Room 104 (2017–…): Season 1, Episode 4 - I Knew You Weren't Dead - full transcript

(theme music playing)

Woman's voice: Listen, Daniel,

I'm gonna ask you to please
stop texting and calling me.

I want you to understand
I'm not angry anymore.

I'm not trying to punish
you for what you did.

I understand you're having a hard time,

and I'm sorry for what happened to you,

but it's been 20 years.

I'll always love you.

I just... you're a child

and you're a broken person,



and I just don't think that I
can be married to you anymore.

(TV playing)

(audience laughing on TV)

- (door opens)
- Man: What's up?

(door closes)

Patrick?

Daniel.

What are you doing here?

- Dude, I fucking live here.
- (grunts)

Oh, dude, are you gonna eat
that? They didn't have any food.

That thing? Yeah.

Shit.

Dude...

(chuckles)



My God, what the fuck... what
the fuck is wrong with you?

Oh, nothing.

- Nothing.
- You're acting weird.

- You're acting weird.
- Are you trippin'?

- No.
- Are you?

- Where were you?
- Dude, where do you think I was?

(chuckles)

- Dude.
- What?

I got 'em. Happy
birthday, best friend-o!

Come on, man. Get 'em.

Fucking get 'em.

(grunts)

Dude, it's fucking
Sound Garden, Melvins,

Screaming Trees, fucking
Rage Against the Machine!

No way!

- Dude!
- (laughing)

Three!

I know it's a lot, but I really
think it's gonna be worth it

'cause it's a fucking experience.

Let's just do it. Let's just go.

These are fucking crazy cheap.

But I think it's gonna be worth it.

No, but how are these so cheap?

Dude, they're 20 bucks, like, apiece.

No, I know, exactly.
I'm... I'm just saying...

- Ah, shit.
- What?

This concert.

It's gonna be sweet as fuck.

No, we... we are... (sighs)

we already went to this concert.

What do you mean?

What's going on?

What?

What's going on with your fucking face?

What are you talking about?

Don't do that.

Don't do that!

(panting)

(TV playing)

Man on TV: ...the horrific,
the terrifying cat.

(audience laughing)

Could we have picked a
more friendly guardian?

(audience laughing)

(urinating)

(chuckles) Fucking Rage
Against the Machine.

(keyboard clicks)

(music playing)

(keyboard clicks)

(exhales)

Can you hear me?

Do you wanna hang out tonight?

And maybe give me some advice?

I'm just having a really hard time...

and I kind of need you right now.

(toilet flushes)

(faucet running)

(water sloshes)

(both laughing)

Are you trying to sneak a peek
right now, you fucking pervert?

Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up.

All right, here.

Don't go anywhere.
Just get dressed, okay?

I need to talk to you about
some stuff, so hurry up.

(chuckles)

Patrick?

Patrick?

- Patrick?
- What?

Oh, nothing. Sorry.

Um, I just thought maybe you left.

Ugh, dude, it smells like one of your

bland-ass turkey farts in there still.

Shut up.

- Get over here.
- (gasps)

- Ta-da!
- Oh, my God!

Trying to sell me some
Amway shit right now?

No, but I need your advice.

- (clears throat)
- Wow.

Are you gonna eat that?

Um, no.

You...

- Yay!
- You sit.

You eat. Oop!

Thank you.

Um...

Diane, she knows about everything.

Fuck! Everything?

Everything, and it is fucked up

because I was... I was ready
to break it off with Brenda.

Like, I was going to, but Diane...

Dude, I don't know... I
don't know who Brenda is.

Brenda's my boss from work.

She brought me into the
catalogues department, right?

You know, she hooked me up, even
though she knew I lied about college.

- What did you lie about college?
- I didn't graduate.

You didn't fucking graduate?!

- I didn't graduate, whatever!
- You fucking dropped out?!

- Yeah.
- You?

Yeah. Things happened that... whatever.

I dropped out, and we're not gonna...

Brenda and I got close, okay?

- That's what happened, all right?
- Okay.

It was w... it was a
natural thing that happened

and, you know, we slept together.

And after you have kids,
that shit goes away,

so it was, like, kind of a big deal.

And honestly, Diane and I were
having a horrible rough patch.

I mean, we haven't been good
since Patrick was born, so.

Who's Patrick?

My first kid.

You know, my oldest kid?

You named your first kid after...

- after me?
- Yeah!

Yeah, man! I... you know that.

I know, I just...

Yeah, so anyways, I thought we'd
sleep together for a little bit

and then Diane and I would get
over our rough patch or whatever,

but Diane and I just got worse.

You cannot smoke in
here. It's a hotel room.

- Well, fucking...
- And it's really fucked up

'cause I was gonna
break it off with Brenda.

But Diane found out,

like, literally two weeks
before she even told me.

She saw us at fucking Baskin-Robbins.

- Oh, shit!
- Yeah, and that's the whole thing

is, like, I'm ready to
fly straight and come home,

and now she won't even
fucking talk to me.

She won't even answer my texts.

So, I'm glad you're here

because I don't know what to do.

So, you're asking my advice about this?

Yeah! (chuckles)

I mean, I need help.

I'm a little bit lost
and I need your help.

(exhales)

I don't know what to say. (chuckles)

I don't know.

(sighs)

- But you know me.
- What, dude?

- I don't...
- No, you know me better than anybody.

Dude, I know you.

I've never been married and I've
never had these, like, affairs.

I'm fucking 21 years old, man.

How the fuck am I supposed
to know about this shit?

I know, but didn't you used to

kind of mess around behind
your girlfriends' backs

and always, like, get back with them?

Sure.

Okay.

And are you not, like,

- in a certain...
- Certain...?

...position right now to, like, know?

What do you mean?

