Running Point (2025) s02e03 Episode Script

1
I never had a lot of female friends growing up.
My mother taught me all women were threats.
So it wasn't until college
when I made my first real girlfriend,
but boy, did she hate me.
What the fuck, Isla?
You passed out drunk with the hot plate on my bed again.
She eventually accepted my Cali girl charm,
and somehow this angry little Chicago "B"
became my closest girlfriend.
Best birthday ever.
Mm-hmm.
These taste just like the ones from Wrigley.
Well, that's 'cause they are.
Sammy Sosa is a family friend.
What?
Do it, whoo.
His face hurts.
He can't see without his glasses.
We were inseparable.
Chug, chug, chug, chug.
Our college friendship turned into
a beautiful working relationship…
It's true.
…until she decided to betray me
to go work for another team…
Do we have a deal?
…In the most boring place on earth.
Are you seriously going to Toronto?
I have to. Magnus offered me a promotion and more money.
- I know you can't match it.
- So this is about the office and raise?
Yes, Isla, it was about those things
I was promised but didn't get.
You know, and more importantly, it's about being valued.
Of course I value you.
You're my best friend.
Well, then you should encourage me
to take this opportunity.
What, and move to Canada?
You're gonna freeze to death.
You use your seat heaters in July.
I love Toronto. It's cool.
They just hosted a season of Top Chef.
- That means nothing since Padma left.
- Oh.
This is outrageous.
I can't believe you're doing this to me.
To you?
Have you ever considered that I'm doing this for me?
You know, probably not because
that's what a good friend would do.
A good friend? You're my maid of honor.
How are you supposed to do that
if you're thousands of miles away
or millions of miles away or wherever Toronto is?
Well, apologies for making a major life decision
without keeping your
ever-changing wedding calendar in mind.
Sorry, that came out wrong.
No, it's fine.
Didn't realize I was such a burden,
so don't worry about being my maid of honor.
I'll have one of my sisters-in-law do it.
So you're off the hook, Ali.
Fine.
Fine.
Well, if that's it then…
…goodbye.
Bye.
Ness!
Oh God. Tell Bituin that she's been promoted.
Well, I've actually been meaning to tell you this,
but Bituin doesn't want to be in your bridal party.
She refuses to wear matching dresses.
Breathe.
Ready for me.
Now watch me go get it, baby.
Hey.
Uh…
It's been an exciting opening night at Ally Bank Arena,
but LA is trailing down the stretch.
Oh, dammit.
Hey, Isla… Isla, can I get Ali's seat?
I got mustard on mine.
- No.
- I'm coming over.
- Ugh, God, Ness.
- Here we go. Here we go.
Look, I know it's only one game
and we're getting used to a new coach.
- But this should've been an easy W.
- There's still time, okay. We got this.
Bugg surveys at the top of the key.
Travis drives. He's gotta unload it. Dyson's open.
Bugg swings it to Coburn for an impossibly deep three.
And LA drops the season opener.
Bugg had Dyson open under the basket.
Yo, bro, you ain't see me? I was wide open.
I saw you.
- I don't know how he missed him.
- Wow.
What the hell was that?
He makes that shot,
this whole crowd goes home with curly fries.
Okay. Uh, great, you'll email me my call time.
Okay, thank you.
Okay.
Sounds like somebody got their first big Hollywood gig.
Well, don't get too excited.
My, uh… my role is featured background on a reality show.
We don't even get the same crafty.
Well, you know, it beats laying around
on the couch all day playing Minecraft.
Well, I… Yeah, I just… I don't know.
I really wanted to do narrative.
Like be on White Lotus or something.
I think there might be a few steps
in between former dog groomer and star of The White Lotus.
Not if you're young, hot, and read straight.
You read straight.
- So I'm not young and hot?
- Neither of us are young.
Look, all I'm saying is that this is an opportunity.
I mean, what if Mike White sees you
in this featured background role?
Okay. Okay, I'll do it. I'll do it.
Good. Great. Exciting.
So not only are the Waves off to a rocky start,
we're also hearing rumors of a love triangle
that is threatening to tear apart the locker room.
Here's the deets.
Dyson Gibbs has been getting serious
with sexy actress Zoé Debay
who was previously linked, very briefly,
with his teammate Travis Bugg.
Is this a throuple gone bad?
As someone who's been kicked out of a threesome,
I can tell you that is gonna sting for a while.
How did we not know about this? Ness?
'Cause Ali was always the one on top of player gossip.
They never realized she was on their text chain.
Yeah, she usually put out these fires.
I mean, Ali's small, but the players were scared of her.
- Not just the players.
- Can we stop talking about my ex-friend?
We've got to figure out how to fix this Travis-Dyson feud.
