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I think you got it. Why don't you come to me?

I said, you think you're so hot? Well, don't die and show me yours.

Oh, yeah, you've got to show me yours.

Lying there in twine.

My body's glowing.

Lindsay never seemed sexier to me or more beautiful.

I love it when we make love like that.

Never taking our eyes off each other.

So watching each other have sex with other people is the biggest turn -on?

It's not about the watching.

Although that's a turn -on, no question.

It's really more about feeling each other's presence.

It's about trust.

So having sex with other people brings you closer together as a couple?

We've never been closer.

Have you ever been jealous of each other's conquests? Why would we be

In the sense that one of you has a better -looking partner or better sex?

That there may be a sense of one -upping each other?

Well, I recall in the night in question, it was more like two -upping.

Back to work, honey.

I think you mean... Or a fake.

We know it's not for everybody.

And we respect people's right to choose vanilla.

But 99 flavors works for us.

And we always know we're going home together.

In this kind of situation, you could make or break a couple.

In our case, it just made us stronger.

And in case you were wondering, the sex is always safe.

If you want to check it out, there's a party coming up. The singles are taking

over. It'd be nice to see more couples.

We're not a couple.

Oh, I...

I'm sorry, I just assumed.

You guys have a couple vibe.

Maybe a working together vibe.

Although we could go, honey.

It's really your experience that we're interested in. Your view.

Though I have to say, parties can be fun.

You've been.

So you understand how important trust is.

It's impossible for a couple to go into the rooms and come out happy unless they

totally trust each other. Yeah, exactly.

Do it with one couple.

You remember Lance at the boat party?

Oh, you mean the... with the...

Good

luck with your book. Thank you. And

we hope to see you.

Absolutely.

Thanks.

How are the swingers?

Technically, they go to sex parties.

If they're a couple, they're definitely swinging. I see it all the time.

I beg your pardon?

Life in the big city.

Does Jodi know?

We're scepters.

So, what does that make you?

Hey, they opened right up when I told them I checked out the scene.

They were pretty open already.

Did you make it up just to get a better interview?

Would it bother you more if I did or I didn't?

In this kind of situation, you could make or break a couple.

In our case, it's just made us stronger.

Phil and Lindsay married eight years, no kids.

I wonder if that's by choice.

Oh, let me guess. They can't have kids, so they're having multiple sex partners.

It's more fun than blaming each other. And maybe they can find somebody else to

fertilize the field.

You're catching on.

What about you? Are you buying all that trust?

I think they found a way to cheat but not cheat. All the illicit thrills of

adultery but none of the risks since it's mutually condoned. Nice.

But our book's on eroticism, not couple therapy.

What they're doing is a kind of couple therapy.

They talk about trust, but I'd like to know what it really costs them. About

bucks an hour for parking?

I'm talking about all the guest stars in their sex life.

They're ignoring the dynamic of their own partnership.

You don't know that.

Will they still be welcome when they're old? What happens when nobody else wants

to play and they're left with each other?

By that point, the need to spread the seed would have abated.

I'd wager that he's back into monogamy.

See, you don't know that either.

You know what was strange?

The practice way they told their story. Like they were on some kind of

recruiting drive.

Maybe they're looking for another couple to fall in love with.

Maybe they found half of one.

Hey, this is field work. In field work, you gotta swing with the situation.

Like you swing?

I never said I swang, per se.

You never per se debate a lot of things.

Even when it could be relevant to this collaboration, for example.

Are you fishing?

I heard you have a bit of a temper.

And that it hurt your career.

Well, I don't feel like I'm suffering.

Good. But I'm going to ask anyway.

Is your temper going to hurt my career?

Hey, Ben.

Dave. Where do you want this? Over here is fine.

Big change in plans, sweetheart.

Araminta called.

Araminta from the BBC.

I know, Araminta from the BBC.

They've moved the schedule on my documentary series. I have to leave

Today? Flight in four hours. I'm sorry.

We're seeing the real estate agent tonight.

We have tickets for Carmen next week, right?

Well, have her email me the listings. I'll take a look. And do you like opera?

Try every time.

Okay, the ticket won't go to waste.

