[clock ticking]
[trainer] Up!
[voice] I can't remember the day I was born.
- [soldier shouting] - [voice] I can't remember my parents.
I can't remember how I ended up in this place
where I so clearly wasn't built to be.
The first thing I remember is fear.
- Come on. Come on! Let's go! Let's go! - [dog snarling]
[Six Thirty] I was there to be brave.
I was trained to protect.
I was supposed to act...
- [whining] - ...but instead, I was paralyzed.
Come on. Let's go.
[Six Thirty] I was a coward, and I hated myself for it.
[soldiers shouting]
[panting]
- [clatters] - [whines]
- And then... - [Elizabeth] You hungry, little fella?
...I met her.
[Elizabeth] Wait here. I'll be right back.
[Six Thirty] For the first time in my life,
I felt something other than fear.
I felt safe.
I felt love.
[whines]
- And love, it can change things. - [chuckles]
I could protect her. I could protect him.
[both laughing]
- [laughs] - [sighs, laughs]
[Six Thirty] That was my purpose.
- [growls] - [horn honks]
[car crashes]
But I was wrong.
I couldn't protect him.
And in that moment,
everything I ever thought about myself, every worst fear I had,
it all came true.
["Wham (Re Bop Boom Bam)" playing]
[no audible dialogue]
[phone ringing]
[ringing continues]
[Fran grunts]
Personnel office. This is--
Yeah. Yeah, that's correct.
What?
[gasps]
[stammers] Oh, my God. [sighs] When?
[reverend] Just because things don't happen on your time
doesn't mean that God doesn't have a plan for you.
- [churchgoers murmuring] - Joseph was betrayed by his brothers,
sold into slavery, but God had his own plan.
- [churchgoer 1] Mm-hmm. - [churchgoer 2] Yes, he did.
[reverend] David was just a shepherd boy...
- Mama. M-- - ...but God had his own plan.
- Where's Dr. Evans now? - [reverend continues preaching]
He's at the funeral home.
[churchgoers murmuring]
I thought he was in the dirt.
He's at the funeral home, waiting to be buried on Tuesday.
Where's his soul?
His soul has gone to heaven to be with God.
[Linda] Why not his body?
It's in the dirt.
Let's listen to the reverend, okay?
- ...trust that he has a plan. - [churchgoers murmuring] Yes.
For he will guide us to righteousness.
[churchgoers murmuring] Yes he will.
- Amen. - [churchgoers] Amen.
[choir singing]
Gonna add Dr. Evans to my bedtime prayers.
That's beautiful, sweetie.
♪ Studying about that good old way ♪
♪ And who shall wear the starry crown ♪
♪ Good Lord, show me the way ♪
♪ O sisters, let's go down ♪
♪ Let's go down, come on down ♪
I'll be right back.
♪ O sisters, let's go down ♪
♪ Down to the river to pray ♪
♪ As I went down to the river to pray ♪
♪ Studying about that good old way ♪
♪ And who shall wear the robe and crown ♪
- ♪ Good Lord, show me the way ♪ - [breathing shakily, sobbing]
♪ O brothers, let's go down ♪
♪ Let's go down, come on down ♪
♪ O brothers, let's go down ♪
♪ Down to the river to pray ♪
♪ As I went down to the river to pray ♪
♪ Studying about that good old way ♪
♪ And who shall wear the starry crown ♪
♪ Good Lord, show me the way ♪
[people chattering]
[clearing throat, clicks tongue]
Uh, miss?
Ralph Bailey. I'm writing a story for the Times about Calvin Evans.
I was just wondering if I could ask you a few questions.
I assume you're family.
No.
Oh. First two rows are usually reserved for family, so I-- I assumed...
O-Oh, well, could you tell me how you knew him then?
Maybe share an anecdote? Did you know him long?
No.
No, you...
No, I didn't know him long. I didn't know him long enough.
Well, I'd-- I'd love to get some background.
I've heard some things about him.
One person I spoke to said that he had his moments,
and then another went so far as to call him--
[stammers] I'm just quoting here-- that he could be a real jerk.
Anyone who knew him would know that is patently false.
I thought you said you didn't know him well.
I said I didn't know him long enough.
Right, that's what I said. That you didn't know him very long.
Wait, I don't think you're supposed to have dogs here.
I saw a sign on the way in.
I'm sorry for your loss.
For everything there is a season. A time to be born and a time to die.
