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[whimsical music playing]
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[children vocalizing]
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- [man 1] Hang in there, buddy.
- [man 2] C'mon, now.
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[man 3 wailing]
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[triumphant music playing]
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It's just so beautiful.
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[birds chirping]
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["Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)"
by Scatman John playing]
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[man vocalizing]
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- [no audible music]
- [birds chirping]
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No, that is not what we're doing.
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[breathes deeply]
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This is what we're doing.
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Yeah, you got this.
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[upbeat music playing]
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Good morning, Becky.
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- Hey, John, how's Arlo?
- Finally sleeping through the night.
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I told you he'd figure it out.
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[phone ringing]
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Melissa, loved that calculation
on the activator-thymine ratios.
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- Aw, thanks, boss. Appreciate it.
- And I appreciate you.
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Aw. [chuckles]
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What... Pete, who is this?
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My daughter, Sophia.
We had a childcare issue.
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I hope that's okay.
She will stay out of the way.
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Of course.
Sophia, never stay out of the way.
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Ask questions,
challenge assumptions, disrupt shit.
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Maybe throw some.
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I'll try.
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So, sweetheart,
do you even know what we do here?
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Biotechnology.
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Yes, and do you know
what that important-sounding word means?
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Biotechnology, or biotech,
is any research and development
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that involves modifying a living organism
to meet a human purpose.
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Okay. So she kind of knows.
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It includes everything
from genetic engineering, to biofuels,
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to creating an enzyme, like you did,
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that can turn sugar cane
into a plastic-like material
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that’s completely biodegradable.
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- Technically, it's not plastic.
- I said, "plastic-like."
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It's a polyethylene.
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It’s actually a bio-polyethylene.
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- I know that.
- Didn't sound like you did.
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- How could I not know if I invented it?
- That's what I was wondering.
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There are Cocoa Puffs
in the kitchen, honey.
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Okay, I am going to get some Cocoa Puffs
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in my kitchen
of my company that I created.
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[upbeat rhythmic music playing]
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Yeah, I understand, Ted.
Ellis is doing great.
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I think he spent last night in the lab.
I can assure you, he is laser focused.
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I do not like any of our spoons.
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Wait. No, I don't care.
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The board is nervous.
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I'll tell you what I do like. The new
infrared sauna in my office. Thank you.
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What kind of dreadful CFO would I be
if I didn't approve an infrared sauna
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so you could heat yourself from
the inside out like a microwave burrito?
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I have more clarity
when my bone marrow's warm.
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Are you all right? It's just you seem
to be getting more, maybe...
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I don't know.
Why dance around it? Crazier.
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Crazier? Or am I just letting
the beauty of the world
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move me in a more profound way?
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That's literally the same thing.
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We have 15 minutes till the board meeting.
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They're going to want to hear
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that you absolutely will meet
the latest benchmark
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on the carbon project.
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I have done everything I can
to buy you more time,
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but since you keep missing deadlines,
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you are now in danger
of losing control of your company.
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[exhales deeply]
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I'm not breathing with you.
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[exhales] It'll calm you.
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I believe I'm at exactly
the right level of agitation.
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[inhales deeply]
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Stop breathing.
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The board has noticed that the corporate
therapist they got you has disappeared,
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so they’re also wondering about that.
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[exhales deeply]
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Anna, we are doing something
that has never been done before.
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Something that will change the world.
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And that requires tremendous creativity.
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And if Einstein is right that
“creativity is intelligence having fun,”
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then the enemy of creativity is behaving.
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Okay, I see why people believe in you.
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I'll meet you in the conference room
at 9:45. Don't be late.
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And don't eat with two spoons.
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[upbeat music playing]
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[children vocalizing]
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- And you're late.
- [Ellis] Don't come in.
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Oh God.
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What are you doing?
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I want to have the board meeting
in the sauna
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because it keeps people honest.
And then, I was looking for a towel, and...
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I just really enjoy being naked.
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Maybe you came back too soon.
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No, no. It's good for me to stay engaged.
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Katie's accident
was only a couple of months ago, Ellis.
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You were married for 30 years, so maybe--
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No, no, no.
Katie would've wanted me to keep going.
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Of course, I wanted her to keep going.
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Ellis, I'm so sorry she's gone.
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Thank you.
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Could you excuse me, please?
I'd like to be naked again
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and feel the cold air
on my forlorn genitalia.
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I will reschedule the board.
