Trying (2020) s05e08 Episode Script

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[suspenseful music plays]
[Kat snoring]
- [grunts]
- [rattles]
[shushes] Quiet.
Kat's asleep on the sofa.
She's been eating my bloody granola again.
Why have you come to me about that?
Say something to her.
I don't know.
She's practically homeless, isn't she?
And here we are living in
a beautiful flat with her two children.
It seems a bit salt in the wounds.
Princess is 17.
She should be learning
how to manage emotional risk safely
through crushes on celebrities
she'll never meet.
It's like we've invited
Timothée Chalamet to move in with us
then expected her
to focus on her A Levels.
- It's weird.
- Yeah.
Why would he wanna come and live with us?
He probably got a massive house,
ain't he? Oh.
[Princess] Hello.
Okay, we need to talk to her.
- Agreed.
- This can't go on.
[both] Well, let me know how that goes.
- No, Jase.
- I don't wanna do it.
It's loaded if it comes from me.
All right. Well, shall we do it together?
- Fine.
- Yeah.
But just you sit closer to her.
Okay.
- Listen.
- Mm-hmm?
How would you feel about me
being a hot-air balloon operator?
Jase, I cannot hear this idea every time
you have an existential crisis.
Well, it just seems like
such a lovely way to make a living.
I think the day-to-day reality
of running a hot-air balloon business
isn't the picture you've got in your head.
- Maybe, yeah.
- You've got to think about
your waiver forms,
safely storing away the gas.
Yeah, no,
I haven't thought about gas storage.
- No, you've not. Yeah.
- Be a nightmare, wouldn't it?
Well, it's just, how am I
supposed to be a good social worker
when my own family's
so bloody dysfunctional?
It's not that dysfunctional.
Tyler's happy.
What?
Brilliant.
- [knocks on door]
- Hello?
- Hiya.
- [Princess] Hello.
Hello. [chuckles]
- Yeah.
- Come in.
Just, um…
Oh. [chuckles]
Yeah.
Yeah, what's going on?
You're being really weird.
[Jason] Um,
- we need to talk to you about your mum.
- Okay.
Yeah.
Jason thinks…
[whispers] Jason?
We think, um,
it's not a sustainable situation,
- her living here.
- [breathes deeply]
Princess, please don't go.
- We really need to talk about it.
- Come on, Princess.
[door slams]
Of course it's not sustainable.
- It's a nightmare. She's driving me mad.
- [Nikki] Oh.
- [sighs]
- Okay.
I just… I had this image
of what it would be like
if she ever came back and it…
it wasn't this.
- Well, what did you imagine?
- I don't know.
Way more baking and hair brushing.
And making scrapbooks.
And for her to make me
understand everything.
But she can't give me any of the answers
I wanted and then I realized why.
It's because she doesn't know.
She doesn't know why she left.
She doesn't know why she does anything.
- I'm so sorry.
- Yeah.
You should be. This is all your fault.
But didn't you want this?
- Didn't you want your mum to come back?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- But you should've stopped me.
Okay, um, it's just that
when you want something, Princess,
sometimes you're quite hard
to reason with.
But you're adults, so just stand up to me.
Okay, yeah.
[stammers] We'll talk to her
and tell her that
she needs to find somewhere else
- to live.
- No, I wanna do it.
No, we think it's better
if we speak to her.
I said I want to do it.
Okay, it's just that
you literally just said
- that we need to stand up…
- Yeah, not on this.
- Okay.
- [Jason] All right.
- Come here. Come on.
- [Nikki] Oh.
[chuckles]
- We're not a normal family, are we?
- [chuckles]
Um, I think we're probably
more normal than you think.
All right.
Well, you need to get ready,
'cause otherwise
we're gonna be late for WoodScott.
Late for what?
WoodScott.
[Karen] Okay, as we all know,
I've accidentally broken my husband
and the only way to restore his confidence
is to show him that
at least one of his ideas actually works.
I've chosen the one with the lowest
risk of death, which is WoodScott.
Quick one from me, though.
- What is WoodScott?
- [Karen] Right.
