Call Me Emanuelle (2022) Movie Script
(dramatic instrumental music)
(dramatic instrumental music)
(whimsical whistling)
(whimsical whistling continues)
(dramatic ambient music)
She wonders,
strange account, forgotten skin,
unaware of what's to come.
The danger,
the corruption,
desire of love.
To taste oblivion of ecstasy,
a race of lust, love,
and power.
Isn't it always about power?
Come on, Emmy.
Focus.
Be present now.
You're still here.
You're still you.
Be here.
But the project's due,
days past due.
The Takamoto suits are still
waiting for the reports, Emmy.
A little unfinished business perhaps.
Your performance leaves
much to be desired.
Why?
No, sir.
I swear I have them right here.
Why don't you respectfully
shove these stats
straight up your...(laughs)
(dramatic music continues)
I can hear you talking to yourself.
I know.
So hear.
It's unbecoming.
You think too much, Sam.
My work stays where it belongs.
So says absent husband
traveling the globe
for his government overlords.
I told you,
when they call, I go.
It's the nature of these operations.
When you are gone, I feel...
[Sam] You feel what baby?
Older.
Like time is an open field
and I'm walking toward a tree
out there in the distance.
I can almost touch it,
like a dream.
Are you high again?
But you're not in the dream.
I'm tall in the dream,
towering over the world,
as if I figured it all out.
Like staring over the field of corpses,
and,
I'm alive.
Reborn.
Talk and talk and talk.
Absence gives both a choice
and to things to resolve.
Will you face older me?
Do you see this ring?
Stop doubting.
Stop thinking about work or fidelity.
How about we finish what we started.
You didn't answer my question.
Are you joking?
(dramatic music increases)
Let's go.
(soft instrumental music)
You didn't...
Too much stress.
I don't think I can.
It's not you.
Those dreams about life passing you by?
They're not real.
I'm real.
Are you?
I can't feel anymore.
Maybe I've forgotten how to feel pleasure.
(distorted soul music)
("Give it up" plays)
You got my attention baby
And I can't make a move
Like a child that's starved for love
I'll stay there as long as I have to
I'll cry a river of tears
That flows to the sea
Baby if you run away
Baby if you leave
I'm so in love with you girl
You make me feel brand new
Come on give it up to me yeah
Let me take care of you
I know that your mama said
I'm gonna make you cry all night
I cry a river of tears
That flows to the sea
Baby if you run away
Baby if you leave
(eerie ambient music plays)
(Emmy sighs)
(Emmy breathing heavily)
(knocking)
Dan.
Emmy.
When I woke up this morning,
I was thinking to myself,
"How am I gonna get the two of you"
"to be able to produce more?"
Now I even thought about it over my,
my morning java,
and yes,
that's what I call it.
Java.
Because that's what it is.
Java.
(slurping coffee)
Takimoto Corporation executives
are looking for results,
with a hard R.
We can't be cowering
behind the status quo,
like runts,
hiding in the shadows.
We need to be out there
converting the base.
That would make us losers.
Dark Gill is not a company of losers.
Are we losers?
Daniel?
No, uh, not at all.
Uh, in fact, sir um, I,
I pulled some new numbers
using a related search query,
and uh, you know,
it's from the beginning of the campaign
and it includes the 18 to 35 demographic
and it's pretty interesting
information I think.
(boss hushing)
I can guarantee you one thing.
I'm not losing a goddamn pinky finger
over bad numbers, over a bad deal.
We are in the marketing business.
We're not in the finger-losing business.
That would make us losers.
Uh I think
[Boss] That...
I think what Danny's trying to say is
Try?
Did you say try?
We, we, we don't try.
The Takimoto Corporation
executives didn't hire us to try.
(distorted background static continues)
They hired us to deliver
the goddamn goods,
and if we don't nail it,
they're gonna be serving our
finger size hors d'oeuvres
to our successors.
I've been working with our video editor
and social media team,
and there's been great progress.
New, fresh and sexy in a
way that hasn't been done.
I like that.
Sexy, sexy.
Sexual,
sensual.
(upbeat funk music plays)
And stroke the teat of possibilities.
Stroke,
the teat,
of possibilities.
We got one shot to nail this.
And I'll tell you one thing,
it ain't gonna be my pinky
that's gonna be sacrificed.
So ante up.
Both of yous.
And let's make this
the best
producing campaign that we've ever done.
Clear?
Clear.
Emmy,
bear with me.
We will satisfy their
expectations no matter what.
But I need to know, are you with me?
I'm trying more than you know.
I want you to do one thing with me.
The silver back gorilla is a beast.
I want you to channel
the silver back gorilla.
Do what I do.
(deep exhaling)
(imitating gorilla hooting)
(all imitating gorilla hooting)
(boss screams)
(boss screams)
(moves to distorted scream)
You got to got to stay all night
Give it to me got to be all right
(eerie dissonant music)
(speaks foreign language)
What?
(discordant ambient sounds)
Emmy, are you okay?
Yeah.
I'm fine.
(thud)
I want to feel again,
but I'm falling.
I'm always falling.
What's holding you back, Em?
You know, I'm holding myself back.
From what?
The heights of passion.
(tense electronic music)
(tense electronic music continues)
I heard that was quite a tumble.
You hit your head.
Oh, how did I...
Some guy, there was an ambulance,
the whole nine yards and then some.
Daniel, Danny, EMT said
it was a panic attack.
You need to make that
appointment with Dr. Harran.
He's a bit unorthodox,
but he helped Ron out of
that real mental slump.
I mean, there are other ways too,
but they can be risky.
Emmy?
(eerie ambient sound)
("Something Good" plays)
Oh my pretty baby
Oh my sweety baby
I just can't believe I'm yours
Every day I look at you and I think
I must've done something
good to deserve you
I'm not superstitious
It's just a suspicion
But I feel it in my bones
I feel it ever since the day we met
I just do
I must've done something
good to deserve you
Perhaps I was a doctor saving
people's lives in nature
Oh yeah I must've done something good
Perhaps I was a pirate
and I donated my treasure
Oh yeah, I must've done something good
Or maybe I was kind and
rewinded all my videos
Oh yeah I must have
done something good.
