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Actually sir, if you could just take a look now...
...I would really appreciate it.
There's this issue with my landlord...
...he is kinda on my back.
So, if you could just... please, please.
Thank you.
Not bad, nice work, good job.
Thanks for coming in.
That's it?
You got no studio work.
All we do is studio work...
...food, fashion, celebrity portrait.
- I got celeb. - Who?
I actually just shot Frank Stalone for this.
- He is the brother of... - I know who he is.
It's out of order.
Look, we sell sex.
You got no sex in there.
You see that, we shot that.
I had sex with that.
You're a photojournalist.
You take pretty pictures of...
...trees and buildings and homeless people.
- Stick with that. - If you could just...
I don't have studio work...
...because I can't afford it.
I can't afford it, because I don't have jobs...
...that pay like studio work.
See? So...
...I really feel like I can be great at this.
I just...
I need someone to take a chance.
Good luck with that.
I love it.
It is not what it seems. It is like...
We can do our work here.
We can talk about business and...
Hey hon.
This is my... Candy.
This is Candy.
You are not at work.
I'm not at work.
I'm right here.
Candy, could you excuse us?
Yes, sure.
Oh, you mean...
Okay, now before you get all in a huff...
...just hear me out, okay?
Candy is a new manager's assistant...
...while Dawn's in Anaheim I'm getting her acclimated.
To our home?
Yeah, we were in neighborhood, okay?
I left my laptop here.
- Eric! - What?
Don't power lunch me, Eric!
Okay, what do you wanna hear?
- The truth! - The truth?
That you rather spent time filling things in Candy's drawers...
...than be home with your wife.
You work just as much as I do, okay?
It's like a science project, isn't it Eric?
Oh, no, no, no, not right now, not the big picture's speech.
Working on us.
It's like the bedroom walls we never get around repainting.
What are we doing here?
Can I say something?
Actually really like the paint of the bedroom.
I can't believe this.
I truly find this unbelievable.
Did you ask me, if I had the rent? No.
Instead you chucked my things out into the hall way.
Do you have the rent?
That's not the point, Dave.
Okay, you know what, I, I... I...
I am working tonight and I'll bring you check tomorrow morning.
Do not work Thomas!
You're a fake cab driver...
...who drive people around in a fake taxi cab.
That's on the side but okay, you know what?
I was gonna tell you this I got a job today.
A real job?
Yes, a real job and it has a big fat pay check.
So why don't you help me pick all this crap up and...
...put it right back into that room, please.
Dave!
Sorry Thom, I can't carry you anymore.
- Dave, Dave! - No!
You gotta listen, please.
- No, I can't do that. - Don't do this to me. Dave!
Dave!
Okay, bye.
Susana! Did you send up the mailing list?
That's it, there.
Great, great, Susana, thanks for staying.
- My pleasure. - So you are done.
You heading home, heading out?
- You need me to mail those? - No, no.
You've done more than enough.
Okay then.
Hey, how's your boyfriend? What's his name again?
- Chris? - Chris.
Oh, oh, we broke up.
Oh you did, I am sorry.
Oh, it's okay, we never really fit anyway.
Yeah?
I mean, we tried to make it work...
...but he always wanted me to be somebody I am not.
You know?
Totally.
Correcting my grammar, buying me clothes I did not like...
...puting a pillowcase over my head...
...and bending me over the furniture.
I just... I never got used to it.
But live and learn, good guy just not the one for me.
Yes.
Are you sure don't want me to mail those?
No, no I'll get it. Thank you.
Okay.
Claire, where the hell are you?
I hope you get this.
I called at your home but for some reason your machine didn't pick up.
So I am calling you here.
This is your mom by the way.
I should not be leaving a message like this...
...but it's about your dad.
His daughter Eve called and he is...
He went and had a heart attack.
He is okay, you know...
...well I guess he is not okay...
...he had a goddamn heart attack.
But he ain't dead.
So I was thinking...
...I got the number of the hospital he is at in California...
...on the off chance that you might wanna call him.
- Where to? - Drive!
- What? - Just drive.
Are you...
If you go on past Newark I gotta charge round trip.
I don't make the rules. That's... That's headquarters.
We can't go past New Brunswick either.
That's... That's corporation limit.
In fact, even New Brunswick's pushing it.
