Stick (2025) s01e04 Episode Script

["Waiting for Changes" playing]
[sighs]
- [sighs]
- [phone beeps]
Hey, buddy, period.
Just checking in again, period.
Hit me back
and let me know you're okay, period.
Hang loose emoji.
Smiley face emoji.
[phone beeps]
[commentators chattering on TV]
- What's wrong with kibble?
- [TV continues, indistinct]
Dry food gives Amorcita eczema,
and Ricky has IBS.
You know, if you died in your house,
they would eat you.
[scoffs] No. They love their mama.
Even if they love their mama,
they'd eat her in a pinch.
[scoffs]
[golfer on TV] Fore!
- [gasping]
- [car alarm blaring]
[golfer groaning] Oh, what the hell?
Whether it's at home, at work,
or out on the golf course, things
they don't always go as planned.
But with Ready Safe Insurance's
true form protection plan,
- you'll always be ready
- [Mitts] Ugh, this guy.
- to hit the next shot.
- Mmm.
I'll see you at this year's
Ready Safe Invitational,
on August 14th, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- [shouts]
- Look out!
It's a shame.
- That was a really nice driver.
- [Mitts] Give me a break.
Asshole.
- Clark Ross?
- Colossal asshole.
We were on the tour together, 2009.
He was Pryce's playing partner
at Sawgrass.
Yeah, it was the day he flamed out.
Oh. What happened?
Clark won that day,
and he said some terrible shit
in the locker room
and Pryce fed him his teeth
in front of a lot of people.
Lost his tour card after that.
And what did Clark say?
Well, he said the kind of shit
that gets you punched in the mouth.
Well, he's very good looking.
Yeah, that's legit.
You should see him in person.
[Elena grunts]
- It's been three hours. [chuckles]
- [winces] Yeah.
You know, he missed dinner,
not answering his texts
Are you at all curious
about your child's whereabouts?
He sent me a thumbs up emoji.
And that means he cares enough
to let me know he's alive.
- We have a system. It's fine.
- Okay.
Well, the last thing he said to me
was, "Fuck off,"
so whatever system
we have, it's not fine.
We've got Applebrook next week
and he's not ready.
And what's Applebrook?
The first of two qualifiers
for the US Amateur.
[Pryce] Yeah. It's a big deal.
For his game to get
to where it needs to be,
we have to be on the same page.
So, I gotta mend some fences,
or eat a little crow,
I'm happy to do it,
but I mean, where is he?
Can you do an Amber alert for boys?
You know, Pryce, he's a teenager.
Sometimes, you just gotta
give 'em some space.
If you'd ever had a kid, you'd know that.
Besides, Santi was so good today.
He was fantastic.
No? He won?
Yeah, it's the way he won
that [chuckles] worries me.
I mean, he was lights-out
on the back nine.
But he's clubbing up on every hole,
shooting at the pins, you know.
He played angry, not smart.
Well, maybe if he had a coach
instead of a degenerate gambler
barking on his backswing
I wasn't barking on his backswing.
- [Elena exclaims] Oh!
- [Pryce] Hey!
- There he is.
- Hey. Hey, hey, hey! [chuckles]
Oh, look at this. [chuckles]
We were worried about you.
Nice to get that first win
under your belt.
[chuckling]
[speaks Spanish]
Gracias, mami.
- Oh, this is Zero.
- [Elena gasps] Oh.
I know, you're the girl from the bar.
You made me the birdie Bellini.
Uh, yeah.
You should have gotten the bogey Bellini.
- It comes with an extra shot.
- Ah.
Uh, Zero. My pronouns are she/they.
Ah. Elena. Her/she.
Pryce, he/him.
I could use a bogey Bellini.
[stammers] My associate.
Yeah, hi. Mitts.
Just a man, a regular man.
Okay. Uh, yeah, we're gonna hit the pool.
- Okay.
- Now? You g
- [Santi] Yeah.
- [Elena] Uh Okay.
- [Zero] Good to see you.
- Nice to see you.
We'll keep that there.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait Wait a second.
I thought we were all
gonna kinda maybe hang out
and celebrate a little bit.
