The Split (2018–2020): Season 3, Episode 4 - Episode #3.4 - full transcript
It's highly unusual for the lawyer
to be here.
My client called me, clearly
distressed. I've got most of what I
need.
February of this year,
Bardain Hotel, Zurich!
There is no-one else.
How's it going? Grief? Great.
Marvellous.
Ruth, will you be my wife?
Yes!
Of course!
I guess I consider home to be
wherever the person I love is.
You're married. I'm going
to tell him.
Mum, I've done something really,
really bad!
What the hell happened?
Your daughter has got drunk,
quite possibly cos she's just learnt
her father is having a baby.
Is there somewhere you need to be?
Christie's in town.
You will have to decide
what you let go of and what you want
to keep.
Imagine...
..it's just you and me.
Wake up late,
coffee, long walks...
Just the two of us.
Just the two of us.
CHUCKLES
WHIRRING
HANNAH: OK, then, so...
..tell me where we'd live.
Oh.
OK.
OK, um...
..Tribeca. Oh.
It's a little hip, but the views
over the Hudson are...
CHUCKLES
What? You. You're smiling.
Well, I'm smiling
because you're there with me.
How would we live?
Hmm.
Lazy mornings.
Pick up coffee.
Then a long walk
along the High Line.
BIRDS CALL
Go to galleries...
..and, um...
..we'd meet for dinner
after work.
I'm thinking...
..corner office..
CLICKS FINGERS: Bam!
Bertini... Mm.
Close to the park.
We'd be rivals.
Oh, yeah.
Professionally - big time.
Oh...
Personally...
..we will have
the best days of our lives.
And we'd be happy?
So happy.
Everything would just fall
into place.
Well, if you want it to.
Do you want it to?
See you later?
Yeah.
BABY'S HEARTBEAT PULSES
There's the head.
Unbelievable.
Wow.
RUTH: Happiness is a choice.
But that choice
won't always make us happy.
So the question is, can we
still make that choice
when we hurt the ones we
love?
Matters of the heart -
always difficult.
The trick is
to know when to speak up.
So, spit it out.
It's moving too fast.
What? You, me, this.
This?
This is something
to be celebrated,
something to be marvelled over,
Nathan.
Maybe it's different when
it's your fourth time round.
Shit. Sorry. I didn't...
No, you meant exactly that.
You're right.
It is your fourth time around,
maybe even your fifth.
Low blow. Sorry, you're asking me to
be sensitive around the woman
who cheated on you the night
before your wedding and...?
Hey, you don't get to say that!
The truth?
Because that doesn't fit
with your narrative?
Whatever narrative
you're playing out now.
OK.
No-one likes endings,
Nathan,
but you don't get new beginnings
if you're not prepared
to give up what you had.
I've left Hannah.
No, you haven't.
Mentally, you're still with her.
Work out what you want,
Nathan.
Because I'm not going
to wait around any more.
WOMAN: Hi, Hannah.
RUTH ON PODCAST:
He and his husband Tyler...
Morning!
You're very bright
this morning.
..threw caution to the wind
and married spontaneously
in a private ceremony,
and no prenup! Can someone turn this
down?
Don't forget. Got Melanie
and Nathan coming in at, er...
Yep.
They're going to come back
hard after your nesting, er...
Yes. Yeah, say it.
Fiasco? Yeah.
And Kate's report -
isn't that in today,
following her meeting
with Leni?
Mm-hm. Leni's in later.
Felix and JJ too.
Good. I'm going to sit in.
Morning.
TYLER: ..you know,
wherever the person I love is.
Please, can we get this off?!
RUTH: Where we love is home.
Thank you.
At last!
We still good for dinner tonight?
Not now.
Sleeping bag.
We're one down.
I think you borrowed it at Easter.
Oh, God, do we really have
to go through with this?
What, the trip
our dead brother-in-law
spent months organising
before his...
..untimely death,
to recreate the holidays of our
past for the woman he loves?
OK. Morning.
Morning.
OK, spit it out. How long has it
been going on?
A while. Nina...
Tonight, he's...
He's telling him tonight.
So, what, that gives you
the weekend to work out
what you're going to do
with your life on Monday?
It's not like in the past.
Uh-huh.
It's different?
Right, yeah.
It's everything.
It's everything I've ever wanted,
Hannah.
Congratulations.
Can you not just fake it?
Just be happy for me.
Watching my sister screw up
her career
and another marriage?
Um...no.
Rex went back to his wife.
And the moral of...
..that story is...?
Can you possibly consider a world in
which
not all infidelities
are a disaster?
They can actually
have longevity.
Ronnie and our mother -
that affair
has been on and off
since time began, and now
they're getting married.
Bad example.
She's already got
raging cold feet.
What? Ask her.
You see the whites of her eyes.
And Christie, the last four nights?
So, your point?
Um, a shoddy, menopausal... Wow!
..rekindling of an affair.
Yeah, not an affair.
Right now,
we are both unattached.
Erm...
OK, I'm almost unattached.
But I have been there.
I... I just want you to think
about what you're doing.
I mean, don't you...
Don't you care?
What, that I'm about to break
Zander's heart, screw up his life?
Yes!
Of course I care.
But I have found a man
who has a genuine desire
to build a life with me...
..for me and Cora.
Oh.
Oh, God, Nina...
Oh, you're buying the new
place with him.
So what if I am?
Ooh, tent pegs.
Ronnie can only find five, and
he says we'll need two dozen
at least, if we don't want
the whole thing blowing away.
Congratulations.
CHUCKLES
Wish people
would stop saying that.
I thank you.
It's not that I'm ungrateful,
but we've only got engaged.
But so many flowers.
What was I meant to do?
He put me on the spot.
Say, "Ronnie,
the jury's still out
"and, anyway, we're too old"?
Possibly. Alternatively,
"Ronnie, you're a very nice
man, but I don't love you."
Well, I couldn't say that,
because it wouldn't be true.
I don't have time for this.
What is wrong with you all?
Aversion to camping.
When you were children,
you used to beg Ronnie
to let you sit in the front
of his old camper van.
Oscar and I would be relegated to
the back with poor June.
Poor June. Yeah.
Oh, good,
Zander's back.
OK. OK.
Full disclosure.
Christie's been here
for five days,
and according to your diary, you've
seen him at least twice.
And?
Who is the American client...
Hannah!
..and what does it have to do
with NHD?
Oh, you pulled up the entire
company accounts yesterday.
I'm not an idiot.
And neither is he.
You... You are...
You're sneaking around.
Oh, I'd say it was you and Christie
who are sneaking around.
And now
you're giving me gags.
I have covered for four nights.
Even Liv is growing
suspicious.
Don't... Don't sidestep.
The American client is a gentleman
of high net worth,
and Christie felt
that he would benefit
from my experience and advice.
As good as you are...
..there are any number of lawyers
he could have gone to
if he was looking for
a forensic investigation.
Many of them,
believe it or not,
more experienced than you.
Thanking you kindly for that,
Hannah.
Go away.
Incidentally,
the blow-up mattress
has got a puncture.
Zander, have you a minute?
Of course.
Christie's in town.
Yes, I am aware.
Big city, small town.
Then you're also aware...
That you've been running
financial checks
on the partnership's accounts?
Yes.
Specifically mine.
Right.
I'm going to ask you a series
of questions, and I want you
to answer them as honestly
as you're able to do, legally.
Well...
..I'll do my best.
You're investigating me?
Yes.
And those closely associated
with me?
Yes. Why?
We have concerns for you.
And would those concerns
be related in any way
to your American client?
They would. Who is?
A victim of fraud
by the man he married.
And he's trying to track
his former...
Not former.
Under New York law, he is still very
much married to this man.
And you've traced this man
to London?
We have.
It's taken time.
He's very clever...
..very mercurial.
He travels light.
He leaves no paper trail,
no digital footprint.
Until last week,
there was barely a photograph of him
that could help us
identify and confirm
that this was the same man.
