Love Story
Season 1 – Episode 2
Episode title: The Pools Party
Original release date: February 12, 2026
Plot: John juggles his mother’s waning health, his strained relationship with Daryl and his newfound feelings for Carolyn.
Transcript
Note for Students & Writers: This transcript is archived here for educational purposes, critical analysis, and screenwriting study. All rights belong to the original creators.
♪♪ Ooh, bop ♪♪
♪♪ No, you’re never Gonna get it ♪♪
Good morning.
♪♪ Never, ever gonna get it ♪♪
♪♪ No, not this time ♪♪
♪♪ No, you’re never Gonna get it ♪♪
♪♪ Now you promise me The moon and stars ♪♪
You were so good.
How good was Fleuron? I told you.
[Rachel] Carolyn.
I need the updated book for the Milan show.
[Rachel] Working on it. Okay, bring it to my desk. Thank you.
Good morning, guys.
♪♪ I just sit back and watch you Make a fool of yourself ♪♪
♪♪ Ooh, oh ♪♪
♪♪ ‘Cause you’re just wasting Your time, oh ♪♪
♪♪ No, you’re never Gonna get it ♪♪
♪♪ Not this time ♪♪
♪♪ Never, ever gonna get it ♪♪
♪♪ My love ♪♪
♪♪ No, you’re never Gonna get it ♪♪
Well, can you call our Moscow rep?
She can’t close the show for us from Russia.
[Rachel] Hi. I’m her assistant.
She doesn’t want the flowers. Will you take them back?
She doesn’t want the flowers. Will you take them back? No, she told me at the casting there were no problems with her visa.
No, she told me at the casting there were no problems with her visa.
♪♪ No way ♪♪
♪♪ Never gonna get it Never gonna get it ♪♪
♪♪ Never gonna get it Never gonna get it ♪♪
♪♪ Never gonna get it Never gonna get it ♪♪
♪♪ Never gonna get it ♪♪
♪♪ W-Whoa, whoa, whoa ♪♪
♪♪ Never gonna get it Never gonna get it ♪♪
♪♪ Never gonna get it Never gonna get it ♪♪
♪♪ Never gonna get it Never gonna get it ♪♪
♪♪ Never gonna get it ♪♪
♪♪ Never get it ♪♪
♪♪ Ooh, bop ♪♪
[indistinct chatter]
Uh, why is she dressed like a pilgrim?
It’s an officer’s uniform from the Continental Army.
You know what I mean. Colonial times.
It’s an homage to the birth of our democracy, but it’s chic.
Uh, we would obviously be featuring A-list celebrities, and think of the access.
I mean, John’s just about the only person on the planet who could pick up the phone and call anyone from Saddam Hussein to Heather Locklear.
[chuckles] Well, I don’t know about that.
Uh, maybe even Daryl Hannah, huh? Yeah?
She looked pretty good as a mermaid. [laughs]
Maybe we could put her in a sexy Salem witch outfit.
[executive] That’d bank some ad dollars. Uh-huh.
[Berman] So you can see it then, right?
All the fun and innovative ways that we could market this.
I mean, the options and Rolodex are endless.
Look.
It’s one thing for people to be sitting at home watching the news, It’s one thing for people to be sitting at home watching the news, reading the paper, reading the paper, but I just don’t see a world in which they’re going out of their way to buy a magazine about politics.
But that’s because politics has always been presented the same way, which is just a bunch of old guys
falling asleep on C-SPAN. [chuckles]
I genuinely believe that with the right marketing, we can get people as engaged with politics as they are pop culture or the NFL.
Hmm.
Where are you in all this?
I mean, let’s be honest here, that’s the real selling point.
If you did this magazine like Martha Stewart Living, you put yourself on every cover, that’s a different story.
And some free advice from people actually in the business, your brand’s only as strong as its name.
Calling the magazine George after George Washington makes it feel like homework.
I’m gonna do another Malbec.
Oh, oh!
There she is.
My wife was in the neighborhood. I told her to pop by.
Hope that’s all right.