Will you shut up?
I'm not paying you to talk, I'm paying you to drive.
That's why I took a cab.
So, I could sit in the back...
...while some foreigner who speaks broken English...
...could take me where I need to go!
I do not know where you need to go.
I do not care where...
...I do not care where I don't care how much it cost.
I'll just pay you whatever it cost.
Because I don't care. Do you get it?
I don't care. I don't care.
Do you care?
Holly shit!
Good morning.
Holly shit!
Where are we?
Rodney.
- What? - Rodney.
It's about one hour outside the Pittsburgh.
- Pennsylvania? - That would be the one.
We are in Pennsylvania!
- Are you joking? - No.
- Why did you bring me here? - You told me to.
To drive to Rodney?
"Just drive" that's what you said, "just drive".
Ow, I get it.
You drive me all the way out here...
...so you can drive me all the way back...
...then you make twice as much.
That's really clever.
Dan Reeves.
- Turn around. - I can't.
You'll get your round trip, now turn us around.
I can't drive the median. That's is illegal.
I pay for the ticket, just turn us around.
Six miles to the next exit, you'll just have to wait.
Stop the car!
Okay.
Meter's running.
Can you wait in the car?
Here is your purse.
I got it.
I am sorry.
We can work something out, if you, um...
...you know, If you don't have enough.
Anyway.
I am sorry.
You're a license cabby?
Don't point that at me.
You have a good record, right? You're a professional?
- Yes. - No accidents or tickets?
Non.
- Honestly? - Honestly.
I need an atlas.
Ready?
Looks like we just stand 70.
70 west?
So where we head?
Encinitas.
Where is that? In Pennsylvania?
Ohio?
California.
Oh God, you are serious.
Yeah, we're not doing that.
Why not?
Oh, I don't know, I got... I got other things to do.
I got meetings, I got deadlines...
I'm not just a taxi driver, you know.
I pay whatever the meter says.
The meter would explode trying to calculate a fair that big.
Then name your price.
We're talking about a lot of money.
Like buttloads.
Two thousand.
Two thousand, get you to the Pittsburgh Airport...
...you can fly anywhere in the continental United States.
I do not fly.
Three thousand.
Three thousand is, carry the one, still not enough.
Four.
Five.
Done.
Six.
You said five.
Five, tonight.
A thousand at the end of each day.
Five days, five thousand.
- Plus accommodation. - Done.
- And food. - Fine.
Fine.
So Encinitas, huh?
Dan is it?
Claire.
I'm dying up here.
It's this car.
It's depressing.
You should take better care of it.
Yeah? It's funny you'd mention that.
I was just about to get, uh, cashmere upholstery in here, beautiful..
But then I splurged on gasoline.
Well, I bet you spend a lot of time in here.
Wouldn't be surprised...
...what a little TLC could do to brighten your mood.
Yeah, I don't think the cab's the problem here.
It wouldn't kill us to get out every once in a while...
...you know, stretch our legs...
...get a sense of where we are, how far we've come.
That's what road trips are for.
Otherwise, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Utah...
...you know, they're just names on a map.
Might as well be on a plane looking down.
There.
Let's stop there.
Here we go. Wait where?
Okay.
Can you back to trunk?
- Oh, well, let me... - What's all this?
Some guy drove last night left it.
- Can we get rid of it? - No, no he...
...he asked me hold onto it until call about it.
Must be really lonely.
You ever notice how really lonely men have huge DVD collections?
That's the point, I guess.
Ready?
Was it an accident?
What?
What happened back in New York.
It's cool me.
I'm just telling you...
...I don't wanna get dragged into something, you know as...
As what?
An accomplice.
Come on.
You're driving cross country in a taxi cab.
Your method of payment has to be your husband's check book.
And you don't want your photo taken.
It is curious.
I killed my husband.
Look, I don't really feel very comfortable telling you my life story.
He found out about the affair.
What?
Your husband, he found out about the...
...the bohunk living in Encinitas, we're heading out to see.
I should have known. I see it now.
Look, I am sure, this is a lot of fun for you but...
...I don't feel comfortable telling you my life story.
Than don't.
The less I know, the better.
Are you gonna do this the whole trip.
You're not gonna talk, I am gonna fill in the gaps.
My father is in a hospital in Salinas, he had a heart attack.
