The Summer I Turned Pretty (2022) s03e11 Episode Script
At Last
1
Previously on
The Summer I Turned Pretty…
[Belly] Susannah told me
that when I was born she knew
I was destined for one of her boys…
Conrad or Jeremiah.
Why did you throw it all away?!
I thought that we loved each other.
- We did.
- You're my best friend.
There are times I wanted to be more.
I was just waiting.
- Isabel Conklin, will you marry me?
- Yes.
- [Laurel] Is this a joke?
- [Conrad] Don't marry him.
- Be with me.
- [Jeremiah] Look me in the eyes
and tell me you don't still love him.
- Jeremiah, I love you.
- That's not what I asked.
[Taylor] Belly and Conrad…
all their epic,
infinity soulmate shit.
We're high-functioning compared to them.
We keep coming back to each other,
it feels like it's never really over.
But, like, what if it doesn't work?
- [Laurel] Where are you?
- [Belly] I'm in Paris.
[Conrad] How's Belly?
Do you think that she would even want
- to hear from me?
- You're gonna have to risk
finding out for yourself.
[Belly] Part of me
always believed that we would
find our way back to each other.
[Jeremiah] Do what you have to do.
Don't expect me
to be okay with it.
But don't fucking waste it, either.
[gentle music playing]
- [traffic rumbling in distance]
- [birdsong]
[ Patrick Watson sings
"Je Te Laisserai Des Mots"]
[scooter engine approaching]
[indistinct conversation]
[scooter engine starts]
Belly.
Conrad.
Surprise.
[laughs]
Give me a hug. Come here.
[laughing] Hi.
Hi.
- I like your hair.
- Yeah, thanks.
Um, what are you even doing here?
Yeah.
Um…
Sorry, it was…
sort of a last-minute thing.
Uh, I-I have a conference in Brussels.
It turns out Brussels
is a quick train from Paris, so…
…I thought, it's your birthday…
- My birthday's tomorrow.
- No, yes, I know that.
I just… The conference starts tomorrow.
I thought that I'd try and catch you,
take a train to Brussels later.
- You probably have a ton of plans.
- Yeah, yeah, no, I do.
No worries.
I just showed up at your doorstep, so…
Well, um, what time is your train?
They run all day.
I was just gonna-gonna take the last one.
And if I didn't catch you, I was gonna…
see some sights, walk around,
so it's no trouble.
Um, well, I have plans at 8:00,
but, um…
I can hang out with you until then.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
It'll be fun to play tourist again.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
That would be amazing.
Great, yeah. Um,
let me just drop your bag in my apartment,
- and then we can go.
- Okay.
Wait here. I'll be right back.
[grunting] All right.
[ Zaho de Sagazan & Tom Oddell
sing "Old Friend"]
[Belly] What the fuck are you doing?
[sighs]
Just play tour guide a few hours
and then send him on his way.
[Jeremiah] All right,
we got tomatoes over there…
- [door opens]
- That's 25 of this.
- Hey.
- Hey.
How long have you been up?
Um, 5:00.
Geez. Yikes.
You know, I've got four courses
to prep for 30 people
expecting "Boston's
hottest up-and-coming chef," so…
I think, actually,
based on Taylor's new TikTok,
you are now the sexiest new chef alive.
Why'd I let her talk me into this?
Because when you crush it,
every five-star in town will be
begging you to be their garde-manger.
[chuckles]
You know what a garde-manger is?
No, I do not.
[chuckles]
[phone vibrates]
Um, hey, do you mind, um, grabbing that?
Conrad says good luck tonight.
- Is he in Brussels?
- No, um, he's in Paris.
With Belly.
No shit.
Yeah, shit.
He called me last night from the airport.
Um… not to be all up in your business,
- but…
- D, my business has been living
in your spare room
for the last six months.
- I-I think we're good.
- Okay. Okay, but are you good?
Uh, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, I-I think the anticipation
was the worst part.
But…
…now that the Belly/Conrad reunion
is finally happening,
it's not that bad.
Hey, could this be progress?
- Who knows?
- [chuckles] Wow.
Also… Hey, no, put it down.
- No, it's one. It's one.
- That's not for you.
[laughs] Sorry.
- Only one. Um…
- [laughing]
- Oh, hey, I've been meaning to tell you.
- Mm?
I found us a new couch.
Mm. We have a couch.
Yeah, you hate that couch.
You're always complaining
about how when you work on it,
your back hurts.
- Um…
- Oh, shit,
you're sick of me living here, aren't you?
- No. No, no.
- Oh, and here I am picking out furniture
for your apartment, like an asshole.
No, Jere, that's…
Stop, that's not it, I…
[sighs]
I'm moving to California in a month.
- What?
- I know. [sighs]
Steven and I finally
got our seed funding… a lot of it…
and it's contingent
on us moving to San Francisco.
But don't worry, okay? I was not about
to leave you all high and dry.
Denise, I'm so excited for you.
You earned it.
Oh…
[chuckles]
- You worked so hard.
- Thank you.
Oh, my God. Taylor must be pissed.
Okay, actually, Conklin has not told her
about moving to San Francisco yet,
so keep your mouth shut today, please.
[Taylor] What?
Sorry, wait, what did you sa…
What'd you just say?
- Um, I'm gonna… I'm gonna kill him.
- Taylor, please stop.
I'm gonna kill…
Oh, also, I just found out
that the bar for tonight has a leak
and it's completely flooded,
so I guess everything's just fucked,
it's just fucked.
Taylor, please wait, I'm sorry.
[ Pomplamoose sings "Les Champs-Élysées"]
[indistinct conversation]
- I'm gonna jump in.
- Okay, yeah, go ahead.
[Conrad] I'm doing it, I'm jumping in!
No, it's too cold.
What do you want to see after this?
- Probably the Eiffel Tower, right?
- Sure.
- It has… nice views.
- Mm-hmm.
Is there something else?
We could do, um…
Père-Lachaise,
where Jim Morrison is buried.
- Yeah, that sounds great.
- Yeah?
I…
I-I've spent a lot of time…
…imagining your life here.
Uh, and I guess…
I don't know, I'll do anything.
But I wish… that I could see Paris
the way that… you do.
Okay.
I know where I'm gonna take you.
Where?
You'll see.
Where?
Okay, I literally just moved to Boston
for his stupid ass.
Like, I started a new job,
and now he-he thinks
that I'm just gonna, like,
up and move to California?
Well, uh, he hasn't said that.
He hasn't said shit.
So you think that he just wants
to break up with me?
- No, that is not what I'm saying at all.
- Is that your opin… No, just tell me.
- Did he say that? Did he say…
- That's not what I'm saying at all.
Hey, I've tried 20 places, and-and nada.
So, have you two had any luck on a venue?
Um, no, we've been a little preoccupied.
[Taylor] We will… we'll find something.
First, I'm just trying to figure out
why my boyfriend is stealth moving
across the country.
No, first, I need to start the stock
and marinate the lamb
so it times out perfectly
with the scallop prep.
But-but none of this matters
if we don't have a place
- for people to eat.
- I know. I'm sorry. I know.
I mean, maybe we just call it off.
- No, no, no, no, no. No.
- No. No.
- [sighs]
- [Denise] Wait.
Uh, what about that disgustingly beautiful
house of yours on the water?
That's the perfect vibe.
- I don't know.
- People will
gag at the views.
Plus, it has a huge kitchen.
I ju…I haven't been back there since…
Jere, i-if you're not ready to go there,
w-we'll find somewhere else.
No. Um, no, Denise. You're right.
It-It'll be good for me.
It'll be good for the dinner.
I'll start packing.
- Okay.
- Okay,
so let's talk Steven really quickly.
Hon, you need to talk to Steven.
- Okay?
- [chuckles] I'm gonna talk to him.
Okay. All right.
Actually, let's just hold on
for 24 hours, please, okay?
This is a big night for Jere, and I just…
But this is a huge night for me, too.
If I… if I pull this off,
my boss will have to let me run point
on one of our promo campaigns,
and all I have to do is just
have to figure out how to, like,
transport all these food influencers
to Cousins
and reroute the food delivery truck
and the rental equipment
and the waitstaff.
- [whispers] Fuck.
- Okay.
Okay. Hi. Hey.
You got this. I will help you.
[regular volume] No, you're right.
I'm calm.
- I am focused.
- Mm-hmm.
Okay? Like a fucking laser,
and we're just gonna do it.
[thoughtful music playing]
[bells chiming]
Are we allowed up here?
[Belly] Mm.
- It's pretty incredible, huh?
- Yeah.
You come here a lot?
[Belly clicks tongue]
I used to.
When I first got here and, um… [sniffs]
- I was still figuring everything out…
- Mm-hmm.
…there were, uh,
a lot of hours in the day.
[both laugh]
And, um, the manager of the bar
that I work at… her name is Celine…
she used to work in this building.
And she's the one
who told me about this rooftop.
And, um…
I don't know, there was just something
about seeing Paris from up here.
All laid out.
It just made things start to click for me.
- Mm-hmm.
- The way it all just…
…beautifully comes together.
I'm just…
- in awe of it.
- It's like the human body.
If you try and make sense of it
organ by organ,
it's-it's a Sisyphean task,
it's overwhelming,
but if you're able to take a step back
and look at it as… as a whole
and see how the body
works together in concert,
suddenly it makes sense
and it's fucking miraculous.
That's not at all what you meant, was it?
- No, yeah, yeah.
- Oh, okay. Yeah.
Um, for a second…
…you sounded like…
Like a geek?
Like ten-year-old you.
- You seem very comfortable here.
- Mm.
In Paris.
Yeah, I feel that way now.
[laughing] Took me a year to get here.
- Yeah?
- So…
Yeah, I mean,
I used to have to psych myself up
to leave my apartment
to do the simplest tasks.
- Like what?
- Like…
- [sighs]
- What?
Like trying to find laundry detergent
at the Monoprix.
[laughs]
I, uh, didn't know which one was laundry
- and which one was dish soap.
- [chuckles] Mm-hmm.
It's harder than it seems.
And I had to ask someone,
and they couldn't understand
my pronunciation of lessive.
Sounds pretty good to me.
Conrad, you don't know
what good French sounds like.
[laughs]
Yeah, there were just so many times
where I felt like such an idiot.
But then, one day,
I came up here to watch the sunrise.
And I remembered that thing that you said
about the first time you saw the Pacific.
You remembered that?
You said that it felt like you were
standing on another planet.
Like anything was possible.
Paris has become that for me.
- It was really hard.
- Mm.
But I stuck it out,
and now I get to live
in the most beautiful city in the world.
I knew you could do it.
Yeah, how did you know?
Oh, come on. What did our moms call you?
They called you a feral alley cat.
[laughs] I don't think that was intended
to be a compliment.
It was.
You've always been scrappy.
You've never been one
to back down from a challenge.
You are competitive,
especially when it comes to
- competing with yourself.
- Mm-hmm.
Come on.
Paris never stood a chance.
Do you want to come with me tonight?
Like, if there's a…
a later train.
Yeah, th-there's a late train.
I-I…
I don't want to intrude on…
Wouldn't be an intrusion.
Just some friends throwing me
a little pre-birthday dinner.
- Oh.
- Yeah, you should come.
It'll be fun.
And it'll be nice
to have an old friend there.
Are you sure? I…
Yeah.
[birdsong]
Um, hey, how does this look?
Um… can you raise it up a little bit?
Yeah, so…
- It-it needs to go lower.
- [Jeremiah] Hey, Tay,
I need you to try this real quick.
- Yeah.
- Can't believe you got Denise
doing the shit work for you.
Babe, pretty sure she's doing it for you.
