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SAMANTHA: So where's everybody
going without me?

Uh, some of us are going
to this critical mass event.

Do you wanna go?

I just thought because,
you know, you're...

-You drive that...
-I have a bike, but yeah,

I'm pretty wiped from today.

-Rain check.
-For sure.

Yeah, I think some people
are gonna be live streaming it.

So if you want, you could...
watch it.

Good to know.

-I'll catch you on the flip.
-For sure.

-[CHUCKLES]
-[MELODICA PLAYING]

Are you looking for someone?

We're closed.

No.

What are you doing here?

I'm the new dishwasher here.

Okay. You don't
look like a dishwasher,

and I've never
seen you before.

What does a dishwasher
look like?

Okay, this situation
is making me
very uncomfortable.

Because it's night?

Or because I'm a man?

Or because I'm Black?

Or because we're both members
of a destructive, violent,
doomed species?

Or do you want to destroy me

because actually
you long to touch me?

And that's impossible,

because we're on either
side of an inviolable chasm

of history, race,
gender and meaning.

[SERENE INSTRUMENTAL
MUSIC PLAYING]

I know we're children
of the same mother.

I'm sorry.

[SAMANTHA INHALES]

[SIGHING]

[SCATTERED APPLAUSE]

[APPLAUSE]

Does anyone have any questions?

I want to thank
Courgette's manager
and all around good guy Doug

for letting us use
the restaurant tonight.

Go Doug!

And our melodica player, Mickey.

[MELODICA MUSIC PLAYING]

So any questions?

Oh.

[CHUCKLES]

Thank you all
so much for coming

and enjoy the rest
of the Fringe festival.

-Thank you so much.
-Totally.

-Thanks for coming.
-WOMAN: Bye, guys.

-Bye. Bye-bye.
-See you, guys.

Bye, Mickey.

How was the show?

Wednesday nights are kinda
low energy at the Fringe,

but, um, a person on the way out
asked me if I had a real job.

Do you?

[SIGHING] Other than that,
it was pretty great.

Big crowd?

Satisfying crowd.

I think I kind of reached them.

Maybe.

I don't want to
get into anything.

We're gonna
sleep it out. Okay?

Why did you ask
about the crowd then?

Um...

Three. Three people,
including Doug.

You said they were
moved, though, babe.

They were. They weren't.
There were three of them.

I'm 39 years old.

You're 39? I'd forgotten.

[SAMANTHA GROANING]

I'm 42.

At least you were famous.

Briefly.

That's... Thank you.

Hey, we have our pitch tomorrow.

Rainbow Farm at Hawk.

That's gonna work out great.

TRAVIS: You need to
take it down a notch.

We need to go in there not...

Like this. Not all,
"We're old. We suck."

How many times
have we pitched this?

This guy gets it though.

-Corey.
-Our savior, Corey.

[SIGHING]

I need you to be confident
so I can be.

Makes sense, right?

How, though?

Since Rainbow Farm's
a super old
idealistic performance piece

that we wrote ten years ago
when we were young
and actually gave a shit?

Oh, and by the way,
we're pitching it to Hawk?

And it's about saving
the goddamn world
from the goddamn people

who watch goddamn Hawk
in the first place.

-Dark.
-[SIGHING]

[SAMANTHA SIGHING]

Honey.

Honey, I'm sorry.

I'm over it.

You're right.

We need to keep it light,
don't we?

We're not here to make
art or improvements
to the world or something

we could be proud of, are we?

We're here to make money,
aren't we?

-You're being sarcastic?
-No, I'm dead serious.

We could go home.

We should go home.

I mean, we can have
a house and a yard,

and a kid,
and health insurance
and careers in Minneapolis.

And everyone we know
wouldn't try to avoid us
like they do here.

But we chose this, didn't we?

Either you're being sarcastic
or you aren't.

Either way, it's depressing me,
like, all the way.

Tomorrow... we kill.

We sell those bastards at Hawk
an idea that they have to buy
if they're smart.

About people
growing their own food

and making their own clothes

and literally learning
how to sing together.

[LAUGHING]

Oh, my God,
this is never gonna work.

[BOTH LAUGHING]

We kill tomorrow.

And if we don't,
I don't know,
maybe we go home.

Maybe we just, you know,
go a different direction.

SAMANTHA: Okay, deal.
Maybe.

[SCATTERED APPLAUSE]

-[CLEARS THROAT]
-Thank you for coming.

Each of these pieces
stands on its own,
but they're part of a series.

So we'll be
at Hawk studio tomorrow.

And the directions are
in your program.

-Thanks again.
-Thanks, guys.

Does anyone have any questions?

Uh, did you end up
selling the show?

I don't mean to be cute,
but you'll have to tune in
tomorrow to find out.

[CHUCKLES]

Well, I guess if you had,
you wouldn't...

It's complicated, um,
as you'll see
if you come tomorrow.

Which piece has
the mock chicken salad scene?

Uh, Terremoto on Sunday.

-Thank you.
-Thanks, everybody.

Door's over there.

BRANDI: Haven't you
ever heard of farming
your own fish?

No, I haven't.

You can easily install
an aqueous farm system
in your garage.

We just buy our food
at Gelson's.

But wouldn't you rather raise
and slaughter your own food

than have someone
in some far away factory
do it?

No.

-No. Would you?
-No.

-Would you?
-No.

But what about
spending your days

cultivating a huge
vegetable garden
in your own yard?

[SCOFFS]

What about my job
in advertising?

And money.
When will we have
time to work?

We don't work. We don't.

We don't need jobs
where we fit into some machine

that's gradually
depleting the planet.

Why work?

And we make everything
that we need
or we grow it.

Okay.

What about things
like wifi routers?

The greater the communication
between our desires,

the people around us,
each other,

and the soil that we need
in order to sustain ourselves,

the smaller our needs become.

Do these chicks wear underwear?

Excuse me?

Do these chicks
make their own underwear

or they just go without?

In other words,
is there free love
on Rainbow Ranch?

Rainbow Farm.
And millennials don't have sex.

-So the idea...
-Just a second.

This could work.

These young people have moved
into student housing

owned by you two
old... older people.

And they're always having sex.

And there's free love
going on over here
and over there and everywhere.

And, uh, and you two
are the straight men.
You're always super serious.

That won't work.

Exactly. Just like that.

Corey, maybe
the animals themselves

are like recurring characters.

Right. Somebody's always
walking around with, um...

-With a duck. Yes.
-Exactly.

Um, this project
is more ideas based.

It's something that we've been
perfecting together

for over five years. I mean,
nine years for these guys.
And it's...

Nine years?

Whoa!

[ALL MURMURING]

I like this, though.

Two worlds colliding.

They are young, sex-crazed,
and their shit's all weird,

and their clothes
are loose-fitting
and... and see through.

Candles are burning everywhere,

and there's chickens
and other kinky stuff

running all over
their tree-house thingy
in the backyard.

We're not interested in that.

Corey, it seems
like you really connected
with this material.

Should we schedule
another meeting?

-Yes.
-Great.

So, uh, we'll circle
back together in a week. Good?

Um, you guys wanna
hear the end of it?

Not really. No.

There was a population
control conversation we have.

MAN: They can read
all about that.

TRAVIS: Come on, honey.