But anyway I hope that you
don't think that I'm delirious
Oh yeah I must have
done something good
'Cos baby when we kiss I
feel that sort of bliss
I didn't really think exists
I feel it
Call it what you like
I don't really mind
As long as it's something
good with you baby
I must have, I must have, I must have
Done something good
I must have, I must have, I must have
Done something good
And even if you're skeptical
And you don't believe in my mind
You must admit that it's a miracle
That we have found each other
'Cos while we have a baby
You only get once in a lifetime
So please don't call me crazy
There you are.
Don't.
You think, you think that's me?
You shouldn't have seen that.
What the hell is going on?
Are you cheating?
Cheating?
You don't really understand.
I can explain.
No.
I've seen enough.
Emmy, all these years and now this?
You slimy man.
This is you!
Your business trips.
You probably screwed half of Europe,
and she's half your age.
Where is your decency?
But we're married.
This is just a show.
A performance, a ceremony.
You haven't acted in years.
There's no emotional connection.
It's their ascension.
Shakara Baraku.
They call themselves Shakara.
It's about self growth, Em.
(eerie music builds)
I trusted you.
It's about self growth, Em.
Tell me the truth.
I was gonna tell you about it.
I'm done with you Sam.
I'm too old for this... ascension.
Sorry.
Don't you apologize.
You seem to be doing
very well for yourself.
I'm sure there are plenty of 22 year olds
who's gonna love you to death.
The only thing it's ascending
is little fucking guy in pants!
(eerie music intensifies)
It's not like that.
We could have made a life,
a loving life.
Get out.
Now you've seen the video.
They'll know.
You rise, or you fall.
Just let me...
Why can't you trust me?
(metallic ambient sounds)
(funky "Happy Birthday" plays)
(funky "Happy Birthday" continues)
(drain gurgles)
Don't you really like this?
Another dream.
You cannot taste me in a dream.
And I taste so good.
(glasses clink)
Oh.
I wanna try everything with you.
(giggles)
Golly, do you want one too?
[Emmy] Yeah, please.
Open that beautiful mouth.
I just wanna eat you up.
What are you waiting for?
(glasses clink)
(jazz mood music)
Let's take this thing here.
(laughter)
Wow.
You're beautiful.
You are too.
(jazz mood music continues)
Bye darling.
Another double.
Double trouble?
I tend to make trouble.
Ah, the charming stranger
who courts trouble.
Do you like Japanese whisky?
I never tried.
Would you like to try?
I have a rare bottle of
Yomanika 1954, single barrel.
Apparently it's delicious,
and creamy.
How can I refuse you?
Ah, I guess I'm too nice.
You like it?
Who wrote that?
I did.
Normally I don't write poetry,
but when the muse beckons right?
I'd never show any of my
friends back home though.
They won't get it.
Well?
I'm marvelous.
(giggles)
I mean it's marvelous.
Well hello marvelous.
I'm Cody Danny.
Pleasure.
Pleasure indeed, Cody Danny.
Another one, Cody.
(Cody sighs)
Thank you.
Sure.
So you've always been here?
Ah, been in town since June.
Doing grad work at the moment over at LAC.
Religious philosophy,
divinity and suffering.
That must make for heavy pillow talk.
Hmm, I'm too tied up
in the caverns of the ancient mystics.
They slept in caves,
probably without pillows.
Doesn't leave much time to play, you know.
[Woman] Cody, another please.
You sure want another double?
You seem a bit beyond buzzed there.
I think a lot to process.
It was nice meeting you.
Maybe I will return.
Well, a poem upon leaving.
I memorized it from one of our patrons.
Her beauty,
a swan in the golden light,
The flutter of an embrace,
a longing realized in the
thrust of their hearts beating,
as two soft drums,
like tight spirals of rope unwinding,
thrusting in the night.
Hush little baby,
don't say a word,
Mama's gonna buy you a mocking bird.
And if that mocking don't sing,
Momma's gonna buy you a diamond ring.
(suspenseful ethereal music)
(phone buzzes)
Hello?
[Man] Master says that
love's a form of sacrifice.
Some believe it is a
light that is so bright
that the human eye perceives
it as pure darkness.
Who is this?
[Man] When the master calls,
the student has already become air,
become wind,
become strength.
I don't know what you're talking about.
(eerie instrumental music)
(eerie instrumental music continues)
(eerie instrumental music continues)
Just continue to breathe.
Put your wrists together.
(eerie instrumental music continues)
Breathe.
Breathe.
There's nothing to fear.
Nirvana is not your enemy.
Nirvana is your friend.
Do you trust me?
(Both chanting)
Close your eyes and continue
(bell chimes)
(eerie instrumental music continues)
(lounge music plays)
It's just, sometimes you meet a person,
and you realize there's
a special side to them,
that speaks to you.
Like destiny, revealing itself.
You are a poet aren't you?
Hey, I need a beret,
and I need to start
smoking French cigarettes.
It's never too late to
enjoy life's forbidden fruits.
To new beginnings.
Would you like to invite me over?
I'd love to invite you over.
Ensnared.
It's a date.
There's electricity here.
It's your lucky day, Emmy.
(sniggers)
Uh how'd you know my name?
Lucky guess.
A storm approaches,
a storm expanding from the head.
And moving down,
to the center,
of the universe.
(sniggering)
- Think he needs a drink.
Do you know him?
(sighing)
Just a regular.
Whisky sour.
For good health and holy chicara.
Keep your hands together.
Together!
(gasping)
You are strong.
Do you understand?
You can do this.
(ominous music)
I can't!
- Do not fight!
- I can't.
- Look at me.
- No.
- Listen to me,
and look in my eyes.
You are strong.
You are a strong woman.
- [Emmy] I can't.
- [Man] You can.
- [Emmy] I can't
- [Man] You can!
Yes!
(Emmy crying)
Yes! Yes!
(upbeat funk music)
We have much work to do.
You are a strong woman.
- [Emmy] I can't.
- You can!
[Emmy] I can't!
(upbeat funk music continues)
(snaps fingers)
[Bartender] Ah.
(footsteps)
(doorbell chimes)
- [Emmy] Hi.
- Hey.
Come on in.
For you, young lady.
Wow. Thank you.
You're welcome.
Cats are grubbing.
They're beautiful, right?
You live in a great
neighborhood too by the way.
