Sabi: I got you a present.
7ven: Have you reached out to Bessy yet?
I don't want to talk about it.
You're cutting me off?
I can't sit here anymore and I-
Bessy, I think-
Ms. Kanji: I'm here to provide clarity
around the terms in Imran's will.
Imran was a shareholder,
and he has assigned his shares to his nephew,
Kareem Mehboob.
To me?
Hey, do you wanna talk about it?
Nope.
So, yeah, um.
I've been thinking about it a long time.
I'm like, all researched up on HRT.
I pretty much know what to expect,
like medically speaking.
HRT is hormone replacement therapy.
Yeah, I, I know what it is.
Cool.
You just weren't saying anything, so.
Next steps would be for you to like,
refer me to a gender affirming specialist.
Sabi, I've been treating your family
since pretty much the beginning of my practice.
You were one of my first families.
I remember.
You looked thirteen.
Which is amazing I thought that
since I was actually thirteen.
I'm aware of what your family's been going through,
since your father's passing.
And I guess I'm wondering,
have you considered...
well, them?
I'm not sure what they have to do with, like, this.
Right. I guess I'm asking, I think,
have you considered the timing?
Oh. Happy birthday.
It's your birthday tomorrow, isn't it?
♪ I'm a bird in flight, I'm a butterfly high
♪ I know my darkness will not go away, so I
♪ Threw away logic, so I'd find a way
♪ Will we be okay?
♪ Tell me we will be okay
♪ Mind, I made up my mind ♪
♪ I made up my mind ♪
♪ I'ma put my fears aside
♪ I made up my mind I made up my mind ♪
♪ Say you'll stay by my side
♪ Me I've got nothing to prove
♪ When it's just me and you
♪ Used to have nothing to lose
♪ Now you're someone I could lose ♪
♪ I, I, yeah ♪
♪ Me I got nothing to prove
♪ When it's just me and you
♪ Used to have nothing to lose
♪ Now you're someone I could lose
♪ Ha, ha ♪
Hiii.
Sabi, I think I remembered
that maybe it's your birthday today?
Is it your birthday?
Oh God, yeah.
I'm so sorry.
Happy birthday.
Suno, they need you inside to help set the chairs.
Uh, FYI?
Today should remain, you know, chill and on the down-low
for your father's Chaaliswan, Alhamdulillah.
If not for Allah, then for Aunty.
Hey, I think you should probably Google
what on the down-low means
if you wanna keep using it.
Oh, it has another meaning?
Just Google it.
Happy birthday, Sabi.
♪ I'm a bird in flight, I'm a butterfly high ♪
[people murmuring]
It's important not to grieve too much.
Is what I'm doing too much?
I'm only warning,
it-it might impede
the departing soul's journey
if there is too much grief.
I will try to find the right amount.
[pleasant music] [people murmuring]
[pleasant music continues]
You didn't make it yourself?
Isn't it nice your mommy brought so few dishes?
People usually make such a show for the Chaaliswan.
Shehraz: Excuse me one moment, please.
[Mumtaz sighs]
How is Aqsa doing?
Effectively disrespecting your brother's memory.
[gentle hip hop music]
Buon compleanno!
If that means happy birthday please don't say it again.
I know the circumstances are not ideal
but you can still acknowledge the day you came to earth.
Okay, I'm acknowledging it.
This is me acknowledging it.
Today is a solemn day of grieving for Papa Mehboob.
And only if you're feeling up to it,
a little cocktail with your devoted BFF afterwards?
Maybe.
Asalaam-walaikum, Mrs. Mehboob.
Hi, 7ven.
It's so nice that you came.
Of course.
How you holding up?
I'm wearing maybe the wrong thing
and I made maybe not enough food.
Doesn't matter what anyone thinks.
This is your time to grieve.
Arre.
Awww.
What's this for?
Birthday hug.
Oh God.
Imam-sahib, where should Sabi be?
It's a very good question.
Um...
Where would Imran have wanted Sabi to be?
With the men.
Would he?
With the women.
Um...
Ah, I don't know anymore.
[gentle music] [people murmuring]
Okay.
That's good.
Yes, fine.
