Margo's Got Money Troubles (2026) s01e02 Episode Script

1
["Blow My Mind" playing]
[Jinx panting, grunting]
[panting, grunting continues]
[grunts]
[panting]
How you doing, brother?
[groans] Never better.
[panting]
[upbeat music playing]
[sighs, winces]
[nurse] Would you like another lesson
on the swaddle before you leave?
No, we got the swaddle down. Thank you.
Oh. Care to hold your grandson?
Oh, I would love to,
but I should, um, finish up packing.
- Hmm.
- When do I get my stitches out?
[nurse] Uh, they'll dissolve
in about a week.
And it'll eventually be, like,
normal again?
No. Never. No matter how many Kegels.
[sighs]
[upbeat music continues]
[snoring]
Can you believe this?
I'm going home with a baby.
[clicks tongue] Going home with Brody.
[chuckles] Bodhi. Bodhi.
- B-O-D-H-I.
- Oh.
- Bodhi? Oh, I thought it was… [stammers]
- Bodhi.
- Sorry, I thought it was Brody.
- [chuckles]
[both chuckle]
It's kinda crazy
they just let you leave with him.
- Yeah.
- Newborn human being.
No instruction manual.
No, you'll be surprised
how natural it'll all come to you.
Did it for you when you had me?
Oh… Yeah, like riding a bike.
Last night I had this super vivid dream
that Dad was there
while I was giving birth.
Well, he wasn't there, noodle.
[Bodhi crying]
I'll check in right after my shift.
You're really just
gonna leave me alone with him?
You'll be fine.
You got this.
[panting, grunting]
[pants, sighs]
You got this.
[grunts] Okay.
[grunts, pants]
[gasps] Hi! [gasps] Hi, Bodhi.
He's so cute.
- So cute.
- [exclaims] So cute. [chuckles] So…
He's so tiny.
- Hi.
- Oh, my God.
- He's the most beautiful thing!
- So precious.
Oh, what a miracle.
[sighs] Miracle.
- He's just… He's so…
- Handsome.
- Handsome. Exactly.
- Mmm.
- And adorable.
- And adorable.
[Bodhi fusses]
[exhales sharply] He's probably hungry.
Oh. I read that babies
eat every two hours.
I so wish I could.
I mean, wouldn't it be amazing
if we could just snack around the clock?
Hey, you know the baby can hear you?
And every time you speak,
you're making him weirder.
- Mm-hmm.
- [Margo gasps]
Okay. [grunts]
- Okay. Ooh.
- [Bodhi fusses]
- I'll take it.
- [chuckles]
["Doing Really Well Thanks" playing]
You look ready. Okay.
- Okay.
- Mmm.
[winces]
[Bodhi crying]
…don't ask me how I am ♪
I think you knew the answer
When you went to kiss my hand ♪
- [crying]
- Maybe there's something wrong with him.
There's nothing wrong with him.
How can you just automatically know that?
Because I'm a doctor. I'm a pediatrician.
I examined your child.
There's nothing wrong with him.
He has colic.
Oh, I'm doing really well, thanks ♪
I look after myself, thanks ♪
I don't need ya ♪
Yeah, I'm doing really well, thanks ♪
I do not need ya help, thanks ♪
Don't need it ♪
- [crying continues]
- Are you hungry?
[pediatrician] Do some squats
as you're holding him.
- I'm sorry, what?
- It can help with the colic.
Just deep knee squats,
up and down, up and down.
Just do it while we're talking.
[Bodhi crying]
It's that time again
You've got work at nine am ♪
I sleep better on your bathroom floor
Than I do in my bed ♪
Oh, what must you think of me ♪
Please, don't tell them
What you've seen ♪
Gotta get as much of it as I can
with the diaper.
Kinda lift his cheeks up just to
make sure that I got it all… [grunts]
[grunts]
Are you okay?
Are you all right?
I'm great.
[stammers, sighs]
[babbles]
Please don't ask me how I am ♪
I think you knew the answer
When you went to kiss my hand ♪
- [Becca] Oh, my God! Baby Bodhi!
- [music ends]
- Aw. He's just perfect.
- [Bodhi babbles]
Uh, I don't know what else to say.
He's perfect. [chuckles]
I know.
Can't even remember life without him.
Aw.
And you're feeling okay?
Well, my tits are becoming
a bit otherworldly. [sighs]
The stitches dissolved from my episiotomy,
so I no longer have to ice my crotch.