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I’ll tell them that you’re fine,
but a bat bit you,
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or you inhaled bat guano,
or something to do with a bat.
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Everyone hates bats right now.
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Anna.
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You do so much for me
that I hesitate to tell you this next bit
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because you're not gonna like it.
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It has to do with the therapist
the board got me.
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Oh God.
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[upbeat music playing]
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Malcolm, you know how you're obsessed
with Ellis and would do anything for him?
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- Yes.
- We are up against a deadline.
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I need Ellis in the lab,
but he’s spiraling.
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- Upward?
- Yes, Malcolm.
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His wife, who he loved
more than anything has died,
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and so, like an airplane that's lost
its wings, he's spiraling upward.
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I know. It is in fact downward.
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It's more than just Katie's loss.
The woman kept him grounded.
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I feel like he's a week away
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from living in a park
debating fusion with squirrels.
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He loved Katie with an intensity
only found in music and poetry.
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Almost like you love him.
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- I'm sending you to New York.
- Okay. Why?
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To bring back the one person
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who might be able to ground him
like Katie did.
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Okay. Who?
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[upbeat music resumes]
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[flute playing]
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Okay. Better than last week.
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Was it?
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Totally. Last week,
Mrs. Fetterman banged on the wall,
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so clearly,
she's seeing improvement as well.
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- What's wrong?
- I don't even want to play the flute.
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My dad makes me.
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Oh... [exhales]
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Father-son stuff, man.
Don't get me started.
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- Okay.
- You try so hard to please them, right?
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But they want to make you a certain way,
even if that's not who you want to be.
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And you hope that one day
that dynamic will change,
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but when you realize it won't,
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you come to terms with the fact
that no matter how much you love them,
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you gotta take a break,
and that break is painful,
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but let me tell you something, Ryan,
it's also restorative.
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So is the lesson over?
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No, little buddy.
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The lesson's never over.
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Not until we learn how to navigate
that very complicated relationship.
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[knocking at door]
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He's doing great.
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It's me!
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It's you!
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[teacher] Mm.
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Dude, when's the last time you ate?
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Teaching flute doesn't bring in
a lot of money, so I don't get out much.
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Plus the sauce for my chicken
is creeping towards my mashed potatoes,
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so I gotta move things along.
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It's got to be hard
not being able to let your foods touch.
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They can touch.
I just can't eat them if they do.
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So you're in town for a night.
We're dining on the company card.
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Why did my dad send you?
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Your dad didn't send me.
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Can't two old friends hang out
without there being an agenda?
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If they're honest with one another.
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Okay, Anna sent me.
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- There is an agenda.
- Boom.
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Have you spoken to your dad
since your mom's memorial?
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A couple of times. Why?
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How'd he seem?
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He's not doing great.
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Kept talking about some side project
at work to turn himself invisible.
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He wants to disappear. A shrink
would have something to say about that.
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The board got him a shrink.
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The guy shadowed Ellis for a few days
and then disappeared.
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I don't mean he turned invisible.
He just vanished.
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Again, not invisible.
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Look, I love my dad. I do. It's just--
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Okay, then come to LA
and help get him back in the lab.
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- I don't think that's a good idea.
- What if I told you... please?
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- Remember when I won that science award?
- No.
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Exactly. That's 'cause Ellis Dragon
showed up, then they asked him to speak,
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and he got on stage
and said my science was correct,
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but that I needed to think bigger,
take more risks, move fast, break stuff.
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It was an ant farm.
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That was a great speech.
That's what got me into science.
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Okay, you're missing my point.
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All my dad ever does is try to change me
into being more like him,
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and the rest of the world cheers him on.
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It's why I quit science
and moved 3,000 miles away.
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At least with my mom around,
she could run interference,
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but without her, it's exhausting.
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Jackson, Ellis is spiraling,
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which I've recently learned
only goes in one direction,
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and now you're the only family he has.
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Okay. I'll go. For 24 hours. That's it.
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Excellent. You'll regret it.
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Don't you mean I won't regret it?
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No. I'm lowering your expectations,
so you won't be disappointed.
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Oh my God. Why am I doing this?
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Perfect.
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[whimsical music playing]
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- Come in.
- Hi, Anna.
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Jackson! Oh, you made it.
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[chuckles]
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So good to see you.
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- Take a seat.
- Oh, okay.
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So your father’s been working
on an exciting, new project.