[Imam saying prayers]
♪ By the time you get the message I (be gone baby baby)
♪ Over to the other side
♪ Please don't chase me baby
♪ Irreversible for us
♪ Probably best that we pull the plug
♪ But you still think it's still worth holding on, baby
♪ I think it's more like a four alarm, blazing
♪ You and the horse you rode up on lately
♪ Going places where I don't belong
♪ You been callin' off and on
♪ Want me back with open arms, crazy
♪ Saw the wagon now you jumping on, shady
♪ Changed your tune when shit was popping off, baby
♪ Dropped the bag like you was dropping bombs
♪ You done chose to walk up on ♪
7ven: Hey, so wow,
what's just happened here is that Imran's been released
from apparently his earthly life through prayer.
[people murmuring]
7ven: Oh my God.
[whispering] Sorry.
I can't even.
[whispering] Where you going?
Should I come with you?
♪ You and the horse you rode up on, lately
♪ Goin' places where I don't belong
♪ Callin' off and on ♪
[rain pattering]
It's raining.
Weird.
Hey, wanted to say,
the inheritance thing, I-
That's so not an issue for me, Kareem.
Just saying, if my dad left you a bunch of shares-
Kareem, I'm good.
[rain pattering]
[thunder rumbling]
My dad really loved you, you know?
I loved Imran Uncle, too.
That's actually nice to hear.
I haven't been to a Chaaliswan since my brother died.
Mm, totally.
Kareem: Been thinking about Samir so much these days.
[Sabi chuckles]
Are you laughing?
That's weird.
Sorry, just when I think about Samir
sometimes it just makes me laugh,
I can't help it.
Remember when he tried to drink from a snow globe?
He went to emergency for that.
He got in so much trouble.
Really upset your parents, too.
He was self-destructive.
Yeah, but like, I don't think he wanted to, like, die.
The amount of drugs he did says maybe otherwise.
You know that the drugs and stuff,
that only got worse
when your parents threatened to send him to Pakistan.
Then he got, like, super reckless.
They were gonna send him to Pakistan?
Yeah, you didn't know about that?
I mean, your dad was maybe not so into it,
but Mumtaz Aunty really pushed.
[door creaks]
OhmyGod, that woman could harvest organs with her glare.
Kareem: My mom?
Oh. 'Sup Kareem?
Hey, 7ven.
You clean up nice.
What's happening?
10 o'clock.
Where do I look? Where's 10?
I can't tell round time.
Round time?
Old-timey clocks and shit.
You can't tell time?
I also can't dial a rotary phone, Kareem,
you gonna shame me for that?
Shit. What's she doing here?
Did you invite her?
No.
Hi.
[soothing music]
What are you doing here?
Who's this?
Kareem, this is Bessy.
Hey.
Happy birthday, Sabi.
Oh my God.
Sabi.
[gentle music]
Hey, Bessy.
Hey, 7ven.
How you been?
♪ I wonder if another universe would give me you
♪ Without the pain of losing time
♪ Or living life without you
♪ If time's a thief then let pain teach
♪ Don't wanna wind up on the street again without you
♪ I never really did
♪ Here and now
♪ I'm sitting waiting for a chance to recompense
♪ For the almosts and the ends
♪ How it never really ♪
You're Aqsa, right?
Who are you?
I'm Bessy.
Oh, wow!
I kinda feel like I know you.
Yeah, same.
I couldn't make it to the funeral so...
how you holding up?
I feel a massive fucking void.
Sabi: She, like, totally cut me off.
Said she can't even be in the same room with me.
So, yeah, it's a bit weird that she's crashing this
and, like, meeting my sister.
What the?
Why didn't you tell me any of this stuff?
I'm not sure that's the point.
Okay, yeah, that was about me.
So frustrating.
You want Bessy gone?
She's gone.
Thank you, but maybe someone less 'Killing Eve'
can go ask her politely to leave.
You got it.
That's nice.
[people murmuring]
Bessy?
Hey, Kareem.
I'm Sabi's cousin.
Yeah, we met outside.
This is sort of a family event, so...
Well, I'm kinda like family, so.
I'm at least as much family as 7ven is.
Sabi sort of wants you to leave.
Okay.
Can I just talk to them for a second before I leave?
Sabi, you shouldn't be alone right now.
Hi.
I'm a human. Standing right here.
Maybe you should mingle with your family
is what I'm saying.
Hi.
Hi, I'm 7ven.
Sullivan?
7ven.
Are you saying the number?
I am.
[people murmuring]
Aqsa: Yeah, I can grab it.
Oh my God, she's like a specimen on display.
Jealous?
I am hating her hating me.
No. No look, she doesn't, ah, hate you.
I just think that she'd like to be the controversy,
once in her life.
God, that was such a weird thing to say.