Sorry, I'll call you when I get there. So this is it? Well, it's only for three

months, and I'm only a plane ride away.

We'll line up a few dirty weekends.

Okay, I'll go get my daytime off. Well, honey, we're going to have to play it by

ear. I don't know where I'm going to be in a week.

Well, take good care of your fish.

Not to worry. Service comes in once a week. Thank you.

Actually, I might have to drop by more than once a week just to start.

Well, then.

All right, Ted. Well, best of luck, everyone, with your stuff.

Happy trails, Dave.

Thank you, Ben.

Thank you. I'll call you.

Bye -bye.

I never would

have made him for fish.

Sicklet. They're very aggressive.

That explains it, then.

In Inuit culture, when the men leave for the annual hunt, the women take off all

their clothes, prostrate themselves, feigning the sexual act, so that their

husbands remember what they left behind.

Seriously?

I have no idea.

So how would one kill him?

Hypothetically.

David!

Hey.

You know, I was thinking, you know, there's a hotel at the airport. Great

king -sized bed beats an airport lobby, doesn't it? Oh, I love you. You're

fantastic. Come on, let's get in the car. I'm breathing. Kitty Kate, I'm

I should have checked in an hour ago.

Safe from that spontaneity for one of our rendezvous.

I'll do my best.

We're not having a problem, are we?

I mean, it's only three months. I mean, we're not... We're okay, right?

You don't trust me? Of course I do.

I'm not the one changing time zones.

Oh, so suddenly I can't be trusted?

20 says she cracks.

Cracks how?

Kate Langford is not good at alone.

Not good at alone, not good at people.

Where does that leave her?

I'll miss you, Terry.

Hey, what a beautiful day inside.

I'm chilling with myself. I'm going low -fi. My baby's cool.

Got things to do. So what I gotta do? I draw here for you.

I never really liked the long goodbye that I don't even need. Nobody goes by.

milkshake shakes.

My baby crock will bake. So I don't need nothing else.

I feel so good.

You know what I'm saying?

I feel great.

Well, well, I never really liked those long goodbyes, and I don't even need

body clothes.

My milkshake shakes, my Betty Crocker fakes, so I don't need nothing.

I mean, that's what the party's all about.

I mean, responding instinctively, responding.

genuinely, living in the moment.

Risk, excitement, mystery.

Is it a mystery you want to solve?

What do you mean?

I mean in the sense of finding a deeper spiritual connection.

Aren't you all a happy little community?

I see, masters.

Johnson.

Oh, you're definitely a Kinsey. You look like a depraved bastard.

How sweet.

You're bonding.

What brings you here on a Saturday night in the big city?

I'm working, you know, on our book.

Hey, if that's how you want to spend your new freedom.

I don't need new freedom. I was always free and in a relationship. Crazy, huh?

You said it.

What are you doing here?

Forgot something.

Are you really staying here to work?

Why? Did you want to ask me out?

Not in front of David's fish.

But if you're looking for something to do later, there's always that sex party.

Uh -huh.

Yeah, that's what I thought.

Fieldwork would be inappropriate for our research.

There's enough fieldwork coming into the office. It's okay. I'm resigned to your

boundaries and your lack of spontaneity.

Besides...

Those parties are full of people.

And you're not good with people, remember?

Hey, you look nice, but I think you might want to look naughty.

I can't wait to tell Jodi that we're doing this.

You're not telling her anything.

Why not?

This is confidential, Stella. It's sensitive research.

Nothing more.

Well, if I meet somebody that I like, are you going to watch?

You're my guide, Stella. You don't have to be interactive.

But what if you meet some hot guy?

I'm not there to meet anyone.

I'm there to observe.

Okay.

Better.

Yeah? Ben goaded you into this, didn't he?

Ben has nothing to do with this, can you? Yeah, if you say so.

Do we have to take our clothes off?

It's up to you.

And I can just watch, right?

It's up to you.

Like if somebody comes up to me, I can say, I'm just looking. It's up to you.

Don't worry. I'm going to be with you every step of the way.

You ready?

Mm -hmm.

I want to take you into a land, into a grand.

Come take my hand into this land, into this high.

That.

Stella.

Stella. Hi, I'm Stella.

