Mosaic (2018) s01e01 Episode Script
Meet Olivia Lake
1 (DYNAMIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) (DOOR OPENS) (DOOR CLOSES) Just gonna say a few things that I know and a few things I'd like to find out about.
Anyhow I got out of a meeting with forensics earlier today.
I made a copy of the report for you to read later.
Maybe it'll jog your memory or something.
The short of it? Olivia, she got hit on the jaw on the left side of her face by someone who was right-handed.
I don't know if you know this, but Eric Neill is left-handed.
Your right hand was red, bloody, and swollen.
Both when Tia picked you up at midnight 11:57 to be exact and then in the morning when Frank got you in town.
And also Facebook.
(SIGHS) You deleted photos of you showing you wearing a T-shirt that was found buried with the body.
You asked Tia my son's in her class, by the way to lie about what happened that night.
And you asked Frank to do the same thing.
Twice.
Back then and now.
And finally we had a guy following you today, man.
As soon as you found out the information on what was found with the body, you left the hotel.
You went to Marcellus County.
That's where the gardener, Horacio, lives.
He's the guy you sold the truck to in a hurry when after the murder.
After Horacio, you went to a gas station on the I-80.
(SIGHS) We've got some guys going to the gas station now.
They've been instructed to search the dumpsters.
You wanna tell me what they're gonna find or should I wait for them to tell me? Joel! What happens now? Now I go back to the office and I write up a warrant.
I bring it to the prosecutor first thing, and when he signs it, and I do believe he will sign it then I go and I talk to Judge Warren in chambers and I tell her everything I just told you.
And then she approves it, and then I come back to this hotel room and you and Laura are gonna have to decide how to play this.
A double Don Julio plotted, neat, lime, no salt.
(CHATTER) (MAN CLEARS THROAT) Um, hello? Yeah.
Uh, excuse me.
Hi, everyone.
I'm Michael O'Connor.
- Hello, everyone.
How's it going? - (CHATTER STOPS) Okay, so this is the part of the annual fundraiser where the host gives an intro talk.
And this would be the part of the talk where I would say something punchy or comical to break up the tension.
So imagine that this is that.
(LAUGHTER) I grew up with Olivia Lake.
Not just like you all did reading her book, but I I literally grew up up the hill from her.
I used to ride my Big Wheel in her parking lot, which is right down there.
She's like a surrogate mom to me.
So, what else can I say about Olivia Lake - that she hasn't already told me to say? - (LAUGHTER) Wait, shoot.
"about Olivia Lake that she hasn't already told me to say?" What did I write? But what oh, right, okay, so, but why are we really here? (STAMMERING) Because this is the time of year that we all have a chance to make a real difference, a difference in the lives of children not just in the Summit area, but all throughout the entire greater Salt Lake area as well.
So, Olivia Lake began her career as a graphic designer before illustrating several children's books for other authors when she awoke from a dream with the idea for "Whose Woods These Are.
" - Hi.
- I thought maybe I should put both of us out of your misery.
(LAUGHTER) Oh, but first, I'd like to pretend that I'm not old enough to be anybody's surrogate mom.
However, more sincerely, I'd like to say you're kind of like the son I never knew I really wanted.
(LAUGHTER) But first, just look at this beautiful, beautiful house, and, um that you have offered us for this event.
I mean, come on.
And the seed money that you gave us to start Mosaic or we wouldn't even be here to start with.
Michael is You are one of the most sensitive people I've ever had the pleasure of knowing.
And that sensitivity has (EXHALES) turned into being one of the most acute collectors of art, which you could all see if you were lucky enough to have a tour of the Red Room.
Hey, why don't we auction off tours of the Red Room today for, like, $1,000? Uh, yeah, yeah, okay.
That sounds good.
- Okay, $1,000, anybody? - ALL: Yes! Oh, God, thank you.
- Make it 10! - Yay! Thank you.
Because we really do need those funds to keep Mosaic going, and you know, it only takes one person to change a life.
(CHATTERING) (PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) Hunky bartender your team or mine? I'm wondering the same thing myself.
Reconnaissance, s'il vous plaît.
Yes, Captain.
So, Red Room? - We're there! - Really? Great.
- Thank you - Thank you.
very much.
Really appreciate that.
Thank you.
(PHONE CHIMING) (ICE CRUNCHING) Double Glenlivet on the rocks with a splash.
JC: Oh, actually, I just wanted a single.
Well, I'm sorry.
I've been instructed to only pour doubles this afternoon.
Oh, who could possibly do a thing like that? Someone who actually thinks I'm gonna write her another check.
He could.
I finally got a pen that writes on rubber.
(CHUCKLES) Pour me something tall and muscular.
You got it.
A lesser nuanced host might have said "stiff.
" Okay, cue Bill Conti.
I think I'm being played off.
- Here you are.
- Thank you.
I'm sorry, I know you probably get this a lot, - but - Oh, I know.
I'm a little old for a children's author.
(CHUCKLES) You might be the reason I became an artist.
then I moved to New York to get a publisher and an agent, and then blew through half my savings in the first couple of weeks.
And and a buddy told me about Summit.
Ah, so you thought, "There's all these rich people blowing in and out here" - (LAUGHS) Yeah.
- "so I'll come out, bank some cash.
" - Bank it out.
- "And I'm from Minnesota" Oh, yeah.
"so I'll come out here and teach skiing.
" A little skiing, a little hunting, some tennis.
Oh, and then you blew out your knee? - Shoulder.
- Oh.
- Rotator cuff, actually.
- Oh.
In a car wreck, of all things.
Oh, I bet that tree just jumped right out in the middle of the road.
Oh, you know, I think it was a little more of an insurance scam.
You can never trust nature.
(CHUCKLES) Why is that guy looking at you like he's the boss of you? (WHISPERS INDISTINCTLY) I think it's because he is the boss of me.
Oh, all right, then.
Better go do your thing.
Maybe if I see you next time, I'll show you yours if you show me mine.
Uh - (BOTH LAUGHING) - Okay, that sounds great.
(PACKING TAPE SCREECHING) JOEL: Uh, excuse me.
Sorry, um, I saw online that you guys do silk screen stuff? Yeah, we do.
We do the emulsion, do the press, whole thing.
We got a bunch of T-shirts if that's what you're looking for.
Oh, well, honestly, I just wanted to make a shirt of this.
You drew these? - Yeah, I did.
- You drew these yourself? Yeah.
These are just all the ones that I've done since, uh since I got here.
They're insane.
I mean, they're insane.
(CHUCKLES) (MUSIC PLAYING) That's okay, okay, okay, okay.
- So - I'm sorry, we'll do it in a different place.
Let's let's ask some questions here.
Are you Kirby or are you Moebius? - Seriously? - I'm dead serious.
Moebius.
Yeah, that's good.
Good.
- Are you '70s or are you '80s? - '70s.
- BOTH: "Métal Hurlant"! - Yeah, nice! - Oh.
- Mm.
So, you're not into the whole, uh "Incal" stuff with Jodorowsky? - Nah.
- Nah.
- Eh.
- Eh.
Well, that's appropriate.
That's appropriate.
