DTF St. Louis (2026) s01e03 Episode Script
The Go Getter
- Hey.
- Hi.
Hey, whoa! Wow.
- "Wow" what?
- Wow, let's let me order, okay?
I was just going to hustle up
your thing, your Breeze.
Yeah, well,
maybe that's not what I want today,
so let's let me decide, okay?
Yeah.
All right, I would like
to have the Go Getter. Yeah.
Totally. Yeah.
- Okay.
Go Getter.
- Another Go Getter?
- Yeah.
So, that's, like, the third one.
So, that's free?
No. Eight dollars and 42 cents.
No tip.
One more Go Getter?
Yeah.
- Is that free now?
- No.
Eight forty-two.
Thank you very much.
Hi.
Well, hey.
Go Getter?
Yeah, for sure. My every day.
The Go Getter. Yeah.
Same.
Usually take a mid-day break,
try to get the energy up.
I hear ya.
She lied to me. Today.
About this?
- Jamba Juice?
- Yeah.
I pulled it after I got back.
She said Forrest
instigated their relationship.
That she was seduced.
The truth is she left work
and waited for him all day,
on the day
that their relationship began in earnest.
She was away from work
for nearly a full day,
waiting for him there.
And she deceived him. There.
How?
She's Watermelon Breeze.
She's what?
She told me they shared a common favorite.
Common favorite what?
Juice drink. She lied to him.
Jodie.
Suburban affair, suburban lie.
People lie about common interests
at the beginning of relationships.
That's how relationships are formed.
She'd gain what if she was involved?
He had no money, no life insurance.
You've been screening his mail,
monitoring his accounts.
Any indication of life insurance?
No.
You addressed this with her, correct?
Yes.
She said her husband
had no life insurance.
Okay. Right. So?
What's her motive?
Oh, man. This is him?
He kind of packed it on, huh?
It happens.
Yeah, okay. Why?
Why did he have this with him?
And why is the face scratched out?
I mean, if we found this
in a garage or something,
we wouldn't have to square that.
But what's it doing at his murder scene?
We have to square this.
You'll question Forrest further?
Yes, I will.
Can I attend?
I know I shouldn't be speaking.
I know I should have a lawyer.
Please don't speak now.
The sheriff's detective isn't present.
I shouldn't be speaking at all,
but you don't understand,
you need to understand.
I don't know how else to make you.
For now, for this moment,
please stop speaking.
That's your bicycle, Forrest.
- You were there.
- That wasn't me.
Is this you?
Yes.
What was going on in there, Clark?
A Bloody Mary dosed with lethal Amphezyne.
Naked pictures of this guy?
Floyd.
What, you don't like me
calling him "this guy"?
- No.
- Why?
He was my friend, and he's dead.
Well, why are you looking
at naked pictures of your friend, Floyd,
at 4:00 a.m.,
far from your nice little home?
We know you were there, Clark.
What the fuck was going on in there?
Yeah, so I'm 18, 19,
I'm out here looking at colleges.
I get flagged in Vancouver
nothing bag of marijuana
It's just me in there with this guy,
red-haired guy,
And, you know, I'm saying guy,
It could be a woman,
What kind of hairdo?
- It's a flattop.
- That's probably a guy.
But it's like a lady flattop.
And they're powerhousing me.
You know, like,
putting their weight on me.
they were powerhousing me,
like, into it a little, you know.
I was just thinking
that maybe we could
get something going like that energy.
So, you want me to overwhelm you?
How do I do that?
Do you know what Amazon position is?
No.
I'm on my back.
but they're also back,
a vulnerable position for a guy.
and you're just kind of taking control.
That's it. That's it.
Tell me
about these dream meetings, please.
roleplaying is something that we would do,
you know, share at the dream meetings.
What role would Carol
assume while roleplaying?
Can you say "powerhouse" maybe?
Powerhouse.
- Cool.
- Powerhouse.
- Powerhouse.
- That's it.
Powerhouse.
- Powerhouse.
- No.
- No?
- No.
- Too male? Okay.
- Yeah.
- Yell it at me.
- Powerhouse!
- Powerhouse!
I'm gonna spit at you. Powerhouse!
- It hurts a little bit.
- Sorry.
- It hurts a little bit. Yeah.
- Okay. Powerhouse.
- Okay.
- Like this? Like, powerhouse?
- Yep.
- A little bit of powerhouse.
Yeah, someone's breaking
into the house.
- Powerhouse?
- Yep.
- Powerhouse.
- Call somebody.
Powerhouse!
That sort of thing.
You like to be controlled.
What's wrong?
It's Floyd.
Tell me what you mean.
He has alimony.
Floyd was married before?
Yeah, to a fortune teller.
which takes a huge bite, you know?
And then it's like, he's got,
I'm not kidding, five years of tax debt.
And every year, we just owe more.
Even when I wake up in the morning,
it's just like I wake up in the morning
and I know that there's gonna be
certified mail coming and stuff.
And there's going to be credit people
calling daily
You know,
Floyd's not gonna get a promotion
to be like King of Sign Language,
or whatever.
I'm sorry.
It's just been a tough year.
And I am into sitting on your face,
Guy Smiley. I really am.
It's just that sometimes
it's harder for me to escape into it,
into you, because of all these,
like, worries and stuff.
Financial worries, hey?
I can do something about that.