What do you have now?
He's charming...
..personable...
..yet highly skilled.
Double phones, double
accounts, double life.
He defrauded Christie's client
of hundreds of thousands
of pounds.
Oh, whilst this is secondary
to the client,
his primary concern
is to divorce this man
now believed to have...
Married a second time.
Before we serve him
divorce papers tonight,
we need to be sure that
history doesn't repeat itself
and that this second husband
is protected.
Not second husband -
bigamy - rendering...
Any other marriage void?
Yes.
Do you need a moment?
No.
I want to know everything...
..please, Ruth.
I will, um, have my lawyers
look over it.
That's OK. I had mine
look over everything.
He's very...thorough.
Mm-hm.
He's even put a clause in
if you bail.
I'm not going to bail.
We're doing this?
We're doing this.
PHONE CHIMES
Do you want the last bit
of bacon?
Sorry. Just, er, we're putting
Ronnie in charge
of all things camping.
And it looks like rain!
Er, what are you doing
tonight?
Er...
Oh, God.
Rose? Er, no, no.
It's me, it's me. I...
I've been putting out
these really confusing vibes.
I was going to ask
if you could baby-sit tonight.
I've got a date.
OK. Right.
Well, yes, of course,
because you're
a normal human being...
..whereas I'm, er...
Yeah, of course I can
baby-sit.
Sit on those babies...
..or not. Just, um,
cook dinner or sit and watch
crap TV.
CLEARS THROAT
LAUGHS
I mean, tonight...
..she seems very nice.
Great. And if not...
Then it'll be a serial killer.
Yeah, one for the memoir.
It's been a while.
It'll be four years...
Er, my wife - breast cancer.
Betty was only two.
I didn't want to ask.
I'm so sorry.
Six o'clock?
Great.
PHONE RINGS
Oh, you're a dumb, dumb
ass.
HANNAH: Hmm. And you
too. Have you spoken to Nina
about this place
that she's buying?
Not really, but, I mean,
I guess it's...
..progress.
I mean, up until now,
she's only house-sat
for some truly
overprivileged assholes,
or gone reckless
- way beyond her means,
so... Yeah.
Is there something
you're not telling me?
I'm always not telling you
something.
That is the power move
of an older sister.
I just want to be sure
that she's making
the right investment
and that she is of...
..right mind.
Well, I mean, currently,
I am sleeping on the floor
next to our...
..my old bed because I can't
face getting into it, so...
At least you'll be well prepped
for a night under the stars.
OK. What...?
What is it with you people?
It's just... It's one night.
One night where
we're just going to sit
in front of a campfire
and...and just share
memories.
I'm going to hang up now.
Just...don't want to start.
Just be there.
OK.
Oh.
KNOCK ON DOOR
ZANDER: Ready?
Nathan and Melanie are here.
They've just arrived in reception.
Oh! Sorry, sorry.
Er, scan.
Two arms, two legs,
one head?
Er, yes, all present
and correct.
No backing out, then,
now, right?
Melanie!
Ruth!
First things first...
Congratulations!
Getting married?
So inspiring at your age.
Now, have you seen
my new show yet?
Complete disclosure -
dud or delight?
Well, I thought
the opening episode was...
..inspired.
Six million viewers,
and they said it'll be more
like nine with catch-up,
not that I care.
Ah, is it... Is it true
Christie's back in town?
Yes, a whistle-stop trip. We're
closing on some business
for one
of his New York clients.
I think he flies home Sunday.
Really? Mm.
Isn't it wonderful that you're all
on such good terms?
I mean, most of my ex-employees are
persona non grata,
and those are the ones
that have signed the NDAs.
BOTH CHUCKLE
Oh, how's your podcast?
It's marvellous.
Someone keeps turning it down.
Shall we?
RUTH: ...as two men working
in family law...
Oh, Nathan, would you
have five minutes later?
I'd love to run something past you.
Yes, sure. Happy to help.
Yeah.
So, nesting...
Let's be honest, last week
was a bit of a balls-up.
My client was made to feel very
unwelcome in his own home.
Hmm.
Perhaps dropping the
bombshell
that the girlfriend is
with child...didn't help.
You kicked that ball game off
by announcing it
to your entire family at
the girlfriend's book launch,
so I'd call that quits.
Just further evidence
to the importance
that we all need to define
our boundaries now.
I think it clearly isn't going
to work, my client visiting
the family home, so it's even
more important for us
to once again consider
the sale of the house...
..jointly owned
with my client.
And, again, we have been quite clear
-
you're forcing our hand,
and that was not the
agreement we reached.
It's our belief that in the
interests of the children...
A stable family home
is obviously vital
for Vincent, Matilda, and...
..indeed Olivia, for as long
as they're still at school.
Or when they choose
to move out.
Well, this is London.
They'll be living at home
until they're 35!
CHUCKLES
Good to see you have such
confidence in our children.
A stable family
home is obviously
what we both advocate for.
But, may I remind you, for all
my client's children, present,
and future included...
Oh, congratulations,
by the way. First scan.
Now, to that end, my client
is willing for your client
to buy him out.
I mean, he has got to leave
this marriage with something.
We bought that house...
With money that was left
to us both, Hannah.
By my great-aunt.
Uh-uh. A point of
little interest to the courts.
It should also be noted
that your client
is considerably
better off than my client,
with considerable shares,
which we are confident,
Hannah,
that you can draw on
any time, if needed.
First, pushing for me
to sell and now...
..robbing the family silver
to do it.
Classy, Nathan.
CHUCKLES: Really...
..classy.
Yes, and we'd like to get
a lick on it.
There is nothing like
a new baby
to remind one
that time only moves
in one direction.
And I know that Nathan and Kate are
keen to set down roots.
Hannah... Don't talk to me.
Hannah, we have to rub along
together
for at least the next 48 hours.
What, you're still coming camping?
He's my brother-in-law as well.
That's touching.
It's very touching.
Can we stop this, please?
None of this
is our finest hour.
Then why did you hire Melanie if you
didn't want a dogfight?
This is... This is really
the way you want to play it?
My lawyer has advised me...
Your lawyer gives bad advice.
Can we just not talk about it
at least till after
the camping trip?
I want to be there.
I'd like to be there.
Unless you'd prefer me
to get the train down?
Is there even a train? Do you even
know where we're going?
Do you?
Countryside.
But the good news is that,
um,
Liv and Gael
are hitching a ride
with Ronnie and Mum -
they're still not talking.
Ronnie's got Gael
lugging camping gear.
First scan?
Blurry.
But it looked in keeping
with the last three, so...
Must have been a...relief.
I have to live.
I have to build a home...
..a house, somehow.
You can't move into hers?
Oh, no.
Too many plants.
I can pick you up if...
That's all right.
I can make my way to yours.
Rose said about, erm...
Erm, yeah, 7am.
OK.
Nathan, do you have
that five minutes now?
Yeah, sure. Yes.
Well, it's not actually with
me, but I'll walk you down.
If you have anything else
to add,
I'd prefer it if you went
through my lawyer.
I'd actually, er, like
a private word, please.
Um, in your...in your office,
if that's OK.
Uh...
This is all very novel.
That's sweet.
I've always been fascinated
by the way people bring
their home life to work.
We've got a very strict policy
at Aickman's.
I once fired a junior partner
for having a furry gonk
stuck to his phone.
OK. Please.
Melanie, shall I... Shall I go
first?
Yes, I regret
all my past indiscretions.
No, we are not back together.
Yes, the last few months
have given me time to reflect.
No, I do not regret not having
a child with Christie.
Oh, well, that's something
we're in agreement on,
although the... The gene mix
might have been interesting.
Which brings me to why I'm here.
I need some legal advice...
CHUCKLES
..because,
unlike you, Hannah...
..I did go through
with the unplanned...
..Rory, who's now 35 and does
something in finance.
What does he want?
I don't know.
A mother's love.
But I suspect he's made contact
because of my growing media profile.
