Previously on Fatal Attraction...
I want you to help me find
a copy of my old case file.
The first thing we do is rerun
all the prints that were found
on the scene that weren't yours.
Maybe some people
who weren't printed or arrested
15 years ago have been arrested by now.
I just wanted to update you
on Tracy Sims.
She's unconscious again,
but I was able to talk to her.
And she ID'd him. She said
he was the one who beat her.
ANGELA: If you could have the ideal
relationship with him going forward,
have you thought about what that would be?
ELLEN: I just want to hold his hand.
Did you take something, Alex?
Pills.
I took all of them.
♪
Morning.
[gasps] Good morning.
See the hearing's been pushed?
I did, yes, thank you and... oh.
Excuse me.
-How are you today? -Okay.
I had a dream last night this giant snake
bit me on the face.
DAN: That's disturbing.
Beatrice, here for Kosna?
Yep, it's been a while
since I've been up against one of Norman's juries.
Can't say that I missed it.
[elevator bell dings]
♪
[water running]
♪
[lights buzzing]
♪
[stall door closes]
ALEX: I know that you're scared.
And also this robbery wasn't the first time
that you've experienced physical violence in your life.
Yeah, but it's not the same.
No, it's not.
But it can still make you feel like...
...like you're someone that...
violence is drawn to.
The fact that it keeps happening to you
means that it's going to keep happening to you.
But those men,
they were strangers to you.
And the way that your case is going,
there's no reason to believe that they won't plead out.
And with a plea
comes no victim disclosure of any kind.
Not even your name.
What if there isn't one?
-A plea. -Then we'll handle that.
But there will be.
So, for now...
why don't we get some of these other things
off your plate.
The broken hot water heater.
What is your landlord's number?
I'm in the mood to get loud.
[elevator bell dings]
Morning.
How's it going?
Did you see it? It was so tense.
I love a buzzer beater.
I mean, a win's a win.
Defense was for shit though.
I knew you were gonna say that.
What happened?
Oh, this defendant yesterday, he wanted to get out
of custody, I reminded him that he can't,
I torqued it a bit. It'll be fine by tomorrow.
In the meantime...
...why don't you put a fritter on it?
You can't keep doing this.
ALEX: I was just worried.
-I got back and you were gone. -Mm.
So what happened when you went back?
He was sweet.
He said he's only ever afraid of losing me,
is the reason always for what he does.
I say, he makes me sell his drugs for him
so he won't lose me?
He didn't already kill me once because the hospital
was too good and fast at their job for me to die,
but he's afraid to lose me?
-You said all that? -Yes.
To myself.
I'm not mad at you.
Why?
After all what you did for me, I would feel mad.
Maybe you should.
Would that help?
Because I'll totally do it. I like being mad.
He blames you. Artem.
He says we never had trouble before you.
Well, I did invent trouble.
[chuckles softly]
[indistinct chatter]
[mouthing]
ALEX: I'm with Victims Services.
Instead of Conchita Lewis.
-For the Siddiqui case. -Calendar number?
Um...
Six. It's six.
All right, I've got it.
What's your name?
It's Alex Forrest.
-That fritter looks good. -It is good.
Plus, it was free, so...
ALEX: Nawaz?
Hi, Mona. I'm Alex.
I met you with Conchita. Do you remember me?
-Yeah. -Yes.
Here's how today's going to go...
DAN: Big day.
All the times I had to remind you
don't do anything to make the jury
feel bad or feel sorry
for the man that murdered Yalina.
But today...
this is--
♪
[chuckles softly]
This is the sentencing phase. Today is the day
for all the emotions, and this is the place.
Okay?
[indistinct chatter]
♪
[indistinct chatter]
They are, actually, really, really well.
WOMAN: I'm glad to hear it.
[chuckling]: I thought that you would be.
You know, considering...
how often you had to listen
to how well things were notgoing.
Well, how are you doing with finding someone there?
It's just, uh...
you know, with their schedules and...
my schedule, it's...
even if you work that part out,
then, you know, you have to, you have to meet,
and then you have to click.
-That's just the process. -I know, but how do you know...
in one session?
Right? Look how long it took us.
