- [static] - [electronic beep]
[electronic beeping]
[light quirky music]
♪ ♪
Hello?
[A.J.] Hey, Harrison. Come in. Over.
A.J., is that you?
A.J., it's Harrison.
You have to push the button on the side when you talk,
then let go.
Over.
A.J., it's Harrison. Can you hear me?
[A.J.] Hey, Harrison, I can hear you.
I can hear you too.
Yes, Operation Walkie Talkie in full effect.
Over.
This is so cool. Over.
Yeah, my mom's still pissed. How about Mandy?
I lost my TV privileges for three days
for telling her that your steps were my steps.
Oh, and no froyo after Drama Club tomorrow night.
Fuck the man. Over.
Totally, fuck the man. Over.
[bright music]
♪ ♪
[Salena] Um, hello.
- Who are you? - Uh, who are you?
Violet.
Van's sister? Oh, my God.
I-I-I've been wanting to meet you for forever.
I'm Salena. Van's girlfriend.
He hasn't told you about me.
He should marry you. You're beautiful.
What are you doing here?
I need to find my phone. Van has it hidden somewhere.
How is Julian going to slide into my DMs with this?
Oh, that is retro, but not in a good way.
Exactly. Thank you.
Wait, who's Julian?
The super-hot French fry delivery dude
who I'm pretty sure is into me,
who I wanna lose my virginity to, marry and have babies with.
He's basically Timothée Chalamet
if he worked at Arby's.
Wait, why does Van have your phone?
Because he's an asshole.
Will you drive me to work?
Oh, um...
It's not far.
It's in Canoga Park.
Uh, that's a little far, but yes, I will.
How's your driving record?
You see that?
You re-did the program at work and it didn't kill you, did it?
- It sort of did kill me. - Never mind that.
That's being an adult is what that is.
That's big stuff, Jack. Big stuff.
What did the doctor say? How did the tests comeback?
Good.
Good?
All good.
The lymph nodes?
Clear, all clear.
Let's eat.
I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out.
I love that it...
Line?
I love that it takes you an hour and a half
to order a sandwich.
Right, right. Got it.
Learn your lines, Douglas. It's from When Harry Met Sally.
It's a famous movie, and if you mess up your lines,
everyone will know.
I don't want us to suck in front of Salena.
Who's Salena?
Van's girlfriend and my future sister-in-law
who is just so beautiful.
I've never seen someone that pretty in real life before.
- Oh. Okay, cool. - [bell dings]
Uh, let's take five.
I'm gonna get the bagels ready, okay?
You doing such a good job.
My therapist is strict and smells like incense.
She gives me a ton of assignments.
Last week, she told me that I was 27
and it was time for me to go on a date.
So I think you're pretty, and we seem compatible.
It makes sense.
[gentle music]
♪ ♪
Okay, I'm gonna go to the bathroom now
to wash my hands before we eat.
I do that. I'm very sanitary.
♪ ♪
Violet.
Douglas just asked you out on a date.
- He did? - Yeah.
I mean, he didn't like, say all the words, but he totally did.
Aw, I'm saving myself for Julian.
He's my jewel. Why won't he text me back?
He smiled at me, he knows my name, he likes me.
Okay, well, while you're waiting
for Julian to text you back,
can you just go on a date with Douglas?
Douglas works at a bookstore. You like books.
You both love music.
Violet, give it a shot.
Sally didn't wanna date Harry at first,
and look how they ended up.
[Van] So you guys met, huh? [Salena] Mm-hmm.
That's great. That's great.
You didn't give her your cell, did you?
I did. Why?
No reason.
She's just gonna start texting you a lot.
She's gonna think that you guys are best friends.
She's probably gonna start, like,
inviting you to a bunch of stuff,
which by the way, don't feel obliged to go to at all.
- Okay. - Do not...
Well, I already told her I'd go to Drama Club
on Thursday, so...
You really don't have to.
Van, I wanna go. I like your sister.
She's cool and charming and quirky and interesting.
I think it will be good to get to know her.
For her and for us.
- Oh, for us? - Yeah.
Oh, you're doing it for us.
