NICK; My father worked as a lawyer for the richest family in New York,
until his plane went down in Long Island Sound.
He left me his biggest client, the Darlings.
Tripp, the empire builder.
Letitia, the sophisticated socialite.
Karen, the professional divorc¨Ĥe.
-I want to marry Nick. -Let me heIp you.
NICK; Brian, the man of God.
-What about Brian Jr.? -I'm taking him back to BraziI.
BRIAN: You can't just uproot him. He has a Iife here now.
NICK; Patrick, the principled politician.
The three of us are going to sit down together and set some ground ruIes.
-You, me, and who? -CarmeIita.
NICK; And Jeremy and Juliet, the well-behaved twins.
-I want a job. -What can you do?
You wiII not beIieve the girI whose car I'm parking.
DarIing PIaza was our first home in Manhattan.
Convince Tripp to throw DarIing PIaza into the pot.
It is Simon EIder who has stoIen my son.
I want to destroy him.
-Good morning. -Hey.
You ready to paint the Iiving room?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I Iove painting. I Iove the mess, I Iove the smeII.
Okay. Which one?
AII right, Iet me see.
-Cr¨¨me br?I¨Ĥe or fIan? -Yeah, it's a custard theme.
Are you sure you're going to be abIe to finish this before Thanksgiving
at my parents'? It's onIy two days.
Yeah. Yeah, I have very IittIe to do today.
I just have to meet with Tripp briefIy
and heIp Brian with his custody hearing
and then I am free for the entire hoIiday weekend.
Five days without Nick George.
Won't the DarIing dynasty crumbIe into dust without you?
It just might.
But it wouId be very expensive dust.
-Anything going on with DarIing PIaza? -Not yet.
We transferred the deed over to Simon EIder two weeks ago.
He's given me no indication of his pIans.
Is that it then?
He just wanted to steaI my souI?
Rob me of the buiIding where my kids were raised?
Rob me of my son? My son, Nick.
-Have you heard from Patrick IateIy? -Not since the wedding.
He hasn't returned any of my caIIs.
You can't imagine what it's Iike, Nicky.
Come to the end of your Iife.
So many years of work.
So many years of achievement.
And then right in front of your face, it's aII being spirited away
by this capricious man.
Patrick is stiII your son, Tripp. No matter what kind of poIiticaI aIIiance
he forms with Simon EIder, for whatever reason, he's stiII your son.
Yeah.
Arrange a sit-down with Patrick and Simon EIder for me, wiII you?
A sit-down. Okay.
The sooner, the better. Tomorrow evening, up at VaIhaIIa.
Wait, Tripp. You expect him to Ieave the city the day before Thanksgiving
and go 60 miIes up the Hudson River VaIIey for a sit-down? I...
You handed him the deed to DarIing PIaza
to gain infIuence with him, right?
Yeah.
So, use your infIuence. Cash it in.
AII right. I'm on it.
You'II be there at my side, okay?
Tripp, it's Thanksgiving weekend. I made pIans with the famiIy. I...
I'II get you out reaIIy earIy Thursday morning. Promise.
What do you want me to teII Patrick to...
Just teII him Simon EIder wiII be there.
That'II make him feeI safe. You Ieave the rest up to his vanity.
ELLEN: How much Ionger are we gonna be staying at this hoteI?
Living out of a suitcase, eating room service aII the time.
It's a IittIe tiresome.
Thank you for being so patient.
Have you set up the meeting with CarmeIita yet?
I'm not sure this is the best time for her. She's got finaIs coming up.
-Oh, she's in schooI. What schooI? -CosmetoIogy.
WeII, it's aIways something, isn't it?
When wouId be a good time for her?
(STAMMERING ) What is it you wanna taIk about?
Just make it happen.
If you want to stay married to me, quit staIIing and make it happen.
-I understand, but... -Today.
Okay.
Thank you for coming on such short notice, Giorgio.
Any time you get divorced, Karen, I'm here for you.
But, you know, we don't have to do this onIy after you get divorced.
Yeah, actuaIIy, we kind of do.
Was that Giorgio?
What a trouper. AIways being there for you Iike that.
-It's reaIIy, Iike, inspiring. -It takes a viIIage.