- So, that's nice.
- [chuckles]
And I got a little something going
with mood swings,
which could either be postpartum
or self-awareness.
- Self-awareness of what?
- [chuckles]
- [Bodhi cries]
- [sighs]
That I'm terrible at this.
- Margo.
- [shushes]
I am.
[sighs]
I'm beginning to realize that nobody
is totally straight with you, you know?
[chuckles] They all just harp on the "joy"
and the "miracle" and "wonderful" and…
[cries] You know, which…
and it is, it-it-it totally is.
[breathes shakily]
But… [crying]
- [exhales deeply]
- But what?
But, I mean, he just re-refuses…
refuses to get a good latch.
[sighs] My nipples are so sore.
And after he's done with them,
they don't even look like nipples.
They're like, more like-like-like
squeezed toothpaste tubes.
And my areola is all white and… [sobs]
…and pinched.
And, I mean, he's probably
cutting off my blood supply, so… [sobs]
And he just spits them out
with such vicious contempt.
And he makes this awful clicking noise,
it's like…
[imitates slurping]
[sobs]
I'm sorry, but that fucking little thing
won't shut up.
I mean, the lease prohibits us
from getting a dog.
But having a screaming baby?
I think we need to extend
a little more patience.
[sighs] Oh, please.
Maybe she could've practiced
a little more patience
before screwing her lit professor. [sighs]
[Margo] It has become obvious
that the people in Margo's life
regard her as an unrelatable space alien.
And why shouldn't they?
She made the world's dumbest decision.
Meanwhile, Bodhi is somehow
getting cuter by the day.
As if the nutrients
he occasionally sucks down
are a superpowered tit ooze
meant to produce
the world's most perfect mutant baby.
What will the apex of his cuteness be?
The jury is out.
[inhales, exhales deeply]
James.
Hey, so we've gone over
your aftercare and so forth.
Your discharge plans,
your follow-up appointments.
- Over and over.
- [chuckles]
So, um, big, big reminder
on the importance
of routine and support groups.
I can't overstate that.
And I-I know you've been told that once
all the "kudos" and "attaboys" fade,
it's… the quiet
that you gotta watch out for.
Yeah.
- [phone chimes]
- You got somebody picking you up?
Uber. You have Uber in New Mexico?
[chuckles] Yeah. Uh…
Everything good?
A little-little development.
Like a… a bump development?
Something you-you need
to see a counselor over?
No. No.
[chuckles] Fuck.
[instructor] Teaching your baby
to breastfeed can be tricky.
- [Bodhi crying]
- But these strategies can help.
Hold your baby, tummy to tummy…
- Okay, honey. You got it.
- …while you hold the teat back.
- You're looking for their lips…
- You got it.
- …to turn outward like a fish.
- You got it.
[gasps, grunts]
- Ensure that the teat will latch…
- Fuck!
- [banging on wall]
- [roommate] Keep it down in there!
Don't you think if I knew
how to make him stop, I would?
[crying continues]
What do you want me to do?
[roommate] Go outside?
Fuck you! [sighs]
I don't know why you think
this is acceptable!
I have a midterm in biochem
and I know you will never understand
what this night of sleep might cost me!
You will never get it!
So, if you can't make it shut up,
can you take him outside?
- Outside?
- Hey, come on, guys!
It is 2:00 a.m. and you want me
to take my one-month baby outside?
It's not all about you or your baby.
Are you that clueless?
- [roommate 2] Hey!
- I am not clueless!
I am well fucking aware
of the magnitude of my idiocy!
That is your baby! Your responsibility!
My responsibility
is to pass my biochem exam!
Okay! Yeah. I'll leave!
That's what you want? I will leave!
[crying continues]
You happy now?
Yes, because now I'll be able to sleep!
[slams door]
[groans]
[slams door]
[breathing heavily]
- [dialing]
- [sniffles]
[line ringing]
- [phone ringing]
- Mmm?
Hi.
Hey, Mom.
What's the matter?
No, nothing's the matter.
Everything's fine.
[sighs] What's the matter?
I don't think I'm gonna make it.
[sighs] Don't be ridiculous.
You're a mother. Mother's make it.
You got this.
[scoffs] Why does everybody say that?
"You got this"?
Because you don't have a choice.
I need to go back to work
to make some money.
Which means I need a babysitter.
Which I can't afford.
[sighs]
Don't even think about asking me
what you're about to ask.