Calvin Evans was a brilliant man, a dedicated chemist
and was always the life and soul of the party.
Calvin Evans had no living family.
[crying, sniffling]
[pastor] And although we cannot know what God is planning for us,
we must trust he is and will always be one of God's children.
As you, his loved ones, his community, mourn this tragic loss,
seek comfort in each other and in Calvin's goodness.
[barks]
[Six Thirty] She didn't speak to me for days.
She didn't touch me. She barely looked at me.
I had hoped that time would make her forget
that it was my fault, but how could it?
Because failures have a way of being unforgettable.
- Did he ask you out? - No, I don't want to talk about it.
Look who it is. Don't stare, Bertha.
I can't believe she's here. The body's still warm.
[Six Thirty] I knew every one of his smells.
The way he smelled after being wet. The way he smelled after being outside.
The way he smelled after a run.
But in here, I smelled nothing.
Mmm. It's fine.
Elizabeth, you're here.
Where are my things? Where are Calvin's things?
Miss Zott, it's too soon to be back here. You need to rest.
I need to work. I need my notebooks, my research.
Calvin and I are so cl-- Or,
we were so close to submitting for the Remsen grant. I cannot miss a day.
Everything went down to storage.
Okay. Do I fill out a form?
Dr. Evans's work now belongs to Hastings.
But that was-- that was our work. We were so close.
- [stammers] - [sighs]
Maybe there's a empty lab I could use off-hours?
I'm so sorry. It's just-- It's policy.
What about his personal items? His records, his clothes, his lab coat?
I know the... [clears throat]
...well, unusual relationship that you and Dr. Evans had.
But we have to wait.
We have to see if maybe a brother or blood relative
that can step forward and claim it.
I'm sorry. If you need to cry--
I don't.
I want to work. I need to work, Fran. Please.
Dear, I'm afraid without a chemist to support-- [sighs]
I'm sure money's tight. Let me see what I can do.
Maybe in the admin wing. But Dr. Evans's dog--
If you can come back without the dog, I can get you squared away.
Thank you.
[breathing deeply, grunting]
[Six Thirty] When she left each morning, I was terrified.
Because what if she never came back?
[Elizabeth] I'm leaving you food. It will be ready at exactly 3:30 p.m.
I'm putting on the TV.
Cartoons, which I normally would avoid, but given the circumstances,
- I feel preferable to the news. - [whines]
Back door's open...
[Six Thirty] But I couldn't help but feel relief,
because I didn't have to face what I had done.
[cartoons playing on TV]
Inasmuch as the word "gray" with an A
is a more acceptable American spelling,
your 14-across clue "Earl blank tea" is incorrect.
It must be spelled with an E, because it was named after Charles Grey.
You getting all this?
I am, and it's riveting.
Young lady, are you being smart?
Definitely not.
[grunts]
I know the timing is terrible with Dr. Evans so close to submitting
for one of our grants, but, uh,
I hope you understand...
[sighs] ...that the Remsen Foundation needs to start placing its money elsewhere.
I assumed.
But that's what I wanted to talk to you about.
It's been difficult to process these past few days because, um,
Calvin was my dear friend and also a lab mate.
I didn't realize.
[stammers] That's why I-- I wonder if--
And I know this is a-- this is a very big "if."
I would like to carry on the work of Dr. Evans.
And not just for him,
but to try and answer these big questions that we have wrestled with for years.
Hmm.
Let me bring it back to my board.
[sighs]
[door opens, closes]
I got you a gift.
Sorry, sir?
Open it.
[clicks tongue] All right.
I, uh-- This is, uh--
Wow, this is Zott and Evans's work on nucleotides.
No, Dr. Boryweitz.
That is Hastings's research on nucleotides,
and I would like you to reproduce the results.
[sighs, stammers] I'd like to help you here, sir.
Really, I-I would. I-- I just--
I can't take credit for something I didn't do.
Then do it. With me.
Look, if this research is as groundbreaking as Evans said that it is,
then let's you and I reproduce the results step-by-step and make it ours.
What about Miss Zott?
Look, if you aren't up to the task, I'll, uh--
I'll have to find somebody else instead.
[sighs]
I guess it'd be a shame to let Calvin's work go to waste.
[jazz playing on radio]
[grunts]
[retching]
[breathes heavily]
[exhales sharply]
[retches, groans]
[toilet flushes]
[groans]
[whines]
[breathing heavily]
[sighs]
[whines]
[frogs croaking]
Excuse me.
