All language subtitles for State of the Union - 01x01 - Marathon.SUND.WEB-DL.x264-ROYALTiES

- Hi.
- Oh, hi.

- I bought you a drink.
- Thanks.

- Thank you for coming.
- Oh, that's okay.

- Have you been here long?
- No, no.

That's my fourth.

- It's not really my fourth.
- Right.

Phew.

- It is my second, though.
- You're entitled to two.

- Won't you want a pee break?
- I hope so.

I'll make it last as long as I can.

It'll seem like you've been for a poo.

Oh, hell.

I'll announce right at the beginning

that I can never poo
in someone else's house.

I think I could say just about
anything today and you'd laugh.

Within reason.

Let's not test that theory out.

There is a difficulty, though.
What constitutes reason?

There's a talking point.

We've probably got enough talking points

without delving into the
history of western philosophy.

You're right.

Who was the reason philosopher?

I want to say Kant.

I want to and I will, Kant.

There, I said it.

- Shall I check?
- No, please don't.

- We've only got a few minutes.
- Are you sure it just t...

Yeah, I'm sure, but thank
you. Were the kids okay?

Yeah, fine.

Did Christina remember
she was staying late?

I hope so.

- Dylan got another detention.
- Oh, hell. What for this time?

He was doing an impression of...

someone
I've never heard of in Geography.

Idiot.

- Shall we talk about...
- I mean, literally never heard of them.

Some YouTuber or Grimy. Who knows?

And Otis was feeling a little
better as I was leaving.

Surprise, surprise.

Are you trying to fill
the time before we go?

I suppose I am a bit.

- I'm nervous.
- I'm sorry.

If it wasn't for me,
we wouldn't be here.

No.

Just no?

Yes, just...

no, if it weren't for you,
we wouldn't be here.

A sad fact.

You wouldn't take a tiny
bit of the responsibility?

No. Why?

Because...

Because it's a long and complicated road

that's led us here, don't you think?

I mean, that depends how you look at it.

There's the long and the
complicated and then there's...

...as the crow flies.

Talk me through the
route your crow flies.

You slept with someone
else and now here we are.

Except there's a bit more
to it than that, isn't there?

Which way do you go, then?

- Crow or no crow?
- Crow.

You stopped sleeping with me.

I started sleeping with someone else.

My God, that's such a short version,

and quite crude, if you
don't mind me saying.

See, my version's
actually longer than yours.

My version explains
why we're actually here.

Yours is just a short partial version

of the long mess that came before.

- Yes, I made a mistake, but...
- Can we just clear something up?

How many mistakes was it in total?

- Well, one.
- One?

Yes.

- Depending how you define it.
- Oh, okay.

Well, let's define it in the way
that gives it the highest number,

just so I know what we're dealing with.

The highest number
would be in the hundreds.

Jesus Christ.

Because of all the tiny, tiny decisions

- that led to the big mistake.
- Oh. No, no, no. I'm...

I'm not really interested
in the tiny decisions.

We need to leave in five minutes.

So, one.

But when you said it depends
on how you define it...

Well, you could define
it as... as one affair

or you could define it
as... as four mistakes.

How?

The first mistake repeated three times.

I'm... I'm lost.

How many times did you
sleep with this guy?

Four.

- Not three?
- No. One mistake.

Three repetitions of
the original mistake,

the first time being...

the original sin, sort of thing,

and the other three as... as duplicates.

I mean, you can't write
four times off as being...

accidental.

You'd be hard pushed to write one off

as being accidental,
to be honest. I mean...

How would that work?

Look, I had an affair. Are
you not consoled that it was...

it was only four times, not 40?

No, not really.

I mean, once you get to four,
you might as well get to 40.

I think if it had been 40,

we would be having a
different conversation.

Yes. One with lots of 40s
in it instead of fours.

You know what I mean. 40 would
have meant it was going on for...

I'd like you to finish that sentence.

How long would it have
taken you to get to 40?

This is a ridiculous conversation.

No, I'm just looking
for an approximate rate

so we can calculate
frequency as well as number.

Why?

- Comparison.
- There is no comparison.

It's like comparing a 25-yard
dash with a marathon.

- And we're the marathon?
- Yes, of course we are.

Well, we're married. We've got children.

We didn't know that was gonna
happen when we started having sex.

We weren't pacing ourselves.

We didn't say, "Oh, we'd
better not go too hard at it

in case we run out of sex in 15 years."

Look.

OK, these f...

these four times took
place over a few weeks.

Our first four times took
place over a few days.

Hm? But where does that get us?

How long is it going to take us
to get to four times from here?

