Hi.
I need a car.
Mr. Collins?
Gretchen?
Hiya.
Wow. Look at you.
Look at... you.
My, oh, my. You're so grown-up.
I always wondered how your face would fill out.
You get these students sometimes and they just don't look
like high school kids.
Every new semester you see
one or two that look more like unformed adults.
So, what's the haps?
You ever become a marine biologist?
Yes, actually.
I'm at the University of Santa Barbara.
I'm a professor emeritus of cephalopod study.
I basically just play with octopuses all day.
Don't you mean octopi?
No, we changed it back to octopuses. -
Hi, Daddy.
Hi, honey. Where are you?
On the plane. We just landed.
Good. Melody's doing fine.
Her cervix is only four centimeters.
That's one tiny cervix.
No, no. I meant th-that's how much it's dilated.
Yes, I know. I-I was joking.
- It was just a little... - Anyway, listen.
I need you to stop by the house and get my eye drops.
And don't forget Banshee.
Right. And don't forget to feed Banshee.
Banshee's still alive?
- Are you deplaning yet? - Excuse me, miss.
Do you need help getting your bag down?
Yeah, I should go.
All right, we'll see you soon.
So, you stopped teaching?
Oh, yup, yup.
Retired.
Oh. Ah.
Now, Gretchen,
can I tell you about our award-winning coverage package?
I'll take all of it.
Shoot.
Looks like all of our standard vehicles are out.
I'll just take whatever you got.
So...
How long are you in town?
♪ I'm gonna leave you anyway
♪ I'm gonna leave you anyway ♪
♪ Gonna leave you anyway.
♪ You might come around
♪ Someday
♪ Transmissions
♪ I've found
♪ Fading
♪ From old tapes we made
♪ Ooh
♪ A picture
♪ That opens the same
♪ Ooh
♪ It's all right
Hi, Banshee.
♪ They get lost in the troposphere ♪
♪ Days go by
♪ And I dream of it
♪ In the new year
♪ I'll come around
♪ In the new year
♪ Forms in my view
♪ They're changing
♪ From the ones that I knew
♪ To display
♪ Everything slow
♪ Ooh
♪ Or the pressure below
♪ Ooh
♪ They get lost in the troposphere ♪
♪ Days go by and I dream of it
♪ In the new year
♪ I'll come around
♪ In the new year
♪ I'll come around
♪ In the new year...
Holy shit. You didn't die?
Hey!
You've really never been to L.A.? -Nope.
Who hasn't been to L.A.?
I don't like the sunshine.
Why, because of the cancer?
What? No. Just...
Yeah, maybe.
Never thought of that.
You should come.
It's great.
The tacos are like...
It's insane. I can't even get into it.
It's great you did this.
I remember we always used to talk
about taking over this place.
No, we didn't.
Are you kidding? Yeah, we did.
Like, all the time.
Buy the roller rink, make it cool.
Make sure Dana Miller can never go in, bitch.
I don't remember that.
Last year the owner died, and they were gonna tear it down,
and I had money from my grandma, so I just...
Anyway, I'm so in debt.
It's not what I thought.
All right, everybody.
It's dance skate time!
If you're not ready to shake your booty
like it did you wrong,
- clear the floor. - Uh, excuse me, no.
You're staying.
No. Seriously. I'll just wait right over there.
No. Seriously.
♪ Boy
♪ If you knew
♪ Just how I feel
♪ When we meet
♪ With our heads
♪ Up in the stars
♪ Oh, oh
♪ Dance
♪ Don't cry
What happened? You were so sick when I left.
Mm, operations, five in all.
Coupled with the numerous rounds of chemo. - Mm.
Science is good.
So, college and then...
Why did you move back here?
I like it here.
Anyway, my family's here.
That's exactly why I don't live here.
Hello?
It's Dad. Where are you?
It's been a total disaster.
They lost my bags, and then I got home,
and you're out of cat food, and Banshee bit me.
