Monogamy (2018–…): Season 1, Episode 1 - To Thine Own Self - full transcript
We meet our 4 couples,#1 Diandra and Connor, #2 Maggie and Carson, #3 Dallas and Sincere, #4 Caroline and Sawyer--Each couple is dealing with issues that are tearing their marriage apart ,...
- Did you turn it on?
- I think it turned itself on.
- Can you hear me?
- Yes.
- Loud and clear.
- Good.
So we've come to the moment
where we need to know
your decision, would
you care to share?
- How about this,
would you care to share
why you people never
show yourselves, huh?
- We do not want to influence
the research with our presence.
We change what we observe.
- I'm not even sure
what that means.
- It means they don't want
us to know who they are.
- Your decision?
- What if we need more time?
- The experiment is over
and the time you've had
to make this decision
has already been
fairly significant.
- You do agree this is
a life altering choice?
- We do.
- I must admit,
this whole experiment has
really messed me up pretty good.
- I don't even know
who I am anymore,
it's crazy strange.
- Your decision please,
and remember, whatever you
say here cannot be unsaid.
All decisions are final.
- No one calls me trash,
okay, do you hear me?
- I didn't say you were trash.
I said people with nose rings
sometimes look like trash,
I never said that
you were trash.
- And I have a pierced
nose, so that must mean
that I'm trash.
- You know,
if we don't pay these
invoices by tomorrow,
we lose our 90 day credit
status with our banks.
- I know.
- Okay, they've just been
sitting here for like two weeks.
- Honey, what would
you like for me to say?
I told you that I'm
going to do them.
- I'm not the bad guy here.
- You say that a lot.
I'm not passing judgment on you.
- I'm just not where
I wanna be yet.
- I can see you try,
I can.
- But that's not good enough.
- Please don't put
words in my mouth.
- Then tell me what
the problem is, Di.
- Man, this is so stupid man.
- Now I'm stupid!
Now I'm stupid!
- Look it, you obviously
hear whatever you wanna hear.
Obviously.
- You say things
without thinking
because that's what you feel.
Just admit that, be a man
Sawyer and admit that.
- House looks great.
We already have a house,
so what's the point?
- Haven't you ever
heard the expression
I am what I dream.
- It's always amazed me
that the life we have
is never good enough for you.
- Carson, we used
to do this together.
- Yeah, maybe I've
learned to appreciate
what I have now.
- What makes you
think that I don't?
- Big houses cost money, Maggie.
Now I'd like to
enjoy what we have
and I've worked
hard to get us here.
- Yes, yes you have.
My contributions have helped
in that regard, I think.
Creating a business was
a major step for us,
wouldn't you say?
- A major step, and
I applaud you for it,
but wheels don't turn by
themselves, that's all.
Having ideas is wonderful,
but making them come true is
an even greater accomplishment
in my humble opinion.
So hard work is the only
way that's gonna happen.
- Money is a part of it,
but it's not for the reasons
that you think.
We have plenty of money.
- No,
you have plenty of money.
You have plenty
of money, sweetie,
and you've gotta
understand how difficult
it is for a man like
me not to be in control
of his own life.
- I could
if you let me in.
- I thought I just did.
I talk to you all the time,
I tell you everything,
I tell you everything
that's happening to me,
everything I'm going through.
- Except how you feel.
- What do you want
me to say, Di?
This is not an easy transition.
- So you wanna go
back to your old life?
- And admit that.
- You don't get to
define what a man is
to me baby girl, because
I'm a man, no matter what.
- Oh yeah?
- Yeah.
- Well someone needs
to define it for you
because whoever taught you
had no clue had to be one.
- So you gonna sit up here
and talk down about my family?
Huh, after they did
nothing but support you?
And you gonna sit up here and
try and talk trash about em?
- You call me trash one
more time I swear to god
I will walk out of that
door and not come back.
- I've an idea.
A way to automate the business.
Costs a little bit
more in the beginning,
but in the long term it
would pay for itself.
Make tasks like paying
invoices much easier.
The idea, which I'm sure,
I'm sure you're aware of,
work smarter, not harder.
It wasn't my fault.
- That's funny, I was
gonna say the same thing.