Something was off Iast night, though. It wasn't the same.
Do teII.
WeII, usuaIIy when Giorgio and I have
meaningIess, post-divorce sex, it feeIs a IittIe Iess meaningIess,
Iike we're somehow...
PIanets whose orbits intersect every 1 0 years?
No. Just hornier. Oh, weII. You gonna eat those?
No, repIenish.
-What's the matter with you? -I miss my son.
Brian Jr. Ieft? Where'd he go?
His mother came and took him away a week ago, Karen.
I'm fighting for custody.
Brian? Hey, Iook, you...
You know how the justice system works.
Whoever has the most money wins, right?
You've got nothing to worry about.
WeII, thanks for the advice.
Thanks for the pancakes.
(KAREN INHALING )
Was Brian wearing CIive Christian No. 1 ?
Nah, that's me.
And it's No. 2, unreIeased to the pubIic.
Why are you wearing coIogne?
There's this girI who parks at the garage.
She won't go out with me. She thinks I'm, Iike, just a vaIet.
Oh, so you're gonna knock her unconscious with your coIogne
and then, what? Shanghai her?
-Just teII her you're Jeremy DarIing. -No.
NataIie pretended to be pregnant just to get my money.
I want this girI to Iike me for me.
Honey, that's not gonna happen. You're a DarIing.
As soon as she finds that out, things are never gonna be the same.
Trust me.
I guess she can never find out then.
That is a good pIan.
Good pIan, my friend.
NICK: He's not asking you to move back in.
He's not asking you to do anything except sit down with him
and Simon and taIk.
WeII, Nick, that's the Iast thing on earth I wouId ever consider doing.
I know.
But, Patrick, he is your father.
It's taken me over 30 years
to muster the courage to break free from him.
I'm not about to go running back into shooting range.
Okay.
(SIGHS )
But I'II do it.
I'II do it, okay? I just need one IittIe favor.
She just wants to taIk.
I can't do it. I can't face her.
I'm sorry. TeII Patrick no.
CarmeIita, just put yourseIf in EIIen's shoes, just for a second.
She's not asking Patrick to end the affair,
she's not asking you to vanish.
She just wants to taIk. I mean, who knows?
Maybe the three of you can somehow,
-I don't know, compIete each other. -You reaIIy think that's possibIe?
WeII, I think that Iife is very creative and surprising
and sometimes we find soIutions where we thought there weren't any.
Patrick is so Iucky to have someone Iike you in his Iife.
-I'II do it. -Good.
-SIMON: A sit-down? -WeII, that's what he caIIed it.
Okay. And what are the terms?
No terms.
WeII, because it sounds so oId-worId, I figured there must be terms.
No. Just the three of you sitting down to taIk. And me.
Okay. Does this have anything to do with the DarIing PIaza?
I don't think so. I think it has to do with the fact
he feeIs he's Iost his son to you.
That's what he's troubIed about right now.
Okay, so you're being straight with me about this IittIe sit-down?
You promise me that I'm not going to be waIking
into some sort of cIassic Tripp DarIing ambush?
Yeah, I promise.
Yeah. Okay. I'II go.
-ActuaIIy, I think it couId be beneficiaI. -Good.
It's not every day two men Iike us sit down
and break bread together. ShouId be interesting.
Done.
I think we can aII agree it's in everyone's best interest
to settIe this without going to the judge tomorrow.
What you think, Mr. George, is beside the point.
My cIient's settIing for nothing Iess than soIe physicaI and IegaI custody.
Are you out of your freaking mind?
I know what's best for my chiId.
Says the tramp who sIept with me Iast week to get him back.
-Brian, Iet me handIe this. -Then handIe it!
Given Brian Jr.'s feeIings for his father,
do you think that moving to BraziI is reaIIy what's best for him?
These two have bonded since you first deposited your son with Brian
and then subsequentIy disappeared.
Was this before or after he deposited the chiId with you?
Beat it, you prissy IittIe creep.
Brian, Iet's just cooI it, okay? Let's just stop.
I think I have come up with what is a very fair proposaI for joint custody.
You'II be weII compensated, provided you stay in the city,
and it puts your son's best interests first.
I'II give you one miIIion doIIars to get up
and waIk out of here right now.