I was driving up here
looking at the houses.
I love the houses up here.
- [Emmy] Yes.
- And then, your place.
Whoa!
Wow!
It's, it's pretty awesome.
I needed to make sure you're real.
I'm am.
I'm tense (laughing). I'm real tense.
I mean I'm real too, real, real, real.
Ah, I'm talking too much, aren't I?
(light instrumental music)
Would you like some wine?
Uh yes, yes.
Wine.
Yeah.
Awesome. It is a
passionate poison (laughing).
Good boys always take their medicine.
And you got it ready for me too.
Poured yourself two
drinks for yourself already?
All right.
Cheers.
Yes. Cheers.
(both laughing)
Wow.
Mmmm mmmm.
It's great.
That kiss was great by the way, too.
Speaking of taste,
I haven't been with a woman in so long
I forgot what it tastes
like to kiss a woman,
and to smell a woman,
and just be with a woman,
and I'm talking too much again.
So I'll drink some more.
Well, sometimes forgetting
is what allows us to move on, right?
Yeah I'll drink to that (laughs).
Cheers.
- Cheers.
What are you trying to forget?
All of the things I should have learned,
but I didn't.
And now I guess it's
drowning my own trauma.
Hmm, that's a downer (laughs).
Oh shit! You can see
the stars from up here.
Oh my God!
How did I not see that
on the drive over here?
I was looking at all the
houses and stuff like, wow,
those are... Whoo.
They've been brighter, but stranger.
Wow.
Still now lucky two are,
to see stars and shit.
All the time I lived here.
You know it's funny I wasn't
allowed to date in high school.
My folks are extremely religious.
Like hellfire and
brimstone religious, right?
Probably see all this star stuff
as some kind of religious
freaking... I don't know.
Anyway, ah, I just pretty
much kept to myself
'cos of all that.
And then college came
right after obviously,
and, I was just so damn busy.
Never went out.
What do you feel like you missed out?
Oh, nah.
I made my own meaning of things,
But love, lust.
I always felt like I was on the outside.
You know, just on the outskirts.
A monster.
Are you some kind of sexual coach?
Not quite, but let's just say
I'm going through some adjustments.
Oh, you've learned to
navigate your fantasies.
Well, I don't know if
I've gotten there yet,
but I feel there's a love that exists,
whatever pain or heartache we feel.
Beyond heartache.
Tearing open one's memory.
A need.
Do you need me Cody?
(laughing) Hell, I don't know.
I do want you though.
- Can I kiss you again?
- Yeah, please.
(upbeat blues music)
I think you shocked any
sexual trauma out of me.
I feel good!
(laughing)
Like totally healed.
Well, let's consider it a start.
(laughing) A start, okay.
Oh man.
Ugh.
Oh shit. I gotta go.
I gotta present a seminar in the morning.
You're leaving?
Yeah.
Hey, what?
(sniggers)
Is there something you're not telling me?
Serial killer.
Close, but no.
I'm shedding my skin.
- That I don't understand.
- My ex.
The sash is something left
behind, and maybe something,
I think, coming around the bend.
[Cody] Okay girl,
you're speaking tongues.
- I like tongues.
- [Cody] Yeah.
- Are you lying to me?
- [Cody] About what?
Having to grant seminar in the morning.
Uh, I'll be done by lunch.
I'll surprise you.
I wanna keep us quiet so text will work.
Okay. How long do we have to wait?
Close your eyes, and dream of me.
And I'm there in the dream.
I'm there in the dream
where the student becomes the teacher
and you'll be knocking on my door.
In the blink of an eye,
just,
believe.
(upbeat pop music)
Don't you think like that
I will love you finally
If you'll only believe me
If you'll only believe me
Don't you think like that
I will love you endlessy
If you'll only believe me
Don't you think like that
I will love you endlessy
If you'll only believe me
Yeah, so after that trip to
Hume Lake on the way back, um,
it was just a long bus drive,
I can't remember,
I think like eight hours and
we sat in the back together
and that's when our first kiss happened
and that's how it started at least.
Oh, and then what?
She was your holy virgin?
She was my only girlfriend (laughing).
(laughing) That's impressive.
Um, how so?
Because you're attractive, sociable,
intelligent, and hypnotizing.
(laughing) You've fallen under my spell.
Are we in a fairy tale?
Eh, we need an enchanted object.
(slow romantic music)
Off with your pants.
Hey.
That thing's not a wand.
The princess has been practicing.
(speaks foreign language)
What's um (stutters) chikara?
(jarring metallic ambient sound)
Chikara
[Woman] This is what I.
stay in the sand.
Our lives are black with splinters.
You both passed the latest test.
(woman's voice continues
in the background)
But your journey is not complete.
[Woman] Constantly
being pulled and pulled
to make this last decision.
I told you, you were strong.
(slow electronic music)
Damn. Like, an awakening.
Much better.
A calling.
A calling from the depths of the heart.
After a certain shift in my life,
I've come to want to explore myself.
I've never explored.
Sexually, I mean.
You should.
You wanna try something with me?
Try?
What secrets lie within your true self?
I don't know if I can.
Touch it.
And follow the feeling of your body.
We can find freedom together.
We can create it.
Kiss me here.
(gentle ethereal music)
Tell me you'll never cheat.
I'll never cheat.
Do you trust me?
I trust you.
Shine your light on our skin
Find the way
Four kings.
Wise men bring their gifts of gold.
Sweet perfume and precious world.
Holy anointing
Glory
Gloria
So, how did it feel?
(Cody laughs)
Can you feel the current?
They're reaching out to us.
Who?
The older.
You can't feel them?
No (laughing).
Hey, look to your right.
(chuckles)
So, will there be a next time?
I,
(stammers) I think I need to be alone.
What the fuck?
So, walk?
What?
It's 10:00 AM.
Did you forget?
Oh, uh, I didn't bring my sneakers.
Okay.
Hey, you've been, you've
been pretty quiet lately.
I was at least expecting a
message or two about Takimoto,
or you know, other things,
but, how are things?
How's life?
Other than wrapping my
brain around this project?
Yeah, you have been getting roped
in to a lot of projects lately.
As long as it's mutually beneficial.
I don't know man.
Meetings with Jones have been
a pain in my ass, but, listen,
there is something I was gonna ask you.