Really? Sorry. We've been so busy.
It's okay, Daddy.
Anyway, I am just on my way to the store now.
- I will be there soon. - Okay, so...
Heidi, this place is just so amazing.
You should do special events.
You should do Eggs and Porn.
- What? - Eggs and Porn.
You serve breakfast,
and also, there's retro porn playing on the TVs.
It's really kitschy and fun. Plus, the posters
are really easy because fried eggs look like boobs.
You realize children are a big part of our clientele?
Just put the TVs up high.
Ladies and gentlemen, the rink is now closed.
- Please return your skates... - We should go to our mall!
Our mall died.
- What?! - Apparently, it's just
stray dogs, meth heads and teens partying now.
This is so sad.
Our mall is dead.
Do you buy everything online now? -Totally.
Then this is your fault.
It is kind of beautiful.
This is crazy!
I know.
First got my ears pierced over there. -
I first got fingered in that dressing room.
Mm.
Yeah.
- 'Sup, shorties? - Hello.
Anyways, it's just a rip-off that our
so-called advisors don't have any... -We used to shop here.
Cool.
You meth heads?
No, we're j-juniors.
Gross.
Where's your booze?
We're just hanging out.
Mm.
Okay.
I'm officially in sense memory overload.
So... what?
You're living here.
Roommates? Boyfriends? Girlfriends?
There isn't much.
I write a little, bike a lot.
Try and keep the rink afloat, mostly.
Yeah, but you're doing it.
You know, the whole big-fish thing?
I have that urge sometimes, just to pack it all in.
What do you have there that's so different?
I already told you about the tacos, right?
I'm sorry I wasn't there for you.
It was a long time ago.
I should have come to the hospital, though.
Oh, I forgot to tell you!
Guess who is working
at the car rental agency at the airport.
Mr. Collins!
He watches all my Instagram stories.
He's so creepy.
You, uh, know why he got fired, right?
- No. - He was caught
taking up-skirt shots of students.
He posted 'em on the "Panty Sluts" subreddit.
- Gross! - Oh, I knew something was up!
Uh, hey, you guys have a dead mall. You're wasting it
by not drinking. -Thanks for the advice. -
That wasn't technically advice.
She owns the skating rink so if
you're mean to her, you can never skate.
You're banned for life.
Yeah!
You're not banned.
What are two 30-year-old women doing
hanging out with high schoolers?
Okay, now you're banned!
Wait. We have that A.P. History essay.
Don't be a pussy.
Aw, shit!
- Oh! - Colin!
I don't understand what we're expected to do. You raised us
to need the constant feedback that comes from this.
We didn't raise shit, sucka! Oh!
It's the marketers.
It's just to get us addicted so they can advertise to us.
And that's why I purposefully don't buy anything
that they advertise to me.
You saw Deadpool, like, five times.
See? Then I fell for it, too. I'm no better.
- It's just really stressful. - It's so stressful.
- It really is. - Oh, my God!
Ugh!
You guys are the worst teens ever!
This can't be what you're all like.
Come on. Truth or dare?
Dare.
Kiss that one.
You cool?
Ah.
M-My turn! Truth or dare?
No, you guys aren't playing.
Why did you let her do that?
Guys, you know this is the best time, right?
It is all downhill from here, for real!
I mean, you do get hotter
and get to do or eat whatever you want... and that's awesome...
But things are new right now,
and you feel things so hard,
and that is beautiful!
Grown-up stuff sucks, is what I'm saying.
Um, can I have a... a cigarette?
What's your name?
Rosemary Felton.
I'm Haley... Wallish.
Wait. Are you related to Darius Wallish?
That's my dad.
Your dad? Darius is your dad? Are you kidding?
You know him?
I was his senior prom date
when I was a freshman! Uh.
We totally fu...
I had... fun dancing with your father.
We... danced.
Like three times.
What?