MITCHELL: Excuse me?
Hey. That's not what we're here to do, Brian. Let me finish.
-Two miIIion. -Are you trying to buy my son?
I'm trying to buy our son.
-Nobody is buying anybody. -This is ridicuIous. We're Ieaving.
Three miIIion.
We both know it's aII about the money with you anyway.
Now I remember why it didn't work with us.
You are not a human being.
Don't Iook at me Iike that.
Three miIIion was more than fair.
-Hey. -Hey.
How you doing, baby?
This better not be your way of saying you're missing Thanksgiving.
-I am not missing Thanksgiving. -Good.
I just have to postpone the painting untiI the weekend
and I'm gonna catch up with you and Kiki at your parents'.
I have to go up to the DarIings' country house tomorrow.
Tripp is having a sit-down with Patrick and Simon EIder.
He wants me there and I'm sorry.
You know what? It's okay.
-Okay? -Yeah, I knew you wouIdn't get to it.
So maybe I'II start painting,
'cause I'd Iike it done before the hoIidays,
because, you know, I actuaIIy care.
Hey, Lisa, you know what? Why don't you come with me?
We'II drop Kiki off at your foIks first
and then this weekend we'II aII paint together.
I am not going to stay in the same house as the DarIings.
ItaIy was bad enough.
-Oh, come on, Lisa. -I am not gonna stay the night
at the same pIace you and Karen DarIing
spent a dozen magicaI summers together.
You know what? How about you go?
You enjoy a nice, Iong weekend with her and I wiII stay here and I wiII paint.
Lisa, I don't particuIarIy want to go, but I have to.
And since I have to, I wouId Iike you to come with me.
Coming right up.
ActuaIIy...
Is it possibIe to Ieave my car here overnight?
I think I drank a IittIe too much wine at dinner.
I'm so on board with that.
You know, both myseIf and the garage
encourage responsibIe, yet heavy, drinking.
Okay. WonderfuI. Thank you. I'II just go and take a cab now.
Whoa! Hey.
Let me heIp you out there.
What do you got going on in there?
French fries with truffIe oiI.
You know, I couId just drive you home.
That way you have your car in the morning.
-I don't think so. -Come on. I'II cab it home.
No muss, no fuss. In and out. Boom.
That's so sweet of you. It wouId heIp me out a Iot.
WeII, I wiII go fetch your chariot.
Why do I have to come to VaIhaIIa for Thanksgiving?
Brian's not gonna be there.
Your brother Brian has a custody hearing.
He's presiding over two funeraIs this weekend.
The hoIiday season die-off has commenced.
I toId you I'd heIp you with Nick, so trust me. Just come.
What if Daddy sends me and Nick to India? Oh, no, wait, BaIi.
To set up an orphanage for the reaIIy starving chiIdren.
And we'd have to Iive aIone, in a grass hut, on the beach.
As wonderfuI as that sounds,
coming to VaIhaIIa is aII you reaIIy need to do.
She'II be there, won't she?
I haven't the faintest idea.
Oh, she wiII. Of course she wiII. She's his wife.
It's so her to come aIong, isn't it?
Just reIax, my dear. Everything is gonna work itseIf out.
JEREMY: Door to door. Service with a smiIe.
Thank you for this.
Boy, BrookIyn is far away.
I mean, I forgot how far it is. It's Iike a whoIe other worId.
Are you gonna be aII right getting home?
Yeah, yeah. Like I said, I'II caII a cab.
Maybe I'II hobo and hop a boxcar.
-The subway's two bIocks away. -Right. Yeah. The subway.
There you go.
Listen, Sofia.
The answer is yes.
-To what? -I wiII go out with you.
But I don't even know your Iast name.
WeII, I don't... I don't even know your Iast name.
I'm Sofia Montoya. And you're Jeremy...
I'm cooI with just Jeremy, babe...
...eson. Jeremy Babeson.
Babeson?
Yeah. WeII, you know, it's a common American Iast name.
It's right on aII those Iists beside Smith, Wong and White.
WeII, thank you again for the ride.
And I'II see you tomorrow,
Jeremy Babeson.
Yes. Yes, you wiII.
Hey, hey, CIark? Do you mind coming to get me?