- Reconnect.
- I'm good, Pryce.
You do you.
[Zero chuckles] Santi.
It's gonna be cold.
Not sure those fences wanna mend, pal.
[theme song playing]
Hey. Got you a little fuel
to start your day.
Your mom said these are your favorite.
- Cool.
- Oh, wait.
We got a tee time at 9:00, and
maybe we can talk a little bit before.
Kinda recap yesterday,
the pluses and minuses
I've got plans with Zero
and a bunch of their friends.
We're going swimming at some dope quarry.
Quarry?
It's a place where people mine
rocks and shit.
- No, I [chuckles]
- You ever heard of that?
I know what a quarry is.
Then why'd you say it like that?
I was just repeating the word.
Processing the information.
- Okay. Good talk.
- Wait, wait, wait a second.
You know, I think [chuckles]
you and I gotta try
to get on the same page.
And I know it's tricky.
You know, a coach-golfer relationship
can be a little bit like a marriage
Not your wife.
That's not what I'm saying.
You literally just said
that we're married.
No, no, no. I said it's like a marriage.
Well, then I want like a divorce.
Teed you up for that one.
Listen, I'm just saying,
I think we can communicate better
going forward. That's it.
I have plans.
Yes. You're communicating your need
for some downtime, which I respect.
- I hear you.
- Great.
Maybe we reconvene this afternoon.
We get some swings in then.
Should we say, like, around two o'clock?
Yeah. I'll agree to anything
if you just let me shut
this big ol' guy right here.
Okay. All right.
So, we're on for two o'clock?
- Yeah, whatever.
- Okay. Whatever.
[inhales heavily] You're welcome.
Someone brings me a sandwich to my room,
it's basically breakfast in bed.
I say thank you.
But I'm from a different generation,
I guess.
Just breathe.
Two o'clock.
Why did you buy
three boxes of Lucky Charms?
Oh, yeah. They're for Pryce.
They're his favorite
because he's a child.
- Oh.
- Mmm.
- And why do they call him "Stick"?
- Well, it's a nickname.
No, I know that. But what does it mean?
Think about the best player you know,
all right?
The kind of golfer that,
when you watch them swing,
it just makes you wanna cry
'cause they're so goddamn good.
Truth is, those guys aren't shit.
But there's another species of player,
you know, like the
the +5s, the +6s
just superhuman.
Those guys are sticks.
And that's where he got it. [sighs]
He was that good?
Yeah, he was that good.
- [gasps]
- [Pryce groans]
Hey.
How did it go?
How did what go? [sighs]
Well, you mended things with Santi?
He was a no-show.
- Wasted an hour.
- [Elena] Then where is he?
I don't know. He said he was
going with Zero to a quarry.
Quarry?
You see? Exactly. That's what I said.
You're processing the information
by repeating it.
Santi acted like that was
the most insane thing he'd ever heard.
No, Pryce. You need to go get him.
What am I gonna do?
I'm not gonna drag him out of there.
When a teenager makes a commitment,
you need to make them stick to it.
- Yeah.
- [scoffs] I don't
- What do you think, Mitts?
- Oh, yeah. Absolutely.
You have to keep your word.
Mm-hmm.
Okay, fine. Let's go.
Oh, don't look at me. I'm not driving.
I've got a couple of large format pieces
of beef to prep.
Oh, so it's important
to honor your commitments
until you're inconvenienced?
And then it's just every man for himself,
'cause of your hunk of meat?
No. [chuckles] Wh-What do you think?
I think we should all go.
Checkmate.
That's a great thought.
I'm not going.
[groans]
How you doing? We are looking
- How many?
- Uh, we don't need any tickets.
- We're just on a quick retrieval mission.
- Three.
Proof of floaty?
What? Sorry, what?
No floaty, no entry.
No, no, but we're not gonna be swimming.
We just gotta go in here real quick
No floaty, no entry.
And no Mittsy.
Fucking floaties.
Jesus.
- No, I'm just gonna get my son.
- Yeah.
So no floaty, no necessary.
- Thank you.