- Okay. Well, everything looks great.
- Okay.
Guess it's up to me now
not to fuck anything up.
[Taylor] Mmm.
- How's it taste?
- Perfection.
You didn't even get any
of the basil oil on it.
Okay. I don't know what you want, Jere.
It tastes like cold tomato soup.
It's good.
I got everything.
Sorry.
[Steven grunting]
- Hey, babe.
- Hi.
Hey, Denise, uh, can I have your help
in the mud room?
Yeah. Sure.
Thank you for doing all this.
- Oh, my God, no. Of course, baby.
- Yeah.
I know how much
you want to impress your boss
- Yeah.
- and how important it is to you.
Yeah, and work is everything, right?
Yeah. Yeah.
Um, wow, this looks great.
I'm so glad that you think so.
You know what I realized?
I have been spending so much time
on this pop-up dinner
that, like, I haven't even thought
about different ways that we could make
our apartment, like, ours.
Like, like, more homey, you know?
Oh. Okay. Yeah.
Yeah, I was thinking
we should paint the living room.
[chuckling] Uh, okay.
Sure.
Um, I also think we should get a cat.
- A cat?
- Yeah.
Lucinda would never let me get one
because she thinks that, like,
cats are spiteful.
But I think you and I
would make great cat parents.
We'd raise our kitten
to be just like an angel.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Let's maybe just, you know,
take, like, a beat on that whole thing.
- Yeah, let's take a beat, you dick.
- What are you…
- [cell phone chimes]
- Listen. Oh, my God, okay.
If it's that important to you,
okay, let's get a cat.
[chuckles] I just think that maybe
we're not ready for it…
Okay, I can't! I can't with you right now.
I just lost my entire waitstaff.
What the hell?
[Belly] Just a few minutes. I promise.
You're good. Take your time.
[faucet starts running]
[ Cœur de pirate sings "Corbeau"]
It's a really great apartment.
[Belly] Thanks. I, um, inherited it
from my friend Gemma.
- You'll meet her tonight.
- Mm-hmm.
Compared to my old place,
it's like Versailles. [chuckles]
I'm excited to meet all your friends.
[door opens]
You look really beautiful.
Thank you.
Look who I found. [chuckles softly]
- Let me do it.
- Okay.
Thank you.
Uh, we should go.
Yeah.
Do I look okay?
[clicks tongue] Hmm.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
Now we can go.
[ Françoise Hardy sings
"J'suis d'accord"]
[indistinct conversation]
Hey.
- [speaking French]
- Hey, how are you?
- Pretty good. And you?
- Good, good.
[Belly chuckles] Ooh!
[speaking French]
[in French] Stunning. Happy birthday!
- Hi. How are you?
- Hey.
- Charmed.
- Nice to meet you.
[in French] Hi.
- Hey! Thank you.
- You look so pretty.
[in French] Hi. How are you?
[in French] Good, how are you?
- [in English] Roommate.
- Oh, okay.
[Gemma shrieks]
Isabel!
Your hair.
[in French] Lovely!
[in French] Goodness, you move fast.
Who is this guy, Isabel?
Guys, this is Conrad. A friend from home.
- Mm!
- Uh, Conrad,
- these are my friends Gemma and Max.
- Nice to meet you.
- [in English] The Conrad. Mwah, mwah.
- Hi.
Max.
[in French] He's here. Is that good? Bad?
[in French] We'll see.
Isabel!
Fuck me sideways, you American slut.
Uh…
The older brother.
[in French] If this one's this hot,
what did the other one look like?
[in English] Uh, Conrad, this is…
- Celine.
- [Conrad] Hi.
- [in English] Isabel closest friend in Paris.
- [Gemma clears throat]
Excuse me?
Second only to Gemma.
[chuckles] It's nice to meet you. Oh.
[in Spanish] A Kir Royale for a queen.
Aw. [giggles]
- [in English] Happy birthday, beautiful.
- Thank you.
- Uh, Conrad, this is Benito.
- [Conrad] Hey.
- Nice to meet you, man.
- Nice to meet you, too, Conrad.
We've heard everything about you.
You're, like, a legend in Paris.
A legend, huh?
[inhales sharply, speaks Spanish] Behave.
I am well-behaved.
- Mm.
- [Benito] Hey.
Got you a present. Come.
- Come, come, come.
- [in English] I'll be right back.
[in English] So, how was your journey?
Yeah, it was all right, it was all right.
So, how do you all know Isabel?
- She saved my life on her first night.
- Is that right?
[Gemma] Yeah. And then we went raving.
[laughs]
And the rest is history.
[Conrad] Yeah?
But most important question:
do you like wine?
- I love wine.
- [Celine] Oh.
- Let's find you a glass.
- Yes, thank you.
Oh, Benito, it's lovely. Thank you.
- [Benito] Congratulations.
- Can we see?
- [in French] Show it, show it, show it.
- [exclaims]
[Celine gasps]
- [all exclaim]
- [Benito speaks French]
Thank you.
[Gemma laughs]
[all chuckling]
Sorry.
[speaking French]
You know, Conrad, I think it was
quite romantic what you did.
Proclaiming your love to Isabel
moments before
she's about to marry your brother.
[Max in English] Didn't you think
that was a…
a fucked-up timing, though?
To be fair,
I didn't start the conversation
thinking that I was gonna
declare my love for her.
[Gemma] But of course
you couldn't hold it in any longer,
and that's what makes it romantic.
I think my brother might
disagree with you on that one.
[chuckling]
[in English] It's like something
out of a movie.
Half the people looking at the screen,
screaming, "Do it. Do it, Conrad."
And the other half are all like,
"Aah! No! Don't do it. Don't do it!"
[in English] Yes, in the movie,
he is the villain.
No, God.
If anyone was the villain, it was me.
[Benito speaking Spanish]
[in English] Like, why haven't we asked
the question we should all be asking?
Which is, Conrad,
what are you doing here in Paris?
[Belly] Uh, he's here for work.
He's got a conference in Brussels.
So he… You know, Paris is so close.
It's not that close.
- It's an hour and a half.
- Mm, pack it in, Benny, luv.
[Benito] What?
Are there are no direct flights
from California to Brussels?
It doesn't make any sense.
No, you're right. I changed my flight.
I really wanted to see her.
Hey, don't mind Benito.
He's still salty
that our Isabel dumped him.
Oh. Ow, you. Careful with my feelings.
It's only been six weeks.
[Max laughs]
[Benito] I wanted to take Isabel to Mexico
with me to meet my grandmother,
but, uh, she shot me down.
Well, you'll always be the boy
who taught me how to ride a scooter, so…
Hey, I'll always be the boy
who taught you how to ride a bike.
[group exclaims, chuckles]
Anyways, no, I…
I didn't come to Paris
because it's close Brussels.
I came here because every year we would
spend Isabel's birthday
at our summer house in Cousins.
And she's here now.
So I thought I'd bring
a little piece of Cousins to her.
[Clovis speaking French]
Cousins?
I thought they were brothers, no?
[laughing]
Guess not…
[upbeat music playing]
Okay, so the good news
is I got your frat bros
to sub in as waiters.
- Great.
- Great.
- Yeah.
- Uh, the bad news is…
the seafood guy fucked up the order.
So there's no scallops. Just oysters.
W-What am I supposed do with oysters?
- Um, cook them.
- Tay, I'm not going
to cook them, okay?
- Okay.
- [sighs] I'll just,
I'll serve them…
I'll serve them raw
with-with a watermelon mignonette.
- I don't know.
- Beautiful. That sounds so good.
Um, the other thing
is that the rental company
- forgot the dessert ramekins…
- Forgot?
- Seriously?
- The little… Yeah. But it's not a crisis.
- How?
- It's totally not a crisis.
Like, I'll just go into town
and try and find some.
You know? And hopefully have some.
You're going into town?
Let me help you, baby.
- I'll come with you.
- Uh, no. I'll do it by myself.
It'll be really good practice.
Dude, am I imagining things or is Taylor
acting, like, psychotic today?
She knows about San Francisco. Okay?
- What?
- Yeah.
And she's pissed.
Wh… Okay. I got to go talk to her then.
Yeah, you can do that, but outside.
Not in here, please.
[Denise] Um, bad time?
Only if it's more bad news.
[chuckles]
Yeah, it might be.
[door closes]
[chuckles] Dad.
- You're here.
- Hey, kid.
Surprise. Guess my invitation
got lost in the mail.
I just, uh, I didn't think…
It's just not that big of deal.
- It's a-it's a dinner.
- Well, Laurel made it sound
like a pretty big deal
when she told me about it.
I brought champagne.
- From my wedding.
- Uh…
Yeah, I didn't want it to go to waste.
That's very kind of you, Adam.
- Why don't you take it around back?
- Not in the kitchen?
[Denise] No. Sorry.
Kitchen is off limits to guests.
I'll see you back there.
Don't worry.
- It is my house.
- Yeah. [chuckles]
I'm so fucked.
I mean, this dinner is falling apart
and now my dad's here
- to watch it blow up in my face.
- Hey.
It's gonna be fine.
No, and-and I just,
I never should've come back here.
You know, being in this house again
makes me feel like the same loser I was
when I walked out that door last summer.
Place is just cursed.
I mean, maybe I should just
call the whole thing off.
Okay, no.
Do not talk like that. All right?
Jeremiah, I've been watching you
work your ass off for months.
All to get here. To this moment. Okay?
So, do not let the past
take that away from you.
Shit, don't let the past
take this place away from you, okay?
This house is too nice.
You got a pool, for God's sake.
Yeah. Yeah.
The pool is kind of nice.
Yeah. It is.
And so are you, D-Nice.
[laughs] Yeah.
I'm glad we met.
Yeah, um…
You got this, killer. Okay?
- Okay.
- Okay.
- No. I'm going this way.
- That way.
Yup, thank you. Got it.
Yup.
[ Angèle sings "Ta Reine"]
- [laughing]
- [Gemma] Open mine next!
All right.
[gasps] Oh.
[in French] It's so pretty!
'Cause you always loved mine.
Thanks.
[in English] Oh, my God. Beautiful.
[in French] Very beautiful.
[in English] All right,
where's my present?
[Conrad] Uh…
[Belly] I'm joking.
[in French] Isabel,
I think he is the gift.
Are you going to unwrap it later?
- [group] Ooh!
- Oh la la.
I got you a gift.
- [in French] My dear.
- [Belly gasps]
- [Gemma whistles]
- Oh la la.
- Merci.
- For all of us.
[Benito in Spanish] You better share.
[giggling]
[speaking French]
So, Benito.
Not your boyfriend?
I never said he was.
I thought you said
marijuana messes with white matter.
Do you memorize
every little thing I've ever said?
Yes.
[indistinct chatter]
[grunts softly]
So, no Kayleigh tonight?
Oh, well, she left me,
so no Kayleigh ever.
Oh, I'm sorry, man.
Yeah, well, them's the breaks.
You, uh, seeing anyone?
- Uh, not at the moment, no.
- [Adam] Oh.
- That means you're not getting any.
- [laughs]
[Adam] I knew you guys would flame out.
We should go on a singles cruise.
[scoffs] I highly doubt
single cruises are even a thing anymore.
Oh, they are.
Apparently, they're 24/7
all-you-can-drink fuckfests.
- [sighs] Sick.
- I'm telling you, that bod
in a little two-piece
in the Caribbean sun?
- Ew. - Mm…
- Laurel.
- You'd do well.
- You are so gross.
- [Adam laughs]
- No wonder Jeremiah didn't invite you.
She's mean. I'm getting a refill.
What? I was joking.
I am glad he showed up, though.
