Common Side Effects (2024) s01e01 Episode Script
Pilot
1
- Well, actually, our
research has shown overall
that diarrhea is the most
preferable side effect
compared to, you
know, the depression,
suicidal thoughts,
or even constipation.
Okay? Alright, next question.
- Oh, God. My boss just
said "diarrhea" on stage.
I'm gonna have to call you back.
- [ Feedback ]
- Uh, hello. Yes, my question is,
when will this company stop
the destruction it's causing
not just to indigenous
communities
- Okay, okay.
[ Spectators groaning ]
- Excuse me, I-I have the floor.
- Alright. Alright.
- As we said
- In the Peruvian highlands, to rare local plants
- Yeah, yeah. We
have a whole system.
- to fungi, to an
entire ecosystem
- Can someone get security,
please? I'm sorry.
- No, we don't need security.
- Security, please.
- [ Stammering ] Excuse me
- Look, buddy,
we're not doing this, okay?
- Hold on, hold
on. Let me finish.
This company, your company,
has destroyed fungal colonies
that were there
three million years.
This is a Banisteriopsis. Does
that mean anything to you?
- Security, please.
- It's been here since before insects.
Hey! Don't touch
me. Do not touch me.
- Thank you.
- Don't touch the plant.
Thank you, thank you.
- I-I'm sorry, everybody.
- I'm exercising my rights!
My name is Marshall Cuso.
I am a shareholder
- Oh, my God. Marshall?
- I Excuse me!
If I disappear, investigate
Reutical Pharmaceuticals.
They may attempt to harm me.
They have harmed me in the past.
Hippie living with his mom.
[ Slurps ]
- Hey, easy. No need for that.
Aw, man.
- Marshall? I
thought that was you.
Frances. It's Frances,
from high school.
- Oh, yea Hey, Frances.
- You're alive!
I heard that you died
in a plane crash or I
- No, no, that was misreported.
[ Chuckles ]
- I survived, obviously.
- Oh good! Wow!
- Ha, yeah. What're you
Do you work around here?
- Oh, I work for the
CEO of this company.
It's ur-urban planning. Yeah.
You have a plant.
- Yeah, it could use some shade.
And I knew as I was doing
it, it wasn't right.
- Oh, no!
[ Both chuckle ]
- Yeah. I maybe didn't
"peak" in high school.
- Oh, yeah. Well, hey, I
mean, I didn't either, right?
I was such an idiot.
Then, all of a sudden, the
world got very, very real.
I mean, I got all
this student debt.
And then my mom got dementia.
Oh, Frances, I'm sorry.
Sonia. Yeah.
I remember your mother.
- Oh, yeah, well, she doesn't
remember you, or anything.
Okay, Frances.
Can I Can I
tell you a secret?
Uh, yeah, please.
- Okay, just go with
me for a minute.
What if there were a medicine
that could heal,
like, almost anything?
- Well, yeah, that
would be great. Sure.
Yeah, right?
But what if they didn't
want you to know about it?
- "They"? Sorry, who's "they"?
"They" is big pharma,
it's the insurance
companies, the government.
Think about all the people
who make tons of money
just from keeping us sick,
by keeping us unwell.
Yeah, that would be sick.
[ Pigeons cooing ]
- Well, yeah.
It's a sick world.
♪♪
[ Neck snaps ]
- [ Gasps ] What the fuck?!
But there's a cure.
♪♪
[ Woman vocalizing ]
[ Animals chittering ]
♪♪
[ Birds chirping ]
♪♪
♪♪
[ Crackle ]
♪♪
[ Pigeon cooing ]
What the fuck?
[ Both laugh ]
[ Camera shutter clicking ]
- Guy's name is Marshall Cuso.
- He's the one playing
with the pigeon?
Now, don't let that fool you.
He's a dangerous man.
Got a monopoly on
some kind of new drug.
Something very powerful.