Oh, I thought you were expecting me.
Dr. Donatti requested some samples for the pharmacology lab.
[sighs] Of course. No one ever tells me anything.
Take what you need.
[croaking]
[toilet flushes]
[sighs]
[stopwatch ticking]
- [knife chopping] - [frogs croaking]
[ticking stops]
[Six Thirty] I knew the baby was here even before she did.
The way I know it's going to rain long before it does.
And I thought maybe this could be a new beginning for us.
- A new start. - [whines]
[screaming, panting]
[knocking]
Hello. Can I help you?
[stammers] Is everything okay? I was knocking. [stammers]
I'm building an industrial-grade chemical lab.
Is now a bad time?
A bad time for what?
This-- This article in the LA Times, it makes Calvin out to be a monster.
"Even the lone individual seated in the family section said, quote,
'I didn't know him well,' unquote."
That's horrible. I would never say that.
Exactly. It is journalistically irresponsible.
We could file an injunction.
Calvin didn't care what anybody thought about him.
This is history.
What is written is now record.
I'm gonna speak to someone at the Times. I may need you to sign an affidavit.
Probably won't come to that, but I'll let you know how it goes.
[inhales deeply] I'm sorry. Who are you?
I'm Harriet Sloane.
I live right across the street.
Calvin was my friend.
I'm sorry. I'm not really myself right now.
- Have a nice night. - You too.
- [Elizabeth screaming] - [banging]
[Six Thirty] Something had lit up inside of me.
I started spending every waking hour at that window standing guard.
I was given another chance to keep my family safe.
[barking]
And I wouldn't fail again. I couldn't.
[administrator] It wasn't until 1934 they started serving lunch in this room.
It wasn't till 1939 before they began offering hot options.
Irish spiced beef on Mondays. Chicken and dumplings on Tuesdays.
Or was that Wednesday? Sure I remember.
- Oh, wait. Was that when-- - Sorry. Excuse me, Mr. Astor.
Let's see. [sighs]
Boryweitz, can I speak with you for a moment?
Uh, of course.
Elizabeth, I-I'm-- I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to tell you at the funeral,
but I'm-- I'm so sorry for your loss.
I know you two were close.
Thank you. Are you still seeing Laurel?
You know?
- Everyone knows. - Oh.
Donatti took all of our things.
Our research.
Calvin's personal belongings.
And I know that Laurel works in the storage room.
So, if you could ask her...
- [sighing] - ...if I could have something. Anything.
Um, I'll-- I'll try. Yes.
- Thank you, Alfred. - Mm-hmm.
[sighs]
No, it was creamed chipped beef on Tuesday,
chicken and dumpling on Wednesday and dreadful cod on Friday.
- [journalist] LA Times. - [people chattering]
Mm-hmm.
[Ralph] Whew. Sorry to keep you waiting.
Today felt like two weeks already. Anyway.
- Sorry I'm late, Mrs... - [Harriet] Sloane.
Mrs. Sloane. That's right. Yes, I got your letter.
We love when a new tip comes through. What was it that you had?
Something about the White Wolf Fault earthquake--
Actually, I came here to talk to you about the article you wrote on Calvin Evans.
Pretty dishy, right?
What'd I miss? He seemed like quite the odd duck.
He wasn't an odd duck. He was a brilliant man. A good man.
What you wrote was inaccurate.
And what you wrote was libel and wrong. It is wrong.
W-What-- What exactly did I get wrong?
Because if there are specific facts in there, that's--
It's the premise, the whole portrait.
"While Evans was respected in the scientific community,
he was known to be somewhat of a recluse.
Frigid with his peers and shy with a laugh."
Quote, "The man was as brilliant as he was boring. Great mind, big drag," unquote.
That's what you call journalism?
Calvin was the warmest person I knew.
If his mind was great, his heart was greater.
That should go in this article.
- But those are quotes-- - Anonymous quotes.
- From his colleagues. - I'd like to see the transcripts.
Be my guest.
Look, I'm sorry. I am.
But controversy and spice sell papers.
I'm just trying to keep my job.
As I told you, it's been a very busy day around here.
So, unless you have another story for me, I have to get back to work.
- Good evening. - You started without me.
No, of course not. Just getting everything ready.
I'm just a-- a little confused.
- Oh. Yes. - We'll start here.
Ah.
Oh. Slow, slow, slow.