I have the manifesto, so here…
No, that… [sighs] No, that's the wrong…
N-No, that's the wrong one.
Oh, God. It should not be possible
to pick up the wrong manifesto
in a family home.
"WoodScott.
A festival where people trade their skills
without the use of money."
- Aw.
- [Princess] Hmm?
Yeah, it's an odd idea for a man
with lots of money and no skills,
but there we are.
Is Billy Joel playing?
He better not be.
Billy Joel is your mother's
sexual hall pass.
- I can't b…
- No.
- [both chuckle]
- Okay, logistics.
Uh, Vic, we need a stage.
Mum, you're on bunting.
- We've got plenty left over…
- Okay.
…after the six and a quarter birthday
party that you threw for Stevie.
Princess, Kat. You're on signage.
And Tyler…
What's going on there?
Yeah, no, he's reacting badly
to the Barbara breakup.
Right, we need to find you something more
back-officey and less customer-facing.
Dad, you're in charge of the centerpiece.
How's it going?
Will the "Tribute to Humanity"
be finished in time?
All sorted.
I have said things with papier-mâché
that could never be expressed with words.
Oh, God help us.
- Come on! [chuckles]
- Come on then, everyone.
Off you go. Come on. Chop chop.
Jason will be back with Scott soon.
Hurry up.
Um, so, Karen, what…
what do you want me to do?
I want you to be
the face of the whole thing.
Oh, Karen.
Yes. [chuckles] Of course.
- Ah, great. You hold that.
- [sighs] Lovely. Hmm.
That's Gloria, the Grassroots Goose.
The manifesto was very clear
about the need for a mascot.
A goose?
Yeah, 'cause geese are…
Ugh, what does it say?
"Geese are communal and ungovernable
which makes them ideal symbols,
uh, for a people's revolt."
- There you go. [stammers, strains]
- Right.
You know I've… I've got skills
that I can offer too. [chuckles]
That's good. Well done.
I've got loads of skills, actually.
[Jason] Come on mate, don't do that.
People are staring.
Huh? They're gonna think
I'm breaking up with you.
[Scott] Wouldn't blame you if you did.
I'd be punching.
What? I'd be lucky to be with you.
You're tall,
um, you're very good-looking, you're rich.
[inhales deeply]
All soon forgotten.
Raindrops on a windscreen.
Talent, Jason.
That is the engine of this world.
All the laws,
all the bridges, all the ideas,
willed into existence
by people with talent.
And that is the one thing
you can't acquire,
no matter how hard you try.
Trust me, I know.
And without it,
we're just… [inhales deeply]
we're just passengers in this life.
No statues for us.
Okay, mate. I'm just gonna
pop this over here with me. Okay.
[softly] Bloody hell.
[whispers]
Hey, does he have a problem with the food?
No, just a wife
that doesn't believe in him.
[Karen] Ah, flippin' hell.
Look, you keep it tight…
Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah.
Look. Oh, dear.
- Heave that, heave. Right. That's it.
- He… Heave-ho.
Bunting is very stressful.
Go, go, go, go! Yeah!
Oh, no.
There's a typo in your sign.
No, there's no typo.
I sold the Vic branding
when I sold the business.
You sold the business?
Yeah, the corporate world's not for me.
Yeah.
So they're now Vic's Handyman Services
and I'm Mick.
Just professionally.
You can still call me Vic.
Oh, right.
That's, uh, that's good to know.
- [Karen] Nikki. [breathes shakily]
- Yeah?
Nikki. It looks really empty.
You know, I put flyers all round town.
Do you know only 20 people
came to the first Burning Man?
So in 30 years, Elon Musk could be here.
Well, unless he brings his kids,
we're not getting to Burning Man numbers.
This is a disaster. I'm just giving him
proof that his ideas are stupid.
No! His family are here.
We support him.
Any loser can have a family, Nikki.
Oh.
He needs believers. [sighs]
Right. No, no. I'm calling this off.
- What?
- [Karen] Before he gets here.
Ah… [sniffs] …beautiful.
Where are we going?
