D(e)ad (2025) Movie Script
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I don't wanna play soccer.
Let's go get ice cream
and lotto tickets.
First of all,
don't ever let your mother
hear the phrase
"lotto tickets," okay?
And second of all, no, we can't.
You can't, you ca--
you can't leave
your team behind.
They're counting on you.
Do you know
that goalie is probably
the most powerful
position on the field?
I mean, it's just
as important to save a goal
as it is to score one.
-They need you.
-Really?
Are you kidding me?
You know
that box around the goal?
That's your domain.
That is your kingdom.
And if one of these
little pasty bitches
get inside that goal box,
I want you to roar so loud
that you just
scare the shit out of them.
Wha--
Oh, you think I'm kidding?
I'm serious. Hey.
Inside that box,
no one can fuck with you.
Now let's hear you roar.
Come on.
I'm sorry, did I stutter?
Let me hear you roar!
Oh! Oh, whoa!
Oh, God! Oh, God!
That was terrifying.
I didn't expect that.
Oh, boy. You scared me.
I think I saw a ghost
or something. Come on.
Yeah, but ghosts aren't real.
Hey, ghosts
are extremely real, baby.
- What? Really?
- Oh, yeah.
There's far too much
paranormal phenomenon not to.
And it relates
to a larger cosmology.
But there's a lot
of psychic residue.
Powerful emotion
and unfinished business.
Then again, the hell do I know?
You know everything.
I know everything
about one thing.
I'm not going
anywhere anytime soon.
You got me.
-Always.
-Always?
Forever.
You and me.
He won't get off my back
He won't get off my
Doesn't see the hammer
Nail his own hand down
I am not the woman
That you think I am
Oh, I swallow up a mountain
And I'm quiet as a clam
Saturday and Sunday
In the poison air
Oh, and every day I work
I help to put
The poison there
-Oh
-He won't get off my back
He won't get off my back
He won't get off my back...
He won't get off my back
He won't get off...
Hi.
Yes, this is Matilda Grover.
Um, I'm calling
because my father, Daniel,
helped me make this,
uh, teen debit account
when I was a minor,
which I still am.
A proud teen
debit account holder.
And, uh, I would like to have
him removed from the account...
...for personal reasons.
Uh, but I can just tell you.
Um, he's a charlatan.
Yeah.
Uh, um, grifter.
Uh...
...stole a bunch
of money from my mom.
Um...
If you have a drop down,
you can put "dead to me."
But my mom, Francesca,
uh, should definitely
stay on the account
because she puts money in it.
Um, I love my mommy.
Hello?
I saw the cutest guy
in my AA meeting,
and I was gonna
set you up with him,
-but--
-You gotta stop that.
- I know.
But you know what?
- Shh.
It's okay because he died.
So...
it's, like, problem solved.
No, no, no, no, no!
Don't start it yet.
Violet's coming.
She's gonna freak out.
I don't think she's gonna mind.
- She's been
a lot more chill recently.
-Is that true?
-I'm losing my fucking mind.
Dad is dying of cancer,
and nobody gives a shit
except for me, so...
-Hi.
-What?
Pausing the show.
I'm gonna go,
uh, check on the, uh...
-Cool.
-He called several times
when I was in court,
trying to keep a homeless kid
out of the foster care system.
And, I'm sorry,
what were you doing,
babysitting some
rich lady's cats?
-They're dogs.
-Right.
That's it.
Ex-husband, father dying,
and nobody cares.
I obviously care.
I just don't know
what I'm supposed to do.
-Cure cancer?
-You could try.
You could,
or you could muster up
any kind of compassion
for a loved one.
Or are you too busy raising
generationally wealthy dogs?
Oh, my God, I don't have to have
compassion for him anymore.
That's why people get divorced.
Yeah, Mom, I'm obviously
not talking about you.
-I'm talking about...
-Me.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, she's talking about me
because I did what
everyone told us both to do
and I stopped
talking to our addict dad,
who, by the way,
had a gun collection.
Secret gun collection.
A secret gun collection.
Six guns is not a collection.
A secret six-gun collection.
So, I'm finding it
a little hard to know what to do
-when you tell me he has cancer.
-Well, you know
what I found hard?
Trying to pass the bar exam
while Dad was living
in my front yard in his car.
I sent your grandpa over there
to tell him to leave
-and he was gone already.
-Yeah, not voluntarily.
They towed his car
because there weren't
enough wheels to put boots on.
I can't believe he figured out
how to drive that car.
-Insane.
-Did you see the tumor?
You're kidding.
Are we sure
there's an actual literal tumor?
Doctors should show you proof.
Yeah, because he also told me
that he knew Quentin Tarantino,
and I never saw him.
I am the only one
that cares about him.
I'm the only one
that's there for him.
-You hear yourself, right?
-I do. I have perfect hearing.
Violet, the man is a dangerous,
destructive alcoholic,
and my Al-Anon sponsor says that
you need to at least
let us detach with love.
Don't say "love."
Don't say "detach with love."
He's not dangerous.
He cried more than you did
when your hamster died.
Because you had
just gone to college,
he named it Violet,
and then it ran away.
It was spelled differently,
and you know that.
Please don't fight. It makes me
feel like I'm a bad mom.
-You're not a bad mom.
-You're not a bad mom.
Dad is a human being, okay?
And he raised you
while Mom was working. Sorry.
He deserves your compassion.
Not from me.
I don't have it for him.
- He called me a cunt
when I was 11 years old.
You were a cunt
when you were 11 years old.
Grandma calls me
a cunt all the time
and I still see her.
Doesn't count from her
because it's a term
of endearment.
You don't get to say it's a term
of endearment from her.
You don't get to say that.
You don't get to decide
whether or not
- it's a term of endearment.
- From Grandma?
- Yeah.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Just to clarify,
I worked because he did not.
And these are important
feelings for me to have,
which is why
I am gonna excuse myself
and go write in my journal.
Oy vey.
She's just gonna leave.
That's what she's gonna do.
Journal store is gonna have
to put up a wing in her honor.
-Move.
-I have to move.
Come on. Come on.
Okay.
Oh, my God,
I wish I could have been there
when she got arrested.
You really should see him.
You'll regret it if you don't.
He's not gonna die.
- Okay.
- No.
- I can feel you leaving.
- I know. I got a date. Look.
-You go on so many dates.
-Hold on. I go on so many dates.
-Look. I know.
-Wow. He's very attractive.
Well, it's like his hair's
a little bit swoopier here,
but it's spot-on boy band.
- What are we doing?
- Look.
-Oh, wow.
-I feel like he needs water.
That's a lot of tattoos.
- What do you mean?
-He looks thirsty.
-Okay, stop. This is-- Right.
-That's an expense.
-No, I don't need
the input, actually.
So, thank you. Thank you.
This was fun, guys.
Seriously, what a good hang.
I love this. Um...
Yeah, let's do this again
after I have a lobotomy.
Something I said?
You want to
watch Housewives, Carl?
Uh, no. But I love you both.
- Love you.
- -I think you would really like it.
Uh, I don't know about that.
My God.
Oh, well, now she's too thin.
- I heard she is on...
- Ozempic.
And so
I tried to get it for myself,
- you know,
but the doctor on the website...
...said that
I don't weigh enough,
so I lied and told him
I weigh more than I do,
and then he didn't believe me,
so I can't get it.
What?
I hope she uses
protection with that tattoo guy.
Oh, my God!
-I love having sex
without a condom!
-Yeah! Me too!
- See, we have
so much in common already.
If I haven't gotten
pregnant yet, I can't!
Don't worry. Every time
I try to donate sperm,
they say, "Never mind."
- Okay, just shut up
and lean back.
-Hey, have you seen Dad?
-Shit!
I haven't gotten around to it.
Well, I can't find him.
Start calling hospitals.
Just any hospital?
I know that you don't
want to deal with this,
but I'm scared
that Mark is going to
figure out I'm pregnant.
Figure out?
Didn't your co-worker
congratulate you yesterday?
Yes, and I threatened
to sue her for fat-shaming.
Wow. Uh, you crossed
your legs the other day,
and I'm pretty sure
I saw the head.
Our dad is missing.
Have you even seen him
since he got sick?
For your information,
I've been busy.
-With what?
-I'm walking
up and down the hill,
wearing Julianne's Fitbit
so that I can get her steps in
because she's trying
to lose weight.
Uh, doesn't it sound insane
to you that Dad is missing?
-This sort of happens
all the time.
-Maybe,
but it sounds more insane not
looking for our missing father.
Yes!
Yes, you agree?
Oh. No. Sorry, I just, um,
I just completed
one of Julianne's rings.
She's gonna look
really great at the Emmys.
I am so glad we have
our priorities straight.
So...
Okay, I found him.
How did you do that so fast?
So, the short version
is that the tumors
are eating him alive.
What was the long version?
Uh, the tumors
are eating him alive.
Would you like to see
images of the tumors?
-No.
-Okay.
- Sometimes people want proof.
- -Is there any treatment that could work?
Chances are slim.
Uh, again, I can show you
the X-rays of all these tumors.
-Please stop.
-Okay. Well,
your father's inside.
Dr. Blair, Dr, Blair...
You coming?
No, I... I am. Uh...
Yeah, I am. I'm just, uh,
I'm gonna call Mom,
let her know what's happening.
Yeah. Okay.
Hi...
...rabbit.
Hi, Daddy.
I love you so much.
-I love you too.
-Yeah.
Hey. Don't worry.
I have no intention of kicking
the bucket anytime soon.
I know.
I know. I know.
Is Tillie coming?
Um...
She's gonna be here any second.
Can you, can you put
SpongeBob on?
We used to...
watch that together,
me and Tillie.
- Oh, yeah.
- Hm.
-I love you.
-I know.
I know. I love you.
And so does Tillie.
You love her too, right?
I don't know.
Dad.
- Hey, Violet,
steal the TV for me.
Dad, come on.
Tillie says her father
is being eaten alive by tumors.
It's giving the tumors
an awful lot of agency.
It sounds like he's dying.
I don't wanna go,
but I feel like the good moms
are with their daughters
when their fathers are dying.
My mom was with me
when my dad died.
And she was a good mom.
Just look at me.
- Sweetie?
- Oh, hey.
-Hey, Mom.
-Hey.
Thank you for coming.
Oh, no. It's okay.
Um, is Tillie here?
- Um, she is...
- somewhere.
- Yeah, I think
she heard Dad say that
he doesn't know if he loves her.
Are you fucking kidding me?
- I don't know.
- Hm.
Um, well, remember,
uh, his brain is not
in the best shape at the moment.
Yeah. Yeah. No, I--
Hey, listen, um,
do you wanna see his tumors?
There is a doctor
that will be your best friend,
if you want to look at them.
I mean, I kind of do.
- I, I don't care.
- I'm just kidding.
Okay.
-Okay.
-Come on.
Hey.
-Okay.
-No, it's okay to not be okay.
No, really, I'm good now.
I'll, uh, look for Tillie
in a second.
-Yeah?
-Yeah.
- I've never been
to a puppet show...
-...in Santa Monica. When?
-Yes, you have!
And we smelled poop,
and we didn't realize
-it was on our shoes.
-I would--
- When-- How old was I?
- We were, like--
well, you were, like,
four or something.
I feel like I would remember
if we went to a puppet show
- and there was poop
on my shoe though.
- We were--
Oh, my God.
- Daniel?
- Hey.
-Daniel?
-Dad.
-Daniel?
-Hey.
Hey. No, no, no.
-No.
-Dad, no, no, no.
Tillie!
Tillie!
Dad?
- It's okay.
- It's okay.
It's okay.
I'll take care of the girls.
I swear, everybody will be okay.
I'll make sure
that they're okay.
I know we had problems,
but you loved them so much...
-Is he gone?
-...and there was a time
when I loved you
very much in spite of...
Sweetheart. Come here.
Come here. Come here.
Come here.
He's, like, dead to me.
Like a ghost...
- of a person.
- Like a ghost.
Like a ghost...
Oh.
I mean, missing those
last moments with her dad
after cutting him
out of her life for so long.
Well, procrastination
is a hell of a drug.
Okay, I'm at the store
looking at ice cream.
They're all out of
Halo Top Sea Salt Caramel.
-What's your next choice?
-You know what? Fuck Halo Top.
I watched someone die tonight,
so I deserve the real shit.
You got it.
I know that Tillie's decision
was really complicated.
It's just--
I hope that this whole thing
doesn't wind up haunting her
for the rest of her life.
Hey, Frankie, we gotta talk.
What just happened?
-What's going on?
-Where'd you go?
Where the fuck--
-Where did--
How did you do that?
-I can get it all.
What do you want?
You want me to go to Gelson's?
-Are you okay?
-Uh, everything's normal.
-I'll call you back.
-What do you mean,
everything's normal?
Oh, my God.
Uh, okay. Deep breaths.
-I am hallucinating.
-No, you're not.
Uh, okay, then,
I'm having a stroke?
-You're not having a stroke.
You smell burnt toast?
-You knew I don't eat bread.
Look, you know what?
I've been looking
for you for hours.
Something really strange
is going on here.
Strange? Really?
Because I am talking to my dead
ex-husband in a mirror.
Let's just calm down.
We don't know that I'm dead.
I watched you die!
-Oh, so now you're a doctor.
-You know what?
You have always diminished
my fucking accomplishments!
-You're literally not a doctor!
-I could have
been a doctor
if it wasn't for you!
I'm seeing things,
I'm seeing things.
I'm seeing crazy things.
I had a crazy day,
and now I'm going crazy.
I'm seeing things,
I'm seeing...
- Whoa! Fuck!
- Don't panic.
Fuck you! Fuck you!
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
I gotta call my sponsor,
call my shrink.
I don't know
what to think. I don't--
No, if I call my sponsor,
he'll think I'm fucking crazy.
Now, what the fucking--
Oh, my God.
Hey, if you're another ghost,
I may be Jewish,
but I am very clear
on the true meaning
of Christmas.
- Thank you.
- I'm coming in!
Ghosts can come in now?
I didn't say you were
the first person to see me.
Oh, my God.
He's in your mirror too?
This is real.
Do you see a light
at the end of a tunnel?
-Go towards it.