I need you to pay him off.
And if you can stop it
tipping into six figures,
I'd appreciate it.
Why are you not talking to
your dispute resolution team?
You're an independent
professional...
..and this is
an exceedingly private matter.
And I'd hardly call us friends.
I'd go as far as to say...
I never trust people
who don't have enemies.
It's a mark of an unlived life.
And to be frank, Hannah...
..I know every grimy little
detail of your private affairs,
which I'm quite sure
you don't want getting out.
And if it makes you feel
any better,
there are times
when we all need a lawyer
to advocate for us
when you don't have the
strength to fight for yourself.
Is that how you hook
your clients, then?
Nathan...
Nathan has his doubts.
So it's up to me to ensure
he gets what he deserves.
What he deserves?
A chance to start a new life.
Isn't that what you want too?
I think we all know those clients
for which divorce is sometimes
subterfuge.
In fact, an often very
expensive reset on a marriage
which discovers
it still has life.
But if you're honest
with yourself, Hannah,
truly honest...
..that is not you and Nathan.
You just need
to weather the storm.
I want you to meet him on my
behalf. Let's call it a favour.
But this is your son.
Well, do I pay
for one ill-judged night
for the rest of my life?
Ah, it's been too long.
Thank you for this.
I can give you 15 minutes.
Great.
Er, Ruth will have brought
you up to speed.
Been tracking down this man
for several weeks.
And now that we've found
him, we need to issue divorce
and financial proceedings.
We'd like to serve papers
ASAP,
but in order to protect
the interests
of any others
inadvertently involved...
You need a freezing injunction.
By the end of the day.
Wait, these are
Zander's accounts.
The ex is Tyler.
It's important this never gets out.
Ruth and I approached you
as someone we could trust.
I can have a position
statement by four,
if you get me the brief
by noon.
Great. Thank you.
You well?
I'm well.
New York suits you. It does.
I can't do this.
Nathan...
You broke up my marriage.
Well, not entirely.
Nathan...
Congratulations, by the way.
What, for me or you?
Seriously? Really?
Oh, God.
You won, Christie.
Congratulations.
I'm right, yeah? You and
Hannah, you're together?
Oh. She's too good for you.
Don't fuck it up.
Well, the jury's still out.
Oh, come on.
This was always the way
this was going to go.
Oh, yeah? Then how come you're the
one who got to have kids?
Do you really think
you'd have stuck around
if you'd had a kid together?
You got a life with her,
Nathan.
Don't I get to have one
with her now?
I'll have this done
by the end of play.
How long are you going
to be like this?
Gael?
I left my family,
I left my friends,
I left my flat...for you,
and I stay here with you,
with your...
..weird, crazy family.
And I'm thinking,
"Why am I staying
with these people
"who are all breaking
into bits?"
Why am I carrying
a fucking box of shit
to go to some stupid place for a
dead guy I don't even know?
I do all of this for you,
and you get drunk
and you piss me off.
I just...
I don't care
about this stupid douche
with the guitar,
who can't even play.
I care you make me feel crap.
Gael...
No. No.
Break into pieces
if you have to.
Be like your family.
But one day, Liv, you have
to make life without them.
Love someone...
..even as much as them.
Maybe more.
And I don't know if that is me.
Liv, roller skates
circa 1995...?
SOBS
What's going wrong?
It's all going wrong.
It's all going wrong.
LIV SOBS
ROSE SHUSHES
SOBBING CONTINUES
Hi. Hi.
I'm meeting up
with Zander later.
Will you, um...?
Tell him?
Over dinner tonight.
I'll call you as soon as I have.
Mm-hm. If I can,
I'll come to yours tonight.
If not, if I'm...if I'm
worried about him...
What, you think he's going to...?
No.
But I need to know he's going to be
all right. Mm.
I'm going to be honest.
I'm just going to say...
Say what?
I want to start
the rest of my life.
EXHALES
BOTH LAUGH
Don't. Don't be scared.
Oh, you're not scared?
No, I'm... I'm...
I'm not entirely not...
BOTH LAUGH
Terrified!
I'd better get these back. Yeah.
The transfer. I can... I can
transfer the full amount.
No. 50/50.
I'll transfer my half tonight,
RUTH: Nina, your two o'clock
is here.
Er, coming.
Nina?
I will leave
my letter of resignation
on his desk tonight.
EXHALES
All right?
Get a grip, buddy.
It's going to be OK.
JJ.
Akay. Yes?
Can you see Mr Johnson
and Mr Samuelson
through to boardroom nine?
There's no need.
Leni, I'm your brother.
I think we can all agree
that the psychologist's report
was nothing if not fair.
And, well, it clearly shows...
Certain concerns.
Namely?
That Miss Hale
is not being as honest
as she could be - reference
to Miss Hale's distraction.
Miss Hale is a very busy
woman, and every mother...
Can't always be there.
But we believe
that the report,
while clearly highlighting
Miss Hale's devotion
to her sons
and commitment to her family,
demonstrates that, of late, she
has been, as said, distracted.
We can reassure you,
Mr Samuelson,
that your wife...
Three trips taken
to Switzerland
between March of last year...
At least lie.
At least say it was for work.
It was for work. I had a call
late last night from Martin,
concerned.
He should never have called you...
He's your colleague and friend.
You've resigned.
Leni?
You love surgery.
It doesn't make sense.
I want the truth.
This is me.
I love you.
We celebrated 20 years
together
only a few months ago.
What was that?
A last hurrah?
Because you've been
preparing to exit this marriage
for the last year,
moving money around,
transferring assets,
setting up a trust fund
for the boys,
and hiding it from me.
You've executed your exit
with such a level of care
over the last 12 months,
Leni...
Organised your finances
so that you're asking
for nothing.
Bar the apartment,
which, as you'll see...
Which you've also transferred
into the boys' names.
So I would question
how you intend to live,
Miss Hale,
with so little actual finance
beyond your pension.
That question isn't relevant.
A judge still needs
to approve this.
Then it's just because
you don't love me any more?
We're done, then.
Just tell me
what I need to sign.
DOOR OPENS
DOOR CLOSES
Leni?
You've resigned.
It's...magical...
..to be able to give people
back the chance of life
when all hope is gone.
Sometimes you have to
accept
when you can't do something
any more.
You were right.
So I resigned.
This is getting too hard
to hide.
The weakness in my hands,
the muscle cramps and twitches...
And the trips to Zurich.
Are you doing
what I think you're doing,
Leni?
You don't want to end
your marriage.
This is you controlling
the end of your life.
Pre-emptive strikes
to secure
your children's future,
Felix's future.
You're visiting a clinic.
I've hidden it
for as long as I can.
I just can't hide
the rapid decline.
ZANDER: Oh, my God. Leni...
I won't be...like our father.
I can't let this disease
take me the way it did him,
gasping for breath,
as we watched him die.
I can't do that
to you, Felix or the boys.
Why didn't you tell me?
The trips to Zurich are...?
To a clinic. No.
It's just that dying
is not the only way.
You have a life still to live.
Not for me.
You can't...
I can.
I will.
It's what I want.
How long have you known...
..about Leni's illness?
Since she first came to see
me.
But I didn't realise that meant
she had thoughts
of ending her life.
When we were children,
my father used to say...
.."The man who can keep
a secret may be wise,
"but he is not half as wise
"as the man
with no secrets to keep."
Hmm.
We would say,
"Yes, Pops, we'll never lie."
But everyone has secrets,
don't they?
If only the ones they keep
from themselves.
Are you going to be
much longer?
Maybe another hour.
I hear you're going camping.
Yep.
Rekindling of holidays of old.
Nina said.
Have a good time.
OK, maybe we could get
takeout?
For God's sake, Tyler,
I don't care!
I don't care
what we eat tonight!
Fine.
Zander...
..you all right?
Uh-huh.
FAINT CHILDREN'S VOICES
Hello?
GLEN: I'm in the kitchen.
Hey.
Hi.
