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We Are Gathered Here (2019)
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Speech! You gotta do it now, she already clinked it. Let's go, Ben. Come on, buddy. Okay, okay, well first of all, thank you all for coming tonight. It means a lot and I honestly never thought I'd be the one inviting all of you here to my wedding. Wasn't gonna be for mine. Hmm, nope. But in any case, I'm really so happy to be sharing this with all of you. And Lisa, I... You know, I had a dream last night about tomorrow. I was heading to the church and all these things kept coming up and getting in my way. I just got so scared. I was actually thinking about giving up. And then I woke up and the first thing I thought of was you. I just wanted to talk to you. And I'm so happy to be sharing the rest of our lives together. Save some of this for tomorrow. Yeah. Sorry. Again, thank you all for coming and let's have a great time tomorrow, yeah? Cheers. - Cheers. - Cheers. He's such a mush monkey. I think he's gonna cry tomorrow, I know it. - Bye. - Thank you for coming. Good to see you, man. Thanks for coming, I appreciate it. See you tomorrow. - Pleasure meeting you. - Thank you so much, - Bye Lauren. - Drive safe, okay? Have a good night. What are you doing? Hey, I wanted to give you my gift, your gift. Did you forget? No, no, I just don't have it here with me. Best best man ever. Thank you, Rachel. Valet is bringing the car around. Getting kind of late, so you two better wrap it up. Don't open it now, wait till you get home. I'll wait too. See you in the morning? Yes, absolutely, but can I walk you to the hotel? I wanna be a proper gentleman. No, no, no I'll go with Samantha. Get some rest. If you go to bed now, you might actually be well-rested tomorrow. Yeah, I will, I'll go straight to bed. Goodnight. Ready? I actually think I'm gonna take a walk. You sure? Yeah, yeah, it's nice out, get some air. You know, just drop Bobby off and I'll see you back at the place? Okay. Oh you want me to to take that? Please, yeah. So I will see you tomorrow, okay? And I'll leave the door unlocked. Thank you. You're welcome. Okay, bye. Hey, dad and I got you something. It's at the house, don't drink it all tonight. Okay, promise. Bye. Have a good night. Searching for answers For questions on my mind None of it seems true enough Answers I can't find Searching for Searching to find I'm searching for the one thing I'll find That'll make the hurt no more That'll make the hurt no more It's open. It's open, Rach. Hi! It's so good to see you. What are you doing here? Oh, I'm here with Jules. Jules is here? She is, she's here to tell you. Maria, what are you doing here? Ooh, I really want to say but it's totally a Jules thing. What thing? This is a really nice place, how long have you lived here? Maria, are you sure that you don't want to like... She should be here soon. Hey Ben. Jules? Hi. So did Maria fill you in? What? This is your thing. Come on, tell him. I'm in love with you. What? She's in love with you. Yeah, hold on, do you know I'm getting married tomorrow? Yeah, and I was trying to reconcile that within myself and I realized it. So what do you think? I think it's pretty weird, Jules. I mean it's pretty messed up. Okay, well I had to tell you how I felt. I couldn't let you get married without telling you how I feel. And what do you expect me to do? I don't expect you to do anything. Okay, well this seems to be moving along well so I'm gonna go to the bar and have a drink. Okay. Okay. Yeah, okay good. Yes, that's good. Oh, no, wait. Do you wanna give me the keys to the car in case things go well and you maybe wanna stay the night? If I don't hear from you in like 10, 15 minutes I'll call a Lyft? I think you both should leave. I don't really follow what's going on but I think you, no, don't do that. Ben, I just wanna talk. I'm not really comfortable. What? I mean come on, it's me. Okay, you know what? I'm not asking you for anything, okay? I just have been thinking about you a lot, since I saw on Facebook that you were getting married. And it's driving me crazy. So I just wanted to come over here and talk, okay? That's it. You just left. I know. And that was it. You wanna know what I think about? That's what I think about, do you want to talk about that? No. Um, I was thinking more we talk about the good times. You know when a good time to think about the good times would have been? Probably before now, for sure. What are you trying to do here, Jules? I'm not trying to do anything. I feel compelled, okay? To be with you and talk to you and work through this with you. And then we can go our separate ways, okay or not. This is crazy, Jules. You gotta stop, okay? You can't just come back in here and think that I would just... Yeah, okay. You were right, I don't think that you would just anything. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for the way that I ended things. I just wanted you to know that and... You know, also that I'm in love with you. Jules. I made a mistake, okay? I made a big mistake. But we are good together, okay? We're really good, we made each other better people. Okay, well you made me a better person but I mean I got you out of your head and out into the world and it was so good. I mean, don't you miss it? Maria? What's up? Hey, what are you doing? I'm just hanging. No, I mean what are you doing here? Why are you sitting outside of Ben and Lisa's house? Mmm, I'm waiting for Jules while she goes to work on Ben. I'm sorry, is Jules here? Mmm. Is she inside? Okay, I'm gonna take that as a yes, excuse me. Into the world and... What are you doing here? Rachel. What the hell is she doing here? She's staying with me tonight. Seriously, you're asking what I'm doing here. She's my best man. The best best man. Ugh. And she's spending the night? - It's fine. - I know. Jules, what are you doing here? I'm here to talk to Ben. What do you want to talk to Ben about? It's a private matter. You need to go, now. Calm down, Rachel. I am calm. Okay, Rachel, Jules. What? I don't know. This is sort of, I don't really know the protocol for this but I don't want you guys to fight. You don't know the protocol for this? What are you talking about? Okay, okay, Rachel, I know that you and I never had a great relationship, but do you think that you can maybe give Ben and I just a few minutes to talk privately? I don't know what's going through your head right now. Jules, you need to go home, you don't wanna do this. Yep, I'm pretty sure I do. You don't. Rachel... No Jules, don't push this. Please, five minutes to talk privately. Yeah, I'm not gonna let that happen. Really? You are not gonna get to talk to him alone. I don't appreciate, this is unacceptable. Ben, do you understand