Yeah, so I can feel like you're not, you know, like,
shutting me out of the most important part of your life.
I'm not shutting you out.
- I'm just... - Okay.
Look, I am protecting our relationship from tsunami.
A tsunami?
Yeah, yeah, tsunami.
Like, she is gonna be all over you now.
Texting 24-7.
Like, "Salena, are we best friends?"
"Salena, do you like this nail polish color?"
"Oh, Salena, can I come over and hang?"
Like, I just...I don't...
I don't want you to get scared away, you know?
Do you realize what you sound like?
Believe me. It's happened before.
Okay, well, I don't know who that happened with,
but I'm a big girl.
I can handle it, okay?
- Yeah, okay. - Okay?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, okay, okay.
[Salena] Okay. [Van] Yes.
I swear, if my mom catches me doing this,
she'll ground me for two weeks.
Yeah, your mom doesn't like me very much.
[A.J.] So did you check out that workout?
What's it called again?
Between a Walk and Hard Place.
That's ridiculous.
[Harrison] Yeah, so ridiculous.
Mandy wants me to do three 45-minute sessions per week.
That's torture.
What's your login? I'm looking it up.
My username's Harrison32,
and my password's zero-one-zero-four-nine-six.
My birthday.
[A.J.] Ha, this is actually kind of cool.
They offer kickboxing and jujitsu.
Let's look up the instructors.
Anyone look interesting to you?
Um, maybe Collette.
She looks nice.
Wow.
She's got huge boobs.
Yeah.
[A.J.] I wonder how she exercises with those.
[chuckles]
[bright music]
A lot of bouncing? [chuckles]
[A.J. chuckles]
♪ ♪
[knocking at door]
Come in.
- Hey. - Hey.
Is everything okay?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
So big news.
Yeah?
Violet and Douglas might finally be going out on a date.
Wha...how? How? How'd you...
Well, he, like, kinda, sorta asked her out
and I kinda, sorta nudged her towards accepting.
- That's great. - Yeah.
That's really great. Oh, my gosh.
- That's...thank you, Mandy. - Yeah, of course, yeah.
Oh, and also I, uh,
I got a research internship at UCSF
in the neurology department.
UCSF. That's...
San Francisco.
Wow.
So it's a pretty huge opportunity.
Yeah, it is. Um, yeah, congrats.
- Thanks. - That's huge.
So when... when would you have to...
I gotta leave in two weeks.
And I know that I committed for a year
and there's still over three months left
and I feel really bad about it.
Mandy, it's fine. Don't worry about.
I just feel like I have to put myself...
Yeah, do that. You know what?
I have dealt with therapeutic aides since Violet was a kid.
So I get it.
They go to grad school, they get married,
they...their careers take off.
They leave.
It's not a big deal.
Yeah, we'll find someone else.
[gentle music]
Okay.
Cool.
Thank you.
I'll find a time to talk to the guys about it then.
Okay, yeah.
Thanks again for coming.
All right, thank you.
Bye.
♪ ♪
[door closes]
[video games chiming]
[video game siren wails]
- Ewatomi. - What?
Jack-Jack?
What are you doing here?
I followed you on Instagram
and I saw you tagged yourself in this location.
Wow. That's...
- Industrious? - Okay.
Never geotagging my location again.
It's a really stupid thing to do.
You could get a stalker.
Apparently.
My father said that his tests came back clean,
but he kept putting his hand through his hair like this,
which is what he does when he's bluffing at poker,
which is why he'll never win the World Series of Poker
even though it's his greatest dream.
Did my father lie to me about his scans?
I can't disclose that.
I'll tell you and if I'm right, say nothing.
Jack.
You told me to be his advocate.
So here I am being his advocate.
Jack.
They found cancerous lymph nodes in the left side,
which means the cancer has metastasized.
They found more than five lymph nodes affected.
They found more than six lymph nodes affected.
Fourteen, Jack.
They found 14.
Fourteen lymph nodes. Stage three.
I'm so sorry, Jack.
[somber music]
♪ ♪
[Collette] All right, twist. You can do it.
Turn that down, Harrison.