- It's plant-based, maybe
a mushroom or a seed.
It could be hallucinogenic,
addictive, fatal.
- They want it
nipped in the bud.
"They"?
Oh, okay, yeah.
[ Clicks tongue ]
Okay, so who do we got?
- Right. Um, I
have one free team.
Copano and Harrington.
Great. Are they any good?
[ "Jump in the Line" by
Harry Belafonte playing ]
♪♪
♪♪
- Shake, shake, shake,
Senora, shake your body line ♪
Shake, shake, shake, Senora,
shake it all the time ♪
Work, work, work, Senora,
work your body line ♪
Work, work, work, Senora,
work it all the time ♪
My girl's name is Senora ♪
I tell you,
friends, I adore her ♪
And when she
dances, oh, brother ♪
She's a hurricane in
all kinds of weather ♪
Jump in the line,
rock your body in time ♪
- Yeah, Copano Yeah,
Copano and Harrington.
Yeah, yeah, they're
good. They're good
Copano and Harrington are good.
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
[ Animals chittering
in distance ]
♪♪
[ Insects chirping ]
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
[ Thunder rumbles ]
♪♪
[ Beetle chitters ]
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
[ Picks mushroom ]
♪♪
A mushroom?
Not just any mushroom.
The caviar, the ghost
orchid of mushrooms.
I mean, the chances of
this growing naturally
Frances, it's like a one-in-a-billion
Goldilocks situation.
A special valley,
isolated by mountains.
The fog lasts just long enough.
The humidity is just right.
The limestone in
the soil is perfect
to produce a rare,
specific kind of grass.
And in this grass grows a
very, very intense mushroom.
♪♪
And I found it.
♪♪
[ Helicopter blades whirring ]
Kinda had some trouble
getting out of there.
[ Machine gun firing ]
♪♪
♪♪
- Come on, come on,
come on, come on, kid.
Come on!
♪♪
- You couldn't wait
one more minute?
[ Machine gun firing ] Aah!
♪♪
[ Squish ]
Ah
Oh, my God, oh, my God.
[ Engine roaring ]
[ Navigation panel beeping ]
And shit.
[ Alarm blaring ]
[ Woman vocalizing ]
♪♪
♪♪
[ Wind blowing ]
[ Squishing ]
[ Gasps ]
[ Insects chirping ]
♪♪
I also ended up
with a pet tortoise.
- Flat white for
Gegory. Gegory!
- That has to be
"Gregory," right?
Anyway, I'm almost
out of mushrooms
- Hey, what's up? For Gegory?
Thanks.
- So that really was
his name. Gegory.
- Marshall!
- Right. Sorry.
I'm almost out of mushrooms.
And this valley is so special,
but it's being
destroyed as we speak.
This company, Reutical
Pharmaceuticals evil people.
They have a waste
dumpsite just upstream.
- Uh, yeah. Yeah, I've
I've heard of those guys.
- [ Cellphone vibrating ]
- Their CEO is this, like, evil
I mean, he's not even
smart enough to be evil.
[ Vibrating continues
] Rick Kruger?
He's just a functionary
of demonic forces.
He's like the
Devil's idiot butler.
- Oh.
[ Chuckles awkwardly ]
Then I started to understand.
No one's listening because
they didn't want to hear it.
I mean, Frances, look around.
Does this look healthy to you?
I mean, people are so lost
and confused and upset,
and we spend more money
than ever on healthcare,
and everyone's still sick.
The whole system is sick.
- And this?
- It's too powerful.
It would put everyone who
profits off selling drugs
and keeping us sick
out of business.
- I'm so I'm so
sorry. I-I just
- No, no, go. Please, take it.
I-I should probably
calm myself down anyway.
[ Door opens, bells jingle ]
[ Door closes ]
♪♪
♪♪
[ Whispering indistinctly ]
♪♪
[ Laughter ]
[ Powering up, cellphone
camera clicks ]
♪♪
No I just ran into somebody.