Huh? Oh, just having a little walk, mate.
This is one of the least appealing
portions of our land.
- Is it?
- Mmm.
Quite a difficult person to have sympathy
for sometimes, aren't you, mate?
[phone buzzes]
Oh.
Hello?
Right, abandon the plan.
- Why?
- Because nobody's turned up.
- It is a disaster.
- We're nearly there.
This could push him
over the edge, literally.
I mean, the woodland
sort of plateaus up here.
Right. You do know that our herb garden
is on a bloody fire escape, don't you?
[sighs]
Come on, mate. We'll go back now. Scott.
What are all these arrows?
Come on, mate. Come, come on. Let's…
C-Come and show me your wine cellar.
Hey, Scott.
What's this?
What have you done?
Well, this is WoodScott.
We brought it to life for you.
Why?
Well, I wanted to prove to you
that your ideas could work.
There's no one here.
Well… [chuckles]
…you know, there were only 20 people
at the first Burning Man festival,
I learned recently.
Yet another public humiliation.
It's all our property,
so it's technically not public.
[sighs]
[sighs]
Hey, Mum.
I just… I need to say something. Um…
We're running out of Blu Tack,
so just go easy, yeah?
Okay, yeah.
Yeah.
I'm sorry, Scott.
But the people who did come,
they believe in you.
[Scott] Oh, these people had to come.
They're family.
Apart from that one goth.
Well, so what?
Who would you rather have here?
The people who are closest to you
or a bunch of…
[attendees chattering, laughing]
Random people.
Oh, yeah. No, that's much better.
[chattering continues]
Who are all they?
Well, they must have seen the flyers
'cause they've come
for WoodScott.
[gasps]
- Hey! Hey, guys, how you doing?
- Because they believe in me.
Gloria!
[chuckles]
[sighs]
Look at you.
[chuckles]
Thank you for coming to
the inaugural WoodScott.
[attendees cheer]
I was gonna explain
the meaning behind the festival,
but, um,
I think I'll leave that to its creator.
Oh, no, I… [chuckles]
I cou… Okay, if it falls to me.
- Um, listen.
- [microphone feedback]
Um, now's not the time for hyperbole.
The dawn of a new world
breaks at our feet,
and we stand at the edge of tomorrow
with hope as our compass.
Without the need for money,
each person's intrinsic value recognized,
not commodified.
One massage for two vases.
One facial for a tango lesson.
One portrait
for an ergonomic work assessment.
You decide your value, not a bank.
This is what the future economy
looks like.
- [cheering]
- Whoo!
Isn't that what the economy
in the fifth century looked like?
[Nikki] Stop it. He's happy.
- [applause]
- [people cheering]
[speaks indistinctly]
- [Nikki speaks indistinctly]
- Yeah.
- Can I just say…
- [Nikki] Oh.
…um, absolutely love
what you're doing with the character.
If I may just give you
one tiny performance note,
it would be probably go
about 20% more insurgent.
Sorry, you want the goose
to be more insurgent?
- I think a nod towards insurgency.
- Mm-hmm.
Just imagine you really don't like
the situation you find yourself in,
it's making you really angry.
- Hmm.
- There you go.
Bit much, maybe.
Split the difference.
Yeah.
Right.
It says you do portraits.
Yes, of my wife.
I thought they were just examples.
Oh, no.
I could never paint another woman.
[customer] Complete waste of an hour.
John. [chuckles]
Could you do a really big one?
Like, really big,
that I could hang in my living room?
Absolutely.
Yes.
My book.
Are you mending things for free?
I've summited the business world once.
There's nothing there.
Now I do it for the love of the work.
Well, you're throwing off
the whole system.
It's a skills exchange.
Whose cuckoo clock is that?
The nail art lady.
Right. Well, go and get your nails done.
[chuckles]
Go and get your nails done for Scott, now.
Come on.
[Kat] Just rest there for a minute.
And feel that stretch.
[groans]
And turn the foot out.
And lean.
- [grunts]
- Are you all right?
Can you take over for me in this?
It's so hot.
- Really?
- Yes, please.