-Don't say, "Go towards it."
Don't go towards it.
That's how they get you.
There's no light.
No, I seem to be in some
strange, uh, liminal space.
Hard to describe,
but, uh...
well, seems to have
something to do with mirrors.
Of course
I tried to explain this
to Stephen Hawking
back in the '80s.
You never met Stephen Hawking.
Don't lie from the afterlife.
There could be repercussions.
Stephen Hawking could be
standing behind you.
He could punch you in the head.
-I'm not dead.
-Oh.
You'll never be
dead to me, Daddy.
I'm really not dead.
Okay, let's you and me go to
the thankfully mirrorless deck
so that we can call Tillie.
Hello?
Hi, sweetie. Were you asleep?
Did you take
that pill I gave you?
Yeah.
I don't think it worked.
Sweetie, can you
go to the mirror
and tell me what you see?
Like you're my Sarah Lawrence
acting coach?
Just do it. Just do it.
Okay.
Getting up.
Getting up. Walking.
Here. I'm here.
Do you see anything?
If this is another
body positivity thing,
it didn't really work.
Last time.
You don't see anyone else?
Mm, no, but you're starting
to scare the shit out of me,
so that's good.
Okay, listen. Um, I, I,
I need you to come over.
- Your sister and I
have to talk to you.
-Now?
-Yes. Right now!
-You have clothes.
-I know.
I know, it's like,
-it's like the end
of our town...
-Do you feel
-like you have cancer?
-...but if our town
-were a one-man show.
-But you never owned
that blazer is my point.
You know what I mean?
-I have that blazer.
-I don't think he did.
- Hey!
- Whoa!
We're seeing your father.
-At the morgue?
-In the mirror.
-Yeah, he's in
the mirror, your father.
-He's in the mirror.
Bring her over to the mirror
so she can see me.
-You got to go to the mirror.
-Come here.
-In the mirror. Like, mirror.
-The man is in the mirror.
- Dad is in the mirror.
Yeah, he's in the mirror.
It's like a miracle.
Why can't you see me?
She can't see me.
I don't know. You're not
even a predictable ghost.
Hey, mudgy, it's me. It's Daddy.
Have her turn.
She can't-- Swee...
Hey, thanks for visiting me
all those times. I really...
Can you hear what he's saying?
Yeah, can you hear
what he's saying?
Can you hear what you're saying?
Oh, God,
we have to convince her.
-Now I feel bad for priests,
'cause this is hard.
-I know. I know.
-Hard to have proof.
-Oh, oh. You know what?
I have it, I have it,
I have it, I have it, I have it.
Oh, Daniel, what is something
that you know about Tillie
-that neither me
nor Violet know?
-Okay, that's smart.
-That's genius.
-Right? Thank you.
Is this, like, some mean
and very convoluted way
of getting me to admit
to stealing Grandma's cigarettes
in middle school?
-Because I didn't do it.
-Hm.
How would I know
what she told you?
- You banished me
from the family.
You never told Tillie a secret?
Oh, my God,
you stole from my purse
to buy Dippin' Dots
for your father
-when he took you to the track?
-Matilda!
Oh, my God.
I've never told anyone that
because I genuinely forgot.
It's working.
Dad?
Do your thing.
I don't-- I can't see him.
-Am I doing something wrong?
-Maybe.
No, don't say that.
- No?
- No, no, no, no, sweetheart.
No, no, don't feel bad.
Because, um,
we don't know what kind of
supernatural mishegoss
is going on.
I mean, I, I was married to him,
and, uh, Violet
is the eldest daughter, so...
-Yeah.
-Um, maybe it's like
a Passover thing.
Passover thing.
Oh, or maybe, um,
I knew him longer
before he relapsed.
Yeah. Yeah. I think it, it was--
Just might be a very, very tight
circle on this one.
Where is he?
-Oh, Jesus.
-It's like...
-Don't answer it.
-I have to.
-You don't have to.
-It's Mom.
-Okay.
-Uh, hey, Mom.
Not a good time right now.
Oh, I won't keep you long.
Uh, Grandpa and I,
uh, seem to be
having a nervous break.
He wants to go
to a mental institution,
and I am not that worried.
What are you talking about?
We're seeing your deadbeat
dead husband in every mirror.
Oh, my God, my whole family
is being haunted without me.
Oh. They're seeing him too.
Hello? Where's everybody?
Ah. I got, like,
way too much ice cream.
I know, but it's a big night.
We got a lot of candles.
What are we doing,
just looking at ourselves
in the mirror?
-Here's Danny!
-Whoa!
God! Jesus!
Fuck! It's okay.
Everybody, come out!
Come with me! Come on!
Oh! Damn it!
Okay, the mirrors are covered.
Let's talk ghosts.
What? No.
I want to know why Carl...
...has not
proposed to Frankie yet.
- Oh, no, no, no, no.
You can't do me like that.
- No, Mom, no.
- This is not what that is about.
- This is this?
This is this now?
- We're doing this now?
- -We're here to talk about ghosts.
-Ghosts.
-Spot on, Grandma.
- Shut up!
- That-- Yeah.
-Okay!
-That is why we're here.
-Ghosts.
-Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Anyone who can see Daniel,
- raise your hand.
- Yeah.
Cool.
Ghosts are real,
and my whole family
is going crazy without me.
It's not fair. But if it helps,
I really, really hate
that I can see him.
And I really, really hate
that he can see me.
You? I looked
into having him killed.
-"Killed"?
-Well, casually.
I asked my jeweler
if he knew someone.
Jewelers know people.
Jewelers know people.
Why can't I see him?
Hm. I don't think
this is about you.
-Actually, now
that I think about it...
-Oh, you're right.
-...I think maybe
it's not about you.
-It's about their jeweler.
Hey, if it
makes you feel better,
you can have mine.
-It's not what
it's cracked up to be.
-Thank you, Carl.
That's really generous of you.
See? Some people are sort of
offering their ghosts.
Okay, I think
everybody should be
-a little bit more generous--
-Hey, guys.
Guys. Hey, guys!
-...as opposed to...
-Well, I'm talking...
-...being a huge bitch.
-...so announcement
from me. And be quiet.
Now, um,
thank you so much, everybody.
Um, so I was talking
with Dad privately,
and he doesn't exactly
know what's happening,
but he thinks...
- ...he might not be dead.
- Mm-hm.
What does he think he is?
-What?
-Whoa! Whoa!
You know what?
I can't with this fucking guy!
- All right, look.
- Where's the fucking ice cream?
It could be true,
it could not be true.
And whether
he's correct or not, I think
we should cover our bases
by, A, protecting
his body from erosion.
I don't know when that starts.
And, B, going to his apartment
and getting all of his photos,
-which we have to do anyway.
-That might be
what's keeping him here...
and nobody wants that.
- I mean...
condolences.
- Thank you.
What were his last wishes?
Maybe he's already
been cremated.
He didn't have last wishes
because he ate
a specific brand
of cookie every day
that he thought would
make him live forever.
No, no, no, you idiot. No.
It wasn't a specific brand
of cookie that he thought
was gonna make him
live forever. He thought
that if he ate it long enough,
medical science
-would catch up and intervene.
-Oh, right.
- The guy was a putz.
- It's different.
-I'm the idiot in that scenario.
-You are the idiot.
-That's what I said.
-Why don't we
-donate his body to science?
-Did I not say that?
Is that real?
Sure. The one person
that can't see him
is guessing his last wishes.
That seems right.
-Oh, my God!
-I think that makes sense.
-No, I think it makes sense.
I love that.
-You're such a dick!
-You're a dick!
-You loved BodyWorks.
-You don't know that.
We went one time...
-And that's that.
-Okay! Whoa!
-Mom.
Hold on. I know
someone we can talk to.
-A therapist?
-No, but a very
intuitive person.
- Better not be Barry.
- It's Barry.
- Ugh.
- Mm-hm.
-Great.
-She's obsessed with Barry.
- Um, okay, I am gonna go
ahead and call the hospital...
- Who's Barry?
...about Dad's body.
Unless Barry can, um,
come and do this for us. So...
Excuse me.
Is this a sign?
I don't generally
believe in signs,
but I also
didn't believe in ghosts
-until tonight.
-A sign for what, sweetie?
That I shouldn't have
listened to everybody
and cut off contact with him
because now I'm being punished
by him denying me his presence.
Why can't he punish me?
I mean, I, I don't get it.
Do you want
to be haunted by him?
I just don't understand
why I can't see him.
And I don't wanna
be going crazy over this,
but it's pissing me off
that my whole family
is being haunted
by my dad without me.
Maybe he had unfinished business
with all of you.
Unfinished business?
The man never worked
a day in his life.
Yes. Yeah, he did.
He was a taxi driver,
and he made all those lamps,
and he helped Uncle Herbie
fix his computer all
of those times, and he was
a government contractor.
He was kicked by a police horse,
and the government paid him off.
That is not called employment.
- Right. Okay.
- The horse was really
provocative, though.
Thank you so much.
Appreciate it.
Okay, so that was the hospital,
and they said we can
move him to any mortuary.
We just have to call,
or we can donate his body
to something
called Science Care.
Till, they're not open
right now, and I work
during business hours,
and I am eight
fucking months pregnant,
so I'm gonna need you
-to call and get
our dad's body back.
-Mm.
Me?
No, I can't.
Julianne is having
a really hard time
with the company
that delivers her soup.
She likes puree,
and they keep sending chunky,
and it's destroying her.
Is that a yes?
Sure.
Yeah. You know what?
I will go collect
the body of the man
who can't even be
bothered to haunt me.
This putz's in my mirror.
Daniel, talk to your daughter.
You can't even ghost right.
I swear, after I die,
I'm coming back
and I'm haunting
every single one of you.
Thank you, Grandpa.
-Thank you.
-No, no. It's okay.
Okay. Choking!
-Oh!
-Thank you.
Hi. Is this Tile Grover?
"Tile"? Do you think
there's a person named Tile?
Uh, whoever filled out
the intake form put "Tile."
It's Tillie. Matilda.
Who are you?
- Hi, Miss Grover.
This is Owen from Science Care.
Oh. Yeah.
Hi. I've been calling you.
Uh, you have to get
my dad's body from the hospital,
and there's a lady there
who's, um, very mad at me,
as if I'm supposed
to go get it or something.
Well, I'd love to get
that taken care of for you.
We just need a little bit
of additional information.
-Okay.
-Uh, we'll need
an affidavit stating that
there are no remaining
conflicts with the estate.
What does that mean?
Uh, just that
affairs are settled
and all fine with the estate.
"Estate"? He lived
in Section 8 housing.
Got it.
Uh, well, still, you know,
-just to, to, to kind of...
-So, uh,
you want me
to go to my dad's place
and rummage through the trash
to confirm that it is trash?
Sadly, yes. And we will
also need it notarized.
Come on!
- I, I, I, I am so sorry,
Miss Grover.
That is so profoundly difficult.
And I do understand,
you know, even past being
your account representative,
I'm a man. Human. Man.
I, I understand emotions,
and I feel them.
And, and I'm a--
And I-- As a, a human,
member of the human species
with you.
Yeah, well, keep saying it,
because it gets more convincing
every time you do.
I wish
I could help, you know.
And, and if you need
someone to be here
while you
process those feelings...
I just can't
get rid of this guy.
He dies, and then
I have even more work to do
than from when he was alive.
And it's like I can't get away,
and my sister
is bearing down on me.
And I can't even see my dad.
Right. Because he's passed.
What you said.
It's not like he's a ghost.
But if he was...
...and my sister
and Mom could see him,
but I couldn't...
...what would you
suggest that I do?
Since you work for science.
Well, I work for Science Care,
not just, sort of,
the concept of science.
But I would say, you know,
in this extremely specific
and obviously
impossible scenario,
that sister and mother
are very close,
intimate relationships
with a lot of baggage.
And it might behoove you
to find a more neutral mediator,
maybe someone a little
even-keeled and impartial
to help
reestablish that connection.
That's what I would do.
Like a Science Care guy.
No.
No, not me. It can't be.
Um, uh, you know, I would say,
though, that I am,
I am here for you.
You know, feel free to call me.
I, I'm, I'm assigned
to your case.
Uh, and once again,
my name is Owen.
And, uh, I'll be here.
Thanks, Owen. You're a real one.
If you say so.
Uh, there is a short survey
after we get off
the call together
that I would love-- Hello?
She hung up.
You and Dad
always got along so well,
and the case manager
at Science Care
says that
we could use a mediator,
which I don't think is his job.
I think he gives
Dad's body parts
to medical students.
But you love to mediate,
so maybe you can
help us connect.
I do love to mediate.
Okay, Renee. Mediate away.
When was the last time
when you and I just hung out?
Um,
yeah, I don't know, Grandma.
That's really sweet, but Violet
-is really riding my ass...
-Didn't mean it
-when I said I didn't know...
-...about this whole
-ghost thing.
-...whether I loved her or not.
Can't you just talk
to each other?
-No. That's literally...
-No. See,
-that's what I'm saying.
-...the whole problem.
Please let me handle this.
I am the mediator.
Daniel, Tillie wants
to talk to you.
Now, see...
I can hear and see her.
She can't hear and see me!
I am not deaf or foreign!
Will you please tell Tillie...
-...that I'm so--
-Are you still
talking to this asshole?
-Yes.
-Will you shut
the fuck up for five...
Don't even
fucking think about it.
You're dead. I'm not.
So suck on that.
I'm obviously astral traveling,
or a bodhisattva,
or on some higher
level of consciousness.
You are not on a higher plane.
You're stuck here
because you, in life,
were a deadbeat.
You stole from your wife!
- You abandon your daughters,
you lie to everybody.
No wonder your kids
didn't want to talk to you
when you got sick.
Hm.
Tillie forgot the leftovers!
Mom?
-Mom in here?
-No.
-Oh!
-Everyone's a critic.
-That's amazing.
-Thank you.
I figured
since you can't see him...
Voil.
That's for me?
It's not for me.
Awesome.
Yeah, 'cause I, I tore him
out of all my pictures.
So a giant painting is perfect.
Sweetheart-- Oh, Jesus!
"Not my favorite."
Oh, God. Oh, I'm so sorry.
-It's okay.
-Oh, Mom.