- Well, for an additional fee,
you can purchase
your own personal flotation devices.
Noodles start at $15.
- [Pryce sighs]
- Mm-hmm. Okay, fine.
So, two tickets, two noodles.
We're out of noodles.
All I have left is unicorns.
- Of course. Yeah.
- Those are 40 bucks.
So why would you offer noodles,
if you don't have noodles?
'Cause it's a bait-and-switch.
- It's very confusing.
- [Pryce] Ignore that it's an emergency
Two unicorns, two tickets. Hundred bucks.
- [scoffs]
- Price gouging.
So, now you're just gonna use us now
just to gouge us?
Uh-huh, exactly. No And you know what?
I wanna talk to the manager about this.
'Cause what you're doing is not right.
- Okay Actually, no, no. Let's just do
- [exclaims]
Here, you know what?
One ticket and the floaty.
- Thank you. It's okay.
- [speaks Spanish]
- Not gonna give him the satisfaction.
- [speaks Spanish]
- Sorry.
- No, it's fine.
I can smell saliva on this thing.
It's like he just had a hot dog.
[speaks Spanish]
Okay, so,
tell me what you're gonna say to him.
- Come on.
- What is there to say?
Uh, "Come on, Santi, get your stuff.
Let's go. We gotta practice."
Why are you up on my ass, bruh?
You think he's gonna come at me
that strong?
- I'm gonna go.
- Wait, wait, wait.
You can't go.
He's with a whole wolf pack of Gen Zers.
[stammers] I'm his mother.
Yeah, exactly. What kid wants to hear,
"Hey, your mom's here"?
Look, you said
he had to honor his commitments.
He made the commitment to me.
[inhales sharply] Okay.
Just remember, they can smell fear.
The Gen Zers.
- [Pryce] Okay.
- Yeah.
Okay.
["Cinderella" playing]
[crowd clamoring]
[cheering]
[Santi] Yeah, dude!
Nice jump, bro! [chuckles]
[sighs]
I made it to the VIP section
of the rock quarry.
How you doing?
This is where the cool kids hang out.
I didn't know they
made geriatric Bronies.
Geriatric. Yeah.
I should've asked for a senior discount
'cause I sure didn't get one
coming in here.
- My name's Pryce. How you doing?
- Brooklyn.
- Brooklyn. That's a cool name.
- [Brooklyn] Mm-hmm.
Yeah, growing up I knew a guy named
Landslide who had a taco stand.
- Who is this guy?
- What are you doing here, man?
Uh, we had a meeting scheduled a
couple hours ago in the lobby, remember?
So, the mountain's come to Muhammad.
- Come here.
- You wanna talk over here?
- [Santi] Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Sorry.
- Excuse us.
Pryce, I, like, I I
lost track of time.
Okay. [stammers]
It's an easy place to lose track of time
but come on. We gotta focus.
- We got the qualifiers next week.
- Pryce, come on
You're being really aggressive with
all this grind culture rhetoric, man.
What grind culture?
He's had most of the day off.
I mean, it is Monday,
the start of the work week
for most of the world.
I mean, you gotta read the room, okay?
Prescribing late-stage
capitalistic ideology
to your great brown cash cow
isn't working.
My who? What?
Look, as my mother would say,
"Get in formation, ho."
- Come on.
- Oh. [chuckles]
[Zero] Fucking move!
- Shall we?
- We shall.
- [chuckles]
- [Santi] Ciao!
[screaming]
[crowd cheering]
- Oh, my
- Oh, my God.
[chuckling]
Hey, is there, like, a quick path down,
or a ladder or something?
I don't think so.
Okay.
[sighs]
Can you hold my phone please? Thanks.
And if I don't make it back,
tell my story.
I don't know who you are.
That's pretty much my story.
[teenager] Whoa, check out the old dude!
[sighs]
[grunts, screams]
[exhales sharply] Made it!
Whoo.
Thanks, Brooklyn!
Whoa. Yes.
[scoffs] Pryce didn't text me back.
- I'm going in for real this time.
- Hey, hey, hey.
Just wait a second.
Maybe they're talking it out.