So, if you are not gonna stop talking could you at least switch subjects?
Absolutely.
So.
You're married.
What's that like?
- It's great. - Yeah?
I don't think I can do it. I think it's unnatural.
Did you know that out of all the mammals on earth...
...only a quarter of them are monogamous.
The rest...
...sleeping around.
Doing it.
Many of which eat their own poop.
I just think we have unrealistic expectations.
Did you know that marriage was originally conceived...
...as an agreement between families...
...for financial gain, security...
...and somewhere along the line...
...this whole concept of love got stirred in?
But they just don't mix.
Marriage ruins love, love ruins marriage.
It's awful.
Take George and Wilma over there.
I bet they were insanely happy once upon a time.
And then they got married!
Had kids, went broke.
George was a wonderful plumber but terrible accountant.
Wilma probably blamed him and thought about leaving him...
...but decided to stick it out, you know, for kids.
And now here they are after all these years...
...with nothing to say.
Maybe they are enjoying it.
Sitting with someone they really know.
Someone who really knows them.
Not having to say something witty or insightful.
I like my version better. Just a little bit.
It is a better story.
For someone who has never married before...
...how did you get to be such an expert.
You must come close once or twice.
No!
I got a degree in psychoanalysis, N.Y.U.
You're a therapist?
And taxi driver?
Wow!
Driving is something I do on the side.
You know, for fun.
Well, you might wanna change your focus.
You're much better taxi driver than you're therapist.
Hey! Dan!
Dan!
Oh God!
Wow, that was...
The alignment seems to be a little...
Stop the car!
- What? - Stop the car.
Why?
You just drove across four lanes.
- It was because the... - The what?
- The alignment? - That's not what I said.
- That's what you said. - No!
- Pull over! - What?
Pull over right now.
What are you gonna do? Get out and walk?
There, there, pine bluff hotel 5 miles.
Take me there.
Yes, Miss Daisy.
Getting the motel room...
...then giving you check and you are going to hell away.
Sounds good.
Do you work here?
Sometimes.
Good, I need a room please.
55 even.
Where is my purse?
Dan, where is my purse?
This purse?
Oh! I guess it's not on me.
Well, I appreciate you looking.
Yes.
I understand.
Okay, thank you.
Bye.
It says you have 25 cents left?
They checked the entire restaurant parking lot.
Nothing.
I had to cancel all credit cards.
The good news is they are going to sent it to my moms.
So we can just pick it up in Vegas.
You can blow your own blackjack or something.
If they find it or something.
What did you say you had on you?
I didn't.
Okay.
Could you check?
Oh! 83 dollars.
Okay.
Credit Cards?
I have 83 dollars to my name.
I thought you were a therapist.
Uh, just...
...playing around.
So you're... you are poor?
No, you are poor! I have 83 dollars.
Fine, whatever.
Is there something you wanna ask me?
No.
Can we?
Can we what?
Don't be obtuse, you know.
Can we use my 83 dollars to get us across the rest of the Country?
Can we?
Can we what?
Can we use your 83 dollars to get us across the rest of the country?
No.
Why not?
You think 83 dollars is gonna get us across half a Continent?
I do not know!
We can fill this whole cab with "what you don't know".
Get your hubby to wire you some money.
No.
Why not.
I can't call him.
- He's dead, isn't he? - No.
- You killed him? - No!
Okay then...
Get him on the phone so that he can wire you some money...
...and then we can go the hell of away from here.
- I am not calling him. - Why not?
- Because... - Because what?
Because...
You know what? Forget it.
Just... just get out, would you?
Leave your crab, I sell on eBay...
...and you just go on your marry way.
Holly shit! You cry a lot.
Shut up!
No, auu!
Hey, no, no.
I do not play this, I am sorry.
We are not doing this, I don't fight with women.
My neck!
Yeah.
Where are you going?
Bathroom.
There she is.
Where did you go?
I just...
...looking for food.
Are you hungry?
I thought you left.
Find anything good?
Where are you going?
- Good morning. - Hey there.
Howdy?
What can I do you for?
By 10 bucks cheap and lonely.
No.
The guy here last night said that...
some sort of breakfast or...
Yes, a continental breakfast...
...right around the corner in conference room 1.
Thank you kindly.
I used to have this all the time growing up.