-Where to, bro?
-Work, bro.

I have to record
an online extension class

through West Central Oregon
Online University.

[EXHALES]

So to recap, if these guys
go with Rainbow Farm

we're all executive producers
of a network show.

And if they don't,
I work somewhere online
in West Central Oregon.

Hi, I'm Travis Sunstrom.

I played crazy cousin Dougie
for two seasons
of Blowing Smoke

on the Good Time network
a few years back.

But for the next ten weeks,
I'll be guest teaching

the online seminar
you're watching.

Now, we'll learn about some
of the fundamentals of acting,

including character study,
improv technique,

and learning to listen
to other actors.

Don't be cute.
That pitch was terrible.

Back to Minneapolis.
That's what we said
we were doing.

Yeah, a thousand times.

Get PrimoWireless
for when it's crystal clear.

You want wireless service
that's crystal clear.

Some exceptions may apply
in Hawaii, in California,

in Colorado, in Arizona,

in Washington state,
in Montana, in Texas.

Got it. Your life sucks.

Now, before we begin,

I need everyone to make sure
there's no one in your party

whose afraid of encountering
a velociraptor or two

before the afternoon
talk concludes.

But I can guarantee you,
nothing can go wrong here

at Dinosaur Park!

Hi, kids, as a swashbuckling
snake handler,

I get to travel to lots
of birthday parties,

but I can honestly tell you
that this party of euphorias

is the only one
I've ever been to

with animals
from the Amazon rainforest.

Hi, and welcome
to the Putt Putt Pizza Palace

here at the Go Kart
and Batting Cage kingdom
of Van Nuys.

There's never a bad time
to refinance the mortgage

on your home
and in the process

receive a chance
to win a Wavemaker brand
outboard motorboat.

Welcome to a live taping
of Kitty and Kathy Live

where we've been taping
live on the air,

telling it like it is
for over five years.

And today you can help them
tell it like it is.

Are you ready?

Yeah!

[LAUGHING]

Hi, thanks for choosing Friday's
welcome to the weekend.

Hi, welcome to Starbucks.

Can I take your order?

Hi. Welcome to Subway.

May interest you
in a southwest ranch hand
on ciabatta?

Closet organizer,
Trader Joe's checker...

A sign spinner,
fitness trainer...

-Dog walker.
-Telemarketer, bellhop,

Trader Joe's checker.

Brandi.

Oh, oh, oh, get it, get it!

Get it, get it, oh!
Do me! Do me! Oh!

-Yes!
-[APPLAUSE]

Guys, it was one day
as a phone sex operator.

-TRAVIS: The whole day?
-It was more than one day.

I feel like we haven't talked
about the cruise with your mom.

Oh, yeah. It was a cruise
with my mom.

In my family, I kind of play
the role of the crazy person.

Same. In mine.

I guess that's what
families are for.

Mmm-hmm.

For my mom's sake
I hope I get famous

so she can be proud of me,
love me,

and then I wanna be
an important artist.

And then there's all
the regular boxes to check off.

Oh, and did I mention
in less than a month
I'll be 40?

Oh, that's right. Yeah.

I almost forgot
since the last time you told me

30 minutes ago.

[BOTH LAUGHING]

What do you mean
important artist?

You said you want to be
an important artist.

You've heard this before.

But when we moved here
from Minneapolis,

the real world,
we had it all figured out.

The pavement players,
social agitprop theater

bring political stories
to the screen, to the masses.

[SIGHING] Oh, my God.
What a joke.

I'm in the same boat, really.

I mean not the
cruise ship boat.

That's a different...
This is more of, like,
a metaphorical...

Me, cruise ship boat
with my mom,

you, metaphorical.

How do I do it all?

Like, be famous
and have some money,

and be an artist with integrity,

and have a husband,
and family, and house,

and please my parents.
But how?

Well, if Hawk
greenlights our show,
all our problems are solved.

[BREATHING DEEPLY]

Why are you fuss-budgeting?

Having trouble coming up
with the details

for my 40th birthday party?

I still have four more weeks,
two days and ten hours.

And Brandi doesn't think
she and Chandler are in it
for the long haul.

But actually,
I think they already aren't.

They broke up.

What?

I just talked to her in the car.

Why would she not tell me that?

How do you know that?

Bad news?

Bad news about the pitch?

Bad and worse.

Worse than that?
Okay, you're scaring me.

Tell me what it is.

-They want it.
-Really?

That's not bad news.

They want to make it a sitcom.

A sitcom? How?

Oh, my God. Let's just do it.

Let's just do
whatever they want.

I mean, this is really exciting.

We're actually in the game

-for the first one...
-They want me,

but they don't think you're...

right for the part you created.

Well...

First of all, I'm just sorry.

Second of all,
do you want me to not do it?

[SAMANTHA GROANING]

'Cause I will not do this
if you say that's what you...

what you want, baby.

SAMANTHA: I didn't know
what I want.

I just heard about this.

Are Brandi and Chandler in it?

Uh, no, only me playing my role.

What is your conscience
telling you to do, Travis?

-What you want.
-[SCOFFS]

I am not involved
in the project anymore.

So actually, you can do
whatever you want.

Come on. You and I
started writing Rainbow Farm

when we still
lived on Arundel.

This isn't my decision alone.

Oh, I doubt whatever you film
with Corey and Kevin

and Blank Face number three
will in any way resemble

what you and I
started working on
when we lived on Arundel.

So, actually
it's your decision to make!

Goodnight.

Okay, so I said,
I'm sorry, and I am.

I think this is good
for both of us.

So, you know, I say we do it.

You're gonna go to sleep angry?

Gotta go.

You all right?

[SIGHING]

Get out!

Leave me alone!

SAMANTHA: Hey.

[SIGHING]

Do the chicks wear underwear?

[TRAVIS CHUCKLES]

I'm running the writer's room
with another one of their guys.

How irrelevant to the question.

Do the chicks wear underwear?

No.

No, and that's not
the worst of it.

But it doesn't matter,
because you've cashed in

every last shred of dignity.

I thought you said
do the first one their way...

before you found out
you weren't on the show.

-That's low.
-Oh, God, I'm sorry.

I just I don't want to do, baby.

Quit it.

You and me together.

You said, "Tell me what to do,"
and I'm telling you. Quit it.

This is too unfair
for this world.

I can't quit it.

What?

I need to keep going.

It's something
we've worked so hard.

We've suffered so long,

and after a while,
I'm hoping I can
get you back on.

Oh, what? You're gonna
get me on my show?

So now I'm hearing
the crappy things
that crappy people say

about their crappy little shows.

But now, it's my husband
saying it to me.

I can see you're mad,
but yes, it is.

-That's supposed to...
-Mad? Yes!

I'm sorry. This is gonna be
good for both of us.

Even you.

I have to go. God,
I'm sorry to leave like this,

but I'm late.

You're leaving me behind?

No, but yes, bye.

I'm gonna call you
at lunch. Bye.

I'm sorry. Bye.

[SCATTERED APPLAUSE]

[TRAVIS SIGHING]

Hi.

You're working on something?

I am, actually.

May I ask what?

Just revisiting something
we were developing

before we came out here.

[SIGHING]

Samson, I wish
you could see my day.

