Getting On (2013–2015): Season 3, Episode 2 - Don't Let It Get in You or On You - full transcript

Okay.

What's that? It's a canary.

It's part of your pet therapy.

It's supposed to cheer you up.

First we had a dog,
now we got birds.

They don't tell me what's
going on around here.

But I'll be back in a little bit to
show you how to feed it, okay?

I have to take care of it?

Mm-hm.

You are gonna feel
some tiny pokes.

Tell me if you feel
any pain. Okay.



This has healed up nicely. Good.

You guys heard any of
the rumors flying around

about bankruptcy and layoffs?

Ow, ow, ow! I'm just kidding.

A sense of humor
helps. So will this port.

Make your inconvenienced
life slightly less inconvenient.

Don't sleep on it, protect it,

cover it while bathing,
you know the drill.

And we will see you today
at six o'clock at dialysis.

How are you doing, Dawn?

Oh, good. Yeah,
I've never been better.

Do you have any family
who could offer support?

Yes, my family's wonderful.

Okay.



Didi: No, you do not
need to come down here.

Yvette, please don't tell me
what I did or did not see. Okay?

It is under control. She's
perfectly situated in our living room

is where she is right now.

Ring, ring! This
is for everyone!

This involves everyone! This
is important, so good morning!

Uh, Ron, people.

Dr. Rudd is staying on with us.

He's going to be part
of our new normal.

I look forward to working
under Dr. James, so to speak.

We're all going to take turns
holding his hand, so to speak.

And teach him everything
that we know about geriatrics

and palliative care. Oh!

Everybody in. Ron,
Dawn, gentlemen, pack it in.

Dawn: Uh, Mrs. Spindler.

She's here recovering from
her broken hip replacement.

What am I gonna do
with you? Send me home.

Mrs. Spindler dropped another
three pounds since Tuesday.

My nurses tell me that you
haven't had one single thing to eat

since you were admitted.
They're not telling the truth.

So you're not having a
problem eating? None!

What would you say if I
jotted a note on your chart

saying that I suspected
an eating disorder?

Do you vomit? Do
you take laxatives?

I don't eat because
my dentures hurt.

And there's things I
stay away from to keep fit.

I don't eat fat, red
meat, seeds, spices.

I hate nuts. I like salmon.

Well, if we can't admit
that there's a problem,

then we'll never be able to
discuss the reasons why, will we?

The bells.

It's the infectious
disease drill.

From the Ebola
crisis last spring.

Ridiculous then, ridiculous now.

Extended Care, first floor.

A cruise ship?

What... Norovirus?

How many beds?

What do you got? Abdominal.

I've never felt this
bad in my entire life.

Yes, it's explosive at both ends,
but we're gonna get you feeling better.

We have excellent
bowel protocols.

Didi, fluids and electrolytes.

Marguerite, get an emesis basin.

We need to screen
all patients for domestic

and sexual abuse
before treatment. Um...

Let's see. Do you
feel safe at home

or have you experienced
mental or physical

or sexual abuse whatsoever?" No.

"Have you experienced physical violence
at the hands of an intimate partner,

including pushing,
slapping, shoving,

hit with something hard? No!

I took a Lomotil and two
Imodium after the first squirt,

and it just plugged me up.

Are you having difficulty
expressing yourself?

I can't shit if that's
what you're asking.

Ma'am, that's what I'm asking.

"Has your partner ever
refused to practice safe sex?"

No. "Has anyone ever made
you do something sexual

you did not want to do?" No.

"Have you ever been
touched in a way that made you

feel uncomfortable?" No.

Jenna: Cruise ships.

The poor, elderly vacationers

who get wheeled on board with
their Foleys and their oxygen tanks

and their stoma
bags, and a virus hits,

it just mows 'em
down like tenpins.

Don't get it anywhere
in you or on you.

It's highly contagious.

Sh... Marguerite.
That'd be yours.

How are you feeling, Mrs. Stein?

I'm feeling okay, actually.

Except for my inoperable cancer.

What kind of cancer, may I ask?

Pancreatic. This cruise
was a gift to myself.

The food was delicious.

Dawn, can we get a link to her
health records from the ship's nurse?

Mrs. Stein, could you
tell me your date of birth?

April 25, 1930. Mm-hm.

And may I ask
where you were born?

Krakow, Poland.

Here. There's little
Callie, got his new smile.

Here's one of him before
with the cleft palate.

How do you put a
price on a smile, eh?

I wish he would
just shut up already.

All he ever talks about is Honduras
and fixing people's harelips.

So what's going on
here, by the way?

This three-quarter sleeve
look. Is this the new you?