[Berman] That’s fine.
[executive scoffs] “In the neighborhood.” They live in Rye.
[John] You know, it was so obvious that these guys had already made up their minds before they even stepped foot in the restaurant.
It’s, like… Why waste everybody’s time?
Because they wanna be seen having lunch with you.
You could have pitched them a magazine about hot dogs, and they would have taken the meeting.
And a part of you has to be okay with that.
Because, no offense, this magazine does not come to fruition without your celebrity.
Oh, really? I hadn’t heard.
Look, I get it. You wanna be taken seriously.
You wanna make your mark before you…
Before what?
I hadn’t thought that far ahead.
That’s all you think about. That’s why you never know where anything is.
Is this the hand cream or the soap?
You know, I just wanna create something of my own from the ground up.
I just think that if anyone can bridge the divide between politics and pop culture, it’s me.
Speaking of things coming together… you’re not proposing, are you?
you’re not proposing, are you? What? To Daryl?
What? To Daryl?
[chuckles]
I forgot I have to be more specific when it comes to your love life.
Daryl was seen buying a wedding dress in a thrift shop in Santa Monica.
I just thought it seemed weirdly specific.
[sighs]
You’re supposed to be a refuge from all this noise and bullshit.
Oh, my God. I’m sorry. I didn’t know that was my role.
Fuck off. No. Please let me try again.
Mr. Kennedy. Uh, I have your sister on the phone from Cornell Hospital.
to 2:00.
Apparently, there’s some kind of emergency.
Do you think you should be reading tabloids while you’re at work?
It’s People.
Honey, I know you don’t care, but my astrologer did see John and Daryl fighting at a Halloween store in The Village, like, screaming at each other.
[chuckles] And she also said they’re both Sagittariuses, which is, like, Jesus, take the wheel.
Yeah, well, I’m a Capricorn, so we probably wouldn’t have fared much better.
Also, maybe it’s people like your astrologer peddling gossip about them that’s the problem.
Maybe if people left them alone, they’d thrive.
[Gordon chuckles]
You know, I know you’re trying to take the high road, but I don’t want to.
Is that the press packet? [Rachel] Yeah.
I love having to compile favorable press clippings for him each week in order to justify the entirety of the publicity department.
Well, I know he increased your clothing allowance when you got that promotion.
I do not feel bad for you.
Black paper clips.
I couldn’t find any.
There’s a Staples on 57th and 3rd.
Seriously? He’s fired people for a whole lot less, and I would rather not lose you as an assistant.
Okay, let’s scrap this. He hates full-body shots.
He thinks he has chicken legs.
And let’s ditch the New York Magazine piece.
He doesn’t like being compared to Ralph. Lauren?
No, Macchio.
The Karate Kid.
You know what my dad told your father
before we got married? Mmm?
“Keep her riding and she’ll always be in a good mood.”
[John] See, I wish we would’ve known that.
We would have installed a riding ring in your apartment.
[chuckling] Still, I recommend you stay on two feet for a while.
You said you had a headache before you were thrown from the horse.
Were you experiencing any other symptoms?
No, I was just tired, No, I was just tired, but I didn’t have much of an appetite, so I didn’t eat breakfast, but I didn’t have much of an appetite, so I didn’t eat breakfast, which is probably where all of this started in the first place.
And as far as lifestyle?
I’m as healthy as can be. I don’t eat sweets. I exercise every day.
Sometimes twice a day.
Mom. She smokes.
This is just retribution for making her meet with a nutritionist during recess.
Yes, thank you again for neutralizing my sweet tooth at such a young and impressionable age.
We’ll need to keep you overnight. As a precaution. Monitor your vitals–
No, thank you. I will not sleep a wink in this place.
And what I need is a good night’s rest.
If you do insist on leaving, you’ll need to sign discharge papers stating that you left against the medical–
I’ve spent my fair share of time in hospitals. I know how it works.
Of course. I’ll be back to check on you in a bit.
Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Moore.
Thank you.