Uh, I talked
to the Science Care guy.
They can get the body of the man
who doesn't know he loves me.
So call the psychic rabbi.
I have to go.
-Oh. Okay, okay, okay, okay.
-Bye. Have a great day.
-It really is fantastic. It's...
-Thank you.
...it's frightening.
Does she-- Do you want this?
Or is it-- Is this for me?
How do we feel about some horns?
Why can't I
get you out of my life?
Well, this normally comes
at the end of the story,
but you still love me.
You need to make
things right with Tillie
so the demons can come
and suck you away
like the bad guy in Ghost.
The guy with no eyebrows.
The guy, uh, the guy whose
father was a famous producer.
The guy who played
the president in Scandal.
You need to call
that psychic rabbi
so he can get to the bottom
of this astral projection thing,
or whatever the hell it is,
and then I'll come back
and I'll straighten
things out with Tillie.
I cannot tell somebody
that my dead ex-husband
doesn't think he's dead,
because that,
that's going to make me
look like a fucking idiot.
Yeah, we can't
have that, can we?
Oh, my God. You know what?
You denied having
going into my bank account
and stealing money from me
to buy a bunch of guns.
I wanted to be
the only liberal with guns.
You denied being drunk
when I dragged you to the car
and showed you
all of the empty beer cans.
Since losing my corporeal form,
I've really sobered up.
And now
you're denying having died.
Congratulations.
You win a denial.
And you believe in ghosts.
So what the hell do you know?
I know that you said
you didn't love Tillie.
I did not say that
I don't love Tillie.
I said that I didn't know
if I loved Tillie
because my brain
was filled with tumors
or so they say.
You know, I happen
to be going through
a very hard time right now.
You know, that is just like you,
to conveniently have tumors
to blame your bad behavior on.
All I know is that
Tillie cannot go through
the rest of her life
thinking that
her father doesn't love her,
and you know that.
That would be bad.
All right.
All right.
I'll take care of that.
I'm on it. But you have
to call that rabbi.
Unless you want
your husband in the mirror
for the rest of your life,
telling you how you really look
in those jeans.
Oh, my God. Fuck you.
- I'm so going to fuck you.
Fuck you.
Hello.
You've reached Rabbi Barry.
Shalom!
To schedule a bris, press one.
To schedule a bar
or bat mitzvah, press two.
To schedule a psychic clearing,
press three.
Sure. Three.
Hello, this is Owen from Science Care.
How can I help you?
Hi, Owen from Science Care.
This is Matilda Grover
calling to check
on Daniel Grover's body.
- Hi, Miss Grover. So, yeah,
we received all the paperwork.
We can release
those ashes to you right away.
Ashes?
Yeah, that's what we, uh--
That was what was
listed at the hospital.
Is that a problem?
No.
I just didn't realize
you were going to burn 'em.
And now I don't really know
how that's gonna affect
the metaphysical aspect
of all of this.
What?
I have no idea why
I'm inclined to ask you this,
but what do you think
happens when we die?
Uh... Wow. Well, you know,
any number of things.
- Our website actually
lists a bunch of the options.
We have cremation, air burial.
Not to our bodies.
To our spirits.
Oh. I'm afraid
I don't know, Miss Grover.
This family member...
...he can't see me.
-Not the real you, right?
-Sure.
When he was in the hospital,
I couldn't look at him.
And I tore him
out of all my photos, so...
...it's like there's no proof
that he was ever even my dad.
Got it.
I'm so sorry.
Now I'm just sort of worried.
What if
I'm his unfinished business
and this is all my fault?
Forgive the forwardness,
but is it maybe
just as possible
that he is
your unfinished business?
Wait. What's air burial?
Air burial is a cultural custom
where a body is left
on a high altitude surface
to be picked clean by birds.
He would have loved that.
Why won't you come talk to me?
Why can't you come haunt me?
You're so broken.
And I'd do anything
to talk to you.
To be sweet to you
instead of chastise you.
I'd spend all the money
in the world for you.
I'd run the family dry...
...to make you feel
like you got the respect
you thought you deserved.
I'd learn everything
there is to know
about metaphysics for you.
I'd cure cancer.
None of it would've mattered...
...or changed
anything that happened,
but I'd do it now.
Dad?
Dad!
Look at how you lived!
I'm doing it!
I'm facing
my unfinished business!
I'm not hiding
in the hallway anymore!
I did the right thing...
...cutting you out of my life.
'Cause this is what you do.
You hurt people
because you only
ever cared about yourself.
I'm glad I can't see you.
I'm glad
you're out of my life...
...forever.
Daddy, I am so sorry
about the cremation.
Hey, don't worry
about the ashes.
I'm sure that whatever power
allows me to manifest
can also reconstitute
a human body.
-It's just molecules.
-Yeah.
Yay.
Yay. Okay?
So...
...uh, before the sance begins,
uh, I was thinking
maybe you could
walk to the drugstore,
I could look through the glass
and the lotto machine...
...find the winning numbers.
You could buy a ticket.
Bing, bang, boom,
we've got enough money,
bring me back into this plane.
I could pay off
my student loan debt.
-Hm? Sure. Sure.
-Yeah.
Keep your eye-- eyes
on the prize, though, rabbit.
Right. I do technically
think that might
constitute as fraud,
and I don't know
if we want to use
your ghost powers for evil.
Uh, not a ghost, sweetie.
Well, you might be, right?
I mean, Dad,
I am on your side, but...
...I was in the room.
I watched you flatline.
Isn't it beautiful
that you might be a spirit
there to protect the family
when my son is born?
Your grandson?
Isn't it enough for you
to just watch over us like this?
- No.
- No.
-No.
-Right.
No! I'm in a mirror!
I'm in a mirror.
-I wanna be with you.
-Yeah.
You know...
where all the action is.
Right. I-- And I
want that too. And...
-Yes. Yeah.
-Attagirl.
Okay. Okay! Mm.
- I don't like that shade.
I never liked it.
- I wasn't asking you.
Um, did you get
the goods from Dad's?
Yes. Everything
that wasn't covered in mold.
- Or did you want the mold?
- Ha, ha-ha.
Okay, well, did you
get his diving helmet?
And did you get
his fencing sword and the rocks?
Did you get the box of cables?
Box of cables.
That's what I forgot.
Because we need that for...
- Okay, it's not a joke.
All right? Because, look,
it might provide
some sentimental value.
-The cables?
-I don't know.
- Excited for the psychic rabbi?
- Um... Yes. Yes.
Uh, any luck figuring out
why you can't see Dad?
I don't know.
Maybe the connection's
not strong enough
and there's too much dread.
-Probably.
-Hey, babe.
I think I'm finally getting
-cauliflower ear from jiu-jitsu.
-Hey.
-Huge day for me.
-Huge.
Oh, hey, Mr. Grover.
-Oh, it's--
-Oh, come on! He can see him?
-You never even met him!
-Don't worry, Tillie.
-It's only because
I busted raw on your sister.
-Eric.
- Sorry, Mr. Grover.
- Ugh!
-Dad!
-So I should just
-bust raw in somebody...
-No, you shouldn't.
-...and then I'll be
able to see my dad?
-Eric.
Come on, come on. Eric, come on.
-Mom, did you drink
when you were pregnant with me?
-Of course.
Isn't it recommended?
We are gathered
to discuss the lingering spirit
of Daniel Grover
and what may yet be done
to ease his passing
from this life into the next.
Barry is a psychic rabbi.
Do you think we don't know
why we're here?
What I need you to know
is that
this haunting is very real.
It's not just in your mind.
Yeah, this dude
is way more specific
than any of the other
apparitions I know.
He made fun of me
about my birthday.
I didn't even know I was
self-conscious about that.
Oh, you're gonna make
a wonderful father.
Yes.
Mazel, by the way. Ah!
The most common
misconception I hear
about hauntings is,
"Oh, the ghost
is haunting the living."
However, it's you
who are haunting him.
Wow.
You're haunting Dad.
-Yay, yay, and yes!
-Bullshit.
You all need
to unburden yourselves
of an attachment to him.
Every single one of you!
Well, I, I can't see him.
But you probably
already knew that.
Your father isn't visiting you?
-No.
-Wow!
That's impressive.
That means
you've already let him go.
Shut up.
Shut up!
I...
You hear that?
-I did everything right.
-Didn't say that.
You know,
this whole time, Barry,
I've been feeling
very guilty and jealous
about this whole haunting thing.
And, um, I guess
what you're saying is that
I'm the most advanced
family member
because I don't have
any unfinished business
with him.
Now I'm happy
the Jew witch is here.
Thanks, Barry.
You're a real one.
Thank you. Now,
what I need
from the rest of the family
is to come
to terms with the fact
that what you need from him
will never be fulfilled.
Oh, I, I knew that already.
That's why I divorced him.
Yeah, speaking of letting
him go, I never wanted him.
I saw him once at Christmas,
and that was too much.
Fulfilled. For crying out loud,
the man annoyed me
from the day I met him.
You hold on to more
than you know.
Barry...
I say this with love.
Fuck you.
Come together as a family,
ravel in the living bond.
But above all else,
let him go!
And if anyone
needs advice or pointers
from the most advanced
member of the family,
I'd be more than happy
to help all of you oldies.
Okay. Um, no, thank you.
Barry, how are we
supposed to do that?
Heed these words.
Follow my advice.
The remains of the deceased
must be released in a ceremony
that I have created,
based on the teachings
of Rabbi Nachman
and some Steely Dan songs.
-Dad hated Steely Dan.
-Yeah.
All right, uh,
let's all, um, uh,
gather round for the ceremony
in front of the garbage can.
Hey, Daniel. Goodbye, Daniel.
Goodbye, Captain Shitbag.
Fuck you.
-Oh, fuck you, man!
I don't need it!
-Oh, fuck you!
No, Harris.
It can't be done now.
It has to be done...
Please say full moon.
Please say full moon.
...on the full moon.
-Bam!
-Hey, Barry. Where'd you
go to rabbinical school?
Was it the, uh,
crystal store on La Cienega?
-I love that place.
-And we can have it
at Carl and Frankie's.
Oh, no, no, no.
By this new moon,
all the lingering,
unresolved feelings
must be made whole
within this family,
or else his soul
will be trapped with you
until you all perish.
But most important of all,
I take checks only.
Check this out.
Hey!
-Are you even fucking?
-Yes.
-I'm fucking your ex-wife.
-Can I watch?
Oh, I thought you were.
I have no idea
what she sees in you.
Oh, gosh. Let's think.
Uh, lack of delusions.
Uh, my own money. My,
my dick doesn't taste
like Europe in the summer
or like it sleeps
under a bridge?
-Why are you doing this?
-You heard Rabbi Barry.
This is unfinished business.
She has unresolved feelings.
You made her
terrified of marriage.
-And I have to fix that.
-Hey, okay, just calm down.
I fucked her too.
Then we got married
and it messed everything up.
-You're gonna
mess everything up.
-God! Shut up.
Everybody in her family
talks so fucking much.
You know,
she is writing terrible things
about you in her journal.
Stop talking!
So I went to the pagan
candle store to get
the Kabbalah trinkets
- for the Phish
concert ceremony...
...to release Dad's soul.
-But what do you--
For the ashes.
-Stop. Stop.
What do you wanna do with them?
Well, it's not "them."
It's a "him."
-Yeah.
-Dad is a "him." He is a "him."
-It's not "him."
-Well, it's not "it."
Did "it" feel right to you?
What do you want to do with him?
-Flush him down the toilet?
-I don't fucking know.
This sucks.
And I wasn't expecting them
-to ship it back in a box.
-Yeah.
Dad is worried you're not taking
- the astral travel
thing seriously.
-Aw. Well, I'm not.
-Don't. Stop.
It makes sense. It does.
He explained it in a way
that I think is really pretty.
It was, like, time--
I'm butchering it, but it was,
like, time is a line--
You went to law school!
I know that. I know that,
and I'm stressed.
And I'm due any day now.
And Eric has an eye infection
- from his
jiu-jitsu mouthguard...
...and it wasn't
his jiu-jitsu mouthguard.
-He said he wanted
to try on somebody else's.
-Oh, my God.
-Now...
-No, it's sort of--
-What are these?
-Um, it's--
What are these?
-These look really familiar.
-What do they look like to you?
-Look like lottery tickets.
-They're lottery tickets.
Because Dad had a good idea,
and I actually think
it was a really good idea
for when if...
When he gets back,
when, you know,
if, when he gets back,
and then I'll have money.
It's responsible,
I think, personally.
So it's just nice, you know?
Oh, my fucking God, Violet.
Dad is still manipulating you.
Okay, look, we don't know
what's possible, okay?
Ghosts are real.
What if...
...what if he can come back?
From the dead?
I guess you know
absolutely everything.
You're so smart,
maybe you should
get a regular job.
Uh, so that way,
I don't have to Venmo you
$1100 every month.
So, that way you can
live in a storage unit.
All right.
So, counselor, what's the plan?
You're gonna bring Dad
back from the dead
and win the lottery,
and raise a child with a guy
who got an eye infection
from a mouthguard?
Sounds like a really
good plan. What then?
You'll never be free
in this realm or the next
from Dad's bullshit.
Man, I really thought that
you'd be able to
let this go when he died.
But for someone
who's about to be a mom,
maybe you should
quit acting like a kid.
I'm gonna go be
the responsible one and get
a bunch of soup for my boss,
who really didn't like
the soup I got her before.
Jesus Christ.
You love her too, right?
I don't know.
I'm trying to help you.
I'm trying to have
a conversation with you.
Put up this wall.
And life is not all about you.
You didn't appreciate it.
Nobody appreciated it.
-Ghosts are extremely real.
-I try!
But there's a lot
of psychic residue.
Powerful emotion.
Unfinished business.
Good morning, Frankie.
It's Rabbi Barry.
I'm having a premonition
that I'm going to be
a little late
to the sance tonight.
The full moon is here.
See you tonight.
Make sure you have
the photos, the remains,
and maybe a rotisserie chicken.
My beautiful family,
all gathered here
to get rid of
the ghost of my dad,
who they can all see
in the mirror
except for me. Chin-chin.
Did you know Charles Manson
killed Sharon Tate next door?