I can be, like, ten
minutes, or less.
♪♪
Uh, yup, yeah. Okay.
Uh, see you soon.
[ Train clacking in distance ]
- Copano, is celery carrot's
cousin or a sibling?
You don't have to
answer right away.
Huh, yeah.
Okay, Agent Harrington.
I think I finally
figured it out.
- Okay, I'll pretend
I'm not listening.
Start here.
Dallas. Dealey Plaza,
where Oswald shoots JFK.
- Allegedly.
[ Chuckles ]
- [ Scoffs ] Now, Austin.
You know the tower?
Charles Whitman?
He was messed up.
Next, Oklahoma City.
What happened there?
- The bombing?
- Exactly.
Timothy McVeigh. He
was obsessed with what?
With Waco.
- Do you think my haircut makes
me look like Timothy McVeigh?
Maybe not now that
it's grown out.
No! I think it looks good.
But that's not all.
Killeen, first real
mass-shooting event in America.
A guy shot 27 people
in a Luby's Cafeteria.
- How do you know all this?
- Look at this, man.
Shooter corridor
right through here.
I'm thinking they're gonna
send us up here or down here,
to stop the next one.
Look what I made.
You see? That's smart.
Finally some [ Door opens ]
- Copano, Harrington, follow me.
- Are we going
somewhere on the map?
- Map? No, no, that had
to do with the kids
There were kids coming in.
We were showing them
the different the
Forget the map. Let's go.
- [ Beep ]
- [ Chuckles ]
But thanks to Enablin,
stains on my pants?
They aren't one of my worries.
[ Beep ] [ Chuckles ]
But thanks to Enablin,
stains on my pants?
They aren't one of my worries.
[ Video stops ]
So, uh
So, that's the take?
That's the one we're gonna use?
- Is Frances here?
- Yeah, uh-huh.
Frances, do you like this?
- Uh, for what it is, uh, yes?
From a marketing perspective,
uh, maybe a bigger conversation?
Ugh, marketing.
Lotta those types are
gonna have to get fired.
[ Game warbles]
You know what, guys?
Take a couple
frames off the top.
Also, is the logo
the old version?
Can we adjust it,
just so we have it?
- Um, okay.
- Hey, there you go, Frances.
Boy, you really know
how to sell medicine
for geriatric incontinence
and urine leakage, don't ya?
[ Chuckles ]
- Just need your okay
on the legal disclaimer.
- Dry mouth, constipation,
nausea, stomach upset,
stomach pain, blurred vision,
dry eyes, skin irritation,
loose bowel movements,
disturbed sleep
- [ Sighs ] Is that
We have to say all that?
- All the language
came from legal, so
- Ugh. Okay, well, how
fast can you play that?
- Here's 1.8.
- [ Sped-up ] Dry mouth,
constipation, nausea,
stomach upset, stomach pain,
- blurred vision, dry eyes
- [ Groans ]
That's That's too
fast. Sounds like an elf.
Try one unit less.
- Do you want the part
about the ice chips?
- Jesus, ice chips? What?
- [ Sped-up ] To
relieve dry mouth,
suck ice chips,
chew sugarless gum,
drink water, or use a
saliva substitute
- No, no, they're on
their own for dry mouth.
We don't need some lady
choking on an ice
chip and suing us.
Okay, we're good. We're
good. You guys good?
We're good. Frances?
- Okay, so, your dinner
reservation, I printed it.
I know you like physical
paper. It is on your desk,
And tomorrow's crossword
is also in there.
I got it early
- Just had a conversation
with the board.
Ugh, Jonas Backstein, God.
You don't want him not happy.
Those guys scare the shit
outta me, to be honest.
Ugh. God.
You know I haven't seen
my wife in three weeks?
[ Elevator bell dings ]
Weird part is, she
hasn't complained.
So, uh, shakeups are coming.
I'm not sure if
we're gonna survive.
