SurrealEstate (2021) s03e06 Episode Script

[INDUSTRIAL SOUNDS]
LUKE (VO): Previously on SurrealEstate.
You don't want to even be in
the same house with me anymore?
- [ROAR]
- [MAN YELLS; WOMAN SCREAMS]
- [WOMAN GASPING]
- [MAN YELLS]
Our electricity bill
is through the roof.
Luke seems to regard me as
a luxury he cannot afford.
Seriously, I'm done with dating.
I'm done with guys, done with trying.
Sorry to interrupt.
It's me. Elvis the elephant.
[DRAMATIC SCORE]
What the heck is that?
[SCORE FADES OUT]
[DISTANT EXPLOSION]
[GENTLY BLOWING WIND]
[STATIC ON TV]
[TENSE SCORE]
- [DISTANT AUTOMATIC GUNFIRE]
- SOLDIER: Contact! Contact!
[DISTANT YELLING]
[DISTANT EXOTIC BIRDS CHIRPING]
[SEVERAL DISTANT PEOPLE YELLING]
MAN 1: Stay with me, man! Stay with me!
Stay low! Stay low!
MAN 2: Stand by. [INDISCERNIBLE]
[PEOPLE YELLING]
- [DISTANT AUTOMATIC GUNFIRE]
- [LONG PAINED SCREAM]
[SEVERAL MEN YELLING]
Oh! Who ?
They're coming.
Can you hear 'em?
- [SOLDIER SIGHS]
- What the ?
SOLDIER 2: I'm gonna need evac now!
[HIGH-PITCHED SCREAM]
[GARBLED VOICE OVER RADIO]
Peter!
[EXCITING OPENING THEME]
[DISTANT MAN SCREAMING]
[OPENING THEME CROSSFADES
TO GENTLE SCORE]
- Hey, Suze!
- Bob?
Hey. Can you spare me just a sec?
Um I guess so.
Great. First time in the new digs.
Business must be great.
Please, sit. It's been a while.
It has.
Sorry to hear about your
mom. I always liked her.
She hated your living guts,
Bob, but you knew that.
I did. I know, I know. I
I deserved it. I mean,
I treated you badly.
And I let you. And that was my bad.
Mm, it's all on me.
- But that's not why you're here.
- [SCORE FADES OUT]
I'm not the same person, Susan.
Good, Bob. I'm glad to hear it.
Yeah, I've grown. I've evolved.
I'm listening more.
And, uh, it's the only
way that I have the courage
to bring you this offer today.
Offer?
Merge with me, Susan.
Let's strategically
spot weld Livingston-Kent
onto the Roman/Ireland
residential real estate machine.
You want to go into business together?
Yeah.
Look, I'm not the creepy
boss that cheated with you
on his wife anymore.
Yeah, I've done a ton of work on myself
and I am in a much better place.
I'm single, I'm healthy,
I'm doing visualization meditation,
hot pilates, I volunteer twice a week
at a Greyhound rescue.
And I am laser-focused on my career,
ready to take it to the next level.
We were great once together.
We were terrible together, Bob.
Are these sales projections accurate?
Uh, they're estimates,
but I think they're
definitely probably achievable.
I mean, we were great
together in real estate, Susan.
It was the other thing that was wrong.
- So wrong.
- But if you just skip
to the graph volume over 24 months
Wrong, wrong, wrong-wrong-wrong.
You will see that we are
up 20% year over year.
With you and Luke beside me,
there's no way we can fail.
[PAPER CRINKLING]
Why us? Why Roman/Ireland?
There are plenty of
bigger shops out there
better capitalized for expansion.
You're lean, you're
nimble. You're bespoke.
I'm not doing this to
get bigger, just better.
[QUIET INTRIGUING SCORE]
Go on, just take it to Luke, all right?
It's all I ask. Talk it over with him.
Bob, I've gotta go.
Okay. But you're going
to talk to him, right?
When I get the chance.
Excellent. Perfect. Thank you.