[Collette] Great form.
Jack, my body's tingling.
Do you think I'm working out too hard?
Again. Abs of steel.
No, I think you have diabetes, you dumbass.
You eat too much crap.
High knees. I believe in you.
I know her.
You know Collette?
[Collette] And rest. You got it.
Yeah, I know her.
[Collette] Yeah, fast beat.
[Collette] Oh, yeah!
Ah, baby.
- [moaning] - [man grunting]
Do you think she's faking it?
[Collette] Yeah! - Has to be.
It's not real?
Nothing is real. Everything is a lie.
I don't care. I'm still taking notes.
It'll help me look like a pro when I fuck Julian.
[Collette moaning]
All right, who's ready for Drama Club?
[Collette] Yeah. Right like that.
- Whoa. - Hi, Mandy.
What are you guys watching?
- Porn. - [moaning continues]
I can see that.
You wanna sit down and watch with us?
♪ ♪
So you guys know there's nothing necessarily wrong
with watching porn, right?
Obviously, we're adults.
Okay, great.
So listen...
I wanted to talk to you guys about something.
[♪ Caamp: "No Sleep"]
♪ ♪
Sometimes girls can get pulled into porn,
and it's not really their choice.
You might just wanna figure out
where it comes from before you watch it.
Are you seriously telling us to research our porn
before jerking off?
What is jerking off?
It's masturbating, which is also very natural.
Why is it always the woman who is the loudest in bed?
"Ah, ah, ah, ah."
Okay, Violet, thank you for that.
Some women are loud and some are not.
Just like some men are loud and some are not.
Are you and Joel loud?
I'm not gonna answer that question.
Nobody cares.
- What is with you? [Jack] Everything's fake.
It's all lies.
♪ I've seen other cities but I like this one most... ♪
[relaxing music playing]
[Coach B] Everybody, communicate with your partner.
Tell them a story.
Tell them a story with your movements.
We are all one.
No matter who we are, we're equal.
There is no judgement here.
Awesome. Beautiful.
Salena, you came.
Of course I came.
Yeah, I have something for you.
Ah, thank you.
Mandy, this is my best friend, Salena.
Hi. So nice to meet you.
You too. Hi babe.
Douglas asked me to some dumb 3D movie,
and he wants me to pay for my own ticket.
Oh, which one's Douglas?
That one with the red hair and sweater vest.
I shouldn't go out with him, right?
- Oh, uh... [Mandy] Yeah.
I think he's adorable, right?
Yeah, yeah, he's a great guy.
Salena, what do you think?
When I'm with Julian, I feel all excited and tingly.
But when I'm with Douglas, nothing.
Dead fish. Flat line.
Well, all I can say is I've never gone on a date
that I didn't wanna go on.
[Violet] Wow, you are so badass.
Isn't Salena so hot and badass?
She is.
Okay, tonight, we are doing classic movie night.
And to start off, we have Douglas and Violet.
[applause]
My friend Salena is here. Don't fuck this up, okay?
Okay.
And I'm not going on a date with you.
What?
I've never gonna on a date I didn't wanna go on.
How many dates have you gone on?
Not the point.
- But...but, I... - Shh. Shh.
I'm sorry, Harry.
But you can't just come here and tell me you love me
and expect that to make everything alright.
It doesn't work this way.
It's your line. Go.
How does it work?
I don't know, but not this way.
I'm so confused, Violet. You said you would go out me.
What are you doing, Douglas? Stick to the script.
That ticket cost me $18 on Fandango.
[Douglas] It's 3D.
[Violet] Ugh! Just do the scene!
[Douglas] I don't understand how you can say yes
and then change your mind so quickly.
Because I don't want to fuck you.
What's the point of going to a stupid 3D movie
if I will never want to fuck you?
[muffled chatter]
[Coach B] Okay, um, well,
that was a very honest performance,
and we'll work on it next week.
[applause]
I-I see.
That...that really is a real no, isn't it?
I live in Notting Hill. You live in Beverly Hills.
Everyone in the world knows who you are.
My mother has trouble remembering my name.
[Gia] Oh, okay. Fine.