Alex--
I-I know, but this is what I'm thinking, okay?
I don't even really need...
like, a regular scheduled thing.
At all, I just...
need advice sometimes.
You know, from somebody who knows me...
I'm not certified in Californi.
I understand that, but even over--
I'm talking about over the phone, so...
it seems pretty stupid to me that you can't even talk...
You have to keep looking.
I mean, I am. I...
You sound mad.
I'm not.
Okay.
You know, you can say that, but I can actually tell
if you're mad at me or not,
so I don't know why you wouldn't just...
Take care of yourself. Bye now.
[line clicks, beeps]
♪
The hidden source is the watchful heart.
[exhales] The hidden source is the watchful heart.
The hidden source is the watchful...
The hidden source is the watchful heart.
The hidden source is...
The hidden source is the watchful heart.
[elevator bell dings]
-Hey. -What are you doing downstairs?
Mendoza's out sick.
I had to cover. What 60-year-old gets fucking mono?
-Goddamn it. -You're having a day.
Jesus Christ, I-I...
Got a flat yesterday.
It's unfixable.
[Gabriel speaking indistinctly]
-[overlapping chatter] -...guys telling me when I can show up,
when I can have lunch, when I can take a shit.
-I'm a D.A., I shit when I want. -[laughter]
So is Judge Glynn gonna retire, too, now that you are?
You're the only one who makes sure
he doesn't drink before lunch.
Sometimes I tell him I put Sambuca in his coffee.
-Do you? -He didn't.
But I didn't.
-But he thinks I did. -GROUP: Cheers.
-Does he--? -[laughter, clamoring]
You know it's not happening, right?
What's not happening?
He didn't get it, the appointment.
[gasps] Oh, my God, you're kidding!
Dan, uh, Gallagher, he was up for judge.
Wow, that's crazy. What happened?
DENNIS: Maybe somebody called in a bigger favor?
Or there's people that still hate his dad.
Maybe they got together, and did a little conspiring.
People being dicks isn't a conspiracy.
All right.
I'm gonna head back. You coming?
Uh, yeah, I'm gonna
grab a cookie first. You want a cookie?
Of course, that's why I'm leaving.
DAN: I'm here... minimum three times a week.
Which means that since you moved,
I have been here 90 times.
ALEX: Must be the place to be, I guess.
DAN: Or just the place
I always am.
Are you okay?
You seem...
I don't know,
something right now.
[chuckles] Yeah, I probably do.
It'll be okay.
Or it won't. [chuckles]
[distant tires screeching]
♪
[sighs]
[exhales]
[keys jingling]
♪
[elevator bell dings]
[laughing]
Good night.
[singsongy]: Good night, ladies.
MAN: See you next week, Doc.
-[door closes] -Hey.
Uh-oh, he bailed on you.
[laughs] Right?
Too hungry to wait, I guess.
What were those, um...
the sandwiches,
with the peppers, the Italian ones?
Ah, the Calabrian. The-the hot pepper salad.
Yeah, I think about those all the time.
Oh, um...
Oh, shit, yeah, I couldn't remember,
uh, where I--
I just bought another one.
-So... Keep it. -Oh.
That's how long it's been since we've hung out.
You forgot where it was.
I just... things have just been crazy.
I mean, I-I had to stop seeing new patients.
Start a waiting list.
Uh...
Yeah, so I-I just don't want you to think that...
it's just my schedule,
I just have no time for anything these days.
I don't, I really don't think that.
Okay, good, because...
I-I don't think the way that you've been acting for the past
however long has been a function of scheduling,
Paul, and remember before you argue,
just how long it's been since you've returned a phone call
or even answered the door.
Or at least...
remember that I remember.
I'm... I've just been crazy busy.
-Really. -So you-- I mean, you still,
like, want to be friends, right?
-Yeah. Of course I do. -Okay, good.
Great.
'Cause I've been crazy busy, too, but I...
I always have time for my friends.
What I don't have time for, though,
is criminals.
That's what I don't have time for.
In fact, I have a professional obligation
to report criminals.
I mean, obviously, I work in the criminal courts.
But friends, I always have time for those.
[indistinct chatter]
Thanks.
