Casual

Man: Previously, on "casual"...

I should be apologizing to you.

About what?

Well, your sex addiction...

So you had lunch with Jack and you told him what I told you?

I didn't think it was that big a deal,

and then I just... it... It just, like, slipped out.

I just got fired.

Do you think I need protection?

- Sorry. - We're adults.

Todd was your direct supervisor.

He removed you from your post and took advantage of you.

All right, I guess I'll just find somewhere else

to do free work.

What the fuck?

I don't like it like that.

Well, you didn't seem to mind before.

Well, now I do.

Leon: It's Leon. I have tickets for "rear window"

tonight at Hollywood forever.

Oh, my god,

I have tickets to that. You should totally go.

You coming?

No, I got plans.

It was a little nerve-racking, but we all made it through.

I just feel ready.

- You're ready? - Yeah, to move forward, to move on.

You found out that your sister's your half-sister,

and that she has another half-brother.

I'm fine.

Yes.

All right, bye. Have a good one.

Stay out of trouble.

Stealing office property?

I prefer the term "scavenging."

And it's coconut. Nobody likes coconut.

Fair.

You made it.

An actual paycheck, how quaint.

It's like we're in the '30s but with even more demagogues.

Any Friday plans?

Work, you?

Game night.

Celebrity?

"Magic: The gathering."

Have fun.

I got eight volunteers confirmed.

Great. Four will show up.

And I finished my call list.

Only got one "fuck you."

Killin' it. How are you celebrating?

Going to my uncle's to play a kids' game

with people who are all older than me.

Please come.

Aw, I'm scheduled to shower. Co-op living.

We ration hot water.

Well, my uncle has three showers,

and he's very wasteful.

Why didn't you just say no?

Uh...

Because she has an infinity pool that makes you

feel both powerful...

And sad at how unfair life is, and it keeps me on my toes.

I still don't see why you have to stay there

just to feed the cat.

She's 39 and childless. Joshua's not just a cat.

Joshua.

It's fine.

Benadryl and weed brownies will k. O. My allergies.

What are you doing tonight?

Uh, Alex is making us play "magic: The gathering."

That sounds awful. Who's coming?

Laura, Alex's new roommate, Leon.

- Oh. - And I just... I haven't

seen him since I blew him off, and it's just gonna be

so weird and awkward, and he's probably gonna talk...

Extra softly just to torture me a bit.

All right, enjoy your drugs, Leia.

Have fun.

Gross! Ugh!

Oh...

We have a rat.

What? We most certainly do not.

There are droppings in my bathroom.

That could be anything... Dust, dirt, delusions.

We know your penchant for fantasy.

Well, I know the signs. I lived in New York.

Oh, my god, you lived in New York?

I never knew. You only mention it every day.

Look, this is la, and, in la, we don't leave garbage

on the curb like it's Pre-Jesus Rome,

and we don't have rats. Hey.

- Hey. - What you got?

- Gruner? - Yeah.

I predicted Rosé.

Well, last week, I heard these frat guys order "bro-sé,"

and I'm just done.

- Gross. - How was your first week?

Strangely satisfying.

There are benefits working 9:00 to 5:00.

Now my weekend actually has meaning.

You worked 24/7 at snooger?

What? No, I mostly just hung out

and caused interpersonal problems.

Oh, I would've never guessed.

Hi, you must be rae.

Yes, hi, nice to meet you.

You're Alex's half-sister, right?

Mm, is that how you describe me now?

- No, no. - Sorry, no, no, no,

I meant genetically half. You're full in spirit.

Alex told me about the memorial.

I can't believe your mom blurted that out.

Oh, well, you know, she's extremely

- fond of attention. - She is.

And you haven't talked to her since?

No.

Neither of us have.

Don't visit medusa without a sword and mirror.

Okay, so... this will be up the stairs and to the left.

- Thanks. - Hello.

- Alex: Hi. - Hi.

Valerie: Hi.

Laura...

- Hi, mom. - Who's that?

Uh, Casey, my boss.

- From petitioning. - What?

No, no, I don't do that anymore.

From verde, my environmental internship.

- Oh. - She's gonna shower,

and then she'll come down and join us.

Shower?

I don't remember you mentioning Casey.

You didn't ask.

Now I know how king tut feels.

My sanctuary's been desecrated.

How did it even get in?

Probably through the toilet.

They can do that?

It's more like what they can't do.

They can collapse their rib cages.

Hold their breath for three minutes.

Tread water for days.

They're everywhere and nowhere.

Like Russian hackers.

How do you know so much about rats?

Oh, we thought we had an infestation at verde.

Turns out it was just a rabid bat.

Well, rae, thanks a lot.

- Excuse me? - Well, do the math.

Before you, no rat. After you, rat.

So you obviously brought it from New York.

Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, it must have climbed aboard

my luggage when the steam ship set off.

Sure, or a train. I've seen "fievel goes west."

- Fievel's a mouse. - Okay, you know what?

It's your house, your rat. You want it out?

- Call someone. - And quick.

Where's there's one rat, there's 20.

$1,000?

I can literally have a person killed for that.

No, that's not a threat.

It's a fact said threateningly.

Fucking extortionist.

Preying on the fearful... who does that?

Politicians, priests, every villain ever.

I'm worried about Laura.

- Why? - 'Cause she's secretly

interning for a woman she brought here to shower.

On a scale of one to Lewinsky,

that feels like a five, at least.

- Val... - What?

Your only daughter is trying to make a better world.

This is what parents dream of, okay?

As the revered poet mcferrin once said,

"don't worry, be happy."

When is the exterminator coming?

He can't come till Thursday.

We'll set the traps ourselves.

I hope it doesn't turn into a rat king.

What's a rat king?

Is that like "the nutcracker"?

When rats are in confined places

and their tails get intertwined, they move as one,

a roving tumbleweed of disease-ridden rodents.

That is not real. That can't be real.

Oh!

- It's real? - Yep, ugh.

Evening, gatherers. Let the magic commence...

Cheese? Whose side are you on, Leon?

It's real.

- Yeah. - Wait.

- What are we searching? - Stop googling the rat king.

Ah, like "the nutcracker."

Okay, we can't live like this.

- Valerie. - Leon.

Call back the exterminator. Beg.

No, no, we are man, top of the food chain.

We're the apex predator through wits alone.

We don't bow to nature.