[Woman] Emmy, there's
someone here to see you.
He says it's about the research.
He said it's urgent.
I told him you'd come out.
He said his name's Cody.
Thanks.
What's that all about?
Oh, an old assistant of mine.
I need to take care of this.
Okay.
So what were you gonna ask me?
It's not important.
(dramatic instrumental music)
Cody.
Hey, hope you don't mind.
I just got your text.
You came to my work.
I didn't know you knew the address.
I mean you mentioned,
I looked it up.
What's wrong?
Aren't you happy to see me?
I had fun.
I learned a lot,
but I told you about we
stay in our secret place.
And I told you about the order.
Look, I've been thinking
about what you said,
about being my true self.
And?
The other students at my seminar,
I talk to 'em sometimes,
and they noticed these marks.
Cody, I'm not in college anymore.
Grow up a little.
I didn't hurt you.
You don't know pain.
I need to see you Em,
again. Like tonight.
Please.
Hey, watch the hair man.
You're a sweet young man.
But don't come here without my permission.
Is that clear?
Yes.
And?
And, and I want you to teach me.
How are we going to rectify this?
I made a mistake.
I should have asked permission to see you.
You made a mistake coming here,
but now you beg me to please you.
Tie you up and teach you.
Say it.
- Please forgive me Em.
- Sheesh.
Come over at eight
o'clock sharp tonight,
and be ready.
Can you do that?
Yeah, thank you.
Thank you.
- Good.
Go.
(soft music)
Miles and miles
Go to south
Miles and miles
(indistinct) swept out
We've got salty hair
And summer sheets
Let's go dancing
With the sea
Where the sea is
Oh
- [Emmy] Are you leaving?
- Yeah.
I got another seminar.
This needs to stop.
Why?
I like being with you.
Do you really want to serve me?
Then leave.
No excuses.
No fighting. Just leave.
Let the feeling become you.
This is too much.
I can't do this anymore, Cody.
This is ridiculous.
Em, I...
- Don't call me Em.
Don't your dare look back at me.
(slow romantic music)
(slow ominous music)
(thud)
(man grunts)
(ominous slow ballad)
(upbeat music)
How can this be happening, Sam?
I was waiting for you.
You cheated on me.
Not just in here,
in here.
You had a strength the entire time.
And you kept it from me.
We were already miles apart.
I'm not a teacher.
I'm not like you.
You're stronger than me.
- You could have told me.
You would never have believed me.
Then what?
Fights?
The endless pain and regret?
Hiding the truth sometimes is easier.
- I trusted you.
- Trust?
What is trust?
We exposed ourselves to each other.
That should mean something to you, Sam.
People fall out of love.
It happens, Em.
I didn't think it would be us.
I thought that we would endure.
Look at us.
Where are we?
I don't know.
This is your trip.
Not mine.
You tied her well.
[Sam] We all wanna be secure, don't we?
The joy of being younger,
of being cared for.
You never gave me security.
Tell me what you need.
Please me, one last time.
Our graduation.
And then?
Will you take me back?
(slow and tense orchestral music)
Remember when we met?
Tom's Diner.
Rosewood, right?
I remember when you drove me
home in your 1976 El Dorado.
The world was different then.
Now we're all fragments
living in broken bodies,
broken minds.
Let me come back.
Sorry I hurt you.
Oh Sam,
it doesn't hurt anymore.
It taught me how to grow
wings out of my spine.
And now I can see.
You lied.
I withheld my answer.
That's not lying.
Your strength,
your true strength was
always your restraint.
Maybe she's the one for you Sam.
Your secret lover.
And you seek that life.
Sleep.
(eerie chimes)
(phone vibrating)
[Sam] Em, it's Sam.
Just talk to me.
I think we can make this work,
or come to peace with it.
Please?
Em?
(ominous ambient sounds)
Sam.
You already set me free
I don't wanna be with you anymore.
I made up my mind.
I put the rest of stuff in the box.
You pick up?
And never call me again.
[Sam] But...
Set me free
Come on, little girl
[Cody] What do you want?
Do you still have that whisky?
Enough for two glasses.
Pour yourself one, and pour me one.
You broke my heart.
Cody,
right now,
I'm working some things out.
I'm learning how to be me for
the first time in my life.
I thought you were the one.
Love,
or the illusion of love,
has the ability to alter one's
interpretation of the world.
Nothing's real then.
Do I love you?
Maybe I do.
Maybe I'll come back another time.
When I come back, you'll
be telling me too,
how much I missed you.
I let you inside my soul.
I let you bind me.
And I have a poem that's
yet to be written.
We bound each other.
You wanna show me love?
Let's drink.
I toast,
to tying things up,
and leaving the ropes untangled.
It's okay, Cody.
- I love you God dammit!
It's okay.
Addicted by your eyes
I was empty
(clapping)
Thank you.
Congratulations.
I'm so proud.
Thank you Jake.
Em, that was fantastic.
Everyone is so excited.
The numbers are skyrocketing,
and this is gonna open up
so many new opportunities for the firm.
Your support has been invaluable, Danny.
Every step of the way.
What, what are you doing?
I've seen the way you look at me.
Every word that drips from your
devilishly handsome tongue.
I know you want me.
Lie down on your back.
- What if someone sees us.
- I said lie down.
You're such a stunning creature.
(upbeat funk music)
Who are you?
Call me,
Emmanuelle.
Your woman trying to do her best
Every time your best
friend (indistinct)
If she's kind of strange to you
But she says that you're
her one and only lover
They're talking,
laughing, joking around
And you feel a certain kind of groove
But there're kind of
(indistinct) changes
When you walk into the room
It makes me go ee, ooh, ooh, ooh, ee
The kind of thing that
makes you move, mm, mmm, mmm
It kind of makes you
ee, ooh, ooh, ooh, ee
Those things that make you go
It makes you go mm,
mmmh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Seem like (indistinct)
Those things that make
you go mm, mmm, mmm
Those things that make you go
(upbeat music)
You feel there's something wrong
'Cause their action, you can't defend
But you're afraid to talk about it
Afraid of losing your best friend
Well all the time have you wondered
If they're making a fool of you
And your mind is a world
And you don't go back
to do (indistinct)
It makes me you ee, ooh, ooh, ooh
(dramatic instrumental music)
(whimsical whistling)
(whimsical whistling continues)
(dramatic ambient music)
She wonders,
strange account, forgotten skin,
unaware of what's to come.