All I did was battle with Todd,

Blank Face number three,
as you call him...

about whether or not
what was a working
vegetable farm

in our version of Rainbow Ranch
should now become a petting zoo.

[CHUCKLES]

What project?

-What?
-What project are you
"revisiting."

Oh, um, The Alien play.

[EXHALES] Why?

-Sorry. What?
-Why?

Why The Alien play?
What's the point of that?

Actually, I think
I already know.
It's called overcompensate.

Wrong again.

I'm doing something I've been
genuinely wanting to do

for a very long time,
which is go back
to when I was interesting.

You were, too, actually.
Back then it didn't matter

if someone greenlit my ideas
or replied to my emails,

or invited me into their
Dulcie of compromise.

Back then, I did what I wanted
and I was proud of it.

It sustained me.

Innovation sustained me,

because I was young,
and innovation's why
we're here.

[SIGHING]

Remember being sustained
by the work we were doing?

But The Alien play.

If memory serves,
it's as weird

as this shit-com
will be lame.

Is that the motivation?

Be weird to prove
that you're not lame?

You sound defensive.

If you'll excuse me,
I have a lot to do.

Don't do The Alien play.
Please.

Don't you have
a petting zoo to plan?

SAMANTHA: Hi, are you calling
about an audition?

I'm really sorry,
because you may be

exactly the person
I'm looking for.

But I've already had
over 300 people respond

and I'm just one small person
working alone.

I love you
for taking the plunge

and calling me
based on a flyer you saw,

on some random phone poll,
or Craigslist posting.

Good for you.

And come see the play
when it's done.

It's called The Alien play,
at least for now.

Google my name.

Samantha Sundstrom
Alien Play.

That should do it.

And I love you.

Keep it up, fight the power.

TRAVIS: What's all this?

[EXHALES]

[DOOR CLOSES]

Did you have time
to prepare a monologue?

WOMAN: I'm sorry.

Uh... Did you prepare
a monologue?

-I did.
-Oh, great. Okay, good.

-[EXHALES] Sorry.
-Okay, great.

It's, um... It's a piece
that I worked on in college.

And I co-wrote it.
It's called "Boned."

I remember
it was like yesterday.

It was vanilla ice cream
and it melted down my hand.

No, Daddy! No!

[WHISPERING] No, Daddy!

Don't die on me!

Don't die on me, goddamn it!

No! No! No!
Why!

Why! [SOBBING]

Great. Thank... Thank you.

He's dead!

Dad... I love you.

[MIMICKING CRYING]

End scene.

I brought two monologues today.

But, soft!

What light through
yonder window breaks.

[IN JAMAICAN ACCENT]
So I says to the guy I says,
"Hey, Rizo!

"Ladies don't drink beer.

"Ladies drink Chardonnay."

You left one thing
out of your confession,
Martinez.

[EXHALES]

[BREATHING DEEPLY]

Within this bosom...

Hope. Within these loins...

Longing.

Within this cup...

A poem.

All my own.

[EXHALES]

That was so good.
Thank you.

Well, so for the next thing,

um, imagine being born,

but not your body, your soul.

I don't know
what you're talking about.

We're all prescribed by culture.

So what if we were souls
and not bodies?

Show me your interpretation
of what that would look like.

I haven't the faintest idea
what you're talking about.

Would you... Can you show me
what you mean?

-No, I don't want to show you...
-Because you don't know either.

-No. Because...
-When is this
project gonna start?

Because I just got
a farm in Honduras.

My parents bought it for me.

Oh, my God.
That sounds so interesting.

What are you gonna do
in your farm?

Cultivating bananas
with la gente.

I'm coming to visit you.

That sounds so cool.

Really?

Because I am so sick
and tired of the bullshit

-actors are asked to do
in this town.
-I know, right?

I was voicing
a character for a box flicks.

It was a left leading
meerkat, right?

Which is supposed to be cool,

but instead it turned out
to be a punch line

for all the fascist
forest animals.

Oh, my God,
that's happening to me too.

[WHISPERING] Fascist
forest animals.

-[KNOCK AT DOOR]
-Come in.

Oh, I'm sorry.
The auditions are over.

BRANDI: Hi, it's me.

Hey, oh boy, I'm so glad
to see you.

It's such a long day.

How have the auditions
been going?

Fantastic.

You are the only person so far

that's definitely in the play.

Oh, I'm in it?

Do I look happy?

You actually do.

And I got that old
feeling today.

You did?

It's so nice the actors,
the just, the energy.

It was, like, so nourishing.

They just have this power
coming out of them.

You have to do it, though,
because I rented the theater

for the Saturday
before my birthday.

Wow.

Wow, The Alien play
the weekend
before your fortieth.

I, um, I want to, but I just got

like a third call back
for this mattress job.

Is that a euphemism?
Mattress job.

Are you getting back into porn?

You know, my body of work
was beginning
to feel very dated.

So, like, there's this, like,
all these, like new, like

like sick, disgusting forms
of penetration.

And everybody cries now.

This, like, sad
is the new thing.

Well, I wouldn't understand,
but if you say so.

No, it's probably gonna be
a good booking if I get it.

It's like a two month long
infomercial.

They'd fly me out
to Mexico City
and to the factory.

And then I just, like, show off
all the happy people being happy

because making mattresses
in Mexico is so awesome
and fun.

That sounds like
the thing you did
last year for carpet, Right?

I thought you hated that.

Yeah, I did. Yeah.

I did hate that.

But now you're
the carpet mattress lady...

Which was actually
my porn star name.

Carpet and mattress lady.

Wasn't that job last year
in Mexico City?

-Yeah.
-Oh, that's weird.

-Mmm.
-Mmm-hmm.

Yeah, but, um, so if I book it

it's pretty sure
that I can't do the play.

You would do the mattress job
instead of The Alien play?

Come watch tomorrow.

-I have 50 auditions.
-Fifty?

Like five-O?

Everyday, all week.
I had to cut it off.

Wow.

Well, it's kind of scary
that there's that many people

trying to get into
that helium play.

-Hey.
-Sorry.

Well, I just mean
that it's crazy.

Like you know how many people
are trying to get into

this carpet job?

-Mattress.
-Right.

Yes.

So many people.

Mmm. Come to
the audition tomorrow.

It'll remind you why we got
into this line of work
in the first place.

Oh, dear God!

Did I just see
my entire family
burn to death?

The first time I missed
my daughter's birthday
was on the day she was born.

There she was,
a beautiful new little
baby girl to the world.

And where...

Where was her daddy?

Where he always was.

[INHALES DEEPLY]

High on crack.

So just imagine that
you're not a body,

you're a soul.

I am a soul in body.
Not a body.

Am I doing this right?

[SIGHING]

People are having trouble
grasping this.

[RASPING]

There's no right
or wrong answer.

Just, um, start
whenever you feel ready.

When I was 17 years old,

I was close to telling
my mother I was gay.

We were on our way
to buy my first outfit

for the first day
of twelfth grade

in our unhappy green
Volkswagen Bug.

And I said to the universe,
I said,

"Show me a signal.

"Tell me if I should take
this next step.

"Will I damn myself,
or will I save myself?"

Right then,
a little brown sparrow

landed on the passenger side
rear view mirror
and looked right at me.

