Previously on Dead Ringers...
[Elliot] Another fucking miscarriage.
You're on that show.
Beverly loves that show.
[Beverly] I'm here because my
sister died; she was my twin.
[Joseph] If we land the Parkers,
we are talking the full amount. Ding, ding, ding.
Let's open the fucking Center tomorrow.
[Elliot] She's responsible for a fucking opioid crisis.
We really want this woman's money?
We want the birthing center, Elliot.
[Rebecca] I'm not in, but I'm not not in.
We need to spend some time together.
What happened with the actress?
Oh, she was incredible, Elliot.
[Elliot] What do you mean?
[Beverly] It's none of your business.
Everything's my fucking business.
Not this.
[screaming]
[gentle clatter]
[quietly] Here we go.
I'm so sorry you had such an awful time here.
We didn't. Well, I didn't.
I thought you came here for an investment.
Yeah, I-I did.
We shouldn't have.
Oh, I'm sorry you feel that way.
[chuckles]
Do you want this? She wants this.
If I gave you money for a birthing center
and no lab, she'd take it for you.
She loves you, fiercely. It's quite moving.
You, I'm not so sure.
I do want this.
I did not catch that.
I do want this.
[indistinct chatter]
[Elliot] Shit.
- Yup. - [camera shutter clicking]
Excuse me, is that real?
Um, wh-why... why do you have guns?
Why are there guns?
- This is a lab. - They're the FDA, Elliot,
and it's fucking America.
Of course they have fucking guns.
Sorry, I mean, you're doing a great job.
Great gun...zzz.
[indistinct radio chatter]
What happened?
[quietly] They found a 16-day-old embryo
in an incubator
on that back bench.
[loudly] That I knew nothing about.
Okay?
I mean, this is your lab,
so that probably doesn't help, right?
You should know about all the embryos.
Oh, my God.
Sixteen days is very, very fucking illegal, and...
- What? - ...very clever.
Should I take you down with me?
I'll get you a job.
No, I'm...
- completely unemployable. - Just give me the weekend.
Because my career's in the fucking trash.
- I promise. - Fuck you, Mantle.
Oh, we could do amazing things together, Capgrass.
Did you see the embryo?
It was beautiful.
[moaning in next room]
[heavy breathing in next room]
[woman moaning] Oh, fuck.
Mmm...
[grunting softly]
[slurping lime wedge]
Mmm. Mmm...
Mmm, mmm, mmm.
[elevator bell chimes]
Uppers, downers. The guest list is dry.
I packed a party.
So, these bitches give you some money
and you open your thing?
Okay. Well, you behave,
and you...
- [phone chimes] - ...relax a little.
You'll kill it. Car's here.
[♪ Beethoven: "Symphony Number Nine"]
♪ ♪
[phone line ringing]
So, you're really fucking her.
Or she's really fucking you.
She's really at it, elbow-deep.
- [phone line ringing] - The actress. The actress!
[Joseph] Good morning, Mantles, are you en route?
Hi, Joseph. Yep.
Do you worry she's faking it? Hi, Joseph.
This is so great. Are you excited?
Oh, to be spending my Friday begging for money at Dyke Davos?
Oh, my God, Elliot!
That doesn't sound like
best behavior, Elliot.
Oh, sorry, Joseph, I didn't
realize you were a lesbian.
Straight-up homophobia, Elliot.
Oh, they can't hear you, Joseph.
Rebecca Parker isn't gonna suddenly develop any respect
for you because you're pretending to be fucking woke.
Joseph, did you get a final list
- of who's going to be there? - Yes, I did.
She's just so loud.
I mean, it sounds fake.
It sounds like she's campaigning for her fucking Oscar.
- Beverly? - [breathing hard and moaning]
I want to thank my family.
- What is this? - Hello?
- Elliot. - Hello?
No, really, what are you doing?
Trying to get us the money, Elliot.
These are pie charts and bar graphs.