Good decision.
The fame thing isn't really real, you know?
Don't forget, I'm also just a girl,
standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.
This is stupid! I quit!
[door slams]
Jack.
What are you doing here?
I was in the neighborhood.
The Drama Club is not in your neighborhood.
From work, you'd have to take Alameda to the 101,
which is 37 minutes in traffic,
and from home, you'd have to take
Stewart to the 134 to the 101, which is 45 minutes.
Jack, what is this about?
You lied.
What?
You have 14 lymph nodes affected.
You told me the scans came back clean.
You lied.
Father's aren't supposed to lie.
Jack, Jack, Jack, look. I see this is getting to you.
I see that you're getting obsessed.
And when you get like this,
sometimes other things in your life go out the window.
Like work and life skills and social skills.
You know that, right, Jack?
If I don't know, how can I prepare?
Prepare for what?
For you dying.
What if you die?
I'm not ready.
I need all the information to be ready.
Jack, wait. Jack!
I'm taking the bus!
[somber music]
Gary, I want you to meet my brother Brooks.
We're having a little family three-man game night tonight.
So nice to meet you.
Wait. What do you mean three-man?
I thought you said that Michelle and Ryan and Kevin
were all gonna be coming.
What kind of games are you playing?
No, no, no, no, no. It's just gonna be us three.
Uh, if you need...
I can send them over the doorway.
There's a whole mess of people over there.
Hey guys.
[Sam] And scene.
[applause]
♪ ♪
[A.J.] How'd it go at Drama Club?
[Harrison] My scene partners are the worst.
[A.J.] Don't let them get you down, Harrison.
I won't.
My sister always tells me that those types of people
are the people that peaked in high school
and have nothing left.
Over.
[A.J.] Good thing we're not those people.
[Harrison] Yeah, I think so too.
Hi.
I'm Mandy.
- We spoke earlier. - The aide.
Yeah, I remember.
So...
I'm Harrison's caregiver, and I can honestly say
he is the kindest, most decent person I know.
And I know how it may look,
but I've seen them interact.
Harrison has never had a close friend like A.J. before.
It's really hard for him to make friends.
And I'm guessing it might be hard for A.J. too.
I think this friendship could be really great
for both of them.
Just please give him a chance.
[A.J.] Okay, my mom's thinking.
Thinking.
Now she's nodding. She's nodding her head.
What's she saying?
[A.J.] She's saying that we can hang out together
as long as it's not at night
and I don't miss any homework assignments.
We're back.
Yay, we're back.
Fuck the Man.
[A.J.] Yeah, fuck the Man.
[bright music]
[knocking]
♪ ♪
Uh, hi.
Hey.
Uh, I just wanted to apologize about Drama Club.
I, um... Salena really blew it.
Okay.
You're mad.
No.
It's okay to be mad.
It's just like,
in the eight months I've been working with your sister,
I've learned one thing about her,
and that's that she wants connection.
You know, she is dying for it.
And she fucking deserves it because she's smart
and she's funny and she's gorgeous
and she finally was possibly interested
in a sweet, nice guy who could actually be a good fit.
And Salena has known your sister for what?
All of three minutes.
She has no idea who she is.
She has no idea what she's going through
and she's just totally cool
just totally and completely fucking the whole thing up
and I'm sorry, but that really sucks.
Are you smiling?
Like, is this fucking funny to you or something?
No, no, no. I'm sorry, I just...
um...
I-I love
how much you care.
People always just... they say they care,
but you, you actually care.
What I said the other day about people come and go
and that you leaving it's not a big deal,
I do that because sometimes when I'm hurt,
I get defensive.
And I'm working on that.
The truth is you're...
you're not just some aide.
You're incredibly special.
You're changing Violet's life.
And Jack and Harrison's too.
You can always go off to Berkeley
and work in some lab, work with rats.
Here, you're working with people.
[gentle music]
I know it's not my business, but...
I think that you should stick around for a while.
That's what I should've said earlier.
I'm working on it, like I said.
♪ ♪
Good night.
♪ ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
[singer vocalizing]
♪ ♪