However, that doesn't seem
to be the right answer.
- To what question?
- Our best days.
Are they behind us?
- So who's putting words
in who's mouth now?
Huh Diandra, did I say
anything about going back
to my old life to you?
Huh?
I told you I was done
with that and I meant it.
- I never had to deal with
anything like this before.
You're the type of guy that my
my parents warned me about.
So, your struggle
scary to me.
- Oh, my struggle.
I've done everything
in my power,
everything I can to
make you feel safe
and secure and nothing's
good enough, nothing works.
- So where does that leave us?
- You tell me.
- Little girl, you are insane.
And you don't have
to worry about me
because I damn sure
ain't staying here.
- Carson, really
getting backed up here.
I've got five articles
that all need editing,
deadlines are sneaking
up pretty quick.
- so why tell me?
- Because you own the company?
- Thank you Lisa, but I meant
why aren't you telling Maggie,
content is her department.
- She left.
- What do you mean?
- She left about an hour
ago and I can't reach her
on her cell.
- Alright, uh
just go ahead and edit it Lisa.
- But that's Maggie's.
- Consider it a promotion.
Now you fill you in
on the deadlines.
- Good execution
on the scramble.
- You got me 'cause
of that scramble,
what put you in position?
- It was easy, I just
pretended you were my husband.
- That bad, huh?
- No, no, I was kidding really.
- No you're not.
See you tomorrow.
- Good to see you Diandra,
come on in, have a seat.
- So,
how did we do?
- 0.5%.
- What?
- It's not much, but
it's to be expected.
- We gave $2 million
to an organization
to prevent cruelty to
children and we only helped
0.5% of the kids?
- There are thousands of cases.
- Is that supposed
to make me feel better?
- Yes, it's to be expected.
- You keep saying that, but
I wasn't expecting that.
- Can I be frank?
- Please.
- So what kind of
return were you hoping
to get on your investment?
- I don't think
of it in that way.
- 0.5% wasn't enough, so
you do look at it that way.
- Okay, well, I was
expecting 100% success rate.
- Now that's unrealistic, but
to be blunt, you fell
considerably short of your goal
because of your preparation.
- Excuse me, but I
did my due diligence
on this organization.
- Forgive me, but ask
other millionaires who use
philanthropy as a business
for charities to invest in.
Charities who have
been around for years,
with proven track
records, national offices,
employees, overhead.
You didn't give to
the cause Diandra,
you gave to the business.
- Isn't the business the cause?
- Unfortunately no,
not necessarily.
- So what should I
have done differently?
- Educate yourself on
businesses that are outside
of the profile, I mean,
just because they have not
been around for years, it
doesn't mean they would not
make good use of that money.
- But there's no guarantees
doing it that way either.
- Absolutely no
guarantee with anything.
It's out of the box
thinking, Diandra.
Sometimes if you wanna
change things up,
you gotta make it up.
- Lieutenant, before
you say anything.
- You left the scene.
- Sir, I needed
to clear my head.
- You're a
homicide detective, Dallas,
if you need to clear your head,
you're in the
wrong line of work.
- Sir, this scene was
particularly sensitive,
a mother and two children--
- That's it,
you're officially on vacation.
- You're suspending me?
- No, but I will
if you show your
face in this office
or at any crime
scene in this city
for the next 14 day.
- Dammit.
Now what?
- Has anyone out there
heard of this thing called
the experiment?
I see ads all over town,
I think it's for couples
having trouble.
I don't know anyone
who's personally done it,
but if you are
looking for your wife
or your husband
right now at 2 am,
then maybe this is for you.
Let me pay some bills
here though, okay?
It's not for everyone,
but if you're at the end
of your rope and don't
know what else to do,
the experiment can help
you if you are open to it.
www.theexperiment.love.
- What are you doing Elaine?
- Checking the stock market.
- Lose some money again?
- 7K, down the drain.
- How come you never tell
us when you win money?
- Win money, Therain, I
am not playing power ball.
The real question is, why
is miss life of the party
surprisingly quiet?
- What?
- Yeah, you are quiet.
What's wrong with you girl?
- Okay, um,
Carson and I have decided
to go away for awhile.