Yeah, okay, Bob, now I have to go.
Okay.
- Okay, this is gonna be quick.
- [SCORE FADES OUT]
Luke is on the road today
checking out a cottage on a lake
in the middle of nowhere
and Lomax is still
helping out her folks
so it's just gonna be us.
I sent you the results
of the title search
on the Bashir place. Just
a heloc that was paid off
in 2023 but not properly filed.
Parties have been notified;
should be resolved by
the end of business day.
- SUSAN: Thanks, Tag.
- Your, uh,
email on the Campbell
house was disturbing.
Yeah. Nothing gets your attention
like a scary guy with
a painted face and a gun
in your upstairs hallway.
It certainly sucks the thunder out of
my improperly filed home
equity line of credit story.
Augie, we should start
with a standard P-K-T,
unless you have any better ideas.
As good a place as any.
If you send me the address,
I'll look into history
- and past owners.
- SUSAN: Good.
And I'll try to talk down the owners.
- They're pretty upset.
- [QUIET GENTLE SCORE]
He was maybe 17, 18.
Skinny, could have been a
lot younger, like 15 or so.
Except his eyes. I don't
know. His eyes looked old.
He was a soldier?
Sure looked like one. He had a rifle.
He kept making these gestures,
moving his arms and hands around
like I should understand
what the hell it meant.
Oh. Tell her about the noises.
Oh. This was weird.
I heard jungle noises.
Birds, monkeys I don't know.
- Did you hear anything?
- No.
I was asleep until
Dwight came stumbling in.
And you've never seen anything
like this before in how long?
- Eleven years we've lived here.
- We've seen enough.
We're gonna stay at my brother's place
until you get this figured out.
You are gonna get it figured out, right?
Absolutely. In fact, I'm
gonna go through right now
and make some notes on
staging while my associate
takes some readings.
What kind of readings?
A soldier? Was he sure?
He thought so.
I asked if either of
them had ever served,
like if this was a really vivid memory,
or even a PTSD flashback, but no.
- [STATIC]
- LUKE: Huh? Did you ?
- You're breaking up.
- [STATIC]
Listen, I am lost out here.
They gave me lousy directions,
the GPS is making it worse. It's
Hey, we could really use you back here.
- [STATIC]
- What?
I said, with the Campbell place,
we really [STATIC] Campbell
Hey, listen, you are cutting in and out.
Let's just talk later?
- Okay. Okay, good luck.
- [STATIC]
- What?
- [STATIC]
[CALL DISCONNECT BEEPS]
[ENGINE REVVING]
[SCORE DARKENS]
[GEAR SELECTOR RATCHETS]
- [DOOR SLAMS]
- [CROW CAWING]
[DEVICE WHOOSHING, CLICKING]
[BEEPING]
[PHONE KEYBOARD CLICKING]
[DEVICE WHOOSHING, CLICKING]
[TWO RISING WHISTLES TONES]
[RISING WHISTLE TONE, CLICKING]
[CLICKING; STATIC]
[TWO RISING WHISTLE TONES]
[JUNGLE ANIMAL CALLS]
- [GARBLED VOICE]
- [AUTOMATIC GUNFIRE]
MAN 1: Take cover! Take cover!
Coming from the right side!
- Oh, dear.
- MAN 1: Shoot!
MAN 2: Bravo, we have
civilians in the area.
MAN 3: Up there. Go!
MAN 4: Grenade!
- SUSAN: Ah! Oh!
- SOLDIER: Get down!
- MAN 4: We gotta get outta here!
- MAN 5: Grenade!
- [EXPLOSION]
- [PEOPLE SCREAMING]
MAN 5: God! Help me! Help me!
- [DRAMATIC SCORE]
- AUGUST: Oh!
- [SUSAN GROANS MEEKLY]
- Are you are you okay?
He was in the closet. He
He jumped out and grabbed a grenade.
He-he threw back in there.
It-it was like a war movie.
He, he told me to get
down and then I did.
