Battleground (2012) s01e05 Episode Script
They'll Burn Your Eyes
1
[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]
TAK:
Benjamin.
BEN:
Looks like it didn't blow over.
This is getting out of hand.
I unlocked the side door for you
if you needed a way to escape.
Benjamin, we must all face
the hangman's noose.
REPORTER 1: Tak.
REPORTER 2: Tak.
What are you guys doing outside?
Shouldn't you be in your coffins?
Seen the photo, Tak?
The Nurses' Union dinner was
a previously scheduled event.
Samuels spoke to Makers
earlier in the day
and once again wished him
a speedy recovery.
Was the glass of champagne
to celebrate
that Makers had to drop out
because of his health?
Come on, guys. She was there
honoring the state's hardworking nurses.
They gave her a drink.
Is the photo why a majority of Makers'
supporters are supporting Rudy?
We don't listen to the polls,
we listen to the people
that we meet on the campaign trail.
They're worried about jobs
and the economy.
They're not worried
about tabloid sideshows.
- Tak.
- You know what?
I'm gonna have one of our guys
bring you something for the road.
Maybe some coffee, donuts, cup of blood,
stake through the heart.
- That's not going away.
- We don't listen to polls?
Only listen to polls
when you're winning.
But, yeah, we listen to polls.
- Hello, ladies.
ALL: Hi.
- What's going on?
- Interviews.
To be an assistant
to the head of campaigning.
- Head of campaigning.
JORDAN: Great.
Thanks so much for coming in.
Check out those DVDs, by the way.
- You'll really like them. Hey, Tak.
- Jordan, can I talk to you?
- Uh I'm kind of on a schedule so
- Two seconds.
[SPEAKS IN SPANISH]
- [WHISPERS] What's up?
- [WHISPERS] Who are they?
Oh, you know, Cassidy quit.
I think she had a thing for me.
- Anyway, I need a new assistant, so
- Jordan, we can't afford a new assistant.
No, no, no. College kids, Tak.
Interns. Totally free.
Why are they all women?
I don't know.
Only ones who applied.
Just, look, make sure
they learn something.
[IN NORMAL VOICE] I shall fill their heads
with knowledge bombs.
- [IN NORMAL VOICE] What?
JORDAN: Hi. You wanna come on back?
- Hey.
- Hey.
- Photo's becoming a bigger problem.
- Yeah, I saw that.
So
- I'll gather George and Samuels.
- I'll get Cole.
Good.
This picture just won't go away.
- We should have skipped that dinner.
- Yeah. We're bleeding.
It was my call. I decided to go.
Only reason it's a national story
is because Ebner dropped out of Ohio.
Yeah, but that doesn't have anything
to do with us.
The Democrats need Wisconsin
for the majority.
That's why this is a thing.
- We just became the race.
- We should have seen this coming.
Well, we needed the endorsement.
I can't help it if someone
with a cell phone takes a photograph.
Let's address the situation head-on,
today.
We scheduled a press conference
for tonight during local.
They'll carry it live
and you'll make your case.
KJ:
It's not the earned media we wanted,
but address the situation
then shift to the issues.
Jobs, jobs, jobs.
- And education.
TAK: We should stop talking about schools.
Rudy was teacher of the year.
We're not gonna beat her on that.
Once we get past Rudy,
then we can talk about the charters.
- If we get past Rudy.
- Oh, we're gonna win.
It's just gonna get ugly.
- You play the violin?
- I do.
- You bring it with you?
- No.
Mm. If it's on your special skills,
always bring it in with you.
I always bring my hacky sack.
- For future ref.
- Sorry.
It's okay. We're learning.
Okay.
This job involves both linear
and lateral thinking.
- You think you can handle that?
- Absolutely.
Okay.
Under this cup there is a red ball.
You have to get to the ball
without touching the cup or the printer.
Go.
It's a trick.
You're teaching me that things
aren't always how they appear.
Nice.
- But wrong. There's a ball.
- No, there isn't.
I'm sorry, but
Cheats.
TAK: Can I talk to you guys for a second?
- Yeah.
COLE: What's up?
KJ: What's this?
Those are texts from Rudy
to her boyfriend.
- Her principal?
- Yes.
