[clatter]
[truck in reverse, beeping]
[sighs]
♪ Davey broke the law again ♪
♪ Heard this time he's going to the pen ♪
♪ Guess I didn't need my lunch ♪
♪ 'Cause I was gonna miss him A whole bunch ♪
♪ Maybe he was out of line ♪
[exhales] God,
give me the strength to get through this day.
Please remove my defaults in character.
- Help me be honest in-- - [door opens]
♪ Mom's in a mood this week ♪
♪ 'Cause she thinks Her family is going crazy ♪
♪ I'm gonna be a powerful man ♪
[coffee grinder whirring]
Oh.
- [sighs] Hey. - Hi.
- Gonna get an early start? - Yeah, I gotta get down to San Diego.
Oh, that's too bad.
I wanted to take you out to breakfast to thank you for last night.
- Nothing happened, remember? - No, I... [chuckles]
I do remember, trust me. I...
I get it. Sobriety comes first.
Well, if I wasn't in my first year, you know...
Listen, I'm gonna be late back here tonight, so...
here.
- In case you need a place to crash. - Wow.
That's very--
Thank you.
Hopefully, I'll get my shit together.
[theme music playing]
♪ Weaving the good life for you, sugar ♪
♪ In every way ♪
[door opens]
Yeah, just give me a second. I'm just stepping out.
- What's up, man? How are you? - [Chip] I'm good, I'm good. Just, uh...
doing the work, you know?
[Dennis] Good, man, good for you. Hey, listen.
I thought of some positive steps that you could take
for your program. Um, can you write this down?
Yeah, shoot.
Yeah, 1632 Abbot Kinney. I'll meet you there in an hour.
[Chip] 1632--
- What, are we taking a dance lesson? - No.
No, man, it's the place underneath it. Uh, it used to be Vitamin Sea Water?
- What are you doing there? - Just meet me there. Okay?
All right.
- [George] Park yourself down there. - [woman] Yeah, looks good, right?
[man] Yeah.
Yeah.
- Take care of that thing we talked about? - Fuck!
[keys jingling]
Fuck!
Shit!
- Dennis. - Jesus!
- Fuck, Oscar. - [chuckles] I'm sorry, man.
- I didn't mean to startle you. - [exhales] No.
- No, you didn't. - I talked to my brother-in-law.
I told you he knows the inspector you got coming into the wine store.
Yeah. Uh, I really do need to get outta here.
Thank you, though.
- [George] He say where he's goin'? - No.
Probably gonna go deep-dick that new girl of his, though, am I right?
Motherfucker, that's somebody's daughter.
Okay, I mean, you don't have to make it all real.
- I mean, you started the deep-- - Mine.
[sighs] Got it.
What the f--
[grunts]
[Cooler] Whoa, dude!
Dig the digs!
- Bitchin' kitchen, man! - [chuckles]
Soft-closing cabinets. [stammers]
Someone paid a premium for this IKEA shit.
- Yeah, well, I... - Wow, dude.
It's a good thing you didn't bite on my place, man.
You waited for this sweet spot.
Suppose you do have to keep London in the manner
to which she is accustomed, though.
I'm sorry. I'm talking like a lawyer.
- I'm not one. - Yeah, look. Eh--
Cooler, I don't live here with London. So it's just, uh...
[Cooler] Oh, brother. Who's the fox?
That's Alex. She-- she's the one who lives here. That's...
Oh, man. I approve, dude.
Yeah, well, you know what? We're not--
we're not together. And it's just a...
- it's a-- where you going, man? - Chip, don't--
Dude, I like this look on you, man.
It's like, you know, you're settling down a little bit,
which is important, being of a certain age and all.
Thank you. Cooler, come on, man.
Actually, I don't think we're allowed up there-- here.
Whoa, whoa, man, this chick's got a kid, too?
She's the complete package, bro.
She's got a kid?
Hey, man. You mind if I use the bathroom real quick?
I clogged up the Minnie Winnie.
I'm telling you, bud, you lucked out here.
She's hot, she's got a cool pad, sweet kid, lots of shampoos.
- She's age-appropriate. - Cooler, I'm still with London.
- [urinating] - Does Alex know about that?
Dude, for the last time, there's nothing going on with Alex!
I'm just staying here temporarily
until I can, you know, find a place for London and me.
- [toilet flushes] - [Cooler] Mm-hmm.