- [AUGUST EXHALES]
- [SUSAN PANTS]
- [DOORHANDLE RATTLES]
- [HINGES SQUEAK]
[SUSAN EXHALES, GROANS]
[JUNGLE SOUNDS]
[PHONE CLICKS]
[PHONE BEEPS]
[HIGH-PITCHED RINGING]
- Hello?
- [SCORE FADES OUT]
Kinda lost. Can you help me?
[BIRDS TWITTERING]
- [THUNDER RUMBLING]
- [DOG BARKS TWICE]
I'm looking for a place
on a lake and I'm, uh
I'm lost.
[BIRDS CALLING]
[SHARP EXHALE]
[HINGES SQUEAK]
Yeah, hi. Uh, this place,
it's on a lake somewhere.
Is there a lake nearby
with, like, a bunch of
- expensive cottages around it?
- No.
THE ADDRESS: 765 Harewood Road.
This isn't Harewood Road, is it?
No.
Well, do you
Can you tell me where Harewood Road is?
No.
Okay. Thanks.
[HINGES CREAK]
[DISTANT THUNDER RUMBLING]
[CROWS CAWING]
[HANDLE RATTLES]
[SIGHS]
[PHONE CLICKS]
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
Hey! It's, uh, it's me again.
I lost my car keys and it's locked
and I got no cell phone service.
Go away!
Look, I'm sorry, but I'm really stuck
and it's gonna start rainin'.
- [SHARP BANG]
- [HINGES CREAK]
Can I please
If I could use your
landline, that'd be great.
I don't have one.
Do you have a cell that
works because I got no bars?
- Don't have one.
- How do you call people?
I don't.
- [TENSE SCORE]
- Look.
There's a storm coming.
Can I come in just for a minute?
Please?
[DISTANT ROLLING THUNDER]
He jumped out of the closet,
grabbed the grenade and threw it away.
He was, he was some kind of soldier.
- What service? From when?
- What do you mean?
Was he present day, World War I, II,
Iraq, Afghanistan?
No idea.
And he was wearing a helmet?
- Yeah.
- Sorry. Go on.
Um, there were sounds.
- Birds and things.
- [SCORE FADES OUT]
August recorded some of it.
I'll ask him to send it to you.
- [PEN SCRATCHING]
- And that was pretty much it.
It's pretty freaky.
Are you okay?
Pardon?
I was just wondering
if you're all right.
Yeah, I'm, uh
Yeah, I'm fine. Sweet of you to ask.
Good. Okay, then I'll, um,
I'll listen to August's tape
and look over the recordings
and if no! When!
When I find something I'll text you.
- [GENTLE SCORE]
- Thanks.
- [BLIP]
- [SCORE INTENSIFIES]
[FIREPLACE CRACKLING]
Nice place.
Bigger than it looked from
the outside. [CHUCKLES]
Well, I wouldn't know.
Outside doesn't matter.
[SCORE DARKENS]
Nice collection. [CHUCKLES]
How many do you have?
Enough.
Exactly enough.
I'm Luke Roman, by the way.
What's the dog's name?
- Erasmus.
- It's a great name.
- [ERASMUS GRUMBLES SOFTLY]
- What does Erasmus call you?
[LAUGHS SOFTLY TROUGH NOSTRILS]
Harry.
Well, Harry, thanks
for opening the door.
- [HARRY SIGHS LOUDLY]
- [ERASMUS WHINES SOFTLY]
[SCORE DARKENS]
I don't remember seeing a
chimney from the outside.
Outside doesn't matter.
[FIRE WHOOSHES]
On a related subject,
what happened to the door I came in?
Well,
it's gotta be around here somewhere.
Right?
[SCORE INTENSIFIES, FADES OUT]
- [FIRE CRACKLING]
- [TENSE SCORE]
You were the one who wanted in so bad.
What happened to the
door and what did you ?
Relax, Nancy. It's
right where you left it.
[SCORE INTENSIFIES]
[SCORE ABATES]
Aww.