Mom?
[groans]
[yawns, grunts]
[driver] Thirty minutes
while we change drivers.
[passengers chattering]
[Jinx groans]
[grunts]
[groans] Fuck.
[groans]
["Honky Tonk Troubadour" playing on radio]
[diner] Hey, Jinx.
Hey.
[chuckles] What's up?
- [chuckles]
- All right.
How you know Boomer?
[clicks tongue] Oh, I, uh…
He… No, he-he knows me.
- I used to wrestle, so…
- Ah.
I never could get into that stuff.
It's kinda stupid.
- No offense. [chuckles]
- [chuckles] No, none taken.
- [chuckles]
- It's a bad job. Don't do it.
Okay.
[slurps]
Hey, so, is that his KZ sitting out there?
That beautiful old beast?
[server] Mm-hmm.
Well, it looks nicer
than riding the Greyhound.
You headed home?
Yeah. I got an ex-wife and kids
back in Jersey.
- Got some things to sort.
- Mmm.
Well, must be nice for them.
Having a famous parent and all.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
It is a very special sort of relationship.
Mmm.
Hey, bus is leaving, hotshot.
Thank you. Thank you very kindly.
[sighs]
[sighs]
[bus horn honks]
- [door opens]
- [Jinx] Hey, excuse me, sir, um…
I've got a championship belt in here,
could use a good home.
I could autograph it for ya,
could take a photo
in case you wanna resell.
But I gotta walk out that door
in exactly ten seconds.
How'd you like to do a little
business with Jinx?
What?
[engine revving]
["Time's Up" playing]
- [Bodhi cries]
- Shh, shh, shh, baby.
I keep trying to tell you he's…
He doesn't like me!
It's just the colic, not you.
Maybe try holding him less,
you know, rigid?
See? You see?
He's just picking up on your tension.
[coos] He does it with me too.
Aw, there you go.
Aw, there you go. [shushes]
There you go.
So, he's just been fed,
but he will get hungry.
[groans]
Yeah. Be good for grandma.
No, you have to put those in the fridge.
[groans] It just seems so skeevy
handling your milk.
Mmm, you didn't breastfeed me, did you?
[Shyanne] I tried.
Ah, was it the implants? Huh?
No, I got some, ugh, kind of infection.
Have you talked to Dad?
Why would I?
[Margo] Well, I haven't.
Not that I do, I just would've thought…
I'm getting a bad feeling
like maybe something happened to him.
- What if he's dead?
- God. He's not dead.
He's just wherever the fuck.
[sighs]
[babbles]
- Oh, hey, you got something there.
- [groans]
- Um…
- Stop.
Kenny wants to… meet you.
- I've already met him.
- No, only in passing and you know, he…
He, like, wants to meet you
and get to know you, and…
Why?
Mmm… I don't know.
What? Like a formal interview process?
Could be.
Mom. You wouldn't actually marry him,
would you?
You bet your ass I would.
[Margo] What? Why?
Because he's… everything I'm not.
- Well, he's also cheap.
- [chuckles]
You really think he's gonna let you spend
$400 dollars a month on face cream?
He doesn't have to know
about the face cream.
Do you love him?
- I do.
- [scoffs] Liar.
I do!
And I admire him.
Mom, he's hardly your type.
[Shyanne] Yeah, well…
I am finished waiting for my type.
I don't even want my type.
My type is
the worst possible thing for me.
So… Um… [clicks tongue]
…when are you free?
And, uh, you'll need to get a babysitter
that's not me,
and we'll go to dinner.
Can't I just bring Bodhi?
Oh, my fucking God.
You haven't told him about the baby.
Okay, no. No. I'm not pretending
that I don't have a child, Mom!
[scoffs] I knew you were gonna
be this way.
I will go to dinner with Kenny
when you tell him that I have a baby.
[scoffs] Unbelievable!
[scoffs]
Unbelievable yourself!
[Bodhi cries]
[groans]
[shushes]
["Shy Girl" playing]
Whoo.
Here you go.
Nice to see you.
[server] Margo, order's up!
[patron] You're the best, baby.
Hey, you have a visitor. Outside.
- Mom.
- [Bodhi crying]
I can't. He won't stop crying,
- and I-I just… I-I just can't.
- What the fuck?
- So, you brought him here?
- I tried calling, you wouldn't pick up.
- Oh, my God.
- [sighs]
I'm not meant to be a grandmother.