- Yeah, all right. Go on, then.
- Thank you.
Oh, and, yep, here's the character
backstory that Scott wrote.
It's actually…
It's weirdly… It's quite helpful.
It's just heartbreaking,
what she had to leave behind.
And for what, Jase? For Mother Russia?
And… [inhales deeply]
Sorry, no, I c-can't. [sighs]
- You're okay, mate?
- Dad, can we talk?
Really? But I've…
Ah, that's a shame.
- Yeah.
- [sighs, grunts]
Probably someone else
will have to do it, wouldn't they?
- [Nikki groans]
- Come on, mate.
So what's with the, uh, with the rebrand?
'Cause of Barbara?
How'd you know?
Lucky guess.
I just wanted her to like me again.
[groans] I don't know.
I wouldn't worry about what she likes.
Just be who you are.
Women like confident men.
What if who I am isn't confident?
Well, that's the issue, isn't it?
You know what?
I've been with someone today
who's completely lost himself
and you don't want that.
'Cause when you are
who you're supposed to be,
everything…
[stammers] …it just sort of clicks.
But what if she
still doesn't want to be with me?
Well, you've still gotta be with you.
[smacks lips] Haven't ya?
[Tyler] Mm-hmm.
So just… just try being the sort of person
that you like hanging out with.
Or you could just get some tattoos.
- Women love tattoos, man.
- [chuckles]
- Hey.
- [chuckles]
[muffled] Hiya.
[Princess] I can't do it.
I can't tell her.
All this time and I'm still the one
worrying about her.
It's just… It's not…
It's not fair.
You know, she has no idea who I really am.
How she made me.
How I still have a rucksack under my bed
that I haven't unpacked
with all of my stuff from the foster home,
seven years after I moved in
because I can't relax anywhere.
How when I was six,
I didn't have anyone
to read me a bedtime story,
so I had to ring a support line
and they'd read to me.
They kept my favorite books
by their phones, Nikki.
[sighs]
All this stuff she…
she doesn't know how to fix.
[inhales sharply]
But why does she find it so hard
to be a mum to me?
[breathes heavily]
I spent my whole life thinking about her.
I think I need to know who I am
when I'm not.
[sighs]
Hi.
Oh, this is nice.
What skills can you offer for it?
Well, I'm great at reacting
when people give me presents. [chuckles]
Oh, candles!
You make them?
No, I su… I suppose I just like them.
Ooh, hang on.
I'm really great at measuring out
the exact, right amount of pasta I need.
No?
What are you doing here?
Well, today has made me realize, Princess,
is the world massively undervalues
skills associated with femininity
and disproportionately values
masculine skills.
What, like plate painting?
What happened to your costume?
Ugh. Yeah, I'll get it back in a minute
then you can talk to your mum. Okay?
What?
My great-grandfather drowned
in the mud at Passchendaele.
[sighs]
[breathes heavily] Mum?
Hi.
[sighs]
- Mum, I'm…
- You'll never guess what.
It's great news.
I, um, I got a job.
As a yoga instructor.
What? Where?
Thailand.
Oh. W-When?
[stammers] Well, I leave tonight.
And I know it's sudden, but, um,
they were really desperate
and, uh, there's just so few, um,
women teaching yoga in the world, so…
What's it called?
The school?
Yeah.
Yoga…
Yoga, Yoga.
[chuckles, sniffles]
That… That's a really good name for it.
[sniffles]
Yeah, I know you… you wanted me to stay,
but, um, well, it's a…
it's a great opportunity.
[sniffles] Yeah.
Why are you crying?
'Cause it's just such a great opportunity.
Yeah.
I'm sorry. [sobs]
I know.
Come here.
[Princess sniffles]
You can unpack that rucksack now.
[sighs, breathes heavily]
All I did was show him how to use egg wash
to seal the edge of a sausage roll.
I don't want this, Nikki.
I don't want this!
- Please, no. [grunts]
- [skateboarder] Come on, Jilly!
Are you okay?
Did you speak to your mum?
Yeah.
More than I meant to. [chuckles]
Is she gonna find somewhere else to rent?