He did not.
Did he kill anyone next door?
Nope. Sorry, man.
Wow. You found someone
crazier than Dad.
At least I have somebody.
How is it going with
that customer service robot
that incinerated our father?
Did you see how stupid Larsa was
at the reunion last night?
I love Larsa.
Oh, you know, Violet,
Tillie did an incredible job
at your Dad's apartment.
I mean, really, it was spotless.
Yep.
It was spotless.
No cleaning fee.
Well, you kept
the photos, right?
But someone must have been
murdered on this block, though,
right, Eric?
Yeah, right? Do you wanna go
start asking neighbors,
or will they know to lie?
Tillie.
-What?
-The photos.
Um...
I have some photos on my phone.
Right. I'm talking
about the ones on film of, like,
his fucking grandparents
from his apartment.
I threw out the photos...
...because it's time to let go.
Come on.
Come on.
Nobody in this family
feels anything, huh?
Okay. Where's your backpack?
-What?
-Your backpack.
That stupid yellow backpack.
There. And-- Okay. So--
-What are you doing?
-Easy enough to find.
Here we go. Um, I'm not doing--
-This is what I'm doing.
-No, you won't.
- Here we go.
- Stop!
- What are you doing?
- Fuck off!
-You can't just take
the ashes. We need them.
-Why not?
You want what's left of his body
so you can throw that away too?
It's probably
why you can't see him.
You just want to throw him away.
Get rid of him.
-All of you do.
-But you can't
just take Dad's ashes.
Why are you in control
of everything
that has to do with him?
Because you don't care at all!
You're right.
I don't care about him.
You are such a fucking brat.
Mom, she threw away
the photos. Yell at her.
I don't want to be
in the middle.
Of course you don't. Eric.
-We're leaving.
-Ooh.
No.
You can't go. We can't do
the ceremony without you.
Good. I don't want him to leave.
What about what I want?
Congratulations, Mom.
You have made this
all about you.
Actually, all of you
have made it about you
because you are all narcissists.
I am not a narcissist.
I have asked several shrinks
and two sponsors.
And what I am
is an alcoholic, drug addict,
compulsive overeater,
because my mother didn't
pay enough attention to me
because she is a narcissist.
I am not a narcissist.
I am a hysteric.
Eric, let's go.
Come on, we're leaving.
But there's free food here.
This food is free, right?
Okay, put as much salami
as you can in your pockets
because we are gone.
No, no, you can't leave
until you say
I'm not a bad parent.
Well, in comparison,
you weren't.
Dad was so bad.
Oh, why are you attacking me?
Because we're fucked up,
and you're the only parent
we have left.
Ladies, please!
Stop being such cunts!
Eric, we're leaving!
Come on!
I can't abandon a pregnant woman
at an exorcism.
- Not again.
- Eric!
-He took all the salami.
-Oh!
Jesus.
This exorcism sucks.
Let's go.
It's in the middle of rush hour.
- I don't care!
- Great.
Okay, call your sponsor,
call your therapist,
write in your journal,
take a bath.
I, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
- You wanna go to Petrossian?
- -Yes.
That went well.
Hello. Science Care.
Owen speaking.
Am I a bad person?
One moment, please.
- Hi, Mrs. Henderson. I'm gonna
have to put you on hold.
Miss Grover, what seems
to be the problem now?
Okay, I'm just
gonna level with you.
My sister is being manipulated
- by the ghost of our dad.
- Yes!
I knew it was a ghost.
Sorry. Continue.
-Really?
-Yeah.
My family
is haunted by banshees.
Wow.
Okay, so my sister is being
hoodwinked by our dead dad
into a lotto scheme
at eight months pregnant,
and my mom isn't doing
anything to help us.
-It's not fair.
-And I'm the only one
not being haunted by my dad,
and Rabbi Barry says
that I let go.
-Great.
-So I'm right
and everyone else is wrong.
Tillie, I'm gonna
level with you.
I was hit by a car
this week. Okay?
And we cleared your case.
You're off of our books.
You received the ashes.
I'm not even really sure
how you got my number.
Our system should have
automatically cycled you out
to some other inbox.
I found
your LinkedIn profile.
Look, suffice it to say,
I've got other stuff going on.
Now, everything you told me
paints a picture
of you being right,
-except for one thing.
-What's that?
The fact that
you're calling me at all.
Are you real?
After the day I've had,
Miss Grover...
...I honestly don't know.
Look, I'm some
customer service rep
on a lot of painkillers
who can't stop seeing banshees.
But I do know one thing.
Of the two people
on this phone call right now,
only one of them
needs to be convinced
that you're right,
and it's not me.
You are wasted
in your field, sir.
Maybe.
Look, if this is
not too forward of me,
I'd love to email you
my personal phone number
and take you out
for a lovely oyster dinner.
Well, I...
You sure know how to
keep a girl on her toes,
Owen from Science Care.
I wasn't
gonna bring this up,
but your dead ex-husband
keeps telling me
that I'm a fucking loser,
and so I need you to tell me
that you're not writing down
"Carl is a fucking loser"
in your book.
I never should have
had kids with him.
Not everyone does everything
right all the time.
I can't afford to not do
everything right all the time.
I'm all they have left,
and I'm doing this
all on my own.
An exorcism? Really, Frankie?
You wanted me
to call Rabbi Barry.
He says this is the way to go.
And you just
took his word for it?
You didn't get a second opinion?
How many psychic rabbis
do you think there are?
-Uh, seven?
-Zero!
I did not give
my consent for this, okay?
And Violet was right.
You can't just throw me away.
You know, you've never been
the brightest bulb on the tree.
I mean, you actually
believe in ghosts.
How you doing, Carl?
-Hey, would you put me down?
-Oh.
- What's happening?
- Put me down, please.
Come on, man.
I'm getting nauseous.
Let me tell you something.
If I was a ghost,
- I would haunt
the shit out of you!
I will--
Wow!
Frankie...
What?
-Aw.
-...will you marry me?
Yes, I will!
I love you so much.
I love you.
What the fuck?
Dandelions...
Oh, give me
your phone. Give me your phone.
Give me your phone.
Give me your phone. Okay. Okay.
Okay. Okay.
- Hi.
- Tillie.
Uh, update.
Um, your father
is poltergeisting the house,
but I am taking charge,
and so you need
to go get your grandparents,
and I'll go get Violet, and then
we can have the ashes.
-Okay.
-Oh. I'm engaged!
Wow. Congrats.
Who's the lucky guy?
The guy that gives you
all the money.
-I worked up such a sweat
running all over the place.
-Mm-hm.
-Poltergeisting is hard work.
-Well, you don't have
to poltergeist anymore.
I got your ashes back,
and I am...
not gonna let them
throw you away again.
-Ah, that's my little bunny.
-Yeah.
Listen, turns out Rabbi Barry,
obviously a quack.
-Yeah.
-Here's what I'm thinking.
Book a ticket to Switzerland.
We put my ashes
in that Large Hadron Collider.
- Dad, I can't go to Switzerland.
I'm so pregnant.
Why? Wh-- wh--
what are you talking about?
Y-- your grandson.
I'm due in two weeks.
I'm, like, so pregnant. See?
-I'm, like--
-You know what?
Whenever I told your mother
that she looked...
pregnant, she did not like it.
-Right. Right.
Um, Dad, I wanna help you.
-You know...
Uh, when you,
when you come back,
what do you think
is gonna happen?
-Hm. Well,
likely I'll be exhausted.
-Right.
Uh, I would like to have
my situation studied.
Also, I'm gonna need to get
a place to stay, you know.
Uh, someone to look after me,
take care of me.
So, if not you, who else?
You...
you were supposed to be the one
taking care of me,
just like I'm gonna
have to take care
of this fucking kid, 'cause...
'cause I'm having a, a kid.
I'm having a kid.
Fuck! I'm having a kid.
-Well, look who deci--
-Shut the fuck up, Daniel!
Sweetheart, look,
I know you don't want
to get rid of Dad, but I--
We have to get rid of Dad.
Wow! That was so easy.
Eric, you're the man
of the house. Would you please
talk some sense into
your soon-to-be baby mama?
Sir, with all due respect,
without your daughter,
I'm just the craziest guy
most people have ever met.
And while you are my third
favorite ghost that I know,
my loyalty lies to my family.
Marry him.
I'm gonna go inside
and put the salami back.
I, I felt too guilty to eat it.
Um...
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
Um, I watched the reunion,
and Larsa is so stupid.
-I love her.
-I love her.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Sit with me. Sit with me.
-Sit with me.
Sit with me. Sit with me.
-Okay.
-Am I a bad mom?
-Not even close.
Spirit, your family
is gathered here.
Your remains
are gathered here...
...the most
spiritual time of all...
...on the full moon.
I miss when Barry
was just a lawyer.
We are here to release you.
We do not wanna do
your dirty work no more.
...free your soul!
Be freed from the living...
May you cease to be haunted
by the unresolved
feelings of the living...
Be free from the living!
...and the Angayamabana
School of Magical Rabbi Studies,
I release you!
This house will be clean!
Spirit, Daniel Grover,
we release you.
We release you, Daniel.
- Good to meet you, man.
-Thank you for Violet.
-It's okay. I'm going to
- take care of the girls.
- Good riddance.
Happy trails, man.
We release you.
Goodbye.
Stop throwing shit!
People live down here!
Is he still here?
Something's not right.
Can I go inside now?
It's got to be the photos.
Oh, no. I brought the photos.
- How did you know
she threw them out?
I didn't. I've just been
dumpster diving
for old photos every night
while you're asleep
for an art project.
I didn't know who the guy was,
but then I was, like,
"Oh, little Violet."
Sorry, I probably
should have mentioned that.
I didn't really put it together
until right before
we came back here.
Then it's something else.
We have to figure it out.
It's me.
Barry, you're wrong.
I disagree, but I wanna see
where you're going with this.
I'm not advanced.
I haven't let go.
I'm not resolved.
I thought running away
was the same as letting go.
But now I've run
a million miles away
from the thing
I actually had to deal with.
I was an asshole to my dad
for not talking to him
for eight years.
I was an asshole
to Violet for throwing out
all of his shit.
I was an asshole to my mom
for making her
feel like a bad parent.
I'm such a fucking asshole
that not even a ghost
will haunt me.
So that begs the question,
how did I become
such an asshole?
Well, I learned
from the fucking best, baby!
Master manipulator,
master asshole,
my dad.
- The ghost who I know
can hear me!
- Don't you see?
- This is just another con.
He never shows himself to me,
and now we can't
fucking get rid of him.
The absent father
who never leaves!
It's brilliant!
I couldn't wait for him to die
so that I didn't have to deal
with avoiding him anymore.
Which is why it's so weird
that I waited outside
of the room while he died.
I just couldn't face him.
And now, every night,
I dream of his dead face.
My sister was
a better daughter than me.
And now my whole family
is stuck with him
because I just couldn't be there
for my dying father.
Tillie.
Tillie, it's okay.
It's not okay.
Sweetheart, it's just--
It's really complicated.
I, I'm sure, on some level,
you wanted to be with him.
But I wasn't with him.
And we even did
a big sance about it,
and maybe you just fucking
miss your chance sometimes.
I want it to go away,
but it won't go away.
And maybe I should have
been there for him...
when it mattered
instead of when I felt like it.
No. God.
How could she say that?
How could she be
so detached from reality
that she doesn't know
that I love her?
- How can you not know
that you're fucking dead?
You know a lot of what you
said back there just isn't true.
I love you.
And this is not
one of my schemes.
I wasn't in my right head
back at the hospital.
I mean, if I had...
What do you want? Hm?
What do you want?
You want me
to admit I'm dead? Okay.
I'm dead.
I am so fucking dead.
I wish you'd answer.
I got a feeling
I'm running out of chances.
Maybe you're right after all.
Sometimes you just...
...miss your goddamn chance!
Hey, you remember...
...when you started
playing soccer
and you got really upset
because you had to play go--
I told you...
...saving the goal is just
as important as scoring a goal.
That the goalie's the most
powerful position on the team.
And no one is more
powerful than my little girl.
I'm sure I'd recognize you
If I lost my memory
There's no voice on Earth
That speaks so sweet
I hope the next lifetime
You'll be somewhere
Next to me...
You remember
what I told you next?
Like two blades of grass
Beneath a tree...
If any one of those
little bitches
comes anywhere
near my goal box...
"...I want you to scream
and roar as loud as you can...
...and scare
the living shit out of them."
All again...
I've only experienced
A grain of sand with you
If I was a star
I'd always be
Right in your view
And someday
I'd hope you'd see me too
I know that
It's not always perfect
If I had the chance
I'd do it all again...
Why are my feet wet?
Why are my feet wet?
-Oh, my God.
-Oh, my God!
- Ew.
- Oh, my God!
-This is it! This is it!
-Oh, my...
- Come on.
- Oh, my God!
The baby is coming.
It's go time!
This is gonna be so fantastic.
At the bottom
There's a stir
And now the surface
Is a blur
Tell the truth
Like it's a joke
And don't fix the part
That isn't broke
I know I'm just a memory
And I know
That's how it's got to be
So tell the mirror
On the wall
Mirror, mirror on the wall
There's no reflection
Here at all
Mirror, mirror on the wall
There's no reflection
Here at all
Mm, mm
Mm, mm
I'm so tired, I can't sleep
The secrets
That my secrets keep
Down the stairway
To the church
Blackbirds
Hanging in the lurch
And I don't want to
See my name in stone
I tied a ribbon
'Round a bone
Took a ride in a yellow car
And I bought myself
An old guitar
Things ain't
What they used to be
I got a devil after me
Tell the mirror on the wall
Mirror, mirror on the wall
There's no reflection
Here at all
-Mirror, mirror on the wall
-Oh
There's no reflection
-Here at all
-There's no reflection
Here at all
-Mirror, mirror on the wall
-Oh
There's no reflection
Here at all
They're looking high
They're looking low
And you got something
On your mind
Did someone
Give you bad directions?
Were you in the wrong place
At the wrong time?
They found a body
In the river
They found a note
Left in the sand
"Leave my worries
To the water
And leave my body
To the land"
He won't get off my back
He won't get off my back
He won't get off my back
Doesn't see the hammer
Coming down...
