 --> 00:20:45,327 Oh, there are a few more contenders 402 00:20:45,410 --> 00:20:47,496 in London's greatest douchebag competition. 403 00:20:47,579 --> 00:20:49,039 Roald Walker Burton. 404 00:20:49,122 --> 00:20:51,541 Mostly known for his boats, one-night stands, 405 00:20:51,625 --> 00:20:53,418 and quote, "alarming knife collection." 406 00:20:53,502 --> 00:20:58,340 Gemma Graham-Greene managed to disparage Americans, trans people, the poor and Jews 407 00:20:58,423 --> 00:21:01,343 in a single sentence while doing a shot of Patrón. 408 00:21:01,426 --> 00:21:05,764 Connie something, all they told me is he's a lunatic and owns horses. 409 00:21:05,847 --> 00:21:07,933 I'm not sure any of these people even like each other. 410 00:21:08,016 --> 00:21:11,436 They're just so obscenely rich, it's like a mandatory club. 411 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:13,730 I'll be right back with those treats. 412 00:21:14,648 --> 00:21:17,609 With Malcolm off to score some drugs, I have a moment to breathe. 413 00:21:17,693 --> 00:21:19,027 -[Phoebe] Jonathan? -Or not. 414 00:21:19,111 --> 00:21:22,572 This ridiculous beast is Adam, my boyfriend. 415 00:21:22,656 --> 00:21:25,158 Potential marriage material. But the jury's still out. 416 00:21:25,242 --> 00:21:27,202 Don't worry. I'll bribe the jury. 417 00:21:27,953 --> 00:21:29,037 An American. 418 00:21:29,121 --> 00:21:31,081 Let's see if you can compete with the Brits. 419 00:21:31,164 --> 00:21:33,875 Adam Pratt, owner of Sundry House. 420 00:21:33,959 --> 00:21:35,669 All of this is Daddy's money. 421 00:21:35,752 --> 00:21:38,171 Built by a rich kid with no understanding of real work 422 00:21:38,255 --> 00:21:40,549 to impress other rich kids with the same story. 423 00:21:40,632 --> 00:21:44,553 And Jonathan Moore teaches literature with Mal. And he's American! 424 00:21:44,636 --> 00:21:47,514 Wow. Moore. Moore, where's your family from? 425 00:21:48,181 --> 00:21:49,308 All over. 426 00:21:50,350 --> 00:21:52,436 Loving the whole off-the-rack vibe. 427 00:21:53,645 --> 00:21:56,523 -What's your crypto? -Ding-a-ling. We have a winner. 428 00:21:56,606 --> 00:21:58,066 No, wait, hold on. Let me guess. 429 00:21:58,150 --> 00:21:59,860 No, this is about to turn into a bet. 430 00:21:59,943 --> 00:22:02,946 Last time you lost your flat in Marrakech over a bloody shoe size. 431 00:22:03,613 --> 00:22:05,115 Come, baby, let's mingle. 432 00:22:05,198 --> 00:22:08,327 I have to go mingle, but I'll be back, Jonathan. 433 00:22:08,410 --> 00:22:10,787 I crave the dulcet tones of a fellow countryman. 434 00:22:10,871 --> 00:22:14,082 Don't hurry. Can I slip out now? 435 00:22:14,166 --> 00:22:16,501 -Whoa, whoa, I will take you in five. -Oh, fuck. 436 00:22:16,585 --> 00:22:18,587 Getting a cab is hopeless. Here. 437 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:20,714 Hydrate. 438 00:22:29,848 --> 00:22:31,767 Inevitable that an hour later, 439 00:22:31,850 --> 00:22:34,352 I'm drinking in the corner, waiting for fucking Malcolm. 440 00:22:34,436 --> 00:22:36,521 What could possibly be that funny? 441 00:22:36,605 --> 00:22:37,939 [laughing] 442 00:22:39,524 --> 00:22:40,650 Rhys Montrose. 443 00:22:40,734 --> 00:22:43,445 [Nadia] Everyone wants him to run for mayor of London. 444 00:22:43,528 --> 00:22:44,905 [Joe] What's he doing here? 445 00:22:44,988 --> 00:22:45,822 Good book. 446 00:22:45,906 --> 00:22:47,157 Oh, no. I sound drunk. 447 00:22:48,241 --> 00:22:49,409 So you're the new one. 448 00:22:50,535 --> 00:22:53,872 Mal unfailingly adopts you lads, back since the dormitory at... 449 00:22:53,955 --> 00:22:56,625 Oxford, right. They were all there together. 450 00:22:56,708 --> 00:22:58,794 The book is about how he was born into poverty, 451 00:22:58,877 --> 00:23:02,255 raised by an unstable single mom, uncomfortably relatable, 452 00:23:02,339 --> 00:23:04,883 and he was a mess, then found out he's the son of a duke, 453 00:23:04,966 --> 00:23:06,218 cleaned up, went to Oxford, 454 00:23:06,301 --> 00:23:09,387 and became the author of honestly one of the best memoirs I've ever read. 455 00:23:09,471 --> 00:23:10,555 [Rhys] Quite a thing, that. 456 00:23:10,639 --> 00:23:13,683 Tell no one your sordid life story for 30 years, then write it down, 457 00:23:13,767 --> 00:23:16,144 suddenly millions know your every shame. 