[SIGHS THROUGH NOSE]
How old was Erasmus when he died?
Thirteen. Not bad for the bigger breeds.
They just don't live as long.
And you?
What about me?
When did you die?
[SCORE INTENSIFIES, ABATES]
- [KNOCKING AT DOOR]
- [DOOR HINGES CREAK]
Shell. Everything all right?
- [SCORE FADES OUT]
- [PAPER BAG CRINKLING]
You forgot your lunch this morning.
Again.
You didn't need to bother.
Well, somebody's got to take care of you
because you are doing
a lousy job yourself.
Ooh, I don't even want to ask.
A bit of, uh, reverse engineering.
Feeding paranormal contact data
into an AI algorithm to, uh,
formulate a response,
initiate a conversation.
Those occasions, like today,
when Luke is not available.
Ah! So who's the spook du jour?
Did those twins in the
shining finally hit menopause?
I manage to not make
frivolous remarks about
your killing machines.
- [QUIET TENSE SCORE]
- It would be nice to have
that courtesy reciprocated.
Enjoy your damn lunch.
[CLICKS]
- [ELECTRICAL ARCING]
- Ooh!
[SCORE FADES OUT]
Now, can you say which, if any
of these forms of protective headgear
was on the soldier you encountered?
[SIGH] I only saw him for a second.
And you were totally freaking.
That's a given and
perfectly understandable.
Still, if any of these
is close, we'll at least
know the approximate
era we're dealing with.
- I think it was D.
- D! Excellent.
You've identified the
M1 steel pot helmet
issued to soldiers from 1941 to 1985.
That narrows us to World War II,
the Korean conflict and Vietnam.
- Okay.
- Incidentally, I hope you
enjoyed the inclusion
of the Viking helmet.
It was funny.
I've often been accused
of being humorless.
This is my riposte.
Good one.
What's this?
We know the helmet our
soldier was wearing. Tell him.
An M1 steel bucket worn by
U.S. soldiers from 1941 to '85.
- [QUIET TENSE SCORE]
- [CHIME]
Hold on a second. I'm receiving an email
that is relevant to our conversation.
[KEYBOARD CLACKING]
I'm happy to see that, uh,
Brunnhilde and Kaiser
Wilhelm are off the hook.
Okay, August, so I sent your
recording to an associate
who was able to wash
it and then stitch it
to an AI adapter module
for aviary identification.
- He sent it to a birdwatcher.
- Ah.
Precisely. My friend was able
to isolate two of the birds
on the soundtrack. One
was the melodic song
of Merops orientalis,
the Asian green bee-eater.
The other was the black
drongo, dicrurus macrocercu,
a song that's a good
deal harsher and louder.
And?
They're both endemic to Vietnam.
This is a little confusing.
I've checked and none of
the past residents of the house
have ever served in the military.
Regardless, our young man seems to be
fighting the Vietnam
conflict all over again.
So who gets to tell him the war is over?
I'll do it.
After all, he did save my life.
- [DISTANT DOG BARKING]
- [SCORE FADES OUT]
Hello!
[VIETNAMESE MUSIC
PLAYING ON CHEAP RADIO]
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS IN VIETNAMESE]
[TENSE SCORE]
Soldier?
Listen to me
[THUMPING HELICOPTER BLADES APPROACHING]
Whatever brought you back here,
- you need to know that
- [PROPELLER AIRPLANE PASSES BY]
- [HIGH-PITCHED EXPLOSION]
- Ah!
MAN 2: Get to the LV! Now! Move!
- [MAN SCREAMING]
- SOLDIER: Medic! Medic!
[DISTANT MAN YELLING]
Come on, Pete. Look at me!
Talk to me!
[SUSAN SPLUTTERS]
Chrissakes, Pete, fight!
Medic!
SOLDIER 2: Go! Move!
- [CACOPHONY OF NOISES]
- [HIGH-PITCHING RINGING]
- [SCORE INTENSIFIES]
- [SCORE FADES OUT]
- [SOFT SCORE]
- Are you still here?