I don't wanna play soccer.
Let's go get ice cream
and lotto tickets.
First of all,
don't ever let your mother
hear the phrase
"lotto tickets," okay?
And second of all, no, we can't.
You can't, you ca--
you can't leave
your team behind.
They're counting on you.
Do you know
that goalie is probably
the most powerful
position on the field?
I mean, it's just
as important to save a goal
as it is to score one.
-They need you.
-Really?
Are you kidding me?
You know
that box around the goal?
That's your domain.
That is your kingdom.
And if one of these
little pasty bitches
get inside that goal box,
I want you to roar so loud
that you just
scare the shit out of them.
Wha--
Oh, you think I'm kidding?
I'm serious. Hey.
Inside that box,
no one can fuck with you.
Now let's hear you roar.
Come on.
I'm sorry, did I stutter?
Let me hear you roar!
Oh! Oh, whoa!
Oh, God! Oh, God!
That was terrifying.
I didn't expect that.
Oh, boy. You scared me.
I think I saw a ghost
or something. Come on.
Yeah, but ghosts aren't real.
Hey, ghosts
are extremely real, baby.
- What? Really?
- Oh, yeah.
There's far too much
paranormal phenomenon not to.
And it relates
to a larger cosmology.
But there's a lot
of psychic residue.
Powerful emotion
and unfinished business.
Then again, the hell do I know?
You know everything.
I know everything
about one thing.
I'm not going
anywhere anytime soon.
You got me.
-Always.
-Always?
Forever.
You and me.
He won't get off my back
He won't get off my
Doesn't see the hammer
Nail his own hand down
I am not the woman
That you think I am
Oh, I swallow up a mountain
And I'm quiet as a clam
Saturday and Sunday
In the poison air
Oh, and every day I work
I help to put
The poison there
-Oh
-He won't get off my back
He won't get off my back
He won't get off my back...
He won't get off my back
He won't get off...
Hi.
Yes, this is Matilda Grover.
Um, I'm calling
because my father, Daniel,
helped me make this,
uh, teen debit account
when I was a minor,
which I still am.
A proud teen
debit account holder.
And, uh, I would like to have
him removed from the account...
...for personal reasons.
Uh, but I can just tell you.
Um, he's a charlatan.
Yeah.
Uh, um, grifter.
Uh...
...stole a bunch
of money from my mom.
Um...
If you have a drop down,
you can put "dead to me."
But my mom, Francesca,
uh, should definitely
stay on the account
because she puts money in it.
Um, I love my mommy.
Hello?
I saw the cutest guy
in my AA meeting,
and I was gonna
set you up with him,
-but--
-You gotta stop that.
- I know.
But you know what?
- Shh.
It's okay because he died.
So...
it's, like, problem solved.
No, no, no, no, no!
Don't start it yet.
Violet's coming.
She's gonna freak out.
I don't think she's gonna mind.
- She's been
a lot more chill recently.
-Is that true?
-I'm losing my fucking mind.
Dad is dying of cancer,
and nobody gives a shit
except for me, so...
-Hi.
-What?
Pausing the show.
I'm gonna go,
uh, check on the, uh...
-Cool.
-He called several times
when I was in court,
trying to keep a homeless kid
out of the foster care system.
And, I'm sorry,
what were you doing,
babysitting some
rich lady's cats?
-They're dogs.
-Right.
That's it.
Ex-husband, father dying,
and nobody cares.
I obviously care.
I just don't know
what I'm supposed to do.
-Cure cancer?
-You could try.
You could,
or you could muster up
any kind of compassion
for a loved one.
Or are you too busy raising
generationally wealthy dogs?
Oh, my God, I don't have to have
compassion for him anymore.
That's why people get divorced.
Yeah, Mom, I'm obviously
not talking about you.
-I'm talking about...
-Me.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, she's talking about me
because I did what
everyone told us both to do
and I stopped
talking to our addict dad,
who, by the way,
had a gun collection.
Secret gun collection.
A secret gun collection.
Six guns is not a collection.
A secret six-gun collection.
So, I'm finding it
a little hard to know what to do
-when you tell me he has cancer.
-Well, you know
what I found hard?
Trying to pass the bar exam
while Dad was living
in my front yard in his car.
I sent your grandpa over there
to tell him to leave
-and he was gone already.
-Yeah, not voluntarily.
They towed his car
because there weren't
enough wheels to put boots on.
I can't believe he figured out
how to drive that car.
-Insane.
-Did you see the tumor?
You're kidding.
Are we sure
there's an actual literal tumor?
Doctors should show you proof.
Yeah, because he also told me
that he knew Quentin Tarantino,
and I never saw him.
I am the only one
that cares about him.
I'm the only one
that's there for him.
-You hear yourself, right?
-I do. I have perfect hearing.
Violet, the man is a dangerous,
destructive alcoholic,
and my Al-Anon sponsor says that
you need to at least
let us detach with love.
Don't say "love."
Don't say "detach with love."
He's not dangerous.
He cried more than you did
when your hamster died.
Because you had
just gone to college,
he named it Violet,
and then it ran away.
It was spelled differently,
and you know that.
Please don't fight. It makes me
feel like I'm a bad mom.
-You're not a bad mom.
-You're not a bad mom.
Dad is a human being, okay?
And he raised you
while Mom was working. Sorry.
He deserves your compassion.
Not from me.
I don't have it for him.
- He called me a cunt
when I was 11 years old.
You were a cunt
when you were 11 years old.
Grandma calls me
a cunt all the time
and I still see her.
Doesn't count from her
because it's a term
of endearment.
You don't get to say it's a term
of endearment from her.
You don't get to say that.
You don't get to decide
whether or not
- it's a term of endearment.
- From Grandma?
- Yeah.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Just to clarify,
I worked because he did not.
And these are important
feelings for me to have,
which is why
I am gonna excuse myself
and go write in my journal.
Oy vey.
She's just gonna leave.
That's what she's gonna do.
Journal store is gonna have
to put up a wing in her honor.
-Move.
-I have to move.
Come on. Come on.
Okay.
Oh, my God,
I wish I could have been there
when she got arrested.
You really should see him.
You'll regret it if you don't.
He's not gonna die.
- Okay.
- No.
- I can feel you leaving.
- I know. I got a date. Look.
-You go on so many dates.
-Hold on. I go on so many dates.
-Look. I know.
-Wow. He's very attractive.
Well, it's like his hair's
a little bit swoopier here,
but it's spot-on boy band.
- What are we doing?
- Look.
-Oh, wow.
-I feel like he needs water.
That's a lot of tattoos.
- What do you mean?
-He looks thirsty.
-Okay, stop. This is-- Right.
-That's an expense.
-No, I don't need
the input, actually.
So, thank you. Thank you.
This was fun, guys.
Seriously, what a good hang.
I love this. Um...
Yeah, let's do this again
after I have a lobotomy.
Something I said?
You want to
watch Housewives, Carl?
Uh, no. But I love you both.
- Love you.
- -I think you would really like it.
Uh, I don't know about that.
My God.
Oh, well, now she's too thin.
- I heard she is on...
- Ozempic.
And so
I tried to get it for myself,
- you know,
but the doctor on the website...
...said that
I don't weigh enough,
so I lied and told him
I weigh more than I do,
and then he didn't believe me,
so I can't get it.
What?
I hope she uses
protection with that tattoo guy.
Oh, my God!
-I love having sex
without a condom!
-Yeah! Me too!
- See, we have
so much in common already.
If I haven't gotten
pregnant yet, I can't!
Don't worry. Every time
I try to donate sperm,
they say, "Never mind."
- Okay, just shut up
and lean back.
-Hey, have you seen Dad?
-Shit!
I haven't gotten around to it.
Well, I can't find him.
Start calling hospitals.
Just any hospital?
I know that you don't
want to deal with this,
but I'm scared
that Mark is going to
figure out I'm pregnant.
Figure out?
Didn't your co-worker
congratulate you yesterday?
Yes, and I threatened
to sue her for fat-shaming.
Wow. Uh, you crossed
your legs the other day,
and I'm pretty sure
I saw the head.
Our dad is missing.
Have you even seen him
since he got sick?
For your information,
I've been busy.
-With what?
-I'm walking
up and down the hill,
wearing Julianne's Fitbit
so that I can get her steps in
because she's trying
to lose weight.
Uh, doesn't it sound insane
to you that Dad is missing?
-This sort of happens
all the time.
-Maybe,
but it sounds more insane not
looking for our missing father.
Yes!
Yes, you agree?
Oh. No. Sorry, I just, um,
I just completed
one of Julianne's rings.
She's gonna look
really great at the Emmys.
I am so glad we have
our priorities straight.
So...
Okay, I found him.
How did you do that so fast?
So, the short version
is that the tumors
are eating him alive.
What was the long version?
Uh, the tumors
are eating him alive.
Would you like to see
images of the tumors?
-No.
-Okay.
- Sometimes people want proof.
- -Is there any treatment that could work?
Chances are slim.
Uh, again, I can show you
the X-rays of all these tumors.
-Please stop.
-Okay. Well,
your father's inside.
Dr. Blair, Dr, Blair...
You coming?
No, I... I am. Uh...
Yeah, I am. I'm just, uh,
I'm gonna call Mom,
let her know what's happening.
Yeah. Okay.
Hi...
...rabbit.
Hi, Daddy.
I love you so much.
-I love you too.
-Yeah.
Hey. Don't worry.
I have no intention of kicking
the bucket anytime soon.
I know.
I know. I know.
Is Tillie coming?
Um...
She's gonna be here any second.
Can you, can you put
SpongeBob on?
We used to...
watch that together,
me and Tillie.
- Oh, yeah.
- Hm.
-I love you.
-I know.
I know. I love you.
And so does Tillie.
You love her too, right?
I don't know.
Dad.
- Hey, Violet,
steal the TV for me.
Dad, come on.
Tillie says her father
is being eaten alive by tumors.
It's giving the tumors
an awful lot of agency.
It sounds like he's dying.
I don't wanna go,
but I feel like the good moms
are with their daughters
when their fathers are dying.
My mom was with me
when my dad died.
And she was a good mom.
Just look at me.
- Sweetie?
- Oh, hey.
-Hey, Mom.
-Hey.
Thank you for coming.
Oh, no. It's okay.
Um, is Tillie here?
- Um, she is...
- somewhere.
- Yeah, I think
she heard Dad say that
he doesn't know if he loves her.
Are you fucking kidding me?
- I don't know.
- Hm.
Um, well, remember,
uh, his brain is not
in the best shape at the moment.
Yeah. Yeah. No, I--
Hey, listen, um,
do you wanna see his tumors?
There is a doctor
that will be your best friend,
if you want to look at them.
I mean, I kind of do.
- I, I don't care.
- I'm just kidding.
Okay.
-Okay.
-Come on.
Hey.
-Okay.
-No, it's okay to not be okay.
No, really, I'm good now.
I'll, uh, look for Tillie
in a second.
-Yeah?
-Yeah.
- I've never been
to a puppet show...
-...in Santa Monica. When?
-Yes, you have!
And we smelled poop,
and we didn't realize
-it was on our shoes.
-I would--
- When-- How old was I?
- We were, like--
well, you were, like,
four or something.
I feel like I would remember
if we went to a puppet show
- and there was poop
on my shoe though.
- We were--
Oh, my God.
- Daniel?
- Hey.
-Daniel?
-Dad.
-Daniel?
-Hey.
Hey. No, no, no.
-No.
-Dad, no, no, no.
Tillie!
Tillie!
Dad?
- It's okay.
- It's okay.
It's okay.
I'll take care of the girls.
I swear, everybody will be okay.
I'll make sure
that they're okay.
I know we had problems,
but you loved them so much...
-Is he gone?
-...and there was a time
when I loved you
very much in spite of...
Sweetheart. Come here.
Come here. Come here.
Come here.
He's, like, dead to me.
Like a ghost...
- of a person.
- Like a ghost.
Like a ghost...
Oh.
I mean, missing those
last moments with her dad
after cutting him
out of her life for so long.
Well, procrastination
is a hell of a drug.
Okay, I'm at the store
looking at ice cream.
They're all out of
Halo Top Sea Salt Caramel.
-What's your next choice?
-You know what? Fuck Halo Top.
I watched someone die tonight,
so I deserve the real shit.
You got it.
I know that Tillie's decision
was really complicated.
It's just--
I hope that this whole thing
doesn't wind up haunting her
for the rest of her life.
Hey, Frankie, we gotta talk.
What just happened?
-What's going on?
-Where'd you go?
Where the fuck--
-Where did--
How did you do that?
-I can get it all.
What do you want?
You want me to go to Gelson's?
-Are you okay?
-Uh, everything's normal.
-I'll call you back.
-What do you mean,
everything's normal?
Oh, my God.
Uh, okay. Deep breaths.
-I am hallucinating.
-No, you're not.
Uh, okay, then,
I'm having a stroke?
-You're not having a stroke.
You smell burnt toast?
-You knew I don't eat bread.
Look, you know what?
I've been looking
for you for hours.
Something really strange
is going on here.
Strange? Really?
Because I am talking to my dead
ex-husband in a mirror.
Let's just calm down.
We don't know that I'm dead.
I watched you die!
-Oh, so now you're a doctor.
-You know what?
You have always diminished
my fucking accomplishments!
-You're literally not a doctor!
-I could have
been a doctor
if it wasn't for you!
I'm seeing things,
I'm seeing things.
I'm seeing crazy things.
I had a crazy day,
and now I'm going crazy.
I'm seeing things,
I'm seeing...
- Whoa! Fuck!
- Don't panic.
Fuck you! Fuck you!
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
I gotta call my sponsor,
call my shrink.
I don't know
what to think. I don't--
No, if I call my sponsor,
he'll think I'm fucking crazy.
Now, what the fucking--
Oh, my God.
Hey, if you're another ghost,
I may be Jewish,
but I am very clear
on the true meaning
of Christmas.
- Thank you.
- I'm coming in!
Ghosts can come in now?
I didn't say you were
the first person to see me.
Oh, my God.
He's in your mirror too?
This is real.
Do you see a light
at the end of a tunnel?
-Go towards it.
-Don't say, "Go towards it."