Okay, so within the "Métal Hurlant" era, - are you "Arzach" or are you - BOTH: "Airtight Garage"? - "Arzach.
" - Okay, but you got to admit "Le Garage Hermétique," that was insane.
Yeah, I guess, but, I mean, "Arzach" is all drawing.
Like, I love that it's the purest sequential storytelling.
No words.
Do you want another round? Uh, yeah.
Let's go, two more.
Yeah, maybe it's maybe I'm just not a words person.
Yeah, okay, but that's fixable.
You just gotta meet somebody that, you know somebody that maybe is a words person, you know? That's easy.
High performance ch Chelation ion chromatography.
It detects trace elements of rare metals.
What kind of rare metals? All kinds.
Why are you showing this to me? You remember when we had those guys out here a couple of weeks ago? I told you I'd let you know if they found anything.
Do you want me to fill you in before your dad comes? Why? Well so you can fill him in.
He doesn't need to know about this.
OLIVIA: Well, it's good to see all the homework you did.
It's nice to know what all this is worth.
Mm-hmm.
And, uh and the offer, what was that word that you used? Uh, the vig? Yes, the 10% vig.
But, you know.
So so, you're not interested? Uh, no.
(CHUCKLES) You know, I was thinking, you know my dad, you know how much he loves this whole area, how much he loves his views, his pristine views.
But if there ever comes a time, if ever, whenever you think, "Hey, you know, it's time to move on from here" You know when you'll know when I'm moving on? When you're standing at my gravesite with whatever's left of my mourners, and then you can negotiate with my dogs or whoever I've left this place to.
But, you know, since I'm not dead, why don't we take this precious moment for me to offer you a piece of advice? Why don't you stop dragging dead rats through the cat flap to dump at your daddy's feet? Okay? - Okay.
- Okay? - Okay.
- Okay.
- (DOGS BARKING) - Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
JOEL: Man, for me? What are my influences? Yeah.
I mean, other than the obvious.
Kirby, Frank Miller, - Steranko, Eisner.
- So you know who they are? - Well, yeah.
- Wow, uh No, I've always, you know, believed in "standing on the shoulders of giants" sort of things.
It's a long fucking way to fall.
- (CHUCKLES) - If you're up there, you better make sure you've got something.
Oh, everybody's got an imagination.
Everybody's got influences.
My question to you is what's your own special take on it? Well, um well, this place is a mess.
Glad we came up here.
We can clean it up.
Yeah.
Well, you seem strong.
Are you handy? I'd like to think so, yeah.
Oof, is it the mirror or did somebody steal my ass? Mm.
Uh (EXHALES) So, this is where it all happens.
Well yeah.
MICHAEL: Is the beryllium real? Very.
So So some guys came to us a couple years back about a year ago, actually.
Down in Redding, a guy named Casey Delacroix and his partner Eric Neill.
They were using pseudonyms.
I never met them, our guys did.
It was just an uninspired attempt at a silver scam.
But I had Darenzo dig a little deeper into Delacroix and Neill.
Turns out he found a case 10 years back or so involving a girl.
24 years old.
Eloise Brand.
A trust fund kid, a ton of dough, and she fell in love with Neill.
- I'm not sure - Well, it turns out it took Neill nine and a half months to make that happen.
(CHUCKLES) - So, he - He really worked her.
They were engaged.
(SCOFFS) And Neill doesn't deny the relationship.
He says he got cold feet.
But according to Darenzo, the girl's family came down on him like a hammer.
But the charges were dropped in some kind of bargain that landed Neill's father in prison.
He sent his own father to jail? In exchange for his own freedom, yeah.
So, we have a guy in Turks, John Clifford.
He owes us a little.
He's gonna reach out to Neill later in the week.
FRANK: So, what, you gonna sleep in the hay? Or are you gonna eat the hay and sleep in the horseshit? It's an apartment.
It just so happens to be in a barn.
Oh, I see.
Well, I'm not arguing against it.
I'm just saying that here you have a bed, you don't have to eat, that's all.
Yeah, and it's free.
Well, I mean, I'm gonna have to work in exchange for the rent, but I'll have complete access to her studio, which I get to use Olivia Lake's studio.
- And she's going to look at my stuff.
- (LAUGHS) FRANK: Look at your stuff or look at your junk? (LAUGHING) JOEL: She's gonna show it to her agent.
I I still don't understand.
What do you mean? She's gonna, like, show your stuff to people? - Be like a mentor? - Yeah.
Why, is that weird? Laura, this is this is huge for me.
And in exchange, all she wants is help around the property? Yeah.
Laura what are you so worried about? - She makes me nervous.
- How? I don't trust her.
MAN: Eric? Eric, hey.
Cliff Jones.
Good to know you.
I'm sorry, I didn't expect the game to run this long.
- Do you have a bracket? - No, I No, you have better things to do with your time, right? - Yeah.
- So, um, you got my name from? People familiar with your skills.
Come on, we can't not go all the way this year.
Come on! So - Why are we here? - Yeah.
Yes, the literal million dollar question.
I represent a woman, lives overseas.
Turns out there's a piece of property she's had her eye on.
By "had her eye on," I mean seems to be obsessed with.
She's made generous offers.
But the owner won't sell? Well, the the owner has what those who know her call an "unhealthy attachment" to it.
Unhealthy 'cause she's overextended.
But but I'll tell you what, those who love her think she'd actually be better off - Downsizing.
- Right.
In a way, we're doing her a favor.
All right, fair enough.
But, long run, she will be better off is my point.
So, what do you want me to do? Get her to sell it.
And why do you think that I'm particularly Eloise Brand.
With deep pockets comes deep research, let's say.
What's my end? Well, when I said it was a million dollar question (CHUCKLING) I wasn't kidding.
She must really love this place.
Yeah, it's quite special.
When you see it, you'll understand.
I get half up front.
(CHUCKLES) You get 10% up front.
The rest on close of escrow.
Who handles my expenses? What's in the bag is what you have to work with, all right? Hey, you do it with three rubber bands and a sticky note? The rest is yours.
My client trusts you'll figure it out.
2:44, four down.
Come on! OLIVIA: We're recommitting to the studio.
It's his idea.
Oh, he's gonna paint, redo the deck.
We're gonna discuss the rent, TBD.
- Tools are down in the barn.
- JC: Mm-hmm.
And the talent? (BLOWS RASPBERRY) He's no Enzo, is he? Voilà .
(GASPS) I'm a master chef.
- (BOTH CHUCKLING) - Thank you.
Oh.
Okay? - Good luck.
- It's you I love.
Knock, knock.
Come on in.
Oh, I guess it's hot in here.
- Yeah.
(CHUCKLES) - Here, honey.
This was starting to get a little stinky, so.
Well, it'll be our first rag.
Our first rag together.
- Okay? - Okay.
- Oh! - (BOTH LAUGH) - (SIGHS) - Hey, that looks nice.
Yeah, I just wanted to make it a little bigger.
Some sketching space, and, plus, you know, room for two.
Oh, for me to pfft.
Why don't we drown that thought in a margarita? - Don't mind if I do.
- All right.
(DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE) - (PHONE CHIMES) - Oh.
Oh, she's early.
Hang on.