How can I help you?
Tell me. I want your dreams too.
Controlled.
Was this her dream or yours?
I would ask for that sorta thing
while talking, you know.
While talking,
I would ask for that sort of thing.
Why did you say that?
- Like that.
- Like what?
"While talking,
I would ask for that sort of thing."
People are always talking
when they ask for things.
- Why would you say that?
He's saying that I killed Floyd. Floyd!
Asking about my sexual dreams.
You feel like talking
about your sexual dreams?
Probably no. Right? Fuck!
I'd like to talk about this.
What about it?
- It's Floyd's.
- Okay.
Is it familiar to you?
Okay.
Yeah.
Nailing it. You're nailing it.
You nailed it. You nailed it.
You don't even need,
- just, you know.
- All right.
Yeah, that is a great
first sentence to learn,
because if you encounter
a deaf person struggling
in an auditory environment,
and do that. It'll help 'em right out.
God, it's so hot.
Yeah, that's why we're here.
To cover the heat wave.
facial expressions of alarm.
- Why?
- Well, imagine you're deaf.
You're in your apartment.
You're just walking along.
You got your drink, your magazine.
And you look over at the TV,
and you're like,
"Oh, there's a guy signing,
but no facial expressions, no alarm."
- Sure.
- Right? Just keep walking.
Then, winds up, there's a heat wave,
and you die.
So, the interpreter makes
facial expressions of alarm
because, now imagine, you're deaf.
- Yeah.
- Okay. Still deaf.
You're walking across your living room.
And you got your drink,
your magazine, whatever.
You look across.
You see on the TV, you see me.
And I'm like.
Yeah.
Trouble.
You're like, "What the fuck?"
- "Is there like a heat wave or something?"
- Okay.
- That's how you save them.
- I get it.
Jump in a cool shower.
At least, you know,
half a dozen times a day if you need to.
And do not forget to check in
on your family and your neighbors.
Stay cool out there.
Feel better?
It's the outfit, you know.
Yeah, well,
gotta be able to see your hands.
- I was so hot, I didn't have any water.
- Yeah.
- Any shade or anything.
- Yeah.
- Dude.
- Yeah?
- Dude.
- Yeah?
DTF.
Yeah?
- I got a hit.
- Whoa.
- Dude, I got a hit on DTF.
- DTF.
DTF, I got a hit. Modern Love.
- All right.
- Modern Love. Whoa.
Whoa, dude.
Look at this beautiful lady. Modern Love.
Do you recognize that?
Explain that.
- You don't wanna talk about that?
- It's not what you think.
- Well, what should I think?
- Not gonna talk about it.
On your left.
On your left!
On your left!
Wow.
Life Champions, Chapter Nine.
All relationships involve a give and take.
Consider the many ways
your relationships ask for your time,
your attention,
and your emotional investment.
And ask yourself
what you are gaining in return.
Then, get something.
We are in the game of life.
You will never finish first
if you don't put yourself first.
You're a life champion.
Finish first.
Do you want some dessert?
Would that be okay?
- Of course.
- Wow.
You take such great care of me.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
really be with you in these moments.
what I used to worry about.
Yeah.
- Can I tell you?
- Yeah, what is it?
Can I tell you?
Yeah.
Floyd.
At the festival. He was so great.
He was great.
And he's so overweight.
And he takes medicine
that's a heart stressor.
And he has high blood pressure.
And he doesn't sleep,
He's not doing great.
I told you he's carrying loans,
and taxes, and stuff.
- Wow, he worries.
- Yeah.
like, life insurance,
He'd feel better, you know?
- Yeah.
- I mean, you have it, right?
- Life insurance?
- Yeah.
- Yes.
- Yeah.
And does it give you more peace and stuff?
- Yeah.
- Wow. Yeah.
He would have more peace and stuff.
But it is just no way, Jose,
on those premiums.
you know, right?
Yeah.
During the time
in your friendship with Floyd,
while you were accessing DTF St. Louis,
did you discuss your use
of this site together?
Yes, a lot.
And you are aware then that Floyd began
using the site to see men?
Rocksolid?
Yeah.
Oh, Modern Love!
- That's me.
- Hey.
Hi.
I meant that to describe
how someone can depend on me,
not like my physique,
I realized the double thing
when it was too late to change it.
- It's cool.
- Okay.
Oh, God, I have to make a quick call,
but I ordered fruit,
and everything here is good.
You know, they have all the basics.
- Basics work for me.
- Okay, great.
Hey, hey. Man, hey,
I don't have my readers on.
That's David Bowie.
Man.
Okay.
Yeah.
the Rocksolid thing.
- Don't be.
- No, I'm gonna change it
so it doesn't have a double thing.
I'm gonna make it like
"Mr. Dependable," or something.
- Way.
- Yeah.
I noticed that that was Bowie
on your thingy.
You know how on the DTF profile
it says you can post a pic of yourself,
or, like, an image
that says something about you?
- Yeah.
- He was my hero.
Like, when I was younger
Solid Gold dancer girls.
You remember that show?
Solid Gold, yeah.
Yeah, so my friends were like,
"Oh, she's so hot, man."
I'd be like that too.
I'd be like, "Oh, my gosh, she's so hot."
But they had these guy dancers.
"He's so hot too, man."
I said it once.
Like, out loud.