For The Experiment.
- Is that that thing that
they've been advertising
on billboards and stuff?
- Yeah.
- Ah, so, what is it?
- I really can't
say much, but um,
we'll be gone for
like, two months.
- Two months?
- Look, they had us sign
very long non-disclosure
agreements, so I can't
really talk about it.
Those people are very serious.
- Yeah but everything's gonna--
- You don't get it,
we put up our assets
as collateral against the NDA.
Yeah.
- Your assets?
- Mhm, our business, our house,
cars, timeshares, everything.
- Why would you do that?
- We went to um
this
exclusive seminar.
They paid for everything.
There wasn't actual speakers,
there were just videos
of speakers, but
anyway, the promise of
a clear cut understanding
of how Carson and I can
get back what we
lost in our marriage,
and they're paying us sort of
a ridiculous amount of money.
- Something doesn't
sound right to me.
You are risking everything
you've ever worked for.
- Yeah, we are.
To be happy, and rich.
We decided that, I mean,
it was worth the risk.
- Yeah, but to people that
you've never actually seen.
- That's a little bit crazy.
- Yeah.
- It is, it sounds
a bit more crazy
now that I'm talking about it.
- You and Carson
didn't talk about it?
- Yeah, yeah we
talked about it a lot.
Legally it's all out
there in black and white
what we get.
- The money.
- I mean that too, but
really it's
it's a chance for
Carson and I to learn
how to forgive each
other, you know?
That's what sold us.
- So, what exactly are
you guys gonna be doing?
- I dunno, even if I did
know, I couldn't tell you.
I mean they have our
business, if I talk
and it was traced back to
me, we lose our livelihood.
- Well this is gangster.
Is this experiment dangerous?
- Probably not?
I dunno.
Guys, I know I'm being
evasive, and I hate that
because you're my best
friends and we do not keep
secrets and I'm so, so sorry,
but I really can't
say much more.
- Just answer one thing.
- Okay.
- Is it gonna work?
- [laughs] you may have
to pour me some more.
- What are you doing man?
You gotta make your cold calls.
- Come on bro, you know me
better than anybody, ight?
And you know that I'm
not a stockbroker,
I'm a business man.
- Wait a minute man,
I know you gotta do this
thing to save your marriage,
but you're walking away from
this gig 'cause it's hard?
That aint you man.
- That's just it Morgan,
aint none of this me.
I'm not used to being the
lowest man on the totem pole.
I'm not used to not
making no real cheese.
And I damn sure aint used
to having to come up with
no creative ways
to keep a woman.
I mean, spending two
months on something
that we don't even know
if it's gonna work,
that's crazy.
- Look Connor.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Listen, you're the guy who
walked away from that life
to find a way to
better fit your makeup
than dealing poison
into your own people.
You said they giving
you a stipend, right?
- Yeah.
Yeah, 20 times more than
anything I've cleared here
in a two month period,
which might have actually
meant something when I
was making real money.
- There it is.
Getting paid not to work.
You still the smartest
guy in the room.
- Oh, well, I'm not the
smartest guy anymore, kay?
And a world of citizens
all at my virtuous faults.
- You sure about that?
'cause you're picking up this
business faster than I did.
You're on your way to
passing your Series Seven
in only three months.
It's wide open from here.
- It's a lot more.
- Of course it is, because
it's worth it Connor.
Now do you love her?
- Yeah.
- Then you gotta
stop treating her
as if you resent her for not
having it as hard as you.
Love her for that.
You gotta stop trying to
intimidate your clients
and your coworkers, man.
That don't work for us here.
- Then what, what then?
- Kill them, kill them
all, with kindness,
humility, and knowledge.
- You want me to do the
dancing negro bit, huh?
- No, no no no, I want you
to flip the script, man.
Look, on the streets,
you had to show power.
Flex your chest to stay ahead,
but in here, you gotta be quiet.
Know when to talk
and when to listen.
Look, stay courageous and
humble on the outside,
but find ways to
create your own path.
Look man, you the coldest
hustler I ever met,
and the coldest hustle
is making yourself be a
valuable to the
players at the table.
So, get out of your own way,
get back on your hustle.
- What's the point
of all this training
if you canceling the fight?