that? I am 100% unhappy right now. Hold this and think about what you're doing. Hey Bobby. Oh, you don't need to call Bobby. Yeah, you might wanna come over here. Your brother's about to make a giant mistake. What the hell? Jules is here. Yeah, and she's trying to ruin his life. No, no, I'm officially not trying to ruin your life. No, he won't kick her out, it's... Oh yeah, if we fought I would definitely win... What? but Ben would probably just try to break it up, so... Rachel, hang up the phone. We're going to deal with this. Oh, that is a good idea. You know, I don't want to do that but you might be right. Hey, Ben, which knee did you have surgery on? Oh, come on, what the hell, Bobby? Just get over here. Okay look, Rachel, I understand where you're coming from and why you feel like you have to do this, but we're all adults here and I don't appreciate you stomping around like this. Hey Lisa, it's Rachel. Oh wow, okay, this is so not what I wanted to happen. Yeah, you might want to come over. Stop it, Rachel. Jules, what are you doing? I do not like where the numbers are going on this, okay? If she's gonna call people then I'm gonna call people too. Okay, Lisa, it's only for a little bit... Hey Lisa, no nothing I just... We're just having some fun here. No, it is, it's very weird. I love you too. Chica, why aren't you answering? Oh, I could hear everything from out here. Okay, well I need you. Okay, well, you're doing a great job. Thank you. Come in, come in. Okay, if you want to do this in front of a bunch of people, I'm down. Whatever you need, I'm here. I don't want to do this in front of everyone, I don't want to do it in front anyone. Look, Ben, we just... Oh no. No, I'm gonna listen to what she has to say. You know, I'll listen and she'll talk and then we're all going to bed. Are you seriously not getting this? I'm not gonna let that happen. You don't get to let anything happen or not happen. What is going on here? Are you two from, are you from somewhere that like... I don't know. Somewhere where things like this... Is she okay? I'm okay, I am the okay one. Okay, Rachel, I came here to do something and... Okay, Ben, I love you. I'm in love with you and I know that you love me too, and that's what's important, okay? You don't love Lisa, do you? I mean we're getting married tomorrow. Okay, well, I can see where you're coming from with that. Yeah, I'll rip the band-aid off for you, Jules. He doesn't love you, you should go home and think about what you've done. Ben, you need to trust me right now, you have to get these two out of here. You know, this isn't really about you, Rach. You know, just stay out of it and let me handle it, okay? Ben, don't talk to me like that. Rachel. Was I not there? Do you not remember this whole thing coming apart? You sleeping on my couch because you couldn't go back to the apartment, almost losing your job because she broke you. Broke me? Yes. No. You are so lucky, Ben. You're lucky you came out of this last time, you're lucky that Lisa came along, snap out of it. If Josh randomly showed up at my door, wouldn't you do something? Oh, I'd definitely do something. So can you see where I'm coming from? Where does this go, Ben? I don't know, I'm not the one that invited her over. But if she wants to talk, then we should talk. No, that's bullshit. You are playing with fire. She's garbage and only capable of hurting you. Jesus, Rach. Jules is right here, she has feelings. Thank you. Rachel, that was really mean. Ben, babe, please, can we just... Ben come with me. Okay, relax. Breathe. Look, I know that this is a messed up situation but you are blowing this way out of proportion. She just wants to talk, we'll talk and she'll leave. Yeah, maybe or I don't know, maybe she screws with your head and makes you doubt yourself and then who knows what. I do not even want to think of the hypotheticals because they're all so bad. She's not going to screw with my head. Jules? No, no, of course not. I'm crazy to think that Jules showing up here the night before your wedding might throw you off. I'm taking this seriously because I think it's serious, Ben. Right. I'm not gonna do anything that's not in your best interest. I know, I know. Okay, breathe. Let it out, let some sound out. Yes, yes, pump it up, pump it up! Maria? Um... What are you doing? I'm, what would you call this, Jules? This is absurd. Jules, you've made your point. You have anything else to add? You say what you need to say, Jules. I am right here, I've got your back. Okay. I mean he hasn't changed his mind, so yeah say it, don't say it. Just wrap it up and get out. Well Rachel, I do have more to say. But I didn't plan it out or anything, I feel like really on the spot right now and I feel like it would work better in a more supportive and less tense environment. Oh, shit. Hey guys. Hey Ben. Everybody. Don't let me interrupt, I guess. You're not, Jules and Maria were just leaving. Okay. We were not. Okay. Ben is understandably in shock, can you help me walk these two out? What's going on? It is a little bit complicated, Bobby. Actually no, it's not that complicated. I want to talk to Ben and she won't let me. Right. Wait, why are you here? Ben, why is she here? This, this scenario does not seem right, you two have a history together and her being here, - that's off. - Mm-hmm. How do you even know where Ben lives? It's not that hard to find out. Yeah, that doesn't help. I asked Lauren. Lauren Lauren? Yeah. I'll deal with her tomorrow. This all sounds really off. Well, maybe but Ben is an adult and if he wants to talk to me, then he is allowed to. Right. What... Bobby, what good could come of them talking? I don't know, closure over past stuff between them, why am I the... What were you hoping for? Bobby, you got it right. It's closure, closure over past stuff. Nope, she's hoping to stop the wedding. Is that true? Not necessarily. But it seems like that might be what's going on here. It is. Jules, you shouldn't break up a wedding. I know that this seems... Do you though? 