Afraid so.
- My watch isn't working
- Time doesn't matter here.
So I gotta ask.
[HARRY SIGHS]
How did you know about Erasmus?
And me?
I kinda have a way.
Helluva way.
Like a glass of wine?
Is it good?
Russian River Valley Pinot Noir.
Doesn't suck.
And yet there's only one glass.
Hm.
[SOFT CLINK ON BOTTLE]
- [WHOOSH]
- [GLUGGING]
Go easy.
You're driving.
I'm not so sure.
I lost my car keys.
Oh, you are. They're
making you stay, but
Not for long.
Who's making me stay?
You know.
Management.
You know, I never really
I never really liked people.
My wife left me.
My kids,
they never really wanted
much to do with me.
Bad choices. Bad luck. Bad health.
I was kinda lost.
And then, this fella came along.
Just a puppy running around
the parking lot at Food King.
Hopped in my car.
Never gave me a choice.
Never judged me, never
told me what to do.
Only loved me.
Me, who had been led to
believe was unlovable.
[TENDER SCORE]
The goodest boy.
The very goodest.
Thirteen years.
The vet said he was in pain.
Well, we couldn't have that.
So I let him go.
Then I went home.
I went about dying myself.
Didn't take long.
And now you're here.
Mr. Roman,
I have a message I
think you need to hear.
Not every soul needs to move forward.
Not every immortal spirit
needs a kick in the ass.
Some of us just want to go
back to that moment in life
we were the happiest and just
Just be.
[TENDER SCORE]
- Don't you get lonely?
- [HARRY SNORTS]
- Lonely?
- [LAUGHS]
I've got Dickens!
Tolstoy, Austen, Joyce,
Flaubert, Cervantes, Dostoevsky!
I have Erasmus!
I have enough friends
to last me 17 forevers.
You're a really lucky guy.
You do what you do long enough,
you start thinking you know what's best.
Luke, they want me to tell you,
you don't.
Not always.
(WHISPERS) So listen.
I will.
I promise.
Good.
[LUKE SUCKS TEETH]
Hm.
- Thanks, Harry.
- [HARRY MUMBLES]
[KEYS CLINK]
[ERASMUS SQUEAKS,
GRUMBLES AFFECTIONATELY]
[DOOR HANDLE CLANKS, RATTLES]
[DOOR OPENS]
[SCORE FADES OUT]
TAG: That must have been terrifying.
Honestly, it's what we
here at Roman/Ireland
refer to as a Thursday.
So, what do you have for us?
A lot. Okay, to start with,
I verified there's been
nobody who lived in that house
for the past 50 years
who's served in uniform.
- Checked and double-checked.
- Then why would he ?
That's the question, isn't it?
But then I dug a little deeper,
which is what you hired me to do,
- and came across her.
- [COMPUTER MOUSE CLICKS]
This is Lynette O'Connor.
She lived in that house in
the late '60s and early '70s
with her parents. Her father
was an insurance salesman
and her mom was a a-a mom.
I managed to dig through the archives
and came up with this
picture from the 1967 yearbook
for Emily Bronte High School,
the Fighting Brontosauruses.
- [COMPUTER MOUSE CLICKS]
- Uh, this was on the prom page.
- [CLICK; WHOOSH]
- [QUIET TENSE SCORE]
Oh my God! That's, that's
him. That's the guy I saw.
But he looked older.
That's what I wanted to know.
Let me dig a little deeper
and see what I can find.
Really great work, Tag.
Oh, one other thing.
You mentioned the hand
gestures that Mr. Campbell saw.
Those are hand signals
that commanders used
to communicate silently to their troops.
In Vietnam.
- More soon. Goodbye.
- [BLIP]
What I don't understand is why now?
The war ended in 1975.
It was a complicated war
in a complicated time.
I guess.
Do you remember it?