Tali is refusing
to do her schoolwork.
Betty and Marni
have gone maverick
and are eating cold pasta
and refusing to get down
from the back wall.
You've got something just...
Oh, for...
Um...
This was a mistake.
Yeah...
And what was a slight stain
is now
like a small map
of the former USSR.
Why? Erm...
I've got nothing to talk about.
Just be yourself.
What, a more than slightly
dishevelled, overworked,
fading father of three,
whose main focus is stopping
the winos from pissing up
the church wall
and Pet Paws on repeat?
I'm in.
CHUCKLES
Movie?
It's her choice,
possibly French.
You're a pushover.
She'll be loving you already.
CHILD YELLS
Hey!
Hey, guys. Oh! Go, go.
Eat crap. Read subtitles.
It'll be great.
OK, so...who wants to play
with some roller skates?
Me!
These were mine
when I was your age.
SIGHS
Oh, damn.
You weren't meant
to be back yet.
Oh, well, never mind.
What do you think?
Oh, my God.
I got the seats at auction.
Yeah. Yeah.
Original leather upholstery.
And, erm, a new fender.
Reworked.
Roof still goes up.
CHUCKLES
You might have to shove it a bit.
Ronnie, I can't do this.
Oh, yes, of course.
You're... You're tired.
Well, never mind...
No, this.
I can't.
What? You don't like it?
No, it's beautiful.
It's magnificent.
But it doesn't work like this.
Life isn't there to be renovated.
I'm too old, and it's too late.
I'm sorry.
I can't marry you.
I can't do this.
SIGHS
You heading out?
Mm. In a minute.
I've got drinks with a client.
Oh. I'll see you first thing.
Weather looks like...
Shite?
I know I've not always
impressed you
with my choices, Hannah.
I know I walk in your shadow.
I do. I do.
But you have to let me do
this.
I've left
my letter of resignation
on Zander's desk.
My life.
Night. Night.
LINE RINGS
HANNAH: Hi.
Hey. Good, I caught you.
Will I see you later?
SIGHS: Christie...
Come on, you owe me
for one more night.
Huh?
SIGHS
I saw Nathan today.
He, uh, needed some advice.
First my mother and now
my soon-to-be ex-husband.
He's starting a new life.
Hannah, maybe you can too.
I'm serious -
move to New York with me.
EXHALES
Come live with me, Hannah.
What, upending my children
and...
..selling my house?
Find a new house!
A new life.
With me.
Hannah?
But let's not waste
any more time.
I have to go.
Hannah...
I've got drinks with a client.
SHE SIGHS
OK, OK, I'll see you tonight.
Bye.
Judging by the fact
that it's you
and not my mother here,
I don't think we need
to make small talk.
I'm sorry.
Me too.
Miss Aickman would like
to give you this.
She hopes that it will go
some way
to compensate for...
Her absence?
For any harm you may
have experienced at all.
No harm,
just a genuine desire
to know her.
It's a large sum.
I can't comment.
Right.
So she doesn't want to know
anything about me, then?
Pity...
..because...
..she's actually
a grandmother.
I wanted to thank her,
actually.
You did?
For giving me away.
Because my parents
were amazing,
truly amazing.
And I have had - am having -
a good life.
You could just call it
the last piece of the puzzle
I needed to try
and put in place.
Because, like it or not,
it's been missing.
A scrap of the past you keep
looking for everywhere else.
Uh, no. No, it's on us.
"Us"?
Thank you.
Tell her
I won't bother her again.
By the door to the left.
Paparazzi.
He sold me out to the press.
Rory?
After my father.
He was
a vindictive little shit too.
Ready now?
I just need to grab my jacket.
I sat in on a meeting
with Leni and Felix today.
He thinks it's someone else,
some illicit affair.
Maybe met at work.
No-one planned it, but...
..as much as you try,
as hard as you try...
..it's not what you want.
Because when you look
at that person and imagine
spending the rest of your life
with them...
..you just can't.
Zander...
..this is...
It's no-one's fault.
You... You and I.
It was... It was crazy.
OK?
It was fast.
You know, and I... I...
I do this,
you know, I overcommit,
I overpromise.
But I thought...
..no, I hoped,
gosh, that with you,
it... It would be different.
You have one hour
to go to the apartment, pack...
You take nothing
from this office,
or I call security now.
Have you been
to a meeting lately, Tyler?
It's... It's nothing to do...
And Nina?
Are you screwing
with her sobriety too?
CALMLY:
How long have you known?
Maybe from the start.
Maybe from the moment
I met you...
..I knew
this is what you would do.
And this is where you say...
I... I love her.
You know...
STAMMERS
..I genuinely think
you believe that.
One hour...
..or I call the police
and tell Nina and anyone else
who's interested...
..everything.
You'll find
all our joint accounts
have been frozen,
and you can't access
my credit cards.
SHOUTS: Get out!
Get out of my life.
EXHALES
CHRISTIE: I'm not sure
if I was meant to have kids.
I should have told you.
I should've given you a
choice.
Imagine...
..we start all over again.
CLOCK TICKS SOFTLY
FOOTSTEPS APPROACH
FLOORBOARDS CREAK
THUD
Oh, God!
You would make a terrible
spy.
Oh.
Don't ask.
Well, it turns out
I quite like French films.
Mais bien sur.
There just wasn't that...
Je ne sais quoi.
Oh, sorry.
Dead-min.
Oh, none of my business.
Yeah.
EXHALES
I got a letter from the wife
of the guy
who got James's heart.
Is it terrible that I hate...
..that there's another person
walking around with his heart?
Like, I should be glad, right?
Like...
..grateful that,
out of his death,
someone else gets
the chance of life.
But I'm not. I can't...
I'm not. I can't get over it.
I don't know
how to get over this.
Him. I...
I don't know how to accept
he's gone now, to...
..live my new...life.
SIGHS
Stop trying.
Accept it all.
Just...take it as it comes.
Hmm?
I still have mornings
when I...
I crawl back into bed
after I've got the kids off.
Days when
I am raging at her because...
..she's not there...
..for the sports day
or the lost tooth or...
Or just have that argument
about which box set to watch.
I've stopped trying
not to miss her now...
..because I accept
that missing her is a part
of how I get on with my life.
Loss is a part of life, Rose.
You ever been
to Postman's Park?
Er...no.
There's a mural there
in memory of those who...
..gave their lives
to save others.
You should go and see it...
..one day.
It's beautiful.
Not terrible.
But he saved a life.
Mm.
CHRISTIE: You did, you did!
You were sitting there,
two rows in front of me,
and you were always so keen
to get the first question in.
And it was... It was...
It was...
Introduction to tort law.
Yes, tort law!
CHRISTIE LAUGHS DOWNSTAIRS
I tried talking to you,
and you... You just looked
straight through me.
No, that's not...
That's not true.
You walked away.
Oh, shit. No, I did!
I did. You did.
And you left me to the mercies of...
An auburn-haired girl.
Yeah!
Yeah, I think... I think
he took it really well.
Zander?
SOBS
Oh, my God, and then I lost
my whole summer...
Yeah, and your heart.
No.
No, cos my heart
was always yours.
CLANKING
Now what?
VINNIE SPEAKS UPSTAIRS
WHISPERS: Now, you see,
in New York...
In New York,
I've got a deaf lady above me
and a New York symphony
pianist below me,
so we can talk all night
and nobody cares -
nobody can hear us.
MOCKS: "In New York.
In New York."
In New York. "In New York..."
MUSIC
# And I know things have to change
# And I've been going in circles all
of these nights... #
You'll have to go quietly.
Yes!
Think about New York.
I mean it.
DOOR OPENS
DOOR CLOSES
It's just...
EXHALES
VINNIE: Love you, Til.
TILLY: Love you, Vinnie.
DOOR CLOSES
# And we grow
# And the seasons know
# There's a quiet that
shows in the space between
# And our fire
# No longer bright
# Is out of sight
# And we both know
# And I've been going in circles
# All of these nights
# Trying to find a way back home...
#
to be here.