At least he's trying.
- It's nice to be with everyone again.
- Yeah.
But I miss Belly.
Yeah, can you believe
our little girl turns
- 22 tomorrow?
- Oh, my God.
Remember that summer she turned three?
She massacred that cake
- and there was frosting everywhere?
- [laughs] Oh, yes, yes.
- [Redbird laughs]
- Oh…
[chuckles] Hi.
Uh, would you like a glass of the, um,
uh… [stammers]
- …something, it's something French?
- Sure.
- Sure? Okay.
- Thank you. That'd be lovely.
Tell me when.
- Just a little more.
- Just a little… here you go.
- All right, that's great.
- All right.
- And you?
- Oh, no, thank you.
Okay, all right. Arrivederci.
Thank you.
- To Belly.
- To Belly.
- [piano playing]
- [ woman sings "La Vie en rose"]
[indistinct chatter]
I like your friends.
[laughs] All of them?
Most of them.
Do you remember earlier when I said
that I wanted to bring
a little piece of Cousins to you?
- So you did get me a gift.
- Kind of.
I collected this
when we were back for the Fourth of July
a few years back, that summer.
Yeah, I-I remember that Fourth, yeah.
I knew that I wasn't gonna be back…
…for a long time.
And so, whenever I really miss home,
I take this out,
and it makes me feel closer to everybody.
And I thought, since…
…I don't know,
since you won't be back for a while,
I thought you might want to have it.
[song ends]
Thank you.
[shutter clicks]
[piano plays gentle fanfare]
[all singing "Happy Birthday" in French]
[laughs]
[whoops]
[song ends]
[atmospheric music playing]
- [cheering]
- [applause]
[Taylor] Call me, beep me,
if you want to reach me.
[hangs up]
- Baby! Come on, call me back, please.
- [Jeremiah] Oh, my God.
- [timer chimes]
- Is that thing
- just gonna keep going off? Uh…
- Y-Yes,
seeing I'm doing
five different things at once,
- yeah, probably.
- Okay.
- Just keep stirring, please.
- I have not stopped stirring.
- Clockwise is better.
- I have not…
- Got your ramekins.
- [Jeremiah] Thank you.
Baby, you're back.
You look so nice.
I know you're pissed.
- Okay? But…
- I'm not pissed.
Why would I be pissed?
Did you do something?
Like make a major life decision
without telling me?
- Look…
- No, you look. I thought that things
were, like, really clicking with us.
- I felt good about our relationship.
- [Steven] They were.
They were, they were. No, no, no!
- Oh, my God, no, no, no. They are.
- They are?
- We're clicking, clicked…
- Steven, stir, please.
Okay. We're clicking, we are click…
We're amazing.
Yeah, I mean, we're so amazing
that you're gonna move
3,000 miles away without me.
- I never said that.
- Okay, no,
I must have missed the part
where you asked me to come with you.
- I already made you move to Boston…
- First-first of all,
you didn't make…
nobody makes me do anything.
Okay, yes, I'm sorry. Okay?
I-I'm just saying, I… [sighs]
How could I ask you
to-to move to California for me?
I mean, oh, my God,
God forbid, uh, you know, things
- didn't work out, or-or worse case…
- Yeah, okay, so,
thank you. So it's a… You don't
think things are gonna work out.
- [smoke alarm beeping] - I didn't mean it like that.
- No, it's really good
- to know that now so I don't waste
- Oh, shit.
- six months that I've invested.
- No, I didn't mean it like that.
- I promise I did not mean it…
- That's… Okay, but that's what you said.
You don't think things
are gonna work out with us?
Hey, guys, look, I-I love you to death,
but for the love of God,
get out of my kitchen.
- Sorry, Jere.
- All right, sorry. Sorry, Jere.
[Steven] Baby, please.
It's not what I meant.
- Oh. Shit.
- [chatter continues in distance]
Just go clockwise. It's not that hard.
Can we jus… can we talk about this?
I mean, for real, please?
I just don't understand
why you wouldn't tell me.
Tay, I don't even know what to tell you.
I'm not even sure I'm gonna say yes.
Don't be an idiot.
Of course you're saying yes,
This is your dream.
Not to mention, Denise will kill you
- if you fuck this up for her.
- Yes, okay, but…
Taylor, living with you, being with you…
that-that's my dream, too.
Okay, but if that's true, then, like,
why wouldn't you just ask me
to come with you?
Be honest.
- I…
- You thought I'd pull a Taylor
- and freak out.
- No, Tay, no.
Look, if you asked me a year ago
to move across the country with you,
I would've lost it, completely.
I… And probably blown us up.
Again.
But I'm not scared of us anymore.
I am scared of you not knowing that.
Okay, but…
it's not that, Taylor.
I…
I don't want you
to have to give up anything for me.
Okay?
I watched you do it for Lucinda,
and I just don't… I don't want to be
the person that's holding you back.
Yeah, but you're not
holding me back, dummy.
I want to be with you.
I mean, you know, I also want
to be the baddest bitch in PR,
but I have just as good
a shot of-of doing that
in San Francisco as I do in Boston.
Better.
Okay, but…
What, what are you s…
I… You… I…
Would you really just pack up
and move to California for me?
I mean…
Not for you. With you.
[ Noah Kahan sings
"Everywhere, Everything"]
I mean, if that's what…
if that's what you want.
- I mean…
- No, Tay, I love you.
I love you so fucking much, okay?
I can't, like, imagine
what my life would be like without you.
Feels like fate.
collapsing ♪
We cried, "Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh" ♪
Everywhere, everything ♪
I want to love you
till we're food for the worms to eat ♪
Till our fingers decompose ♪
Keep my hand in yours…
Do you think they can see us?
You think that we care?
Everywhere, everything ♪
I want to love you till we're…
- Actually, um, I think my mom
- Really, this is… I… It's just kind of
- and them are up there.
- an important day.
- Um, yeah.
- I feel like this is unprofessional.
[laughs]
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
We're moving to California, huh?
- Yeah, we're moving to California. Mm-hmm.
- Yeah. Wow.
Is this crazy?
- Yes!
- [both chuckle]
- Yes.
- [laughs]
I don't know, though.
I don't know. What's…
What's the worst that could happen?
Well, I could…
- Why are you so fucked-up?
- [laughs]
Why would you open your mouth to say that?
for the worms to eat ♪
Till our fingers decompose ♪
Keep my hand in yours… ♪
Everywhere, everything ♪
♪
So, did you have a good birthday, Belly?
Do you want me to call you Isabel now?
No, no.
[laughs] No.
I want you to call me Belly.
And it was a pre-birthday.
I've only been 22
for…
about an hour and a half.
But, yes, it was…
a very good birthday.
It was perfect.
Can I admit something to you?
Before I came here,
I thought that you might be hiding out.
Like, maybe you were
punishing yourself.
For everything that happened.
Like you'd sent yourself into exile.
And-and not because
I thought you deserved that.
But more because…
that's kind of what I was doing
for a long time.
And maybe a-a…
part of me wanted to believe
that this was temporary.
That you would just…
forgive yourself and come home.
- Conrad, like…
- And… No, I know.
It's totally off-base.
I get that.
You're not hiding out.
You…
have made this amazing life for yourself.
And I'm…
…just happy I got to see it.
Me too.
You're not… all wrong.
Um…
I think I was kind of hiding out.
At first.
It was really hard
and really lonely and…
I guess I-I kind of did think…
that I deserved that.
You know you're not the villain, right?
[chuckles] Come on.
We both know I am.
I came between you and Jere, I…
[sighs]
- broke your family.
- We all broke it.
It was not on you
to keep our family together.
We were kids.
We weren't trying to hurt each other.
And I can guarantee you…
…that whatever promises
we made back then,
nobody would hold you to them today.
Let me just speak for myself.
I won't.
Jere knows I'm here.
[wistful music playing]
And he's okay with that?
I don't know. He said, "Good luck."
Like…
"Good luck!" or, like…
"Good luck"?
There's a full moon tonight.
I like being
under the same moon as you again.
- Belly, I…
- I want to take you to one more place.
Come on.
[indistinct conversation]
Okay… Oh.
They are licking
their gazpacho bowls clean out there.
[chuckles]
Awesome.
You good?
Yeah, yeah.
About to be better.
Just a trial run on the dessert.
So if it doesn't go well,
I'm gonna send you to go get Twinkies.
[laughs] Okay.
I'm sure it'll be fine.
- [timer chimes]
- Oh, sweet. Okay.
Hop up. Uh, you're gonna be the…
- taste-tester, ready?
- Ooh.
- Okay.
- Okay.
All right.
[slow hip-hop music playing in distance]
[mutters]
[Denise gasps]
Wow.
[Jeremiah] Some of this.
All right.
And here you go.
Okay.
Ooh.
Look at that.
How is it?
Oh, my God, this is amazing.
- Really?
- Seriously.
- It's so good.
- Sweet.
Oh, my God.
Look at you being all successful and shit.
Tastes incredible, dude.
Oh, I wish my mom were here to see this.
Well…
Adam seems pretty impressed.
Yeah, well, making cake
isn't exactly saving lives.
Oh, my God.
So the eldest boy is in med school.
Someone call a waambulance.
Geez.
You know, honestly,
I barely know the guy, but
from what I've seen,
your brother's pretty annoying.
Okay? He's gonna be like, "Oh, yeah,
that's Dr. Fisher to you"
for the rest of his life, like, big whoop.
Whatever.
I-I saw you at my rehearsal dinner,
eating up every word
about his clinical rotations.
You're just as obsessed with him
- as everyone else.
- Okay, no. Dude,
you are the one
who is obsessed with him.
And I don't know why.
You're a fucking ten.
[laughs]
I'm-I'm a ten?
Oh, my God. Okay, please don't pretend
that you don't know you're gorgeous.
All right? You're basically a model.
[both chuckle]
Oh, uh, so…
I saw…
- Taylor and Steven out on the dock.
- Mm-hmm.
Suffice to say, I think
she's going to S.F. with him.
- Yeah.
- Mm.
- Yeah, I never doubted it.
- Yeah.
Oh, I know you're gonna miss them.
That must suck.
Yeah, I've-I've never really been alone.
I've always been scared of that feeling.
You know, after Belly and I got engaged,
she told me she wasn't
going to Paris anymore.
Deep down, I knew
she really wanted to, but…
she gave up on that for me.
And I let her
just because I didn't want to be alone.
Anyway, Um…
- I-I think it'll be good, being on my own.
- Yeah, and you won't
have an anal-retentive roommate
to put up with anymore,
- so it's pretty good.
- [laughs]
Okay, shut up.
You know I'm gonna miss you.
- Oh, you are? [laughs] Okay.
- A lot.
Yeah.
[chuckles] And now,
I'm kind of kicking myself for not…
Not…?
This.
- [ Joji sings "Slow Dancing In The Dark"]
- I don't want a friend
I want my life…
Uh… Sorry. W-Was-Was that not okay?
Waiting to get there ♪
Waiting for you…
[laughing]
What? You can't believe
you're kissing nepo baby?
No, I can't believe nepo baby
is kissing me.
You done up your mind ♪
I don't need no more signs ♪
Can you? Can you? ♪
[indistinct conversations]
Give me reasons we should ♪
be complete…
Uh, attention. Attention, everybody.
Um, I just wanted to thank you all
for coming tonight.
I loved getting the chance to cook
for you all, many for the first time.
Um, but hopefully not the last.
- [man] All right, bro.
- [man 2] Hear, hear, guv'nor.
- [chuckles] Cheers.
- [guests] Cheers.
Cheers.
- Cheers.