458 00:23:16,228 --> 00:23:19,481 For what it's worth, I didn't find your book sordid. 459 00:23:19,564 --> 00:23:20,482 Oh... 460 00:23:21,483 --> 00:23:23,360 Fellow man with a shit childhood, then? 461 00:23:26,321 --> 00:23:27,322 I see. 462 00:23:28,323 --> 00:23:29,699 A true shit childhood. 463 00:23:30,826 --> 00:23:32,494 Pleasure to meet you, brother in arms. 464 00:23:35,997 --> 00:23:38,959 The thing about getting money when you had none, 465 00:23:39,042 --> 00:23:40,752 you never really feel you have it. 466 00:23:41,628 --> 00:23:44,381 -And all the people who always did-- -Another species. 467 00:23:46,550 --> 00:23:47,759 Exactly. 468 00:23:47,843 --> 00:23:49,678 I actually don't hate him yet. 469 00:23:49,761 --> 00:23:52,264 They're dancing while the world burns. 470 00:23:52,347 --> 00:23:54,474 Barely notice it's even burning. 471 00:23:54,558 --> 00:23:55,642 Why would they? 472 00:23:56,810 --> 00:23:58,436 Their weather's just right. 473 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,148 First real conversation I've had all night. 474 00:24:01,231 --> 00:24:04,484 And with that, I'm off to Berlin to go on a morning show 475 00:24:04,568 --> 00:24:06,736 to be very coy about whether I run for mayor. 476 00:24:07,946 --> 00:24:09,281 You got my vote. 477 00:24:10,907 --> 00:24:12,659 See you around, Jonathan. 478 00:24:12,742 --> 00:24:16,079 And back to being alone in a den of douchebags. 479 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:20,792 Okay, enough waiting for Malcolm. It's time to go. 480 00:24:25,005 --> 00:24:27,799 Oh, okay. Drunker than I thought. 481 00:24:28,675 --> 00:24:30,760 [Phoebe] Jonathan. Drink! 482 00:24:30,844 --> 00:24:32,554 -You must. -Just let me go. 483 00:24:34,264 --> 00:24:35,682 [Phoebe laughing] 484 00:24:36,474 --> 00:24:38,101 Oh, no. What was that? 485 00:24:38,185 --> 00:24:39,561 [Gemma] Absinthe, baby. 486 00:24:39,644 --> 00:24:41,980 The wallpaper's gonna start talking to you, sweetheart. 487 00:24:42,063 --> 00:24:44,983 -Now, tell us, Jonathan. -Why are you here? 488 00:24:46,109 --> 00:24:48,528 -Shit. -Did you kill someone? 489 00:24:48,612 --> 00:24:50,030 I can always tell. 490 00:24:50,113 --> 00:24:52,282 My cousin killed someone. On accident, of course. 491 00:24:52,365 --> 00:24:56,286 It was just a homeless person. Which, God, if she did that now, she'd be canceled. 492 00:24:56,995 --> 00:24:59,372 -Excuse me. -[Phoebe] Or did someone hurt you? 493 00:24:59,456 --> 00:25:02,417 Was it a woman? Is that what happened? 494 00:25:06,504 --> 00:25:08,256 Did she break your heart? 495 00:25:08,798 --> 00:25:11,509 [Joe] Did you break my heart, Marienne? 496 00:25:13,803 --> 00:25:18,266 When I followed you to the art fair in London, I felt you, Marienne. 497 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:31,279 You changed. The buttoned-up Madre Linda librarian was gone. 498 00:25:32,447 --> 00:25:34,282 But it was you. 499 00:25:47,629 --> 00:25:49,297 [ominous music playing] 500 00:26:00,809 --> 00:26:02,894 [pop music playing] 501 00:26:02,978 --> 00:26:05,355 [distorted laughter] 502 00:26:06,439 --> 00:26:09,526 Note to self, never drink absinthe again. 503 00:26:13,571 --> 00:26:18,660 So, what's making John-Boy so miserable, hm? 504 00:26:18,743 --> 00:26:20,996 The pompous clown calling me John-Boy. 505 00:26:21,079 --> 00:26:22,747 Everyone thinks it's love. 506 00:26:22,831 --> 00:26:24,249 So did you let her go, 507 00:26:24,332 --> 00:26:26,835 -or did she get away? -What's it matter? 508 00:26:26,918 --> 00:26:28,962 I followed a woman to Paris. 509 00:26:29,045 --> 00:26:31,631 It's the most romantic city in the world. 510 00:26:33,091 --> 00:26:34,384 And then she broke my heart. 