- Not canceling, postponing.
- Walking away is walking away.
- It's cool.
- What's so cool about it?
- 55 year old bachelor.
- Yeah boy, don't you judge me.
There's a lot you don't know.
- I'm saving my
marriage here Sonny.
- The biggest fight in
your career is coming
and you aint
getting any younger.
- You're right.
You're exactly right.
This is the biggest
fight of my career.
It just might not be
in the ring this time.
- Sol.
Sol!
Man you gotta want it boy!
You gotta want it
more than anything!
You got to want it!
- Oh hey babe.
- Hey pop.
- Dallas with me uh...
- He's still home?
- Yeah, he's back in bed, but
you okay?
- I'm fine, long shift.
- Two months is a long time.
- And if it doesn't work?
- How you feeling?
- Optimistic, scared, nervous,
stupid.
- Uh, why stupid?
- I feel like a
failure dad, I mean,
how'd I let it
get to this point?
- I say you had some
help in that didn't you?
- Dallas has done
so much for me, dad.
This is how I repay him?
- That man has
brought you back from
a place I can't imagine.
We're very grateful
to him for that.
But can you continue to live
the way that you have to?
- No.
- Well there you go,
you're just doing
the best you can to
save your marriage,
that's not stupid.
I just wish I knew where
the hell you were going.
- I wish I could tell you, I do.
- No communication at all?
- No, none.
No communication
with our current life
for the whole time.
- This seems to drastic.
- Yeah, it does, but
we both agreed to it.
Maybe drastic is what we need.
- Back home?
- Uh, yeah.
You're packing early?
- I just got a text.
Car service is on the way
to take me to the airport.
- We're doing the right
thing, right Dallas?
- I dunno.
It's kinda out there but
I don't see a lot of other
options for us, you know?
- You're car is here
Do you still love me?
- Can't tell if that was
a goodbye for now kiss
or goodbye for always kiss.
- Well, next time
we see each other,
we won't be us anymore.
At least not this version of us.
So maybe it doesn't
even really matter.
- I can't help but
thinking if we had children
we wouldn't be doing this.
- If we had kids they
wouldn't take us.
- What about the car?
- What car?
- Why do I have a feeling
that when you walk out
the door things will never
be the same between us?
- I think it turned itself on.
- Can you hear me?
- Yes.
- Loud and clear.
- Good.
So we've come to the moment
where we need to know
your decision, would
you care to share?
- How about this,
would you care to share
why you people never
show yourselves, huh?
- We do not want to influence
the research with our presence.
We change what we observe.
- I'm not even sure
what that means.
- It means they don't want
us to know who they are.
- Your decision?
- What if we need more time?
- The experiment is over
and the time you've had
to make this decision
has already been
fairly significant.
- You do agree this is
a life altering choice?
- We do.
- I must admit,
this whole experiment has
really messed me up pretty good.
- I don't even know
who I am anymore,
it's crazy strange.
- Your decision please,
and remember, whatever you
say here cannot be unsaid.
All decisions are final.
- No one calls me trash,
okay, do you hear me?
- I didn't say you were trash.
I said people with nose rings
sometimes look like trash,
I never said that
you were trash.
- And I have a pierced
nose, so that must mean
that I'm trash.
- You know,
if we don't pay these
invoices by tomorrow,
we lose our 90 day credit
status with our banks.
- I know.
- Okay, they've just been
sitting here for like two weeks.
- Honey, what would
you like for me to say?
I told you that I'm
going to do them.
- I'm not the bad guy here.
- You say that a lot.
I'm not passing judgment on you.
- I'm just not where
I wanna be yet.
- I can see you try,
I can.
- But that's not good enough.
- Please don't put
words in my mouth.
- Then tell me what
the problem is, Di.
- Man, this is so stupid man.
- Now I'm stupid!
Now I'm stupid!
- Look it, you obviously
hear whatever you wanna hear.
Obviously.
- You say things
without thinking
because that's what you feel.
Just admit that, be a man
Sawyer and admit that.
- House looks great.
We already have a house,
so what's the point?
- Haven't you ever
heard the expression
I am what I dream.
- It's always amazed me
that the life we have
is never good enough for you.