'Cause you're kinda trying to break up a wedding right now. No, Bobby, wrong. I'm in love with Ben, okay? I love you, and I think that he's in love with me and I don't think that's something that should be thrown away without a conversation. Yeah, but are you not following how that might break up the wedding. I don't know how to explain that to you if you're not getting that. I get it! Sorry, I understand what you're trying to say and I'm not saying that anything has to happen. Just please don't kick us out. Okay. Well, would you be okay with like a guest-starring role? Like is that what you're hoping for? something that's like unconventional? Excuse me? Okay, so there's Lisa and Ben and then there's Jules as... I don't want to say a side dish because that seems reductive but not main course food item... Bobby! What are you doing? Troubleshooting, brainstorming. What are you doing? Oh, I have no idea. Yeah, I could see that. Ben, I just want to talk to you alone for five minutes. Okay, okay, let's just go to the bedroom. - No, no, no, no! - Oh my God! If you're gonna talk privately, you're gonna do it on the porch. It's called a pergola. Well, whatever it is, you're gonna talk out there so we can watch and make sure that nothing happens. We're just gonna talk. No, Bobby, can you please help me kick these two out? It's a good question. Physically I'm capable... Bobby! I have the capability, but in practical terms there's... It's not the time to be practical. Well, it would be very unbecoming. Oh Bobby. Yeah. Okay, why is Ben not in charge here? Ben? - Ben. - Ben. Alright, come on, let's go. No, I... Fine. They're going to the porch. Okay. Okay. Cool lamps. Okay, what do you wanna say? Um... I didn't map it out point by point, so... Well, you never map it out point by point. Okay. So... When I left you... After two years of being together. Yeah. I'm sorry. I never said that to you. You deserved to hear it. And you really deserve to know that it hurt me to hurt you. Well, it all worked out so thank you. But you don't need to worry. I really am happy now. This all just got so real when I found out that you were getting married, you know. 'Cause I always just felt like you were out there, and something would bring us back together. And I never approached you because it just felt too raw. Jules, I can't, I can't. Why? Why, you left and I don't understand why you did it. I freaked out. I never had anything like what we had, and I didn't know how to maintain it. And I got scared and it was just... What are you doing? You have a bug in your hair. What? You have a bug in your hair. Oh my God, get it out. Relax, stop, don't be a baby. Get it out! Lisa! What? Lisa! Lisa. You need someone to bring you up to speed? Give me a second. Okay. Okay, Ben, maybe I could talk to you for a minute? Yeah, yeah, I think... Not right here, okay? Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Okay, first of all, hi. Hi. You smell like smoke. I just bummed one on the way home. That's it, I promise. So what the hell is going on? I walked home and I was making myself a drink, one drink before bed and Jules and Maria just showed up. They kind of barged in actually. I've been trying to get 'em to leave. And Jules is like here for you. She's like here to do that? I think so. Are you done? No, Rachel, I'm not done, okay? We didn't even get to talk. She's here, it's over, they're talking. Jules, this is real life, you can't just run around doing things this way. Okay, I know that this is real life, that's actually why I'm doing this, Rachel, okay? I'm carpe dieming, I'm... What? I don't know, I came here to talk to Ben and I've like cool stuff to say and I don't really want to waste it on you, so sorry. Thank you. I feel bad you came over. I asked Rachel not to call you and Bobby. No, no, it's fine. I mean I'm glad that I'm here. It's not really the kind of thing I want to hear about after the fact. Right. So can we just like hang out here together? Assume Rachel can take care of the situation? Rachel has a way of escalating things. So I think we should take care of it. Oh no. Yeah, come on. But you're not mad? No, I mean I'm not like happy or whatever but honestly, it's just another thing. Okay, do you wanna strategize? No, I think you need to just tell Jules to leave, that she's being inappropriate. I kinda tried that already. Maybe if you tried to talk to her? Oh, you need me to do your dirty work? You're just a lot better at that stuff than I am. And honestly, what's the point of marrying you if... Stop, you are like on the edge of trouble, man. You're not in trouble because I do feel like this legitimately isn't your fault but you're right on the edge, don't get cocky. Okay. Okay. But maybe you could talk to her and see how it goes. Fine. Please. Yeah, okay. Thank you, my very sweet soon-to-be-wife. I appreciate everything you do. - Yeah, you better. - I do. Should I put some music on or something? Yeah, what do you have? No Bobby, we shouldn't put music on. We should forcibly remove these two, please help me. Hey Jules. Hi. Do you want to tell me why you're here? Um... I am here to talk to Ben about something. Right, you want to tell me? Actually I don't think that would be a good idea. No, right, I agree. I just, what I'm trying to do right now is I'm trying to see if there's any way that this is not as bad as I think it is. I think it probably is as bad as you think it is. Okay, well things have been kind of crazy recently with the wedding tomorrow with like friends and family coming from out of town, maybe I'm distracted, maybe I'm just not getting it. You wanna walk me through it? Okay, um, okay, yes. I think that it is great that you and Ben have been having such a good time, you know and all these really good times that you had probably is why this wedding seemed to be like a good idea, okay. I think that you and Ben are good for each other on some level and I actually think it's beautiful when people can cross-pollinize each other... What? I don't know what you want me to say. I'm in love with him, and I think that he loves me too. So yeah, I thought that I could let this happen but I can't. And Ben, he's what? He's like reciprocated? No. Okay. So, you shouldn't be mad at him. I'm not mad at him. Okay. I might need to sleep on your couch tonight. Why? I built this new like fold up Murphy bed and I can't get it to open. I was like that's what I was doing before Rachel called. I was trying to pull it down, it's stuck. And I don't wanna sleep on the floor. I was gonna call anyway but... I mean... I'll sleep on the floor, it's fine. No, no, you can stay here. Of course you can stay here. Well, I mean if this whole... Okay, she's not making any sense. I agree. How, how, how can a person say something like that? Well, I am quite a catch. I want you to let Jules do what she wants. And why would I do that? Because she's my friend and that's what I want to happen. Well, I want something different to happen. Interesting, a real dilemma. Listen, alright, I'm just gonna go on the record as saying that Lisa is the catch. Somebody should be breaking in her hotel room right now to stop her from marrying you. Mm. Yeah. You know, that's probably happening right now. Yeah, it probably is. I mean it definitely is. They're breaking, maybe multiple exes. Yeah, definitely multiple exes. They're breaking in but luckily you're not there. Yeah, but I wonder what would happen if I were there? I mean they might convince me. Yeah, I guess I have to thank Jules. No, don't do that. No, don't