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1 00:00:22 What I love about Nicole...
2 00:00:24 she makes people feel comfortable about even embarrassing things.
3 00:00:29 Hey, you look like you care about animals.
4 00:00:31 Yes, I do.
5 00:00:32 She really listens when someone is talking.
6 00:00:33 - Do you want to sign up here? - You know what? I...
7 00:00:36 It's funny, I actually signed up for this
8 00:00:38 but I never heard from you guys.
9 00:00:39 Sometimes she listens too much for too long.
10 00:00:42 Okay, if you email me here...
11 00:00:43 Thank you so much. Have a good day. Good luck.
12 00:00:46 She's a good citizen.
13 00:00:48 - Just call him. - I'm not calling.
14 00:00:50 She always knows the right thing to do
15 00:00:51 when it comes to difficult family shit.
16 00:00:54 Call him.
17 00:00:58 I get stuck in my ways,
18 00:01:00 and she knows when to push me and when to leave me alone.
19 00:01:07 She cuts all our hair.
20 00:01:20 She's always inexplicably
21 00:01:22 brewing a cup of tea that she doesn't drink.
22 00:01:29 And it's not easy for her to put away a sock, or close a cabinet,
23 00:01:32 or do a dish, but she tries for me.
24 00:01:36 Nicole grew up in LA around actors,
25 00:01:38 and directors, and movies, and TV,
26 00:01:41 and is very close to her mother, Sandra,
27 00:01:43 and Cassie, her sister.
28 00:01:46 Note the wrapping.
29 00:02:00 Nicole gives great presents.
30 00:02:07 She is a mother who plays, really plays.
31 00:02:09 - Lizard? - Yeah.
32 00:02:11 She never steps off playing or says it's too much.
33 00:02:15 - Mom. - And it must be too much some of the time.
34 00:02:20 "...chopped down a Christmas tree..."
35 00:02:22 All right.
36 00:02:24 Nice. Two, three, four... What?
37 00:02:27 Are you kidding me? I was just in jail!
38 00:02:29 Goddamn it!
39 00:02:30 - Do not laugh at me! Stop it! - She's competitive.
40 00:02:34 She's amazing at opening jars because of her strong arms,
41 00:02:38 which I've always found very sexy.
42 00:02:40 She keeps the fridge over-full.
43 00:02:42 No one is ever hungry in our house.
44 00:02:45 She can drive a stick.
45 00:02:50 How could you?
46 00:02:51 After that movie, All Over The Girl,
47 00:02:53 she could have stayed in LA and been a movie star,
48 00:02:55 but she gave that up to do theater with me in New York.
49 00:02:59 You might as well get what you paid for.
50 00:03:02 She's brave.
51 00:03:06 She's a great dancer.
52 00:03:07 Infectious. She makes me wish I could dance.
53 00:03:11 She always says when she doesn't know something,
54 00:03:13 or hasn't read a book, or seen a film or a play,
55 00:03:16 whereas I fake it or say something
56 00:03:17 like I haven't seen it in awhile.
57 00:03:22 My crazy ideas are her favorite things
58 00:03:24 to figure out how to execute.
59 00:03:31 Let's try it...
60 00:03:35 crawling...
61 00:03:38 but also standing.
62 00:03:41 She's my favorite actress.
63 00:03:45 What I love about Charlie...
64 00:03:47 Charlie is undaunted.
65 00:03:51 He never lets other people's opinions or any setbacks
66 00:03:54 keep him from what he wants to do.
67 00:03:57 And he liked me, so...
68 00:03:59 Charlie eats like he's trying to get it over with
69 00:04:02 and like there won't be enough food for everyone.
70 00:04:04 A sandwich is to be strangled while devoured.
71 00:04:08 Is your sweater on backwards?
72 00:04:10 But he's incredibly neat,
73 00:04:11 and I rely on him to keep things in order.
74 00:04:16 So...
75 00:04:18 He's energy-conscious.
76 00:04:24 Sorry.
77 00:04:25 He doesn't look in the mirror too often.
78 00:04:27 I cried four times.
79 00:04:29 Me too.
80 00:04:30 He cries easily in movies.
81 00:04:32 I wonder if it was the same four.
82 00:04:34 He's very self-sufficient. He can darn a sock,
83 00:04:37 and cook himself dinner, and iron a shirt.
84 00:04:41 How are we doing over here?
85 00:04:43 The peppers are cut.
86 00:04:44 He rarely gets defeated, which...
87 00:04:47 I feel like I always do.
88 00:04:48 I've got some carrots.
89 00:04:51 Charlie takes all of my moods steadily.
90 00:04:53 He doesn't give in to them or make me feel bad about them.
91 00:04:57 He's a great dresser.
92 00:04:58 He never looks embarrassing, which is hard for a man.
93 00:05:02 Goddamn it, Charlie, get it together!
94 00:05:04 He's very competitive.
95 00:05:06 Come on!
96 00:05:08 - What's this? Who owns Baltic Avenue? - Me.
97 00:05:10 How much is it?
98 00:05:11 - I don't have enough. - $450.
99 00:05:13 Okay, so I'm done? I'm done, right? That's it?
100 00:05:17 This is so frustrating!
101 00:05:19 This is so frustrating. I always lose.
102 00:05:23 - Dad. - He loves being a dad.
103 00:05:24 He loves all the things you're supposed to hate,
104 00:05:26 like the tantrums, the waking up at night.
105 00:05:30 I had a bad dream.
106 00:05:34 It's okay.
107 00:05:39 It's almost annoying how much he likes it,
108 00:05:41 but... then, it's mostly nice.
109 00:05:43 Dad, stay.
110 00:06:14 He disappears into his own world.
111 00:06:17 Shit.
112 00:06:18 - What's "shit?" - This is our stop.
113 00:06:20 He and Henry are alike in that way.
114 00:06:24 He can tell people when they have food
115 00:06:26 in their teeth or on their face
116 00:06:28 in a way that doesn't make them feel bad.
117 00:06:31 Are you good?
118 00:06:31 Perfect.
119 00:06:32 Charlie is self-made.
120 00:06:34 His parents...
121 00:06:36 I only met them once, but...
122 00:06:38 he told me there was a lot of alcohol
123 00:06:40 and some violence in his childhood.
124 00:06:43 As soon as she comes with a lookout,
125 00:06:45 they're coming with a camcorder.
126 00:06:46 Camcorder. Is that what they're called?
127 00:06:47 He moved to New York from Indiana with no safety net,
128 00:06:51 and now he's more New Yorker than any New Yorker.
129 00:06:53 - I made sure they used the right almond milk. - Genius.
130 00:06:55 He's brilliant at creating family out of whoever is around.
131 00:07:01 With the theater company, he cast a spell
132 00:07:03 that made everyone feel included.
133 00:07:06 No one, not even an intern, was unimportant.
134 00:07:08 He could remember all the inside jokes.
135 00:07:10 And where do you go when it's windy?
136 00:07:13 Oh, yeah, that... that was funny.
137 00:07:19 He's extremely organized and thorough.
138 00:07:23 He's very clear about what he wants,
139 00:07:25 unlike me, who can't always tell.
140 00:07:28 Let's stop right there.
141 00:07:50 Who wants to start?
142 00:07:59 I-I'm not going to read this out loud.
143 00:08:03 Why is that?
144 00:08:05 Because I don't like what I wrote.
145 00:08:08 As we mediate your separation
146 00:08:11 and eventual divorce,
147 00:08:14 things can get quite contentious.
148 00:08:17 So, I like to begin with a note of positivity,
149 00:08:21 for the people I work with to remember
150 00:08:23 why they got married in the first place.
151 00:08:25 And so that, as you come apart,
152 00:08:28 you're reminded that...
153 00:08:31 this is a person you had great feeling for,
154 00:08:34 and maybe still do in many ways.
155 00:08:40 I'll read mine. I like what I wrote.
156 00:08:44 For it to really work,
157 00:08:45 you both have to read.
158 00:08:47 I'm not going to.
159 00:08:49 Okay, um...
160 00:08:51 I just think it's a shame
161 00:08:52 that you guys aren't going to get to hear,
162 00:08:55 uh, the wonderful things you wrote about each other.
163 00:08:58 She always says I can't write, but I think mine's pretty good.
164 00:09:00 Nicole, maybe you'd change your mind once you heard Charlie's.
165 00:09:03 I don't want to hear Charlie's.
166 00:09:04 We promised to listen.
167 00:09:06 That's right.
168 00:09:08 That's the very first step in this process.
169 00:09:12 Well, I think I'm going to go
170 00:09:13 if you two are going to just sit around and
171 00:09:16 suck each other's dicks.
172 00:09:23 How can this evil allow moderation?
173 00:09:26 How can this evil allow moderation?
174 00:09:29 How can it be right to betray the departed?
175 00:09:32 How is it human to be so...
176 00:09:35 faithless?
177 00:09:38 I want no praise from impious men.
178 00:09:41 No home with them of quiet ease.
179 00:09:45 Noble blood still runs in my veins.
180 00:09:48 Shall I fail my father...
181 00:09:50 stifling my cries,
182 00:09:52 clipping the wings of grief?
183 00:09:55 Must his corpse in the ground wretchedly waste away,
184 00:09:59 feebly count for nothing?
185 00:10:00 Must his killers gloat...
186 00:10:02 Must his killers gloat,
187 00:10:04 never to pay with blood, for blood...
188 00:10:07 Charlie gave me the note, but it's really for you.
189 00:10:10 - He told me to pick up my cues. - How is that for me?
190 00:10:13 Acting is reacting.
191 00:10:14 I'm responding to you. You're slowing me down.
192 00:10:17 Frank, it's closing night, you know.
193 00:10:20 You don't think Charlie and Nicole will ever get back together?
194 00:10:22 No, I think this time it's really over.
195 00:10:26 It still feels weird. I feel like my parents are splitting up.
196 00:10:29 It's always been "Charlie and Nicole."
197 00:10:31 - Is Charlie still giving notes? - Yep.
198 00:10:32 You're lucky, Nic. I wish I was going to LA.
199 00:10:34 You can actually have space in LA. There's no space here.
200 00:10:39 Ladies and gentlemen,
201 00:10:41 I want to make a toast
202 00:10:42 to Charlie...
203 00:10:45 and to our beloved Nicole,
204 00:10:47 who is going to be going out on a new adventure,
205 00:10:52 all the way to sunny California.
206 00:10:55 And we are also going to try something new.
207 00:10:58 We are going to take our play to Broadway.
208 00:11:05 It reminds me of when I was a young person
209 00:11:07 and went to Broadway for the first time.
210 00:11:10 And I'm telling you,
211 00:11:11 winning your first Tony at 27,
212 00:11:14 it can mess with your head.
213 00:11:17 I mean, I was just a baby.
214 00:11:19 Elia Kazan was backstage...
215 00:11:20 I'm going to go over there now.
216 00:11:22 - Don't do it. Mary Ann? - elbowing Mike Nichols.
217 00:11:25 And Mike was chatting with Dietrich,
218 00:11:27 and Marlene, you know, she usually was a barrel of monkeys,
219 00:11:31 but tonight she was very, very serious.
220 00:11:36 Could you give me a second?
221 00:11:59 Well, I'd have to study it, but...
222 00:12:03 I didn't expect you guys home until late.
223 00:12:06 - How's he doing? - Good, good. He went to bed on time.
224 00:12:08 No fuss.
225 00:12:09 Read him some of Cricket in Times Square.
226 00:12:12 God, you guys are so attractive.
227 00:12:16 Shit. Sorry, I didn't stop that from being said.
228 00:12:19 No, it's okay.
229 00:12:21 I'll pay for the whole time.
230 00:12:22 We decided to come home early.
231 00:12:23 Hey, thanks. And also the travel time...
232 00:12:40 ...conversation as well as anybody, but I've gotta run.
233 00:12:45 ...if you know what I mean.
234 00:12:45 - Y-You're leaving? - Well, I ain't moving in.
235 00:12:50 We'll be back when you get your...
236 00:12:58 If you don't like that mediator, we'll find another one.
237 00:13:00 Yeah. - W-We might not need a mediator.
238 00:13:02 We'll just split everything anyway, I don't care.
239 00:13:05 - Me neither. - You can have most of it.
240 00:13:07 We'll get apartments near each other, make it easier for Henry.
241 00:13:09 We'll figure it out.
242 00:13:10 - We want the same things. - Right.
243 00:13:13 In the meantime, the pilot will be fun for you.
244 00:13:18 You don't think it's bad, do you?
245 00:13:19 I don't ever watch TV, so, you know, I can't tell.
246 00:13:32 I told Henry I'd come out to LA in two weeks to see him.
247 00:13:38 Yes?
248 00:13:40 Nothing.
249 00:13:43 I can tell you want to give me a note.
250 00:13:45 No, I don't.
251 00:13:48 Yeah... I mean, yes, I do, but I guess...
252 00:13:54 I guess it doesn't matter now.
253 00:13:55 You won't be with the show anymore.
254 00:13:57 It's stupid.
255 00:13:59 You're not going to be able to sleep until you tell me.
256 00:14:02 Maybe not.
257 00:14:04 Okay, then.
258 00:14:06 So, there are two things.
259 00:14:08 I thought your posture at the top
260 00:14:10 of scene seven is still too dignified.
261 00:14:13 - Okay. - And then...
262 00:14:17 at the end, I could tell you were pushing for the emotion.
263 00:14:20 Well, you know I can't cry on stage,
264 00:14:22 and I know you don't like it when I fake it, but...
265 00:14:25 I thought maybe tonight it would come, but...
266 00:14:29 it didn't.
267 00:14:30 That's all I had.
268 00:14:34 Thanks for indulging me.
269 00:14:40 Good night, Charlie.
270 00:15:16 This Is The Day
271 00:15:16 ♪ This is the day ♪
272 00:15:18 ♪ This is the day that the Lord has made ♪
273 00:15:21 ♪ That the Lord has made ♪
274 00:15:23 ♪ Let us rejoice ♪
275 00:15:25 ♪ Let us rejoice and be glad in it ♪
276 00:15:28 ♪ And be glad in it ♪
277 00:15:30 ♪ This is the day ♪
278 00:15:30 Mom.
279 00:15:31 G-ma, summer is for relaxing.
280 00:15:34 ♪ This is the day... ♪
281 00:15:35 What do you want to do today?
282 00:15:38 Hang out and relax with you.
283 00:15:40 - Me too. - No relaxing.
284 00:15:42 Nicole has a hair and makeup test today,
285 00:15:44 and Henry, we got you into Fairy Camp with the cousins.
286 00:15:48 I hate Fairy Camp.
287 00:15:50 Cassie says everyone likes Fairy Camp,
288 00:15:52 and I think this is true.
289 00:15:58 Henry, go make your mom some coffee like I taught you.
290 00:16:01 Mom, wait till you taste my coffee.
291 00:16:12 Do you always sleep together? Even in New York?
292 00:16:16 No, it's just for right now while we go through this transition.
293 00:16:19 Oh, shit.
294 00:16:21 Don't tell Charlie when he gets here.
295 00:16:22 He hates co-sleeping.
296 00:16:24 Well, I have to say, I agree with Charlie.
297 00:16:27 Surprise surprise.
298 00:16:29 - It's as if... - Jesus, it's early.
299 00:16:30 you have exploded......into this room.
300 00:16:34 I can do this part alone.
301 00:16:36 Fine. I won't look.
302 00:16:39 As long as you're in my house, wake up is at 6:30 a.m.,
303 00:16:43 and until you know what you want to do,
304 00:16:45 we're going to do what I like to do.
305 00:16:47 I can't just go from what Charlie
306 00:16:49 wanted to do to what you want to do.
307 00:16:52 Even though I'm 64
308 00:16:54 and have a dead gay husband,
309 00:16:56 I manage to get up every day,
310 00:16:58 live my life, and feel pretty good about myself.
311 00:17:01 So, maybe your mom knows a thing or two.
312 00:17:04 You know what I would do?
313 00:17:06 About what?
314 00:17:07 When Charlie gets here, I'd whisk him off to Palm Springs.
315 00:17:10 That's what your father and I did whenever we hit a speed bump.
316 00:17:14 Didn't you walk in on Dad blowing the porter in Palm Springs?
317 00:17:17 And I always regretted getting so upset about it.
318 00:17:21 Charlie and I are getting a divorce, Mom.
319 00:17:23 There's nothing for us in Palm Springs.
320 00:17:25 You need to wash your face before you go to sleep.
321 00:17:28 When Daddy gets here,
322 00:17:29 - maybe we could all go on the Jaws ride. - Yeah.
323 00:17:31 Or I could go once with Daddy and once with you,
324 00:17:34 because I wouldn't mind going twice anyway.
325 00:17:36 No, we'll all go together, sweetheart.
326 00:17:37 Did you know that Universal Studios
327 00:17:39 is where I did my first screen test?
328 00:17:41 On the plane, I re-read the pilot as if I were Charlie reading it,
329 00:17:44 and I started to think it was just bad.
330 00:17:46 My agent says it's one to watch.
331 00:17:51 - This coffee is good. Thank you. - You're welcome.
332 00:17:53 What if Charlie is on Broadway
333 00:17:55 with a play I brought him, which I originated,
334 00:17:58 and I'm just doing bad TV?
335 00:17:59 Everyone is only impressed when they see someone on TV.
336 00:18:04 - She's beautiful. - Her wig looks great.
337 00:18:06 Where's she been the past ten years?
338 00:18:07 Doing weird theater in New York, downtown shit.
339 00:18:10 - I saw one. It rained onstage. - Can I say something?
340 00:18:12 It was good. Edgy.
341 00:18:14 Directed by her husband, supposedly very controlling.
342 00:18:17 - We're lucky to have her. - I'm surprised she said yes.
343 00:18:19 We can thank her divorce.
344 00:18:21 Can she move her hand?
345 00:18:22 It's going to be hard to roto in the hair on the baby around her fingers.
346 00:18:25 Can... you move your hand further down the baby?
347 00:18:31 - Where? Like here? - Off the head entirely.
348 00:18:35 I have to support his head.
349 00:18:36 No, no, support the head, of course.