[indistinct chatter]
♪
I can hear you now. Yeah, go ahead.
MAN: You want the works on both?
Yes, uh, the hot pepper,
the pepper salad, is that in the works?
-The Calabrian...? -Yep.
-Then yes. -Okay, two with the works.
It'll be 20 or 30 minutes.
-Thank you. -All right.
[muffled chatter]
-Hi. -Hi.
Hold on.
Oh, God.
MAN: Um...
because I found them, and I thought you would like
-to have them. -Is it an apology?
No. For what?
[scoffs]
I don't know, for the things that you said?
For the way that you said them?
Okay, wait.
Which time that you overreacted was this?
Okay, then how about you apologize
for how you fucking ruin everything?
What are we ruining again?
What, what is there to ruin?
Seriously, tell me, Alex, because I-I don't know.
-Yeah, why would you? -[knocking]
Fu-- I have to go.
Hey-oh, I got a fuckton of sandwich here.
-For someone named Alex? -Yeah, just put them on the table.
Okay.
You expecting guests?
Or you think you're gonna handle
both of these bad boys by yourself?
'Cause if you're trying to save one for tomorrow...
bad idea, too many condiments. It soaks the bread.
But if you want to do it, just know we don't endorse that shit.
So, it's up to you.
Yeah.
Your whole thing has too many condiments.
Yeah, okay.
DAN: Do you know how? I man, can you roller-skate?
I mean, I don't remember doing it,
but I remember that I did it.
[Dan chuckles]
I used to be able to roller-skate.
I'd probably break my ass if I tried now.
I think you should do it, seriously.
[distant car horn honks]
[sighs]
So what do you think?
Is this the one?
It's certainly on budget.
Though I may not be able to find myself a job, so...
Come on, daughter of a general contractor.
-What do you think? -Well, um...
It was weird how hard they made it for you to get in
to see it and that's kind of a red flag.
And, uh, also Arthur would say that they just painted
this part of the wall here and then they left the cans there
because they want you to think that they're renovating,
but once you're in, they're never gonna come back
and finish it, and, uh, also the bathtub
is spraypainted white to make it seem like
-the enamel's not coming off. -So Arthur would keep looking, huh?
Yeah.
Yeah, Arthur would definitely keep looking.
You get along with him?
I mean, I don't know why you wouldn't.
You always did.
-Um... -What do you call him?
Sorry. I'm sorry.
I shouldn't have said that. I...
That, I'm...
[sighs]
There is something that I-I just,
I want to say this to you, that...
I really thought I was gonna die in there.
And in the beginning, I didn't even know
how to...
start thinking about that.
And once I did...
I just was thinking of you and your mom.
And I would just drown in it.
So I really had two choices.
And both of them were bad.
But one of them was better for you.
I mean, I don't know, I just, I think if I would've made
-the other choice I probably wouldn't... -Okay.
[distant shouting]
You know, I think this isn't the one.
-Why don't we head down to the other place... -Uh, it's
getting later than I thought, so I'm actually gonna go.
Um... are you good to get over there by yourself?
-Of course. -There's a bus stop that's
on this side. It's about half a block away.
You can probably find that.
-Thank you. -Yeah.
DAN: For today.
[door closes]
[sighs]
I'll grab some meatballs in a second.
OFFICER: Hey, Dan.
I thought you said you came here a minimum three times a week.
[heart thumping]
ALEX: And what did Mike have to say about that?
DAN: Nothing.
I never told him.
[echoes]: I actually never told anybody.
At least 40% of those wins the jurors
were probably not listening to a word you said,
they were too busy watching your mouth.
[phone ringing]
I'm going to the ladies' room.
[ringing]
Yep.
♪
DAN: Fraud Bureau Steve Park?
Yes, I've been assigned to a case of his,
but I've never met him, so...
Um, smart guy.
Slightly an enormous asshole.
-[alarm ringing] -[people gasping]
[Dan laughing]
[grunting]
Verschlimmbesserung.
That's, um...
when you make a bad situation worse.
Like you're trying to apologize
to somebody for calling them stupid
and you accidentally call them old.
DAN: That is a weirdly specific example.