worry. You're wearing it, do you like it? Yes, I love it, it's beautiful. I can't believe your Nana was willing to part with it. Well, I am her favorite and you're a part of that. Mm-hmm, I read your note too. I love the way you write, especially when it's for me. Did you open mine? No, not yet, I'm sorry. Just all this chaos. Yeah. So I think your original idea about just like hiding out was not the worst strategy. Right? Yeah, she has crossed some kind of rubicon and I don't like it. Rachel, where's the eject button? I only have vinyl. That's not a CD player. Ben. Ben? Jules, look, we talked and I gotta be honest with you, - we're... - Flummoxed. Yeah, we're flummoxed. - I did not see this coming. - This is very weird. I know, I didn't think that there would be so many people. I just envisioned it would be you and me. Yeah, but it's not just about us, Jules, okay? There are other people that are impacted by this sort of thing. Okay, but who cares about those people? It is about just us, okay? And we need to talk. Are you serious? I don't know any other way to end it, okay? I mean it'll only take a minute. I'll let her talk and we'll talk and then we'll all go to bed. Yes, he's being fair. What could you have to say that you haven't already said? Look, if you and I talk in private, that'll be it, right? Yes. Great, let's go. Ben, what are you doing? It's the only way she's gonna leave. I don't think that's right and I am not comfortable with this, am I overstepping? I'm just gonna listen to her. No, I don't understand why you have to listen to her. I am starting to get a little frustrated. Okay, Ben outside, Lisa kitchen. I'll be there in a second. Bobby, watch these two. Rachel, what are you doing? I'm going to talk to Lisa, okay? Rachel. I get it, you don't want to be the bad guy. That's not you. Exactly. Yeah, but you're saying things that are bad, okay? So I think it's best if you stay quiet for a little bit, alright? I'm gonna try to calm Lisa down and then I'll get Jules and Maria outta here and I'll try to keep things from getting any worse. But Rachel, I think sometimes your approach can be like... I push a little hard but I can handle this, okay? I understand what's going on, and I know you can't, am I right? Well, I... I'm right. Okay. Okay, I just wanted to give everyone a little time out because it felt like things were going sideways. So I wanted to pump the brakes. Yeah, I did feel like things were going a little sideways. Yeah, because... Because you're taking Ben literally right now and that's why a lot of this is sounding so bad. I'm taking him literally because he's being literal. Ben's not an idiot, right? I mean he couldn't, He couldn't be so stupid or insensitive as he might seem, let's just rule that out. - Let's rule that out? - Fine. He's just... He's just mollifying, that's it. You know, it's how people talk. Most of the time we talk about nothing, and it's nicer that way, - more pleasant that way. - Okay. Then you get in a situation like this, and you just have to zip through it, let it all spill out and when it's done, you bury it, forget it. If we can just get through the next 10 minutes, I promise you and Ben will be happy and everything will be great. I just don't understand why he's not... Jules has put him in a really tricky spot here. He's being way too nice, which is something he says in job interviews is a weakness but at a time like this, it actually is a weakness. He can't say the things that he wants to say because he doesn't want to hurt anyone. But I've known him forever and you know him and he's good... I'm freaking out, Rach. No, you don't have to freak out here, this is... You know what, I can just ask him. What are you doing? I didn't know what was taking so long. No, not that, this. Lisa, relax. You're getting all worked up over nothing. Oh, really? How's that? Every year I go out to Joshua Tree for a long weekend, and I just sort of hike and trip and listen to music, I was just there like two weekends ago and everything is beautiful. I am tripping four ways. You know, extra dimensions, wild animals, aliens, the whole thing. I'm sorry, what are you talking about? I wrecked my phone, I dropped it in the water at Barker Dam. And at first I was really upset. But then I went to the Apple store and in like five minutes I had a new one. Everything was backed up. Okay. Do you get it? It's an extended metaphor. Oh, I don't think the comparison really tracks. The phone is Ben. Yeah, no, I understand the metaphor, I just don't really think that if I lost my fiancee on the night before our wedding, I would immediately be able to replace him. I don't think you're getting it. So what I'm saying is it's okay, just relax because it's fine if you and Ben uncouple. Yeah, look, can everyone just be quiet for a second? Now, there's no reason why we can't clear all this up. So Jules, do you understand that Lisa and I are getting married tomorrow? Maybe. Maria! What? It's not a maybe at this point? Jules, do you understand? Do you have something you'd like to say in addition to what you've already said? Okay, and Lisa, that's why you're getting a little more upset because it's disrespectful and I've been going along with that and it's just not a great thing to do? Yes. Okay, great. So you know, the point is now that we all know we're angry at someone. So Jules, can you just say what you've come to say quickly and leave so the rest of us can start apologizing to one another? Yes, yeah, that's all that I want to do is talk to you. Okay. Right now? Yeah, just whenever you're ready. Okay. Ben. Ben, we had something special, okay? We have something special. And yes, I screwed it up, okay? Yes, we had problems but I'm here now, okay? Because it was real. It's real, it is the most real thing that I've ever felt and it's more real than anything you could ever have with anyone else, okay? And that's why it's worth fighting for, right? That's why it's worth stopping this. Okay, okay. Okay. Okay. Jules, I didn't love you more than I love Lisa. Well, that's not exactly what I said. Well, you kind of did. I have a lot of shitty feelings about the way that we broke up and I think that like... Why are you engaging? We didn't finish talking outside. Okay, so you left because you didn't know how to maintain a relationship? You freaked out? I honestly don't know what that means, Jules. It sounds like a cop-out to me. I mean I tried to find you, I tried to track you down, I tried to just find you and talk to you and so, just like bump into you. Ben. I don't think this is really the time to go into this. Okay, well it's not a cop-out, okay? It's how I felt and that's why I'm here. I'm trying to explain. Explain what? That you love me and that you still love me? But at one point there for