If I'm going down,
you're going down.
♪♪
Rick, what would happen
if I brought this company,
like, a new product?
- A new product? You
mean like a drug?
- Yes, kind of. I-I don't
know. Uh, still exploring.
Just kind of a hypothetical.
- Well, if somebody
brought something
we can bring to market
[ Elevator bell dings ]
I'd make that
person very wealthy.
- Oh. Um, okay.
Let me explore.
Well, hurry up, Magellan.
Get me something
by the end of Q3
and you can have my beach house.
[ Line ringing]
- Hey, this is Marshall
Cuso. Please leave a message.
[ Beep]
- Hi, um, Marshall,
sorry I missed you.
I'm not sure what happened,
but it was so nice
catching up with you.
Would you want to, I
don't know, meet up again?
Maybe in the city, or I
could come to you, or?
It'd just be really
nice to see you again.
Okay! Oh, it's Frances! Bye!
♪♪
♪♪
[ Light switch clicks ]
- Hey, Mr. Socrates,
back from the city.
You'd hate it.
Oh! Listen to this.
- Hi, um, Marshall,
sorry I missed you
Frances Applewhite.
I haven't seen her since high
school. Can you believe that?
- Would you want to
- Doesn't she sound nice?
- I don't know, meet up again?
Oh, let me get you some food.
[ Alarm beeping on computer ]
♪♪
[ Duck quacks ]
♪♪
[ Electronic dance
music playing]
- Okay, yeah, this
hits. What's this?
- Italo disco, one of
my favorite genres.
Although many of the top
producers were in fact German.
[ Chuckles ] Mmm!
I thought they
only made sausages
and chocolates and shit.
Whatever, it's working.
Hmm. Hey, let me
ask you something.
This guy owns all the
way back to that highway?
- Yeah, like
2,000-something acres.
And that's from drug money?
He's done some wild stuff.
I did a dive on the guy.
Apparently, at some point,
he analyzed bar codes
in the New Hampshire lottery,
figured out which
ones were winners,
and won $11 million.
He was investigated, but
apparently it was totally legal.
Did you not read the file?
Oh, I read the file.
He's an expert on
quassinode extraction.
He has three birds named
after him in New Guinea.
He won the Havlstrom Prize.
- Uh, correction
He was runner up
for the Havlstrom Prize.
- See? That's why we're partners.
I knew he was runner up.
I was testing you. You passed.
- Does this seem like an
everyday drug dealer to you?
Job's the job.
Warrant's good?
[ Music turns off ]
Let's do this.
♪♪
♪♪
[ Bang ]
[ Police radio chatter ]
Marshall Cuso?
♪♪
[ Alarm beeping on computer ]
♪♪
[ Breathing heavily ]
♪♪
[ Thunder rumbling ]
- Hey, brainstorm
with me for one sec.
If you wanted to, like, delete
any trace of where you worked,
like, online,
Facebook, LinkedIn
do you think that
you could do that?
- Uh-oh. Who are you hiding from?
- I just want to be more private.
- So Okay, so, I've
been reading this interview
with a psychologist
who thinks that sex
should be more like, um
like a form of play.
- Yes, um, sorry, what
what were you saying?
- Baby, just try looking into
my eyes for like 30 seconds.
It's really good for, like,
our our chakra, soul,
sexual connection stuff.
[ Keyboard clacks ]
- Babe?
- Sorry, Nick.
It's just, there's, like,
a work situation. I
[ Cellphone vibrates ]
- Hello?
- Frances?
Yeah. Yes. Hi!
Oh. Where are you?
- Um, actually, I-I'm in
your neighborhood right now.
Really?
[ Siren chirps ]
- [ Bottles clink ]
- I know it's weird, but, uh,
listen, can we meet up?
It's kind of urgent.
Uh, and just two
things to mention
Some people are following me,
and I brought my tortoise.