I said, "He's so hot too, man."
real weird and, like, not good.
he did make me feel good
and cool about it,
like, a little lonely.
he's into everything, right?
Yeah, he's brave. He's, like, himself.
Those are good things to be, man.
I have a son, stepson.
He's not like everybody else.
Well, no one's normal.
Just looks that way
from across the street.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm trying to get him into this school.
It doesn't have, like, sports and stuff.
Like, more of an arts-focused school.
Sounds good.
Yeah, that's one of the things
to put on the list,
you know, of things to save up for.
He wears this vest all the time.
A fishing vest, like, all the time.
And his mom wants me
to have a conversation with him about it
to suggest that maybe
he doesn't wear the vest, like,
every day to school
because the kids probably make fun of him.
But I'm, like,
if he likes to wear the vest, who cares?
If it's a comfort to him, who cares?
around the house all the time.
It's a comfort to her.
It makes her feel comfortable.
So, I'm not gonna say anything to her
about the Purina fleece.
And so therefore,
I'm also not gonna say anything to him
But then, you know,
I received a package. I wonder what it is.
I hope it's that sex robot I ordered.
Oh, fuck yeah,
it is my sex robot that I ordered.
- Activate me.
- How?
Pretend to press a button or something.
I should probably activate this thing.
- Wow.
- Hello.
I am K-12 T-X.
Right this way, sex robot.
What do you do, Rocksolid?
I'm an American Sign Language interpreter.
- Okay.
- What about you, Modern Love?
Just a small business owner.
I manage, own,
and perform at a roller rink.
what do you perform?
and roller dance.
Wow, that's cool.
Yeah.
How's your fruit?
Well, it's fruit,
but I'm just trying to shed a few.
Like 30.
- That was good.
- Yeah, pretty solid, always.
- I'll have to remember this place.
- Yeah!
- French toast was good.
- Yeah!
You wanna French-kiss?
- Do I what?
- Do you wanna French for a little bit?
Look, I know nothing major's gonna happen.
I can read the vibes.
But maybe just a little French goodbye?
See if anything lingers on our rides home.
I'd like to kiss you.
Just for a little bit.
I hope that's an okay feeling.
I hope that's an okay feeling for me
to share with you here.
- Okay, yeah.
- Okay.
- Okay. Bye, man.
- Okay, bye.
Low battery malfunction.
Please connect my system.
I'll connect your system.
How was it?
- DTF?
- Yeah.
- Modern Love.
- Yeah.
- It was good.
- Yeah?
It was different than what we expected.
But, you know, breakfast was good.
but it wasn't like a real encounter.
- You had breakfast?
- Yeah.
Then we Frenched.
Well, we went, and we Frenched by his car.
I didn't want to hurt his feelings.
You know, and feel like it was not cool
or it was inappropriate for us to do that
if he wanted to do that.
And so, that was going on.
he kind of got on my ass
a little with his hand.
Okay.
withdrew my ass when he did that.
Okay.
And then I thought,
"Oh, that's a little insensitive."
'Cause I was really just surprised.
You know, it was just
a surprised withdrawal of my ass.
I really just withdrew my ass
because I was surprised.
"Oh, maybe I should put my ass back"
so that I don't make implications
like what he's doing is wrong.
'Cause like, you know,
you can do that if you want.
There's nothing wrong with that.
- Your ass?
- Yeah.
So, I was moving my ass forward and back
and forward and back.
like a thrusting motion
because he gave me one back.
He thrust one back.
You don't think
I hurt his feelings, do you?
- No, man.
'cause he's a really nice guy.
- We had a really nice talk.
- I think you handled it well.
All right. Okay, ten more seconds.
- Yeah, you got it.
- B out the B.
- What's that?
- Bring out the best.
- It's what we do for each other.
- Oh, yeah. You know it.
- I do know it.
- B out the B.
You attested that you had assumed the role
of Tiger Tiger, a man,
to arrange a meeting with Floyd.
Yeah, I'm done talking to you.
You don't understand anything.
You think that he was trying
to hook up with guys on DTF?
Modern Love.
Sorry, man. That was a mistake.
You don't know.
- What was?
- That was.
Okay? Floyd thought that he was a woman.
They got it on in the parking lot.
I interviewed him. They got it on.
Got it on.
He told me about that.
They had a little tongue party
in the parking lot.
in the mistake, okay?
- But Floyd kissed that guy.
- He went at it with that guy.
- He kissed that guy.
- He Frenched that guy.
Floyd Frenched that guy
because Floyd didn't wanna hurt
that guy's feelings, okay?
That's how great Floyd was.
He didn't want that guy to feel
weird or uncomfortable
So, he went with it,
went with the moment, okay?
'Cause he was cool.
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Frenched a guy out of kindness.
That's what it was. Floyd was kind.
And wonderful.
- What?
- Floyd was wonderful.
Hey!
Hey!
Hey, hey, hey.
Cool kid.
No heat here.
It's just somebody says hello,
you say hello back.
Well, I have to go do my homework
before we go all the way to therapy.
Yeah, I know, I know.
It just takes a sec, you know?
that word was invented.
It's 'cause we're part of a community,
and you use that word and you acknowledge
that someone is there, like, "Hello!"
And, "Goodbye!" And, "Hey, thank you!"
Okay, well,
you're gonna kill that part of the grass.