Well, three and a half. We hand-danced in the car.
Why are you laughing?
You always give the best braids.
My aunt taught me. She moved to Europe when I was eight.
- I was devastated. - I remember.
I cried so hard.
Cried and cried.
You were patient with me.
Mr. Collins said he always used to wonder
what some students would look like when they grew up,
like, when they were a real person.
I wonder if he ever up-skirted me. -Now I know what he meant.
It's so nice to see you older,
to see what you ended up looking like.
It's nice to see tiny wrinkles.
Gee, thanks.
No. It's good. It is!
You lived long enough to get wrinkles.
I have something for you.
Aw, remember your mom's Snickerdoodles?
Remember when something like cinnamon could make you happy?
Cinnamon still makes me happy.
I have cinnamon toast all the time.
How?
I just make it.
You make it?
It's just sugar
and cinnamon, Gretchen.
Yeah, but how do you know how to buy cinnamon?
Are you serious?
Uh, yeah. Who knows that?
Cinnamon?
Is there a spice store?
Does it come in sticks?
Do you have to grind it up like a frontiers lady?
Don't be stupid.
I mean, Jesus.
You're an adult.
- Jesus. - Well, it's true.
Uh, just so you know...
I've had sex. Like... the big kind.
- Yeah? - Good for you.
Tell you what.
If you eat this entire can of cat food,
I will suck your dick.
You made a deal.
She's right.
You made a deal.
Do you have another can?
Okay, then.
Police! Everyone hold still.
- Shit! - Get your hands up!
Don't make any sudden moves!
- Colin! -Which way do we go? - I don't know!
That way! - Hey, come back... Come here!
Whose siren is that?
Can you see him?
No. But I think he's following us somehow.
Shit!
Just pull over!
I have a record!
Okay.
Well, Mr. Collins pressured me to take full coverage.
Goddamn pervert.
Those kids...
I mean, yeah,
they were puking their guts out
or eating cat food for BJs,
but they were just hanging out together,
and that was enough.
That used to be enough.
Boy, I got off track somewhere.
I was thinking I move back and we run the roller rink together.
Don't say anything, but...
I'm serious.
I probably have a new niece or nephew by now, and...
our family cat is not gonna be around forever.
Don't move back here, Gretchen.
No, I know. But it's not out of desperation. I want to.
Well, I don't want you to.
Is it because I ghosted you
in high school? We talked about that.
You didn't ghost me.
Uh, I did.
Well, you might have,
I just wasn't aware of it.
Gretchen, we weren't friends then.
Well, maybe we weren't as...
day-to-day close,
but we were absolutely friends.
I have a picture. You were all cancery.
That was when I came back the first time.
Everyone wanted a piece of that sweet cancer action.
I took photos with everyone.
The reason you never came to the hospital
is because I never invited you.
I don't even know what you're talking about here.
We weren't friends after eighth grade.
You became a shape-shifter.
A what?
I know you had family shit
and you couldn't be yourself around them,
but you'd straight-up act like someone different
depending on who you were with,
then pretty soon there's no real Gretchen.
We'd be best friends on Friday
and on the Monday you'd look right through me.
You're just not a great bet to invest too deeply in.
Everyone liked you or wanted you,
but no one knew you.
Well...
I mean...
I mean, do you want to know me now?
I made a life.
I'm happy.
I think no, Gretchen.
Not really.
Hey!
You owe me half the profits of the roller rink!
That was our dream!
And just so you know,
I was never serious about moving back here!
Piece of shit town!
You are on your own here, Heidi!
You are on your own!
♪ So much of what I pushed out once ♪
♪ Has returned after
♪ All these months
♪ To go where you have been
♪ To be where you are again
♪ Come be close
♪ And be rested
♪ Darlin', come be close
♪ And be rested
♪ Lines from a stray age
♪ News comes 'round from another day's ♪ Captioned by Media Access Group at WGBH access.wgbh.org