Uh, hey! Hey, there! LAURA: Hi! Hey.
Wow, this place is beautiful.
Right? I knew you'd like it.
Come on.
Oh, wait! Laura, Laura.
I wanna introduce you to someone.
Laura, this is Olivia.
Hi.
So, he said, "If you could cook, we could fire the chef.
" And I said, "Ernie, if you could fuck, we could fire the chauffeur.
" (LAUGHS) (SIGHS) What? (MECHANICAL WHIRRING) - (MUSIC PLAYING) - (CHATTER, LAUGHTER) - Hey.
- Hi.
MAN: Miss Lake! Dennis Klein.
Thank you for being so kind and responsive.
I've been seating myself for decades.
My ass goes here, right? Yes, it does, and you want to face the table.
(CHUCKLES) At $124,000 for for the exploration, I believe we'd be safe.
Of that, $10,000 is my fee, which I've given it some thought and I'm willing to waive my fee.
You know, skin in the game.
So, now we're at 114.
And if what I suspect is true turns out to, in fact, be true, I would get 10% of whatever your ultimate reward turns out to be.
And we could reduce that to to 8 or even 7 1/2% if the upside is where it may end up being.
And, honestly, 5% is all I would um, I would need.
End of the day, you know, all to be negotiated.
So, there you have it.
I mean, uh, you have the material.
Uh, have a look at it.
Uh and you have my number.
Give it some thought.
(CHUCKLES) And, uh and I it was lovely to meet you, and I hope I hope to be hearing from you soon.
Thanks.
Um, excuse me.
I looked over and I'm like, "That's the face from the book I worshipped.
" And I'm really sorry, but I heard what your friend was saying.
May I? I won't stay long.
I've got a 2:00.
Eric Neill.
Hi.
- Olivia Lake.
- Yeah, of course you are.
Um, hmm.
You didn't trust what he said? My guess is if you Google him He's a geologist? Professor of geology.
Right, so you'll follow a few links and they'll take you to a university website, and there he'll be.
But let me guess does he have a sick relative, an ex-wife, or? - (LAUGHS) A daughter.
- Perfect.
So, you'll dig a little deeper and you'll see something about her car accident or anything spina bifida, some rare blood disease.
"Damn," you'll say, "the poor guy is telling the truth.
" So then you'll Google what was the company he told you about? - Ogden Ore.
- Right.
And you'll see ginormous profits to Ogden Ore for recommissioned silver mines.
But you get a call.
He's having second thoughts.
He doesn't want to screw his bosses at the school.
But in your brain, a tiny voice will be whispering, "Ogden Ore made" whatever figure he gave you.
72 million.
"Which buys a lot of brushes," you'll be telling yourself.
And so you'll say, "The school will be fine.
They just made "whatever he said they made "on their own consulting fees.
" And that's when he knows you're hooked.
And then he raises the prices.
He lowers them.
Because it's all about Trust.
And you know this because? Oh, man.
This was my life growing up.
My father was a higher class version of our friend here.
Meaning? Ponzi stuff.
Horrible.
People's pensions, college funds, retirements.
Yeesh, it's 2:00 already.
Damn.
But that's my cross to bear, and I hope I'm wrong about, uh Dennis Klein.
Dennis Klein, yeah.
Anyway, it was a real pleasure.
Good luck.
OLIVIA: His father was some kind of Ponzi guy or something.
I think Eric feels like he has some big karma to unravel.
Really? Is that what Eric thinks? What time does he think it is? Or should I just look at a clock? There he is.
Right there.
What do you think? You mean that dot among all those other dots? I'll let you know when he gets a little closer.
Oh, no, you're not getting any closer, not today.
Calm down.
I will be very subtle.
He's coming.
Okay, he's coming down.
Get out no, wait.
What am I doing here? I mean, on the premises? Uh, how about you were looking for him and you wanted to talk to him to thank him? No, because everything he said about Dennis Klein turned out to be true.
Believe it or not, sometimes the best way to sound like you're telling the truth is to actually tell the truth.
Dennis Klein turned out to be a hell of a wingman.
I will give you a very subtle signal.
No, no signals.
It will be very discreet, I promise.
OLIVIA: Hey, Eric.
- Hi.
- Oh, hey.
Oh, my rear end should not be this sore from four runs.
(LAUGHS) - How's it going? - Good.
Well, I saw you up there, and well, you were just right about everything, so I wanted to tell you.
- You looked him up? - Yeah.
I mean, I just had a hunch and, you know, so I just said to him up top, like, what is up with you? And normally, you would have trusted that, but the part of you that wanted him so badly to be right - Overruled.
- Exactly.
That's what they do, man.
They ride you through your own doubts and come out the other side like a surfer.
Hey, what was the, uh, kid thing? Oh, cancer.
- No.
- (CHUCKLES) Yeah.
You'd think he could come up with something more creative.
Right? Like tick Lyme.
- Yeah, or pica.
- Wait, what is that? Pica it's the one where people eat the nonfood things like chalk or drywall or ladders.
(BOTH LAUGH) - ERIC: I like that.
- Yeah.
Or the one where you get old really fast.
Exactly! Pictures of the kid at Disneyland or meeting LeBron.
Well, you know, you saved me a lot of money and, um, I feel like I owe you, so let's say I buy you a drink or something.
- A drink would be great.
- Okay.
- How about now? - How about now? 'Cause I'm freezing.
(MOUTHING WORDS) ERIC: All right, I love ski culture.
Nobody steals anything.
I don't know, it sounds exciting.
I mean, a new company every few years, a fresh start, learning new stuff.
You know, it sounds like imprinting, like a duckling.
(BOTH LAUGH) It is.
It was.
It's not, actually.
It's bad, what I do.
I mean, it's not illegal, but it's at the end of the day, basically I did four years of college and two years of business school to be a glorified Grim Reaper.
I find that hard to believe.
That's what restructuring a company is.
You decide who lives and who has to go home and break the news to the wife and kids.
That just doesn't seem like you.
I mean, it's my head, anyway.
Well, that's actually why I'm here.
I'm trying to get away and do a little rebooting, which is why I'm really sorry, but I gotta run.
I'm meeting a headhunter in Salt Lake and I'm already Well, go.
- Hunt those heads.
- (CHUCKLES) Um, but this was You know what? I'm too hungry to drive to Salt Lake.
How about you? I could eat.
So, Eric says, "He couldn't come up with something more original than that?" Then we start riffing on all these weird diseases.
(LAUGHS) I guess you had to be there.
Anyway, so, he's here because he's gonna be carving up some company, but, you know, he's kind of he's had a change of heart and he wants to change his life.
So, I mean, that's what he's doing here today.
He was gonna go to Salt Lake City and meet this headhunter, and but he cancelled it so that he could have dinner with me.
Yeah.
(LAUGHS) And look, I gotta go.
Otherwise he's gonna think that I have been in the bathroom the whole time.
(OLIVIA LAUGHS) A mirror? ERIC: Well, no, you're more like pieces of a mirror.
"Who does the public see me as" is one piece.
"The socialite, life of the party" is another piece.
Artist piece.
Confident, mature woman.
Vulnerable little girl.
The charity.