You've been, like,
spraying the exact same place
the whole time you've been talking to me.
Yeah, well, I forgot I was spraying
because you're more important
to me than grass.
Okay.
Hey, listen to me, listen to me.
Yo, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Let's skip therapy.
I wanna show you something.
Those bars are so homeless people
can't sleep on that bench.
People have decided
that they don't wanna see homeless people.
Because, I don't know,
they wanna pretend
like they don't exist or something.
It's called hostile architecture.
That's actually what that's called.
This world can be very cold.
So, I want you to say hello,
okay, and goodbye,
and thank you every day.
And if you do that every day,
then you do it every day.
'Cause everybody needs
a little help sometimes, yeah?
Thanks for showing me this.
Oh, no, no, no. Sorry, no.
I wanted to show you this.
I've done that every day
since I was 11 years old
because I thought if I did it every day,
I could do it every day.
And now it's become, like, a part of me.
You know, it's like a power.
Like, it doesn't matter what's going on.
I gain a little weight, which I have,
and I can still do that.
I want you to use your manners, okay?
I want you to use your manners every day.
Use them every day.
you'll just be happier, you know?
Flying around with a little extra weight.
- Yeah.
I'm okay.
Yeah.
Why do they laugh at me?
- Yeah.
- I don't like football.
- Yeah, I know.
Yeah, I draw, like,
science-fantasy predator birds.
Yeah. They're cool.
Yeah?
There's no one in my school who's like me.
Hey.
There's nobody in the world like you.
and we're gonna make a friend.
It might take a little while,
but that's okay.
I mean,
it took me a long time to find Clark.
- This is way better than therapy.
- Yeah?
We should just come here instead.
Yeah?
Maybe.
- I'm not gonna tell your mom, though.
- Yeah, yeah.
This Excel spreadsheet.
Your mom got it for me when I was studying
for that job in Chicago.
And I used it to check off
when I did my math flashcards,
when I studied for that test,
for that job.
Should we put it to use?
Maybe we check off when you use
your awesome manners and stuff?
Like keep track every day?
Yeah.
You know, I was married before your mom.
I couldn't have kids.
But I wanted to be important like that
to somebody like that.
And then that marriage fell apart,
and then I met your mom, and she had you.
And that was perfect.
You were perfect.
Just wanted you to know that.
Thanks, Floyd.
Why didn't the fortune teller
know when you married her
that your marriage
wasn't going to work out?
That's a very good question.
That is a very good question.
- She should have known.
- She should have known!
- She should have known!
- Yeah.
Right there.
All set up.
Just check 'em off when we do them.
Every day.
Every day.
Floyd was wonderful,
and I would never hurt him.
loved him.
Because I loved Floyd.
- You loved him?
- Yes.
But you loved her.
Yeah, but I loved him more.
I would never hurt him.
Loved him how?
like the sun when you're cold.
when you really need water.
I don't understand. Like sex?
No.
I loved Floyd.
I love you.
- You didn't love her like that?
- No way.
Can we talk about this again?
I won't say anything more.
I want a lawyer.
Forrest.
Come on, Forrest.
You've told me a lot of fucked up shit,
I don't mind saying.
And now you're gonna start keeping
something to yourself after all that?
You said you had to talk to save yourself.
What changed?
It's the key.
It's that key, isn't it?
Get me a lawyer or take me
out of here. I'm done talking.
What style is that?
It's recumbent style.
Safer, improved visibility,
increased comfort
I got Eimy one too.
She didn't even learn how to ride it ever.
I'd be totally into it.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
I hope it's okay
I keep talking about Floyd.
Yeah.
Our relationship,
the time that we're spending together,
is still kind of taking shape.
- I love it.
- Yeah.
- Wow. I fucking love it.
- Yeah.
- I fucking love it and stuff.
- Yeah. Yeah.
And I was just saying
that I hope it's okay
that, you know,
curved penis deal.
Yeah, what happened?
He kind of almost told me.
That was fucking unreal that day.
- Oh, my God.
- What happened?
I don't want to talk
about that day right now.
I don't want to talk about that at all.
But he takes medicine for his dick curve.
And it's so much.
And I told you he's carrying
some loans and some taxes.
And I just think
that if he had life insurance,
I think he would feel better. You know?
He would sleep better and everything.
And it's just no way,
Jose, on those premiums.
You know, I can help you with Floyd.
You know, I can help there.
You know, if it'll give you,
some relief, right?
Okay. Okay,
but it's not just about the money.
Don't totally take this
we don't have a real sex life.
Floyd and me, you know,
like the past year, plus.
But I want to get it back.
But his penis deal, it makes it,
like, hard for him
to pop boners, you know?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
He has to have everything just right.
Yeah.
Yeah, so if he knows that I know
Come on.
You know, he's gonna be even
more down on himself,
There's not gonna be a lot
of popping going on.
Yeah.
- So, come on.
- Yeah.
So, I don't wanna know about it, okay?
- If I help him?
- I don't wanna know about it, okay?
For serious.
Say "for serious."
For serious.
You look so cute.
So, what happened, Clark?
What happened to the guy
you loved who got killed?
Hey.
I know we're alone again now,
but we're gonna be okay.
Don't we have more problems now?
It's only you.
It's only you now.
What kind of problems?
I always do whatever
to make sure that we're okay.
Right?