The danger,
the corruption,
desire of love.
To taste oblivion of ecstasy,
a race of lust, love,
and power.
Isn't it always about power?
Come on, Emmy.
Focus.
Be present now.
You're still here.
You're still you.
Be here.
But the project's due,
days past due.
The Takamoto suits are still
waiting for the reports, Emmy.
A little unfinished business perhaps.
Your performance leaves
much to be desired.
Why?
No, sir.
I swear I have them right here.
Why don't you respectfully
shove these stats
straight up your...(laughs)
(dramatic music continues)
I can hear you talking to yourself.
I know.
So hear.
It's unbecoming.
You think too much, Sam.
My work stays where it belongs.
So says absent husband
traveling the globe
for his government overlords.
I told you,
when they call, I go.
It's the nature of these operations.
When you are gone, I feel...
[Sam] You feel what baby?
Older.
Like time is an open field
and I'm walking toward a tree
out there in the distance.
I can almost touch it,
like a dream.
Are you high again?
But you're not in the dream.
I'm tall in the dream,
towering over the world,
as if I figured it all out.
Like staring over the field of corpses,
and,
I'm alive.
Reborn.
Talk and talk and talk.
Absence gives both a choice
and to things to resolve.
Will you face older me?
Do you see this ring?
Stop doubting.
Stop thinking about work or fidelity.
How about we finish what we started.
You didn't answer my question.
Are you joking?
(dramatic music increases)
Let's go.
(soft instrumental music)
You didn't...
Too much stress.
I don't think I can.
It's not you.
Those dreams about life passing you by?
They're not real.
I'm real.
Are you?
I can't feel anymore.
Maybe I've forgotten how to feel pleasure.
(distorted soul music)
("Give it up" plays)
You got my attention baby
And I can't make a move
Like a child that's starved for love
I'll stay there as long as I have to
I'll cry a river of tears
That flows to the sea
Baby if you run away
Baby if you leave
I'm so in love with you girl
You make me feel brand new
Come on give it up to me yeah
Let me take care of you
I know that your mama said
I'm gonna make you cry all night
I cry a river of tears
That flows to the sea
Baby if you run away
Baby if you leave
(eerie ambient music plays)
(Emmy sighs)
(Emmy breathing heavily)
(knocking)
Dan.
Emmy.
When I woke up this morning,
I was thinking to myself,
"How am I gonna get the two of you"
"to be able to produce more?"
Now I even thought about it over my,
my morning java,
and yes,
that's what I call it.
Java.
Because that's what it is.
Java.
(slurping coffee)
Takimoto Corporation executives
are looking for results,
with a hard R.
We can't be cowering
behind the status quo,
like runts,
hiding in the shadows.
We need to be out there
converting the base.
That would make us losers.
Dark Gill is not a company of losers.
Are we losers?
Daniel?
No, uh, not at all.
Uh, in fact, sir um, I,
I pulled some new numbers
using a related search query,
and uh, you know,
it's from the beginning of the campaign
and it includes the 18 to 35 demographic
and it's pretty interesting
information I think.
(boss hushing)
I can guarantee you one thing.
I'm not losing a goddamn pinky finger
over bad numbers, over a bad deal.
We are in the marketing business.
We're not in the finger-losing business.
That would make us losers.
Uh I think
[Boss] That...
I think what Danny's trying to say is
Try?
Did you say try?
We, we, we don't try.
The Takimoto Corporation
executives didn't hire us to try.
(distorted background static continues)
They hired us to deliver
the goddamn goods,
and if we don't nail it,
they're gonna be serving our
finger size hors d'oeuvres
to our successors.
I've been working with our video editor
and social media team,
and there's been great progress.
New, fresh and sexy in a
way that hasn't been done.
I like that.
Sexy, sexy.
Sexual,
sensual.
(upbeat funk music plays)
And stroke the teat of possibilities.
Stroke,
the teat,
of possibilities.
We got one shot to nail this.
And I'll tell you one thing,
it ain't gonna be my pinky
that's gonna be sacrificed.
So ante up.
Both of yous.
And let's make this
the best
producing campaign that we've ever done.
Clear?
Clear.
Emmy,
bear with me.
We will satisfy their
expectations no matter what.
But I need to know, are you with me?
I'm trying more than you know.
I want you to do one thing with me.
The silver back gorilla is a beast.
I want you to channel
the silver back gorilla.
Do what I do.
(deep exhaling)
(imitating gorilla hooting)
(all imitating gorilla hooting)
(boss screams)
(boss screams)
(moves to distorted scream)
You got to got to stay all night
Give it to me got to be all right
(eerie dissonant music)
(speaks foreign language)
What?
(discordant ambient sounds)
Emmy, are you okay?
Yeah.
I'm fine.
(thud)
I want to feel again,
but I'm falling.
I'm always falling.
What's holding you back, Em?
You know, I'm holding myself back.
From what?
The heights of passion.
(tense electronic music)
(tense electronic music continues)
I heard that was quite a tumble.
You hit your head.
Oh, how did I...
Some guy, there was an ambulance,
the whole nine yards and then some.
Daniel, Danny, EMT said
it was a panic attack.
You need to make that
appointment with Dr. Harran.
He's a bit unorthodox,
but he helped Ron out of
that real mental slump.
I mean, there are other ways too,
but they can be risky.
Emmy?
(eerie ambient sound)
("Something Good" plays)
Oh my pretty baby
Oh my sweety baby
I just can't believe I'm yours
Every day I look at you and I think
I must've done something
good to deserve you
I'm not superstitious
It's just a suspicion
But I feel it in my bones
I feel it ever since the day we met
I just do
I must've done something
good to deserve you
Perhaps I was a doctor saving
people's lives in nature
Oh yeah I must've done something good
Perhaps I was a pirate
and I donated my treasure
Oh yeah, I must've done something good
Or maybe I was kind and
rewinded all my videos
Oh yeah I must have
done something good.