Is this gonna affect the sketch I wrote
with Travis and Dyson playing charades?
You know what, Jackie?
I love you more than anyone here,
but no one cares. We gotta Bluesky this.
- What are you doing?
- Checking Bluesky.
Seeing if anyone has any Zoé Debay goss.
If this is a locker-room issue,
shouldn't the coach deal with it?
Yes, Norm can fix this. Thank you, Sandy.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I just found
an AI video of Dyson and Travis kissing.
Wow. At least I think it's AI,
but if not, problem solved.
In women's hoop news,
LA power forward Brielle Mande has been suspended again.
This time for flipping the double bird to the crowd
during Girl Scout Appreciation Night.
What a crazy bitch.
And before you try to cancel me,
I have two daughters.
- That's sweet. He's a girl dad.
- Blech!
This is where the moose sausage gets made.
You ready to meet and memorize 158 names?
Oh, uh, sure.
I'm kidding. There's only 113 of us.
Okay.
Hi, y'all.
This is the incredible Ali Lee, our new
Vice President of Basketball Operations.
Oh.
Hi. Uh, I can't wait to get started.
I am so excited to be here.
Go Trappers!
Hmm.
It's "Goooo Trappers."
- Oh.
- It's okay.
- Come on.
- Oh.
We've arrived.
Your new home away from home.
This is incredible.
Mm-hmm.
On a clear day, you can see suburban Buffalo from here.
- You must be Ali Lee.
- Yes.
- Welcome.
- Oh, thank you.
I'm brewing a fresh pot of cocoa. How do you take yours?
Uh, with marshmallows and whipped cream.
Oh, the whole shebang, eh?
Of course you know Carl, our CEO.
Oh, CEO.
Let me guess.
Cocoa executive officer?
Magnus, you didn't tell me you hired Jim Carrey.
Somebody stop me.
This one is for the dream.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
This one is for the dream.
Coach, we have an urgent situation
that needs your attention.
It's Dyson and Travis.
Oh, is this because I keep mixing up
their names because I got a trick now.
Dyson is Black.
Travis is white.
- That's a good trick.
- Like the cookie.
Norm, Dyson and Travis hate each other
because they're fighting over this girl, Zoé Debay.
Wait, wait, wait, from Triple Trouble?
Oh, I used to love that show.
I'd watch that with my daughter.
Then she married that son of a bitch.
He's… he's an indoor rock climber.
- I need you to talk to them and fix it.
- To who? The triplets?
- You know that's one girl, right?
- The players, Norm.
- What are you going to say to them?
- Okay, yeah, I get it.
I got a thing that always works.
Just… just make sure you come to practice,
and… and I'll put the pieces together.
Yeah.
Turn it up.
Yeah.
Bring it in.
Let's go, hustle up.
- Bring it in.
- Let's go.
- Hold this.
- Yeah.
Okay, gentlemen, it's come to my attention that…
…there's some trouble in the locker room. Huh?
Maybe over a woman.
The point is we're gonna nip it in the bud.
Hold that up.
Tell me what you see here.
Golden Gate Bridge.
Wrong.
It's a metaphor.
I mean, yeah, yeah, it… it is the Golden Gate Bridge.
And a lot of brave Italians
lost their lives trying to build it.
What I'm trying to get at is this puzzle
could be the fucking championship
if we just bridge our differences and work together. Heh?
Okay, now is there something wrong with this puzzle?
Travis?
I mean, obviously two pieces are missing.
My man! Yes!
There's two pieces missing.
Travis… this is you.
Dyson… this is you.
You go right in there.
Mm-hmm.
- Hold on. He goes in there.
- Yeah.
No, it's not going in.
- It's upside down.
- It's not.
- Rotate it. It's gonna fit.
- The little part's on the top.
- That corner works.
- Doesn't matter. Here's the point.
You two, you gotta stop pretending
like you don't fit together.
- Give me.
- Sure.
- No, the ball. The ball.
- Here you go.
Listen, we're gonna do a couple one-on-ones
just to work it out.
Travis, you and Dyson, let's go.
Check.
Check.
Come on, man. Let's squash this, all right?
Fuck this shit.
Oh!
Whoa. Whoa!
- Break it up.
- Hey, hey, hey! Whoa!
Hey! Whoa!
My new jaw! Come on.
We need new whistles, man.
You guys cannot be fighting at practice.
How did it come to this?
I told Dyson this would happen, but what do I know?
- I've only been in the league 16 years.
- I haven't done anything wrong.
I was up-front with Travis
about everything, and he said it was fine.
Bro, and you believed me?
I lie about everything except my sobriety
'cause that requires rigorous honesty.
Guys, what's it gonna take to squash the beef, huh?
Let's not forget you both promised
to do my skit for the Jumbotron.
