All language subtitles for The Big C S01E13 - Taking the Plunge

Previously on The Big C...

I've been really confused.

I shouldn't have
feelings, but I do.

What's the problem? You
don't have permits for this job.

I do one small
construction project

and you have to
go behind my back!

You're a pain in the ass.

Don't move here for me.

You are such a cunt!

Get out of my house, or
I'll blow your brains out!

You can't remember
where you put a gun?

I have Alzheimer's.

Mom said in a letter that
we got the day after she died

that she thought it
was time for her to go

because she didn't trust herself
not to do something stupid.

And she didn't want to
become a burden, so...

Which is why she actually
arranged this funeral herself.

This is so beautiful.

She shot herself in the fucking
head. This is not beautiful.

Our mom pretended
to hate polka music.

She said, "The only
way to dance to it

makes you look like an asshole."

But every time my dad
pulled out his accordion,

it always brought
a smile to her face.

Maybe I'll have a band.

Not a polka band,

but maybe a marching band.

For what?

My funeral.

So, enjoy the polka
music and enjoy the buffet.

That's what our
mom would've wanted.

Scratch off?

No, thank you,
that's inappropriate.

Me, neither. No, thank you.

I'm going to the buffet
to obliterate my feelings.

Well, I'll be damned!
I'm a winner!

Good for you.

Adam, how are you doing?

Adam. Hey, Mom.

I just want you to know, if
you want to talk about Marlene,

if you have any
questions about death,

or anything?

No. I'm good.

Can I meet Mia at
the movies after this?

Sure. Yes.

Oh, look, can I have
some money for popcorn?

No. Okay.

Don't like death,
don't like death,

thinking good thoughts,
thinking good thoughts.

I know. I know you hate this.

Marlene tried to make it nice.

Yeah, I should never have come.

My palms are sweaty,
my chest is compressed,

and it feels like a spirit keeps
running its hands through my hair.

Well, at least you're
having a reaction.

I don't understand why
Adam seems so unaffected.

Marlene pulled a gun on
him and then shot herself.

He's just a little
emotionally constipated.

Oh, my God!

Did you invite Psycho?

Hi, Cathy.

She wanted to come.

Well, if she murders me, you
throw me on top of Marlene.

We're running out
of room to put people.

Hey.

I'm so sorry I'm late.

Poor Marlene!

It's good to see you.

But you didn't have to come.

I wanted to be here for you.

How are you? MAN: I won!

Look at that. It's
hard to be sad

when every five minutes
someone wins $20 on a scratch off.

Yeah. It's... It's
quite an affair.

I am so glad it's
a closed casket.

My grandpa had an open casket

and I have this
recurring dream now

about his death
face trying to kiss me.

There's Sean.

Can I... Let me just
catch up with you

in a couple minutes, okay? Sean?

I see you hiding
behind that tombstone.

Sean Tolkey!

Hi, I'm Cathy.

I live across the
street from your mom.

Oh, you're Cathy.

We were wondering who you were.

I'm Lorna. I'm Gina.

This is my wife, Buttercup.

Look at you.

Hair like a waterfall.

It's so nice to meet you.

Well, it is so nice

to meet all of you.

Your mom, she... She
talked about you all the time.

She was so proud
of the two of you.

Mom was a lot of things,
but she was not proud.

Whenever I'd
call her, she'd say,

"Hey, bull dyke, how
are things in Atlanta?"

And for 25 years, she insisted
on calling my Jewish husband,

"That white witch
you live with."

So, we are talking
about the same Marlene.

Yeah. Yeah.

She had an edge to her, but we
became pretty close this summer.

She meant a lot to our family.

You must have
meant a lot to her, too.

Otherwise she wouldn't
have left you the house.

What?

Yeah.

She changed her will recently.

She said in it that she
wanted you to have the house.

Well, your dad built
that house. It's...

It's very special. It...
It should go to you.

Thank you.

We were thinking she
was a little confused.

Oh, my God, I won.

I won! 25 bucks, honey, I won. 25
bucks. That's what I'm talking about.

Yeah, baby.

Thank you, Marlene.

So, finish it.

Happy to.

In about nine months.

I wanna be able to dive into my
pool by the end of the summer.

Well, since tomorrow is the last day of
summer, you need to find a new dream.

How much?

Look, all of my crews
are out on other jobs.

And we don't start
pools in the fall.

Call me in nine
months and we'll talk.

You wait by the phone.

Sean, I just wanna talk
to you for five minutes.

No, thanks. Scared of you.

Well, eventually you're
gonna have to stop,

whether it's to go
to the bathroom

or because you come to
a dangerous intersection.

And when that happens...

What, Rebecca? What?

What, what, what?

Oh, God.

You smell so...

Oh, God, you see?

You're like the exorcist.

You have so much evil in
you, some of it had to blow out.

Oh, you wish. I'm pregnant!

And before you say something
really crass about whose it is, it's yours.

What?

You... You... You said you were
on the pill. What pill was that? Zoloft?

Okay, I'm not gonna lie.

I've gotten kind of lazy
about the pill since I turned 40

because I figured my fallopian
ship had probably sailed.