[indistinct announcement on PA]
[both sigh]
Why don’t you and Maurice head to the cafeteria? I’d love a cup of tea.
You think that will be enough time for him to relay all your reservations about the magazine?
Why don’t you and I go get some tea? And miss the fireworks?
Please try to maintain inside voices.
[sighs]
[door closes]
Well, I’m just trying to understand why you’d wanna join the ranks of an industry that’s profited off our family’s misfortune for years.
Generations, actually.
Why is it any different from you working at Doubleday, or Caroline writing books?
Those are genuine interests of ours that we’ve cultivated over years.
And this idea is seemingly out of nowhere.
And this idea is seemingly out of nowhere. And you finally passed the bar exam. I mean, I just think you should–
And you finally passed the bar exam. I mean, I just think you should–
Dad wanted to be a journalist. I mean, before Grandpa roped him into politics.
Is that what all this is about?
Wanting to feel closer to your dad? Come here.
No. I’m just saying that, like, my interest isn’t entirely out of nowhere.
If Caroline wanted to start a magazine, no one would bat an eye at it.
I’m just… Can’t stand by waiting for my life to start.
I’m 33 years old.
When Dad was my age, he was a father, a best-selling author, a congressman and a war hero.
Yeah. But it’s like you said, he didn’t really have a choice.
And I can tell you, And I can tell you, success isn’t all that triumphant when it’s expected of you.
success isn’t all that triumphant when it’s expected of you.
Now, will you please break me out of this place?
[chuckles]
The brawl culminated in blows being exchanged.
Marky Mark was said to have punched
Maverick record label talent scout Guy Oseary.
The fight spilled out onto the streets but was eventually broken up by party–
[TV clicks off] Who picks a fight with Madonna?
Well, he also allegedly called a member of her entourage a homophobic slur.
Whoa, wait a sec. He only called the guy a homo.
I’m just saying, I think we all assumed he meant faggot.
Yeah, he’s practically Harvey Milk.
All right, settle down. You know what I meant.
He’s a loudmouth rapper from Boston.
People don’t give a shit if he’s politically correct or not.
And therefore, neither should we? That’s a hell of a mission statement.
The campaign is a cultural phenomenon, and we’re just getting out of the red.
I don’t think we can afford to kick him out of bed over a drunken indiscretion.
Careful there, Todd. You’re sounding a little gay.
[Kelly] It might not be our call.
According to his team, Mark feels the underwear campaign has overshadowed his burgeoning rap career.
I didn’t realize Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch were plotting global domination.
[laughs] They also said that he doesn’t like all the attention that the campaign has brought him from gay men.
[Carolyn] Are you kidding me?
I mean, he did everything short of dry-humping the runway at the LA show.
Did he think all those men in the crowd were just huge fans of shitty hip-hop?
Well, the partnership has clearly become untenable, so we need to replace him quickly and seamlessly, and let’s also issue a statement condemning his bullshit.
Uh, will you be issuing that statement personally or…
No.
So, who do we like to replace him?
We have Brad Pitt, Jason Priestley, Keanu Reeves.
No, no, no.
I don’t wanna get involved with another established celebrity.
I want someone who our customers can bestow their fantasies onto.
I want a fresh face that will instantly ingrain itself into the public consciousness.
You plucked Kate Moss from obscurity.
If anyone can mint a star, it’s you.
You catch that little dig? Ugh.
He knows full well that I’m the one that fought for Kate.
Who he compared to a teenage boy, by the way.
I know, but you can’t let him rattle you. In fact, I think it probably turns him on.
Telling me to settle down? Go fuck yourself.
Can you imagine if Kate called someone a faggot and assaulted them?
Can you imagine if Kate called someone a faggot and assaulted them? She’d be crucified.
She’d be crucified.
She’d be crucified. That or young girls everywhere would be committing hate crimes.
That or young girls everywhere would be committing hate crimes.
Anyway, I’ll see you tonight?
Yes, I’ll be peddling your book like my life depends on it.
Thank you.
I’m gonna have to go smuggle a model out of Moscow.
Oh, you’re doing God’s work.