Which, by the way, Marcus,
would love to get you in one of those.
Who is this guy?
Travis, how long are you gonna hold this grudge for?
Look, no one loves Black love more than me.
All right? I get in trouble for how much I love it,
but I really like Zoé.
Her show helped me get through rehab.
I brought her to the locker room first, so I had dibs.
Told ya.
Whoa, you got dibs? Dyson, not cool.
- Thank you.
- All right. All right.
Not that I condone calling dibs on any woman,
but Dyson, could you at least apologize
for your role in this mess?
I already did. He's being a baby.
I'm not a baby, but you're about
to get your ass whooped by a baby.
- Are you a baby or not?
- Whoa, whoa!
- I can't believe I let you look up to me.
- I never looked up to you.
And that's the problem.
Benedict Ronald.
Travis.
He means Benedict Arnold.
I tried,
but he's crazy.
You did not.
No way. No way! You're kidding me.
What the
- Cut!
- Who the hell is this guy?
- You ruined our shot.
- I di…
I'm sorry, Ms. Rinna.
- You're not supposed to leave background
- This is my house. What is happening?
Oh my God, I'm sorry.
This is my boyfriend. I will handle this.
Come here.
Oh.
Why is Lisa Rinna in our living room?
Okay, babe, it's the craziest thing.
It turns out the background gig I was called in for
was for Lisa's reality show, Rinna-ssance.
She might put a colon after it and say,
"Own it, baby," which is her catchphrase.
I know her catchphrase. What is she doing in my house?
I was playing a server at her dinner party,
and somebody dropped a drink,
and I yelled, "Leave it down!"
She laughed so hard
and Taft Hartley'd me to a speaking role.
I said, "Throw a mic on this man immediately."
We tried to get that line again,
but we couldn't quite recapture the magic.
- My fault.
- But I knew there was something special
about my Char Char Binks.
My new favorite gay.
She wants to add me to the cast.
- We have to shoot things in the house.
- Yeah.
Great.
- Ms. Rinna, big fan…
- Thank you.
…but could we have a moment here, just the two of us?
Of course. I get it.
I don't really. I can't relate
'cause Harry Hamlin and I don't fight.
- I know. I know.
- Yeah.
- This is insane.
- I know.
There are port a-potties
blocking Channing Tatum's driveway.
I know, but they said it's just for today, okay?
Please, Sandy, I need this.
Please, please, please, please.
- Okay.
- Oh, thank you.
I will just be in my bedroom…
…watching Andor.
Actually, that's where video village is.
Andy Cohen's chair is in there.
Andy Cohen is here?
Well, no, but they have to have a chair for him.
All right, man. We gotta clear the set. Come on.
Ow. Okay, I'm… I'm going. I'm going.
Pretty much the worst way this season could've started,
and you-know-who isn't there to help me fix this mess.
No, she's in Toronto with her new Canadian friends,
like Martin Short and… and Steve Martin
and… and Chevy Chase.
Those are the Three Amigos,
and only one of them is from Canada.
What am I gonna do?
Couldn't Zoé just at least be a real twin
so that Travis could date one of them?
Okay.
Hey.
Do you remember when we first met?
Vaguely.
- I mean, you know I was drunk.
- We all were.
It was the Saddle Ranch.
I had just broken up with my ex, Rachel.
I was heartbroken, and then I saw you
and your beautiful blonde hair, mo most of it yours,
flowing through the air as you were thrown
from the mechanical bull,
and after I helped you put your top back on,
it was instant sparks.
Okay, I never thought about Rachel ever again.
Okay, but what dumb psycho is gonna date Travis?
That is what I'm trying to tell you.
Look…
…there is someone out there for everyone, even Travis,
and that someone for me… is Daft Punk.
Do you have a tampon?
- Uh, what?
- Oh God, I'm sorry.
I… I… It's a force of habit. Ali always had them.
Well, I don't, but I'm gonna go get you one.
Do you have any preferred tampon spots?
Don't you have a girlfriend?
- Oh!
- Ow!
What the…?
Oops.
Oh my God, I forgot I let Brielle Mande work out here.
She's still not allowed to work out at her team's facility
because she's deranged.
We're not even near the basket.
I think she threw that at me.
Hey.
You know I did you a favor by letting you work out here.
Chill, girl. I said, "Oops."
You on your period or something?
She actually is. Do you have a tampon?
Jackie, can you go now, please?
Damn, you look so stressed.
Can't a rich bitch afford Botox?
I will have you know I do plenty of Botox.
Okay? My body just metabolizes it very quickly.
You eat Botox?
What? Are you insane?
Wait.
- Are you single?
- Girl, I am not gay.
I mean, the rest of my teammates are,
and I was from the age of 19 to last month,
but I… I'm not feeling you.