But what's behind it? That's what I'm curious about.
Oh, well, there's a reason you only hang a painting facing out.
Who wants to see all the wires and tacks and framing? - Me.
- Oh! And I don't know for sure because I'm not an artist, but my sister is one.
Well, she wants to be, but she wouldn't tell you that.
She'd tell you she has no interest.
I don't believe you.
- About my sister? - No, you.
You.
You're an actor.
Okay, since we're baring all, I once, in middle school, did a one-man show.
So lame, but I learned my lesson fast.
And my mother was a decorator.
Well, that's artisty.
And my dad, definitely not.
Wrong.
You told me yourself he was a con Con artist.
Oh, my God, you're right.
He's probably the best artist of all of us.
Ugh.
Where was I? Uh me.
(CHUCKLES) That's right.
The biggest piece under the 85 million pieces of Olivia Lake loneliness is what I see.
That's the thing everything else is covering up the desire to connect and the inability to, for whatever reason.
Am I close? Too close? (HISSES) Eric.
(PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) - Tell me about your play.
- (LAUGHS) Ah, I was too close.
We're changing the subject.
What was it called? "The Impersonator.
" I love that.
It was me doing a bunch of lame impressions famous people, other kids at the school, some characters I made up, but essentially they all ended up sounding like vampires.
Why do you ask? Because I think kids' art is 100% a declaration of who they are.
I think it's it's maybe the last time we tell the truth.
That's probably true.
Oh, my God.
I think we're keeping these people from going home.
I'm so sorry.
(LAUGHING) We'll take the check.
OLIVIA: "She takes those kids up the trail, like three times a day and tells her story over and over.
- It's pathetic.
" - Why would they write that stuff? Because it was like that for a while.
(SIGHS) - Even I thought it was pathetic.
- Uh You know, when I built these, I (LAUGHS) I felt like that North Korean guy.
(LAUGHS) What? Like I was building a monument to my own ego.
No, you were just trying to make something kind of permanent out of what always felt like a one-time, fleeting miracle, really.
I read somewhere the whole story came out of a dream.
Is that? I mean just look.
It was like a like a star just fell down from the heavens and I was holding a basket.
I wrote it all down in 45 seconds and drew it in two weeks, and That was 26 years ago.
So, it doesn't feel like it came from you.
'Cause if it did, why can't you get there again? But, hey, look, it got you all this.
- Which is insane.
- (LAUGHS) And I'm guessing it must be a a lot to maintain.
(SIGHS) The land or the life? Well, both.
Well, the land has a crew.
I've had to let a lot of them go.
I've got a boarder down in the barn.
He helps if I can get him to do anything.
But, yeah, it's hard.
And the life? What are we if not our life? I'm trying to decide if I should invite you in.
You know what I think? Eric you gotta let me do this one.
The night lasts longer if we don't.
That's what I want.
I appreciate that.
I would like to call you, though, if that's okay with you.
I would like that.
ERIC'S VOICE: That's what I'm curious about.
Well, maybe that's why you do art.
Like I don't know, I'm not an artist, but maybe deep down you're lonely and your art is a way to connect, to bridge.
I don't know.
Are you lonely? That's the biggest take I get.
I'm just kind of wondering if you're sort of all alone out here.
OLIVIA'S VOICE: He says he wants to see through all this, but he doesn't.
You know that, right? People don't.
They say they do, but then they don't.
When they see what's really there He won't he won't want to see it or ha, ha, fucking ha, he does.
And then he will.
And then what happens then? (SIGHS) What happens when he actually sees in? (SIGHS) ERIC: Report back? Okay, here's what you're gonna report back.
Olivia Lake is not a Nespresso machine.
You don't just punch in a cartridge, push a button, and expect boom.
And I'm working my ass off.
Who is this client, anyway? She's a fucking human being, okay? And I'm beginning to wonder if your precious client actually isn't one.
Look, either just let me do my job or give me the high sign and she can have her money back minus what I've already spent.
I'll talk to you later.
(STAMMERING) I'm working on it.
Jesus Christ.
Goodbye.
MAN: Stay the course.
You don't think he's going soft? Maybe.
There's a 9:15 out of Salt Lake, connects in Dallas, and then straight on to Marseille.
Give my best to Thelma.
So, what? Oh, okay.
Ahem, um, look, I can stay, ride him harder.
No, I don't want to risk anything.
We'll give him some space.
Don't call him again unless he calls you first.
Okay.
What about the rest of my end? Your end is what it all always was.
He converts, you get whole.
Either way, your debt's clear.
Um if I may, what's this really all about? MICHAEL: My father just really loved the pristine views and I wanted to do something nice for him.
Thanks for coming in on this.
Hi! - You home? - OLIVIA: In the kitchen.
(CHUCKLES) Oh, you look like you just took a shit on my carpet and wiped your ass on the drapes.
- What gives? - I can't tell you.
Really? You came all the way over here for something you cannot tell me? Fuck off.
Okay, I can tell you.
Eric spent two days last week in Mosaic.
In the gallery.
Alyssa told me this.
It's a secret.
He was apparently grilling her all about the business schmegegge, which is what those VC guys call it when they're not out headhunting.
She thinks he wants to pitch you on the idea to take Mosaic and build it out to a whole bunch of offices in a whole bunch of cities.
You have to swear I didn't say any of this to you.
Wow.
That is awesome that Alyssa didn't tell me.
- (PHONE CHIMES) - Oh.
So she gets kudos for keeping this a secret? I didn't say life was fair.
He's on his way over here.
You gotta go.
(WHISPERS) I'll just be squatting under the table.
Shh.
However much I wish you could, beat it.
Hey.
I'm sorry I've been out of touch the last few days.
I had some work stuff.
Well, I was intrigued by your text.
- May I? - Yeah.
Since we met, I've been thinking about you, about some stuff you said.
You said that the book happened once in 45 seconds, 26 years ago, so my question to you is what if the entire book was only the first chapter in what your actual legacy turned out to be? So, the story of the legacy of Olivia Lake what is it? From a dream Olivia imagines a classic.
On the strength of that classic she imagines a charity where thousands of kids have created things from their own dreams already.
So, what's next? I quit my job, and there's no going back, it would appear, which ushers in chapter three.
I I can't believe you quit your job.
It's not about me.
So, chapter three.
I went by the gallery on Monday and I see all these groups of kids come in and look at art and show their own art and make art, and I'm thinking, "Why are they bussing them in from Salt Lake? Why don't they just open one right in Salt Lake?" And then I think, "Why just Salt Lake?" So, my pitch to you is what if chapter three in the legacy of Olivia Lake IS PHASE ONE: five cities Salt Lake, Cheyenne, Denver, Albuquerque, Phoenix.
PHASE TWO: five-year plan.
PHASE THREE: 20-year plan.
And just 'cause it was late and I was getting punchy Told you I'm not an artist.
Thoughts? What do you think? (DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) My choices in men, every goddamn one of them, liars and con men, and violent.
Oh boy.
What did Eric do this time? You hit her? Is that what she said to you? No.
Seriously, that's not what happened.
(CRYING) OLIVIA: You are not coming back here.