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It’s a way of drawing carbon
out of the atmosphere
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and then using that
to manufacture concrete.
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It'll lock up climate-changing gases
for over a thousand years
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and will literally save the world.
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- You like the world, right?
- Some aspects of it.
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- Still worth saving, right?
- Some aspects of it.
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Me too.
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Now, Ellis has always been eccentric,
and we love that about him. Just love it.
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But since your mother passed away,
he's been, well,
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I'm gonna use the phrase "even weirder."
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Hmm. What happened to the therapist
that you got him?
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I don't know. He disappeared.
What do you want me to do about it?
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Okay.
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The point is it's been weeks
since your father set foot in the lab
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to work on that important project
that will save the world,
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which I know isn't perfect.
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Still, we all love polar bears, right?
Don't want to see them die.
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So we need him back in the lab.
I believe it's also what he needs.
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Well, I'll talk to him,
but I'm not optimistic.
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- Great. You're all we have.
- What?
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- Off you pop.
- Do you know where he is?
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I'm already regretting this,
so I feel like I should move quickly.
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It's Tuesday.
He doesn't come in on Tuesdays anymore.
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- Oh, why not?
- You are asking all the right questions.
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[upbeat accordion music playing]
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Jackson! Malcolm told me
you might be coming.
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Oh, Juan, this is my son.
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The musician.
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Flutist.
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Or is it flautist? I'm sorry.
I know you've told me,
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but all I can remember
is that it is a life of constant struggle.
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I know there's not a lot
of successful flute players in the world,
243
00:11:53,464 --> 00:11:54,798
but that's a good thing.
244
00:11:54,798 --> 00:11:57,676
- Supply and demand. Not much supply.
- Because there's no demand.
245
00:11:57,676 --> 00:12:00,220
[Ellis and Juan laugh]
246
00:12:00,220 --> 00:12:03,432
Why are you working on a landscaping crew?
Let's talk about your life choices.
247
00:12:03,432 --> 00:12:04,850
I used to teach philosophy.
248
00:12:04,850 --> 00:12:06,977
- But then one night, men came--
- Not you, Juan.
249
00:12:06,977 --> 00:12:09,146
Because in order for me to be creative
in my other job,
250
00:12:09,146 --> 00:12:11,064
I need to expand my experiences.
251
00:12:11,064 --> 00:12:12,900
I thought
that's what the microdosing was for.
252
00:12:12,900 --> 00:12:16,945
- He took too much. Danced with a ficus.
- It was heartbreakingly beautiful.
253
00:12:16,945 --> 00:12:18,363
But, yes, I'm taking a break.
254
00:12:18,363 --> 00:12:21,366
In the meantime,
this work helps me feel alive.
255
00:12:21,366 --> 00:12:24,953
To feel I'm having an immediate effect
on something. Have you ever laid sod?
256
00:12:24,953 --> 00:12:29,124
Nope, Dad, I live in New York. Last week,
I broke up a fight between two rats.
257
00:12:29,124 --> 00:12:30,918
In the morning, there's nothing but dirt.
258
00:12:30,918 --> 00:12:34,671
By mid-afternoon,
there’s a vibrant green lawn.
259
00:12:34,671 --> 00:12:35,964
It’s like giving birth.
260
00:12:38,008 --> 00:12:38,842
To a lawn.
261
00:12:38,842 --> 00:12:41,094
That's great. Let's get out of the hole,
262
00:12:41,094 --> 00:12:43,472
and go to the lab
and show me the project you're working on.
263
00:12:43,472 --> 00:12:46,517
Or I can give you the shovel,
and you can see what you've been missing.
264
00:12:46,517 --> 00:12:48,393
Try something new. Expand your world.
265
00:12:48,393 --> 00:12:51,104
So I can be more like you?
Microdosing and making love to a tree?
266
00:12:51,104 --> 00:12:54,149
There was no sex.
It was a straight bossa nova.
267
00:12:55,359 --> 00:12:56,193
Right?
268
00:12:56,819 --> 00:12:57,820
[bird squawking]
269
00:12:59,196 --> 00:13:00,989
What's so wrong with being more like me?
270
00:13:00,989 --> 00:13:03,242
How many times
have you been on the cover of Time?
271
00:13:04,159 --> 00:13:07,329
I don't want to be you.
There's enough you in the world already.
272
00:13:09,748 --> 00:13:12,835
- It hurts to see him go like this.
- He doesn't want me in his life.