350 00:18:38 Just try and do it from the... shoulders?
351 00:18:41 - It's perfect. - Yes, good.
352 00:18:42 I can't hold a baby like this.
353 00:18:43 She's right, that's going to look weird.
354 00:18:45 No, we can totally do it. It just gonna take time...
355 00:18:47 It was very important to me to have this show based on hard science.
356 00:18:50 So we can see your pretty face
357 00:18:51 and not ours.
358 00:18:53 You should've seen me before the plants invaded.
359 00:18:55 I say that with respect.
360 00:18:56 I was raised by two mothers.
361 00:18:59 Can you lower the board please, Pablo?
362 00:19:03 Here? How about here?
363 00:19:06 How about now?
364 00:19:06 Why is there always a flirty grip?
365 00:19:08 I can do anything you want.
366 00:19:09 I just need her here two hours before...
367 00:19:10 Can I say something?
368 00:19:11 Dennis, hold on. What, honey?
369 00:19:14 She has to know how to hold a baby.
370 00:19:16 - Later on, after she kills Donny... - She kills Donny?
371 00:19:18 That's a secret. We didn't give the crew those pages.
372 00:19:20 ...she becomes a sort of a Earth mother to the plant community.
373 00:19:22 That's not going to make any sense
374 00:19:24 if we feel like she's a bad mother to her own kid.
375 00:19:26 - She's right. - Does Donny know?
376 00:19:28 Must be nice to get out of New York.
377 00:19:29 Well, I'm from out here.
378 00:19:30 Our daughter, Mia, is at NYU, living in a shoebox.
379 00:19:33 She says it went up to 104 the other day.
380 00:19:35 - We are just so excited to have you. - I'm excited to be here.
381 00:19:38 We're going for an early aughts aesthetic,
382 00:19:41 so having your presence just nails that.
383 00:19:42 What signifies early aughts?
384 00:19:43 Into The Girl was on TV...
385 00:19:45 - All Over The Girl. - ...or streaming or something.
386 00:19:47 You are fucking hot in that movie.
387 00:19:49 - Carol. - Fuck it, I speak my mind.
388 00:19:51 We're not allowing our son to see it.
389 00:19:52 Because you show your tits.
390 00:19:53 - Carol! - Yeah.
391 00:19:54 - Dennis. - This is Carter Mitchum.
392 00:19:56 He's a futurist at UCLA.
393 00:19:59 He's consulting on all the environmental stuff for the show
394 00:20:02 so it's accurate.
395 00:20:02 - Nice to meet you. - Is it?
396 00:20:04 - What? - Accurate?
397 00:20:05 So far, none of it.
398 00:20:06 This pilot will go. So get ready to move back to LA.
399 00:20:09 Listen, everything you were saying
400 00:20:10 back there was absolutely right.
401 00:20:12 If she's a bad mom, we lose the audience.
402 00:20:13 Nobody knows we're killing Donny,
403 00:20:15 - including Donny. - I... I thought...
404 00:20:17 Let us know if you'd like to be part of our writer's room.
405 00:20:20 I bet you'd be really helpful, actually.
406 00:20:22 Or I could direct.
407 00:20:24 - No, yeah. - Sorry, what? Maybe that sounds crazy.
408 00:20:26 No, do you have a reel?
409 00:20:28 No, because I've... I've never done it.
410 00:20:29 I watched my husband do it for years.
411 00:20:32 Almost ex-husband.
412 00:20:34 What's the opposite of fiancé?
413 00:20:37 Dennis and I will talk to your agent about it.
414 00:20:39 At our theater I always wanted to direct,
415 00:20:40 and then Charlie would say something like,
416 00:20:42 "The next one," but he was always the director,
417 00:20:44 so there never was a next one.
418 00:20:46 I don't know. Maybe if we'd stayed married, there would've been.
419 00:20:49 Yeah, no. We're going to kill him off. It seems unlikely...
420 00:20:55 I'm going to give you a number.
421 00:20:57 Okay, is it a therapist? Because I have a therapist.
422 00:21:00 Well, it's my mom's therapist. We share her.
423 00:21:02 She's a lawyer. She represented me when I left Dennis.
424 00:21:07 You and Dennis are divorced?
425 00:21:08 Since 2013.
426 00:21:10 You still work together.
427 00:21:11 That's nice.
428 00:21:12 Oh, no, he's a fucking cocksucker.
429 00:21:14 Nora got me half of this project in the settlement.
430 00:21:17 Well, we talked about doing it without lawyers.
431 00:21:20 My sister had me meet a bunch of them already,
432 00:21:22 and I... just... hated them.
433 00:21:25 Call Nora.
434 00:21:27 She saved my life.
435 00:21:30 Sorry, I...
436 00:21:31 look so schleppy.
437 00:21:32 I had an event at my kid's school.
438 00:21:35 Let me get this out of the way.
439 00:21:36 I think you're a wonderful actress.
440 00:21:39 Thank you.
441 00:21:40 I loved All Over The Girl,
442 00:21:42 but the theater stuff too...
443 00:21:45 You saw the theater stuff?
444 00:21:46 I was in New York last year for my book,
445 00:21:49 which, remind me to give you a copy,
446 00:21:51 and my publisher took me.
447 00:21:52 Great.
448 00:21:54 - Thank you. - You are awesome.
449 00:21:58 - Well, Charlie directed it. - I know.
450 00:22:01 He's very talented.
451 00:22:02 He is.
452 00:22:03 They're moving it to Broadway.
453 00:22:06 Well, without me, of course.
454 00:22:08 He was lucky to have you.
455 00:22:12 How are you doing?
456 00:22:22 Sorry.
457 00:22:25 Honey...
458 00:22:35 You take some breaths.
459 00:22:38 And while you do, I'm going to tell you about myself.
460 00:22:42 If you should choose to hire me,
461 00:22:43 I will work tirelessly for you,
462 00:22:46 and I'm always available by phone or text,
463 00:22:49 except when I'm with my kids.
464 00:22:50 I insist on doing drop off and pick up every day at school.
465 00:22:53 - I understand. - I've been through this myself.
466 00:22:56 Thank you Annie. So...
467 00:22:59 I know how it feels.
468 00:23:01 - You do? - Yes.
469 00:23:03 I have a kid from my ex, who is a narcissistic artist...
470 00:23:07 and verbally abusive.
471 00:23:09 I'm now with a great boyfriend who lives in Malibu.
472 00:23:12 Oh, good.
473 00:23:14 Well, Charlie's not terrible.
474 00:23:16 No, of course not.
475 00:23:18 But they ravish you with attention in the beginning...
476 00:23:21 and then once we have babies, we become the mom
477 00:23:24 and... they get sick of us.
478 00:23:26 Yeah.
479 00:23:29 Where do you want to live now, doll?
480 00:23:32 Well...
481 00:23:34 I'm here now, obviously.
482 00:23:37 I don't know if the show will get picked up, but...
483 00:23:41 it feels like home.
484 00:23:43 It is home.
485 00:23:45 It's the only home I've ever known without Charlie.
486 00:23:48 You want to stay here?
487 00:23:50 Charlie's not going to want that. He...
488 00:23:53 He hates LA.
489 00:23:54 We're interested in what you want to do.
490 00:23:57 Sounds to me like you did your time in New York.
491 00:24:01 He can do some time here, no?
492 00:24:03 He always said we would, but he never...
493 00:24:06 did.
494 00:24:07 How old is your son?
495 00:24:09 Henry's eight.
496 00:24:11 Yeah.
497 00:24:12 He likes LA.
498 00:24:16 I don't know if it's fair to him.
499 00:24:19 I want you to listen to me.
500 00:24:22 What you're doing is an act of hope.
501 00:24:26 Do you understand that?
502 00:24:28 Yeah.
503 00:24:30 You're saying, "I want something better for myself."
504 00:24:35 I do.
505 00:24:36 And this, right now, is the worst time.
506 00:24:40 It will only get better.
507 00:24:43 Wasn't it Tom Petty who said "The waiting is the hardest part"?
508 00:24:48 I don't know.
509 00:24:50 I represented his wife in their divorce.
510 00:24:52 I got her half of that song.
511 00:24:55 I don't want any money or anything.
512 00:24:58 I just worry because we weren't going to use lawyers, so...
513 00:25:01 I don't want to be too aggressive.
514 00:25:05 I want to stay friends.
515 00:25:08 We'll do it as gently as possible.
516 00:25:11 Now...
517 00:25:15 Can you tell me a little more about what's going on?
518 00:25:18 Because part of what we're going to do together
519 00:25:20 is tell your story.
520 00:25:24 It's difficult to articulate.
521 00:25:26 It's...
522 00:25:27 not as simple as not being in love anymore.
523 00:25:30 I understand.
524 00:25:32 Why don't you start at the beginning? Wherever that is for you.
525 00:25:38 Well, uh...
526 00:25:41 I was engaged to Ben
527 00:25:42 and living in LA, you know?
528 00:25:45 And I felt like yes, I want to make movies and marry Ben.
529 00:25:49 Jesus, I was only 19 or 20 at the time.
530 00:25:52 I never felt older in my whole life.
531 00:25:54 Anyway, if I was honest with myself,
532 00:25:56 it was like a small part of me felt dead...
533 00:25:59 or dead-ish.
534 00:26:01 You know, you tell yourself,
535 00:26:02 "No one's perfect, no relationship's perfect."
536 00:26:07 This tea is delicious.
537 00:26:09 Isn't it? It's the Manuka honey.
538 00:26:12 Anyway, uh, you were asking about Charlie.
539 00:26:15 So, um...
540 00:26:17 So, yes. So, I was... I was...
541 00:26:19 happy with Ben and aware of the deadness,
542 00:26:22 and I went to New York
543 00:26:24 to meet with this director for this space movie.
544 00:26:27 But one where they take space seriously, like...
545 00:26:30 sex trafficking in space.
546 00:26:32 You know, it was political.
547 00:26:33 Or at least they wanted us to think it was.
548 00:26:35 Anyway, it just...
549 00:26:37 it was really fulfilling the same need
550 00:26:39 that certain fucked up porn does.
551 00:26:42 But anyway, so...
552 00:26:43 while I was there...
553 00:26:45 the producer...
554 00:26:47 invited me to see a play.
555 00:26:50 It took place in someone's apartment with all the lights on.
556 00:26:54 It was like nothing I'd ever seen before.
557 00:26:56 This strange...
558 00:26:58 surreal, dystopian story,
559 00:27:01 and it was so well-acted.
560 00:27:03 And one of the actors was this big shaggy bear
561 00:27:07 who played all his lines looking directly at me,
562 00:27:10 which I knew couldn't be the case, but it felt like it.
563 00:27:14 And then later, of course, I learned that it was.
564 00:27:19 These cookies are really great too.
565 00:27:20 I'll send you home with some.
566 00:27:22 Afterwards, I was introduced to the cast,
567 00:27:24 and the bear turned out to also be the director.
568 00:27:28 He talked to me and...
569 00:27:33 I talked back.
570 00:27:36 The dead part wasn't dead, it was just in a coma.
571 00:27:39 And...
572 00:27:41 it was better than the sex, the talking.
573 00:27:43 Although the...
574 00:27:45 the sex was also like the talking.
575 00:27:47 You know, everything is like everything in a relationship.
576 00:27:49 Don't you find that?
577 00:27:51 And, um...
578 00:27:53 So, we spent...
579 00:27:55 the whole night and the next day together and...
580 00:27:59 I just never left.
581 00:28:01 Yes, to be honest, all the problems
582 00:28:03 were there in the beginning too.
583 00:28:05 But... I just went along with him and his life
584 00:28:07 because it felt so damn good to feel myself alive.
585 00:28:11 In the beginning, I was the actress, the star, and...
586 00:28:15 That felt like something, you know.
587 00:28:16 People came to see me at first, but...
588 00:28:20 the farther away I got from that and...
589 00:28:23 the more acclaim the theater company got,
590 00:28:24 and I had less and less weight.
591 00:28:26 I just became...
592 00:28:28 "Who?"
593 00:28:29 "Well, you know, the actress that was in that thing that time."
594 00:28:32 And he was the draw.
595 00:28:34 And... that...
596 00:28:37 would've been fine, but...
597 00:28:40 I got smaller.
598 00:28:48 I realized I...
599 00:28:51 I didn't ever really come alive for myself.
600 00:28:53 I was just feeding his aliveness.
601 00:28:56 And...
602 00:28:58 you know...
603 00:28:59 he was so smart and creative, it...
604 00:29:02 it was fine.
605 00:29:04 You know, I would tell him things at home in private,
606 00:29:07 and they would work their way
607 00:29:08 into public conversation into his work, and...
608 00:29:11 For a while, that felt like enough. I mean, I was just so...
609 00:29:15 so...
610 00:29:16 so flattered that someone like him would...
611 00:29:18 would find an idea I had worth trying
612 00:29:20 or a comment I made worth repeating and...
613 00:29:23 and then, I got pregnant.
614 00:29:25 And I thought that having a baby
615 00:29:27 could be ours, could really be ours,
616 00:29:29 but also really mine.
617 00:29:30 And... you know, he was so excited.
618 00:29:34 So, it was nice.
619 00:29:36 For a while.
620 00:29:37 I mean, kids, they...
621 00:29:39 they belong to themselves. It's like...
622 00:29:42 the instant they leave your body, it's just...
623 00:29:44 the process of them going away...
624 00:29:48 And I didn't belong to myself.
625 00:29:50 And it was small stuff, stupid stuff, and big stuff.
626 00:29:54 All the furniture in our house
627 00:29:56 was his taste.
628 00:29:57 I didn't even know what my taste was anymore
629 00:29:59 because I had never been asked to use it.
630 00:30:02 I didn't even pick our apartment. I just moved into his.
631 00:30:05 And I made noises about wanting to move back to LA, but...
632 00:30:08 they came to nothing.
633 00:30:09 And we'd come here on holidays because he liked my family.
634 00:30:12 But if I suggested we do a year or something,
635 00:30:15 he'd just put me off.
636 00:30:17 It would be...
637 00:30:19 strange if he turned to me and said,
638 00:30:23 "And what do you want to do today?"
639 00:30:25 You know, I just watched that documentary on George Harrison,
640 00:30:29 and I thought, "Own it.
641 00:30:31 Just own it.
642 00:30:32 Be like George Harrison's wife.
643 00:30:34 Being a wife and a mother, that's enough."
644 00:30:36 Yeah, then I realized I couldn't remember her name, so...
645 00:30:41 This pilot came along.
646 00:30:44 It shot in LA and it paid so much...
647 00:30:47 And it was like there was this little lifeline thrown to me.
648 00:30:50 Here's this bit of earth that's yours, and...
649 00:30:55 I was embarrassed about it
650 00:30:56 in front of him, but it was also like...
651 00:30:59 yeah, this is who I am, and this is what I'm worth.
652 00:31:03 And maybe it's stupid, but at least it's mine.
653 00:31:07 And if he had just taken me into a big hug and said,
654 00:31:11 "Baby, I'm so excited for your adventure.
655 00:31:14 Of course I want you to have a piece of earth that's yours."
656 00:31:17 Then...
657 00:31:18 Well, then, we might not be getting divorced.
658 00:31:21 But...
659 00:31:23 he made fun of it and...
660 00:31:24 was jealous like he is, and...
661 00:31:28 then he realized about the money.
662 00:31:31 And he told me I could funnel it back into the theater company.
663 00:31:36 And that's when I realized...
664 00:31:39 he...
665 00:31:41 truly didn't see me.
666 00:31:44 He didn't see me as something separate from himself.
667 00:31:47 And I asked him to say my phone number.
668 00:31:51 He didn't know it.
669 00:31:53 So, I left.
670 00:32:00 Also, I think he slept with the stage manager, Mary Ann.
671 00:32:05 That fucking asshole.
672 00:32:07 Seventy-five...
673 00:32:08 just 70,
674 00:32:09 those two zeros,
675 00:32:11 - seventy-five point zero zero... -"If railroad is unowned...
676 00:32:14 - that's zero cents. - ...you may buy it from the bank."
677 00:32:16 "Advance to Illios...
678 00:32:19 - Illinois. - ...Illinois Avenue."
679 00:32:21 "Advance..." what does that mean?
680 00:32:24 It means you've got to go to Illinois Avenue.
681 00:32:26 So where is Illinois Avenue?
682 00:32:28 That one.
683 00:32:29 So Cassie, when Charlie gets here,
684 00:32:31 you're going to hand him the envelope.
685 00:32:32 Why do I have to do it?
686 00:32:34 Because Nicole is very good at
687 00:32:37 getting people to do things for her.
688 00:32:39 That's not what this is.
689 00:32:39 I wiped her butt until she was nine years old.
690 00:32:41 She's very seductive that way.
691 00:32:43 No, Mom, legally, I can't be the one who serves him.
692 00:32:46 But still, what I'm saying is true.
693 00:32:49 Do I have to actually hand him the envelope?
694 00:32:52 Yes, but I'm going to tell him in advance
695 00:32:53 that they're divorce papers.
696 00:32:55 Nora says it doesn't have to be so formal. Where's Henry?
697 00:32:58 He's playing in the living room with Sam, and Jules, and Molly.
698 00:33:01 Let's get them upstairs. Charlie's going to be here soon.
699 00:33:03 Sam, go upstairs.
700 00:33:04 So, I'll tell Charlie what's happening,
701 00:33:06 and, Cassie, you then hand him the envelope.
702 00:33:10 Okay...
703 00:33:11 I just get nervous.
704 00:33:12 Well, can you un-serve?
705 00:33:15 - What do you mean? Like take it back? - Yeah.
706 00:33:18 I think so.
707 00:33:19 - You should check. - In case we change our minds...
708 00:33:21 I'm not going to change my mind.
709 00:33:22 ...or we feel too bad for him.
710 00:33:24 Maybe in case I do something wrong.
711 00:33:25 Now you're both just making me feel bad, okay?
712 00:33:27 Sorry, sorry, I'm nervous!
713 00:33:28 Well, we all are.
714 00:33:30 And we love Charlie.
715 00:33:32 You have to stop loving him, Mom.