- Should I look at them?
- They'll burn your eyes.
- He file for divorce yet?
- Not officially.
I thought we weren't gonna go after her
for her relationship.
We gotta stop the hemorrhaging.
It would get us off the front page.
- How did you get these?
TAK: My dad.
I-- I think it would be a mistake.
Yes, Rudy got a bump
but she'll come back to earth.
- We have three days.
- The backlash from this
- could hobble us for the general.
- If we make it.
This is very explicit.
I told you.
I'll talk to Samuels and George
and see what they think.
KJ:
Great, press conference starts at six.
I'd get there early,
we're gonna have a full house.
Yeah. Bye.
- Looks like we're pretty popular, huh?
- It's unbelievable.
Every single newspaper
and all four affiliates.
Okay, here's the plan.
Tonight, you'll come over to my place,
I will make you shrimp dumplings
in a wasabi plum sauce
and we will watch this lovely
little documentary series I recorded
about these housewives who are real.
Heh-heh.
That sounds amazing.
I just, uh-- I think I wanna go back
to the hotel room and sleep.
Great. Let's do that.
You're very sweet.
But I might need a little--
Just a little space.
Space. Great. Yeah. Giving space.
I am actually super busy.
So I have to work right now.
If you could excuse me,
I have to call my friend Kenny Stapler.
He's a football player.
Yeah. Hey, how are the Saints doing?
You're talking on a stapler.
Am--? Oh, my-- Oh, my God.
Where is my phone?
And what is fastening my papers?
CHARLOTTE [OVER MACHINE]:
Charlotte.
SARAH:
And mommy.
[MACHINE BEEPS]
Hey, I'm just calling
to say I'm sorry again
about the other night.
That doesn't seem like enough.
But I just-- I'm sorry.
Time. Pencils up.
Let's see what you got.
All right. "Luke, Leia, Han, Chewbacca,
Darth Vader, C-3PO, R2-D2, Yoda
and the Ewoks."
Okay. So you got nine.
Only, Yoda is not in
the original Star Wars.
And the Ewoks are a species,
not a character.
Also, not in the original.
And he's married.
Separated.
SAMUELS: All right, Tak,
she didn't do anything wrong.
Well, some of the texts
are from before he separated from his wife.
Are they sexual?
I'd say flirty.
Obviously not as specific
as some of the later ones.
What are we gonna do with them?
Well, we wouldn't do anything,
but if the blogs got a hold of them
Is this who we are?
You can't affect change
if you don't get elected.
We have to be more aggressive.
We're four points back
with three days to go.
If we don't give the press something,
they'll pick at us until the primary.
Why don't we bump up
the health initiative?
That's not going to get you
off the front page.
[SIGHS]
- Right.
GEORGE: Honey, let's think about it a bit.
- Favorite movie?
- Uh, (500) Days of Summer.
Oh, yeah. Good one.
Little overrated.
But I like JG-L a little bit better in Inception.
Or did I?
[LAUGHS]
Van. Eh.
Hey. No more magic tricks.
SAMUELS:
Tak.
I know you and George want me to,
but I don't want us to release the texts.
I don't think you understand that we don't
have any other way of attacking them--
I do understand. I know.
I understand what it means.
It will not get traced back to us.
That doesn't matter.
It's not how I wanna run.
Look, I know we hired you to win
and you're doing an amazing job
but I just can't.
I won't.
- Okay, we won't release it.
- I'm sorry, Tak.
No. We'll beat them another way.
- Thanks, Tak.
- Okay.
My dad was the only parent who showed up
to the spelling bee,
and I misspelled phone.
- With an F?
- And two O's.
- And a W.
- Classic.
- How'd the prep go?
- Not great.
She seemed distracted.
And George kept answering for her.
Not what we want.
- How are her pivots?
- Forced.
Great. Maybe we do another prep
before tonight.
- What about the texts?
- She doesn't wanna release them.
It's not how she wants to win.
- Maybe Rudy will release the texts.
- Maybe if we ask really nicely.
Oh, hey, it's Cole
over at the Samuels campaign,
could you guys do us a huge favor?
- You're interrupting my bit.
- What if they did release them?
- Why would they?
- If they thought they had to.