Just like I wasn't meant to be a mother.
Fucker. Fucker. Fucker.
Mom, it's okay.
No, it is not okay.
Don't you think I know that?
Even he knows that.
I wish I could be a better person,
but I'm not!
And his crying nonstop,
that is exactly what he is trying to say.
And I will not be judged.
Not by him or anyone else.
[sighs]
Look at him. Look at him.
He deliberately is quiet
when you're holding him… [cries]
…just to make me feel worse about myself.
Mom, it'll be okay.
[sobbing]
[sobs] Oh, God.
[inhales sharply]
[sobbing] I am an awful grandmother.
You're not.
[sobs] Oh, stop being nice.
You're being mercy-nice.
I will not be pitied.
I'm just terrible at everything,
except being pretty.
- And you excel at that. Brilliantly.
- [chuckles, sniffles]
[sniffles, groans]
[sniffles] I'm sorry
I called him a fucker.
[groans] You think he looks like me?
[chuckling]
[both chuckling]
[sniffling, groaning]
- I love you, noodle.
- Love you.
Well, this is probably something you don't
wanna hear under the circumstances, but…
But what?
Okay, um, you're fired.
- What?
- I need someone I can count on.
I'll solve the childcare thing.
- You won't.
- [stammers] I won't?
Honey, this is your life.
Businesses, employers,
we scrape to make it.
We survive because
of dedicated employees…
I need a job, Tess.
And you're my friend.
Yeah, and it's as your friend
that I'm saying no.
I mean, people work remotely from home
all the time.
Especially writers.
["Take One For The Team" playing]
I've been trying my best
To keep it together ♪
Light as a feather and stiff
As a bored and lonely is right on ♪
I got my sights on
That open door ♪
I could run
Or I could take one for the team ♪
Or this time tomorrow
I won't be breathing ♪
Believe me
I'll keep my little mouth shut ♪
- Or I'm gonna be sorry…
- [music ends]
What's up?
[sighs]
Nothing's wrong.
In fact, it's a positive development.
Of sorts. [exhales]
Uh, we wanted to let you know
we found our own place.
So, we'll be moving out in a week.
Just wanted to give you a heads up,
so you could find new roommates.
Are you kidding me?
- Uh…
- Did you know about this?
I just found out.
A little notice might have been nice.
It came up pretty quickly.
And of course, we can still be friends
and all of that and…
Okay.
[sighs]
[screams]
- [audience cheering]
- [grunts, groans]
[audience chanting]
Jinx! Jinx! Jinx! Jinx!
[Jinx] They say it's not about
how you fall, but how you get back up.
[audience cheering]
[audience chanting]
Jinx! Jinx! Jinx! Jinx!
Bullshit.
It's not just about popping back up.
It's about beating the shit outta
whoever knocked you down!
That's what character is!
You bash the other guy's guts out.
You turn him into goo.
[dramatic music playing]
Professor.
Come in.
Mark, meet Bodhi.
- Bodhi, meet Mark.
- [sighs]
Well, this has become very real.
Oh… [chuckles] …he's super real.
Though I would imagine far less
interesting than if he were fictional.
[Mark scoffs]
[Bodhi babbles]
[clicks tongue] Uh…
Hello, little guy.
Wow, Margo,
he's really beautiful, isn't he?
I cannot afford a babysitter.
Not being able to afford a babysitter
makes it difficult to work.
Hence, I lost my job.
Two of my roommates just moved out,
so my portion of the rent
has now increased
by over a thousand dollars per month.
I would rather snorkel in my own vomit
than come to you begging for money,
so instead I've come to demand it.
[whimsical music plays]
I need $3,000.
[chuckles] You're going to give it to me.
Do you think I'm that liquid?
You will give me $3,000.
[door opens]
- [music ends]
- [exhales heavily]
[sighs]
[Shyanne] What did he say?
I just left before he could respond.
No.
[sighs] I just… [stammers] …I don't know,
I started to feel sorry for him
and, you know,
I could see his face start to contort
and I didn't wanna soften,
and him to try to negotiate me down.
I must say, I'm impressed.
And where's Bodhi?
I thought you were bringing him.
Susie's watching him.
So there,
progress on the babysitting front too.
- Listen. What are you wearing?
- Progress all around.
- Very nice. Okay.
- Thank you. Okay.
Oh, my God. Just looking at the menu,
my mouth is flooding with saliva.
Are we getting appetizers?