Probably.

Knockout.

Dawn, I got a
patient, Mrs. Litwin,

in severe abdominal distress.

She has constipation and
diarrhea at the same time.

Nice trick. Jenn: Dawn,
I'm admitting Mrs. Stein,

so remove the patient from 107.

She's almost well, and
Mrs. Stein is from Krakow.

Okay.

Mrs. Litwin, I understand you
are experiencing some tummy pain.

Yes, please do something.
I can't take much more.

Okay. We're gonna go ahead
and give you a therapeutic enema,

if that's all right
with you. Okay.

Marguerite, can you go ahead
and give her the enema, please?

Mrs. Litwin: Oh! It hurts.

Hello. Is Didi Ortley
here? Oh, there she is.

Ma'am, I'm sorry, you
can't just... It's okay.

I'm her sister-in-law.

We need to talk. Shit!

Damn it, Yvette.

What part of do not come down
here did you not understand?

Not the least bit of it. She hung
up on me, then blocked my calls.

My sister-in-law. You can't block my
calls and expect me not to come down.

I canceled my flight, took
a personal leave layover.

I haven't eaten since Amsterdam.

You need to
discuss things, Didi,

you know, you can't just go making
upheaval and unilaterally move someone...

Marguerite, get
the dog off her tray.

Marguerite: Ruffles! What's
the shit with this place?

Looks like Hurricane Katrina.

Actually, I did need to
take unilateral action.

You were on a flight, Darnell had a
concussion, and Waylon is just Waylon.

What she did is she
drove up to Pasadena,

removed our mother-in-law
from Sunset Villas,

and then takes her home to
sleep on a bed in her living room,

without discussing it.

I got there,
Yvette, I walked in,

she was standing in
the hallway looking wild,

robe open, no gown, breasts
hanging, just looking wild.

Well, if you didn't tell
her you were coming,

of course she
was surprised, Didi.

You can't just show up without
telling her, it confuses her.

Uh-uh. Not confused, wild.
Okay? She looked right through me.

And she smelled foul. She smelled
because she wouldn't let anyone

near her to bathe
her, all right?

So she hadn't had a bath and
she smelled like urine and smegma.

Oh, God, that word,
that's an awful word.

And it wasn't just in her
folds, it was all up and through.

I took her out of there because
she was neglected and unbathed

and smelling like sweet smegma.

Now you're just
doing it on purpose.

Yvette, I think I
know what I'm doing,

and I would appreciate it if
you didn't go inciting everybody

and turning this into
a whole lot of mess.

Oh, is that right?

Okay, okay, Yvette, look.
I have a break in an hour.

Go to the cafeteria,
have a doughnut.

I'll meet you there and
we can talk about it then,

without all the
usual family drama.

Providence brought
you to us, Mrs. Stein.

Under normal circumstances you
would have been admitted at the hospital,

but fate, it seems, has
delivered you into our arms.

Latoodaplatin shows potential to be a
paradigm-shifter in pancreatic cancer.

We're in a very limited
Phase 2 efficacy trial,

but one of the participants
has dropped out,

and so there is an
immediate opening.

Well, we do clinical trials to
discover all the side effects.

And we have a list of known so
far: disorientation, unsteadiness,

tiny risk of stroke,
minor respiratory distress.

But it is the best option out
of a lot of not great options.

I've always been lucky.
So what have I got to lose?

We must get her started
right away, Dawn, right away.

Go down to pharmacy
yourself for the initial round.

I'll fax and expedite
her enrollment.

She has survived
all these years.

She's an endangered species,

and we have to take extra
special care of Mrs. Stein.

She has an important story to
be told, to be... to be preserved.

Mrs. Stein, have you
done an oral history?

No. Oh, I think you should.

I think that we should arrange
that while you're with us.

Patsy: This'll keep you going.

There we go.

The most important part of
exercise is to be consistent, Sammy.

You know? Even when
people don't respect our needs

to take care of
ourselves. Right?

Sammy. Hi. Dennis
dropped you early?

Where's your sweater?

Sammy works at Costco.
Oh, I know, Dawn. He told me.

Did you have breakfast? Yes.

Yeah, what did you have?

I make everybody
oatmeal with raisins.

Ooh, that sounds great.
Huh? Did you have banana?

For potassium? We
were out of bananas.

Well, I have "badabas"
in the break room.

Huh? Why don't we
all have a "badaba"?

Patsy... Sammy?

I love bananas.

Come on, Dawn.
Live a little. Huh?

You know what?
I'd love a "badaba."

Come on.

How it catches up with
you. How it changes.