[shower running]
Wait, are you--? Are you taking a shower?
Dude, she's got a rainhead?!
Look, you're telling me this chick is single?
- [plumbing rattling] - [knob squeaks]
- Someone needs to clean her pipes. - [water draining]
- [ambient music playing] - Wake.
Wake.
[deep exhale]
[car alarms blaring in distance]
- Hey. - Hi.
I didn't know you're in here. I would've brought you a coffee.
- No, I had to go to a meeting. - Oh, a wine meeting?
- [door shuts] - Yeah.
You can call it that.
This way.
Hey, uh, I appreciate you coming to pick me up like this.
Yeah, no sweat, dude.
I'm kinda working from home.
Where'd you park?
At Spike's place, man. I couldn't afford to lose my spot.
So when I said I needed a ride...
I thought you wanted help on the tandem. I heard you were rocking that.
[Cooler] If you're staying with "chickie" and London's not,
I don't mean to be a perv, but are you guys still doing the deed?
[Chip] Cooler, there's more to a relationship than "doing the deed."
[Cooler] Oh, for sure, dude. But you know what they say, man,
"six days without the deed is the end of the beginning."
- Who says that? - You do, man.
Dude, can I borrow your phone real quick?
Yeah. Yeah.
There you go.
- Wha-- what's your pass code? - Oh, uh, one-11-one.
And another-- yeah.
[line ringing]
Hey--
[ringing stops]
Sorry.
You all right?
I feel trapped.
I tell Wren that I can't help her because I have to go to work.
And then I go to work and I just need to get out of there.
I-- I bail. I've always done it.
I did it in college.
I did a semester of marine biology and then, I--
I just got outta there. Half a semester, actually.
I went there to do marketing, but I-- I switched.
Uh-huh.
And I bailed on David, too.
- Who's David? - We were engaged.
Oh.
I told him that I needed time to get over the death of my brother.
He, um...
he died here in a-- in a car accident, here in Venice.
And I guess that was true, you know, I-- I hadn't quite accepted that.
But I also felt trapped.
And I still do.
It used to come and go, this feeling...
- London. London-- - But now it's just, like, all the time.
London...
It's okay. You came to the right place.
[deep breath]
We can help you.
WAKE can help you.
[exhales]
[Cooler] What?
[door opens]
- Hey, guys. - [sighs]
Dude.
- This is your store, huh? - Thank you. Thank you, yeah.
- Congratulations. - Thank you.
Dude, I gotta get a picture of you next to that sign, man, come on.
Sure.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- Chip, scooch outta the way. - Oh, yeah.
Dude, what are the odds, man?
That sign says "Dennis Wines," and your name is literally Dennis.
- Yeah, that's my store. - Yeah, it's his business, Cooler.
- It is your business, right? - Yeah, yeah.
- Did Jackie die or something? - Uh, no.
- You got backers? - Yeah, I got some silent backers.
- [camera clicking] - That came together quick.
- Well, it's just a pop-up. - That makes sense.
I already got it. You don't have to stand there.
- Hey, come on in. I'll give you a tour. - Yeah. Yeah.
Oh, yeah, it's great. It's really great. Thank you.
[Cooler] So this is a wine spot? That it?
Yeah. Well, I mean, we have a little bit to do on the reno side of it, but...
Uh, wait. Uh, who's-- who's "we"?
"We" are us.
I just thought since you're a skilled carpenter, you could help out.
So when you said "we" you meant "me"?
I'm helping you, as your sponsor.
This is a chance for you to be of service to others.
- So are you my sponsor or my employer? - Sponsor, definitely.
I'm not paying you.
Look, this is just an opportunity for you to, you know, show up.
Do the work. Make amends.
I'm grateful for the opportunity. It's just...
I'm not sure you're doing it for the right reasons.
What do you mean?
[scoffs] I mean...
I don't know. It's...
it's funny that, uh, you want me to do an honest day's work
right around the time that you've got a lot of work to be done.
- Hey, man. I'm your sponsor. - I know, and I wanna help you.
No, I'm helping you. Discipline, contrition, humility.
A bunch of stuff that you don't have.
Unless you're not serious about your sobriety,
- in which case-- - No, I am, I am. It's just that...
[sighs] I don't know. It's kinda hard to think about work
when I'm trying to figure out a way to pay for a place to live.