[dryer whirring]
Pardon my arm.
[breath trembles]
[door closes]
[receding footsteps]
[elevator whirring, creaking]
[panting]
[moaning]
[grunting]
[panting]
"You are fantastic.
Thank you."
MAN: Did he give you his number?
We-we work together, remember?
He knows that I have it.
So you still think that there's nothing to ruin?
Well, he's definitely leaving the door open.
Leaving it up to you to walk through it, though.
But that is what he wants me to do, though. Right?
Well, he's a lawyer, you say he's a good one.
I'm not a lawyer but even I know:
You leave a door open, someone's gonna come in.
[waves crashing]
♪
[barking]
Quincy-- Ah!
[chuckling]: Oh, my-- Oh, no.
Quincy, what are you doing, buddy?
I'm so sorry. Are you okay?
-Yes, I... -Hey. Hey.
-...twisted my dignity. -Hey. Buddy.
Come here, buddy. Come here.
Oh, I lost an earring.
You can't do that, okay?
You can't do that. You're too big now.
You're not a puppy anymore.
[babbling]
You're so tired, it's been a big day.
Been a big day.
[clicks]
So tired. Been a big day.
You killer attack dog.
Hi, buddy.
Everybody tired? Don't worry, just hang in there.
I have some hamburger I can make him.
DAN: No.
[chuckling]: No.
He does not do well with dietary changes
and I cannot afford a car blowout
after what he did at home last night.
I just got to take him home and feed him there.
Also, I just realized...
the cleaning service might've left my place unlocked.
[sizzling]
Thank you for today.
It was great.
Yeah.
It kind of really was.
Which is just my luck.
[gasping]
[thudding]
ALEX: So what are you asking me?
AVERY: It's just, uh, their mom is gone,
my wife is gone.
It's just the two of them and me left.
And they're saying either I drop it...
or they're gonna leave me.
If the case against your grandsons doesn't proceed,
then you have to take on
all of the debt that they incurred in your name.
That means you either have to pay that off
or you have to declare bankruptcy.
What if the case goes forward in some different way?
Like if y'all...
Like if the state pressed charges against them?
Not me, but on my behalf, you know?
That way, the kids get consequences.
And I'm not the one who--
Avery, you have been here before.
You know how this goes.
You're just making it harder by pretending that you don't.
Now, you get to decide...
if you want to be with the people that hurt you, or alone.
But it has to be one or the other, because...
those are the choices that you have.
[approaching footsteps]
-Oh, hey. -Hey.
Uh, hope you're not looking for Dr. Paul. [chuckles]
Keys in my mailbox, no notice or anything.
Floors were refinished when he moved in.
Now it looks like one of those Zen garden things you rake
except he forgot the fucking sand. [chuckles]
Now I got to deal with it or the management company
is gonna make me eat shit.
So, sorry in advance.
Next however many days around here
it's probably gonna get a little hard to breathe.
JUDGE: And please give the defendant written notice
of her right to appeal.
-Court dismissed. -[gavel bangs]
All right.
♪
DAN: Who was it who pinch-hit
for you on the Siddiquis?
-Alice? -CONCHITA: Oh.
-Alex. Mm-hmm. -Alex. Right.
CONCHITA: Yeah, I mean, that could work.
Do you want to brief her? Do you want me to--
DAN: No, no. You can take care of that.
She seemed smart.
CONCHITA: She's in a coma at Saint Matthew's,
and no one is optimistic.
So, the thing is, if she does not identify Jonathan Coleman
as the one who assaulted her, we have no case.
So, Dan is getting creative
and he said you did great with the Siddiquis,
that you're smart.
-I like to think so. -So do I.
Since I'm the one who hired you.
But I've been wrong before.
-Right. -[Conchita laughs]
ALEX: And we watched it together.
My mother didn't want to because it was upsetting,
it was about war.
But he loved it so much, so...
I wanted to love it, too.
I couldn't follow the names or the battles, but...
then this actor, he read the last letter
that this Union Army major wrote to his wife Sarah
before he died at, uh...
My dad would kill me.
Um, Bull Run, I think.
And then I understood everything.
Sullivan Ballou was his name.