some reason you crushed me. I loved you so much. Nope. Rachel, I... Rachel, are you done? There's a possibility that I am done. What does that mean? We shouldn't be fighting, Ben. We're not fighting, you're just slapping me. Okay, it's part of being the best man and maybe if you get to be Bobby's best man, you'll understand that times come up where the best man has to step up and knock some sense into people. We are shutting down this little therapy session here, alright? Jules, congratulations you have successfully marred a wedding. Thank you for being so awful and selfish. Everyone else thank you for showing up in strange auxiliary roles. And Ben you don't get to hash shit out with your ex tonight. Look, Jules, I think that I... Damn it! Fascism. I call fascism on Rachel. I'm not a fascist. - Jules. - Yes. Honestly, you were the one open-ended thing in my life. You're the question mark and this was long overdue, - but I really... - Done? Sure. I get what you're trying to do. You're trying to protect people, but you have to think about yourself. I think maybe we should call it a night. How can you say that? Call it a night? You're gonna ruin your life and why? To make a bunch of people feel less awkward? How is he ruining his life? Marrying Lisa would ruin his life. No offense, Lisa, you're great. Kind of hard not to be offended. Babe, we were doing just fine, before they all got here. This is all your fault, you guys should be ashamed of yourselves for doing this. Okay Jules, you and me, let's go talk in the kitchen. I know this is a difficult situation. Shitty actually. I feel like I jumped out of a plane, and really the only thing left for us to do right now is ride that out. I really am sorry but I'm doing this, and actually probably it's best for us to really hash this out tonight. Jules, be quiet. I have a lot of rage inside of me right now. I'm trying to process it before I start talking to you. This is bad. Yeah, I hear that. What's making it worse is you not kicking Jules out. Honestly Rach, I think you're making it worse. Stay out of this. I think everybody's making it worse. What is wrong with you that you won't just kick her out? He tried, things just keep happening too quickly. At this point, we are all here and I don't see a problem with hearing her out. What good could come of hearing her out? Well, broadly it would be sort of an epic story of redemption if she could win Ben over. Okay, I don't think that's realistic and it probably doesn't help my case with you so... No, it doesn't. So I would go back to the closure thing. Wouldn't it be great if Ben got some closure after all this time? Seems like there's a lot of unresolved stuff going on. What are you doing? Just looking for a glass. It's one more over. Okay, I thought about it. I have put myself in your shoes. I think I understand where you're coming from and why you're doing what you're doing. I would never do something like this. Well, you don't really know... No, we're not doing that, Jules. You are going to go home. You're not gonna say goodbye to Ben, you're not gonna say anything else to anyone else, you are going to walk away. Lisa, I jumped out of the plane. I don't care. I'm very sick of this. I should be in bed trying to fall asleep and instead I'm here dealing with you. Do you think that's fair? Well, that's not the point. If you were me, wouldn't you want you to go home? Yes. Wouldn't you think you were doing a terrible thing? - Yes. - So go. But what if I'm right? I know that I'm in love with Ben. And what if he's in love with me? Isn't it better to find out tonight? That wouldn't make what you're doing any less of a terrible... Yeah, but you're not answering the question. If Ben is in love with me, wouldn't it be better to find out right now, tonight, before tomorrow? I don't think you can argue with that. I can't? No. I think I can argue against that and I think you do have a problem with me at minimum, I have a very big problem with you. Right, that's fair. Ugh. Okay, Ben got his closure. If Jules wanted closure, she shouldn't have ended the relationship by ghosting him. It was awful watching him sulk around for three months trying to find her, stalking her online. Wait, three months? Ben, you were stalking somebody for three months? You didn't think to bring that up with me? You were going through your Becca situation. My Becca situation? Not now, Bobby. You were dating Becca? Yes. Bobby, you and Becca would have never worked out. I mean you're fine but Becca's like, she's not for you. It sounds like you're saying that in the worst way possible. I'm saying it like your physical attractiveness levels don't match well. And I don't think you'd be able to handle her sexually. I don't know what to do here, Jules. I tried being cool but I don't feel like doing that anymore. I mean you just, you keep asking to like talk to Ben for just a little while and it sounds like this tiny reasonable request... Yes, thank you. You know that it's not, you're just gonna stay here and keep stirring things up until... I don't really know what's going through your head actually. Until Ben decides he loves you and you two run off and get married? Okay, well, I mean, I don't, that's not gonna happen 'cause I don't really believe in traditional marriage. Ugh! You know what, I'm gonna kick her out. Fascist! Fascist! Resist! You know what, I am really hopped up on adrenaline right now because I'm finally being honest with myself, okay? And I'm always running away and I'm gonna stick... Oh I got a foot cramp! This is an emergency! This is an emergency! What is happening? Why are you allowing this? What is happening? It's bad. Ben, you have to do something about this. Get your crazy ex-girlfriend out of my house. I'm trying. Trying, Ben, what are we doing? I am trying to be honest. So am I. No, I'm not saying that you're not trying to be honest but I am saying how are you not frustrated? How are you... I'm super frustrated. Okay, well then do something, Ben. I mean like give me something. I don't know what to give you. I'm not gonna lie. Okay, well that's gonna be a real problem, Ben. Lisa... What? What do you want me to say? This is hurtful and surreal? I don't know, I just want to be somewhere else. So do I. How did you get the foot cramp? Stop asking that, I don't know. Not enough potassium? I didn't go to medical school. - A banana, get her a banana. - Push it the other way. What? Whatever way you pushed it to make it cramp Push it the other way and it'll stop. Will that work? Where's Ben? I thought that was the end there. Jules, I almost died. I know, I'm sorry, it's so stressful. Yeah. Hey, just checking in, you okay? Yes. Can I get you anything? Like a soda or something? Oh no, I'm good. Hey Ben, things are getting a little out