[scoffs] Pryce might be a good golfer
[speaking Spanish] he doesn't know
[speaking Spanish] about kids.
[sighs] All right.
T-There's something
you should probably know.
- [gasps] Oh, did I offend you, Mitts?
- No, no.
Uh, it's just, you said something
to Pryce last night.
[stammers] The thing
about if he ever had a kid.
Mm-hmm.
[stammers] Well, he, you know,
he had a kid.
Had?
[stammers] Yeah.
Uh, his name was Jett.
And, uh, he died of-of cancer
when he was four.
[gasps] Oh, my God.
- [speaking Spanish]
- Yeah.
[speaking Spanish]
I didn't know.
He never talks about it.
I just You know,
I thought I should tell ya.
Yeah.
[gasps] Is that why Sawgrass happened?
Golf was the only thing
keeping him together, you know?
And-And, uh, he thought he had
a handle on it, and he didn't.
And does this have something to do
with what Clark Ross said to him?
Yes.
[gasps] Oh, wow.
[groans]
[speaks Spanish]
[sighs, chuckles]
You learned all the good words
in that construction site.
- [chuckles, sniffles]
- [chuckles] Yeah. [speaks Spanish]
Yeah. Yeah. [sniffles]
You know, you hit the water harder
than you think there.
- Thought we established a boundary, no?
- [groans]
You're not gonna leave me alone, are you?
Not after I spent a hundred bucks
on this damn floaty.
Now, that got the blood flowing. [groans]
Um, Santi, I'm gonna let you two talk.
As long as you feel safe.
As long as he feels safe?
What am I gonna do,
cannonball and splash him?
- It's cool.
- Okay.
- I'll be over here if you need me.
- [stammers, sighs]
What do you want, Pryce?
I want us to reconnect, okay?
So, we can go over the parts of your game
we need to work on
to get you ready for next week.
Thirteen.
Thirteen what?
That's how many tournaments I won
the last year I played.
Santi, you have a gift, okay?
[stammers] It's like
the other guys were using clubs yesterday
and you had a lightsaber.
You've got this weapon,
but you wanna be able to turn it on
when you need it.
Otherwise, you got Darth Vader coming
at you and you're holding a sparkler.
- I don't know what you're talking about.
- I'm talking about yesterday
where you couldn't get out of
your own way on the front nine.
Right. And you flipped out on me.
I didn't flip out on you.
I said you needed to use your head,
which you did.
You said, "Bamm-Bamm, think!"
And, in fact, when you were up my ass
with your "coaching,"
my lightsaber didn't work.
It was the moment
that I stopped listening to you
that I became Luke fucking Skywalker.
I shouldn't have talked to you like that.
I'm sorry.
I had a coach like you, Pryce.
I know the playbook.
Ride my ass when I don't play your way,
talk shit through my backswing,
and then [chuckles]
show up the next day
with some bullshit apology.
But you know what, Pryce?
I'm not a little kid anymore,
and no one's gonna tell me
how to play my game.
Because I got that win yesterday.
[sighs]
Twenty-two.
The Taylor Swift song?
No. That's how many wins
I got when I was your age.
But here I am, jumping off cliffs
with a unicorn floaty
tied around my waist.
Because I didn't know what I didn't know.
I'm curious. [stammers]
What What don't I know? Tell me.
Well, you overthink it around the greens,
and sometimes you're swinging
from your toes,
which is chopping your rotation.
Biggest thing is you're in your head.
It's like peaks and valleys,
and we need some long,
flat expanses of professionalism.
'Cause the way you play is not
sustainable for 42 weeks a year.
Not when you're playing
the guys you're gonna be playing.
It's not gonna be the hacks
you played yesterday.
You're gonna be playing athletes
who are mentally strong.
It doesn't matter who I play.
I'm gonna win the qualifier,
and the sectional,
and the Amateur,
and I'm not gonna stop winning.
Great. Let's do it.
And I'm gonna do it my way.
And what, you want me just to sit back
and bring you breakfast sandwiches?
Yeah.
And cash the checks.
- Put some sunscreen on.
- You put some sunscreen on.