KJ, call a couple of the bloggers.
Ask them to ask the Rudy campaign
about rumors
of a big announcement
from Samuels tonight.
- What's the announcement?
- Don't know, just that it's big.
Make them sweat. Ben!
So listen,
we're not gonna use the Rudy texts.
Yeah. Okay. Ha, ha.
Just it seemed sort of wrong.
Yeah.
Yeah. So
Take this envelope
over to the Rudy campaign
and they can decide
what they wanna do with it.
- Now?
- Yeah.
Say we got it a few days ago
and we want them to have it.
Absolutely. "We got it a few days ago,
we want you to have it."
Got it.
Tak, we're doing the right thing, I think.
You should feel good about this.
- Cool.
- Uh, like a blizzard.
- What?
- It's cool like a blizzard.
I-- Just something I'm testing out.
You know.
LINDSEY: Rebecca Jallings
from the Rudy campaign's calling.
TAK:
I'm busy.
LINDSEY: Tak, she's called three times
in the last hour.
- I'll call after the conference.
LINDSEY: She won't like that.
She doesn't like anything.
She's an unhappy woman.
And you're not helping. Tak.
JORDAN: Whoever I pick today,
she's gotta be the total package.
Easy on the eyes.
Thought Lord of the Rings was "too long."
Kept calling him Josh Whedon.
Drumroll, please.
The winner, and my new assistant, is
Molly Williams.
[IN BRITISH ACCENT]
She loved my Family Guy impressions.
[IN NORMAL VOICE]
And she's single.
- Why is that important?
- Oh, you know.
This job's not exactly a 9-to-5er.
It's best not to have a personal life.
Molly Williams.
My dad wants him charged
with war crimes.
- Because he got Bush elected?
- Yeah.
You know those people who show up
to Congressional hearings
with their hands painted red
and yell and cry?
Those are my parents.
- They're like liberal Tea Partiers.
- But much less reasonable.
They're coming to town next week.
We should get dinner.
- With your parents?
- Yeah.
I thought we were gonna take it slow.
I thought we were gonna tell my parents
that we're crazy in love
and are gonna get married
and have a bunch of babies.
You're a jerk.
Was that whole thing a joke?
No, my parents actually are crazy,
but, yeah, I was kidding about the dinner.
- Oh, okay.
- I was kidding.
It was very funny.
I wasn't kidding about the dinner.
- So that was
- I'm sorry, man.
Molly, hey. It's Jordan T.
Yeah, listen, I got some bad news.
You got the job. Heh-heh-heh.
Yeah, of course. Yeah.
Okay. Bye.
She's moving back home to Alaska.
Moving right along.
Meredith, hey, it's Jordan T. Mosley.
I'm sorry you feel that way. That's
Look, I know it's you. I recognize your voice.
That was harsh.
Yes, hi, this is Jordan T. Mosley with
the Deirdre Samuels campaign for senate.
[SIGHS]
That is fantastic news.
Yeah, swing on by later.
You know, meet some of the troops.
I am really excited about Haley Crossman.
Grossman.
Remember, Shaquille O'Neal
was not drafted in the first round.
[MOUTHS]
Yes, he was.
SAMUELS: I told her that her comment
doesn't represent
what we hope this campaign is about.
What we want this campaign to be about
is getting Wisconsin back to work.
That's great. That's great.
Tone is great. Um
Cut "we want." It sounds less powerful.
- All right, let's try it.
- And drop "hope."
Yeah, in campaigns, hope is a noun,
never a verb.
All right, let's do it again. Um, ahem
I told her that her comment doesn't
represent what this campaign is about.
- What we-- What is it?
- I need a TV.
KJ: Where'd we put it?
- TV. Heather, where is the TV?
HEATHER:
Conference room.
State representative
Grace Rudy of Milwaukee
addressed those rumors
just moments ago.
We have been in a relationship
for over a year.
And I didn't mention it before
because I believe that the details
of one's personal life
should remain private.
Pivot.
This campaign is not about the private lives
of our candidates
but about the public challenges
of our citizens.
Let us not be distracted
by rumor or gossip
Well, looks like that decision
was made for us.
It sure was.