- Carson, we used
to do this together.
- Yeah, maybe I've
learned to appreciate
what I have now.
- What makes you
think that I don't?
- Big houses cost money, Maggie.
Now I'd like to
enjoy what we have
and I've worked
hard to get us here.
- Yes, yes you have.
My contributions have helped
in that regard, I think.
Creating a business was
a major step for us,
wouldn't you say?
- A major step, and
I applaud you for it,
but wheels don't turn by
themselves, that's all.
Having ideas is wonderful,
but making them come true is
an even greater accomplishment
in my humble opinion.
So hard work is the only
way that's gonna happen.
- Money is a part of it,
but it's not for the reasons
that you think.
We have plenty of money.
- No,
you have plenty of money.
You have plenty
of money, sweetie,
and you've gotta
understand how difficult
it is for a man like
me not to be in control
of his own life.
- I could
if you let me in.
- I thought I just did.
I talk to you all the time,
I tell you everything,
I tell you everything
that's happening to me,
everything I'm going through.
- Except how you feel.
- What do you want
me to say, Di?
This is not an easy transition.
- So you wanna go
back to your old life?
- And admit that.
- You don't get to
define what a man is
to me baby girl, because
I'm a man, no matter what.
- Oh yeah?
- Yeah.
- Well someone needs
to define it for you
because whoever taught you
had no clue had to be one.
- So you gonna sit up here
and talk down about my family?
Huh, after they did
nothing but support you?
And you gonna sit up here and
try and talk trash about em?
- You call me trash one
more time I swear to god
I will walk out of that
door and not come back.
- I've an idea.
A way to automate the business.
Costs a little bit
more in the beginning,
but in the long term it
would pay for itself.
Make tasks like paying
invoices much easier.
The idea, which I'm sure,
I'm sure you're aware of,
work smarter, not harder.
It wasn't my fault.
- That's funny, I was
gonna say the same thing.
However, that doesn't seem
to be the right answer.
- To what question?
- Our best days.
Are they behind us?
- So who's putting words
in who's mouth now?
Huh Diandra, did I say
anything about going back
to my old life to you?
Huh?
I told you I was done
with that and I meant it.
- I never had to deal with
anything like this before.
You're the type of guy that my
my parents warned me about.
So, your struggle
scary to me.
- Oh, my struggle.
I've done everything
in my power,
everything I can to
make you feel safe
and secure and nothing's
good enough, nothing works.
- So where does that leave us?
- You tell me.
- Little girl, you are insane.
And you don't have
to worry about me
because I damn sure
ain't staying here.
- Carson, really
getting backed up here.
I've got five articles
that all need editing,
deadlines are sneaking
up pretty quick.
- so why tell me?
- Because you own the company?
- Thank you Lisa, but I meant
why aren't you telling Maggie,
content is her department.
- She left.
- What do you mean?
- She left about an hour
ago and I can't reach her
on her cell.
- Alright, uh
just go ahead and edit it Lisa.
- But that's Maggie's.
- Consider it a promotion.
Now you fill you in
on the deadlines.
- Good execution
on the scramble.
- You got me 'cause
of that scramble,
what put you in position?
- It was easy, I just
pretended you were my husband.
- That bad, huh?
- No, no, I was kidding really.
- No you're not.
See you tomorrow.
- Good to see you Diandra,
come on in, have a seat.
- So,
how did we do?
- 0.5%.
- What?
- It's not much, but
it's to be expected.
- We gave $2 million
to an organization
to prevent cruelty to
children and we only helped
0.5% of the kids?
- There are thousands of cases.
- Is that supposed
to make me feel better?
- Yes, it's to be expected.
- You keep saying that, but
I wasn't expecting that.
- Can I be frank?
- Please.
- So what kind of
return were you hoping
to get on your investment?
- I don't think
of it in that way.
- 0.5% wasn't enough, so
you do look at it that way.
- Okay, well, I was
expecting 100% success rate.
- Now that's unrealistic, but
to be blunt, you fell
considerably short of your goal
because of your preparation.
- Excuse me, but I
did my due diligence
on this organization.
- Forgive me, but ask
other millionaires who use
philanthropy as a business
for charities to invest in.
Charities who have
been around for years,
with proven track
records, national offices,
employees, overhead.
You didn't give to
the cause Diandra,
you gave to the business.
- Isn't the business the cause?
- Unfortunately no,
not necessarily.
- So what should I
have done differently?
- Educate yourself on
businesses that are outside
of the profile, I mean,
just because they have not
been around for years, it
doesn't mean they would not
make good use of that money.
- But there's no guarantees
doing it that way either.
- Absolutely no
guarantee with anything.
It's out of the box
thinking, Diandra.
Sometimes if you wanna
change things up,
you gotta make it up.
- Lieutenant, before
you say anything.
- You left the scene.
- Sir, I needed
to clear my head.
- You're a
homicide detective, Dallas,
if you need to clear your head,
you're in the
wrong line of work.
- Sir, this scene was
particularly sensitive,
a mother and two children--
- That's it,
you're officially on vacation.
- You're suspending me?
- No, but I will
if you show your
face in this office
or at any crime
scene in this city
for the next 14 day.
- Dammit.
Now what?
- Has anyone out there
heard of this thing called
the experiment?
I see ads all over town,
I think it's for couples
having trouble.
I don't know anyone
who's personally done it,
but if you are
looking for your wife
or your husband
right now at 2 am,
then maybe this is for you.
Let me pay some bills
here though, okay?
It's not for everyone,
but if you're at the end
of your rope and don't
know what else to do,
the experiment can help
you if you are open to it.
www.theexperiment.love.
- What are you doing Elaine?
- Checking the stock market.
- Lose some money again?
- 7K, down the drain.
- How come you never tell
us when you win money?
- Win money, Therain, I
am not playing power ball.
The real question is, why
is miss life of the party
surprisingly quiet?
- What?
- Yeah, you are quiet.
What's wrong with you girl?
- Okay, um,
Carson and I have decided
to go away for awhile.
For The Experiment.
- Is that that thing that
they've been advertising
on billboards and stuff?
- Yeah.
- Ah, so, what is it?
- I really can't
say much, but um,
we'll be gone for
like, two months.
- Two months?
- Look, they had us sign
very long non-disclosure
agreements, so I can't
really talk about it.
Those people are very serious.
- Yeah but everything's gonna--
- You don't get it,
we put up our assets
as collateral against the NDA.
Yeah.
- Your assets?
- Mhm, our business, our house,
cars, timeshares, everything.
- Why would you do that?
- We went to um
this
exclusive seminar.
They paid for everything.
There wasn't actual speakers,
there were just videos
of speakers, but
anyway, the promise of
a clear cut understanding
of how Carson and I can
get back what we
lost in our marriage,
and they're paying us sort of
a ridiculous amount of money.
- Something doesn't
sound right to me.
You are risking everything
you've ever worked for.
- Yeah, we are.
To be happy, and rich.
We decided that, I mean,
it was worth the risk.
- Yeah, but to people that
you've never actually seen.
- That's a little bit crazy.
- Yeah.
- It is, it sounds
a bit more crazy
now that I'm talking about it.
- You and Carson
didn't talk about it?
- Yeah, yeah we
talked about it a lot.
Legally it's all out
there in black and white
what we get.
- The money.
- I mean that too, but
really it's
it's a chance for
Carson and I to learn
how to forgive each
other, you know?
That's what sold us.
- So, what exactly are
you guys gonna be doing?
- I dunno, even if I did
know, I couldn't tell you.
I mean they have our
business, if I talk
and it was traced back to
me, we lose our livelihood.
- Well this is gangster.
Is this experiment dangerous?
- Probably not?
I dunno.
Guys, I know I'm being
evasive, and I hate that
because you're my best
friends and we do not keep
secrets and I'm so, so sorry,
but I really can't
say much more.
- Just answer one thing.
- Okay.
- Is it gonna work?
- [laughs] you may have
to pour me some more.
- What are you doing man?
You gotta make your cold calls.
- Come on bro, you know me
better than anybody, ight?
And you know that I'm
not a stockbroker,
I'm a business man.
- Wait a minute man,
I know you gotta do this
thing to save your marriage,
but you're walking away from
this gig 'cause it's hard?