- [others cheer]
- [Jeremiah] Enjoy yourself.
- [Denise] Cheers.
[Steven] It tastes so good.
All right.
In the dark…
Hey, Jere.
Can we talk for a minute?
I kind of got to work on the desserts.
Please?
Why didn't I get invited
to your big night?
I'm guessing you're still mad
that I cut you off.
[scoffs]
I get it, Dad. You think I'm a fuck-up,
and maybe I was, but not anymore.
You think that's how I see you?
[tender music playing]
I… I'm so proud
of what you pulled off tonight.
Okay? But I'm not surprised.
I mean, I've always known
what you're capable of.
I've always been proud of you.
I thought that went without saying.
I guess I should've said so.
I'm proud of you.
Thanks, Dad.
All right.
Uh, don't stay inside too long, huh? Okay?
People want to see your face.
[chuckles] You got it.
[ The Flamingos sing
"I Only Have Eyes for You"]
My love must be a kind ♪
of blind love…
[in French] Good evening.
I can't see anyone but you…
[Belly] Here we are.
Isn't it so pretty?
Sha-bop, sha-bop…
I mean, look at the way
that the light hits the water.
It's like magic.
[in English] It is.
- Sha-bop, sha-bop
- I don't know
if it's cloudy or bright ♪
I only have eyes…
Belly, would you dance with me?
for you…
Do you remember the last time we danced?
Prom.
Not my finest moment.
I was such a brat about it. [chuckles]
I had envisioned,
like, this perfect prom movie.
You know, we'd dance for hours
and then go back to the hotel and…
Make love?
Yes, Conrad, have sex.
[laughs]
But instead…
Instead, I yelled at you in the rain
and ran off like a little bitch.
- A real prom to remember.
- [laughs]
It was pretty unforgettable.
[laughs]
Almost as unforgettable as you
telling me to fuck off
at my mom's funeral.
I said go to hell, not fuck off..
- That makes it a lot better.
- [laughs]
Sha-bop, sha-bop ♪
You are here ♪
- Sha-bop, sha-bop
- and so am I
- Sha-bop, sha-bop
- Maybe millions of people
- Sha-bop, sha-bop
- go by…
That all feels like a million years ago.
You know, for a while,
your letters kept me going.
Whenever I was lonely
or missed home…
…I would just sit and read them.
I read them over and over and over.
Sha-bop, sha-bop…
Why did it take you so long
to write me back?
Because I had to move on.
I had to let go of the past,
and I couldn't do that
if I was still holding on to you.
[heartfelt music playing]
And have you moved on?
[ Taylor Swift sings "Dress"]
Our secret moments ♪
in a crowded room ♪
They got no idea about me and you ♪
There is an indentation
in the shape of you ♪
Made your mark on me, a golden tattoo…
Come home with me.
All of this silence and patience,
pining in anticipation ♪
My hands are shaking
from holding back from you ♪
All of this silence and patience,
pining and desperately waiting ♪
My hands are shaking from all this ♪
Inescapable, I'm not even gonna try ♪
And if I get burned ♪
At least we were electrified ♪
I'm spilling wine in the bathtub ♪
You kiss my face, and we're both drunk ♪
Everyone thinks that they know us,
but they know nothing about ♪
All of this silence and patience ♪
pining in anticipation ♪
My hands are shaking
from holding back from you ♪
All of this silence and patience,
pining and desperately waiting ♪
My hands are shaking from all this ♪
Say my name and everything just stops ♪
I don't want you like a best friend ♪
Only bought this dress
so you could take it off ♪
Take it off ♪
Carve your name into my bedpost ♪
'Cause I don't want you
like a best friend ♪
Only bought this dress
so you could take it off ♪
Take it off…
I want to do it.
Only bought this dress
so you could take it off ♪
Only bought this dress
so you could take it off ♪
Flashback when you met me ♪
your buzzcut and my hair bleached ♪
Even in my worst times,
you could see the best of me ♪
Flashback to my mistakes ♪
my rebounds, my earthquakes ♪
Even in my worst lies,
you saw the truth in me ♪
And I woke up just in time ♪
Now I wake up by your side ♪
My one and only, my lifeline ♪
I woke up just in time ♪
Now I wake up by your side ♪
My hands shake, I can't explain this ♪
Say my name and everything just stops…
I dream about this. You.
I don't want you like a best friend ♪
Only bought this dress
so you could take it off ♪
Take it off ♪
There is an indentation ♪
in the shape of you
You know, I… [laughs]
I… [laughs]
What?
I used to wish for you every birthday.
[Conrad snorts]
Now you're stuck with me forever.
[cell phone dings, vibrates]
It's probably everybody back home
wishing you a happy birthday.
[whispers] Yeah.
Oh, my God,
it's, um, it's 4:00 A.M. [laughs]
Uh, what… what time
do you have to be in Brussels
for the conference tomorrow?
Well, I was thinking, the…
first day's really just opening remarks
and welcome drinks.
I could skip it,
go tomorrow night.
No, no. I mean, you can't just
change your plans for me.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, just like, you know,
I'm not gonna change my plans for you.
Yeah, I wouldn't expect you to.
Okay, good.
Because, you know, I have a life here.
I know. I totally get that.
Good.
[introspective music playing]
Where you going?
I need to pee.
I don't want to get a UTI.
You're in med school, you get it.
Yeah.
Yeah, of course.
[door opens, shuts]
[urinating]
[toilet flushes]
[faucet running, stops]
I think you should be there
for the first day.
Wha… Uh, when's the next train?
The first one's at, uh, 5:00.
But… we could
still get breakfast,
and I would have plenty of time to…
No. I mean, I'm not really hungry, so…
Yeah.
No, I'll just take the, like, 5:00 a.m.
Is everything okay?
Did I do something?
Conrad, w…
what do you think is happening here?
I thought you and I…
You show up at my door…
…unannounced, on my birthday.
What even was your plan?
I didn't… I didn't have a plan.
I just, I thought I…
I wanted to see you,
- I wanted to tell you…
- Tell me what?
That I love you.
[gentle music playing]
And?
And I wanted to know
if any part of you still loved me.
You don't love me anymore?
I've always loved you.
[soft chuckle]
That's the problem.
I don't really think that's a problem.
How are we supposed to know
if we love each other because we want to
and not because we were told to?
You-you think that I love you because,
when I was six years old,
my mother thought
that we should get married?
No, that's not… that's not what I mean.
I just, I mean…
[sighs]
If your mom hadn't gotten sick again,
would we have even have gotten together?
You know, or would you have just gone off
to football camp that summer…
…and never looked twice at me again?
[chuckles]
You know,
if we didn't lose Susannah…
…would it…
…loom so large for us?
What if…
what if you only love me
because that's what your mom wanted,
and then your mom died?
That is not…
why I love you.
I have tried
everything… [sniffles]
…not to love you,
for the sake of Jere,
for the sake of-of-of…
not…
dragging you down with me in my grief.
I fought it
way before the summer
that my mom got sick.
You've always been
a precious person to me.
I have always cared about you.
And then, at some point…
[exhales sharply]
…I started to see you differently,
and that scared me
because I didn't want
things between us to change.
But the way that I feel about you,
Belly,
has nothing to do with my mom.
If I met you for the first time tonight…
…I would love you.
Oh, come on, Conrad.
I mean, how do you know that?
Because I've changed
everything about myself,
and the one thing that never changes
is that I love you.
[sighs] Conrad, I…
I wish that I could be as sure as you.
But I can't.
I'm sorry.
I'm not.
I'm gonna try and catch that train.
Happy birthday, Belly.
[door opens]
[door shuts]
[sighs]
[sniffles]
All this time, I wanted
to believe I changed.
That I'm not the same girl I was.
But I am still her,
and was that girl so bad?
She followed her heart no matter what.
And despite all her mistakes,
I have to believe
she's still worthy of love.
[ Taylor Swift sings
"Out of the Woods (Taylor's Version)"]
I still love her.
And I still love him.
I have brown hair and brown eyes,
and I will always love Conrad Fisher.
- I remember
- Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet? ♪
- Are we in the clear yet?
- Oh, I remember
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out…
Conrad!
Are we out of the woods? ♪
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet? ♪
Are we in the clear yet,
in the clear yet? Good ♪
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet? ♪
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods? ♪
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet? ♪
Are we in the clear yet,
in the clear yet? Good ♪
Oh…
Taxi!
- Are we out of the woods?
- [speaks indistinctly]
Remember when
you hit the brakes too soon? ♪
Twenty stitches in a hospital room ♪
When you started crying,
baby, I did, too ♪
But when the sun came up,
I was lookin' at you ♪
Remember when
we couldn't take the heat? ♪
I walked out, I said,
"I'm settin' you free" ♪
But the monsters turned out
to be just trees ♪
When the sun came up,
you were lookin' at me ♪
You were lookin' at me ♪
Oh ♪
- You were lookin' at me
- Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet? ♪
- Are we out of the woods?
- I remember
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet? ♪
- Are we in the clear yet?
- Oh, I remember
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet? ♪
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods? ♪
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet? ♪
Are we in the clear yet,
in the clear yet? Good ♪
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet? ♪
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods? ♪
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet…
Conrad?
in the clear yet? Good ♪
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet? ♪
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods? ♪
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet? ♪
- Are we in the clear yet?
- Do you remember?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet? ♪
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods? ♪
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet? ♪
Are we in the clear yet,
in the clear yet? ♪
Good ♪
♪
Is this seat taken?
Conrad…
I choose you of my own free will.
If there are infinite worlds,
every version of me chooses you
in every one of them.
[bright music playing]
I love you, Belly.
I love you, too.
[ Phoebe Bridgers sings "Scott Street"]
- [laughing]
- I'll get you some more.
[indistinct chatter]
[all exclaiming]
Walking Scott Street ♪
feeling like a stranger ♪
with an open heart ♪
open container ♪
I've got a stack of mail ♪
and a tall can ♪
It's a shower beer ♪
it's a payment plan…
[indistinct chatter]
There's helicopters over my head…
[all] Cheers.
every night when I go to bed ♪
[Belly] I didn't go back that summer.
But eventually I did.
Nothing beats coming home
after you've been gone a long, long time.
And just as it always had,
the beach house held
a million promises of summer.
Anyway…
And what just might be.
a stranger ♪
Anyway ♪
don't be ♪
a stranger ♪
Don't be a stranger ♪
♪
[ Darlene Love sings
"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"]
Christmas ♪
Snow's coming down ♪
Christmas ♪
I'm watching it fall ♪
Christmas ♪
Lots of people around ♪
Christmas ♪
Baby, please come home ♪
Christmas ♪
The church bells in town ♪
Christmas ♪
all ringing in song ♪
Christmas ♪
full of happy sounds ♪
Christmas ♪
Baby, please come home ♪
They're singing "Deck the Halls" ♪
but it's not like Christmas at all ♪
'cause I remember
when you were here ♪
and all the fun we had last year ♪
Christmas ♪
Pretty lights on the tree ♪
Christmas ♪
I'm watching them shine ♪
Christmas ♪
You should be here with me ♪
Christmas ♪
Baby, please come home ♪
They're singing "Deck the Halls" ♪
but it's not like Christmas at all ♪
'cause I remember
when you were here ♪
and all the fun we had last year ♪
Christmas ♪
If there was a way ♪
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- please, please
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- please, please
- please, please
- Baby, please come home
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- [waves lapping gently]
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Previously on
The Summer I Turned Pretty…
[Belly] Susannah told me
that when I was born she knew
I was destined for one of her boys…
Conrad or Jeremiah.
Why did you throw it all away?!
I thought that we loved each other.
- We did.