And say what you will about Tak's methods,
and I did,
but you have to admire a guy
that can get a campaign
to release the X-rated texts
of its own candidate.
It was amazing. He was amazing.
And they were playing the circle game.
You know, this one?
- This one?
JD: I'm not looking. I'm not gonna look.
- So Jordan finally gets Ali.
COLE: Uh-huh.
Hauls off to punch her,
just starts screaming. Ohh!
Why?
JD: I guess she put a shin guard
in her shoulder.
- Up her sleeve?
- Yeah.
- That's great.
- So he just--
- Like, a hard plastic. Like, straight--
- Yeah.
- That's great.
- Yeah.
Do you have footage of that?
Can I watch that?
CAMERAMAN: Yeah.
- Yeah.
JD: Show him the--
CAMERAMAN: There you go.
Just hit play.
[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]
That's great. That's great.
How do I rewind? I wanna--
- Go back.
- Click.
Wait, wait, no.
Wait, wait, not that.
- Yeah, don't do that one.
CAMERAMAN: You go one clip this way.
- Yeah, hold on.
- Hold on. Hold on.
JD: No, that's--
- Hold on. Hold on.
Hold on.
Just give me a second.
Just give me a second.
CAMERMAN:
Okay.
So we'll find out in November.
- Jamie.
- Did you watch the Rudy press conference?
I did. I agree with her,
her personal life isn't important to me.
What is important
is getting Wisconsin back to work.
Now, that's what we should be focused on.
Not a sideshow.
Not one question about the photo.
They found something shinier.
Unbelievable.
Your dad would be impressed.
Where's Cole?
I don't know. Weird.
Tsk.
Running late.
First impressionis.
Hey,
how's the press conference going?
Cole, how's the--?
SARAH [OVER ANSWERING MACHINE]:
And mommy.
Hey, it's me. Just trying you again.
Uh
I'm really sorry.
I was totally coming over
right after I talked to Cole and
And I'm lying.
You and the kids are the best thing
I have going and I keep (bleep) it up.
It's like I'm on this path
to become just like my dad
and I can't do anything about it.
So
I'll talk to you later.
[TELEPHONE RINGING]
Hello?
[BEN MAKING
WHOOSHING SOUNDS]
The mail must get through!
Find shelter!
[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]
TAK:
Benjamin.
BEN:
Looks like it didn't blow over.
This is getting out of hand.
I unlocked the side door for you
if you needed a way to escape.
Benjamin, we must all face
the hangman's noose.
REPORTER 1: Tak.
REPORTER 2: Tak.
What are you guys doing outside?
Shouldn't you be in your coffins?
Seen the photo, Tak?
The Nurses' Union dinner was
a previously scheduled event.
Samuels spoke to Makers
earlier in the day
and once again wished him
a speedy recovery.
Was the glass of champagne
to celebrate
that Makers had to drop out
because of his health?
Come on, guys. She was there
honoring the state's hardworking nurses.
They gave her a drink.
Is the photo why a majority of Makers'
supporters are supporting Rudy?
We don't listen to the polls,
we listen to the people
that we meet on the campaign trail.
They're worried about jobs
and the economy.
They're not worried
about tabloid sideshows.
- Tak.
- You know what?
I'm gonna have one of our guys
bring you something for the road.
Maybe some coffee, donuts, cup of blood,
stake through the heart.
- That's not going away.
- We don't listen to polls?
Only listen to polls
when you're winning.
But, yeah, we listen to polls.
- Hello, ladies.
ALL: Hi.
- What's going on?
- Interviews.
To be an assistant
to the head of campaigning.
- Head of campaigning.
JORDAN: Great.
Thanks so much for coming in.
Check out those DVDs, by the way.
- You'll really like them. Hey, Tak.
- Jordan, can I talk to you?
- Uh I'm kind of on a schedule so
- Two seconds.
[SPEAKS IN SPANISH]
- [WHISPERS] What's up?
- [WHISPERS] Who are they?
Oh, you know, Cassidy quit.
I think she had a thing for me.
- Anyway, I need a new assistant, so
- Jordan, we can't afford a new assistant.
No, no, no. College kids, Tak.
Interns. Totally free.
Why are they all women?
I don't know.
Only ones who applied.