A year later, my mama was dead.

That car was
in the wrecking yard,

and I saw Mobile, Alabama
for the last time
in my whole long life.

That was beautiful.

"The world's conventions
surround us
like the sets of a play.

"How may we keep
this truth immediate

"and continually
reinvent ourselves?"

[SIGHING]

"The witch helps the girl
take off her skin.

"She begins to dance without
the trappings of a body,

"with her, his soul alone."

Mmm.

[EXHALES]

[HUMMING]

[SIGHING]

Hmm.

[DOOR OPENS]

[DOOR CLOSES]

[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]

Okay.

How's the writing going?

Uh... Fantastic.

Walking in a second ago,
I was watching you
through the window.

I saw you lying on the floor
jerking spastically,
speaking in tongues.

I thought you might be having
a seizure. Then I remembered...

You're producing the Alien play.

I was exploring the interplay
between language and movement

and our prejudices about both.

Right.

How was your day?
Um, how's the petting zoo?

Is someone carrying a duck?

Bad.

Reminds me though,
you'll never guess

what was quacking
and flying south for winter

and named Daffy.

Was it a truck?

No, it was a duck.

You'll never guess
what hit me in the face today

when I was tending goal.

It was flat, and black
and rounded on the edges,

and there were guys
passing it back and forth

with sticks
and wearing ice skates,

and they were all from Canada.

A little puck?

No. Shit luck.

You smiled.

I win.

[SIGHING]

This barf pile show

has zero chance of going on Hawk
and God forbid it did.

I will never admit
I had anything to do with it.

And then, you and I
are gonna be friends again.

So why don't we just do it now?

Quit the show.

Be in The Alien play.

I rented the Abalone theater

for the Saturday
before my birthday.

What? For The Alien play?

-Yes.
-No, no, no.

It's just a cocktail party.
We already know it.

And then we can modify it

into like a surprise
birthday party.

Too lame, too tame,

too late. I have my group.

The Alien play. Wow.

I know I can't be with you,
but are you with me?

I didn't think so.

[SIGHING]

[SNIFFLES]

Today we submitted
the final script for Episode two
of Rainbow Ranch.

As you may recall,
in our version of the story,

the character of Benji
impresses the other
futurist Sweeny

and builds a house in the woods
made of materials
that were found or repurposed.

In other words,
materials that, you know,
do no harm to the environment.

Mmm.

Now, Benji's house is inflatable

like a bouncy house
at a kid's birthday party.

It comes loose
from its moorings,

rolls down the hill
with Benji inside,

screaming hysterically,
thus destroying
the futurist's chicken coop

tilapia farm, petting zoo
and puppet theater.

[WHISPERING] Puppet theater.

[CHUCKLES]

[CLEARS THROAT]

Puppets are big right now, bro.

They're all saying it.

Before you were a black man...

You were a man.

Before you were a woman,

you were a human being.

Before you were a human being,
you were a soul

descending down
into one of these.

So by way of introduction
and for our first act
as a group,

I want us all to imagine

you are a soul

descending into the "person"
to your left.

Because we all have prejudices,
and we all make assumptions,

and we all have ways
that we divide up the world
to make sense of it.

But what sense are we making
of it in the process?

So that's what I want us
to begin to explore.

Could we just, you know,
start with our names first?

I just wanna do this
before we know the names
the world knows us by.

Okay. But you said
that we were collaborating
on this project, so...

Um, I'm Samantha.

Antonio.

-Chakra.
-I'm Linda Fernandez,

and up until recently,
I was an on-air
sideline correspondent

for Univision...

We'll just stop
right there, okay?

Um...

I'll go first.

I'm Antonio.
I'm Black, obviously.

I'm from Alabama originally.

Do I sound like that?

Being Black, and being gay
has affected me in certain ways.

I've been told all my life
by a macho, straight
white society

that I should feel inferior,
but I don't.

For me, if there's anything
that makes me feel less,

it's the amount of time
I have to spend

negotiating the fact
that I'm one thing

and the way people see me
as another.

-Sheikra?
-Chakra.

Chakra.

Um... I'm political.

I don't think women and men
should dress
according to stereotypes.

I wear bold makeup.

I've had several
lesbian relationships,
but I prefer men, I think.

-Oh, damn, dude.
-No, he's right.

More or less.

But the makeup is cool.

I put out a tough
outward appearance

because there's something
fragile inside me

that I'm trying to protect.

Because essentially,
I don't trust anybody.

And that's because
I've never really been
anything but hurt

by people.

Okay. Whoo!

-My name is Linda Fernando...
-Fernandez.

-Linda Fernandez.
-Mmm-hmm.

I'm proud of my job
on Univision.

I'm the first in my family
to be on TV, and to be an actor.

Mmm-hmm. Yeah.

I'm scared.

I'm comfortable
within the stereotype

of what a glamorous,
starving woman

is supposed to look like
and act like,

but not very comfortable.

I look like every guy's fantasy.

I have fragile clothes,
painted face, thin body,

shoes I would never
be able to run in.

But these things are made
by men for men. Their fantasy.

I'm scared of where
I would be, though...

If I didn't, on some level,
give them what they want,
you know.

Okay, maybe some of that,

but also a lot more.

[CLEARS THROAT]

I'm Samantha.

I am doing a play about sexism,
racism and homophobia

and how they're bad for you,
which is something
that everybody knows

except for [SCOFFS] maybe me.

I am really unsuccessful
in Hollywood.

So in order to prove my worth,
I am putting on a serious play

about racism and other things.

But in reality,
I'm overcompensating

because I've had
a recent tragedy,

maybe a part that I didn't get

or some show
that I was gonna do
that got canceled.

My mom, she pays
for some of my rent.

And I want kids,
but I want to be famous.

I've had the luxury
my whole life

of having everything
that people here
would probably kill for,

but I take it for granted.

But it's okay,
because I have privilege

and I spend it to some degree
on things that really matter.

So it's terrible to be me,

but it's also pretty great.

It is nauseating,
but it's also noble.

You're right.

Okay.

What, if anything,
did we take away from that?

Don't mess with
motherfucking Linda

'cause she's a motherfucking
fortune teller.

We all did great.

We all were good there. Um...

So up next...

Imagine all of your clothes
were made for two people.

Hey, girl. I missed you
at rehearsal today.

But you love mattresses
more than you love me.

[CHUCKLES]

I haven't seen
my husband in a week.

He comes home
after I go to sleep.

I'm starting to forgive him,
of course.

Well, I never will.

You still think of this?

Get a life.

[SIGHS]

You guys look so beautiful,

and the way you're
moving together is...

I'm just gonna cry.

[LINDA SPEAKING IN SPANISH]

One of you bounces off the other
and it just shifts.

-LINDA: That was my foot.
-CHAKRA: I'm sorry.

[BOTH WOMEN LAUGHING]

SAMANTHA: Guys, come on.

No! Now you're laughing.

So just go with that.
Your energy changed.

-[LINDA LAUGHING]
-CHAKRA: Guys, let's stop it.

This isn't working.

[ALL LAUGHING]

People, we are
changing the world here.

Look at that.

Some of us are not taking this
very seriously.

I don't know. I'm not.