[ Thunder rumbles ]
♪♪
♪♪
- Well, actually, our
research has shown overall
that diarrhea is the most
preferable side effect
compared to, you
know, the depression,
suicidal thoughts,
or even constipation.
Okay? Alright, next question.
- Oh, God. My boss just
said "diarrhea" on stage.
I'm gonna have to call you back.
- [ Feedback ]
- Uh, hello. Yes, my question is,
when will this company stop
the destruction it's causing
not just to indigenous
communities
- Okay, okay.
[ Spectators groaning ]
- Excuse me, I-I have the floor.
- Alright. Alright.
- As we said
- In the Peruvian highlands, to rare local plants
- Yeah, yeah. We
have a whole system.
- to fungi, to an
entire ecosystem
- Can someone get security,
please? I'm sorry.
- No, we don't need security.
- Security, please.
- [ Stammering ] Excuse me
- Look, buddy,
we're not doing this, okay?
- Hold on, hold
on. Let me finish.
This company, your company,
has destroyed fungal colonies
that were there
three million years.
This is a Banisteriopsis. Does
that mean anything to you?
- Security, please.
- It's been here since before insects.
Hey! Don't touch
me. Do not touch me.
- Thank you.
- Don't touch the plant.
Thank you, thank you.
- I-I'm sorry, everybody.
- I'm exercising my rights!
My name is Marshall Cuso.
I am a shareholder
- Oh, my God. Marshall?
- I Excuse me!
If I disappear, investigate
Reutical Pharmaceuticals.
They may attempt to harm me.
They have harmed me in the past.
Hippie living with his mom.
[ Slurps ]
- Hey, easy. No need for that.
Aw, man.
- Marshall? I
thought that was you.
Frances. It's Frances,
from high school.
- Oh, yea Hey, Frances.
- You're alive!
I heard that you died
in a plane crash or I
- No, no, that was misreported.
[ Chuckles ]
- I survived, obviously.
- Oh good! Wow!
- Ha, yeah. What're you
Do you work around here?
- Oh, I work for the
CEO of this company.
It's ur-urban planning. Yeah.
You have a plant.
- Yeah, it could use some shade.
And I knew as I was doing
it, it wasn't right.
- Oh, no!
[ Both chuckle ]
- Yeah. I maybe didn't
"peak" in high school.
- Oh, yeah. Well, hey, I
mean, I didn't either, right?
I was such an idiot.
Then, all of a sudden, the
world got very, very real.
I mean, I got all
this student debt.
And then my mom got dementia.
Oh, Frances, I'm sorry.
Sonia. Yeah.
I remember your mother.
- Oh, yeah, well, she doesn't
remember you, or anything.
Okay, Frances.
Can I Can I
tell you a secret?
Uh, yeah, please.
- Okay, just go with
me for a minute.
What if there were a medicine
that could heal,
like, almost anything?
- Well, yeah, that
would be great. Sure.
Yeah, right?
But what if they didn't
want you to know about it?
- "They"? Sorry, who's "they"?
"They" is big pharma,
it's the insurance
companies, the government.
Think about all the people
who make tons of money
just from keeping us sick,
by keeping us unwell.
Yeah, that would be sick.
[ Pigeons cooing ]
- Well, yeah.
It's a sick world.
♪♪
[ Neck snaps ]
- [ Gasps ] What the fuck?!
But there's a cure.
♪♪
[ Woman vocalizing ]
[ Animals chittering ]
♪♪
[ Birds chirping ]
♪♪
♪♪
[ Crackle ]
♪♪
[ Pigeon cooing ]
What the fuck?
[ Both laugh ]
[ Camera shutter clicking ]
- Guy's name is Marshall Cuso.
- He's the one playing
with the pigeon?
Now, don't let that fool you.
He's a dangerous man.
Got a monopoly on
some kind of new drug.
Something very powerful.
- It's plant-based, maybe
a mushroom or a seed.