My client called me, clearly
distressed. I've got most of what I
need.
February of this year,
Bardain Hotel, Zurich!
There is no-one else.
How's it going? Grief? Great.
Marvellous.
Ruth, will you be my wife?
Yes!
Of course!
I guess I consider home to be
wherever the person I love is.
You're married. I'm going
to tell him.
Mum, I've done something really,
really bad!
What the hell happened?
Your daughter has got drunk,
quite possibly cos she's just learnt
her father is having a baby.
Is there somewhere you need to be?
Christie's in town.
You will have to decide
what you let go of and what you want
to keep.
Imagine...
..it's just you and me.
Wake up late,
coffee, long walks...
Just the two of us.
Just the two of us.
CHUCKLES
WHIRRING
HANNAH: OK, then, so...
..tell me where we'd live.
Oh.
OK.
OK, um...
..Tribeca. Oh.
It's a little hip, but the views
over the Hudson are...
CHUCKLES
What? You. You're smiling.
Well, I'm smiling
because you're there with me.
How would we live?
Hmm.
Lazy mornings.
Pick up coffee.
Then a long walk
along the High Line.
BIRDS CALL
Go to galleries...
..and, um...
..we'd meet for dinner
after work.
I'm thinking...
..corner office..
CLICKS FINGERS: Bam!
Bertini... Mm.
Close to the park.
We'd be rivals.
Oh, yeah.
Professionally - big time.
Oh...
Personally...
..we will have
the best days of our lives.
And we'd be happy?
So happy.
Everything would just fall
into place.
Well, if you want it to.
Do you want it to?
See you later?
Yeah.
BABY'S HEARTBEAT PULSES
There's the head.
Unbelievable.
Wow.
RUTH: Happiness is a choice.
But that choice
won't always make us happy.
So the question is, can we
still make that choice
when we hurt the ones we
love?
Matters of the heart -
always difficult.
The trick is
to know when to speak up.
So, spit it out.
It's moving too fast.
What? You, me, this.
This?
This is something
to be celebrated,
something to be marvelled over,
Nathan.
Maybe it's different when
it's your fourth time round.
Shit. Sorry. I didn't...
No, you meant exactly that.
You're right.
It is your fourth time around,
maybe even your fifth.
Low blow. Sorry, you're asking me to
be sensitive around the woman
who cheated on you the night
before your wedding and...?
Hey, you don't get to say that!
The truth?
Because that doesn't fit
with your narrative?
Whatever narrative
you're playing out now.
OK.
No-one likes endings,
Nathan,
but you don't get new beginnings
if you're not prepared
to give up what you had.
I've left Hannah.
No, you haven't.
Mentally, you're still with her.
Work out what you want,
Nathan.
Because I'm not going
to wait around any more.
WOMAN: Hi, Hannah.
RUTH ON PODCAST:
He and his husband Tyler...
Morning!
You're very bright
this morning.
..threw caution to the wind
and married spontaneously
in a private ceremony,
and no prenup! Can someone turn this
down?
Don't forget. Got Melanie
and Nathan coming in at, er...
Yep.
They're going to come back
hard after your nesting, er...
Yes. Yeah, say it.
Fiasco? Yeah.
And Kate's report -
isn't that in today,
following her meeting
with Leni?
Mm-hm. Leni's in later.
Felix and JJ too.
Good. I'm going to sit in.
Morning.
TYLER: ..you know,
wherever the person I love is.
Please, can we get this off?!
RUTH: Where we love is home.
Thank you.
At last!
We still good for dinner tonight?
Not now.
Sleeping bag.
We're one down.
I think you borrowed it at Easter.
Oh, God, do we really have
to go through with this?
What, the trip
our dead brother-in-law
spent months organising
before his...
..untimely death,
to recreate the holidays of our
past for the woman he loves?
OK. Morning.
Morning.
OK, spit it out. How long has it
been going on?
A while. Nina...
Tonight, he's...
He's telling him tonight.
So, what, that gives you
the weekend to work out
what you're going to do
with your life on Monday?
It's not like in the past.
Uh-huh.
It's different?
Right, yeah.
It's everything.
It's everything I've ever wanted,
Hannah.
Congratulations.
Can you not just fake it?
Just be happy for me.
Watching my sister screw up
her career
and another marriage?
Um...no.
Rex went back to his wife.
And the moral of...
..that story is...?
Can you possibly consider a world in
which
not all infidelities
are a disaster?
They can actually
have longevity.
Ronnie and our mother -
that affair
has been on and off
since time began, and now
they're getting married.
Bad example.
She's already got
raging cold feet.
What? Ask her.
You see the whites of her eyes.
And Christie, the last four nights?
So, your point?
Um, a shoddy, menopausal... Wow!
..rekindling of an affair.
Yeah, not an affair.
Right now,
we are both unattached.
Erm...
OK, I'm almost unattached.
But I have been there.
I... I just want you to think
about what you're doing.
I mean, don't you...
Don't you care?
What, that I'm about to break
Zander's heart, screw up his life?
Yes!
Of course I care.
But I have found a man
who has a genuine desire
to build a life with me...
..for me and Cora.
Oh.
Oh, God, Nina...
Oh, you're buying the new
place with him.
So what if I am?
Ooh, tent pegs.
Ronnie can only find five, and
he says we'll need two dozen
at least, if we don't want
the whole thing blowing away.
Congratulations.
CHUCKLES
Wish people
would stop saying that.
I thank you.
It's not that I'm ungrateful,
but we've only got engaged.
But so many flowers.
What was I meant to do?
He put me on the spot.
Say, "Ronnie,
the jury's still out
"and, anyway, we're too old"?
Possibly. Alternatively,
"Ronnie, you're a very nice
man, but I don't love you."
Well, I couldn't say that,
because it wouldn't be true.
I don't have time for this.
What is wrong with you all?
Aversion to camping.
When you were children,
you used to beg Ronnie
to let you sit in the front
of his old camper van.
Oscar and I would be relegated to
the back with poor June.
Poor June. Yeah.
Oh, good,
Zander's back.
OK. OK.
Full disclosure.
Christie's been here
for five days,
and according to your diary, you've
seen him at least twice.
And?
Who is the American client...
Hannah!
..and what does it have to do
with NHD?
Oh, you pulled up the entire
company accounts yesterday.
I'm not an idiot.
And neither is he.
You... You are...
You're sneaking around.
Oh, I'd say it was you and Christie
who are sneaking around.
And now
you're giving me gags.
I have covered for four nights.
Even Liv is growing
suspicious.
Don't... Don't sidestep.
The American client is a gentleman
of high net worth,
and Christie felt
that he would benefit
from my experience and advice.
As good as you are...
..there are any number of lawyers
he could have gone to
if he was looking for
a forensic investigation.
Many of them,
believe it or not,
more experienced than you.
Thanking you kindly for that,
Hannah.
Go away.
Incidentally,
the blow-up mattress
has got a puncture.
Zander, have you a minute?
Of course.
Christie's in town.
Yes, I am aware.
Big city, small town.
Then you're also aware...
That you've been running
financial checks
on the partnership's accounts?
Yes.
Specifically mine.
Right.
I'm going to ask you a series
of questions, and I want you
to answer them as honestly
as you're able to do, legally.
Well...
..I'll do my best.
You're investigating me?
Yes.
And those closely associated
with me?
Yes. Why?
We have concerns for you.
And would those concerns
be related in any way
to your American client?
They would. Who is?
A victim of fraud
by the man he married.
And he's trying to track
his former...
Not former.
Under New York law, he is still very
much married to this man.
And you've traced this man
to London?
We have.
It's taken time.
He's very clever...
..very mercurial.
He travels light.
He leaves no paper trail,
no digital footprint.
Until last week,
there was barely a photograph of him
that could help us
identify and confirm
that this was the same man.
What do you have now?
He's charming...
..personable...
..yet highly skilled.