That aint you man.
- That's just it Morgan,
aint none of this me.
I'm not used to being the
lowest man on the totem pole.
I'm not used to not
making no real cheese.
And I damn sure aint used
to having to come up with
no creative ways
to keep a woman.
I mean, spending two
months on something
that we don't even know
if it's gonna work,
that's crazy.
- Look Connor.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Listen, you're the guy who
walked away from that life
to find a way to
better fit your makeup
than dealing poison
into your own people.
You said they giving
you a stipend, right?
- Yeah.
Yeah, 20 times more than
anything I've cleared here
in a two month period,
which might have actually
meant something when I
was making real money.
- There it is.
Getting paid not to work.
You still the smartest
guy in the room.
- Oh, well, I'm not the
smartest guy anymore, kay?
And a world of citizens
all at my virtuous faults.
- You sure about that?
'cause you're picking up this
business faster than I did.
You're on your way to
passing your Series Seven
in only three months.
It's wide open from here.
- It's a lot more.
- Of course it is, because
it's worth it Connor.
Now do you love her?
- Yeah.
- Then you gotta
stop treating her
as if you resent her for not
having it as hard as you.
Love her for that.
You gotta stop trying to
intimidate your clients
and your coworkers, man.
That don't work for us here.
- Then what, what then?
- Kill them, kill them
all, with kindness,
humility, and knowledge.
- You want me to do the
dancing negro bit, huh?
- No, no no no, I want you
to flip the script, man.
Look, on the streets,
you had to show power.
Flex your chest to stay ahead,
but in here, you gotta be quiet.
Know when to talk
and when to listen.
Look, stay courageous and
humble on the outside,
but find ways to
create your own path.
Look man, you the coldest
hustler I ever met,
and the coldest hustle
is making yourself be a
valuable to the
players at the table.
So, get out of your own way,
get back on your hustle.
- What's the point
of all this training
if you canceling the fight?
- Not canceling, postponing.
- Walking away is walking away.
- It's cool.
- What's so cool about it?
- 55 year old bachelor.
- Yeah boy, don't you judge me.
There's a lot you don't know.
- I'm saving my
marriage here Sonny.
- The biggest fight in
your career is coming
and you aint
getting any younger.
- You're right.
You're exactly right.
This is the biggest
fight of my career.
It just might not be
in the ring this time.
- Sol.
Sol!
Man you gotta want it boy!
You gotta want it
more than anything!
You got to want it!
- Oh hey babe.
- Hey pop.
- Dallas with me uh...
- He's still home?
- Yeah, he's back in bed, but
you okay?
- I'm fine, long shift.
- Two months is a long time.
- And if it doesn't work?
- How you feeling?
- Optimistic, scared, nervous,
stupid.
- Uh, why stupid?
- I feel like a
failure dad, I mean,
how'd I let it
get to this point?
- I say you had some
help in that didn't you?
- Dallas has done
so much for me, dad.
This is how I repay him?
- That man has
brought you back from
a place I can't imagine.
We're very grateful
to him for that.
But can you continue to live
the way that you have to?
- No.
- Well there you go,
you're just doing
the best you can to
save your marriage,
that's not stupid.
I just wish I knew where
the hell you were going.
- I wish I could tell you, I do.
- No communication at all?
- No, none.
No communication
with our current life
for the whole time.
- This seems to drastic.
- Yeah, it does, but
we both agreed to it.
Maybe drastic is what we need.
- Back home?
- Uh, yeah.
You're packing early?
- I just got a text.
Car service is on the way
to take me to the airport.
- We're doing the right
thing, right Dallas?
- I dunno.
It's kinda out there but
I don't see a lot of other
options for us, you know?
- You're car is here
Do you still love me?
- Can't tell if that was
a goodbye for now kiss
or goodbye for always kiss.
- Well, next time
we see each other,
we won't be us anymore.
At least not this version of us.
So maybe it doesn't
even really matter.
- I can't help but
thinking if we had children
we wouldn't be doing this.
- If we had kids they
wouldn't take us.
- What about the car?
- What car?
- Why do I have a feeling
that when you walk out
the door things will never
be the same between us?