273
00:13:13,502 --> 00:13:16,421
- Perhaps because you try to change him.
- I just want to help him.
274
00:13:16,421 --> 00:13:20,759
Children. They want our help.
They also want to be loved as they are.
275
00:13:20,759 --> 00:13:23,971
How can we accept them without condition
and, at the same time,
276
00:13:23,971 --> 00:13:26,640
help them to live lives
they cannot imagine?
277
00:13:32,604 --> 00:13:33,438
Tell me.
278
00:13:33,438 --> 00:13:36,149
Go. Find out together.
279
00:13:36,900 --> 00:13:39,528
Why can't philosophers
ever just give a clear answer?
280
00:13:39,528 --> 00:13:41,738
- Why do you want them to?
- [groans]
281
00:13:44,533 --> 00:13:47,202
Jackson. Jackson, don't leave.
282
00:13:47,202 --> 00:13:48,328
Why?
283
00:13:49,288 --> 00:13:51,039
I want to show you
what we've been working on.
284
00:13:51,790 --> 00:13:52,916
In the lab, right?
285
00:13:53,750 --> 00:13:57,045
Yeah, in the lab. So put your car
in my car and we'll go together.
286
00:14:00,465 --> 00:14:03,218
- This is amazing. Is it a plant?
- It's a biomass.
287
00:14:03,218 --> 00:14:05,429
It's 10,000 times more dense than a plant.
288
00:14:05,429 --> 00:14:07,180
- Actually--
- Roughly 10,000 times.
289
00:14:07,180 --> 00:14:09,224
It's 9,942 times.
290
00:14:09,224 --> 00:14:12,269
Like a plant,
it sucks carbon dioxide from the air.
291
00:14:12,269 --> 00:14:15,272
100,000 of these would be
the equivalent of a trillion trees.
292
00:14:15,272 --> 00:14:17,190
- 900 billion.
- Roughly a trillion trees.
293
00:14:17,190 --> 00:14:19,651
- Which would pull 40 billion tons--
- 39.247--
294
00:14:19,651 --> 00:14:22,696
Roughly 40 billion tons
of climate-changing carbon gases
295
00:14:22,696 --> 00:14:24,406
from the atmosphere every year.
296
00:14:24,406 --> 00:14:28,994
Boom. Earth wins. Suck on that,
all y'all who bet against us and science.
297
00:14:28,994 --> 00:14:30,037
Okay.
298
00:14:30,037 --> 00:14:32,873
But wait, there's more!
Ruby, tell us what else the Earth wins?
299
00:14:32,873 --> 00:14:37,669
No, it is Luna's time to shine.
Luna, explain, simply, without numbers.
300
00:14:38,795 --> 00:14:42,341
When the biomass reaches
its maximum density, we add an enzyme
301
00:14:42,341 --> 00:14:46,261
that converts the carbon to a material
that can be used to make concrete.
302
00:14:46,261 --> 00:14:48,555
Boom, go to hell, assholes.
303
00:14:49,681 --> 00:14:53,143
Sorry. Sometimes, I'm not great
with interaction. Boom.
304
00:14:53,143 --> 00:14:54,061
Ah.
305
00:14:54,061 --> 00:14:56,688
So we have been working
with dependent dehydrogenases,
306
00:14:56,688 --> 00:15:00,442
but we haven't been getting enough
electron transfer between the peroxidase.
307
00:15:00,442 --> 00:15:03,737
Have you tried isolating
the O2 independent oxidoreductase?
308
00:15:04,488 --> 00:15:06,823
- Is he smarter than us?
- My parents think so.
309
00:15:06,823 --> 00:15:09,409
Nonsense. You are all brilliant,
including this one,
310
00:15:09,409 --> 00:15:12,120
who uses his intelligence
to blow through a tube with holes in it.
311
00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:14,164
- Mm. Thank you. It's good to be here.
- [chuckles]
312
00:15:15,707 --> 00:15:18,335
Ruby studied tissue regeneration at MIT,
313
00:15:18,835 --> 00:15:22,089
which is what Jackson studied
getting his engineering degree at Cornell.
314
00:15:22,089 --> 00:15:24,007
Before he made "other choices."
315
00:15:24,007 --> 00:15:26,301
Really? I worked on an artificial nose.
316
00:15:26,301 --> 00:15:28,845
Oh, cool. I worked on a toe.
It's the nose of the foot.