Well, that's stupid!

Women in their hundreds
are having babies now.

You've really
got a lot of nerve.

I had a completely
shitty weekend

trying to figure out how and why this
immaculate conception even occurred.

But I've decided, even though
it's a cruel joke from God,

probably, that I'm
gonna call his bluff.

Because I think this is the
last shot that I'm gonna get

at having a biological child.

So, out of decency and respect,

I just wanted to
let you know that

you're gonna have a
blood child in the world.

But that's all I'm doing,
just letting you know.

I don't need anything from you.

I don't expect
anything from you.

I am just letting you know.

She gets stung by 1,000
bees, it doesn't do anything?

Her scans showed
no significant changes.

Okay, well, what's next?

Well, I signed you guys up for a
clinical trial they're doing in Boston.

Great.

We love Boston.
When do we leave?

Starts up in six
months, if you get in.

What are we supposed
to do for six months?

As for other treatment options besides
Interleukin-2, there's really just...

Okay, wait, Interlochen-2.
We talked about that.

You said... You said
you couldn't do that.

Technically, I could do it.

Personally, I can't do it.

Well, if she's not doing it,
then why are you bringing it up?

It's one of the only
drugs out there

with even a possibility
of lasting effects.

For some people, it's
a new chance at life.

If we could knock
this thing out...

I could die on the table.

The fatality rate is low.

So is the success rate.

Tell him how it works.

Well, it works by
stimulating the growth

of two different kinds
of white blood cells.

So, a patient would
come into the ICU,

where we would monitor
them and give them

the drug intravenously
for several days.

It's very toxic.

There are a lot of side effects.

Burning scabs all over my body,

constantly throwing
up, fluid on the lungs.

My veins could shut
down. And did I mention,

I could die on the table?

I gave her a brochure.

I don't wanna get
sicker trying to get better

and then just end
up dying anyway.

That's what I was trying
to say about Marlene.

There was something kind of
beautiful about the way she just left.

She shot herself
in the fucking head.

Okay, six months.
We wait six months.

Hey, Thomas.

Hey.

I know, I keep taking you over to my
house, you keep coming back here.

So, you know what? I am
not gonna force the issue.

But whenever you're ready,

you just tuck your chew toys
under a wrinkle and come on over.

Hungry worker bees.

I brought over some chili so you
wouldn't have to worry about lunch.

You are too much.

That's so sweet, Cathy.

Wow.

Wow, you guys are
really clearing out.

Yeah.

How are you holding up?

The hardest part was realizing
what a hoarder Mom was.

I found this popsicle-stick
house upstairs

that I made in the second grade.

Trash or treasure?

Trash. Trash.

Really?

That's your mom
on her wedding day.

It's a great picture,
I know, I love it,

but I got a copy of it already.

Me, too. Could I have it?

Sure. Sure.

Wow.

I hope whoever buys this
place will be happy here.

It'll be so weird to
look across the street

and not see
Marlene on her porch.

You won't see the porch, either.

What do...

What do you mean? I
have this realtor friend

that says the house would
cost so much to fix up.

We're just gonna tear
it down, sell the land.

But it's a beautiful house.

Trash or treasure?

Trash. Trash.

I'll take them.

I'm pregnant.

Rebecca is a crazy son of a
bitch, but she says it's mine,

and it probably
is. I can buy that.

So, what does that mean?

What does it mean?
What does it mean?

It means she's
gonna push an infant

out of her vagina and
keep it and raise it.

And she wants
me to stay out of it.

Are you okay with that?

Look at me. What do I know about
being a parent? What do you think?

You wanna know what I think?

Yes. I do.

I think you're gonna be a dad!

Oh, God! And I think
I'm gonna be an aunt!

Yes, you would
make this about you.

Come on. Come on!

Let me finish. Let me have
one moment of enthusiasm.

All right, moment over!

Because I don't even
know if I'll ever see this kid,

or if Rebecca will stay here
or go to Chicago or what.

Oh, then...

I think you should
stay out of it.

Really? Yeah.

Rebecca'll be great on her own.

She'll buy it little designer
outfits and just spoil it with toys.

And the profits from those toys

will keep a lot of
corporations in business.

I... I... I'm gonna have to kidnap
this kid and raise it in the woods.

All right, stop staring at
me with that creepy smile.

When you said, "Let's watch
a family movie," I thought...

I was thinking Ace Ventura: Pet
Detective or something fucking animated.

But you made us sit through
Where the Red Fern Grows.

What did you think, Adam?

It was pretty emotional, huh?

It was cool, for an
old-fashioned kind of movie.

Do... Do you... Do
you get it? The one dog

got injured and passed away, and
then the other one died out of grief.

Yeah, I got it. Yeah,
he got it, he got it.

We all got it, we all got it.

I'm out of here.

Oh, yeah, Dad, can I get some
money to go to lunch with Brent?

No, you can't.

Are you my dad?

Buddy, I gave you 20 bucks
at the beginning of the week.

You gotta learn to make it last.

Fine.

Heart of stone, that kid.

God. That's the
saddest fucking thing

I've ever seen.

God.

Hi, Cathy.