But anyway I hope that you
don't think that I'm delirious
Oh yeah I must have
done something good
'Cos baby when we kiss I
feel that sort of bliss
I didn't really think exists
I feel it
Call it what you like
I don't really mind
As long as it's something
good with you baby
I must have, I must have, I must have
Done something good
I must have, I must have, I must have
Done something good
And even if you're skeptical
And you don't believe in my mind
You must admit that it's a miracle
That we have found each other
'Cos while we have a baby
You only get once in a lifetime
So please don't call me crazy
There you are.
Don't.
You think, you think that's me?
You shouldn't have seen that.
What the hell is going on?
Are you cheating?
Cheating?
You don't really understand.
I can explain.
No.
I've seen enough.
Emmy, all these years and now this?
You slimy man.
This is you!
Your business trips.
You probably screwed half of Europe,
and she's half your age.
Where is your decency?
But we're married.
This is just a show.
A performance, a ceremony.
You haven't acted in years.
There's no emotional connection.
It's their ascension.
Shakara Baraku.
They call themselves Shakara.
It's about self growth, Em.
(eerie music builds)
I trusted you.
It's about self growth, Em.
Tell me the truth.
I was gonna tell you about it.
I'm done with you Sam.
I'm too old for this... ascension.
Sorry.
Don't you apologize.
You seem to be doing
very well for yourself.
I'm sure there are plenty of 22 year olds
who's gonna love you to death.
The only thing it's ascending
is little fucking guy in pants!
(eerie music intensifies)
It's not like that.
We could have made a life,
a loving life.
Get out.
Now you've seen the video.
They'll know.
You rise, or you fall.
Just let me...
Why can't you trust me?
(metallic ambient sounds)
(funky "Happy Birthday" plays)
(funky "Happy Birthday" continues)
(drain gurgles)
Don't you really like this?
Another dream.
You cannot taste me in a dream.
And I taste so good.
(glasses clink)
Oh.
I wanna try everything with you.
(giggles)
Golly, do you want one too?
[Emmy] Yeah, please.
Open that beautiful mouth.
I just wanna eat you up.
What are you waiting for?
(glasses clink)
(jazz mood music)
Let's take this thing here.
(laughter)
Wow.
You're beautiful.
You are too.
(jazz mood music continues)
Bye darling.
Another double.
Double trouble?
I tend to make trouble.
Ah, the charming stranger
who courts trouble.
Do you like Japanese whisky?
I never tried.
Would you like to try?
I have a rare bottle of
Yomanika 1954, single barrel.
Apparently it's delicious,
and creamy.
How can I refuse you?
Ah, I guess I'm too nice.
You like it?
Who wrote that?
I did.
Normally I don't write poetry,
but when the muse beckons right?
I'd never show any of my
friends back home though.
They won't get it.
Well?
I'm marvelous.
(giggles)
I mean it's marvelous.
Well hello marvelous.
I'm Cody Danny.
Pleasure.
Pleasure indeed, Cody Danny.
Another one, Cody.
(Cody sighs)
Thank you.
Sure.
So you've always been here?
Ah, been in town since June.
Doing grad work at the moment over at LAC.
Religious philosophy,
divinity and suffering.
That must make for heavy pillow talk.
Hmm, I'm too tied up
in the caverns of the ancient mystics.
They slept in caves,
probably without pillows.
Doesn't leave much time to play, you know.
[Woman] Cody, another please.
You sure want another double?
You seem a bit beyond buzzed there.
I think a lot to process.
It was nice meeting you.
Maybe I will return.
Well, a poem upon leaving.
I memorized it from one of our patrons.
Her beauty,
a swan in the golden light,
The flutter of an embrace,
a longing realized in the
thrust of their hearts beating,
as two soft drums,
like tight spirals of rope unwinding,
thrusting in the night.
Hush little baby,
don't say a word,
Mama's gonna buy you a mocking bird.
And if that mocking don't sing,
Momma's gonna buy you a diamond ring.
(suspenseful ethereal music)
(phone buzzes)
Hello?
[Man] Master says that
love's a form of sacrifice.
Some believe it is a
light that is so bright
that the human eye perceives
it as pure darkness.
Who is this?
[Man] When the master calls,
the student has already become air,
become wind,
become strength.
I don't know what you're talking about.
(eerie instrumental music)
(eerie instrumental music continues)
(eerie instrumental music continues)
Just continue to breathe.
Put your wrists together.
(eerie instrumental music continues)
Breathe.
Breathe.
There's nothing to fear.
Nirvana is not your enemy.
Nirvana is your friend.
Do you trust me?
(Both chanting)
Close your eyes and continue
(bell chimes)
(eerie instrumental music continues)
(lounge music plays)
It's just, sometimes you meet a person,
and you realize there's
a special side to them,
that speaks to you.
Like destiny, revealing itself.
You are a poet aren't you?
Hey, I need a beret,
and I need to start
smoking French cigarettes.
It's never too late to
enjoy life's forbidden fruits.
To new beginnings.
Would you like to invite me over?
I'd love to invite you over.
Ensnared.
It's a date.
There's electricity here.
It's your lucky day, Emmy.
(sniggers)
Uh how'd you know my name?
Lucky guess.
A storm approaches,
a storm expanding from the head.
And moving down,
to the center,
of the universe.
(sniggering)
- Think he needs a drink.
Do you know him?
(sighing)
Just a regular.
Whisky sour.
For good health and holy chicara.
Keep your hands together.
Together!
(gasping)
You are strong.
Do you understand?
You can do this.
(ominous music)
I can't!
- Do not fight!
- I can't.
- Look at me.
- No.
- Listen to me,
and look in my eyes.
You are strong.
You are a strong woman.
- [Emmy] I can't.
- [Man] You can.
- [Emmy] I can't
- [Man] You can!
Yes!
(Emmy crying)
Yes! Yes!
(upbeat funk music)
We have much work to do.
You are a strong woman.
- [Emmy] I can't.
- You can!
[Emmy] I can't!
(upbeat funk music continues)
(snaps fingers)
[Bartender] Ah.
(footsteps)
(doorbell chimes)
- [Emmy] Hi.
- Hey.
Come on in.
For you, young lady.
Wow. Thank you.
You're welcome.
Cats are grubbing.
They're beautiful, right?
You live in a great
neighborhood too by the way.
I was driving up here
looking at the houses.