317
00:15:28,845 --> 00:15:32,057
Oh, one of my professors made a penis.
Nose of the crotch.
318
00:15:32,808 --> 00:15:33,976
[chuckles]
319
00:15:35,394 --> 00:15:38,021
- Luna.
- I'm seeing it too.
320
00:15:38,021 --> 00:15:39,481
I need to show you something.
321
00:15:39,481 --> 00:15:40,440
Oh.
322
00:15:41,733 --> 00:15:42,651
What?
323
00:15:43,235 --> 00:15:46,363
Um, well, you know,
I'm just here for one night, so...
324
00:15:46,363 --> 00:15:48,073
Don't fall in love with you?
325
00:15:48,073 --> 00:15:50,075
Thanks for the heads-up.
That's so my thing.
326
00:15:50,075 --> 00:15:53,996
No, that's not what I meant. Mm-mm.
What I meant was...
327
00:15:56,957 --> 00:15:58,208
I'm gonna go find my dad.
328
00:15:59,292 --> 00:16:00,711
See if you can get him back here.
329
00:16:00,711 --> 00:16:02,963
- He hasn't been around much.
- Will do. [chuckles]
330
00:16:02,963 --> 00:16:06,675
Oh, no, now I have to watch you walk away?
How will I ever resist that?
331
00:16:07,551 --> 00:16:08,635
[chuckles]
332
00:16:09,219 --> 00:16:10,387
[chuckles]
333
00:16:10,387 --> 00:16:12,806
[whimsical music playing]
334
00:16:14,474 --> 00:16:16,018
Luna, do you know where my dad went?
335
00:16:18,854 --> 00:16:20,022
[whimsical music ends]
336
00:16:20,022 --> 00:16:21,189
Jesus!
337
00:16:21,189 --> 00:16:23,316
[Ellis]
We're working on an invisibility cloak.
338
00:16:23,316 --> 00:16:25,277
It's not 100% yet.
339
00:16:25,277 --> 00:16:28,030
There’s also the classic
“invisibility cloak eye dilemma.”
340
00:16:28,030 --> 00:16:30,282
You need holes in the fabric,
so the person can see out.
341
00:16:30,282 --> 00:16:32,284
But then it looks like two eyes
floating in space.
342
00:16:32,284 --> 00:16:34,202
Which is the exact opposite
of being invisible.
343
00:16:34,202 --> 00:16:36,997
[Ellis] More like the shroud
of “Holy shit! What's that?"
344
00:16:38,707 --> 00:16:40,125
- Nanofilament.
- Excuse me?
345
00:16:40,125 --> 00:16:42,419
Whatever you're using to bend light
so it doesn’t reflect
346
00:16:42,419 --> 00:16:44,254
needs to be so thin
you can see through it.
347
00:16:44,254 --> 00:16:46,423
- Have we tried that?
- We've talked about it.
348
00:16:46,423 --> 00:16:47,883
Go! Make it happen.
349
00:16:47,883 --> 00:16:51,970
I want light to say, “Where is he?”
“I don’t know.” "Never trusted that guy."
350
00:16:51,970 --> 00:16:54,014
Okay, sure. Let's piss off light.
351
00:16:54,014 --> 00:16:56,808
But that could take years,
and we have karaoke tonight.
352
00:16:56,808 --> 00:16:59,352
- Oh! I hope that you're--
- [Luna] I'm not singing.
353
00:16:59,352 --> 00:17:00,520
[sighs]
354
00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:01,980
[distant phone ringing]
355
00:17:02,773 --> 00:17:04,066
This is so cool.
356
00:17:04,066 --> 00:17:05,317
You'd love it here.
357
00:17:06,985 --> 00:17:08,153
No, don't start with that.
358
00:17:08,153 --> 00:17:11,073
I'm not coming to work for you.
I play the flute.
359
00:17:11,865 --> 00:17:13,200
That did not sound strong.
360
00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:14,951
That's because it's the flute.
361
00:17:14,951 --> 00:17:16,369
At least come to karaoke.
362
00:17:16,369 --> 00:17:19,331
Ruby's gonna there. She's young, smart,
and hasn't seen you play the flute.
363
00:17:19,331 --> 00:17:21,083
I'm not hooking up with Ruby.
364
00:17:21,083 --> 00:17:23,001
And stop trying to turn me
into someone else.
365
00:17:23,001 --> 00:17:27,714
I don't want you to be someone else.