I've got sunscreen on.
[cheering]
I'm a pretty smart guy, user-friendly,
and, Mitts, I'm an easy person
to talk to, right?
Exactly. Because I listen.
And most people don't listen.
Look, I'm I'm not a man
who admits defeat easily, okay?
Amber-Linn asked for a divorce
seven years ago.
I didn't sign those papers
till last Wednesday.
I'm not just waving a white flag
at the first sign
Let me get a sip of
water. [clears throat]
Mitts, how long will he do this for?
He's like a toddler,
he'll wear himself out eventually.
But I'm running out of options.
I really am.
I-I don't know how to get through to him.
Elena, g-give me some help.
What do I say to get him to listen to me?
Well, that's the thing with Santi.
He doesn't listen to me.
He doesn't listen to anyone.
Well, then what are we even doing here?
Good question.
And why did I give you $100,000?
Great question.
[speaks Spanish]
Oh, look, a clown car.
- [grunts]
- Oh, wow.
Later.
[Santi] Bye, guys.
Nice to meet you. Yeah.
Hey, guys.
Hi.
Hi, tiny babies.
[coos] Hi.
I'm sorry.
They have attachment issues. [chuckles]
It's okay, little ones.
I would be upset too if I was
domesticated into my own enslavement.
[Elena] Enslavement?
They eat better than I do.
[chuckles]
Sit. [speaks Spanish] Come here.
- Come here. Sit here. Julio.
- There goes their bodily autonomy.
Their what?
- I'm kidding.
- [Mitts] Oh.
- [Elena] Come here, babies.
- [Santi] Ooh!
- [winces] Yes!
- Huh? Right?
[Zero] You eat red meat?
Of course he does.
- You don't?
- Wait, are you anti-meat?
Well, I'm anti-industrial agriculture.
I mean, livestock production accounts for,
like, 15% of global greenhouse admissions.
- So
- Oh, I didn't I didn't know that.
Yeah. I mean, most of it's, like,
methane, which is to say that the, uh,
burps, farts and shit of innocent heifers
are stealing our future,
so I just don't wanna
be complicit in that.
Yeah. Ew.
Uh, I'm good. I don't
I don't wanna eat that.
Are you fucking kidding me?
I spent a hundred bucks on these steaks.
Can't be complicit
in destroying the earth, Mitts.
[Mitts] Oh, okay.
Well, it's good
to have deeply held beliefs, kid.
I could just eat potato
salad and pickles.
Yeah, you do that.
[Zero] Mmm.
- You can eat a bunch of pickles.
- [Pryce scoffs]
I stand corrected.
There is now one person he listens to.
[Santi, Zero chattering, chuckling]
[Santi speaks Spanish]
[Elena] Yeah. [speaks Spanish]
Hey, you know,
I think there might be an opportunity
for us to help each other out.
You're acting super creepy right now.
Like, either you're about
to show me your dick or, I don't know,
- seems like you might show me your dick.
- No.
What are you talking about?
I'm not about to show you
- I have pepper spray on my person.
- Okay. Okay.
Keep your voice down.
God, you really like to keep people
on their heels, don't you?
One minute you're calling me, like,
a capitalist pig,
the next minute I'm a flasher.
You got poor Mitts spinning,
- which I actually like.
- [Zero] Okay.
Yeah, well, you are a middle-aged
unmarried man with a bad haircut,
talking about helping each other out.
Okay, maybe there was
a better way I could've worded that.
By the way, what you just said
was kind of bullying. But let's move on.
I want to talk about Santi, okay?
He thinks he knows everything.
It's impossible
to coach somebody like that.
He doesn't listen to me.
What, you think he listens to me?
Are you kidding? Of course he does.
Did you not just see him out there?
All of a sudden
he's the president of PETA.
And this is, by the way,
while he's still digesting 14 Whoppers
from last week.
Yeah, he listens to you.
Now, I want you to come on the road
and be amateur golf's
first gender-fluid caddy.
[chuckles] Dude, I
have a whole life here.
I see. You have a very rich life
that you're able to carry around
in a duffle bag.