- Ooh, did you make these yourself? - Hello, Mantles?
- I feel like I'm losing you. - I mean, how exactly are you planning
- on using this, you nerd? - Mantles?
- Elliot, stop it. - Oh, my God, you're still just that 14-year-old
wanking into her algebra homework.
- Uh... - That didn't happen.
- Basically, it did. - But it didn't.
But it could have.
Elliot!
♪ ♪
- [Gwen] So this is your first time up here? - Yes.
There's Gwen Andersson and her husband, Jeremy.
Pretty amazing place, right?
She runs a wellness empire.
She'll be there with a bunch of her kids.
Used to date Rebecca.
Becks and I used to date.
- Oh. - She's very into clean.
Very proper, very healthy.
Is that how you find all your board members, Rebecca,
you fuck them?
She fucking hates swearing.
Wow. Hi.
[inhales deeply] Little ears.
- Are all the blonde ones yours? - [children chattering]
[Gwen] Yep. Those four there.
Mm. What a delightful little Aryan cult.
- Elly. - [chuckles]
That is so inappropriate.
Oh, they're... very sweet.
- [chuckles softly] - Thank you.
Sure.
I try not to use that kind of language.
- Oh. - I-It just feels very disempowering.
Right.
Language is incredible, right?
We can use so many wonderful words.
Your children are bright,
uh, magnificent,
intriguing.
Do you want kids, do you think?
Um, I d... I did want them.
But, um...
I don't anymore.
Um, um, hey. Hello.
Could I get another one of the, um...
- Isn't it delicious? - [Elliot] Amazing, yeah.
Jun. The champagne of kombucha.
Oh, thanks so much for explaining.
I'm sorry, I don't think we've been...
- You're...? - The husband.
[laughs]
Her husband Jeremy is, well...
Hi, husband. [chuckles]
He's, um... He's...
an interesting guy.
Just the husband. Don't look at me. I'm not here.
He's very in touch with his...
And he's kind of...
Bare-Barely here. I'm just here to support.
He's hard to explain.
It's probably best you just see for yourselves.
Let Gwen take center stage,
step into the light.
Aw, that's-that's-that's lovely.
I'm-I'm sorry, I'm...
I feel like I'm getting z-zero buzz. What is this?
Jun. The champagne of kombucha.
Uh-huh, you said. Say more.
Instead of bleached white sugar, we ferment with honey,
creating a lighter, more delicate flavor
- made on the premises using our own bees. - [child] Mommy? Mommy!
- Yes, sweetheart? - Um, that's such a nice short story, but just so I'm clear,
are you saying that there is zero alcohol in this?
Elliot, have you met Ju Won yet?
Ju Won is on her board,
and he'll be sat to her left.
He's her favorite.
Hi.
[speaks Korean]
He's very pleased to meet you both.
Oh, great. Uh... back at you.
- He works in robotics, in, um... - Robotics.
...in VR and AR and in, like,
- you know, like, science and health care and... - [sucking]
Are you out of your depth, Joseph?
- [sucking] - He'll be there with his translator.
He's looking forward to hearing more about your proposal.
- Oh. Awesome. - Mm.
I didn't say that.
What you said was rude.
Ju Won does the most fascinating work.
[translator] VR, AR.
Oh, cool, like gaming or...?
Historically. And in the experiential.
Mm, mm, like, um, teenage boys pretending to...
[inhales sharply] ...race cars and fuck hookers.
- You cannot control yourself, can you? - [chuckling]
[speaks Korean]
[speaking Korean]
GTA?
- [speaking Korean] - [mimics gunshots]
- [laughing] - [speaks Korean]
Uh, no, it's much more nuanced and complex.
[singsongy] Here comes the science.
[Rebecca] Ju Won's company is leading
the way in therapeutic VR and AR health care, Elliot,
and he finds your pitch very fucking boring.
[laughs] Ooh, ooh, little ears immune to her "fucks" then, huh?