You want me to give up so you can feel better about yourself? I don't even know who you are! He is a sneaky, sneaky boy.
(DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)
Anyhow I got out of a meeting with forensics earlier today.
I made a copy of the report for you to read later.
Maybe it'll jog your memory or something.
The short of it? Olivia, she got hit on the jaw on the left side of her face by someone who was right-handed.
I don't know if you know this, but Eric Neill is left-handed.
Your right hand was red, bloody, and swollen.
Both when Tia picked you up at midnight 11:57 to be exact and then in the morning when Frank got you in town.
And also Facebook.
(SIGHS) You deleted photos of you showing you wearing a T-shirt that was found buried with the body.
You asked Tia my son's in her class, by the way to lie about what happened that night.
And you asked Frank to do the same thing.
Twice.
Back then and now.
And finally we had a guy following you today, man.
As soon as you found out the information on what was found with the body, you left the hotel.
You went to Marcellus County.
That's where the gardener, Horacio, lives.
He's the guy you sold the truck to in a hurry when after the murder.
After Horacio, you went to a gas station on the I-80.
(SIGHS) We've got some guys going to the gas station now.
They've been instructed to search the dumpsters.
You wanna tell me what they're gonna find or should I wait for them to tell me? Joel! What happens now? Now I go back to the office and I write up a warrant.
I bring it to the prosecutor first thing, and when he signs it, and I do believe he will sign it then I go and I talk to Judge Warren in chambers and I tell her everything I just told you.
And then she approves it, and then I come back to this hotel room and you and Laura are gonna have to decide how to play this.
A double Don Julio plotted, neat, lime, no salt.
(CHATTER) (MAN CLEARS THROAT) Um, hello? Yeah.
Uh, excuse me.
Hi, everyone.
I'm Michael O'Connor.
- Hello, everyone.
How's it going? - (CHATTER STOPS) Okay, so this is the part of the annual fundraiser where the host gives an intro talk.
And this would be the part of the talk where I would say something punchy or comical to break up the tension.
So imagine that this is that.
(LAUGHTER) I grew up with Olivia Lake.
Not just like you all did reading her book, but I I literally grew up up the hill from her.
I used to ride my Big Wheel in her parking lot, which is right down there.
She's like a surrogate mom to me.
So, what else can I say about Olivia Lake - that she hasn't already told me to say? - (LAUGHTER) Wait, shoot.
"about Olivia Lake that she hasn't already told me to say?" What did I write? But what oh, right, okay, so, but why are we really here? (STAMMERING) Because this is the time of year that we all have a chance to make a real difference, a difference in the lives of children not just in the Summit area, but all throughout the entire greater Salt Lake area as well.
So, Olivia Lake began her career as a graphic designer before illustrating several children's books for other authors when she awoke from a dream with the idea for "Whose Woods These Are.
" - Hi.
- I thought maybe I should put both of us out of your misery.
(LAUGHTER) Oh, but first, I'd like to pretend that I'm not old enough to be anybody's surrogate mom.
However, more sincerely, I'd like to say you're kind of like the son I never knew I really wanted.
(LAUGHTER) But first, just look at this beautiful, beautiful house, and, um that you have offered us for this event.
I mean, come on.
And the seed money that you gave us to start Mosaic or we wouldn't even be here to start with.
Michael is You are one of the most sensitive people I've ever had the pleasure of knowing.
And that sensitivity has (EXHALES) turned into being one of the most acute collectors of art, which you could all see if you were lucky enough to have a tour of the Red Room.
Hey, why don't we auction off tours of the Red Room today for, like, $1,000? Uh, yeah, yeah, okay.
That sounds good.
- Okay, $1,000, anybody? - ALL: Yes! Oh, God, thank you.
- Make it 10! - Yay! Thank you.
Because we really do need those funds to keep Mosaic going, and you know, it only takes one person to change a life.
(CHATTERING) (PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) Hunky bartender your team or mine? I'm wondering the same thing myself.
Reconnaissance, s'il vous plaît.
Yes, Captain.
So, Red Room? - We're there! - Really? Great.
- Thank you - Thank you.
very much.
Really appreciate that.
Thank you.
(PHONE CHIMING) (ICE CRUNCHING) Double Glenlivet on the rocks with a splash.
JC: Oh, actually, I just wanted a single.
Well, I'm sorry.
I've been instructed to only pour doubles this afternoon.
Oh, who could possibly do a thing like that? Someone who actually thinks I'm gonna write her another check.
He could.
I finally got a pen that writes on rubber.
(CHUCKLES) Pour me something tall and muscular.
You got it.
A lesser nuanced host might have said "stiff.
" Okay, cue Bill Conti.
I think I'm being played off.
- Here you are.
- Thank you.
I'm sorry, I know you probably get this a lot, - but - Oh, I know.
I'm a little old for a children's author.
(CHUCKLES) You might be the reason I became an artist.
then I moved to New York to get a publisher and an agent, and then blew through half my savings in the first couple of weeks.
And and a buddy told me about Summit.
Ah, so you thought, "There's all these rich people blowing in and out here" - (LAUGHS) Yeah.
- "so I'll come out, bank some cash.
" - Bank it out.
- "And I'm from Minnesota" Oh, yeah.
"so I'll come out here and teach skiing.
" A little skiing, a little hunting, some tennis.
Oh, and then you blew out your knee? - Shoulder.
- Oh.
- Rotator cuff, actually.
- Oh.
In a car wreck, of all things.
Oh, I bet that tree just jumped right out in the middle of the road.
Oh, you know, I think it was a little more of an insurance scam.
You can never trust nature.
(CHUCKLES) Why is that guy looking at you like he's the boss of you? (WHISPERS INDISTINCTLY) I think it's because he is the boss of me.
Oh, all right, then.
Better go do your thing.
Maybe if I see you next time, I'll show you yours if you show me mine.
Uh - (BOTH LAUGHING) - Okay, that sounds great.
(PACKING TAPE SCREECHING) JOEL: Uh, excuse me.
Sorry, um, I saw online that you guys do silk screen stuff? Yeah, we do.
We do the emulsion, do the press, whole thing.
We got a bunch of T-shirts if that's what you're looking for.
Oh, well, honestly, I just wanted to make a shirt of this.
You drew these? - Yeah, I did.
- You drew these yourself? Yeah.
These are just all the ones that I've done since, uh since I got here.
They're insane.
I mean, they're insane.
(CHUCKLES) (MUSIC PLAYING) That's okay, okay, okay, okay.
- So - I'm sorry, we'll do it in a different place.
Let's let's ask some questions here.
Are you Kirby or are you Moebius? - Seriously? - I'm dead serious.
Moebius.
Yeah, that's good.
Good.
- Are you '70s or are you '80s? - '70s.
- BOTH: "Métal Hurlant"! - Yeah, nice! - Oh.
- Mm.
So, you're not into the whole, uh "Incal" stuff with Jodorowsky? - Nah.
- Nah.
- Eh.
- Eh.
Well, that's appropriate.
That's appropriate.
Okay, so within the "Métal Hurlant" era, - are you "Arzach" or are you - BOTH: "Airtight Garage"? - "Arzach.
" - Okay, but you got to admit "Le Garage Hermétique," that was insane.