716 00:33:34 You can't be friends with him anymore.
717 00:33:36 Charlie and I have our own relationship...
718 00:33:39 independent of your marriage.
719 00:33:41 Just like I'm still friends
720 00:33:43 with Cassie's ex, Jeff.
721 00:33:45 Are you still seeing Jeff?
722 00:33:46 An occasional lunch.
723 00:33:48 I can't believe you!
724 00:33:49 He still wants his camera back, by the way.
725 00:33:51 Listen, nothing can be independent of our marriage right now.
726 00:33:55 I can't believe I even have to explain this to you.
727 00:33:56 Just be on my side, okay?
728 00:33:58 - Okay. - And...
729 00:34:00 stop seeing Jeff!
730 00:34:04 Cassie, you're the server.
731 00:34:06 Just let me practice a few times.
732 00:34:08 I was never a good auditioner.
733 00:34:10 That's because you wanted it too badly.
734 00:34:12 It's not an audition.
735 00:34:13 - I'll play Charlie. - It's just my palms are so perspired.
736 00:34:17 Sweetie, you're blotting the envelope.
737 00:34:19 Maybe Nicole should play you.
738 00:34:21 Did you really just say that?
739 00:34:22 We don't need to practice. This is not a performance.
740 00:34:25 Did we finish the other wine already?
741 00:34:27 - Yeah. - Yeah.
742 00:34:29 Okay, let me get him.
743 00:34:30 - Okay. - You both go in the other room.
744 00:34:32 Cassie, you make sure that Henry
745 00:34:33 goes upstairs with Molly and Jules.
746 00:34:35 Happening now.
747 00:34:38 - Mom! - I'm getting my wine.
748 00:34:41 - What? - Henry's pooping in the bathroom downstairs.
749 00:34:43 Can we transfer him to the one upstairs?
750 00:34:45 I think it's mid-poop.
751 00:34:46 Just grab him when he comes out.
752 00:34:48 - Cassie? - What?
753 00:34:49 I'm... I'm putting the envelope over here by the toaster.
754 00:34:52 Copy you.
755 00:35:01 - Where's Henry? - Uh, he's pooping.
756 00:35:03 Hi, Henry!
757 00:35:06 Does this couch still open?
758 00:35:07 Yeah.
759 00:35:08 I got off the plane to a text,
760 00:35:10 but don't tell anyone yet. It's still a secret.
761 00:35:13 Okay.
762 00:35:16 I won a MacArthur grant.
763 00:35:19 Charlie!
764 00:35:20 Oh, my God, that's great!
765 00:35:21 Congratulations.
766 00:35:23 I'll say it because you can't,
767 00:35:24 it's the genius grant. You're a genius.
768 00:35:26 I'm really happy for you. You deserve it.
769 00:35:28 It's yours too. We did all of this together.
770 00:35:31 Thank you, but...
771 00:35:32 it's yours, Charlie, you enjoy it.
772 00:35:35 I'm starving.
773 00:35:36 It's good money, and they parse it out over five years.
774 00:35:38 But it means I can keep everyone in the theater company employed,
775 00:35:41 pay my credit card debt.
776 00:35:42 So great.
777 00:35:42 Of course, I went instantly to, "It's all downhill from here.
778 00:35:45 - Now my first Broadway play has to fail." - No.
779 00:35:48 We just started rehearsals again, and I don't know.
780 00:35:50 You always don't know at this point, and then, it gets there.
781 00:35:53 Do I? Because I don't remember.
782 00:35:54 I know, it's true, it'll be great.
783 00:35:57 Okay, I hope you're right.
784 00:35:59 Everyone says hi.
785 00:36:02 Tell them hi. I miss everyone.
786 00:36:05 You'll see them again when you come back.
787 00:36:06 A MacArthur, Broadway...
788 00:36:09 It's so exciting.
789 00:36:10 Congratulations, Charlie.
790 00:36:19 Which bathroom?
791 00:36:22 - What? - Is he pooping?
792 00:36:25 Downstairs.
793 00:36:26 Is your mom home?
794 00:36:27 Yeah, she's upstairs.
795 00:36:32 - How's it going? - Nothing yet.
796 00:36:34 - It's me. - I know.
797 00:36:35 I just got here.
798 00:36:37 - I brought you something. - Yay.
799 00:36:39 Mom's getting me a present too.
800 00:36:41 - Why? - For pooping.
801 00:36:47 - I love you. - I love you.
802 00:36:49 I don't think we should reward him for pooping anymore.
803 00:36:51 I know, but he holds it in and it's going on a week.
804 00:36:53 - It's its own reward. G-ma! - Charlie-bird!
805 00:36:57 Oh! No! Stop it!
806 00:36:59 Oh, God, I'm huge!
807 00:37:00 - You're as light as a feather. - Mom?
808 00:37:03 Why didn't you respond to my last email?
809 00:37:05 Well, your emails are so articulate.
810 00:37:07 I get intimidated.
811 00:37:09 - Mom, can you... - Now, I'm going to lift you!
812 00:37:11 Mom?
813 00:37:14 Mom?
814 00:37:16 - Mom? - What?
815 00:37:17 Upstairs.
816 00:37:19 I'm going to write you back now.
817 00:37:25 Cassie?
818 00:37:27 Hey, Charlie.
819 00:37:28 I like your haircut.
820 00:37:30 Thanks.
821 00:37:33 - Mom? - I'll go.
822 00:37:35 Henry's calling you, Nicole!
823 00:37:37 I hear him.
824 00:37:38 What's going on, Henry?
825 00:37:40 Can you ask Mom to come?
826 00:37:44 He wants you.
827 00:37:48 What kind of pie is that?
828 00:37:52 It's...
829 00:37:57 pecan.
830 00:38:00 - Did you make it? - I don't know.
831 00:38:02 No, it's store bought.
832 00:38:04 You know Joan's on Third?
833 00:38:05 - Yeah. It's good, right? - What?
834 00:38:08 The store? Yeah.
835 00:38:10 Jules and Molly love it.
836 00:38:11 - Are you okay? - Yes.
837 00:38:14 I'm just hot!
838 00:38:16 I'll pour you some water.
839 00:38:19 Nicole says you're doing a play?
840 00:38:21 I-I think you'd like it.
841 00:38:22 It's a great unproduced play
842 00:38:24 by this really interesting British writer.
843 00:38:26 - So, you do an English accent? - Yeah.
844 00:38:29 It's more northern England.
845 00:38:30 What does that sound like?
846 00:38:35 You want a cup of tea, do ya?
847 00:38:38 Right. Good.
848 00:38:41 Thank you, missus. What is...
849 00:38:46 What's this?
850 00:38:47 It's a manila envelope, love.
851 00:38:49 - Can I start over? - It has my name on it.
852 00:38:57 Jesus.
853 00:38:59 Sorry. You're served.
854 00:39:03 - What did you do? - Nothing. I don't know.
855 00:39:05 I can't lie.
856 00:39:07 You're being served.
857 00:39:08 You guys are getting a div... I don't know, I'm sorry.
858 00:39:18 I was going to warn you so it didn't become a thing. I'm sorry.
859 00:39:34 I feel like I'm in a dream.
860 00:39:37 We don't have a marriage anymore.
861 00:39:39 I-I know you don't want the disruption,
862 00:39:40 but you don't want to be married.
863 00:39:43 Not... really.
864 00:39:46 But I don't want this.
865 00:39:50 What did you expect was going to happen?
866 00:39:56 I... I don't know, I guess I didn't think it through,
867 00:39:59 but I thought we agreed we weren't going to use lawyers.
868 00:40:03 I want...
869 00:40:05 I don't know, I'm trying to say this
870 00:40:07 as undramatically as possible.
871 00:40:08 I want...
872 00:40:11 an entirely different kind of life.
873 00:40:15 Let's wait until you finish this pilot and come back to New York.
874 00:40:17 Let's figure it out there, at home, together.
875 00:40:19 Nora's known for being very fair.
876 00:40:19 We don't need to do it with envelopes.
877 00:40:21 - This is Nora? - Yeah.
878 00:40:23 She's great. I feel like we could be friends with her.
879 00:40:25 Why do I feel like that won't happen?
880 00:40:27 It's just a formality.
881 00:40:28 - Why... - You don't have to respond right away.
882 00:40:30 Why did Cassie have a pie?
883 00:40:32 The pie was hers. The pie wasn't part of it.
884 00:40:35 Are you sure?
885 00:40:35 I mean, what would the pie have to do with anything?
886 00:40:38 I don't know. It somehow makes it worse.
887 00:40:41 I'm sorry, but the pie was just a pie.
888 00:40:45 So, what...
889 00:40:49 What do I do?
890 00:40:52 You get a lawyer too.
891 00:40:57 Well, I guess I better be going.
892 00:41:00 "Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car...
893 00:41:04 and started up the road that led toward the north.
894 00:41:07 The sun was just coming up over the hills on his right.
895 00:41:11 As he peered ahead into the great land that stretched before him,
896 00:41:15 the way seemed long...
897 00:41:17 but the sky was bright.
898 00:41:19 And he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction."
899 00:41:25 I forgot it ended that way.
900 00:41:28 Yeah, wow, Stuart really overreacted, didn't you think?
901 00:41:32 He was upset about his boat.
902 00:41:38 Dad, you go away.
903 00:41:41 Mom, you stay.
904 00:41:43 - Hey, Daddy just got here. - It's okay.
905 00:41:47 Love you.
906 00:41:52 You can come back, and wake me up,
907 00:41:54 and read to me later, Daddy, okay?
908 00:41:57 Okay.
909 00:42:00 Will you come sleep in my bed later?
910 00:42:03 Yeah.
911 00:42:14 Hang in there, Charlie-bird.
912 00:42:16 Thanks, G-ma.
913 00:42:47 - He's in a mommy phase right now. - It's okay.
914 00:42:59 I'm sorry. I drank too much wine.
915 00:43:02 - I can imagine. - And didn't eat dinner.
916 00:43:04 Stressful time.
917 00:43:06 I hope Henry didn't notice.
918 00:43:08 I'm sure he didn't.
919 00:43:09 Now that I'm a parent, I realize my parents
920 00:43:10 were probably drunk all the time with me.
921 00:43:12 Yeah.
922 00:43:13 I'm sorry again.
923 00:43:16 Thanks.
924 00:43:18 Where are you staying?
925 00:43:23 Well, I...
926 00:43:26 hadn't...
927 00:43:31 I guess I'll...
928 00:43:35 There's a new hotel on Highland that's...
929 00:43:38 supposedly not too expensive and... and pretty nice.
930 00:43:42 Okay, I'll check it out.
931 00:43:44 Again, that's great about the MacArthur.
932 00:43:47 Thanks.
933 00:43:55 - Charlie? - Yeah?
934 00:44:00 Thanks.
935 00:44:09 Fuck.
936 00:44:10 - What? - She's being represented by Nora.
937 00:44:13 She's supposedly very fair?
938 00:44:14 All right, here's the fact, Jack.
939 00:44:17 I charge $950 an hour.
940 00:44:20 Ted is 400.
941 00:44:22 If you have a stupid question, you call Ted.
942 00:44:26 To start, we'll need a $25,000 retainer.
943 00:44:29 - That's more than I can... - And all your financials.
944 00:44:31 We need to do a forensic accounting.
945 00:44:32 Which runs anywhere from ten to twenty thousand dollars.
946 00:44:37 But if we can all agree right away, it shouldn't get too bad,
947 00:44:39 - right? - You were married here in LA?
948 00:44:42 Yes... because her mom and sister are out here
949 00:44:44 and I'm not close with my family.
950 00:44:45 Your son was born out here?
951 00:44:47 Yes, because, again,
952 00:44:48 her mom and sister are out here and I'm not...
953 00:44:50 So, you got married here,
954 00:44:52 your kid was born here...
955 00:44:55 and she served you here?
956 00:44:57 Yeah, but we lived in New York.
957 00:45:00 Why?
958 00:45:02 - Is there a problem? - We'll have to reshape the narrative.
959 00:45:04 If you're serious about having your child in New York,
960 00:45:08 this is what I suggest.
961 00:45:10 You take your kid... D-Did you say his name was Fred?
962 00:45:14 Henry.
963 00:45:15 Henry?
964 00:45:16 Why did I say Fred?
965 00:45:17 I have a kid named Fred.
966 00:45:18 You take Henry to New York with you right now.
967 00:45:22 Then we file an action in New York.
968 00:45:25 We make this a New York case.
969 00:45:26 We need to make an argument that you're a New York-based family.
970 00:45:29 Well, we are.
971 00:45:29 Otherwise, you'll probably never
972 00:45:30 see your kid outside of LA again.
973 00:45:32 Really? No.
974 00:45:34 It's very hard to convince the courts to move a kid.
975 00:45:37 As soon as you let your wife and child leave New York,
976 00:45:41 you made life very difficult for yourself.
977 00:45:44 Yes, but as I said,
978 00:45:45 we're a New York family, that's just a fact.
979 00:45:49 She's... here temporarily.
980 00:45:51 Then why do you think she served you out here?
981 00:45:54 I don't... know, but Henry wants to go back to New York.
982 00:45:59 Don't quote your kid.
983 00:46:01 He's just telling you what you want to hear.
984 00:46:04 And trust me, he's telling her the opposite.
985 00:46:07 Let me have the Barber file!
986 00:46:08 It's right here.
987 00:46:10 Move my lunch to 1:30.
988 00:46:16 What's...
989 00:46:19 "Exit Goat"?
990 00:46:21 Exit Ghost. It's the name of my theater company.
991 00:46:24 You're a director?
992 00:46:25 Theater director, yeah.
993 00:46:27 Anything I've seen?
994 00:46:28 I don't know. What have you seen?
995 00:46:32 Our production of Electra is moving to Broadway...
996 00:46:35 which is exciting.
997 00:46:36 We have to make sure that money is protected.
998 00:46:39 I mean, it's theater, so it's not a lot of money.
999 00:46:41 I basically put whatever money I make back in the theater.
1000 00:46:44 I wonder, do we ask for support?
1001 00:46:48 - Interesting. - From Nicole?
1002 00:46:50 I'm not going to do that.
1003 00:46:51 Does your wife's family have money?
1004 00:46:55 Her mother has some from her TV career.
1005 00:46:57 And her father died.
1006 00:46:59 Well, we could say that we don't want her mother to see the kid,
1007 00:47:03 draw her into the case.
1008 00:47:05 In that instance, her mother could pay your legal fees.
1009 00:47:09 No.
1010 00:47:10 I'm very close to her mom.
1011 00:47:12 Nicole's family has been my family...
1012 00:47:13 Yeah, but that's going to change.
1013 00:47:15 And I suggest you get used to it.
1014 00:47:18 We need to hire a private investigator.
1015 00:47:20 Really? I mean...
1016 00:47:23 - Really? - Does your wife do drugs or anything?
1017 00:47:26 Coke?
1018 00:47:27 Not in any real way.
1019 00:47:28 Well, we're not going to win if she's the perfect mother.
1020 00:47:31 She was addicted to Tums for a while.
1021 00:47:35 It wasn't nothing. She was up to a tube a day.
1022 00:47:38 Have you noticed anyone following you?
1023 00:47:40 No.
1024 00:47:42 Well, keep an eye out.
1025 00:47:43 Look, you need to be prepared for the fact
1026 00:47:46 that Nora is going to portray you as a neglectful, absent father.
1027 00:47:50 - But I'm not. - You live in New York.
1028 00:47:53 You're consumed with your work.
1029 00:47:55 She and your kid are out here, struggling.
1030 00:47:58 Nora's going to use that strategy. I'm sure of it.
1031 00:48:01 But Nicole's not going to lie.
1032 00:48:03 Listen, if we start from a place of reasonable,
1033 00:48:06 and they start from a place of crazy,
1034 00:48:08 when we settle, we'll be somewhere between reasonable and crazy.
1035 00:48:12 Which is still crazy.
1036 00:48:13 Half of crazy is crazy.
1037 00:48:15 You know what people say,
1038 00:48:16 "Criminal lawyers see bad people at their best,
1039 00:48:18 divorce lawyers see good people at their worst."
1040 00:48:20 Before this is all over, you're going to hate me and Ted,
1041 00:48:23 just because of what we represent in your life.
1042 00:48:26 I'm sure you're right.
1043 00:48:27 So tell me the story again. You came out here to see your kid.
1044 00:48:30 - Maybe I'm not explaining this well. - She serves you.
1045 00:48:32 We're friendly, we're fine.
1046 00:48:33 - What a bitch. - We're just trying to figure this out.
1047 00:48:34 She's not a bitch.
1048 00:48:36 Thanks, but this isn't...
1049 00:48:37 We're doing it a different way.
1050 00:48:39 And... I can't even close to afford this.
1051 00:48:42 I've got to get back to New York.
1052 00:48:43 I have a Broadway play in rehearsals.
1053 00:48:50 I was the hot shit at that time.
1054 00:48:53 Young, very sexy, with a great head of hair.
1055 00:48:58 I just so appreciate that Charlie gave me this opportunity.
1056 00:49:01 Or maybe I should thank Nicole.
1057 00:49:03 I heard Nicole's pilot went to series,
1058 00:49:04 so she's moving to LA.
1059 00:49:05 And they put Henry in school out there.
1060 00:49:07 Well, is Charlie moving too?
1061 00:49:08 Not Charlie.
1062 00:49:09 He won't abandon us.
1063 00:49:11 And you can't do theater in LA.
1064 00:49:12 Charlie said she and Henry are coming back to New York
1065 00:49:15 when she finishes filming her show.
1066 00:49:17 I wouldn't be so sure.
1067 00:49:18 Nicole was never going to stay in New York, that was obvious.
1068 00:49:21 She was probably planning this move all along.
1069 00:49:23 When she sees an opportunity, believe me, she takes it.
1070 00:49:27 Well, LA is nice.
1071 00:49:29 The space.
1072 00:49:30 Miss Four Time Oscar winner, sucking my...
1073 00:49:33 Okay, how is everyone today?
1074 00:49:36 Nobody get too close. I think I caught Donna's cold.