- [SCORE FADES OUT]]
- [DISTANT DOG BARKING]
ROCHELLE: You're going out? This late?
There's some eggplant
parmesan in the refrigerator.
[FRIDGE DOOR OPENS]
If you like, I could,
uh, heat it up for you.
[FRIDGE DOOR CLOSES]
I'm not at all certain how late I'll be,
so you needn't wait up.
There's a troubled young
man who needs my help.
What kind of trouble?
Did I ever tell you about my uncle Theo?
No, I don't think you ever did.
My father's older brother,
[TENDER SCORE]
Was drafted in '67.
Did a year's tour in Vietnam.
Growing up I always asked my father
why we never saw Uncle
Theo at family things.
Never at Christmas.
Dad said he didn't
He didn't like being around people.
He said the things he saw,
the things he did in
Vietnam changed him.
Indelibly
And permanently.
That's why you struggled at Asdra.
Partially.
Oh, Auggie.
[SCORE FADES OUT]
[DISTANT CRICKETS CHIRRING]
- [SCOFFS]
- [PHONE BEEPING]
Susan Ireland.
Susan, Tag. Can you get to a computer?
Yeah.
- [DING]
- [ELECTRIC ENGINE WHINES]
TAG: His name was Robert Vincennes.
- You found him!
- It wasn't hard.
He was all over the yearbook.
Honor student, played sports,
- sang in the choir. All of it.
- [QUIET SCORE]
Wow. All-American boy.
Drafted into the army in early '67.
Did basic training in
Fort Polk, Louisiana.
Shipped out to Vietnam in May.
[SIGHS THROUGH NOSE]
Killed in action at Khe
Sanh in April of '68.
Yeah. I also did some
looking for Lynette O'Connor,
the girl who lived in the house.
The prom date.
Now she's Lynette Meeker, a widow.
But she's still alive?
Still lives around here, in fact.
Send me her info. Address, phone number.
Will do. Ah, Susan?
I'm sorry for your loss.
[CLICK; DESCENDING TONES]
[SCORE FADES OUT]
- AUGUST: Soldier?
- [TENSE GRATING SCORE]
[DISTANT INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
Listen to me.
It's time to stand down.
War is over.
Time to stop the fight.
[DRAMATIC BOOM]
Return to a peaceful place.
[DISTANT JUNGLE BIRDS CALLING]
- [DISTANT AUTOMATIC GUNFIRE]
- [STATIC ON DEVICE]
Damn it.
[DRAMATIC BOOM]
[GRATING HIGH-PITCHED TONES]
[DISTANT AUTOMATIC GUNFIRE]
[DRAMATIC BOOM]
[SCORE FADES OUT]
- [ELEVATOR ARRIVING CHIME]
- [CARAFE CLATTERS]
- [ELEVATOR DOORS OPEN]
- Morning!
- Hey!
- Did you find the cottage?
Oh, I got a little sidetracked.
It was late by the
time I got to the lake.
I had to stay over. It was a nice place.
Should sell fast if we get
better directions than I got.
Hm. So it was worthwhile.
Worthwhile?
- Yeah. Very.
- [QUIET SCORE]
So tell me about the Campbells.
Ugh, Luke,
it'll break your heart.
This nice local boy,
killed in Vietnam in 1968,
he's haunting his girlfriend's house.
Why? Why now, all of a sudden?
[SIGHS]
[PHONE BUZZING]
Rochelle. [CHUCKLES]
- Rochelle. Hi.
- [TENSE SCORE]
When did he leave?
Did he say anything?
A troubled young man.
[SCORE INTENSIFIES]
[INSECTS CHIRRING]
[BIRDS CHIRPING]
- Hm.
- [FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
[PROPELLER AIRPLANE PASSING NEARBY]
[EXHALING]
[SOFT MOAN]
- You're awake.
- [AUGUST MOANS SOFTLY]
Good.
- [SOLDIER INHALES SHARPLY]
Now tell me
Where's Charlie?
[SCORE INTENSIFIES]
Young man,
your war is over.