511 00:26:35,093 --> 00:26:37,387 -Then she wasn't the one. -We were perfect together. 512 00:26:37,470 --> 00:26:41,182 My ex-wife told her things about me. 513 00:26:41,266 --> 00:26:44,728 That. That, the burden of our decade. 514 00:26:44,811 --> 00:26:46,479 Women believing women, 515 00:26:46,563 --> 00:26:49,566 like they don't lie and cheat and fuck. 516 00:26:49,649 --> 00:26:51,818 -They do it more than us. -She wasn't like that. 517 00:26:51,901 --> 00:26:53,737 Let me tell you something as a friend. 518 00:26:53,820 --> 00:26:55,530 You're embarrassing yourself, 519 00:26:55,613 --> 00:26:58,033 sitting here all loved up over some silly whore 520 00:26:58,116 --> 00:27:00,035 who couldn't give two shits about you. 521 00:27:00,118 --> 00:27:04,664 She's already riding the next cock as we speak, so move on. 522 00:27:04,748 --> 00:27:07,959 Fuck the pain away. There are plenty of whores in Soho. 523 00:27:08,043 --> 00:27:10,253 [Joe] If I could move, I'd kill this guy. 524 00:27:10,337 --> 00:27:12,672 Sweetie, you need more absinthe. 525 00:27:12,756 --> 00:27:15,425 Oh, no, no, no. Don't. You'll annihilate him. 526 00:27:15,508 --> 00:27:17,594 Nothing matters without you anyway. 527 00:27:18,636 --> 00:27:20,430 Whoa... 528 00:27:20,513 --> 00:27:22,057 And not good. 529 00:27:22,140 --> 00:27:25,935 -Did he tell you? He's royal adjacent. -What the fuck? 530 00:27:26,019 --> 00:27:27,896 How did I get here? 531 00:27:27,979 --> 00:27:30,482 What is she talking about? 532 00:27:30,565 --> 00:27:34,402 ...dated both Middletons. Malcolm is a liar. 533 00:27:35,820 --> 00:27:36,905 Excuse me. 534 00:27:43,912 --> 00:27:45,372 Get me off this ride. 535 00:27:45,455 --> 00:27:47,874 Did I make her cry? What did I do? 536 00:27:47,957 --> 00:27:50,335 I'm in hell. Where's my phone? 537 00:27:50,418 --> 00:27:52,545 -Fuck. -Time to get this one home. 538 00:28:03,723 --> 00:28:07,644 [groans] Well, I made it home, at least. 539 00:28:08,269 --> 00:28:12,399 Do you see what trying to forget you has done to me, Marienne? 540 00:28:16,152 --> 00:28:17,278 Whose coat is this? 541 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,367 [Malcolm, echoing] Easy does it. Time to get this one home. 542 00:28:22,450 --> 00:28:24,119 Couch, couch, couch. 543 00:28:25,370 --> 00:28:27,080 [Joe] Malcolm got me home. 544 00:28:27,163 --> 00:28:28,581 Do I need to thank him? 545 00:28:28,665 --> 00:28:33,336 No. If I'm rude, maybe the misogynist with the drug problem will leave me alone. 546 00:28:36,714 --> 00:28:39,592 New day. No more craziness. 547 00:28:39,676 --> 00:28:41,511 Back to the quiet. 548 00:28:51,271 --> 00:28:52,397 Malcolm. 549 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:54,315 Scum from birth, you mean. 550 00:28:54,399 --> 00:28:56,860 Sitting here all loved up over some stupid whore. 551 00:28:56,943 --> 00:28:58,361 Wait. Did I...? 552 00:29:05,118 --> 00:29:07,203 I ran away from all this. 553 00:29:07,287 --> 00:29:09,914 I never wanted to touch a bloody knife again. 554 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,337 He was saying horrible things about you. 555 00:29:16,421 --> 00:29:18,590 I was angry for you. 556 00:29:19,340 --> 00:29:21,301 Somehow that just makes it worse. 557 00:29:34,606 --> 00:29:37,066 So much for Malcolm tweeting that he's gone to Bermuda. 558 00:29:41,738 --> 00:29:42,739 What the...? 559 00:29:49,162 --> 00:29:51,164 Where would I put a finger? 560 00:30:04,093 --> 00:30:06,137 She reported him missing already? 561 00:30:07,055 --> 00:30:10,308 No. They must be here to take her statement about the mugging. 562 00:30:11,017 --> 00:30:12,477 She's telling them all about me. 563 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:16,481 Any sec, they'll knock on the door to find a suspicious human-sized rug. 564 00:30:17,273 --> 00:30:21,236 I could run into them on their way out, carrying a human-sized rug. 565 00:30:21,319 --> 00:30:22,821 New plan, hurry up. 566 00:30:23,696 --> 00:30:25,156 Fuck, he's heavy. 