Yeah, I guess, but, I mean, "Arzach" is all drawing.
Like, I love that it's the purest sequential storytelling.
No words.
Do you want another round? Uh, yeah.
Let's go, two more.
Yeah, maybe it's maybe I'm just not a words person.
Yeah, okay, but that's fixable.
You just gotta meet somebody that, you know somebody that maybe is a words person, you know? That's easy.
High performance ch Chelation ion chromatography.
It detects trace elements of rare metals.
What kind of rare metals? All kinds.
Why are you showing this to me? You remember when we had those guys out here a couple of weeks ago? I told you I'd let you know if they found anything.
Do you want me to fill you in before your dad comes? Why? Well so you can fill him in.
He doesn't need to know about this.
OLIVIA: Well, it's good to see all the homework you did.
It's nice to know what all this is worth.
Mm-hmm.
And, uh and the offer, what was that word that you used? Uh, the vig? Yes, the 10% vig.
But, you know.
So so, you're not interested? Uh, no.
(CHUCKLES) You know, I was thinking, you know my dad, you know how much he loves this whole area, how much he loves his views, his pristine views.
But if there ever comes a time, if ever, whenever you think, "Hey, you know, it's time to move on from here" You know when you'll know when I'm moving on? When you're standing at my gravesite with whatever's left of my mourners, and then you can negotiate with my dogs or whoever I've left this place to.
But, you know, since I'm not dead, why don't we take this precious moment for me to offer you a piece of advice? Why don't you stop dragging dead rats through the cat flap to dump at your daddy's feet? Okay? - Okay.
- Okay? - Okay.
- Okay.
- (DOGS BARKING) - Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
JOEL: Man, for me? What are my influences? Yeah.
I mean, other than the obvious.
Kirby, Frank Miller, - Steranko, Eisner.
- So you know who they are? - Well, yeah.
- Wow, uh No, I've always, you know, believed in "standing on the shoulders of giants" sort of things.
It's a long fucking way to fall.
- (CHUCKLES) - If you're up there, you better make sure you've got something.
Oh, everybody's got an imagination.
Everybody's got influences.
My question to you is what's your own special take on it? Well, um well, this place is a mess.
Glad we came up here.
We can clean it up.
Yeah.
Well, you seem strong.
Are you handy? I'd like to think so, yeah.
Oof, is it the mirror or did somebody steal my ass? Mm.
Uh (EXHALES) So, this is where it all happens.
Well yeah.
MICHAEL: Is the beryllium real? Very.
So So some guys came to us a couple years back about a year ago, actually.
Down in Redding, a guy named Casey Delacroix and his partner Eric Neill.
They were using pseudonyms.
I never met them, our guys did.
It was just an uninspired attempt at a silver scam.
But I had Darenzo dig a little deeper into Delacroix and Neill.
Turns out he found a case 10 years back or so involving a girl.
24 years old.
Eloise Brand.
A trust fund kid, a ton of dough, and she fell in love with Neill.
- I'm not sure - Well, it turns out it took Neill nine and a half months to make that happen.
(CHUCKLES) - So, he - He really worked her.
They were engaged.
(SCOFFS) And Neill doesn't deny the relationship.
He says he got cold feet.
But according to Darenzo, the girl's family came down on him like a hammer.
But the charges were dropped in some kind of bargain that landed Neill's father in prison.
He sent his own father to jail? In exchange for his own freedom, yeah.
So, we have a guy in Turks, John Clifford.
He owes us a little.
He's gonna reach out to Neill later in the week.
FRANK: So, what, you gonna sleep in the hay? Or are you gonna eat the hay and sleep in the horseshit? It's an apartment.
It just so happens to be in a barn.
Oh, I see.
Well, I'm not arguing against it.
I'm just saying that here you have a bed, you don't have to eat, that's all.
Yeah, and it's free.
Well, I mean, I'm gonna have to work in exchange for the rent, but I'll have complete access to her studio, which I get to use Olivia Lake's studio.
- And she's going to look at my stuff.
- (LAUGHS) FRANK: Look at your stuff or look at your junk? (LAUGHING) JOEL: She's gonna show it to her agent.
I I still don't understand.
What do you mean? She's gonna, like, show your stuff to people? - Be like a mentor? - Yeah.
Why, is that weird? Laura, this is this is huge for me.
And in exchange, all she wants is help around the property? Yeah.
Laura what are you so worried about? - She makes me nervous.
- How? I don't trust her.
MAN: Eric? Eric, hey.
Cliff Jones.
Good to know you.
I'm sorry, I didn't expect the game to run this long.
- Do you have a bracket? - No, I No, you have better things to do with your time, right? - Yeah.
- So, um, you got my name from? People familiar with your skills.
Come on, we can't not go all the way this year.
Come on! So - Why are we here? - Yeah.
Yes, the literal million dollar question.
I represent a woman, lives overseas.
Turns out there's a piece of property she's had her eye on.
By "had her eye on," I mean seems to be obsessed with.
She's made generous offers.
But the owner won't sell? Well, the the owner has what those who know her call an "unhealthy attachment" to it.
Unhealthy 'cause she's overextended.
But but I'll tell you what, those who love her think she'd actually be better off - Downsizing.
- Right.
In a way, we're doing her a favor.
All right, fair enough.
But, long run, she will be better off is my point.
So, what do you want me to do? Get her to sell it.
And why do you think that I'm particularly Eloise Brand.
With deep pockets comes deep research, let's say.
What's my end? Well, when I said it was a million dollar question (CHUCKLING) I wasn't kidding.
She must really love this place.
Yeah, it's quite special.
When you see it, you'll understand.
I get half up front.
(CHUCKLES) You get 10% up front.
The rest on close of escrow.
Who handles my expenses? What's in the bag is what you have to work with, all right? Hey, you do it with three rubber bands and a sticky note? The rest is yours.
My client trusts you'll figure it out.
2:44, four down.
Come on! OLIVIA: We're recommitting to the studio.
It's his idea.
Oh, he's gonna paint, redo the deck.
We're gonna discuss the rent, TBD.
- Tools are down in the barn.
- JC: Mm-hmm.
And the talent? (BLOWS RASPBERRY) He's no Enzo, is he? Voilà .
(GASPS) I'm a master chef.
- (BOTH CHUCKLING) - Thank you.
Oh.
Okay? - Good luck.
- It's you I love.
Knock, knock.
Come on in.
Oh, I guess it's hot in here.
- Yeah.
(CHUCKLES) - Here, honey.
This was starting to get a little stinky, so.
Well, it'll be our first rag.
Our first rag together.
- Okay? - Okay.
- Oh! - (BOTH LAUGH) - (SIGHS) - Hey, that looks nice.
Yeah, I just wanted to make it a little bigger.
Some sketching space, and, plus, you know, room for two.
Oh, for me to pfft.
Why don't we drown that thought in a margarita? - Don't mind if I do.
- All right.
(DOG BARKING IN DISTANCE) - (PHONE CHIMES) - Oh.
Oh, she's early.
Hang on.
Uh, hey! Hey, there! LAURA: Hi! Hey.
Wow, this place is beautiful.
Right? I knew you'd like it.