She's going to Thailand.
- [sniffles]
- Oh.
[Jason] Right.
Well…
I suppose you do get more for your money
the further out of London you go, eh?
- [chuckles, sniffles]
- [Jason] Hey.
You okay?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think that she's just someone
I need to get used to saying goodbye to.
- Oh, sweetheart.
- [sighs]
Thank you for doing this.
I know you don't like
people using our toilet.
What?
People are using the toilet in our house?
But I've got porta-loos.
Did nobody tell them I got…
Oh, well.
We're gonna have to move house now.
Also, I wanted to say, um,
sorry about you losing
most of your new friends 'cause of me.
Well, it's fine.
I mean,
they only really liked me because of you.
People love you, Scott.
I mean…
you're special.
[inhales sharply]
Yeah, you were alone and you got an hour.
I could do two steps with the tango…
It's not going to work, is it?
WoodScott?
Uh, I don't think so, no.
And the price index
is constantly fluctuating.
The bike mechanic's pissed off 'cause the
hairdresser didn't need a whole bike MOT,
just the brakes tested,
so he's only given him half a haircut.
No. No, wait a minute.
[hairdresser] All right, mate.
Why you looking so happy?
You hired seven porta-loos.
You thought enough people would show up
that we'd need seven porta-loos.
Van Gogh, Gauguin, Kafka.
They all died alone.
But I've got someone
who hired seven porta-loos.
You know, of all of the crazy dreams
people told me I had no chance with…
you are the only one
that's ever worked out.
You all right?
Princess says you're leaving.
Yeah. But… But it's different this time.
I'm leaving 'cause she doesn't need me,
not because she does.
Hiya.
I hear that you're thinking
of quitting your course.
You shouldn't do that.
I don't know what it takes to fix things,
but whatever it is, you two have it.
Wow, things really are
falling apart, aren't they?
Listen, she's got us, okay?
She'll be okay.
- Yeah, I'm not talking about Princess.
- Anyone can build a rockery, mate.
Not everyone can build a small business.
I'll tell you what I'll do with you.
I'll knock your spark out
and you'll end up under
- one of them patios I built last week.
- Oh, no. Oh, no.
Why is everyone arguing?
I'm not sure that WoodScott
is the dawn of a new world.
Maybe everyone just is selfish
and we'll never truly get each other.
This system isn't failing
because people are selfish.
Sometimes things fail
because timing's hard.
[Jason] Hmm.
[Nikki] Needs don't always
match up in the moment.
Sometimes you don't want a manicure
when they need a burrito.
That's why we invented money.
Something to give them instead.
A promise.
I may not have what you need today,
but I might tomorrow.
Sometimes it just takes time
until you both want the same things.
This is actually a really interesting book
on the history of capitalism.
Strangely insightful for Scott.
Mum, are we in a cult?
You keep asking me that and I keep saying,
"No, I don't think so,
but I am keeping an eye out."
You know it when you see it with a cult.
Trust me.
Oh, my God.
Gently, gently does it.
Because, uh, I don't want a wobble on it.
What the hell is that?
I don't want it splitting. That's it.
That's a 20 foot statue of Scott's head.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
And if we adjust the base to height ratio,
we could do the whole body next year.
Though that does raise the thorny question
of what to do with the genitals.
- [Jilly] Mmm.
- They may loom.
Sometimes I wonder if it's a blessing
your mum went when she did.
Well, yeah.
- The fire is so beautiful.
- [Nikki] Mmm.
What's it mean, do you think?
I think it's like,
from the ashes comes something better.
Freeing yourself from the past.
It wasn't actually supposed to be,
uh, set on fire.
A lot of the locals were angry
about the traffic congestion.
Now let's just keep that one
to ourselves, shall we?
Mmm.
Are you sure we're not in a cult?
No.
We're in a family.
And that is much harder to get out of.
[chuckles]
["At The End Of The Day" playing]
[horn blaring]
[Karen] Right, left, right. Oh.
[Karen whoops, laughs]
[laughing]
[Nikki] Princess!