Brief Reunion

: SOUND OF A TRUCK PASSING

: SOUND OF A TRUCK PASSING

: OPENING SCORE - MINIMALIST PIANO AND STRINGS

: INDISTINCT VOICES

: LAUGHTER

Mark: Oh hey. Listen, if a guy named Teddy Gish friends you,

ignore it. Alright? Do not accept.

Aaron: Uh-oh.

Mark: You already did.

Lea: Uh huh. You know he's in town. right?

Mark: What? Aaron: Why?

Lea: Yeah. he's dating this Dartmouth grad student.

Lea: It's on his profile.

Aaron: No. I never go on there.

Gavin: Why don't you want to allow this guy to play in your virtual sandbox?

Aaron: Mark never really liked Teddy.

Mark: Nobody did.

Lea: Hey.

Aaron: Remember that time he hid cards up his sleeve for poker?

Mark: Yeah. And he was always borrowing money and never paying it back.

Aaron: Drinking your last beer.

Mark: Bogarting your joint.

Aaron: Hitting on your girlfriend behind your back.

Gavin: Ah. there it is.

Lea: Oh Whose? Yours? Lisa? Mm hmm.

Aaron: No.

Lea: What?

Gavin: What yours?

Mark: It was college. I was experimenting.

Gavin: What is it with you Americans? Nobody knows how to refill a goddamn wine glass.

Gavin: Aaron. would you like some more wine?

Aaron: Why yes. Gavin. Thank you.

Mark: Mister Manners.

Gavin: Lea?

Lea: Yes please.

Lea: Well maybe he's changed.

Gavin: No. People don't change. Not after adolescence.

Mark: The oracle has spoken.

Gavin: Nobody really knows anybody anyway. Least of all themselves.

Mark: My god. Does anyone have a pen?

Gavin: You only know what you want to believe you know about me, my love.

Lea: I don't know. I think I've changed a lot since college. So have you guys.

Mark: Believe me. This is not a guy that we want back in our lives, okay?

Aaron: Yeah let's just keep it online.

Mark: No. Not even online.

Aaron: Okay.

Gavin: So sorry. The loo is off limits for the next 48 hours to anyone without a Hazmat suit.

Mark: That's nice. dear.

Lea: So what's his twin like? : AARON ARGUES ON PHONE OFFSCREEN

Mark: Whose? Lea: Teddy's.

Mark: He doesn't have a twin.

Lea: He's on his friend list.

Mark: What? What's his name?

Lea: Tom?

Mark: Yeah that's his brother. But not twin.

Lea: They have the same birthday.

Gavin: Maybe different years.

Lea: Did you ever meet him?

Mark: No. Do you know what the odds of that are?

Gavin: Three hundred sixty five to two?

Mark: No.

Aaron: (offscreen) Well there'sa big difference between "it just doesn't feel right"

Aaron: and an actual problem with the tracking.

Mark: Look, we'd definitely know if Teddy Gish had a twin.

Gavin: Maybe he doesn't want you to know.

Aaron: Oh, God! Fuck!

Aaron: Get the broom! Get the broom!

: SMALL WINGS FLUTTERING

Mark: Here.

Gavin :Get him to fly over here. Get him to fly over here. : WINGS FLUTTERING

Lea: Aaron! Don't hit it! Aaron--

Gavin: It's still alive.

Mark: So put it out the window, just-- okay. Okay, okay...

Mark: O-kay.

Lea: Aaron.

Lea: You could have chased it outside.

Aaron: It would've come back in.

Lea: Well, they're good. They eat bugs.

Aaron: And carry rabies.

Aaron: What?

Lea: I thought I saw something.

: CAR ENGINE STARTING

Lea: What?

: CAR DRIVING AWAY

Lea: Oh, sorry. It's nothing.

Aaron: Or whatever it was, it's gone.

Aaron: Or is it?

Lea: Aaron

Aaron: What was that?

Lea: Oh god! Stop it.

Aaron: Sorry.

Aaron: Do you have to work tonight?

Lea: Ugh, yes.

Aaron: How's it going?

Lea: Well, it's not The Misfit.

Aaron: Really, it's the Grandmother?

Lea: Nope.

Aaron: Who? Lea: You'll see.

Lea: What was that?

Aaron: Northern. They're threatening to cancel the new order.

Lea: Because of the tracking thing?

Aaron: Yeah.

Lea: Well can they? What if they do?

Aaron: We'll survive.