- Um...
- (chuckles)

- ...never mind.
- God, dude,

it sounds like you need to talk
to a therapist or something,

or, like, just go and fucking, like...

dude, talk to your dad.

Really, I'm gonna do that?

I don't know, man.

(sighs)

Dude, I wish I could
be more help, you know?

I just, like...

Just 'cause I'm dead doesn't
mean I'm, like, this angel

that can just see everything
about your life, you know?

(chuckles)

I'm sorry.

(can pops open)

(sighs) It's all good, dude.

So, what you been up to?

What?

Just, like, what do you do all day?

Like, not much.

- Not much?
- (chuckles) Mm-hmm.

No, like, nothing, really.

- Really?
- Yeah.

No, I, like... you call me sometimes

and, like, sometimes I'll come and...

Otherwise, I'm just kind
of, like... (exhales)

What?

I just feel like this is something

that you'd, like, say that
you really want to know,

but I don't think you
actually wanna know.

I wanna know.

I swim.

Swim like my life is depending on it.

I just wanna know, like...

do you think that if you
had been out there with me...

like, past that break, do you
think that you would be dead, too?

Or you think, like, maybe...

if you just had, like,
a moment of raw courage

and you crashed through the break
and you sort of swam towards me,

do you think, like...

(thudding)

(window closes)

Just, do you think
you could've saved me?

Like, do you think you
could've brought me back in?

- You know what I think.
- What?

I said I think you know what I think.

No, I think, like, I know, like,
what you're telling everybody

and, like, what you're sort of saying

so you don't kind of suffocate under
the guilt of just watching your...

like, your best friend
drown 30 yards away from you

while you were safe and sound on shore.

The current was not that strong.

You weren't supposed... I
told you, don't go out there.

Dude, you're supposed to be
this great swimmer, right?

Nobody was supposed to be out there.

Yeah, okay, but, like... (exhales)

Okay, it's kind of like at Lollapalooza.

Like, do you remember when
you... like, you were so drunk

and, like, you were
trying to drink and drive,

and I was trying to stop
you, so then I pinned you down

and I, like, took your keys and I
fucking threw them into the field

and I was just... I was, like, making

sure, like, you
couldn't drive, you know?

Like, I was, like...

like, I made sure you
were safe, you know,

because that's... I'm, like...

like, you're my best friend, you know?

That's just what best
friends do for each other.

Yeah, I thought worst case scenario,
it was gonna take you out sideways.

Dude, you know me and you
knew that I was gonna push it.

I mean, you knew that I was gonna
fight it. That's fucking what I do.

And it was your job to
fucking just call me out!

I assumed that if I was being
unsafe, you would've stopped me,

would've made me get out of the water.

Man, maybe you wouldn't even
let me go in in the first place.

- That was...
- Don't say that.

No, that was just, like,
our fucking dynamic.

- It's not fair.
- You think it's fair

that I'm the one who's fucking dead?

Now I just get fucking dragged around
with you wherever the fuck you go!

- I'm never getting asked what I want!
- Stop!

God damn it, it's not my fucking fault!

Yes, this is your fault!

- And you have never owned up to it!
- God!

You've never said you're sorry to me...

Shut the fuck up!

...And now I'm the one
that's fucking dead!

- And that is what is not fucking fair!
- (grunts)

You wanna know what I'm
doing all day? I'm being dead!

I can show you what being dead's like!

- You want me to show you?!
- (grunts, panting)

(sobbing)

(door closes, locks)

(music playing)

(sighs)

(snoring softly)

You awake?

Is that you?

- Yeah.
- (chuckles)

(groans)

What happened to you?

I got old.

What's it look like happened?

Apparently, you wanted
to see me this way, so.

- Look, I gotta go soon, but, um...
- Why do you have to go?

Because this is the last
time you're gonna see me.

We can't be friends anymore.

I'm dead.

Do you understand that?

You're 42 years old.

You've been standing on a
beach in Florida for 21 years...

looking out at the ocean.

I watch you every day,

and I see your family
there behind the dunes

and they're calling your name.

But you don't answer.

You just stand there...

staring at the ocean.

What are you doing there, buddy?

I'm just waiting for you to come back.

Well, I'm not coming back, pal.

Time for you to turn around and go home.

(sighs)

I... I gotta talk to you first.

Okay.

I'm listening.

You're not gonna make fun of me?

All right.

I miss you.

And I love you.

And I'm sorry.

Because I let you down...

(crying) ...and I
should've tried to save you.

If you had tried to save
me, you'd be dead, too.

I should've gone out there!

(sobs)

I wish I was with you!

- It's okay.
- (crying)

- I miss you, too.
- (sobbing)

And I love you, too.

It wasn't your fault.

It's time to get off that beach.

Time to go home.

(sobs)

(sniffles)

(chuckles)

(sighs)

(clicking)

_

- (sighs)
- (phone chirps)

(exhales)

(music playing)

♪ Every street is dark and folding ♪

♪ Out mysteriously ♪

♪ Where lies the chance we take ♪

♪ When we deceive one another ♪

♪ Animal mother ♪

♪ She opens up for free ♪

♪ Everybody's gotta hold on hope ♪

♪ It's the last thing that's holding me ♪

♪ Everybody's gotta hold on hope ♪

♪ It's the last thing that's holding me. ♪

- ♪ (RELAXING PIANO MUSIC) ♪
- (WHIRRING)

(GRUNTING)

- (SCREAMS)
- (LAUGHS)

Mom, I left my computer
at your apartment

and I need a copy of my book.

You're gonna send me an
email from my mail account...

...It's a super important deadline...

...With a copy of my book,
which is in a Word document,

which is in a folder on
my desktop. Easy, right?

MOTHER ON PHONE: I'm not understanding.

What are you asking me to do?

♪ (INTENSIFYING MUSIC) ♪