Just, look, make sure
they learn something.
[IN NORMAL VOICE] I shall fill their heads
with knowledge bombs.
- [IN NORMAL VOICE] What?
JORDAN: Hi. You wanna come on back?
- Hey.
- Hey.
- Photo's becoming a bigger problem.
- Yeah, I saw that.
So
- I'll gather George and Samuels.
- I'll get Cole.
Good.
This picture just won't go away.
- We should have skipped that dinner.
- Yeah. We're bleeding.
It was my call. I decided to go.
Only reason it's a national story
is because Ebner dropped out of Ohio.
Yeah, but that doesn't have anything
to do with us.
The Democrats need Wisconsin
for the majority.
That's why this is a thing.
- We just became the race.
- We should have seen this coming.
Well, we needed the endorsement.
I can't help it if someone
with a cell phone takes a photograph.
Let's address the situation head-on,
today.
We scheduled a press conference
for tonight during local.
They'll carry it live
and you'll make your case.
KJ:
It's not the earned media we wanted,
but address the situation
then shift to the issues.
Jobs, jobs, jobs.
- And education.
TAK: We should stop talking about schools.
Rudy was teacher of the year.
We're not gonna beat her on that.
Once we get past Rudy,
then we can talk about the charters.
- If we get past Rudy.
- Oh, we're gonna win.
It's just gonna get ugly.
- You play the violin?
- I do.
- You bring it with you?
- No.
Mm. If it's on your special skills,
always bring it in with you.
I always bring my hacky sack.
- For future ref.
- Sorry.
It's okay. We're learning.
Okay.
This job involves both linear
and lateral thinking.
- You think you can handle that?
- Absolutely.
Okay.
Under this cup there is a red ball.
You have to get to the ball
without touching the cup or the printer.
Go.
It's a trick.
You're teaching me that things
aren't always how they appear.
Nice.
- But wrong. There's a ball.
- No, there isn't.
I'm sorry, but
Cheats.
TAK: Can I talk to you guys for a second?
- Yeah.
COLE: What's up?
KJ: What's this?
Those are texts from Rudy
to her boyfriend.
- Her principal?
- Yes.
- Should I look at them?
- They'll burn your eyes.
- He file for divorce yet?
- Not officially.
I thought we weren't gonna go after her
for her relationship.
We gotta stop the hemorrhaging.
It would get us off the front page.
- How did you get these?
TAK: My dad.
I-- I think it would be a mistake.
Yes, Rudy got a bump
but she'll come back to earth.
- We have three days.
- The backlash from this
- could hobble us for the general.
- If we make it.
This is very explicit.
I told you.
I'll talk to Samuels and George
and see what they think.
KJ:
Great, press conference starts at six.
I'd get there early,
we're gonna have a full house.
Yeah. Bye.
- Looks like we're pretty popular, huh?
- It's unbelievable.
Every single newspaper
and all four affiliates.
Okay, here's the plan.
Tonight, you'll come over to my place,
I will make you shrimp dumplings
in a wasabi plum sauce
and we will watch this lovely
little documentary series I recorded
about these housewives who are real.
Heh-heh.
That sounds amazing.
I just, uh-- I think I wanna go back
to the hotel room and sleep.
Great. Let's do that.
You're very sweet.
But I might need a little--
Just a little space.
Space. Great. Yeah. Giving space.
I am actually super busy.
So I have to work right now.
If you could excuse me,
I have to call my friend Kenny Stapler.
He's a football player.
Yeah. Hey, how are the Saints doing?
You're talking on a stapler.
Am--? Oh, my-- Oh, my God.
Where is my phone?
And what is fastening my papers?
CHARLOTTE [OVER MACHINE]:
Charlotte.
SARAH:
And mommy.
[MACHINE BEEPS]
Hey, I'm just calling
to say I'm sorry again
about the other night.
That doesn't seem like enough.
But I just-- I'm sorry.
Time. Pencils up.
Let's see what you got.
All right. "Luke, Leia, Han, Chewbacca,
Darth Vader, C-3PO, R2-D2, Yoda
and the Ewoks."
Okay. So you got nine.
Only, Yoda is not in
the original Star Wars.
And the Ewoks are a species,
not a character.