1075 00:49:38 - Sorry, Charlie. - I'm expecting a Skype call from Henry,
1076 00:49:41 so I might have to step out.
1077 00:49:44 So, Charlie, what you're going through now
1078 00:49:46 is going to be horrible, but it will be over.
1079 00:49:50 Thanks, Frank.
1080 00:49:51 - Another thing. - Yeah?
1081 00:49:53 Fuck as many people as you can right now.
1082 00:49:57 Women, men.
1083 00:50:00 - Take what I said seriously. - You might need help wrapping gauze.
1084 00:50:02 - It needs to stay tight. - Okay, I'm... I'm confused.
1085 00:50:05 What... scene is the Invisible Man outfit for?
1086 00:50:07 No, that's my Halloween costume.
1087 00:50:09 And the Frankenstein is for Henry.
1088 00:50:14 He's coming here this weekend.
1089 00:50:15 We're going to trick or treat in the Slope.
1090 00:50:17 I made it more James Whale than Kenneth Branagh.
1091 00:50:19 - Perfect. - Can I talk to you?
1092 00:50:22 Yeah, over...
1093 00:50:24 I've typed up the blocking from the last two rehearsals,
1094 00:50:27 and here are the director notes from that Danish production from the '70s.
1095 00:50:32 Where'd you find it?
1096 00:50:33 The library, duh.
1097 00:50:36 Can I come over tonight?
1098 00:50:38 Mary Ann, it's too hard now.
1099 00:50:40 I just can't be with anyone right now.
1100 00:50:42 But we did it when you were married
1101 00:50:43 and we shouldn't have done it.
1102 00:50:45 And now that you're not married, shouldn't we be doing it?
1103 00:50:47 I'm not not married yet.
1104 00:50:51 You're torturing yourself.
1105 00:50:53 Just make sure everything doesn't go to hell.
1106 00:50:56 - I'm relying on you, okay? - Fine.
1107 00:50:58 - Thanks. - I wish you'd accept generosity better.
1108 00:51:01 Hold on. Let me...
1109 00:51:03 - Hello? - Is this Charlie Barber?
1110 00:51:05 Yes.
1111 00:51:06 Hi, this is Nora Fanshaw.
1112 00:51:08 I represent your wife, Nicole Barber.
1113 00:51:10 - Hi. - Do you have an attorney yet?
1114 00:51:12 No.
1115 00:51:13 Okay, then it's okay for me to talk to you directly, okay?
1116 00:51:15 Okay.
1117 00:51:17 I'm calling because we haven't
1118 00:51:18 received your response to our filing.
1119 00:51:20 Yeah, I've been rehearsing this play
1120 00:51:22 and flying back and forth to LA.
1121 00:51:23 You're going to need to file your response.
1122 00:51:27 Nicole said there was no rush.
1123 00:51:29 It's been more than 30 days
1124 00:51:30 since you were served.
1125 00:51:32 By law, you're meant to respond within 30 days.
1126 00:51:33 I didn't like the first lawyer I met.
1127 00:51:35 It says that very clearly on the document you were given.
1128 00:51:37 Did you read it?
1129 00:51:38 Yeah, but I thought that's just what it says.
1130 00:51:40 We weren't even going to do it with lawyers.
1131 00:51:43 Charlie, I think I shouldn't tuck in my shirt.
1132 00:51:46 Nicole said I could take my time.
1133 00:51:47 And we've let you take your time.
1134 00:51:48 - It comes out during the love scene. - Could you hold a second?
1135 00:51:51 What love scene?
1136 00:51:52 When I hug Beth.
1137 00:51:53 You don't hug Beth.
1138 00:51:54 I think it's something we should explore.
1139 00:51:57 Can't you just tuck it in tighter or get Donna to safety pin it?
1140 00:51:59 I also have a kind of a thing
1141 00:52:01 - about tucking things in. - Charlie?
1142 00:52:04 If you don't file your response,
1143 00:52:05 we're going to file a request for default judgment against you.
1144 00:52:08 ...insecurities about my figure.
1145 00:52:11 - Charlie? - Yes, sorry.
1146 00:52:12 Default judgment, what does that mean? Don't hug Beth.
1147 00:52:14 We'll be able to lay claim to whatever we want.
1148 00:52:17 W-What do you mean, whatever you want of what?
1149 00:52:18 Your apartment, your things, everything you own.
1150 00:52:21 We...
1151 00:52:22 She and I already discussed this. We don't own that much stuff.
1152 00:52:25 She can have pretty much whatever she wants.
1153 00:52:26 And it means we'll set the number
1154 00:52:27 for child support at its highest level
1155 00:52:29 and claim full custody of your child.
1156 00:52:34 Full custody?
1157 00:52:36 - I mean, that's not even... - This is what the law says.
1158 00:52:40 Nicole's not going to do that. I mean, she won't.
1159 00:52:43 No, Charlie, I represent Nicole,
1160 00:52:45 and she's aware of everything I'm saying to you.
1161 00:52:47 I just spoke to her this morning.
1162 00:52:49 Well, I spoke to her five minutes before I got on the call.
1163 00:52:55 Okay, so what do I do?
1164 00:52:56 You need to get a lawyer and respond immediately.
1165 00:52:59 Nicole wants to do this amicably,
1166 00:53:01 but you're leaving us no other option.
1167 00:53:02 I'll get a lawyer. Can I get a lawyer here?
1168 00:53:04 - I don't know where "Here" Is. - New York.
1169 00:53:07 That's what all that honking is?
1170 00:53:09 No, you'll have to come to LA and meet people in LA.
1171 00:53:11 I'm rehearsing a...
1172 00:53:12 If you don't respond in Los Angeles by Friday,
1173 00:53:14 you'll leave us no choice.
1174 00:53:16 Wh... which line?
1175 00:53:18 I have to take this. Can you hold on a second, Charlie?
1176 00:53:48 Me and Mommy are in the middle of a super secret treasure hunt.
1177 00:53:52 - I thought the plane landed at nine. - What are you wearing?
1178 00:53:54 Sock pants.
1179 00:53:55 It did. What are sock pants?
1180 00:53:57 He doesn't like to feel the breeze on his legs.
1181 00:53:59 He dressed himself.
1182 00:54:00 There are long pants. Can I talk to you?
1183 00:54:02 It's almost noon.
1184 00:54:03 There was traffic. We've got to get going.
1185 00:54:04 Why don't we ever do a treasure hunt?
1186 00:54:06 Henry, can you wait a minute?
1187 00:54:07 No talking alone.
1188 00:54:08 Just one bit of talking alone, then I'll be right there.
1189 00:54:11 I got a call from your lawyer.
1190 00:54:12 She said you'd take everything and...
1191 00:54:16 custody and everything if I didn't respond.
1192 00:54:18 It's better if we just let the lawyers do this.
1193 00:54:20 Yeah, but she's saying things I don't think you mean.
1194 00:54:22 Henry, we need to get going.
1195 00:54:24 I don't want to go now.
1196 00:54:26 - Have you gotten a lawyer yet? - That's what I'm here to do.
1197 00:54:28 Come on, Henry. I'm in a rush.
1198 00:54:30 I have three more clues.
1199 00:54:31 Why did you start a treasure hunt
1200 00:54:32 or whatever so close to my arrival?
1201 00:54:33 - Cool. - You were late. We were killing time.
1202 00:54:36 Honey, come. We're going to finish the treasure hunt later.
1203 00:54:38 - I'm going to be rich! - Okay.
1204 00:54:40 You're going to go with your daddy, it's going to be fun.
1205 00:54:42 And I've got a present for you when you get back as a reward.
1206 00:54:46 He's not going to the dentist.
1207 00:54:47 - I'm trying to help. - I'm staying here.
1208 00:54:49 Come on.
1209 00:54:54 Henry?
1210 00:55:00 - Got the booster? - I have a booster.
1211 00:55:05 Oh, wait, no, it's not in.
1212 00:55:07 What's not in?
1213 00:55:08 The seat's not connected.
1214 00:55:13 I asked the rental company to install it.
1215 00:55:15 Yeah, I think they can't for liability reasons.
1216 00:55:18 - Do you know how these things... - Let me just... if you...
1217 00:55:20 - There should be a clip to clip onto. - ...dig...
1218 00:55:29 Fuck!
1219 00:55:30 - Why "Fuck?" - Something sharp.
1220 00:55:31 - Can't I stay with Mom? - No.
1221 00:55:33 Why not?
1222 00:55:34 It's my time with you. I just flew 3,000 miles.
1223 00:55:36 I don't want to.
1224 00:55:37 Henry, get in the fucking car!
1225 00:55:41 I'm sorry, but Jesus, get in the fucking car.
1226 00:55:48 How do you spell Lego Bionicles?
1227 00:55:50 That's two words. What does Lego start with?
1228 00:55:53 Just tell me.
1229 00:55:54 - Don't you want to learn it? - No.
1230 00:55:55 - It's on the box, anyway. - L...
1231 00:55:57 Then what?
1232 00:55:58 E... you know, everyone at the theater says hi.
1233 00:56:02 Then what?
1234 00:56:02 A "G-g-g" sound.
1235 00:56:04 - Are you excited for Halloween? - J?
1236 00:56:07 G.
1237 00:56:07 - Then what? - And an "O" Sound.
1238 00:56:09 - O? - Are you excited for Halloween?
1239 00:56:11 Yeah.
1240 00:56:12 I brought both our costumes.
1241 00:56:14 I'm going as a store-bought ninja.
1242 00:56:16 But we agreed. I had Donna make you a Frankenstein.
1243 00:56:18 I don't want to be a Frankenstein anymore.
1244 00:56:21 Are you sure?
1245 00:56:23 Maybe just look at it.
1246 00:56:25 It's awesome. We'll be Frankenstein and the Invisible Man.
1247 00:56:27 Mom bought me a ninja costume,
1248 00:56:30 which is better because it costs more.
1249 00:56:32 Technically, the Frankenstein cost more
1250 00:56:34 when you factor in Donna's time and the materials.
1251 00:56:36 The cousins are also going to be ninjas.
1252 00:56:38 But Henry, we went through all this trouble.
1253 00:56:44 Okay.
1254 00:56:45 Whatever you want.
1255 00:56:51 Please take the ticket.
1256 00:56:58 - Dad, you're too far. - I know.
1257 00:57:00 Please take the ticket.
1258 00:57:09 So, I'm not comfortable leaving the bags in the car
1259 00:57:11 where I've given the key to someone I don't really know.
1260 00:57:13 I've been here.
1261 00:57:15 It's an office building,
1262 00:57:16 so you've been to places like this before.
1263 00:57:19 I remember those fish.
1264 00:57:21 A lot of fish look the same.
1265 00:57:23 Can I help you?
1266 00:57:24 I'm Charlie Barber. I have a 1:30 with Dan Cohen.
1267 00:57:28 Where's your little man?
1268 00:57:29 I don't have it this time. I keep my skeletons at my mom's.
1269 00:57:32 Okay.
1270 00:57:35 Okay.
1271 00:57:36 I'm sorry. We tried to reach you.
1272 00:57:38 Mr. Cohen wanted me to apologize.
1273 00:57:40 He can't see you because apparently your wife
1274 00:57:42 already met with him on the 7th of August about representation.
1275 00:57:46 But she hired somebody else.
1276 00:57:49 - Nora... - Fanshaw?
1277 00:57:50 But unfortunately, because she consulted with Mr. Cohen already,
1278 00:57:53 he's legally barred from representing you.
1279 00:57:56 - Should we feed the fish? - Yeah.
1280 00:57:59 - It happens all the time. - Really?
1281 00:58:01 If you have a ticket, I can validate your parking.
1282 00:58:05 You know, it's common that people meet with as many lawyers as possible
1283 00:58:08 so that their spouse has limited options.
1284 00:58:10 I don't think she would've done it deliberately.
1285 00:58:12 You'd be surprised.
1286 00:58:14 Can all of them, like, breathe out of the water?
1287 00:58:18 Did you go to a lot of offices with your mom?
1288 00:58:20 Not so many.
1289 00:58:23 Like 11.
1290 00:58:24 I don't think anyone would have stealed the bags, Daddy.
1291 00:58:27 I need somebody today.
1292 00:58:28 If I don't respond by tomorrow, she said I could lose custody.
1293 00:58:31 I didn't know who else to call.
1294 00:58:32 There's got to be someone she didn't meet.
1295 00:58:34 I have a name for you.
1296 00:58:36 Bert Spitz.
1297 00:58:38 He was the entertainment lawyer at Roberto's agency.
1298 00:58:42 Great.
1299 00:58:43 But then he kind of got pushed into retirement a few years ago,
1300 00:58:47 and he went into family law.
1301 00:58:49 - I called him. - Thank you, G-ma.
1302 00:58:51 - He can see you today at three. - Shit.
1303 00:58:54 We never had this conversation, Charlie-bird.
1304 00:58:57 You got it. I love you.
1305 00:58:58 Dad!
1306 00:58:59 - I need a new burger. - Why?
1307 00:59:02 Because you made us carry your bags into the restaurant,
1308 00:59:05 I dropped it.
1309 00:59:07 That's fine. I'll give you mine. Get in the car.
1310 00:59:10 Why did you bring me today if you couldn't hang out with me?
1311 00:59:13 Because I've been away and want to see you.
1312 00:59:16 Jamie Tuber has a little sister
1313 00:59:19 named Lily Tuber.
1314 00:59:22 - Yeah. - And Lily Tuber is really bossy.
1315 00:59:26 Getting divorced with a kid
1316 00:59:27 can be one of the hardest things you'll ever do.
1317 00:59:32 It's like a death without a body.
1318 00:59:36 I know personally. I've been there four different times.
1319 00:59:39 You've been divorced four times?
1320 00:59:41 Married four times.
1321 00:59:42 Three divorces.
1322 00:59:44 This last one will stick, God willing.
1323 00:59:47 That's why I graduated into family law,
1324 00:59:50 to help people survive this painful time.
1325 00:59:54 Here's how I see it.
1326 00:59:56 If we get bogged down in "Who did this," and "Who did that,"
1327 00:59:59 and "I don't want to pay the two dollars,"
1328 01:00:01 it'll just cost you more money and time and...
1329 01:00:05 emotional stress,
1330 01:00:06 and you'll probably end up with the same result anyway.
1331 01:00:08 Right.
1332 01:00:10 I mean, I agree with that philosophy. She does too, I'm sure.
1333 01:00:13 And I always go with the truth, no matter where that takes us.
1334 01:00:16 You know, most people in my business make up the truth
1335 01:00:18 so they can get where they need to go.
1336 01:00:20 You're just transactions to them.
1337 01:00:23 I-I like to think of you as people.
1338 01:00:25 Okay, good.
1339 01:00:26 And not just you, her too.
1340 01:00:28 Yes.
1341 01:00:29 You know, this can be a really ugly process.
1342 01:00:31 But I also believe it doesn't have to be terrible.
1343 01:00:34 I'm glad to hear you say that.
1344 01:00:37 I'd love to keep expenses down as much as possible.
1345 01:00:40 Of course you do.
1346 01:00:41 I charge 450 an hour and I need a $10,000 retainer to start.
1347 01:00:46 I'll see if I can get an advance on the Broadway transfer.
1348 01:00:49 And keep in mind, you'll have to pay for her lawyer.
1349 01:00:53 I didn't...
1350 01:00:56 - What? - Well, at least part of her.
1351 01:00:58 It doesn't make sense, does it?
1352 01:01:00 I mean, you're doing this because you love your kid.
1353 01:01:04 And in doing so, you're draining money from your kid's education.
1354 01:01:07 - It seems ridiculous. - It is.
1355 01:01:09 It is, boy.
1356 01:01:12 We'll have to respond right away.
1357 01:01:15 Your son goes to school out here?
1358 01:01:17 Yeah, temporarily. We agreed.
1359 01:01:20 Her pilot went to series and I wanted to accommodate her,
1360 01:01:22 as she's often felt we do things on my terms.
1361 01:01:25 Be a better husband in divorce.
1362 01:01:27 I guess something like that, but we live in New York.
1363 01:01:31 Well, with your kid going to school out here,
1364 01:01:33 the court may see it differently.
1365 01:01:35 Will we go to court?
1366 01:01:36 No, no, we don't want to go to court.
1367 01:01:38 The courts in California are a disaster.
1368 01:01:40 No, that's just how we have to think about it.
1369 01:01:42 I'm not sure these are my glasses.
1370 01:01:45 Where are you living while you're here?
1371 01:01:46 I'm in a hotel right now.
1372 01:01:48 No, a hotel doesn't look good.
1373 01:01:49 - To who? - The court.
1374 01:01:51 You just said we weren't going to go to court.
1375 01:01:53 No, of course, of course.
1376 01:01:54 We have to prepare to go to court, hoping we don't go to court.
1377 01:01:57 Okay.
1378 01:01:58 You should get a place in LA.
1379 01:02:00 And get a place near her. It looks better for custody reasons.
1380 01:02:03 She's in West Hollywood. That'll be expensive.
1381 01:02:05 I-I guess I could rent our New York apartment.
1382 01:02:07 Don't rent it.
1383 01:02:08 You have to continue to prove New York residence.
1384 01:02:11 And of course, if you have a place in LA,
1385 01:02:13 it's hard to show you all live in New York, isn't it?
1386 01:02:15 So...
1387 01:02:17 what do I do?
1388 01:02:18 I recommend you spend as much time as you can with your son.
1389 01:02:23 Many people fight for that time,
1390 01:02:25 then they don't even use it.
1391 01:02:27 They just want to win.
1392 01:02:28 This shouldn't be that complicated, right?
1393 01:02:30 I mean, we're a New York family.
1394 01:02:32 I think it's all pretty straightforward. Right?
1395 01:02:36 I hope so, yes.
1396 01:02:38 I see no reason...
1397 01:02:40 You both love your child.
1398 01:02:44 You respect each other.
1399 01:02:45 Why this shouldn't be relatively pain-free.
1400 01:02:47 Right.
1401 01:02:49 I think you have my glasses.
1402 01:02:53 That makes sense.
1403 01:02:55 - What have you been doing? - Reading this magazine.
1404 01:02:58 You were reading California Lawyer?