Can't believe I never got tired of them.
Oh good.
Because that's breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Dan!
I know this puts you in awkward position...
...with the cab company and everything.
But it means a lot.
So how do we get you to California?
Where is the nearest airport?
- Where to? - Elmad.
- But... - We 'll get you there.
Elmad?
- Probably a suburb. - Probably.
Yeah, I'll find it, you just...
Just what?
Fill in the gaps.
Oh, right.
So next thing you know...
...my dad's got 80,000 dollars worth of debt...
...and four tons of taffy oka pudding in the basement.
Oh, I'll be!
What company did you say he was with?
It was the Good Topeka business or Better Topeka...
Something something.
- Never heard of it. - Yeah, it's not around anymore.
Well, I can see why!
Next right.
- Right. - Right.
What?
Was that my street?
- No! - No!
No, No that's a a construction...
...we're actually going to take a scenic route.
- Left. - Right.
And here we are.
There will be forty-eight and fifty.
How much?
Forty-eight.
Forty-eight? I'd say that's a bit steep.
How much is it normally?
Twenty-five.
- Sounds good. - I'll get your bags.
It was fifty-five right, fifty-five College?
It was fifty-five College. Which street we are?
This is the Abesis. Oh I know this is...
I am right looking back there.
I guess..
Mark, you sit down.
- I think, I'm done. - Yeah.
How much do we have left after this?
Hopefully enough to get us to Colorado.
That's it?
Haven't driven the car lately, have you?
Yeah, welcome to the rest of the world.
Maybe we should go back to the airport.
God, no.
Let's keep going, we can always do this again.
Good idea.
We'll have better luck in Denver anyhow.
Yes?
- Hi. - Hello.
This is going to be a strange question but...
Did a young man happened to come here...
...looking to use your rest room or something?
No.
Did you lose someone?
Yeah.
Yeah, I think I fell asleep in my car...
...and when I woke up he was gone.
And I don't know why he would stop here, or eh...
...actually I don't know where I am.
I am sorry.
Well, we are in Bolder.
Arnold, who is it?
Lynnette, did you see some guy walking around outside?
Oh Gosh, no.
- What's his name? - Dan Reeves.
Like the football coach?
Sure.
This guy she was traveling with...
...took off while she was sleeping in the car.
Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness!
We will keep an eye on him for you.
What is he look like?
Oh, I have a picture.
Surprise!
Thom!
That was a classic.
Oh my Gosh!
I can't believe it.
Oh, you should have seen the looks on your faces!
Well, you had me going.
Dan Reeves.
Oh, I wish you'd let me know you were coming.
This place is a mess!
Your father promised me he was gonna sweep that.
We wanted to surprise you.
- It's just an absolute mess. - Mom, Dad, this is Claire.
Hello.
Hi.
What brings you out here?
You know we had got this crazy idea that...
...travel across the country, and I thought, hey...
...I know someone in Bolder, so...
So you drove from New York just like that.
Just like that.
What fun, that's fun.
I don't believe it.
- Well, are you guys hungry? - Not really.
Starving!
Oh wonderful, let's get you fed.
Come on sweetheart.
- We had just dinner. - We can't spend too much time...
...we actually have to back on the road soon, mom.
Okay. What would you like to eat sweetheart?
Why don't you sit right here, next to the father...
...and that is Asian chicken on the table.
It is so very good.
And then I have some meat loaf...
...and some bean salad.
No, I'll take some meat loaf.
Ow Ow, that's a good one isn't it?
Those are surgeons, that's Tod and Marcia...
...and that's Gracie, the little olympian...
...and I think you know the cute guy in the middle.
I just wish you guys had told me you were coming.
I would have fixed something a little fancier.
Mom this is great.
- I'll have the chicken, please. - Asian chicken.
- Delicious! - So exactly how did this come about?
You know, it was a spur of the moment kind of a thing.
We both had time off from work, so we figured why not.
Thom.
So where you two heading?
Lynnette, I'll take some meat loaf.
Well, my mom is in Vegas, so we are gonna go there.
And then I also have some family in San Diego.
Oww, California girl.
Lynnette!
Well.
Not exactly.
My half sister and my father live there.
How often do you get to see them?
Oh, about every twenty years or so.
I grew up with my mom.