- You're my best friend.
There are times I wanted to be more.
I was just waiting.
- Isabel Conklin, will you marry me?
- Yes.
- [Laurel] Is this a joke?
- [Conrad] Don't marry him.
- Be with me.
- [Jeremiah] Look me in the eyes
and tell me you don't still love him.
- Jeremiah, I love you.
- That's not what I asked.
[Taylor] Belly and Conrad…
all their epic,
infinity soulmate shit.
We're high-functioning compared to them.
We keep coming back to each other,
it feels like it's never really over.
But, like, what if it doesn't work?
- [Laurel] Where are you?
- [Belly] I'm in Paris.
[Conrad] How's Belly?
Do you think that she would even want
- to hear from me?
- You're gonna have to risk
finding out for yourself.
[Belly] Part of me
always believed that we would
find our way back to each other.
[Jeremiah] Do what you have to do.
Don't expect me
to be okay with it.
But don't fucking waste it, either.
[gentle music playing]
- [traffic rumbling in distance]
- [birdsong]
[ Patrick Watson sings
"Je Te Laisserai Des Mots"]
[scooter engine approaching]
[indistinct conversation]
[scooter engine starts]
Belly.
Conrad.
Surprise.
[laughs]
Give me a hug. Come here.
[laughing] Hi.
Hi.
- I like your hair.
- Yeah, thanks.
Um, what are you even doing here?
Yeah.
Um…
Sorry, it was…
sort of a last-minute thing.
Uh, I-I have a conference in Brussels.
It turns out Brussels
is a quick train from Paris, so…
…I thought, it's your birthday…
- My birthday's tomorrow.
- No, yes, I know that.
I just… The conference starts tomorrow.
I thought that I'd try and catch you,
take a train to Brussels later.
- You probably have a ton of plans.
- Yeah, yeah, no, I do.
No worries.
I just showed up at your doorstep, so…
Well, um, what time is your train?
They run all day.
I was just gonna-gonna take the last one.
And if I didn't catch you, I was gonna…
see some sights, walk around,
so it's no trouble.
Um, well, I have plans at 8:00,
but, um…
I can hang out with you until then.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
It'll be fun to play tourist again.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
That would be amazing.
Great, yeah. Um,
let me just drop your bag in my apartment,
- and then we can go.
- Okay.
Wait here. I'll be right back.
[grunting] All right.
[ Zaho de Sagazan & Tom Oddell
sing "Old Friend"]
[Belly] What the fuck are you doing?
[sighs]
Just play tour guide a few hours
and then send him on his way.
[Jeremiah] All right,
we got tomatoes over there…
- [door opens]
- That's 25 of this.
- Hey.
- Hey.
How long have you been up?
Um, 5:00.
Geez. Yikes.
You know, I've got four courses
to prep for 30 people
expecting "Boston's
hottest up-and-coming chef," so…
I think, actually,
based on Taylor's new TikTok,
you are now the sexiest new chef alive.
Why'd I let her talk me into this?
Because when you crush it,
every five-star in town will be
begging you to be their garde-manger.
[chuckles]
You know what a garde-manger is?
No, I do not.
[chuckles]
[phone vibrates]
Um, hey, do you mind, um, grabbing that?
Conrad says good luck tonight.
- Is he in Brussels?
- No, um, he's in Paris.
With Belly.
No shit.
Yeah, shit.
He called me last night from the airport.
Um… not to be all up in your business,
- but…
- D, my business has been living
in your spare room
for the last six months.
- I-I think we're good.
- Okay. Okay, but are you good?
Uh, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, I-I think the anticipation
was the worst part.
But…
…now that the Belly/Conrad reunion
is finally happening,
it's not that bad.
Hey, could this be progress?
- Who knows?
- [chuckles] Wow.
Also… Hey, no, put it down.
- No, it's one. It's one.
- That's not for you.
[laughs] Sorry.
- Only one. Um…
- [laughing]
- Oh, hey, I've been meaning to tell you.
- Mm?
I found us a new couch.
Mm. We have a couch.
Yeah, you hate that couch.
You're always complaining
about how when you work on it,
your back hurts.
- Um…
- Oh, shit,
you're sick of me living here, aren't you?
- No. No, no.
- Oh, and here I am picking out furniture
for your apartment, like an asshole.
No, Jere, that's…
Stop, that's not it, I…
[sighs]
I'm moving to California in a month.
- What?
- I know. [sighs]
Steven and I finally
got our seed funding… a lot of it…
and it's contingent
on us moving to San Francisco.
But don't worry, okay? I was not about
to leave you all high and dry.
Denise, I'm so excited for you.
You earned it.
Oh…
[chuckles]
- You worked so hard.
- Thank you.
Oh, my God. Taylor must be pissed.
Okay, actually, Conklin has not told her
about moving to San Francisco yet,
so keep your mouth shut today, please.
[Taylor] What?
Sorry, wait, what did you sa…
What'd you just say?
- Um, I'm gonna… I'm gonna kill him.
- Taylor, please stop.
I'm gonna kill…
Oh, also, I just found out
that the bar for tonight has a leak
and it's completely flooded,
so I guess everything's just fucked,
it's just fucked.
Taylor, please wait, I'm sorry.
[ Pomplamoose sings "Les Champs-Élysées"]
[indistinct conversation]
- I'm gonna jump in.
- Okay, yeah, go ahead.
[Conrad] I'm doing it, I'm jumping in!
No, it's too cold.
What do you want to see after this?
- Probably the Eiffel Tower, right?
- Sure.
- It has… nice views.
- Mm-hmm.
Is there something else?
We could do, um…
Père-Lachaise,
where Jim Morrison is buried.
- Yeah, that sounds great.
- Yeah?
I…
I-I've spent a lot of time…
…imagining your life here.
Uh, and I guess…
I don't know, I'll do anything.
But I wish… that I could see Paris
the way that… you do.
Okay.
I know where I'm gonna take you.
Where?
You'll see.
Where?
Okay, I literally just moved to Boston
for his stupid ass.
Like, I started a new job,
and now he-he thinks
that I'm just gonna, like,
up and move to California?
Well, uh, he hasn't said that.
He hasn't said shit.
So you think that he just wants
to break up with me?
- No, that is not what I'm saying at all.
- Is that your opin… No, just tell me.
- Did he say that? Did he say…
- That's not what I'm saying at all.
Hey, I've tried 20 places, and-and nada.
So, have you two had any luck on a venue?
Um, no, we've been a little preoccupied.
[Taylor] We will… we'll find something.
First, I'm just trying to figure out
why my boyfriend is stealth moving
across the country.
No, first, I need to start the stock
and marinate the lamb
so it times out perfectly
with the scallop prep.
But-but none of this matters
if we don't have a place
- for people to eat.
- I know. I'm sorry. I know.
I mean, maybe we just call it off.
- No, no, no, no, no. No.
- No. No.
- [sighs]
- [Denise] Wait.
Uh, what about that disgustingly beautiful
house of yours on the water?
That's the perfect vibe.
- I don't know.
- People will
gag at the views.
Plus, it has a huge kitchen.
I ju…I haven't been back there since…
Jere, i-if you're not ready to go there,
w-we'll find somewhere else.
No. Um, no, Denise. You're right.
It-It'll be good for me.
It'll be good for the dinner.
I'll start packing.
- Okay.
- Okay,
so let's talk Steven really quickly.
Hon, you need to talk to Steven.
- Okay?
- [chuckles] I'm gonna talk to him.
Okay. All right.
Actually, let's just hold on
for 24 hours, please, okay?
This is a big night for Jere, and I just…
But this is a huge night for me, too.
If I… if I pull this off,
my boss will have to let me run point
on one of our promo campaigns,
and all I have to do is just
have to figure out how to, like,
transport all these food influencers
to Cousins
and reroute the food delivery truck
and the rental equipment
and the waitstaff.
- [whispers] Fuck.
- Okay.
Okay. Hi. Hey.
You got this. I will help you.
[regular volume] No, you're right.
I'm calm.
- I am focused.
- Mm-hmm.
Okay? Like a fucking laser,
and we're just gonna do it.
[thoughtful music playing]
[bells chiming]
Are we allowed up here?
[Belly] Mm.
- It's pretty incredible, huh?
- Yeah.
You come here a lot?
[Belly clicks tongue]
I used to.
When I first got here and, um… [sniffs]
- I was still figuring everything out…
- Mm-hmm.
…there were, uh,
a lot of hours in the day.
[both laugh]
And, um, the manager of the bar
that I work at… her name is Celine…
she used to work in this building.
And she's the one
who told me about this rooftop.
And, um…
I don't know, there was just something
about seeing Paris from up here.
All laid out.
It just made things start to click for me.
- Mm-hmm.
- The way it all just…
…beautifully comes together.
I'm just…
- in awe of it.
- It's like the human body.
If you try and make sense of it
organ by organ,
it's-it's a Sisyphean task,
it's overwhelming,
but if you're able to take a step back
and look at it as… as a whole
and see how the body
works together in concert,
suddenly it makes sense
and it's fucking miraculous.
That's not at all what you meant, was it?
- No, yeah, yeah.
- Oh, okay. Yeah.
Um, for a second…
…you sounded like…
Like a geek?
Like ten-year-old you.
- You seem very comfortable here.
- Mm.
In Paris.
Yeah, I feel that way now.
[laughing] Took me a year to get here.
- Yeah?
- So…
Yeah, I mean,
I used to have to psych myself up
to leave my apartment
to do the simplest tasks.
- Like what?
- Like…
- [sighs]
- What?
Like trying to find laundry detergent
at the Monoprix.
[laughs]
I, uh, didn't know which one was laundry
- and which one was dish soap.
- [chuckles] Mm-hmm.
It's harder than it seems.
And I had to ask someone,
and they couldn't understand
my pronunciation of lessive.
Sounds pretty good to me.
Conrad, you don't know
what good French sounds like.
[laughs]
Yeah, there were just so many times
where I felt like such an idiot.
But then, one day,
I came up here to watch the sunrise.
And I remembered that thing that you said
about the first time you saw the Pacific.
You remembered that?
You said that it felt like you were
standing on another planet.
Like anything was possible.
Paris has become that for me.
- It was really hard.
- Mm.
But I stuck it out,
and now I get to live
in the most beautiful city in the world.
I knew you could do it.
Yeah, how did you know?
Oh, come on. What did our moms call you?
They called you a feral alley cat.
[laughs] I don't think that was intended
to be a compliment.
It was.
You've always been scrappy.
You've never been one
to back down from a challenge.
You are competitive,
especially when it comes to
- competing with yourself.
- Mm-hmm.
Come on.
Paris never stood a chance.
Do you want to come with me tonight?
Like, if there's a…
a later train.
Yeah, th-there's a late train.
I-I…
I don't want to intrude on…
Wouldn't be an intrusion.
Just some friends throwing me
a little pre-birthday dinner.
- Oh.
- Yeah, you should come.
It'll be fun.
And it'll be nice
to have an old friend there.
Are you sure? I…
Yeah.
[birdsong]
Um, hey, how does this look?
Um… can you raise it up a little bit?
Yeah, so…
- It-it needs to go lower.
- [Jeremiah] Hey, Tay,
I need you to try this real quick.
- Yeah.
- Can't believe you got Denise
doing the shit work for you.
Babe, pretty sure she's doing it for you.
- Okay. Well, everything looks great.
- Okay.
Guess it's up to me now
not to fuck anything up.
[Taylor] Mmm.
- How's it taste?
- Perfection.
You didn't even get any
of the basil oil on it.
Okay. I don't know what you want, Jere.
It tastes like cold tomato soup.