-No, I am.
-[BOTH LAUGHING]

When we run it back,
you'll see
it's really interesting.

[BOTH SIGHING]

SAMANTHA: Guys, you look
so beautiful

and the way
you're moving together is...

I just wanna cry.

Really cool.

I've never seen
anything like it.

How do you guys feel
seeing this?

Like there's unexplored energy
between us as people.

I like that.

Where do you think
it comes from?

Maybe there's
no way of knowing?

I like how we related
to each other in the bag

in that certain way.

It is really interesting.

I have a question,
and I'm serious.

Are we doing anything
like this in the show?

Like where people can see,
like people who know us?

Because I think
I need to know
if we are.

Some of it could end up
in the show if we wanted to.

I mean, we're dealing
with some pretty uncharted
territory right now.

Oh...

Definitely uncharted for me.

LINDA: Oh, my God.
Somebody's watching us.

-Brandi!
-Sorry.

Oh, hi.

Oh, my gosh.
Everyone, this is Brandi.

She is a famous
television ad actor,

though she's also known
for many, many interesting
non-commercial projects as well.

[CHAKRA PURRING]

These may or may not be
members of an alien life force.

I see that. I'm jealous.

It looks like you guys
are having so much fun.

-We are.
-So are you,
like, the best friend

who always does these shows
but this time you can't

because you got a real job,

but you're here
because you feel guilty?

[CHUCKLES] Yeah, pretty much.

What are you, a mind reader?

ANTONIO: Yes.
SAMANTHA: Yeah, she is good.

So good work, everybody.
Let's stop here.

And I just want you all to know
the work you're doing

is gonna change minds.

I'm gonna have to change
my last name. That I know.

I'm gonna have to change
my whole face.

Major reconstructive surgery
as soon as we close.

-Bye, it's nice meeting you.
-ANTONIO: You too.

Looks like you found
some pretty cool people.

I'm jealous, and I know
I don't have to tell you that

because that lady
just told you everything

that I'm thinking
and feeling and doing.

I know. It's so weird, right?

-She did that with everyone.
-Really?

She's a sideline reporter
for Univision Deportes.

Ooh, tough gig.

But she looks familiar.
She's been in anything?

I looked her up. Nothing big.

I mean, she's like
super talented
Latina type lady

and she just never gets
casted in anything.

It's really sad.

But that's what
we're working on.

We're trying to change that.

We're trying
to change everything.

Speaking of change,

I'm gonna go to your bathroom
and change for yoga.

We're still going, right?

Yes. Because I'm
in this ridiculously
positive space right now.

My energy is just like... Whew!

What are you doing
about that mattress thing?

Did you tell them to piss off

because mattresses are
full of toxic chemicals

and you're gonna be
collaborating on a theater piece

to raise mass consciousness?

BRANDI: I haven't
gotten that far.

I did book it, though,

so I won't be able
to do your show for sure.

Yeah, Linda told me already.

She said you're here
because you're guilty

because you got a real job.

Your thing looks like more fun.

You're nice. I know
you don't mean that.

BRANDI: I do.

Well, I'd rather be doing
what you're doing.

Flying to Mexico City
and getting paid and all that.

Living the life.

Mmm, what others
consider a dream...

Can I have a piece of your gum?

Only if I can have
a cup of your coffee.

Only if you say, "Mmm,
that's a great cup of coffee,"

before you drink it.

BRANDI: Of course
I'm gonna say it.

We're actors, and that's all
you ever say, right?

Great.

-Are you okay?
-Yeah.

You didn't just get quiet.

No, I'm just thinking
about the sesh from earlier.

Yeah. Show me the footage.

Oh, not...

Yeah, let's just wait
until it's ready.

Sure you're good?

You got the same job
you got last year

with a sidebar to Mexico City,
but from a different company?

Yeah, I know.

It's... weird.

Yeah.

Oh, that is a great
cup of coffee.

[SLURPS] Yeah.

That's a great cup of coffee.

[CELLPHONE CHIMES]

Uh-oh.

I know that ring tone.
I might be getting
called back to set.

At six o'clock at night?

I'm so sorry.

Let me drop you at yoga.

Actually, I'm really tired
from the whole...

Rain check. Okay?

Yeah. No, rain check.

Bye.

[DOOR OPENS]

[DOOR CLOSES]

[EXHALES]

What the hell is going on?

Hey.

Hi, babe. You're up early.

Did you come home last night?

What do you mean? Yeah.

I just slept
on the couch because

we just wrapped, like,
three hours ago.

-Oh.
-Yep.

Episode one in the can.

[CHUCKLES]

Or as they say put Episode one
in the can

if you know
what I mean.

I don't see any blankets
or pillows.

You definitely came home
last night?

Yeah, it was kind of a catnap.

Are you happy with the show?

If I'm happy, that's bad
because you're not on it.

And if I'm not happy, it's
"Then why are you doing it?"

I just can't. I can't.

I can't. I can't deal with this
right now.

I know this is gonna
infuriate you.

I'm not Infuriated.
I'm just

neverendingly mad and pissed off

and alone all the time.

Right. 'cause I thought
you were happy.

Finally making art,

elevating everyone's
consciousness

to prevent further
environmental degradation
and human loss of potential.

No? So are you,
or aren't you?

Or do you just want
a pound of flesh,

because you didn't get hired
to make your own show,
and I did?

Why would that upset me?

I'm sorry that you didn't
get hired on your show.

But you know what?
That's not my fault.

You know what else?

No matter how stupid that is,

no matter how stupid
that soon to be unwatched piece

of experimental theater
nonsense is,

it could never compare

-to the existential...
-You're wrong.

...stupidity of the thing
that you are upset
to be missing out on.

Well, it hasn't stopped you
from going, has it?

And didn't you just say
you were late?

I am late.

But I'm late for nothing.

The reason I got
no sleep last night

is because of nothing. Nothing.
That's what I'm doing now.

Working all night on nothing.

On puppets!

You've been saying
puppets a lot lately.

Did you just say it again?

A family of puppets
with fake, fuzzy, furry hair

has moved on
to Rainbow Ranch.

It's now my job...
to make that work.

-Are you kidding?
-No. No I'm not kidding.

[PANTING]

Oh, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I didn't.
I'm really sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I didn't know.

You wouldn't last 15 minutes
on this show.

'Cause you have integrity.

Did you say you don't have
any time right now?

No.

But you went to the movies
the day before yesterday.

Who told you that?

I found the ticket by the bed.

Oh, well, I... There was, like,
a meltdown... in the room

and I had to get away.

And you went by yourself?

CHAKRA: Hello, anybody home?

Come on up.

Hello.

[INHALES SHARPLY]

Oh.

[PURRING]

Like we talked about, right?

Let's shake up of the rules.

[CHUCKLES] Yes, really good.

So you want me to
walk into Starbucks

and act like a gay Black man?

That's what I was thinking.

Unless someone has
a better idea.

Many, actually.

I'm not sure
that's a good idea.

-You know,
someone might get shot.
-Or get seen doing it.

Yeah, right.

I'll do it. I get it.

It makes sense to me.

How are we ever
going to penetrate

a higher plane of existence
without creating new tools?

How is going into Starbucks

and acting like a gay
Black man a new tool?

I do that all the time.