He crystallized his whole world
into just pure emotion, in that letter.
Everything else breaking down,
fading away to just...
love, in the face of death.
My dad remembers all the battlefields,
the dates, but...
I remember this.
"Forgive my many faults,
"and the many pains I have caused you.
"How thoughtless and foolish I have sometimes been.
"How gladly would I struggle with all the misfortune
"of this world, to shield you from harm.
"But O, Sarah...
"if the dead can come back to this earth,
"I shall always be near you.
"Amidst your happiest scenes
and gloomiest hours, always."
DAN: I didn't think that this is what we were doing.
What were we doing?
Really, what were we doing?
Alex, I'm sorry, but I really do have to go.
Well, then you really should go.
♪
Do you want me to stay?
But you can go.
[waves crashing]
♪
It's not what it looks like.
Looks like yesterday's clothes, big guy.
Looks like the wages of sin.
If falling asleep on your couch was a sin,
then everyone in this bureau would burn.
Yeah, no, that was good.
That was good, a little self-righteous,
no pause to think.
Overall convincing. I'll give you a nine.
Can I take these socks?
"To each according to his needs."
[chuckling]: Oh, really?
The walk of shame closet is a Marxist utopia?
What, so you're admitting you're doing the walk of shame?
You honestly think I could pull it off, living like you?
I fell asleep on my couch.
Are these cashmere?
They're amazing.
You know what? I believe you.
Hmm. Alex Forrest from Victim Services
was looking to have a quick word with you
about the Sims case.
I put her in the conference room.
♪
I just wanted to...
apologize, um, for what happened.
I'm so sorry.
-You don't have to do that. -I do.
No, there's...
absolutely nothing for you to be sorry about.
I appreciate that, but...
your kindness, I'm so grateful, your...
-discretion. -Alex.
I'm just happy that you're okay.
I am.
I am, I don't...
know what that was.
Compassion fatigue?
A failure to empathize with yourself, maybe?
Hmm. Maybe.
Maybe exactly. That's...
exactly the kind of thing you always just seem to know.
That I have to at least, at least ask.
If there's something that we can...
um, you know, some sort of...
I don't know, casually adjacent hanging out,
maybe the occasional very bland margarita, or...
I know what you're saying.
I just don't see how that could work.
In fact, it definitely wouldn't.
Of course not.
That, I mean, what are we even--
What are we even talking about?
Anyway, um...
Thank you.
For everything.
[breath trembles]
[sighs]
Hey.
I'm so sorry, I...
As soon as you have to be at a place at a certain time...
-Hey, don't worry about it. -...that's when your client
brings up a complaint they've been hanging onto for months.
It's okay. It's okay. Don't, don't... worry about it.
I don't have as much time as I thought.
Sorry about that, too.
I like the...
[chuckles]
You're wearing it well.
Thank you.
So are you.
What did you actually want to talk about?
Uh...
You know, did Ellen...
-tell you about my, um... -Yeah.
She did.
And Mike, Mike's always kept me up to speed
on whatever he knew about you.
[chuckles softly]
That's... not a surprise.
[laughs]
It does make some of the other things
a little harder for me to...
wrap my head around, though.
Like what?
Like... [sighs]
Even though...
I still feel like I made the right decision,
it blows my mind how completely you just...
Believed you?
Took you seriously? Did what you asked?
This is what we're doing here?
[sighs]
No matter how wrong and insane it felt to me,
you said it was what you needed.
That if you had to think about us,
thinking about you in that place,
you wouldn't survive. You said "survive."
So wrong and so insane that you
just completely went along with it?
You wouldn't authorize my visits,
you sent all my letters back.
I can't fight with someone who-who won't engage.
Also, I had to show Ellen
how to live with a thing you can't change.
So what did you say to her?
That you wouldn't...
be in our lives, but you'd never stop loving her.
And how did she take that?
She was really bad, it was bad.
She talked about you for a long time,
then she stopped.
Maybe she thought that's what you wanted her to do.
[sighs]
Now I'm gonna be late.
ALEX: Hi, it's me. Again.
I'm gonna have this new special,
this robiola cheese with roasted tomatoes.