It's good.
I got everything.
Sorry.
[Steven grunting]
- Hey, babe.
- Hi.
Hey, Denise, uh, can I have your help
in the mud room?
Yeah. Sure.
Thank you for doing all this.
- Oh, my God, no. Of course, baby.
- Yeah.
I know how much
you want to impress your boss
- Yeah.
- and how important it is to you.
Yeah, and work is everything, right?
Yeah. Yeah.
Um, wow, this looks great.
I'm so glad that you think so.
You know what I realized?
I have been spending so much time
on this pop-up dinner
that, like, I haven't even thought
about different ways that we could make
our apartment, like, ours.
Like, like, more homey, you know?
Oh. Okay. Yeah.
Yeah, I was thinking
we should paint the living room.
[chuckling] Uh, okay.
Sure.
Um, I also think we should get a cat.
- A cat?
- Yeah.
Lucinda would never let me get one
because she thinks that, like,
cats are spiteful.
But I think you and I
would make great cat parents.
We'd raise our kitten
to be just like an angel.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Let's maybe just, you know,
take, like, a beat on that whole thing.
- Yeah, let's take a beat, you dick.
- What are you…
- [cell phone chimes]
- Listen. Oh, my God, okay.
If it's that important to you,
okay, let's get a cat.
[chuckles] I just think that maybe
we're not ready for it…
Okay, I can't! I can't with you right now.
I just lost my entire waitstaff.
What the hell?
[Belly] Just a few minutes. I promise.
You're good. Take your time.
[faucet starts running]
[ Cœur de pirate sings "Corbeau"]
It's a really great apartment.
[Belly] Thanks. I, um, inherited it
from my friend Gemma.
- You'll meet her tonight.
- Mm-hmm.
Compared to my old place,
it's like Versailles. [chuckles]
I'm excited to meet all your friends.
[door opens]
You look really beautiful.
Thank you.
Look who I found. [chuckles softly]
- Let me do it.
- Okay.
Thank you.
Uh, we should go.
Yeah.
Do I look okay?
[clicks tongue] Hmm.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
Now we can go.
[ Françoise Hardy sings
"J'suis d'accord"]
[indistinct conversation]
Hey.
- [speaking French]
- Hey, how are you?
- Pretty good. And you?
- Good, good.
[Belly chuckles] Ooh!
[speaking French]
[in French] Stunning. Happy birthday!
- Hi. How are you?
- Hey.
- Charmed.
- Nice to meet you.
[in French] Hi.
- Hey! Thank you.
- You look so pretty.
[in French] Hi. How are you?
[in French] Good, how are you?
- [in English] Roommate.
- Oh, okay.
[Gemma shrieks]
Isabel!
Your hair.
[in French] Lovely!
[in French] Goodness, you move fast.
Who is this guy, Isabel?
Guys, this is Conrad. A friend from home.
- Mm!
- Uh, Conrad,
- these are my friends Gemma and Max.
- Nice to meet you.
- [in English] The Conrad. Mwah, mwah.
- Hi.
Max.
[in French] He's here. Is that good? Bad?
[in French] We'll see.
Isabel!
Fuck me sideways, you American slut.
Uh…
The older brother.
[in French] If this one's this hot,
what did the other one look like?
[in English] Uh, Conrad, this is…
- Celine.
- [Conrad] Hi.
- [in English] Isabel closest friend in Paris.
- [Gemma clears throat]
Excuse me?
Second only to Gemma.
[chuckles] It's nice to meet you. Oh.
[in Spanish] A Kir Royale for a queen.
Aw. [giggles]
- [in English] Happy birthday, beautiful.
- Thank you.
- Uh, Conrad, this is Benito.
- [Conrad] Hey.
- Nice to meet you, man.
- Nice to meet you, too, Conrad.
We've heard everything about you.
You're, like, a legend in Paris.
A legend, huh?
[inhales sharply, speaks Spanish] Behave.
I am well-behaved.
- Mm.
- [Benito] Hey.
Got you a present. Come.
- Come, come, come.
- [in English] I'll be right back.
[in English] So, how was your journey?
Yeah, it was all right, it was all right.
So, how do you all know Isabel?
- She saved my life on her first night.
- Is that right?
[Gemma] Yeah. And then we went raving.
[laughs]
And the rest is history.
[Conrad] Yeah?
But most important question:
do you like wine?
- I love wine.
- [Celine] Oh.
- Let's find you a glass.
- Yes, thank you.
Oh, Benito, it's lovely. Thank you.
- [Benito] Congratulations.
- Can we see?
- [in French] Show it, show it, show it.
- [exclaims]
[Celine gasps]
- [all exclaim]
- [Benito speaks French]
Thank you.
[Gemma laughs]
[all chuckling]
Sorry.
[speaking French]
You know, Conrad, I think it was
quite romantic what you did.
Proclaiming your love to Isabel
moments before
she's about to marry your brother.
[Max in English] Didn't you think
that was a…
a fucked-up timing, though?
To be fair,
I didn't start the conversation
thinking that I was gonna
declare my love for her.
[Gemma] But of course
you couldn't hold it in any longer,
and that's what makes it romantic.
I think my brother might
disagree with you on that one.
[chuckling]
[in English] It's like something
out of a movie.
Half the people looking at the screen,
screaming, "Do it. Do it, Conrad."
And the other half are all like,
"Aah! No! Don't do it. Don't do it!"
[in English] Yes, in the movie,
he is the villain.
No, God.
If anyone was the villain, it was me.
[Benito speaking Spanish]
[in English] Like, why haven't we asked
the question we should all be asking?
Which is, Conrad,
what are you doing here in Paris?
[Belly] Uh, he's here for work.
He's got a conference in Brussels.
So he… You know, Paris is so close.
It's not that close.
- It's an hour and a half.
- Mm, pack it in, Benny, luv.
[Benito] What?
Are there are no direct flights
from California to Brussels?
It doesn't make any sense.
No, you're right. I changed my flight.
I really wanted to see her.
Hey, don't mind Benito.
He's still salty
that our Isabel dumped him.
Oh. Ow, you. Careful with my feelings.
It's only been six weeks.
[Max laughs]
[Benito] I wanted to take Isabel to Mexico
with me to meet my grandmother,
but, uh, she shot me down.
Well, you'll always be the boy
who taught me how to ride a scooter, so…
Hey, I'll always be the boy
who taught you how to ride a bike.
[group exclaims, chuckles]
Anyways, no, I…
I didn't come to Paris
because it's close Brussels.
I came here because every year we would
spend Isabel's birthday
at our summer house in Cousins.
And she's here now.
So I thought I'd bring
a little piece of Cousins to her.
[Clovis speaking French]
Cousins?
I thought they were brothers, no?
[laughing]
Guess not…
[upbeat music playing]
Okay, so the good news
is I got your frat bros
to sub in as waiters.
- Great.
- Great.
- Yeah.
- Uh, the bad news is…
the seafood guy fucked up the order.
So there's no scallops. Just oysters.
W-What am I supposed do with oysters?
- Um, cook them.
- Tay, I'm not going
to cook them, okay?
- Okay.
- [sighs] I'll just,
I'll serve them…
I'll serve them raw
with-with a watermelon mignonette.
- I don't know.
- Beautiful. That sounds so good.
Um, the other thing
is that the rental company
- forgot the dessert ramekins…
- Forgot?
- Seriously?
- The little… Yeah. But it's not a crisis.
- How?
- It's totally not a crisis.
Like, I'll just go into town
and try and find some.
You know? And hopefully have some.
You're going into town?
Let me help you, baby.
- I'll come with you.
- Uh, no. I'll do it by myself.
It'll be really good practice.
Dude, am I imagining things or is Taylor
acting, like, psychotic today?
She knows about San Francisco. Okay?
- What?
- Yeah.
And she's pissed.
Wh… Okay. I got to go talk to her then.
Yeah, you can do that, but outside.
Not in here, please.
[Denise] Um, bad time?
Only if it's more bad news.
[chuckles]
Yeah, it might be.
[door closes]
[chuckles] Dad.
- You're here.
- Hey, kid.
Surprise. Guess my invitation
got lost in the mail.
I just, uh, I didn't think…
It's just not that big of deal.
- It's a-it's a dinner.
- Well, Laurel made it sound
like a pretty big deal
when she told me about it.
I brought champagne.
- From my wedding.
- Uh…
Yeah, I didn't want it to go to waste.
That's very kind of you, Adam.
- Why don't you take it around back?
- Not in the kitchen?
[Denise] No. Sorry.
Kitchen is off limits to guests.
I'll see you back there.
Don't worry.
- It is my house.
- Yeah. [chuckles]
I'm so fucked.
I mean, this dinner is falling apart
and now my dad's here
- to watch it blow up in my face.
- Hey.
It's gonna be fine.
No, and-and I just,
I never should've come back here.
You know, being in this house again
makes me feel like the same loser I was
when I walked out that door last summer.
Place is just cursed.
I mean, maybe I should just
call the whole thing off.
Okay, no.
Do not talk like that. All right?
Jeremiah, I've been watching you
work your ass off for months.
All to get here. To this moment. Okay?
So, do not let the past
take that away from you.
Shit, don't let the past
take this place away from you, okay?
This house is too nice.
You got a pool, for God's sake.
Yeah. Yeah.
The pool is kind of nice.
Yeah. It is.
And so are you, D-Nice.
[laughs] Yeah.
I'm glad we met.
Yeah, um…
You got this, killer. Okay?
- Okay.
- Okay.
- No. I'm going this way.
- That way.
Yup, thank you. Got it.
Yup.
[ Angèle sings "Ta Reine"]
- [laughing]
- [Gemma] Open mine next!
All right.
[gasps] Oh.
[in French] It's so pretty!
'Cause you always loved mine.
Thanks.
[in English] Oh, my God. Beautiful.
[in French] Very beautiful.
[in English] All right,
where's my present?
[Conrad] Uh…
[Belly] I'm joking.
[in French] Isabel,
I think he is the gift.
Are you going to unwrap it later?
- [group] Ooh!
- Oh la la.
I got you a gift.
- [in French] My dear.
- [Belly gasps]
- [Gemma whistles]
- Oh la la.
- Merci.
- For all of us.
[Benito in Spanish] You better share.
[giggling]
[speaking French]
So, Benito.
Not your boyfriend?
I never said he was.
I thought you said
marijuana messes with white matter.
Do you memorize
every little thing I've ever said?
Yes.
[indistinct chatter]
[grunts softly]
So, no Kayleigh tonight?
Oh, well, she left me,
so no Kayleigh ever.
Oh, I'm sorry, man.
Yeah, well, them's the breaks.
You, uh, seeing anyone?
- Uh, not at the moment, no.
- [Adam] Oh.
- That means you're not getting any.
- [laughs]
[Adam] I knew you guys would flame out.
We should go on a singles cruise.
[scoffs] I highly doubt
single cruises are even a thing anymore.
Oh, they are.
Apparently, they're 24/7
all-you-can-drink fuckfests.
- [sighs] Sick.
- I'm telling you, that bod
in a little two-piece
in the Caribbean sun?
- Ew. - Mm…
- Laurel.
- You'd do well.
- You are so gross.
- [Adam laughs]
- No wonder Jeremiah didn't invite you.
She's mean. I'm getting a refill.
What? I was joking.
I am glad he showed up, though.
At least he's trying.
- It's nice to be with everyone again.
- Yeah.
But I miss Belly.
Yeah, can you believe
our little girl turns
- 22 tomorrow?
- Oh, my God.
Remember that summer she turned three?
She massacred that cake
- and there was frosting everywhere?
- [laughs] Oh, yes, yes.