- Where's here, though?
- Here, now,

when we're not having sex at all.

If you wanna stick with
the running analogy...

Which I'm not committed to.

Right now we are Usain
Bolt with an injury.

A groin strain, if you like.

We're both Usain Bolt? Not just you?

Our sexual relationship is
Usain Bolt with a groin strain.

Yes, we're stalled.

But once we're up and running,
we'll hit four in no time.

We've got less than five minutes.
We should sort out an agenda

that doesn't involve Olympic runners.

My agenda is why did you
sleep with someone else?

To answer that question I suspect
we have to answer a lot of others.

Really? Oh God.

Oh... Oh, they're out.

You can see the house from here?

Yeah, it's that one there
with the green door.

Those two,

they've just been given
a right counseling.

They look shell-shocked.

- They're completely fucked.
- As in exhausted

or as in there's no
future in the relationship?

- Both. Look at them.
- Is that really what we want?

To totally fuck our relationship?

I mean, it's not like
there's nothing of it left.

- No, of course not.
- I mean, we've got two kids,

- for one thing.
- Exactly.

- And...
- Crosswords.

- Yes.
- And...

- Game of Thrones.
- When it's on.

I guess what I'm saying
is, I just didn't...

I didn't think we had
the kind of marriage

that needed poking around in.

Poking around in?

I suppose it's a medical metaphor.

It's quite a good one.

If they opened you up and
found you riddled with cancer,

would you want them to sew you up again?

You know I don't like
talking about cancer.

Can't it be Ebola?

You'd rather have Ebola than cancer?

It's harder to catch Ebola
when you live in Kentish Town.

Yes but the point of the
metaphor is that you've got it,

not that you haven't, so...

if we'd managed to avoid
all marital disease,

we wouldn't be sitting here now.

Fair enough.

Okay... cancer.

So, do you want them to
sew you up and pack you off?

- How far has it gone?
- That's why they're poking around.

They can't tell without a bit of poke.

This is why I never go to the doctor's.

Which takes us back to where we started.

You see, you don't wanna talk
to anyone about our marriage.

If it dies, you'd rather
just find out about it

because it collapses on the spot.

Yes, exactly.

Look, you're a gerontologist.

You know all about good deaths.

I mean, keeling over suddenly,
that's gotta be one of them. Right?

But that's a heart attack.
Marriages don't die suddenly.

They've always been...

They've been sick for a while
before they kick the bucket.

Mm, right.

Look, I think what I'm
saying, medically speaking,

is that either we leave it and
it kills us or we get it looked at.

- Okay?
- Yes.

I mean, I can't say I'm
looking forward to it, but...

- I don't want to run away from this.
- No, of course not.

I mean, however badly it
goes, it's just an hour, right?

I was talking about the
marriage, not the counseling.

Oh.

- Ha.
- Mhm.

All right.

Oh, before we go, is
it a man or a woman?

- You never said.
- I did.

- It's a woman.
- Oh, a woman?

Christ Almighty.

You would have said exactly
the same thing, wouldn't you,

- if I'd said it was a man.
- Well, yes.

But bad in a different way.

I mean, if it was a man,
I wouldn't be able to...

talk about anything intimate, obviously.

- Obviously.
- But if it's a woman,

oh, man, I'm gonna get slaughtered.

Slaughtered? Why won't she slaughter me?

Feminism.

I know that you had the affair
but it'll turn out to be my fault.

There'll be mitigating circumstances.

Not just my... the...

the bloody sex stuff, but...

she'll find out that
you make all the money

and do most of the cooking and whatever,

even though you work and I don't and...

and you do all the
boring arranging stuff.

I think she'll just
write you a blank cheque.

She'll be like, "Go on,
Louise, fill your boots, girl.

"You can have ten
affairs if you want 'em."

I don't think marital
counselors tell clients

to have ten affairs, and I...

I really don't want ten.

The one I had was very stressful.

She's gonna write it
off, that's for sure.

I won't let her. I'll tell
her exactly how bad I've been.

I don't think we need
all the details, do you?

Not like that.

I mean, how awful I
was. How unfair and...

sneaky and...

...morally reprehensible.

Cool.

Let's walk up this road for a
minute and try and sort it out.

What are we sorting out?

Well, whether a man or a woman is best.

It's a woman, sitting
there, waiting for us.

There's nothing to sort out.

Well, I mean, not necessarily.

We could forget about this
and try and find a man.

Who, as you point out, would
be bad in a different way.

I've changed my mind about that.

Oh, come on, Tom.

This was your idea in the first place.

Tom?

Tom!

Tom!