I get it now. Now I get it!
Dennis Wines.
Because you do whine a lot.
- Cooler... - [Chip] Cooler.
Ah.
Hey, listen.
You do the work and then we can talk about the guest house.
- Deal. - Deal.
[Cooler] You guys, it's just the three of us again in, like, an empty store.
No customers to bother us. It's like old times, man.
Only thing missing is George.
- There he is. - [Dennis] Oh, shit.
I gotta ask him about Spike real quick,
and all the electricals in the Minnie Winnie.
[panting] He knows. I knew it.
- What am I gonna do? - Hide?
[stammers] I can't just hide for the rest of my life.
Well, technically, you only need to hide for the rest of his life.
- Will you cover for me? - Sure.
Okay.
- All in an honest day's work, right? - [Dennis] Shit. Fuck.
[clears throat]
What the fuck are you doing here?
Making amends.
Uh-huh.
And while we're on that...
I'm sorry.
I, uh, I lied to you, I was outta line.
I was outta control.
And I know that it was hurtful, those things that I said, and I'm sorry.
[sighs]
You been going to meetings?
I have, yeah.
You looking for a sponsor?
Actually, no. I got one.
Dennis.
Dennis?
Well, I woulda asked you, but--
But you can't manipulate me like you can Dennis.
[chuckles] He's too light in the pants to stand up to you.
[Chip] That's not fair, George.
He's doing a really good job.
He's smart and he's dependable and he's disciplined.
[George] Give me a break, Chip.
Dennis ain't here. He can't hear you.
Since when are you lookin' out for Dennis?
I'm not lookin' out for Dennis. I'm lookin' for Dennis.
- Does he know what this is about or...? - He better not.
[sighs] Hang on, George.
I know what it's about.
Rosa and Dennis are dating and...
I know that you don't like the fact that Dennis is lying to you--
Oh, I never lied to you, Geo--
Grow up.
Come on, man. I'm just playing.
Well, you're not here to play. You're here to work.
[door opens]
- [door shuts] - [sighs]
Um, listen, I don't know what you're doing tonight,
but I talked to Dennis and he said we could have the guest house.
Which, I know, is not ideal but it's-- it's not a permanent solution.
I can't. Not tonight.
- Why not? - I'm working.
- Well, can you switch shifts? - No, not at the restaurant.
Um... here.
You--
- you work here now? - No, not for money.
It's-- it's for a course I'm doing.
What kind of course?
It's just to help me get my head together.
You know how, recently, I've been feeling kind of unsettled?
Yeah, that's because we don't have a place of our own.
I-- come on.
We haven't seen each other in a long time.
- [chuckles] It hasn't been that long. - Six days.
Okay. I want to, I really do.
But I can't just blow off work before I've even started.
- I did. - What work are you doing?
I'm helping Dennis with his store.
- Since when does Dennis have a store? - It's just a pop-up.
Yeah, that makes sense.
- I'm sorry, Chip. - No, I'm--
- Look, I'm happy for Dennis, and-- - No, I'm sorry about tonight.
Right, yeah. No, that's okay, that's--
- We'll get together soon, I promise. - [gong sounding]
Sure.
[murmuring, indistinct]
- Let's get outta here, man. - Oh, hey, man.
Yeah, are you cool to take the tandem solo, dude? I'm, uh...
I think I'm gonna stick around here for a little bit.
- Oh, yeah? - Yeah. Yeah.
I wanna talk to, uh...
Karel.
[Chip] About what?
About Alex. Alex, man.
Her-- her whole deal has just, like, stirred up a bunch of emotions
and I wanna get his take on it.
- You haven't even met her, man. - Yeah. Yeah, I know.
That's one of the things I wanna get his take on.
Oh, but, I will say this.
If you and London want, like, a little romantic spot,
you can take the Minnie Winnie.
Just remember, no more than two electrical appliances at the same time.
Otherwise, all the waste from the chemical toilet
gets pulled up into the ventilator.
- You mean "the shit hits the fan"? - Yeah, I guess.
Yeah. No, thank you, man. But you know what?
- I'm gonna pass. - Okay.
- Hello. I have a shirt. - [chuckles and gasps]
- [man] Welcome, brother. - Yes.
Uh...
Let's-- let's go in here.
- What for? - Uh--
Dennis, this is really sweet,
but don't you think a ring is moving a little bit too fast?