Yes, but you'll be a Latina
when you go in this time.

Indian Latina.

Mostly Indian,
but from Panama and LA,

and lots of other places.

Let's just say Latina.

I mean, you're going in
as an idea,

not an actual person.

Okay, how do you "act"
the idea of a gay Black man?

I'm afraid to ask.

And what does
the Latina idea act like?

Come on, guys.

We can be that way.

Let's say "y'all."
That covers being Black.

And the analyst, boom!
You're gay.

I could buy some shiny
white shoes at Payless.

Bam! I'm Latina.

Uh, it's not that hard
being Latina,

or any other person
with brown skin.

Just start never getting
goddamn paid

for doing anything
and doing all of
everybody else's work.

So that other people
can do the opposite,

and do no work,
and put on stupid plays

inside of a big bag
made of sheets

and talk bullshit all day long

about going into Starbucks
and making fools of themselves.

Sorry.

I don't know
where that came from.

It came from fear, right?

I say we do this!

Down at the end of the block,

there's this teeny tiny
coffee shop
called Terremoto.

Let's just go to Terremoto

deprogram, not members
of any group.

We could all be standing
next to a door

no human
has ever walked through,

and if we find it,
the whole species

could suddenly just
walk into the light.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

Okay.

Hi.

May I help you?

LINDA: Yo, what's up, boo?
Let me get some coffee.

You got coffee over here?

Yeah.

This is a coffee shop.

I win, jackass.

No, dawg, we're just
a couple of buggers

trying to get
a cup of coffee, man,

so we could have the energy
to... fight the power!

ANTONIO: Okay, what?

LINDA: Yo, what's up with you?

Weren't you the idea of,
uh, of a Mexican?

CHAKRA: Oh, oh. What are you
doing, girl? [CHUCKLES]

Excuse me. Excuse me.
Can you help me?

Are you helping these people?
Because I want a sandwich.

ANTONIO: Okay, excuse me,
I was here first, okay?

She can go in front of me,
but I'm used to people
cutting me in line,

-and I don't like your...
-Okay, guys.

Seriously. You're punking us
here, right?

LINDA: No, man, if we were
punking you, you would know it.

-Damn, homes.
-CHAKRA: Did anyone hear me?

I'm hungry.
Will you make me a sandwich?

Okay, seriously,
what's the joke?
Is this some Starbucks?

I can see you ain't got
no Black folks up here.

Does that mean you don't
serve Black folks?

Whoa, whoa, whoa. No, no, no.

We serve everybody.
We serve everybody, okay?

Including, uh...

-Blob.
-Blobs?

Just like... Just like
you guys, okay?

But you came in
after this pillow blob, okay?

CHAKRA: Will somebody
please make me a sandwich?

ANTONIO: I have been here
the longest,

so I should...
You know what?

It doesn't even matter.

What does it matter?
Let her go in front of me.

-Okay, mi gente?
-It's beautiful.

What kind of sandwich
would you like, ma'am?

Or sir, or or whatever.

Mock salad.

-Mock chicken salad.
-Mock chicken salad.

Okay, got it.

Why don't you put...
It's her sandwich,

on my tab. I'm flush, yo.

So all in one tab then?

You were here first.

So what are you gonna have?

ANTONIO: Oh, my God.
You're buying for all of us?

-Why are you so loud?
-Shut up.

Uh, yeah. Unless you gettin'
the Frappuccino.

We don't have Frappuccinos.

Okay, this is Terremoto.

All right, then
we all happy, right?

[VOCALIZING]

I am a witch.

I am an alien.

I can control life's lottery.

I have the power
to reorder your totems!

LINDA: Okay, what?

[CONTINUES VOCALIZING]

Ties are just strange pieces
of fabric.

Cool.

Clothing is costume,

-yet the play doesn't
exist anymore.
-Right on.

Displays of wealth and status
are no longer necessary.

White skin.

Interesting choice.

You are an unseen person, no?

Like Tiresias.

You're most seeing.

[VOCALIZING]

-And scene, okay?
-ANTONIO: Let's get out of here.
Oh, my God.

So, uh, no mock
chicken salad, then?

Oh, my God.

-What was that?
-Oh, my God.

That was out of the blue.

I kind of wanted to spring it
on you guys just unexpectedly.

Well, yeah. That was
very unexpected.

That was crazy.

I just wanted
to gauge your reaction

in front of people
to this new freedom.

This newfound
societal coexistence.

I don't think I can go on
with this anymore.

What?

-What do you mean?
-What do I mean?

This is... This is...
This is crazy.

You are crazy.

We are actors.

We have a reputation
to think about.

Oh, my God. I'm never going
to work again.

As a soccer sidelines reporter?

Is that work?

What?

This is work
if you're an actor,

actually acting, exploring.

Are you getting paid
for walking into a coffee shop

and acting like a...
Whatever you were?

No. Look.
[CHUCKLES]

Do any of you have agents?

Because I do.

Did she send you out for this?

Go to hell.

Look, I thought, as an actor,
that this would help me grow.

But this is [SPEAKING SPANISH]

You know what?

You're all fucking ridiculous.

That was amazing by the way.

I am still reeling.

It didn't really work out
the way I'd hoped.

Can you stop filming actually?

Good morning.

Could you please take that off?

Take what off?

I know this head may seem
like it's paper mache,

but in fact,
it's my actual head.

If you want to talk,
please take it off.

Take what off?

Listen, I know
that you and I have, uh,

been going through
one of our phases,

but I need you
to push pause
for three hours,

'cause tonight's
that dinner party

that I told you about
two weeks ago.

Two weeks ago,
I was in another dimension,

inaccessible by humans
in general

and by Hollywood puppeteers
in particular.

Can you please be there
to support me, as my wife?

As Samantha's husband,
you need to support her.

Cosmically speaking,
you have made her feel

very alone in the universe,

which I happen
to personally know

is a very big place.

She would've done it to me.

Can you deny it,
all-knowing alien?

She and I are both just

too far down an unfunny path.

Listen, tonight is this party
up at Corey's place,

and, uh, it's gonna be terrible.

But he's an important guy
at Hawk.

Some other important people
will be there,

and when this show is gone,
he will be a really
good guy to know.

He'll be a good guy to know?
Be a good guy to know?

We're in Hollywood, Zoltar.

We're...

on the fringes of it.

Go with Brandi, why don't you?

Was that Yoda?

Unimportant, it is.

Why would I go with Brandi?

Go with Brandi, why would I?

Why? Why?
Why would you say that?

What do you know?
Would you actually

take that thing off?

I'll turn this off.

What do you know, Zoltar?

I have to go. I'm gonna
text you the address.

Please. I'm telling everyone
that we're meeting there.

Live long and prosper.

[SIGHING]

[SOBBING]

Hey, Chaks,
it's me, Samantha.

Um, could you text me
your measurements

because I'm kind of
working on our costumes?

Um, I'm going to be late
for our first rehearsal tonight

at the Abalone.

I have a dinner party.

Call Linda Fernandez.

I am so sorry

I sprang that alien slash
witch persona on you
at the coffee shop.

That was me being a bad,
bad, bad collaborator.

[CELLPHONE CHIMES]

"What's the mock chicken
salad lady?"

[SAMANTHA VOCALIZING]
I am a witch.