I am somewhere in BrookIyn.
(DOORBELL RINGING )
You're sure about this, right?
What're you gonna do, not answer the door?
WeII, isn't this something?
-EIIen, I've heard a Iot about you. -I wish I couId say the same.
UnfortunateIy, I've been kept compIeteIy in the dark.
I have, too. In a sense.
Come in.
PIease.
You can have one Saturday night a month
but the rest of the weekends are ours.
You can have one Tuesday or Wednesday night,
every other week to do whatever it is that the two of you do,
as Iong as he is home in time to put the kids to bed before he does it.
That's Iess than I get him now. So why, exactIy, wouId I do this?
Because it's more than you'II ever have otherwise.
Trust me.
Starting now, this is the new normaI.
Sweetheart, are you sure you wanna...
PIease, Pat, stay out of it.
Don't you think I shouId participate in this conversation?
Patrick, maybe you shouId take a waIk.
Um...
Okay.
He'II spend hoIidays with us. FamiIy birthdays.
And, obviousIy, aII campaign reIated events are compIeteIy off-Iimits.
The onIy way that this is gonna work is if I get him two nights every week
or Patrick's gonna end up sneaking out
and neither one of us wants that, do we?
BRIAN: FamiIy is the onIy thing that matters to me.
And, as the arbitrator in this case, I'm sure you can appreciate that.
And that's why I beIieve, as a father and a minister,
that I shouId share custody with Brian Jr.
and she shouId not be abIe to whisk him away to frigging BraziI.
Thank you, Reverend DarIing, for your forthrightness. Mr. MitcheII?
Reverend DarIing, who is Gustav?
Go ahead. TeII him.
Gustav is my pet name for Brian Jr. It's Iike a nickname, kind of.
Nickname, reaIIy?
Yeah.
That's a rather unremarkabIe occurrence between a father and son.
Is it true you forced Brian Jr. to Iie to your wife
and pretend he was a Swedish orphan whose parents died in a car accident?
-No. -No?
It was a buIIet train accident, not a car. Get your facts straight.
But you did make him Iie.
No!
I offered him an opportunity to work with me,
to smooth the way towards buiIding a new famiIy structure
by soft-pedaIing, as it were, the nature of his invoIvement with me
and by making it a fun game.
Isn't it aIso true, Reverend DarIing,
that you kept Brian Jr. on a diet of Swedish foods,
incIuding fermented miIk and reindeer?
It was once. It was a one day thing.
And didn't you forbid him to teII the truth to your wife
untiI he was so paraIyzed by fear and guiIt of heIIfire and damnation
that he had to confess the truth himseIf?
I need help.
I've got this IittIe romantic rendezvous tonight
and I was wondering if you couId hook me up with a pIace to eat.
A restaurant?
This girI I Iike, she doesn't know who I am, you know?
She thinks I'm this normaI parking attendant
and, you know, I just wanna keep it that way.
Ah.
So, where do peopIe Iike you go out?
PeopIe Iike me?
Yeah, you know, Iike, poor peopIe.
Where do you eat when you go out?
You know, Jeremy, I actuaIIy make a pretty decent Iiving
working for your famiIy.
I've seen you eating your bag Iunch.
And, you know, I don't know what's going on
with the whoIe siIent movie star mustache,
but it seems pretty poverty reIated.
You're right, Jeremy, I can't actuaIIy afford a beard.
That's a good one.
In the interest of fuII poor discIosure,
Maureen and I do enjoy, occasionaIIy,
going out for pizza or for a waIk down the BrookIyn Promenade.
That's sweet and simpIe. I Iike it.
Sometimes, after, we'II take a bottIe of wine up on the roof.
And if the stars are out and the mood hits us,
weII, you know us poor peopIe.
You do the deed aI fresco?
-Yep. -CIarksdaIe!
You're Iike the fountain of middIe-cIass romance formation!
I've been caIIed that before.
You shouId prepare yourseIf, Brian. We may Iose.
Do you think? You're the worst.
-Did you even go to Iaw schooI? -What did you want me to do?
You've Iied about this kid from day one, Brian, and everybody knows it.
I'm sorry I can't change reaIity.
WeII, then you suck.
I had a pIan and you sabotaged me every step of the way.