567 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:26,866 Fuck this fucking carpet. 568 00:30:26,950 --> 00:30:27,992 Fuck my life. 569 00:30:29,369 --> 00:30:33,081 The classics professor did tell me I could use his car in an emergency. 570 00:30:35,166 --> 00:30:36,459 Okay. 571 00:30:36,543 --> 00:30:37,627 Okay. 572 00:30:37,710 --> 00:30:41,631 I've got till dark to figure out what the hell to do with him 573 00:30:41,714 --> 00:30:44,676 and mentally prepare to drive on the wrong side of the road. 574 00:30:49,097 --> 00:30:52,892 Is this is what you saw when you looked at me, Marienne? 575 00:30:54,686 --> 00:30:57,188 -I didn't want you to be right. -Excuse me. 576 00:30:57,272 --> 00:30:59,023 [tense electronic music playing] 577 00:31:36,811 --> 00:31:37,937 Marienne! 578 00:31:56,497 --> 00:31:59,584 Now can we please talk? 579 00:32:01,502 --> 00:32:02,337 Stop. 580 00:32:03,546 --> 00:32:06,507 -I'm not gonna hurt you. -You're right, you're not. 581 00:32:07,133 --> 00:32:08,468 I will use this. 582 00:32:17,018 --> 00:32:17,852 I'm sorry. 583 00:32:20,897 --> 00:32:22,982 I thought you'd be happy to see me. 584 00:32:25,610 --> 00:32:26,986 I thought you loved me. 585 00:32:27,070 --> 00:32:28,279 I did. 586 00:32:30,031 --> 00:32:31,282 Well, I'm right here. 587 00:32:32,033 --> 00:32:34,369 -And I know a lot has happened-- -No. 588 00:32:34,994 --> 00:32:36,037 No. 589 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:37,789 Juliette's in Paris. 590 00:32:38,957 --> 00:32:40,083 With a friend. 591 00:32:42,293 --> 00:32:44,253 She expects me home tomorrow. 592 00:32:46,214 --> 00:32:48,716 If I could make it home to my daughter...? 593 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:50,927 Why would you ask me that? 594 00:32:51,010 --> 00:32:52,178 You killed Ryan! 595 00:32:52,261 --> 00:32:54,263 He took your child! 596 00:32:54,347 --> 00:32:55,807 And your wife?! 597 00:32:57,141 --> 00:32:59,811 If you're standing here, Love didn't kill you. 598 00:32:59,894 --> 00:33:02,271 You killed her, didn't you? 599 00:33:05,191 --> 00:33:07,110 Tell me there haven't been more. 600 00:33:11,739 --> 00:33:13,199 Oh, my God. 601 00:33:14,784 --> 00:33:16,619 You act like it's not true. 602 00:33:16,703 --> 00:33:19,497 Like you're just a good man who did a bad thing. 603 00:33:23,876 --> 00:33:26,087 You're a murderer, Joe. 604 00:33:28,131 --> 00:33:29,549 You're wrong about me. 605 00:33:29,632 --> 00:33:32,010 I wish. I wish I was, but-- 606 00:33:32,093 --> 00:33:34,554 You know what? I'm gonna prove it to you. 607 00:33:42,729 --> 00:33:45,106 Goodbye, Marienne. 608 00:34:05,168 --> 00:34:08,087 You looked at me with so much fear. 609 00:34:08,713 --> 00:34:10,006 I couldn't stand it. 610 00:34:10,715 --> 00:34:12,967 I let you go to prove to you I'm not that man. 611 00:34:13,051 --> 00:34:15,136 I would never hurt you. 612 00:34:25,688 --> 00:34:27,315 Just a stranger in a strange land 613 00:34:27,398 --> 00:34:29,692 looking for someplace remote to dispose of Malcolm. 614 00:34:29,776 --> 00:34:33,571 A sawmill sounds promising. Here's hoping it's closed. 615 00:34:41,496 --> 00:34:45,583 If I get caught with this blowhard, it would be poetic justice. 616 00:34:57,720 --> 00:35:00,264 Luckily, they have many of the same common workshop tools here 617 00:35:00,348 --> 00:35:01,766 as they do back in the States. 618 00:35:05,269 --> 00:35:06,979 Yeah, got a score on Putnam. 619 00:35:07,772 --> 00:35:09,982 Sneaking out to the pub now for the second half. 620 00:35:15,196 --> 00:35:18,032 Looks like I have half a soccer game to do this. 621 00:35:18,116 --> 00:35:20,034 Yes, I know that's not what they call it. 622 00:35:21,869 --> 00:35:24,539 ["I Like It" by Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin playing] 623 00:35:24,622 --> 00:35:28,501 ♪ Yeah, baby, I like it like that ♪ 624 00:35:28,584 --> 00:35:32,046 ♪ You gotta believe me when I tell you I said I like it like that ♪ 625 00:35:32,130 --> 00:35:34,674 ♪ You gotta believe me when I tell you I said I like it like that ♪ 626 00:35:34,757 --> 00:35:36,676 ♪ Now I like dollars, I like diamonds ♪ 627 00:35:36,759 --> 00:35:38,302 ♪ I like stunting, I like shining ♪ 628 00:35:38,386 --> 00:35:40,179 ♪ I like million dollar deals ♪ 629 00:35:40,263 --> 00:35:42,348 ♪ Where's my pen, bitch I'm signin' ♪ 630 00:35:43,099 --> 00:35:46,602 A Prince Albert. He wasn't lying about being royal adjacent. 