1405 01:03:00 Yeah.
1406 01:03:01 Okay, I'm almost done.
1407 01:03:04 I wouldn't expect too much from that cat.
1408 01:03:08 - What kind of pet do you want? - I don't know...
1409 01:03:11 I want you to know that eventually this will all be over,
1410 01:03:14 and whatever we win or lose...
1411 01:03:16 it'll be the two of you having to figure this out together.
1412 01:03:20 Thank you.
1413 01:03:21 You're the first person in this process who's spoken to me like a human.
1414 01:03:30 You remind me of myself on my second marriage.
1415 01:03:36 Come! Come! Come! Come!
1416 01:03:39 You have fun with Daddy?
1417 01:03:40 We drove around to offices.
1418 01:03:42 Do you want to see your ninja costume? It's on G-ma's bed.
1419 01:03:45 - Yeah! - Yeah.
1420 01:03:48 You know, I had Donna build him this whole Frankenstein thing
1421 01:03:51 with the plugs and...
1422 01:03:53 Yeah, well, the cousins are ninjas, so he wanted to do that...
1423 01:03:55 But he and I had decided together.
1424 01:03:57 Well, I can't make him be Frankenstein.
1425 01:03:59 I'm not asking you to, but maybe you can help me out a little.
1426 01:04:01 I'll leave the Frankenstein here,
1427 01:04:02 maybe you can nudge him in that direction.
1428 01:04:05 I'll try.
1429 01:04:07 What's the...
1430 01:04:09 Did you dye your hair again? Is that for your show?
1431 01:04:12 No, this is me. It was this way when I saw you before.
1432 01:04:15 I know, but I didn't say anything then.
1433 01:04:18 You don't like it?
1434 01:04:19 No, I guess it's fine.
1435 01:04:20 Is it shorter? I prefer longer but...
1436 01:04:26 Sorry, it's just absurd.
1437 01:04:28 Is everything okay?
1438 01:04:29 Yeah. Why?
1439 01:04:31 You seem, I don't know, like something is...
1440 01:04:34 Everything's fine.
1441 01:04:37 Okay, I'm going to check in at the hotel,
1442 01:04:39 but I should be able to get to you guys by 5:00, 5:30...
1443 01:04:41 We're going to Cassie's in Pasadena
1444 01:04:45 and trick-or-treating with the cousins.
1445 01:04:46 Cassie lives in Pasadena now?
1446 01:04:47 Yes. She and Sam moved there a couple months ago.
1447 01:04:50 Okay, I don't really know Pasadena.
1448 01:04:51 I'll figure it out.
1449 01:04:52 - Because my mom is looking forward to it... - What's the address?
1450 01:04:54 - and Cassie and Sam are mad. - I'll text Sam.
1451 01:04:56 - Mad at who? - You.
1452 01:04:58 - Cassie and Sam? - You can understand that.
1453 01:05:00 So, I think we should probably do separate Halloweens.
1454 01:05:02 But if you're okay with it, then shouldn't they be okay with it?
1455 01:05:05 - Let's do it this way this time. - Do you not want me there?
1456 01:05:07 I'm fine with it.
1457 01:05:08 - Okay. - It'll be nice for him.
1458 01:05:10 He'll have two Halloweens.
1459 01:05:12 What am I going to do with him for second Halloween?
1460 01:05:14 Walk around Sunset Boulevard?
1461 01:05:16 Maybe the hotel has something.
1462 01:05:18 Or you can drive to a different neighborhood.
1463 01:05:23 The sun sets forever.
1464 01:05:27 There shall never be another dawn.
1465 01:05:31 No!
1466 01:05:34 Lady...
1467 01:05:36 I require the solace of the shadows...
1468 01:05:40 and the dark!
1469 01:06:01 Okay, ready for Halloween?
1470 01:06:06 Elaborate.
1471 01:06:07 Sweetheart, don't forget to wear your jacket.
1472 01:06:09 It's getting colder.
1473 01:06:09 - This is a nice house. - Ready to go back out?
1474 01:06:11 - He has to pee. - No, I don't.
1475 01:06:13 He does.
1476 01:06:15 Some of his men are in here and also Bear-Bear.
1477 01:06:17 You can keep that Bear-Bear, because I got another one.
1478 01:06:19 Does he know that there are two Bear-Bears?
1479 01:06:20 It was his idea.
1480 01:06:21 David Bowie, right? Station to Station?
1481 01:06:24 Let's Dance.
1482 01:06:25 Henry, have a great Halloween with Daddy, okay?
1483 01:06:30 Have fun.
1484 01:06:34 Go pee and then we're going back out.
1485 01:06:37 I'm too tired.
1486 01:06:38 Go pee, and then we're going to go drive to Halloween.
1487 01:06:41 This block looks promising.
1488 01:06:43 I wish Halloween was over.
1489 01:06:45 Well, it isn't.
1490 01:06:47 If we were in New York, we could be walking.
1491 01:06:49 But I like that we're sitting right now. I like to sit.
1492 01:06:53 That's true, Los Angeles does have sitting going for it.
1493 01:06:57 I think that's why I like Los Angeles better.
1494 01:06:59 Because you get to sit?
1495 01:07:00 No, because I like my friends here better.
1496 01:07:03 That's not true.
1497 01:07:04 What about Horatio and Poppy?
1498 01:07:07 Horatio doesn't like me anymore.
1499 01:07:09 And I don't like Poppy.
1500 01:07:11 Here, I have Axel.
1501 01:07:13 Axel's hilarious. I think you'd like him, Dad.
1502 01:07:16 And my family's here.
1503 01:07:19 Besides you.
1504 01:07:48 Everyone's asleep.
1505 01:08:41 I need to pee!
1506 01:08:48 Who gave you a lighter?
1507 01:08:53 Lift the seat.
1508 01:09:00 I'm going to have to go back to New York on Monday.
1509 01:09:03 Did you flush?
1510 01:09:11 Wash your hands.
1511 01:09:13 Will you play with me?
1512 01:09:16 I'm tired, honey.
1513 01:09:30 Did you hear me? I have to go back to New York.
1514 01:09:32 Watch out! Whoosh! I'm falling!
1515 01:09:37 You didn't catch me.
1516 01:09:42 Okay?
1517 01:09:44 Why aren't you here more?
1518 01:09:47 I have to work.
1519 01:09:49 You know my play is opening on Broadway.
1520 01:09:52 Is it because you don't want to be near Mom?
1521 01:09:54 No. You know, like we talked about,
1522 01:09:56 we both decided not to be together no matter where we are,
1523 01:09:59 but we both want to be with you.
1524 01:10:01 But you're not near me if you're in New York.
1525 01:10:04 Well, we all still live in New York.
1526 01:10:07 Yeah, but I go to school here.
1527 01:10:09 Just for right now.
1528 01:10:11 Like that time we were in Copenhagen for my play.
1529 01:10:14 Remember all those kids in buckets?
1530 01:10:16 I like my school here,
1531 01:10:17 and Mom says we could stay here if we want.
1532 01:10:22 What do you mean?
1533 01:10:25 She said that?
1534 01:10:26 Yeah.
1535 01:10:54 - Hello? - Are you moving out here?
1536 01:10:58 Did you find a lawyer?
1537 01:10:59 Yes. Henry says you're moving here.
1538 01:11:01 Have your lawyer call Nora.
1539 01:11:02 I want to talk about it as us.
1540 01:11:04 Who the fuck is "us"?
1541 01:11:05 Let's just get in a room, you and me.
1542 01:11:07 That's what we always said we'd do.
1543 01:11:09 - My lawyers wouldn't let me - It's not up to them.
1544 01:11:10 - sign anything. - It's up to us. It's our divorce.
1545 01:11:12 They say I could later sue them for malpractice.
1546 01:11:14 What am I walking into?
1547 01:11:16 What are you walking into?
1548 01:11:17 Yes, what the fuck is going on?!
1549 01:11:19 I read your fucking emails, Charlie! I read them all.
1550 01:11:23 - When? - I don't know, recently.
1551 01:11:25 - Shit. - You're a fucking liar.
1552 01:11:26 You fucked Mary Ann!
1553 01:11:28 It was after I was sleeping on the couch.
1554 01:11:29 All this bullshit about working on us.
1555 01:11:31 You know what? I have been working.
1556 01:11:33 I've been doing the work alone.
1557 01:11:34 How did you read my emails?
1558 01:11:36 I hacked into your account, you dumb fuck!
1559 01:11:38 I think that's illegal!
1560 01:11:39 Don't give me this shit about being surprised about LA.
1561 01:11:42 Surprise! I have my own opinions.
1562 01:11:44 How do you even know how to do something like that?
1563 01:11:45 Surprise! I want things that aren't what you want,
1564 01:11:48 because, surprise, you were fucking another lady.
1565 01:11:50 It was one time! I think you're conflating two different things.
1566 01:11:53 Mary Ann has nothing to do with LA.
1567 01:11:55 I am conflating, motherfucker!
1568 01:11:57 You watch me conflate!
1569 01:12:02 Did you just stamp your foot?
1570 01:12:04 I don't think I've ever done that before. I'm just so angry.
1571 01:12:10 You look like you needed one.
1572 01:12:11 Yes, I do, thanks.
1573 01:12:14 You know, the Japanese are making
1574 01:12:15 really interesting tequila right now.
1575 01:12:17 That's exciting, I guess.
1576 01:12:20 - What are you so angry about? - My fucking ex-husband.
1577 01:12:23 I spent all this time feeling guilty, and he's so self-absorbed.
1578 01:12:26 It's pointless.
1579 01:12:28 It's a game I'm playing with myself.
1580 01:12:32 Pablo. Uh, we met at...
1581 01:12:34 - You held the bounce board. - The flirty grip.
1582 01:12:40 - Here's what I want you to only do, okay? - What?
1583 01:12:42 - I want you to finger me. - What?
1584 01:12:45 - Just finger me. - Okay.
1585 01:12:47 That's all we're going to do, just fingering. Okay?
1586 01:12:50 I'm changing my whole fucking life.
1587 01:12:58 Nicole and Charlie's son, Henry, was born here in Los Angeles.
1588 01:13:01 He currently attends Laurel Elementary in Laurel Canyon,
1589 01:13:05 and Nicole works in Hollywood
1590 01:13:07 while also maintaining a full schedule as a mother
1591 01:13:10 with classes of swim, art,
1592 01:13:12 gym, and music, as well as play groups.
1593 01:13:16 Nicole is Henry's primary custodial parent,
1594 01:13:19 and to the extent that Charlie would like to exercise his custodial time,
1595 01:13:24 he should be making efforts to visit Henry here in California.
1596 01:13:27 Nora, you seem to be ignoring the fact
1597 01:13:29 that they lived in New York for ten years.
1598 01:13:33 My client worked in New York for several years, that's true.
1599 01:13:36 But Nicole was born and bred right here in LA.
1600 01:13:39 She and Charlie would come here most holidays and summers
1601 01:13:42 to spend time with her family, who all live in LA.
1602 01:13:45 She and Charlie were married in LA.
1603 01:13:48 Would you like to see the photos?
1604 01:13:49 No, I don't need to see the photos.
1605 01:13:52 Although I'm sure they both look beautiful.
1606 01:13:55 It's my client's expectation
1607 01:13:58 that after this TV show is completed,
1608 01:14:00 the parties will move back to New York
1609 01:14:02 where they currently keep an apartment.
1610 01:14:04 And it's my understanding that Charlie promised Nicole
1611 01:14:07 that they would spend more time in Los Angeles during the marriage.
1612 01:14:11 But because of his insistence that his work keep them in New York,
1613 01:14:14 Nicole ended up staying there much longer than she ever anticipated.
1614 01:14:19 In fact, a few years ago,
1615 01:14:21 Charlie was offered a residency at the Geffen Playhouse
1616 01:14:25 that would have taken his work and his family
1617 01:14:28 to Los Angeles for a year.
1618 01:14:30 And he, um...
1619 01:14:32 turned it down.
1620 01:14:34 Even though that was Nicole's desire.
1621 01:14:36 He wanted to maintain consistency for his family and his child.
1622 01:14:40 Was this the same consistency he wanted to maintain
1623 01:14:42 when they went to Copenhagen for six months
1624 01:14:44 so he could direct a play?
1625 01:14:46 Now, while I understand Charlie lives in New York...
1626 01:14:50 and when it's convenient to his work schedule,
1627 01:14:52 he flies out to see his son...
1628 01:14:54 He flies out here every chance he gets, at great expense.
1629 01:14:56 I don't see any reason you can't be out here full time.
1630 01:14:58 He makes his living in New York.
1631 01:15:00 - Sorry, do we want to contemplate lunch? - Good idea.
1632 01:15:02 I'll order now so it'll come when we're all hungry.
1633 01:15:05 Yeah.
1634 01:15:06 - Everyone good with Manny's? - I'd love Manny's.
1635 01:15:09 Have you had Manny's?
1636 01:15:11 You'll love it.
1637 01:15:12 Just really yummy sandwiches and salads.
1638 01:15:15 I'll have the BLT.
1639 01:15:16 Dad?
1640 01:15:18 Turkey.
1641 01:15:19 I'll have the BLT.
1642 01:15:20 - You'll have the kale? - Kale salad.
1643 01:15:40 I don't know, sorry.
1644 01:15:43 Charlie will have, um...
1645 01:15:47 the Greek salad,
1646 01:15:48 but with lemon and olive oil instead of the Greek dressing.
1647 01:15:51 Okay.
1648 01:15:52 - I'll have the Chinese chicken salad. - Okay, sure.
1649 01:15:55 - Thank you. - Yeah.
1650 01:15:59 Congratulations, Charlie, on your grant. Nicole told me.
1651 01:16:03 Thank you.
1652 01:16:03 He's a genius.
1653 01:16:06 Well, I told Nicole I loved your play.
1654 01:16:09 - Thanks. - Really.
1655 01:16:11 You are one smart cookie.
1656 01:16:14 Thanks.
1657 01:16:15 I would just love to...
1658 01:16:17 crawl inside that brain.
1659 01:16:20 There was that one moment when you smell the toast, smell.
1660 01:16:25 It was literally my favorite thing that I saw that year.
1661 01:16:29 - Thanks. - Truly genius.
1662 01:16:31 Thank you.
1663 01:16:32 I was sorry to hear it closed on Broadway.
1664 01:16:35 They couldn't smell the toast.
1665 01:16:38 It was so emotional.
1666 01:16:41 It's very competitive, I imagine.
1667 01:16:45 Now, when Charlie is in Los Angeles,
1668 01:16:48 Nicole, of course, agrees that it will be best for Henry
1669 01:16:52 that he see each parent equally.
1670 01:16:57 It's very nice out here, Charlie. You should give it a chance.
1671 01:17:00 Yeah, and the space... you can't beat it.
1672 01:17:02 I love it too.
1673 01:17:04 But all of our personal feelings about the two cities aside,
1674 01:17:08 we don't share your assertion
1675 01:17:09 that the couple is an LA-based family.
1676 01:17:12 It was very clearly their deal
1677 01:17:14 that they would go back to New York after Nicole finished her show.
1678 01:17:18 I'm not aware of any deal.
1679 01:17:20 Well, I didn't get it in writing.
1680 01:17:25 Charlie, is this like the deal that you made
1681 01:17:28 that you and Nicole would spend more time in LA during your marriage?
1682 01:17:31 We didn't have a deal. It was something we discussed.
1683 01:17:35 But...
1684 01:17:36 So, it's a deal when it's something you want
1685 01:17:38 and a discussion when Nicole wants it?
1686 01:17:44 Sidebar...
1687 01:17:46 Nora, do you have a spare office
1688 01:17:47 where Charlie and I can sidebar?
1689 01:17:49 Sure.
1690 01:17:50 - Can you, um... - I can show you.
1691 01:17:52 Come on.
1692 01:17:59 Nora is a very good lawyer.
1693 01:18:03 - Tough, right? - Yeah.
1694 01:18:05 And you're in a bind
1695 01:18:06 because you've shown you're willing to fly out here
1696 01:18:08 and rent an apartment to see your son.
1697 01:18:10 - You told me to do that. - I know that.
1698 01:18:12 And I'm doing that because I want to see my kid,
1699 01:18:14 not to set a precedent.
1700 01:18:15 Yes, but unfortunately, you are setting a precedent.
1701 01:18:18 And a judge might look at it that way.
1702 01:18:20 What's the alternative?
1703 01:18:21 I stay in New York and never come out here?
1704 01:18:23 No, because then it would look to the court
1705 01:18:25 like you don't care about seeing your son.
1706 01:18:27 Court or no court? Stop saying
1707 01:18:29 "court" and then "never court."
1708 01:18:31 Well, the way this is going, we may have to go to court.
1709 01:18:34 - Are you aware of how maddening you sound? - I am.
1710 01:18:38 And I know it seems unfair.
1711 01:18:43 But imagine if you were...
1712 01:18:46 a poor mother whose husband abandons her,
1713 01:18:49 and then refuses to pay anything.
1714 01:18:52 That's what the system is trying to protect people from.
1715 01:18:57 Listen...
1716 01:18:59 if I were representing you...
1717 01:19:01 You are representing me.
1718 01:19:02 Right, no, of course. No...
1719 01:19:04 I don't see a judge moving this child from California.
1720 01:19:08 I think we try and settle today.
1721 01:19:10 Settle meaning what?
1722 01:19:13 She gets LA.
1723 01:19:14 No, Bert, just...
1724 01:19:16 No.
1725 01:19:18 I mean, we have to win this.
1726 01:19:20 Remember, the win is what's best for Henry.
1727 01:19:22 And if you guys go to court, he's going to get pulled into it.
1728 01:19:25 But if he stays here and I stay in New York, that's just...
1729 01:19:28 then I won't...
1730 01:19:30 I'll never get to really be his parent again.
1731 01:19:32 It'll be different.
1732 01:19:33 It won't exist.
1733 01:19:35 So maybe you move here.
1734 01:19:37 You heard what Aamir said about space.
1735 01:19:38 Fuck the space, Bert! Fuck the space!
1736 01:19:41 I'll do whatever you want me to do, but this is my advice.