Also, not in the original.
And he's married.
Separated.
SAMUELS: All right, Tak,
she didn't do anything wrong.
Well, some of the texts
are from before he separated from his wife.
Are they sexual?
I'd say flirty.
Obviously not as specific
as some of the later ones.
What are we gonna do with them?
Well, we wouldn't do anything,
but if the blogs got a hold of them
Is this who we are?
You can't affect change
if you don't get elected.
We have to be more aggressive.
We're four points back
with three days to go.
If we don't give the press something,
they'll pick at us until the primary.
Why don't we bump up
the health initiative?
That's not going to get you
off the front page.
[SIGHS]
- Right.
GEORGE: Honey, let's think about it a bit.
- Favorite movie?
- Uh, (500) Days of Summer.
Oh, yeah. Good one.
Little overrated.
But I like JG-L a little bit better in Inception.
Or did I?
[LAUGHS]
Van. Eh.
Hey. No more magic tricks.
SAMUELS:
Tak.
I know you and George want me to,
but I don't want us to release the texts.
I don't think you understand that we don't
have any other way of attacking them--
I do understand. I know.
I understand what it means.
It will not get traced back to us.
That doesn't matter.
It's not how I wanna run.
Look, I know we hired you to win
and you're doing an amazing job
but I just can't.
I won't.
- Okay, we won't release it.
- I'm sorry, Tak.
No. We'll beat them another way.
- Thanks, Tak.
- Okay.
My dad was the only parent who showed up
to the spelling bee,
and I misspelled phone.
- With an F?
- And two O's.
- And a W.
- Classic.
- How'd the prep go?
- Not great.
She seemed distracted.
And George kept answering for her.
Not what we want.
- How are her pivots?
- Forced.
Great. Maybe we do another prep
before tonight.
- What about the texts?
- She doesn't wanna release them.
It's not how she wants to win.
- Maybe Rudy will release the texts.
- Maybe if we ask really nicely.
Oh, hey, it's Cole
over at the Samuels campaign,
could you guys do us a huge favor?
- You're interrupting my bit.
- What if they did release them?
- Why would they?
- If they thought they had to.
KJ, call a couple of the bloggers.
Ask them to ask the Rudy campaign
about rumors
of a big announcement
from Samuels tonight.
- What's the announcement?
- Don't know, just that it's big.
Make them sweat. Ben!
So listen,
we're not gonna use the Rudy texts.
Yeah. Okay. Ha, ha.
Just it seemed sort of wrong.
Yeah.
Yeah. So
Take this envelope
over to the Rudy campaign
and they can decide
what they wanna do with it.
- Now?
- Yeah.
Say we got it a few days ago
and we want them to have it.
Absolutely. "We got it a few days ago,
we want you to have it."
Got it.
Tak, we're doing the right thing, I think.
You should feel good about this.
- Cool.
- Uh, like a blizzard.
- What?
- It's cool like a blizzard.
I-- Just something I'm testing out.
You know.
LINDSEY: Rebecca Jallings
from the Rudy campaign's calling.
TAK:
I'm busy.
LINDSEY: Tak, she's called three times
in the last hour.
- I'll call after the conference.
LINDSEY: She won't like that.
She doesn't like anything.
She's an unhappy woman.
And you're not helping. Tak.
JORDAN: Whoever I pick today,
she's gotta be the total package.
Easy on the eyes.
Thought Lord of the Rings was "too long."
Kept calling him Josh Whedon.
Drumroll, please.
The winner, and my new assistant, is
Molly Williams.
[IN BRITISH ACCENT]
She loved my Family Guy impressions.
[IN NORMAL VOICE]
And she's single.
- Why is that important?
- Oh, you know.
This job's not exactly a 9-to-5er.
It's best not to have a personal life.
Molly Williams.
My dad wants him charged
with war crimes.
- Because he got Bush elected?
- Yeah.
You know those people who show up
to Congressional hearings
with their hands painted red
and yell and cry?
Those are my parents.
- They're like liberal Tea Partiers.
- But much less reasonable.
They're coming to town next week.
We should get dinner.
- With your parents?
- Yeah.
I thought we were gonna take it slow.