I want you to be exactly a version of you.
366
00:17:27,714 --> 00:17:28,799
A version of me?
367
00:17:28,799 --> 00:17:31,676
- Exactly sort of you.
- So not me.
368
00:17:31,676 --> 00:17:34,554
You, but with some tweaks.
Would you like to hear what they are?
369
00:17:34,554 --> 00:17:36,598
No, I'm not the one who needs fixing here.
370
00:17:36,598 --> 00:17:37,933
Why make this about me?
371
00:17:37,933 --> 00:17:40,977
You love it when it's about you.
It's always about you.
372
00:17:40,977 --> 00:17:42,437
And, by the way, this is about you.
373
00:17:42,437 --> 00:17:44,272
- Okay. We can talk about me.
- Good.
374
00:17:44,272 --> 00:17:46,775
But not right now.
I have to choose my song for karaoke.
375
00:17:48,276 --> 00:17:50,237
Please come. You can tear into me there.
376
00:17:50,737 --> 00:17:51,571
[groans]
377
00:17:52,864 --> 00:17:53,698
Aha!
378
00:17:56,660 --> 00:18:00,956
♪ We’re running
With the shadows of the night ♪
379
00:18:00,956 --> 00:18:04,918
♪ So baby, take my hand,
It'll be all right ♪
380
00:18:04,918 --> 00:18:09,256
♪ Surrender all your dreams
To me tonight ♪
381
00:18:09,256 --> 00:18:13,844
♪ They'll come true in the end ♪
382
00:18:13,844 --> 00:18:16,054
[audience cheering]
383
00:18:16,054 --> 00:18:17,430
I killed that shit.
384
00:18:18,765 --> 00:18:21,643
Baller move,
singing the same song right after me.
385
00:18:21,643 --> 00:18:24,062
Perhaps to teach you
how it's meant to be done.
386
00:18:24,563 --> 00:18:25,981
I don't think I know you.
387
00:18:27,149 --> 00:18:29,901
The important thing
is do you know yourself?
388
00:18:31,194 --> 00:18:34,531
Yeah! Anna Bennet!
The best singer/CFO in Biotech!
389
00:18:34,531 --> 00:18:37,367
And yes, I’m including Jeannette
at United Therapeutics,
390
00:18:37,367 --> 00:18:38,577
who's got a fine voice
391
00:18:38,577 --> 00:18:41,121
but is weak on inductive reasoning
and financial forecasting.
392
00:18:41,121 --> 00:18:42,289
[audience groans]
393
00:18:42,289 --> 00:18:44,291
Come on, you know she is. You know she is.
394
00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:49,838
Oh, hey.
395
00:18:49,838 --> 00:18:52,257
Hi. I was just taking a break.
396
00:18:52,257 --> 00:18:57,220
Don't think I don't enjoy loud people
or crowded spaces. So my jam.
397
00:18:57,220 --> 00:18:58,889
Yeah, I came to talk to my dad,
398
00:18:58,889 --> 00:19:01,892
but I've only got to watch him
take a great song and skin it alive.
399
00:19:01,892 --> 00:19:08,690
♪ It's a quarter after one
I'm all alone and I need you now ♪
400
00:19:10,859 --> 00:19:12,861
♪ Said I wouldn't call ♪
401
00:19:12,861 --> 00:19:17,324
♪ But I've lost all control
And I need you now... ♪
402
00:19:17,324 --> 00:19:20,327
And that's what happens
when literally no one says no to you.
403
00:19:23,079 --> 00:19:25,624
[grunts] So, uh, why'd you come tonight?
404
00:19:26,791 --> 00:19:29,711
I've been told I should push myself
out of my comfort zone.
405
00:19:29,711 --> 00:19:32,464
Yeah, I've been told
I could use a few tweaks too.
406
00:19:32,464 --> 00:19:33,381
[chuckles]
407
00:19:37,093 --> 00:19:39,471
When I was six,
my dad made me be in the school play.
408
00:19:40,180 --> 00:19:41,389
And then he heckled me.
409
00:19:41,890 --> 00:19:44,059
"No one can hear you. Speak louder."
410
00:19:44,059 --> 00:19:46,645
I wanted to cry
but was afraid he'd yell to cry louder.
411
00:19:46,645 --> 00:19:47,604
Hmm.
412
00:19:47,604 --> 00:19:49,189
- So I just peed.
- Oh.
413
00:19:50,065 --> 00:19:52,776
- Loudly.