1737 01:19:45 I've seen these things go on and on,
1738 01:19:47 and the burden of these battles is immeasurable.
1739 01:19:50 I had a client get colon cancer
1740 01:19:51 and die before he and his wife came to agreement.
1741 01:19:54 What about filing in New York?
1742 01:19:56 It's too late.
1743 01:19:57 And even if you did, I don't think it would matter.
1744 01:19:59 They're being reasonable financially, you know?
1745 01:20:01 You're... You're lucky they didn't ask for half your grant money.
1746 01:20:04 She wouldn't do that.
1747 01:20:04 She knows I put all that money back in my theater.
1748 01:20:06 If this continues, she might.
1749 01:20:08 The actors and crew all rely on that money.
1750 01:20:11 The court would never agree with this, right?
1751 01:20:13 Whether they do or not, it'll cost you half your grant money
1752 01:20:16 to go to court and prove it.
1753 01:20:20 I feel like a criminal.
1754 01:20:22 But you didn't commit any crime.
1755 01:20:24 It doesn't feel that way.
1756 01:20:25 If we give on LA right now,
1757 01:20:28 and then try to make the best deal possible,
1758 01:20:30 I think we can get her to give on other fronts.
1759 01:20:32 There are no other fronts!
1760 01:20:35 This is the thing!
1761 01:20:37 He needs to know that I fought for him!
1762 01:20:39 He'll know.
1763 01:20:55 I should never have let her come out here with Henry.
1764 01:20:57 If it wasn't LA and New York,
1765 01:20:58 it'd be something else.
1766 01:21:00 You'd be fighting about a house, or a school district, or...
1767 01:21:04 You know what this is like?
1768 01:21:06 This is like that joke about the woman at the hairdresser,
1769 01:21:09 she's going to Rome.
1770 01:21:10 - Do you know this? - I don't.
1771 01:21:12 This woman is at her hairdresser and she says,
1772 01:21:14 "I'm going to Rome on holiday."
1773 01:21:15 And he says, "Oh, really? What... what airline are you taking?"
1774 01:21:18 She says, "Alitalia."
1775 01:21:20 He says, "Alitalia? Are you crazy?
1776 01:21:22 That's the worst... That's terrible. Don't take that."
1777 01:21:24 He says, "Where are you going to stay?"
1778 01:21:26 She says, "I'm going to stay at the Hassler."
1779 01:21:27 "The Hassler? What, are you kidding?
1780 01:21:29 They're renovating the Hassler.
1781 01:21:31 You'll hear hammering all night long.
1782 01:21:33 You won't sleep. What are you going to see?"
1783 01:21:35 She says, "I think I'm going to try to go to the Vatican."
1784 01:21:37 "The Vatican? You'll be standing in line all day long.
1785 01:21:40 You'll never get to see anything..."
1786 01:21:41 I'm sorry, Bert, am I paying for this joke?
1787 01:21:45 Whatever happens here, it's temporary.
1788 01:21:49 He's growing up. He's going to have opinions on the subject.
1789 01:21:52 Time is on your side, Charlie.
1790 01:21:55 Maybe he'll do college on the East Coast.
1791 01:22:07 I have most of my coins,
1792 01:22:09 like my quarters and dimes at Daddy's...
1793 01:22:11 - Right. - but I'm keeping my dollars
1794 01:22:13 and my one twenty at yours, okay?
1795 01:22:15 So, that is one twenty plus 50, what is that?
1796 01:22:20 Goddamn it.
1797 01:22:22 What's "Goddamn it"?
1798 01:22:23 Did you guys lose power where you are?
1799 01:22:25 Dad? Did we lose power?
1800 01:22:27 No.
1801 01:22:29 There's rolling blackouts in the hills and now...
1802 01:22:33 Damn it. Now the gate won't close.
1803 01:22:35 Her gate won't close.
1804 01:22:42 Mom!
1805 01:22:47 - Can we go see my room? - Yeah, of course.
1806 01:22:49 - You tried all the... - I tried everything.
1807 01:22:51 Sorry I made you come out.
1808 01:22:52 It's fine.
1809 01:22:53 - I just... - You don't want your gate open.
1810 01:22:56 Right.
1811 01:22:57 There should be a panel or something...
1812 01:22:58 Maybe this is something here.
1813 01:23:03 - It's a cute house. - Oh, yeah.
1814 01:23:04 I mean, from what I can see.
1815 01:23:06 Thanks.
1816 01:23:11 You're getting shaggy.
1817 01:23:12 Yeah, I have to find a hair cutter.
1818 01:23:16 You want me to cut it?
1819 01:23:18 Okay.
1820 01:23:30 Close your eyes.
1821 01:23:36 He's out.
1822 01:23:37 Maybe he should stay here tonight.
1823 01:23:40 It's my night.
1824 01:24:10 Hey, come on. We're going.
1825 01:24:12 Come on. Let's take a walk. Right?
1826 01:24:13 Yeah, we're going to take a walk.
1827 01:24:14 - We're taking a walk. - Fine, all right. She's crazy.
1828 01:24:16 We're mostly finished.
1829 01:24:19 Bert and I hammered out 90 percent of the details,
1830 01:24:22 and there's a couple minor things hanging,
1831 01:24:24 but it should be easy.
1832 01:24:26 And then the judge makes your divorce official.
1833 01:24:30 That's good.
1834 01:24:33 - Fuck me. - What?
1835 01:24:36 Who's that?
1836 01:24:38 Charlie shouldn't have done this.
1837 01:24:40 What do you mean? Where's Bert?
1838 01:24:42 This means that everything we've agreed upon now is off the table.
1839 01:24:46 We've got LA, right?
1840 01:24:47 Not with Jay Marotta representing him.
1841 01:24:50 This is a street fight now.
1842 01:24:52 And I'm going to have to ask for things
1843 01:24:53 that we wouldn't normally ask for.
1844 01:24:55 This system rewards bad behavior.
1845 01:25:00 Jay.
1846 01:25:02 I saw Miriam at Madeo the other night.
1847 01:25:04 - Yeah? - Looking very handsome.
1848 01:25:06 You know, you should come to our Stand Up To Cancer event.
1849 01:25:09 - John Legend's going to play. - Oh, love him.
1850 01:25:11 Okay? It's going to be at the Beverly Hilton, I think.
1851 01:25:13 - Great. - Okay?
1852 01:25:14 She said you're spending more time in Malibu.
1853 01:25:16 - Really? - Me too.
1854 01:25:18 I haven't seen her since
1855 01:25:18 that building was ICM.
1856 01:25:21 A little history...
1857 01:25:23 Ten years ago, Charlie takes a risk when he first hires Nicole
1858 01:25:28 as an actress in his play in New York City.
1859 01:25:31 He's a well-regarded up-and-coming director of the avant-garde.
1860 01:25:35 And she's known as the girl in that college sex movie
1861 01:25:39 who takes her top off.
1862 01:25:41 - My client will not be slut-shamed... - Ten years on...
1863 01:25:43 for an artistic choice.
1864 01:25:44 and many prestigious theater roles later...
1865 01:25:47 she becomes an actress of great credibility.
1866 01:25:50 And it's because of that credibility,
1867 01:25:52 that she's offered the lead role in a major television show.
1868 01:25:56 This new opportunity is thanks to Charlie.
1869 01:26:00 Your Honor, we shouldn't have to pay support money at this point.
1870 01:26:04 In fact, Charlie is entitled to half her TV money,
1871 01:26:09 present and future earnings of the show.
1872 01:26:14 Charlie's just received the enormous sum of $650,000
1873 01:26:18 in the form of a MacArthur grant.
1874 01:26:20 - Of which he gets - This is for the theater work...
1875 01:26:22 - in 125,000 installments - he conducted during the marriage.
1876 01:26:25 over five years.
1877 01:26:26 He uses the money
1878 01:26:26 So by Jay's same logic, this is work
1879 01:26:28 to employ actors and crew members
1880 01:26:28 that Nicole contributed to in numerous ways.
1881 01:26:30 One at a time, please.
1882 01:26:31 and to pay debts that he's accumulated
1883 01:26:34 with his theater company that stars his wife.
1884 01:26:39 - Bless you. - Not only did she turn down a lucrative
1885 01:26:42 and successful career in movies
1886 01:26:44 to perform in his little theater,
1887 01:26:47 but she actually supplied charlie
1888 01:26:49 with a loan early on to help out.
1889 01:26:51 Which he paid back.
1890 01:26:52 She lent her name to the marquee,
1891 01:26:53 which was the principle reason people came to the theater.
1892 01:26:55 That may have been true ten years ago.
1893 01:26:58 And in turn, she helped establish Charlie's reputation.
1894 01:27:02 Now, over the next ten years,
1895 01:27:04 she was subsequently offered parts in movies, TV shows,
1896 01:27:07 most of which she turned down at Charlie's behest
1897 01:27:10 to be a mom and act in his plays.
1898 01:27:13 So, while we are willing to be flexible on support,
1899 01:27:17 we contend that half of Charlie's grant money
1900 01:27:19 be split between the parties.
1901 01:27:20 I don't see how you can claim that she gets half a grant
1902 01:27:23 dedicated to his genius.
1903 01:27:25 He became a genius during the marriage.
1904 01:27:27 Come on, Nora.
1905 01:27:28 Charlie himself, upon hearing that he received the prize,
1906 01:27:31 told Nicole that it belonged to her too.
1907 01:27:33 That's what people say when they win awards.
1908 01:27:36 No, he was implying what was true.
1909 01:27:39 His genius was an intangible asset built during the marriage.
1910 01:27:43 Nora, I like how you refer to Charlie's theater
1911 01:27:46 as a ramshackle downtown dump
1912 01:27:48 when you're arguing custody,
1913 01:27:50 but when you want more money,
1914 01:27:52 he's a big, rich, genius Broadway director.
1915 01:27:55 You can't have it both ways.
1916 01:27:56 Really? Why not?
1917 01:27:58 And whether you think it's fair or not, Jay,
1918 01:28:01 the first monetary installment from the MacArthur grant
1919 01:28:03 was put into a joint marital account,
1920 01:28:05 and thus became communal property.
1921 01:28:06 Fuck. You shouldn't have put that money in a joint account.
1922 01:28:09 There's not going to be anything left, anyway.
1923 01:28:10 I'm using it all to divorce her.
1924 01:28:12 Nora, I have to say that your account of this marriage
1925 01:28:14 takes place in an alternate reality.
1926 01:28:18 By suddenly moving to LA
1927 01:28:20 and insisting on an LA residence,
1928 01:28:23 Nicole is withholding Henry...
1929 01:28:25 - Counsel, please be seated. - alienating him from his father,
1930 01:28:28 which has turned Charlie's world upside down.
1931 01:28:31 - Counselor? - It amounts to an ambush.
1932 01:28:32 "Witholding," Jay?
1933 01:28:33 Really? "Alienating"?
1934 01:28:35 Well, those are fighting words,
1935 01:28:37 and it's simply false and
1936 01:28:38 does nothing to further this settlement.
1937 01:28:41 Your recap of this situation is outrageous.
1938 01:28:44 And although California is, without doubt, a no-fault state,
1939 01:28:47 it bears mentioning in the accurate recap of this situation
1940 01:28:50 that Charlie had had extramarital affairs.
1941 01:28:52 - An extramarital affair. - Do you really want me to go there?
1942 01:28:55 - Yeah, let's go there. - Okay.
1943 01:28:57 Nicole has admitted to hacking Charlie's computer
1944 01:29:00 and reading his emails,
1945 01:29:02 which, if proven, is a felony.
1946 01:29:04 And, Nora, I don't think you'd be too happy
1947 01:29:06 if I ask Nicole about her alcohol consumption in the evenings.
1948 01:29:10 What?
1949 01:29:10 She confided in Charlie one night recently,
1950 01:29:13 having just carried Henry to bed,
1951 01:29:16 that she was having trouble standing while walking down the staircase.
1952 01:29:21 And from what I understand, this is not an isolated event.
1953 01:29:24 So you let me know, Nora,
1954 01:29:26 and we will go there as needed.
1955 01:29:28 Charlie?
1956 01:29:30 Can I ask you,
1957 01:29:31 how do you expect to have more time with Henry
1958 01:29:33 when you don't exercise the time you already have,
1959 01:29:35 and exercise it responsibly?
1960 01:29:38 On a recent visit to Los Angeles,
1961 01:29:41 after failing to call, text, communicate in any way,
1962 01:29:45 shape, or form,
1963 01:29:46 Charlie finally arrived two hours late
1964 01:29:48 to pick up Henry at Nicole's mother's house.
1965 01:29:50 At that point, the car seat,
1966 01:29:52 which he had assured Nicole had been professionally installed,
1967 01:29:55 was clearly not even belted in.
1968 01:29:57 It was just sitting in the back seat.
1969 01:29:58 You have to buckle in the car seat.
1970 01:30:00 - I know. - It's the law.
1971 01:30:01 I thought the rental place did it.
1972 01:30:02 They can't. It's a liability.
1973 01:30:02 I know that now.
1974 01:30:03 Once we discovered that, we fixed it.
1975 01:30:05 Counsel?
1976 01:30:07 You can see my courtroom is full
1977 01:30:09 and there are people who don't have
1978 01:30:10 the resources your clients have,
1979 01:30:13 and I'm fairly certain you haven't exhausted, in good faith,
1980 01:30:16 the arguments in the case of this child.
1981 01:30:19 In the meantime, we'll keep the status quo.
1982 01:30:21 This remains an LA family for the time being.
1983 01:30:25 I took over this department recently,
1984 01:30:28 and I'm still becoming acquainted with the cases.
1985 01:30:31 So, I'm going to appoint an expert evaluator
1986 01:30:35 who knows much more about young children than I do.
1987 01:30:39 Once the evaluation is done,
1988 01:30:41 we'll modify the orders where necessary.
1989 01:30:51 Hey, where's Henry?
1990 01:30:53 He's with Cassie and her kids at Laser Tag.
1991 01:30:56 You want something to drink?
1992 01:30:57 I have unfiltered tap water, beer, and some juice boxes.
1993 01:31:01 I'll take a juice box.
1994 01:31:08 You don't have anything on the walls?
1995 01:31:10 I don't have anything to put on them except Henry's art,
1996 01:31:12 which is being framed.
1997 01:31:14 I can give you some stuff, you know, until you get some things.
1998 01:31:18 How about that great picture of Henry on the Staten Island Ferry?
1999 01:31:21 Aren't you in that one?
2000 01:31:24 I guess I... You could...
2001 01:31:25 - cut me out. - I have to leave a day early to New York on the 22nd.
2002 01:31:28 So I was wondering if I could take Henry that Friday.
2003 01:31:31 The 22nd. So, that's the 21st?
2004 01:31:35 We have plans, actually.
2005 01:31:36 We're going to, um,
2006 01:31:37 some thing at LACMA with the cousins.
2007 01:31:40 But could you change it so I could take him?
2008 01:31:43 It's just one night.
2009 01:31:44 - He's looking forward to it. - Really?
2010 01:31:46 It's my night, Charlie, we negotiated it.
2011 01:31:48 Okay, fine.
2012 01:31:50 But what?
2013 01:31:51 No, I'm just asking you to be flexible.
2014 01:31:53 I am flexible.
2015 01:31:54 You come in and out
2016 01:31:55 and I adjust based on your schedule.
2017 01:31:56 This one night we have tickets to...
2018 01:31:58 It's not only this one night, but fine.
2019 01:32:00 Henry's teacher wants to meet with us.
2020 01:32:01 You mean his LA teacher?
2021 01:32:03 Can you, uh, answer the email so we could set a time?
2022 01:32:06 Yeah, I've been distracted.
2023 01:32:09 I understand.
2024 01:32:11 They just want to rule out everything,
2025 01:32:12 you know, with his reading.
2026 01:32:13 I just think he's a little over-anxious.
2027 01:32:15 I think he wants it too much.
2028 01:32:17 They said he's off the charts in math.
2029 01:32:19 He quits too easily when things aren't easy for him.
2030 01:32:21 You know, he's like us, he's stubborn.
2031 01:32:24 He's still a lousy Monopoly player
2032 01:32:25 because he tries to save all his money.
2033 01:32:32 So...
2034 01:32:34 I thought we should talk.
2035 01:32:37 I feel like maybe things have gone too far.
2036 01:32:40 I mean, my mom's taking out a loan against the house
2037 01:32:42 to help me pay Nora.
2038 01:32:43 I thought I paid Nora.
2039 01:32:45 You pay 30 percent of Nora.
2040 01:32:47 Well, I'm going broke too, if that's any help.
2041 01:32:49 I've just agreed to direct two shitty plays,
2042 01:32:52 and we can forget putting anything away for Henry's college.
2043 01:32:54 It's just that up until now,
2044 01:32:56 we've been able to keep Henry somewhat removed,
2045 01:32:58 and this will change that.
2046 01:33:00 We have to protect him.
2047 01:33:02 I agree.
2048 01:33:02 Nora says that the evaluator will come into our homes,
2049 01:33:06 they're going to interview Henry in addition to us,
2050 01:33:09 our friends, family, enemies,
2051 01:33:12 and then they'll observe us with him,
2052 01:33:13 how we are as parents.
2053 01:33:15 - Sounds awful. - I know.
2054 01:33:17 I feel like if anybody observed me on any given day as a mom,
2055 01:33:19 I'd never get custody.
2056 01:33:23 That was a joke.
2057 01:33:25 - I know. I feel the same way. - Right.
2058 01:33:27 So...
2059 01:33:29 Maybe we can figure something out between us.
2060 01:33:32 You remember I said this to you at the beginning?
2061 01:33:34 I know you did, but these are different circumstances.
2062 01:33:36 I was anticipating these circumstances.
2063 01:33:39 Anyway, shall we try this?
2064 01:33:41 Okay.
2065 01:33:57 I don't know how to start.
2066 01:34:00 Do you understand why I want to stay in LA?
2067 01:34:03 No.
2068 01:34:04 Well... That's not...
2069 01:34:05 Charlie, that's not a useful way for us to start.
2070 01:34:08 I don't understand it.