Don't go towards it.
That's how they get you.
There's no light.
No, I seem to be in some
strange, uh, liminal space.
Hard to describe,
but, uh...
well, seems to have
something to do with mirrors.
Of course
I tried to explain this
to Stephen Hawking
back in the '80s.
You never met Stephen Hawking.
Don't lie from the afterlife.
There could be repercussions.
Stephen Hawking could be
standing behind you.
He could punch you in the head.
-I'm not dead.
-Oh.
You'll never be
dead to me, Daddy.
I'm really not dead.
Okay, let's you and me go to
the thankfully mirrorless deck
so that we can call Tillie.
Hello?
Hi, sweetie. Were you asleep?
Did you take
that pill I gave you?
Yeah.
I don't think it worked.
Sweetie, can you
go to the mirror
and tell me what you see?
Like you're my Sarah Lawrence
acting coach?
Just do it. Just do it.
Okay.
Getting up.
Getting up. Walking.
Here. I'm here.
Do you see anything?
If this is another
body positivity thing,
it didn't really work.
Last time.
You don't see anyone else?
Mm, no, but you're starting
to scare the shit out of me,
so that's good.
Okay, listen. Um, I, I,
I need you to come over.
- Your sister and I
have to talk to you.
-Now?
-Yes. Right now!
-You have clothes.
-I know.
I know, it's like,
-it's like the end
of our town...
-Do you feel
-like you have cancer?
-...but if our town
-were a one-man show.
-But you never owned
that blazer is my point.
You know what I mean?
-I have that blazer.
-I don't think he did.
- Hey!
- Whoa!
We're seeing your father.
-At the morgue?
-In the mirror.
-Yeah, he's in
the mirror, your father.
-He's in the mirror.
Bring her over to the mirror
so she can see me.
-You got to go to the mirror.
-Come here.
-In the mirror. Like, mirror.
-The man is in the mirror.
- Dad is in the mirror.
Yeah, he's in the mirror.
It's like a miracle.
Why can't you see me?
She can't see me.
I don't know. You're not
even a predictable ghost.
Hey, mudgy, it's me. It's Daddy.
Have her turn.
She can't-- Swee...
Hey, thanks for visiting me
all those times. I really...
Can you hear what he's saying?
Yeah, can you hear
what he's saying?
Can you hear what you're saying?
Oh, God,
we have to convince her.
-Now I feel bad for priests,
'cause this is hard.
-I know. I know.
-Hard to have proof.
-Oh, oh. You know what?
I have it, I have it,
I have it, I have it, I have it.
Oh, Daniel, what is something
that you know about Tillie
-that neither me
nor Violet know?
-Okay, that's smart.
-That's genius.
-Right? Thank you.
Is this, like, some mean
and very convoluted way
of getting me to admit
to stealing Grandma's cigarettes
in middle school?
-Because I didn't do it.
-Hm.
How would I know
what she told you?
- You banished me
from the family.
You never told Tillie a secret?
Oh, my God,
you stole from my purse
to buy Dippin' Dots
for your father
-when he took you to the track?
-Matilda!
Oh, my God.
I've never told anyone that
because I genuinely forgot.
It's working.
Dad?
Do your thing.
I don't-- I can't see him.
-Am I doing something wrong?
-Maybe.
No, don't say that.
- No?
- No, no, no, no, sweetheart.
No, no, don't feel bad.
Because, um,
we don't know what kind of
supernatural mishegoss
is going on.
I mean, I, I was married to him,
and, uh, Violet
is the eldest daughter, so...
-Yeah.
-Um, maybe it's like
a Passover thing.
Passover thing.
Oh, or maybe, um,
I knew him longer
before he relapsed.
Yeah. Yeah. I think it, it was--
Just might be a very, very tight
circle on this one.
Where is he?
-Oh, Jesus.
-It's like...
-Don't answer it.
-I have to.
-You don't have to.
-It's Mom.
-Okay.
-Uh, hey, Mom.
Not a good time right now.
Oh, I won't keep you long.
Uh, Grandpa and I,
uh, seem to be
having a nervous break.
He wants to go
to a mental institution,
and I am not that worried.
What are you talking about?
We're seeing your deadbeat
dead husband in every mirror.
Oh, my God, my whole family
is being haunted without me.
Oh. They're seeing him too.
Hello? Where's everybody?
Ah. I got, like,
way too much ice cream.
I know, but it's a big night.
We got a lot of candles.
What are we doing,
just looking at ourselves
in the mirror?
-Here's Danny!
-Whoa!
God! Jesus!
Fuck! It's okay.
Everybody, come out!
Come with me! Come on!
Oh! Damn it!
Okay, the mirrors are covered.
Let's talk ghosts.
What? No.
I want to know why Carl...
...has not
proposed to Frankie yet.
- Oh, no, no, no, no.
You can't do me like that.
- No, Mom, no.
- This is not what that is about.
- This is this?
This is this now?
- We're doing this now?
- -We're here to talk about ghosts.
-Ghosts.
-Spot on, Grandma.
- Shut up!
- That-- Yeah.
-Okay!
-That is why we're here.
-Ghosts.
-Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Anyone who can see Daniel,
- raise your hand.
- Yeah.
Cool.
Ghosts are real,
and my whole family
is going crazy without me.
It's not fair. But if it helps,
I really, really hate
that I can see him.
And I really, really hate
that he can see me.
You? I looked
into having him killed.
-"Killed"?
-Well, casually.
I asked my jeweler
if he knew someone.
Jewelers know people.
Jewelers know people.
Why can't I see him?
Hm. I don't think
this is about you.
-Actually, now
that I think about it...
-Oh, you're right.
-...I think maybe
it's not about you.
-It's about their jeweler.
Hey, if it
makes you feel better,
you can have mine.
-It's not what
it's cracked up to be.
-Thank you, Carl.
That's really generous of you.
See? Some people are sort of
offering their ghosts.
Okay, I think
everybody should be
-a little bit more generous--
-Hey, guys.
Guys. Hey, guys!
-...as opposed to...
-Well, I'm talking...
-...being a huge bitch.
-...so announcement
from me. And be quiet.
Now, um,
thank you so much, everybody.
Um, so I was talking
with Dad privately,
and he doesn't exactly
know what's happening,
but he thinks...
- ...he might not be dead.
- Mm-hm.
What does he think he is?
-What?
-Whoa! Whoa!
You know what?
I can't with this fucking guy!
- All right, look.
- Where's the fucking ice cream?
It could be true,
it could not be true.
And whether
he's correct or not, I think
we should cover our bases
by, A, protecting
his body from erosion.
I don't know when that starts.
And, B, going to his apartment
and getting all of his photos,
-which we have to do anyway.
-That might be
what's keeping him here...
and nobody wants that.
- I mean...
condolences.
- Thank you.
What were his last wishes?
Maybe he's already
been cremated.
He didn't have last wishes
because he ate
a specific brand
of cookie every day
that he thought would
make him live forever.
No, no, no, you idiot. No.
It wasn't a specific brand
of cookie that he thought
was gonna make him
live forever. He thought
that if he ate it long enough,
medical science
-would catch up and intervene.
-Oh, right.
- The guy was a putz.
- It's different.
-I'm the idiot in that scenario.
-You are the idiot.
-That's what I said.
-Why don't we
-donate his body to science?
-Did I not say that?
Is that real?
Sure. The one person
that can't see him
is guessing his last wishes.
That seems right.
-Oh, my God!
-I think that makes sense.
-No, I think it makes sense.
I love that.
-You're such a dick!
-You're a dick!
-You loved BodyWorks.
-You don't know that.
We went one time...
-And that's that.
-Okay! Whoa!
-Mom.
Hold on. I know
someone we can talk to.
-A therapist?
-No, but a very
intuitive person.
- Better not be Barry.
- It's Barry.
- Ugh.
- Mm-hm.
-Great.
-She's obsessed with Barry.
- Um, okay, I am gonna go
ahead and call the hospital...
- Who's Barry?
...about Dad's body.
Unless Barry can, um,
come and do this for us. So...
Excuse me.
Is this a sign?
I don't generally
believe in signs,
but I also
didn't believe in ghosts
-until tonight.
-A sign for what, sweetie?
That I shouldn't have
listened to everybody
and cut off contact with him
because now I'm being punished
by him denying me his presence.
Why can't he punish me?
I mean, I, I don't get it.
Do you want
to be haunted by him?
I just don't understand
why I can't see him.
And I don't wanna
be going crazy over this,
but it's pissing me off
that my whole family
is being haunted
by my dad without me.
Maybe he had unfinished business
with all of you.
Unfinished business?
The man never worked
a day in his life.
Yes. Yeah, he did.
He was a taxi driver,
and he made all those lamps,
and he helped Uncle Herbie
fix his computer all
of those times, and he was
a government contractor.
He was kicked by a police horse,
and the government paid him off.
That is not called employment.
- Right. Okay.
- The horse was really
provocative, though.
Thank you so much.
Appreciate it.
Okay, so that was the hospital,
and they said we can
move him to any mortuary.
We just have to call,
or we can donate his body
to something
called Science Care.
Till, they're not open
right now, and I work
during business hours,
and I am eight
fucking months pregnant,
so I'm gonna need you
-to call and get
our dad's body back.
-Mm.
Me?
No, I can't.
Julianne is having
a really hard time
with the company
that delivers her soup.
She likes puree,
and they keep sending chunky,
and it's destroying her.
Is that a yes?
Sure.
Yeah. You know what?
I will go collect
the body of the man
who can't even be
bothered to haunt me.
This putz's in my mirror.
Daniel, talk to your daughter.
You can't even ghost right.
I swear, after I die,
I'm coming back
and I'm haunting
every single one of you.
Thank you, Grandpa.
-Thank you.
-No, no. It's okay.
Okay. Choking!
-Oh!
-Thank you.
Hi. Is this Tile Grover?
"Tile"? Do you think
there's a person named Tile?
Uh, whoever filled out
the intake form put "Tile."
It's Tillie. Matilda.
Who are you?
- Hi, Miss Grover.
This is Owen from Science Care.
Oh. Yeah.
Hi. I've been calling you.
Uh, you have to get
my dad's body from the hospital,
and there's a lady there
who's, um, very mad at me,
as if I'm supposed
to go get it or something.
Well, I'd love to get
that taken care of for you.
We just need a little bit
of additional information.
-Okay.
-Uh, we'll need
an affidavit stating that
there are no remaining
conflicts with the estate.
What does that mean?
Uh, just that
affairs are settled
and all fine with the estate.
"Estate"? He lived
in Section 8 housing.
Got it.
Uh, well, still, you know,
-just to, to, to kind of...
-So, uh,
you want me
to go to my dad's place
and rummage through the trash
to confirm that it is trash?
Sadly, yes. And we will
also need it notarized.
Come on!
- I, I, I, I am so sorry,
Miss Grover.
That is so profoundly difficult.
And I do understand,
you know, even past being
your account representative,
I'm a man. Human. Man.
I, I understand emotions,
and I feel them.
And, and I'm a--
And I-- As a, a human,
member of the human species
with you.
Yeah, well, keep saying it,
because it gets more convincing
every time you do.
I wish
I could help, you know.
And, and if you need
someone to be here
while you
process those feelings...
I just can't
get rid of this guy.
He dies, and then
I have even more work to do
than from when he was alive.
And it's like I can't get away,
and my sister
is bearing down on me.
And I can't even see my dad.
Right. Because he's passed.
What you said.
It's not like he's a ghost.
But if he was...
...and my sister
and Mom could see him,
but I couldn't...
...what would you
suggest that I do?
Since you work for science.
Well, I work for Science Care,
not just, sort of,
the concept of science.
But I would say, you know,
in this extremely specific
and obviously
impossible scenario,
that sister and mother
are very close,
intimate relationships
with a lot of baggage.
And it might behoove you
to find a more neutral mediator,
maybe someone a little
even-keeled and impartial
to help
reestablish that connection.
That's what I would do.
Like a Science Care guy.
No.
No, not me. It can't be.
Um, uh, you know, I would say,
though, that I am,
I am here for you.
You know, feel free to call me.
I, I'm, I'm assigned
to your case.
Uh, and once again,
my name is Owen.
And, uh, I'll be here.
Thanks, Owen. You're a real one.
If you say so.
Uh, there is a short survey
after we get off
the call together
that I would love-- Hello?
She hung up.
You and Dad
always got along so well,
and the case manager
at Science Care
says that
we could use a mediator,
which I don't think is his job.
I think he gives
Dad's body parts
to medical students.
But you love to mediate,
so maybe you can
help us connect.
I do love to mediate.
Okay, Renee. Mediate away.
When was the last time
when you and I just hung out?
Um,
yeah, I don't know, Grandma.
That's really sweet, but Violet
-is really riding my ass...
-Didn't mean it
-when I said I didn't know...
-...about this whole
-ghost thing.
-...whether I loved her or not.
Can't you just talk
to each other?
-No. That's literally...
-No. See,
-that's what I'm saying.
-...the whole problem.
Please let me handle this.
I am the mediator.
Daniel, Tillie wants
to talk to you.
Now, see...
I can hear and see her.
She can't hear and see me!
I am not deaf or foreign!
Will you please tell Tillie...
-...that I'm so--
-Are you still
talking to this asshole?
-Yes.
-Will you shut
the fuck up for five...
Don't even
fucking think about it.
You're dead. I'm not.
So suck on that.
I'm obviously astral traveling,
or a bodhisattva,
or on some higher
level of consciousness.
You are not on a higher plane.
You're stuck here
because you, in life,
were a deadbeat.
You stole from your wife!
- You abandon your daughters,
you lie to everybody.
No wonder your kids
didn't want to talk to you
when you got sick.
Hm.
Tillie forgot the leftovers!
Mom?
-Mom in here?
-No.
-Oh!
-Everyone's a critic.
-That's amazing.
-Thank you.
I figured
since you can't see him...
Voil.
That's for me?
It's not for me.
Awesome.
Yeah, 'cause I, I tore him
out of all my pictures.
So a giant painting is perfect.
Sweetheart-- Oh, Jesus!
"Not my favorite."
Oh, God. Oh, I'm so sorry.
-It's okay.
-Oh, Mom.