Yeah, you're probably right.
You know what? I just remembered.
I have to go back to the store. I will give you a ring later.
- [glass breaks] - [woman] Hey!
Oh, sorry! Excuse me!
[panting]
[tires screeching]
- [siren whooping] - Freeze!
Shit.
[panting]
[groans]
- Keep 'em up! - Sorry. Sorry.
[tape measure expands, retracts]
[whirring]
[door opens]
- [woman] Excusez-moi? - [tape measure retracts]
Hey. Uh...
Bonjour.
[speaking in French]
[in English] Are you lost?
[speaking in French]
Uh...
Ah. Um...
Uh...
[speaking in French]
...le nail salon.
You'll be right there. It's right there.
- Oh, okay. - Okay.
- Merci, merci beaucoup. - Oh, okay.
[speaking in French]
[woman] Hey, Chip.
- Hey. - Hey.
How's it going?
Hey, man. How you doing, Chip?
- Hey, hey! - Good to see you, brother.
Is this you?
No, man. This is all Dennis. I'm just here to help.
- Make amends. - Good for you, Chip.
Not really sure there's, uh, enough for me to do here to make up for what I did.
It's a step in the right direction.
Well...
[sighs]
Ow! Wait. [sighs]
Oh, thank you.
- Wait, wait, don't go. Don't leave me. - You only run if you're guilty.
- Thank you, boys! - [male officer] No problem.
George, look, I'm sorry. I did not know that she was your daughter,
and I swear to God, I did not deep-dick her.
Would you please shut the fuck up?
- I'm not here to hurt you. - Sorry.
Although you make it very difficult for me.
- I'm sorry. - [sighs]
Look, this is good. This is...
- it's-- it's progress. - I don't understand.
Rosa.
Look, you know, she's always hated alcoholics.
Because she hates me.
But now, for whatever reason, she likes you.
It's telling me maybe that she's softening up her outlook.
And, you know, I got a chance now to make it right between us.
- Yeah. No, that makes sense. - Yeah.
Especially now that I got a man on the inside.
So to speak.
- Don't push it. - Sorry.
Now you put in a good word for me, and we'll be cool, huh?
Okay.
I see a lot of success in here today.
Yet here you are at WAKE.
What do we say at WAKE?
[all, in unison] "The wake does not power the boat."
That's right.
That success, the beautiful homes you live in,
the designer furniture in those homes,
the jobs your parents do to pay for all of it,
those are decisions made in the past that dictate what you do in the now.
But the wake doesn't power the boat.
The wake doesn't power the boat, people.
This is what makes John a spirit model.
Hey, can the spirit model have a seat?
- Of course. - [chuckles]
[woman] Right on.
John doesn't own a home.
He doesn't have a job to go to.
He recently had a yard sale and sold all of his possessions.
He doesn't lose sleep at night because he wants a new kitchen.
No life insurance policy, no retirement plan,
he lives unencumbered in the now.
He leads a rich life, not a life that will lead to riches.
Shit, man. I gotta go.
I gotta get outta here. Sorry, man.
[door opens]
This is a man that we should follow.
No-- no, not literally.
Hey, Cooler. Is everything okay?
No, man. I've got nothing. [panting]
I don't have a house. I don't have a retirement plan, okay?
I don't even have a boat.
It's just-- I gotta get my shit together.
Alex is never gonna take me seriously like this.
God! Man...
You get complacent, I guess, is what it is.
Ten years is a long time.
You figure,
"If I can not drink for a decade, then...
yeah, I can have a glass of wine."
"I got this." Except you don't.
- [door opens] - Hey, what's going on?
- Hey, man. - Hey.
- What's this, a fucking meeting? - No, man.
Just a bunch of drunks talking.
Okay, good. Well, you guys can talk somewhere else.
You can't be here. I don't open till Monday.
So we'll pick this up another time.
It's a good thing Chip came back in from the cold when he did.
- You need all the help you can get. - [door shuts]
Thanks, Oscar. But Chip's not helping me.
- I'm helping Chip. - [door opens]
- You all right, man? You seem-- - What the fuck are you doing?
- Nothing. - [sarcastic chuckle]
He admits it. You haven't done a fucking thing.
Well, just-- I got distracted, man. People came in here--
Look, this isn't your fucking stool store, man.
This is a legitimate business. Shit needs to get done.