Please don't tell her I said that.
Shit.
What?
What's up, Bess? - What's up, 7ven?
I hope you can see this from Sabi's lens
but you, here, right now?
Massively aggro.
Is it?
You weren't invited
and you're not leaving when being asked.
You're right, that is what's happening.
I don't really know what I'm doing here.
That's weird.
I wasn't at the funeral. - Bessy.
Can I just speak to Sabi for a second?
Bye now, Bessy.
Now.
Now!
Sabi!
Look, I-I know this is-is weird.
I just, I-I couldn't make it to the funeral
and I-I just felt like, like literally compelled
to be here for you.
And I guess I'm sorry. I-I know I'm sorry.
And I just, for everything!
[softly] Big blanket apology not accepted I guess.
[gentle music]
[people murmuring]
Thank you for being here, Dr. Malik.
Of course.
How are you doing?
Not sure how I'm allowed to be, to be honest.
Well, there's a certain amount of showbiz to our rituals.
Sometimes you just gotta give people the tears they want.
Sorry if that sounded insensitive.
It did a little bit, if I can be honest.
Kareem: You were gonna send Samir to Pakistan,
and you didn't tell me?
There's a time and a place, Kareem.
Kareem: He was my brother!
What is going on with you?
She needs to chill out!
Okay, okay, relax.
Your son is disrespecting your brother and his mother.
And your sister-in-law is disrespecting her husband.
And Sabi and that woman-
Okay, enough!
[Mumtaz gasping]
Hi, hello family.
We must remember,
extreme emotions can inhibit Imran Bhai's soul from rising.
Dad.
[objects crashing] [people shouting]
Ah...
I...
[people murmuring]
[gentle music] [people murmuring]
Um, you asked for me?
Shehraz: I owe you and Aqsa,
Raffo-Bhabhi, and Imran Bhai all an apology.
Bhai, there's no need.
My whole family owes you an apology.
Kareem: For sure.
I'm super sorry.
[gentle music continues]
♪
Listen to me.
It's okay.
Feel whatever you are feeling.
All of you.
[Shehraz sniffling]
[Shehraz sighing]
[gentle music]
I'll wait for you in the car.
[Shehraz sighing]
[Aqsa sniffling]
[Aqsa crying]
[gentle music]
♪
[people murmuring]
Go out with 7ven. For your birthday.
Hm, another night.
When things aren't so weird.
When are things not going to be weird, jaanu?
Jaanu, Aqsa will come back with me.
Sabi: Why don't we all just go home?
Have some leftovers?
If Sabi's going with you
then maybe I'll just go back to the apartment.
I'm not feeling great.
Yo.
[7ven sighing]
[upbeat electronic music]
You can tell me stuff, you know?
I know.
I say that because there's stuff
you're not telling me, like with Bessy?
7ven. - Right.
So, listen.
Hey, I'll just stop you right there
'cause I feel like you're about to talk about my birthday.
Oh shit, you can read me.
Well, I'm a one-person
24 hour Sabi celebration hotline, okay?
You text me the words "fucked" and "up"
and I'll be there to make those words a reality.
Whenever. Forever. All over.
Thank you.
I'm gonna go catch my mom.
Okay.
[upbeat music]
Sabi: Okay, I'm ready to go.
Dr. M: It was pretty emotional.
Totally.
And your chacha really lost it.
He reeeally did.
Dr. M: And your mom,
she needs you so much right now.
She's doing okay.
My opinion,
your family can't take much more.
[Sabi sighing]
Sabi: Hey, can I ask you a question?
Dr. M: Sure.
How's your fam?
They're good.
Sabi: Yeah?
There's always, like, stuff going on
all the time, isn't there?
Never really a good time to stir the pot.
Well, some times are better for some things, though.
Sabi: I feel really sad that my dad is, like, gone,
but if he, like, didn't die, I...
I don't think I'd be able to make this decision for myself.
Out of this total tragedy there's like this,
I don't know what to call it,
like, not-not freedom, but-
[sighs] Sabi, I understand-
What I need from you, um, Dr. M,
is a referral to a gender-affirming specialist.
And if I can't get that from you
then I'm gonna have to go to someone who will
and that's gonna, like, really suck
because I have to tell this total stranger
everything I've told you,
a person I've known since I was thirteen.
And I don't wanna do that.
["Dreaming" by Carmen Elle]
♪ I walk, and walk, so am I just dreaming?
♪ Am I dreaming? ♪