You know for me to order not meatballs,
it must be pretty good.
But I don't know how much longer it'll be on the menu.
So this is your heads-up.
Because I haven't seen you here in a while.
It's starting to make me feel like
maybe I misunderstood something,
except I really don't think that I did.
I think you might have, though.
And so I want to help.
I want to help you be the man
that I know that you are.
For your sake and for everybody else's.
But in order to do that,
I can't let you pretend like I don't exist.
Because I doexist.
And I'm not going to be ignored, Dan.
How was it?
I wanted to lick the plate.
DAN: The open house
is officially over at 5:00
so somebody's gonna come back around 6:00,
6:15-ish to pick her up.
And it'll probably be me.
Okay, well, we'll just be here reading I assume.
-How many books did you bring today? -Five.
For not even a whole day?
She also has a language arts worksheet she needs to finish.
Well, this is Nana's house, we don't do homework
-at Nana's house. -You heard the woman.
You're supposed to be the grown-up here.
Yeah, well, I'm supposed to be a lot of things.
-[phone ringing] -Bye.
Bye.
[door closes]
[line ringing]
CLERK: Hey, I've got a Dr. Diamond
calling from Saint Matthew's.
Okay, yep.
-Hold on. -[beeping]
-DR. DIAMOND: Yeah? -Hi, this is Dan Gallagher.
Hey, uh, your name was in the file on Tracy Sims.
-Contact DDA directly in case of-- -Yep, yep.
So, I'm calling to inform you Ms. Sims passed away.
Oh, shit, that's...
That's terrible news, I-I...
I just assumed she was getting better.
Why?
Well, because of...
you know, that day when my...
colleague was there and she spoke with her.
Ms. Sims came in braindead
and that status did not change.
Not to speak, not to anything.
I don't know who told you otherwise,
but they are not correct.
Okay, thank you.
-Thank you. -[line clicks]
[line ringing]
ALEX: This is Alex Forrest,
leave me a message.
-Oh. -Excuse me.
-Thank you for coming. -Of course.
[indistinct chatter]
BETH: Idiots.
ALEX: I-I agree.
I do.
[laughing] Hi.
-Hi. -BETH: This is Alex...
I forgot your last name.
-Forrest. -Alex Forrest,
my husband Dan. Dan, Alex Forrest.
-No, I know him already. -BETH: Oh.
From, uh, the criminal courts.
-I work in Victim Services. -Oh.
That's... with Conchita, right?
-Right. -Wow, are you kidding?
-[laughter] -ALEX: You were right, Beth.
This place, I mean, it's...
It's magical.
Well, we've been very happy here.
I can feel it.
The happiness.
-Thank you so much. -BETH: Of course.
And, uh, yeah, maybe I'll see you around.
[door opens]
What do you think? She really in the market?
-[door closes] -Um...
I mean, yeah, I don't know, maybe.
Earl.
So they gave you parole, huh?
Yep, that's what they did.
And you haven't lost the gift of the blarney then
because that is total bullshit.
So let me guess.
You want to talk about your case
and all the things that I would've done differently
in retrospect, which is none of them.
Earl, can we do this inside?
Yeah, I'm not doing it at all, Mikey.
That case was so solid it could make me a sandwich.
Can you just listen? Please, you don't even have to talk.
-Can I? Sure. Will I? -Earl, will you cut the shit?
EARL: Yeah, but you know what's pretty crazy, though?
That you're letting him drag you into this.
I mean, I would say "have you no shame?"
But as we all found out a while ago,
you don't.
[door slams]
BETH: I don't, I don't... I don't understand
w-what did he want you to say?
I don't know. It's like...
the shittiness of his situation
was why he was supposed to be the one to say
how things were gonna go, but then it was also why
we weren't supposed to listen to him.
BETH: Don't try to logic this.
ELLEN: No, he got to tell us what to do then, so...
now he also gets to tell us how we should've felt about it.
Or something.
What? Please, just let me get my scissors and go.
ELLEN: You know that he thinks you're a part of it too, Dad?
-Part of why we never-- -ARTHUR: He said that?
ELLEN: I mean, kind of, yeah.
Do you think he has a point?