I needed you to come through for me today, and you didn't.
I'm sorry. I thought this was about me, about doing an honest day's work.
[scoffs]
Look, man. I reconnected, okay?
- It worked. - But you didn't.
You're fired.
I thought you were my sponsor, not my employer.
Okay, then I quit.
- Hey, um-- - Don't you dare fucking ask me
if you can have the guest house tonight.
I was gonna say...
I'm sorry.
[door opens]
[door shuts]
- Hey. What are you doing here? - Hey.
- I bailed. - Oh, yeah, me too.
- Let's get outta here. - You wanna go to the guest house?
Um...
Actually, no. You know what? Dennis forgot that he-- he Airbnb'd it.
- Oh, no. - Yeah.
But Cooler said that we could use the Minnie Winnie.
[chuckles]
You're-- you're not serious, are you?
No. Of course not.
So...?
[chuckling]
- Whose place is this? - Um...
Alex, a buddy of mine from the rooms.
Where is he?
- Who? - Alex.
Uh...
- San Diego. - [both chuckling]
You know what? Maybe...
- maybe not in here. - [laughs]
Come on.
- It's the police! [laughs] - Oh! Jesus, fuck!
I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to.
- I'm sorry. - No. No, no, no, it's okay.
- What are you so wound up about? - Oh, no, just...
you really came in there like a cop.
- Yeah. - Guess it runs in the family.
What?
I thought you said your dad was a cop.
Uh, he is, but that doesn't mean we're anything alike.
- No, I'm not saying that you are. - No, we're not.
I bet you're still close, though, underneath it all.
I just-- I don't know, I think of stories of you
bringing boyfriends home to meet Dad, the big bad-ass cop.
Not that I know that he's big. I would just assume that he--
Cops tend to loom large for me.
- Why are you so interested in my dad? - I'm not.
Well, maybe because I never knew my dad.
So I guess it's just hard for me to understand that you have a father,
but you don't want anything to do with him.
- You don't know my father. - Definitely not.
You're here.
I have take-out, if you haven't eaten.
- [chuckle] Alex, I th-- - Hello...?
- London, this is Alex. - Are you fucking serious?
- Look, Alex, I can explain. - Are you two...?
- No. - I want you out of my house.
Um, look, Alex, I know I betrayed our trust.
Is this even your first year?
- I'm sorry. - No, London, I--
[door opens, closes]
I'm sorry.
What kind of person are you?
London.
"A buddy of mine from the rooms"?
- It's true. - You lied.
You wanted me to think that she was a he.
No, I--
I wanted you to not think she was a she.
- You lied. - I lied.
What did she mean, "Are you even in your first year?"
Look, I stayed here last night and... [sighs]
- she wanted to-- - Fuck you.
I didn't want to, obviously, so I told her I was in my first year.
You lied.
I didn't wanna hurt her feelings.
How do you think she feels now?
Well, now that I can take a step back...
What was the plan? Were you just gonna toss me out after we had sex?
Honestly, I hadn't thought that far ahead.
I just knew that it was important for us to be together.
Even if you had to tell so many lies.
I knew you'd get it.
[sighs]
London, I'm sorry. I...
[engine starts, revs]
♪ Storm is rolling in ♪
♪ Screaming when you whisper ♪
♪ Trying to hold you back ♪
♪ Trying to hold... ♪
♪ Drowning as she's gone ♪
♪ She said, "Don't you speak To me that way ♪
♪ Because you're playing with fire" ♪
♪ I said, "You don't mean For me to leave" ♪
♪ She said, "You're playing with fire" ♪
♪ She said, "Don't you speak To me that way ♪
♪ Because you're playing with fire" ♪
♪ I said, "You don't mean For me to leave" ♪
♪ She said, "You're playing with fire" ♪
♪ Falling, falling down ♪
♪ I tried to stop me sooner ♪
[sander gliding on wood]
[rock music plays]
♪ Living a lie ♪
♪ Something I've been getting good at ♪
♪ I understood that No, I won't deny it ♪
♪ It's the way you end the conversation ♪
♪ It's the motivation That I have to try ♪
♪ Living a lie ♪
♪ Something I've been getting used to ♪
♪ The schemes I've pulled, too While I look you in the eye ♪
♪ It's the way you end the conversation ♪
♪ It's the motivation That I have to hide ♪