- [Redbird laughs]
- Oh…
[chuckles] Hi.
Uh, would you like a glass of the, um,
uh… [stammers]
- …something, it's something French?
- Sure.
- Sure? Okay.
- Thank you. That'd be lovely.
Tell me when.
- Just a little more.
- Just a little… here you go.
- All right, that's great.
- All right.
- And you?
- Oh, no, thank you.
Okay, all right. Arrivederci.
Thank you.
- To Belly.
- To Belly.
- [piano playing]
- [ woman sings "La Vie en rose"]
[indistinct chatter]
I like your friends.
[laughs] All of them?
Most of them.
Do you remember earlier when I said
that I wanted to bring
a little piece of Cousins to you?
- So you did get me a gift.
- Kind of.
I collected this
when we were back for the Fourth of July
a few years back, that summer.
Yeah, I-I remember that Fourth, yeah.
I knew that I wasn't gonna be back…
…for a long time.
And so, whenever I really miss home,
I take this out,
and it makes me feel closer to everybody.
And I thought, since…
…I don't know,
since you won't be back for a while,
I thought you might want to have it.
[song ends]
Thank you.
[shutter clicks]
[piano plays gentle fanfare]
[all singing "Happy Birthday" in French]
[laughs]
[whoops]
[song ends]
[atmospheric music playing]
- [cheering]
- [applause]
[Taylor] Call me, beep me,
if you want to reach me.
[hangs up]
- Baby! Come on, call me back, please.
- [Jeremiah] Oh, my God.
- [timer chimes]
- Is that thing
- just gonna keep going off? Uh…
- Y-Yes,
seeing I'm doing
five different things at once,
- yeah, probably.
- Okay.
- Just keep stirring, please.
- I have not stopped stirring.
- Clockwise is better.
- I have not…
- Got your ramekins.
- [Jeremiah] Thank you.
Baby, you're back.
You look so nice.
I know you're pissed.
- Okay? But…
- I'm not pissed.
Why would I be pissed?
Did you do something?
Like make a major life decision
without telling me?
- Look…
- No, you look. I thought that things
were, like, really clicking with us.
- I felt good about our relationship.
- [Steven] They were.
They were, they were. No, no, no!
- Oh, my God, no, no, no. They are.
- They are?
- We're clicking, clicked…
- Steven, stir, please.
Okay. We're clicking, we are click…
We're amazing.
Yeah, I mean, we're so amazing
that you're gonna move
3,000 miles away without me.
- I never said that.
- Okay, no,
I must have missed the part
where you asked me to come with you.
- I already made you move to Boston…
- First-first of all,
you didn't make…
nobody makes me do anything.
Okay, yes, I'm sorry. Okay?
I-I'm just saying, I… [sighs]
How could I ask you
to-to move to California for me?
I mean, oh, my God,
God forbid, uh, you know, things
- didn't work out, or-or worse case…
- Yeah, okay, so,
thank you. So it's a… You don't
think things are gonna work out.
- [smoke alarm beeping] - I didn't mean it like that.
- No, it's really good
- to know that now so I don't waste
- Oh, shit.
- six months that I've invested.
- No, I didn't mean it like that.
- I promise I did not mean it…
- That's… Okay, but that's what you said.
You don't think things
are gonna work out with us?
Hey, guys, look, I-I love you to death,
but for the love of God,
get out of my kitchen.
- Sorry, Jere.
- All right, sorry. Sorry, Jere.
[Steven] Baby, please.
It's not what I meant.
- Oh. Shit.
- [chatter continues in distance]
Just go clockwise. It's not that hard.
Can we jus… can we talk about this?
I mean, for real, please?
I just don't understand
why you wouldn't tell me.
Tay, I don't even know what to tell you.
I'm not even sure I'm gonna say yes.
Don't be an idiot.
Of course you're saying yes,
This is your dream.
Not to mention, Denise will kill you
- if you fuck this up for her.
- Yes, okay, but…
Taylor, living with you, being with you…
that-that's my dream, too.
Okay, but if that's true, then, like,
why wouldn't you just ask me
to come with you?
Be honest.
- I…
- You thought I'd pull a Taylor
- and freak out.
- No, Tay, no.
Look, if you asked me a year ago
to move across the country with you,
I would've lost it, completely.
I… And probably blown us up.
Again.
But I'm not scared of us anymore.
I am scared of you not knowing that.
Okay, but…
it's not that, Taylor.
I…
I don't want you
to have to give up anything for me.
Okay?
I watched you do it for Lucinda,
and I just don't… I don't want to be
the person that's holding you back.
Yeah, but you're not
holding me back, dummy.
I want to be with you.
I mean, you know, I also want
to be the baddest bitch in PR,
but I have just as good
a shot of-of doing that
in San Francisco as I do in Boston.
Better.
Okay, but…
What, what are you s…
I… You… I…
Would you really just pack up
and move to California for me?
I mean…
Not for you. With you.
[ Noah Kahan sings
"Everywhere, Everything"]
I mean, if that's what…
if that's what you want.
- I mean…
- No, Tay, I love you.
I love you so fucking much, okay?
I can't, like, imagine
what my life would be like without you.
Feels like fate.
collapsing ♪
We cried, "Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh" ♪
Everywhere, everything ♪
I want to love you
till we're food for the worms to eat ♪
Till our fingers decompose ♪
Keep my hand in yours…
Do you think they can see us?
You think that we care?
Everywhere, everything ♪
I want to love you till we're…
- Actually, um, I think my mom
- Really, this is… I… It's just kind of
- and them are up there.
- an important day.
- Um, yeah.
- I feel like this is unprofessional.
[laughs]
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
We're moving to California, huh?
- Yeah, we're moving to California. Mm-hmm.
- Yeah. Wow.
Is this crazy?
- Yes!
- [both chuckle]
- Yes.
- [laughs]
I don't know, though.
I don't know. What's…
What's the worst that could happen?
Well, I could…
- Why are you so fucked-up?
- [laughs]
Why would you open your mouth to say that?
for the worms to eat ♪
Till our fingers decompose ♪
Keep my hand in yours… ♪
Everywhere, everything ♪
♪
So, did you have a good birthday, Belly?
Do you want me to call you Isabel now?
No, no.
[laughs] No.
I want you to call me Belly.
And it was a pre-birthday.
I've only been 22
for…
about an hour and a half.
But, yes, it was…
a very good birthday.
It was perfect.
Can I admit something to you?
Before I came here,
I thought that you might be hiding out.
Like, maybe you were
punishing yourself.
For everything that happened.
Like you'd sent yourself into exile.
And-and not because
I thought you deserved that.
But more because…
that's kind of what I was doing
for a long time.
And maybe a-a…
part of me wanted to believe
that this was temporary.
That you would just…
forgive yourself and come home.
- Conrad, like…
- And… No, I know.
It's totally off-base.
I get that.
You're not hiding out.
You…
have made this amazing life for yourself.
And I'm…
…just happy I got to see it.
Me too.
You're not… all wrong.
Um…
I think I was kind of hiding out.
At first.
It was really hard
and really lonely and…
I guess I-I kind of did think…
that I deserved that.
You know you're not the villain, right?
[chuckles] Come on.
We both know I am.
I came between you and Jere, I…
[sighs]
- broke your family.
- We all broke it.
It was not on you
to keep our family together.
We were kids.
We weren't trying to hurt each other.
And I can guarantee you…
…that whatever promises
we made back then,
nobody would hold you to them today.
Let me just speak for myself.
I won't.
Jere knows I'm here.
[wistful music playing]
And he's okay with that?
I don't know. He said, "Good luck."
Like…
"Good luck!" or, like…
"Good luck"?
There's a full moon tonight.
I like being
under the same moon as you again.
- Belly, I…
- I want to take you to one more place.
Come on.
[indistinct conversation]
Okay… Oh.
They are licking
their gazpacho bowls clean out there.
[chuckles]
Awesome.
You good?
Yeah, yeah.
About to be better.
Just a trial run on the dessert.
So if it doesn't go well,
I'm gonna send you to go get Twinkies.
[laughs] Okay.
I'm sure it'll be fine.
- [timer chimes]
- Oh, sweet. Okay.
Hop up. Uh, you're gonna be the…
- taste-tester, ready?
- Ooh.
- Okay.
- Okay.
All right.
[slow hip-hop music playing in distance]
[mutters]
[Denise gasps]
Wow.
[Jeremiah] Some of this.
All right.
And here you go.
Okay.
Ooh.
Look at that.
How is it?
Oh, my God, this is amazing.
- Really?
- Seriously.
- It's so good.
- Sweet.
Oh, my God.
Look at you being all successful and shit.
Tastes incredible, dude.
Oh, I wish my mom were here to see this.
Well…
Adam seems pretty impressed.
Yeah, well, making cake
isn't exactly saving lives.
Oh, my God.
So the eldest boy is in med school.
Someone call a waambulance.
Geez.
You know, honestly,
I barely know the guy, but
from what I've seen,
your brother's pretty annoying.
Okay? He's gonna be like, "Oh, yeah,
that's Dr. Fisher to you"
for the rest of his life, like, big whoop.
Whatever.
I-I saw you at my rehearsal dinner,
eating up every word
about his clinical rotations.
You're just as obsessed with him
- as everyone else.
- Okay, no. Dude,
you are the one
who is obsessed with him.
And I don't know why.
You're a fucking ten.
[laughs]
I'm-I'm a ten?
Oh, my God. Okay, please don't pretend
that you don't know you're gorgeous.
All right? You're basically a model.
[both chuckle]
Oh, uh, so…
I saw…
- Taylor and Steven out on the dock.
- Mm-hmm.
Suffice to say, I think
she's going to S.F. with him.
- Yeah.
- Mm.
- Yeah, I never doubted it.
- Yeah.
Oh, I know you're gonna miss them.
That must suck.
Yeah, I've-I've never really been alone.
I've always been scared of that feeling.
You know, after Belly and I got engaged,
she told me she wasn't
going to Paris anymore.
Deep down, I knew
she really wanted to, but…
she gave up on that for me.
And I let her
just because I didn't want to be alone.
Anyway, Um…
- I-I think it'll be good, being on my own.
- Yeah, and you won't
have an anal-retentive roommate
to put up with anymore,
- so it's pretty good.
- [laughs]
Okay, shut up.
You know I'm gonna miss you.
- Oh, you are? [laughs] Okay.
- A lot.
Yeah.
[chuckles] And now,
I'm kind of kicking myself for not…
Not…?
This.
- [ Joji sings "Slow Dancing In The Dark"]
- I don't want a friend
I want my life…
Uh… Sorry. W-Was-Was that not okay?
Waiting to get there ♪
Waiting for you…
[laughing]
What? You can't believe
you're kissing nepo baby?
No, I can't believe nepo baby
is kissing me.
You done up your mind ♪
I don't need no more signs ♪
Can you? Can you? ♪
[indistinct conversations]
Give me reasons we should ♪
be complete…
Uh, attention. Attention, everybody.
Um, I just wanted to thank you all
for coming tonight.
I loved getting the chance to cook
for you all, many for the first time.
Um, but hopefully not the last.
- [man] All right, bro.
- [man 2] Hear, hear, guv'nor.
- [chuckles] Cheers.
- [guests] Cheers.
Cheers.
- Cheers.
- [others cheer]
- [Jeremiah] Enjoy yourself.
- [Denise] Cheers.
[Steven] It tastes so good.
All right.
In the dark…
Hey, Jere.
Can we talk for a minute?
I kind of got to work on the desserts.
Please?
Why didn't I get invited
to your big night?
I'm guessing you're still mad
that I cut you off.