We're okay, Richard.
We're gonna be okay.
- Hi.
Hey, whoa! Wow.
- "Wow" what?
- Wow, let's let me order, okay?
I was just going to hustle up
your thing, your Breeze.
Yeah, well,
maybe that's not what I want today,
so let's let me decide, okay?
Yeah.
All right, I would like
to have the Go Getter. Yeah.
Totally. Yeah.
- Okay.
Go Getter.
- Another Go Getter?
- Yeah.
So, that's, like, the third one.
So, that's free?
No. Eight dollars and 42 cents.
No tip.
One more Go Getter?
Yeah.
- Is that free now?
- No.
Eight forty-two.
Thank you very much.
Hi.
Well, hey.
Go Getter?
Yeah, for sure. My every day.
The Go Getter. Yeah.
Same.
Usually take a mid-day break,
try to get the energy up.
I hear ya.
She lied to me. Today.
About this?
- Jamba Juice?
- Yeah.
I pulled it after I got back.
She said Forrest
instigated their relationship.
That she was seduced.
The truth is she left work
and waited for him all day,
on the day
that their relationship began in earnest.
She was away from work
for nearly a full day,
waiting for him there.
And she deceived him. There.
How?
She's Watermelon Breeze.
She's what?
She told me they shared a common favorite.
Common favorite what?
Juice drink. She lied to him.
Jodie.
Suburban affair, suburban lie.
People lie about common interests
at the beginning of relationships.
That's how relationships are formed.
She'd gain what if she was involved?
He had no money, no life insurance.
You've been screening his mail,
monitoring his accounts.
Any indication of life insurance?
No.
You addressed this with her, correct?
Yes.
She said her husband
had no life insurance.
Okay. Right. So?
What's her motive?
Oh, man. This is him?
He kind of packed it on, huh?
It happens.
Yeah, okay. Why?
Why did he have this with him?
And why is the face scratched out?
I mean, if we found this
in a garage or something,
we wouldn't have to square that.
But what's it doing at his murder scene?
We have to square this.
You'll question Forrest further?
Yes, I will.
Can I attend?
I know I shouldn't be speaking.
I know I should have a lawyer.
Please don't speak now.
The sheriff's detective isn't present.
I shouldn't be speaking at all,
but you don't understand,
you need to understand.
I don't know how else to make you.
For now, for this moment,
please stop speaking.
That's your bicycle, Forrest.
- You were there.
- That wasn't me.
Is this you?
Yes.
What was going on in there, Clark?
A Bloody Mary dosed with lethal Amphezyne.
Naked pictures of this guy?
Floyd.
What, you don't like me
calling him "this guy"?
- No.
- Why?
He was my friend, and he's dead.
Well, why are you looking
at naked pictures of your friend, Floyd,
at 4:00 a.m.,
far from your nice little home?
We know you were there, Clark.
What the fuck was going on in there?
Yeah, so I'm 18, 19,
I'm out here looking at colleges.
I get flagged in Vancouver
nothing bag of marijuana
It's just me in there with this guy,
red-haired guy,
And, you know, I'm saying guy,
It could be a woman,
What kind of hairdo?
- It's a flattop.
- That's probably a guy.
But it's like a lady flattop.
And they're powerhousing me.
You know, like,
putting their weight on me.
they were powerhousing me,
like, into it a little, you know.
I was just thinking
that maybe we could
get something going like that energy.
So, you want me to overwhelm you?
How do I do that?
Do you know what Amazon position is?
No.
I'm on my back.
but they're also back,
a vulnerable position for a guy.
and you're just kind of taking control.
That's it. That's it.
Tell me
about these dream meetings, please.
roleplaying is something that we would do,
you know, share at the dream meetings.
What role would Carol
assume while roleplaying?
Can you say "powerhouse" maybe?
Powerhouse.
- Cool.
- Powerhouse.
- Powerhouse.
- That's it.
Powerhouse.
- Powerhouse.
- No.
- No?
- No.
- Too male? Okay.
- Yeah.
- Yell it at me.
- Powerhouse!
- Powerhouse!
I'm gonna spit at you. Powerhouse!
- It hurts a little bit.
- Sorry.
- It hurts a little bit. Yeah.
- Okay. Powerhouse.
- Okay.
- Like this? Like, powerhouse?
- Yep.
- A little bit of powerhouse.
Yeah, someone's breaking
into the house.
- Powerhouse?
- Yep.
- Powerhouse.
- Call somebody.
Powerhouse!
That sort of thing.
You like to be controlled.
What's wrong?
It's Floyd.
Tell me what you mean.
He has alimony.
Floyd was married before?
Yeah, to a fortune teller.
which takes a huge bite, you know?
And then it's like, he's got,
I'm not kidding, five years of tax debt.
And every year, we just owe more.
Even when I wake up in the morning,
it's just like I wake up in the morning
and I know that there's gonna be
certified mail coming and stuff.
And there's going to be credit people
calling daily
You know,
Floyd's not gonna get a promotion
to be like King of Sign Language,
or whatever.
I'm sorry.
It's just been a tough year.
And I am into sitting on your face,
Guy Smiley. I really am.
It's just that sometimes
it's harder for me to escape into it,
into you, because of all these,
like, worries and stuff.
Financial worries, hey?
I can do something about that.
How can I help you?
Tell me. I want your dreams too.