2071 01:34:11 You don't remember promising that we could do time here?
2072 01:34:13 We discussed things.
2073 01:34:15 We were married, we said things.
2074 01:34:17 We talked about moving to Europe.
2075 01:34:18 About getting a...
2076 01:34:21 sideboard, or what do you call it?
2077 01:34:23 A credenza, to fill the empty space behind the couch.
2078 01:34:26 We never did any of it.
2079 01:34:27 You turned down the residency at the Geffen
2080 01:34:29 that would've brought us here for a... a year.
2081 01:34:31 It wasn't something I wanted.
2082 01:34:32 We had a great theater company
2083 01:34:33 and a great life where we were.
2084 01:34:35 - You call that a great life? - You know what I mean.
2085 01:34:38 I don't mean we had a great marriage.
2086 01:34:39 I mean, life in Brooklyn.
2087 01:34:41 Professionally.
2088 01:34:42 I don't know.
2089 01:34:43 Honestly, I never considered anything different.
2090 01:34:45 Well, that's the problem, isn't it?
2091 01:34:47 I mean, I was your wife.
2092 01:34:48 You should've considered my happiness, too.
2093 01:34:50 Come on, you were happy.
2094 01:34:52 You've just decided you weren't now.
2095 01:34:55 Okay. Okay.
2096 01:34:57 Let's...
2097 01:34:59 M-My work is here now, my family is here.
2098 01:35:02 And I agreed to put Henry in school here
2099 01:35:04 because your show went to series.
2100 01:35:05 I did that knowing that
2101 01:35:06 when you were done shooting, he'd come back to New York.
2102 01:35:08 Honey, we never said that.
2103 01:35:09 That may have been your assumption,
2104 01:35:10 but we never expressly said that.
2105 01:35:12 - We did say it. - When did we say it?
2106 01:35:14 I don't know when we said it, but we said it.
2107 01:35:17 - I thought... - We said it that time on the phone!
2108 01:35:18 Honey, let me finish.
2109 01:35:20 Sorry. I keep saying that.
2110 01:35:21 I thought that if Henry was happy here,
2111 01:35:24 and my show continued,
2112 01:35:25 that we might do LA for a while.
2113 01:35:27 I was not privy to that thought process.
2114 01:35:30 The only reason we didn't live here
2115 01:35:31 is because you can't imagine desires other than your own,
2116 01:35:34 unless they're forced on you.
2117 01:35:36 Okay, you wish you hadn't married me,
2118 01:35:37 you wish you'd had a different life,
2119 01:35:39 but this is what happened.
2120 01:35:41 - So, what do we do? - I don't know.
2121 01:35:45 Nora says there's no coming back from this.
2122 01:35:47 Fuck Nora!
2123 01:35:47 I hate fucking Nora telling me I always lived in LA
2124 01:35:50 even though I never lived in LA.
2125 01:35:53 How could you have her say those things about me?
2126 01:35:55 Jay said them about me too.
2127 01:35:57 You shouldn't have fired Bert.
2128 01:35:59 I needed my own asshole.
2129 01:36:02 Let's just both agree both of our lawyers
2130 01:36:04 said shitty stuff about both of us.
2131 01:36:06 Nora was worse.
2132 01:36:07 Jay called me an alcoholic.
2133 01:36:09 You pulled the rug out from under me
2134 01:36:10 and you're putting me through hell.
2135 01:36:11 You put me through hell during our marriage.
2136 01:36:13 Is that what that was, hell?
2137 01:36:14 And now you're going to put Henry through this horrible thing
2138 01:36:16 so you can yet again get what you want!
2139 01:36:18 It's not what I want.
2140 01:36:19 I mean, it's what I want, but it's what was...
2141 01:36:22 was...
2142 01:36:23 what's best for him.
2143 01:36:24 Oh, well, I was wondering
2144 01:36:26 when you'd get around to Henry and what he actually wants.
2145 01:36:28 Fuck off!
2146 01:36:29 No, you fuck off!
2147 01:36:30 If you'd listen to your son, or anyone,
2148 01:36:33 then he'd tell you that he'd rather live here!
2149 01:36:34 Stop putting your feelings about me onto Henry.
2150 01:36:36 He tells me he likes it better here.
2151 01:36:38 He tells you because he knows it's what you want to hear!
2152 01:36:40 He tells me you're on the phone all the time.
2153 01:36:41 You don't even play with him.
2154 01:36:42 Because I'm going through a divorce in LA
2155 01:36:44 and trying to direct a play in New York!
2156 01:36:46 Which closed because I wasn't there.
2157 01:36:48 It was a huge opportunity for me...
2158 01:36:49 You're fighting for something you don't even want!
2159 01:36:51 And I let everyone down.
2160 01:36:53 You're being so much like your father.
2161 01:36:55 Do not compare me to my father!
2162 01:36:57 I didn't compare you to him. I said you were acting like him.
2163 01:36:59 You're exactly like your mother.
2164 01:37:00 Everything you were complaining about her, you're doing.
2165 01:37:02 You're suffocating Henry.
2166 01:37:04 First of all, I love my mother. She was a wonderful mother.
2167 01:37:07 I'm just repeating what you told me.
2168 01:37:07 Secondly, how dare you compare my mothering to my mother!
2169 01:37:11 I may be like my father, but I am not like my mother!
2170 01:37:14 You are!
2171 01:37:15 And you're like my father!
2172 01:37:17 You're also like my mother!
2173 01:37:18 You're all the bad things about all of these people!
2174 01:37:21 But mostly your mother.
2175 01:37:22 When we would lie in bed together,
2176 01:37:23 sometimes I would look at you and see her and just feel so gross!
2177 01:37:26 - I felt repulsed when you touched me! - You're a slob.
2178 01:37:29 I made all the beds, closed all cabinets...
2179 01:37:31 The thought of having sex with you
2180 01:37:32 makes me want to peel my skin off.
2181 01:37:34 You'll never be happy, in LA or anywhere.
2182 01:37:36 You'll think you found some better opposite guy than me,
2183 01:37:39 and in a few years, you'll rebel against him
2184 01:37:42 because you need to have your voice, but you don't want a voice.
2185 01:37:45 You just want to fucking complain about not having a voice!
2186 01:37:47 I think about being married to you,
2187 01:37:49 and that woman is a stranger to me.
2188 01:37:51 - I mean, we had a child's marriage. - You've regressed.
2189 01:37:54 You've gone back to your life before you met me, it's pathetic.
2190 01:37:56 People used to tell me that
2191 01:37:58 you were too selfish to be a great artist.
2192 01:38:00 And I used to defend you.
2193 01:38:02 They were absolutely right.
2194 01:38:03 All your best acting is behind you.
2195 01:38:05 You're back to being a hack!
2196 01:38:07 You gaslighted me! You're a fucking villain!
2197 01:38:10 You want to present yourself as a victim
2198 01:38:11 because it's a good legal strategy?
2199 01:38:13 Fine, but you and I both know you chose this life!
2200 01:38:17 You wanted it until you didn't!
2201 01:38:20 You used me so you could get out of LA.
2202 01:38:22 I didn't use you.
2203 01:38:23 You did, and then you blamed me for it!
2204 01:38:26 You always made me aware of what I was doing wrong,
2205 01:38:28 how I was falling short!
2206 01:38:29 Life with you was joyless!
2207 01:38:31 What, so then you had to go and fuck someone else?
2208 01:38:33 You shouldn't be upset that I fucked her!
2209 01:38:35 You should be upset that I had a laugh with her!
2210 01:38:38 Do you love her?
2211 01:38:39 No.
2212 01:38:40 But she didn't hate me. You hated me.
2213 01:38:42 You hated me.
2214 01:38:43 You fucked somebody we worked with.
2215 01:38:45 You stopped having sex with me in the last year.
2216 01:38:48 I never cheated on you.
2217 01:38:49 That was cheating on me!
2218 01:38:51 But there was so much I could have done.
2219 01:38:53 I was a director in my twenties who came from nothing
2220 01:38:55 and was suddenly on the cover of fucking Time Out New York!
2221 01:38:59 I was hot shit and I wanted to fuck everybody and I didn't.
2222 01:39:02 And I loved you and I didn't want to lose you.
2223 01:39:04 But I'm in my twenties, and I didn't want to lose that too,
2224 01:39:07 and I kinda did!
2225 01:39:09 And you wanted so much so fast.
2226 01:39:11 I didn't even want to get married.
2227 01:39:13 And fuck it!
2228 01:39:15 There's so much I didn't do.
2229 01:39:18 - Thanks for that! - You're welcome!
2230 01:39:20 I can't believe I have to know you forever!
2231 01:39:23 You're fucking insane!
2232 01:39:26 And you're fucking winning!
2233 01:39:29 Are you kidding me?
2234 01:39:31 I wanted to be married.
2235 01:39:33 I'd already lost!
2236 01:39:35 You didn't love me as much as I loved you!
2237 01:39:39 What does that have to do with LA?
2238 01:39:43 What?
2239 01:39:44 You're so merged with your own selfishness,
2240 01:39:47 you don't even identify it as selfishness anymore!
2241 01:39:51 You're such a dick!
2242 01:39:53 Every day I wake up and I hope you're dead!
2243 01:39:56 Dead, like if I could guarantee Henry would be okay,
2244 01:39:59 I'd hope you'd get an illness, and then get hit by a car and die!
2245 01:40:23 Oh, God!
2246 01:40:34 I'm sorry.
2247 01:40:37 Me too.
2248 01:41:04 Okay. No, we can make this nice.
2249 01:41:08 I would take the smaller plants and put them by the window.
2250 01:41:11 And, uh, do you have things we can put on the walls?
2251 01:41:33 All right, that's it. Thank you very much.
2252 01:41:35 We miss you, and it looks great, really.
2253 01:41:38 - Let us know how it goes, okay? - All right.
2254 01:41:39 I'll see you guys on, uh... on Monday.
2255 01:41:42 - Love you. - All right, love you too. Bye.
2256 01:42:09 Why do we have so many plants all of a sudden?
2257 01:42:11 We'll have to return some of this stuff,
2258 01:42:13 so don't get too used to it.
2259 01:42:14 I find plants kind of scary.
2260 01:42:16 These plants are good guys.
2261 01:42:19 Come here.
2262 01:42:23 Yeah?
2263 01:42:25 Tomorrow, this woman is going to come and visit us...
2264 01:42:29 and be with us while we eat dinner.
2265 01:42:32 - Is it your girlfriend? - No, no.
2266 01:42:34 Is it Mommy's boyfriend?
2267 01:42:35 No. Why? Does Mommy have a boyfriend?
2268 01:42:37 I don't know. Does she?
2269 01:42:39 - I don't know. - I don't know.
2270 01:42:43 Why is someone watching us eat dinner?
2271 01:42:45 I know, it's weird.
2272 01:42:47 It's just something we have to do.
2273 01:42:49 Which has to do with...
2274 01:42:51 Mommy and me figuring out everything...
2275 01:42:54 and how we're going to be.
2276 01:42:59 You know?
2277 01:43:01 Will you read to me?
2278 01:43:03 Sure. Grab your book.
2279 01:43:05 Do you use drugs or alcohol?
2280 01:43:07 I drink alcohol.
2281 01:43:09 How much alcohol do you drink?
2282 01:43:13 I don't know, a glass of wine with dinner.
2283 01:43:16 - Sometimes more. - How much more?
2284 01:43:20 It's... Sometimes a...
2285 01:43:22 a few...
2286 01:43:24 I... sometimes split a bottle of wine with someone.
2287 01:43:27 - Okay, who do you split it with? - I mean...
2288 01:43:29 if I'm having dinner with someone and we order a bottle of wine.
2289 01:43:33 - Okay. - You know, like at a restaurant.
2290 01:43:35 When you say,
2291 01:43:36 "Do you want to go by the glass or do we get a bottle?"
2292 01:43:40 - You get a bottle? - Well, sometimes.
2293 01:43:44 I mean, sometimes I go by the glass.
2294 01:43:47 You know, it depends.
2295 01:43:52 Did you mean drugs ever?
2296 01:43:54 I have done drugs.
2297 01:43:57 In college.
2298 01:43:59 - Anything since you've been... - I... I don't do it regularly.
2299 01:44:02 Anything since you've been a mother?
2300 01:44:06 Pot a few times.
2301 01:44:08 Coke once at a party. I mean, Henry wasn't with me.
2302 01:44:14 What would you say are your strengths as a parent?
2303 01:44:25 I listen.
2304 01:44:27 I play.
2305 01:44:31 I-I put in the time. I...
2306 01:44:34 love...
2307 01:44:36 taking care of him...
2308 01:44:38 watching him grow.
2309 01:44:42 And sometimes...
2310 01:44:43 what they say about "It goes so fast" is true, but...
2311 01:44:49 sometimes it's not.
2312 01:44:50 Sometimes it goes too slow, honestly.
2313 01:44:54 What are your weaknesses?
2314 01:44:59 I'm too precise. I care too much.
2315 01:45:02 Are those weaknesses?
2316 01:45:06 Maybe not.
2317 01:45:10 You know, he can be an asshole and...
2318 01:45:14 I can get really pissed off,
2319 01:45:15 and I'll call him on being an asshole...
2320 01:45:16 I'm going to stop you there.
2321 01:45:18 When you do this for real, don't ever say that.
2322 01:45:20 People don't accept mothers who drink too much wine
2323 01:45:22 and yell at their child and call him an asshole.
2324 01:45:25 I get it. I do it too.
2325 01:45:27 We can accept an imperfect dad.
2326 01:45:29 Let's face it,
2327 01:45:30 the idea of a good father was only invented like 30 years ago.
2328 01:45:34 Before that, fathers were expected to be silent
2329 01:45:37 and absent and unreliable and selfish,
2330 01:45:41 and can all say we want them to be different.
2331 01:45:44 But on some basic level, we accept them.
2332 01:45:47 We love them for their fallibilities,
2333 01:45:49 but people absolutely don't accept those same failings in mothers.
2334 01:45:53 We don't accept it structurally
2335 01:45:54 and we don't accept it spiritually.
2336 01:45:56 Because the basis of our Judeo-Christian whatever
2337 01:46:00 is Mary, Mother of Jesus, and she's perfect.
2338 01:46:03 She's a virgin who gives birth,
2339 01:46:07 unwaveringly supports her child and
2340 01:46:09 holds his dead body when he's gone.
2341 01:46:12 And the dad isn't there. He didn't even do the fucking.
2342 01:46:15 God is in heaven.
2343 01:46:17 God is the father and God didn't show up.
2344 01:46:21 So, you have to be perfect,
2345 01:46:23 and Charlie can be a fuck up and it doesn't matter.
2346 01:46:26 You will always be held to a different, higher standard.
2347 01:46:30 And it's fucked up, but that's the way it is.
2348 01:47:01 I think I rang the wrong bell. Nancy Katz.
2349 01:47:04 Hi, I'm Charlie Barber.
2350 01:47:06 Henry's just playing in his room.
2351 01:47:09 Nancy, can I get you anything?
2352 01:47:11 I'm easy. A glass of water?
2353 01:47:22 It's a new apartment.
2354 01:47:31 Shall we go in here?
2355 01:47:32 Sure.
2356 01:47:50 What's a day like for the two of you here?
2357 01:47:54 Well, if he has school, I take him there, of course,
2358 01:47:56 and pick him up, assuming I can do both.
2359 01:47:58 What prevents you from picking him up?
2360 01:48:02 You know, work.
2361 01:48:03 I'm preparing a play I'm directing in a few months.
2362 01:48:06 What is that?
2363 01:48:07 Kasimir and Karoline by Ödön von Horváth.
2364 01:48:10 We're doing it at the Barrow in New York.
2365 01:48:12 So, you have to be away?
2366 01:48:14 Yes, recently, since Nicole's been working on the show in LA,
2367 01:48:17 I come back and forth a lot.
2368 01:48:19 - That sounds difficult. - It is.
2369 01:48:22 And expensive. I'll try to take him with me some of the time,
2370 01:48:25 but Nicole doesn't like for him to fly so much.
2371 01:48:27 Well, that can be hard on a child, all that recycled air.
2372 01:48:32 Well, he's sturdy.
2373 01:48:34 Some parents won't take their kids to a restaurant
2374 01:48:36 because of these superbugs.
2375 01:48:43 I noticed on one visit to Los Angeles, you came on a Sunday
2376 01:48:46 and left on a Thursday.
2377 01:48:48 Why not stay for a weekend?
2378 01:48:51 On that time, I had tech for Electra in New York.
2379 01:48:55 What's that?
2380 01:48:58 It was my Broadway debut.
2381 01:49:00 I don't know what "tech" is.
2382 01:49:02 It's the technical part of the production.
2383 01:49:04 You figure out the lights.
2384 01:49:05 And Monday's our day off in the theatre.
2385 01:49:06 What's a weekend day like?
2386 01:49:07 Well, out here, he has basketball on Saturday at 12.
2387 01:49:10 Eleven, I'm sorry. And so, we go there. And then, afterwards...
2388 01:49:15 maybe we'll get lunch somewhere,
2389 01:49:16 and then, if there's a movie to see...
2390 01:49:19 Does he like basketball?
2391 01:49:20 He does.
2392 01:49:22 His coach, uh, Rick,
2393 01:49:23 says he's a good dribbler, and I've seen that.
2394 01:49:26 Ron.
2395 01:49:27 Sorry, his coach's name is Ron.
2396 01:49:29 Rick's his dentist in New York.
2397 01:49:31 Well, you know our home home was... is in New York.
2398 01:49:34 That's where we live.
2399 01:49:36 New York is a long way from here.
2400 01:49:38 Well, we like it because we can walk.
2401 01:49:40 You can walk here.
2402 01:49:42 Not really.
2403 01:49:43 And the space...
2404 01:49:51 Do you like your school?
2405 01:49:53 I love it.
2406 01:49:55 What's your favorite part about it?
2407 01:49:57 I don't know.
2408 01:50:00 Maybe gym.
2409 01:50:01 You like math.
2410 01:50:03 Not anymore.
2411 01:50:06 - Thanks. - You're welcome.
2412 01:50:08 - But you're getting really good at it. - No.