- In Vegas? - In Vegas.
Atlantic City, Orlando, pretty much everywhere.
- So how did you two meet? - Mom.
Oh, oh well, excused me!
If somebody would just call his parents every once in a while...
...and filled them in on what's happening in his life...
...I would not have to be so nosy.
But so, do you work together?
No, no, no.
No, I'm in nonprofit I don't think I'd last very long as a cabby.
A cabby?
Yeah, like your son.
Thom.
I didn't tell you guys about that.
Do you drive a cab?
Yeap.
Well on the side, you know for fun.
Well, what happened to Wall Street?
Nothing happened to Wall Street, mom.
It's still there. It's just a...
...you know I got a mobile office, WiFi, a satellite kinda thing...
I just, you know, don't have to be rooted to a desk anymore.
I can literally work anywhere if I could just type it in and off it goes.
I'll have the chicken if there is...
But, why a cab driver?
Well, I mean why not...
...you know, when in New York, right?
Plus, it's always been a dream of mine...
...to overhaul the transit system there.
So I figured, you know...
...mine's will start with one out of a fleet.
And so I figured...
So you own a cab?
- It's out front. - Here?
You just...
You just drove out here in a taxi cab?
Sure did.
- What fun! - Yep.
Goodness!
You came all the way out from New York in a...
Yes, it's unbelievable, isn't it?
Wow!
Wow, wow, wow.
Yep.
Is it one of the checkers or is it a little yellow one?
I always liked the yellow one.
- It's a... it's yellow. - Oh, God.
Well, if you could excuse me for a moment?
Oh, sure. Oh, if you need the bathroom sweetheart...
...it's just pass the pantry on the right.
You wanted a meat loaf?
Chicken.
Asian Chicken, good for you.
- Look at that. - Yeah.
- What fun. - Yeah.
So how much is he charging you Claire?
No, I'm kidding, I'm so kidding.
Well it was very really nice to meet you.
I just wish we had more time together.
Are you sure you don't wanna stay until breakfast?
Because your father doesn't even have to leave...
...until ten o'clock and we can...
Yeah, I am sure, mom.
Alright.
How are you doing in cash?
Need some money for gas or what not?
No.
Okay...
Alright.
Pleasure.
So, you have your dad's new telephone number?
Yes.
Okay, you call when you get to California.
- Yeah, I will. - Just to let us know if you're alright.
- Okay. - Okay.
- Safe trip! - Thanks.
You okay?
Let me know if you need to switch.
You can't drive.
Not legally.
Claire.
Wow!
Did you know about this?
I have no idea how we got here.
That's impressive what with you...
...driving the car alone.
I must have dozed off.
No, I dozed off...
...you apparently went into a coma.
We're alive, aren't we?
Let's back get in the car and...
...find the highway.
The highway you drove off?
- Yes. - How do we do that Claire?
Is there an on–ramp? I am not seeing it.
We follow the tracks.
What tracks Claire?
Unless you sprinkled bread crumbs for us to follow.
- There are no tracks. - Why are you being an ass?
It's all like I meant to do this.
You realize that makes it even worse, right?
Because that means we have no way of getting back.
Fine, you stay here.
I'm sure the tumbleweeds can appreciate
your sarcasm a whole hell of a lot more than I can.
That was gonna be so cool, wasn't it?
With you driving off.
Shall I?
So when exactly were you diagnosed as a compulsive liar?
- I'm not a compulsive liar. - Neah.
You're hall of famer Dan Reeves.
Yeah, I lied about that.
And about being a therapist.
And a Wall Street tycoon.
And just now about not being a liar.
- It's kinda oversimplifying it, isn't it. - Well, it's kinda simple.
You lie habitually.
I don't see what the big deal is.
We were always like... you know what...
...let's just be completely brutally honest about everything.
And then somewhere along the lines that turns into...
...I hate to just squeeze from the wrong end of the toothpaste.
Or... or you know when you're making that face...
...when we're making love. Don't do that. That's ugly.
Or I wish you looked like a model.
And I wanted to have sex with every person I've seen today except you.
You feel better? I know, I do.
I am so glad I got that off my chest.
I mean, I wouldn't much rather tell a few white lies then put in all that work.
And the lies back at your parents house that wasn't work...
All that back pedaling...
And for what?