- That's the saddest thing I've ever heard.
414
00:19:52,776 --> 00:19:53,693
[chuckles]
415
00:19:54,194 --> 00:19:56,780
Thank you.
See, I'm good at meeting people.
416
00:19:57,489 --> 00:19:58,323
[Luna chuckles]
417
00:19:58,323 --> 00:20:01,910
- Uh, my dad thinks I'm wrong.
- About what?
418
00:20:01,910 --> 00:20:03,912
Just generally. Like about everything.
419
00:20:04,412 --> 00:20:06,373
Oh. Well, what do you think?
420
00:20:06,957 --> 00:20:09,834
I don't know. I'm trying
to make a living playing the flute.
421
00:20:09,834 --> 00:20:12,295
That might be a mistake.
Who hires flutists?
422
00:20:12,295 --> 00:20:14,798
People who want
to rid their village of rats.
423
00:20:14,798 --> 00:20:16,424
And that happened, like, literally once.
424
00:20:16,424 --> 00:20:18,510
Yeah, and that Pied Piper dude
didn’t even get paid.
425
00:20:18,510 --> 00:20:20,971
[chuckles] It's true, yeah.
His dad was probably like,
426
00:20:20,971 --> 00:20:22,097
“All you got was children?”
427
00:20:22,097 --> 00:20:25,600
Yeah, and he was, like, "Oh, leave me
alone, Dad. I know what I’m doing."
428
00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:29,813
- "Everyone gets paid in children first.”
- There you are. Come on, you're up.
429
00:20:29,813 --> 00:20:31,982
No, I'm not singing. You said we'd talk.
430
00:20:31,982 --> 00:20:33,733
Sing first. Come on.
Come on, It'll be fun.
431
00:20:33,733 --> 00:20:35,443
Please don't tell me what's fun.
432
00:20:35,443 --> 00:20:37,445
You like karaoke. I don't. So what?
433
00:20:37,445 --> 00:20:39,739
[Ellis] Expand your horizons.
Live a little.
434
00:20:39,739 --> 00:20:40,782
Maybe go to the gym.
435
00:20:40,782 --> 00:20:43,118
Okay. Maybe you should go to work
and stay there.
436
00:20:43,118 --> 00:20:45,495
Maybe don't spend a day
giving birth to lawns.
437
00:20:45,495 --> 00:20:47,330
I just want to expand my world.
438
00:20:47,330 --> 00:20:48,957
Why is that such a problem for you?
439
00:20:48,957 --> 00:20:50,542
- You can go.
- Thank you.
440
00:20:53,878 --> 00:20:58,216
Dad, if you can't focus on work,
the real work you're supposed to be doing,
441
00:20:58,216 --> 00:20:59,467
the board will get rid of you.
442
00:21:00,051 --> 00:21:04,472
That's ridiculous. Besides, all the work
that is meant to be done will get done.
443
00:21:04,472 --> 00:21:05,390
Juan taught me that
444
00:21:05,390 --> 00:21:07,350
when we got behind
on the Mendelbaum Zen garden.
445
00:21:07,976 --> 00:21:09,352
Hmm, okay. I tried.
446
00:21:09,853 --> 00:21:12,772
I love you. I'm going to the airport.
I'll see you at Christmas.
447
00:21:15,150 --> 00:21:16,276
I miss your mother.
448
00:21:17,861 --> 00:21:19,654
[light melancholic music playing]
449
00:21:20,822 --> 00:21:22,324
So much I can't stand it.
450
00:21:22,907 --> 00:21:24,909
And something has shifted. My...
451
00:21:26,244 --> 00:21:29,039
My brain, I...
I can't just problem-solve anymore.
452
00:21:29,039 --> 00:21:34,711
I need to feel excited. I need to
feel inspired. I need to just... feel.
453
00:21:36,421 --> 00:21:39,007
- Tell me how to help you.
- Support my landscaping.
454
00:21:39,007 --> 00:21:40,592
[exhales] I support you.
455
00:21:40,592 --> 00:21:42,844
I'm the only person in your life
who doesn't indulge you.
456
00:21:42,844 --> 00:21:44,054
It's never too late.
457
00:21:46,681 --> 00:21:48,308
Oh, come on, you're leaving?
458
00:21:48,308 --> 00:21:51,561
We were just spitballing ideas.
You don't need to take the first one.