Come on.
Oh, wait! Laura, Laura.
I wanna introduce you to someone.
Laura, this is Olivia.
Hi.
So, he said, "If you could cook, we could fire the chef.
" And I said, "Ernie, if you could fuck, we could fire the chauffeur.
" (LAUGHS) (SIGHS) What? (MECHANICAL WHIRRING) - (MUSIC PLAYING) - (CHATTER, LAUGHTER) - Hey.
- Hi.
MAN: Miss Lake! Dennis Klein.
Thank you for being so kind and responsive.
I've been seating myself for decades.
My ass goes here, right? Yes, it does, and you want to face the table.
(CHUCKLES) At $124,000 for for the exploration, I believe we'd be safe.
Of that, $10,000 is my fee, which I've given it some thought and I'm willing to waive my fee.
You know, skin in the game.
So, now we're at 114.
And if what I suspect is true turns out to, in fact, be true, I would get 10% of whatever your ultimate reward turns out to be.
And we could reduce that to to 8 or even 7 1/2% if the upside is where it may end up being.
And, honestly, 5% is all I would um, I would need.
End of the day, you know, all to be negotiated.
So, there you have it.
I mean, uh, you have the material.
Uh, have a look at it.
Uh and you have my number.
Give it some thought.
(CHUCKLES) And, uh and I it was lovely to meet you, and I hope I hope to be hearing from you soon.
Thanks.
Um, excuse me.
I looked over and I'm like, "That's the face from the book I worshipped.
" And I'm really sorry, but I heard what your friend was saying.
May I? I won't stay long.
I've got a 2:00.
Eric Neill.
Hi.
- Olivia Lake.
- Yeah, of course you are.
Um, hmm.
You didn't trust what he said? My guess is if you Google him He's a geologist? Professor of geology.
Right, so you'll follow a few links and they'll take you to a university website, and there he'll be.
But let me guess does he have a sick relative, an ex-wife, or? - (LAUGHS) A daughter.
- Perfect.
So, you'll dig a little deeper and you'll see something about her car accident or anything spina bifida, some rare blood disease.
"Damn," you'll say, "the poor guy is telling the truth.
" So then you'll Google what was the company he told you about? - Ogden Ore.
- Right.
And you'll see ginormous profits to Ogden Ore for recommissioned silver mines.
But you get a call.
He's having second thoughts.
He doesn't want to screw his bosses at the school.
But in your brain, a tiny voice will be whispering, "Ogden Ore made" whatever figure he gave you.
72 million.
"Which buys a lot of brushes," you'll be telling yourself.
And so you'll say, "The school will be fine.
They just made "whatever he said they made "on their own consulting fees.
" And that's when he knows you're hooked.
And then he raises the prices.
He lowers them.
Because it's all about Trust.
And you know this because? Oh, man.
This was my life growing up.
My father was a higher class version of our friend here.
Meaning? Ponzi stuff.
Horrible.
People's pensions, college funds, retirements.
Yeesh, it's 2:00 already.
Damn.
But that's my cross to bear, and I hope I'm wrong about, uh Dennis Klein.
Dennis Klein, yeah.
Anyway, it was a real pleasure.
Good luck.
OLIVIA: His father was some kind of Ponzi guy or something.
I think Eric feels like he has some big karma to unravel.
Really? Is that what Eric thinks? What time does he think it is? Or should I just look at a clock? There he is.
Right there.
What do you think? You mean that dot among all those other dots? I'll let you know when he gets a little closer.
Oh, no, you're not getting any closer, not today.
Calm down.
I will be very subtle.
He's coming.
Okay, he's coming down.
Get out no, wait.
What am I doing here? I mean, on the premises? Uh, how about you were looking for him and you wanted to talk to him to thank him? No, because everything he said about Dennis Klein turned out to be true.
Believe it or not, sometimes the best way to sound like you're telling the truth is to actually tell the truth.
Dennis Klein turned out to be a hell of a wingman.
I will give you a very subtle signal.
No, no signals.
It will be very discreet, I promise.
OLIVIA: Hey, Eric.
- Hi.
- Oh, hey.
Oh, my rear end should not be this sore from four runs.
(LAUGHS) - How's it going? - Good.
Well, I saw you up there, and well, you were just right about everything, so I wanted to tell you.
- You looked him up? - Yeah.
I mean, I just had a hunch and, you know, so I just said to him up top, like, what is up with you? And normally, you would have trusted that, but the part of you that wanted him so badly to be right - Overruled.
- Exactly.
That's what they do, man.
They ride you through your own doubts and come out the other side like a surfer.
Hey, what was the, uh, kid thing? Oh, cancer.
- No.
- (CHUCKLES) Yeah.
You'd think he could come up with something more creative.
Right? Like tick Lyme.
- Yeah, or pica.
- Wait, what is that? Pica it's the one where people eat the nonfood things like chalk or drywall or ladders.
(BOTH LAUGH) - ERIC: I like that.
- Yeah.
Or the one where you get old really fast.
Exactly! Pictures of the kid at Disneyland or meeting LeBron.
Well, you know, you saved me a lot of money and, um, I feel like I owe you, so let's say I buy you a drink or something.
- A drink would be great.
- Okay.
- How about now? - How about now? 'Cause I'm freezing.
(MOUTHING WORDS) ERIC: All right, I love ski culture.
Nobody steals anything.
I don't know, it sounds exciting.
I mean, a new company every few years, a fresh start, learning new stuff.
You know, it sounds like imprinting, like a duckling.
(BOTH LAUGH) It is.
It was.
It's not, actually.
It's bad, what I do.
I mean, it's not illegal, but it's at the end of the day, basically I did four years of college and two years of business school to be a glorified Grim Reaper.
I find that hard to believe.
That's what restructuring a company is.
You decide who lives and who has to go home and break the news to the wife and kids.
That just doesn't seem like you.
I mean, it's my head, anyway.
Well, that's actually why I'm here.
I'm trying to get away and do a little rebooting, which is why I'm really sorry, but I gotta run.
I'm meeting a headhunter in Salt Lake and I'm already Well, go.
- Hunt those heads.
- (CHUCKLES) Um, but this was You know what? I'm too hungry to drive to Salt Lake.
How about you? I could eat.
So, Eric says, "He couldn't come up with something more original than that?" Then we start riffing on all these weird diseases.
(LAUGHS) I guess you had to be there.
Anyway, so, he's here because he's gonna be carving up some company, but, you know, he's kind of he's had a change of heart and he wants to change his life.
So, I mean, that's what he's doing here today.
He was gonna go to Salt Lake City and meet this headhunter, and but he cancelled it so that he could have dinner with me.
Yeah.
(LAUGHS) And look, I gotta go.
Otherwise he's gonna think that I have been in the bathroom the whole time.
(OLIVIA LAUGHS) A mirror? ERIC: Well, no, you're more like pieces of a mirror.
"Who does the public see me as" is one piece.
"The socialite, life of the party" is another piece.
Artist piece.
Confident, mature woman.
Vulnerable little girl.
The charity.
But what's behind it? That's what I'm curious about.
Oh, well, there's a reason you only hang a painting facing out.
Who wants to see all the wires and tacks and framing? - Me.