631 00:35:46,686 --> 00:35:49,021 ♪ I like going to the jeweler I put rocks all in my watch ♪ 632 00:35:49,105 --> 00:35:52,567 ♪ I like texts from my exes When they want a second chance ♪ 633 00:35:52,650 --> 00:35:55,945 ♪ I like proving... wrong I do what they say I can't ♪ 634 00:35:56,028 --> 00:35:59,157 I thought I left this behind with a meat grinder and an oven. 635 00:36:00,074 --> 00:36:03,619 ♪ Hotter than a Somali Fur coat, Ferrari ♪ 636 00:36:03,703 --> 00:36:05,580 ♪ Hop out the stu', jump in the coupe ♪ 637 00:36:05,663 --> 00:36:07,039 ♪ Big Dipper on top of the roof ♪ 638 00:36:07,123 --> 00:36:08,916 ♪ Flexing on bitches as hard as I can ♪ 639 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:10,668 ♪ Eating halal, driving the Lam' ♪ 640 00:36:10,751 --> 00:36:12,753 ♪ Told that bitch I'm sorry ♪ 641 00:36:12,837 --> 00:36:14,213 ♪ 'Bout my coins like Mario ♪ 642 00:36:14,297 --> 00:36:15,756 ♪ Yeah they call me Cardi B ♪ 643 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:17,800 ♪ I run this shit like cardio ♪ 644 00:36:17,884 --> 00:36:19,343 [commentator] Goal! 645 00:36:21,512 --> 00:36:24,849 ♪ Certified, you know I'm gang, gang, gang, gang ♪ 646 00:36:24,932 --> 00:36:27,894 ♪ Drop the top and blow the brains ♪ 647 00:36:28,561 --> 00:36:30,646 ♪ Oh he's so handsome, what's his name? ♪ 648 00:36:32,231 --> 00:36:35,526 ♪ Oh I need the dollars, cha-ching ♪ 649 00:36:35,610 --> 00:36:37,653 ♪ Beat it up like piñatas ♪ 650 00:36:37,737 --> 00:36:41,657 A drive around the Greater London area to dump body parts in sewage pipes 651 00:36:41,741 --> 00:36:44,869 and the River Thames is not how I planned to sightsee. 652 00:36:44,952 --> 00:36:47,205 So much for Jonathan doing better. 653 00:36:48,873 --> 00:36:51,417 Not that I planned to become Jonathan 654 00:36:51,500 --> 00:36:52,877 after I let you go. 655 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:57,673 My only plan was to drown my heartache and get the hell out of London. 656 00:36:57,757 --> 00:36:59,300 Joe Quinn Goldberg. 657 00:37:01,344 --> 00:37:03,638 Thought you'd be more, um, I don't know... 658 00:37:05,097 --> 00:37:05,932 dead? 659 00:37:07,141 --> 00:37:10,061 But then my past caught up. 660 00:37:10,144 --> 00:37:11,229 Elliot Tannenberg. 661 00:37:11,729 --> 00:37:15,775 You know my employer, Ray Quinn, your former father-in-law. 662 00:37:17,902 --> 00:37:20,154 So are you here to take me back? 663 00:37:20,238 --> 00:37:21,364 No, kill you. 664 00:37:25,409 --> 00:37:26,244 Thank you. 665 00:37:29,747 --> 00:37:31,374 Yeah, long day. 666 00:37:34,335 --> 00:37:36,629 Then Elliot surprised me. 667 00:37:38,297 --> 00:37:39,548 If I'm honest... 668 00:37:42,260 --> 00:37:43,344 I'm tired. 669 00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:46,514 What I'd like is to... 670 00:37:47,348 --> 00:37:49,183 is be done, you know? 671 00:37:50,601 --> 00:37:52,186 Not hurt anyone anymore. 672 00:37:54,772 --> 00:37:55,815 Not even you. 673 00:37:56,774 --> 00:37:58,025 -Oh. -Mm-hm. 674 00:37:58,859 --> 00:38:00,653 But that would be complicated. 675 00:38:02,863 --> 00:38:06,200 -In what way? -It would cost more than Ray pays. 676 00:38:06,742 --> 00:38:09,245 Like all the money Love had in that one account. 677 00:38:09,870 --> 00:38:11,455 You might not know she had that. 678 00:38:13,124 --> 00:38:16,085 Might just be a complete coincidence that it got emptied out 679 00:38:16,168 --> 00:38:18,379 the very same day you were baked in a pie. 680 00:38:18,462 --> 00:38:19,630 So extortion? 681 00:38:19,714 --> 00:38:22,800 Kind of a pejorative way to talk about me offering to help you. 682 00:38:27,388 --> 00:38:29,515 This is for you. [clears throat] 683 00:38:34,020 --> 00:38:35,521 You look like a Jonathan. 684 00:38:37,940 --> 00:38:40,901 He's solid, went to Columbia, good credit score, work visa. 685 00:38:40,985 --> 00:38:43,029 You should be able to get any job you want. 686 00:38:43,112 --> 00:38:46,449 You just keep a low profile, don't get into any shit. 687 00:38:46,532 --> 00:38:48,409 Just disappear. 688 00:38:49,368 --> 00:38:50,536 Be Jonathan. 689 00:38:51,287 --> 00:38:54,790 I'll assure Ray you're dead and then fuck off into the sunset. 690 00:38:55,458 --> 00:38:59,503 Jonathan could be your chance too, to make some different choices. 691 00:39:11,766 --> 00:39:15,353 Last thing, the girl that you follow, Marienne Bellamy? 692 00:39:15,936 --> 00:39:17,313 She knows you're alive. 693 00:39:19,190 --> 00:39:20,191 So look. 694 00:39:21,692 --> 00:39:24,320 She's on the 8 a.m. train, to Paris. 695 00:39:25,363 --> 00:39:27,656 -Unless you stop her. -But you just said this is... 696 00:39:28,741 --> 00:39:30,659 my opportunity to make different choices. 697 00:39:30,743 --> 00:39:32,703 Neither of us wanna hurt anybody. 698 00:39:34,163 --> 00:39:34,997 Yeah. 699 00:39:35,831 --> 00:39:36,665 So... 700 00:39:38,292 --> 00:39:41,837 go on there, take care of it, walk out Jonathan Moore. 701 00:39:47,635 --> 00:39:49,011 Text me when it's done. 702 00:39:59,647 --> 00:40:02,566 And I was alone in a strange city. 703 00:40:03,275 --> 00:40:04,985 Just me and my broken heart. 704 00:40:05,069 --> 00:40:07,780 I don't know what I was thinking when I killed Malcolm. It's all black. 705 00:40:07,863 --> 00:40:10,866 -I just know I failed. -[splashes] 706 00:40:11,784 --> 00:40:13,786 You were right, Marienne. 707 00:40:22,253 --> 00:40:24,755 Hi. I think this belongs to Adam Pratt. 708 00:40:24,839 --> 00:40:27,550 -Sure. I'll leave it for him. -Yeah. Thank you. 709 00:40:37,143 --> 00:40:40,479 Hey. Hi. You're back from Berlin already. 710 00:40:40,563 --> 00:40:42,398 You're in Europe now, Jonathan. 711 00:40:42,481 --> 00:40:44,483 You can get anywhere you want in three hours. 712 00:40:45,443 --> 00:40:46,694 How did the night turn out? 713 00:40:49,363 --> 00:40:50,197 Ah... 714 00:40:52,491 --> 00:40:54,034 They're party animals. 715 00:40:54,660 --> 00:40:56,662 Things tend to get out of hand. 716 00:40:57,621 --> 00:41:00,666 I wouldn't beat yourself up if you made some sort of cock-up. 717 00:41:07,298 --> 00:41:11,802 You know, the day that you decided to try to go to Oxford, 718 00:41:11,886 --> 00:41:13,721 you called it becoming newborn. 719 00:41:14,763 --> 00:41:16,557 Most people refer to that part of the book 720 00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,852 as when Mum died while I was in prison for a bar fight. 721 00:41:21,270 --> 00:41:26,025 "Heartbreak is always the catalyst for a new path," as you wrote. 722 00:41:26,650 --> 00:41:27,735 And this is yours? 723 00:41:27,818 --> 00:41:29,195 It was supposed to be. 724 00:41:32,156 --> 00:41:33,908 Honestly, I really need it to be. 725 00:41:36,076 --> 00:41:37,203 But you fucked up. 726 00:41:38,037 --> 00:41:39,872 Very, very badly, yeah. 727 00:41:43,042 --> 00:41:45,961 Would it help you to know that that part of the book is a lie? 728 00:41:46,045 --> 00:41:49,173 I had that prison epiphany three separate times. [laughs] 729 00:41:50,132 --> 00:41:53,552 I kept turning around, getting trollied, and punching people again. 730 00:41:54,053 --> 00:41:57,973 In my defense, writing it that way would have been hopelessly redundant. 731 00:42:05,147 --> 00:42:06,857 I get a sense about you. 732 00:42:06,941 --> 00:42:08,192 What's that? 733 00:42:08,859 --> 00:42:10,194 All jokes aside, 734 00:42:11,237 --> 00:42:15,866 my guess is that you have had a truly hellish life. 735 00:42:19,328 --> 00:42:22,748 The kind that not everyone survives. 736 00:42:24,625 --> 00:42:25,626 Am I close? 737 00:42:27,878 --> 00:42:31,006 -Yeah. -So you're fairly deeply damaged. 738 00:42:31,090 --> 00:42:35,553 Therefore, you're capable of doing real damage. 739 00:42:38,347 --> 00:42:41,559 I feel like I'm supposed to be defensive right now, but I'm... 740 00:42:43,852 --> 00:42:44,853 I'm not. 741 00:42:44,937 --> 00:42:46,647 Who would I be to judge you? 742 00:42:49,358 --> 00:42:50,901 Okay. So, what now? 743 00:42:51,902 --> 00:42:54,613 Can't erase any of it, so now I just try to do 744 00:42:54,697 --> 00:42:56,949 a bit of good moving forward, just something, 745 00:42:57,032 --> 00:42:59,743 which includes protecting the people that I love, 746 00:42:59,827 --> 00:43:02,162 getting some actual shit done for the city of London. 747 00:43:02,246 --> 00:43:04,081 So you believe it's possible? 748 00:43:07,126 --> 00:43:07,960 Redemption? 749 00:43:09,295 --> 00:43:10,504 I think yes. 750 00:43:11,547 --> 00:43:14,049 As long as they commit to never run from themselves. 751 00:43:14,717 --> 00:43:16,385 Face it all, no matter what. 752 00:43:18,971 --> 00:43:19,805 Easy, right? 753 00:43:24,435 --> 00:43:27,688 -You think I'm full of it. -I think you're a writer. 754 00:43:32,401 --> 00:43:34,862 You gonna sit here, perseverating on that cock-up? 755 00:43:39,033 --> 00:43:40,743 Embrace everything, Jonathan. 756 00:43:43,037 --> 00:43:44,455 The hangover's easier. 757 00:43:45,372 --> 00:43:46,915 Sounds great. 758 00:43:46,999 --> 00:43:50,461 But there are things I've done that I don't know if I can ever embrace. 759 00:43:53,422 --> 00:43:58,010 [woman over PA] Passengers continuing on to Nice, Cannes and Marseille, 760 00:43:58,093 --> 00:44:01,680 please ensure that you travel in one of the rear compartments. 761 00:44:01,764 --> 00:44:02,598 Thank you. 762 00:44:11,273 --> 00:44:12,733 Excuse me. Sorry. 763 00:44:12,816 --> 00:44:15,527 -Let me help you. -Thank you. 764 00:44:40,010 --> 00:44:43,806 You thought it was a pickpocket, but it was me saving you. 765 00:44:43,889 --> 00:44:46,433 I was putting you on that train. 766 00:44:48,686 --> 00:44:50,187 I let you go. 767 00:44:50,979 --> 00:44:54,149 To show you I'm not what you think. 768 00:44:55,526 --> 00:44:56,652 I'm not a killer. 769 00:45:02,533 --> 00:45:04,451 JOE It's done. 770 00:45:04,535 --> 00:45:05,661 [phone chirps] 771 00:45:08,747 --> 00:45:10,416 To try to make that true. 772 00:45:12,793 --> 00:45:15,254 But it wasn't. And, of course. 773 00:45:15,337 --> 00:45:16,505 [Kate] Oh... 774 00:45:16,588 --> 00:45:18,590 Good. Perfect, you. 775 00:45:19,675 --> 00:45:22,302 Are you surprised I can read? Why are you staring at them? 776 00:45:22,386 --> 00:45:25,055 -I'm curious what you like. -They're for work. 777 00:45:25,139 --> 00:45:28,100 Feel free to deduce I like art, Mr. Holmes. 778 00:45:29,977 --> 00:45:31,061 Uh-- 779 00:45:31,145 --> 00:45:34,648 You left Sundry House with Malcolm, the other night, didn't you? 780 00:45:35,315 --> 00:45:38,152 Have you seen him today? He wasn't in his office. 781 00:45:38,235 --> 00:45:40,904 No. No, I haven't. Please thank him for me 782 00:45:40,988 --> 00:45:44,950 -for helping me into my apartment. I was-- -Pissed. Yes, we all saw. 783 00:45:45,826 --> 00:45:48,745 He must be at the house in Surrey, writing poetry. 784 00:45:48,829 --> 00:45:51,039 Not a poetry fan. Okay, noted. 785 00:45:53,083 --> 00:45:56,128 I actually did need to ask you something important. 786 00:45:56,211 --> 00:45:58,755 -This can't be good. -Come to dinner tonight. 787 00:45:58,839 --> 00:46:00,966 -Wait, what? -A little soiree for Simon. 788 00:46:01,049 --> 00:46:03,385 Well, I can't. I have papers to grade. 789 00:46:03,469 --> 00:46:06,472 Oh, God, you Americans and your fetish for work. 790 00:46:06,555 --> 00:46:09,183 This is England. We have dinner here. 791 00:46:10,017 --> 00:46:11,477 Phoebe insisted I invited you. 792 00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:14,021 I don't know what you said to her, but she's obsessed with you. 793 00:46:14,104 --> 00:46:15,564 Don't know either, but-- 794 00:46:15,647 --> 00:46:18,275 Oi! Where did you go? 795 00:46:19,276 --> 00:46:21,069 You've been summoned, so-- 796 00:46:21,153 --> 00:46:24,406 Americans don't do very well with summoning either. 797 00:46:24,490 --> 00:46:27,493 Fine. Please come for dinner. 798 00:46:28,035 --> 00:46:30,913 Oh, God. Look, trust is earned. 799 00:46:31,580 --> 00:46:34,208 And when it comes to randos sniffing around my friends, 800 00:46:34,291 --> 00:46:37,753 maybe you do want nothing, but I won't pretend it isn't suspect. 801 00:46:37,836 --> 00:46:40,839 And not only do I not care if you think I'm a bitch, 802 00:46:40,923 --> 00:46:43,008 I hugely prefer it. 803 00:46:43,091 --> 00:46:44,801 Am I horrified or impressed? 804 00:46:44,885 --> 00:46:47,054 So just say yes, or Phoebe will cry, 805 00:46:47,137 --> 00:46:50,057 and I'll make sure it's in front of the paparazzi, 806 00:46:50,140 --> 00:46:51,391 and all of London will know 807 00:46:51,475 --> 00:46:53,769 -and revile your face. -Checkmate. 808 00:46:53,852 --> 00:46:57,439 -Well then, I'd love to come. -Love? That escalated quickly. 809 00:46:59,733 --> 00:47:01,443 Oh, and we're even. 810 00:47:02,110 --> 00:47:03,403 For my life. 811 00:47:03,487 --> 00:47:06,114 I told the police I didn't see who saved me. 812 00:47:06,198 --> 00:47:09,785 Though I sensed his work papers were in perfect order. 813 00:47:10,369 --> 00:47:11,411 You're welcome. 814 00:47:28,512 --> 00:47:31,807 Professor Moore. A pleasure to have you with us again. 815 00:47:32,683 --> 00:47:34,726 The private event is in the Paris social room. 816 00:47:35,269 --> 00:47:37,813 [Joe] Go in, act normal, so I'm not the guy who hung out one night 817 00:47:37,896 --> 00:47:40,399 that they'll realize happens to be the night Malcolm disappeared. 818 00:47:40,482 --> 00:47:41,316 [cell phone buzzes] 819 00:47:44,570 --> 00:47:46,738 Evanesce? I know this app. 820 00:47:46,822 --> 00:47:50,117 It's one of those high security chat apps that erases everything you say. 821 00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:52,035 How did I get this on my phone? 822 00:47:52,911 --> 00:47:56,081 "Hello, you"? Who is this? 823 00:47:56,164 --> 00:47:59,876 "You surprised me, handling Malcolm like that." 824 00:48:00,669 --> 00:48:01,878 What the...? 825 00:48:05,465 --> 00:48:06,633 [cell phone buzzes] 826 00:48:06,717 --> 00:48:08,760 "Here I thought when I left him on your table, 827 00:48:08,844 --> 00:48:10,887 you'd go down for my sins." 828 00:48:10,971 --> 00:48:12,889 -I didn't do it. -[cell phone buzzes] 829 00:48:12,973 --> 00:48:15,058 "You're not who I figured you for." 830 00:48:16,602 --> 00:48:18,937 -[cell phone buzzes] -"Who are you?" 831 00:48:19,021 --> 00:48:20,439 Who am I? 832 00:48:20,522 --> 00:48:22,941 Who are you? 833 00:48:23,025 --> 00:48:24,067 Someone... 834 00:48:24,151 --> 00:48:26,528 Moore. Where's your family from? 835 00:48:26,612 --> 00:48:30,157 -...one of them... -And who's this sad baby tarsier? 836 00:48:31,241 --> 00:48:33,702 -...killed Malcolm... -Come back when one is dead. 837 00:48:33,785 --> 00:48:36,705 -Fuck off and die, Malcolm. -...planned to put it on me. 838 00:48:36,788 --> 00:48:39,666 -You kill someone? -What you are is your problem. 839 00:48:39,750 --> 00:48:42,002 -And now... -Why are you here? 840 00:48:42,669 --> 00:48:44,463 ...they're texting me. 841 00:48:45,047 --> 00:48:47,633 Who are you? 842 00:48:47,716 --> 00:48:50,427 ♪ Standing on the highway With my thumb out ♪ 843 00:48:50,510 --> 00:48:53,263 ♪ Everybody's passing But you slowed down ♪ 844 00:48:53,347 --> 00:48:56,224 ♪ And my heart is telling me To turn round ♪ 845 00:48:56,933 --> 00:48:59,645 ♪ But my body wants me to stay ♪ 846 00:49:00,729 --> 00:49:04,733 ♪ They told me you're a killer ♪ 847 00:49:05,359 --> 00:49:06,652 ♪ A killer ♪ 848 00:49:06,735 --> 00:49:11,573 ♪ And I've got no doubt That the only way out of this thriller ♪ 849 00:49:11,657 --> 00:49:13,867 ♪ Is if I am a killer too ♪ 850 00:49:15,243 --> 00:49:17,412 [Joe] And what's your next move? 851 00:49:17,496 --> 00:49:20,415 ♪ Is if I am a killer too ♪ 852 00:49:21,833 --> 00:49:23,835 [theme music playing]