Is that a gun in your pocket, or...? Hi.

No.

It's not a gun.

Just kidding.

Carrying a gun is my job.

Also kidding.

What have you got?

Nice.

You looking to record a demo?

Maybe a duet?

That's a great idea.

Excuse me, I have to.

Over there.

Right.

Oh, um... Oh, sorry.

Sorry.

Sorry.

You want to let me turn it off?

Turn what on?

Leave a quarter.

I'm ready at you.

Uh...

Some confusion here, I think.

You didn't want to meet?

No, I really, I am really here. I'm trying to get some context.

What kind?

I'm not actually sure at this point.

A study, I'm doing a study on sex, on eroticism.

Very different.

Of course.

Is this sex?

It's hard. I mean, it's difficult to say at this point.

Well, Katie.

You can be spontaneous after all.

Well, I guess we can answer that sex of autism thing another day.

You know, typically in field research, we don't play with the subjects.

Hi.

You missed a button.

Two and fat.

I'm pleased, Kate.

You're proving the most basic biological theory.

Left alone, the female of the species always picks out the next alpha male. Or

beta, in some cases.

Beta? Did you see him? More than I needed to. And what were you doing,

Absolutely. You look more like foreplay.

Oh, you came.

Lindsay, hi.

Have either of you seen Phil?

I saw him earlier.

Did you see who he was with?

Right, he liked to watch. No, seriously, did you see?

I know he's having sex in here somewhere.

Uh, Lindsay, I thought having sex with different people was the point.

Hey, Cher.

I'm supposed to approve of his partner. That's our deal.

Your deal?

I have to find Phil.

No, you don't.

You came.

Did you?

What, honey?

You're cheating on me at a sex party. That's really special, Phil.

Honey, I was watching Jamie's threesome.

Yeah, this feels just like old times. Only then it was working late at the

office, weekend business trip.

Oh, it's funny, Linz, because I remember you as the weekend business trip. We'll

just get going. No, no, you should stay.

Let him explain why he wants to flush our marriage down the toilet again.

Oh, yeah, because this is working so brilliantly.

You haven't suffered any. You haven't asked.

Are you suffering, Phil?

Are you kidding?

I'm making it with dozens of different women and my wife still does my laundry.

Live in the dream, baby.

Nice.

Worked for a while.

Can I, uh, get something wet?

Um, what work?

Your marriage or this?

We were cheating on each other anyway. There seemed no way to do it.

Keep it together.

Maybe this has run its course.

Trash has been very important to you.

You're supposed to base your relationship on it, aren't you? It

the animal world. It barely exists in ours sometimes.

Oh, you're a really cheery fellow, Ben. Anybody ever tell you that?

Listen, if you see Lindsay, just tell her I went home.

You know what really bugs me?

It's that this time I was just watching Jamie's threesome.

Doesn't look good for Phil and Lindsay.

No, it doesn't.

You know, I don't think that they have fully exploited fear as a way to stay

together. That might work. Much more primal than trust.

Is this the kind of advice you gave in couple therapy?

I told you I was lousy with people.

But sometimes fear is what keeps a couple together, for better or worse.

Are you sticking with me because you're afraid you'll lose the book otherwise?

That's not it. Just tell me. If that's how it is, I'll walk away now.

Look, I'm sorry for fishing, but, you know, I heard some things.

I realize I don't know that much about my co -op, and the book is very

to me.

You want to know why I left my teaching gig?

I was fired.

Over a fight with my department head.

So you had an argument.

More of a fist fight.

Was anybody drunk?

Just me.

No, I do not have a drinking problem.

So, what happened?

Difference of opinion over a collie.

It was stupid, but it's done and I can't take it back.

There, I feel better. How about you?

That which doesn't kill me can only make me stronger.

Somebody's looking for you.

No, no, this is good.

Oh, don't be good on my account.

Just be prepared to confess it later. You're the one who's down.

Yeah, forget it. I am.

I thought I lost you.

And maybe I have.

We're just talking.

Um... Would you like to join us?

That's okay, babe.

You sure?

Yeah, I'm sure.

Are you cool? You're fine? You're good?

I'll see you Monday morning.

Oh,

yeah. You've got to show me up.