- [chuckles] - Well, let's be honest.
We all think your pitch is, um...
- [singsongy] ...boring. - [laughs]
And her niece...
I'm bored now.
Uh-huh.
I don't. I think it's lovely.
- Be nice. - Nice?
Like I'm nice to dogs or be nice, like, you know,
advise my beloved Aunt Rebecca to give 'em $16 million?
Her dad is the opioid guy.
Oh, yum, will there be opioids?
Best to just pretend you have no idea
that her branch of the family was responsible
for the epidemic.
Is that plausible, Joseph?
Um, best just to pretend that we're fucking thick.
Really thrilled we're paying you so much money
for all these hot takes, Joseph.
What does everyone think of the plateware, by the way?
Susan, your table-scaping is always breathtaking.
Thank you. Yeah, we-we found these on our trip to Santa Fe.
- Aren't they beautiful? - Mm. - Stunning.
Yeah, they're made by these indigenous mestizo artists.
They're... just the sweetest people.
- That's so moving. - And now
we're working with the artists to create a line at IKEA.
Yeah, except the artists
are playing surprisingly fucking hardball.
Sasha, one of her lawyers...
Oh, did she fuck her, too?
If she doesn't like it, you're fucked.
As long as we get fucked.
- [whispers] Elliot. - Elliot.
I'm bored now.
Thanks, Joseph.
Was that painting here before, Becks?
It's just beautiful.
No. It wasn't.
We just... got it back.
You're framed by labia, Rebecca.
I try. [chuckles]
- Is that for our benefit? - Literally nothing
is for your benefit, Elliot.
- [chuckling] - You are here to work.
And it's been on a little gallery tour,
and then I just felt like I wanted it back.
- Mm. - [Elliot] Is it a self-portrait?
Elliot.
It's beautiful.
- It's a compliment. - [Jeremy] Show me one
- that isn't beautiful. - [Gwen] Jeremy.
Was that misogyny?
It's Annabelle.
Scrap that. Everything's misogyny.
Annabelle is Rebecca's ex,
and now it's...
here.
It's my mom's vagina.
- Ah. - [server] Raw fermented
heirloom gazpacho with razor clam toasts.
And here we have mullet roe and squid ink
in a wilted greens broth.
- As in my other mom. - Sure.
- I'm with her during the week. - Okay.
But we all do Christmas and holidays together.
- Works for us, hey, Scout? - Uh-huh.
- That's very... - Can I get some more of the roe, please?
- Mom? - Thank you so much.
[server] Can I offer you some wine?
Oh, fuck yes.
Could you stop?
[jar lid clatters]
[plastic rustling]
♪ ♪
McKenzie, you're Rebecca's niece?
Mm-hmm.
And you're an inventor, right?
[McKenzie] Are you writing my Wikipedia page?
I-I...
[McKenzie] Did you get a little printout to help you nail
who's got the biggest shares of the company?
[Jeremy] Not me.
[Sasha] That didn't need declaring, Jeremy.
[Elliot] Who does? Who should we be working hardest?
[McKenzie] I'm not an inventor.
I invented, like, one product
and made a couple of hundred million, then everyone's like,
"Oh, she's an inventor."
But essentially I'm a biohacker.
Oh?
I guess I was supposed to follow in my dad's footsteps,
but, I don't know,
straight-up pharma is just not my shit.
Oh, right, so your-your dad's in pharma.
[McKenzie] Gross.
Are you pretending that you don't know that
my side of the family is responsible for
an opioid crisis?
I just...
I have not changed my last name or anything.
It's fine. We can acknowledge, you know.
And given you just were reeling off my biography...
No, no. I mean, sure. I mean, yes, I-I know
all about it.
I was... I was just being polite.
Yeah. Just being a liar. Right?
How do you feel about it?
Wh... How-how do I feel about...
The opioid crisis?
It was...
devastating, obviously.
[McKenzie] Sure, but are you really gonna
blame the guy who makes the gun
for every potato-shaped mistake of a human
- who blows his brains out on their front porch? - Thank you so much.
Right? I mean, it just means you made a good product.
A great product. [chuckles]
We made a good product that people want more of.
Um, we did a good job, right?
Well, that seems to be a-a wild oversimplification.
I don't know what you...
Biohacking. That's... fascinating.
How are you, Beverly?
Thank you so much. I'm fine.
Are you having a nice time?
- Mm-hmm. - Great job.
- Thanks. - [McKenzie] I'd say
I'm at the forefront.
Transhumanism.
Incorporating technology into the human body
- in the most radical way. - Right.
Gene editing, CRISPR Cas, chip insertion.
I can open my front door and monitor my glucose levels
all because of the technology I built into my body.
- That's... - Amazing.
[McKenzie] And some of it's pretty basic,
but I'd say that, generally,
my aim is to be so far ahead of the field
that the FDA doesn't have a fucking clue how to regulate
and therefore slow me down.
[speaking Korean]
[translator] That's why Ju Won is so confused about
what the hell you two are doing here.
He's asking to confirm that you are just doctors.
[staff member] Can I pour you some wine to accompany
- your main course? - Oh, no, no, thank you. I just... Ah.
I'm in the wellness industry, and our policy is
burn forests and plant trees.
Simultaneous. Get there first.
We were the first to do raw water, bloodletting.
We were the first to do floatation tanks. Trepanning.
Trepanning?
[Gwen] It's an ancient practice.
Uh, yes, I-I know what it is,
- I just, um... - [Elliot] Oh!
You have all drilled holes into your skulls.
It's so...
clarifying, Elliot.
That is just fucking nuts.
I... I love it.
♪ ♪
[siren wailing in distance]
[indistinct children's chatter]
[Rebecca] Crickets,
- cactus worms... - Beautiful.
...bison, shot by Susan.
[Susan] I do love to shoot.
[Rebecca] And horse.
- Excuse me? - [Rebecca] It was my racehorse.
Does that make it worse or better, Beverly?
[speaking Korean]
[translator] You're not a vegetarian.
No.
- [Ju Won speaking Korean] - He wasn't asking a question.
Ah.
[Ju Won continues in Korean]
[translator] Ju Won says that we all saw you rip into
that chicken thigh.
And he asks that when you think of a chicken,
do you just see an inanimate object?
Not something that eats,
shits or feels fear like you do?
[Beverly] I-I'm sorry, I just, um...
[Rebecca] He had a name.
Would you like to know it?
Oh, yes, please.
[Rebecca] That makes it more difficult for you, Beverly,
that he was loved, and now we are going to consume him.
- Oh, and this is, like, all of it, right? - Uh-huh.
So brain, heart.
- Elbows? - [Rebecca] Uh-huh.
[Susan] Oh, Maria, Maria.
Um, this is perfect. Okay, Maria,
how many months pregnant are you?
Um, almost six months.
Okay, so, Beverly, Elliot,
okay, so imagine that Maria
is a patient at the birthing center,
and she's just walked in. What do you say to her?
How are you feeling?
Fine, thank you.
Great. Well...
keep at it.
Yeah.
[awkward chuckling]
[Gwen] Wow.
♪ Running in circles ♪
♪ Coming up tails ♪
♪ Heads on a science apart ♪
♪ Nobody said ♪
♪ It was easy ♪
♪ It's such a shame for us to part ♪♪
- Very nice. - Whoo!
- Wow. - [applause]
[indistinct chatter]
- [clears throat] Hey, Beverly. - Hi.
I just, um... I noticed you had
a little...
I always carry one in case Gwen or anyone
who happens to be menstruating needs.
[door shuts]
[peacocks squawking nearby]
Beverly?
These people are insane.
I think these people are very much my people.
This is a horrible idea. I want to go home.
[chuckles] I think it's going really fucking well.
We don't need a birthing center.
I changed my fucking mind.
[Elliot] I need a research center. Are you bleeding?
It's just my period. It's-it's really early.
Oh, that's okay. Egg retrieval went well.
You're just really fucking fertile.
I feel like they all hate me, Elliot.
I mean, you feel like that because they definitely
do hate you.
But they really like me and I'm gonna get this for us.
What was on that card you were looking at?
Nothing.
Why did you say you don't want children?
What the fuck were you talking about?
[sighs]
[Susan] I won't... I won't be having any kids of my own.
Oh.
My mother died in childbirth.
Oh, God, I'm so sorry.
She's watching over me.
Um, my dad is a doctor, and he raised us.
And I have a-a chronic pain condition, allodynia.
- Do you know it? - Mm-hmm.
I-I manage it, but sometimes
I just have these awful flareups,
and just everything, everything hurts,
and I just have to stay as still as possible.
So, you know, pregnancy would be unbearable, literally.
So this is the best of both worlds, because...
yeah, Rebecca's fine with it 'cause she's done having kids.
Rebecca, she's a...
She's an admirer of the female form.
She-she ends a relationship
as soon as the baby comes out of there.
But, you know, she thinks I'm perfect.
And, you know, to be honest, I like being perfect.
[chuckles] Right?
So this is, this is just...
I love this project so much,
because then I get to be surrogate mom
to all of these babies.
[laughter]
So, I don't know,
it feels like it's, like, meant to be.
Oh, I'm-I'm fine, thank you.
Oh, okay, I'm sorry. If you change your mind...
- Thank you so much. - Ugh.
[Beverly] I truly believe that we have
something extraordinary to offer.
That we can offer a genuinely bespoke service for women.
For all women.
And that we can empower and support all women.
[Gwen] I had my first in a birthing center, Beverly.
Oh, right.
It was the worst experience of my life.
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
[Gwen] I just remember screaming.
And not good, you know, primal,
rooted-to-this-earth screaming, but...
screaming to be heard. Screaming like...
[screaming]
You know? Like, like no one was hearing me.
[screaming loudly]
- [screams] - [screams]
[Gwen] Why wasn't anyone hearing me
in this place that had been built for women to be heard?
How will you hear the screams of women?
I will listen very carefully.
From our research, from what we looked into,
the money is in infertility, right?
So are you gonna be addressing that at the center?
Are you gonna help people get pregnant in the first place?
- [Elliot] Absolutely. - [Beverly] Maybe.
That feels like such an under-researched area, no?
You could make huge strides.
I think it's an essential area
that we could really cover in a lab.
But will it just be female infertility, or...
My God, get your own lady center, jackass.
[Beverly] Well, it might be work that happens in the lab, sure,
but, um, it's not the focus.
Why is it not the focus? That sounds more interesting.
When we were trying for our third and fourth--
and let me tell you, tertiary and quaternary
infertility is very challenging--
the emphasis was always on Gwen. Egg viability,
- egg viability, egg viability, egg viability, egg viability, - Yeah.
egg viability, egg viability, egg viability, egg viability,
when really
it was my sperm that was suffering from low motility.
[laughter]
[Rebecca] Jeremy shoots blanks. That's so on brand.
Precisely.
[McKenzie] And what about the women who
don't want to have babies?
- Well, sure. - Or the ones
who are pregnant and don't want to be?
- Yeah. - [McKenzie] Wow.
You're gonna be baby killers.
- That's... - Fucking yes.
That's... no. [nervous chuckle]
[Sasha] Or menopause.
[Jeremy] Yes, precisely, the menopause.
If it were something that men had to endure,
it would have been dealt with.
It just seems it's treated
as though it's a necessary,
painful rite of passage.
Have you been through the menopause, Jeremy?
- [McKenzie] Would not be surprised. - Noted.
Any work we do, any product we push
that alleviates the pain of menopause is always
one of our bestsellers.
I'm not sure that's how we build our company,
on what's going to sell the most, particularly when
we're talking about drugging people.
Why the fuck not?
Because it's not why we do the work we do, is it?
I mean, I think it absolutely is.
[Sasha] You don't want to make money, Beverly?
I want the center to be successful,
which means profitable, yes.
That sounds a little vegetarian.
[laughs]
[Gwen] Couldn't your lab work to improve
on these menopause techniques?
[McKenzie] Yeah, but, like, it's-it's not what you know.
You know, HRT Super Max Pad With Wings.
Like, someone's already doing it, everyone else
is on it; you're behind.
So why don't you eradicate it or nuke it?
[Beverly] No, why don't we change the way
that people perceive it?
Instead of a failure or a glitch in a woman's system
that makes her unfuckable or angry or less feminine
or youthful or appealing to a male gaze,
why don't we lean into it as a necessary, natural,
radical version of womanhood?
[Rebecca] How, exactly, does that vomit-inducing idealism
translate into dollars, Beverly?
Uh, we can postpone it.
We can delay the onset of it.
It's a good example of something
that we technically know how to do, but we're limited
by law, ethics, finances,
bodies to experiment on.
Okay, so, hypothetically,
how long could you delay the onset?
Indefinitely.
And this is the point.
What the lab offers us is the opportunity
to change the way that women's health
is looked at completely.
See, what you're highlighting is that women make
the best candidates for highly bespoke medical care
from the beginning of life all the way to the end,
and then some.
If you remove ovarian tissue from a woman
when she's in her 20s,
and then reimplant at age 40, 45
- and every year thereafter... - What?
...then not only do you delay the menopause,
you have the skin, the fertility, the sex drive
of a 20-year-old.
You make it bespoke,
from embryology up to death.
Which is also something completely treatable
as opposed to an inevitability.
That's insane and a little off topic.
I mean, it's finally fucking interesting, though.
So when you say from embryology,
- you mean gene editing, IVF? - Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
It's another place in which we are held up by legalities.
If you can grow an embryo from scratch,
all the way to term, then what...
Then... whatever you fucking like, actually.
That's not... That's not possible.
Of course it's possible. It's just difficult.
[speaking Korean]
What's the current limit?
Fourteen days.
And you think you could grow one for longer?
I already have.
Uh, that-that is not what we want to be doing, though.
- Mm, but it might be. - But it's not.
- But it could be. - But it's not.
You're talking about some kind of horrific experience
that's only for incredibly wealthy and privileged women.
You couldn't fund this for everyone,
this baby-growing, life-extending,
menopause delaying... It's not feasible.
I feel like you have a problem with money.
Do you have an issue with money?
[Elliot] She's Pollyanna.
Is Pollyanna the orphan with no legs?
That was Tiny Tim, no?
Well, I think that the center
- should be accessible. - [Jeremy] Charles Dickens?
And I-I don't feel that that's a bad thing.
Is it realistic?
Why is it important that it's "accessible"?
Is that a real question?
[Rebecca] I get it.
Charity is the best. Nothing gets Susan going
like throwing a... a benefit for kids with leukemia,
but isn't that just about making you feel good?
Well, I don't do my job to feel good.
[Rebecca] Then why do you do it?
- [Beverly] To help people. - [Rebecca] But why?
Presumably, to make you feel good.
[Rebecca exhales sharply]
I feel like you're just thinking
really, really, really fucking small.
♪ ♪
[phone ringing]
- [answering machine clicks on] - [beeps]
[Linda] Hello, girls.
Just saying hello.
Hello. Hope you're both well.
Your father and I are fine.
Everything's fine, so that's very good.
- [beeps] - [call disconnects]
- [chatter over phone] - Hey.
Hey.
- I miss you. - What?
I can't hear you.
- [signal breaks up, disconnects] - Oh.