They don't care if you're some Wall Street zillionair.
They just want you to be happy.
- And how would you know that? - Because they are unhappy.
- They are? - Completely.
Your dad keeps everything bottled...
...and your mom barely acknowledges your dad.
Whatever those two had when they got married...
...they gave up on a long time ago.
Yeah, you know what...
...it can't be all rainbows and chocolate hearts.
You know, they had kids, responsibilities eventually they have to settle down.
Some people settle down and some people just settle.
Well, it's clearly it's a category you fit into.
What?
Oh come off it, you escaped New York, faster than Kurt Russel.
And then you demanded that I take you back what you feel like I'm scamming you.
And then you... you... you asked me to drop you...
...over a motel in the middle of nowhere.
I mean, make up your mind you are like a ping pong ball.
Someone gives you a little tap and you just go flying.
I left New York because I caught my husband having an affair.
Ooh.
Yeah, ooh.
You like ehm... caught him?
Pretty much.
There was definitely something going on.
But you didn't see anything?
I didn't see... need to see something...
I just know.
There was no like emails...
...you didn't find pictures from the Bahamas or anything?
I just know.
Why are you laughing?
When I drove off the road...
...you caught me.
This. This just sounds like someone looking for a way out.
How much further you think?
Depends.
On what?
Whether we're going toward it or away from it.
We could be...
...two days from the nearest road by now.
Great attitude.
Let's stop crapping ourselves, shall we?
The likelihood of us getting out of this alive...
...gets slimmer the longer we're out here.
If the cold doesn't get us tonight, the heat will tomorrow.
Would you shut up?
You wanna pretend there's a Marriott over the next horizon...
...you go ahead and do that.
But I would much rather spend my energy...
...trying to figure out how to, you know...
...keep each other warm.
How do you suggest we do that?
No thanks.
I'm not talking about...
Whatever.
You think it's cold now? Wait a few hours.
Thom.
Almost done.
Great.
So we should be on the road in no time.
Why are you so camera shy?
- I'm not photogenic. - I find that very hard to believe.
I can show you some school pictures.
Oh come on.
Oh yeah, I can show you one from third grade.
My mom, she did my hair up in a really hot perm.
It was really sexy.
That sounds really sexy.
And then she put all this makeup on my face and...
...put me in a slaughter vest that I really really hated it.
I looked like a rodeo clown.
I got teased on the bus, it was that bad.
Anyway a few years later I went to go visit my dad and Eve.
That's my sister.
Half sister.
And wouldn't you know it, that picture's on his fridge.
And he said.
See, I look at you every day.
But it wasn't me.
Wasn't even me in third grade.
It's just a picture.
Can I take your picture?
No.
- Come on. - Didn't you just hear my whole story?
Look, when you get old, like really old.
You may wanna share your memories. Okay?
Maybe not a hot perm rodeo Claire, but definitely have something like this.
Why can't this taken without me?
Because without you in the picture...
it's a flat shot, it's like postcard but if you...
Alright.
Alright, here, go on, take a look.
Alright.
Put me on like center the frame.
You see how it's a little easier...
...to take in all of it with something in the foreground?
Yes, it's not the same.
Yeah, exactly.
So.
Can I take your picture?
Alright, you're looking at 355 all toll.
I thought it was an easy fix!
It was but with the toll, it is 355.
We can't pay that. We can't pay that.
I am sorry.
I actually don't think that you understand.
I lost my purse four cities back and...
...when I say that we can't pay that...
- ...I actually mean that. - You should have thought of that...
before you decided to park your car in the middle of the desert.
Okay.
Call the taxi company.
Yeah, I don't know if the taxi company...
I mean, I am sure they have roadside assistance...
...triple A something like that.
This car isn't registered under any company.
So no, there is no roadside assistance.
Okay, hold on I figured out, you know what, I got something.
What are you talking about?
If this was a commercial vehicle, then it'd have different plates.
This car isn't registered under any company anywhere.
Just the Tom Covanake guy, okay?
- So that'll be... - 355.
Thank you very much.
Alright, hold on.
Okay, I'm aware this is bad.
Is there anything else?
What?
Is there anything else you haven't told me?
I bought this at an auction last spring.
And... and when I get really low in cash...
...I used to pick people up.
It's not something I do all the time...