[Carolyn] Amen.
Clean air, less traffic, adequate housing, those are some of the things that New Yorkers only dream about.
But some New Yorkers aren’t–
[driver] Get the fuck out of the way, asshole.
[horn honks]
[director] Cut!
Let’s take five, everybody.
Get out of the street.
[horn honks]
Sorry about that, John.
Sure you don’t wanna use that?
We are highlighting the wonders of the city.
You’re doing great, by the way. Really?
I feel like I’m in my head. No, no. I would tell you.
Okay.
[director] Okay, guys. On to the next setup.
Hey, superstar.
What are you doing here?
The table read got postponed, so I thought I’d come see you in action.
Well, I don’t know how entertained you’re gonna be.
I love that I get to be the one behind the camera for once.
Excuse me. Can I get you anything, Ms. Hannah? Uh, coffee or tea?
I’d love some candy, actually, anything sour.
Huge fan. [both chuckle]
This is the whole crew?
Yeah, we’re just shooting a thing for PBS.
I love it. It reminds me of my early days doing guerrilla shoots and no permits.
Sound guys also doing the lighting.
It’s what real filmmaking should feel like. A community.
What are you writing?
I’m just tinkering with the script.
Can I hear it?
It’s not like a monologue or anything. I’m just, uh, talking about the city.
I know, but you’re still on camera delivering lines. You still have to emote.
I’m fine.
Are you mad at me or something?
No. No, I’m just trying to focus.
Just thought you might want my input since I’m an actual actor.
[running footsteps] What the fuck?
[cameras clicking]
[John] Did they follow you here?
No. Maybe it was the giant film crew that tipped them off.
You just said how small it was. All right, I’m gonna go.
[sighs] Listen, I’m sorry, all right?
I’m just trying to focus and do a good job.
You’re incapable of doing a bad one.
See you back at home?
Yeah, I have an event tonight. It’s a work thing.
You’d tear your hair out, but I’ll see you after.
Yeah.
Maybe just give them a couple of good shots on your way out, see if they’ll fuck off? Okay.
Thank you.
[man] Daryl, this way! This way, please!
[Daryl] Hi. [cameras clicking]
[Daryl] Hi. [cameras clicking] [man] Daryl, thank you.
[man] Daryl, thank you.
Right this way. Yeah, one more, please?
♪♪ If you ever get close to A human ♪♪
♪♪ And human behavior ♪♪
♪♪ Be ready Be ready to get confused ♪♪
[mouthing] Hi.
Insane.
♪♪ And me and my hereafter ♪♪
♪♪ There’s Definitely, definitely Definitely no logic ♪♪
♪♪ To human behavior ♪♪
Oh, hi. Hi. Gorgeous.
So gorgeous.
♪♪ And me and my fear cannot ♪♪
♪♪ And there is no map ♪♪
♪♪ Uncertain ♪♪
[Carolyn] Okay.
Is that for me?
You know, I was hoping you wouldn’t notice me.
It’s hard not to.
This feels like one of those nightmares when you show up to school and realize you’re naked.
Except you’re getting paid
’cause unlike everybody else, people actually wanna see you naked.
We should all be so lucky. [chuckles]
Why didn’t you tell me you were working this?
They don’t really tell us what the events are.
They just give us a time and an address and a pair of underwear.
Plus, I try not to make it a habit to call someone after I left them, like, 50 voicemails.
I know. I’m sorry, I am. Work’s been crazy.
I know. I’m sorry, I am. Work’s been crazy. No, you know what? It’s fine. You should get back to the party.
No, you know what? It’s fine. You should get back to the party.
Hey, I’m working too.
Really? Mmm.
Really? Mmm. Then why don’t you take off all of your clothes and grab a tray?
Then why don’t you take off all of your clothes and grab a tray?
For what it’s worth, I think there’s about five men in this city that can pull off that uniform.
[camera clicking]
I’ll see you later, yeah?
Yeah.
Congratulations. God bless her.
She did it all by herself. I had nothing to do with it.
No?