It could be hallucinogenic,
addictive, fatal.
- They want it
nipped in the bud.
"They"?
Oh, okay, yeah.
[ Clicks tongue ]
Okay, so who do we got?
- Right. Um, I
have one free team.
Copano and Harrington.
Great. Are they any good?
[ "Jump in the Line" by
Harry Belafonte playing ]
♪♪
♪♪
- Shake, shake, shake,
Senora, shake your body line ♪
Shake, shake, shake, Senora,
shake it all the time ♪
Work, work, work, Senora,
work your body line ♪
Work, work, work, Senora,
work it all the time ♪
My girl's name is Senora ♪
I tell you,
friends, I adore her ♪
And when she
dances, oh, brother ♪
She's a hurricane in
all kinds of weather ♪
Jump in the line,
rock your body in time ♪
- Yeah, Copano Yeah,
Copano and Harrington.
Yeah, yeah, they're
good. They're good
Copano and Harrington are good.
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
[ Animals chittering
in distance ]
♪♪
[ Insects chirping ]
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
[ Thunder rumbles ]
♪♪
[ Beetle chitters ]
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
♪♪
[ Picks mushroom ]
♪♪
A mushroom?
Not just any mushroom.
The caviar, the ghost
orchid of mushrooms.
I mean, the chances of
this growing naturally
Frances, it's like a one-in-a-billion
Goldilocks situation.
A special valley,
isolated by mountains.
The fog lasts just long enough.
The humidity is just right.
The limestone in
the soil is perfect
to produce a rare,
specific kind of grass.
And in this grass grows a
very, very intense mushroom.
♪♪
And I found it.
♪♪
[ Helicopter blades whirring ]
Kinda had some trouble
getting out of there.
[ Machine gun firing ]
♪♪
♪♪
- Come on, come on,
come on, come on, kid.
Come on!
♪♪
- You couldn't wait
one more minute?
[ Machine gun firing ] Aah!
♪♪
[ Squish ]
Ah
Oh, my God, oh, my God.
[ Engine roaring ]
[ Navigation panel beeping ]
And shit.
[ Alarm blaring ]
[ Woman vocalizing ]
♪♪
♪♪
[ Wind blowing ]
[ Squishing ]
[ Gasps ]
[ Insects chirping ]
♪♪
I also ended up
with a pet tortoise.
- Flat white for
Gegory. Gegory!
- That has to be
"Gregory," right?
Anyway, I'm almost
out of mushrooms
- Hey, what's up? For Gegory?
Thanks.
- So that really was
his name. Gegory.
- Marshall!
- Right. Sorry.
I'm almost out of mushrooms.
And this valley is so special,
but it's being
destroyed as we speak.
This company, Reutical
Pharmaceuticals evil people.
They have a waste
dumpsite just upstream.
- Uh, yeah. Yeah, I've
I've heard of those guys.
- [ Cellphone vibrating ]
- Their CEO is this, like, evil
I mean, he's not even
smart enough to be evil.
[ Vibrating continues
] Rick Kruger?
He's just a functionary
of demonic forces.
He's like the
Devil's idiot butler.
- Oh.
[ Chuckles awkwardly ]
Then I started to understand.
No one's listening because
they didn't want to hear it.
I mean, Frances, look around.
Does this look healthy to you?
I mean, people are so lost
and confused and upset,
and we spend more money
than ever on healthcare,
and everyone's still sick.
The whole system is sick.
- And this?
- It's too powerful.
It would put everyone who
profits off selling drugs
and keeping us sick
out of business.
- I'm so I'm so
sorry. I-I just
- No, no, go. Please, take it.
I-I should probably
calm myself down anyway.
[ Door opens, bells jingle ]
[ Door closes ]
♪♪
♪♪
[ Whispering indistinctly ]
♪♪
[ Laughter ]
[ Powering up, cellphone
camera clicks ]
♪♪
No I just ran into somebody.