- Fuck's sake! - [alarm wailing]
[buzzer alarm continues blaring]
[Beverly cries out]
[♪ Beethoven: "Symphony Number Nine"]
[grunting, crying out]
- [Gwen] Jeremy, I fucking swear! - [groans]
[both giggling]
Hey!
Get up.
[grunting]
[shushing]
- [grunting] - It's me, it's me.
- [Gwen crying out] - [Jeremy grunting]
[laughing]
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
I've been playing this game my entire life, since...
McKenzie!
Okay, fine.
[Gwen] I am a woman!
I bore your children!
Well?
They're both brilliant, they're both liabilities.
I don't know. I... There's potential.
I, uh...
I think it could be a lot of fun.
- [Beverly] Elliot! - Shh.
Elliot!
[grunting]
- Elliot. Fucking stop it. - Shh! It's fine.
Elliot!
[indistinct chatter]
[laughter]
[Elliot] I know you're very, very cross with me.
[Beverly] I'm going to fucking kill you.
[Elliot] But I'm doing this for us.
[Beverly] You're a psychopath.
Oh, well, if I'm a psycho, you're a psycho.
- We're exactly the same. - Don't you fucking... Ow!
- We're completely different. - You have to get back to the base.
- To the bonfire. Lots of luck. - Untie me now!
- I love you. - Elliot!
[muffled grunting, laughter]
[grunting and growling]
Don't stop.
♪ ♪
[blows]
[both panting]
Tell him to take off his pants.
[speaking Korean]
[soft chuckle]
[speaking Korean]
Uh, no. You stay.
Sit there.
Uh, tell him again.
[speaking Korean]
[grunts]
[gasping]
[moans, grunts]
Don't touch it.
[Ju Won grunts]
[screams]
- [water running] - [lights humming]
[sighs]
[grunts]
Fuck's sake.
Oh, for fuck's sake.
[grunts]
[distant chatter]
Cunt.
Fucking cunt.
Fucking...
[indistinct chatter in distance]
[indistinct chatter, laughter]
[McKenzie] Do that tacky dance, bitch!
[indistinct chatter continues]
We have our winners
and our losers. [laughs]
The Mantles have played the game.
- [cheering, applause] - [Elliot] Baby sister.
- No. - [Elliot] Let me get you a towel.
- Uh, we can run you a bath. - Fuck you.
- [laughs]
- And fuck you all. - [Gwen] Wow.
- No, you are awful people. - [Elliot] Beverly?
No, categorically, the worst people.
Like, like, like,
the humanity has literally been
fucked out of you over the generations,
like, you have retained a-a face
and a, and a cunt and fingers,
but you do not resemble humankind in any
- other sense of the word. - Um, okay.
[Beverly] I assume,
I hope and pray
that you weren't planning on giving us any fucking money
for our shitty little birthing center. [laughs]
But, um, just in case you were, let me get in there first,
pretend to look at the paperwork.
Oh, thank you so much for the opportunity.
Congratulations on all your vagina art and your
horrible, talentless children
and your fucking opioids,
but, uh, no, thanks,
fuck you, and shove it.
- Beverly. - [Gwen] Oh, my God.
Who the fuck does she think she is?
- [gasps] - [laughter]
[sniffling]
I-I do want this.
I did not catch that.
[inhales deeply, exhales]
I do want this.
I'll give you the money and then some.
Flagship birthing and research center
in Manhattan. Her in the lab, you delivering the babies.
Birthing centers all over
the country. Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. We go fast.
I pump in the money, you fuck it back out again.
I am not altruistic.
I am not in the business of fucking morality.
We make fast, hard, big, motherfucking scary cash.
You have 24 hours to make a decision,
and if you decide to walk away,
I never want to see either one of your identical faces
ever a-fucking-gain.
[overlapping chatter]
[birds singing]
[chatter fades away]
How was your night?
You're the one who wants out. You tell her.
You want it.
You don't.
Gwen asked if you wanted children,
and you said, "Not anymore."