Relax, John. She’s here.
[♪♪ soft instrumental music]
Hi. [laughs] Hey.
How are you? Good.
It’s nice to see you. Yeah, you too.
I didn’t realize Kelly was a photographer as well.
Yeah, you know, I don’t think she actually took any of the photos.
I think she more curated them.
Sorry, I wanted to come over earlier, but I have–
No, it’s fine. I’m sure you have a lot of hands to shake.
You really know how to make an entrance, by the way.
Although I’m not gonna lie, I was sort of hoping it was Prince.
Oh! Is Prince supposed to show tonight?
Do you think Prince RSVPs?
That’s a good point.
Did you get my flowers? Which ones?
Well, you wouldn’t call me back.
There wasn’t much to say. It was one date.
There wasn’t much to say. It was one date. I know. I just, um… I feel terrible about how everything transpired, and I–
I know. I just, um… I feel terrible about how everything transpired, and I–
Yeah, it’s fine. Multiple bouquets of flowers to my office was really not necessary.
Did you like ’em at least?
Calvin only allows white orchids in the office, and my apartment’s basically death row for vegetation.
I just… I can’t seem to function knowing that you hate me.
I don’t know you well enough to hate you.
Daryl and I were not together when you and I met–
You don’t have to do this. Seriously.
It’s not like you bamboozled me. I knew what I was signing up for.
Well, what does that mean? It means there’s your world…
And then there’s mine that I inhabit with everyone else.
Look, I’m gonna… It was nice to see you. Enjoy the party.
Wait a second.
Carolyn. Carolyn.
John, you have a girlfriend.
Okay? And I don’t have to turn on the TV or open a newspaper to know that.
You two are everywhere.
It’s like we’re all living in the John and Daryl fun house.
Look, she came back into my life in this very weird time, and we have a lot of history together. You don’t… [chuckles]
You don’t have to defend your relationship to me. I get it.
There’s obviously a reason you two keep finding a way back to each other.
Plus, she understands this weird fishbowl that you live in.
If I were you, I wouldn’t want to throw that away either, so let’s just be friends.
Whatever stress or guilt you’re feeling, you’re absolved. I promise.
I just wish I could explain to you how even the simplest things can become so complicated for me.
How badly I wish I was someone else when I met you.
It is what it is.
I’ll see you around.
[door opens]
[footsteps fading]
[door closes]
Good night.
May I?
Just ask me for a cigarette.
Ugh! Absolutely not. It’s disgusting.
You’re scared your husband’s gonna catch you?
Please. Look at him.
I wanna do some modeling sometime.
I swear to God, they need a program for the partners of recovering addicts and how to cope with their newfound sanctimony.
The other day he lectured me on the pitfalls of a Diet Coke.
I saw you talking to John earlier. How was that?
It was fine.
What, do I need to hang you out the window? Give me some details.
We’re just gonna be friends, which we should’ve done from the beginning.
You don’t wanna be his friend.
Either way, that ship has sailed, and I don’t blame him.
He’s dating a beautiful movie star. What’s not to love?
Well, look, I love John, but there’s a lot of trade-offs to being with someone like that.
I mean, there’s a rush walking into a room with someone everyone wants to talk to, feeling like: “Of all the people they could have on their arm, they chose me.
I must be fascinating too.”
But at the end of the day, they never really choose you, you know.
Not in the way that you wish they would.
Shiny people like that, they belong to everyone.
All I’m saying is it’s better to be adored than enamored.
I suppose when I was growing up, as you can imagine, and I had some lessons, and the very first lesson I had…
Oh, my God. Hey!
I’m just grabbing some more rolling papers. You need anything?
[woman] Yeah. I mean, we didn’t see…
[stove clicking]
Hey, brother. How’s it going?
I think something’s up with your stove. I’m just getting, like, a ton of gas.
Oh, yes.
Maybe turn off the stove first?
Right. Good looking out. Would fucking suck to blow up.
[laughing]
[gasping]
[panting]
Babe, you’re here. I think you know everyone. Uh…
Oh, wait, this is my friend Shandra from the retreat I did in Peru.