I can be, like, ten
minutes, or less.
♪♪
Uh, yup, yeah. Okay.
Uh, see you soon.
[ Train clacking in distance ]
- Copano, is celery carrot's
cousin or a sibling?
You don't have to
answer right away.
Huh, yeah.
Okay, Agent Harrington.
I think I finally
figured it out.
- Okay, I'll pretend
I'm not listening.
Start here.
Dallas. Dealey Plaza,
where Oswald shoots JFK.
- Allegedly.
[ Chuckles ]
- [ Scoffs ] Now, Austin.
You know the tower?
Charles Whitman?
He was messed up.
Next, Oklahoma City.
What happened there?
- The bombing?
- Exactly.
Timothy McVeigh. He
was obsessed with what?
With Waco.
- Do you think my haircut makes
me look like Timothy McVeigh?
Maybe not now that
it's grown out.
No! I think it looks good.
But that's not all.
Killeen, first real
mass-shooting event in America.
A guy shot 27 people
in a Luby's Cafeteria.
- How do you know all this?
- Look at this, man.
Shooter corridor
right through here.
I'm thinking they're gonna
send us up here or down here,
to stop the next one.
Look what I made.
You see? That's smart.
Finally some [ Door opens ]
- Copano, Harrington, follow me.
- Are we going
somewhere on the map?
- Map? No, no, that had
to do with the kids
There were kids coming in.
We were showing them
the different the
Forget the map. Let's go.
- [ Beep ]
- [ Chuckles ]
But thanks to Enablin,
stains on my pants?
They aren't one of my worries.
[ Beep ] [ Chuckles ]
But thanks to Enablin,
stains on my pants?
They aren't one of my worries.
[ Video stops ]
So, uh
So, that's the take?
That's the one we're gonna use?
- Is Frances here?
- Yeah, uh-huh.
Frances, do you like this?
- Uh, for what it is, uh, yes?
From a marketing perspective,
uh, maybe a bigger conversation?
Ugh, marketing.
Lotta those types are
gonna have to get fired.
[ Game warbles]
You know what, guys?
Take a couple
frames off the top.
Also, is the logo
the old version?
Can we adjust it,
just so we have it?
- Um, okay.
- Hey, there you go, Frances.
Boy, you really know
how to sell medicine
for geriatric incontinence
and urine leakage, don't ya?
[ Chuckles ]
- Just need your okay
on the legal disclaimer.
- Dry mouth, constipation,
nausea, stomach upset,
stomach pain, blurred vision,
dry eyes, skin irritation,
loose bowel movements,
disturbed sleep
- [ Sighs ] Is that
We have to say all that?
- All the language
came from legal, so
- Ugh. Okay, well, how
fast can you play that?
- Here's 1.8.
- [ Sped-up ] Dry mouth,
constipation, nausea,
stomach upset, stomach pain,
- blurred vision, dry eyes
- [ Groans ]
That's That's too
fast. Sounds like an elf.
Try one unit less.
- Do you want the part
about the ice chips?
- Jesus, ice chips? What?
- [ Sped-up ] To
relieve dry mouth,
suck ice chips,
chew sugarless gum,
drink water, or use a
saliva substitute
- No, no, they're on
their own for dry mouth.
We don't need some lady
choking on an ice
chip and suing us.
Okay, we're good. We're
good. You guys good?
We're good. Frances?
- Okay, so, your dinner
reservation, I printed it.
I know you like physical
paper. It is on your desk,
And tomorrow's crossword
is also in there.
I got it early
- Just had a conversation
with the board.
Ugh, Jonas Backstein, God.
You don't want him not happy.
Those guys scare the shit
outta me, to be honest.
Ugh. God.
You know I haven't seen
my wife in three weeks?
[ Elevator bell dings ]
Weird part is, she
hasn't complained.
So, uh, shakeups are coming.
I'm not sure if
we're gonna survive.