I used to watch
World War II specials,

which was odd for a little
girl, but my father, you see...

Back then, Auschwitz, Dachau,
it was like it was only yesterday,

but now, 70, 80 years,
it's just so long ago,

it might as well
be the Civil War

or the Middle Ages.

It just goes by so fast.

I don't know if I would
know how to live in a world

where Auschwitz is gone.

Just the moral
clarity of it all.

Birdy Lamb? Hello.

Hello, Miss Lamb.
This is Dr. Rudd.

He usually works in Honduras,

but I'm giving him some pointers

and helping him bone
up on palliative care,

which, as you know,
is talking to the patients,

and getting to know
their hopes and desires

of how they want to
live out their last days.

So I would like your
permission to observe him

as he comes to give you
the results from your last scan.

That be okay? Yes.

Are the results bad?

Well, let's just...

Ron, go ahead. Step in. Ron.

Knock-knock. Who's there?

Ms. Lamb, I'm Dr. Rudd,

and I have the latest
results of your scans.

Would you mind if I sat down
and I visited with you for a minute?

Mm... nice.

Nice.

Dog is a dick, by the way.

Ruffles is not a dick.
Ruffles is a love bug.

If you want Ruffles to love
you, you have to love him first.

Dogs are like people, Didi.

If you want them to love you,
you have to love them back.

Jenna: Still not eating, I see?

Who do you think

that I have in that
room just over there?

No names, but someone
who survived Auschwitz.

And what do you think
that they had to eat?

And you're depriving
yourself of this nutritious food?

Patsy, Dawn: One,
two, three! Same!

Patsy, Dawn:
One, two, three! Oh!

Eh!

One, two, three! Ow!

Ahh!

Both: One, two, three!

One, two, three! Now I just...

One, two, three! Oh!
We're doing the same thing.

Okay, one, two, three!

He's good.

Dawn: Know what would be great?

A house with a screened-in
lanai, on stilts on the water,

and we'd all have leis.

And Sammy could
still work at Costco.

Could Dennis come, too? Sure.

And saunas and
massages, and sunsets.

Mm. The tropical sunsets are
exquisite and beautiful and...

Look at us.

Look what we've become.

We're completely devoted to
something greater than ourselves.

Dawn?

Mm... it's tears of
happiness, Pats.

I'm just... I'm happy.

Sorry I am late.

Dee, Yvette called,
drags me down here.

Darnell! Yvette, I asked you...

I rang him up. Everybody
needs to be involved, Didi.

Darnell: I do not have much
time, I gotta get back to the site.

Where's Waylon? I
suppose you rang him up too.

This food is a bargain.

They must have it underwritten or
something, to be so cheap. Hey, Didi.

It's underwritten, right? They probably
got some kinda subsidy or something, I bet.

Hey, brother, got you a burger.

Thank you, man, I'm not hungry.

Okay, but guess
how much it cost?

Nobody's guessin' nothing. Okay?

We have not gathered
for a family dining event.

Honey, you and Darnell need to
discuss your mother's welfare a priori.

Darnell: Jesus, Yvette, we know.

Yvette: I landed at LAX at 8:30

and thought I'd call
Mama Viv and say hi,

but Sunset Villas tells me
she's not there anymore.

So when I asked
them where she is,

they say she had
vacated the premises

and been permanently relocated by
Denise as of seven o'clock this morning.

I called Didi to say
what's up, and she tells me

that Mama Viv is now in
a bed in your front room.

Wait, so you were
not a part of this?

I had a concussion. How'd
you get a concussion?

He hit his head in a dumpster.

Okay, and who's gonna go back
to the Villas and get her things?

Oh. It's gonna be me, I know it's
gonna be me. Here we go. Here we go.

Who was the one who got stuck cleaning out
the house when she moved into the Villas,

got stuck cleaning out 37
years of crap in that house?

Me. All her keepsakes
and souvenirs.

Yvette, those souvenirs can
go fuck themselves. Okay?

And who's gonna
change her diaper?

Her diaper needs to be
changed every three hours.

What do you think I do for a
living? When you're not there, Didi.

Because this is all
higgledy-piggledy.

Andre is with her today, along with
Miss Norris from across the street,

and then Carmen tomorrow,
until we can get it figured out.

We even got a nanny cam.
Show 'em on your phone, babe.

How long the cafeteria
open? Waylon.

You know Didi doesn't do anything
half-measures. Didi thinks things through.

Thank you. There.

What's that? Our living room.

Well, I don't see Mama
Viv, I don't see Andre.

Well, maybe they're in the
kitchen, or he took her for a walk.