She’s the one who knows your cousin, Bobby.
How do you know him again?
Uh, I guess technically Riverkeeper.
Would you guys mind not…
Oh, sorry.
Was it like a family thing? The event tonight?
No. Why?
I just didn’t know if maybe your mom and sister were there, and that’s why you didn’t invite me.
You need to stop with this narrative that you’re like persona non grata, okay?
It’s not true.
Babe, you have Kennedy memorabilia everywhere.
It’s not memorabilia, Daryl.
These are not baseball cards. They’re family heirlooms.
Well, can you hang out for a little? You’ve been out all night.
Exactly. I’m exhausted.
From your work event? You don’t even have a job right now.
Maybe give me a heads-up the next time you wanna have people over at my place.
Your place? I live here too, John. Oh, my God!
Do you ever notice how quickly it becomes your place anytime anything remotely inconvenient happens?
Remotely inconvenient? I don’t even know who half these people are.
Yeah, ’cause you don’t make an effort to get to know them!
I’m sorry. Why don’t we get Shandra over here, and we can blow some lines off my dad’s inaugural address?
[exhales]
I’m gonna crash. It was nice to see you all.
Hi. Should we go?
[Daryl] No, no, stay.
[Shandra] Are you sure? [Daryl] Yeah, he’s just tired, you know.
No, stay.
[sighs]
That was so rude! You’re right.
Please apologize to the coke den in my living room for my behavior.
I’m not sleeping here tonight if you’re just gonna act like a fucking asshole.
Apparently I won’t be sleeping here tonight either, so please let me know where you’re gonna go.
Why did you wanna get back together again if you’re just gonna act like this?
You came back to me.
On the condition of a clean slate, which you agreed to.
And yet every time I look at you, your mind is clearly someplace else.
All I want is for you to need me as much as I need you.
I don’t even know what that means.
[scoffs]
That’s because you’re repressed, John.
Like, I say this with love, but between your lineage and your heritage, you’re like the poster child for emotional avoidance.
Between my lineage and my heritage? Yes.
Oh, my God. This, what we’re doing in front of your friends right now, is exactly how we end up on the cover of People magazine every week.
Who cares? I’m trying to talk to you about real life!
Our relationship becoming a global punch line is real life, Daryl, and if you can’t see that, then I don’t really know what to tell you!
[sighs]
♪♪ Cross over ♪♪
♪♪ And turn ♪♪
Hey, did they let you keep that uniform?
Ow!
[chuckles] That didn’t hurt. Didn’t you play football in high school?
So?
So you’re supposed to be tough.
[chuckles]
Why do you always like to do that?
What? Pinch you? Mm-hmm.
I don’t know. Do I do that often? Uh, yeah.
I guess I didn’t really notice.
No, that’s not… That’s not true. I, um…
When I was little, I was playing hide-and-go-seek with my sister and her friends, and I was hiding in this little compartment in my stepdad’s entertainment unit, you know, by the TV, and… all of a sudden I started having all these really dark thoughts that something bad had happened to them.
And I got scared, so I climbed out, and… they were all just sitting there making friendship bracelets.
Like, they all just…
They all just stopped looking for me, and no one said anything, and I lost it.
And I started hyperventilating, and my mom was trying to calm me down, and…
She just kept telling me to pinch her arm.
I think she wanted to have me focus on something else.
Eventually I stopped crying.
Well, if that was me, I would’ve never stopped looking for you.
I’m gonna get a water. I can get it for you.
No, no. It’s fine. Thank you.
[water running]
You okay?
Yeah.
[sighs]
[reporter] John, that seemed to have resulted in his winning the award this year.
Well, for this year, the award was given on the basis…
You ready? …of the governor’s stand on gun–
Yep.
What?
What if we did a little shopping?
So, uh, are we allowed to be in here on the weekends?
No, I’m serious. What happens if somebody walks through that door, then what are we gonna do? We split up and run like hell.
What shoe size are you?
Thirteen. [chuckles]
Yeah.