Yeah, a couple trash bags too.
And you don't have a job.
So, maybe you need us
as much as we need you.
Look, I can make minimum wage here.
[sighs]
I'll give you $10,000.
And a $100 every time you caddy.
Under the table.
- I'm serious.
- [chuckles]
Pryce, there's one thing I've learned
in the 27 hours
I have been with you people,
and that is that you are a brokie.
You don't have $10,000.
Okay. That's That's true.
- I don't have it yet
- [sighs]
but I'm gonna get it.
And what I'm offering you
is once in a lifetime.
Helping someone realize excellence.
That's an exciting thing.
Look, I-I like Santi, okay? We have fun.
And I've been around enough clubs
to understand that he's, like,
really, really good at golf,
but [stammers]
No, no. He's not just good. He's great.
[stammers] Look.
[sighs] Okay, you see this?
Yeah, it's a very pretty ring.
This is a 1999 Ryder Cup
team ring from Brookline.
Tiger Woods has one of these.
You can sell this online right now for
5K. I'll give it to you as collateral.
You help me get him through the Amateur
and I will get you paid.
And if I don't, keep that.
[Elena, Santi chattering, laughing]
[chuckles, speaks Spanish]
Help me make him great.
It's a good thing.
All right. I'll do it.
[sighs] Thank you.
But how are you gonna spin this?
[sighs]
But how am I gonna spin it?
[Zero] Routine is sick
[Zero chattering]
- [laughing]
- [chuckles] That's deep, right?
[groans]
I'm telling you, I really think
I screwed up my feet
jumping off that cliff.
Feels like it could be
that plantar fasciitis BS.
- What's that?
- Old man foot.
- [chuckles]
- As someone who has plantar fasciitis,
don't talk about
something you don't understand.
Well, I understand
that my feet really hurt.
Okay, I don't even know
if I'm gonna be able to carry his bag.
If only we knew a seasoned caddy
who could step in and save the day.
Absolutely not.
[Pryce] Mitts, come on. [stammers]
It'd be good for you
to get out and move around.
It's not happening, brother. [chuckles]
My days on the bag are behind me.
Well, what are we supposed to do,
get a temp caddy, have Elena do it?
Come on, you've got the wisdom.
Wait, why don't we just have Zero do it?
Zero can be my caddy.
Wait. What?
For, like, the entire time? [chuckles]
[stammers] I'm I'm flattered,
but I don't
No, come on. I mean, you're unemployed,
we have an opening.
No, Santi. That's not gonna work.
It's a pretty important job.
Zero's a club rat. They know their shit.
I don't know.
I'm kinda done with the whole golf scene.
No. [stammers] Fuck that. Come on.
I mean, we're gonna run
every course we touch.
I don't know. I mean, Zero,
is that even something
that you'd be interested in doing?
Come on.
Road trip with us.
Be my caddy.
- Okay. [chuckles] Okay. Yeah.
- Yeah?
- [Santi] Yes! Yes! [chuckling]
- [chuckles] Oh, my God.
Pryce
[Zero] Where are you going?
[Santi laughs]
- [Zero] Let's fucking go!
- [Santi] Let's go!
[sighs]
- [stammers] What just happened?
- I don't know.
[Elena] Are you okay with this?
No, but I mean [sighs]
we need a caddy.
[groans] Jesus Christ.
God. [sucks teeth, sighs]
Oh, man. Damn it, Pryce!
What were you thinking
jumping off that cliff?
[winces]
[groans]
Hmm.
- That was a hustle, right?
- [sighs] What are you talking about?
What happened right there with the kid.
You you played that, right?
No, I didn't.
I mean, sometimes things just,
you know, work out.
[Mitts] Oh, right.
And, uh, you don't
see any flaws in your little plan?
There is no little plan.
Mmm.
But if there was a little plan,
do you see any flaws?
Yeah.
Many.
[sighs]
Well, if he's happy, I'm happy.
[Mitts] Great. Happy fucking idiots.
[whispers] Happy fucking idiots.
[groans]
We're back in business.
Don't be scared.
It's all gonna work out.
Mmm.
Good dog.