I just... I got kicked out of my apartment the first night you met me.
And I didn't tell you because I needed to make money.
And then I didn't tell you because I was embarrassed...
...and then it was just, you know, it was too late.
Also the DVDs in the back are all mine.
Also the first night when you fell asleep in the back...
...I looked up your skirt.
A lot.
The cash... eh... the cash wasn't mine.
It was my parents', and I didn't borrow it from them.
I stole it, and this morning...
This morning I...
...I heard the highway and I didn't wake you because...
...I wanted to... sleep in with you and...
though you have eh...
you have absolutely nothing to go on.
I want you to know that I am...
...I'm tired of the way I am and...
...I will never lie to you again.
I know.
I know he will be really happy and sleep well...
...knowing that you are safe and sound.
He is your husband, you know.
I do know that.
Look, I am not gonna get in the middle of it.
I just think he deserves a call.
Let him know you are okay.
Call him.
Maybe.
- Well I tried. - Yes you did, yes you did.
Thom, have you met Claire's better half yet?
You know, I have... I have not yet.
He is quite a catch.
He is like seven feet of muscle.
He gave me the most beautiful sweater for Christmas.
It's cashmere.
- It's just simply gorgeous. - And practical here in Nevada.
Well I think it's beautiful.
It's a lot nicer than the golf clubs Jered got me.
I mean what the hell was I gonna do with golf clubs?
Except maybe clunk him over the head with one.
Mom.
Sweetheart.
You got my message about your father, right?
Yeah, we're driving in the morning.
- How are you feeling about that. - Fine.
- We'll talk later. - What's there to talk about?
I haven't called yet.
I decided I would just go and see him.
He is still at the hospital?
You didn't get my message.
Monday night.
No, I left another one after that.
The service is tomorrow.
I'm sorry Claire.
- Claire! Claire. - That's okay...
Claire, honey!
Alright, alright, come on.
No, no, no, Claire, come on.
- No, no, don't, don't do this. - Get out!
Hold on. Just breathe here.
Just don't... alright, listen, take this... no, no, no.
That's okay, that's okay, I do that all the time.
Pick up my can.
Pick it up.
My can.
Just a second.
Okay.
Sorry.
Come in the back there.
The towels are in the closet by the bathroom.
Thanks.
I'm cryin' already and I didn't even like him.
I brought lotsa goodies; I got potato chips and I got pretzels and I got a lotta gum.
Do I look alright? I was gonna do a hot perm but I didn't have time.
This is good. What you got going on?
Look at this beautiful house.
Eve.
Claire.
You're so tanning.
- You're practically Mexican. - Mom.
- What? That is a compliment. - This is Thom.
Hi, Eve.
Hello, nice to meet you.
This is my husband Allen, this is Gil.
- Hello. - How do you do.
Hello, nice to meet you. Welcome, welcome.
- And this is Claire. - Hi, Claire, lovely to meet you.
Oh my God.
- Erik, my big bear. - How are you?
I wear your sweater all the time.
I would expect nothing less.
Hi.
I got on the plane as soon as I heard.
When was that?
Last night.
Well, I got to see a man about the dog.
- Eve, may I use your boudoir? - Yes.
- Alright, Thom. - Hey, Eric.
I heard a lot about you.
Claire, can we talk?
- Do you want a beer? - Yeah, yeah.
How was the drive?
- Well... - Long.
It's last month...
...we have been working a lot together, getting pretty close, you know.
I don't know, I guess I just liked to talk to somebody else about us.
I don't know.
Anyway, along that time that's when we had our big fight...
I knew we had to work things out...
...so I called Candy with the house to call it off...
...because I just wanted to stop it before...
That's when you came home and found us.
Claire, it's not her fault, okay?
It's my fault, I let it go too long...
I should have stopped it before it got out of hand, and uh…
She is a great girl and I'm sure...
...under different circumstance you two make great...
The point's, Claire, is that I never crossed that line.
You gotta believe that.
Because I believe we can work things out.
- I'll be working on being... - On what?
Mean we're married?
Or in love.
Both.
Hi.
Sorry to interrupt but I think everyone is here.
Are you gonna walk down?
Yeah, thanks Eve. We'll be right out.
You know when you were gone, I...
I nearly lost it.
Come home, empty house you weren't there.