Controlled.
Was this her dream or yours?
I would ask for that sorta thing
while talking, you know.
While talking,
I would ask for that sort of thing.
Why did you say that?
- Like that.
- Like what?
"While talking,
I would ask for that sort of thing."
People are always talking
when they ask for things.
- Why would you say that?
He's saying that I killed Floyd. Floyd!
Asking about my sexual dreams.
You feel like talking
about your sexual dreams?
Probably no. Right? Fuck!
I'd like to talk about this.
What about it?
- It's Floyd's.
- Okay.
Is it familiar to you?
Okay.
Yeah.
Nailing it. You're nailing it.
You nailed it. You nailed it.
You don't even need,
- just, you know.
- All right.
Yeah, that is a great
first sentence to learn,
because if you encounter
a deaf person struggling
in an auditory environment,
and do that. It'll help 'em right out.
God, it's so hot.
Yeah, that's why we're here.
To cover the heat wave.
facial expressions of alarm.
- Why?
- Well, imagine you're deaf.
You're in your apartment.
You're just walking along.
You got your drink, your magazine.
And you look over at the TV,
and you're like,
"Oh, there's a guy signing,
but no facial expressions, no alarm."
- Sure.
- Right? Just keep walking.
Then, winds up, there's a heat wave,
and you die.
So, the interpreter makes
facial expressions of alarm
because, now imagine, you're deaf.
- Yeah.
- Okay. Still deaf.
You're walking across your living room.
And you got your drink,
your magazine, whatever.
You look across.
You see on the TV, you see me.
And I'm like.
Yeah.
Trouble.
You're like, "What the fuck?"
- "Is there like a heat wave or something?"
- Okay.
- That's how you save them.
- I get it.
Jump in a cool shower.
At least, you know,
half a dozen times a day if you need to.
And do not forget to check in
on your family and your neighbors.
Stay cool out there.
Feel better?
It's the outfit, you know.
Yeah, well,
gotta be able to see your hands.
- I was so hot, I didn't have any water.
- Yeah.
- Any shade or anything.
- Yeah.
- Dude.
- Yeah?
- Dude.
- Yeah?
DTF.
Yeah?
- I got a hit.
- Whoa.
- Dude, I got a hit on DTF.
- DTF.
DTF, I got a hit. Modern Love.
- All right.
- Modern Love. Whoa.
Whoa, dude.
Look at this beautiful lady. Modern Love.
Do you recognize that?
Explain that.
- You don't wanna talk about that?
- It's not what you think.
- Well, what should I think?
- Not gonna talk about it.
On your left.
On your left!
On your left!
Wow.
Life Champions, Chapter Nine.
All relationships involve a give and take.
Consider the many ways
your relationships ask for your time,
your attention,
and your emotional investment.
And ask yourself
what you are gaining in return.
Then, get something.
We are in the game of life.
You will never finish first
if you don't put yourself first.
You're a life champion.
Finish first.
Do you want some dessert?
Would that be okay?
- Of course.
- Wow.
You take such great care of me.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
really be with you in these moments.
what I used to worry about.
Yeah.
- Can I tell you?
- Yeah, what is it?
Can I tell you?
Yeah.
Floyd.
At the festival. He was so great.
He was great.
And he's so overweight.
And he takes medicine
that's a heart stressor.
And he has high blood pressure.
And he doesn't sleep,
He's not doing great.
I told you he's carrying loans,
and taxes, and stuff.
- Wow, he worries.
- Yeah.
like, life insurance,
He'd feel better, you know?
- Yeah.
- I mean, you have it, right?
- Life insurance?
- Yeah.
- Yes.
- Yeah.
And does it give you more peace and stuff?
- Yeah.
- Wow. Yeah.
He would have more peace and stuff.
But it is just no way, Jose,
on those premiums.
you know, right?
Yeah.
During the time
in your friendship with Floyd,
while you were accessing DTF St. Louis,
did you discuss your use
of this site together?
Yes, a lot.
And you are aware then that Floyd began
using the site to see men?
Rocksolid?
Yeah.
Oh, Modern Love!
- That's me.
- Hey.
Hi.
I meant that to describe
how someone can depend on me,
not like my physique,
I realized the double thing
when it was too late to change it.
- It's cool.
- Okay.
Oh, God, I have to make a quick call,
but I ordered fruit,
and everything here is good.
You know, they have all the basics.
- Basics work for me.
- Okay, great.
Hey, hey. Man, hey,
I don't have my readers on.
That's David Bowie.
Man.
Okay.
Yeah.
the Rocksolid thing.
- Don't be.
- No, I'm gonna change it
so it doesn't have a double thing.
I'm gonna make it like
"Mr. Dependable," or something.
- Way.
- Yeah.
I noticed that that was Bowie
on your thingy.
You know how on the DTF profile
it says you can post a pic of yourself,
or, like, an image
that says something about you?
- Yeah.
- He was my hero.
Like, when I was younger
Solid Gold dancer girls.
You remember that show?
Solid Gold, yeah.
Yeah, so my friends were like,
"Oh, she's so hot, man."
I'd be like that too.
I'd be like, "Oh, my gosh, she's so hot."
But they had these guy dancers.
"He's so hot too, man."
I said it once.
Like, out loud.