I love the houses up here.
- [Emmy] Yes.
- And then, your place.
Whoa!
Wow!
It's, it's pretty awesome.
I needed to make sure you're real.
I'm am.
I'm tense (laughing). I'm real tense.
I mean I'm real too, real, real, real.
Ah, I'm talking too much, aren't I?
(light instrumental music)
Would you like some wine?
Uh yes, yes.
Wine.
Yeah.
Awesome. It is a
passionate poison (laughing).
Good boys always take their medicine.
And you got it ready for me too.
Poured yourself two
drinks for yourself already?
All right.
Cheers.
Yes. Cheers.
(both laughing)
Wow.
Mmmm mmmm.
It's great.
That kiss was great by the way, too.
Speaking of taste,
I haven't been with a woman in so long
I forgot what it tastes
like to kiss a woman,
and to smell a woman,
and just be with a woman,
and I'm talking too much again.
So I'll drink some more.
Well, sometimes forgetting
is what allows us to move on, right?
Yeah I'll drink to that (laughs).
Cheers.
- Cheers.
What are you trying to forget?
All of the things I should have learned,
but I didn't.
And now I guess it's
drowning my own trauma.
Hmm, that's a downer (laughs).
Oh shit! You can see
the stars from up here.
Oh my God!
How did I not see that
on the drive over here?
I was looking at all the
houses and stuff like, wow,
those are... Whoo.
They've been brighter, but stranger.
Wow.
Still now lucky two are,
to see stars and shit.
All the time I lived here.
You know it's funny I wasn't
allowed to date in high school.
My folks are extremely religious.
Like hellfire and
brimstone religious, right?
Probably see all this star stuff
as some kind of religious
freaking... I don't know.
Anyway, ah, I just pretty
much kept to myself
'cos of all that.
And then college came
right after obviously,
and, I was just so damn busy.
Never went out.
What do you feel like you missed out?
Oh, nah.
I made my own meaning of things,
But love, lust.
I always felt like I was on the outside.
You know, just on the outskirts.
A monster.
Are you some kind of sexual coach?
Not quite, but let's just say
I'm going through some adjustments.
Oh, you've learned to
navigate your fantasies.
Well, I don't know if
I've gotten there yet,
but I feel there's a love that exists,
whatever pain or heartache we feel.
Beyond heartache.
Tearing open one's memory.
A need.
Do you need me Cody?
(laughing) Hell, I don't know.
I do want you though.
- Can I kiss you again?
- Yeah, please.
(upbeat blues music)
I think you shocked any
sexual trauma out of me.
I feel good!
(laughing)
Like totally healed.
Well, let's consider it a start.
(laughing) A start, okay.
Oh man.
Ugh.
Oh shit. I gotta go.
I gotta present a seminar in the morning.
You're leaving?
Yeah.
Hey, what?
(sniggers)
Is there something you're not telling me?
Serial killer.
Close, but no.
I'm shedding my skin.
- That I don't understand.
- My ex.
The sash is something left
behind, and maybe something,
I think, coming around the bend.
[Cody] Okay girl,
you're speaking tongues.
- I like tongues.
- [Cody] Yeah.
- Are you lying to me?
- [Cody] About what?
Having to grant seminar in the morning.
Uh, I'll be done by lunch.
I'll surprise you.
I wanna keep us quiet so text will work.
Okay. How long do we have to wait?
Close your eyes, and dream of me.
And I'm there in the dream.
I'm there in the dream
where the student becomes the teacher
and you'll be knocking on my door.
In the blink of an eye,
just,
believe.
(upbeat pop music)
Don't you think like that
I will love you finally
If you'll only believe me
If you'll only believe me
Don't you think like that
I will love you endlessy
If you'll only believe me
Don't you think like that
I will love you endlessy
If you'll only believe me
Yeah, so after that trip to
Hume Lake on the way back, um,
it was just a long bus drive,
I can't remember,
I think like eight hours and
we sat in the back together
and that's when our first kiss happened
and that's how it started at least.
Oh, and then what?
She was your holy virgin?
She was my only girlfriend (laughing).
(laughing) That's impressive.
Um, how so?
Because you're attractive, sociable,
intelligent, and hypnotizing.
(laughing) You've fallen under my spell.
Are we in a fairy tale?
Eh, we need an enchanted object.
(slow romantic music)
Off with your pants.
Hey.
That thing's not a wand.
The princess has been practicing.
(speaks foreign language)
What's um (stutters) chikara?
(jarring metallic ambient sound)
Chikara
[Woman] This is what I.
stay in the sand.
Our lives are black with splinters.
You both passed the latest test.
(woman's voice continues
in the background)
But your journey is not complete.
[Woman] Constantly
being pulled and pulled
to make this last decision.
I told you, you were strong.
(slow electronic music)
Damn. Like, an awakening.
Much better.
A calling.
A calling from the depths of the heart.
After a certain shift in my life,
I've come to want to explore myself.
I've never explored.
Sexually, I mean.
You should.
You wanna try something with me?
Try?
What secrets lie within your true self?
I don't know if I can.
Touch it.
And follow the feeling of your body.
We can find freedom together.
We can create it.
Kiss me here.
(gentle ethereal music)
Tell me you'll never cheat.
I'll never cheat.
Do you trust me?
I trust you.
Shine your light on our skin
Find the way
Four kings.
Wise men bring their gifts of gold.
Sweet perfume and precious world.
Holy anointing
Glory
Gloria
So, how did it feel?
(Cody laughs)
Can you feel the current?
They're reaching out to us.
Who?
The older.
You can't feel them?
No (laughing).
Hey, look to your right.
(chuckles)
So, will there be a next time?
I,
(stammers) I think I need to be alone.
What the fuck?
So, walk?
What?
It's 10:00 AM.
Did you forget?
Oh, uh, I didn't bring my sneakers.
Okay.
Hey, you've been, you've
been pretty quiet lately.
I was at least expecting a
message or two about Takimoto,
or you know, other things,
but, how are things?
How's life?
Other than wrapping my
brain around this project?
Yeah, you have been getting roped
in to a lot of projects lately.
As long as it's mutually beneficial.
I don't know man.
Meetings with Jones have been
a pain in my ass, but, listen,
there is something I was gonna ask you.