459
00:21:54,689 --> 00:21:57,025
[indistinct chatter]
460
00:21:57,025 --> 00:22:00,320
Hey, everything all right?
Where's Jackson?
461
00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,822
- Uh, he left.
- What?
462
00:22:02,822 --> 00:22:04,657
Without his mom,
I don’t know how to do this.
463
00:22:04,657 --> 00:22:07,160
Katie always helped us find the words
so we could talk.
464
00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:08,119
[inhales sharply]
465
00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:11,623
- Now we just make each other crazy.
- Maybe he just needs to cool off.
466
00:22:11,623 --> 00:22:14,042
No, I know him. He's done.
467
00:22:16,419 --> 00:22:17,670
You know him, do you?
468
00:22:17,670 --> 00:22:19,506
["Down Under" by Men at Work playing]
469
00:22:29,015 --> 00:22:30,350
I don't know him.
470
00:22:35,355 --> 00:22:36,564
[audience cheers]
471
00:22:49,577 --> 00:22:51,871
[audience cheering]
472
00:22:54,999 --> 00:22:57,127
My son, the flutist.
473
00:22:57,961 --> 00:23:00,171
Or flautist.
I really have to lock that down.
474
00:23:04,259 --> 00:23:07,846
As much as I would like you to stay
and work with me, you have a gift.
475
00:23:08,555 --> 00:23:13,852
A very, very, very niche,
potentially useless gift. But still...
476
00:23:17,230 --> 00:23:18,189
I miss her too.
477
00:23:20,650 --> 00:23:21,484
I know you do.
478
00:23:23,069 --> 00:23:24,070
And I miss this.
479
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[Anna] Jackson, Jackson.
480
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[inhales sharply] So, um, I was wondering,
481
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now that you and your dad
are getting along a little better,
482
00:23:34,414 --> 00:23:35,999
you might stay longer.
483
00:23:35,999 --> 00:23:38,751
I have to give a lesson tomorrow.
Charlotte, she's excruciating,
484
00:23:38,751 --> 00:23:40,503
so she really needs my help.
485
00:23:40,503 --> 00:23:43,131
Okay, I wasn't gonna tell you this
because it's kind of intense.
486
00:23:43,131 --> 00:23:45,508
Also, I don't want
to make you an accessory.
487
00:23:45,508 --> 00:23:47,886
An accessory like a hat or a brooch?
488
00:23:47,886 --> 00:23:50,263
To a crime, Jackson.
An accessory to a crime.
489
00:23:50,263 --> 00:23:53,057
Like an ugly hat or a brooch
could be a crime?
490
00:23:53,057 --> 00:23:55,977
That therapist the board brought in
to work with your father.
491
00:23:55,977 --> 00:23:57,687
Well, I kind of know what happened to him.
492
00:23:57,687 --> 00:23:59,397
Oh my God. What happened to him?
493
00:23:59,397 --> 00:24:02,025
- What's poppin'?
- The therapist that the board sent?
494
00:24:02,025 --> 00:24:03,359
- Leslie.
- Yeah.
495
00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:05,195
- What happened to him?
- He's in my basement.
496
00:24:05,195 --> 00:24:06,237
He's in your basement?
497
00:24:06,237 --> 00:24:09,073
You locked him in your basement.
I think that’s worth mentioning.
498
00:24:09,073 --> 00:24:10,575
God dammit!
499
00:24:10,575 --> 00:24:13,995
He was threatening to send the board
a very unflattering report on me
500
00:24:13,995 --> 00:24:17,081
unless I gave him a lot of money.
Which I did.
501
00:24:17,582 --> 00:24:19,959
- And then he wanted more, so--
- How long's he been down there?
502
00:24:19,959 --> 00:24:21,669
- A couple of days.
- And you knew?
503
00:24:21,669 --> 00:24:25,256
Only since yesterday when your father
was naked, and I had a lot on my plate.
504
00:24:25,256 --> 00:24:27,884
- [whispers] Help us.
- Is this a problem? Yes.
505
00:24:27,884 --> 00:24:31,054
But like invisibility, I believe
that it is one that can be solved.
506
00:24:32,138 --> 00:24:36,768
Ugh, I gotta go feed him. You know what?
He gets very upset when his dinner's late.
507
00:24:36,768 --> 00:24:41,981
[whimsical music plays, ends]
508
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[closing theme music playing]
509
00:26:06,608 --> 00:26:07,984
[closing theme music ends]