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He's just watching porn.

Okay.

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

What are you... What are you doing?

Come on.

Play something.

Hey.

I need help with the baby.

Look, I just need you to bathe him for me.

I have to go lie down.

Okay.

Make sure you clean the sink

before you put him in, okay?

Wait. I don't put the baby

in the sink full of dirty dishes?

Shut up.

I'm gonna put you right here.

Right there.

Look at that.

You ready for your bath?

I found Tanner's blankie.

It was in the guest room.

Hey, buddy.

Look what I found in the guest room.

I found your blankie.

Yeah.

Yeah, do you like that?

God, what is the matter with you?

God!

Did you not think to check the water?

I did check it, when I was filling it up.

Oh, my God.

If I hadn't come in here...

I can't even leave

the baby alone with you for one minute.

I can't do everything myself.

No, just go. I've got it. Don't even.

What are you doing on the floor?

Hey.

You're getting heavy.

It's their lunch break.

Let's see if we can get

some sleep for an hour.

Penny?

Penny?

Hey.

What happened?

Here. Let me take him.

Come on.

Come on. Come on. You're freakin' me out.

- No.

- Penny.

- I'm fine.

- Hey, hey.

- I'm okay. I'm okay.

- Talk to me.

What just happened in there?

Don't yell at me, all right?

I'm tired and I'm... I'm scared.

What are you scared of?

I saw...

What?

Somebody in the house.

It was through the mirror.

She ran by and then she was gone.

I don't know. Maybe I was asleep.

I can't even see straight anymore.

I'm losing it, too.

They say people start to hallucinate.

It's a fact.

I googled it.

I don't know if I can

stand much more of this.

I need to sleep.

I mean, how long has it been?

Five days?

Something like that.

I've lost track.

It'll get better.

I promise.

Get out!

Penny?

Penny.

Penny.

Wake up.

God! What?

What's going on?

You okay?

Yeah.

I just had a really weird dream.

At least you're sleeping.

Can you turn out the light?

Oh, God.

I can handle it.

I can handle it.

I know we haven't known each other,

just maybe a few months now,

but normally I'm not a train wreck.

You know, I'm actually really fun.

Like, not like party girl fun, but fun.

Damn it!

Pretend you didn't see that.

If daddy sells one of his demos...

He'll pay for therapy.

For both of us.

Hey, Alex. It's Michael. Friday.

I left a message

for you the other day.

How's the house?

All that peace and quiet

driving you crazy yet?

Johanna and I would love to come down

and check the place out.

I'm sure you're ready to get drunk

and admit that you screwed up.

Because you know

you screwed up, right?

Big time. What were you thinking?

This is your life now.

Your whole entire life

is nothing but that house.

You haven't written a demo,

not one verse, not one note

of music the whole time

you've been here.

You just stagger around like a zombie,

having nightmares about a woman,

because she told you

she saw a woman in the house.

She put it in your head

and now look at you.

Is that what you wanted?

What the hell are you doing?

Did you not see

Tanner sitting here right in front of you?

Why did you leave him

at the top of the stairs?

I didn't put him there!

You're telling me that you didn't

put him in the wagon and

set him right there?

Yes, I put him in the wagon,

but I had him in the nursery.

You just said you didn't put him in there.

Did you or did you not...

I didn't put him

at the top of the stairs, Alex!

Okay. You have got to

manage this situation better, all right?

I did not put him at

the top of the stairs, Alex!

You just said you put him in the wagon!

I didn't.

You're walking around in a complete stupor!

- Okay, I gotta get outta here.

- It was probably you!

I'm gonna go to the store.

Sweetie, put some shoes on.

What's wrong?

Nothing. I...

Are you sure you're okay to drive?

I just drifted off for a second.

You forgot the list.

I talked to Dr. Gordon.

He said try gripe water.

He may be having gas at night.

Gripe water.

All right.

Are you sure you're okay to leave?

I'm fine.

I'm fine.

Okay.

Don't be gone long.

Thank you.

Whoa!

For a second there,

I thought you were the Grim Reaper.

I'm too young to die!

So I would normally

never ask a customer this,

but are you okay?

Yeah.

I'm hangin' in there, I suppose.

New baby?

Five months old.

Doesn't sleep?

Not when he's supposed to.

He's got it all upside-down.

They got a term for it.

It's called daylnight confusion.

That'd be a really good name for a band.

What?

You like babies?

I wouldn't choose to, like,

hang out with one,

but I know sometimes it can't be helped.

Are you asking me if I'll babysit for you?

Yeah.

Yeah. Yes.

- Does your TV work?

- You'll do it?

You didn't answer

my question about the TV.

Okay, all right, look,

our cable doesn't work.

But our DVD player works great.

Okay, okay. Take it easy.

Okay, so you'll do it?

I mean, we just need someone to...

Who will stay the night with the baby.

That, I mean, that's it.

- Okay.

- I can trust you?

You can totally trust me.

Like, I'm not

gonna touch your liquor cabinet.

I had one too many wine coolers once

when I was 14,

so I don't touch the stuff.

Smart girl.

Yeah.

So, I normally would ask 10 an hour,

but since I'm gonna be

doing this overnight...

Whatever you want. I mean... Here.

Okay.

Yeah, you just gave me a hundred, so...

Hi.

So I have a baby brother and a baby sister.

And my older sister has a baby.

And my older brother has a baby.

You wanna hear about my cousins?

No, that's... No, that's good.

Nice place.

So, if he sleeps,

then you can bring him upstairs to his crib.

But what's been happening

since we moved in here

is he wakes up every 15 minutes.

If that's the case, I would

just keep him down here.

You know you don't

put him to sleep on his belly, right?

Yeah, of course.

And if he...

If he's sleepin' and you get tired, you know,

you can just crash out on the couch.

Or we have Coke in the fridge.

Or coffee. We have a coffee maker.

No, I don't do caffeine.

Really?

She doesn't drink either.

And no red meat.

If that matters.

Well, that's actually kind of cool.

But really, I don't want

you to worry about me.

Or the baby, of course.

I slept all day.

So this is not gonna be a problem for me

to make it through the night.

But you know what I can't do?

I can't carry both of you guys upstairs.

So, y'all might want to be

thinking about bed, huh?

Yeah. Yeah.

You guys need one of those, like,

electric chairs

that carries you up and down the stairs.

What?

Nothing.

Never mind.

Electric chair.

I think she was making a joke.

Thank you for this.

You were right.

I love hearing you say I'm right.

Get some sleep.

You don't think there's something

wrong with this place, do you?

I think one good night's sleep

and all this sh*t's gonna go away.

Okay?

Yeah.

Hal?

We're doing good down here.

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