Togetherness

Coffee's up.

- Oh... thank you so much. - Yeah.

- You make mine with agave? - Half a teaspoon.

You're the best.

So I've been thinking about the melange for the "Dune" play.

- Mm-hmm. - And I'm thinking it's a mistake

to go big, bright, bawdy.

I think we should do super understated.

Mmm. What if we make a...

a sound that starts the whole play?

- Like we're in a dark theater. - Yes.

And then the sound actually develops for when Paul shows up on Dune.

- We don't really know what it is yet. - Don't know what that is.

Layer on top of it... (whistles)

And then there's a little glowing thing.

- Tucked in there. - Just tucked way back on the stage.

- It's a fully... - Christy: Guess what?

Night shoots are way harder when you have to wrangle 100 extras

who all claim that they know how to ride horses,

and then when you get there, half of them have never seen a horse before,

and at the end of the day, all they ever want is food.

Bert. Ernie.

- There's that reference again. Twice. - Twice.

- Franky, no, stop that! - Michelle: Okay.

Frank got oatmeal on my shirt.

Sophie, oh! Look at this now.

- Ah, geez. - Tina: What's up, y'all?

Oh, finally!

Finally? I'm less than ten minutes late.

You're late, but you still stopped at Starbucks?

- So? - Well, so Sophie's going

to be late for school.

There's a schedule, thank you.

Or how about, "Thank you so much, Tina,

for canceling your entire day so you could bail me out?

- I really appreciate it." - Thank you. Thank you.

You're welcome. What can I do?

Okay, I need you to stay here with Frank.

He's gonna go down for his first nap in about an hour.

And then you go pick Sophie up at 12,

and I'm gonna be a little late tonight,

uh, so can you get dinner started, like, around five?

There's stuff in the freezer, okay?

- Hello? - What? Yes, I got it.

- Get out of here. - Okay.

- Ten-four. - All right. Great. All right.

Where are my keys?

Franky, did you hide Mommy's keys again?

Michelle: Okay. Everyone, split up. Look low.

Not here!

Not in here, Mommy!

Tina, I'm just gonna take your car and we can figure it out later.

I'm ready to go.

What's going on?

Nothing.

Sophie.

Excuse me. Come on.

What?

Are these my car keys?

Do you have any idea how they got out here?

I am going to need an answer, Sophie.

Why isn't Daddy sleeping in your bed?

- Hi. - Hey.

Oh!

- Thank you for meeting me. - Yeah, of course.

- How are you and...? - I'm doing pretty good. How are you doin'?

I'm okay.

This is so weird. (nervous laugh)

You know, like, we haven't really had a conversation since...

Yeah.

Um, was there... was there something specific you wanted to talk about?

Um... su... sure.

Um...

It's been a couple of weeks and I think, um,

I just wanted to kind of

see where you're at.

Where I'm... at?

Well, I mean what... what are we doing?

It's just confusing and...

Yeah, it's definitely confusing.

- Um... yeah. - Okay.

Okay, um...

Well, you know, like, Sophie asked me why you're not sleeping at home.

But you're supposed to tell her I'm working nights.

That's what we talked about.

- That was the... - Yeah.

- No, I've been telling her that, but... - So what's the problem?

For, like, two weeks. Well, she's smart is the problem.

I've been, like, spending a ton of time with her and I...

I spend more time with her than when I was even working. I don't understand...

I know, but she just is noticing that you're not sleeping at our house

- and sh... I just... - Okay. All right.

I will... I will figure out a plan and I'll...

I'll make that work with her. Okay? I'll take care of it.

Don't you think at a certain point

we're going to have to... decide?

Like, are you gonna come home, or if you are then when?

I really don't want to be told right now

when and how I need to decide what's going on.

- I'll just... - I'm not telling you.

Okay, just...

Can we just keep it to logistics, please?

Okay. Um...

Money is gonna be tricky at a certain point, you know.

Like, we have some savings, but if you're not working...