Why are you doing this for me? Hmm?
‘Cause you’re a good person and you deserve more than you think you do.
Plus you gotta dress for the part you want, not the part you have, right?
I still know a few of their moves.
[grunting]
Oh, Jesus.
Don’t act like you’re not impressed.
What’s the opposite of an aphrodisiac?
[Michael] I don’t know. What is it?
[grunting] Come on.
I read in the trades you’re gonna be working with Ann-Margret?
Yeah. How cool.
[footsteps approaching]
Your mother isn’t feeling well.
She’ll be taking dinner in her room, but she sends her regrets.
John. Yeah.
[sighs]
Daryl!
Daryl!
Have you ever asked yourself why your mother doesn’t like me?
Well, she does like you. She’s just–
Well, she does like you. She’s just– Why she might have a tainted perception towards famous blonde actresses?
Why she might have a tainted perception towards famous blonde actresses?
Doesn’t take Freud to connect the dots.
Are you really gonna do this now?
She wants you to choose her. She wants you to find your Jackie. Not–
You barely even know her.
And whose fault is that?
Daryl.
Daryl, come on.
Thank you, Eugie.
Is she gone yet?
What are you doing?
I can’t stick around anymore hoping you’re gonna change or start to give a shit.
Give a shit? What do you think I’m doing here?
It’s not enough to just show up, John.
You have to actually be with me when we’re together.
What is it that you’re waiting for?
What is it that I haven’t proved to you yet?
No one is gonna love you the way that I love you, John, okay?
No one is gonna be able to put up with all the cameras and the tabloids and your family.
And I mean, say what you will, but there’s a reason the public is so invested in us.
It’s because they know we have something worth paying attention to.
And you know, we’ve talked about how I feel like work has been kinda drying up for me.
Maybe that’s just the universe making space for us.
For me to be more to you in this next chapter of your life.
Are you even still in love with me?
Of course I love you.
I’m done.
‘Cause I won’t accept your marriage proposal when we’re at each other’s throats?
‘Cause it’s been five years, John.
If you wanted to marry me, you would have.
If you really believe that, why’d your friends tell the press
our engagement was imminent? What are you talking about?
The convenient details of your wedding dress.
What, did you think you’d get through to me via the tabloids?
[chuckles] See, this is where your family has fucked with your head.
Not everything is a ploy, John, or an angle, or some machination of the Kennedy court.
[zips bag] Where are you going?
Back to LA.
I don’t want you to leave. I wanna work through this.
I’ll be back in a few days.
What, are you just gonna leave him?
You need to ask yourself what it is you really want.
Not your family, not what you think people want, what you want.
[Jules] It’s the biggest modeling campaign in the world. My dad submitted it.
Okay, just do me a favor and flag his headshot for Calvin.
Wow, really done a 180 on this relationship, huh?
I just think he’d be right for it. I mean, you said it yourself, he’s gorgeous.
I just think he’d be right for it. I mean, you said it yourself, he’s gorgeous. [laughs] Oh!
[laughs] Oh!
So this is just strictly professional then?
Jules. What are you doing with this guy?
You look very familiar. Where would I know you from?
Uh…
I’m not sure.
Wow, looks like you have quite a few notes there.
Hi. Hi.
Oh, some of them are just words of encouragement.
Hmm. I don’t recall getting any of those when you gave me notes on my book.
That’s because praise makes you horribly uncomfortable.
Have you ever thought about writing one?
A memoir? Mmm.
[laughs]
No, absolutely not.
And what you told the authors you work with, it’s an opportunity to make sense of the past and reclaim the narrative?
Some of them, yes, but not everyone’s past should be revisited.
Do you ever think about what your life might have looked like if you married somebody else?
I did marry somebody else.
I know, you still have his last name.
I wasn’t talking about Ari.
Do you know you never called him that until after he died?
Our entire marriage, you refused to call him anything other than Mr. Onassis.
I already had a father who didn’t parade us around the Greek islands like he won us at an auction.
And that was because I think we needed it.