Double phones, double
accounts, double life.
He defrauded Christie's client
of hundreds of thousands
of pounds.
Oh, whilst this is secondary
to the client,
his primary concern
is to divorce this man
now believed to have...
Married a second time.
Before we serve him
divorce papers tonight,
we need to be sure that
history doesn't repeat itself
and that this second husband
is protected.
Not second husband -
bigamy - rendering...
Any other marriage void?
Yes.
Do you need a moment?
No.
I want to know everything...
..please, Ruth.
I will, um, have my lawyers
look over it.
That's OK. I had mine
look over everything.
He's very...thorough.
Mm-hm.
He's even put a clause in
if you bail.
I'm not going to bail.
We're doing this?
We're doing this.
PHONE CHIMES
Do you want the last bit
of bacon?
Sorry. Just, er, we're putting
Ronnie in charge
of all things camping.
And it looks like rain!
Er, what are you doing
tonight?
Er...
Oh, God.
Rose? Er, no, no.
It's me, it's me. I...
I've been putting out
these really confusing vibes.
I was going to ask
if you could baby-sit tonight.
I've got a date.
OK. Right.
Well, yes, of course,
because you're
a normal human being...
..whereas I'm, er...
Yeah, of course I can
baby-sit.
Sit on those babies...
..or not. Just, um,
cook dinner or sit and watch
crap TV.
CLEARS THROAT
LAUGHS
I mean, tonight...
..she seems very nice.
Great. And if not...
Then it'll be a serial killer.
Yeah, one for the memoir.
It's been a while.
It'll be four years...
Er, my wife - breast cancer.
Betty was only two.
I didn't want to ask.
I'm so sorry.
Six o'clock?
Great.
PHONE RINGS
Oh, you're a dumb, dumb
ass.
HANNAH: Hmm. And you
too. Have you spoken to Nina
about this place
that she's buying?
Not really, but, I mean,
I guess it's...
..progress.
I mean, up until now,
she's only house-sat
for some truly
overprivileged assholes,
or gone reckless
- way beyond her means,
so... Yeah.
Is there something
you're not telling me?
I'm always not telling you
something.
That is the power move
of an older sister.
I just want to be sure
that she's making
the right investment
and that she is of...
..right mind.
Well, I mean, currently,
I am sleeping on the floor
next to our...
..my old bed because I can't
face getting into it, so...
At least you'll be well prepped
for a night under the stars.
OK. What...?
What is it with you people?
It's just... It's one night.
One night where
we're just going to sit
in front of a campfire
and...and just share
memories.
I'm going to hang up now.
Just...don't want to start.
Just be there.
OK.
Oh.
KNOCK ON DOOR
ZANDER: Ready?
Nathan and Melanie are here.
They've just arrived in reception.
Oh! Sorry, sorry.
Er, scan.
Two arms, two legs,
one head?
Er, yes, all present
and correct.
No backing out, then,
now, right?
Melanie!
Ruth!
First things first...
Congratulations!
Getting married?
So inspiring at your age.
Now, have you seen
my new show yet?
Complete disclosure -
dud or delight?
Well, I thought
the opening episode was...
..inspired.
Six million viewers,
and they said it'll be more
like nine with catch-up,
not that I care.
Ah, is it... Is it true
Christie's back in town?
Yes, a whistle-stop trip. We're
closing on some business
for one
of his New York clients.
I think he flies home Sunday.
Really? Mm.
Isn't it wonderful that you're all
on such good terms?
I mean, most of my ex-employees are
persona non grata,
and those are the ones
that have signed the NDAs.
BOTH CHUCKLE
Oh, how's your podcast?
It's marvellous.
Someone keeps turning it down.
Shall we?
RUTH: ...as two men working
in family law...
Oh, Nathan, would you
have five minutes later?
I'd love to run something past you.
Yes, sure. Happy to help.
Yeah.
So, nesting...
Let's be honest, last week
was a bit of a balls-up.
My client was made to feel very
unwelcome in his own home.
Hmm.
Perhaps dropping the
bombshell
that the girlfriend is
with child...didn't help.
You kicked that ball game off
by announcing it
to your entire family at
the girlfriend's book launch,
so I'd call that quits.
Just further evidence
to the importance
that we all need to define
our boundaries now.
I think it clearly isn't going
to work, my client visiting
the family home, so it's even
more important for us
to once again consider
the sale of the house...
..jointly owned
with my client.
And, again, we have been quite clear
-
you're forcing our hand,
and that was not the
agreement we reached.
It's our belief that in the
interests of the children...
A stable family home
is obviously vital
for Vincent, Matilda, and...
..indeed Olivia, for as long
as they're still at school.
Or when they choose
to move out.
Well, this is London.
They'll be living at home
until they're 35!
CHUCKLES
Good to see you have such
confidence in our children.
A stable family
home is obviously
what we both advocate for.
But, may I remind you, for all
my client's children, present,
and future included...
Oh, congratulations,
by the way. First scan.
Now, to that end, my client
is willing for your client
to buy him out.
I mean, he has got to leave
this marriage with something.
We bought that house...
With money that was left
to us both, Hannah.
By my great-aunt.
Uh-uh. A point of
little interest to the courts.
It should also be noted
that your client
is considerably
better off than my client,
with considerable shares,
which we are confident,
Hannah,
that you can draw on
any time, if needed.
First, pushing for me
to sell and now...
..robbing the family silver
to do it.
Classy, Nathan.
CHUCKLES: Really...
..classy.
Yes, and we'd like to get
a lick on it.
There is nothing like
a new baby
to remind one
that time only moves
in one direction.
And I know that Nathan and Kate are
keen to set down roots.
Hannah... Don't talk to me.
Hannah, we have to rub along
together
for at least the next 48 hours.
What, you're still coming camping?
He's my brother-in-law as well.
That's touching.
It's very touching.
Can we stop this, please?
None of this
is our finest hour.
Then why did you hire Melanie if you
didn't want a dogfight?
This is... This is really
the way you want to play it?
My lawyer has advised me...
Your lawyer gives bad advice.
Can we just not talk about it
at least till after
the camping trip?
I want to be there.
I'd like to be there.
Unless you'd prefer me
to get the train down?
Is there even a train? Do you even
know where we're going?
Do you?
Countryside.
But the good news is that,
um,
Liv and Gael
are hitching a ride
with Ronnie and Mum -
they're still not talking.
Ronnie's got Gael
lugging camping gear.
First scan?
Blurry.
But it looked in keeping
with the last three, so...
Must have been a...relief.
I have to live.
I have to build a home...
..a house, somehow.
You can't move into hers?
Oh, no.
Too many plants.
I can pick you up if...
That's all right.
I can make my way to yours.
Rose said about, erm...
Erm, yeah, 7am.
OK.
Nathan, do you have
that five minutes now?
Yeah, sure. Yes.
Well, it's not actually with
me, but I'll walk you down.
If you have anything else
to add,
I'd prefer it if you went
through my lawyer.
I'd actually, er, like
a private word, please.
Um, in your...in your office,
if that's OK.
Uh...
This is all very novel.
That's sweet.
I've always been fascinated
by the way people bring
their home life to work.
We've got a very strict policy
at Aickman's.
I once fired a junior partner
for having a furry gonk
stuck to his phone.
OK. Please.
Melanie, shall I... Shall I go
first?
Yes, I regret
all my past indiscretions.
No, we are not back together.
Yes, the last few months
have given me time to reflect.
No, I do not regret not having
a child with Christie.
Oh, well, that's something
we're in agreement on,
although the... The gene mix
might have been interesting.
Which brings me to why I'm here.
I need some legal advice...
CHUCKLES
..because,
unlike you, Hannah...
..I did go through
with the unplanned...
..Rory, who's now 35 and does
something in finance.
What does he want?
I don't know.
A mother's love.
But I suspect he's made contact
because of my growing media profile.
I need you to pay him off.
And if you can stop it
tipping into six figures,
I'd appreciate it.