of hand out here. I just want to make sure that that's on your radar. It's on my radar. Okay, good. Alright, well I know it can be hard to go when someone's talking to you so I'll leave you alone. But when you're done, we should really do something about all this. Yeah, sounds good. Good, good talk. How's your foot? I mean it's okay. Lisa, are you okay? No, Rachel, I'm not okay, not even a little bit. Jules, is there anything, literally anything that would get you to leave? Do I need to call the cops? I haven't made things right with Ben. And I don't think that you can call the cops on us, right? Bobby, what else do you need? I'm sorry, I was sort of thinking of, I didn't... What was the question? I mean what else do you need? Jules is here... Oh, Ben, what happened? Were you crying in there? No, I wasn't crying. Were you crying the whole time you were in there, when you were talking to me? What does it matter, can we just drop it? Look, I know hard crying, alright? It is understandable, this is a real bummer of a situation. Let's just get this all sorted out. I'm okay. No, I'm pretty sure that you're not okay. Isn't everybody overwhelmed at this point? I'm not overwhelmed. Are you sick? Did you have a difficult BM? He's crying because of the emotional strain. Sometimes when I'm diarrheaing, I cry. But it's not cause of any pain, it's emotional. Is that what it was? No. Okay, you know what, Maria, Jules, you two need to go. Bobby. No, Jules, I think it's enough. Ben is sick now. I think you gave him a stomach problem or something. Isn't that enough for you? I don't have a stomach problem. Maybe I should go. No. Call it. What? Call it, that's a breakup. That's how a breakup starts. Absolutely not. Hi, do I get a say in this? You've all been talking over me and through me and I can't... I know where this is going. - So I guess I just... - Stop! I'm just saying now would be the time to do it, you guys. I'm not breaking up with her, she's not breaking up with me. Yeah Maria, stop upsetting them, you're being cruel. Alright, that's it, you two need to go. Here, grab your jacket, take it. Get out of here, alright? Please get home safely. Go. That's how it's done. Is anybody else hungry? What? No? Am I the only one? - Why would we eat? - We just had dinner. I could eat. There she is, let's do this. Okay, yeah. Come on Ben. Am I doing a terrible thing? He's getting married tomorrow. So I have to do it tonight. I have to do it before... He loves me, I know it. I agree. I feel like we should go back in now. Oh, we're going back in. It's just that when you get kicked out of a place, you have to wait a few minutes before you try and go back in, otherwise you're just gonna get kicked out again. That makes sense. You're a good friend for doing this. I know. Alright, these are, good stock in the fridge, you guys. This is really good raw materials, I can work with this. Ooh man, I am glad to be out of that, you know? Mmm, you know it was very surprising and unfortunate. And now we can just hang out, have a snack and just decompress a little bit. So stressful in there, right? Super super stressful, right? - Lisa, look... - Just be careful. I can, um... I can feel that there's some tension between you two and it's understandable. Do you both acknowledge that? What? I'd like you both to just acknowledge that there is some tension and that it's understandable. Fine. Lisa? Yes, I acknowledge it. Great. What can I do for you, Maria? Shit! I think I left something here, I don't know, you know, I mean, just... rings, my rings fall off 'cause my skinny fingers... Maria. Okay, I just wanna know what happened. So where is everyone? Maria, I'm not really in the mood. You shouldn't be here, you should be with Jules. Ah, she'll be back, she just needs to work up the juice. Do you want to get kicked out again? I feel like it was a very gentle kicking out, almost to the point of voluntary. So I wouldn't call it like an official kick out. I think it's best when we talk about these things, just talk them through. Now, I think a lot of what has gone on tonight is that communication has not been good. Would you agree? Bobby, could you like not now? I will take that as a yes from Ben, Lisa? Bobby, I'm hungry and I just want to eat. Okay, but do you agree that communication hasn't been great? Yes. Alright, now Lisa I think that you need to take some responsibility and I know, Ben was just trying to say something and you shut him down, and that's not helpful. Ben has got to take responsibility for a lot. This whole mess is his fault and he keeps making it worse. But Lisa, you also need to take some responsibility. Bobby, you are stepping... And you know what Lisa, I'm excited. I'm excited because I can already feel you having this wonderful attitude shift. I can feel the space opening up and you are creating a great safe space where we are going to be able to just work this out. We are gonna get your blood sugar up. We're gonna sort this out. And Ben, you are going to be careful about what you say, right? Yes. Great, good. I think this is nice. We have a nice little bubble of safety here. We got a nice little happy place with sandwiches and weddings and stuff like that, and we are gonna support each other and we are gonna talk about our feelings. I'm just gonna finish these up and then we're gonna bring Rachel into the bubble. So is he still leaning Lisa? You know, I want Jules to win but if I'm being honest, it looks like Lisa. What? You remember him and Jules. They were like mismatched and crazy but there's something about it that just never lets go of you. It's... I can't fight you on this. I don't have it in me. You're hurting my friends, you know that? You're hurting Ben and you're hurting Lisa. Okay, it's not great but I get to help my friend too, Rach. It's not your job to fix impossible problems. Don't you want friends who look out for you? Yeah, but what's the point of anything if you can't look out for yourself? So other than that, other than tonight, how are things? Work going good for you? Are you doing small talk? We're getting reacquainted. You know, sometimes in an event like this, you leave as better friends. You and I are not gonna be better friends after... Are you kidding me? They're never gonna leave. No no no no no no, please. Please no, no. Where's Ben? You have stated your case. Alright, I can't push any harder than I did, it already felt very ungentlemanly. No, you did fine, Bobby. Ben, Lisa, just just go back in the kitchen, please. Jules, what are you doing? I'm doing what I was doing before Rachel showed up, okay? Before all of these people showed up. I was trying to get us back, you and me and it's there. It's there, okay? I feel it. I feel it and I know that you feel it. And yes, we fought all the time but