- You need to
- Don't give me your bullshit!
- [SCORE INTENSIFIES]
- [THE SOLDIER BREATHES HARD]
They killed my friend.
His name was Pete and they killed him!
I know they're hiding in this village,
so you can either help
me, or so help me God,
I'll kill you
and I'll kill your family.
It won't mean a thing to me.
It's like killing a bug.
I'm not your enemy.
- [INHALES SHARPLY]
- Answer me!
LUKE: Robbie.
[ROBBIE BREATHES HARD]
Robbie.
Who are you? [SHAKY EXHALE]
War is over.
I'm your friend.
[SCORE ABATES]
Look around.
You're home.
[EXHALES]
War is over, Robbie.
[EMOTIONAL SCORE]
[EMOTIONAL BREATHS]
- [SHARP EXHALE]
- (WHISPERS) What happened to me?
[RAGGED EMOTIONAL BREATHS]
- Mrs. Meeker?
- Yes.
I'm Susan Ireland.
I have a remarkable story to tell you.
Do you have a minute?
So this place is special to you.
- [SOFT SIGH]
- [SCORE FADES OUT]
My dad and I didn't get on.
So, lot of times I'd
come over to Lynette's.
Her folks are the best.
They'd set another spot
for dinner and afterwards
her dad would come out and
we'd throw a ball around.
It was nice.
Looking back,
those nights
Playing catch with Mr. O'Connor,
going for a walk with Lynette.
- See that tree?
- [SOFT TENDER SCORE]
After I
Afterwards, I, uh,
floated around for a while.
This is what brought me back.
Brought me home.
Your best days.
Even after I went to
'Nam, we kept writing.
- And then?
- I started writing less.
The place, the
Ugliness, killing.
I didn't want to bring her into that.
Then
- Oh, no.
- What?
I, I brought it back with me.
The war.
I didn't mean to.
It's okay, Robbie.
- No, no, no.
- [VEHICLE APPROACHING]
How could I
Heaven isn't always a
place you never been.
- [CAR DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
- Sometimes
It's the best place
you ever were.
- [SOFT EXHALE]
- [TENDER SCORE]
[EMOTIONAL BREATHS]
- Robbie?
- [EXHALES]
[EMOTIONAL BREATHS]
[TREMULOUS EXHALE, BREATHS]
I've waited for you for so long.
It's okay.
- I'm home now.
- [DEEP EMOTIONAL INHALE]
- [ROBBIE SIGHS]
- [LYNETTE LAUGHS]
I was reading the paper last night.
There was a story about
the remains of several U.S. soldiers,
as yet unidentified,
that had been repatriated
from Saigon earlier this week.
So that's why now.
- [SNIFFLES]
- I finally get to say it.
Goodbye, my love.
[EMOTIONAL EXHALE]
Goodbye, Lynn.
[LYNETTE EXHALES
EMOTIONALLY THROUGH NOSE]
[SOFT LIP SMACK]
[ROBBIE SIGHS]
[SCORE CRESCENDOS]
- [SOFT WHOOSH]
- [DISTANT WHISPERS]
- [BAG CRINKLING]
- [CLEARS THROAT]
[SCORE FADES OUT]
[PAPER CRINKLING]
[PHONE BUZZES]
[SOFT SIGH]
Hi, Bob.
Yeah, I'm fine.
No, I haven't, and you know what, Bob?
I'm not going to.
Okay, I thought about it
and, uh, Luke and I have built
Roman/Ireland on a philosophy
that I just don't
think you'll understand.
- No. I trust Luke. He trusts me.
- [QUIET SCORE]
We have a chemistry and I don't
want to do anything that
No, Bob, this has nothing
to do with our history!
Yes, I am totally confident
that I can trust myself
- around you, Bob.
- [WHOOSH; CRACKLING]
No! Bob, no! Sorry, no!
I'm [SPLUTTERS] I'm hanging up now.
I'm hanging up, Bob. Goodbye.