- Well…
- The thing about nursing,
I'm constantly starved.
Margo, I want you know to know
this meal is my treat.
And you're free to order whatever
you like, uh, no expense spared.
We don't need an appetizer.
[Margo] Well, maybe you don't.
You're about to order a margarita
the size of your head.
But I need one.
Uh, you know I don't drink.
[Shyanne scoffs]
[chuckles]
- Susan?
- Uh, no.
Maybe it's the pediatrician's office.
Just, um, hold on.
Order me nachos.
Hello?
- Is this Margo Millet?
- Speaking.
Elizabeth Gable calling.
Uh… Elizabeth?
Gable. As in the mother.
His.
Uh, hello.
I thought we might schedule a meeting
to discuss your demands.
What do you mean a meeting?
A meeting, where two or more people
get together
by chance or arrangement.
Mark has given me your contacts.
I will email you an address.
Is this a joke?
A joke?
You find extortion funny? I don't.
I'm hoping that we can meet
and resolve this tomorrow.
It would be best.
[tense music playing]
[Shyanne] You okay?
I'm fine.
You don't look fine.
Well, I am.
So, Mom says
you're a big deal in the church.
Well, I'm the president
and the youth ministry director.
That's really cool.
They have really good programs
like plays and stuff.
- [Kenny] Mm-hmm.
- Yeah…
- They even put on, uh…
- Rent.
- Rent.
- [Kenny] Rent.
Yeah, we're much more liberal
than we're given credit for.
Mm-hmm.
Which is why it was so silly for Shyanne
to think that I-I would judge you
for having a baby out of wedlock.
- [Shyanne sniffles]
- You know, most people these days,
they just, uh, don't wanna accept any
consequences for, you know, their actions.
A lot of girls in your situation
they would have cried rape.
They would've, uh… [stammers] …you know,
said, "Well, he was my professor.
He should've done this
or he shouldn't have done that."
And… Uh, my point is-is
that we're all fallen creatures.
The real test is what we do
when those chickens come home to roost.
- Right.
- Yeah? [chuckles]
- See? I-I told you we would get along.
- Mmm.
Which is actually why I-I wanted to, uh,
ask you to this dinner,
um, tonight, um…
I-I'd like to ask, uh,
for your blessing, Margo.
I would like to ask
for your mother's hand in marriage.
[Shyanne gasps]
Uh… Oh.
Yeah.
- Oh.
- [cries]
So, we have… Um, do we have your blessing?
[Margo stammers]
- Yeah. Of course.
- [Kenny] Yeah? [chuckles] Okay.
Oh, wow! [chuckles]
[patron] What?
Shyanne.
You are the most beautiful wo…
beautiful woman I have ever met.
- Yes! Yes! I say yes!
- [chuckles, shushes]
- You gotta let me finish.
- [chuckles]
[inhales deeply]
I would be honored if
I could be the boring to your beautiful,
the strong to your delicate…
- [sniffles]
- …the serious to your silly.
Shyanne, will you be my wife?
Yes. [chuckles]
- [patrons cheering]
- Okay.
- [sobs]
- Okay.
[employee] Hey, everyone.
Let's give a big Applebee's cheer
to the happy couple!
- Oh! [chuckles]
- [cheering]
["Mendelssohn's Wedding March" playing]
[Margo] It was actually quite beautiful.
And romantic.
Maybe it's even possible
she really loves him.
[Susie] Mmm. That's very affirming.
I always find it so moving
when love works out in real life,
as opposed to just books and movies.
Yeah.
Is that cabbage really working?
I think so.
It's supposed to help with inflammation.
And I gotta cram these milk bags
into a respectable outfit tomorrow
to meet Mark's mom.
[Susie] Ooh, yikes.
Yeah. Yikes indeed. [sighs]
- What?
- [inhales sharply]
Look, I've never brought you
into this part of my life,
but now the girls are gone,
I feel comfortable saying that…
I'm into cosplay.
Very into it.
I'm a cosplayer.
[clicks tongue] Yeah, I figured.
[Susie] Anyway… [chuckles]
…if you ever wanna model some looks,
I think you'd be a natural.
Oh, okay. [chuckles] Thank you.
Just think about it.
I will. I promise.
[door closes]
[knocks on door]
God, at this hour?
[sighs] What now?
[sighs] Like seriously, what the fuck now?
[groans]
Dad.
Hey, baby.
["Drop" playing]
Thought you might be dead.