Y'all got a medium-sized dog
or a large cat or something?

No. Waylon: Well, there's
something moving around

under this blanket on
the floor here by the bed.

Is that a leg? See? That's
Mama Viv! She's on the floor!

Didi? Mama Viv,
she on the floor!

Andre, Mama Viv is on the floor!

'Cause we looking!
Son, stay by her.

Get her back up in the bed.

Slowly.

See if she's okay
or if she needs 911.

There you are. Sorry.

Um, Mrs. Stein is agitated. I think
we're having an adverse event here.

She keeps calling out
for "Wolf" and "Bernard."

Who is that? Camp
commandants, liberators, pets?

Who knows? So
you get her settled.

I'm gonna consult with some
other Phase 2 participants.

But there's definite delirium,
possible hallucinations.

So you comfort her and I will
go make some immediate calls.

Let's get you back
into bed, Ms. Stein.

Yeah. Raspberries and cream.

Oh, wow! That sounds
nice. Raspberries and cream!

Raspberries and cream.

Are you sad, Sammy? No.

It's okay, I know you're sad.

I'm okay, Dawn. I'm not sad.

Life isn't how you
imagined it might be.

You had all these dreams.

See, I know, because I know
someone who's a lot like you, Sammy.

Feels a lot of the
same things you feel.

Really? Someone who
wanted to be popular

and loved and beautiful.

And you know what?

She learned that there's a
different kind of beauty, Sammy,

something that has
nothing to do with your face.

Because you have a
special glow within you

because you are a deep... person

who has suffered.

And you know what? Every day
that you wake up and are still alive,

it's precious. Does
that help you?

Dawn? Excuse me. I gave Mrs. Litwin
three enemas and nothing's happening.

Nothing is coming out at all.
She's just moaning. Hey, Sammy.

Belly big as a watermelon.

This is Dr. Jenna James. I need
the department of oncology, please.

Would I be calling if
it wasn't important?

Yeah, put me through to Lance. I need
to pick his brain about Latoodaplatin.

Excuse me. There you are.
Every time I look over there,

you're gone. I'm sorry, one of the
patients from the Swedish Princess

is suffering severe
abdominal distress.

I'm afraid her
colon's gonna perf.

Well, Dawn, obviously,

she needs to be
evacuated manually.

So get one of my anal horns,
there's plenty in the box right there,

and go evacuate her.

Here we go. Relief
is at hand. Marguerite.

Okay. We are going to perform
a non-surgical fecal diversion.

Mrs. Litwin: Whatever it takes.

Do you know how to
use it? I've had training.

Yeah. However,
I'm a little bit tired,

so I'm gonna go ahead and sit.

I'm gonna hand-inflate
the indwelling C-ring,

and you can do the insertion.

Bowel management is a real
bugaboo in geriatrics, Marguerite.

Hook that collection
bag up there. Here we go.

All right. There we go.

Okay. You're going to feel a little
pressure, just a little bit of pressure,

as the indwelling
rectal valve inflates.

It might feel nice. What?

Okay. Nothing's happening.

Okay, nothing's coming out.
Something is clearly blocking the flow.

Marguerite, can you
jiggle it? Can you jiggle it?

Marguerite,
jiggle it. Jiggle it.

Okay... Man: Oh, God,
it's gonna look bad.

Babe, do you know what?
Take the phone outside.

'Cause if I hear Yvette clucking "I told
you so" one more time in the background,

I'm gonna reach through
this phone and strangle her.

Mm-hm. No, no, no. Yeah.

No, thank God. Call me...
Call me when you get there.

Okay. Bye-bye.

Stop licking your ugly
balls and go mingle.

Go be therapeutic. Go on.

Shit!

Hey. What you doing? We have
an incomplete evacuation here.

Can you, um, give
it a little shake?

You okay? You
napping or are you just...

Hey, Pats. Can you give
us a hand here? Patsy: Huh?

Can you take over for Didi?

Marguerite administered
three enemas,

and I'm afraid this
patient's at risk of perfing.

I'm supposed to evacuate her, but
Dr. James's anal horn isn't working.

No, Dawn, I can't. She's
clearly a two-person lift.

I just... my back,
you two. I'll do it.

You know what? Take this thing
out. It's clearly blocking the flow.

You have to deflate it first. I'm
gonna go ahead and deflate it

as fast as I can. If you could
help us out by giving a little shove.

Okay, just a little push. Don't
strain... There you go, dear. Okay?

Oh, God! Patsy. Oh,
God. Is it in your mouth?

I don't know, I
can't see. Oh, God!

You did good, ma'am,
you did real good.