- [LOUD GROAN OF FRUSTRATION]
- Die in a fire, Bob!
- [AIR WHOOSHING]
- [CALMING EXHALE]
[SMOKE ALARM BEEPING LOUDLY]
[SOFT SCORE FADES OUT]
Hello. May I, uh, may I help you?
Hi. Uh, I need to speak
to the person on the sign.
Can you be more specific?
The guy with the great hair.
Luke Roman.
He's, uh, not in right
now. May I take a message?
Um, it's about Tyler MacNeill.
He is selling our house
and I guess he has some
big business deal going on with him.
Buying a bunch of
houses, renting 'em off
- to other rich guys.
- Really?
Yeah, um, this Luke guy needs to know
Tyler is not at all
himself these last few days.
He's different.
- He's mean.
- [SCORE DARKENS]
- I'm sorry.
- He was a good man.
Yeah, rich, powerful
and successful, but good.
You know? Decent.
I remember decent.
Anyway, he needs to know.
What is it that he needs to know?
Tyler is obsessed with Luke Roman.
[SCORE INTENSIFIES, ABATES]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Okay, Miss Ireland,
think that'll do 'er.
Thank you so much.
You're pretty lucky.
I don't know how the
Fire got started over there,
but besides the drapes,
you know, the damage is pretty minimal.
You guys were terrific.
Thank you for getting here so fast.
You know, it would've been a shame
if this place burnt down.
I mean, you've really done it nice.
Well, it is what I do.
- It is?
- I'm a real estate agent.
You are? That's so awesome.
(LAUGHING) It can be.
I mean, no wonder this
place is so gorgeous.
You're, like, a an expert.
[GENTLE SCORE]
Well
Well, um, you need to give me a call
if you need to find
a new place because
Maybe your, you know,
maybe your old place
burned to the ground
because you were just too
- Feel free to jump in at any
- [HE LAUGHS]
[FIRE TRUCK HORN BLASTS]
Oh! Um [CLEARS THROAT]
They can't leave without me.
I'm, I'm the driver, so
Oh.
Um, Susan.
I'm Crash. Newberg. I,
uh [CLEARS THROAT]
Sorry. It's Charles.
They, they call me Crash.
Feel like there's a story there.
Maybe.
Uh, if, um, if you wanna hear it, um,
you'll have to have dinner with me.
[SUCKS TEETH] If that's what it takes.
Okay. You can count on it.
I will.
All right. See ya.
[BREATHY LAUGH]
- [PHONE BUZZING]
- [DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
- [SCORE FADES OUT]
- [PHONE CLICKS]
Hey, Augie. What's up?
LUKE: What's up?
SUSAN: What's this deal you're
making with Tyler MacNeil?
There's no deal, not
yet. It's an opportunity.
One that I was going
to talk to you about.
I am your partner, Luke. Does
that mean anything to you?
- Of course it does.
- Because it means a lot to me!
I believe in what we're doing
and I wouldn't even consider
doing anything to mess
with it. So when I hear
you're out making deals without me
Nobody made any deals.
What are you talking about?
We are a residential brokerage.
We help families find homes.
We do not help big corporations
buy houses to rent to families
at a confiscatory profit!
Do you agree with that or not?
- Yes. I agree with that.
- [SOFT SCORE]
The Luke I know, the one
who I took on as partner
and who I gave my spare
garage door opener to,
he would tell Tyler MacNeil
that we are a company that
helps people and families
find their way home and
that he should pound sand.
Pound sand!
Are you that guy or are you not?
I am that guy!
I knew you were.
[FOOTSTEPS RECEDING]
- [SOFT SIGH]
- [SCORE DARKENS]
Yep, somebody needs a hug.
[CREEPY SCORE]
[SCORE INTENSIFIES]
[DRAMATIC BOOM]
[SCORE INTENSIFIES]
[SCORE ABATES SHARPLY]
[SCORE FADES OUT]
[CLOSING CREDIT THEME]