What did you do
to Marlene's fish?

We feel really bad about that.

But we didn't know what else to
do. We had to take the tank down.

We tried flushing them down the
toilet, but they kept coming back up.

I'm sure someone
would have taken them.

Yeah, but we gotta
get home soon,

and we just don't
have a lot of time.

Where's Thomas?

My fault.

I have the worst dander allergy.

I don't sneeze, but I feel like I
want to, and my eyes get all runny.

We took him to the shelter.

He's 12 years old.

He has cataracts.

No one's going to adopt him.

Yeah, so he probably didn't
have much time left anyway.

What can you do, huh?

Get out.

What? On behalf of
Thomas and myself,

get the fuck out of our house.

Marlene might have been a
little rough around the edges,

but you're downright cruel.

You kill Marlene's fish.
You send Thomas off to die.

And maybe your mom didn't leave
you the house to teach you a lesson,

or maybe she
just didn't like you.

But either way,
she left it to me.

So, you take whatever you
want, and you get the fuck out.

Because it's mine now.

And if you want to fight
me on it, that's great,

'cause I just got
in a fighting mood.

Hi, Paul.

I need to talk to you.
I need to talk to you.

You go. You go.

I think we should go to Italy

and live on the Venice
canals for six months

while we wait for
the clinical trial.

I wanna do Interleukin.

I don't.

I was reading a blog
about it. It sounded awful.

They had horrible hallucinations.
They couldn't even finish.

Well,

it was wrong for Marlene
to check out early.

I mean, it wasn't beautiful.

And it wasn't fair to any
of us, including Thomas.

I mean, maybe she
didn't feel that she had

enough support
around her, but I do.

And Sean's gonna have a baby.

And I hope it's as
cute as he was as a kid.

He was so cute.

And Adam, God, who knows?

But if he's not ready to
grieve, then I'm not ready to go.

And I am loving the new us.

So, maybe this treatment will make
me look all scabby and weird-looking,

which is gonna be harder
on you than it will be on me

'cause I can just avoid mirrors.

I'm gonna hang
on as long as I can.

And I'm going out ugly.

It will never be hard
for me to look at you.

Hey. What are you...

Why are you...

You're so clean.

I took a shower.

You took a shower?

Yep, but I don't
want to use a towel

that you'll then have to use
1,000 gigahertz of electricity to dry,

so, I'm just gonna run
around the block real quick.

No, you are not going to run
around my neighborhood naked.

Well, if you're worried that
I'll knock my nuts together

and render myself
sterile, don't.

These boys have
already done their job.

Dry off.

It is so nice to see you clean.

Well, apparently,
my nature scent

was making Rebecca
throw up, so...

So, you're talking to her.

I'm planning on it.

I have something for you.

What's that?

It's a house.

It's Marlene's house.

She gave it to me.
I'm giving it to you.

No, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no.

I'm not going to change my whole
life and personality like you did

just 'cause I'm having a kid.

I dare you to have a kid and
stay the same person you are now.

Daring me just lowered
your chances that I'll take it.

Fine. No.

I am just going
to think about it.

So, this treatment could
knock it out completely.

I think it will. My gut
instinct is that it will.

So I'll be in the hospital
for five days this round.

And, you know, I'm kind
of looking forward to it.

I mean, lying in bed,
reading magazines.

When do I get to do
that? So, we've just gotta...

You know, we gotta man up
and not burn the house down,

and help Mom out
when she gets home.

Okay.

'Cause I'm... I'm
gonna look a little weird.

And I'm not gonna have all
my strength back right away.

So,

do you have any questions?

Or any feelings at all you
might want to pour out?

I just hope you're
gonna be okay.

I love you.

I love you, too.

Can I go over to Mia's?

Sure. Yes.

Here.

Take her these.

Okey-dokey.

20 bucks?

No. No!

Okay, jeez, fine.

Guess crying skips a generation.

You ready to go?

Paul.

Hey.

How are you doing?

Good. I guess.

They're just prepping
her, so I thought

I'd give her a little
privacy, you know?

Can I ask you a question? Yeah.

There's this nurse, Annabelle,
who introduced herself to me,

said she's gonna be
doing the Interlochen.

Interleukin. When she
introduced herself to me,

she dropped her pen, and then
when she bent down to pick it up,

she stepped on it.

And I'm just wondering,
are we sure that we want,

you know, Nurse Slippery
Fingers to be doing this?

Annabelle's a great nurse. I'd let
her stick me with a needle any day.

Look, Paul,

I'm not gonna tell
you not to worry.

All right, but she's
got top-notch care.

And I'm gonna be here every day.

I know you will.

And...

I know I've been
giving you a hard time,

but I know you've been
really important to her.

The way I see it, we
have two options here.

Either you can have this baby and
leave it on the steps of the firehouse

for someone more
qualified to raise it,

or I can help you fuck it up.

But you're not going to raise this
baby by yourself and fuck it up alone.

If we're going to fuck it up,
we're going to fuck it up together.

So, that's where I'm at.

Oh, and...

I have a house now.

So, what do you
have to say about that?

You smell good.

Just close your eyes and relax.