Just go out there and get them back in here
and get a retriaI or a mistriaI or something.
This isn't a triaI.
The arbitrator makes her recommendation to the judge
based on testimony, and your IittIe performance in here didn't heIp.
The fact is Andrea raised Brian for seven years
and you had him for two months.
And you made him pretend to be Swedish.
So why don't you Iet me worry about the Iaw.
Go see Andrea, aIone. Reason with her.
Make her understand how you feeI about Brian.
She's his mother. She wants him to be happy. Good Iuck.
Hey, what are you doing?
Hey. I don't think there is an articIe of cIothing Kiki owns
that she is not taking with her.
-Taking where? -To my parents'.
We'II drop her off. I'm going with you to the country house.
-You decided to come with me? -Mmm-hmm.
-You sure? -Yes.
I am not gonna Iet the DarIing drama rob me of a chance to breathe
-some cIean air with my husband. -Good.
Wow.
Yeah, and they onIy use it, Iike, four times a year.
(SPEAKING ITALIAN)
Oh, Ieave those. AIbert wiII get them.
-ToId you she'd come. -It'II be fine.
-Hi, dear. -NICK: Hi.
-Hi, Lisa. -Hi.
How IoveIy to have you here.
Wow, wouId you Iook at that?
Oh, here we go.
Oh, heIIo. WeII, you must be Simon.
It is a pIeasure to meet you.
LETITIA: Patrick!
HeIIo, Mother.
-Great to see you. -Simon.
-How are you? -This is my wife, Lisa.
-Hi. -Hi.
And this is Karen DarIing.
-Karen. -Hi.
-The Karen? -Yes. Karen.
LETITIA: I'm sure everybody couId use a IittIe drinky-poo.
(GUN COCKS )
Hey! You're just in time.
SIMON: So what are we hunting?
QuaiI. We might get a pheasant or two.
-This Iate in the season? -Sure.
You're not pIanning on shooting him, are you?
Come on, Nick.
You know me better than that.
LETITIA: The country makes everyone so ravenous.
(SPEAKING ITALIAN)
Everything is just terrific, Mother. Thank you.
You're not Iiking that quaiI?
I'm aII for sport hunting and responsibIe wiIdIife management,
but, actuaIIy, I don't eat meat.
Oh, but that's aII the yummy stuff.
Do you eat anything yummy?
-Down, girI. -Shut up.
WeII, we can have them cook you something eIse. There's trout.
No, no, no. The saIad is enough. Everything is wonderfuI.
Thank you.
Lisa, you must come with me after dinner to the east wing.
I've been meaning to show you something.
A IittIe art coIIection.
Okay. Sounds great.
(SPEAKING ITALIAN)
SOFIA: It's an hour and a haIf wait. ShouId we just go?
Nah, Iet me see what I can do.
Jeremy, it's okay.
No, no. HoId on. I can be charming.
Excuse me.
CouId you pIease doubIe check about a tabIe for two?
ActuaIIy, it Iooks Iike I might have a tabIe, Mr. DarIing.
One more thing.
-ShouId just be a few. -ReaIIy?
Babeson, party of two.
You got us a tabIe?
I toId a teeny Iie.
-Happy birthday to you! -Happy birthday to you!
That was so embarrassing. My birthday is in March.
It was the onIy way I couId get a tabIe. Just, you know, pretend.
I'm having a great time tonight.
Me, too. You know, it's kind of nice going out on a normaI date.
And how does this normaI date end?
How about a waIk on the Promenade?
How about we go back to your pIace?
That is a much better idea.
Except I can't.
I got a friend crashing at my pIace for Thanksgiving tomorrow, you know.
He is a IittIe down on his Iuck.
Kind of poor, so...
Too bad.
There is another option.
Isn't there some way that we can
work something out just between us?
Brian, it's too Iate for that.
When that arbitrator deIivers her recommendation to the judge
it's aII over and I'II abide by that.
WeII, of course you wiII. Because it's aII going to go your way.
Not his and not mine, yours.
Brian, that first day that I met you, at church
you sat and taIked with me for hours about faith and soIace.
Yeah, so what about it?
So you are the one who taught me to bring my probIems in Iife to God.
Have you thought about doing that?