[scoffs]
I get it, Dad. You think I'm a fuck-up,
and maybe I was, but not anymore.
You think that's how I see you?
[tender music playing]
I… I'm so proud
of what you pulled off tonight.
Okay? But I'm not surprised.
I mean, I've always known
what you're capable of.
I've always been proud of you.
I thought that went without saying.
I guess I should've said so.
I'm proud of you.
Thanks, Dad.
All right.
Uh, don't stay inside too long, huh? Okay?
People want to see your face.
[chuckles] You got it.
[ The Flamingos sing
"I Only Have Eyes for You"]
My love must be a kind ♪
of blind love…
[in French] Good evening.
I can't see anyone but you…
[Belly] Here we are.
Isn't it so pretty?
Sha-bop, sha-bop…
I mean, look at the way
that the light hits the water.
It's like magic.
[in English] It is.
- Sha-bop, sha-bop
- I don't know
if it's cloudy or bright ♪
I only have eyes…
Belly, would you dance with me?
for you…
Do you remember the last time we danced?
Prom.
Not my finest moment.
I was such a brat about it. [chuckles]
I had envisioned,
like, this perfect prom movie.
You know, we'd dance for hours
and then go back to the hotel and…
Make love?
Yes, Conrad, have sex.
[laughs]
But instead…
Instead, I yelled at you in the rain
and ran off like a little bitch.
- A real prom to remember.
- [laughs]
It was pretty unforgettable.
[laughs]
Almost as unforgettable as you
telling me to fuck off
at my mom's funeral.
I said go to hell, not fuck off..
- That makes it a lot better.
- [laughs]
Sha-bop, sha-bop ♪
You are here ♪
- Sha-bop, sha-bop
- and so am I
- Sha-bop, sha-bop
- Maybe millions of people
- Sha-bop, sha-bop
- go by…
That all feels like a million years ago.
You know, for a while,
your letters kept me going.
Whenever I was lonely
or missed home…
…I would just sit and read them.
I read them over and over and over.
Sha-bop, sha-bop…
Why did it take you so long
to write me back?
Because I had to move on.
I had to let go of the past,
and I couldn't do that
if I was still holding on to you.
[heartfelt music playing]
And have you moved on?
[ Taylor Swift sings "Dress"]
Our secret moments ♪
in a crowded room ♪
They got no idea about me and you ♪
There is an indentation
in the shape of you ♪
Made your mark on me, a golden tattoo…
Come home with me.
All of this silence and patience,
pining in anticipation ♪
My hands are shaking
from holding back from you ♪
All of this silence and patience,
pining and desperately waiting ♪
My hands are shaking from all this ♪
Inescapable, I'm not even gonna try ♪
And if I get burned ♪
At least we were electrified ♪
I'm spilling wine in the bathtub ♪
You kiss my face, and we're both drunk ♪
Everyone thinks that they know us,
but they know nothing about ♪
All of this silence and patience ♪
pining in anticipation ♪
My hands are shaking
from holding back from you ♪
All of this silence and patience,
pining and desperately waiting ♪
My hands are shaking from all this ♪
Say my name and everything just stops ♪
I don't want you like a best friend ♪
Only bought this dress
so you could take it off ♪
Take it off ♪
Carve your name into my bedpost ♪
'Cause I don't want you
like a best friend ♪
Only bought this dress
so you could take it off ♪
Take it off…
I want to do it.
Only bought this dress
so you could take it off ♪
Only bought this dress
so you could take it off ♪
Flashback when you met me ♪
your buzzcut and my hair bleached ♪
Even in my worst times,
you could see the best of me ♪
Flashback to my mistakes ♪
my rebounds, my earthquakes ♪
Even in my worst lies,
you saw the truth in me ♪
And I woke up just in time ♪
Now I wake up by your side ♪
My one and only, my lifeline ♪
I woke up just in time ♪
Now I wake up by your side ♪
My hands shake, I can't explain this ♪
Say my name and everything just stops…
I dream about this. You.
I don't want you like a best friend ♪
Only bought this dress
so you could take it off ♪
Take it off ♪
There is an indentation ♪
in the shape of you
You know, I… [laughs]
I… [laughs]
What?
I used to wish for you every birthday.
[Conrad snorts]
Now you're stuck with me forever.
[cell phone dings, vibrates]
It's probably everybody back home
wishing you a happy birthday.
[whispers] Yeah.
Oh, my God,
it's, um, it's 4:00 A.M. [laughs]
Uh, what… what time
do you have to be in Brussels
for the conference tomorrow?
Well, I was thinking, the…
first day's really just opening remarks
and welcome drinks.
I could skip it,
go tomorrow night.
No, no. I mean, you can't just
change your plans for me.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, just like, you know,
I'm not gonna change my plans for you.
Yeah, I wouldn't expect you to.
Okay, good.
Because, you know, I have a life here.
I know. I totally get that.
Good.
[introspective music playing]
Where you going?
I need to pee.
I don't want to get a UTI.
You're in med school, you get it.
Yeah.
Yeah, of course.
[door opens, shuts]
[urinating]
[toilet flushes]
[faucet running, stops]
I think you should be there
for the first day.
Wha… Uh, when's the next train?
The first one's at, uh, 5:00.
But… we could
still get breakfast,
and I would have plenty of time to…
No. I mean, I'm not really hungry, so…
Yeah.
No, I'll just take the, like, 5:00 a.m.
Is everything okay?
Did I do something?
Conrad, w…
what do you think is happening here?
I thought you and I…
You show up at my door…
…unannounced, on my birthday.
What even was your plan?
I didn't… I didn't have a plan.
I just, I thought I…
I wanted to see you,
- I wanted to tell you…
- Tell me what?
That I love you.
[gentle music playing]
And?
And I wanted to know
if any part of you still loved me.
You don't love me anymore?
I've always loved you.
[soft chuckle]
That's the problem.
I don't really think that's a problem.
How are we supposed to know
if we love each other because we want to
and not because we were told to?
You-you think that I love you because,
when I was six years old,
my mother thought
that we should get married?
No, that's not… that's not what I mean.
I just, I mean…
[sighs]
If your mom hadn't gotten sick again,
would we have even have gotten together?
You know, or would you have just gone off
to football camp that summer…
…and never looked twice at me again?
[chuckles]
You know,
if we didn't lose Susannah…
…would it…
…loom so large for us?
What if…
what if you only love me
because that's what your mom wanted,
and then your mom died?
That is not…
why I love you.
I have tried
everything… [sniffles]
…not to love you,
for the sake of Jere,
for the sake of-of-of…
not…
dragging you down with me in my grief.
I fought it
way before the summer
that my mom got sick.
You've always been
a precious person to me.
I have always cared about you.
And then, at some point…
[exhales sharply]
…I started to see you differently,
and that scared me
because I didn't want
things between us to change.
But the way that I feel about you,
Belly,
has nothing to do with my mom.
If I met you for the first time tonight…
…I would love you.
Oh, come on, Conrad.
I mean, how do you know that?
Because I've changed
everything about myself,
and the one thing that never changes
is that I love you.
[sighs] Conrad, I…
I wish that I could be as sure as you.
But I can't.
I'm sorry.
I'm not.
I'm gonna try and catch that train.
Happy birthday, Belly.
[door opens]
[door shuts]
[sighs]
[sniffles]
All this time, I wanted
to believe I changed.
That I'm not the same girl I was.
But I am still her,
and was that girl so bad?
She followed her heart no matter what.
And despite all her mistakes,
I have to believe
she's still worthy of love.
[ Taylor Swift sings
"Out of the Woods (Taylor's Version)"]
I still love her.
And I still love him.
I have brown hair and brown eyes,
and I will always love Conrad Fisher.
- I remember
- Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet? ♪
- Are we in the clear yet?
- Oh, I remember
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out…
Conrad!
Are we out of the woods? ♪
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet? ♪
Are we in the clear yet,
in the clear yet? Good ♪
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet? ♪
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods? ♪
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet? ♪
Are we in the clear yet,
in the clear yet? Good ♪
Oh…
Taxi!
- Are we out of the woods?
- [speaks indistinctly]
Remember when
you hit the brakes too soon? ♪
Twenty stitches in a hospital room ♪
When you started crying,
baby, I did, too ♪
But when the sun came up,
I was lookin' at you ♪
Remember when
we couldn't take the heat? ♪
I walked out, I said,
"I'm settin' you free" ♪
But the monsters turned out
to be just trees ♪
When the sun came up,
you were lookin' at me ♪
You were lookin' at me ♪
Oh ♪
- You were lookin' at me
- Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet? ♪
- Are we out of the woods?
- I remember
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet? ♪
- Are we in the clear yet?
- Oh, I remember
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet? ♪
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods? ♪
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet? ♪
Are we in the clear yet,
in the clear yet? Good ♪
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet? ♪
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods? ♪
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet…
Conrad?
in the clear yet? Good ♪
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet? ♪
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods? ♪
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet? ♪
- Are we in the clear yet?
- Do you remember?
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods yet? ♪
Are we out of the woods yet?
Are we out of the woods? ♪
Are we in the clear yet?
Are we in the clear yet? ♪
Are we in the clear yet,
in the clear yet? ♪
Good ♪
♪
Is this seat taken?
Conrad…
I choose you of my own free will.
If there are infinite worlds,
every version of me chooses you
in every one of them.
[bright music playing]
I love you, Belly.
I love you, too.
[ Phoebe Bridgers sings "Scott Street"]
- [laughing]
- I'll get you some more.
[indistinct chatter]
[all exclaiming]
Walking Scott Street ♪
feeling like a stranger ♪
with an open heart ♪
open container ♪
I've got a stack of mail ♪
and a tall can ♪
It's a shower beer ♪
it's a payment plan…
[indistinct chatter]
There's helicopters over my head…
[all] Cheers.
every night when I go to bed ♪
[Belly] I didn't go back that summer.
But eventually I did.
Nothing beats coming home
after you've been gone a long, long time.
And just as it always had,
the beach house held
a million promises of summer.
Anyway…
And what just might be.
a stranger ♪
Anyway ♪
don't be ♪
a stranger ♪
Don't be a stranger ♪
♪
[ Darlene Love sings
"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"]
Christmas ♪
Snow's coming down ♪
Christmas ♪
I'm watching it fall ♪
Christmas ♪
Lots of people around ♪
Christmas ♪
Baby, please come home ♪
Christmas ♪
The church bells in town ♪
Christmas ♪
all ringing in song ♪
Christmas ♪
full of happy sounds ♪
Christmas ♪
Baby, please come home ♪
They're singing "Deck the Halls" ♪
but it's not like Christmas at all ♪
'cause I remember
when you were here ♪
and all the fun we had last year ♪
Christmas ♪
Pretty lights on the tree ♪
Christmas ♪
I'm watching them shine ♪
Christmas ♪
You should be here with me ♪
Christmas ♪
Baby, please come home ♪
They're singing "Deck the Halls" ♪
but it's not like Christmas at all ♪
'cause I remember
when you were here ♪
and all the fun we had last year ♪
Christmas ♪
If there was a way ♪
Christmas ♪
I'd hold back this tear ♪
Christmas ♪
But it's Christmas day ♪
- Please
- Please
- please
- please
- please, please
- please, please
- please, please
- please, please
- Baby, please come home
- Christmas
- Baby, please come home
- Christmas
- Baby, please come home
- Christmas
- Baby, please come home
- Christmas
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
Christmas ♪
- Oh, please, come back, please
- Christmas
Please come home ♪
Christmas ♪
Christmas ♪
Christmas ♪
♪
- [waves lapping gently]
- [gulls calling]