[Woman] Emmy, there's
someone here to see you.
He says it's about the research.
He said it's urgent.
I told him you'd come out.
He said his name's Cody.
Thanks.
What's that all about?
Oh, an old assistant of mine.
I need to take care of this.
Okay.
So what were you gonna ask me?
It's not important.
(dramatic instrumental music)
Cody.
Hey, hope you don't mind.
I just got your text.
You came to my work.
I didn't know you knew the address.
I mean you mentioned,
I looked it up.
What's wrong?
Aren't you happy to see me?
I had fun.
I learned a lot,
but I told you about we
stay in our secret place.
And I told you about the order.
Look, I've been thinking
about what you said,
about being my true self.
And?
The other students at my seminar,
I talk to 'em sometimes,
and they noticed these marks.
Cody, I'm not in college anymore.
Grow up a little.
I didn't hurt you.
You don't know pain.
I need to see you Em,
again. Like tonight.
Please.
Hey, watch the hair man.
You're a sweet young man.
But don't come here without my permission.
Is that clear?
Yes.
And?
And, and I want you to teach me.
How are we going to rectify this?
I made a mistake.
I should have asked permission to see you.
You made a mistake coming here,
but now you beg me to please you.
Tie you up and teach you.
Say it.
- Please forgive me Em.
- Sheesh.
Come over at eight
o'clock sharp tonight,
and be ready.
Can you do that?
Yeah, thank you.
Thank you.
- Good.
Go.
(soft music)
Miles and miles
Go to south
Miles and miles
(indistinct) swept out
We've got salty hair
And summer sheets
Let's go dancing
With the sea
Where the sea is
Oh
- [Emmy] Are you leaving?
- Yeah.
I got another seminar.
This needs to stop.
Why?
I like being with you.
Do you really want to serve me?
Then leave.
No excuses.
No fighting. Just leave.
Let the feeling become you.
This is too much.
I can't do this anymore, Cody.
This is ridiculous.
Em, I...
- Don't call me Em.
Don't your dare look back at me.
(slow romantic music)
(slow ominous music)
(thud)
(man grunts)
(ominous slow ballad)
(upbeat music)
How can this be happening, Sam?
I was waiting for you.
You cheated on me.
Not just in here,
in here.
You had a strength the entire time.
And you kept it from me.
We were already miles apart.
I'm not a teacher.
I'm not like you.
You're stronger than me.
- You could have told me.
You would never have believed me.
Then what?
Fights?
The endless pain and regret?
Hiding the truth sometimes is easier.
- I trusted you.
- Trust?
What is trust?
We exposed ourselves to each other.
That should mean something to you, Sam.
People fall out of love.
It happens, Em.
I didn't think it would be us.
I thought that we would endure.
Look at us.
Where are we?
I don't know.
This is your trip.
Not mine.
You tied her well.
[Sam] We all wanna be secure, don't we?
The joy of being younger,
of being cared for.
You never gave me security.
Tell me what you need.
Please me, one last time.
Our graduation.
And then?
Will you take me back?
(slow and tense orchestral music)
Remember when we met?
Tom's Diner.
Rosewood, right?
I remember when you drove me
home in your 1976 El Dorado.
The world was different then.
Now we're all fragments
living in broken bodies,
broken minds.
Let me come back.
Sorry I hurt you.
Oh Sam,
it doesn't hurt anymore.
It taught me how to grow
wings out of my spine.
And now I can see.
You lied.
I withheld my answer.
That's not lying.
Your strength,
your true strength was
always your restraint.
Maybe she's the one for you Sam.
Your secret lover.
And you seek that life.
Sleep.
(eerie chimes)
(phone vibrating)
[Sam] Em, it's Sam.
Just talk to me.
I think we can make this work,
or come to peace with it.
Please?
Em?
(ominous ambient sounds)
Sam.
You already set me free
I don't wanna be with you anymore.
I made up my mind.
I put the rest of stuff in the box.
You pick up?
And never call me again.
[Sam] But...
Set me free
Come on, little girl
[Cody] What do you want?
Do you still have that whisky?
Enough for two glasses.
Pour yourself one, and pour me one.
You broke my heart.
Cody,
right now,
I'm working some things out.
I'm learning how to be me for
the first time in my life.
I thought you were the one.
Love,
or the illusion of love,
has the ability to alter one's
interpretation of the world.
Nothing's real then.
Do I love you?
Maybe I do.
Maybe I'll come back another time.
When I come back, you'll
be telling me too,
how much I missed you.
I let you inside my soul.
I let you bind me.
And I have a poem that's
yet to be written.
We bound each other.
You wanna show me love?
Let's drink.
I toast,
to tying things up,
and leaving the ropes untangled.
It's okay, Cody.
- I love you God dammit!
It's okay.
Addicted by your eyes
I was empty
(clapping)
Thank you.
Congratulations.
I'm so proud.
Thank you Jake.
Em, that was fantastic.
Everyone is so excited.
The numbers are skyrocketing,
and this is gonna open up
so many new opportunities for the firm.
Your support has been invaluable, Danny.
Every step of the way.
What, what are you doing?
I've seen the way you look at me.
Every word that drips from your
devilishly handsome tongue.
I know you want me.
Lie down on your back.
- What if someone sees us.
- I said lie down.
You're such a stunning creature.
(upbeat funk music)
Who are you?
Call me,
Emmanuelle.
Your woman trying to do her best
Every time your best
friend (indistinct)
If she's kind of strange to you
But she says that you're
her one and only lover
They're talking,
laughing, joking around
And you feel a certain kind of groove
But there're kind of
(indistinct) changes
When you walk into the room
It makes me go ee, ooh, ooh, ooh, ee
The kind of thing that
makes you move, mm, mmm, mmm
It kind of makes you
ee, ooh, ooh, ooh, ee
Those things that make you go
It makes you go mm,
mmmh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Seem like (indistinct)
Those things that make
you go mm, mmm, mmm
Those things that make you go
(upbeat music)
You feel there's something wrong
'Cause their action, you can't defend
But you're afraid to talk about it
Afraid of losing your best friend
Well all the time have you wondered
If they're making a fool of you
And your mind is a world
And you don't go back
to do (indistinct)
It makes me you ee, ooh, ooh, ooh