that's because there was passion, right? It was that intense because it was real. Don't you feel like that's missing? Ben, you are hurting people, okay? She goes now. Part of me does miss it, Rachel. Not this, this in particular is terrible but she's not... Stop it, Ben. Look, Jules and I used to scream at each other. Look, I know that that's not good or healthy and I do not want to go back to that... Ben. Just thinking, I'm not saying anything. Just put it on pause, you need time to think, right? I don't know. Well Jules is not saying don't marry Lisa, she's saying don't marry Lisa tomorrow. Just take some time. Okay, okay, okay, uh, uh Ben, remember Lisa makes more than you do and I'm pretty sure her father will never like you, and you said you could never be sure you could really be sure that anyone wouldn't cheat on you. Even Lisa. What are you doing? I'm reminding Ben that Lisa has some really bad things about her too 'cause that's the appeal of Jules, isn't it? That's she's like, she's flawed and she's exciting and... So what, Rachel? You think tomorrow should just be like... No. Then why are you saying those things? I'm doing the bad things make you love people, right? - The the fights and stuff. - What? It's what Ben said, the, the screaming. Wha... What? I can't even breathe. Where are you going? I'm gonna sort of hide. Ben, I said all of that in a good way. Ben? Ben, you're not saying anything and it's really making me nervous. I'm not calling off a wedding. I'm not saying you should but it's good that you're thinking about it. It's good that it's in your head as a possibility. Is it a possibility? No. It's fine, if that's what you want Ben then... That's that. Jules, you are so shitty. Ben, Ben, you gotta be kidding me. We're gonna... We are gonna have to apologize to 224 people. No, we're gonna get married. We'll have to call Fr. Patrick. We should start putting a list together. We'll have to call Fr. Patrick and let him know we won't need the church. Maybe we can stop the flowers, maybe the food and the flowers and everything could still go to good use, maybe we can have them sent somewhere? Oh, I'll have to call the car company. Caterers, photographer, the band. Should I get a pad? Yeah, that would be great, Bobby. No, Bobby. Let's just take a minute. We're not doing anything. I don't think we have a minute. We need to de-plan a wedding pretty quickly. I can't make you marry me. Sweetie, you're not making me do anything. He's in love with you, you're in love with her. An hour ago you were ready to marry her, you're still ready to marry her. No, you don't understand. No, I do understand. No, Rachel, I appreciate what you're trying to do but I think the best thing to do right now is to start making a list. We have a lot of calls to make tonight and it's already kind of late. Who cares if it's late? Well, I don't want to be rude, it's going to be an awkward call and I hate that we have to do it so late at night. It's not right to call after a certain hour. That is just lovely. Lisa, do you feel like you're having a nervous breakdown? Um... Okay Ben, this is getting a little too real. I know. You need to start taking this seriously. Do you think I'm not taking it seriously? I can't tell. Can you tell if you're having a nervous breakdown? Does it taste like adrenaline or chalk or something? No, adrenaline tastes like metal. So do you taste metal or batteries in the back of your throat? I don't know what batteries taste like. Would you two please just go? Rachel, I don't think I can diagnose her without more information. I think I am fine. No, you're not fine. No. I'm not fine, I mean technically I'm not fine but I can't be upset right now, okay? I'll be upset later. Right now I need to do things. Things, I'm on a big moving thing and I need to stop it. Lisa, I'm sorry. There it is, good sign, what else? I'm sorry and I love you so much. Lisa, I understand if you're pissed and if you feel like the love is gone... I'm still in love. You can't stop loving someone in two minutes. Hear that, Ben? I just said I was still in love with her, okay? Ben, I am going to go. I have a bunch of calls to make and I don't really want to make them in front of everyone. Listen, you shouldn't do that. Just wait one second, alright? And if you're gonna do it, you should just send a mass text. Lisa... Nobody makes phone calls anymore. My Nana sends me texts. No, it's really impersonal of a message. It would be a very weird text. I know, I'm just worried that making all those phone calls is gonna be so painful. Yeah, it'll be painful. I don't want to see you so sad. Okay, Ben I'm gonna go for real now. I'll take care of everything. I don't want to call anything off, let's just talk all this through. You don't want to call off the wedding anymore? I never said anything like that. The only thing I've done wrong here is think out loud. You don't think out loud in a room full of people. Don't do it. Yeah, especially not in a critical situation. This is a critical situation. I understand, Bobby. Good. You know, I didn't invite everyone over. What's done is done, I can't unthink out loud, what I've already thought out loud. Sorry everyone, I just sort of was planning on having a glass of scotch tonight and relaxing and thinking about things. And now, I don't know. I don't know, I'm just trying to figure out what the hell is going on. It's not rocket science, Ben. It kind of is, Rachel. To me it kind of is. Hey Rach, let's get a bunch of people in a room and have them debate what the best way to move forward with the rest of your life is. You're not mad at me, you're mad at, Jules. No, I'm not. You're maybe a little mad at Jules. I'm not, it's not her fault. It is. Right, actually all of it is her fault. You're not wrong. But it's just like life, okay? Sometimes it's messy, and you know, we should be on the same side of this Rachel. And the idea of choosing, it's insane. You either get married tomorrow or you don't. No matter what tomorrow comes, you can't think your way out of it. I'm not thinking, I don't need to think. Jules, I'm in love with Lisa. I am, and she's great. She really is and I really am not. I don't know what's wrong with both of you that you're here, I don't know. I have no idea, but I'm in love with her and I'm gonna marry her tomorrow. Tell me you don't think about me. I don't. Okay. Okay. I'm happy for you. You're so deniably And reliably Perfectly incredible Okay, it was good to see you guys again. You're what dreams are made of Unforgettable Lisa, I know that this looks bad and I'm sorry that it happened. I'm sorry if it looks like I equivocated. It looked like you equivocated. Okay, and I'm sorry if it did. Are you saying you didn't? Yes? I don't really know what equivocate means. It's what