Lea: Well, we can't live off Proem forever.

Aaron: I'll deal with it.

Lea: Okay. I know.

Lea: I'm sorry.

Aaron: Don't... tell your parents yet.

Lea: Oh god no.

Aaron: As long as I'm out here.

Lea: Ugh. Mm mm. Well, brush your teeth before you come to bed, mister.

Aaron: Yes ma'am.

Katie: Did you get that message? Teddy somebody?

Aaron: He came here in person?

Katie: He said he might stop by later. I told him you'd be in this afternoon.

Aaron: If he comes again, tell him I'm out.

Katie: He might see your car. And I don't think lying is part of my job description.

Aaron: Well neither is telling the details of my comings and goings to total strangers.

Katie: Total strangers?

Aaron: Tell him I'm in a meeting.

Katie: With whom?

Aaron: Myself.

Katie: Happy Birthday.

Aaron: Katie, wait.

Aaron: That's very sweet.

Aaron: I'm sorry.

Katie: Sorry I befriended your stalker.

Aaron: He's not my stalker.

Katie: If he comes back, you're in a long meeting.

Aaron: Thank you.

Katie: Everything okay?

Aaron: Yeah.

Lea: He can't come home a day early?

Cynthia: What do you want? He's giving a speech.

Lea: A speech he agreed to give on his son-in-laws 40th birthday?

Cynthia: Oh, he doesn't keep track of birthdays. Ah ha.

Teddy: Lea? Teddy Gish.

Lea: Oh, hi.

Lea: Mom, this is Teddy. Teddy, this is my mother. Teddy went to college with Mark and Aaron

Cynthia: Nice to meet you, Teddy.

Lea: Teddy and I are friends online but we've never actually met in person.

Cynthia: I have no idea how that's possible.

Teddy: No, no, we met.

Lea: Oh.

Teddy: Yeah, you came to visit Mark senior year.

Lea: Oh. Right. Of course.

Cynthia: What brings you to the area, Teddy?

Teddy: My girlfriends finishing up her Ph.D at Dartmouth.

Cynthia: Oh really? Maybe you know her.

Lea: What department is she in?

Teddy: Philosophy.

Cynthia: Oh. Lea teaches Literature.

Teddy: I know.

Cynthia: And what do you do, Teddy?

Teddy: Uh, I work from home.

Cynthia: I see. Well that's convenient.

Lea: So, you're going to be living here for a while?

Teddy: Yeah, yeah. For a couple months at least. It's somebody's birthday?

Cynthia: Aaron's. But don't tell. It's a surprise.

Teddy: Oh, how fun! When? Cynthia: Tonight.

Lea: Actually Mom, it's not a surprise anymore. He heard me talking about it with Mark.

Cynthia: Oh...He could have pretended. Oh, hey, Teddy!

Why don't you come? You'll be the surprise.

Bring your girlfriend.

Teddy: Oh.

Lea: I... I don't think we have enough food, Mom.

Cynthia: Well...

Lea: Hmm. Yeah...

Teddy: I have been dying to show off Simone.

Cynthia: Simone? What a pretty name.

Teddy: Yeah, pretty face too.

Lea: Okay... well...

Teddy: Actually though, Uh... Simone's a vegan. Lea: Oh.

Cynthia: Well there will be a salad and we're having shrimp cocktail.

Teddy: No, unfortunately not but... Lea: I don't think so, Mom.

Teddy: We can bring a vegan dish.

Lea: Well it's not really a potluck thing. Cynthia: Sure!

Lea:But you know, we could go out to dinner sometime for vegan,

Teddy: No. You know what? She'll be fine. She'll be fine. She eats like a bird anyway.

Lea: A vegan bird.

Teddy: Right.

: JAZZ MUSIC ON THE STEREO

Teddy: To old friends.

Teddy: And uh, new narratives.

Lea: And new friends.

Mark: And um...The birthday boy.

Teddy: Yes, the birthday boy.

Aaron: Thank you.

Cynthia: Aaron, you couldn't just play along?

Aaron: She knew I heard. It was too late.

Gavin: Sounds like a recipe for a heart attack if you ask me.

Mark: Oh, did somebody?

Teddy: Well, I have a surprise, actually.

Simone: No, Teddy.

Teddy: Uh, today is actually Simones birthday too.

Aaron: Really?

Lea: Happy Birthday.

Mark: Happy Birthday, Simone. Everyone: Happy Birthday.

Lea: Why don't you try it with it going from inside and then out?