I thought we were gonna tell my parents
that we're crazy in love
and are gonna get married
and have a bunch of babies.
You're a jerk.
Was that whole thing a joke?
No, my parents actually are crazy,
but, yeah, I was kidding about the dinner.
- Oh, okay.
- I was kidding.
It was very funny.
I wasn't kidding about the dinner.
- So that was
- I'm sorry, man.
Molly, hey. It's Jordan T.
Yeah, listen, I got some bad news.
You got the job. Heh-heh-heh.
Yeah, of course. Yeah.
Okay. Bye.
She's moving back home to Alaska.
Moving right along.
Meredith, hey, it's Jordan T. Mosley.
I'm sorry you feel that way. That's
Look, I know it's you. I recognize your voice.
That was harsh.
Yes, hi, this is Jordan T. Mosley with
the Deirdre Samuels campaign for senate.
[SIGHS]
That is fantastic news.
Yeah, swing on by later.
You know, meet some of the troops.
I am really excited about Haley Crossman.
Grossman.
Remember, Shaquille O'Neal
was not drafted in the first round.
[MOUTHS]
Yes, he was.
SAMUELS: I told her that her comment
doesn't represent
what we hope this campaign is about.
What we want this campaign to be about
is getting Wisconsin back to work.
That's great. That's great.
Tone is great. Um
Cut "we want." It sounds less powerful.
- All right, let's try it.
- And drop "hope."
Yeah, in campaigns, hope is a noun,
never a verb.
All right, let's do it again. Um, ahem
I told her that her comment doesn't
represent what this campaign is about.
- What we-- What is it?
- I need a TV.
KJ: Where'd we put it?
- TV. Heather, where is the TV?
HEATHER:
Conference room.
State representative
Grace Rudy of Milwaukee
addressed those rumors
just moments ago.
We have been in a relationship
for over a year.
And I didn't mention it before
because I believe that the details
of one's personal life
should remain private.
Pivot.
This campaign is not about the private lives
of our candidates
but about the public challenges
of our citizens.
Let us not be distracted
by rumor or gossip
Well, looks like that decision
was made for us.
It sure was.
And say what you will about Tak's methods,
and I did,
but you have to admire a guy
that can get a campaign
to release the X-rated texts
of its own candidate.
It was amazing. He was amazing.
And they were playing the circle game.
You know, this one?
- This one?
JD: I'm not looking. I'm not gonna look.
- So Jordan finally gets Ali.
COLE: Uh-huh.
Hauls off to punch her,
just starts screaming. Ohh!
Why?
JD: I guess she put a shin guard
in her shoulder.
- Up her sleeve?
- Yeah.
- That's great.
- So he just--
- Like, a hard plastic. Like, straight--
- Yeah.
- That's great.
- Yeah.
Do you have footage of that?
Can I watch that?
CAMERAMAN: Yeah.
- Yeah.
JD: Show him the--
CAMERAMAN: There you go.
Just hit play.
[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]
That's great. That's great.
How do I rewind? I wanna--
- Go back.
- Click.
Wait, wait, no.
Wait, wait, not that.
- Yeah, don't do that one.
CAMERAMAN: You go one clip this way.
- Yeah, hold on.
- Hold on. Hold on.
JD: No, that's--
- Hold on. Hold on.
Hold on.
Just give me a second.
Just give me a second.
CAMERMAN:
Okay.
So we'll find out in November.
- Jamie.
- Did you watch the Rudy press conference?
I did. I agree with her,
her personal life isn't important to me.
What is important
is getting Wisconsin back to work.
Now, that's what we should be focused on.
Not a sideshow.
Not one question about the photo.
They found something shinier.
Unbelievable.
Your dad would be impressed.
Where's Cole?
I don't know. Weird.
Tsk.
Running late.
First impressionis.
Hey,
how's the press conference going?
Cole, how's the--?
SARAH [OVER ANSWERING MACHINE]:
And mommy.
Hey, it's me. Just trying you again.
Uh
I'm really sorry.
I was totally coming over
right after I talked to Cole and
And I'm lying.
You and the kids are the best thing
I have going and I keep (bleep) it up.
It's like I'm on this path
to become just like my dad
and I can't do anything about it.
So
I'll talk to you later.
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