you've been doing for the past hour or so. Okay, well, I'm sorry. It's not about Jules and it's not about you, it's tensions and selective memory. No matter how great the thing you have now is, sometimes you just think about like where life could go. I don't. Okay, okay, well then you're a better person than me. There's no doubt about that, but I'm not, I can't be excused for this. I understand that but I'm just trying to explain the reason. Like imagine if one of your exes showed up unannounced. It'd be weird and it'd be hard to deal with, and you might panic a little bit, okay? I'm not trying to convince you I was right, I'm just trying to apologize. You're apologizing? Yes, I'm so sorry. For what? For all of this, I mean for the stress. Isn't that Jules's fault? Yes. So you don't have anything to apologize for? No, that doesn't sound right. No? No, I thought this was going well. How do I mess up an apology this quickly? - Bobby? - I don't know. He can't help you. What's my fault, it's... What am I apologizing for? - It's the equivocating, right? - Right. I understand how that, and I know that there's not like an excuse or I can't make that up to you but what I can do, what I can do is I can promise you that it won't happen again. You promise what, that your ex-girlfriend won't burst through the door on the night before our wedding ever again? Yeah, I can absolutely promise that. - Oh Jesus that's unlucky man. - What the hell. - You're lying. - What? You were doing that thing that you do when you lie. I don't know what you're talking about. Stop, you're really just gonna stand there and lie to me? Just lie to my face, to her face? Why can't you just admit it? Why can't you just admit what you're feeling? Because there's all these people here. You haven't caused enough trouble for me? Talk to me. Don't do it. No, fine. Jules, I was happy to see you, I was. I was nervous about tomorrow and you came in and it made me feel good. I remembered about all these great things we used to do together and, then I realized that that's not how it was, right? That's not how it was. Well, I shouldn't have left you. I shouldn't have left you like that. Yeah, maybe. I honestly don't remember the bad stuff with that much clarity. I sort of remember it but I mostly remember the good stuff. Me too. But it's not right. Because it wasn't all good. So I'm remembering it wrong. You can keep coming in and out but that's not gonna change anything. I've had time to think about all of it and I have my bearings. And I'm gonna marry Lisa tomorrow. You're going to what? I'm gonna marry you. Are you? Yeah. You sure? Lisa, I've never been more sure about anything in my life. I know this has been a whole lot but I don't have any doubts. That's good, Ben. That's really good that you don't have any doubts. It's good that you've been able to work through everything and eventually come around to the position that you don't have any doubts. Sweetie, I'm sorry I put you through this. I know it's selfish and I... No, I'm happy for you. You were able to go on this little trip down memory lane and realize that marrying me wouldn't have been a huge mistake. You, just, just wait. No, I'm not gonna wait. I have doubts, okay? Now I have doubts and I'm not gonna work through them tonight because, I don't really want to. No no no, that's not... Lisa, you gotta give me a minute. What are we gonna do? We're gonna get married now? Yes. Ben. Are you joking? That's not... Come on, Ben. Come... what? Lisa, you gotta give me a second. Ben, I'm not gonna wait. I - What would I be waiting for? It would have been great to get married to you, to be married to you and I think we would have been really good to each other but, I can't marry you now. You're not sure. I think you're just reading this wrong. You gotta give me time to manage it properly. No no, don't do that. Can you just let me... No. I'm going to leave and stop. You guys. No Rachel, that's it. Okay. You take care of your side, I'll take care of my side? Mm-mm. Lisa. Lisa? It was nice to meet you, Lisa. We've met a few times, Maria. Well, good seeing you again. You look really great. I'm fine, everything's okay. Everybody, everything, everything's okay. I feel like I did a lot of work to get here and now it doesn't feel so great. Ben. Just go. How we doing? You wanna open some presents or something? No, he doesn't want to open any presents. Why don't you just get out of here? She's joking. We can't do jokes right now, Jules. I can't do them. I just... Yeah, I can't help you. I know. Oh, I gotta call everyone I'm closest to and disappoint them. That's the rest of my night. Rachel, Bobby, can you guys get me some, um... Get drunk equipment? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, on it. Yeah. I'm... I'm sorry. Jules, I just lost my fiancee. Okay, out of all the bad things in your life, Ben, none of them are gonna be this big. You're probably gonna want to grow beard. Ben, Ben? Did he stop breathing? He'll start. He always does. I'm right here, guys. I'm okay. Come on, man. You'll push through this. Just let it out. Everything that is or ever will be is gonna die and it's never coming back. Yeah, I don't know about that. I appreciate it but you don't have to stick around, you know? I think I prefer to just die alone in a corner. If I'm being honest, this was really unexpected. I know it didn't go well but it was a difficult situation, I mean what else could I have done? Oh, now you ask? There's no good way out of it. I mean not if I was gonna be honest. There were better ways. I hope there wasn't only better ways, I thought I sort of middled it. Oh. You want to start calling people? Oh, Ben, I wouldn't. Okay, this is not over, okay? I can fix this. Right, what's happened happened but we can figure it out, right? Let's figure it out. This is who I want in the clutch, okay? You guys are my team, right? Dream team. - Let's do it. - Let's do it. Do what? You wanna go to Lisa's hotel? Yes, we go there and we do something. Yeah. We'll go to Lisa's hotel and I'll do the thing, the game changing thing. Redemption. Yeah, let's do this, Ben. Let's go. Do you think they're gonna let us in? What happened? It won't matter, will it? No, don't say that. No, going to her hotel won't change anything. Nothing will change anything. Look, Ben, we... No, you know I'm right. I lost her. No no, we can still try. No, it's done. I'm done. Okay. Okay. How long do you think I can hold off making calls? Um... not long. But maybe a little bit? Yeah, a little bit. You need me to do anything? I can make some. No, I'll handle it. Can I stay with you until I sort out a place or something? Of course. Thanks. We will be right inside if you need anything. Hi dad. |
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