If I'm going down,
you're going down.
♪♪
Rick, what would happen
if I brought this company,
like, a new product?
- A new product? You
mean like a drug?
- Yes, kind of. I-I don't
know. Uh, still exploring.
Just kind of a hypothetical.
- Well, if somebody
brought something
we can bring to market
[ Elevator bell dings ]
I'd make that
person very wealthy.
- Oh. Um, okay.
Let me explore.
Well, hurry up, Magellan.
Get me something
by the end of Q3
and you can have my beach house.
[ Line ringing]
- Hey, this is Marshall
Cuso. Please leave a message.
[ Beep]
- Hi, um, Marshall,
sorry I missed you.
I'm not sure what happened,
but it was so nice
catching up with you.
Would you want to, I
don't know, meet up again?
Maybe in the city, or I
could come to you, or?
It'd just be really
nice to see you again.
Okay! Oh, it's Frances! Bye!
♪♪
♪♪
[ Light switch clicks ]
- Hey, Mr. Socrates,
back from the city.
You'd hate it.
Oh! Listen to this.
- Hi, um, Marshall,
sorry I missed you
Frances Applewhite.
I haven't seen her since high
school. Can you believe that?
- Would you want to
- Doesn't she sound nice?
- I don't know, meet up again?
Oh, let me get you some food.
[ Alarm beeping on computer ]
♪♪
[ Duck quacks ]
♪♪
[ Electronic dance
music playing]
- Okay, yeah, this
hits. What's this?
- Italo disco, one of
my favorite genres.
Although many of the top
producers were in fact German.
[ Chuckles ] Mmm!
I thought they
only made sausages
and chocolates and shit.
Whatever, it's working.
Hmm. Hey, let me
ask you something.
This guy owns all the
way back to that highway?
- Yeah, like
2,000-something acres.
And that's from drug money?
He's done some wild stuff.
I did a dive on the guy.
Apparently, at some point,
he analyzed bar codes
in the New Hampshire lottery,
figured out which
ones were winners,
and won $11 million.
He was investigated, but
apparently it was totally legal.
Did you not read the file?
Oh, I read the file.
He's an expert on
quassinode extraction.
He has three birds named
after him in New Guinea.
He won the Havlstrom Prize.
- Uh, correction
He was runner up
for the Havlstrom Prize.
- See? That's why we're partners.
I knew he was runner up.
I was testing you. You passed.
- Does this seem like an
everyday drug dealer to you?
Job's the job.
Warrant's good?
[ Music turns off ]
Let's do this.
♪♪
♪♪
[ Bang ]
[ Police radio chatter ]
Marshall Cuso?
♪♪
[ Alarm beeping on computer ]
♪♪
[ Breathing heavily ]
♪♪
[ Thunder rumbling ]
- Hey, brainstorm
with me for one sec.
If you wanted to, like, delete
any trace of where you worked,
like, online,
Facebook, LinkedIn
do you think that
you could do that?
- Uh-oh. Who are you hiding from?
- I just want to be more private.
- So Okay, so, I've
been reading this interview
with a psychologist
who thinks that sex
should be more like, um
like a form of play.
- Yes, um, sorry, what
what were you saying?
- Baby, just try looking into
my eyes for like 30 seconds.
It's really good for, like,
our our chakra, soul,
sexual connection stuff.
[ Keyboard clacks ]
- Babe?
- Sorry, Nick.
It's just, there's, like,
a work situation. I
[ Cellphone vibrates ]
- Hello?
- Frances?
Yeah. Yes. Hi!
Oh. Where are you?
- Um, actually, I-I'm in
your neighborhood right now.
Really?
[ Siren chirps ]
- [ Bottles clink ]
- I know it's weird, but, uh,
listen, can we meet up?
It's kind of urgent.
Uh, and just two
things to mention
Some people are following me,
and I brought my tortoise.
[ Thunder rumbles ]
♪♪
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