- Here, here, here. - Hmm.
You added the silver carbonate first, right?
I thought you did that.
[Donatti mumbles]
[grunts]
Does that look right to you?
- Uh. - I think we missed something. [sighs]
No shit.
Forgive me for being presumptuous,
but I assume that this body adheres
to the laws of the United States Constitution.
Okay. We're all in agreement.
I adhere to the Constitution too. Phew. [chuckles]
[spectators chuckling, mumbling]
And I will assume that your adherence includes all of the amendments.
Even the 14th Amendment, which--
- Which guarantees all people-- all people... - [spectators] Mm-hmm.
...equal protection under the law.
So-- And this is where it gets a little sticky.
How is the Beverly Property Owners Association
afforded different rights than me
- and my neighbors... - [spectators] Mm-hmm.
...when it comes to the construction of this freeway?
- [spectator 1] Yes. - Assuming we all receive equal protection.
Would any of you like to elucidate?
[spectators mumbling]
No? Then I'll continue.
This freeway that you want to build to reduce our neighborhoods to nothing--
Hi. Have to take Laurel to Musso & Frank's for this.
Please come in.
Oh.
It means so much.
[grunts] Not at all. [sighs]
But... Elizabeth, um, Laurel and I searched the entire storeroom,
but, uh, we-we didn't find your research.
Maybe it was misplaced,
or perhaps it was accidentally thrown away.
I just... I-I didn't see it. Um...
I'm so sorry.
It's all right.
[stammers] Enjoy your dinner.
Thanks. [chuckles]
[panting]
[Six Thirty] I knew it was a small thing, but it came with so many memories of him.
Of us.
He was here all along. So why did they pack him away?
- Mom! - [knocks]
- [chuckles] - [Linda] Mom, tell him to stop!
Junior, put down the arrow.
- [Junior] Mom, she touched my bow! - [Linda] No, I didn't!
[Junior] Mom!
- [Linda] Don't hit me with it! - [Junior] Give it back!
- [shouting continues] - I don't mean to interrupt,
but I wanted you to have this.
- [Junior, Linda shouting] - [Elizabeth] Or rather, Calvin did.
- [Junior] No, I'm not! - [Linda] Yeah, you are!
[Junior] This is my chair, not yours.
- Do you wanna come in? - No. No, it's fine.
- [Linda] Mom, come get him! - [Junior laughs]
Give me a minute. They'll calm down once they have food.
But come on. Come in.
- Dinner! - [Linda] Stop!
[Junior] No, you stop! [laughs]
- [Linda screams] - [Junior chuckling]
[Linda] He's touching me!
[record player clicking]
[jazz music playing]
[chuckles]
I was so mad at him the last conversation we had.
And I still am, you know. So... [inhales deeply]
...now I'm mad at myself for being mad at him. [chuckles]
Do you like jazz?
- It's growing on me. - [chuckles]
When Calvin first moved in, I hadn't seen him yet.
Just the moving truck. [chuckles]
So I go over there with a welcome-to-the-neighborhood pie,
and I hear Charlie Parker blaring from inside.
And I'm like, "Oh. This family has got taste." [chuckles]
So, imagine my surprise
when the only white boy in a five-block radius answers the door.
[chuckles]
Did you ever see him dance?
Mmm. [chuckles]
I saw him once through the window
and... [laughs] ...never let him live it down. And just--
Oh, yeah. [chuckles] Yeah.
- Just-- [laughs] I cried. - Got a lot of shoulders, a lot of head.
[both laughing]
God.
[chuckles]
So, can you now explain to me why someone might need
an industrial-grade lab in their kitchen?
I have to finish our research.
I'm...
I'm a ticking clock.
[exhales sharply]
You're pregnant.
- I can't do it. - You can.
I can't.
No one can do it. But then you expand.
You think you can't do it, and you do it anyway.
That's being a mother.
[sighs]
- [alarm blares] - [barks]
- [breathing heavily] - [machine whirring]
[alarm blares]
[breathing heavily]
[alarm blares]
[grunts, breathes heavily]
- [typing] - [typewriter dings]
[grunts]
- [alarm blares] - [grunts, breathes heavily]
[alarm blares]
[grunts]
[grunting]
- [alarm blares] - [grunts]
[whistles]
- [screams] - [typewriter dings]
- [whistles] - [Elizabeth grunts]
[screaming, panting]
- [alarm blares] - [ticking]
[screaming, panting]
[breathing heavily]
[toilet flushes]
[door opens]
[grunts]
- [phone rings] - [receptionist] Dr. Mason's office.