Do not close your mouth!
Do not swallow! Here, swish!

No, no, no. Swish.

You know what? It's
okay. Let's just go.

You've gotta disinfect
your mouth! Come on!

You're just not used to being
out on the floor, that's all.

It's better. I feel
better. Thank you.

Didi: Oh, shoot, Dawn,
it's all coming out!

Then let's get her to
a commode! Come on!

We are here to help, okay? Towel.
Could somebody please get me a towel?

Fucking can't see! Woman:
Somebody help them.

You truly are skin and bones.

I'm tired of hearing that.

Mm...

Well, did you have an eating
disorder when you were younger?

Or did you just start
using the laxatives?

My daughter Carmen
suffers with bulimia.

Does she? I'm sure
she's very pretty.

She is.

When the dentist told
me, I didn't believe him.

'Cause, you know, I thought
that was a white girl's problem.

But she's in a group
now with girls her age.

But what do they know
about growing older,

retirement, being a widow?

I'm not a widow. Or
running out of savings

or empty nest.

It's hardly empty nest
when your child dies,

when you out-live
your own children.

Your son or your daughter?

My son.

My husband and my daughter
didn't tell me for a year.

Can you imagine that?

They thought it would upset me.

So they kept it from me
for a year and I didn't know.

They thought they
could run out the clock.

I showed them.

I'm showing them all.

Jenna: We stabilized
her earlier disorientation,

but now she's experiencing
a little shortness of breath.

But I'm sure that that will
pass with the Noropine.

The Shoah Foundation is
sending over two advocates

tomorrow to record her memories.

Because I insisted. I said,
"Every single voice must count."

Retrieve them now

before the cruel cloud of
dementia washes over them.

And people are constantly
saying to me, "JJ,

you wanna be happy
or you wanna be right?"

And I've always chosen right,

because somebody has
gotta stand up and be counted.

Because nurses can't save lives,

orderlies can't save lives,

and sometimes hurt feelings
are just collateral damage.

You know what I'm talking about.

Mrs. Stein, we think that
you might have experienced...

Mrs. Stein?

Mrs. St...

She's dead.

Oh!

Marguerite: What is this?

"Pursuant to section 14C
of the labor agreement,

this will inform you of 60-day
notice of termination of employment."

What? Dawn got
one, too. So did Patsy.

They are trying to shut us down.

There you are. Hi, Mrs. Stinson.

Hey, she's not done
yet. How's it going?

Well, Mrs. Stein died. Dr. James
locked herself in her office for an hour.

Marguerite got a
notice of termination.

We think they're
closing Billy Barnes.

My mother-in-law
fell, hit her head,

so she's over at the
hospital getting x-rays.

Okay. Uh...

I'm really sorry.
I'll be up in a sec.

You don't have
to wait down here.

They can just call up
when she's finished.

What?

Dawn!

I just don't want
anyone to worry.

It's not so bad. I just, I really
have to watch what I eat and drink.

Does anybody else know, or...?

No. Or just Dennis.

I don't want Dr. James
to know. I just don't.

Her x-ray looked fine. They're
gonna keep her overnight.

Where's Carmen? You
guys about ready to go?

Uh, yeah, almost. I had
her sit and visit with a patient.

I heard about Mrs. Stein.

A98706. Her number.

God. Can you imagine?

Something gets
put on your forearm

and you are forever
marked. It wounds you.

Your life's never the same.
Everything that came before is...

And you step into
this awful, ugly,

through-the-looking-glass world.

And forever in exile, really,

from what you might have been.

Oh, Dawn, you cared
for her too, didn't you?

Yeah.

Hi. Hi.

Heard it was a rough day. Yeah.

I am definitely going to fast for
Hanukkah this year. We could all do it.

A lot of these religious customs,
they have a health benefit, too.

Do you fast for Esperanza?

Kwanzaa.

We don't really celebrate
it. How's your driveway?

A couple of cracks at the top.

Hm. I told you that ficus
was gonna be a problem.

I could come by and
give you a free patch.

I can match those colors so you
can't even tell it with the naked eye.

Wait, is there
anything I can do or...?

Will you sing the "Pony" song?

Mm...

♪ If you're horny ♪

♪ Let's do it ♪

♪ Ride it, my pony ♪

♪ My saddle's waiting ♪

♪ Come and jump on it ♪

♪ Ride it, my pony ♪

♪ My saddle's waiting ♪

♪ Come and jump on it ♪

♪ Sitting here flossing ♪

♪ Peeping your steelo ♪

♪ Just once if I
have the chance ♪

♪ The things I would do to you ♪

♪ You and your body... ♪