Fatal Attraction

Previously on Fatal Attraction...

-You should stay. -I didn't think that this is what we were doing.

-I'm sorry. I can't let you pretend

like I don't exist.

And I'm not going to be ignored, Dan.

Why is she throwing acid on your car?

I thought I had this handled, then she shows up

in my fucking home.

-Hi. I don't know what you think you're doing,

-but it's going to stop. -It's not going to st-- Why would it stop?

I received an unofficial complaint about Alex.

Gabriel Ibarra. He had

rejected her. She had backed off,

but only sort of.

Earl's been working it for six months,

-and it's definitely a pattern. -Against women.

A pattern against women.

Patterns are historically Major Crimes Bureau.

Because, "historically,"

the Crimes Against Women Bureau didn't exist.

Gas and electric will be here. When they leave,

you need to close the gate and lock it.

Then you may take Quincy out.

The gate was closed.

I just don't understand why your mom would close the gate

if she didn't know where Quincy was.

She was here.

Let's wrap it up.

Ah. Stay.

Quincy, come.

Oh... Oh.

Who closed the gate?

-Uh... -Oh,

thank Christ. Holy shit.

If you hadn't, that would've been it for me.

It's the whole reason I'm here.

And that dog would've been gone forever,

and my daughter would've stuffed me down a storm drain.

Thank God for you. Wow.

No, thank God, thank God I saw him.

I was just going to my house.

The... blue colonial with the-the porch.

Huh.

Uh, and I just, he was suddenly

running towards me, and-and

people drive so quickly on this street.

I'm-I'm just... I'm glad I caught him.

-I'm glad I didn't overstep. -Oh, can I

make you a...

coffee of gratitude?

Um, or-or do you have to go?

Uh...

No, I-I could use a-a gratitude coffee.

Great. Or maybe something a little stronger.

Or is that just me?

No. No, it's not just you.

Okay.

Your daughter's a contractor, right?

She-she has a business?

With her best friend from grad school, yeah.

Sh-She's at work right now?

No, actually, she and my husband

went down to the antique mall in Sherman Oaks.

Oh.

-Do you have any other children? -No, just Bethie.

When I got married,

my mother told me she hoped

I wasn't planning to have children

because she was worried I wouldn't do well with maternity.

Really? How old were you?

I was just 20.

You know, I hadn't really thought about it, but

then your mother tells you you'd be a terrible mother,

so, you know, you take that on board.

So, I told my husband

I don't want kids, and he says, "Okay."

But then, a few years went by,

and, one day, Warren came home, and I said,

"What if we had a baby?

What if, you know, my mom was wrong about me?"

And he just laughed.

He laughed and laughed.

But was...

Was she wrong?

Well, I don't know.

Maybe not about how terrible a mother I was, but

wrong about how much

I was gonna love Bethie.

-That's nice. -Yeah.

She and her father are best friends.

They're like the same person.

I sometimes wonder, if I just disappeared,

how long it would take them to notice

I was gone.

You know, Bethie designed this house.

I mean, it's

beautiful. It's objectively beautiful.

But all these bells and whistles now,

I-I just have to laugh.

: I mean, the-the dimmer switches

and the butler pantry...

[Sophie continues speaking indistinctly]

...water features. They have this motorized

pool cover.

All they ever do is argue about

whose turn it is to close it.

-Whose turn is it? -Who knows?

It's a tale as old as time.

We should close it

and let them each think the other one did it.

Gift of the Magi.

Come with me. I never can figure out how to work these things.

I might need your wise counsel.

Oh, for the love of God,

can you believe this? Look.

All you have to do

is literally hold this button down.

I mean...

Oh, shit, I forgot that floatie.

I probably need to get that out of there, don't I?

It's gonna make a big lump?

I'll get it.

You know what? I should make us some stuffed mushrooms.

Oh, my God. They're just those frozen ones, you know?

: From, uh, from whatsit?

But, oh, they're amazing.

Have you ever had them?

Oh, that was really silly.

Ugh. Oh.

- Could you... -

Can you give me a hand? I...

I'm not the best swimmer.

Please!

Can you... Can you hurry?

Ugh. Wait. What are you doing?

What are you doing?

Quincy. Here you go, buddy. You're free.

I slept with somebody else. Someone...

-Uh... -The one with the curly hair.

It's over now.

-It's done. -It's over?

-It was a relationship? -No.

-Just a fuck? -No. That's not what I was

-trying to... -More to it than fucking.

I was trying to say that it happened more than once.

-That you fucked? -Beth.

Please, can you just let me get this out?

So, I have to hear it and you get to decide how to tell me?

Beth...

You fucked someone else more than once,

-and now, it's over? -Yes.

I am so sorry.

Why tonight?

Why did I have to be told tonight?

Is it like a strategy? Pile it all on,

see how she reacts?

Was there really an emergency at the jail that time?

Why'd you have the cleaners come ahead of schedule?

That was not...

That-that was... Quincy actually got sick.

That was not anything to do with...

How many times is "more than once"?

Four times.

Ever in our house?

-No. No, Beth. -"No, Beth.

No, I would never do that to you."

-When did it start? -When you were away

on the camping trip.

You guys go to her place?

Yes.

And one time in the office.

Does everyone there know?

Does Mike know? Of course your fucking fixer knows.

You brought Quincy to her place?

Yes.

Wow.

-How did you know that? -Quincy's mine.

You gave me Quincy for Christmas.

Beth. Beth.

Beth, I think she was in our house.

-What? -I think that she was here.

I don't know why she came.

If it was to break something or to steal something, but

she is not a stable person.

Right now, she is very angry

that things did not turn out the way that she wanted them to.

And what?

And I'm wondering if maybe your mother

surprised her,

-maybe confronted her. -What?

I mean, are you... I...

Do you hear yourself?

I know how it sounds,

but for our safety,

all of our safety,

we have to behave as though

that's what happened until we know that it didn't.

'Cause this woman is so obsessed with you

she killed your mother-in-law,

-that's what you think? -I think it's possible.