[breathes deeply]
Is it serious? W-With the actress?
Hi, Rebecca?
We'd like to accept your very generous offer.
If you're still willing. Thank you.
[exhales]
[doorman] Ms. Mantle.
[Beverly] Thank you.
[doorman] You're welcome.
♪ ♪
[tape rewinds]
[Linda over recording] Hey, it's Mum.
[tape player clicks]
- [tape rewinds] - [tape player clicks]
[Linda over recording] Mum here. Did you get my call?
- [tape player clicks] - [tape rewinds]
[tape player clicks]
[Linda over recording] Hello, girlies. It's your mum.
- [tape player clicks] - [tape rewinds]
[tape player clicks]
[Linda over recording] Please call me.
- Your mum misses you. - [tape player clicks]
[tape rewinds]
[Linda over recording] Your mum misses you.
- [tape player clicks] - [tape rewinds]
[Linda over recording] Your mum misses you.
[tape player clicks]
- I've met someone. - [group murmurs]
And I-I really like her.
[Beverly breathes deeply]
Elliot, my-my sister, wouldn't have liked her. [chuckles]
[sighs] She wouldn't have liked anyone I was...
serious about.
Even, uh, teenage crushes were fine,
as long as they were crushes.
Anything more and, um...
Honestly, I feel...
...a little guilty that I'm relieved
that I don't have to deal with that.
I can just enjoy being in this relationship
with this woman who's, uh,
she's passionate and
clever and healthy and good and she just...
she has her shit together. [laughs]
And, um...
Elliot's not here to fuck it up.
[laughter]
Is that awful?
[man] No.
I think we all recognize that feeling, Beverly.
It's healthy not to remember our loved ones
just as good, holy people who never did anything wrong.
- They were human. - Yeah.
[man] Fallible,
- complicated. - [soft chuckle]
[man] We don't have to miss every aspect of them.
[sighs]
No, I don't.
I really don't.
- [chuckles] - [man laughs]
[exhales]
[♪ Soft Cell: "Tainted Love"]
♪ ♪
♪ Sometimes I feel ♪
♪ I've got to run away ♪
♪ I've got to get away ♪
♪ From the pain you drive into the heart of me ♪
♪ The love we share ♪
♪ Seems to go nowhere ♪
♪ And I've lost my life ♪
♪ For I toss and turn, I can't sleep at night ♪
- ♪ Once I ran to you ♪ - ♪ I ran ♪
♪ Now I run from you ♪
♪ This tainted love you've given ♪
♪ I give you all a boy could give you ♪
♪ Take my tears, and that's not nearly all ♪
- ♪ Tainted love ♪ - ♪ Oh ♪
♪ Tainted love ♪
♪ Now, I know I've got to run away ♪
♪ I've got to get away ♪
♪ You don't really want any more from me ♪
♪ To make things right, you need someone ♪
♪ To hold you tight ♪
♪ And you think love is to pray ♪
♪ But I'm sorry, I don't pray that way ♪
- ♪ Once I ran to you ♪ - ♪ I ran ♪
♪ Now I run from you ♪
♪ This tainted love you've given ♪
♪ I give you all a boy could give you ♪
♪ Take my tears, and that's not nearly all ♪
- ♪ Tainted love ♪ - ♪ Oh ♪
♪ Tainted love ♪
♪ Don't touch me, please ♪
♪ I cannot stand the way you tease ♪
♪ I love you, though you hurt me so ♪
♪ Now, I'm gonna pack my things and go ♪
- ♪ Tainted love ♪ - ♪ Oh ♪
♪ Tainted love ♪
♪ Oh ♪
- ♪ Tainted love ♪ - ♪ Oh ♪
♪ Tainted love ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Touch me, baby, tainted love ♪
- ♪ Tainted love ♪ - ♪ Oh ♪
♪ Tainted love ♪
- ♪ Oh ♪ - ♪ Tainted love ♪♪
♪ ♪