I don't wanna feel like that ever again.
Judging by how many people showed up here today.
I think It's...
...safe to say that dad was...
...probably the loneliest man on earth.
It's understandable he was...
...a hard man to know.
And he didn't believe in second chances.
What's done is done.
I don't buy that.
We can change.
We do change.
We don't have to take our regrets to the grave like he did.
We can be free of all of that.
We don't die inhaling.
We exhale.
We leave it all behind.
Oh! Thanks.
I like her, I do. He is...
He is not me.
I hope the check is okay.
It's fine.
You going back to New York?
You know, I can be poor anywhere.
I might as well be on the road for a little while.
Where is the... where is the airport from here?
I don't know.
I thought you said you didn't fly.
Well it's time I got over it.
Those pilots know what they're doing.
And it's safer than driving.
Depends who is driving.
I think that's everything sweetheart but you forgot your scarf so may I...
Hey Thom, you...
...you live out of your car, pal?
Why is that?
I... Well... Why is that? Well, look at all the decorations in this bad boy.
Isn't it great?
It... It... looks like a Pottery Barn in here.
But it's great, it's... it's.. It's great.
I'll take a last look.
Yeah, that sounds like a... ...good idea.
- I think we're all good. - You shouldn't have to go.
Claire!
What did you just say?
I said...
I wish you could stay.
I can't do that.
I know.
Claire!
Hey, Claire!
I'm sorry about your father.
Thank you.
He...
He really missed out.
You're the only one who doesn't have to be here.
- Okay. - Alright.
I want sweaters for Christmas please.
I'll clean this shit, I promise.
There's no pay.
- Be careful. - I love you.
Love you too, you guys.
- Goodbye guys. - Goodbye guys.
Doesn't get any easier, darling.
She's been in my life for 29 years and it still hurts to see her go.
Okay, we're gonna get back on the 5...
...we're gonna drive for about 60 miles...
...and then we're gonna see that burger joint...
...and we are gonna stop there...
Come on! Come on!
Battery Park City.
Did Dan see it? And what did he say?
Then what's the problem? That's exactly what I was telling...
Sorry sugar.
You know what, look...
Okay good, so, see you're basically telling me Selena that I spent...
...what four and a half hours on a plane reading stupid thing...
...I never gonna be actually dealing with.
No, you told me that he actually read it.
Right, now are you telling me that he just read it now?
Why didn't you tell me this when I was in California?
Okay look, do me a favor...
...not telling me do something unless he has made a decision...
- Home sweet home. - Home sweet home.
I love seeing those little colored balls.
If you find my eyelash...
...would you mail it to me? Because that's human hair.
Sure I will.
And I hear my phone ringing. Everything happens as soon as I'm home.
Are you telling me, I mean you... you're talking me insane.
Who would call this?
Come on the phone.
Okay.
- Hello. - Hey.
Hi.
Did you make it home in one piece?
No, no. No, no that's... Oh God, no, that's Bill Samorack.
No, no, no, this is Bill Walls.
The exhibition artist.
Remember? He was the guy who had that show in Greenpoint...
...where he hung himself from a flagpole by his nipples, remember?
Right, right I remember.
Well, he and I went to one of those parties everybody is in cages.
Right.
And you know, people are crawling all over each other...
...pretending to be wild animals.
What were you?
A turkey.
Bill was a dolphin. How cute is that.
Oh my God.
We had the best time.
Susan, I'm really happy for you.
Yeah... it's about time, huh?
Yeah.
Before I forget, San Diego called...
...about celebrity auction.
Are you gonna be able to go?
Yeah, that's fine I'll just give them a call in the morning.
Right.
- See you tomorrow. - Thanks Susan.
- Bye. - Bye.
Hola my beautiful sister, it's Eve.
Happy Belated Easter.
For what that's worth, I don't know.
I got your message and I think that would be so awesome.
Lady, you pick the date, I am there.
We eat, we surf...
...we do everything you're supposed to do here in beautiful Encinitas.
Which is... eh... easier than surfing.
Now I think about it, anyway call me, I love you.
Hey, it's... It's Eric.
It's call when you know I dropped out some your mail.
Your landlord said that I can put it inside your apartment for you.
So, I just wanted to make sure you got it.
I hope you're doing okay.
That's it, okay, bye.