2413 01:50:11 Well, you are, but...
2414 01:50:15 What do you and your dad like to do together?
2415 01:50:18 When I'm at my dad's, we sometimes watch a movie,
2416 01:50:21 or build a Lego, or something.
2417 01:50:23 My dad's a great Lego builder.
2418 01:50:26 And at your mom's?
2419 01:50:28 At home, I have most of my toys, and there's a pool,
2420 01:50:32 and I have a tree house and jungle gym.
2421 01:50:36 We have super secret treasure hunt, which is really fun.
2422 01:50:40 - Sweetheart? - Army men ride in here and...
2423 01:50:44 Want to help me set the table?
2424 01:50:46 Do I have to?
2425 01:50:47 - Just come in here and grab a plate. - I'm playing.
2426 01:50:50 Henry?
2427 01:50:52 Okay.
2428 01:50:54 Fine.
2429 01:50:59 - Why are you being like this? - What?
2430 01:51:01 If I ask you to help out, help out.
2431 01:51:03 - What is this? - Special Meal.
2432 01:51:06 What are the green things?
2433 01:51:08 There aren't green things in Special Meal.
2434 01:51:10 It's just a garnish.
2435 01:51:13 I'll take it off.
2436 01:51:15 I don't want to eat anything it touched.
2437 01:51:16 It doesn't change the taste of anything.
2438 01:51:18 I might want to be a vegetarian.
2439 01:51:21 Mom's a vegetarian.
2440 01:51:22 Is she a vegetarian now?
2441 01:51:24 - Yeah. - Well, then, you should like garnish.
2442 01:51:26 It's all garnish, vegetarianism.
2443 01:51:30 I'm done with my water.
2444 01:51:41 Sure I can't get you anything?
2445 01:51:43 No, I'm fine, thank you.
2446 01:51:47 Do the thing with the knife.
2447 01:51:49 No, I'm not.
2448 01:51:51 No.
2449 01:51:53 Come on.
2450 01:51:54 It's not a dinner thing.
2451 01:51:59 It's not an any time thing.
2452 01:52:01 What's the thing with the knife?
2453 01:52:03 It's hilarious.
2454 01:52:04 No, it's dumb. I have a small knife on my keychain,
2455 01:52:07 which is only for adults.
2456 01:52:10 And I do a thing with it sometimes.
2457 01:52:13 You said I could get a knife.
2458 01:52:15 A jackknife, yeah, when you're older.
2459 01:52:18 Like ten.
2460 01:52:19 No, like 20.
2461 01:52:21 Yeah.
2462 01:52:28 Dime, rime, lime, pime, sime...
2463 01:52:32 Honey, stop guessing. You're so close. Stay with it.
2464 01:52:35 I don't want to do it.
2465 01:52:36 What's the first letter?
2466 01:52:38 I don't want to do it. Can I do the iPad?
2467 01:52:40 No, look. What's the first letter?
2468 01:52:42 - I don't want to. - It's a T. What sound does T make?
2469 01:52:44 - Tuh. - Right. Then just do the rest of it.
2470 01:52:47 Dime.
2471 01:52:49 No.
2472 01:52:50 You have "tuh" and "ime." What is that?
2473 01:52:55 Time.
2474 01:52:57 It's time.
2475 01:52:59 It's time.
2476 01:53:05 You'll see, honey.
2477 01:53:06 One day, it's just going to click
2478 01:53:07 and you'll be able to read everything.
2479 01:53:10 I need a break.
2480 01:53:12 Can I go play in my room?
2481 01:53:14 Sure.
2482 01:53:20 Yeah?
2483 01:53:38 Do you ever observe married people?
2484 01:53:40 No. Why would I?
2485 01:53:42 I was kidding.
2486 01:53:55 The knife thing is... I carry this knife on my keychain,
2487 01:53:59 which his mother got me, actually.
2488 01:54:02 And I do this thing for his mom where I pretend to cut myself,
2489 01:54:05 but I retract the blade,
2490 01:54:06 but I-I don't do it with him.
2491 01:54:13 - That's fine. - Are you okay?
2492 01:54:14 Yeah, I must not have retracted the blade all the way.
2493 01:54:17 - Do you need... - Yeah.
2494 01:54:20 Yeah, no, it's fine.
2495 01:54:22 What else can I tell you?
2496 01:54:25 - I think I have enough. - You have enough?
2497 01:54:28 - Are you sure you're okay? - Totally. I'm fine.
2498 01:54:32 Well, I'll leave you guys for tonight.
2499 01:54:35 Okay.
2500 01:54:37 I'll be in touch if I have further questions.
2501 01:54:42 Thanks.
2502 01:54:45 Thanks.
2503 01:54:49 Thanks. Thank you for the water.
2504 01:54:51 - Yeah, sure. - Are you sure you're okay?
2505 01:54:53 - Yeah. - Okay.
2506 01:54:56 - Bye-bye. - Bye.
2507 01:55:03 Sorry.
2508 01:55:05 All right, let...
2509 01:55:09 I think you turn the...
2510 01:55:14 - Okay. - Sorry.
2511 01:55:16 Okay.
2512 01:56:20 Dad, are you okay?
2513 01:56:22 Yeah, I'm just tired.
2514 01:56:41 Dad, did she like us?
2515 01:56:44 Yeah, she thought we were great.
2516 01:56:57 You Could Drive a Person Crazy
2517 01:56:57 ♪ You could drive a person crazy ♪
2518 01:56:59 ♪ You could drive a person mad ♪
2519 01:57:02 ♪ First you make a person hazy ♪
2520 01:57:05 ♪ So a person could be had ♪
2521 01:57:09 ♪ But worse than that ♪
2522 01:57:10 ♪ a person that ♪
2523 01:57:11 ♪ titillates a person and leaves her flat ♪
2524 01:57:14 ♪ is crazy ♪
2525 01:57:16 ♪ He's a troubled person ♪
2526 01:57:18 ♪ He's a truly crazy person himself ♪
2527 01:57:25 ♪ Knock-knock! Is anybody there? ♪
2528 01:57:31 ♪ Knock-knock! It really isn't fair ♪
2529 01:57:36 ♪ Knock-knock! I'm workin' all my charms ♪
2530 01:57:42 ♪ Knock-knock! A zombie's in my arms ♪
2531 01:57:47 ♪ All that sweet affection ♪
2532 01:57:50 ♪ What is wrong? ♪
2533 01:57:53 ♪ Where's the loose connection? ♪
2534 01:57:56 ♪ How long, oh Lord, how long? ♪
2535 01:57:58 ♪ You're crazy ♪
2536 01:58:00 ♪ You're a lovely person ♪
2537 01:58:02 ♪ You're a moving ♪
2538 01:58:04 ♪ deeply maladjusted ♪
2539 01:58:05 ♪ never to be trusted ♪
2540 01:58:06 ♪ Crazy person yourself ♪
2541 01:58:12 ♪ Bobby is my hobby and I'm giving it up ♪
2542 01:58:20 Guys, slow down.
2543 01:58:23 So...
2544 01:58:24 because Charlie dropped his claim to New York,
2545 01:58:26 we're mostly done.
2546 01:58:28 Jay's lost interest,
2547 01:58:29 and Ted, his associate, is doing the paperwork.
2548 01:58:32 And we're not taking any money, right?
2549 01:58:34 We withdrew our claim for the MacArthur,
2550 01:58:36 which I think we could have gotten, by the way,
2551 01:58:38 and they're not asking for any of the show.
2552 01:58:41 Thank you for everything, Nora.
2553 01:58:43 You're welcome, doll.
2554 01:58:46 To your new home in LA.
2555 01:58:52 And...
2556 01:58:54 whenever Charlie is in LA,
2557 01:58:55 I got the custody breakdown to be 55/45.
2558 01:58:58 So you'll have Henry an extra day every two weeks.
2559 01:59:02 I thought we made it equal.
2560 01:59:03 I tweaked it at the last minute.
2561 01:59:05 I just didn't want him to be able to say he got 50/50,
2562 01:59:08 bragging to his friends.
2563 01:59:10 - But I don't want to do that. - Take it.
2564 01:59:13 You won.
2565 01:59:40 Hi. You look like a guy who really cares about animals.
2566 01:59:42 Nope.
2567 02:00:03 Oh, my God!
2568 02:00:21 The couch was technically hers, pre-marriage.
2569 02:00:24 But I mean... it was our couch.
2570 02:00:26 It's not like I was going to buy another couch.
2571 02:00:28 But then when it comes time to split, it's suddenly her couch
2572 02:00:30 and I have no couch, and...
2573 02:00:32 Hey, guys, what's up?
2574 02:00:34 I'm sitting on the floor is the short version.
2575 02:00:39 I'm sorry. This is all so self-pitying and boring.
2576 02:00:42 No, come on.
2577 02:00:43 No, I'm so stupid. I'm sorry.
2578 02:00:45 - It sounds really tough. - No, no, no, no. It is sad.
2579 02:00:55 ♪ Someone to hold you too close ♪
2580 02:00:55 Being Alive
2581 02:00:59 ♪ Someone to hurt you too deep ♪
2582 02:01:03 ♪ Someone to sit in your chair ♪
2583 02:01:06 ♪ To ruin your sleep ♪
2584 02:01:07 It's true, but there's more than that.
2585 02:01:09 Is that all you think there is to it?
2586 02:01:11 You have so many reasons for not being with someone, Robert,
2587 02:01:14 but you haven't got one good reason for being alone.
2588 02:01:15 C'mon, you're onto something. Robbie, you're onto something.
2589 02:01:18 ♪ Someone to need you too much ♪
2590 02:01:22 ♪ Someone to know you too well ♪
2591 02:01:26 ♪ Someone to pull you up short ♪
2592 02:01:29 ♪ To put you through hell ♪
2593 02:01:31 You see what you look for, you know?
2594 02:01:32 You're not a kid anymore, Robbie.
2595 02:01:34 I don't think you'll ever be a kid again, kiddo.
2596 02:01:36 ♪ Being alive ♪
2597 02:01:40 ♪ Being alive ♪
2598 02:01:44 ♪ Being alive ♪
2599 02:01:49 Blow out the candles, Robert, and make a wish.
2600 02:01:52 Want something.
2601 02:01:54 Want something.
2602 02:02:00 ♪ Somebody hold me too close ♪
2603 02:02:04 ♪ Somebody hurt me too deep ♪
2604 02:02:08 ♪ Somebody sit in my chair ♪
2605 02:02:11 ♪ And ruin my sleep ♪
2606 02:02:12 ♪ And make me aware of being alive ♪
2607 02:02:18 ♪ Being alive ♪
2608 02:02:23 ♪ Somebody need me too much ♪
2609 02:02:27 ♪ Somebody know me too well ♪
2610 02:02:30 ♪ Somebody pull me up short ♪
2611 02:02:33 ♪ And put me through hell ♪
2612 02:02:35 ♪ And give me support for being alive ♪
2613 02:02:41 ♪ Make me alive ♪
2614 02:02:44 ♪ Make me alive ♪
2615 02:02:48 ♪ Make me confused ♪
2616 02:02:52 ♪ Mock me with praise ♪
2617 02:02:55 ♪ Let me be used ♪
2618 02:02:59 ♪ Vary my days ♪
2619 02:03:04 ♪ But alone ♪
2620 02:03:07 ♪ Is alone ♪
2621 02:03:11 ♪ Not alive ♪
2622 02:03:18 ♪ Somebody crowd me with love ♪
2623 02:03:22 ♪ Somebody force me to care ♪
2624 02:03:25 ♪ Somebody make me come through ♪
2625 02:03:28 ♪ I'll always be there ♪
2626 02:03:30 ♪ As frightened as you ♪
2627 02:03:32 ♪ To help us survive ♪
2628 02:03:35 ♪ Being alive ♪
2629 02:03:39 ♪ Being alive ♪
2630 02:03:42 ♪ Being alive ♪
2631 02:04:08 Hello?
2632 02:04:20 Hello?
2633 02:04:23 Hi. Sorry, the door was open.
2634 02:04:26 Okay.
2635 02:04:30 Gotcha!
2636 02:04:33 Charlie!
2637 02:04:35 Was your flight okay?
2638 02:04:36 - Yeah. - Carter.
2639 02:04:38 Charlie.
2640 02:04:39 Nicole's still at work.
2641 02:04:49 Can I get a hug?
2642 02:04:56 How'd it go?
2643 02:04:57 Good, yeah. Donny's dead now.
2644 02:04:59 We shot the scene where he merges with the ficus.
2645 02:05:00 - Henry's upstairs. - She got an Emmy nomination.
2646 02:05:03 - She's a great actress. - No, for directing.
2647 02:05:07 - Congratulations. - Thanks.
2648 02:05:09 Now I know what you were so obsessed with all the time.
2649 02:05:12 - We should get ready. - Yeah.
2650 02:05:14 - We're the Beatles. - Come on, Charlie.
2651 02:05:16 I didn't really get a costume together.
2652 02:05:17 - You could be George Martin. - I don't need to be anything.
2653 02:05:19 - You've got to be something. - A ghost. I'll get you a sheet.
2654 02:05:21 I have the album cover if anyone needs to reference it.
2655 02:05:23 And we should leave soon.
2656 02:05:25 I'm saying that as much for me as anyone else.
2657 02:05:27 - Am I John or George? - Trick-or-treating starts at 5:00.
2658 02:05:29 You're George. Nicole is John.
2659 02:05:38 I wanted to tell you I took a residency at UCLA.
2660 02:05:42 I'm going to direct two plays in rep at REDCAT.
2661 02:05:48 So, I'm going to be here for a while.
2662 02:05:53 That's great.
2663 02:05:57 Are you okay?
2664 02:06:01 Yeah.
2665 02:06:04 It's only good.
2666 02:06:06 Nicole?
2667 02:06:08 Can you help me with my zipper?
2668 02:06:30 "Charlie is... in... cr..."
2669 02:06:33 ...something.
2670 02:06:34 "...neat
2671 02:06:35 and I re-ly on him
2672 02:06:39 to keep things in or-der.
2673 02:06:45 He is energy con..."
2674 02:06:48 I don't know what this word is.
2675 02:06:49 You're getting so good at reading.
2676 02:06:51 What is that?
2677 02:06:55 "He doesn't look in the mirror too of-ten.
2678 02:07:00 He cries eas-ily in movies...
2679 02:07:05 He is very self-suf..."
2680 02:07:09 Self-sufficient.
2681 02:07:11 "He can dar-n a sock..."
2682 02:07:14 That means sew, like a hole.
2683 02:07:18 "...and cook himself dinner
2684 02:07:21 and ir..."
2685 02:07:24 Break it into two parts.
2686 02:07:26 "...Ur. On."
2687 02:07:27 Not "Ur" But "Ire."
2688 02:07:29 Ire. On.
2689 02:07:31 Iron.
2690 02:07:34 "...a shirt.
2691 02:07:37 He rarely gets def-eated,
2692 02:07:40 which I fell...
2693 02:07:44 feel like I always do.
2694 02:07:48 Charlie takes all of my moods stead-ily.
2695 02:07:52 He doesn't give in to them
2696 02:07:55 or make me feel bad about them.
2697 02:07:58 He's a great dress-er and never looks em..."
2698 02:08:01 - I don't know this one. - Embarrassing.
2699 02:08:04 "...embarrassing,
2700 02:08:05 wh-ich is hard for a man."
2701 02:08:10 You read it now.
2702 02:08:13 "He's very competitive.
2703 02:08:16 He loves being a dad.
2704 02:08:18 He loves all the things you're supposed to hate,
2705 02:08:21 like the tantrums,
2706 02:08:23 the waking up at night.
2707 02:08:25 It's almost annoying how much he likes it,
2708 02:08:28 but then, it's mostly nice.
2709 02:08:31 He disappears into his own world.
2710 02:08:33 He and Henry are alike that way.
2711 02:08:36 He can tell people they have food in their teeth
2712 02:08:41 or on their face in a way that doesn't make them feel bad.
2713 02:08:45 Charlie is self made.
2714 02:08:47 His parents, I only met them once,
2715 02:08:49 but he told me there was a lot of alcohol...
2716 02:08:56 He moved to New York from Indiana
2717 02:08:59 with no safety net,
2718 02:09:00 and now he's more New Yorker than any New Yorker.
2719 02:09:04 He's brilliant at creating family out of whoever is around.
2720 02:09:07 With the theater company...
2721 02:09:09 he casts a spell...
2722 02:09:12 that made everyone feel included.
2723 02:09:14 No one, not even an intern, was unimportant."
2724 02:09:19 What's an intern?
2725 02:09:20 It's like a...
2726 02:09:22 helper, but who isn't paid.
2727 02:09:24 Why aren't they paid?
2728 02:09:27 They're young, they're learning.
2729 02:09:30 I don't know, maybe if they do a good job, they get paid later.
2730 02:09:33 Okay, keep going.
2731 02:09:35 "He could remember all the inside jokes,
2732 02:09:37 he's extremely organized and thorough,
2733 02:09:39 he's very clear about what he wants,
2734 02:09:41 unlike me who can't always tell.
2735 02:09:43 I fell in love with him two seconds after I saw him.
2736 02:10:10 And I'll never stop loving him,
2737 02:10:12 even though it doesn't make sense anymore."
2738 02:10:28 - See you. Good seeing you. - Good seeing you too.
2739 02:10:32 - Charlie! - G-ma.
2740 02:10:33 I'm so happy you came.
2741 02:10:35 I'll email you that article.
2742 02:10:37 - Yes, please do. - Yeah.
2743 02:10:38 - All right. Thank you. - Take care.
2744 02:10:44 We were going to bring him to dinner, but he's so wiped out.
2745 02:10:47 You want to take him?
2746 02:10:50 - It's your night. - I know.
2747 02:10:52 - Yeah. I'll drop him back in the morning. - Good.
2748 02:10:54 Yeah, text me when you're up. We'll figure something out.
2749 02:10:56 You're going to go with your dad, okay?
2750 02:10:58 - Okay. - Yeah?
2751 02:11:11 I love you.
2752 02:11:13 I love you too.
2753 02:11:33 Thanks.
