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Not sorry I tried.

How's that feel?

Really good.

Seems like it.

Well, we should actually

probably get back to work.

- Sorry.

- No...

Sorry. That was just sudden.

It looked like an attack.

- No, I was trying...

- Right...

[INHALES]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

[WATER RUNNING]

[WATER TURNS OFF]

[WATER DRIPPING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC OVER TV]

Come here.

Why do you do this to me,

Frank?

- AMANDA:
Yikes.

- LILY:
What?

AMANDA:
That's the worst

fake crying I've ever seen.

Do you have to go?

I have to go, Paula. I know...

- LILY:
She's...

- All right, go...

- AMANDA:
Trying.

- Go anywhere you like.

You can go to blazes

for all I care.

Paula.

Paula.

- AMANDA:
Look, that's better.

- Yes, I know I'm...

- I'm being foolish.

- LILY:
Actually,

that might not even be fake.

AMANDA:
It is.

LILY:
No, look,

those are real tears.

She's just using The Technique.

The what?

FRANK [OVER TV]:

Come on, fix your face.

We'll go down to Eddie's

and have a drink.

I mean, maybe she actually

fell in love with the actor.

And they're f***ing

between takes, and...

it's the last week of shooting,

so she knows

she has to return home

to her loveless

1940s marriage, and...

[CRYING]

The Technique.

Holy sh*t.

AMANDA:
Yeah.

You can just...

do that on cue?

Years of practice.

Can you teach me?

So you basically

have to learn

all the automatic,

like, processes

that get triggered when you cry,

and then sort of manually

generate each one.

It feeds back to the brain,

and then the tears

just come naturally.

You finished boarding school

by March.

Don't act like

this is confusing.

Okay.

Where does it start?

AMANDA:
Right here.

Tiny gulps of air.

[HEAVY BREATHING]

It's like

you're choking yourself...

from the inside.

[HEAVY BREATHING]

- LILY:
Is it working?

- AMANDA:
No.

MARK:
[CLEARS THROAT]

- LILY:
Hi, Mark.

- AMANDA:
Hi, Mark.

Where's your mother?

Some work-party thing.

What work-party thing?

I don't know.

Some work-party thing.

I didn't know your mom worked.

Come talk to me upstairs,

please.

Okay.

After the next commercial break.

- Now.

- I don't wanna leave

- Amanda alone.

- Amanda will be fine here alone.

I'm quite afraid of the dark.

How long are you here, Amanda?

My mom's gonna pick me up

around midnight.

Hmm.

Midnight's late for us.

Lily can give you

a ride home now.

Two teens in one car,

at night?

That's an accident

waiting to happen.

Yeah. I mean, we're always

turning up the radio

- super loud...

- Texting while driving.

I'll call your mom.

She can come pick you up now.

- She's busy.

- Doing what?

Chemotherapy.

[SWALLOWS]

'Night.

LILY:
[SCOFFS]

[SIGHS]

You ever talk to your mom?

- About what?

- Him.

What would I even say?

The way he makes you feel.

You'd think that

would matter to her?

- You'd think...

- [DOOR CLOSES]

Just grabbin' my juice.

His juice?

It's a cleanse.

Three weeks out of the month

he pounds steak,

and the last week

he juices exclusively.

- Is that healthy?

- I think

you're only supposed to do it

once a year.

Hopefully, one of these days

he'll just...

juice himself to death.

[ERGOMETER STARTING]

What's that?

The ergometer.

The what?

The ergometer.

It's like a rowing machine.

[SIGHS]

He's on that thing at all hours.

I think

it's a deliberate effort

to make me lose my f***ing mind.

PAULA [OVER TV]:

Tell me, Frank, what is it?

Give me a chance to fight back.

Just give me a chance.

LILY:
[SIGHS]

Come on.

Let's go steal

some of his wine.

You ever think about

just killing him?

I mean, no.

You could at least

consider it.

- No.

- Just weigh the pros and cons.

- LILY:
No.

- Why don't you consider

all options?

LILY:
Yeah. Not,

like, murder.

Yeah, sure it's outside the box,

but you can only get so far

thinking how

everyone else thinks.

Look at Steve Jobs.

- LILY:
What?

- I'm just going off

what you're giving me.

It's a cost-benefit analysis.

It seems like you could generate

a lot of benefit

for a lot of people.

Except I'd spend the rest

of my life in jail.

AMANDA:
Why are you assuming

you'd get caught?

I should not have

to explain this.

AMANDA:
Probably what

people said to Columbus

when he was like,

"I think the world is round,

instead of flat and

surrounded by dragons."

They were like, "No, dumbass,

we shouldn't have

to explain this."

It's probably what people said

to Steve Jobs when he was like,

"This MP3 player

is also a phone."

Okay, can we please

stop talking about Steve Jobs?

Steve Jobs never f***ing

murdered someone.

I think most of this

country's moral norms

comes from weird

old Puritan bullshit.

A human life

isn't some sacred thing.

There's nothing holy

about a dick and a vaj

getting together and

spitting out a little dude.

If that dude causes

more bad than good,

then he's like a, you know...

a piece of malfunctioning

machinery.

A lame horse.

Right.

Should be taken out back

and put down.

- See? You get it.

- You know what you sound like?

- What?

- A Nazi.

I had to leave school

before we did World War II

but I think it was about race,

with them?

I think you should leave.

- Why?

- I just...

think you should.

- I don't get it.

- You don't have to.

You're sure?

Okay.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER TV]

MAN [OVER TV]:
Nice and slow.

That's the way

I wanna see you go, Bigelow,

nice and slow.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

[ERGOMETER WHIRRING]

[KEYBOARD TYPING]

[DIALING]

[PHONE RINGING]

WOMAN [OVER PHONE]:

Anticline Capital Partners.

Hey, how's it going?

WOMAN [OVER PHONE]:

It's going fine, ma'am.

How can I help you?

Yeah, I'm just calling

about your, um,

your internship program.

WOMAN [OVER PHONE]:

To my knowledge, we don't have

an internship program.

What about Lily?

WOMAN [OVER PHONE]:

What about who?

[PHONE RINGING]

MAN [OVER PHONE]: Front desk.

Hi, this is Andover?

MAN [OVER PHONE]:

Uh, yes, how can I help you?

AMANDA:
This is Rhonda

with Edible Arrangements.

We just had an issue

with a delivery,

and wanted to confirm

a student mailing address.

MAN [OVER PHONE]: All right.

You do have a "Lily Reynolds"

at the school?

[TYPING OVER PHONE]

Would you like me

to repeat the question?

MAN [OVER PHONE]:

That student is actually...

Hold on one minute. I'm going

to transfer your call.

Okay.

MAN [OVER PHONE]: Ma'am,

what did you say your name was?

Ma'am?

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]

LILY:
Mom?

MARK:
Lily.

Don't yell...

in the house.

LILY:
Sorry.

Where's Mom?

Oh, hi.

What is this?

Oh, Mark put it in on Wednesday.

LILY:
I need your car keys.

Sure. They're in my jeans.

Which are somewhere.

Oh, by the way, I booked us

a spa trip in two weeks.

I hope you'll join me.

How long have you been in here?

Um, not long.

Mark likes it

when I have a little color.

LILY:
I'm going out.

[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]

MAN:
...she turns out

to be this crazy person

and it's just f***ing like...

How could you do that?

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