I am an alien.

No, no, no. No. No!

I have the power
to reorder your totems!

Oh!

BARISTA: So no mock
chicken salad, then?

Oh, my God, I'm
the mock chicken salad lady!

I'm the mock chicken salad lady?

I'm the mock chicken salad lady.

Oh.

Oh, my God.

Call Travis.

Thanks a lot.

Call Brandi.

Thanks, guys.

Oh, no!

[SCREAMING]

Okay. Okay.

Your shows move us.

TRAVIS: Oh, my gosh.

Hi. Hi, honey.

-Hi.
-Wow. You look beautiful.

What have I done
to deserve this?

Absolutely nothing.

Oh, here she is.

-Welcome. Come on in.
-Hello. Nice to meet you.

TRAVIS: So, everybody, uh,
this is my wife,

and collaborator
of the past 12 years,
Samantha.

WOMAN: Hi, Samantha.
Nice to meet you.

-Samantha, what are you...
-Are you the mock
chicken salad lady?

-Samantha and I...
-I can tell them.

I'm just gonna need
a little drinky drinky first.

Yeah, of course. Here, try this.

That's a cava. It's a Spanish...

So one of those nights?

Maybe it's too soon to put her
on the spot about...

No, it's not one
of those nights, Travis.

[IN WITCHY VOICE] And don't
make me tell you again.

-[WOMAN CHUCKLES]
-Here you are.

What do I do?

Well, I am an actor
of no great importance.

I played a nosy neighbor
on the Cul-de-sac Chronicles.

I remember that.

My neighbor worked on that.

-WOMAN: It was what, TBS?
-No idea.

After that, I was on
half a season

as an on-camera host
of Mid-American Man Caves.

It did not air.

Since then,
I have been reconnecting

with my roots
as a theater director,

making meaningful
yet unattended,

according to my husband, pieces
that no one is interested in

including me.

Mostly, I'm a waitress.

[TRAVIS CHUCKLING NERVOUSLY]

And there's... [INHALES]

a lot that she's
leaving out too.

Well, we have all night.

I think that, uh, I prefer
to sit next to my wife
if that's okay with you.

We actually like
to split the couples up.

Everyone gets enough
of their spouse at home,

-am I right?
-Oh, yeah.

I don't.

This is a little something
we picked up in Los Olivos.

It's, uh, breathtakingly
expensive.

But once you drink
something like this,
you can never go back.

-Was that snobby to them?
-Yeah.

I've never had wine
that came out
of a bottle before.

[LAUGHS] So true, because
it's always in a box, right?

Mmm, six packs at our place.

Hands everywhere.

You're funny. I would watch you
on Mid-American Man Cave.

Oh, that reminds me,

Corey, Travis,
we're all here now.

How's the show going?

It sounds so funny.

Oh, I think you've got
the seniority, sir.

Do the honors.

Uh, well, this will come
as a surprise to Travis,

but, um, projects
like Rainbow Ranch
serve two purposes.

One, they introduce us
to incredibly talented people
like Travis...

I actually created the show
with Samantha.

Oh, yeah, I forgot that.
That's right.

I got kicked off my own show.

It's a classic Hollywood ending.

Well, you should
worry about that,

because the real reason
for creating a material
like this...

Okay, what I've learned is that
this is a corporate town.

WOMAN: You don't say.

The donkeys, the puppets,
the glitter, the actors,
the stories, we...

we leverage them sometimes
for something else,

for... for something that sells.

This project will reposition
our brand.

It won't air.

But it did introduce us
to Travis.

And Samantha.

Samantha. And...

Which of you guys is important?

My husband said there'd be
important people here,

and that's why he made me,
you know, wear the costume.

Trevor is important.

Corey, Travis, Trevor.

Classic Hollywood wuzzle.

Important men, ahoy!

-My wife...
-[IN WITCHY VOICE] Oh,
your wife is gone.

I am the witch.

Mmm...

Mmm-mmm.

At the University of Chicago,

long before all these
magnificent trappings
had entrapped me,

I lived in a co-op
in a closet

with no windows
and a camping lantern
for light.

And by that lantern,
I read books
all day and all night.

My friends and I burned

with curiosity, with youth,
with goodwill.

We burned with the world's
inherent possibility.

Hmm.

-I remember that feeling.
-Yes!

We were innocent.

We were open, we were alive.

We lived only to help people
and save people
with our goodness

like Eve, alive, alight,
hurtling towards perfection.

Is the story going someplace?

Yes, Corey, Trav, Trev,
it actually ends with you.

All of life's unlocked goodness

ends with the shit thing
you just said to my husband

about the story Rainbow Farm

he's worked so earnestly
to bring into existence.

Between the beginning,
innocence, and the end, you,

there's life,

which we donkeys,
puppets and actors

try to show in all its myriad
wonderfulness slash awfulness

so that we might
all unmask ourselves

and return to our best state

where we're good again.

Well, now it's a dinner party.

Yeah, I think I've had
just about enough of that scene.

You screwing my best friend?

No.

I saw you kissing her.

[SIGHING]

I was afraid to tell you.

Tell me what?

Should I ask them to leave?

Tell her what?

I was afraid to tell you that

Brandi got your part
on your show.

What kind of savage business?

Why?

You know.

Too old.

Oh, my God.

Okay.

TRAVIS: Uh, well,
that's my ride.

Thanks for a great party.

Looking forward
to the next one already.

COREY: What?

She's too old?

Give me a break.

Is that the mock
chicken salad lady?

Right?

I'll show you the video.
It's so funny.

[SIGHING]

She left.

Wow.

You really got
your plate full there.

Uh-huh.

So is that true,
Rainbow Ranch is the hedge?

Yeah. Everybody hates it.

Don't shoot the messenger.

Yeah, show business isn't shut.
It's business.

TRAVIS: Right.

So what are we?
What are... what are show folk?

Just... crazy people.

[SIGHING]

She's turning 40 tomorrow.

It makes everyone feel crazy.

Why do we have racism?

And sexism?

And religion?

And national boundaries?

-And history?
-And biases?

Because we're all equal,

and we all know it.

And it's terrifying as hell.

Well, that was ridiculous.

-[LAUGHING]
-But awesome.

That's pretty good?

We don't believe the world
is going to survive

our current systems of belief,

do we, my sister?

The world will survive,

but the people on it will not.

Nonsense.

Don't tell me you libos
believe in global warming.

[COUGHING]

Does he have to
hit the bong there?

What they're saying
actually makes sense
when you think about it.

Boss's orders.
Whenever anyone says anything

to "Edgy"
we put in a bong hit.

[SIGHING] Whatever.

Don't tell me you libos
believe in global warming.

Right now, we humans must,
as a species,
rapidly advance

the state of our consciences,
our capacity for kindness.

And quickly
expand our intolerance

for cruelty
and violence everywhere.

Because if we don't
establish some new,

better way of seeing ourselves,

we don't even
have a future, sister.

Oh.

Hey, all this talk
about saving the world

has made me... horny.

And how does that even
qualify as writing at all?

It doesn't.
That's Corey.

Yeah, he told us
we couldn't change it.

Travis, help us out.

How is this dialogue?

It's schizophrenia.

Actually, I think the show's
been cancelled.