Uh, I talked
to the Science Care guy.
They can get the body of the man
who doesn't know he loves me.
So call the psychic rabbi.
I have to go.
-Oh. Okay, okay, okay, okay.
-Bye. Have a great day.
-It really is fantastic. It's...
-Thank you.
...it's frightening.
Does she-- Do you want this?
Or is it-- Is this for me?
How do we feel about some horns?
Why can't I
get you out of my life?
Well, this normally comes
at the end of the story,
but you still love me.
You need to make
things right with Tillie
so the demons can come
and suck you away
like the bad guy in Ghost.
The guy with no eyebrows.
The guy, uh, the guy whose
father was a famous producer.
The guy who played
the president in Scandal.
You need to call
that psychic rabbi
so he can get to the bottom
of this astral projection thing,
or whatever the hell it is,
and then I'll come back
and I'll straighten
things out with Tillie.
I cannot tell somebody
that my dead ex-husband
doesn't think he's dead,
because that,
that's going to make me
look like a fucking idiot.
Yeah, we can't
have that, can we?
Oh, my God. You know what?
You denied having
going into my bank account
and stealing money from me
to buy a bunch of guns.
I wanted to be
the only liberal with guns.
You denied being drunk
when I dragged you to the car
and showed you
all of the empty beer cans.
Since losing my corporeal form,
I've really sobered up.
And now
you're denying having died.
Congratulations.
You win a denial.
And you believe in ghosts.
So what the hell do you know?
I know that you said
you didn't love Tillie.
I did not say that
I don't love Tillie.
I said that I didn't know
if I loved Tillie
because my brain
was filled with tumors
or so they say.
You know, I happen
to be going through
a very hard time right now.
You know, that is just like you,
to conveniently have tumors
to blame your bad behavior on.
All I know is that
Tillie cannot go through
the rest of her life
thinking that
her father doesn't love her,
and you know that.
That would be bad.
All right.
All right.
I'll take care of that.
I'm on it. But you have
to call that rabbi.
Unless you want
your husband in the mirror
for the rest of your life,
telling you how you really look
in those jeans.
Oh, my God. Fuck you.
- I'm so going to fuck you.
Fuck you.
Hello.
You've reached Rabbi Barry.
Shalom!
To schedule a bris, press one.
To schedule a bar
or bat mitzvah, press two.
To schedule a psychic clearing,
press three.
Sure. Three.
Hello, this is Owen from Science Care.
How can I help you?
Hi, Owen from Science Care.
This is Matilda Grover
calling to check
on Daniel Grover's body.
- Hi, Miss Grover. So, yeah,
we received all the paperwork.
We can release
those ashes to you right away.
Ashes?
Yeah, that's what we, uh--
That was what was
listed at the hospital.
Is that a problem?
No.
I just didn't realize
you were going to burn 'em.
And now I don't really know
how that's gonna affect
the metaphysical aspect
of all of this.
What?
I have no idea why
I'm inclined to ask you this,
but what do you think
happens when we die?
Uh... Wow. Well, you know,
any number of things.
- Our website actually
lists a bunch of the options.
We have cremation, air burial.
Not to our bodies.
To our spirits.
Oh. I'm afraid
I don't know, Miss Grover.
This family member...
...he can't see me.
-Not the real you, right?
-Sure.
When he was in the hospital,
I couldn't look at him.
And I tore him
out of all my photos, so...
...it's like there's no proof
that he was ever even my dad.
Got it.
I'm so sorry.
Now I'm just sort of worried.
What if
I'm his unfinished business
and this is all my fault?
Forgive the forwardness,
but is it maybe
just as possible
that he is
your unfinished business?
Wait. What's air burial?
Air burial is a cultural custom
where a body is left
on a high altitude surface
to be picked clean by birds.
He would have loved that.
Why won't you come talk to me?
Why can't you come haunt me?
You're so broken.
And I'd do anything
to talk to you.
To be sweet to you
instead of chastise you.
I'd spend all the money
in the world for you.
I'd run the family dry...
...to make you feel
like you got the respect
you thought you deserved.
I'd learn everything
there is to know
about metaphysics for you.
I'd cure cancer.
None of it would've mattered...
...or changed
anything that happened,
but I'd do it now.
Dad?
Dad!
Look at how you lived!
I'm doing it!
I'm facing
my unfinished business!
I'm not hiding
in the hallway anymore!
I did the right thing...
...cutting you out of my life.
'Cause this is what you do.
You hurt people
because you only
ever cared about yourself.
I'm glad I can't see you.
I'm glad
you're out of my life...
...forever.
Daddy, I am so sorry
about the cremation.
Hey, don't worry
about the ashes.
I'm sure that whatever power
allows me to manifest
can also reconstitute
a human body.
-It's just molecules.
-Yeah.
Yay.
Yay. Okay?
So...
...uh, before the sance begins,
uh, I was thinking
maybe you could
walk to the drugstore,
I could look through the glass
and the lotto machine...
...find the winning numbers.
You could buy a ticket.
Bing, bang, boom,
we've got enough money,
bring me back into this plane.
I could pay off
my student loan debt.
-Hm? Sure. Sure.
-Yeah.
Keep your eye-- eyes
on the prize, though, rabbit.
Right. I do technically
think that might
constitute as fraud,
and I don't know
if we want to use
your ghost powers for evil.
Uh, not a ghost, sweetie.
Well, you might be, right?
I mean, Dad,
I am on your side, but...
...I was in the room.
I watched you flatline.
Isn't it beautiful
that you might be a spirit
there to protect the family
when my son is born?
Your grandson?
Isn't it enough for you
to just watch over us like this?
- No.
- No.
-No.
-Right.
No! I'm in a mirror!
I'm in a mirror.
-I wanna be with you.
-Yeah.
You know...
where all the action is.
Right. I-- And I
want that too. And...
-Yes. Yeah.
-Attagirl.
Okay. Okay! Mm.
- I don't like that shade.
I never liked it.
- I wasn't asking you.
Um, did you get
the goods from Dad's?
Yes. Everything
that wasn't covered in mold.
- Or did you want the mold?
- Ha, ha-ha.
Okay, well, did you
get his diving helmet?
And did you get
his fencing sword and the rocks?
Did you get the box of cables?
Box of cables.
That's what I forgot.
Because we need that for...
- Okay, it's not a joke.
All right? Because, look,
it might provide
some sentimental value.
-The cables?
-I don't know.
- Excited for the psychic rabbi?
- Um... Yes. Yes.
Uh, any luck figuring out
why you can't see Dad?
I don't know.
Maybe the connection's
not strong enough
and there's too much dread.
-Probably.
-Hey, babe.
I think I'm finally getting
-cauliflower ear from jiu-jitsu.
-Hey.
-Huge day for me.
-Huge.
Oh, hey, Mr. Grover.
-Oh, it's--
-Oh, come on! He can see him?
-You never even met him!
-Don't worry, Tillie.
-It's only because
I busted raw on your sister.
-Eric.
- Sorry, Mr. Grover.
- Ugh!
-Dad!
-So I should just
-bust raw in somebody...
-No, you shouldn't.
-...and then I'll be
able to see my dad?
-Eric.
Come on, come on. Eric, come on.
-Mom, did you drink
when you were pregnant with me?
-Of course.
Isn't it recommended?
We are gathered
to discuss the lingering spirit
of Daniel Grover
and what may yet be done
to ease his passing
from this life into the next.
Barry is a psychic rabbi.
Do you think we don't know
why we're here?
What I need you to know
is that
this haunting is very real.
It's not just in your mind.
Yeah, this dude
is way more specific
than any of the other
apparitions I know.
He made fun of me
about my birthday.
I didn't even know I was
self-conscious about that.
Oh, you're gonna make
a wonderful father.
Yes.
Mazel, by the way. Ah!
The most common
misconception I hear
about hauntings is,
"Oh, the ghost
is haunting the living."
However, it's you
who are haunting him.
Wow.
You're haunting Dad.
-Yay, yay, and yes!
-Bullshit.
You all need
to unburden yourselves
of an attachment to him.
Every single one of you!
Well, I, I can't see him.
But you probably
already knew that.
Your father isn't visiting you?
-No.
-Wow!
That's impressive.
That means
you've already let him go.
Shut up.
Shut up!
I...
You hear that?
-I did everything right.
-Didn't say that.
You know,
this whole time, Barry,
I've been feeling
very guilty and jealous
about this whole haunting thing.
And, um, I guess
what you're saying is that
I'm the most advanced
family member
because I don't have
any unfinished business
with him.
Now I'm happy
the Jew witch is here.
Thanks, Barry.
You're a real one.
Thank you. Now,
what I need
from the rest of the family
is to come
to terms with the fact
that what you need from him
will never be fulfilled.
Oh, I, I knew that already.
That's why I divorced him.
Yeah, speaking of letting
him go, I never wanted him.
I saw him once at Christmas,
and that was too much.
Fulfilled. For crying out loud,
the man annoyed me
from the day I met him.
You hold on to more
than you know.
Barry...
I say this with love.
Fuck you.
Come together as a family,
ravel in the living bond.
But above all else,
let him go!
And if anyone
needs advice or pointers
from the most advanced
member of the family,
I'd be more than happy
to help all of you oldies.
Okay. Um, no, thank you.
Barry, how are we
supposed to do that?
Heed these words.
Follow my advice.
The remains of the deceased
must be released in a ceremony
that I have created,
based on the teachings
of Rabbi Nachman
and some Steely Dan songs.
-Dad hated Steely Dan.
-Yeah.
All right, uh,
let's all, um, uh,
gather round for the ceremony
in front of the garbage can.
Hey, Daniel. Goodbye, Daniel.
Goodbye, Captain Shitbag.
Fuck you.
-Oh, fuck you, man!
I don't need it!
-Oh, fuck you!
No, Harris.
It can't be done now.
It has to be done...
Please say full moon.
Please say full moon.
...on the full moon.
-Bam!
-Hey, Barry. Where'd you
go to rabbinical school?
Was it the, uh,
crystal store on La Cienega?
-I love that place.
-And we can have it
at Carl and Frankie's.
Oh, no, no, no.
By this new moon,
all the lingering,
unresolved feelings
must be made whole
within this family,
or else his soul
will be trapped with you
until you all perish.
But most important of all,
I take checks only.
Check this out.
Hey!
-Are you even fucking?
-Yes.
-I'm fucking your ex-wife.
-Can I watch?
Oh, I thought you were.
I have no idea
what she sees in you.
Oh, gosh. Let's think.
Uh, lack of delusions.
Uh, my own money. My,
my dick doesn't taste
like Europe in the summer
or like it sleeps
under a bridge?
-Why are you doing this?
-You heard Rabbi Barry.
This is unfinished business.
She has unresolved feelings.
You made her
terrified of marriage.
-And I have to fix that.
-Hey, okay, just calm down.
I fucked her too.
Then we got married
and it messed everything up.
-You're gonna
mess everything up.
-God! Shut up.
Everybody in her family
talks so fucking much.
You know,
she is writing terrible things
about you in her journal.
Stop talking!
So I went to the pagan
candle store to get
the Kabbalah trinkets
- for the Phish
concert ceremony...
...to release Dad's soul.
-But what do you--
For the ashes.
-Stop. Stop.
What do you wanna do with them?
Well, it's not "them."
It's a "him."
-Yeah.
-Dad is a "him." He is a "him."
-It's not "him."
-Well, it's not "it."
Did "it" feel right to you?
What do you want to do with him?
-Flush him down the toilet?
-I don't fucking know.
This sucks.
And I wasn't expecting them
-to ship it back in a box.
-Yeah.
Dad is worried you're not taking
- the astral travel
thing seriously.
-Aw. Well, I'm not.
-Don't. Stop.
It makes sense. It does.
He explained it in a way
that I think is really pretty.
It was, like, time--
I'm butchering it, but it was,
like, time is a line--
You went to law school!
I know that. I know that,
and I'm stressed.
And I'm due any day now.
And Eric has an eye infection
- from his
jiu-jitsu mouthguard...
...and it wasn't
his jiu-jitsu mouthguard.
-He said he wanted
to try on somebody else's.
-Oh, my God.
-Now...
-No, it's sort of--
-What are these?
-Um, it's--
What are these?
-These look really familiar.
-What do they look like to you?
-Look like lottery tickets.
-They're lottery tickets.
Because Dad had a good idea,
and I actually think
it was a really good idea
for when if...
When he gets back,
when, you know,
if, when he gets back,
and then I'll have money.
It's responsible,
I think, personally.
So it's just nice, you know?
Oh, my fucking God, Violet.
Dad is still manipulating you.
Okay, look, we don't know
what's possible, okay?
Ghosts are real.
What if...
...what if he can come back?
From the dead?
I guess you know
absolutely everything.
You're so smart,
maybe you should
get a regular job.
Uh, so that way,
I don't have to Venmo you
$1100 every month.
So, that way you can
live in a storage unit.
All right.
So, counselor, what's the plan?
You're gonna bring Dad
back from the dead
and win the lottery,
and raise a child with a guy
who got an eye infection
from a mouthguard?
Sounds like a really
good plan. What then?
You'll never be free
in this realm or the next
from Dad's bullshit.
Man, I really thought that
you'd be able to
let this go when he died.
But for someone
who's about to be a mom,
maybe you should
quit acting like a kid.
I'm gonna go be
the responsible one and get
a bunch of soup for my boss,
who really didn't like
the soup I got her before.
Jesus Christ.
You love her too, right?
I don't know.
I'm trying to help you.
I'm trying to have
a conversation with you.
Put up this wall.
And life is not all about you.
You didn't appreciate it.
Nobody appreciated it.
-Ghosts are extremely real.
-I try!
But there's a lot
of psychic residue.
Powerful emotion.
Unfinished business.
Good morning, Frankie.
It's Rabbi Barry.
I'm having a premonition
that I'm going to be
a little late
to the sance tonight.
The full moon is here.
See you tonight.
Make sure you have
the photos, the remains,
and maybe a rotisserie chicken.
My beautiful family,
all gathered here
to get rid of
the ghost of my dad,
who they can all see
in the mirror
except for me. Chin-chin.
Did you know Charles Manson
killed Sharon Tate next door?
He did not.