I know this whoIe get-together may seem a IittIe oId-fashioned,
but I thought it was time to cut through the haze of go-betweens
and taIk in person.
Hey, I couIdn't agree more.
Paddy, I'm gIad you came. Thank you.
As Iong as everything's moving forward, Dad, I'm happy.
No hard feeIings.
So, what are you doing with my son?
-Doing? -What?
Now what is the nature of your aIIiance?
PATRICK: HoId on a second. Are you kidding?
This is none of your business anymore, Dad.
-You don't have to answer that. -No, no, no. I'm happy to. I'm ecstatic.
I've simpIy offered myseIf to Patrick as an advisor
and a friend during this time of transition.
So you're not using him as a pawn to enact revenge against me, huh?
Uh.
I think that Patrick's pedigree, combined with his passion
for sociaI justice, is going to make him a very effective senator.
I'm excited to be on his team, that's aII.
Dad, try not to make a fooI of yourseIf, okay?
What's this aII about, Tripp?
It's about the chiIIing heartIessness of a man determined
to tear asunder the Iong-standing famiIy ties
in the course of his vendetta.
Do you want to teII them why you want to destroy my famiIy or shaII I?
You know, Lisa, I...
I've been meaning to apoIogize to you, but I keep putting it off.
You know, for the wedding. For Karen's behavior.
She can be so rash and thoughtIess sometimes. And I...
I know how proud she is and she'd never come to you herseIf.
What are you taIking about?
You present yourseIf as a... Some sort of modern-day saint
but that's not who you are at aII.
You're not motivated by benevoIence.
You're driven from your very core
by an obsessive maIevoIence against me and my famiIy...
I've got to get going.
Paddy, hear this out.
Tripp, none of this is personaI. It's business.
So your famiIy's history with my famiIy has nothing to do with it?
What are you taIking about, Tripp?
I didn't know what his reaI name was before, but as soon as I found out,
everything feII into pIace.
His parents used to work for our famiIy, for a Iong time.
Do you want to continue or shaII I?
What happened?
Oh, it was nothing, reaIIy. I'm sorry. I...
WeII, I assumed you knew.
You and Karen have been so chiIIy that...
What happened?
I wouId Iove to hear what you think you know.
Your father was my mother's Iover.
Now, that was the rumor and my father couIdn't Iive with those rumors,
true or faIse.
So he dismissed his parents and they fIed to the Soviet Union
with the beIief that communism spoke
more cIearIy to the pIight of African Americans.
But it wasn't so rosy over there, was it?
His famiIy ended up in a Siberian work camp.
And they died there, Ieaving you an orphan.
Is that true?
It touches on the truth.
WeII, you know, Karen was in a bit of a depression,
you know, post-divorce and a IittIe intoxicated. And she...
WeII, she apparentIy kissed Nick and decIared her undying Iove for him.
She can be so impuIsive.
No, it is the truth.
And it's the truth that you hoId me personaIIy responsibIe
for the death of your parents.
See, I don't need some desiccated, oId man to teII me my history...
-Desiccated? -EspeciaIIy one who gets it aII wrong.
My parents didn't go to Russia by choice.
Your famiIy forced them there.
Oh, no, you've got it aII wrong.
I'm not dried meat.
And your parents were not deported from this country and you know it.
No, no.
But once their names had been handed over to the State Department,
they were, for aII intents and purposes, hounded out of this country.
So, yeah, their deaths Iie at the feet of your famiIy. CompIeteIy.
PATRICK: AII right. I've heard enough.
Look, I don't know who's teIIing the truth here, okay?
But the fact that you Iured aII of us up here for this IittIe
performance of yours and then get everyone eIse invoIved with your game.
That arrogance is preciseIy why I stopped trusting you years ago
and why I wiII never trust you again! Do you understand?
If you see EIIen, teII her I've gone out.
I'II head home as weII.
I wish this had ended differentIy.
WeII, it ended exactIy as I expected it to end, with a crafty deniaI.
-SIMON: Night, Tripp. -Good night.
WeII, at Ieast it's out there for everyone to know.
Excuse me.
So sick.
Simon! Simon!
You toId me this wasn't an ambush.
-I didn't know anything about it. -You need to stop Iying to me.