Miss Zott. It's nice to officially meet you.
Please, call me Elizabeth.
[clicks tongue] I am so very sorry for your loss.
Evans was a good man. A good man and a good rower.
You should come rowing with us as soon as you're ready.
You're not exactly getting out there in this condition.
- I've been erging. - Good God.
Is that bad? Calvin built an erg.
Well, yes, I would imagine he would, but it's just--
I've never heard of anyone erging on purpose. [chuckles]
How far are you erging?
About 10,000 meters a day.
[whistles]
I've always thought pregnant women develop an extra capacity for suffering,
but that will certainly prepare you for childbirth.
Well, it all looks good on your charts.
But why in God's name has it taken you so long to come in?
You're in your last trimester.
[breathes shakily] Well, um...
I had, uh, sort of, hoped that... it would just take care of itself.
Miss Zott, do you have someone you can lean on?
A friend or a relative? Your mother?
Someone?
I have a dog.
Dogs can be good companions.
And a neighbor that I sort of know.
A dog, a neighbor you sort of know and an erg.
- Mmm. - Excellent.
As soon as you're able, I wanna see you down at the boathouse.
I realize it may take some time. Let's say a year.
My boat's been looking for the right two-seat,
and something tells me you're it.
In the meantime, try to relax and get some sleep.
Soon, sleep is going to seem like a distant memory.
[door closes]
[chuckles]
You're firing me. On what grounds?
I think you know.
I haven't the foggiest.
You're with child.
Yes, I am pregnant. That is correct.
Mr. Astor, has my correspondence slowed in the last month?
Well, no.
I'm not contagious. I do not have cholera.
No one's going to catch having a baby from me.
You know very well that women do not continue to work
when they're pregnant.
And you are not only pregnant, you're unwed, and that is disgraceful.
Pregnancy is a natural condition.
It is how all human beings begin.
[scoffs] Is she explaining pregnancy to me?
- Who do you think you are? - A woman.
A fertilized zygote is 50% ovum and 50% sperm.
Would the man be fired in this situation?
That would be fair. Correct?
What man are you referring to? Evans?
Any man. If an unwed woman gets pregnant,
is the man who gets her pregnant responsible
and therefore also fired?
- Would you fire Calvin? - Of course not.
Then you have no grounds to fire me.
Of course I do. You're the woman. You're the one who got knocked up.
We have rules, Miss Zott.
Not for this. I have read the employee handbook front to back.
It's an unwritten rule.
And thus, not legally binding.
Evans would be so ashamed of you right now.
No. No, he would not.
Elizabeth.
- Hi. I was just about to come over. - [sighs]
I was wondering if you had an axe I could borrow.
- Are you serious? - Yes.
I'm finding the sledgehammer to be too limiting.
I do not have an axe.
Okay. Hmm, good night.
Well, I was just about to come knock on your door.
The reporter wrote another article.
"The council members were seen visibly squirming in their seats
as Harriet Sloane"-- that's me--
"gave the room a primer on constitutional law."
[smacks lips] I made them squirm.
[chuckles] I swear, this-- this sounds crazy,
but, um, I feel like Calvin helped make this happen.
- What do you mean? - Well, I went down to the Times
and demanded that they write another article,
and the reporter refused.
Because that's not how newspapers work.
But if I hadn't gone down there,
the reporter never would've come to the council meeting,
and I never would've gotten an article in the LA Times
about a bunch of racists pretending a freeway through my backyard
is good for my community.
And how did Calvin help with that?
I don't know, I just...
I know I felt him there in that room with me.
Hmm. Good night.
Uh, Elizabeth?
Whatever you try not to feel...
you're gonna have to let yourself feel it at some point.
[sighs]
[gasps, sighs]
[cries]
[grunts]
- [sighing] - [Six Thirty panting]
[whining, barks]
[Six Thirty] What can you say to someone that's lost everything?
[whines]
And then it came to me.
This thing Calvin used to say every time we'd get tired of running.
"That's the beauty of running," he'd say.
[barks]
When you don't think you can move forward.
When you're sad about your yesterdays
or not sure what's going to happen tomorrow,
your purpose is just being there putting one foot in front of the other.
One foot, one foot, one foot.
It's all you have to think about.
One foot. One foot.
And then, sure enough, you'll be home.