I said, "He's so hot too, man."
real weird and, like, not good.
he did make me feel good
and cool about it,
like, a little lonely.
he's into everything, right?
Yeah, he's brave. He's, like, himself.
Those are good things to be, man.
I have a son, stepson.
He's not like everybody else.
Well, no one's normal.
Just looks that way
from across the street.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm trying to get him into this school.
It doesn't have, like, sports and stuff.
Like, more of an arts-focused school.
Sounds good.
Yeah, that's one of the things
to put on the list,
you know, of things to save up for.
He wears this vest all the time.
A fishing vest, like, all the time.
And his mom wants me
to have a conversation with him about it
to suggest that maybe
he doesn't wear the vest, like,
every day to school
because the kids probably make fun of him.
But I'm, like,
if he likes to wear the vest, who cares?
If it's a comfort to him, who cares?
around the house all the time.
It's a comfort to her.
It makes her feel comfortable.
So, I'm not gonna say anything to her
about the Purina fleece.
And so therefore,
I'm also not gonna say anything to him
But then, you know,
I received a package. I wonder what it is.
I hope it's that sex robot I ordered.
Oh, fuck yeah,
it is my sex robot that I ordered.
- Activate me.
- How?
Pretend to press a button or something.
I should probably activate this thing.
- Wow.
- Hello.
I am K-12 T-X.
Right this way, sex robot.
What do you do, Rocksolid?
I'm an American Sign Language interpreter.
- Okay.
- What about you, Modern Love?
Just a small business owner.
I manage, own,
and perform at a roller rink.
what do you perform?
and roller dance.
Wow, that's cool.
Yeah.
How's your fruit?
Well, it's fruit,
but I'm just trying to shed a few.
Like 30.
- That was good.
- Yeah, pretty solid, always.
- I'll have to remember this place.
- Yeah!
- French toast was good.
- Yeah!
You wanna French-kiss?
- Do I what?
- Do you wanna French for a little bit?
Look, I know nothing major's gonna happen.
I can read the vibes.
But maybe just a little French goodbye?
See if anything lingers on our rides home.
I'd like to kiss you.
Just for a little bit.
I hope that's an okay feeling.
I hope that's an okay feeling for me
to share with you here.
- Okay, yeah.
- Okay.
- Okay. Bye, man.
- Okay, bye.
Low battery malfunction.
Please connect my system.
I'll connect your system.
How was it?
- DTF?
- Yeah.
- Modern Love.
- Yeah.
- It was good.
- Yeah?
It was different than what we expected.
But, you know, breakfast was good.
but it wasn't like a real encounter.
- You had breakfast?
- Yeah.
Then we Frenched.
Well, we went, and we Frenched by his car.
I didn't want to hurt his feelings.
You know, and feel like it was not cool
or it was inappropriate for us to do that
if he wanted to do that.
And so, that was going on.
he kind of got on my ass
a little with his hand.
Okay.
withdrew my ass when he did that.
Okay.
And then I thought,
"Oh, that's a little insensitive."
'Cause I was really just surprised.
You know, it was just
a surprised withdrawal of my ass.
I really just withdrew my ass
because I was surprised.
"Oh, maybe I should put my ass back"
so that I don't make implications
like what he's doing is wrong.
'Cause like, you know,
you can do that if you want.
There's nothing wrong with that.
- Your ass?
- Yeah.
So, I was moving my ass forward and back
and forward and back.
like a thrusting motion
because he gave me one back.
He thrust one back.
You don't think
I hurt his feelings, do you?
- No, man.
'cause he's a really nice guy.
- We had a really nice talk.
- I think you handled it well.
All right. Okay, ten more seconds.
- Yeah, you got it.
- B out the B.
- What's that?
- Bring out the best.
- It's what we do for each other.
- Oh, yeah. You know it.
- I do know it.
- B out the B.
You attested that you had assumed the role
of Tiger Tiger, a man,
to arrange a meeting with Floyd.
Yeah, I'm done talking to you.
You don't understand anything.
You think that he was trying
to hook up with guys on DTF?
Modern Love.
Sorry, man. That was a mistake.
You don't know.
- What was?
- That was.
Okay? Floyd thought that he was a woman.
They got it on in the parking lot.
I interviewed him. They got it on.
Got it on.
He told me about that.
They had a little tongue party
in the parking lot.
in the mistake, okay?
- But Floyd kissed that guy.
- He went at it with that guy.
- He kissed that guy.
- He Frenched that guy.
Floyd Frenched that guy
because Floyd didn't wanna hurt
that guy's feelings, okay?
That's how great Floyd was.
He didn't want that guy to feel
weird or uncomfortable
So, he went with it,
went with the moment, okay?
'Cause he was cool.
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Frenched a guy out of kindness.
That's what it was. Floyd was kind.
And wonderful.
- What?
- Floyd was wonderful.
Hey!
Hey!
Hey, hey, hey.
Cool kid.
No heat here.
It's just somebody says hello,
you say hello back.
Well, I have to go do my homework
before we go all the way to therapy.
Yeah, I know, I know.
It just takes a sec, you know?
that word was invented.
It's 'cause we're part of a community,
and you use that word and you acknowledge
that someone is there, like, "Hello!"
And, "Goodbye!" And, "Hey, thank you!"
Okay, well,
you're gonna kill that part of the grass.
You've been, like,
spraying the exact same place
the whole time you've been talking to me.