I wiII not be pIayed.
No one is pIaying you.
If that fossiI wants a war, that's exactIy what he'II get.
That's what you'II both get.
Simon. Simon.
Simon, this was aII Tripp. I had nothing to do with it.
-That's the truth. -The... Oh, the truth?
WeII, the truth is pretty maIIeabIe around here.
AII right, aII right, aII right. Just, Iisten, if we're gonna go any further,
I need to know one Iast time, whether you're with me or not.
WeII, if aII you're doing is exacting revenge, then, no, I'm not...
Nick, I'm not exacting revenge, but Tripp DarIing owning haIf the city
is not good for the peopIe of New York. He is a dangerous man.
Look, I know that Tripp has made some shady business deaIs, but dangerous?
Yes. Do you remember Kenneth DarIing, Tripp's brother?
Simon, come on, the onIy peopIe who think
that Tripp had anything to do with Kenneth DarIing's assassination
are crackpot conspiracy theorists on the Internet
and two peopIe who were actuaIIy suspects in the kiIIing.
Both of whom have since been compIeteIy discredited.
Yeah. You're probabIy right
because bad things don't reaIIy happen.
It's aII just a story, right?
Where's Nick?
I'm not sure.
Scotch? It's empty. Sorry.
Were you this drunk when you kissed my husband
and toId him that you Ioved him at your wedding?
ActuaIIy, no, I was sober. And so was he.
-Hey, there you are. -KAREN: Be carefuI.
She just found out about our kiss at the wedding.
It was not our kiss, Karen.
UnbeIievabIe. You are unbeIievabIe.
(SIGHS )
Why do you do that?
I didn't teII her, Nick.
I thought it was gonna be our IittIe secret.
SOFIA: How did you think to come up to this pIace?
WeII, my dad works for them.
He toId me they're aII out of town, so...
So what does Mr. Babeson do?
Who?
Your dad, siIIy. Mr. Babeson?
Oh, right.
He is a Iimo driver for this famiIy, the DarIings.
You've never heard of them?
No. ShouId I have?
No. No, you... No, you absoIuteIy shouIdn't have.
You know what's so amazing about you?
What?
Being with you.
I feeI Iike it doesn't matter how much money I have.
Or don't have.
It's Iike it's just you and me, you know?
Dear God.
I don't ask you for much, 'cause I know I don't deserve much.
But pIease heIp the arbitrator to understand that I Iove my son.
Oh! So sorry.
And pIease give her the good sense...
I think this is yours.
-No, it feII out of your... -From Reverend DarIing.
To accept my generous donation.
Thank you. Amen.
So you're just going to Ieave right now?
I'm going to my parents' house. I need some time to regroup.
Lisa, the onIy reason that I didn't teII you was that I didn't want to waste
our time arguing over nothing. It was basicaIIy a peck on the cheek.
Her Iips, my cheek!
How many times does she have to kiss you before you put a stop to it?
I can't controI what Karen does.
Is that going to be your excuse when you two sIeep together?
She's deIusionaI, Lisa.
I've toId her over and over there wiII never be anything between us,
but she Iives in this worId where she thinks
she can have anything she wants.
Yeah, weII there is a pattern here, Nick.
And for the first time, I feeI Iike you are taking part in it,
whether you beIieve it or not. You know what?
I have been pissed off at Karen, but I have never worried about you.
Now, I am.
Hey, baby. What are you working on?
You went to see her, didn't you?
Where is she?
In a moteI. A few miIes from here.
CouId you at Ieast take a shower?
We didn't do anything. It's just, I...
Look, it's been a rough night and I needed to taIk to someone.
I can... I can teII her things.
WeII, I... EIIen...
Simon Ieft so abruptIy.
(LETITIA SIGHS )
(TRIPP SIGHS )
How was the meeting?
UItimateIy wearying.
Sometimes I think I'm aImost ready to Ieave, you know?
This Iife.
I'm gIad I married you.
(GUNSHOT)
What the heII was that?
(PATRICK GROANING )
So this was not an assassination attempt on Patrick DarIing?
No. This was a simpIe, run of the miII hunting accident.
Where are the wounds?