Why are you not talking to
your dispute resolution team?
You're an independent
professional...
..and this is
an exceedingly private matter.
And I'd hardly call us friends.
I'd go as far as to say...
I never trust people
who don't have enemies.
It's a mark of an unlived life.
And to be frank, Hannah...
..I know every grimy little
detail of your private affairs,
which I'm quite sure
you don't want getting out.
And if it makes you feel
any better,
there are times
when we all need a lawyer
to advocate for us
when you don't have the
strength to fight for yourself.
Is that how you hook
your clients, then?
Nathan...
Nathan has his doubts.
So it's up to me to ensure
he gets what he deserves.
What he deserves?
A chance to start a new life.
Isn't that what you want too?
I think we all know those clients
for which divorce is sometimes
subterfuge.
In fact, an often very
expensive reset on a marriage
which discovers
it still has life.
But if you're honest
with yourself, Hannah,
truly honest...
..that is not you and Nathan.
You just need
to weather the storm.
I want you to meet him on my
behalf. Let's call it a favour.
But this is your son.
Well, do I pay
for one ill-judged night
for the rest of my life?
Ah, it's been too long.
Thank you for this.
I can give you 15 minutes.
Great.
Er, Ruth will have brought
you up to speed.
Been tracking down this man
for several weeks.
And now that we've found
him, we need to issue divorce
and financial proceedings.
We'd like to serve papers
ASAP,
but in order to protect
the interests
of any others
inadvertently involved...
You need a freezing injunction.
By the end of the day.
Wait, these are
Zander's accounts.
The ex is Tyler.
It's important this never gets out.
Ruth and I approached you
as someone we could trust.
I can have a position
statement by four,
if you get me the brief
by noon.
Great. Thank you.
You well?
I'm well.
New York suits you. It does.
I can't do this.
Nathan...
You broke up my marriage.
Well, not entirely.
Nathan...
Congratulations, by the way.
What, for me or you?
Seriously? Really?
Oh, God.
You won, Christie.
Congratulations.
I'm right, yeah? You and
Hannah, you're together?
Oh. She's too good for you.
Don't fuck it up.
Well, the jury's still out.
Oh, come on.
This was always the way
this was going to go.
Oh, yeah? Then how come you're the
one who got to have kids?
Do you really think
you'd have stuck around
if you'd had a kid together?
You got a life with her,
Nathan.
Don't I get to have one
with her now?
I'll have this done
by the end of play.
How long are you going
to be like this?
Gael?
I left my family,
I left my friends,
I left my flat...for you,
and I stay here with you,
with your...
..weird, crazy family.
And I'm thinking,
"Why am I staying
with these people
"who are all breaking
into bits?"
Why am I carrying
a fucking box of shit
to go to some stupid place for a
dead guy I don't even know?
I do all of this for you,
and you get drunk
and you piss me off.
I just...
I don't care
about this stupid douche
with the guitar,
who can't even play.
I care you make me feel crap.
Gael...
No. No.
Break into pieces
if you have to.
Be like your family.
But one day, Liv, you have
to make life without them.
Love someone...
..even as much as them.
Maybe more.
And I don't know if that is me.
Liv, roller skates
circa 1995...?
SOBS
What's going wrong?
It's all going wrong.
It's all going wrong.
LIV SOBS
ROSE SHUSHES
SOBBING CONTINUES
Hi. Hi.
I'm meeting up
with Zander later.
Will you, um...?
Tell him?
Over dinner tonight.
I'll call you as soon as I have.
Mm-hm. If I can,
I'll come to yours tonight.
If not, if I'm...if I'm
worried about him...
What, you think he's going to...?
No.
But I need to know he's going to be
all right. Mm.
I'm going to be honest.
I'm just going to say...
Say what?
I want to start
the rest of my life.
EXHALES
BOTH LAUGH
Don't. Don't be scared.
Oh, you're not scared?
No, I'm... I'm...
I'm not entirely not...
BOTH LAUGH
Terrified!
I'd better get these back. Yeah.
The transfer. I can... I can
transfer the full amount.
No. 50/50.
I'll transfer my half tonight,
RUTH: Nina, your two o'clock
is here.
Er, coming.
Nina?
I will leave
my letter of resignation
on his desk tonight.
EXHALES
All right?
Get a grip, buddy.
It's going to be OK.
JJ.
Akay. Yes?
Can you see Mr Johnson
and Mr Samuelson
through to boardroom nine?
There's no need.
Leni, I'm your brother.
I think we can all agree
that the psychologist's report
was nothing if not fair.
And, well, it clearly shows...
Certain concerns.
Namely?
That Miss Hale
is not being as honest
as she could be - reference
to Miss Hale's distraction.
Miss Hale is a very busy
woman, and every mother...
Can't always be there.
But we believe
that the report,
while clearly highlighting
Miss Hale's devotion
to her sons
and commitment to her family,
demonstrates that, of late, she
has been, as said, distracted.
We can reassure you,
Mr Samuelson,
that your wife...
Three trips taken
to Switzerland
between March of last year...
At least lie.
At least say it was for work.
It was for work. I had a call
late last night from Martin,
concerned.
He should never have called you...
He's your colleague and friend.
You've resigned.
Leni?
You love surgery.
It doesn't make sense.
I want the truth.
This is me.
I love you.
We celebrated 20 years
together
only a few months ago.
What was that?
A last hurrah?
Because you've been
preparing to exit this marriage
for the last year,
moving money around,
transferring assets,
setting up a trust fund
for the boys,
and hiding it from me.
You've executed your exit
with such a level of care
over the last 12 months,
Leni...
Organised your finances
so that you're asking
for nothing.
Bar the apartment,
which, as you'll see...
Which you've also transferred
into the boys' names.
So I would question
how you intend to live,
Miss Hale,
with so little actual finance
beyond your pension.
That question isn't relevant.
A judge still needs
to approve this.
Then it's just because
you don't love me any more?
We're done, then.
Just tell me
what I need to sign.
DOOR OPENS
DOOR CLOSES
Leni?
You've resigned.
It's...magical...
..to be able to give people
back the chance of life
when all hope is gone.
Sometimes you have to
accept
when you can't do something
any more.
You were right.
So I resigned.
This is getting too hard
to hide.
The weakness in my hands,
the muscle cramps and twitches...
And the trips to Zurich.
Are you doing
what I think you're doing,
Leni?
You don't want to end
your marriage.
This is you controlling
the end of your life.
Pre-emptive strikes
to secure
your children's future,
Felix's future.
You're visiting a clinic.
I've hidden it
for as long as I can.
I just can't hide
the rapid decline.
ZANDER: Oh, my God. Leni...
I won't be...like our father.
I can't let this disease
take me the way it did him,
gasping for breath,
as we watched him die.
I can't do that
to you, Felix or the boys.
Why didn't you tell me?
The trips to Zurich are...?
To a clinic. No.
It's just that dying
is not the only way.
You have a life still to live.
Not for me.
You can't...
I can.
I will.
It's what I want.
How long have you known...
..about Leni's illness?
Since she first came to see
me.
But I didn't realise that meant
she had thoughts
of ending her life.
When we were children,
my father used to say...
.."The man who can keep
a secret may be wise,
"but he is not half as wise
"as the man
with no secrets to keep."
Hmm.
We would say,
"Yes, Pops, we'll never lie."
But everyone has secrets,
don't they?
If only the ones they keep
from themselves.
Are you going to be
much longer?
Maybe another hour.
I hear you're going camping.
Yep.
Rekindling of holidays of old.
Nina said.
Have a good time.
OK, maybe we could get
takeout?
For God's sake, Tyler,
I don't care!
I don't care
what we eat tonight!
Fine.
Zander...
..you all right?
Uh-huh.
FAINT CHILDREN'S VOICES
Hello?
GLEN: I'm in the kitchen.
Hey.
Hi.
Tali is refusing
to do her schoolwork.