Yeah, well, I forgot I was spraying
because you're more important
to me than grass.
Okay.
Hey, listen to me, listen to me.
Yo, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Let's skip therapy.
I wanna show you something.
Those bars are so homeless people
can't sleep on that bench.
People have decided
that they don't wanna see homeless people.
Because, I don't know,
they wanna pretend
like they don't exist or something.
It's called hostile architecture.
That's actually what that's called.
This world can be very cold.
So, I want you to say hello,
okay, and goodbye,
and thank you every day.
And if you do that every day,
then you do it every day.
'Cause everybody needs
a little help sometimes, yeah?
Thanks for showing me this.
Oh, no, no, no. Sorry, no.
I wanted to show you this.
I've done that every day
since I was 11 years old
because I thought if I did it every day,
I could do it every day.
And now it's become, like, a part of me.
You know, it's like a power.
Like, it doesn't matter what's going on.
I gain a little weight, which I have,
and I can still do that.
I want you to use your manners, okay?
I want you to use your manners every day.
Use them every day.
you'll just be happier, you know?
Flying around with a little extra weight.
- Yeah.
I'm okay.
Yeah.
Why do they laugh at me?
- Yeah.
- I don't like football.
- Yeah, I know.
Yeah, I draw, like,
science-fantasy predator birds.
Yeah. They're cool.
Yeah?
There's no one in my school who's like me.
Hey.
There's nobody in the world like you.
and we're gonna make a friend.
It might take a little while,
but that's okay.
I mean,
it took me a long time to find Clark.
- This is way better than therapy.
- Yeah?
We should just come here instead.
Yeah?
Maybe.
- I'm not gonna tell your mom, though.
- Yeah, yeah.
This Excel spreadsheet.
Your mom got it for me when I was studying
for that job in Chicago.
And I used it to check off
when I did my math flashcards,
when I studied for that test,
for that job.
Should we put it to use?
Maybe we check off when you use
your awesome manners and stuff?
Like keep track every day?
Yeah.
You know, I was married before your mom.
I couldn't have kids.
But I wanted to be important like that
to somebody like that.
And then that marriage fell apart,
and then I met your mom, and she had you.
And that was perfect.
You were perfect.
Just wanted you to know that.
Thanks, Floyd.
Why didn't the fortune teller
know when you married her
that your marriage
wasn't going to work out?
That's a very good question.
That is a very good question.
- She should have known.
- She should have known!
- She should have known!
- Yeah.
Right there.
All set up.
Just check 'em off when we do them.
Every day.
Every day.
Floyd was wonderful,
and I would never hurt him.
loved him.
Because I loved Floyd.
- You loved him?
- Yes.
But you loved her.
Yeah, but I loved him more.
I would never hurt him.
Loved him how?
like the sun when you're cold.
when you really need water.
I don't understand. Like sex?
No.
I loved Floyd.
I love you.
- You didn't love her like that?
- No way.
Can we talk about this again?
I won't say anything more.
I want a lawyer.
Forrest.
Come on, Forrest.
You've told me a lot of fucked up shit,
I don't mind saying.
And now you're gonna start keeping
something to yourself after all that?
You said you had to talk to save yourself.
What changed?
It's the key.
It's that key, isn't it?
Get me a lawyer or take me
out of here. I'm done talking.
What style is that?
It's recumbent style.
Safer, improved visibility,
increased comfort
I got Eimy one too.
She didn't even learn how to ride it ever.
I'd be totally into it.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
I hope it's okay
I keep talking about Floyd.
Yeah.
Our relationship,
the time that we're spending together,
is still kind of taking shape.
- I love it.
- Yeah.
- Wow. I fucking love it.
- Yeah.
- I fucking love it and stuff.
- Yeah. Yeah.
And I was just saying
that I hope it's okay
that, you know,
curved penis deal.
Yeah, what happened?
He kind of almost told me.
That was fucking unreal that day.
- Oh, my God.
- What happened?
I don't want to talk
about that day right now.
I don't want to talk about that at all.
But he takes medicine for his dick curve.
And it's so much.
And I told you he's carrying
some loans and some taxes.
And I just think
that if he had life insurance,
I think he would feel better. You know?
He would sleep better and everything.
And it's just no way,
Jose, on those premiums.
You know, I can help you with Floyd.
You know, I can help there.
You know, if it'll give you,
some relief, right?
Okay. Okay,
but it's not just about the money.
Don't totally take this
we don't have a real sex life.
Floyd and me, you know,
like the past year, plus.
But I want to get it back.
But his penis deal, it makes it,
like, hard for him
to pop boners, you know?
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
He has to have everything just right.
Yeah.
Yeah, so if he knows that I know
Come on.
You know, he's gonna be even
more down on himself,
There's not gonna be a lot
of popping going on.
Yeah.
- So, come on.
- Yeah.
So, I don't wanna know about it, okay?
- If I help him?
- I don't wanna know about it, okay?
For serious.
Say "for serious."
For serious.
You look so cute.
So, what happened, Clark?
What happened to the guy
you loved who got killed?
Hey.
I know we're alone again now,
but we're gonna be okay.
Don't we have more problems now?
It's only you.
It's only you now.
What kind of problems?
I always do whatever
to make sure that we're okay.
Right?
We're okay, Richard.
We're gonna be okay.