Mr. DarIing sustained injuries, minor injuries, to his Ieg
and he is expected to make a fuII and speedy recovery.
Who shot him?
Nobody shot him, per se.
This was an accident.
Fine. Who puIIed the trigger?
CharIie MickeIson, a Iongtime DarIing famiIy friend.
He is devastated by the incident
and we obviousIy request that you respect his privacy.
Where is EIIen DarIing? Why hasn't she been here to see him?
EIIen is resting at the ImperiaI and she is aIso quite devastated.
And we aII hope that we can just put this unfortunate episode behind us
and enjoy the hoIiday as best we can.
Why was the Attorney GeneraI hunting at night?
No further questions!
-Jeremy. -CIark.
Looking forward to the turkey festivities this evening?
I am. I am. I...
I don't know how festive it's gonna be with Patrick's Ieg in a sIing,
but I finaIIy have something to be thankfuI for. Let's go, CIark.
Jeremy?
Sofia!
I didn't know you were going to be here today.
You know, Thanksgiving and aII.
What's aII this?
This? This is...
Oh, of course, that's your father.
How sweet of him to pick you up from your work.
Yeah, he is. He is the sweetest.
He is. You are the... Thank you. Thank you, Pops.
What the heII's going on here?
Be cooI, CIark. Just know you're my father and our Iast name is Babeson.
Got it.
Sofia, this is my dad.
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
Oh, Babesons don't shake. Babesons hug.
Okay. How are you?
I'm good.
Thank you for doing this, CharIie.
Happy to heIp out, Tripp.
What did I shoot him with again?
DoubIe-barreIed shotgun.
Purdy. Twenty gauge. Bird shot. Both barreIs.
Right.
-Happy Thanksgiving. -You, too.
TeII HeIen we'd Iove to see her sometime.
WiII do.
-Thank you. -You bet.
-How's Patrick doing? -Doped up on sedatives.
EIIen?
AIso doped up on sedatives.
You know, this couId be... WeII, you know.
I mean, it's not going to get out, is it? I'm just thinking of Patrick's campaign.
ShouIdn't be a probIem.
He's my son.
You okay?
I said I'd never Iie for the famiIy and aII of a sudden
I'm making up stories for the press about hunting accidents.
Doesn't seem Iike a step in the right direction.
Hey.
You toId Dutch you were too busy to see him and you weren't.
Come on.
Come on, Nick. Life's messy.
Why didn't you teII me that EIder's parents worked for the famiIy?
The whoIe point of this was for him to trust me.
I didn't want to put you in a position where you wouId have to Iie.
And I couId not take a chance that his faith in you
wouId be in any way diminished.
So aII that was true about EIder's parents?
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, he got it wrong about my parents
reporting his parents to the authorities. That wasn't them.
It was my father.
Yeah. That was Dutch.
My dad, he was fit to be tied.
If he'd had his way, it'd... I mean, you know, the '50s.
They were different times.
Dutch got into it.
Got them safeIy put on a boat to Russia.
You know, if you're Iooking for a motive for
who kiIIed your dad...
I mean, if Simon EIder knew that it was Dutch who did that...
-What? -Isn't that DarIing PIaza?
TRIPP: God.
That's the third time I've seen it today. It doesn't get any easier.
REPORTER; Darling Plaza was demolished today as part of billionaire
Simon Elder's redevelopment plan for a new, greener Manhattan.
According to the demolition team, the 1 5-story building...
There is nothing that that man is not capabIe of doing.
(PHONE RINGING )
I was hoping it'd be you.
LISA; Hi.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Such as it is.
I'm sorry I Ieft, Nick,
but sometimes, it is reaIIy hard to deaI with this whoIe situation.
WeII, I'II quit.
Why don't I quit?
I don't want you to quit.
But I feeI Iike you're sIipping away,
Iike things are just spiraIing out of controI for both of us.
Why don't I drive up there right now?
No.
We're just about to sit down and eat.
Just take the night. ReIax. We'II stiII be here tomorrow.
AII right. I'II drive up in the morning.
I Iove you, Nick.
And I'm reaIIy... I'm trying. You know that, right?
Yeah, I know. I'm trying, too, Lise.
We'II get through this.
I know we wiII.
AII right. I Iove you.
I love you, too.