Whether you or the rest of the world liked it or not.
Whether you or the rest of the world liked it or not. Do you ever think about what if you had married somebody other than Dad?
Do you ever think about what if you had married somebody other than Dad?
Just lived a normal life.
I think we both know if anyone had offered me anything normal, I would have been bored to death.
Even knowing what you know now?
About some of the choices he made.
All relationships have their disappointments.
It’s just a matter of how you’re let down.
What, you don’t think your relationship has drawbacks?
No, I don’t. You might, but I didn’t need the same things that you did.
I’ve been nothing but supportive of your relationship.
You acquiesced to my relationship.
What? That was because I wanted to make sure you were marrying for the right reasons.
What possible ulterior motive could I have had marrying Ed?
Well, exactly. You made a stable choice.
God forbid I choose a man I could actually depend on.
[chuckles] At any rate, your brother, he was more overt at pressing my buttons.
But you, mmm…
You weren’t exactly an apple-polisher.
Not everything we do is in reaction to you, the same way your varied love life wasn’t only a reaction to your mother.
At the end of the day, your wounds informed your choices just as mine did.
And once I realized that Ed was the right one for you, I shut my mouth, didn’t I?
I think you fail to contextualize who I was raised by.
I mean, you know your grandmother, but you don’t know my mother.
Her only dream for me was to become the most beautiful accessory to the most coveted man.
And I think… Well, I think I exceeded those expectations.
[sighs]
But I do realize that I’ve… might’ve gone about it in the wrong way at times.
But I did have your best interests in mind, sweetheart.
I know.
Do you?
I know, Mom.
I do need notes on my latest draft, by the way.
[footsteps fading]
Delivery guy didn’t want them.
White orchids.
Hi. Hey.
Hi. Hey. Are we still good for lunch?
Are we still good for lunch?
Yeah. No, I’m-I’m starving.
Those can stay at my desk.
Come on, Hank. Come, this way.
Can I get your autograph? Oh, um… Sure.
Thanks, John.
[Hank growls] You’re welcome.
Hank, Hank.
[barking]
Hank.
Hank.
Hank!
[thud]
[tires screech]
[crying over phone] I’m so sorry. I understand. I…
I’m on the next flight out.
Oh, I had to wait for the ashes.
[crying continues]
All right, listen, my car is downstairs, okay? I’ll see you soon.
[sighs]
[phone ringing]
[door opens] [ringing continues]
[Jackie] Oh, hello, sweetheart. It’s Mommy.
Well, I just… I was checking in to see…
Well, I haven’t spoken to you since you left so abruptly the other night.
Anyways, call me, all right?
Very good. Bye.
♪♪ It’ll take a little time ♪♪
♪♪ Might take a little crime To come undone now ♪♪
♪♪ We’ll try to stay blind ♪♪
[grunting]
♪♪ To the hope and fear Outside ♪♪
♪♪ Hey, child ♪♪
♪♪ Stay wilder than the wind ♪♪
♪♪ And blow me in to cry ♪♪
♪♪ Who do you need Who do you love ♪♪
♪♪ When you come undone? ♪♪
♪♪ Who do you need Who do you love ♪♪
♪♪ When you come undone? ♪♪
♪♪ Lost in a snow-filled sky ♪♪
♪♪ We’ll make it all right To come undone now ♪♪
♪♪ We’ll try to stay blind ♪♪
♪♪ To the hope and fear Outside ♪♪
♪♪ Hey, child ♪♪
♪♪ Stay wilder than the wind ♪♪
♪♪ And blow me in to cry ♪♪
♪♪ Who do you need Who do you love ♪♪
♪♪ When you come undone? ♪♪
♪♪ Who do you need Who do you love ♪♪
♪♪ When you come undone? ♪♪
♪♪ Can’t ever keep from Falling apart ♪♪
♪♪ Who do you need ♪♪
♪♪ Who do you need ♪♪
♪♪ Who do you love ♪♪
♪♪ Who do you love ♪♪
♪♪ Can’t ever keep from Falling… ♪♪