Oh.

-Good.
-Damn.

I needed this gig.

Yeah. Same.

Well, can't cancel
what's not there to begin with.

-True.
-Yeah.

Brandi.

We gotta go someplace.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[DOOR OPENS]

[DOOR CLOSES]

Fun dinner party last night.

Um, but you still didn't
answer the question.

Are you in love with Brandi?

Hey, it's Antonio.

Oh, shit. Hi.

What are you doing here?

Oh, we got rehearsal.

-Oh.
-Did you talk to him last night?

He didn't come home.

-I thought you were him.
-CHAKRA: Hello!

Oh, God. Now everybody's here.
Come on in.

We're upstairs.

-Hey.
-[SAMANTHA GROANING]

How's our fearless leader
doing this morning?

Well, since everyone's here...

So, you single-handedly
tried to save a suits party
from itself.

Who told you that?

Oh, my God, you did!

Don't you remember?
You called me last night.
We talked for, like, two hours.

I did not save them.

You can't save them.

Just like the hapless
earthlings at Terremoto.

Oh, my God. Terremoto.

What we did at Terremoto
moved people.

On losers dot com.

Oh, my God.

People are watching that clip

because they are hungry
for the message in that piece.

Chak's baby, the show's off.

[GASPS] Don't be like that!

I canceled the reservation
at the Abalone

because nobody was
gonna come anyway.

Okay, no one would come.

That won't be a problem

now that we have 187,398 hits,

and we're on
everything's nuts dot com.

Oh, my God, nuts?

Not that I want
anybody to watch.

Come here.

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

I'm shocked to see you again
to be honest.

Oh, you don't even know
about the costumes yet.

-Wait till you see 'em.
-Costume?

-Mmm-hmm.
-Costumes?

Oh, shit.

SAMANTHA: You're gonna die.

Chakra wants!

Race and gender
are such arbitrary distinctions.

We are all people.

How did she do it?

I think you stunned us again.

Okay, so I guess
it's okay the show is off.

CHAKRA: I am putting this on
and we're doing this piece.

This is too good to stop.

It's important.

I just need to take some time
to figure things out.

Life in Minneapolis was just...

I don't know,
it just made sense.

Everything made more sense.

ANTONIO: More sense than...

Don't tempt me.

You look really good in that.

[CHUCKLES]

You guys...

Thank you. Thank you so much.

LINDA: But please,
burn that. Okay?

Please. Love you.

The show...

We're gonna figure it out.

Okay.

-LINDA: For Honduras.
-For Honduras.

[MELODICA PLAYING]

[SIGHING]

[MOUTHING]

[DOOR OPENS]

[DOOR CLOSES]

Hello.

[GROANS]

What are you doing here?
It's the middle
of the afternoon.

This son of a b Sean
walked today.

I finally get on the show
a little goofy puppet.

How insanely underrepresented
do you think we are
in Hollywood scripts?

And finally, one comes along,
Rainbow Ranch...

This lunatic walks.

You walked?

I can't walk.

No legs.

Not you. You.

[SIGHING]

Yeah, I did.

Thanks for sticking up
for me last night.

I wanna be in The Alien play.

It's off.

I walked. I just sent
the actors home.

You really quit?

Yeah.

Was that smart?

Who knows? Happy birthday.

[WHISPERING] You lied to me.

Though I understand why,

were you kissing her?

No.

We were about to do
a kissing scene.

That's all.

It's called fluffing.

It's just this thing
that I picked up
in the porn industry.

I hear that's not all
you picked up
in the porn industry.

Oh, no. Yeah.

Chlamydia, crabs, herpes,
like a lot of stuff actually.

Yeah, yeah.

We thought it would be canceled
before you had to find out.

It felt wrong to not
have you there.

-I'm too precious.
-Yeah.

You are.

You are too precious.
Precious to me.

Which is why we need
to get you cleaned up.

Hey, aren't you turning
like, fifty, today?

Forty. Oh, my God. Why does
everyone think I'm turning 50?

That's right.
Right, right, right.

Do not just
screw that up, Brandi.

That's right.
When we were rehearsing
in bed last week, right?

-That's right.
-Too soon?

Uh-huh.

Okay. Well, 40, 60, 50...

Yeah, 40, 40.

Forty. It's for
sure 40? Okay.

Well, who really cares?

Because we are celebrating.

Mmm!

ALL: Happy birthday!

SAMANTHA: Oh, my God!
Oh, my God! I can't believe it.

-You're wearing it.
-Yes!

-To the witch.
-ALL: To the witch.

To the mock chicken salad lady
who saved the world

at Terremoto coffee shop.

ALL: To the mock
chicken salad lady.

To being too cool
for your own damn show.

ALL: To being too cool!

All right, I'm already drunk.

To changing the channel
on reality.

ALL: To changing the channel.

To changing reality.

By dressing up like Pikachu.

[OVERLAPPING CONVERSATION]

ALL: Happy birthday.

[SOFT MUSIC PLAYING]

[MELODICA PLAYING]

♪ La La Land was a lie

♪ And I feel

♪ Everyone gets old
But not everyone makes it big

♪ We could go home
To Minneapolis

♪ Where life is pre-planned

♪ Where they love us
And care about us

♪ And there's all that
Free land

♪ I don't have the answers, bro

♪ I'm perfectly torn

♪ Between a good life in Mini

♪ And all these friends I adore

♪ And LA is so ugly, backwards

♪ And crammed

♪ Though the weather
there's brutal

♪ The streets so familiar
And grand

♪ Only LA can impress us

♪ Our plans are so vast

♪ Though I know in my heart

♪ They're all based in my past

♪ We both want a kid
A house and self-worth

♪ A stake in the game

♪ Next to that

♪ Telling stories
just seems sort of lame

♪ If the opposite facts
Sometime

♪ Ring just as true

♪ We give all of that up

♪ To do what folks
Like us do... ♪

[ALL SINGING TOGETHER]

[APPLAUSE]

I love you. We love you.

Thank you so much
for coming out to the first

LA production
of the Pavement Players.

Yes, a question.

Does your mom really pay
your rent?

-[SCATTERED LAUGHTER]
-Occasionally.

-Yes.
-I just loved your play.

You're so inspiring.

Thank you for your honesty,

and thank you
for burning with innocence.

You're welcome. Just please,
dear God, don't be an actor.

What was your inspiration
for the play?

Failure and... pride.

Thank you all so much
again for coming.

We love you and...
fight the power.

MAN: Whoo!

[APPLAUSE]

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION]

♪ In the face of growing up

♪ I could see the world
As plain as trees

♪ And bright as day

♪ Maybe you could tell me
How I could lose

♪ The one thing that was true

♪ And go away

♪ Where is the moonlight

♪ Help me find the way

♪ Where is the starlight

♪ Help me find the way

♪ Show me some lamplight

♪ Help me find the way

♪ Till I can see
That world again

♪ Falling light

♪ In the day, in the night

♪ To sun deck

♪ I don't see
The way I got down

♪ To this bend

♪ Where is the moonlight?

♪ Help me find the way

♪ Where is the starlight

♪ Help me find the way

♪ Show me some lamplight

♪ Help me find the way

♪ Till I can see
that world again

♪ Till I can see
that world again ♪