-About me being-- -About any of it.
Ellie, do you think that I should've tried to keep him
more actively in your mind? Should I have reached out
after however many years to see if he
changed his mind, to check?
Honestly?
Those seem like crazy things to expect,
but I didn't lose my whole life.
I don't know what it's like to be him.
But also it sounds like that shadow stuff
that you were talking about, isn't it, Ellie?
If it isn't part of us, it doesn't bother us.
If you ask me, he's mad at you guys
because he's mad at himself
and-and... and he knows he doesn't get to be mad, but...
I mean, that... doesn't mean he isn't.
[knocking]
[sighs]
What the fuck was that?
I was going to call you.
I don't know what you think you're doing,
but it's going to stop.
-Right now. -It's not going to stop.
-Why would it stop? -Why?
Because you are not going to come into my home,
into my private life, and threaten me and my family.
What are you talking...? I-I didn't do that.
How could I do that?
Dan, wh...?
What are you so afraid of?
Really, you remember what it was like.
Right? You remember what you were--
Stop! Just stop this!
I spoke to the hospital about Tracy.
And I don't know what fucking insanity...
Why you would even try to do something like that,
but I could end your career.
And if you come after my family again, I will.
[gasps]
[door slams]
[breath trembles]
[water running]
MIKE: You know, some people would say
it doesn't count as a kitchenette
if there's a stovetop and a fridge.
But no sink.
Well, there's a sink in the bathroom.
Yes. Exactly.
And the rest is my office, which I don't even use.
Because I do everything on my phone.
[chuckles]
Now, we just can't ever find a tenant
that you can peacefully coexist with.
One was too friendly,
one was hiding a cat,
and one had doll eyes, whatever that means.
Oh, I know exactly what that means.
Well, we'd be giving you
an extremely competitive monthly rate of... nothing?
At least for now.
-I'll take it. -Okay.
[chuckles]
But when I come in here, I get to sit in my chair, hmm?
Ah. Honestly, you'd be doing us a favor, though.
You know Mom, she's on the ball for 92, but...
man, her bones are like rice noodles.
-Ugh. -[phone dings]
This is amazing, Mike, thank you.
You are welcome. Oh, shit.
A set of prints came back already.
That's fast. Why so fast?
Because the guy they belong to
is in prison now apparently, Calipatria.
Some...
pill mill doctor, drug dealer guy, Paul Halliwell?
Mean anything to you?
Hmm? No? But it will.
Uh, first we got to get your stuff, huh?
Sorry there's no bathtub.
You know, not something I really missed.
Yeah, you know, you see enough crime scene photos
of the creative ways that people use bathtubs,
they kind of lose their charm.
[Mike chuckling]
ALEX: I need you.
Please, I don't care if you're not
certified in California, just please just call me back.
♪
[dance music playing]
-[delighted squealing] -[dance music continues]
-Hey. -Hey.
Hey, um, are we supposed to, like, sign in or something?
No, no, but if you need somewhere to leave your shoes,
Lorena is gonna watch 'em while we skate.
Cool.
[indistinct chatter]
It's fine. Just put them there.
God, everybody here is like really good, huh?
How good are you at this?
More towards the front?
-Middle? -No, no, the back.
Uh, the back of the back.
-Even though you own skates? -That I thrifted for this.
-Oh, God. Oh. Oh, yep. Yep. -Maybe you want a little help?
Oh, yep. Could you just shield me from ridicule for a second?
All right, all right. Hi. You're good.
Hi. [laughs]
Hey. I feel like I know you.
Do you T.A. for Macksey?
Yeah, for Macksey.
-Macksey. Yeah. -Okay.
-Okay. All right. -Cool.
-You want to...? Okay. -Yeah, sure.
-Hold on to my hips? Hold on. -Let's do it. Yeah. Definitely.
Okay.
-[dance music plays] -[laughter]
[young man shouts playfully]
[laughter]
Oh, my God.
STELLA: This is crazy. Why the fuck are we doing this?
I don't know, I don't know.
♪
[lights buzzing]
[sizzling nearby]
[coughs]
[sizzling]
Oh, my God.
