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[low frequency sound raises in pitch]

[Brick sound distorting]

[File sound distorting]

[Distortion becomes high frequency noise]

[Plays tune with frequency noises]

[Tune continues]

[Turns engine off, music stops]

[Car door squeaks]

[low humming noise]

[Humming noise becomes a tune]

[Tune continues]

[Water babbling]

[Noises and tunes running together]

[Noises and tunes become hollow and fade]

[Machine whirring loudly]

[Faucet running]

[Water babbling]

[Material scratching]

[Machine whirring]

[Plays tune]

[Tune continues]

[Machine stalls and squeaks]

[Copy machine runs]

[Sewing machine buzzing]

[Tune plays in headphones]

[Box cutter clicks]

[Click, all sounds stop]

[Pigs oinking and squealing]

[Police siren]

Does your wife take any medications?

No.

Does she have any health problems?

Asthma.

[Sirens]

[Heart monitor beeping]

[Pigs snorting, oinking]

Just want to say that I hope today's better.

I made a list of the things

I want to try harder at.

I love you.

Those are just words,

they don't fix anything Jill.

[Clicking]

It's not a short I'm going to

the store to get some more.

Wait a second.

I'm on the way out the door.

I just want to tell you

I hope today is better.

And that I love you.

Damn it Jill those are just,

those are words.

They don't mean anything.

[Door closes]

[Man] Not now Jillian.

[Jill]

I want this to be a good day.

Just leave me alone.

I love you.

I think you were right

about a lot of things.

I love you.

I want today to be peaceful.

Damn it Jill, this is worthless.

[Jill] Ben.

[Ben] Now you want to talk?

I'm way out the door Jill.

I just want to say that...

...I hope today is better.

And that I love you.

I want to believe you.

Hey, while I'm at it

I'll pick up that filter.

Is it alright that I have that there?

You going to fall down

if you don't have it there?

Yeah, maybe.

See this woman here with the knitting?

She's a, she's a former Senator, right?

Like a Nobel winner, but

her category is mittens.

So she, she rides... what?

You lost me.

Just got a little too...

Little?

[Kris Little cute, yeah.

[Jeff] I don't know.

What do you have in mind?

[Kris]

Alright, how about that guy?

[Jeff] Tell me about him.

[Kris] He's divorced.

Yeah, yep.

Because she cheated.

No?

No. Oh, he did.

He cheated.

No. What was it?

Alcoholic.

Some substance of some kind.

The illegal kind.

[Kris]

I would think that there's some marriages

that could survive

something like that maybe.

Maybe, but...

Not yours?

Not ours, no.

From her perspective.

I mean everything just flipped, you know.

The guy she thought she married

turned out to be somebody else,

a junkie, and uh...

all the savings, all

the plans, everything resets.

The lights turn on,

and I'm holed up in some hotel across town.

I have to open the store tomorrow.

Not that early, I bet.

No, I'm lucky to have that job.

The sign store job you're lucky to have it?

It's not my fault when it goes wrong.

Yes it is.

[Pigs squealing]

Why do you live in hotels?

I do the books for a group

that owns a few of them.

So it's sort of... a perk.

Right, but why do you choose...

I am starving...

Are you hungry?

You've got to be right?

[Kris] It always just reminds

me of family vacations.

Maybe because of the smell of chlorine

and bleach in the sheets,

the glasses wrapped in plastic.

Yeah...

We would go to this...

there's this place in Vermont

that we would go when we were kids.

It's like a colonial...

In Vermont?

Yeah.

It was historic and there was museums,

but the thing that stood out for

us was that they...

we would stay at this hotel

with an indoor pool,

and it was just the biggest

deal in the world for us.

Because one, it's indoor...

Two, you can swim... What's

going on with you?

What are you thinking?

Is it good?

No.

[shower running]

You have a message.

Are you going?

To the banquet?

I mean it's going to be work, you know.

It's people from work.

For three hours.

I thought we could go...

...if you want.

You want to?

I'm sorry.

I like you so much.

I do. I like you so much.

I have...

You are kidding right?

I have been really careful

not to lie about something.

And through omission,

I may have given you an impression

that isn't quite real.

I work here.

I work on 29th C&L Crowne.

I'm not an advisor.

I don't broker.

I do interdepartmental reports,

okay, I don't have an office.

I work in common space, I work with interns.

Greg pays me in cash to

keep me off their books

because if there is ever

an audit, I am a liability.

I stole money, Kris.

Shifted it from account to account,

until I could grab it.

Right, because if you...

I lost my broker's license...

and they covered for me.

But if I was anybody else

I would be in prison.

So I am lucky to have this job.

When you walk into that hotel...

you're going to know.

When you walk into that

banquet, you're going to know.

Because everybody there knows.

And they look at me in a certain way,

and they talk to me in a certain way.

In a way that you don't look at me yet.

That was smart.

To wait to tell me.

I'm sorry.

Think you might be using that wrong.

[Kris] Which direction is this?

Is that east?

You can see the whole city from up here.

I think I might be pregnant.

Won't let anyone near them.

They just crowd back in the corner.

Violent.

Oh yes, she's got a litter on the way.

They can get very protective.

Never seen the parents behave so.

Just never had them break my damn fence.

There's a fellow down the

road buys them from me.

Well, if you need another buyer,

I know some petting farms.

They'd love to have some piglets.

Okay, sure, sure, thanks so much.

First off, you're not pregnant.

No, I did a test. I am.

The HCG in your blood tells us you're not.

And that's more definitive.

Okay.

Now, you didn't list it in your

questionnaire, but...

have you had any surgical

procedures in your pelvic area?

Maybe a cyst was removed or a biopsy?

[Music]

I'd say post cancer.

This is where they removed

the tumor, this cavity.

She says no.

No what?

Someone was in there.

Trauma here, and...

How are you supposed to

help someone like that?

By all appearances you're a survivor

of stage three endometrial cancer.

The good news is that there isn't any sign

of any remaining carcinoma.

Lab shows that you're

in no immediate danger.

The trauma it left behind is significant.

Well, I'm saying two things.

It is highly unlikely given

the state of the organs

that you could ever become pregnant.

If by some miracle you were to conceive,

the faculties are too damaged

to carry a baby full term.

[Silence]

Wait, wait, wait.

Pull over here.

Krissy?

Krissy? Krissy!

Where'd you go?

Something happened to me...

I was looking for you!

Something bad happened to me.

I know that, I don't care.

No you don't know!

I don't even know what happened.

I can't see my niece and nephews and...

Kris, why?

Why? What are you talking about?

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