Did he kill anyone next door?
Nope. Sorry, man.
Wow. You found someone
crazier than Dad.
At least I have somebody.
How is it going with
that customer service robot
that incinerated our father?
Did you see how stupid Larsa was
at the reunion last night?
I love Larsa.
Oh, you know, Violet,
Tillie did an incredible job
at your Dad's apartment.
I mean, really, it was spotless.
Yep.
It was spotless.
No cleaning fee.
Well, you kept
the photos, right?
But someone must have been
murdered on this block, though,
right, Eric?
Yeah, right? Do you wanna go
start asking neighbors,
or will they know to lie?
Tillie.
-What?
-The photos.
Um...
I have some photos on my phone.
Right. I'm talking
about the ones on film of, like,
his fucking grandparents
from his apartment.
I threw out the photos...
...because it's time to let go.
Come on.
Come on.
Nobody in this family
feels anything, huh?
Okay. Where's your backpack?
-What?
-Your backpack.
That stupid yellow backpack.
There. And-- Okay. So--
-What are you doing?
-Easy enough to find.
Here we go. Um, I'm not doing--
-This is what I'm doing.
-No, you won't.
- Here we go.
- Stop!
- What are you doing?
- Fuck off!
-You can't just take
the ashes. We need them.
-Why not?
You want what's left of his body
so you can throw that away too?
It's probably
why you can't see him.
You just want to throw him away.
Get rid of him.
-All of you do.
-But you can't
just take Dad's ashes.
Why are you in control
of everything
that has to do with him?
Because you don't care at all!
You're right.
I don't care about him.
You are such a fucking brat.
Mom, she threw away
the photos. Yell at her.
I don't want to be
in the middle.
Of course you don't. Eric.
-We're leaving.
-Ooh.
No.
You can't go. We can't do
the ceremony without you.
Good. I don't want him to leave.
What about what I want?
Congratulations, Mom.
You have made this
all about you.
Actually, all of you
have made it about you
because you are all narcissists.
I am not a narcissist.
I have asked several shrinks
and two sponsors.
And what I am
is an alcoholic, drug addict,
compulsive overeater,
because my mother didn't
pay enough attention to me
because she is a narcissist.
I am not a narcissist.
I am a hysteric.
Eric, let's go.
Come on, we're leaving.
But there's free food here.
This food is free, right?
Okay, put as much salami
as you can in your pockets
because we are gone.
No, no, you can't leave
until you say
I'm not a bad parent.
Well, in comparison,
you weren't.
Dad was so bad.
Oh, why are you attacking me?
Because we're fucked up,
and you're the only parent
we have left.
Ladies, please!
Stop being such cunts!
Eric, we're leaving!
Come on!
I can't abandon a pregnant woman
at an exorcism.
- Not again.
- Eric!
-He took all the salami.
-Oh!
Jesus.
This exorcism sucks.
Let's go.
It's in the middle of rush hour.
- I don't care!
- Great.
Okay, call your sponsor,
call your therapist,
write in your journal,
take a bath.
I, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
- You wanna go to Petrossian?
- -Yes.
That went well.
Hello. Science Care.
Owen speaking.
Am I a bad person?
One moment, please.
- Hi, Mrs. Henderson. I'm gonna
have to put you on hold.
Miss Grover, what seems
to be the problem now?
Okay, I'm just
gonna level with you.
My sister is being manipulated
- by the ghost of our dad.
- Yes!
I knew it was a ghost.
Sorry. Continue.
-Really?
-Yeah.
My family
is haunted by banshees.
Wow.
Okay, so my sister is being
hoodwinked by our dead dad
into a lotto scheme
at eight months pregnant,
and my mom isn't doing
anything to help us.
-It's not fair.
-And I'm the only one
not being haunted by my dad,
and Rabbi Barry says
that I let go.
-Great.
-So I'm right
and everyone else is wrong.
Tillie, I'm gonna
level with you.
I was hit by a car
this week. Okay?
And we cleared your case.
You're off of our books.
You received the ashes.
I'm not even really sure
how you got my number.
Our system should have
automatically cycled you out
to some other inbox.
I found
your LinkedIn profile.
Look, suffice it to say,
I've got other stuff going on.
Now, everything you told me
paints a picture
of you being right,
-except for one thing.
-What's that?
The fact that
you're calling me at all.
Are you real?
After the day I've had,
Miss Grover...
...I honestly don't know.
Look, I'm some
customer service rep
on a lot of painkillers
who can't stop seeing banshees.
But I do know one thing.
Of the two people
on this phone call right now,
only one of them
needs to be convinced
that you're right,
and it's not me.
You are wasted
in your field, sir.
Maybe.
Look, if this is
not too forward of me,
I'd love to email you
my personal phone number
and take you out
for a lovely oyster dinner.
Well, I...
You sure know how to
keep a girl on her toes,
Owen from Science Care.
I wasn't
gonna bring this up,
but your dead ex-husband
keeps telling me
that I'm a fucking loser,
and so I need you to tell me
that you're not writing down
"Carl is a fucking loser"
in your book.
I never should have
had kids with him.
Not everyone does everything
right all the time.
I can't afford to not do
everything right all the time.
I'm all they have left,
and I'm doing this
all on my own.
An exorcism? Really, Frankie?
You wanted me
to call Rabbi Barry.
He says this is the way to go.
And you just
took his word for it?
You didn't get a second opinion?
How many psychic rabbis
do you think there are?
-Uh, seven?
-Zero!
I did not give
my consent for this, okay?
And Violet was right.
You can't just throw me away.
You know, you've never been
the brightest bulb on the tree.
I mean, you actually
believe in ghosts.
How you doing, Carl?
-Hey, would you put me down?
-Oh.
- What's happening?
- Put me down, please.
Come on, man.
I'm getting nauseous.
Let me tell you something.
If I was a ghost,
- I would haunt
the shit out of you!
I will--
Wow!
Frankie...
What?
-Aw.
-...will you marry me?
Yes, I will!
I love you so much.
I love you.
What the fuck?
Dandelions...
Oh, give me
your phone. Give me your phone.
Give me your phone.
Give me your phone. Okay. Okay.
Okay. Okay.
- Hi.
- Tillie.
Uh, update.
Um, your father
is poltergeisting the house,
but I am taking charge,
and so you need
to go get your grandparents,
and I'll go get Violet, and then
we can have the ashes.
-Okay.
-Oh. I'm engaged!
Wow. Congrats.
Who's the lucky guy?
The guy that gives you
all the money.
-I worked up such a sweat
running all over the place.
-Mm-hm.
-Poltergeisting is hard work.
-Well, you don't have
to poltergeist anymore.
I got your ashes back,
and I am...
not gonna let them
throw you away again.
-Ah, that's my little bunny.
-Yeah.
Listen, turns out Rabbi Barry,
obviously a quack.
-Yeah.
-Here's what I'm thinking.
Book a ticket to Switzerland.
We put my ashes
in that Large Hadron Collider.
- Dad, I can't go to Switzerland.
I'm so pregnant.
Why? Wh-- wh--
what are you talking about?
Y-- your grandson.
I'm due in two weeks.
I'm, like, so pregnant. See?
-I'm, like--
-You know what?
Whenever I told your mother
that she looked...
pregnant, she did not like it.
-Right. Right.
Um, Dad, I wanna help you.
-You know...
Uh, when you,
when you come back,
what do you think
is gonna happen?
-Hm. Well,
likely I'll be exhausted.
-Right.
Uh, I would like to have
my situation studied.
Also, I'm gonna need to get
a place to stay, you know.
Uh, someone to look after me,
take care of me.
So, if not you, who else?
You...
you were supposed to be the one
taking care of me,
just like I'm gonna
have to take care
of this fucking kid, 'cause...
'cause I'm having a, a kid.
I'm having a kid.
Fuck! I'm having a kid.
-Well, look who deci--
-Shut the fuck up, Daniel!
Sweetheart, look,
I know you don't want
to get rid of Dad, but I--
We have to get rid of Dad.
Wow! That was so easy.
Eric, you're the man
of the house. Would you please
talk some sense into
your soon-to-be baby mama?
Sir, with all due respect,
without your daughter,
I'm just the craziest guy
most people have ever met.
And while you are my third
favorite ghost that I know,
my loyalty lies to my family.
Marry him.
I'm gonna go inside
and put the salami back.
I, I felt too guilty to eat it.
Um...
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
Um, I watched the reunion,
and Larsa is so stupid.
-I love her.
-I love her.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Sit with me. Sit with me.
-Sit with me.
Sit with me. Sit with me.
-Okay.
-Am I a bad mom?
-Not even close.
Spirit, your family
is gathered here.
Your remains
are gathered here...
...the most
spiritual time of all...
...on the full moon.
I miss when Barry
was just a lawyer.
We are here to release you.
We do not wanna do
your dirty work no more.
...free your soul!
Be freed from the living...
May you cease to be haunted
by the unresolved
feelings of the living...
Be free from the living!
...and the Angayamabana
School of Magical Rabbi Studies,
I release you!
This house will be clean!
Spirit, Daniel Grover,
we release you.
We release you, Daniel.
- Good to meet you, man.
-Thank you for Violet.
-It's okay. I'm going to
- take care of the girls.
- Good riddance.
Happy trails, man.
We release you.
Goodbye.
Stop throwing shit!
People live down here!
Is he still here?
Something's not right.
Can I go inside now?
It's got to be the photos.
Oh, no. I brought the photos.
- How did you know
she threw them out?
I didn't. I've just been
dumpster diving
for old photos every night
while you're asleep
for an art project.
I didn't know who the guy was,
but then I was, like,
"Oh, little Violet."
Sorry, I probably
should have mentioned that.
I didn't really put it together
until right before
we came back here.
Then it's something else.
We have to figure it out.
It's me.
Barry, you're wrong.
I disagree, but I wanna see
where you're going with this.
I'm not advanced.
I haven't let go.
I'm not resolved.
I thought running away
was the same as letting go.
But now I've run
a million miles away
from the thing
I actually had to deal with.
I was an asshole to my dad
for not talking to him
for eight years.
I was an asshole
to Violet for throwing out
all of his shit.
I was an asshole to my mom
for making her
feel like a bad parent.
I'm such a fucking asshole
that not even a ghost
will haunt me.
So that begs the question,
how did I become
such an asshole?
Well, I learned
from the fucking best, baby!
Master manipulator,
master asshole,
my dad.
- The ghost who I know
can hear me!
- Don't you see?
- This is just another con.
He never shows himself to me,
and now we can't
fucking get rid of him.
The absent father
who never leaves!
It's brilliant!
I couldn't wait for him to die
so that I didn't have to deal
with avoiding him anymore.
Which is why it's so weird
that I waited outside
of the room while he died.
I just couldn't face him.
And now, every night,
I dream of his dead face.
My sister was
a better daughter than me.
And now my whole family
is stuck with him
because I just couldn't be there
for my dying father.
Tillie.
Tillie, it's okay.
It's not okay.
Sweetheart, it's just--
It's really complicated.
I, I'm sure, on some level,
you wanted to be with him.
But I wasn't with him.
And we even did
a big sance about it,
and maybe you just fucking
miss your chance sometimes.
I want it to go away,
but it won't go away.
And maybe I should have
been there for him...
when it mattered
instead of when I felt like it.
No. God.
How could she say that?
How could she be
so detached from reality
that she doesn't know
that I love her?
- How can you not know
that you're fucking dead?
You know a lot of what you
said back there just isn't true.
I love you.
And this is not
one of my schemes.
I wasn't in my right head
back at the hospital.
I mean, if I had...
What do you want? Hm?
What do you want?
You want me
to admit I'm dead? Okay.
I'm dead.
I am so fucking dead.
I wish you'd answer.
I got a feeling
I'm running out of chances.
Maybe you're right after all.
Sometimes you just...
...miss your goddamn chance!
Hey, you remember...
...when you started
playing soccer
and you got really upset
because you had to play go--
I told you...
...saving the goal is just
as important as scoring a goal.
That the goalie's the most
powerful position on the team.
And no one is more
powerful than my little girl.
I'm sure I'd recognize you
If I lost my memory
There's no voice on Earth
That speaks so sweet
I hope the next lifetime
You'll be somewhere
Next to me...
You remember
what I told you next?
Like two blades of grass
Beneath a tree...
If any one of those
little bitches
comes anywhere
near my goal box...
"...I want you to scream
and roar as loud as you can...
...and scare
the living shit out of them."
All again...
I've only experienced
A grain of sand with you
If I was a star
I'd always be
Right in your view
And someday
I'd hope you'd see me too
I know that
It's not always perfect
If I had the chance
I'd do it all again...
Why are my feet wet?
Why are my feet wet?
-Oh, my God.
-Oh, my God!
- Ew.
- Oh, my God!
-This is it! This is it!
-Oh, my...
- Come on.
- Oh, my God!
The baby is coming.
It's go time!
This is gonna be so fantastic.
At the bottom
There's a stir
And now the surface
Is a blur
Tell the truth
Like it's a joke
And don't fix the part
That isn't broke
I know I'm just a memory
And I know
That's how it's got to be
So tell the mirror
On the wall
Mirror, mirror on the wall
There's no reflection
Here at all
Mirror, mirror on the wall
There's no reflection
Here at all
Mm, mm
Mm, mm
I'm so tired, I can't sleep
The secrets
That my secrets keep
Down the stairway
To the church
Blackbirds
Hanging in the lurch
And I don't want to
See my name in stone
I tied a ribbon
'Round a bone
Took a ride in a yellow car
And I bought myself
An old guitar
Things ain't
What they used to be
I got a devil after me
Tell the mirror on the wall
Mirror, mirror on the wall
There's no reflection
Here at all
-Mirror, mirror on the wall
-Oh
There's no reflection
-Here at all
-There's no reflection
Here at all
-Mirror, mirror on the wall
-Oh
There's no reflection
Here at all
They're looking high
They're looking low
And you got something
On your mind
Did someone
Give you bad directions?
Were you in the wrong place
At the wrong time?
They found a body
In the river
They found a note
Left in the sand
"Leave my worries
To the water
And leave my body
To the land"
He won't get off my back
He won't get off my back
He won't get off my back
Doesn't see the hammer
Coming down...