[coughing]
Ugh. [coughing]
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LIZZY: With this episode,
I like this peek behind the curtain for Alex.
I want to know why she thinks
these decisions that she's making
are the right decisions to make.
ALEXANDRA: Alex's perspective episode,
it started with Glenn Close in interviews
saying that if anyone was ever
going to reboot or reimagine Fatal Attraction,
that the only version of it that she felt like
would be worth telling
would be the one from Alex's point of view.
The concept of that stuck in my head.
In the first two episodes,
I only have a handful of scenes.
Even though we are messing with perspective shifts,
it's not until the later episodes, starting with 103,
we get to see her side of things
and just how different it is
from what we were initially presented with.
One of the things that I loved most
about the way that we are telling the story
is those are big shoes to step into,
but there's also an opportunity given to us
to really get into Alex's psychology.
We wanted to make sure that we allow Lizzy
to play a character that is all of the things
that she was in the movie, but more.
I decided early on, and I talked to both Josh and Lizzy,
that I wasn't gonna tell them whose perspective I was in.
I didn't want them to start catering their performance
or changing it based on whose perspective I was in.
It'll be okay or it won't.
SILVER: I held back information when I showed things
through Dan's perspective visually,
that then you get to see when you're in Alex's perspective.
And so for the people really paying attention,
her hand might have dropped out of frame
in Dan's perspective, but now that we're in her perspective,
we get to go down there and see what she was doing.
We really play with different points of view
of the same affair, and when you look at a story
from two different points of view,
you get a whole different truth to it.
Brother, you said you came here
a minimum three times a week.
I think that's probably the most interesting new layer
that we're putting into Fatal Attraction.
THERAPIST: How are you doing with finding someone there?
ALEXANDRA: In 103, Alex is speaking to her former therapist.
She's constantly trying to revive that relationship
and the therapist has boundaries.
I just need advice sometimes, you know,
from somebody who knows me. I'm not certified
in California.
Alex really feels
like, "All I was trying to do is call and tell you
how well everything is going,"
but the audience will know
that the only reason things are going well
is because she just met this handsome man
who lost his train of thought when he looked at her,
and therefore, they must be in love.
For her, she puts people on a pedestal.
They're everything to her. She thinks they're amazing.
So I don't know
why you would just-- Take care of yourself.
Bye now.
LIZZY: And as soon as they puncture that fantasy,
very easy for her to switch them over to,
"This is a terrible person and I hate them."
It's just a tiny little taste of how her brain works.
The hidden source is the watchful heart,
the hidden source is...
ALEXANDRA: The line, "The hidden source is the watchful heart"
comes from a wonderful poem by a Northern Irish poet
named Derek Mahon that's called
"Everything Is Going to Be All Right."
Alex is struggling with severe intrusive thoughts
that sometimes make her lose time.
When the therapist rejects her, she starts to feel as if
she's gonna go into that state.
Part of the coping mechanism she's evolved
has been to turn this poem into a mantra
so that she can keep herself present by reciting it.
It's certainly not for the meaning anymore.
Alex Forrest from Victim Services was looking
to have a quick word with you about the Sims case.
LIZZY: There's a moment in the film, she comes to his office
to end things and apologize.
Thank you for everything.
LIZZY: She goes to shake his hand to say goodbye
and he pulls her into a hug.
This is a pivotal moment in the film
and something we definitely wanted to have in the series.
Within the scene, we actually see the transition to,
"Oh man, this is gonna be more than I thought it was."
LIZZY: He should have just let her walk away.
He is giving this very fragile woman
pretty extreme mixed messages.
I think it makes sense for Alex for her to think
maybe she misread the situation.
Starting to make me feel
like maybe I misunderstood something,
except I really don't think that I did.
And maybe he doesn't want to end things.
And it's up to her to remind him
why he doesn't want to end things with her.
I wanna help you be the man that I know that you are.
We are watching a replay of events that we already saw
to remind the audience that there's two people
in every conversation.
Dan thought it was one way, Alex took it in this way.
And that's why you need to think
about the consequences of your actions.
Dan just assumed he knew.
While he's assuming them,
we don't want the audience to assume them
and that's, for me, what 103 is about.