The Morning Show

What's up, baby? How you doing, honey?

Thanks for coming.

You good? Yeah, you look good.

You like my drip?

Yeah, baby. It's all for you.

It is all…

for you.

Hey, baby, I gotta say something.

I fell so hard for you the day we met. I mean, so hard.

The other thing I wanted to say was that…

Oh, no, baby. I'm gonna give… I'm gonna give you the world.

I'm gonna give you everything.

What I'm not gonna do is…

Ariana, will you marry me?

It's a lot of confetti.

I mean, that's… There's a lot of confetti.

It's the perfect amount of confetti. You got this.

Can you just… Let's just… Girls, just one more time from the top.

I kept moving my hips on the seven instead of the eight.

And then do we lose the confetti cannons?

It… It feels like an either or with the doves, right?

- It's sorta-- - No, she's gonna love the doves.

- The doves are beautiful. - Yeah?

- How about you just take a moment? - Yeah?

Like, save some energy for the show?

Yeah, you're right. Yeah.

No, Ariana's gonna be here soon. Yeah. And we're all saying the same thing?

It's a segment about dating, right? No confusion. Everyone's on board?

Trust me, she has no idea what's coming. She's gonna be in the green room.

- Yes, sir. - Sorry to interrupt,

but one of the birds is dead.

- It's a dove release rescue. - Uh-huh.

They have a lot of trauma.

It happens.

Wow, it's a… No trauma-free doves available?

Jesus. Why don't you just… just try and keep the other ones alive?

I mean, you know, the last thing I need is to get canceled by PETA.

You know what I'm saying? So…

Let me help you see what we can do about it.

- How's he doing? - Terrified.

I don't know how we're gonna do this without Mia.

Jesus take the wheel.

Hi, it's Mia Jordan.

Leave a message.

Hi, Mia. It's me again.

Can we please talk?

It's Yanko's big day,

and I know that you wouldn't want to miss that, so, you know.

Only took him 50 years to find love.

Will you just please call me back?

Hi.

What?

Dad, what… what are you doing here?

There's something I have to talk to you about.

Good.

I'll make you coffee.

- Jesus. - Dad, what's…

Please tell me what's going on. You're really starting to make me nervous.

- What the hell did you tell her? - Excuse me?

That student journalist. You did see her?

- Yes. - Do you realize what you've done?

Dad, what happened?

The university paper is printing a piece

saying that 30 years ago when I published my first book,

I plagiarized someone else's ideas.

- They are asking me to comment. - Oh, my God.

Alexandra, why is it that whenever you get involved,

everything goes tits up?

Dad, you asked me to do that interview.

I asked for family anecdotes!

Fun stuff!

What exactly did you tell her?

- I don't know. I said… - Come on!

- I said you would make a great dean. - What else?

I… Oh, God.

- It was such a chaotic day… - She can't even remember.

…and we were in the car… I said that… Wait. I said that you were…

I said that you were disciplined.

I said that you were--

- So, you have nothing to do with this? - Of course I don't.

No! I… Why would I say anything like that?

I mean, that's not even true.

I mean, is it true?

I've checked three times. They're not here.

Yeah, the depositions are gone.

- They've been erased from the UBN server. - Shit.

And there was nothing on Wolf River in the archives.

Why am I not surprised?

Okay, we have to find this lawyer who's been trying to help these people.

He'll have copies of the depositions

and whatever else we need on this chemical company.

Yeah, that's a good idea. Let me see what I can do.

I'd love to hear his take on all this.

- Bradley? - Yeah, yeah.

I was just saying I'll try to track him down.

Yeah. Hey, I gotta go.

- But listen, if these were erased then… - Yeah. No, I know.

- It means this is fucking real. - Yeah. I'll call you later.

Hey.

- Are you in here? - Hi.

Oh, hey.

- Nice dress. - Thanks.

Bradley? Do you need something? Bradley?

Oh, my gosh. Shit. That's my… That's my microphone.

I'll just turn it off.

- Can I? - Yeah.

- What are you doing here? - Came to see you.

Also business affairs.

Mostly you.

- We should not be doing this. - I know, right?

- I have to go. - Okay.

Okay. Yeah.

Wanna hang out later?

- Maybe. - Maybe?

Okay, fine. I do.

- Anyone have eyes on Bradley? - Look, I have to go. I have to go.

- I have to go. Okay. - Okay.

When I was writing my book, I was mentoring a young doctoral student,

trying to help him clarify his very muddled thoughts.

Now they're accusing me of stealing those ideas.

That's not plagiarism.

That's paying attention, being engaged with the world.

If the allegations are not true, then you would just have to push back.

- How would I do that? - Interrogate the accusation.

- Write a defense of your work. - Oh, no, no.

Alexandra, we know the optics here.

Aged, white, male professor gets his just deserts.

If it takes an outright lie to…

bring me down, then so be it.

The ends justify the means.

The university will have to also do their… their own investigation.

And they'll find the claims are unfounded,

but by then I will have lost the deanship.

Okay, Dad, you know what?

Why don't I just reach out to Justice and I will get a sense of things,

hopefully before they publish this article.

Well, I would deeply appreciate that.

Sorry. Technical difficulties.

Okay, are you ready?

Am I ready?

- I am packing heat here. - We are two minutes out.

I am locked and loaded.

- Looks amazing. - Thank you. Yeah.

Oh, look, I got my

- azabache bracelet on and everything. - Bradley, your mic's off.

Yeah. Yeah, my abuelita, she used to say it wards off the evil eye.

- Oh, yeah? - I don't believe in that woo-woo shit,

but also I'm not trying to get cursed, you know what I'm saying?

- Totally. - Yeah.

Okay, how do I look? Is my makeup okay?

What?

- Okay, come on. Spill it. - What?

- No, it's nothing. - No, it's something.

- It might be somebody. - Love is in the air.

All right. That's enough about that.

- That's enough. - Who is ready to get engaged

on national television?

Oh, God. Let's get this ring on a finger.

- Thirty seconds out. - Hey. Do you want the--

- Overconfidence. - Yeah.

- Who's tapping? - I thought it was the other one.

- You got this. - Standby.

- I got this. - Five…

- I got this. - Four…

- I got this. - Three…

Welcome to The Morning Show.

And boy, do we have a show for… for you today, we have lots of surprises.

- Somebody might even dance. - That's a…

- We don't know about that. Okay? - You're not gonna wanna miss it.

Alex Levy.

I can't believe you're actually calling me.

Hi, Justice.

I just wanted to say thank you so much

for your help the other day during that protest.

You know, there was just a few things that I meant to say

about my father that, you know, we didn't get to

- because everything got-- - This is about the plagiarism?

Well, I just think

it's important for you to have a full picture of who he is.

Look, the piece goes up on the website today.

Technically, it's too late to make any changes,

but my editor owes me a favor.

- I can make it happen. - Really?

If you can find me something at UBN.

You are head of talent, right?

- Wait, I'm sorry… - Just something reasonable in Evening.

Like a field producer?

No, no. I'm so sorry.

No, that is… that's not how this works.

You have to earn your place.

I am earning my place.

I did the research and now I am recognizing an opportunity.

It's what any good journalist would do.

- That's from your first book by the way. - I know what fucking book it's from.

If you could let me know by lunchtime, that would be great.

You…

Hello?

Little shit. What a little shit.

Okay.

Okay.