Dummy (2020) s01e06 Episode Script

1
So Dan's sex doll's
been living with me. Um
After he threw her away last
week, I-I went and I got her
and I took her home,
so she's living with me.
And, um, she talks to me.
- You hear the voice in your head
when you're looking at the doll
or is the doll?
- The sound comes from her, um, head.
From her face. You know.
Like, she can move her face.
Like, she opens her mouth and stuff
and she can, like, move her eyes
and make expressions and stuff.
But she can't move her, uh, head.
Like the-the head part
of her head. You know.
- The skull?
- The skull.
The-- Well,
the cranium or whatever.
It's, like, kind of frustrating,
'cause I have to do everything for her.
- What kind of stuff
do you have to do for her?
- Um, she made me buy her
one of those T-shirts
that says "The Future is Female."
- [laughs softly]
- And she wants a new vagina.
She wants, like,
a Cherry Blossom 7 series?
You know these
Well, they're expensive,
and I told her I couldn't
afford it, and she was like,
"Well, you're a fucking dick."
[laughs]:
So
- You know, we see this
a lot in children.
The invention of an imaginary friend?
It's a very common coping mechanism.
- Right. Like Drop Dead Fred.
- I haven't seen that one.
- Well, eh, it's just okay.
I mean
I kind of kept hoping
that they would hook up.
- Anyway, imaginary friends usually pop up
during a time of transition,
a time of growth.
- Oh, no. They kissed, I think.
I can't remember.
- It's less common in adults,
sure, but I think this
Does she have a name?
- Barbara.
- I think this Barbara
represents a part of you that
really wants to help heal you.
- Really?
- Yes.
So, as long as she's not suggesting
you cause physical harm
to yourself or others,
I say embrace her.
BARBARA:
I've been doing some thinking.
We should kill Dan.
- What?
[dramatic organ music plays]
We're not, we're not talking about this.
We're not doing that.
- Cody.
Dan stole the best years of my life,
and he literally threw me out
like I was fucking garbage.
He ravaged my vagina like all men do.
- Okay, we're not killing Dan.
- Why?
- And I'm sorry that he, like,
ravaged your pussy
- Thank you.
- but here's the thing, babe.
You can't say stuff like that.
- Why not?
- 'Cause my therapist told me
that if you did, I had to get rid of you.
- Well, you can tell your
therapist to go fucking shove
up a-- I love her.
Because I was joking.
- I know you're just saying that
so that I won't get rid of you.
You're me. I know.
And, like this week
has been fun or whatever,
but, like, I mean, you're really
mean to me all the time,
and we haven't actually done any
work on the tooth fairy pilot.
- Cody, I have to be
totally honest with you.
[whispers]:
Like your pilot's a piece of shit.
- What are you--
what are you talking about?
In the dumpster the other night,
you were, like, excited.
You were pitching me all this stuff.
- We put lipstick on a pig.
Like, it's really bad, honey.
If it was on TV, I'd literally
rather kill myself.
- Okay, well, I have to write a pilot.
I have to write something.
My agent told me that it
[chuckles]
doesn't have to be anything.
- [gasps] Us.
- What-- Us what?
- The pilot's us.
A quirky, fun-loving sex doll
and her chunky human friend
taking on the world together.
I mean, it's, like, aspirational.
- Okay, I just want to go back,
'cause when you say chunky,
you say it as though, like, it's obvious.
- Dude. It's, like, female empowerment.
I mean, it's literally got everything.
It could be, like, a feminist masterpiece
or some shit.
- Like, but how's it feminist?
- What do you mean? All of it.
Just, it's there. You know?
- I don't know, it's kind of
like a broad concept
to, like, try and say
something super important.
- Oh, my God, you are being so stupid.
Trust me, it's such a good idea, I swear.
[phone vibrates]
- Okay. Oh, shit, I got to go.
- What?
Is it Dan?
- No.
- Ugh, you're leaving me for Dan's?
Why? We just started riffing.
Cody. Cody, if you leave right now,
I am not helping you with your pilot.
And it's basically already
written in my head. Ha, ha, ha!
I'm laughing at a joke on
page nine right now! [chuckles]
[dramatic music playing over TV]
WOMAN [on TV]:
He just told me, "Stay away.
I've smelled this smell before."
I said, "What are you talking about?"
And he goes, "It smells
like somebody's dead."
- What's up?
- Oh, uh, nothing,
I thought I-- never mind.
- Hmm?
- Are you okay?
I'm great.
Just collecting alloys.
- Yeah.
- You okay?
- Yeah. I'm okay.
- Really?
- Mm-hmm.
Um
Okay, so
Wh
What if
after you threw out
the sex doll, um
what if I went into the garbage
and I took her out
and I took her home with me
and we became roommates and
she was, like, talking to me?
- That's fucking brilliant!
- Um
- That's your new pilot?
Oh, my God, and you were scared
I'd be mad because it's about us?
- I guess I was, yeah.
- Baby, this is so much fucking better
than that tooth fairy thing.
This is insane.
It's, like, a modern feminist Mister Ed.
- Totally. Yeah.
Barbara, I missed you while I was gone
and I was thinking about
that idea that we
No, I haven't talked to Dan about it.
[laughs]: Like, why would I
even bring it up to him?
It's
Are we, like, in a fight?
Come on. Like, we're adults.
We're not gonna
Barbara, that outfit is dope!
[quietly]:
Fuck.
[exhales]
["If You Were Here"
by Thompson Twins plays]
♪
[tires screeching]
Barbara you're right.
I didn't trust you
because I didn't trust myself.
If you were here ♪
I could deceive you ♪
But now that you're in my life
And if you were here ♪
You would believe ♪
something's been changing inside me.
But would you suspect ♪
My emotion ♪
I've been thinking about what it means
to be a woman in this world,
and I don't want to do it
like that anymore.
A part of this anymore ♪
The time has come for us
to lift each other up.
And heal each other.
It's time for a new beginning.
If you were here ♪
I could deceive you ♪
And if you were here ♪