- Oh! And I don't know for sure because I'm not an artist, but my sister is one.
Well, she wants to be, but she wouldn't tell you that.
She'd tell you she has no interest.
I don't believe you.
- About my sister? - No, you.
You.
You're an actor.
Okay, since we're baring all, I once, in middle school, did a one-man show.
So lame, but I learned my lesson fast.
And my mother was a decorator.
Well, that's artisty.
And my dad, definitely not.
Wrong.
You told me yourself he was a con Con artist.
Oh, my God, you're right.
He's probably the best artist of all of us.
Ugh.
Where was I? Uh me.
(CHUCKLES) That's right.
The biggest piece under the 85 million pieces of Olivia Lake loneliness is what I see.
That's the thing everything else is covering up the desire to connect and the inability to, for whatever reason.
Am I close? Too close? (HISSES) Eric.
(PIANO MUSIC PLAYING) - Tell me about your play.
- (LAUGHS) Ah, I was too close.
We're changing the subject.
What was it called? "The Impersonator.
" I love that.
It was me doing a bunch of lame impressions famous people, other kids at the school, some characters I made up, but essentially they all ended up sounding like vampires.
Why do you ask? Because I think kids' art is 100% a declaration of who they are.
I think it's it's maybe the last time we tell the truth.
That's probably true.
Oh, my God.
I think we're keeping these people from going home.
I'm so sorry.
(LAUGHING) We'll take the check.
OLIVIA: "She takes those kids up the trail, like three times a day and tells her story over and over.
- It's pathetic.
" - Why would they write that stuff? Because it was like that for a while.
(SIGHS) - Even I thought it was pathetic.
- Uh You know, when I built these, I (LAUGHS) I felt like that North Korean guy.
(LAUGHS) What? Like I was building a monument to my own ego.
No, you were just trying to make something kind of permanent out of what always felt like a one-time, fleeting miracle, really.
I read somewhere the whole story came out of a dream.
Is that? I mean just look.
It was like a like a star just fell down from the heavens and I was holding a basket.
I wrote it all down in 45 seconds and drew it in two weeks, and That was 26 years ago.
So, it doesn't feel like it came from you.
'Cause if it did, why can't you get there again? But, hey, look, it got you all this.
- Which is insane.
- (LAUGHS) And I'm guessing it must be a a lot to maintain.
(SIGHS) The land or the life? Well, both.
Well, the land has a crew.
I've had to let a lot of them go.
I've got a boarder down in the barn.
He helps if I can get him to do anything.
But, yeah, it's hard.
And the life? What are we if not our life? I'm trying to decide if I should invite you in.
You know what I think? Eric you gotta let me do this one.
The night lasts longer if we don't.
That's what I want.
I appreciate that.
I would like to call you, though, if that's okay with you.
I would like that.
ERIC'S VOICE: That's what I'm curious about.
Well, maybe that's why you do art.
Like I don't know, I'm not an artist, but maybe deep down you're lonely and your art is a way to connect, to bridge.
I don't know.
Are you lonely? That's the biggest take I get.
I'm just kind of wondering if you're sort of all alone out here.
OLIVIA'S VOICE: He says he wants to see through all this, but he doesn't.
You know that, right? People don't.
They say they do, but then they don't.
When they see what's really there He won't he won't want to see it or ha, ha, fucking ha, he does.
And then he will.
And then what happens then? (SIGHS) What happens when he actually sees in? (SIGHS) ERIC: Report back? Okay, here's what you're gonna report back.
Olivia Lake is not a Nespresso machine.
You don't just punch in a cartridge, push a button, and expect boom.
And I'm working my ass off.
Who is this client, anyway? She's a fucking human being, okay? And I'm beginning to wonder if your precious client actually isn't one.
Look, either just let me do my job or give me the high sign and she can have her money back minus what I've already spent.
I'll talk to you later.
(STAMMERING) I'm working on it.
Jesus Christ.
Goodbye.
MAN: Stay the course.
You don't think he's going soft? Maybe.
There's a 9:15 out of Salt Lake, connects in Dallas, and then straight on to Marseille.
Give my best to Thelma.
So, what? Oh, okay.
Ahem, um, look, I can stay, ride him harder.
No, I don't want to risk anything.
We'll give him some space.
Don't call him again unless he calls you first.
Okay.
What about the rest of my end? Your end is what it all always was.
He converts, you get whole.
Either way, your debt's clear.
Um if I may, what's this really all about? MICHAEL: My father just really loved the pristine views and I wanted to do something nice for him.
Thanks for coming in on this.
Hi! - You home? - OLIVIA: In the kitchen.
(CHUCKLES) Oh, you look like you just took a shit on my carpet and wiped your ass on the drapes.
- What gives? - I can't tell you.
Really? You came all the way over here for something you cannot tell me? Fuck off.
Okay, I can tell you.
Eric spent two days last week in Mosaic.
In the gallery.
Alyssa told me this.
It's a secret.
He was apparently grilling her all about the business schmegegge, which is what those VC guys call it when they're not out headhunting.
She thinks he wants to pitch you on the idea to take Mosaic and build it out to a whole bunch of offices in a whole bunch of cities.
You have to swear I didn't say any of this to you.
Wow.
That is awesome that Alyssa didn't tell me.
- (PHONE CHIMES) - Oh.
So she gets kudos for keeping this a secret? I didn't say life was fair.
He's on his way over here.
You gotta go.
(WHISPERS) I'll just be squatting under the table.
Shh.
However much I wish you could, beat it.
Hey.
I'm sorry I've been out of touch the last few days.
I had some work stuff.
Well, I was intrigued by your text.
- May I? - Yeah.
Since we met, I've been thinking about you, about some stuff you said.
You said that the book happened once in 45 seconds, 26 years ago, so my question to you is what if the entire book was only the first chapter in what your actual legacy turned out to be? So, the story of the legacy of Olivia Lake what is it? From a dream Olivia imagines a classic.
On the strength of that classic she imagines a charity where thousands of kids have created things from their own dreams already.
So, what's next? I quit my job, and there's no going back, it would appear, which ushers in chapter three.
I I can't believe you quit your job.
It's not about me.
So, chapter three.
I went by the gallery on Monday and I see all these groups of kids come in and look at art and show their own art and make art, and I'm thinking, "Why are they bussing them in from Salt Lake? Why don't they just open one right in Salt Lake?" And then I think, "Why just Salt Lake?" So, my pitch to you is what if chapter three in the legacy of Olivia Lake IS PHASE ONE: five cities Salt Lake, Cheyenne, Denver, Albuquerque, Phoenix.
PHASE TWO: five-year plan.
PHASE THREE: 20-year plan.
And just 'cause it was late and I was getting punchy Told you I'm not an artist.
Thoughts? What do you think? (DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC) My choices in men, every goddamn one of them, liars and con men, and violent.
Oh boy.
What did Eric do this time? You hit her? Is that what she said to you? No.
Seriously, that's not what happened.
(CRYING) OLIVIA: You are not coming back here.
You want me to give up so you can feel better about yourself? I don't even know who you are! He is a sneaky, sneaky boy.
(DRAMATIC INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC)