[David] And that is Elysium.
What do you think?
It's beautiful.
- It's humbling. - It's perfect.
Right? I knew you'd like it.
I could use this expansion to make positive social change.
Publicly.
Rehab my image. Do some good for the world.
Sounds like you're doing good for yourself.
The monetization opportunities are endless.
There'll be no stopping us.
David, we'll be like Catholic priests in a souped-up ice-cream truck
that can do 200 miles per hour and outrun the cops.
I wouldn't say that. In fact, don't say that.
- I accept. - I really haven't offered anything yet.
I'm already the greatest coder of my generation,
but working alongside Poppy
can help me become the greatest coder of any generation.
[inhales deeply] And that is humbling.
Yeah, that doesn't sound humble. Do you hear yourself?
Poppy is coming back, right?
Yes, she is.
I, uh, convinced her to stay.
Another example of my effective leadership.
You tricked a pregnant woman into staying at work
instead of being with the father of her unborn child.
No, no. She wanted to stay.
Well, then you did nothing.
[stammers] How is that effective?
Look, I don't have time to talk about all the ins and outs to you, all right?
The-The point is that Jacques and Jean-Luc are coming in from Montreal today,
so I need you to help me razzle-dazzle 'em.
- I can do that. - Great.
And I need you to talk up the creative
and tell them why gamers are gonna love this thing.
I'd be humbled to.
Uh-huh.
And, Rachel, can I count on you not to talk?
[sighs]
Yes, just like that. Okay. Great. Well, I'm glad everyone's on board.
I'm jumping ship.
My ultimate life goal is to become Jacques and Jean-Luc's assistant.
It is my greatest desire, and my darkest wish.
It's also been my nights and weekends.
I've been setting the groundwork for months,
and today, I will reap what I have sown.
I'll also help you exactly as far as it helps me.
After that, I don't care if you live or die, David.
I'll take it.
The A-Team's back in action!
- Sorry, what's the A-Team? - I said don't talk.
[sighs]
[pounding on door]
[groans]
Such a distinctive knock.
Such a distinctive look.
- Do you have tape in your hair? - What's your point?
- Do you want me to get it out? - No.
- Okay. [sighs] - I thought you resigned.
Shouldn't you be playing golf with Jack Nicholson?
Jack Nicklaus.
Jack Nicklaus is the famous golfer.
Jack Nicholson is the famous actor.
Though I would wanna play with both of them.
Why are you here?
No. The question is why are you here?
Shouldn't you be on your way to the Netherlands?
One of us has to stay for Elysium.
We don't.
We can both go,
and that is honestly what's best for literally everybody.
Not for Mythic Quest.
They'll be fine. In fact, they will be better off without us.
What about the expansion, huh?
The one that we poured our souls into.
You can't stay at MQ and be miserable,
working yourself to death and hating me for it.
And I can't stay because the thought of sitting at my desk
and looking to my left and you not being there is my actual version of hell.
[sighs] And if you're being honest, wouldn't you say the same thing?
[exclaims]
Why can't you just change?
Just a little bit.
Everybody else does it.
Every normal person can do it.
I don't know!
I don't spend as much time in therapy as the rest of you fucking people.
Millennials! You guys ruined it... [stammers, sighs]
Look, I keep trying to do the right thing
and it turns out to literally be the opposite of the right thing.
And I don't know why I can't see that and everybody else can.
Wow.
Finally something Ian Grimm can't see.
[chuckles] Okay.
Okay. That was actually kind of funny.
- It was? - Yeah.
You took a motif that I've established in the past
and you used it against me in a moment of high drama to cut the tension.
The fact that I had to explain it to you makes it a little bit less funny, but--
- I'm funny. - No, I didn't say that.
I said you did one thing funny, that doesn't make you actually funny.
- But it is important. - Mmm.
You made the video game, we had our whole thing,
and then at the very end, you said something funny.
Which closes the loop.
Which means there's nothing more for you here.
[stammers] What about Elysium?
- We're just gonna let it die? - Poppy.
You said it was the best thing we ever built.
- Poppy. Poppy! - We can't just leave it to--
It's just a video game.
We're talking about your life here.
You don't have to be the machine anymore.
- Shit. Okay. - Okay.
Why-Why couldn't you have been this convincing earlier?
Now I gotta... I gotta repack all this stuff.
You don't have to repack anything. David will handle that.
Just grab some essentials and let's go.
- Essentials. Okay. Right. - Yes.
- Ow! Goddamn it, man! - Oh, God!
Okay, let's start with a toothbrush and maybe some mouthwash,
and we'll go from there.
Jesus.
[both grunting]
Okay, security's gonna call when Jacques and Jean-Luc have signed in.
Is my A-Team ready?
- [phone rings] - Oh.
- Here we go. - [Brad] Mm-hmm.
Hello.
Uh, they're here. Yes.
Sorry, who?
Okay. Thank you.
Are Jacques and Jean-Luc here?
No. It's someone named Jean-Georges.
[gasps]
[speaking French]
What? Who is he? Their boss?
No. Much more powerful. He's their assistant.
[David] W-Wait, what?
So, they didn't even care enough to come themselves?
Not surprising really.
Jacques and Jean-Luc hardly speak since the affair.
They had an affair?
No. Jacques slept with Jean-Luc's wife.
Or the reverse.
It's hard to keep track myself. It gets messy with brothers.
They're brothers?
Stepbrothers.
Jean-Georges is their go-between.
They do whatever he tells them to do.
They trust him implicitly.
How the hell are we gonna get him on board with the expansion?
I'll take the lead. Move.
Okay.
Over the past six months,
I've been cultivating a friendship with him
- to overtake his job. Yes. - Overtake his job.
I can use my new friendship to our advantage while earning his trust
so that I may plunge the knife in even further. [chuckles]
And sell him on the expansion, right?
Huh?
Oh, yeah. Sure.
- [elevator dings] - [gasps] He's here.
Bonjour!
[groans] No. I cannot right now.
I was bingeing Merlot and K-dramas all night and I am in no mood.
Uh... Uh, Carol. Carol.
Listen, um,
I know what's going on with you, dipping your pen in the company ink.
The testers' ink, to be specific.
[chuckles] I am sure I have no idea what you're talking about.
Really?
Well, let's just say I'm concerned,
and I think you should possibly talk to someone.
Not me. A professional.
Well, how about you be professional and mind your damn business?
Yelling at me about my love life.
Wish I was at home watching Extraordinary Attorney Woo.
She is misunderstood. As am I.
Wasn't yelling.
- [yells] - Bonjour.
Jean-Georges.
Josephine.
- At last, we meet in person. - At last.
[in French] It's just over here, follow me.
[in English] You consider that an essential item?
A lamp?
This is my latest art piece.
- Oh, cool. - Right?
What does it mean?
- Guess. - [inhales sharply]
Well, it's empty and fragile.
It's beautiful, like a... like a beautiful shell of a thing.
Oh. Oh.
Maybe, uh, like a...
like a cute bubble that could burst at any moment.
That's... That's not what I was going for.
Was it?
[scoffs] Shit, man, don't listen to me.
I-I'm terrible at analyzing art.
[stammers] I wouldn't let a kid anywhere near it though,
'cause they would smash it to bits.
[breathing heavily]
Are you... Are you okay?
- Are you having the baby? - No, I'm not having the ba--
- No, I'm not. - Because I just got the car washed.
- Stop yelling at me! - [stammers]
- I'm not having the baby! Ian. - If I have to actually birth this baby,
- I can do it. I can do it. - Ian. You're not gonna birth the baby.
I'm just having... [inhales sharply] ...a moment because this is insane, right?
Right? Moving to a country... [stammers] ...that I've never been to before...
[stammers] ...in my third trimester.
T-To be with my boyfriend, who, to be honest,
I'm not even sure even wants the baby.
I mean, that's... that's... that's a recipe for disaster, right?
Look, that guy is great, Poppy.
And you are really good together.
- I've seen it. - Yeah.
Well, I mean, we get along,
but it's-it's easy to make a relationship work when it's all about the...
The what?
- The sex. - That's not sex.
- This is sex. - How did you conceive like that?
I don't know how else you would show...
- Which one is Storm? Which one is you? - ...'cause both are doing the...
I'm just saying, sure, it looks pretty from the outside, but...
but what if I get there and the bubble bursts?
Well, yeah.
That might happen,
but you gotta take a chance, right?
I mean, what's... what's the alternative?
You stay here and try to fix something that'll never be fixed,
and you know it?
[stammers]
I think you got a chance with this guy, and...
[sighs] It's like I always say,
if there's even a glimmer of hope
that you can make it work with someone you truly love,
then you gotta grab it with both hands.
You have never once said that.
I constantly say it.
- I'm-I'm constantly sa... - You constantly say the word "glimmer"?
- Yes. I just... I say it all the time. - I have never heard you say "glimmer".
Use it in a sentence.
- [stutters] - Not the one you just said.
There's a glimmer of a chance that you farted,
- like, 20 minutes ag... - There's more than a glimmer of that.
- I knew it! I knew it. I knew it. - [laughs]
So, that is Elysium, our most exciting expansion to date.
And Mr. Brittlesbee has put together an equally exciting team.
Uh, yes.
Uh, we have the genius Poppy Li, our sole creative director moving forward.
We've got monetization phenom, Brad.
Brad's his name, money's his game.
Don't do that.
With his partner in crime, Rachel.
I am not a criminal. I'm a good person.
Uh-huh.
And, uh, her partner in life and coding genius, Dana.
Dana in the house! [chuckles]
Sorry. David's energy is rubbing off on me.
Pleasure to make your acquaintance. [chuckles]
[in French] Do any of these people speak French?
They barely speak English.
[chuckles, speaks French]
This man is a weasel.
He is a scoundrel.
She is a child.
And this one, she's got a resting mad face.
Also, I had to take the stairs earlier because
the woman on the elevator reeked of cheap alcohol.
[chuckles]
This would all be amusing as a play by Molière,
but this is a business.
Montreal is concerned.
A change must be made.
We can help each other out. After all, we are friends.
Friends don't try to steal the other friend's job, no?
[speaking French]
Don't play the fool, Josephine.
The man with the mustache is already filling that role for you.
- [in English] I'm sorry, what's that? - He complimented your mustache.
Ooh. Merci very much. [chuckles]
[in French] These people's fate is in my hands.
And so is yours.
- [speaking French] - [chuckles]
[typing]
- [knocks on door] - [Andy, in English] Knock, knock.
- Hey, Carol. - No. Get out.
I can't have y'all in here fighting and making a scene.
Whatever happened is over.
Carol, please, please.
We're-We're not upset at each other anymore.
Yeah, yeah. We buried the hatchet.
We decided our friendship is too important.
Yeah, we just wanted to apologize for all the trouble we caused.
[Mikey] Anyway, we're real sorry,
and we will stay out of your hair from now on.
Goodbye.
- Forever. - Yeah.
[Mikey chuckles]
Wait.
You know, this doesn't have to be an either-or situation.
What I'm saying is,
there is plenty of Carol to go around.
[Andy] Uh...
- [chuckles] Uh... - Okay. [chuckles]
- Uh...
No.
- Stop. - Ooh, sorry. Sorry.
- [stutters] You-- - Oh. I thought--
[shushes]
Oh.
[sighs] Wow.
Can't say I never thought about it.
Yeah.
Me too.
[shrieks]
[sighs, chuckles]
It was just a dream. [laughs]
Carol need therapy.
[chuckles]
[in French] So, I have made my decision.
[smacks lips] Oh.
I should be on my way.
Friend.
- Bastard! - Try not to cry, Jo.
Your situation is tragic enough as it is.
[clears throat]
[in English] Au revoir, all.
[chuckles]
- [David] Yes. Au revoir. - [Rachel] Bon-Bonjour.
A new era begins.
[door opens, closes]
New era? Is that bad? That sounds bad.
That was weird. Is he killing the expansion?
No, he loved it.
Is he killing the game?
No, he believes in its longevity.
So he's fully on board?
No.
Montreal is not happy with management.
Fuck. I knew it. Fuck.
[David sighs]
I've made some bad decisions.
[sighs] I'm not gonna lie. Um, I may not be good at this job.
They're not firing you.
They just want to bring in someone new to assist you.
[groans] Yes! I'm back, baby.
Uh, okay. Great.
Assist-Assist me, yeah.
French-Canadian, or what?
Like, uh, I just need to know if I need to,
like, download Duolingo or learn French or--
It's me.
[sighs] I was demoted.
Oh, so-so you're my assistant?
Okay.
I don't love it, I'm gonna be honest with you.
Um, but I'll do it.
Um. I'll take it as a teaching opportunity,
'cause you got a lot to learn, kiddo.
Not as your assistant, David. As head of Playpen.
I'm not following. Is anyone else following this?
- Well... - [Dana] Uh.
Uh. Okay, wait.
- You're head of Playpen now? - Mmm.
Jo, that is a huge promotion.
Yeah! Why are you so sad?
My calling in life is to be an assistant.
To support, to aid,
to be a human scaffolding holding up the powerful.
[sighs]
Now that I'm in an executive position,
I'll never get the chance to assist Jacques and Jean-Luc.
I am still confused.
You're equals now.
- We're equals? - On paper, yes.
But due to Playpen's overwhelming popularity,
in practice, I wield more power.
Okay, so she is your boss.
Well, you don't have to rub it in!
[door opens, closes]
- I... - Do you get it?
No.
[both grunting]
[phone rings]
[in Polish] You're late.
Did you stop for a snack, fatty?
I won't be joining you.
[chuckles] Too bad.
You'll have to make it up to me in Rio.
Naked, of course.
I won't be joining you at all.
I've had a change of heart.
Since when do you have a heart?
A lucrative opportunity has presented itself.
Something far more promising than some artless 'Smash and Grab.'
This is something more original, more...
Creative?
Age has made you cruel.
Consider it something to remember me by.
I have something for you, too.
[knocks on door]
[in English] Bring up the data.
- Which data? - Any data, Jason!
[sighs] That's better.
[Ian] Remember the last time we were here?
I picked you up when you first started at MQ.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah. That was 15 years ago.
That was 15 styles of facial hair ago.
- Second funny thing you've said. - [chuckles]
Why are you being so funny at the end?
I'm not. You just miss me already.
[inhales deeply] Well... [exhales deeply] ...better go.
Yeah.
Can I hug you?
[airplane passing overhead]
[Poppy sniffles]
[sighs]
Goodbye, Ian.
Goodbye, Pop.
[typing]
[sighs]
[sighs] Goddamn.
- [Poppy] What are you doing here? - Jesus Christ!
What... What are you doing here?
Answer me first.
I'm just packing up my shit so I can go.
Lie.
You don't pack.
You were trying to work, weren't you?
- No, no. I wasn't working. - Really?
'Cause I just got an alert from Version Control
that someone was trying to log in to your computers
only they didn't know the password.
That's how I knew it was you.
I hate Version Control.
Okay, so I was working. Big deal.
It is a big deal.
It's a frigging miracle, is what it is.
Quick follow-up.
What were you planning on doing after you'd figured out how to log in?
What was your plan for how you were gonna "work"?
I was gonna type something.
- Type something? - Yeah.
[stammers] I was gonna type something and then figure it out.
Why did you not get on the plane?
Oh, I got on the plane. Yeah, I got on the plane.
The plane was in the air when I got the alert from Version Control.
So, I had to pretend to go into labor so that they would turn the fucker around.
And then when we landed, and they called the ambulance,
I was like, "Oh, I don't know, it's-it's just stopped.
It's, like, gone back up there."
And I threw some gauze as a distraction and then I ran away.
I am definitely on some sort of a list now.
You told them that your fetus went back up in you?
- Yeah. - You are on every list.
Don't change the subject.
You said this was your version of hell.
It is!
It is.
So then why are you here?
- What difference does it make? - Matters to me.
Why are you here?
[sighs]
This expansion is the only thing that I have left of you.
And I couldn't say goodbye.
I thought it was just a video game.
Yeah, well...
it's not. [sighs]
[sighs]
Why didn't you tell me you were coming back?
I was trying to give you what you want.
You said to me, right out there,
that you wanted to put as much distance between us as possible.
So that's what I'm trying to do.
And you knew that if you told me, I wouldn't get on the plane.
So you kept it to yourself.
[Poppy sighs]
You finally did the right thing.
[sighs]
And you didn't want any of the credit.
[sighs]
Poppy, why did you come back?
'Cause it's like you always say,
if there's even a glimmer of hope
that you can make it work with someone you truly love...
you have to grab it with both hands.
[Poppy chuckles]
[Ian chuckles]
I totally always say that.
[Poppy chuckling]
Ooh, don't squeeze me so tight.
- I'm gonna pee. [chuckles] - Oh, sorry. Sorry.
[Poppy grunts]