Betty and Marni
have gone maverick
and are eating cold pasta
and refusing to get down
from the back wall.
You've got something just...
Oh, for...
Um...
This was a mistake.
Yeah...
And what was a slight stain
is now
like a small map
of the former USSR.
Why? Erm...
I've got nothing to talk about.
Just be yourself.
What, a more than slightly
dishevelled, overworked,
fading father of three,
whose main focus is stopping
the winos from pissing up
the church wall
and Pet Paws on repeat?
I'm in.
CHUCKLES
Movie?
It's her choice,
possibly French.
You're a pushover.
She'll be loving you already.
CHILD YELLS
Hey!
Hey, guys. Oh! Go, go.
Eat crap. Read subtitles.
It'll be great.
OK, so...who wants to play
with some roller skates?
Me!
These were mine
when I was your age.
SIGHS
Oh, damn.
You weren't meant
to be back yet.
Oh, well, never mind.
What do you think?
Oh, my God.
I got the seats at auction.
Yeah. Yeah.
Original leather upholstery.
And, erm, a new fender.
Reworked.
Roof still goes up.
CHUCKLES
You might have to shove it a bit.
Ronnie, I can't do this.
Oh, yes, of course.
You're... You're tired.
Well, never mind...
No, this.
I can't.
What? You don't like it?
No, it's beautiful.
It's magnificent.
But it doesn't work like this.
Life isn't there to be renovated.
I'm too old, and it's too late.
I'm sorry.
I can't marry you.
I can't do this.
SIGHS
You heading out?
Mm. In a minute.
I've got drinks with a client.
Oh. I'll see you first thing.
Weather looks like...
Shite?
I know I've not always
impressed you
with my choices, Hannah.
I know I walk in your shadow.
I do. I do.
But you have to let me do
this.
I've left
my letter of resignation
on Zander's desk.
My life.
Night. Night.
LINE RINGS
HANNAH: Hi.
Hey. Good, I caught you.
Will I see you later?
SIGHS: Christie...
Come on, you owe me
for one more night.
Huh?
SIGHS
I saw Nathan today.
He, uh, needed some advice.
First my mother and now
my soon-to-be ex-husband.
He's starting a new life.
Hannah, maybe you can too.
I'm serious -
move to New York with me.
EXHALES
Come live with me, Hannah.
What, upending my children
and...
..selling my house?
Find a new house!
A new life.
With me.
Hannah?
But let's not waste
any more time.
I have to go.
Hannah...
I've got drinks with a client.
SHE SIGHS
OK, OK, I'll see you tonight.
Bye.
Judging by the fact
that it's you
and not my mother here,
I don't think we need
to make small talk.
I'm sorry.
Me too.
Miss Aickman would like
to give you this.
She hopes that it will go
some way
to compensate for...
Her absence?
For any harm you may
have experienced at all.
No harm,
just a genuine desire
to know her.
It's a large sum.
I can't comment.
Right.
So she doesn't want to know
anything about me, then?
Pity...
..because...
..she's actually
a grandmother.
I wanted to thank her,
actually.
You did?
For giving me away.
Because my parents
were amazing,
truly amazing.
And I have had - am having -
a good life.
You could just call it
the last piece of the puzzle
I needed to try
and put in place.
Because, like it or not,
it's been missing.
A scrap of the past you keep
looking for everywhere else.
Uh, no. No, it's on us.
"Us"?
Thank you.
Tell her
I won't bother her again.
By the door to the left.
Paparazzi.
He sold me out to the press.
Rory?
After my father.
He was
a vindictive little shit too.
Ready now?
I just need to grab my jacket.
I sat in on a meeting
with Leni and Felix today.
He thinks it's someone else,
some illicit affair.
Maybe met at work.
No-one planned it, but...
..as much as you try,
as hard as you try...
..it's not what you want.
Because when you look
at that person and imagine
spending the rest of your life
with them...
..you just can't.
Zander...
..this is...
It's no-one's fault.
You... You and I.
It was... It was crazy.
OK?
It was fast.
You know, and I... I...
I do this,
you know, I overcommit,
I overpromise.
But I thought...
..no, I hoped,
gosh, that with you,
it... It would be different.
You have one hour
to go to the apartment, pack...
You take nothing
from this office,
or I call security now.
Have you been
to a meeting lately, Tyler?
It's... It's nothing to do...
And Nina?
Are you screwing
with her sobriety too?
CALMLY:
How long have you known?
Maybe from the start.
Maybe from the moment
I met you...
..I knew
this is what you would do.
And this is where you say...
I... I love her.
You know...
STAMMERS
..I genuinely think
you believe that.
One hour...
..or I call the police
and tell Nina and anyone else
who's interested...
..everything.
You'll find
all our joint accounts
have been frozen,
and you can't access
my credit cards.
SHOUTS: Get out!
Get out of my life.
EXHALES
CHRISTIE: I'm not sure
if I was meant to have kids.
I should have told you.
I should've given you a
choice.
Imagine...
..we start all over again.
CLOCK TICKS SOFTLY
FOOTSTEPS APPROACH
FLOORBOARDS CREAK
THUD
Oh, God!
You would make a terrible
spy.
Oh.
Don't ask.
Well, it turns out
I quite like French films.
Mais bien sur.
There just wasn't that...
Je ne sais quoi.
Oh, sorry.
Dead-min.
Oh, none of my business.
Yeah.
EXHALES
I got a letter from the wife
of the guy
who got James's heart.
Is it terrible that I hate...
..that there's another person
walking around with his heart?
Like, I should be glad, right?
Like...
..grateful that,
out of his death,
someone else gets
the chance of life.
But I'm not. I can't...
I'm not. I can't get over it.
I don't know
how to get over this.
Him. I...
I don't know how to accept
he's gone now, to...
..live my new...life.
SIGHS
Stop trying.
Accept it all.
Just...take it as it comes.
Hmm?
I still have mornings
when I...
I crawl back into bed
after I've got the kids off.
Days when
I am raging at her because...
..she's not there...
..for the sports day
or the lost tooth or...
Or just have that argument
about which box set to watch.
I've stopped trying
not to miss her now...
..because I accept
that missing her is a part
of how I get on with my life.
Loss is a part of life, Rose.
You ever been
to Postman's Park?
Er...no.
There's a mural there
in memory of those who...
..gave their lives
to save others.
You should go and see it...
..one day.
It's beautiful.
Not terrible.
But he saved a life.
Mm.
CHRISTIE: You did, you did!
You were sitting there,
two rows in front of me,
and you were always so keen
to get the first question in.
And it was... It was...
It was...
Introduction to tort law.
Yes, tort law!
CHRISTIE LAUGHS DOWNSTAIRS
I tried talking to you,
and you... You just looked
straight through me.
No, that's not...
That's not true.
You walked away.
Oh, shit. No, I did!
I did. You did.
And you left me to the mercies of...
An auburn-haired girl.
Yeah!
Yeah, I think... I think
he took it really well.
Zander?
SOBS
Oh, my God, and then I lost
my whole summer...
Yeah, and your heart.
No.
No, cos my heart
was always yours.
CLANKING
Now what?
VINNIE SPEAKS UPSTAIRS
WHISPERS: Now, you see,
in New York...
In New York,
I've got a deaf lady above me
and a New York symphony
pianist below me,
so we can talk all night
and nobody cares -
nobody can hear us.
MOCKS: "In New York.
In New York."
In New York. "In New York..."
MUSIC
# And I know things have to change
# And I've been going in circles all
of these nights... #
You'll have to go quietly.
Yes!
Think about New York.
I mean it.
DOOR OPENS
DOOR CLOSES
It's just...
EXHALES
VINNIE: Love you, Til.
TILLY: Love you, Vinnie.
DOOR CLOSES
# And we grow
# And the seasons know
# There's a quiet that
shows in the space between
# And our fire
# No longer bright
# Is out of sight
# And we both know
# And I've been going in circles
# All of these nights
# Trying to find a way back home...
#