I'm not asking you out.
I just wanna try something with you on camera.
- What?
- It's… it's not sexual.
I thought it would be cool if we did a little video
and I played it on the Jumbotron at the games.
No. Mm-mm-mm. No.
I'm not doing some busted-ass comedy skit with a nobody.
With a nobody?
Like I wanna be seen with your wish.com Jack Harlow ass.
- Jackie, tell them your idea.
- Oh. Okay.
It's basically charades.
No, I'm not playing charades with this white boy.
Who you calling white?
Also, wh… what's charades?
No, this honky's never heard of charades.
Wait. Stop it. Stop it.
You're both white, and charades is actually a fun game,
so let's just try one and loosen up.
Yeah, you'd like that, wouldn't you?
This wild ho's been trying to get with me all day.
No way.
She tried to get with me too.
- Yo, for real?
- Yeah.
This wild ho is crazy.
- She is a wild ho.
- Yeah.
I'm Isla Gordon.
I'm the big boss lady.
Glad you're having fun.
Jackie, they're all yours.
How are things going?
- Hey.
- Getting acclimated?
Yep. It is amazing how quiet it is in here.
Oh, yeah.
There's a special bond in a workplace.
Everyone can hear each other's heartbeat.
Yeah. Gil from accounting says I might have a murmur.
- Oh, dear.
- Anyway.
I put together a pitch deck
of my ideas for increasing revenue
with some product integration
and some fun events for season ticket holders.
Yeah, awesome.
Hey, uh, I meant to ask you,
what was it like when you told the Gordons
you were leaving?
It…
It sucked, to be honest.
Did they freak out? I bet Cam was so upset.
And what about Isla? She probably cried, right?
No, she's… she's more of a yeller.
I mean, it… it definitely came as a shock.
Oh, man.
Do you wanna take a look at this?
Oh no, I gotta go. There's a lockdown
at my daughter's school.
Oh my God, is everything okay?
Just a small bear.
Luanne, have them warm up my car, please.
Uh…
Why are we just hovering in a tunnel?
You can go to your seat.
- I'm waiting for Jackie.
- What?
Yo, Isla, thanks for the tickets.
- You're very welcome, Brielle.
- I didn't know I'd be front row.
- Should I have worn underwear?
- Yes. No matter what row, yes.
- Cool, good tip.
- Yeah.
Oh, Charli XCX is here.
We gotta make sure she has passes to the lounge.
What? I can't hear you because of my chin brace.
Charli XCX arrived.
Charlie Rose died?
Oh, no.
I got your tampons.
I didn't know your size, so I… I just guessed large.
- Oh, you're on your period.
- God, stop it!
Just…
Oh, look who showed up.
She hates my ass.
I'm into it.
Let's play charades!
Uh…
What the f♪♪are you doing?
Orange. Pokémon.
Hat. Top hat. Top hat!
It's f♪♪♪ing popcorn.
- You're not
- The category is food.
- God d♪♪♪♪♪! ♪♪♪♪!
- How many other f♪♪♪ing foods can it be?
All right, next word.
Three-two. Three-two.
LA has been locked in tonight as Gibbs gets another steal.
Waves on the attack.
Bugg to Gibbs.
Slam dunk!
Timeout Milwaukee after
a thunderous alley-oop from Bugg to Dyson.
Nice.
That's Travis Bugg's 13th assist of the night.
It's the puzzle. That works every time.
No, I fixed it, Norm.
Never fails.
- I just met Charli XCX.
- Oh!
I told her about Charlie Rose.
She's devastated.
Oh God, Ness, you don't need to talk so loud.
What?
I'm coming for the crowd It's a shutdown.
- Hey.
- Hi.
You need anything else?
Nope, I'm good. Great job on the Jumbotron tonight.
Oh, thanks. I'm actually working on a new idea.
It's like charades, but you have
to describe the words with pictures.
Oh, so Pictionary?
Man!
Hey, first win of the season. You want a beer?
No, I'm meeting up with Sofia, but you have a good night.
All right. See ya, Jackie.
Yeah, ooh
I've been afraid To ask you to come back to the city.
I know it's not looking good…
Toronto beat Orlando, 111-109,
and LA got their first win of the season
over Milwaukee, 99-85.
Just give me some time.
Just give me some time.
Why don't you miss me?
Why don't you miss me?
Why don't you miss me?
Winter's coming I bet it's tough in the country.
It's getting cold and dark.
So, baby, don't you want me.
I can't be trusted when I'm all alone -When I'm all alone.
When all you give me is a telephone.
Oh, baby -Oh, baby
I think it's time to come home.
Come back Come back home.
Now I know that You need someone to love you.
But I need something tonight -I need.
Don't hide away That love light shining above you.
Just give me some time