I got a job.

- Oh, I didn't know. - I'm an Uber driver.

Why... yes. Yes, I'm an Uber driver.

Look, it's...

A lot of people are doing it.

- I'm just surprised... - Yeah, no. It's...

- for a second. Okay. - It's, you know, the profit margins

when you have an electric vehicle are actually pretty good.

It's got flexible hours, so I can be with the kids,

and it's kind of a mindless job, so I can work on my show,

um, with Alex that I'm working on.

What kind of... what's...

- It's not... Look, I'm just... - I'm interested.

I... I understand, I'm just saying the point is...

I care about your life. I'm not like...

Can...

I'm sorry if money's put stress on you. I don't...

Did you take your ring off?

Um, so then I'm just... I'm gonna go to work.

Okay. Who's got the kids?

Tina.

Great.

"Park off Lomita, walk through front entrance.

Sophie's classroom just inside down to the left."

Look at this.

Whoo-hoo! You ready to go get your sister, buddy?

I need some help, guys, because the Kickstarter

didn't do what we hoped it would do

and I'm just kind of out of ideas.

Doesn't David have a connection that he was working?

David... did, um,

and it did... didn't work out, so...

Okay.

- Hi. Hello. - Oh, hi.

Uh, my name's Anna and I really was just coming to listen,

but my good, good friend from college actually founded

a crowd-sourcing site that works specifically with nonprofits.

- Oh. - And I know that she would

give you guys fantastic placement

- on the front page. - Awesome. Thank you.

- Can I talk to you after? - Absolutely. I'd love to.

- Great. Okay. Anna, right? - Yeah.

- Okay. Michelle. - Great.

Um, okay.

Hey, Miss Janie, lookin' good.

Oh. Oh.

- Hello. - Shh!

I got a sleeping baby here.

All right, lanyard, please.

- What? - Lanyard, please.

I... I don't know what that is.

It's a carpool security lanyard.

Oh, yeah. You know what? I'm Sophie Pierson's aunt.

Is there any way someone could just run in and grab her and bring her to me?

No, no, no. You need a lanyard for this lane. Everybody has one.

- I don't have one. - Okay, you know what?

You're going to have to use the main foot traffic gate.

Oh, no, no, see, 'cause if I go to the gate, he's going to wake up,

and trust me, you don't want me to wake him up before the end of his nap.

I hear you. (cars honking)

Okay! Hang on, everybody!

- You're starting a war here, lady. - Shh!

Can I just give you my license or something so I can...

You know what? License doesn't help.

- A license isn't a lanyard. - I know, it's just...

Thank you so much. Hang on!

- Please, pull out of this... - Could you let me through this one time?

- Lady, lady. - He's sound asleep.

You need a lanyard. Okay? Thanks.

- Woman: Move it! - Thank you.

Yeah, I know. That is my fuckin' hair.

Sophie! Sophie, we gotta go! Sophie!

I'm working on my turtle.

I know, but we gotta go. Frank's gotta go down. Come on.

Leave the turtle.

- Alex: Thanks for the ride. - Christy: Yeah, dude.

Um, what time do you want me to pick you up?

Brett's going to get me, so you don't have to.

Oh. Okay. Are you going to use your Uber app?

Does he do it for free because you guys are lovers?

- We're not lovers. - Does he have water in it?

Do you sit in the front or in the back?

No, Lord Huron's doing an acoustic set tonight at The Echo,

- so we're just gonna, um... - Okay.

I mean, you're working nights, so I figured you couldn't come.

Yeah, but I mean, technically, I'm just day playing, so I could get time off.

Oh. Okay, I'm sorry.

Uh, do you want to come? It'll be fun.

No, you guys... No, that's cool. You guys do your thing.

Okay. Yeah.

All right, I got to get in there. All right?

- Okay. Bye. - Bye, sweetie. Mwah!

(car starts)

No, when I was in New York, I was a trial lawyer,

and then I got pregnant with Hattie